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[ "(CNN) -- For 34 years, she has obsessed about food, relationships, work, and her mother -- but now Cathy the comic-strip character is about to say goodbye.", "Creator Cathy Guisewite says she is ending the comic strip in October in order to spend more time with her family and pursue new creative ventures.", "The strip, which has run in some 1,400 newspapers, will run for the last time October 3, according to Universal Uclick, the syndicate.", "\"After almost 34 years of meeting newspaper deadlines,\" Guisewite said in a statement, \"I'm facing some personal deadlines whose requirements simply exceed my ability to procrastinate any longer: an 18-year-old daughter who needs a full-time mom to help her through her last year of high school and beyond ... beloved parents I want to be able to visit more often ... and a creative biological clock, which is urging me to try something else while I can.\"", "Cathy has been a hit with people who appreciated her comic neuroses, which often resulted in her trademark exclamation, \"AACK!\"", "As a result, she has been featured on everything from refrigerator magnets and coffee mugs to calendars and T-shirts.", "The titles of Cathy book collections reveal the character's obsession with weight, food, shopping and shoes: Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon (1997); Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet (2000); and Wake Me Up When I'm a Size 5 (1985).", "An early collection from 1982 had a cover showing Cathy on her sofa, surrounded by her TV, snacks, and a teddy bear.", "The title: Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon.", "Guisewite began the strip when she started working in the mid-1970s, said Lee Salem, president and editor of Universal Uclick.", "\"Cathy Guisewite would send her mother drawings describing the latest trauma in her life as a single young career woman, and in response, her mother urged her to try her hand at a comic strip,\" Salem said in a statement.", "\"The day the submission arrived in our office, we had a contract out to Cathy in return mail.", "Seven months later, the strip began in newspapers.\"", "It wasn't an immediate hit, but Cathy steadily gained popularity and eventually appeared in hundreds of newspapers.", "There are more than 30 Cathy books.", "\"Cathy has held a distinguished place in newspaper comic sections for more than three decades because of Cathy Guisewite's skillful hand,\" said Salem.", "\"Cathy balances truth and humor and speaks to women in a way that few comics have ever attempted.", "She is a cultural icon and her strip has earned its place among the modern greats.\"" ]	[ "'Cathy' has run in hundreds of newspapers for 34 years .", "Cathy's comic neuroses have made her a popular character .", "Creator Cathy Guisewite says it will end in October .", "Guisewite wants to spend more time with her family ." ]	[ 1, 15 ]
[ "Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- In a few short days, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater has achieved folk-hero status.", "He's the man who allegedly cursed out a disruptive passenger over the on-board public address system, then opened an aircraft door, inflating the emergency chute in the process.", "He grabbed a beer from a service cart and slid down, effectively saying \"Ba-bye\" to his 20-year flying career.", "Slater's exit created a danger to ramp workers and could earn him a prison stay.", "Nevertheless, his actions call attention to escalating tensions between flight attendants and the passengers they serve.", "They also highlight a little known issue that's a big problem for flight attendants.", "For the last 25 years, I've worked as a flight attendant for a large U.S. carrier.", "Many times I've been in Slater's position: A passenger opens the overhead bin to retrieve a carry-on bag before the captain says the plane has safely reached the gate.", "(For safety reasons, attendants are trained to make sure passengers stay in their seats, overhead bins remain closed and carry-on bags are properly stowed \"until the aircraft reaches the gate and the captain turns off the fasten seat belt sign.\")", "Most offenders are simply eager to get off a cramped airplane and willingly sit down when asked.", "But occasionally -- as was possibly the case with the passenger Slater responded to -- some passengers think the rules don't apply to them.", "I've been glared at, verbally abused, threatened with lawsuits and recriminations from God simply because I asked a passenger to comply with the rules.", "Herein lies the problem.", "What exactly are the rules?", "Why do they seem different from one flight to the next?", "And what authority do flight attendants have when it comes to enforcing them?", "The answer to that last and most compelling question is \"zero.\"", "Contrary to what you may think, flight attendants have absolutely no authority aboard an aircraft.", "We are not police officers or security personnel.", "We are not empowered by law to enforce airline policy, FAA regulation or criminal mischief.", "We can't force noncompliant passengers to buckle their seat belts, stow their tray tables, turn off cell phones, put away pornographic magazines (yes, it happens) or stay in their seats until the plane docks.", "All we can do is approach the passenger, explain \"the rules\" and hope they comply.", "Failing that, the only recourse is to call the captain, who, depending on his or her disposition, may not address the problem adequately.", "Consequently, flight attendants often find themselves between a rock and a hard place.", "It's frustrating when your employer demands that you impose policy without giving you the means to do so.", "Perhaps this is why Slater snapped.", "While I disagree with the manner in which he vented, like Chris Rock says, \"I understand.\"", "As far as carry-on bags are concerned, the rules, which are seemingly clear but not uniformly enforced, are a major point of contention between passengers and crew.", "Most carriers limit each passenger to one carry-on bag and one personal item (i.e.", "laptop bag, small backpack, etc.).", "But does a woman's large purse qualify as personal item?", "Is she therefore allowed three items when a man is only allowed two?", "Are passengers allowed more carry-ons on half-empty flights?", "This seems reasonable, given the abundance of space in which to stow bags, which is why some attendants and gate agents turn a blind eye to a passenger with too many bags on an empty flight.", "But when that same passenger tries to board a full connecting flight with four bags and is forced to check two in the cargo hold, he may protest vehemently.", "\"Hey, they let me bring these on my last flight, why won't you?", "I'm never flying this #&@!$ airline again!\"", "I've heard this so often and so loudly I've become numb to the allegation.", "The only way to mitigate passenger-employee conflict and ensure smooth flying is to impose a uniform airline code that begins at the check-in desk and ends at the luggage carousel.", "Passengers should be allowed no more than two carry-on bags on every flight; ticket agents should check ALL other bags.", "If your tweezers are allowed through security at O'Hare, those same tweezers should be allowed through security on your way home from JFK.", "Disruptive passengers should be blacklisted and banned from future flying.", "And any flight attendant who takes it upon himself to open an emergency exit and slide down the chute because a foul-mouthed passenger won't follow the rules, well ... he might find that behavior is not much better in a prison cell." ]	[ "Elliot Hester says he gets why Slater blew up, made dangerous emergency chute exit .", "He says he's faced similar situations with passengers who think rules don't apply to them .", "But airline rules are uneven, he says, and attendants have no power to enforce them .", "Hester: Airlines should have uniform code that begins at check-in, ends at baggage claim ." ]	[ 10, 13, 15, 38 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's main Shiite parties Monday announced the formation of a new alliance that excludes the prime minister -- at least for now.", "Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announces the new Iraqi National Alliance in Baghdad.", "The coalition, named the Iraqi National Alliance, was formed to compete in the country's national elections in January.", "It includes top Shiite parties, but not Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawa party.", "Senior political leaders who announced the alliance in a televised meeting said they still are holding talks with Dawa and other parties.", "The coalition replaces the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite United Iraqi Alliance -- of which Dawa was a part -- that swept the country's 2005 polls but later disintegrated.", "The new coalition was being presented as a nonsectarian one that includes a broader representation.", "\"This Iraqi National Alliance is a coalition of political forces from all aspects of Iraqi society,\" Ahmed al-Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, which is part of this alliance, said on Monday.", "\"It is not an Islamic alliance like the previous one.", "It includes liberal groups, it aims to be nonsectarian, it has many representatives of other communities of Iraq in it.\"", "For now, the alliance is mainly made of top Shiite parties with a few small secular, Sunni and other parties.", "The announcement came after months of intense negotiations between the country's Shiite parties and recent reports of disagreements between al-Maliki's Dawa and other Shiite parties on who would lead the alliance.", "The alliance includes the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Fadhila party and others.", "Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, addressing the meeting, said he wished the Dawa party had been present at Monday's announcement, but negotiations will continue.", "Jalal al-Deen al-Sagheer, a senior Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq member, said al-Maliki was at talks held Sunday and that the prime minister congratulated participants, promising to have another meeting in the coming weeks.", "Hasan al-Sneid, a spokesman for al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition, also confirmed that negotiations are continuing.", "In a news conference later Monday, al-Sneid said there was no \"strategic disagreement,\" but rather disagreements over \"mechanisms of participation\" and wanting wider representation in the alliance.", "He denied this has to do with al-Maliki going for a second term or leadership of the alliance.", "The prime minister's State of Law Coalition, which mainly includes members of his Dawa party, won control of most of the country's provincial councils in January's elections, turning back mainly Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq opposition.", "Al-Maliki, whose campaigning in the last elections trumpeted recent security gains and a drastic drop in violence, has been affected by a series of deadly attacks in Baghdad and in northern Iraq.", "Absent from Monday's major announcement were two of the most influential Shiite leaders, al-Sadr and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.", "Al-Sadr, who fled to Iran in 2007, is continuing religious studies there.", "Al-Hakim, the former head of the United Iraqi Alliance who has been receiving cancer treatment in Iran, has been hospitalized there after his health deteriorated, his party announced Sunday." ]	[ "New coalition includes top Shiite parties and a few non-Shiite parties .", "Coalition replaces old alliance that had included prime minister's party .", "New alliance doesn't include, but is holding talks with, prime minister's party .", "Alliance includes former prime minister, followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ." ]	[ 1, 3, 10, 12 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Kirsten Ott walked down the aisle in a white strapless gown with an embroidered bodice and cascading ruffles.", "Maria Palladino, dressed in a white suit, waited for her at the end of the aisle with a minister.", "Surrounded by their family and close friends, the women committed to each other for the rest of their lives.", "A beautiful reception followed.", "It had all the makings of a traditional wedding, but instead of calling themselves bride and groom, the couple used the terms bride and \"broom.\"", "\"Broom is a combination of bride and groom,\" said Kirsten, who took Maria's last name when they wed.", "The \"broom's\" cake was a giant crab, Maria's favorite sea animal.", "\"It was gorgeous and realistic,\" Kirsten said.", "\"It actually stole the show from the wedding cake itself.\"", "Both were relieved the special day they had planned for so long finally arrived.", "Organizing a wedding can be challenging, what with finding the right photographer, the perfect cake, the prettiest flowers and, most importantly, the venue.", "It was even harder for Kirsten, because she had to find vendors who accepted same-sex marriage in Atlanta, Georgia, where the union isn't legally recognized.", "\"Our biggest obstacle was our fear, not knowing how we would be received by an industry so focused on heterosexuals getting married, \" Kirsten said.", "\"We e-mailed a lot of vendors instead of calling them, because we didn't want to get our feelings hurt.", "There were a few that didn't write back.\"", "Kirsten and Maria turned to wedding magazines for inspiration while planning their 2008 wedding.", "But Kirsten said something important was missing.", "\"There are tons of wedding magazines when you go into a wedding section at a bookstore, but we weren't in any of them.", "Not one single gay couple.", "It was disheartening.\" Over time, the couple found vendors, like a photographer who had worked for a transgender couple and a gay-friendly wedding venue.", "Ironically, it was the Mary Gay House in Decatur, Georgia.", "\"We did a lot of research before we contacted most of our vendors, reached out to ... we knew about more of the gay-friendly companies in town or we would ask around.\"", "Planning their wedding inspired the newlyweds to start their own wedding magazine geared toward engaged same-sex couples.", "Kirsten, a journalist, and Maria, a graphic designer, used their career backgrounds and personal experience to launch the online magazine Equally Wed. \"We do the work for you, call or visit these locations and talk to the owners about how open they are to same-sex couples, no rejection.\"", "The Palladinos discovered that more wedding vendors across the United States are now offering their services for two brides or two grooms.", "The magazine has a staff that spans the country.", "Employees find companies that cater to same-sex weddings and welcome couples to their honeymoon destinations.", "They list gay-friendly vendors that will make the cake, design the flowers or take pictures of the ceremony.", "Jeweler Rony Tennenbaum in New York designs wedding rings for same-sex couples.", "\"Most of the time they are opposite in the likes and tastes.", "One might be aggressive, rugged and one wants classier,\" Tennenbaum said.", "Tennenbaum also said it's important to break same-sex wedding stereotypes.", "\"It's important not to make rings that a straight person might think a gay couple wants.", "Gay couples don't need to wear triangles ... it's not about symbols, it's about signifying love.\"", "Le Tux Shop in Atlanta tailors suits for women.", "Other shops design clothing for bridal parties made up of women who want to wear dresses or pants.", "\"That's kind of why we wanted to do Equally Wed. [It] was to showcase normal gay weddings for anybody that's planning their own.", "It helps to have a model to look at, [to] help you feel like what you're doing is OK,\" Kirsten said.", "Maria said most gay weddings are similar to straight weddings, but there might be a question about which bride will walk down the aisle or which groom will propose.", "\"Just some of the little things that come out in the details of planning.\"", "Same-sex marriage is currently legal in five U.S. states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa and New Hampshire -- and in the District of Columbia, while civil unions are permitted in New Jersey.", "Maria said, \"For us it doesn't matter if we were doing it in Alabama or doing it in Massachusetts, we're providing the fine details of a wedding day.\"", "Kirsten said she believes even though same-sex marriage isn't recognized in most states, that doesn't mean couples can't have a wedding.", "\"It's a ceremony in front of your friends and family, committing to this other person for the rest of your life ... it doesn't matter what sex you are or who, the sex or gender of the person you're marrying.\"" ]	[ "Couple worried about vendors' reactions while planning their wedding .", "They e-mailed instead of calling vendors to protect their own feelings .", "Kirsten, a journalist, and Maria, a graphic designer, decided to start own magazine .", "Equally Wed showcases gay weddings for anybody planning their own ." ]	[ 13, 15, 23, 36 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- \"American Idol\" producers are pursuing country star Shania Twain as a possible judge for the TV competition, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.", "The talks with Twain began after she got favorable reviews for her appearance as a mentor on \"American Idol\" in April, the source said.", "\"Shania loves the show,\" the source said.", "\"Like everyone else, she's dying to see who the next 'American Idol' judge will be.\"", "Twain's role as a judge would need to be defined in a way that would make sense creatively for an artist of her stature, the source said.", "The source is not named because he is not authorized to comment on the situation.", "Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres have left the show, prompting a search for two new celeb judges.", "CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Shania Twain appeared as a mentor on the show in April .", "Source: Talks with country star Twain began after she got good reviews .", "Departures of Simon Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres started the search ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- You know you've reached a special level of fame when you're known by just your first name.", "For R&B superstar Usher (full name Usher Raymond), achieving his place among the entertainment industry's first-namers has come with the sale of tens of millions of records and multiple Grammy Awards.", "\"I'm definitely living my dream to the fullest... What I do is very positive and an indication that if you simply believe in your dreams, you can make it,\" he told CNN.", "When not performing the man who recently visited the gambling city of Macau during his first tour of China is a more modest character.", "\"I would definitely say there is a difference between the Usher that's on stage and the Usher who balances the regular life of being an entertainer,\" he said.", "With a new album out entitled \"Raymond vs. Raymond\" -- \"It probably would have been easier if I'd just named it 'Usher vs.", "Usher' but then people would have thought I was like a schizo\" -- balance has become a recent theme in his life and work.", "\"I experienced an incredible amount of depth in these last two to three years of my life in terms of entertainment, places I've gone, the things that I want to do... and the balance between my personal life and my entertainment is what this album was all about,\" he said.", "The death of Michael Jackson, an inspirational figure to Usher both in his early career and later when the two became friends, affected him.", "But talking about it to CNN, he looks back only on the positives from their relationship and the good advice he was given.", "\"The one thing that he always said to me was, 'Be mindful of history.", "Be conscious of history.", "Don't get caught up in just the moment.", "Understand that each moment is a piece of history and you should approach it that way.'\"", "Passing on the wisdom from the \"King of Pop\" and guiding new stars like Canadian protégé Justin Bieber is part of Usher's plans for the future.", "\"I look at him like a son, like a little brother.", "They even call me or consider me a mentor sometimes.", "Whatever it takes, to be helpful.", "As I said, when I was first his manager, I felt like I could make a meaningful contribution to his career, and thus far it's looking that way.", "So I'm really happy.\"", "Watch the full interview on CNN Talk Asia ." ]	[ "U.S. R&B superstar was friend of Michael Jackson .", "Usher has sold over 40 million albums .", "Passing on the advice of \"King of Pop,\" he's now mentor to teen sensation Justin Bieber ." ]	[ 1, 10, 14 ]
[ "Paris, France (CNN) -- The body of a retired restaurateur who's been missing for two years has been found in a freezer in the French city of Lyon, police there told CNN Wednesday.", "The corpse of Jean-Francois Poinard, 71, was discovered Tuesday in the apartment he had shared with a girlfriend in Lyon, regarded as the culinary capital of France.", "Police said an autopsy will be conducted.", "The French newspaper Le Monde cited a police source as saying the man's girlfriend, 51, has been taken into custody in connection with the case.", "Police said the body was found after a tip from a close family member of Poinard, who was considered one of Lyon's top chefs in the 1970s and 80s.", "CNN's Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report." ]	[ "Body of missing man is found in a freezer in a Lyon apartment .", "The man's girlfriend has been taken into custody in the case .", "Poinard was a well-known chef in the 1970s and 80s ." ]	[ 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- There's still time to charge that laptop and brew some coffee before the Perseid meteor shower peaks predawn Friday.", "OK, it's easy to understand why the coffee will come in handy during the long watch overnight.", "But the laptop? Meteor gazers can join a NASA live chat with astronomer Bill Cooke.", "The Marshall Space Flight Center astronomer will answer questions beginning around 11 p.m. Eastern Time Thursday.", "NASA also is broadcasting live the hums of the meteors as they whiz by.", "With a waxing crescent moon expected to set beforehand, and hence less moonlight in the way, forecasters are expecting one of the best celestial shows of the year, weather in your neighborhood permitting.", "With good viewing conditions, stargazers might be able to catch at least 40 meteors per hour, Space.com said.", "\"The August Perseids are among the strongest of the readily observed annual meteor showers, and at maximum activity nominally yields 90 to 100 meteors per hour,\" Space.com columnist Joe Rao said in his column.", "\"Anyone in a city or near bright suburban lights will see far fewer.\"", "NASA advises viewers that \"the Perseids shower will begin around 10 p.m.", "YOUR local time.", "However, the best times to view are after midnight and before dawn, with the best activity around 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. local time.", "Best conditions are a clear, dark sky away from city lights.", "Go outside and look straight up at the sky.\"", "The Perseids can be seen all over the sky, but the best viewing opportunities will be across the Northern Hemisphere.", "Those with sharp eyes will see that the meteors radiate from the direction of the constellation Perseus.", "The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years, NASA says.", "Each year in August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's debris.", "These bits of ice and dust burn up in the Earth's atmosphere to create one of the best meteor showers of the year." ]	[ "Perseid meteor shower peaks early Friday morning .", "NASA will host live web chat during the show .", "Best viewing is in Northern Hemisphere .", "The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years ." ]	[ 0, 14, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Every time I think the Republican Party cannot get any more tone-deaf on issues involving race and equal rights, someone in leadership proves me wrong.", "In case you missed it, a group of Republican senators -- Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jefferson \"Jeff Davis\" Sessions of Alabama and Jon Kyl of Arizona -- have decided that we might need to revisit the 14th Amendment's provision granting citizenship to people born in the United States.", "This development, in response to illegal immigrants whose children are born in the United States, is simply stunning and reckless.", "Can anyone seriously argue that the Republican Party has not been hijacked by extremists?", "Even once-sensible conservatives like Graham have drifted to a hard-right ideology so extreme that people of color, in this case Hispanics, will be hard-pressed to find a home in the GOP.", "These calls to revisit and possibly repeal the 14th Amendment's naturalization clause is a very bad sign of things to come on the immigration front, and we should all pay close attention as we head into the 2010 election cycle.", "Ironically, if you look at the RNC website \"GOP.com,\" a timeline shows that the party founded in part by Abraham Lincoln was once very progressive.", "It points out that a Republican Congress drafted and passed the 14th Amendment without a single Democratic vote.", "The lead sponsor was a GOP congressman from Ohio.", "Boy, have times changed.", "The 14th Amendment, adopted in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War, granted citizenship to \"all persons born or naturalized in the United States,\" including recently freed slaves.", "The 14th Amendment intended to ensure civil rights to ex-slaves, or as we like to say, \"equal protection,\" to those slaves under the laws.", "According to the Department of Homeland Security, about 10.8 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States in January 2009.", "The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that in 2008, 3.8 million illegal immigrants had children who were U.S. citizens.", "From the viewpoint of these conservative senators, repealing the citizenship clause could put a very swift end to the practice of people illegally crossing our borders to give birth so their children will be legal citizens of the United States.", "But here is what troubles me most as an African-American: Once again, the GOP is clueless to the ramifications of its public policy stances.", "Even Sen. John McCain, who is in a tough primary fight, has said we should look into the citizenship-by-birth provision.", "Tinkering with the 14th Amendment opens the door to further tinkering with the Constitution -- and when it comes to that, we should all take a hard pause.", "Like many Americans, I am concerned about the immigration challenge confronting our nation.", "But revisiting or reviewing the 14th Amendment is the wrong answer.", "To the Republican leadership I would simply ask: What are you thinking?", "How in the world can you believe that this latest stunt will help you broaden your outreach to Hispanics and blacks?", "How in the world can a party that did so many things right during its early days in the 19th century -- ended slavery, championed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, started Reconstruction -- end up so lost and monolithic in the 21st?", "I would respectfully suggest that leaders in the Republican Party, who want to achieve a governing majority once again in this century, had better get under control, or better yet oust, those members who are playing to the worst of racial fears this fall.", "Immigration is a serious problem indeed, but it is not one that will be solved by stripping away the rights of citizenship to those born in the United States.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sophia Nelson." ]	[ "Sophia Nelson: GOP, once progressive, now tone-deaf on race and ethnicity .", "Immigration woes won't be helped by GOP revisiting 14th Amendment, she says .", "GOP helped pass 14th Amendment granting citizenship to those born in U.S.\nNelson: Tinkering with Constitution wrong; would alienate blacks, Hispanics ." ]	[ 0, 17, 19, 24, 25 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Avoid saying \"thank you\" to a Chinese compliment, and don't ask a Brazilian personal questions.", "Those are among the tips in a new etiquette guide designed to help create a warm welcome for visitors ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.", "The list was compiled by VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, and is geared to help everyone from hoteliers to taxi drivers be culturally sensitive.", "\"Overseas visitors spend more than £16 billion ($25 billion) a year in Britain, contributing massively to our economy and supporting jobs across the country,\" said Sandie Dawe, chief executive of VisitBritain.", "\"So giving our foreign visitors a friendly welcome is absolutely vital to our economy.", "With hundreds of thousands of people thinking of coming to Britain in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, this new advice is just one of the ways that VisitBritain is helping the tourism industry care for their customers, wherever they come from.\"", "VisitBritain staff who are natives of the countries featured wrote the list, which will now be included in an online database available to those in the tourism industry.", "A sampling of their suggestions: .", "-- A smiling Japanese person is not necessarily happy.", "(They tend to smile when angry, embarrassed, sad, or disappointed.)", "Also avoid talking to them with your hands in your pockets, staring, being late, and blowing your nose in front of someone.", "While sitting, try not to show the bottom of your shoes.", "-- Pouring wine backwards into a glass indicates hostility to an Argentinian.", "Also, don't be offended by Argentinian humor, which may mildly attack your clothing or weight.", "-- Avoid winking at someone from Hong Kong, because it's considered rude.", "When pointing, use your hand, not your index finger.", "Avoid mentioning failure, poverty, or death, as this risks offense.", "-- Visitors from the United Arab Emirates can take great offense if you appear bossy.", "They appreciate being looked after by staff trained to understand Arab culture.", "-- Do not be alarmed if South Africans say they were held up by robots, which is their term for traffic lights.", "\"Howzit\" is an informal way for them to say hello.", "Do not place your thumb between your forefinger and middle finger, as it is an obscene gesture.", "-- With Brazilians, steer clear of personal questions, especially on such issues as age or salary.", "-- When meeting Mexicans, it is best not to discuss poverty, illegal aliens, earthquakes, or their 1845-46 war with America.", "When demonstrating height, be aware that holding the palm face down is reserved for animals.", "-- Never call a Canadian an American.", "Some Canadians take offense at being mistaken for U.S. citizens.", "-- Avoid saying \"thank you\" to a Chinese compliment.", "Instead, politely deny the compliment to show humility.", "-- Don't snap your fingers if you are with a Belgian, as it may be interpreted as impolite.", "Also avoid discussing linguistic and political divisions within Belgium between Dutch and French speakers.", "-- Avoid physical contact when first meeting someone from India.", "Being touched or approached too closely in initial meetings can be considered offensive, even if the intention is entirely innocent or friendly.", "-- Never imply that people from Poland drink excessively.", "Despite stereotypes, Poles are not large consumers of alcohol and excessive drinking is frowned upon." ]	[ "VisitBritain launches a new etiquette guide ahead of the 2012 Olympics .", "It is designed to help the tourism industry be culturally sensitive .", "Tips were compiled by VisitBritain staff ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man accused of entering New York's LaGuardia Airport with a bag containing wires and batteries has been indicted on terror-related charges.", "Scott McGann, 32, faces an August 18 arraignment after he undergoes a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation.", "Scott McGann, 32, was indicted Wednesday on charges of placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the first degree; placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a transportation facility; and making terrorist threats, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.", "If convicted, McGann faces up to seven years in prison, Brown's office said Friday.", "McGann initially appeared in court Saturday, but his arraignment was postponed until August 18 pending a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, Brown's office said.", "McGann is being held at the Bellevue Hospital prison ward, according to the New York City Department of Correction.", "Authorities said McGann walked into LaGuardia's central terminal on Saturday morning with what was determined to be a fake bomb.", "The terminal was shut down, then evacuated, but it reopened after several hours.", "\"The defendant is clearly a very troubled young man,\" Brown said.", "\"As a result, the court has directed that he be examined to determine whether he has the capacity to understand the proceedings against him and assist in his defense.\"", "McGann allegedly arrived at a checkpoint in the terminal at about 4:50 a.m.", "ET Saturday, carrying a backpack and refusing to answer security questions.", "Authorities said the officer at the checkpoint was informed that a suspicious package was attached to the bottom of McGann's backpack and that McGann allegedly grabbed what appeared to be a trigger device with a red button connected to the backpack.", "McGann allegedly pressed the button several times before an officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey grabbed the trigger and the package away from him.", "The package turned out to be a device consisting of batteries, cylinders and electronic components that could have been used to make a bomb, Brown said, but the bomb squad found that it didn't not contain any explosives.", "McGann had a ticket on a United Airlines flight to Chicago, Illinois, and a seat on two other connecting flights with his final destination, Oakland, California, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.", "McGann has three earlier arrests in the New York area, the source said.", "The most recent involved charges in June of tampering with evidence and resisting arrest.", "He also was arrested twice in 2008, the source said.", "Port Authority spokesman John Kelly said McGann was \"just acting crazy.\"", "The arresting officers described McGann as \"extremely disheveled and dirty\" and in a \"near catatonic state\" and \"staring off into space,\" Kelly said.", "McGann had been homeless for at least a year.", "Authorities evacuated the terminal after 5:20 a.m. but allowed passengers back in to all areas except Concourse C by midmorning, Kelly said.", "The concourse was reopened shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker.", "Authorities had stopped flights from taking off or landing at the airport, but flights resumed shortly after 9 a.m., Baker said.", "The incident disrupted travel plans for many passengers and caused American Airlines to cancel 16 flights, said an airline representative.", "American Eagle, Continental Airlines and Southwest also reported delays.", "CNN's Chuck Johnston, Aspen Steib, Ross Levitt, Laurie Segall, Kristen Hamill and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report." ]	[ "Scott McGann carried fake bomb into LaGuardia Airport terminal, authorities say .", "McGann, 32, indicted on terror-related charges, prosecutor says .", "Suspect undergoing court-ordered psychiatric evaluation .", "Incident disrupted travel plans for passengers, caused some flight cancellations ." ]	[ 1, 6, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The mother of a missing California woman is suing the county of Los Angeles and several sheriff's officials for wrongful death and negligence in her daughter's 2009 disappearance, court documents say.", "Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old former beauty pageant contestant, was last seen leaving a Malibu, California, sheriff's station in the early morning hours of September 17.", "Richardson had been arrested hours earlier after employees at Geoffrey's, an upscale Malibu restaurant, told police she refused to pay her $89 bill.", "At the restaurant, witnesses said Richardson was exhibiting strange behavior including \"sitting down with strangers and speaking in gibberish,\" according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Richardson's mother, Latice Sutton.", "A court has declared Richardson dead, although no body has been found.", "Jeff Peterson, the owner of the restaurant, told CNN in September that he called police because he feared for her safety.", "\"It was not just the money,\" Peterson said.", "\"Something was wrong with her.", "And it wasn't the alcohol, and we didn't know what to do and we didn't want to put her in a vehicle.\"", "Her family has said the college honors graduate suffered from mental health issues.", "\"It was clearly evident that from the time [Richardson] arrived at Geoffrey's to the time of her arrest, she was not in her correct mental state,\" the lawsuit says.", "According to the documents, video footage from inside the sheriff's station shows Richardson \"clutching the screen of the holding pen and rocking from side to side\" and \"pulling at her hair and trying to get into the fetal position face down on a concrete bench.\"", "Sutton alleges that she made numerous calls to the sheriff's station that night to find out when her daughter would be released so Sutton could pick her up.", "However, she never received notice of the release, the lawsuit says.", "Sutton argues in the lawsuit that the sheriff's department failure to administer psychiatric or medical evaluations and the fact that Richardson was released \"alone in an unfamiliar area without money, a cellular phone or means of transportation amounts to negligence.\"", "The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages.", "Sutton told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" Wednesday night that her purpose for filing the suit \"is to be able to obtain more information about what really happened to Mitrice on that night,\" saying authorities have not been forthcoming with information because of the possibility of a lawsuit.", "\"I feel I have no other alternative,\" Sutton said.", "\"The sheriff's department has forced me to take this action.\"", "A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told \"Issues\" that \"all indications that night were that Mitrice was doing OK. She took sobriety tests, signed documents, talked to the jailer.", "She was not in mental distress when we were with her.\"", "CNN's Sarah Aarthun and Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report." ]	[ "Mitrice Richardson disappeared September 17 after release from sheriff's station .", "She was arrested hours earlier for refusing to pay restaurant tab .", "Family says she suffered from mental health issues .", "Mother says sheriff's officials negligent for releasing daughter in her mental state ." ]	[ 2, 9, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A family of four is dead after a man driving the wrong way on an interstate highway in Idaho slammed into them head-on, authorities said.", "Amado Herrera, 48, of California, was driving west on Interstate 84 near Glenns Ferry, Idaho, with three passengers when a pickup truck slammed into them Thursday night, Idaho State Police said.", "Eusebio Jacobo Pineda, 45, was driving his Ford F-150 the wrong way on the highway shortly before 8:50 p.m. when he hit Herrera's Nissan four-door, police said.", "Herrera and his passengers died instantly.", "Pineda was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.", "Others in Herrera's car were identified as Luz Herrera, age unknown, Ivette Herrera, 18, and Antoni Herrera, 9.", "All are from South El Monte, California.", "All of the Herreras were wearing seatbelts, police said in a written release.", "It's not known whether Pineda wore a safety belt, they said.", "Pineda's truck rolled after impact, police said, and local media images showed the entire front end of Herrera's car crushed.", "Traffic on Interstate 84 was blocked for about four hours Thursday night.", "Police told CNN Friday that the crash is still under investigation.", "No criminal charges had been filed." ]	[ "A family of four was killed by a wrong-way driver in Idaho on Thursday, police say .", "Eusebio Jacobo Pineda was driving east in the wesbound lane of Interstate 84, they say .", "State police say everyone in Amado Herrera's family was wearing seatbelts ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A woman facing possible stoning and one of her lawyers argue that Iran is mischaracterizing the status of adultery and murder charges against her.", "Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and attorney Hootan Kian say even though Ashtiani was cleared of her husband's murder five years ago, Iran continues to insist she was found guilty.", "\"They're lying,\" Ashtiani told the Guardian newspaper through an intermediary Friday.", "\"They are embarrassed by the international attention on my case and they are desperately trying to distract attention and confuse the media so that they can kill me in secret.\"", "Iran suspended the death by stoning after there was international outcry over the sentence, but may reinstate it in coming days.", "\"I was found guilty of adultery [in 2006] and was acquitted of murder, but the man who actually killed my husband was identified and imprisoned but he is not sentenced to death,\" Ashtiani said.", "She insists Iran wants her stoned because she is a woman.", "In a letter written to the International Committee against Stoning and sent Saturday to CNN, Kian argued the Iranian judicial system has mishandled Ashtiani's case.", "\"If murder was proven, my client would have been executed and there would have been no need to stone her to death,\" Kian wrote.", "\"Based on Islamic Penal Code, the punishments for murder and adultery should have been combined in one case and sentence and handled by Branch 12 of the Tabriz Province Court.", "Whereas this was not the case.", "The branch has no records of sentencing my client to murder.\"", "Last month, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, who is the head of the judiciary of East Azerbaijan province, said Ashtiani's crimes were \"numerous\" and said she was \"convicted of adultery and murder and was sentenced to death,\" according to the official news agency IRNA.", "\"Because of morality and ethics, I cannot go into the details of the crimes, but if the public knew, they would understand the criminal nature of them,\" he said, according to IRNA.", "\"But she killed her husband, brutally and gruesomely, and the detective on the scene said that if she had beheaded her husband it would have been better than what they actually saw.\"", "Ashtiani, 43, a mother of two, is being held in a Tabriz prison.", "Iran's judiciary could reinstate her sentence of death by stoning, execute her by other means, or possibly even grant her a reprieve, according to human rights groups.", "Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the International Committee against Stoning, said if Ashtiani is executed, \"it is entirely political.", "It has nothing to do with the case itself.\"", "\"Now that Iran is under this international pressure, they have brought the case up that convicts her of the murder of her husband,\" Ahadi said Saturday.", "Kian's letter said the man actually convicted in the death of Ashtiani's husband, \"admitted in the branch that he administered the electrifying of Mr. [Ebrahim] Ghaderzadeh himself with his own hands three times and each time the deceased received electrical shock.\"", "The lawyer also challenged the adultery conviction.", "\"It completely violated the spirit of the laws of the Islamic Republic,\" Kian writes.", "Ashtiani's other lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, is being protected by European diplomats after he fled to Turkey from Iran.", "Mostafaei claims Iranian authorities tried to arrest him without cause.", "CNN's Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report." ]	[ "Iranian woman may be executed by stoning .", "Ashtiani says she was cleared in her husband's murder .", "Her attorney claims the murder was not proven .", "Iranian official says Ashtiani guilty of numerous crimes ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6, 24 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Saying \"the time has come,\" Gov.", "David Paterson announced Thursday he will introduce a bill in the state legislature to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.", "Gov. David Paterson said it's time to to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.", "\"The time has come to act.", "The time has come for leadership.", "The time has come to bring marriage equality to the state of New York,\" he said in a morning news conference.", "The proposed legislation would allow same-sex couples in the state to enter into civil marriages and enjoy the same rights afforded to heterosexual married couples.", "He defined the issue as one that would affect families and not just those \"walking down the aisle.\"", "\"Too many loving families right here in New York state have not received legal recognition they actually deserve,\" Paterson said.", "\"We have an honor and we have a duty to make sure equality exists for everyone.\"", "The legislation would give same-sex couples 1,300 to 1,400 rights that don't exist unless a couple is married, he said.", "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and several federal, state and local lawmakers were present to show their support for both the governor and the proposed legislation.", "\"New Yorkers pride themselves on their ability to practice their individual freedoms,\" Bloomberg said, \"and that includes the right to say what you believe, to practice your own faith and to love whomever you want, and it's time for this state to take the next step and ensure the rights of same-sex couples to marry whom they want.\"", "State Sen. Thomas Duane, who will sponsor the bill in the state Senate, added, \"I know that Gov.", "Paterson is going to roll up his sleeves, and he's going to get this done, and we're going to make same-sex marriage a reality in this state.\"", "Paterson's announcement comes when his disapproval ratings are at a new high.", "In a recent survey by Quinnipiac University, 60 percent of New York state voters said they disapproved of Paterson's job as governor, while only 20 percent approved.", "Regardless, many in the state are backing the effort to provide legal equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in New York.", "If the legislation passes, New York would be the fifth state in which same-sex marriages are legal, joining Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts and Iowa.", "Former Gov.", "Eliot Spitzer introduced the same bill in 2007.", "It passed in the state Assembly 85-61 but died in the Senate.", "Passage in the Assembly is again expected, while it remains to be seen whether the bill will get the 32 votes it needs to pass in the Senate.", "Among the bill's opponents is the Roman Catholic Church.", "Just hours after his installation Wednesday as the archbishop of New York, the Most Rev.", "Timothy Dolan said in his first news conference that he wouldn't shy away from the controversy.", "Many of its supporters, however, are confident.", "\"I absolutely look forward to standing with you, governor, when you sign this wonderful piece of legislation into law,\" Duane said Thursday morning.", "And for many, Paterson's announcement represents a hopeful future.", "David Kilmnick, CEO of Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, was present at the announcement.", "He said he hopes to marry his partner of eight years, \"maybe this year.\"", "\"It felt like today, for one of the first times, I really mattered, my life really mattered, my family mattered,\" he said.", "\"I was proud to be a New Yorker today -- to be standing and watching our governor stand up on the side of equality.\"" ]	[ "David Paterson: \"Too long we have pretended\" that gay people have equal rights .", "Paterson vows to introduce the bill that former Gov.", "Eliot Spitzer tried to pass .", "The bill would legalize same-sex marriage in the state of New York ." ]	[ 1, 2, 19, 20, 29 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A second wave of floodwater is expected to wash through southern Pakistan this weekend, adding hundreds of thousands of people to the number already stranded by a first wave earlier this month, Pakistani officials said.", "At least 1,384 people have died and another 1,630 have been injured by flooding that has damaged or destroyed 8,300 Pakistani villages so far, according to National Disaster Management Authority spokesman Ahmed Kamal.", "The United Nations said it was racing against time to reach the suffering.", "\"Relief supplies must reach women, men and children as soon as possible, in order to avoid further death caused by waterborne diseases and food shortages,\" said Martin Mogwanja, the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan.", "\"The death toll has so far been relatively low compared to other major natural disasters, and we want to keep it that way,\" he said.", "Two of 19 military helicopters pledged by the United States arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday to help in the humanitarian relief efforts, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.", "These aircraft replace six U.S. Army helicopters that will return to duty in Afghanistan, the embassy spokesman said.", "The Army helicopters rescued more than 3,000 people and delivered relief supplies since arriving in Pakistan on August 5, the spokesman said.", "Farther north, more than 100 U.S. troops are on the ground in the volatile Swat valley, helping the Pakistani government deliver supplies and rescue people from flood-ravaged areas.", "None have yet encountered Taliban fighters.", "\"Obviously there's a militant threat in this region, but the Pakistani military has done an incredibly committed job -- providing us multiple layers of security around our units,\" said U.S. Army Brig.", "Gen. Michael Nagata in a conference call from Pakistan.", "\"All our activities and helicopters are completely safe.