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"(CNN) -- The mother of an 11-year-old boy who hanged himself after allegedly being bullied at a Georgia school says her daughter also has been a victim of taunting.",
"Masika Bermudez-Carrasquillo, who Friday asked the White House for help in a campaign to end school bullying, said her daughter, 12, was also recently harassed by a boy who kept referring to her dead brother.",
"The boy was disciplined but still taunted the girl before he was suspended and his mother withdrew him from a middle school, she said.",
"Since then, the boy's mom has failed to meet with her, Bermudez said.",
"\"I guess she doesn't care.\"",
"The mother, who wrote a letter to President Barack Obama about bullying, held a news conference Friday to ask for help.",
"Jaheem Herrera was found dead in his closet in April.",
"\"Til this day, I live with that memory of seeing my son hanging in the closet; my daughters are so hurt too,\" Bermudez wrote in the letter.",
"Bermudez told CNN that Jaheem, a fifth-grader, had been complaining about bullying at Dunaire Elementary School in DeKalb County.",
"Bermudez said that at the time, she did not know that the bullying had gotten so bad.",
"Friday, she indicated Jaheem once passed out after boys put him in a sleeper hold at the school.",
"Administrators and others won't take responsibility for this and other incidents at the school, she said.",
"\"I feel like I failed him,\" Bermudez said of Jaheem.",
"\"I can't get justice.",
"A year has passed, and they keep denying it.\"",
"Her letter asked for assistance from the White House.",
"\"Mr. President, bullying is still an issue here in Georgia, and all over the United States.",
"Our children are dying, because they think this is the only way out.",
"I think parents and administrators should be held accountable for the safety problems in the nation's classrooms,\" Bermudez said.",
"She says her son's case helped to get a new anti-bullying law passed in Georgia.",
"The law, which pushes schools to aggressively investigate bullying incidents and provide counseling to victims, is scheduled to go into effect in 2011.",
"But Bermudez said more needs to be done.",
"\"No other parent should feel the pain I feel.",
"Mr. President, I need your help,\" she wrote.",
"\"It is my hope that you hear my plea and join the campaign for Justice for Jaheem.\"",
"Families of bullying victims should be able to file federal lawsuits against local officials and parents of those who bully, she said.",
"Gerald Rose, who heads the nonprofit New Order National Human Rights Organization, said the type of discipline that might prevent bullying needs to begin at the home.",
"\"We need to get justice for this mom,\" Rose said.",
"CNN's Max Newfield contributed to this report."
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"Masika Bermudez says she wrote a letter to the president .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- The owner of one farm at the center of a massive egg recall apologized to anyone who may have been sickened by his product Wednesday, while another refused to answer questions about conditions at his operation.",
"Orland Bethel, president of Hillandale Farms of Iowa, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked whether he knew about unsanitary conditions at one of his farms before an August e-mail from a production manager.",
"Bethel was appearing before a House subcommittee investigating the outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis that sickened more than 1,600 people and triggered the recall of more than half a billion eggs.",
"Duane Mangskau, Hillandale Farms production representative, told the committee that the recall has forced his firm \"to take a hard look at our operations.\"",
"\"And even if the source of the salmonella illness is never confirmed, where we have fallen short in Iowa, we are committed to improving our operations,\" Mangskau said.",
"He said Hillandale has cut its marketing relationship with another DeCoster-owned farm \"because we were disappointed with the test results there.\"",
"Meanwhile, the owner of the other agribusiness firm involved in the recall said he was \"horrified\" that eggs from his company may have sickened anyone.",
"\"We apologize to everyone who may have been sickened by eating our eggs.",
"I pray several times each day for all of them and for their improved health,\" Austin \"Jack\" DeCoster, the owner of Wright County Egg, told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.",
"DeCoster -- whose chicken and hog farms have been repeatedly cited by state regulators in the Northeast and Midwest -- said his company's compliance with food safety regulation suffered as it grew, and \"I am sorry for those failings.\"",
"\"I accept responsibility for those mistakes in our operations,\" he told the committee.",
"And DeCoster's son Peter, Wright County Egg's chief operating officer, told the subcommittee that \"while we always believed we were doing the right thing, it is now very clear that we must do more.\"",
