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[ "(Silicon Alley Insider) -- Newspaper companies are a dying breed, and one consistent scapegoat for their demise is the rise of blogs and online news sites.", "In October 2009, Tom Curly, CEO of the Associated Press news service, said blogs were directing large amounts of revenue away from original content creators.", "At the same time, Rupert Murdoch sneered at bloggers, saying they would cause the \"content creators\" like his company News Corp., parent of the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, \"to pay the ultimate price\" if they were not held in check.", "Blogs and other new media from Facebook to Twitter have made newspapers less relevant.", "If you want quicker, more focused news, blogs are a great resource.", "If you want more local, hyperpersonal news -- i.e., what your sister's cat did today -- then Facebook or Twitter are your best bets.", "But despite factors of expediency and personalization, new media outlets are not to blame for the creeping death of newspapers.", "It makes for a great story to have upstart blogs destroying hidebound news organizations, but the truth is much more simple.", "Advertisers are killing newspapers.", "Advertisers have fled newspapers for the greener, cheaper pastures of the internet and they're not coming back.", "On the internet, an advertiser has a greater ability to target his or her ad spend.", "Want to advertise to just teenage boys interested in football?", "Can't do that with the newspaper. Want to advertise to women from Yale?", "Can't do that in a newspaper. The numbers prove this out.", "Alan Mutter, an expert on the economics of the newspaper industry, recently reported that newspaper advertising was down about 10 percent year-over-year for the first quarter of the year.", "Meanwhile, advertising on the internet, radio and television were all up.", "Web advertising was up 7.5 percent.", "Newspapers still attract more ad dollars than the web, but that is expected to change soon.", "PricewaterhouseCoopers' annual report on media trends reported that web advertising totaled $24.2 billion last year.", "The Newspaper Association of America reported $24.82 billion in advertising for 2009.", "By the end of this year, the web may be in front.", "The expansion of advertising on the web is both good news and bad news for newspapers.", "Newspapers like The New York Times have taken advantage of the web to create amazing products like interactive graphics and videos.", "This has helped propel their overall readership to new heights.", "Millions of people visit The New York Times' website daily.", "That's important to keep in mind when anyone thinks of blaming blogs for the death of newspapers.", "There's enough people on the web to go around.", "Newspapers and blogs are expanding their audiences simultaneously.", "As newspapers take advantage of the medium to tell stories, they'll see some of that $24 billion in online ad dollars.", "Unfortunately, it won't be enough to support what they do now -- and most of the money is going to the likes of Google.", "The New York Times online edition only generates a fraction of the revenue of the print publication.", "The Times is a lot less relevant as a place to advertise online than it was offline.", "And no, blogs are not siphoning many dollars off The New York Times online franchise.", "The Huffington Post is the most successful blog in the world, with some 12 million unique visitors a month.", "That traffic bests traditional news organizations like the Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal by a couple of million.", "Yet, for all its success, revenue remains relatively elusive.", "HuffPo only generated $15 million last year.", "It hopes to double that this year to $30 million, but that's still tiny.", "For some perspective, The New York Times' online revenue is an estimated $150 million to $175 million annually.", "If advertisers aren't spending heavily on blogs or traditional news organizations, where are they spending?", "Google. The search giant has annual revenue of more than $20 billion, with the vast majority of that from web advertising.", "The funny thing about Google is that it has tried to master almost every sort of business.", "It's investing in windmills, it's investing in mobile phones, it wants to lay cable for high speed internet connections, just to name a few.", "Yet, for all the businesses it has tried, there's one it says it has no interest in: print content like newspapers.", "The reason? Making money on newspapers, and getting advertisers interested in spending again on print publications, has even the big brains at Google stumped.", "Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently told newspaper editors, \"We have a business model problem.", "We don't have a news problem.\"", "We don't have a news problem, because there's enough news under the sun for newspapers and blogs to cover it all.", "Now, if there were only enough ad dollars.", "Copyright © 2010 Business Insider." ]	[ "Newspapers still attract more ad dollars than the internet, but that should soon change .", "Advertisers have fled newspapers for the greener, cheaper pastures of the internet .", "On the web, an advertiser has a greater ability to target his or her ad spend .", "Advertisers are buying ads on Google instead of traditional news organizations ." ]	[ 8, 9, 10, 17 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- None of the seven doctors and one nurse investigated by California authorities will face criminal prosecution in the death of singer Michael Jackson, the state attorney general's office said Wednesday.", "Investigators did not find sufficient evidence to recommend criminal prosecution of any of the medical practitioners, said Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Jerry Brown.", "But a doctor who prescribed drugs to the pop singer using a fake name shortly before the singer's death could be disciplined by the California medical board, Gasparac said.", "She would not identify the doctor referred to the medical board or the others who were cleared.", "Dr. Conrad Murray, who was Jackson's personal physician when he died a year ago, was not part of the probe, Gasparac said.", "Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter earlier this year in the entertainer's death.", "State drug agents executed search warrants at several doctors' offices last summer and at least one pharmacy.", "\"After reviewing hundreds of pages of records and documents obtained from the medical practitioners, the attorney general's office has referred one doctor, who wrote prescriptions to an alias known to have been used by Jackson, to the California medical board for further review,\" Gasparac said.", "Agents spent several hours inside the Mickey Fine Pharmacy just below the Beverly Hills practice of Dr. Arnold Klein, Jackson's dermatologist.", "Investigators also visited Klein's office, where Jackson was seen several times in the weeks before his June 25, 2009, death.", "Klein told CNN last year that he never prescribed dangerous drugs to the singer.", "Searches of Jackson's rented mansion revealed a long list of prescription drugs in his bedroom after his death, according to court documents and the autopsy report.", "The Los Angeles County coroner ruled that Jackson's death was from an overdose of propofol, a powerful anesthesia used to put surgical patients to sleep.", "A consultant's report included in the autopsy said the level of lorazepam, a powerful anti-anxiety agent found in Jackson's body \"would have accentuated the respiratory and cardiovascular depression from propofol.\"", "CNN's Carey Bodenheimer contributed to this report." ]	[ "LAPD asks state drug agents to probe seven Jackson doctors, one nurse .", "One doctor referred to medical board .", "Attorney General: No evidence to support criminal prosecution .", "Dr. Conrad Murray already faces a criminal charge ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7 ]
[ "Miami, Florida (CNN) -- Forecast to gain \"major\" Category 3 status, outer rainbands association with a strengthening Hurricane Earl were affecting the islands of Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday, with conditions forecast to deteriorate, the National Hurricane Center said.", "Earl became a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday.", "As of 8 p.m. ET, its center was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Barbuda and about 185 miles (300 kilometers) east of St. Martin.", "Its maximum sustained winds had increased slightly to 85 mph (140 kph) and higher gusts, and the storm was heading west-northwest at near 14 mph (22 kph).", "The center of Earl is forecast to pass near or over the northern Leeward Islands Sunday night and Monday, the center said.", "A hurricane warning was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, Saba and St. Eustatius.", "As of 5 p.m., the government of Antigua and Barbuda also had added the British Virgin Islands to the warning, forecasters said.", "A hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning was in effect for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, including the islands of Culebra and Vieques.", "Tropical storm-force conditions were forecast in the warning area Sunday afternoon and evening, with hurricane conditions expected early Monday, forecasters said.", "Tropical storm conditions were expected to spread across the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Monday, with hurricane conditions possible on Monday night.", "\"Strengthening is expected during the next 48 hours, and Earl is forecast to become a major hurricane by Tuesday,\" forecasters said.", "Earl was forecast to turn west-northwest and slow down over the next day.", "Tracking maps show it moving northward away from the Caribbean and possibly affecting the U.S. East Coast by Friday.", "Easterners should pay attention to Earl, as it could affect areas anywhere from the Carolinas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, over Labor Day weekend, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.", "It is too soon to tell whether the storm could make landfall, she said.", "However, outer bands of the storm are likely to hit North Carolina beginning Thursday, kicking up large swells and possibly generating rip currents through Labor Day weekend, Jeras said.", "Earl is expected to dump between 3 and 5 inches of rain over the northern Leeward Islands, with isolated amounts of 8 inches possible in some areas.", "Puerto Rico is expected to receive between 4 and 6 inches of rain, with isolated amounts of 12 inches possible over higher elevations.", "In addition, Earl is expected to produce a 2-to-4-foot storm surge within the hurricane warning area, and 1-to-3-foot storm surge in coastal areas, accompanied by high surf.", "Meanwhile, Hurricane Danielle remained away from land, and was gradually weakening as it moved northeastward, the hurricane center said.", "The center of the storm was about 605 miles (975 kilometers) south of Cape Race, Newfoundland.", "Once a Category 4 storm, Danielle had weakened Sunday to a Category 1 hurricane with winds of near 80 mph (130 kph).", "It was expected to continue to weaken, and was moving north-northeast at near 29 mph (46 kph).", "Large waves and dangerous surf conditions should diminish near Bermuda on Sunday, the hurricane center said, and \"swells from Danielle are expected to gradually subside during the next day or two along portions of the United States East Coast.\"", "A number of people were rescued along the East Coast because of those swells and riptide currents.", "Nearly 250 were rescued Saturday in the waters off Ocean City, Maryland, authorities said.", "In addition, an area eastward from Earl could develop into a tropical depression and then potentially into Tropical Storm Fiona, Jeras said." ]	[ "Too soon to tell whether Earl could dampen U.S. Labor Day .", "Outer rainbands were reaching Antigua and Barbuda .", "Earl reaches Category 1 status .", "Hurricane conditions are expected Monday on Leeward Islands ." ]	[ 0, 1, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Watching the Toyota recall crisis unfold over the past few months has been like watching a wildfire on a windy day.", "Just when it would appear that the flames might be contained, another powerful gust sweeps through, stirring them up and blowing them still higher.", "True, Toyota has acted as its own arsonist at times.", "If it had attacked the floor-mat entrapment problem as aggressively in 2007 as it is doing now, then perhaps the current crisis could have been avoided.", "And if the company had been acting as a better switchboard operator between Europe and North America, it could have more quickly connected the sticking accelerator problems in some European cars with the fact that the same pedal assembly was used in eight U.S. models.", "And it might possibly have avoided the recent stop-sale on those models.", "But some of the gusts have been whipped up by the news media.", "The software glitch in the antilock braking system of the 2010 Toyota Prius and Lexus HS 250h, which causes a momentary loss of braking capability, is serious enough that it should be fixed.", "But on an overall scale of recalled problems, it's relatively minor.", "Yet, it continues to grab headlines in this Toyota-sensitized environment.", "Vehicles are recalled all the time by just about every automaker.", "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued 1,399 safety-related recalls affecting more than 38 million vehicles from 2007 to 2009.", "And while Toyota's inferno has been grabbing the nation's attention, new recalls have been springing up.", "Chrysler, GM, Honda and Mazda have all issued recalls in recent weeks, for problems ranging from faulty power steering to defective air bags.", "And Hyundai issued its own stop-sale on the 2011 Sonata because of a faulty front-door latch.", "Yes, the idea of a runaway vehicle is a frightful thought to drivers.", "And we encourage the government to continue to investigate complaints of unintended acceleration.", "But consumers shouldn't lose sight of two important points.", "Such incidents are rare; the approximately 2,000 consumer complaints received by the NHTSA that were related to unintended acceleration in Toyotas over the past 10 years works out to about one in every 10,000 Toyotas sold over that period.", "Also, these complaints aren't confined to Toyota.", "In an analysis of 5,916 total complaints filed to the NHTSA database for 2008 models (as of August 28, 2009, before the problem hit the national spotlight), we found 166 related to unintended acceleration.", "While ones citing Toyota-built vehicles made up the highest percentage -- 41 percent -- there were also complaints related to 20 other brands.", "Ford vehicles drew the second-highest number at 28 percent.", "Still, while there has been unusually strong reaction to Toyota's problems, such flare-ups can lead to positive changes.", "Following the Firestone tires/Ford Explorer recalls in 2000, the government enacted the TREAD (Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation) Act.", "Among other things, it mandated tire-pressure monitoring systems in passenger cars and created the Early Warning Reporting database, which requires manufacturers to report problem data to the NHTSA.", "We're hoping that the energy surrounding this crisis can be harnessed to improve our auto-safety system so that such rare-but-deadly problems can be caught earlier or prevented altogether.", "To that end, Consumer Reports is recommending that the government take the following actions: .", "-- Improve public access to safety information by making their complaint databases more uniform, user-friendly and easier to search.", "This would help investigators spot a problem trend more easily and perhaps address it before it becomes a crisis.", "-- Mandate that cars be required to stop in a reasonable distance, even with the throttle fully open.", "One solution to this is \"smart throttle\" technology, which disengages the throttle if the brake pedal is depressed.", "It's being used now by some automakers and Toyota says such a system will be installed in all of its models by the end of this year.", "-- Improve the recall compliance process.", "According to NHTSA, the average consumer response rate to vehicle recalls is only about 74 percent, meaning that a quarter of all affected vehicles never get the fix.", "This puts used-car buyers at unnecessary risk.", "-- Give regulators more funding.", "In 2007, auto crashes made up 99 percent of all transportation-related deaths and injuries.", "Yet, NHTSA's budget is just over 1 percent of the overall budget of its parent, the Department of Transportation.", "That's not enough for the reality of auto safety today.", "Despite the tragedies, the Toyota crisis can yet be a catalyst for positive change that can benefit consumers.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rik Paul." ]	[ "Rik Paul: Some facts have been overlooked in the rush of coverage of Toyota .", "He says some auto defects and recalls are routine and relatively minor .", "Paul says other manufacturers also are subjects of unintended acceleration complaints .", "Good can come out of this if regulators are given more funding, he says ." ]	[ 6, 16, 32, 36, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Colorado convict serving time for attempted murder was recaptured Wednesday after breaking out of prison over the weekend, and a female hostage with him was released unharmed, prison officials said.", "Douglas Alward was caught near Yuma, Colorado, about 145 miles east of Denver and about 50 miles south of the Sterling Correctional Facility he broke out of Sunday, prison spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti told HLN's \"Prime News.\"", "Alward, 48, was serving a 20- to 40-year term for attempted murder, assault and kidnapping and had broken out of prison three times before, Sanguinetti said.", "He was up for parole in October, according to prison records.", "Investigators found him in a trailer near Yuma about noon Wednesday.", "He surrendered once confronted, releasing the woman with him without injury, said Ari Zavaras, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections.", "Zavaras said searchers tracked Alward to a 4-square-mile patch of cornfields outside Yuma on Wednesday morning.", "\"He didn't offer any resistance, let alone armed resistance,\" Zavaras said.", "Zavaras released few details of the escape, but said an investigation into how Alward broke out of the maximum-security facility was under way.", "He promised a \"top to bottom\" review was in the works.", "He said Alward \"breached\" the fence around the facility somehow, and some tools used in the breakout were found nearby.", "The fence was not cut, he said.", "Prison officials are looking at how Alward obtained the tools, but don't believe he had outside help, Zavaras said.", "Kevin Milyard, the prison's warden, said a guard noticed something wrong within an hour of the breakout, and an emergency head count quickly confirmed Alward was missing.", "Alward is facing a likely charge of escape and other charges that remain to be determined, Zavaras said." ]	[ "Douglas Alward broke out of an eastern Colorado prison Sunday .", "He was recaptured Wednesday about 50 miles away .", "A hostage with him was released unharmed, prison officials said ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A bird struck the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane but the aircraft managed to land safely, officials said early Tuesday morning.", "The bird hit the plane above the windshield shortly after it took off Monday evening from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Vancouver, British Columbia, said Mike Fergus of the Federal Aviation Administration.", "The plane was 1.5 miles off the runway, Fergus said.", "iReport: Share images and information with CNN .", "The plane, Flight 707 with 159 passengers, returned safely to the airport for an inspection, said airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan.", "According to data released by the FAA, incidences of birds hitting planes have gone up in recent years.", "Last year officials said a migrating flock of Canada geese caused US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch in New York's Hudson River.", "Capt. Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles safely guided that plane to an emergency landing.", "CNN's Sonya Hamasaki contributed to this report." ]	[ "The plane is struck above the windshield .", "It returns to the Los Angeles airport safely ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Paris Hilton was released from a Las Vegas, Nevada, jail Saturday morning after being arrested late the night before on suspicion of cocaine possession, police said Saturday.", "The hotel heiress was riding in a black Cadillac Escalade which was pulled over in front of the Wynn Hotel on the Vegas strip at about 11:30 p.m. after police detected the smell of marijuana coming from the SUV, Lt. Wayne Holman told CNN.", "The driver, whom police identified as Cy Waits, was arrested for driving under the influence, he said.", "Waits is a Las Vegas nightclub mogul and the rumored boyfriend of Hilton.", "Hilton was taken to the Clark County jail.", "She was released after authorities determined she was not a flight risk, Holman said.", "\"This matter will be dealt with in the courts, not in the media, and I encourage people not to rush to judgment until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of law,\" Hilton's attorney, David Chesnoff, said in a statement.", "Last month, Hilton was briefly detained in South Africa for allegedly smoking marijuana at the World Cup.", "Her publicist called the July 2 incident \"a complete misunderstanding,\" and the case was dropped." ]	[ "NEW: Her attorney urges people \"not to rush to judgment\"\nNEW: Her rumored boyfriend was arrested for DUI, police say .", "Paris Hilton faces drug possession charge ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina struck, Conrad Wyre III is disappointed and disillusioned with the lack of progress made in New Orleans.", "\"Nothing's really changed,\" said the 35-year-old New Orleans native.", "He says some spots are still \"in shambles\" in 2010, and that many residents still feeling helpless and without support, like they're \"floating in the wind.\"", "Wyre, known as \"Sam\" by his close friends and family, fled to Katy, Texas, with his then-pregnant wife shortly before the storm hit.", "But, he wasn't able to ride out the storm in peace for long.", "After Katrina hit, he received a frantic, barely audible phone call from his mother.", "She and Wyre's father had stayed put despite warnings.", "The floodwaters were rising and they were in dire need of help, and fast.", "Attempts to get assistance for his parents were futile.", "The Navy, the Coast Guard and the New Orleans Police Department were among the officials who told Wyre they couldn't reach the area where his mother and father were trapped.", "Shocked and upset with the those responses, Wyre knows there was no question about his next move.", "He immediately went back to save his parents from the flooding caused by the failed levees.", "\"People were down here suffering,\" Wyre said.", "\"Somebody dropped the ball.", "... since the storm, I have lost faith in all levels of government.\"", "The insurance companies haven't been helpful, either, Wyre said.", "His deductible is $7,500, which he wouldn't be able to afford should another such weather-based tragedy occur.", "Wyre made the eight-hour trek back to the ravaged city.", "About a mile from his parents' house, tents were set up and people had gathered there.", "Wyre paid a man with a boat $50 to take him to his parents' neighborhood, where he blew an air horn and looked for survivors.", "Wyre -- who didn't know how to swim -- found his parents, who were then taken to safety along with their neighbors.", "Wyre's parents were among the few people in their neighborhood who rebuilt their house, despite the damage done by Katrina.", "However, in a cruel twist of fate, a 2007 tornado destroyed their home again.", "Not wanting to fall victim to a weather disaster for a third time, they moved to a different neighborhood, but still close, and certainly within the state of Louisiana.", "Seeing his beloved city in ruins post-Katrina was devastating for Wyre.", "Eighty percent of the city was underwater.", "Streets once exploding with life -- loud music and laughing -- were drowned.", "There were many bleak moments.", "There were times when it seemed there was no hope.", "He says the crime, carjackings and political corruption the area experienced afterward hindered attempts for a much-needed renaissance.", "Some spots, such as Jefferson Parish, rebounded quickly, thanks in large part to the tourism sector.", "New Orleans has 300 more restaurants than it did before Katrina hit.", "Other areas have yet to make even a partial recovery, especially the Lower 9th Ward.", "Wyre says that was one place that lacked basic necessities, like grocery stores that operated for an extended period of time.", "In the days following Katrina, people stood in line for hours to get into the nearest Wal-Mart, where the shelves were quickly emptied.", "Animals were left to die in abandoned houses.", "For many, a deep depression sunk in.", "For some, it has yet to fade. \"There was nothing to come back to --nowhere to go -- it was horrible,\" says Wyre, who made a self-described \"emotional\" return visit to the neighborhood of Hollygrove, where he grew up, and where he documented the devastation with before-and-after pictures for CNN.com's \"Then and Now\" project.", "In some instances, the changes seen in these pictures over a five-year span are minimal.", "Seeing areas that haven't been fixed since 2005 is tough for Wyre to accept.", "iReport: Wyre revisits Hollygrove .", "Many homes are still abandoned and boarded up.", "Old water marks, some reaching halfway up buildings, are still visible, as are spray-painted marks that indicated bodies, odor or pets inside.", "Overgrown yards and the obvious blight make it tough to forget all the damage.", "\"Everybody was poor after the storm,\" Wyre said.", "He says the still-rough conditions are why many evacuees have never returned to their neighborhoods.", "Many moved out of state to places like Atlanta, Georgia; Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas.", "It's tough for Wyre to walk down the familiar, once-vital streets now deserted.", "\"There's whole blocks with no cars, no one out and about ... nothing.", "It's boarded up, that's the aftermath of Katrina.", "Just have to deal with it.\" But almost immediately after Katrina, Wyre and his family were itching to get back to the New Orleans they love.", "They weren't thrilled with their temporary time in Texas, saying there was a lack of action and excitement in the air.", "There were none of the parades, explosive brass band shows or nights spent drinking and laughing with friends regaling stories after a full day at work.", "It didn't take long for the Wyre family to pack up their belongings and get back to the city streets they knew and loved.", "Despite the past, and the lack of improvements in some sections of New Orleans, Wyre is still thinking optimistically, and keeping his fingers crossed.", "He's hoping brighter days are in the city's future, and is more than ready for the day when people in New Orleans are no longer treading water, but are able to swim deeply in Big Easy's legendary greatness.", "\"I love the city, the culture.", "... That's all I know. I can't survive anywhere else.\"" ]	[ "Photographer Conrad Wyre III left New Orleans shortly before Katrina struck .", "He left with his pregnant wife, but his parents stayed behind .", "Wyre returned to help find his parents and other survivors .", "He recently took part in iReport's then and now Katrina photo project ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8, 40 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The patient, in his late 70s, had survived prostate cancer and had a new diagnosis of leukemia.", "A few days before, he'd been healthy and fine, but now his white blood cell count was so high that it was clogging his circulatory system, making it hard for him to breathe.", "We brought his white count down and relieved his shortness of breath.", "At that point, he could have opted for palliative care and gone home on hospice with a decent enough quality of life to enjoy what little time he had left.", "However, the patient, encouraged by his family and urged on by his oncologist, chose aggressive treatment instead.", "This is a hard case. In his recent New Yorker article \"Letting Go,\" Dr. Atul Gawande explains how the first impulse of doctors, patients and family members to \"fight\" cancer or other serious illnesses makes it very difficult to have honest discussions of what treatment can and cannot do.", "I understand why physicians find these conversations difficult, why it's preferable to focus on the good we can possibly accomplish rather than the likely futility of the struggle.", "But there's another story to be told in these cases, and it's usually the nurse who's the observer of that narrative: the suffering caused by these well-intentioned treatments.", "Chemo was risky for this patient because of his age and medical history, and the damage done was unbelievably bad.", "The problems began when cells killed by the chemotherapy spilled their contents, overloading my patient's kidneys and throwing him into renal failure.", "The intravenous fluids he'd needed had been too much for his circulatory system, and he developed heart failure, too.", "One morning, I came in with his pills, and he said, \"You're doing too much.", "I can't take it.\" The next week, he was on dialysis, but it wasn't working, and his entire lower body was hugely swollen with fluid.", "That day, he accosted me with, \"What the hell are you doing to me?\"", "Both times, I told the medical team what he'd said and asked whether it was ethical to continue chemotherapy.", "Several members of the team shared my concerns, and as a group, we talked the situation over with the attending doctor.", "Our view was that the treatments were eroding the patient's quality of life with little promise of good in return.", "The attending physician, whom I know to be conscientious and caring, disagreed, as did the patient's family.", "When the doctor prodded the patient, saying, \"You want to keep going, right?", "Right?\" the patient himself concurred, \"Yes, let's keep going.\"", "So the chemo finished.", "Then, blood began to appear in the patient's urine.", "His bladder was brittle because of the radiation treatments he'd had for prostate cancer, and because of the chemo, he had too few platelets.", "Without enough platelets, that fragile tissue would not stop bleeding, but it also formed blood clots in his bladder that caused excruciating pain.", "Watching this patient suffer, not from his disease but because of what we did to him in the name of helping him, was agonizing.", "He'd wanted to \"keep going,\" to \"keep on fighting,\" but what did he really mean?", "Always when I hear these phrases applied to oncology patients, I think of Peter Weir's 1981 film \"Gallipoli.\"", "The film portrays two Australian sprinters, Archy and Frank, who enlist together during World War I and end up fighting the Turkish army at the Battle of Gallipoli.", "A lot of soldiers died during the Gallipoli campaign, and the end of the film dramatizes a real battle in which four brigades of Australian soldiers were sent out of the trenches to certain death.", "Frank is chosen to be a runner, a deliverer of messages during the battle, and he gets an order to call off the assault once it's clear that it's not a fight but a massacre.", "However, Frank can't run quickly enough to get the hold order to Archy's trench in time, and the signal to attack is given.", "Archy comes up out of the trench running as fast as he can, alone, chest forward, until the Turkish machine guns mow him down.", "The wasteful sacrifices of war and the pointlessness of my patient's suffering share some obvious parallels here, but there's a deeper lesson as well.", "Archy and Frank were soldiers; my patient was not.", "They made a choice when they enlisted, but my patient was never given his real choice, between aggressive treatment that might do more harm than good and getting just enough treatment to keep him stable and allow him to go home to be with the people he loved.", "The very real benefits of such a focus on palliative care were documented in the August 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.", "Patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer who received palliative care in addition to chemotherapy claimed an improved quality of life and lived more than 2½ months longer than than those who had no such care.", "My patient's decision to \"keep fighting\" seemed to be based on a misperception of what medicine could accomplish and of what the personal costs of our treatments would be.", "Indeed, a month after being admitted, swollen, breathless, bleeding and in pain, with his leukemia as robust as ever, he went on hospice in the hospital and died.", "In \"Letting Go,\" Gawande says we don't want Gen. George Custer as a model in medicine but more Robert E. Lee.", "But I would argue that conjuring a general to guide patients faced with serious illness is an embrace of the wrong ideal.", "Patients are not battlegrounds, and practicing medicine is not a war.", "This patient needed thoughtful supportive care, not our ineffectual treatments that tore him up from the inside out as surely as any machine gun.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Theresa Brown." ]	[ "Theresa Brown tells of dying patient who got much sicker from aggressive treatment .", "She says \"fighting\" serious illnesses can cause terrible agony, keep patient from family .", "Brown cites study suggesting palliative care offers better quality and longer life .", "Dying patients should not be pressured to go through drastic treatments, she says ." ]	[ 5, 33, 36, 37, 43 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A California woman missing for nearly a year and believed to be dead may still be alive and living in the Las Vegas, Nevada, area, detectives from Los Angeles said Thursday.", "Investigators have spent about six weeks checking out a high-school classmate's report that he saw Mitrice Richardson at a hotel casino, and are \"unable to show that it is not a good lead,\" Los Angeles police Capt.", "Kevin McClure said.", "And detectives have talked to several witnesses since then who believe seen her in the area, he said.", "\"It is not a verified sighting of her here, but we feel good enough to come up here and spend a good deal of time to get the information out to the community that we believe she might be here,\" McClure told reporters at a news conference in Las Vegas.", "But Richardson's mother, who is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department over her daughter's disappearance, cast doubt on the report.", "Latice Sutton told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that the man who reported the sighting hasn't seen her daughter for a decade.", "Richardson, who would be 25 now, is a former beauty pageant contestant who was last seen leaving a Los Angeles County sheriff's station in Malibu in the early morning hours of September 17, 2009.", "She had been arrested the previous evening at an upscale restaurant for allegedly not paying for her meal, and patrons at the restaurant said Mitrice exhibited strange behavior.", "Her family has said the college honors graduate suffered from mental health issues and should have been kept at the sheriff's station until a relative arrived to pick her up.", "Investigators are now asking the public in and around Las Vegas to report any possible sightings, and urged Richardson herself to come forward.", "\"She's not in any type of trouble,\" said Capt.", "Dave Smith, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.", "\"She's not subject to any type of arrest We would like her to approach her family, approach us, and please let us know that she's OK.\" A high-school classmate now living in Las Vegas reported seeing Richardson at the Rio Hotel and Casino in early June, sparking the new effort by detectives to check out his report.", "\"He walked up and said, 'Hi, Matrice,\" Smith said.", "\"She basically looked at him with kind of a shocked look and left the location.\"", "The casino's security cameras didn't have video of the incident that was of a high enough quality.", "But since then, investigators have talked to more than 70 people who say they have seen her, said William McSweeney, chief of the Los Angeles County detective division.", "Those accounts were \"based on a photograph and some passage of time, in most instances,\" McSweeney said.", "\"But that volume causes us to beleive we're on the right track.\"", "But Sutton told HLN on Thursday, \"I do not believe it was her.\"", "She said hundreds of similar reports in Los Angeles have failed to pan out, while the man who reported seeing her in the casino hadn't seen her daughter since high school.", "And she questioned why police considered that report believable after dismissing an earlier report by Michael Richardson, the missing woman's father, that he had spotted his daughter in Las Vegas.", "\"Someone who hasn't seen Mitrice in 10 years, they consider him now more credible than the biological father?", "Sutton asked.", "\"I do not believe this is Mitrice.", "Mitrice was last seen at the sheriff's department.\"", "Last month, Sutton sued Los Angeles County and several sheriff's officials for wrongful death and negligence in her daughter's disappearance, according to court documents.", "Sutton argued 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.", "Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the sheriff's department, told CNN in September that the decision to release Richardson was made because \"she was not intoxicated, she didn't exhibit any mental issues, so when we were done running her fingerprints and criminal history, then we are obligated by law to release her from custody.\"", "He also has said that a female jailer \"offered to her to stay the night.", "She could have stayed, but she wanted to leave.\"", "Police have not discounted the possibility that Richardson may not want to be found, but her family believes that would be \"out of her character\" McClure said.", "\"We could find that out, but we'll never know that until we actually talk to Mitrice,\" he said.", "CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Mom discounts missing woman's sighting in Las Vegas .", "Mitrice Richardson has been missing for nearly a year .", "A high-school classmate says he spotted her in a casino in June .", "Police say they have more than 70 other possible sightings ." ]	[ 0, 1, 13, 17 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Two officers in the troubled New Orleans Police Department have been indicted in connection with the beating death of a civilian in 2005, according to the U.S. Justice Department.", "The federal indictment alleges that Officer Melvin Williams kicked the victim and struck him with a baton, fracturing his ribs and rupturing his spleen.", "The victim, Raymond Robair, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.", "Williams and Officer Matthew Moore were also charged with obstructing justice when they submitted a false incident report and failed to tell hospital personnel Williams had beaten Robair, according to the indictment in the Eastern District of Louisiana.", "Details of the indictment were released by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington.", "Moore also allegedly lied about the incident in an FBI investigation in March of this year according to the indictment.", "Moore is accused of telling federal agents Williams had not kicked or beaten Robair.", "Robair's death occurred in July 2005, two months before the city was slammed by Hurricane Katrina.", "The indictment of the two officers comes only weeks after five current and former members of the police department were indicted in connection with two deaths at the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Katrina.", "All of the charges come as the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division continues a separate broad investigation into the \"patterns or practices\" of alleged misconduct within the New Orleans police department.", "On May 17, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez told New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the Justice Department will investigate \"allegations of excessive force, unconstitutional searches and seizures, racial profiling, failures to provide adequate police services to particular neighborhoods and related misconduct.\"", "On July 13, in a visit to New Orleans to announce the Danziger Bridge indictments, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed the Justice Department \"will not tolerate wrongdoing by those who have sworn to protect the public.\"", "\"Making sure that this city's police department is the best that it can be is our sacred obligation,\" Holder told a crowd in the city." ]	[ "Two News Orleans officers face federal charges in a 2005 beating death .", "The incident occurred before Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans .", "Five other current and former New Orleans officers were charged in two deaths after Katrina .", "The Justice Department continues a broad investigation into alleged misconduct ." ]	[ 0, 7, 8, 9 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Civil rights leaders marking the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I Have a Dream\" speech Saturday scorned a nearby Glenn Beck-led rally, saying it came with no message and with a presumption that King's famous discourse can be used as a conservative platform.", "The Rev. Al Sharpton and a range of activists spoke at the event, which they called \"Reclaim the Dream,\" insisting that King's vision for America has not been completely fulfilled.", "\"Don't let anyone tell you that they have the right to take their country back.", "It's our country, too,\" said Avis Jones Deweaver, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, making a reference to the Tea Party members attending the Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial.", "\"We will reclaim the dream.", "It was ours from the beginning. A dream that we will make reality,\" she said at the Dunbar High School rally in northwest Washington, D.C. People at Dunbar stood shoulder to shoulder, filling half of a high school football field and the track around one half of the field.", "They also filled about five sections of the bleachers.", "Many of the speakers made numerous references to what America was like in 1963, when King gave his speech.", "\"Schools all over America still were segregated and public accommodations housing was segregated and blacks in the South didn't have the right to vote.", "The march on Washington changed all of that.", "Glenn Beck's march will change nothing.", "But you can't blame Glenn Beck for his 'March on Washington' envy.", "Too bad he doesn't have a message to match the place or that is worthy of the march,\" said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia.", "Following the rally, Sharpton linked arms with fellow marchers and walked three miles to the site of the future Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, just a few blocks from the Lincoln Memorial.", "Sharpton and others couldn't resist discussing Beck's controversial rally on the National Mall.", "Beck, who has a program on Fox News as well as several radio programs, was criticized for holding his event -- which he called \"Restoring Honor\" -- where King delivered his speech August 28, 1963.", "Civil rights leader the Rev.", "Jesse Jackson told CNN that Beck was mimicking King and \"humiliating the tradition.\"", "Beck said the site of his rally was appropriate to reflect on the legacy of King, \"the man who stood down on those stairs and gave his life for everyone's right to have a dream.\"", "\"They may have the Mall,\" countered Sharpton, \"but we have the message.", "They may have the platform but we have the dream.\"", "\"This is our day and we ain't giving it away,\" said Sharpton, who reminded the crowd that much civil rights progress has been seen in the last several decades but more needs to be made.", "Sharpton told CNN's Don Lemon on Saturday night that Beck's rally wasn't appropriate for a day when people reflect on King's policy message.", "\"Whose civil rights agenda did he lay out?", "It was a motivational speech,\" Sharpton said of Beck.", "\"It might be good, but it's not civil rights.\"", "Earlier Saturday, Sharpton noted that in 1963, African-Americans had to sit in the back of buses and couldn't check into segregated hotels.", "Now, he said, people flew in to the event first class and can use public accommodations.", "And most significantly, he noted, the president of the United States is an African-American.", "Sharpton also said that more progress needs to be made in education, criminal justice and other issues, such as statehood for the District of Columbia, which has a large black population.", "\"We're not there yet,\" he said. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who also spoke at the event, called education \"the civil rights issue of our generation.\"", "He said it's time to stop being complacent about education and demand excellence.", "Sharpton said the conservatives who rallied at the Lincoln Memorial should ask President Abraham Lincoln himself why he led the fight against states' rights during the Civil War to hold the union together.", "He urged the people there to read King's speech and talk to people who endured discrimination in their lives.", "Sharpton warned conservative forces they'd face a fight in the upcoming elections, and called on people to turn out to vote this year as they did in 2008, when Obama was elected.", "\"We're coming out to fight and we're not going to let you turn back the clock,\" he said.", "Other well-known public figures spoke, including National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, who said, \"We will not stand silent as some seek to hijack, as some seek to distort and contort, as some seek to bamboozle and confuse the vision of Dr. King's dream.\"", "Morehouse College President Robert Franklin indicated that King was treated respectfully by the conservatives.", "\"I am delighted to know that Mr. Glenn Beck and his colleagues discovered the 'I Have a Dream' speech,\" he said.", "But, he added, Beck needs to travel to Morehouse, the Atlanta college King attended, to learn what King studied -- citing, for example, the works of religious thinkers who influenced the late civil rights leader.", "A couple of speakers also noted the passing of Dorothy Height earlier this year.", "Height, a civil rights pioneer, had been chair and president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women and was on the podium with King during the 1963 speech.", "The \"I Have a Dream\" speech -- delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial -- served as a symbol of the fight against racial discrimination.", "It was made during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and is considered one of the most pivotal and memorable of American speeches.", "CNN's Sarah Lee contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Sharpton calls Beck's comments a \"motivational speech\"\nCivil rights figures march to the site of a planned King memorial .", "The Rev.", "Al Sharpton tells \"Reclaim the Dream\" rally \"this is our day\"\nRally took place as conservatives gathered in an event at the site of the King speech ." ]	[ 1, 3, 16, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A body found in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday has been identified as that of former professional basketball player Lorenzen Wright, Memphis police said.", "The cause of death has been ruled as \"homicide by gunshot wound,\" police said Thursday in a news release, adding that the Shelby County medical examiner used dental records to confirm Wright's identity.", "\"Investigators continue to work around the clock to bring justice to Mr. Wright and his family,\" the police department said in a statement.", "Before that confirmation, Wright's family had already said that they were mourning his loss.", "Wright's cousin, Camella Logan, had released a statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper saying, \"We appreciate your thoughts, prayers and condolences as they are comforting at this very difficult time.\"", "Wright, who has a home in Atlanta, was reported missing on July 22.", "He had been visiting with his former wife and their children in Collierville, near Memphis, investigators said.", "Wright was last seen at his former wife's home shortly before midnight on July 18, and a 911 call was placed from his phone in the early hours of July 19, police said.", "His body was found on Wednesday by Shelby County Emergency Services Search and Rescue, police said.", "Dewayne Benton, a Christian radio personality in Memphis, said he left work early to investigate reports his station received about the body.", "Benton described the crowded crime scene as somber.", "\"Lorenzen Wright had a lot of financial problems ... but this was just horrible,\" said Benton.", "\"He was one of the favorite sons of Memphis,\" he added.", "The 6-foot-11-inch Wright was a high school basketball star in Memphis, and he played professionally for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies from 2001 through 2006.", "\"We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of Lorenzen Wright,\" the team's majority owner, Michael Heisley, said in a statement on the Grizzlies' website.", "\"We lost a member of the Grizzlies family.\"", "During his 13-year professional basketball career Wright also played with the Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento Kings and most recently with the Cleveland Cavaliers.", "Wright did two tours with the Atlanta Hawks as well, from 1999 to 2001 and from 2006 to 2008.", "Former Hawks coach Lenny Wilkens said, \"Lorenzen was a real congenial young man who played with a lot of enthusiasm.", "This is certainly a huge loss for his family and friends.\"", "\"Our thoughts and prayers are with [his family] during this difficult time,\" said Hawks General Manager Rick Sund in a press statement released Thursday by the NBA team." ]	[ "NEW: Police say the medical examiner used dental records to identify Lorenzen Wright's body .", "NEW: The cause of death was \"homicide by gunshot wound,\" police say .", "Family and friends mourn Wright's death .", "Police say they are working \"to bring justice\" to Wright and his family ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, response officials and Russian news agencies reported Friday.", "The fires have been raging in five regions as Russia endures dry weather and one of the hottest months on record.", "Thursday saw Moscow reach 102 Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), the highest temperature since records began in 1879.", "The fires are the worst ever to hit the European part of Russia, the region west of the Ural Mountains, the RIA-Novosti news agency said.", "Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said there have been 21,690 fires so far this summer, 10 percent more than last year, the news agency reported.", "President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Defense Ministry on Friday to use the military to help tackle the fires, the president's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, told the Interfax news agency.", "The government has already dispatched additional firefighting units, along with 16 aircraft and helicopters, to fight the fires, RIA-Novosti said.", "Putin and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu flew Friday to one of the affected regions, Nizhny Novgorod, where Putin called on local officials to step down.", "\"I recommend the resignation of the heads of regions (devastated by fire) who have, to a significant degree, lost the trust of citizens,\" Putin said, according to RIA-Novosti.", "Many residents who lost their homes in Nizhny Novgorod had complained to Putin that local authorities' actions were \"chaotic and uncoordinated,\" RIA-Novosti reported.", "The fires have so far killed 25 people, including two firefighters, according to an official at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.", "Across the 14 fire-striken regions of central Russia, 1,257 homes have burned, and some 2,000 people have been left without housing.", "Sixty homes were burned in the region of Moscow.", "\"I don't know what to do,\" one Voronezh woman told state TV.", "\"Haven't got any bed linen, cups, spoons, forks left.", "We're left with nothing.", "Everything was burned down.", "We couldn't salvage anything.