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[ "PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) -- Walking down a street in Cambodia's capital city, Phymean Noun finished her lunch and tossed her chicken bones into the trash.", "Seconds later, she watched in horror as several children fought to reclaim her discarded food.", "Phymean Noun is helping give Cambodian children a chance at a better life.", "Noun stopped to talk with them.", "After hearing their stories of hardship, she knew she couldn't ignore their plight.", "\"I must do something to help these children get an education,\" she recalls thinking.", "\"Even though they don't have money and live on the sidewalk, they deserve to go to school.\"", "Six years after that incident, Noun is helping many of Phnom Penh's poorest children do just that.", "Within weeks, she quit her job and started an organization to give underprivileged children an education.", "Noun spent $30,000 of her own money to get her first school off the ground.", "In 2004, her organization -- the People Improvement Organization (PIO) -- opened a school at Phnom Penh's largest municipal trash dump, where children are a large source of labor.", "Today, Noun provides 240 kids from the trash dump a free education, food, health services and an opportunity to be a child in a safe environment.", "Watch Noun and some of the children who attend her school » .", "It is no easy task. Hundreds of them risk their lives every day working to support themselves and their families.", "\"I have seen a lot of kids killed by the garbage trucks,\" she recalls.", "Children as young as 7 scavenge hours at a time for recyclable materials.", "They make cents a day selling cans, metals and plastic bags.", "Noun recruits the children at the dump to attend her organization because, she says, \"I don't want them to continue picking trash and living in the dump.", "I want them to have an opportunity to learn.\"", "Watch Noun describe what life is like for children at the trash dump » .", "Growing up during the Pol Pot regime, Noun faced unimaginable challenges.", "\"There were no schools during Pol Pot's regime,\" she recalls.", "\"Everyone had to work in the fields.", "My mother was very smart.", "She told them that she didn't have an education.", "That was how she survived. If they knew she was educated, they would have killed her.\"", "Noun's mother died of cancer when Phymean was 15.", "Phymean's sister fled to a refugee camp, leaving her young daughter in Phymean's care.", "\"When my mom passed away, my life was horrible, \" says Noun.", "\"It was very sad because there was only my niece who was 3 years old at that time.\"", "Yet Noun was determined to finish high school.", "Watch Noun describe the hardships of life during the Pol Pot regime » .", "That dedication paid off, and after graduating she spent the next decade working with various aid organizations.", "\"I tell the children my story and about the importance of education,\" she said.", "\"I'm their role model.\"", "Some of the children who attend her school continue to work in the dump to support themselves and their families.", "Without an education, she said, these children would be vulnerable to traffickers or continue to be caught in the cycle of poverty.", "\"We are trying to provide them skills that they can use in the future,\" Noun said.", "\"Even though we are poor and struggling and don't have money, we can go to school.", "I tell them not to give up hope.\"", "Noun has even bigger plans for them.", "\"These children are our next generation and our country depends on them.", "They are our future leaders.\"" ]	[ "Children are large source of labor at Cambodian capital's largest trash dump .", "Phymean Noun quit her job to give them an education -- and a way out .", "Today she provides 240 children a free education, food and health services ." ]	[ 8, 10, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Even 6-year-olds at Hamilton Central School in central New York came to school prepared for swine flu.", "Jessica Poyer, a first-grade teacher, noticed in the spring that kids had begun bringing their own hand sanitizer, tissues and water bottles.", "Guidelines on when schools should dismiss the student body because of H1N1 were released Friday.", "Poyer, also the mother of two young children, thinks about swine flu, also known as influenza A H1N1, every day, both at school and at home.", "She knows that some schools nationwide have had to close because the disease was widespread, and she has mixed feelings about the school closures.", "\"I hate to close schools, because it interrupts learning, but we leave it up to health professionals,\" said Poyer, who lives in Deansboro, New York.", "Federal health officials, releasing guidelines Friday, suggested that closure of schools this fall be rare.", "\"There are measures we can take to protect the students, protect the staff, and to allow learning to continue,\" said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "A key change in the new guidance is that people with H1N1 should stay out of school for 24 hours after their fever is gone, regardless of whether they are taking medication such as Tamiflu.", "Before, the recommendation was seven days, Frieden said.", "Watch a report on the new recommendations » .", "In the current context of the H1N1 outbreak, if it is similar to the situation in the spring, schools should consider closing if most or all students have particular medical needs, such as children on ventilators or pregnant teens, Frieden said.", "In addition, some districts may decide that because there are so many cases of H1N1, from an administrative point of view, they cannot stay open, he said.", "In addition, despite telling parents to keep sick children home, some parents may continue to send their children to school with a fever -- a situation that resulted in the closing of some New York schools in the spring, Frieden said.", "Officials emphasized that school closures are ultimately local decisions, which Superintendent Al Hambrick at the Sherman Independent School District in North Texas also stresses.", "He said his district will always take federal guidance into account, but individual localities will handle the H1N1 situation differently depending on the particular circumstances of the outbreak.", "If there are cases of swine flu at Sherman ISD, and the federal guidelines suggested that children shouldn't necessarily be sent home, the school may decide to dismiss the students anyway, he said.", "\"We might send the whole school home because we want to sanitize the building,\" he said.", "Ryan Koczot, a teacher at Broad Creek Middle School in Newport, North Carolina, believes that if proper precautions are taken early, such as telling parents to keep their sick children at home, schools will not have to close.", "He is concerned about creating panic among faculty, staff and students, and about making up lost days at the end of the year.", "\"Let the individual students and parents handle it,\" he said.", "Tara Whittington, a math teacher at Villa Rica High School near Atlanta, Georgia, who makes hand sanitizer available for her students, considers school closures a waste of time if only one student has H1N1, but supports dismissal if a quarter of the students become ill. \"By the time a fourth of the students have it, your school may be the cause of it being spread between the students, need to step in and clean it out,\" she said.", "Boston Public Schools in Massachusetts had 10 closings in the spring, which came about through collaborative decisions between the city public health commission and the superintendent, said Matt Wilder, spokesman for the schools.", "In Georgia, the final decision about closing schools because of H1N1 is usually up to the local school board with input from local and state public health officials, the Department of Community Health said.", "\"Some school closures may be based on operational interruption due to a significant percentage of student and staff absences, while some school closures may be based on a recommendation of public health to reduce the virus spread,\" the department said in a statement.", "The novel virus is known to have been circulating worldwide since April.", "There have been 353 deaths, and more than 5,500 people have been hospitalized for H1N1 in the United States so far, according to the CDC.", "In Montgomery County, Maryland, public school principals have been asked to come up with plans for giving students lessons in the event of school closings, said schools spokeswoman Kate Harrison.", "One option for continuing instruction is a Web resource called Edline, which lets them post lessons and assignments online, she said.", "There is also a cable television station that could be used to broadcast lessons, she said.", "These Maryland schools, which will follow the guidance of local health authorities on school closings, have also ordered hospital-grade face masks, she said.", "It is still unclear under what circumstances these masks would be used, but, for example, employees who have to work together closely may use them, she said.", "Watch the U.S. education secretary talk about preparedness » .", "Other schools across the country are ramping up their cleaning efforts to prevent H1N1 transmission.", "At Sherman ISD in Texas, the staff is disinfecting door handles during the upcoming school year, something the school didn't do before, Hambrick said.", "Most schools in the district have hand sanitizer in every classroom, he said.", "Sherman ISD schools, which have not had any confirmed cases of the virus, will also be distributing informational pamphlets about H1N1, he said.", "For athletic practices, coaches discourage the sharing of towels and water bottles, Hambrick said.", "In the spring, the schools canceled field trips to places where there had been reported cases of H1N1, he said.", "Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told government leaders last month that a vaccine to fight the H1N1 virus should be ready for distribution in mid-October.", "At what point schools should close because of the new virus, if ever, is a matter of controversy.", "A recent study in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases concludes that there are a lot of uncertainties about the consequences of closing schools during a pandemic -- for example, the ways that children interact when they are not in school.", "For example, children may mix with each other at the mall if school is not in session, said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, who was not involved with the study.", "Moreover, school provides a relatively safe environment, whereas other problems could arise outside school such as children getting hit by cars, he said.", "Disinfecting classrooms may not be so effective, either, because the virus dies within about three hours, he said.", "\"If people will stay away from school when they are sick and do the ABCDs, that will mollify, or make less severe, the transmission of disease in schools,\" he said." ]	[ "NEW: Federal agency releases guidance on closures related to H1N1 .", "In Maryland, schools prepare for instruction when students aren't in class .", "Some schools have ramped up cleaning, offered hand sanitizer in classrooms .", "The value of closing school because of H1N1 is still being debated ." ]	[ 2, 23, 27 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Before President Obama says a word during his Tuesday Oval Office address, the backdrop will make a statement for him: that he is the decider.", "Obama is set to give his second Oval Office address, a speech meant to mark the end of combat missions in Iraq.", "But besides the remarks he will make, the setting of his speech will convey something, too.", "\"The Oval Office invokes the center of the presidential authority.", "That's the president's office, that's where he supposedly makes decisions, where he governs,\" says presidential historian Robert Dallek.", "\"[When] a talk to the nation is given from that office, [it] is underscoring his executive powers, his leadership.\"", "The Oval Office symbolizes power, command, and authority, Dallek said.", "It shows the president, \"as George W. Bush put it, is the 'decider' \" and that symbolism is important.", "For example, former President George H.W.", "Bush announced the start of the first Gulf war from the Oval Office, telling Americans and the world that he was the commander in chief just by setting the scene in the Oval Office.", "And on the night of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, former President George W. Bush spoke to the American people from the Oval Office, to show he was in command and to reassure the nation.", "Dallek points out the differences between giving a speech in the Oval Office versus a speech in a different venue.", "For example, Obama's speech in front of the joint session of Congress a year ago conveyed his desire to get Congress to act on health care reform.", "\"A joint session of Congress has a different function,\" Dallek said.", "A speech in front of both the Senate and House shows the president is \"trying to convince Congress to join with him.\"", "When Obama addressed both chambers in September 2009, the health care debate was still waging.", "He called for bipartisan proposals to address health care reform and focused attention on the issue, on Congress and on the presidency.", "An Oval Office address is different.", "The prime-time address focuses the attention singularly on the subject matter.", "\"Presidents don't give speeches from the Oval Office casually,\" Dallek said.", "\"It's given with forethought and consideration.", "So the fact that he's giving the current speech about the end of America's combat role in Iraq is something that he wishes to emphasize and underscore and in a sense I think it's a demonstration of his completion of his mission or fulfillment of a commitment that he made.\"", "Because of the singular focus on the subject matter during Obama's Tuesday evening address, Obama will have to navigate the tricky road of marking the end of a war he did not support and honoring the lives of all the Americans killed in the war, Dallek said.", "Obama must use a \"certain amount of domestic diplomacy to bring the war to a close; you don't just end the war and say it's a mistake.", "It's unpalatable because of all the deaths,\" Dallek said.", "So Obama must do it in a way that is \"politically palatable to the American public -- that is at the heart\" of his address Tuesday, Dallek said.", "The Oval Office will also help convey a sense of intimacy of the message.", "Since former President Jimmy Carter, each president has delivered his farewell address from that room, using the office of the presidency to say goodbye to the American public.", "President Reagan used the intimate space to comfort the public after space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.", "President Johnson used the room in 1968 to tell Americans he would not seek re-election and President Nixon gave several speeches regarding the Watergate scandal, including his decision to resign from the presidency in the wake of Watergate in 1974.", "Obama's other Oval Office address was two months ago to address the nation about the Gulf oil disaster.", "And who does the presidential historian think was most successful at intimate talks to the American people?", "Franklin Roosevelt's fireside addresses -- although there were no televisions at the time, these radio talks were effective in boosting the country's confidence." ]	[ "Obama to give Oval Office address on end of combat mission in Iraq .", "Presidents don't give speeches from the Oval Office casually, says historian .", "Obama's other Oval Office address was two months ago ." ]	[ 1, 19, 30 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- India offered another $20 million in aid to its neighbor and rival Pakistan on Tuesday, but an official in the flood-ravaged country said he has no knowledge of the aid.", "Abdul Basit, spokesman for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, said Tuesday he is not aware of such an offer by India.", "Basit said India was formally notified that Pakistan would accept an earlier offer of $5 million through the United Nations -- but not directly from India.", "He said Pakistan did not accept the aid directly from India because \"that is our government's policy.\"", "However, Basit said, Pakistan has received aid directly from other countries.", "The world community has geared up to help Pakistan recover from the devastating floods.", "More than 1,600 people have died in the colossal tragedy, according to the country's disaster authority, and at least 17 million Pakistanis have been affected.", "In the United States, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraged donations to the Pakistan Relief Fund In television and radio public service announcements released by the Ad Council on Tuesday.", "The new PSAs, which include television and radio spots and Web banners, urge audiences to visit www.state.gov, where they can make donations.", "\"Now is a time for our shared humanity to move us to help.", "That is why the United States government through the Department of State has established the Pakistan Relief Fund for all Americans to join in this tremendous relief, recovery and reconstruction effort,\" Clinton says in the message.", "The money will go toward U.S. government programs or to give money to international programs focused on relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Pakistan.", "Daniel Feldman, deputy to the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told reporters on Monday that the flood crest is reaching the Indian Ocean, but it may take weeks to determine what Pakistan will need to recover, and \"we calculate that the needs are going to be absolutely vast.\"", "\"The good news at this point is is that in most places waters are no longer rising but are finally receding,\" Feldman said.", "He also said that the United States is planning to deploy 18 more helicopters to supplement the 15 already there.", "He said that, in addition to some $200 million in aid pledged by the U.S. government, American companies are providing assistance -- including $1 million from Coca Cola and $1 million and dried food items from Sheraton, $1 million .", "from BP, and $600,000 in cash and water purification tablets from Procter & Gamble.", "The U.N. World Health Organization said this week that health services are a priority for humanitarian agencies, as many of those affected by the floods need treatment for diarrhea, skin infections, respiratory problems and malaria.", "WHO said about 400 of the more than 1,000 health facilities in flood-affected regions have been damaged or destroyed, and it could take months before such facilities can be rebuilt or restored.", "About 3.7 million people were reported to have received some medical treatment from July 29 to August 23.. \"Of those, 500,000 were cases of acute diarrhoea, 517,000 involved acute respiratory infections, there were 693,000 cases of skin infections and 94,000 suspected cases of malaria,\" the United.Nations said." ]	[ "An earlier offer via U.N. was OK'd by Pakistan .", "U.S. ramps up an ad campaign .", "Health care is a major priority ." ]	[ 1, 2, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The California State Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on a bill that would ban the use of plastic bags by retailers in the state, including grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores.", "This year's Senate session ends Tuesday, so it's the last opportunity for the Senate to pass the bill.", "The California Assembly passed the legislation in June.", "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he would sign the measure into law, the Los Angeles Times reported.", "Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club have 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.", "But the measure has 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.", "\"We had to work hard to win passage for the bill in the Assembly and I anticipate an equally hard battle in the Senate,\" Brownley told CNN in June.", "\"Nasty habits, like our reliance on plastic and paper bags, are hard to break.\"", "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 has 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.", "\"Our hope is the consumer is driven towards reusable bags\", says Dave Hanley, vice president of the grocers association.", "\"We have a huge responsibility to educate consumers.\"", "However, Hanley told CNN he's acutely aware of the speed bumps the legislation might encounter along the road to passage.", "For instance, he said, the bill requires grocery stores to sell reusable bags for at least 5 cents if customers don't bring their own.", "\"With the economy, there's always the concern when legislation has fees,\" Hanley said.", "Californians appear to be split on the issue.", "While some people told HLN recently they could go either way, others said a ban would be beneficial.", "\"I'm one of those people who's really good at picking up cloth bags, and really bad at remembering to bring them to the store,\" one woman told HLN.", "\"It could be just the kick I need to make sure I use recycled bags.\"", "Another wondered whether it really mattered.", "\"It's not just plastic bags.", "I mean, everything else I get that comes in a container is in plastic,\" one man told HLN.", "\"Just eliminating plastic bags, as far as I'm concerned, you are not really making that big an impact.\"", "So just how much plastic and paper bag waste do we produce a year?", "According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Catherine Milbourn, 3.96 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were generated in 2008 in the United States alone.", "That's more than three times the 1.17 million tons of waste generated by paper bags and sacks that same year.", "And of that, what's being recycled? A combined total of 830,000 tons of plastic and paper bags was recycled in 2008, while a combined total of 4.3 million tons was discarded, according to the EPA -- the equivalent, speaking in terms of weight, of nearly 24 jumbo jets.", "San Francisco already has a ban on plastic bag use, and it's not the only city where such a law has been discussed.", "Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; Dallas, Texas; and Portland, Oregon, just to name a few, have all considered the environmental impact of plastic bag distribution.", "And then there's the global initiative currently underway.", "Several cities in China, Africa, Australia, India and Ireland have all imposed bans or surcharges on plastic bags.", "Prior to China's ban, an estimated 3 billion plastic bags were used on a daily basis, creating more than 3 million tons of garbage each year, according to the website World Watch Institute, an independent research organization which has programs that focus on areas such as the climate, energy, food and agriculture.", "CNN's Adam Blank contributed to this report." ]	[ "California state senators are expected to vote on plastic bag ban Tuesday .", "Bill passed state Assembly in June .", "Groups supporting and opposing the measure are speaking out ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan was released from the Lynwood Correctional Facility early Monday morning after less than two weeks behind bars, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.", "Lohan was released at 1:35 a.m. (4:35 a.m.", "ET), Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Benjamin Grubb said.", "He said she was taken to a treatment facility.", "After Lohan was taken to jail July 20, a sheriff's spokesman said her stay would likely last between 13 and 15 days.", "Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation.", "But the sheriff, who runs the jail, has the power to release prisoners early because of jail overcrowding.", "Lohan was also sentenced to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program after her jail term is completed.", "Revel ordered Lohan to enter a program within 24 hours of leaving jail.", "\"I would like the transition to be sooner rather than later,\" Revel said last month.", "She said Lohan's next court date would come a week after her release from jail, although if she is in a rehab program her lawyer can appear without her.", "Lohan was arrested twice in 2007 on charges of driving under the influence, and in the second incident she was charged with cocaine possession.", "The first arrest came after Lohan lost control of her Mercedes-Benz convertible and struck a curb in Beverly Hills.", "Just two weeks after checking out of a Malibu drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, she was arrested again in July 2007 after a woman called Santa Monica police, saying Lohan was trying to run her down with a car.", "Lohan's acting career, which started at age 10 on a soap opera, took off on the big screen a year later, when she played identical twins in Disney's remake of \"The Parent Trap.\"", "CNN's Matt Cherry contributed to this report." ]	[ "Lohan has left jail after spending 13 days behind bars .", "Sheriff's department says she is being taken to a treatment facility .", "A judge sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail for a probation violation ." ]	[ 3, 5, 7 ]
[ "Amsterdam, Netherlands (CNN) -- Two men arrested at Schiphol International Airport in the Netherlands are being held on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act, Dutch authorities said Tuesday.", "They are Yemeni citizens who were en route to the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, from Chicago, Illinois, officials said.", "They were arrested Monday morning and authorities continued to question them Tuesday, Dutch prosecutors said.", "A U.S. law enforcement source said Monday the men may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles attached to electronic devices in their checked baggage.", "But two U.S. government officials said Tuesday an initial U.S. investigation into the men shows no evidence of terrorism and no indication the men even knew each other.", "\"This looks like nothing,\" said one of the officials, saying both men missed flights in Chicago because of a gate change and their airline rebooked them onto the same plane.", "\"We see no evidence of a dry run or a connection to terrorism,\" said the source, who is not authorized to discuss the case with the media and asked not to be named.", "The Department of Homeland Security noted that the two men \"have not been charged with any crime in the United States\" and cautioned \"against jumping to any conclusions.\"", "Appropriate airport security protocols were followed, the department said.", "\"In this instance, sound judgment led to suspicious items being identified, which triggered automatic security responses by U.S. security personnel,\" the department said. \" ...", "When the investigation tells us more, we will let you know, but we don't have anything else at this time.\"", "An announcement about whether the men will be charged will be made \"in a few days,\" Dutch authorities said in a statement.", "The men were still being held at Schiphol Airport on Tuesday, said Martijn Boelhouwer, a spokesman for Dutch prosecutors.", "Another U.S. official said the Dutch are being cautious and checking everything.", "That official, who also asked not to be named, said the United States is doing the same and is continuing to investigate.", "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday the two 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.", "Dutch authorities confirmed that one phone was found taped to a bottle and seized in the United States.", "Nothing else suspicious was found in the men's luggage, the Dutch said.", "The items have 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, but they are allowed in checked bags.", "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.", "A co-worker of al-Soofi said he was not known to express anti-American opinions and was \"not a very good Muslim\" because he drinks beer.", "Al-Soofi had been back to Yemen at least twice before to deliver money and gifts, and bought watches and cell phones as gifts for family members on this trip, said co-worker Ali Moqbel in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.", "Al-Murisi was scheduled to fly from Chicago to Yemen, with connections in Washington and Dubai, a U.S. government official said, but his flight was changed to go from Chicago to Amsterdam.", "Another U.S. law enforcement official said both men were in the United States legally.", "That official said neither of the passengers was carrying items that are barred from aircraft, and federal air marshals 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 Washington Dulles International Airport 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.", "CNN's Atika Shubert, Nic Robertson, Carol Cratty, Jeanne Meserve, Mike Ahlers, Dave Mattingly and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Homeland Security cautions against \"jumping to any conclusions\"\nAn initial U.S. investigation finds no connection to terror, two officials say .", "The two are Yemeni citizens, the Dutch say .", "The men in custody may have been testing security, source says ." ]	[ 1, 3, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A House ethics investigative panel has charged a high-ranking Democratic congresswoman with violating House rules by seeking federal assistance for a bank with financial ties to her husband.", "According to the House ethics committee, California Rep. Maxine Waters helped arrange a meeting in September 2008 between Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank and Treasury Department officials.", "OneUnited Bank ultimately received $12 million in bailout funds.", "Waters is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee.", "Waters, according to a preliminary report, called then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during the height of the financial crisis \"and requested that Treasury Department officials meet with representatives from the National Bankers Association,\" an organization representating over 100 minority-owned banks.", "\"A meeting was in fact granted, however, the discussion at the meeting focused on a single bank -- OneUnited.", "Rep. Waters' husband had been a board member of the bank from 2004 to 2008 and, at the time of the meeting, was a stock holder of the bank.\"", "The report states that Waters approached Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, to say that she was \"in a predicament because her husband had been involved in the bank, but 'OneUnited people' were coming to her for help.\"", "Waters, \"according to (Frank) ... knew she should say no, but it bothered her.", "It was clear to (Frank) that this was a 'conflict of interest problem.'\"", "Frank's advice to Waters, the report states, was to 'stay out of it.'\"", "According to Waters' 2008 financial disclosure statement -- as mentioned in the report -- her husband had two investments in OneUnited at the time valued between $500,000 and $1 million.", "\"There is substantial reason to believe that Rep.", "Waters' conduct may have violated\" House rules, the report concludes.", "Waters, a 71-year-old 10-term Democrat representing the Watts section of Los Angeles, insists she did nothing wrong.", "\"I have not violated any House rules,\" she said in a statement released Monday.", "\"I simply will not be forced to admit to something I did not do.\"", "Waters asserted that \"the record will clearly show that in advocating on behalf of minority banks neither my office nor I benefited in any way, engaged in improper action or influenced anyone. ...", "The case against me has no merit.\"", "Waters stressed that the meeting \"was requested and scheduled on behalf of the (National Bankers Association), not on behalf of OneUnited Bank as has been suggested.\"", "The announcement by the ethics committee means Waters may now face a trial by committee members tasked with determining whether there is \"clear and convincing evidence\" she broke congressional rules.", "Also facing a possible ethics committee trial: Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York.", "Rangel, the former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of 13 violations of House rules involving alleged financial wrongdoing and harming the credibility of Congress.", "Both trials could take place in September -- only a few weeks before the midterm elections.", "The prospect of inquiries into two high-profile Democrats has compounded the fears of congressional Democrats nervous about their prospects in November.", "The growing likelihood of trials for Waters and Rangel also adds the explosive element of race to the political equation.", "Both representatives are leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, and OneUnited Bank is one of the largest minority-owned banks in America.", "CNN's Alan Silverleib, Craig Broffman and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Rep. Maxine Waters denies breaking any House rules .", "Waters joins Rep. Charlie Rangel in possibly facing trial by the House ethics committee .", "Waters is facing charges for violating House rules .", "Waters is charged with seeking federal aid in 2008 for a bank with ties to her husband ." ]	[ 0, 1, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Heavy rains caused flash flooding across the Boston metro area Saturday, stranding cars and causing damage, the National Weather Service reported.", "No injuries were immediately reported.", "Flash flood warnings were issued for four counties in eastern Massachusetts, and 2 to 4 inches of rain fell in the region, according to the weather service.", "There were several reports of cars getting stuck in floodwaters, particularly in the Somerville area, northwest of Boston, where the weather service said at least five vehicles were stranded underneath the Assembly Square Underpass.", "Video from CNN affiliates WHDH and WCVB showed the vehicles fully submerged beneath the underpass.", "Drivers had to be rescued from their cars when the tunnel filled with up to 18 feet of water, according to an off-duty police officer involved with the rescue efforts.", "The officer told WCVB that the water was heavily mixed with sewage.", "The flooding also forced the closures of at least two bridges.", "Witnesses told WHDH that cars were also submerged around the bridges and residents waded through water up to their knees.", "Some locals said they helped direct traffic since lights were knocked out by the storms.", "The bad weather also disrupted travel for the Boston area transit system.", "Joe Pesaturo, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, told CNN affiliate WCVB that there were weather-related delays during the afternoon, including the suspension of rail service in one area due to water on the tracks." ]	[ "Storms cause flash flooding in eastern Massachusetts .", "Several cars stuck in water in Somerville area .", "Floodwaters cause delays for mass transit system ." ]	[ 2, 3, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Mexican authorities searching a man with a bulge under his shirt at the airport in the nation's capital found 18 monkeys hidden beneath his clothes, police said.", "Investigators grew suspicious after Roberto Sol Cabrera Zavaleta, 38, became \"markedly nervous\" when asked what he was transporting, Mexico's Public Safety Department said.", "Two of the tiny titi monkeys he was carrying in a belt were dead, the department said in a statement, and 16 of them survived the journey from Lima, Peru.", "Cabrera has been detained as authorities continue their investigation, the statement said.", "In an interview with authorities released by police, Cabrera said he first carried the monkeys in his suitcase, but then hid the animals in his clothes so they would not be harmed by X-ray machines at the airport.", "Cabrera described the animals as \"pets\" and told authorities he had purchased them for $30.", "Titi monkeys are protected endangered species requiring a permit for possession, police said.", "Images released by police show the tiny creatures, many of which are tied up in pouches, squirming in a cardboard box." ]	[ "Police say the man was carrying 18 monkeys in a belt under his shirt .", "Authorities say they grew suspicious when Cabrera was nervous during questioning .", "Titi monkeys are an endangered species requiring permits for ownership ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "Kapikoy, Turkey (CNN) -- Hamide Yeni is a woman on the hunt.", "The women's rights activist wears a determined expression on her face as she paces the dirt roads of this remote village, looking for the man who Turkish authorities say beat his wife and put her in a hospital twice in less than 12 months.", "\"Have you seen Faruk?\"", "she asks the village mayor's daughter.", "\"He disappeared with his car.\"", "\"No one's seen him,\" the woman replies.", "Some other villagers retreat behind the mud-brick walls of their homes as Yeni approaches.", "Convicted wife beater .", "The man Yeni is looking for is Faruk Platin, one of the 600 residents of Kapikoy.", "Last fall, a court sentenced him to 15 months in prison for assault, after his 30-year old wife Sidika was hospitalized with trauma wounds.", "Video footage filmed in September of 2009 shows Sidika outside of the hospital in the provincial capital of Van.", "Her face was horribly bruised; her head encased in bandages.", "Part of Sidika's right ear had been sliced off.", "The woman could barely walk and leaned on her brother for support, as she hobbled a few short steps into the hospital.", "After the incident, Turkish authorities separated Sidika Platin and her children from her husband and placed them in a state-run women's shelter.", "But barely two months later, a local criminal court asked that Sidika and her children be handed back to Faruk Platin.", "He had not served any jail time for beating his wife.", "\"At that time, because he showed regret and because his [criminal] record was clean, his sentence was postponed,\" said Meral Demirbas, the governor of Saray district where Kapikoy is located.", "\"Also, the wife withdrew her complaint.\"", "Sidika Platin is an ethnic Kurd who speaks no Turkish.", "According to eyewitnesses, when she appeared in court, she could not understand the judge or prosecutor, and relied on her husband to translate legal proceedings.", "On a snowy day last December, local women's rights activists like Hamide Yeni could do little more then watch helplessly, as Faruk Platin led his mutilated wife away from the courtyard, back to the village where they lived.", "Widespread violence against women .", "\"This kind of thing happens in every village,\" says Yeni, one of the founders of a grassroots local family protection association in the Saray district of southeastern Turkey.", "\"There are thousands of women like Sidika out here.\"", "In fact, according to a 2009 Turkish government report, 42 percent of women surveyed said they had been the victims of either physical or sexual abuse by their husband or partner.", "The report concluded that one in four married Turkish women had been injured by partner violence.", "Meanwhile, one in ten Turkish women were injured by such violence while pregnant.", "Some Turkish activists fear the real statistics for violence against women may actually be much higher.", "\"In all domestic surveys there are 'shadow figures.'", "That is because women are not willing to tell about the violence, it's a very sensitive issue,\" says Pinar Ilkkaracan, a co-founder of the Istanbul-based group Women for Women's Human Rights.", "\"We think it's much higher than 42 percent.\"", "Domestic violence against women is not confined to economically-depressed, rural regions of eastern Turkey.", "According to the Turkish government survey, the statistics for physical and sexual assault were roughly the same in the countryside as in the most developed, fast-growing cities in the western part of the country.", "Over the past 15 years, Turkey has adopted several progressive pieces of legislation to protect women, including a 1998 Protection Order against Domestic Violence.", "Reform of Turkey's Civil Code in 2001 gave women legal equal status to men in the family.", "Meanwhile, changes to the country's Penal Code in 2004 criminalized marital rape.", "But critics argue that the Turkish state has lapsed far behind in implementing these laws.", "\"The law prohibits violence against women, including spousal abuse, but the government did not effectively enforce it,\" the U.S. State Department said in its 2009 human rights report on Turkey.", "Despite widespread violence against women, in 2009 the Turkish government reported there were only 52 state-run shelters for women in the entire country.", "Those shelters have the capacity to house less than 1,300 residents, in a country where the population exceeds 70 million.", "\"There is a lack of coordinated action and strong will on the part of the government to stop violence against women,\" says Ilkkaracan.", "'It looks as if she was tortured' Not long after Sidika Platin returned to the village of Kapikoy, neighbors and relatives began contacting authorities, reporting that her husband was once again beating her.", "But Sidika's parents and siblings said Faruk Platin repeatedly threatened them when they tried to intervene.", "Sidika's brother claims on one such occasion, his brother-in-law beat him up.", "\"That man started beating my daughter the day she put on her wedding dress and he has been violent with her ever since,\" said Cemile Ozer, Sidika's mother.", "\"I wish he killed her long ago to spare her all the suffering.\"", "In early July, gendarme security forces were summoned to the crude house where the Platin family lived.", "Niyazi Yakin, a member of the Kapikoy village council and a relative of Faruk Platin, says he personally asked Sidika if she was being abused, and she said no.", "\"She deserved what happened,\" Yakin said.", "\"Because we gave her the chance to leave him and she didn't.\"", "On July 15, Faruk Platin brought his wife to the hospital in Van.", "\"When the doctors discovered that she was battered, the husband escaped,\" the Van Social Services Directorate announced in a written statement on July 19.", "Doctors at Van hospital said Sidika had trauma marks on various locations on her head, infections from injuries, a fever and there was a third-degree burn in the shape of an iron on her back.", "\"It looked as if she had been tortured,\" one Van hospital doctor told CNN, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give an interview.", "Though there was no evidence of brain damage, for more then two weeks after being hospitalized, Sidika was in a near-catatonic state, unable to move or respond to questions.", "Hakan Cankaya, the deputy chief doctor at the hospital, said psychiatrists suspected she suffered from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder.", "He added that the hospital frequently received female patients who appeared to be victims of abuse.", "\"Usually if a woman comes in who has been beaten, she will say 'I fell down the stairs' or 'I bumped into the refrigator,\" Cankaya said.", "\"It stays in the family...and as doctors, we cannot interfere.\"", "Meral Demirbas, the district governor of Saray, told CNN an arrest warrant has been issued for Faruk Platin, who is on the loose.", "But Hamide Yeni says that is not enough.", "\"The state is guilty, the system is guilty,\" she says.", "\"It failed to protect the victim.\"", "The governor of Van province and Turkey's minister of state responsible for women's and family affairs did not respond to numerous requests from CNN to comment on the case.", "Both officials have made visits to Sidika's bedside in Van hospital.", "In village of Kapikoy, where many residents eke out a living herding sheep, Yeni goes house to house, dressed in a long skirt and loose headscarf, asking locals why they did not speak up about the violence that had been taking place in their community.", "\"It wasn't our responsibility,\" insists Saban Altinli, a brother of the village muhtar, or mayor.", "\"When there is violence, it doesn't matter if it's your relative,\" Yeni responds.", "\"You can still make a call and inform that this woman is being beaten.\"" ]	[ "Statistics show the violence is in urban and rural regions .", "Turkey has adopted legislation to protect women .", "There are only 52 state-run shelters for women in the nation ." ]	[ 34, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Three crew members were killed and one was injured Wednesday when a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed in waters near James Island in LaPush, Washington, officials said.", "The surviving crew member is hospitalized in Seattle with non-life threatening injuries, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Gary Blore.", "The helicopter, a MH-60 Jayhawk, was flying to Sitka, Alaska, after departing the Coast Guard Air Station in Astoria, Oregon.", "\"The Coast Guard lost communication with the helicopter around 9:30 a.m. PT (12:30 p.m.", "ET),\" said Blore.", "\"Rescue crews were launched shortly after that.\"", "The survivor was pulled from the water by a good samaritan and transferred to a medical facility, said the Coast Guard.", "The recovery phase for those killed is continuing, said Blore.", "\"The helicopter is in the water, inverted,\" he said.", "\"There are power lines down at the beach.\"", "The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a flight restriction in the area near the crash to allow response crews to search without distractions, said the Coast Guard.", "The Coast Guard will conduct an investigation to determine the cause of the accident, said Blore.", "With his voice cracking at times, Blore told reporters at a media briefing Wednesday afternoon that accidents such as this are deeply personal to members of the Coast Guard.", "\"We all have flown helicopters, we have flown the same machine.", "This hits close to home,\" he said.", "CNN's Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report." ]	[ "Helicopter crashed near James Island off La Push, Washington .", "One survivor hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries .", "Helicopter is in water, power lines it hit are down at beach ." ]	[ 1, 9 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The mother of a California woman missing for nearly a year is dismissing a recent turn in the search for her daughter that has led investigators to Las Vegas, Nevada.", "In a statement released Sunday, Latice Sutton -- mother of Mitrice Richardson -- said she \"does not believe Mitrice is in Las Vegas, nor does she believe the sighting of Mitrice by a teenage acquaintance is a credible sighting since he has not seen her since she was 15 years old, which was over nine years ago.