\"", "The bigger problem, said Nagata, is the weather.", "In the last two weeks, air crews have only been able to fly five days because of the relentless monsoon rains.", "The initial wave of the flooding came after torrential rains two weeks ago filled rivers in northern Pakistan that swept southward.", "Weather experts said a year's worth of rain fell in a day at the peak of the relentless downpours.", "A second wave of floodwater from rain that fell in northern and central Pakistan the next week is now reaching the Sindh province in southern Pakistan, according to CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller.", "An apparent bottleneck of water from the first flood wave at the Sukkar dam could be overtaken by the second wave, Miller said.", "\"This could lead to a situation where the two flood waves could build upon each other and lead to even more catastrophic flooding,\" Miller said.", "Pakistan emergency officials predicted the second wave could reach Sukkar on Saturday evening.", "Hundreds of thousands of people living along the Indus River in northern Sindh could be stranded along with the tens of thousands stranded by the first wave, said Pakistani Navy Lt.", "Commander Jawad Khawaja.", "Many residents have ignored government warnings to evacuate the area, causing a big concern, Khawaja said.", "More than 14 million Pakistanis are affected, with 400,000 rescued from floodwaters, the government said.", "It estimated that 723,950 homes have been damaged or destroyed.", "In the mountainous north, water funneled down treacherous slopes, quickly engulfing the roads below.", "It surged down the Indus River, spreading economic, political and social woes through the heart of Pakistan.", "The smell of bodies filled the air in many places, where mere seconds of unstoppable water ended lives.", "Many witnesses, even those who thought they had seen everything in this land marred by crisis and killing, said they were stunned by the suffering wrought by the monsoons.", "U.S. President Barack Obama, in a statement marking the 63rd anniversary of Pakistan's independence on Friday, said, \"We will remain committed to helping Pakistan and will work side by side with you and the international community toward a recovery that brings back the dynamic vitality of your nation.\"", "CNN's Chris Lawrence and Samson Desta contributed to this report." ]	[ "Officials fear hundreds of thousands more could be stranded .", "Many residents are ignoring warnings to evacuate area .", "More flooding is expected this weekend, Pakistani official says .", "Promised U.S. military helicopters start to arrive ." ]	[ 0, 12, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The FBI and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are investigating possible civil rights violations in the case of a sheriff's deputy who was captured on video beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton.", "The Kershaw County Sheriff's deputy was fired after an August 5 surveillance video showed him hitting the inmate dozens of times with a baton, authorities said Monday.", "The video shows the deputy leading the handcuffed man from a van toward the jail.", "The deputy then pulls out his baton and begins swinging it repeatedly at the man's legs, bashing him until he falls to the ground.", "Once the man is on the ground, the deputy continues to hit him as at least two other deputies look on.", "The deputy helps the man up at one point only to slam his face against the hood of the van, the video footage shows.", "The man was hit 27 times, CNN-affiliate WIS reported.", "The beating broke the man's left leg just above the ankle and put a gash in the man's other leg that required stitches, the affiliate reported.", "The state police agency released a statement from Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill.", "\"As soon as we were made aware of this situation, we contacted SLED and requested that they investigate.", "This employee has been terminated,\" McCaskill said in the statement.", "The inmate was identified as Charles Shelley, and he was arrested on charges of open container, possession of marijuana, a suspended license and giving false information to police, the affiliate reported.", "The deputy said he was angered because Shelley had threatened him and his family when he was driving the man to the jail, the affiliate reported.", "Two other police brutality cases under investigation by the state police agency and the FBI, but not related are: .", "-- The July arrest of a Sumter City police officer accused of assaulting a suspect during a traffic stop.", "The Sumter City Police Department has fired the officer.", "-- The July arrest of two Department of Juvenile Justice correctional officers accused of assaulting a juvenile arrestee.", "Both of the employees have been fired.", "Civil rights investigations also include whether law enforcement officers who were present were required to render aid, Lloyd said in a news conference Tuesday.", "\"We don't think it is typical behavior in South Carolina, but it's disturbing behavior,\" Lloyd said.", "He added that standard police training does not include the method shown in the video.", "\"You probably shouldn't be hitting anybody with a ... baton while they're handcuffed.\"", "\"My personal reaction was like any other person who viewed it,\" he said, adding that the deputy is presumed innocent.", "\"But you can't watch the video without having some serious concern for what went wrong there.\"", "Lloyd noted that \"these allegations do not reflect the professional work of thousands of South Carolina law enforcement officers each and every day.", "All subjects of these investigations are presumed innocent of these charges at this time.\"" ]	[ "NEW: FBI and state police agency to look at civil rights violations in beating case .", "S.C. deputy hit the man 27 times and it was on videotape, a CNN-affiliate says .", "The state police agency is looking into two other brutality cases ." ]	[ 0, 4, 6, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The state of Alabama has filed suit against BP, Transocean and others in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to Alabama Attorney General Troy King.", "In a statement announcing the lawsuit filed Thursday, King said, \"Some will, no doubt, sound the alarm that the lawsuit is premature.", "As Alabama's lawyer, I say that if, anything, based on BP's broken promises, their history of saying one thing and doing another, and now, new information that they have been secretly working to gain a legal advantage, further delay can only further damage our people.\"", "King said thousands of Gulf Coast residents are waiting while their claims languish in the legal system.", "BP told CNN Friday it doesn't comment on litigation and possible litigation.", "A spokesman said he had seen a statement about the suit, but there weren't many details in it, and BP wouldn't comment anyway.", "Attorney General King pointed out BP is spending millions on public relations and advertising, and is hiring \"all the best expert witnesses, not because they need their services, but so the experts will be unable to testify against BP.\"", "King says BP is selling off assets -- perhaps, to prevent courts from being able to use the assets to satisfy a judgment.", "King also alleges BP is preparing a report to argue it was not grossly negligent, which would limit its liability.", "\"Obviously, BP's ads are working.", "They have persuaded some newspapers and politicians to call for more delays.", "Shame on BP for running them, and shame on us if we believe them,\" King said.", "He added the lawsuit can always be settled if BP should suddenly \"do right\" by Alabama and its citizens.", "\"BP is now on notice. Alabama intends to hold you good to your word and to make you put our state back the way you found it,\" King said." ]	[ "Alabama attorney general files suit against BP and Transocean .", "BP won't comment on lawsuit .", "Attorney general: BP hiring expert witnesses so they won't be able to testify against firm .", "He says BP is working on a report to argue it wasn't grossly negligent to limit its liability ." ]	[ 0, 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNET) -- Yahoo's Victor Tsaran knows how much time Web designers spend agonizing over color and font-width choices when laying out an application.", "So when he started Yahoo's accessibility push two years ago, he had a tough time arousing sympathy for engineers grousing about how much extra time was needed to create accessibility features.", "Fortunately for Tsaran, Yahoo's accessibility manager, he's running into that problem less and less.", "Web designers are starting to take accessibility as seriously as button placement or heading layout when they develop their products, improving the Web experience not only for people like Tsaran -- who lost his sight at the age of five -- but for Web users in general.", "\"We're seeing a lot more awareness and involvement in Web accessibility than we did a few years ago, particularly among big companies,\" said Judy Brewer, director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium.", "\"It's becoming a solid business expectation that Web sites need to meet the needs of all users.\"", "At the two biggest Internet companies in the world, accessibility is seen as an increasingly important part of what they do.", "Yahoo requires every new hire to receive accessibility training from Tsaran and Alan Brightman, senior policy director of special communities.", "And it books engineering teams for tours of their Accessibility Lab.", "Google recently rolled out a service that will let YouTube users add captions to their videos, and believes that as the Web moves more from an era of presentation to an era of two-way \"data-driven\" communication, accessibility becomes even more important, said Jonas Klink, accessibility program manager.", "Web accessibility has come a long way in the decade since many of these proposals were first floated.", "It's still a challenge, however, for the Web community to remember that as it pushes forward with exciting new technologies like HTML5 that could reinvent the Internet experience, it must keep in mind the needs of those who can't type 60 words per minute, operate a mouse like a scalpel, or see the unobtrusive pop-up windows that point to the next destination on the page.", "\"As the Web gets more and more dynamic, the accessibility requirements get more and more interesting, and sometimes challenging, to implement,\" Brewer said.", "The challenges . There are about 60 million people in the U.S. who can't use a computer to get on the Internet in the normal fashion, said Yahoo's Brightman.", "For those people, a mix of screen reader software, keyboards with special buttons, and even motion-sensing Web cameras must take the place of the mouse and QWERTY keyboard.", "That can cause problems for Web designers who rely too heavily on mouse navigation, or who design pages with special multimedia whiz-bang effects that look cool only to the people that can see them.", "\"There can be an assumption of homogeneity on the Web,\" said Naomi Bilodeau, technical program manager for Google.", "Users of screen readers -- software that essentially reads out loud a description of text, links, and buttons on a page -- are confounded the most by Captchas and Flash Web pages, according to a recent survey of screen-reader users conducted by WebAIM.", "But simple things like photos or images can also create problems if the Web publisher doesn't add alt text to those photos, or relies primarily on images as a way of explaining what is happening on the page.", "And as Web designers push forward with Javascript and AJAX-based technologies that overlay Web content over the primary Web page, there's great potential to confuse screen readers.", "The good news is that most of these problems aren't as much technology issues as design issues; content created with things like Flash can be made accessible if designers start off with that principle in mind.", "\"There are a bunch of things (in Web design) that are not features,\" said Nicholas Zakas, principal front-end engineer for Yahoo's home page, meaning that while you can jazz up a page all you like with additional features, there are certain things that should be standard fare.", "\"Performance is not a feature, internationalization is not a feature, and accessibility is not a feature.\"", "However, features can make the Web more accessible.", "As mentioned, Google recently rolled out automatic captioning software for YouTube videos, making it much easier for deaf people to enjoy the world's largest collection of cute cat videos.", "The automatic captioning technology is being rolled out first on YouTube's Educational channel, allowing deaf or hearing-impaired people to take advantage of distance learning programs or other educational systems.", "It's most definitely a work in progress, but with refinement could really add to the amount of knowledge that can be consumed by disabled people.", "\"I wanted this so badly (that) it's good enough, I don't care if there are some bad captions,\" said Google's Ken Harrenstien, a deaf software engineer who played an instrumental role in bringing the project to life.", "The reasons . There are no explicit laws that companies design Web sites to be accessible to the disabled, but many disability experts and Web companies believe that portions of the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 do apply to the Internet, despite having been written several years before the Web emerged as a mainstream phenomenon.", "And in order to do business with the U.S. government, companies must comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which insists that electronic and information technology products sold to government agencies be designed with disabled employees in mind, and that government services produced by contractors consider disabled citizens in equal measure.", "But these are businesses, after all: Yahoo's Brightman estimated that there's about $220 billion in discretionary spending available to disabled people.", "Making a Web site accessible to as many people as possible isn't just the right thing to do, it also makes business sense, he said.", "Also, with a rapidly aging population in many parts of the world -- notably the U.S. -- accessibility requirements will become useful for today's crop of baby boomers as they grow older.", "People over 65 are increasing their use of the Internet, according to Nielsen, and features designed for accessibility could aid those who aren't technically disabled but wouldn't mind a little extra help.", "The future . The immediate challenge for those working on Web accessibility is to ensure that accessibility standards are not trampled in the rush to finalize the HTML5 collection of standards that Google and other Web browser companies are currently debating.", "Brewer said it's \"extremely important to be sure that HTML5 can support accessibility fully,\" and her group is working closely with the other parts of the W3C to realize that goal.", "But beyond that goal, Web accessibility advocates have reason to feel optimistic about their cause.", "Long-awaited technologies like sophisticated speech recognition are finally coming to fruition after decades of joking about how such capabilities were just two years away.", "And 46 percent of respondents to the WebAIM survey reported that Web content has become more accessible in recent years.", "\"Anybody should be able to use anything on this page,\" said Yahoo's Zakas, keeper of the all-important Yahoo.com page.", "\"If anybody can't use it, it shouldn't be there.\"", "© 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.", "CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission." ]	[ "Web designers are starting to take accessibility very seriously .", "About 60 million people in U.S. can't use the Internet in the normal fashion .", "Photos or images can create problems if publisher doesn't add alt text .", "Sophisticated speech recognition technologies are finally coming to fruition ." ]	[ 13, 18, 37 ]
[ "United Nations (CNN) -- The United Nations is trying to put sexual violence on the international policy map, telling political and military leaders that wartime mass rape \"is no more inevitable than, or acceptable than, mass murder.\"", "Rape is being used by armed groups to reignite flames of conflict and to terrorize and humiliate communities in Africa, according to Letitia Anderson, women's rights specialist with the U.N.'s Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative.", "The U.N. is monitoring five countries closely because of sexual violence in conflicts.", "The five are the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Liberia, the Darfur region in Sudan, Chad and Cote d'Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast).", "But it's not just Africa at which the U.N. is looking; it's cross-regional, Anderson told CNN.", "She said armed groups are branding the bodies of women and children with signature patterns, as cattle are branded, in places such as Congo, leaving scars so that their families and community members know they are victims of aggravated sexual violence.", "U.N. officials cite not just the mass scale of such crimes, but the horrific nature of the crimes as well.", "\"Many are child soldiers, and they maybe have to rape their mother or their siblings and then kill them afterwards,\" said Margot Wallstrom, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative on sexual violence in conflict.", "There have been no reparations for survivors in Africa because of the complete collapse of the legal system during conflicts, Anderson said.", "Wartime rape \"is one of the great peace and security challenges of our time,\" she said, but added it \"has been the least condemned and most silenced war crime.\"", "Wallstrom told reporters recently that in modern war, \"rape is not a side effect, but it is actually a new frontline.\"", "U.N. action on that frontline has included a 2008 Security Council unanimous adoption of a resolution acknowledging rape as a tactic of war and an impediment to peace.", "With the U.N.'s Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative, U.N. representatives have tried to put sexual violence in the spotlight.", "In May, Wallstrom took the U.N.'s message to the Democratic Republic of Congo where, she said, more than 200,000 women have been raped in the past 12 years of conflict .", "She visited Liberia in June and learned rape is still the No.", "1 reported crime.", "One government survey in a Liberian county in 2005-2006 found that 92 percent of 1,600 women interviewed reported that they had experienced some form of sexual violence, including rape.", "Tackling stereotypes about the crime of rape will help ease the shame many societies attach to rape, and initiating discourse is the first step \"to break the silence,\" she said, repeating a well-known phrase among anti-rape advocates worldwide.", "Her message is motivated by the women and children she's met, Wallstrom said, adding, \"Survivors are their own best advocates.\"", "\"The word 'woman' is not synonymous with 'victim' or 'vulnerable,' \" Wallstrom added.", "\"The women that I've met in the DRC, in Liberia, are agents of recovery and change.\"", "As the U.N. initiative works to fight against wartime rape and to protect victims of that crime, Wallstrom sees her own U.N. role in a highly personal perspective.", "\"I'm responsible not only to the secretary-general and Security Council,\" she said, \"but above all, to the survivors of this soul-shattering crime.\"" ]	[ "Wartime rape is \"the least condemned and most silenced war crime,\" U.N. official says .", "U.N. initiative aims to put sexual violence in conflicts on international policy map .", "U.N. is monitoring five countries because of sexual violence in conflicts .", "In Congo, more than 200,000 women have been raped in 12 years of fighting, U.N. says ." ]	[ 2, 9, 12, 13 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- When the father of suspected terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab visited the U.S. embassy in Nigeria in November, he told officials he believed his son was under the influence of religious extremists and had traveled from London, England, to Yemen, a senior administration official said Monday.", "Revealing new details, the official also denied the father told officials his son might be on a suicide mission: .", "\"There was no suggestion he was about to carry out a terrorist act,\" the official said.", "A suspect in the foiled Christmas Day terror attack, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, is being held for allegedly trying to blow up a flight carrying 300 passengers that was about to land in the United States.", "This official says the father, Umaru AbdulMutallab, came to the embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19.", "\"He was concerned about his son's safety and whereabouts and wondered if the U.S. government could help,\" the official said.", "\"The father said he was in Yemen,\" this official said.", "\"His son had gone from London to Yemen.\"", "The official noted that this information was based on what the father said but has not been corroborated.", "The next day, November 20, the U.S. embassy in Abuja sent what is called a \"Visas Viper cable\" to the State Department detailing the father's concerns, according to an official account by State Department spokesman Ian Kelley.", "That information was passed on to the National Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington, which ruled that the information in the cable was \"insufficient for this interagency review process to make a determination that this individual's visa should be revoked.\"", "The secretary of state can unilaterally revoke a visa but usually does that for foreign policy and diplomatic, not national security, reasons, Kelley said.", "\"This has to be done in consultation with other agencies,\" Kelley said.", "State Department spokesman Ian Kelley provided further details Monday.", "AbdulMutallab was studying in London, Kelly said.", "He applied for a multiple-entry U.S. visa on June 12, 2008, and received it June 16, 2008.", "The visa was a standard multiple-entry tourist visa good for two years.", "\"At the time, there was nothing in his application, nor in any data base at the time, that would warrant that he should not receive a visa.", "He was a student at a reputable school, he had plenty of financial resources. ...", "There was no derogatory information about him last year that would have indicated that he should not get a visa,\" Kelley said.", "The suspect traveled previously to the U.S. on another visa, Kelley said.", "Kelley said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will ask the department's consular division to review all processes connected with issuing visas." ]	[ "In November, suspect's father told officials at U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that son went to Yemen .", "Umaru AbdulMutallab said he believed son was under influence of religious extremists .", "Official says Embassy notified State Department, which found no cause to revoke visa .", "\"There was no suggestion he was about to carry out a terrorist act,\" official says ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Health care reform is proceeding toward the president's desk, likely to become law in the new year.", "Supporters promise the bill will cut costs and extend coverage.", "But here's the real test: What will the trillion-dollar expense of this bill actually buy?", "Will it improve America's health?", "My guess: No. For all the money Americans spend on health care (60 percent more per person than any other advanced country), Americans are not an especially healthy people.", "Life expectancy at 50 in the U.S. ranks 29th in the world, three years behind world leader Japan, one and a half years behind Canada.", "Other indicators -- infant mortality, life expectancy at birth -- look even worse.", "This poor performance is often blamed on the fact that millions of Americans lack health insurance.", "But as a recent paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research found, the U.S. -- despite its kludgy health insurance system -- does a remarkably good job of extending disease-fighting treatment to all.", "Authors Samuel Preston and Jessica Ho observe: .", "• The U.S. screens a higher percentage of women for cervical cancer than any other country in a sample of 15 advanced countries.", "• Americans have the highest survival rates for breast, lung, colon or rectal cancer in a sample of 20 advanced countries.", "• Compared with Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Great Britain, the U.S. had the third-lowest fatality rate for male heart attack victims ages 40-64, the second-lowest for men ages 85-89 and the best for women aged 85-89.", "• Americans 50 and older with heart disease are more likely to receive medication than similarly aged Europeans.", "Ditto stroke.", "Ditto high cholesterol.", "Cancer and heart disease are not any old ailments.", "These are the leading causes of death for people 50 and older.", "So if the U.S. health system does such a good job saving its middle-aged and elderly sick, why do Americans die comparatively young?", "Answer: because Americans are much more likely to get sick in the first place.", "And that likelihood owes very little to the health care system and a great deal to the bad choices American individuals make.", "If you eat too much, exercise too little, drink too much, smoke, take drugs, fail to wear a seat belt or ignore gun safety, there is only so much a doctor or hospital can do for you.", "And Americans do all those things, more than other people.", "One-third of Americans are overweight.", "That one single fact accounts for almost 10 percent of all health care spending.", "At any given moment, one out of six motorists is unbelted.", "American children are nine times more likely to be injured in a gun accident than children in other developed countries.", "If all Americans quit smoking, if everybody wore a seat belt, if gun owners consistently secured their weapons, if we all drank in moderation and abjured illegal drugs and if the one-third of the country that is overweight would drop the extra pounds, those individual actions would do more to improve health and extend lives than any contemplated by Congress or the president.", "Acting on this information won't be easy: It violates too many taboos.", "Americans understandably treasure their right to make their own choices, including the choice to super-size it.", "And many are uncomfortably aware that self-destructive behavior is most often found among the poor and among minorities: Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to be severely obese.", "In the near term, public policy can achieve only a limited impact against these problems.", "There is evidence that youth obesity can be reduced by zoning rules that forbid fast-food restaurants to be sited within 200 yards of a school.", "More and better gym classes, better cafeteria menus and a ban on soda in schools would all help too.", "Over the longer term, we will have to rethink the deeper structure of American food policy: subsidies to corn and soybean growers, the paving over of exurban land that might provide nearby cities with less expensive fruits and vegetables.", "Ultimately, though, these are decisions that individuals must make for themselves.", "In this respect, the present concept of medicalized health care sends some unwelcome messages.", "By \"outsourcing\" the concept of health as something that doctors, hospitals and now government do for you -- rather than something that depends considerably on your own choices and efforts -- we ask the medical system to do more than any medical system can do.", "As you consider your new year's resolutions, remember: better habits will benefit not only your family and yourself -- but all your neighbors and countrymen as well.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum." ]	[ "Americans' poor health, relative to other countries, is cited as a reason for health reform .", "David Frum says there's little evidence health bill will improve U.S. life expectancy .", "He says research shows unhealthy habits explain why Americans get sick more often .", "Individual choices to adopt healthy lifestyles would have more impact, he says ." ]	[ 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20, 39 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to a Los Angeles, California, hospital Friday because of \"complications\" relating to her recent hip replacement surgery, her publicist said.", "Her husband called an ambulance to their Bel Air home to take the actress to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Friday afternoon, spokesman John Blanchette said.", "Gabor, 93, had returned home on Wednesday, three weeks after undergoing surgery to replace a hip broken in a fall from her bed.", "Gabor has been frail and \"pretty much confined to a wheelchair\" since a 2002 car accident, said her husband, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt.", "The crash happened when the car in which she was riding with her hairdresser slammed into a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.", "The glamorous Hungarian-born actress, the second of the three celebrated Gabor sisters, is most famous for her many marriages.", "Among her other husbands was Oscar-winning actor George Sanders.", "Her more prominent films include John Huston's 1952 Toulouse-Lautrec biopic, \"Moulin Rouge,\" \"The Story of Three Loves\" in 1953, \"The Girl in the Kremlin\" in 1957 and Orson Welles' 1958 classic, \"Touch of Evil.\"" ]	[ "Gabor suffered \"complications\" from hip surgery .", "The actress left the hospital 2 days earlier .", "Zsa Zsa Gabor broke her hip in a fall from her bed in July ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two of the four survivors of this week's crash on an Alaska mountainside were well enough to talk with government officials looking into the cause of the crash, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman told reporters on Friday.", "Both survivors recalled the pilot giving a safety briefing before the flight, she said.", "The survivor who sat in the front seat reported falling asleep almost immediately after the plane took off and waking up after the crash.", "The other survivor told investigators \"they were flying along and then just stopped flying,\" according to Hersman, who did not say which of the four survivors investigators spoke with.", "Five people died in the Monday night crash, including former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.", "The family of experienced pilot Terry Smith, who was killed in the accident, released a statement Friday saying, \"This is a time of great sorrow for our family.", "Our hearts and prayers go out to the survivors and the family and friends of all those affected by this tremendous loss.\"", "Smith had been involved in a prior accident, in 1997, said Hersman.", "No one was injured in that accident, in which the plane nosed over during landing.", "The incident was chalked up to the pilot's failure to maintain control, she said.", "Those killed in the crash could not have been saved even if rescue teams had arrived at the site immediately, officials said.", "The autopsies found the deaths were the result of blunt force trauma, said Greg Wilkinson, an official at the Medical Examiner's office.", "He said the state medical examiner, Dr. Katherine Raven, found the injuries to be consistent with this type of crash.", "Raven also found that the injuries were not survivable, he said.", "Meanwhile, the condition of former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe has been upgraded from critical to serious, according to the Providence Alaska Medical Center.", "He was the most seriously injured of the four survivors.", "\"Sean is making significant improvements,\" an O'Keefe family spokesman said on Friday. ...", "It does not appear that any of Sean's injuries require surgery.", "And we are encouraged by medical reports indicating that Sean's injuries are not life-threatening.\"", "O'Keefe suffered a dislocated hip, which has been corrected, according to a statement by family spokesman Paul Pastorek.", "Despite initial reports, there was no serious trauma to O'Keefe's pelvis, the statement said.", "The condition of Sean O'Keefe's son, Kevin, has been upgraded from serious to fair, said Pastorek.", "\"Despite suffering serious injuries that have required surgery, Kevin is also showing dramatic improvement,\" the statement said.", "\"Even so, he is very much on the mend.\"", "Survivor Jim Moorhard remained in fair condition, while William Phillips, whose father died in the crash, remained in good condition, said the Providence Alaska Medical Center.", "Federal officials are continuing to probe the cause of the crash, said NTSB's Hersman.", "They are waiting to speak with the remaining two survivors.", "Investigators are also working to examine the wreckage of the plane.", "\"Right now, we're really in the fact-gathering stage of our investigation,\" said Hersman.", "CNN's Paul Vercammen contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Official says investigators have spoken with two of the survivors .", "NEW: The pilot was involved in an accident in 1997 .", "Autopsies show those killed in plane crash suffered blunt force trauma .", "The condition of the former NASA chief has been upgraded from critical to serious ." ]	[ 7, 11, 14, 26 ]
[ "Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- By spending a few days here in America's fifth-largest city -- which also happens to be at the heart of the nation's immigration debate -- I had the chance to see this volatile issue from many different vantage points.", "But as far I know, I didn't see any terror babies.", "Regular viewers of CNN's \"Anderson Cooper 360\" will recognize that term as referring to children born on U.S. soil to illegal immigrants.", "The children are automatically granted U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment and then are smuggled back to their home countries to be raised as pint-sized, America-hating terrorists.", "Then decades later, when the children have grown into adults, they could easily -- because of their U.S. citizenship -- re-enter the United States to attack it from within.", "So terror babies are sort of like a sleeper cell, one that has to be put down for a nap every few hours or it gets fussy.", "Is this a scary scenario?", "You bet. Is it anything close to reality?", "It doesn't look like it. In fact, what's really scary are opportunistic lawmakers out there who will sink to new depths to scare the Dickens out of people in order to drum up support for the radical idea of changing the 14th Amendment or scrapping it altogether.", "That's what this story is really about.", "It's an elaborate pitch to that constituency who believes that illegal immigrants are unfairly taking advantage of a constitutional provision that makes anyone born on U.S. soil an American citizen.", "The two Texas Republicans who are actively spinning this yarn -- State Representative Debbie Riddle and U.S.", "Congressman Louie Gohmert -- both appeared on Cooper's show this week, and neither could provide any evidence of the existence of these mythical terror babies.", "In fact, in the face of questioning by Cooper, both got extremely defensive.", "You might say these GOP fear mongers were acting in a way that could be accurately described as infantile.", "Riddle and Gohmert claimed they got the information from conversations with \"former FBI officials.\"", "So Cooper interviewed CNN contributor Tom Fuentes, who served as the FBI's assistant director in the office of international operations from 2004 to 2008.", "\"The FBI has 75 offices overseas, including offices in Jordan, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan,\" Fuentes said.", "\"There was never a credible report -- or any report, for that matter -- coming across through all the various mechanisms of communication to indicate that there was such a plan for these terror babies to be born.\"", "The FBI has also done everything it can to knock down the story as simply not credible.", "Of course, this tall tale isn't credible; it's probably nothing more than a figment of politicians' imaginations.", "But it is valuable since it helps illustrate a disturbing phenomenon here in Arizona, where supporters of the state's new immigration law seem to feel as if they have to justify the measure not only by scaring people, but also by doing extreme makeovers.", "They take things that are familiar and try to make them sinister.", "Those aren't U.S. citizen babies, they say; they're future terrorists.", "Those aren't run-of-the-mill illegal immigrants who come to Arizona to work and feed their families; they're drug mules for the Mexican cartels, says Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer.", "And those aren't coyotes, immigrant smugglers bringing people in the United States as they have for generations; they're drug cartels, which -- according to Brewer -- now control all the immigrant smuggling operations into the United States.", "The Border Patrol was just as quick to knockdown those stories as untrue as the FBI was in refuting the story about terror babies using the 14th Amendment to do us harm.", "I was glad to see that. There is already enough dishonesty in the immigration debate; we certainly don't need any more coming from the state of Arizona.", "Yet, there is a steady trickle of deceptions and half-truths.", "The three big fibs -- repeated by top Republican officials -- are that the federal government isn't doing its job to protect the borders, that the law is an attempt to crack down on drug cartels, and that race isn't part of the discussion.", "None of that is true. So why repeat it? Those who believe in the state's immigration law and consider it a good idea to empower local police and sheriff's deputies to enforce federal immigration law should stand by the legislation as it is written.", "They shouldn't have to try to create an alternate reality to win over more supporters.", "A prominent Mexican-American attorney, who has long been a visible and vocal member of Phoenix's Latino community, warned me against trying to make sense of the opposition.", "For instance, I asked him, how could people continue to argue that the Obama administration isn't doing enough to secure the border when all the evidence suggests otherwise?", "\"You'll never be able to convince people of that,\" he said.", "\"Because their motivation is political.", "It's not based in reality.\"", "I'm afraid that's not good enough.", "If the supporters of SB1070 really believe in the merits of their cause, they should be able to win the argument on the natural, without relying on hocus-pocus or scare tactics or radical makeovers.", "And if they can't do that, if they have to portray babies as terrorists and immigrants as drug mules in order to win support for their side, then this should tell them loud and clear that they're on the wrong side of this issue -- not to mention, on the wrong side of history.", "No amount of spin can change that.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette Jr." ]	[ "Two Texas Republicans claim the 14th Amendment could aid terrorist goals to attack U.S.\nRuben Navarrette says the \"terror babies\" fear is groundless .", "He says it's the latest scare tactic being used to whip up a frenzy over immigration .", "Navarrette: Let's have a debate about immigration on the merits, not on fantasy ." ]	[ 4, 6, 11, 21, 27, 42 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Diversity is not a word that describes the Supreme Court's makeup over most of its existence.", "Only three women justices have served (the first in 1981), and only two African-Americans (the first in 1967).", "The first Hispanic was named last year, but no Native Americans or Asian-Americans have been named, nor have any openly homosexual or disabled justices.", "Only about 11 Catholics have served, and seven Jews.", "The expected elevation of Elena Kagan to the high court would represent both a step forward and a retreat of sorts, for bench diversity on the high-profile court, especially when compared to the man she would replace.", "Kagan is set to become the third woman on the current court, a move applauded by retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor and former first lady Laura Bush.", "The 50-year-old also has no judicial experience, unlike every current member of the court, who were previously federal appeals court judges.", "Justice Antonin Scalia, for one, likes that.", "\"Currently, there is nobody on the court who has not served as a judge -- indeed, as a federal judge -- all nine of us,\" he said last month in a speech.", "\"I am happy to see that this latest nominee is not a federal judge -- and not a judge at all.\"", "She would be the third Jewish-American, joining Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.", "The other six members of the court are all Catholic: Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor.", "Retiring Justice John Paul Stevens is the current court's lone Protestant.", "That has prompted divergent views from the religious and political community on whether diversity of faith matters.", "His departure and replacement by Kagan also would represent a loss of diversity on two other fronts: geography and education.", "The Chicago native is a true Midwesterner in his friendly personality and his approach to deciding many legal issues.", "Kagan would help form an unusual majority: five natives of the New York City area.", "Scalia is from Queens, Ginsburg still retains her Brooklyn accent, Sotomayor grew up in the Bronx and loves the Yankees, and Alito called Newark, New Jersey, home.", "The nominee herself was raised in the upper west side of Manhattan.", "Only Staten Island among the boroughs would be unrepresented on the high court.", "And then there is the academic equation, with the new court to be composed entirely of Ivy League law graduates.", "Kagan went to Harvard Law School, just like Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy and Breyer.", "That's another majority Kagan can boast.", "Ginsburg also attended the Boston-area school, as well as Columbia.", "The three other justices went to Yale.", "Only Stevens -- again -- stayed out of those ivied schools, graduating from Northwestern University at the head of his class in 1947.", "Stevens' departure is a generational shift, too: he is the court's last military veteran who came of age during the Depression, served in the Navy during World War II, and began practicing law during the Cold War.", "With the advent in the 1920s of open Senate hearings of court nominees, public and press scrutiny of court diversity have become important talking points.", "At that time, tremendous social and political changes in the country were reflected in a slow push to diversify the court's makeup.", "Since then, seats unofficially have been set aside for individuals of certain backgrounds.", "The first Jewish justice was Louis Brandeis, whose bitter 1916 confirmation was marked by underlying anti-Semitism.", "When Benjamin Cardozo joined him in 1932, a so-called Jewish seat was established.", "Cardozo was replaced by Felix Frankfurter, who was replaced by Arthur Goldberg, who was replaced by Abe Fortas.", "Currently, two Jewish justices sit on the bench, Ginsburg and Breyer.", "A similar precedent was created when Thurgood Marshall became the first person of color to sit on the court.", "When he retired, Clarence Thomas took Marshall's seat, although President George H.W.", "Bush considered a wide variety of candidates before settling on the Georgia native.", "Thomas has acknowledged to colleagues that he benefited to some extent from having the right connections in his career.", "Many political and legal experts expected George W. Bush to make his first court pick a Hispanic, but his two picks were white males.", "Some court observers believe political pressure to choose a justice strictly on gender or race is no longer relevant.", "\"The whole commentary of the court has evolved away from that,\" said Pulitzer Prize winning author and court historian David Garrow.", "\"Our society has changed; the novelty no longer exists.\"", "President Barack Obama's two high court choices have been applauded by many advocacy groups for the diversity they brought to the court, but criticism also has arisen on some fronts.", "Civil rights groups expressed disappointment the nation's first black president did not seriously consider naming any African-Americans to the court.", "\"The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor certainly was historic in that she became the first Hispanic to sit on the high court, and it was embraced by civil rights groups,\" wrote CNN Political Analyst Roland Martin in May.", "\"Yet this time, for highly qualified African-American female judges, such as Leah Ward Sears, the retired chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, to never make the cut for a face-to-face interview with the president has ticked off a number of leaders I've talked with over the last several days.\"", "Kagan in fact has been criticized for the lack of diversity she brought as Harvard's law dean from 2003-09.", "Guy-Uriel Charles, founding director of the Duke Center on Law, Race and Politics, looked at Kagan's hiring record, noting of the 29 positions she had a chance to fill, 28 were of those appointed were white and one was Asian-American.", "And of the group, only six were women -- five white and one Asian-American.", "\"These numbers on the surface are appalling, and would be ripped to shreds by those who value diversity,\" Martin said.", "Kagan's defenders say her hiring power was limited, but she did help bring a number of conservative professors to the faculty, earning praise from many on the right." ]	[ "No Native Americans, Asian-Americans, homosexual or disabled justices named to high court .", "First Hispanic, Sonia Sotomayor, named last year .", "Kagan would become third woman on Supreme Court .", "Would join fellow Jewish-Americans Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer ." ]	[ 2, 10, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The beauty of having your own radio or TV show or column is that you have a wonderful opportunity to address many of the significant issues of the day by using the enormous platform that has been bestowed upon you.", "That's why when I read, and then heard, the stunning, childish, and venomous discussion Dr. Laura Schlesinger had with one of her callers Tuesday, it was clear to me that the firebrand radio talk show host blew a perfect shot.", "She could have used the exchange around race to help a lot of people.", "Dr. Laura is getting ripped, rightfully so, for her repeated use of the N-word during the discussion with a black female caller.", "Instead of paying attention and listening to the woman's genuine concerns about the racist comments made by the friends and family members of her white husband, Dr. Laura made her out to be the villain.", "It was clear that Dr. Laura had a beef of her own when it comes to black folks being too sensitive about matters of race, and that's why she tried to use the example of black comedians using the N-word to buttress her position that the woman should really pipe down and not be so sensitive about such issues.", "She could have easily pivoted from the caller's question to explore this issue, but she didn't, choosing to dig herself deeper and deeper into the racial abyss.", "First, Dr. Laura needs to step back and realize that yes, black comedians use the N-word onstage, and it is something that I have protested and called for all African-Americans to stop using.", "But let's be honest, comedians of all ethnic groups do all kinds of crazy stuff on stage, dissing African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, whites, men, women, gays, Jews, the mentally challenged, you name it.", "So when the B-word, C-word, or F-word is used onstage, are we to say that is perfectly acceptable language offstage?", "Dr. Laura also would fail at political analysis in her assertion that a lot of black folks voted for President Obama because he's half-black.", "Should someone remind her that Obama got 95 percent of the black vote.", "Pretty pale Democrats like Al Gore and Bill Clinton got between 90 percent and 92 percent of the black vote.", "Dr. Laura, that's largely a Democratic thing; it's not necessarily a black thing.", "As I listened to the caller, and as Dr. Laura continued haranguing her, it was clear that the woman who has made millions dispensing advice on the radio for years needs to have someone sit her down and explain how she not only screwed up by tossing out the N-word repeatedly, she also squandered a chance to be a part of what many considered to be essential: a national discussion on race.", "The caller was disturbed about those in the inner circle of her husband driving their racial stereotypes and as making racial comments in front of her.", "When I keep hearing folks talk about the need for a national conversation about race, it's not all about Obama leading it.", "If we are to conquer our racial demons, it's necessary for the caller's white husband to be as willing to look his friends and family members in the eye and say, \"your comments are insulting to my wife and I want you to stop.", "Now!