\"", "Putin said the families of those who died will receive 1 million rubles ($33,000) each in compensation, and the government will pay around 3 million rubles ($100,000) for the reconstruction of each destroyed house, RIA-Novosti said.", "Putin also said the government will compensate people for the loss of property, the news agency said.", "Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 95 Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) during the past five weeks, RIA-Novosti said.", "Thursday's temperature in Moscow broke the previous record high of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius), set just three days earlier.", "The month of July is expected to break the record for the hottest month ever recorded in Moscow.", "High temperatures in Moscow dropped to between 82 and 86 Fahrenheit (28 to 30 Celsius) Friday because of a breeze, but weekend temperatures were forecast to rise again.", "The threat of more fires breaking out will remain high in the Central and Volga Federal Districts next week, given the abnormal heart wave and the lack of rain, the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia has reported on its web site.", "The hot, dry weather is believed to have dried out large parts of land, making it easier for flames to spread.", "Central Russia also has large areas of peat bogs that often catch on fire in dry and hot weather.", "CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Two firefighters are among the dead .", "NEW: 1,257 houses have burned, while some 2,000 people are left without a home .", "Putin calls on local officials to resign because of their fire response .", "The fires are reportedly the worst ever to hit western Russia ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday.", "Rogelio Segovia Hernandez, who heads the armed wing of the Juarez cartel, was arrested in Chihuahua on Tuesday.", "A reward of about $240,000 had been offered for his arrest, federal police said.", "Authorities said at the time of his arrest, he had a pistol, grenade and at least six bags of an undisclosed amount of cocaine.", "Intelligence provided by the federal police indicated Segovia, 30, was the principal operator for La Linea in the activities of drug trafficking distribution, kidnappings and killings in towns near Ciudad Juarez as well as Chihuahua.", "Segovia was being investigated in extortion of large sums of money from businessmen in exchange for \"freedom from aggression\" from La Linea, according to police.", "He was also a suspect in the August 25th, 2008, execution of five people at a ranch in the town of Aldama, Chihuahua.", "The Mexican attorney general's office offered a reward for Segovia's capture in May." ]	[ "Rogelio Segovia Hernandez heads the armed wing of the Juarez cartel .", "Authorities say he had a pistol, grenade and cocaine at the time of his arrest .", "Segovia was accused of extortion of large sums of money from businessmen in exchange for protection ." ]	[ 1, 3, 5 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Each year, any country in the non-English speaking world that wants to be in with a chance of winning must choose just one film to represent the entire output of their country's filmmaking industry.", "Then, over two months, a 30-strong panel whittles the entries -- there were 63 this year -- down to to a shortlist of just five.", "Here is a roundup of films that were in the running this year.............. Mongol .", "Country: Kazakhstan Director: Sergei Bodrov Synopsis: In twelfth-century Mongolia, nine-year-old Temudgin, is a slave.", "He will grow up to become the warrior known as Genghis Khan.", "But not before he has to flee his home shortly when his father is murdered and a rival seizes power.", "With the help of his blood brother, tribal prince Jamukha, the adult Temudgin battles his rivals and works to unite the region's warring clans under his authority.", "Background: This was the first Academy Award nomination for Kazakhstan.", "Despite the Kazakh nationality, the film has a cosmopolitan cast and crew.", "Bodrov, the director is Russian, the star is Japanese and the film features Chinese and Mongolian supporting actors.", ".............. Beaufort . Country: Israel Director: Joseph Cedar Synopsis: Set in Lebanon in 2000, in the days leading up to Israel's withdrawal, the soldiers stationed at the mountaintop outpost of Beaufort live under a barrage of constant attacks.", "The film tells the story of Liraz Liberti, the 22-year-old commander of Beaufort, and his troops.", "Frustrated by the knowledge that they are risking -- and often losing -- their lives in defense of a fortress that will soon be abandoned, the men struggle to do their duty while grieving for their dead comrades and preparing for the evacuation.", "Background: Beaufort was nominated for a Golden Bear at Berlin, and won Silver Bear.", "This was Israel's 6th Oscar nomination, although it was the first one for 24 years.", "Israel has not yet won the award.", ".............. Katyn . Country: Poland Director: Andrzej Wajda Synopsis: The film is an account of captured Polish officers massacred by Soviet secret police in the Katyn Forest during WWII.", "The story focuses on Anna, the wife of a murdered captain, who refuses to believe he is dead.", "Background: Andrzej Wajda was awarded an Oscar in 2000 for \"five decades of extraordinary film direction.\"", "As well as being a very personal film for Wajda who's father was killed at Katyn, the film has had huge political impact in Poland.", "Angela Merkel and members of the German cabinet attended the premiere of the film at this year's Berlin Film Festival.", "This was the eighth nomination for Poland.", ".............. The Counterfeiters Country: Austria Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Synopsis: The story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history.", "The Nazis are plotting to cause the collapse of the US and British economies by flooding their markets with false bills.", "A group of prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp are put to work under the direction of a master counterfeiter making replicas of foreign bank notes.", "Some of the prisoners use delaying tactics to hinder the plan.", "Background: The eventual winner of the Oscar in what was the second nomination for Austria.", ".............. 12 Country: Russia Director: Nikita Mikhalkov Synopsis: Twelve Russian jurors deciding the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his adoptive Russian father go over the details of the case in the school gymnasium that is serving as their jury room.", "As they argue, a young juror manages to convince them that maybe the case isn't as clear cut as it first seemed.", "The case itself becomes a metaphor for the problems plaguing modern Russian society.", "Background: Mikhalkov stars in, directs and produces the film.", "This was the fifth nomination for Russia.", "Before 1992 the USSR received a total of nine nominations including three wins for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980), Dersu Uzala (1975), War and Peace (1968) E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "A roundup of 2008 Oscars Best Foreign Film nominations .", "Nominated countries were: Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Israel and Austria .", "There was a strong political vein running through the nominated films this year .", "Veteran Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda was previously awarded an Oscar in 2000 ." ]	[ 2, 18, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An 11-year-old Ohio boy is helping ease his family's financial burdens, one toy at a time.", "Zach McGuire wants to do his part while his family goes through hard times, so he's selling his toys.", "Zach McGuire is selling his toys to raise money for his family, which like others across the country, has bills piling up and a home in jeopardy.", "The youth said the idea came up during a conversation with his father.", "\"You can't live in toys, or eat toys,\" he told CNN television affiliate WNWO.", "\"Even though they are fun, you don't need them.\"", "Zach plans to use the proceeds for a good cause: helping his unemployed father.", "Tom McGuire, a licensed contractor in Toledo, Ohio, has not had a job since December.", "The economy is partly to blame, he said, adding that he did a job last summer and never got paid.", "As the general contractor on the job, he said, he was financially liable for materials and the work of two subcontractors.", "\"I'm out $30,000,\" McGuire said.", "The father said he is looking for work and is not relying on money from his son's toy sales.", "But he appreciates his effort.", "\"Zach has a big, giving heart,\" McGuire said.", "\"He came to me with this idea. He wants to contribute.\"", "Watch how Zach McGuire is helping his family » .", "It's not the first time Zach has helped those in need.", "In 2005, he sold Kool-Aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina and raised $400.", "A few years later, it was \"Cocoa for California,\" which he sold to help wildfire victims.", "\"I am very proud of him,\" McGuire told WNWO.", "\"He is an 11-year-old boy not living the life of an 11-year-old.\"", "Zach said everyone can do something.", "\"Even though they don't feel like they could do anything, they could do a Kool-Aid stand, like me,\" he said.", "\"It's what you're doing that matters and how you're helping people.\"" ]	[ "Zach McGuire of Toledo, Ohio, wants to help his out-of-work father .", "The 11-year-old is selling his toys to bring a little money into the family .", "\"You can't live in toys, or eat toys,\" says the altruistic boy .", "He's helped others before, raising money for hurricane and wildfire victims ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia on Friday implored Lebanese officials to shun violence in settling political differences and declared their \"solidarity with Lebanon against all Israeli threats.\"", "Syrian President Bashar Assad and Saudi King Abdullah sat down Friday with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and met with Lebanese politicians from various factions in an attempt to avoid Shiite-Sunni conflict ahead of the release of a U.N. tribunal indictment in the 2005 assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.", "It has been rumored that Hezbollah operatives will be blamed for the killing, a seminal event in Lebanon.", "Rafik Hariri died in a powerful explosion that left a 10-foot crater in a street in downtown Beirut and had a similar impact on Lebanon's political culture.", "Assad and Abdullah traveled to Beirut from Syria, where they met Thursday.", "Suleiman issued a communique saying both men \"held talks with Lebanese officials and discussed ways on how to enhance the national reconciliation and the internal stability in Lebanon and how to improve opportunities for economic growth and social development.\"", "The communique said the two asserted their empathy for Lebanon because of \"the daily Israeli breaches of Lebanese sovereignty, independence and Israel's attempts to destabilize the Lebanese nation.\"", "They \"stressed the importance of continuing to support the Doha agreement,\" a pact reached by Lebanese rival movements in 2008, and to \"complete the implementation of the Taif agreement,\" an accord developed to end the Lebanese civil war.", "The leaders urged the importance of \"everyone's commitment not to resort to violence and to place Lebanon's interest above any interest of any faction, and to be part of the legal and constitutional institutions and the Government of National Unity in order to resolve any differences.", "The Syrian and Saudi Arabia leaders expressed their continued support for Lebanon and the Lebanese president and the interests of Lebanon and its people.\"", "After the visit, Abdullah went to Jordan and Assad traveled home to Syria.", "Ibrahim Mousawi, a Hezbollah spokesman, said the group \"welcomes any kind of any Arab coordination and unity\" and said the summit will play an important role in \"repelling the Israeli threats in Lebanon and in the region as a whole.\"", "\"The region is facing many challenges and pressures by the Israelis amidst all the talks about a new war in the region and Israel's crimes in expelling the Palestinians, judaizing Jerusalem and threatening the entire region with their scheme against our nation and the rest of the Arab world,\" he maintained.", "Hezbollah and Israel fought a bitter war in 2006 after militants seized two Israeli soldiers and killed three others.", "The significance of the visit is that Assad and Abdullah have backed different political movements in Lebanon since the killing, with Saudi Arabia backing Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the son of Rafik Hariri, and Syria supporting Hezbollah, which has representatives in parliament and a presence in the government.", "Rafik Hariri's death stunned the nation at the time and prompted tens of thousands to take to the streets, blaming Syria for the killing.", "At the time of the killing, neighboring Syria had immense political influence in Lebanon.", "Syria has always denied the accusations of being involved in the assassination.", "A U.N. Security Council resolution demanded Damascus fully cooperate in the U.N. investigation.", "The assassination and subsequent investigation led to a complete withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon after 30 years of military presence.", "The investigation by the U.N. tribunal into the killing is still going on, and the tribunal's prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, is expected to issue the long-awaited indictment between September and December 2010.", "It is Assad's first visit to Lebanon since Rafik Hariri was assassinated.", "Both leaders last visited Lebanon in 2002 for an Arab League summit to launch the Middle East peace process.", "Last week, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said he believes that the tribunal will blame elements of his party, but said he would reject any such conclusion.", "He also said that any indictment of a Hezbollah member would represent a U.S.-Israeli effort to disarm Hezbollah's militant wing.", "The United States considers Hezbollah, which has close ties to Iran and Syria, to be a terrorist organization.", "The Shiite group is a political party and a major provider of social services in Lebanon but also operates a militant wing.", "Nasrallah, in a rare press conference, said Hariri's son, current Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, had told him that the special tribunal would implicate rogue Hezbollah members for the killing, but not the party itself.", "\"I told Hariri when he accused Syria to bring us one single proof and I will stand by your side and support you, but you cannot allow the instigation against Hezbollah and the Shiites in Lebanon to continue,\" Nasrallah said.", "Nasrallah said forces inside and outside Lebanon \"don't want the stability in the country to last.\"", "Among many Muslims, Hezbollah is seen as a heroic organization, successful in having driven Israeli forces from Lebanon in 2006.", "In previous parliamentary elections, the so-called March 14 coalition -- parties association with Saad Hariri -- campaigned on a platform to disarm Hezbollah and opposed Hezbollah's 2006 war with Israel.", "\"In the last five years, some Lebanese politicians dragged the country into a bigger battle that targeted everyone,\" Nasrallah said.", "\"Every day we were on the verge of a new civil war and we are all victims of a bigger plot that wanted to destroy the resistance in Lebanon.", "\"These same politicians want to drag Lebanon into that same phase once again.", "\"So I ask their supporters: Do you really want to stand by these leaders, despite all what happened?", "Despite everything they have done?\"", "This week, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley, asked about the meeting, said the United States values \"dialogue\" among the three leaders.", "He said he suspects Israeli-Palestinian peace moves and other items could be part of the discussions.", "\"Syria's relationship with Iran is of concern to us.", "And to the extent that Syria wants to advance its relations within the region and around the world, it would be, you know, much better for Syria to distance itself from Iran and move in a more constructive direction.\"", "He also said, \"We think that President Assad and other Syrian leaders should listen very attentively, you know, to what King Abdullah will tell them.\"", "CNN's Saad Abedine contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Assad, Abdullah urge officials in Lebanon to avoid violence .", "NEW: They worked to enhance Lebanese reconciliation .", "First visits for both since Hariri death ." ]	[ 5, 21, 36 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- Good news for everyone out there who's ever thought to themselves: \"A 10-minute video of my cat eating ribs on the kitchen floor is just too short.\"", "YouTube announced Thursday that it has increased its upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 for non-partners.", "So get kitty lookin' pretty and start rolling!", "So why add the extra five-spot now?", "Well, on the YouTube blog, the video-sharing site explains that it's been beefing up its copyright protection tools of late, i.e.", "the Content ID system (which lets copyright holders have more control over their content).", "Therefore, it's less likely that users can, say, upload large chunks of movies and TV shows without permission.", "In celebration of this added time, YouTube is also launching a contest of sorts called \"15 Minutes of Fame.\"", "Basically, all users have to do is film a 15-minute vid, tag it with \"yt15minutes,\" and upload it by Wednesday, August 4.", "The chosen videos will be featured on the YouTube homepage.", "We wonder what effect -- if any -- this new time limit will have on initiatives like YouTube Leanback.", "Do you think the extra five minutes will equate to better content, or merely more room to rant about video games, Twilight and the like?", "Let us know!", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "YouTube announced that it has increased its upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 .", "The site explains that it's been beefing up its copyright protection tools .", "YouTube is launching a contest of sorts called \"15 Minutes of Fame\"" ]	[ 1, 4, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 29-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran sits in a bare apartment in a poor part of the Colombian capital, Bogota.", "He wants to come home, but he can't.", "He thinks it's because he's on the federal government's \"no-fly list.\"", "Raymond Earl Knaeble is one of an unknown number of Americans stranded overseas.", "They can't fly home, but no one will tell them why.", "In Knaeble's case, he went to the airport in Bogota on March 14 to board a plane for Miami, Florida.", "\"I had a job offered to me and one of the requirements to secure the job was that I had to take a medical exam.", "It was scheduled for March 16 in the U.S.,\" Knaeble said.", "When he arrived at the gate, however, an airline official denied him a boarding pass.", "He was instructed to contact the U.S. Embassy in Bogota.", "\"They told me I couldn't fly with the airline, with any airline,\" he said.", "\"My heart sank.", "They didn't give me a reason why.", "I've been stuck in Colombia without any explanation.\"", "Knaeble, a resident of California, believes he has been placed on the federal no-fly list.", "The list is maintained by the FBI and indicates who might be a risk to civil aviation, specifically those suspected of being domestic or international terrorists.", "This list is disseminated among various government agencies like the Transportation Security Administration, for use in screening passengers.", "\"My plan was to go do my medical screening in the U.S., spend time with my family, secure my job and come back to Colombia to get my wife,\" Knaeble said.", "\"Then everything changed.", "The company retracted my offer and I lost the job.\"", "He flew to Colombia in March from Kuwait to marry his then-fiance and said he encountered no problems.", "He had been living in Kuwait since 2006 working for ITT Systems, the same company that offered him the new position as a heavy mobile equipment mechanic in Qatar.", "Knaeble converted to Islam in 2008 and with others created a website about the religion's teachings.", "Nothing on the site suggests it condones violence, and in a statement to CNN, Knaeble said: \"People have a lot of misconceptions about Islam, but the truth is that Islam is a religion of peace.", "It means peace.\"", "With a daughter living in Texas, his new wife pregnant with his second child and a fast-evaporating bank account, Knaeble says he is running out of options.", "\"My wife's family has given a little bit of help, but if I didn't have any money saved up, I'd be homeless right now,\" he said.", "He is currently living in Santa Marta, Colombia.", "\"It's really simple.", "I've got a bed and a little table. ...", "I don't even have a refrigerator in my home,\" he said.", "\"I've just been surviving.\" Unable to get answers, on June 30 Knaeble and nine others who are either citizens or legal residents of the United States filed a lawsuit, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, against Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Timothy Healy, head of the Terrorist Screening Center.", "\"Our clients have done nothing wrong,\" said Nusrat Choudhury, a staff attorney with the ACLU who is helping to represent Knaeble and the others.", "\"When [the government] puts them on a list that impacts their lives, their ability to see family, to get jobs, the government has to give them a chance to stand up for themselves.\"", "Knaeble has tried other ways to get home.", "In May he planned to fly from Colombia to Mexico and then cross the U.S.-Mexico border by land.", "But he was greeted at the gate in Mexico City by government agents.", "They detained him and questioned him about his recent conversion to Islam.", "Fifteen hours later, he says, he was put on a plane back to Bogota.", "Knaeble's mother, Patricia, who lives in Ventura, California, says that she speaks with her son almost every day.", "\"He's called me a couple of times where I feel the pain, I feel the fear and I can't do a thing,\" Patricia Knaeble said.", "\"It's the worst feeling for a parent.", "I have gone out of my way to find out why and no one can tell me.", "He calls and there is nothing else I can do. \"", "Finding out whether you are on the no-fly list is a matter of trial and error, and sometimes begins with a humiliating and unexpected moment at an airport check-in desk.", "The list is not made public.", "The Department of Homeland Security has created the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, known as TRIP, so that people who have been prevented from flying can request a review of their status.", "\"There are two problems with this process,\" said Choudhury, the ACLU attorney.", "\"First, the DHS doesn't control who is on the list, the FBI does.", "So this whole program is controlled by an agency that has no authority.", "Secondly, the response sent by the government is hardly satisfactory.\"", "The determination of redress can be viewed via a \"status page\" on the Department of Homeland Security's website.", "The update indicates whether an individual's case is in process, has been completed or requires more information.", "The website also says that \"security procedures and legal concerns mandate that we can neither confirm nor deny any information about you that may be within federal watch lists.\"", "So the individual must try to take another flight to see if they have been removed from the list.", "An additional guideline from the TRIP program articulates that anyone who files for redress will be asked for additional documentation within 30 days.", "Knaeble sent in his redress form on March 26.", "He says he has yet to hear anything.", "The FBI said that it is unable to comment on whether Knaeble is on the no-fly list.", "But in a written statement, the bureau said that \"several recent high-profile attempted terror plots ... remind us of the need to remain vigilant and thoroughly investigate every lead to fend off any potential threats to the U.S.\" Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Kristen Lee said she is unable to comment on the case because of the ongoing litigation with the ACLU.", "One man who was caught up in the same dilemma but eventually was allowed to return home is Yahye Wehelie, who lives in Virginia.", "He had been studying Arabic in Yemen with his brother.", "On the way home he was prevented from boarding a plane in Cairo.", "He was stuck in the Egyptian capital for six weeks, with little money.", "Wehelie was finally permitted to leave Egypt on a waiver and temporary passport.", "While in Cairo, Wehelie was \"hanging out in a cheap hotel watching TV and periodically going to fast food restaurants in the area,\" said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.", "CAIR helped Wehelie to return home.", "According to Hooper, Wehelie's permanent passport was revoked and can only be regained if he repays a loan to the U.S. Embassy that helped cover his food and hotel costs.", "The State Department said the U.S. Embassy in Cairo offers assistance to anyone who asks but would not disclose details about the reported loan.", "Despite his experiences, Wehelie supports the \"no-fly list.\"", "\"If this is something that's going to help my country and stop bad people from doing what they do, I'm happy for it,\" Wehelie said.", "For his part, Knaeble continues to look for creative ways to travel home.", "He is currently looking into traveling by boat.", "He says the earliest he would be able to do so would be in October aboard a cargo ship headed for Florida.", "\"What's happening to people like Ray, these are U.S. citizens who have a right to come back to the country in which they are citizens,\" said Choudhury.", "\"Right now, what this is, it is involuntary exile.\"", "And exile brings its own risks.", "Earlier this month, Knaeble's authorization to stay in Colombia expired and he fears arrest if he is unable to have it renewed.", "\"It's really scary because I don't know what's going to happen to me, to my family,\" he said.", "\"There shouldn't be any reason for this. No one has given me any reason.\"" ]	[ "Raymond Earl Knaeble has not been allowed to fly home from Colombia .", "He says he has been given no reason, but thinks he is on the U.S. no-fly list .", "In 2008 he converted to Islam, which he calls \"a religion of peace\"\nHe and nine others have filed a lawsuit against three U.S. officials ." ]	[ 2, 14, 22, 23, 35, 57 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- After accusations that several insurers have underpaid families of those killed in action, one company is considering changing how it allocates death benefit payments, Prudential Financial Vice Chairman Mark Grier told CNN.", "Prudential may give families the option of accepting a direct lump-sum check, Grier said.", "New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched a fraud investigation into the life insurance industry for \"practices that appear to have denied grieving military families and others of millions in life-insurance cash,\" Cuomo's office announced Thursday.", "The attorney general's office probed the industry the day after the finance publication Bloomberg reported the insurance companies potentially exploited fallen soldier's families.", "Bloomberg said some insurers tell families of fallen military personnel that policy payouts will be placed in an interest-bearing account.", "But the bulk of the interest benefits the insurers, and the cash is not placed in banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).", "Insurers place cash in their corporate accounts, reportedly earning up to 4.8 percent interest while paying families as little as 0.5 percent interest, Bloomberg reported.", "\"It is shocking and just plain wrong for these multinational life insurance companies to pocket hundreds of millions in profits that really belong to those who have lost family members and have already suffered immensely,\" Cuomo said.", "Currently, Prudential, which met with officials at the Veterans Administration, gives a family several payment options, including setting up a \"lump sum\" that, rather than sending a check to the surviving family, sets up an \"Alliance Account\" within Prudential.", "The money stays in Prudential's hands, which, paying only .5 percent interest to the family, can invest at large profits, Cuomo said.", "Cuomo's office said holders of Alliance Accounts receive what appears to be a checkbook with \"JPMorgan Chase & Co.\" on the \"checks,\" but said the so-called checks cannot be used to make purchases and are not bank checks at all.", "\"Instead, Prudential must send money to JPMorgan Chase before the checks can clear,\" the attorney general's office said.", "\"Prudential beneficiaries are also not informed that, under a 2008 law, they have one year to place the death benefits in a Roth IRA and earn tax-free investment gains for the rest of their lives.", "Thus, real financial harm is suffered by Prudential's lack of disclosure.\"", "Prudential says the Alliance Accounts provide a secure, conservative option for survivors.", "Beneficiaries who find a better interest rate can move the money at any time, it says.", "Subpoenas have been served on eight insurance companies -- Prudential Financial Inc., MetLife Inc., Genworth Financial Inc., UnumProvident Corp., Northwestern Mutual, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York Life Insurance Co., and the MONY Life Insurance Co. -- though the entire life insurance industry is under investigation, according to the attorney general's office.", "The accounts in question include Prudential's Alliance Account and MetLife's Total Control Account.", "Steven Weisbart, senior vice president and chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute, says the banks are doing nothing out of the ordinary.", "\"It's completely premature, blown way out of proportion.", "What the industry does, what insurance companies do in these cases is exactly what beneficiaries need,\" Weisbart said.", "\"The opportunity to put off making decisions about the use of large amounts of money without suffering any financial loss.", "That's exactly what this product, this arrangement does.", "I don't know why the Cuomo organization would attack it the way they have.\"", "In a written statement, Prudential Chairman and CEO John Strangfeld said, \"It is important that the beneficiaries of our fallen service men and women are treated with dignity and respect during a very difficult time.", "Given the questions raised over the life insurance program we administer for the Department of Veteran Affairs, we welcome an opportunity to address the concerns and to set the record straight.\"", "Prudential said that while the accounts in question are not FDIC insured, the accounts are protected by state guaranty funds that provide protection of at least $250,000 in most states.", "\"Prudential does not in any way take money from beneficiaries,\" the company said.", "In a written statement, MetLife spokesman John Calagna said Thursday he has not seen Cuomo's subpoena and therefore had no comment on it.", "\"However we strongly disagree with many misleading statements in recent media reports and want to be clear regarding several important features of MetLife's Total Control Account ('TCA'),\" Calagna said.", "He said MetLife is not the issuer of the Service Employees Group Life Insurance program provided to members of the armed forces, but the company does provide life insurance policies for civilian federal employees under a program called Federal Employees Group Life Insurance.", "\"Our materials carefully explain the TCA to our customers so that they understand that they can use their checkbooks to withdraw all of their benefits immediately or over time as they choose,\" Calagna said.", "\"They have full access to their funds and earn a guaranteed minimum interest rate that exceeds what they could earn on most money market accounts.\"", "Prudential said more than 40,000 Alliance Account drafts cleared last year, and the company receives few complaints from beneficiaries about difficulties.", "Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he learned Thursday that families of deceased military members did not get a lump-sum payment for life insurance policies.", "\"Until today, I actually believed that the families of our fallen heroes got a check for the full amount of their benefit,\" Gates said during a briefing at the Pentagon.", "\"So this came as news to me. And so I will just say I will be very interested in the outcome of\" an investigation.", "The Veterans Administration said it is conducting \"a full investigation\" to make sure survivors are fully protected and being treated with care and respect.", "\"The possibility that life insurance companies may be profiting inappropriately from these service members' sacrifice is completely unacceptable,\" the VA said in a statement.", "\"VA is deeply concerned that military and veteran families may potentially be harmed in some way by the use of the Alliance Account program.\"", "At the conclusion of the investigation, the VA said, the agency will determine whether to continue use of the Alliance Account program.", "The VA also will contact the approximately 10,000 survivors to remind them of their options under the Service Employees Group Life Insurance program." ]	[ "NEW: Prudential is considering changing how it allocates death benefits to surviving military family members .", "NEW: Insurance Information Institute says the industry's doing nothing wrong .", "Eight insurance companies have been served subpoenas in investigation .", "Cuomo: Families' payouts are placed in accounts; most of the interest goes to insurers ." ]	[ 0, 9, 16, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to start her 90-day jail sentence Tuesday, but the star's last moments of freedom may not be captured by cameras.", "The troubled movie star is scheduled to be in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday morning where she will be taken into custody.", "Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel has placed tight restrictions on what the public will be able to see at the court hearing.", "While the world watched as Lohan broke down in tears at her sentencing on July 6, the public won't be able to see the actress handcuffed and taken into custody on Tuesday, the judge ruled.", "Cameras also must stop rolling when the judge announces that Lohan is remanded and the bailiff is instructed to take her into custody.", "The judge also ordered that photos of Lohan must be restricted to when she's at the counsel table.", "Lohan was ordered to serve 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation.", "She was also sentenced to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab program after her jail term is completed." ]	[ "Judge has imposed tight restrictions on Tuesday's hearing .", "Lohan is sentenced to 90 days in jail .", "Lohan is expected to be taken in custody Tuesday ." ]	[ 2, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Canadian coast guard began ferrying passengers on Sunday from a cruise ship that ran aground on an unmapped rock.", "Officials aboard the Clipper Adventurer reported their troubles on Friday.", "The crew failed to dislodge the ship during high tide on Saturday, while Sunday, a coast guard icebreaker arrived to transport the people on board to land.", "No one of the estimated 128 passengers and 69 crew members were hurt or injured, said Theresa Nichols, a spokeswoman with the Canadian coast guard.", "iReport: Share images and information with CNN .", "\"They are in the midst of completing the operation of ferrying the passengers off,\" she said.", "\"That operation should be just about finished.\"", "The passengers are being taken to Kugluktuk, a small town on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, where accommodations have been arranged by the cruise ship company, said Nichols.", "They are then expected to fly to the Canadian city of Edmonton.", "The grounded vessel is stable, but rests with a slight list, according to the company that operates the cruise ship, Adventure Canada.", "\"Weather remains favourable as passengers continue to enjoy onboard programming and hospitality,\" the company said in a statement." ]	[ "The Canadian coast guard is ferrying passengers from the ship .", "The are being taken to a small town on the shore of the Arctic Ocean .", "Some 128 passengers and roughly 69 crew members are thought to be on board .", "The ship ran aground an unmapped rock on Friday ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Major league pitching legend Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he lied to Congress during a 2008 investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.", "Clemens has been charged with perjury, obstruction of Congress and making false statements after telling lawmakers in February 2008 that he never used human growth hormone or steroids.", "U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton set an April 5 trial date for the seven-time Cy Young winner at Monday's arraignment.", "The proceedings were held in the largest courtroom at the District of Columbia federal courthouse, one usually used for high-profile cases such as the trial of former White House aide Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby.", "Before the arraignment, Clemens ate lunch at the courthouse cafeteria with his attorneys and was approached by at least three fans.", "Clemens was released on his own recognizance after the hearing and was headed to a charity golf event in South Carolina.", "He has denied the perjury allegations and said he looks forward to defending himself in court.", "\"I never took HGH or Steroids.", "And I did not lie to Congress,\" he said in a message posted to his Twitter account August 19, the day his indictment was released.", "Clemens, nicknamed \"the Rocket\" during his 24-year career, left baseball in 2007 after playing for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and New York Yankees.", "The charges stem the pitcher's 2008 appearance before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, when he vehemently denied using performance-enhancing drugs.", "Steroid use \"is totally incompatible with who I am and what I stand for,\" he told lawmakers, adding, \"I cannot in good conscience admit to doing something that I did not do, even if it would be easier to do so.\"", "His testimony put him at odds with his former trainer, Brian McNamee, and a report by former Sen. George Mitchell that stated Clemens had used banned substances at points in his career.", "Onetime teammate Andy Pettite told a league investigation led by Mitchell that Clemens admitted using human growth hormone.", "A few weeks later, the committee's leaders asked the Justice Department to launch a perjury probe of Clemens.", "Rep. Henry Waxman, the committee's chairman at the time, said after Clemens' indictment that perjury and false statements \"are serious crimes that undermine the ability of Congress to perform its duties.\"", "The six-count indictment accuses Clemens of trying to \"influence, obstruct, and impede\" the congressional investigation into the use of steroids.", "It includes three counts of making false statements to investigators about the use of human growth hormone, steroids and vitamin B12, and two counts of perjury stemming from his appearance before Waxman's committee.", "Clemens told investigators that Pettite -- who admitted to using human growth hormone on two occasions himself -- must have \"misheard\" him, and he accused McNamee of lying \"to save his own skin\" as federal authorities began probing the use of steroids in major sports.", "He filed a defamation suit against his ex-trainer in late 2008.", "He said the shots he received from his trainer were vitamin B12, which is an allowed substance.", "But according to the indictment, the trainer never had access to B12 and never injected Clemens with such supplements.", "CNN's Paul Courson and Carol Cratty contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Clemens released on his own recognizance after not-guilty plea .", "The baseball great has been charged with perjury and obstruction of Congress .", "He insists he never used human growth hormone or steroids .", "\"The Rocket\" won seven Cy Young awards during his 24-year career ." ]	[ 1, 9 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Steve McPherson quit his job as ABC Entertainment president this week amid \"gossip and innuendo\" that \"goes with the territory,\" his lawyer said Thursday.", "The network confirmed McPherson's resignation, but would not comment on what McPherson attorney Tom Hoberman described as the \"rumors of internal situations\" at ABC.", "McPherson held the post for six years and had another year on his contract.", "\"Upon Steve McPherson returning to work from his vacation on Monday, he made a voluntary decision to resign and ABC accepted his resignation,\" Hoberman said in a written statement.", "The statement only hinted at what led to his decision to suddenly depart just days before the network was set to present its fall primetime lineup to television critics.", "\"It is not uncommon for high level executives to be the subject of gossip and innuendo,\" Hoberman said.", "\"That would include rumors of internal situations which can easily be misinterpreted or misrepresented.", "Seems like it goes with the territory, and there is nothing further to discuss.\"", "McPherson said he has \"a new entrepreneurial venture in the spirits business\" lined up as well as \"involvement in a new media company.\"", "ABC said it would announce a replacement for McPherson \"shortly.\"" ]	[ "Lawyer: Resignation came amid \"rumors of internal situations\"\nMcPherson quit the day he returned from vacation .", "ABC will announce a new president \"shortly\"" ]	[ 1, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An appeals court ruling has raised the possibility that Guatemalan women will be able to seek asylum in the United States because of the high rates of femicide in that country.", "A Guatemalan woman seeking asylum based on her belief that she would not be safe in her native country will have her case reviewed, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday.", "Lesly Yajayra Perdomo, a native of Guatemala who entered the United States illegally as a teenager to join her mother in 1991, was facing deporation in 2003.", "She requested asylum \"because she feared persecution as a member of a particular social group consisting of women between the ages of fourteen and forty,\" according to the court document.", "In particular, Perdomo argued that women in Guatemala \"were murdered at a high rate with impunity.\"", "An immigration judge denied her claim, and the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld the decision.", "Monday's ruling remands the case to the BIA for further proceedings.", "Perdomo, who lives in Reno, Nevada, and works as a Medicaid account executive at a medical facility there, is not assured asylum, but the decision gives her and countless other Guatemalan women the possibility of remaining in the United States.", "A key issue in the case is whether Guatemalan women are too broad of a group to be considered a protected \"particular social group\" eligible for asylum.", "That's what the BIA decided when it upheld the immigration judge's ruling, calling it \"merely a demographic division ... rather than a particular social group.\"", "The three-judge panel at the appeals court, however, found that the decision was \"inconsistent with its own precedent and this court's case law.\"", "It is important to note that the appeals court stopped short of saying Perdomo deserved asylum, only saying that she was eligible for it, Kevin Johnson, Dean of the University of California-Davis Law School, told CNN.", "Proving that Perdomo will face persecution if she is returned to Guatemala and that the country doesn't protect its young women will be hard to prove, he said.", "Any other Guatemalan women hoping to take advantage of this week's ruling will have to do the same.", "\"I don't think there's going to be a flood of Guatemalan women applying for asylum tomorrow,\" Johnson said.", "\"This is part of a trend among U.S. courts to ensure women are afforded protection under asylum laws.\"", "According to Amnesty International, between 2001 and 2006, more than 1,900 Guatemalan women and girls were killed.", "Many of those killings involved sexual violence and \"exceptional cruelty,\" the organization said." ]	[ "An appeals court remanded the case of a Guatemalan woman seeking asylum in the U.S.\nPerdomo argues that because of high murder rates for women, she is not safe going home .", "Ruling could affect other Guatemalan women in the United States .", "A key issue is whether being a woman constitutes a protected social group ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States continues to decline from a peak in 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.", "The center estimated that in March 2009 -- the most recent figures -- there were 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants in the country, compared to 12 million in March 2007.", "\"The decrease represents the first significant reversal in the growth of this population over the past two decades,\" the report states.", "The report does not discuss what factors could be behind the decrease.", "The decrease represents an 8 percent decline from 2007 to 2009 in the number of illegal immigrants currently living in the United States.", "According to the report, the most marked decline was in the population of unauthorized immigrants who come from Latin American countries other than Mexico.", "This group, which includes illegal immigrants from the Caribbean, Central and South America, saw a decrease of 22 percent in the same 2007-2009 period.", "In comparison, the Mexican unauthorized population has leveled off at about 7 million since 2007, the report states.", "Mexicans account for about 60 percent of all illegal immigrants.", "The report coincides with other studies showing that while the influx of unauthorized immigrants from Mexico has sharply decreased, unauthorized Mexicans living in the United States are staying put.", "According to the report, an average of 150,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico arrived yearly during the March 2007 to March 2009 period, compared to the average of 500,000 that was recorded during the first half of the decade.", "For all countries, the average number of new unauthorized immigrants arriving fell from 550,000 a year in 2005 to 300,000 a year in 2009..", "The authors of the report point out, however, that despite the decline, the population of unauthorized immigrants was nearly a third larger in 2009 compared to 2000, and it is three times larger than in 1990.", "Among the report's other findings was that nearly half of unauthorized immigrants living in the country in 2009 arrived in 2000 or later.", "The methodology the authors used took a demographic estimate of the legal foreign-born population in the United States, and subtracted it from the total foreign-born population.", "The Pew Hispanic Center is a part of the Pew Research Center in Washington and is an independent research group that does not engage in advocacy or take positions on issues." ]	[ "The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States has decreased, the study says .", "The largest drop was among Latin American immigrants not from Mexico .", "Mexican unauthorized immigration leveled off ." ]	[ 5, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man suspected in the shooting deaths of five people at a Lake Havasu City, Arizona, residence on Saturday night was found dead early Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.", "The killings began just before midnight Saturday when police say 26-year-old Brian Diez entered the residence, shot six people and abducted two children from the home, according to a press release from the Lake Havasu City Police Department.", "Four of the victims were pronounced dead.", "Two others were transported to local hospitals, where one of them died of his injuries.", "According to an Amber Alert issued Sunday for the missing children, Diez, their father, was locked in a custody battle with their mother, identified by police as 23-year-old Deborah Langstaff.", "Langstaff was among the five people killed.", "A little more than three hours after the shootings, Lake Havasu police investigators discovered that Diez's vehicle was parked at a home in Rancho Cucamonga, California, more than 250 miles away from the site of the killings.", "At about the same time, local sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the same residence, responding to a report of a suicide.", "\"Deputies arrived and found Diez deceased of an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound,\" police said in a statement.", "The two children, identified by police as 4-year-old Kaia Diez and 13-month-old Cole Diez, were found safe at the California home with family members.", "Police said the five people killed in Arizona were: Langstaff, Primo Verdone, 24, Russell Nyland, 42, Ashley Nyland, 20, and Brock Kelson, 20.", "Deborah Nyland, 44, was transported to Sunrise Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "Her condition was unknown Sunday night.", "The relationship between the victims was not immediately clear." ]	[ "Police say Brian Diez, 26, shot six people, killing five of them .", "Diez abducted two children, whom he fathered with one of the victims, police say .", "The children were found safe early Sunday ." ]	[ 1, 3, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 45-year-old man who barricaded himself in his home after allegedly shooting two rural Alaska police officers to death surrendered Monday morning and was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, authorities said.", "John Marvin Jr. gave up without incident around 9:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m.", "ET), according to a statement from the Division of Alaska State Troopers.", "Hoonah, Alaska, officers Matthew Tokuoka, 39, and Sgt.", "Anthony Wallace, 32, were shot Saturday in what troopers described as an ambush.", "Both officers later died from their injuries.", "Gov. Sean Parnell ordered state flags to be lowered to half-staff Monday in honor of the fallen officers, calling their deaths \"a tragic loss for Alaska and the community of Hoonah.\"", "\"These men had a passion for serving and protecting Alaskans and our state is better because of their commitment to excellence,\" Parnell said in a statement.", "After the shooting, Marvin barricaded himself inside his home, according to Alaska television station KTUU.", "State troopers sent several special emergency response teams, and police from Juneau also deployed a tactical team, Alaska State Troopers said in a news release.", "The U.S. Coast Guard assisted in bringing resources into Hoonah, an Alaska Panhandle town on an island about 62 miles north of Sitka, Alaska, and 68 miles west of Juneau by ferry.", "\"We are thankful this incident resolved without further loss of life or injury,\" Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety Joe Masters said.", "\"Now that this incident has resolved, the community of Hoonah can hopefully start the healing process.", "The shooting leaves the town of Hoonah, which has a population of about 800 people, with only one police officer -- the police chief, TV station KTUU said.", "State troopers were providing staffing for Hoonah police.", "Businesses in the area were shut down, according to KTUU, and residents were asked to stay indoors and away from the area until the standoff ended.", "\"We heard a gunshot and one of my co-workers looked out the window and he saw one policeman down,\" witness Dirk Knehr told the television station.", "\"He'd been shot, and another policeman was trying to drag him away and the suspect shot him twice.", "And then he just took off.\" Little was known about Marvin, KTUU said.", "\"The only information we have is that he's had problems with law enforcement in that community in the past, and there were some issues of stability,\" Alaska State Troopers Capt.", "Barry Wilson told the station.", "The shooting occurred about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, KTUU said.", "Wallace began working with Hoonah police in 2008, according to the station.", "He was a 2008 graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, and a former campus police officer at the school.", "\"Tony, who was hard-of-hearing, proved remarkable at many levels,\" the institute said in a statement on its website.", "After joining campus police, he went on to attend the police academy, where he graduated as class valedictorian.", "An All-American wrestler, he was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.", "The institute's statement quoted from an interview Wallace did last year with the university's news department.", "\"I hope that people who are in the same situation as I am see my story and begin to believe that if you put your mind to something, you can achieve it,\" he said.", "\"Anything and everything is possible, it's just a matter of how bad you want it and how far you are willing to go to prove to people that you are worthy of whatever career you want to pursue.\"", "Tokuoka, a former Marine Corps staff sergeant, was a native of Hawaii who had been with Hoonah police since 2009, KTUU said.", "Planning for a memorial service for the fallen officers is under way." ]	[ "NEW: John Marvin Jr. is charged with two counts of first-degree murder .", "NEW: Flags are ordered lowered to half-staff across the state .", "Standoff began after two police officers were shot late Saturday .", "The officers' deaths leave the small town of Hoonah with only one officer ." ]	[ 0, 4, 6, 13 ]