\"", "Sutton, who has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies for negligence in her daughter's disappearance, suggested the recent turn in the investigation could be a \"diversionary tactic\" by California authorities.", "Investigators have spent about six weeks checking out a high school classmate's report that he saw Richardson at a hotel casino, and are \"unable to show that it is not a good lead,\" Los Angeles, California, police Capt.", "Kevin McClure said Thursday.", "Detectives have talked to several witnesses since then who believe they have seen her in the area, he said.", "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, California, 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 she exhibited strange behavior.", "Her family has said the college honors graduate suffered from mental health issues and should have been kept at the sheriff's station until a relative arrived to pick her up.", "\"Latice Sutton hopes this is not a diversionary tactic to redirect attention and efforts away from where Mitrice was last known to be last seen -- leaving the Los Angeles Sheriff's department, Malibu/Lost Hills station, without her cell phone, money, transportation, or asthma medication, which is where their massive search efforts and public plea should be concentrated,\" the statement, signed by Sutton, said.", "It added: \"The more time spent following leads in Las Vegas, is less time spent following up on facts in the Calabasas [California] and surrounding area.\"", "Sutton also disputed authorities' claims that the person who reported seeing Richardson in Las Vegas spent significant time with her daughter.", "\"Contrary to law enforcement official statements during their press conference, Mitrice did not grow up with, go to school with, nor spend any significant time with this witness,\" the statement said.", "According to the wrongful death and negligence suit filed last month in Los Angeles Superior Court, authorities launched a homicide investigation into Richardson's disappearance in December.", "The lawsuit claims Richardson suffered \"grievous bodily harm and loss of life.\"", "Sutton argues in the lawsuit that the sheriff's department failure to administer psychiatric or medical evaluations and the fact that Richardson was released \"alone in an unfamiliar area without money, a cellular phone or means of transportation amounts to negligence.\"", "The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages.", "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.\"", "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." ]	[ "Mother of Mitrice Richardson does not believe her daughter is in Las Vegas .", "Richardson was last seen September 17, 2009 .", "She suggests the search could be a \"diversionary tactic\" by California authorities .", "She has filed a wrongful death suit against deputies in her daughter's disappearance ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "United Nations (CNN) -- Calling it an \"unprecedented development,\" United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday the U.N. will launch a panel of inquiry to investigate the May 31 Gaza flotilla incident that left nine Turkish activists dead.", "\"For the past two months, I have engaged in intensive consultation with the leaders of Israel and Turkey on the setting-up of a panel of inquiry on the flotilla incident,\" Ban said in a statement.", "\"Today I am very pleased to announce the launch of the panel.", "This is an unprecedented development.", "I thank the leaders of the two countries with whom I have engaged in last-minute consultations over the weekend, for their spirit of compromise and forward-looking cooperation.\"", "The panel will be led by Geoffrey Palmer, former prime minister of New Zealand, as chairman and Alvaro Uribe, outgoing Colombian president, as vice-chair, Ban said.", "Representatives from Israel and Turkey will be the panel's other two members.", "The panel will begin its work on August 10 and submit its first progress report by mid-September, the statement said.", "Ban said he hopes the panel's work will \"give me recommendations for the prevention of similar incidents in the future.\"", "He said he also hopes the agreement will \"impact positively on the relationship between Turkey and Israel as well as the overall situation in the Middle East.\"", "The United States welcomed the announcement.", "Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said the panel will receive and review reports from both Israeli and Turkish investigations into the incident, and issue recommendations on how such incidents can be avoided in the future.", "\"The panel is not a substitute for those national investigations,\" Rice said in a statement.", "\"It complements them, affording Israel and Turkey the opportunity to present the conclusions of their investigations to the international community.\"", "Israel has maintained its troops used force on the activists after they were attacked by those on board one boat in the flotilla, the Mavi Marmara.", "Soldiers were attacked with knives, metal poles and other objects, Israeli officials have said.", "But passengers on board the boat insist they were fired upon without provocation.", "The incident left a wide-ranging military and diplomatic alliance between the Jewish state and Turkey, its powerful regional ally, badly shaken and drew international outrage.", "Israel maintains it must inspect all goods entering Gaza so that weapons do not get into the hands of militants.", "Gaza is run by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that has said it is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.", "Israel had asked the flotilla to dock at the port of Ashdod so its cargo could be inspected and transferred to Gaza, but flotilla members refused.", "\"Israel has nothing to hide,\" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.", "\"The opposite is true.", "It is in the national interest of the state of Israel to ensure that the factual truth of the overall flotilla events comes to light throughout the world, and this is exactly the principle that we are advancing.\"", "Israel had previously resisted demands for an international inquiry into the incident, but an Israeli military investigation was conducted into the boarding of the Mavi Marmara and it criticized some aspects of the operation.", "The operation prepared only one course of action and had no backup plan, military commanders were not presented with options other than boarding the ship, and different branches of military intelligence did not coordinate well enough, the report found.", "But the report said the commando team that boarded the ship operated properly, with bravery and professionalism, and that the use of live fire against the activists was justified.", "The Israeli Commission of Inquiry also is conducting an ongoing investigation into the incident and is not expected to complete it for some time.", "Rice said the United States hopes the panel \"can serve as a vehicle to enable Israel and Turkey to move beyond the recent strains in their relationship and repair their strong historic ties.\"" ]	[ "The former New Zealand prime minister will chair the panel of inquiry .", "Israel and Turkey will both have representatives on the panel .", "Its first report is due by mid-September ." ]	[ 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Republicans are predicting big wins in the November midterms.", "Across the aisle, Democrats are saying the same thing about their chances at the polls.", "But both can't be right. Republicans speculate that they will take back the House -- and possibly the Senate -- as voters express their frustration at where Democrats and President Obama are taking the country.", "\"I think it's pretty clear that the American people are tired of the job-killing agenda in Washington, D.C.", "They want the spending spree to stop,\" House Minority Leader John Boehner said on \"Fox News Sunday.\"", "\"I think we're having a good year, but we've got a lot of work to do before the Election Day on November 2,\" he said.", "Boehner advised Republicans heading home for the August recess to \"talk about the better solutions that Republicans have been offering over the last 18 months.\"", "His counterpart in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, encouraged her members to do the opposite.", "\"We've been legislating for the past 18 months.", "The other side has been in campaign mode for 18 months, saying no, stopping job creation and the rest.", "But our members are the best salespersons for their own districts.", "They've been elected there. They know their constituents,\" she said on ABC's \"This Week.\"", "Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, said that although his party will probably lose a couple of seats, \"it's going to be a lot better than what people now look at.\"", "Democrats hold a 256-179 advantage in the House and a 59-41 advantage in the Senate, including the two independents who caucus with Democrats.", "This year, 37 seats are up for grabs in the Senate, and 18 of those are considered at least somewhat vulnerable, according to The Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter covering campaigns and politics.", "Eleven of those are held by Democrats, and seven are held by Republicans.", "In the House, all 435 seats are on the ballot, and 88 are considered vulnerable, according to Rothenberg.", "Twelve are held by Republicans, and 76 are held by Democrats.", "In order to net control, Republicans need to pick up 39 seats in the House and 10 in the Senate, said Nathan Gonzales, political editor of The Rothenberg Political Report.", "\"The most likely scenario is the Republicans gain 28 to 33 seats -- but the House is definitely in play.", "The majority is at significant risk for Democrats,\" Gonzales said.", "In the Senate, however, Republicans have a tougher task.", "\"Republicans need to win every competitive race in order to take the majority.", "It's possible but difficult,\" Gonzales said.", "Although the election is still three months out, the trajectory of the cycle is not going to change, Gonzales added.", "\"Republicans will gain seats in November.", "We just don't know how many yet,\" he said.", "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had some fellow Democrats fuming last month over his take on the midterms.", "\"I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control.", "There's no doubt about that,\" he told NBC's \"Meet the Press.\"", "Asked Sunday about those comments, Pelosi said, \"with all due respect, I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about what the president's employees say about one thing or another.\"", "\"We have a solid plan of messaging and mobilizing at the grass-roots level and management of our campaigns.", "And we have a two-to-one advantage money-wise.", "So we feel very confident about where we are, whether that's well known to that gentleman or not,\" she said.", "After facing backlash from Democrats, Gibbs revised his prediction and said the party will hold on to the House and Senate.", "A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll indicates that Democrats and Republicans are tied on which party can bring the kind of change the country needs.", "The Republicans hold an 8-point margin over the Democrats on the question of which party shares the respondents' view of the government and which party can effectively manage the government.", "\"These results illustrate the reasons why the Democrats are now behind on the so-called generic ballot question,\" CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.", "\"The Democrats manage no better than a virtual tie on issues, but they are behind when it comes to handling the government.", "And when the presidency is not at stake, the congressional elections are the only way that voters can do something about the direction the government will take.\"", "Full results of the poll (PDF) A potential thorn for Democrats is the ethics cases dogging two House members.", "California Rep. Maxine Waters has chosen to face a House ethics trial rather than accept a finding of wrongdoing by the House ethics committee, according to a source familiar with the process.", "The ethics committee has been looking into whether Waters violated House rules when she helped arrange a meeting in September 2008 between Treasury Department officials and a bank she and her husband had ties to financially.", "Longtime Rep. Charlie Rangel also could face an ethics trial, barring a settlement between him and the committee members.", "The House ethics committee last week accused Rangel, a New York Democrat, of 13 violations of House rules involving alleged financial wrongdoing and harming the credibility of Congress.", "Bill Kristol, editor of conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, said Republicans would be \"foolish\" to jump on the ethics problems because they are not unique to the Democratic Party.", "\"They should just shut up. There's a bipartisan ethics committee.", "Let the process go forward,\" he told Fox.", "\"Democrats are going to lose the House and suffer the loss of a lot of Senate seats because of their policies,\" Kristol said.", "\"And the idea that Republicans should go around throwing stones at Charlie Rangel, I think, is just foolish on their part.\"", "Lawmakers are entering the most crucial part of the campaign season, when candidates start to engage each other and their messages begin to stick with voters.", "But as the cliché goes, three months is an eternity in politics.", "\"I'd love to have the election tomorrow, but obviously it's not tomorrow,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox when asked whether anything short of a Republican takeover could be considered a victory for Democrats.", "\"If the election were today, we'd certainly have a good day, but it's a long way until November.", "They have a lot of money. They've outspent us for the last three cycles, and I expect them to do it again.", "They're not going to go down easily,\" McConnell said." ]	[ "\"I think we're having a good year,\" House Minority Leader John Boehner says .", "\"The House is definitely in play,\" political observer says .", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats \"feel very confident about where we are\"\nTo gain control, Republicans need to pick up 39 seats in the House, 10 in the Senate ." ]	[ 4, 5, 7, 18, 19, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The defense in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor filed an emergency motion to delay supermodel Naomi Campbell's testimony against him, the court announced Monday.", "She is scheduled to take the stand against him at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone on Thursday.", "Prosecutors say Taylor gave her a diamond during the brutal war in Sierra Leone, contradicting Taylor's testimony that he never handled the precious stones that fueled the conflict.", "The defense says it hasn't seen a copy of her testimony, which interferes with Taylor's right to a fair trial.", "Under tribunal rules, the defense team should get advance access to prosecution witness testimony so it can prepare its arguments.", "It asked the court to decide by Wednesday whether Campbell would testify Thursday, according to court papers.", "Campbell did not want to be involved in the trial but was subpoenaed on July 1 to appear at the tribunal for Taylor, who faces war crimes charges over a brutal conflict in Sierra Leone that was fueled by rough diamonds, also known as blood diamonds or conflict diamonds.", "Witnesses have said Taylor gave Campbell a diamond.", "Prosecutors had rested their case against Taylor in February 2009.", "They asked to reopen it specifically to call Campbell, as well as actress Mia Farrow and a witness named Carole Taylor, court papers show.", "Prosecutors said they learned in June 2009 that Taylor had given the supermodel a diamond in South Africa in 1997.", "Farrow confirmed it, they said.", "When arguing to reopen the case, prosecutors said Campbell's testimony would prove that the former president \"used rough diamonds for personal enrichment and arms purchases,\" according to papers filed with the U.N.-backed court.", "Taylor, 62, was president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003.", "The war crimes charges against him stem from the widespread murder, rape and mutilation that occurred during the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone.", "It was fought largely by teenagers who were forced to kill, given addictive drugs to provoke violent behavior, and often instructed to rape and plunder.", "Taylor is charged with five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and violence, and enslavement.", "He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.", "He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.", "CNN's Carol Jordan contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Naomi Campbell is due to testify in the trial of Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor .", "Witnesses say Taylor gave Campbell a diamond .", "Campbell had to be ordered to testify .", "Taylor is accused of crimes during a civil war in Sierra Leone ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "Dover, New Hampshire (CNN) -- The Tuttle farming legacy may come to an end soon.", "Since 1635, the Tuttle farm has been passed from father to son and after years of thought, Will Tuttle has put what's known as the country's longest family-run farm up for sale.", "As the 11th generation Tuttle man to farm this now 134-acre plot of land in New Hampshire, Will Tuttle says he has no regrets.", "\"I'm not a museum curator, I'm a farmer,\" Tuttle says.", "He's tall, lean and tanned from head to toe, apart from his red cheeks and white beard.", "Shaking his head underneath the beating sun, he adds, \"I wasn't the first one.", "I may be the last one.", "You can't live anybody else's dream, and 57 years is enough.\"", "Tuttle, now 63, left the farm to attend Tufts University in the 1970s.", "But after graduation, he grew tired of his job as a salesman and says he was drawn by the feeling of \"self-reliance, satisfaction at the end of the day\" that farming gave him.", "\"The variety of our lives here, as on every farm, is incredible,\" Tuttle says.", "\"Being out in the fresh air, being tired when I get home, that's all good stuff,\" he says, sighing, and adding that those also are the worst parts about farming.", "Tasking work .", "Tuttle wakes up at 4:30 a.m. and says he works anywhere from 12 to 17 hours a day.", "He says he's learned to \"survive on less sleep\" but admits he longs to spend more time with his children.", "As he trudges along rows of tall, ripe corn, Tuttle recalls what his grandfather once told him.", "\"He said be careful where you set foot on this farm because that footprint is going to be there for the rest of time, you're gonna leave your mark on this farm,\" he says.", "But in the end, Tuttle admits he \"had to take the weight of our ancestors off the decision, they're not here to advise us.", "I think probably most of them died with their boots on.\"", "Tuttle says his health has been compromised by decades of farm work; he ruptured his Achilles tendon a couple of years ago and he says he suffers from neck and back problems.", "Standing next to her big brother Will, Lucy Tuttle confesses she has mixed feelings about selling the family's land and says it will be a tough adjustment.", "\"I feel a great sense of continuity here with the family,\" she says, \"To be standing there hoeing or weeding and to think about my father doing that or my grandfather doing that ... is just an incredible feeling.\"", "But Will Tuttle says his two grown sons were not interested in running the family business and he couldn't make the decision for his two younger sons to carry on the tradition.", "\"I believe it would be unfair of me to say ... one of my kids is going to run it.", "I can't decide for them,\" he said.", "Customers and condolences .", "On a tour of Tuttle's Red Barn store, youngest sister Becky Tuttle, 58, points to a heap of fresh radishes, proudly noting \"everything that says 'our own' on the sign was grown here.\"", "The air-conditioned shop resembles a modern grocery store, but with freshly picked vegetables of all sizes and colors as the main attraction.", "Abundant varieties of squash and lettuce are lined up on shelves near a mound of the Tuttles' \"famous\" sweet corn.", "Fresh cucumbers are added as soon as they are scrubbed clean.", "Many regulars recognize Becky Tuttle and they ask about her family.", "They also offer their condolences.", "Kathleen McShera, a lifelong customer who shops at the store at least once a week, says the thought of the Tuttles selling their farm brings tears to her eyes.", "\"I've got goosebumps.", "It's really sad.", "It's a tradition. It's been here forever,\" she says.", "In 1956, when the Tuttles' parents started the farm stand store, Becky Tuttle says, \"This place became a destination for people, where they could come and know they were getting fresh, homegrown, quality vegetables.\"", "Since then, she says, \"Supermarkets have caught up to speed\" on offering fresh vegetables and gourmet products and they have competitive prices that are hard to match.", "\"Places like Walmart and even the supermarkets with their buying power, to buy the products we sell, they are able to buy them cheaper at wholesale than we can,\" she says.", "That results in retail prices that are often cheaper than the Tuttles' wholesale prices.", "Fresh ideas, fresh backs .", "Although the Tuttles will not be working on the farm once it's sold, the three older Tuttle siblings remain hopeful about the land's future.", "As a first step of the selling process, the family went through a conservancy to ensure the farm would be worked and viable for generations to come.", "\"I believe it's not psychologically possible for the three of us to sell this farm for residential or commercial development,\" Will Tuttle says.", "\"The fact that it's going to remain open in someone's gentle care, in some form or another is very comforting to me.\"", "Though they've booked showings already, Tuttle says the farm's sale is not imminent.", "\"This is not going to sell in one day,\" he says.", "\"Its may take a long time to sell it.", "We're prepared to battle it out until that time and spend what's left of our energy, so I can keep this place as vital as it can be.\"", "Becky Tuttle adds that for now, \"The business still will remain open, and the corn is still as fresh and sweet as ever.\"", "What's needed to make the farm thrive for years to come?", "Tuttle says the farm needs a \"fresh approach, fresh ideas and fresh legs and backs to do that.\"" ]	[ "The oldest family farm in U.S. -- the Tuttle farm in New Hampshire -- is up for sale .", "After working for up to 17 hours a day, Will Tuttle says he has health problems .", "His grown sons aren't interested in farming and he won't pressure 2 younger sons .", "Conservancy will ensure farm would be worked and viable for generations to come." ]	[ 1, 22, 42, 46 ]
[ "Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuban President Raul Castro said Sunday that his government would allow more private businesses and make it easier for those businesses to hire workers, as the socialist economy struggles to get back on its feet and shed up to one million redundant state jobs.", "The government \"agreed to broaden the exercise of self employment and its use as another alternative for the employment of those excess workers,\" Castro said during a biannual session of the National Assembly.", "He went on to say that the government would eliminate \"numerous\" prohibitions to the granting of licenses for private businesses and to the sales of some products, as well as \"make the contracting of a work force more flexible.\"", "In exchange, those businesses will pay taxes on income and sales, and pay contributions for employees, he said.", "The measures \"constitute a structural and conceptual change in the interest of preserving and developing our social system to make it sustainable in the future,\" Castro said.", "The decision was part of a series of measures approved by the Council of Ministers to reduce \"the considerably inflated payroll in the state sector,\" he added.", "Earlier this year, Castro said that more than one million state jobs, out of a total of 5.1 million, could be redundant.", "The government has launched a few, small free-market reforms.", "In April, for example, barbershops were handed over to employees, who pay rent and taxes but charge what they want.", "Licenses have also been granted to private taxis.", "For a couple of years, fallow land in the countryside has been turned over to private farmers.", "The more they produce, the more they earn.", "Not surprisingly, output is up.", "In his speech, Castro also mentioned for the first time the release of political prisoners that started last month.", "\"The Revolution can be generous because it is strong,\" he said.", "The Catholic Church and Spain negotiated the release of 52 prisoners jailed in 2003 as part of a crackdown on people the government accused of receiving money from the enemy government in Washington.", "So far, 21 prisoners have been released and flown abroad.", "Castro did not give details about why Cuba agreed to free the \"counterrevolutionaries\" or if he expected any gesture in return.", "Former President Fidel Castro did not make an appearance despite expectations that he might." ]	[ "The Cuban president says it will become easier to have a private business .", "Raul Castro says jobs will be cut \"in the considerably inflated\" state sector .", "Fidel Castro did not attend his brother's speech to the National Assembly ." ]	[ 0, 5, 18 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- In the first two days back from his Martha's Vineyard family vacation, President Obama gave two speeches on two important subjects.", "The first was a four-minute address from the Rose Garden on Monday on the economy.", "This was obviously a quickly thrown together speech to let the country know that even though the economic indicators, to quote the Washington Post, \"trended from bad to worse\" while the president golfed and relaxed, his team was aware of them.", "We all come back a little rusty, and hopefully relaxed, from our vacations, and certainly the president and his family are entitled to theirs.", "But this speech offered nothing new on the most important subject of concern to voters, who in two months may alter the political makeup of the Congress and change the way this president can do things for the remainder of his term.", "The president slammed the Republicans one more time.", "This is his campaign theme, and obviously it isn't working.", "Besides, the more he blames the Republicans, the more difficult it will be to work with them in January, when they may have a majority or at least a lot more clout in the Congress.", "Saying his economic team was working on identifying new ways to boost the economy, the president said he would provide details \"in the days and weeks to come.\"", "It raises the obvious question: What has the administration been doing in the weeks and months just past?", "It may not matter if the administration proposes any new measures on the economy, especially if they would require a vote in Congress.", "I can promise you, Mr. President, in the heat of a campaign battle royal -- in which your congressional team is on the brink of a disaster unlike any that Democrats have faced since 1994 -- in the \"days and weeks ahead,\" they are going to be focused on doing nothing except trying to get re-elected and running as far from you and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as possible.", "The second speech was given from the newly decorated Oval Office on Tuesday night in prime time.", "It was to celebrate the \"Campaign Promise Kept\": the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq.", "I couldn't quite figure out what the speech was about.", "Our combat troops moved out of the cities of Iraq last summer and haven't been in real combat since the success of the surge much earlier.", "There still isn't a functioning government there and may not be for months to come.", "Mr. President, you need to fill in the blanks about what you meant when you said, \"Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.\"", "It was appropriate to thank our troops and military leadership.", "It was a nice gesture to tell the country that George W. Bush supported our troops and loved our country, and obviously was committed to our national security.", "It would have even been more appropriate to say that the program he and Secretary Robert Gates laid out is the one the president implemented without change, and it seems to have worked.", "It would have been an accurate statement to remind people that we were withdrawing our troops because of a Status of Forces agreement signed in December 2008 by Bush and Iraq President Nuri al-Maliki to do so -- and not because Obama had promised this in his campaign.", "The Iraq government insisted that we withdraw all of our forces by December 31, 2011.", "I hope we can. We certainly will know by then whether the Iraq government can stabilize and whether the Iraq army and police can keep the peace.", "If not, the president has another tough decision to make.", "We signed an armistice in Korea in July 1953 -- and we still have nearly 30,000 troops there.", "Let's hope that's not the outcome here.", "The president said: \"Now is the time to turn the page.\"", "But, as in his speech on the economy, he raised several issues that will need to be clarified \"in the days and weeks ahead.\"", "He gave the clear impression that now that we are finished with the \"bad war\" in Iraq, his term we can focus on the good war, Afghanistan.", "\"Because of the drawdown in Iraq, we are now able to apply the resources necessary to go on offense [in Afghanistan].\"", "I am sure that the more than 100,000 troops fully engaged under the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus already think they are on the offense and didn't realize they were being bogged down by Iraq.", "But the president couldn't leave it there.", "He had to return to politics, because every speech will be political between now and November 2.", "He went on to say: . \"As we wind down the war in Iraq, we must tackle those challenges at home [jobs, deficits, energy independence and education] with as much energy and grit and sense of common purpose as our men and women in uniform who have served abroad.\"", "The war was expensive, not only in terms of the soldiers who were killed and injured but in the trillion-plus dollars spent on it.", "But if the president thinks the nation and the world are in this economic mess because of a war he didn't want to fight and didn't support, we are in worst shape than I thought.", "We still have expensive obligations to those men and woman who so bravely served us.", "It's not like we can close down the Pentagon and use that money to build more buildings to house Energy and Education Department employees.", "Now that Iraq is fixed -- and in a few weeks we will hear how the president and his team plan to get the economy moving again -- we now move on to solving the crisis in the Middle East.", "Lots of luck! Like most Americans, I want my president's focus to be on the economy.", "In a few short weeks, we Americans get to exercise our voice and vote for a new Congress.", "I promise our voice and our message will be a lot clearer than these two pedestrian speeches the president just made.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins." ]	[ "President Obama made two speeches in first two days after vacation .", "Ed Rollins says the president's speech on economy had no new ideas .", "Rollins says speech on Iraq left questions unanswered .", "He says it doesn't make sense to blame our economic problems on the Iraq war ." ]	[ 0, 8, 32 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- 25.94 seconds.", "That's how much time it took Melissa Thompson of Salford, England, to type a complex sentence on a Samsung Galaxy S, which makes her the new Guinness World Record holder for fastest typing on a phone.", "The sentence for this particular record, as determined by Guinness, reads as follows: \"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world.", "In reality they seldom attack a human.\"", "Before Thompson, Franklin Page of Seattle held the record, having typed the above sentence in 35.54 seconds earlier this year.", "Interestingly enough, Melissa claims she's out of shape as far as texting goes.", "She used to send a lot of text messages to her boyfriend Chris -- 40 or 50 per day day, she says -- but after they moved in together she hasn't been texting as much.", "But when Samsung invited her to have a go at breaking the world record, it turned out her fingers were in better shape than she thought; she texted faster than anyone else and by a large margin.", "The new world record still awaits official approval from Guinness, but if it turns out to be legitimate, the title of the world's fastest texter will move from the U.S. to England.", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "British woman is the new Guinness World Record holder for fastest typing on a phone .", "She breaks the old record, held by a Seattle, Washington man, by nine seconds .", "The new world record still awaits official approval from Guinness ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Food from healthy clones of cattle, swine and goats is as safe as food from non-cloned animals, the Food and Drug Administration said in a report released Tuesday.", "Debate has raged around food products from cloned cattle, such as this one produced by the company Viagen.", "\"Extensive evaluation of the available data has not identified any subtle hazards that might indicate food-consumption risks in healthy clones of cattle, swine, or goats,\" the 968-page \"final risk assessment\" concluded.", "\"Thus, edible products from healthy clones that meet existing requirements for meat and milk in commerce pose no increased food consumption risk(s) relative to comparable products from sexually-derived animals.\"", "But the FDA said it needs more information to determine the safety of meat and milk from cloned sheep.", "The FDA also concluded that food from newborn cattle clones \"may pose some very limited human food consumption risk.\"", "The purpose of using cloned animals is to improve the overall value of a given herd by creating genetic copies of donor animals, resulting in a herd that produces higher-quality milk and meat.", "For years, heated debate over the use of cloned animals for food production has stretched from Congress to cattle farms and dinner tables nationwide.", "Judy Fortin has more on the debate over meat and milk from cloned animals ».", "Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the agency's Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, acknowledged the controversy to reporters.", "About half of the more than 30,500 comments from the public the FDA has received about the matter have dealt with labeling, he said.", "But, he added, agency regulators cannot require cloned products be labeled as such if -- as they assert -- there is no material difference between them and food produced by conventional methods.", "\"There's really nothing for us to label,\" he said.", "Consumers won't be able to figure it out for themselves, he said.", "No test exists that could distinguish meat from a cloned animal from other meat.", "Either way, food products from cloned animals or their offspring would not reach store shelves for years, experts said.", "But companies could label their clone-free products as such, Sundlof said.", "In addition, foods labeled \"organic\" would not contain cloned products.", "Tuesday's announcement followed the agency's December 2006 preliminary conclusion, reached after a four-year review, that milk and meat from cloned animals are safe for human consumption.", "The agency was then to collect more safety data before issuing a final decision.", "Last month, the Senate passed a measure intended to bar the FDA from approving the products until further study was conducted.", "The legislation, part of the Senate's $286 billion farm bill, also required the Agriculture Department to examine consumer acceptance of cloned meats.", "On Tuesday, opponents of using cloned animals in food production expressed anger at the move.", "\"The FDA has acted recklessly and I am profoundly disappointed in their rush to approve cloned foods,\" Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, said in a written statement.", "\"Just because something was created in a lab doesn't mean we should have to eat it.", "If we discover a problem with cloned food after it is in our food supply and it's not labeled, the FDA won't be able to recall it like they did Vioxx -- the food will already be tainted.\"", "Vioxx, a painkiller, was withdrawn from the market in 2004 after it was linked to a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke.", "\"We think the FDA should pay attention to what Congress is asking them to do,\" said J.D.", "Hanson, policy analyst for the Center for Food Safety.", "\"It looks like they are releasing it to sidestep what Congress has asked them to do.\"", "The National Farmers Union, in a written statement, said \"consumers have the right to know if the food they feed their families comes from a cloned animal.\"", "Another concern is possible economic fallout.", "\"People will start consuming less dairy and meat\" if they are not sure of the products' safety, predicted Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with Consumers Union.", "His group calls for more study and clear labeling.", "Perhaps in an effort to placate critics, Tuesday's report included hundreds of pages of raw data in the risk assessment.", "Some consumer groups said they were pleased with the report.", "\"There are still unanswered questions about the use of cloned animals in the food supply, but the Food and Drug Administration has satisfactorily answered the safety question,\" the Center for Science in the Public Interest said in a written statement.", "\"While the safety of any food cannot be proven with absolute certainty, consumers should have confidence that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring will be safe.\"", "Experts say it is unlikely actual clones would be used in food production.", "A cloned cow costs $15,000 to $20,000 to create.", "More likely, experts said, the offspring of cloned animals would be used.", "Bruce Knight, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, said only about 600 cloned animals exist in the United States, about 570 of which are cattle.", "He said the agency is urging providers to extend a voluntary moratorium on the use of the meat or milk from cloned animals during the transition, a period he would not specify.", "Mark Walton, president of ViaGen, which uses cloning technologies, said his company will comply with the request, but he played down the scope of the matter.", "\"The number of cloned animals in the barn yard today is minuscule compared to the size of the total livestock population,\" said Walton.", "\"In addition, clones are to be used as breeding animals, not for consumption.", "Because of a supply chain management system that allows tracking of cloned livestock, consumers are unlikely to ever eat these animals.\"", "A spokeswoman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Karen Batra, predicted, \"It will be many, many years\" before the technology becomes mainstream.", "She further predicted that its adoption would not be accompanied by a hike in prices.", "\"There comes a point where consumers will find another form of meat,\" she said.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Jennifer Pifer and Val Willingham contributed to this report." ]	[ "Sheep meat, milk need more research, FDA says .", "Heated debate has raged for years over use of cloned animals for food production .", "Products from cloned animals won't be labeled .", "Food products from cloned animals not expected on store shelves for years ." ]	[ 7, 8, 15 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- A second person survived a massacre in which 72 migrants from Central and South America were killed last week in northern Mexico, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and Mexican officials said.", "A man from Ecuador was previously thought to be the only survivor.", "That man, identified as Luis Freddy Lala Pomavilla, said someone else also lived through the mass shooting, Correa said at a news conference late Tuesday night upon his return to Ecuador from a trip to Haiti.", "Correa did not provide details other than to say the second survivor came from Honduras.", "\"We don't want to put him in danger,\" Correa said.", "Viviana Macias, a spokeswoman for the Mexican attorney general's office, confirmed Wednesday that a second person had survived the attack.", "The attorney general's office said authorities had not revealed news of the second survivor in order to protect the person's safety.", "For the same reason, officials said Wednesday, they will not reveal the person's identity.", "The attorney general's office said in a release Wednesday afternoon that the survivor is being held and protected as a witness and has given officials \"relevant information to identify those presumed to be responsible.\"", "The agency has been in touch with authorities in Honduras, the release said.", "Lala Pomavilla, the Ecuadorian survivor, was returned to his homeland late Sunday.", "The young man was wounded in the attack and said he survived by playing dead.", "He later walked several miles to a military roadblock near the town of San Fernando in Tamaulipas state, less than 100 miles from the U.S. border.", "Officials are investigating whether members of the Zetas drug cartel were responsible for the deaths.", "The bodies of the 72 victims are being returned to their homelands, which include Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Brazil.", "Mexican officials returned the remains of 16 migrants to Honduras on Wednesday.", "A live broadcast on CNN affiliate Televicentro showed six-man honor guards wheeling the bodies one by one off a transport aircraft.", "Bereaved relatives and friends cried and held each other as the gray caskets glided by slowly, guided solemnly by soldiers in dress uniforms and red-plumed hats.", "The caskets, each adorned with a bouquet of flowers on top, were placed under a large tent on the tarmac at the air force airport in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.", "\"Repatriation,\" said the Televicentro banner imposed over the bottom of the TV image.", "\"What started as a search for the American dream ended in a mortal nightmare.\"", "After the 16 caskets were gathered in the tent, a Roman Catholic priest prayed over them.", "\"Don't lose your faith in God,\" he told those gathered there before he sprinkled holy water on each of the caskets.", "Honduran President Porfirio Lobo also addressed the crowd, merely reading the names of the 16 victims before walking back to his spot in a line of dignitaries.", "Some family members were brought up to have a word with Lobo, who hugged them and spoke quietly with them.", "The caskets were released to the families after the ceremony, and at one point Lobo went to where a man with a gray New York Yankees cap was sobbing as he leaned on a coffin.", "Lobo patted the man on the shoulder and reached out to a woman standing next to him.", "The victims will be taken to their hometowns for burial.", "CNN's Jose Antonio Flores, Krupskaia Alis and Arthur Brice contributed to this report." ]	[ "The second survivor is a migrant from Honduras, officials say .", "The only previously known survivor was from Ecuador .", "That survivor said someone else also had lived, the Ecuadorian president said .", "The bodies of 16 victims were returned to Honduras on Wednesday, Mexico said ." ]	[ 1, 3, 6, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Three people died after Typhoon Kompasu hit central South Korea Thursday morning, the Yonhap News Agency reported.", "Kompasu also halted much of the metropolitan area's subway service, toppled trees and caused widespread power outages, the agency said.", "Airlines canceled or diverted domestic and international flights.", "According to Yonhap: A flying roof tile killed an 80-year-old man in Seosan, South Chungcheong province.", "A broken tree branch fatally struck a 37-year-old man in Bundang, on the southern outskirts of Seoul.", "And an electrical engineer was electrocuted while trying to restore electricity in Mokpo, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of Seoul.", "iReport: Kompasu whips through South Korea .", "Kompasu also unleashed torrential rain and strong winds on North Korea Thursday, according to the state-run KCNA news agency.", "The typhoon was expected to further devastate crops in secretive North Korea, which has been gripped by food shortages.", "As of late afternoon Thursday, Kompasu was carrying maximum winds of 55 miles per hour and had moved away from both Koreas." ]	[ "Debris kills two people and a third is electrocuted .", "Torrential rain and winds hit N. Korea, where crops were threatened .", "N. Korea has already struggled to feed its people ." ]	[ 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 25-foot dead whale washed ashore on New York's Jones Beach Island on Thursday morning, a New York State Parks official said.", "George Gorman, director of recreational services for New York State Parks, told CNN that officials believe it's a humpback whale.", "Jones Beach Island is a barrier island bordering the south of Long Island and a popular recreational spot for New Yorkers.", "The New York State Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Stranding Program -- a branch of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation that rescues and rehabilitates marine animals -- was called to examine the whale and remove it from the beach.", "Riverhead officials estimate that the animal weighs 20 to 25 tons.", "The group is moving the animal out of the path of the incoming tide with a tractor.", "An necropsy will be performed Friday and then officials will determine where to bury the remains." ]	[ "25-foot dead whale washes ashore on New York's Jones Beach Island .", "It's estimated to weigh 20 to 25 tons .", "Experts are moving the whale up the beach Thursday; will perform an necropsy Friday ." ]	[ 0, 4, 6 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- There are just times, when you are president of the United States, that formally speaking to the American people is part of the job.", "Not because it's politically wise, or even politically advisable -- but because you have something important to say.", "As in, the seven-year-combat-mission-in-Iraq-is-over.", "Or, more specifically, as President Obama said, \"it's time to turn the page.