\" The real problem many of us have when confronting race matters is that we are too unwilling to challenge those closest to us.", "No child wants to enter into a verbal battle with his or her mother or father who may hold racist views, or willingly accept racial stereotypes.", "But none of us can be silent when that happens.", "It was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who said, \"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.\"", "Do you recall the restaurant scene in the movie, \"The Blind Side,\" where the \"friends\" of Sandra Bullock were making offhanded racial comments?", "When she had enough of their mess, she checked them and made clear she would be dining with others.", "She refused to allow their racial hang-ups to stain her.", "Bullock's character could have easily kept the friendship intact by saying nothing and moving on.", "But she chose a different path.", "Dr. Laura had the same opportunity.", "She could have heard the woman out and dispensed some genuine advice that could have helped the caller and her listening audience.", "Instead, she grabbed that chip on her should that revealed to us that she is clearly annoyed when some blacks complain about racism.", "She compounded that by telling the woman she should have never married outside of her race if she couldn't stand racial humor.", "Folks, that's not how to do it. Dr. Laura has apologized, but that hasn't stopped people like Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League, from calling on The Talk Network to drop her syndicated show.", "If we truly want folks to \"get over it\" (which is what Dr. Laura essentially told this black woman to do when it came to racism), it is going to take us reforming the bigots, and not admonishing the offended.", "I fundamentally believe we can get people to see their racial bigotry or insensitive views and offer them a pathway towards healing, but that can only happen when we're willing to challenge one another -- friend or foe -- and look into the mirror and confront our own deeply embedded views on race.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin." ]	[ "Laura Schlesinger repeatedly using the N-word in a radio show conversation .", "She could have pivoted from the caller's question to explore racial issues, Roland Martin writes .", "Martin: Many of us, when confronted with racism, won't challenge those closest to us .", "Bigots need reforming, not the offended, Martin writes ." ]	[ 6, 18, 34 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- He didn't compete for the hot dog eating title this year, but he did cause a scene at the contest.", "Takeru Kobayashi was arrested at Coney Island after his rival, Joey Chestnut, won the annual Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest.", "The six-time champion of the contest was trying to make his way on stage after this year's event, according to a representative for Kobayashi and a New York police officer at the Brooklyn precinct booking desk.", "The incident was not a publicity stunt, Maggie James, Kobayashi's spokeswoman, said Sunday night.", "\"He got excited when people chanted his name after the contest .... so he jumped up on the stage because he wanted his fans to see him and (he thought) maybe they would chant, 'Let him eat,'\" James said, referring to a dispute that kept Kobayashi from the table this year.", "Kobayashi -- who took home the title every year from 2001 to 2006 -- did not compete because of a contract dispute with Major League Eating.", "He watched from the stands.", "Chestnut won by consuming 54 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.", "The win -- Chestnut's fourth straight -- was short of his 68-hot dog record set last year.", "A statement from the New York Police Department's public affairs office following the arrest said Kobayashi was charged with two misdemeanors and one violation, with the violation considered a low-level charge similar to a traffic violation.", "The two misdemeanors were resisting arrest and obstructing government administration (specifically, interfering with police).", "The violation was trespassing.", "Kobayashi was being held at a police precinct in Brooklyn, and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer or when he might have bail set.", "His spokeswoman, James, said it appeared that he would spend the night in jail unless he could get a hearing -- unlikely on a Sunday night and also a holiday night.", "In the days leading up to the event, Kobayashi said he loves the contest and he wanted to participate, but that the contract was too restrictive.", "Speaking through a Japanese interpreter, he said that all his income is earned through competitive eating.", "He said the new contract required by the competition would bar him from competing elsewhere in the United States or Canada for a year.", "Both sides said contract negotiations went on until Saturday morning.", "MLE chairman George Shea called Kobayashi's arrest \"unfortunate.\"", "\"It makes you wonder what his thinking was,\" Shea said.", "\"Major League Eating made an enormous effort to get him into the contest,\" he added.", "\"We wanted him there. Nathan's wanted him there.", "The fans wanted him there.\"", "Hailing from Japan and weighing in at 160 pounds, Kobayashi, 31, rose to frank-feasting stardom in 2001 when he devoured 50 dogs, shattering the previously held record of 25 1/8.", "But in 2007, having entered the challenge with a jaw injury, Kobayashi met his match in Chestnut.", "Chestnut, the 230-pound contender from San Jose, California, downed 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63 that year.", "Kobayashi has not won the competition since, and Chestnut is currently ranked No.", "1 in competitive eating by the MLE.", "For a hot dog to be counted as finished, competitors must consume both the hot dog and the bun.", "Currently ranked third, Kobayashi still holds world records for eating cow brains (17.7 pounds in 15 minutes), lobster rolls (41 in 15 minutes) and rice balls (20 pounds in 30 minutes).", "\"This guy did great things for our sport,\" Shea said.", "\"He's a fearsome competitor.\"", "CNN's Ross Levitt and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report." ]	[ "Kobayashi arrested after hot dog contest .", "NEW: Not a publicity stunt, spokeswoman says .", "Rival Chestnut won this year's challenge .", "Kobayashi faces two misdemeanor charges ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The mother of child murder suspect Casey Anthony affirms her belief in her daughter's innocence and expresses fear for her safety in letters released by court officials on Thursday.", "\"You stay strong Casey,\" Cindy Anthony tells her daughter in one letter from May.", "\"Many, many people believe in you and are trying to get to the truth.", "Not everyone has been brainwashed and not everyone is trying to cover his/her butt.\"", "Casey Anthony is charged with capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.", "The girl was reported missing in July 2008, and investigators found her body after five months of intense searches and speculation.", "In the May letter, Cindy Anthony writes that she \"freaked out\" when she saw her daughter being escorted into the courtroom by heavily armed deputies.", "\"I was worried that there's treats [sic] on your life and are finally being taken seriously,\" she wrote.", "\"I swear there are maniacs out there.", "I hope they step up security next year, for all of us.", "It's going to be nuts.", "Hopefully by then somebody will actually look at the evidence and clearly see that they need to be looking for the real person that took our Caylee.\"", "In June, after Casey Anthony tripped on her way to a court appearance and showed up with a chipped tooth and cut lip, her mother said she had been \"worried that something was going to happen to you.\"", "She thanks her daughter for trying to call on Mother's Day, and tells her, \"I had a dream the other night that you will be home.\"", "\"I know you better than anyone,\" Cindy Anthony wrote.", "\"Even with unanswered questions I still know the person you are and love you have in your heart.", "Your problem is that you are too trusting like I was.", "Unfortunately, we both found out how ugly and mean people really are.", "There's very few people you can trust.\"", "The letters were released as part of discovery in the case.", "In June, prosecutors released more than 5,000 pages of documents that ranged from marriage proposals from admirers to calls for Casey Anthony to be put to death.", "She has pleaded not guilty and has refused to see visitors, because the sessions would be videotaped and eventually released.", "In a July letter, her mother laments, \"I just wish we had the ability to speak to each other.\"", "In Session's Aletse Mellado contributed to this report." ]	[ "Casey Anthony's mom warns, \"I swear there are maniacs out there\"\n\"Many people believe in you and are trying to get to the truth\"\nAnthony faces capital murder charges in daughter Caylee's 2008 death .", "Letters released as part of discovery in upcoming trial ." ]	[ 2, 4, 8, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police in Buffalo, New York said Saturday evening that they have arrested and charged a suspect in connection with a shooting spree that left four dead outside a downtown restaurant earlier in the day.", "The Buffalo Police Department said 25-year old Keith Johnson is in custody and has been charged with four counts of second degree murder.", "Authorities would not comment on whether Johnson knew his alleged victims.", "Eight people hit by bullets in the early morning rampage, police say.", "One of the four survivors is in critical condition.", "At a news conference Saturday, Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said that the dead -- two men and two women -- included a Texas man who was celebrating his wedding anniversary.", "About 100 people were at the City Grill when the shootings occurred, and patrons were asked to leave the restaurant's bar after some sort of argument, police said.", "City Grill posted a message on its website on Saturday, saying that it is \"cooperating fully with the authorities and the ongoing investigation.\"", "It added, \"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.\"", "CNN's Rick Martin and Alona Rivord contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: A 25-year old suspect is under arrest in connection with the shooting spree .", "NEW: Keith Johnson has been charged with four counts of second degree murder .", "Eight people were shot, four fatally, at the City Grill restaurant .", "Four others were injured and one is in critical condition ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two miners who died this week in a Nevada mining accident were identified Saturday, according to the mine's owner.", "Crews late Friday found the bodies of Daniel Patrick Noel, 47, and Ethan Joel Schorr, 38, both of Spring Creek, Nevada, Barrick Gold Corp. said in a statement.", "Noel is survived by a wife and three children.", "Schorr is survived by a wife and four children.", "Their bodies were found about 1,300 feet underground, Barrick said.", "The accident occurred at 1:15 a.m. (4:15 a.m.", "ET) on Thursday in Elko County, Nevada.", "According to Barrick, two miners in an elevator were inspecting a large pipe in a vertical shaft when the pipe fell into the shaft, damaging the elevator.", "All underground operations at the Meikle mine were suspended, the company said.", "\"This is a tragic event and we remain focused on assisting these miners' families,\" Greg Lang, president of Barrick's North America region, said in a statement.", "\"The hearts and prayers of every Barrick employee are with them at this time.", "We place great value in our coworkers' health and safety, and we will do everything we can to prevent an incident like this from happening again.\"", "The company said Barrick and the U.S.", "Mine Safety and Health Administration worked for more than 32 hours to reach the area where the bodies were found.", "The MSHA reports at least 53 fatalities so far this year, including at least 42 coal-related deaths and at least 11 metal-related deaths." ]	[ "NEW: Two dead miners survived by spouses, children .", "Mining accident happened Thursday in Elko County, Nevada .", "Barrick Gold Corp. vows to try to prevent future accidents .", "The bodies were found 1,300 feet underground ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Federal investigators, joined by local officials and others, spread across Alaska on Thursday seeking the cause of a plane crash that killed five people, including former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.", "Deborah Hersman, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters that the initial investigation of the crashed airplane was complete.", "The wreckage would be hauled to nearby Dillingham, Alaska, to be examined further, Hersman said.", "There was no new information on what caused the plane to crash Monday on a rugged mountainside in southwestern Alaska, killing Stevens and four others.", "Another four passengers survived, including former NASA head Sean O'Keefe.", "Stevens, who served in the U.S. Senate for 40 years, was 86.", "His funeral will be held next Wednesday at 2 p.m. (6 p.m.", "ET) at the Anchorage Baptist Temple in Anchorage, according to Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.", "O'Keefe remained in critical condition on Thursday, according to Kirsten Schultz, a spokeswoman for Providence Alaska Medical Center.", "The condition of O'Keefe's son, Kevin, was upgraded to fair from serious.", "Another survivor, lobbyist Jim Morhard of Alexandria, Virginia, was also upgraded to fair from serious.", "Thirteen year-old William Phillips, whose father died in the crash, remained in good condition, Schultz said.", "A CNN reporter who flew over the crash site Thursday said there was a wide, brown swath cut through the trees by the plane.", "The crash occurred about 1,000 feet up the 2,300-foot mountain in an area called Muklung Hills, about a 20-minute flight from Dillingham, the reporter said.", "Hersman said the de Havilland DHC-3 Otter involved in the crash was manufactured in 1957 and overhauled in 2005 from a piston to a turbine engine.", "She also confirmed the plane lacked either a Ground Proximity Warning System or an Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System.", "The devices, which Hersman said are not required, help pilots determine how far they are above ground or terrain and can predict whether a plane is on a path toward an obstacle or mountains.", "Hersman said it was too soon to know whether any technological factor contributed to the crash.", "John Bouker, the commercial pilot who first spotted the crash site, told CNN Thursday that Stevens' plane \"was messed up but not beyond survivability.\"", "\"It looked survivable,\" Bouker said, \"but it didn't look like it would be a very fun ride or anything.", "The wings were bent back.", "The nose section was messed up.", "It didn't look like a good situation to be in, that's for sure.\"", "The aircraft, which was taking the group on a fishing trip, crashed in an area near the Bering Sea noted for its rugged terrain.", "Tom Tucker, a helicopter pilot who landed at the crash site, told CNN that when he first arrived, the survivors \"were coming in and out of consciousness.", "We put blankets over them to keep them warm.\"", "The longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, Stevens lost his 2008 re-election bid to then-Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich after being convicted on charges of making false statements on financial disclosure forms.", "A federal judge later dismissed the conviction, citing prosecutorial misconduct.", "Stevens survived a plane crash that killed his wife in 1978; he later remarried.", "CNN's Patrick Oppmann and Paul Vercammen contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Investigation of the plane wreckage at the crash site is complete .", "Two survivors upgraded from fair to serious condition, while another remains critical .", "One witness tells CNN the plane was \"messed up,\" but the crash was survivable .", "Stevens' funeral will be held next Wednesday in Anchorage, Alaska ." ]	[ 3, 6, 9, 18 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The Taliban has executed a pregnant widow accused of adultery in western Afghanistan, provincial and district officials said Monday.", "The 47-year-old woman, Sanam Gul, also known as Sanam Bibi, was killed in Badghis province Saturday morning, said Ashrafuddin Majidi, the provincial governor's spokesman.", "The district governor of Qades, Hashim Habibi, confirmed the execution.", "He said the woman was accused of adultery that left her pregnant.", "The Taliban shadow district governor, Mullah Abdul Hakim, and his judge ordered the woman to be executed, he said.", "Mohammad Yousuf, a Taliban commander, carried out the execution, shooting the woman in her head, Habibi said.", "The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan condemned the killing.", "\"This tragic gruesome brutality is an example of Taliban justice,\" said U.S. Army Col. Rafael Torres, director of the ISAF Joint Command Combined Joint Operations Center.", "\"This is not what the people of Afghanistan want -- they want peace and freedom and that's what we're going to help provide.\"", "The statement from the ISAF cited reports that the widow was whipped 200 times before she was shot." ]	[ "The 47-year-old woman was killed Saturday morning .", "The Taliban accused her of adultery, a local official said .", "Woman was whipped before she was shot ." ]	[ 1, 3, 9 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suspected U.S. drone strike killed 12 militants in Pakistan's volatile tribal area late Saturday, officials told CNN.", "Two intelligence officials say a militant hideout was targeted by a missile in the village of Issori in North Waziristan, one of the seven districts of Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan.", "Officials asked to not be named because they were not allowed to talk to the media." ]	[ "NEW: Suspected U.S. drone kills 12 militants in Pakistan's tribal region .", "The target was a militant hideout in North Waziristan, officials say ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith's former bodyguard, who accused Howard K. Stern of injecting her with drugs, acknowledged he went public with the charge only after Stern called him a thief on CNN.", "Maurice \"Mo\" Brighthaupt, who testified Friday for the prosecution, was cross-examined Monday by defense lawyers for Stern and Drs.", "Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor.", "The three are on trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on charges of conspiring to provide drugs to an addict and using false names on Smith's drug prescriptions.", "While Brighthaupt was harsh when speaking about Smith's lawyer/boyfriend, he had praise for Eroshevich, a psychologist who was also Smith's Studio City, California, neighbor.", "She flew to the Bahamas to be with Smith after her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died in Smith's hospital room just days after she gave birth to a daughter.", "Eroshevich was \"very soothing\" and \"talked to her like a mother,\" counseling Smith about how to deal with the grief, Brighthaupt said.", "The prosecution alleged both doctors gave the former Playboy model and reality-TV star a steady flow of dangerous painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs while knowing she was a drug addict.", "The charges cover the last three years of Smith's life, which ended in a Florida hotel room with her death caused by \"acute combined drug intoxication\" on February 8, 2007.", "The defense countered Smith was not an addict under the legal definition because her demand for drugs was fueled by chronic pain, anxiety and depression, especially after her son's death.", "\"She was a hurt woman,\" Brighthaupt said of Smith in the months after her son died.", "Although she was \"unbearably depressed,\" she would feel better for a while after taking the medications given to her by Eroshevich, he said.", "Eroshevich worked to keep Smith on a schedule with her medicines, resisting the actress' demands to take pills early.", "It was something Smith demanded \"all the time,\" he said.", "The doctor kept Smith on a regular eating and sleeping schedule, he said.", "Chloral Hydrate, a sleep medication prescribed by Eroshevich, \"appeared to be one medication that helped her sleep,\" he said.", "Eroshevich also helped Smith financially, he said, helping to pay some expenses when Smith had \"cash flow issues.\"", "Smith would get upset when Eroshevich mentioned she would have to leave the Bahamas to attend to her practice in California, he said.", "\"She would do a lot of whining,\" which he said was one way Smith manipulated people to get her way.", "Brighthaupt said he never saw Smith abusing prescription drugs before her son's death.", "The times he saw her intoxicated was when someone would slip her Ecstasy or alcohol, he said.", "Stern's defense lawyer, Steve Sadow, grilled Brighthaupt for more than an hour Monday morning about his direct testimony in which he said he saw Stern inject Smith with drugs.", "Brighthaupt reluctantly acknowledged that the first time he related that story in public was just days after he saw Stern's interview with CNN's Larry King on October 10, 2007.", "Stern told King, \"I was a thief,\" he said.", "He denied Sadow's suggestion that Stern's interview angered him, insisting that he was only \"a little disappointed.\"", "It was a week later, however, that Brighthaupt accepted $10,000 from entertainment news show \"Access Hollywood\" to license the use of some Smith photos and for an interview.", "He acknowledged that the interview was the first time he publicly said Stern injected Smith with drugs.", "Brighthaupt also related the story days later to a California drug investigator.", "The trial, which began last week, is expected to last up to three months." ]	[ "Her bodyguard calls Anna Nicole's doctor \"very soothing\"\nSmith was \"unbearably obsessed\" after her son's death, Maurice Brighthaupt testifies .", "Howard K. Stern's defense lawyer questions key prosecution witness's motives .", "Stern and two doctors are charged in a drug conspiracy in Smith's 2007 death ." ]	[ 0, 9, 19 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- A quarter of Russian crops have been lost in the recent drought, leaving many farms on the brink of bankruptcy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.", "The government should prevent increases in the price of grain and fodder, which will eventually affect the prices of food products like flour, bread, meat, and milk, Medvedev said at a government agriculture meeting in the southern Russian region of Rostov.", "\"Right now, everybody is of course thinking about it -- farmers as well as officials responsible for agriculture,\" Medvedev said in comments broadcast on Russian state television.", "\"But we also understand that regular people, too, are thinking about what will happen after this extremely tough summer, how it will affect the prices on staples food.\"", "He said government authorities should closely monitor food prices on a daily basis, \"otherwise there will always be someone who would want to capitalize on this situation.", "There are such cases already.\"", "Large parts of Russia have suffered this summer from excessive heat, drought, and a spate of wildfires that have also created stifling smoke and smog.", "Hundreds have died in the combined disasters.", "Alexander Frolov, who heads the Russian meteorological service Roshydromet, said this week that virtually no rain is forecast in Russia this month.", "The situation is so bad in some regions that there is \"no reason\" to start planting winter crops, Frolov said.", "Roshydromet forecasts a 30 percent drop in Russia's harvests due to the drought, he said.", "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has already announced a ban on grain exports that will begin August 15 and could last until December 31, based on uncertainty over this year's farm production.", "Some regions won't be sowing winter grain at all this year, he said.", "Thursday, Medvedev lifted the state of emergency in three of seven Russian regions most affected by wildfires.", "The Emergency Situations Ministry said the number of areas covered by the fires has decreased 25 percent in the past day.", "The fires burning in the remaining four regions of western and central Russia are still intense, however, with tens of thousands of firefighters deployed there.", "Medvedev ordered the Emergency Situations Ministry to take addition precautions to protect \"strategic sites\" from the fires.", "CNN's Maxim Tkachenko and Matthew Chance contributed to this report." ]	[ "Medvedev says crop losses will eventually affect the prices of flour, meat, and milk .", "A quarter of the nation's crops have been lost, the Russian president says .", "Forecasters say virtually no rain is forecast in Russia this month ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck south of the Mariana Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.", "The Mariana Islands -- an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean -- are made up of two U.S. territories, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.", "The islands sit about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines.", "The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning after the quake, which struck at 7:19 a.m. Saturday (5:19 p.m.", "ET Friday). \"We wouldn't expect any kind of significant tsunami for this event,\" said the center's director, Charles McCreery, noting that the quake's magnitude was relatively low to provoke one.", "There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, emergency management officials said.", "The quake struck about 375 kilometers (233 miles) west-southwest of Hagatna, Guam, and 445 kilometers (276 miles) west-southwest of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.", "It ran 4.7 kilometers (2.9 miles) deep.", "CNN's Dan Gilgoff and Talia Kayali contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: No immediate reports of damage, casualties .", "Earthquake hits south of the Mariana Islands early Saturday .", "No tsunami warning has been issued .", "The islands are made up of two U.S. territories ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As many as four African migrants from Ethiopia and Eritrea trying to cross into Israel from Egypt's Sinai desert were shot dead by smugglers and 10 others were wounded, according to state media.", "The smugglers opened fire when the group refused to pay them, according to Egypt's official MENA news agency.", "Egypt's interior ministry confirmed that an investigation was under way into the incident, though its casualty figures differed.", "An official at the ministry told CNN that two Eritreans were killed on Egypt's border with Israel, and that three people were wounded.", "Fifteen others were arrested by Egyptian border police.", "In total, the group consisted of three-dozen African migrants attempting to flee into Israel, the official said." ]	[ "Migrants trying to flee Egypt for Israel were killed by smugglers, official media says .", "The Egyptian government is investigating the incident .", "There are conflicting reports on the number of casualties ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A defiant Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, insisted Friday that neither she nor her staff broke any House rules.", "Waters also blasted the House ethics committee for failing to schedule a trial to resolve allegations she helped steer federal bailout money to Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank -- in which her husband had a financial stake.", "She repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and insisted she will not cut a deal with the committee.", "Given the fact that the committee's investigation has now lasted for over a year, \"such a delay is unacceptable,\" she told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference that lasted over an hour.", "\"This case is about fairness,\" she said.", "Due process has been denied, and ethics investigators have ignored \"key pieces of exculpatory evidence.\"", "There was no special \"benefit, no improper action, (and) no failure to disclose,\" she declared.", "There is \"no case.\" Waters, a 10-term Los Angeles congresswoman, insisted she was merely trying to arrange assistance for the National Bankers Association, an organization representing more than 100 minority-owned banks.", "Much of my work is based on expanding \"access for those who are (traditionally) not heard by the decision makers,\" she said.", "Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, helped arrange a meeting in September 2008 between OneUnited and Treasury Department officials, according to ethics investigators.", "OneUnited Bank ultimately received $12 million in bailout funds.", "According to an ethics report, Waters' husband owned almost 4,000 shares of OneUnited stock at the time of the meeting.", "The shares had declined in value from more than $350,000 in June to $175,000 at the end of September -- the height of the Wall Street financial crisis.", "Waters, according to a separate preliminary report, called then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson \"and requested that Treasury Department officials meet with representatives\" from the NBA.", "\"A meeting was in fact granted, however, the discussion at the meeting focused on a single bank -- OneUnited.", "Rep. Waters' husband had been a board member of the bank from 2004 to 2008 and, at the time of the meeting, was a stock holder of the bank,\" the report said.", "Waters has repeatedly insisted the meeting was set up for NBA -- \"for all the minority bankers.\"", "She noted Friday that some of the meeting's participants have asserted, contrary to the conclusion of the report, that between \"60 and 75 percent\" of the conversation focused on the needs of minority banks as a whole.", "The ethics report also states that Waters approached Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, to say that she was \"in a predicament because her husband had been involved in the bank, but 'OneUnited people' were coming to her for help.\"", "Waters, \"according to [Frank] ... knew she should say no, but it bothered her.", "It was clear to [Frank] that this was a 'conflict of interest problem.'\"", "Frank's advice to Waters, the report states, was to 'stay out of it.'\"", "In an interview on the Tom Joyner Show Tuesday, Waters admitted she had spoken to Frank, but described the circumstances much differently than the report.", "\"I didn't go to him for advice. I went to him and told him, 'These are your constituents.", "They are headquartered in your district and they are now trying to find TARP.", "We're representing the National Bankers Association,'\" Waters said.", "\"So then I said, 'Perhaps you need to take a look at this' and he said, 'Fine.", "Don't worry. You don't have anything to do with this. I will take care of it.' And, as a result of that, he started to work on it.\"", "she said. Waters insisted Friday she \"would never take extraordinary steps\" to save her husband's investment in OneUnited Bank.", "She also noted that the September meeting with Treasury officials happened before the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- the pool of bailout money from which OneUnited's $12 million was drawn -- became law.", "Ethics investigators have asserted that Waters \"agreed to refrain from advocating on behalf of OneUnited,\" but failed to instruct her chief of staff, Mikael Moore, from doing so.", "Following the September 9 meeting between Treasury and National Bankers Association officials, Moore \"was actively involved in assisting OneUnited representatives with their request for capital from Treasury and crafting legislation to authorize Treasury to grant the request\" for financial assistance, the ethics report said.", "\"Reasonable\" people could construe Moore's \"continued involvement in assisting OneUnited as the dispensing of special favors or privileges to OneUnited,\" the report concluded.", "Both Waters and Moore -- who also spoke at Friday's news conference -- have denied that allegation.", "\"If you're going to wrap this all around creating these violations because I failed to supervise my staff, it doesn't hold water, they don't have any proof of that and I maintain that I want to go to trial or whatever they want to call it -- adjudicatory hearing -- because I think I don't deserve this,\" Waters said Tuesday.", "Waters is the second high-ranking Democrat now facing a public ethics trial this fall.", "New York Rep. Charlie 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.", "The prospect of inquiries into the two high-profile Democrats has compounded the fears of congressional Democrats nervous about their prospects in mid-term elections in November.", "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.", "CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Waters insists neither she nor her staff did anything wrong .", "Waters has been charged with helping a bank linked to her husband .", "Waters says she wants to go to trial .", "She is one of two prominent African-American Congressional Democrats facing ethic charges ." ]	[ 0, 1, 18, 39 ]
[ "Calgary, Canada (CNN) -- Immediately before 9-11, al Qaeda was considered almost below most Americans' notice.", "One Washington Post/ABC News poll found that in early 2002, only 14 percent of Americans thought Islam encouraged violence.", "These days, the popular perception of Islam is dominated by al Qaeda and its radical agenda.", "Al Qaeda has grown into a monster that dominates the American psyche, and many non-Muslims fear that the majority of Muslims are bent on violent takeover.", "Throughout the last decade, the mainstream majority of Muslims have seemed almost silent, but today that all changes.", "As of this writing, 38 of the 50 Islamic scholars who make up Canada's Muslim mainstream leadership have signed the Canadian Council of Imams Declaration, released today.", "More names will follow.", "These signatories will lead Muslim communities onto a path of active engagement, taking back Islam and claiming it for multicultural peace.", "Here is why: . Muslims have been part of North American society for more than 100 years.", "There have been mosques in places such as Edmonton, Alberta; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; and Buffalo, New York, since the 1930s.", "In Canada and the United States before 9-11, the growing Muslim minority was well-integrated, with higher-than-average educational attainments for both genders.", "Muslims in civic and business leadership positions went as unnoticed as members of any other successful community.", "And North America's Muslims were proud to be an integral part of North American society, because we knew it was the Muslim ideal as well.", "Radicals are working to destroy those relationships and are using the Quran to do it.", "Radicals regularly, ignorantly and blatantly abuse the Quran and the Sunnah (the acts of Mohammed that Muslims use to figure out what the revelations really mean) to promote the idea that Islam is a violent faith.", "For example, they cite a famous verse in the Quran that says, roughly, \"Fight the people of the book until they know themselves subdued,\" and use it to create fear or to support a violent agenda.", "However, here's what that verse really means.", "When Mohammed and his companions \"conquered\" the Middle East in the 7th century, the command to do so came in response to rumours of an army massing in the north that was planning to exterminate them.", "The Muslims expected a fight to the death but met people willing to live in peace, and they founded a society with rights, freedom, liberty and justice for all, regardless of race, creed or gender.", "God wasn't telling them when to fight, he was telling them when to stop.", "While the vast majority of imams today put this verse in historical perspective for their congregations, this declaration now serves to put those who would abuse it in perspective as well.", "Likewise, radicals claim Islam is anti-Semitic.", "And yet, when Jerusalem fell, Caliph Umar walked up to the gates and accepted the Catholic patriarch's demands for security, religious freedom and relative autonomy with one proviso: that those rights also be afforded to the 70 Jewish families who had been expelled by the Patriarch.", "Claims that Islam wants to destroy Christianity are answered by Caliph Umar's refusal of the patriarch's invitation to pray in the Christian cathedral, \"that later generations not declare it a mosque, so that it will remain a church forever.\"", "In fact, equality before the courts in Mohammed's time was so profound that when Muslims extorted land from a Jewish citizen and built a mosque, the caliph had the mosque destroyed and the land returned.", "Muslims around the world offer thoughts on what Islam means today .", "Western ideals are Muslim ideals.", "When al Qaeda (whose leaders are described in Muslim prophecy as \"men with the hearts of demons\") launched its 9-11 attack, the primary objective was to alienate America's Muslims from the America they love.", "Al Qaeda hoped to turn both sides away from those ideals that made both civilizations great.", "And their success at this alienation has remained woefully unchallenged until now.", "That alienation drives Muslims to criminal acts here and abroad even though they should know better, and it is driving America and Canada into repudiating every good freedom we have attained.", "Violence and rivalries have no place in faith -- any faith.", "Many Christians think they've begun the first blows of Armageddon, even though Muslims believe we're the army of the returning Christ.", "I have Jewish friends in Canada who think Palestinians are descended from Amalekites (whom Jews are commanded to exterminate), even though Midianites, Ishmaelites and other Arab monotheist tribes populate the Old Testament.", "Moses and Jacob married proto-Palestinians.", "Our religions are actually designed to help us live in peace, if you read their stories looking for something other than war.", "For the sake of peace, Islam must be claimed back from Muslims and non-Muslims alike who seek conflict.", "The Canadian Council of Imams Declaration of religious freedom, gender equity, life's sanctity and individual freedom of choice, declared by the elite of Canada's scholarly and respected religious leadership on behalf of all of Canada's mainstream Muslim communities, denies the rights of radicals to define our religion.", "It empowers the voices of Muslims who love Islam and repudiates anyone who seeks to use Islam for any purpose but peace.", "Yes, it's a big thing, and it's happening today.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Liepert." ]	[ "Dr. David Liepert: Al Qaeda has come to dominate U.S., Canadian view of Islam .", "Liepert says 50 Islamic scholars in Canada are taking back the religion from radical Muslims .", "Violence and rivalries have no place in faith -- any faith, Liepert says .", "He says declaration repudiates anyone who seeks to use Islam for any purpose but peace ." ]	[ 31, 38, 40 ]
[ "(Wired) -- Apple has announced that CEO Steve Jobs will be emceeing the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 in San Francisco.", "Continuing his trend of doing one-to-one e-mail marketing for his $43 billion (revenue) company, Jobs himself helped tout the conference with a personal e-mail to a customer over the weekend.", "The developer's conference attracts greater than usual attention because, for the past two years, Apple has used the venue to announce the latest version of its iPhone.", "Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise this year by leaking what has been confirmed by Apple legal as a prototype of the fourth-generation iPhone.", "However, in an e-mail exchange with a customer over the weekend, Jobs said the event would still pack a punch.", "\"I hope you have some good WWDC announcements to blow [Google] out of the water,\" a customer wrote to Jobs on Saturday.", "\"You won't be disappointed,\" the CEO responded, according to a report published on MacRumors.com.", "As usual, the keynote address will be held in the Moscone West conference center to kick off the five-day WWDC conference, which includes hands-on sessions for software developers to become familiar with iPhone OS 4 and Mac OS X.", "In addition to new iPhone hardware, Apple is expected to give further details on its next-generation mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.", "The company in March previewed iPhone OS 4, which introduces support for multitasking and the ability to group apps in folders, among other features.", "Apple's 5,000-seat WWDC 2010 event sold out in eight days.", "The conference is designed to recruit and educate developers supporting Apple's iPhone OS and Mac OS platforms.", "The importance of WWDC continues to increase as Apple's rivalry with Google becomes more fierce in the mobile space.", "Google last week held its sold-out Android developer conference, Google I/O, where executives spent a generous amount of time delivering potshots on Apple's iPhone platform.", "\"If Google didn't act, we face a draconian future.", "One man, one company, one device would control our future,\" Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering of Google, told attendees at the conference.", "\"If you believe in openness and choice, welcome to Android.\"", "Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com." ]	[ "Steve Jobs' keynote address will kick off Apple's five-day WWDC conference .", "\"You won't be disappointed [with my keynote],\" said the Apple CEO in an e-mail to a customer .", "Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise by leaking a prototype of the new iPhone .", "Apple is also expected to talk about its next-generation mobile operating system ." ]	[ 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- BP officials have turned to a new source for help with their oil cleanup efforts: actor Kevin Costner.", "The oil giant announced Monday that it had ordered 32 machines from Costner's company, the actor told CNN in an exclusive interview on \"AC360.\"", "The machines use a centrifuge mechanism to separate oil from water and recycle the crude at the same time, Costner said.", "\"This is the key, it's the linchpin to people going back to work.", "It's certainly a way to fight oil spills in the 21st century,\" he said.", "\"It creates an efficiency where there are no efficiencies out there, and it's been a long time coming.\"", "Costner said he had been working on developing the machine since 1992 or 1993 with the help of his brother, a scientist.", "Each machine weighs about 4,000 pounds, he said, and will allow crews to collect more oil.", "\"Skimmers are picking up 90 percent water, 10 percent oil, and they throw it into a barge ... What this machine simply does, in that particular case, will give a pure payload.", "Suddenly a barge will be coming back to shore with 99 percent oil as opposed to the other way around,\" he said.", "Got an idea to fix the oil disaster?", "Share solutions and views .", "Costner described the machine to a congressional committee last week.", "\"It may seem an unlikely scenario that I'm the one delivering this technology at this moment in time, but from where I'm sitting, it is equally inconceivable that these machines are not already in place,\" he said.", "CNN's Anderson Cooper contributed to this report." ]	[ "Actor Kevin Costner says BP has ordered 32 of his company's oil cleanup machines .", "Costner began developing machine with brother in early '90s .", "Devices use centrifuge to separate oil from water, recycle crude ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- A group of experts from around the world will Thursday hold a first of its kind conference on global catastrophic risks.", "Some experts say humans will merge with machines before the end of this century.", "They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the end of human life on earth as we know it.", "Speakers at the four-day event at Oxford University in Britain will talk about topics including nuclear terrorism and what to do if a large asteroid were to be on a collision course with our planet.", "On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens.", "\"Any entity which is radically smarter than human beings would also be very powerful,\" said Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, host of the symposium.", "\"If we get something wrong, you could imagine the consequences would involve the extinction of the human species.\"", "Bostrom is a philosopher and a leading thinker of transhumanism -- a movement that advocates not only the study of the potential threats and promises that future technologies could pose to human life but also the ways in which emergent technologies could be used to make the very act of living better.", "\"We want to preserve the best of what it is to be human and maybe even amplify that,\" Bostrom told CNN.", "Transhumanists, according to Bostrom, anticipate a coming era where biotechnology, molecular nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence and other new types of cognitive tools will be used to amplify our intellectual capacity, improve our physical capabilities and even enhance our emotional well-being.", "The end result would be a new form of \"posthuman\" life with beings that possess qualities and skills so exceedingly advanced they no longer can be classified simply as humans.", "\"We will begin to use science and technology not just to manage the world around us but to manage our own human biology as well,\" Bostrom told CNN.", "\"The changes will be faster and more profound than the very, very slow changes that would occur over tens of thousands of years as a result of natural selection and biological evolution.\"", "Bostrom declined to try to predict an exact time frame when this revolutionary biotechnological metamorphosis might occur.", "\"Maybe it will take eight years or 200 years,\" he said.", "\"It is very hard to predict.\"", "Other experts are already getting ready for what they say could be a radical transformation of the human race in as little as two decades.", "\"This will happen faster than people realize,\" said Dr. Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist who calculates technology trends using what he calls the law of accelerating returns, a mathematical concept that measures the exponential growth of technological evolution.", "In the 1980s Kurzweil predicted that a tiny handheld device would be invented sometime early in the 21st century allowing blind people to read documents from anywhere at anytime -- earlier this year such a device was publicly unveiled.", "He also anticipated the explosive growth of the Internet in the 1990s.", "Now Kurzweil is predicting the impending arrival of something called the Singularity, which he defines in his book on the subject as \"the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots.\"", "\"There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality,\" he writes.", "Singularity will approach at an accelerating rate as human-created technologies become exponentially smaller and increasingly powerful and as fields such as biology and medicine are understood more and more in terms of information processes that can be simulated with computers.", "By the 2030s, Kurzweil tells CNN, humans will become more non-biological than biological, capable of uploading our minds onto the Internet, living in various virtual worlds and even avoiding aging and evading death.", "In the 2040s, Kurzweil predicts non-biological intelligence will be billions of times better than the biological intelligence humans have today, possibly rendering our present brains as obsolete.", "\"Our brains are a million times slower than electronics,\" said Kurzweil.", "\"We will increasingly become software entities if you go out enough decades.\"", "This movement towards the merger of man and machine, according to Kurzweil, is already starting to happen and is most visible in the field of biotechnology.", "As scientists gain deeper insights into the genetic processes that underlie life, they are able to effectively reprogram human biology through the development of new forms of gene therapies and medications capable of turning on or off enzymes and RNA interference, or gene silencing.", "\"Biology and health and medicine used to be hit or miss,\" said Kurzweil.", "\"It wasn't based on any coherent theory about how it works.\"", "The emerging biotechnology revolution will lead to at least a thousand new drugs that could do anything from slow down the process of aging to reverse the onset of diseases, like heart disease and cancer, Kurzweil said.", "By 2020, Kurzweil predicts a second revolution in the area of nanotechnology.", "According to his calculations, it is already showing signs of exponential growth as scientists begin test first generation nanobots that can cure Type 1 diabetes in rats or heal spinal cord injuries in mice.", "One scientist is developing something called a respirocyte -- a robotic red blood cell that, if injected into the bloodstream, would allow humans to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath or sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for hours at a time.", "Other researchers are developing nanoparticles that can locate tumors and one day possibly even eradicate them.", "And some Parkinson's patients now have pea-sized computers implanted in their brains that replace neurons destroyed by the disease -- new software can be downloaded to the mini computers from outside the human body.", "\"Nanotechnology will not just be used to reprogram but to transcend biology and go beyond its limitations by merging with non-biological systems,\" Kurzweil told CNN.", "\"If we rebuild biological systems with nanotechnology, we can go beyond its limits.