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[ "(CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that overhauling the nation's health care system should be easier now than when he tried in the early '90s, despite the current financial doldrums.", "Bill Clinton says fewer obstacles to health care reform exist now compared to when he was president.", "\"I think that the consensus is overwhelming,\" Clinton said in an interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta taped for CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "\"The politics and the economics are much better now and the policies are better,\" he said.", "\"They've made advances over where we were.\"", "In 1993, Clinton pushed for a universal health care plan, with his wife, then-first lady Hillary Clinton, heading a task force on the issue.", "Small-business groups, doctors, the insurance industry and congressional Republicans lined up to fight the plan, which was officially declared dead in Congress the next year.", "President Obama's plan, which offers people the chance to buy into the same health plan federal government employees use, avoids some of the more controversial aspects of that effort.", "\"We have a simpler, clearer path to the future than we did when I was there,\" Clinton said.", "Watch Clinton discuss health care reform » .", "\"You don't have to have an employer mandate.", "You don't have to have a tax increase now,\" he said.", "\"I think the obstacles are less than they were.\"", "Those differences have made doctors, small-business owners and even some in the insurance industry more open to reform, Clinton said.", "Plus, Democrats now hold comfortable majorities in both the House and Senate, meaning fewer Republican votes are needed to reach the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster in the Senate.", "Clinton said Obama is well-situated to handle the fight for health care reform, in part because of the fine-tuning his plans went through during his Democratic nomination fight with now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.", "He cited a health care forum in which Obama, Clinton and others spelled out their plans, opening them up to criticism from their opponents and creating the opportunity to continue improving them.", "\"By the time the primary was winnowed down to two candidates, there was some difference on how universal the coverage would be, but Hillary's plan and then-Sen. Obama's plan looked pretty close,\" Clinton said.", "\"The president then made it very clear he was going to pursue this.\"", "Tough economic times shouldn't hinder reform, Clinton said.", "\"I believe that health care and education and energy are all economic issues,\" he said.", "\"For many people, many working families in America, before the financial crisis, the economic problem they had was health care,\" he said.", "\"Health care was driving the majority of the bankruptcies in this country.", "It was keeping parents up late at night.\"" ]	[ "Clinton says President Obama's plan less controversial than plan he pushed in 1993 .", "Obama's plan offers chance to buy into same coverage as federal employees .", "\"We have a simpler, clearer path to the future,\" Clinton says .", "Obama plan has advantage of undergoing fine-tuning during the primary, he says ." ]	[ 7, 8 ]
[ "Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- Criminal defendants are expected to make initial appearances in federal courts in Phoenix and Tucson on Friday in connection with what one federal agency calls the largest human smuggling investigation in its history.", "U.S. and Mexican authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in what U.S. officials say is \"the culmination of a comprehensive year-long\" investigation focusing on shuttle buses operating along the border between Arizona and Mexico.", "\"This operation has dealt a serious blow to the infrastructure of some of Arizona's most prolific and profitable human smuggling organizations -- organizations that made their money by moving people,\" John Morton, homeland security assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.", "The investigation is called Operation In Plain Sight because of what officials call the \"brazen nature\" of the shuttle services, allegedly part of a confederation of illegal immigrant smuggling rings.", "The investigation \"included unprecedented cooperation with Mexico's Secretariade Securidad Publica,\" and it \"ultimately implicated high-level members of human smuggling organizations\" in northern Mexico and the Arizona cities of Phoenix, Tucson and Nogales, ICE said.", "Eight hundred agents and officers from nine federal and local law enforcement agencies fanned out across Arizona on Thursday, making arrests in the three above cities, plus Rio Rico, and shutting down businesses.", "Authorities in Mexico and Tennessee also made arrests.", "ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, said owners and employees of five Arizona commercial shuttle services are among the 47 criminal suspects taken into custody after search and arrest warrants were executed in Arizona.", "Mexican agents made four criminal arrests, according to Virginia Kice, ICE's Western regional communications director.", "Authorities announced two arrests in Tennessee, a location underscoring the national reach of the smuggling operation.", "Here's how the rings operated, federal authorities said: Smugglers would help illegal immigrants enter the United States near a border city such as Nogales.", "They would then be transported to Tucson, where one of the shuttle vans would take them to Phoenix.", "Once there, they would rendezvous with another vehicle and be taken to a drop house, and they would then be moved to cities all over the United States, authorities said.", "Illegal immigrants were allegedly issued phony tickets for shuttle trips, which enabled drivers to claim they were operating legitimate businesses if they were stopped by law enforcement.", "While most of the smuggled people identified in the investigation came from Mexico and Central America, others came from far-flung locations, such as China.", "\"The defendants wrongly believed they could operate with impunity by hiding behind the veil of legitimacy these businesses provided.", "Using our investigative expertise, we've dismantled these transnational organizations and literally seized the engines that were driving the criminal enterprise,\" Morton said.", "The timing of the raids has drawn criticism from immigration rights groups.", "\"I think we're getting absolutely mixed messages,\" Jennifer Allen, director of Border Action, said Thursday.", "\"I saw that just yesterday, first lady Michelle Obama said she wants to see immigration reform happen, and then we wake up this morning and we have ICE raids intensively throughout the state of Arizona.\"", "The first lady visited Mexico this week, where she met with her counterpart, Margarita Zavala de Calderon.", "ICE officials say politics played no role in the operation.", "They say the massive investigation and resulting sweep represent a shift in enforcement strategy.", "For years, law enforcement officials concentrated on busting illegal immigrant drop houses.", "Now, federal officials say, they are after the transportation networks that supply the smugglers' human cargo.", "CNN's Casey Wian and Joe Sterling contributed to this report." ]	[ "Operation in Plain Sight deals \"serious blow\" to smugglers, Homeland Security official says .", "Eight hundred agents and officers from nine agencies mobilized in Arizona .", "Owners, employees of 5 Arizona shuttle services are among those taken into custody .", "Saying U.S. sends \"mixed messages,\" raids' timing draws ire of immigration group official ." ]	[ 2, 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bill Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville and considered a moderate Republican, easily won the Tennessee GOP primary for governor Thursday, the Tennessee Department of State's website reported.", "With all of the state's precincts reporting Haslam had 47.5 percent of the vote as he defeated Congressman Zach Wamp and Lt. Gov.", "Ron Ramsey.", "Halsam, who helped fund some of his own campaign, will now face Mike McWherter, a Democratic businessman and son of a former governor.", "The race is to succeed Gov.", "Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, who is prevented by term limits from running for a third term.", "Political handicappers think Republicans have a good shot at winning back the governor's office.", "Republican Governors Association spokesman Tim Murtaugh in a statement: \"Bill Haslam emerges as a strong candidate headed toward November, having beaten a pair of qualified office holders in a spirited primary.", "As Tennessee faces great economic challenges, Bill Haslam will be a strong voice for job creation, fiscal restraint and individual freedom.", "\"A successful mayor and businessman, he has the leadership experience necessary to create jobs and grow the economy.", "We look forward to seeing him elected the next governor of Tennessee.\"", "Democratic Governors Association executive director Nathan Daschle said, \"Mike McWherter has spent his career growing jobs and strengthening the economy.", "The only thing Bill Haslam has increased in his career is Knoxville's taxes and unemployment rate.\"", "\"Voters are looking for someone with the know-how to move the state in the right direction, and that candidate is Mike McWherter,\" Daschle added.", "The race grabbed national attention last month because of controversial comments by two of the challengers.", "Wamp appeared to suggest that Tennessee should consider secession in light of mandates forced on the states by the Obama administration's health care bill.", "The eight-term congressman later stepped back from those comments.", "Ramsey also drew attention to himself last month after he was seen in a YouTube video questioning whether Islam is a religion.", "He was expressing his opposition to the expansion of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which has become a hot-button issue in the city about 35 miles southeast of Nashville.", "Ramsey, who has been endorsed by 20 Tea Party organizations, said he is a supporter of religious freedoms, but such protections may not extend to bringing \"Shariah [Islamic] law into the state of Tennessee ... into the United States.\"", "\"Now, you could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, a cult, whatever you want to call it,\" he continued.", "\"But certainly we do protect our religions, but at the same time, this is something we are going to have to face.\"", "Following criticism, Ramsey defended his comments, saying, \"My concern is that far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy more than peace-loving religion.\"", "In a high-profile Congressional primary, two-term Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen overwhelmingly defeated former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton.", "The campaign in the 9th District, which covers Memphis and has a large African-American population, was dominated by race.", "With all precincts reporting, Cohen had 78.7 percent of the vote to Herenton's 21.3 percent.", "Herenton has been urging voters to elect him as the only African-American member of the state's congressional delegation, saying, \"It is as if only white people live in the great state of Tennessee.", "No African-Americans.", "I believe that it is very clear to the majority of the citizens of this community that we lack representation.\"", "Cohen, who served as a state lawmaker in the area before being elected to Congress, has campaigned on what he's done for education and health care in the area.", "\"I represent everybody and I work hard for people to get them opportunities.", "And I just think that race should not be an issue in 2010,\" he said.", "President Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus backed Cohen.", "Stephen Fincher won the 8th District Republican primary.", "Fincher collected 48.5 percent of the vote over Ron Kirkland at 24.4 percent and George Flinn at 24 percent.", "The race, for Rep. John Tanner's seat, is noteworthy because the Center for Responsible Politics has called it the most expensive House primary in the country, .", "Fincher will face Roy Herron, who easily won the Democratic primary." ]	[ "Cohen is winner of 9th District Democratic primary .", "Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam has nearly 48 percent of the vote in the GOP governor's primary .", "The GOP winner will face Democrat Mike McWherter .", "The GOP race grabbed national attention last month ." ]	[ 0, 14, 36 ]
[ "Hong Kong, China (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Conson was downgraded from a typhoon early Saturday, a day after the deadly storm roared into China, along the southern tip of the island of Hainan.", "Conson is forecast to move through the Gulf of Tonkin on Saturday, making a final landfall in northern Vietnam, near Hanoi, in the afternoon, according to CNN World Weather.", "The storm, which killed at least 39 people during its westward march across the Philippines this week, had maximum sustained winds of 112 kph (70 mph) Saturday, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.", "At one point Friday morning, the storm's winds reached 139 kph (86 mph), making it the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane when it reached China.", "Southern China already had been battling severe flooding that killed 146 people over the past two weeks, destroyed about 113,000 homes and forced more than 1.2 million people to relocate this month, state media said Friday.", "Forty people were missing.", "According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, Chen Lei of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief office said the coming rain would exacerbate the flooding.", "Storms and floods have affected more than 35 million people in 10 China provinces this month.", "By Thursday, the nation had recorded at least 26 billion yuan (about $3.8 billion) in economic losses, Xinhua said.", "Conson had weakened from a typhoon to a tropical storm before its landfall late Tuesday in the Philippines, but that didn't keep the storm from wreaking havoc as it traversed the archipelago off the Asian mainland.", "Conson then traveled across the South China Sea, picking up strength.", "Along with the rising death toll, the Philippines' National Disaster Coordinating Council said Friday that 84 people were missing." ]	[ "Conson is downgraded to a tropical storm .", "The storm has been blamed for at least 39 deaths in the Philippines .", "Conson is forecast to move through the Gulf of Tonkin on Saturday ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- More than $150 million has been paid to pirates around the Horn of Africa over the past 12 months, Kenya's foreign minister said Friday.", "The supertanker Sirius Star is the biggest vessel seized by pirates this year.", "The money is encouraging them to continue and become more brazen in their attacks, Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula told a news conference in the Kenyan capital.", "\"That is why they are becoming more and more audacious in their activities,\" Wetangula said.", "Pirate activity off the coastline of east Africa is a cause of growing international concern.", "Last weekend pirates, who mostly operate from lawless Somalia, seized a Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star, the largest vessel captured to date.", "Another seized vessel, the Ukrainian MV Faina, was carrying a cargo of military supplies and T-72 tanks.", "They currently hold 17 vessels and are estimated to have attacked more than 90 ships in the region so far this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center, which monitors piracy around the world.", "The attacks have increased in recent weeks, the PRC says.", "The ransoms being paid to the pirates are also increasing, maritime security experts say.", "The method of paying the ransoms is changing, too, and has become one of the most complicated and dangerous sticking points in negotiations with pirates, the experts say.", "Only months ago, pirates preferred to be paid through a complicated web of bank transfers using offshore jurisdictions, according to a maritime security source now involved with ransom negotiations with hijacked ships.", "Now, however, pirates are demanding cash upfront, the expert says.", "Paying by cash can involve many middlemen who in the past have been killed delivering ransom.", "Watch how ship owners are left with little choice but to pay » .", "The money is also funneled through international crime syndicates who take their cut, give the rest to the pirates, and use their profit to bankroll even larger attacks with bigger ransoms.", "\"What other alternative does a shipowner have?\"", "said Peter Hinchcliffe, marine director of the London-based International Chamber of Shipping.", "\"It is an appalling situation paying money, knowing that that will further enhance the capability of the criminals ashore.\"", "On shore, Somali pirates are increasingly influential, well armed, and even celebrated.", "iReport.com: Take a walking tour of pirates' town .", "\"It's become a very lucrative revenue stream for them, and I think they'll be very reluctant to see it disappear,\" said Chris Austen, chief executive of Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants, which consults with companies around the world on security issues.", "The Gulf of Aden is a key route for ships passing from the Arabian Sea and Indian Oceans to the southern Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal.", "See where pirates are operating » .", "A NATO-led international naval fleet has attempted to crack down on the attacks.", "An Indian frigate battled a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, leaving the ship ablaze and likely sunk, the country's defense ministry reported.", "Warships have also encouraged shipping to stay within patrolled corridors.", "On Thursday Russia said it would send more ships to the region to join the frigate Neustrashimy, already taking part in anti-piracy operations.", "\"After Neustrashimy, Russia will be sending warships from other fleets to this region,\" Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky told the official news agency Ria Novosti.", "No additional details were provided.", "Red Sea nations in the Arab League also agreed Thursday to coordinate a common strategy against piracy.", "The Egyptian government hosted the meeting, which was attended by representatives of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Jordan, and Djibouti.", "A Somali transitional government official was also there.", "The group issued a communique condemning all acts of piracy.", "The communique said Arab nations around the Red Sea were principally responsible for security there and recommended establishing joint mechanisms between those countries to ensure the safety of shipping.", "The group welcomed international and regional support in fighting piracy, and stressed the importance of coordination between the Red Sea Arab nations and regional and international bodies.", "Watch more about the pirates' tactics » .", "It also said Arab countries in that region should be open to having dialogues with other parties about the fight against piracy.", "\"We did not touch upon the military aspect, but we touched upon aspects related to promoting coordination, consultation and exchange of information, as well as focusing on the importance of regional arrangements, with particular reference to the establishment of the regional maritime center in Yemen,\" said Ali al-Ayashi, Yemeni deputy foreign minister.", "The communique emphasized the importance of strengthening Arab and African cooperation to fight piracy and noted the respect the group has for the sovereignty, unity and independence of Somalia.", "Wafaa Bassem, Egyptian deputy foreign minister and chair of the conference, said \"the international community in the short term should help and support the transitional government of Somalia and the Somali people with humanitarian, economical and political support to be able to prevent piracy acts in this region.\"", "Egypt has a lucrative industry from the shipping traffic in the Suez Canal, but it is concerned about shipping firms pursuing other routes to avoid the Gulf of Aden.", "One Norwegian shipping firm, Odfjell SE, has ordered its vessels to avoid the waters off the Horn of Africa.", "Watch Maersk CEO describe risks to shipping » .", "That decision means that Odfjell SE's 90-plus ships will take the additional time and expense to sail around the southern tip of Africa instead of going through the Suez Canal, a shortcut for mariners for nearly a century and a half.", "Going around the Cape of Good Hope would add thousands of kilometers (miles) to a voyage from the Middle East to Europe or North America.", "CNN's Paula Newton contributed to this report." ]	[ "$150 million paid to pirates in past 12 months, Kenyan foreign minister says .", "East African pirate activity causing growing international concern .", "Pirates seized Saudi supertanker last weekend; are holding 17 vessels .", "Russia sending more ships to join international naval fleet policing Gulf of Aden ." ]	[ 0, 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Librarians across the United States are making noise about new federal restrictions on lead that could take books out of the hands of children.", "Children's books are covered by federal regulations on lead in items made for children.", "The Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvement Act requires all products, including books intended for children younger than 12, to meet new standards calling for lower lead content.", "Commission regulations, written in response to the law, take effect February 10.", "Even stricter limits will become effective in August.", "Paper, ink, covers and glues would need to pass lead content standards.", "\"While we understand the process the CPSC must carry out in order to ensure this law is properly enforced and that the safety of our nation's children is protected, we believe the commission is wasting time and resources by zeroing in on book publishers and libraries,\" said Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association Washington office.", "\"It is our hope that this matter will be resolved soon, so that libraries can continue their efforts to serve children without the threat of closing their doors.\"", "The CPSC is expected to issue guidance early next week, said Lisa Ackerman, spokeswoman for Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas, who sponsored the legislation in the Senate last year.", "The bill, sponsored in the House by Rep. Bobby L. Rush, D-Illinois, was prompted by a rash of recalls of lead- and phthalate-tainted products, many of which were manufactured in China.", "Long-term exposure to lead can cause nervous system and kidney damage; speech, language, hearing and behavioral problems; and learning difficulties, according to the Mayo Clinic's Web site.", "Pryor is frustrated with the product safety commission.", "\"The new law is not and was not intended to be a one-size-fits-all mandate,\" he said in an earlier statement.", "\"There is simply no excuse for the CPSC's slow action on these rulemakings.\"", "A consumer advocate concurred with Pryor.", "\"I don't think the law needs to be adjusted,\" said David Arkush, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.", "\"The law provides means for the CPSC to evaluate and decide whether exemptions should be granted for certain types of products.\"", "CPSC spokeswoman Arlene Flecha said the agency would comment on the issue later Friday.", "Ordinary books that aren't made to be playthings (such as vinyl bathtub books) and that don't have baubles or other materials on their covers have always been exempt from regulations on lead in paint.", "But the new regulations on lead in children's products do cover all kinds of books, according to a December 23 letter from the CPSC's office of general counsel to the Association of American Publishers.", "Librarians say there's no way they can verify the lead content of all the books on their children's department shelves.", "\"The cost would be unbelievably high for them to test all these books so we could keep them in the library, and how long would we go without them if every library in New England sends them to the same lab,\" Donna Rasche, librarian at the Brewer, Maine, Public Library, told CNN affiliate WCSH-TV .", "Arkush is unmoved by such arguments.", "\"If libraries can provide evidence that broad classes of books don't pose a risk of harm to the public health, then they can be granted an exemption from the testing requirements,\" he said.", "\"If they can't prove that and if the books actually do pose a safety problem, then they shouldn't be sent home with kids.\"", "Publishers -- which will have to prove the safety of new books anyway -- and groups such as the American Library Association could foot the bill for testing older books, he said.", "\"They don't have to test every book, obviously,\" Arkush said.", "\"They don't even have to test anywhere near every title.", "I think they really have to test a reasonable sample size of different classes of books -- different types of binding, different types of materials used.\"", "A coalition of consumer advocacy groups continues to support the law but issued a statement Friday that criticized the CPSC's implementation of it.", "\"While we have urged the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promptly address reasonable concerns that have been raised regarding compliance, and provide better information about the new law, our organizations all agree that the law is fundamentally sound and essential to ensuring a safer marketplace,\" the statement read.", "It was signed by Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, Union of Concerned Scientists, Kids in Danger, U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Public Citizen.", "The commission earlier this month clarified the regulations to let resale and thrift shops off the hook for testing the used clothing and other items they sell.", "Those outlets still are expected to watch out for items that have been recalled or banned, the CPSC said." ]	[ "NEW: Consumer advocate says law is needed to protect public health .", "Law may require pulling children's books until lead content is determined .", "Librarians worry about cost, practicality of testing all books .", "Bill's sponsor criticizes CPSC for failure to give clear guidance ." ]	[ 13, 14, 19, 20, 22 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives approved $600 million in emergency funding Tuesday to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border.", "The measure, which passed in a voice vote, still needs Senate approval before being signed into law by President Barack Obama.", "Senators passed a similar plan last week, but must vote again on the House measure that includes the language on border funding.", "A top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that the chamber could be recalled from its August recess to take up the House-approved measure.", "\"In light of the voice vote in the House, it is our hope that we can do this by consent by the end of the week,\" said Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley.", "\"The question is whether Republicans want to try and make this an issue or whether they will allow us to get it done quickly.\"", "Manley said Reid was waiting for word from Senate Republicans on whether they would object to approval by unanimous consent, which could be done without the return of the entire chamber.", "Otherwise, Reid could still bring back the full Senate for a formal vote.", "A Republican leadership source said Tuesday night that Republicans were likely to go along with passing the measure by unanimous consent.", "Among other things, the bill provides for roughly 1,500 new law enforcement agents, new unmanned aerial vehicles, new forwarding operating bases and $14 million in new communications equipment.", "The measure has attracted strong Democratic and Republican support.", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano praised the plan last week, saying it would \"add important, permanent resources to continue bolstering security on our Southwest border.\"", "\"These assets are critical to bringing additional capabilities to crack down on transnational criminal organizations and reduce the illicit trafficking of people, drugs, currency and weapons,\" she said.", "The bill is funded in part by imposing higher fees on personnel companies that bring foreign workers into the United States.", "CNN's Brianna Keilar contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Senate could return from recess this week to give final approval to the bill .", "The House has approved a bipartisan measure to boost U.S.-Mexico border security .", "The $600 million bill provides funding for 1,500 new law enforcement agents .", "The bill also includes funding for unmanned aerial vehicles and communications equipment ." ]	[ 0, 3, 9 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Four New Orleans police officers accused of killing two men after Hurricane Katrina are scheduled to appear in federal courtrooms Friday.", "The officers are charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, weapons and civil rights violations in connection with the well-publicized 2005 shootings in the infamous Danziger Bridge incident.", "The hearings Friday will determine whether the officers will be held in jail until the trial, according to court documents.", "Three of the officers -- Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius and Anthony Villavaso -- are scheduled to have their morning hearings in a federal court in New Orleans.", "The fourth officer, Robert Faulcon, is scheduled to have his afternoon hearing in a Houston, Texas, courtroom.", "The shootings occurred at the bridge on September 4, 2005, six days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.", "An indictment alleges that two separate shootings at the bridge resulted in the deaths of a teenager and a 40-year-old disabled man.", "The indictment contends the four officers opened fire, killing 19-year-old James Brissette.", "Minutes later, Faulcon allegedly shot and killed 40-year-old Ronald Madison.", "The indictment also 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.", "The officers could face the death penalty if convicted, but prosecutors have said in the past that they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty." ]	[ "The four officers face charges in post-Katrina shootings .", "The Friday hearings will determine whether they will remain in jail until trial .", "The shootings occurred on Danziger Bridge in 2005 ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An explosion of an apparent land mine that drifted from North Korea killed one fisherman and injured another, police said Sunday.", "The injured man is still hospitalized with serious injuries to his arms and hands, Yeoncheon County Police told CNN.", "Investigators have found 19 wooden box land mines washed up on the riverside so far, police said.", "Heavy downpours in North Korea may have washed the land mines ashore, the South Korean state-run Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South Korean Army.", "The military is searching all streams that connect with North Korea, Yonhap said, and has issued warnings to people in the area after investigators found \"scores\" of the mines, designed to go off when opened.", "The explosion occurred just before 11:00 p.m. Saturday (10:00 a.m.", "ET) in a border city 60 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of Seoul.", "State media reported Saturday that South Korean investigators had found eight land mines made by North Korea near the border between the two countries.", "A fisherman on Jumun Island alerted authorities after stumbling upon a landmine in a wooden box, Yonhap said, citing a spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.", "Searchers found seven other mines on Jumum and two other islands in the Yellow Sea, as well as three empty wooden boxes, Yonhap said.", "It was unclear how the land mines were identified.", "According to Yonhap, military officials said the mines may have drifted away from North Korea.", "Jumun Island is just below the sea border between the two countries, Yonhap said.", "CNN's Brian Walker contributed to this report." ]	[ "A fisherman is dead after an apparent land mine explosion .", "The mine is one of \"scores\" South Korean military officials say drifted from North Korea .", "Heavy downpours may have washed them ashore .", "State media says searches of islands in the Yellow Sea revealed eight landmines ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The deportations of thousands of Mexicans who have served time in U.S. jails into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are adding a deadly ingredient to an already volatile state of security, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.", "Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz says street level drug dealers are responsible for most recent violence there.", "Turf battles between rival drug cartels, and between authorities and cartels, have made Juarez one of the world's most dangerous cities.", "There were 305 drug-related killings in August, making it the deadliest month yet, according to the mayor's office.", "Most of the recent violence has been committed by young street-level drug dealers who work for the Sinaloa or Juarez cartels, Reyes Ferriz said.", "Adding deportees from the United States, some with criminal records, worsens the situation, the mayor said.", "In the past 45 days, 10 percent of those killed in Juarez had been deported from the United States in the past two years, Reyes Ferriz said.", "\"We don't have the statistics to know if they were criminals from the United States or not,\" he told CNN's Rick Sanchez this week.", "\"We know they were deported from the U.S.", "Most of them come from U.S. jails.", "They end up in the city of Juarez, and that's a problem generated for us, but also for the United States.\"", "Most deportees are simply Mexicans who crossed the border illegally, but some hardened criminals get involved with the gangs, which have networks in the United States, Reyes Ferriz said.", "But according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. agency that oversees deportations, the number of criminal deportees entering Juarez from El Paso, Texas, is not high.", "\"El Paso had the fewest removals among the other border areas\" in fiscal 2008, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.", "About 85,400 \"criminal aliens\" were deported from the United States to their homelands in 2008, according to ICE.", "Of those deported through El Paso, about 6,800 were criminal aliens, Zamarripa said.", "The term refers to noncitizens who have been convicted of a crime in the United States.", "Illegal immigrants whose only violation is entering illegally are not classified as criminal aliens, Zamarripa said.", "Not all were Mexican, so not all left the United States by crossing into Juarez, she added.", "By comparison, 11,400 criminal aliens were processed through San Antonio, Texas, via the nearby Laredo international bridges, and 11,000 criminal aliens were deported through San Diego, California.", "The location of the deportation proceedings \"depends on bed space and operational availability,\" Zamarripa said.", "Reyes Ferriz wants deportees to be repatriated to the interior of Mexico instead of his city.", "The Department of Homeland Security is running such a program, involving deportees from Phoenix, Arizona.", "The deportation flights from Arizona to Mexico are happening because it is a high-traffic area for illegal immigrants, and because that's where the government of Mexico agreed to the program.", "In a recent conversation, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the United States would work to give Juarez more details about who is being dropped off on its doorstep, Reyes Ferriz said.", "The 2009 death toll in Juarez was 1,421 as of Monday, the mayor's office said, on pace to beat last year's 1,600 killings.", "According to a report released last week by a Mexican watchdog group, Juarez, population 1.5 million, was the homicide capital of the world.", "It had an estimated rate of 130 killings per 100,000 people.", "By comparison, the homicide rate in New Orleans, Louisiana, by far the deadliest city in the United States in 2008, was 64 homicides per 100,000 residents, based on preliminary FBI figures.", "CNN's Mariano Castillo contributed to this report." ]	[ "Some deportees get involved with gangs in Juarez, Jose Reyes Ferriz says .", "Of past 45 days' deaths, 10 percent were deported to Juarez in last 2 years, he says .", "Mayor wants deportees repatriated to interior of Mexico instead of his city .", "ICE official says number of criminals deported to Juarez low compared to other areas ." ]	[ 6, 14, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- More and more mothers, clutching their rail-thin, malnourished children, are arriving at the packed waiting rooms of the Doctor Without Borders clinics in central Somalia, the aid group said.", "In fact, the group said it is treating 1,300 children in north and south Galcayo, which is almost half the number of children treated for malnutrition in the area all of last year.", "\"The situation is alarming,\" said Karin Fischer Liddle, head of the organization's mission in Somalia.", "\"Our staff is stretched.", "This is the highest number of malnourished children MSF has ever treated in the area.\"", "Doctors Without Borders -- widely known by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres -- said the brutal mix of a lengthy drought, high food prices and insecurity from violence has caused a spike in malnutrition cases.", "Rain has come to the area in recent weeks, Fischer Liddle said, but it has caused more children to fall ill, leading to more malnutrition cases.", "In the long run, the rains may help the organization's overburdened clinics in the area.", "\"Hopefully, the rains all over Somalia will cause food prices to drop and help some of these families,\" Fischer Liddle said.", "She talked about a woman named Ubah who is at one of the nutrition centers that operate in hospitals in Galcayo.", "The woman went to the nutrition center after her daughter contracted measles, lost her sight and was unconscious for a week.", "After more two weeks, Ubah said, she saw improvement in her daughter, though she had not regained her sight.", "\"They gave her fluid, vitamins and therapeutic food.", "Now her body is better, unlike when I first brought her here.", "Now she looks more like other babies,\" Ubah said." ]	[ "Group says it's treating 1,300 malnourished children in Galcayo in Somalia .", "Rain could eventually ease crisis by bringing down food prices, official says .", "Woman says food helping measles-stricken daughter who lost sight ." ]	[ 1, 8, 9, 10 ]
[ "Norfolk, Virginia (CNN) -- An Iraqi detainee said he was kicked and punched while his hands were tied behind his back in a recording played Tuesday in the trial of a Navy SEAL accused of assaulting the detainee.", "Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe has pleaded not guilty to punching Ahmed Hashim Abed in the stomach, dereliction of duty and lying to investigators.", "Wearing Navy dress whites, McCabe spoke his first words -- \"Yes, Ma'am\" -- when greeted by the military judge, Navy Capt.", "Moira Modzelewski.", "The prosecution and defense teams presented opening statements Tuesday after Modzelewski seated a military jury of four Navy officers and three enlisted personnel.", "\"It's a story you don't want to hear,\" said Navy Lt.", "Commander Nicholas Kadlec, the prosecutor.", "\"And as the evidence unfolds, it becomes a story you just have to believe.\"", "McCabe stared straight ahead as Kadlec told the jury that McCabe failed to live up to Navy standards when he struck a detainee in the abdomen and walked away while the prisoner lay on the floor bleeding.", "\"By the way, the entire time, the detainee had his hands tied behind his back,\" Kadlec said, urging the jury to muster the \"moral courage\" to convict McCabe.", "\"It's about doing the right thing, and holding the accused accountable,\" he said.", "McCabe's civilian defense attorney, Neal Puckett, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, said in his opening statement that McCabe was doing his job.", "\"The SEALs did what they were trained to do,\" he said to the jury \"They were serving an Iraqi arrest warrant.\"", "Puckett said the evidence will show that the detainee's mouth injury started as a canker sore and that the bleeding was self-inflicted -- not induced by McCabe.", "\"Not only [will] you not be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, but you will believe he is innocent, because he is innocent,\" said Puckett.", "McCabe is the last of three SEALs accused of abusing Abed, who was arrested in Iraq and charged with masterminding the 2004 slayings of four U.S. contractors in Falluja.", "The killings were widely covered by news organizations when the burned bodies of two contractors were paraded through Fallluja's streets and hanged from a bridge as their captors cheered.", "In the recording of his three-hour deposition, Abed denied involvement with al-Qaeda or Hamas and said that U.S. and Iraqi forces raided his home and took him to a U.S. base, where he was attacked for five minutes.", "Abed said he was standing with his hands tied behind his back when he was hit in the stomach.", "He described falling down from the force of the punch, hitting his face on the floor.", "He said he felt \"pain in my face\" and later tasted blood in his mouth.", "While on the floor, Abed described being kicked several times with a boot-covered foot in his shoulder and back.", "He said that although blindfolded, once he fell on the floor he was able see enough from beneath his eye-cover to determine that his attacker was bare-legged and wearing shorts.", "He did not identify McCabe as his assailant.", "The two other SEALs in the case were acquitted in April in Iraq on charges of dereliction of duty and impeding an investigation.", "McCabe is the only one charged with abusing the detainee." ]	[ "Matthew McCabe has pleaded not guilty to punching Iraqi detainee, dereliction of duty .", "Ahmed Hashim Abed says in recording he was punched, kicked while hands tied .", "McCabe's lawyer says he was doing his job; blames Abed's mouth injury on canker sore .", "Two others have been acquitted of charges related to beating ." ]	[ 0, 1, 13 ]
