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"London, England (CNN) -- Wayne Rooney ensured he hit the headlines for all the right reasons by ending his international goal drought during England's 3-1 Group G win over Switzerland in Euro 2012 qualifying.",
"The Manchester United striker was hit by allegations about his private life in the British press at the weekend but shrugged off the controversy to register his first goal for England in 11 games.",
"He converted Glen Johnson's cross to open the scoring before Manchester City winger Adam Johnson made it 2-0 in the second half after Switzerland's Stephan Lichtsteiner had been sent off.",
"Though 18-year-old Xherdan Shaqiri pulled one back for the hosts with a spectacular strike, Sunderland striker Darren Bent made the game safe with a late third for England.",
"In the group's other game Elsad Zverotic's goal was enough to hand Montenegro a surprise 1-0 in Belgium.",
"Managerless Portugal continued their disappointing start to the campaign as they were beaten 1-0 by Norway in Group H. Coach Carlos Queiroz is serving a six-month ban following an incident involving an anti-doping team before the 2010 World Cup and in his absence Portugal are struggling.",
"Erik Huseklepp scored the only goal of the game after 21 minutes to leave Portugal with just one point from two games as Norway went top.",
"Morten Skoubo netted a late winner for Denmark as they beat Iceland in the group's other game.",
"France bounced back from their shock defeat to Belarus on Friday by winning 2-0 against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group D. Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema opened the scoring on 72 minutes before Chelsea's Florent Malouda grabbed the second.",
"Elsewhere in Group D, Hamdi Salihi's goal gave Albania a 1-0 victory over Luxembourg while Belarus and Romania drew 0-0.",
"Miroslav Klose scored twice as Germany maintained their 100 per cent record in Group A by thrashing Azerbaijan 6-1.",
"Heiko Westermann, Lukas Podolski, Holger Badstuber and a Rashad Sadygov own goal completed the rout in Munich.",
"In Istanbul, Turkey made it two wins out of two in their qualification campaign as they beat Belgium 3-2 thanks to a late goal from Arda Turan.",
"Bayern Munich defender Daniel Van Buyten scored twice for Belgium, who had Vincent Kompany sent off.",
"Late goals from Roland Linz and Erwin Hoffer helped Austria to a 2-0 win over Kazakhstan in Vienna.",
"In Group C, Italy hammered the Faroe Islands 5-0.",
"Alberto Gilardino, Daniele De Rossi, Antonio Cassano, Fabio Quagliarella and Andrea Pirlo all got on the scoresheet as the Azzurri went top of the table.",
"In the group's other game a late goal from Nikola Zigic rescued a draw for Serbia against Slovenia.",
"Russia were beaten 1-0 at home by Slovakia in Group F. Miroslav Stoch scored the only goal for the visitors.",
"Elsewhere, Spurs striker Robbie Keane scored for Ireland as they beat Andorra 3-1 in Dublin, while Macedonia and Armenia drew 2-2.",
"Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored twice for the Netherlands as they beat Finland 2-1 in Group E. But Sweden are top of the group after they thrashed San Marino 6-0.",
"AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored two goals in the rout.",
"Hungary beat Moldova 2-1 thanks to goals from Gergely Rudolf and Vladimir Koman."
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"Wayne Rooney scores as England beat Switzerland 3-1 in Euro 2012 qualifying .",
"Managerless Portugal lose 1-0 to Norway as their poor start continues .",
"France bounce back from defeat to Belarus by winning 2-0 in Bosnia-Herzegovina .",
"Miroslav Klose scores twice as Germany beat Azerbaijan 6-1 ."
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"(CNN) -- The 28-year-old victim of an acid attack was released Sunday from a Portland, Oregon, hospital, a nursing supervisor said, nearly a week after an unknown assailant threw a cup of the caustic liquid in her face.",
"Bethany Storro was released from Legacy Emanuel Hospital, where she had undergone surgery for her injuries after the attack last Monday, according to the supervisor, who declined to give her name.",
"Storro credits a new pair of sunglasses -- bought just 20 minutes before the attack -- with saving her eyesight.",
"\"God is watching over me,\" Storro, of Vancouver, Washington, told CNN affiliate KATU in Portland, Oregon, last week.",
"\"I believe in him. That his hands are on me and I can't live the rest of my life like that -- in fear.",
"I can't let what she did to me wreck my life.\"",
"Vancouver police say they are looking for the assailant, described as an African-American woman with an athletic build and slicked-back hair pulled into a pony tail.",
"A composite sketch of the suspect was released last week.",
"Storro told KATU that she had stopped at a Starbucks about 7:15 p.m. Monday, just after she had gone back to buy a pair of sunglasses that she had seen earlier.",
"The woman walked up to her and said, \"Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?\"",
"When Storro declined, the woman threw the contents of the cup in her face and ran off.",
"Storro said she spoke about the attack because she wants people to see what the woman did to her and to help authorities find the woman before she assaults someone else.",
"The attack bears similarities to a 2008 case in London, England.",
"Katie Piper, a young model and television presenter, was leaving her apartment in a London suburb when she was attacked by a stranger waiting for her with a cup of sulfuric acid.",
"The liquid burned the skin on her face, neck, chest and hands.",
"She was also left blinded in one eye.",
"Her assailant was asked by Piper's former boyfriend, Danny Lynch, to throw the acid on her face because she ended their short relationship.",
"Both the assailant, Stefan Sylvestre, and Lynch are serving time in prison for the attack.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"28-year-old Bethany Storro was released from a Portland, Oregon, hospital Sunday .",
"An assailant threw a cup of acid in her face last Monday in Vancouver, Washington .",
"A composite sketch of the suspect has been released .",
"The attack bears similarities to a 2008 case in London, England ."
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday said a Florida church's plans to burn dozens of Qurans this weekend would be a \"recruitment bonanza\" for al Qaeda.",
"\"You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan or Afghanistan,\" Obama told ABC's \"Good Morning America.\"",
"\"This could increase the recruitment of individuals who'd be willing to blow themselves up in American cities or European cities.\"",
"Obama said he hoped the pastor, Terry Jones, understands that the planned burning is a \"destructive act\" that may have a dangerous fallout.",
"\"I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is talking about pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women in uniform who are in Iraq, who are in Afghanistan.",
"We're already seeing protests against Americans just by the mere threat of it,\" Obama said.",
"His comments came amid increasing international condemnation of the planned event on September 11 with the Presidents of Indonesia and Pakistan voicing their disapproval.",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wrote a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to stop a Florida church that said it will burn copies of the Quran.",
"Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed grave concern over the threats to burn copies of the Quran.",
"Terry Jones, the head of a small church in Gainesville, Florida, says he will go ahead with plans to burn Qurans on Saturday, to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.",
"In his letter to Obama, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged him \"to ensure that this hideous act is not carried out,\" said Teuku Faizasyah, a presidential spokesman.",
"\"It's a very dangerous situation and we are very concerned,\" Faizasyah said.",
"Indonesia, which has a population of 230 million and is the world's most populous Muslim state, is worried that burning the Muslim holy book would incite hardline Muslims in Indonesia and around the world, Faizasyah said.",
"Similar concerns are being echoed in Pakistan where there has been growing anger at the planned burning.",
"Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said anyone who thought of such a despicable act must be suffering from a diseased mind and a sickly soul, said spokesman Farhatullah Babar.",
"Zardari said it will inflame sentiments among Muslims throughout the world and cause irreparable damage to interfaith harmony and world peace.",
"Also on Thursday Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik called on Interpol, the international police organization, to stop the church from carrying out its plan to burn the Quran.",
"Meanwhile hardline Indonesian Muslims are threatening retaliation.",
"The Islamic Defenders Front, told CNN it will protest the planned burning and will issue a death sentence on Terry Jones, if he carries out his plan.",
"There is also increasing opposition to the planned event in the U.S. amid increased warnings that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans worldwide.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the planned burning.",
"Speaking Tuesday at an iftar meal in Washington to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Clinton said: \"I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths ... as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion makers.\"",
"Earlier this week, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, warned that the plan \"could cause significant problems\" for American troops overseas.",
"In response Jones said: \"We are burning the book, we are not killing someone.",
"We are not murdering people.\"",
"CNN's Kathy Quiano contributed to this report."
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"Obama says there could be serious violence in Pakistan or Afghanistan .",
"Obama: It could increase the recruitment of suicide bombers in America or Europe .",
"The pastor's plans are 'completely contrary' to American values, Obama says ."
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"(CNN) -- Sachin Tendulkar hit the fifth double century of his career to help India surpass Sri Lanka's huge first innings total as the second Test headed for a draw.",
"The man known as the \"Little Master\" more than lived up to his billing as he made 203 in India's mammoth total of 669-9.",
"Tendulkar was ably assisted by Suresh Raina who made 120 on his Test debut and captain MS Dhoni, who hit 76, as India finished day four 27 runs ahead in Colombo, leaving the likelihood of a result very slim.",
"Sri Lanka won the first Test of the three-match series in Galle when the retiring Muttiah Muralitharan produced a match-winning performance to become the first bowler to reach 800 Test wickets.",
"India began day four on 382-4 with Tendulkar on 108 not out.",
"By the end of the day's play they had added an extra 300 runs to crush Sri Lanka's fleeting hopes of victory.",
"Tendulkar and Raina quickly took India past the follow-on target of 442 as they put together a partnership of 256 -- the third highest fifth-wicket partnership for India in Tests.",
"Raina was the first to go after lunch when he was caught by Kumar Sangakkara off the bowling of spinner Ajantha Mendis for 120.",
"Tendulkar was eventually removed by Tillakaratne Dilshan, captain Mahela Jayawardene taking the catch.",
"The 37-year-old's knock took him joint-fifth in the list of double century makers in Tests.",
"Harbhajan Singh followed soon after Tendulkar for a duck but Abhimanyu Mithun proved a valuable companion for Dhoni as the pair put on 51.",
"Mithun was bowled by Mendis for 41 after taking India past Sri Lanka's total before Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ohja held firm until the close of play."
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"India reach 669-9 on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka .",
"Sachin Tendulkar hits 203 as India pass Sri Lanka's total of 642-2 declared .",
"Suresh Raina makes 120 on his Test debut as draw looks most likely result ."
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"(CNN) -- Wladimir Klitschko successfully defended his WBO and IBF world heavyweight titles on Saturday after stopping Samuel Peter in the 10th round in Frankfurt, Germany.",
"Ukranian Klitschko dominated the fight from the first round, using his height and reach advantage to pepper Peter with stiff jabs, causing his right eye to swell from round two.",
"From the fifth and sixth rounds Klitschko upped the tempo, increasing his work rate to put pressure on Nigerian Peter, 29, who slowed and looked increasing tired as the rounds progressed.",
"Peter had already fought - and lost - to both Wladimir and elder brother Vitali Klitschko.",
"Five years ago, the younger Klitschko hit the canvas three times in Atlantic City before he won a unanimous decision against the African fighter .",
"More than 50,000 fight fans packed the Frankfurt stadium on Saturday to watch what turned out to be a one-sided contest."
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"Wladimir Klitschko successfully defended his WBO and IBF heavyweight titles .",
"Klitschko stopped Smauel Peters in the 10th round ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso secured an emotional victory for Ferrari at their home Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday.",
"The 29-year-old started from pole position and delighted the \"Tifosi\" -- the name given to Ferrari's legion of passionate fans -- with a superb drive to finish ahead of world champion Jenson Button, with Felipe Massa third in the second Ferrari.",
"Button claimed the better start and led for the first 36 laps, but Alonso took the lead following a pit stop and held on for Ferrari's first \"home\" win in four years.",
"\"That was one of the great wins of my career, so emotional and so special for me and for this team.",
"For me it is there with my Spanish Grand Prix of 2006,\" Alonso told reporters.",
"\"Now we must go back to work -- we need to find consistency in the last five races of the season,\" he added.",
"Alonso's third success of the season, and 24th of his career, saw him close the gap at the top of the world driver standings.",
"The Spaniard is now on 166 points, 21 points behind new leader Mark Webber -- who overtook McLaren's Lewis Hamilton at the top of the standings despite finishing down in sixth place.",
"Hamilton crashed out on the first lap, meaning he now trails the Australian Red Bull driver with just five races still to go.",
"Sebastian Vettel finished fourth despite early engine problems and a remarkable final lap 3.3-second pit-stop.",
"Nico Rosberg finished fifth for Mercedes, ahead of Webber.",
"Nico Hulkenberg of Williams, Renault driver Robert Kubica, seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher and the second Williams of Rubens Barrichello completed the top 10."
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"Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso secures an emotional victory for Ferrari .",
"The Spaniard delights the Monza crowd by taking checkered flag in Italian GP .",
"World champion Jenson Button was second with Felipe Massa third in second Ferrari .",
"Mark Webber finishes sixth but takes over championship lead after Lewis Hamilton crashes ."
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"(CNN) -- An $8.5 million stimulus spending project to rebuild a little-used Montana border station is on hold because the station could become an outpost on a one-way street.",
"Canada has decided to shut down its side of the Whitetail, Montana, border crossing next year because fewer than five vehicles a day use the crossing.",
"The decision comes at the same time the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to spend spend the millions in stimulus funds to upgrade the border station.",
"The upgrade is part of a highly criticized decision last year that sent tens of millions of dollars in stimulus funds to revamp or rebuild border stations across Montana's northern border with Canada.",
"The crossing at Whitetail is the least used.",
"Canada estimates five vehicles a day cross the border there.",
"Vehicles crossing into the United States average as few as two a day at Whitehall, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection records.",
"The Department of Homeland Security has stressed the need for spending tens of millions of dollars in Montana to improve security along the border.",
"But in light of Canada's decision, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Rafael Lemaitre says the government \"is pausing construction at the Whitetail Port of Entry until September 1 in order to work with the Canada Border Services Agency to develop a joint solution that ensures the continued security interests of both countries.\"",
"The recent announcement by Canadian officials to close the station on their side of the border has brought sharp criticism about the stimulus spending plan from Montana's lone congressman.",
"Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Republican, released a statement saying, \"Montanans aren't happy about how their tax dollars are being wasted.\"",
"Rehberg has asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to once again review the plan to spend $8.5 million dollars on the border crossing, adding that its his job as a congressman to \"safeguard tax dollars, and I'm making sure this boondoggle doesn't slip through the cracks.\"",
"Even Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat who last year was one of the biggest supporters of the plan to spend millions on Montana's border crossings, is now backtracking.",
"Tester told CNN in August of 2009 that the spending would \"pay off for generations to come by creating new jobs and opportunity that would benefit all of Montana.\"",
"A spokeswoman for Tester says the senator now is asking for construction to cease until another review can be conducted.",
"\"A year ago, unilateral plans to close the Canadian side weren't part of the equation,\" Tester spokeswoman Andrea Heller told CNN.",
"\"The news that the Canadians are closing their side of the port changes the situation.\"",
"This is the second time plans for the Montana border stations have been put on hold.",
"Last year after CNN aired a report showing how little the state's border stations were used, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would review its plans.",
"The 60-day review ended with the announcement that the department was going ahead with its stimulus construction plan.",
"It is not clear if anyone at Homeland Security discussed Canada's plans as part of that review."
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"Whitetail, Montana, is a rarely used border crossing .",
"Five or fewer vehicles use the crossing either way on an average day .",
"Canada is planning to shut its side of the border post next year .",
"A stimulus spending project to rebuild the U.S. border station has been put on hold ."
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"Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Thursday in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, killing at least 17 people -- including an 18-month-old baby -- and wounding up to 123 others, local health officials said.",
"The vehicle blew up near a market in the city of Vladikavkaz, the republic's leader, Taimuraz Mamsurov, told the Interfax news agency.",
"\"Information that I possess indicates that the explosion in Vladikavkaz was organized by a suicide bomber, who drove a Volga 3102 car to near the entrance to the market,\" Mamsurov said.",
"The injured included 10 people in critical condition and 90 in serious condition, health officials said.",
"Investigators said the explosive device contained the equivalent of 40 kilograms of TNT.",
"The bomb was placed inside a vehicle parked at the entrance to the central market in downtown Vladikavkaz, with a suicide bomber sitting inside the car, said the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office, which qualified the attack as a \"terrorist act.\"",
"The device detonated at 11:20 a.m. (3:20 a.m. ...",
"The committee also said the bomb was stuffed with various pieces of metal to increase the human damage.",
"A natural gas canister, stored in the car's trunk, also detonated, the committee said.",
"The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry is sending special medical planes to Vladikavkaz to airlift heavily injured patients to Moscow's leading trauma clinics.",
"Friday was declared a day of national mourning in North Ossetia, according to a local government decree.",
"Flags on all regional buildings will fly at half-staff and all entertainment programs on local TV will be cancelled as well as concerts and theater performances.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking on national TV, pledged that all organizers of the deadly bombing will be identified and punished -- or killed.",
"\"We will do all we can to catch these monsters and animals ... who have committed a terror attack, a barbaric terror attack, against ordinary people.",
"We will do all we can to find and punish them in accordance with the laws of our country, and we will destroy them if they offer resistance or in other circumstances,\" Medvedev said.",
"Meanwhile, the owner of the car used in the bomb attack has been identified and arrested, a local police official told the Interfax news agency.",
"The detainee claims that he sold it to an unknown buyer on Wednesday, the policeman said.",
"The Russian government announced each family of those killed will receive 1 million rubles in compensation (more than $32,000).",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also condemned the bombing, saying, \"The crimes like the one that was committed in the North Caucasus today are aimed at sowing enmity between our citizens.",
"We have no right to allow this.\"",
"North Ossetia and the rest of the Caucasus region have been plagued with violence and political instability.",
"The market has seen other terrorist attacks in the past.",
"In November 2008, a suicide bomber blew up a bus at a nearby bus station, killing 12 people and wounding more than 40.",
"An explosion killed more than 50 people and wounded 300 in March 1999.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Up to 123 others were wounded, officials said .",
"An 18-month-old baby is among the dead .",
"Violence and political instability plague North Ossetia .",
"The car explodes near a market ."
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"(CNN) -- Football's ruling body is investigating reports that North Korea's national team and head coach were humiliated by government officials following a disastrous showing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.",
"The North Koreans, playing at the tournament for the first time since 1966, suffered an embarrassing 7-0 thrashing by Portugal and also lost to five-time world champions Brazil and the Ivory Coast.",
"The players, except for Japan-born Jong Tae-se and An Yong-hak, were summoned to a large auditorium on return to Pyongyang last month and subjected to a six-hour interrogation, according to Radio Free Asia.",
"Coach Kim Jong Hun was expelled from the Workers' Party and forced to do hard labor as punishment, sources told the station.",
"He was reportedly accused of betraying Young Gen. Kim Jong Un, the anointed heir of the regime's longtime leader Kim Jong-Il.",
"FIFA president Sepp Blatter told a press conference in Singapore on Wednesday that the governing body had made contact with the North Korean Football Association.",
"\"[We contacted them] to tell us about the election of a new president, and if it is true, the allegations made by the media that the coach and some players have been condemned or punished,\" Blatter said in quotes carried by the UK Press Association.",
"\"The first step is the federation and we'll see what the answer will be, and then we can elaborate on that.\"",
"Blatter said FIFA, which has strict rules about no government interference in member associations' affairs, was wary of making an official statement about the reports.",
"\"We once had a case in another country where it was said players were also condemned and under physical pressure, and we sent someone and it turned out not to be true,\" he said in quotes carried by the AFP agency.",
"\"So let's see what we hear before we make an official statement.\"",
"Blatter, who is in Singapore for the Youth Olympic Games' football tournament, also confirmed that the International Football Association Board would be discussing the possible introduction of goal-line technology at its meeting in October.",
"The issue came to a head again at the World Cup, where England had a goal wrongly disallowed against Germany and Argentina were awarded an offside goal against Mexico."
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"FIFA contacts North Korean FA to investigate reports of government interference .",
"Players reportedly faced six-hour critique in auditorium on return from World Cup .",
"Coach said to have been sentenced to hard labor after team lost all three matches .",
"FIFA has strict rules about no government interference with its member associations ."
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"(CNN) -- Indian pair Achanta Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha added another Commonwealth Games gold to the host nation's collection on Wednesday, beating Singapore in the men's doubles table tennis final.",
"The duo got off to a sluggish start at the Yamuna Sports Complex, losing the first game to Gao Ning and Yang Zi.",
"In front a passionate crowd, the home pair managed to battle back, eventually coming out on top 3-2 in the best of five contest.",
"\"This is the first time we have won the gold in men's doubles, so it's certainly historic,\" Sharath told the official Commonwealth Games website.",
"\"Personally, this has given me more satisfaction than my singles performance at Delhi 2010.\"",
"\"We decided to adopt an aggressive strategy and Sharath came back really strong after his semifinal defeat in singles.",
"We could not have expected anything better than this,\" Saha added.",
"In the pool, English diver Tom Daley won his second gold medal in two days, adding the 10 meter platform title to the synchronized diving crown he had already claimed in Delhi.",
"Daley had to battle with Australia's Matthew Mitcham throughout the competition, but the 16-year-old held his nerve to record perfect tens across the board in his third dive and beat the Olympic champion by 27.20 points.",
"Elsewhere at the games, Australia won a thrilling women's hockey final, clinching the gold medal after a penalty shoot-out victory against New Zealand.",
"Australia led twice in the match, with New Zealand fighting back on each occasion before Jessica Arrold converted the winning penalty for the Hockeyroos.",
"In the boxing ring, Manju Wanniarachchi won Sri Lanka's first gold in the sport for 72 years by defeating Sean McGoldrick, of Wales, in the Bantamweight class.",
"It was also a landmark day for Northern Ireland, who claimed their first boxing medals for 16 years as three of their men won title fights.",
"The triumphant trio of Paddy Barnes, Paddy Gallagher and Eamonn O'Kane ensured their country finished the games top of the boxing medals table.",
"On the cycling track, Scotland's David Millar and Canada's Tara Alice Whitten took the men's and women's gold medals respectively for the individual time trial.",
"In shooting, the men's skeet singles title was won by England's Richard Brickell after he beat defending champion Georgios Achilleos from Cyprus in a shoot-off."
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"India claim gold in the men's doubles Table Tennis competition .",
"Tom Daley wins a second diving gold medal for England .",
"Australia triumph in a dramatic women's hockey final .",
"Sri Lanka claim first boxing gold for 72 years ."
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"(CNN) -- Police in California have found a plastic-wrapped body that might be tied to a bizarre saga involving several homicides in the San Francisco Bay Area.",
"The body of Frederick Sales, 35, was found bound in plastic and hidden in a closet of a home, the Hercules Police Department said in a statement Saturday.",
"Sales' cause of death had not been determined.",
"On August 28, Sales' father, 73-year-old Ricardo Sales, was found bludgeoned to death with multiple puncture wounds in the same home, police said.",
"At that time, the younger Sales was reported missing.",
"An arrest warrant was issued for Efren Valdemoro after information came to light that he had an altercation with the elder Sales and his son the previous week, authorities said.",
"Valdemoro was killed in a shootout with California Highway Patrol officers August 31, authorities said.",
"He was also a person of interest in the killings of two elderly women in Vallejo, California.",
"The women were last seen August 25, according to a statement from the Vallejo police.",
"Police in Vallejo secured a house in which the bodies of two elderly women were found, along with a large amount of explosive materials, federal and local authorities said.",
"Valdemoro is believed to have been associated with both women, Vallejo police have said.",
"After he was killed in a shootout with California Highway Patrol officers, officials said they found the body of Cindy Tran, Valdemoro's girlfriend, in the trunk of Valdemoro's vehicle."
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"Police say the body of Frederick Sales was found hidden and bound in plastic .",
"Sales' father was previously found bludgeoned to death .",
"The suspect in the deaths was killed in a shootout with officers .",
"The body of the suspect's girlfriend was found in the trunk of his vehicle ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship late last month marked a turning point in U.S. foreign policy.",
"Did you hear about this summit?",
"Likely not, as headlines focused on the oil spill, the bomb scare in Times Square and the Supreme Court nomination.",
"And with the U.S. unemployment rate at nearly 10 percent, promoting prosperity abroad is difficult for the White House to tout at home.",
"Still, President Obama pledged in Cairo, Egypt, last June to build a new beginning with Muslim nations, and entrepreneurship provides an innovative new tool.",
"Obama was keeping his promise to deepen partnerships between the United States and the Muslim world when he invited 275 entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries to participate in the Washington summit.",
"Selected delegates came from more than 50 countries, including Iraq, India, Indonesia and Kazakhstan.",
"The gathering marked an important shift in foreign policy.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spoke at the event's conclusion, said \"the summit reflects the new approach to foreign policy that President Obama described last year at Cairo University, one that we have been putting into practice through partnerships based on shared values, mutual respect and mutual responsibility.\"",
"In the past, U.S. engagement with the Muslim world has focused primarily on defeating al Qaeda, ending the war in Iraq and deterring Iran's nuclear ambitions.",
"The summit broadened that strategy along the lines of the 9/11 Commission Report, which stated that the first phase of our post-9/11 efforts rightly included military action, but that longer-term success depended on the use of all elements of national power, including economic policy and foreign aid.",
"With more than 90 percent of children younger than 15 living in developing countries, engaging the next generation in the Middle East as well as in China, India, Brazil and other emerging economies is critical for the United States.",
"The United States needs to find partners in this burgeoning population.",
"If the goal of the summit was to get participants to collaborate, the buzz in the room provided a positive indication.",
"\"People are happy to be with each other,\" said Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture fund aimed at eradicating global poverty.",
"It remains to be seen if the summit will turn into more than a successful public diplomacy event.",
"What did participants gain from attending?",
"First and foremost, they had a chance to meet each other, build ties, exchange ideas and find others interested in partnering or funding their endeavors.",
"Abdulsalam Haykal, a Syrian entrepreneur, pulled a stack of business cards from his pocket and said, \"This is the start of a global network.",
"It's about connecting with people.\"",
"In their home countries many delegates received media attention for being selected; for entrepreneurs the chance to promote their organization provides a boost.",
"\"It is about shining a spotlight on high-impact entrepreneurs,\" said Linda Rottenberg, CEO and co-founder of Endeavor, a nonprofit that supports entrepreneurs in emerging markets.",
"Collaborating with an all-star cast of White House officials couldn't hurt either.",
"The White House rolled out the red carpet with Obama participating as well as Clinton, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, National Economics Council Director Lawrence Summers and Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of USAID.",
"While the administration aimed to \"galvanize\" entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries, these Muslim upstarts shied away from pigeon-holing into a religious or ethnic category.",
"When asked to define \"Muslim entrepreneur\" in a panel discussion, Tunisian business woman Douja Gharbi said, \"There is no difference between a Muslim entrepreneur and any other entrepreneur.",
"An entrepreneur is an entrepreneur. \"",
"For the White House, the purpose of the conference was to send a political message of collaborative engagement.",
"For summit delegates, however, the focus was on building their fledgling businesses.",
"Noticeably absent from the summit were U.S. entrepreneurs.",
"Of the Americans participating, most represented U.S. government, not business.",
"And, for Muslim entrepreneurs, the absence of their U.S. counterparts was a disappointment.",
"For many, the conference still marked a paradigm shift in public policy.",
"\"Obama has turned his Cairo vision into a reality,\" said Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core and a Muslim-American from Chicago.",
"\"At the same time, he has advanced the culture of entrepreneurship to an inflection point.\"",
"The summit spurred companion events outside of government.",
"In the same week, more than 30 partner organizations hosted events in Washington, including IBM, Cisco, the Kauffman Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institution and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.",
"As for next steps, Obama announced the administration's plans to launch exchange programs to bring entrepreneurs from Muslim countries to the U.S. and send their American counterparts to Muslim-majority countries.",
"The prime minister of Turkey said he will host the next entrepreneurship summit, set to become an annual event.",
"Commerce Secretary Locke announced an upcoming social entrepreneurship conference in Iraq.",
"Clinton announced four initiatives: .",
"-- The Global Entrepreneurship Program.",
"-- Partnerships with two Silicon Valley-based incubators.",
"-- The launch of Partners for a New Beginning.",
"-- A new effort called e-Mentor Corps.",
"These initiatives all aim to further catalyze ongoing collaboration through sharing of best practices.",
"Entrepreneurship is the new global engagement.",
"Last month, the U.S. reached out to upstarts in hopes that they will become new diplomats for change.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Amy Wilkinson."
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"Amy Wilkinson: Obama held summit to draw Muslim entrepreneurs to partnerships .",
"Meeting met Cairo pledge to take relations past conflict and into economic realm, she says .",
"She says 275 entrepreneurs from 50 countries networked, shared ideas, forged bonds .",
"Wilkinson: Entrepreneurship is the new global engagement ."
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"(CNN) -- A father who shot and killed his five children in their Washington state home before killing himself had argued with his wife over another man before the shootings, police said.",
"Authorities found five children, ages 7 to 16, dead in their Pierce County, Washington, home Saturday.",
"Authorities found the children, ages 7 to 16, dead in their Pierce County home Saturday afternoon, and the father, James Harrison, was found dead inside his SUV in adjacent King County, Detective Ed Troyer told CNN Radio Sunday.",
"Police said Harrison committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle.",
"Troyer said that on Friday night, Harrison and his 16-year-old daughter found his wife with another man.",
"The couple argued, and then Harrison and his daughter returned to the family home near Tacoma without his wife, Troyer said.",
"At the home, Harrison and the children held a family meeting with other relatives, Troyer said.",
"The relatives left, and later that night Harrison shot all five of his children -- four girls and one boy -- as they slept in their beds, Troyer said.",
"The children's mother was located after the shootings and was being counseled by a chaplain, Troyer said.",
"The family massacre comes just two months after a Los Angeles, California, father killed his wife, their five young children and himself after he and his wife were fired from their jobs.",
"And police are still investigating another family shooting last week, in which a Santa Clara, California, man gunned down six of his family members -- killing two adults and three children and wounding his wife -- before committing suicide."
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"Five children shot and killed in their Washington state home by father, police say .",
"Police say James Harrison then committed suicide with a rifle .",
"Detective: Harrison and daughter, 16, had found his wife with another man .",
"Children's mother located after the shootings, being counseled by chaplain ."
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"Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Beirut for his first state visit to Lebanon Wednesday.",
"Ahmadinejad was greeted at the airport by members of parliament, government officials and Hezbollah political leaders.",
"The streets near the airport were packed with people in a festive mood carrying Iranian and Lebanese flags.",
"The Iranian leader met Lebanese President Michel Suleiman at the Presidential Palace here and was scheduled to meet other leaders as well as leaders of Hezbollah's resistance movement.",
"The United States considers Hezbollah, which has close ties to Iran and Syria, to be a terrorist organization.",
"The Shiite group is a political party and a major provider of social services in Lebanon, but it also operates a militant wing.",
"Hezbollah has boasted of numerous attacks against American, Israeli and other Western targets.",
"Some Muslims see it as a heroic organization, successful in its stated objective of driving Israeli forces from Lebanon.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed concern to Suleiman about Ahmadinejad's Lebanon visit, according to a State Department spokesman.",
"But in southern Lebanon many were happy that Ahmadinejad was coming.",
"That could be seen in places like the village of Bint Jbeil that had been reduced to rubble by Israeli bombings during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.",
"The village is being rebuilt now largely do to money from Iran and Qatar.",
"\"What he's done for this country is amazing, the bridges, the roads, the financial aid.",
"My house burnt down, they paid me an amount for my furniture, they made up for my loss,\" said Mohamad Baydoun, a Bint Jbeil resident.",
"Iran was quick to infuse Hezbollahs coffers with cash, then handed out to residents who had lost their homes and otherwise been effected by the war.",
"It is also Iran that paved roads and built bridges.",
"The mayor of Bint Jbeil emphasized just how crucial Iranian aid to his country has been.",
"\"If it weren't for that money people may have not returned to their homes until now,\" Afif Bazzi explained.",
"\"The aid that Iran provided is considered one of the largest in helping rebuild after the July war, this money helped people a lot and that is why we saw people immediately returning.\"",
"Some experts say Ahmadinejad's visit is Iran's way of sending a clear message about its influence in the region, especially to the United States and Israel.",
"\"Of course that usually is portrayed to mean that the Iranians are going to warn how much trouble they can cause, but the flip side of the message has always been, especially in recent years, look how much good we can do, look how much influence we have to help restrain things,\" Middle East analyst Marc Sirois said.",
"Iran is undeniably part of Lebanese politics, a reality that has raised concerns among those who are fearful that an increased Iranian role could destabilize Lebanon and the region and embolden Hezbollah.",
"Analysts also point to the fact that Lebanon is the first front against Israel.",
"\"It (the visit) plays out the idea that the Iranians are a player.",
"That in the last active front line against Israel, the Iranians are the power behind the most active and powerful political actor in Lebanon which is Hezbollah,\" Sirois said.",
"The Israeli government has not formally responded to Ahmadinejad's visit but some say they view it as provocation.",
"Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry told CNN that Ahmadinejad's trip \"is taking the form of a land lord coming to inspect his domain.\"",
"\"Ahmadinejad makes no mystery of his view of Lebanon as Iran's border with Israel.",
"It is quite clear that he comes to the region with malice toward all, with intention to destabilize an already volatile region at the service of the aggressive and extremist ideology of the ayatollahs,\" Palmor added.",
"The Iranian president's planned visit to areas in Lebanon bordering northern Israel has led some in Israel to call for military action.",
"\"It is our responsibility to stop anyone who publicly calls for our destruction,\" said Israeli Knesset member Arieh Eldad from the far-right National Union party.",
"\"That responsibility means us doing something and not waiting for the world to do something.",
"If a situation arises in which Ahmadinejad is in the crosshairs of the IDF (Israel Defence Forces), he should be killed.\"",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Kevin Flower contributed to this ."
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"He is also expected to meet with members of Hezbollah .",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expresses concern about trip ."
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"(CNN) -- A Colombian has officially been declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records officials -- but his reign looks set to be short-lived.",
"Edward Nino Hernandez, who stands just 70.21 centimeters (2 ft 3.46 in) tall, inherits a title previously held by Chinese man He Pingping who died earlier this year.",
"But Hernandez is actually several centimeters shorter than Pingping, according to Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief of the Guinness World Records Book.",
"\"Not only is he a new shortest man, he's even shorter than the previous record holder,\" said Glenday.",
"Although Hernandez is formally recognized in the 2011 Guinness World Records book published this month, he is not expected to hold the title for long.",
"Khagendra Thapa Magar, a teenager from Nepal who stands 65.5 centimeters (2 feet 1.8 inches) tall, turns 18 on October 14.",
"Glenday said Pingping, who died in March aged 21, had been an iconic character.",
"\"As a result of that there was a lot of interest from the small community.",
"A lot of small men contacted us.",
"When we heard about Edward's claim we sent one of our representatives over to his home in Bogota.\"",
"Hernandez, 24, was measured three times a day, both standing up and lying flat, with his official height calculated as an average measurement.",
"The 24-year-old works alongside his parents and brothers at a family business manufacturing pajamas.",
"He likes dancing to reggaeton and salsa music, according to the Guinness World Records website.",
"\"I am very happy to be recognized as the shortest man in the world,\" Hernandez told the Guinness World Records website.",
"\"Every person is different and unique.",
"The more unusual you are the more you should fight and work harder.\""
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"Edward Nino Hernandez stands just 70.21 centimeters (2 ft 3.46 in) tall .",
"But a shorter Nepalese teenager is set to claim title on October 14 .",
"Title was previously held by Chinese man He Pingping who died in March ."