\"", "It wasn't a particularly artful speech, nor was it full of new and interesting ideas.", "It was what it was: a ceremonial proclamation ending combat in a war Obama inherited (and opposed) and a declaration to fight another war (also, as he says, inherited) on the economy.", "No talk of winning or victory, only of transitions (to noncombat mode) and of a new focus for resources: on investments at home, on fighting al Qaeda in Afghanistan.", "No self-congratulation, only plaudits for the troops.", "The declaration ending combat was clear, but what comes next in Iraq was completely ambiguous: Will a government finally form?", "Are the Iraqi security forces up to the job?", "And if it all falls apart, what do we do?", "In many ways, it was an opportunity for the president to remind us of a promise kept.", "Fair enough: He said we would leave Iraq as combatants, and we have.", "He tipped his hat to President Bush in an effort to try and finally end the longstanding political divisions over Iraq (declaring Bush's \"love for his country\"), but stopped short of saying the obvious: Bush's surge strategy worked.", "The world can argue over why it worked, but one thing is clear: Obama opposed the surge.", "And now he's employing one in Afghanistan.", "The pressure to talk about something else other than Iraq was palpable.", "There's an election in a couple of months, and it looks like the Democrats are about to get thumped.", "They're sitting ducks, in a way, victims of their own success.", "They hold almost every swing congressional seat; they have incumbents in about 40 districts that John McCain won.", "Unemployment is high; there's been no summer of recovery, as some promised.", "The Democrats are in charge, and voters are ready to throw the bums out.", "So the president had to talk about the economy, I suppose, but it fell flat.", "That's because there really wasn't anything he could tell us that would make voters feel any better.", "He went through the drill, but no one was under any illusion that this Oval Office speech would budge the needle for him -- or the Democrats -- at this dicey time.", "In a way, it's more interesting to watch Obama now than it was during the campaign.", "Back then, he was the great communicator, an inspirational figure promising to take government where it had never been, promising to rescue an electorate sick of partisan divisions and gridlock in the mechanisms of government.", "It was easy to digest because the public was so eager to move on from what it had.", "Change seemed the natural order of things.", "But now, after two years in which the White House has been locked in combat with a GOP that found its voice in its almost unanimous opposition to everything -- the stimulus, health care, financial reform -- the campaign call for change seems ancient.", "The president, for all of his success in checking off his to-do list, is now seen as just more of the same by a growing number of voters: a partisan Democrat addicted to big government and big spending.", "It's strange, really, that the man who touched so many during the campaign has failed to connect in the same way during his presidency.", "It's not that we don't see Obama; we see him more than just about any other president.", "So why is it that we still can't figure out who he is?", "Because a Zelig-like devotion to announcing one more agenda item or one more stimulus project or give one more speech just isn't enough.", "Visibility doesn't guarantee connection.", "Connection guarantees connection.", "That's where Bill Clinton comes in.", "There's no one who was better at empathy.", "And so, as Obama and the Democrats trudge toward an election bound to make them unhappy, the question is this: If Obama loses seats (or even control of the House), who will he be?", "Will he be Bill Clinton (a la 1994, after losing the House to Newt Gingrich and the GOP), adjusting to his new circumstance, working to pass welfare reform and a budget agreement?", "Or will be Jimmy Carter, who went from bad to worse, sulking with not much to show for it?", "Granted, if the Republicans win handily, they'll have problems of their own: some of the newest members of Congress will be virtually unmanageable.", "They'll vote against every spending bill, not to mention funding the war in Afghanistan.", "They will have no appetite for compromise at all.", "They will make some GOP leaders miserable.", "But Obama will be the one to watch, as always.", "The thing about Bill Clinton is that he knew where to draw a line between the ground he had to yield and the ground he refused to yield.", "And then he got something done.", "About 90 days after the midterm election, we will really know who Barack Obama is, and what he's willing to do.", "He'll have plenty of time to shape his legacy, and he won't need an Oval Office address to point it out.", "We'll already be watching.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gloria Borger." ]	[ "Gloria Borger says President Obama's discussion of economy fell flat .", "She says the change message, which worked well for Obama in campaign, is old by now .", "Obama is visible but isn't connecting with public the way Bill Clinton did, Borger says .", "Key test for Obama will be after midterms as he deals with new Congress, she says ." ]	[ 14, 22, 25, 29, 35, 37, 39, 52 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- From an animated documentary detailing one man's efforts to regain his memories of being a young soldier in \"Waltz with Bashir\" to Christopher Nolan's box office behemoth \"The Dark Knight,\" movies in 2008 have been notable for their creativity, diversity and international flavor.", "\"Man on Wire\" looks back at Frenchman Philippe Petit who, in the 1970s, set a wire between New York's Twin Towers and walked the tightrope across it.", "As well as featuring films from the U.S., our list contains the work of directors from Brazil, Korea, Argentina, Italy, the UK and Israel.", "There are documentaries and animations in there, as well as a very impressive comeback from Mickey Rourke in Darren Aronofsky's \"The Wrestler\" and a jaw-dropping documentary about a French man who walked the tightrope between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, which were destroyed in 2001.", "As ever, it is impossible to fit every film we would like to on this list, and we want to hear from YOU -- what were your favorite films of 2008?", "Tell us in the SoundOff box below.", "Fei Phoon contributed to this article." ]	[ "Action to animation; Brazil to Korea this year's films are characterized by diversity .", "Heath Ledger blew audiences away as The Joker in \"The Dark Knight\"\nMatteo Garrone's \"Gomorrah\" stripped the glamour out of gangster life in Italy .", "Sally Hawkins stole hearts and Best Actress at Berlin in \"Happy-Go-Lucky\"" ]	[ 0, 2, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Millions of hot dogs, beers and explosive devices will help Americans celebrate their country's 234th birthday on July Fourth this Sunday.", "If people didn't gobble down the 150 million hot dogs they are predicted to eat on the holiday, the wieners could be strung across the nation five times, from San Diego, California, to Washington, according to Tom Super of the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council.", "About one-third of hot dog lovers will smear them with mustard, almost a quarter prefer ketchup, 17 percent will put chili on their dogs, 9 percent relish and 7 percent onion.", "Folks in Chicago, Illinois, like their dogs in yellow mustard, dark green relish, chopped raw onion, tomato slices and topped with a dash of celery salt, according to the council.", "Kansas City, Missouri, dogs are served with sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese.", "Chili, cheese and jalapenos are the favorite toppings for dogs sold at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, the council's website says.", "Watch 4th of July spending index .", "But New Yorkers eat more dogs than any other group in the U.S., and they top them with steamed onions and mustard.", "Some of those dogs will be swallowed in the 12 minutes allotted to contestants of Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest -- an event held nearly every year at New York's Coney Island since 1916.", "Last year's record of 68 hot dogs and buns was set by Joey Chestnut.", "Watch Chesnut discuss his chowdown strategy .", "About one in every four hot dogs and pork sausages eaten by Americans this holiday will come from Iowa, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.", "The beef hot dogs, steaks and burgers sizzling on backyard grills are likely to have originated in Texas.", "And the barbecue or fried chicken most likely will come from either Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi or Texas.", "The odds are about one in three side dishes of baked beans started in North Dakota.", "The tomatoes on the table have a 7 in 10 chance of coming from Florida or California.", "And there is a 66 percent chance that the corn on the cob was grown in Florida, California, Georgia, Washington or New York.", "Much of the holiday feasts will be washed down with beer.", "\"In fact, according to IRI Infoscan data, the Independence Day holiday period is the number one occasion for sales and servings of beer in the United States,\" says Jeff Becker, President, Beer Institute.", "American Pyrotechnics Association predicts a booming day on Sunday despite the recession.", "The group says on its website that more fireworks are ignited on the Fourth of July than on any other country's celebration in the world.", "It also notes that 213.2 million pounds of fireworks were used in 2008.", "All those celebratory explosions will create some casualties.", "Last year, there were two fireworks-related deaths and some 9,000 injuries that required treatment at hospital emergency rooms, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.", "Serious burns and eye injuries are the most common, says the agency, reminding people that even the harmless looking sparklers reach temperatures of about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit -- hot enough to melt some metals.", "Read safety tips .", "It wasn't fireworks that led to the deaths of two Founding Fathers on the Fourth.", "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both helped America become independent of Britain.", "But in 1800 when the two men ran against each other for the presidency, the campaign turned ugly, according to Mental Floss magazine.", "It took about 12 years to repair the friendship before the two men began exchanging letters.", "On July 4, 1826 -- the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence -- both men died.", "America's fifth president, James Monroe, also passed away on July 4, 1831." ]	[ "Americans expected to gobble down 150 million hot dogs .", "Contestants at Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest will have 12 minutes .", "Fourth of July holiday is No.", "1 occasion for sales and servings of beer in U.S.\nSparklers can reach temperatures of about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit ." ]	[ 8, 17, 24 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The American people need to know that American troops will not still be fighting in Afghanistan in 2025, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said, but the United States' relationship with that country will be a long-term one.", "Gates and Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke after the two met Thursday.", "\"Americans will still be here after July 2011,\" the defense secretary said.", "\"The president has been very clear that that is the beginning of a process, and the pace will be determined by conditions on the ground in Afghanistan.\"", "But, he said, \"the American people need to know we are not still going to be fighting this fight 15 years from now.\"", "\"That said, the reality is we are looking at a long-term relationship with Afghanistan, and we have the confidence that the progress we are making jointly with our Afghan partners and our other allies will allow us to begin a transition to Afghan security control within the next year.\"", "Karzai, he said, has indicated he believes his country will be ready to accept full security control in 2014.", "\"We learned our lesson in turning our back on Afghanistan ion 1989 and we have no intention of doing it again,\" he said, referring to the support the United States provided Afghans during their lengthy battle with Russian troops -- that disappeared when Russia withdrew.", "Gates' visit came on the same day that a NATO airstrike killed 10 people in the country's northeast.", "A provincial official said those killed were parliamentary campaign workers, but NATO and U.S. officials said the precision airstrike targeted a senior member of an insurgent group.", "NATO is investigating the incident.", "Karzai has issued pointed criticism at the coalition for civilian casualties during warfare, including this latest incident, which comes a little more than two weeks ahead of the parliamentary elections.", "\"The reports that we get so far are 10 killed and three wounded in this operation,\" Karzai said in a joint appearance with Gates after their meeting.", "He added that a parliamentary candidate was wounded in the attack and that an investigation was under way.", "\"I have limited knowledge of the strike at this point,\" Gates said.", "\"I believe I can confirm that a very senior official of the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan was the target and was killed.", "This was an individual who was responsible for organizing attacks here in Kabul and in northern Afghanistan.", "This is the first I heard that civilians may have been killed, and we will certainly look into that.\"", "Gates' trip comes a day after he visited Iraq, where he attended a change of command ceremony that marked the end of the U.S. combat mission there.", "Karzai defended his government's decision to kick private security companies out of the country in four months.", "\"On the issue of the private security firms, the decision of the Afghan government is final and conclusive,\" he said.", "\"The presence of security firms is not only adding to the problems of corruption in Afghanistan, the problems of lawlessness in Afghanistan and lots of other affectations ... but they're also running a parallel structure to the Afghan government.", "We will not have an effective growth of Afghan security forces\" with the private firms still operational.", "\"We cannot sustain them any more in our country, and I'm glad to say the U.S. backs this decision with us.\"", "Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military man in Afghanistan, said initial approaches to some Taliban members as part of a reconciliation initiative have shown promise and could help in the effort to resolve the conflict there.", "Petraeus, who heads the U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, spoke to reporters after greeting Gates, who arrived in the war-torn country Thursday to consult with political and military officials.", "Petraeus said there have already been approaches toward Taliban officials at senior levels that hold some promise.", "This comes amid discussions about reaching out to some Taliban members as part of a reconciliation process, but the military isn't envisioning peace talks with hard-liners.", "Petraeus also addressed a number of other issues, such as the community police plan, which he described as basically \"community watch with AK-47s, under a Ministry of Interior chain of command\" so there aren't concerns about warlords or militias.", "\"This will not be Sons of Iraq in Afghanistan,\" he said, referring to anti-al Qaeda Sunni groups in Iraq.", "He also said that since the departure earlier this summer of Gen. Stanley McChrystal -- who was forced to step down after he made controversial comments about members of the Obama administration in a magazine article -- there has been \"a change in personnel, not in overall concept\" in the Afghan mission." ]	[ "NEW: Gates says American troops will eventually leave Afghanistan .", "NEW: Transition to Afghan security control will begin next year, he says .", "NEW: Karzai says parliamentary candidate wounded in airstrike ." ]	[ 5, 6, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Controlled drugs were found in one of two tour buses carrying rocker Bret Michaels and his band during a traffic stop in northeast Indiana late Wednesday, police said.", "No one was arrested, but the evidence was passed along to the DeKalb County prosecutor for consideration of charges, according to the police report.", "Drug detection dogs did \"vehicle scans\" of the buses after a sheriff's deputy pulled Michael's tour convoy over on the northbound side of Interstate 69, police said.", "\"Both K9s alerted for the odor of narcotics coming from the front of the bus,\" Deputy Aaron Long wrote in his report.", "Another dog alerted to the odor of drugs in the second bus, the one in which Michaels was riding, the deputy said.", "\"Searches were conducted on both buses yielding marijuana on each bus, as well as a quantity of Schedule II controlled substances on the first bus,\" Long said.", "Schedule II substances are those defined as having a high potential for addiction or abuse, but also have a legitimate medical purpose.", "Michael's publicist said the buses were stopped because a trailer had no tag light.", "\"Mr. Michaels allowed an open search of the buses and everything was handled in a professional manner,\" the publicist said.", "Michaels is on tour just months after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage in April.", "CNN's Jennifer Wolfe and Denise Quan contributed to this report." ]	[ "A deputy stopped Michaels' buses on Indiana's I-69 .", "Police says illegal drugs were found on one bus .", "No charges have been filed ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Florida's Everglades National Park and rain forests in Madagascar have been added to a list of world heritage sites in danger.", "The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the decision at its 34th annual meeting in Brasilia, Brazil.", "Degradation of the Everglades has caused its addition to the list this year, with UNESCO reporting that water inflows have reduced up to 60 percent and high pollution levels are currently killing marine life.", "The Everglades is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, with more than 1.5 million acres of estuaries, prairies, and shady stretches of pine.", "This is the second time the Everglades has been included on the list, the first time was between 1993 and 1997 because of damages caused by Hurricane Andrew.", "The rain forests of Atsinanana in Madagascar make the list this year after illegal logging and hunting of endangered lemurs on the site.", "Due to the illegal exporting of logged timber, many rare species found in the rainforest are threatened, especially lemurs found only in Madagascar." ]	[ "Degradation of the Everglades leads to its addition to the list .", "This is the second time the Everglades has been added to the list .", "Madagascar forests make list after illegal logging and hunting ." ]	[ 4, 5 ]
[ "(Mental Floss) -- Want to be cremated, but worry that your ashes will just end up sitting in some boring urn?", "Fear not! Have a look at these 10 bizarre places that ashes have gone.", "1. Into a comic book .", "When longtime Marvel Comics editor Mark Gruenwald died in 1996, he left an interesting final wish: he wanted to have his ashes mixed into the ink used in one of Marvel's titles.", "The company obliged by reprinting a 1985 collection of the Gruenwald-penned Squadron Supreme with the specially prepared ink in 1997.", "Gruenwald's widow, Catherine, wrote in the book's foreword, \"He has truly become one with the story.\"", "2. Into fireworks . Writer Hunter S. Thompson literally went out with a bang.", "Thompson's appropriately gonzo 2005 memorial service featured a fireworks show in which each boom and crack dispersed some of the writer's ashes.", "Johnny Depp underwrote the fireworks display at a cost of $2 million.", "3. Into a Pringles can . The name Fredric Baur may not ring any bells, but you know his most famous creation.", "In 1966 Baur invented the Pringles can so Procter & Gamble could ship its new chips without using bags.", "Baur was so proud of the achievement that he told his children he wanted to be buried in the iconic can.", "When he died in 2008 at 89, they honored his wishes by placing his ashes in a Pringles can before burying them.", "According to his son Larry, Baur's children briefly debated what flavor canister to use before settling on original.", "Mental Floss: Where'd the name \"Pringles\" come from?", "4. Onto a Frisbee .", "More than anyone, Edward \"Steady Ed\" Headrick was responsible for transforming the Frisbee from a fad toy into a valued piece of sporting equipment.", "While working as a manager at Wham-O, Headrick designed numerous improvements to the flying disc, and during the 1970s he created the sport of disc golf.", "Mental Floss: 10 specialized summer camps .", "Before his 2002 death, Headrick told his children that he wanted to have his ashes mixed into the plastic for a batch of Frisbees.", "His hope was that the proceeds from the sales could help establish a disc golf museum, but he also wanted to have a bit of fun.", "Headrick's son Daniel later told the San Francisco Chronicle, \"He said he wanted to end up in a Frisbee that accidentally lands on someone's roof.\"", "Headrick's wish came true, and the discs are quite valuable as collectors' items now.", "A two-disc set fetches upwards of $200 on Amazon.", "5. Out of a shotgun . There's no more fitting way for a hunter to go out than this.", "When James Booth, a British expert on vintage shotguns, died in 2004, his wife asked an ammunition company to mix his ashes into a batch of shotgun shells.", "The Caledonian Cartridge Company happily complied and presented Joanna Booth with 275 12-gauge cartridges containing James' ashes; a minister even blessed the shells.", "The widow then invited a group of close friends over for a hunt, and the group used the cartridges to bag ducks, pheasants, and partridges.", "Mental Floss: What makes No.", "2 pencils special?", "6. Into space . Looking for the remains of '60s icon and LSD advocate Timothy Leary?", "You're going to need a space shuttle.", "In 1997 Leary's remains were on the first rocket to send cremated ashes into space.", "Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes went into orbit on the same flight.", "Space burial company Celestis will send a portion of anyone's remains into the final frontier for a fee.", "According to the company's website, your ashes can go into Earth orbit for $2,495, find their way into lunar orbit for $9,995, or make the trek into deep space for $12,500.", "Mental Floss: 10 things your body can do after you die .", "7. Into a tattoo . When English parents Mark and Lisa Richmond tragically lost their son Ayden when he was just two years and four months old, they wanted to find a fitting way to honor his memory.", "The couple owned a tattoo parlor, so they decided to remember the boy with a bit of ink.", "Mark got a seven-inch portrait of Ayden tattooed on his chest using ink that had been mixed with his son's ashes.", "8. Onto a reef . If you're a sea lover, Eternal Reefs can help turn your remains into a permanent reef.", "After the ashes are mixed into concrete, the reefs go into the water and provide a new habitat for fish and other marine life.", "A 2' x 3' Aquarius Memorial Reef will set your loved ones back $3,995.", "9. Into a diamond . LifeGem can take the ashes of a departed loved one and convert them into a diamond.", "The process looks basically identical to the production of synthetic diamonds, except the carbon used to kick start the production comes from the cremated remains.", "Depending on the color and size of the diamond you want, prices can range from $2,699 all the way up to $24,999.", "Mental Floss: 10 weird places to get married .", "10. Up Keith Richards' nose?", "In 2007 music mag NME asked Rolling Stones guitarist to name the strangest thing he'd ever snorted.", "The reporter was probably expecting an odd answer given Richards' legendary proclivity for partying, but Richards' response was a jaw-dropper.", "Richards told the magazine, \"The strangest thing I've tried to snort?", "My father. I snorted my father.", "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.\"", "Richards went on to explain that snorting a rail of dear old Dad hadn't caused him any health problems and that he didn't think his old man would have cared.", "The remarks sparked a predictable media firestorm, though, and the Stones' publicist released a statement calling Richards' story \"an off-the-cuff remark, a joke.\"", "Richards himself later revised the tale and said that he planted his father's ashes at the base of an oak tree.", "Mental Floss: 7 different Seven Wonders of the World .", "For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .", "Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "People have chosen some strange place for their cremated remains to go .", "Marvel Comics editor Mark Gruenwald's ashes went into ink used in Squadron Supreme .", "Grieving parents had some of son's ashes used in tattoo ink on the father .", "LSD advocate Leary, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes went into space ." ]	[ 3, 32, 33 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Tears rolled from Fernanda Romero's eyes as the Mexican soap opera actress told jurors that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.", "Their marriage was real, but it soon fell apart because of his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career, Romero testified Tuesday.", "Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the trial of Romero and Ross on federal charges their marriage was an illegal sham, intended only to earn her a U.S. work permit.", "Romero is accused of paying Ross, 28, $5,000 to marry her on June 12, 2005, but the prosecutor alleged they never lived together as a couple.", "U.S. District Judge Manuel Real blocked defense lawyers from using evidence they said would show Romero was set up and turned in by a vengeful photographer angry that she rebuffed his romantic advances.", "The job of convincing jurors the marriage was real fell on Romero, a 28-year-old actress-singer-model who starred in Telemundo's \"Wounded Soul\" soap opera.", "The prosecutor suggested Romero was using her professional acting skills to sell her own fiction.", "Romero testified she married for love, not a green card.", "\"To be in a loving relationship, forever and ever, like my parents,\" she testified.", "The couple didn't have a family wedding because he is Mormon and she is Catholic, she said.", "They kept separate Hollywood apartments because he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot, she said.", "The first months were \"very loving, fun,\" she said.", "\"We socialized together, passionate.", "It was the honeymoon stage.\"", "Romero and Ross separated after less than a year together because \"he was coming on very late and drunk,\" she said.", "\"We started to fight a lot, sweat a lot, throw things.", "It was not healthy.\" The villain in Romero's script would be Markus Klinko, a celebrity photographer she met at a Hollywood casting call about the same time her marriage was \"on the rocks,\" she said.", "Klinko, a 49-year-old Swiss native, is the star of his own reality TV show -- Bravo's \"Double Exposure.\"", "Romero said the relationship initially was \"professional and creative,\" but she eventually engaged in a \"short affair\" with Klinko as he helped with her modeling career.", "\"I felt very pressured and I was vulnerable,\" Romero said as she cried.", "\"It was the biggest mistake I've done in my life.\"", "Her friendship with Klinko turned into a nightmare when she decided to end the affair, she said.", "\"Mr. Klinko wanted more and more and he knew I wasn't able to give it to him,\" she said.", "Klinko threatened to turn her in to immigration officials, she said.", "\"He was losing it, he was very psycho,\" Romero said.", "\"I was very scared, because he wouldn't stop.\"", "The federal complaint against Romero said the immigration investigation began after agents were given evidence gathered by a private detective hired by Klinko.", "When Klinko testified for the prosecution last week he said it was \"completely incorrect\" that his motivation was to get Romero deported.", "Instead, the investigator was gathering evidence to be used in a lawsuit against Michael Ball, the founder and owner of the Rock & Republic fashion company, Klinko said.", "The criminal complaint named Ball as a target of the federal investigation, alleging that he helped arrange the sham marriage while Romero was modeling for his company.", "Klinko said his lawyer turned the evidence over to the government only because he feared Klinko might be extorted by Ball.", "\"My case has never been against Fernanda,\" Klinko said after his testimony.", "\"I wish her the best.\" Ross also had his turn on the witness stand Tuesday, hoping to convince jurors that he and Romero were a real couple at one time.", "\"I was in love with her,\" Ross testified.", "\"It felt right at the time, so I rolled with it.\"", "He was asked why he asked the actress to marry him after knowing her for only a short time.", "\"I had a tiger by the tail and I wanted to keep her here,\" he said.", "Romero and Ross sat directly in front of jurors throughout the one-week trial, holding hands much of the time.", "They could get between 15 and 21 months in prison if convicted, though such cases usually produce shorter sentences, according to the prosecutor.", "The case is unusual because marriage fraud charges are usually litigated by immigration authorities rather than prosecuted as criminal cases.", "Romero's show business career began in Mexico at age 16 when she joined the ensemble Frizzby, her Internet Movie Database biography says.", "The group toured Mexico and Central America, releasing two top-10 singles, it says.", "She started hosting television shows and appearing on commercials in Mexico when she was 18, it says.", "Romero has appeared in print and TV ad campaigns for Rock and Republic, Clean and Clear, Pepsi, Apple and JC Penney, it says.", "\"She was cast in Telemundo's original production 'Wounded Soul,' where she was not only a lead actress, but also a lead singer, performing two songs in the soap opera's soundtrack,\" her online biography says." ]	[ "Fernanda Romero testifies in her own defense Tuesday .", "The actress tells jurors her marriage was not fake .", "Closing arguments are set for Wednesday .", "Romero is charged with paying a pizza delivery man to marry her ." ]	[ 2, 6, 35 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to the hospital after her husband found her \"unresponsive\" Tuesday morning, her publicist told CNN.", "Gabor, 93, was taken by ambulance from her Bel Air, California, home to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she had undergone hip replacement surgery earlier this summer, publicist John Blanchette said Tuesday.", "The spokesman for Gabor's daughter Francesca Hilton said the doctor told Hilton the situation was \"not life-threatening.\"", "Gabor was hospitalized for several days earlier this month for complications relating to the surgery.", "Her husband, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, was \"very agitated\" after calling for an ambulance Tuesday morning, Blanchette said.", "Gabor had returned home from the hospital two weeks ago because she \"wants to spend her final days at her home,\" Blanchette said at the time.", "She spent three weeks in the hospital after breaking her hip in a fall from her bed on July 17.", "She has been frail and \"pretty much confined to a wheelchair\" since a 2002 car accident, said Von Anhalt.", "The crash happened when the car in which she was riding with her hairdresser slammed into a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.", "The glamorous Hungarian-born actress, the second of the three celebrated Gabor sisters, is most famous for her many marriages.", "Among her husbands was Oscar-winning actor George Sanders.", "Her more prominent films include John Huston's 1952 Toulouse-Lautrec biopic, \"Moulin Rouge;\" \"The Story of Three Loves\" in 1953; \"The Girl in the Kremlin\" in 1957; and Orson Welles' 1958 classic, \"Touch of Evil.\"", "CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Doctor tells Gabor's daughter incident was \"not life-threatening.\"", "Gabor, 93, rushed by ambulance to UCLA Medical Center .", "She underwent hip replacement surgery there earlier this summer .", "Gabor went home from hospital two weeks ago \"to spend her final days,\" publicist said ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) -- Forecasters predict the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be \"near-normal,\" with four to seven hurricanes likely, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, less than two weeks before the season begins.", "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters predict a 'near normal' hurricane season.", "\"While we cannot prevent hurricanes, we can prepare, and we must,\" Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told reporters at Reagan National Airport, just outside of Washington.", "The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1 and runs through the end of November.", "Locke said it is likely there will be nine to 14 named storms, with four to seven of those becoming hurricanes.", "Of the hurricanes, NOAA predicts that one to three will be major hurricanes -- storms classified as Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of storm intensity -- with winds of 111 mph or higher.", "In 2008, there were 16 named storms and eight hurricanes, five of which were major.", "It was among the busiest and costliest seasons to date, with about $54 billion in damages, according to the National Climatic Data Center.", "Learn more about hurricanes and how you can stay safe » .", "The weather agency had predicted a total of 12 to 16 storms last year.", "NOAA's predictions for 2009 are similar to those of four other organizations: AccuWeather, (13 named storms and eight hurricanes), Colorado State University, (14 named storms and seven hurricanes) WSI Corp. (13 named storms, seven hurricanes) and Weather Research Center (seven named storms, four hurricanes).", "Competing climate factors are shaping the 2009 seasonal outlook, NOAA said, saying enhanced rainfall over West Africa, warmer Atlantic waters and reduced wind shear encourage greater storm activity.", "Should El Nino develop in the equatorial eastern Pacific this summer, or if ocean temperatures in the eastern tropical Atlantic stay cooler, storm activity could be diminished, NOAA said.", "The weather agency will release an updated hurricane outlook in August, ahead of what it says is historically the peak period for hurricane activity.", "Newly appointed Federal Emergency Management Agency director Craig Fugate emphasized that people who live in coastal areas should prepare for the hurricane season.", "\"We cannot tell you where a hurricane is going to hit this year, and there's a lot of our coast that hasn't had a hurricane in decades.", "People grow up in areas and haven't had a hurricane, and live in a hurricane prone area and don't realize it,\" Fugate said.", "\"Hurricane season is upon us, and to anyone who lives or works in hurricane-prone areas, to any of you who have family or friends in hurricane prone areas, NOAA's message is clear -- be prepared, have a plan,\" NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said.", "The first named storm of the Atlantic season will be named Ana.", "CNN's Greg Clary contributed to this report." ]	[ "NOAA predicts four to seven hurricanes, with one to three major storms .", "Predictions similar to last year's forecast .", "In 2008, there were 16 named storms, eight hurricanes ." ]	[ 4, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The morning after a masked gunman killed two people and wounded six more at a party, police in Indianapolis, Indiana, were still on the scene investigating, authorities said Tuesday.", "Indianapolis police said the victims were Barbara Johnson, 37, who lived at the home where the shots were fired, and Charles Mays, 54, also of Indianapolis.", "Investigators had found two cars that may be related to the incident, Indianapolis police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said Tuesday.", "Police have recovered a silver/green Chrysler 300 sedan \"that had been shot several times\" that may be the suspect's vehicle, an Indianapolis police news release said.", "The vehicle was found parked and unoccupied and was towed for further investigation, it said.", "Earlier in the morning, investigators found a silver Dodge Charger that they believe was initially at the crime scene, and then was driven away by someone attending the party, Duhamell said.", "Video from CNN affiliate WISH showed the vehicle was riddled with bullets.", "But no one inside that vehicle was wounded, the news release said.", "The incident happened in the \"near northwest\" part of the city, in a neighborhood rife with gun violence, drugs and prostitution, Indianapolis police Sgt.", "Michael Jefferson said.", "Seven victims were found outside the house where the party was going on.", "The eighth victim was found in a vehicle less than a mile away.", "\"It makes you sick.", "And it makes you wonder, 'Why are people so bent on killing each other, shooting each other?", "For what?'\" an unidentified neighbor told CNN affiliate WISH.", "\"I don't know what's going on, what's happening in our neighborhood.", "Hopefully, we can get some help over here.", "And the young people have taken over.", "They're doing whatever they want to do.\"", "Read, watch WISH's coverage .", "Witnesses said that around midnight, at least one person got out of a car, put on a mask and fired what appeared to be an assault rifle at a crowd gathered at the party, Duhamell said.", "\"Unfortunately, two people were killed,\" he told WISH.", "\"We're talking at least 25-30 rounds from a high-powered rifle, so although eight people were shot, it could've been a lot worse.\"", "The six other gunshot victims, all Indianapolis residents, were rushed to hospitals, Duhamell said.", "Clarian Health spokesman Gene Ford said Tuesday morning that four patients had been brought to Methodist Hospital.", "Tamera Williams, 32, and Nakeisha Morris, 24, were treated and released, he said, and he was unable to disclose information on Jewel Dotson, 21, and Prinsonia Johnson, 54.", "Wishard Hospital received two victims.", "Willie Battles, 28, was treated and released, while Kendall Hill, 25, remained in the intensive care unit in good condition, hospital spokesman Todd Harper said Tuesday morning.", "Police had initially been sent to the vicinity of the party around 10 p.m. Monday after they received a call about a person toting an automatic weapon, Jefferson said.", "Investigators were still searching for the gunman Tuesday morning and trying to determine if others were involved.", "CNN's Samuel Gardner and Mark Morgenstein contributed to this story ." ]	[ "NEW: Barbara Johnson, 37, was killed at her Indianapolis home .", "Police are processing a vehicle they say may have been used in the shooting .", "A police spokesman tells CNN affiliate WISH \"it could've been a lot worse\"\nPolice are still searching for the suspect who fired an assault rifle into a crowded party ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 6, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nicole \"Snooki\" Polizzi, of MTV's reality show \"Jersey Shore,\" will soon learn her fate after the young reality star was arrested Friday on disorderly conduct charges, court officials said Monday.", "Polizzi is set for a first-appearance court date on August 18 at 9:00 a.m. in municipal court, said Seaside Heights court administrator Jane Carrozza.", "According to Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas Boyd, Polizzi, 22, was acting in a disorderly manner while on the beach at Seaside Heights Friday around 3:30 p.m. She was placed under arrest and was later released with a summons, said Boyd.", "Polizzi is not facing any jail time, but she could be fined between $250 and $1,000, said Carrozza.", "The arrest comes a day after the widely anticipated \"Jersey Shore\" second season premiere, which drew more than 5 million viewers, according to ratings firm Nielsen.", "Just three days before Polizzi's arrest, on Tuesday July 27, the entire \"Jersey Shore\" cast rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.", "In Session's Aletse Mellado and CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report." ]	[ "MTV reality star set to appear in New Jersey court later this month .", "Nicole \"Snooki\" Polizzi was arrested Friday on disorderly conduct charges .", "She could be fined between $250 and $1,000, says court official .", "\"Jersey Shore\" premiere drew more than 5 million viewers, according to Nielsen ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 19-year-old Kentucky woman missing for two weeks has been found, and police are searching for a registered sex offender believed to be involved in her disappearance, authorities said Monday.", "Brittney Kustes was last seen July 17 at her grandparents' home in Brooks, Kentucky, just south of Louisville, Kentucky, according to Det.", "Scott McGaha of the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office.", "Witnesses told police that sex offender Roy Vernon Elwell -- who has a history of kidnapping and unlawful confinement -- was seen driving up and down the street where Kustes' grandparents live on the day she disappeared.", "\"Shortly after, she was gone,\" McGaha said last week.", "Numerous witnesses reported seeing the pair in Louisville and surrounding areas over the past two weeks.", "On Friday, Kustes was driven to a drop-off point by a friend of her alleged captor, according to authorities.", "Kustes then called her boyfriend, who picked her up, drove her to a motel and called police.", "Her mother told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" Monday night that getting the news was \"one of the greatest moments of my life.\"", "\"It was truly a blessing,\" Laurie Kustes said.", "\"When we found her, we just stared at each other and I told her over and over you're safe now ... and she just cried and cried.\"", "Laurie Kustes said her daughter was so \"brutally, mentally tortured\" during her disappearance that she was hospitalized Friday night.", "\"She's just really been through a lot of horrible things,\" she said, declining to elaborate due to the ongoing police investigation.", "Brittney Kustes has a history with the 34-year-old Elwell, according to her mother.", "\"This guy came into my daughter's life with drugs,\" Laurie Kustes told CNN affiliate WHAS last week.", "She said the last time Elwell was with her daughter, Brittney returned home addicted to methamphetamine, a drug habit she had recently kicked.", "But Laurie Kustes said Monday that her daughter again returned from Elwell's alleged captivity hooked on drugs.", "\"We're going to have to start all over with drug counseling, rehab,\" she said.", "\"Also, I'm going to have to get her into a psychiatrist for the past two weeks.\"", "McGaha described Brittney Kustes as \"terrified\" and \"extremely frightened\" of Elwell, and described him as \"very dangerous.\"", "\"She is not under police protection, but we are under alert to watch her,\" McGaha told \"Issues,\" adding that Brittney Kustes is \"at a location [Elwell] is not familiar with.\"", "McGaha has said that Elwell knows police want to speak with him about Kustes.", "Friends of Elwell's have told police that he laughs off requests to come in to the sheriff's office, according to McGaha.", "Meanwhile, Elwell has been found to be noncompliant with the laws of the state's sex offender registry as he continues to evade police.", "The Class D felony carries a penalty of up to five years in prison, McGaha said." ]	[ "Brittney Kustes was last seen July 17 .", "She was driven to a drop-off point Friday night .", "Her mother says her daughter was \"mentally tortured\" during her disappearance .", "Police are searching for a registered sex offender believed to have been with her ." ]	[ 0, 6, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday he shrugged off reports of a $1 million bounty on his head by Mexican drug cartels, saying this is not the first -- nor the largest.", "Arpaio, who calls himself \"America's toughest sheriff,\" told CNN he had a $5 million bounty on his head when he worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Mexico.", "\"It's nothing new,\" Arpaio said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"", "\"It's part of my job. They keep coming after me.\"", "Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lisa Allen said Monday that authorities are investigating the threat, which came in the form of a text message from a throwaway cell phone in Mexico.", "Allen said that the message was sent to a \"text message tree,\" similar to a phone tree.", "The message offered $1 million to anyone who could kill Arpaio.", "She said investigators \"don't know how likely it is\" they will be able to track down the sender.", "It was not clear how the threat came to light.", "Allen said the FBI is assisting in the probe, but FBI special agent Manuel Johnson, a spokesman for the bureau's Phoenix office, said the agency is aware of the reported threat but he knows of no federal investigation.", "Johnson said the bureau would help if Arpaio's office requested assistance.", "Arpaio is well-known for creating a tent city jail in the Arizona desert, providing pink underwear for inmates and bragging that he spends more to feed his dog than a prisoner in his jail.", "He made national headlines for his tough enforcement of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration laws and for his outspoken support for a new state immigration law, parts of which were blocked by a federal judge last week.", "His critics say he has a long history of abusing his power and launching bogus criminal investigations against political opponents.", "Those critics note that while the probes were launched with great public fanfare, they rarely resulted in convictions.", "A federal grand jury is probing the complaints, but Arpaio's allies have defended the investigations as necessary.", "The 78-year-old sheriff, who has been the chief law enforcement officer for the county that includes Phoenix and many of its suburbs since 1992, would not discuss the issue with CNN in a July interview, citing the federal probe.", "Arpaio was elected Maricopa County sheriff in 1992 and has been re-elected every four years since.", "He served for 32 years in federal law enforcement before then, ultimately becoming head of the DEA's Arizona office.", "Speaking Tuesday on \"American Morning,\" Arpaio said the latest threats come with the job.", "\"It's part of my work,\" he said.", "\"I do my job. Nothing changes.\"" ]	[ "$1 million bounty was sent as a text message, the sheriff's office said .", "Threat originated in Mexico, sheriff's spokeswoman says .", "Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he's had previous death threats, including a $5 million bounty .", "\"It's part of my job,\" sheriff tells CNN ." ]	[ 1, 4, 20 ]