[ "Mike Galanos hosts \"Prime News\" from 5 to 7 p.m.", "ET Mondays through Fridays on HLN.", "\"Prime News\" uses the day's most powerful headlines as a starting point for diverse perspectives, spirited debate and your points of view.", "Mike Galanos says coaches need to be smart and know when to alter practices because of hot weather.", "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- We love our football in this country, don't we?", "Whether it's watching the pee-wees or the pros, there's nothing like taking in a game on a crisp fall afternoon.", "You see your breath as you stand and cheer the pop of the pads or the last-minute touchdown.", "I love this game so much, I cried when I knew I wasn't big enough or fast enough to play anymore.", "Many of us share that same passion.", "And we should share in the grief when a 15-year-old boy dies because of a football practice.", "We have to learn from the death of Max Gilpin so something like this never happens again -- because it could happen to any of our kids.", "It was a hot, humid day in August 2008 in Louisville, Kentucky.", "Max and his Pleasure Ridge Park High School teammates were wrapping up the second of two practices that day.", "They finished with a grueling round of \"gassers,\" or sprints.", "Max's body was breaking down, and he didn't even know it.", "The sophomore collapsed.", "His body temperature had reached 107 degrees.", "He died three days later.", "So who is to blame for this needless tragedy?", "Was the coach irresponsible in pushing his players so hard on such a hot day?", "Prosecutors thought that was the case.", "So for the first time, a football coach faced criminal charges and had to go to trial for the death of one of his players.", "David Stinson was charged with reckless homicide and wanton endangerment.", "The state accused the coach of denying players water and even forcing them to run extra sprints as punishment on that hot August day.", "The coach's defense presented witnesses who said Max complained of not feeling well before practice even began and others who said the fact that he was on Adderall contributed to his high body temperature.", "In the end, a jury acquitted Stinson of any charges related to Max's death.", "From the moment I heard about this case, I never thought Stinson would be convicted.", "The charges were too harsh, and no jury would believe that he knowingly and maliciously put a player in a position that would lead to his death.", "But I think it is a good thing that this trial took place, and I hope coaches across the country now think twice about how they run their practices and whether they are putting our kids in danger.", "Sadly, Max is not the first such tragic case.", "According to the Annual Survey of Football Injury Research, 39 football players have died from heat stroke since 1995; 29 of them were playing for high school teams (the others were college and professional players and one sandlot incident).", "The first thing we need to do to reduce the risk of any more heat-related deaths is to make sure a doctor gives our kids a full physical examination before they take the field.", "That means we go beyond listening to the high school freshman's heart and making him turn and cough.", "One doctor on my show, \"Prime News,\" said we should give them an EKG, and I agree.", "An electrocardiogram isn't expensive, and having one before a high school player's first season would help doctors diagnose pre-existing conditions.", "Second, every coach should monitor how hot it is before and during practice.", "A heat index monitor costs less than $150, and that is a small price to pay for safety.", "Let's look at what Stinson was dealing with in Kentucky.", "The Kentucky High School Athletic Association guidelines say that if the heat index is above 95, practice is altered.", "The heat index the day of Max's death was one degree away, at 94.", "Two questions off that: Should the temperature be lowered to 92 or 90?", "And what happens when we alter practice?", "It should mean that helmets and shoulder pads come off, unless players are tackling.", "Regardless of the answers, put the rules in place so all coaches know and are on the same playing field.", "Another thing to consider is how many times a team should practice during the scorching hot dog days of August.", "There is usually a \"hell\" week in there, when a team practices two times per day.", "I have no problem with that as long as a coach is smart about how hot it is out there.", "Six years ago, the National Collegiate Athletic Association forced college football teams to cut back two-a-day practices, especially at the start of the season, so players could become acclimatized to hot and humid weather.", "Going along with that, the National Athletic Trainers' Association advocates starting off with one-a-day practices and then two-a-days with a one-a-day in between.", "The last thing, and this could be the most important, is to never deny a player water.", "According to the Centers for Disease Control, one of the best ways to prevent a heat-related illness is through proper hydration.", "So if a player is asking for a drink, give it to him.", "The goal in all this is not to restrict coaches or how we practice football but to make sure we never have another story like Max Gilpin's.", "The sadness of seeing his mom sobbing in a courtroom as she had to relive her son's death was just heartbreaking.", "We don't want another coach on trial.", "Stinson has said Max's death is a burden he will live with for the rest of his life, and I hope his story, and Max's tragic death, bring about needed changes to the game we love.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mike Galanos." ]	[ "Thirty-nine football players have died from heat stroke since 1995 .", "15-year-old Max Gilpin collapsed during football practice and died three days later .", "Mike Galanos: The goal isn't to restrict coaches but to keep kids safe ." ]	[ 15, 17, 30, 52 ]
[ "London, England -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II withdrew the invitation of a far-right politician to her garden party Thursday after he \"blatantly politicized\" it, Buckingham Palace said.", "Nick Griffin, the controversial leader of the British National Party, was among thousands of guests due to attend one of the queen's three annual summer garden parties at Buckingham Palace.", "He was invited because he is an elected member of the European Parliament -- and disinvited because his politicizing the invitation \"increased the security threat and the potential discomfort\" to other guests, Buckingham Palace said.", "The palace said Griffin \"overtly used his personal invitation for party political purposes through the media.\"", "The BNP leader called the withdrawal of the invitation an \"attack on democracy, the media, freedom of speech and one million British patriots.\"", "He said the reason given for the reversal was \"invented nonsense\" and that citing \"natural media interest\" in him to cancel the invitation was \"a disgusting disregard for democracy in Britain.\"", "And he warned that \"blatant attempts at gagging the BNP always backfires (sic).\"", "Griffin posted the statement on the BNP website and e-mailed it to supporters as a fundraising solicitation.", "He had said a day earlier that he would be attending the party \"for the 1 million British patriots who now vote for this party despite all the hate from the media liars, the old parties and their thuggish far-left allies.\"", "He asked readers of the BNP website for their suggestions about what he should say to the Queen \"if -- presumably due to some ghastly blunder by a courtier -- I actually meet her?\"", "Griffin was elected to the European Parliament last year along with another BNP member.", "It was the first time members of the far-right party had won European elections.", "He campaigned for a seat in Britain's parliament earlier this year -- hoping to become the first British National Party member of Parliament -- but he came in third in his constituency.", "The possibility that Griffin would attend a royal garden party last year caused outrage.", "Another BNP member who had been invited said he would bring Griffin as a guest, but Griffin said he would not attend following the outcry.", "Griffin was convicted of inciting racial hatred in 1998, a London court official said.", "He was ordered to serve nine months in prison, a sentence that was suspended for two years, the court official added.", "He was elected leader of the BNP the following year and re-elected in 2007, according to the party.", "Queen Elizabeth hosts at least three garden parties every summer at Buckingham Palace as a way to reward and recognize public service.", "About 8,000 people attend each one, the palace says.", "People are invited on the recommendation of local and national organizations, which are given a quota of tickets, the palace explained.", "CNN's Lianne Turner and Melissa Gray contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Nick Griffin calls the ban an attack on democracy and uses it for fundraising .", "The British National Party leader \"blatantly politicized\" his invitation, Buckingham Palace says .", "He asked readers of his website what he should say to the queen if, by some \"blunder,\" he met her .", "He was convicted of inciting racial hatred but his sentence was suspended ." ]	[ 1, 4, 9, 15 ]
[ "Beijing, China (CNN) -- China ranks second only to the United States in the number of billionaires, according to an annual report of the 1,000 richest people in the country.", "The Hurun Rich List counted 130 billionaires in China this year, up from 101 a year ago and none in 2003.", "An additional 825,000 people had personal wealth of more than $1.5 million, said Rupert Hoogewerf, an accountant who has compiled the list since 1998.", "\"You can double the real number of billionaires in China to 260,\" said Hoogewerf in a statement.", "\"There are still a large number of billionaires off the radar screens.\"", "Often, wealthy people in China try to avoid the scrutiny of tax authorities by keeping their finances private.", "The man who topped the list last year, for example, is under arrest for alleged financial irregularities.", "The most prominent dropout from the list is injured Houston Rockets basketball player Yao Ming, whose fortune was valued at $100 million last year.", "The list indicates that China's wealthy have been buffered from the global financial meltdown, which has tycoons in other countries reeling.", "A separate list, released in June by Capgemeni SA and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, found that China's economy grew by 9 percent last year, even as the United States and Europe slipped into recession.", "That list found that the combined riches of China's millionaires surpassed that of the United Kingdom's.", "Most business owners who made the Hurun list -- both as billionaires and millionaires -- made their fortune in real estate and related industries as China has undergone dizzying urbanization.", "The construction ministry estimates that the country's urban population will increase by 300 million people by 2025.", "Few of those making the list relied on exports to Western economies.", "But the richest man in China this year, Wang Chuanfu, jumped 102 places to the top after billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett agreed to buy a 10 percent stake in his company.", "Buffett's announcement sent shares in Wang's company, BYD, surging 387 percent this year.", "The company initially made its name with rechargeable cell phone batteries, but this year launched mass production of a plug-in hybrid electric car.", "Other highlights from the list: .", "• Less than 1 percent on the list inherited their wealth, compared with 25 percent in the United Kingdom and 35 percent in the United States.", "• The typical rich list member is a 50-year-old self-made man who started out 16 years ago and has made his money from property development.", "• 102 women were among China's 1,000 richest.", "Chinese women make up more than half the world's richest self-made women.", "• The top three hobbies of wealthy Chinese are travel, swimming and golf.", "The United States, Australia and France are their preferred destinations.", "Though the list mentions China as second to the United States in the number of billionaires, it did not specify how many the latter produced.", "A Forbes magazine tally of the world's richest people, released in March, counted 359 billionaires in America." ]	[ "Number of billionaires in China grows to 130, according to report .", "Actual number of billionaires may be up to 260, according to man who compiles list .", "Wealthy in China hard to track because they want to avoid government scrutiny .", "Most who made list made fortunes due to real estate, similar ventures ." ]	[ 0, 3, 5, 11, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The federal government's oil spill response director says testing has revealed that there is a \"detected seep a distance from the well\" and has ordered BP to quickly notify the government if other leaks are found.", "\"When seeps are detected, you are directed to marshal resources, quickly investigate, and report findings to the government in no more than four hours,\" retired Adm. Thad Allen said in a letter to BP Chief Managing Director Bob Dudley.", "\"I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed.\"", "BP spokesman Mark Salt said Sunday night that he had no information about the leak mentioned in Allen's letter.", "The letter does not provide further details about where the leak was spotted or how big it is.", "It was unclear from Allen's letter, released Sunday evening, whether testing on the well had been extended.", "It was scheduled to last at least until 4 p.m. Sunday.", "Earlier in the day Allen said officials could decide to extend it in 24-hour increments.", "\"We've not been told it's stopping,\" Salt said.", "In his letter Sunday, Allen asked BP to provide its \"latest containment plan and schedule in the event that the Well Integrity Test is suspended\" within 24 hours and said the company should be prepared to discuss its efforts to detect leaks during a regular conference call between BP and government scientists that was scheduled for 9 p.m.", "ET. Earlier Sunday BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said a variety of tests showed oil and gas were not escaping from the well, noting that the recently recapped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could remain closed until the relief well is drilled if tests remained favorable.", "\"No one associated with this whole activity wants to see any more oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico,\" Suttles told reporters Sunday morning.", "\"We will continue integrity tests all the way until we get the well killed.", "There is no target to return the well to flow.\"", "Allen said earlier Sunday that testing would determine whether keeping the well capped was the right solution.", "Pressure testing results in the well have been lower than expected, he said, which means oil could be leaking out from below.", "\"While we are pleased that no oil is currently being released into the Gulf of Mexico and want to take all appropriate action to keep it that way, it is important that all decisions are driven by the science,\" he said.", "\"Ultimately, we must insure no irreversible damage is done which could cause uncontrolled leakage from numerous points on the sea floor.\"", "Rep. Ed Markey, who has been a vocal critic of BP's response to the gusher, said Sunday that the company could have another motivation for wanting to keep the well capped.", "\"If the well remains fully shut in until the relief well is completed, we may never have a fully accurate determination of the flow rate from this well.", "If so, BP -- which has consistently underestimated the flow rate -- might evade billions of dollars of fines,\" Markey said in a letter to Allen released Sunday.", "Using ships on the surface to collect 100 percent of the gushing oil would allow scientists to calculate the flow rate -- a figure that the government would use to determine how much to fine BP, Markey said.", "On Saturday, Allen said that once testing is eventually stopped \"we will immediately return to containment, using the new, tighter sealing cap with both the [vessels] Helix Producer and the Q4000.\"", "BP is conducting regular seismic runs, monitoring sonar, visual and acoustic activity and the data has been \"encouraging,\" showing no problems.", "However if tests show problems, BP officials said they are prepared to remove the tightly fitting containment cap and reassess.", "\"We're just taking this day by day,\" Suttles said Sunday.", "\"Nobody wants to see any more oil go into the gulf, but clearly we have to make sure we don't make the situation worse.\"", "No oil has gushed out since Thursday when BP closed all the valves in a new custom-made cap that was lowered into place earlier in the week.", "The undersea video images of a quiet ocean inspired cautious optimism in the hearts of Gulf .", "Coast residents devastated by three months of disaster.", "Meanwhile, BP has restarted work on drilling two relief wells.", "Wells said that the first relief well is now about five feet away from the ruptured Macondo well and an intersection could occur by the end of July.", "BP then plans to pump mud and cement down to kill the ruptured well.", "Leaving the well capped Sunday past the 24 hours of testing is a new development.", "On Saturday, it was expected the testing would extend only into Sunday afternoon.", "Engineers and scientists have intensified monitoring of the well, pouring over images and data collected by robots, sonar scans and seismic and acoustic examinations.", "A government ship is in the area, fitted with equipment for detecting methane gas, which would be an indication of a leak.", "The well integrity test began Thursday after two days of delays, first as government scientists scrutinized testing procedures and then as BP replaced a leaking piece of equipment known as a choke line.", "Since there's less oil on the surface, BP officials said Sunday that the nearly 50 skimmers deployed at the well site collected nearly half the amount they had the day before.", "They only conducted one controlled burn, and Suttles said there have been numerous days in a row with no new shoreline impacts.", "In the coming weeks, BP also plans to bring in two more oil collection ships in addition to the two already in the Gulf, bringing containment capacity to 80,000 barrels (about 3.4 million gallons) of oil a day, more than high-end estimates of how much oil had been leaking." ]	[ "NEW: Allen says a leak was detected \"a distance from the well\"\nNEW: Letter orders BP to provide update on plans .", "BP says the recapped well is holding steady .", "If tests continue to be favorable, BP says the cap could stay on until relief well is drilled ." ]	[ 0, 4, 10, 32 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- -- The head of the company that operates the Trans-Alaska Pipeline announced his retirement Wednesday after criticism by a congressional committee and the internal watchdog unit of majority owner BP.", "Kevin Hostler will step down as CEO of Alyeska, the BP-dominated consortium that operates the 800-mile pipeline, on September 30, the company announced.", "\"Retiring at the end of September is good for the pipeline, and it allows enough time for a proper transition,\" Hostler said.", "\"Our executive team and other Alyeska leaders have worked toward developing leadership skills so that any transition in the organization is seamless.\"", "The company said Hostler had previously discussed plans to retire by the end of the year.", "But a senior federal government source and another source with knowledge of the matter described his departure as a resignation, while the chairman of a congressional investigative subcommittee described Hostler's move as \"early retirement.\"", "\"In our committee staff's meeting with Mr. Hostler last week, we expressed serious concerns about a recent internal report showing significant issues with the management culture at Alyeska,\" Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, said in a statement following the news.", "\"That report found widespread dissatisfaction among employees of Alyeska regarding decisions made by management and the management style within the company.", "Mr. Hostler's early retirement does not come as a surprise, and I wish him the best in his retirement.\"", "Stupak said the report found \"significant issues\" regarding safety and morale among workers on the pipeline, which stretches from Alaska's North Slope to the southern port of Valdez.", "He called on BP and the four other companies involved in Alyeska to take those findings \"very seriously\" and replace Hostler with \"someone with the character and management style to move the company forward.\"", "Stupak leads the investigative subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.", "The panel has been examining allegations by several pipeline managers that stringent cost-cutting measures have put the integrity of the pipeline at risk, government sources told CNN's Special Investigations Unit.", "And some BP managers have criticized Hostler's cost-cutting efforts, alleging they have resulted in a large backlog of deferred work projects on the pipeline, sources at BP's internal watchdog agency said.", "In addition, Hostler moved more than two dozen BP managers from Fairbanks, which is more convenient to pipeline operations, to offices in Anchorage.", "A source at BP's Ombudsman Unit says that move alone was expected to save Alyeska about $4 million in real estate costs in Fairbanks.", "Hostler has \"been under a lot of scrutiny,\" said one source.", "Hostler spent 27 years with BP prior to being named CEO of the pipeline, most recently as the company's senior vice president of global human resources.", "He became Alyeska's CEO in 2005, and the company said its injury rate has gone down and its safety performance has gone up on his watch.", "BP owns 80 percent of the pipeline.", "The company has been under fire since one of its deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank in April, uncapping a gusher a mile underwater that has become the worst oil spill in U.S. history.", "The disaster has put new scrutiny on the company's safety and environmental record, which includes a 2006 Alaska pipeline spill that dumped 200,000 gallons of crude onto the tundra.", "Federal investigators found the company ignored warning signs before the spill, the largest ever on the North Slope.", "The company pleaded guilty in 2007 to one count of criminally negligent discharge of oil, a misdemeanor, and paid $20 million in penalties and restitution.", "The Justice Department also filed a civil complaint in 2009 that accused the company of violating clean air and water laws in Alaska." ]	[ "NEW: Pipeline company says CEO is retiring in September .", "NEW: Congressman calls it \"early retirement\" after criticism .", "Congress is probing pipeline maintenance, sources say .", "BP managers have complained to company watchdog ." ]	[ 0, 2, 14 ]
[ "(WIRED) -- Along with the figure skating, ice hockey and snowboarding, another event will compete for attention at the Winter Olympics in Canada this month.", "A Canadian company has created what it calls the \"largest thought-controlled computing installation.\"", "It's an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use their brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.", "\"When people put on the headsets and find themselves increasing the brightness of the lights by just thinking about it, you can almost see their brains explode,\" says Trevor Coleman, chief operating officer for InteraXon, the company that has created this installation.", "As consumers get more comfortable with going beyond the keyboard and the mouse to interact with their computers, companies are looking for alternate ways to make the experience better.", "Already, touch and voice recognition have become a major part of the user interface in smartphones, and harnessing brainwaves or other biological data is slowly emerging as a third option, especially in gaming.", "Companies such as NeuroSky offer headphones that promise to translate the gamer's brainwaves into action on screen.", "A biometrics company called Innerscope is helping Wired host a geeked-out Super Bowl party.", "And even Microsoft is working on alternate forms of input; its Project Natal promises to add gesture recognition to Xbox 360 games later this year.", "InteraXon's installation is spread across three sites: Toronto's CN Tower, Ottawa's Parliament Buildings and Niagara Falls.", "All three locations have two chairs set up, each with its own headset.", "The headsets have an external probe that touches the wearer's forehead to measure the baseline brain activity.", "The chairs are rigged to offer tactile feedback as users enter the desired brain state.", "The headset measures the brain's electrical output and reacts to alpha waves, associated with relaxation, and beta waves, which indicate concentration.", "As users relax or focus their thoughts, the computer sends a message to the site they are viewing.", "InteraXon's software translates users' thoughts to commands that will change the lighting display.", "For instance, by concentrating, users can make the lights at the CN Tower spin faster or change the brightness of the lights at Niagara Falls.", "It's easy enough once users get started, says Coleman.", "\"To achieve the beta state we ask users to focus on things like an object ahead and its details, while for an alpha response we ask them to take a deep breath and relax to let their mind go,\" he says.", "\"But after a minute or two of trying it, we found most users no longer require the physical cues,\" says Coleman.", "Over the two weeks that the exhibit will be open, InteraXon expects more than 2,000 visitors to try it out.", "Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com." ]	[ "Canadian company creates \"largest thought-controlled computing installation\"\nVisitors to the Olympics use brainwaves to control the lights at 3 major Canada landmarks .", "People put on headsets and increase lighting by thinking about it, company explains .", "Landmarks are: Toronto's CN Tower, Ottawa's Parliament Buildings and Niagara Falls ." ]	[ 1, 2, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Elected with the largest margin of victory in the history of Taiwan's presidential elections, President Ma Ying-jeou is aiming to bring the good times back to Taiwan while looking to a friendlier future with China.", "Smiling through it: President Ma Ying-jeou has some tough challenges ahead.", "Winning 58 percent of the vote, Ma was swept to victory on the promise of economic growth but through the more controversial method of building closer ties with China.", "With the backdrop of economic depression Ma's calls to reinvigorate the economy by freer trade and improved relations with China proved stronger than the fears that those ties could lead to a loss in independence.", "Nevertheless, with a message of rapprochement, the charismatic former mayor of Taipei has a tough job on his hands in his first presidency.", "Born in Hong Kong in 1950, Ma studied at Harvard Law School and worked as a lawyer in New York in 1981 before returning Taiwan.", "He held a number of posts in government ministries from 1988, including Minister for Justice for three years from 1993.", "However, it was not until he was elected mayor of Taipei in 1998 that he emerged as a potential future president, and he was elected as chairman of the Kuomintang, Taiwan's Nationalist party, in July 2005.", "Yet having built up a solid reputation in Taiwan's notoriously volatile political culture, his image was tarnished by allegations of corruption while mayor of Taipei in 2006.", "It was alleged that he had misappropriated around $340,000, and after resigning his position as head of the Kuomintang to fight the charges, he was finally cleared of all allegations in 2007.", "With a clear mandate and popular support he occupies a unique position in Asian politics; TIME Magazine has said he is in the rare position of being a politician who has the \"opportunity to shape the destiny not only of their own nation but also of an entire region.\"", "Moving swiftly to build stronger links, the first regular direct flights for nearly 60 years between China and Taipei resumed on July 4.", "Ma's administration hopes that Chinese tourists from the mainland will boost the sluggish tourism industry and talks are already underway to increase the number of weekly flights.", "In a further signal of détente, Guangdong province in China has offered the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung two white tigers as a symbol of improved relations.", "Allaying fears, breaking down generations of mistrust and making Taiwan's economy roar again will be the considerable challenges of Ma's administration; the former barrister will have to use all his negotiating skills to try and fulfill his ambitions." ]	[ "Taiwan's premier, Ma Ying-jeou, elected by biggest margin in history .", "Has promised to bring economic prosperity back to Taiwan and engage China .", "Hugely difficult task ahead of strengthening ties with China and allaying public fears ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Fernando Verdasco ended Novak Djokovic's hopes of winning the Rome Masters after an epic three-hour victory took the Spaniard into the last four.", "Verdasco eventually beat the world number two from Serbia 7-6 3-6 6-4 in three hours 18 minutes to seal a semifinal berth and record his 12th win in 13 matches.", "He will now face either Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or David Ferrer in the semifinals - his third in as many weeks.", "Verdasco lost in the final to Rafael Nadal in Monte-Carlo two weeks ago before winning the Barcelona Open last week.", "Verdasco twice went up a break in a hard-fought opener but both times Djokovic pegged him back, once when he was serving for the set.", "The tie-break went 7-4 in the world number nine's favor.", "Djokovic hit back in the second set, giving Verdasco the runaround and breaking three times on his way to a 6-3 success.", "But in the decider Verdasco broke Djokovic's serve in the third game and held on through some long and dramatic rallies to claim it 6-4." ]	[ "Fernando Verdasco beats Novak Djokovic 7-6 3-6 6-4 in Rome Masters quarterfinal .", "Three-set epic takes three hours and 18 minutes .", "Verdasco will now face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or David Ferrer in the last four ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Few sports can compare to football in terms of its global popularity and the area of land devoted to its playing fields across the planet; consequently, few sports have a larger carbon footprint than the \"beautiful game.\"", "Artificial pitches can save 20,000 liters of water a day.", "Football stadiums have a huge environmental impact.", "Just keeping a pitch in top condition requires regular watering, under-pitch heating to prevent freezing in the winter, and even the use of high-power lighting rigs to promote grass growth.", "Floodlights, scoreboards and video screens have large electricity demands, while thousands of fans traveling to and from the match emit vast quantities of carbon dioxide while generating huge amounts of garbage.", "But there are signs that football teams are starting to get wise to environmental issues with clubs around the world starting to make efforts to become more eco-friendly.", "A 2008 survey by \"Ethical Consumer\" looked at the eco-credentials of clubs in the English Premier League and found that Manchester City was the greenest.", "Among its achievements, the team says it has reduced landfill by 85 percent, moved to electric vehicles at the ground, and used eco-friendly paper for match-day programs.", "By promoting safe walking routes, the club says it has managed to get 71 percent of its fans to walk to the stadium.", "The club even came up with an ambitious plan to generate its own electricity by installing a wind turbine at the stadium, but the scheme was eventually put on hold because of fears that ice could fall from the turbine blades and injure spectators.", "Funded by the oil wealth of the Abu Dhabi United Group, Manchester City have the cash to introduce far-reaching green schemes, but at the other end of the financial spectrum, English non-league club Dartford FC has shown the big teams aren't the only ones that can afford to be eco-friendly.", "Dartford's Princes Park stadium, opened in 2006, has a capacity of just over 4,000, but it manages to incorporate some neat features.", "The stadium is covered with a \"living roof\" of plants that provide a natural air filtration system, gray water is supplied from two huge ponds near the stadium and solar panels are used to heat water for the toilets.", "Dartford's efforts show that it's possible for small clubs to do their bit, but their use of solar panels pales in comparison to the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf in Berne, Switzerland.", "Home of BSC Young Boys football team, the Stade de Suisse won the 2005 European Solar Prize for its use of photovoltaic panels installed in its roof.", "The stadium roof now has more than 10,000 solar panels.", "Under peak sunlight conditions the panels can produce one million kWh of energy a year, saving 630 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.", "A simpler way for football teams to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is simply to cut down on waste.", "Last year, Norway's most successful team, Rosenborg BK, invested around $40,000 in energy-saving measures.", "It is not a huge investment, but it is enough to make a difference, and the club say the scheme will pay for itself by reducing energy expenditure.", "Arne Melan, a member of the club's technical staff, told CNN that Rosenborg have introduced a number of energy-efficiency measures, including a computer system that ensures their automated floodlights are turned off when no one is training and that controls their heating and ventilation systems so that they are only on during office hours.", "Melan says another aspect of the club's green ethos is sponsoring a scheme to provide the city of Trondheim with hot water produced by processing municipal waste.", "When it comes to waste, it is the seemingly innocuous football pitch that is the worst offender.", "\"Ethical Consumer\" estimates that it takes an astonishing 20,000 liters of water per day to maintain a football pitch in the English Premier League, and at Camp Nou, home of Champions League winners Barcelona, up to 54,000 liters of water are needed to irrigate the pitch on a hot day.", "But some teams are starting to reduce water consumption.", "German club Nuremberg has a cistern that can hold 1,000 cubic meters of water at its home ground.", "The cistern stores rainwater that can be used to irrigate the pitch, but compared to most clubs' water consumption, it is just a drop in the ocean.", "In countries with drier climates even more water is needed to irrigate football pitches, but in these countries water is often too scarce to be used to maintain a lush playing surface.", "FIFA is helping address this problem with its \"Win in Africa, With Africa\" initiative.", "Among its aims is a plan to build an international-standard artificial pitch in every African country outside of South Africa.", "Football will probably have to wait until the next generation of stadiums are built for features like solar panels, wind turbines and rainwater cisterns to become commonplace.", "Perhaps then the pitch won't be the greenest thing in football." ]	[ "Football is played all over the planet, meaning it has a huge carbon footprint .", "Some football teams are making efforts to be more environmentally friendly .", "Stade de Suisse in Switzerland has 10,000 solar panels built into its roof .", "Manchester City had to postpone plans to build a wind turbine at their ground ." ]	[ 2, 11, 13, 15, 17 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The United States will not return North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism despite its alleged role in the sinking of a South Korea naval ship in contested waters off the peninsula's coast.", "\"In our view, it was a provocative action but one taken by the military or the state against the military of another state,\" U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley said Monday in his explanation of why the sinking didn't constitute an act of international terrorism.", "When asked if the sinking was an \"act of war,\" Crowley called it a \"violation of the existing armistice between North and South,\" adding the United States continuously evaluates information that may affect the status of nations on the terror list.", "Crowley's remarks came ahead of Tuesday's scheduled meetings between Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's representative to six-party nuclear talks with North Korea, and State Department officials.", "North Korea last year cut off the talks involving the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia over international criticism of its nuclear and missile tests.", "Why are the two Koreas so hostile?", "North Korea has vehemently denied charges it fired a torpedo that sank the navy ship Cheonan and has accused the United States of \"persistently antagonizing\" it.", "In a final statement issued Saturday, Group of Eight leaders condemned North Korea's government for its alleged role in the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors, and expressed grave concerns over its nuclear ambitions.", "The G8 nations include United States, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan and Russia.", "Two weeks ago, U.N. Security Council President Claude Heller said the U.N. body was \"gravely concerned\" about tensions between the Koreas after the ship sinking.", "Friday marked the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, which ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty." ]	[ "North Korea won't make terror list for alleged sinking of South Korean naval ship .", "South Korean nuclear envoy to be in Washington Tuesday .", "G8 leaders expressed concerns over North Korea's nuclear ambitions ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama met Wednesday with Haitian President Rene Preval to discuss relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Haiti.", "The two leaders pledged to continue working for a more coordinated, sustained global relief effort to help Haiti recover from a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck January 12.", "Much of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, was destroyed, and more than 217,000 people were killed, according to the latest figures from international relief organizations.", "The situation on the ground in Haiti \"remains dire,\" Obama said at the White House.", "A continuing desperate need for food, medicine and shelter will be exacerbated by the onset of Haiti's spring rain season, he said.", "\"You will continue to have a steady and reliable partner in the United States of America,\" Obama promised Preval.", "Preval extended his thanks \"not only for the material aid\" from the United States, but also for America's \"psychological response,\" which made Haitians realize \"we were not alone.\"", "Washington has already provided $700 million in aid to Haiti.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday a donors conference is planned in New York for the end of March.", "More than half of all United States households have made private contributions to Haitian relief, Clinton said.", "Preval said Tuesday his country is working to get its election timetable rescheduled, telling reporters after meeting with Clinton that political stability is \"fundamental\" for the development of a country.", "\"I think that is what constitutes a guarantee for investors, for the population -- that there's some guarantees, that there's some security about their future,\" he said.", "Parliamentary elections set for February were postponed, and it is unclear whether a presidential election scheduled for the fall can proceed.", "Clinton said she assured Preval \"that the United States would work with the international community to hold elections as soon as appropriate.\"", "CNN's Charley Keyes contributed to this report." ]	[ "Obama met Wednesday with Haitian President Rene Preval .", "The two discussed relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Haiti .", "Haiti had a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck January 12 .", "U.S. will continue to be \"a steady and reliable partner,\" Obama told Preval ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]