[ "(Rolling Stone) -- The long-gestating Tupac Shakur movie may finally begin production this November, now that director Antoine Fuqua (\"Training Day\") has brought on Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson to pen a new script.", "Wilkinson tells Vulture that the film, originally written in a documentary style, will not be a biopic.", "Instead, it will focus onTupac's last day, and flash back on the four years that preceded his still-unsolved shooting death in Las Vegas.", "\"He was just beginning to shed that anger and look for a purer voice ...", "He was in the process of changing himself, and entering a new phase of his life,\" says Rivele, who previously teamed with Wilkinson to script \"Ali\" and \"Nixon.\"", "\"He saw the contradiction between the musical persona of 'Thug Life,' and his essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person.", "And that was partly responsible for his murder: He was not a gangster, but the people around him were.\"", "Rolling Stone: The life and times of the hip-hop great .", "Like \"Notorious,\" the biopic that starred first-time actor Jamal Woolard as Biggie, Fuqua hopes to cast an unknown to portray Tupac.", "(Anthony Mackey, who would later appear in \"The Hurt Locker,\" played Shakur in \"Notorious.\")", "Plans for the movie began in 2007, when Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, sold the rights.", "Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone." ]	[ "The long-gestating Tupac Shakur movie may begin production this November .", "The film, originally written in a documentary style, will not be a biopic .", "Plans for the movie began in 2007 when Tupac's mother sold the rights ." ]	[ 1, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tragedy struck at a Pennsylvania circus Friday after a startled elephant stomped its trainer to death, police said.", "People at the Irem Shrine in Wilkes-Barre, which has been hosting the James Hamid Circus all week, rushed to help but not before the trainer sustained life-threatening injuries, said police Lt. Steven Oshefski.", "It was unclear what spooked the elephant, but the pachyderm was calmed by those on the scene.", "The victim is not being identified until next-of-kin have been notified, Oshefski said.", "The incident was classified as a workplace accident and the investigation has been turned over to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.", "A balloon vendor at the circus told CNN affiliate WBRE that the death was shocking.", "\"In the 30 years I've been doing my vending, I've never heard an animal killing their trainer and all,\" said Ed Conrad.", "\"So something must have happened.\"", "Oshefski said the elephant came into contact with electrical wires, but it was unclear what exactly startled the animal.", "Animal rights activists decried the use of animals in circuses.", "\"It should come as no surprise that elephants and other animals sometimes snap and attack circus employees and members of the public,\" said Robbyn Brooks of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).", "\"PETA has obtained shocking photos and video of circus trainers as they beat elephants and subject them to violent training methods using barbaric devices such as bullhooks,\" Brooks said.", "Circus members observed a moment of silence for the elephant handler who died, WBRE reported.", "The circus, however, made a decision almost immediately after the death that the performance would go on." ]	[ "Startled elephant stomps trainer at circus, killing him, authorities say .", "Incident classified as workplace accident; OSHA to conduct investigation .", "Circus members observed moment of silence for worker before continuing show ." ]	[ 4, 12 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Songs that didn't make the cut on Michael Jackson albums while he was alive and some forgotten recordings left behind on computer hard drives will be on an album released this fall, sources familiar with the project say.", "Jackie Jackson, one of the singer's older brothers, has been working in a studio to help prepare the album, which will include 10 previously unheard songs, according to Jackson estate spokesman Jim Bates.", "Jackson's estate and Sony Music announced in March that his next album of unreleased music will go on sale in November.", "Music producer Rodney Jerkins, who co-produced Jackson's 2001 album \"Invincible,\" has been working with Sony to put together the new album, a source familiar with the project said.", "The source asked not to be identified because he was not authorized by the record label to disclose details.", "John McClain, one of the two men named in Jackson's will to be executors of his estate, is also working on the album with Jackie Jackson, Bates said.", "McClain owns a recording studio in Hollywood.", "Jackson was known to rent out Los Angeles recording studios for weeks at a time for creative sessions, sometimes alone and sometimes with other well-known artists.", "A producer told CNN that he was surprised to find a large cache of forgotten Michael Jackson music files stored on a hard drive at a Hollywood studio in the months after Jackson's June 25, 2009, death.", "When he turned the recording device on to start a session, he heard Jackson singing \"Hot Fun in the Summertime.\"", "The 1969 hit by Sly & the Family Stone is part of an extensive music catalogue that Jackson bought.", "The producer said he made a backup copy of the 40 gigabytes of Jackson music and turned it over to one of the Jackson estate administrators.", "He asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.", "Another computer hard drive with music was found in Jackson's rented mansion in the days after his death, Bates said.", "A Jackson family member later handed the hard drive over to the estate administrators, he said.", "It was not clear if any of that music will be included in the upcoming project, but Sony's Columbia Records has a contract with Jackson's estate for 10 albums of unreleased material over the next seven years." ]	[ "Dozens of Jackson songs were found on hard drives after his death .", "Jackie Jackson has been helping with his brother's next album .", "Songs that didn't make it onto early albums may be on the next one ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- My job as an imam and outreach director for the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located minutes from the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, was created September 11, 2001, to convey a more accurate image of the American Muslim community and to create opportunities for interfaith cooperation and understanding distinct from the stereotypical image of Muslims as intolerant and violent religious anti-American extremists.", "On the morning of the 9/11 attack, while I was calling my patients from the waiting room at Howard University Hospital, I saw the plumes of smoke in the distance coming from the Pentagon, and on the TV monitor watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center being destroyed.", "I had been volunteering as the Muslim chaplain and imam at Howard University at that time, and the media began calling me for interviews.", "By 2002, the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center asked me to be their first outreach director.", "I left my work as a biomedical researcher, working on my doctorate studying sickle cell disease, and took up this work.", "Much like the tradition of the black church, I believe I was \"called\" to this ministry to bring people back together, to try to heal a lot of the pain, fear and anger that persisted.", "The work I do in the greater Washington area is similar to what Daisy Khan and Imam Faisul [Feisal Abdul Rauf] want to do with the Cordoba Initiative at Park51, which is being referred to as the \"Ground Zero mosque.\"", "I know how important this work is, since I do it every day, reaching out to Christian, Jewish and other faith groups as well as colleges, universities, government and the media in order to find common ground and understanding.", "In March of this year, a group protested my leading an opening prayer for the Virginia General Assembly.", "I called the delegate who was responsible for the official invitation -- Adam Ebbin, who is white, Jewish, male and gay.", "He said he looked at the work I had been doing for almost a decade, and said \"I will stand by you.\"", "That was a teachable moment.", "Later, members of the House of Delegates said this was one of the most impressive prayers they had heard, and that they were convinced they were hearing from the type of Muslim that we need in America.", "The struggle for equal access, for the right to build mosques in America -- not just in lower Manhattan -- is reminiscent of the pain and struggle of black Americans for churches, housing, employment and, actually, public acceptance.", "By the letter of the law, blacks had the right to live or work anywhere, but they were often segregated to certain areas and specific jobs.", "Similarly, American Muslims have the right to worship anywhere, but some Americans say we're not ready yet for mosques being built in certain areas.", "Some years ago I preached in the Holy Land to 70,000 Palestinians at the \"Jerusalem Festival.\"", "I wondered why they invited me.", "As I saw their communities and felt a reminiscent pain of being a second-class citizen in my country, then I knew why God made me a black American at this time: to share my hope and faith.", "I told them the Quran teaches,\"O you who believe!", "Stand out firmly as a witness before God; and let not the enmity and hatred by others allow you to depart from justice.", "Be just: that is closer to piety; and fear Allah.", "Indeed, Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do.\"", "[Al Maaidah 5: 8] .", "I realized then that as an heir through the civil rights and black power movements, and now as a Muslim, I am building a bridge from one faith tradition and civil rights movement to another faith and new civil rights movement -- from the fight for civil rights for black Americans, to the fight to secure the right for American Muslims to overcome and live beyond the \"terrorist\" stigma in a post-9/11 world, to make a better America for everybody.", "The spiritual says, \"I come too far from where I started from, nobody told me the road would be easy.\"", "Establishing Park51 is another step on the road to equality for all people.", "It must succeed for all of us.", "These Muslims who respect America want to continue to pray, live and work in their community in lower Manhattan.", "While honoring our fallen citizens, we must continue to uphold the banner of freedom -- not guilt by association.", "Although I thrive off the passion of Malcolm X, I engage in struggle with the compassion of Dr. King.", "\"We shall overcome\" once again.", "America eventually gets it right.", "That America will once again choose the road toward freedom, justice and equality for all people, and that is the America that I believe in.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Imam Johari Abdul-Malik." ]	[ "Imam Johari Abdul-Malik is director of outreach for a Washington Islamic Center .", "He compares moderate Muslims' struggles to the civil rights movement .", "U.S. Muslims have the right to live without the \"terrorist\" stigma, he says ." ]	[ 0, 32, 34 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- On the 47th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on Saturday, the first sight on the National Mall for thousands of marchers was a four-story art installation that displayed four images and quotations of Martin Luther King Jr..", "The participants in Glenn Beck's \"Restoring Honor\" rally paused as they walked toward the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial.", "Some stopped to have pictures taken with King as the backdrop.", "As recordings of King's booming baritone filled the air, some of the Beck followers laughed and others booed.", "Some looked for someone to argue their case that King's dream was passé, no more relevant to today's politics than the race to the moon.", "Michael Murphy, an artist from Georgia, created a four-story structure that celebrates King to honor King's spirit and to counter the rallies by Beck and the Rev.", "Al Sharpton.", "Four images, each with passages from King's speeches, can be viewed from different perspectives.", "Rev. Jim Wallis, speaking at a celebration of King's life near the temporary art installation, acknowledged the \"angry discussions about the legacy of this man.\"", "A Beck marcher ran up to someone admiring the art and called out: \"We'll be free again -- in November.\"", "America's political atmosphere at the time of the Beck and Sharpton rallies sometimes seems more toxic than the politics of 1963.", "Beck has likened the policies of President Obama's administration to those of Adolf Hitler and calls him a communist.", "Some in the Tea Party movement have questioned Obama's patriotism and insinuated that he is an al Qaeda sympathizer.", "In fact, the political climate surrounding King's 1963 march was tougher.", "But King and the civil rights movement provided a moral vision that made it possible for the U.S. to find a way out of those ugly times.", "The summer of 1963 produced as much conflict as almost any other year in American history.", "After King's Birmingham, Alabama, campaign, more than 2,000 demonstrations broke out across the nation.", "More than 50,000 people were jailed.", "Many protests got violent.", "NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi.", "Protesters in Danville, Virginia, got pummeled within an inch of their lives, then subjected to persecution.", "The governor of Maryland declared martial law in Cambridge.", "That summer, the civil rights campaigners moved north.", "Protests in New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago and San Francisco took a dramatic turn toward incivility.", "Frustrated by years of inattention, renters in Philly dumped mountains of garbage in front of slumlords' suburban homes.", "Malcolm X sneered at Jews.", "\"You haven't got no time to cry no tears for no Jews,\" he called out at the Harlem Unity Rally.", "\"Why, they only killed 6 million Jews.\"", "Meanwhile, segregationists were pushing constitutional amendments to overturn the principle of \"one man, one vote,\" to give state judges power over the Supreme Court and to give states the power to amend the Constitution without any federal involvement.", "George Wallace and Ross Barnett led an effort to throw the 1964 presidential election into the House so that Dixie could determine the next president.", "Radical groups of all stripes wanted to use the March to make history.", "The Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan vowed to round up 10,000 or more white supremacists with the hope of inciting a conflict that would doom the civil rights cause.", "Segregationists in Congress even expressed hope that violence would ruin the march and the civil rights movement.", "Leftists, meanwhile, threatened to occupy the offices of segregationists on Capitol Hill and vent their anger at the White House and Justice Department.", "The Black Muslims denounced \"the Farce on Washington,\" and Malcolm X came to razz the marchers.", "And on the edges of the movement, Communists tried to work their way into the march.", "But amid what Garry Wills called America's second Civil War, the civil rights movement embraced the idea that the best way to gain rights was to appeal to everyone's hearts and meet \"physical force with soul force,\" as King put it.", "King himself did not always understand the imperative of love or nonviolence.", "As a young man, he later acknowledged, he hated whites.", "And he did not understand nonviolence right away either.", "In the early days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he hired men to guard his house with guns.", "By the time of the March, King understood that America could be changed only by winning over the other side.", "King understood that fighting violence with violence created only more violence.", "He knew that, whatever happened, blacks and whites needed to live together.", "One marcher who \"won\" a train ticket to the March on Washington for his courageous conduct in demonstrations, later remembered the time racist thugs threw beer mugs at marchers in Charleston.", "His first reaction, Harvey Jones told me, was to stiffen up to be ready for a fight.", "King planted himself in front of Jones.", "\"If you don't think you can respond nonviolently, maybe you should leave the march,\" King said.", "He calmed down. King's cause was moral, universal.", "He sought nothing for his people that other people did not enjoy.", "He wanted access to lunch counters and bus stations, the right to vote, equal access to schools, protection against mobs, fair police treatment.", "And King was willing -- and insisted that his followers be willing -- to suffer for the cause.", "Everyone remembers King's speech at the March for four words: \"I have a dream.\"", "And, in fact, those words were transcendent.", "They conjured up images of a better world.", "Those words connected the ordinary struggles of the movement -- brutally hard work rewarded with beatings and jail -- with the glorious possibilities of equality.", "But even more important were four other words: \"Unearned suffering is redemptive.\"", "King warned that even the most innocent and decent people would continue to suffer.", "Oppressors never yield power willingly.", "They fight back viciously.", "So buck up. Move ahead, first into the swinging batons and electric cattle prods and water cannons.", "Because there is no other way. King could issue that challenge.", "He could be that blunt and honest because of the universal values he espoused.", "They were not fighting for an earmark or a tax cut, loopholes from an EPA regulations, a Department of Education grant or a Fannie Mae subsidy.", "They were fighting for their lives.", "It all seems so clear now, but it wasn't back in 1963, not for most people anyway.", "But the existence of this massive movement, with hundreds of thousands of ordinary people willing to put their bodies on the line with nonviolence and even love, created real light in what could have been the darkest of times.", "Who's our King? Who is drawing on the power of soul force?", "Who is appealing to his bitterest enemies?", "Who today is pointing to a new age of cooperation and brotherhood?", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles Euchner." ]	[ "People arriving for the Glenn Beck rally were greeted by a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.\nCharles Euchner says King's message is still relevant today .", "He says King had to confront a much more rancorous political climate than today's .", "King overcame oppression through nonviolence, he says; where is today's King?" ]	[ 4, 5, 13, 17, 39, 48, 69 ]
[ "Watsonville, California (CNN) -- Sitting at the kitchen table in his small house, Steven Butler has trouble even with a very simple question.", "He cannot tell you the day of the week or the month, and he has to have the help of a calendar to tell you the year.", "\"Once a moment is gone, it's gone,\" said his brother and caregiver, David Butler says in an interview to air on tonight's \"Campbell Brown\".", "\"He can't remember any good times, birthday parties, Christmas, any event.\"", "On October 7, 2006, Steven Butler, by his own admission, was drunk and disorderly.", "He refused an order from a police officer in his hometown to get off a city bus.", "The officer used his Taser ECD (officially, an \"Electronic Control Device\") three times.", "According to doctors, Butler suffered immediate cardiac arrest.", "He was revived by emergency medical technicians who happened to be close by, but his attorneys say his brain was deprived of oxygen for as long as 18 minutes.", "He is now permanently disabled.", "Butler and his family have filed a lawsuit -- not against the police, but against the maker of the weapon, Taser International.", "John Burton, a lawyer based in Pasadena, California, says he can prove that when the weapons are fired directly over the chest, they can cause and have caused cardiac arrest.", "In addition, Burton says he can prove Taser knew about that danger.", "\"Well, we can prove that by early 2006,\" said Burton, \"but we suspect they had all the necessary data since 2005, since they were funding the study.\"", "The study Burton mentions was published in early 2006 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.", "Funded by Taser, it focused on pigs struck by Tasers, with the conclusions, according to the study, \"generalized to humans.\"", "The authors wrote that being hit by a Taser is unlikely to cause cardiac arrest, but nevertheless recommended Taser darts not be fired near the heart to \"greatly reduce any concern for induction of ventricular arrhythmias.\"", "Dr. Douglas Zipes, a cardiologist based outside Indianapolis, Indiana, plans to testify against Taser in any lawsuit regarding what happened to Butler.", "In plain English, he says, that recommendation is a clear warning.", "\"I think Taser has been disingenuous and certainly up to 2006 -- the case we are talking about -- Taser said in their educational materials that there was no cardiac risk whatsoever,\" Zipes said.", "\"That Taser could not produce a heart problem, that there was no long lasting effect from Taser.\"", "Medical experts say that if a person is hit by a Taser dart near the chest, one result is a dramatic increase in the subject's heartbeat -- from a resting 72 beats a minute to as many as 220 beats a minute for a short period of time.", "In its court filings, the company says the \"peak-loaded\" voltage from a Taser at impact ranges up to 40,000 volts but it's a 600-volt average for the duration of the firing.", "In an e-mail, a spokesman for Taser said the company would not comment on any ongoing litigation.", "But in a court filing seeking to dismiss the Butler lawsuit, it said Taser devices \"are repeatedly proven safe through testing, in human volunteers, in controlled, medically approved studies.\"", "There's no evidence, the company says, that being hit with a Taser causes cardiac arrest in humans.", "But the company has significantly changed its recommendations for how Tasers should be used.", "Officers, it said, should no longer aim for the chest when using the device, instead targeting the arms, legs, buttocks.", "Why the change? A company document said \"the answer has less to do with safety and more to do with effective risk management for law enforcement agencies.\"", "In other words, say lawyers who have sued Taser, it means police are less likely to be sued if they avoid hitting subjects in the chest.", "In court papers, Taser says the risk of cardiac arrest is \"extremely rare and would be rounded to near zero,\" but it adds: \"However, law enforcement is left defending a lawsuit and disproving a negative, which is difficult to do.\"", "\"Out of one side of their mouth, they publish this warning, saying, 'Don't hit people in the chest if you can avoid it,'\" said Dana Scruggs, an attorney representing Steven Butler.", "\"And on the other side, in the lawsuit and in their public statements, they deny that their device can affect the human heart.\"", "Nearly every big-city police department in the United States uses a Taser device.", "According to the company, more than 14,000 law enforcement agencies worldwide employ Tasers and more than 1.8 million people have had the weapon used on them since it was introduced into general law enforcement use in the 1990s.", "The human rights organization Amnesty International estimates more than 400 people have died as a result of Taser strikes.", "Officially, it's not a gun.", "As an electronic control device, Tasers are not classified as a firearm.", "The devices are regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.", "\"There's one thing that's undeniable -- that if I use my firearm, the chances are that you will suffer extreme injuries or death,\" said George Gascon, the newly installed police chief in San Francisco, California.", "\"The chances are much greater of reducing injuries with a Taser.\"", "San Francisco is one of three big-city police departments in the United States that don't use Tasers (The others are Detroit, Michigan, and Memphis, Tennessee).", "Gascon wants to change that.", "He supports use of the device but says to call it \"nonlethal\" is inaccurate.", "\"We have referred to the Tasers for many years as a less-lethal weapon,\" he said.", "\"In the San Francisco experience, which we have to concentrate on, I have not said once that this is a nonlethal device because I believe it can be a contributing factor in causing death.\"", "Taser International is growing.", "Its latest earnings report says the firm made more than $100 million in profits last year by selling Tasers to both law enforcement and to individual consumers.", "And the company says even more police and sheriff's departments are lining up to purchase the weapon every day.", "The company argues in Steven Butler's case that simply being in a stressful situation with police can bring on heart problems, and there's no link between being being hit with a Taser and the cardiac arrest.", "For Steven Butler, greeting the mailman now is a highlight of his day.", "He doesn't dispute that he was drunk and disorderly when the officer tried to get him off the bus, but he and his family blame Taser for what happened to him.", "He says he's not frustrated or angry, just resigned to spending the rest of his life trying to remember what happened.", "After CNN first reported this story, Taser International, which had previously declined all comment, sent us what it called a \"fact sheet\" about the Steven Butler case.", "The company said the 2006 Taser study CNN quoted produced no cardiac arrests in animals.", "While the company says cardiac arrests in people are rare, Taser insists it does not claim a \"zero\" possibility of cardiac arrest.", "Taser also claimed Steven Butler had a pre-existing heart condition and that his blood alcohol level made him vulnerable to cardiac arrest.", "Butler's medical and legal teams told CNN he had no documented heart problems., and alcohol levels played no role in his cardiac arrest." ]	[ "Man claims Taser brought on cardiac arrest that starved his brain of oxygen .", "Lawyers say Taser-funded research shows heart risk from Taser strikes .", "Taser International insists no link between Taser and cardiac arrest .", "More on the dangers tasers may pose on tonight's \"Campbell Brown\", CNN 8pm ET ." ]	[ 2, 15, 20, 35, 49, 57 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The son of a Florida couple known for adopting special-needs children was in his parents' room when they were slain in a home invasion last month, according to documents released by prosecutors.", "Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., 35, is one of seven people charged with murder.", "A nurse who works with special-needs children interviewed the boy, who has autism and speech issues, regarding the deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings.", "The nurse told police that the child said \"two bad men\" were wearing black masks when they knocked on the door.", "They woke Byrd Billings and said, \"You're going to die.\"", "The child, whose age was not given, said one of the men counted to three \"before he shot mom and dad,\" and his father kept screaming, \"No way, no way.\"", "Byrd Billings grabbed the back of one man's neck and struggled with him before he was shot, the child said.", "The boy said Melanie Billings \"got shot in her shirt.\"", "Another child told the same nurse he was upstairs in bed and stayed in his room when he heard the knock on the door.", "The second boy recalled hearing \"seven booms\" and crept into the hallway.", "He heard Melanie Billings scream, he said, but stayed upstairs until police arrived.", "It was unclear from the interviews whether the men knocked on the bedroom door or the front door of the home.", "The Billingses were shot and killed July 9 in their Beulah, Florida, home.", "Seven males are charged with first-degree murder and home invasion robbery.", "An eighth suspect, a woman, faces a charge of being an accessory after the fact.", "The seven males, including a 16-year-old charged as an adult, pleaded not guilty to the charges last week.", "The children's accounts were contained in hundreds of pages of documents released this week by the state attorney's office as part of the pretrial discovery process.", "Also in the documents is a police interview with Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., 35, one of the seven suspects and the man police believe was the organizer of the slayings.", "Two of the other suspects told authorities he was the lone gunman, according to court documents.", "Gonzalez told authorities in a July 22 interview that a group of car dealers did not like Byrd Billings and had gotten together to discuss the problem.", "Used car dealer Henry \"Cab\" Tice came to him, Gonzalez said, and told him the group wanted Billings killed, but he refused to do it.", "Another son of Billings told police that a man named \"Cab\" had \"double-crossed\" his father and that the son was present when the two men argued.", "Tice has been questioned but not charged in the slayings.", "He is charged, however, with one count of grand theft for allegedly writing a series of bad checks to Billings, authorities have said.", "Various interviews in the documents point to a close relationship between Tice and Gonzalez.", "Also released by prosecutors was a transcript of a police interview with Tice in which he acknowledged accepting a $20,000 loan from a man he later learned was connected with the Mexican Mafia.", "Tice said he was told his family could be killed if the money was not repaid.", "Police had previously said Tice was believed to owe the Mexican Mafia money.", "Contacted by CNN Tuesday, Tice refused comment.", "But in an interview Monday with CNN affiliate WEAR, Tice said Gonzalez's comments about him constitute an \"act of a desperate man.\"", "\"There is nobody that I know in Pensacola that would want to see Bud Billings killed,\" Tice told WEAR, using Billings' nickname.", "\"There are business people in Pensacola that are upset with him, that were upset with him, but nobody that I know would want to see Bud Billings killed.\"", "The Billingses each had two biological children and had adopted 13 children.", "Police have said nine of the children were home during the slayings and several were believed to have seen the gunmen.", "One child managed to flee the home and seek help from a neighbor.", "Autopsy reports also were released.", "They showed that the Billingses were shot multiple times.", "Byrd Billings also had a white zip tie on his left arm, according to the report.", "The eighth suspect in the case, Pamela Wiggins, was taken back into custody Monday after her bond was raised from $10,000 to $500,000.", "Authorities said they found a safe belonging to the Billingses in Wiggins' backyard.", "That safe contained prescription medications, family documents and jewelry and was taken from the home during the slayings.", "Family members have since confirmed that a second safe was in the home and that it contained $164,000, antique jewelry and legal documents.", "The second safe was not taken.", "The released documents also said that safe contained a sealed hard drive, a detail not previously revealed.", "The Billings family agreed to allow authorities access to that hard drive, according to the documents.", "Prosecutors believe there were dual motives in the killings: robbery and a contracted hit, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN last month.", "The source said prosecutors were working under the belief that most of the suspects in the case were told only that they were robbing the Billingses, but that Gonzalez and other yet-unnamed suspects also were plotting to kill the couple.", "The source was not sure of the alleged motive behind the slayings.", "Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan has said publicly his office believes a contract hit was a possibility.", "The state attorney's office said last month it was focusing on the robbery, but was willing to consider other motives.", "CNN's Ross Levitt and Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report." ]	[ "Child says man counted to three \"before he shot mom and dad\"\nByrd Billings grabbed man's neck, struggled before he was shot, boy says .", "The boy said Melanie Billings \"got shot in her shirt\"\nSeven males are charged with first-degree murder and home invasion robbery ." ]	[ 6, 7, 13 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The death toll climbed to 50 on Friday after a pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosive vests at one of Pakistan's holiest shrines, police said.", "More than 200 people were injured in the blasts outside the Data Darbar, a famous Sufi shrine complex.", "Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervez said the remains of the bombers -- a man in his 20s and another in his late teens -- have been recovered.", "One of the bombs detonated in the shrine's courtyard; the other in the shrine's lower lever, according to Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed, Lahore's senior police superintendent.", "The first explosion, which occurred at 10:48 p.m. Thursday, was followed five minutes later by a second blast, Geo TV reported.", "The CNN affiliate aired surveillance footage showing the first attacker entering through a gate holding a bag.", "As he passed through a metal detector, alarms went off and the man ran toward an area used for ablutions and blew himself up.", "Geo TV showed a second attacker entering amid the confusion a few minutes later and running upstairs carrying a bag.", "Then the video showed the explosion.", "Geo TV reported that the heads of two bombers were recovered and identified.", "The bombers arrived at the shrine on foot wearing 10 kilogram (22 pound) jackets that had been packed with ball bearings, it said.", "A witness told Geo TV that one of the bombers was wearing the traditional loose-fitting salwar kameez, a turban and slippers.", "\"This sickening poison of extremism will be driven out of our nation and we will not be cowed,\" said Farahnaz Ispahani, a spokeswoman for President Asif Ali Zardari, in a text message to CNN.", "\"Peaceful worshippers have once again been targeted by those who want to destroy the fabric of this great country.", "We will not forgive or forget and we will get justice for all Pakistanis murdered in cold blood -- be they Muslim, Christian, Ahmadi or of any other faith.\"", "Pakistan's Punjab province, of which Lahore is the capital, has been the scene of carnage in recent weeks, including a bloody attack on a hospital and another targeting Ahmadis.", "On Friday, angry Pakistanis, some wielding guns for revenge, took to the streets of Lahore in protest.", "Growing weary of bloodshed in their homeland, many are troubled by its spread from the Afghan border areas to the heartland.", "They are also concerned that Muslims are attacking Islamic holy sites.", "Sunni and Shiites do not consider the Ahmadis as a part of Islam because they do not regard Mohammed as the last prophet sent by God.", "As such, they have been targeted by Islamic extremists.", "Friday's attack was at a revered Sufi shrine.", "Sufism is an ancient, mystical form of Islam that is generally more tolerant.", "The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan expressed alarm over the attacks and called on both the government and Muslim clerics to stand up to extremism.", "\"It is a matter of grave concern that despite repeated official claims of breaking the back of terrorists, they retain the ability to launch vicious terrorist attacks across the country almost at will,\" the commission said in a statement Friday.", "\"The assault demonstrates the potency of militant groups that the government incessantly repeats operate from sanctuaries in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan,\" the statement said.", "\"Equally frustrating have been clerics' stock statement that no Muslim can commit such atrocities.", "Instead of living in denial, the clerics need to reflect on the reasons for religious extremism in Pakistan and the possible consequences and their own contribution to the promotion of intolerance and the cult of violence.\"", "CNN's Nasir Habib, Nic Robertson, Nazneen Akbari, Thomas Evans, Katy Byron and Journalist Fayyaz Addrees contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Two bombs explode at revered Sufi shrine .", "NEW: Violence has spread to Punjab, Pakistan's heartland .", "NEW: Human rights panel calls on government and clerics to stand up to militants .", "Shrine attack kills 50, wounds more than 200 ." ]	[ 21, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- RadarOnline on Wednesday released another audio recording of an explosive argument purportedly between actor Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, in which the man can be heard threatening to burn their house down.", "It's the fourth such recording released since Friday by the website, which has not disclosed how it obtained the audio.", "The recordings are taken from a phone call and capture an obscenity-laced rant by the man as he spews racial and ethnic slurs, sexual insults and death threats.", "The site claims the male voice is that of the 54-year-old Gibson.", "CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the recordings.", "In the recording released Wednesday, the man berates the woman for apparently falling asleep before having sex with him the prior evening.", "\"I'll burn the g...... house up.", "... How dare you?\" the man says as he demands the woman perform a sexual act.", "In Tuesday's recording, the man uses an ethnic slur for illegal immigrants when arguing with the woman over a Latino worker employed by the couple.", "On Monday, the website released a recording in which the man threatens the woman's life, saying \"I'll put you in the f......ing rose garden.\"", "And in a recording released Friday, the man launches into a racist, sexist rant against the woman, telling her she looks \"like a f...ing b.... on heat and if you get raped by a pack of n...ers it will be your fault.\"", "It's unclear when the recordings were captured.", "Grigorieva, 40, has acknowledged that the female voice on the recordings is hers and that the other voice is Gibson's.", "CNN's efforts to obtain comment from Gibson have been unsuccessful.", "Mel Gibson's publicist, Alan Nierob, said Wednesday that the filmmaker continues to have no comment regarding the recordings.", "The couple have been locked in a custody dispute over their daughter.", "Last week, the Malibu Hills Police Department opened an investigation into an alleged domestic violence dispute between Gibson and Grigorieva.", "Grigorieva filed a restraining order against Gibson alleging that he struck her in the face, according to her spokesman, Stephen Jaffe.", "The estranged couple are scheduled to appear in court July 20 for a status hearing on the restraining order.", "Grigorieva has also spoken with sheriff's deputies and has provided a statement to them in their domestic violence investigation, Jaffe told CNN Friday.", "The recordings \"will be part of the investigation,\" Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said on Monday.", "It is not known how RadarOnline obtained the recordings.", "Jaffe said Friday that the site did not receive them from Grigorieva.", "Meanwhile, some show business personalities appeared to distance themselves from Gibson.", "Longtime friend and former \"Maverick\" co-star Jodie Foster and Danny Glover, Gibson's co-star in the popular \"Lethal Weapon\" film series, declined to comment on the allegations, according to the Los Angeles Times.", "On Friday, the William Morris Endeavor talent agency confirmed to CNN that Gibson is no longer their client.", "An attorney for Gibson's ex-wife, Robyn, told CNN Tuesday that she also would not be commenting on the recordings.", "But at least one Hollywood star was defending the embattled actor.", "\"I don't like what he did here, but I know Mel and I know he's not a racist,\" TV host Whoopi Goldberg said on ABC's \"The View\" Tuesday.", "\"You can say he's being a bonehead but I can't sit and say that he's a racist, having spent time with him in my house with my kids.", "I can't say it.\" Gibson came under fire in 2006 when he admitted to making anti-Semitic remarks during a drunken driving arrest.", "He issued an apology at the time, and appealed to the Jewish community to help him recover from his alcohol addiction." ]	[ "The website says the male voice is that of Mel Gibson .", "The man threatens to burn his house down .", "It is the fourth such recording released since Friday .", "Police are investigating domestic violence allegations against Gibson ." ]	[ 1, 3, 6 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- \"An agonizing experience,\" wrote Roger Ebert.", "\"Colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010,\" said Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel.", "Merciless reviews are rolling in for M. Knight Shyamalan's latest work \"The Last Airbender,\" and if critical reaction to the film is any indication, the casting controversy that had some \"Airbender\" fans boycotting the film may be an afterthought.", "See Techland.com's interview with M. Knight Shyamalan.", "\"It wasn't what I expected,\" 22-year-old Jake Sims said on his way out from a midnight showing in Atlanta, Georgia.", "\"I'm a fan of the series; I've watched it.", "This just didn't do justice to the characters.", "It wasn't nearly as good as the series, but OK if you've never heard of 'Avatar' -- this 'Avatar,' I mean.\"", "\"Avatar: The Last Airbender\" was an animated television series that ran for three seasons starting in 2005 on the cable network Nickelodeon.", "The series takes place in a world of magic and mysticism where humans are separated into four racially distinct nations, each identified by their dominance of a natural element.", "A select few from each nation are known as \"benders,\" or people who have the ability to manipulate their nation's element.", "A legendary leader in this world is the Avatar, a reincarnated being who is the master of all elements.", "The show follows Aang, a potential avatar who is found to be the last Airbender on earth after his people, the Air Nomads, are wiped out by the Fire Nation.", "Aang is on a journey to master all of the elements and bring peace to the world.", "The show appealed to fans from a broad range of ages and interests, showcasing martial arts, action, mysticism and comedy.", "The show also dealt with themes like redemption, internal struggle, honor and friendship.", "Like many beloved entertainment franchises, fans are dedicated to \"Avatar.\"", "Although the animated series has ended, the \"Avatar\" world is thriving.", "With the close of the TV series, fans began writing \"Avatar\" fan-fiction with alternate storylines and created role-playing discussion boards online.", "Some fans of the show said they boycotted the movie because the three lead actors are Caucasian.", "Blogs like \"Angry Asian Man\" and sites like Racebending.net attacked Shyamalan and the film's parent company, Paramount, for white-washing a franchise that was overtly Asian in appearance and sensitivity.", "\"We tried to be as careful as we could not to directly base anyone's culture on a [real world] culture because we wanted to borrow ideas,\" said head \"Avatar\" series writer Aaron Ehasz.", "\"The series is clearly Asian inspired with obvious Chinese influences.", "In the case of the water benders, they are definitely based [on] ... indigenous cultures, a la Inuits, but also indigenous people like those portrayed in the movie \"The Whale Rider.\"", "In fact, to be culturally sensitive in the production of the animated series, Ehasz said the team had a consultant, whose \"job was to read the scripts and essentially make sure they were culturally sensitive.\"", "In an interview with Indiemoviesonline.com Shyamalan hit back at critics, pointing a \"race-bending\" finger at them.", "\"I'm always surprised at the level of misunderstanding, the sensitivities that exist,\" he said.", "\"As an Asian-American, it bothers me when people take all of their passion and rightful indignation about the subject and then misplace it.\"", "While Ehasz was responsible for crafting the characters millions watched, he was left out of the creative process of the film.", "\"I made up the middle of this movie and the ending of this movie, and I have zero credit on this movie,\" he said.", "Longtime fans like Robbie Park say that lack of involvement was a big mistake.", "\"That guy should have been with them; the movie team.", "There were plenty of parts of the movie where there were holes,\" he said.", "While some fans said they enjoyed the big effects -- like the element bending and martial arts -- some fans missed the characters that kept them watching the show.", "\"Aang was funny and serious and Katara was weak but strong,\" said 26-year-old Nicole Martin.", "\"None of that came through like it did on TV.\"", "Dr. Caroline Ruddell, a professor of animation and cinema at St. Mary's University College, said that TV-show fan reaction to the movie will likely be an issue for its box office success.", "\"When things like anime or animation are exhibited or remade into live action, it's always going to be very difficult.", "So many of the live action versions of comic books have been panned because their fans are very hard to please,\" she said.", "Regardless of his involvement in the film, Ehasz said he hopes \"the characters I built come through in this movie, regardless of casting.\"", "\"I hope this is a huge artistic success.", "I hope that fans who watched the show get something out of it.", "I hope that this is a way that the show lives on and comes stronger,\" he said.", "Eugene Rivers, special to CNN, contributed to this report." ]	[ "\"The Last Airbender\" movie is adaptation of animated TV series .", "Some fans of show boycotted movie because three lead actors are Caucasian .", "Movie is being panned by many critics ." ]	[ 17, 19, 38 ]