\"", "The final revolution leading to the advent of Singularity will be the creation of artificial intelligence, or superintelligence, which, according to Kurzweil, could be capable of solving many of our biggest threats, like environmental destruction, poverty and disease.", "\"A more intelligent process will inherently outcompete one that is less intelligent, making intelligence the most powerful force in the universe,\" writes Kurzweil.", "Yet the invention of so many high-powered technologies and the possibility of merging these new technologies with humans may pose both peril and promise for the future of mankind.", "\"I think there are grave dangers,\" said Kurzweil.", "\"Technology has always been a double-edged sword.\"", ".................................................................................... Do you think technology will allow humans to transcend biology in the future?", "Would you be comfortable with altering your biology?", "Should humans try to reprogram their genetics?", "What do you think the future looks like for mankind and machines?", "Share your thoughts in the Sound Off box below." ]	[ "Nick Bostrom says technology will let humans manipulate their own biology .", "Ray Kurzweil predicts humans will be mostly non-biological by around 2030 .", "Biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics could merge mankind with machines ." ]	[ 1, 24, 37 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- It is a familiar refrain to hear the earth and its resources being described as precious and that climate change is, and will, prove extremely costly.", "The Iwokrama Reserve covers 370,000 hectares of the Guiana Shield.", "It is one of the four remaining rainforest regions of the world.", "But historically, no one has attempted to put a market value on nature's eco-systems and the services they provide.", "Until now. Last month, a deal was struck between London-based venture capital company, Canopy Capital and the Iwokrama International Center for Rainforest Conservation and Development (IIC) in Guyana, South America.", "According to Canopy Capital this isn't a deal about buying up land.", "Neither has it anything to do with carbon trading.", "Andrew Mitchell, Director of the Global Canopy Program (GCP) and a partner in Canopy Capital, says the deal is about; \"creating a whole new paradigm for the way in which the world economy values the environment.\"", "What Canopy Capital is saying is that the rainforests provide us with a service that benefits us all.", "Not only do rainforests naturally store carbon, they also provide the means for economic stability for the indigenous population, the surrounding regions and further afield.", "Like everything else, these natural services should and will, they hope, have a value.", "HRH The Prince of Wales, who is a patron of the IIC, has described the rainforests as: \"Giant global utilities providing an essential service to humanity on a vast scale.\"", "He thinks that the value of the world's forests is not properly understood and therefore not paid for.", "Seen from this perspective, Canopy Capital's new investors might be on to a good thing.", "Founded in 1996, the IIC has historically been devoted to scientific research, pioneering the sustainable use of rainforests, as well as encouraging eco-tourism.", "The intention now is to create a new commercial business model marketing its assets which will preserve its long term future.", "The prize asset is the 370,000 hectares of the Iwokrama Reserve, which lies in the heart of the Guiana Shield -- a vast area of tropical forest which stretches over 2.5 million square kilometers across the north-east of South America, crossing six state borders.", "It was gifted to the Commonwealth for the purposes of research in 1989.", "Canopy Capital, who announced the deal at the world's first 'Biodiversity and Ecosystem Finance Conference' in New York, currently has a dozen investors who collectively hold an 80 percent stake in the company.", "The remaining 20 percent is held by the GCP.", "An alliance of 29 scientific institutions conducting research into forest canopy, the GCP has been evolving the concept of canopy eco-system services for the past eight years.", "Discussion started within the scientific community, then moved on to involve environmental economists.", "The final step was to approach the financial community to see if there was a market for eco-services.", "It was here that the idea took off. GCP Director Andrew Mitchell met up with Hylton Philipson -- a former investment banker.", "Philipson shared Mitchell's passion for rainforest conservation and set about trying to work out whether such a project would be economically viable.", "Before setting up Canopy Capital together, they worked on the Amazonas Initiative -- a project in Brazil's largest state to preserve the rainforests and their inhabitants.", "Mitchell, who combines his work at Canopy Capital and the GCP with research at Oxford University's Zoology Department, has been studying tropical forests -- in particular their canopy -- for 35 years.", "He believes that the new concept can capitalize on the growing fear in the financial markets that climate change is going to be far more costly in the future if we don't act now.", "\"Markets are driven by fear and greed,\" he told CNN, \"and the fear factor has become greater and greater as the science gets better and better.\"", "He says that the rainforests are a global utility and should be treated as such.", "\"It's like a local power station.", "We don't really know how it works, but we all enjoy the electricity when we turn the lights on.", "But if you don't pay the bill you get cut off,\" he said.", "It might be easy to measure the output from a power station, but how do you define and measure the benefits of a rainforest?", "One way, Mitchell says, is to model what would happen if the remaining big rainforests utilities -- Guiana Shield, Amazonia, the Congo Basin and Indonesia -- weren't there.", "\"One of the scenarios produced by Ron Avissar of Duke University shows that if you remove the Amazonia, you see rainfall reductions in Mid-West America at different times of the year.", "If you remove them from the Congo Basin you see changes in rainfall reductions in Uzbekistan and parts of Russia.", "This would affect our ability to provide food.\"", "Mitchell said.", "Reduced Amazon rainfall could also have devastating effects closer to home.", "Brazil is a nation highly dependent on hydro-power for electricity generation.", "In 2004, over 83 percent came from hydro-power.", "For them, less rain would literally mean less power.", "The destruction of rainforests pose a threat to energy and food security over a vast area, affecting millions of lives.", "\"Governments have a role to play,\" said Mitchell, \"but so do markets.\"", "Canopy Capital is currently producing an audit of the Iwokrama rainforest.", "Mitchell estimates that the Reserve could be storing up to around 80 million tons of CO2, but he says it's difficult to work out exact values for rainforests right now.", "There are threats to the Iwokrama Reserve -- a road running through the Reserve is due to be widened -- but Mitchell thinks that overall, the dangers are relatively low.", "And with the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, committed to the idea of the international community intervening in forest life, in return for environmental protection and aid, the prospects for Canopy Capital so far look good.", "\"We're going to have to invest in the earth's life support systems,\" Mitchell said.", "\"What's the point of making a machine to capture carbon out of the atmosphere when rainforests do it for free?", "It's cheaper to maintain that than to build a new one.\"", "But Simon Counsell, Director of the UK charity The Rainforest Foundation sounded a note of caution about the proposal.", "\"We're fairly skeptical about these ideas of trading in eco-system services or in the carbon that is stored in rainforests as an effective way of protecting them,\" he told CNN.", "\"What we have found over the years is that the only effective way to protect the long term future of rainforests is to ensure that the people who live in and around the forest get some benefit in it staying.", "And it's not clear how the local people are going to benefit,\" Counsell said.", "Counsell pointed out that traditional carbon trading benefits tend to accrue to the traders, the middle-men, the investors and speculators.", "\"The hope is that there will be markets for these vaguely defined eco-services.", "Whether this is going to be the case with the Iwokrama project we just don't know yet, because there are no details of who is going to get what from it.\"" ]	[ "New deal attempts to put a market value on nature's eco-systems and its services .", "Rainforests viewed as giant global utilities providing service to humanity .", "Reductions in Amazon rainfall could affect the American Mid-West .", "Canopy Capital argue markets and Governments must play a role in climate change ." ]	[ 3, 11, 36, 44 ]
[ "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 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.", "Lebanon's southern border with Israel (VBS.TV) -- Deposited along Lebanon's southern border with Israel are vast numbers of American-made cluster bombs buried beneath the grasses of the region's valleys.", "Originally used by the Israeli military to combat Hezbollah forces firing rockets across the border, the bombs impacted in the soil were being ferreted out by a small U.N. team from the French battalion.", "Eddy Moretti, VBS's creative director, and a small film crew donned camouflaged PPO -- protective personal equipment -- and tagged along on one of their minesweeping missions in October 2007.", "We were brought first to an abandoned soccer field.", "Yellow rope was strung around the field and the surrounding forest, indicating areas that had already been cleared.", "One soldier stood over a patch of grass and a small pile of scrap metal.", "\"This morning, we started here at 6:00.", "Two hours later,\" he said, pointing to a the yellow rope four feet farther into the forest, \"we are here.\"", "The team estimates that it has scanned about 18 percent of the area that the Israeli army blanketed in cluster bombs during the conflicts with Hezbollah.", "Every time a single bomb is launched, it releases dozens of submunitions that fall across the landscape, many of which fail to detonate and now cover about 12,500 square meters of the region.", "By the time we met up with the team, it had retrieved 53 submunitions.", "They believe that approximately 1 million of the parent bombs are hidden in Lebanon's southern valleys alone.", "Procedurally, the task is daunting: Inch by inch, they push forward, chopping the long grasses with garden shears to increase ground visibility and then running over the area slowly with minesweepers.", "The minesweepers are handheld devices that look like typical metal detectors, emitting a variety of high-pitched whines that vary depending on the density of the ground.", "This day, the team pushed on together slowly, sensitive to each of the various frequencies and graciously telling us as soon as they found something.", "By the end of the afternoon, they had unearthed a single submunition -- not a bad haul by any stretch.", "It was a 155-millimeter explosive about the size of a fist.", "This represents just one of 88 submunitions that are held inside each American-made cluster bomb.", "The team detonated the explosive, surrounding it with sandbags and standing a safe distance away.", "After the explosion, Eddy surveyed a large hunk of detonated submunition: \"Two lives saved?\"", "The French U.N. team leader nodded.", "\"Yes, two lives.", "Or two legs.\" See more of this story at VBS.TV." ]	[ "Bombs buried in the soil along Lebanon's southern border with Israel were ferreted out .", "Small U.N. team from the French battalion assigned to remove cluster bombs .", "Team estimates it's scanned about 18 percent of the area blanketed in cluster bombs ." ]	[ 5, 12 ]
[ "\"Pikachu, I choose you!\"", "With those words, 400 Pokémon players from 26 countries around the world will vie Saturday and Sunday for the title of World Champion in the 2010 Pokémon Video Game Championships in Kona, Hawaii.", "Kids and teens compete in two age groups by playing the \"Pokémon HeartGold\" and \"SoulSilver\" versions of the titles available on the Nintendo DS console.", "U.S. champions and qualifiers will do battle against winners from competitions in Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain.", "The U.S. competition started in May and lasted two months before crowning 11-year-old Wade Stanley of San Diego, California, and 16-year-old Wesley Morioka, of Chicago, Illinois, as champions in the Juniors and Seniors age groups.", "The Pokémon universe is made up of more than 490 creatures that players can find, capture, train, trade, collect and use in battle against their rivals in the quest to become Pokémon Trainers.", "Each Pokémon is classified by a specific type -- such as Fire, Water, Grass, Psychic, and Fighting -- and each has its own set of strengths and weaknesses to create a rock-paper-scissors-style balance.", "In the video games, players collect and befriend Pokémon from the wild and train them to battle each other.", "Pokémon are never seriously harmed in these battles; they merely faint, returning to their Poké Balls to rest and be fully healed at a later time.", "The Pokémon video game franchise has continued to enjoy great success since its inception in Japan in 1996 for the GameBoy handheld console.", "It arrived on the shores of the United States two years later and spawned a craze that created cartoons, card games, movies and more than 20 more video game titles.", "It is the second most successfulvideo game franchise of all time (Mario is first) with more than 207 million games sold worldwide.", "Their recent titles, \"HeartGold\" and \"SoulSilver,\" have sold 8.4 million copies worldwide, including 2.2 million in the U.S., since their release in March 2010.", "JC Smith, director of marketing for Pokémon, says the lasting draw of the game is its characters and storyline.", "\"The games provide a type of way to experience the world -- the story of adventure, training, being the best,\" Smith said.", "\"It is a compelling world that draws players in.\"", "Smith said the franchise allows players to play seriously but still have fun.", "He said there are players who like the strategy and the competition of the battle as well as collectors who enjoy exploring the vast Pokémon world in an attempt to \"catch them all.\"", "Junior Champ Wade Stanley said he just thought it was fun.", "\"I've been playing for about three years and I'm 11 years old now,\" Stanley said.", "\"It just looked good for my age at the time and I was just having fun.\"", "Senior Champ Wesley Morioka \"blames\" his uncle and aunt for getting him hooked on Pokémon 11 years ago.", "\"I received my first GameBoy as a present from my uncle and aunt from Texas when we went down to visit them,\" Morioka said.", "\"As we started to play the games we got with it, we decided to stop at a store to buy other games and we saw Pokémon and decided to buy it.\"", "Both Stanley and Morioka said they put a lot of thought into their Pokémon teams for the competitions and practice against older siblings because no one their own ages will play them.", "\"The only person who will battle is my sister, Tiffany,\" who is 17, Stanley said.", "\"Because everyone else is going to lose.\"", "Morioka thinks he's put in about 2,000 to 3,000 hours of actual game play over the past 11 years, not counting time spent researching, planning and practicing.", "He said battling against unknown people makes the game fun for him.", "\"I love the whole anticipation for upcoming tournaments and to see how the training, time, and effort finish at the end of the day,\" he said.", "Smith said the competitions give the kids a sense of purpose for all the hours of play they put into Pokémon.", "At the events, the kids enjoy being around people who love the same thing they do.", "\"The depth of the game is unbelievable,\" Smith said.", "\"Side quests, collecting, there is just so much to keep you entertained and [make you] fall in love with the characters.\"", "Last year, Jeremiah Fan of San Jose, California, defeated Japan's Santa Ito for first place in the Junior Division.", "In Senior Division, Japanese champion Kazuyuki Tsuji beat teammate Tasuku Mano for first place.", "Morioka was confident about bringing home the Senior Division trophy, but Stanley was a little less confident about his chances for the Juniors title.", "\"I feel like I'm going to get matched up against the Japanese who always do well,\" he said.", "\"But I'm going to prepare and I'm going to be ready.\"", "Pokémon has been holding championship tournaments for its video game version and the trading card version since 2004." ]	[ "Hawaii will play host to hundreds hoping to be world Pokémon video game champions .", "Pokémon launched in 1996 in Japan, two years later in the United States .", "U.S. champ has put in as many as 3,000 hours on Pokémon, is confident he can win worlds .", "Creators say Pokémon games appeal to serious and casual players alike ." ]	[ 1, 9, 21, 26, 27 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Amid ominous economic forecasts and repeated bleak reports about America's financial future, messages of hope can be hard to come by.", "New billboards offer upbeat messages to get people to stay positive during the recession.", "One advertising campaign, dubbed \"Recession 101,\" has hit the nation's roadsides with an array of slogans aimed at getting people to think optimistically during the recession.", "The economic \"lessons,\" which include such catchphrases such as \"self worth beats net worth,\" and \"stop obsessing about the economy, you're scaring the children,\" started going up in May and now number around 2,000 postings across the country, according to Jeff Golimowski of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.", "Members of the OAAA donated printing, materials and billboard space, while a private anonymous donor paid for the campaign's design, Golimowski said.", "Recession 101 currently exists in more than 30 states, among them Michigan and Rhode Island, which have been hit particularly hard by the current economic downturn.", "The clever expressions, presented on backdrops meant to look like lined notepad paper, can be found on digital billboards, traditional billboards and posters.", "\"This will end long before those who started it are paroled,\" one billboard reads.", "Most of the mottos do not take a cynical view, though.", "\"Recession 101 isn't selling anything other than the American spirit,\" the campaign's Web site reads." ]	[ "Recession billboards offer upbeat messages during rough economic times .", "Ad campaign pops up in 30 states, including hard-hit Michigan, Rhode Island .", "Anonymous donor paid for campaign's design ." ]	[ 1, 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- New Orleans architect Mark Ripple only plays the occasional game of poker, but he's willing to put all his chips on the table and risk at least $150,000 on somebody else's dream.", "That's the estimated value of in kind contributions that Ripple, his partners and consultants are donating to build what's been dubbed the 9th Ward Field of Dreams -- a community track and athletic field in part of the city hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina more than four years ago.", "When it's all said and done next summer, his firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple will have given an estimated 500 man-hours toward a $2-million project that's become a symbol of community recovery.", "\"The hurricane was such a transformational experience,\" said Ripple, an architect for 30 years and a lifelong New Orleans resident.", "When Katrina flooded Ripple's family home under 8 feet of water, it changed him.", "When he found himself accepting help from friends who ripped out useless drywall, swept out mud and tossed ruined beds through the windows, it changed him.", "\"I went through this with my wife and kids in a house that I built and renovated with my own two hands,\" he said.", "Storm damage forced his firm to take up temporary offices in another city an hour away.", "\"When that routine is ripped away from you, you get a different appreciation for what it means in your life.", "You get a better understanding of how important that is to who you are and what you do.", "You can't really appreciate that until it's been taken from you.\"", "Like many other residents, the pain gave way to a mission.", "Brian Bordainick, a 24-year-old athletic director at Carver High School in the 9th Ward, made his pitch to Ripple and his partners: Help build a new stadium for the neighborhood, and make a powerful statement about New Orleans' ability to overcome Katrina by working together as a community.", "\"The rebuilding of this broken city is a very emotional thing for me and I'm very passionate about it,\" said Ripple.", "\"So it was another way to recover our life and regain what we had prior to the storm.\"", "The sports facilities at Carver -- once a perennial football powerhouse -- were devastated by Katrina.", "Like many of the city's schools, enrollment plummeted after the storm as residents fled and never returned.", "Students now attend classes in eight portable trailers.", "The football team practices in an abandoned lot.", "In late 2008, Bordainick went to work -- online and in New Orleans executive offices -- rallying support for a new neighborhood track and field facility paid for with thousands of individual and corporate donations of time, services, materials and cash.", "\"Those of us over 50 often become jaded,\" said Ripple.", "\"People say you can't do this and you can't do that -- it's just so refreshing to have somebody Brian's age step up and ask the basic question, 'Why the hell not?'\"", "\"It's really interesting to see why certain people come to the table,\" said Bordainick.", "\"Mark was one of those guys from the get-go who wanted to help out, and he just happened to be an architect.", "He was a guy first and foremost who believed what this could do for the city and he was like, 'Oh yeah, and I happen to have an architectural company that we can use to help further this goal.'\"", "By the time Ripple -- a former wrestler at Jesuit High School -- heard Bordainick's pitch, he was committed.", "Both of Ripple's older brothers were multisport athletes who played football in high school and college.", "\"Athletics can teach kids discipline, commitment, perseverance, goal-setting, and give kids a social outlet, a sense of belonging and improved self- esteem,\" Ripple said.", "A neighborhood sports facility would only do more to foster these values among 9th Ward kids, he said.", "According to Bordainick, Ripple's community status brought credibility to the project early on.", "At the same time, Bordainick said, Ripple has completely given himself over to the cause.", "\"If you talk to him about the project for 20 or 30 minutes, he's going to start to cry,\" said Bordainick, who came to New Orleans after Katrina as part of the nonprofit Teach for America program.", "\"He's that type of guy.\" Big gamble .", "But as the clock ticks toward the disaster's fifth anniversary, it's apparent Ripple and his partners have invested in a big gamble.", "Although the school expects to kick off its opening football game at the new field on Katrina's August anniversary, the project remains about $700,000 short of its goal.", "And Bordainick insists construction will not begin as planned in March until 100 percent of the funds are raised.", "\"We don't want the project to stall after we break ground,\" said Bordainick.", "\"If we stall, we may lose momentum and the project never finishes.\"", "Under a worst-case scenario, the hundreds of work hours, countless resources and materials donated by Ripple's firm could yield zero results unless all $2 million of the project's estimated price tag is raised by Valentine's Day.", "\"As far as I'm concerned, to use a poker analogy, we're all in,\" laughs Ripple.", "\"Sometimes what it takes is just perseverance and pushing and pushing, even when it gets fatiguing.", "It's worth the risk.", "We're gonna make it happen.\"", "Long before the storm, Ripple and his partners had established their firm as a highly respected regional player in architecture and design -- jointly renovating and expanding the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Fair Grounds Race Course and the Aquarium of the Americas.", "Four years after Katrina , the business of architecture in New Orleans has taken on a different tone, said Ripple.", "\"Architects can be a catalyst for change in the community and they can make a difference.", "And I had never thought of architecture in those terms until after the storm.\"", "In addition to the Field of Dreams, other Eskew+Dumez+Ripple projects are directly connected to erasing the results of Katrina's wrath.", "The firm is part of a joint venture to build a new federal Veterans Affairs hospital to replace one severely damaged in the storm.", "In another high-profile project, partner Allen Eskew plays a key role in the city's post-Katrina reconstruction planning.", "The storm has been a boon to the local construction and renovation industry, a sharp contrast to the national construction business as a whole, which has been slowed by economic recession.", "Ripple's grateful for the boom -- in part because it helps the firm offset pro-bono work.", "\"In that regard, the Field of Dreams project hasn't hurt us tremendously financially because we do have enough work volume to absorb that cost,\" Ripple said.", "Green designs .", "Over the summer, plans for the field have solidified, including design components that are environmentally friendly.", "If completed, the Field of Dreams would be among the greenest facilities of its kind in the nation, said Bordainick.", "Special drainage will help protect the area around the stadium from storm water runoff, said Ripple.", "Katrina illustrated all too well that New Orleans is susceptible to flooding.", "Actor Brad Pitt's New Orleans recovery group, Make It Right, has some experience with drainage issues, Ripple said, and Pitt's organization is consulting on the project with partner Steve Dumez.", "Stadium plans call for field lights which will be carbon-neutral and operate at half the cost of traditional lights.", "Outbuildings on the property will have vegetation on the roofs, helping keep the buildings cooler and reducing energy consumption.", "One especially innovative feature under consideration is a running track surface made from recycled athletic shoes.", "Nike, which has donated $100,000 toward construction of the field, has developed a synthetic material called Nike Grind consisting of ground-up rubber and polyurethane from discarded shoes.", "\"It's a very scary time for our project right now,\" said Bordainick.", "\"We have a lot of money left to raise and our timelines are real.\"", "Describing the emotional pull that drew Ripple to make such a total commitment to Bordainick's dream, the architect said, \"There's a deeper meaning that projects take on when you feel like you're serving a larger purpose.\"" ]	[ "Architect whose home was flooded by Katrina works pro-bono to build $2-million high school stadium .", "\"There's a deeper meaning ... when you feel like you're serving a larger purpose,\" he says .", "Firm's $150k donation may be fruitless if funds aren't raised in time .", "\"It's a very scary time for our project right now,\" says school athletic director ." ]	[ 25, 63, 65 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Serial killing suspect Elias Abuelazam agreed in an Atlanta courtroom Friday to be sent back to Michigan to face charges.", "Abuelazam did not appear in court for a second hearing, which had been scheduled because his lawyer had not arrived in time to attend the first.", "His attorney, Edwar Zeineh, agreed to allow his client to return to Michigan, where the lawyer is based.", "\"We look forward at this point for the criminal justice process to commence ... and in the end provide a result,\" Zeineh told reporters outside the courthouse.", "Abuelazam is suspected of slashing 18 victims in three states, killing five.", "He is charged in Michigan with one count of assault with intent to commit murder, Zeineh said.", "Abuelazam agreed in Friday's first hearing to waive an extradition hearing, a court proceeding in which Michigan would have made its case on why he should be returned and Abuelazam could have argued why he should not.", "The towering suspect, dressed in a black jail jumpsuit, seemed confused in the morning session as to what the hearing was about and what his options were.", "At one point he asked Fulton County Superior Court Magistrate Judge Richard Hicks what extradition means.", "Michigan authorities will have 15 working days to pick him up and deliver him to the state.", "Tracy Flanagan, an official with the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, said the extradition paperwork on Abuelazam is complete.", "\"The suspect is ready for pickup by Michigan authorities and they have been notified.", "No word on when they're coming.", "This all depends on how quickly they can coordinate transport,\" Flanagan said.", "Abuelazam, an Israeli citizen living legally in the United States, was arrested Wednesday night at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.", "He was trying to board a flight to Israel when he was taken into custody, police said.", "Police had Abuelazam in custody twice in the past month, both within hours of when stabbings were reported, but he was released.", "Police say he hadn't been linked to the bloody attacks at the time.", "He was arrested on August 5 after a traffic stop and on July 29 for giving alcohol to a minor, according to authorities and court documents.", "During the traffic stop in Arlington, Virginia, police arrested him after learning that he had an outstanding warrant for assault.", "They found a knife and hammer in his car -- both weapons authorities now think were used during a string of stabbings in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio.", "One of those attacks happened in Virginia just hours after Abuelazam was released.", "Police say he had not been linked at that time to the stabbings, which began in May and continued until last weekend.", "Family members of the victims told CNN they do not blame officials for not holding Abuelazam initially.", "Stephanie Ward, a sister of one of the victims in Flint, said she couldn't understand why someone would kill her brother, Arnold Minor.", "\"Why? That's what we all want to know. How could you do that?\" she asked. Most of the stabbing victims were black.", "Although federal officials said late on Thursday it was too soon to give a motive, Leesburg, Virginia, Police Chief Joseph Price said he believed the attacker was targeting African-Americans.", "\"For our community ... when you look at our demographics and you look at the victims here, my belief is he selected the victims in Leesburg based on the color of their skin,\" Price said.", "Abuelazam also was cited by police in Michigan.", "He was fined $125 for providing alcohol to a minor on July 29, the same day an early morning stabbing was reported in the area.", "A tip eventually led Michigan police this week to a market where the suspect worked, said prosecutor David S. Leyton of Genesee County, Michigan.", "After talking with employees, police watched surveillance video to determine whether he matched the physical description of the attacker.", "In Louisville, Kentucky, authorities learned Abuelazam had bought a $3,000 ticket from Atlanta to Tel Aviv, Israel, paid for by his uncle.", "The man was traveling on an expired Israeli passport but was in the United States legally, said a federal law enforcement official involved in the investigation.", "U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said they arrested Abuelazam at 10 p.m. as he attempted to board the Delta flight bound for Tel Aviv.", "A homeland security official told CNN the National Targeting Center had found his name on the passenger list.", "Authorities have said the same person is responsible for three recent attacks in Leesburg, the stabbing deaths of five people and woundings of nine others in the Flint, Michigan, area, and a stabbing on Saturday that wounded a man in Toledo, Ohio.", "Most of the 14 victims in Michigan were African-American, police said.", "Flint is a majority African-American community.", "In majority-white Leesburg, two victims were black and one was Latino.", "Several of the victims were also developmentally disabled, police said.", "Abuelazam once worked at North Spring Behavioral Healthcare in Leesburg, the center said Friday.", "\"His employment at North Spring ended in 2008,\" Scott Zeiter, the center's chief executive, said in a statement.", "\"We understand that he may be a suspect in certain crimes committed in 2010.", "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.\"", "The Michigan attacks took place from May 24 through August 2.", "The three attacks in Virginia occurred Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of last week.", "The Michigan victims ranged in age from 17 to 60, authorities said.", "All were men, and in two cases they were people with special needs.", "The suspect is said to have approached victims who were walking during the early morning hours, asking for directions or other assistance to lure them close to his car, police said.", "Sgt. Bill Wauford of the Toledo Police Department said the method of attack in the Ohio case matched that described in the Michigan incidents.", "The five Michigan fatalities have been identified as David Motley, Emmanuel Dent, Darwin Marshall, Frank Kellybrew and Arnold Minor.", "\"We ought to remember the victims in all of this,\" prosecutor Leyton said.", "\"You have real people who have died and real families who have been torn apart.", "Our heart goes out to them.\"", "Investigators said more charges are expected.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti and Jeanne Meserve contributed to this report." ]	[ "Elias Abuelazam declined to change his plea at a second hearing .", "He is linked to 18 stabbings in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio, police say .", "Authorities say he was in custody twice before they knew he was a suspect .", "He was arrested this week at the airport in Atlanta on suspicion of killing five people ." ]	[ 15, 16, 20, 22, 36 ]
[ "(Mental Floss) -- There was a time when movie props were worthless.", "When a film wrapped, the studio would often recycle props and costumes for use in other films, or sometimes simply throw them away.", "But that's changed over the years, and now movie collectibles are a big business, with high-profile props going for hundreds of thousands of dollars.", "Unfortunately, when you start talking that kind of money, there are bound to be a few crooked characters who will do whatever it takes to get their hands on a piece of Hollywood history.", "1. Has anyone questioned the flying monkeys?", "It's believed there were six or seven pairs of Dorothy's famous ruby red slippers made for the production of the 1939 film \"The Wizard of Oz\".", "Of those, the location of four pairs is currently known, including one that resides in the Smithsonian.", "The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, had their own pair, until the shoes were stolen one night in August 2005.", "The case went cold until this past April, when police received a tip that a resident in Homer Glen, Illinois, had not only bragged about paying someone to steal the slippers, but openly displayed the shoes in a glass box.", "Police raided the alleged thief's house, but didn't find the ruby red shoes.", "For now, the case remains open, and the shoes are still at-large.", "2. \"Easy Rider\" choppers chopped .", "There are few motorcycles more iconic than the ones ridden by Peter Fonda and the late, great Dennis Hopper in their counterculture classic, \"Easy Rider.\"", "There were four custom motorcycles built for the film -- two copies of each bike, including the \"Captain America\" chopper ridden by Fonda, featuring a star-spangled fuel tank and an extra long fork for the front wheels.", "One of the Captain America bikes was destroyed during filming, while the other three motorcycles were stolen from a storage garage before the film was even in the can.", "Obviously the bikes weren't famous yet, so they were presumably stripped and sold for parts.", "The thieves left the damaged Captain America bike, which was later restored, and now resides at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.", "Mental Floss: What 10 Movie Props Later Sold For .", "3. The man without the golden gun .", "In the 1974 movie \"The Man with the Golden Gun,\" James Bond takes on Scaramanga, an expert assassin who charges $1 million per kill.", "The hitman's signature is a custom-made, solid gold gun that can be cleverly disassembled and disguised as everyday items like a cigarette case, a lighter, a pen, and a cuff link.", "There were three prop guns made for the film -- one that came apart, another that didn't come apart, and one that could fire a blank round.", "In October 2008, one of these props (it's unclear which one it was) was discovered missing from its display case at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England.", "Police still have no leads on the disappearance of the prop, worth an estimated £80,000 ($117,000) on the collector's black market.", "4. The case of the missing \"Maltese Falcon\" There were a handful of falcon statues made for the 1941 noir classic, \"The Maltese Falcon\", starring Humphrey Bogart as Dashiell Hammett's famous private eye, Sam Spade.", "Over the years, nearly all original models of the bird have been lost, making the few remaining copies very valuable -- including one that sold for nearly $400,000 in 1994.", "For promotional purposes, plaster casts of the bird were made upon the film's release, and Elisha Cook, Jr., a character actor who played a henchman in the film, got his hands on one.", "His copy of the bird was later acquired by John's Grill in San Francisco, a restaurant dedicated to Hammett, who often wrote and ate there in the 1930s.", "The replica bird was on display for years, sitting on the second floor in a display case for all to see.", "That is, of course, until the day it disappeared in 2007.", "Mental Floss: Who Invented the Gatorade shower?", "After the falcon went missing, John's Grill offered a no-questions-asked reward of $25,000 to the person who brought it back, but no one came forward.", "The owner could have easily gotten a good replacement replica off eBay for a few hundred bucks, but he took a different approach instead.", "He put the $25,000 towards the creation of a new, original design of the Maltese Falcon that is a more stylized interpretation than the one used in the 1941 film.", "The new statue is five inches taller than the original and weighs around 150 pounds, three times heavier than the plaster replica that was stolen.", "To ensure this bird doesn't go missing, it's been bolted down and is monitored 24/7 by closed-circuit cameras.", "With that much security, the next time someone messes with this Maltese Falcon, it won't take Sam Spade to crack the case.", "5. Well, that's one way to get an Oscar .", "In March 2000, a few guys got their hands on the ultimate movie collector's item when they stole 55 Oscars just days before the Academy Awards ceremony.", "Anthony Hart, a dock worker at delivery company Roadway Express, conspired with a fellow employee, truck driver Lawrence Ladent, to load 10 boxes of Oscars onto Ladent's truck.", "Ladent then took the statues to the home of accomplice John Harris for safekeeping until they could line up black market buyers.", "However, the men got spooked by the publicity surrounding the missing statues and dumped the boxes in an alleyway instead.", "Shortly after, Harris' half-brother, Willie Fulgear, found 52 of the Oscars while rummaging through the trash, looking for packing boxes to use during a move.", "After reporting his find to police, Fulgear collected a $50,000 reward from Roadway Express, but the other men didn't make out quite so well.", "Anthony Hart received the lightest sentence with three years probation.", "John Harris was sentenced to six months in jail, three years probation, and had to pay $921 to the Academy in restitution for the three missing statues.", "Lawrence Ledent was given six months in prison, five years probation, had to pay the Academy $1,050, and pay Roadway Express the full amount of the reward they offered to Fulgear.", "As for the three missing Oscars, one was found in 2003 during a Miami drug raid, but the other two are still out there somewhere.", "Mental Floss: Where 10 Oscar winners keep their statues .", "6. Big bucks in spandex .", "Apparently no one's spider-sense was tingling when crooks made off with four hand-made superhero suits from the set of the first Spider-Man film.", "Each Spider-Man costume, valued at around $50,000 a piece, disappeared from a locked building on the Sony Pictures lot, leading authorities to believe it was an inside job.", "Police received a tip from the ex-wife of a former security guard at Sony, Jeffrey Gustafson, who said he might be involved in the theft.", "Police searched Gustafson's home and found records indicating that one costume was at a friend's house, two were traced to a collector in New York, and the last one was in the collection of a man in Japan.", "Adding to Gustafson's woes, police also found in his home a mannequin dressed in a $150,000 Batman costume that went missing from the Warner Bros. lot in 1996.", "Not coincidentally, Gustafson worked as a security guard at Warner Bros. at the time.", "For stealing the Spidey suits, Gustafson got 9 months in jail, 5 years probation, and had to pay $93,000 in restitution.", "Mental Floss: Strange robberies: Madonna's bustier .", "7. Do collectors dream of rubber handguns?", "As he's hunting android replicants in a dystopian future, \"Blade Runner's\" Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, carries a strange-looking handgun that has captivated sci-fi fans for decades.", "The prop was custom-made using pieces from real firearms, including a bolt action from a rifle, two triggers, various knobs and dials, and even LED lights.", "To prevent their very expensive, one-of-a-kind prop from breaking, the producers made two solid rubber copies that were indistinguishable from the original at a distance, and could be knocked around during stunt scenes without getting damaged.", "But during the shoot, one of the dummy guns went missing and was never seen again.", "Oddly enough though, about a month after the film was released, highly accurate plastic replicas of Deckard's gun began appearing for sale on the collector's market.", "These knock-offs were so close to the ones used in the film that they must have been created using molds taken from the missing, now presumed stolen, dummy gun.", "While it's certain the thief made a pretty penny by selling the dummy gun, he would have surely been better off stealing the custom-made gun instead -- it sold at auction in 2009 for $270,000.", "Mental Floss: 10 weird pieces of unclaimed luggage .", "For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .", "Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "James Bond assassin Scaramanga had a golden gun that went missing .", "Three of the \"Easy Rider\" choppers were stolen before that film was released .", "Four hand-made superhero suits were stolen from the set of the first Spider-Man film .", "Two rubber copies of \"Blade Runner's\" strange-looking handgun were taken ." ]	[ 11, 14, 19, 50, 58 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, who is under investigation by the House ethics committee, said Tuesday she has not been given due process and she \"will not be a sacrificial lamb for anyone.\"", "The 10-term congresswoman is alleged to have helped steer federal bailout money to a bank in which her husband had a financial stake.", "In a radio interview with CNN contributor Roland S. Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Waters said she is \"not guilty of any violations\" and she \"want[s] to go to trial.\"", "The House ethics committee released a report Monday detailing three counts against Waters and rejected her request for the charges to be dismissed.", "The 71-year-old Waters has been pushing the ethics panel to set a trial date before the midterm elections in November.", "But she told Martin Tuesday she doesn't expect that request to be granted.", "\"That's one of the issues of not having due process.", "When in the heck are you going to set up this hearing?", "We are on break and we don't think it's going to be before the November election,\" she said.", "Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, helped arrange a meeting in September, 2008, between Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank and Treasury Department officials, according to ethics investigators.", "OneUnited Bank ultimately received $12 million in bailout funds.", "According to the report, Waters' husband owned almost 4,000 shares of OneUnited stock at the time of the meeting.", "The shares had declined in value from more than $350,000 in June to $175,000 at the end of September -- the height of the Wall Street financial crisis.", "Waters, according to a separate preliminary report, called then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson \"and requested that Treasury Department officials meet with representatives from the National Bankers Association,\" an organization representing more than 100 minority-owned banks.", "\"A meeting was in fact granted, however, the discussion at the meeting focused on a single bank -- OneUnited.", "Rep. Waters' husband had been a board member of the bank from 2004 to 2008 and, at the time of the meeting, was a stock holder of the bank,\" the report said.", "But Waters reiterated Tuesday that \"the meeting was set up for NBA -- for all the minority bankers.", "Just like you have a representative for the chamber of commerce or for the Realtors, etc., that's what the meeting was for.\"", "She said Kevin Cohee, OneUnited's chairman and chief executive officer, spoke up at the meeting, \"and said, 'I'm an example of what's happening with minority banks' and went on to try and make his case for the fact that OneUnited was losing $50 million that they had invested in Fannie Mae.\"", "\"It just so happens that some of the officers -- at least one of the officers of OneUnited Bank -- happens to be the chairman of the NBA (National Bankers Association),\" the congresswoman said.", "The report also states that Waters approached Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, to say that she was \"in a predicament because her husband had been involved in the bank, but 'OneUnited people' were coming to her for help.\"", "Waters, \"according to (Frank) ... knew she should say no, but it bothered her.", "It was clear to (Frank) that this was a 'conflict of interest problem.'\"", "Frank's advice to Waters, the report states, was to 'stay out of it.'\"", "In the Tom Joyner Show interview Tuesday, Waters admitted she had spoken to Frank, but described the circumstances much differently than the report.", "\"I didn't go to him for advice. I went to him and told him, 'These are your constituents.", "They are headquartered in your district and they are now trying to find TARP.", "We're representing the National Bankers Association,'\" Waters said.", "\"So then I said, 'Perhaps you need to take a look at this' and he said, 'Fine.", "Don't worry. You don't have anything to do with this. I will take care of it.' And, as a result of that, he started to work on it.\"", "she said. The report released Monday stated that Waters \"agreed to refrain from advocating on behalf of OneUnited,\" but failed to instruct her chief of staff, Mikael Moore, from doing so.", "Following the September 9 meeting between Treasury and National Bankers Association officials, Moore \"was actively involved in assisting OneUnited representatives with their request for capital from Treasury and crafting legislation to authorize Treasury to grant the request\" for financial assistance, the report said.", "\"Reasonable\" people could construe Moore's \"continued involvement in assisting OneUnited as the dispensing of special favors or privileges to OneUnited,\" the report concluded.", "Waters refuted that allegation as well Tuesday.", "\"If you're going to wrap this all around creating these violations because I failed to supervise my staff, it doesn't hold water, they don't have any proof of that and I maintain that I want to go to trial or whatever they want to call it -- adjudicatory hearing -- because I think I don't deserve this,\" she said.", "Waters is the second high-ranking Democrat now facing a public ethics trial this fall.", "New York Rep. Charlie 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.", "The prospect of inquiries into the two high-profile Democrats has compounded the fears of congressional Democrats nervous about their prospects in mid-term elections in November.", "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.", "Waters alluded to race Tuesday on Joyner's show, which is broadcast over the Internet on BlackAmericaWeb.com.", "\"The OCE (Office of Congressional Ethics) is poorly constructed.", "You don't know who is charging you with what or brought a claim against you or who brought the information to the OCE... of all the information claimed or accusations brought to them, they think that African-Americans are the only ones who they move further with investigation on,\" she said.", "CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Rep. Maxine Waters refutes allegations of ethical improprieties .", "Waters has been charged with helping a bank linked to her husband .", "Waters says she wants to go to trial .", "She is one of two prominent African-American Congressional Democrats facing ethic charges ." ]	[ 2, 15 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced some far-reaching proposals Monday for restructuring the massive budget at his agency, including getting rid of the U.S. Joint Forces Command.", "The cuts could mean a loss of thousands of jobs.", "The current Defense Department budget totals more than $530 billion a year, and defense officials believe they need increases of 2 to 3 percent a year to sustain the force structure and meet modernization needs.", "However, the recession caused the department to propose a 1 percent budget increase for next year, and the cuts announced Monday were intended to help hold down overall costs.", "\"We must be mindful of the difficult economic and fiscal situation facing our nation,\" Gates told reporters at the Pentagon.", "\"As a matter of principle and political reality, the Department of Defense cannot expect America's elected representatives to approve budget increases each year unless we are doing a good job, indeed, everything possible to make every dollar count.