[ "Srinagar, India (CNN) -- The death toll has risen to 112 as a result of flash floods and landslides in a town in northern India, a police official said.", "At least 375 people were being treated for injuries at hospitals in the city of Leh, said Officer Farooq Ahmad.", "Twenty-five soldiers in the Indian Army are missing, said Army Lt. Col. J.S.Brar.", "The town is nearly 310 miles (500 km) from Srinagar.", "The rain came shortly after midnight and took sleeping residents by surprise.", "About 6,000 soldiers were deployed in the relief efforts, Brar said.", "Helicopters have also been called in as damaged roads made it difficult to reach the affected areas." ]	[ "NEW: In addition to 112 dead, 375 people were injured in rain-triggered floods and landslides .", "NEW: 25 Indian soldiers are missing ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ester continued to intensify after sweeping across the Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least one person dead and 15 others missing, authorities said.", "A 17-member crew on board a freighter was hit by the storm -- also known as Typhoon Dianmu -- and 14 of the members were still missing Monday, according to the Phillippines National Disaster Coordinating Council.", "Three of the 17 were located -- one dead, and two others alive.", "A 13-year-old boy was also reported missing after being swept away by a strong current while swimming in the Santa Clara River, the disaster council said.", "More than 200 families from a community in the northern province of Bulacan were evacuated Sunday, and nearly 150 of them were still housed in shelters Monday, the council said.", "The storm was expected to strengthen as it headed to China and complicate the response to flooding cause by heavy rains in recent weeks, according to the country's national meteorological agency.", "Ester was expected to approach the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday before making it's way to northeast China, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the meteorological agency." ]	[ "Ester grows in strength after hitting the Philippines .", "At least one person was killed by the storm .", "Fifteen more remain missing ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bayern Munich playmaker Franck Ribery will miss the Champions League final against Inter Milan this month after failing in his appeal against suspension on Wednesday.", "The France international was handed a three-match ban by European football's governing body UEFA for his sending-off in the first leg of the semifinal against Lyon last month.", "He was initially given an automatic one-game suspension for the straight red card, which came for a challenge on the French club's Argentine forward Lisandro Lopez in Munich on April 21.", "That was extended by another two games by UEFA's control and disciplinary panel on April 28, meaning the 27-year-old had to miss the final as well as the second leg, plus the first Champions League match of next season.", "Ribery's German employers announced after Wednesday's announcement in Nyon, Switzerland, that they would take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the UK Press Association reported.", "PA said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had told reporters outside UEFA headquarters that the club would go to CAS in order to have Ribery available for the final in Madrid on May 22.", "\"Franck Ribery, as well as our in-house counsel Dr Gerlinger, have in my view put an impressive case to the court that we are not dealing with violent conduct but merely a foul,\" Rummenigge said in a statement.", "\"The committee rated this case as a borderline case.", "Nevertheless the three-person committee unfortunately did not follow FC Bayern's plea.", "We are very disappointed by this judgment and still cannot comprehend that this foul was judged as violent conduct.", "\"We told UEFA immediately after the verdict that we will also appeal against this judgment.", "We will continue to fight for justice so that Franck Ribery, despite the confirmation of the ban, can still play in the Champions League final.\"", "Coach Louis Van Gaal's Bayern players are seeking to win three trophies this season, leading the domestic Bundesliga title race by three points going into Saturday's final match at bottom club Hertha Berlin and having also qualified for the German Cup final." ]	[ "European football's governing body UEFA dismisses Franck Ribery's appeal .", "Bayern Munich midfielder now set to miss Champions League final on May 22 .", "The German club say they will now appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport .", "Ribery was given a three-match ban after his red card in the first leg of the semifinal ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "Jarkarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesian police have arrested pop star Nazril \"Ariel\" Ilham for his involvement in sex videos that allegedly feature himself and two other top Indonesian celebrities.", "The singer was named a suspect after the police questioned the three celebrities and expert witnesses over the last two weeks.", "\"We have determine that Ariel is a suspect in the sex video case, we charged him with the pornography law and with the 2008 electronic information and transaction law,\" said Marwoto Sutowijoyo, from national police public information.", "Ariel will be the first high-profile offender of the controversial pornography law that carries a maximum penalty of 12 years.", "\"We will keep investigating the case and we will arrest the perpetrators once we have enough evidence,\" Marwoto added.", "Alleged celebrity sex tape shocks modest Indonesia .", "The law and the incident has also revived the government's nationwide censorship plan to filter offensive content on the internet.", "\"The Ministry of Communication have long been proposing a decree on multimedia content, this is to prevent this kind of things from happening,\" said Gatot Dewa Broto, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Communications.", "If passed, the ministry will create a special unit that will monitor the content in online media and will have the authority to censor anything without consulting any other bodies, he explains.", "The first video, allegedly featuring Ariel and his current girlfriend Luna Maya, surfaced on several websites and went viral through social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.", "On Tuesday, after the release of the second video allegedly featuring Ariel and Tari, the term \"Ariel Peterporn,\" a spin on the singer's name and his band, became a top trending topic on Twitter.", "The videos have sparked protests by conservative Islamic groups and others around the country condemning the celebrities in recent weeks.", "Meanwhile, raids on internet cafes and the search of student cellphones at schools -- both confirmed by police -- have raised fears among defenders of free speech." ]	[ "Indonesian pop star arrested for sex tape .", "Suspect is allegedly in two tapes with celebrity girlfriends .", "Incident has spurred debate in Indonesia on morality and internet ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In a move that is antagonizing North Korea and irking China, South Korea commenced a major naval exercise in the Yellow Sea Thursday, the largest since 46 South Korean sailors died in March in the sinking of a warship.", "The five-day exercise involves some 4,500 personnel and all four branches of the military, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.", "Seoul, which oversaw an international investigation into the March sinking of the Cheonan, claims a North Korean submarine sank the corvette and is demanding an apology.", "A multinational investigation also found North Korea responsible.", "Pyongyang has vehemently denied the accusation.", "Prior to the Cheonan's sinking, the South Korean navy had largely discounted the threat of submarines in the Yellow Sea, due to the shallow waters in the area.", "North Korea said via state media that it would undertake \"strong physical retaliation\" and warned fishermen to stay clear of the Northern Limit Line, the disputed maritime border between the Koreas.", "The drills amount to an \"undisguised military intrusion,\" Pyongyang has said.", "\"The army and people of the DPRK are closely watching every move of [South Korean President] Lee Myung-bak's group of traitors.", "And if the puppet warmongers dare ignite a war, they will mercilessly destroy the provokers and their stronghold by mobilizing most powerful war tactics and offensive means beyond imagination,\" the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, according to North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA.", "\"Raising issue with the legitimate, defensive exercise is a provocation in itself,\" South Korean Rear Adm. Kim Kyung-sik retorted Wednesday, speaking to local reporters.", "Meanwhile, China, which has refused to condemn North Korea over the alleged torpedo attack and which remains Pyongyang's closest strategic ally, is reportedly carrying out air defense drills on its Yellow Sea coast across from the Korean peninsula.", "Given North Korea's decrepit military, experts say the chances of a naval attack on well-prepared South Korean forces are small.", "\"The North Koreans have to rely on asymmetric capabilities,\" said Dan Pinkston, who heads the international Crisis Group's Seoul offices.", "\"In a straight-up fight they are not that capable.\"", "Deadly North Korean strikes in past years -- a commando raid on the South Korean presidential mansion in 1968; terrorist bombings in 1983 and 1987; and naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 -- all used the element of surprise, an element that would be difficult to spring on the large, alert force South Korea is fielding for the maneuvers.", "If North Korea retaliates, it will likely be with a weapons test rather than a direct confrontation, said one expert.", "\"They do not do eye-for-eye, tit-for-tat responses,\" said Choi Jin-wook of the Korea Institute of National Unification.", "\"Shooting a missile or testing a weapon or some kind of diplomatic action are possible, but I don't think there will be a military reaction.\"", "The exercise does not include any U.S. assets, leading some commentators to wonder whether Washington is wary of angering Beijing in the Yellow Sea.", "South Korean and U.S. forces conducted exercises together in the Sea of Japan last month.", "Those exercises included an anti-sub infiltration component -- intended to thwart a submarine attack on a ship.", "If the joint exercises continue, such a move could be part of a gradual build-up of American pressure on China.", "\"The U.S. is slowly containing China in other places, and they could exercise in the East Sea in the future,\" said the Korea Institute of National Unification's Choi.", "\"I think the U.S. is very deliberately pressuring China.\"", "The warship sinking has heightened tensions between the two neighbors who fought a war from 1950 to 1953.", "The war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, meaning the two nations are still technically at war.", "About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea.", "CNN's Andrew Salmon contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Experts say the chances of a North Korean naval attack are slim .", "North Korea says it is watching \"every move\"\nEight days ago, South Korea ended joint military exercises with the United States .", "The drills are in response to the sinking of a warship, blamed on the North ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12 ]
[ "New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Dozens of police officers were involved in a gunbattle with rebel Maoists in the rain-drenched forests of eastern India Wednesday, police reported.", "Security forces had been tracking the insurgents when a shootout erupted in Chhattisgarh state's Dantewada region, police spokesman Rajesh Mishra told CNN.", "There were no immediate reports of casualties, but reinforcements were rushed to the scene, Mishra added.", "India regards Maoist rebels as its gravest internal security threat.", "Until June this year, authorities blamed 1,103 violent attacks in the country on left-wing extremists.", "More than 200 officers and 97 rebels were killed during that period, federal home minister P. Chidambaram said last month.", "Police have also arrested at least 1,341 suspected Maoists.", "\"These figures underscore the gravity of the challenge posed by left-wing extremism,\" Chidambaram said.", "In April, more than 70 officers were killed in Dantewada in an ambush -- one of the deadliest attacks on Indian security forces by suspected guerrillas.", "Officials say Maoists aim to seize political power through what they call a protracted people's war.", "On their part, the insurgents have claimed since the 1960s to be fighting for the dispossessed.", "Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh conceded last year that the nation's fight with the rebels had fallen short of objectives.", "Maoists enjoy support not only in the poorest areas and in tribal communities but also among youth and the intelligentsia, officials suspect.", "\"We have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing this menace,\" Singh said last September.", "In addition to targeting police, alleged police informers and people they call \"class enemies,\" the rebels are also believed to be attacking infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railways, and power and telecommunication networks.", "India says it has adopted a two-pronged strategy -- involving development and police action in Maoist strongholds -- to deal with the problem.", "Yet, Chidambaram in his statement in July this year accepted the planning has delivered mixed results.", "While forces stopped many attacks and apprehended key Maoist leaders, the guerrillas too have been successful in carrying out serious assaults in several instances, he noted." ]	[ "Fight is in the same area were dozens of police were killed in April .", "India's prime minister has said the country has not reached its goal in fight against militants .", "Casualty figures were not available for gun battle ." ]	[ 0, 8, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou apologized again today for the slow response to Typhoon Morakot and said he plans sweeping changes to the country's rescue agencies and may punish some government officials.", "Taiwan President Ma ying-jeou speaking at a press conference in Taipei.", "\"We will try our best to do a better job in the rescue work that has been criticized for being too slow,\" said Ma.", "\"There are things that we have to correct and we also will be responsible for whatever mistakes or neglect that government officials have made.\"", "Morakot hit the island August 8, dropping 102 inches of rain.", "The storm killed at least 123 people in Taiwan before it roared on to mainland China the next day.", "But more than 300 people could be dead as rescuers have struggled to locate many who were missing in remote mountainous areas of southern Taiwan.", "Ma said he will evaluate the rescue process and may punish some government officials by early September.", "Ma apologized last week for the rescue effort as he traveled around the typhoon-battered island.", "He said heavy rain grounded rescue helicopters in the first few days after the storm hit, delaying relief efforts.", "He said Tuesday that he will make changes to Taiwan's fire departments and army to emphasize rescue and recovery training." ]	[ "Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou apologized again for response to Typhoon Morakot .", "Ma is planning sweeping changes and may punish some government officials .", "More than 300 people feared dead as rescuers struggle to find missing persons ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- David Bill isn't annoyed when Twitter gets so bogged down with traffic that he can't post a message.", "Twitter's \"fail whale,\" which appears when the site is overrun, is so popular it's on T-shirts and even tattoos.", "That's because in the moment when frustration would hit, he's greeted on the popular Web site by a cartoonish image he loves: a giant whale being lifted out of an ocean by a small flock of tweeting birds.", "The icon -- which Twitter users call it the \"fail whale\" because the creature appears only when the site has failed to load -- has gained a cult following as the social media site grows at breakneck pace.", "The conversational Web site, which lets users post 140-character microblogs, saw a 1,374 percent jump in unique visitors between February 2008 and February this year, up to 7 million from only 475,000, according to Nielsen NetView.", "By comparison, Facebook grew 228 percent, to 65.7 million users, during the same period.", "With all of those new Twitterers, fail whale sightings and site crashes seem more frequent.", "Bill (mr_bill on Twitter) and other fail-whale followers aren't bothered, though.", "The 36-year-old San Franciscan has organized parties in honor of the whale.", "The most recent, held in California in February, was attended by more than 300 people, including Yiying Lu, the artist in Australia who created the image.", "Bill says the whale represents a contrarian philosophy.", "\"It's sort of an adorable whale but also this thing that represents the Herculean tasks that we sometimes go about from day to day,\" he said.", "\"We're all trying to do a lot of things that seem pretty impossible,\" Bill said.", "\"It's nice to identify something positive with those failures.\"", "Not every Twitterer is sympathetic to the site's troubles, though.", "Some users say Twitter has outgrown its core audience and is irrelevant to the technophiles who made it popular in the first place.", "Others are annoyed by the flood of spammers and profiteers who now use the site's popularity to make a buck.", "Celebrities and members of Congress have been jumping onto the site in recent months, adding to the site's mainstream popularity and, some users say, causing glitches in the system.", "\"I keep getting the fail whale.", "Twitter got too popular too quickly.", "I blame Shaq,\" wrote Jessica Roy, a 21-year-old New York University student who goes by suchamessica on Twitter.", "Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, or THE_REAL_SHAQ, has more than 470,000 followers on the site.", "Nova Spivack, a blogger whose article \"Can Twitter Survive What is About to Happen to It?\"", "has been passed around the site, said a rift is developing between Twitter's original \"in crowd\" and its newer, more mainstream users.", "Early adopters find many of the new users annoying, he said.", "\"A lot of people come in, and they take that 'What are you doing?'", "question literally, and so they put very inane things on Twitter,\" he said.", "iReport.com: How do you feel about tweets and status updates?", "The site used to feel \"insulated\" from the mainstream, and now it doesn't, he said.", "But for all the complaints, there seem to be just as many people who are almost excited about Twitter's growing pains.", "It is inevitable that a Web site seeing Twitter-style growth would face some glitches and a backlash from early adopters, said Laura Fitton, a consultant and co-author of the book \"Twitter for Dummies.\"", "\"There's going to be all kinds of people using it all kinds of different ways,\" she said.", "\"The purists can go pound rocks.\"", "Major news such as the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the Hudson River plane landing has broken over Twitter, and that's added to the site's popularity, she said.", "Amy Gahran, who writes on social media at contentious.com, said the backlash against Twitter stems from the fact that people are uncomfortable with change.", "Early users see new people coming to the site, and that creeps them out, but it shouldn't, she said.", "\"Change is freaking good,\" she said.", "\"Roll with it.\" As the site gets filled with fresh users, people are creating pieces of software to help Twitterers sort through the noise, Gahran said.", "She said Twitter is popular because it mimics real-life conversation and because it's easy to use.", "She also expects Twitter to expand, especially as people in developing countries use cell-phone text messages to communicate through the site.", "\"People talk.", "That's what we do,\" she said. \"We're social creatures.", "We're kind of wired for this.\"", "Twitter says it is addressing breakdowns in that wired communication.", "\"We have made amazing progress from a technical perspective as far as accommodating this rapid growth goes and will continue to improve system and subsystem performance moving forward,\" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a statement to CNN.", "Critter Gewlas of Cary, North Carolina, believes so much in the site's ability to overcome adversity that he recently got a tattoo of the fail whale on his leg.", "\"The site itself has suffered a few scrapes and bumps along the way, but for the most part, I definitely think it's a good thing,\" said the 36-year-old.", "The fail whale's account on Twitter has more than 2,265 followers.", "A Facebook group dedicated to the whale has more than 4,400 members.", "The whale has spawned art and merchandise, from coffee mugs to baby clothes.", "A Current.com parody of the whale has spun around the Internet, too.", "Bill, whose fail whale parties have featured an aquamarine martini in honor of the icon's color, said the whale's popularity comes from the idea that failures are worth celebrating and learning from.", "Twitter will use that philosophy to continue to grow, he said.", "\"Twitter is a powerful enough thing that it should succeed in a broad way, and I would like it to succeed in a broad way,\" he said." ]	[ "Twitter saw growth of more than 1,300 percent in the year up to February .", "Its swift growth has caused a backlash among some of the site's early users .", "Other rally around the \"fail whale,\" an icon of the site's shortcomings .", "Site users host parties in honor of the whale; one even has a tattoo of the image ." ]	[ 3, 24, 45, 51 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Britain's financial regulator said Wednesday it has banned an oil trader after he made huge trades while drunk last year, causing global prices of Brent crude to jump to abnormally high levels.", "Steven Noel Perkins, a former oil futures broker in the London office of PVM Oil Futures, was also fined £72,000 ($108,400) for market abuse, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said.", "He is now banned from working in the financial services industry on the grounds that he is \"not a fit and proper person,\" the FSA said.", "Perkins' job was to trade orders on an execution-only basis in Brent crude futures contracts on the ICE Futures Europe (ICE) exchange for his firm's clients, the FSA said.", "Early in the morning of Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Perkins traded on the ICE without any client authorization.", "He traded an extremely high volume and thus accumulated a long outright position on Brent.", "The price of Brent increased significantly as a direct result of his trades, the FSA said.", "His trading pushed the price up to $73.50 a barrel, the highest level it had hit so far that year, according to Reuters.", "The FSA said the trading seems to have been a result of \"extremely heavy drinking\" resulting from Perkins' alcoholism, which he now acknowledges.", "He had drunk \"excessively\" over the weekend of June 27-28 and throughout the following Monday before making the trades, the FSA said.", "\"The FSA views market manipulation extremely seriously,\" said Alexander Justham, director of markets at the FSA.", "\"Perkins' trading caused disruption to the market and has been met with both a fine and prohibition.", "This reinforces the fact that a severe sanction will apply in cases of market manipulation, even where no profit is made.", "\"Perkins' drunkenness does not excuse his market abuse.", "Perkins has been banned because he is not a fit and proper person to be involved in regulated activities and his behavior posed a risk to the proper functioning of the market.\"", "In sanctioning Perkins, the FSA said it also took into account the fact that Perkins initially lied repeatedly to his employer to try to cover up his unauthorized trading.", "Perkins joined a rehabilitation program for alcoholics immediately after the incident and has now stopped drinking, the FSA said.", "\"The FSA considers that it is possible that Perkins may be rehabilitated over time and may be fit and proper again in the future,\" it said in a statement.", "\"The ban has therefore been limited to a minimum term of 5 years.\"", "The penalty for Perkins' behavior merits a fine of £150,000 ($225,900), but the FSA said it reduced that to £90,000 ($135,500) because the higher figure would cause him serious financial hardship.", "Because Perkins agreed to settle the case, the fine was reduced by a further 20 percent, the FSA said." ]	[ "Steven Noel Perkins traded Brent crude futures contracts without client authorization .", "His trading pushed the price up to $73.50 a barrel -- the highest this year .", "The FSA said the trading seems to have been a result of \"extremely heavy drinking\"\nPerkins was also fined £72,000 ($108,400) for market abuse ." ]	[ 1, 7, 8 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday it is changing its ways after an audit showed that the agency was losing guns and laptops, often through carelessness.", "ATF Director Michael Sullivan says the agency is revising its procedures on lost weapons and laptops.", "According to a Justice Department audit released Wednesday, the inspector general reported the ATF was unable to account for 76 weapons and 418 laptops over the past five years.", "The report said the rate of loss had tripled since the last audit was conducted by the ATF's then-parent agency, the Treasury Department.", "\"It is especially troubling that ATF's rate of loss for weapons was nearly double that of the FBI and DEA,\" the report said.", "ATF Director Michael Sullivan said he agreed with most of the report's findings.", "\"We are revising our procedures of reporting losses of weapons or laptops,\" Sullivan said.", "Of the 76 missing weapons, 35 were stolen from agents' homes, hotel rooms or vehicles, the report said.", "Some of the others were left in public places or lost in shipping -- or their losses were still unexplained.", "Two of the stolen guns were used to commit crimes, the report said.", "One was used to shoot through the window of a residence, and the other was recovered from suspects arrested on burglary charges.", "The inspector general determined that 53 percent of the weapon losses were the result of employees' carelessness or failure to follow ATF policies.", "Of the 418 laptops, 50 were reported stolen.", "The report said that in most cases, it was not clear whether the missing laptops contained sensitive or classified information.", "Seven did; 13 did not. \"ATF could not provide adequate information\" about the contents of the other 398, the report said, and therefore, \"ATF could not assess what damage these losses could have had on ATF's operations or national security.\"", "Few, if any, of the missing laptops had the data encrypted, according to the report.", "The ATF has nearly 5,000 agents, more than 7,500 laptops and more than 22,000 weapons, the report said.", "CNN's Terry Frieden contributed to this report." ]	[ "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost 76 weapons, report says .", "35 of those were stolen, including two later used in crimes, says inspector general .", "ATF can't account for 418 laptops; many could hold classified material, report says .", "ATF says it's changing its procedures for dealing with missing weapons, laptops ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- South African animal welfare inspectors say they seized an exotic snake that a traditional healer was using to try to influence World Cup matches.", "Investigators found the 9-foot, female Burmese python in \"dire condition\" last week in a shack where the healer had set up shop in Cape Town, said Sarah Scarth, a spokeswoman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.", "\"He'd been ostensibly taking money, and apparently using (the snake) as a medium to speak to the ancestors and appeal to them,\" she told CNN Tuesday.", "Local authorities tipped off the SPCA, Scarth said.", "The python was suffering from pneumonia, mouth rot and dehydration when inspectors found him.", "\"It had no access to any food or water,\" she said.", "The snake's condition has improved under a veterinarian's care, she said.", "She said the SPCA would not be pursuing animal cruelty charges in the case because the sangoma, or healer, signed over ownership of the snake to the SPCA after meeting with officials.", "Last week's seizure was not the first animal-related incident during the World Cup, Scarth said.", "In one of the early games, security officials confiscated a rooster that a French fan had brought into the stadium, she said." ]	[ "Animal welfare organization says 9-foot Burmese python was in \"dire condition\"\nInvestigators seized snake from shack .", "Healer was using the python to try to influence World Cup results .", "The snake is responding well to veterinary treatment ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron traveled to Turkey on Tuesday and made the case for the country to join the European Union.", "Turkey's membership is \"vital\" for Europe's economy, security, politics, and diplomacy, he said.", "\"I ask myself this: Which European country grew at 11 percent at the start of this year?", "Which country will be Europe's second-largest economy by 2050?", "Which country in Europe has more young people than any of the 27 countries in the EU?", "Which country in Europe is our number one TV manufacturer -- and second only to China in the world in construction and contracting?\"", "Cameron said, according to prepared remarks.", "\"Of course, it's Turkey,\" he then said, in Turkish.", "Turkey's position, straddling East and West, gives it credibility and helps it negotiate foreign policy on both sides, Cameron said.", "Turkey is currently an official candidate for EU membership.", "The EU has pressed the country to make progress on reforms before it becomes a member.", "The EU says Turkey must continue with reforms to the judicial system, must make progress against corruption and torture, and must do more to protect citizens' rights, freedom of expression and religion, property rights, respect for minorities, and women's and children's rights." ]	[ "NEW: Turkey is currently an official candidate for EU membership .", "British Prime Minister David Cameron says Turkey should join the EU .", "Turkey's membership is \"vital\" for European security and economy, he says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ten years after 113 people died when a Concorde jet crashed into a hotel outside Paris, local officials say the country's government has not done enough to protect people living near the airport.", "\"Seventy-five percent of air accidents have happened in taking off or landing in densely populated areas,\" Gonesse Mayor Jean-Pierre Blazy said in a statement.", "The town of Gonesse, located north of Paris, was scheduled to hold a memorial service Sunday to honor the 113 victims who died when the Concorde jet crashed there on July 25, 2000.", "A court is expected to rule in a manslaughter case related to the crash in December, a statement from Gonesse's government said.", "\"Despite 10 years of investigation and four months of trial, all the responsibility does not seem to have been established,\" the statement said.", "French investigators said a small titanium strip that was loose caused the crash.", "It had fallen from a Continental Airlines plane on the runway minutes earlier.", "The crash, coupled with rising costs and a slump in demand, eventually led to Concorde's retirement in 2003." ]	[ "Mayor says air safety remains a concern for his government .", "The town of Gonesse is holding a memorial for crash victims .", "A verdict is expected in a manslaughter case related to the crash in December ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- With nearly 86,000 people evacuated from fire-ravaged regions, Russian authorities said Sunday that firefighters were gaining control over blazes sweeping across thousands of acres in western Russia.", "\"Despite complicated weather conditions, the situation is under control thanks to preventive measures and efforts taken by the Russian Emergencies Ministry,\" a spokesman for the ministry told the Itar-Tass news agency.", "At least 28 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by the wildfires, which are among the worst ever to hit western Russia.", "No fire-related deaths were reported since Friday, officials said Sunday.", "Two firefighters were among the dead, Itar-Tass reported, citing the Emergency Ministry.", "Latest figures from the ministry showed that 128,500 hectares (317,530 acres) were burned or had burned, and 774 \"hotbeds of wildfire\" were counted as of 6 a.m. Sunday.", "About half the fires had either been extinguished or contained, the ministry spokesman said.", "\"The most difficult situation with wildfires remains in the Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir and Voronezh regions and the Republic of Mordovia, where fires threaten several populated settlements,\" the ministry's information department said.", "A hot, dry summer has been a key factor in the fires, drying out large parts of land and igniting the peat bogs that lie all over central Russia.", "Moscow, Russia, hit a temperature of 39 Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) on Thursday, the highest temperature since records began in 1879.", "The fires have destroyed more than 1,200 homes, the ministry said, and nearly 5,000 people have been left homeless.", "CNN's Matthew Chance reported from the village of Maslovka, Russia, near Voronezh, that almost every house in the village of 500 people had burned to the ground.", "All the residents of Maslovka had been evacuated to nearby hotels.", "A resident of Maslovka named Nina told Chance she had returned to the village after the fire to sift through the rubble of the house where she was born.", "For 50 years, she said, she lived under the same roof.", "A few days ago, the wildfires were swept by high winds to the village and quickly engulfed her house.", "Now there was nothing left.", "Even the clothes she was wearing were not hers -- they had been given to her by a neighbor.", "As Nina told her story, an elderly woman walked from behind a broken wall, wailing with tears.", "Nina said the woman was her mother, devastated she had lost the home where she raised her family.", "Russia's government has vowed to compensate the more than 1,870 families whose houses have been burned down.", "Amid complaints, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered regional governors to speed up the compensation process.", "The Kremlin has called the wildfires a natural disaster of the kind that appear every 30 or 40 years.", "Critics, meanwhile, accuse local authorities of mismanaging the response.", "Desperate to control the blazes, Russia says its deployed nearly a quarter of a million people to fight the fires.", "But around Voronezh, many of the firefighters that Chance saw were just volunteers with buckets." ]	[ "About half of the hundreds of wildfires in Russia are extinguished or contained .", "At least 28 people -- including two firefighters -- are dead .", "In one village, all 500 residents have been evacuated, and nearly every house is burned ." ]	[ 2, 6, 11, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Swedish golfer Richard S. Johnson claimed his second European Tour title after sinking a monster putt to avoid a playoff at his home Scandinavian Masters on Sunday.", "The U.S.-based 33-year-old drained a 30-foot birdie effort at the final hole to end the hopes of Argentina's Rafa Echenique and follow up his 2002 victory in a co-sanctioned Australian event.", "Johnson went into the tournament without his regular caddy Lance Ten Broeck, who played in the British Senior Open instead, so his friend Anders Timmell -- a Stockholm radio DJ -- carried his bags instead.", "While Ten Broeck missed the cut at Carnoustie in Scotland, Johnson carded a final-round one-under-par 71 to finish on 11-under 277 at Bro Hof Slott.", "\"It's one of the sweetest things I've ever done.", "Just to come up the 17th and 18th is magical,\" the world No.", "329 told the European Tour website.", "\"This is a huge tournament to win for a Swede and I'm speechless right now.", "It's epic.\" World No. 371 Echenique closed with a 69 to be one shot back, while Italy's Edoardo Molinari claimed third place with the same score after a 20-foot closing putt lifted him above a group on 280 which included British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen.", "Joint first-round leader Oosthuizen tied with Australia's Brett Rumford (69) and New Zealander Mark Brown (71) following his 73.", "\"I didn't play well. I didn't drive well and it put everything under pressure.", "I had to push it at the end, but Richard played brilliantly,\" the South African said.", "\"I'm a bit disappointed, but after last week I was hoping to make the cut and I finished fourth, so I'm happy.\"", "Johnson went into the final round sharing the lead with K.J.", "Choi, but the veteran Korean collapsed with a 78 to finish back in 13th on 284.", "Meanwhile, Germany's Bernhard Langer claimed his first major title on the seniors circuit with a one-shot victory at the British Open on Sunday.", "The 52-year-old finished one shot clear of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin after his closing one-over 72 gave him a total of five-under 279.", "Pavin, 50, playing in his first seniors major, shot 70 as he was unable to peg back the former European Ryder Cup leader's three-shot overnight lead.", "At the women's Evian Masters event in France, world No.", "4 Jiyai Shin snatched a one-shot victory with a birdie at the final hole.", "The 22-year-old is expected to return to the top of the rankings after her closing five-under 67 made her the first South Korean to win the tournament, which is sanctioned by both the European and LPGA Tours.", "She finished on 14-under 274 ahead of fellow Korean Na Yeon Choi (66), overnight leader Morgan Pressel (70), and another American Alexis Thompson (67).", "Shin recently returned to action following an emergency appendectomy six weeks ago.", "At the Canadian Open in Toronto, Dean Wilson took a four-shot lead into Sunday's final round of the PGA Tour event after shooting his third successive five-under 65.", "The 40-year-old, playing on a sponsor's exemption, will be chased by the second-placed group of Carl Pettersson, Tim Clark and Bob Estes.", "Sweden's Pettersson earlier broke the tournament record with a 10-under 60 at St. George's as he just missed out on the magical 59 mark when his final putt from 30 feet went just wide of the hole." ]	[ "Richard S. Johnson ends his eight-year title drought on the European Tour .", "The world No.", "329 wins Scandinavian Masters near Stockholm for second title .", "Bernhard Langer earns his first major title on the seniors circuit at British Open .", "Jiyai Shin becomes first South Korean to win the women's Evian Masters in France ." ]	[ 0, 6, 15, 18 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Where did Arizona's new immigration enforcement statute Senate Bill 1070 come from, and where is this fast-developing trend of state activism in immigration law enforcement headed now?", "The law has gone viral in the public mind over the past couple of weeks.", "Elites and special interests are in an uproar, but some polls show that ordinary citizens and voters support local and state enforcement initiatives by wide margins.", "SB 1070 was intended by its creators, myself among them, to provoke sustainable immigration reform.", "To understand how and why requires an insight into the history of the modern immigration control movement.", "In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act (Ted Kennedy shepherded the bill in the Senate), destroying the national quota-based system that had, among other things, restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asian countries and kept immigration at sustainable levels since the end of World War I.", "The 1965 law created \"chain migration,\" which allowed the most recently arrived immigrants to set U.S. immigration flow by sponsoring family members, and stoked an insatiable demand to immigrate among billions of impoverished foreigners worldwide.", "The old scourge of cheap labor exploitation, which had been disappearing for a generation, re-emerged in the midst of millions of illegal migrants, primarily from Mexico.", "SB 1070 happened because neither political party has been willing to close the floodgate inadvertently opened in 1965.", "In 1986, President Reagan and Congress tried amnesty, with disastrous results.", "The newly legalized immigrants used chain migration to choke the system with new applications for relatives, and illegal immigration swelled to historic levels by the mid-1990s.", "Massive immigration began to distort every aspect of American life, from crime to higher education.", "In Congress, the cheap labor and ethnic voter interests could never agree on who got to exploit the new arrivals first but did find common ground in eviscerating attempts to control unauthorized employment.", "Dismayed at the effects of federal gridlock on their once Golden State, in 1994, California voters enacted Proposition 187, still America's \"toughest\" immigration control law.", "A truly grass-roots effort, it was attacked by immigration lawyers on grounds that it pre-empted the federal government's power to regulate immigration, and it was nullified by a federal judge.", "Then-Gov. Gray Davis scuttled an appeal to the federal 9th Circuit.", "The American Civil Liberties Union spread the message that states and cities could do nothing.", "In public policy circles, the belief that citizenship itself is a discriminatory anachonism, destined for the ash heap of progressive history, became influential.", "And the influx only grew, as did public anxiety and rage.", "Fears of immigrant terrorism after September 11 blocked other attempts at amnesty.", "Chicano militants and the Mexican foreign ministry have intervened directly in U.S. domestic affairs, distributing consular ID cards to illegal immigrants and lobbying local governments to enact defiant sanctuary laws.", "In many ways, Arizona became \"ground zero\" for this xenocentric chaos.", "The public watched these trends with growing alarm.", "But a small collective of lawyers from the national restrictionist groups began to study the strategies of the immigrant rights lawyers.", "Starting with drivers licenses and public welfare benefits, they worked to mirror federal verification and control laws at the state level.", "From the conservatives, they adapted federalist doctrines to make state and local police participation a force multiplier for immigration law enforcement.", "The turning point was Proposition 200, a 2004 Arizona ballot initiative called Protect Arizona Now.", "Ballot committee leaders included Russell Pearce, the state legislator who became the sponsor of SB 1070 and other ground-breaking local enforcement legislation.", "Proposition 200 required proof of lawful presence for voter registration and state-funded public benefits.", "It was opposed by virtually every organized interest in the state.", "Yet it passed overwhelmingly in every demographic sector, including a plurality of Americans of Hispanic descent.", "Frustrated citizens and legislators throughout the 50 states saw Proposition 200 as a green light allowing them to stand in the gap that had been abandoned for 30 years by Congress and presidents alike.", "By 2008, an astonishing 1,500 state immigration-related bills were introduced annually, in more than 40 states.", "SB 1070 is the first in a third generation of omnibus state immigration enforcement laws.", "Lawyers from the Federation for American Immigration Reform and other groups were worried about attacks on these new state measures from hostile elites, in particular the from the bar and the bench.", "To help the nascent movement survive, they developed a lean cooperative enforcement doctrine, grounded in constitutional protections for citizens, to fight off anti-majoritarian challenges by the ACLU and their immigrant-lobby allies.", "Key high court decisions, for example, endorsed police inquiries into immigration status, held that the failure of immigrants to carry federal documents was a crime, allowed states to cut public services to illegal immigrants and shifted the burden of proof that local enforcement programs are improper away from cities and onto the immigrants' rights lobby.", "Dozens of elected officials are now calling for passage of omnibus enforcement laws in their states.", "Sink or swim, these new laws are forcing Congress to confront the need for enforcement-based reform.", "State enactments like SB 1070 will continue to offer Congress models for national legislation and serve as legal antibodies against the fallacy of amnesty.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michael Hethmon." ]	[ "Michael Hethmon says Arizona law meant to create sustainable immigration reform .", "He says 1965 law set nation on an unintended course of out-of-control immigration .", "Interest groups, federal gridlock led states like California to make own laws, he says .", "Hethmon: Arizona law will spur other states to take on immigration on their own ." ]	[ 6, 13, 34, 40 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The deadly flash floods that swept through remote Arkansas valleys, killing some campers and leaving many others missing, are a grim reminder of the sudden nature of flash floods and the importance of being prepared for emergencies.", "Emergency preparedness is important at any time, as emergencies are more common than people may think.", "However, being prepared for emergency situations is even more critical when people are out in the wilderness and further away from phones or cell phone access, hospitals and emergency help.", "More than 40 percent of Americans plan to go hiking or camping this summer, second in popularity only to swimming as a summer activity, according to a recent Red Cross survey.", "However, the survey also found that less than two-thirds of Americans feel prepared to respond to a serious outdoor emergency such as broken bones, animal bites or heat stroke.", "Flash floods are a serious threat to summer campers and hikers, especially in narrow valleys where heavy rains can cause water to rise quickly.", "Media reports from Arkansas say that after more than a half foot of rain, water in the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers rose quickly overnight -- at times faster than 8 feet per hour -- inundating campgrounds in remote valleys and catching many campers asleep.", "The American Red Cross has a series of preparedness tips that people should follow: .", "• Share your travel plans with a family member, neighbor or friend .", "• Listen to area radio and television stations and a NOAA Weather Radio for possible flood warnings and reports of flooding in progress or other critical information from the National Weather Service.", "• Be prepared to evacuate at a moment's notice.", "• When a flood or flash flood warning is issued for your area, head for higher ground and stay there.", "• Stay away from floodwaters.", "If you come upon a flowing stream where water is above your ankles, stop, turn around and go another way -- 6 inches of swiftly moving water can sweep you off of your feet.", "• If you come upon a flooded road while driving, turn around and go another way.", "• If you are caught on a flooded road and waters are rising rapidly around you, get out of the car quickly and move to higher ground.", "Most cars can be swept away by less than 2 feet of moving water.", "• Keep children out of the water, as their curiosity could cause them to get too close to fast-moving flood waters.", "• Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize flood danger.", "Download our Flood Safety checklist, visit redcross.org or contact your local Red Cross for additional information on how to prepare for emergencies and to get trained.", "Recognizing the importance of preparedness for people who are hiking or camping, the Red Cross this year began offering a new Wilderness and Remote First Aid course designed to teach people how to respond to an emergency in a setting where emergency help is more than one hour away -- from treating severe wounds and broken bones to dealing with animal bites, bee stings, plant poisoning and weather emergencies.", "The course includes recommendations for the contents of wilderness and remote area first aid kits, and offers training on what to do in emergencies that include allergic reactions, altitude sickness, sprains, fractures, burns, heat-related illness, hypothermia, lightning strikes, heart attacks, drowning, wound treatment and snakebite.", "With summer starting and more people getting outside, it is important that families include emergency preparedness in the summer planning.", "Sadly, severe weather and summer are inseparable.", "Preparedness is especially important for people who will be hiking or camping in remote areas.