[ "(Sunset) -- Check out these 10 scenic spots to swim, float and soak in the sun at the West's amazing national parks.", "Best for adventure: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona .", "Okay, here's the catch.", "There's just one way to reach most Colorado River beaches in the canyon -- and that's by rafting down the river.", "Only then do you experience secluded beaches like Football and Owl Eye.", "Many people, of course, consider the 3- to 18-day trips one of the high points of their lives.", "As for the beach experience, the water isn't warm -- figure anywhere from 48° to 60° -- but given that Grand Canyon summer temps can rise to above 100°, it feels, says veteran outfitter Steve Hatch, \"just great.\"", "Don't miss: Well, the river rafting.", "Trips are often booked up far in advance, but in this recessionary year, you should be able to slip into one now through the end of the season in midfall.", "Get there: All-inclusive river trips from $1,100 for four days; nps.gov/grca for a list of park-approved outfitters.", "--Peter Fish .", "Sunset's guide to the Grand Canyon .", "Best lazy float: Yosemite National Park, California .", "With El Capitan and Half Dome towering above, the Merced River beaches in Yosemite Valley sometimes get forgotten.", "Which is a mistake, especially in summer, when valley temps sizzle and the river water is blissfully cool.", "The two main beaches, Cathedral and Sentinel, are great for splashing or bobbing around in an inner tube.", "Don't miss: Taking on the Merced by raft.", "Rent a four- to six-person raft at Curry Village Recreation Center, and float 3 miles to Sentinel Beach; the $26 fee includes shuttle service back to your start.", "Get there: In summer, take the El Capitan Shuttle to stop E4 and walk 1/4 mile to Cathedral Beach, or get off at E5, 1/2 mile from Sentinel Beach; $20 per vehicle; nps.gov/yose or 209/372-8319 (raft rental).", "Sunset: 36 fun fall escapes .", "Best beachcombing: Olympic National Park, Washington .", "The easy 3-mile (one-way) hike to Shi Shi Beach, near Neah Bay, is best made at low tide, when you encounter some of the best tidepools on Earth.", "Against the backdrop of towering sea stacks, Pacific waves, and the occasional kayaker, peer down at neon pink and chartreuse sea anemones and bright orange seastars.", "Don't miss: Point of the Arches, a mind-bending array of sea stacks 1.3 miles down the beach.", "Get there: Neah Bay, about 160 miles northwest of Seattle, is on the Makah Indian Reservation; ask for a map when you buy your Makah Recreation Pass ($10); nps.gov/olym or 360/645-2711 (reservation info).", "--Matt Villano .", "Best desert oasis: Glen Canyon National Rec Area, Utah/Arizona .", "A blue mirage set in red rocks, Lake Powell -- which forms the watery heart of Glen Canyon National Rec Area -- has nearly 2,000 miles of shoreline, which means a lot of Lake Powell beaches to choose from.", "A few, like Lone Rock Beach, can be reached by car.", "But some of the best are nameless coves accessed only by boat.", "Good thing you can rent powerboats at three lake marinas: Antelope, Bullfrog, and Wahweap.", "(Houseboats are also popular, but you can't navigate into narrow coves as well.)", "Don't miss: A cruise to the lake's south shore and Rainbow Bridge National Monument, home to the world's largest known natural rock bridge.", "Get there: $15 per vehicle; nps.gov/glca or lakepowell.com (boat rental).", "Sunset: 10 great dog-friendly getaways .", "Best for surf and sun: Santa Monica Mountains National Rec Area, California .", "Malibu-ites know to skip the Zuma tourist zoo and come to El Matador.", "Officially one of three beaches that make up Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach -- likely to provoke a \"Huh?\"", "even from locals -- it's a gem tucked from sight at the foot of sandstone cliffs (and accessed by a dirt trail and stairway).", "Out in the waves, bodyboarders and surfers perform aerial acrobatics.", "On shore, scenically carved sea caves make El Matador a favorite with photographers, often seen snapping away at leggy models.", "Don't miss: The chance to take a photo of one of Southern California's best sunsets.", "Get there: 10 miles up the coast from Malibu on Pacific Coast Hwy.", "between Broad Beach and Decker Canyon Roads; $8 per vehicle; parks.ca.gov or 805/370-2301.", "--Ken McAlpine .", "Best for solitude (even on weekends): Point Reyes National Seashore, California .", "Most visitors to Point Reyes don't know about Limantour Beach.", "They zip out along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard to crashing North Beach or to Drakes Beach, where there's a proper visitor center and cafe.", "Few think to turn off instead at Limantour Road, which dead-ends in deserted grassy dunes.", "All the better for you. Climb up and over, and you'll see a narrow finger of sand stretching 2 miles north between Drakes Bay and a mighty estuary teeming with birds.", "Out at the tip, harbor seals loll and bark.", "On the rare sunny summer day, the water is calm and swimmable.", "Don't miss: A walk with your pooch, welcome on-leash at the section south of the parking lot.", "Get there: From the Bear Valley Visitor Center, head north about 1/4 mile to Bear Valley Rd., turn left and follow it 1 1/4 miles to Limantour Rd., then turn left again and go 7 1/2 miles to the parking lot at Limantour Beach; nps.gov/pore or 415/464-5100.", "--Lisa Trottier .", "Sunset: 10 places for your life list .", "Best for thinking really, really big: Redwood National Park, California .", "To step from a redwood forest onto the wide-to-the-sky spread of Gold Bluffs Beach is an unforgettable memory.", "Equally memorable are the Roosevelt elk grazing in the meadows, then making their regal, antlered way through the sand.", "The world's tallest trees, America's largest elk -- sometimes size does matter.", "Officially in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, the beach is cooperatively managed by California State Parks and the surrounding Redwood National Park.", "Don't miss: The oasis of Fern Canyon, back from the beach, where sinuous walls, blanketed by moist green, press in on a cobbled stream.", "Get there: 50 miles north of Eureka and 40 miles south of Crescent City, take Davison Rd.", "off U.S. 101; $8 per vehicle; parks.ca.gov or 707/465-7335.", "Best ocean-view swimming hole: Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii .", "Hawaii's national parks feature volcanoes, not beaches.", "And yet Maui's Haleakala National Park includes a \"beach\" of a sort -- not sand but large, warm basaltic stones; not ocean but the refreshing roar of plunging freshwater cascades.", "Oheo Gulch (popularly misnamed Seven Sacred Pools) lies beyond Hana town in the verdant Kipahulu district.", "The lower pools, right off the roadside parking lot, are superb \"swimming holes,\" but they crowd up by midday; get there before 10.", "Don't miss: The moderate 2-mile trek on the Pipiwai Trail to 400-foot-sheer Waimoku Falls, the most beautiful in Hawaii.", "Get there: 10 miles southwest of Hana on State 31; $10 per vehicle; nps.gov/hale or 808/248-7375.", "--Paul Wood . Best for a city stroll: Golden Gate National Rec Area, California .", "Knockout views.", "Appealing mix of people.", "Good coffee.", "Crissy Field gives you everything you love about San Francisco in one scenic package.", "A historic Army airfield transformed into a native plant-lined beach oasis, Crissy draws jogging moms with strollers, kitesurfers, picnickers, dog walkers, cyclists, fishermen, and 8-year-olds letting the cool bay water lap their toes.", "All this and the Golden Gate Bridge looming gracefully, plus lattes, baked goods, and book browsing at the Warming Hut.", "Don't miss: Let's Be Frank's superior grass-fed beef hot dogs from the cart just outside the Warming Hut on weekends.", "Get there: From downtown S.F., take Marina Blvd.", "to Baker St., where it turns into Mason St., then follow it west (along Crissy Field) to parking; nps.gov/goga or 415/561-3040 (Warming Hut).", "Best escape from reality: Channel Islands National Park, California .", "It takes your catamaran roughly an hour to cross the Santa Barbara Channel from the Southern California mainland to Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island.", "And during that time, the world with all its worries falls away.", "The pretty cobbled beach is just a launching point: From here, you can snorkel in the diverse kelp forest just off the beach or paddle a kayak farther out, past the island's dark cliffs and sea caves.", "Don't miss: The short hike from the beach up Smugglers Road to the high bluff and the stand of cypress pines known as Delphine's Grove, where you'll fall under the spell of a sweeping ocean view and the sound of the wind in the boughs.", "Get there: Island Packers boats leave from Ventura Harbor ($48 round-trip; 805/642-1393); nps.gov/chis or 805/658-5730." ]	[ "The water along Yosemite's Merced River beaches is blissfully cool in summer .", "The tide pools in Washington's Olympic National Park are full of intriguing creatures .", "Crissy Field gives you everything you love about San Francisco in one scenic package ." ]	[ 2, 14, 20, 75 ]
[ "Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- President Mwai Kibaki proclaimed Thursday a \"happy end\" as an overwhelming majority of Kenyans voted to adopt a new constitution that is sure to bring big change to the East African country.", "\"The historic journey that we began over 20 years ago is now coming to a happy end,\" Kibaki said while addressing the nation.", "But he tempered national euphoria by reminding Kenyans that implementing a new constitution will be a difficult task.", "\"The journey ahead of national renewal will not be easy,\" he said.", "\"There will be challenges along the way.", "But it is important that we look forward with renewed optimism to better days ahead.\"", "U.S. President Barack Obama called the vote a \"step forward\" for Kenya and its people, in a statement released by the White House Thursday.", "He said the electoral process was \"credible\" and \"transparent,\" and that the results show Kenyans' desire for a stable and prosperous future.", "Obama's father grew up in a village in western Kenya.", "He also applauded the fact that the election came and went without the kind of violence that marred the 2007 presidential vote.", "Obama called the process a \"testament\" to Kenya's people.", "The country's new constitution would remove power from the presidency and create a more decentralized political system.", "The constitution would also bring in a bill of rights, allow dual citizenship for Kenyans -- sure to be popular with Kenya's large and loyal diaspora community -- and allow for land reform.", "Results by the Interim Independent Electoral Commission showed \"Yes\" won the referendum with 67.2 percent while \"No\" had 30.3 percent.", "\"I do declare that the proposed constitution is hereby ratified,\" said Ahmed Isaack Hassan, chairman of the electoral commission.", "Leading opponents of Kenya's proposed constitution conceded defeat earlier Thursday.", "Higher Education Minister William Ruto, a leader of the \"No\" team, said despite his camp's loss, every Kenyan \" is a winner\" in the outcome.", "\"It is necessary to create a win-win for the country,\" Ruto said flanked by senior members of the \"No\" camp.", "Despite the win by the \"Yes\" team, Ruto said, the government should address the complaints of those who rejected the referendum.", "\"It is not only necessary, it is mandatory,\" he said.", "Many Kenyans were already celebrating before they heard the official results.", "The Daily Standard newspaper couldn't wait for the announcement.", "\"Yes it is!\" rang the headline in the morning paper.", "\"Now it's time to reunite the country behind the outcome,\" the newspaper said in an editorial.", "Kenyans voted against the constitution by a significant majority in the restive Rift Valley, where \"No\" politicians and Christian church leaders focused their campaigning.", "Churches feared the new constitution would offer abortion on demand and give Muslims special rights.", "\"The results do not nullify our concerns,\" said a church statement Thursday.", "Others applauded the peaceful vote.", "After the last presidential election three years ago, political violence claimed several hundred lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.", "\"We very much welcome reports which indicate that Kenyans were able to vote in a free, fair and peaceful atmosphere,\" said a statement from the Panel of Eminent African Personalities.", "\"The high voter turnout nationally reflects the strong desire of Kenya's people to help shape their country's future.\"" ]	[ "NEW: \"Yes\" won 67.2% of the vote, while \"No\" took 30.3% .", "NEW: President Obama congratulates Kenyans on credible and peaceful vote .", "Constitution could bring major changes to East Africa's largest economy .", "President Mwai Kibaki says Kenya faces challenges ahead ." ]	[ 0, 13, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As delivery of aid to Haiti is hampered by damaged ports and an overwhelmed airport, another conduit into the earthquake-ravaged nation -- its border with the Dominican Republic -- has become a challenging crossing itself, a United Nations situation report says.", "The 200 miles from the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince has been backed up and can take as long as 18 hours to travel by vehicle, according to the report from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), released this weekend.", "A CNN crew reported taking 12 hours to drive from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, though the crew left before dawn, intending to avoid peak traffic.", "Vehicles crossing from the Dominican Republic into Haiti included large trucks carrying supplies and vans and public buses that seemed to be local, the crew reported.", "Some aid trucks were followed by sport utility vehicles, likely transporting international aid personnel.", "Traffic is heading the other way, too, the U.N. reported.", "\"Hospitals in the border region [in the Dominican Republic] are overwhelmed and have begun to refer patients to hospitals in other cities,\" OCHA reported, citing the Office of the Resident Coordinator in the Dominican Republic.", "\"There is a shortage of specialized medical supplies, equipment, and physicians at these hospitals, and no clear inventory of what is needed,\" the report continued.", "\"An effective waste management system is required for the border region in order to avoid disease and contamination of rivers.\"", "As a result, U.N. aid distribution is being shifted to a different road that goes through the Dominican border city of Jimani, instead of the main highway that leads through the Dominican city of Elias Pina.", "The CNN crew, which passed through Jimani, did not witness many injured Haitians crossing from there into the Dominican Republic.", "A giant pothole there made crossing the border there a one-car-at-a-time affair.", "According to a priest in Elias Pina, Haitians there were worried about their families back home.", "\"There are many Haitians living here in Elias Pina and many don't know anything about their families,\" the Rev.", "Mike Seis of the Green Bay Diocesan Mission in Elias Pina wrote in a letter recently.", "\"The casualties are staggering.", "This weekend all of the Catholic parishes in the Dominican Republic from the 11 dioceses in the country will be sending their Sunday collections to Catholic Charities of Haiti.\"", "CNN's Lisa Desjardins contributed to this report." ]	[ "U.N.: Heavy traffic making 200-mile Santo Domingo-Port-au-Prince drive take up to 18 hours .", "This hinders post-earthquake aid distribution from the Dominican Republic to Haiti .", "U.N.: Hospitals in the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border are overwhelmed .", "U.N. shifting aid distribution away from main highway between two nations ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- More favorable weather conditions Saturday helped firefighters in their bid to contain the roaring Crown Fire, one of several in southern California.", "Firefighters had the fire 82 percent contained Saturday evening, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.", "Authorities said that they had lifted evacuation orders and most residents had returned home, while hundreds of firefighters and more than a dozen aircraft worked to extinguish the Crown Fire.", "\"If we can get aggressive with the air drops we'll be in good shape.", "And we're already doing pretty good,\" Don Kunitomi of the Los Angeles County Fire Department told CNN.", "The blaze has ignited 14,000 acres in the area, fire officials said.", "Two other fires have blackened more than 17,000 acres.", "Fire officials said the Crown Fire represents the biggest challenge.", "On Friday, about 1,370 firefighters and 250 fire engines were at the scene of the blaze, which was burning in a sparsely populated, rural area.", "Authorities were working to ensure the Crown Fire did not destroy power lines that provide electricity throughout the region.", "The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has asked residents near the fire to limit their power usage, though no fire-related outages have been reported.", "The weather did not cooperate Friday, which turned out to be one of the hottest days this week, with humidity in the low teens.", "\"That's creating a little bit of a challenge, and obviously causing a bit more fire spread,\" said Matt Levesque of the L.A. County Fire Department.", "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the situation in southern California changed drastically as the weather shifted.", "\"We were very fortunate not to have fires for some time, because the air was cool and we didn't have the experience of dry weather and all of these winds and so on, but all of a sudden the fire season kicked in,\" he said Friday.", "\"But we are ready,\" the governor added.", "\"There's great coordination going on, and we have resources distributed all over the state.\"", "The cause of the Crown Fire is under investigation.", "Two more wildfires engulfed the area this week: the Bull Fire, southeast of the town of Tehachapi, and the West Fire, north of Tehachapi in the Sequoia National Forest.", "The Bull Fire has ignited 16,460 acres and was 81 percent contained, officials said Saturday morning.", "It has destroyed eight homes, but no evacuations have been ordered.", "Meanwhile, the West Fire has destroyed 30 structures, mostly homes.", "Authorities have warned residents to keep their cars and house windows closed to prevent smoke inhalation.", "Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for Kern County, located approximately 130 miles north of Los Angeles." ]	[ "NEW: So-called Crown Fire is 82 percent contained .", "Weather conditions more favorable to firefighters .", "Fire ignites 14,000 acres, fire officials say .", "Two other fires blacken thousands of acres in southern California ." ]	[ 0, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- NATO representatives and lawmakers from alliance nations will meet in Iceland Thursday to discuss security challenges that are likely to arise as the Arctic Circle thaws.", "Global warming is opening up more parts of the Arctic to development and raising security concerns.", "The area -- one of the planet's most fragile and pristine ecosystems -- sits atop a bounty of untapped fossil fuels.", "And as the melting polar ice makes the Arctic more accessible to ships, several countries are scrambling to claim jurisdiction in the area.", "\"The economic interests are reflected in ... competing claims by relevant stakeholders, and resumed military presence in the area,\" NATO said on its Web site.", "\"As it is a region of enduring strategic importance for NATO and allied security, developments in the High North require careful and ongoing examination.\"", "The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 90 billion barrels of oil, 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are recoverable in the frozen region north of the Arctic Circle.", "At the same time, Arctic water is warming so quickly that the entire region could be ice-free by 2013.", "Already Russia, Canada, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland are fighting to lay claim to the Arctic's icy real estate.", "Unlike Antarctica, which has a treaty that prohibits territorial claims, there is no agreement for the vast expanse of the Arctic.", "So questions about drilling rights and shipping lanes are somewhat murky.", "According to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, countries are entitled to exclusive economic zones up to 200 miles from their shores.", "But some countries are trying to extend that zone.", "Russian scientists want to prove the seabed below the North Pole is part of the Eurasian continental shelf, an area called the Lomonosov Ridge.", "If that is the case, the region would be under Russian control.", "Moscow argued before a U.N. commission in 2001 that the ridge is an extension of its continental territory.", "But the United Nations asked for more evidence.", "Danish scientists are trying to prove that the Lomonosov Ridge is connected to Greenland, and Canadian scientists are looking for links between the ridge and Ellesmere Island, a Canadian territory.", "NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will attend the two-day conference in Reykjavek." ]	[ "NATO meeting in Iceland to discuss Arctic security challenges .", "Thawing of Arctic poses questions over who controls region's resources .", "Number of countries laying claim to Arctic due to untapped fossil fuel deposits ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "Detroit, Michigan (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, speaking at auto plants here Friday, praised the recovery of the embattled U.S. auto industry and celebrated the tough choices he says made a comeback possible.", "\"Last year, many thought this industry would keep losing jobs, as it had for the better part of the past decade.", "Today, U.S. automakers have added more than 55,000 jobs since last June,\" said Obama, speaking at a Chrysler plant.", "He said both Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Corp. have rebounded from the depths of their government-brokered bankruptcies and are back on track to grow.", "Later in the day, Obama toured and spoke at a GM plant, where he also made the case for why the federal government's investment in the auto industry was a wise move.", "At times sounding like a candidate on the campaign trial, he is working to build support for his economic policies with just a few months to go until midterm elections in November.", "In the 12 months before he took office, Obama said, the U.S. auto industry had lost hundreds of thousands of jobs and had seen its sales drop 40 percent.", "He cited estimates suggesting more than 1 million people would have lost their jobs if Chrysler and GM, two of the three big U.S. automakers, had been allowed to liquidate.", "Ford Motor Co. was the only one of the \"Big 3\" automakers that did not take a government bailout.", "At the GM plant, Obama also stressed the need to develop and manufacture green technologies that would cut the country's dependence on oil.", "He test drove the Chevrolet Volt, GM's electric car, which is expected to roll out later this year.", "\"Today, this industry is growing strong.", "It's creating new jobs.", "It's manufacturing the fuel-efficient cars and trucks that will carry us toward an energy independent future,\" Obama said." ]	[ "NEW: President touts development of green technologies .", "Says 55,000 new jobs have been added by the U.S. auto industry .", "Obama defends government support for the companies as a good investment ." ]	[ 0, 2, 12 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Some 14 million people have been affected by the torrential rains and flooding that have left more than 1,000 dead in Pakistan, a spokesman for the national disaster authority told CNN Tuesday.", "While 1,245 people have been confirmed killed, officials believe the number of dead may reach 1,500, said spokesman Ahmed Kamal.", "He said 1,334 people have been injured and 337,282 people have been rescued.", "More than 302,000 houses have been damaged, Kamal said, but that number might more than double by the time the flooding subsides.", "Most of the displaced have sought shelter in public buildings, including schools, said a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.", "They include thousands of Afghan refugees \"who have suddenly lost their homes for the second time.\"", "Pakistan's Meteorological Department said more heavy rains were in store in the next few days, threatening to deepen the worst natural disaster the nation has experienced in recent history.", "The monsoon season is only halfway over.", "The flooding, which started in the northwest, threatened places as far south as the port city of Karachi.", "Nineteen people died across the country between Sunday and Monday nights, Kamal said.", "The weather in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did improve slightly Tuesday, which allowed 23 helicopters to take off for relief and rescue operations, according to a military spokesperson who did not want to be identified.", "Kamal said 76 helicopters and 621 boats were participating in rescue efforts.", "Of those affected by the flooding, 6 million to 7 million are in immediate need of food and other items, said Maurizio Giuliano, information officer for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.", "\"While not all may be in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, and the severity of their needs has not yet been fully assessed, this is a higher figure than those who were affected by the 2005 South Asia tsunami (3 million), the 2005 South Asia earthquake (3 million), or the 2010 Haiti earthquake (3 million),\" he said Monday in a statement.", "Though the number of fatalities was not comparable with either the tsunami or the earthquake, both of which had death tolls that exceeded 200,000, Pakistan's flooding \"is a major disaster of enormous magnitude,\" said John Holmes, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator.", "Many Pakistanis are not happy with the government's response to the floods, saying it has been slow and ineffective.", "Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returned home Monday from an overseas trip, facing growing criticism of his actions following the massive flooding.", "He had been in England for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron during the worst of the crisis.", "Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said a true assessment of the loss of life and infrastructure can be determined only after the water recedes.", "He appealed to the international community and to Pakistanis living abroad to help.", "Aid agencies scrambled to help those in need.", "\"The assistance that we have so far provided has alleviated suffering, but relief operations need to be massively scaled up,\" said Martin Mogwanja, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Pakistan.", "U.S. emergency relief teams continued to arrive in Peshawar to help, the U.S. State Department said.", "The U.S. Agency for International Development has committed $55 million in aid to international organizations and nongovernmental organizations, it said.", "The United States has provided more than 435,000 meals.", "This assistance is in addition to U.S. military efforts, which include rescue airlifts, food supplies and other deliveries provided by the Pentagon.", "Of the total, $20 million will be used to expand humanitarian operations farther south as the flood zone expands, Mark Ward, acting director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, told reporters Tuesday.", "CNN's Reza Sayah and Samson Desta and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The displaced in Pakistan include thousands of Afghan refugees .", "Some 14 million people have been affected by the rain and floods .", "The death toll stands at 1,245, Pakistani authorities say .", "1,334 people have been injured; 302,000 homes damaged ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The scene was more reminiscent of a Hollywood production than an elaborate prank by the Punk'd-master himself.", "A banner with Ashton Kutcher's Twitter name, aplusk, was unfurled Wednesday over the CNN logo at CNN Center.", "Ashton Kutcher, along with his wife, Demi Moore, dropped by Atlanta, Georgia's CNN Center on Wednesday to fulfill his promise to \"ding-dong-ditch\" CNN founder Ted Turner's house after winning last April's race to attract 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site Twitter.", "With the precision of a Hollywood director, Kutcher barked into his two-way radio as his light and sound crews followed with the Twitter entourage hot on their heels and an Internet audience watching on Ustream.", "Moments after Kutcher yelled \"lights\" into his two-way, his crew unfurled a banner with his Twitter name, aplusk, over the CNN's neon logo on the building.", "Watch how Kutcher's prank turned out » .", "\"You know, CNN lost.", "That's what happened,\" Kutcher told a tag-along crowd of more than 100 fans whom he calls \"tweeps.\"", "\"I'm just fulfilling a promise I made ... that I'd do this thing and I'm doing it.\"", "Kutcher had challenged CNN to the Twitter race, saying he would donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day if he beat CNN, and 1,000 if he lost.", "CNN agreed to do the same.", "Follow CNN Breaking News on Twitter .", "Kutcher reached the goal about 30 minutes before CNN passed the mark.", "Kutcher acknowledged Wednesday that he would have to improvise to prank Turner.", "\"Ted doesn't really have an accessible home, and Ted doesn't really have an accessible doorbell,\" he said.", "In an earlier prank Wednesday, Kutcher and his crew arrived at a Ted's Montana Grill restaurant, which is named after the media mogul.", "The group neatly stacked hundreds of boxes of Ding Dongs in front of the restaurant, then each person banged a bronze bell out front.", "\"Don't be shy; get involved,\" Kutcher crowed from the top of a U-Haul van filled with Hostess Ding Dongs.", "\"There are 800 boxes of Ding Dongs.", "There are approximately 9,600 Ding Dongs here,\" said the former star of MTV's \"Punk'd\" show.", "\"We have to deliver these to Ted.\"", "Turner originally founded CNN in 1980, but he is no longer affiliated with the company." ]	[ "Ashton Kutcher puts banner with Twitter name, aplusk, on CNN Center .", "Kutcher also brought 800 boxes of Ding Dongs to restaurant named after Turner .", "Kutcher promised to \"ding-dong-ditch\" Turner if he beat CNN in Twitter race ." ]	[ 1, 2, 13, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"I'm angry at having presided over the first genocide of the 21st century,\" said Mukesh Kapila, a British doctor and former U.N. official.", "Mukesh Kapila said atrocities in Darfur could have been prevented if the world had taken action sooner.", "He was referring to what he considers the world's ineffective response to mass atrocities in Darfur, Sudan's western region.", "\"What happened in Darfur would be classified as obscene,\" he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.", "\"It's a combination of a horror movie and a snuff movie.\"", "Kapila was the United Nations' top official in Sudan.", "He took up his post as resident and humanitarian coordinator in 2003, just a few months after rebels from Darfur's African tribes attacked outposts of Sudan's government, which is led by Arabs.", "The government's retaliation was so harsh that a U.N. human rights monitor issued a prophetic warning.", "His March 2003 report said that in the \"escalating conflict,\" Sudan's government may be \"engaged in ... ethnic cleansing aimed at eliminating African tribes from Darfur.\"", "Unfortunately, Kapila says, the report \"disappeared into a big hole\" because the world's attention was on Iraq, where a U.S.-led coalition had gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein's regime.", "Watch as Kapila describes his anger at the lack of attention on Darfur » .", "Since 2003, according to U.N. estimates, 300,000 Darfuris have been killed in the violence or died in the ensuing disease and starvation.", "Another 2.5 million have been uprooted from their homes.", "Kapila says it didn't have to be, and the man who was his boss at the time agrees.", "\"The most bitter lesson of Darfur,\" said Jan Egeland, former U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, \"is that the world let a small conflict slowly but surely degenerate into a full-blown catastrophe.\"", "As reports of atrocities mounted in late 2003 and into 2004, Kapila and Egeland saw a pattern: Sudanese forces and government-armed Arab militia members known as janjaweed (\"devils on horseback\") were using scorched-earth tactics against civilians from Darfur's African tribes.", "They burned villages, poisoned wells and raped women and girls, according to reports from U.N. workers and aid groups.", "Sudan claims that its forces were only putting down an armed insurrection.", "\"I think the problems which have been happening in Darfur are problems which can be happening in any place of the world where there is a war,\" Sudanese Interior Minister Ibrahim Hamid said.", "\"There are crimes, but it's not like what has been reflected in the international media.\"", "But that's not what Kapila was hearing.", "He kept getting reports of more Darfuris killed or driven from their land and Arabs talking about making Darfur \"zurka-free\" -- \"zurka\" being a derogatory term for blacks.", "Unlike cyclones and earthquakes, the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Darfur was man-made, so Kapila and Egeland began a crusade to get Darfur onto the U.N. Security Council's agenda.", "They knew from experience that getting an issue in front of the Security Council brings, as Egeland says, three things: \"attention, attention, attention.\"", "Both Egeland and Kapila approached Western governments but came away disappointed because most diplomats were focused on resolving another conflict, in southern Sudan, which had claimed 2 million lives over 20 years.", "The international community did respond with an emergency relief operation for the growing number of refugees who were running for their lives.", "But Kapila and Egeland wanted more.", "They believed that Darfur was not only a humanitarian crisis but also a human rights crisis that required action from the U.N. Security Council.", "Out of frustration, Kapila went outside proper channels and screamed to the media.", "In a March 2004 interview with BBC Radio, Kapila compared the situation in Darfur to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.", "His comments, which Sudan called a \"heap of lies,\" were picked up by newspapers around the world.", "Kapila so angered the host government in Khartoum that he had to resign his post.", "Even after the Security Council put Darfur on the agenda, it would take three more years of resolutions and debate to authorize a large U.N. peacekeeping force.", "China, which has veto power on the Security Council and extensive commercial and military ties to the government of Sudan, was one of the major obstacles to taking decisive action.", "But as conditions in Darfur became more widely known, a grass-roots movement began to grow, putting pressure on the White House and a spotlight on the U.N. Security Council.", "According to Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, \"no other tragedy since 1945 has caught the imagination of so many people as Darfur has.\"", "Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Bush characterized the killing in Darfur as \"genocide.\"", "Human rights groups documented China's strong ties to Sudan.", "And activists, including actress Mia Farrow and other celebrities, campaigned to tag the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics as the \"genocide Olympics.\"", "Over time and under pressure, Chinese diplomats helped persuade Sudan to accept a U.N.-led peacekeeping force with the understanding that many of the troops would come from African countries.", "Would earlier action by the Security Council have made a difference?", "\"Yes,\" Egeland said.", "\"We would have kept it to a medium-sized African disaster.", "Not this mega-disaster.", "It could have been stopped when it was a small emergency.\"", "In July, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court applied for a warrant to arrest Sudan's president, Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.", "Read the charges against Sudan's president (pdf) Sudan denies the charges and has promised to punish anyone who has attacked innocent civilians." ]	[ "Mukesh Kapila was the United Nations' top official in Sudan in 2003 .", "Since that year, an estimated 300,000 Darfuris have been killed or died .", "He says a U.N. monitor's warning of violence \"disappeared into a big hole\"\nKapila says atrocities could have been prevented if the world had taken action sooner ." ]	[ 1, 5, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Slovakia became the first of the larger ex-communist EU members to join the European single currency on Thursday amid hope the move will provide stability in the global economic storm.", "The country is the 16th country to use the euro after 11 EU members launched it 10 years ago, meaning that from New Year's Day 2009, 328 million of the 500 million people in the European Union will share the single currency.", "After Sony postponed a planned investment in a TV production plant in Slovakia earlier this month, other firms in the country welcomed entry into the eurozone as a move that will end uncertainty after years of coping with a volatile currency.", "\"First of all, the euro means price stability, both in relations with our clients in the euro zone and our business relations with suppliers localized in the euro zone countries,\" Jean Mouro, CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroen in Slovakia told Reuters.com.", "\"In general, it will reduce costs related to swift changes of the euro-crown exchange rate, especially in the last few years when the crown had been appreciating rapidly,\" said Mouro.", "Businesses also said that amid global economic uncertainty the euro will also result in lower production costs, as weakening economic activity limits inflation.", "\"We evaluate Slovakia's transition to the common European currency solely as a positive factor,\" said Katarina Holecova, a spokeswoman for a Samsung factory in Slovakia.", "\"In relation to the financial crisis, euro adoption may bring a positive impact in terms of softer inflation pressures, and thus, indirectly, savings in material or wage costs.\"", "In the past two months, the euro has soared in value against the dollar by 9 percent and against the British pound by more than 20 percent.", "Joaquin Almunia, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs on Wednesday hailed the currency's strength.", "\"The euro has become the symbol of EU identity and is protecting us against the tremendous external shocks that we have had to cope with since the summer of 2007,\" he said in a statement.", "\"We should be proud of that record and we safeguard the sound budgetary and macroeconomic framework that has made the euro such a success.\"" ]	[ "Slovakia is first large ex-communist nation to join European single currency .", "Country is 16th country to use euro after 11 EU members launched it in 1999 .", "Firms hope euro move will end uncertainty after coping with volatile currency ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- We're getting to the point where even good news comes wrapped in bad news.", "Good news: Despite the terrible June job numbers (125,000 jobs lost as the Census finished its work), one sector continues to gain -- manufacturing.", "Factories added 9,000 workers in June, for a total of 136,000 hires since December 2009.", "So that's something, yes?", "Maybe not. Despite millions of unemployed, despite 2 million job losses in manufacturing between the end of 2007 and the end of 2009, factory employers apparently cannot find the workers they need.", "Here's what the New York Times reported Friday: .", "\"The problem, the companies say, is a mismatch between the kind of skilled workers needed and the ranks of the unemployed.", "\"During the recession, domestic manufacturers appear to have accelerated the long-term move toward greater automation, laying off more of their lowest-skilled workers and replacing them with cheaper labor abroad.", "\"Now they are looking to hire people who can operate sophisticated computerized machinery, follow complex blueprints and demonstrate higher math proficiency than was previously required of the typical assembly line worker.\"", "It may sound like manufacturers are being too fussy.", "But they face a real problem.", "As manufacturing work gets more taxing, manufacturers are looking at a work force that is actually becoming less literate and less skilled.", "In 2007, ETS -- the people who run the country's standardized tests -- compiled a battery of scores of basic literacy conducted over the previous 15 years and arrived at a startling warning: On present trends, the country's average score on basic literacy tests will drop by 5 percent by 2030 as compared to 1992.", "That's a disturbing headline.", "Behind the headline is even worse news.", "Not everybody's scores are dropping.", "In fact, ETS estimates that the percentage of Americans who can read at the very highest levels will actually rise slightly by 2030 as compared to 1992 -- a special national \"thank you\" to all those parents who read to their kids at bedtime!", "But that small rise at the top is overbalanced by a collapse of literacy at the bottom.", "In 1992, 17 percent of Americans scored at the very lowest literacy level.", "On present trends, 27 percent of Americans will score at the very lowest level in 2030.", "What's driving the deterioration?", "An immigration policy that favors the unskilled.", "Immigrants to Canada and Australia typically arrive with very high skills, including English-language competence.", "But the United States has taken a different course.", "Since 2000, the United States has received some 10 million migrants, approximately half of them illegal.", "Migrants to the United States arrive with much less formal schooling than migrants to Canada and Australia and very poor English-language skills.", "More than 80 percent of Hispanic adult migrants to the United States score below what ETS deems a minimum level of literacy necessary for success in the U.S. labor market.", "Let's put this in concrete terms.", "Imagine a migrant to the United States.", "He's hard-working, strong, energetic, determined to get ahead.", "He speaks almost zero English, and can barely read or write even in Spanish.", "He completed his last year of formal schooling at age 13 and has been working with his hands ever since.", "He's an impressive, even admirable human being.", "Maybe he reminds some Americans of their grandfather.", "And had he arrived in this country in 1920, there would have been many, many jobs for him to do that would have paid him a living wage, enabling him to better himself over time -- backbreaking jobs, but jobs that did not pay too much less than what a fully literate English-speaking worker could earn.", "During the debt-happy 2000s, that same worker might earn a living assembling houses or landscaping hotels and resorts.", "But with the Great Recession, the bottom has fallen out of his world.", "And even when the recession ends, we're not going to be building houses like we used to, or spending money on vacations either.", "We may hope that over time the children and grandchildren of America's immigrants of the 1990s and 2000s will do better than their parents and grandparents.", "For now, the indicators are not good: American-born Hispanics drop out of high school at very high rates.", "Over time, yes, they'll probably catch up -- by the 2060s, they'll probably be doing fine.", "But over the intervening half century, we are going to face a big problem.", "We talk a lot about retraining workers, but we don't really know how to do it very well -- particularly workers who cannot read fluently.", "Our schools are not doing a brilliant job training the native-born less advantaged: even now, a half-century into the civil rights era, still one-third of black Americans read at the lowest level of literacy.", "Just as we made bad decisions about physical capital in the 2000s -- overinvesting in houses, underinvesting in airports, roads, trains, and bridges -- so we also made fateful decisions about our human capital: accepting too many unskilled workers from Latin America, too few highly skilled workers from China and India.", "We have been operating a human capital policy for the world of 1910, not 2010.", "And now the Great Recession is exposing the true costs of this malinvestment in human capital.", "It has wiped away the jobs that less-skilled immigrants can do, that offered them a livelihood and a future.", "Who knows when or if such jobs will return?", "Meanwhile the immigrants fitted for success in the 21st century economy were locating in Canada and Australia.", "Americans do not believe in problems that cannot be quickly or easily solved.", "They place their faith in education and re-education.", "They do not like to remember that it took two and three generations for their own families to acquire the skills necessary to succeed in a technological society.", "They hate to imagine that their country might be less affluent, more unequal, and less globally competitive in the future because of decisions they are making now.", "Yet all these things are true.", "We cannot predict in advance which skills precisely will be needed by the U.S. economy of a decade hence.", "Nor should we try, for we'll certainly guess wrong.", "What we can know is this: Immigrants who arrive with language and math skills, with professional or graduate degrees, will adapt better to whatever the future economy throws at them.", "Even more important, their children are much more likely to find a secure footing in the ultratechnological economy of the mid-21st century.", "And by reducing the flow of very unskilled foreign workers into the United States, we will tighten labor supply in ways that will induce U.S. employers to recruit, train and retain the less-skilled native born, especially African-Americans -- the group hit hardest by the Great Recession of 2008-2010.", "In the short term, we need policies to fight the recession.", "We need monetary stimulus, a cheaper dollar, and lower taxes.", "But none of these policies can fix the skills mismatch that occurs when an advanced industrial economy must find work for people who cannot read very well, and whose children are not reading much better.", "The United States needs a human capital policy that emphasizes skilled immigration and halts unskilled immigration.", "It needed that policy 15 years ago, but it's not too late to start now.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum." ]	[ "Some jobs remain unfilled because not enough skilled workers, manufacturers say .", "David Frum: Immigration policy has created influx of unskilled labor .", "He says pool of new workers more suited to needs of last century .", "Frum: U.S. policy should emphasize admitting highly skilled immigrants ." ]	[ 7, 33, 47, 59, 63, 64, 65 ]
[ "Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Two men who have been together for 34 years have become the first couple to obtain a same-sex marriage since it became legal in Argentina on July 15.", "Artistic representative Alejandro Vanelli and actor Ernesto Larrese were married in a civil ceremony Friday morning in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital.", "They wore dark suits and striped blue ties and were surrounded by well-wishers and a throng of reporters, photographers and videographers.", "Larrese spoke to his partner -- but also to the nation at large.", "\"To all those who are afraid ... those who are homophobic ...", "I tell them, don't worry; this doesn't affect you,\" Larrese said.", "\"You have nothing to fear.", "Fear is the opposite of love.", "Any phobia can be cured with love.", "There is nothing love cannot cure.", "\"Alejandro, I love you, and I renew my vows to you for 34 more years.\"", "They were not the first same-sex couple to be married in the nation; just the first since the federal law was enacted.", "Previously, Argentina did not have a nationwide law but let state and local governments decide whether to allow same-sex marriages.", "Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello were married in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of Argentina, in December.", "They are believed to be the first same-sex couple to be married in Latin America.", "Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage when lawmakers in the Senate passed the bill this month after 14 hours of debate.", "The bill had already passed the lower chamber of Congress.", "It gives same-sex couples equal marriage rights, including the ability to adopt children.", "The law was backed by the center-left government of President Cristina Kirchner, who signed the measure into law.", "The majority Roman Catholic country joins a few others around the world where same-sex marriage is legal.", "Among them are the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain.", "Countries in Latin America, a region strongly identified with the Catholic Church, have recently given more attention to gay rights.", "Mexico City's legislative assembly passed a bill last year legalizing gay marriage there.", "In September, Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow same-sex adoption." ]	[ "Argentina is the first Latin American nation to allow same-sex marriage .", "The federal law was enacted July 15 .", "The legality of same-sex marriage had been determined at the local and state levels .", "Another couple celebrated a same-sex marriage in December ." ]	[ 11, 12, 15 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- New York City will pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the estate of a man killed by police outside a Queens' nightclub in 2006 and by his two friends, who were seriously wounded, a spokeswoman for the city's Law Department said Tuesday.", "The estate of Sean Bell, who was killed in the shooting, will receive $3.25 million, Joseph Guzman receive $3 million and Trent Benefield will get $900,000, said Kate Ahlers.", "\"The city regrets the loss of life in this tragic case, and we share our deepest condolences with the Bell family,\" Michael Cardozo, attorney for the New York City Law Department.", "\"We hope that all parties can find some measure of closure by this settlement.\"", "Bell, Guzman and Benefield were shot after an altercation with plainclothes detectives outside the Queens nightclub where Bell's bachelor party was held on the night before his wedding.", "Bell died at the scene, and Guzman and Benefield were seriously wounded.", "Accounts of the incident varied.", "Undercover officers, who were investigating the club regarding prostitution allegations, said they identified themselves as police, but witnesses and the wounded men said they did not.", "Police said they believed at least one of the men had a gun, but no gun was found.", "And one of the officers said the Bell, instead of obeying his command to stop, hit him with his vehicle.", "The incident quickly became a touchstone for those who believe police -- in New York and elsewhere -- have a record of excessive force, particularly against black men.", "Bell, 23, was African-American, as were the two men wounded and two of the three police officers.", "The officers fired 50 shots in just a few seconds.", "The shooting sparked street protests, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it \"inexplicable\" and \"unacceptable,\" saying \"it sounds to me like excessive force was used.\"", "In March 2007, three of the police officers were indicted on multiple charges.", "Detectives Gescard Isnora, Marc Cooper and Michael Oliver -- who fired his gun 31 times that night, pausing to reload his weapon -- were acquitted of all charges in April 2008 .", "Justice Arthur Cooperman of New York State Supreme Court said inconsistent testimony and other problems \"had the effect of eviscerating the credibility\" of key prosecution witnesses, and that some testimony \"just didn't make sense.\"", "\"The police response with respect to each defendant was not proved to be criminal -- i.e., beyond a reasonable doubt.", "Questions of carelessness and incompetence must be left to other forums,\" Cooperman said, according to a transcript released by his office.", "Citing insufficient evidence, the Department of Justice announced in February that it would not pursue federal civil rights charges against police officers involved.", "The department issued a statement saying that after a \"careful and thorough\" review, there is not enough evidence to prove that New York Police Department detectives \"acted willfully\" when they opened fire on Bell and his friends.", "In May, Rev. Al Sharpton led a large protest in response to the Department of Justice decision.", "Sharpton and Bell's fiancee and parents were among more than 200 people arrested in New York City.", "Sharpton responded to Tuesday's decision in a written statement.", "\"This in no way mitigates or repairs the permanent damage done to them and the pain it has caused them forever nor does it diminish the outrage in the community,\" Sharpton said.", "\"We will always pursue justice for the family of Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield.\"" ]	[ "City to pay more than $7 million to victims of 2006 shooting .", "Bell was to be married the following day .", "Bell was killed, his friends seriously wounded .", "Police are acquitted in 2008, Justice Department does not file civil rights charges ." ]	[ 0, 17 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- Horror has given way to acceptance; it can be seen on people's faces.", "But desperation surfaces everywhere: .", "In the rubble still strewn about the streets, in the steadily rising piles of garbage, in the 1,300 makeshift camps that still house so many people.", "Four months on, the tragedy of the massive January 12 earthquake is fresh.", "Relief operations thwarted widespread hunger here and so far, there have been no reports of killer disease outbreaks.", "But Port-au-Prince is very much running in emergency mode.", "Still. No humanitarian worker will argue with that sad fact.", "Despite the efforts and good intentions of a host of foreigners and a government that got a wake-up call, progress has been timidly slow.", "The future has a different meaning now for Haitians such as Edline Pierre, who worries not about where to enroll her three daughters in school but how to get them up off the floor fast enough when the rains start falling.", "Haiti earthquake special .", "She poured cement around her shack in the city's central Champs de Mars plaza.", "But that doesn't keep the water out or her girls safe at night.", "The future means getting through the night and when the sun comes back out, scrounging together a meal.", "On the streets, a bright spot: the sight of schoolchildren in uniforms.", "But only 700 of the 5,000 or so schools around the Haitian capital have opened.", "Some were destroyed; others are occupied by the displaced.", "Another welcomed sight: Hundreds of street vendors, many of whom are women, sit under a rainbow of umbrellas to sell mangoes, plantains and coconuts.", "Or they display a collision of goods in one basket -- shoe polish, spaghetti, shampoo, cigarettes and molasses.", "These are snippets of life as it was once, before that fatal day.", "Give us work -- not handouts .", "In the aftermath of what most Haitians refer to as \"the catastrophe,\" people asked for food.", "They patiently lined up for hours to receive a sack of rice, a quart of oil.", "The lines are gone, along with the massive aid drops.", "International agencies are wary that too much help could stymie the local economy.", "Now the two million Haitians living in squalid makeshift camps -- and countless others living in the homes of generous family and friends -- need jobs.", "They don't want handouts; they just want money so they can feed themselves.", "\"We are willing to work -- work hard -- for money, but we need jobs,\" said Joseph Cangas, a coordinator at a new camp in Corail.", "Some earn a few dollars here and there through work-for-cash programs.", "They clear debris off the streets or clean latrines in the camps.", "These are hardly high-quality jobs, but being employed anywhere will earn you envy.", "More than 100,000 Haitians found work this way.", "But that's only a sliver of the population.", "Almost four million people live in Port-au-Prince, a city designed for 250,000.", "Haitians lived in congested neighborhoods and shanties before the quake.", "Imagine those conditions compounded -- a family of six eating, sitting and sleeping in a space that's hardly bigger than the sofa in your den.", "When home is a place of last resort .", "To shield people from the potential danger of the rainy season, aid agencies have started building transitional homes and have relocated thousands to new camps on the city's perimeter.", "Almost 5,000 went to Corail, a stark place that evokes images of a military base in the Iraqi desert.", "Void of trees, the tropical sun beats down hard, and soaring temperatures make furnaces of the tents.", "It's not a place residents say they would choose.", "But this is where the government had access to land, so this is where people were brought to ride out the rains.", "Here, at least, they are not at risk of being washed away by torrents of water or in mudslides down steep, denuded hills.", "Corail has its own problems.", "It's far from the city, and it can cost a camp resident an astronomical $1.25 to take tap-taps, the colorful shared taxis, to central Port-au-Prince.", "No one at Corail could afford that journey.", "But they said they had to figure out a way to go where the jobs were.", "\"We help each other. We share food,\" said Cangas, the camp coordinator.", "\"But the situation is getting more tense.", "People have nothing so they resort to stealing sometimes.\"", "He complained about the lack of services and schools at Corail.", "But aid agencies don't want people to get too comfortable here.", "Eventually, people have to try and regain their livelihoods in the neighborhoods where they were established.", "\"You want people to go home,\" said Mark Turner, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration.", "\"The last resort is a place like Corail.\"", "Turner said camp managers have been asking Haiti's homeless this question: What will it take for you to move out of a camp?", "The answers are varied, and the problems aren't easily resolved.", "Not even the safe places feel safe .", "All over the city, buildings are being marked green, yellow and red.", "Some already say: \"To demolish.\"", "But even after an engineer has marked a home green for \"safe,\" people are reluctant to return.", "The United Nations estimates only 9 percent of those with green houses have gone back.", "What if there is another earthquake?", "Gerald-Emile Brun, an architect working with the government on relocation, said incentives for people to go home -- $50 and a few provisions -- are being created.", "But so far, nothing has been doled out.", "For many, Brun recognized, it's impossible to go back to the spot where their house once stood because there is no place to dispose of the rubble.", "In this city of renters, landlords are refusing to accept people who cannot pay the back rent for the four months they have been gone.", "Many of the displaced can no longer even afford the monthly amount they were paying before.", "And as time marches on, many landowners want to evict displaced people so the buildings can be used as intended.", "What if your child could not go to school because the classrooms were occupied by the homeless?", "What if you were homeless and had no place to shelter your children except at the neighborhood school?", "It's a tough call, especially for humanitarian workers who don't believe in forced evictions.", "But at the same time, Turner said, \"we recognize the landowners have legitimate concerns.\"", "These are municipal issues that will have to be dealt with by the local government, Turner said.", "But it won't be easy. Ask Jacques Pablito Chardavoire, who helps manage a camp in front of the city's main cathedral.", "Chardavoire's response was simple but to the point: .", "Why would you leave an encampment that offers you a toilet, a shower, emergency food rations and, yes, even an outdoor movie screen when you have no place to go and no money in your pockets?", "He said almost 2,000 people were resettled in February from Champs de Mars to the cathedral.", "But within days, that many more people from elsewhere had flocked to Champ de Mars.", "\"Every time we move people, more come because they need services,\" he said.", "Much is shattered, but not hope .", "Haitians, who have lived through political turmoil, extreme violence and grinding poverty, will tell you the earthquake was the worst experience of their lives.", "Whether a new city can rise from the rubble of Port-au-Prince remains in question, though Haitians are hopeful something good must come out of an event this tragic.", "They have to be. They have nothing left but hope.", "And faith. That's why if you peek down lanes on a steamy afternoon, you'll see a gathering of people under a tent, their arms stretched skyward, their eyes closed.", "And you'll hear the Lord's Prayer.", "You'll hear it, too, every Sunday morning, before the sun gets hot, at Notre Dame, the main cathedral in Port-au-Prince.", "The building is shattered, but not the congregation's faith.", "They still come to the place where, every week, they are re-energized by their belief in Christ.", "Several Haitians said they feared the world's goodwill would quickly fade now that the throngs of media have left and the spotlight has turned elsewhere.", "Edna Dunrod was one of them.", "She worried she was forgotten, lying on a smelly mattress under three tattered bed sheets that serve as a roof in the Champs de Mars tent city.", "Last month, she gave birth to Marvins, asleep in a plastic tub under a foldable umbrella.", "Life with a newborn in this congested camp, she said, was unbearable.", "\"I want to go somewhere else,\" she said.", "But where, she worried. And who would help her reclaim her life?" ]	[ "Four months after massive quake, progress in Haiti is painfully slow .", "People are afraid to return to their homes, even if they've been deemed safe .", "Life in camps is difficult, but for many, it's the best option they have .", "Despite their tremendous suffering, many Haitians hang onto the hope of a better future ." ]	[ 9, 28, 59, 61, 65, 79 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Flooding caused by monsoon rain has killed more than 400 people across Pakistan, a provincial government official said Friday.", "Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province information minister, said the death toll is now 408 people in that province and 25 in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.", "Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, the head of the Pakistan meteorological department, told CNN the 300 mm, or 11.8 inches, of rain recorded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the most ever in Pakistan.", "Many of the victims died when floodwaters swept away hundreds of mud houses in parts of Swat Valley and the districts of Shangla and Tank, according to Bashir Ahmed Bilour, a provincial minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.", "Rushing water also has washed away thousands of acres of crops and dozens of government buildings, local businesses and schools, Bilour said.", "Hussain said floodwater has cut off the Swat Valley and the districts of Shangla and Peshawar.", "There is no way to get to these areas by road, he said.", "Earlier Friday the head of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said flooding had killed at least 150 people and injured 90 since Wednesday.", "Retired Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed said 90 people were still missing.", "The Pakistani Air Force is helping with rescue efforts, spokesman Tariq Yazdanie said in an interview on Pakistani TV.", "The recent torrential rains have broken all previous records of rainfall in the country, he said.", "The U.N. refugee agency dispatched the first shipment of aid for flood victims in the region Thursday, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.", "APP said the supplies include 585 tents, 2,700 plastic sheets, 1,760 kitchen sets and 4,000 plastic mats.", "At the same time, a top official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province pressed Pakistan's president for help, according to APP.", "The news agency said Assembly Speaker Karamatullah Khan told legislators he had asked President Asif Ali Zardari for a supply of emergency boats.", "Photographs from Getty Images showed flood victims struggling to cross a swollen river in the town of Nowshera.", "The pictures showed children being ferried across the water in overcrowded boats, and more able-bodied people helping the elderly to higher ground.", "Supplies from the U.N. agency will go first to the two hard-hit villages of Talli and Sultan Kot in Sibi district, APP said.", "The U.S.-based group Save the Children said it will distribute plastic sheeting for shelters, household supplies and hygiene kits to about 1,000 families over the next two days.", "Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report." ]	[ "Almost all the deaths are in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, official says .", "State media: A U.N. agency has dispatched a shipment of aid for the victims .", "Floodwaters have swept away hundreds of homes ." ]	[ 3, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Canadian Coast Guard finished the job of ferrying passengers Monday from a cruise ship that ran aground on an unmapped rock.", "Officials aboard the Clipper Adventurer reported their troubles Friday.", "The crew failed to dislodge the ship during high tide on Saturday.", "Sunday, a Coast Guard icebreaker arrived to transport the people on board to land.", "\"All 128 passengers were safely transported from the Coast Guard icebreaker, Amundsen, to the community of Kugluktuk\" on Monday, said Theresa Nichols, a spokeswoman with the Canadian Coast Guard.", "In addition to the passengers, 69 crew members also were on board, according to Nichols.", "Kugluktuk is a small town on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.", "Accommodations for the passengers have been arranged by the cruise ship company, said Nichols.", "The passengers are expected to fly to the Canadian city of Edmonton.", "The grounded vessel is stable, but rests with a slight list, according to the company that operates the cruise ship, Adventure Canada.", "The company said that while the passengers were stranded, they were able to enjoy ship-board programs, and some even took in some sun on the disabled ship's deck." ]	[ "Passengers are taken to a small town on the shore of the Arctic Ocean .", "The 128 passengers are unhurt, Canadian Coast Guard says .", "The ship ran aground on unmapped rock Friday ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- A building at a Georgia university was evacuated Monday morning after some Civil War relics stored there were found to be possibly dangerous, officials said.", "Officials at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta called an all-clear around 1 p.m., about an hour and a half after they evacuated the school's Social Sciences Building and its surrounding area.", "\"Some Civil War relics stored on the third floor were noticed as being a potential hazard,\" the university said in a news release.", "The relics included two cannonballs that were located in a display case within a room that was accessible only with a card-key, the university said.", "The cannonballs had been on display in the building for about three years as part of a collection within the university's Center for the Study of the Civil War Era, the school said.", "They were donated by a private individual.", "A new administrative faculty member at the university was the person who raised concerns about the cannonballs, Kennesaw State said.", "A local bomb squad responded to the university and removed the relics in question, and the building was reopened." ]	[ "Civil War relics at Kennesaw State University were deemed potentially hazardous .", "Officials evacuated the building as a precaution .", "A bomb squad removed the questionable relics ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Mormon bishop was shot and killed in Visalia, California, on Sunday, police said.", "The suspected gunman was killed later in the day in a gunfight with police, Visalia California Police Chief Colleen Mestas told CNN.", "Bishop Clay Sannar, 42, was shot dead in an office at Visalia's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mestas said.", "About 20 minutes after the shooting, police got a call from the suspect, who told them where he was heading, Mestas said.", "Officers intercepted the suspect and a gunfight ensued, during which the suspect was killed.", "Church members tell police the gunman was a stranger who hadn't been seen at the church before.", "\"I've got a dozen investigators trying to sort this out right now,\" Mestas said.", "\"We've got to get some answers for his [Sannar] family.\"", "Unlike in some religious traditions, Mormon bishops lead individual churches, not regions or groups of churches." ]	[ "The bishop is killed in a California church office .", "The suspect is killed in a gunfight with police .", "Unlike in some religious traditions, Mormon bishops lead individual churches ." ]	[ 1, 8 ]
[ "YORKTOWN, Virginia (CNN) -- It's daybreak on Sara Creek, a sleepy backwater that sits near Yorktown, Virginia, and empties into the Chesapeake.", "The early morning fog slowly lifts to reveal the ripples of water, the boats swaying, and a picturesque harbor.", "Tommy Leggett works to reduce polluted waters in Chesapeake Bay by growing oysters.", "Local watermen have been fishing around this area for generations.", "It's beginning to rain, and Tommy Leggett, a very proud and reserved waterman, combs over his white beard with his rough hands and prepares his boat, \"Chesapeake Gold,\" for what looks like a day of fishing out in the bay.", "\"I've been a waterman for over 20 years,\" he says.", "The difference now is Leggett doesn't fish anymore.", "He's an eco-conscious farmer and advocate who works on his sustainable oyster farm in the James River.", "He uses the term \"aquaculture\" to describe what he's doing here.", "\"It refers to the husbandry, or farming, of aquatic species.\"", "Leggett sells the oysters he harvests to local restaurants, growing about 100,000 a year as a part-time business.", "He makes sure he always has a product to replace the ones that he sells.", "He shares his expertise with other watermen, educating them about oyster aquaculture and the importance of sustainability.", "Watch Leggett's efforts to save the bay » .", "Leggett also sells his fresh products to the area market.", "\"Customers want to know if the oysters they are buying are local, which means they're fresher and taste better.\"", "Waterman: Many foods rely on oysters .", "The Chesapeake Bay, which is the United States' largest estuary, covering more than 64,000 square miles and spanning across several states, has seen its fish, crab and oyster stocks dwindle, in part, because of pollution over the past several decades.", "\"It was once said that the oyster stock in the Chesapeake Bay could have filtered the entire volume of the bay, in a single day,\" says Leggett, who has been farming shellfish in the watershed since 1995.", "\"Most people don't think of oysters having come from farms, and historically they haven't.", "They've been harvested from the wild fishery, which is supplied by Mother Nature.\"", "That wild fishery, which still exists today, has seen its share of setbacks.", "From disease to overharvesting, Leggett knows what's at stake, and he's trying to get the message out.", "\"Oysters filter the water, and they provide habitat for other species.", "There are so many food webs that depend and rely on oysters.\"", "Not only does Leggett farm, he also works for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) as the Virginia oyster and fishery scientist.", "He is trying to do his part to reverse the trends of depleting oyster stocks.", "\"If we don't restore oysters, we're not going to restore the Bay,\" he says.", "He wants to make sure people understand what just one single oyster can do.", "\"One oyster out here in one of our bags can filter as much as 50 gallons of water a day.\"", "By filtering the water, this important shellfish can take away deadly pollutants that eventually could deplete the crab and fish stocks, which in turn can leave fishermen without work.", "Millions of oyster 'moms and dads' The CBF helps to grow millions of oysters that will eventually make their way to sanctuary reefs and will not be harvested.", "The oysters will reproduce, and make a home for thousands of sea critters that will eventually become food for larger animals.", "\"Its all a giant food chain,\" Leggett explains.", "Leggett works alongside Jackie Harmon as the CBF's sole employees at a worksite near the Institute of Marine Science in Hayes, Virginia.", "iReport.com: Show us the environment near you .", "\"Our goal is to replenish oyster stocks,\" Harmon says, \"and by doing so, the oysters cannot only help filter water, but also help with shoreline erosion.\"", "\"It's a sustainable way for watermen of the Chesapeake to continue their livelihood as fishermen, in a more eco-friendly way.\"", "Harmon also maintains an oyster farm on the weekend and hopes to one day sell her oysters at local farmers' markets.", "Leggett puts it this way: \"All we're doing here is making moms and dads to help jump-start reefs throughout the Chesapeake.\"", "Leggett and Harmon are optimistic.", "They believe current federal and state administrations are doing great things for the environment.", "They believe the CBF's message is being heard.", "However, a lot more needs to be done, Harmon says.", "\"People are becoming more aware and want to take care of their environment, and they want to make it a better place for future generations,\" she says.", "So as the land-based movement makes it apparent that buying local is the healthy way to live, seafood should be known in that same light.", "Leggett believes the Chesapeake Bay can produce the amount of seafood needed for the entire region and he thinks with careful oversight, the watersheds can be an abundant source for that local seafood industry again, just like it was decades ago." ]	[ "NEW: Watch CNN.com Live Earth Day coverage at 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.", "ET .", "Pollution in United States' largest estuary has reduced fish, crabs and oysters .", "Chesapeake Bay project aims to grow millions of oyster \"moms and dads\"\nOysters can help crabs and fish flourish by filtering poisons from the water ." ]	[ 17, 23, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, is challenging the Justice Department's request for certain documents in its investigation of alleged civil rights violations by the sheriff's office.", "In a letter to the Justice Department on Friday, Arpaio's lawyer said the sheriff couldn't agree to the department's September deadline to supply all documents requested for its investigation and questioned the government's pursuit of broad access to documents, personnel and facilities in the inquiry.", "The letter, from sheriff's office attorney Robert Driscoll, alleged that the Justice Department's position that it is \"entitled to any document it wants, to access any facility it wishes, and to interview any witness it wants, without limitation ... is simply unreasonable.\"", "Authorities are investigating whether Arpaio's policies and law enforcement sweeps discriminate against Hispanics.", "Justice Department officials met Tuesday with Arpaio and his lawyers to request additional documents in the investigation.", "The department formalized the request in a letter to the sheriff's lawyers Wednesday.", "The letter asked the sheriff's office to send confirmation Friday that it would deliver the documents by September 10.", "In his letter to the Justice Department on Friday, Driscoll pushed back on that deadline, saying \"we did not agree to a September 10, 2010 deadline at our meeting, and we cannot agree to one now.", "\"As I am sure you are aware,\" the letter continued, \"MCSO [Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] like many other state and local governmental agencies, has limited resources which cannot be deployed indiscriminately without a potentially negative impact on MCSO's ability to perform its primary functions of enforcing the law and protecting the citizens of Maricopa County.\"", "On Saturday, a Justice Department spokesman said the department expects to receive the documents on time, despite the Friday letter.", "\"We're reviewing the letter,\" spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement, \"but as we have said all along, we expect the sheriff's office to provide nothing short of full compliance with the law, as every other law enforcement agency in the country has done in similar circumstances.\"", "If it doesn't turn over the documents, the government has threatened to sue the sheriff's office \"to compel access to the requested documents, facilities and personnel,\" Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez has said.", "Arpaio, who has called himself \"America's toughest sheriff,\" is known for his hard-nosed opposition to illegal immigration.", "Detractors accuse him of discriminating against Hispanics.", "Supporters say the Justice Department's civil rights probe and its separate criminal investigation are politically motivated.", "In his Friday letter to the Justice Department, Driscoll claimed that some of the requested documents were already in the Justice Department's possession.", "\"I must say I was surprised at the apparent lack of command that any members of the DOJ team had over these documents,\" Driscoll wrote, referring to the Tuesday meeting.", "\"Indeed many of the items your team claimed to need are among those documents that the DOJ has and has had for quite some time.\"", "CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report." ]	[ "Sheriff's lawyer: Government expectation of documents and access is \"unreasonable\"\nLawyer refuses to commit to Justice Department's September 10 deadline .", "Justice Department official says DOJ still expects requested documents on time .", "Officials are investigating alleged civil rights violations by the sheriff's office ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.", "In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits were shown to exhibit Facebook activity that was distinctly more self-promotional.", "These people had \"About Me\" sections that referred to their intelligence and photos that were more about displaying the user's physical attractiveness than about capturing memories with friends.", "Narcissism is defined in the survey, by a researcher at York University in Toronto, Canada, as \"a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.\"", "For the average narcissist, Facebook \"offers a gateway for hundreds of shallow relationships and emotionally detached communication.\"", "More importantly for this study, social networking in general allows the user a great deal of control over how he or she is presented to and perceived by peers and other users.", "Mashable.com: Study says social media is for narcissists .", "The study postulated that narcissists would show more overall Facebook activity than average users and that their activity would be more self-promotional, either descriptively or superficially.", "The survey's results showed \"significant positive correlations between narcissism and self-promotional content in the following areas: Main Photo, View Photos , Status Updates and Notes.\"", "People who scored higher on the study's narcissism test also spent more time on Facebook and checked it more times each day than their less narcissistic counterparts.", "Mashable.com: Weekend stories you may have missed .", "Male narcissists were more self-promotional in their \"About Me\" descriptions, using this section as an opportunity to highlight their intelligence and wit.", "Female users with narcissistic tendencies tended to use images in their self-promotion, uploading content that \"include[d] revealing, flashy and adorned photos of their physical appearance.\"", "Mashable.com: Older adults nearly double social media presence .", "The researcher notes that this study is intended to be a preliminary look at nonynous social networking, a fairly new field for academic scrutiny.", "As we abandon the fake avatars and cryptic usernames of years past and begin associating our online identities with our real-world lives, our online activities begin to have more relevance to our true personality traits.", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "New study suggests correlations between narcissism and behavior on Facebook in young adults .", "People who scored higher on narcissism test spent more time on Facebook .", "Male narcissists were more self-promotional in their \"About Me\" descriptions .", "Female users with narcissistic tendencies tended to use images in their self-promotion ." ]	[ 9, 11, 12 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A doctor.", "A cop. A little girl.", "A Phillies fan.", "They're all Muslims. And, they emphasize in a new online commercial that begins appearing this week, they're all Americans.", "\"I don't want to take over this country,\" the dozen-plus speakers say in the public service announcement.", "\"I don't support terrorism.\"", "The online video is an effort to fight back against \"the rising tide of fear-mongering\" resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said.", "The project, called Park51, has come to be known as the \"ground zero mosque,\" although it is two blocks from the site of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.", "Its supporters say it will include many other facilities in addition to a space for prayer.", "The group behind the new commercial, \"My Faith My Voice,\" describes itself as a \"grass-roots effort by American Muslims from across the country,\" and says it has \"no affiliation to any one organization or school of thought.\"", "It officially launched the video Monday.", "The group currently has no money to put the ad on television but hopes to raise funds to do so, it said at a news conference Monday.", "Asked who had funded the project, Hassan Ahmad, an immigration attorney who is part of the group, tapped his pockets and said, \"Part of it is coming from my pocket and part of it is coming from donations.\"", "A one-minute version posted on YouTube includes white, black and Asian speakers, young and old, in clothes ranging from hipster casual to Middle Eastern, with police and doctors' uniforms among them.", "Most of the commercial is in English, but it also includes a woman speaking Spanish.", "CNN's Eric Marrapodi contributed to this report." ]	[ "A new group releases a commercial in response to the New York controversy .", "The spot includes a wide variety of speakers talking about Islam and themselves .", "The group behind the commercial officially launches it on Monday ." ]	[ 6, 9, 10, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It's sometimes said that the '00s opened with a Pearl Harbor and ended with a Great Crash.", "Yet this dramatic decade still lacks even a name.", "The Forties had big bands and a bigger war, the Sixties protests and hippies, the Seventies \"malaise.\"", "But what do we call the decade just ending?", "The Double-Zeros?", "The late Bill Safire suggested the Naughties, \"nought\" being an old-fashioned term for \"zero\" (as in dough-nought).", "Whatever you call them, the years from 2000 on have been united by one great theme: This is the decade when the bills came due for neglected problems.", "1) Terrorism .", "The most painful thought about the 9/11 attack was how easily it could have been prevented.", "If the state trooper who pulled over Ziad Jarrah for speeding had a way to detect a fraudulent driver's license -- if the gate agent who checked Muhammad Atta in Portland, Maine, had acted on his suspicions -- if, if, if.", "Through the 1990s, the United States was targeted by an escalating series of terrorist actions.", "Yet the country's leaders continued to treat terrorism as second or third-tier problem.", "President Clinton did not respond to the attack on the USS Cole in December 2000.", "Some suspected he feared retaliation would disrupt his Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.", "Candidate George W. Bush promised Muslim voters that he would end the use of CIA terrorism evidence in immigration hearings.", "The bill for past laxity came due on September 11, 2001.", "And over the remainder of the decade, other bills would arrive: the bill for allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power in 1991, the bill for not responding to Iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks in the 1990s.", "After the attack on the U.S. Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia killed 19, the Clinton administration threatened retaliation if Iran repeated the atrocity.", "That threat was followed by the ramping up of the Iranian nuclear program that confronts the world today.", "2) Health care .", "The private marketplace had developed a promising, cost-efficient means of delivering healthcare: the health maintenance organization.", "Thanks to the spread of HMOs, health care costs grew more slowly in the 1990s than any decade since World War II.", "Because health care costs are paid out of employee wages, slowing those costs boosted worker pay.", "Thanks in large part to the slowdown of health cost inflation, worker incomes grew faster in the 1990s than in any decade since the 1960s.", "But the HMOs had their faults and kinks.", "Instead of defending and improving the HMO system, demagogic state and federal politicians waged war on HMOs, imposing strict mandates on them that forced up their costs.", "And they persuaded employers to revert to more traditional and expensive fee-for-service medicine.", "The main result: Costs exploded upward again in the 2000s.", "The average cost of a health policy for a family of four doubled between 2000 and 2006, from about $6,000 to about $13,000.", "A secondary result: Wage growth stopped.", "The typical earner actually brought home less after inflation in 2006 than in 2000.", "3) Immigration .", "In 1986, Congress passed the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, granting amnesty to illegal aliens and promising stricter enforcement of immigration laws in the future.", "The law failed miserably.", "The amnesty only invited a huge surge of migrants hoping for a second amnesty.", "The promised enforcement never materialized.", "Over the ensuing decade, the United States received the biggest influx of migration since before the First World War.", "These new migrants transformed the lives of middle-class Americans.", "In the 1960s, McDonald's was the typical night out for a middle-income family.", "In the 1990s, a family earning the same income could enjoy table service at an Olive Garden or Applebee's.", "House cleaning, gardening, nannying and valet parking all became more affordable to middle-class Americans.", "There were losers from this social transformation: lower-skilled natives priced out of low-wage jobs.", "But they had little political clout, and their feelings were easily ignored.", "But in the 2000s, it became apparent that the illegal migrant population had grown vastly bigger.", "Migrants were now displacing the native-born from more desirable work: construction, meatpacking, trucking.", "More ominously, the children of the migrants were growing into something that looked very much like an underclass.", "The rate of teen motherhood among second-generation Hispanic children is higher than among blacks.", "Barely half of second-generation Hispanic migrants complete high school on time.", "Rejecting the low-skilled jobs that employed their parents, but unprepared for more skilled work, they fall into gangs and alienation.", "And this time, unlike 1986, we are talking about a population numbering in the tens of millions.", "These bills for past mistakes arrived in the 2000s.", "But we did not manage to pay them.", "Maybe it would be both more numerically and historically accurate to call the decade not the double zeroes but the triple zeroes.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum." ]	[ "The decade that's ending doesn't yet have a name .", "David Frum says the decade was marked by unsolved issues of earlier years .", "Frum: Terrorism, health care inflation, immigration issues came home to roost .", "He says these problems haven't been solved in this decade either ." ]	[ 1, 6, 14, 21, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Silverstone, home of the British Grand Prix, has officially unveiled a new circuit that will host both Formula One and MotoGP this year.", "The new $7.5 million 5.9km layout has come in the wake of Silverstone being handed the British Grand Prix for the next 10 years, after it looked certain the race would be moved to rival track Donington Park.", "The re-design, apart from increasing the length of the track, also sees famous sections of the old course -- Bridge and Priory -- removed altogether.", "New sections -- Farm Curve, Village corner, The Loop, Aintree corner and Wellington Straight -- have all been added and a new pit and paddock complex is currently in development.", "This is expected to be completed ahead of the 2011 British Grand Prix.", "Silverstone is owned by the British Racing Drivers' Club and president Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, admitted to reporters that there was a financial risk involved in spending so much money on the new circuit.", "\"It's a necessary risk.", "The alternative was that the British Grand Prix would have gone off the calendar,\" admitted Hill.", "\"There is a justification to demand first-class facilities if you have a first-class event like Formula One, and others like MotoGP, but it has to make financial sense.", "\"We are relying a little on this country's tradition of producing world-class drivers who potentially drive people through the gate.\"" ]	[ "The new Silverstone Formula One circuit has been officially unveiled .", "The circuit will host the British Grand Prix as well as the British MotoGP .", "Silverstone are to stage the British GP for the next 10 years after Donington withdrew ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked baggage, a U.S. law enforcement source said Monday.", "The men were taken into custody after landing in Amsterdam on a flight from Chicago, Illinois, Dutch prosecutors said.", "Both men were being held at Amsterdam's Schiphol International Airport at the request of Dutch national police, airport spokesman Robert Kapel said.", "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said they were arrested after \"suspicious items\" in their luggage raised concern.", "\"The items were not deemed to be dangerous in and of themselves, and as we share information with our international partners, Dutch authorities were notified of the suspicious items,\" the U.S. agency said.", "\"This matter continues to be under investigation.\"", "Those items were an empty shampoo bottle with watches attached to it and an empty bottle of a stomach medicine with mobile phones attached, according to the U.S. law enforcement source, who has been briefed on the investigation.", "That has raised concern that the men may have been testing a future terrorist plot, the source said.", "Attempts to sneak liquid explosives aboard jetliners were at the heart of a 2006 plot broken up by British authorities.", "That case led U.S. authorities to ban all but small quantities of liquids from aircraft cabins.", "U.S. law enforcement officials told CNN that the checked bags contained knives and box cutters as well.", "Passengers have been banned from carrying those items on aircraft since the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.", "The source identified the men aboard United Airlines Flight 908, from Chicago, Illinois, to Amsterdam, as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and Hezem al-Murisi.", "Al-Soofi began his trip by boarding a flight in Birmingham, Alabama, and al-Murisi originally flew from Memphis, Tennessee, the law enforcement source said.", "Another U.S. law enforcement official said both men were in the United States legally, but their countries of origin were not immediately known.", "That official said neither of the passengers were carrying items that are barred from aircraft, and federal air marshals were aboard the Chicago-to-Amsterdam flight.", "However, the law enforcement source said al-Soofi was ticketed for a flight that went to Washington's Dulles International Airport, with continuing stops in Dubai and Yemen, while both he and al-Murisi were aboard the Chicago-to-Amsterdam flight.", "Al-Soofi's luggage went aboard the Chicago-to-Washington flight without him, the source said, in what amounted to another violation of U.S. safety protocols.", "A U.S. government official said items in at least one of the bags were being examined by law enforcement authorities at Dulles on Monday night.", "The official said al-Soofi and al-Murisi were seated near each other on the Chicago-to-Amsterdam flight, but were not seated next to each other.", "Authorities are still looking into whether the men were traveling together or simply had similar itineraries, the official said.", "CNN's Nic Robertson, Jeanne Meserve, Mike Ahlers and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Men in custody may have been testing security .", "NEW: The items included bottles with phones or watches attached .", "Arrests follow Chicago-to-Amsterdam flight .", "Dutch investigators keep lid on details ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- First-time winners and new shows took the lion's share of the hardware Sunday night at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.", "\"Modern Family\" beat out the heavily favored \"Glee\" for outstanding comedy honors, and wound up winning six Emmys out of 14 nominations while \"Mad Men\" and \"Breaking Bad\" continued their winning ways in the drama category.", "\"We are thrilled that families are sitting down to watch a television show,\" said \"Modern Family\" creator Steven Levitan.", "\"Thank you for letting us into your families.\"", "\"The Pacific,\" which won seven Creative Arts Emmys last weekend and outstanding miniseries during the primetime show, was the overall champ, but the night's big winners were the TV movie \"Temple Grandin,\" which won five Emmys for a total of seven.", "\"Modern Family\" took four Emmys on Sunday night and six overall.", "\"Mad Men\" received its third straight outstanding drama series trophy.", "\"I can't believe we are here,\" said series creator Matthew Weiner.", "The trend-setting AMC series received 17 nominations, and four Emmys.", "Actress Claire Danes won her first Emmy receiving the best actress in a miniseries or a movie award for her turn in \"Temple Grandin\" which also scored up with seven wins including best miniseries or movie.", "\"This is in service of your work,\" Danes said, thanking the real-life Grandin during her acceptance speech.", "The award show proved to be full of surprises.", "Aaron Paul of \"Breaking Bad\" scored his first win for outstanding supporting actor in a drama, and Jim Parsons from \"The Big Bang Theory\" beat out such veterans Alec Baldwin and Tony Shalhoub for best actor in a comedy.", "Edie Falco scored her fourth Emmy as lead actress.", "Falco, who had previously won for \"The Sopranos\" in the drama category, took home the award for best actress in a comedy for her role on \"Nurse Jackie.\"", "\"I'm not funny,\" Falco insisted when she took to the stage.", "\"Top Chef\" ended seven years of domination of \"The Amazing Race\" in the best reality show category.", "\"The Daily Show\" won for outstanding variety, music, or comedy series.", "The critically acclaimed \"Breaking Bad\" swept the drama acting category with the show's star Bryan Cranston winning for best actor.", "George Clooney received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for his many philanthropic works, including \"America: A Tribute to Heroes in the Wake of 9/11,\" \"Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope,\" \"A Concert for the Gulf Coast\" and the \"Hope for Haiti Now\" telethon.", "Kyra Sedgwick took home her first Emmy for best actress in a drama for her work on \"The Closer,\" and Archie Panjabi from \"The Good Wife\" won for best supporting actress in a drama.", "Jane Lynch from \"Glee\" looked shocked for her selection as best supporting actress in a comedy series and was followed to the podium by \"Glee\" co-creator Ryan Murphy, who won the award for directing in a comedy series.", "Eric Stonestreet, who plays Cameron Tucker in ABC's \"Modern Family,\" won the first Emmy Sunday for best supporting actor in a comedy series.", "\"All I wanted to be was a clown in the circus, growing up,\" Stonestreet said as he accepted the award.", "The most spoken words during Sunday night's awards show may be \"Glee\" and \"Mad Men,\" as those two shows dominate nominations with a total of 36. Who wins and what they say will be seen sooner across the entire United States, since NBC moved the broadcast up several weeks to avoid a conflict with NFL football games that the network starts broadcasting on Sunday nights in September.", "West Coast viewers, who normally have to wait three hours to see a delayed broadcast, could witness the Emmys live this year, which started at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.", "The program repeated again on the West Coast immediately after it ended in the Eastern time zone.", "Comedian Jimmy Fallon served as host of the show at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.", "CNN's David Daniel contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: \"Modern Family\" beats \"Glee\" for best comedy Emmy win .", "NEW: \"Mad Men\" wins Emmy for best drama series .", "Claire Danes wins her first Emmy, in \"Temple Grandin\"\nAaron Paul of \"Breaking Bad,\" Jim Parsons of \"Big Bang Theory\" score surprise wins ." ]	[ 6, 9, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Lindsay Spencer was two years out of college and facing one of the biggest decisions of her young life: what to do with those Facebook friend requests from people she met through her job.", "Blurring work and personal friendships is prompting Lindsay Spencer to maintain separate Facebook pages.", "\"There's nothing on my personal page that's horrible,\" says the 24-year-old communications coordinator for the National Peanut Board in Atlanta, Georgia.", "\"It's just that there are some things that are not work-appropriate.\"", "Many of the job-related friend requests came after meeting people at conferences.", "Eventually they would find her by searching on Facebook and request to be \"friended.\"", "Initially Spencer decided to ignore the requests.", "After all, does a virtual stranger really care what her favorite movies are?", "Do they really benefit from learning details about her weekend leisure time?", "Spencer's answer was to create a second Facebook page, which she devotes to work-related information.", "This means she now has her \"friend friends,\" about 400 of them, and then she has her \"work friends,\" four, so far.", "Spencer's modern dilemma is becoming more common throughout the world, experts say, as friendships with co-workers extend to our lives spent online after work hours.", "Simultaneously, our computer time at the office is becoming an extension of our personal life, they say.", "'Work takes place in more places now' This isn't necessarily a bad thing, says Paul Levinson, professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University in New York.", "\"No one ever forces us to go online -- we can shut it off,\" he says.", "\"What this is really all about is an increase in information sharing.\"", "And with the popularity of smartphones and other handheld devices, many people carry their work into their homes and are never separated from e-mail.", "They also have the ability to stay in constant touch with their favorite social networking sites.", "\"There is increasingly less difference in work life and personal time,\" Levinson says.", "\"We are coming from a time when there were very clear boundaries.", "That comes from an older expectation.", "Work takes place in more places now.\"", "And again, Levinson doesn't think it's a bad thing to have access to all this information about work and co-workers.", "Spencer, who has friended her manager but not her big boss, says she likes to think her co-workers are sensible enough not to put out too much information -- especially photographs -- on social networking sites.", "And so far, so good. There have been no embarrassing images of drunken escapades, no status updates erupting with emotional outbursts.", "Social networking sites have both good and bad uses in the business world, says Dr. Lynn Friedman, a clinical psychologist and adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.", "Face time vs. Facebook time .", "People can use the sites to make new acquaintances outside their departments and groups, and users can extend their networks beyond the traditional workplace, she says in an interview by e-mail.", "\"It's a way to enter new professional galaxies.\"", "But people can use the sites too much and as a consequence give less time to meeting with co-workers in person.", "\"In most businesses, it's optimal to mix social networking with real-life face-to-face interaction,\" she writes.", "\"However, social networking can provide a springboard for identifying kindred spirits with whom one might want to do something old-fashioned like, say, having a cup of coffee.", "In an ideal world, it's best to relate to others in both cyber and real space.\"", "Paula Pile, a psychologist who practices in North Carolina, says you need to be careful to make sure that social networking sites aren't encroaching on your office time.", "More than an hour a day is excessive, she warns.", "Worse, spending too much time on the sites can disrupt your balance between work and private time.", "It can also take you out of your family time with your spouse or children.", "\"If you are spending two hours at home on them each night, you are not available to your family,\" she says.", "Set boundaries .", "Both psychologists advise setting boundaries between yourself and the people you work with, as well as your online \"friends.\"", "Friedman also suggests setting goals for using social networking sites and telling others about your limits to avoid hurt feelings.", "She uses an example of someone who lets people know, \"I don't do those things at nights or on weekends so I can have my time with family.\"", "And Pile says to consider who you're corresponding with during your work time.", "If they aren't people you would talk to in \"real life,\" she says, you probably are wasting time." ]	[ "Do job-related Facebook friends really need to know details of your personal life?", "Facebook user decided to separate her \"friend friends\" and her \"work friends\"\nExpert: More than one hour per day on social sites is too much .", "Set goals for how you use sites and make your friends aware of them ." ]	[ 0, 1, 10, 33, 34, 35, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Germany coach Joachim Low has ended speculation over his future by signing a two-year contract extension in the wake of a successful World Cup campaign.", "Low's assistant coach Hansi Flick, goalkeeping coach Andreas Kopke and national team manager Oliver Bierhoff have also signed on for a further two years.", "The 50-year-old's previous four-year deal expired on June 30.", "Talks on extending it had initially stalled in February, reportedly over financial details, and Low's desire for more control over the Under-21 Germany side.", "But the new deal will now see Low take on the task of helping Germany qualify for the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine, after his team finished third at the World Cup.", "\"We are all pleased that we can continue our work with the national team,\" he told the German Football Federation's (DFB) official website.", "\"Our team has excellent sporting prospects and it is a big challenge for us to be able to get stuck into the preparations for Euro 2012 after the successful World Cup in South Africa.", "\"In order to be able to achieve our main goals in the near future, we need the continued hard and consistent work from everyone.\"", "The DFB president Theo Zwanziger announced his delight at securing the futures of Low and his backroom staff.", "\"I'm happy for German football that we have been able to solve the most important personnel decisions in the national team so quickly and confidentially,\" he told the federation's official website.", "\"The signature of the Bundestrainers for this young team is immensely important.\"", "Zwanziger was keen to extend Low's position as coach of Germany after the former Stuttgart manager guided his country to third in South Africa.", "Low's young Germany side won rave reviews as they thrashed England and Argentina before losing to eventual winners Spain in the semifinals.", "The team finished the tournament with a bronze medal after beating Uruguay 3-2 in a third-place playoff.", "Many players on the Germany team impressed, none more so than forward Thomas Muller, 20, who won the Golden Boot and the best young player award.", "Low, who has won 38 out of 55 matches since succeeding Jurgen Klinsmann in 2006, also guided Germany to the final of the European Championships of 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, where they were defeated 1-0 by Spain.", "Germany's first qualifying match for Euro 2012 will be against Belgium in Brussels on September 3." ]	[ "Germany coach Joachim Low has signed a two-year contract extension .", "Team manager Oliver Bierhoff has also agreed to stay on for a further two years .", "Low guided Germany to third place at the World Cup in South Africa .", "He will have the task of helping Germany qualify for Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- There is a \"maker's movement\" gaining prominence on a global scale.", "Mister Jalopy works out of converted hot-rod repair shop.", "This is where he builds \"the stuff of my dreams.\"", "One of its pied pipers is a man known by his pen name, Mister Jalopy.", "His agenda is simple.", "\"You need to be able to modify, hack, repair, rebuild and reuse the stuff that you buy.\"", "Mister Jalopy's name comes from a blog he started years ago.", "From his Web site: . \"When I started the Hooptyrides blog, I pictured a modest used car lot of broken-down, flat-tired junkers that represented great promise and little else.", "Lit with strings of bare light bulbs, I dreamed of a little desert lot of plucky automobiles and a faded neon sign that erratically blinked 'Mister Jalopy's Hooptyrides.'", "\" Mister Jalopy owns a laundromat and a used-bicycle store, and he operates out of a converted hot-rod repair shop along an industrial strip of land in the shadow of Interstate 5.", "He calls his workshop \"Hooptyrides World Headquarters.