\"", "Gate's acknowledged the plan was \"politically fraught,\" and congressional criticism began even before Gates was finished announcing the moves.", "The proposal to eliminate the Joint Forces Command, which is based in Norfolk, Virginia, met with opposition from both the state's U.S. Democratic senators.", "Sen. Jim Webb released a statement saying getting rid of it \"would be a step backward and could be harmful\" to the military, while Sen. Mark Warner said: \"I can see no rational basis for dismantling\" the Joint Forces Command.", "The command, which has an annual budget of $240 million and 2,800 military and civilian employees, is one of the department's 10 \"combatant commands.\"", "Unlike most of the others, it does not have a particular global region of responsibility, such as Central Command that is responsible for the Middle East.", "The command is made up of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are trained and equipped to work together in response to the needs of other combatant commands.", "It grew out of the old Atlantic Command and became the Joint Forces Command in 1999.", "Gen. James Mattis had been commander until he was recently picked to become Centcom commander.", "Gen. Raymond Odierno, currently head of U.S. forces in Iraq, has been picked to run the Joint Forces Command.", "\"I told Ray that his assignment at JFCOM is essentially the same as his assignment in Iraq, and that is working himself out of a job.\"", "Gates said.", "Eliminating the Joint Forces Command is just one of a wide-ranging series of proposals presented by Gates.", "Others include: .", "-- Eliminating some of the 65 military boards and commissions to cut the budget for them by 25 percent in fiscal year 2011; .", "-- A review of all Defense Department intelligence to eliminate needless duplication; .", "-- Eliminating the Defense Department's Business Transformation Agency, which has day-to-day oversight of acquisition programs that would be handled by others in the department; .", "-- Reducing funding for service support contractors by 10 percent a year for each of the next three years; .", "-- Freezing the number of jobs in the Officer of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Agencies and Combatant Commands at current levels; .", "-- Seeking to stop \"brass creep,\" a term former Sen. John Glenn used for situations when higher-ranking officers were doing jobs that lower ranking officers could handle.", "To address that problem, Gates is ordering a freeze on the number of generals, admirals and senior civilian officials at current levels.", "Gates was adamant that the Pentagon must change its way of thinking about money.", "\"The culture of endless money that has taken hold must be replaced by a culture of savings and restraint,\" Gates said.", "\"Toward this end, I am directing that any new proposal or initiatives, large or small, be it policy, program or ceremony, come with a cost estimate.", "That price tag will help us determine whether what we are gaining or hope to gain is really worth the cost.\"" ]	[ "Defense Department budget cuts could mean the loss of thousands of jobs .", "Virginia senators oppose possible elimination of Joint Forces Command .", "Recession leads to lower proposed increase for next year .", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates announces cuts to hold down overall costs ." ]	[ 1, 3, 16 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- School bullying is the target of a two-day summit in Washington that kicked off Wednesday morning with Education Secretary Arne Duncan saying bullying undermines learning in schools.", "\"It is an absolute travesty of our educational system when students fear for their safety at school, worry about being bullied, or suffer discrimination, taunts, because of their ethnicity, their religion, sexual orientation, disability, or host of other reasons,\" said Duncan.", "Just under a third of students ages 12-18 reported that they had been bullied in school in a recent study by the National Center for Education statistics.", "The study, done during the 2007-2008 school year, found that the harassment predominantly came in the form of \"being made fun of\" and \"being the subject of rumors.\"", "Bullying differs from teasing, according to Kevin Jennings with the Education Department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, which is hosting the first-ever summit on bullying.", "One reason is that bullying generally involves a power imbalance, he said.. \"The key thing that defines bullying versus teasing is that bullying has ... an impact on the student's ability to achieve and to want to be at school,\" Jennings said.", "\"Teasing sometimes is unpleasant but (if) it escalates to the point where you actually see students do worse in school or actually avoid areas in school or avoid coming to school, then it goes from teasing to bullying.\"", "The bullying summit, which is being attended by government officials as well as superintendents, researchers, corporate leaders and students, looks to come up with a national plan to reduce and end bullying.", "\"Part of the reason we are focusing on bullying is we want to intervene in this cycle early on, before it escalates to harassment and violence and we have horrible incidents like we've all seen on the evening news that terrifies every parent in America,\" Jennings said." ]	[ "The Education Department is holding its first-ever summit on school bullying .", "Study: Nearly a third of students ages 12-18 reported being bullied in school .", "The summit looks to come up with a plan to reduce and end bullying ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities will resume their search Monday morning for the bodies of four men who are believed to have drowned in southeastern Idaho after one of them fell overboard and three others went missing trying to rescue him, the Power County Sheriff's Department said.", "\"It is not confirmed they are deceased at this time -- presumption that they are -- but we cannot confirm any deaths at this time or drowning,\" said Cpl.", "Leilani Morgan.", "The incident took place Sunday at the American Falls Reservoir, about 180 miles east-southeast of Boise.", "Five children -- all under the age of nine -- also were on the boat and have been rescued by authorities, according to the sheriff's department.", "CNNRadio's Matt Cherry contributed to this report ." ]	[ "The men are presumed drowned at American Falls Reservoir in southeastern Idaho .", "Three men disappear while trying to save a fourth man ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At least one member of the jury that sentenced Cameron Todd Willingham to death in the arson homicides of his three children says she is struggling with the idea that she might have convicted an innocent man.", "It has been 17 years since Willingham was convicted in Texas of setting a house fire that killed his children, a crime Willingham vehemently denied right up until his execution in 2004.", "Since that time, three investigations have concluded arson was not the likely cause of the 1991 fire, including one that arrived in Texas Gov.", "Rick Perry's office 88 minutes before the scheduled execution.", "Perry replaced four of nine members of the Texas Forensics Sciences Commission in recent weeks, just before the commission was to receive a report from the latest of the three investigations.", "The controversy has led juror Dorenda Brokofsky to think twice about the decision she made in a jury room in 1992.", "\"I don't sleep at night because of a lot of this,\" Brokofsky said.", "\"I have gone back and forth in my mind trying to think of anything that we missed.", "I don't like the fact that years later someone is saying maybe we made a mistake, that the facts aren't what they could've been.\"", "Brokofsky spoke with CNN by phone from her Midwest home.", "She has long since moved away from tiny Corsicana, Texas, where the fire took place.", "\"I do have doubts now,\" she said.", "\"I mean, we can only go with what we knew at the time, but I don't like the fact now that maybe this man was executed by our word because of evidence that is not true.", "It may not be true now. And I don't like the fact that I may have to face my God and explain what I did.\"", "\"When you're sitting there with all those facts, there was nothing else we could see,\" she said.", "\"Now I don't know. I can't tell you he's innocent, I can't say 100 percent he's guilty.\"", "Brokofsky had another revelation.", "She said she thought she would be excluded from the jury because of her family's close relationship with key witness and then-Corsicana Assistant Fire Chief Douglas Fogg.", "Her father was also a fire marshal for eight years before the Willingham fire.", "\"I was raised with my father being a fire marshal,\" she said.", "\"He went around proving that stuff, so he wasn't here at that time.", "But I knew Doug Fogg, who was one of the witnesses.", "It was no secret, but I didn't think they would pick me as a juror because of it.\"", "Critics say Perry's recent actions to shake up the commission were politically motivated, a charge he denies.", "Perry's office said it received a five-page fax on the day of the execution that contained an arson expert's findings that the fire was not deliberately set.", "It is unclear whether Perry read the fax.", "\"Given the brevity of the report and the general counsel's familiarity with all the other facts in the case, there was ample time for the general counsel to read and analyze the report and to brief the governor on its contents,\" Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said.", "Willingham was executed less than two hours later.", "Death-penalty opponents say an impartial review of Willingham's case could lead to an unprecedented admission -- that the state executed an innocent man.", "The latest report concluded that the arson ruling at the heart of Willingham's conviction \"could not be sustained\" by modern science or the standards of the time.", "Perry said he remains confident Willingham was guilty, as do authorities in Corsicana, south of Dallas, who prosecuted Willingham.", "Willingham's wife's brother, Ronnie Kuykendall, said in a signed affidavit that Stacy Willingham told her family that Todd Willingham confessed to killing the children during her visit to him on death row a few days before the execution.", "But Stacy Willingham testified for her husband during his trial, while her family argued he was guilty.", "CNN could not reach her for comment.", "Even Willingham's defense attorney, David Martin, remains confident his client committed the crime.", "\"There was no question whatsoever that he was guilty,\" Martin said on CNN's \"AC360\" Thursday night.", "Martin slammed the most recent report on the Willing ham case, by Maryland arson expert Craig Beyler, as \"one of the least objective reports I've ever read.\"", "On Thursday, Perry also lambasted the Beyler report as having \"a very politically driven agenda\" and being propaganda for the anti-death penalty movement.", "Beyler, asked about Perry's statements, said they were \"strange and clueless.\"" ]	[ "Cameron Todd Willingham maintained his innocence up until his execution in 2004 .", "Dorenda Brokofsky says new evidence makes her think she made wrong decision .", "\"I don't like the fact that I may have to face my God and explain what I did,\" she says .", "3 inquiries have concluded that arson was not likely cause of deaths ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- A friend of supermodel Naomi Campbell handed over unpolished diamonds to South African police the day that Campbell testified at a war crimes trial for former Liberian President Charles Taylor, police said Friday.", "Police spokesman Musa Zondi told CNN that the diamonds are real.", "Campbell testified Thursday at a United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone that she had received the diamonds as a gift, then turned them over to her friend Jeremy Ratcliffe to auction for charity.", "She said on the stand she believed Ratcliffe still had the stones.", "Zondi said Ratcliffe could face charges of possession of unpolished diamonds.", "Campbell said she was handed the stones following a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela in 1997.", "\"When I was sleeping, I had a knock on my door.", "I opened the door and two men were there.", "They gave me a pouch and said, 'A gift for you,'\" the supermodel testified.", "The men didn't introduce themselves or say anything else, Campbell said.", "The next morning, she opened the pouch and saw a few \"very small, dirty-looking stones.\"", "Prosecutors are trying to prove that Taylor used so-called blood diamonds to fuel a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.", "Taylor, 62, was president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003.", "The war crimes charges against him stem from the widespread murder, rape and mutilation that occurred during the civil war in Sierra Leone, fought largely by teenagers who were forced to kill, given addictive drugs to provoke violent behavior, and often instructed to rape and plunder.", "Taylor is charged with five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and violence, and enslavement.", "He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.", "He has pleaded not guilty.", "Prosecutors had rested their case against Taylor in February 2009 but reopened it to call Campbell to testify after learning in June of that year that Taylor had given the supermodel a diamond.", "When arguing to reopen the case, prosecutors said Campbell's testimony would prove that the former president \"used rough diamonds for personal enrichment and arms purchases,\" according to papers filed with the U.N.-backed court.", "Taylor has testified that he never handled the precious stones.", "Campbell told the tribunal Thursday that she shared the story of receiving the stones with her former agent Carol White and the actress Mia Farrow at breakfast the following morning.", "\"Well, that's obviously Charles Taylor,\" one of them said.", "Campbell didn't recall who said it.", "Then, one of them added, \"Well, obviously, they are diamonds.\"", "Campbell said she assumed the stones came from Taylor.", "Campbell said passed the stones to her friend, Jeremy Ratcliffe, and asked him to use the stones in a charity auction to raise money for underprivileged children.", "Ratcliffe is a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, which denied hours after Campbell's testimony that it had ever received diamonds from her.", "iReporter: \"Campbell took her ignorance to new heights\" Future witnesses at the war crimes trial are likely to dispute Campbell's story, prosecutors said after her testimony.", "\"Two other witnesses will also testify about these events.... there are significant differences between those accounts and Ms. Campbell's account,\" the prosecution said in a statement.", "It did not name the witnesses, but court papers show prosecutors plan to call Carol White and Mia Farrow." ]	[ "Supermodel Naomi Campbell testified Thursday at a war crimes trial .", "Liberian president Charles Taylor is charged with fueling the war in Sierra Leone .", "He is accused of using so-called blood diamonds to fund the war .", "Campbell said she gave her friend Jeremy Ratcliffe the unpolished stones ." ]	[ 0, 11, 25 ]
[ "Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A remote-controlled roadside bomb ripped through a bus transporting Turkish military personnel and their families to a gendarmerie paramilitary base in Istanbul on Tuesday.", "Turkish authorities say three gendarmerie sergeants and the 17-year-old daughter of a member of the security forces were killed in the attack.", "A fourth wounded sergeant died in hospital hours after the bomb blast, an official at Istanbul's TEM Hospital told CNN, raising the death toll to five.", "\"It was a remote-controlled, fragmentation bomb that was left on the side of the road,\" said Huseyin Avni Mutlu, the governor of Istanbul, in a televised appearance broadcast live from the scene of the explosion.", "\"This is a terrorist act.\"", "The bomb attack took place in the western, European side of the city.", "Mutlu said the device hit the third and last of a three-bus convoy that was traveling to the Istanbul Province Gendarmerie Command Center.", "CNN Turk, CNN's sister network, broadcast images of the white civilian passenger bus standing in the middle of the road, with purple curtains blowing through shattered windows.", "The network also showed video of a man dressed in civilian clothes bleeding from the stomach, being loaded into an ambulance.", "A splinter Kurdish nationalist group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted on the internet.", "\"All military forces and groups, bureaucratic persons who have a role in this racist war against Kurdish people are our target,\" said the statement, which was released on the pro-Kurdish web-site, the Firat News Agency.", "The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons are a splinter group from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a movement of Marxist Kurdish guerrillas who have been fighting against the Turkish state since the 1980s.", "Tuesday's deadly explosion comes at a time when the 26-year conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdish PKK militants is once again flaring.", "Last week, a top Turkish army general announced the PKK was increasing the frequency of its attacks.", "General Fahri Kir said the militants are trying to expand operations beyond south-eastern, predominantly Kurdish-populated Turkey.", "PKK militants are making no secret of their threats to widen the battlefield in Turkey.", "\"If the military operations and the political operations do not stop against the guerrillas and the Kurdish people, the actions of the PKK will spread to the cities as well,\" said PKK spokesman Roj Welat, in a telephone call to CNN from northern Iraq.", "The PKK has been battling the Turkish government since the early 1980s.", "Initially, the movement fought to carve out a separate homeland for Turkey's ethnic Kurdish minority, which makes up nearly 18 percent of the Turkish population, according to the CIA World Factbook.", "More then 30,000 people, mostly ethnic Kurds, have been killed during the conflict.", "In recent years, the rebels say they have given up their demands for an independent Kurdish state, and are instead fighting for more linguistic and cultural freedoms.", "Though the Kurds represent Turkey's largest ethnic minority, their language has historically been suppressed by the Turkish state, which long referred to Kurds as \"mountain Turks.\"", "Twelve Turkish troops were killed in eastern Turkey last weekend during clashes with rebels along the border with Iraq.", "According to the Turkish military, at least 55 Turkish security forces have been killed in fighting with the PKK since the beginning of March.", "Turkish authorities said they were investigating links between Tuesday's roadside bomb and a similar, less deadly bombing that targeted a police bus in the same Halkali district of Istanbul on June 8.", "Fifteen police officers were injured in that attack.", "When asked about the previous police bus blast, Istanbul Police Chief Huseyin Capkin said there may be a connection.", "He added that authorities were investigating the possible link." ]	[ "NEW: 5 killed in Istanbul bus bombing .", "NEW: Kurdish splinter group issues claim of responsibility .", "NEW: Istanbul governor: 'This is a terrorist act'" ]	[ 4, 9 ]
[ "For the next two months, Australian polar explorer Eric Philips will be guiding the crew aboard the Greenpeace ship, the \"Arctic Sunrise.\"", "They're navigating the waters around Greenland to chart the impact of climate change.", "Philips filed this blog as part of CNN's special \"Going Green.\"", "PETERMANN GLACIER, Greenland -- I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.", "A polar bear checks its reflection in the Robeson channel, near the border between Greenland and Canada.", "The ship is here on a scientific research mission, and to document the effects of climate warming on the world's largest island and second largest icecap.", "I'm on board as the expedition safety guide, which means making sure that everyone venturing off the ship is well-equipped and well-informed for dealing with conditions in the harsh and remote Arctic wilderness.", "While it's exciting to work beside world-class scientists such as ice-sheet climatologist Jason Box, glaciologist Alun Hubbard and geophysicist Richard Bates, it's equally disheartening to be here bearing witness to the catastrophic events they record.", "Watch Eric Philip's video blog » .", "Each year I guide ski expeditions across the pack ice to the North Geographic Pole and each year brings new surprises -- severe storms rarely seen in these parts, vast tracts of first-year ice where there should be years of accumulation, pack ice drifting faster and farther than ever before.", "The veneer of fractured ice over the Arctic Ocean is changing, disintegrating before my eyes.", "Over the last twenty years more than 5000 kilometers of ice has passed beneath my skis during numerous expeditions to both poles, as well as treks across Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Ellesmere Island and the Patagonian Icecap.", "Add to this multiple voyages and flights to both Antarctica and the Arctic and I have come to feel part of the polar landscape.", "I've developed somewhat of a polar sense, and I sense there is something afoot that I don't much like.", "Never before has the channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland been this ice-free in mid-summer; it's usually blocked with ice until August.", "Over the past week we've placed GPS trackers and time-lapse cameras on and around the Petermann Glacier, in anticipation of it losing a piece of ice around 100 square kilometers in size.", "Massive cracks are spearing across the \"tongue\" of this enormous floating ice shelf (16km wide and 80km long) heralding one of the biggest glacier calvings ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.", "See photos of the Petermann Glacier » .", "With the ice shelf no longer able to hold back the rest of glacier, that means more fresh water sliding into the ocean.", "Broadly speaking, the warmer the climate, the greater the melt.", "This phenomenon is happening not just at Petermann, but at glaciers worldwide, contributing to sea level rise.", "We'll be in Greenland for the next two months, during which time this Greenpeace-supported initiative will all but circumnavigate the island.", "As well as doing a lot of funky innovative science, we'll be using the expedition to get politicians to take some responsibility for curbing emissions.", "This week, world leaders are meeting up in Italy for the G8.", "It's a real -- and possibly the last -- opportunity for them to take a stand on climate change in the run up to this December's climate meeting in Copenhagen, by making cuts of 40 percent in greenhouse gas emissions for developed countries.", "My dual homelands are Australia and the Arctic -- the latter is showing the strain of climate change more than anywhere else, but Australia is suffering too, with droughts in the south and flooding in the north.", "Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be at the G8 meeting, as will President Obama and other heads of state.", "Let's hope they don't squander this important opportunity to make deep and lasting commitments to curbing climate change." ]	[ "Scientists on board \"Arctic Sunrise\" are charting impact of climate change .", "Started a three-month expedition on June 10 to waters around Greenland .", "Experienced polar explorer Eric Philips is providing safety advice for the crew .", "Philips: \"I sense there is something afoot that I don't much like\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 13 ]
[ "Argyll, Scotland (CNN) -- Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint at his local pub in the Scottish Highlands when he got an idea that would change his life -- and the lives of thousands of others.", "It was 1992, and MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother Fergus had just seen a news report about refugee camps in Bosnia.", "The images of people suffering in the war-torn country shocked the two salmon farmers, who'd visited there as teenagers and remembered the warmth of the Bosnian people.", "\"We began saying 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just do one small thing to help?'", "\" MacFarlane-Barrow says.", "After talking it over, the two men took a week off work and collected food, clothing, medicine and blankets.", "They loaded everything into an old Land Rover, drove to Bosnia to deliver it and returned to Scotland.", "\"I came back here thinking that I did my one good deed and it would be back to work, but it [didn't work] out like that, \" he says.", "When they arrived home, the brothers found an avalanche of goods that people had continued to donate while they were away.", "\"I was touched by the overwhelming generosity of others,\" MacFarlane-Barrow remembers.", "\"I saw all of those donations in our family home and thought, 'Wow, people really are good,' and it inspired me to be good too.\"", "After much thought and prayer, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow quit his job, sold his home and dedicated himself to helping people in need.", "He returned to Bosnia with aid 22 more times during the Bosnian War, and over the next 18 years his work expanded and evolved.", "Today, his program -- Mary's Meals, named after the Virgin Mary -- provides free daily meals to more than 400,000 children around the world.", "MacFarlane-Barrow found his current focus in 2002 while working in Malawi -- a country ravaged by famine and AIDS -- when he met a local teenager who just wanted a decent meal and an education.", "\"The mother of the family was dying of AIDS.", "She was lying on her bare mud floor, and she had her six children around her, \" he says.", "\"I started talking to her oldest child, Edward.", "And Edward said, 'I'd like to have enough food to eat.", "I'd like to go to school one day.'", "\" In response, he launched Mary's Meals, which strives to break the cycle of poverty by feeding children a daily meal at school.", "The food -- in most places a mug of maize-based porridge -- gives students an incentive to continue their schooling and helps them focus better on their studies.", "It's a formula that MacFarlane-Barrow says is working.", "\"Pass rates go up dramatically in the schools where we start providing Mary's Meals,\" he says.", "\"We've seen huge improvements in attendance rates and academic performance.\"", "Mary's Meals partners with local residents, who handle the daily work of cooking and serving the food.", "In Malawi -- the group's largest effort -- more than 10,000 volunteers donate their time on a regular basis.", "The program operates in more than 500 schools and child-care facilities in 15 countries, a global effort that MacFarlane-Barrow coordinates from a tin shed on his parents' property in Scotland.", "While the married father of six lives on the property, he spends most of his time abroad, overseeing the project and visiting the schools where meals are served.", "\"I see the children's faces as they eat their meal, \" he says.", "\"Knowing I can transform their lives keeps me motivated.\"", "But there are always new challenges to overcome, most recently in Haiti, where Mary's Meals has operated since 2006.", "Working in partnership with a local Catholic priest, the group was feeding about 12,000 children a day when the earthquake hit in January.", "Much of the infrastructure the program relied on in the slums of Cite Soleil was destroyed, so the group's mission expanded.", "They helped create temporary classrooms and are rebuilding eight schools in the area.", "In addition to their school-based feeding program, the group now feeds about 2,000 elderly Haitians and is providing additional food and medicine to the community.", "MacFarlane-Barrow is driven by his Christian faith, but there is no ministry aspect to his work.", "\"We are very careful to never link feeding and faith,\" he says.", "\"We serve those who are in need ... period.", "\"When I think of Mary's Meals I think of it as a series of lots and lots of little acts of love, \" he says.", "\"I've learned ... that every small act of kindness does make a difference.\"", "Want to get involved?", "Check out the Mary's Meals websites at www.marysmeals.org and www.marysmealsusa.org and see how to help." ]	[ "Scotsman was at a pub in 1992 when he got the idea to help victims in war-torn Bosnia .", "A trip to deliver food, clothing and blankets led to a life's work of helping others .", "After working in Malawi in 2002, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow started Mary's Meals .", "Today, the program provides free meals to more than 400,000 children in 15 countries ." ]	[ 0, 6, 13, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At last count, Copenhagen's restaurants boasted 12 Michelin stars between them, more than anywhere else in Scandinavia.", "Rebe Redzepi, right, is head chef at Noma.", "Noma (Strandgade 93) is unique in that it can claim two of those stars.", "From a converted waterfront warehouse, chef Rebe Redzepi offers a modern take on Nordic cuisine, scouring Scandinavia for ingredients such as langoustines from the Faeroe Islands, wild salmon from Iceland and musk ox from Greenland -- fantastic served with glazed beetroots, apple and smoked marrow.", "Geranium (Kronprinsessegade 13), in the beautiful gardens of Kongens Have, has earned a Michelin star for its biodynamic, organic cuisine, including some imaginative vegetarian dishes -- try the new carrots with elderflower vinegar, sago and white chocolate.", "Le Sommelier (Bredgade 63-65) has more than 800 wines and a famous crème brûlée with geranium ice cream, while Café Victor (Ny Østergade 8) is a hip bistro that draws an artsy crowd and the occasional visiting celebrity.", "It also boasts a fine selection of spirits.", "Vegans will find unfussy fare at Den Gronne Kaelder (Pilestaede 48) and Restaurant Flow (Gyldenløvesgade 10) dishes up organic vegetarian food in a relaxed setting.", "Danes drink more coffee per person than any other nationality, so perhaps it's not so surprising that they have won the world barista championship four times in the last eight years.", "Klaus Thomsen was 2006 champion and he runs Estate Coffee (Dronning Olgas Vej 30), which slow roasts its own blends, as does Café Europa (Amagertorv 1), run by 2001 champion Martin Hildebrandt.", "Café Stelling (Gammel Torv 6) looks stunning with its Arne Jacobsen chairs, tables, bar stools and lamps, while multi-taskers will enjoy Laundromat Café (Elmegade 15), where you can grab a coffee, wash your clothes, and browse through the 4,000 used books that are on sale there.", "No trip to Copenhagen would be complete without sampling the Danes' favourite snack, \"smørrebrød.\"", "The classic 'open sandwich' consists of dense, dark brown rye bread finished with toppings that might include smoked salmon, herring, cheese, egg or shrimp.", "You can choose from 200 varieties at Ida Davidsen (Store Kongensgade 70).", "The Royal Café (Amagertorv 6) offers a more refined take on the open sandwich, served in sushi-sized portions and eaten in suitably regal surroundings.", "...................... Copenhagen city guide: .", "Where to stay \| What to see \| Where to be seen \| Where to eat \| Where to shop .", "...................... Do you agree with our Copenhagen picks?", "Send us your comments and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best." ]	[ "Gourmets can take their pick from a selection of Michelin-starred restaurants .", "Geranium offers biodynamic organic cuisine of the highest order .", "Estate Coffee and Café Europa are run by former World Barista champions .", "Go native and try a traditional open sandwich (smørrebrød) at Ida Davidsen ." ]	[ 4, 6, 11, 13, 14 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A controversial and leading U.S. general is in line to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.", "U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis -- if he wins presidential and Senate approval -- will move from being the outgoing commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command to leading the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.", "The command also monitors Iran.", "He would take over the post left open by the departure of Gen. David Petraeus, who was asked to take over command of the war in Afghanistan.", "Mattis was an effective leader in the Marine Corps, in the eyes of the Pentagon, while commanding troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "Known for his straight talk and hard-core leadership of Marines in the 2004 battle of Falluja, Iraq, Mattis is considered a dark-horse pick by many in the halls of the Pentagon.", "His blunt talk has gotten him in trouble: In 2005 he said, \"It's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them,\" referring to Afghan fighters.", "Asked if the general would be an effective leader for the Central Command region with the shadow of the comments still lingering, Gates said Thursday, \"Appropriate action was taken at the time.", "I think that the subsequent five years have demonstrated that the lesson was learned.\"", "\"Obviously, in the wake of the Rolling Stone interview, we discussed this kind of thing.", "And I have every confidence that General Mattis will respond to questions and speak publicly about the matters for which he is responsible in an entirely appropriate way,\" Gates said.", "The Rolling Stone interview led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then the commander in Afghanistan, because of negative comments about Obama administration officials made by him and his aides.", "Mattis' comment in 2005 was made when the then-three-star general was in a panel discussion before an audience.", "\"Actually, it's quite fun to fight them, you know.", "It's a hell of a hoot,\" he said, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience.", "\"It's fun to shoot some people.", "I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling,\" he said.", "\"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,\" he said.", "\"You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway.", "So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.\"", "The commandant of the Marine Corps at the time, Gen. Michael Hagee, counseled Mattis about the remarks but defended him publicly, calling him \"one of this country's bravest and most experienced military leaders.\"", "\"While I understand that some people may take issue with the comments made by him, I also know he intended to reflect the unfortunate and harsh realities of war,\" he said in a written statement.", "\"Lt. Gen. Mattis often speaks with a great deal of candor.\"", "Mattis also was the commanding general overseeing the case of the now-infamous slayings of civilians by Marines in Haditha, Iraq.", "Some 24 civilians were killed on November 19, 2005, in what a human rights group and military prosecutors said was a house-to-house rampage by Marines after a roadside bomb killed one of their comrades.", "Eight Marines were charged, and all but one were cleared, some of them by Mattis.", "Mattis also was the overseeing authority in the murder case involving eight Marines found guilty of taking part in a plot to drag an Iraqi man from his home, kill him and then make it look like the man was an insurgent.", "That incident occurred near the western Iraqi town of Hamdania in April 2006.", "Mattis later cut the sentences of at least two of the Marines involved in the plot.", "Mattis had been preparing to retire after finishing his latest command, Gates said.", "\"General Mattis is one of our military's outstanding combat leaders and strategic thinkers, bringing an essential mix of experience, judgment and perspective to this important post,\" Gates said.", "\"General Mattis has proven to be one of the military's most innovative and iconoclastic thinkers.", "His insights into the nature of warfare in the 21st century have influenced my own views about how the armed forces must be shaped and postured for the future.\"" ]	[ "Gen. James Mattis recommended as next Central Command leader .", "He is known for his leadership in the 2004 battle of Falluja .", "His blunt talk has gotten him in trouble .", "Defense secretary: Mattis will speak \"in an entirely appropriate way\"" ]	[ 5, 10 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon denied Thursday it has approved sending the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula, where North Korea allegedly sank a South Korean warship in March.", "Two U.S. military officials said U.S.", "Forces Korea was expected to make the announcement Thursday.", "The officials declined to speak on the record because the announcement had not been made.", "But Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told CNN, \"No carriers are going anywhere near there anytime soon.\"", "However, the military officials are planning for the deployment and said they expect it to be announced.", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he was not aware of a plan to send the carrier to waters off South Korea.", "The U.S. military is conducting exercises with the South Koreans, and some additional exercises are under discussion, Gates said, but no decisions have been made.", "The carrier deployment would come as the U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea warships are scheduled to conduct a joint naval exercise that the two nations vowed to undertake in response to the alleged North Korean attack on the South Korean ship.", "It's not clear to what extent the aircraft carrier will be part of that exercise.", "The carrier is expected to be accompanied by a U.S. destroyer and submarine, the officials said.", "The U.S. ships plan to conduct exercises separate from those previously announced.", "But the move is considered to be sending a signal to North Korea about the U.S. commitment to defending South Korea.", "The Navy sent a carrier to the Yellow Sea last year for exercises, considered an unusual move because it had been several years since that had happened, one of the officials said.", "North Korea is blamed for a torpedo attack on a South Korean navy vessel, the Cheonan.", "Forty-six sailors were killed." ]	[ "Pentagon denies aircraft carrier being sent to Korean Peninsula .", "Sources: U.S.", "Forces Korea expected to announce carrier's deployment .", "Response to alleged North Korean attack on South Korean warship in March ." ]	[ 0, 2, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A warden and a security official have resigned their posts at an Arizona state prison where three inmates escaped last month, a spokesman for the private company that runs the facility said Sunday.", "Unit Warden Lori Lieder and an unidentified unit security chief resigned last week from Arizona State Prison -- Kingman, according to Carl Stuart, a spokesman for Management & Training Corp.", "The resignations come amid a nationwide search for the last of the three escaped inmates, John McCluskey, and his alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch.", "McCluskey, 45, was serving a 15-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder and other charges when he and fellow convicts Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick broke out of the prison July 30, allegedly with Welch's help.", "Welch, who was on the visitation list for one of the inmates, threw cutting tools over a prison fence, according to Charles Ryan, director of Arizona's Department of Corrections.", "Ryan has noted some \"operational security problems\" at the prison.", "\"Those are being evaluated and investigated as we speak,\" he said earlier this month.", "Renwick, 36, was captured August 1 in a shootout with police in Rifle, Colorado.", "He was serving 22 years for second-degree murder when he escaped.", "Province, 42, was rearrested Monday in Meeteetse, Wyoming, near Yellowstone National Park when authorities were notified by a local resident who sat and talked with Province a day earlier on the steps of a church in town.", "He was serving a life sentence for murder and armed robbery.", "Renwick remains in the Garfield County, Colorado, Jail on charges of attempted first-degree murder and eluding police, the U.S.", "Marshals Service said Sunday.", "Authorities are working to coordinate the transport of Province back to Arizona from Wyoming -- expected to occur within the next month, the marshals service said.", "Meanwhile, the hunt for McCluskey and Welch continued in western Montana and along the border with Canada, the marshals service said.", "The last credible sighting of the pair occurred August 6 in Billings, Montana, the marshals service said.", "A reward of up to $35,000 is being offered for information that leads to their arrests.", "McCluskey is believed to have dyed his hair dark and grown a beard and Welch may have blonde hair.", "\"All information indicates McCluskey and Welch are still traveling together and should be considered armed and extremely dangerous,\" the marshals service said in a news release.", "\"It is likely they are reacting, rather than taking deliberate action.", "As the manhunt protracts, it is highly possible they will become more desperate, creating increased danger to law enforcement and the general public.", "If they are encountered, call local law enforcement immediately.\"", "McCluskey and Welch are also suspected in the killings of a couple whose bodies were found in their burned out camper earlier this month in New Mexico, according to authorities.", "Authorities said they are likely driving a gray, gold or tan 1997 Nissan Sentra, though both are experienced semitruck drivers known to have frequented truck stops, rest areas and campgrounds." ]	[ "A warden and a security official resigned last week, a prison spokesman says .", "The resignations come amid a nationwide search for inmate and his alleged accomplice .", "Two other escapees from the prison have been arrested .", "Authorities are concentrating search efforts in Montana and along the Canadian border ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber killed at least 56 people and wounded more than 100 others Friday when his vehicle exploded in a market in Mohmand Agency in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said.", "The intended target of the attack was a local government office in the town of Eakah.", "But the vehicle detonated in a market near the building, said Hayat Khan, a local administration official.", "About 20 shops, five houses and the local jail were damaged in the blast.", "In the confusion following the attack, various officials provided conflicting death tolls.", "Amjad Ali Khan, chief of Mohmand Agency, said four policemen were among the dead.", "Maqsood Mahed Khan, a local government official, said three children and two women were killed.", "Authorities also believe more victims may be trapped under the rubble of damaged buildings.", "Mohmand is one of seven semiautonomous tribal agencies along the 1,500-mile border porous border that Pakistan shares with Afghanistan.", "The Pakistani military has been battling insurgents in the area for some time." ]	[ "More victims may be trapped under rubble .", "Attack is carried out by a suicide car bomber .", "Target is a government building .", "Mohmand Agency is one of seven semiautonomous regions ." ]	[ 0, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Boston police have seized almost a ton of marijuana in the city's largest such haul in recent memory, according to Suffolk County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.", "Edgar Gonzalez, 40, was arraigned Thursday in Dorchester District Court, accused of trafficking in marijuana.", "He also is being held in connection with an immigration violation by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, according to a news release from District Attorney Conley.", "Conviction on the drug charge is punishable by up to 15 years in state prison.", "Boston police were originally conducting a separate search Wednesday when they witnessed what they described as a suspicious man fleeing from a building, according to the release from the district attorney.", "Police intercepted the man, identified as Gonzalez, and noticed the door to his apartment was open.", "Because of an existing immigration detainment order by U.S. Customs and Immigrations Enforcement as well as his behavior in trying to flee, officers were able to conduct a \"protective sweep\" of his residence, authorities said.", "In the apartment police found 40 large bales of marijuana wrapped in plastic, according to the press release.", "After obtaining a search warrant for Gonzalez's apartment, police seized the marijuana -- weighing about 2,000 pounds, or one ton -- as well as scales, a vacuum sealer and shrink wrap.", "Police also seized a Dominican Republic passport, authorities said.", "Gonzalez's attorney, Holly Clarke, did not return calls from CNN.", "Gonzalez was being held with bail set at $1 million, authorities said.", "His trial date is set for June 30 in Dorchester District Court.", "Arrest leads to seizure of almost a ton of marijuana ." ]	[ "Nearly 1-ton haul largest in recent memory, Boston authorities say .", "Police found 40 bales in apartment .", "Man charged also being held on immigration violation .", "Seizure stemmed from unrelated search ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- While the first lady and daughters Malia and Sasha were away for part of the weekend, President Barack Obama enjoyed what some have jokingly referred to as a bachelor's weekend with friends -- golfing, playing basketball and grilling out on the South Lawn.", "The festivities were all part of a belated birthday celebration of sorts for the president, who turned 49 on Wednesday.", "First lady Michelle Obama and youngest daughter Sasha, 9, returned from a vacation in Spain on Sunday in time to join the president for a seafood barbecue on the South Lawn.", "The Obamas' 12-year-old daughter, Malia, has been attending camp.", "Tables set up with white and yellow linens and adorned with centerpieces of lemons and limes dotted the lawn.", "The menu included shrimp from the Gulf Coast, where the seafood industry has been hard-hit by the BP oil disaster, according to White House aide Katie Hogan.", "Friends from Hawaii, Chicago, Illinois, and college joined the president on Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base for a round of golf.", "The sports outings continued Sunday with a basketball game at Fort McNair where Obama -- along with such NBA stars as LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Grant Hill and Earvin \"Magic\" Johnson -- played in front of an audience of wounded servicemen and participants in the White House mentoring program.", "CNN's Jonathan Helman contributed to this report." ]	[ "The president turned 49 on Wednesday .", "Obama played golf on Saturday and basketball on Sunday .", "The first lady and 9-year-old Sasha Obama came home from Spain Sunday ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "Panama City, Florida (CNN) -- President Barack Obama told CNN Saturday that in defending the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near ground zero in a speech on Friday night, he was \"not commenting on the wisdom\" of the project.", "Instead, Obama said he was trying to uphold the broader principle that the government should treat \"everyone equal, regardless\" of religion.", "His comments were seen as step back from the support he appeared to give the controversial project during a White House dinner on Friday, though a spokesman for the administration quickly moved to clarify the president's remarks.", "\"Just to be clear, the President is not backing off in any way from the comments he made last night,\" White House spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement Saturday afternoon.", "\"It is not his role as President to pass judgment on every local project.", "But it is his responsibility to stand up for the Constitutional principle of religious freedom and equal treatment for all Americans,\" Burton added.", "Obama, speaking on Saturday after giving a speech on the Gulf Coast oil disaster in Panama City, Florida, told CNN he \"was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there,\" referring to the area near ground zero.", "\"I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding,\" the president added.", "\"In this country, we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law, regardless of race, regardless of religion.\"", "At a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Obama seemed to throw his support behind a controversial proposal to build an Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero, saying Friday that \"Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.