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Inga Jelescheff." ]	[ "Floods are grim reminder of danger in wilderness, says Inga Jelescheff .", "Red Cross official says people can take steps to help prepare for emergencies in remote areas .", "Jelescheff: Camping, hiking are second most popular summer activity behind swimming ." ]	[ 3, 20, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In focus -- 'Emiratization' The UAE, like the rest of the Gulf, doesn't have a large indigenous labour force.", "Expats make up majority of the workforce.", "So, the government began a process called \"Emiratization.\"", "In theory, its goal is to motivate locals to work, by creating jobs and training opportunities.", "But the UAE, like many of its neighbours, is a cash-rich nation.", "Citizens are entitled to a number of benefits, and few need to work.", "So, how does the government create skilled local workforce?", "And why are women stepping up to drive the change?", "Facetime with Ki-Seok Park, CEO, Samsung Engineering .", "Traditionally, European, American and Japanese contractors have dominated the construction business in the Middle East.", "Now a new competitor is on the horizon -- South Korea.", "Samsung Engineering, founded in 1970, was the first engineering company in South Korea.", "Over the next three years, it expects 80 percent of its revenues to come from the MENA region.", "This week MME sits down with the CEO, Ki-Seok Park about the potential in the Middle East and why South Korea is pushing so aggressively in the region.", "Watch the show this week at the times below: .", "• Fridays 0915, 1945 • Saturdays 0715 • Sundays 0115, 545, 0815 (all times GMT)" ]	[ "This week, the UAE government begins a process called \"Emiratization\"\nIts goal is to motivate locals to work, by creating jobs and training opportunities .", "Plus, Ki-Seok Park, Samsung Engineering's CEO on South Korea's potential in the region ." ]	[ 2, 3, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In focus -- Stranded in Dubai .", "The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland is causing havoc in Europe with growing repercussions further afield.", "Of course, there are a lot worse places to get stuck than Dubai.", "The local airlines are financially well off, and they are doing everything money can buy to keep their stranded passengers happy.", "When the going gets tough, the stranded here go shopping, or skiing, or poolside.", "MME takes a look at the travelers who are stuck in the region.", "Facetime with Hamid Al Zayani, Managing Director, Midal Cables .", "From refrigerators to electricity pylons, underground cables to steel alloys.", "All of these products could contain one common element, a piece of Bahrain.", "This week MME goes behind the scenes of Midal Cables where the Managing Director, Hamid Al Zayani explains how his company is taking on the giant exporting countries of the world like China from the tiny Kingdom of Bahrain." ]	[ "The volcanic ash from Iceland is causing havoc in Europe -- and further afield .", "Dubai airlines are financially well off and do their best to keep stranded passengers happy .", "Stranded passengers in Dubai go shopping, skiing, or poolside .", "Plus, Hamid Al Zayani, Managing Director, Midal Cables ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 6 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia and China about Iran's newly unveiled nuclear facility to get the two countries' leaders on board with new sanctions against Tehran, senior U.S. officials revealed Friday.", "President Obama speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, at the Group of 20 plenary session Friday.", "And the strategy to build a coalition with Russia and China \"has already begun to bear fruit,\" one senior U.S. official said.", "The officials declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations.", "Like the United States, Russia and China are both veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council.", "Both countries have long opposed additional sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, although Russian leaders recently have said they might be willing to compromise.", "Watch Obama discuss the recent news » .", "Iran admitted to the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant in a letter sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday, the IAEA said Friday.", "The announcement prompted Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- all in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the Group of 20 economic summit -- to hold a news conference in which they threatened a stiff response if Iran fails to conform to international obligations regarding nuclear development.", "\"Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow,\" Obama said.", "He called on the Iranian government to \"take concrete steps\" to demonstrate it will comply with its international guidelines to ensure its nuclear program is for civilian use and not a covert weapons program." ]	[ "Senior U.S. official: Strategy is to build a coalition with Russia and China .", "Iran admits to existence of second uranium enrichment plant, U.N. agency says .", "Officials: President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia, China .", "Administration's goal is to impose new sanctions on Iran, officials say ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.", "VBS.TV is broadband television network of VICE.", "The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.", "We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.", "Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Set beside the Imperial Valley in southeastern California, the Salton Sea area was supposed to be Hollywood's answer to the Riviera back in the '50s.", "But its developers failed to anticipate the raw sewage that would run up the New River from Mexico and make survival impossible for many aquatic species.", "Rotting fish guts and toxic debris soon littered the shoreline.", "Construction projects were abandoned and yet another impotent vision of luxury tourism was left flaccid.", "Thanks again, trash!", "See the rest of Toxic: Imperial Valley at VBS.TV .", "Today the entire Imperial Valley is an apocalyptic dustbowl in the center of the California badlands.", "We set out to explore this fetid bouillabaisse.", "What we found were remnants of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, a half-million-acre plot that was once the practice site for various governmental bombardiers.", "It is the place of business for the residents of a nearby compound known as Slab City -- a mostly insane coterie of fun-hunting drifters, vets, addicts, artists and crazies who subsist on sautéed snake, lukewarm Tecate, money earned from scrapping bombshell fragments and what's left of their wits.", "It's pretty much all that remains of the Wild West." ]	[ "A vision of luxury in the 1950s, Southern California \"Riviera\" is now a \"fetid bouillabaisse\"\nDevelopers didn't foresee pollution that has killed millions of fish in the Salton Sea .", "Squatters, toxic debris and \"apocalyptic\" landscape are all that remain today ." ]	[ 4, 6, 10, 11, 14 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- Discussion Questions .", "1. When is Women's History Month?", "What are the origins of Women's History Month?", "What is the goal of recognizing Women's History Month?", "2. Do you think that women are underrepresented in any aspects of modern American life?", "Explain. Can you think of any professions in which women outnumber men?", "If so, what are they and why do you think that this is the case in these professions?", "3. Can you think of any female role models that have had an impact on your life?", "If so, how have these women influenced you?", "Learning Activities .", "Use these activities to encourage your students to learn about and appreciate the history and achievements of women in America.", "1. Women's History Month Proclamation .", "Every year since 1980, the U.S. president has issued a proclamation regarding Women's History Month.", "Have students read last year's presidential proclamation, which focused on the theme \"Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet.\"", "A link to the proclamation can be found in the resources section below.", "Instruct students to develop a proclamation of their own using this year's theme, \"Writing Women Back into History,\" which recognizes the importance of women in all aspects of history.", "2. Women in Government .", "Have students use the Internet and other resources to generate a list of some of the women currently holding positions in government, including, but not limited to, U.S. Supreme Court justices, state governors, members of the president's cabinet, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.", "Have each student select one of these women to research.", "Direct students to create a classroom or online exhibit that highlights each woman's experiences and achievements, and illustrates how her position of power may affect the lives of other Americans.", "3. Witness to History .", "What if CNN had been there to record the events surrounding the women's suffrage movement?", "Guide students as they use the Internet to research the struggle for women's voting rights.", "Tell students to use the following questions as their guide: .", "• What were the major events that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment?", "• Who were the key players on both sides of the women's suffrage issue?", "• What arguments were presented both for and against women's voting rights?", "Have students develop scripts for a broadcast news story on one aspect of this movement, ensuring that students include viewpoints from both the movement's supporters and its critics.", "4. Women in the Military .", "Inform students that the U.S. Navy is currently considering allowing women to serve on submarines.", "Ask students: What is your opinion on this issue?", "What accommodations, if any, do you think should be made so that women may serve on submarines?", "Lead a class discussion about the following question: Why do you think that women have historically been restricted from serving in certain military roles?", "Instruct students to read the list of positions that women are restricted from serving in, located at the bottom of \"Highlights in the History of Military Women.\"", "Divide the class into teams, and ask each team to create two columns.", "In the first column, teams should list which military positions they think should be open to women, and in the second column, positions that they think should remain closed to women.", "Encourage students to identify the criteria that they use to determine whether or not a military position should be open to women.", "5. Women's History Memorial .", "Divide your class into small teams and assign each team one of the following fields: science, community, government, literature, art, sports and medicine.", "Next, instruct teams to research the roles that women have played in their assigned fields throughout American history.", "After teams present their information, instruct the full class to design a new memorial in Washington, D.C. that focuses on the contributions of women to American history.", "Standards . Social Studies .", "II. Time, Continuity, and Change .", "Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ways human beings view themselves in and over time.", "V. Individuals, Groups and Institutions .", "Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.", "The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands/) are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/).", "Resources . National Women's History Project .", "http://www.nwhp.org/ .", "Women's History Month Proclamation, March 2009 .", "http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Womens-History-Month-2009/ .", "Highlights in the History of Military Women .", "http://www.womensmemorial.org/Education/timeline.html ." ]	[ "March is Women's History Month .", "These questions and activities help students learn about the history and achievements of women in America .", "These questions and activities can be adapted to accommodate students of different grade levels and learning styles ." ]	[ 9, 10, 15, 49 ]
[ "Warsaw, Poland (CNN) -- With their fine shirts, their initials embroidered on them, their cufflinks and custom made jackets, the Modrzejewski twins Jan and Pawel seem the prototype of the London banker.", "Their hairstyle, their clothes, their gestures, everything is almost identical.", "Both were indeed bankers in London¹s financial district, but nowadays you are likely to find them at baby fairs in Poland, Germany, and other European countries promoting their new line of baby wear called \"Mon Petit Bebe.\"", "\"We always wanted to start our own business,\" Jan says.", "\"The work is very different from what we used to do, but at least you [are] building something that is your own,\" Pawel completes the sentence as seamlessly as only identical twins can.", "The work certainly looks very different from banking.", "The twins patiently explain their new products to inquisitive mothers as babies hover around the stand at the baby fair -- sometimes falling over, sometimes crying after falling to the floor.", "It is loud, hectic and very hot, but Jan and Pawel know this is the best way to reach their potential customers.", "Their company offers something they say is new on the Polish market: Fully organic baby clothes, made from 100 per cent organic cotton and sewed by hand in small factories in Poland.", "\"Basically, we saw that the trend towards eco-friendly garments was slowly coming to Poland,\" Jan says.", "\"The market here is not as big as in the UK, but we believe it will certainly pick up,\" Pawel again chimes in and completes the thought.", "Jan and Pawel Modrzejewski's move back to Poland is more than a homecoming -- it is also a vote of confidence in the Polish economy.", "After years that saw the country's best and brightest leave Poland to get an education and work experience elsewhere, more and more Poles are returning as their economy has shown itself robust during the international crisis while countries like the UK have faced a much deeper recession.", "\"We see the potential in Poland,\" Pawel says as he folds some baby shirts from the new collection.", "Experts have yet to put numbers on the new trend of returning to Poland, a process labeled \"brain gain\" by some, but former expats say they know of many people who are coming back to try their luck in their home country.", "Still, employment agencies warn that a lack of skilled labor could hamper Poland¹s further economic development.", "\"We see a lack -- especially of project managers on construction sites,\" says the Manpower agency, one of the biggest in the world, \"but there is also big demand for plumbers, carpenters and of course in the service sector.\"", "Poles who are returning know they are heading into an adventure.", "Claudia Loretti used to work in marketing in London but recently returned to Warsaw to help her parents run three clothing stores.", "She says in the beginning the times were hard, but now things are getting better.", "\"The skills I learned abroad are certainly helping me here,\" she says as she folds some designer shorts.", "\"Having operated in London it is possible to succeed almost everywhere in the world and I want to put the skills I have acquired to good use in my country.\"", "The sooner the better for Claudia, she says she would like to start a business of her own.", "With the headquarters in Poland." ]	[ "More and more Poles are returning from abroad to find greater work opportunties at home .", "Polish twins Jan and Pawel left the London banking industry to set up business in Poland .", "Today the pair have a successful organic baby clothes business, with excellent forecasts for growith ." ]	[ 5, 11, 12, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal and defending champion Andy Murray were both knocked out as the upsets continued in the ATP tournament at Queen's Club on Friday.", "Murray was the first top go, beaten 4-6 6-1 7-6 by Mardy Fish of the United States in their third round match delayed overnight.", "Nadal quickly followed as he went down in straight sets 7-6 6-4 to his fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in their quarterfinal clash.", "Nadal, fresh from his French Open triumph, was looking for valuable match practice on grass, but a mistake putting away a simple overhead put him under pressure in the first set tiebreak.", "Lopez took advantage of the second of two set points and a single break was enough to give him victory in the second set.", "Lopez, who was beating Nadal for the second time in seven matches, netted on his first match point but wrapped it up on the next.", "Nadal had been the last remaining leading name in the pre-Wimbledon grasscourt tournament, which has seen the top five seeds go out.", "Four-time Queen's champion Andy Roddick and Novak Djokovic were casualties on Thursday and Murray came close to joining them as he trailed 3-0 in the deciding set to Fish before recovering to tie it up at 3-3.", "Angry exchanges followed as Fish walked off claiming the light was too poor to continue, while Murray, with momentum behind him, wanted to continue.", "When they resumed on Friday, both men easily held their services as the match went into a deciding tiebreak at 6-6.", "Murray gained the early mini-break with a superb forehand passing shot, but then Fish, coming to the net whenever possible, took command.", "He quickly set up four match points and claimed victory and a place in the quarterfinals as Murray hit a backhand long.", "Fish later beat Michael Llodra of France 6-4 6-4 in their quarterfinal match to reach the last four.", "Dudi Sela's run came to an end as the 14th-seeded Israeli, who had beaten Roddick on Thursday, lost 7-5 6-4 to Rainer Schuettler of Germany.", "Sam Querrey of the United States continued his impressive passage by beating Belgian Xavier Malisse 6-3 7-5.", "Meanwhile, Roger Federer stepped up his bid for a sixth title in Halle, Germany with a 7-5 6-3 quarterfinal win over home hope Philipp Kohlschreiber.", "Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt also went through with a victory over Andreas Beck of Germany 7-6 6-1.", "He will play Benjamin Becker in the semis with Federer taking on Philipp Petzschner." ]	[ "World number one Rafael Nadal beaten in quarterfinals of Queen's Club tournament .", "Nadal loses in straight sets to fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez .", "Defending champion Andy Murray goes out in third round defeat to Mardy Fish .", "NEW: Roger Federer reaches semifinals of Gerry Weber Open in Germany ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Haddonfield, New Jersey (CNN) -- Like any doting mother, Michelle Stilts wants her son, Dalton, to go to college, get married and start a family.", "But today, all the 15-year-old can think about is playing football.", "This weekend, he joins his teammates in Nebraska to play flag football at the 2010 Special Olympics USA National Games.", "\"When you think of sports, you think of Dalton,\" Michelle Stilts said.", "\"He was probably born with a ball in his hand ... he loves any kind of sport.\"", "Stilts suffered a brain injury after his family was in a car accident when he was only 21 months old.", "Unable to talk and paralyzed on his left side, he had to relearn everything.", "Throughout Dalton's early years, his parents struggled coping with his new behavior.", "He had difficulty with his speech, trouble with paying attention, and he would often wander off in public.", "Accommodating his needs wasn't an easy task with two other children, Shelby and Logan, at home in addition to Dalton, said Michelle Stilts.", "When it came time to attend school, mainstream public school classrooms weren't a good fit for his disability.", "The Stilts' needed an alternative, so the search for a new school began.", "At age 7, he was enrolled at Bancroft, a school for children and adults with special needs located in Haddonfield, just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.", "\"I know he's loved here, you know, he's really given a chance to be a normal child, which is great for me, that's all I really wanted for him,\" Michelle said.", "\"I always wanted him to be respected, and accepted.\"", "Tuition at the school can range from $38,000 to $42,000 a year depending on the needs of the student.", "However, in New Jersey, if a school district cannot appropriately educate a student with a disability, it can find a placement at a private school like Bancroft.", "That district then pays for the education of the child.", "That financial assistance has been a huge relief for the Stilts.", "\"We wouldn't be able to afford the care he gets here,\" Michelle said.", "Football has played an important part in Dalton's growth.", "Playing sports allows Dalton to come out of his shell and be a team player, skills that will one day help him transition into society.", "While Bancroft doesn't have a football team, Dalton plays with other Special Olympic athletes from the area and works with Steve Paul, the Special Olympics coordinator at Bancroft.", "\"He's all energy, he's a great player, he works hard at practice, he always wants be a part of sports,\" Paul said.", "\"It's everything that I remember about loving sports when I was younger, that is what Dalton is.\"", "Dalton is one of 2,800 athletes who were selected from 600,000 from across the United States to compete in the Special Olympics.", "The family leaves Saturday to join Dalton at the National Games.", "Opening ceremonies will be broadcast live on Sunday, and the events will take place all next week in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "Dalton says he is ready to win gold.", "\"I like to play football because I like to be quarterback and running back, because I am the fastest on the team,\" he said.", "\"I want to win.\" His hard work at practice, and in the classroom, has paid off.", "He no longer needs speech classes and he is making progress with his attention issues and is a member of the student council.", "\"He's always out to help students who maybe don't get it as quickly as he does, and I think we all can learn a lesson from that,\" said Bancroft's principal, Bob Lenherr.", "\"Dalton is a very special young man.\"" ]	[ "Dalton Stilts is competing in flag football in the 2010 Special Olympics .", "He suffered a brain injury after a car accident when he was a toddler .", "Football has helped him with confidence, as well as speech skills .", "The 2010 Special Olympics USA National Games begin next week in Lincoln, Nebraska ." ]	[ 2, 5, 20, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Brazil \"will not bend\" to U.S. pressure to seek sanctions against Iran, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brasilia.", "The United States was seeking support for sanctions against Iran, which it accuses of harboring a non-peaceful nuclear program.", "Brazil shares the table with the United States on the United Nations Security Council, where it holds a non-veto seat.", "\"We think with our own mind.", "We want a world without nuclear arms, certainly without proliferation,\" Amorim said at a news conference with Clinton on Wednesday, according to the official Agencia Brasil news agency.", "\"It is not about simply bending to an opinion that may not be true.", "We can't simply be taken along.", "We have to think with our own head.\"", "During her remarks, Clinton reiterated the case for new sanctions, saying that Iran is not likely to engage in negotiations over its nuclear program until after sanctions are in place.", "Clinton said Iran is trying to stall the international community.", "Amorim countered that there is still time for negotiations, and that a uranium swap deal remains a possibility.", "The United States is proposing tough new sanctions on Iran at the U.N. Security Council in an effort to persuade Iran to stop uranium enrichment and negotiate with world powers over its nuclear program, senior U.S. officials and Security Council diplomats said.", "The United States and its allies are discussing the measures as part of a possible fourth Security Council resolution against Iran over its nuclear program.", "The sanctions focus on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, which has vast business interests in the country.", "The sanctions would center around the banking, shipping and insurance sectors of the Iranian economy, broadening the scope of the sanctions in the three previous U.N. security resolutions.", "While existing sanctions call on U.N. members to exercise \"vigilance\" or \"restraint\" on trade, the sources said the proposed new sanctions call for an outright ban on certain transactions with Iran.", "The proposed measures expand existing areas of sanctions, adding new companies and additional individuals facing a travel ban and assets freeze for their work on Iran's nuclear program.", "The United States wants to gain the support of Russia and China to negotiate the proposed sanctions draft.", "The United States and its allies hope that China will voice its support in talks with Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg in Beijing this week.", "CNN's Elise Labott and Adam Levine contributed to this report." ]	[ "United States is proposing tough new sanctions on Iran .", "Proposed sanctions focus on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps .", "Clinton says Iran is trying to stall the international community ." ]	[ 9, 13 ]
[ "Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York.", "VBS.TV is VICE's broadband television network.", "The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.", "We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.", "Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- VICE visited Iran to document the country's prestigious, internationally recognized film culture.", "It was April 2009, just a few months ahead of the national elections that sent the country into a series of bloody revolts, clearly the calm before the storm.", "There were no signs that national discontent was brewing.", "Instead, there was the sense that the country was ready to dispense with its own personal George Bush -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- through free and fair elections.", "People would politely smile and shrug when we mentioned his name.", "It was the spring, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had just released their new album that month, and I had \"Zero\" in heavy rotation on my iPod.", "Things were so calm and nonchalant that I even contemplated shooting a music video for the song on the streets of Tehran.", "The idea was to get some local girls to push regular gestures like waving and walking to the point of dance, to see how far we could push dance out into a public sphere, where it would clearly be frowned upon, if not worse.", "Pretty cool concept, right?", "It wasn't until a few months later, after seeing bloody young Iranian protesters in those same streets, that I realized how risky that music video would have been.", "See the rest of Inside Iranian Cinema at VBS.TV .", "Modern Iran is a place of many, many rules.", "Dancing in the streets in the Islamic Republic of Iran is not something I would recommend.", "Lots of things are taboo in Iran.", "It's a nation of laws.", "Lots and lots of written, otherwise stated, largely assumed, often implied, always religiously motivated laws.", "The country is a curious confluence of laws, divine and terrestrial.", "The country is caught in the grip of a clerical elite that takes its cues as much from the pages of an Orwellian dystopia as it does from the pages of any sacred text.", "This is what makes Iranian film so amazing.", "It is an industry and a culture that thrives to international acclaim and prestige in the face of all of those rules and laws (or maybe because of them).", "The Iranian filmmakers we met on our trip were working under conditions that we simply can't really appreciate in our free and freely decadent West.", "One of the most vivid memories of the trip was a visit to an acting school where young Iranians learned the very idiosyncratic style of acting for the Iranian screen.", "Men and woman shouldn't touch each other in suggestive ways, like hugging or dancing cheek to cheek, and of course onscreen kissing is strictly forbidden.", "There hasn't been a filmed kiss in Iran since the Revolution.", "But the actors in this acting class were incredibly expressive, huffing, puffing, crying on cue and expressing pain and love and happiness through the cracks in the code.", "Watching them, I felt like I was like watching silent film actors of a hundred years ago.", "And I really couldn't help but think, what do they think of Lady Gaga?" ]	[ "Iran producing critically acclaimed work amid renewed passion for film .", "Films offer rare glimpse of cultural, individual diversity in country .", "VBS travels to film festival in Tehran to meet top directors, actors ." ]	[ 4, 16, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- English Premier League side Liverpool are waiting to find out the extent of the injury suffered by Spain striker Fernando Torres during the closing stages of the World Cup final.", "The 26-year-old, a late substitute in Spain's 1-0 extra-time victory over the Netherlands, pulled up as he chased a long ball, before collapsing to the ground and thumping his fist on the ground.", "He recovered enough to play a part in Spain's celebrations and returned to Madrid on Monday with his victorious team-mates.", "A statement on Liverpool's website confirmed the injury as a left adductor problem, although the severity is not yet known.", "Torres endured an injury-disrupted season with Liverpool, and came into the World Cup after a six week layoff following his second knee operation.", "He has been linked with a big-money move away from the Reds, who slumped to a disappointing seventh-place finish last season.", "But in a separate item, Liverpool's website featured pictures of Torres holding the World Cup while wearing the team's scarf, an image that may reassure fans desperate to keep hold of one of their prize assets.", "Meanwhile, Manchester United departed for their pre-season tour of the United States without a number of their best-known players.", "Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and Nemanja Vidic have all been left at home to recover from the World Cup, while Gary Neville, Michael Owen, Antonio Valencia, Anderson and Owen Hargreaves are all recovering from injuries.", "However, new signings Chris Smalling and Javier Hernandez are making the trip.", "Elsewhere, Sunderland manager Steve Bruce says he wants to sign defender Sol Campbell from Arsenal, and Portsmouth manager Steve Cotterill has revealed that Nigeria striker John Utaka is set to leave the club following their relegation to the Championship." ]	[ "Liverpool wait to find out extent of injury to star striker Fernando Torres .", "Torres suffered injury to left adductor in closing stages of Spain's win over the Netherlands .", "Manchester United depart for U.S. tour without Rooney, Neville, Owen, Carrick ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has admitted that the proposed transfer of Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal is now in doubt.", "Premier League Arsenal are desperate to retain the services of Fabregas and have placed a big price tag on their talisman which may make the Catalan giants think twice about signing him.", "\"The transfer of Cesc is becoming more complicated because there are a lot of expectations on the side of the sellers and that is not good news for Barcelona,\" AFP quoted Rosell from Catalian radio station RAC1 on Tuesday.", "The Spanish champions have just splashed out nearly $50 million for Valencia's star striker David Villa and Rosell told the club's official website that the club's finances needed to be reviewed.", "He unveiled a $184 million syndicated credit deal to help cut their debts and also admitted that they were still chasing money owed by their TV rights holders Mediapro, which has gone receivership.", "Barcelona have also been forced to recoup $18.4 million by the sale of Ukrainian defender Dmytro Chygrynskiy to his old club Shakhtar Donetsk.", "It is $12.29 million less than Shakhtar received from Barca when he was transferred last year.", "Chygrynskiy, who has 24 caps for Ukraine, joined Barca on a five-year contract but did not impress and played just 14 times.", "Barcelona have already banked nearly $30 million from the sale last week of Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure to English Premier League side Manchester City.", "Rosell told the website that the club's fans should not be concerned by the situation.", "\"The club isn't bankrupt,\" he said.", "\"This week we'll have everything in place to impose a policy of austerity to be able to make savings in unnecessary areas and meet very important commitments such as paying the wages of our players, coaches and employees.\"", "Barcelona retained the Spanish Primera Liga title last season, but lost in the semifinals of the Champions League to eventual winners Inter Milan." ]	[ "Barca president Sandro Rosell casts doubt on transfer of Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal .", "Rosell says the club has to impose a 'policy of austerity' after debts mount .", "Dmytro Chygrynskiy joins Yaya Toure in leaving Catalan giants ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Michelle Lehmann wakes up at 4 a.m.", "Her husband, Jim, gets their eight children out of bed as she picks out their outfits, makes breakfast and packs lunches.", "She fixes the younger children's hair while her husband ties their shoes.", "After a quick check of school bags, everyone is out the door at 8.", "The Lehmanns, left to right: Front row: Paige, 3; Emma, 6; Becca, 2; Monty, 5; Linus, 8.", "Second row: Raif, 10; Violet, 1; Michelle, 37.", "Back row: Jim, 38; Tess, 12.", "Sure, having such a large family is sometimes wearing on Lehmann.", "But wearing on the Earth?", "She doesn't think so. She says her family leads a frugal life, but the criticism still pours in.", "\"People will say you are selfish; you are killing the planet,\" said Lehmann, 37, who started a Web site where large families can find support.", "The criticism comes from those who say the Earth -- with its 6.6 billion people -- is exceeding its carrying capacity.", "Most estimates range from 1 billion to 1 trillion.", "\"Those are the people that want us to believe that there are way too many people already and we should do something about it -- preferably drastically and soon,\" said Joel Cohen, a professor of population at both the Rockefeller University and Columbia University.", "\"And then there are the people who say, 'Oh, we could support very nicely 15 billion or 20 billion or 70 billion.'", "\" Les U. Knight falls into the first category.", "He's the spokesman for The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT).", "The group's motto: May we live long and die out.", "Knight says the population is far more than Earth can handle.", "Letting humans gradually -- and voluntarily -- die out is the best thing we can do for the biosphere, his group believes.", "He says it doesn't matter whether a family has its eight kids or one -- the last has the same impact as the first.", "\"I don't think the intentional creation of one more by anyone anywhere can be justified today,\" he said.", "\"An ideal number [of people] would be zero, because as long as there is one breeding couple, we could be right back where we are again in 10,000 years.\"", "Those ideas are absurd and ignorant, said Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman, a journal published by The Foundation for Economic Education.", "The concept of carrying capacity applies to the animal kingdom but not humans, he said, because humans are active agents in the environment and can change their behaviors.", "\"People do control their reproductive activities. ...", "Animals don't say, 'Well, we better not have another litter because how are we going to pay to send all those pups to college,' \" he said.", "A controversial concept .", "This whole idea of carrying capacity is heavily debated, said Gerhard K. Heilig, chief of the United Nations' Population Estimates and Projections Section.", "The original idea behind the concept was that natural resources and land would limit population growth, thus slowing down a population increase.", "That's clearly not the case, he said, because population growth is slowing down in areas that don't have strains on the environment.", "Romania, for instance, has a declining population, but the population density is low.", "\"[Changes in population] have to do with social change, they have to do with political change, they have to do with economic situation -- they have to do with all kinds of other things, but certainly not with people reaching our biological limit,\" Heilig said.", "Hunter-gatherer societies illustrate how social organization and technology affect the number of people an area can sustain, he said.", "An area where people hunted and gathered for a living might have supported 1,000 people.", "\"If you have a modern society with high technology, you can maybe support 5 to 10 million in the same area,\" he said.", "The United Nations projects that population growth will continue to decline and will level off at about 10 billion around 2060.", "Click here for a look at world growth rates and population projections » .", "The number sounds scary for those who say the planet is already too crowded.", "\"The more of us there are, the fewer resources there are.", "The less room, the less space.", "Will it be better when there are more of us? I doubt anyone of us is going to say yes,\" Knight said.", "\"I think that we are engineering our own involuntary extinction and taking a lot of species with us,\" he said.", "But Richman points out that the entire population could fit into Jacksonville, Florida, which is about 840 square miles.", "Give each person 1,000 square feet, and the world's human population would easily fit inside Texas.", "Lehmann's family lives in an 1,800-square-foot, four-bedroom house in Blue Island, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.", "They put a divider in the dining room to create two additional rooms.", "She says that for her family of 10, being resourceful isn't just about being Earth-friendly -- it's a necessity.", "Because of this, she maintains, her family makes no more of an impact than those with huge houses and lots of cars.", "\"We learn to use less because we have to stretch it out,\" she said.", "\"If someone works very hard to obtain a lifestyle -- they want to get lots of cars, they want a very big house -- then people think that is a positive thing.", "And yet if someone wants to work and the thing they desire is a large family and they are willing to work just as hard, that's criticized.\"", "Values can't be overlooked when trying to determine the Earth's carrying capacity, Cohen said.", "\"Do we want to have parking lots or parks?", "Do we want to have Jaguars with a capital J or jaguars with a little j?\"", "he said. To understand the human situation and its impact on Earth, you have to consider several factors -- population, economics, environment and culture, Cohen said.", "\"If a person thinks that population is the cause alone of whatever problem they are discussing, then they are missing a very important part of the picture.\"", "And Richman says one of those eight children in the Lehmanns' suburban Chicago home may be the answer to any of the problems the Earth faces.", "\"In that group, there may be the next great musician, great poet, great novelist, who the heck knows?\"", "he said. \"People are not a problem.", "People solve problems.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "It is impossible to determine how many people the Earth can hold .", "Some say we've exceeded Earth's carrying capacity; others say there's no limit .", "U.N. projects population will level off at 10 billion in 2060 .", "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement says Earth would be better with no people ." ]	[ 11, 16, 36, 52, 60 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Manchester City completed the transfer of midfielder Yaya Toure from Barcelona Friday, the English Premier League club confirmed.", "The Ivory Coast international, who returned from South Africa this week after his country was knocked out of the World Cup, will join his elder brother and club captain, Kolo, at Eastlands.", "During his three-year spell at the Camp Nou, the 28-year-old was a regular starter for the Catalan giants as they won back to back Spanish league titles and the Champions League.", "A fee has not yet been confirmed by the club but reports earlier this week suggested the deal could be worth £28million ($42.7 million), Britain's Press Association said.", "\"This is another fantastic signing for Manchester City, and I am very pleased Yaya has joined us, he is a very good player,\" manager Roberto Mancini told the club's website, mcfc.co.uk.", "Silva joins City's expensive squad .", "\"Everyone knows Yaya is a player that we have admired for a long time, and we would like to welcome him to Manchester City.", "\"He has played at the top level with Barcelona and I am sure he his experience and ability will be very important for us.\"", "On Wednesday the club announced that Valencia striker David Silva would be joining them after he returns from World Cup duty with Spain." ]	[ "Yaya Toure joins his elder brother, Kolo, at the Manchester club .", "The 28-year-old won two league titles and a Champions League medal with Barcelona .", "The Ivory Coast international midfielder has signed a five-year contract ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Cesc Fabregas' return to Barcelona could be delayed by a further season after the president of the Catalan giants Sandro Rosell said they will not \"go mad\" in their attempt to sign the Spanish international midfielder.", "Fabregas had been expected to leave Arsenal during the close season transfer window, but the Premier League club have placed a big price tag on their star asset and are refusing to budge.", "Rosell told Catalan TV3 that Arsenal \"don't want to listen to offers to sell and they are not putting the player on the market.\"", "Arsenal have reportedly turned back one £30 million ($45.89m) offer for Fabregas from the Spanish champions, who have been forced to take out a €155 million ($200.58m) loan to ease their financial problems.", "And Rosell said they would not break the bank to land the 23-year-old, particularly as he believes there is ill-feeling between his club and Arsene Wenger's Arsenal.", "\"There was a strong dispute a few months ago and they have not forgotten it.", "Nor will we be going mad trying to sign him,\" he added.", "Barcelona's Spanish World Cup teammates of Fabregas embarrassingly forced him to wear their shirt as they celebrated their triumph, but it remains to be seen if a deal can still be thrashed out.", "Barcelona have already completed the big-money purchase of Spain World Cup hero David Villa from Valencia this summer and on Friday sealed the signing of Brazilian utility player Adriano from Sevilla.", "The 25-year-old, who can play at full-back or as a wide midfielder, will cost an initial fee of €9.5 million ($12.29m) with an additional fee payable depending on appearances and performances.", "Adriano, who has been at Sevilla since 2004, will complete a medical at the Camp Nou on Saturday." ]	[ "Barca president Sandro Rosell says club will not be held to ransom over Cesc Fabregas .", "Arsenal digging in their heels as they attempt to hold on to their star midfielder .", "Barcelona to sign Brazilian midfielder Adriano from Sevilla ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nigeria has until Monday to overturn the decision to ban the national soccer team from all competitions for two years, the sport's governing body FIFA said on Friday.", "Failure to do so will result in the Nigerian Football Federation being suspended from all FIFA-related actitives, FIFA's communications director Nicolas Maingot told a news conference.", "\"FIFA will today send a letter to the Nigerian football federation indicating that the government of Nigeria has until Monday 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) to cancel its decision to withdraw Nigeria's participation in all FIFA and CAF organized football competitions,\" Maingot told a news briefing on Friday.", "Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan suspended the \"Super Eagles\" from international competition on Wednesday after their first round exit at the World Cup in South Africa.", "The team finished bottom of Group B after failing to win a single game.", "Jonathan's government also announced the expulsion of the Nigerian Football Federation, with an interim board put in place.", "Nigeria's Sports Minister Ibrahim Isa Bio confirmed Jonathan's decision in an interview with CNN.", "\"The government has taken a decision we believe is in the interests of Nigeria that we should for now, withdraw from international competition because our football since 1996 seems not to be growing,\" he said.", "\"The president Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed this decision and the Nigerian people are excited about it.