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"Dallas, Texas (CNN) -- At least four tornadoes spawned by Tropical Depression Hermine touched down in and around Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday evening, knocking down walls and smashing vehicles.",
"Sirens went off in downtown Dallas as one funnel cloud was spotted in Cockrell Hill southwest of downtown, according to CNN affiliate WFAA.",
"One tornado was reported in Ellis County and three in Dallas County, according to CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward.",
"Aerial footage from the area showed buildings in an industrial complex with walls knocked down and roofs blown off.",
"The roof of a tractor-trailer truck in a parking lot was caved in by cement blocks blown from a nearby building.",
"Are you there? Send your photos, videos to iReport .",
"A spokesman for the Dallas Fire Department said Wednesday night that damage seemed to be isolated to a warehouse district on Mockingbird Lane in the western part of the city.",
"There was one serious injury, Jason Evans of the fire department said.",
"A truck driver's rig was picked up by the tornado, spun around and slammed into a warehouse.",
"The driver was sitting in the cab of the truck when the front of the building collapsed on the truck.",
"Further information on the driver and his injuries was not immediately available.",
"CNN's Ed Lavandera: Eyewitness to a torndado .",
"Operations at Dallas' Love Field airport were shut down temporarily as a tornado approached the field, according to Lynn Lunsford of the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"Tower personnel were preparing to evacuate when the tornado turned away at the last minute, Lunsford said.",
"\"Tornadoes are a common phenomenon on the eastern side of landfalling tropical systems due to increased turning of the winds with height or vertical wind shear,\" Ward said.",
"Rescue workers across central and north Texas, meanwhile, plucked people stranded by fast-rising floodwater dumped by Hermine as it slogged northward.",
"At least one motorist in Austin was missing.",
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry directed the activation of state search-and-rescue capabilities, bringing in swift-water rescue teams, UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and other resources.",
"\"I urge all Texans to realize the dangers of crossing flooded roadways and respect the barricades put in place by officials to protect Texans' lives,\" Perry said in a written statement.",
"Forecasters had said most parts of central and eastern Texas and Oklahoma could receive 4 to 6 inches of rain, but the numbers for some parts of Texas were staggering.",
"Before the bulk of the storm moved out of Texas, Georgetown had received 13.2 inches of rain Wednesday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hydrometeorological Center.",
"Cedar Park had received 12.9 inches; Anderson Mill, 12.7 inches; Killeen, 11.6 inches; and Austin, 11.4 inches.",
"Fort Worth had recorded 6.8 inches of rain, San Antonio, 6.7 inches and Houston, 4.4 inches.",
"Aerial images showed scores of flooded streets and some rescues in Dallas.",
"Portions of Austin had endured 15 inches of rain, and a middle-age motorist was missing after her car was washed away, Emergency Management spokeswoman Reyne Telles said.",
"The car was found. Thirty-two roads were closed, and an engineer from the watershed department said this could be a 250-year event, Telles told CNN.",
"\"I haven't seen anything like this happen here before,\" said an employee at a County Line BBQ location near Bull Creek.",
"\"One of the boat docks washed away, and there are boats and cars stranded in the river.\"",
"The restaurant was closed Wednesday but may reopen Thursday.",
"The employee asked not to be identified.",
"As of 5 p.m. ET, Hermine was about 135 miles (215 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City.",
"It had maximum sustained winds of 25 mph (40 kph) and was moving at 12 mph (19 kph).",
"By late afternoon, radar showed the rain was centered on eastern Oklahoma, with a line extending down to the Mexican border in eastern Texas.",
"\"Additional rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 Inches with localized higher amounts can be expected through Thursday from eastern Texas and Oklahoma into Missouri and Arkansas,\" the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Flash flood or flood warnings were in effect for much of those states.",
"Meanwhile, newly formed Tropical Storm Igor was bringing \"squally\" weather to the Cape Verde Islands on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Track Tropical Storm Igor .",
"As of 4 p.m. ET, the center of Igor was about 75 miles (120 kilometers) south-southwest of Praia in the Cape Verde Islands.",
"It had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) and was moving west at 6 mph (9 kph).",
"The storm is expected to slowly strengthen over the next 48 hours, with a slight turn to the west-northwest and an increase in forward speed.",
"A tropical storm watch was in effect for the southern Cape Verde Islands, including Maio, Sao Tiago, Fogo and Brava.",
"Tropical storm conditions were possible in those locations in 12 to 24 hours, forecasters said.",
"Tropical storm-force winds extended about 50 miles from Igor's center.",
"Forecast maps show Igor becoming a Category 2 hurricane early next week over the open Atlantic.",
"CNN's Sean Morris contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Truck driver seriously hurt when rig picked up .",
"Female motorist missing in Austin, Texas .",
"Rescue crews busy in Dallas, Fort Worth .",
"Tracking maps show Igor reaching Category 2 status over the Atlantic ."
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"(CNN) -- Maria Sharapova swept past seventh seed Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals of the $2 million WTA tournament in Cincinnati.",
"The former world number one fought off a determined opponent and stifling heat in Ohio to record a 6-2 6-3 victory in their third round match.",
"Sharapova, seeded 10th, secured two breaks of service to claim the opening set, but was pushed harder in the second by her Polish opponent, who had two break points in the third game.",
"Sharapova saved them both and broke through in the sixth game as she took a 4-2 lead with an exquisite lob.",
"The Russian ace held service comfortably to secure victory on her third match point after just over an hour and a half on court.",
"Sharapova is making her first appearance at the tournament and faces a tough last eight clash against France's Marion Bartoli, who beat second seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-4 6-1 in an earlier upset.",
"Top seed Jelena Jankovic also departed Thursday as she was beaten 7-6 6-4 by qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan.",
"But fellow Serbian and another former world number one, Ana Ivanovic, continued her fine play with a 6-0 6-3 rout of Elena Vesnina.",
"Ivanovic will next play Amanmuradova, who reached the semifinals of the event in 2007.",
"12th-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer also made the quarters by beating the eighth seed Li Na 2-6 6-2 7-6 in a thrilling three-setter.",
"Italy's Flavia Pennetta beat sixth seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-4 6-3.",
"She will play the winner of the night match between reigning U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters and American wild card Christina Mchale from New Jersey."
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"Former world number one Maria Sharapova into quarterfinals of WTA event in Cincinnati .",
"Sharapova beats Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets 6-2 6-3 in third round .",
"Top seed Jelena Jankovic crashes out to Uzbek qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The new English Premier League season kicks off with the first round of fixtures this weekend - Fanzone details what to expect from the new campaign: .",
"So what's new? There is no doubting the biggest Premier League news of the close season was Rafa Benitez leaving Liverpool to join European Champions League holders Inter Milan.",
"With the increasingly cranky Spaniard gone, Liverpool plumped for Roy Hodgson who defied the odds last term by taking little old Fulham to the UEFA Cup final.",
"Hodgson has arrived at Anfield bearing gifts: Chelsea's out-of-contract midfielder Joe Cole, who joined the Reds swapping places with the Israeli Yossi Benayoun, and Danish hard man Christian Poulsen.",
"Frugality, however, clearly remains the order of the day in English football.",
"That is apart from big spending Manchester City who continued to sprinkle some much needed glitz into the title race with big-name signings such as Yaya Toure, David Silva and Jerome Boateng.",
"Such an outlay means that Roberto Mancini will now be under tremendous pressure to deliver a top-four finish.",
"If City are going to upset the status quo they will need to stop the Chelsea juggernaut.",
"Last season the London side boasted easily the league's strongest squad -- particularly up front where they were able to draw on the goal-scoring abilities of Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka.",
"This term they will benefit should Brazilian international midfielder Ramires replace Michael Ballack but the move of Ricardo Carvalho to Real Madrid could prove a major loss.",
"The red half of Manchester continues to take a cautious approach to their spending with Alex Ferguson opting for talented young prospects to boost his squad with the likes of Fulham defender Chris Smalling, Mexican forward Javier Hernandez and Portuguese striker Bebe.",
"Arsenal spent the close season battling to hold onto their captain Cesc Fabregas while attempting to plug the gaps in an already porous defence created by the departure of William Gallas, Sol Campbell, Philippe Senderos and Mikael Silvestre.",
"Initial signs from Arsenal's preseason suggest that Arsene Wenger may have once again pulled a couple of rabbits out of his hat with the signing of new boys Laurent Koscielny and Marouane Chamakh.",
"Arsenal will have to be on top of their game if they are to once again keep the likes of Manchester City and Champions League debutants Tottenham Hotspur from overtaking them.",
"If being relatively hard-up wasn't enough of a cross to bear for the Premier League's football bosses, they have also had to deal with a new 'home-grown' ruling which demands squads must contain no more than 25 players over 21 with eight of those having spent at least three years in England from under the age of 21.",
"The aim of this new law is to encourage young talent in the British game and to prevent the stockpiling of foreign stars.",
"Take note, Roberto Mancini.",
"Key players: When all was said and done last season, Chelsea won the title because they could rely on the goal-scoring heroics of two world class strikers: Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka.",
"When one was injured or out of sorts, the other would come into the team and do the business.",
"No other side could boast such an embarrassment of riches especially in these financially difficult times.",
"Ferguson will need at least one of Dimitar Berbatov, Michael Owen, Federico Macheda or Javier Martinez to help lessen the burden on Wayne Rooney if United are to wrestle the title back from Chelsea.",
"Meanwhile, if Liverpool are to fire their way back into the Champions league, new boy Milan Jovanovic, who turned down Real Madrid to join the Anfield outfit, will need to offer the kind of goal threat that the side so often lacked in the absence of Fernando Torres.",
"Key clubs: Once again, all eyes will be on Manchester City to see if they can maintain an assault on the top spots.",
"Last season, many of their new signings failed to gel and a lack of consistency saw Tottenham seize that crucial Champions League slot.",
"City's squad looks considerably stronger this season with a number of big name signings.",
"Their bid for European football may be made easier if Spurs struggle to cope with the increased demands of playing in Europe.",
"Outside of Manchester United and Chelsea, the only club who could conceivably make a bid for the title are Arsenal.",
"However, unless Arsene Wenger can fix his side's defensive frailties, a lack of steel could prove to be their undoing again.",
"At the other end of the table, the Premier League welcomes back Newcastle United who spent last season in the Championship but returned as worthy champions.",
"The Magpies are joined by perennial yo yo club West Bromwich Albion and Blackpool who are led by the ever entertaining Ian Holloway.",
"The team known as \"The Tangerines\" -- due to their bright orange kits -- may not be expected to gain many points this coming season but should be entertaining.",
"Expert view: CNN's Alex Thomas - \"12 months ago, I correctly predicted that Chelsea would stop Manchester United's run of Premier League triumphs -- but that doesn't make it any easier to pick this season's English champions.",
"\"Chelsea's squad is still strong, although their defense is weaker now that Ricardo Carvalho has left and Alex is injured.",
"And I'm not convinced by Branislav Ivanovic at center half.",
"\"However, the Blues should be stronger in attack if Florent Malouda and Salomon Kalou build on the improvement they showed last season, while Michael Essien and Jon Obi Mikel will benefit from the extra rest after injuries prevented them playing at the World Cup.",
"\"Although plenty of experts predict an open race for the Premier League title, it's hard to see anyone but Manchester United pushing the champions by the time we get to the dying weeks of the season.",
"\"Even Alex Ferguson admitted his team missed Cristiano Ronaldo last season but wingers Nani and Antonio Valencia will only get better and the club has bought well.",
"If they add an attacking midfielder to their squad they are my pick to win back the title.",
"\"The other two places in the top four will be contested by the usual suspects and I see money talking loudest, with Manchester City finishing behind United and Chelsea but above Arsenal and Tottenham.",
"\"Liverpool will have a fight on their hands to improve one place to sixth, with Merseyside rivals Everton their closest challengers.",
"Martin O'Neill's late exit has shot Aston Villa in the foot.\""
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"Champions Chelsea still the team to beat thanks to Drogba/Anelka strike force .",
"Roberto Mancini under heightened pressure to challenge for the title .",
"Manchester United's new striker Javier Fernandez must lessen goal-scoring burden on Wayne Rooney ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan showed little emotion as a deputy put her in handcuffs in a Beverly Hills, California, courtroom Tuesday morning to take her to jail to begin what it expected to be a two-week stay.",
"The actress, wearing a top that exposed part of her back, was surrounded by deputies and was quickly walked to a nearby side door labeled \"secure area.\"",
"\"We love you, Lindsay,\" her father, Michael Lohan, said as she disappeared.",
"Lohan was \"cooperative\" as she was booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility about an hour later, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.",
"Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel had ordered Lohan to report to the courtroom to begin serving a sentence for a probation violation.",
"Revel ordered that Lohan not be allowed to leave jail on a work-release or house-release program or with electronic monitoring during her sentence.",
"The judge said, however, she has no control over how much of the 90-day sentence Lohan will end up serving.",
"The sheriff, who runs the jail, has the power to release prisoners early because of jail overcrowding.",
"Lohan should be released from jail after between 13 to 15 days \"unless something unusual happens,\" Whitmore said.",
"He said it was routine for inmates who qualify for good behavior credits in jail to only serve 25 percent of their sentence.",
"Lohan must enter a substance-abuse rehabilitation program within 24 hours of leaving jail, Revel said.",
"\"I would like the transition to be sooner rather than later,\" she said.",
"The judge placed tight restrictions on what the public would be able to see at Tuesday's hearing.",
"While the world watched as Lohan, 24, broke down in tears at her sentencing July 6, the public was not able to see the actress handcuffed and taken into custody Tuesday.",
"Cameras stopped rolling when the judge announced that Lohan was to be taken into custody.",
"The judge also ordered that photos of Lohan must be restricted to those that showed her at the counsel table.",
"The actress was ordered to serve 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation.",
"She was also sentenced to spend 90 days in the drug and alcohol rehabilitation program after her jail term is completed.",
"Lohan's next court date will come a week after her release from jail, although if she is in a rehab program her lawyer can appear without her, the judge said.",
"Michael Lohan, whose estrangement from his daughter has been very public, sat two rows behind Lohan during the sentencing.",
"His lawyer told reporters after the hearing that he was \"devastated\" that she was going to jail.",
"The actress will be \"treated just as any other\" inmate in the jail, although she will have her own cell and remain apart from the general inmate population, the sheriff's spokesman said.",
"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 Tim Hart, Jack Hannah and In Session's Grace Wong contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Sheriff's spokesman says Lohan will likely serve just 2 weeks .",
"Lohan is called \"cooperative\" while being booked .",
"Lohan begins serving probation violation sentence .",
"The actress shows little emotion as she is handcuffed and led away ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Sarah Shourd, one of three American hikers detained in Iran for more than a year, could be released as early as Monday once $500,000 is submitted to the Iranian judiciary.",
"\"Everything is in place for the release,\" said lawyer Massoud Shafii, who got to see the hikers for the first time on Sunday.",
"\"It's up to the family when to deliver the money.\"",
"The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported earlier Sunday that Shourd will be released if bail worth about $500,000 for her is submitted to the Iranian judiciary.",
"\"We are waiting for the bail set for Sarah Shourd to be deposited by (the) Swiss embassy in Iran,\" Shafii told the semi-official Iran Students' News Agency (ISNA) Monday.",
"\"... During my meeting with the client's family, we agreed to take measures for her release as soon as the money is provided.\"",
"Shafii said of Shourd on Sunday, \"Naturally she was happy, but her wish is for all three to be released together.\"",
"He met the Americans at Tehran's Evin prison after the prosecutor for Tehran's Revolutionary Court announced the offer to release Shourd on bail.",
"\"I saw them and spoke to them,\" Shafii told CNN.",
"\"They were doing well.\" Shafii said he doesn't know when exactly the release would take place.",
"Samantha Topping, a representative for the mothers of the hikers, said they are still taking in the news and are not yet making public comments.",
"Topping had no comment on the bail money.",
"Switzerland, which represents U.S. interests in the country, had little information to release Sunday.",
"\"Technicalities demanded by the attorney general are currently under consideration by the embassy in Tehran,\" Swiss Ambassador Livia Leu-Agosti told CNN.",
"Shourd had a pre-existing gynecological problem, but her family says she now also has a lump in her breast, according to Shafii.",
"She still could be charged, and authorities would still expect her to come back to Iran for a trial.",
"But other foreigners who have been released on bail after imprisonment in Iran have left the country and not come back.",
"Iranian officials had announced Thursday that Shourd would be released on Saturday, at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.",
"But state media announced Friday that the release had been called off because legal procedures had not yet been resolved.",
"On Sunday, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced the country's \"readiness for the conditional release of one of the three U.S. citizens arrested for illegally entering the country,\" state-run Press TV said.",
"A judge decided to allow Shourd to be released on bail because of an ailment, Dolatabadi said, according to IRNA.",
"Dolatabadi said Shourd would be free after bail is paid, but needs to take part in the trial when it is held, according to ISNA.",
"Shourd, 32, Shane Bauer, 28, and Josh Fattal, 28, were detained July 31, 2009, after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while hiking in Iraq's Kurdistan region.",
"Tehran has accused the three hikers of spying.",
"Iran's intelligence minister has hinted the country may consider releasing them in exchange for the release of Iranian prisoners, according to state news outlets.",
"Dolatabadi said authorities completed investigations on espionage charges against the three Americans over the past several days and the indictments have already been issued by the judge in charge of the case, IRNA reported.",
"He said the arrest warrants have been issued for Bauer and Fattal.",
"The hikers' families' website, freethehikers.org, said Shourd has been in solitary confinement, able to meet for only two 30-minute periods per day with Bauer, who is her fiance, and Fattal.",
"The two men share a cell.",
"All three Americans are graduates of the University of California, Berkeley.",
"They have been able to telephone their families only once, on March 9.",
"The United States and Iran have had no diplomatic relations for three decades, and Washington is not involved in moves to free Shourd, a State Department spokesman said Sunday.",
"\"We are in wait-and-see mode.",
"We want all three hostages released and returned,\" State Department spokesman Fred Lash told CNN.",
"The State Department is monitoring the situation, but all diplomacy is being handled by the Swiss Embassy, he said.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr, Reza Sayah, Tenisha Abernathy, Ross Levitt, Susan Candiotti and Nunu Japaridze contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- First-degree murder charges have been filed against a man who Baltimore, Maryland, police believe killed an off-duty detective by striking him in the head during a dispute over a parking space, authorities said Sunday.",
"Sian James, 25, is suspected in the death of Brian Stevenson, an 18-year police veteran, who was out celebrating his 38th birthday with a friend late Saturday night when an argument ensued over a parking spot outside a restaurant, police said.",
"According to witnesses, James picked up a piece of concrete and threw it at Stevenson, hitting him in the head.",
"The attack occurred around 10 p.m. Stevenson was rushed to Johns Hopkins hospital, where he died.",
"Police say James fled the scene and was apprehended later at a nearby night club.",
"\"Dozens of officers, investigators and civilian personnel put their lives on hold and worked throughout the night to identify Mr. James as a suspect and bring him to Justice.",
"I'm very proud and honored to lead such a dedicated group of public safety professionals,\" said Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld.",
"He described Stevenson as a \"fantastic\" detective.",
"\"To lose his life in this manner is senseless,\" Bealefeld said at a press conference early Sunday morning.",
"\"Detective Stevenson was a good man, a good investigator and a great public servant to the people of Baltimore,\" he said.",
"\"His death is an incredible tragedy to not only his family, but to the entire city and to every man and woman who wears the police uniform.\"",
"It was not immediately clear whether the attacker knew Stevenson was a police detective."
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"NEW: Police say first-degree murder charges are filed against 25-year-old Sian James .",
"Police identify the deceased detective as Brian Stevenson .",
"The officer was out celebrating his 38th birthday .",
"He was bludgeoned with a piece of concrete, police say ."
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"(CNN) -- Actress Eva Mendes volunteers regularly with The Art of Elysium, an organization that enables actors, artists and musicians to share their talents with children who are battling serious medical conditions.",
"She was also a presenter at \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" in 2009.",
"Mendes recently sat down to talk to CNN producer Quinn Brown about CNN Heroes and her philanthropy.",
"Below are excerpts from that interview.",
"Quinn Brown: What inspired you to get involved with The Art of Elysium?",
"Eva Mendes: I'm a sucker for kids, and I also know the importance of art and what it can do to someone's life.",
"Coming from a low-income family, I didn't know that art was this release ... so it's really important for me to make sure that kids know: \"You have a voice.",
"You can put this to paper. ... You can put this to canvas.\"",
"What we do is we bring the arts, in any way we can, into hospitals.",
"Some of these children have been bedridden for years, so they obviously can't go out and play.",
"So we sing. We read to the children.",
"We finger-paint -- that's a really fun one -- and it's amazing what you see.",
"You get a real direct, immediate result.",
"These children, they're just these beautiful little souls.",
"Some of these kids can't speak, so they really just have their eyes and their souls to communicate.",
"And when you finger-paint with a kid or you dance and you see their little eyes light up, it's pretty incredible.",
"And when you start visiting them on a regular basis, you see their growth.",
"It's really quite special.",
"Brown: Has there been a particular child who inspired you?",
"Mendes: David is one of the most creative souls I've ever met.",
"He ends up writing a play every year for Christmas, and we end up all acting in it.",
"David has now written three plays for me.",
"He's a demanding director.",
"David's face is completely deformed, and he has a lot of internal problems and health issues due to his deformities.",
"He's this awesome kid who's found a purpose and who's found a voice through The Art of Elysium.",
"Brown: It sounds like you're pretty involved.",
"Mendes: I would love to say that I give selflessly, but that's not true; what I get back is tenfold.",
"My vocabulary doesn't even contain the words I feel once I leave the hospital.",
"There is total sense of purpose and fulfillment that I feel that I don't get from any other area of my life.",
"It's a two-way deal.",
"It's just so gratifying. Brown: Do you have any heroes?",
"What is a hero to you? Mendes: Charity and giving back begins at home, and that is really important to remember.",
"You can be out there saving the world, but if you're not trying to save your own family and doing the work at home, it doesn't really make any sense.",
"You asked me who my hero is -- my mom.",
"She is a survivor in every sense of the word, and it began at home with her.",
"She is a very compassionate woman, and she always taught me to think about other people.",
"As bad as things were for us, there was always someone who was worse off.",
"That always put me in a state of gratitude, and I thank her for that.",
"But that, to me, is a hero. A woman who is a survivor and doesn't let life beat them down.",
"Brown: Moving onto CNN Heroes, you were a presenter at \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" last year.",
"How did that compare to other awards shows you've been to?",
"Mendes: Can I say a bad word?",
"It wasn't full of s---. It was real. It was inspiring. I left that night feeling like I wanted to change the world right then and there.",
"It was beautiful because you have all of these people coming together, swapping stories and ideas.",
"It was just amazing to have all of these \"good-doers\" in one room together.",
"It's a lot of power. It's a lot of energy, and that's inspiring.",
"Brown: What was it like to see all of those heroes?",
"How did it affect you personally?",
"Mendes: It makes me realize that, due to this celebrity thing, I do have a light that follows me around.",
"So what I choose to do with that light is shine it on other things that are important, not just what I'm wearing. ...",
"So it just keeps everything in perspective and makes me realize my purpose as well and the purpose of this crazy thing called celebrity."
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"Washington (CNN) -- For most divers, a shark in the water can inspire fear, or even dread.",
"Greg Marshall wanted to hitch a ride.",
"More specifically, Marshall was inspired by the shark's constant companion, a remora -- a torpedo-shaped fish that commonly catches a ride by sucking onto the shark's rough skin and thriving on the shark's leftovers.",
"Marshall thought to himself: What if you had a camera as small as a remora?",
"What if you could stick a camera on a shark so that the shark goes about its life, unaware that its actions were being recorded away from the distractions of photographers in scuba suits?",
"Where would it go, and what would you see?",
"For a naturalist, being able to observe animal behavior without interfering with the world the animal inhabits by the simple act of being there is the gold standard.",
"In scientific terms, it's similar to a control in an experiment.",
"But that goal is usually unobtainable -- observing how an animal acts in captivity, for example, is no indication of how an animal actually behaves.",
"Observing that behavior in the wild, Marshall says, is equally problematic.",
"\"When we're in an animal's habitat, they know we're there,\" he says.",
"\"And they're reacting to us.\"",
"And knowledge of an animal's actual behavior, Marshall says, is absolutely critical to reaching the correct conclusions about a creature's habitat and behavior, and how humans may be disrupting both.",
"Of course, the best way to observe real behavior in the wild is to have omniscient powers of observation, or perhaps a camera lens as long as your arm and as expensive as a new car.",
"Or you can see what the animal sees, courtesy of \"Crittercam.\"",
"Twenty-five years after that underwater epiphany in the waters off Belize, Marshall and his far-flung team of naturalists and engineers are getting closer to that gold standard.",
"Technology may finally be catching up with inspiration.",
"Marshall took his initial ideas for ride-along observation technology to the National Geographic Society in 1987.",
"Now he's vice president of the society's Remote Imaging division -- an effort by a team of scientists and engineers working with researchers around the globe capturing footage of how animals behave in the wild, away from the interference of the observers.",
"\"Crittercam enables us to get out of the picture entirely -- to ride along, almost completely unobtrusively, to see their world and their behavior,\" he says.",
"Marshall is a real-deal explorer, a tall, lanky, gregarious type who seems more suited to a dive boat in the Sea of Cortez or a snowmobile in Antarctica than an impressively equipped machine shop in the basement of the fabled headquarters of the National Geographic Society.",
"Marshall still gets more than his fair share of exploration -- a day after this interview, he was off to Antarctica, again.",
"But more often he's back in Washington, at his desk or in an edit bay.",
"Still, adventure is where you find it -- and sometimes, it's in the most unlikely of places.",
"Cracking open a newly recovered Crittercam remora (or box, or sphere, or whatever device his crew of happily mad scientists invent to capture hitherto-unwitnessed moments in nature) is, for Marshall, full of the rush of exploration.",
"When Crittercam got its start, the results of all the hard work came down to a small, fragile tape.",
"Nowadays, the data is stored on a tough, solid-state memory card.",
"But seeing the data of the first time, Marshall says, is always a rush.",
"\"You start looking at the screen because you never know what you're going to see.",
"It's completely engaging and captivating,\" he says.",
"The results, Marshall says, run the gamut from inspiring and revelatory to downright boring -- at least, boring to a typical National Geographic Channel viewer.",
"But to a marine biologist like Marshall, even the \"boring\" stuff can have stop-in-your-tracks potential.",
"Case in point: Sperm whales.",
"They are one of the deepest-diving species on the planet.",
"Years ago, his crew successfully attached an advanced Crittercam to a diving sperm whale.",
"\"The first 10 seconds are fascinating, because you see the whale diving down,\" Marshall says.",
"\"And then it dives down into utter darkness.",
"And then we're looking at a black screen for the next two hours.\"",
"But that Crittercam was also equipped to record sound, as well as video.",
"And in that utter blackness (sperm whales can dive almost two miles down), the Crittercam whale began a conversation with another whale -- a cascade of powerful, rapid-fire clicks.",
"That whale conversation kept Marshall and his editors transfixed.",
"It wasn't a made-for-TV moment, but it was yet more evidence that just about every deployment of the Crittercam system can reap unexpected rewards.",
"In the frigid waters off Alaska, a Crittercam captured an intimate view of a humpback whale calf nursing.",
"There's dizzying footage of a tree kangaroo (yes, there's a kangaroo that climbs trees) high in the jungle canopy of New Guinea.",
"A sea lion in Australia plays with its food -- in this case, a hapless octopus.",
"There's even a brief glimpse of a great white shark swimming at eye-popping speed, chasing an equally quick seal.",
"\"You just never know what you're going to get -- it's just completely engaging,\" he says with a broad grin.",
"Crittercam footage finds its way into many of National Geographic's nature programs.",
"And the best Crittercam moments are a rare combination of good television and good science.",
"That's partly the goal of the whole program, Marshall says.",
"\"I want to find a way to connect with people, I want to find a way to make them care about the conservation problem,\" Marshall says.",
"\"Imagine a planet where there are no humpback whales, where there are no blue whales, no leopard seals, no leatherback turtles.",
"Can we survive? Absolutely we can survive... Well, probably.",
"\"Is it going to be the kind of place we're going to revel in, that's going to inspire us?",
"I doubt it. As we know more, we're going to care more -- and as we care more, we're going to protect these animals and the habitats they depend on.\""
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"(CNN) -- The United States is no longer in the running to host soccer's 2018 World Cup after its bid committee decided to withdraw from contention and focus on hosting the 2022 tournament instead.",
"The USA Bid Committee announced on Friday it had made the decision after \"several months of careful deliberation\" following meetings with the sport's world ruling body FIFA and Europe's controlling organization UEFA.",
"The withdrawal leaves just four candidates for the 2018 tournament -- all of them from Europe.",
"England and Russia face competition from dual bids comprised of Spain/Portugal and Belgium/Netherlands.",
"The U.S. will be up against Australia, Japan, South Korea and Qatar as it seeks to host soccer's showpiece event for the second time, having staged it in 1994.",
"Because the tournament cannot be held on the same continent twice in succession, that means none of the 2018 bids can now target 2022, and vice versa.",
"\"For some time we have been in conversations with FIFA and UEFA about the possibility of focusing only on the 2022 bidding process, an option we have made reference to many times,\" bid chairman Sunil Gulati, also the president of U.S. Soccer, said in a statement.",
"\"We are confident this is in the best interests of the USA Bid.",
"We wanted to make the announcement now -- still 48 days before the final decision -- in order to make our intentions clear during the last part of our campaign.\"",
"FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke welcomed the decision, saying it made sense given the location of the four other 2018 candidates.",
"\"We have had an open and constructive dialogue with the USA Bid for some time now, after it became apparent that there was a growing movement to stage the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Europe,\" he said.",
"\"The announcement by the USA Bid to focus solely on the 2022 FIFA World Cup is therefore a welcome gesture which is much appreciated by FIFA.\"",
"FIFA's Switzerland-based executive committee will meet in Zurich on October 28-29 to further discuss the final voting process ahead of the December 2 decision on both tournaments."
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"U.S. decides to focus on its bid to win right to host the 2022 World Cup .",
"American withdrawal from 2018 bid leaves only four candidates, all from Europe .",
"U.S. will compete with Australia, Japan, South Korea and Qatar for 2022 rights .",
"It first hosted soccer's showpiece tournament in 1994, and has not done so since ."
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"(CNN) -- The experiment of extra match officials will be extended to Europe's top club competition and several other tournaments around the world.",
"Football's governing body FIFA will allow the use of two additional assistant referees in the UEFA Champions League for the next two seasons and the Asian Football Confederation's President's Cup in September, as well as competitions in Brazil, France and Mexico.",
"The experiment, which involves an assistant behind the goal at either end of the pitch, was first tried at youth level and then last season in UEFA's second-tier Europa League.",
"The confirmation came after a meeting of the International Football Association Board's technical sub-committee in Wales on Wednesday, which also announced that goal-line technology will be discussed in October.",
"FIFA has been under increasing pressure to change its current system of match officiating following controversial incidents at the 2010 World Cup that saw England wrongly denied a goal against Germany and Argentina incorrectly awarded a score against Mexico.",
"Blatter relents over goal-line technology .",
"The IFAB, which includes representatives from FIFA and the four British associations, ruled out employing goal-line technology at a meeting in March.",
"FIFA said in a statement on its website on Wednesday that the extra officials will be used until 2012, when a decision will be made whether to establish them as a fulltime feature of the game.",
"It said the relevant member associations would have to fund the extra costs involved."
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"Football's rule-making body also extends trial to AFC President's Cup and other competitions .",
"An extra assistant referee will stand behind goal line at both ends of the pitch .",
"IFAB meeting also confirms that goal-line technology will be discussed in October ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right move, but the United States made mistakes in the aftermath, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CNN on Friday.",
"In an interview to be broadcast Monday on CNN International's \"Connect the World\" program, Rice acknowledged a failure to focus rebuilding efforts throughout the country and attributed the problem to a lack of understanding.",
"\"I do believe I would take Saddam Hussein out of power again, but of course in the rebuilding of Iraq ...",
"I would do things differently,\" Rice said.",
"\"I think we put too much emphasis on Baghdad and not enough emphasis on the provinces.",
"Perhaps we didn't fully understand the degree to which the society would start to come apart as a result of being held in tyranny for all those years.\"",
"At the same time, Rice said it is still too early to fully judge the success or failure of that war or other foreign policy issues in the administration of George W. Bush.",
"\"Sometimes things that look terrific at the time look pretty bad in retrospect, and vice versa, so ultimately this is a story that will be written in history,\" said Rice, who served as secretary of state for the second of Bush's two four-year terms as president.",
"Rice had a full day in Washington planned, including several interviews, two speeches and a White House meeting with President Barack Obama.",
"A memoir on her childhood, as well as a version for young readers, came out this week.",
"The invitation from a sitting president to a former Cabinet member is \"not that unusual,\" Rice said, adding that she believes they'll discuss \"a range of foreign policy issues.\"",
"\"It's whatever the president wants to talk about,\" she said.",
"Obama has criticized the Bush administration for shifting focus from Afghanistan to Iraq, which he says stalled the effort to vanquish the Taliban insurgency and prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a haven for al Qaeda and other terrorists to launch attacks against the United States.",
"White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters Friday that with Rice scheduled to be in Washington, Obama wanted to \"chat\" with her.",
"Burton said a wide range of foreign policy issues would be discussed.",
"Rice spoke further about Iraq when answering questions after a luncheon speech at the National Press Club, saying the purpose of the U.S. invasion was to get rid of the threat posed by Hussein.",
"\"We didn't go to war in Iraq to democratize Iraq,\" she said, adding that the United States didn't fight Adolf Hitler in World War II to democratize Germany.",
"\"You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security,\" Rice said.",
"While acknowledging that \"we could have done many, many things much, much better,\" she noted that removing Hussein from power changed Iraq for the better.",
"\"What is the conversation we're having about Iraq today?\"",
"she asked, noting it didn't involve weapons of mass destruction and other issues from the Hussein era.",
"Instead, it's about whether Sunni and Shiite factions can form a coalition government, she said.",
"Rice, the second African-American in history to serve as secretary of state, also said that while race relations in America have improved enormously in her lifetime, \"there is no more sensitive or more difficult issue in the United Sates than race.\"",
"\"This is not a color-blind society,\" she said.",
"\"When somebody walks in the door, you do see color.\"",
"Asked about her possible political future, Rice made clear she has no plans to run for office any time soon.",
"She said she keeps responding to the question by saying the time's not right, and added: \"Maybe the time isn't ever going to be right.\"",
"\"I got to be secretary of state,\" Rice said.",
"\"That's quite enough.\"",
"In her interview with CNN International, Rice also commented on domestic issues.",
"Asked about the conservative Tea Party movement in the United States that has roiled Republican politics, Rice said there is no reason to fear such grass-roots democratic expression, even if she differs with Tea Party supporters on some issues.",
"\"The Tea Party is, of course, a vast collection of people and there are lots of views which I would not associate with -- I am a free trader and I believe in defending immigration -- but the best way to understand the Tea Party is that it really is a grass-roots movement, and in that sense it's healthy,\" she said.",
"Rice attributed the rise of the Tea Party movement to \"a sense that Washington, with big government and deficit spending, has lost touch.\"",
"On her successor at the helm of the State Department, Rice said Hillary Clinton is doing a \"fine job.\"",
"\"It's a tough job,\" she said.",
"\"You're always on an airplane.",
"Sometimes you never quite know what country you're in, and you're always hoping you're not going to make the mistake and say you're in a country that you're not in.",
"I did it on one occasion, but I hope no one noticed.\"",
"Rice also will be interviewed Friday on CNN's \"The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.\"",
"CNN's Tom Cohen contributed to this story."