[ "Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- A clash between Lebanon and Israel along their volatile shared border Tuesday left an Israeli officer and several Lebanese soldiers dead while escalating fears of renewed violence between the nations.", "Lt. Col. Dov Harari, a battalion commander, was killed in the fighting, according to an Israel Defense Forces statement.", "Another Israeli soldier was seriously wounded, it said.", "A Lebanese army spokesman said at least two Lebanese soldiers were killed and several others were wounded.", "Lebanon's official National News Agency reported that journalist Assaf Abu Rahal also was killed in the exchange of fire between Lebanese and Israeli soldiers.", "In a statement, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon \"took immediate steps through contacts with the parties and the presence of the acting force commander alongside peacekeepers at the location to help restore calm in .", "the area.\" UNIFIL will investigate the incident, it said, adding that Ban \"urges the parties to exercise maximum restraint and to work with UNIFIL and the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon in taking steps to consolidate the calm now restored in the area.\"", "Two separate narratives emerged about the incident.", "Israel said the Lebanese fired on Israeli soldiers who were on the Israeli side of the border.", "In Jerusalem, Israeli Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor said the incident was captured on video and that it all occurred on Israeli soil.", "\"This is all under Israeli sovereignty,\" he said.", "\"Somebody wanted to ignite fire and kill one of our soldiers and wound another.", "We responded in a military way.", "But this should serve as a warning: Don't dare do this again.\"", "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned the Lebanese government against continuing provocations of Israeli forces and demanded an investigation into Tuesday's violence.", "He said Israel would not tolerate attacks on Israeli territory.", "\"The IDF will continue to act firmly and determinedly to protect the residents of Israel and the sovereign borders of Israel,\" Barak said in a written statement.", "The Israeli military said its soldiers were on \"routine activity\" when the incident occurred.", "It issued a statement saying that the soldiers were in \"an area that lies between the 'blue line' [the internationally recognized border between Israel and Lebanon] and the security fence, thus within Israeli territory.\"", "The Lebanese army's account and a report from Lebanese media said, however, that the hostilities occurred when Israel wanted to remove a tree.", "A Lebanese army unit stopped the Israelis, and the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon intervened, the National News Agency said.", "The Lebanese army said it asked the U.N. force to arbitrate the issue, but the Israeli forces didn't comply and entered Lebanese territory.", "That led the army to open fire, with Israeli forces returning artillery fire and hitting a house in the village of Odaise.", "But Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Israel violated U.N.", "Resolution 1701 in crossing the blue line and by bombing a Lebanese army checkpoint in Odaise.", "He said Israeli aggression needs \"to be confronted, whatever the sacrifices are\" and that he will pursue the issue diplomatically.", "Israel fought a five-week war with Hezbollah in summer 2006 after Lebanese-based militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers during a cross-border raid.", "Resolution 1701, which was intended to resolve the 2006 conflict, bars Israel from conducting military operations in Lebanon.", "Israel has accused Lebanon-based Hezbollah, considered a terrorist group by the United States, of violating the resolution by smuggling arms into southern Lebanon.", "In a televised speech marking the fourth anniversary of the war, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah accused Israel of never having stopped its attacks on Lebanon and said it is guilty of 7,000 violations of Resolution 1701.", "\"We salute the Lebanese army and we salute their commander, their soldiers and their officers for baptizing the land with their blood,\" Nasrallah said.", "\"Our young men were in Odaise and other neighboring villages in the south but we asked them to exercise restraint.", "We were ready to fight and defend our land.\"", "In the aftermath of the 2006 fighting, the United Nations deployed peacekeepers to the area.", "The U.N. troops were focused Tuesday on restoring calm, said spokesman Neeraj Singh.", "Acting Commander Brig.", "Gen. Santi Bonfanti flew to Odaise and said the situation had quieted.", "The United Nations was urging Israel and Lebanon \"to exercise maximum restraint,\" Singh said.", "Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri had discussed the potentially explosive situation with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Hariri's office said.", "Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stated Syria's support for Lebanon \"against the heinous aggression launched by Israel,\" according to the Syrian state-run news agency SANA.", "\"This aggression proves once more,\" he said, \"that Israel has always been seeking to destabilize security and stability in Lebanon and the region.\"", "In Washington, the Obama administration expressed concern about the clashes and urged both sides to exert calm while the United Nations investigates.", "State Department Spokesman P.J.", "Crowley told reporters the State Department was in touch with the Israelis, Lebanese and the UNIFIL, the United Nations mission on the ground, to establish the facts.", "But Hezbollah leader Nasrallah predicted any U.N. investigation would not favor Lebanon.", "\"Israel wasn't condemned for massacres that they have committed,\" he said.", "\"The U.N. will not condemn their aggression in Odaise.\"", "Still, he predicted, the incident is not likely to turn into another war.", "\"I don't believe that there is a likelihood of a[nything] close to war but there is reason for concern,\" he said.", "Nasrallah further accused Israel of involvement in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in Beirut.", "He promised to present evidence of Israel's involvement to reporters on Monday.", "\"We officially accuse Israel in Hariri's assassination,\" he said.", "\"We will expose the true killer.\"", "To that, Israel's Meridor was unequivocal.", "\"It is ridiculous,\" he said.", "\"It's not the first time that he says lies.", "It's easy for him.\" CNN's Saad Abedine, Nada Husseini and Michal Zippori contributed to this report." ]	[ "Differing narratives emerge from Israeli, Lebanese sides .", "Hezbollah leader denounces Israel in speech marking 2006 war .", "An Israeli officer, Lebanese soldiers and a journalist are killed in Tuesday's clash .", "Israeli tank fired shells into Lebanese territory, Lebanese army says ." ]	[ 0, 3, 14, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Recent newspaper articles and a flurry of online responses have put the role of job training in our economic recovery under a microscope.", "Even in the midst of high unemployment, some industries are having trouble finding workers with the right skills.", "And yet some people graduating from federally funded workforce programs are still not able to find jobs.", "This \"new\" debate actually reflects a question policymakers have asked for several decades: Does job training work?", "But is this the right question to ask?", "Experts project an increasing gap between workforce skills and employer needs.", "The gap is already pressing in some places and will worsen as the economy recovers.", "For example, in Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers have had difficulty finding people with the English, math and technical skills to operate the high-tech machinery that today's jobs require.", "Worker skills are a critical ingredient in making any business go -- ask any small or medium-sized business owner, particularly in industries facing global competition.", "Other national governments invest a much larger portion of their GDP in worker skills.", "Training cannot erase the job losses we have seen in the past year, but done right it could build worker skills and help American businesses compete in the global economy.", "If we want to deal with the skills gap and put more Americans to work, then training is the only option.", "So the question is not whether training works, but rather what kind of training is most effective?", "So what's wrong with the way training works now?", "Our current approach is built on the idea that getting someone quickly into the workforce is the best first step.", "Today, the lion's share of public workforce training dollars is spent on short-term job readiness training -- basic computer skills, interview prep, and resume development -- rather than on industry-specific skills.", "Organizations that offer workforce services are typically funded to get people quickly into jobs, an approach to workforce development that was built during the high-employment '90s when it was much easier to find a job.", "In this economy, that approach is not working as well.", "But there is an approach that works better.", "Some organizations -- swimming against the tide of public policy and supported in large part by private philanthropy -- have developed an approach known as sectoral employment.", "This approach cultivates a deep understanding of local industries and employers and provides training that is closely tailored to their needs.", "At Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), we have just completed a rigorous evaluation of three such programs: one in New York's South Bronx that prepares people for jobs in the IT industry, another in Boston, Massachusetts, that trains medical billers, and a third in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that focuses on both health care and construction.", "Following a two-year study funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the results are clear and difficult to dispute: Participants in these sector-based programs were more likely to be employed and found jobs with higher wages and better access to benefits than those who did not participate in the programs.", "They earned about $4,000 more, or 29 percent, in the study's second year alone.", "What makes these programs work?", "First, a flexible and nimble organization that has the ability to make connections between local employers and job seekers and that can marshal money from public and private sources to provide needed training.", "On their face, these programs might not look much alike, yet they share key elements, including an understanding of what local employers need and a focus on teaching relevant technical skills; a careful recruitment and screening process that helps ensure a good match between program participants and available jobs; and connections to resources that participants might need -- like child care subsidies and transportation assistance -- to complete training and succeed on the job.", "This study shows that job training can work -- if it is closely tied to local labor market needs and offered by organizations nimble enough to change as those needs, and the needs of workers, change.", "The study was referenced on July 19, as the House passed the Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2010, with bipartisan support.", "This legislation is an effort to provide more resources for developing programs that bridge the gap between employer needs and worker skills -- a complex and vitally important task as the economy begins to recover.", "The SECTORS Act reflects a growing understanding on both sides of the aisle that investing in skills is critical to our economic recovery.", "The Senate should move to pass it quickly.", "But much more needs to be done to foster public policies that support effective sectoral programs -- and to expand our base of knowledge about successful approaches to training.", "We must invest in research that will help us better understand the many types of programs that fall under the umbrella of \"sectoral employment,\" improve their ability to serve job seekers, and, crucially, forge a path by which effective approaches to training may be brought to scale.", "Among other things, this research should examine specific program practices and costs; the role of sector-based programs in supporting local businesses; and the most effective mix of services for different populations.", "The debate about whether or not training works is a distraction from the urgent need to learn more about and build on the specific strategies that have demonstrated success.", "Developing an effective workforce training system is too important for America's workers and businesses to let it be derailed by an outdated debate.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sheila Maguire." ]	[ "Experts have debated whether job training works, says Sheila Maguire .", "She says giving people basic job skills isn't enough .", "Maguire: New research says training people in specific industry sectors pays off .", "Job training needs to be tailored to the kinds of skills employers need, she says ." ]	[ 15, 20, 35, 37 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The case of a missing 2-year-old boy who disappeared from an Arizona campground more than a week ago has turned into a criminal investigation, the Yavapai County sheriff announced Monday.", "Syler Newton was last seen shortly after midnight July 24, sleeping in a tent with the family at the Beaver Creek Campgrounds.", "About 1:45 a.m. July 25, the family noticed that he was missing from his sleeping bag.", "\"The sheriff's office believes Syler did not wander from the campground and he is presumably dead,\" Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh told a news conference Monday.", "\"The search effort is now in a recovery mode and the investigation has become criminal in nature.\"", "Waugh said investigators have spent the past three days searching more than 200 tons of garbage in a nearby landfill \"to try to determine if in fact the boy's body was there.\"", "About 50 people, along with highly trained bloodhounds, had joined in the search for Syler, who was wearing only a diaper when he disappeared, according to Yavapai County Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn.", "The bloodhounds, normally used by the state Department of Corrections for tracking down escaped felons, failed to detect the boy's scent outside the immediate campground area, investigators said as they described an exhaustive search that included aerial surveillance, scuba teams and underwater cameras.", "\"Anything we could have done in that area has been searched,\" one investigator said Monday.", "Syler was camping with his custodial mother, Christina Priem, and her children, when he disappeared.", "Priem has said she was in the process of adopting the boy from his biological mother.", "D'Evelyn said last week that that \"there's no evidence\" that the planned adoption played a role in his disappearance, \"but until we've exhausted every lead, all possibilities are being investigated.\"", "About 25 other people were at the campgrounds the night of Syler's disappearance -- all of whom have cooperated with investigators, according to the sheriff's office." ]	[ "\"The investigation has become criminal in nature,\" sheriff says .", "Syler Newton was reported missing in the early morning hours of July 25 .", "The search effort has turned to one of recovery, sheriff says ." ]	[ 4, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A woman babysitting her two young nieces Saturday night was arrested after police say she stabbed the girls multiple times in their Katonah, New York, home across the street from property owned by Martha Stewart.", "Lisa Turkki, 39, of East Syracuse, is being held in Westchester County jail on two counts of assault in the first degree, Lt. Jeffrey Dickan of the Bedford Police Department, told CNN Monday.", "Police were alerted to the stabbings by a 911 call placed by Turkki, Dickan said.", "When a responding officer arrived, Turkki was standing out in the driveway of the home, unarmed, and was taken into custody, he said.", "Upon entering the home, the two girls -- identified as 7-year-old Maeve Kelly and 9-year-old Annabel Kelly -- were found on the kitchen floor with \"multiple\" stab wounds, Dickan said.", "\"The scene was pretty terrible,\" he said.", "\"There were large amounts of blood all over the kitchen.\"", "Two kitchen knives that appeared to have been used in the stabbings were recovered from inside the home, Dickan said.", "The girls were conscious and talking to authorities before they were rushed to Westchester County Medical Center, Dickan said.", "As of Monday morning, the girls were in stable condition and were improving, he said.", "The girls' parents, identified as Joseph and Eva Kelly, were attending a concert at a local performing arts center when the incident occurred, Dickan said.", "Dickan described Katonah as \"usually a very quiet area\" with neighborhoods made up of larger homes and estates.", "The Kellys' expansive home -- once touted on a sustainable-living blog for its eco-friendly features -- sits across the street from a large piece of property owned by Martha Stewart.", "\"We're fortunate here -- our crime levels are not that high,\" Dickan said." ]	[ "Lisa Turkki was babysitting the girls Saturday night, police say .", "She called 911 requesting assistance for the injured girls .", "She has been charged with first-degree assault .", "The girls are in stable condition and improving ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An FBI webpage quoted an agent calling Mexico's drug cartels more violent than al Qaeda -- a comment sure to grab attention, but which doesn't tell the whole story, the agency said.", "On its website, the FBI was highlighting a special series of stories on law enforcement challenges along the Southwest border.", "The report includes a quote from an unidentified senior agent based in El Paso, Texas, who says, \"We think al Qaeda is bad, but they've got nothing on the cartels.\"", "The controversial-sounding comment was just one of point of view that exists on the ground, the FBI said, explaining the remark.", "\"The quote is the opinion of one FBI agent who lives and works on border violence every day,\" said Special Agent Jason Pack, an FBI spokesman in Washington.", "\"The FBI does not believe the cartels are any more dangerous than al Qaeda.\"", "According to the FBI report, \"Some areas on the Mexican side of the border are so violent they are reminiscent of the gangster era of Chicago in the 1930s or the heyday of the Mafia's Five Families in New York.\"", "It cites the violent and ruthless tactics of the cartels, using as an example the case of a man known as El Pozolero -- the stew maker -- who is said to have dissolved hundreds of murder victims in acid.", "Mexico has seen other violent acts that are reminscent of al Qaeda tactics, including the severing of heads and videotaping of kidnap victims.", "But according to one analyst, comparing one to the other is apples and oranges.", "\"Obviously, it's a more complex issue than that,\" said Fred Burton, vice president of intelligence at Stratfor, a global intelligence company.", "\"Reading between the lines here, what they might be trying to say is that clearly the scope of the drug cartels from a geographic perspective is very robust,\" he said.", "The cartels are very brutal and violent, but they haven't hijacked planes, built complex improvised explosive devices or attacked U.S. vessels, as al Qaeda has, Burton said.", "The major drug trafficking cartels in Mexico do use terror, however, in their rivalries for smuggling routes to the United States market.", "In one recent sign of escalation, a device that authorities called a car bomb exploded in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing four.", "However, Burton said, it wasn't clear whether it was a case of explosives packed into a car, or a carefully rigged car bomb in the true sense of the word, the type of fine deliniation that separates groups like al Qaeda and Mexican drug cartels." ]	[ "An FBI webpage includes a quote comparing al Qaeda to Mexican drug cartels .", "A senior agent says that the cartels are more violent than al Qaeda .", "The FBI explains that it is just one agent's point of view from the field ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Venezuelan state television has showed the skeletal remains of one of Hugo Chavez's heroes as the country's president called for an investigation into his death.", "Most historical accounts say tuberculosis killed Simon Bolivar, who died in 1830 at the age of 46.", "But Chavez ordered investigators to exhume the body of the former military leader and determine whether he was murdered.", "\"Bolivar is alive.", "Let us not see him as a dead man and let us not see him as a skeleton.", "He is like lightning, like a sacred fire,\" Chavez said.", "With the national anthem playing in the background, a group of scientists wearing white coats rolled up a black cloth, revealing a skeleton on the table below.", "The broadcast then faded to black, showing Chavez singing along to the national anthem.", "A DNA test will be performed on the remains as well as the clothing items found inside the tomb, Chavez said.", "He said on his Twitter page that he cried when he first saw Bolivar's remains Thursday.", "Chavez has credited Bolivar with inspiring him as \"the father of the revolution.\"", "In 1819, Bolivar founded Gran Colombia, a federation of what is now Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Ecuador.", "He led the armies that liberated Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela from the Spanish crown and is credited with spreading democratic principles in Latin America." ]	[ "Venezuelan state television broadcast images of Simon Bolivar's exhumed skeleton .", "President Hugo Chavez suspects the former military leader was murdered .", "Chavez has described Bolivar, who died in 1830, as \"the father of the revolution\"\nBolivar is credited with liberating several Latin American nations ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 10 ]
[ "Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (CNN) -- Weakening by the hour but still covering a massive area, Hurricane Earl spun off the North Carolina on Thursday night, lashing parts of the Outer Banks with rain and high wind.", "People along the East Coast made just-in-case preparations despite the waning power of the storm.", "The hurricane has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday night, but warned that \"Earl is expected to remain a large and strong hurricane as it passes near the Outer Banks\" of North Carolina.", "Hurricane warnings and watches stretched from North Carolina to Delaware and into Massachusetts, where a hurricane warning was issued for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and the surrounding area.", "A hurricane watch was also issued for the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.", "Tropical storm watches and warnings were in effect for most other coastal areas between North Carolina and Nova Scotia.", "iReport: Share your images and information .", "As of 8 p.m., the center of Earl was about 160 miles (260 kilometers) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and about 625 miles (1,005 kilometers) south-southwest of Nantucket.", "It was heading north at about 18 mph (30 kph).", "A tropical storm warning is now in effect for the coast of Massachusetts from north of Hull to the Merrimack River, and for the coast of Maine from Stonington to Eastport.", "The tropical storm warning from Cape Fear to west of Surf City, North Carolina, has been discontinued.", "The storm, which had been a Category 3 until Thursday night, has maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (168 kph), the Hurricane Center reported just before 11 p.m.", "ET. Further weakening is expected overnight, forecasters said, but \"Earl is expected to remain a large and strong hurricane as it passes near the Outer Banks.\"", "Two more tropical systems are in the Atlantic -- Fiona and Gaston.", "Fiona is on track for Bermuda, and as of Thursday afternoon, Gaston wasn't threatening any land.", "Read more on Gaston and Fiona .", "But for now, all eyes are on Earl. President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for North Carolina on Wednesday evening.", "The action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate relief efforts and makes federal funds available.", "Maryland's governor issued an emergency declaration earlier in the day.", "The monster storm is forecast to pass close to the Outer Banks on Thursday night, the National Hurricane Center said.", "\"Even if the center of Earl remains offshore ... hurricane force winds are expected to occur in the Outer Banks overnight tonight,\" the center said in its 8 p.m. Thursday forecast.", "The storm is expected to take aim at southeastern New England on Friday night.", "\"Hurricane force winds are expected within the Hurricane warning area in Massachusetts Friday night,\" the center said Thursday.", "Officials in Dare County, North Carolina, issued mandatory evacuation orders Thursday for visitors to the coastal county, including the Outer Banks.", "The mandatory evacuation extended to residents in some areas, including the town of South Nags Head and Hatteras Island.", "Dare County schools and courts were closed Thursday and will be closed Friday.", "Earl concerns homeowners along coast .", "\"Early this evening Hatteras Island will begin feeling the impact of Hurricane Earl's approach,\" the county said in a statement Thursday evening.", "\"Throughout the evening, weather conditions will progressively deteriorate ... until the storm leaves the area around daybreak Friday morning.\"", "\"Hurricane Earl will produce high seas, ocean overwash, dangerous rip currents, and strong winds,\" it said.", "On Thursday night, Dare County Manager Bobby Outten told CNN that \"evacuations went well.\"", "\"We got everybody off Hatteras [Wednesday],\" he said, referring to one coastal island.", "In other nearby areas, Outten said, \"I'm sure there are people holding out.\"", "\"Residents of Dare County have been through this many times,\" the county's emergency response coordinator, Warren Judge, said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"", "\"And they have their own individual practices and procedures to get their homes and businesses secured and prepared for the oncoming storm.", "What we need to happen now is for the visitors to heed the warning, to evacuate.\"", "Earl is a large storm, meaning effects will be widely felt even if it does not make a direct hit.", "It covers about 166,000 square miles -- larger than California, which covers just under 160,000 square miles.", "The storm's outflow, or the clouds associated with it, could stretch from one end of the state of Texas to the other, said CNN meteorologist Reynolds Wolf.", "The North Carolina coast should begin experiencing tropical storm-force winds of at least 39 mph by Thursday evening, forecasters said, with hurricane-force winds of at least 74 mph arriving later.", "Local coverage by CNN affiliate WECT .", "\"Conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly,\" FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said Thursday, and people should not be lulled into thinking Earl is going to miss them.", "\"We have teams in all coastal states ready to support (governors) all the way up the New England States,\" Fugate told CNN Thursday night, describing FEMA's standby teams.", "\"We're not going to wait till things get bad.\"", "Large breaking waves of 10 to 15 feet are possible along the coast, with possible storm surge of 2 to 4 feet and 3 to 4 inches of rainfall, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.", "Isolated tornadoes and waterspouts are possible.", "The National Hurricane Center said those in the hurricane warning area -- coastal North Carolina from Bogue Inlet up to the Virginia state line, including Pamlico and Albemarle sounds -- could see storm surge of 3 to 5 feet.", "However, the most severe part of Earl is expected to remain offshore, which might mean a lower storm surge, according to CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano.", "\"The fact that it happens overnight always gives us cause for concern,\" Judge said.", "\"But we're going to get a glancing blow.\"", "He said he hoped the storm will not deal a direct hit to the area and will pass through quickly.", "\"This is my first hurricane and I'm looking forward to it, \" said Sarah Baker, a native of Oklahoma who works for a vacation rental company in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.", "\"The locals have been really nice, telling me what I needed to buy to get ready.\"", "Rip currents and stormy seas were reported all the way up the East Coast, from Florida to Maine.", "Earl will make its closest pass to New Jersey on Friday afternoon, Morris said.", "It is expected to make its closest pass to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Friday night as a Category 1 hurricane.", "Tourist towns on Cape see effects from Earl .", "The long duration of tropical-storm-force winds threatens widespread power outages in parts of the South and the mid-Atlantic region, he said.", "Earl is expected to make a direct landfall over southern Nova Scotia on Saturday morning as a strong Category 1 hurricane.", "The storm will turn northeast as it collides with a cold front, said National Hurricane Center director Bill Read.", "But the hurricane was undergoing a phenomenon known as eyewall replacement, in which the existing eyewall weakens and a new one forms.", "That means the eye likely will grow in diameter and the storm will grow even larger as hurricane force winds stretch farther out, he said.", "Several airlines said Wednesday that passengers 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.", "North Carolina Gov.", "Bev Purdue urged residents and visitors to prepare for the storm and heed evacuation orders.", "Indeed, some people were stocking up on food at grocery stores and attaching plywood to windows and doors of coastal homes.", "However, others thumbed their noses at Earl, set to arrive just ahead of the Labor Day holiday, and said they were staying put.", "\"We're from Michigan, so we're used to storms,\" one man said.", "\"But this is our first hurricane, so we're kind of excited about it and hope everything goes well.\"", "\"I got three bottles of wine hidden in there,\" another man said, gesturing toward his grocery bags.", "\"The kids are good with the milk.\"", "He said Earl \"might ruin some beach time ... looks like it's OK, but we'll keep an eye on the TV.\"", "One sign on the Outer Banks warned, \"Earl, you are not welcome here.\"", "CNN's Angela Fritz and Randy Harber contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Just before 11 p.m.", "ET, sustained winds reported at 105 mph .", "Earl is now a strong Category 2 storm .", "In U.S., warnings and watches stretch from North Carolina to Massachusetts .", "Some people are staying put on Outer Banks: 'I'm looking forward to it'" ]	[ 2, 11, 32, 56 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Dan had a big grin in his profile picture, like he'd just said something super funny.", "He liked foreign novels, old buildings and could spell in complete words.", "He looked like a cute professor.", "Could this be ... my guy? I'd been online dating for a few months -- long enough.", "There were the guys who lied about their age/height/marital status, the guy who said I was a dead ringer for his favorite blond sports reporter and would I mind putting on a fake newscast for him and my favorite, the guy who asked me not to use face cream because he had a phobia about moisturizers.", "The Frisky: Cat gives birth to a dog?!", "Dan seemed so normal.", "Even with that bright orange shirt.", "Forgivable. He told me about his knee injury, his love of almond butter and Alpine air.", "I reciprocated with anecdotes of world travels and professional mishaps.", "We beamed in mutual online adoration.", "Two weeks later, I was eating pre-date whole-wheat toast and deciding on outfit options: size 10 pencil skirt, black cashmere sweater, and boots.", "Understated sexy 30-something outfit, yes!", "The Frisky: 6 roles intended for men, but cast as women .", "I went to meet Mr. Could Be, and spotted a guy with a round, waffle-sized bald patch pacing outside the bar.", "Is that Dan? It was. He looked more Woody Allen than George Clooney.", "I wondered where the guy in his pictures was tonight.", "Some awkward gazing and polite chitchat later, he ordered two courses and a bottle of Pinot, and I ordered salad.", "Then he began the food and fitness inquisition.", "The Frisky: 10 songs secretly written about celebrities .", "\"You like fettuccini, right?\"", "he asked me, twice.", "\"Yah, but I'm fine with the caprese,\" I said.", "And this was just supposed to be drinks.", "\"So, how often do you run?\" he asked, shoving pasta in his face.", "\"Whenever I can, mostly on the weekends.\"", "\"Not during the week?\" \"I try and avoid that getting raped and robbed in the park after dark thing,\" I said.", "We discussed our jobs, artistic pursuits and the dog he still visited at his ex's.", "Then he launched into a half-hour story about his best friend in prison.", "I wanted to go home, and I crossed my eyes to see if he'd look better blurry.", "Nope. He was still talking.", "The waiter came over.", "The Frisky: 10 famous females who have a twin .", "\"I hate it when they do that,\" Dan said.", "\"Do what?\" \"Just assume that we want more wine.\"", "He snorted. And when the bill came, he let it sit there.", "\"Surely a strong, modern woman like you would like to pay?\"", "Dan asked. I told him that this strong, modern woman was happy to have him pay.", "The Frisky: 8 celeb guys with revenge bodies .", "We walked away, a comfortable distance of non-touchiness in between us.", "During our pat-on-the-back goodbye, he asked me about my workout schedule -- for the third time.", "I must have laughed since the air coming from my mouth was visible.", "Watch me run home now, you freak!", "I sighed and mentally scribed the \"thanks, but no thanks\" message I'd write to him tomorrow.", "The Frisky: 7 sexy ladies missing belly buttons .", "Dan beat me to it. I clicked on his message.", "It was 13 paragraphs long: .", "I had a lovely time last night.", "You are so interesting, and smart and witty.", "Not to mention as pretty as Springtime.", "(Far prettier than I am handsome!)", "I have no idea if you'd like to see me again, but a part of me would strongly like to ask you to do so.", "But-- . Sigh. As is often the case in this fallen world, there is more that at least one of us--me--must say.", "I'm an unusually sensitive and empathetic man, who is very aware of other people's (particularly women's) feelings.", "The task facing me has been to decide whether to simply say \"I had a great time, but didn't feel any chemistry,\" or instead to say more.", "It won't shock you that I've chosen the latter.", "So. I'm by no means a fetishist for the skinny women whom Hollywood and Madison Avenue shove down our throats, but--I don't feel chemistry, frisson, with very curvy women.", "That may well be the end.", "(You can let me know by writing me an angry final message.)", "This much is certain: You're beautiful, and there's certainly no health-related reason why you would want to change a thing about yourself.", "I'm writing, though, because several factors--specifically, that phrase in my profile about me seeking \"[someone] who'd like to move in that direction\"; plus your frequent mentions of running; plus your markedly small dinner last night--leave open the possibility that you've decided to embark on and commit to a process of transformation.", "When I moved back to the city, I weighed 163 pounds and was skinny; I now weigh 185 pounds, with virtually all the gain being muscle.", "If this is the case, and if you were interested in continuing to explore a relationship with me, you'd find me an encouraging, energetic, optimistic--but firm--addition to your team.", "Fondly, Dan .", "I took a long breath and hit the \"reply\" button.", "Dear Dan, There are so many things I'd like to tell you.", "Like how I spat out tuna and little bits of celery all over my keyboard the first time I read your message.", "Or how, on the second read-through, I had to run to the closest meeting room to hide.", "That didn't really help since it has glass walls, so now I was crying in a fishbowl.", "Yeah, thanks for sending me that message.", "At work. You can take your 'frisson' and go jump off a you-know-what since a man with any testosterone would drool over my cleavage.", "And that poofball above your forehead isn't fooling anyone, so would you mind growing your hair back, and while you're at it, get some real shoulders, and stop being so rude to the nice waiter pouring our wine.", "Perhaps then I could consider dating you.", "Thanks. The one thing I will say, however, is this: I am not your petri dish.", "Nor is any other woman -- yes, the ones you're out there wooing with your in-depth knowledge of romantic poetry and early 20th century architecture.", "Enjoy being single, Dan.", "Forever. Fondly, Me . P.S. I sent your literary bile to my friends, who forwarded it to their respective boyfriends, husbands and mailmen, all of whom want to conduct a manhunt and slowly tear you into little pieces of Dan.", "Be careful out there. The Frisky: 30 things every woman should quit doing by 30 .", "But I never pressed the \"send\" button.", "Dan doesn't deserve my heated words, or the three minutes of my life it'd take to write them.", "I am grateful for my body, for its healthy curves propping up my wardrobe, and these legs that run around Central Park and up infinite subway stairs.", "I don't need a guy to tell me that.", "Obama and 12 more biracial celeb hotties .", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Martin had been online dating for a few months and thought she'd finally found the one .", "After a horrible first date, Martin realized she'd have to let Dan down the next day .", "Dan sent her a message first, and told Martin she needed to lose weight to date him ." ]	[ 3, 4, 37, 43, 63 ]
[ "(CNN) -- She was a call girl working the streets of Sin City.", "He's a guitarist in a heavy metal band.", "They found commonality in their Christian faith and Friday evening, the two were married in a Las Vegas, Nevada, ceremony broadcast live via the Web.", "Its Web site says Hookers for Jesus \"addresses the realities of human sex trafficking.\"", "Annie Lobért, who founded Hookers for Jesus, and musician Oz Fox of the Christian band Stryper said their \"I do's\" at the Church of South Las Vegas in front of an applauding crowd and an audience on the Internet.", "The wedding had been widely touted on several Christian Web sites.", "Lobért, 41, walked up to the stage in a white strapless gown, gloves and veil.", "Earlier this week, she wrote on her MySpace blog: \"I am getting married.", "It's about time.\" She had worked as a prostitute for 11 years, making as much as $500 an hour.", "She said she hit rock bottom when she overdosed on cocaine and everything went black, according to an ABC interview posted on her Web site.", "She asked Jesus to help her and became what many jokingly call a \"porn-again Christian.\"", "Lobért says her mission now is to save the souls of women who sell their bodies.", "She often spends time at night on Las Vegas streets handing out Bibles to prostitutes and seeking to convince them there is a better way to make a living.", "The Hookers for Jesus Web site describes the organization as \"an international, faith-based organization that addresses the realities of human sex trafficking, sexual violence and exploitation linked to pornography and the sex industry.\"", "Before he administered the vows, Pastor Benny Perez said Lobért was a shining example of Christ's love for everyone.", "Fox, 47, is a longtime member of Stryper, which stands for Salvation Through Redemption, Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness.", "The band's albums include \"Reborn: and \"In God We Trust.\"" ]	[ "The bride: Annie Lobért, a former prostitute and founder of Hookers for Jesus .", "The groom: Musician Oz Fox, longtime member of the Christian band Stryper .", "Couple wed in South Las Vegas in front of an applauding crowd and a Web audience .", "Lobért's mission: To save the souls of women who sell their bodies ." ]	[ 4, 11 ]