\"", "However, FIFA rules prevent governments from interfering in the running of national football federations.", "Should Nigeria fail to resolve the situation, the country will be banned from competitive games including African competitions, and will also lose vital financial help from FIFA.", "\"A suspension goes beyond the suspension of the national team, it also involves the freezing of the financial help and no referees can participate in international competition,\" said Maingot.", "FIFA President Sepp Blatter had earlier warned France that they would face a possible suspension following a similar issue involving an investigation by French President Nicolas Sarkozy into the national team's infamous World Cup exit.", "Jerome Valcke, FIFA's general secretary, said Jonathan's decision puts soccer's world governing body into jeopardy.", "\"You can't allow a government to say all national teams can't play anymore in any international tournaments,\" Valcke told South African radio station 702.", "\"Why should we be so strong on France when they did what they did and we say nothing about Nigeria.", "\"We have 208 members ... if you have one country going against our statute, going against the football system, the pyramid of football ... all is destroyed.\"" ]	[ "FIFA has given Nigeria until Monday to overturn the ban imposed on the soccer team .", "Nigerian government banned the national side for two years after a poor World Cup .", "The suspension involves a freeze on any financial help from the sport's governing body ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon will be sidelined for three months following successful back surgery in Milan.", "The Juventus player underwent the operation on Sunday to repair a herniated disc in his back, and said afterwards he is in no hurry to return to action.", "\"I feel relieved now,\" Buffon told Juventus' official website.", "\"The intervention went well and this gives me faith and serenity.", "I must not hurry.", "\"I need to take the due time to come back with no trouble and no risk of recurrence.\"", "The 32-year-old suffered the injury in Italy's opening World Cup match against Paraguay in Group F, which forced him to miss the rest of the tournament in South Africa.", "The world champions suffered without Buffon, finishing bottom of the group as they failed to make it past the first round of the competition.", "Buffon, who has won the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award a record nine times, is looking forward to working with new Italy manager Cesare Prandelli, who replaces the departed Marcello Lippi.", "\"Considering my role, I think my career is still a long one and without the hernia I would have been able to lengthen it further,\" Buffon told Italian newspaper La Repubblica.", "\"My future with the national team?", "I believe I deserve my place.", "\"I've had Prandelli as a rival coach since my youth years and I knew back then that he has an exceptional rapport with his players.", "He is part of the group and I think that is very important.\"", "Buffon, who has 102 caps, will replace Fabio Cannavaro as Italy's captain once he is fit again following the defender's retirement from international duty after the World Cup exit.", "He was previously national skipper at Euro 2008 when Cannavaro was ruled out by injury.", "Meanwhile, Juventus announced the season-long loan signing of Udinese defender Marco Motta on Monday.", "The 24-year-old, who spent last season at Roma as part of a co-ownership agreement, has been training with his new teammates in Pinzolo since Saturday ahead of the move.", "The Turin club has the option to buy the right-back at the end of the loan deal." ]	[ "Italy star Gianluigi Buffon aims for a successful recovery following a back operation .", "Goalkeeper played only one game at World Cup due to a herniated disc .", "He has been appointed Italy's next captain by new coach Cesare Prandelli .", "Juventus announce the season-long loan signing of Marco Motta from Udinese ." ]	[ 0, 8, 14, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2009 Dozen Distinctive Destinations range from a quintessential New England waterfront community to an Old West boomtown in Nevada.", "Virginia City, Nevada, is steeped in gold and silver rush history.", "Each year the organization identifies locations across the United States that provide diverse cultural and historic experiences and share a commitment to preservation and revitalization.", "The 2009 list was released Tuesday.", "\"By preserving their historic fabric and having the good sense to hang on to what makes them so special, these towns and cities are ideal travel destinations,\" said National Trust for Historic Preservation President Richard Moe in a prepared statement.", "Virginia City, Nevada, a historic mining boomtown, is among this year's selections.", "Mansions, saloons and old mines provide a backdrop for silver and gold rush lore and a glimpse into life on the frontier.", "Across the country, the waterfront town of Bristol, Rhode Island, combines stunning views and recreational opportunities with stately old homes and eclectic boutiques and restaurants.", "Also on the 2009 list: Athens, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Fort Worth, Texas; Franklin, Tennessee; Hot Springs, South Dakota; Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; Lititz, Pennsylvania; Santa Barbara, California; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan." ]	[ "The National Trust for Historic Preservation names 12 distinctive destinations .", "Locations named share a commitment to historic preservation and revitalization .", "The historic mining town of Virginia City, Nevada is on the 2009 list ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "The accused in the Madrid train bombing are scheduled to hear the verdicts and sentencing on Wednesday morning.", "All of the 28 defendants are men except for one Spanish woman.", "All the defendants have pleaded not guilty during the trial.", "Defendants in the Madrid 2004 train bomb trial pictured earlier during proceedings.", "There are eight prime defendants who face sentences of about 39,000 years each if convicted on all counts, but the maximum time that could be served under Spanish law is 40 years.", "Spain has no death penalty and no life-in-prison sentence.", "Among the 28 are 14 Moroccans, nine Spaniards (accused of passing explosives to the suspected Islamic terrorists), two Syrians, one Algerian, one Egyptian, and one Lebanese.", "Spanish prosecutors issued a document with their revised charges last June after hearing much testimony and evidence during the trial.", "CNN viewed a copy, which lists the charges below.", "The trial started with 29 defendants, but during the proceedings, prosecutors dropped all charges against Brahim Moussaten, a 23-year-old Moroccan.", "He initially had faced six years in jail if convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group.", "Alleged bombers Jamal Zougam, Moroccan, age 34, faces a 38,960-year sentence if convicted of mass murder of 191 people (at 30 years each) and attempted murder of 1,841 people injured (at 18 years each), causing terrorist damage to four trains (20 years for each of 4 trains) and membership in a terrorist group (12 years).", "Abdelmajid Bouchar, Moroccan, age 24, faces a 38,960 years if convicted on all charges of mass murder, attempted mass murder, terrorist damage to trains and membership in a terrorist group.", "He fled after the attacks but was arrested in Serbia in July 2005 and returned to Spain.", "Alleged ideologues Youssef Belhadj Moroccan, age 31, faces 38,962 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder charges, terrorist damage to trains and membership in a terrorist group.", "Arrested in Belgium in 2005 and sent to Spain in 2005.", "Hassan El Haski, Moroccan, age 44, faces 38,962 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder charges, terrorist damage to trains and membership in a terrorist group.", "Rabei Osman El Sayed Ahmed, Egyptian, age 36, faces 38,962 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder charges, terrorist damage to trains and membership in a terrorist group.", "He is serving a 10-year sentence in Italy on a separate terrorism conviction and will view the Madrid verdict on Wednesday via videophone, a court spokeswoman told CNN.", "He was present in Madrid during the trial through an agreement with Italian authorities.", "Wiretapped by Italian authorities in June 2004, he allegedly said, \"the entire Madrid operation was mine,\" but in testimony, during the trial, he denied involvement and also challenged the wiretaps.", "Alleged \"necessary cooperators\" Prosecutors argued the attacks could not have occurred without the involvement and active cooperation of the following three defendants.", "Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, Spaniard, age 30, faces 38,976 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder, terrorist damage to trains, collaborating with a terrorist group, illicit association, supplying and transporting explosives, falsifying license plates and vehicle theft.", "Prosecutors say he was the leader of a group of Spaniards who obtained explosives and provided them to the alleged Islamic terrorists.", "Rafa Zouhier, Moroccan, age 28, faces 38,968 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder charges, terrorist damage to trains, collaborating with a terrorist group and supplying explosives.", "Prosecutors allege he was a key link between the Islamic suspects and the Spaniards who allegedly provided the explosives.", "Charges sharply increased against him last June; until then he had faced just 20 years in prison if convicted.", "Othman El Gnaoui, Moroccan, age 32, faces 38,972 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder charges, terrorist damage to trains, membership in a terrorist group, supplying explosives and document forgery.", "Charges sharply increased against him last June; until then he had faced just 24 years in prison if convicted.", "Islamic suspects charged with terrorist group membership Mohamed Larbi Ben Sellam, Moroccan, age 30, faces 27 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group and conspiracy to commit terrorist assassination.", "Rachid Aglif, Moroccan, age 27, faces 21 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group and supplying explosives.", "Basel Ghalyoun, Syrian, age 27, faces 12 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group.", "Charges sharply reduced against him last June.", "Until then, he faced some 38,000 years if convicted as a suspected bomber, accused of mass murder.", "But during the trial, prosecutors did not find evidence and reduced the charges.", "Mouhannah Almallah Dabas, Syrian, age 43, faces 12 years if convicted of membership in a terrorist group.", "Mohamed Bouharrat, Moroccan, age 28, faces 12 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group.", "Abdelilah El Fadual El Akil, Moroccan, age 38, faces 12 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group.", "Saed El Harrak, Moroccan, age 34, faces 12 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group.", "Fouad El Morabit El Amgar, Moroccan, age 34, faces 12 years if convicted of belonging to a terrorist group.", "Other Islamic suspects charged with collaboration with a terrorist group Hamid Ahmidan, Moroccan, age 29, faces 23.5 years if convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group and drug trafficking.", "Mahmoud Slimane Aoun, Lebanese, age 47, faces 13 years if convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group and document forgery.", "Nasreddine Bousbaa, Algerian, age 46, faces 11 years if convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group and document forgery.", "Mohamed Moussaten, Moroccan, age 23, faces six years if convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group.", "Other Spanish suspects in the alleged explosives trafficking ring Raul Gonzalez Pelaez, Spaniard, age 28, faces eight years if convicted of illicit association and supplying explosives.", "Antonio Toro Castro, Spaniard, age 30, faces 23 years if convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group, supplying explosives and illicit association.", "Sergio Alvarez Sanchez, Spaniard, age 26, faces four years if convicted of supplying explosives and illicit association.", "Ivan Granados Pena, Spaniard, age 25, faces four years if convicted of supplying explosives and illicit association.", "Javier Gonzalez Diaz, Spaniard, age 55.", "State prosecutors last June cleared him of all charges, but he earlier faced eight years if convicted of supplying explosives and illicit association.", "A private party plaintiff to the case, representing bomb victims, has maintained charges against him, approximately those that the prosecutors earlier had, so he has not yet been fully cleared.", "Emilio Llano Alvarez, Spaniard, age 46, faces five years if convicted of supplying explosives.", "Antonio Ivan Reis Palacio, Spaniard, age 25, faces four years if convicted of supplying explosives and illicit association.", "Carmen Toro Castro, Spaniard, age 26, the only female defendant, faces six years if convicted of supplying explosives and illicit association.", "Deceased suspects In addition to the 28 defendants, prosecutors say seven prime suspects blew themselves up three weeks after the train bombings in 2004 as police closed in on their hideout in the Madrid suburb of Leganes.", "One police officer died in the assault.", "Those seven suspects were Moroccans Jamal Ahmidan, Abdennabi Kounjaa, Mohamed Oulad Akcha and his brother, Rachid Oulad Akcha, and Rifaat Anouar Asrih; Tunisian Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet and Algerian Allekema Lamari, prosecutors said.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Verdicts, sentencing in Madrid train bomb trials to be delivered Wednesday .", "All of the 28 defendants are men except for one Spanish woman .", "Among the 28 are 14 Moroccans, nine Spaniards and two Syrians .", "Charges dropped against one defendant; seven suspects died in hideout blast ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nigeria's president has backed down on his decision to suspend the national soccer team, according to the African country's football federation.", "The announcement came just before Monday's deadline set by world governing body FIFA, which had threatened to expel Nigeria completely if the ruling was not overturned and also withhold $8 million due for participating at the World Cup.", "Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan was so angry with the Super Eagles' poor performance in South Africa that he decided to suspend the national team at all levels for two years.", "\"The President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, on Monday graciously rescinded last Wednesday's decision to withdraw Nigerian national football teams from FIFA/CAF football competitions,\" the federation said in a statement.", "\"The decision was made known at the presidential villa on Monday evening as President Jonathan hearkened to the passionate appeals of top officials of the National Sports Commission, the Nigeria Football Federation, other concerned organs of government and well-meaning Nigerians on the matter.\"", "Nigerian leader's 'Obama moment' Nine members of the NFF's executive committee had earlier been dismissed, including president Sani Lulu and vice-president Amanze Uchegbulam, the UK Press Association reported on Monday.", "After hearing of Jonathan's June 30 decision, FIFA wrote to the NFF on Friday warning it of the possible ramifications if the Monday deadline was not met.", "Two-time African champions Nigeria finished bottom of Group B at the World Cup after one draw and two defeats.", "The Super Eagles brought in former Sweden coach Lars Lagerback after finishing third at the Africa Cup of Nations in January, but he was unable to lift the team's fortunes in matches against Argentina, Greece and South Korea." ]	[ "Ban on Nigeria's national football team is rescinded by African country's president .", "World governing body FIFA had given Nigeria a Monday deadline to overturn decision .", "President Goodluck Jonathan had banned all Nigerian national teams for two years .", "He was furious after Super Eagles' poor showing at the World Cup in South Africa ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- David Villa came to Spain's rescue again to put the European champions into the World Cup semifinals for the first time with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Paraguay in Johannesburg on Saturday night as both teams missed a penalty.", "The striker, who scored the only goal in the second-round victory over Portugal, netted the winner with eight minutes to play to become the leading scorer at the South African tournament with five.", "Spain will now play Germany in Durban on Wednesday for a place in final after the 2006 hosts thrashed Argentina 4-0 earlier on Saturday.", "It will be a rematch of the Euro 2008 final, which Spain won 1-0.", "\"We didn't play well mainly because we didn't get enough of the ball,\" Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque told reporters.", "\"We are now among the four best teams in the world.", "Our next opponents are Germany, who are the best team at the moment.\"", "Paraguay, playing in the last eight for the first time, had a goal disallowed in the first half and should have taken the lead in the 59th minute but Oscar Cardozo's penalty was saved by Spain captain Iker Casillas.", "Xabi Alonso then had the chance to put the Spaniards ahead soon after but was also denied from the spot after having to retake his successful first attempt.", "Paraguay, whose coach Gerardo Martino made six changes after the penalty shootout win over Japan in the previous round, easily contained Spain's renowned attacking prowess in a disappointing first half.", "\"We had chances but didn't take them.", "But never mind.", "I congratulate my players for their progress at the World Cup,\" Martino told reporters.", "The South Americans felt aggrieved to have a 41st-minute strike by Nelson Valdez ruled out after Cardozo strayed into a marginally offside position, but wasted a glorious chance to go ahead after Spain defender Gerard Pique was booked for dragging on the arm of Cardozo.", "But the Benfica player, who scored the winner against Japan, saw his shot saved by Casillas -- and then at the other end Villa was hauled down when clear on goal by Antolin Alcaraz, who was lucky not to be sent off.", "Alonso coolly sent goalkeeper Justo Villar the wrong way, but the Paraguay captain was more successful the second time after Guatemalan referee Carlos Batres ruled that players had encroached into the penalty area before the initial kick was taken.", "Villar was lucky not to concede another penalty as he clattered into Cesc Fabregas while trying to gather the rebound, but was helpless when Spain finally made the breakthrough.", "Substitute Pedro fired a low shot onto the base of the woodwork, and Villa followed up with a strike that hit one post and bounced into the net off the other one.", "Paraguay substitutes Lucas Barrios and Roque Santa Cruz had late efforts blocked in quick succession by Casillas, while Villa was denied a second by Villar.", "It was another disappointing night for Villa's strike partner Fernando Torres, who was replaced by Fabregas with 20 minutes to play as he again looked well short of his usual high standards.", "Paraguay's defeat leaves neighbors Uruguay as South America's only representative in the last four, facing the Netherlands on Tuesday." ]	[ "Spain will play Germany in the World Cup semifinals after beating Paraguay 1-0 .", "Striker David Villa nets only goal in 82nd minute to go top of overall scoring charts .", "South Americans had a goal ruled out and then missed a penalty in second half .", "Spain also missed a penalty soon after before Villa's fifth goal of the tournament ." ]	[ 0, 2, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Germany coach Joachim Low has tried to lift the burden of expectation off his young team by claiming that Wednesday's semifinal opponents Spain are favorites to win the World Cup.", "The Germans, who came into the tournament missing several key injured players, have been tipped to win a fourth title in South Africa after demolishing Argentina 4-0 in the quarterfinals and successfully shackling the attacking talents of Lionel Messi.", "But Low, whose team were beaten by the Spaniards in the final of Euro 2008, believes that the last-four clash in Durban will be a more difficult proposition.", "\"Spain remain the natural World Cup favorites.", "They not only have one Messi, but they have several Messis,\" he told reporters.", "\"They have a whole range of players that can win a game, so we will have to be very watchful against them.", "They are a team that make very few mistakes.", "We have to force them into making mistakes.\"", "The Germans are the top scorers in this year's tournament, having racked up 13 goals in five games after putting four past Australia, England and Argentina.", "Defeat in the second group game against Serbia has been the only lapse, as Bastian Schweinsteiger has reveled in his new central midfield role in the absence of injured captain Michael Ballack, while four-goal Thomas Muller and playmaker Mezut Ozil have also been inspirational.", "Muller will miss the Spain game due to suspension but Low has another potent goal threat in striker Miroslav Klose, who needs one more to join Brazil legend Ronaldo on the all-time record of 15.", "\"In 2008, there is no doubt that Spain were the best team at the tournament.", "They have shown great consistency and always played at the highest possible level.", "So they have been impressive,\" Low said.", "\"But now the situation is different.", "We too have a good team and we have every reason to believe that we can succeed.\"", "Spain reached the World Cup semifinals for the first time with a 1-0 victory over Paraguay thanks to a late winner from striker David Villa, the tournament's top scorer on five goals.", "Defender Gerard Pique has backed his team to take the next step up.", "\"I think when you are at the semifinal stage, there are no favorites,\" he told reporters.", "\"We never have any doubts about ourselves.", "We always play the same way, the results are good and we have to be confident with our play.", "\"Germany and Spain both have new players in the team and it will be a different game to two years ago.", "We will always keep going.", "That is the sort of team we are.\" Pique's defensive partner Carles Puyol has been cleared to play after suffering blurred vision when he was hit in the face by the ball against Paraguay, while midfielder Cesc Fabregas will also be available despite falling heavily on his shoulder.", "Coach Vicente del Bosque has been under pressure from Spanish media to drop striker Fernando Torres, who has failed to impress after having a pre-tournament knee operation.", "Torres, who scored the winner in the final of Euro 2008, has been substituted in each of the past four matches after starting the shock defeat by Switzerland on the bench." ]	[ "Germany coach Joachim Low claims Spain are favorites to win the World Cup .", "The two teams meet in Wednesday's semifinal in a rematch of the Euro 2008 final .", "Germans are the top scorers in this year's tournament, netting 13 goals in five games .", "Spain defender Carles Puyol and midfielder Cesc Fabregas passed fit to play ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Philip McClary was grilling out at his home in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night when he heard hometown brewer Anheuser-Busch would be bought by the Belgian company InBev.", "\"I was actually drinking a Bud Light when I heard, and I couldn't even finish it.", "That's the honest-to-God truth,\" he said Monday.", "\"I was proud to drink Budweiser, not any more,\" said P.J.", "Champion, a student at the University of Mississippi who said the brew is \"a great piece of American history.\"", "McClary put Champion's thoughts to music, posting his song \"Kiss Our Glass\" on YouTube and on a Web site that tried to stop the sale, SaveBudweiser.com.", "Watch McClary sing 'Kiss our Glass' » .", "\"America is not for sale, and neither is her beer,\" McClary sings.", "\"All you hard-working Americans stand up and show some class,\" the song continues, \"Have a drink with Mother Freedom, and tell InBev to kiss your glass.\"", "Such outrage is to be expected, says Matt Simpson, who bills himself as The Beer Sommelier and teaches Beer Education 101 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.", "But he said the protests will soon fade.", "\"Unless it affects [Americans] in the product or the pocketbook, they're likely to forget about it,\" Simpson says.", "And he doesn't think InBev will change its iconic product.", "\"You don't mess with a good thing,\" he says.", "\"It really isn't about nationalism, it's about money.\"", "Even McClary agrees.", "\"I think there will be somewhat of a backlash; I would anticipate initially that people will be furious and stop drinking it.", "Maybe after six months, though, they'll switch back.\"", "Simpson says that if American beer drinkers turn away from Budweiser and other Anheuser-Busch brands, it will be because they are turning to microbrews.", "\"They are heading the pack in popularity and business success these days,\" he says of the small breweries.", "\"Today, taste is king.", "You really don't get from the macro beer producers.\"", "See other American icons owned by foreign companies » .", "But he doesn't expect Budweiser to go away, either.", "\"There's nothing inherently wrong with the taste of Budweiser.", "It's a light American lager.", "There will always be some sort of market for that,\" he says.", "For McClary, taste was never an issue.", "\"I've drank tons of different beers, different brands; but Bud Light has always been the one to me that was the easiest to go down and had the smoothest taste.\"", "But he says he's quaffed his last Bud Light, and the issue is larger than beer.", "\"We've kind of lost a part of our history here and all across the United States,\" he said.", "InBev says it won't be changing Budweiser or Bud Light, which it says are the best-selling beers in the world.", "\"Budweiser will be brewed in the same breweries ... by the same people, according to the same recipe,\" said Carlos Brito, InBev's chief executive officer.", "But iReporter Adam Williams, who lives across the street from Anheuser-Busch's St. Louis brewery, doesn't share that feeling of a continued tradition.", "Things will change, Williams says, right down to the company's mascot Dalmatians that have been a constant commotion in the neighborhood.", "\"I will miss the nuisance that ... the Budweiser Dalmatians have meant around our neighborhood,\" he writes.", "\"They may still exist over there for some time to come, but their kingdom's significance has severely diminished.", "\"What is the mascot of InBev, anyway?\"", "CNN's David Williams contributed to this report." ]	[ "Songwriter couldn't finish his Bud Light when he heard the news .", "College student says he felt proud to drink Bud .", "Outrage over Bud sale will soon fade, beer expert predicts .", "Americans increasingly turning to microbrews, expert says ." ]	[ 1, 3, 10, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Football legend Franz Beckenbauer has begun the mind games ahead of Germany's World Cup semifinal against Spain on Wednesday, describing his compatriots as \"the perfect team\" and calling them favorites to reach the final.", "Beckenbauer, who led Germany to twin World Cup triumphs as both a player and coach, showered praise on the current crop after the 4-0 quarterfinal rout of Argentina.", "\"This team, it's the masterpiece of Joachim Low.", "He has placed his mark on its make-up and created a perfect team,\" the 64-year-old told the German Football Federation's official website.", "\"I have rarely seen such mastery of the game from a German team.", "Perhaps only in the 1970s and the World Cup-winning team of 1990.\"", "Saturday's win over Argentina was the third time in South Africa that Germany had scored four goals or more in a match and followed hard on the heels of the 4-1 rout of arch-rivals England.", "\"In the past, we would say that you had to leave the beautiful game in the dressing room, but this team shows that it is not a contradiction and that you can play well and win.\"", "Beckenbauer has no doubt who will win when Germany faces European champions Spain in the semifinals in Durban.", "\"Germany have an advantage over Spain, who haven't yet shown the form that they did when winning the Euro 2008 title,\" he said.", "\"They haven't yet looked very convincing and struggled to snatch victory in the quarterfinals against Paraguay.\"", "It is not the first time at these World Cup finals that Beckenbauer has spoken his mind.", "He was forced to apologize after claiming that England played \"kick and rush\" football and had \"gone backwards\" under coach Fabio Capello.", "But on reflection, his pre-match comments may have been prophetic as England disappointed hugely against the talented young German team and were well beaten." ]	[ "Franz Beckenbauer lavishes praise on German team ahead of semifinal .", "Germany won 4-0 over Argentina, having earlier also routed England 4-1 .", "Two-time World Cup winner also dismisses the chances of semifinal opponents Spain ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Brazil coach Dunga has been sacked after their shock World Cup quarterfinal exit to the Netherlands.", "His side were beaten 2-1 on Friday after taking a first half lead and looking set to secure a place in the last four.", "\"The cycle of work started in 2006 and which culminated with the elimination of Brazil in the World Cup in South Africa is finished,\" said a statement on the official website of Brazilian football Confederation (CBF).", "\"The CBF announces the dismissal of the technical commission of the Brazilian team.", "The new commission will be announced at the end of July.\"", "Dunga, 46, who skippered Brazil to the 1994 World Cup, had been national team coach since 2006 and led them to a Copa America triumph the following year.", "Despite his successful record, they also topped South American qualifying for the World Cup, Dunga had come under criticism at home for his side's alleged lack of attacking flair.", "And after the Port Elizabeth defeat to the Dutch, he indicated he would be standing down.", "However, on his arrival home on Sunday, Dunga did not rule out staying in the job.", "\"I am going to rest before meeting, in one or two weeks' time, the president of the CBF, Ricardo Teixeira to talk about it (extending his stay in charge),\" Dunga told a news conference, but his optimism was misplaced.", "With Brazil hosting the World Cup in 2014, Dunga's successor is obviously key and local media have already made Luiz Felipe Scolari the favorite.", "Scolari guided Brazil to their fifth World Cup triumph in 2002, but was less successful in his spell with English Premier League Chelsea where he was sacked.", "He is currently coaching at Brazilian club side Palmeiras.", "The Brazilian team received a hostile reception on their return home, with much of the fans' anger directed at Felipe Melo, who scored an own goal against the Dutch and was also sent off." ]	[ "Brazil coach Dunga sacked after their World Cup exit to Netherlands .", "Brazil lost 2-1 in quarterfinals to end their dream of sixth World Cup triumph .", "Dunga heard the news shortly after he returned with team from South Africa ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- France defender William Gallas has attacked former national coach Raymond Domenech, blaming him for the team's disastrous performance at the World Cup in South Africa.", "In an interview with French weekly culture magazine Les Inrockuptibles on Wednesday, Gallas became the first French player to speak about the disastrous World Cup campaign, saying that \"the real problem is the coach.\"", "\"Les Bleus\" crashed out of the tournament in the first round after two draws and a defeat left them at the bottom of Group A with just one point.", "Forward Nicolas Anelka was sent home from the tournament after an argument with Domenech, causing the rest of the French side to strike from training.", "Domenech, as was decided before the competition began, has now been replaced by former World Cup winner Laurent Blanc.", "\"We all wanted to protest against the decision taken by the coach.", "Everyone was in agreement to boycott training,\" the 34-year-old Gallas said.", "He also hinted that Anelka's row with Domenech may not have been a one-off, as a lot of players found it difficult to build a relationship with the coach.", "\"Domenech wasn't open.", "Lots of players could not talk to him.", "He said that he listened to us, but at the end of the day he took decisions alone,\" said Gallas, who was given extra time to recover from injury by Domenech before being named in the 23-man squad for the finals.", "\"What we said didn't have any influence, so I no longer said anything.", "I listened and I did what he told me.\"", "Gallas is still unhappy that he was overlooked by Domenech when Patrice Evra was named captain of France.", "\"The hardest thing was the way that it happened.", "Domenech never told me,\" said Gallas, who was vice-captain under former skipper Thierry Henry.", "\"I learnt by accident before the match against Costa Rica that the captain was Evra.", "I saw that the armband was on his shirt.\"", "Gallas is searching for a club now that his contract with English Premier League side Arsenal has expired.", "On Wednesday, Arsenal signed French defender Laurent Koscielny from Lorient on a long-term contract for an undisclosed fee.", "\"He has shown he is mentally strong, he's a fighter and a very strong competitor.", "Koscielny is a great addition to our squad,\" manager Arsene Wenger said in a statement on the club's official website.", "Meanwhile, 1998 World Cup winner Patrick Vieira has confirmed that he no longer wants to play for France.", "The midfielder will instead concentrate on his career at English club Manchester City.", "\"My target in the next few years is City.", "I want to do my best for the club,\" Vieira told the club's official website on Wednesday.", "The 34-year-old made his first appearance for Les Bleus 13 years ago and has more than 100 caps, but was controversially left out of France's World Cup squad by Domenech." ]	[ "Gallas pins blame for disastrous French World Cup campaign on former coach Domenech .", "Defender was interviewed in French culture magazine Les Inrockuptibles .", "He says French players found it hard to build a relationship with the coach .", "French midfielder Patrick Vieira plans to retire from international football ." ]	[ 1, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- China \"resolutely opposes\" a planned trip by the Dalai Lama to Taiwan, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Thursday, hours after Taiwan's president announced the visit.", "The Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan could anger China, which accuses him of advocating independence for Tibet.", "Beijing opposes the visit \"in whatever form and capacity,\" a spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office said, according to Xinhua, which did not name the spokesman.", "\"Under the pretext of religion, (the Dalai Lama) has all along been engaged in separatist activities,\" he said.", "The Tibetan leader's spokesman denied there was any political subtext to the visit.", "\"His holiness has received an invitation from several mayors inviting him to Taiwan.", "He has accepted for the sole purpose (of expressing) his condolences and to share his sorrow for Taiwan's people,\" Tenzin Taklha said, calling the visit \"completely...", "non-political.\"", "Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said earlier Thursday that he had approved a visit by the Dalai Lama to pray for the victims of the typhoon-battered island.", "Ma made the announcement Thursday while visiting a school in the southern part of the country, a government spokesman said.", "The Dalai Lama has accepted the invitation, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha said.", "\"We are working on the details of his visit, which will take place soon,\" he said.", "Watch a report on the Dalai Lama's planned visit » .", "Typhoon Morakot slammed into Taiwan on August 8 and unleashed floods, mudslides and misery.", "More than 400 people were killed.", "The visit of the Dalai Lama to Taiwan seemed certain to anger mainland China, which accuses both the Tibetan spiritual leader and the island nation of separatism.", "Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of advocating for Tibetan independence from China, and considers Taiwan to be a renegade province.", "Taiwan and the mainland are only now smoothing their relationship after years of animosity.", "Taiwan's relations with China have improved under Ma, who has taken a more conciliatory approach than his predecessor.", "Then-Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian rejected China's assertion that there is only \"One China\" and Taiwan is an inalienable part of it.", "CNN's Ben Brumfield contributed to this report." ]	[ "Taiwan president allows visit by Dalai Lama .", "NEW: Beijing opposes the visit \"in whatever form and capacity\"\nDalai to visit island to pray for victims of Typhoon Merakot .", "Tibetan leader's spokesman denied there was any political subtext to visit ." ]	[ 2, 4, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Hundreds of family members, friends and neighbors of four of the eight victims of a workplace shooting rampage gathered at funeral services around Manchester, Connecticut, on Saturday to share tears and memories.", "The four men who were laid to rest had each worked at Hartford Distributors for around 30 years before Omar Thornton's shooting spree Tuesday, which ended when he took his own life.", "\"We're a pretty tight neighborhood,\" said Mary Bey of South Windsor, at the funeral of Craig Pepin, 60, who she described as a \"wonderful neighbor and friend and coach and referee.\"", "\"He touched so many people's lives in South Windsor ... he was a very unique, kind and wonderful man,\" she told CNN Connecticut affiliate WTNH.", "Bey also knows a Hartford Distributors employee who was injured in the rampage.", "\"We're very happy he made it through,\" she said of Steven Hollander, a neighbor who was treated and released from Hartford Hospital.", "Besides Pepin, Bryan Cirigliano, 51, Douglas Scruton, 56, and Victor James, who was killed on his 61st birthday, were also buried Saturday.", "\"We've just had an outpouring of support,\" James' daughter told WTNH.", "\"And it just felt good to hear the stories and just to see the amount of people that came to see my dad.\"", "Funeral services for two other shooting victims are scheduled for Sunday and Monday, and a candlelight vigil for those killed is scheduled for Sunday evening in Manchester's Center Park.", "Connecticut Gov.", "M. Jodi Rell has called for Monday to be a day of remembrance for the victims, asking state residents to observe a moment of silence at 9:15 a.m. On Friday, police arrested a woman they said had accepted stolen beer from a delivery truck driven by Thornton.", "Hartford Distributors said it had asked Thornton to resign after it found him stealing and selling alcoholic beverages.", "Thornton's girlfriend told CNN he was being racially harassed at work, but Hartford Distributors' president said Thursday that there were no grievances filed with the company or with Thornton's union." ]	[ "The four men had worked for Hartford Distributors for around 30 years .", "Two shooting victims will be buried Sunday and Monday .", "A candlelight vigil for the victims is scheduled for Sunday evening .", "Connecticut Gov.", "M. Jodi Rell has called for Monday to be a day of remembrance ." ]	[ 1, 9, 10, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two people aboard a twin-engine airplane were killed Saturday when it crashed into a house in western Pennsylvania, sending the homeowner fleeing with his dog, officials said.", "Westmoreland County Public Safety spokesman Dan Stevens said skies were clear when the aircraft \"just spun in its own axis\" and hit the Saltsburg area house, sparking a fire that consumed the plane and the house.", "The plane took off from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport outside Latrobe, about 50 miles from the crash scene, Stevens said.", "The Beechcraft Baron BE58 crashed 11 minutes later at 9:19 a.m., FAA spokesman Jim Peters said.", "The six-seat plane landed next to a man who was sleeping on a couch with his dog in the home, Stevens said.", "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette identified him as Steve Yanko.", "\"There was somebody on his shoulder this morning,\" Stevens said of Yanko, who told him he was only about 15 feet away from the plane's impact.", "Yanko's wife was not at home at the time, Stevens said.", "The county coroner will identify the two victims and their names will be released after next of kin are formally notified, officials said.", "Stevens said the experienced pilot of the plane had recently purchased the aircraft and was at the controls.", "The other individual was an instructor who was flying along to ensure the owner was comfortable with the twin-engine plane, he said.", "The FAA's Peters said he could not confirm the role of the two people onboard.", "The FAA was on scene Saturday.", "Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will arrive Sunday.", "CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Plane narrowly misses sleeping homeowner .", "Two people on board twin-engine plane are killed .", "The incident occurred in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County .", "People in the house escaped without injury ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- What may be the most contentious Pentagon contract is the focus of yet another fight, with this round centered on whether a bid for a $35 billion contract should be thrown out because it arrived five minutes late.", "For about a decade the Air Force has been trying to replace its fleet of KC-135 air refueling tankers, the big jets that act as flying gas stations for warplanes.", "In the latest attempt, three companies wanted to submit bids to build the KC-X, the next generation of tankers; Boeing, EADS and US Aerospace.", "Each company's bid was required to be submitted to an office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, by 2 p.m. July 9.", "Boeing and EADS got their bids into the office with time to spare.", "US Aerospace said its bid arrived at Wright-Patterson half an hour before the deadline.", "The Defense Department said it was five minutes late.", "US Aerospace is a new company that is in partnership with Antonov, a state-owned Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer that used to build planes for the Soviet Union's military and now specializes in building very large aircraft.", "Because of the late arrival of the bid, the Defense Department will not consider US Aerospace's proposal, according to Pentagon chief spokesman Geoff Morrell.", "\"We are not allowed by law to even review their proposal.", "It did not arrive in time.", "So we cannot consider it. We cannot review it,\" Morrell said.", "A spokesman for US Aerospace, Chuck Arnold, said the Defence Department \"still feel[s] the cold war is on\" and doesn't want US Aerospace to succeed in the bid.", "Morrell said the rules are clear.", "\"This is a $30 billion to $40 billion contract.", "That is not a high school homework assignment, OK?", "These deadlines count, and any professional contractor understands that,\" he said.", "Chuck Arnold, a spokesman for US Aerospace, said the bid proposal was on time.", "\"We have documented evidence that the messenger [who was carrying the bid] was there at 1:30.