"But the DeCosters faced sharp questions throughout the hearing from lawmakers, including the chairman of the full committee, Rep. Henry Waxman.",
"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, the strain behind the outbreak.",
"Federal investigators reported finding salmonella bacteria in chicken feed and in barn and walkway areas at the farms, as well as rodents, heaping piles of manure, dead animals and uncaged birds and flies too numerous to count.",
"\"It's hard for me to reconcile your words, that you wanted to clean up and you did clean up the facility, with the record before the committee,\" said Waxman, D-California.",
"\"The conditions in your facility were not clean.",
"They were not sanitary. They were filthy.\" But the committee's ranking Republican, Texas Rep. Michael Burgess, also questioned why Department of Agriculture inspectors failed to report conditions at Wright County Egg to the FDA.",
"\"If you know this is a high-risk food and a high-risk practice -- and the deCosters kind of have a history -- why wouldn't someone say something?\"",
"Burgess asked Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA's principal deputy commissioner.",
"Burgess suggested the outbreak could have been averted \"if one federal agency had used common sense and talked to another feeral agency. \"",
"Sharfstein said the FDA and the USDA, which regulate different aspects of the industry, \"are working on improving communication.\"",
"But he said new regulations on egg producers and a food-safety bill pending in the Senate \"would allow us to make those inspections as effective as possible.\"",
"At the outset of the hearing, Waxman said the DeCoster family has had \"warning after warning\" about conditions at its operations for decades.",
"Despite those warnings, DeCoster family companies \"continue to raise chickens in slovenly conditions and make millions of dollars by selling contaminated eggs,\" he said.",
"And DeCoster's remarks were briefly interrupted by a protester the Farm Animal Rights Movement, a group critical of industrialized agriculture.",
"The man carried a banner that proclaimed, \"Recall ALL egg production.\"",
"\"DeCoster and his cohorts are a mere piece of a larger picture,\" the man said before being escorted from the hearing room.",
"There were fireworks among members of the committee as well, as its ranking Republican tried to rebut Democrats' criticism of Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, who is fighting new food safety legislation supporters say could have prevented the outbreak.",
"At one point, subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, cut off Burgess's microphone when he tried to read a statement blaming the Senate's Democratic leadership for stalling the bill.",
"Burgess later accused Stupak of \"censorship.\"",
"Stupak said Burgess -- who supported the legislation -- tried to \"back-door\" a statement from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn into the record after his time had expired and without the consent of the committee.",
"One of those sickened in this summer's outbreak was Sarah Lewis, who told the subcommittee she ended up in an intensive-care unit after eating a custard tart at a party for her sister's college graduation.",
"Her sister also fell ill. She said she still suffers from severe abdominal cramps, diarrhea and fevers and has to take between five to 10 drugs a day.",
"\"I lost 30 pounds,\" she said.",
"\"My sick joke is, 'You can cure my salmonella in 30 more pounds,' you know what I mean? But it's not funny.\""
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"Wright County Egg owners say compliance fell off as the company grew .",
"Congressman says farms had \"warning after warning\" about conditions .",
"Protest and partisan friction punctuates the hearing ."
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"(CNN) -- The Portuguese Football Federation has banned national coach Carlos Queiroz for a month following an incident involving an anti-doping team before the 2010 World Cup.",
"The 57-year-old will miss next month's opening Euro 2012 qualifiers against Cyprus and Norway for his part in the confrontation when the drug test controllers visited Portugal's training camp in Covilha in June.",
"Queiroz had initially fought the charges, and brought in his former mentor Alex Ferguson of English club Manchester United as a character witness.",
"The former Real Madrid coach was also fined $1,280 for his part in the matter, as the FPF said on its website on Thursday that his \"aggressive behavior\" had disrupted the testing procedure.",
"The Ministry of Youth and Sport filed a report after the Sports Institute of Portugal complained about Queiroz.",
"He will now miss the home match against Cyprus on September 3 and the trip to Norway four days later.",
"Queiroz is under pressure to produce results, having needed to go to the playoffs to qualify for the World Cup and then losing to eventual champions and neighbors Spain in the second round in South Africa.",
"Portugal failed to score in three of the four World Cup matches despite being led by the world's most expensive player, Real's Cristiano Ronaldo."