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"(CNN) -- If a grown man likes to dress up and pretend he's a Nazi killer, is that a problem?",
"One candidate in America's upcoming Congressional elections acknowledges the satisfaction he gets from historical re-enactments, drawing attention to both a strange subculture and a surprising twist in Republican Party politics.",
"\"The whole purpose of re-enacting is educating people,\" Rich Iott, a Republican candidate in the state of Ohio said this week.",
"\"This is just another way to communicate a story and keep alive the history of World War Two.\"",
"The history of World War Two is just one of several conflicts that Iott says he helped imitate as costume-drama he could enjoy with his son.",
"In that role, he assumed the identity of \"Reinhard Pferdmann,\" a fictitious member of a real division of the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party.",
"Iott's adopted unit was accused of war crimes and once included infamous sadist Joseph Mengele in its ranks.",
"Though re-enactments are fairly common in America, this kind of Nazi playtime is an unusual way for am American parent to raise a child.",
"Republican Eric Cantor, a Jewish lawmaker who is one of the party's most powerful members of Congress, quickly condemned it.",
"\"I would absolutely repudiate that and not support an individual who would do something like that,\" Cantor said.",
"Military re-enactment is, to be sure, a popular hobby that appeals to people far beyond American borders.",
"British history buffs re-fight wars of the 17th century.",
"Russian enthusiasts stage the 1812 Battle of Borodino every year, predictably punishing Napoleon every time.",
"(One of them fired the blanks in his gunpowder pistol close enough to CNN correspondent Ivan Watson to damage his hearing).",
"But re-enactment may be most popular in the U.S., where devotees gather just about every weekend with the distinctive weapons and garb of the Civil War, enjoying or ignoring the gaze of quizzical onlookers on the sidelines.",
"A lot of Americans are watching from the sidelines now because Iott, an Ohio businessman making his first attempt at elected office, has joined a growing list of candidates with surprises swirling around them.",
"Several of them are favorites of the Tea Party, an anti-incumbent insurgency that is growing, mostly among Republicans.",
"It is precisely because the Tea Party supports new, untested candidates that some of them have startled the public.",
"Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell is a self-described religious conservative who acknowledged that she once \"dabbled in witchcraft.\"",
"She is now broadcasting advertisements with an unusual campaign pitch: \"I am not a witch.\"",
"Carl Paladino, a candidate for governor of New York state, was quickly dubbed \"Crazy Carl\" in the press for intemperate outbursts and the angry tone of his campaign.",
"He publicly threatened to \"take out \" a troublesome reporter, using colorful slang to suggest physical assault or worse.",
"But Democrats have nominated a strange candidate of their own: an unemployed and previously unknown figure named Alvin Greene, the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina, whose most remarkable attribute is that he is being prosecuted on pornography charges.",
"They're the kind of personalities that pop up in American public life from time to time, making the U.S. seem as much an oversized circus as a super-power.",
"You never have to wait long for the next memorable performance.",
"But there are limits to what the audience will accept.",
"America's Conservatives really are conservative after all, and its Liberals invented a concept called \"Political Correctness\" to set their own standards for appropriate talk and behavior.",
"This is a testy time in American life, with all kinds of candidates emerging to express discontent with the country's political class.",
"One of them is denying she was ever really involved in the occult.",
"Another is trying to distance himself from some dirty pictures.",
"Now that we've been introduced to an unapologetic Nazi imitator, you can only wonder who's next."
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"Mann: He joins a growing list of mid-term candidates with surprises swirling around them .",
"Christine O'Donnell says she once \"dabbled in witchcraft; Carl Paladino, has become known for intemperate outbursts .",
"Mann: Personalities make the U.S. seem as much an oversized circus as a super-power ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- In rural southern Virginia, 14-term Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher says he's never had an election enemy quite like the ones he's facing this year.",
"Its not his opponent, but instead it's what he calls a \"shadowy\" group that is funding television ads against him.",
"\"Rick Boucher is trying to deceive you ... Boucher has failed to protect our jobs.",
"Now it's time Rick Boucher loses his,\" the ad's narrator says.",
"The 30-second commercial was paid for by Americans for Job Security, a conservative-leaning group which, according to the nonpartisan watchdog group OpenSecrets.org, has spent nearly $8 million against Democratic candidates nationwide.",
"On its website, Americans for Jobs Security states that its members are \"businesses, business leaders and entrepreneurs from around the country,\" but blatantly states it will not disclose the names of its individual members or donors.",
"Boucher, who says he's spent $300,000 of his campaign funds to counter the ad, rails against the secretive nature of the organization.",
"\"We have no idea who these individuals are,\" Boucher said.",
"\"It could be someone who has a corporate identity in the United States.",
"It could be a very wealthy individual who has some grudge against me and is putting this advertisement on the air as a consequence.\"",
"Americans for Job Security identifies itself on its website as a 501(c)(6) business league.",
"That's a tax status for a nonprofit operation that can be involved in politics but not as its primary purpose.",
"This particular tax status also means it does not have to disclose its donors.",
"Read IRS regulations on 501(c)(6) business leagues .",
"Groups such as Americans for Job Security are outside the Democratic and Republican parties and are likely benefiting from a Supreme Court decision earlier this year.",
"That ruling, made on free speech grounds, allows corporations and unions to spend unlimited money to help defeat or promote candidates.",
"That means even watchdog groups that track money flowing through elections can't find out who funds the groups.",
"\"When you're just trying to figure out who is truly behind that television message that you're seeing on TV, you don't know who's behind it, and that makes it more difficult as a voter to actually have the requisite information to go into the voting booth and make an informed choice,\" said Dave Levinthal of OpenSecrets.org.",
"Republican sources have told CNN that Americans for Job Security has only one full-time employee, Steve DeMaura.",
"His office is in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington.",
"CNN left multiple phone messages for DeMaura, but he did not return the calls.",
"Conservative-leaning outside groups have already spent $121.6 million this election season compared with $79.1 million spent by liberal-leaning outside groups, according to OpenSecrets.org.",
"Another conservative group, Americans for Prosperity, expects to raise and spend about $35 million this election.",
"\"We simply educate the public,\" said Tim Phillips, the group's president.",
"Part of that money is funding a television ad running in Colorado targeting first-term Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey, which says, \"To small businesses, Betsy Markey is the same as Nancy Pelosi.\"",
"Who are Americans for Prosperity's donors?",
"The Texas billionaire Koch brothers are the group's founders and give significant dollars.",
"But besides them, it's unclear.",
"Phillips also makes no apologies for not revealing donors.",
"\"Most of it is private individuals, but we're glad to have their support and we do tell them, 'Look we're going to protect your privacy as the law allows us to do.'",
"\" President Obama has made it a regular practice lately to call out Americans for Prosperity by name in his effort to attack outside groups for spending tens of millions against Democrats without disclosing donors.",
"\"They are now allowed to spend as much as they want, unlimited amounts of money, and they don't have to reveal who is paying for these ads,\" Obama said at a recent Democratic fundraiser.",
"\"Millions of dollars being spent by groups with harmless-sounding names, Americans for Prosperity, the Committee for Truth in Politics, or Moms for Motherhood.\"",
"Phillips said the president's attacks have actually helped Americans for Prosperity raise more money.",
"\"If the president wants to use us as a punching bag, let him,\" he said.",
"\"It does help funding, and it helps generate new grassroots support.\"",
"Despite tough talk from Obama targeting Republican-backed outside groups, it's a mutual election-year undertaking.",
"Democrats have their own groups supporting them, such as Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund and Citizens for Strength and Security Action Fund, which are not disclosing their donors.",
"In New Mexico, where former Rep. Steve Pearce is running for his old seat, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is running an ad against him.",
"As eerie music plays in the background the narrator says, \"Congressman Steve Pearce, named one of the most corrupt members of Congress.\"",
"In Washington state, Citizens for Strength and Security Action Fund is running an ad promoting Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.",
"And Democrats have smaller outside groups aimed at getting Democratic voters to the polls.",
"Our Community Votes was originally started by veteran union strategist Steve Rosenthal.",
"This year, according to an official familiar with the organization, it is running programs in Missouri, Maryland and Pennsylvania to encourage Democratic voters to go the polls.",
"They're targeting African-American voters and \"drop-off voters,\" those who went to the polls for Obama in 2008 but may not be likely to return for this year's midterm election.",
"Our Community Votes is yet another Democratic group that does not disclose its donors.",
"Democrats are also using a new weapon in the big money game of politics: the super PAC.",
"Super PACs work independently of candidates.",
"Unlike regular political action committees, they can raise and spend unlimited money to try to defeat or promote candidates.",
"But super PACs must disclose their donors.",
"Patriot Majority is one of the biggest of these new groups, and it is concentrating its efforts in Nevada, spending at least $5 million so far on ads against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's opponent, Republican Sharron Angle.",
"The television ad's narrator begins, \"For a victim of rape or incest, Sharron Angle would force her to have the baby.\"",
"The ad then plays audio of Angle.",
"\"Two wrongs don't make a right.\"",
"Craig Varoga, a longtime Democratic strategist who runs Patriot Majority, told CNN his group will significantly step up spending in the final three weeks before the election.",
"Varoga expects to raise and spend as much as $10 million on the Reid race and other key Democratic races around the country.",
"Varoga says his group is funded mostly by labor unions, in-state individual supporters and nonunion progressive groups, but he did not provide the names of these groups.",
"Watchdog organizations say transparency is still a problem with these groups.",
"\"They don't have to do it [reveal donors] in real time,\" said Levinthal of OpenSecrets.org.",
"\"If they put a television ad up, there's no disclaimer at the end of the advertisement saying that this ad was paid for by these different corporations or these different unions.",
"\"In fact, since Patriot Majority raised most of its money in the past few months, recent Federal Election Commission filings don't reveal the majority of its donors.",
"Patriot Majority's third quarter FEC filing is due this week -- three weeks before the election -- and will list the more recent donors.\"",
"Varoga laments that Democrats are lagging behind Republican efforts to use these new political identities to raise large sums of money.",
"\"They are Goliath, and we are David,\" he said.",
"\"We are fighting back, and we're going to use the slingshot that we have in order to fight this fight.\"",
"Another super PAC is American Families First Action Fund.",
"It's an outside group organized primarily by a Democratic insider, who once headed up Democratic Party efforts to elect members to Congress.",
"He helped start the group five weeks ago to compete with Republicans.",
"And although American Families First Action Fund is required to disclose who funds it, CNN is told that the group itself was one of the secret donors to the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund in its ad against Pearce.",
"It is a hard trail to follow, which underscores the point that Democrats, too, are trying to play carefully in what the president calls a shadowy world.",
"In fact, while American Families First Action Fund may be a super PAC that must disclose its donors, it has a sister organization, Americans Families Fund Inc., which does not.",
"Multiple Democratic sources tell CNN there is great frustration in some Democratic circles with the president's attacks on Republican groups.",
"These sources say the president has made it harder to persuade Democratic donors to contribute to their outside groups, which for better or worse, are emerging as significant players in this year's election."
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"It's difficult for voters to figure out who is behind messaging, watchdog group says .",
"President Obama has attacked groups for spending millions without disclosing donors .",
"Democratic-leaning groups are also cloaking their funding sources, however ."
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"(CNN) -- President Obama issued a presidential order on Friday authorizing emergency funds to Pakistan's flood victims, the White House announced Friday.",
"The president said the use of the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund was in the United States' interest.",
"Up to $33 million can go toward the country's crisis.",
"Pakistani disaster officials said Wednesday that recent floods have killed about 1,677 people and 17 million have been affected nationwide.",
"The United Nations, meanwhile, warned that a crisis is building in the eastern province of Balochistan, where nearly 2 million people are affected.",
"Mengeshe Kebede, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' representative to Pakistan, said there is a \"humanitarian tragedy\" taking place in Balochistan, with imminent threats of water-borne diseases and food shortages.",
"\"We need to scale up our activities in the province, or else I think we are heading for a major humanitarian disaster there,\" Kebede said.",
"\"I have worked in humanitarian situations globally, and worked in refugee camps in Africa during emergencies, but to be honest I had never seen a situation as devastating as I saw in Balochistan,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- Lab tests found hundreds of cases of salmonella contamination at an Iowa farm in a nearly two-year period before the outbreak that prompted a massive recall of eggs this summer, congressional investigators said Tuesday.",
"Wright County Egg is one of two farms at the center of the massive recall.",
"In a letter to its owner, Austin \"Jack\" DeCoster, leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said tests confirmed 426 cases of salmonella contamination between September 2008 and the past July, and 73 were \"potentially\" positive for the strain of the disease involved in this year's outbreak.",
"The committee's Democratic leaders asked DeCoster to explain those findings when he appears at a September 21 hearing.",
"They also called on him to explain why those test reports weren't included in material the company has provided to Congress so far, and demanded that the company produce \"all documents relating to your response to the test results\" by Wednesday.",
"\"Despite the committee's specific request, your response on September 11, 2010, did not include the 73 potentially positive results for Salmonella enteritidis,\" Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and investigations subcommittee chairman Bart Stupak wrote.",
"\"It also did not show whether Wright County Egg took appropriate steps to protect the public after receiving the positive test results.\"",
"Wright County Egg and another Iowa producer, Hillandale Farms, were forced to recall about 550 million eggs in August after health officials linked them to the salmonella outbreak, which has so far been blamed for more than 1,500 illnesses across the United States.",
"Wright County Egg and other operations owned by the DeCoster family have come under increased scrutiny since the outbreak.",
"In a written statement responding to the letter, the company said it previously pledged to \"fully respond\" to the committee's requests for documents.",
"\"At that time, we also indicated that our response was ongoing,\" it said.",
"The company said it was \"terribly disappointed\" to find positive tests for salmonella in its eggs, but said it provided results of those voluntary tests \"as soon as those results were available.\"",
"\"We believe our open communication about our forthright efforts to compile testing data and provide documents as requested is consistent with our ongoing cooperation with this investigation,\" it said.",
"\"We have provided the committee with additional testing documentation today and will continue to do so as we restore past testing records.\"",
"Salmonella occurs naturally in chickens, but Food and Drug Administration inspectors reported in August that neither Wright County nor Hillandale fully followed their plans to prevent Salmonella enteritidis.",
"Federal investigators reported finding salmonella bacteria in chicken feed and in barn and walkway areas at the farms, as well as rodents, piles of manure, uncaged birds and flies too numerous to count, the FDA said."
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"(CNN) -- Viva Chile.",
"Late last winter, Chile was shaken first by a 8.8-magnitude earthquake and, later, looting and military police hitting the streets.",
"In August, the San Jose mine collapsed, threatening the lives of 33 men trapped a half-mile underground and further testing the upstart South American country's psyche weeks ahead of its bicentennial commemoration.",
"But this week, Chile came alive -- in the eyes of its citizens, as well as the world.",
"Copiapo, which could have been the site of mass mourning had the miners' rescue effort gone awry, instead became home to a patriotic festival.",
"The strong national pride was omnipresent: from the red, white and blue Chilean flags that permeated the rescue site to the chants that rang out as the miners rose to the surface.",
"It was clear, too, many miles away -- whether it was the hugs and tears of joy among the throngs watching the scene on a flickering big-screen TV set up in a Santiago city square, the champagne corks popping at the Chilean embassy in Washington, or countless bite-sized conversations in the vast reaches of cyberspace where the Chilean miners were a top trending discussion on Twitter.",
"\"What emotion! What happiness! What pride to be Chilean!\"",
"wrote Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, on his own Twitter page.",
"Like many emerging countries, Chile has not been without its challenges.",
"It continues to emerge from the shadows of dictator Augusto Pinochet's rule from 1974 to 1990, when up to 30,000 people vanished or were killed because of their political beliefs.",
"Economic disparities and political divisions still exist, with the global recession having a real impact in this Andean nation.",
"Yet, its past and recent challenges notwithstanding, Chile has also emerged as a model in Latin America and the world, given its solid economic base and fervent democracy.",
"\"Chile is ... a country with really strong institutions,\" said Peter DeShazo, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.",
"\"And it's economy has done really well.\"",
"While it could have been a calamity, the San Jose mine rescue effort instead turned into a celebration, not just of the miners' survival but also the nation's collective ability (with help from international friends) to safely extricate them.",
"Thus, this week's rescue effort gave Chileans a good reason and made-for-TV stage to show off their longstanding patriot fervor to the world.",
"\"Chileans, in general, have a strong sense of national identity,\" said Susan Purcell, director of the University of Miami's Center for Hemispheric Policy.",
"\"And with this episode, it's like they did everything right.\"",
"Since Pinochet, Chile has experienced significant economic growth and steady inroads combating corruption and poverty.",
"But until now, Chile rarely had been front-and-center in most everyday discussions of Latin America, which are more likely to be dominated by Brazil's booming development, communist Cuba, Colombia's civil war and Venezuela under leftist leader Hugo Chavez.",
"Thus, while international policymakers and business leaders have seen (and, in some cases, been party to) its development, the mine collapse and rescue effort were many people's first sustained exposure to Chile, its people and its potential.",
"\"Chile should be held up as a model, but it often isn't,\" said Purcell.",
"\"I don't know if (the rescue) changes the image of Chile, or it creates an image of Chile.\"",
"Led by President Pinera, the rescue effort and Chile were very much intertwined.",
"Government officials frequently appeared before TV cameras, Chilean flags abounded and patriotic chants rang out regularly.",
"The loudest and emotional could be heard when the miners emerged: \"Chi!",
"Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le! Los mineros de Chile!\"",
"That was no accident, said Nara Milanich, a professor at New York's Barnard College specializing in Chile.",
"Pinera, who had seen his popularity drop since taking office last March, took control of the situation and played to the cameras, she said.",
"Camp Hope sprung up, as a temporary home to miners' families as well as the scores of global media who descended on the scene.",
"\"They are so conscious that the world is watching,\" said Milanich.",
"\"This is as genuinely Chilean as Baywatch is genuinely American.",
"This is a TV show.\" Still, for all the production set-ups and political posturing, Milanich said that Chileans' joy was true and widely felt.",
"While the release came at a critical time for Chileans, who wrestled with \"soul-searching\" after the quake and during the bicentennial commemoration, it reflected citizens' deep-rooted sense that Chile is worth celebrating.",
"And in Latin America -- especially given Chile's rivalry with Andean neighbors Bolivia and Peru dating back to the 19th century War of the Pacific -- such self-congratulation among Chileans is almost expected and sometimes resented.",
"\"I don't think Chileans suffer from an inferiority complex,\" said Kristen Sorensen, a professor at Bentley University in Massachusetts.",
"\"In some sense, they have a superiority complex.\""
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"The miners' rescue effort is described as a made-for-TV production showcasing Chilean excellence and pride .",
"The rescue has been many people's introduction to Chile ."
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"(CNN) -- Glamorous tennis star Ana Ivanovic has reached the quarterfinals of the Generali Ladies Linz tournament -- despite being penalized a game for taking too long in the toilet.",
"The former world No.",
"1, who was given a wildcard entry into the Austrian event after the late withdrawal of the injured Serena Williams, had been leading 1-0 in the second set on Thursday when she needed to leave the court.",
"When she finally returned, the 22-year-old Serbian -- whose last tournament win came in Liz in 2008 -- discovered that her opponent Barbora Zahlavova Strycova had been awarded the next game of the second-round match.",
"\"I'm really embarrassed because I had yogurt right before I walked on.",
"Don't ever have yogurt before you have to play!\"",
"Ivanovic, among the sport's top earners despite her recent lack of form, explained at her later press conference.",
"\"When I left the court I was really feeling sick.",
"I said I really have to go to the bathroom and he [the umpire] said I couldn't go now before her serve, but I said I have to.",
"Then he said I could go on my own time.",
"\"When I came back he said for every 20 seconds I got a point penalty.",
"He said I was gone a long time and it added up to a game.",
"I was not sure about the rules and just had to keep on playing.",
"\"I could not argue because he said that's how it is.",
"It turned out to be good.",
"I think I was so consumed with trying to feel a little bit better, but I think in normal circumstances it would make me really mad.\"",
"Ivanovic went on to triumph 6-3 6-2, and the seventh seed will next face Julia Gorges for a place in the semifinals.",
"The unseeded German upset fifth seed Petra Kvitova 6-2 6-1 as the 20-year-old Czech left-hander joined compatriot Strycova in exiting the tournament.",
"Second seed Daniela Hantuchova came back from 3-1 down in the first set to beat Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro and set up a quarterfinal with Patty Schnyder.",
"The Swiss left-hander shocked eighth-seeded Czech Klara Zakopalova 6-2 6-0.",
"Greek qualifier Eleni Daniilidou also made it through after defeating Austrian wildcard Sybille Bammer 6-1 7-6 (7-2), and she will next play German sixth seed Andrea Petkovic.",
"Meanwhile, third seed Shahar Peer reached the quarterfinals of the HP Japan Women's Open with a hard-fought 3-6 6-1 6-3 win over local player Ryoko Fuda in Osaka on Thursday.",
"The Israeli will next play Czech seventh seed Iveta Benesova, who defeated Italy's Alberta Brianti 6-1 7-5.",
"Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm earned a clash with top seed Samantha Stosur as the 40-year-old beat compatriot Aiko Nakamura 6-2 6-0.",
"American Jill Craybas thrashed Ukraine's Olga Savchuk 6-1 6-1, and the 36-year-old will next play French second seed Marion Bartoli."
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"Serbian blames her pre-match snack of yyogurtafter leaving the court against rules .",
"Seventh seed recovers to reach quarterfinals, where she will play Julia Gorges of Germany .",
"Israeli third seed Shahar Peer reaches the last eight at the HP Japan Women's Open ."
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"(CNN) -- Baseball's League Championship Series' start Friday with the New York Yankees taking on the Texas Rangers for the American League title.",
"The winner will go to the World Series against the victor in the National League Championship series between the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants.",
"The Phillies-Giants series starts Saturday and will be televised on Fox.",
"TBS analyst Ron Darling spoke to CNN about compelling people and stories that will interest even the most casual fans and about how the baseball we'll be watching is radically different than the game we saw just a few years ago.",
"This is an edited transcript: .",
"CNN: Has this been an extraordinary post-season for pitching, or does it always improve in the playoffs?",
"Ron Darling: I think what has been extraordinary is that all the pitchers, whether they came through trades (Phillies with Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt; Texas with Cliff Lee) or up through the farm system like the San Francisco Giants, or a free agent like CC Sabathia in New York, the great thing about it is they all deliver.",
"Sometimes the great Braves pitchers would falter during the '90s, but none of these guys has faltered.",
"In fact they're having some of the greatest games in the history of post-season play.",
"Whether it's Tim Lincecum's 14 strikeouts, Cliff Lee and his ability to throw complete games and strike out hitters without walking anybody, and of course Roy Halladay's no-hitter.",
"CNN: What were your thoughts on the Texas Rangers celebrating their division series win over Tampa Bay with ginger ale instead of champagne because their star, Josh Hamilton, is recovering from drug and alcohol abuse?",
"Darling: I thought it was one of the special moments of the post-season.",
"There are a lot of people affected by alcoholism and drug addiction in this country, and a lot of people feel alone in their battle against those two addictions.",
"And to see an entire ball club get behind their player's problem and have empathy and sympathy for his problems was just one of the special things.",
"Remember their manager (Ron Washington) tested positive last season (for cocaine).",
"They could have abandoned the manager; instead, it brought them closer together.",
"They've been one of the great stories and to know that they wanted one of their best players to celebrate in the clubhouse because they knew he could only do it with ginger ale to me is a just a beautiful gesture.",
"CNN: You played with Dwight Gooden and Daryl Strawberry, who both struggled with addiction.",
"How hard has it been for Josh Hamilton to overcome his addiction to play so well?",
"Darling: I think trying to battle addictions is hard enough if you're working 9-5 and you've got a family and you're trying to stay out of harm's way.",
"When you're a young athlete on the road with a lot of free time on your hands, I think it ups it exponentially.",
"I know Hamilton has a caretaker who helps him out on the road, but I think it's taken a lot of stick-to-itiveness by Josh.",
"You know he's had a second chance, had a couple of hiccups, but he's made the most of it.",
"Addiction is a sickness; we should look at it like that.",
"I think we should welcome what he's done.",
"He's not only a great player, but he's also become a leader on that team and that's the most interesting part of that to me.",
"CNN: Besides Hamilton, who are some other players people will enjoy watching if they flip on the game?",
"Darling: In the National League, you have to look at the little guys, Shane Victorino and Placido Polanco, for the Phillies.",
"Sometimes these games allow them to shine when most of the publicity goes to the home-run hitters.",
"On San Francisco, Andres Torres, their centerfielder, had a remarkable season.",
"He's a player who floundered and later in his career found his role and had a great season.",
"The Giants closer Brian Wilson had a remarkable year.",
"I know he has the funny hair and funny beard, but there's nothing funny about how he gets saves.",
"The New York Yankees' Brett Gardner and Curtis Granderson, batting at the bottom of the order, will have a big series.",
"For Texas, the casual fan may not know about Nelson Cruz, but he has about as much pop in his bat as anyone in the game and he's a good fielder and throws well.",
"(The playoffs) could be a good forum for the country to learn what a good player he is.",
"CNN: Why have there been so many errors in this post-season?",
"Darling: There have been 31 errors so far, and what we should read into it is that the game has changed.",
"You can overlook an error when a lot of home runs are being hit and a lot of runs scored.",
"That's not happening as much anymore.",
"Every play is critical, and if you're talking about this being the season of the post-season pitcher, every time an error is made, it's going to be crucial in determining the game.",
"There have been errors before, but over the last 10 seasons, you could overcome it with offensive output.",
"But when the games are 3-1 every night, you can't afford those errors.",
"And those players that in the past you put in the lineup because of their offensive abilities and you hoped they would catch the ball but figured they'd make up for it with their offense, those days are gone and those players are gone.",
"If you are in the minor leagues and not working on your fielding, you're going to have a hard time getting to the major leagues.",
"CNN: Because of steroid testing, do you think these lower-scoring, well-pitched games are going to be the norm going forward?",
"Darling: Watch these series.",
"There's going to be lots of steals, bunting and infield hits, all of those things that we saw a lot in the '70s and early '80s that went away.",
"You're still going to have guys hit the ball out of the ballpark.",
"But how many home runs are guys going to hit off Halladay, Lee, Lincecum and Sabathia?",
"It's not gonna happen."
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"He says Rangers' celebration after winning division series was special moment .",
"Rangers celebrated with ginger ale so star Josh Hamilton, a recovering addict, could join .",
"Darling says players who can hit but not field well will have a hard time making major leagues ."
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"(CNN) -- During her darkest hours in captivity, former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt considered death preferable to her ordeal, she said in an interview with CNN's \"Connect the World.\"",
"Betancourt, who was kidnapped in 2002 during her campaign for the presidency and rescued in 2008, wrote about her experience in a new book, \"Even Silence Has an End.\"",
"She recalled that late in her captivity at the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, she became very ill. FARC declined to give her medication, and had her lie in a hammock for months, she said.",
"Betancourt had seen other hostages die in similar circumstances in the jungle.",
"\"And because I was in so much in pain in my body and I was kind of unplugging mentally, in the sense that I couldn't just concentrate on anything, I thought that perhaps it was a good moment to just, you know,\" Betancourt said, referring to dying.",
"In that moment, she said, she preferred death because it would reunite her with her father.",
"\"And, also, I thought that it could be a liberation thing for my children, because they had to stop their lives,\" Betancourt said.",
"That feeling was just one episode in her 6 1/2 years in captivity.",
"Writing the book, she said, brought her to \"very deep memories, to places I thought I had forgotten and to situations that were very painful.\"",
"The writing process would leave her physically exhausted at the end of the day.",
"Betancourt was freed in a high-profile helicopter rescue mission in July 2008.",
"Colombian commandos posed as humanitarian aid workers to free the group, which included three U.S. military contractors and 11 Colombian police and military members.",
"Her book is not the first to touch on her time as a hostage.",
"In a memoir published last year, the U.S. military contractors rescued along with Betancourt painted an unflattering portrait of the dual citizen of France and Colombia, describing her as someone who hoarded belongings and let her temper flare during their time in the rebel camp.",
"For her part, Betancourt admits that she was not the most popular.",
"\"We hear the news and they talk about the hostages and the only name that comes up on and on and on is mine,\" she said.",
"\"By not having their names, it was just another humiliation.",
"It was just another torture for them, not knowing if people knew they were there, what was happening with their families.\"",
"The guerrillas who held them were also keen on keeping the hostages divided.",
"This, she suspects, was so that they would not unite and attempt an escape together.",
"Much of the guerrillas' treatment of their hostages was meant to be cruel and designed to strip away their identities, Betancourt said.",
"\"So, for me, it was important to preserve my dignity in the sense of preserving my soul, preserving the things that I thought were important for me to give.",
"And that was a struggle,\" she said.",
"One way she did this was by showing defiance.",
"When her captors ordered the hostages to identify themselves by numbers, she refused.",
"Although her fellow hostages started counting off, when it came to be her turn, she just answered, \"Ingrid Betancourt.\"",
"\"I didn't want to be a number.",
"I didn't want to be an object,\" she said.",
"\"They were referring to us like cargo.",
"And I thought that was horrible.",
"And I didn't want them to get away with that.",
"So I think I was a little like a troublemaker, in some aspects.\"",
"That streak also partly led to divisions between her and the other hostages, she said.",
"After such lows, how did Betancourt survive the long years?",
"\"To put it in just one word, I think it was love,\" she said.",
"\"The love of my children and the love of my mother.\"",
"Reflecting on the current political situation in Colombia, the former candidate said that the country is in better shape than when she was abducted.",
"There remains, however, what she called a crucial problem: a disconnect between those who live in the cities very comfortably, and those in the countryside who are affected by the violence of the FARC and other rebel groups.",
"\"We have 4 million misplaced people in Colombia. And that's because of the war,\" she said."
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"(CNN) -- Ever thought of trekking through northern New Mexico with a llama to marvel at the vibrant aspens?",
"Or zipping through the color-splashed mountains of Georgia, 2,000 feet above ground?",
"If not, maybe it's time to embark on a fall foliage adventure that stretches beyond scenic drives and hikes.",
"But hurry, the leaves are changing -- and falling -- fast.",
"Hike with a llama .",
"Avoid the crowds and travel with El Paseo Llama Expeditions in Taos, New Mexico, for a unique fall adventure.",
"\"The area outside Taos, New Mexico, is a great place to see the aspens turn gold while llamas do the heavy lifting.",
"Kids who are small enough can even ride the llamas,\" said Rich Beattie, executive editor of TravelandLeisure.com.",
"El Paseo's llamas will pack gear and carry riders weighing up to 60 pounds.",
"Novice to advanced hikers are welcome, as the company offers excursions along an range of trails through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Southern Rockies and the Rio Grande Gorge.",
"El Paseo Llama Expeditions' offerings range from half-day hikes all the way to eight-day/seven-night expeditions.",
"Prices start at $74 per person and vary based on the number of days, people and equipment.",
"Travel + Leisure: America's best fall color drives .",
"Join a Segway tour .",
"Why walk when you can glide?",
"Segway of Manchester in Manchester, New Hampshire, is offering a smooth ride to leaf peepers with its fall foliage tour.",
"\"No, the Segway never caught on, but it still makes for a fun way to tour a destination, especially when you're driving around looking at fall colors,\" Beattie said.",
"Segway through color-splashed Manchester with tour guides two- or three-hour tours.",
"Two-hour tours are $69; three hours are $99.",
"Hang glide for an aerial view .",
"Experience the vibrant fall patchwork of yellows, reds and oranges from a new perspective: 2,000 feet above ground.",
"Lookout Mountain Hang Gliding, about 40 minutes from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in Rising Fawn, Georgia, offers foliage enthusiasts the chance to learn to fly.",
"No experience is necessary: Lookout has plenty of training packages designed for all levels.",
"If you're looking for just a day of fun, try the Introductory Experience package, a full day of instruction that involves ground training and flying from small hills about 10 to 15 feet high.",
"By the afternoon, you will be flying tandem with an instructor 2,000 feet above Lookout Valley.",
"For ages 12 and up; $199.",
"Travel + Leisure: Best affordable fall foliage towns .",
"Take a peaceful balloon ride .",
"Napa Valley's incredible wines aren't the Northern California region's only draw.",
"Float through the air with Napa Valley Balloons as you experience ultimate tranquility thousands of feet above ground.",
"The typical ride starts with a continental breakfast provided by Napa Valley Balloons and a brief pilot orientation.",
"Then you're off, up in the air, looking over corridors of autumn-hued vines, mountains and one of the most beautiful valleys in the world.",
"After the hour balloon ride, passengers are greeted with fine Napa sparkling wines at a champagne breakfast.",
"Standard rate is $240 per person.",
"It's not just in Napa either.",
"\"It's an experience you can have all over the country, from Napa, California, to Asheville, North Carolina, and upstate New York,\" Beattie said.",
"Board a steam train .",
"Train lovers, rejoice!",
"Witness the changing leaves in total comfort as you stare out your window on a steam-engine train ride.",
"The Steam Railroad Institute in Owosso, Michigan, is offering a fall foliage ride on October 23 between Owosso and Alma, Michigan.",
"Coach tickets are $99.",
"\"Steam engines still evoke a certain nostalgia,\" Beattie said.",
"Train lovers can find fall rides across the country in states from Connecticut and West Virginia to Indiana and beyond."
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"Take in the autumn patchwork of California's Napa Valley from a hot air balloon .",
"Let a llama tote your gear during fall foliage hikes near Taos, New Mexico ."
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"(CNN) -- The wife of an American reportedly shot dead by gunmen believed linked to a Mexican drug gang gave an eight-hour interview and provided a detailed statement to federal and state authorities in Mexico, she said Monday.",
"Tiffany Hartley told CNN's \"American Morning\" she gave a detailed account of what happened on September 30, from the time she and her husband David left their McAllen, Texas, home until she left a sheriff's office that night.",
"She said she is scheduled to meet with authorities again Monday to finish up the statement.",
"Hartley recounted the incident Monday, saying she and her husband headed to Falcon Lake, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, that day to \"enjoy a day on the lake.\"",
"The two decided to ride their personal watercraft to the Mexican side of the lake to see a historical church there, she said.",
"But she said the couple was confronted by three boats, and gunmen aboard began firing shots at them when they tried to flee the area.",
"She said she saw her husband shot, and attempted to pull him on board her watercraft.",
"\"After they shot David I turned my Jet Ski around so I could go and help him,\" she said.",
"But a boat approached her and the person on board pointed a gun toward her, then left.",
"She attempted to get her husband on board, but fled when she saw the boats returning.",
"She said she had to pass the three boats while attempting to get back to the U.S. side of the lake.",
"By the time she got there, she could not see what was taking place back at the scene, she said Monday.",
"\"The boats chased me pretty much all the way to the U.S. border or past it,\" she said.",
"David Hartley's body has not been found, despite extensive searches by both U.S. and Mexican authorities.",
"Brian Quigley, spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Mexico, said Saturday that Tiffany Hartley is \"fully cooperating in assisting Mexican prosecutors with their investigation.\"",
"Her Friday interview with officials from the federal attorney general's office and prosecutors from Mexico's Tamaulipas state was held in the FBI field office in McAllen.",
"It took place the day after Mexican authorities said they were suspending the search for David Hartley.",
"\"Mexican authorities told the U.S. Consulate that the suspension of the search was only temporary and would continue at a later date,\" Quigley said.",
"\"We are going to hold them to that.\"",
"Tiffany Hartley's mother, Cynthia Young, said earlier that she, Tiffany Hartley and the woman's father met with Mexican and American officials Friday, and the family was told that the Mexican government was \"restrategizing\" how it was handling the search for Hartley's body.",
"Tiffany Hartley met with Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, the lead Mexican investigator in the death of her husband, days before Flores was killed.",
"His severed head was delivered to authorities in a suitcase last week.",
"However, authorities vowed to continue to search.",
"On Friday, Tamaulipas state attorney general spokesman Ruben Dario Rios said the suspension was a \"temporary recess so that we can better assess the strategies we are using to find the body.\"",
"Responding to local reports that threats of imminent gun battles by the Los Zetas drug cartel might have led officials to suspend the search, Dario Rios said, \"Negative.\"",
"Zapata County, Texas, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. has said Mexican authorities may have been trying to intimidate Tiffany Hartley during the in-depth interview Friday and scare her into not pushing them to continue the investigation.",
"But Tiffany Hartley denied that Monday, saying authorities just wanted detailed information about the day -- \"where we had stopped and who we talked to, that kind of thing.",
"I didn't feel like it was an interrogation, and I really hope they do continue the search and continue their investigation.\"",
"She said she did not get a sense that authorities were questioning her account.",
"\"We just want David back,\" Tiffany Hartley said. ...",
"I think they do want to find whoever, but ultimately I don't really care if they find the person because I know in time, they'll have their day [of judgment].\"",
"A report issued by a Texas-based think tank last week suggested that Hartley's death may have stemmed from a case of mistaken identity in the ongoing war between two Mexican drug cartels.",
"The Stratfor report, which cites anonymous sources, noted that David Hartley worked for an oil and gas company with operations in Reynosa, Mexico.",
"The couple had lived there for two years and had only moved to McAllen within the past few months, the report said.",
"The truck they drove to Falcon Lake on September 30 still had a license plate from Tamaulipas state.",
"The couple drove their personal watercraft to the Old Guerrero area of the lake, which the report said is a \"known battleground in the ongoing war in the Los Zetas and Gulf cartels.\"",
"The sources told Stratfor both cartels have been known to conduct surveillance and countersurveillance operations on personal watercraft, so Zetas scouts identified them as possible Gulf spies, because of their license plate and their method and direction of travel on Falcon Lake.",
"They were then apparently confronted by \"Zetas enforcers,\" Stratfor said.",
"The sources told Stratfor the attack was unauthorized by senior Los Zetas members and \"a damage control campaign is currently under way ... to identify and eliminate those who engaged the Hartleys without proper authorization.\"",
"Protocol involves prompt disposition of a body to ensure no evidence can be brought against the group, the report said.",
"Falcon Lake is about 70 miles west of the Hartleys' home in McAllen.",
"CNN's Eric Fiegel contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Former captain Imran Khan says Pakistan should not abandon their tour of England despite allegations that members of their national team were involved in a betting scam.",
"Cricket legend Khan told CNN that he was \"shocked and embarrassed\" by the scandal which has left preparations for the team's upcoming one-day international series with England in disarray.",
"\"The tour should definitely continue but if some players have indulged in wrongdoing or committed a crime they should be punished and sent back (home) and replaced.",
"Can cricket survive in Pakistan ?",
"\"But a tour should never be abandoned because this reflects as if the whole team is involved or the whole cricket structure,\" added the former all-rounder who led Pakistan to World Cup triumph in 1992.",
"Khan appeared to have been greeted his wish when International Cricket Council (ICC) president Sharad Pawar appeared to rule out any immediate action against Pakistani players.",
"\"We have discussed it within the ICC and have decided to wait for the police investigation report,\" Pawar, an Indian cabinet minister, told AFP Monday.",
"\"After that we have to take a viewpoint of the two boards, in this case the Pakistan Cricket Board and the England and Wales Cricket Board.",
"\"If anything is established, it will be viewed very seriously by the two boards and the ICC.\"",
"Khan, who is at home in Pakistan helping with flood relief efforts, said the reports which surfaced Sunday in the British tabloid newspaper The News of the World had left people around him \"upset and demoralized.\"",
"The paper claimed it paid agent Mazhar Majeed $230,000 for advance information about three no-balls by bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif in the fourth and final Test between Pakistan and England at Lord's.",
"It went on to further claim that the players colluded in the alleged betting coup.",
"Khan added: \"There was a feeling of shock and embarrassment especially for Pakistanis living in Britain.",
"\"I guess I went through all those sentiments, but I have to say these are still allegations which I hope turn out not to be true.\"",
"Khan, who has forged a political career since retiring from cricket, said he had never been approached by betting syndicates during his 21-year career, 10 of them as Pakistan captain.",
"\"It seemed so impossible a team would throw a match,\" he said.",
"Meanwhile, betting expert Mark Davies told CNN that illegal bookmakers in Asia were behind such scandals and that calls to limit legal betting on cricket were wide of the mark.",
"\"This is about transparency in betting of which there is none on the sub-continent,\" he said.",
"\"Ultimately, it's about fraud and corruption and these people have no place in sport,\" he added."