[ "Oxford, England (CNN) -- Was last year's financial crisis a chance event?", "Or was it the product of 35 million years of evolution?", "Laurie Santos' research suggests that some of the bad choices made on Wall Street and in the mortgage business may have been deeply rooted in the basic nature of the human species.", "Santos, a professor at Yale University, has been investigating the workings of a dangerous inconsistency in people's attitudes to risk.", "She spoke about it Wednesday at the TED Global conference in Oxford, a four-day event ending Friday where experts passionate about their work got the chance to give contrasting views of the future we all face.", "Which would you do: Accept a guaranteed gift of $500 or gamble by taking a risk on a coin toss that would give you $1,000 for heads -- and nothing for tails?", "Most people would play it safe and take the sure $500, Santos said.", "What if, instead of a gain, you faced a potential loss?", "Your choice would be to give up $500 for sure or take a risk on a coin toss that could cost you $1,000 if you lost -- or nothing if you won?", "Most people opt for taking the risk rather than playing it safe.", "Using tokens as a form of money and grapes as prized products to be exchanged for the tokens, Santos has shown that capuchin monkeys make the same set of irrational choices -- taking more risk when they have something to lose than when they have something to gain.", "\"The errors we make are predictable, we make them again and again,\" said Santos, explaining that she wants to learn \"how a species as smart as we are\" can make such persistent mistakes.", "We can overcome our biological limitations, she said, but first we have to recognize what they are.", "Adding to the pressure on the human species is the future we're staring down.", "Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey, imagined the world in 2050.", "To keep greenhouse gases from reaching an unsustainably damaging level, the needed improvements in energy efficiency would have to occur at a pace 10 times faster than at any time in history.", "And, Jackson said Thursday, the only times the world has made substantial improvements in reducing carbon emissions have been during recessions.", "He views the world economy as built on an engine of growth that feeds the appetite of people in Western countries for novelty, for ever more consumer goods that impress others but that can only be purchased by creating more debt.", "Even if we don't want the products, we have to buy them -- or the economy crashes.", "In what has probably been the most cited quote of the conference on Twitter, Jackson said, \"We spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.\"", "Does that mean our choice boils down to this: Crash the economic system or trash the planet?", "Not exactly, according to Jackson.", "The answer, he said, lies in creating socially responsible businesses and nonprofits that plow money back into \"protecting and nurturing\" the environment on which our future depends.", "As an example, he cited ecosia.org, a search engine that says it allocates 80 percent of its search-related revenues to a rainforest protection project in the Amazon.", "Santos and Jackson were by no means the only speakers at TED Global to suggest people make dumb choices but can overcome them by taking the right measures.", "TED is a nonprofit that distributes \"Ideas Worth Spreading\" through its conferences and through more than 700 talks freely available at its web site.", "[CNN partners with TED to present one talk every Tuesday, along with added content.] ...", "Among the topics and speakers were: .", "Making the web really worldwide .", "Ethan Zuckerman, of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, showed that while the framework and theory of the internet is global, in reality, web traffic tends to stay within a user's country and social networks are generally segregated.", "We think we're getting a wide view of the world by going online, but \"most of the time we're checking Boston Red Sox scores,\" he said.", "Since the most compelling problems in the world are global, it will take global solutions to fix them.", "Zuckerman urges people to become xenophiles, people who take an active interest in other lands.", "Watch Zuckerman's talk at TED.com .", "A headset that reads your brain .", "Tan Le, the head of Emotiv Systems, demonstrated a headset that uses brain activity and facial expressions to control computers and other devices.", "A volunteer was able to manipulate the image of a cube on a computer screen using the headset, and Le showed how facial expressions, such as a blink or a smile, could control the movement of a wheelchair.", "Packaging material that biodegrades .", "Eben Bayer demonstrated an organic replacement for Styrofoam, which winds up taking huge amounts of space in landfills and contributes to the stream of waste in the Pacific and other bodies of water.", "Bayer showed how fungi can be used to transform crop waste into recyclable packaging that blends back into the soil when it is discarded.", "Aiming for a zero-waste supermarket .", "Chef Arthur Potts Dawson, who developed green restaurants in London, has now opened \"The People's Supermarket,\" which aims to produce virtually no food waste.", "He said food is one of the most wasteful industries in the world but that practices including composting and allowing diners to choose how big a portion they want can dramatically reduce waste.", "\"If we don't stand up and make a difference and think about sustainable food, we will fail,\" he said.", "Are whales and dolphins wise?", "Marine wildlife researcher Toni Frohoff, who studies dolphins and whales, says the question shouldn't only be are these mammals intelligent; she asks whether we should say they are wise.", "They exhibit strong social behavior and reach out to humans, even though they're often hunted and sometimes driven close to extermination.", "She showed videos of a pair of free-ranging dolphins in the Bahamas rubbing pectoral fins to show affection, of a beluga whale in eastern Canada watching its reflection in a large camera lens, of an orca mimicking a person's whistling sound, of a gray whale in the eastern Pacific that allowed people in a small boat to rub her newborn calf even though the mother bore a harpoon scar.", "She also told the story of a pod of dolphins encircling a swimmer who was having difficulty in the water until human rescuers could come to her aid.", "Online video is revolutionizing the world's talent .", "TED curator Chris Anderson sketched the potential for online video to do for communication what the Gutenberg printing press did for writing.", "Online video can drive \"crowd-accelerated innovation\" that elevates the work of emerging dancers, artists, teachers and thinkers, who can see what their peers are doing everywhere.", "The rise of online video allows \"the world's talent to be shared,\" Anderson said.", "\"Who's the teacher? You're the teacher ... capable of carrying all of us to a smarter, wiser place.\"" ]	[ "TED Global speakers focus on ways to overcome faults in human nature, human systems .", "Laurie Santos: Humans make same mistakes on risk that monkeys do .", "Tim Jackson: We spend money we don't have on things we don't need .", "Ethan Zuckerman: Make the web really worldwide ." ]	[ 11, 19, 28, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Despite everyone talking about Arizona's new immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, no one has asked if it was Arizona's best option.", "Was there no other approach to address immigration without undermining the state's economy or shredding our social fabric?", "Nobody had a better idea for balancing security with the draw and demand of American jobs?", "What about an offer to work with Congress?", "Was the only solution to blow up the place?", "It should concern everyone that no one asked these questions.", "If you watch the SB1070 hearings here, not a single legislator asks about or offers alternatives, although a few express \"concerns.\"", "One legislator, Daniel Patterson, strongly challenged the law's sponsor, state Sen. Russell Pearce, on his immigration claims.", "Patterson's courage was rewarded with the loss of his committee assignment.", "Pearce announced he would run primary challengers against any Republican who voted against SB1070.", "He threatened to hold up bills sponsored by anyone who did not support SB1070.", "He was so hell bent on passing his immigration bill that he packed hearings with supporters and, surprise, committee chairs limited the speaking time of opponents.", "Even if someone had another idea, the process was set up to ignore it.", "So what hath SB1070 wrought?", "Distrust. Blame. Boycotts. Poorly worded protest signs.", "There's the rumored loss of 200,000 to 300,000 convention room bookings for 2011-2013.", "There's damage to Arizona's reputation.", "Hispanic citizens expect to be racially profiled.", "There's the potential filing of hundreds of lawsuits against state and local government agencies and big paydays for the lawyers who will try those cases.", "Nothing much positive so far -- but it gets worse.", "Simple math suggests kicking 300,000 workers out of the state means at least a $6 billion hit to Arizona's economy.", "Add those jobs lost in support or supply businesses and the impact could reach $29 billion annually.", "Don't expect the law's proponents to have a plan for replacing those lost billions with anything other than empty promises of thousands of newly available low-paying jobs and overestimated savings -- all based on a flawed report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.", "The report ignores that undocumented workers and family members pay the very same property and sales taxes that fund Arizona's education system and the state's general fund.", "It ignores the contributions that children who are citizens make to the state's tax base once they enter the workforce.", "If undocumented worker departures open up jobs, then why is the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting Arizona's unemployment rate increased every month since SB1070 was signed into law?", "The bureau reports that Arizona lost 11,700 jobs from May to June and unemployment rose to 9.7 percent.", "We see news reports of immigrants leaving all the time, so jobs must be available.", "How can this be? The fact is, SB1070 is pushing out both the legal and the undocumented.", "They own businesses. They employ people.", "They pay taxes. They own homes. They spend money at stores owned by people who aren't leaving.", "Those businesses will lay off workers, reduce operations or close.", "That means fewer jobs, increased housing and commercial vacancies, depressed home values and foreclosures, and less sales, property and employment tax revenue for the state.", "We see it happening daily.", "Anyone paying attention could have seen this coming.", "Unfortunately, few really were.", "The rest were \"satisficed\" -- a combination of satisfied and sufficed that means settling on any solution rather than an optimal one -- that SB1070 would solve the problem, in glorious denial as to the real damage the bill is doing to Arizona.", "Has SB1070 solved any part of the problem?", "SB1070 doesn't secure the border and the unemployment figures don't indicate any improvement.", "It has created far more economic and social problems than it solves, but few proponents want to admit that.", "This is the result of not asking, \"Is there a better way?\"", "States considering mimicking SB1070 would be wise to heed warnings of adverse economic and social impacts.", "They would be wiser to question the \"facts\" SB1070 proponents trot out to support similar efforts.", "They would be wisest to say, \"What else have you got?\"", "Is there a better way?", "How about putting Ellis Island-type centers on the borders and channeling everyone looking for work through them?", "Employers, as in current law, would tell the government what type and how many jobs they need, ones that aren't being filled by domestic workers.", "Those jobs would be advertised on the internet, where interested immigrants and Americans can compete for them.", "Knowing the job demand, Congress could set market-based visa quotas that make sense.", "Instead of paying coyotes $2,500 to be smuggled into the United States, the job seekers would pay Uncle Sam to expedite the privilege.", "This takes billions out of the hands of smugglers and funds the solution to the problem.", "If 500,000 people are crossing into Arizona each year, this generates $1.25 billion to help cover the costs of building and operating these centers, with access to labor for business and better allocation of Border Patrol resources to finding drug smugglers.", "Read more about the proposal here.", "Arizonans have lived with political obsession and distortion on immigration for four years and my only suggestion to other states is: Don't follow our lead.", "Think of something else, because SB1070 isn't worth the economic and social trouble.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Todd Landfried." ]	[ "Todd Landfried: Nobody considered an alternative to Arizona's SB1070 .", "Kicking 300,000 out, loss of businesses could cost $29 billion annually, he writes .", "He says law has already created far more job, economic, social problems than it solves .", "Landfried proposes Ellis Island-type centers on the borders that channel job seekers into U.S." ]	[ 20, 39, 45 ]
[ "Durham, North Carolina (CNN) -- The earthquake of 2010 is not the first one of this magnitude in Chile's long, traumatic history.", "Almost 50 years ago, I was watching a soccer match in the National Stadium in Chile's capital when, seconds after a gigantic rumble from under the ground terrified the 60,000 fans attending the game, the mountains suddenly disappeared.", "I am not exaggerating: The stadium was rocked like a cradle and rose in the air, blotting out my view of the Andes, and then, fortunately for all of us, settled back to stability.", "We had just been through what is still considered, at 9.6 on the Richter scale, the greatest seismic activity ever recorded.", "We soon learned that the epicenter had been more than 400 miles south of Santiago and that the devastation was massive.", "On top of the quake itself, which had flattened towns and killed thousands, a tsunami had swept our coast, causing even more havoc.", "A few months later, when I traveled to that region, I saw for myself the masts of large sunken ships in the Valdivia River many miles inland, and the remains of colossal iron-smelting ovens in Corral that had been twisted beyond recognition by the rush of the invading waters.", "The human toll was unbearable.", "From the survivors, I heard of men, women, children heading for the hills and being sucked out to sea as if they were driftwood.", "I remember all this now so many decades later as I watch, this time from afar, this time from the safety of my home in the United States, yet another ruinous earthquake destroy my country.", "I remember el gran terremoto de 1960 to offer myself some sort of historical perspective on the recent earthquake, offer myself some trembling ground, so to speak, beneath my feet, as I try to come to terms with the possible meaning of what has just happened.", "It is obscene to compare cataclysms as if they were contestants in a horror show -- this one cost so many billions, that one cost so many lives -- and yet, to measure what has changed in Chile between these two major disasters in the intervening half century may help us to answer what is, after all, the most urgent question of the moment: What lies ahead?", "Chile is today a far more prosperous country than it was 50 years ago.", "Its economy is considered the most dynamic and advanced in all of Latin America -- even though still ravaged now by a grossly unfair distribution of income.", "This relative affluence of Chile (the GDP today is 15 times more than in 1960!)", "leaves us better equipped to deal with our current catastrophe, as we have human and scientific resources that we could scarcely have dreamt of back then, to the point that our wonderful outgoing president, Michele Bachelet, initially informed the international community that the country would not require foreign assistance (she has since modified that stance and aid from abroad is starting to arrive).", "Paradoxically, however, Chile's advances in technology, its abundance of material goods, its many highways and bypasses, its enormous fleet of planes and cars and high-rises, leaves much more of the land and many more of its citizens open to distress, and makes the economy more vulnerable.", "The richer you are, the harder your potential fall.", "The more roads you have, the more cracks in the pavement.", "This wealth, furthermore, has not been accumulated without severe social consequences.", "Back in 1960, the whole nation came together to rebuild the country.", "I spent the month after the earthquake, like many university students, collecting money, food, blankets and mattresses that were sent down to the south in caravans filled with enthusiastic volunteers.", "It was a lesson in solidarity that I have never forgotten -- those who were most deprived gave so much, cared so much, sacrificed so much for their wounded compatriots.", "If Chile is more opulent now, it has also become a more egocentric and individualistic society where, instead of a vision of social justice for all, the citizenry is, for the most part, engaged in a frenzied race toward ever more consumption and subject, of course, to the accompanying stress and anomie.", "Like all major misfortunes, the current tragedy of Chile can be seen as a test, a chance to ask ourselves who we really are, what really matters as we rebuild, not only our wrecked hospitals and broken roads and fractured bodies, but our damaged identity.", "I believe that the deepest wells of that solidarity and fellowship I witnessed when the earthquake of 1960 reduced my land to rubble is still inside most of the people of Chile, and will constitute the main source of our efforts to lift our country up from its desolation, the reason why we may be able to once again prevail, as so many times in the past, against the forces of blind nature.", "Fifty years ago, the people of Chile found a way to survive all that death and destruction and I can only hope that this time we can painfully, painstakingly, even joyfully, do it again.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ariel Dorfman." ]	[ "In 1960, an earthquake shook Chile, the most powerful one ever recorded .", "Ariel Dorfman recalls that the quake brought Chile's people together to rebuild .", "He says the society has become much more prosperous and individualistic .", "Dorfman says nation's \"deepest wells\" of solidarity, fellowship can help it rebuild again ." ]	[ 20, 23, 25, 27 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- A car bomb in the Russian republic of Dagestan killed a driver and injured a government official and his two bodyguards on Saturday, state-run news agencies said.", "Bekmurza Bekmurzayev -- Dagestan's minister of national policy, Information and external relations -- received minor, non life-threatening, injuries, Itar-Tass reported.", "Investigators said the victims were headed to work in two cars from the minister's apartment in Makhachkala, the region's capital, when a device at the bottom of one of the vehicles exploded seconds later and caused a fire.", "It wasn't clear which car Bekmurzayev was riding in.", "Bekmurzayev was targeted because of his work, Itar-Tass said.", "Similar attacks in 2003 and 2005 killed his two predecessors, Russia Today said.", "Moscow has been targeting terrorism in Dagestan and other regions of the Caucasus, such as Ingushetia and Chechnya.", "In recent years, Dagestan has faced ethnic friction, spillover from the discord in neighboring Chechnya and attacks on government officials by Islamists, the International Crisis Group said." ]	[ "Dagestan is in the turbulent Caucasus region .", "The minister suffered from minor injuries .", "Similar attacks killed his predecessors ." ]	[ 5, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Monkeys on cocaine.", "New windows for a closed visitor's center.", "Modern dance as a tool for software development.", "A report released Tuesday by conservative Sens.", "Tom Coburn and John McCain cited these and 97 other projects as leading examples of misguided or wasteful spending under the Obama administration's $862 billion economic stimulus bill.", "Titled \"Summertime Blues,\" the report is the third by the two senators targeting projects that they say fail to meet the job-creation goal of spending under the Recovery Act of 2009.", "The report highlights the extraordinary \"waste and mismanagement\" of taxpayer dollars, said McCain, R-Arizona.", "The stimulus plan \"was supposed to create jobs.", "It does not.\" The \"American people have awakened to the incompetency of Washington,\" declared Coburn, R-Oklahoma.", "\"The rest of the federal government is filled with stuff just like this.\"", "Both senators conceded that the stimulus plan has had some positive effect on the economy, but insisted any benefit was due solely to the sheer size of the package, and that its effectiveness had been blunted due its poor design and spending choices.", "Coburn complained the measure was full of projects that are \"stupid or inappropriate,\" and fail to meet \"the common sense test.\"", "The plan failed to give \"us the biggest bang for our buck,\" he asserted.", "The Recovery Act, which was passed a few weeks after President Barack Obama took office, was a government-funded effort to kick-start economic activity in response to the ongoing recession.", "It called for \"shovel-ready\" jobs -- from road and bridge repair and construction to scientific research and expanded broadband and wireless service -- through federal contracts, grants and loans, as well as helping state and local governments avoid layoffs and funding tax cuts.", "The senators' report challenged the viability or effectiveness of specific projects across the country.", "However, the report's use of selected information from hundreds of footnoted sources left it unclear if the brief summaries of each project told the whole story.", "In a previous report last January, the senators included the Napa Valley Wine Train as an example of wasteful stimulus spending without mentioning that the money was for a flood control project along the train's route, rather than the train itself.", "The latest edition covered a broad range of projects including construction, research, development and conservation.", "Topping the list was $554,763 spent for new windows at the Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center at Mount St. Helens in Washington state.", "The U.S. Forest Service facility opened in 1993 at a cost of $11.5 million to provide visitors with panoramic views of the scenic volcano.", "However, it closed in 2007 due to staffing shortages, and now is getting the stimulus funds to replace its trademark windows in preparation for use for another purpose, according to information provided by the Forest Service.", "\"One government official likened it to 'keeping a vacant house in good repair,' while another official noted that there is hope to find some purpose for the building in the future, whether as a hotel, science camp or restaurant,\" the report said, attributing the information to a July 2009 article on tdn.com, a local news website.", "\"Despite those efforts, there are no plans to use the empty space.\"", "The Forest Service information provided no timetable for the possible reopening of the visitors' center for another purpose.", "\"The Forest Service is now reviewing several proposals for how the facility could be used in the future through a variety of public-private partnerships, including a science facility, education camp, or an overnight lodge,\" the Forest Service document said.", "Ranked second on the senators' list was a University of North Carolina at Charlotte project that received $762,372 in stimulus finds to develop a computerized choreography program, the report said.", "Quoting a July 6 story posted on the Charlotte-based news website WCNC.com, the report said the project involves recording dancers on video, then logging and analyzing their movements.", "\"This will allow choreographers to explore the interactive dance without always having a full cast of dancers present,\" said the grant posted on the government's stimulus bill website, recovery.gov.", "\"The system will be extended into a Web-based 'Dance Tube' application that will allow the public to engage in interactive dance choreography,\" the grant goes on to say.", "However, the senators' report initially failed to state the money was spread over three years.", "Again citing the WCNC.com story, it also initially said lead researcher Celine Latulipe \"noted that her funding was severely restricted by the fact that the university is taking a 44 percent cut to cover 'overhead' expenses.\"", "In reality the website story said: \"The money is spread over three years and Latulipe points out the university takes 44 percent overhead.\"", "After the discrepancy was pointed out by CNN, the report was changed, an aide to Coburn said.", "In an interview with CNN, Latulipe said the project fit the kind of research and development work called for by the Recovery Act.", "Through its application and further development, it could lead to audiences having an impact on performance by registering their reaction through handheld audience response devices, Latulipe said.", "\"We'll need to develop a bunch of different software packages that never existed before,\" she said, adding that project employs three students part-time over its three-year span and pays for dancers and other participants in what amounts to direct economic activity.", "\"I think it's sad that this research money that is really allowing innovation and funding students doing great research is being used as a political tool,\" Latulipe said.", "Then there is the project listed at No.", "28 by the senators -- $71,623 to researchers at Wake Forest University to see how monkeys react under the effects of cocaine.", "Titled \"Effect of Cocaine Self-Administration on Metabotropic Glutamate Systems,\" the project calls for monkeys to self-administer drugs while researchers monitor and study their glutamate levels, the report said.", "It cited a March 8 Raleigh News and Observer article that quoted Wake Forest University School of Medicine spokesman Mark Wright as saying the stimulus money would allow the university to continue a job that otherwise might have been cut.", "Paula Faria, assistant vice president for media relations at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said the grant will \"have significant impact on public health in regards to cocaine addiction and the issue of relapse.\"", "\"It's also important to note that the applications for these grants are peer reviewed and this study was deemed of merit by a panel of scientific experts, and then reviewed by the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse before funds were awarded,\" Faria said in a statement to CNN.", "Liz Oxhorn, the White House spokesperson for the Recovery Act, called the senators' report a partisan effort intended to undermine the overall success of the Recovery Act.", "According to Oxhorn, new research shows stimulus money is responsible for nearly 3 million jobs and has lowered unemployment by 1.5 percent.", "\"We'll look into each of their claims and take action if any have merit, but with more than 70,000 Recovery Act projects underway, any misguided project is just a small fraction of tens of thousands coast to coast that are rebuilding America and putting people to work,\" Oxhorn said.", "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Tuesday dismissed the GOP report as \"political,\" and said it lacked credibility.", "CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ." ]	[ "McCain says the report highlights \"waste and mismanagement\"\nA new report by two Republican senators criticizes stimulus projects .", "The report says the cited projects fail to deliver what the Recovery Act promised .", "The White House responds that the bill is working as planned ." ]	[ 5, 6, 44 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The Army's inspector general has completed an initial review into the circumstances surrounding comments by former Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff that appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins told CNN.", "The interview resulted in President Barack Obama firing the general, who was in charge of military operations in Afghanistan.", "The Army's portion of the investigation is complete, Collins said, and the results have been forwarded to the inspector general for the Defense Department.", "Although Collins would not comment, typically when a report is sent for a higher-level review by the Defense Department it is an indication that people from other services or civilians may be cited for wrongdoing.", "Usually, inspector general reports that conclude there has been wrongdoing turn that information over to whichever part of the military has jurisdiction over the individuals involved.", "Collins emphasized that \"there is no indication of any pending actions against Gen. McChrystal.\"" ]	[ "Report is sent to the Defense Department's inspector general .", "Sending the report to a higher level could indicate others will be cited .", "McChrystal lost his job after he and staff members made comments to Rolling Stone ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A federal district court has dismissed a challenge filed by a Tucson police officer against Arizona's tough new immigration law.", "U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton said Tuesday that Tucson officer Martin Escobar lacks the legal standing to sue, according to court documents.", "Escobar's lawsuit was one of several against Arizona's controversial immigration law.", "The Justice Department mounted a successful challenge to Arizona's law in July.", "On the eve of the law going into effect, Bolton granted a preliminary injunction that blocked the most controversial parts of the law.", "The injunction means police are prevented from questioning people's immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in the country illegally, which was a hotly debated part of law.", "Bolton also blocked provisions of the law making it a crime to fail to apply for or carry alien registration papers or \"for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work,\" and a provision \"authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person\" if there is reason to believe that person might be subject to deportation.", "Other parts of the law, however, went into effect.", "This includes a ban on so-called sanctuary cities and the criminalization of hiring day laborers who are in the country illegally.", "Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer has appealed the judge's decision to side with the Justice Department in its challenge of the immigration law.", "She said she was pleased with the judge's decision in the case involving the Tucson officer.", "\"I strongly believe that Arizona will ultimately prevail in all of these legal challenges.", "My defense of the rule of law will continue,\" Brewer said." ]	[ "Justice Department challenges the law .", "Judge says Tucson officer does not have legal standing to sue .", "Arizona governor says she is pleased by judge's decision ." ]	[ 1, 3, 11 ]
[ "Paris, France (CNN) -- French police raided the Paris home of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt on Wednesday, a local prosecutor told CNN.", "Investigators have been looking into Bettencourt's finances for weeks after allegations of secret, possibly illegal payments to French politicians, including President Nicolas Sarkozy.", "The lawyer for Bettencourt, reported to be France's richest woman, asked the court last month to stop the retrieval of additional information on his client.", "A decision on his request is due in two weeks.", "Bettencourt is at the center of several ongoing cases, including the one involving the alleged payments to politicians.", "Her former bookkeeper, Claire Thibout, told police she received envelopes of cash that were to be given to Sarkozy and French Labor Minister Eric Woerth, who previously worked in the Budget Ministry and was in charge of reforms to France's retirement system.", "Thibout said she withdrew the sums of money at the request of Bettencourt's financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre.", "Police have questioned de Maistre several times about the allegations, which Sarkozy and Woerth have both denied.", "The alleged payments came to light in secret recordings, purportedly made by Bettencourt's butler and revealed this summer, that also refer to a Bettencourt bank account in Switzerland containing 80 million euros ($98.3 million) which had not been reported on her taxes.", "At the same time, Bettencourt's daughter went to court in June accusing a photographer of bilking her mother out of a billion euros.", "Bettencourt was friends with the photographer, Francois-Marie Banier, and allegedly gave him the money.", "The daughter, however, claims her mother is not mentally competent to handle her own affairs and took the case to court to recover the funds.", "Bettencourt has since cut Banier out of her will, her lawyer, Georges Kiejman, told CNN on Wednesday.", "Banier had been the sole heir to Bettencourt's fortune, and no one has been added to the will in his place, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Kiejman.", "CNN's Sarah Goddard contributed to this report." ]	[ "Liliane Bettencourt is at the center of several ongoing cases .", "She is reported to be France's richest woman .", "One case involves alleged secret payments to politicians ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- An American's cartoon showing the eagle in the Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood is drawing criticism.", "The sketch created by political cartoonist Daryl Cagle depicts the green, white, and red Mexican flag with a bullet-riddled eagle sprawled in the center of the emblem.", "Mexico's coat of arms includes the eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a snake.", "Cagle says he created the cartoon to depict the violence rampant in parts of Mexico.", "\"Editorial cartoonists look for readily recognizable metaphors and that's an obvious one for Mexico,\" says Cagle.", "More than 28,000 people have died in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón declared war on drug cartels after taking office in December 2006.", "But the cartoon has offended many Mexicans who feel their national symbol is off limits, especially to foreign cartoonists.", "Many readers reacted angrily when the cartoon was displayed on the front page of newspapers.", "\"It is a shame that a patriotic symbol like our flag, which is so beautiful to me, can be mocked by a stupid cartoonist,\" wrote a reader to the Mexico City newspaper El Universal.", "\"I think there are many other ways to graphically protest what's happening in our country.\"", "Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said that \"as any democratic society, Mexico respects and defends freedom of speech and freedom of expression, in any way it's manifested.", "Regarding the case of Mr. Cagle's cartoon, we differ on the use he makes of the Mexican flag and the message it conveys.\"", "Mexican cartoonist Paco Calderón reprinted Cagle's cartoon on the Reforma newspaper, adding his own comment.", "\"I'm not offended by the cartoon.", "I'm offended by reality and the huarache-wearing Taliban members,\" he said.", "Huarache is a type of a Mexican sandal and Calderón was using the reference to talk about members of the seven drug cartels terrorizing Mexico.", "Even President Felipe Calderón admits the situation in his country is dire.", "\"As we all know, we face unscrupulous criminals with enormous economic capacity and great firepower,\" said the president in his fourth state-of-the-nation speech Thursday.", "\"I am fully aware that in the past year the problem of violence has risen.\"", "Cagle admits he's somewhat surprised by the reaction to his cartoon.", "\"This one has been a little unusual in that it has been splashed all over the press in Mexico and I've been hearing quite a lot about it,\" he says.", "Cagle, who is the editorial cartoonist for msnbc.com, says his work appears in 850 subscribing newspapers around the world.", "\"All I was looking to here is make a statement that the violent in Mexico is terrible and make it visually compelling.\"", "In 2008, Mexican pop sensation Paulina Rubio was fined more than $4,000 after posing nude wrapped in the flag for Cosmpolitan, a Spanish magazine." ]	[ "Cartoon depicts eagle in Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood .", "American Daryl Cagle created the controversial cartoon .", "Many Mexicans think it is mocking their country, which is beset by violence ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An al Qaeda-linked militant movement has taken control of a radio station in Somalia's capital, the government announced Saturday.", "The weak central government claims the group is spreading propaganda from at least two radio stations, including Mogadishu's Holy Quran radio, a private FM station, which it took earlier this week.", "Al-Shabaab earlier this year looted private radio equipment to use in a station, the government said.", "\"We strongly condemn these acts.", "They want to silence the independent media with brutality and intolerance,\" said .", "Abdirahman Omar Osman, Somalia's minister of information.", "Al-Shabaab, which has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda, controls much of southern Somalia and portions of Mogadishu.", "It follows the strict Saudi Arabian-inspired Wahabi interpretation of Islam, rather than the Sufi Islam of many Somalis.", "\"Somalis in remote areas are not educated in the detail of Islam,\" the transitional government said in a statement.", "\"They are vulnerable to radicalization and Al-Shabaab is intent on using radio as a means to impose their views and extreme interpretation of our faith and to brainwash the young men, women and children, especially in rural areas, where the number of educated people is limited.", "\"This is a serious issue as we see that the recent forced recruitment of young men and boys is occurring outside the capital Mogadishu.\"", "The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemned the takeover of Holy Quran Radio as a \"blatant crime.\"", "In a statement issued earlier this week, al-Shabaab said all radio equipment belonged to Somali Muslims and that listeners in the capital will enjoy religious programs and other coverage.", "Journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report." ]	[ "Militant Islamic group controls radio stations .", "Government says al-Shabaab is spreading propaganda .", "It also says militants are recruiting young men, boys ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The rape case involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being reopened, Swedish prosecutors said Wednesday.", "\"There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed,\" read a statement from Marianne Ny, Sweden's director of public prosecutions.", "\"Considering information available at present, my judgment is that the classification of the crime is rape.\"", "She said more investigation is necessary before she can make a final decision.", "An ongoing investigation about a separate charge of molestation will be extended, she added, but the charge will also be escalated to include a sexual component.", "The molestation charge was previously equivalent to a non-sexual charge of harassment, but it will now come under the heading of sexual coercion and sexual molestation, which are both crimes, she said.", "Assange's lawyer, Leif Silbersky, said he and his client were \"very surprised\" at the decisions.", "\"It's unbelievable,\" he told CNN.", "\"We thought that this circus had ended.", "Now it's happening all over again.\" Prosecutors questioned Assange for about an hour on Monday, though only about the complaint of molestation, Silbersky told CNN.", "He said police never mentioned the rape allegation during that questioning.", "\"He maintains that he is completely innocent,\" Silbersky said.", "Silbersky said he has not been shown anything about the rape allegation and is not sure what the next step is.", "Swedish authorities arrested Assange \"in absentia\" last month on charges of rape and molestation.", "The chief prosecutor later revoked the arrest warrant and dropped the rape charge.", "The charges came from two separate women.", "The lawyer for both women appealed, asking for the rape charge to be reinstated and the molestation charge to be upgraded to include a sexual component.", "Before he was questioned, Assange told CNN he had no idea what the case was about.", "Assange told the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera August 22 the accusations are \"clearly a smear campaign.\"", "The only question, he said, is who is behind it.", "The allegations follow WikiLeaks' release last month of 76,000 pages of U.S. documents related to the war in Afghanistan.", "U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has criticized the leak, saying it would have a significant negative impact on troops and allies, revealing techniques and procedures.", "Assange has defended the leak, saying it can help shape the public's understanding of the war.", "He said the material was of no operational significance and that WikiLeaks tried to ensure the material did not put innocent people at risk.", "The attorney for the alleged victims has told CNN that rumors of possible Pentagon or CIA involvement in the sex crime accusations against Assange are \"complete nonsense.\"", "CNN's Atika Shubert in Amsterdam, Netherlands, contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Assange's lawyer says he is 'very surprised' at the 'unbelieveable' decision .", "Prosecutors are reopening the rape case involving the WikiLeaks founder .", "They say 'there is reason to believe that a crime has been committed'" ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A new anti-crime technology has reached downtown Washington -- but so far, it's getting a mixed reception.", "A device called the Mosquito, which makes a high-pitched noise aimed at driving away young loiterers, has been installed near a Metro entrance just down the block from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.", "\"I thought it was really annoying,\" said a passerby named Conrad, during a break in the noise.", "\"It gave me a headache.\"", "Some pedestrians looked around bewildered until they found the source of the noise, which sounds like an electronic beeping; but most people who walked by showed no reaction at all.", "The Mosquito's sound has to compete with the everyday urban cacophony of traffic, the Metro, and a couple of video billboards pitching ads.", "The building's management company, Transwestern, says the new device was installed in the past few weeks in response to loiterers.", "The area is a popular strip at night, but a month ago, police say, a fight that began at the Gallery Place Metro station around 11 p.m. grew to a brawl involving 50 or 60 teenagers and young adults.", "Five people were hospitalized with injuries.", "A local youth advocate is critical of the device.", "\"This isn't the best solution,\" said Judith Sandalow, whose Children's Law Center is just down the block.", "\"We need to have better programs for youth, we need to engage them in activities.\"", "Transwestern issued a statement saying its goal is to ensure \"a pleasant and fulfilling experience to each visitor.\"", "But Conrad, who declined to give his last name as he passed by, said the cure might be worse than the disease.", "\"I probably wouldn't shop at any of these shops if I heard it again.", "It doesn't just target the people who are causing the problems.\"", "Another passerby, who said he was 15, told CNN, \"I think we should be able to hang out where you want, as long as it's not rambunctious or disruptive.\"", "Mike Gibson, whose company is the distributor for the Mosquito, said the device is particularly effective on youths ages 13 to 25, because that is the age at which humans can hear the highest pitches.", "\"When a youth hears the sound, they find it extremely annoying and will leave the area in a few minutes,\" he said.", "\"The sound is benign, will not harm anyone, and is very effective in moving loiterers from an area.\"", "But Transwestern said it has set its Mosquito at a pitch that can be heard by all ages, not one that targets teenagers in particular.", "For anyone curious about whether their ears can hear the noise, there are samples of the sound at various pitches on the company's website, http://www.movingsoundtech.com." ]	[ "A noisemaker installed near a Metro entrance aims to keep people moving .", "It was put in place after a late-night brawl, the building management company says .", "While the device is aimed at youths, this one is set for all ages, the company says .", "One passer-by said it might deter him from shopping at nearby stores ." ]	[ 1, 3, 6, 17, 20 ]
[ "Naoma, West Virginia (CNN) -- Recovery crews worked in a West Virginia coal mine Monday, hoping to bring out by late afternoon the last nine bodies remaining there out of the 29 miners who died in an explosion a week ago, officials said.", "Authorities redirected airflow in the mine to decrease methane levels that had impeded recovery efforts on Sunday, said Jama Jarrett, spokeswoman for the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.", "Thirteen bodies were removed Sunday, and rescue teams re-entered the mine around midnight.", "Officials predicted the remaining nine bodies would be removed by 4 or 5 p.m. Monday, Jarrett said.", "While a state and federal investigation began immediately after the blast at the Upper Big Branch South Mine, officials cannot fully study conditions inside the mine until the bodies are removed, said Jimmy Gianato, West Virginia director of homeland security.", "The U.S. flag will be lowered to half-staff at all federal buildings in West Virginia for a week to honor the miners, according to a proclamation signed Monday by President Obama.", "Hours after rescue efforts at the mine turned into a recovery operation Saturday, Obama urged a thorough investigation into the cause of the explosion, saying, \"We cannot bring back the men we lost.", "What we can do, in their memory, is thoroughly investigate this tragedy and demand accountability.\"", "Crews on Saturday found the bodies of the last four miners who were unaccounted for after the blast.", "The death toll previously had stood at 25.", "The mining disaster was the worst in the United States since 1972, when 91 miners died in a fire at the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho.", "West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in an audio message released Sunday, offered prayers for those affected by the explosion and the families of the dead, and praised the perseverance of the rescue workers.", "\"You have our deepest sympathies, our deepest support,\" Rockefeller said, \"and please know that all of us grieve for your loss.\"", "Obama plans to meet with Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and a Mine Safety and Health Administration official to hear their initial assessment of what caused the blast, along with their recommendations for steps the federal government should take to improve safety.", "Richmond, Virginia-based Massey Energy Co., which owns the mine, said in a statement released Friday that it will conduct \"extensive\" reviews of the mine accident \"to ensure that a similar incident doesn't happen again.\"", "Some have pointed to Massey's safety record in the wake of the blast.", "But the company said the mine has had less than one violation per day in inspections by MSHA and added the rate is \"consistent with national averages.\"", "Most of the blast victims were working in an area where long-wall cutting was taking place.", "The technique uses a large grinder to extract the coal and creates large amounts of coal dust and methane gas, both of which are explosive.", "West Virginia Gov.", "Joe Manchin said Saturday that even though the cause of the explosion is unclear, there needs to be a focus on better ventilation and on sensors to alert mine personnel when gas levels become dangerous.", "\"We are going to get to the bottom of this, because families should never have to pray, as they send their loved ones to work every day, that those loved ones will in fact return,\" Rockefeller said Sunday.", "\"Our heroic coal miners have lost too many brothers and too many sisters, and now we must stop all of this.\"", "CNN's Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Officials hope to have all bodies removed by late afternoon Monday .", "Nine bodies remain in West Virginia coal mine after 13 removed on Sunday .", "Explosion has prompted renewed questions about mine safety .", "President Obama to meet with safety officials over cause of the mine explosion ." ]	[ 0, 2, 15 ]