\"", "But Wright-Patterson is a huge facility and the company said the messenger was held up at the gate, then got lost driving to the building where the bid needed to be.", "When the messenger and the bid proposal finally arrived at the proper location, the bid was marked as having arrived at 2:05.", "The company was told the bid would not be considered.", "US Aerospace is fighting that decision and asking that its bid proposal, which it said will save U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars and produce a better tanker plane, be considered.", "That might mean further delay in a process that began in 2002 and has been stopped and restarted twice.", "Morrell said he is confident that the dispute with US Aerospace will not slow the process again.", "\"Are we concerned about their protest that it might lead to a delay in the awarding of this contract?", "I don't believe so,\" Morrell said.", "\"This is going on. We will -- we will award this contract in the fall, as we always said we would.\"" ]	[ "Contact to build air refueling tankers is worth $30-40 billion .", "Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer's bid will not be accepted .", "Messenger gets to air base gate on time, but not to the office to deliver bid ." ]	[ 3, 10, 14, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas is to sponsor a new Moto2 motorcycling team for the 2010 season, which will be called Jack&Jones by Antonio Banderas, the official Moto GP Web site has reported.", "The team will compete in the Moto2 world championship, the series below motorcycling's elite MotoGP series, with the first race of the season in Qatar on April 11.", "Riders Kenny Noyes and Joan Olive will be on board Promoharris prototypes for the team's debut season.", "Banderas is a well-known motorcycling enthusiast, but this is his first sport-related business venture.", "He told www.motogp.com: \"I want to be involved with the team where the riders, both Joan and Kenny, have everything they need to compete at the highest level.", "\"I will go to every race I can, but obviously this depends on my professional workload with film and theatre.", "\"I am a motorcycle lover, and I've been a big fan in recent years.", "This gave me the opportunity to compete on the inside and I didn't have to think about it!\"", "Speaking about the Moto2 category, Banderas added: \"I think it's very interesting and that we're really going to see the true qualities of the riders.", "\"Everyone has the same engine, which is very powerful and will underline the skill of every team and their technical staff.", "They will have the opportunity to advance the bikes as they look for the perfect balance for the riders.\"" ]	[ "Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas launches new Moto2 team for this season .", "The Moto2 series is the division below motorcyling's elite MotoGP class .", "Riders Kenny Noyes and Joan Olive will compete for the new team in Qatar ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate failed Thursday to approve nearly $5 billion for a settlement between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers reached more than a decade ago, prompting finger pointing by members of both parties and outrage among many black farmers.", "\"We are very, very, very disappointed that we are just caught up in such a larger political fight in the Senate, where it's just partisan division,\" said John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association.", "\"It seems like for the trains leaving the station in the Senate, they manage not to have the black farmers on them,\" Boyd said, calling on President Barack Obama to help break the logjam.", "The 1997 Pigford v. Glickman case against the U.S. Agriculture Department was settled out of court 11 years ago.", "Under a federal judge's terms dating to 1999, qualified farmers could receive $50,000 each to settle claims of racial bias.", "In July, the House approved a war supplemental bill that included money to pay for the settlement.", "The attempt to approve the funds Thursday failed in the Senate after Republicans rejected a Democratic unanimous consent agreement to approve the money, with the GOP complaining about how the Democrats planned to pay for the settlement.", "It was the seventh attempt by the Senate to approve the funds in recent weeks, Boyd said.", "Prominent members of both parties have voiced support for paying out the settlements.", "\"Everyone that steps to the microphone says they support the black farmers,\" said Boyd.", "\"But they can't put aside their political bickering so the black farmers can get on with their lives.\"", "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed Republicans for the impasse.", "\"Securing justice for those have been wronged should never be a partisan issue,\" he said in a Thursday statement.", "\"But that's exactly what Republicans have made it.\"", "\"If Republicans cannot put aside their obstructionist tactics so that we can settle a non-controversial, non-partisan issue like this,\" Reid said, \"on what will they agree to work with Democrats?\"", "Boyd declined to lay blame at the feet of Republicans alone.", "\"I think one party is just as responsible as the other,\" he said." ]	[ "The Senate failed to approve nearly $5 billion for a settlement with minority farmers .", "The settlement between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers was reached in 1999 .", "Prominent members of both parties have voiced support for approving the funds .", "The National Black Farmers Association blamed both parties for the impasse ." ]	[ 0, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As you sift through your pockets Friday looking for change to pay the parking meter, stop and take a moment to wish it a happy birthday.", "It was on this day 75 years ago that the first parking meter was installed.", "And 75 long years later, these coin-gulping contraptions remain as despised as they were when the first 150 of them were put in place in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on July 16, 1935.", "Concerned that parked cars -- that sometimes never moved for weeks -- were hurting downtown businesses, city officials were eager for a solution, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.", "Enter Carl Magee.", "It's not surprising that one of the most hated urban fixtures was designed by someone who practiced not one, but two, of -- what polls have consistently found to be -- America's most despised professions: law and journalism.", "As soon as the meters went up that humid day in July, incensed residents gave them the thumbs down.", "A case contesting the legality of meters was quickly settled in the city's favor, wrote Michael Dean of the Oklahoma Historical Society.", "Stores on city blocks with meters saw an increase in business and profit.", "And soon every block wanted some.", "By 1941, 140,000 were in use, the Smithsonian Magazine wrote.", "Today, the number is in the millions in the United States alone.", "Magee left his job as editor of a daily newspaper and started a parking meter company.", "The design of the device has remained largely unchanged over time.", "So, happy 75th anniversary, parking meter.", "One can only assume that the 75th anniversary of the first parking ticket is just days away." ]	[ "First parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935 .", "City officials wanted a solution to parked cars that hurt businesses .", "Meter inventor was a journalist and lawyer .", "A legal challenge went in the city's favor and meters thrived ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bill Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville and considered a moderate Republican, easily won the Tennessee GOP primary for governor Thursday, the Associated Press projected.", "With 76 percent of the state's precincts in, AP reported Haslam had 48.2 percent of the vote as he defeated Congressman Zach Wamp and Lt. Gov.", "Ron Ramsey.", "Halsam, who helped fund some of his own campaign, will now face Mike McWherter, a Democratic businessman and son of a former governor.", "The race is to succeed Gov.", "Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, who is prevented by term limits from running for a third term.", "Political handicappers think Republicans have a good shot at winning back the governor's office.", "Republican Governors Association spokesman Tim Murtaugh in a statement: \"Bill Haslam emerges as a strong candidate headed toward November, having beaten a pair of qualified office holders in a spirited primary.", "As Tennessee faces great economic challenges, Bill Haslam will be a strong voice for job creation, fiscal restraint and individual freedom.", "\"A successful mayor and businessman, he has the leadership experience necessary to create jobs and grow the economy.", "We look forward to seeing him elected the next governor of Tennessee.\"", "Democratic Governors Association executive director Nathan Daschle said, \"Mike McWherter has spent his career growing jobs and strengthening the economy.", "The only thing Bill Haslam has increased in his career is Knoxville's taxes and unemployment rate.\"", "\"Voters are looking for someone with the know-how to move the state in the right direction, and that candidate is Mike McWherter,\" Daschle added.", "The race grabbed national attention last month because of controversial comments by two of the challengers.", "Wamp appeared to suggest that Tennessee should consider secession in light of mandates forced on the states by the Obama administration's health care bill.", "The eight-term congressman later stepped back from those comments.", "Ramsey also drew attention to himself last month after he was seen in a YouTube video questioning whether Islam is a religion.", "He was expressing his opposition to the expansion of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which has become a hot-button issue in the city about 35 miles southeast of Nashville.", "Ramsey, who has been endorsed by 20 Tea Party organizations, said he is a supporter of religious freedoms, but such protections may not extend to bringing \"Shariah [Islamic] law into the state of Tennessee ... into the United States.\"", "\"Now, you could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, a cult, whatever you want to call it,\" he continued.", "\"But certainly we do protect our religions, but at the same time, this is something we are going to have to face.\"", "Following criticism, Ramsey defended his comments, saying, \"My concern is that far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy more than peace-loving religion.\"", "In a high-profile Congressional primary, AP projected two-term Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen overwhelmingly defeated former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton.", "The campaign in the 9th District, which covers Memphis and has a large African-American population, was dominated by race.", "With 78 percent of precincts in, AP says Cohen had 79.4 percent of the vote to Herenton's 20.6 percent.", "Herenton has been urging voters to elect him as the only African-American member of the state's congressional delegation, saying, \"It is as if only white people live in the great state of Tennessee.", "No African-Americans.", "I believe that it is very clear to the majority of the citizens of this community that we lack representation.\"", "Cohen, who served as a state lawmaker in the area before being elected to Congress, has campaigned on what he's done for education and health care in the area.", "\"I represent everybody and I work hard for people to get them opportunities.", "And I just think that race should not be an issue in 2010,\" he said.", "President Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus backed Cohen.", "AP projected Stephen Fincher the winner in the 8th District Republican primary.", "Finch has 50 percent of the vote over Ron Kirkland at 24.6 percent and George Flinn at 22.2 percent.", "The race, for Rep. John Tanner's seat, is noteworthy because the Center for Responsible Politics has called it the most expensive House primary in the country, .", "Finch will face Roy Herron, the projected winner of the Democratic primary, in November AP projects him the winner in the Democratic 8th District Primary." ]	[ "NEW: Cohen is projected winner of GOP 9th district primary .", "Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam has 48 percent of the vote in the GOP tgovernor's primary .", "The GOP winner will face Democrat Mike McWherter .", "The GOP race grabbed national attention last month ." ]	[ 12, 14, 36 ]
[ "Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba's Fidel Castro on Tuesday said he would publish a new book in August on the fighting more than 50 years ago between his ragtag rebels and the 10,000-strong army under former dictator Fulgencio Batista.", "In an essay published Tuesday on the state-run website, www.cubadebate.cu, Castro said the book will be called \"The Strategic Victory.\"", "\"I didn't know whether to call it 'Batista's Last Offensive' or 'How 300 Defeated 10,000,' which would sound like a science fiction story,\" he said.", "Castro said the 25 chapters contain photos, maps and illustrations of the weapons used during a series of battles that lasted 74 days in 1958 and paved the way for his bearded revolutionaries to declare victory on January 1, 1959.", "\"The enemy suffered more than 1,000 losses, more than 300 of them deaths and 443 taken prisoner,\" he wrote.", "Castro went on to rule Cuba for 47 years until he was sidelined by illness in 2006.", "He has spent most of the last four years in seclusion, writing frequent essays called \"Reflections of Comrade Fidel\" for state-run media.", "In recent weeks, he has re-emerged on the public stage, making seven public appearances.", "On Monday, Cuba celebrated the 57th anniversary of the launching of Castro's Revolution.", "He failed to appear at that event in central Cuba despite high expectations, but he paid tribute at a small ceremony in Havana to the rebels who were killed.", "Castro also held lengthy talks with a group of artists.", "Both events were later broadcast on state TV.", "Castro said he would now start work on a book covering the second half of the fighting, called \"The Final Strategic Counteroffensive.\"" ]	[ "Fidel Castro says he has a new book, titled \"The Strategic Victory\"\nThe book chronicles fighting between his rebels and former dictator Fulgencio Batista .", "Castro says the book's 25 chapters contain photos, maps and illustrations .", "Castro's rebels declared victory over Batista on January 1, 1959 ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The Government Accountability Office Wednesday released the results of its undercover investigation looking at deceptive and questionable marketing practices at 15 for-profit colleges in six states and Washington, D.C.", "The written report was presented at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, and was accompanied by video of the undercover applicants interacting with recruiters from the various educational institutions.", "In his opening statement, committee chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said that the evidence points to a systemic problem within the for-profit education system.", "\"Are students -- and U.S. taxpayers -- getting good value for the billions of dollars they are investing in these schools?\"", "he asked, according to his prepared remarks.", "According to the report, all 15 schools were guilty of some sort of dodgy statements in information about \"the college's accreditation, graduation rates and its student's prospective employment and salary qualifications, duration and cost of the program, or financial aid\" that they passed on to the GAO undercover applicants.", "At one college, school officials told the GAO applicant that after completing an associate's degree in criminal justice, the applicant could try to go to work for the FBI or the CIA.", "In fact, a bachelor's degree is the minimum requirement for positions like FBI special agent or CIA clandestine officer, although there are other lower-level positions for which an applicant could apply.", "At a small beauty college, the undercover applicant was told that barbers can earn $150,000-$200,000 per year.", "Although this is possible, 90 percent of barbers make less than $43,000 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.", "The Obama administration has proposed rules to limit federal student aid funds to for-profit career colleges that do not prepare students for \"gainful employment\" in recognized occupations.", "\"While career colleges play a vital role in training our workforce to be globally competitive, some of them are saddling students with debt they cannot afford in exchange for degrees and certificates they cannot use,\" according to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.", "The proposed law uses two criteria for judging the for-profit career colleges: the relationship between the debt that students incur verses their income potential, and the rate at which the students repay their college loans.", "According to the GAO, \"enrollment in for-profit colleges has grown from about 365,000 students to almost 1.8 million in the last several years.", "\"These colleges offer degrees and certifications in programs ranging from business administration to cosmetology.", "In 2009, students at for-profit colleges received more than $4 billion in Pell Grants and more than $20 billion in federal loans provided by the Department of Education,\" the agency's summary said.", "The GAO report also found that many programs at the for-profit colleges studied cost \"substantially more for associate's degrees and certificates than comparable degrees and certificates at public colleges nearby.", "\"A student interested in a massage therapy certificate costing $14,000 at a for-profit college was told that the program was a good value.", "However the same certificate from a local community college cost $520,\" a summary of the report on the GAO website said.", "Alan Collinge, founder of the group Student Loan Justice, thinks the federal government should broaden its research.", "\"The problem goes well beyond the for-profit sector; it permeates academia generally, including community colleges and four year universities,\" he said.", "Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, also suggested looking beyond the current probe.", "\"In focusing on for-profits, we are not being objective, and we are ignoring the bigger picture of what is happening across all of higher education,\" he said at the hearing." ]	[ "GAO report found many for-profit colleges used deceptive and questionable marketing practices .", "Undercover probe targeted 15 colleges .", "All of the schools studied get more than 89 percent of their revenue from federal funding .", "The Obama administration has proposed new rules on federal student aid to for-profit colleges ." ]	[ 10, 16 ]
[ "Oxford, England (CNN) -- The first coffeehouse to open in England, a still-operating café on High Street in Oxford, is more than a place to get a beef and horseradish sandwich, according to author and blogger Steven Berlin Johnson.", "It represents a turning point in Western culture that helped usher in nearly 500 years of scientific and cultural progress.", "The reason: Until coffee and tea became popular, \"alcohol was the daytime drink of choice,\" he told the TED Global conference in Oxford on Tuesday.", "Water wasn't safe to drink, so wine, beer or gin was a better choice for breakfast, lunch and dinner.", "\"Until the rise of the coffeehouse, the entire population was effectively drunk all day,\" Johnson said in a talk aimed at explaining how ideas get started.", "\"If you switched from a depressant to a stimulant in your life, you would have better ideas.\"", "Moreover, the setting of a coffeehouse, which encourages the mixing of people from different backgrounds, is perfect for sharing and crafting innovative thoughts.", "\"An astonishing number of innovations have a coffeehouse somewhere in their story,\" he said.", "Great ideas often don't result from a single \"eureka\" moment, but instead come from what Johnson called \"the slow hunch,\" as they evolve and interact with other ideas.", "He traced the development of GPS technology, starting in the 1950s with efforts by Western scientists to track the Russian Sputnik spacecraft.", "And that same GPS technology now can help you find a nearby coffeehouse that will serve you a soy latte, Johnson joked.", "Mixing and sharing ideas was one of the themes of the opening speakers at TED Global, where the theme is \"And Now the Good News.\"", "Matt Ridley, author of \"The Rational Optimist,\" says the sharing of ideas -- or in his phrase, \"ideas having sex with each other\" -- is a tremendously powerful force driving human progress.", "Watch Matt Ridley's talk at TED.com .", "Exchanging ideas allows tremendous specialization of labor, to the point where no single person can fully understand what it takes to create an object as complex as a computer mouse, which relies on the efforts of millions in industries as diverse as the oil industry that creates the plastics to the coffeehouse that supplies a drink to the product's designer.", "\"We've created something called the collective brain,\" Ridley said.", "\"We're just the nodes, the neurons in the brain ... \" \"As we go forward, we will of course experience terrible things.", "There will be wars, there will be natural disasters ... but because of the connections people are making and the ability of ideas to meet and mate as never before, I'm also sure that living standards will advance ... we are surely accelerating the rate of innovation.\"", "A tripling of the productivity of agricultural land in past decades has saved some of the tropical rainforest and Ridley predicted that rainforests could start increasing in the second half of the century as the human population peaks and starts to decline.", "Other ideas were mixing and mating in Oxford at the first day of TED Global, which is a product of the nonprofit TED, dedicated to \"ideas worth spreading.\"", "It holds conferences and makes videos of its speakers available at http://www.ted.com/.", "[CNN partners with TED to present a TEDTalk every week, with added content, on CNN.com] .", "Among the ideas were these: .", "China's rise not a cause for fear .", "Joseph Nye of Harvard University, the influential thinker and former assistant defense secretary, cautioned against equating the rise of China and Asia with the decline of America and the West.", "He pointed to recurrent and groundless fears of U.S. decline over the past 50 years and noted that in the larger story of history, Asia is regaining influence that it had 200 years ago, before the Industrial Revolution.", "China's gain doesn't have to be the West's loss: \"If China develops greater energy security and greater capacity to deal with carbon emissions, that's good for us,\" Nye said.", "Cause of the 21st century: Ending oppression of women .", "Sheryl WuDunn, the author of \"Half the Sky\" with her husband, Nicholas Kristof, said the 19th century's central moral challenge was ending slavery, the 20th century's was ending totalitarianism and this century must be about freeing and empowering women.", "\"More girls have been discriminated to death\" in past decades, she said, than people killed on the battlefields of the 20th century.", "Educating girls and bringing them into the work force limits population growth, since educated women tend to have significantly fewer children.", "She told the story of an aid worker who saw horrible things happen in Darfur without breaking down.", "In the backyard of the woman's grandmother, back in the U.S., she saw a bird feeder and broke down in tears.", "\"We have the great fortune to be born in a country where we take security for granted,\" she said, and we can feed and house ourselves and even put out food so wild birds won't starve in the winter.", "Americans and those in other Western countries \"have all won the lottery of life,\" and have an obligation to help people throughout the world.", "Strength of a nation isn't how much it can produce .", "Nic Marks, founder of the Center for Well-being at the New Economics Foundation in London, said all the daily measures people hear in the news relating to stock prices, exchange rates and gross domestic product emphasize greed without tapping into human happiness.", "\"Our national accounting system became fixated on what we can produce,\" Marks said, quoting Robert Kennedy's famous statement that \"the gross national product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.\"", "\"How crazy is that?\" Marks said.", "Surveys show people want happiness, love and health more than they want wealth.", "\"These are natural human aspirations, why are statisticians not measuring that, instead of being fixated on how much stuff we have?\"", "The liberating power of cartoons .", "Patrick Chappatte, an editorial cartoonist based in Switzerland, picked up on the theme of questionable consumerism by showing a cartoon of Steve Jobs making a pitch for the iPhone: \"It'll simplify a lot of tasks you never had to do before.\"", "A man sees a newspaper vendor's poster: \"Print media is dying,\" and says \"I already read that on the internet yesterday.\"", "The punchline of another cartoon: \"The internet has changed music.", "Before we had to go to the store to steal it.", "And yet another, showing a confessional as someone behind a curtain says \"Father, I've sinned,\" and the priest, Googling the parishioner on a computer screen says, \"I know.\"", "Cartoons are in the middle of a clash of civilizations, Chappatte said, as free expression collides with those who want to enforce religious orthodoxy around the world.", "For dictators around the world, he said, \"good news is when cartoonists, activists and journalists shut up.\"", "And when their ideas stop having sex." ]	[ "Speakers at TED Global conference in Oxford stress connections between ideas .", "Matt Ridley: Ideas \"have sex,\" multiplying their value and driving up living standards .", "Steven Berlin Johnson: Great ideas aren't born overnight but evolve over time .", "Human happiness is not about producing and acquiring more things, they say ." ]	[ 8, 12, 19 ]
[ "Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- A South African white supremacist group has retracted its statement vowing to avenge the killing of its leader, Eugene Terreblanche, a spokesman for the group said Monday.", "\"The statement was made by an emotional member of our organization,\" said Pieter Steyn, a spokesman for the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, also called the Afrikaner Resistance Movement or AWB.", "\"The person has been reprimanded.", "We want a homeland where we can govern ourselves, and violence is not going to do our cause any good.\"", "Terreblanche was killed Saturday following an apparent dispute over wages with workers on his farm, according to South African police.", "Two of his farm workers ages 21 and 16 are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday after turning themselves in, police said.", "Police said the 69-year-old was bludgeoned and stabbed to death with clubs and a machete in an attack at his farm near the town of Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West Province.", "Steyn told CNN he is pleased with the work of the South African police, who said there would be a heavy police presence at Tuesday's court appearance.", "The AWB has blamed the killing on the singing of a controversial apartheid-era song, \"Shoot the Farmer.\"", "The ruling African National Congress party's youth leader, Julius Malema, had sung the song in recent weeks until a court ruling barred him from doing so.", "Steyn called on South African President Jacob Zuma to act to ease tensions.", "\"He needs to address Julius Malema urgently,\" Steyn said.", "\"We are finding it difficult to keep our members calm under the current circumstances.", "If farm murders continue, we cannot guarantee that our members will continue refraining from retaliating.\"", "Terreblanche's death comes amid a time of racial polarization in the country.", "Analysis: Terreblanche's death stokes racial tensions .", "Zuma on Sunday appealed for calm Sunday amid fears the killing of notorious white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche could stoke racial tensions in the country.", "In a statement on the South African presidency's Web site, Zuma said he had spoken to Terreblanche's daughter to express his \"sincere condolences.\"", "\"I call upon our people, black and white to remain calm, and allow police and other organs of state to do their work,\" Zuma said.", "Terreblanche's AWB is best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid.", "The group used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections.", "Terreblanche was convicted of the 1996 attempted murder of Paul Motshabi, a black man who worked as a security guard on Terreblanche's farm.", "He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence.", "He was also convicted of setting his dog on a black man in an earlier incident.", "CNN's Robyn Curnow and Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report from Johannesburg." ]	[ "AWB spokesman retracts vow to avenge leader's death .", "He said original statement made by an \"emotional member\" of the AWB .", "Eugene Terreblanche was bludgeoned and stabbed to death .", "Two of Terreblanche's farm workers scheduled to appear in court Tuesday ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6, 11, 14 ]
[ "OXFORD, Iowa (CNN) -- Kathy Tandy was so big, she got weighed on the town's cattle scales.", "It was the only way she could get an accurate measurement of her weight.", "Kathy Tandy went from 432 pounds to 260 pounds by walking and watching what she eats.", "\"It was humiliating,\" she says.", "\"It was awful.\" At her worst, the mother of four tipped the scales at 432 pounds.", "She couldn't go to the movies or fly on an airplane.", "The seats were too small.", "She was embarrassed to go to restaurants.", "People gawked.", "\"When you go to like a restaurant or to a park and have a picnic, you hear people say, 'Oh, that woman over there is eating a cheeseburger.", "She doesn't need to be eating a cheeseburger,' or 'Oh my God, she's going to break that chair,'\" she says.", "Watch \"Don't let it get you down\" » .", "\"So I just kind of stayed away from everybody and didn't go out.", "I stayed home.\"", "She became depressed and consumed herself in food, devouring 8,000 to 10,000 calories a day.", "\"Anything I could get my hands on,\" says Tandy, who makes doughnuts and other treats at the Depot convenience store in Oxford, Iowa, a town of about 700.", "She reached her lowest point just before Christmas in 1996.", "\"My kids wanted to buy me an outfit for Christmas and they couldn't find one big enough, and they had to tell me that,\" she says.", "\"So I thought it was time to do something about it.", "When my kids can't stand the way I look, I thought I better do something.\"", "Tandy called her doctor just before New Year's Eve that year and was put on a calorie-counting regimen.", "Tandy first detailed her story for a book called \"The Oxford Project,\" which combines black-and-white photographs of the town's residents -- one from 1984, a second 20 years later -- with oral histories to give a portrait of small-town America.", "Meet \"old hippie\" who parties hard, and other town residents » .", "\"Everyone in town has always known me as 'the Big Girl,' \" she said in the book.", "\"I couldn't take a bath, because I couldn't get out of the tub.", "The body odor problems were awful.", "You get up and walk to the other side of the room, and you break into a sweat.\"", "CNN recently caught up with Tandy on a sunny Sunday in Oxford.", "Her doctor diagnosed her as a compulsive overeater.", "She began counting calories and cut back on food.", "A housewife at the time with a bakery in her home, Tandy also started walking.", "iReport.com: Share your weight-loss success story .", "\"My previous diet was, I got up in the morning and ate until I went to bed.", "Now, I watch what I eat. I portion,\" she said.", "She keeps two journals: one to track her food and the other to track her mood, \"because my emotions control my diet.\"", "She begins her day about 4 every morning with a bowl of cereal before heading to work.", "She has a snack of fruit and toast by mid-morning.", "Lunch consists of salad or soup and a sandwich.", "She has a healthy snack in the afternoon, followed by a closely calorie-watched supper.", "She tried an array of diets over the years, from Atkins to South Beach, before settling into just eating sensibly.", "The 5-foot-8-inch woman went from her peak weight of 432 pounds to 220 pounds four years ago, shedding nearly half her weight.", "Tandy had a heart attack and other health issues around that time.", "She now weighs 260 pounds and is hoping to get back down to 220.", "Is she enjoying life more?", "\"Oh, heavens, yes,\" she says.", "She has five grandchildren, and thanks to her weight loss, she can \"get down and play with them.\"", "\"I can run with them, and I can do things that I thought I could never do.\"", "Traveling is one of those things.", "She's flown to Europe four times.", "Before the weight loss, she says, \"I couldn't get onto an airplane.", "The seats weren't wide enough.", "I would have to go first-class and I couldn't afford that, and they couldn't guarantee I could fit on the seats.", "I couldn't walk on the plane.", "They had to take me on by wheelchair.\"", "Her message to others in a similar situation is simple: \"It can depress you, but don't let it get you down.", "If it does, call your doctor.", "That's what those doctors are for. They're there to help get you through the rough times.", "And look for a good support system.\"", "Luckily, she says, she's had a tremendous support group in her family and the residents of Oxford, who rooted her on to weight-loss success.", "\"Some people don't have that, but there are groups out there, whether it's just a group to go talk to once a week or somebody to get on the telephone,\" Tandy says.", "\"You're going to fall off the wagon.", "Just get back up and go again. Everybody does that.\"" ]	[ "Kathy Tandy went from 432 pounds to 260 pounds by eating sensibly .", "She says she used to eat 8,000 to 10,000 calories a day .", "She couldn't fit on airplanes or in seats at the movie theater .", "Now, she's enjoying life, playing with her grandkids and traveling to Europe ." ]	[ 2, 10, 14, 43, 52 ]
[ "(CNN) -- California Rep. Maxine Waters is pressing the House ethics panel to set her trial date before the midterm elections in November.", "\"I have made a very public request to come out with the formalized charges and to set up a meeting to hear them,\" she said Thursday in an interview with KCRW, a public radio station in Santa Monica, California.", "\"Let's hope that they do it,\" she said.", "The 10-term congresswoman is accused of violating House rules by seeking federal assistance for a bank with financial ties to her husband.", "According to a House ethics committee report, Waters helped arrange a meeting in September 2008 between Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank and Treasury Department officials.", "OneUnited Bank ultimately received $12 million in bailout funds.", "Waters is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee.", "According to Waters' 2008 financial disclosure statement -- as mentioned in the report -- her husband had two investments in OneUnited at the time of the meeting.", "They were valued between $500,000 and $1 million.", "\"There is substantial reason to believe that Rep.", "Waters' conduct may have violated\" House rules, the report concludes.", "Waters, who represents the Watts section of Los Angeles, insists she did nothing wrong.", "\"I have not violated any House rules,\" she said in a statement Monday.", "\"I simply will not be forced to admit to something I did not do.\"", "Waters asserted that \"the record will clearly show that in advocating on behalf of minority banks neither my office nor I benefited in any way, engaged in improper action or influenced anyone. ...", "The case against me has no merit.\"", "Waters has asked The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to make public the formal charges against her.", "\"All I know is that I have not been charged, that there has been a report that was released that said further investigation,\" Waters said.", "\"Most people don't have a clue about what these charges are supposed to be and we're eager to get the information out.\"", "The announcement this week by the ethics committee means Waters, 71, may now face a trial by committee members tasked with determining whether there is \"clear and convincing evidence\" she broke congressional rules.", "Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is also facing a possible ethics committee trial.", "Rangel, the former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of 13 violations of House rules involving alleged financial wrongdoing and harming the credibility of Congress.", "Both trials could take place in September, only a few weeks before the midterm elections.", "The prospect of inquiries into two high-profile Democrats has compounded the fears of congressional Democrats nervous about their prospects in November.", "\"I think that there should be a process that works for everybody.", "It should be fair,\" Waters said.", "\"People's due process should not be trampled on.", "I think it's unfortunate that these cases have been handled the way they've been handled.\"", "The growing likelihood of trials for Waters and Rangel also adds the explosive element of race to the political equation.", "Both representatives are leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, and OneUnited Bank is one of the largest minority-owned banks in America." ]	[ "California Rep. Maxine Waters is accused of violating House ethics rules .", "She has asked the ethics committee to hold a trial before November .", "Waters is a 10-term congresswoman .", "Rep. Charlie Rangel also faces ethics charges in the House ." ]	[ 0, 3, 20 ]