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"Khan \"shocked\" by reports players had deliberately bowled no-balls in Test series .",
"Former captain Khan says if allegations are true players should be severely punished .",
"NEW: ICC president Sharad Pawar says they will wait for police reports before acting ."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- A man convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters during a brutal 2007 Connecticut home invasion can be \"quite likable,\" but has struggled with drug addiction for years, a defense attorney told jurors Monday.",
"The same jurors who convicted Steven Hayes of capital murder and other charges convened Monday for Hayes' penalty phase.",
"They will decide whether he should be sentenced to death for the slayings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.",
"Attorney Patrick Culligan told jurors in his opening statement they will hear testimony from \"people who know Steve Hayes, whose lives have crossed paths with Steven Hayes ... to try to give you some insight, some understanding of who Steven Hayes was prior to the crimes of July 23, 2007.\"",
"Some of the testimony, he warned, will not be flattering to Hayes, but he said that despite his long history of criminal convictions and drug abuse, Hayes could be \"quite likable.\"",
"\"There is no presumption at this point that the death penalty is the appropriate punishment,\" Culligan said.",
"\"... You must keep an open mind.\"",
"Culligan said testimony would also focus on Hayes' behavior in prison in the past, noting that he has been incarcerated for \"most of his adult life\" because of his addiction.",
"\"At the conclusion [of testimony], you'll come to know much more of the 'who' about Steven Hayes,\" Culligan told jurors.",
"\"... Hopefully, you'll also have a fuller understanding of his role in these crimes ... these most horrible and tragic crimes.\"",
"Hayes, 47, was convicted earlier this month of 16 of the 17 charges against him, including nine counts of murder and capital murder and four counts of kidnapping.",
"Jurors acquitted him of an arson charge.",
"During the penalty phase, jurors will determine whether the mitigating evidence the defense is expected to present outweighs the aggravating factors in favor of the death penalty.",
"Jurors are allowed to consider evidence they heard during the guilt phase of the trial.",
"They can also consider new testimony or evidence that attorneys introduce during the sentencing phase -- which might include the defendant's long history of prior convictions and anything that casts Hayes in a positive light.",
"Hayes himself could testify.",
"\"All of the evidence presented in the guilt phase may be considered in this phase ... and the state is relying on that evidence,\" prosecutor Michael Dearington told jurors in his opening statement.",
"The only new testimony presented in the penalty phase by the prosecution concerned Hayes' prior convictions -- two in 1981 and others in 1993, 1996 and 2003, all for third-degree burglary.",
"The prosecution rested just before the court took a lunch break Monday.",
"The killings took place in the New Haven suburb of Cheshire, a brutal attack that shocked the well-to-do community and drew nationwide attention.",
"The home of Dr. William Petit was invaded in the middle of the night by Hayes and another man, Joshua Komisarjevsky, prosecutors say.",
"Komisarjevsky will be tried separately.",
"Connecticut State Police Detective Anthony Buglione, who interviewed Hayes after the crime, has testified that the duo beat Petit bloody and left him in the basement.",
"According to testimony, the two men then went upstairs and found Hawke-Petit and Michaela asleep in the master bedroom.",
"After tying Hawke-Petit to her bed, they led the girl to her room, tied her to her bed and put a pillowcase over her head, Hayes told Buglione.",
"They then found Hayley Petit in her room and did the same, he said.",
"After finding evidence of a bank account containing $20,000 to $30,000, they decided to have the mother go to the bank in the morning and withdraw money from her account, Buglione testified.",
"Hayes is accused of taking Hawke-Petit to the bank while Komisarjevsky allegedly stayed behind.",
"When Hayes and Hawke-Petit returned with the money, the two men allegedly set the home on fire and fled.",
"Inside the home, authorities said, Hawke-Petit, 48, was found raped and strangled.",
"Her two daughters, one of whom had been sexually assaulted, died of smoke inhalation.",
"Petit, the sole survivor, escaped to a neighbor's home.",
"William Petit has said he will not offer a victim impact statement during Hayes' penalty phase, saying in a statement he \"regretfully\" decided against doing so because Connecticut's law on victim impact statements is unclear and could provide convicts with grounds to appeal their sentences.",
"Culligan noted in his remarks to jurors Monday that \"There was another person involved in this crime: Joshua Komisarjevsky.\"",
"He said jurors will hear about Komisarjevsky in the suspect's own words, much of it from his writings to author Brian McDonald.",
"Judge Jon Blue has suggested the penalty proceeding could last as long as four weeks, though the relatively quick pace of the guilt phase of Hayes' trial has led some to speculate the penalty phase could also be quick.",
"Hayes' attorneys had sought to introduce testimony regarding the comparative cost of life imprisonment versus execution, but Blue barred the subject."
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"NEW: Defense attorney tells jurors to keep an open mind .",
"NEW: Prosecution offers testimony on Steven Hayes' prior convictions .",
"NEW: Defense says Hayes has struggled with drug addiction for years .",
"Hayes could face the death penalty for killing a mother and daughters ."
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"(CNN) -- A judge issued bench warrants for the arrest of actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, after the couple failed to appear for a court hearing in Santa Barbara, California, Monday morning, a court spokesman said.",
"The Quaids were ordered to appear for a hearing on burglary charges filed last month after police were called to a Montecito, California, residence to investigate a report of squatters.",
"According to a press release from the Santa Barbara Sheriff's department, a representative for the owner of the property came by the house to check the security alarm because it had gone off earlier that day, and then discovered that someone had been resting their head in the property's guest house.",
"The Quaids weren't around at the time, but upon their return later that evening the couple told police that they have \"owned the property since the 1990s.\"",
"According to the statement, the owners had documentation that another buyer had purchased the property from the Quaids several years earlier.",
"A contractor who worked on the residence told police he believes the couple caused more than $5,000 in damages in the guest house, and the Quaids were charged with residential burglary.",
"The judge revoked their $50,000 bond when they failed to show up for Monday's hearing, the court spokesman said.",
"Another hearing was set for next Tuesday.",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"Randy and Evi Quaid are charged with burglarizing a home they once owned .",
"A new hearing was set for next Tuesday ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- The security situation in war-ravaged Darfur shows no sign of improvement as fighting has intensified between rebel groups and the Sudanese government, the United Nations Security Council was told Tuesday.",
"\"We are alarmed,\" U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said after hearing the report.",
"\"This deteriorating security situation is unacceptable and it needs to be effectively addressed.\"",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pointed out in his latest report that incidents of violence over recent months have surpassed bloodshed in the same time period last year by far.",
"\"May was in fact the deadliest month in Darfur since UNAMID [joint United Nations-African Union mission] has deployed,\" Rice said.",
"About 400 people lost their lives in May and another estimated 160 died by the government's aerial bombardment in June, officials said.",
"Envoy Ibrahim Gambari said U.N. staffers and aid agencies are frequently denied access by the government in Khartoum to the areas where fighting is taken place.",
"Ban criticized the Sudanese government for failing to investigate and prosecute cases where peacekeepers are attacked.",
"\"The Darfur process is at a critical juncture,\" Gambari said.",
"\"At precisely the same time as as the security situation has deteriorated, prospects for a negotiated settlement appear to have improved slightly.\"",
"The Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) is currently meeting with the Sudanese government in Doha.",
"\"This has provided an important boost to the process,\" Gambari said.",
"The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), however, has walked out on the Doha talks and started attacking the government again, Gambari told the council.",
"The faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) under Abdul Wahid has tried to take advantage of this renewed fighting and attacked the Sudanese forces as well.",
"The rebels have said the government favors Arabs over black Africans.",
"The two big movements, JEM and SLM are not participating in the talks, sabotaging the peace process.",
"Gambari asked the Security Council to appeal again to the movements to join the negotiations so that an arrangement can be hashed out before the end of this year.",
"The Security Council has to decide later this week if the mandate of UNAMID will be extended for another year.",
"Ban recommended that the mission continues to \"expand the work that it has painstakingly begun.\""
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"Two large rebel groups won't participate in talks .",
"Still, prospects for negotiations have improved ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has continued reshaping his squad ahead of the new season by allowing midfielder Guti to leave the Spanish giants, while legendary forward Raul is also set to go.",
"Guti, who did not feature in Spain's 2010 World Cup squad, will depart the Bernabeu 15 years after making his first-team debut.",
"The 33-year-old, who joined the club at the age of nine and has won 14 international caps, has been linked with a move to Turkish side Besiktas.",
"\"I always wished to play for Real Madrid and I did my best to stay, refusing very tempting offers to play elsewhere,\" he told the club's official website on Sunday.",
"\"I am about to begin a new and exciting stage in my career and I wish to enjoy being in a new country to the fullest.",
"\"This has been a beautiful and glorious experience, but these things happen in football all the time.",
"Younger players need to be given way and I feel proud and happy for having played here.\"",
"Former Real coach Berndt Schuster is now in charge of Besiktas, and Guti confirmed that he may be reunited with the German.",
"\"I have an offer from Besiktas, but I haven't decided yet,\" he said.",
"\"What is for sure is that wherever I go, I will give everything.\"",
"Guti won three Champions League titles and five Spanish La Liga crowns with Real, playing 542 matches in the white shirt of \"Los Merengues.\"",
"\"I leave knowing Real Madrid will always be my home.",
"Part of my heart stays here today.",
"I would like to return after retiring as a player,\" he said.",
"Guti's departure will be followed by that of the club's all-time leading scorer Raul, who is expected to join Schalke according to recent quotes from the German side's manager Felix Magath.",
"The UK Press Association reported that the 33-year-old will hold a farewell press conference on Monday.",
"British media claimed on Sunday that Mourinho is still trying to sign Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard and his England teammate, Chelsea defender Ashley Cole.",
"Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho has also expressed his interest in rejoining his former Chelsea and Porto boss in Madrid.",
"\"I would go there right now, swimming or running,\" he told Spanish newspaper AS.",
"Mourinho has already brought in Argentina winger Angel Di Maria from Benfica and young midfielder Sergio Canales from Racing Santander."
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"Midfielder Guti to leave Real Madrid after 24 years at the Spanish club .",
"The 33-year-old made his first-team debut in 1995 after joining at the age of nine .",
"He is wanted by Turkish club Besiktas, coached by former Real boss Berndt Schuster .",
"New coach Jose Mourinho will also let Real's all-time top scorer Raul depart ."
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"(The Frisky) -- Though rumors have been spreading for months, Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen only recently announced that their engagement is dunzo.",
"The two had been planning to tie the knot since December 2008, after meeting on the set of \"Jumper.\"",
"Bilson cites distance as one of the couple's biggest struggles, with her in California and Hayden in Canada.",
"Though, I think it has something to do with that disgusting rat tail Hayden had to sport in \"Star Wars.\"",
"Or perhaps she was never able to get over her love for Seth Cohen, I mean Adam Brody.",
"These two are in good company since we found nine more stars who decided divorce rates were not in their favor and never quite made it to the altar, even after getting engaged.",
"The Frisky: 8 totally inappropriate celebrity engagements .",
"1. Tara Reid must never want to be the bride because so far she has stepped out of two engagements.",
"Her first fiancé was \"TRL\" host Carson Daly, but when the countdown to their wedding neared the big day, the couple became kaput.",
"Then almost a month away from her 2010 wedding with internet entrepreneur Michael Axtmann, Tara released a statement saying the couple was through.",
"2. Jennifer Love Hewitt ended a 13-month engagement to Ross McCall back in January of 2009.",
"I think it was officially the day she shot cupid.",
"The Frisky: 10 super top-secret celebrity weddings .",
"3. Even supermodels suffer canceled weddings.",
"Rachel Hunter's fiancé, hockey player Jarret Stoll, got cold feet just seven weeks before the wedding.",
"It couldn't have been fun for them to inform the guests.",
"4. Kayne West is a marriage dropout.",
"He ended his engagement to Alexis Phifer after a year and a half.",
"The Frisky: Why does everyone hate Julia Roberts?",
"5. I guess Swiss financier Arpad Busson wasn't the multimillionaire of Uma Thurman's dreams after all.",
"She broke off their yearlong engagement because she wasn't \"in a rush to do anything,\" she told People magazine.",
"6. No one was laughing when Christina Ricci called off her wedding plans after a big fight with her comedian fiancé Owen Benjamin.",
"The Frisky: 30 things every woman should quit doing by 30 .",
"7. Mary-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Dean Morgan never quite made it to the wedding planning phase of their engagement, but the two reportedly remained friends after they split.",
"That's more than her ex Billy Crudup can say.",
"8. No one was really surprised when Jamie Lynn Spears broke off her shotgun engagement to baby daddy Casey Aldridge.",
"Maybe she learned something from her big sis after all.",
"The Frisky: 10 stars who (maybe) have secret babies .",
"9. Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer decided it would be best for them not to play \"House\" off set.",
"They ended their engagement after appearing on the cover of InStyle Weddings.",
"Eek. TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Kayne West ended his engagement to Alexis Phifer after a year and a half .",
"Jamie Lynn Spears broke off her shotgun engagement to baby daddy Casey Aldridge ."
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"(CNN) -- The United Nations humanitarian chief urged Sudan to allow aid workers into a Darfur refugee camp that has been closed for nearly two weeks, limiting access to 80,000 displaced people.",
"Sudanese authorities prevented aid agencies from entering Kalma camp and its surrounding areas after violence broke out earlier this month.",
"The closure came despite reassurances that restrictions had not been imposed.",
"\"I am extremely concerned about the welfare of the IDPs at Kalma camp, to whom we have not been able to deliver relief for 13 days,\" John Holmes, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said Friday.",
"\"Deliveries of food and fuel for water pumps have for example not been possible.",
"Sanitation is also a major concern as it is the middle of the rainy season.",
"Many thousands of IDPs from Kalma remain unaccounted for.\"",
"Darfuris who live at the camp rely on aid groups for food, water, health, nutritional support and shelter.",
"Tensions escalated at the camp last week after thousands of displaced Darfuris took to the streets to protest what they called unrepresentation in the latest round of peace talks in Doha, Qatar.",
"Officials demanded that the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force, UNAMID, hand over six local leaders who sought protection with the peacekeepers.",
"The peacekeeping force said it will not do so unless the government pledges to give them a fair trial .",
"The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says constraints on aid agencies in the region have been steadily increasing since March 2009, when 11 international aid groups were expelled from Darfur.",
"Two staff members from the International Organization for Migration were also expelled last month.",
"\"The United Nations has been in close contact with the relevant Sudanese authorities to restore access to both Kalma and Eastern Jebel Marra, but until today progress has not been forthcoming,\" Holmes said.",
"\"If access is not urgently restored, the situation risks deteriorating rapidly.\"",
"Darfur, a province of Sudan, has suffered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to aid groups.",
"United Nations officials estimate that 300,000 people have died in the past seven years and more than 3 million displaced amid fighting between rebels and government forces.",
"The Darfur conflict started when two rebel groups -- the Sudan Liberation Army and Justice and Equality Movement -- started attacking the government in 2003.",
"The groups accused Khartoum of favoring Arabs and oppressing black Africans.",
"Government forces have been backed by the Janjaweed, a militia accused of murdering, raping, and burning homes in Darfur ."
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"(CNN) -- A personal phone conversation by an air traffic controller likely contributed to the cause of a deadly midair collision over the Hudson River last year, the The National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"A single-engine plane and a sightseeing helicopter collided on August 8, 2009 near Hoboken, New Jersey.",
"All nine people aboard the two aircraft were killed, including several Italian tourists visiting New York from Bologna.",
"In a statement released Tuesday, the NTSB said the air traffic controller's personal phone call \"distracted him from his air traffic control duties, including the timely transfer of communications for the accident airplane to the Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) tower and correcting the airplane pilot's incorrect read-back of the EWR tower frequency.\"",
"The on-duty personal phone conversation might not have been the first for the air traffic controller.",
"An NTSB report says the controller's personal call might not have taken place \"if the front line manager had corrected the controller's performance deficiency involving an earlier nonpertinent telephone conversation.\"",
"In addition, the board said, the \"front line manager, who was not present in the air traffic control tower at the time of the accident, exercised poor judgment by not letting staff know how he could be reached while he was away from the tower and by not using an available staffing asset to provide an additional layer of oversight at the tower during his absence.\"",
"The NTSB said another probable cause was the limitations of the \"see-and-avoid\" concept.",
"\"The see-and-avoid technique of averting mid-air collisions was not effective because of the difficulty the airplane pilot had in seeing the helicopter until the final seconds before the collision,\" the NTSB said.",
"The safety board said contributing factors included both pilots ineffective use of their aircrafts' electronic advisory system to maintain awareness of other air traffic; inadequate procedures of the Federal Aviation Administration for transferring communication among air traffic facilities near the Hudson River; and FAA regulations that did not provide for adequate vertical separation of aircraft operating over the Hudson River.",
"\"The helicopter's climb above 1,000 feet was not consistent with company procedures and decreased the vertical separation between the aircraft,\" the statement said.",
"NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P.",
"Hersman said the collision could have been prevented.",
"\"While traffic alerts go a long way in helping pilots \"see and avoid\" other aircraft, these technologies are not, in and of themselves, enough to keep us safe,\" Hersman said in the statement.",
"\"Strong operating procedures, professionalism, and commitment to the task at hand -- these are all essential to safety.\"",
"The NTSB said it made recommendations to the FAA about changes in a \"special flight rules area\" surrounding the Hudson River corridor near New Jersey and New York.",
"Suggestions include revising federal regulations to specify altitudes for aircraft conducting local operations."
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"(CNN) -- The Bolivian government on Wednesday defended itself from accusations that it has not invested enough in a southwestern province that has found itself under siege by protesters for two weeks.",
"About 6,000 of the 160,000 residents of Potosi, the capital of the province of the same name, have mounted a blockade that has cut off all roads, train and air traffic with the rest of the country.",
"The protesters are demanding several projects, including construction of a modern airport, new roads and a cement factory.",
"They are also in a boundary dispute with a neighboring province, Oruro.",
"Some protesters also launched a hunger strike, which has been joined by Felix Gonzalez, Potosi Province governor, and other officials as well as union leaders.",
"On Wednesday, the civic organizations in charge of the blockade said the only mediator they will accept is Bolivian President Evo Morales.",
"The government did not immediately respond to that demand.",
"But the country's interior minister reiterated that the government will not use force to end the siege.",
"\"In the government's strategy, the only solution to this problem is dialogue,\" Minister Sacha Llorenti said.",
"\"Under no circumstances are we going to fall into any type of provocation.",
"We are not going to use force precisely because some radical sectors want this to have a disastrous ending.\"",
"Presidential spokesman Ivan Canelas made the strongest defense yet against the protesters claims.",
"The federal government has budgeted $577 million for new roads in Potosi province, a sum higher than for many other provinces, Canelas said, according to the state-run ABI news agency.",
"The government has also built schools, stadiums and parks in the province under a federal program, he said.",
"The country's minister of mines also made a plea, saying that the region's mining projects, and the royalties that it gains from them, are suffering from the blockade.",
"According to reports from the city of Potosi, the town suffers more each day from shortages of food and hundreds of people are stranded inside, ABI reported.",
"Canelas accused some opposition political leaders of trying to \"provoke situations of confrontation without thinking in the interests of the people of Potosi.\"",
"He mentioned that the United Nations has weighed in on the matter, denouncing publicly the violation of the human rights of the people of Potosi who are trapped in the city.",
"\"The human rights of free movement and access to education, health and the rights of children are violated with attitudes of violence emerging from the pressure tactics,\" Canelas said.",
"For their part, the protesters say that Morales has abandoned them after they supported his presidential bid four years ago.",
"The leftist Morales, who is indigenous, relied on a broad base of support among indigenous people and the poor -- nearly always one and the same in Bolivia -- for his election victory.",
"Whites in Bolivia account for only 15 percent of the population, according to the CIA World Factbook.",
"About 30 percent of the population is Quechua and another 25 percent are Aymara, both indigenous groups.",
"Mestizos, who are of mixed white and indigenous ancestry, account for 30 percent of the population."
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"Protesters in Potosi have blocked the city off for two weeks .",
"At issue are investments in infrastructure and a boundary dispute .",
"Protest leaders say that the only mediator they will accept is the president .",
"The government says it will not resort to force to end the siege in Bolivia ."
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"(CNN) -- A Salvation Army major was shot dead in front of his three children on Christmas Eve in North Little Rock, Arkansas, authorities said.",
"Maj. Philip Wise, 40, was gunned down Thursday.",
"He was found lying by the back entrance of a Salvation Army facility, said police spokesman Sgt.",
"Terry Kuykendall.",
"Wise apparently dropped two bell ringers off at home and returned to the Salvation Army building with his three children, ages 4, 6 and 8.",
"Two men carrying handguns approached them and demanded money before shooting Wise, Kuykendall said.",
"The suspects fled on foot.",
"Police received a 911 call at 4:17 p.m. Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said Wise's wife, Cindy, made the call from inside the building.",
"\"My heart goes out for the family, losing their dad, and I guess having to witness it during this time of year,\" Camper told CNN affiliate KARK.",
"\"It's definitely going to be hard on the kids.\"",
"Wise had been active in the Salvation Army for 16 years and was assigned to the Baring Cross neighborhood of North Little Rock for the past three years.",
"Area Commander Maj. Harvey Johnson said the Salvation Army will hold a news conference on Christmas Day.",
"\"We would hope that whoever the perpetrators are would step forward,\" he said.",
"The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church.",
"It is perhaps best known for its donation centers and bell ringers who collect money for the needy during the holiday season."
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"Police: Two men carrying handguns approach dad, kids and demanded money .",
"Coroner: \"My heart goes out for the family\"\nShooting happens Christmas Eve in North Little Rock, Arkansas ."
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"(CNN) -- Barbara Billingsley, who wore a classy pearl necklace and dispensed pearls of wisdom as America's quintessential mom on \"Leave it to Beaver,\" has died at age 94, a family spokeswoman said Saturday.",
"The actress passed away at 2 a.m. (5 a.m.",
"ET) Saturday at her home in Santa Monica, California, after a long illness, spokeswoman Judy Twersky said.",
"A private memorial is being planned.",
"Actor Jerry Mathers, who played Theodore \"Beaver\" Cleaver, called Billingsley a lifetime mentor.",
"\"Barbara was a patient advisor and teacher.",
"She helped me along this challenging journey through life by showing me the importance of manners, and respect for others,\" Mathers said in a statement.",
"\"She will be missed by all of her family, friends, fans and most especially by me.\"",
"Tony Dow, who played Beaver's brother, Wally Cleaver, also reflected on Billingsley's legacy.",
"\"She was as happy as a lark being recognized as America's mom,\" Dow told CNN's Don Lemon.",
"\"She had a terrific life and had a wonderful impact on everybody she knew, and even people she didn't know.\"",
"The actress won a new legion of fans in a brief, but memorable, scene in the 1980 send-up movie \"Airplane.\"",
"\"Oh, stewardess.",
"I speak jive,\" Billingsley said in her role -- much different from her June Cleaver persona -- as an elderly passenger comforting an ill man on the flight.",
"She, the sick man and his seat companion engaged in street-slang banter.",
"From the moment its catchy theme song sounded in black-and-white TV sets of the 1950s, \"Leave it to Beaver\" enthralled Americans during a time of relative prosperity and world peace.",
"Its characters represented middle-class white America.",
"June Cleaver dutifully pecked the cheek of her husband, Ward (played by the late Hugh Beaumont), when he came home to learn about the latest foibles -- nothing serious -- committed by Beaver and Wally.",
"\"Ward, I'm very worried about the Beaver,\" was a common refrain.",
"The parents would dispense moralistic advice to their sons.",
"The boys' friends included Lumpy and the obsequious Eddie Haskell, who avoided trouble and often buttered up Ward and June.",
"\"That's a lovely dress you're wearing, Mrs. Cleaver,\" Eddie would typically say to Billingsley's character.",
"Perhaps fittingly, \"Leave it to Beaver\" was canceled in 1963 on the eve of the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War and the tumult of the 1960s.",
"In the 1980s, Dow appeared with Billingsley in \"The New Leave it to Beaver.\"",
"She shifted from being a mom figure to a good friend who supported his directing and artistic endeavors, Dow said.",
"\"She always had a positive thing to say,\" said Dow, 65.",
"Mathers spoke of Billingsley's talent during a 2000 appearance on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"We kind of stifled her, because her true talent didn't really come out in 'Leave it Beaver.'",
"She was like the straight man, but she has an awful lot of talent.\"",
"Born December 22, 1915, in Los Angeles, Billingsley began her career as a model in New York City in 1936.",
"She was under contract to MGM in 1945 before becoming a household name with the launch of \"Leave it to Beaver\" in 1957.",
"Billingsley also voiced the role of Nanny in Nickelodeon's \"Muppet Babies\" from 1984 to 1991.",
"Billingsley is related by marriage to actor/producer Peter Billingsley, known for his starring role as Ralphie in the seasonal TV-movie classic \"A Christmas Story,\" according to the Internet Movie Database.",
"Peter Billingsley's mother, Gail Billingsley, is the cousin of Barbara's first husband, Glenn.",
"Billingsley, whose second and third husbands predeceased her, is survived by her two sons, Drew Billingsley of Granada Hills, California, and Glenn Billingsley of Phillips Ranch, California.",
"Asked once to compare real-life families to TV families, Billingsley responded, \"I just wish that we could have more families like those.",
"Family is so important, and I just don't think we have enough people staying home with their babies and their children.\""
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"She is best known for her role as June Cleaver .",
"A private memorial is being planned ."
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"(CNN) -- As the relief effort in flood-hit Pakistan intensified Monday, officials were bracing themselves for an outbreak of disease among the millions affected by the country's worst deluge in 80 years.",
"Rushing floodwaters and mudslides triggered by monsoon rains have engulfed large swathes of northwestern Pakistan since Thursday, killing an estimated 1,500 people said Information Minister Mian Ifthikar Hussain on Monday.",
"Now government officials are concerned a lack of drinking water is spreading conditions such as cholera and gastroenteritis in affected areas such as the Swat Valley in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, Agence France-Presse reported.",
"\"We estimate that about 100,000 people, mostly children, have been hit by cholera and gastro diseases,\" Syed Zahir Ali Shah, health minister for Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, was quoted by AFP as saying.",
"iReport: Are you there? Send pictures, video .",
"\"Our priority is to first evacuate them to safe areas and then provide them with medical treatment,\" he added.",
"But the rescue and recovery efforts could become more complicated as monsoon rains continued to fall across much of Pakistan Monday.",
"\"Anything they get will aggravate an already devastating situation,\" said Brandon Miller, a meteorologist with CNN International.",
"The Pakistan Meteorological Department said Monday that it expects enhanced monsoon activity for the first two weeks of August.",
"It forecast widespread rain in the next four days in Sindh, Punjab, Kashmir, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, northeast Balochistan and Islamabad.",
"Areas along the Indus River will be badly affected due to extremely high flood conditions, the department has said.",
"Special: Impact Your World .",
"Tens of thousands of people remain trapped on rooftops and in higher areas trying to escape rising floodwaters, according to the United Nations.",
"\"We've got the government sending boats and helicopters to try to reach people and bring them to safety at the same time as trying to deliver emergency relief,\" said Nicki Bennett, a senior humanitarian affairs officer for the U.N. Damaged roads and bridges have made rescuing stranded residents difficult, she said, noting that even a U.N. warehouse where the organization stores food, blankets, soaps and bucks is partially underwater.",
"The Pakistani military, which has deployed dozens of helicopters and boats across the region, said 25 bridges have been destroyed and some 36 miles (58 kilometers) of road washed away in Swat and Shangla districts.",
"Despite these difficulties, senior commanders in the region told reporters that tens of thousands of people had been rescued from Shangla, Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda.",
"In the hardest-hit province, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, authorities estimate that 800 people have died and more than 100 are still missing, the World Health Organization said.",
"\"The actual figures could be higher as communication networks in many areas are still disrupted,\" it said in a report.",
"About 15,000 families in the province need emergency assistance, such as food, clean water, shelter and medical services, the organization said.",
"\"As the water level recedes, measures to prevent water-borne diseases will also become a priority,\" it said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon late Sunday authorized $10 million in emergency aid.",
"This follows an earlier pledge by the United States to send helicopters, boats, pre-fabricated bridges and water-filtration units.",
"The European Union and China have also committed to provide humanitarian aid.",
"A Pakistani Red Crescent official told CNN that the number of people affected by the floods has risen to nearly 2.5 million people, with infrastructure receiving major damage.",
"Rushing water also has washed away thousands of acres of crops, government buildings, businesses, schools, bridges and homes, officials said.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Nazneen Akbari and Matiullah Mati contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Up to 1,500 people killed in floods said Information Minister Mian Ifthikar Hussain .",
"Pakistani Red Crescent says 2.5 million people in northwestern Pakistan affected .",
"Officials fear an outbreak of gastro conditions due to lack of drinking water .",
"Destroyed bridges, roads hampering rescue efforts in flood-hit areas ."
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"(CNN) -- African soccer star Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed that he is quitting international football in the wake of the deadly gun attack on the Togo team bus in Angola in January.",
"Adebayor was national captain, but said on Monday that he no longer wanted to represent his country following the events which saw two people killed and several injured after rebels fired on the bus en route to the Africa Cup of Nations.",
"\"I have made the very difficult decision to retire from international football,\" the 26-year-old striker told the Web site of his English club Manchester City.",
"\"I have weighed up my feelings in the weeks and months since the attack, and I am still haunted by the events which I witnessed on that horrible afternoon on the Togo team bus.",
"\"We were just footballers going to play a football match and represent our country, yet we were attacked by people who wanted to kill us all.",
"It is a moment I will never forget and one I never want to experience again.\"",
"After deciding not to take part in the tournament, Togo were suspended from the next two stagings of the two-yearly event and fined $50,000.",
"Adebayor returned to England later in January after taking time out to recover from the ordeal, and his 13 goals this season have helped City claim fourth place in the Premier League to be on the brink of earning a place in Europe's top club competition.",
"\"Togo have some very talented players, and I dearly hope the players who remain will be able to put their memories of Angola behind them and go on to be a success for the nation,\" the 2008 African Footballer of the Year said.",
"\"I have enormous belief in each and every one of them: players, coaches, staff and their families.",
"The people who were on that coach together will forever be joined by a special bond -- we are all brothers.",
"\"I will always have the team and the people of Togo close to my heart, and wish them every success in the challenges that they will face in the future.\"",
"Adebayor has played 38 times for his country since making his international debut in 2000, scoring 16 times.",
"\"Despite the events in Angola, I have some very good memories of my international career,\" he said.",
"\"I feel very proud to have been trusted with the position of captain of the Togolese football team.",
"Leading your country in international competition is the ultimate honor for any player.\""
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"Two people died following incident ahead of January's Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Togo subsequently banned and fined for pulling out of tournament in Angola .",
"Adebayor reveals his decision on Web site of his English club Manchester City ."
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.",
"Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Cuba sent openly gay men to labor camps without charge or trial.",
"\"They were moments of great injustice, great injustice!\"",
"Castro told journalist Carmen Lira Saade from the Mexican daily La Jornada.",
"\"If someone is responsible, it's me.\"",
"His comments came in the second installment of a two-part interview.",
"The first half of the interview -- a wide-ranging, five-hour conversation at his home -- was published Monday.",
"\"We had so many and such terrible problems, problems of life or death, that we didn't pay it enough attention,\" Castro said of the way gays and lesbians were treated.",
"In 1979, Cuba decriminalized homosexual acts and more recently, there have been efforts to legalize same-sex unions.",
"The former leader, whose popular Revolution seized power in 1959, ruled the island nation until ill health forced him to transfer power to his younger brother Raul Castro in 2006.",
"In the La Jornada interview, Fidel Castro also talked about the impact of the five-decade U.S. embargo on Cuba.",
"\"The biggest problem was always medicine and food, which is true even today,\" he said.",
"While the embargo prevented Cuba from trading with much of the world, it also encouraged the country to be more creative, Castro said.",
"\"The fight, the battle that we had to carry out, led us to make greater efforts than we would have made without the blockade,\" he explained.",
"The United States imposed the embargo against Cuba in 1961 after Castro's government began seizing private land and nationalizing private companies, and Havana levied heavy taxes on American goods."