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"Carlos Queiroz will miss Portugal's opening Euro 2012 qualifiers after being banned .",
"He was in trouble after incident involving anti-doping controllers before the World Cup .",
"Coach has also been fined $1,280 after confronting the drug team at training camp ."
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"(CNN) -- A major rainstorm washed over the water-weary Northeast Tuesday, flooding much of the already saturated region but focusing its withering power on the tiny state of Rhode Island.",
"\"Right now, most of our eyes are on the Pawtuxet River in Cranston,\" said Tom Econopouly, a senior hydrologist at the Northeast River Forecast Center in nearby Taunton, Massachusetts.",
"The river was predicted to crest Wednesday morning near 20 feet -- flood stage is 9 feet, he said, adding, \"It's very high.\"",
"Another record was set in Yantic, Connecticut, where the Yantic River crested Tuesday at 13.6 feet, 4.6 feet above flood stage, he said.",
"Yet another record was predicted for Saxonville, Massachusetts, where the Sudbury River was expected to reach 13.4 feet Wednesday afternoon.",
"Flood stage is 10 feet.",
"\"I've been working here for over 10 years and I really haven't seen anything like this in my career,\" Econopouly said.",
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"The cause of all the records was a storm system \"that just didn't move\" since it formed Sunday night, he said.",
"By late Tuesday, the storm was lifting, but several rivers had not yet crested, he said.",
"In all, the storm system dumped 8.75 inches of rain in East Providence, 7.6 inches in downtown Providence, and 5 inches in Cranston, all in Rhode Island, he said.",
"Compounding the misery was the fact that parts of the region were still trying to shake off the effects of a storm two weeks ago.",
"And this week's system -- with heavy winds and rain -- has left thousands of customers without power.",
"On the National Weather Service map posted on its Web site, the coast was covered in bright green from Maine to Delaware, indicating widespread flood warnings.",
"\"We haven't seen the worst of it yet,\" Rhode Island Gov.",
"Donald Carcieri told reporters Tuesday night after seven to eight inches of rain had inundated much of the state.",
"He pleaded with state residents to stay off the roads.",
"\"We are very concerned about flooding on the highways,\" he said.",
"The Blackstone River in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and the Pawcatuck River in Charleston, Rhode Island, were not expected to crest until 8 a.m. Wednesday, he said.",
"\"None of us alive have seen the kind of flooding we are experiencing now,\" he said, calling the downpour an event that occurs once every 100 years to 500 years.",
"Sewage treatment plants around the state were swamped, with one in Warwick, Rhode Island, \"completely inundated,\" he said.",
"That led the Department of Health to order the closure of all beaches in the state.",
"Emergency officials asked residents of affected areas to try to conserve water.",
"Decisions about school closings were to be announced in the morning, he said.",
"Carcieri urged residents of low-lying areas not to jeopardize their safety by refusing to comply with officials' requests to evacuate.",
"He noted that some members of the National Guard have been deployed to help.",
"Cranston Mayor Allan Fung said about 120 homes had been evacuated in the western part of the city.",
"Dam safety was to be monitored overnight, said Dave Smith, director of the Emergency Management Agency.",
"\"The water that's running through the throats of some of those dams is remarkable,\" he said.",
"A spokesman for National Grid Energy Services said 12,000 to 14,000 customers were without electricity in the Cranston area, where a substation was underwater.",
"In Westerly, Rhode Island, another 9,600 customers were in the dark, the spokesman said.",
"He told area residents to expect rotating outages throughout the night and predicted they would continue for \"a period of days.\"",
"Gas was turned off in some areas, too, he said.",
"Shelters have been set up throughout the state, said Rhode Island Lt.",
"Governor Elizabeth Roberts.",
"\"We are looking at historic levels,\" said Luke Peterson, the assistant town manager for West Warwick, Rhode Island.",
"The Pawtuxet River in Cranston and West Warwick, about 13 miles southwest of Providence, flooded a few weeks ago at record levels.",
"This time, Peterson said, the town has received reports predicting that the river, which reaches flood stage at 9 feet, will crest at 17.5 feet at nearby Cranston.",
"The river crested at 14.98 feet more than two weeks ago.",
"\"There's not a whole lot we can do,\" Peterson said.",