[ "Krobo, Ghana (CNN) -- A new generation of Ghanaians are rediscovering their heritage -- and rediscovering the appeal of traditional beads.", "Many Ghanaians used to associate beads with an old-fashioned coming-of-age ritual for girls.", "But not anymore. Tairee, a student at the University of Ghana, is proud to wear traditional beads.", "\"It's coming back into fashion,\" she told CNN.", "\"People can actually wear them on their necks and as parts of their clothing.", "I don't think they are old fashioned.", "It's coming back.\"", "But it's not just women who are fans.", "Masoom, another University of Ghana student, said he thought women looked good in beads.", "\"It's attractive,\" he told CNN.", "\"They [women] are more African when they wear their beads than usual.", "Especially when they wear it around their waist; it brings out the shape of their waist, and it's real attractive.\"", "Rwanda lives rugby dream in Hong Kong .", "According to a local market trader, the bead revival is a sign that young Ghanaians are experiencing what she called \"sankofa.\"", "\"There's a culture of 'sankofa:' Go back and retrieve what you've left behind,\" said bead-shop owner Ernestina Anafu.", "\"There was a period when they [young people] shunned beads; they said it was archaic, it was no longer fashionable.", "Since this period of 'sankofa' people are going traditional again.\"", "Beads have a long history in Ghana.", "They were once the king's currency, according to E.B.T.", "Sikapa, an organizer for the first Ghana International Beads Festival.", "He told CNN that beads were once exchanged for slaves, alcoholic drinks, and textiles.", "Central African Gorillas may become extinct .", "While beads are no longer used as currency, they are still valuable to Ghana.", "The Ghanaian government has recognized the potential of the bead industry as a tourist attraction and in foreign trade.", "Kati Torda, owner of Sun Trade Beads, has seen her exports -- mostly to Europe -- increase from five-percent of her revenue eight years ago, to 50 percent last year.", "Now she's looking to grow her business even more as she expands her product lines.", "\"Because of that new potential, we don't just produce necklaces and bracelets, we produce home decoration,\" Torda told CNN.", "\"Of course, the potential is endless.\"", "At a local market, some of the beads on sale are over 100 years old, recovered from burial grounds.", "But there are other, less ghoulish, forms of recycling being used, with some beads produced from recycled materials such as glass bottles.", "\"Ghana can teach a thing or two to the world about recycling,\" said Torda.", "But the new-found popularity of beads isn't just about giving old materials a new lease of life -- it's about breathing new life into traditional ideas.", "\"They [the beads] mean so much to me,\" Tairee told CNN.", "\"It's not just colors. Where I'm from, if you wear something like blue it's purity, white is fertility, gold is wealth.", "I know what it means, so its so precious to me.\"", "CNN's Richard Lui and Mark Tutton contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Young Ghanaians are rediscovering traditional beads .", "The government is trying to promote the country's bead industry .", "Some beads are made from recycled materials, including glass bottles ." ]	[ 6, 13, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ida has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression as it lost momentum during its approach to the U.S. Gulf Coast early Tuesday.", "But the storm is still spreading plenty of rain across the Southeast, generally 3 to 6 inches with isolated maximum storm totals of 8 inches.", "This could continue through Wednesday evening from the eastern Gulf Coast into the Southern Mid-Atlantic states.", "\"Ida has lost tropical characteristics and its winds are expected to slowly diminish during the next day or so,\" according to a 10 a.m.", "ET advisory from the Miami, Florida-based National Hurricane Center.", "Ida made its initial landfall at 6:40 a.m.", "ET at Dauphin Island, Alabama, which is located five miles off the Alabama coast, the center said.", "Ida made another landfall around 8 a.m.", "ET just northwest of Bon Secour, Alabama, an advisory said.", "Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 35 mph with higher gusts, the center said.", "Ida is moving toward the northeast near 9 mph.", "Track the path of Tropical Storm Ida .", "The storm was about 30 miles east-southeast of Mobile, Alabama, and about 25 miles west-northwest of Pensacola, Florida, the latest advisory said.", "The hurricane center said the tropical depression advisory is the last one they will issue on the storm system.", "The storm's heavy rains have flooded some roads and washed up debris in parts of Alabama and Florida, and the storm knocked out power to about 2,000 people in the western part of the Florida panhandle.", "Are you in Ida's path? Share your news, videos .", "As the storm approached, the governors of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana declared states of emergency.", "Ida is the Atlantic region's ninth named storm of the year.", "The Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30." ]	[ "NEW: Rain in South, Mid-Atlantic could continue until Wednesday .", "Tropical Storm Ida reaches Dauphin Island, Alabama .", "Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana declare emergency .", "Up to 8 inches of rain expected to be dumped on some isolated areas ." ]	[ 1, 2, 11, 14, 16 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Tropical storm Ida could regain hurricane status Saturday night as it heads toward the Gulf Coast.", "The northern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is under a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning, the National Hurricane Center said.", "Pinar del Rio, in western Cuba, is also under a tropical storm warning, the center said.", "During a hurricane watch, hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours.", "Tropical storm conditions are possible within 24 hours under a tropical storm watch.", "Ida made landfall as a hurricane Thursday morning over east central Nicaragua, pelting the Central American nation with heavy rain before weakening to a tropical storm.", "At 7 p.m. ET, Ida was heading north-northwest at about 10 mph (17 kph) and was about 180 miles (290 km) east-southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, the hurricane center said.", "Track Ida's projected path .", "Forecasters expect the storm, with winds of 70 mph (110 kph), to reach hurricane status by Saturday night or early Sunday.", "If the storm becomes a hurricane again, however, it could lose power and downgrade back to a tropical storm in the coming days.", "As Ida crosses the Yucatan Channel, the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba could get 3 to 5 inches of rain; some areas could see as many as 10 inches, the center said.", "The Gulf Coast could experience heavy rain and coastal flooding next week as Ida approaches the area.", "Ida is the Atlantic region's ninth named storm.", "The Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30.", "CNN meteorologists Dave Hennen and Jacqui Jeras contributed to this report." ]	[ "Forecasters expect Ida to reach hurricane status by Saturday night or early Sunday .", "Mexico's Northern Yucatan Peninsula under hurricane watch, tropical storm warning .", "At 7 p.m.", "ET, Ida was heading north-northwest at about 10 mph (17 kph)" ]	[ 1, 6, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong reflected ruefully on Monday's incident-packed second stage of the Tour de France, which saw Sylvain Chavanel claim the first yellow jersey of his career following a spate of crashes.", "The Frenchman moved almost three minutes ahead of previous leader Fabian Cancellara with his victory on the 201-kilometer leg from Brussels to Spa in Belgium.", "The Quick Step rider was the last remaining member of an eight-man breakaway that he led at the 10-kilometer mark, with the 123-strong peloton coming home together after refusing to race further following another day of crashes in difficult conditions.", "Saxo Bank's brothers Andy and Franck Schleck both went down on the Stockeu climb -- also part of the Liege classic where Chavanel cracked his skull in April.", "Armstrong and titleholder Alberto Contador also lost time following spills, and the three main groups closed ranks to negotiate the slippery descents.", "American Armstrong dropped one place to fifth, being 3:19 off the leader in what is the 38-year-old's final attempt at winning the race.", "\"It was a rough day. I've got a couple of good abrasions -- one on the hip, one on the elbow,\" Armstrong told the Team RadioShack website.", "\"Coming down the descent of the Stockeu, it was as if someone had put something on the road, it was so surreal.", "There was no way to stay on your bike, there were people everywhere.", "\"As we got back on our bikes and started to re-descend, we just kept coming across more and more crashes... motorbikes, TV cameras -- it was just bad luck.\"", "Chavanel came home almost four minutes clear of the bunch to take a lead of two minutes and 57 seconds into Tuesday's third stage from Wanze across the border to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut in France.", "Prologue winner Cancellara, who negotiated the pact between the riders, will start the day in second place ahead of Columbia's young German Tony Martin and Garmin's British rider David Millar.", "Spain's Contador was seventh behind Team Sky's Geraint Thomas, while Armstrong's RadioShack teammate Levi Leipheimer was eighth -- 3:25 behind Chavanel.", "Columbia's sprint specialist Mark Cavendish, who won six stages last year and four in 2008, fell almost 10 minutes off the pace as he finished back in 148th.", "Italian rider Alessandro Petacchi, who won a similarly crash-hit stage one on Sunday, was 13:37 adrift of Chavanel after finishing 157th." ]	[ "Crashes mar the second stage of the Tour de France, won by Sylvain Chavanel .", "Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong drops to fifth after crashing in Belgium .", "Chavanel claims yellow jersey for first time as 123-strong group of riders agree not to race .", "Frenchman has almost three-minute advantage over previous leader Fabian Cancellara ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An American Airlines flight headed to California was diverted to New Mexico and a passenger detained for allegedly smoking onboard, officials said.", "The FBI took the male passenger into custody, said Daniel Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque International Airport.", "\"Apparently, he had some matches on him that were struck,\" Jiron said.", "The flight from New York was on its way to Los Angeles.", "It was diverted to Albuquerque on Wednesday afternoon.", "\"TSA was notified of a passenger allegedly smoking onboard American Airlines Flight 117 from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX),\" the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.", "There was no bomb or bomb threat on the flight, the Federal Aviation Administration said.", "Canines swept the plane Wednesday evening out of an \"abundance of caution,\" the transportation agency said.", "The plane's 168 passengers exited after landing, said Billy Sanez, a spokesman for the airline.", "The plane later continued onto Los Angeles without the detained passenger late Wednesday." ]	[ "NEW: Flight continues to Los Angeles without detained passenger .", "Officials say passenger tried to smoke during flight .", "FBI takes male passenger into custody ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- March is Women's History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration that encourages all Americans to reflect on the ways in which women have shaped U.S. history.", "But how did this celebration come to be, and why is it held in March?", "\"I long to hear that you have declared an independency, and by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies...\" Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776 .", "Almost two hundred years after Abigail Adams made this request to her husband, John, the passage of Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments meant no person could be denied the benefits of a federally funded educational program or activity on the basis of gender.", "In 1977, to help school principals comply with Title IX regulations, an education task force in Sonoma County, California recommended a \"Women's History Week\" celebration for 1978.", "The task force believed that school and community events highlighting and celebrating the contributions of American women would help provide a foundation and rationale for Title IX changes.", "The commission chose the week of March 8 to coincide with International Women's Day, which had been established in the early 1900s to honor the movement for women's rights.", "Within a few years, dozens of California schools were participating in Women's History Week.", "In 1979, representatives from the Sonoma County Women's History Week group shared their experiences with national leaders of women's organizations at a Women's History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and word of the Women's History Week celebrations spread.", "In March 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued a message encouraging Americans to recognize and celebrate women's historic accomplishments during the week of March 8th, Women's History Week.", "Later that year, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and Maryland Representative Barbara Mikulski co-sponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution declaring a \"National Women's History Week\" for the week of March 8, 1981.", "In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month.", "Since 1992, every U.S. president has issued a proclamation declaring March to be Women's History Month.", "Facts and Figures on U.S. Women .", "Population: As of Oct. 1, 2008, there were 155 million females in the United States.", "That number exceeds the number of males by approximately four million.", "Earnings: The median annual earnings of women 16 or older who worked year-round, full time in 2007 was $34,278.", "Women earned 77.5 cents for every $1 earned by men.", "Education: Thirty-three percent of women 25 to 29 attained a bachelor's degree or higher in 2007, which exceeded that of men in this age range (26 percent).", "Businesses: There were nearly 6.5 million women-owned businesses in 2002.", "Women owned 28 percent of all non-farm businesses.", "Voting: Sixty-five percent of female citizens reported voting in the 2004 presidential election, higher than the 62 percent of their male counterparts who cast a ballot.", "Jobs: Thirty-eight percent of women 16 or older work in management, professional and related occupations, compared with 32 percent of men.", "Military: There were 198,400 active duty women in the military, comprising 14 percent of the armed forces, as of September 30, 2007.", "In 1950, women comprised less than 2 percent.", "Sports and Recreation: Three million girls participated in high school athletic programs in the 2006-07 school year.", "In the 1979-80 school year, only 1.75 million girls were members of a high school athletic team.", "Source: Facts and Figures on Women (U.S. Census)" ]	[ "March is Women's History Month .", "Learn how this celebration come to be, and why it is held in March ." ]	[ 1, 12 ]
[ "Editor's note: This is part of a series of reports CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, \"God's Warriors,\" hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.", "Madeleine Albright: \"In order to effectively conduct foreign policy today, you have to understand the role of God and religion.\"", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As U.S. secretary of state under former President Clinton, Madeleine Albright invested long hours in the Middle East peace process.", "She wrote about the relationship between politics and religion in her 2006 book, \"The Mighty and the Almighty.\"", "CNN producer Jen Christensen recently spoke with Albright for \"God's Warriors.\"", "Here is an edited portion of their conversation: .", "CNN: Growing up I was told that in polite conversation you never talk about two things: politics and religion; however, our documentary, \"God's Warriors,\" is going to do just that.", "Part of the problem though in looking at these issues is the loaded quality of the language.", "Even our starting point.", "We essentially had to create a term, \"God's Warriors,\" as the traditional term \"fundamentalism\" seemed problematic.", "Did you encounter the same problem when you were writing \"The Mighty and the Almighty\"?", "Watch the making of the TV special \"God's Warriors\" » .", "Albright: Well, I think it's a very hard term, fundamentalism, as you're obviously finding.", "Historically, it's a term that described Christians who believed that everything that was in the Bible was exactly so.", "But now it's been used to describe everybody in the three Abrahamic religions who is conservative or reactionary.", "One of the things that I found in writing my book [was] that fundamentalism was a term that I was having trouble with.", "Because it has gotten ascribed to it a lot of negative associations.", "CNN: In your book, you argue for a better understanding of religion in the U.S. foreign policy arena.", "Isn't that a revolutionary idea for this generation of diplomats trained more in the realist school of foreign policy?", "Albright: As a practitioner of foreign policy, I certainly come from the generation of people who used to say, \"X problem is complicated enough.", "Let's not bring God and religion into it.\"", "But through my being in office, and as I explored the subject much further in writing \"The Mighty and the Almighty,\" I really thought that the opposite is true.", "In order to effectively conduct foreign policy today, you have to understand the role of God and religion.", "... My sense is that we don't fully understand, because one, it's pretty complicated, and two, everyone in the U.S. believes in a separation of church and state, so you think, \"Well, if we don't believe in the convergence of church and state, then perhaps we shouldn't worry about the role of religion.\"", "I think we do that now at our own peril.", "Religion is instrumental in shaping ideas and policies.", "It's an essential part of everyday life in a whole host of countries.", "And obviously it plays a role in how these countries behave, so we need to know what the religious influence is.", "CNN: We interviewed a human rights lawyer in Jerusalem, Danny Seidemann, who has on occasion helped peace negotiators in Israel get ready for talks.", "He said one of the main problems with President Clinton's Camp David [talks] was that a lot of the preparation was done by \"yuppies in Ramallah, yuppies in Tel Aviv and yuppies in the Beltway.\"", "And that they didn't really understand the religious people who in the end would have to buy into the results of the negotiations in order for them to succeed.", "He said without that understanding the agreement was doomed.", "Albright: Well, I can't say I fully agree with him.", "I've talked about what I think we did right and what we did wrong at Camp David.", "I think that there was a mistake made, which was not understanding how difficult the issue of Jerusalem and the holy places would be.", "If Jerusalem was just a real estate issue, we would have resolved it a long time ago.", "But because the parties believe that God gave them that piece of land, then obviously there's another presence in the room that we needed to take into account.", "I disagree with the statement because President Clinton knew a great deal about the religious background.", "I had the honor of working for two democratic presidents, President Carter and President Clinton, and they're both very religious and both very knowledgeable about the religious backgrounds of the Middle East.", "CNN: The fate of Jerusalem seems to be a particularly tricky issue.", "Albright: Anybody that can really solve that issue is a Solomon.", "With this being holy to all three of the Abrahamic religions, it's very difficult.", "And religion, rather than bringing people together on this, is driving them apart, which ...", "I don't think [is] what is intended.", "It's so interesting; we're talking about the whole issue of sovereignty here.", "Because the parties both believed that God gave them that little piece of land, we started playing with a term, which was that it belonged to God.", "Divine sovereignty.", "Anybody who's been to Jerusalem can see why it is so complicated.", "Physically, religious holy places are completely intertwined, one on top of the other.", "So in many ways, there's great appeal to saying it belongs to God, and then trying to figure out how it [is] administered, maybe through some international group of some kind.", "CNN: Is Jerusalem a place where we could have this kind of utopian area, where the three faiths could all live peacefully together?", "Albright: Well, ideally, though it certainly doesn't seem that way at this point.", "And while the United States or the [Mideast] Quartet needs to play a key role in what to do with Jerusalem, ultimately the parties there in Israel are the ones that have to make the hard decisions.", "If there ever is a will to do this, just think about the incredible opportunities here.", "People would be able to learn about all three of these great religions in the same place.", "They'd be able to see how they relate to each other.", "It does sound a little utopian, well, very utopian at this point, but Jerusalem is an incredible place.", "I found the first time I went to Jerusalem, my initial reaction was, people are arguing over all this all the time, it made me think, well, there can't be a God, why would God put up with this?", "And then I had the total opposite reaction.", "One that stays with me, which is that there are so many holy places and symbols there, and all anybody talks about is their relationship to those symbols and to God, and therefore the power of God must be so strong there.", "I just think that it would be much better if people could figure out ... how to agree about it.", "CNN: So, therefore, how to figure out the fate Jerusalem is the perfect example of why we need to include religious understanding in our foreign policy.", "Albright: Definitely.", "I am not a theologian, and I have not turned into a religious mystic, but I am a practical problem solver.", "So I'm looking at religion from the perspective of how knowledge about what people believe in can be useful in terms of trying to resolve the most serious disputes.", "I think one of the major problems is that here in the United States, particularly, there is very little understanding of Islam.", "We all act as if Islam is a monolithic religion and that all Muslims live in the Middle East.", "The bottom line is most Muslims in the world don't live in the Middle East.", "They live in Indonesia, or Malaysia, or India, um, Pakistan.", "Second, there are a number of different sects within Islam.", "Now I think more people understand the difference between Shia and Sunni, but that is just the beginning.", "We really do not know anything about it.", "I think it behooves our diplomats to be very knowledgeable about religion when they are sent to a country.", "They obviously learn the language and the history [and] culture; they also need to learn about the religion, too.", "CNN: What impact has the religious right had on politics?", "Albright: Everybody ... has [an] impact on politics, that's what democracy is about.", "I think they have more of an impact on domestic than foreign policy.", "CNN: But you mention in your book that some gave you a hard time when you were the U.S. representative to the U.N. Albright: Well, the extremists really are very nervous in terms of the question of sovereignty and the creation of an international organization, which they misinterpret to be world government, which it actually is not.", "And then there are the even more extreme views -- you know, some of them saw the secretary-general as the antichrist and that I was consorting with the devil.", "These are the people who are afraid of the U.N., because they think it has black helicopters that will swoop down and steal your lawn furniture.", "And then there are some people who don't like the U.N. because it's full of foreigners, which frankly can't be helped.", "So you have a wide range of critics there.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Albright served as U.S. secretary of state under former President Clinton .", "She wrote about the relationship between politics and religion in her 2006 book .", "\"Religion is instrumental in shaping ideas and policies,\" she says ." ]	[ 2, 3, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Chicago, Illinois, couple, their real estate agent and a real estate broker face charges of violating the federal Fair Housing Act for refusing to sell a $1.8 million home to black radio personality and comedian George Willborn, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said.", "The five-bedroom, 8,000-square-foot home was listed for $1.799 million by owners Daniel and Adrienne Sabbia and their real estate agent, Jeffrey Lowe, the housing agency said in a statement Tuesday.", "The charge alleges the Sabbias and Lowe stalled negotiations and took the property off the market after receiving a $1.7 million offer from Willborn and his wife, Peytyn -- the highest offer the Sabbias had received in the two years the property was listed, according to HUD.", "The Sabbias accepted the offer, but refused to sign the sales contract, according to the HUD complaint.", "Six days after the offer was accepted, the Willborns' agent asked about the issue, and Lowe told her that the \"'reality\" of selling the house was 'just hitting'\" Adrienne Sabbia, the complaint said.", "The woman said she didn't believe that, since the house had been listed for two years, according to the complaint.", "Lowe sent the agent a text message the following day saying he did not believe it was about race, and believed it to be a \"seller vs. seller issue not a seller vs. buyer issue.\"", "But the next day, Lowe told the Willborns' agent that the Sabbias were not signing the sales contract and taking the home off the market.", "\"Respondent Lowe gave complainants various reasons for why the Sabbias had decided not to sell,\" the complaint said, including that Adrienne Sabbia had changed her mind, that the Sabbias could not find another home, and they wanted to keep their children in their current schools.", "The Sabbias told HUD investigators they refused to sign the sales contract because Adrienne Sabbia wanted the full asking price for the home.", "Conrad Duncker, named as the Sabbias' attorney by the Chicago Sun-Times, did not return a call from CNN seeking comment Wednesday.", "The Willborns filed an initial HUD complaint in January, amending it in March and July.", "The couple learned that the Willborns had filed a HUD complaint on January 29, the complaint said, and a few days later told Lowe to offer the Willborns the opportunity to buy the home with all its furnishings for $1.799 million.", "\"When the Willborns learned that the Sabbias only offered to sell the subject property to them after receipt of the HUD complaint, they canceled a scheduled showing and declined the offer,\" according to the complaint.", "Lowe told investigators that while he was representing the Sabbias, Daniel Sabbia told him he would prefer not to sell the home to an African-American, but added \"if it was for the right price he did not care who bought the house,\" the complaint said.", "However, the agency \"has determined that reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred in this case based on race and has authorized and directed the issuance of this charge of discrimination,\" according to the complaint.", "The charge will be heard by an administrative law judge unless a party elects to have it heard in federal district court, HUD said.", "If the judge finds discrimination occurred, damages may be awarded and fines may be levied.", "Punitive damages can also be awarded if the case is heard in district court.", "Besides the Sabbias, the Lowe Group Chicago Inc. and real estate broker Prudential Rubloff Properties are also named in the complaint.", "\"Racial fairness is important at all income levels.", "Civil rights enforcement must be the effective shield against housing discrimination that in this case wealth was not,\" stated John Trasvina, HUD assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity.", "Willborn is a radio personality who co-hosts the syndicated \"Michael Baisden Show.\"", "He also has appeared as a comedian on television and in films, the complaint said.", "CNN's attempts to reach Willborn were unsuccessful.", "\"I think it's unfortunate, sad and disgusting,\" Willborn told the Chicago Sun-Times.", "\"It jolts you to your core beliefs. ... ... ...", "No one has the right to dictate the American dream.\"", "\"Complainants George and Peytyn Willborn have suffered emotional distress due to respondents' discriminatory acts,\" the complaint says.", "Willborn has indicated he is less trusting of people and their actions, and \"he feels respondents have denied him the American dream he worked so hard to attain.", "They are surprised that something like this could happen in the year 2010.\"", "The Willborns' children \"were disappointed at the loss of certain features of the house, and ... felt fear because of how they might be treated because of race,\" the complaint said.", "\"The Willborns' daughter felt hurt and angry and now worries that if this happened to her parents that it may happen to her one day in her own search for housing as an adult.\"" ]	[ "Chicago couple accused of refusing to sign sales contract .", "George Willborn and wife offered $1.7 million .", "Agent says seller told him he would prefer not to sell to African-Americans ." ]	[ 0, 3, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- County coroner's officials in Los Angeles, California, hope to release results Thursday morning of their examination of skeletal remains found in a remote area of Malibu Canyon.", "The family of a woman, missing nearly a year, await word on any clues the bones will yield.", "Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said that an anthropologist and pathologist were examining the remains, and an odontologist -- or dental expert -- will also help make a final identification.", "The remains, which included a human skull, were found Monday by park rangers searching the area for marijuana groves, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.", "\"It's incredibly treacherous terrain,\" Whitmore said of the remote site.", "\"There is no road, no trail even if you know exactly where you are going.\"", "Whitmore said it appeared the remains had been in the area \"for quite awhile.\"", "The family of missing Mitrice Richardson have been waiting to hear whether the remains are those of their loved one.", "Richardson, who would be 25 now, is a former beauty pageant contestant who was last seen leaving a Los Angeles County sheriff's station in Malibu during the early morning hours of September 17, 2009.", "She had been arrested the previous evening at an upscale restaurant for allegedly not paying for her meal, and patrons at the restaurant said she exhibited strange behavior.", "Her family has said the college honors graduate suffered from mental health issues and should have been kept at the sheriff's station until a relative arrived to pick her up.", "The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the remains are those of a woman and that \"women's clothing was also found near the scene.\"", "The newspaper cited unidentified law enforcement sources.", "Winter would not confirm Wednesday the gender of the remains.", "He said clothing was found \"near the body,\" but declined to elaborate on what type, saying many people had been using the area where marijuana was known to be harvested.", "Latice Sutton, the mother of Richardson, held a news conference Tuesday night outside the coroner's office, saying she had been told that the clothing found was a pair of Levis, and appealed to officials to let her view the clothing.", "\"I do know that my daughter was wearing jeans that night,\" Sutton said.", "Mom furious about leaks to media .", "Michael Richardson, Mitrice's father, told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" on Wednesday that he isn't giving up the search for his daughter.", "\"I'm still remaining hopeful, positive, prayerful ... and until they can give me a definitive answer about it, Mitrice is still needing for us to search for her,\" he said.", "The family of Richardson was joined at the canyon site Monday by another woman who believed the remains could belong to her husband, Timothy.", "Pam Perryman said her husband went missing six years ago while hiking in the area.", "\"I've been praying that we would find him because it's our anniversary this Saturday,\" Perryman told CNN iReporter Julie Ellerton.", "\"I just have a feeling ... in a way I hope it is him, in a way I hope it's not.\"", "CNN iReport: Skull and bones found by drug-searching cops .", "CNN's Sarah Aarthun contributed to this report." ]	[ "The family of missing Mitrice Richardson believes the remains may be her .", "Clothing was found \"near the body,\" assistant chief coroner says .", "Richardson was last seen leaving a Malibu sheriff's station September 17 ." ]	[ 8, 11 ]
[ "Memphis, Tennessee (CNN) -- Forty-two years ago, the Rev.", "Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while promoting the importance of the content of one's character.", "Today, an African-American candidate who marched with King is hoping the voters in a Democratic primary race will look at the color of his skin.", "Willie Herenton, who served as mayor of Memphis for almost two decades until he resigned in 2009, is making race a key part of his platform in his attempt to unseat incumbent Rep. Steve Cohen.", "Herenton's main campaign slogan on yard signs, flyers and T-shirts is the phrase \"Just One,\" a reference to his belief that there should be at least one African- American representing Tennessee in Congress.", "\"I believe that it is very clear to the majority of the citizens of this community that we lack representation.", "And all we are seeking is just one, well-qualified, African-American to serve in an 11-member Tennessee delegation that is currently all white,\" Herenton said.", "The August 5 primary in Memphis' heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District has attracted unprecedented attention from President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus.", "Both are looking beyond race and backing Herenton's white, Jewish opponent.", "Cohen has the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, receiving endorsements from many of its members and a contribution from its political action committee.", "The president gave Cohen a rare, written endorsement in mid-July.", "\"Congressman Cohen is a proven leader in the United States Congress and a strong voice for Tennessee,\" the statement said.", "\"Together, we passed historic health care reform, and together we're continuing the fight to renew our economy and bring jobs back to the American people.", "I am proud to stand with Steve and support his re-election to Congress.\"", "Herenton said that even though he respects Obama, he was upset with his decision to get involved.", "\"I'm disappointed that the president intervened.", "This is a local race, a local race that the citizens of this community should determine the individual that they want to represent them without the interference from the White House and the president,\" he said.", "In addition to downplaying the endorsements, Herenton says growing up in an impoverished part of Memphis and spending his career serving the people of the 9th District makes him more qualified for the job.", "He draws attention to Cohen's singing and dancing at campaign events, saying he is \"trying to act black.\"", "\"It's patronizing, it's pandering, it's almost playing on the emotions of the people.", "And I, like many in my city am resentful of that type of behavior.\"", "Herenton said.", "Cohen says he is bothered by that type of rhetoric and says his opponent is desperate and looking for a ticket to Washington.", "\"You know it's something he does, and I think it's grasping, because I'm not trying to be black.", "I understand the black community better than most Caucasians do because I have spent so much time working on issues,\" Cohen said.", "\"I represent everybody, and I work hard for people to get them opportunities.", "And I just think that race should not be an issue in 2010.\"", "Four years ago, Cohen became the first white congressman since 1972 to win the district.", "Canvassing for votes this past weekend in Memphis' predominately African-American Whitehaven community, many of his constituents re-enforced his belief that his hard work on key issues such as education, health care and the economy resonated with voters more than skin-color.", "When he met resident Lillian Fisher and her children, she gave him a big hug for helping her oldest son find a job.", "\"If it wasn't for you and that education lottery, he now works with the Tennessee lottery in Nashville, thanks to you, so you keep up the good work,\" Fisher told him with a huge smile.", "Herenton has never lost a political election, even though he says he is always considered the underdog.", "\"According to our polls, we'll get about 80 percent of the African-American vote, and we feel comfortable with getting anywhere from 5 or 6 percent of the white vote.", "The way we calculate it, there is no way Cohen can win.", "This is a real uphill climb for him,\" he said.", "Cohen says he is not worried about the election at all and wishes Herenton stayed focused on the issues at hand instead of race.", "\"It does get to be a drag. The issues should have been addressed more fully.", "There are differences; the truth is I am a strong, hard-core Barack Obama Democrat,\" Cohen said.", "\"My district needs a liberal, because we need policies that work for people.\"", "Herenton says he does not want his campaign reduced to just race and that voters should look at his unique qualifications as former mayor and school superintendent.", "But he says it would be wrong to just ignore the topic of race all together.", "\"This great nation is still in denial that race matters.", "In my view, race continues to permeate every facet of American lives.", "Especially white America is in a state of denial when it comes to race,\" Herenton said.", "Both candidates believe that MLK would be proud of their work.", "\"I think if Dr. King were alive today, he would support the proposition that the American democracy fosters inclusion, the American democracy respects representation of diverse people in his government, and he would be sympathetic and would be encouraging to a group of people that seek representation,\" Herenton said.", "And asked about what people will be saying on August 6, a day after the election, Cohen says he hopes people will see Memphis in a different light.", "\"I think they will be saying that citizens of the 9th District voted in a way that Dr. King will be smiling upon, voting on the content of their character and not the color of their skin.\"" ]	[ "Willie Herenton hopes voters in Tennessee's 9th District will look at color of his skin .", "Herenton challenging incumbent Rep. Steve Cohen in Democratic primary .", "Cohen has backing of Obama, Congressional Black Caucus .", "Both candidates say they think Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud of their work ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7, 21, 44, 47 ]
[ "CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (CNN) -- Jimena remained a tropical storm Thursday afternoon, but was losing its punch as it remained nearly stationary over Mexico's Baja California, the National Hurricane Center said.", "After making landfall on Baja California, Hurricane Jimena started weakening Wednesday night.", "All tropical storm warnings on the Baja California peninsula were discontinued, but a tropical storm warning remained in effect for northwestern mainland Mexico, from Huatabampito to Bahia Kino.", "A tropical storm warning means conditions including winds of at least 39 mph are expected within 24 hours.", "Jimena made landfall Wednesday afternoon as a Category 1 hurricane between Puerto San Andresito and San Juanico, Mexico, on the peninsula.", "At its peak, it was a Category 4 hurricane prior to making landfall.", "But as of 2 p.m., Jimena's center was located about 35 miles (55 km) north of Santa Rosalia, Mexico, forecasters said, and was \"moving very little during the past few hours.\"", "The storm was expected to begin slowly traveling west or west-southwest later Thursday night, and forecast to be near or over central Baja California through Saturday.", "Jimena's maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph (65 kph) with higher gusts, forecasters said.", "\"Weakening is forecast during the next 24 hours, and Jimena is forecast to become a tropical depression tonight and degenerate into a remnant low by Friday.\"", "Watch Jimena skirt resort of Cabo San Lucas » .", "The storm was expected to produce an additional 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) of rain over portions of western Mexico, and 1 to 2 inches (2 to 5 cm) over the central portion of the Baja peninsula over the next day or so, the Hurricane Center said.", "Overall, isolated maximum amounts could reach 30 inches (76 cm), forecasters said.", "Watch damage caused by Jimena » .", "\"An unofficial report from San Carlos, Mexico, located in Sonora state just west of Guyamas, indicates that about 25 inches of rain has fallen,\" forecasters said.", "\"These rains could produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.\"", "Watch tourists who waited out the storm » .", "In addition, \"higher than normal tide levels, with large and dangerous battering waves along portions of the coast of the central Baja peninsula and northwestern mainland Mexico will gradually subside tonight and tomorrow,\" the Hurricane Center said." ]	[ "All tropical storm warnings on Baja California peninsula were discontinued .", "Once a powerful Category 4 hurricane, Jimena now a tropical storm .", "Officials caution heavy rains could cause life-threatening flooding, mudslides .", "Storm forecast to be near or over central Baja California through Saturday ." ]	[ 2, 5, 7, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police have forensic evidence linking a pair of escapees from an Arizona prison to the investigation of a couple found dead in New Mexico this week, an official with the New Mexico Department of Public Safety said Saturday.", "The fugitives, who escaped from prison eight days ago, are suspects in the investigation into two burned bodies found in a camper Wednesday in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, according to Peter Olson, communications director for New Mexico Public Safety.", "New Mexico police have yet to positively identify the burned bodies, but believe they are Linda and Gary Haas of Oklahoma, whose truck was found 100 miles away in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to Olson.", "Forensic evidence found in that truck links John McCluskey and Tracy Province, the two escaped prisoners, to the investigation into the burned bodies, Olson told CNN.", "He would not elaborate on the nature of the evidence.", "Earlier Saturday, authorities arrested McCluskey's mother and charged her with aiding the escape.", "Claudia Washburn, 68, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to facilitate escape and hindering prosecution, Deputy U.S.", "Marshal Thomas Henman told CNN.", "The inmates, who authorities describe as armed and dangerous, have been at large since fleeing an Arizona prison on July 30.", "Washburn allegedly provided \"financial and other aid\" to her son and the second escapee and to a woman who was helping them, Henman said.", "Washburn was arrested in Jakes Corner, Arizona.", "A nationwide manhunt continues for McCluskey, 45, who was serving 15 years for attempted second-degree murder and other charges, and for Tracy Province, 42, who was serving a life sentence for murder and armed robbery.", "The two are believed to have left Arizona but to still be in the United States, Henman said.", "In an interview with CNN Arizona affiliate KTVK, Washburn's husband said that he'd shoot his stepson McCluskey if he saw him again.", "\"I told the U.S Marshals I haven't got that long to live,\" Jack Washburn said.", "\"[I'd] serve my time.\"", "\"You think you're Bonnie and Clyde,\" he continued, referring to the two escapees.", "\"You're not. No comparison.\" A female accomplice helped Province, McCluskey and a third inmate, Daniel Renwick, escape by throwing cutting tools over a prison fence, said Charles Ryan, director of Arizona's Department of Corrections.", "Authorities have identified the suspected accomplice as Casslyn Mae Welch, 43.", "Welch is Claudia Washburn's niece and is McCluskey's cousin and fiancée, KTVK reported.", "Renwick was captured Sunday in Colorado after getting in a shootout with authorities.", "After the break, the inmates and the accomplice abducted two truck drivers at gunpoint on Interstate 40 outside of Kingman, Arizona, and hijacked their 18-wheeler, according to the Mohave County sheriff's department in Kingman.", "The truck drivers and the rig were released five hours later in Flagstaff, about 135 miles to the east.", "The fugitives were later believed to be driving a 2002 silver Volkswagen Jetta purchased last Saturday in Phoenix.", "They were later spotted on a security camera in a bank inside a grocery store in Goodyear, Arizona, according to Barrett Marson, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Corrections.", "CNN's Chuck Johnston and Christine Sever contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Forensic evidence links Arizona escapees to burned bodies found in New Mexico .", "NEW: One escaped inmate's stepfather says he'd shoot stepson .", "Two of three escapees are still at large .", "Authorities believe the pair have left Arizona but are still in the U.S." ]	[ 0, 2, 12, 13 ]