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"Fidel Castro acknowledges \"persecution\" of gays and lesbians during the Revolution .",
"Castro says the U.S. embargo against Cuba encouraged his country to be creative ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A former JetBlue flight attendant -- who reportedly cursed a passenger over a plane's public address system, deployed the plane's emergency evacuation slide, and used it to dramatically exit a flight at JFK airport in August -- pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted criminal mischief as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.",
"Steven Slater pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted criminal mischief, a felony, and fourth-degree attempted criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.",
"Under terms of the plea deal, he must enter a yearlong mental health program.",
"During the program, he must take assigned medications and not get arrested.",
"If he does not comply, he could receive between one and three years in jail.",
"If he successfully completes the program, Slater can apply after one year to vacate the guilty plea to the felony charge and will receive a year of probation, according to terms of the plea deal.",
"He must also pay $10,000 in restitution to JetBlue, the cost of repairing or replacing the chute.",
"\"I want to thank everyone for their support and kindness that got me through to this day,\" Slater said after the hearing.",
"\"The public interest in this was surprising, unexpected and encouraging.",
"At the end of the day, I am a grown adult and must accept responsibility for my actions.",
"Therefore, I am looking forward to moving forward with my life and I'm very grateful to the court for making these arrangements which allow me to do so.\"",
"JetBlue suspended Slater immediately after the August 9 incident and he resigned from the airline last month.",
"Terms of the deal were announced and Slater entered the plea Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court.",
"Slater defense attorney Daniel Horwitz said last month he was negotiating a plea deal with Queens prosecutors.",
"\"We look forward to resolving this matter amicably with the district attorney,\" Horwitz said.",
"And Queens District Attorney Richard Brown had said his office is considering \"an alternative sentencing program, at the defendant's request.\"",
"Brown initially charged Slater with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass, all of which could theoretically carry a seven-year sentence in prison.",
"Slater at first pleaded not guilty.",
"Slater's first court-appointed attorney had said a passenger hit Slater on the head with either the overhead bin or luggage, triggering his outburst.",
"But some passengers who were on board the flight raised questions about that account.",
"Slater's apparent \"Take this job and shove it\" action generated hundreds of thousands of fans on the internet.",
"Hollywood public relations veteran Howard Bragman agreed to represent Slater amid speculation the former flight attendant's notoriety could lead to a television contract.",
"\"The court is the first issue,\" Bragman told CNN.",
"\"I want to resolve that and then we'll deal with the rest.\"",
"CNN's Allan Chernoff contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Six counties in eastern North Carolina have been declared federal disaster areas after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Nicole earlier this month caused extensive flooding and subsequent damage.",
"Gov. Bev Perdue's office said it received notice Thursday afternoon that the federal agency had issued the declaration, which makes business and homeowners affected by the floods in Beaufort, Bertie, Craven, Hertford, Onslow and Tyrrell counties eligible for low-interest loans and grants.",
"\"In a time when the economy is down and our people are struggling, it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel after losses like these,\" Perdue, a Democrat, said in a press release.",
"\"Now families can take some hope from the fact that they will have help replacing some of those losses.\"",
"Eight people died in early October after Tropical Storm Nicole interacted with another low-pressure weather front to dump heavy rain from the Carolinas north to Cape Cod.",
"North Carolina was especially hard hit.",
"In Bertie County, for instance, waters that reached as high as stop signs caused the full or partial closure of scores of roads.",
"And many businesses and several historic homes in the town of Windsor ended up partially submerged.",
"County, state and federal emergency officials last week surveyed the storm's impact in 21 North Carolina counties, according to Perdue's office.",
"They found damage to 420 homes -- including 60 that were destroyed -- and 80 businesses.",
"Homeowners who qualify for federal assistance in the six affected counties can receive up to $240,000 to repair or replace their homes and personal belongings.",
"Emergency management officials said that, based on preliminary estimates, they do not believe the state of North Carolina will qualify for federal funding to recoup costs for emergency measures or pay for repairs to roads, bridges or other infrastructure, according to the governor's office."
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"Those who qualify can receive up to $240,000 to repair or replace homes .",
"Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Nicole hit eastern N.C. in early October .",
"420 homes were damaged, including 60 that were destroyed ."
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"(CNN) -- A U.S. soldier accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan will face a court-martial on murder and other charges, as recommended by an Army officer.",
"The document approving the recommendation for the court-martial of Spc.",
"Jeremy Morlock was signed by the officer in charge Friday.",
"It was obtained by CNN, along with other documents, that summarize last week's hearing at an Army-Air Force installation outside Tacoma, Washington, where prosecutors presented evidence against against Morlock.",
"Base officials would not confirm the authenticity of the document, which has not been publicly released.",
"Morlock is one of five members of the Army's 5th Stryker Brigade who is accused of premeditated murder in a series of incidents between January and May.",
"He has been charged with three counts of premeditated murder and several other charges, including obstruction of justice, assault and using drugs.",
"Morlock's attorneys argued during last week's hearing that he was operating at \"diminished mental capacity\" because of the use of drugs, including hashish and pain medication.",
"But the recommendation from the investigating officer found \"no evidence that the accused was behaving in an erratic, impaired or irrational manner\" at the time of the killings.",
"In addition to the five men charged with murder, seven other soldiers from the same unit face charges ranging from conspiracy and interfering in a military investigation to drug use -- specifically hashish -- while in Afghanistan."
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"Jeremy Morlock will face court-martial .",
"NEW: Recommendation was approved and signed by officer in charge .",
"Documents containing court-martial recommendation obtained by CNN .",
"Morlock is one of 5 soldiers charged with murdering Afghan civilians ."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- A court clerk at the trial of Steven Hayes, who was convicted of capital murder in a 2007 Connecticut home invasion, read Tuesday from writings of Hayes' alleged accomplice describing the incident in graphic detail.",
"\"I swung again, and then again ... a look of stunned shock in his eyes,\" wrote Joshua Komisarjevsky about the nighttime attack with a bat on Dr. William Petit, who was sleeping on the porch when the attack began that July night, and proved to be the lone survivor.",
"Prosecutors allege Hayes and Komisarjevsky invaded the Petit home, beat Hawke-Petit's husband bloody, strangled Hawke-Petit, set the house afire and tried to flee.",
"The crime shocked the well-to-do New Haven suburb of Cheshire and drew national attention.",
"The writings, read aloud to the jury by a court clerk during Tuesday's penalty phase of Hayes' trial, were selected from a 40-page letter Komisarjevsky wrote to author Brian McDonald in 2008.",
"They describe the men moving on to the bedrooms where Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit, lay sleeping.",
"\"All were compliant,\" he wrote.",
"\"This time I took a risk, pulled the trigger, and the chamber was loaded. ...",
"The Petit family passed through their fears and into terror. ...",
"It was captivating, validating that this pain in me was real. ...",
"I was looking right at my personal demon, reflected back in their eyes.",
"... Hayley is a fighter; she tried time and time again to free herself.",
"... Mr. Petit is a coward; he ran away when he thought his life was threatened, and ran away to leave his wife and children to madmen. ...",
"I was cheated of my retribution, and so was Steve. ...",
"I am what I am; I make no excuses. ...",
"I'm a criminal with a criminal mind.\"",
"Police testified that, after finding evidence of a bank account containing $20,000 to $30,000, the two forced Hawke-Petit to go to a bank in the morning and withdraw money from the account.",
"Prosecutors said Hayes took her to the bank while Komisarjevsky stayed behind.",
"When Hayes and Hawke-Petit returned with the money, the two men allegedly set the home afire and fled.",
"Inside the home, authorities said, Hawke-Petit, 48, was found raped and strangled.",
"Her two daughters, one of whom had been sexually assaulted, died of smoke inhalation.",
"Petit, the sole survivor, escaped to a neighbor's home.",
"Komisarjevsky added in his writings, \"I'm ultimately responsible for my own actions.",
"... Had Mr. Petit fought back in the very beginning, I would have been forced to retreat.",
"... You're the first line of defense for your family, not law enforcement.\"",
"Petit, who was in the courtroom, showed no visible reaction as these passages were read.",
"Afterward, outside the courthouse, he told reporters, \"I really don't want to dignify the ravings of a sociopath who appears to be a pathological liar as well.\"",
"Referring to the 11-year-old, Komisarjevsky continued, \"I tasted her fear.\"",
"After she was dead, he wrote, he took \"blackmail pictures\" of her body that he \"intended to use against Mr. and Mrs. Petit.",
"... What I was not prepared for was my demons getting the better of me.\"",
"The reading continued: \"How could I have gone oh so far, far wrong?",
"... Michaela, angel of my nightmares, my pain to yours does not compare.",
"... You call me from beyond the grave. ...",
"If only I could simply lie here and will myself to die.",
"... Michaela, Hayley, and Jennifer, forgive me; I am damned. ...",
"I can't believe I lost control; I hate myself/I love myself. ...",
"I stand condemned.\"",
"Komisarjevsky added, \"My forthcoming death sentence will be an action of mercy.\"",
"Prosecutors had objected to the defense's plan to read excerpts of Komisarjevsky's letters and journal, calling the writings \"fiction and fantasy.\"",
"\"It's kind of like 'The World According to Josh,'\" prosecutor Michael Dearington told Judge Jon Blue.",
"But Hayes' attorney, Tom Ullmann, said the writings show that Komisarjevsky -- who is to be tried separately -- \"is the mastermind here ... and Mr. Hayes' culpability is less.\"",
"Blue denied the prosecutors' motion to bar the writings, saying, \"Mr. Hayes is fighting for his life at this stage, and he's allowed great latitude.\"",
"Hayes, 47, was convicted earlier this month of 16 of the 17 charges against him -- including nine counts of murder and capital murder and four counts of kidnapping -- in the deaths of Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.",
"After hearing testimony in the penalty phase, the same jurors who convicted Hayes must decide if he should be executed.",
"Earlier in the day, the writings read like a how-to manual on breaking into homes.",
"\"My fundamental trademark is cat-type burglaries,\" Komisarjevsky wrote.",
"\"I'm a burglar; everybody knows I'm a burglar.",
"... You'd be surprised what people contract me to steal.\"",
"\"As my skill progressed over the years, I've reached the point where I can get into a house without any tools, only night vision,\" Komisarjevsky wrote.",
"When he believes a home's occupants are sleeping heavily, \"I make my way to the breaker room and start shutting down the electricity. ...",
"I have night vision; they have darkness.\"",
"Four journals were found in Komisarjevsky's cell, testified Rafael Medina, a detective with the Connecticut State Police major crimes unit.",
"In the journals, which were seized by authorities, Komisarjevsky discusses the Cheshire case, he said.",
"Medina testified that what he read in the journals led him to believe Komisarjevsky was communicating with McDonald, whom Medina described as \"a book author.\"",
"Visitor logs showed that McDonald had visited Komisarjevsky once, he testified.",
"In the penalty phase, jurors are allowed to consider evidence they heard during the guilt phase of the trial.",
"They can also consider new testimony or evidence that attorneys introduce, which might include the defendant's long history of prior convictions and anything that casts Hayes in a positive light.",
"Hayes himself could testify.",
"The defense offered testimony Monday from witnesses who had interacted with Hayes through work, from his apartment complex or because of his drug addiction.",
"That testimony continued Tuesday with Philip Theeb, a building contractor who said he knew Hayes through his girlfriend and gave him work as a painter.",
"Theeb described Hayes as a hard worker and said he loaned Hayes his truck on the weekend the attack took place, but \"on Monday morning he failed to show up.\"",
"He told jurors he had met Komisarjevsky before, and tried to call him after Hayes did not show up.",
"When he first heard from the police, he said, he thought Hayes \"had done something stupid.\"",
"When he heard what Hayes was accused of, Theeb said, he was \"shocked. ...",
"I couldn't believe it.\" William Petit has said he will not offer a victim impact statement during Hayes' penalty phase, saying in a statement he \"regretfully\" decided against doing so because Connecticut's law on victim impact statements is unclear and could provide convicts with grounds to appeal their sentences.",
"After Wednesday, when just one witness is scheduled to testify, no testimony will occur as the judge and attorneys work on jury instructions.",
"Testimony is to resume Monday."
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"Defense: Komisarjevsky, who is to be tried separately, was \"the mastermind\"\nHayes was convicted of capital murder in the 2007 home invasion ."
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"(CNN) -- An international court cleared the way Tuesday to try a former politician and militia leader for crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, rape and pillaging.",
"The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, knocked down an appeal by Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, ruling that the court may admit his case to trial.",
"Bemba's defense challenged his case's admissibility on the grounds that the Central African Republic (CAR) -- the country the alleged crimes occurred in -- investigated the case and made a \"decision not to prosecute.\"",
"The ICC decided that the CAR's action does not prohibit the case from being tried, according to a news release issued by the court Tuesday.",
"Bemba, a former vice president in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is accused of leading his militia in attacks on civilians in the CAR for almost five months, according to the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR).",
"Under his leadership his Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) allegedly murdered, raped and pillaged in the neighboring country \"during the period approximately between 26 October 2002 and 15 March, 2003\", according to the ICC."
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"He is accused of leading his militia in attacks on civilians in the CAR for almost five months ."
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"(CNN) -- The glamour shots capture them in fashion-model poses -- sprawled on a couch or lounging by the pool, smiling and sensuous.",
"Filomena Domingos da Costa, from left, Anita Pedro and Maria Restino Manuel are competing for the unusual title.",
"But these women aren't typical pageant contestants: Each lost a limb after stepping on a landmine in their native Angola.",
"On Wednesday, they compete for the unusual title of Miss Landmine Angola 2008.",
"Organizers say they want the pageant to restore the women's pride and raise awareness about the prevalence of landmines left over from Angola's three decade-long civil war.",
"Undetonated mines still maim 300 to 400 people a year in the county, according to the United Nations.",
"\"I'm completely enthusiastic about participating,\" said one of the contestants, 25-year-old Paulina Vadi.",
"\"I think that it will give society a wake-up call to be more attentive to disabled people in general.\"",
"Vadi was a fourth-grader when she went to a field to gather fruit.",
"A sudden military attack sent her running for cover.",
"She stepped on a Russian-made mine and lost her right leg.",
"That was 11 years ago.",
"Now Vadi lives with her mother and three school-aged children.",
"She works as a street vendor, selling beer and soda.",
"She said she entered the pageant because she wants to be able to return to school.",
"The contestants represent Angola's various provinces and range in age from 19 to 33.",
"Their profiles list not only their ages and favorite colors but also when they were injured and what kind of mine claimed their limbs.",
"Most were maimed while tending fields, and they are now unemployed.",
"Vadi's photograph has her reclined atop a safe, a tiara on her head and a stack of cash in her left hand.",
"Her sash reads, \"Huila,\" the province she is representing.",
"All the contestants will receive governmental help to go back to school or to start a small business.",
"The winner gets a new prosthetic limb.",
"Angolan organizers expect to crown two winners Wednesday: one picked by a panel of a dozen officials from the Angolan government and foreign embassies, the other through an online poll.",
"So far, organizers said, close to 9,000 viewers from about 30 countries have voted for their favorite participant on the Web site, www.miss-landmine.org.",
"Pageants for contestants who face physical challenges are nothing new.",
"The United States has Ms.",
"Wheelchair America.",
"And contestants from around the globe compete each year in Miss Deaf World.",
"The Angolan pageant -- with its motto of \"Everyone has a right to be beautiful\" -- focuses on a problem that is particularly severe in that country.",
"Thousands of Angolans have been maimed by mines buried during a bloody 27-year civil war.",
"The war began shortly after the country's independence from Portugal in 1975 and ended six years ago, killing 1.5 million people.",
"Warring sides buried millions of landmines to depopulate areas, slow the movement of opposing forces and defend towns, bridges and power lines.",
"Despite an extensive de-mining program since the end of the war, Angola remains one of the most mined countries in Africa.",
"The mines are so prevalent that their legacy was immediately obvious when Norwegian artist Morten Traavik first visited the southern African nation in 2003, a year after the war ended.",
"\"The whole country was littered with landmines left over from the conflict,\" Traavik said.",
"\"You virtually couldn't move anywhere because most of the country wasn't even surveyed for landmines, let alone cleared.\"",
"While there, Traavik judged a neighborhood beauty contest in the capital of Luanda -- and got the idea for the landmine pageant.",
"Finding money for it proved difficult.",
"Traavik said several nongovernmental organizations turned him down, with one labeling his idea a \"freak show.\"",
"\"That says more about your own attitudes toward the disabled people -- and how you think Africans are supposed to be and look like -- than it does our project,\" he said.",
"Soon after, Traavik won the blessing of the Angolan government.",
"And he eventually was able to change the minds of people who were initially reluctant, said Becky Thomson, mine action program manager for the nongovernmental group Norwegian People's Aid.",
"\"I think one of the reasons quite a few of us changed our initial reservations and are seeing it in a different light is very much linked to the fact that when you see the photographs, you see that the women are profiled with dignity,\" Thomson said.",
"\"That is really important.\"",
"Indeed, dignity is what spurred several of the women to participate.",
"Contestant Ana Diogo is a 32-year-old widowed mother of three who lost her leg to an Italian-made mine in 1984.",
"Diogo is unemployed, selling tomatoes on the streets when she can find any.",
"She said she hopes the pageant will give her a chance at a better life.",
"Her dream job? \"Anything,\" she said.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Pageant goal is to restore pride to women who lost limbs to Angola's landmines .",
"Organizers also want to raise awareness about danger of buried landmines .",
"Winner gets a new prosthetic limb; all contestants will get government help .",
"Thousands of Angolans have been maimed by landmines during 27-year civil war ."
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"(CNN) -- Police arrested another teen Thursday, the sixth suspect jailed in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on a northern California high school campus.",
"Jose Carlos Montano, 18, was arrested on charges of felony rape, rape in concert with force, and penetration with a foreign object, said Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan.",
"Montano was arrested Thursday evening in San Pablo, California, a small town about two miles from the city of Richmond, where the crime took place.",
"Montano, who was held in lieu of $1.3 million bail, is accused of taking part in what police said was a 2½-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus.",
"Police said as many as 10 people were involved in the rape in a dimly lit back alley at the school, while another 10 people watched without calling 911.",
"The victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition, but was released Wednesday.",
"Four other teenage suspects were arraigned Thursday on charges connected to the rape.",
"Cody Ray Smith, described by the court as older than 14, pleaded not guilty to charges of rape with a foreign object and rape by force.",
"Two other juveniles, Ari Abdallah Morales and Marcelles James Peter, appeared with Smith at the Contra Costa County Superior Court, but did not enter a plea.",
"The court described Morales as younger than 16, and did not give an age for Peter.",
"All three juveniles, who wore bulletproof vests at the hearing, were charged as adults.",
"A fourth person, Manuel Ortega, 19, appeared separately without an attorney and did not enter a plea.",
"He did not wear a protective vest.",
"Another person, Salvador Rodriguez, 21, was arrested Tuesday night, but he was not in court Thursday."
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"Investigators say up to 20 people took part or stood and watched the assault .",
"Four suspects appeared in court Thursday; three wore bulletproof vests ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An anti-insurgent provincial governor who had survived Taliban assassination attempts was among 20 people who died Friday in an explosion at a northern Afghan mosque during prayers, a government official said.",
"The blast in Afghanistan's Takhar province killed Kunduz provincial governor Mohammad Omar, who recently sounded an alarm about the threat of insurgents during an interview with CNN.",
"The bombing also wounded 35 others, with most of those killed and injured engaged in prayer, said Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari.",
"\"It is a terrible incident,\" said Bashari, who said police were trying to find out more details about the strike and who is responsible.",
"The NATO-led command condemned the attack, saying that \"it's unconscionable that anyone would attack a mosque.\"",
"\"It's clear the insurgents have no respect for the most holy of Islamic places,\" said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Greg Smith, spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul deplored the act, saying \"whoever was responsible\" for striking a house of worship \"has demonstrated a clear lack of disregard for the Afghan people and for the peaceful religion they practice.\"",
"The mosque was bloodied and its roof was shattered, eyewitness Mujib Rahman said, but there were different early accounts on how the strike was carried out.",
"Gen. Daoud Daoud, commander of the Afghan Interior Ministry's northern zone, said a suicide attacker apparently sitting next to the governor detonated a bomb.",
"Faiz Mohammad Powhidi, a Takhar governor spokesman, told CNN that a pre-placed mine exploded.",
"He explained that governor had been visiting his family and attending Friday prayers weekly in his native province of Takhar, which borders Kunduz.",
"Omar, who was a Pashtun, had survived several assassination attempts by the Taliban, and his brother was slain a few months ago.",
"He told CNN on Sunday that for the last two years, the security situation has deteriorated in Kunduz because insurgents decided to destabilize northern Afghanistan, which, until recently, had been relatively stable during the nine-year-old Afghan conflict.",
"The Takhar blast and the Thursday killing of a German soldier in the north illustrates a growing unrest that contrasts with the first years after the Taliban's collapse in 2001.",
"In those days, the north was much more secure than the predominantly ethnic Pashtun south and east of the country.",
"Omar told CNN that the insurgents were trying to use Kunduz as a launchpad to destabilize northern Afghanistan and the wider Central Asian region and lamented the lack of police available to battle insurgents.",
"\"Currently 40 percent of Kunduz province is under Taliban control,\" he said.",
"German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle conveyed his regrets to the Afghan government in a letter.",
"\"Yesterday we suffered the death of a Bundeswehr soldier,\" he said.",
"\"Today the news reaches us of another attack in which the governor of Kunduz, Mohammad Omar, was killed.",
"I wanted to express my condolences on the part of the federal government.\"",
"Other violence rippled across the country on Friday.",
"Three coalition soldiers in southern Afghanistan were killed: one in an insurgent attack and two others in improvised explosive device attacks.",
"NATO does not give the nationalities of service members who are killed, but the British Defence Ministry said one of its soldiers was killed in Helmand province in the south Friday.",
"NATO-led forces killed five armed men in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province.",
"The command is investigating allegations of civilian casualties in the latter incident, ISAF said."
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"The slain Kunduz governor previously survived assassination attempts .",
"The mosque is bloodied and its roof is shattered .",
"20 are dead and 35 are wounded from the attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Four Americans were killed in a small plane crash in northwestern Mexico, the president of the volunteer organization Flying Samaritans said Saturday.",
"The plane had been headed on a medical mission in the Mexican state of Baja California and lost radio contact with the ground on Friday afternoon, said Flying Samaritans President Victor Jones.",
"The wreckage of a Beechcraft A36 plane and the bodies of the four volunteers were discovered Saturday \"after an extensive ground, air and water search,\" Jones said in a statement Saturday.",
"The wreckage was located in rough terrain about 30 miles south of Ensenada, Mexico -- a city on the Pacific coast -- where the plane had departed Friday afternoon en route to San Quintin, Mexico.",
"Jones said that Mexican authorities found four bodies in the wreckage.",
"Radio contact with the plane was lost shortly after the pilot reported to the Ensenada airport on Friday when it was about 10 miles south of the airport, Jones said.",
"He identified the victims as: James Thornton, a plastic surgeon; Graciela Sarmiento, a doctor; Andrew Theil, a non-medical support staffer; and Roger Lyon, the pilot.",
"Flying Samaritans transports medical and support personnel to clinics in Baja California -- which is just south of California, the American state -- where they provide free medical services and supplies to those who lack medical care.",
"CNN's Chuck Johnston contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A letter written by a Louisiana State University student leader and published Monday in a New Hampshire newspaper is taking Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal to task for his out-of-state travels.",
"The letter in New Hampshire's Keene Sentinel tells readers: \"Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal is spending more time in your state than the one he was elected to represent.",
"I read almost daily about his trips to other states, which makes me believe that he is more interested in running for president than running the state of Louisiana.\"",
"J Hudson, the letter's author, is a 21-year-old political science and communications major as well as LSU's student body president.",
"The reason he wrote the letter, he said, is because he tried through traditional means of arranging a meeting to discuss education cuts with Jindal -- but to no avail.",
"\"We tried to set up meetings with Governor Jindal.",
"We got an e-mail sent back to us from his executive assistant, telling us that his schedule was very tight,\" Hudson said.",
"\"But a few days after that, I started reading he was in Florida, New Hampshire, New York, Wisconsin.",
"No wonder he has no time, he's all over the United States and not in Louisiana.\"",
"Jindal was in New Hampshire on October 14 and in several other states recently to attend political fundraising events.",
"Kyle Plotkin, Jindal's press secretary said in a statement Monday: \"The Governor has spent over 90 percent of the days since taking office in Louisiana, traveling to every parish multiple times.",
"It's good for Louisiana for the Governor to share with business and other leaders across the country our success in outperforming the national economy.\"",
"In the letter, Hudson said he wanted to ask the governor \"why he's imposing devastating budget cuts that will result in the firing of one-third of the university's faculty and reduce enrollment by 8,000.\"",
"LSU, the victim of numerous budget cuts in recent years, is bracing for as much as a $62 million reduction in the future due to the state's financial crisis.",
"Hudson said it's that crisis facing his school that has him trying to track down the governor.",
"\"Governor Jindal, Louisiana higher education is about to be devastated.",
"It will take a generation for our universities to recover.",
"On behalf of the students whose hopes for a brighter future will soon be crushed, I beg you to return to Louisiana and fix your state's serious problems.",
"You've neglected your constituents long enough,\" Hudson said in the letter.",
"Plotkin said the governor's chief of staff and policy director have already met with Hudson to discuss education funding.",
"\"It's great he and other students are getting involved in the political process and we hope they continue to be part of the conversation.",
"We have an open dialogue with the higher education community about the state's budget challenges and we're working to mitigate reductions to classrooms,\" Plotkin said.",
"\"The reality though is that higher education officials are not delivering the value our students deserve.",
"That's why we've encouraged higher education administrative officials to prioritize reductions so that they come mainly from administrative overhead, not teaching and research.\"",
"Hudson said he believed legislators should change state policy to better protect higher education and perhaps find other areas to make budget cuts in.",
"Despite taking the meeting request to the public stage, Hudson said the governor's been doing a good job and he bears no ill will towards him.",
"\"I'm very satisfied with his role.",
"He can really speak for the people and protect the interests of the citizens of our state, with our natural disasters and the Gulf oil spill,\" he said.",
"\"All I'm asking is just for a meeting, a 30-minute meeting on how to protect the flagship institution of our state.\"",
"Hudson said he would consider voting for Jindal if he should run for president, if he spends more time at home.",
"\"We need him in this state.",
"Look, I'm not saying he wouldn't be a great presidential candidate if he ever went into something like that, but take care of your home first, and then you can move on to whatever presidential aspirations you have.\""
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"A university student leader thinks Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal should spend more time at home .",
"The student wrote a letter published in a New Hamshire newspaper .",
"The letter says Jindal \"is spending more time in your state\" than his home state .",
"A spokesman for the governor says he's spent 90 percent of his time in Louisiana ."
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"(CNN) -- Ever since the early days of AOL Instant Messenger (and ICQ for all you diehard chatters out there), the internet has provided us with a splendid way to reach out to others, connect with them across the channels of humanity and completely and utterly waste their time.",
"Picture this, if you will: Whilst clicking dejectedly through your Gmail, waiting for those Facebook invites to come pouring in (can't spend Saturday night watching \"My So-Called Life\" and crying -- you did that last weekend), you decide to send a chat to your friend, interrupting her glassy-eyed computer monitor staring contest.",
"A blinking window title.",
"A little bloop sound.",
"And, unlike with e-mail, Facebook messages, texts and even phone calls, comes an expectation that she shall answer NOW.",
"And let me tell you something: More often than not, you're likely annoying the hell out of her.",
"Why? Well, according to recent research from Nielsen, Americans spend a collective total of about 160 million hours per month instant messaging -- so the odds are pretty good.",
"Yes, chat is a wonderful way to pass the time during work (\"I will cleverly fool my boss into thinking I'm hard at work by feverishly typing -- a detailed account of how I crowd-surfed into the arms of the riot police when they came to break up that illegal show last night\"), to make plans on the fly or to communicate with that dude one cubicle over (\"My vocal chords are so weary... Let's just have this meeting via iChat, mmk?\").",
"But it's also the bane of many a computer-bound drone's existence.",
"Read on for five ways you're potentially leading your co-workers, friends and casual acquaintances to hit \"Block.\"",
"You're a downer . you: hi... your friend: heyo.",
"you: i'm really depressed.",
"your friend: um, why? you: well, my boss yelled at me because i wouldn't take my headphones off, but i was listening to this really get-up-and-go jam by the vaselines and it was really impelling me to get up and go, but he didn't get that.",
"you: also my cat died this morning, but he's somewhere in the wall because he climbed in there last week so i can only tell by the smell.",
"you: also, that girl i had been seeing isn't returning my calls because the same cat peed all over her new silk dress.",
"you: actually, since he's dead, do you think that would be reason enough to call her again?",
"your friend: brb .",
"You're dull . you: hey. your friend: hi! you: what's up? your friend: ehh, not much.",
"my boss just spilled coffee all over his shirt and yelled, \"fudge!\"",
"it was pretty funny.",
"who says, \"fudge!'",
"after age 7? you: ha. your friend: what's up with you? you: nothing. your friend: oh. you: yeah. so what's up...? You over-share . you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA?cnn=yes .",
"your friend: oh, cool.",
"i'm at work. i'll watch it later.",
"you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA?cnn=yes .",
"your friend: nice.",
"i can't open stuff like that at work.",
"your friend: dude, seriously.",
"not everyone is an unemployed freelance writer who spends most of his day crying, eating cereal out of the box and reading The Daily What.",
"respect, dude, respect.",
"you: harsh, man. just for that, i'm not showing you this naked lady that looks like homer simpson.",
"your friend: wait... You're always invisible .",
"you: hi. your friend: oh, dude.",
"i thought you weren't online.",
"you: i'm hiding from some people.",
"what's up? your friend: well, i've been e-mailing you for like the last hour about that project.",
"are you done yet? seriously, man, we need to turn it in TOMORROW and you haven't done anything yet.",
"can you send me what you have??? [Sent at 11:14 AM on Thursday] your friend: hello???",
"[Sent at 11:52 AM on Thursday] your friend: hello???",
"dude, you're not fooling ANYONE.",
"ANSWER ME! You put up annoying statuses .",
"you: hey... your friend: hey, lady.",
"you: what's going on? [your new status message - i hate my job and my life and everyone i know 11:19 AM] .",
"your friend: uh ... gtg."
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"Being a downer, dull or putting up annoying statuses can put at risk of being blocked .",
"Americans spend about 160 million hours per month instant messaging ."
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"Hickory, North Carolina (CNN) -- North Carolina authorities have been in contact with Zahra Baker's biological mother in Australia and have asked for the medical records of the missing 10-year-old girl.",
"\"We're in the process of getting medical information from Australia, and we're in the process of getting medical records here,\" said Clyde Deal, the deputy police chief of Hickory on Monday.",
"Officials did not specify what kind of medical records they were seeking.",
"Dental records are sometimes used to identify a body.",
"Although authorities believe Zahra is dead, her remains have not been found.",
"Burke County Sheriff John McDevitt has said that Zahra's disappearance is being investigated as a homicide.",
"Zahra was reported missing October 9 and no one other than a family member has reported seeing her since September 25, when a woman reported seeing her at a furniture store, Deal said.",
"Police have been searching for the girl in and around the city of Hickory.",
"\"We're speaking to her on a regular basis,\" Deal said of Zahra's biological mother.",
"\"She's very concerned, and she's very appreciative of everything being done to solve this case.\"",
"The deputy police chief said authorities are not clear on the circumstances of the split between the mother and father.",
"Police said last week that the girl's stepmother, Elisa Baker, admitted to writing a fake ransom note that was left at the family's home.",
"She was arrested October 10 on unrelated charges, including writing worthless checks.",
"More recently, authorities charged her with obstruction of justice, a felony, after she admitted writing the fake note, according to Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins.",
"Elisa Baker remains jailed on those charges.",
"Her bail has been set at a combined $70,000, an amount her lawyer called excessive.",
"Police said the girl's father, Adam Baker, also faces bad-check charges, but has not been arrested.",
"He is assisting police in their search.",
"\"Every time we ask him to be somewhere, he's there,\" Deal said.",
"The disappearance of Zahra -- a freckle-faced youngster who uses a prosthetic leg and hearing aids -- has made international news.",
"The girl lost her leg to bone cancer, according to CNN affiliate WCNC.",
"Family members and neighbors have told reporters that Zahra's stepmother had abused her.",
"Her attorney, Scott Reilly, vehemently denied those allegations during an interview Monday.",
"\"Whatever investigation was done, there was never anything substantiated regarding child abuse by Elisa Baker,\" he said.",
"\"The lady saying they were keeping Zahra in the attic, and they thought it was squirrels, that lady has squirrels in her head,\" Reilly said, referring to a woman who spoke to the media.",
"\"She had no business saying things that were untrue.",
"Someone else says she was kept in a locked room and only allowed to come out five minutes a day to eat.",
"Those people [reporting that information] should have their media credentials revoked.\"",
"Earlier, a relative said that the alleged abuse was reported to the state Department of Social Services but the relative did not know the outcome.",
"The state office said such a report would have been handled by a county office but that the agency is barred from commenting because of strict confidentiality laws.",
"Reilly said he has filed a motion to reduce Elisa Baker's bond, and a hearing has been set for Wednesday.",
"HLN's Beth Carey and Natisha Lance contributed to this report."
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"Zahra, 10, was last seen September 25 .",
"Police are investigating her disappearance as a homicide ."
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"(CNN) -- Mexican authorities are offering a $1.2 million (15 million pesos) reward for information on 14 children who may have been taken from orphanages by child traffickers, according to a release from the attorney general of Mexico.",
"The attorney general also is offering about $400,000 (5 million pesos) in the search for three people in the \"Casitas del Sur\" case, a statement said Friday.",
"The children disappeared in February 2009 from the Casitas del Sur orphanage in Mexico City and from homes in Nuevo Laredo and Quintana Roo, the statement said.",
"CNN's Claudia Dominguez contributed to this report."
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"Three people are being sought in the case ."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- A man convicted of capital murder in a 2007 Connecticut home invasion has attempted suicide several times since his arrest and has said he wants to receive the death penalty, a forensic psychiatrist testified Wednesday.",
"Steven Hayes, 47, was convicted this month of 16 of the 17 charges against him -- including nine counts of murder and capital murder and four counts of kidnapping -- in the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.",
"Prosecutors allege that Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky invaded the Petit home in Cheshire, beat Jennifer Hawke-Petit's husband bloody, strangled Hawke-Petit, set the house afire and tried to flee.",
"On cross-examination, Dr. Paul Amble said his panel did not address the question of whether the defendant's suicide attempts were sincere.",
"But in his opinion, Hayes was \"making decisions that were rational, given his situation\" when he said he wanted to receive the death penalty.",
"\"I want to plead guilty to everything now, because I just want it over now,\" Hayes told an evaluation team, the assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine testified to a jury considering whether to sentence Steven Hayes to death.",
"Hayes described a plan to \"look like a monster\" to the jury, expressing no remorse, in an attempt to move the jurors to sentence him to death, Amble wrote in his evaluation of the defendant.",
"In March, Hayes told a psychologist that he no longer wanted to commit suicide \"but intended to let the state do it,\" Amble said.",
"Judge Jon Blue had asked Amble to evaluate Hayes to determine whether he was competent to stand trial.",
"Hayes \"described five overdose attempts\" that he felt Connecticut corrections staff was aware of, Amble said.",
"The last such attempt came January 31, when Hayes \"took a fairly large amount of thorazine ... nearly twice the lethal limit,\" Amble said.",
"The incident forced a delay in Hayes' trial, which had been set for February 1.",
"Thorazine is an antipsychotic medication that can also be prescribed to treat anxiety, as it was in Hayes' case.",
"Asked to describe his mood on a scale of zero to 10, Hayes ranked it at zero and described symptoms of helplessness and hopelessness since his arrest shortly after the killings, Amble testified.",
"He said Hayes told him he had tried to strangle himself with a sock but failed because he couldn't tighten it enough to cut off circulation.",
"Hayes told his evaluators that he had considered other ways to end his life, such as \"putting my head in the toilet and doing a back flip\" to break his neck, but opted against doing so out of fear that he might only paralyze or otherwise injure himself, according to the evaluation carried out by Amble.",
"Hayes told the evaluation team in March that \"he wanted to essentially encourage the jury to vote in favor of the death penalty ... perhaps by taking the stand and looking like he has no remorse,\" Amble said.",
"\"His desire was to actively seek the death penalty.\"",
"He said Hayes has lost more than 60 pounds since his arrest and complained of not sleeping well and of nightmares.",
"His psychiatrist in prison has diagnosed him with \"adjustment disorder\" and \"major depression,\" Amble said.",
"Prosecutor Michael Dearington asked Amble whether Hayes truly wanted to be executed.",
"\"I don't know,\" the doctor said.",
"\"I'm not here to say I can exactly divine his thoughts, only what he said.\"",
"Komisarjevsky is to be tried separately, but on Tuesday, a court clerk read from Komisarjevsky's writings providing graphic descriptions of the incident.",
"\"I am what I am; I make no excuses,\" Komisarjevsky wrote.",
"\"I'm a criminal with a criminal mind.\"",
"But he also appeared to express remorse, at one point writing, \"Michaela, Haley and Jennifer, forgive me; I am damned.",
"... My forthcoming death sentence will be an action of mercy.\"",
"Police testified that in the 2007 home invasion, Hayes and Komisarjevsky found evidence of a bank account containing $20,000 to $30,000 and forced Hawke-Petit to go to a bank in the morning and withdraw money from the account.",
"Prosecutors said Hayes took her to the bank while Komisarjevsky stayed behind.",
"When Hayes and Hawke-Petit returned with the money, officials said, the two men set the home afire and fled.",
"Inside the home, authorities said, Hawke-Petit, 48, was found raped and strangled.",
"Her two daughters, one of whom had been sexually assaulted, died of smoke inhalation.",
"Petit, the sole survivor, escaped to a neighbor's home.",
"Amble was the only witness to testify on Wednesday, and no further testimony is scheduled until Monday, after the judge and attorneys spend the rest of this week working on jury instructions. ..."