"\"If we try to hold back on our side, we'd make it worse for the neighboring community.\"",
"Still, no deaths have been reported in Rhode Island.",
"That was also the case in Massachusetts, where four to seven inches of rain had fallen in the eastern part of the state during this latest storm, said Scott MacLeod, a public information officer with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency in Framingham, Massachusetts.",
"Most of the flooding in Massachusetts occurred in the Bay State's southeastern corner county of Bristol, Massachusetts, where about 200 people were evacuated, he said.",
"On Monday, Massachusetts Gov.",
"Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard, which was prepared to assist overnight, MacLeod said.",
"A handful of shelters were open, though few people were staying there, and there were no reports of power outages in the state, MacLeod said.",
"\"It's mainly flooding issues -- closed roads, flooded roadways and basements.\"",
"Though the rain was expected to stop overnight in Massachusetts, \"the flooding will continue throughout the week for a number of our rivers and streams,\" MacLeod predicted.",
"The storm delayed flights at Boston's Logan International Airport, all three New York-area airports and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's Web site.",
"Connecticut Gov.",
"Jodi Rell said she was putting the state National Guard on alert to assist with flood control and sandbagging efforts.",
"By Tuesday night, a spokesman for the state's Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security said rivers were still rising.",
"\"We do have significant flooding in the southeastern part of the state,\" said public information officer Scott DeVico.",
"Particularly affected were the areas around the Connecticut cities of Norwich, Stonington and Groton City, he said.",
"But no fatalities had been reported and fewer than 400 customers were without power, he said.",
"Though no major highways were shut, a number of secondary roads were closed in low-lying areas, he said.",
"In New Jersey, the city of Wayne issued a flood warning but said it was not issuing evacuations.",
"In Paterson, New Jersey, minor flooding was reported, the city fire department said.",
"In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Delaware Valley, the National Weather Service issued a coastal flood advisory."
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"Pawtuxet River in Cranston, Rhode Island may crest 11 feet above flood stage .",
"Storm system \"just didn't move\" once it formed, hydrologist said .",
"Sewage treatment plants around Rhode Island swamped .",
"Power outages, road closings and airport delays also blamed on storm ."
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"(CNN) -- Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda wants to merge his forces with the Democratic Republic of Congo's army as part of a peace agreement, a mediator said Monday.",
"Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has urged the Congolese government to find ways to protect minority groups.",
"Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told reporters that talks between Nkunda and Congo's government are progressing.",
"Nakunda \"has made demands that I do not consider outrageous and demands that the government of Congo can meet,\" said Obasanjo.",
"The rebel leader has also urged the Congo government to find ways to protect minority groups in the country, Obasanjo said.",
"Obasanjo, a U.N. special envoy, said the ongoing talks may quell violence in the country.",
"More negotiations have been scheduled for Friday.",
"The recent fighting has prompted the U.N. Security Council to approve sending more than 3,000 troops in coming weeks to bolster the 17,000-strong peacekeeping force already there.",
"The goal is to stop the violence that has deepened the stark humanitarian crisis in North Kivu province of Congo.",
"The fighting has displaced an estimated 250,000 people many who have fled to refugee camps.",
"Fighting broke out in eastern Congo at the end of August between government forces and Nkunda's rebels.",
"The fighting is spurred by lingering tensions over the 1994 slaughter of ethnic Tutsis by majority Hutus in neighboring Rwanda.",
"Nkunda says his forces are fighting to defend Congolese Tutsis from Hutu militants who escaped to Congo."
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"Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda wants to meld his forces with army, mediator reports .",
"Talks progressing between Democratic Republic of Congo and Nkunda .",
"Recent fighting spurs U.N. to approve sending more than 3,000 troops to nation .",
"Goal is to relieve humanitarian crisis resulting from fighting in North Kivu province ."