\"", "\"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,\" Obama said.", "The president's remarks drew praise from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced his support for the Islamic center last week.", "Bloomberg compared Obama's speech to a letter former President George Washington wrote in support of a Jewish congregation in Newport, Rhode Island.", "Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), whose district includes ground zero, praised Obama's remarks on Saturday.", "\"The United States was founded on the principle of religious liberty and tolerance, and it is equally important 234 years later that we uphold this principal.", "Hate should have no place in America,\" Nadler said in a statement.", "Still, critics of the proposed Islamic center -- including Sarah Palin and Rep. Peter King (R-New York) -- quickly denounced Obama's comments.", "\"President Obama is wrong,\" King said in a statement Friday night.", "\"It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero.", "Unfortunately, the President caved into political correctness.\"", "Sarah Palin, the former Republican candidate for vice president, also weighed in.", "\"We all know that they have the right to do it, but should they?\"", "she tweeted on Saturday.", "Obama, who on Friday said he was speaking both as a citizen and as president, invoked the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which critics of the Islamic center cite as the main reason for blocking its construction.", "\"We must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan,\" he said.", "\"The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country.\"", "\"The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved ones is unimaginable,\" Obama continued.", "\"So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders.", "Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.\"", "The proposed Islamic center has provoked vocal opposition from some families of 9/11 victims and other groups.", "Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose the plan, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Wednesday.", "\"In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished,\" Debra Burlingame, co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, said in a statement.", "The Islamic center's leaders say they plan to build the $100 million, 13-story facility called Cordoba House three blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.", "The developer, Sharif El-Gamal, describes the project as an \"Islamic community center\" that would include a 500-seat performing arts center, a lecture hall, a swimming pool, a gym, a culinary school, a restaurant and a prayer space for Muslims.", "Other families of 9/11 victims said they support the proposed Islamic center, and the president's position.", "\"America, the concept and the people and the land thrive when we chose to trust in our principles rather than cave to our basest fears,\" Donna Marsh O'Connor, spokeswoman for September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, said in a statement.", "\"What better place for healing, reconciliation and understanding than Ground Zero?\"", "she added. On Wednesday, the project's developers declined an offer by New York Gov.", "David Paterson to relocate the project to a state-owned site.", "Earlier this month, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously denied landmark status for the building where the proposed Islamic center would stand, allowing the project to move forward.", "CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The president is not \"backing off\" comments he made supporting the proposal, says spokesman .", "NEW: Spokesman responds after Obama tells CNN he will not comment \"on the wisdom\" of the project .", "Obama: Muslims have the right to build community center near ground zero .", "The president threw his support behind the project during a White House dinner on Friday ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Desperation erupted into violence Tuesday in flood-ravaged Pakistan as survivors who have yet to receive aid scrambled to put food in their empty bellies.", "People in Sindh province blocked a highway to protest the slowness of aid delivery and clashed with police, the United Nations said.", "In a hard-hit district of Punjab, hungry mobs unloaded two aid trucks headed to a warehouse.", "Local aid agencies reported other incidents of looting.", "An aid agency worker said distributions were hampered because of the crowds stopping the convoys and because large numbers of people were living along the road.", "About 20 million people have been affected by the relentless monsoon rains that began falling three weeks ago, leading to massive flooding from the mountainous regions in the north to the river plains of the south.", "See high resoulution images of disaster .", "About one-fifth of Pakistan is submerged, and entire families waded through filthy water, pleading for help.", "More than 1,400 people have died.", "Health officials fear a second wave of fatalities from waterborne diseases, including cholera, which is endemic in Pakistan and now threatening to become a major outbreak.", "Up to 3.5 million children are at high risk of cholera and other deadly diseases like typhoid and dysentery, said Maurizio Giuliano of the United Nations' humanitarian affairs office.", "About 900,000 homes have been damaged, and the monsoon season is only about halfway over.", "Water is the villain here but can also be a savior: The only recourses from waterborne illnesses are clean water and medical care, but both are in short supply.", "The United Nations has called for $166 million for clean water and medical care but has received only $25 million.", "The World Bank has committed about $900 million at the request of the Pakistani government.", "According to a statement, funding will come from the bank's Fund for the Poorest through reprogramming of currently planned projects and reallocation of undisbursed funds from ongoing projects.", "The overall global response has not been nearly enough, according to an International Rescue Committee-chaired consortium called the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum.", "About $150 million had been received from nations around the world by Monday, the group said in a statement, but much more is needed.", "\"The international response to the disaster has been too small to even begin to effectively address the needs of survivors,\" said Tammy Hasselfeldt, the country director of the International Rescue Committee.", "\"The most urgent priority is to ensure that safe water as well as medicines are available, food supplies are restored and transportation networks fixed to accelerate the delivery of desperately needed aid.\"", "The UN says $150 million is needed to feed up to 6 million Pakistanis, and $105 million is needed to help shelter about 2 million people left homeless.", "The United States has committed about $76 million for emergency flood relief assistance.", "But delivering the goods to flood victims is a nightmare in itself.", "With many roads and bridges reduced to rubble, travel by vehicles and foot is often impossible.", "The country is relying heavily on helicopters and boats to bring aid.", "\"We're putting the final pieces in place on a distribution system which can reach the huge number of people in need in the shortest possible time,\" said Wolfgang Herbinger, director of the United Nations' World Food Programme in Pakistan.", "\"It's a huge challenge, particularly in Sindh, where the delivery infrastructure is most constrained.\"", "U.S. military helicopters delivered 2,500 pounds of relief supplies Tuesday and rescued 375 people.", "There are now 11 helicopters on the ground in Pakistan, but the Pentagon has ordered a total of 19 for flood relief efforts.", "Those efforts are costing the United States $300,000 a day, the Pentagon said.", "So far, $2.5 million has been spent.", "\"It's a dynamic situation,\" Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.", "\"But the U.S. is a good ally and a friend, and we want to be supportive.\"", "Families continue to stomp through mud carrying whatever belongings they can salvage, passing dead livestock, with nowhere to go.", "Despite their suffering, many flood victims are reluctant to leave the ruins of their homes because they fear having their land stolen.", "Amid the devastation, a bit of good news surfaced: The head engineer of the Sukkur barrage -- a dam whose strength was questioned as flood waters rose in the Indus River -- said the dam is considered safe.", "The river crested August 10, and the dam withstood the pressure.", "CNN's Reza Sayah, Samson Desta and Sara Sidner contributed to this report." ]	[ "Millions of children are at high risk of deadly diseases, United Nations says .", "About a fifth of Pakistan is under water amid monsoon rains .", "The UN urges more assistance for clean water, medical care .", "The United States has committed about $76 million for aid ." ]	[ 7, 10, 21 ]
[ "ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- At least 31 people were dead after two days of torrential rains triggered flash floods in northwestern Turkey, sweeping cars into the sea and sending gushing water into homes and businesses, authorities said Wednesday.", "A Turkish woman awaits rescuers on her balcony following heavy morning rain in Istanbul.", "Twenty-six people were killed in Istanbul province and five in neighboring Tekirdag province, according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.", "Nine people were feared missing, he said.", "Among the fatalities in Istanbul were seven female textile workers who were trapped in their minivan, CNN sister network CNN Turk reported.", "Witnesses in the city of Istanbul said the flash floods hit at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, washing through an industrial zone situated in a low-lying valley.", "Dozens of cargo trucks flipped or were ripped to pieces, the wreckage attracting crowds who watched the chaotic scene from nearby hilltops.", "See photos of the devastation » .", "At a news conference in Istanbul's Disaster Management Center, in front of walls of TVs showing live video feeds from Turkey's largest city, Erdogan expressed condolences to families that lost loved ones during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.", "Watch more about the deadly flooding » .", "He said emergency workers rescued an estimated 1,300 people from the flash floods and pledged billions of Turkish lira for disaster relief in Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces.", "He also chided developers who built commercial and residential structures in riverbeds that are vulnerable to flooding.", "\"Our ancestors had a saying: 'The river's revenge will be heavy,' \" Erdogan said.", "\"We should remember what our ancestors said.\"", "In the wake of this week's disaster, the prime minister called for relocating all such settlements from riverbeds and moving them to safer ground.", "Several roads in Istanbul city remained closed, including the airport road, CNN Turk said.", "Rescue missions were in full swing, with military helicopters whirring overhead.", "Residents were advised not to wander from their homes.", "\"We never had such rain in all the time I have been here,\" said Zafer Ercan, deputy mayor of the town of Silivri, an hour west of Istanbul city.", "View images from iReporters .", "He said that more than 200 cars were washed into the Sea of Marmara and 800 homes and businesses were flooded in the neighboring town of Selimpasa.", "The rain stopped Tuesday evening but resumed early Wednesday.", "Heavy overnight rain flooded western neighborhoods in Istanbul city.", "The amount of rain that has fallen in two days roughly equals what normally falls in six months in the Turkish province, Istanbul Gov.", "Muammer Guler told the state-run Anatolia News Agency.", "CNN's Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert in Istanbul, Turkey, contributed to this report." ]	[ "At least 31 killed after torrential rains triggered flash floods in northwest Turkey .", "200 cars washed into Sea of Marmara; 800 homes and businesses flooded .", "Death toll expected to rise with reports of people being dragged by raging waters ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Nearly two months ago, President Obama embarked on a two-day, two-city charm offensive in Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country and NATO military ally whose people give the United States abysmal approval ratings.", "President Obama listens at a town hall-style meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, in April.", "The American president toured a mosque, laid a wreath at the grave of the founder of the Turkish republic, and announced before the Turkish parliament that \"the United States is not and will never be at war with Islam.\"", "Did Obama's new brand of diplomacy work?", "Could 48 hours of handshakes, speeches and smiles turn around Turkish public opinion?", "After all, in 2007, only 9 percent of Turks polled by the Pew Research Center held favorable views of America, the lowest level among 47 countries surveyed.", "If 24-year old Ece Basaran is any indicator, Obama succeeded beyond expectations.", "After attending a town hall-style meeting with the American president during his visit to Istanbul last April, Basaran and a group of her friends started up a Turkish-American friendship club at her university.", "\"I get positive feedback because everybody around me likes Obama,\" Basaran said, while taking a break from preparing for final exams at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University this week.", "Basaran said that as recently as last year, the United States was unpopular among fellow students and friends, but added that \"after Obama, it seems popular.", "At least the negative image began to fade away.\"", "Officials and commentators in both Turkey and the United States are also calling Obama's first presidential visit to a Muslim country a positive step.", "\"At the moment, he's doing the right thing,\" said Suat Kiniklioglu, a member of the Turkish parliament.", "\"His first task was to remedy the situation of America wielding a big stick for the last eight years.\"", "\"President Obama's visit and recent policy initiatives have managed to dispel some of the pervasive suspicion in U.S.-Turkish relations -- no small achievement,\" said Ian Lesser of the German Marshall Fund, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month.", "But, he added, \"much remains to be done.\"", "There are strong indications that words alone will not be enough to transform years of deep suspicion many Turks feel towards the United States, particularly after the long, widely unpopular war in neighboring Iraq.", "According to a recent poll published by academics at Bahcesehir University, 43 percent of Turks said they would not like to live next door to American neighbors.", "In a phone interview this week, Osman Solmaz, another of the Turkish students chosen to attend the town hall meeting with Obama, said that in his hometown, the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, \"the majority of the people have prejudice against the United States.\"", "\"Nobody agrees with America's foreign policy,\" said Sertac Yakin, a university student from Ankara who also attended the Istanbul meeting in April.", "\"To change public opinion in Turkey is a long-term affair,\" argued Kemal Koprulu, the founder of Ari Movement, an Istanbul-based nongovernmental organization that focuses on promoting youth participation in civil society.", "\"There is no way that the election of a president and several nice statements from a State Department spokesman will change dramatically the public opinion in Turkey.\"", "Koprulu argued that his organization has documented alarmingly high levels of anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism among young Turks.", "He pointed out that at a recent academic conference at one of Turkey's most progressive universities in Istanbul, he witnessed audience members give a five-minute standing ovation to a Turkish speaker who \"slammed America\" in front of a panel of visiting U.S. officials.", "The White House does appear to have made some progress in patching up damaged relations with the powerful Turkish military.", "Top Turkish army generals did not attend an important bilateral conference in the United States last year, following American criticism of Turkey's cross-border military offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in Northern Iraq.", "This year, the Turkish military chief of staff was among the key speakers attending the conference.", "But Gen. Ilker Basbug reportedly told the audience of dignitaries in Washington this week that the ongoing presence of PKK rebels in Northern Iraq continues to have a negative impact on Turkish-U.S. relations.", "Many Turks say they are still waiting to see to whether the Obama White House's change in tone will translate to a change in the U.S. government's deeply unpopular foreign policy in the Middle East.", "They highlighted America's strong support for Israel over the Palestinians, and the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "\"I believe [Obama] understands the importance of the Islamic world,\" said Abdurrahman Dilipak, a columnist at Vakit, Turkey's most conservative newspaper.", "\"We will monitor his stance.", "He makes promises yet we have to see how he will act.", "Muslims are still treated as terrorists when they arrive in the U.S.\" That wait-and-see attitude was even reflected by Basaran, the enthusiastically pro-American student who helped found a Turkish-American friendship club at her university.", "\"Because Obama has the [Muslim] name Hussein, people really love it,\" Basaran said.", "\"I think he's the most favorite U.S. president among Muslim people.", "But we'll see.\" Yesim Borg in Istanbul contributed to this report." ]	[ "Poll says only 9 percent of Turks had positive view of U.S. in 2007 .", "Iraq war, foreign policy of Bush administration among the reasons, Ivan Watson says .", "President Obama tried to change those sentiments during April trip to Turkey .", "Some Turks say Obama's won them over; others wait and see, Watson reports ." ]	[ 5, 14, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Casey Johnson The 30-year-old heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune was found dead at a house in Los Angeles on Monday, People magazine reported.", "Johnson's death was announced via Twitter by reality star Tila Tequila and confirmed by police, who said she apparently died of natural causes.", "As an openly gay socialite, Johnson was a favorite of tabloids and paparazzi, People reported.", "Her purported engagement to Tequila put her on tabloid front pages, as did an alleged fight with an ex-girlfriend that reportedly ended with Johnson's hair on fire.", "In November, she was arrested for allegedly breaking into another former girlfriend's house.", "Police said the coroner's office will investigate Johnson's death and issue a toxicology report.", "She leaves a toddler daughter, Ava.", "People: Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson dies .", "Jordanian double agent The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian military officer last week in Afghanistan was a trusted Jordanian double agent, a former U.S. intelligence official told CNN.", "The man had been used by both U.S. and Jordanian intelligence services in the past, and had provided information about high-value targets, the senior U.S. official said.", "The security breach occurred because the bomber was met off-base by U.S. intelligence officials, who failed to search him before they put him in a car and drove him onto Forward Operating Base Chapman, the former intelligence official said.", "Both the Jordanian and U.S. intelligence services believed the man was loyal, according to the former intelligence official.", "The New York Times reports that the Pakistani Taliban identified the bomber as Humam Khalil Mohammed and that he was a Jordanian doctor.", "The Washington Post reports his name as Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi.", "CNN: Suicide bomber was Jordanian double agent .", "New York Times: Behind bombing, an agent with many loyalties .", "Washington Post: Suicide bomber was trusted informant .", "Carlos Allen Remember that White House state dinner that a Virginia couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, allegedly crashed?", "Apparently they weren't the only unauthorized guests there.", "The Secret Service announced Monday that a third person who wasn't on the official guest list made it into the dinner by entering with the delegation of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.", "The Secret Service didn't name the person, but The Washington Post quoted an anonymous congressional source as saying he was Carlos Allen, a Washington party promoter.", "Allen, the CEO of HUSH Society magazine, has denied he was at the state dinner, but Politico.com reports that Nicole Almodovar, the 2009 Miss Maryland Galaxy, says Allen told her he was there and had a good time.", "The State Department says this incident is now under investigation.", "CNN: Secret Service reports third White House party crasher .", "Washington Post: Secret Service confirms third crasher at dinner .", "Politico: Alleged third crasher denies report .", "Amanda Simpson The aerospace and defense industry expert begins a new job today in Washington as senior technical adviser with the Department of Commerce.", "The Arizona Daily Star reports that Simpson is among the first transgendered people appointed to a position in the Obama administration.", "Simpson grew up in Chicago as a boy named Mitch and faced taunts while transitioning to female.", "She has worked for Raytheon Missile Systems and, in 2004, was honored by the YWCA for her professional accomplishments.", "A Democrat, she also ran for the Arizona state legislature, but lost the general election.", "Arizona Daily Star: Equality key for transgender woman .", "Eunice W. Johnson The philanthropist and widow of John H. Johnson, the influential founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, died Sunday at the age of 93.", "According to the Chicago Tribune, she not only named Ebony magazine, which her husband published beginning in 1945, but also created a fashion show -- the Ebony Fashion Fair -- that traveled across the country and internationally for five decades, bringing the creations of top designers to black audiences.", "Chicago Tribune: Widow of Johnson publishing founder dead at 93 .", "What makes a person intriguing?", "There are people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different.", "Others are in the news because they are the ones those decisions affect.", "And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything they say or do becomes news.", "Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than their spouses.", "They do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story.", "But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.", "They arouse our curiosity.", "We hear about them and want to know more.", "What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country.", "At times, there is even a mystery about them.", "What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations.", "We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did.", "They intrigue us." ]	[ "Johnson & Johnson heiress found dead at 30 .", "Suicide bomber was Jordanian double agent, former U.S. official says .", "Philanthropist who named Ebony magazine dead at 93 ." ]	[ 0, 8, 34 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Two doctors who treated Anna Nicole Smith in the months before her death and her lawyer-boyfriend go on trial Wednesday on charges they illegally conspired to provide the actress with drugs.", "Steven Sadow, the lead lawyer for Howard K. Stern, said the defense team was \"very pleased\" with the jury of six men and six women who were sworn in Tuesday afternoon.", "Opening statements were scheduled for Wednesday morning.", "Lawyers predicted the trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court could last up to three months.", "Potential jurors were asked more than 100 questions, including personal questions about their prescription drug use.", "Smith's boyfriend Stern, along with Drs.", "Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor, face 23 felony charges, including three counts of conspiracy to dispense and administer controlled substances to a known addict.", "The three also are accused of conspiring to use false names to obtain drugs for Smith, a practice defense attorneys have argued was intended to protect the celebrity's privacy.", "Smith died February 8, 2007, from what a Florida medical examiner ruled was \"acute combined drug intoxication.\"", "Judge Robert Perry dismissed several jurors because of what he called \"language problems\" or because they expressed opinions suggesting they had already concluded guilt in the case.", "The judge described one juror as \"dull\" and predicted she would become a problem if allowed on the jury.", "Judge Perry ruled at the end of a 13-day preliminary hearing last fall that there was probable cause to try Stern and the two doctors for involvement in an alleged conspiracy to provide drugs to a known addict.", "\"Evidence in the record strongly suggests she was an addict,\" he said.", "Perry said \"there was a widespread and ongoing effort\" to obtain drugs for Smith, whom he characterized as a \"strong-willed person\" intent on getting drugs.", "The doctors may have been \"blinded by the celebrity of their patient,\" Perry said.", "A defense lawyer said the case could have a chilling effect on doctors who treat patients for pain, since the doctors could be held criminally liable if their prescriptions are deemed excessive.", "Witnesses described Smith as weak and \"zombie-like\" much of the time in the months after September 11, 2006, when her 20-year-old son died in the Bahamas hospital room where she was recovering from the birth of her daughter.", "Sadow argued that Stern should not be charged because he did not know his companion was an addict or that it was illegal to obtain medication with a prescription written out to a false name.", "\"He's being charged here with doctor-related activities, which doctors have specific knowledge of and he's just a layperson,\" Sadow told the judge.", "Prosecution witnesses outlined evidence that the doctors wrote many prescriptions using several names, including Stern's, for drugs intended for Smith.", "\"One of their theories is that the mere prescribing of medications using a pseudonym is a crime and it's rebutted by the fact that some of the most respected hospitals in this city use this practice to protect the privacy of some of their celebrity patients,\" Eroshevich defense lawyer Adam Braun said.", "Prosecutors argued that Stern used the false names to get double doses of dangerous drugs to feed the addiction of the former Playboy model and reality TV star.", "Kapoor's lawyer said prosecutors could make it difficult for California doctors to treat their patients for pain.", "\"If this prosecution is successful, you can all plan to call the D.A.", "office every time you ask your doctor for a prescription for pain, because that's going to be the standard,\" attorney Ellyn Garafalo said.", "Perry agreed with Braun's argument that Eroshevich, a psychiatrist, \"deeply cared for Anna Nicole Smith and was well intentioned\" with her treatment.", "\"I made that observation,\" the judge said." ]	[ "Two doctors and Smith's boyfriend are charged .", "The trial could last 3 months .", "Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007 of \"drug intoxication\"" ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend and two doctors entered \"not guilty\" pleas Wednesday to new charges connected to the death of the former Playboy model and reality TV star in 2007.", "Howard K. Stern appeared in court on charges connected to the death of Anna Nicole Smith.", "Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer and companion, appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court, along with Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor to formally hear the charges.", "Smith's death in a Hollywood, Florida, hotel on February 8, 2007, was ruled to be from \"acute combined drug intoxication,\" the Broward County, Florida medical examiner said.", "The three are charged with an illegal conspiracy to prescribe, administer and dispense controlled substances to an addict.", "Stern faces 11 felony counts, while the doctors were charged with six each.", "They were all charged earlier this year with conspiring to give Smith drugs, but prosecutors revised the counts based on the latest findings from the investigation.", "The three defendants previously entered \"not guilty\" pleas to those charges.", "A preliminary hearing is set for next month in the case.", "A series of affidavits used by state investigators to obtain search warrants in their 2½-year probe was unsealed and released Tuesday.", "They revealed new details, including an account of one witness who told investigators she saw Stern inject Smith with drugs.", "A nanny hired to care for Smith's infant daughter, who was born in the Bahamas in September 2006, told investigators she witnessed Stern and Dr. Eroshevich \"crush pills, heat them to turn them into liquid and inject Smith,\" according to an affidavit from a state investigator.", "The nanny stated that \"after taking pills or being injected Smith would be 'like you were drinking,' often falling in the house, and sleeping for two or more days at a time,\" California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement Special Agent Danny Santiago said in a sworn statement.", "Doctors gave Smith numerous dangerous drugs over the three years before her death, including while she was pregnant, according to the affidavits.", "One investigator described Smith, whose real name was Vickie Lynn Marshall, as a \"drug seeker.\"", "She \"was given drugs in excessive amounts,\" according to a medical expert consulted and quoted by a state medical board investigator.", "Dr. Jill Klessig also told an investigator that \"in addition to the prescribing issues, there appears to have been a personal relationship\" between Smith and the two doctors that crossed the boundaries of professionalism.", "Investigators found photos of Dr. Eroshevich -- a woman -- and Smith \"naked in the bathtub in intimate embraces,\" according to one sworn statement.", "Dr. Klessig said \"such behavior constitutes unprofessional behavior.\"", "One affidavit references a video clip of Kapoor \"kissing and snuggling\" with Smith \"in a reclined position in a nightclub setting.\"", "Eroshevich traveled to the Bahamas to visit Smith and was with her for four days in Hollywood, Florida, four days before her death, an investigator said in an affidavit.", "The doctor personally visited a Burbank, California, pharmacy in September 2006 to get chloral hydrate, a sleep aid, for Smith to use in the Bahamas.", "It was just four days after Smith gave birth to a daughter in Nassau.", "\"I wouldn't give her chloral hydrate unless you want your picture on the front page of the National Enquirer,\" pharmacist Steve Mazlin told Eroshevich, according to the affidavit.", "Another pharmacist said that when he refused to fill a prescription for a long list of strong narcotics, he told Dr. Eroshevich the order amounted to \"pharmaceutical suicide.\"", "The affidavit from Jon Genens, a senior investigator with the California medical board, detailed dozens of prescriptions written for Smith -- under several aliases -- for a long list of narcotics and sleep aids.", "Genens said even during her pregnancy, starting in January 2006, Kapoor prescribed an average of 10 tablets of methadone per day for Smith.", "He noted that Kapoor lowered the dosage in the last three months of her pregnancy.", "The volume of dangerous drugs being ordered by doctors spurred the chief pharmacist at the store where most of the prescriptions were filled to call a drug expert for advice in late 2006, according to a sworn statement by California Department of Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss.", "Dr. Greg Thompson told Doss that he recalled the dosages were \"dangerously high.\"", "\"Dr. Thompson stated they might work for a drug addict under supervised care, or with a dying cancer patient in a hospital, or 'if you were going to kill someone,' \" Doss said.", "Thompson told Doss he later \"admonished Dr. Eroshevich\" about the drugs she was requesting for Smith.", "\"Dr. Thompson stated Dr. Eroshevich was obviously not familiar with a lot of medications she was prescribing for Anna Nicole Smith,\" Doss said in her affidavit.", "The Doss affidavit said the doctor used Smith's boyfriend as a cover to get the prescriptions filled.", "\"Of the 12 medications found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room at the time of her death, seven medications were prescribed in the name of Howard K Stearn (believed to be Howard K Stern) by Dr. Eroshevich,\" Doss said.", "The drugs were apparently personally delivered to Smith in the Bahamas and Florida by her doctor, Doss said.", "\"It is reasonable to believe that Dr. Eroshevich provided Anna Nicole Smith prescription medications and controlled substances by transporting them from California to Nassau, Bahamas with her on her travels to visit Anna Nicole Smith,\" Doss said.", "CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report." ]	[ "Trio enter \"not guilty\" pleas in connection with model's 2007 death .", "Smith's lawyer and two doctors accused of supplying her with drugs .", "Smith, 39, died of \"acute combined drug intoxication\" in February 2007 ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bayern Munich smashed seven goals past struggling Hannover to re-establish the German giants' two-point lead in the Bundesliga on Saturday night.", "In-form Dutch forward Arjen Robben scored a hat-trick while Croatia striker Ivica Olic and young German Thomas Muller both netted twice each to keep Bayern clear of second-placed Schalke, who earlier won 3-1 at home to Borussia Moenchengladbach.", "Bayern go into Wednesday's Champions League semifinal first leg against French side Lyon full of confidence, though the match is in doubt due to the volcanic explosion in Iceland which has halted European air travel.", "Robben scored the goal that put Bayern into the last four of Europe's premier club competition with an away goals win over Manchester United, and is in hot domestic scoring form after also finding the net in last weekend's 1-1 draw at Bayer Leverkusen.", "The recalled Olic opened the floodgates in the 22nd minute from close range after a cross by fullback Diego Contento, and Robben doubled the lead on the half-hour with a superb solo effort.", "Robben was also involved as Muller made it 3-0 just before halftime, and Olic followed up four minutes after the break when the 20-year-old midfielder's shot was only parried by goalkeeper Florian Fromlowitz.", "Robben struck again a minute later, while Olic's backheel teed up Muller on 62.", "Robben, a big hit at Bayern since signing from Real Madrid in August, wrapped up the romp in the final minute as he again tormented the visiting side, who were left second from bottom of the table.", "Schalke moved onto 61 points with three games to play after a routine win over 12th-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach.", "Croatian midfielder Ivan Rakitic put the hosts ahead in the eighth minute with the first of his two goals, a fierce effort from just inside the penalty area, but Raul Bobadilla waltzed past goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to level on 16.", "Jefferson Farfan gave Schalke the lead again from close range just before halftime after striker Kevin Kuranyi's header was parried by goalkeeper Logan Bailly.", "Rakitic made it 3-1 soon after the break with a penalty after Mario Gavranovic was fouled by Dante, while top scorer Kuranyi had an effort ruled out in the 70th minute.", "Werder Bremen moved up to third place on goal difference with a 4-2 win at Wolfsburg, whose title defense has long been over.", "Eighth-placed Wolfsburg twice led through strikers Edin Dzeko and Grafite, but Peruvian striker Claudio Pizarro made it 2-2 four minutes after halftime, and midfielder Torsten Frings put Bremen ahead with his second goal on 61.", "Portuguese striker Hugo Almeida wrapped it up with 15 minutes to play to end Wolfsburg's three-match winning run and leave Bremen with just one defeat in 11 outings.", "Bayer Leverkusen also have 54 points after losing 2-1 at Stuttgart, who climbed to sixth thanks to a double from Cacau.", "Leverkusen led in the 13th minute when Stefan Reinartz set up striker Stefan Kiessling for his 19th goal this season, but had Tranquillo Barnetta sent off six minutes later for a second booking.", "Cacau leveled just before half an hour, and the Brazilian striker -- who plans to leave Stuttgart at the end of the season -- pounced to score the winner with just five minutes left from Pavel Pogrebnyak's deflected pass.", "Stuttgart moved above Hamburg, who suffered a 1-0 defeat at 10th-placed Mainz following a 20th-minute winner from Aristide Bance.", "Hamburg have won just once in the last seven Bundesliga matches, and their hopes of European football next season may depend on winning the Europa League -- starting with Thursday's semifinal first leg at home to English club Fulham.", "Third-bottom Freiburg boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation with a 2-1 win over fellow strugglers Nuremberg, who also have 28 points along with 15th-placed Bochum.", "Bochum lost 2-0 at Cologne on Friday night as on-loan Manchester United winger Zoran Tosic scored in each half." ]	[ "Dutch forward Arjen Robben scores hat-trick in Bayern Munich's 7-0 win over Hannover .", "Ivica Olic and Thomas Muller also score twice as Bayern stay two points clear at top .", "Schalke had taken league lead with earlier 3-1 victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach .", "Werder Bremen claim third place on goal difference with 4-2 win at champions Wolfsburg ." ]	[ 1, 12 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Photographer Larry Birkhead, who was proved in April to be the biological father of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, said Tuesday he will sue the author and publisher of a new book on Smith's death that contains allegations he called \"pure fiction.\"", "Larry Birkhead questions the reliability of sources used in a new book about Anna Nicole Smith.", "\"I've instructed my attorney to sue Rita Cosby, the publisher and any source that spits out some of that false, defamatory information that's in there,\" Birkhead said Tuesday on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "\"If I were Rita Cosby, I'd be very concerned.\"", "Among the allegations in Cosby's \"Blond Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death,\" are that Birkhead and Howard K. Stern, Smith's attorney and companion, had an affair -- and that an intimate moment between the two was caught on videotape.", "\"That's totally false and it's defamatory,\" Birkhead said.", "\"I've heard the sources from that, and those sources are people that don't -- that haven't been in Anna's life and haven't even met me.\"", "Watch Birkhead describe why he plans to sue » .", "Cosby, a former MSNBC anchor, and her publisher, Grand Central Publishing, did not provide statements to CNN on the matter despite requests to do so.", "Birkhead said Cosby's sources on the Stern allegations were two maids, whose reliability is questionable, and Jackie Hatten, a woman who claims to be a friend of Smith's -- and who, according to the book, says she is the one who walked in on Stern and Birkhead.", "\"Jackie Hatten has never met me,\" Birkhead said.", "\"There was nothing to walk in on because, you know, nothing like that's ever happened, and there's definitely no video of it.\"", "And by the end of her life, Smith was no longer in touch with Hatten, he said.", "In a statement issued to TMZ.com, Hatten said she has not read the book, but \"Rita Cosby is such a reputable reporter and person, I can only assume it is true and credible.", "I am happy the American public will finally know the truth.\"", "Smith, 39, died February 8 in a Florida hotel room of an accidental drug overdose.", "Her death sparked a legal battle between Stern and Birkhead over the paternity and custody of her infant daughter, Dannielynn.", "A Bahamian court, citing DNA tests, declared Birkhead the father of Dannielynn in April.", "At that point, Stern, who was listed as the girl's father on the birth certificate, said he would not fight for custody.", "Ron Rale, a former Smith attorney and a friend of Stern's, told \"Larry King Live\" Stern would \"absolutely\" join in the suit against Cosby.", "Stern's attorney, Lin Wood, \"is a monster,\" Rale said, \"and this guy is going to go after Rita Cosby and the publisher.\"", "Asked by TMZ.com about the video earlier Tuesday, Cosby said, \"I have not seen the videotape, but I will say that we have enough corroborating people who say that they have.", "We know people who clearly have been told there is a videotape that exists and have talked to people who have seen the videotape.\"", "Stern and Birkhead, she said, were previously engaged in a legal struggle against each other and appeared to be enemies, but \"now they're friends ... and it begs the question why.", "I think the American public should be concerned about the state this little girl is in.", "If you read the book and they believe these guys are in cahoots and are in it for fame and money and not this little girl's interests at heart.\"", "Birkhead said Cosby's comments are \"crazy ... she says she's never seen the video that she reports in her book that exists, and now she's backpedaling, saying, 'How else could you explain two guys that are enemies now get along?'", "and trying to make sense out of something that she never verified in the first place.\"", "Birkhead told CNN Cosby never called him to verify the allegations or told him she was writing a book.", "Birkhead also noted that he has only temporary custody of Dannielynn and that he is still seeking permanent custody in a Bahamian court.", "He also angrily denied other allegations in the book.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Book alleges Larry Birkhead, Howard K. Stern had affair .", "\"That's totally false and it's defamatory,\" Birkhead says .", "Stern was Smith's boyfriend at time of her death; Birkhead fathered her child ." ]	[ 4, 5, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Lyon coach Claude Puel is confident that his team can cause an upset in their European Champions League semifinal first leg against German giants Bayern Munich.", "The French side, appearing in the last four of the competition for the first time, are the underdogs as they take on the four-time champions in Munich on Wednesday night.", "But having beaten Real Madrid and French champions Bordeaux en route to the semifinal, Puel believes the club have the momentum to make it all the way to the final.", "Blog: Will Mourinho the master defeat Guardiola the great?", "\"It is fantastic for our club to be in the semi-finals,\" Puel told reporters at a press conference.", "\"But we said it before the (quarter-final) against Bordeaux: why should it end here?", "\"Bayern are confident, they had a huge win on the weekend (7-0 against Hannover), they are playing well but I still think we have what it takes to trouble them.\"", "Puel said his players had not suffered as an effect of having to travel the 750 kilometers to Munich by road after volcanic ash led to a flying ban.", "\"You need to be able to adapt,\" he said.", "\"A bit more massage, a bit more walking and stretching.", "But I feel we have adapted.\"", "Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery, who faced Lyon many times during his career in the French league, said his current club would be foolish to underestimate Puel's side.", "\"It will be very difficult against Lyon because they have a very good team,\" he said.", "\"We shouldn't allow ourselves to think about the final.\"", "Bayern will be without captain Mark van Bommel and defender Holger Badstuber, who are both suspended after picking up yellow cards in the quarterfinal victory over Manchester United.", "But Ribery has shaken off a muscular problem to play, along with Dutchman Arjen Robben, who clinched the victory over United with a stunning late volley at Old Trafford and claimed a hat-trick in the rout of Hannover.", "\"The Germans are always dangerous in big matches and Bayern just knocked out Manchester United,\" said Puel.", "\"They have Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery hitting for them again.", "We know what to expect.\"" ]	[ "Lyon coach Claude Puel believes his side can upset Bayern in the Champions League semifinals.", "French side have never reached last four of Europe's premier competition.", "Puel wary of threat posed by Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben." ]	[ 0, 11, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man police believe is a member of the ''Pink Panther'' ring of thieves was transported from Spain to Japan on Saturday to face charges in a major heist at a jewelry shop, a Japanese state news agency reported.", "Rifat Hadziahmetovic, 42, of Montenegro, is suspected of stealing a diamond tiara worth 200 million yen ($2.3 million USD) and other jewelry from a Tokyo shop in 2007, according to the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo.", "Spain agreed to hand Hadziahmetovic, who was in custody for a separate robbery, over to Japan, Kyodo news agency said.", "The \"Pink Panther\" ring, which is believed to have about 200 members, is linked to more than 90 robberies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia since 1999, Kyodo said.", "Hadziahmetovic is suspected of participating in other armed robberies in Bahrain, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, according to the Associated Press.", "The ring is named after the 1963 movie starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau.", "Members are believed to be mainly from countries in the Balkans, the AP said." ]	[ "Suspect in jewelry store heist flown to Japan .", "Diamond tiara worth $2.3 million stolen in 2007 .", "Robbery ring is named for 1963 Peter Sellers movie ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- One of about every 12 babies born in the United States in 2008 was the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, a Pew Hispanic Center study released Wednesday concluded.", "According to the study, an estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in this country that year had parents who were in the United States without legal documentation.", "The 14th Amendment to the Constitution stipulates that those children automatically become U.S. citizens, but some members of Congress are pushing to change that provision.", "That effort -- rooted in the debate over illegal immigration, particularly of people from Mexico -- has created some controversy.", "\"This has got a lot of attention in the past weeks,\" said Jeffrey S. Passel, the study's author.", "\"The idea was just to put a number on it.\"", "According to the study, 79 percent of the 5.1 million children of unauthorized immigrants in the United States were born in this country, making them U.S. citizens.", "Nearly one of four children born in the United States in 2008 had parents who were immigrants, the Pew study found.", "Of those, 16 percent of the parents were legal immigrants and 8 percent were in the United States without proper documentation.", "Many of those children are Latino, Passel said.", "More than three-fourths of all unauthorized immigrants in the United States in March 2009 were Latinos, the researcher said.", "And nearly one of every four children under age 18 in the nation was a Hispanic.", "That trend is likely to continue, the study concludes.", "\"Overall, Hispanics who live in the U.S. have higher rates of fertility than do whites, blacks or Asians,\" the report states.", "\"And among Hispanics, the foreign born have higher rates of fertility than the native born.\"", "Immigration reform has become a hot-button issue this political season.", "Arizona passed a law in April that required all immigrants to carry documentation of legal status and other states are considering similar measure even though major parts of the Arizona law were struck down last month in federal court.", "\"The country is really emotionally torn over this,\" U.S.", "Senator Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said recently on CNN.", "The government estimates there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.", "Proponents of stricter immigration enforcement and control point to the large number of Latinos having babies in the United States as reason to change the 14th Amendment.", "The proponents say these children, which they often call \"anchor babies,\" qualify for welfare and other programs and make it harder to deport their parents .", "\"Babies born to illegal alien mothers within U.S. borders are called anchor babies because under the 1965 immigration Act, they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency,\" says an organization called The American Resistance, which has described itself as \"a coalition of immigration crime fighters opposing illegal and undocumented immigration.\"", "Under the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the child may sponsor other family members for entry into the United States when he or she reaches the age of 21.", "The group notes that \"the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently freed slaves.