[ "(Rolling Stone) -- In February, when Ben Harper, Joseph Arthur and Dhani Harrison arrived at the Carriage House studio in Los Angeles' Silverlake neighborhood, they had three days booked and zero songs to record.", "\"I thought I was going there to add some guitars or harmonies on Joseph's album,\" says Harrison, who was invited to the session by Harper, whom he befriended at a skate park in Santa Monica.", "\"When I got to the studio, I saw Joe and asked, 'What songs are we going to do?'", "He said we hadn't written them yet.\"", "After three long days, the trio had recorded the nine acoustic tracks that make up \"As I Call You Down\" -- and called themselves Fistful of Mercy, after the track of the same name.", "\"I never thought we'd pull off an entire album, [I thought] maybe we'd get an EP,\" says Harper, who credits Arthur as the catalyst who pushed for three songs a day.", "\"The three of us were able to create something we never could have done on our own.\"", "With three acoustic guitars and three microphones, the team worked out musical arrangements, and then retreated to different corners of the studio to write.", "\"We were each others' lyric police,\" says Arthur.", "(\"It was very 'Wilbury' style,\" says Harrison, whose late father George was a member of the Travelin' Wilburys.)", "Many times, Harrison threw out lyrical themes for inspiration.", "\"Things Go 'Round\" is a throwback to John Lennon's \"Instant Karma,\" imagining a world where people are immediately accountable for their actions.", "When Harrison called for a blues number, the trio quickly drafted \"My Father's Son.\"", "Says Arthur: \"It's really about the three of our voices, and the harmonies.", "We're basically singing together the whole time.\"", "With nine acoustic and vocal tracks completed, Harrison was determined to ratchet the music up to another level.", "He instinctively called the legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, an old family friend.", "\"I'd never done anything that I thought was worthy of calling Jim,\" says Harrison.", "\"We had an emotional conversation on the phone, and he heard some of the stuff we'd done, and he said he'd do it.\"", "Keltner overdubbed percussion, Arthur added bass, and Harper (who calls Keltner the \"Dalai Lama of the drums\") added some slide guitar.", "\"These guys are so talented,\" says Harrison of his bandmates, who will all hit the road together in October.", "\"I can't believe I get to call them my musical brothers.\"", "Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone." ]	[ "They call themselves Fistful of Mercy, after the track of the same name .", "The trio had recorded the nine acoustic tracks that make up \"As I Call You Down\"\nThe band will hit the road together in October ." ]	[ 4, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The gunman who held three people hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters was once convicted of smuggling an illegal immigrant into the country from Mexico.", "In 2003, James Lee, pleaded guilty to smuggling a woman from Tijuana, according to documents from a California federal court.", "He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the crime.", "In court documents, Lee admitted to smuggling immigrants at least three times and being paid for it.", "This revelation comes in stark contrast to the manifesto Lee left where he railed against immigrants.", "Lee was killed by police Wednesday after the attacker held three people hostage for hours in the Discovery Channel offices in Silver Spring, Maryland.", "Lee was linked to a manifesto that was posted on the Internet, a source close to the investigation told CNN.", "The writer blasted immigration, farming, weapons of mass destruction, automotive pollution \"and the whole blasted human economy.\"", "On immigration, he said: \"Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that.", "Find solutions to stopping it,\" the statement said.", "The hostages were unharmed in the Wednesday incident.", "Police on Thursday said that Lee had two starter pistols that he used during the standoff, and not handguns as previously thought.", "Montgomery County Fire Chief Richard Bowers said that authorities recovered four devices from the scene, and an additional four devices from a residence.", "He described the objects only as \"devices,\" and said that they were rendered safe and detonated." ]	[ "In 2003, James Lee, pleaded guilty to smuggling a woman from Mexico .", "This revelation is a stark contrast to his manifesto railing against immigrants .", "Police killed Lee Wednesday; the hostages were unharmed ." ]	[ 1, 4, 10 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The judge declared a mistrial in the sham marriage trial of Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero on Friday after jurors said they were deadlocked with no hope of agreeing.", "The U.S. Attorney's office did not immediately say if the case will be retried, but the judge set a hearing for January to discuss the case.", "A defense lawyer said the Romero was disappointed that the prosecution of her may continue.", "It was a trial filled with so many twists and turns that the judge compared it to a soap opera.", "Most of the 12 jurors individually told the judge on Thursday that they could not reach a verdict unless he replaced a \"hostile\" member of the jury.", "The juror was kept on the panel.", "\"It would be extremely difficult,\" one male juror told the judge.", "U.S. District Judge Manuel Real decided not to remove the woman and instead ordered jurors to keep trying.", "Ultimately, they could not decide if Romero married Kent Ross, a pizza delivery man and musician, for love or for a U.S. work visa.", "Jurors heard the tearful testimony of the actress proclaiming love for her husband, along with evidence she engaged in a romance with a photographer less than a year after her wedding.", "The prosecutor argued Romero paid Ross $5,000 to be her husband in June 2005 so she could get a U.S. work visa.", "\"Why would anybody have to be paid to marry her?\"", "asked defense lawyer Michael Nasatir, pointing to the beautiful actress-singer-model.", "Romero and Ross were both 23 when they had a Los Angeles wedding.", "Only the bride's mother and a handful of others attended, but Romero said a larger wedding was impossible because he is a Mormon and she's a devout Catholic.", "There was no honeymoon, which Special Assistant U.S. Attorney James Left argued was evidence of a sham marriage.", "\"You'd figure they could go somewhere, Palm Springs, San Diego,\" Left said during closing arguments Wednesday.", "They did have pictures together, which the prosecution suggested were staged to present to immigration officials who would decide on her green card.", "When immigration agents conducted a surprise \"bed check\" at Romero's Los Angeles apartment in October 2007 they found her, but not him.", "They found Ross at a Hollywood apartment, they testified.", "Romero testified that she really loved Ross when they got married and she intended to build a life with him.", "The first months were \"very loving, fun,\" she said.", "\"We socialized together, passionate.", "It was the honeymoon stage,\" she said.", "But his drinking and late night cavorting split them just seven months after their wedding, she said.", "\"We started to fight a lot, sweat a lot, throw things.", "It was not healthy,\" Romero said.", "Her defense lawyer argued jurors only have to conclude that the marriage was real when it began.", "\"There are all kinds of marriages,\" Nasatir said.", "\"No one else knows if people are in love.\"", "The case is unusual because marriage fraud charges are usually litigated by immigration authorities rather than prosecuted as criminal cases.", "Judge Real blocked the defense from using much of the evidence they said would show it was only investigated because Romero was turned in by a vengeful photographer angry that she rebuffed his romantic advances.", "She met Markus Klinko at a Hollywood casting call about the same time her marriage was \"on the rocks,\" she said.", "Klinko, a 49-year-old Swiss native, is the star of his own reality TV show -- Bravo's \"Double Exposure.\"", "Romero said the relationship initially was \"professional and creative,\" but she eventually engaged in a \"short affair\" with Klinko as he helped with her modeling career.", "\"I felt very pressured and I was vulnerable,\" Romero said as she cried.", "\"It was the biggest mistake I've done in my life.\"", "Her friendship with Klinko turned into a nightmare when she decided to end the affair, she said.", "\"Mr. Klinko wanted more and more and he knew I wasn't able to give it to him,\" she said.", "Klinko threatened to turn her in to immigration officials, she said.", "\"He was losing it, he was very psycho,\" Romero said.", "\"I was very scared, because he wouldn't stop.\"", "The federal complaint against Romero said the immigration investigation began after agents were given evidence gathered by a private detective hired by Klinko.", "When Klinko testified for the prosecution last week, he said it was \"completely incorrect\" that his motivation was to get Romero deported.", "Instead, the investigator was gathering evidence to be used in a lawsuit against Michael Ball, the founder and owner of the Rock & Republic fashion company, Klinko said.", "The criminal complaint named Ball as a target of the federal investigation, alleging that he helped arrange the sham marriage while Romero was modeling for his company.", "Klinko said his lawyer turned the evidence over to the government only because he feared Klinko might be extorted by Ball.", "\"My case has never been against Fernanda,\" Klinko said after his testimony.", "\"I wish her the best.\" They could get between 15 and 21 months in prison if convicted, though such cases usually produce shorter sentences, according to the prosecutor.", "Romero's show business career began in Mexico at age 16 when she joined the ensemble Frizzby, her Internet Movie Database biography says.", "The group toured Mexico and Central America, releasing two top-10 singles, it says.", "She started hosting television shows and appearing on commercials in Mexico when she was 18, it says.", "Romero has appeared in print and TV ad campaigns for Rock and Republic, Clean and Clear, Pepsi, Apple and JC Penney, it says.", "\"She was cast in Telemundo's original production 'Wounded Soul,' where she was not only a lead actress, but also a lead singer, performing two songs in the soap opera's soundtrack,\" her online biography says." ]	[ "NEW: Judge in Los Angeles declares a mistrial .", "Most jurors said it was impossible to reach a verdict with a \"hostile\" juror .", "The judge decided not to replace that juror .", "Actress Fernanda Romero allegedly paid man to marry her for a green card ." ]	[ 0, 4, 11, 26, 37 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Prosecutors in Clark County, Nevada, filed a felony charge against Paris Hilton on Monday stemming from her arrest over the weekend on suspicion of cocaine possession.", "Hilton was charged with possession of a controlled substance.", "She is set to be arraigned October 27 in Clark County District Court, according to courthouse spokeswoman Jillian Prieto.", "The hotel heiress, 29, was arrested late Friday.", "Police pulled alongside a Cadillac Escalade in which Hilton was a passenger about 11:30 p.m. and smelled \"a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle,\" according to the arrest report.", "When the officer looked over, \"the female passenger started to put the window of the vehicle up,\" the report said.", "Police told the driver of the Cadillac to pull over, which he did, in front of the Wynn Hotel.", "The driver, whom police identified as Cy Waits, 34, was arrested for driving under the influence after he failed field sobriety tests, the report said.", "Waits is a Las Vegas nightclub mogul and Hilton's rumored boyfriend.", "Authorities immediately recognized Hilton as the passenger, the arrest report said, but police did not want to release the vehicle to her following Waits' arrest because of the continuing investigation and also because of the strong odor of marijuana emanating from the SUV.", "A large crowd began to gather at the side of the vehicle as people realized Hilton was inside, the report said.", "The police lieutenant who wrote the report, identified as D. Flynn, said he approached the vehicle and told Hilton she needed to get out, as police were going to search it for drugs.", "\"Hilton told me that she was extremely embarrassed, due to all the people taking pictures of her, and she did not want to be seen by them,\" the report said.", "She said she wanted to stay and see what was going to happen to Waits, but also needed to use the bathroom.", "She asked Flynn if he would escort her inside the Wynn Hotel to protect her from the crowd \"and also asked to go somewhere private and out of the public's eye until the investigation was over.\"", "Flynn wrote that he took Hilton inside, and hotel staffers directed them to the security holding room, which was private and had a nearby restroom.", "The officer had Hilton place her purse on the table while the two awaited a female officer to accompany her to the restroom.", "\"While we were waiting for the female officer to arrive, Hilton said she needed to put some lip balm on, and I handed her the purse from the table,\" the report said.", "As she opened it, a bundle of what looked like cocaine in a plastic bag fell from the purse, and the lieutenant caught it.", "The officer put the bundle back insde the purse, waiting for other officers to witness it, he wrote.", "When other officers arrived, Flynn wrote that he opened the purse, removed the suspected bundle and read Hilton her Miranda rights.", "\"She told me the purse was not hers, and that she had borrowed it from a friend,\" the report said.", "However, Hilton did admit that a broken tablet of Albuterol, also found inside the purse, was hers and was prescribed to her, according to the report.", "Albuterol is commonly prescribed for diseases such as asthma.", "Hilton said several cosmetics inside the purse were not hers, but that $1,300 cash and credit cards in the purse were hers, the report said.", "She also said a package of Zig Zag papers, \"which are commonly used to roll and smoke marijuana,\" according to the report, were hers.", "\"I asked Hilton whose cocaine it was, and she said she had not seen it but now thought it was gum,\" according to the arrest report.", "Authorities placed her under arrest and transported her to the Clark County Detention Center, the report said.", "The substance was tested and confirmed to be 0.8 grams of cocaine.", "Hilton was released from jail Saturday morning after authorities determined she was not a flight risk, Lt. Wayne Holman told CNN.", "\"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 Saturday.", "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.", "In Session's Carol Gantt contributed to this report." ]	[ "Cocaine fell out of Hilton's purse as she was looking for lip balm, police say .", "She said the purse wasn't hers, but some items in it were .", "Hilton is set to appear in court October 27 ." ]	[ 2, 17, 18, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Four years ago, Nintendo's gesture-tracking Wii system proved the power of motion controls to extend the mainstream appeal of video games.", "Now Microsoft and Sony are readying their own motion-sensing solutions.", "But will these user interfaces be novel enough to move gaming fans en masse?", "Launching September 17, ($99.99 starter bundle) the wand-like PlayStation Move claims to offer greater precision than the Wii remote when translating gamers' physical movements into on-screen actions.", "Debuting November 4, Microsoft's Kinect system ($149.99 starter bundle), employs a 3-D camera that makes your body the controller and eliminates the need for handheld hardware.", "Each aims to broaden the appeal of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively.", "But despite their high price tags (roughly $300-$400 total, including accessories), both are betting their chips on their appeal to casual gamers.", "Initial software offerings clearly reflect this sentiment, with a range of virtual pets, mini-game collections and sports-themed games.", "It seems a strange fit, because their steep costs are likely to limit early sales largely to current system owners -- most of whom are die-hard gamers.", "Sony hopes to bridge the gap by supporting traditional games, ranging from military shooter \"SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals\" to colorful platform-hopper \"LittleBigPlanet 2.\"", "For now, Microsoft is mostly leaving third-party publishers such as Sega and UbiSoft to fight this battle instead.", "On the bright side, both Move and Kinect deliver on user friendliness and accessibility in hands-on tests.", "But neither seems to offer any must-have titles or even anything that expands greatly on previously explored Wii game concepts, making it difficult to justify the upgrade.", "Early game offerings hint at the hardware's grand possibilities.", "But with few reasons for shoppers to buy, beyond first-adopter bragging rights, there's also little incentive for software makers to raise the bar.", "Developers need time to gauge these units' capabilities and come to grips with the vast differences between developing for 2-D and 3-D playing fields.", "As a result, we'll likely see games which offer only passing glimpses of these gizmos' potential for the next several months.", "One also has to wonder why sales of the Wii and supporting game software are finally slowing.", "Is consumer interest in motion-controlled gaming cooling?", "Is the novelty of gesture-tracking fading as developers struggle to invent novel applications?", "Or does everyone who wants a Wii already own one?", "Some observers even question whether exhausting yourself flailing around with so-called \"active\" games is really preferable to issuing commands by pressing buttons -- as evidenced by the thousands of Wii Balance Boards gathering dust in people's closets.", "Of this fall's two big new offerings, it's Kinect that appears to offer the most potential -- but, curiously, not for its gaming features.", "Microsoft's system also supports living-room videoconferencing and lets you browse menus and multimedia with spoken commands or a wave of the hand, which seems like a natural way to make everyday electronics more accessible to people.", "So it's too early in the game to predict how either Move or Kinect will fare.", "But there's still reason to be thankful for both.", "By delaying the release of new PlayStation or Xbox consoles, they're sparing us the cost and headaches of replacing our current hardware." ]	[ "Microsoft and Sony are releasing motion-sensing gaming systems this fall .", "The Wii proved motion controls' power to extend video games' mainstream appeal .", "Despite systems' high price tags, both companies counting on appeal to casual enthusiasts ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere because of heightened security risks related to drug violence.", "The order is the first of its kind in any Mexican city, said Brian Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey, adding it reflects an increasingly violent and insecure reality.", "Monterrey is located in northern Mexico.", "The travel warning was issued after an August 20 shooting in front of the American Foundation School in Monterrey, said the State Department.", "The high incidence of area kidnappings was also cited as a motive behind the move.", "\"U.S. government personnel from the Consulate General in Monterrey have been advised that the immediate, practical and reliable way to reduce the security risks for children of U.S. government personnel is to remove them from the city,\" the State Department said in a statement.", "The new rule will take effect on September 10 and affect roughly 25 families, Quigley said.", "In a separate message, also issued on Friday, the U.S. consulate in Monterrey said adequate safeguards simply do not exist to protect the children of U.S. employees.", "\"Local police and private patrols do not have the capacity to deter criminal elements from areas around the schools attended by the children of U.S. personnel assigned to the consulate,\" read the statement from Monterrey.", "The authorized departure of family members of U.S. government personnel from consulates in the Mexican cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros remains in place, the State Department said.", "The United States has a travel warning issued for Mexico because of drug-related violence, particularly in the northern border areas." ]	[ "NEW: Some 25 families are expected to be affected by the decision .", "Diplomats are asked to have their children out of Monterrey by September 10 .", "The travel warning follows an August 20 shooting in front of an international school .", "The U.S. has a travel warning issued for Mexico because of drug-related violence ." ]	[ 3, 6, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Three Iranian prison officials have been charged with murder after three imprisoned protesters were beaten to death in the aftermath of the country's disputed presidential election, Iranian media reported Saturday.", "Iran's military court announced that nearly two dozen officials from Tehran's Kahrizak prison were indicted; of those, there is enough evidence to prosecute 12, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.", "Three were charged with premeditated murder for participating in the beatings; nine will face other unspecified charges.", "The judiciary did not identify the defendants.", "Kahrizak officials initially said that Mohsen Rouhol-Amini, Amir Javadifar, and Mohammad Kamrani died of meningitis, according to the judiciary.", "However, a coroner's reported indicated that the three were severely beaten behind bars by prison personnel, and died from their injuries.", "The judiciary also blamed the prison's medical shortcomings and sub-par conditions as factors in the men's deaths.", "Iranian media first reported the three protesters' deaths nearly two weeks after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, ordered the Kahrizak facility shut down amid reports of prisoner mistreatment.", "In the wake of the deaths, authorities fired and arrested Kahrizak's warden.", "The three protesters were among some 4,000 people arrested in connection with protests following the June 12 presidential election.", "Thousands of Iranians demonstrated against the official result of the vote, which re-elected hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.", "The government said he won by a landslide, but his opponents accused officials of rigging the results.", "The opposition to the results and the mass arrests were a blow to Iran's Islamic leadership.", "Further tarnishing the image of the government's handling of the demonstrations was the identification of 72 protesters killed during the unrest, released by Iranian reformist Web site Norooz in September.", "Putting the prison officials on trial is an attempt by the government to build credibility and maintain public order, some scholars say.", "But, they argue, it's a political move that will likely fail.", "\"Ayatollah Khamenei will be the loser no matter what happens,\" said Ali Alfoneh, a research fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute who has researched the relationship between Iranian civilians and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.", "\"Does it make him more credible in the eyes of the government -- no, I don't think so.\"", "He said the guards would likely be prosecuted in a \"show trial,\" noting that the Iranian government has orchestrated such trials in the past by giving in to public demands for accountability, but without holding high-ranking officials responsible for their roles in any wrongdoing.", "Another expert described the defendants as \"scapegoats.\"", "\"Even if they are some lowly soldier or some lowly revolutionary guard who was doing this, it was obviously under the order of higher-ups,\" said Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford.", "Amid earlier reports of prisoner mistreatment at Kahrizak, Khamenei ordered the facility shut down.", "Nearly two weeks later, Iranian media reported the deaths of the protesters.", "When Gen. Esmaeel Ahmadi Moghadam, commander of Iran's security forces, announced the arrest of the warden, he also said no one died at Kahrizak from physical abuse and that the inmates died from illnesses.", "The coroner later disputed that claim.", "Despite earlier attempts by high-ranking Iranian officials to dispute allegations of abuse of detained protesters, government officials have also promised to investigate the supposed cases.", "Such a dichotomy reflects Khamenei's desire to be both \"feared and loved,\" Alfoneh said.", "\"The supreme leader and the regime want to show they are powerful and can't be shaken,\" he said, \"and, on the other hand, they don't want to accept responsibility.\"", "In August, Khamenei met with Rouhol-Amini's father, Abdol-Hossein Rouhol-Amini, vowing that \"the system has no intention to forgive or be courteous to any wrongdoers.\"", "The bereaved father announced on Khamenei's Web site in September that he was satisfied with how the government was handling the case.", "But the trial will not help Khamenei's relationship with the public, Alfoneh said.", "\"Regardless of what the father says or does not say, the person responsible is Khamenei,\" Alfoneh said.", "\"Whatever he does, he has lost this case.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Scholars say defendants are scapegoats in effort to build credibility, maintain order .", "Three charged with murder in beating deaths of protesters imprisoned after election .", "Fars: Enough evidence exists to prosecute 12 officials from Tehran's Kahrizak prison .", "Officials initially said protesters died of meningitis; coroner found they died after severe beating ." ]	[ 0, 1, 14, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday.", "While acknowledging mitigating factors -- primarily Wade's youth and lack of a criminal past -- the judge said her actions were not \"unaggravating.\"", "\"The murder was no accident,\" Judge Joseph Bulone said.", "Wade went to trial in July, accused of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann.", "The two women, only teenagers at the time, had fought for months via voicemails, text messages and MySpace postings over their relationship with the same man, Joshua Camacho.", "The feud culminated in a fatal confrontation in the early morning hours of April 15, 2009.", "After a three-day trial and only two and a half hours of deliberation, a jury of five men and one woman convicted Wade of second-degree murder.", "Wade had claimed self-defense and hoped for an acquittal or no more than a manslaughter conviction.", "A life sentence was recommended by Florida prosecutors.", "The defense had recommended 15 years, followed by 15 years of probation.", "TruTV's \"In Session\" correspondent Beth Karas spoke to Wade days before her sentencing.", "\"I think about it every day, regardless if they give me five years or 20 years more than they could give me,\" Wade said.", "\"I never meant to do it, and I'm still gonna have to live with it, no matter if I'm home or if I'm in prison.\"", "Wade's lawyer told HLN Friday that the sentence was \"very fair.\"", "\"I just don't think this was a case that called for life,\" said Jay Hebert.", "Hebert said the case is a cautionary tale about the potentially deadly mix of young people and modern communications technology.", "\"When you start looking at the tragic nature of this, the social networking, the instant messaging, the ability of people to hide behind the screen and make statements and create situations -- it just festered until it bubbled up and exploded into a situation... until two good girls, their worlds collided,\" he said.", "Hebert said Wade has resolved to teach young people about the dangers associated with social networking.", "\"I don't think we can appreciate how young people talk,\" he said.", "\"And that's the lesson for parents.", "Pay close attention to your children.", "Watch how they talk and who they talk to.", "Watch their social networking outlets.\"", "\"Because it's an explosive situation when when you don't have to be accountable, when you can break up with somebody or ask somebody to prom via text,\" he said.", "\"There's no face-to-face interaction.\"", "In Session Correspondent Beth Karas contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Defendant Rachel Wade's lawyer says sentence is \"very fair\"\nWade sentenced in April 2009 stabbing death of Sarah Ludemann .", "Wade was convicted of second-degree murder .", "The two women were involved with the same man ." ]	[ 3, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Chris Keith was 12 years old when he learned his family didn't die in a car wreck.", "His father suffocated his mother and then shot Chris' 8-year-old brother, Mikey, in the back of the head while he slept, his grandparents explained.", "The elderly couple had taken the boy to a counselor.", "As they told him the real story of what happened, they pulled out newspaper clippings from October 1985.", "Chris had begun to wonder about the scars on his own head, and he had pieced together other clues from the past.", "Yet he'd never known the full truth.", "His grandparents then told him the hardest news of all.", "Before his father killed himself, he put the .38-caliber handgun to Chris' head and pulled the trigger.", "Medics had declared everyone in the house dead, including Chris.", "Now 30, Chris Keith visits church youth groups and juvenile justice centers to tell his story.", "A Christian, he believes God had a plan for him and that's why he survived.", "Follow CNN's Belief Blog .", "Headlines occasionally bring back terrible memories, like the recent case in South Carolina where a mother is accused of suffocating her two boys before putting them in their car seats and letting the car roll into a river.", "When he hears stories like that, especially when a child survives, he bows his head and prays.", "At 12, Chris grappled with the impossible: How could my father do something so evil?", "\"It was almost like going through it again.", "I started feeling all these feelings again, of anger, of betrayal, of feeling like nobody wanted me.", "I was angry at the world, and mad at my grandparents for waiting so long to tell me.", "\"I was mad at my dad. Mad at my mom for taking him back so many times.\"", "Memories flooded back.", "He recalled being in the hospital, staring at the door.", "\"I was waiting for my mother to walk through or for my brother to come in and say, 'Hey, everything's going to be OK. We're going to get out of here soon.'", "\" Now, he tells struggling youth that they're not alone in this world.", "\"Even when we feel we have no inner strength left, you can make it,\" he says.", "After he was shot in the head, he crawled to his brother's bed and saw that his beloved brother was dead, he says, citing the coroner's report of the massacre.", "Bloodied with a hole in his head, Chris then crawled toward the doorway as if he was trying to find his mother.", "It was there that a medic saw him move, ever so slightly, after he'd already been pronounced dead.", "A video from the scene shows a first responder emerge from the front door.", "\"We've got one alive in here!\"", "\"I didn't want to give up,\" he says.", "\"I firmly believe Jesus had his hands on me, saying, 'Somebody is going to come for you.'", "\" He says he doesn't know why he survived, while his mother and brother died.", "He's struggled with that over the years: \"What if my brother survived and I didn't?\"", "Those are questions he'll never be able to answer.", "\"I just know that my life was saved,\" he says.", "\"Doctors don't know why I'm alive. ...", "I have a second chance in life, and I just want to make the most of it and maybe help others who are internally suffering.\"", "Yet, it took years -- and lots of counseling -- to reach this point.", "He turned into a recluse in middle school and high school.", "Sometimes, he'd lay in bed all night, unable to sleep, \"just thinking.\"", "He was the kid who just wanted to get through to the next day.", "\"It's crazy to think about -- those incidents were something that my dad did,\" he says.", "\"My own dad tried to kill me, so who am I supposed to trust?\"", "Sometimes he struggled with guilt -- feeling it somehow was his fault.", "\"I was always searching for things that I could have done.\"", "Once, somebody asked him: Are you afraid you're going to go crazy like your dad?", "\"It just hit me really hard, and I don't want to be like that.\"", "He carried a newspaper clipping about the killings in his wallet.", "At 14, he showed it to his youth minister.", "Tears rolled down the preacher's face as he read.", "\"It was amazing to me because I had never seen a man cry before,\" he says.", "\"It made me realize somebody cared about me.\"", "Chris' best friend walked in at that moment.", "Handed the article, he too began crying.", "Chris credits his youth minister and his best friend, as well as his grandparents and his church, with helping him get through.", "In them, he could see that \"not everybody is as selfish as my dad was.", "And that helped me cope.\"", "When he would lock himself in his room, he'd often listen to music.", "The lyrics of one song resonated: \"Do not let the world get you down and remember that a bright shiny day comes after the rain.", "It is going to get better.\"", "\"I just clung to that,\" he says.", "He married young -- at 19.", "\"I was longing for a family.", "That's just something I wanted.\"", "He and his wife celebrated their 10th anniversary this year.", "If you need proof that good can come from evil, he says, all you have to do is look at his own son, 6-year-old Dylan.", "He says he constantly tells his boy \"I love you\" and holds him tight.", "When he sees his boy playing, he sometimes thinks, \"Man, how could my dad do that?\"", "Chris now works with Upward Bound Outreach ministries as well as working at a long-term care pharmacy in Fort Worth, Texas.", "He's working on getting a degree in computer engineering and maintains his own blog.", "He's got many goals in life.", "At the top of the list: \"To not end up like my dad.\"", "\"I just want to try my best to see others make it.\"" ]	[ "Chris Keith was 5 when his father shot him in the head .", "His mother and brother were killed in the attack; his father then committed suicide .", "Now 30, Chris tells his story to youth groups and at juvenile justice centers .", "\"I just want to try my best to see others make it,\" he says ." ]	[ 1, 9, 72 ]
[ "Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- A United Parcel Service cargo plane crashed in an unpopulated area near the Dubai airport, killing the two crew members on board, UPS officials said Friday.", "The 747-400, a UPS-operated cargo plane, crashed with two pilots about 8 p.m. as it took off for Cologne, Germany, UPS officials reported Friday.", "\"Safety is a key priority for UPS,\" the company's airline and international operations manager, Bob Lekites, said in a statement.", "\"Our thoughts go out to the crewmembers involved in the incident and their families,\" he said.", "Lekites said he would release more information as it became available, but only in cooperation with government authorities.", "\"We will not speculate about the cause.", "Until then, we ask for your patience in this difficult time,\" he said.", "The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority said the plane crashed in an area between Emirates Road and Al Ain highway, catching fire, WAM reported.", "The agency issued a statement saying the bodies of the two pilots were recovered, according to WAM.", "The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday it will send an investigator to assist local officials as they search for clues on what caused the crash, board officials said Friday.", "CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom and Cheryl Robinson contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: UPS confirms two crew members were killed in the crash .", "NEW: The NTSB says it will send an investigator to aid UAE authorities .", "The aircraft was part of United Parcel Service's cargo fleet ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Officials declared a state of emergency Saturday after a powerful predawn earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, sending people into the streets as windows exploded, water mains broke and buildings crumbled.", "No deaths were immediately reported.", "The Christchurch City Council declared a state of emergency in response to what it called \"significant damage,\" just hours after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake rattled residents.", "The order allows authorities to force evacuations and prohibit entry into areas believed unsafe.", "Officials in Selwyn, a rural district near where the quake hit, also declared a state of local emergency.", "A curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. was in place, and the army was assisting local police to ensure there is no looting.", "Roughly 100 people were being treated for minor bumps and cuts after the strong quake, hospital officials said.", "Two people suffered more serious injuries.", "\"The house felt like it was on wheels, like it was rolling around on marbles,\" resident Hadlee Wright told CNN's Rick Sanchez.", "Pictures that Wright took of the city before daybreak showed collapsed buildings and streets littered with bits of brick and rock.", "The facade of one structure was almost entirely torn off.", "Power was out in the northwest part of the city, while water and sewage services have been affected in several regions, the Christchurch Civil Defense Group said in a statement.", "Roads also were damaged.", "Images taken by Jimmy Le Comte, and sent to CNN's iReport, showed flooding in New Brighton, a Christchurch suburb.", "In one, a giant crack cuts across a road.", "The quake had a magnitude of 7.0, down from an initial assessment of 7.4, the U.S. Geological Survey said.", "It struck about 35 miles from Christchurch, a city with a population of some 386,000 people on the east coast of South Island.", "An aftershock with a magnitude of 5.7 struck not far from the epicenter about 20 minutes later, the survey said.", "A man in his 50s was hit by a falling chimney, while another suffered serious injuries after being cut by glass, said Michele Hider, a spokeswoman with Christchurch Hospital.", "Sebastian Koga, a hospital neurosurgeon, said roughly 100 people were being treated for minor injuries.", "He was not aware of any deaths.", "\"We've had a flood of lacerations and minor head injuries, but nothing that could not be handled,\" Koga said.", "Civil Defense Minister John Carter said the country's prime minister is headed to Christchurch to assess the earthquake damage.", "\"We don't know entirely what level of issues we're dealing with at the moment.", "We're still getting reports on it, but it has been extensive,\" Carter told CNN affiliate TVNZ.", "\"We were lucky that the impact on the people from a death point of view has not been what it could have been under normal circumstances.\"", "The earthquake struck at 4:35 a.m. Saturday (12:35 p.m.", "ET Friday), when few people would have been out and about.", "Police said there was some initial looting activity, but that it was quickly brought under control.", "A man who was at the international airport in Christchurch described the scene.", "\"The entire terminal started shaking,\" he said.", "\"I knew it was an earthquake.", "There was not much you could do at that point.\"", "Authorities evacuated the airport, he said, adding that he saw minor damage.", "Reinier Eulink, general manager of the Holiday Inn in Christchurch, said there is damage around the hotel corridors and \"big cracks in the walls.\"", "\"It was a big big long jolt, and the building moved a lot,\" he said.", "The 13-floor building, with about 150 rooms, was about 40 percent occupied, and he estimated that 80 or more people were staying at the hotel at the time.", "Power was knocked out, but emergency power came on, Eulink added.", "People were milling around in the hotel lobby, trying to get warm during the chilly Southern Hemisphere winter.", "The quake was 7.5 miles deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.", "The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the event is not likely to generate a tsunami.", "Prime Minister John Key told CNN affiliate TVNZ it would likely be some time before the full cost of the quake could be calculated.", "He sought to reassure residents.", "\"We're not going to let Christchurch suffer this great tragedy on its own,\" said Key.", "CNN's Nick Valencia, Mark Bixler, Joe Sterling and Katy Byron contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Prime minister says government will not abandon Christchurch .", "Two people are being treated for serious injuries .", "A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the east coast of the South Island early Saturday .", "Roads and buildings were damaged ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12, 16, 19 ]
[ "Srinagar, India (CNN) -- Indian police fired on pro-independence protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir Monday, killing four people and wounding 16 others, a senior police officer said.", "The deaths bring to 69 the number of people killed in 87 days of violence, as demonstrators stage large protests and block highways in marches calling for independence for the region.", "Hundreds of others have been wounded.", "Monday's violence came in Palhallan, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Srinagar,when protesters blocked a highway.", "Police fired to disperse the crowd after some demonstrators began throwing stones, some of them targeting a motorcade carrying the Kashmir zone police chief.", "Guards accompanying the motorcade chased members of the mob, injuring some in the process, a police spokesman said.", "The police administration has initiated an inquiry into the shooting, the spokesman said.", "\"The ammunition of the policemen is being checked to (determine) responsibility.", "Those found to be involved shall be proceeded against strictly according to the law,\" the spokesman said.", "Thousands of people shouting anti-Indian slogans later blocked the highway.", "The Muslim-majority Kashmir has seen some of the worst unrest ever against Indian rule since June 11, when a teenager was killed in Srinagar by a tear gas shell.", "New Delhi's efforts to break the cycle of violence have not yet shown any results.", "Kashmiri separatists have put forth five demands for ending the unrest and starting a dialogue with New Delhi.", "They include the acceptance of Kashmir as an international dispute by New Delhi, which views it as a domestic problem.", "They also want the release of detainees and the withdrawal of security forces from civilian areas of Kashmir.", "The separatists warned that if the demands were not met by the Muslim holiday of Eid, which falls later this week, they will intensify the agitation.", "Kashmir has been a source of bitter dispute between India and Pakistan.", "The region is claimed by both, and each rules part of it.", "Indian-administered Kashmir has been in the throes of separatist violence for the past 20 years, leaving -- according to the official count -- 43,000 people dead.", "However, many human rights groups and non-governmental organizations say the figure is twice the official estimate." ]	[ "4 killed in latest Kashmir violence .", "Police fired to disperse protesters blocking a highway and throwing stones .", "Separatists want control of Kashmir, part of which is still ruled by India ." ]	[ 0, 4, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigating drinking water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming, found benzene and methane in wells and in groundwater, agency officials said.", "At a community meeting with well owners, EPA officials revealed Tuesday they found low levels of petroleum compounds in 17 of 19 drinking water wells sampled, and that nearby shallow groundwater was contaminated with high levels of petroleum compounds such as benzene, according to the report.", "The affected well owners were advised not to drink the water at the recommendation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and told to use alternate sources of water for drinking and cooking, agency officials said.", "Meanwhile, the EPA is working with various government partners and EnCana, a natural gas company, to provide affected residents with water and to address potential sources of the contamination, agency officials said.", "The study included sampling 21 domestic wells within the area of concern, two municipal wells, plus sediment and water from a nearby creek.", "The EPA also sampled groundwater and soil from pit remediation sites, and produced water and condensate from five production wells operated by the primary natural gas operator in the area, agency officials said.", "No health concerns were found related to inhalation exposure to chemicals while showering or using evaporative coolers, agency officials said.", "The EPA has not reached any conclusions about the sources of chemical compounds found in drinking water wells, including hydraulic fracturing, or \"fracking,\" the controversial process used to extract natural gas from underground, agency officials said.", "Officials are uncertain if the contaminated shallow groundwater will migrate to the drinking water aquifer, according to the report.", "\"EPA will work as long as necessary to ensure that Pavillion residents have safe water,\" Jim Martin, EPA's regional administrator in Denver, said in a statement released Tuesday.", "\"While our investigation continues, EPA has secured commitments from our partners to identify alternate sources of water for affected homes and to evaluate long-term solutions.\"", "In addition to detecting several petroleum hydrocarbons, the EPA found a number of \"inorganic constituents\" such as sodium and sulfates in drinking and groundwater wells, according to the report.", "In spring 2008, residents of Pavillion -- concerned about the quality of their drinking water -- contacted the EPA in Denver, Colorado.", "The agency sampled 39 individual wells (37 residential wells and two municipal wells) in March 2009 and found nitrate, arsenic and methane gas.", "The agency conducted the second sampling in January 2010.", "Over the past week, officials from EPA and the federal agency for toxic substances met privately with individual residents to provide health information and recommendations based on well-specific sampling results, agency officials said." ]	[ "Residents of a Wyoming town became concerned about well water in 2008 .", "EPA tests have found various chemical compounds .", "Affected well owners have been advised not to drink the water .", "Federal officials have not determined the source of the compounds ." ]	[ 7, 12 ]