[ "Nowshera, Pakistan (CNN) -- The start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincided in Pakistan on Wednesday with the nation's worst natural disaster, the staggering scope of human suffering revealing itself in wretched ways.", "From the Swat Valley in the north to Sindh province in the south, as many as 15 million Pakistanis have been affected by torrential monsoon rains that have washed away villages and bloated rivers, authorities said Wednesday.", "Pakistan's representative to the United Nations said many people have not yet grasped the massive scale of Pakistan's suffering and warned it could still get worse because of ongoing rain.", "\"It is horrendous,\" said Abdullah Hussain Haroon.", "\"It is going to put us back so many years that we're not even starting on the infrastructure.\"", "The Pakistan Disaster Authority confirmed 1,313 deaths Wednesday.", "It said 1,588 people have been injured and 352,291 people have been rescued.", "More than 722,000 houses have been damaged.", "Many Pakistanis now face severe food shortages, and aid agencies stepped up appeals for global assistance.", "The United Nations launched a flash appeal for $460 million in humanitarian assistance, and the United States pledged another $20 million on top of the $35 million already pledged.", "The Pakistani military has 55 helicopters and 621 boats taking part in aid and rescue efforts.", "For many parts of southern Pakistan, the worst is yet to come.", "The Indus River is expected to crest Thursday in parts of Sindh, according to the Pakistani Meteorological Department.", "And Pakistanis will be forced to endure the consequences of damaged infrastructure and crops lost to flooding for months.", "Nowshera's Khushal Pur market, once a vibrant place of 250 food stalls, stood covered in thick, foul-smelling sludge as tractors worked to remove the mud and debris.", "Among the muck were tons of rotting produce that shop keepers abandoned when they fled the flooding.", "Juma Gul surveyed the damage.", "His vegetable stall has been a family business for two decades.", "He said he has lost more than $1,000 in business, a huge amount in this town in northwestern Pakistan, where the CIA World Factbook estimated the average annual income at $2,600.", "Gul, who set up a temporary stall on the road, said prices of fresh produce, including tomatoes and cucumbers, have doubled.", "That made customer Niaz Ali anxious.", "He has already lost work and money is tight, but with the cost of food soaring, he said he and his family will simply have to eat less.", "Market manager Ikram Ullah said it would be particularly difficult during the month of Ramadan, when Muslims abstain from food and water during the day and break their fast with a feast at sunset.", "The back-breaking clean-up tasks will be hard, too, because of Ramadan fasting.", "The economic impact of the disaster is sure to be felt for a long time with crops sitting in soggy fields.", "\"The crop has been lost and it is a race against time to ensure the next sowing season can be met,\" said United Nations special envoy Jean-Maurice Ripert.", "John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said the disaster is \"one of the most challenging that any country has faced in recent years.\"", "Although the death toll is lower, the 14 million people affected are more than those affected in the 2005 Pakistan earthquakes, the 2004 Indonesia tsunami and the January earthquake in Haiti combined.", "\"The death toll has so far been relatively low compared to other major natural disasters, but the numbers affected are extraordinarily high,\" Holmes said.", "\"If we don't act fast enough, many more people could die of diseases and food shortages.\"", "Holmes said thousands of villages and at least 288,000 homes have been destroyed.", "\"Six thousand villages wiped out the face of the earth,\" Haroon said.", "\"From 5,000 to 50,000 per village, we have no way of counting.", "We have nothing operational as to how many of those have died and how many are alive.\"", "Huge swaths of Pakistan remain without power, clean water or communication.", "Bridges and roads have been destroyed, and many regions are accessible only by air or water transport.", "Millions of hectares of crops have been washed away in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK), Punjab and Sindh, and seed stocks have been destroyed, \"severely compromising the possibility to plant staple food crops in September for hundreds of thousands of farmers,\" Holmes said.", "The floods, which started in Pakistan's northern regions, are traveling through the southern province of Sindh.", "\"Millions more are expected to suffer from the combined impact of continuing torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers,\" Holmes said.", "\"The monsoon could last for at least another month, worsening the flooding we have seen so far.\"", "The money will enable U.N. organizations, international partners and NGOs to partner with the Pakistani government to address emergency needs of flood-affected families, Holmes says.", "The agencies will provide food, drinking water, tents and supplies in the seven hardest-hit areas: Balochistan, Punjab, the Federally Administered Tribal Area, Gilgit Baltistan, KPK, Pakistan-Administered Kashmir and Sindh.", "The U.N. reports $99.5 million has been pledged, and donors have committed or contributed $47.8 million to the U.N. emergency response in Pakistan, but $300 million more is needed.", "Individual countries have also gotten involved.", "U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Wednesday authorized 19 Marine and Navy heavy-lift helicopters to Pakistan to relieve six U.S. Army helicopters that have been taking part in flood relief since Saturday.", "The new group of helicopters will come from units on board the USS Peleliu which has been off the coast of western Pakistan in recent days in anticipation of orders to assist.", "Gates said the USS Kearsarge -- another helicopter landing ship -- is headed to Pakistan to relieve the Peleliu.", "Gates said the Pakistanis will decide the speed of distribution.", "\"We want to be as helpful as we can be,\" he said.", "\"We don't want to overstretch the capacity of the Pakistanis to absorb the help.\"", "Also Wednesday, Germany said it was increasing aid for flood victims to about $12.8 million.", "In total, about $600 million in aid is heading to Pakistan -- the equivalent of about $40 for each of the nation's 15 million residents.", "Islamic militants, however, called on the Pakistani government to reject any aid provided by the United States for flood relief.", "\"For the sake of God, don't accept donations from the U.S. because they are our enemies,\" said Azem Tariq, spokesman for the Taliban in Pakistan.", "\"Whatever amount the U.S. will give as donation, we will give the government of Pakistan more.\"", "Many Pakistanis have not been happy with the government's response to the floods, calling it slow and ineffective.", "The Taliban's offer of aid may be an attempt to win the hearts and minds of flood victims.", "Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has taken much of the heat.", "He was in England for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron during the worst of the crisis.", "CNN's Reza Sayah, Dan Rivers, Samson Desta, Brooke Elliott and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report." ]	[ "The death toll now tops 1,313, Pakistani authorities say .", "The U.N. launches a flash appeal for $460 million in aid .", "Pakistanis face soaring food costs and long-term shortages .", "The Taliban tell people to reject U.S. aid ." ]	[ 5, 8, 9, 56 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- It's a beautiful August morning in Jersey City, New Jersey.", "I have just finished my regular jog around Liberty State Park.", "No matter how often I stand here at my favorite spot to stretch, I can only marvel that this is actually my neighborhood and my view.", "In front of me, the Hudson River lies at the feet of the New York skyline.", "To my right, the Statue of Liberty basks in the glory of a thousand gazes from the first tour boat of the day.", "I look over at the World Financial Center where I work and, as always, what strikes me isn't what I see, but what I don't see anymore.", "The ghosts of the Twin Towers never seem to fade from the skyline in my mind.", "I am a Muslim, born in England, raised in Pakistan, but every bit as American as any of my fellow joggers or co-workers across the river.", "Somehow, though, people expect me to react differently.", "I don't. The same ghosts haunt me.", "As I stretch my muscles, my mind unreels a troubling movie.", "The planes hit the buildings in horrifying slow motion.", "A nation mourns.", "Families grieve.", "Boom. Senseless killing in Iraq.", "Flash. Mangled bodies and torture in Abu Ghraib.", "Boom. Bombs hit mosques in Pakistan.", "Flash. School girls killed in Afghanistan.", "Even though it's my movie, it always ends the same way.", "I feel helpless, powerless and lost.", "It's a far cry from the way I felt 14 years ago when I first saw the view from Liberty State Park.", "In my 20s then, I had come over from London to New York on business.", "After a busy work week I left early on Friday to spend the weekend with my cousin in Jersey City.", "He parked the car on the waterfront.", "We got out, walked over the swell of a small hill and then it was like someone flipped a switch.", "There, suddenly, was the New York skyline, more massive and impressive than I ever could have imagined.", "My cousin looked at me and said, \"This is what keeps young men up at night in Pakistan.\"", "What he meant was that they lie awake at night dreaming of a better life in America and hoping, yearning that one day they would see this skyline with their very own eyes.", "That was the moment I decided I would live in New York.", "When I first moved here, I felt welcomed.", "I was truly impressed by the fact that America gave me as an immigrant the same opportunities it did to its own citizens.", "Today, that is still largely the case, unless your name is Mohammad or if you choose to wear the hijab.", "Since 9/11, almost every Muslim in this country has a story.", "And it's no longer one of welcome.", "It's 6-month- old Muslim babies on the \"no fly\" list.", "It's searches and racial profiling at airport security.", "It's suspicious looks from neighbors.", "It's families being split apart by persecution during the immigration process.", "We experience this where we work and live.", "And then we turn on the nightly news and see more hatred.", "Like the church in Florida that's planning a Quran burning event on the anniversary of 9/11.", "Like the sad irony of the Anti-Defamation League (a group actually formed to \"secure justice and fair treatment for all against...hatred, prejudice and bigotry\") now speaking out against the Islamic center to promote interfaith dialogue and education being proposed for near the former World Trade Center site.", "Some people have clearly decided that 9/11 gives them the right to persecute Muslims.", "And as a result, we are all collectively paying for the sins of terrorists -- a radical, crazy few who just happen to share the same religious background.", "This change of behavior doesn't just hurt Muslims, it attacks the very fabric of what made America great.", "The very reason people all over the world lie awake in their beds dreaming of coming here is that they knew they would be treated fairly in this mythical \"land of opportunity.\"", "America built that global brand with blood, sweat and sacrifices and it is being tarnished with every act of intolerance.", "President Obama and the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have shown that they not only understand, but are also willing to address the core issues and move United States foreign policy back toward balanced and fair ground.", "It won't be easy. It won't be quick to implement.", "But the basic truth is this: Killing people will not fix this problem.", "Building bridges of understanding, rebuilding shattered economies in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan and educating citizens on both sides will.", "The day before the World Trade Center bombings, America was my home.", "The next day, I woke up a stranger in a strange land.", "I wish every American could understand that I am not the enemy.", "We want to be part of the solution.", "We want to build international bridges and help tolerance grow in America and around the world.", "After all, how can America hope to have its global vision accepted by the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world unless leaders can first sell it here at home to 6 million of their own citizens?", "The first step in achieving this is to get back to basics.", "America grew into a beacon of liberty and freedom because it gave every citizen the unalienable right to \"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\"", "It's time to give that back to everyone, regardless of religion.", "Most Muslim men do not have beards and most Muslim women do not wear the hijab.", "But, if you see one on the street who does, please change your reaction from suspicion to openness, from judgment to acceptance.", "Reach out to them. Ask them questions.", "Engage as human beings, not as stereotypes.", "Simple acts of goodwill would change far more hearts and minds than any gun-fueled campaign or international policy.", "Then someday, here at Liberty State Park, I might be able to stop running, admire the incredible view and rewrite the end of my movie.", "I very much want to replace \"powerless and lost\" with \"hopeful and optimistic.\"", "I want the New York skyline to once more inspire dreams of the possible, not echoes of the past.", "I want to come home again.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sharjeel Kashmir." ]	[ "U.S. liberties are the dream of many in the Muslim world, Sharjeel Kashmir writes .", "Kasmir: Those dreams are marred by suspicion that greets Muslims here .", "Kashmir: Muslim Americans are not the enemy, and can be part of the solution .", "He says people should engage with Muslims as people, not as stereotypes ." ]	[ 45, 54, 60, 63, 67, 69 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A tip led to Wednesday's arrest in Louisiana of a suspected serial bank robber dubbed the \"Granddad Bandit,\" federal authorities said.", "Michael Francis Mara, 52, was captured at his home in Baton Rouge, FBI Special Agent Sheila Thorne told CNN.", "The FBI went to the residence to execute an arrest warrant when Mara retreated into the house, she said.", "\"After six hours, he came out and was placed under arrest,\" she added.", "The \"Granddad Bandit\" is wanted in at least 25 bank heists in 13 states -- from Virginia to Texas to Kansas -- since 2008, the FBI said in a statement.", "He was given the name because he appeared elderly, Thorne told CNN.", "The bandit, described as balding, heavy and wearing glasses, captured the public's attention because of his non-threatening image and his nickname.", "But federal authorities said he was anything but harmless.", "He would point to his waistband and indicate he had a gun, but it was unclear if he actually had one.", "The Federal Bureau of Investigation's field office in Norfolk, Virginia, got a tip earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said Wednesday.", "The tipster identified and provided photographs of Mara that were compared to surveillance footage, the office said in a statement.", "Investigators \"allegedly found consistent key identifiers between the surveillance images and the photographs of Mara, including a hat, eyeglasses and wrist watch that appear to be identical.\"", "Mara has been charged with one count of bank robbery and is in custody, Thorne said.", "He could receive a 20-year sentence if convicted.", "Mara worked for a vehicle transportation company and traveled from state to state on business, the FBI said.", "In recent weeks, the FBI launched a billboard campaign featuring surveillance pictures of the robber hoping he would be identified.", "Authorities cited this and other publicity as being effective.", "An FBI affidavit released Wednesday gave some insight into how the \"Granddad Bandit\" did his business.", "\"[He] presents a demand note with a request for the specific dollar amount.", "The Subject does not appear to wear any disguises or concealment to hide his identity.", "The subject enters the bank calmly, oftentimes patiently waiting for his turn in line and then approaches the victim teller,\" the affidavit said.", "\"Once the Subject's demands are met, he retrieves the demand note and exits the bank quietly, not bringing attention to the crime he just committed.\" ...", "CNN's Gabriel Falcon and Carol Cratty contributed to this article." ]	[ "NEW: Tip led to arrest of bank robbery suspect .", "Michael F. Mara, 52, currently charged with one count of robbery .", "Authorities say the \"Granddad Bandit\" is responsible for some two dozen bank robberies .", "Suspect was arrested at his home in Louisiana on Wednesday ." ]	[ 0, 1, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former Illinois congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who rose through the ranks of Chicago's rough-and-tumble political scene to become one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill, has died, according to the office of Chicago Alderman Richard Mell.", "He was 82. He died in Wisconsin after an extended illness, Mell's office said.", "Rostenkowski first entered Congress in 1959, during the second half of the Eisenhower administration.", "Known for his booming voice and reputation as a power broker, he became chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1981.", "During his tenure as chairman, the powerful Democrat played a key role in passing major reforms of both Social Security and the tax code, among other things.", "Read more about Rostenkowski's life and career .", "In 1988, Rostenkowski helped pass a controversial expansion of Medicare designed to protect seniors against catastrophic medical expenses.", "Senior citizens became livid over the higher monthly premiums and surtax tied to the bill.", "The measure was repealed a year later.", "Rostenkowski was defeated in the Republican landslide of 1994, however, after becoming mired in scandal.", "Among other things, prosecutors alleged he used public funds for personal matters and to pay employees who did little actual work.", "Rostenkowski pleaded guilty to corruption charges in April 1996, and ultimately served over a year in federal prison.", "He was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000.", "\"Dan Rostenkowski devoted his life to his community, Chicago and the state,\" Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said Wednesday.", "\"His efforts on behalf of the regular people who needed a friend to wade through the tangle of government are unparalleled.\"", "CNN's Charles Riley contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Rostenkowski first entered Congress in 1959 .", "He became chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1981 .", "Rostenkowsi was defeated in the Republican landslide of 1994 ." ]	[ 3, 9 ]
[ "London (CNN) -- On a recent visit to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron had this to say about Pakistan, historically a close friend of the West's: \"We cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror, whether to India or whether to Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world.\"", "Seen by the Pakistani government as a slap in the face, Cameron's remarks almost caused a diplomatic breach in relations between the two countries.", "His remarks followed the leaking of U.S. documents on the WikiLeaks website in which Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency was accused of secretly aiding and inflaming the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, and they engendered a heated debate in Western capitals on whether Pakistan is a friend or a foe.", "The dominant narrative in the West now is that Pakistan is a foe, playing a double game, guiding the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand even as it receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help in combating al Qaeda and like-minded groups.", "\"The burden of proof is on the government of Pakistan and the ISI to show they don't have ongoing contacts\" with the militants, said U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a Democrat on the powerful Armed Services Committee who visited Pakistan this month.", "During a July visit to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly aired Washington's suspicion and mistrust of its ally by stating that she believed that someone in the Pakistan government knew where al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding in the country's tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.", "Clinton's statement was an implicit indictment of Pakistan's double game; it was met with angry denials by Pakistani leaders, who said the U.S. undervalued their support and sacrifice in battling al Qaeda.", "What this simplistic argument neglects is that Pakistan serves its own vital national interests and cooperates with the West only to advance those interests.", "An underlying premise in inter-state relations is that nations have only interests and no permanent friends.", "That is the game nations have played since the establishment of the state system in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.", "Pakistan's foreign policy is a case in point.", "Throughout the Cold War rivalry between the U.S.-led Western alliance and the Soviet camp, Pakistan allied itself with the West and fought devastating wars against India, its strategic rival and a close friend of communist China and Russia.", "The Pakistan leadership leveraged the Cold War to extract military and technical aid from the United States and the Western powers.", "When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan acted as America's spearhead in the fight against the \"evil empire,\" and its Inter-Services Intelligence agency was in charge of the CIA's expansive campaign to train, arm and guide the Afghan mujahedeen, including the bin Laden contingent of the Afghan Arabs.", "More than any other power, Pakistan played a key role in the armed resistance that turned Afghanistan into Russia's Vietnam.", "In return, Pakistan's security forces received logistical and financial aid from the U.S., but more important, Pakistan gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, becoming a paramount arbiter of its neighbor's internal affairs.", "After the Soviet forces retreated in defeat in 1989 and Afghanistan plunged into all-out civil war, Pakistani leaders felt deserted by the U.S. and had to pick up the shattered pieces and bring about a measure of stability to the war-torn country.", "Once the Soviet Union collapsed, the U.S. had no interest in either Afghanistan or Pakistan, relics of the Cold War.", "Pakistan relied on the Taliban, a student-led Islamic-based social movement that burst into the scene and imposed a draconian order wrapped in an Islamic emirate in Afghanistan in the 1990s.", "Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency nourished a close connection with the Taliban and consolidated its hegemony over the broken country.", "Although Pakistan was a close friend of the U.S.'s from the 1950s until 1989, the 1990s marked the beginning of suspicion and distrust between the two countries.", "The Pakistani leadership, particularly the security apparatus, felt scorned and abandoned by its former superpower patron, which cut Pakistan off from military aid because of its nuclear weapons program and threatened to impose sanctions on it.", "There is more to the relationship between Pakistan and the West than the simple dichotomy of \"either/or.\"", "For example, since last year, U.S. officials say the Pakistani military has launched a powerful offensive against the Pakistan Taliban, who are allied with the Afghan Taliban, because the former began to threaten the current Pakistani government.", "(The Pakistani military has suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens have been displaced.)", "The Pakistani military insists that it is waging all-out war against both al Qaeda and its extremist allies -- the Pakistan Taliban -- and U.S. officials concur that they have seen a shift in the country's attitudes toward the Taliban in the past 18 months.", "On the other hand, the Pakistan military appears to be reluctant to attack the Afghan Taliban, as the West demands, because it wants to leverage the Taliban in any future settlement in Afghanistan.", "For the Pakistani leadership, the Afghan Taliban are an important bargaining card, a strategic reserve on which they could rely when Western troops exit the war-torn country.", "Like their Western nemesis, the Afghan Taliban bitterly complain that the Pakistanis are playing a \"double game\" with them and say that they \"feed us with one hand and arrest and kill us with the other.\"", "There is no love lost between Pakistan and the Taliban, a relationship based on self-interests and political considerations.", "Pakistan's strategic rivalry with India outweighs any pressure exerted by the West on Islamabad to end support for the Afghan Taliban.", "Pakistan's conduct via Afghanistan is driven by geostrategic concerns and fear of Indian influence in its backyard, not by intrinsic hostility or friendship toward the West or the Afghan Taliban.", "If the Western powers want to drive a wedge between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban, they must address Pakistan's geostrategic concerns and interests via India.", "An effective settlement of the Afghan-Pakistan conflict must be region-wide and involve India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and China, an almost impossible mission.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Fawaz A. Gerges." ]	[ "Pakistan acted as U.S. spearhead against Soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan .", "Fawaz Gerges says the U.S. lost interest, leaving Pakistan to pick up pieces in Afghanistan .", "He says Pakistan relied on Afghan Taliban to impose order on Afghanistan .", "He says Pakistan sees its interest tied to Taliban and need to counter influence of India ." ]	[ 13, 17, 26 ]
[ "RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) -- A co-defendant in the federal dogfighting case against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty Monday morning.", "Tony Taylor walks into the federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, to enter his guilty plea.", "Tony Taylor has also agreed to cooperate fully with the government.", "He will be sentenced on December 14 and could be sentenced to up to five years in prison, fined $250,000 and put on three years supervised release, according to court documents filed Monday in Richmond.", "Taylor, 34, of Hampton, Virginia, Vick and two other co-defendants -- Purnell Peace, 35, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Quanis Phillips, 28, of Atlanta, Georgia, were charged on July 17 with conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities, and conspiring to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture.", "In entering the guilty plea, Taylor, who remains free on bond, waived all his rights, including his right to appeal.", "He told U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson that he understood he is now a convicted felon.", "\"You're pleading guilty and taking your chances, right?\"", "Hudson asked Taylor.", "He responded, \"Yes.\"", "Taylor had the same answer when Hudson asked: \"You have agreed to cooperate fully with the United States, is that right?\"", "It has been widely speculated that Taylor's plea, which had been expected, and his future cooperation with the prosecution could hurt Vick by helping the government prove its case against the high-profile football player.", "Taylor said the government did not promise him any sentencing deal in exchange for his cooperation.", "According to the summary of facts filed with the court on Monday, Taylor said that he and the other three co-defendants, including Vick, decided to start a dogfighting venture in early 2001 and that Vick paid for the property in Smithfield, Virginia, used for the operations.", "The four launched the venture, Bad Newz Kennels, in early 2002, Taylor said.", "In the court documents, Taylor says that he, Phillips and Peace \"executed\" dogs that did not \"perform well in 'testing' \" sessions, but does not mention Vick as having participated in the executions.", "He does, however, say that Vick accompanied the other three co-defendants to dogfights in other states on at least four occasions, and that the quarterback sponsored dogs in fights at his property on several other occasions, all between 2002 and 2004.", "Taylor said he left the dogfighting operation in September 2004 \"following a disagreement with Phillips.\"", "The trial for the three remaining defendants has been set for November 26.", "A federal grand jury charged the men with organizing bloody and vicious dogfights on a piece of property that Vick bought in 2001.", "They also are accused of transporting and delivering dogs across state lines.", "Taylor discovered the site that became the Bad Newz Kennels -- the staging area for housing and training the pit bulls and hosting dog fights, the indictment said.", "On Friday, more than 50 supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had gathered outside the National Football League's headquarters in Manhattan demanding Vick's suspension.", "PETA had sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Vick's corporate sponsors and the Atlanta Falcons condemning dogfighting as ignorant and cruel.", "The letter did not directly presume Vick's guilt, nor did it directly ask the NFL to suspend Vick.", "The letter was backed by civil rights activist the Rev.", "Al Sharpton, hip-hop mogul and vegan Russell Simmons, and the president of PETA.", "In his first public comment since the indictment, Vick called his legal predicament \"a crazy situation\" and said he hopes to return soon to the gridiron, wearing a Falcons jersey.", "But he acknowledged in a phone interview Monday with Atlanta radio station V-103, \"There are a lot of things that needed to be worked out.\"", "\"I've been [in Atlanta] for the last seven years of my life.", "I would love to come back,\" Vick told radio personality Porsche Foxx.", "\"But it remains to be seen.\"", "The president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP criticized the prosecution of Vick at a news conference Monday morning.", "Dr. R.L. White Jr. accused the government of \"piling on.\"", "\"There's a penalty in football for piling on,\" White told reporters.", "\"After a player has been tackled and somebody piles on, they're penalized for unnecessary roughness.", "\"Today, the NAACP blows the whistle and warns the powers that be that you are piling on.\"", "Watch White caution the public to keep an open mind » E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick tells radio station he hopes to return .", "Co-defendant Tony Taylor agrees to cooperate; could include testimony .", "Indictment: Vick, others ran ring that executed dogs that didn't fight well ." ]	[ 0, 2, 15, 27 ]
[ "Editor's note: Dr. Victor Dzau, a physician, is chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and chief executive of the Duke University Health System.", "Dr. Victor Dzau says workplace wellness programs could play a key role in health care reform.", "DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- At the World Economic Forum earlier this year, a group of corporate executives engaged in a thought-provoking discussion on a variety of health care topics, including workplace wellness programs.", "These CEOs, representing some of the top companies in the world, shared some of the specifics of their programs, which are taking a variety of approaches to enhance wellness in the workplace, including ways to make such things as regular exercise and healthy eating appealing to employees.", "However, when asked, they agreed that they don't have any evidence that these programs are having the intended impact on improving health or preventing disease.", "The discussion made me wonder about how powerful these programs could be if they were linked to research-driven targets for behaviors such as weight-loss or monitoring and management of hypertension.", "If done right, couldn't these well-meaning -- but currently unmeasured -- programs figure prominently into the health care reform movement and become an effective and economical way to improve the health of Americans?", "There has been a lot of talk about good health promotion and disease prevention in early discussions of health care reform, but how and whether we achieve these aims will make or break the success of health care reform in whatever form it eventually takes.", "Many ideas have been bandied about.", "Public education and community programs are important but insufficient since they are difficult to implement broadly and effectively.", "There is a viable mechanism -- already in place -- through which significant improvements in our nation's health can be made.", "By taking a more organized, standardized and evidence-based approach to employer-sponsored workplace wellness programs, we can create a more effective marriage between public health and prevention.", "It's a fact -- most Americans spend the majority of their waking hours at work.", "The impact of employee health on productivity and cost of health insurance is well documented.", "In response, many medium and large employers have instituted a variety of workplace wellness programs.", "Thus, companies are spending money with good intentions.", "Unfortunately, there are no national standards or guidelines by which these programs are objectively conducted and measured, making it impossible to know if the various initiatives and their investments are achieving the intended goals.", "Meanwhile, reports suggest that 75 percent of our health care costs are spent on chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes, which are largely preventable.", "Let's empower the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the agency charged with keeping tabs on the public's health -- with identifying specific evidence-based wellness and disease prevention activities, as well as corresponding metrics, to be used as the basis for all workplace wellness programs in the United States.", "In exchange for adopting these uniform activities, goals and health metrics, companies and organizations would be eligible to receive meaningful tax credits each year based on their individual performance in meeting these objectives.", "For creative companies and institutions, passing along a financial incentive -- based on tax credits received -- to employees to achieve their wellness objectives could drive a greater commitment to healthy activities.", "And, perhaps an annual ranking of company, or organizational, performance against these national workplace goals and health metrics would foster a healthy competition in the same way that other industry performances are now ranked by national media.", "Ultimately, the goal is to have all workplaces conform to national standards and achieve measurable health status of employees just as OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, measures and enforces standards for workplace safety.", "A program such as the one I'm suggesting should be relatively easy to implement.", "CDC should have access to the data necessary to begin formulating a list of activities and performance metrics.", "Most would agree that coming up with such a list would be largely intuitive as the risks associated with high blood pressure, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, to name a few, are well known, but it must also include flu shots, cancer screening and other evidence-based programs.", "In working to ensure that President Obama's $634 billion health care \"downpayment\" is spent effectively, we must remember that because companies are already shouldering the cost of these wellness programs, relatively little new money is needed to make them more effective and provide performance incentives.", "Such an approach would also, for the first time, provide companies and organizations with an objective basis for making investments in workplace wellness.", "I, for one, would be thrilled to know that our institution's annual workplace wellness commitment could be effectively measured and a return on investment understood and calculated.", "The most recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest that about 64 percent of working Americans are employed by companies with 100 or more employees, many of which likely already have some kind of workplace wellness program in place.", "This represents more than 73 million people out of a total workforce of almost 120 million people.", "Obviously this idea misses those Americans who are uninsured, work in small businesses without workplace wellness programs, or have lost their jobs in the recent economic downturn, and would require some further creative thinking about the implementation of meaningful wellness options that would reach everybody.", "But we must start somewhere.", "Tackling health care reform is going to be a long, arduous, necessary and overdue process.", "But, I think it would be a mistake to delay taking meaningful actions to improve the nation's health as we wait for a solution to the overall health care challenge that could take years.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Victor Dzau." ]	[ "Victor Dzau: Companies offer programs to improve health of their workforce .", "He says programs should be based on national standards to ensure they work .", "Dzau: CDC should do research to show what standards companies should use .", "He says government should give companies tax credits if their programs succeed ." ]	[ 1, 5, 19, 20 ]
[ "Like other branches of science, nutrition is constantly evolving.", "As researchers learn more about vitamins and minerals, for example, dietary advice changes.", "Coffee is the top source of antioxidants in an American diet.", "Take vitamin D, the \"sunshine\" vitamin, so named because it is produced primarily in the skin through a chemical reaction that requires ultraviolet light.", "Increasingly, nutritionists recommend that you boost your daily intake because of vitamin D's potential to help fight certain types of cancer.", "In fact, many expect the next version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, due in 2010, to raise the amount currently recommended from 200 International Units (IU) for adults to 400 or more.", "But any advice that encourages exposure to sunlight concerns dermatologists, since rates of basal cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer, have tripled in the past 30 years.", "So . ... ... to D or not to D? We went to the experts for help in sorting out what the science really says about vitamin D and three other nutritional riddles, and more importantly, what that means for you.", "Vitamin D . The good news: A short stroll in the sun supplies enough vitamin D to maintain healthy bones; emerging research points to strong anti-cancer benefits, too.", "The potential risk: Exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer.", "What the research says: Vitamin D tells the body to absorb more bone-building calcium from foods.", "\"Vitamin D is most known for its beneficial effects on the skeleton, but, to me, its effects on cancer are much more significant,\" says Bruce W. Hollis, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.", "In a study of 47,800 men, scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health reported that 1,500 IU daily of vitamin D reduced the risk of cancers of the digestive system by 43 percent.", "Another study from the University of California at San Diego of 1,760 women suggests that 2,700 IU daily may reduce the risk of breast cancer by 50 percent.", "CookingLight.com: Power up your plate .", "Reaching the amount of D currently recommended --200 IU per day for adults ages 19 to 50 and 400 IU per day for those ages 51 to 70 -- through diet is difficult, Hollis says.", "Food sources of vitamin D are scarce; salmon, mackerel, and sardines are the top sources, containing 250 to 360 IU per 3-ounce serving.", "Milk comes next, but the levels of vitamin D with which it is fortified varies.", "When researchers from Boston University analyzed 79 milk samples, they found that 37 percent contained less than 5 percent of the 100 IU vitamin D per cup promised.", "What you should do: \"The most powerful source of vitamin D is the sun,\" Hollis says.", "Make the most of it. Protect your face, ears, neck, and the backs of hands each day with a moisturizer that contains a sun-protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher.", "These spots are where skin cancers usually develop first.", "But on days when you aren't going to spend much time in the sun, leave spf off legs and arms to let them manufacture vitamin D. In just 10 minutes, a light-skinned person produces 10,000 to 20,000 IU vitamin D. Because skin pigments can interfere with vitamin D synthesis, darker-skinned people produce it more slowly.", "If you have dark skin or live or work where you are seldom exposed to sunlight, talk to your doctor about supplementing your intake of vitamin D. Hollis recommends choosing a supplement that contains vitamin D3, also known as cholecalciferol; it's the vitamin's most readily absorbable form.", "Coffee . The good news: Caffeine, obtained most frequently from coffee in a typical American diet, may reduce the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.", "An antioxidant in coffee may also help protect against diabetes.", "The potential risk: Caffeine may cause bone loss, which increases the risk for osteoporosis.", "What the research says: In trying to solve this nutritional conundrum, it helps to put study findings in their proper context, says Tara Coghlin-Dickson, M.S., R.D., a clinical dietitian at Stanford University Hospital in Stanford, California.", "A widely reported 2001 study of 489 postmenopausal women found that caffeine intakes higher than 300 milligrams (mg) per day -- roughly the amount in two cups of coffee -- accelerated bone loss in women.", "However, the study reveals an important qualifier: The women's average calcium intake was 725mg per day, 475mg short of the Daily Recommended Intake.", "\"Caffeine can act as a calcium thief, but the real risk for osteoporosis is chronic low calcium,\" Coghlin-Dickson says.", "It's well known that caffeine -- a stimulant -- can improve focus and concentration.", "Recent research also has linked caffeine to a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease.", "When scientists at Harvard University tracked rates of Parkinson's in more than 135,000 men and women for 12 years, they found that men who consumed four to five cups of coffee daily and women who consumed one to three cups daily were half as likely to develop the disease as those who didn't consume coffee.", "CookingLight.com: Healthy chocolate?", "Researchers aren't yet sure why coffee has a protective effect but suggest the benefit could be linked to caffeine's ability to accelerate neurotransmissions in the brain.", "Coffee's connection to diabetes prevention appears clearer.", "In a 10-year trial of 88,000 women, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts found that women who drank two or more cups of coffee per day were 47 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, the adult-onset variety of the disease.", "In this study, the benefits of the brew weren't directly associated with caffeine; decaffeinated coffee provided similar results.", "More likely, chlorogenic acid, an antioxidant abundant in coffee, is responsible for the effect, says Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study and associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology.", "What you should do: \"Considering all of the evidence we've accumulated in the last 10 years, coffee is more healthful than harmful,\" Hu says.", "Like all things, caffeine -- and coffee --are probably best in moderation; have one cup, maybe two per day.", "You may also benefit from the brew's antioxidants; coffee is the top source of antioxidants in an American diet.", "Omega-3s . The good news: Eating fish rich in omega-3s may improve your heart health.", "The potential risk: Some types of fish contain high levels of mercury, a toxin.", "What the research says: In 2004 the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency issued an advisory recommending that pregnant or nursing women and young children avoid intake of high-mercury fish species, such as swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, and shark because mercury can cause developmental defects in children.", "The threat is real, but the response isn't.", "Two-thirds of Americans believe the risk applies to everyone, not just expectant mothers and young children, according to a survey by the Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy.", "\"People think, 'If it's not good for babies, then it's probably not good for me,' \" says Joshua Cohen, Ph.D., a lecturer at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.", "\"But men and postmenopausal women should focus on the fact that eating fish can help reduce their risk of stroke and heart attack.\"", "CookingLight.com: Clearly healthy oils .", "When Cohen correlated data about fish consumption to annual rates of heart disease in a report published last year in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, he determined that if all American adults -- including women of childbearing age -- consumed 8 ounces of a low-mercury fish each week, the annual number of coronary deaths in the United States would drop by 20,000.", "Omega-3 fats, which are provided by certain fish, help make \"bad\" LDL cholesterol less likely to stick to artery walls and may relieve arterial inflammation.", "What you should do: If you're not a woman of childbearing age, consume two 6-ounce servings of fatty fish per week.", "\"To sacrifice the benefits for a risk that doesn't pertain to you is cheating yourself,\" Cohen says.", "Stick with species that are low in mercury but high in omega-3s -- salmon, canned light tuna, pollock, flounder, sole, herring, shrimp, and sardines.", "E-mail to a friend .", "For more tips on making healthy taste great, try Cooking Light - CLICK HERE .", "Copyright 2009 Cooking Light magazine.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "The most powerful source of vitamin D is the sun .", "Recent research has linked caffeine to a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease .", "For most, benefits of eating fatty fish outweigh mercury risks ." ]	[ 19, 32 ]

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