\"", "The intent of the amendment \"was clearly not to facilitate illegal aliens defying U.S. law at taxpayer expense,\" The American Resistance says on its website.", "Having a child become an automatic U.S. citizen can provide immigrants with another reason to come to this nation illegally, some critics say.", "\"I think we need to look at that in the future as to whether or not we want to change that because I think it's an incentive to break the law,\" said Graham, the U.S. senator.", "Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle, a Republican, pointed out another concern on CNN's \"AC 360\" program Tuesday night.", "Some pregnant women from other countries are traveling to the United States to give birth and then taking their babies back home to raise them as terrorists that would return to attack America, she said.", "Information for that \"sinister issue,\" Riddle said, is coming from from former FBI officials she declined to name.", "\"This is something that is being talked about by various members of Congress,\" she said.", "State Rep. Rafael Anchia, a Democrat, disputed the claim, calling it \"the myth of anchor babies.\"", "\"For that to rise to some sort of national security concern is really unsubstantiated,\" Anchia said.", "\"The 9/11 bombers were all here legally.", "The Times Square bomber was a naturalized citizen.", "He was not an anchor baby.\"", "Anchia also disputed the contention that having a baby in the United States hinders the deportation process.", "\"The law does not bear that out,\" he said.", "\"Just because you have a child here doesn't mean you can't be deported tomorrow.\"", "Despite all the heat, a majority of Americans seem to oppose changing the 14th Amendment.", "A nationwide poll conducted in June by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 56 percent of Americans are against changing the citizenship provision while 41 percent favor amending it.", "The Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that does not take positions on policy issues." ]	[ "The study was conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group .", "The results come amid a national debate over changing the 14th Amendment .", "The 14th Amendment grants automatic citizenship to anyone born in the United States .", "Nearly 80 percent of illegal immigrants' children were born in the United States ." ]	[ 0, 7, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Last week, nearly 40 billionaires announced their intention to give half their wealth to charity at the encouragement of bridge-playing buddies Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.", "This unprecedented action brought to mind Winston Churchill's famous line about the Lend-Lease plan as \"the most unsordid act in the whole of human history.\"", "There has lately been dark talk of the American Dream and American exceptionalism slipping away, but I believe this billionaire compact shows both are alive and well.", "The majority of individuals on this self-selecting list are self-made men and women who built their fortunes in their own lifetime.", "Among them are New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.", "Separately, it was announced earlier this week that the estate of the late Johnny Carson was also donating more than $150 million to a charitable foundation.", "It's difficult to imagine any other nation in history whose wealthiest individuals would voluntarily decide to give half their wealth to charity, not only at home, but around the world.", "And whether the money goes to cure river blindness in Africa or help finance charter schools in this country, it is something that reflects well upon the United States.", "Those who pledge do us proud.", "There is another issue raised by the billionaires' compact, beyond the increasing gap between rich and poor in the United States.", "It is the gap between the \"super rich\" -- who really do have more money than they know what to do with -- and what might be called the \"working wealthy,\" who are taxed as though they're rich enough to able to give away half their money.", "These are individuals whose household income might bring them into the top tax bracket of $250,000 a year but who, with two parents working, might still find themselves struggling to stay in the stability of the upper-middle class in the expensive urban areas where they often work.", "Much of the anger about the scheduled sunset of the Bush tax cuts for the increase in top-bracket taxes comes from this productive group of Americans.", "The super rich are looking for charitable donations to deduct from their taxes each year, while the working wealthy are still trying to pay all their bills.", "But they are taxed at the same rate as the private jet set (what a few years ago might been called the Bernie Madoff crowd).", "The super-rich rule high finance or might have started a high-tech company before the bubble.", "In contrast, the working wealthy might include someone who owns a small business or works as a mid-level executive in a top-line traditional corporation.", "But they are the ones most feeling the squeeze of expectations in the Great Recession, while getting lumped in with the super rich.", "Let's be clear: The working wealthy aren't suffering in any objective sense, but they feel they are paying most of the taxes and getting few of the benefits.", "Small-business owners create almost 70 percent of the new jobs in America, and they are the ones who feel most left out of the current economic recovery.", "At the same time, the Metro Wealth Index shows that the number of millionaires is increasing in cities across the country.", "And the bankers who triggered the economic collapse got billions in bailout money and even got to keep some of their taxpayer-subsidized bonuses.", "The forgotten American middle class saw no real gains in income over the past decade despite the tax cuts because of rising health care and energy costs.", "Big business and big government seem indifferent to the struggles of small businesses, and it's got small-business owners feeling angry and alienated, like forgotten American citizens.", "Meanwhile, politicians slobber over the super rich for campaign donations while they pander to voters with class-warfare populism.", "The billionaires' compact is worth viewing with uncynical eyes.", "It is an historic and selfless attempt to leave the world a better place.", "And if the charitable contributions are directed carefully, funding innovation and fostering independence (like Andrew Carnegie's public libraries did a century ago), rather than dependence, then they can help more people to achieve their own American dreams.", "But the stark fact is that such largess in a time of recession also highlights the growing gaps in our society, not just between the rich and poor, but between the super rich, the working wealthy and the forgotten middle class.", "America remains a meritocracy with long odds and high-payouts -- and is infinitely better than any alternative.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Avlon." ]	[ "John Avlon says 40 billionaires' pledge of fortune is inspiring act of U.S. exceptionalism .", "But he says it points up gap between the \"super rich\" and \"working wealthy\" couples .", "These $250k couples may be in Buffett tax bracket, but struggle to stay in upper-middle class .", "Avlon: Working wealthy aren't suffering, but they pay high taxes, get few benefits ." ]	[ 18, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 4-year-old Arizona boy reported missing was found by horseback riders in a steep canyon Monday morning after an 18-hour search, police said.", "Travis Mitchell appeared in \"good spirits\" and had no signs of injury, Payson, Arizona, police said in a statement.", "He was taken to a local hospital and reunited with his volunteers.", "Travis was playing with several other children about 5 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area of a neighborhood west of the Payson airport, authorities said.", "When the children returned home, Travis was not with them, Payson police said in a statement.", "The boy's parents and friends began searching and called police when they could not find him.", "Several agencies were participating in the search Monday, along with \"numerous friends, family and citizens of Payson,\" police said.", "\"There is no indication of foul play at this time.\"", "Travis was the third Arizona toddler to be reported missing recently.", "The body of 2-year-old Emmett Trapp was found earlier this month about a mile from his home in Yavapai County, lying in a muddy pit once used to collect waste products from a former mining site.", "He had been missing for two days.", "Police said at the time there were no indications of foul play and that the cause of the child's death appeared to be exposure.", "Sylar Newton, also 2, went missing July 25 from a camping site in Rimrock, Arizona, and is presumed dead, police have said.", "CNN's Melanie Whitley and HLN's Natisha Lance contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: 4-year-old Travis Mitchell has been found .", "Travis was last seen about 5 p.m. Sunday .", "He had been playing with friends in a wooded area .", "He was the third Arizona toddler reported missing recently ." ]	[ 3, 8, 10 ]
[ "San Francisco, California (CNN) -- As all people of conscience will agree, human trafficking and child exploitation are utterly despicable and horrendous crimes.", "In contrast with the epidemic numbers often cited for the nation as a whole, the incidence of such crimes is low and getting lower on Craigslist because of the comprehensive preventive measures we have taken.", "Some experts now liken the relative rarity on Craigslist to \"looking for a needle in a haystack.\"", "Nevertheless, any misuse of our site whatsoever in facilitating such unspeakable crimes is unacceptable, and we will continue to work tirelessly, in tandem with law enforcement and key nonprofits, to ensure that any victims receive the assistance they desperately need and deserve, and that those responsible are imprisoned.", "We believe Craigslist is one of the few bright spots and success stories in the fight against these terrible scourges.", "We've been told as much by experts on the front lines of this fight, many of whom we have met with, and many of whom have shared helpful suggestions that we have incorporated in our approach.", "Even politicians looking to advance their careers at the expense of Craigslist's good name grudgingly admit, when pressed, that we have made huge strides, and that Craigslist is virtually alone among advertising venues in vigorously combating these problems.", "Indeed, to our knowledge, only Craigslist, out of countless venues, takes any of the following measures, let alone all of them: .", "• Educating and encouraging users to report trafficking and exploitation .", "• Prominently featuring anti-trafficking and exploitation resources .", "• Creating specialized search interfaces for law enforcement .", "• Providing support for law enforcement anti-crime sweeps and stings .", "• Actively participating in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's cyber-tipline program .", "• Leading all awareness efforts for the National Trafficking Hotline .", "• Meeting regularly with experts at nonprofits and in law enforcement .", "• Manually reviewing every adult service ad before posting .", "• Requiring phone verification for every adult service ad .", "• Implementing the PICS content labeling system.", "Last year, we began manual screening of each adult services ad before its posting, and those unwilling to conform to Craigslist's standards left in droves for the many venues that do not screen ads.", "This migration is a matter of public record.", "You do not hear about arrests connected to the vast majority of adult services advertising because the venues hosting those ads do not cooperate with law enforcement, do not urge their users to be on the lookout for and report suspected trafficking and exploitation, do not participate in reporting programs, do not consult regularly with experts and advocacy groups, and in fact do not take any of the preventive measures we have taken.", "Looking on the bright side, the potential for progress would be enormous if all such venues would adopt the practices that Craigslist has established.", "We are aware that some have called for \"shutting down\" the adult services section of Craigslist.", "Fortunately, most concerned parties seem to realize that declassifying adult services ads back into Craigslist personals, services, and other categories, and offsite to venues that have no interest in combating trafficking and exploitation or in assisting law enforcement, would simply undo all the progress we have made, undermine our primary mission of evolving Craigslist community sites according to user feedback, set back the efforts of our partners in law enforcement and exacerbate the very societal epidemic we all seek to end.", "Read an alternate view accusing Craigslist of publishing such ads .", "In serving our users and the general public as best we can, Craigslist has to balance an immense amount of passionate and often conflicting feedback, and at the end of the day do what our consciences tell us is right.", "Certainly the adult services arena has exemplified this.", "Passionately held opinions on the part of respected experts and well-intentioned citizens range from insistence that all aspects of the \"adult industry\" must be legalized and regulated in order to make further progress against trafficking and child exploitation, to those equally insistent that the entire industry must be further criminalized and marginalized for such progress to be made.", "Fortunately, there is a lot of common ground among all concerned parties, regardless of ideology, and we are focused on making further progress by continuing to seek and incorporate the collective wisdom of the many who have generously shared their ideas and advice about these complex issues.", "As a community site facilitating billions of human interactions among more than 50 million Americans each month, we face many of the same difficult social problems that have faced communities throughout the ages, and all the support, advice and encouragement we have received from so many is sincerely appreciated.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jim Buckmaster." ]	[ "Craigslist CEO says site uses comprehensive preventive measures to bar child sex ads .", "Jim Buckmaster: Site works with nonprofits, law enforcement to make sure victims get aid .", "Buckmaster says his site is virtually the only ad venue that vigorously combats this crime .", "He writes that measures have driven criminals away from Craigslist to permissive sites ." ]	[ 3, 6, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Brazil has formalized its offer of asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning, Brazilian state-run media said Tuesday.", "Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had made a previous offer for asylum, raising Ashtiani's hopes for survival.", "Brazil's ambassador in Tehran has now officially made the offer at Iran's foreign ministry, according to the state-run news service Agencia Brasil.", "Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations Celso Amorim told reporters Tuesday that he spoke last month with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, about Ashtiani's sentence.", "\"I called my Iranian colleague ... to say that the action hurt the sensibility of the Brazilian people and that therefore I was making an appeal, I was asking to reconsider the hypothesis.", "In that moment, actually, the news we had was more about the stoning, which was based on a highly debatable crime in our view of the world.\"", "Amorim described Ashtiani's threatened punishment as \"something that is really baffling to our culture and to the way we see the world.\"", "On Saturday, Lula addressed the matter in Bogota, Colombia, where he said he had asked Amorim to ask the Brazilian ambassador in Tehran to talk to Iranian authorities about it.", "\"I can't imagine someone being stoned,\" Lula said.", "\"I can't imagine. That's why I made the request.", "If there was condition to send her to Brazil, we would receive her with arms wide open.\"", "Lula added that he opposes the death penalty under any circumstances.", "\"I don't think the state has the right to kill a person,\" he said.", "Iran rejected a previous, informal offer, saying Lula lacked sufficient information about the case.", "Last month, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, who is the head of the judiciary of East Azerbaijan province, said Ashtiani's crimes were \"numerous\" and said she was \"convicted of adultery and murder and was sentenced to death,\" according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.", "Ashtiani's lawyers said Iranian authorities are mischaracterizing the status of the adultery and murder charges against her.", "Attorney Hootan Kian said that, though Ashtiani was cleared of her husband's murder five years ago, Iran continues to insist she was found guilty.", "Ashtiani has said she was \"grateful\" for Brazil's offer and would \"graciously\" accept, according to a statement from her son, Sajjad Ashtiani, who has visited his mother in a Tabriz prison.", "Ashtiani, 43, was convicted of adultery in 2006 and was originally sentenced to death by stoning.", "But after international pressure, Iranian authorities said the sentence has been put on hold.", "A decision could come any day on whether the courts will reinstate Ashtiani's sentence of death by stoning, execute her by other means or possibly even grant her a reprieve, according to human rights groups.", "Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the International Committee against Stoning, said if Ashtiani is executed, \"it is entirely political.", "It has nothing to do with the case itself.\"", "Ahadi wrote a letter to Lula last week, saying that his offer was an \"important step\" in saving Ashtiani from undue punishment.", "Brazil's relations with Iran have improved in recent years and it recently participated in talks with Tehran aimed at restarting negotiations about Iran's nuclear program.", "In May, Brazil helped broker a deal with Iran that would provide the government with enriched uranium for medical research.", "It also abstained from a United Nations Security Council vote on tougher sanctions for the Islamic republic.", "One of Ashtiani's attorneys, Mohammad Mostafaei, is seeking asylum for himself in Norway.", "Mostafaei's wife and brother-in-law were arrested and imprisoned in Iran but have since been released.", "In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was \"troubled\" by Ashtiani's case.", "\"The United States is deeply concerned that Iran continues to deny its citizens their civil rights and intimidate and detain those Iranians who seek to hold their government accountable and stand up for the rights of their fellow citizens,\" she said in a statement.", "Clinton also expressed concern about the fate of protesters who were arrested in anti-government demonstrations after the June 2009 elections and about Ebrahim Hamidi, an 18-year-old man charged with homosexuality and facing \"imminent execution despite the fact that he is currently without legal representation.\"", "She urged Tehran \"to halt these executions in accordance with its obligations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights\" and called for the release of political prisoners and human-rights defenders.", "Journalist Luciani Gomes contributed to this story." ]	[ "NEW: \"I was asking to reconsider the hypothesis,\" says Brazil's foreign minister .", "\"The United States is deeply concerned\" about the case, Clinton says .", "Iran says Lula lacks enough information about the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani .", "Brazilian President Lula: \"We would receive her with arms wide open\"" ]	[ 4, 10, 13, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The lawyer and companion for former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith has filed a $60 million libel suit against the author and publisher of a new book on Smith's life and death.", "Howard K. Stern, shown in February, claims the book falsely accuses him of homosexual acts and cocaine use.", "Howard K. Stern's suit claims the book falsely accuses him of behavior including homosexual acts, illegal possession and use of cocaine and criminal involvement in the deaths of Smith and her son, Daniel.", "Stern claims in the suit against Rita Cosby and her publisher, Hachette Book Group USA, that Cosby \"intentionally published false and defamatory statements about Stern related to Ms. Smith's death in a calculated effort to increase sales and increase profits\" in her book, \"Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.\"", "Stern's attorney, Lin Wood, told CNN the suit seeks $10 million for compensatory damages and $50 million for punitive damages.", "Wood said Cosby and her publisher \"made a conscious decision to smear the personal and professional reputation of my client, Howard K. Stern, by publishing vicious lies about him.", "Blonde Ambition is filled with false accusations about Mr. Stern unsupported by any credible or reliable sources.", "\"Blonde Ambition purports to be a 'tell-all' book, but it can only be accurately described as a 'tell-all-lies' book,\" Wood said in a statement.", "Attempts by CNN to reach Cosby, a former MSNBC anchor, and Hachette Book Group USA on Tuesday night were not immediately successful.", "Smith, 39, died February 8 in a Florida hotel room of an accidental drug overdose.", "Her death sparked a legal battle between Stern and photographer Larry Birkhead over paternity and custody of her infant daughter, Dannielynn.", "In addition, the two, along with Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, fought a legal battle over custody of Smith's body that delayed the former model's burial.", "After DNA testing, a Bahamian court declared Birkhead the father of Dannielynn in April.", "At that point, Stern, who was listed as the girl's father on her birth certificate, said he would not fight for custody.", "On CNN's \"Larry King Live\" September 4, Birkhead also denied the allegations in Cosby's book, which include that he and Stern had an affair -- and that an intimate moment between the two was caught on videotape.", "Birkhead said he had instructed his attorney to sue Cosby, the publisher and \"any source that spits out some of that false, defamatory information that's in there.", "If I were Rita Cosby, I'd be very concerned.\"", "He also denied another claim in the book, that he and Stern were working together behind the scenes during the custody battle for Dannielynn or to make money off Smith's death.", "Stern claims in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, that \"defendants have exploited Ms. Smith's life and death by publishing false and defamatory accusations against Howard K. Stern, who was Ms. Smith's longtime lawyer, friend and companion.\"", "The suit claims that Cosby and her publisher had notice that statements in the book were not true before its publication, and that they were warned not to publish those statements by Stern's attorneys.", "Cosby made no attempt to contact Stern to verify the allegations, the suit says.", "Birkhead also said that Cosby never contacted him regarding the allegations.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Howard K. Stern's lawsuit seeks $60 million in damages .", "Suit: Book falsely accuses Stern of involvement in deaths of Smith and her son .", "Attempts by CNN to reach the book's author and publisher were unsuccessful ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Want a hot tip about how to make a financial killing this year?", "Die. That's right. It sounds like a distasteful joke, but courtesy of the United States Congress, it's a gruesome reality.", "Because of a hiccup in the convoluted tax laws, Americans who have done exceptionally well for themselves during their lives will be able to preserve an enormously greater percentage of their money, and thus be able to pass it on to their heirs, if they die before midnight on December 31.", "The federal estate tax, for this calendar year only, is zero percent; at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve it immediately goes to a potential 55 percent for people who have managed to build up a considerable nest egg for their families.", "The 55 percent rate will apply to everything after the first $1 million in assets, if the current law stands.", "(Congress still has the beat-the-clock option to step in and change the rules for next year, but so far has not.)", "The details of the back-and-forth in Congress that has led to this are enough to give you a headache, and those mice-trapped-in-a-maze legislative machinations have been exhaustively reported on and analyzed.", "Suffice it to say that the smart people in the world of money and investments -- the ones who always seem to know when it's time to move to municipal bonds, or to roll their cash over into some exotic derivative, or to switch to real estate -- are now saying that dying this year is a sound financial strategy.", "As the Wall Street Journal recently put it: \"It has come to this: Congress, quite by accident, is incentivizing death.\"", "No one is kidding about the basic facts of this.", "The Bernie Madoff scheme may have been unspeakably cruel, and the tricks played by the big investment banks may have been infuriating, but at least no one was telling people that they'd better die quickly if they'd like to let their families hang on to their money.", "The Journal ran a photo gallery of six prominent men who beat the system by dying this year: former TV host Art Linkletter, actor Dennis Hopper, Taco Bell founder Glen Bell, novelist Louis Auchincloss, real estate developer Walter Shorenstein and author J.D.", "Salinger. The most-talked about beneficiary -- if you can call it that, which you probably shouldn't -- of this tax weirdness is George Steinbrenner, the late owner of the New York Yankees who died last month.", "Under the headline \"Why Now Is a Great Time to Die,\" financial journalist Lauren Drell, who writes for AOL, calculated that by dying this year instead of next, Steinbrenner saved his relatives approximately $600 million.", "What do you call a system that allows such a thing to happen?", "\"Grisly\" is the word that tax expert Barbara Weltman used when she spoke to Drell: \"There's talk about pulling the plug on people on life support ... [It is] just horrible to think that taxes should play any role in life-and-death decisions.\"", "But the same people who knew how to play all the angles to build an enviable financial life for themselves are now coming face to face with the ultimate angle.", "As attorney and estate planner Jack Nuckolls told The Associated Press: \"If you're super-wealthy, it's a good year to die.", "It really is.\" Last year, when the estate tax was 45 percent, people in ill health faced a different kind of challenge: If they could just hold on until the first few seconds of 2010, then they could die knowing that their money had made it into the freakish one-year holiday from estate taxes.", "But as sadistic as that setup was -- imagine having to fight for a few more breaths because if you made it to New Year's Day, you could do a better job of providing for your children -- at least it put a premium on living.", "What's scheduled to happen in a little more than four months is the opposite.", "Those who die are the fiscal winners.", "There doesn't seem much to be done about it, except engage in dark wit.", "Eugene Sukup, 81, of Sheffield, Iowa, who founded a grain-bin manufacturing firm with $15,000 in 1963 and who has presided over it with such skill that today it provides jobs for 450 Iowans, told the Wall Street Journal that if he were to die this year he would not have to pay a penny in estate taxes.", "But if he were to live until the dawning moments of next year and then pass away, his bill could be $15 million.", "He seems to have a sense of humor about this insanity (unless he's not kidding).", "He said: . \"You don't know whether to commit suicide or just go on living and working.\"", "That's what is so Alice-through-the-looking-glass about all of this, and that is why, in its nonsensical way, the tax situation is a parable for the financial madness of our times.", "If you've been fortunate in your life, and have accumulated a sizeable amount of money and property to leave to your children and grandchildren, and your health is starting to fail, you can hope for one more springtime with your family, and a seat in front of the television set to watch the 2011 Super Bowl, and a chance to gaze upon the fireworks and the community parade next Fourth of July.", "But if you do, will you feel like a sucker?", "Will you feel like you've wished for something foolish?", "Will you weigh the joy of one more year against the empty feeling of having your pocket picked by the lunacy of this particular law?", "\"Happy new year,\" for some people, may soon enough sound like a taunt.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene." ]	[ "Tax law eliminates estate tax this year, but restores it in 2011 .", "Bob Greene says some very wealthy people could save heirs millions if they die this year .", "Greene: Will those who make it past December 31st feel that their families got cheated?" ]	[ 2, 18, 29, 33 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- British Airways passengers face the prospect of holiday season chaos after cabin crew voted to strike for almost two weeks over Christmas and New Year in protest over cost-cutting measures introduced by the airline.", "More than 12,500 BA employees, balloted by trade union Unite in November, voted by a 92.5 percent majority to walk out from December 22 for 12 days, Unite Deputy General Secretary Len McCluskey announced Monday.", "In a statement to customers on its Web site, BA said it was reworking its flight schedules for the strike period and would announce them as quickly as possible.", "It said it would inform affected customers by e-mail or text message.", "The strike ballot came after the airline introduced cost-cutting measures including a two-year pay freeze and reducing the numbers of cabin crew members on long-haul flights.", "BA says the changes, introduced in the wake of a record pre-tax loss of more than $485 million for the six months from April to September, will save the airline $665 million.", "McCluskey warned that the strike would inflict \"catastrophic damage\" to the airline if it went ahead and urged British Airways bosses to return to the negotiating table.", "He said union members had been pushed into a corner by BA Chief Executive Willie Walsh.", "\"We've been saying to Mr. Walsh this seems crazy at a time when British Airways is suffering badly through an economic downturn that he should force us into a dispute that would have catastrophic effects on the economy of the company,\" McCluskey told CNN following a news conference at Sandown Racecourse, southern England.", "\"That's why we're hoping that even at this late hour the strength of feeling of our members will get through to the company.", "We are available 24 hours a day to meet the company.", "If they are up for getting an agreement I'm confident we can get one.\"", "McCluskey said passengers, upset at having their holiday plans disrupted, should take their anger out on the airline.", "McCluskey said his members were not \"mindless militants\" but decent men and women who had been forced into a corner by British Airlines.", "But Walsh said strike action was \"completely unjustified\" and called on union chiefs to resume negotiations.", "He said the airline had agreed pay cuts with pilots and more efficient ways of working with engineers, while a third of managers had taken voluntary redundancy.", "BA cut 1,900 jobs over the summer through reduced overtime, increased part-time working, and voluntary redundancies.", "But it plans to eliminate 3,000 more jobs by March 2010, Walsh said last month.", "\"My admiration for the professionalism and skills of British Airways cabin crew is second to none.", "They are an absolutely vital part of our airline, and a great asset,\" Walsh said.", "\"But they have been disgracefully misled by Unite as to how our company-wide cost reduction program would affect them.\"", "CNN's Richard Quest said the impact of the potential strike would be devastating for BA and said the consequences would be disruption for BA passengers and higher prices for travelers booking on other airlines.", "\"Their planes are heaving and they are now about to face a strike,\" Quest said.", "\"They are going to have tens of thousands of passengers who are concerned, who are worried.", "I imagine anyone who is going away for Christmas is now thinking about shifting their booking if they can.\"", "A spokesperson for ABTA, which represents travel agencies and tour operators in the UK, said passengers booked onto BA flights should wait and see what contingency plans the airline puts in place and whether the strike goes ahead.", "\"Hopefully the strike could be called off and if you cancel your flight now then you may not be able to claim a refund,\" she said.", "Unite has called on the High Court to rule on whether BA's cutbacks have breached its member's contracts but the case is not scheduled to be heard until February 2010." ]	[ "BA cabin crew vote overwhelming for strike action over proposed cutbacks .", "Union plans to begin action from December 22 for 12 days .", "Union opposes cost-cutting measures including reduced crews on long-haul flights .", "Union boss urges BA to return to negotiating table to avoid \"catastrophic damage\"" ]	[ 1, 4, 6 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama last month pleaded not guilty to 10 counts including piracy, hostage-taking, and firearms charges in U.S. District Court in New York on Thursday.", "Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse arrived in the United States on April 21.", "Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse faces life in prison if convicted in any of eight of the 10 counts, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.", "The U.S. Navy took Muse into custody April 12 after the hijacking in the Indian Ocean.", "He arrived in the United States April 21.", "At his arraignment Thursday, Muse stood before Judge Loretta Preska wearing navy-blue prison garb and a bright orange undershirt.", "The defendant appeared dejected as he listened to the proceedings through the voice of an interpreter, looking downwards at his lap and feet most of the time.", "The indictment charges Muse with eight counts that each could carry a maximum sentence of life in prison: piracy, possession of a machine gun while seizing a ship by force, hostage-taking, conspiracy to commit hostage-taking, possession of a machine gun during hostage-taking, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and possession of a machine gun during kidnapping.", "The remaining two charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars: seizing a ship by force and conspiracy to seize a ship by force.", "Defense attorney Phil Weinstein asked the court for time for the defense to conduct its own investigation into the case, and the judge agreed, setting the next hearing date for September 17.", "Weinstein then expressed concern over Muse's treatment under incarceration, alleging that prison officials were administering medication to him without proper consent and were denying him phone calls to his family in Somalia.", "Weinstein also expressed concern about Muse's detention conditions.", "\"He's been held in administrative segregation since his arrest, which means he's detained alone for 23 out of 24 hours a day,\" Weinstein told reporters gathered outside the courthouse.", "\"He's unable to communicate with anyone except for us.\"", "Muse's defense team was joined outside the courthouse by Idd Beddel Mohamed, deputy permanent representative to Somalia's mission to the United Nations in New York.", "He told reporters his government is monitoring the proceedings and working with the federal public defenders to ensure proper legal protection for Muse.", "\"We have full confidence in the U.S. legal system and we believe justice will be served,\" Mohamed told reporters.", "See timeline of events that led to piracy case » .", "There had been questions about Muse's age, with his father in Somalia telling defense attorneys his son was only 15.", "But, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled that Muse is in fact older than 18 and can be tried as an adult.", "Still, the defense team continues to raise questions about Muse's exact age.", "They say they are working with Mohamed and other Somali officials to try to secure proper documentation of Muse's birth date.", "Pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship, April 8 about 350 miles off the Somali coast, according to the criminal complaint.", "They boarded the ship after firing gunshots, according to crew members quoted in the complaint.", "Muse was carrying a gun and was the first alleged pirate on the ship, the complaint said.", "According to the complaint, Muse fired his gun at the Maersk's captain, Richard Phillips, and then took $30,000 from the ship's safe after he forced Phillips to open it.", "A Maersk crew member managed to tackle Muse and tie his hands, leading to a deal with the pirates: They would leave the ship if Muse was returned to them and if they got a life boat, the complaint said.", "Phillips boarded the life boat with them and the ship's crew freed Muse, who then boarded the life boat, according to the criminal complaint.", "Over the next three days, the life boat floated near the Maersk with the U.S. Navy's USS Bainbridge nearby.", "On April 12, Muse boarded the USS Bainbridge and demanded safe passage for himself and the other pirates in exchange for Phillips' release.", "But while he was aboard, Navy SEALs, or special forces, shot and killed the three remaining pirates and freed Phillips.", "The criminal complaint said Muse \"conducted himself as the leader\" of the pirates who allegedly took over the Maersk Alabama.", "Still, defense attorneys said they believe Muse will be exonerated in the end.", "\"The complaint says that [Muse] requested ... from the Americans to come aboard the Navy ship, and they granted him that permission,\" defense attorney Fiona Doherty told reporters Thursday.", "\"And from there, that's where he was trying to negotiate for the safe release of Captain Phillips.\"" ]	[ "Indictment alleges eight counts that carry life sentence .", "Defense granted time to conduct its own investigation .", "Judge ruled earlier that piracy suspect will be tried as an adult .", "Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse has been identified as leader of ship hijacking ." ]	[ 1, 7, 9, 19 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Howard K. Stern and two doctors entered \"not guilty\" pleas to charges of conspiring to provide drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before her fatal overdose in 2007.", "Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's longtime confidant, arrives at Los Angeles Criminal Courts on Wednesday.", "Stern -- Smith's longtime partner and attorney -- appeared before a Los Angeles judge Wednesday morning for formal arraignment, along with co-defendants Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor.", "The three are charged in California with several felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 through January 2007 -- only weeks before Smith's death.", "California Attorney General Jerry Brown, when he announced the case in March, said the doctors and Stern devised a plan to use fake names so Smith could be prescribed \"thousands of pills.\"", "Smith, the former Playboy playmate and reality TV star, was drugged \"almost to the point of stupefaction,\" Brown said.", "Stern defense lawyer Steve Sadow has called the charges baseless and accused Brown of using Smith's death for his own political purposes.", "\"Bottom line is that Howard K. Stern did not commit a criminal act, period, and you can ask me that all day long and I'll still tell you he did not commit a criminal act,\" Sadow said after Wednesday's hearing.", "Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8, 2007, after being discovered unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Florida.", "A coroner said she died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.", "Florida prosecutors said in March they were taking a new look at Smith's death to see if evidence California investigators had gathered recently might cause them to open an inquiry.", "The Broward County, Florida, state attorney's office never opened a probe into Smith's death but did assist the Seminole police department in its investigation in the days afterward." ]	[ "Smith's boyfriend Howard Stern, two doctors charged with providing drugs .", "Smith died from accidental overdose of prescription drugs in 2007 .", "The three face felony charges relating to furnishing drugs, faking presciptions .", "Stern defense lawyer calls charges baseless ." ]	[ 0, 6, 9 ]
[ "Beijing, China (CNN) -- An accident on a ride at a Chinese amusement park has left six dead, and several more injured, Chinese media agencies reported Tuesday.", "The passengers on a simulated rocket ride said that the smell of burning electronics and a sudden loss of power preceded the deadly incident at the Overseas Chinese Town East facility in Shenzhen, witnesses told Xinhua news agency.", "The Hong Kong-based Ming Pao newspaper reported that one of the 11 capsules on the \"Space Journey\" ride came detached, slamming into others and leading to the deaths and at least 10 others being injured.", "Government officials said only that the exact cause of the accident is still under investigation, while the area surrounding the ride will be closed Wednesday.", "The park is popular with Hong Kong residents traveling to the mainland." ]	[ "Amusement park accident leaves six dead in China .", "Passengers said they smelled burning before accident .", "The incident is being investigated ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(RealSimple.com) -- My father spent his youth as a crossing guard, a Boy Scout, and a designated driver.", "I, on the other hand, squandered mine cutting gym class and hanging out at the mall.", "Back then, my father would deliver themed, Mike Brady--style lectures (one recurring favorite was the Importance of Being Honest), which I grudgingly tolerated and later dismissed.", "But as I've gotten older, a funny thing has come to pass: I've often found myself doing exactly what he told me to do, following even his most questionable advice -- like renting the movie \"Pink Cadillac.\"", "Herewith, his greatest hits.", "(Caution: Some of these lessons may trigger flashbacks to your own father's finest moments.)", "RealSimple.com: Making positive changes in your life .", "1. Hold hands while you hash it out.", "My folks have been married for 47 years.", "One of my father's rules for a happy marriage is that if a nasty argument erupts, hold hands as you fight.", "You'll feel goofy doing this, but here's the thing: It works.", "Recently my husband, Tom, forgot to pay a few bills that were buried under a pile of clutter.", "I was incandescent with rage.", "So we interlaced our fingers while we talked it out, and I felt my blood pressure plummet and my endorphins flow in spite of myself.", "It's impossible to scream at someone who is giving your hand a gentle squeeze.", "It just is. RealSimple.com: Secrets of staying (happily) married .", "2. Pay attention to anyone who wears a tool belt... My father is practical, thrifty (or, put more accurately, cheap), and savvy about home improvements.", "He calls a repairman only as a last resort -- and when he does, he hovers around the guy and asks tons of questions. \"", "Carefully observe anyone with a skill that you don't have,\" my father often said, \"and then you can take care of the fill-in-the-blank yourself.\"", "He was right: After shadowing a handyman for an hour, I later fixed my own dishwasher, to the perpetual amazement of friends who call their super to change a lightbulb.", "RealSimple.com: Small, helpful gestures with big impact .", "3. ...Or a uniform. It has always annoyed my dad that a waiter gets a 20 percent tip for serving a crème brûlée, while a hotel maid who disposes of used dental floss often winds up with bubkes.", "My father routinely told our sanitation men and the crew who cleaned his office that they were doing a good job and made sure to compensate them at holidays.", "As a child, I used to writhe with embarrassment when he did this.", "Now I do the same for the sanitation workers in my neighborhood.", "One guy once told me, with a catch in his voice, that in 10 years, it was the first time he had ever been thanked.", "4. You can never have enough baggies.", "Anything can be stored in a resealable plastic bag, according to my father.", "Shoelaces, maps, socks, meat.", "I used to mock his habit of bagging everything, but since then I've seen the light.", "They're miracle workers -- easy to stash, and you can spot their contents at a glance.", "RealSimple.com: Live your life on less .", "Now, just like Dad, I have a special drawer just for these bags, which range from giant (for sweaters) to tiny (to squirrel away nuts in my purse).", "When I'm missing a size in my lineup, I get tense.", "5. You can't go wrong with Clint.", "Dad says if you are at Blockbuster and are unable to decide what to rent, get a Clint Eastwood movie.", "Even the bad ones, he contends, are superior to most other films.", "Even \"Every Which Way but Loose.\"", "Even \"The Gauntlet\" (look it up).", "Now, when I'm overwhelmed by racks of DVDs, I simply look for Clint's scowling face.", "RealSimple.com: Keep mind and body in top condition .", "6. Don't belittle the annual sack race.", "When my sisters and I hit adolescence, my father doggedly upheld our many family traditions, despite a tsunami of scorn.", "\"They don't mean anything to you kids now,\" he'd tell us, \"but one day you'll invest in them yourselves.\"", "Have we ever. Every Fourth of July, we have a sack race, and I just introduced a new tradition last Christmas.", "After dinner, I passed out lottery tickets and coins.", "Soon, all you could hear was an industrious scritch-scratch.", "And my father was beaming.", "7. For Pete's sake, stop worrying.", "Dad, like many guys of his generation, is a doer, not a talker.", "Just \"fix it,\" he tells himself, no matter how intractable the problem seems.", "His swift and decisive action used to strike me, a champion ditherer, as impulsive, but I've come to realize that consulting your gut leads to better decisions than exhaustive (and exhausting) deliberation.", "Now when I'm stymied, I say this phrase, and the answer comes.", "8. Carry a hankie.", "Years ago, my parents and I were visiting a museum.", "I had a cold. My father handed me a fresh hankie and told me to keep it in my purse.", "And so I have. Tissues disintegrate, but not this sturdy cloth.", "Restroom dryer on the fritz?", "Handkerchief! Want to wrap a cookie to go?", "Handkerchief! 9. No one's smarter than you.", "Long ago, if I was in a group and the conversation strayed to an unfamiliar topic, I'd keep silent.", "Dad urged me to say, \"I don't understand.", "Can you explain what you're talking about?\"", "Asking questions makes you sound smart, he said, and confident to boot.", "RealSimple.com: 10 biz strategies to organize family life .", "At a recent gathering, somebody mentioned the Mauritius Continental Shelf.", "Silence. Then I asked, \"What's that?\" And all the former Ivy Leaguers around me exhaled and admitted they didn't know what the hell it was, either.", "10. You will want kids. My father always encouraged me to have a baby.", "I used to tell him that it wasn't for everyone, but he shot back, \"I know you, and you would love it.\"", "True enough: Tom and I became parents recently, and that little girl is the joy of my life.", "I cannot wait to impart my own pearls of wisdom to her, such as the infinite uses for twist ties or the Importance of Being Honest (sound familiar?).", "And since she's a lot like me, she'll probably roll her eyes and grumble -- and listen to every word.", "Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2010 Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Her dad's advice annoyed daugher when she was growing up .", "Pay attention to anyone wearing a toolbelt -- what you learn can save you money .", "During heated arguments with spouse, hold hands to help keep screaming under control .", "When in doubt about a movie to rent, you can't go wrong with Clint Eastwood ." ]	[ 7, 18, 34, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An autopsy was conducted Monday in the death of a onetime medical student who died of an apparent suicide while facing charges in a killing tied to the Craigslist website.", "However, the medical examiner is withholding the official cause of death for Philip Markoff pending further tests, prosecutors said.", "\"Markoff was alone in his cell and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life,\" Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a statement released earlier.", "\"Nonetheless, as with all such cases, a comprehensive investigation will be conducted to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding his death.\"", "Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral told CNN that Markoff had not demonstrated any notable behavior while in custody and did not pose a disciplinary problem before his death.", "While Markoff had been on suicide watch from April 23 to May 14, he was not on watch around the time he died, she said.", "Suicide watch for jail inmates is determined by a psychiatrist, she said.", "In her eight years as sheriff, there have been four confirmed suicides; Markoff would be the fifth.", "There's an average of 57 serious suicide attempts a year, Cabral added.", "Markoff was found unresponsive in his Boston, Massachusetts, jail cell at 10:17 a.m. Sunday and pronounced dead by medics, according to officials.", "He was found with wounds to his neck and ankles, EMS spokeswoman Jennifer Mehigan said.", "Markoff, 24, was charged with the April 14, 2009, fatal shooting and attempted robbery of Julissa Brisman, 25, at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel.", "Police said that Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, a popular online classifieds service, and said Markoff might have met her through the site.", "In a statement Sunday, the family of Brisman said it was \"shocked and dismayed\" at the news of Markoff's apparent suicide.", "\"Their grief for Julissa is as fresh today as the day over a year ago when Markoff took Julissa away from them,\" said the statement issued by a representative for the family.", "\"The long-awaited criminal prosecution was their only opportunity to confront him, and now he has taken that away as well.