[ "Rome, Italy (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI is monitoring the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning and has not ruled out getting involved through diplomatic channels, the Vatican said Sunday.", "As he has in the past in humanitarian cases, the pope would intervene if asked by authorities in another country and would do so through proper diplomatic channels, not publicly, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a statement.", "\"The Holy See is following the case with attention and participation,\" Lombardi said.", "\"The position of the church, which is opposed to the death penalty, is that stoning is a particularly brutal form.\"", "According to Italy's official news agency ANSA, the Italian government is leading the case for clemency for the woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.", "Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning after she was convicted of adultery.", "Iranian judicial authorities say a final verdict in her case has not yet been made, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported recently.", "In July, Iran's judiciary said the case was under review.", "A large photo of Ashtiani has been hung outside Italy's Equal Opportunities Ministry to draw attention to her plight, ANSA reported.", "\"'This unprecedented act aims to mobilize opinion and contribute to saving Sakineh from a brutal, unacceptable sentence,'' Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna said in a joint statement, according to ANSA.", "Italy's Foreign Ministry told ANSA that it is pursuing clemency for Ashtiani through diplomatic channels.", "''The case is being followed closely by the foreign ministry and personally by Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who has given instructions for close bilateral relations to be maintained with the Iranian authorities so that they consider clemency in this specific case,'' a recent ministry statement said.", "Italy is one of Iran's most important trade partners in the European Union, with bilateral trade exceeding $8 billion in 2009, according to a report on the website of the Iranian-Italian Chamber of Commerce.", "Meanwhile, Ashtiani also faces a sentence of 99 lashes because of a photograph in a newspaper, but opponents of the execution say it is a case of mistaken identity.", "Iranian authorities imposed the sentence after they saw the photo of a woman without a head scarf in the newspaper, said the International Committee Against Stoning, a human rights group.", "In an apology, The Times of London, which ran the photo on its front page August 28, said the woman was wrongly identified as Ashtiani.", "The Times said the photo actually is of Susan Hejrat, a political activist living in Sweden.", "Iranian law requies all women, regardless of their faith, to wear garments that cover their hair and bodies.", "According to the Times, one of Ashtiani's former lawyers, Mohammed Mostafaei, gave the paper the photo.", "Mostafaei told CNN on Saturday that he still thinks the photo may be of his former client.", "The Times reported that Mostafaei said Ashtiani's 22-year-old son had e-mailed the lawyer two photographs three months ago and told him both were of his mother.", "\"One was the widely used picture of Ms. Ashtiani with her face obscured by a chador [cloak], and the other was the one used by The Times ... That showed the full face of a woman,\" The Times said in a statement Friday.", "Ashtiani's son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, wrote in an open letter that another lawyer sent the newspaper an authentic photo of his mother, but that it did not appear in the Times article.", "The letter was circulated by the International Committee Against Stoning on Friday.", "\"We do not know how that picture was originally obtained, nor to whom the picture belongs,\" Ghaderzadeh said in the letter.", "\"My mother has been called in to see the judge in charge of prison misdemeanors and he has sentenced our helpless mother to 99 lashes on false charges of spreading corruption and indecency by disseminating this picture of a woman presumed to be her [Sakineh] without hijab,\" he wrote.", "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran did not answer a CNN telephone call early Sunday morning.", "The Committee Against Stoning said Friday \"it is Mr. Mostafaei's responsibility to provide an explanation as to why he has disseminated [a] counterfeit photo and information regarding Sakineh's case; his action has only led to increased pressure on Sakineh and her family.\"", "\"We strongly condemn this barbaric new sentence of 99 lashes imposed by the Islamic Republic against Sakineh and we demand that this sentence be abandoned immediately,\" the committee said.", "Mostafaei told CNN that Ghaderzadeh three months ago gave him two photos -- one of Ashtiani wearing a hijab (covering) and one without it.", "The lawyer said he immediately released the photo of Ashtiani wearing the chador and sent the Times the photo of her without the hijab more recently.", "Asked about whether the photo printed by the Times is of Ashtiani, Mostafaei said, \"In my opinion it is Ms. Ashtiani.", "It was given to me by her own son. If it is not indeed her, it looked just like her.", "She was wearing religious clothes in the photo.", "She had the same face, same everything.\"", "Ashtiani, who is being held in Tabriz, Iran, no longer has visitation rights, the family told CNN.", "CNN's Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Italy is leading the case for clemency for the woman, news agency reports .", "Pope Benedict XVI is closely monitoring the case, the Vatican said Sunday .", "The pope would intervene through diplomatic channels and not publicly, the Vatican said .", "The woman was convicted of adultery but Iran says a final verdict has not been reached ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Protesters gathered in Iran on Friday for a demonstration to observe an annual holiday that marks the country's solidarity with Palestinians and calls for the end of Israel occupation.", "One notable absence was Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi, whose security force feared for his safety and advised him to stay away, his son said.", "About 50 people surrounded Karrubi's home Friday morning -- shooting paint balls and shouting chants against him and the opposition movement, the son said.", "Attackers targeted his father's house repeatedly to stop him from participating in Friday's events, said Mohammad Taghi Karrubi.", "The opposition leader's website said his apartment had come under attack four times in four consecutive days.", "The site said the head of his security team was in a coma after being beaten as he tried to talk with a group of attackers who broke into the apartment complex Thursday.", "His son told CNN the attackers fired shots, set small fires in the courtyard and lobby and vandalized parts of the building.", "But around the country Friday, Quds Day demonstrations continued.", "Large crowds chanted \"Death to Israel\" and \"Death to America\" in Palestine Square near Tehran University.", "In the city of Kerman, a man with a loudspeaker chanted the slogans, with the crowd repeating after him.", "Some were carrying Iranian flags and banners supporting Palestinians while others waved cartoon caricatures of U.S. President Barack Obama.", "Speaking at Tehran University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced Israel, repeatedly referring to the \"Zionist regime.\"", "He said this week's direct Middle East peace talks in Washington were doomed to fail.", "\"These talks are dead.", "There is no reason to hold talks,\" he said.", "\"The fate of Palestine will be determined on the ground in Palestine, not in Washington and not in London,\" he added.", "Ahmadinejad said Iranians sympathize with Palestinians.", "\"We know how hard it is for them to resist,\" he said.", "As he spoke, the crowd chanted, \"Death to Israel.\"", "Security forces lined the streets near Haft-e-Tir Square in central Tehran, and at least two people were detained.", "There were no reports of opposition clashes.", "Last year, demonstrators took the streets in anti-government protests, shouting \"Death to the dictator\" in particularly tense rallies following the unrest over Iran's disputed presidential elections in June.", "Clashes between security forces and protesters were reported around the university during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech last year.", "On Thursday, Mohammad Taghi Karrubi told CNN that attackers had repeatedly come to his father's house because he had expressed his desire to take part in Friday's events.", "He said he was inside his father's fifth-floor apartment when about 20 Basij broke into the courtyard Thursday.", "Several of the men threatened to kill his father, he said.", "\"When we asked the police to come to help...nobody came,\" he said.", "Asked who was responsible, he said, \"They are in the name of the Basij, but in my opinion they are hooligans.", "The government tries to use these hooligans against the opposition and against the people.\"", "Several members of his father's security team were injured -- but not shot -- and were taken to a hospital, he said.", "Asked if he and his father planned to attend Quds Day events on Friday, he said, \"Do you think we'll still be alive tomorrow morning to take part?\"", "International Quds Day, or \"Jerusalem day\" is observed on the last Friday of Ramadan.", "The government sponsored holiday was established in August 1979 by the late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini shortly after the Islamic Revolution.", "Khomeini called for all Muslims worldwide to participate in the events that denounce Israel and show support for the Palestinian cause.", "\"The day for those nations suffering under the pressure of American oppression and oppression by other powers to confront the superpowers; it is the day when the oppressed should arm themselves against the oppressors,\" he said in a speech in August of 1979.", "Anti-Zionist demonstrations, parades, and seminars are held in some Muslim and Arab countries, but are especially large in Iran.", "A senior Iranian commander says the massive participation proves the global support for Palestinians.", "The Quds Day \"appears to pave the way for the collapse of Israel and its allies, namely the U.S. and Britain,\" Brig.", "Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy head of Iran's armed forces joint chiefs of staff, told the Islamic Republic News Agency on Thursday." ]	[ "NEW: Son says attackers targeted his father's house repeatedly to stop him from participating .", "Iranian opposition leader does not attend after his security force advises him to stay away .", "Ahmadinejad denounces Israel in a university speech .", "Some protesters are carrying Iranian flags and banners supporting Palestinians in the annual event ." ]	[ 1, 3, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, is up for parole for the sixth time, just months short of the 30th anniversary of the former Beatle's death.", "Chapman is scheduled to be interviewed by two members of the parole board during the week of August 9.", "Four letters were submitted against Chapman's release this year, according to a representative of the New York State Division of Parole, and there were two letters in support.", "The last time Chapman was up for parole, in 2008, the New York State Division of Parole issued a release saying Chapman's request was denied \"due to concern for the public safety and welfare.\"", "He also was denied parole in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.", "Chapman, 55, is serving a sentence of 20 years to life in prison for the shooting death of Lennon outside Lennon's New York City apartment on December 8, 1980.", "He has served 29 years of his sentence at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility, where he is held in a building with other prisoners who are not considered to pose a threat to him, according to officials with the state Department of Correctional Services.", "He has his own prison cell but spends most of his day outside the cell working on housekeeping and in the library, the officials said.", "For the past 20 years he has been allowed conjugal visits with his wife, Gloria.", "The visits are part of a state program called \"family reunion\" that allows inmates to spend up to 44 hours at a time with family members in a special setting.", "Inmates must meet certain criteria to receive the privilege.", "Chapman has not had an infraction since 1994, said Erik Kriss, spokesman for the Department of Corrections.", "\"He goes about his business, doing his prison job and without any fanfare,\" Kriss said.", "Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, in previous years has submitted a letter requesting that parole be denied.", "Attempts to reach Ono's legal representative and publicist for comment have been unsuccessful." ]	[ "Mark David Chapman will be interviewed by parole board members in August .", "In 2008 parole was denied \"due to concern for the public safety and welfare\"\nHe has served 29 years of his sentence of 20 years to life ." ]	[ 1, 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A JetBlue flight attendant whose fame took off after his dramatic exit down an emergency chute is is no longer employed by the airline.", "JetBlue spokeswoman Jenny Dervin told CNN on Saturday that Steven Slater no longer works for the airline.", "She said that the separation occurred last week, but declined to elaborate how Slater and the company parted ways.", "Slater became a hero to some after an August incident when, authorities said, he grabbed some beer and triggered an inflatable emergency chute from a plane at a JFK Airport terminal in New York.", "As of Sunday, Slater had amassed more than 210,000 \"fans\" on a public Facebook page.", "The drama on the plane may have started before takeoff.", "\"A number of passengers were competing for overhead carry-on luggage areas,\" Howard Turman, Slater's attorney, has said.", "\"With great difficulty, they were shoving the bags around, attempting to get it in.", "Steven came over to assist and either the bag or the overhead (bin door) hit him in the head and at that point he suffered an injury.\"", "Turman has also said a woman \"started cursing and -- based on the information -- slammed the overhead luggage bin on his head.\"", "After various exchanges with the woman and a crew member, some passengers said, he grabbed some beer from the beverage cart before deploying the emergency slide and leaving.", "Turman has sharply denied a JetBlue passenger's assertion that the flight attendant instigated the confrontation.", "JetBlue removed Slater from duty following the incident and launched an internal investigation.", "Slater has pleaded not guilty to charges of reckless endangerment and criminal mischief -- both felonies -- and criminal trespass.", "If convicted, he could face a maximum of seven years in prison.", "Slater has a court appearance scheduled for Tuesday.", "CNN's Allan Chernoff and Tom Watkins contributed to this report." ]	[ "Steven Slater is no longer employed by JetBlue .", "He is famous for sliding down an emergency chute after an onboard incident .", "Slater pleaded not guilty to reckless endangerment and criminal mischief ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist Stephen Hawking that God had no role in the creation of the universe.", "In his new book \"The Grand Design,\" Britain's most famous scientist says that given the existence of gravity, \"the universe can and will create itself from nothing,\" according to an excerpt published in The Times of London.", "\"Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist,\" he wrote.", "\"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper [fuse] and set the universe going.\"", "But the head of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, told the Times that \"physics on its own will not settle the question of why there is something rather than nothing.\"", "He added: \"Belief in God is not about plugging a gap in explaining how one thing relates to another within the Universe.", "It is the belief that there is an intelligent, living agent on whose activity everything ultimately depends for its existence.\"", "Williams' comments were supported by leaders from across the religious spectrum in Britain.", "Writing in the Times, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said: \"Science is about explanation.", "Religion is about interpretation ...", "The Bible simply isn't interested in how the Universe came into being.\"", "The Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, added: \"I would totally endorse what the Chief Rabbi said so eloquently about the relationship between religion and science.\"", "Ibrahim Mogra, an imam and committee chairman at the Muslim Council of Britain, was also quoted by the Times as saying: \"If we look at the Universe and all that has been created, it indicates that somebody has been here to bring it into existence.", "That somebody is the almighty conqueror.\"", "Hawking was also accused of \"missing the point\" by colleagues at the University of Cambridge in England.", "\"The 'god' that Stephen Hawking is trying to debunk is not the creator God of the Abrahamic faiths who really is the ultimate explanation for why there is something rather than nothing,\" said Denis Alexander, director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.", "\"Hawking's god is a god-of-the-gaps used to plug present gaps in our scientific knowledge.", "\"Science provides us with a wonderful narrative as to how [existence] may happen, but theology addresses the meaning of the narrative,\" he added.", "Read why Hawking says God didn't create the universe .", "Fraser Watts, an Anglican priest and Cambridge expert in the history of science, said that it's not the existence of the universe that proves the existence of God.", "\"A creator God provides a reasonable and credible explanation of why there is a universe, and ... it is somewhat more likely that there is a God than that there is not.", "That view is not undermined by what Hawking has said.\"", "Hawking's book -- as the title suggests -- is an attempt to answer \"the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything,\" he wrote, quoting Douglas Adams' cult science fiction romp, \"The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\"", "Read CNN's Belief Blog .", "His answer is \"M-theory,\" which, he says, posits 11 space-time dimensions, \"vibrating strings, ... point particles, two-dimensional membranes, three-dimensional blobs and other objects that are more difficult to picture and occupy even more dimensions of space.\"", "He doesn't explain much of that in the excerpt, which is the introduction to the book.", "But he says he understands the feeling of the great English scientist Isaac Newton that God did \"create\" and \"conserve\" order in the universe.", "It was the discovery of other solar systems outside our own in 1992 that undercut a key idea of Newton's -- that our world was so uniquely designed to be comfortable for human life that some divine creator must have been responsible.", "But, Hawking argues, if there are untold numbers of planets in the galaxy, it's less remarkable that there's one with conditions for human life.", "And, indeed, he argues, any form of intelligent life that evolves anywhere will automatically find that it lives somewhere suitable for it.", "CNN's Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report." ]	[ "Hawking: \"Given existence of gravity the universe can and will create itself from nothing\"\nHis new book is an attempt to answer \"the Ultimate Question of Life\"\nArchbishop of Canterbury rejected Hawking's claim that God has no role .", "Rowan Williams: Belief in God not about plugging a gap in explaining how one thing relates to another ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Officials declared a state of emergency Saturday after a powerful predawn earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, sending people into the streets as windows exploded, water mains broke and buildings crumbled.", "No deaths were immediately reported.", "The Christchurch City Council declared a state of emergency in response to what it called \"significant damage,\" just hours after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake rattled residents.", "The order allows authorities to force evacuations and prohibit entry into areas believed unsafe.", "Officials in Selwyn, a rural district near where the quake hit, also declared a state of local emergency.", "A curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. was in place, and the army was assisting local police to ensure there is no looting.", "Roughly 100 people were being treated for minor bumps and cuts after the strong quake, hospital officials said.", "Two people suffered more serious injuries.", "\"The house felt like it was on wheels, like it was rolling around on marbles,\" resident Hadlee Wright told CNN's Rick Sanchez.", "Pictures that Wright took of the city before daybreak showed collapsed buildings and streets littered with bits of brick and rock.", "The facade of one structure was almost entirely torn off.", "Power was out in the northwest part of the city, while water and sewage services have been affected in several regions, the Christchurch Civil Defense Group said in a statement.", "Roads were also damaged.", "Images taken by Jimmy Le Comte, and sent to CNN's iReport, showed flooding in New Brighton, a Christchurch suburb.", "In one, a giant crack cuts across a road.", "The quake had a magnitude of 7.0, down from an initial assessment of 7.4, the U.S. Geological Survey said.", "It struck about 35 miles from Christchurch, a city with a population of some 386,000 people on the east coast of South Island.", "An aftershock with a magnitude of 5.7 struck not far from the epicenter about 20 minutes later, the survey said.", "A man in his 50s was hit by a falling chimney, while another suffered serious injuries after being cut by glass, said Michele Hider, a spokeswoman with Christchurch Hospital.", "Sebastian Koga, a hospital neurosurgeon, said roughly 100 people were being treated for minor injuries.", "He was not aware of any deaths.", "\"We've had a flood of lacerations and minor head injuries, but nothing that could not be handled,\" Koga said.", "Civil Defense Minister John Carter said the country's prime minister is headed to Christchurch to assess the earthquake damage.", "\"We don't know entirely what level of issues we're dealing with at the moment.", "We're still getting reports on it, but it has been extensive,\" Carter told CNN affiliate TVNZ.", "\"We were lucky that the impact on the people from a death point of view has not been what it could have been under normal circumstances.\"", "The earthquake struck at 4:35 a.m. Saturday (12:35 p.m.", "ET Friday), when few people would have been out and about.", "Police said there was some initial looting activity, but that it was quickly brought under control.", "A man who was at the international airport in Christchurch described the scene.", "\"The entire terminal started shaking,\" he said.", "\"I knew it was an earthquake.", "There was not much you could do at that point.\"", "Authorities evacuated the airport, he said, adding that he saw minor damage.", "Reinier Eulink, general manager of the Holiday Inn in Christchurch, said there is damage around the hotel corridors and \"big cracks in the walls.\"", "\"It was a big big long jolt, and the building moved a lot,\" he said.", "The 13-floor building, with about 150 rooms, was about 40 percent occupied, and he estimated that 80 or more people were staying at the hotel at the time.", "Power was knocked out, but emergency power came on, Eulink added.", "People were milling around in the hotel lobby, trying to get warm during the chilly Southern Hemisphere winter.", "The quake was 7.5 miles deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.", "The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the event is not likely to generate a tsunami.", "Prime Minister John Key told CNN affiliate TVNZ it would likely be some time before the full cost of the quake could be calculated.", "He sought to reassure residents.", "\"We're not going to let Christchurch suffer this great tragedy on its own,\" said Key.", "CNN's Nick Valencia, Mark Bixler, Joe Sterling and Katy Byron contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Prime minister says government will not abandon Christchurch .", "Two people are being treated for serious injuries .", "A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the east coast of the South Island early Saturday .", "Roads and buildings were damaged ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12, 16, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Since World War II, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have consistently held the United States out as a worldwide model for the protection and promotion of human rights standards.", "The U.S. government has also consistently acknowledged the importance of all countries upholding and protecting universal human rights.", "Indeed, on the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, President Reagan famously described the declaration as \"a global testament of humanity, a standard by which any humble person on Earth can stand in judgment of any government on Earth.\"", "In recent years, one of the ways the United States has sought to portray itself as a human rights leader is by regularly reporting on its compliance with domestic human rights obligations.", "Former President George W. Bush's administration submitted three major reports on domestic human rights treaty compliance to various international bodies of experts charged with overseeing treaty conformity.", "Last month the Obama administration submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council as part of its Universal Periodic Review process, through which the human rights records of all the countries in the world will be reviewed and assessed based on the obligations and commitments expressed in the universal declaration and other human rights instruments.", "The goal of the periodic review, and of human rights reporting in general, is to boost human rights compliance all over the world with powerful nations leading by example.", "On August 27, Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer sought to make political hay out of the U.S. report's mere mention of SB 1070, the infamous Arizona law that has drawn worldwide criticism for its potential to institutionalize racial profiling in Arizona.", "The U.S. government's reference to SB 1070 in the periodic review report, which made no comment on the merits of the law, was brief; it merely laid out some simple facts: The law generated significant attention around the world (true); the law is being addressed in a court action (true); parts of the law are currently enjoined (true).", "Still, Brewer sent a letter to the State Department expressing \"concern and indignation\" that the report included a reference to SB 1070 at all.", "Brewer's bizarre statement that this country's participation in a human rights reporting process is \"internationalism run amok\" and \"unconstitutional\" ignores the fact that human rights reporting requires countries to report on issues at the federal, state and local levels.", "When the Bush administration reported on U.S. compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a treaty that the United States has signed and ratified, the report included mentions of issues in states and in cities, in addition to national issues.", "In fact, human rights activists argued (correctly) that the Bush administration's report insufficiently included information from states and cities.", "In response, the State Department under the leadership of both the Bush and Obama administrations has (appropriately) committed that the United States will improve its reporting on both state and local issues.", "Most international human rights treaties require regular reporting to encourage compliance by nations who are parties to these conventions.", "The \"Supremacy Clause\" of the U.S. Constitution describes ratified treaties as \"the supreme law of the land,\" so there is nothing unconstitutional about the U.S. government complying with ratified treaties or reporting on compliance of ratified treaties; in fact, one could very easily argue that reporting on treaty compliance is entirely consistent with the \"intent of the framers\" of the Constitution.", "Further, Brewer's suggestion that the human rights record of the United States (and Arizona by inclusion) be weighed against those of other nations participating in the periodic review process (such as Libya) is absurd, and her claim that the United States would \"win in any such comparison\" rings hollow.", "The periodic review was established by the United Nations General Assembly as a process through which the human rights records of all the United Nations' 192 member states would be reviewed and assessed, so to single out Libya, or any other country, and compare it to the United States is meaningless at worst and harmful at best.", "The United States is the most powerful country in the world and it seeks to portray itself as a human rights leader.", "As a leader, it is incumbent upon the United States to evaluate its own laws and make sure they meet the human rights standards set for the rest of the world.", "As such, it makes sense for the United States to participate in the periodic review process, and to include SB 1070 in its review, because not participating in the process and not mentioning an extremely controversial issue in the review would make the United States appear to the rest of the world as though it had something to hide.", "What the U.S. report does not say, and what Brewer should be concerned about, is the fact that SB 1070 violates U.S. human rights obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which is binding on all levels of federal, state and local governments.", "The convention obligates federal, state and local governments to guarantee that laws and policies do not discriminate, in purpose or effect, on the grounds of race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin.", "It also guarantees to all noncitizens, regardless of their immigration status, equal protection and equality before the law and prevents federal, state and local governments from employing or carrying out racial or ethnic discrimination against individuals or communities.", "Racial profiling remains a pervasive problem all over the country and it is pretty difficult to argue that SB 1070 will not have a disparate negative effect on communities of color, particularly Latino communities.", "SB 1070 would require police to demand \"papers\" from all people that the police stop and suspect are not legally authorized to be in the US.", "Because, there is no clear bright-line identifier for who is legally authorized to be in the US, people who may be perceived to be \"foreign\" by police will be the subject of arrest, investigation or harassment simply because of who they are/what they look like, as opposed to because of any verifiable evidence of criminal activity.", "This will obviously have a disproportionately discriminatory impact on communities of color and immigrant communities, and that discriminatory impact violates ICERD.", "In a state like Arizona, with a well documented history of racial profiling, there is even more cause for concern.", "Enforcement of controversial provisions of the Arizona law has been stopped by a federal judge while the merits of the case are being debated.", "The United States government should not back down from its participation in human rights reporting.", "And it should go even further to create a concrete program of action to make sure state governments are aware of their legal obligations to protect and promote human rights.", "Brewer should acquaint herself with the requirements of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the U.S. Constitution, and commit to upholding human rights \"close to home.\"", "That would be real leadership and real courage and would help steer Arizona (and our country) toward the fundamental values of fairness and equality.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the co-authors." ]	[ "Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer objects to U.S. reporting to the U.N. about new immigration law .", "Co-authors say the U.S. seeks to be a model for human rights around the world .", "They say treaties require the U.S. to report on human rights issues .", "Everything that was reported was true, co-authors say ." ]	[ 7, 8, 11, 22 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Teodoro \"El Teo\" Garcia Simental, one of Mexico's most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. authorities said.", "The capture of the high-level drug trafficker comes on the heels of successful military operations against another cartel last month.", "Mexican federal police, assisted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, made the arrest in the city of La Paz, Mexico, the capital of the state of Baja California Sur, DEA spokesman Michael Sanders said.", "Garcia Simental was a top lieutenant of the Tijuana cartel until he defected to the rival Sinaloa cartel after a power struggle.", "\"He is one the most notorious drug lords and was on a list of the Top 24 drug traffickers in all of Mexico\" said another DEA official, who asked not to be identified because officials were still gathering preliminary information.", "Authorities presented Garcia Simental, together with another man captured in the raid, Diego Raymundo Gutierrez Gomez, to the media in Mexico City on Tuesday.", "Garcia Simental is accused of more than 300 murders, most of them since he split from the Tijuana-based Arellano-Felix organization in April 2008, Federal Police Section Chief Ramon Eduardo Pequeno said.", "One of his jobs for the Arellano-Felix cartel was disposing of bodies, Pequeno said.", "Garcia Simental is accused of disposing of 300 body parts by dipping them in acid, Pequeno said.", "Once he split from the Arellano-Felix cartel, Garcia Simental continued to operate a drug trafficking organization in Tijuana with the help of rival cartels.", "The Sinaloa cartel and the Michoacan, Mexico-based La Familia cartel supplied Garcia Simental's group with drugs, which he would smuggle into the United States, Pequeno said.", "This splintering of the Tijuana cartel was a cause of much of the violence seen in the border city since 2008, he said.", "Tuesday's arrest was the result of more than five months of intelligence operations, Pequeno said.", "There was a reward of up to 30 million pesos (U.S. $2.4 million) for Garcia Simental's capture.", "CNN Justice Producer Terry Frieden in Washington contributed to this report." ]	[ "Teodoro \"El Teo\" Garcia Simental one of Mexico's most wanted, it says .", "Garcia Simental is accused of more than 300 murders .", "He is accused of disposing of body parts by dipping them in acid, police say ." ]	[ 6, 8 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A handful of Republican senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how long a person may serve in Congress.", "Currently, there are no term limits for federal lawmakers, but Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, and several of his colleagues are advocating that service in the Senate be limited to 12 years, while lawmakers would only be allowed to serve six years in the House.", "\"Americans know real change in Washington will never happen until we end the era of permanent politicians,\" DeMint said in a statement released by his office.", "\"As long as members have the chance to spend their lives in Washington, their interests will always skew toward spending taxpayer dollars to buyoff special interests, covering over corruption in the bureaucracy, fundraising, relationship building among lobbyists, and trading favors for pork -- in short, amassing their own power.\"", "Two-thirds of the House and Senate would need to approve the amendment -- a stumbling block that short-circuited the idea 14 years ago.", "The new proposal echoes the Citizen Legislature Act, part of the original Contract with America proposed by Republicans before they won control of Congress in 1994.", "That measure, which would have allowed both senators and members of the House to serve just 12 years, won a majority in the Republican-controlled House in 1995, but failed because it did not meet the constitutionally-required two-thirds threshold.", "\"There is no question there are big obstacles in the way,\" said Philip Blumel, president of U.S.", "Term Limits, a nonpartisan organization that advocates putting time restrictions in place.", "\"It is difficult to pass a constitutional amendment, however the goal is worthwhile and it is very important to the country.", "Also, if not now, when?\" This time around, proponents are not calling on lawmakers who believe in the idea to place a self-imposed term limit on themselves.", "\"If you are asking people to self-limit, what might happen -- and what did happen -- is that honorable politicians who made the pledge left office,\" while others did not, Blumel said.", "\"The answer to the term-limit supporter is not self-limiting.", "It is the body as a whole.\"", "DeMint, who is currently serving his first six-year term in the Senate, echoed Blumel's rationale for dismissing self-imposed term limits.", "\"I want to be clear: demanding that reformers adopt self-imposed term limits is a recipe for self-defeat on this issue,\" DeMint said in Tuesday's statement.", "\"We lost the battle for term limits after the 1994 Republican Contract with America because we forced our best advocates for reform to go home, while the big-spending career politicians waited them out.", "We must have term limits for all or term limits will never succeed.", "Only when we apply the same rules to all will we be able to enact vital bipartisan reforms.\"", "One of the original co-sponsors of the amendment is Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who is serving her third term in the Senate, but is expected to resign her seat to focus on a gubernatorial bid.", "A spokesman for Hutchison said it is easy to square the fact that the Texas Republican is advocating a cap of two terms, even though she is currently in the middle of her third term.", "\"Throughout her career she has fought for term limits and continues to do so, and that is why she is co-sponsoring this bill,\" said Hutchison spokesman Jeff Sadosky.", "\"But until it is passed, it would do a disservice to Texas and the people of Texas to do away with the seniority she has gained, unless all the states and all of the senators hold themselves to the same standard.\"", "The two other original co-sponsors of the amendment are Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas.", "Coburn, a first-term senator, is up for re-election to his second term in 2010, while Brownback is retiring next year after pledging to serve only two full terms in the Senate.", "As congressmen, both voted in favor of the GOP's Contract with America term limit proposal in 1995.", "Coburn, a longtime term-limits supporter, retired from the House in 2000 after serving three terms, based on that pledge." ]	[ "There are no term limits for federal lawmakers .", "Some GOP lawmakers want to limit terms to 12 years in the Senate; 6 years in the House .", "Two-thirds of the House and Senate would need to approve the amendment .", "Similar proposal failed 14 years ago ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Colin Ferguson and the Syfy channel have built a loyal following for the show \"Eureka,\" now in its fourth season.", "The series' titular, top-secret town is filled with uber-geniuses and one wily sheriff, which turns out to be a great mix for science fiction.", "Ferguson is in Atlanta, Georgia, to promote \"Eureka\" at Dragon*Con, and stopped by CNN studios to answer a few of our fan-centric questions.", "CNN: Sheriff Carter (your character on \"Eureka\") is a very ingenious guy in a town populated by geniuses.", "What does Carter have that allows him to be able to figure out solutions that the others might not think of?", "Colin Ferguson: I think they don't see the forest for the trees and he's not compromised by not being able to see the forest, so he just sees trees.", "CNN: Living in Eureka?", "Ferguson: Yes, absolutely, well being in CNN right now, I'm jonesing to live at the epicenter of something.", "CNN: Do you think companies like Global Dynamics really exist?", "Ferguson: Yes -- a friend of mine wrote a book about one.", "CNN: Why does Sheriff Carter's car always get destroyed and why doesn't he have a cool Subaru like Deputy Lupo and Fargo?", "Ferguson: Tell me about it.", "They discovered first season that they like hurting me, so whether it's a set of stairs I have to fall down or driving into a post, anything that has to do with me has to be destroyed.", "The Subaru ad placement people are on set and we were doing this big stunt and they dropped the tree at the wrong time and the tree slammed the Subaru, and the ad people said, \"That wasn't supposed to happen, was it?\"", "CNN: How do you feel about the rivalry between yourself and Dr. Grant for the affections of Allison?", "Ferguson: I was concerned that it was gonna be a really forced triangle, but they managed to make it an adult exchange where we could put it on the table and discuss it and I like it.", "CNN: You've also done some directing and camera work.", "Which do you prefer? Ferguson: Being the lead of the show is more difficult, it's harder on my body, it's more strenuous, it's harder on my mind but it's rewarding in a day to day manner, but what I love about being the director is you get to protect the story for longer, so you can take all these talents you know, all the people you work with and you get to make sure they get to do all they can do.", "I love them both. Directing is -- it's easier to act in something that you have questions about than it is to direct something.", "Directing is so much work for such a long period of time.", "CNN: We took a look at your IMDb.com page.", "Canada has a \"Duck, duck, goose\" competition and you're the reigning champion?", "Ferguson: That's a lie that somebody put on the IMDb website.", "CNN: You are a founding member of Detroit, Michigan's Second City improv comedy club.", "Do you still get the chance to do improv or does the show and movies take up your time now?", "Ferguson: I improvise on a regular basis on the show, so I get to do it in that format.", "As for stage stuff, I'm rusty compared to what I used to be, so I don't do it all that often, although Second City celebrated its 50th anniversary in December and I went back for that." ]	[ "Subarus don't always have the best luck on the set of \"Eureka\"\nColin Ferguson is a founder of Detroit's Second City and improvs regularly on \"Eureka\"\nFerguson claims he is not the reigning Canadian \"Duck, duck, goose\" champion ." ]	[ 5, 6, 21, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Paul the octopus -- who correctly predicted the outcome of eight World Cup matches in a row -- is officially retiring from the prediction business, said the aquarium in Germany where he lives.", "\"A host of offers from around the globe will be carefully vetted in the coming days to see if there are opportunities to spread Paul's fame even further, without involving the canny cephalod directly,\" Sea Life aquariums said in a statement.", "Oberhausen Sea Life Center in Germany, where Paul resides, is also considering establishing a school for octopods \"so that Paul has the opportunity to pass on some of his skills to younger cousins before his short but memorable life reaches its natural conclusion.\"", "Said spokesman Mark Oakley, \"He has been a superstar and deserves a quiet retirement.", "Paul the octopus is arguably the most famous sea creature there has ever been.\"", "Paul: The first millionaire octopus?", "Paul had a correct prediction for each of his eight tentacles, ultimately foreseeing that Spain would win Sunday's final against the Netherlands and that Germany would beat Uruguay in the playoffs.", "Before that, he correctly predicted the winners in all six of the German national team's matches.", "The two-year-old octopus, who was born in England, became a global celebrity during the soccer tournament.", "During each prediction, two mussel-filled acrylic boxes labeled with a team's flag were lowered into his tank.", "Whichever box he chose conveyed the winning team.", "He drew cries of despair from assembled watchers before the semifinal round, when he lingered over the box for the German flag before opting for the Spanish flag instead.", "Spain won the match 1-0.", "Bitter German fans later threatened to turn him into sushi and Sea Life in Oberhausen received death-threat emails saying \"we want Paul for the pan,\" said entertainment supervisor Daniel Fey.", "But after Spain's triumph in Sunday's final, the country's Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero called for octopus bodyguards." ]	[ "Paul the octopus will retire, the aquarium says .", "The 2-year-old correctly predicted the result of eight World Cup matches .", "The aquarium is now considering work offers for Paul ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Alpine skiing superstar Bode Miller is swapping the piste for the tennis court as he attempts to qualify for the U.S. Open championship at Flushing Meadow later this year.", "Miller will be competing in the sectional qualifying tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii on Thursday with the winner advancing to the U.S. National qualifying tournament in August where spots at the hard court grand slam will be decided.", "Millar last made the sporting headlines as he finally won Olympic gold at the Vancouver Winter Games in February in the super-combined event.", "He ended with a full set of medals after a silver in the super-G and bronze in the downhill, at last fulfilling his promise in the biggest arena of all.", "But the 32-year-old is also a notable tennis player and was the 1996 Maine State singles champion while his family won a tennis camp in New Hampshire.", "He gets his chance because of a new policy by the U.S. tennis association (USTA) to give anyone over the age of 14 the opportunity to play their way to the main draw at Flushing Meadows through a new national playoffs system.", "Miller, a two-time World Cup overall champion, sees his foray into tennis as a new competitive outlet ahead of the start of the new skiing season later this year.", "He is widely regarded as the greatest American ski racer of all-time with a record 32 World Cup victories and five Olympic medals, capped by his Vancouver triumphs." ]	[ "Bode Miller competes in sectional qualifying for U.S. Open tennis championships .", "Five-time Olympic gold medal winner in skiing hopes to make it to Flushing Meadows .", "Miller was a high school tennis champion and his family own a tennis camp ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A small plane with four people aboard crashed Monday in a residential neighborhood of Las Vegas, Nevada, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.", "The conditions of the four passengers were not immediately known.", "The single-engine Piper Cherokee was unable to gain altitude after taking off from Henderson Executive Airport, just south of Las Vegas, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor told CNN.", "The pilot tried to return to the airport, but crashed on a street in a neighborhood about two miles northwest of Henderson, Gregor said.", "The plane hit a few cars upon crashing, according to Stacey Welling, a spokeswoman for Clark County.", "The crash occurred about 8:15 a.m. (11:15 a.m. ...", "The plane is registered to a Louisiana resident, but the identities of those aboard were not released.", "Investigators from the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are expected to arrive at the scene later Monday, Gregor said." ]	[ "Four people were aboard the plane; their conditions are unknown .", "The plane was unable to gain altitude after takeoff .", "The FAA and NTSB are investigating the crash ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Mexican Federal Police captured eight people involved in a daylight shootout that paralyzed three sections of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday afternoon, authorities say.", "Among those arrested were five cartel members with ties to the Sinaloa cartel who admitted to being involved in the kidnapping of a groom and three others at a wedding in Juarez on May 7, Municipal Police spokesman Jacinto Seguro told CNN.", "The four victims from the wedding were found dead in the back of a pickup truck days later.", "Some have speculated that the groom, a U.S. citizen whose family owns a transporting company in New Mexico, had ties to the Juarez cartel.", "When the bodies of the victims were found, they showed signs of torture.", "The victims also had pig faces drawn on their foreheads, a symbol used by the Sinaloa cartel to describe their rivals from the Juarez cartel.", "Federal police said the other three of the eight people detained had ties to the Aztecas, a local gang of drug dealers in Juarez that acts as the enforcing arm for the Juarez cartel in the city.", "With them was a man from El Paso, Texas, who had been kidnapped and held for 15 days, Seguro said.", "The sequestered man, 54, identified only by his alias \"El Pistolita\" had ties to a cartel, Seguro said.", "The eight men were captured Wednesday in two separate events that took place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., Seguro said.", "Police identified the detained Sinaloa cartel hit men as Ricardo Esteban Rubalcaba Reyes, 24, alias \"El Guawis\"; Jose Alfredo Monreal Escajeda, 37, alias \"El Primo\"; Porfirio Rubio Valle, 48, alias \"El Pilo\"; Jesus Emilio Gil Acosta, 40, alias \"El Milo\"; and Cecilio Torres Adriano, 43, alias \"El Cilo.