\"", "\"It's my personal shop where I do my writing, think up my crackpot business schemes, repair bicycles and do my auto maintenance ... where I build the stuff of my dreams.\"", "It's brimming with high-quality tools, odds and ends from 20 years of harvesting garage sales, and machines like a lathe and welder that would delight a working tradesman.", "He created the \"world's largest iPod.\"", "It's housed in a 1950s record console that can now digitize his music off the turntable, and the original buttons control the iPod.", "He also made an \"urban guerrilla movie theater\" -- a handmade movie projector sitting on an adult tricycle.", "Watch Mister Jalopy at work » .", "His used-bike shop, Coco's Variety, is named after one of his two dogs.", "\"The credo of my store is 'Faded champions reborn for another chance at glory.'", "\" He adds: \"These old bikes, already manufactured, [are] tenderly brought back to life for someone to love anew.", "The best bike for the environment is one that already exists.", "Not one made fresh.\"", "Mister Jalopy goes to garage sales every week.", "\"Some of my favorite stuff ... are the things that were made or worn by human hands.", "There's an incredible feeling of soul.\"", "His most treasured find?", "\"It was a lowly glass Skippy jar filled with all of the earthly treasures of a kid from the '50s.\"", "There was a chunky eraser, toy soldiers, and caps for a cap gun.", "Mister Jalopy has a practical approach to saving the environment and surviving in a downturn economy.", "\"The hands-off era is over. We were seduced by low prices.", "Our landfills are filled with cheap plastic fans, broken vacuum cleaners.", "We're feeling the crunch economically.", "Maybe this stuff should be repairable.\"", "He wrote an article for Make magazine called the \"Maker's Bill of Rights.\"", "It outlines the need for manufacturers to make products that are repairable, modifiable, have replaceable parts and come with a manual.", "Of products that are glued shut, he has this to say: \"The idea of the Maker's Bill of Rights was to say, if you can't open it, you don't own it.\"", "Dale Dougherty is the creator of Make magazine, which is at the core of the movement.", "\"We live in a complex world.", "I wanted to make a magazine to showcase innovation and ideas around the world ... even in Third World countries.\"", "Make magazine sponsors the annual Maker Faire in Northern California.", "More than 500 exhibitors will showcase their ideas and innovations on the last weekend in May.", "Families are a big part of their business.", "\"There are no famous rock bands or stunts to bring people in,\" Dougherty says.", "Last year 65,000 people attended.", "Mister Jalopy will be there hosting the main stage.", "\"There's this amazing community of people that are makers: carpenters, fabricators, mechanics, electronics repair people, designers of products, garden designers ... that's the great thing about the maker movement.", "It is passionate individuals willing to make mistakes and build the stuff of our dreams.\"", "\"I'm a professional amateur.", "I haven't been trained to do anything.", "I'm not an expert carpenter, metalworker or mechanic.", "I'm fearless, though.", "I'll jump into anything.", "My hope is everyone becomes a professional amateur, that we have the passion and courage to fail.\"", "Mister Jalopy tinkers with a dusty jukebox given to him by a friend.", "He presses selection \"D5.\"", "The electronics strain to move the parts that pull a 45 onto the needle.", "Elton John's \"Bennie and the Jets\" warbles along.", "The speakers grind out the tune.", "As the song ends, the needle arm unexpectedly skips to another disc.", "\"Uh ... oh, these old machines are fascinating.", "There's a visceral quality.", "It seems like I'm chasing a ghost through the machine.\"" ]	[ "Mister Jalopy: \"You need to be able to modify ... repair, rebuild and reuse\"\n\"Makers\" want manufacturers to produce items that can be repaired .", "One of their slogans: \"If you can't open it, you don't own it\"\nMaker Faire in northern California expected to draw thousands of innovators ." ]	[ 5, 35, 39, 44 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Andy Lipkis was 15 years old on the first Earth Day in 1970 -- the year he says he realized what his calling in life would be.", "A file photo of the rainwater cistern while it was being constructed at TreePeople's headquarters.", "Three years later, Lipkis and his teenage friends would found the non-profit, community-based organization known as TreePeople.", "Based in Los Angeles, California, the environmental organization's primary purpose has been to educate communities on the planting and care of trees and to work with government agencies on issue No.", "1 in the West: water.", "Exploding populations from Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, to suburban Los Angeles have turned the issue of water supply from problem to crisis.", "\"The way we use water is so wasteful and so inappropriate today, according to the California Water Plan, there is already so much demand for water, it already exceeds supply,\" says Lipkis.", "And human consumption isn't the only problem, because as cities grow, so does the amount of pavement and concrete that seals the natural watersheds.", "That in turn prevents rainwater from refreshing underground aquifers, nature's water tanks.", "And rainwater is exactly what Lipkis is hoping people will start to think about.", "Right now, building codes in Los Angeles County, as in most parts of the country, require rainwater to be moved from rooftops to the street.", "As a result, even in mostly sunny southern California, a massive amount of water gets flushed into storm drains every year.", "\"When it rains an inch,\" Lipkis says, \"Los Angeles hemorrhages 7.6 billion gallons of water.\"", "Part of the solution to the water crisis, he says, is collecting as much rainwater as possible because \"it represents half or more of all the water we need in this big city.\"", "Lipkis and the TreePeople imagine a time when as many as a million homes and businesses have rainwater cisterns all electronically networked and ready to provide treated drinking water to the public.", "Lipkis points out that cisterns are not a new idea.", "If fact, civilizations throughout history have used cisterns to collect rainwater.", "Cisterns exist now as part of building codes in places like Bermuda, which lack fresh water resources such as lakes or rivers.", "Lipkis believes it's an idea whose time has come here in the deserts of the West.", "Watch how rainwater cisterns work » .", "TreePeople, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, has built five demonstration sites in Los Angeles, which include a large hilltop cistern at the organization's Coldwater Canyon Park headquarters.", "\"When it rains an inch,\" Lipkis said, \"those five little projects capture 1.25 million gallons.\"", "And it is all that free water that has government agencies thinking about rain.", "In Los Angeles, storm runoff presents many problems.", "When it rains heavily the water goes from the streets into the canals of the Los Angeles River and straight into the ocean.", "With that runoff is all the garbage and toxic pollutants picked up along the way.", "Another problem, Lipkis argues, is the heavy reliance on the almost 100-year-old California Aqueduct, which routes water from the Eastern Sierras.", "His main concern is the incredible amount of energy that is spent moving water.", "\"We're bringing water in from hundreds of miles away.", "Moving water and using water,\" he says, \"consumes, overall, 19 percent of all the electricity in the state and one-third of the natural gas.\"", "That is the single largest use of electricity in the state, which happens to be the most populous in the country and which, were it an independent nation, would be the eighth-largest economy in the world.", "That's quite a carbon footprint.", "Lipkis believes a hybrid water management system is the best solution, one that would include cisterns, natural watershed management and existing water infrastructure, including a less power hungry aqueduct.", "And perhaps most importantly, it would include the cooperation of water supply agencies, flood control agencies and sanitation agencies, which he believes have done too much conflicting, single-purpose cost-benefit analyses in the past.", "Lipkis sees only an upside to a large-scale cistern and rainwater infiltration project, and not only because of the environmental benefits.", "A study in the late 1990s conducted by TreePeople estimated up to 50,000 new jobs that would be created by a sustainable infrastructure system.", "\"Why would we invest billions of dollars on old infrastructure we know doesn't work anymore?\"", "he asks. \"It's very important to start putting this new alternative on the table.\"" ]	[ "Water supply problem in the West has turned into a crisis .", "Rainwater represents half of all the water that Los Angeles needs .", "California Aqueduct is almost a century old and wastes enormous amount of energy ." ]	[ 5, 13, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Manchester City's transfer window spending neared the £90 milliion ($139 million) mark after completing the signing of Serbian international left-back Aleksandar Kolarov from Lazio.", "The 24-year-old has been granted a work permit and the formalities of the reported £19 million ($29.32 million) deal with the Serie A club were completed after he passed a medical Saturday.", "The Kolarov deal has increased speculation that England international left-back Wayne Bridge will now move to Liverpool.", "But Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has denied Bridge will be leaving Eastlands.", "\"I want two top-class players for each position,\" the Italian told their official website.", "\"I first saw Kolarov in his Lazio debut back in 2007.", "I have watched him a lot since then and so have the Manchester City scouts.", "\"His attacking capability is very good.", "He is fast and can shoot with power and accuracy.", "\"He also has the ability to play in numerous positions and is very good in midfield.", "City's Abu Dhabi-based owners have given Mancini the funds to improve on their fifth-placed finish in the English Premier League last season.", "Mancini had already spent £25 million ($38.59 million apiece on Barcelona midfielder Yaya Toure and Valencia winger David Silva, as well as signing German international defender Jerome Boateng from Hamburg for £15 million ($23.15 million).", "City have also been linked with Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli but the Italian club want them to up their bid.", "\"It all depends on whether we can find the measures that are interesting for both us and them,\" the club's president Massimo Moratti told their official website." ]	[ "Aleksandar Kolarov completes his move to Manchester City from Lazio .", "Manchester City have spent nearly $139 in close season transfer window .", "Big spending City also linked with Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli ." ]	[ 0, 12 ]
[ "CNN -- When Apple launched its App Store last summer, few imagined it would reach today's numbers so quickly, if ever.", "Auto-apps could become the next way to customize your ride.", "The store now hosts over 85,000 titles and has passed 2 billion downloads.", "Even Apple is surprised.", "Now the concept of the app store has spread like a virus among competitors.", "It's also reached seemingly unrelated industries, like automobiles and TV set-top boxes.", "The App Store taps the creative energy of entrepreneurial developers.", "Whether they're big or small, they can make money through it, even though the challenges for them can be considerable.", "For consumers, the App Store offers third-party applications (free or charged ) that can be downloaded or synched onto an iPhone or iPod Touch.", "Apple takes 30 percent of a paid app's revenue and charges developers an annual fee to use the iPhone software development kit and upload apps to the store.", "But the rest goes to developers, some of whom have profited handsomely from their creations.", "Many companies now offer something similar to the App Store, if not in whole then in part.", "Even if none has yet come close to Apple's numbers -- or, arguably, its design achievements -- the spread of the app store idea is undeniable.", "\"It seems like every company remotely related to technology is embracing the app store craze,\" notes IT expert Tony Bradley in a blog post for PC World.", "Handset makers now offering software stores include Palm, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion.", "On the platform side, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Mobile -- competitors to the iPhone OS -- each have an app store now.", "Nintendo and Sony, the traditional powers in gaming gadgets, have also launched app stores, for their DSi and PSP handhelds, respectively.", "Apple is now their competitor thanks to all the iPhone games.", "The chipmaker Intel announced last month that it's setting up multiple app stores through partners like Acer and Asus to encourage independent developers to create apps for netbooks and handhelds based on its processors.", "For Twitter, a startup called Oneforty is trying to position itself as the unofficial \"app store\" for tie-in services.", "Cellular operators, wary of becoming \"dumb pipes,\" aren't sitting idly by.", "Verizon, Vodafone, Orange, and others getting in on the action with their own app stores.", "Not every company is a natural fit for creating app stores, so another market is forming for firms that help set them up.", "A firm called GetJar has helped Sony Ericsson and the cellular carriers Optimus (in Portugal) and 3 (in the UK) with app stores.", "Amdocs and Comverse, which already provide various services to carriers, have added \"app store provider\" to their offerings.", "Other firms are helping developers deal with the sudden rash of app stores.", "A California startup called GoldSpot Media recently launched miApp, designed to let developers \"design once, deploy in any app store.\"", "Of course they weren't thinking about app stores outside the mobile space when they wrote that tagline.", "From hand-held to real-world .", "Few anticipated the app store meme spreading to cars, for instance, but Atlanta-based Hughes Telematics says it's helping automakers prepare app stores for drivers.", "For safety, some of these apps would use an audio-only interface for drivers, or be usable only by passengers or when parked, notes Kevin Link, a vice president with the company: \"Automotive applications must consider driver distraction, network security, and reliability within the vehicle.\"", "But the possibilities are tantalizing and include taking pictures of a thief in action, playing catch-up audio clips of TV shows, deciphering that obscure Check Engine light, and remotely starting the engine or resetting the car alarm.", "Such apps could be accessed through home computers or smart phones, as well as from within the vehicle itself.", "Hughes Telematics can't reveal too many specifics about upcoming app stores because their rollouts depend on the schedules of the carmakers.", "And many details have yet to be worked out, notes Link, such as how revenues will be split with the developers.", "An app store of sorts will also be offered later this year by Roku, which sells a TV set-top box that connects to your broadband connection and brings online content to your living room.", "The box already lets customers order Netflix movies.", "With the upcoming app store, online content normally reserved for computers will be easily accessed over the TV.", "Possibilities include video and audio podcasts and photo-sharing destinations.", "As with the App Store, the idea is to let any developer (most likely a content owner in this case) offer their product through the platform.", "\"What an open platform does is create an opportunity for any content owner or content aggregator that has access to content, to make that content available for viewing on the TV,\" notes company spokesperson Brian Jaquet.", "Between six and 12 new apps, or channels, will be offered by the end of this year, he adds, and more will follow.", "Of course exactly what will follow is unclear because -- as with the other App Store-like offerings -- the only real limit is the imaginations of developers.", "Stay tuned." ]	[ "Apple's 'Apps Store' has become hugely successful and mimicked by others .", "Away from hand-held gadgets, apps being developed for cars and TV set-top boxes .", "Such apps could be accessed through home computers or smart phones ." ]	[ 5, 28, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Carole Dunham, 69, loved the ocean.", "Last July, she was diagnosed with cancer and had only a few months to live.", "Dunham knew her last footprint had to be a green one, and she started looking into eco-friendly alternatives to traditional burial.", "Carole Dunham, 69, had her remains memorialized on an offshore reef.", "The concept of \"going green\" has taken new life in the death care industry as eco-minded companies tap into the needs of those like Dunham.", "From biodegradable caskets to natural burial sites, death is becoming less of a dark matter than a green one.", "Dunham, an avid scuba diver, chose an eco-friendly company that would combine her cremated remains to form an artificial memorial reef.", "\"She loved the idea of always being in the water as an alternative to being cremated and scattered,\" said her daughter Nina Dunham.", "Dying is arguably the most natural phenomenon in the world, but modern death rituals -- embalming with formaldehyde-based solutions and traditional burial in concrete vaults -- are not nature-friendly, according to environmentalists.", "Along with its dead, the United States buries 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete, 827,060 tons of toxic embalming fluid, 90,000 tons of steel (from caskets), and 30 million tons of hardwood board each year, according to the Green Burial Council, an independent nonprofit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.", "\"We can rebuild the Golden Gate Bridge with that amount of metal,\" said Joe Sehee, the council's executive director.", "\"The amount of concrete is enough to build a two-lane highway from New York to Detroit.\"", "Sehee established a burgeoning network of death-care providers that have earned a green thumbs-up in the council's eco-certification program, the first of its kind in the industry.", "\"We want to reduce carbon emissions, waste and toxins in the death care industry and utilize burial to steward natural areas in the U.S.,\" said Sehee.", "Among the certified eco-providers is Eternal Reefs, based in Decatur, Georgia.", "\"We're the surf and turf of natural burial,\" said George Frankel, CEO of Eternal Reefs.", "The company takes the green movement to sea level by offering a living legacy in the form of underwater reefs used to create new marine habitats for fish and other sea life.", "The artificial reefs are cast from a mixture of environmentally safe cement and cremated remains.", "Eternal Reefs was the logical choice for Dunham, who died on November 3.", "\"She liked the idea of being a home for fish,\" said her daughter.", "This month, Dunham will travel to Florida to see her mother's reef lowered off the coast of North Miami Beach.", "Other families will join her, wearing shorts and T-shirts instead of dark suits and dresses.", "They will have a chance to decorate the reefs with flowers and other sea-friendly mementos.", "A brass plaque will help Dunham identify her mother's reef.", "She intends to visit the underwater memorial by scuba diving there in the future.", "\"These reefs will be covered up with sea life in a very short period of time, so they make a significant contribution,\" Frankel said.", "The reefs last about 500 years, and so far about 300 have been dropped off the coasts of Florida, South Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia.", "Another eco-provider certified by the Green Burial Council is UK-based Eco Coffins Ltd., which allows its customers to design their own 100 percent biodegradable coffins, made from 90 percent recycled grid honeycomb cardboard.", "The company says the coffins release 72 percent less carbon monoxide in the cremation process compared to a traditional coffin.", "\"We are appealing to customers to make the responsible choice,\" said Sophie Dansie, founder and director of Eco Coffins.", "\"The fact that standard chipboard is full of resins and formaldehyde, which is either released into the earth when buried or as emissions when burnt, is really unknown to the general public.\"", "The vibrant coffins have even captured some attention in Hollywood.", "They have a cameo as props in the upcoming film \"Powder Blue.\"", "An eco-friendly funeral can also help conserve land and protect it from development.", "The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is working with the Green Burial Council to become the first state-park agency to offer cremation-based green burials.", "The funds raised from the services will be used to acquire new state park lands.", "\"We want burials to be more sustainable for the planet, more meaningful for the planet and economically viable for the provider,\" said Sehee.", "\"We don't want this to be a marketing gimmick that diminishes the social and ecological benefits of this concept,\" he emphasized.", "The death care industry, like others, has its share of green hype.", "While it might be a bit macabre for some, CoffinCouches.com sells eclectic couches made out of used coffins.", "Founder Vidal Herrera buys unwanted or slightly damaged coffins from funeral homes that would otherwise go to a landfill.", "From these discarded materials, Herrera designs artsy Goth couches you might see in a music video or a tattoo parlor.", "Herrera's clientele includes musicians, actors and others who can afford $3,500 for a couch.", "Hype or no hype, the decision is a personal one that ultimately rests with an individual or family.", "Sehee emphasizes that the Green Burial Council is careful not to diminish anyone's choices or make recommendations about the greenest way to go.", "\"There are shades of green and people can distinguish one shade from another,\" he said." ]	[ "Eco-minded companies in death care industry offer \"green\" funerals .", "Dying woman had her ashes added to an artificial reef off Florida coast .", "CEO of Eternal Reefs: \"We're the surf and turf of natural burial.\"", "1.6 million tons of concrete, 827,060 tons of toxic fluid buried in United States yearly ." ]	[ 3, 4, 9, 15 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department issued a report Wednesday sharply critical of China's human rights record, despite the Obama administration's decision to take a different approach to the Asian country.", "In India on Wednesday, Tibetans living in exile protest Chinese rule in Tibet.", "\"The government of China's human rights record remained poor and worsened in some areas,\" the report said in reviewing the last year, finding Chinese authorities \"committed extrajudicial killings and torture, coerced confessions of prisoners and used forced labor.\"", "The \"2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,\" the annual report of human rights around the world, also accused China of \"severe cultural and religious repression\" of minorities in Tibet and other regions and increasing harassment and detention of dissidents and activists who signed a petition calling for respect of human rights.", "China limits the rights of citizens to privacy and freedom of speech, assembly, movement and association, the report said.", "It also noted that abuses peaked around high-profile events like last year's Olympic Games in Beijing.", "The critical report stands in sharp contrast to the lower-key approach Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took last week on her visit to Beijing.", "Clinton broached the issue of human rights with Chinese leaders, but drew criticism from human rights activists for downplaying the issue's importance in the overall relationship with China.", "\"Our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis,\" she told reporters traveling with her, adding, \"It is essential that the United States and China have a positive, cooperative relationship.\"", "In the past, Clinton has been an outspoken, staunch critic of China's human rights stance.", "But officials have said privately that a new approach to dealing with China's human rights record, including less public criticism and more private discussions, may prove more productive in changing Chinese behavior.", "While not delving into U.S. human rights practices, the report acknowledged that the U.S. human rights record remains a concern around the world, and it said President Obama has vowed to apply global human rights ideals at home.", "\"The Department of State remains mindful of both domestic and international scrutiny of the United States' record,\" the report said.", "\"We and all other sovereign nations have international obligations to respect the universal human rights and freedoms of our citizens, and it is the responsibility of others to speak out when they believe those obligations are not being fulfilled.\"" ]	[ "Report contrasts with lower-key approach Clinton took on her visit to Beijing .", "Review for 2008 alleges extrajudicial killings, torture, coerced confessions .", "Clinton had said \"pressing on those issues can't interfere\" with other crises .", "Report acknowledges U.S. human rights record is a concern around the world ." ]	[ 6, 8, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- There's nothing like images of infants and children in distress to make outsiders yearn to help, which is why the unfolding story of Haiti's orphans -- the most helpless of earthquake victims -- has kept people riveted.", "But what can be done and what should be the focus of attention and efforts remains a mystery to many Americans, who are flooding the phone lines of organizations, seeking to adopt these children -- immediately.", "The offer to open arms, hearts and homes is no doubt well-intentioned, but several leading aid organizations recently said new adoptions should stop and not be rushed.", "They want to protect children wrongly identified as orphans from being moved out of the country or falling victim to child traffickers.", "To help people understand what is and what can be, here are the facts as they stand right now: .", "Understanding the numbers .", "In 2007, the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, estimated that there were 380,000 orphans in Haiti.", "But -- emphasis on \"but\" -- that number is rough at best, said Christopher de Bono, a UNICEF spokesman.", "The oversight of children in the system has been lousy in Haiti, de Bono said, and parents -- burdened by hardships -- have been known to leave their children in orphanages on a temporary basis.", "So determining who was truly orphaned before the earthquake was next to impossible.", "Despite the large number of orphans, as of last summer, Haiti had only about 100 licensed orphanages and 67 crèches (orphanages licensed to perform adoptions), according to the Haitian Adoption Authority, or IBESR.", "Orphanages generally have no more than 150 children, according to adoption officials in the United States.", "This means most kids described as orphans in Haiti have not been housed in licensed establishments.", "Add to this the recent chaos and inevitable loss of documentation, and nailing down an accurate number of orphans becomes even more difficult.", "Since the 7.0 earthquake struck two weeks ago, 497 Haitian orphans have been evacuated to the United States, according to Tuesday's figure from a U.S. State Department official.", "These were children confirmed to be orphans and already far along in the adoption process with identified families waiting for them.", "In total, 500 orphans had been issued travel documents to go to the United States, said Kathleen Strottman, executive director of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that works to raise awareness about children worldwide in need of homes.", "Strottman estimates more than 900 orphans -- including more than 400 who don't yet have travel documents -- were in the process of being adopted from Haiti and placed in American homes.", "The actual match between family and child, she says, happens early in the two- to three-year adoption process, which is why this limbo stage is so painful for families who cling to photos of a child they've already grown to love.", "Should doors open to more children?", "Late last week, three aid groups -- Save the Children, World Vision and a unit of the British Red Cross -- issued a joint statement, asking for an immediate halt to any new adoptions of Haitian children.", "The crux of their argument was that hasty adoptions could break up families that may still have a chance of coming together again.", "Rather than whisk these children off to a foreign land, which might create a new set of problems for already traumatized young ones, these organizations, as well as many advocates in the adoption field, said the children should be cared for where they are -- provided with food, shelter, clothing and medical care -- and given the chance to reunite with family members who may be frantically searching for them.", "It's better to give to the organizations that are on the ground, looking out for the welfare of kids, they say.", "UNICEF released a statement last week echoing this stance and saying that efforts to register unaccompanied children are under way.", "\"Every effort will be made to reunite children with their families.", "Only if that proves impossible, and after proper screening has been carried out, should permanent alternatives like adoption be considered by the relevant authorities,\" said Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director.", "\"Screening for international adoption for some Haitian children had been completed prior to the earthquake.", "Where this is the case, there are clear benefits to speeding up their travel to their new homes.\"", "Added to the concern for these children are fears of increased trafficking and sexual exploitation.", "Before the earthquake, UNICEF estimated that as many as 2,000 Haitian children were being trafficked annually to the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, often with the consent of parents.", "These worries, and the desire to rejoin children with their loving family members, are not lost on U.S. lawmakers who came out Tuesday in support of a more efficient adoption process for Haiti.", "No one wants to tear children from the waiting arms of family members, nor do they want to place kids in danger.", "But for those who are \"true orphans,\" Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, and other senators from both parties, are throwing their political weight behind the issue.", "They say it's time to cut through the red tape that slows down the adoption process and drags it on for years -- for the sake of verified orphans living in Haiti, but also for those who span the globe and will still need loving homes after the media coverage surrounding Haiti's earthquake dies down.", "These lawmakers are pushing this week to get the Families for Orphans Act out of a Senate committee and onto the floor for a vote.", "The bill would create an office in the State Department to specifically handle adoption issues and look out for the best interests of the world's most vulnerable children.", "The stance of the Haitian authorities, though, appears unbending.", "\"The Haitian government is very clear on this,\" said Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lessgue, the communications minister.", "\"We are facilitating all of the adoption applications already submitted.", "Other than those, no child will be leaving the country for adoption.\"" ]	[ "Images of Haitian infants and children in distress keep world watching and worried .", "Calls from families hoping to adopt Haitian orphans flood phone lines .", "Aid agencies explain why hasty adoptions are dangerous and offer advice on how to help .", "U.S. lawmakers step in, trying to make adoptions more efficient ." ]	[ 0, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- No one teaches reporters how to cover a war, much less wars that include genocide.", "Most of us rely on the wisdom of experienced colleagues and a lot of on-the-job training.", "CNN's Christiane Amanpour in a Sarajevo cemetery; she returned to Bosnia for \"Scream Bloody Murder.\"", "My first war assignment -- Bosnia, in the 1990s -- included visits to the Sarajevo morgue to see the bodies.", "How else would a journalist know exactly how many Muslim children were cut down by Bosnian Serb snipers?", "How else could we put names to civilians left faceless by mortar shells from the surrounding hills?", "I learned what it means to bear witness.", "I found my voice and my mission in Bosnia.", "I learned to seek the facts, to tell the truth no matter how difficult or unpopular.", "I learned that objectivity meant covering all sides and giving all sides their hearing, but never to draw a false moral equivalence when none exists.", "I learned never to equate victims with their aggressors.", "I learned that there are limits to the style of journalism that goes: \"On the one hand, on the other hand.\"", "Most of all, I learned that as reporters our words and our actions have consequences and that we must use this powerful platform, television, responsibly.", "But how many times have people asked me, when I've come back from a place like Bosnia or Rwanda: Is it really that bad?", "I have found that many people want to believe that I am exaggerating.", "I guess they do not want to believe such evil can exist.", "Or perhaps they just do not want to be pushed into that moral space where they would have to take a stand and do something.", "Genocide is hard to imagine -- despite all we know about the Holocaust.", "Or perhaps, ironically, as a result of it being the most documented event in modern history.", "Many people now believe that if the extermination is not done on the Nazis' industrial scale or is less than complete, it is not genocide.", "They are wrong. Genocide is mass murder with the intent to wipe out a significant part of an ethnic, religious or national group.", "It means killing people not because of what they did, but because of who they are.", "It is the world's most heinous crime.", "And it continues, despite an international treaty written 60 years ago this month.", "With a unanimous vote on December 9, 1948, the fledgling United Nations adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.", "The signatories committed themselves to act, although the convention does not say what intervention is required.", "And sure enough, instead of using the convention as a springboard to action, political leaders in the ensuing years have invoked reason after reason not to stop the bloodshed.", "If there is any hopeful sign, it is in the voices of people with the emotional and intellectual courage to stand up and scream bloody murder -- often at personal or professional risk.", "Some are members of the political establishment who believe that doing the right thing is also the pragmatic thing to do.", "Others are ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances.", "What makes them do it? Over the course of filming a two-hour documentary, I found a few common threads.", "Unlike politicians who make policy from the detachment of their national capitals, these men and women have been on the front lines.", "Like Father François Ponchaud, a French missionary in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, they have seen the victims' suffering first hand.", "Like Peter Galbraith, an idealistic staff member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee who wanted the U.S. to punish Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons against the Kurds, they are convinced that the accounts of refugees are true.", "And like Richard Holbrooke, a U.S. diplomat whose Jewish grandfather fled Germany when Hitler came to power, they see where action -- sometimes military action -- can make a difference.", "None considered himself a hero.", "And some, like Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, who led a U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, believe they did not do enough.", "Dallaire was one of those good men who put on a uniform and felt that it meant something, that he was actually there to make a difference.", "Unfortunately, he was sent to Rwanda with an impossible mandate and without the backing of the international community.", "He was helpless to stop the slaughter of 800,000 to 1 million ethnic Tutsis at the hands of their Hutu countrymen.", "Imagine if that had happened to you or me?", "How would we be able to live with ourselves?", "iReport.com: Have a question for Amanpour?", "Send it in . In any single crisis, I can understand that political leaders are under pressure not to intervene.", "But stepping back to look at the consistent pattern, one must ask: Is it acceptable?", "In the 1970s, the Carter administration touted human rights as a core value in U.S. foreign policy, but knew that military intervention against the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia was politically inconceivable after the disastrous war in Vietnam.", "In the 1980s, the Reagan administration was courting Iraq as an ally against Iran and as a market for U.S. exports when Saddam Hussein was gassing the Kurds; a punishing trade embargo would have destroyed the budding relationship.", "In the 1990s, the Clinton administration would not take military action against the Bosnian Serbs without backing from the European allies.", "Watch Bosnia's president discuss the 1991 U.N. arms embargo on the former Yugoslavia » .", "And some U.S. officials even avoided characterizing the slaughter in Rwanda in 1994 as genocide lest it lead to a call for action under the U.N. Genocide Convention.", "Military force: The last resort?", "Or the first resort? ...", "But three years into the Bosnian war -- after the massacre at Srebrenica -- the U.S. finally forged a coalition of previously reluctant allies to bomb the Bosnian Serb military positions.", "They stopped the war, then led the peace process and the peace enforcement that has survived to this day.", "And because we the press, the storytellers, finally made it impossible for our Western democratic governments to tolerate mass murder of men, women and children in the age of 24/7 satellite TV, 3½ years later, the U.S. led its allies in a pre-emptive strike against genocide in Kosovo.", "NATO, established to protect the West during the Cold War, had launched its largest military strike -- for a purely humanitarian mission.", "And today, there is a grassroots American movement that has brought the genocide in Darfur to such prominence.", "We're always told that evil happens when good men do nothing.", "And the question -- my question as a reporter and as a witness to history is: Will we ever learn?", "Or will I or my children or my successors be reporting on this same kind of atrocity and inhumanity for years and years to come?", "This is what I don't understand about the human race.", "So thank goodness for the few good men and women who summon the courage to do something in the face of evil, to stand up and confront it. They give me hope." ]	[ "CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled the globe for documentary on genocide .", "Amanpour: The few people who stand up and confront evil give me hope ." ]	[ 2, 61 ]
[ "SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- Richard Holbrooke first visited Bosnia in 1992 as a private citizen.", "Richard Holbrooke's 'bombs for peace' policy was vindicated when bombings brought an end to the war.", "Three years later, he would become one of the most influential U.S. figures working to end a war that had introduced a new euphemism for genocide: ethnic cleansing.", "Holbrooke, who had worked as a diplomat, journalist and investment banker, was intrigued, disgusted and challenged by what he saw in the early days of the war in Bosnia.", "A month before his first visit, reporters had learned of Bosnian Serb concentration camps where Muslim prisoners were tortured, sexually mutilated and executed.", "The news photographs and footage seemed like an echo of the Holocaust.", "In the ethnically mixed capital, Sarajevo, Holbrooke saw Bosnian Serb forces laying siege to the city to drive out Muslims.", "U.N. peacekeepers even had to negotiate with the aggressors just to truck food into the starving city.", "In Banja Luka, Holbrooke saw Muslim families being forced to sign over their property to Bosnian Serbs -- Orthodox Christians -- in exchange for their lives and a one-way bus ticket out of town.", "Returning with CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour in 2008, Holbrooke remembered feeling the connection with his own family history: His Jewish grandfather fled Germany shortly after Hitler took power.", "\"I thought I'm seeing a color remake of the black and white scenes we'd seen in World War II of Jews signing away their property at the point of a gun and then being shipped off to who knows where,\" Holbrooke said.", "\"I don't think you have to be Jewish to understand that what you're seeing was a genuine crime against humanity.", "The Europeans were doing nothing, and the Americans were doing less.\"", "Watch as Holbrooke talks with CNN's Christiane Amanpour at the scene of the crime » .", "Holbrooke thought only a U.S.-led intervention would stop the slaughter.", "\"The [Bosnian] Serbs would have melted away because they were thugs and bullies,\" he said.", "But the White House was vowing to stay out.", "\"The United States is not going to inject itself into every single crisis, no matter how heart-rending,\" then-President George H.W.", "Bush said. Holbrooke, who had served President Jimmy Carter as an assistant secretary of state, offered his recommendation to Bill Clinton's advisers during the 1992 presidential campaign: Direct use of force against the Bosnian Serbs.", "\"I took a stand that I believed was correct,\" Holbrooke said.", "\"I didn't think it was so controversial.\"", "When Clinton embraced a get-tough policy, Holbrooke was optimistic.", "In the back of Holbrooke's mind, there was a lingering question: \"Will he do as president what he said he would do as a candidate?\"", "Watch Clinton's campaign pledge » .", "Holbrooke wanted to handle Bosnia for the Clinton administration.", "But after the election, Holbrooke -- the consummate insider -- found himself on the outside.", "Instead of getting the Bosnia portfolio, he was named U.S. ambassador to Germany.", "\"By advocating vigorous action [in Bosnia], I was kind of marginalized by people inside the government who were less in favor of vigorous action,\" he told Amanpour.", "America's European allies opposed airstrikes, fearing retaliation against their peacekeepers on the ground.", "Clinton's national security adviser, Anthony Lake, told CNN that the Europeans \"were, to put it mildly, extremely reluctant to see us pursue unilaterally any actions which could imperil their troops.\"", "Lake said the president's hands were tied.", "\"We tried to convince them.", "And the Europeans said, 'Absolutely no.'\"", "Over the course of the next year, Clinton was able to persuade his European allies to at least use limited air strikes against the Bosnia Serbs.", "But it didn't stop the killing.", "Under mounting criticism in the press, Clinton asked Holbrooke in May 1994 to leave his post in Germany and return to the White House to help with Bosnia.", "But Holbrooke and others in the administration who advocated force would nonetheless see Bosnia's Muslims endure another 15 months of heartbreak and death -- including the slaughter of 8,000 at Srebrenica.", "Watch as a Bosnian concentration camp survivor describes the torture and rape she witnessed » .", "The massacre shook the world's conscience -- and Clinton's foreign policy.", "He was now ready to lead, with or without approval from other nations.", "\"What I said to the Europeans was, 'We're going to do this.", "And it'll work best if you come with us,'\" Lake recalled.", "After a Serb mortar attack on a Sarajevo market in August 1995, Clinton pulled the trigger.", "With the Europeans on board, U.S. and allied planes began attacking Bosnian Serb positions.", "After eight weeks of NATO bombing, Holbrooke got enough concessions to negotiate an end to 3 ½ years of war.", "It was vindication for a policy Holbrooke calls \"bombs for peace.\"", "\"I don't like to advocate the use of force, [because] I know people will get killed,\" Holbrooke said.", "\"But there are times when you have to use force in order to stop people from being killed in larger numbers, and it seemed to me this was a clear-cut example.\"" ]	[ "Richard Holbrooke first went to Bosnia in 1992 in the early days of the war .", "The former diplomat recommended using U.S. force against the Bosnian Serbs .", "He watched as Bosnia's Muslims suffered years of heartbreak and death .", "In 1995, after weeks of NATO bombing, Holbrooke negotiated an end to the war ." ]	[ 3, 36, 44 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A woman who claims polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs forced her as a 14-year-old to marry her 19-year-old cousin said she is not giving up, despite the Utah Supreme Court's overturning Jeffs' convictions and ordering a new trial.", "\"This is not the end, and I by no means am backing down,\" Elissa Wall said after the ruling at a news conference, portions of which were posted on the website of CNN affiliate KSL-TV.", "Jeffs, the \"prophet\" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or FLDS, was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life after he was convicted on two counts of rape as an accomplice in September 2007.", "He was accused of using his influence to force Wall to marry her cousin Allen Steed in 2001.", "The Utah Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the jury instructions in Jeffs' 2007 trial were flawed.", "The first count of rape as an accomplice against Jeffs was alleged to have occurred shortly after Wall and Steed were married, when the two first had sex, the Utah Supreme Court opinion said.", "The second was alleged to have occurred after Jeffs refused to \"release\" Wall from her marriage and told her to \"give herself to [Steed] ... mind, body and soul.\"", "Prosecutors relied on three separate portions of the law defining the circumstances under which sex is non-consensual, the opinion said.", "Under those portions, the victim must express a lack of consent through words or conduct, the victim must be younger than 18, and \"the actor\" must be in a position of special trust in relation to the victim.", "\"Jeffs argues that the instruction erroneously focused the jury on Jeffs' actions and position of special trust, rather than on Steed's, for the purpose of determining whether Wall consented,\" the opinion said.", "The justices agreed, saying in the unanimous ruling that the jurors should have been asked to consider whether Steed was in a position of special trust and whether Steed lured or induced Wall into having sex.", "\"The state interprets the term 'actor' to mean the 'defendant,' \" the opinion said.", "\"We conclude that the state's interpretation is erroneous.\"", "Also, the jurors should have been instructed that in order to convict, they must find that Jeffs intended that Steed would sexually assault Wall as a result of his conduct.", "Wall told \"In Session\" on Tuesday night that she was in \"disbelief\" after hearing that the convictions were overturned.", "\"What I know is this: I would never have married my first husband unless Warren wanted it,\" she said.", "\"I would never had had unwanted sex with my first husband unless Warren demanded it.", "The jury understood that.\"", "She told KSL-TV that she has no regrets about her testimony in the case.", "\"If I had to do this again, I wouldn't change a thing, because I stood up for what I believe in,\" Wall said Tuesday.", "She is now 24 and has remarried and left the FLDS.", "Her attorneys made her name public after the Jeffs trial, with her consent.", "According to KSL, she is in a witness protection program.", "She said she feared retribution for her testimony against Jeffs.", "\"He controlled thousands of people in fear for many, many years,\" she said, and \"many abominable sins and many things ... have occurred to thousands of people because of his influence.\"", "The justices sent the case back to the lower court for a new trial.", "Defense attorney Wally Bugden said Tuesday that he expects the Washington County, Utah, district attorney to decide quickly on whether Jeffs will be retried.", "Brian Filter, senior deputy attorney for Washington County, said Wednesday that the district attorney's office is still analyzing the Supreme Court's ruling and consulting with the victim and others involved in the case before deciding to retry Jeffs.", "Jeffs will be transferred, however, from the Utah State Prison just south of Salt Lake City to Washington County in southern Utah -- closer to the FLDS communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, Bugden said.", "Bugden said Tuesday that he will be requesting bail for Jeffs when a hearing is held in the lower court.", "But Jeffs remains under federal indictment for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in 2006.", "Federal detainers remain in place, said Melodie Rydalch, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Utah.", "If Jeffs is not held on state charges, he will be taken into federal custody, she said.", "However, Jeffs' biggest legal challenge still awaits him.", "He is awaiting trial in Texas, where he was indicted in 2008 on a felony charge of sexual assault of a child.", "The indictment accuses him of assaulting a child \"younger than 17 years of age and not legally married to the defendant\" in January 2005.", "If convicted on those charges, he could face a maximum penalty of five to 99 years or life in prison.", "An extradition hearing on the Texas matter was canceled Tuesday after the Utah Supreme Court ruling.", "But the Texas attorney general's office began new proceedings Wednesday to extradite Jeffs, spokesman Jerry Strickland told The Dallas Morning News.", "Jeffs had been awaiting trial in Arizona on four charges of being an accomplice to sexual conduct with a minor.", "But last month, a judge dismissed those charges.", "The Mohave County, Arizona, prosecutor, had asked the court to throw out the charges, citing \"much more serious charges\" against Jeffs in Texas and the desire of his alleged victims that he \"face these more serious charges as soon as possible.\"", "The FLDS drew national attention when Jeffs was arrested during a routine traffic stop in August 2006.", "At the time, he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.", "The FLDS is a 10,000-member offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church, which renounced polygamy a century ago.", "FLDS members openly practice polygamy at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado,Texas, and the two towns straddling the Utah-Arizona state line.", "Critics of the sect say young girls are forced into \"spiritual\" marriages with older men and are sexually abused.", "Sect members have denied that any sexual abuse takes place.", "Jeffs had led the sect since his father's death in 2002.", "CNN's Ashley Hayes and \"In Session's\" Beth Karas contributed to this report." ]	[ "Elissa Wall says she \"wouldn't change a thing\"\nWarren Jeffs' Utah convictions thrown out by state Supreme Court .", "Report: Texas launches new efforts to extradite Jeffs .", "Feds say they will take Jeffs into custody if he is freed on state charges ." ]	[ 0, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic.", "They are household names, infamous for masterminding genocide.", "But who were the foot soldiers who did the dirty work?", "Recently discovered photos show Nazi officers relaxing at a retreat near Auschwitz.", "In many cases they were equally notorious in their communities because they were the friends, neighbors and co-workers of those they raped, slaughtered and buried alive.", "Nusreta Sivac watched ordinary people become killers while imprisoned in a concentration camp in Bosnia.", "She saw prisoners beaten beyond recognition and watched camp guards force a Muslim prisoner to rape a Muslim woman in front of everyone.", "She was shocked to see people she knew running the camp.", "\"They acted as if they had never seen me before,\" she said.", "\"It was difficult for me to understand how people could turn into beasts overnight.\"", "Watch as Nusreta tells her story » .", "While some perpetrators participate unwillingly -- they are forced to kill or face death themselves -- many ordinary people are manipulated into participating in the killing machine voluntarily.", "Researchers say most perpetrators of genocide were not destined for murder and had never killed before.", "\"You don't have to be mentally ill or even innately evil or criminal.", "You can be ordinary, no better or worse than you or me, and commit killing or genocide,\" said Harvard psychiatrist Robert Lifton, who has studied Nazi doctors.", "\"The truth is that we all have the possibility for genocidal behavior.\"", "Experts have reached a troubling conclusion: It was actually very easy for the architects of genocide to find more than enough ordinary people to do the killing.", "Genocide is often the result of a \"perfect storm.\"", "A country reeling from political and economic turmoil, a fanatical leader promising to make things better and a vulnerable population targeted for blame -- all combine in a blueprint for mass murder.", "Architects of genocide use the same tools to execute their plan.", "Group identity .", "Millions have been killed for being religious, ethnic or simply educated.", "Group identity is one of the foundations of genocide.", "This allegiance makes it easier for extremist leaders to stoke age-old animosities between groups.", "\"We all divide the world into 'us' and 'them,' \" said psychologist Ervin Staub, author of \"The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence.\"", "\"Some people are like 'us' because of nationality, religion, race, etc.", "Those that are not like 'us' are 'them.' \" \"Group identity intensifies during difficult times,\" Staub said.", "Jean-Bosco Bizimana, a Rwandan Hutu, slaughtered his Tutsi neighbors 14 years ago.", "Leaders of the genocide exploited the history of hatred between the Hutus and Tutsis to pit them against each other.", "But before the genocide, the two groups had overcome their hostility to live peacefully together.", "\"We were manipulated,\" Bizimana said.", "\"The government pushed us to kill.", "Before that, we intermarried, we helped each other in daily life and we shared everything.", "We ourselves can't even believe what happened.\"", "Bizimana's wife said her husband, \"would go around with the mob, and to show them he was part of it, he would kill.\"", "Perpetrators don't want to be seen as weak, and in a mob mentality, individual guilt seems to disappear.", "\"People will do almost anything in a group and will do anything not to be rejected,\" said psychologist Philip Zimbardo, a professor emeritus at Stanford and famous for his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, which divided student volunteers into \"prisoners\" and \"guards\" and showed how easily people could be induced to commit sadistic acts.", "\"They give up a sense of personal accountability and diffuse responsibility to the leader.\"", "Propaganda and dehumanization .", "Genocidal regimes use propaganda to incite hatred.", "During the genocide in Bosnia, for example, a fictitious news report said Muslims were feeding Serb children to animals at the Sarajevo zoo.", "When people feel threatened and endangered, they can be led to kill.", "\"Most genocides are shaped on [a perceived need for] self-defense,\" said Christopher Browning, a University of North Carolina history professor who studied a Nazi police battalion.", "Bizimana said Rwandan government radio broadcasts led him to kill.", "\"When instructions come from the government, we believed it was the right thing to do,\" he said.", "\"People tend to believe the world is a just place,\" psychologist Staub said.", "So the targeted group \"is seen as though they did something to deserve the suffering.\"", "The propaganda machine portrays the victim group as less than human.", "In Rwanda, the Hutus called their Tutsi neighbors 'cockroaches.'", "In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge said their victims were \"worms.\"", "To the Nazis, Jews were \"vermin.\"", "Dehumanization is the most powerful psychological tool used in all mass murder and genocides, Zimbardo said.", "\"Dehumanization blurs your vision.", "You look at these people and you do not see them as human.\"", "Instead, the enemy is treated as a germ -- as something to eradicate, or else face the threat of infection.", "\"Purification is at the heart of genocide,\" said Harvard's Lifton.", "\"In that purification ... [the killers] are healing.\"", "Recently discovered photos show Nazi officers at a retreat near Auschwitz relaxing as though they are taking a break from a routine job, not an extermination factory.", "\"In order to carry out the function of killing, one must instill in that environment a sense of ordinariness,\" said Lifton.", "Watch images of Nazis relaxing » .", "In the end, the masterminds of genocide see their visions play out: Foot soldiers carry out the mission and entire populations are displaced or killed.", "Perpetrators and victims don't realize what they're involved in until it's too late, said Ben Kiernan, director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University.", "\"It's a conspiracy, a silent secret plan to set up a situation whereby the victims, who are unsuspecting, are brought into a conflict with a large number of people, many of whom are also unsuspecting,\" Kiernan said.", "Looking back at their crimes, some perpetrators are now sorry for their actions, including Bizimana.", "\"What we did to them in the past was very bad,\" he said.", "\"Deep in my heart, I regret it.\"", "Bizimana has since reconciled with his surviving Tutsi neighbors, and is trying to build unity in his country.", "\"What happened,\" he vows, \"will never happen again.\"" ]	[ "Genocide's foot soldiers were neighbors of those they tortured and killed .", "Many ordinary people are manipulated into participating, researchers say .", "Architects of genocide use group identity, mob mentality to execute their plan .", "Other tools include propaganda and dehumanization ." ]	[ 11, 12, 19, 20, 38 ]