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"NEW: Steven Hayes wanted to \"look like a monster\" to the jury .",
"Doctor testifies Hayes said he wants to be executed .",
"He says Hayes has been diagnosed with major depression .",
"Hayes was convicted of capital murder in the 2007 home invasion ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods will have a new putter in his hands as he bids to make golfing history by becoming the first player to win the British Open at the same venue three times in a row after earlier triumphs at St.Andrews in 2000 and 2005.",
"The troubled world number one begins his challenge at the home of golf on Thursday morning as he tees off with England's in-form Justin Rose and Colombia's Camilo Villegas and will have a new addition to his golf bag.",
"Woods told gathered reporters Tuesday that he was forsaking the club which had helped him to 13 of his 14 majors in favor of a heavier putter to tackle the greens of the Old Course.",
"\"I've always struggled on slower greens and the one I've gone to this week comes off faster and I've had to make very little adjustment,\" he said.",
"Woods has played three practice rounds in windy conditions on the Scottish coast, having arrived on Sunday.",
"The American took part in a charity pro-am event in Ireland at the beginning of last week and would normally have gone straight to St.Andrews, but instead flew home to see his two children.",
"Woods again refused to comment on reports of a divorce settlement with his Swedish wife Elin.",
"He went into self-imposed exile from golf at the beginning of the year after revelations of marital infidelity provoked unfavorable headlines.",
"Facing persistent questioning from reporters on his private life, Woods claimed it would have no effect on his performance this week.",
"\"(The scandal) doesn't impact it at all.",
"I'm here to play a championship,\" Woods said.",
"\"This is the Open Championship at St. Andrews.",
"This is as good as it gets. It's the home of golf. I'm just like every other player in this field.\"",
"Woods is without a win since his return to the circuit in April, but has finished shared fourth in both the U.S Masters and the recent U.S. Open.",
"He told his personal website that despite his winless streak, he was happy with his general game as he bids for a 15th major crown.",
"\"I have been driving it on a string.",
"The club feels so good in my hands,\" Woods said.",
"\"I went back to my fundamentals with my putting and my stroke feels good.\"",
"Woods won at St.Andrews in 2000 by eight shots and five in 2005 but missed the cut in last year's British Open at Turnberry.",
"Despite being installed as favorite with bookmakers, Woods appears to have lost his aura of invincibility, but three-time major winner Padraig Harrington said that could all change quickly.",
"\"Tiger finishing fourth in a major is considered a failure -- it is amazing what expectations can do because in those two performances he could have won both,\" he told UK's Press Association.",
"\"But if he comes out and wins, wins, wins then players will be intimidated by him,\" he added.",
"European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie, second to Woods on the Old Course in 2005, also believes Woods can do a 'three-peat' at St.Andrews if he can use his new putter to good effect.",
"\"It would be the tough guy to bet against him on a course that is entirely suited to his strength, which is putting,\" he told Press Association.",
"Woods' great rival Phil Mickelson is second favorite with most odds makers but comes into the tournament off the back of missing the cut in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond and a mediocre record at the British Open, with a best of third place in 2004.",
"Mickelson also has another chance to overtake Woods as world number one, but only a victory and his fifth major title will definitely secure him top spot."
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"Tiger Woods forsakes old putter as he bids for third straight win at St.Andrews .",
"World number Woods has used the putter for 13 of his 14 major wins .",
"Woods is without a win since being embroiled in a sex scandal .",
"Fellow American Phil Mickelson is challenging Woods for top spot in rankings ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- There are many off-field aspects to the modern-day World Cup which makes the experience complete for soccer-crazy fans; from the unveiling of a tournament mascot to themed merchandise such as computer games and event specific kits for the teams taking part.",
"Another crucial element to this list of tournament treats is the release of the all-important official World Cup football.",
"The 2010 edition of the event, which will kick off in South Africa on June 11, is no different, with football's world governing body FIFA commissioning German sport manufacturer Adidas to create the hallowed orb.",
"The ball has been named \"Jabulani\" -- a Zulu phrase which means \"to celebrate\" -- and uses eleven different colors to represent the eleven players on a team, as well as the eleven official languages and tribes of South Africa.",
"Not since 1986 has the World Cup used a leather ball -- and the \"Jabulani\" is far removed from its more simple parent with eight thermally-bonded panels used in its construction.",
"It is thought that demand will be high for the spheres come June, and in anticipation 1,760 a day are being produced using complex processes such as high-frequency forming, vacuuming and thermal bonding, which Adidas says give the product \"ground-breaking\" performance.",
"Chelsea and Germany captain Michael Ballack for one seems to be a fan, after he told reporters \"the ball does exactly what I want it to do\" on its release.",
"Whether the ball will help Ballack's side go two better than their third-place finish in 2006, to pick up their fourth world title, remains to be seen."
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"The new 2010 World Cup ball is named \"Jabulani\", which means \"to celebrate\" in Zulu .",
"Adidas rrigorously tested the ball in their specially made wind tunnel in Scheinfeld, Germany .",
"World Cup footballs have not been made out of leather since the 1986 edition of the tournament in Mexico ."
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"(CNN) -- Somali gunmen on Wednesday released a British aid worker kidnapped last week while working for Save the Children.",
"The aid worker, named as Zimbabwe-born Frans Barnard, was freed after tribal elders negotiated with his captors, Save the Children confirmed.",
"Barnard was safe and well and had been moved to a more secure place in Somalia, Save the Children said in a statement.",
"No ransom had been paid by the organization to secure Barnard's release, it said.",
"\"Save the Children's policy is not to pay ransoms and we did not pay a ransom to secure Fran's release.",
"The release was negotiated by the clan elders and we are extremely grateful to them,\" Save the Children said.",
"\"We believe Frans was abducted by an independent group of criminals with no political affiliation or support from other groups in the region.\"",
"Save the Children chief executive Justin Forsyth earlier told BBC radio Barnard had been looked after by his kidnappers.",
"\"He is well, he is in good spirits and he is on his way to a place of safety,\" he said.",
"British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed news of Barnard's release and said the government had been in close contact with Save the Children.",
"\"Let me praise the professionalism of Save the Children and also thank the Somali clan members who were involved in his release,\" Cameron told lawmakers.",
"\"I'm sure it will be good for him to be back with his family after what must have been a very, very frightening and difficult few days.\"",
"Barnard was kidnapped along with a Somali aid worker from a guesthouse compound in the town of Adado, near the Ethiopian border, last Thursday.",
"The Somali national was released soon afterwards.",
"Save the Children is an international organization based in the United Kingdom.",
"It works to improve the lives of children worldwide.",
"The group said it had been assessing the feasibility of starting up an humanitarian program to help malnourished and sick children and their families in the area.",
"Somalia has not had a stable government since 1991, and fighting between rebels and government troops has escalated the humanitarian crisis in the famine-ravaged country."
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"Save the Children says no ransom was paid to the kidnappers ."
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"(CNN) -- I am a product of the \"The Black Church.\"",
"It shaped me into who I am today: a Christian pastor aware of God's amazing grace and love.",
"When I announced I was gay, the church limited that grace and love.",
"Although I had no doubt that God loved me, I discovered that God's love and the church's love can be two different things.",
"To be Christian is to be inclusive of people who love one another.",
"This is why I support same-sex marriage.",
"As a pastor, I have counseled countless heterosexual and homosexual couples, and have observed that no matter the race, background or sexual orientation of the couple, a healthy relationship requires commitment, genuine respect and mutual love.",
"Though my partner and I had a commitment ceremony in 2003, and obtained a marriage license this past July in Washington D.C., we learned that marriage is more than our religious convictions and our commitment, but also about laws that will protect us.",
"Marriage equality is not about religious rights, but the right to equal benefits.",
"At the end of 2003, the U.S. Government Accountability Office identified 1,138 federal provisions where marital status is a factor in determining or receiving benefits, rights and privileges.",
"These include next-of-kin hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; automatic inheritance in the absence of a will and inheritance of jointly owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship.",
"These benefits allow all marriages access to the social and emotional supports that can produce healthy families and communities.",
"I affirm the role of religion in our society.",
"But no matter how powerful religion is, in the United States, the laws of the church and the laws of the government are intentionally separate.",
"Another view from the pulpit: Same-sex marriages will hurt families .",
"In 1968, 73 percent of Americans disapproved of marriage between blacks and whites.",
"Then, it was argued that interracial marriage would hurt families and dismantle societal structures.",
"In 1967, the Supreme court ended race-based restrictions on marriage in Loving vs. Virginia.",
"Today, support of interracial marriage is stronger than it has ever been.",
"Like interracial couples, gay couples are seeking equality under the law, asking their government for these rights, not individuals, or religious bodies.",
"If same-sex marriage is about love and religion is about love, then in this debate, love must go both ways.",
"We must not be hateful in our disagreements over marriage.",
"Verbal and emotional abuse should have no place in our sacred places of worship.",
"The pulpit should not be used as a place of abuse even if one disagrees with same-sex marriage.",
"Jesus never mentioned homosexuality in his 33 years of life.",
"But in Mark 12:31, he did emphasize, \"...thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.",
"There is none other commandment greater than these.\"",
"The apostle Paul said: \"Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.\"",
"I wonder what the debate over same-sex-marriage would be like if we applied this basic scripture?",
"True equality can begin when we see others as we see ourselves.",
"I believe there is room to disagree, but just because we don't agree on my legal rights does not mean I am not entitled to them.",
"The gay community must also learn how to love those who disagree with them.",
"If heterosexual couples and gay couples could see their commonality, equality would not just be the law of the land, but it could be a new law for humanity that governs our fragile future.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of O.C. Allen."
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"Allen says he is a product of \"The Black Church,\" which helped shape him into a pastor .",
"When he announced he was gay, he found that God's love and the church's love can differ .",
"He and partner married; he says he realized marriage about right to equal benefits under law .",
"Allen: Gay and heterosexual couples must see their commonality ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- India's home minister said Friday that security and maintenance issues have been squared away ahead of the staging of the Commonwealth Games, which are beset by a myriad of problems.",
"P. Chidambaram told CNN that all security issues have been addressed and that every participating team has categorically said they are fully satisfied with security.",
"The minister also said the midnight Friday deadline to clean up the venues has been met.",
"He said 10 of the 11 village venues have been taken over by security, and another will be taken over shortly.",
"More than 1,000 cleaners entered the athletes' village Friday, armed with brooms, mops and other cleaning supplies to get the facility into shape.",
"Organizers are scrambling to pull together the Commonwealth Games, which are to start October 3 in New Delhi.",
"India's ability to host the games was questioned after a bridge collapse and criticism of the athletes' village as uninhabitable and filthy.",
"Some countries have threatened to pull out of the competition.",
"Commonwealth Games President Mike Fennell was to meet Indian Cabinet Secretary K.M.",
"Chandrasekhar in New Delhi late Friday afternoon to discuss the troubled preparations for the games, which take place every four years among members of the former British empire.",
"The list of countries that will compete has been in flux, as teams awaited updates on construction and hygiene at games sites.",
"Canada, New Zealand and Scotland had delayed their teams' departures for the event.",
"A spokesman said Friday that Scotland's team would depart for India the next day, and the New Zealand Olympic Committee said its athletes would depart two days later than planned.",
"\"I am certainly pleased to arrive in Delhi with the news that Australia has moved into the village to get ready for the arrival of their athletes and with the confirmation late yesterday that England and Wales will be on their way to Delhi shortly,\" Fennell said in a news release Friday afternoon.",
"He was to tour the village on Friday for a firsthand look.",
"Welsh athletes were reassured by the games' organizers, the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales said.",
"\"The advance party will now be moving into our accommodation, and we look forward to welcoming our athletes in the coming days,\" the Welsh council said in a news release.",
"Worldwide criticism and stepped-up involvement by higher-level Indian officials at the last minute appeared to help the games turn the corner.",
"A private cleaning company also was hired to do the deep cleaning of the athletes' housing.",
"Earlier in the week, photos showed soiled rooms that included excrement and animal footprints.",
"Construction concerns also spread after a pedestrian bridge collapsed at a stadium Tuesday, injuring 27 people.",
"Ceiling tiles fell off the same stadium Wednesday.",
"Australia's Olympic Committee leader said Friday that the Commonwealth Games should not have been awarded to India, considering how preparations have gone, but the clock is ticking and it's time to move ahead.",
"\"I don't think it is a cultural thing,\" committee President John Coates told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, \"When you agree to host an Olympic Games, you are required to provide the basics in terms of health and hygiene for the athletes.",
"I'm very aware, having hosted a games, and I don't think you reduce yourself to the lowest common denominator.\"",
"The problem is that the Commonwealth Games' parent organization doesn't have enough resources to help organizing cities track progress, Coates said.",
"He compared the resources of the Commonwealth Games Federation and those of the International Olympic Committee.",
"The Commonwealth Games Federation has five staff members; the Olympic Committee has hundreds.",
"Security questions also emerged after two visitors from Taiwan were injured by gunmen who fired on a tourist bus in New Delhi on Sunday.",
"In Australia, a travel advisory has been issued for India, warning of a high risk of terrorism in New Delhi.",
"Such concerns led New Zealand cyclist Greg Henderson to announce his withdrawal from the games on Friday.",
"\"It was just mainly a decision my wife and I made involving the safety and security of the games,\" he said from Melbourne, Australia, where he was training for other events.",
"Photos of soiled rooms at the games venues made them uneasy, he said.",
"\"I didn't think it was a risk I would like to take,\" Henderson said, also referring to security concerns and his being the father of a 13-month-old girl.",
"A handful of other athletes have withdrawn from the games over safety and hygiene concerns.",
"They include Australia's Dani Samuels, the world discus champion, and Canadian archers Kevin Tataryn and Dietmar Trillus.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfield in Atlanta, Georgia, and Mallika Kapur in New Delhi, India, contributed to this report."
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"India shouldn't have been awarded the games, Australian Olympic chief says .",
"The list of countries that have agreed to compete is growing .",
"The event is to start on October 3 in New Delhi ."
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"(CNN) -- A Saudi man wanted in connection with terror activities has surrendered to authorities, a Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN Tuesday.",
"He is Badr M. Alshehri, whose name is on the list of those most wanted by Saudi Arabia, said Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, a spokesman for the kingdom's Interior Ministry.",
"Alshehri was on the list of 85 wanted people, the Saudi Press Agency reported.",
"\"Alshehri's return to the Kingdom was arranged and coordinated by Saudi security forces and security agencies in Pakistan,\" said Al-Turki, who couldn't comment on where Alshehri was when he surrendered.",
"Al-Turki told CNN that Alshehri had reached out to his family in Saudi Arabia and told them \"he wanted to surrender himself to Saudi authorities and come back to the kingdom.\"",
"According to Al-Turki, Alshehri's family then got in touch with Interior Ministry and began coordinating how the surrender would happen.",
"He's been in Saudi Arabia now for a few days."
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"(CNN) -- Italian striker Giuseppe Rossi helped himself to a double as Villarreal secured their first Spanish Primera Liga win of the season with a 4-0 thumping of Espanyol on Sunday.",
"The 23-year-old opened the scoring in the 23rd minute and added his second goal from the penalty spot.",
"Midfielder Borja Valero and Brazilian international Nilmar were also on target as Villarreal warmed up in style for their Europa League match against Dinamo Zagreb next Thursday.",
"In other matches on Sunday, former Danish legend Michael Laudrup is still waiting for his first victory as Real Mallorca coach, after his side lost 2-0 at Sporting Gijon.",
"However, there was better news for Laudrup's former club Getafe.",
"The Madrid-based side, who finished sixth in La Liga last season.",
"secured their first win of this campaign with a 4-1 thumping of promoted Levante.",
"The most remarkable match came at Zaragoza as the home side found themselves 5-0 down to Malaga after just 34 minutes.",
"Zaragoza did eventually claw some respectability back but Malaga were comfortable for their 5-3 victory.",
"Meanwhile, Saturday's matches saw a minor sensation as champions Barcelona were stunned 2-0 at home by newly-promoted side Hercules."
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"They thrash Espanyol 10-man 4-0 with Italian striker Giuseppe Rossi scoring twice .",
"Real Zaragoza are beaten 5-3 at home by Malaga who are 5-0 up after 34 minutes .",
"On Saturday, champions Barcelona were stunned 2-0 by promoted Hercules ."
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"(CNN) -- Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite TV network, claims its live broadcasts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup were jammed from a location inside Jordan.",
"\"This resulted in millions of viewers throughout the Middle East and North Africa to [sic] suffer from frequent disruptions of the broadcast,\" Al Jazeera said Thursday.",
"The global network said it based its accusation on the findings of \"teams of independent international technology experts\" who investigated the interruptions.",
"A Jordanian government source \"categorically denied\" Al Jazeera's claim and called it \"absolutely baseless and unacceptable,\" according to a report by Jordan's official Petra News Agency.",
"An Al Jazeera spokesperson said: \"This action targeted Al Jazeera and was intentionally designed to deprive millions of fans across the region from enjoying this global event.",
"It is alarming that the source of the interruption is in fact from inside the Arab world, and we will be in touch with the Jordanian government to demand a full inquiry to uncover the details of this incident.\"",
"The Jordanian government source, quoted by Petra, responded: \"The government is ready to cooperate with any team of independent experts to examine the facts, and is certain that any such examination will prove these allegations false.\"",
"Shawn Powers, assistant professor at Georgia State University and associate director for The Center for International Media Education, told CNN the technology required to carry out jamming of this type and scale is highly likely to have been owned by a government -- and used with the government's knowledge.",
"According to Powers, Jordan's motivation for possibly interrupting Al Jazeera broadcasts could stem from the troubled history between Qatar and Jordan.",
"\"It is a bigger deal than just a spat about soccer.",
"It is a way to stop the rise of Qatar.",
"Jordan and Qatar are competing nation states for influence in the region.",
"By discrediting Al Jazeera -- that's good for them [Jordan] because it takes away a potent weapon of the Qatari government,\" Dr.",
"Powers said.",
"Jordan fist took action against Al Jazeera in 1998 after the network accused the Jordanian government of conspiring with Israel against the Palestinian territories.",
"Jordan reacted by shutting down Al Jazeera's bureau in Amman and recalling the Jordanian ambassador in Qatar.",
"Similar spats have taken place with Jordan accusing Al Jazeera of excessive criticism of Jordan's King Abdullah and his government.",
"The 2010 FIFA World Cup was staged in South Africa in June and July."
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"BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- More than 50,000 residents of northern Colombia remained homeless Monday after the rain-swollen Magdalena River broke through dikes and flooded towns and surrounding areas.",
"Floods hit Valle de Cauca, Colombia, last month.",
"Floods are blamed for 67 deaths in Colombia since September.",
"In the town of Plato, the water flooded 4,000 homes and buildings, leaving 40,000 people homeless, Mayor Jose Rosales Cortina told El Tiempo newspaper.",
"The floodwaters washed away 50 houses, he said.",
"No fatalities have been reported in this weekend's flooding.",
"\"Everything is collapsing -- the economic system, the health system, public services,\" Rosales Cortina said in an interview on CNN affiliate Caracol TV.",
"\"We need help,\" one anguished woman said on the newscast.",
"\"Don't you see that the town is totally flooded?",
"We don't have anything in this town.",
"No one helps us here.\"",
"The flooding has hit several other riverside cities in Magdalena, one of Colombia's 32 state-like \"departments.\"",
"Municipalities in other departments also have been flooded.",
"In Plato, about 560 miles north of Bogota, the Magdalena River broke through a levee Saturday.",
"The suddenness of the flooding surprised many residents.",
"Water reached the rooftops of many homes and power was lost in most of the city.",
"\"The water roared.",
"It roared,\" said resident Noris Padilla.",
"\"The current took you away.",
"You couldn't hold onto anything.",
"It took away eight houses here.\"",
"Alvaro Padilla said on Caracol TV that he went underwater to look inside his house, which had water nearly to the roof.",
"\"The furniture, the bed, the television, everything is under water,\" he said.",
"Thousands of homeless residents have taken shelter in hospitals, schools and sports venues.",
"Police in Plato, which has 70,000 residents, have restricted access to the city because of looting.",
"Caracol showed a resident carrying a rifle overhead as he waded through chest-high water.",
"\"First of all, they steal our electric wiring.",
"They take our roofs.",
"They take all that away. So we have to stay here,\" the man said, pointing to his weapon.",
"At a nearby school, La Escuela Urbana Mixta San Rafael, a man was treading water near the building's front wall as he spoke with a reporter on a boat.",
"\"The computers, the fans, all that is underwater,\" he said.",
"Magdalena Gov.",
"Omar Diaz Granados said officials have delivered 2,500 food baskets, 1,000 hammocks, 1,000 awnings, 5,000 sleeping bags and 10 rolls of plastic to make shelters.",
"Plato Mayor Rosales said eight of the city's 11 districts were flooded, including several government buildings, the courthouse, a clinic and the city's main Catholic church.",
"The priest had taken refuge on the second floor of the parish house.",
"Even though some food has been delivered, Rosales said, some people are hungry.",
"\"There is still no official tally, but the losses are in the multimillions,\" Rosales told El Tiempo, \"There are stores, houses and farms destroyed.",
"In sum, people who lost it all.\"",
"In the town of Pedraza in Heredia department, 4,000 people fled to higher ground after the Magdalena ripped a 150-foot hole in a retention wall.",
"Water reached the rooftops of more than 330 homes and flooded the town's school and church, El Tiempo said.",
"At least 2,500 residents lost everything.",
"In Bolivar department, 1,500 families were flooded out in the town of Regidor.",
"Nationwide, the Colombian Civil Defense said, nearly 1 million people have been left homeless since Colombia's rainy season started in mid-September.",
"The rainy season has lasted longer than usual.",
"Officials say flooding has killed 67 people and injured 94 this year, Caracol Radio reported.",
"Eighteen people remain missing in 27 departments."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Before you complain again about living in 2010 and not yet having a jetpack to fly you to work, consider taking a trip to Mexico.",
"There's only one person in the world who produces a complete flying rocket belt from start to finish -- from the parts to the fuel that powers it.",
"His name is Juan Manuel Lozano and he lives in Cuernavaca, a city two hours south of Mexico City.",
"So VBS sister technology channel Motherboard.tv traveled to visit him at his company, TAM (Tecnología Aeroespacial Mexicana).",
"A self-taught scientist and inventor whose technologies have traveled the world from Turkey to Switzerland, from Boeing to the U.S. Navy, Lozano considers his biggest achievement not his jetpack, but a machine that produces pure hydrogen peroxide that he uses as fuel for most of his inventions.",
"Apart from his rocket belt, he's assembled a rocket bicycle, rocket motorcycle, rocket dragster and a personal helicopter.",
"Then there's the hydrogen-peroxide-powered rocket belt.",
"While at least one company has recently promised to bring personal flying machines to market, these conveyances only rely on propellers, not jets.",
"But the real thing ain't cheap.",
"If you can't afford the system, priced at around U.S. $125,000, you can pay him to drop by your party for only $20,000.",
"See the rest of Backyard Rocketeer at VBS.TV .",
"Among many other projects, Lozano's working with a group of scientists on a car that will run on seawater, converted into hydrogen peroxide by electrolytic cells powered by solar energy.",
"It's a project, he says, that will completely transform transportation and energy in the near future.",
"Lozano and his daughter -- the only woman to fly a jetpack -- take his creations for test-drives in their backyard.",
"While he couldn't fly for us (he recently broke his ribs and shoulder while taking his rocket bike for a spin at 80 mph), he gave us a tour of his workshop to share with us his favorite machines and a philosophy of invention built on hard work, self-teaching, and lots of jet fuel."
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"(CNN) -- They may be famous, but even the world's biggest names go weak at the knees for their favorite football team.",
"Football Fanzone talks to Alastair Campbell -- former spin doctor of ex-British prime minister Tony Blair -- about his 'manic' love for English Premier League new boys Burnley.",
"Where does your love of Burnley come from?",
"I was born in Keighley in Yorkshire and Burnley were the big team in that region at the time and they were the ones I fell for.",
"My first game was in 1961 when Burnley were reigning league champions.",
"I started going regularly when I was about five or six.",
"How did you keep up to speed with all things Burnley when you were in office at No.",
"10? I still managed to get to a lot of games during that period.",
"Saturday at three pm was the one time when the Downing Street switchboard knew there was no point bothering me.",
"Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] both follow football pretty closely so I think they understood it.",
"I think Tony maybe sometimes thought it was a little over the top.",
"Were there any occasions when Burnley came ahead of any high-level meetings?",
"When we played Scunthorpe -- the game we won to get promoted to the First Division under Stan Ternant in 2000 -- up until then I'd been in Northern Ireland.",
"Bertie Ahern [Taoiseach of Ireland at the time] was a big Manchester United fan and he had tickets for a game the next day.",
"I said to him: \"Bertie, I've got to be at this game, these talks cannot drag on and on.\"",
"As it happened I left early and by the time I'd landed in Manchester things had wrapped up, so he got to his game as well, but I did sneak off early it has to be said.",
"What does it mean to you to have Burnley back in the Premier League?",
"It's fantastic. When we were relegated from the top division in 1974 I didn't think we'd come back.",
"We had to win a game against Leyton Orient in 1987 to stay in the Football League.",
"I honestly think if we'd lost that we'd have gone into oblivion so to be back is just incredible.",
"It means a lot to everyone who has followed Burnley through such bad times.",
"Just how special was that win over Manchester United in Burnley's first home game of the season?",
"Playing Manchester United as our first game back was the best possible start to the season.",
"Its true they had a bit of an off day, but we played well, and we've played teams who are better on paper but we've beaten them on merit.",
"Our wage bill is the smallest in the league by a mile, we've got a small stadium, we've got the smallest squad and we're the smallest town that has ever produced a Premier League football club, so with all that it's quite an uphill battle to stay up but I think we will, and by playing good football.",
"Who is your favorite player of all time?",
"It has to be Leighton James, he coincided with the period when I was really fanatical.",
"He was one of these players that when he got the ball you just leaned forward a bit and you thought something is going to happen here and quite often it did.",
"The other player I'd pick is Martin Dobson, who is now Head of Youth development at the club.",
"He was such an elegant player.",
"What is your most memorable moment as a Burnley fan?",
"There are loads. Beating Leeds 4-1 away when Don Revie was in charge of them, is right up there.",
"It was proving impossible to beat Leeds and we absolutely hammered them.",
"The Orient game, obviously, was the most emotional for every Burnley fan.",
"Both play-offs at Wembley have been great, too.",
"I've got loads of bad memories too, but I think it's the bad memories are what make the good memories even more special."
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"Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- I am and always will be completely against any food that has been altered genetically for human consumption.",
"And never, in the 30-plus years I have been a restaurant chef, has one customer requested a genetically modified organism for dinner.",
"This is why I was alarmed to learn early this month that the Food and Drug Administration announced with \"reasonable certainty\" that a new genetically modified Atlantic salmon awaiting approval posed \"no harm\" to humans who might soon have the opportunity to buy it and eat it as though it were a fish from nature.",
"The announcement brings this \"Frankenfish\" one step closer to your table.",
"But make no mistake.",
"The creation of this fish is just another tactic for big industry to make bigger, faster profits with no consideration for the impact it will have on our personal health and the health of our environment and ecosystem.",
"The fish, an Atlantic salmon, contains growth hormone from a Pacific species, the Chinook salmon, as well as genetic material from another species, the ocean pout, that causes the \"transgenic\" salmon to grow at twice the normal speed.",
"The claim made by its developer, AquaBounty Technologies, is that this altered fish is as safe to consume as farmed Atlantic salmon.",
"This argument doesn't convince much, since farmed salmon aren't really that safe to eat.",
"They have been found to have higher concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls than wild salmon, which gets into their bodies from the concentrated fish meal used to create their feed.",
"AquaBounty also plans to sell the eggs of its fish to fish farms.",
"As we have learned over time, farmed Atlantic salmon is horrible for the environment.",
"The fish are grown in overcrowded, open-net pens in the ocean, placing an unnatural stress on the surrounding ocean environment as well as on the fish themselves.",
"In those conditions it becomes necessary to use antibiotics on an already unstable fish in order to control bacterial infections and other diseases -- and to protect the investment of carnivorous fish farming.",
"The byproducts of all this -- a wonderful stew of feces, unconsumed fish food and dead fish called, sweetly, \"effluent\" -- create a suffocating blanket that spreads across the ocean floor, resulting in a massive dead zone surrounding the farming area.",
"It kills clams, oysters, eel grasses -- where young fish feed and grow -- and more.",
"If the point of genetically engineering fish is to produce more salmon faster, introducing these fish into the fish farm scenario will only magnify an already big problem.",
"And it will create a larger demand for smaller species of wild fish to be used for fish feed necessary to support these constantly feeding frankenfish.",
"Wild species don't stand a chance.",
"It has also been proven that escapes from fish farms into the natural population are inevitable.",
"These transgenic fish have a voracious appetite that has no regard for season or feeding cycle.",
"What could happen?",
"Well, estimates of farmed salmon escapes in British Columbia from 1991 to 2001 total at least 400,000 fish.",
"The wild salmon population is already severely endangered.",
"If escaped, the farmed -- and now free-swimming aggressive gluttons -- will compete for the food that is essential for wild stocks to survive, further threatening this already endangered species (nearly all Atlantic salmon sold now comes from fish farms).",
"What process has the FDA used to determine whether the genetically modified fish is safe for human health and the environment?",
"We did not know during most of the agency's evaluation process.",
"FDA regulations allow genetically modified animals to be evaluated under the same rules as veterinary pharmaceuticals.",
"So the information given to the agency by the applicant is confidential; in the case of this fish, the information was not posted on the FDA website until the announcement on safety was made in early September.",
"The FDA will hold a public meeting on February 21 to discuss how the fish should be labeled.",
"I don't trust this fish.",
"It is an overweight fish being introduced to an already obese society.",
"Protecting a greedy company's \"confidential information\" should not be acceptable when you are introducing the first genetically modified animal for human consumption into the marketplace.",
"And I'm terrified to consider that rules are being considered that would allow this fish to be created and then distributed without any kind of mandatory label stating that it is a genetically modified product.",
"In restaurants, chefs are in a position to assure their guests that the food being served to them is not only delicious but also wholesome and safe to consume.",
"How do we do this when there is no required labeling indicating that a fish has been manufactured by science and not a product of nature?",
"If these genetically engineered salmon are approved, it will set a worldwide precedent.",
"It will open the door to other kinds of genetically modified animal foods that may pose health or environmental dangers, and the true extent of these might not reveal themselves for years to come.",
"At the very least, given the amount of data that we have seen to date, the creation of these frankenfish for mass consumption should not be approved.",
"It's simply against nature and is a huge step back in the worldwide movement to eat local, organic and sustainably.",
"Bon appétit -- enjoy your dinner.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rick Moonen."
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"Chef Rick Moonen opposes genetically modified organisms for public table .",
"FDA set to OK modified salmon that its developer says is as safe as farmed salmon, he says .",
"But farming already a health, pollution problem, he says; fast-growing fish compounds it .",
"Moonen: Approval with no required labels would set back sustainability movement ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- In the latest edition of Fanzone's look at famous soccer fans, South Africa captain and Portsmouth midfielder Aaron Mokoena tells all about his favorite team and their bitter rivalry with the Kaizer Chiefs.",
"Who do you support and why? In South Africa my favorite football team is Orlando Pirates.",
"I played for professional team Jomo Cosmos but I always love Orlando Pirates because that's was the team that I grew up supporting.",
"How did you start supporting them?",
"My elder brother, he made me support Pirates and used to take me to watch the games.",
"That really made me fall in love with the team.",
"They had so many good players as well.",
"That's why I fell in love with the club.",
"Do you remember your first game?",
"It was Orlando Pirates against Kaizer Chiefs, the biggest derby game in South Africa, I went to watch and it was unbelievable; really, really amazing.",
"That was the derby of Soweto, I think it was probably 1990.",
"That is a game that everyone wants to watch.",
"It's like Manchester United versus Manchester City or Liverpool.",
"It's a game that you can't miss. How are they doing at the moment? They're still doing well.",
"Lots of youngsters... it's been generations after generations.",
"The generation they have now are more younger players.",
"They're adapting well and doing very well.",
"What is the most memorable game from Orlando Pirates you've seen?",
"They won the African Champions League in 1995.",
"It was the first team in South Africa to win such a tournament.",
"That tournament is the toughest tournament to play ... and they did extremely well, they won the cup.",
"That really stands out for me.",
"Is Kaizer Chiefs the team you love to hate?",
"Not that I do hate Kaizer Chiefs but as they are the arch rivals to Orlando Pirates, I tend to have a soft spot for Pirates but not for Kaizer Chiefs.",
"I would go back to South Africa and play for Kaizer Chiefs to be fair but I don't hate them, they are really professional.",
"But between Pirates and Chiefs, I would always choose Orlando Pirates.",
"Would you play for Orlando Pirates?",
"Has that opportunity come up?",
"I have been so fortunate to sit down with the owner of Orlando Pirates and he said, \"Look the moment you retire from your football in Europe make sure you come down to Orlando Pirates\" -- so it's an opportunity that is there for me.",
"I am an ambassador for \"Education -- One goal for all\" and I spoke to him at the launch two months ago at the Emirates stadium and that's when we had a chat.",
"He's a really respectable person in South Africa and him saying that meant a lot to me."
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"The first game he saw was the derby match between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs .",
"His proudest moment supporting the club is when they won the African Champions League ."
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"(CNN) -- A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.",
"It is believed that the technique may now allow for the production of environmentally-friendly plastic that is biodegradable and low in toxicity.",
"The research focused on Polylactic Acid (PLA), a bio-based polymer which holds the key to producing plastics through natural and renewable resources.",
"Polymers are molecules found in everyday life in the form of plastics and rubbers.",
"\"The polyesters and other polymers we use everyday are mostly derived from fossil oils made through the refinery or chemical process,\" Professor Sang Yup Lee, who lead the research, said in a press statement.",
"\"The idea of producing polymers from renewable biomass has attracted much attention due to the increasing concerns of environmental problems and the limited nature of fossil resources.",
"PLA is considered a good alternative to petroleum-based plastics, as it is both biodegradable and has a low toxicity to humans.\"",
"Until now PLA has been produced in a two-step fermentation and chemical process of polymerization, which is both complex and expensive.",
"The team used a metabolically engineered strain of E. coli and developed a one-stage process.",
"\"By developing a strategy which combines metabolic engineering and enzyme engineering, we've developed an efficient bio-based one-step production process for PLA and its copolymers,\" said Lee.",
"\"This means that a developed E. coli strain is now capable of efficiently producing unnatural polymers, through a one-step fermentation process.",
"\"Global warming and other environmental problems are urging us to develop sustainable processes based on renewable resources.",
"\"This new strategy should be generally useful for developing other engineered organisms capable of producing various unnatural polymers by direct fermentation from renewable resources.\"",
"The research team from KAIST University in Seoul and the Korean chemical company LG Chem published their findings in the journal \"Biotechnology and Bioengineering\"."
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"Bio-based polymers make the plastics biodegradable and less toxic .",
"Research team is from KAIST University and Korean company LG Chem ."