\"", "The family promised to pursue \"other avenues to seek justice for Julissa and help ensure that others do not suffer from such devastating, unnecessary violence,\" according to the statement.", "Markoff was also charged with the April 10, 2009, robbery of Trisha Leffler at a Westin Hotel in Boston.", "Police reports said Leffler was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards and was held at gunpoint and bound.", "At his arraignment in June 2009, Markoff pleaded not guilty to the Massachusetts charges.", "He also was facing charges in an April 16, 2009, incident at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island.", "In that incident, police said, Markoff tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement.", "The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room, and the suspect fled after pointing his gun at the husband, according to Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney.", "At the time of his April 2009 arrest, Markoff was a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine and was engaged to be married.", "His friends and acquaintances expressed shock, describing him as a model student and the \"all-American\" guy.", "A woman identifying herself as Megan McAllister, his fiancee, maintained his innocence in an April 2009 e-mail sent to ABC News, saying Markoff \"is the wrong man\" and \"was set up.\"", "\"Unfortunately, you were given the wrong information as was the public,\" she said.", "\"All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly!\"", "Markoff's attorney had also proclaimed his innocence.", "Conley, the district attorney, told reporters last year that Brisman's death was \"a brutal, vicious crime -- savage.", "And it shows that Philip Markoff is a man who's willing to take advantage of women -- to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them.\"", "Brisman sustained blunt head trauma and was shot three times at close range, prosecutors said.", "Conley said they believed the motive for her death was robbery.", "In executing a search warrant at Markoff's home, police found a firearm, along with restraints and duct tape, he said.", "Police traced internet communications with Brisman to an e-mail account that had been opened the day before her death, Conley said.", "Using internet provider information, they found the computer was at Markoff's residence in the Boston suburb of Quincy, he said.", "CNN's John Branch and Logan Burruss and In Session's Beth Karas contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Sheriff says Philip Markoff did not behave differently before death .", "Medical examiner withholding official cause of death for Markoff .", "He was accused of killing one woman and robbing two others .", "Authorities believe he met his victims on Craigslist ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- JetBlue on Wednesday dispensed vouchers to passengers and some levity to the public, two days after one of its flight attendants famously quit following a luggage-bin altercation.", "Perhaps realizing that the best answer to the public support of Steven Slater might be humor, the company's blog had a posting entitled, \"Sometimes the weird news is about us.\"", "The blog read, \"It wouldn't be fair for us to point out absurdities in other corners of the industry without acknowledging when it's about us.", "Well this week's news certainly falls into that category.", "Perhaps you heard a little story about one of our flight attendants?\"", "\"While we can't discuss the details of what is an ongoing investigation, plenty of others have already formed opinions on the matter.", "Like, the entire Internet.\"", "The blog also praises 2,300 \"fantastic, awesome and professional Inflight Crewmembers.\"", "The case of Slater has been a web sensation, and some consider him a folk hero.", "According to blogs and accounts, Slater received a small gash on his head during an altercation with a passenger.", "In a blaze of \"take this job and shove it,\" he reportedly used some profanity on the plane's intercom, said he was quitting, grabbed some beers and deployed the plane's chute before sliding down and running away.", "Meanwhile, each person on the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New York flight Monday will receive a $100 voucher, JetBlue said.", "\"This is consistent with our long-standing policies,\" spokesman Steve Stampley told CNN.", "\"JetBlue often provides vouchers to our customers when they experience a disruption or otherwise abnormal circumstance.", "This event falls into that category.\"", "Slater, who faces criminal charges in the incident, told CNN affiliate WABC Wednesday that support from the public has been \"so encouraging and so special.\"", "\"There's some really great people out there, and I'm getting a glimpse of that,\" he said.", "\"It's a surprise because, obviously, I have been away for a little while.\"", "Slater left a Bronx detention center Tuesday night.", "Slater had a scratch on his forehead.", "He said, it was \"more than likely\" he will lose his job.", "Slater's mother, Diane Slater, defended him in an interview with CNN affiliate KABC.", "\"I don't think he's going to be in trouble very long.", "I think he just had a very small meltdown, and I think he deserves to be able to have that meltdown if you saw the egg on his head where he got smacked,\" she said.", "Slater was arrested at his home after the incident at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after the flight landed.", "He was charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and criminal trespass, according to the Queens District Attorney's Office.", "The tension between Slater and the passenger apparently began in Pittsburgh, where the flight originated.", "A female passenger \"was struggling to shove her carry-on luggage (into the overhead bin) and she was competing with another passenger for the slot.", "They were shoving luggage around,\" said Slater's attorney, Howard Turman.", "\"He (Slater) came over to assist, she started cursing and -- based on the information -- slammed the overhead luggage bin on his (Slater's) head,\" Turman said.", "Turman said the female passenger said \"F--- you\" to Slater.", "After the flight landed at JFK, Slater approached the female passenger who was retrieving her bag from the bin while the plane was still taxiing to the gate, according to a source familiar with the incident.", "Passengers are required to stay in their seats with their seat belts fastened until the pilot has reached the gate and gives the all-clear sign.", "The passenger cursed Slater again, Turman said.", "Her fury grew upon learning she would have to wait at baggage claim to retrieve luggage she was forced to check at the gate.", "At that point, Slater got on the plane's public address system.", "Passenger Phil Catelinet wrote on his blog that Slater said, \"To the passenger who just called me a motherf-----: f--- you.", "I've been in this business 20 years, and I've had it.\"", "When the plane stopped at the gate, Slater grabbed some beer from the beverage cart before deploying the emergency slide and leaving.", "JetBlue announced Tuesday that Slater has been suspended pending an investigation.", "The airline declined to specify whether the suspension is a paid leave of absence.", "Slater smiled as he entered a courtroom Tuesday for his arraignment.", "He was ordered held on $2,500 bond and not to have contact with two specific JetBlue employees.", "Turman described his client as \"a dedicated son\" who has been flying to California regularly to attend to his mother, who is suffering from Stage 4 lung cancer.", "The second-degree criminal mischief and the first-degree reckless endangerment charges are felonies that could land Slater in jail for seven years if convicted, authorities said.", "The JetBlue blog had a host of comments after the posting.", "\"Everyone on the web is supporting Steven, but not his company,\" one comment read.", "\"That's a pity ... That's a bad ad for you.", "Support your workers as all your customers are doing.\"", "CNN's Richard Davis, Allan Chernoff, Julian Cummings, Susan Candiotti, Laura Batchelor and Jesse Solomon contributed to this report." ]	[ "JetBlue posts blog item about its flight attendant .", "Support has been \"so encouraging and so special,\" Steven Slater says .", "JetBlue will give vouchers to passengers on the flight .", "Slater was arrested Monday after using the plane's emergency chute to leave ." ]	[ 0, 15, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Satellite photographs on NASA's website show hundreds of hot spots generated by wildfires across central and western Russia.", "State media reported that the images showed 368 hot spots across Russia on Saturday.", "RIA Novosti quoted a spokeswoman for ScanEx, which analyzes the images, as saying that central Russia's Moscow, Ryazan and Nizhny Novgorod regions are the most affected.", "Smoke clouds, which have become a serious health hazard, can clearly been seen on the satellite images, blanketing large swaths of the country.", "State media reported that carbon monoxide levels in Moscow were more than six times the maximum allowable concentration, and other toxic substances permeated the city air at nine times the normal level.", "The disaster has killed more than 50 people and left dozens hospitalized, according to Russia's health and social development ministry.", "Meanwhile, Russia thanked the United States for coming to its aid.", "\"Russia is grateful to the United States over the assistance in tackling the wildfires raging across the country,\" said the Russian Foreign Ministry, according to news reports.", "The United States sent some $4.5 million in aid that included water tanks, pumps, hand tools, fire-protective clothing and medical kits, according to the U.S. State Department.", "RIA Novosti reported that thousands of Russian emergency workers and military personnel have been working around the clock for almost three weeks to fight the fires in 22 regions, which have so far left more than 3,500 homeless." ]	[ "Satellite images on NASA website show wildfire hot spots across Russia .", "State media report that photographs show 368 fires burning on Saturday .", "Russia's foreign ministry says it is grateful to the U.S. for aid ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer, songwriter, actor and activist, died on Saturday at age 80 in New York City, a friend of hers told CNN.", "Carol Friedman, who has been working on a documentary about the singer for some 20 years, said Lincoln died of natural causes Saturday morning in Manhattan.", "She declined to provide further details.", "Lincoln started performing in the 1950s when she released her first album, \"Abbey Lincoln's Affair ... A Story of a Girl in Love.\"", "Often said to have been heavily influenced by the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, Lincoln continued to write and perform for six decades.", "She was also well-known as an actress.", "She co-starred with Sidney Poitier in the 1968 film, \"For Love of Ivy,\" for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.", "During the 1960s, Lincoln became active in the civil rights movement.", "She sang on the album, \"We Insist!", "-- Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite.\"", "She was married to the jazz musician Max Roach during the 1960s.", "They divorced in 1970.", "Speaking to National Public Radio before her death, Lincoln reflected on her life and art.", "\"You know, when everything is finished in a world, the people go to look for what the artists leave,\" she said.", "\"It's the only thing that we have really in this world -- is an ability to express ourselves and say I was here,\" she said." ]	[ "Lincoln was a prominent civil rights activist during the 1960s .", "She was said to have been influenced by legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday .", "Lincoln was also well known as an actress ." ]	[ 4, 5, 7 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- A Pentagon estimate that Afghanistan is home to nearly a trillion dollars in sought-after minerals is good news, but it provides no assurance that the nation is on its way to peace and productivity, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.", "Zakaria told CNN he is skeptical of the idea that you could \"divide $1 trillion by the population of Afghanistan to reach the conclusion that every Afghan will be rich ... the history of natural resources and mineral wealth is that it produces enormous corruption and mismanagement, and very often the money does not go down to the average person.\"", "U.S. geologists reported Monday that Afghanistan has large supplies of iron, copper and gold, along with other valuable minerals but cautioned that quick riches were not in store.", "\"Turning the potential of Afghanistan's mineral wealth into actual revenue will take years,\" said State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley. Zakaria said, \"It can be made more effective.", "Australia has lots of natural resources, Canada has lots of natural resources, but you really have to create an honest and efficient government, which gets us back to the central problem in Afghanistan.\"", "The author and host of CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\" spoke to CNN on Wednesday.", "Here is an edited transcript: .", "CNN: The New York Times reported this week that Pentagon geologists had discovered what amounts to a potential trillion-dollar lode of minerals in Afghanistan?", "What's the significance of that finding?", "Fareed Zakaria: Well I think it's great work on the part of the Pentagon.", "I know the assistant secretary of Defense, Paul Brinkley, has been working on this.", "He's done some amazing work in Iraq in getting their economy started.", "I think that it's very important to find some viable economic model for Afghanistan.", "I have to say, however, that finding the minerals is the easy part.", "Creating a real economy that distributes the wealth that this produces in an effective and efficient and honest way is the much, much larger challenge.", "Think about the countries around the world that have great mineral wealth -- Nigeria, Russia, Zimbabwe.", "These are not places where the average person is doing well.", "Nigeria is the sixth-largest oil exporter in the world and its per capita GDP [Gross Domestic Product] is abysmal.", "CNN: The government in the hands of Hamid Karzai has been criticized for not being transparent and for not tackling corruption.", "Has there been any progress on that? Zakaria: I think there has been some progress.", "Karzai has been willing to speak out and act in ways that he hasn't before.", "His attorney general has brought charges and prosecuted people.", "Clearly not enough -- the government is riddled with corruption at every level -- but there is some movement.", "But I would say the first great challenge that Karzai faces is to make his government seem legitimate in the eyes of the people.", "And some part of that is about the government not being seen as corrupt, but some part of it is also about him creating a broad-based coalition -- and that means making sure that he's not excluding from government, from patronage, from local councils, those people who have credibility and political support in their areas.", "The key to this government's success or failure is if the Pashtun community -- which makes up 50 percent of Afghanistan and 100 percent of the insurgency -- sees the government of Hamid Karzai as their government as opposed to an alien force.", "That's where the bulk of the work has to take place.", "For more on the region, read the \"Afghanistan Crossroads\" blog .", "CNN: It's been reported that Karzai doesn't believe that the war against the Taliban can be won on the battlefield?", "Zakaria: I think that's a fair statement, and I think he's right.", "If the Taliban is to some extent an expression of Pashtun resistance to this government ... this is not an alien force coming from outside that you can defeat and they will go home to Saudi Arabia or wherever it is.", "Most of them, the vast majority, are Afghans, so you're going to have to live with them.", "And that means while of course you have to defeat militarily the most radical, the most intransigent elements of the Taliban, you also have to make deals to include some of them, particularly in mid- and low levels in some kind of new consensual framework.", "So if what Karzai means is you're going to have to share power with some Pashtuns who have been identified with the Taliban, I think he's absolutely right.", "If you look at the end of civil wars, they almost always end in some form of negotiation.", "There's very rarely complete annihilation or outright defeat of the opponent.", "Unlike wars between two states, in a civil war the people you're fighting are people you're going to have to live with the next day.", "The United States should not be allergic to the idea of political solutions to Afghanistan, because that is the only viable way we are going to get peace and stability.", "CNN: Is it your sense that there is conflict on this issue between Karzai and the U.S.?", "Zakaria: Well the United States was opposed for a long time to the idea of any kind of deal making with the Taliban.", "Through most of the Bush administration, the was regarded as completely impermissible. ...", "I think there has been a change in recent months, and it should be encouraged.", "CNN: So you think the Obama administration is not wary of making concessions to the Taliban?", "Zakaria: Well, it doesn't seem to have same allergy to negotiations, but they're not moving wholeheartedly on that front.", "For example, the crucial issue for many members of the Taliban is that they be taken off the U.N. blacklist, where they're described as terrorists.", "Their view is that this is a national resistance movement.", "They're not al Qaeda, and they were never part of al Qaeda, and we have been very reluctant to take them off the blacklist.", "We should be looking at that list very carefully, trying to figure out if there are people there we do want to try to negotiate with.", "If you do want to negotiate with them, one great prize you can offer them is to take them off the U.N. list.", "So we've got to remember that there are real concerns that these people have about their own physical safety and security that need to be addressed.", "If we want to see them take some significant moves, we will have to take some significant moves as well and taking them off the U.N. blacklist is probably the most important.", "CNN: Is that the major obstacle to political stability in Afghanistan right now?", "Zakaria: The ultimate obstacle to stability is that Pakistan remains a safe haven for some of the most violent and extremist groups in Afghanistan, including the Afghan Taliban and other terrorist organizations.", "... What is worrying is the fact that there is renewed activity from these groups, and the working together of various terrorist groups.", "There are new reports that Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is the Pakistani terrorist organization that has operated mainly against India and was implicated in the Mumbai terror attacks, is now operating against Afghanistan and is responsible for some of the terrorist attacks there. ...", "There's a report out from the London School of Economics this week that finds that there continue to be strong ties between the Pakistani military and these terrorist groups.", "That problem of the Pakistani connection remains at the heart of the Afghan situation.", "It's very difficult to see how you can have a stable Afghanistan when you have safe havens in the neighboring country and the possible complicity of the military in that country.", "The Pakistani military still believes at some level that maintaining ties to these militants is what gives them leverage in Afghanistan.", "CNN: As you say, the Taliban would argue that they shouldn't be on the U.N. blacklist because they're a national resistance movement, but are they sheltering al Qaeda?", "Zakaria: Those elements that are sheltering al Qaeda should not be taken off the blacklist.", "But all the evidence I've seen suggests that what remains of al Qaeda is entirely in Pakistan at this point and is being sheltered by groups in Pakistan, not in Afghanistan. ...", "There's a lot of the insurgency that's a local Afghan insurgency.", "Those are the people we should be trying to get to switch sides, not the ones who have deep connections with the radical groups in Pakistan or certainly not with al Qaeda.", "The key to the victory in Iraq was that you won over people in the middle, and you isolated the very extreme parts of the insurgency.", "We should making somewhat similar efforts in Afghanistan." ]	[ "Pentagon estimates Afghanistan has nearly a trillion dollars worth of minerals .", "Fareed Zakaria says such wealth often does not trickle down to most people .", "He says key to success is a political settlement that legitimizes Afghan government .", "Zakaria: U.S., Karzai should woo away moderate elements of Taliban ." ]	[ 0, 1, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A onetime medical student who was facing charges including first-degree murder in a killing tied to the Craigslist website died Sunday of an apparent suicide, police said.", "Philip Markoff was found unresponsive in his Boston, Massachusetts, jail cell at 10:17 a.m. Sunday and pronounced dead by medics, according to officials.", "The cause of death is under investigation, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a statement.", "\"Markoff was alone in his cell and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life,\" the statement said.", "\"Nonetheless, as with all such cases, a comprehensive investigation will be conducted to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding his death.\"", "An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted Monday, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for Conley.", "Markoff, 24, was charged with the April 14, 2009, fatal shooting and attempted robbery of Julissa Brisman, 25, at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel.", "Police said that Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on Craiglist, a popular online classifieds service, and said Markoff may have met her through the site.", "In a statement Sunday, the family of Brisman said it was \"shocked and dismayed\" at the news of Markoff's apparent suicide.", "\"Their grief for Jullissa is as fresh today as the day over a year ago when Markoff took Julissa away from them,\" said the statement issued by a representative for the family.", "\"The long-awaited criminal prosecution was their only opportunity to confront him, and now he has taken that away as well.\"", "The family promised to pursue \"other avenues to seek justice for Julissa and help ensure that others do not suffer from such devastating, unnecessary violence,\" according to the statement.", "Markoff was also charged with the April 10, 2009, robbery of Trisha Leffler at a Westin Hotel in Boston.", "Police reports said Leffler was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards and was held at gunpoint and bound.", "At his arraignment in June 2009, Markoff pleaded not guilty to the Massachusetts charges.", "He also was facing charges in an April 16, 2009, incident at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island.", "In that incident, police said Markoff tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement.", "The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room, and the suspect fled after pointing his gun at the husband, according to Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney.", "At the time of his April 2009 arrest, Markoff was a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine and was engaged to be married.", "His friends and acquaintances expressed shock, describing him as a model student and the \"all-American\" guy.", "A woman identifying herself as Megan McAllister, his fiancee, maintained his innocence in an April 2009 e-mail sent to ABC News, saying Markoff \"is the wrong man\" and \"was set up.\"", "\"Unfortunately, you were given the wrong information as was the public,\" she said.", "\"All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly!\"", "Markoff's attorney had also proclaimed his innocence.", "Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley told reporters last year that Brisman's death was \"a brutal, vicious crime -- savage.", "And it shows that Philip Markoff is a man who's willing to take advantage of women -- to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them.\"", "Brisman sustained blunt head trauma, and was shot three times at close range, prosecutors said.", "Conley said they believe the motive for her death was robbery.", "In executing a search warrant at Markoff's home, police found a firearm, along with restraints and duct tape, he said.", "Surveillance videos from the hotel where Brisman was killed showed a tall, clean-cut young blond man in a black windbreaker leaving the property, according to Boston police, who had sought public assistance in identifying the man.", "Police traced the Internet communications with Brisman to an e-mail account that had been opened the day before her death, Conley said.", "Using Internet provider information, they found the computer was at Markoff's residence in the Boston suburb of Quincy, he said.", "Authorities put the home under surveillance, Conley said, and \"the case just begins to build from there.\"", "CNN's John Branch and In Session's Beth Karas contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Family of victim says it is \"shocked and dismayed\" at the news .", "Philip Markoff was pronounced dead in his jail cell .", "Markoff was accused of killing one woman and robbing two others .", "Authorities believed he met his victims on Craigslist ." ]	[ 1, 8 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Marilyn Monroe's sultry rendition of \"Happy Birthday\" sung for President John F. Kennedy's 45th birthday celebration marked the actress' last major public appearance before her mysterious death in August 1962.", "Tuesday, which would have been Monroe's 84th birthday, marked the public debut of a rare image of Monroe with Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy together after the May 19, 1962, party.", "The black-and-white photo, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, showed Monroe still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden.", "President Kennedy appears to be turning away from the camera, something he rarely did, while his brother, the U.S. attorney general, looks toward them.", "\"There is no other known photo of Bobby [Kennedy] with Marilyn or JFK with Marilyn, and it's not because they were never photographed together,\" said filmmaker Keya Morgan, who now owns the only original prints of it.", "\"In fact, they were photographed together many times, but the Secret Service and the FBI confiscated every single photograph.\"", "Stoughton, who sold the prints to Morgan a year before his death in 2008, told him agents missed one negative in their search, he said.", "\"The Secret Service came in when he was developing the negatives and basically confiscated all the ones of Jack, Bobby with Marilyn,\" Morgan said.", "\"The only one that survived is the one that was in the dryer.\"", "Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who was an aide to President Kennedy, appears in the photo holding a drink and cigar and wearing a broad smile.", "Schlesinger's personal journal, published in 2007, included his impression of Monroe at the private gathering.", "\"The image of this exquisite, beguiling and desperate girl will always stay with me,\" Schlesinger wrote.", "\"I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful; I was enchanted by her manner and her wit, at once so masked, so ingenuous and so penetrating.\"", "He wrote that Robert Kennedy was paying great attention to Monroe at the gathering, which was at the Manhattan home of Arthur and Matilda Krim.", "\"Bobby and I engaged in mock competition for her; she was most agreeable to him and pleasant to me, but one never felt her to be wholly engaged,\" Schlesinger wrote in a passage included in his book \"Journals: 1952-2000.\"", "While the relationship between the Kennedy brothers and Monroe has become a documented part of history, photographer Stoughton was reluctant to allow the image to become public until after former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy's death in 1994.", "Morgan said he bought access to the negative while working on an upcoming documentary about the actress's death, \"Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive.\"", "Stoughton, in interviews for the film, told Morgan the story behind the first lady's refusal to attend her husband's birthday gala.", "\"He's the one who told Jackie that Marilyn was going to be at the celebration, and her exact words were 'Screw Jack,' and she left the room and she did not go to the famous celebration,\" Morgan said.", "Morgan's prints show details not clear in low-resolution, cropped copies that made their way onto the internet after the photo was licensed for a book about Monroe in 2004.", "Singer Harry Belafonte is seen in the background with his wife, talking to a man that Stoughton told Morgan was comedian Jack Benny.", "Beverly Hills art appraiser David W. Streets, who reviewed the prints and their history for CNN, called them \"the real McCoy.\"", "\"This is a very significant piece of American and celebrity history, of fine art photography,\" Streets said.", "Since Stoughton was a U.S. Army captain and was using a government-owned camera and film, the images themselves are in the public domain.", "But access to the negative, which Stoughton secretly kept, was valuable, Streets said.", "Stoughton made and signed 10 prints for Morgan, 30 inches by 30 inches.", "Nine of them go on sale Tuesday at the Art & Artifact Gallery in West Hollywood, California.", "The 10th print was given to singer Michael Jackson two years ago, Morgan said.", "Morgan was a friend of the pop star's, who was a big Monroe fan." ]	[ "Rare photo taken after Marilyn Monroe sang for JFK's birthday .", "Photographer said Secret Service seized all other JFK-Monroe photos .", "White House photographer kept photo secret for decades .", "Tuesday would have been Marilyn Monroe's 84th birthday ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama threw his support behind a controversial proposal to build an Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero, saying Friday that \"Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.\"", "\"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,\" Obama said at a White House Iftar dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.", "The president's remarks drew praise from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced his support for the Islamic center last week.", "Bloomberg compared Obama's speech to a letter President George Washington wrote in support of a Jewish congregation in Newport, Rhode Island.", "\"President Obama's words tonight evoked President Washington's own august reminder that 'all possess alike liberty,' \" Bloomberg said in a statement.", "\"I applaud President Obama's clarion defense of the freedom of religion tonight,\" he said.", "To learn more about the \"ground zero\" mosque, see CNN's Belief Blog .", "Critics of the proposed Islamic center quickly denounced Obama's remarks.", "\"President Obama is wrong,\" said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.).", "\"It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero.", "Unfortunately, the President caved into political correctness.\"", "\"While the Muslim community has the right to build the mosque, they are abusing that right by needlessly offending so many people who have suffered so much,\" King said in a statement.", "\"The right and moral thing for President Obama to have done was to urge Muslim leaders to respect the families of those who died and move their mosque away from Ground Zero.\"", "What do you think about this issue?", "Tell us on video .", "Obama, who said he was speaking both as a citizen and as president, invoked the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which critics of the Islamic center cite as the main reason for preventing its construction.", "\"We must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan,\" Obama said, according to his prepared remarks.", "\"The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country.\"", "\"The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved ones is unimaginable,\" he continued.", "\"So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders.", "Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.\"", "But Obama said one \"reason that we will win this fight\" against terrorism is \"our capacity to show not merely tolerance, but respect to those who are different from us -- a way of life that stands in stark contrast to the nihilism of those who attacked us on that September morning, and who continue to plot against us today.\"", "Repeatedly invoking the nation's founders and examples of religious tolerance from American history, the president argued that national ideals and the Constitution demanded that the project proceed.", "He noted that Thomas Jefferson hosted the the first Iftar dinner at the White House more than 200 years ago and said that the country had previously seen \"controversies about the construction of synagogues or Catholic churches.\"", "\"But time and again,\" he said, \"the American people have demonstrated that we can work through these issues.\"", "\"This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable,\" Obama said.", "\"The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are.", "The writ of our Founders must endure.\"", "The proposed Islamic center has provoked vocal opposition from some families of 9/11 victims and other groups.", "Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose the plan, according to CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Wednesday.", "\"Obama came out for the Islamic supremacist mosque at the hallowed ground of 911 attack,\" Pamela Geller, a leading foe of the Islamic center, wrote on her blog Friday night.", "\"He has, in effect, sided with the Islamic jihadists.\"", "Muslim Americans, meanwhile, applauded the speech.", "\"It was pitch perfect and it was cut and dry,\" said Eboo Patel, executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core and a Muslim adviser to the White House on faith issues.", "\"He said that our Founding Fathers built a nation on religious freedom where people from different faiths can pray and thrive and that is that.\"", "Some Muslims said they were surprised to hear the president weigh in on the controversy.", "\"It's such a hot potato and he's already got so much on his plate and people jumping on him for any hint of an Islamic connection,\" said Akbar Ahmed, an American University professor who attended Friday's White House dinner.", "\"But he plunged in and took a very bold position.\"", "The Islamic center's leaders say they plan to build the $100 million, 13-story facility called Cordoba House three blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.", "The developer, Sharif El-Gamal, describes the project as an \"Islamic community center\" that will include a 500-seat performing arts center, a lecture hall, a swimming pool, a gym, a culinary school, a restaurant and a prayer space for Muslims.", "On Wednesday, the project's developers declined an offer by New York Gov.", "David Paterson to relocate the project to a state-owned site.", "Earlier this month, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously denied landmark status for the building where the proposed Islamic center would stand, allowing the project to move forward." ]	[ "NEW: Republican congressman says Obama \"caved into political correctness.\"", "NEW: Muslim who attended White House event surprised Obama touched \"hot potato\"\nNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praises Obama's remarks .", "Obama said that \"Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else\"" ]	[ 0, 2, 10 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- August 17, 2010 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• New York, New York • China • Korean Peninsula .", "Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.", "THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.", "CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: A new beginning, but some things stay the same: 10 minutes, no commercials, the top news of the day, and me!", "I'm Carl Azuz. You're tuned in to CNN Student News.", "Let's get started!", "First Up: Islamic Center Near Ground Zero .", "AZUZ: Controversy leads off today's show.", "It's about an Islamic center that includes a mosque, an Islamic place of worship, and about where it might be built: a few blocks away from Ground Zero, the spot in New York that was attacked on 9/11.", "Some people argue that it is insensitive to build a mosque so close to Ground Zero.", "In a recent CNN poll, nearly 70 percent of Americans were against this plan.", "Others say having the Islamic center there could help promote understanding.", "Last week, President Obama weighed in.", "U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Muslims have the right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.", "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan.", "AZUZ: Okay, now some people took that statement to mean that the president is in favor of the Ground Zero mosque.", "A day later, he claimed he was talking about a larger issue.", "OBAMA: I was not commenting, and I will not comment, on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there.", "I was commenting very specifically on the right that people have that dates back to our founding.", "AZUZ: President Obama is taking some heat for how he's handled this situation and for what he's said.", "REP. PETER KING, (R) NEW YORK: If the president was going to get into this, he should have been much more clear, much more precise.", "And you can't be changing your position from day to day on an issue which does go to our Constitution, and it also goes to extreme sensitivity.", "So, that's where I am critical of the president, for not being clear.", "AZUZ: Putting aside the political reaction, there's a personal reaction to the proposed mosque.", "Listen to what a couple New Yorkers had to say about it.", "WOMAN ON THE STREET: I think it's terrible.", "It doesn't have anything to do with freedom of religion.", "It's making a point.", "There's plenty of realty all over Manhattan.", "There's plenty of realty everywhere.", "It shouldn't be here. MAN ON THE STREET: I'm glad he interjected because the Muslims have the right to prayer.", "It's Ramadan. We have synagogues, we have churches everywhere.", "I'm proud of him; I'm proud of the United States.", "Blog Promo .", "AZUZ: Definitely controversial, an issue that people have a lot of strong feelings about.", "We want to hear yours! If you go to CNNStudentNews.com, you scroll down a bit and click on our blog, \"From A to Z With Carl Azuz,\" you can weigh in.", "What do you think about a mosque being built near Ground Zero?", "Are you for it, against it? And why? Log on and share your thoughts today.", "Is This Legit? TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?", "The United States has the world's largest economy.", "It's true! The U.S. is the biggest. As far as the second largest goes, though... Second Largest Economy?", "AZUZ: And that's where things get a little tricky.", "See, Japan has been the world's second largest economy, but China is catching up.", "According to a new report, over the last quarter -- the last three months -- China passed Japan.", "That doesn't necessarily mean China has taken over the number 2 spot.", "We have to wait until the end of the year to find out about that.", "But as Emily Chang explains, it might be a foregone conclusion.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) EMILY CHANG, CNN CORRESPONDENT, BEIJING: According to these new numbers, Japan's economic output in the second quarter fell slightly short of China's.", "Now, for a long time, it has not been a question of if, but when China's economy would overtake Japan's as the second largest economy in the world.", "But, and this is a big but, if you look at the numbers for the first half of this year so far, Japan's economy is still bigger than China's.", "So, analysts are saying we have to wait until after the end of this year, until we get the final numbers for 2010, before we can make a judgment on this.", "There are a lot of factors at play here.", "In Japan, the economy is obviously slowing down, stimulus efforts are slowing down, exports are down and domestic demand is flat.", "The yen is also at a 15-year high against the dollar, so that makes Japanese exports more expensive for overseas customers.", "But here in China, the economy is also showing signs of slowing down.", "GDP growth in the first quarter fell from 11.9 percent to 10.3 percent in the second quarter, and stimulus efforts here are also on the verge of slowing down.", "And if indeed China does revalue its currency soon, that would make Chinese exports more expensive for overseas customers.", "So analysts, while most of them seem to agree that China will overtake Japan as the second largest economy in the world some time this year, we do have to wait for those annual numbers for 2010 to come out.", "Emily Chang, CNN, Beijing.", "(END VIDEO) So What? AZUZ: Okay, China's economy is getting bigger.", "So what? Well, experts figure this stuff out by looking at the value of everything that a country makes.", "If your economy's growing, that means you're making and selling more products.", "So, China's making a lot of stuff.", "And the U.S. -- remember, the U.S. has the largest economy -- it's making a lot, too.", "And that could mean competition between the U.S. and China to sell all the products that they make.", "It could also mean opportunities for the countries to do more business with each other.", "Sound Check .", "(SOUNDS OF MILITARY EXERCISES) Military Exercises .", "AZUZ: That military drill lasts for 11 days.", "It happens every year; the U.S. and South Korea work together to make sure they're prepared to defend South Korea, as the U.S. and that country are allies.", "South Korea's president says the military exercises are specifically designed to prepare against any threat from North Korea.", "We mentioned yesterday there's been a lot of tension between these two countries.", "North Korea offered its own response to the military drills.", "It threatened to \"deal a merciless counterblow to the U.S. imperialists\" and to South Korean \"traitors.\"", "Kids Sleeping .", "AZUZ: Well, I know a lot of you are dragging right now; that switchover from sleeping late in summer to school hours can be a beast.", "Would it make any difference to you if the school bell rang a half-hour later?", "I'm working on a report about that, looking for your input!", "Tell us when you think the bell should ring.", "Tell us on our blog at CNNStudentNews.com!", "Football Heat .", "AZUZ: So, we have established that school is back; so is football!", "Some of you players have probably been hitting the practice field for a while now.", "No matter what team you're on, this time of year, most everyone's facing a common opponent: the heat.", "Reynolds Wolf shows us how a major college program beats the heat.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) REYNOLDS WOLF, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: Each season, the Texas Longhorns face bitter rivals like the Sooners or Aggies.", "But an even tougher foe is the intense Texas heat.", "SHERROD HARRIS, QUARTERBACK, UNIV.", "OF TEXAS: I don't think I've ever gotten used to this heat.", "The best way I've been able to adjust to it is drink more Gatorades or waters.", "WOLF: Hydration: it is one method UT trainer Kenny Boyd stresses.", "But he also employs high-tech methods.", "KENNY BOYD, UNIV.", "OF TEXAS: Try 100.23.", "WOLF: Kenny will pull a player from the field when their body temperature reaches 103.", "BOYD: That's when you can start to exhibit some of the more significant signs or symptoms of someone in heat stress.", "When they get to 104, that's when we pull them from practice or the workout.", "WOLF: This is me after 20 minutes of light workout in the 105 degree heat.", "Longhorns, like most players in training, will undergo intense workouts in 45-minute intervals.", "While doing so, Kenny looks for danger signs.", "BOYD: Disorientation, any kind of decreased mental acuity, someone that's beginning to labor a lot more in their drill.", "How about we go cool off? WOLF: That sounds great.", "Wow. One method is this shirt, fitted with a stem that allows a blast of cool air to fill its chambers.", "Not quite as high tech, but more effective, is this, the rapid cooling tub.", "Whoa! May be crude, but it works.", "And that's the mission of trainers like Boyd to keep their players safe.", "BOYD: A lot of us in athletic training have been witness, or been a part, or know people that have had to deal with someone that's suffered from heat stroke or from a heat crisis.", "And that has really shaped some of the passion and some of the concerns that we have as a staff today at the University of Texas.", "(END VIDEO) Before We Go .", "AZUZ: Finally today, when you hear about a police chase involving someone in black and white stripes, this probably isn't what you had in mind.", "The zebras didn't escape from the zoo.", "They were actually somebody's pets!", "They got scared by a dog, jumped the fence and took off, and scared local residents and led local authorities on a wild zebra chase around the neighborhood.", "When they were eventually caught, we can only assume how embarrassed the animals were by the whole incident.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: It probably left them black and white and red all over.", "Seriously though, zebras as pets?", "That owner must have a wild life.", "Whoo! CNN Student News returns tomorrow.", "We're gonna look forward to seeing you then." ]	[ "Consider a controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero .", "Examine how China's economy might soon become the second largest in the world .", "Take the field to learn how a college football program tries to beat the heat .", "Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ." ]	[ 9, 10, 50, 59, 82, 86 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- An underground transformer fire about two blocks from the White House prompted evacuations of two hotels and disrupted a wedding, officials said Saturday night.", "Flames shot up through a sidewalk after 8 p.m., said Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the District of Columbia Fire Department.", "The Willard Intercontinental and the W hotels were evacuated, and a couple of blocks were without power, Piringer said.", "As a precaution, a nearby wedding ceremony with hundreds of guests was relocated to the JW Marriott hotel as firefighters battled the blaze.", "The couple completed their ceremony at the hotel.", "The fire was extinguished by 9 p.m., and power was restored by 10 p.m. No injuries were reported." ]	[ "Two hotels were evacuated in downtown Washington .", "The fire started roughly two blocks from the White House .", "An underground transformer apparently caught fire .", "Hundreds of wedding guests were relocated ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic were billed as a tennis \"Dream Team\" but they ended up suffering a nightmare.", "The top two players in the world rankings, forming a doubles pair for the first time, slumped to defeat in the first round of the Rogers Cup in Toronto.", "Nadal, the Spanish world number one, and Djokovic, the number two from Serbia, were beaten 5-7, 6-3, 10-8 by Canadian wildcards Vasek Pospisil and Milos Raonic.", "It was the first time in 34 years that the top two players in the men's world rankings have joined forces in doubles.", "In 1976, American duo Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe reached a quarterfinal and a final in their two outings together.", "But Nadal and Djokovic were less successful on their debut.", "After losing the first set to their more illustrious opponents, Pospisil and Raonic squared the match by winning the last three games of the second.", "They raced into a 4-0 lead in the Match Tie-Break and eventually won it 10-8 after Nadal and Djokovic had saved three match points.", "The defeat highlights the different skills required for success in doubles and singles.", "The Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, are a rare example of two top singles players who have enjoyed grand slam success as a doubles pair.", "Nadal and Djokovic will now turn their attention to the singles competition in Toronto as they step up their preparations for the U.S. Open, the fourth and final grand slam of the year, at the end of August." ]	[ "Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal lose to Canadian wildcards on doubles debut .", "It is first time in 34 years that top two players in men's rankings have formed a pair .", "Nadal and Djokovic will continue preparations for U.S. Open at end of August ." ]	[ 3, 5, 10 ]

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