[ "PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) -- Francois Ponchaud was a newly ordained Catholic priest when he arrived in Cambodia in 1965 from a small village in France.", "Francois Ponchaud said refugees' accounts of the genocide \"went beyond my wildest imagination.\"", "He was sent to do missionary work.", "But within a decade he would become a crusader against the worst genocide since the Holocaust.", "\"I was staying by the Cambodian people's side,\" Ponchaud said, \"through the good and the sadness and the suffering.\"", "When he arrived at age 26, Cambodia was a peaceful place: a bucolic land of villages, peasants, rice paddies and Buddhist monks.", "Ponchaud studied Cambodian history and Buddhism, became fluent in Khmer, made friends and immersed himself in the culture -- falling in love with the country and its people.", "But the peacefulness was short-lived.", "By 1970, Cambodia was descending into chaos as the Vietnam War spilled across its borders.", "In the countryside, the Americans were carpet-bombing Vietcong outposts.", "In the capital, Phnom Penh, Washington was propping up a corrupt government.", "From the jungles, a sinister and brutal communist rebel group called the Khmer Rouge was fighting to overthrow Cambodia's U.S.-backed regime.", "On April 17, 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge.", "They began to reinvent Cambodia according to an insane blueprint.", "They emptied the cities, including some 3 million in the capital, forcing all the residents into the countryside -- and toward a dark future.", "\"As of noon, all the people started leaving,\" Ponchaud said.", "\"Then I saw all my friends who were leaving. ...", "There were hundreds of thousands of people who were trudging along a few kilometers an hour.", "It was truly a staggering sight.", "Incredible.\" Watch Ponchaud describe the exodus from Phnom Penh » .", "Ponchaud was told to stay at the French Embassy, where thousands fleeing Phnom Penh desperately sought asylum.", "One of the few foreigners able to communicate with the Khmer Rouge, he spent days at the embassy gate, trying to negotiate.", "Watch Ponchaud discuss the significance of the embassy gate » .", "In the weeks that followed, the Khmer Rouge let him leave the embassy twice.", "Both times he searched for clues about what was happening in the country.", "But Phnom Penh was empty.", "Read a reporter's notebook of his journey through Cambodia's killing fields » .", "Ponchaud was expelled from the city in the last evacuating convoy, as the Khmer Rouge forced all foreigners onto trucks and out of the country.", "At the border, Ponchaud broke down, weeping.", "\"It was as though we had gone mad,\" he said.", "\"We were getting out of a country of the living dead.\"", "With the country sealed, the Khmer Rouge went about creating their new Cambodia -- and the killing began in earnest.", "The Khmer Rouge envisioned a return to Cambodia's medieval greatness -- a \"pure\" nation full of noble peasant farmers.", "For that, though, they had to purge everyone else: the rich, the religious, the educated, anyone from a different ethnic group.", "\"All those who were opposed to the government were killed,\" Ponchaud said.", "\"And all those who didn't work quite hard enough were killed.\"", "Hundreds of thousands were worked -- or starved -- to death.", "\"Perhaps a good chunk -- a solid half -- died from sickness and lack of health care,\" he said.", "By September 1975, Ponchaud was back in France and ready to resume his work.", "His missionary society in Paris asked him to keep track of events in Cambodia.", "He quickly became the \"go-to\" person for Cambodian refugees arriving from Thailand, and he began documenting their stories.", "At first, Ponchaud had a hard time believing the accounts of execution, torture, deportation, forced labor and starvation.", "Read how a Khmer Rouge survivor is documenting the genocide .", "\"They were burning villages ... sending people into the forest without giving them anything to eat,\" Ponchaud said.", "\"It went beyond my wildest imagination.\"", "Horrified, Ponchaud devised a plan to gather more information: A friend living on the Cambodian border would record and send him broadcasts from Radio Phnom Penh -- the official voice of the Khmer Rouge -- in which the government described its transformation of the country.", "Read a former Khmer Rouge member's account of the killings .", "Ponchaud found that the broadcasts substantiated the refugees' claims.", "As unbelievable as those claims were, the broadcasts told of the same policies.", "What the refugees were saying was true.", "\"I decoded the radio -- the official declarations.", "And then the refugees would give me the 'experienced' side.", "It matched up,\" he said.", "\"On one hand, the ideology, and on the other, the lived experience.\"", "Watch Ponchaud describe how he was able to decode the Khmer Rouge ideology » .", "For months, Ponchaud gathered and documented information, repeatedly denouncing the Khmer Rouge.", "His testimonials appeared in the French press as early as October 1975.", "He also wrote to the president of France and Amnesty International, and appeared before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.", "Watch Ponchaud discuss his efforts to alert people to the genocide » .", "In 1976, angered by inaccuracies in Le Monde's reporting on the Khmer Rouge, Ponchaud fired off a letter to the newspaper's editor -- along with a dossier of refugee accounts and radio transmissions.", "He was contacted immediately and asked to write for the newspaper.", "His articles were published in February 1976.", "Watch Ponchaud tell the Le Monde story » .", "Though few accounts of Cambodia's nightmare were appearing in the press, the U.S. government was receiving frequent briefings about what was happening there.", "In a meeting in November 1975, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger acknowledged the brutality of the Khmer Rouge.", "But he also knew that they shared an enemy with the U.S. -- Vietnam.", "\"Tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them,\" Kissinger told an official in the region, according to a declassified State Department account.", "The Khmer Rouge \"are murderous thugs,\" he said, \"but we won't let that stand in our way.\"", "Read Kissinger's words in the declassified State Department document (pdf) By 1977, the Khmer Rouge had been in power for two years, and much of the world remained unaware or uninterested.", "Many who did hear accounts of Khmer Rouge brutality found them hard to believe.", "Even prominent liberals and intellectuals doubted that a supposedly egalitarian peasant movement would perpetrate such horrors on their own people.", "Ponchaud then published a startling book called \"Year Zero.\"", "It was one of the first to expose the brutal totalitarian regime of the Khmer Rouge to the world.", "Still, no help came for Cambodia.", "\"I was pretty frustrated,\" he said.", "\"The governments did not react.", "You know, countries don't defend human rights.", "They are always subservient to politics.\"", "In January 1977, the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter promised a change.", "Carter vowed to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy.", "But it would take 15 months for him to publicly condemn the Khmer Rouge as the world's \"worst violator of human rights.\"", "Even then he took no action to stop the slaughter.", "Invasion, he said, was not an option for a country still recovering from the Vietnam War.", "Instead, in December 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia after years of cross-border skirmishes.", "The Vietnamese quickly overthrew the Khmer Rouge, who fled back into the jungle.", "The world would finally start to see that all Ponchaud had said was true.", "More than 2 million Cambodians were dead.", "The scope of the catastrophe quickly became clear.", "In the fall of 1979, Carter responded, raising $32 million to help the refugees.", "Today, Ponchaud is back in Cambodia, continuing his efforts for the Cambodian people, building schools, holding Mass and working on local projects.", "Often referred to as \"the friend of the Cambodians,\" he is considered an expert on the country.", "But this time he has no illusions.", "\"No one defends human rights,\" he said.", "\"Governments are cold beasts looking out for their own interests.\"" ]	[ "Francois Ponchaud was sent to do missionary work in Cambodia in 1965 .", "A priest, he became a crusader against the worst genocide since the Holocaust .", "Ponchaud kept a dossier of refugee accounts and radio transmissions .", "His articles and book helped expose the Khmer Rouge's brutal totalitarian regime ." ]	[ 2, 3, 59, 72 ]
[ "HELSTON, England (CNN) -- A huge cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008.", "It was the largest recorded disaster in that country, killing more than 130,000 people and leaving millions homeless.", "Since 2001, Tom Henderson's organization, ShelterBox, has supplied aid to more than 600,000 people.", "\"We were one of the first aid agencies into the country, delivering our ShelterBoxes,\" says Tom Henderson, whose relief package and organization of the same name has aided more than 600,000 victims of disasters of all scales worldwide since 2001.", "Designed to help an extended family survive for a minimum of six months, the lightweight, weatherproof box contains items such as a 10-person tent, blankets, basic tools, water-purification tablets and containers, a multi-fuel or wood-burning stove, mosquito nets and other items tailored to the particular region in crisis.", "The \"ShelterBox is designed to be small enough so two people can carry it -- but it has to be large enough to get equipment in for 10 people,\" Henderson explains.", "\"It's a simple package of aid delivered to the most needy people in the shortest amount of time.\"", "The ex-Royal Navy search-and-rescue diver says the idea behind the ShelterBox came to him \"literally in a heartbeat\" while watching the news in 1999.", "Henderson was struck by the footage he saw of relief workers dropping food on the ground to victims of a disaster.", "\"I decided there and then that I would try to make a difference in a more sensible and dignified way,\" he recalls.", "\"I went to my study and I got a piece of paper out, and I wrote down 'shelter,' 'warm,' 'comfort,' and 'dignity.'", "And that's where it started.\" Though Henderson says people thought he was crazy, he searched around the world for the products he knew would work.", "In 2000, he brought his idea to the local Helston-Lizard Rotary Club, where members adopted the cause.", "In January 2001, the first 143 ShelterBoxes were flown to earthquake-ravaged Gujarat, India.", "Since then, the ShelterBox organization has responded to more than 70 disasters in 46 countries.", "\"If people have lost everything why should they lose their dignity as well?\"", "asks Henderson.", "\"So we were very keen, as well as delivering aid, to give people back their dignity, put them back in control.\"", "Watch how ShelterBox helps victims of disasters around the world » .", "The secret of its success is two-fold, explains Henderson.", "ShelterBox is nonpolitical, accepting no funding from government agencies, and is a worldwide network with communication hubs near every potential disaster site via Rotary International.", "This allows ShelterBox to respond within 72 hours of a disaster anywhere in the world, subject to customs and local political barriers.", "According to ShelterBox, each box costs £490 in the United Kingdom and $1,000 in the United States, including all materials, packing, storage and distribution to recipients around the world.", "Donations from the British public and money raised from Rotary Clubs worldwide help fund the boxes.", "Watch Henderson reveal the items in a typical ShelterBox » .", "\"Nobody can buy our boxes, they are only available for free,\" says Henderson.", "Although Henderson does not travel to drop off boxes or choose where they go, he says he remains motivated by the thought of the millions of people that need help every day, and that if ShelterBox stops delivering aid, people might not survive.", "Watch Henderson tell the story of a mother and her baby in a ShelterBox » .", "\"The goal for me was these people,\" he says.", "\"I had pictures in my mind's eye... [like] children dying in the snow after a disaster.", "We want this to last for years to come, not just to get them through this disaster, [but] as a springboard for moving forward.\"", "Stories that Henderson hears from the field remind him that ShelterBox is doing just that.", "Recently, a woman in Kenya gave birth to a baby girl in a ShelterBox tent.", "\"The ShelterBox became a crib for the baby.", "And the blankets became blankets for the baby,\" says Henderson.", "\"It's a huge feeling of pride and satisfaction when these sorts of things happen.\"" ]	[ "Tom Henderson's organization, ShelterBox, helps disaster victims worldwide .", "It provides free ShelterBoxes, containing items such as blankets, tools and tents .", "The organization has aided more than 600,000 victims of disasters since 2001 ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Brazil's president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday.", "President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva was quoted by Brazil's official state news agency EBC as saying \"I want to make an appeal to my friend Ahmadinejad ... and to the government of Iran to allow Brazil to take in the woman.\"", "Brazil recently participated in talks with Iran aimed at restarting negotiations about Iran's nuclear program.", "In May, Brazil helped broker a deal with Iran that would provide Tehran with enriched uranium for medical research.", "Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006 and was originally sentenced to death by stoning.", "Iranian authorities say the sentence has been put on hold, but there have been no reports as to whether a new sentence has been imposed.", "The 43-year-old mother of two is reportedly still being held held in Tabriz prison.", "Iran's judiciary could reinstate her sentence of death by stoning, execute her by another means, or possibly even grant her a reprieve, according to human rights groups.", "Ashtiani's attorney, Mohammad Mostafaei, told CNN earlier this month that his client confessed to the crime after being subjected to 99 lashes.", "He said she later recanted the confession and denied any wrongdoing.", "Mostafaei has gone into hiding since last weekend after being interrogated by Iranian authorities, human rights groups say.", "Advocates and Mostafaei say his wife and brother-in-law are being held by Iranian authorities.", "A letter believed to be written by Mostafaei was posted on the Internet on Saturday, calling for the release of his relatives.", "The lawyer says he has cooperated with interrogators, and says his wife and brother-in-law are victims of of \"hostage taking.\"", "Mostafaei said he and his family are innocent of any wrongdoing.", "The Guardian newspaper previously reported that Mostafaei's wife was arrested when they were unable to find him.", "CNN's Gena Somra contributed to this report." ]	[ "Brazil's president offers asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani .", "Lawyer of woman says his wife is being unfairly held .", "Brazil's president has been involved in diplomatic talks with Iran in recent months .", "Iran says Ashtiani's stoning sentence was commuted, but no word on alternate sentence ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 5, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The number of babies born in the United States dropped 2.6 percent last year, according to a recent study, the latest in a long list of falling indicators.", "The birth rate, which takes into account changes in the population, fell to 13.5 births for every 1,000 people last year, from 13.9 births in 2008, and 14.3 births in 2007, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics.", "The news is not surprising, said Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, given the sad state of the American economy right now.", "\"The birth rate is falling because of the Great Recession.", "When people are unsure of their financial future, they tend to postpone having children,\" Cherlin told CNN.", "\"It's stronger now than in the last couple of recessions because this is a stronger recession,\" he added.", "The U.S. birth rate has been declining since the start of the economic downturn in late 2007.", "When the economy picks up, so should births, said Cherlin, though he stressed it will take time for people to feel secure again.", "Some of the women postponing having children now will have them later, Cherlin said, while others never will.", "During the Great Depression in the 1930s, roughly 20 percent of women never had children -- a percentage that Cherlin predicts the United States will hit again.", "The number of actual babies born in the United States dropped to 4,136,000 in 2009, from 4,247,000 in 2008, the statistics center said.", "\"I think it's likely to be a few years before this turns around,\" said Cherlin." ]	[ "The U.S. birth rate fell 2.6 percent last year, according to the National Center for Health Statistics .", "An expert says the drop is likely because of the current recession .", "The U.S. birth rate also fell in 2008 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Considered one of modern Africa's founding fathers, Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda has spent much of his life fighting some of Africa's toughest battles.", "From his struggles against the racism and oppression of colonial rule in the 1950s to the fight against AIDS today, it's been an eventful life for Zambia's former leader.", "Kaunda's rise to prominence started in the early 1950s, a time of growing political unrest in the region.", "Independence movements across Africa were gaining momentum and activists, becoming ever more defiant, were demanding the end of colonialism and the right to self government.", "In Northern Rhodesia -- soon to become Zambia -- Kaunda was in the midst of the struggles, fighting against a repressive and racist regime, he explained to CNN.", "\"We were going to defy unjust laws, conditions of slavery more or less...There was segregation of the worst form.\"", "He continued: \"Schools for whites, schools for blacks, hospitals for whites, few hospitals for blacks.", "And so it went on. Everywhere there was racial discrimination.\"", "But his fight for independence was not without consequence and in 1959 Kaunda was arrested and jailed for ten months.", "For Kaunda, prison was an inevitable part of the fight for freedom.", "\"I think I succeeded in the end but it meant going into prison defying unjust laws, being arrested by the police, beaten up, thrown into prison,\" he said.", "\"You come out and you still continue and we did this and in the end thank God we succeeded.\"", "After his release in January 1960 Kaunda became leader of the newly formed United National Independence Party (UNIP) and in 1964 after elections and much political wrangling, Zambia was finally granted independence from the British with Kaunda as its president.", "It was a presidency which was to last 27 years, but under one party rule.", "A decision highly criticized, with many accusing Kaunda of presiding over a dictatorship.", "But Kaunda has remained defiant about his decision to form a one-party state, telling CNN: \"My colleagues and I decided we're going to go into one party.", "The reason for that, there was no way, no way at all in which we could have fought and defeated colonialism all around us, with so many parties in Zambia at that time.", "No way at all. He continued: \"No, I have never been a dictator.", "It was a bargain with the people.", "But even then I knew it was not the best thing to do.", "But in that situation it was the only way out.\"", "In 1990 Kaunda finally legalized opposition parties setting the stage for free, multi-party elections, which took place in 1991.", "The elections saw the end of Kaunda's leadership with Frederick Chiluba from the Movement for Multiparty Democracy coming to power.", "Now, after 20 years away from the political spotlight, Kaunda is still campaigning.", "His major battle today is the fight against HIV/AIDS, a disease running rampant throughout his country, affecting one in eight Zambians.", "It's a cause close to the former leader's heart and one which has affected him personally.", "\"My own child, one of them, died of Aids.", "A brilliant boy,\" Kaunda told CNN.", "\"He died of AIDS but that's not the reason why I am fighting AIDS.", "I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.\"", "It's this constant will to fight that leaves Kaunda positive about the future of his country and Africa.", "This despite the many challenges ahead.", "\"I'm very hopeful that things will come right,\" he said to CNN.", "\"Because you see there was a time when a leader went wrong and they became an oppressor...but today things have begun to change.", "\"The struggle, the condemnation is quite often within the continent of Africa.", "It's a good beginning towards a realization of what, democracy is right in this world, east, west, north, south.", "So I'm confident that we have begun to grow.\"", "Susannah Palk contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Kenneth Kaunda became Zambia's first President after independence in 1964 .", "During the country's struggles, Kaunda was jailed twice by the colonial authorities .", "Once in power, he governed for 27 years under one-party rule .", "Twenty years out of politics, Kaunda continues to campaign against the spread of AIDS ." ]	[ 1, 12, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The man known for one of the most partisan practices in American politics had once quit government for a time because of partisanship.", "Elbridge Gerry was once an accomplished statesman devoted to his country, but nearly 200 years after his death, his legacy is overshadowed by the tactic that bears his name.", "It's called \"gerrymandering,\" and it means redrawing congressional districts, often in odd shapes, for the sake of political gain.", "The term was coined after Gerry, as the Massachusetts governor, approved an obscure redistricting plan ahead of the 1812 elections that helped Republicans hold on to power in the legislature.", "The plan lumped many of the Federalists into one district, while giving his party, the Democrat-Republicans, the advantage in other districts.", "The Federal press ran a political cartoon calling attention to the salamander-like shape of one of the districts, and thus \"gerrymander\" was born into the political lexicon, according to his bio from the Senate Historical Office.", "Gerry's partisan tendencies didn't sit well with his state, and he lost his 1812 re-election bid.", "While Gerry is best remembered for being the namesake behind the redistricting tactic, there were high points in his political career.", "Gerry, whose name is pronounced with a hard \"g\" unlike the term derived from it, was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1744.", "He attended Harvard College and graduated with the class of '62.", "He returned to Marblehead after graduation and by 1770, he was becoming more active in the anti-British movement, according to his Senate bio.", "In 1772, Gerry was elected to the legislature and later served in the Provincial Congress.", "He was later elected to the first and second Continental Congress, meetings with delegates from the 13 existing colonies.", "He was a signatory on the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.", "Related: Lines drawn over census results .", "Gerry argued in support of the \"Great Compromise\" at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, according to his Senate bio.", "The Great Compromise yielded the current bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and Senate.", "As the Constitution evolved, however, Gerry feared it would give too much power to what would be the Congress, so he refused to sign it.", "He viewed it more favorably after the Bill of Rights was added.", "In the years that followed, Gerry served in the first and second Congresses as a representative but became disenchanted with the partisan debates and retired after his second term, his Senate bio says.", "John Adams later appointed him as an envoy to France, and although Gerry believed he helped to avoid war, he was sharply criticized for his work.", "Emerging as Massachusetts' Republican leader, Gerry served as governor twice and was defeated in his bid for a third term, clearing the way for his move to higher office.", "With the backing of the Republican caucus, President James Madison chose 67-year-old Gerry, a staunch supporter of the War of 1812, to be his running mate.", "The pair were elected, but Gerry died 20 months after becoming the nation's fifth vice president.", "Gerry was buried in the Congressional Cemetery.", "His epitaph displays one of his most well-known quotes: .", "\"It is the duty of every man, though he may have but one day to live, to devote that day to the good of his country.\"" ]	[ "\"Gerrymandering\" derived from Elbridge Gerry, former VP and Massachusetts governor .", "The term refers to redrawing legislative districts for political gain .", "Gerry signed Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation; was Madison's VP ." ]	[ 2, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It's not as fancy as an iPad, but it's far more affordable: Kmart's July 25 circular advertised a 7-inch tablet by Augen running the Android operating system.", "The GenTouch78 is on sale through July 31 for $149.99.", "That's far less than the cost of a laptop computer, and significantly less than the cost of a typical netbook.", "It's even less than the up-front cost for many popular carrier-subsidized smartphones -- and it doesn't require a pricey monthly contract.", "In fact, this device is roughly the size and cost of the Wi-Fi version of the latest Amazon Kindle.", "It's small enough to carry in a purse, and light enough to hold up easily if you're lying down in bed to read.", "All of this puts the GenTouch78 in a very interesting market position.", "It's a net-enabled tablet that is truly affordable for a mass consumer audience.", "In this unboxing video, YouTube user MrJn7 compares the Android tablet to his iPad and notes that while the iPad functions more smoothly and has a more compelling display, you can buy three GenTouch78 tablets (and then some) for the price of the least expensive iPad model.", "This tablet certainly has some shortcomings.", "According to MrJn7's video, the touchscreen is plastic (not glass) and requires a much firmer touch than the iPad.", "It even comes with a stylus, which seems like a technological throwback.", "Furthermore, the Android operating system may not be as intuitive as the Mac OS -- although it probably is not more difficult than Windows, which has been the choice of cost-conscious computer users for decades.", "The big deal is: Devices like this -- and rest assured, there will be many more of them -- can help address the class biases of technology and bridge the digital divide.", "Tablets like the GenTouch could become popular among people who have never owned a computer, or who own a computer and just want light web access on the go.", "I could see them becoming popular with teens and students, with seniors (who often feel overwhelmed by learning a computer), or anyone who wants more than an e-reader but less than a netbook as long as it's inexpensive.", "I also could see this kind of device catching on among businesses and organizations where people must walk around while recording or accessing information.", "I could envision cost-conscious shoppers opting to meet their communication needs via a small Wi-Fi tablet plus a no-contract, simple-feature phone -- and not feeling left behind by the smartphone craze.", "I'm sure that some people who are accustomed to laptops and smartphones will scoff at the GenTouch78 and its inevitable successors as underpowered cheap toys.", "That's fine. They're not the target market.", "The target market, I think, is people who just want good-enough, easy internet access for the lowest cash outlay.", "That's a big market -- one that probably includes people who wouldn't ever purchase a computer, netbook, or smartphone.", "The catch, of course, is Wi-Fi access -- which is still far from ubiquitous in many areas.", "It's is often available for free at schools, libraries, and many kinds of businesses; but it's a bigger hurdle for people in rural or poor communities.", "So far, tablets (even the iPad) are mainly intended for media consumption, simple interaction, and light content creation or curating.", "They aren't good for writing a book, manipulating a big spreadsheet or editing a podcast.", "But they are good enough to allow considerably more people to do considerably more online, affordably, and with fewer obstacles than most phones present.", "At the moment, the GenTouch78 is not actually on Kmart's shelves.", "The retailer is issuing rain checks for this offer.", "(See the Kmart blog for details.)", "And it's unknown what Kmart's price for the tablet will be after July 31.", "But remember, this particular product is just a starting point.", "It'll be interesting to watch this market develop -- and to see how people put these cheap tablets to use." ]	[ "The GenTouch78 is a 7-inch tablet running the Android operating system .", "It's a web-enabled tablet that at $150 is truly affordable for a mass consumer audience .", "Tablets like this could become popular among people who have never owned a computer ." ]	[ 7, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Some long-time Cuba watchers expressed skepticism Tuesday over a report by a former Mexican foreign minister that Communist leader Raul Castro removed two top-ranking officials earlier this month because they were plotting to overthrow him with the support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.", "Fidel Castro, beset by illness, ceded power to his younger brother, Raul, pictured, last year.", "Jorge G. Castaneda, who served as Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 - 2003, wrote in the March 23 issue of Newsweek, which became public Saturday, that Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Lage Davila and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque were concerned that Raul Castro would make concessions that would betray the 50-year-old Cuban Revolution.", "\"For at least a month or so, Lage, Perez Roque and others were apparently involved in a conspiracy, betrayal, coup or whatever term one prefers, to overthrow or displace Raul from his position,\" Castaneda wrote.", "\"In this endeavor, they recruited -- or were recruited by -- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who in turn tried to enlist the support of other Latin American leaders, starting with Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, who refused to get involved.\"", "The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington did not answer a verbal and written request for comment.", "The Dominican Republic Embassy in Washington did not answer telephones calls at various numbers.", "Robert Pastor, who served as a Latin America National Security adviser for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, returned Saturday from a weeklong visit to Cuba.", "Pastor said he wrote Castaneda a letter upon his return expressing his disbelief in Castaneda's contentions.", "\"This is Jorge at his most creative,\" Pastor said Tuesday.", "Louis A. Perez Jr., a Cuba scholar who has written 12 books on the nation, also expressed his doubts.", "\"Where is this coming from?\" Perez asked.", "\"I operate with the idea that there has to be some standard of plausibility.", "Is there discontent in Cuba and was Lage seen as the heir apparent?", "Yeah, that's the conventional wisdom since last year.", "But that there's a conspiracy between Lage and Perez Roque?", "I don't think so. It would be helpful if the people who write these reports cross the barrier of speculation.\"", "Castaneda freely offers that he has no proof, calling his thesis \"informed speculation.\"", "\"I have no way to substantiate any of this,\" he said by telephone Tuesday from Mexico City.", "\"I have no evidence of it.\" Instead, Castaneda points to an \"enigmatic\" comment former leader Fidel Castro made in a column after the two men were removed.", "\"He resorted to a baseball metaphor on the occasion of the World Baseball Classic to praise Dominicans for not participating (the team's plans had been unclear) and to claim that Chavez's baseball players, 'as good and young' as they might be, were no match for 'Cuba's seasoned all-stars,' \" Castaneda wrote in the Newsweek article.", "Castaneda says Castro was thanking Dominican President Fernandez and sending a veiled message to Chavez.", "The former Mexican official also points to Chavez' silence on the removal of the two men as further proof that he was involved.", "The two fired functionaries were acting out of loyalty to the revolution, Castaneda wrote.", "Fidel Castro, beset by illness, ceded power to his younger brother last year.", "Most analysts see Fidel Castro as the more idealistic and doctrinaire of the two brothers, while Raul is viewed as more pragmatic.", "\"Their reasons for wishing to unseat Raul were mainly turf and power,\" Castaneda wrote, \"but they also feared that the leader was beginning to feel threatened by the reaction of the Cuban people to excessive economic and social deprivation, and after his brother's demise would be unable to control the flow of events.", "Consequently, he would accept a series of economic and political reforms to normalize relations with the United States.", "... \"They believed this to be a betrayal of the revolution, and the beginning of the end of its survival.\"", "According to Castaneda, Raul Castro detected the plot and went to his brother and gave him an ultimatum: support him or the plotters.", "Fidel Castro agreed to back his brother, Castaneda wrote.", "The Castro brothers then called in Chavez and gave him a \"devil's alternative: back off, while maintaining economic support for the island, or lose his Cuban security detail and intelligence apparatus, exposing himself to coups and assassination attempts from eventual Venezuelan replacements.", "He chose to stick with the Castros.\"", "Castaneda acknowledges that Pastor and others have criticized him but says, \"I ask that they offer a better explanation.\"", "Says Pastor, \"Most of them are quite conventional explanations.", "Everyone knew he was going to change the Cabinet.", "The only question was when the changes would be.\"", "Raul Castro was merely trying to make the government more efficient, Pastor said.", "\"What was he doing?\" he asked. \"Merging different ministries, trying to decentralize and strengthen the government's capacity to undertake economic reforms.\"", "But Castaneda points to the manner in which the two men were removed as proof that there was more to it than just a change in government.", "Why weren't Lage and Perez Roque given ambassadorships or other face-saving posts, as is often done in cases like this, he asked?", "Instead, Castaneda said, the men were stripped of all posts and made to sign letters in which they confessed to unspecified \"mistakes.\"", "And one day after the two men were removed, Fidel Castro wrote in his column that they were ousted after they became seduced by the \"honey of power,\" which led them to an \"unworthy role.\"", "Castro further said the two men had reawakened the illusions of \"foreign powers\" regarding Cuba's future.", "Castaneda says Raul Castro was worried about what would happen after Fidel dies and was trying to avert a succession battle.", "Perez Roque, 43, might have been perceived as a threat.", "\"Perez Roque was popular in Cuba; his youth, his humble origins, his combative nature all brought him closer to the people than most Cuban bureaucrats,\" Castaneda wrote in Newsweek.", "Pastor notes that the decision to remove the two men was not popular.", "\"There was pushback in Cuba among the [Communist Party] cadres and the public who said, \"We've connected with these two people.", "Why are they going?\" Pastor said.", "\"They didn't feel the government had given an adequate explanation for changing those individuals.", "They were concerned about the language of the resignations and about Fidel's comments.\"", "Interestingly, Pastor said, \"They blamed Fidel more than they seemed to blame Raul.\"", "Perez, the Cuba scholar, also noted Fidel Castro's apparent passing from power.", "\"Nobody speaks of Fidel anymore,\" Perez said.", "\"He's a non-presence.", "Out of sight, out of mind.", "The only time anyone speaks of him is when they are asked about him.\"" ]	[ "Former Mexican foreign minister says Raul Castro removed two top-ranking officials .", "It's claimed they were plotting to overthrow him fearing he'd betray Cuban revolution .", "Report says plotters received support from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez .", "Some long-time Cuba watchers skeptical over the report ." ]	[ 0, 55 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Political discussions about Iran's nuclear aspirations were benched Thursday when the U.S. and Iranian national basketball teams went head to head at the FIBA World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.", "The Americans clinched first place in Group B with an 88-51 win over Iran.", "But most of the attention wasn't directed toward the players' performance or their skills on the court; rather, it was the fact that the two teams -- whose countries have no diplomatic relations -- were sharing the same court for the first time.", "\"Yeah I get a lot of questions, most of it about the politics.", "But our game is nothing to do about the politics, it's just the sport,\" Iranian player Arsalan Kazemi told CNN.", "\"The only way is for people from USA and Iran can come together and have a friendly time together.", "We have to go there and play our best.", "The USA, you know, are a lot better than us.", "We just have to go there and play so the fans can enjoy the game,\" Kazemi said before the match.", "The 6-foot, 7-inch forward and sophomore at Rice University in Texas considers himself a fan of both teams.", "He is the first Iranian to play Division 1 men's college basketball in the United States.", "Kazemi grew up watching old National Basketball Association games replayed on Iranian television every Friday.", "This is the first time Iran has qualified for the world championships, and for Kazemi, there was no hiding his excitement at playing against some of the NBA's elite.", "\"Because they are the best players in the world.", "They all play in the NBA, which is the highest level of basketball, and that's it.", "I just want to go and play against them, play good,\" Kazemi said.", "Only about a quarter of the seats in Abdi Ipekci Hall in Istanbul were occupied for the game, and a majority of the spectators were Iranians or expatriates.", "Hamed Haddadi, who plays for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies, was the crowd favorite as he played for his home country.", "Through a sea of Iranian flags and banners, only a handful of American flags were visible, but one group of fans held up an American flag and an Iranian flag with a sign in between them reading \"PEACE.\"", "Relations between the two countries have been strained further in recent years due to Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes.", "But Washington and many of its allies fear Iran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons.", "Diplomatic ties between the United States and Iran were cut in 1980, after Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for more than a year.", "Despite any outside pressures both teams may have felt looming from home, they were not shown on the court.", "Haddadi shared a friendly bump and a laugh with U.S. forward Rudy Gay, his teammate on the Grizzlies.", "Haddadi scored 19 points for the Iranians.", "\"We both came out, played hard, and represented our countries well.", "Iran fought very hard.", "It was a very good game. I think we showed a lot of respect for each other.", "I was happy with the outcome,\" U.S. player Tyson Chandler said.", "The match provided a trip down memory lane for the U.S. team's coach, Mike Krzyzewski.", "\"I've been to Iran. I played there in the early 70s, in Tehran,\" he said after the game.", "\"I have good friends that are of Iranian descent in the United States.", "So I have a good feeling for the Iranian people.", "There's no political aspect in my mind about the ballgame.\"", "The Iranian team's coach, who is from Serbia, laughed when discussing the media attention surrounding the game.", "\"A lot of newspapers would come to practice and make a picture.", "OK for us, this is interesting.", "We are first time at the world championship and for us this entertainment is good,\" Veselin Matic said.", "\"I am very happy for my players.", "This helps them to motivate them.", "I think they are very good fighters,\" he added.", "Despite its efforts, Iran will not advance to the next round.", "The U.S. win put them at 1-3 for the tournament.", "\"This was a very hard game, this was a very tough game.", "This is the first time we are playing in the world championship,\" Iranian player Aren Davoodi told CNN.", "\"Everyone wants to play against NBA players because they are the biggest players in the world.", "I hope we can be better next time against the U.S.\" CNN's Yesim Comert contributed to this report ." ]	[ "In the first-ever meeting of the teams, the U.S. won 88-51 .", "Scrutiny of the game was due more to the political situation than anything else .", "The Iranian players said they were excited to go up against NBA stars ." ]	[ 2, 10, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The cost of attending college has risen nearly three times the rate of the cost of living, and could eventually put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to a National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education report released Wednesday.", "The price to attend college, adjusted for inflation, rose 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, according to a report.", "The problem could affect the United States' global competitiveness, the center said in its biennial report.", "\"College tuition continues to outpace family income and the price of other necessities, such as medical care, food and housing,\" the center said.", "College tuition and fees, adjusted for inflation, rose 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, towering over increases in medical care, housing and food, according to the report.", "Median family income rose 147 percent during the same period, the report said.", "In Austin, Texas, Tony D'Addeo, a high school senior and straight-A student, hoped to attend an Ivy League school, paid for with his parents' stock options.", "But the options, once worth several hundred thousand dollars, are now worthless.", "\"I think a lot of families -- lower class and middle class -- are having to readjust their plans and goals,\" said D'Addeo, who is now looking at a state school or possibly signing up for an ROTC program to cover college expenses.", "Watch how the economy is affecting students' college plans » .", "The report gave a failing grade in affordability to all states but one, California, which received a \"C.\" \"The nation's colleges and universities have become less affordable for students and their families since the early 1990s,\" it said.", "\"This year continues the trend in deteriorating college affordability in the majority of states.\"", "See how tuition has risen in comparison to other prices » .", "In most states, the percentage of an average family's income used for a public four-year college -- after financial aid -- has increased, the report said.", "\"On average, students from working and poor families must pay 40 percent of family income to enroll in public four-year colleges.", "Students from middle-income families and upper-income families must pay 25 percent and 13 percent of family income, respectively.