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"(CNN) -- Somalia may need to triple its peacekeeping troops to 20,000 in the coming months to combat a surging threat by militants, a U.N. official said.",
"\"The threat level in Mogadishu and in southern-central Somalia has actually increased,\" Augustine Mahiga told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.",
"Mahiga said he is concerned about the security in the country and its impact in the region.",
"\"A scaled up assistance from the international community is needed to make a difference,\" said Mahiga, the special envoy to Somalia.",
"The additional troops, he said, will help fight Islamist rebels who have been battling peacekeeping troops and government forces.",
"The African Union Mission in Somalia has been helping government forces fight al Shabab rebels in the country.",
"African Union peacekeepers are mostly from Uganda and Burundi.",
"The troop currently has about 6,000 troops -- 2,000 short of its authorized limit, Mahiga said.",
"The envoy said plans are under way to submit a request for more troops in Somalia to the United Nations Security Council.",
"Al Shabab has claimed responsibility for July suicide attacks in Uganda that left more than 70 people dead.",
"The United States considers the group, which is al Qaeda's proxy in the country, a terrorist organization.",
"Al-Shabaab is waging a war against Somalia's government in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law, or sharia.",
"Somalia has not had a stable government since 1991, and fighting between the rebels and government troops has escalated the humanitarian crisis in the famine-ravaged country."
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"(CNN) -- Two planes collided in midair Saturday in Boulder, Colorado, killing three people, authorities said.",
"One of the planes, a single-seat Piper Pawnee, was towing a glider.",
"The pilot of the Piper died in the collision, said Rick Brough of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.",
"But the pilot of the glider, which was carrying two passengers, detached from the plane and landed safely, Brough said.",
"Two people on the second plane, a Cirrus SR 20, also died, Brough said.",
"Authorities began receiving reports of a plane crash around 1:30 p.m. MT, Brough said, adding that people had seen flames in the air in an area less than five miles from the Boulder Municipal Airport.",
"The collision was described as \"immediate disintegration and explosion of both planes,\" said Jennifer Rodi, an air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.",
"Rodi called the glider's occupants \"very lucky\" during a news conference Sunday and praised the glider's pilot.",
"\"The glider was attached to the Piper Pawnee when the pilot observed the Cirrus aircraft out of the corner of his eye,\" she said.",
"\"He immediately noted they were on a collision course and elected to separate the tow strap from the Piper Pawnee.\"",
"\"He did his job that he signed up for as a commercial pilot,\" Rodi said.",
"Rodi said the Cirrus was traveling south and the Pawnee was traveling west at the time of the collision.",
"The debris field was spread out over a couple of miles, Brough said.",
"\"I was in my house and I heard a loud bang,\" iReporter Zac Mitchell, of Boulder, told CNN.",
"\"I looked out my window and saw a giant fireball in the sky.\"",
"When he went outside, he said he saw smoke and two objects, including a parachute, falling from the sky.",
"Cirrus aircraft come equipped with an airframe parachute system that deploys in the event of an in-air emergency.",
"It's designed to safely lower the plane to the ground.",
"The NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration are involved in investigating the incident, Brough said.",
"CNN's Leslie Tripp, John Branch and Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- Steven Hayes, convicted of killing three members of a Connecticut family, has shown \"suicidal tendencies\" and expressed concern his food was tainted, a psychiatrist testified during the penalty phase of Hayes' trial Monday.",
"Dr. Justin Schechter, a Stamford, Connecticut, forensic and clinical psychiatrist, said that Hayes exhibited signs of depression after his 2007 arrest, but told him, \"I would rather they kill me\" -- reflecting Hayes' apparent hope that he'd be executed for his role in in the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.",
"The jury must decide whether to sentence Hayes to death.",
"Hayes wasn't in solitary confinement or considered \"actively suicidal,\" said Schechter, though there were concerns he had a seizure disorder, depression and anxiety.",
"The high school dropout said he had a long history of substance abuse and had fathered two children out of wedlock, Schechter said.",
"Hayes believed that a doctor was \"manipulating\" his food and wouldn't eat it, said Schechter, though he did eat food from the prison commissary.",
"The court session ended with Schechter's testimony on Monday afternoon, and will resume Tuesday.",
"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 Hawke-Petit and her daughters.",
"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.",
"Komisarjevsky is to be tried separately.",
"Earlier in the day, Fred Levesque, former director of offender classification and population management for the state Department of Correction, testified that Hayes was written up for 24 disciplinary reports during a stretch in state prison.",
"One of those was for hoarding medication, a charge to which Hayes voluntarily pleaded guilty.",
"Asked by the defense if he had any knowledge of whether Hayes was a threat to the general population, Levesque answered \"no.\"",