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"(CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has stopped well short of agreeing to a continued freeze on building Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank territory, indicated Sunday he might be willing to compromise.",
"The settlements issue is a major sticking point between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which recently resumed direct peace talks for the first time since 2008.",
"\"I don't know if there will be a comprehensive freeze,\" said Netanyahu, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.",
"\"But I also don't know if it is necessary to construct all of the 20,000 housing units waiting to be built.",
"In any case, between zero and one there are a lot of possibilities,\" Haaretz reported the prime minister said at a weekly cabinet meeting.",
"Last year, Israel instituted a 10-month moratorium on building Israeli settlements in the West Bank.",
"Netanyahu is under pressure from the Palestinians and the from the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to extend the freeze, which is currently set to expire toward the end of September.",
"Netanyahu's conservative coalition government wants the prime minister to end the moratorium.",
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Netanyahu met in Washington for direct talks earlier this month.",
"The two pledged in front of the cameras to move the peace process forward, but privately were said to have gotten stuck on the question of whether the Israeli settlements should continue.",
"Abbas and Netanyahu are scheduled for a meeting Tuesday in Egypt, where U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and George Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace, are also expected to attend.",
"Netanyahu said that if all sides are serious in their efforts, it would be possible to arrive at a framework for lasting peace within the year.",
"\"Just as we are asked to recognize the Palestinian national state ... we also demand and expect the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state, the State of Israel, as the national state of the Jewish People.",
"This is the true foundation of peace,\" he said."
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"The settlements issue has emerged as a major sticking point in peace negotiations .",
"Abbas and Netanyahu are scheduled for a meeting Tuesday in Egypt ."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champion Rafael Nadal crashed to a shock defeat by Ivan Ljubicic in the semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters tournament in California on Saturday.",
"The unfancied Croatian 20th seed came from behind to beat the former world No.",
"1 3-6 6-4 7-6 (7-1) in the outdoor hardcourt event, which the Spaniard also won in 2007.",
"The 31-year-old beat third seed Nadal for the second time in seven meetings, with his other victory back in 2005.",
"Ljubicic, who reached a career-high third in the world rankings in 2006, will face American seventh seed Andy Roddick in Sunday's final.",
"Roddick defeated Swedish sixth seed Robin Soderling 6-4 3-6 6-3 in a showdown between two big servers in the later semifinal to earn his first shot at the Indian Wells title.",
"Now ranked 26th, Ljubicic followed up his surprise win over world No.",
"2 Novak Djokovic in the fourth round to reach his first ATP Tour final since winning the Lyon tournament in October.",
"The result ended Nadal's strong return to form in his first tournament since retiring hurt in his Australian Open quarterfinal against Andy Murray in January."
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"Defending champion Rafael Nadal beaten by Ivan Ljubicic in semifinals of Indian Wells event .",
"Croatian 20th seed comes from behind to win 3-6 6-4 7-6 (7-1) in California .",
"Ljubicic follows up his fourth-round victory over world No.",
"2 Novak Djokovic .",
"He will play American seventh seed Andy Roddick in Sunday's final ."
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"(CNN) -- Taiwanese golfer Yani Tseng became the youngest woman to win three major trophies after claiming a tense one-shot victory at the British Open in England on Sunday.",
"The 21-year-old broke down in tears as she overcame a jittery approach to the final green at Royal Birkdale to make history as the first player from her island to win the event.",
"Her ambitious long drive into the first fairway bunker at the par-five 18th gave Katherine Hull -- Tseng's fellow first-round leader -- the chance to take the tournament to a playoff.",
"But the Australian -- who matched Tseng with an eagle at 18 on Thursday -- was well short of the pin with her chip from off the back of the green, and then her birdie putt slid just past the hole.",
"Tseng clinched her second major title this season with a solid six-foot putt for par, which Hull could only match, for a winning total of 11-under-par of 277.",
"\"I was so tired, there was so much pressure out there and it's been an unbelievable day.",
"Even when I holed the putt at the last I had to ask my caddie 'Did I win?,\" a relieved Tseng told reporters.",
"\"The last four holes were very hard and Katherine pushed me all the way.",
"She's an awesome player.\"",
"The 2010 Kraft Nabisco championship winner closed with a one-over 73 after faltering with three bogeys and two birdies, while Hull cut her four-shot overnight lead with a four-birdie 70.",
"Neither player could beat par in the last five holes, with Tseng's last birdie of the day coming on the par-five sixth.",
"\"I'm disappointed but there are also a lot of positives to take from this week,\" the 28-year-old Hull said after only her second top-10 finish in 24 majors.",
"\"I never gave up but it's just a pity I couldn't make a birdie at one of the three long holes at the end.\"",
"Na Yeon Choi eagled 18 to finish in a tie for third with In-Kyung Kim on 281, carding 68 to her fellow South Korean's 71 -- which ended with a birdie.",
"American veteran Cristie Kerr finished equal fifth after South Korean duo Amy Yang and Hee-Kyung Seo closed with birdies to join her on 282."
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"Yani Tseng survives a tense final round to win Women's British Open by one shot .",
"Taiwanese golfer's four-stroke lead was eroded by Katherine Hull with five holes to play .",
"Neither player broke par after that as Tseng recovers following bunkered tee shot at 18 .",
"The 21-year-old became the youngest woman to win three major trophies ."
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"(CNN) -- The upsets continued to the last at Indian Wells as veteran Croatian Ivan Ljubicic beat home hope Andy Roddick 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/5) to win the first Masters 1000 tournament of his career.",
"Big-serving Ljubicic celebrated his 31st birthday on Friday and becomes the oldest first-time winner of a Masters event.",
"He had been beaten in three finals, in Paris and Madrid in 2005 and at Miami in 2006 -- the same year he reached his best-ever ranking of number three in the world.",
"But over the last few years, Ljubicic has slipped down the rankings and the victory is his first since Lyon last October and was the 10th ATP title of his career.",
"It was thoroughly deserved as he beat world number two Novak Djokovic and defending champion Rafael Nadal before seeing off eighth seed Roddick in two tiebreak sets.",
"\"Looking at my career in general, I did feel like I was missing it,\" Ljubicic told the official ATP Tour Web site.",
"\"It's really a fantastic feeling to finally have it.",
"It gives something special to your career.\"",
"He certainly showed he has plenty of quality tennis left in him this week, with victories over world number two Novak Djokovic and number three Rafael Nadal en route to his clash with eighth-ranked Roddick.",
"For once, it was Roddick who was outserved as Ljubicic fired 20 aces and was particularly dominant in the tiebreakers.",
"After claiming the first set, where both men had to come back from 0-40 down on the service in a one game, Ljubicic was rock solid in the second.",
"Ljubicic carved out a 5-1 lead in the tiebreaker and made it 6-2 to set up four match points.",
"He wasted one with a double fault and Roddick, urged on by a home crowd, saved two more.",
"But Ljubicic produced one more service winner for the best win of his career.. \"He served great,\" said Roddick.",
"\"He had complete control over all four spots,\" Roddick added.",
"\"He hit 'em. The men's ATP tour now moves to Miami for another big Masters 1000 event where Britain's Andy Murray will look to defend his title."
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"Croatian Ivan Ljubicic becomes oldest first time winner of Masters 1000 event .",
"The 31-year-old beats Andy Roddick 7-6 7-6 to win the Indian Wells tournament .",
"Ljubicic fires 20 aces to overpower eighth seed and home hope Roddick ."
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"(Travel + Leisure) -- Eight centuries ago, Marco Polo anointed Hangzhou \"the most splendid city in the world.\"",
"Today it's one of China's best-preserved destinations, thanks to the careful stewardship of its pagodas and pavilions, mountain-fringed West Lake, and terraced plantations growing the region's famous longjing green tea.",
"Here, an essential guide to the best hotels, restaurants, and sights for the modern-day explorer.",
"Stay . The second property in China from those wizards of the luxurious exotic, Amanresorts, Amanfayun (doubles from $580) includes 42 residences in traditional courtyard dwellings.",
"Don't miss the spa, with its Japanese-style deep soaking tubs, though an early morning walk to the neighboring Lingyin Buddhist temple is just as invigorating.",
"A 25-minute drive away, Banyan Tree Hangzhou (doubles from $550) abuts the 2,800-acre Xixi National Wetland Park.",
"All 72 spacious suites and villas are decorated with Chinese antiques (porcelain snuff bottles; calligraphy brushes) and are scattered across the grounds like a traditional village, complete with arched bridges and a lagoon.",
"Hangzhou's latest entry this fall is also the city's first Western luxury hotel group: the Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou (doubles from $372) will have hand-painted silk panels and such high-tech touches as plasma TV's in its 78 guest rooms and three villas.",
"Travel + Leisure: America's Best and Worst Airports .",
"Eat . You'll want to book several days ahead for a table at Dragon Well Manor (set meal for two $118).",
"Dai Jianjun is one of the country's most obsessive locavore chefs: his 10-course dinners, served in eight wooden pavilions in a landscaped garden, raise the bar for organic, farm-to-table cuisine in China.",
"Seasonal dishes may include preserved mustard greens with pine nuts, slow-braised pork belly, and ham-infused duck soup.",
"A number of restaurants offer views of West Lake, but West Lake One (dinner for two $45) stands out with its covered terrace and extensive menu featuring dishes from throughout China.",
"Regional specialties include longjing xiaren, shrimp cooked with longjing tea.",
"Also facing the lake, the Hyatt Regency's atmospheric, antiques-filled 28 Hubin Road (dinner for two $66) serves classic Hangzhou fare, such as beggar's chicken and Dongpo rou -- a fork-tender pork dish named after the city's 11th-century poet Su Dongpo.",
"Travel + Leisure: World's Strangest Places to Get Married .",
"Sip . Aside from its pagodas and picturesque landscapes, Hangzhou is also synonymous with longjing, a locally grown green tea prized for its light, sweet taste and aroma.",
"Guo's Villa is a perfect respite from the tourist throngs along West Lake.",
"Inside the low tiled wall is a garden with lotus-covered ponds and a courtyard where locals gather for tea and gossip.",
"Tea fanatics might head to Old Dragon Well Imperial Tea Garden to pay homage to the 18 bushes set aside for the Ch'ing dynasty emperor Qianlong.",
"Nearby is Longjing village, where you'll see plenty of tea farmers peddling their wares.",
"But head straight to our favorite: the hospitable Qi Family will pour you a cup of their green elixir before you buy.",
"See . A short stroll from the train station, pedestrianized Hefang Road is a collection of Ch'ing dynasty houses (and replicas nearby).",
"Visit Huqingyu Tang, a 130-year-old medicine shop where traditional pharmacists fill prescriptions made with ancient remedies (ginseng, angelica) in an elaborately carved central hall.",
"Close by, on the edge of the verdant, waterway-filled Xixi National Wetland Park, the National Wetland Museum (free admission) will open an Arata Isozaki --designed viewing platform later this year.",
"Travel + Leisure: Worldwide Guide to Restaurant Tipping .",
"Facts . When to Go: Visit during autumn and spring, as summer months are sweltering and winter temperatures often dip below freezing.",
"Avoid peak-season crowds during Chinese New Year (January or February) and National Day (October).",
"Getting There: Hangzhou is a 100-minute train ride from Shanghai; express trains launching next month will take 38 minutes.",
"From Hong Kong, take the two-hour flight on Dragonair (dragonair.com), which departs three times weekly.",
"T+L Tip: Beyond West Lake, Hangzhou is a sprawling city.",
"Arrange a car and driver through your hotel to access hard-to-reach destinations.",
"Planning a beach getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to Affordable Beach Resorts.",
"Copyright 2010 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Here is a guide to the best hotels, restaurants, and sights in Hangzhou for visitors .",
"Hangzhou is one of China's best-preserved destinations .",
"Terraced plantations grow the region's famous longjing green tea ."
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"(CNN) -- Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor has labeled as \"outrageous\" the controversial decision to ban his side from the next two Africa Cup of Nations.",
"Togo, who pulled out of this year's finals after a terror attack on their team bus left three dead, were hit with the shock ban and a $50,000 fine by the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) on Saturday.",
"Why Togo ban rubs salt into open wounds .",
"Manchester City star Adebayor reacted furiously to the news and claimed that CAF's Cameroonian president Issa Hayatou had \"completely betrayed\" the Togo squad and called for him to quit.",
"He told L'Equipe: \"Mr Hayatou has served Africa extensively, but now he must escape.",
"This decision is outrageous.\"",
"Adebayor, who was not injured in the attack and has now returned to his club side, went on: .",
"\"They do not care about the voice of the world.",
"It was our head of state (Faure Gnassingbe) who sent us to the African Nations Cup to defend the colors of our country.",
"\"He said the threat surrounding our squad had not gone and told us to return to our country.",
"We are only ambassadors. We were obliged to return, and there was nothing we could do.\"",
"Togo's French coach, Hubert Velud, called on FIFA president and UEFA chief Michel Platini to intervene.",
"\"I am curious to know if Blatter and Platini will endorse this decision,\" he said.",
"\"If they let this go, it is the gateway to completely dysfunctional football.",
"I officially launched an appeal to international bodies to see their reaction.\"",
"Three people were killed in the attack, which took place while Togo traveled to the team hotel two days before their opening match earlier this month.",
"Communications chief Stanislas Ocloo and assistant coach Abalo Amnalete were shot dead and goalkeeper, Kodjovi Obilale, was among the injured.",
"Togo wanted to continue despite the attack but quit on their national government's orders.",
"The attack raised fears about security for the World Cup, which takes place in South Africa later this year.",
"CAF has decided the decision to recall the team was political interference, leading to Saturday's suspension for the tournaments in 2012 and 2014.",
"CAF said in a statement: \"The executive committee and its president renewed their sincere condolences to the families of victims involved in this tragic terrorist attack which happened January 8, 2010.",
"\"The attack was condemned by CAF and also a total support was given to the Togolese team.",
"\"At that time, CAF said they have understood perfectly the decision of players not to participate in the competition.",
"\"Meanwhile, following a decision taken by players to participate in the competition, the Togolese government decided to call back their national team.",
"\"The decision taken by the political authorities is infringing CAF and CAN (African Nations Cup) regulations.",
"\"Therefore, a decision has been taken to suspend the Togo national team for the next two editions of Africa Cup of Nations, with a fine of U.S. dollars 50,000 handed to the Togolese national football association, in conformity with article 78 of Africa Cup of Nations Angola 2010.\"",
"Two men arrested over the attack were said to be members of the Forces for Liberation of the State of Cabinda, an armed wing of a separatist group that has claimed responsibility for the attack and has threatened to strike again.",
"Cabinda is a disputed oil-rich enclave in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the site of eight matches in the African Cup of Nations tournament.",
"The Africa Cup of Nations tournament is one of the biggest sporting events in the world this year, and Angola's first since a 2002 peace deal ended decades of civil war in the southern African country."
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"Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor slams decision to ban his team from next two Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Adebayor says decision by CAF 'outrageous' and calls on their president to quit .",
"Togo pulled out of tournament this month after terrorist attack on their bus killed three .",
"African governing body CAF decided decision to recall team was political interference ."
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"Bullying is in our schools, and now it's online.",
"Why do kids do it? What can be done to put an end to it?",
"Don't miss an \"AC360°\" special report in collaboration with Cartoon Network: \"Stop Bullying: Speak Up,\" starting Monday night at 10 ET on CNN.",
"(Parenting.com) -- An estimated 25 percent are -- and the signs can be tricky for parents to detect.",
"That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics has developed a new policy that recommends doctors discuss bullying during checkups.",
"Parenting.com: Handling elementary school social struggles .",
"\"A kid who is being picked on has often been told, 'Don't you dare tell anyone!'",
"But when he's given permission to talk by a more neutral adult, he'll readily share his experiences,\" notes Robert Sege, M.D., chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Boston Medical Center.",
"Parenting.com: 8 discipline mistakes parents make .",
"\"And sometimes the symptoms of bullying appear to parents like something else.",
"I see moms all the time who bring their child in because he's been doing poorly in school and can't seem to focus.",
"They think it could be an attention disorder when the child is actually being picked on.\"",
"Tell us how your child has been affected by bullies .",
"More red flags: . Changes in behavior -- your kid becomes moody, withdrawn, spacey, jumpy, anxious .",
"Physical ailments such as stomachaches and bad dreams, or unexplained bruises and torn clothes .",
"Parenting.com: Getting through to a moody tween .",
"An inexplicable drop in grades or a sudden reluctance to go to school .",
"Need help? Check out Stop Bullying Now -- it's a site designed to help both parents and kids cope with big, bad meanies.",
"Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Parenting Magazine - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright 2010 The Parenting Group.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"One-fourth of all children are bullied .",
"Red flags include changes in behavior, physical ailments and a drop in grades .",
"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends doctors discuss bullying during checkups ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- March 26, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Iowa • Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Chicago, Illinois .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Fridays are acceptable!",
"Just doesn't have the same ring, especially on the most awesome day of the week!",
"Well, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"I welcome you to CNN Student News; we're kicking things off right now!",
"First Up: Health Care .",
"AZUZ: First up, follow the bouncing health care bill: It's in the House, then the Senate, then the House again.",
"It's hard to keep up with. But another health care reform bill -- the set of changes to the legislation that's already law -- moved move from the Senate back to the House yesterday.",
"Now the House, as you might remember, had dealt with this legislation before.",
"But because the Senate made adjustments to it, the House had to pass the new version.",
"Well, it did last night, and it will become law when President Obama signs it.",
"It'll cost more than $60 billion in addition to the $875 billion health reform law.",
"Democratic leaders had put these changes on the fast track.",
"Part of the reason for the quick turnaround is recess.",
"Congress is scheduled to start its two-week Easter break today.",
"Meanwhile, President Obama is working to convince the American people of the benefits of the health care law he's already signed.",
"Here, you see him speaking at an event in Iowa yesterday.",
"But there have been some strong reactions to this law and to the political debate surrounding the entire health care issue.",
"And those reactions have raised concerns about security for some members of Congress.",
"Threatening messages, vandalized offices, even gunshots fired at one congressman's campaign office.",
"It's been reported by Democrats and Republicans, and leaders of both fo those parties are speaking out against it.",
"REP. JOHN BOEHNER, (R) MINORITY LEADER: I know many Americans are angry over this health care bill and angry at Democrats here in Washington for not listening.",
"But as I've said before, violence and threats are unacceptable.",
"They have no place in a political debate.",
"REP. JAMES CLYBURN, (D) MAJORITY WHIP: We're giving aid and comfort to these people, and this stuff gets ratcheted up.",
"We in this Congress have got to come together in a bipartisan way and tamp this foolishness down.",
"Don't Ask . AZUZ: Okay, moving from health care to another controversial issue.",
"Teachers, you might want to preview this next segment.",
"It deals with the military's controversial \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy.",
"It's a law; went into effect in 1993.",
"It keeps gays and lesbians from openly serving in the U.S. military.",
"The Obama administration wants to end the law, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates is already taking steps toward doing that.",
"Now, some military officials are concerned about the impact that getting rid of the law will have on troops.",
"Secretary Gates says there's a lot to consider.",
"ROBERT GATES, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: I do not recommend a change in the law before we have completed our study.",
"There is a great deal we don't know about this in terms of the views of our service members, in terms of the views of their families and influencers.",
"There is a lot we have to address in terms of what would be required in the way of changed regulations, in terms of benefits.",
"Shoutout . MATT CHERRY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Willis's classes at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana!",
"Where would you find the world's tallest building?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Dubai, B) New York, C) Paris or D) Kuala Lumpur?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Dubai is currently home to the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Debt Crisis .",
"AZUZ: You might've been able to tell from that map we had in that Shoutout: Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, so this next story takes place in the Middle East.",
"The company that built the Burj Khalifa is called Dubai World, and it's getting a $9.5 billion bailout from the government of Dubai.",
"Now that's important, because Dubai world owes more than $23 billion in debt.",
"The Burj Khalifa, it's towering; you see it here.",
"It cost $1.5 billion.",
"Dubai World has also spent money to build artificial islands and luxury homes.",
"Dubai is a very wealthy part of the world.",
"Financial experts thought it wouldn't be affected by the global financial crisis.",
"But, like everywhere, it was.",
"Last November, Dubai World said it was having problems paying off that multi-billion dollar debt.",
"And now, the company says it could take 5 to 8 years to pay everything off in full.",
"Women's History Month .",
"AZUZ: As CNN Student News celebrates Women's History Month, we want to wish a happy birthday to Sandra Day O'Connor.",
"She was born on March 26th -- today!",
"-- in 1930. Her birthplace: El Paso, Texas.",
"While serving in the Arizona state senate, O'Connor became the majority leader.",
"She was the first woman in U.S. history to hold that position.",
"That's not her only famous first.",
"In 1981, O'Connor was nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and she became the first female, Supreme Court justice.",
"Exploring the achievements of women in government, like Justice O'Connor, just one of the activities in our Women's History Month materials.",
"They're completely free.",
"You can find them in the Spotlight section.",
"The address is everybody's favorite Web site: CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Is this Legit? TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?",
"The limbic system is the part of the human brain that controls emotions.",
"Legit! It includes the amygdala and hippocampus.",
"Emotional Intelligence .",
"AZUZ: So, the emotions that are controlled by your limbic system don't just affect how you feel.",
"They can play a role in how you act and what kinds of decisions you make.",
"Yesterday, we talked about creative intelligence.",
"There's also something called emotional intelligence; it's learning about your feelings and how to manage them.",
"But should those lessons be taught in school?",
"That is the question that Alina Cho now considers.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Along with math and science... KEVIN SCHRANZ, CLARENDON HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL: And so, what you're going to do is put on your blindfolds.",
"CHO: ...This is part of the curriculum at Clarendon Hills Middle School near Chicago.",
"SCHRANZ: When everyone has their blindfolds on, I'm going to have three people take off their blindfolds.",
"CHO: An exercise in boosting self-esteem.",
"SCHRANZ: Tap two people who you think can make you laugh.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE STUDENT #1: It's a different kind of enjoyment than a subject.",
"It's more like a spirit lifter, and it makes you feel good inside.",
"CHO: But what does that have to do with being smart? ASHLEY MERRYMAN, CO-AUTHOR, \"NURTURESHOCK\": I think that's a horrible idea.",
"Do you get graded then for being angry?",
"I mean, what does that mean in terms of real life?",
"ROGER WEISSBERG, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, AUTHOR, \"EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE\": Emotional intelligence is a different way of being smart.",
"CHO: Roger Weissberg, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the man behind the groundbreaking research on which the best-selling book \"Emotional Intelligence\" is based.",
"The concept: EQ is just as important as IQ.",
"Weissberg says it turns out kids who get good social and emotional training score 11 percentage points higher on tests than kids who don't.",
"Why? Why? WEISSBERG: Well, I think there are a variety of reasons.",
"They can overcome obstacles when they reach them.",
"Some of this involves academic tenacity, teaching kids self-discipline and self-control.",
"CHO: A learning process that starts in kindergarten.",
"These are second graders role-playing.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE STUDENT #2: I feel proud because I just learned how to draw a dinosaur in computer lab.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE STUDENT #3: That is great.",
"Can you teach me? UNIDENTIFIED MALE STUDENT #2: Yes.",
"CHO: What is the real world benefit of this?",
"WEISSBERG: One real world benefit is kids behave better in school.",
"Another real world benefit is they're less likely to fight.",
"Another benefit is they're less likely to do drugs.",
"KATHLEEN JIRASEK, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER: I believe that this is the future.",
"These children are our future.",
"And so, I believe by teaching them this, they will be the leaders.",
"CHO: Research also shows great leaders tend to be funny and the best doctors are empathetic.",
"But can emotional intelligence be taught?",
"Should it be? MERRYMAN: You're not telling me that you can't learn how to behave with your peers?",
"CHO: What you're saying is, do we really need a class for this?",
"MERRYMAN: I don't think we need a class for this.",
"CHO: Others argue getting along is just as important as getting good grades, and that the really smart thrive at both.",
"WEISSBERG: This is not academics versus social and emotional development.",
"That's a false choice.",
"This is teaching kids to be socially, emotionally and academically skilled.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Before we go, we're about to run wild!",
"As if horses aren't supposed to hang out in a parking lot!",
"Maybe it's some sort of \"no loitering\" rule.",
"Or is it the first cross-species game of tag?",
"No, that's it. It sounds a lot more interesting than \"horses run wild, humans hilariously give chase.\"",
"The problem with this whole thing was it was a stampede that worked its way into a suburban area.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: And as some folks who live in that area might be saying, \"Oh well, there goes the neighborhood!\"",
"Nah, we're just horsin' around.",
"We're sure the new residents are totally stable.",
"You guys have a great weekend.",
"Hope you forgive us.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"(CNN Student News) -- March 23, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Haiti • China .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Happy birthday, Roger Bannister -- first man to run the mile in less than four minutes.",
"In more than twice that time, you'll be up to speed on today's headlines.",
"I'm Carl Azuz. First Up: Health Care .",
"AZUZ: First up, it's the biggest expansion of the United States health care system in more than forty years.",
"And by a vote of 219-212, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill late Sunday night.",
"This is the same bill that the Senate passed last December.",
"This means that when President Obama signs it, it's law.",
"The House also passed a set of changes to the Senate bill.",
"We're gonna get back to that in just a second.",
"But first, you know this health care issue has been controversial.",
"We want you to check out some of the reaction to last night's vote.",
"REP. NANCY PELOSI, (D) HOUSE SPEAKER: Thirty-two million more Americans having access to health care.",
"$1.3 trillion saved for the taxpayer and accountability for the insurance companies so they cannot come between patients and their doctors.",
"REP. JOHN BOEHNER, (R) HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: Shame on us.",
"Shame on this body.",
"Shame on each and every one of you who substitutes your will and your desires above those of your fellow countrymen.",
"BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system, but it moves us decisively in the right direction.",
"This is what change looks like.",
"AZUZ: Okay, so the House passed the bill.",
"Now what? Well, President Obama is expected to sign it today.",
"Again, as soon as he does that, the Senate bill becomes law.",
"But how about those changes passed by the House?",
"Those still need to get through the Senate.",
"That process can't start until the president signs the original bill.",
"Some analysts are saying that the package of changes could inspire a pretty heated battle in the Senate.",
"We're going to have more on that as the debate gets going.",
"Another thing that's going to happen when the president signs the health care bill: lawsuits.",
"At least ten states are planning to file suits arguing that parts of the health care bill are unconstitutional.",
"President Obama's administration says it expects to win any lawsuits filed against the bill.",
"Promo . AZUZ: Well, this debate, dominating headlines for months.",
"You see our home page here, CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Now that a health care bill has been passed, some people are calling it a milestone; others are calling it a mistake.",
"That is what our blog, which you see right here, is asking: milestone or mistake?",
"You can vote in our Quick Poll, comment on the subject.",
"You know where to find it; it's at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"In fact, I have a couple comments for you right now.",
"Brian says \"it is a good idea because it'll keep insurance companies from raising prices.\"",
"Daniel, on the other hand, he's saying \"it's not the answer to the problems our current system has.\"",
"We want you to share your thoughts -- and firstnames only -- at our blog.",
"Word to the Wise . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: A Word to the Wise... subsidize (verb) to help or assist by providing money .",
"source: www.m-w.com .",
"Student Loan Reform .",
"AZUZ: Sunday night, the House of Representatives also approved a plan for the government to be the main supplier of student loans.",
"Right now, you can get loans from the government or from private companies.",
"But the government actually subsidizes some of those private loans; it gives the companies money to guarantee them.",
"This new proposal would cut those subsidies out.",
"Ali Velshi gives us a little background on how loans work right now and how this would change the process.",
"ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR AND CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Right now, the government provides about $31 billion in student loans.",
"The private enterprise banks -- private banks, basically -- provide about $67 billion.",
"In many cases, they're guaranteed by the government.",
"But really, you can see the private enterprise gives about twice as many loans as the government does.",
"Now the plan, according to the bill, is basically for the government to rub out the middleman, to stop sort of subsidizing or guaranteeing these loans and be the lender directly to people with loans.",
"AZUZ: This proposal still needs to go through the Senate.",
"It's not a done deal. Supporters argue that it would save the federal budget more than $60 billion over the next 10 years.",
"One congressman said it would make college more affordable and keep jobs in America.",
"But critics of the plan say it'll actually put jobs at stake, including thousands of employees at those private lending companies, those banks.",
"Critics also argue that the change will cause delays in the loan process, because they say the government doesn't have enough people to handle all the loans.",
"Shoutout . MATT CHERRY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"Who were the 42nd and 43rd presidents of the United States?",
"Were they: A) Ronald Reagan & George H.W.",
"Bush, B) George H.W.",
"Bush & Bill Clinton, C) Bill Clinton & George W. Bush or D) Jimmy Carter & Ronald Reagan?",
"We'll give you five seconds on this one -- GO!",
"Bill Clinton was number 42 and George W. Bush was 43.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Haiti Relief .",
"AZUZ: Those two former presidents are working together to try and help victims of January's devastating earthquake in Haiti.",
"The natural disaster killed more than 200,000 people -- was completely catastrophic -- left more than a million others homeless.",
"Presidents Clinton and Bush were in the Caribbean nation yesterday, meeting with government officials and others who are involved in the relief efforts.",
"They were there on behalf of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which they started to raise money for this recovery process.",
"According to its Web site, the organization has raised more than $37 million so far.",
"In addition to the meetings, Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton spent part of yesterday's visit touring some of the camps for Haiti's homeless.",
"U.S.-Israel Relations .",
"AZUZ: There's been some tension between the U.S. and Israel lately.",
"You've heard about this on our show.",
"It's especially focused over Israel's plans to build new settlements in East Jerusalem.",
"This is an area that's disputed between Israelis and Palestinians.",
"The U.S., which is trying to help create a Middle East peace plan, wants Israel to stop construction there.",
"In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. has a responsibility \"to give credit when it is due and to tell the truth when it is needed.\"",
"But she said the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is still strong.",
"U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: For President Obama and for me, and for this entire administration, our commitment to Israel's security and Israel's future is rock-solid, unwavering, enduring and forever.",
"AZUZ: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spoke at the conference.",
"He's scheduled to sit down with President Obama for a meeting at the White House sometime today.",
"Google . AZUZ: A showdown could be looming between China and Google.",
"Yesterday, the Internet company announced it has stopped censoring, or restricting, its search results in China.",
"A company official said, \"We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services.\"",
"Back in 2006, when Google launched Google.cn, its search engine in China, it agreed to a Chinese demand for the company to censor some of its search results.",
"At the time, Google argued that offering Chinese users some information was better than nothing.",
"But after alleged cyber-attacks against Google last December, the company stopped the self-censorship, although that only lasted for about a day.",
"Now, it seems China will have to decide how it plans to react to this latest announcement.",
"Blog Report .",
"AZUZ: A list was posted temporarily at a Wisconsin middle school.",
"It showed the names of students who had failing grades, and about 500 of you had something to say about it!",
"Sabrina doesn't think \"it's fair to post someone's grade where anyone can see it.\"",
"She says \"it's embarrassing and humiliating.\"",
"A lot of you agreed with that.",
"As you can see, our quick poll showed that about two-thirds of you oppose an F-list.",
"Rachel says she doesn't \"see this working at her school.",
"The students would tell the parents; the parents would get angry and contact the principal.\"",
"But Diana supports the idea, saying \"the parents should help their students get off the list and not complain to the school.\"",
"And Spencer writes, \"The principal did the right thing.",
"He motivated half the kids to get off the list.",
"It hopefully gets the people who don't usually care to care about their grades.\"",
"If you have no idea what we're talking about, watch this story in our archive.",
"Go to CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Click archive.",
"Select the show from March 17th!",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: And finally, if you have a fondness for fromage, you're gonna love today's Before We Go segment.",
"Take a big whiff.",
"You know what that smells like?",
"Victory! That's because this is the world's best cheese!",
"The Swiss gruyere took top prize at the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin.",
"The judges praised the big cheese for its creamy texture and lightly fruity taste.",
"After beating out 2,300 other entries... Goodbye .",
"AZUZ: ...We guess this cheese stands alone.",
"A muenster pun like that is as gouda way as any to end today's show.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"(CNN Student News) -- March 22, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota • Iceland • Nigeria .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's our first show of spring!",
"And one of the rites of the new season: 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines.",
"Here to take you through it, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"First Up: Health Care .",
"AZUZ: First up, the question that dominated the weekend in Washington: Who has the votes on President Obama's health care reform bill?",
"216 was the magic number in the U.S. House of Representatives.",
"That means Democrats who supported the bill needed to get at least 216 votes for it to pass.",
"Republicans and Democrats who opposed the bill needed at least 216 votes against it to stop it from becoming law.",
"That vote was expected to happen last night.",
"But when we recorded today's show, it hadn't happened yet.",
"You can get the latest details at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"And, of course, we'll have a lot more on this for you tomorrow.",
"Let's back up and talk about what was happening leading up to yesterday's scheduled vote.",
"Democrats were rallying to try to wrap up those 216 votes.",
"Some were guaranteeing the bill would go through, calling it a historic day.",
"But Republicans, who have been opposed to the bill, promised to keep fighting to try and stop it from becoming law.",
"One Republican said if the bill did pass, they would try to repeal it.",
"Tension was high outside the Capitol building over the weekend, too.",
"As you can see in these pictures, protesters rallied to speak out against the bill.",
"The House of Representatives was actually voting on two things yesterday.",
"The first was the health care reform bill that the Senate already passed.",
"If the House approved that, it would go straight to President Obama for his signature; it would become law.",
"The second thing the House was voting on was a set of changes to the Senate bill.",
"And if that was approved, it would still have to get through the Senate before it could become law.",
"Again, for the latest on all of this: CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Tuesday's show will have details as well.",
"Word to the Wise . AMANDA MOYER, CNN STUDENT NEWS: A Word to the Wise... crest (verb) As a verb, crest means to reach the highest point or level .",
"source: www.dictionary.com .",
"Midwest Flooding .",
"AZUZ: People in North Dakota and Minnesota are keeping a close eye on the Red River.",
"Forecasters said that it crested yesterday at around 37 feet.",
"That's nearly 20 feet higher than flood stage.",
"Around Fargo, North Dakota, 700,000 sandbags are guarding the city against the river's waters.",
"In fact, more than a million sandbags were stacked between Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota.",
"Those sandbags can be removed once the river goes back below 30 feet, but the National Weather Service says that probably won't happen until next Sunday.",
"The governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, says that planning for a possible flood might have helped keep the Red River at bay.",
"GOV. TIM PAWLENTY, (R) MINNESOTA: We're very confident in the flood fight.",
"Again, there will be damage, there will be some flooding.",
"But we believe it'll be a manageable event, in large part, because of the incredible preparation, skill and leadership of Minnesotans all across this state who rallied to fight this flood and put maximum preparations in place to have an effective flood fight this year.",
"AZUZ: Now, Chris Welch shows us how scientists try to plan for these flood situations.",
"Check it out. (BEGIN VIDEO) CHRIS WELCH, CNN ALL-PLATFORM JOURNALIST, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: This is Chris Laveau, and his job is critical.",
"As a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, he helps determine how high the river will go.",
"CHRIS LAVEAU, USGS HYDROLOGIST: This instrument, we put it in the water and it actually sends a sound pulse down into the river, and it returns information on the speed of the particles and actually the depth.",
"WELCH: The data they collect here actually goes straight to the National Weather Service and plays a big part in forecast development.",
"The crest prediction was lowered a half foot Friday and again Saturday, thanks in part to the findings of the USGS.",
"LAVEAU: The channel was moving water through a little bit more efficiently than we thought.",
"WELCH: The technology they use is new within the last decade.",
"What used to take half a day can now be done in an hour.",
"They send their findings here, to the river forecast center near the Twin Cities.",
"SCOTT DUMMER, CHIEF HYDROLOGIST, USGS: We're the technical experts and the modelers.",
"We come up with a technical forecast.",
"WELCH: Less ice on the river and less precipitation were factors in the lower crest outlook, plus the colder weather back in Fargo translates to less snow melt.",
"But lower temps don't make Laveau's job any easier.",
"LAVEAU: The equipment doesn't want to work as well.",
"We don't want to work as well.",
"But we get out here and we get the job done because it's important.",
"WELCH: Chris Welch, CNN, on the Red River, near Fargo, North Dakota.",
"(END VIDEO) Iceland Eruption .",
"AZUZ: Heading across the Atlantic Ocean to Iceland, a country that has more land covered by glaciers than all of Europe.",
"And underneath the country's fifth-largest glacier: this!",
"A volcano that started erupting over the weekend.",
"Not unusual for Iceland; it sits on a volcanic hotspot.",
"It's had 21 eruptions in the past 47 years.",
"But this is the first time that this particular volcano has erupted since 1821, and experts say there was not a lot of warning.",
"Hundreds of people were evacuated; police declared a state of emergency.",
"One scientist said there's just no way to know how long the eruption will last: could end today, could go on for a year or two.",
"But he did add this is a small eruption.",
"Iraq Vote . AZUZ: Well, figuring out the results of Iraq's parliamentary election won't take a year or two, but it is going to take a while longer.",
"The votes from the election -- it was on March 7th -- are still being tallied.",
"But Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for a recount.",
"He says it's to \"preserve the integrity of the electoral process.\"",
"Right now, the race is too close to call.",
"Based on partial results, al-Maliki's party is leading in some of Iraq's provinces, but it's losing the overall vote.",
"Iraq's electoral commission has rejected the demand for a recount.",
"A spokesman for the commission says there have to be \"compelling reasons\" for it, and they don't think there are any.",
"The final election results are expected to be announced on Friday.",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Dunston's social studies classes at Bethune Middle School in Decatur, Georgia!",
"Gorillas belong to what scientific genus?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Theropithecus, B) Suricata, C) Papio or D) Gorilla?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Gorillas are classified in genus gorilla.",
"Surprise, surprise.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Search for Gorillas .",
"AZUZ: Gorillas are in the family of \"great apes.\"",
"And according to the World Wildlife Fund, the Cross River gorilla is the most endangered great ape in Africa.",
"For a while, people thought the species had already gone extinct.",
"Christian Purefoy takes us into the forests of Africa to learn about the dangers facing these gorillas and the people who are trying to help them.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) CHRISTIAN PUREFOY, CNN CORRESPONDENT, LAGOS, NIGERIA: We're searching West Africa's last rainforest for its last remaining gorillas.",
"JOSEPH NJAMA, ECO-GUARD: These are the teeth of the gorilla.",
"Look at them biting it, you see, forcing it to break.",
"PUREFOY: It's a rare sign that there are actually any gorillas left here.",
"Our trackers, who are ex-poachers now turned gaurdians for the gorillas, only see them maybe twice a year.",
"Sightings are so rare that these pictures shot last year are thought to be the only known images of the gorillas.",
"The difficult terrain of these mountains has helped keep the gorillas out of sight and hidden from poachers.",
"Somewhere out there in the forest is the Cross River gorilla.",
"It's the rarest in the world and also the most endangered; they think there's maybe 300 in Nigeria and Cameroon alone and just 35 in these Mbe mountains.",
"The local communities of the Mbe mountains have come together to try and protect the gorillas, but disagreement over exactly how is proving divisive.",
"But as we continued our search, we found signs of life: a gorilla nest only two to three weeks old.",
"In your research, how important are these nests?",
"INAOYOM IMONG, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: It's very important because we rarely see them, and the only way we can get information on the population is by finding nests such as this to give us an idea of the population size and to give us an idea the ranging behavior of the gorillas.",
"PUREFOY: We didn't see any gorillas, but that is a hopeful sign; the more these gorillas fear humans and stay hidden, the better their chances of survival.",
"Christian Purefoy, CNN, the Mbe Mountains, Nigeria.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Before we go, if you've ever wondered what it takes to put together a basketball court, the answer is about 10-and-a-half hours!",
"We don't have that kind of time, so we're speeding things up for you.",
"This is the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.",
"This is how workers transformed it from a hockey arena to a basketball stadium overnight!",
"We're not sold on hiring these guys the next time we need to set up a party.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: But we are courting the idea.",
"That sinks our last points for the day, but CNN Student News will get your Tuesday show on the rebound.",
"Join us when we begin our final four shows of the week tomorrow."