\"", "Watch how the affordability of college is getting tougher in the U.S. » .", "In addition, students who enroll in college take on more debt to stay there.", "\"Over the last decade, borrowing has more than doubled,\" the report said.", "\"Money isn't cheap,\" said Georgia State University senior Eric Hahn.", "\"The process is time-consuming, and there's also the stress of having to liquidate my investments and wonder where I'm going to find money,\" said Hahn, who had to scramble to find a new loan earlier this year after his lender suspended its private loan program.", "Hahn is now borrowing money from Sallie Mae, the country's leading student loan provider.", "He estimated it will take him five to seven years to repay about $30,000 he will borrow.", "Read full story .", "The researchers said states are struggling with substantial budget shortfalls, a consequence of the lagging economy.", "The soaring cost of college is on the political radar of President-elect Barack Obama.", "He has promised to create a new American Opportunity Tax Credit worth $4,000 in exchange for community service, according to the Obama-Biden Web site.", "Recipients of the tax credit would be required to conduct 100 hours of community service.", "Obama also promised to streamline the financial aid process.", "Under Obama's plan, families would apply for financial aid by checking a box on their tax form, which would authorize their tax information to be used, and eliminate the need for a separate application.", "The United States made modest advances in some areas of education, but the rate of enrollment and completion for college is below other countries, the report found.", "The 34 percent of young American adults enrolled in college puts the United States behind Hungary, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Greece and Korea -- which ranked the highest, with 53 percent.", "Nearly 40 percent of older Americans, ages 35 to 64, hold an associate degree or higher, putting the United States second in the world in that category, behind Canada's 44 percent.", "But the United States ranks 10th in the world for percentage of younger adults holding those degrees -- 39 percent -- far below Canada, which has the highest at 55 percent." ]	[ "Report: Tuition and fees, adjusted for inflation, rose 439 percent from 1982 to 2007 .", "Public policy and education center gave an \"F\" in affordability to 49 states .", "U.S. leadership in college enrollment has slipped, it said ." ]	[ 1, 4, 13 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 28 people are dead and at least 218 others were wounded Wednesday after three blasts during a Shiite procession here, authorities in Pakistan said.", "Khalid Ranjha, a Lahore government official, said two of the dead are children and two others are women, and seven of those injured are in critical condition.", "The three explosions occurred within a radius of about 600 meters (2,000 feet).", "All three blasts were the work of suicide bombers, said Nayab Haider, a spokesman for the Lahore police.", "Police tried to stop the first suicide bomber as the procession was ending, but he blew himself up as the police officer caught up with him in the crowd, Haider said.", "Three or four minutes later, the second blast erupted.", "It was followed 25 minutes later by yet a third suicide bomber.", "Police have found two heads and one body separately, said Haider, who said authorities had assigned 2,500 police officers to the procession after receiving a warning that it might be attacked.", "Khusro Pervez, a senior government official, said the incidents took place around the time of the daily breaking of the Ramadan fast, and security may have been lax.", "\"At the end of the procession, security should have been more vigilant,\" Pervez said.", "\"The incident happened because of security breach.\"", "Pakistan is a largely Sunni Muslim nation, and the attack on Shiite Muslims conjures thoughts of the long-standing tensions between the two groups in the Middle East and Asia.", "Paramilitary forces have been deployed to the streets to bring order.", "Local TV channels showed pictures of angry people burning vehicles, beating police and trying to break into a police station.", "CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this story." ]	[ "Three blasts strike a Shiite procession in 30-minute span .", "218 people are wounded, with 7 in critical condition, officials say .", "2,500 police officers were assigned to procession after attack warning ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Ahead of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians on Thursday, President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that he was \"hopeful -- cautiously hopeful\" that the talks could achieve a two-state solution to the long running Mideast conflict.", "\"Though each of us holds a title of honor --- president, prime minister, king --- we are bound by the one title we share,\" Obama said on a stage with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders of Egypt and Jordan.", "\"We are fathers, blessed with sons and daughters,\" Obama said.", "\"So we must ask ourselves what kind of world do we want to bequeath to our children and our grandchildren.\"", "The president was speaking at the start of a working White House dinner with Netanyahu, Abbas, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.", "Each made remarks before the dinner.", "Also attending the dinner were Secretary of State Hillary Clintonand Middle East Quartet Representative Tony Blair.", "The Quartet consists of the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union.", "\"We don't seek a brief interlude between two wars, we don't seek a temporary respite between outbursts of terror,\" Netanyahu said.", "\"We seek a peace that will end the conflict between us once and for all... for our generation, our children's generation and the next.\"", "Netanyahu and Abbas condemned attacks against the Israelis in recent days.", "\"We do not want any blood to be shed -- one drop of blood from the Israelis or the Palestinians,\" said Abbas.", "\"We want peace between the two countries... let us sign a formal agreement for peace and put an end to this long period of suffering forever.\"", "In earlier remarks from the White House Rose Garden, Obama said that \"this moment of opportunity may not soon come again.\"", "With the U.S. war in Iraq drawing to a close, the Middle East moved front and center for administration officials Wednesday as Obama held a series of high-stakes meetings with Israeli and Arab leaders.", "Obama huddled behind closed doors at the White House with the Israeli and Arab leaders.", "On Wednesday night, Obama called the talks \"very productive.\"", "But he also pointed to challenges ahead.", "\"We are under no illusions,\" he said.", "\"Passions run deep... there's a reason that the two-state solution has eluded previous generations --- this is extraordinarily complex and extraordinarily difficult.\"", "\"But,\" he continued, \"we know that the status quo is unsustainable.\"", "Obama and Netanyahu met first on Wednesday, briefly addressing reporters to condemn, in Obama's words, the \"senseless slaughter\" of two men and two women Tuesday near the West Bank city of Hebron.", "\"Terrorists ... are purposely trying to undermine these talks,\" Obama said.", "\"The message should go out (that this attack) is not going to stop\" the United States from backing Israel and the peace process.", "Later, after meeting with Abbas, he said that \"we are making progress\" in negotiations.", "During his meetings with Abbas and King Abdullah, according to the White House, Obama was joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, and former Sen. George Mitchell, among others.", "Mitchell is Obama's special envoy for Middle East peace.", "At stake is a unique \"window of opportunity\" for a breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the next year, according Mitchell.", "Talks have been stalled for a year and a half.", "The hurdles, however, remain steep.", "One immediate threat is the looming September 26 expiration of Israel's 10-month freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.", "Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat indicated to CNN this week that if Israel does not extend the freeze, direct talks may quickly fall apart.", "Netanyahu will have \"closed the door in my face\" if settlement construction resumes, Erakat said.", "Pressed on whether the Palestinian delegation would walk out of talks at that point, Erakat said that \"we will not be able to go.\"", "Netanyahu can have settlements or peace, but he can't have both, Erakat said.", "Another roadblock to any comprehensive deal is the Palestinian view that any two-state solution must include a handover of all the land Israel captured in the 1967 war, along with East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital.", "While Netanyahu has expressed openness about a Palestinian state, he has expressed strong opposition to a Palestinian takeover of East Jerusalem.", "The issue of Hamas control of Gaza, Erakat noted, also remains a \"major problem.\"", "While Gaza is generally considered to be part of any future Palestinian state, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel's right to exist and is not a part of the talks.", "Hamas leaders are frequently in conflict with the more moderate Abbas and his Fatah organization, which has the upper hand in the West Bank.", "Mitchell, however, told reporters Tuesday that both Netanyahu and Abbas are noting polls showing fear of intensified conflict if negotiations fall apart.", "This is \"a moment in time within which there remains the possibility of achieving the two-state solution,\" Mitchell asserted.", "\"The alternatives ... pose far greater difficulties and far greater problems in the future.\"", "Several top officials close to the negotiations conceded to CNN that it is hard to be optimistic about a peace deal at the moment.", "They downplayed expectations, saying that nobody directly involved in the talks expects a deal to be reached this week.", "But simply resuming talks was a critical step, and a comprehensive Middle East peace deal has been one of Obama's top foreign policy goals, they said.", "\"The biggest breakthrough would be an agenda [emerging Thursday] for a second round of meetings soon to move forward,\" one top official actively engaged in the talks said.", "Clinton is set to play the main role in the talks on Thursday, hosting a meeting at the State Department with Netanyahu and Abbas.", "CNN's Hala Gorani and David Molko contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Obama says he is \"hopeful -- cautiously hopeful\" about the talks .", "Netanyahu says, \"We seek a peace that will end the conflict between us\"\nAbbas says, \"Let us... put an end to this long period of suffering forever\"\nObama is hosting Netanyahu, Abbas, Mubarak, and King Abdullah II at the White House ." ]	[ 0, 4, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- New details emerged Tuesday about the controversial \"Park51\" project, involving the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque in New York City.", "A source familiar with the project told CNN's Allan Chernoff the structure is being planned as an 11-story building.", "It will cover 120,000 square feet.", "Within that space, the source said, 10,000 square feet -- just more than 8 percent -- would be designated for the Muslim prayer space.", "The developer is considering the possibility of an interfaith education/meditation/prayer space as well, the source said.", "The Islamic Center's leaders have said plans for the $100 million facility call for a community center including a mosque, performing arts center, gym, swimming pool and other public spaces.", "It will be built on property the center already owns, two blocks from where the World Trade Center was destroyed by Islamic extremists on September 11, 2001.", "The attacks on the two towers killed more than 2,700 people.", "CNN's Allan Chernoff contributed to this report." ]	[ "Islamic Center in New York planned for 11 stories, source says .", "Project will be 120,000 square feet, 10,000 of which would be Muslim prayer space .", "Interfaith area being considered in the $100 million facility ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Facing a sharp increase in bedbug cases, New York became the latest state Monday to require landlords to disclose an apartment building's bedbug infestation history within the previous year to potential tenants, according to a release from New York State Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, who sponsored the bill.", "\"Nothing is more horrifying than signing a lease after a lengthy apartment search only to discover that your new apartment is bedbug-infested,\" Rosenthal said in the statement.", "\"By requiring landlords to disclose infestations before the lease is signed, people will have a means of guarding themselves against exposure to this plague.\"", "New York is the second state after Maine to adopt such a measure, commonly referred to as a \"right-to-know\" law, according to Missy Henriksen of the National Pest Management Association, which researches and tracks bedbug trends around the country.", "New Jersey has similar legislation pending, according to Henriksen.", "\"We actually expect an avalanche of right-to-know legislation introduced,\" she said.", "According to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, it issued 4,811 violation notices to residential landlords for bedbug infestations in 2009, compared with 82 in the 2003-2004 fiscal year.", "For the first half of 2010, 1,976 bedbug violation notices have been written.", "However, such statistics represent only a fraction of bedbug cases in the city, as they come almost exclusively from buildings in the rental market.", "Owners of bedbug-infested residences are less likely to call 311, the city's nonemergency hot line, which then notifies the Housing Preservation Department.", "Further, landlords of commercial structures are currently not obligated to report bedbug infestation.", "In recent months, bedbugs have struck high-end retailers, movie theatres and office buildings.", "Last year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency sponsored a bedbug conference in Arlington, Virginia.", "Speaking to 230 academics, agency employees and exterminators, Dale Kemery, an agency spokesman, said the incidence of infestation in the United States has tripled since 2005.", "Despite their name, bedbugs need not live in beds.", "They generally live within 10 to 20 feet of their hosts and avoid light, preferring the dark security of spaces behind headboards, under baseboards and behind hanging pictures." ]	[ "Law says landlords have to give history of infestation in previous year .", "New York is the second state after Maine to adopt such a measure .", "New York City officials issue 4,811 bedbug notices in 2009, compared to 82 in '03-'04 .", "Bedbugs have struck high-end retailers, movie theaters and office buildings ." ]	[ 3, 6, 11 ]
[ "Miami, Florida (CNN) -- Bermuda's weather officials have relaxed local storm advisories after news arrived that Fiona is downgraded to a tropical depression.", "But Gaston, however, can still regain strength in the next two days and become a tropical cyclone, U.S. forecasters said Friday.", "Fiona's center -- which was expected to pass near Bermuda on Saturday morning -- put officials on alert as it promised heavy winds and downpours.", "But as of 8 p.m. ET, Fiona's wind speed had decreased to about 16 miles per hour.", "Fiona's is expected to continue its course north to northeast at about 16 mph with some increase in forward speed, brushing east of Bermuda.", "Some rainfall is expected.", "Gaston, churning westward, is between the Cape Verde Islands off Africa and Lesser Antilles." ]	[ "NEW: Fiona is now a tropical depression .", "Fiona expected to pass near Bermuda Saturday .", "Gaston could become a tropical cyclone in 48 hours ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, believed to be one of Mexico's most ruthless drug traffickers, was captured Monday, Mexican authorities said.", "Federal police made the capture, though the exact location and timing of it were not immediately known.", "The arrest, a high-profile win for Mexican authorities, followed \"intelligence work\" that began in June 2009, federal police said in a statement.", "His capture came after a shootout, according to Viviana Macias, a spokeswoman with the federal attorney general's office.", "Valdez, who is known as \"La Barbie\" because of his blue eyes and fair complexion, was a one-time top lieutenant of Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman.", "Valdez later joined the breakaway Beltran Leyva cartel, but the leader of that group, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed in a shootout with Mexican officials late last year.", "Beltran's brother Carlos was arrested, leaving Valdez in a fight to fill a power vacuum in one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels.", "Lieutenants loyal to the cartel's co-founder deny Valdez is the group's leader, federal police have said.", "Valdez, thought to be the first U.S.-born cartel leader in Mexico, is accused in the United States of attempting to launder money and conspiring to import and distribute cocaine.", "He is believed to have played a key role in shipping roughly 100 kilograms of cocaine across the border at Laredo, Texas, every week for much of 2005, U.S. authorities have said.", "U.S. Justice Department officials offered in June a $2 million reward for information leading to the capture of the alleged cocaine kingpin.", "His arrest comes on the heels of another big blow against the drug cartels.", "Ignacio \"Nacho\" Coronel Villareal, a principle leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was killed during a military raid in July.", "More than 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderon intensified the government's fight against drug cartels and organized crime after taking office in December 2006, according to government figures.", "The president is under increasing pressure to show results." ]	[ "Edgar Valdez Villarreal is known as \"La Barbie\" because of his blue eyes and fair complexion .", "Valdez was captured by federal police on Monday .", "He is purported to be a top leader in the Beltran Leyva drug cartel .", "His arrest is a high-profile win for Mexican authorities ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates helped usher in the next chapter for the United States in Iraq on Wednesday, presiding over a ceremony launching a new military operation designed to train, assist and advise the Iraqis.", "The ceremony, held at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, marked the conclusion of the U.S. combat mission dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom and the transfer to the assistance mission, named Operation New Dawn.", "Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III replaced Gen. Raymond T. Odierno as commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq in the changeover, held at one of the many palaces of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein -- whose regime was ousted from power in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.", "Biden said Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, but promised that \"American engagement with Iraq will continue\" with the new stability mission.", "\"This change of mission, to state the obvious, would never have been possible without the resolve and tremendous sacrifice and competence of our military -- the finest, if our Iraqi friends will forgive us, the finest fighting force in the world, and I would argue the finest fighting force that ever has existed,\" Biden said.", "He acknowledged the pain Iraqis endured during the long war, saying tens of thousands of troops and civilians died, and many more were wounded and displaced.", "However, he said, \"I believe that their darkest days are now behind them.\"", "Noting the divided opinion toward the war in the United States, he said people from both parties had always backed the troops for their \"extraordinary service\" after \"a high-speed invasion that toppled a tyrant became a grinding struggle against violent extremists.\"", "\"Our fighting men and women were given a mission in Iraq that was as complicated as any in our history, an assignment that taught us that war is the realm of uncertainty,\" he said.", "\"Troops steeped in military doctrine were asked to deal with challenges ranging from electricity to unemployment, currency exchange to trash collection.\"", "The vice president also praised the new electoral system in Iraq, urging political parties there to settle their differences and form a government soon.", "\"Iraqis have cast their lot as well as their ballots for a better future,\" he said.", "Biden highlighted Gates' contributions, saying the defense secretary's decision to serve under both Republican and Democratic administrations during the war is a testament to his patriotism.", "Odierno, who said Iraqi security forces are ready to take the lead there, recalled the wartime period as one of Iraqi heroism.", "\"This period in Iraq's history will probably be remembered for sacrifice, resiliency and change.", "However, I remember it as a time in which the Iraqi people stood up against tyranny, terrorism and extremism, and decided to determine their own destiny, as a people and as a democratic state,\" he said.", "As Biden did, Odierno urged Iraqi political blocs to form a government, which has yet to be established since elections six months ago.", "\"It is time for Iraq to move forward,\" Odierno said.", "Odierno said a democratic Iraq \"can become an engine for peace and stability\" in the Middle East.", "\"We can no longer dwell on our past accomplishments, but must remain focused on the tremendous opportunity at hand.", "Iraq has always played a vital role in this uncertain part of the globe,\" he said.", "Austin said Iraq still faces hostile threats from insurgents working to undermine the country.", "But he said that \"the past few years in Iraq have been marked by steady progress\" and he envisions a \"stable, secure and unified Iraq.\"", "\"Operation New Dawn marks the next phase of an enduring relationship\" between the United States and Iraq, he said.", "While the U.S. combat mission is ending, roughly 50,000 American troops will remain in the country until the end of 2011 for the assistance mission.", "When asked Wednesday if the United States is still at war in Iraq, Gates responded, \"No, we're not.\"", "Gates added it is up to historians to determine whether the war was worth it.", "Along with U.S. political and military dignitaries, Iraqi officials -- including Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, Defense Minister Mohammed Abdul Qader al-Obeidi and the Kurdish region's Prime Minister Barham Saleh -- attended the ceremony.", "The U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially ended at 5 p.m.", "ET Tuesday.", "The drawdown and end to the U.S. combat phase marks a new page in what has been a controversial seven-year conflict.", "Weapons of mass destruction, a major justification by the Bush administration for going to war, were never found.", "Saddam Hussein was toppled, along with his massive Baghdad statue, but sectarian violence soon erupted.", "On Tuesday night, U.S. President Barack Obama addressed Americans about the transition in a televised speech.", "\"The United States has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people,\" Obama said from the Oval Office.", "\"We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in Iraq, and spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home.", "We have persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people -- a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization.\"", "The war in Iraq has claimed the lives of more than 4,400 U.S. troops.", "Obama said he was \"awed\" by the sacrifices of service members and their families and that the U.S. has met its responsibility.", "\"Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country,\" Obama said.", "\"We have removed nearly 100,000 U.S. troops from Iraq.", "We have closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis.", "And we have moved millions of pieces of equipment out of Iraq.\"", "Before Obama's speech, some Republicans had urged him to acknowledge that the 2007 U.S. troop surge in Iraq ordered by then-President George W. Bush had worked.", "Obama, as a U.S. senator and candidate for the presidency, had opposed it.", "Obama, who spoke with Bush in a phone call earlier in the day, did not mention the former president's role in the surge.", "Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, delivered a speech Tuesday suggesting Bush deserves more credit for reaching this milestone.", "\"You might recall that the surge wasn't very popular when it was announced,\" McConnell said.", "\"You might also recall that one of its biggest critics was the current president.", "So it makes it easier to talk about fulfilling a campaign promise to wind down our operations in Iraq when the previous administration signs the security agreement with Iraq to end our overall presence there.\"", "Obama said the most urgent matter now is restoring the economy and \"putting millions of Americans who have who have lost their jobs back to work.\"", "To strengthen the middle class, he said, \"we must give all our children the education they deserve, and all our workers the skills that they need to compete in a global economy.\"", "Obama's emphasis on the economy appears to dovetail with the mood of the American public.", "In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll earlier this month, 56 percent of respondents said the economy would be extremely important to their vote for Congress this year.", "Fewer than four in 10 said that the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan were extremely important to them.", "CNN's Ed Henry, Dan Lothian, Dana Bash, Jason Hanna and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Odierno notes Iraqi fight against tyranny .", "NEW: Iraqi officials attended the ceremony .", "NEW: Biden: \"High-speed invasion\" became struggle against extemists ." ]	[ 3, 7 ]
[ "Corolla, North Carolina (CNN) -- Ray Midgett hunts the Corolla beaches on the Outer Banks of North Carolina almost every day.", "\"Beachcombing, or metal detecting, or relic hunting is in my blood,\" said Midgett, a retired government worker who hits the sand between October and April.", "\"There are so many shipwrecks up here, it's just beautiful.\"", "Midgett drives his pickup truck right onto the beach using the access road near the Currituck Beach Lighthouse.", "With a metal detector and shovel in tow, he's uncovered everything from antique coins to wedding rings.", "Yet his biggest discovery came in December when he located the remains of a historic shipwreck.", "The wreckage, hidden under the sand for centuries, became fully exposed after a winter of brutal Nor'easters, making it the oldest shipwreck found off the coast of North Carolina.", "But historians had to act fast to recover the ship, according to Meghan Agresto, site manager of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse.", "\"This winter, it just got smacked.", "After awhile the ocean was going to take it back,\" Agresto said.", "\"The fact that we got it off the beach makes us excited because we got to save it.\"", "Midgett and other beachcombers had discovered a number of relics near the shipwreck's beach grave site, including coins believed to be from the reign of Louis XIII in France and Charles I in England, lead bale seals used for identification, and spoons dating to the mid-1600s.", "Midgett said he feels a personal connection to the discovery.", "\"This shipwreck is a part of me, and some of the other hunters, too, that have been hunting around it for years,\" Midgett said.", "\"I'm just so glad that they decided to save it.\"", "The rough currents and shallow sand bars off North Carolina's Outer Banks have destroyed thousands of ships in what is sometimes called the \"Graveyard of the Atlantic.\"", "However, it is rare to find the remains of a shipwreck -- particularly a wooden vessel -- intact.", "Throughout winter, the Corolla beach shipwreck would repeatedly get uncovered and covered again.", "The waves would also move it along the coastline, causing damage.", "\"I'm glad we got to it when we did. ... It may have covered back up and survived another summer,\" Midgett said.", "\"But next winter it would have been the same thing over and it eventually would have gone to pieces.\"", "Midgett, who used to work as a government auditor, wanted to make sure his discovery was salvaged, so he personally lobbied North Carolina state Sen. Marc Basnight.", "After numerous phone calls and e-mails appealing to Basnight, a beach lover himself, he was successful.", "In April, volunteers from the Wildlife Resources Commission, Underwater Archaeology Branch, the Corolla Fire Department and area residents helped free the wreck from the sand and tow it near the lighthouse.", "Archaeologists originally thought the wreck could be the HMS Swift, a British Navy ship from the late 18th century that originally ran around in the southern Chesapeake Bay off Virginia's coast.", "The HMS Swift drifted to the Outer Banks, where it was looted once it hit shore, then disabled by the looters so it wouldn't resurface.", "After further examination of the ship's 12-ton skeleton -- complete with wooden peg fasteners -- archaeologists determined that it was not the HMS Swift, but most likely a merchant's ship dating to the mid- to late-1600s.", "That makes it the oldest shipwreck found along the state's coast.", "\"History is the one thing we have that has a reasonable amount of certainty attached to it,\" said Joseph Schwarzer, director of North Carolina Maritime Museums.", "\"It tells us where we've been, it tells us what's happening, and it's a directional sign for where you need to go next.\"", "Before the Corolla Beach discovery, the oldest shipwreck found along the state's coast was Queen Anne's Revenge, the presumed flagship of Blackbeard the pirate said to have run aground in 1718, according to the North Carolina Maritime Museums.", "The remains of the Corolla Beach wreck and some of its artifacts will be moved to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum on Hatteras Island, North Carolina.", "Midgett and the other beachcombers are entitled to keep the coins and other artifacts found near the ship they discovered.", "\"It's very exciting to find something from this time period,\" said Richard Lawrence, director of the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch for the Department of Cultural Resources.", "\"And amazingly we found it in this beach environment.", "It appears this wreck has been sitting here for 350 years almost undisturbed until this winter.\"", "Lawrence said the discovery would never have happened without Midgett.", "\"Ray Midgett was probably more responsible than anybody to get this wreck off the beach,\" Lawrence said.", "\"He created enough of a stir to get various organizations involved.", "\"Thankfully, Ray and his colleagues collected various artifacts that would have otherwise not survived.\"" ]	[ "Ray Midgett finds shipwreck while on his regular beachcombing route .", "He and other beachcombers had found numerous coins and other items from the wreck .", "Winter storms uncovered the wreck, but historians feared it would be re-covered .", "Midgett lobbies a state senator to get wreck removed so it could be studied and preserved ." ]	[ 11, 14, 17, 32 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Intense rain and gushing flood waters threatened Wednesday to cause more misery in monsoon-bloated Pakistan, where 3 million people are already suffering.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Americans to donate to relief efforts, saying that experience in post-earthquake Haiti showed that small donations can make a big difference.", "Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appealed to residents to curtail expenditures for Ramadan feasts and upcoming independence day celebrations and contribute instead to help their desperate compatriots.", "As many as 1,500 people have died in Pakistan's worst flooding in 70 years.", "Relief agencies were struggling to reach people who have lost everything to walls of water.", "Many were cut off after roads and bridges washed away.", "Thousands of others were people already displaced by violence in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, according to the United Nations refugee agency.", "The flooding also washed away tens of thousands of homes, devastated livestock and swept away farm land.", "The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it has distributed 10,000 tents so far, along with other relief supplies which have assisted some 50,000 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.", "Speaking to reporters in Washington, Clinton stressed the importance of U.S. assistance to Pakistan, a strategically important country whose relationship with Washington continues to be a work on progress.", "The Obama administration is looking to turn the natural disaster into opportunity, hoping a robust response to the crisis will help improve its poor image among a skeptical Pakistani public.", "A senior Pakistani military official told CNN that six U.S. helicopters landed at Ghazi airbase Wednesday near the village of Tarbela Ghazi, just north of Islamabad, to participate in the rescue and relief work.", "The United States has already committed $10 million in aid, and U.S. helicopters have airlifted flood victims and helped deliver critical supplies including temporary bridges and 300,000 halal meals, food that meets Islamic dietary law.", "\"We've been working hard over the past year to build a partnership with the people of Pakistan, and this is an essential element of that partnership -- reaching out and helping each other in times of need,\" Clinton said.", "She urged Americans to use their cell phones to text the word \"SWAT\" to the number 50555 to make a $10 contribution to the U.N. refugee agency.", "The Pakistan Meteorological Department predicted more misery in the days ahead.", "As much as 2 inches of rain is forecast over the next two days for central Pakistan while scattered showers will continue to fall in the north.", "Rushing river waters could cause more flooding in downstream areas by this weekend, meteorologists said.", "In some areas, Pakistanis complained the government has been sluggish to respond.", "In a special emergency meeting Wednesday, Gilani said the government was doing all it could to address the crisis.", "People stranded in Tonsa Sharif and Dera Ghazi Khan were still waiting for government relief, reported CNN affiliate Geo TV.", "Meanwhile, limited access to clean water and poor hygienic conditions raised the threat of widespread acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and skin infections, said the medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors Without Borders), which is supporting health units in Mandrakhel, Wadpaga, and Gulbela in the Peshawar district, and the Paddi Hospital in the Nowshera district.", "Collapsed bridges meant the medical teams were unable to reach the badly hit North Swat region.", "A case of cholera has been confirmed in Swat.", "CNN's Reza Sayah and Elise Labott contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeals for aid .", "NEW: Clinton says the crisis aid is essential part of building ties with Pakistan .", "About 3 million people have been affected by monsoon rains and flooding .", "Some Pakistanis say their government has been slow to respond ." ]	[ 13, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Hurricane warnings and watches stretched from North Carolina to Delaware and covered parts of Massachusetts on Wednesday as forecasters upgraded Hurricane Earl to a Category 4 storm and warned it will be approaching the East Coast by late Thursday.", "Hurricane models have Earl passing close to North Carolina's Outer Banks on Thursday night, the National Hurricane Center said in an 8 p.m. Wednesday forecast.", "\"Only a small westward deviation of the track to the west would bring the core of the hurricane to the coast,\" it said.", "The center extended hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings northward through Massachusetts on Wednesday evening and said the storm's track has shifted slightly to the west, closer to North Carolina's Cape Hatteras.", "Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for Ocracoke Island, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, and Cape Lookout National Seashore, as well as Hatteras Island.", "Earl had been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane earlier Wednesday but was judged to be a Category 4 in the National Hurricane Center's forecast on Wednesday at 5 p.m. Earl's maximum sustained winds have increased to near 135 mph and the storm is growing, the National Hurricane Center said.", "Tropical storm force winds are expected to reach parts of the North Carolina coast by Thursday afternoon, with hurricane force winds arriving by late Thursday, the center said.", "CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said Earl is expected to make its closest pass to Cape Hatteras around 2 a.m. Friday as a Category 3 storm, with hurricane force winds of up to 75 mph expected on the Outer Banks.", "Large breaking waves of 10 to 15 feet are possible along the coast, with possible storm surge of 2 to 4 feet, along with 3 to 4 inches of rainfall, Morris said.", "Isolated tornadoes and waterspouts are possible.", "Tropical storm force winds are expected to reach the coast from Virginia to New Jersey by early Friday.", "Morris said that Earl will make its closest pass to New Jersey on Friday afternoon as a Category 2 hurricane.", "The long duration of tropical storm force winds threaten widespread power outages in parts of the South and the mid-Atlantic region, he said.", "Tropical storm force winds will arrive on Massachusetts' Cape Cod by Friday afternoon.", "Morris said that hurricane force winds are possible there later on Friday, with Earl making its closest pass to Cape Cod on Friday evening as a Category 1 hurricane.", "Forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for the area from Bogue Inlet, North Carolina, northeast to the North Carolina-Virginia border, including Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.", "On Wednesday evening a tropical storm warning for the area between Cape Fear, North Carolina, and Bogue Inlet, was extended from the North Carolina-Virginia border to Sandy Hook, New Jersey.", "A hurricane watch stretched from the North Carolina-Virginia line up to Cape Henlopen, Delaware, while another hurricane watch covered a chunk of the Massachusetts coast, from Wood's Hole to Sagamore Beach, and includes Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket .", "A tropical storm watch extends from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, encompassing Long Island Sound and Block Island.", "A tropical storm watch also covers the area from north of Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, to the mouth of the Merrimack River.", "Because of Earl's size, effects of the storm are expected to be widely felt.", "Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 90 miles (150 kilometers) from the center, and tropical storm-force winds up to 200 miles (325 kilometers).", "As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, Earl was centered about 565 miles (910 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the National Hurricane Center said.", "It was moving northwest at about 18 mph (30 kph).", "Overnight Tuesday, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration buoy recorded a wave with a 50-foot peak associated with Earl, National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read told reporters.", "\"The buoy survived it just fine and it's still reporting,\" he said.", "On Friday, Earl is forecast to move away from the Outer Banks and northward, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.", "It is not expected to make a direct hit on the coast from Virginia to New Jersey, but heavy rain, high surf and gusty winds are likely.", "Friday night, Earl will make its closest pass to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the outlying islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.", "Again, no direct hit is forecast, but any deviation could bring Earl's center over the area, Hennen said.", "Earl is expected to make a direct landfall over southern Nova Scotia, Canada, on Saturday morning as a strong Category 1 hurricane.", "Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said Wednesday he had briefed President Barack Obama on what the agency is doing in preparation for the storm.", "Teams are in place or on standby to assist each state along the East Coast, he said, and supplies were being moved into two incident support bases to be available if they are needed.", "Several airlines said Wednesday that fliers to and from cities along the eastern seaboard, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Bangor, Maine, could reschedule travel in coming days without penalty.", "Though they have not announced cancellations, Air Tran, American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Delta said they would waive reschedule fees for such travelers.", "On Ocracoke Island -- a long sliver of land reachable only by ferry -- not everyone was planning to flee as Earl approached.", "\"A lot of times when [residents] evacuate, it's hard to get back on the island,\" said Brandon Benecki, who tends bar at Howard's Pub on Ocracoke Island.", "\"It's simpler to just stay here and kind of ride it out.\"", "\"None of my neighbors are leaving,\" one man on Ocracoke Island told CNN affiliate WVEC-TV.", "\"We're just going to hang in and ride her out.\"", "Some tourists didn't seem deterred either.", "\"They'll throw us off the island,\" one woman told WVEC.", "\"That's all right. We'll just camp somewhere else.\"", "However, Paula Schramel, who co-owns the Flying Melon restaurant on Ocracoke with her husband, Michael, said she has made plans to go to Charlotte, North Carolina, where her mother is.", "The couple are natives of New Orleans, Louisiana, who moved to Ocracoke 10 years ago.", "Their restaurant specializes in Creole cuisine.", "Some of Michael Schramel's relatives in New Orleans who lived through Hurricane Katrina are urging them to evacuate, she said.", "\"They're probably more nervous than we are,\" she said.", "\"It wakes you up a little bit to the fact that it can be\" dangerous.", "Once the wind gets to 50 mph, she said, the ferries stop running and \"you're stuck.\"", "Officials are \"running the ferries as fast as they can,\" she said, but some visitors are dragging their feet -- understandably, since it means cutting their vacation short.", "Earl is also dealing the couple an economic blow, they said, as it's considered the last big week of business for the summer tourism season.", "The restaurant was busy Tuesday night, Paula Schramel said, but closed on Wednesday once the evacuation order was issued.", "Michael Schramel said he will leave if Earl becomes a Category 4 storm, and said he is \"a little bit nervous.", "... A 4 would be devastating.\"", "\"We are concerned about the storm, and it is important that people aren't here who don't understand the [potential] flooding issues,\" said Alan Sutton, the owner of Tradewinds Bait and Tackle on Ocracoke Island.", "But for regular residents, he said, the threat of hurricanes is \"just part of living here.\"", "Staff members of Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina also ordered an evacuation Tuesday, according to park Superintendent Russel J. Wilson.", "The park will be closed to all visitors beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, until further notice.", "Hurricane Earl is approaching the United States just ahead of Labor Day, a holiday weekend that many families spend at the beach.", "\"Unfortunately, they're just getting started with their vacation and now they have to turn around and go,\" bartender Benecki said.", "\"However, I think most people do understand why.\"", "Rip currents and dangerous surf will threaten beachgoers all along the East Coast, Hennen said.", "The hurricane already dealt a glancing blow to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, downing trees and knocking out power lines.", "The hurricane center said Earl's center is set to pass east and northeast of the Bahamas on Wednesday and Wednesday night.", "A tropical storm warning for San Salvador Island in the central Bahamas was discontinued Wednesday afternoon.", "Sixty-six members of the North Carolina National Guard have been told to report Wednesday night for storm response duty.", "They will report to facilities in eastern North Carolina, but away from the coast, said spokesman Maj. Matt Handley.", "After the storm has moved away, they will assess damage and formulate a response, he said.", "FEMA has urged those living in the region to prepare for the storm, stock up on supplies and have a plan in case it becomes necessary.", "Besides FEMA's Ready.gov website, people can use FEMA's mobile application, which links to the National Hurricane Center, to stay up to date on information.", "Tips include developing a family communications plan, putting together a kit with food and water for 72 hours, and staying informed of risks in the area.", "Meanwhile, Tropical Depression 9 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Gaston on Wednesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the center said.", "The storm is located in the far eastern north Atlantic Ocean approximately 1,635 miles east-southeast of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands.", "The depression had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph) and was heading west at 15 mph (24 kph).", "It is likely the depression will become Tropical Storm Gaston within 48 hours, forecasters said.", "And Tropical Storm Fiona was moving out into the open Atlantic on Wednesday, and the center discontinued all watches and warnings related to the storm.", "CNN's Larry Shaughnessy and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: National Hurricane Center says a \"westward deviation\" could bring storm to land .", "Various warnings and watches are extended north to Massachusetts .", "Tropical Depression 9 is upgraded to Tropical Storm Gaston .", "President Obama talks to the FEMA director about preparations for Earl ." ]	[ 0, 3, 29, 72 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Several observers on the left side of the opinion spectrum write dismissively of the followers of the Tea Party.", "About the kindest labels appended to them are \"rednecks,\" \"highly volatile\" and \"laughable.\"", "Young research assistants at George Washington University see them as \"psychopaths,\" \"racists,\" \"anti-Semites\" and \"homophobes\" and hold that, in the political arena, \"one cannot talk to them; one must defeat them.\"", "As I see it, it is never a good idea to dismiss out of hand a major social movement.", "One poll in December found the tea party movement was then viewed favorably by more Americans (41 percent) than either the Democrats (35 percent) or the Republicans (28 percent).", "More importantly, the concern on the part of tea partiers that the government is not responsive to the interests and values of the majority is a valid one.", "Whether the bank and auto industry bailouts, the huge economic stimulus package and the health care bill are good policies or bad --and will help the economy or hurt it -- they are not favored by the majority of Americans.", "And the things that people most care about -- the creation of new jobs and vigorous economic growth -- are lacking.", "Even more important are the ways the bills were fashioned.", "There is a saying in Washington that one should never see the ways laws and sausages are made.", "Well, many people are choking on them even without knowing how they were concocted.", "Those of us who follow politics closely have become inured to the fact that the bills that are finally enacted (often after months of haggling, slicing and dicing) are loaded with earmarks that favor some congressional districts or industry and are riddled with exceptions for special interests.", "You may not wonder why the auto dealers won exemptions in Congress from the new financial regulations.", "But the behind-the-scene deals the White House has made are enough to make you sick.", "These include deals with private hospitals to drop the public option in exchange for their support of the health care bill and with the pharmaceutical industry to block Americans from purchasing low-cost drugs from other countries.", "Some of us have learned to live with these maneuvers as long as something comes out at the other end.", "However, many Americans are busy working or looking for a job, taking care of their families and trying to find some spare time to follow their favorite sports team and have a beer.", "But when they are made aware of these shenanigans, they are nauseated.", "As they should be. I choose my words carefully.", "I suggest that the sense of the tea partiers that they have been had is largely a valid one.", "At the same time, their ideas of what ought to be done are very much off the mark.", "The desire to gut the government ignores the fact that there are many important missions that the government is best-suited to accomplish.", "However, before those of us who do not belong to this movement can carry this message to the tea partiers, we first need to validate their feelings, rather than dismiss them.", "And we must be honest: Reforming the government so that it will be less captured by special interests and more responsive to the public interest is a difficult road to navigate.", "Indeed, that road was recently made more difficult to navigate by a Supreme Court ruling that largely lifted the limits on legalized bribery, which is the proper name for allowing corporations and labor unions to make unfettered donations to the political campaigns of those who do their bidding.", "The best we can offer is to point out that a major, populist social movement can serve to countervail special interests, as long as it sees its role as to straighten out the government, rather than to decimate it.", "This is what the progressive movement of yore accomplished.", "However, we cannot have this very badly needed dialogue with the followers of the tea party unless we make it clear that we understand where they are coming from.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Amitai Etzioni." ]	[ "Amitai Etzioni: Tea party correct that government not responsive to majority .", "He says they are right to be disgusted by Washington deals that grant special favors .", "He says tea party movement is wrong about the solution .", "Gutting government is not the answer; getting it on the right track is, says Etzioni ." ]	[ 5, 18, 21 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- California's Senate has voted down a measure that would have banned plastic bags at grocery stores.", "The new ban was rejected by a 21 to 14 vote late Tuesday.", "The ban would have included grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores.", "The California Assembly passed the legislation in June.", "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had said he would have signed the measure into law, the Los Angeles Times reported.", "Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club encouraged Californians to contact their state senators to push for the measure.", "The group Heal the Bay produced what it calls a \"mockumentary,\" narrated by actor Jeremy Irons, called \"The Majestic Plastic Bag\" that charts the life of a plastic bag.", "The video is on YouTube.", "The measure had its opponents, too.", "The American Chemistry Council criticized California Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, who proposed the bill.", "\"Assemblywoman Brownley's inflammatory comments are obviously intended to distract public attention from the substance and dire consequences of Assembly Bill 1998,\" the group said.", "\"Her proposed legislation to ban plastic grocery bags in California ... is bad for the economy and bad for the environment: It will eliminate several hundred California manufacturing jobs and dismantle existing plastic bag recycling programs.\"", "According to its website, the chemistry council represents companies that \"make the products that make modern life possible, while working to protect the environment, public health, and the security of our nation.\"", "In this case, that includes plastic bags.", "Brownley said she was disappointed with the vote.", "\"This is a sad day for California,\" Brownley said.", "\"Communities across the state were waiting for the state to adopt a uniform, statewide ban on single-use bags before they adopt their own ordinances.", "The state failed them.\"", "Brownley has been fighting to reduce plastic bag waste for three years, calling single-use bags \"an unnecessary scourge that blows like urban tumbleweeds into every corner of the earth.\"", "Her bill gained support from the California Grocers Association, which decided to back the bill after Brownley agreed to subject all stores that sell groceries to the ban.", "CNN's Adam Blank contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Lawmaker who proposed bill is disappointed .", "Bill passed state Assembly in June .", "Groups supporting and opposing the measure are speaking out .", "Governor says he would have signed it into law, LA Times reported." ]	[ 3, 4, 17 ]

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