\"", "Among the men detained with Aztecas/Juarez cartel connections were Tomas Antonio Duarte Amaya, 33, alias \"El Tony\"; and Jesus Alfredo Lopez Cruz, 30, alias \"El Chuy,\" police said.", "A third member of the Juarez cartel, who was only identified by his first name \"Jesus,\" is 17.", "Mexican law prohibits the release of the identity of minors.", "Pictures from arrests showed an arsenal of weapons and ammunition seized during the captures.", "The three from the Juarez cartel were detained while riding in a stolen green Ford Windstar which they used in a separate attack on a residence in Juarez, police said.", "Mexican federal police are calling the captures the most significant arrests since they took over security from the Mexican military one month ago." ]	[ "Eight people arrested in daylight shootout between suspects, Mexican federal police .", "Shootout paralyzed sections of Juarez, Mexico, for a time Wednesday .", "Five suspects tied to one drug cartel, three to another .", "Federal police hail arrests as most significant since they took charge from military last month ." ]	[ 0, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tuesday was the first day of classes at the Portland, Oregon, school where Kyron Horman allegedly was last seen in early June.", "The new year at Skyline Elementary also brings additional security measures to protect the children and staff.", "In a letter to parents, Principal Ben Keefer said video cameras will be installed this weekend at Skyline.", "\"These cameras will show external views of the building as well as the main hallway,\" he wrote.", "Also, security procedures will be reviewed to ensure they are effective, he added.", "Tributes, messages, posters and cards that adorned a \"Wall of Hope\" for the missing 7-year-old boy were moved Tuesday from school property to a fence outside a nearby fire station, said the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.", "\"We're happy that the fire district can provide this service to the community,\" said Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Communications Officer Brian Barker.", "\"Our hearts go out to Kyron's family and we all hope for a positive resolution to this case.\"", "The criminal investigation into Kyron's disappearance has now entered its fourth month with no signs of the child.", "Police searches are ongoing as officials ask the public for tips and leads on his whereabouts.", "Kyron's stepmother, Terri Horman, who said she dropped him off at school on the morning of June 4, has been the subject of intense scrutiny for several months.", "In divorce filings, her ex-husband, Kaine Horman, said he believes that Terri Horman \"is involved in the disappearance of my son Kyron.\"", "Court documents also allege Terri Horman attempted to hire a man to kill her husband.", "Investigators are seeking anyone who may have seen a white pickup truck believed to have been driven by Terri Horman on the morning Kyron vanished.", "Thursday will mark Kyron's eighth birthday.", "Desiree Young, his biological mother, said she will celebrate the birthday by releasing red balloons outside a church in Medford, Oregon." ]	[ "Video cameras are being put in place at Skyline Elementary in Portland .", "Police continue to search and seek witnesses .", "Kyron Horman's father has said he thinks his now-ex-wife was involved ." ]	[ 2, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As Sen. John McCain prepares to promote free trade during a high-profile trip to Colombia and Mexico, a poll out Tuesday suggests the issue may be a political hurdle as the general election campaign heats up.", "Sen. John McCain's free trade stance could pose a problem in November, according to a new poll.", "According to the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, 51 percent of Americans view foreign trade as a threat to the economy -- the first time in a CNN poll that a majority of Americans report holding negative views on free trade.", "That compares with only 35 percent of Americans who felt free trade posed a threat to the economy in 2000, and 48 percent who felt it was a threat in 2006.", "Now, only four in 10 Americans say free trade presents an opportunity for economic growth, a sentiment that clearly makes the issue a challenge for McCain, especially in the crucial Rust Belt states most affected by the loss of manufacturing jobs over the last decade.", "\"It's possible that John McCain's decision to highlight his free trade position may wind up losing him some votes among Americans who feel threatened economically by competition from other countries,\" CNN polling director Keating Holland said.", "\"Recent polls in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan have shown McCain well behind Barack Obama.", "Calling attention to his stand on an issue like trade may be a part of the problems he apparently faces in those Midwestern states.\"", "The poll also shows that some of the key voting blocs McCain is courting are most against free trade.", "Women, older Americans and lower-income voters report feeling the biggest threat from unfettered trade.", "Many of these voters were particularly receptive to Sen. Hillary Clinton in key states during the Democratic primary as she increasingly developed an anti-trade stance.", "The survey results come as McCain, who is a strong supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement, heads to Colombia and Mexico to promote the advantages off a free trade policy and economic cooperation.", "He made a similar trip to Canada earlier this month.", "Campaigning Monday through Pennsylvania -- one of the crucial political battleground states most affected by the loss of manufacturing jobs -- the presumptive Republican presidential nominee acknowledged many voters disagree with him on the issue.", "\"I understand it's very tough.", "But for me to give up my advocacy of free trade would be a betrayal of trust,\" he told reporters Tuesday.", "\"And the most precious commodity I have with the American people is that they trust me.\"", "In another challenge for McCain, the new CNN survey indicates Americans continue to rank the economy as the most important issue in deciding their vote for president.", "Nearly six in 10 voters say the country's poor economic conditions will be extremely important -- ranking the economy as the No.", "1 issue in this campaign out of 15 issues tested in the poll.", "That finding represents a clear change from the beginning of this year, when the war in Iraq and the economy were tied as the top campaign issues.", "Now, the economy is eight points ahead of Iraq -- a fact that could pose a threat to McCain, who has admitted he is more comfortable discussing foreign policy issues than economic ones.", "Rising gas prices are also among voters' concerns, with nearly 50 percent saying the issue will play an important role in their vote for president.", "That number is just behind those that say the economy and Iraq are important, a clear sign that higher prices for gasoline are the primary reason for voters' economic worries, though not the only one.", "\"It also means that a significant number of voters are concerned about other economic woes, like the stock market or unemployment, rather than gas prices,\" Holland said.", "\"Unless there is a noticeable upturn in the country's economy between now and November, this election is likely to be dominated by economic concerns.\"", "The poll, conducted June 26-29, surveyed 906 registered voters and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points." ]	[ "New CNN/Opinion Research Corp.", "Poll released Tuesday .", "It suggests the free trade issue may pose a problem for McCain .", "Poll: 51 percent of Americans view foreign trade as a threat to the economy ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Contradictory reports swirled around the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, with one Iranian lawyer saying Monday that she had been whipped 99 times for another alleged offense but another casting doubt on it.", "A woman who was in prison with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani told lawyer Javid Houtan Kian that his client had been lashed over a newspaper photograph that, Iranian authorities thought, showed her without a headscarf.", "Iranian law requires all women to cover their hair, regardless of their religion.", "The Times of London ran the photo on its front page on August 28, identifying a woman in it as Ashtiani.", "It later apologized, saying it was not her.", "On Monday, the newspaper published an editorial calling the lashing an \"outrage.\"", "\"Ms Ashtiani has been imprisoned in Tabriz for five years,\" The Times wrote.", "\"The prison authorities know exactly what she looks like and therefore must have known that the photograph printed in The Times on August 28 was not of her.\"", "The newspaper also accused Iranian authorities of punishing her \"to make her suffer for an international campaign to save her that that exposed so much iniquity.\"", "Kian was not able to speak to Ashtiani, and neither the courts nor the prison would confirm the whipping, but he believes the other woman, he said Monday.", "\"I know what she is saying is correct.", "If she is making this up, then how did she know that the reason for the flogging was over a photo released in a foreign newspaper?\"", "he asked. Ashtiani asked the woman, who was released from prison, to tell her son she had been whipped, Kian said from Iran on Monday.", "He declined to identify the woman who passed the information to Ashtiani's son, saying it would put her at risk of further harassment by the Iranian authorities.", "Ashtiani's son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, corroborated Kian's report and said, \"I am very extremely worried at this point about my mother's life.\"", "He expressed concern that Ashtiani's death sentence will be carried out after the end of Ramadan, which falls Friday.", "Another lawyer associated with Ashtiani said Monday that he doubted reports about her lashing sentence.", "Mohammed Mostafei said in Paris, France, Monday that \"there was no evidence of a sentence of lashings.\"", "\"I spoke with an official in the judiciary in Iran.", "They said no punishment was carried out on her,\" he said later Monday.", "The Times says it got the picture from Mostafei.", "He said Monday that he sent the photo to the newspaper, \"but I did underline that this photo was not necessarily a photo of Sakineh; it was not confirmed.\"", "Mostafei spoke at a press conference alongside French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who said France \"will do everything in its power to make this case known and support Sakineh.\"", "\"Really this is a national case for us and the president said that France must defend Sakineh,\" Kouchner said.", "\"I'm making this a personal case and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to save her,\" he said.", "\"If it means going to Tehran, I will go to Tehran.\"", "Kouchner later said that he is making it a personal case \"because I'm a moral person [and] because this is barbaric treatment.\"", "Ashtiani was earlier sentenced to death by stoning after she was convicted of adultery.", "Iranian judicial authorities say a final verdict in her case has not yet been made, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported recently.", "In July, Iran's judiciary said the case was under review.", "CNN's Saskya Vandoorne and Becky Anderson contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The Times of London publishes a scathing editorial condemning Iranian authorities .", "An Iranian woman sentenced to be killed was whipped for another offense, a lawyer says .", "He says he heard it from a woman who was in prison with her .", "French foreign minister vows to help Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A blowout preventer that may hold important forensic evidence as to why it failed, triggering the world's largest accidental oil spill, has been brought to the surface of the Gulf and placed on a vessel, officials said Saturday night.", "The device \"was taken into custody by the U.S. Department of Justice as evidence in its ongoing investigation into the incident,\" BP said.", "The blowout preventer was lifted to the surface at 8:53 p.m. (9:53 p.m. ...", "Adm. Thad Allen, the government's national incident commander, said the huge blowout preventer \"is considered evidentiary material.\"", "The April 20 explosion killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig.", "A new blowout preventer was installed atop BP's plugged well late Friday.", "Crews had to flush out potential hydrates -- crystals that form in cold temperatures -- before the old blowout preventer was hauled about the Q4000 surface vessel.", "Joint investigation teams, engineers and the Department of Justice will pore over the recovered device.", "\"I'm very pleased to announce that with the new blowout preventer on [and] the cement that was previously put in ... this well does not constitute a threat to the Gulf of Mexico,\" Allen said earlier Saturday.", "He provided details on the installation of the new blowout preventer late Friday.", "\"This is an important milestone as we move toward completing the relief well and permanently killing the Macondo 252 well,\" he said.", "Once the new device is successfully tested, BP will drill the last remaining feet of a relief well to intercept the damaged well.", "Finally, the company will execute a \"bottom kill\" -- a measure that fills the well from the bottom with mud and cement.", "That is believed to be the only way to seal the well for good.", "\"Depending upon weather conditions, mid-September is the current estimate of the most likely date by which the relief well will intercept the MC252 well,\" BP said in a statement Friday, using the shorthand reference to the well's official designation, Mississippi Canyon Block 252." ]	[ "NEW: The failed blowout preventer is brought to the surface .", "A new blowout preventer has been placed on the capped well .", "BP will continue work on its Gulf relief well ." ]	[ 0, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain told supporters he will \"take nothing for granted\" after defeating former Rep. J.D.", "Hayworth in a bitterly fought Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona Tuesday.", "\"I ... will fight with every ounce of strength and conviction I possess to make the case for my continued service in the Senate, and the policies and principles I will advocate and defend if I'm fortunate to be re-elected,\" McCain said in his victory speech Tuesday night.", "McCain -- seeking a fifth term as senator -- was ahead 58.8 percent to 29.8 percent, with 20 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press.", "The race between McCain -- the 2008 GOP presidential nominee -- and conservative talk show host Hayworth started off nasty and didn't get any friendlier down the home stretch.", "Forced to spend $20 million in the campaign, McCain was driven to the right on some issues as Hayworth accused him of not being a true conservative.", "McCain is expected to easily beat any one of the four Democratic primary candidates in the solidly red state.", "In Florida -- one of four other states to hold primaries Tuesday -- millionaire political newcomer Rick Scott claimed victory over Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Republican primary for governor.", "In a speech to supporters, Scott, who spent $50 million of his own fortune since joining the race in April, alluded to the divisive nature of his fight against McCollum, the party-establishment favorite and former Congressman.", "\"Some of you may have noticed this was a hard-fought race.", "We talked a lot about our differences, but tonight it's time to remember those things that bring us together -- to recall our core beliefs and recommit ourselves to fighting for our principles,\" Scott said.", "\"The Republican Party will come together, and the reason we will come together is our shared devotion to the values that make America great.\"", "Scott was ahead of McCollum, 46.5 percent to 43.4 percent, with 96 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press.", "The winner will face a November general election against Alex Sink, Florida's chief financial officer, whom CNN projected will win the state's Democratic primary for governor.", "In a different race featuring a political veteran against a self-funded candidate with deep pockets, Rep. Kendrick Meek declared victory over billionaire Jeff Greene in Florida's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.", "Meek led Greene 57.3 percent to 31.2 percent, with 97 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press.", "Meek will take on Marco Rubio -- who won the Republican primary for Senate -- and Gov.", "Charlie Crist, a Republican-turned independent, in the general election.", "In an e-mail Tuesday night, Meek thanked supporters for lifting him past Greene, a billionaire real estate investor who was funding his own bid after making a fortune betting against the housing market.", "\"The pundits thought this seat could be bought.", "Our critics wrote us off.", "But together, you and I proved them wrong,\" Meek's message said.", "Meek used his victory speech minutes later to try and establish himself as the candidate for Democratic voters in November.", "He noted that he is \"running against two conservative candidates\" -- a clear swipe at Crist, who could siphon votes from Meek in November.", "\"I made the case, and I am the real Democrat in this race,\" Meek said.", "Crist, who avoided a primary battle with Rubio by announcing an independent candidacy, framed the three-way Senate race as a choice between him, the hard right and the hard left.", "\"If ... you want somebody who wants to fight the gridlock in Washington and put the people first instead of the party, [and] do what's right for Florida rather than what's right for Washington or right for just Republicans or Democrats, then you have an alternative,\" he told CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Tuesday night.", "Rubio told his supporters that Crist and Meek would be the candidates for voters who already \"like the direction that America is headed.\"", "\"If, on the other hand, you are unhappy with the direction that Washington is taking America ... then there is only one person running, there is only one campaign in Florida in 2010 that is offering to stand up to that agenda,\" Rubio said.", "Florida's Democratic primary for Senate and the Republican primary for governor were two races in which two deep-pocketed political novices came virtually out of nowhere this spring, but managed to transform a pair of primaries into two of the most outlandish contests of the 2010 cycle.", "Meek, a Democrat from Miami, Florida, had a clear path to his party's Senate nomination until April, when Greene decided to fund his own bid.", "Both campaigns quickly trained fire on one another, with Meek dubbing Greene a \"Meltdown Mogul.\"", "Greene linked Meek to an indicted Miami real estate developer and questioned Meek's commitment to Israel, a weighty charge in a state with a large population of Jewish voters.", "Republicans also were grappling with a divisive primary in the governor's race between McCollum, a former Congressman backed by the state's party establishment, and Scott, a millionaire former health care executive.", "Scott spent $50 million of his personal fortune since joining the race in April, mostly by blanketing Florida's expensive television and radio airwaves with advertisements questioning McCollum's conservative bona fides.", "He eventually stumbled on the campaign trail as he faced questions about his management of two health care companies that went on to face legal problems.", "Arizona's GOP Senate race also was bitter, with Hayworth insisting that after running to the right in the primary, McCain would seek to build his legacy by cutting deals with President Obama and the Democrats if re-elected.", "Fights over immigration fueled the race, as Hayworth and Tea Party activists challenged McCain's previous efforts at reform, which called for tougher border security, but included a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented workers.", "But McCain defended Arizona's new immigration law, State Bill 1070, and went on a six-stop statewide tour with Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer, whose signing of the bill earned her wide praise from conservatives, and made her the symbol of opposition to amnesty.", "On Tuesday night, McCain told supporters he was convinced that Republicans will regain majorities in both the Senate and the House.", "\"And when we do, we will stop the out of control spending and tax increases and repeal and replace Obamacare,\" McCain said.", "\"We will keep families in their homes, we will create new jobs and we will allow our businesses to grow without Washington interference.", "We will secure our borders, defend our nation and bring our troops home from Afghanistan with honor and victory.\"", "Other races: . -- Republican Gov.", "Jan Brewer of Arizona easily won her party's gubernatorial nomination Tuesday night, according to a CNN projection.", "Brewer captured 87 percent of the vote in the GOP primary election, according to early unofficial vote returns from the AP.", "-- In Alaska, incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, with one of the best-known political names in the state, is pitted against an unknown challenger.", "But attorney Joe Miller's campaign picked up the support of the Tea Party movement and the backing of former Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin.", "In a last-minute robocall for Miller, Palin went after Murkowski saying, \"Lisa Murkowski has voted with the Democrats more than any Republican up for re-election this year.", "She waffled on the repeal of ObamaCare, co-sponsored cap and trade and voted for TARP.\"", "But some think that endorsement of Miller is at least partly personal.", "Palin had tangled with Murkowski's father Frank and defeated him in the 2006 governor's race.", "The Tea Party made its support known again in the final hours, promoting the more than half-million dollars it put into Miller's campaign.", "-- Also in Alaska, voters decide on gubernatorial nominees.", "Gov. Sean Parnell, who replaced Palin when she resigned last year, faces two challengers in the GOP primary.", "Two Democrats are battling for their party's nomination.", "-- Longtime Republican Gov.", "Jim Douglas is retiring in Vermont, giving Democrats hope of competing for the seat.", "Five Democrats are running in what's considered a tight race.", "The winner will face GOP Lt. Gov.", "Brian Dubie.", "-- In Oklahoma, two U.S. House Republican nominations will be decided in a runoff.", "In the 2nd District, Republicans think they have a chance for a pickup this fall against conservative Democrat Dan Boren.", "And two Republicans are battling to likely replace Rep. Mary Fallin, who's running for governor.", "-- A 10-way Republican primary in the Arizona 3rd Congressional District race to replace retiring Rep. John Shadegg has attracted national attention because Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, is one of the candidates.", "The winner will face Democrat John Hulburd in the fall in the heavily red district.", "CNN's Peter Hamby, Steve Brusk, Rachel Streitfeld, Jeff Simon and Mark Preston contributed to this report." ]	[ "McCain's bid for fifth term still on track .", "Meek to face Rubio, Crist in Florida race for U.S. Senate in November .", "Scott defeats McCollum in Florida's GOP primary for governor .", "Five states had primaries Tuesday ." ]	[ 1, 7, 16, 53, 61 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Walking through the downtown hotels hosting DragonCon, it's remarkable how many costumes on display are influenced by Japanese animation.", "Dynamic hairdos, gravity-defying clothes and exotic weapons are the hallmarks of the dedicated anime fans who proudly dress up as their favorite characters.", "Such detailed imagery was not always a part of anime, but in 1988, Katsuhiro Otomo's movie \"Akira\" ushered in a wave of creativity that has inspired fans ever since.", "This supernatural tale of two troubled teenagers caught in the middle of a military coup impressed audiences around the world with its cinematic approach to chase scenes and explosions.", "\"When the theater version arrived in America, I forced my father to drive me two hours to Athens, Georgia, to see the screening -- which was in Japanese, with no subtitles.", "And I was blown away,\" said Joe Peacock, an author and passionate \"Akira\" fan.", "Peacock travels to fan conventions and animation companies such as Pixar to give lectures about the art and influence of \"Akira.\"", "Peacock is at DragonCon in Atlanta this weekend to show off his collection of more than 12,000 original production cels, backgrounds and layouts from \"Akira.\"", "Instead of dressing up like his favorite \"Akira\" characters, Peacock has tattooed scenes from the movie on his arms and leg.", "His devotion to \"Akira\" started with an unassuming, purple-hued background cel that opened his eyes to the level of art that is possible through anime.", "\"That piece is the lynchpin to this whole exhibit,\" said Peacock.", "\"When I found it, I didn't even realize it was part of 'Akira' at first because it was hidden behind all those layers of great art.\"", "Peacock said that because of this one picture, he realized, \"there are pieces of that film that you never, ever clearly see that rival any of the foreground visuals.\"", "Before \"Akira,\" anime seen in America was cheaply produced and relegated to Saturday morning cartoons, said Joe Wos, founder of Toonseum, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, museum and website devoted to the art of comics and animation.", "By offering mature art and story lines, \"['Akira'] saved anime,\" said Wos, who is collaborating with Peacock on the \"Art of Akira\" exhibit.", "\"When you see the film, your jaw drops.", "It's beautiful; it's an astounding feat.", "But you miss so much because there's fantastic art on top of fantastic art on top of fantastic art.", "When it's pulled apart and each layer is presented to you individually, you have a chance to fully appreciate the magnitude of the artistic effort that went into this.", "To look at one cel gives you an idea of how much work went into each and every cel.", "\"Akira\" is \"considered the pinnacle of animated art by a lot of aficionados,\" said David Kramer, co-founder of the Nichibei Anime Club.", "\"[The artists creating 'Akira'] actually hand-painted 160,000 cels to make the film.", "And a huge number of backgrounds, probably at least 10,000 backgrounds, I'm going to guess.", "The art was spectacular.", "It was a stunning film; it had a huge budget,\" he said.", "People visiting the exhibit tell Peacock and Wos that \"Akira\" has dramatically influenced their lives.", "\"For some of them, it introduced them to the fact that cartoons could be art, and then they began to pursue cartoons as an art form.", "For others, it really did speak to them on a different level, of these teen characters and the angst they were going through.", "And it spoke in a true voice.", "\"These weren't Disney teenagers who were waiting to be kissed by a prince.", "These were teenagers who were troublesome youth and needed an outlet to express themselves,\" said Wos. \"", "'Akira' blew my head apart when I saw it.", "It quite literally changed my life,\" said Yuri Lowenthal, a voice actor best known for his work on the animated series \"Ben 10\" and on English versions of anime such as \"Afro Samurai.\"", "\"I had never really seen anything like it, but after I did, you'd better believe I started looking for anything else like it I could find,\" he said.", "\"It was a game-changer for a lot of people, I think.\"", "\"Akira\" made it possible for anime to thrive in the United States, said Kramer.", "Before \"Akira,\" anime \"was exclusive, there were no major distributors, so fans would hand down third- or fourth-generation VHS copies with blurry subtitles,\" he said.", "But as entertainment companies began lucrative distribution operations in the 1990s and 2000s, the anime fan base became as diverse as the genre itself.", "One especially popular practice now is cosplay, in which fans dress up as their favorite anime characters, taking great pains to get the costume details exactly right.", "\"I think right now cosplay is the most active segment of anime.", "Fans love to go to the anime conventions and meet up with people from all over the country,\" said Kramer.", "\"Many people from Japan also go to these conventions, and they love to dress up as their favorite characters.\"" ]	[ "\"Akira\" ushered in a new wave of sophisticated and diverse anime .", "Many backgrounds created for \"Akira\" can be appreciated as standalone works of art .", "Joe Peacock is exhibiting his personal collection of \"Akira\" cels at Dragon*Con .", "Says one follower: \"Akira\" is \"considered the pinnacle of animated art ." ]	[ 7, 20 ]
[ "(Rolling Stone) -- This unholy mess replaces the artful ambition of \"The American\" with torture, blood spray, kinky sex, twisted fun and a bizarro critique of U.S. policy on illegal immigration.", "It's a digital gorefest that expands on the faux trailer Robert Rodriguez included in \"Grindhouse,\" the 2007 exploitation epic he unleashed with pal Quentin Tarantino.", "Peter Travers reviews \"Machete\" in his weekly video series, \"At the Movies With Peter Travers.\"", "Rodriguez and co-director Ethan Maniquis revel in the glorious sight of Mexican-American actor Danny Trejo as \"Machete,\" a former federale out to kill a drug lord (a never-lumpier Steven Seagal) and assassinate a corrupt Texas senator (a never-hammier Robert De Niro).", "Trejo, 66, looks like four miles of torn-up road, but here he is convincingly kicking pretty-boy ass and bedding hotties such as Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan.", "Is he redeemed? Your senses will be too numb to care.", "Just to hear Trejo deadpan the line \"Machete don't text\" is tasty compensation.", "Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone." ]	[ "Danny Trejo plays Machete, a former federale out to kill a drug lord .", "A never-hammier Robert De Niro plays a corrupt Texas senator .", "Trejo, 66, convincingly kicks pretty-boy ass ." ]	[ 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Detroit Mayor David Bing called Tuesday's 85 fires in the city a \"natural disaster\" and defended the fire department's response.", "\"I have ultimate confidence in the Detroit Fire Department,\" he said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference.", "\"I think they've done an outstanding job.\"", "Asked whether the department was adequately staffed or had enough equipment Tuesday, Bing said the important thing was that no one was hurt or killed.", "\"I don't care how much money you have.", "When something like this happens, all you can do is respond,\" he said.", "Fire Commissioner James Mack Jr. said the department is budgeted for about 500 firefighters, about 20 fewer positions than last year.", "About 236 firefighters fought Tuesday's fires across much of the city and took no breaks, Mack added.", "The inferno was a perfect storm, and was aggravated by high winds and downed power lines, the officials said.", "\"It just created a firestorm where we had fires,\" the fire commissioner said, adding that at least eight of the fires were linked to downed power lines and two to arson, though he said those numbers may change.", "He said response times might have been slow because of the volume of calls and officials having to prioritize the fires, especially if some were at vacant residences.", "Monday morning quarterbacking of resources is always easy to do, Mack said.", "\"I have to balance safety of public and the monies the department has.\"", "CNN iReporter Joe Wilk, who recorded video of flames and their charred aftermath Tuesday and Wednesday, said that one fire spread to about 10 homes in an hour.", "\"It's pretty tragic.", "How many people just lost their houses and everything they own?\"", "he asked. A woman told him that firefighters didn't arrive for an hour to fight the fire, which also destroyed garages.", "\"A lot of these fires were due to high winds and downed wires,\" said Karen Dumas, a city spokeswoman.", "\"We had winds from 30 to 50 mph and have a number of downed power wires,\" Mack said.", "\"We are attributing some of the fires to downed power wires, which makes more fires with the wind being so strong.\"", "Mack said that between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., the fire department responded to 140 calls of wires down before the evening outbreak.", "Fire officials said Wednesday that there were still hot spots and downed power lines in the city.", "Fire departments in the neighboring towns of Warren, Dearborn and Harper Woods helped Detroit firefighters.", "Mack said perhaps he should have asked for help earlier.", "\"It's a matter of public safety,\" Dumas said.", "\"We have enough resources to manage our daily demands, but that was an unusual and concentrated number of fires.\"", "City officials say they will be communicating with DTE Energy about its response to downed power lines.", "Bing said he was heartened by the community response.", "\"I want to thank the residents who came and did what they needed to do,\" the mayor said.", "\"That's one of the cultural changes we are starting to see here in the city.", "I think our community understands we are all in this together.\"" ]	[ "He defends fire department response, staffing .", "The fire department responded to 140 calls for wires down .", "85 fires were reported across Detroit over a four-hour period ." ]	[ 0, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Julia Roberts, star of the new movie \"Eat, Pray, Love,\" which tells the story of a soul-searching character, is now a practicing Hindu.", "Roberts, in an interview with Elle magazine, says she worships with her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, and their three children, People.com says.", "The family, she told Elle, goes to temple together to \"chant and pray and celebrate.", "I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.\"", "Roberts grew up in Georgia, the daughter of Christian parents.", "Other celebrities who have practiced Hinduism include former Beatle George Harrison, author J.D.", "Salinger and NFL player Ricky Williams.", "In her September cover interview, Roberts, 42, decries the use of botox and plastic surgery.", "\"It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons,\" she says.", "The star of \"Pretty Woman\" and \"Erin Brokovich\" also spoke about her relationship with her family.", "\"You make these people and you love them and you want them around for a thousand years,\" she said about her three kids -- 3-year-old Henry and 5-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel.", "\"And you want to be there for them for a thousand years.\"" ]	[ "Actress Julia Roberts has embraced Hinduism .", "She tells Elle magazine she will not undergo plastic surgery .", "Roberts speaks about her love for her children ." ]	[ 1, 7 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- A South African has become so fat on her diet of marshmallows that she's been taken to England to lose weight.", "She's \"quite a character,\" her new caretakers say, but settling her into her new home has proven tricky -- she's an orangutan who has never seen another of her species before.", "Oshine, the animal, arrived at the Monkey World Ape Rescue Center in southern England last week, the center announced on Twitter.", "\"We have a new arrival, very large & orange!\"", "the center said September 1 -- but kept details close to its chest.", "A day later, it said she was settling in well.", "\"Our new orange lady has spent the day in the nursery playroom today, she's doing really well but we have a long way to go, she is obese!", "That's what a diet of marshmallows does, the center tweeted.", "Weighing in at 100 kilograms (220 pounds), Oshine is \"the largest orangutan in Britain today,\" the center said.", "She weighs about twice as much as she should, it added.", "She'd been kept as a pet in South Africa for 13 years, the center explained.", "Her owner first contacted Monkey World for help in 2008.", "The center has been working to bring Oshine to England since then, it said.", "\"The care that she received in South Africa was effectively misguided love,\" Monkey World Director Alison Cronin told CNN on Wednesday from the center in Wareham, England.", "She explained that Oshine's previous owners had kept her as a pet, which she said is never a good idea with primates because they can become aggressive as they enter adulthood.", "\"Oshine's care became a problem because she was effectively left on her own for long periods of time during the day when the family weren't there to entertain her, and so they simply tried to keep her busy and happy by feeding her a lot of junk food -- so a lot of candy, a lot of sweets, and processed food,\" Cronin said.", "\"Because she was basically inactive and not flying around through trees and things, she put on an awful lot of weight, and now we have our work cut out for us here at Monkey World to get that weight off of her and to get her fit so that she, too, can become a breeding female and have a family of her own one day.\"", "Late last month, \"The Monkey World team went to Johannesburg, with a specially designed transport box, several days prior to the move\" so the orangutan could get used to being in the box.", "After two days of \"playing\" in the box, the door was shut for good and Oshine was on her way to a more natural life in England, the center said.", "Only on Wednesday did the center finally post pictures of Oshine, revealing her to have such an enormous belly it looks difficult for her to move.", "A second photo showed her in a cage being moved by forklift to her new home.", "The center is already itching to see progress, it admitted.", "\"It's very early days,\" its most recent tweet on Oshine says.", "\"I so wish I had a magic wand!\"", "Cronin said the orangutan would be put on a special diet and, with luck, would find a mate at the center.", "\"Now that she is at the park, we have her on a healthy diet of vegetables and fruits and she is getting a lot more exercise climbing through\" a section of the park designed for baby orangutans.", "\"It will take a few months for Oshine to reach a more appropriate weight and then she will be ready to meet a new man and consider a family of her own,\" she said.", "Orangutans have the slowest metabolism of any of the great apes, even humans, Cronin said, making it a challenge for Oshine to lose the weight -- but as long as she is \"getting all of the exercise and moving around as she should, the weight should start falling off naturally.\"" ]	[ "Oshine came from South Africa to England to lose weight .", "She's never seen another orangutan before, Monkey World says .", "\"We have a long way to go, she is obese!\"", "the center tweets ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- A brazen gunman wearing a porcelain doll mask robbed an Atlanta, Georgia, bank and made off with a stash of money, the FBI said.", "However, authorities said the bank robber waited a little too long to put on his mask.", "The FBI has clear pictures of him looking nervous as he enters the bank Tuesday morning before he donned the mask.", "The photos may be the key to catching him, according to authorities.", "\"Two very detailed photographs of the robber's face were taken by the bank's ATM machine just prior to the robber placing the mask over his face,\" the FBI said in a news release.", "The man entered the Chase Bank, put on the porcelain doll-type mask and jumped on the counter of the bank, brandishing a silver semi-automatic handgun, the FBI said.", "Close-up photos of the man taken before the robbery show his facial hair and prescription glasses.", "\"Sometimes, the investigators that work these bank robberies do get lucky in terms of the robbers doing something stupid, leaving something behind that is an incredible investigative lead,\" Steve Emmett, a spokesman for the Atlanta FBI office, told CNN affiliate WSB.", "The FBI is asking anybody with information to call its Atlanta office at 404-679-9000." ]	[ "The FBI says it has clear photos of the robber's face .", "The photos are detailed and show some of the man's features ." ]	[ 4, 6 ]
[ "(Rolling Stone) -- In its first season, \"Glee\" featured some weirdly eclectic song choices: Remember \"Thong Song\" and \"Sweet Caroline\" in the \"Mash-Up\" episode?", "But in the season-two premiere on September 21, the show will outdo itself.", "Rolling Stone has learned that the first episode will feature renditions of Jay-Z's \"Empire State of Mind,\" Lady Gaga's \"Telephone,\" Travie McCoy's \"Billionaire,\" and Poison's \"Every Rose Has Its Thorn.\"", "In true Gleek fashion, the cast will also perform two vintage Broadway musical standards -- \"What I Did for Love\" from A Chorus Line and \"Getting to Know You\" from The King and I -- as well as \"Listen\" from the film version of \"Dreamgirls.\"", "According to the series' music supervisor, P.J.", "Bloom, the episode's plot paved the way for the Jay-Z track: Having placed at the Regional competition in last season's finale, New Directions will travel to New York for the Nationals.", "\"So we needed a New York song,\" explains Bloom.", "He also says that the use of a second Gaga song -- after \"Bad Romance\" in the previous season -- is all due to co-creator Ryan Murphy.", "\"Ryan's a huge Lady Gaga fan,\" Bloom says.", "\"I suspect we're going to continue to look to her to be part of the show.\"", "The following week will see the premiere of the show's all-Britney Spears episode, which will include performances of five Spears songs -- although for now, no one's saying which ones.", "Bloom is also promising an \"additional recording\" for the episode, but is mum on details.", "(We're already picturing Spears and Matthew Morrison doing a Britney-and-Justin-style duet, but maybe that's just us.)", "In other \"Glee\" music news: Another soundtrack album could arrive as early as October, and Morrison is wrapping up his solo debut, due on Mercury Records early in 2011.", "Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone." ]	[ "The first \"Glee\" episode will feature renditions of \"Empire State of Mind\" and \"Telephone\"\nThe following week will see the premiere of the show's all-Britney Spears episode .", "Travie McCoy's \"Billionaire\" will also be featured ." ]	[ 2, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police in Ohio say a father cut his family off from the outside world, sexually abused at least one of his daughters and locked one child in a closet-sized room for a year.", "A grand jury has indicted Jeffrey York, 47, on charges that include rape and child endangerment, CNN affiliate WJW reported.", "Police in Madison Township, Ohio, revealed new details about the investigation to reporters Saturday.", "Authorities began investigating in December, when York's wife called 911 to report a sexual offense, Detective Dan Boerner said.", "When detectives arrived, she told them she and her seven children wanted to leave the home.", "Family members accused York of abusing them mentally and physically for more than a decade, Boerner said.", "\"The children who were of age for education were home-schooled for the most part, had no friends to speak of and no real outlets or resources to go to,\" he said.", "York locked one child in a tiny room for a year, Boerner said, letting the child out periodically to go to the restroom.", "\"In general, meals were brought to this child.", "Access to clothing, the restroom and everything was restricted by Mr. York,\" Boerner said.", "A grand jury has indicted York on charges that include two counts of rape involving a female under the age of 13, five instances of gross sexual imposition and six counts of child endangering, WJW reported.", "York has pleaded not guilty to the charges.", "The public defender representing York declined to comment when reached by CNN affiliate WEWS.", "Detectives who have worked on the case for months said the investigation is difficult to handle.", "\"There are just so many directions to go,\" Boerner said.", "\"It's not just one allegation involving one victim.", "It's multiple allegations involving multiple victims, so it makes it a little more difficult.\"" ]	[ "Police say their investigation began after the children's mother called 911 .", "Jeffrey York is accused of rape and child endangerment .", "He has pleaded not guilty ." ]	[ 1, 11 ]

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