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"(CNN) -- The United States will face Turkey in the finals of the world basketball championships after defeating Lithuania 89-74 Saturday.",
"NBA star Durant set the tone for his team's semi-final win by pounding Lithuania with a 17-point scoring blitz in the first eight minutes.",
"By the final buzzer he had also added nine rebounds to his 38 points.",
"After defeating world number one Argentina on Thursday, the Lithuanians looked as if they had already played their final, offering little resistance for an on-song American team.",
"Having grown accustomed to coming back from slow starts throughout this tournament Lithuania would not have been too concerned about falling behind early, trailing USA 23-12 at the end of the opening quarter.",
"Any hopes that Lithuania had off staging another of their famous comebacks dimmed with the USA still well in control, 42-27 when the half-time buzzer sounded.",
"The US's intensity did not let up following the break, assuring the Lithuanians would not come within nine points of them throughout the quarter to still be leading comfortably 65-53 with a quarter remaining.",
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"(CNN) -- Australia captain Ricky Ponting insists it is \"absolutely possible\" that his side can regain the Ashes by thrashing England 5-0.",
"Ponting's side surrendered the famous urn to their bitter rivals last year when England won the Test series 2-1 on home soil.",
"But the last time England travelled to Australia as holders, in 2006, they were beaten in all five Test matches.",
"And Ponting, 35, now believes his new-look side -- who have won eight of their last ten Test matches -- are capable of a repeat performance when the series gets underway in November.",
"Asked if Australia could whitewash England Ponting told reporters: \"It's absolutely possible.",
"There's no reason why not. We've learnt from a lot of the mistakes that we've made.",
"\"There's no doubt we made some mistakes in the last Ashes series in England that cost us the series.",
"But we know now that we're a more experienced and probably a better team now than we were then.\"",
"Many of Australia's so-called 'golden generation' have retired in recent years including leg spin bowler Shane Warne, seam bowler Glenn McGrath and batsmen Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer, leaving Ponting to mould a younger side.",
"They have been in good form of late but were recently held to a 1-1 Test series draw by Pakistan when the two sides met in England.",
"Yet England are already 2-0 up in their own four Test series with Pakistan, with two games played.",
"When the teams last met England won a seesaw series 2-1, thanks to a dramatic victory at the Oval in the final Test when Jonathan Trott scored a century on his debut.",
"And Trott suggested Ponting may have put unnecessary pressure on his team by talking up their chances of a resounding victory.",
"Speaking ahead of the third Test with Pakistan, he told reporters: \"I don't know Ponting that well -- I don't know his character or what he would be meaning saying stuff like that.",
"\"But if I were to say something like that I'd find it put pressure on me and the team more than if we just go about our business like I know we will.\""
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"Australia captain Ricky Ponting says his side can beat England 5-0 in the Ashes .",
"England are the current holders of the famous urn after a 2-1 series win in 2009 .",
"England batsman Jonathan Trott says Ponting's comments may put Australia under pressure .",
"Ashes series starts in Australia on November 25 ."
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"(CNN) -- Tea Party favorites won two primary elections over more mainstream Republicans on Tuesday, demonstrating again the clout of the conservative political movement on the political right.",
"Now the question is whether the right-wing candidates can also defeat Democratic rivals in November's congressional elections, when the stakes are higher and the full electorate is deciding.",
"The results in Delaware and New York highlighted the last major day of primary voting before the upcoming election in just under seven weeks.",
"Voting in seven states and the District of Columbia included embattled veteran U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel's victory in his New York Democratic primary despite allegations of ethics violations, and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's bid to hold off a major primary challenger.",
"In addition, former Gov.",
"Robert Ehrlich won the Republican gubernatorial primary in Maryland to set up a rematch against Martin O'Malley, the Democrat who ousted him in 2006.",
"In Delaware, conservative political commentator Christine O'Donnell easily defeated nine-time U.S. Rep. Mike Castle in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, giving the Tea Party movement another major victory over a candidate backed by the national GOP.",
"\"We the people will have our voice heard in Washington, D.C., once again,\" a beaming O'Donnell told exuberant supporters at her victory party in Dover.",
"O'Donnell won more than 53 percent of the vote in the bitter campaign that displayed internal Republican warfare between conservative Tea Party supporters and the more moderate party structures.",
"Castle was backed by the national Republican Party, while O'Donnell received the endorsement of former Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin as well as $150,000 in late funding from the Tea Party Express.",
"O'Donnell, running as a Washington outsider, insisted the Republican establishment was trying to drive her out of the race and hand victory to Castle, whom she refers to as \"the anointed one.\"",
"In response, conservative stalwart Bill Kristol, who fears O'Donnell is incapable of winning the Senate seat in November, said: \"I know Sarah Palin.",
"I respect Sarah Palin.",
"And with all due respect -- Christine O'Donnell is no Sarah Palin.\"",
"In her victory speech, O'Donnell made a plea unity, saying: \"If those same people who fought against me work just as hard for me, we will win.\"",
"Later, she told CNN that she can win without the support of the national Republican Party.",
"\"They don't have a winning track record,\" O'Donnell said of the national party.",
"\"If they're too lazy to put in the effort that we need to win, then, so be it.\"",
"The National Republican Senatorial Committee offered its congratulations to O'Donnell immediately after the result was determined.",
"\"We congratulate Christine O'Donnell for her nomination this evening after a hard-fought primary campaign in Delaware,\" said a statement by Rob Jesmer, the NRSC executive director.",
"However, a top Republican official told CNN on Tuesday night that O'Donnell will have to show she can generate viable support before the national party will give her money.",
"\"It is now incumbent on Sarah Palin, (U.S. Sen.) Jim DeMint and the Tea Party Express to help support her,\" the official said on condition of not being identified by name.",
"\"They got her here. Now make it happen.\"",
"O'Donnell will face Democrat Christopher Coons, the New Castle County Executive, in November for the seat formerly held by Vice President Joe Biden.",
"In New York, conservative Carl Paladino defeated Rick Lazio in the Republican gubernatorial primary to set up a November showdown with Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the son of former Gov.",
"Mario Cuomo.",
"Paladino received Tea Party support in defeating Lazio, who also was supported by some conservative groups.",
"The New York governor's post has proven hazardous in recent years.",
"Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, and his successor, David Paterson, decided against running for another term due to allegations of wrongdoing involving World Series tickets and a domestic abuse case involving an aide.",
"In New Hampshire, conservative candidate Ovide Lamontagne saw an early lead vanish in his bid to upset former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, the candidate favored by establishment Republicans.",
"The winner will run in November to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Judd Gregg.",
"Ayotte gave up her state post to run for the Senate nomination with encouragement from national Republicans.",
"Considered the favorite in the seven-candidate contest for months, Ayotte instead found herself with a razor-thin lead with Lamontagne, a Manchester attorney and the 1996 Republican nominee for governor, with 52 percent of the returns accounted, according to AP figures.",
"Local Tea Party groups, the conservative New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper and DeMint, the influential conservative senator from South Carolina, all backed Lamontagne.",
"Unlike O'Donnell in Delaware, though, Lamontagne didn't get Palin's endorsement.",
"Instead, Palin backed Ayotte, calling her a \"Granite Grizzly\" and \"the true conservative running for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire.\"",
"However, Palin's endorsement and Ayotte's support from many national Republicans may have backfired in fiercely independent New Hampshire.",
"Victories by O'Donnell and Paladino, and the possibility of a triumph by Lamontagne in New Hampshire, showed the strength of the Tea Party within the political right, after similar results ousted GOP incumbents or insiders in Idaho and Alaska.",
"However, the Republican infighting also raised questions about GOP unity heading into November.",
"Rangel, meanwhile, received help from former President Bill Clinton in defeating five challengers in the Democratic primary for the House seat he has held for 40 years.",
"Despite allegations by the House ethics committee that Rangel committed financial wrongdoing and harmed the credibility of Congress, he raised more money than his opponents and easily won the vote in his Harlem district.",
"The situation was reversed in Washington, where Fenty swept into office in 2006 promising to fix the District of Columbia's struggling schools.",
"However, the AP figures showed he trailed City Council Chairman Vincent Gray with 28 percent of the votes counted, in part because of union opposition to his education reform efforts.",
"\"We've got an uphill battle because we made tough decisions,\" Fenty said before the vote.",
"\"We'll continue to make those tough decisions because they're right for the people.",
"But we're not naive. We know this has cost us a little political popularity that we came into the polls with.\"",
"The race is being closely watched far beyond the District of Columbia because the outcome could carry significant implications for the national debate over education reform.",
"Fenty brought in Michelle Rhee as chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, and she has since become famous for changes that that have become a model of education reform advocated by the Obama administration.",
"Rhee shut down two dozen schools, fired hundred of educators -- including more than 100 teachers this summer -- for poor performance, and overhauled the teacher evaluation system to include, for the first time, student performance as a measure of success.",
"Local and national teachers unions have fought her efforts.",
"CNN's Jessica Yellin, Paul Steinhauser, Mark Preston, Kate Bolduan, Kevin Bohn, Mary Snow and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
] |
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"Victories by O'Donnell, Paladino raise questions over Republican unity .",
"O'Donnell says she can win without support of national Republicans .",
"Veteran Rangel wins primary despite allegations of ethics violations .",
"Tuesday was the last major primary day before the November elections ."
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"(CNN) -- It is the strange \"tail\" of Graeme Swann, his cat and a brush with the law that has made the England cricket team \"paws\" for thought before trash talking each other on Twitter.",
"Swann, the world's top ranked spin bowler, appeared in court earlier this week charged with a drink-driving offence and it is the details that emerged during the hearing that provoked such mirth in England's dressing room.",
"Nottingham magistrates court heard how the 31-year-old told police officers he had been to buy a screwdriver so he could release his cat who was trapped under the floorboards of his home.",
"The trial was adjourned until October, but after the England team arrived in London to begin training ahead of the third Test with Pakistan, two of Swann's teammates joked about the affair on their Twitter accounts.",
"Kevin Pietersen, England's flamboyant batsman, who was born and raised in South Africa, posted: \"2 hours with @Swannyg66 [Swann] this am and I'm still not having this 'cat' story!!",
"Haha.\" A short time after, Swann updated his account by tweeting: \"Such a shame my teammates are so remedial in their 'banter'.",
"Must be because they're all south African...\" Fast bowler Jimmy Anderson, who has nearly 55,000 followers on Twitter, got in on the act too.",
"He tweeted: \"Swanny has turned up this morning with a tag round his ankle.",
"Not sure what that's for.\" The players may have enjoyed their online banter but on the pitch England toiled on the opening day of the third Test against Pakistan at the Oval.",
"England won the toss and chose to bat, hoping to add to their 2-0 series lead, but were dismissed for just 233 as Wahab Riaz took five wickets on his Test debut.",
"Opening batsman Alastair Cook's miserable run of form continued as he was dismissed by Mohammad Asif for just six.",
"Captain Andrew Strauss was Riaz's first victim as he was caught behind by Kamran Akmal for just 15, before the pace bowler went on to claim the scalps of Jonathan Trott, Pietersen, Eoin Morgan and Stuart Broad.",
"Wicketkeeper Matt Prior gave England's total some respectability with a forceful 84 not out and he was ably assisted by Broad, who made 48.",
"Saeed Ajmal trapped England's last batsman, Steve Finn, LBW as Pakistan dismissed the hosts with more than an hour's play remaining.",
"Imran Farhat and Yasir Hameed started Pakistan's reply strongly, adding 48, before Farhat was bowled by Anderson in the final over of the day."
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"England cricketers joke around on Twitter at bowler Graeme Swann's expense .",
"Swann appeared in court on a drink driving charge this week .",
"Spinner claimed he had been to get a screwdriver to rescue his cat who was trapped .",
"England struggle on opening day of third Test with Pakistan ."
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"(CNN) -- Spin-bowler Monty Panesar has earned a recall to England's Test cricket squad for the Ashes series against Australia, due to begin on November 25 in Brisbane.",
"Panesar, who was part of England's victorious Ashes team in 2009, is named in a 16-strong party after enjoying a successful domestic campaign for Sussex, in the English county championship.",
"Another player making his England return is Chris Tremlett, who has not played for his country since a match with India in 2007, and was last involved with the international squad on a tour of New Zealand in 2008.",
"He gets the nod ahead of Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan, who has been an ever-present in England squads this summer.",
"The other contentious position was the deputy wicketkeeper spot with uncapped Steven Davies preferred to Craig Kieswetter, who struggled with the bat for his county Somerset this season.",
"Kevin Pietersen, who was left out of England's one-day international squad for the latest series to gain match practice, is also included in a party captained by Andrew Strauss.",
"England and Wales Cricket board (ECB) national selector Geoff Miller is confident they have selected a competitive squad for the series, saying in an official statement: \"We believe we've selected an outstanding Test squad for what will be a fiercely contested Ashes series in Australia.",
"Miller also commented on the two returning bowlers, saying they both deserved their opportunities in Australia.",
"\"We feel that following an excellent season with Sussex Monty Panesar deserves his opportunity to assume the role as England's second spinner behind Graeme Swann,\" said Miller.",
"\"We feel that Chris Tremlett's inclusion will add a real threat of pace and bounce to our bowling attack given the conditions in Australia.\"",
"Strauss is quietly confident that his team can retain the Ashes which they won back in a tight series last summer.",
"\"I am excited by the Test squad we have selected for the upcoming Ashes series as I firmly believe we have a number of match winners across all areas of the squad,\" he said.",
"\"It's exciting to have the Ashes as our sole focus from this point on and I know every member of this Ashes squad will be relishing the challenge of retaining the Ashes in Australia.",
"\"To captain England in an Ashes series Down Under is a huge honor and something I am looking forward to with enormous anticipation.\"",
"England Ashes Test squad: Andrew Strauss (C) (Middlesex) Alastair Cook (VC) (Essex) James Anderson (Lancashire) Ian Bell (Warwickshire) Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire) Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire) Paul Collingwood (Durham) Steven Davies (wk) (Surrey) Steven Finn (Middlesex) Eoin Morgan (Middlesex) Monty Panesar (Sussex) Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire) Matt Prior (wk) Sussex) Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire) Chris Tremlett (Surrey) Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire)"
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"Monty Panesar has been recalled to England's cricket squad for the Ashes against Australia .",
"Chris Tremlett has also been selected for the southern hemisphere tour .",
"Andrew Strauss: \"To captain England in an Ashes series Down Under is a huge honor\""
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"(CNN) -- David Haye is to defend his world heavyweight title in an all-British clash with former Olympic gold medallist Audley Harrison.",
"The two former friends and sparring partners will go head-to-head on November 13 in Manchester, England, and announced the bout at an ill-tempered press conference.",
"Haye won the World Boxing Association's heavyweight crown when he defeated Russian Nikolay Valuev in November last year.",
"He then successfully defended his title against American veteran John Ruiz in April.",
"Harrison shot to prominence when he won a gold medal in the super heavyweight division at the Sydney Games of 2000 but has struggled to fulfill his potential since.",
"The 38-year-old won the European Boxing Union's heavyweight title when he beat fellow Brit Michael Sprott in April.",
"Haye recently failed to negotiate a fight with either Vitali Klitschko, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, or his brother Wladimir, the holder of the World Boxing Organization and the International Boxing Federation heavyweight belts.",
"Haye told the press conference: \"I don't believe Audley deserves a shot but fortunately, or unfortunately for him, there's enough people who want to see him finally destroyed.",
"\"I get more emails to fight Audley Harrison than anyone else in the world.",
"People want me to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.",
"\"Audley has known me for years, he knows how devastating I am in the ring.",
"He knows it first hand from sparring sessions.",
"I'm no joke. \"I'm the most devastating fighter on the planet.",
"This is the time your career gets well and truly finished.\"",
"The bout is the most high-profile all-British heavyweight clash for 17 years, since Lennox Lewis stopped former champion Frank Bruno to defend his WBC crown in Cardiff.",
"Harrison, who will get his first chance at a world title since turning professional after his Olympic success, told the press conference: \"He [Haye] is a guy I groomed.",
"I have tasted his punches and power and he never hurt me in a training session.",
"\"This is my destiny - on 13 November Audley Harrison will be champion of the world and of that there is no doubt.",
"If David Haye thinks I've taken this fight strictly for a payday, he is in for a rude awakening.\""
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"WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is to fight ex-Olympic gold medallist Audley Harrison .",
"All-British clash is to take place on November 13 in Manchester .",
"The pair used to be friends before a public war of words erupted last year .",
"Haye says fans have been begging him to finish Harrison's career once and for all ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The International Cricket Council said Saturday it has launched an investigation into claims of a new betting scandal involving the Pakistan national team.",
"The allegations, which emerged Saturday in the British tabloid The Sun, relate to the third One-Day International between England and Pakistan, held in London on Friday.",
"\"A source informed The Sun newspaper that a certain scoring pattern would emerge during certain stages of the match and, broadly speaking, that information appeared to be correct,\" ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said in a statement.",
"\"We therefore feel it is incumbent upon us to launch a full enquiry into this particular game, although it is worth pointing out at this stage that we are not stating as fact that anything untoward has occurred,\" Lorgat said.",
"\"Only in the fullness of the investigation can that be established.\"",
"The Sun reported \"illegal bookies in India and Dubai apparently knew in advance what would happen\" during the game so they could make bets.",
"The paper said its undercover team was able to pass details to ICC inspectors before the match began at the Oval cricket ground in south London.",
"\"Cricket chiefs then watched as Pakistan's score mirrored the target that bookies had been told in advance by a fixer,\" The Sun reported.",
"It is not thought the overall result was fixed -- only scoring rates in parts of Pakistan's innings, the paper said.",
"It said the investigation centers on a person \"within the team camp\" who is believed to be the ringleader, taking money from bookies and ensuring their orders are carried out.",
"Pakistan won the game by 23 runs.",
"The claims follow a separate alleged scam, also involving the Pakistan team during its ongoing tour of England.",
"The tabloid News of the World reported that Pakistan players deliberately bowled \"no balls,\" or fouls, at specific points in a game with England in late August, and that the alleged ringleader of the scam made 150,000 pounds (about $230,000).",
"London's Metropolitan Police have questioned four players over the allegations.",
"They passed their evidence in that case Friday to prosecutors, who will decide whether to press charges.",
"The ICC provisionally suspended three of the players questioned by police and charged them with various offenses under the council's anti-corruption code."
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"A newspaper reported new betting claims against the Pakistan national team .",
"The paper says bookies knew in advance about scoring patterns ."
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"(CNN) -- From the start of the tragedy, aid agencies warned that not enough help was flowing into flood-devastated Pakistan.",
"Now, seven long weeks into the steamrolling crisis, the United Nations and private charitable organizations are sounding the alarm again as large chunks of the country remain submerged and about 20 million people are in need of assistance.",
"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday that the United Nations is seeking another $1.594 billion for flood victims, bringing the total to more than $2 billion.",
"The world body has already received about 70 percent of $460 million it initially requested.",
"\"In the floods' wake, we are seeing hunger, misery and desperation,\" Ban said.",
"\"Children becoming malnourished.",
"Skin diseases on the rise because of the lack of soap and clean water.",
"Nowhere for families to shelter from the sweltering sun.",
"\"Diarrhea could spread quickly in these conditions.",
"Clean water and sanitation equipment must reach even more people.",
"Millions of children and pregnant women are especially at risk.",
"They need access to critical health care.",
"Pakistan is not facing just one humanitarian crisis -- but many at once.",
"Different responses are required.\"",
"He called the Pakistan floods \"the worst natural disaster the United Nations has responded to in its 65-year history.\"",
"The global spotlight may have shifted away, but floodwaters are still raging through the heart of Pakistan, creating new crises every day, said Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs.",
"\"An immense tragedy continues to unfold,\" Amos said.",
"\"The human implications of what will happen if not enough is done are terrible.",
"Many millions have already lost everything and have nothing to go back to.",
"... What I will be doing is asking our supporters to dig deeper and to do more.\"",
"But even the new appeal may not be enough as the U.N. food agency said Friday that it needs $600 million for emergency food supplies until next July.",
"So far, it has only received $103 million.",
"The World Food Programme is aiming to feed 6 million people every month while transitioning to recovery activities such as food-for-work programs that will help rehabilitate damaged agricultural lands and infrastructure and restore livelihoods, the agency said.",
"It estimates that at least 17 million acres of farmland from north to south are under water and hundreds of bridges and roadways have been destroyed.",
"On top of that, markets have been disrupted and food prices have skyrocketed, leaving many Pakistanis unable to feed themselves or their families, the WFP said.",
"\"No one could have predicted the scale and enormity of this catastrophe where women and children are facing a dangerous downwards spiral of hunger and malnutrition,\" WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said in a written statement.",
"\"We need to scale-up now and we need to scale-up quickly.\"",
"The scale of the devastation was visible from a helicopter this week.",
"From the sky, the landscape below was brown with wide rivers of murky water while specks of bright blue tarpaulins and tents dotted dry land.",
"\"The road to recovery will be long and arduous and Pakistan will need all the help it can get to build back from this disaster,\" Sheeran said.",
"Hunger is just one of Pakistan's myriad problems.",
"Public health experts remain concerned about disease outbreaks.",
"As of a week ago, the United Nations reported more than 700,000 cases of acute diarrhea, at least 800,000 acute respiratory infections, nearly a million cases of skin disease and almost 183,000 suspected malaria cases.",
"\"All of the elements conducive for this to happen are present -- poor sanitation and water supplies, and people are living in cramped conditions in open camp settings,\" said Sylvain Groulx, a project coordinator with Medecins Sans Frontieres, sometimes referred to as Doctors Without Borders, in northern Sindh province.",
"\"Health authorities here have confirmed that there is usually an increase in the number of people who seek medical assistance following Eid, and we are expecting that the health system will be overburdened in the coming days,\" Groulx said in a news release.",
"Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, was celebrated last weekend."
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"NEW: The United Nations seeks $1.6 billion more for flood victims .",
"Pakistan's crisis continues to unfold .",
"About 20 million people were affected by the massive flooding ."
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"(CNN) -- Identical twins Bob and Mike Bryan carved their place in tennis history as they wrapped up a record-breaking career doubles title in Los Angeles.",
"The Bryans had been tied on 61 with legendary Australian pair Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde since winning the Madrid Open title back in May.",
"But at the Farmers Classic they finally broke out of the tie with the 'Woodies' with a battling 6-7 6-2 10-7 victory over Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer.",
"It was their sixth title at the hard court tournament in Los Angeles but they were made to work hard for their win, which is also their sixth title of the year.",
"Pat Cash meets the Bryan brothers .",
"After the opening two sets were tied, the Bryans raced to a 5-0 lead in the tiebreak set decider only to see Butorac and Rojer claw back to seven points each.",
"But the 32-year-old Americans kept their nerve to win the final three points and close out a memorable victory, celebrating with their traditional chest-bumping ritual.",
"Woodforde was courtside to see his record broken and paid tribute to the Bryans.",
"\"For many, many years you've been traveling in elite company.",
"Thanks to the victory today you're in rarefied air,\" Woodforde said.",
"\"Our run sort of ended because I elected to retire, but I know you two will continue for years to come.",
"The floodgates will open entirely, so I know 70, 80 will come.\"",
"Mike Bryan said they had never believed they could break the mark at the start of their career.",
"\"The Woodies put a record way out there -- 61 was Mount Everest when we started,\" he said.",
"\"We love what we do. To get this, one of their many records, is special.\"",
"\"We really looked up to the Woodies,\" Bob Bryan added.",
"\"They didn't have the power and big serves, but they had the poaching and the technique.\"",
"The brothers have included eight grand slam men's doubles titles in their incredible tally and will now target the all-time record of 79 set by the famous partnership of Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver."
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"Bob and Mike Bryan set new record with 62nd career victory at ATP event in LA .",
"Bryans had been tied with Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde since May .",
"Mark Woodforde watched the Bryans set new record at Farmers Classic .",
"Bryans are 32-year-old identical twins who have won eight grand slam titles ."
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"(CNN) -- A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says in a new book that while Bill Clinton was in the White House, a key component of the president's nuclear launch protocol went missing.",
"\"The codes were actually missing for months.",
"This is a big deal,\" says General Hugh Shelton.",
"\"We dodged a silver bullet.\"",
"In his book \"Without Hesitation,\" the retired Army general writes, \"Even though movies may show the President wearing these codes around his neck, it's pretty standard that they are safeguarded by one of his aides, but that aide sticks with him like glue.\"",
"He adds that President Clinton \"assumed, I'm sure, that the aide had them like he was supposed to.\"",
"What apparently was missing was a card with code numbers on it that allows the president to access a briefcase -- called the \"football\" and kept by an aide always near the president -- containing instructions for launching a nuclear attack.",
"Once a month, Defense Department officials conduct an in-person verification to make sure the president has the right codes.",
"At least twice in a row, Shelton writes, a White House aide told the Pentagon checker that the president was in a meeting but gave a verbal assurance that the codes were with him.",
"Then one month around the year 2000, according to Shelton, when the time came to replace the codes with a new set, \"the president's aide said neither he nor the president had the codes -- they had completely disappeared.\"",
"Shelton writes that all this happened very likely without Clinton's knowledge.",
"CNN called and e-mailed a spokesman for President Clinton Thursday, but there was no immediate response.",
"Fran Townsend, who served as homeland security advisor to President George W. Bush and who is a CNN contributor on national security issues, said Thursday, \"I can't imagine a more serious breach, if something like that were ever to be lost or be compromised.",
"\"That's the command and control capability of the president to launch a nuclear attack.\"",
"But if an unauthorized person found or obtained the codes, she said, it is very unlikely that they could execute a launch, because they are only one part of the launch protocol.",
"Another part of that protocol is the \"football,\" containing the actual launch instructions.",
"Townsend said it's a multi-layered system.",
"\"Even if you had a piece that was required, it would be very difficult for one person to execute the command and control of this thing,\" Townsend said.",
"\"There are plenty of things to be concerned about.",
"I just find it difficult to imagine somebody could execute this thing, if they found a piece to it.\"",
"Shelton says the president was given new codes within minutes when the previous codes could not be found, and the procedures have since been changed, so that the Pentagon aide who carries out the monthly check is required to wait at the White House until he or she can visually confirm the codes are in the possession of the president or an aide who is with him."
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"Former Joint Chiefs chairman says it happened during the Clinton administration .",
"Shelton says a card giving the president access to nuclear launch instructions went missing .",
"New codes were quickly given to Clinton, Shelton says .",
"Efforts to contact a Clinton spokesman were unsuccessful Thursday ."
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"(CNN) -- Top seed Caroline Wozniacki secured the eighth WTA Tour title of her career after a straight sets victory in the final of the inaugural Danish Open in Copenhagen on Sunday.",
"The local favorite, who is at a career-high third position in the world rankings, was always in control against seventh-seeded Czech Klara Zakapolova, sealing a 6-2 7-6 success.",
"Zakapolova threatened a comeback when she led 4-2 in the second set, but the Dane rallied to take it to a tie-break, which Wozniacki won to add the title to her triumph at Ponte Vedra earlier this year.",
"Meanwhile, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Agnieszka Radwanska will contest the final of the WTA event in San Diego after both players won their semifinal matches in straight sets.",
"Two-time grand slam champion Kuznetsova -- who is unseeded after dropping out of the world's top 20 following a disappointing year -- eased to a 6-4 6-0 victory over fifth-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta.",
"\"I was hitting the ball hard but I was also playing with spin and mixing it up and not letting her dictate,\" Kuznetsova told the official WTA Tour website.",
"\"I'm playing better and I'm happy about that.",
"I was struggling in the first set but I made my way through it and played much better in the second set.",
"I'm happy to be in my first final this year.\"",
"The Russian will now face Radwanska after the fourth-seeded Pole saw off the challenge of Daniela Hantuchova 6-4 6-2 to reach her first final in 10 months."
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"Top seed Caroline Wozniacki win the inaugural WTA Danish Open title on Sunday .",
"The local favorite defeats Czech Klara Zakapolova 6-2 7-6 in the final in Copenhagen .",
"The 20-year-old is ranked third in the world and was winning her eighth WTA title .",
"Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Flavia Pennetta 6-4 6-0 to reach the final in San Diego ."
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"Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- President Obama has recently blasted the influx of money from undisclosed donors flowing into the midterm campaigns.",
"He repeated a claim, which major media outlets have not been able to substantiate, that foreign funds may have been used in the United States.",
"At a recent rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the president said \"American people deserve to know who is trying to sway their elections.\"",
"\"You don't know: It could be the oil industry.",
"It could even be foreign-owned corporations.",
"You don't know because they don't have to disclose.\"",
"In making these attacks Obama is returning to a central theme that animated his 2008 campaign: the need to change the campaign finance system.",
"As a candidate, Obama railed against the way that money influenced politics.",
"He reiterated a long-standing theme of reform-candidates that unless the political process changed, policies would remain the same and Americans would never gain confidence in their government.",
"But Obama broke from these principles almost as soon as he made the argument.",
"During the campaign, Obama disappointed many campaign reform advocates when he announced that he would not use public funds in the general election campaign so that he could raise an unlimited amount of money in his race against Sen. John McCain.",
"In 2004, President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry dealt a blow to the public finance system when they didn't use public funds in their primary election campaigns.",
"But Obama took this decision a step further, rendering one of the more successful Watergate-era reforms ineffective.",
"Ironically, when he announced his decision he said, \"If we don't stand together, the broken system we have now, a system where special interests drown out the voices of the American people will continue to erode our politics and prevent the possibility of real change.",
"That's why we must act. The stakes are higher than ever, and people are counting on us.\"",
"His campaign then raised an unprecedented amount of money, much of which came from large donors.",
"After starting his presidency, Obama showed minimal interest in reform.",
"He left the \"broken system\" alone.",
"Obama shelved substantive campaign reform proposals as he turned his attention to the economic crisis, health care reform and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"Obama's actions followed a pattern of candidates running on campaign finance reform as an issue, then putting it aside once they get into office.",
"Who wants to anger powerful interest groups and donors right before taking on their policy agenda?",
"The president's plate, moreover, was so full from day one that it was a lot to ask him to take on something as charged as campaign finance.",
"Nonetheless, at the moment when the president arguably had the most political capital to move forward with an issue as difficult as campaign finance reform, Obama succumbed to these familiar and predictable fears.",
"There have been a few exceptional moments when presidents acted differently.",
"In 1978, for instance, President Jimmy Carter followed through on his promise to try to clean up government in the wake of Watergate.",
"He supported legislation that created stricter ethics rules for executive branch officials and established the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate alleged corruption.",
"While the reforms turned out to be flawed and produced numerous unintended consequences, Carter's actual choice in 1978 marked an unusual moment when a president took reform seriously.",
"Carter's reform built on the historic campaign finance reforms that Congress passed in 1974.",
"Not only did Obama downplay campaign finance reform, but he subsequently embraced a legislative strategy that depended on cutting deals with powerful interest groups such as the pharmaceutical industry so that lobbyists would \"buy into\" legislation rather than oppose it.",
"The strategy worked politically with health care reform although, according to Ryan Lizza's recent account in The New Yorker, it weakened the chances for passing climate change legislation through the Senate.",
"The Supreme Court's Citizen United decision was certainly damaging to reform efforts.",
"So too were many other factors, such as Federal Election Commission decisions and tax laws that have allowed donors to contribute large amounts of funds without disclosure.",
"President Obama, however, certainly shouldn't claim to be an innocent bystander.",
"While he has pushed for significant lobbying and transparency reforms, the major reform groups concluded in January 2010 that the \"Obama administration has not pursued public policy reforms in the campaign finance area.\"",
"Both parties have stood silent as the nation's campaign finance system erodes.",
"At best they have supported relatively mild reforms like the McCain-Feingold legislation, that have left huge holes for money to flow into the system -- and which was weakened by another Supreme Court decision in 2006.",
"According to Craig Holman of the nonprofit group Public Citizen, \"This is a low point for the campaign finance reform movement -- I've never seen it lower.\"",
"This a difficult challenge given that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is clearly hostile toward reform.",
"But the president and Congress must consider stronger regulatory mechanisms and the possibility of restoring a system of public finance for campaigns.",
"Until presidents and congressional leaders decide to make campaign finance reform a priority issue the relationship between money and politics won't change.",
"This is unfortunate since the way that politics works profoundly influences the type of policies that government can produce.",
"The power of money in politics was there for all to see when interest groups were able to gut key cost control measures during the health care debate.",
"Like most presidents before him, both Democrats and Republicans, Obama is now witnessing the consequences of accepting the status quo, and the flow of money is only likely to grow.",
"As Jan Baran, a former general counsel for the Republican National Committee told The New York Times, \"This year is practice for 2012.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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