"Last week, a forensic psychiatrist testified that Hayes attempted suicide several times since his arrest and has said he wants to receive the death penalty.",
"On cross-examination, Dr. Paul Amble said his panel did not address the question of whether Hayes' suicide attempts were sincere.",
"But in his opinion, he said, 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, said Amble, the assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.",
"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.",
"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.\"",
"In March, Hayes told a psychologist that he no longer wanted to commit suicide \"but intended to let the state do it,\" said Amble, who had been asked by the judge in the case to determine whether Hayes was competent to stand trial.",
"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.",
"CNN'S Brian Vitagliano contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Togo international Emmanuel Adebayor scored a timely hat-trick as Manchester City all but guaranteed their passage into the knockout stage of the Europa League with a 3-1 win over Lech Poznan at Eastlands.",
"It was the first goals of the season for Adebayor and a reminder of his talents to manager Roberto Mancini with City heavily linked with a move for Manchester United's star striker Wayne Rooney in the January transfer window.",
"Rooney would be reunited with Carlos Tevez should he choose to join United's city rivals, the Argentine rested by Mancini for Thursday's match against spirited Polish opposition.",
"Adebayor put City two-up early in the first half, but Lech hit back through Joel Tshibamba just after the break and had chances to equalize before the striker sealed victory with his third goal late in the second half after being set up by the excellent David Silva.",
"England winger Adam Johnson nearly scored a superb individual fourth, but the night belonged to Adebayor, who might have also added to his tally.",
"The win sees them top of Group A ahead of Lech, with Juventus in third after their 1-1 draw in Salzburg.",
"Earlier, fellow English Premier League side Liverpool battled to a goalless draw against Napoli in the southern Italian city.",
"There was a massive police presence at the San Paolo stadium after attacks on Liverpool supporters prior to the tie.",
"Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson, under pressure after their dismal start to the English Premier League season, fielded an inexperienced side lacking Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres and they did him proud.",
"With five points from three games, they remain top and favorites to qualify from Group K .",
"\"We're going through a very bad passage in the league, things haven't gone our way for a variety of reasons and that's why we find ourselves down the bottom and desperate to get away,\" Hodgson told AFP.",
"In other Europa League action, Portuguse giants Porto scored their third win from three as they triumphed 3-1 at Turkey's Besiktas - despite having two men sent off.",
"Falcao hit the opener and Hulk scored the other two goals before Bobo netted a consolation for the hosts.",
"Paris St Germain remain unbeaten in Group J as the French side thanked Clement Chantome for a late equaliser against Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund.",
"The Germans had gone ahead through Nuri Sahin penalty.",
"Spain's Sevilla are chasing PSG in second in a tough group, one point behind, after a 1-0 win at Karpaty Lviv with Frederic Kanoute scoring the winner."
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"(CNN) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked the White House to make a federal disaster declaration in the aftermath of last week's pipeline explosion and fire in San Bruno, California, his office said Wednesday.",
"\"This event has destroyed and caused serious damages to homes, infrastructure, and other public facilities in San Mateo County,\" Schwarzenegger said in a letter to President Obama.",
"\"The response and recovery costs for this event are estimated at nearly $10.4 million.\"",
"A disaster declaration from the White House would free federal funds to cover those costs.",
"The request came as a consumer watchdog group said pipeline owner Pacific Gas & Electric had planned in 2009 to replace a section of its gas pipeline just a couple of miles from the section that exploded, but never spent the $5 million in rate increases to do the work.",
"TURN [The Utility Reform Network] also said the utility asked for another $5 million for the same project in 2009 -- the year it should have completed the work it hasn't even started -- saying it wouldn't be completed until 2013.",
"\"The money was spent on what they call higher priority work,\" said TURN senior attorney Mike Florio.",
"\"You can't track the dollars one by one, but we do know they spent $62 million more on management incentive business than they had forecast in 2009,\" he said.",
"\"They spent $60 million on going back and re-doing gas leak surveys that they had botched elsewhere on their system.\"",
"PG&E responded that it \"is committed to performing the work necessary to assure the safety of its gas transmission system.\"",
"The utility said it had identified the line section as a \"high priority project\" in the earlier transmission rate filing, but \"rescheduled the project\" after an updated assessment in 2009.",
"But the company did not explain why it needed an additional $5 million and three years to complete repairs on a section it said, in its most recent rate filing, was in the top 100 risks for failure.",
"\"Coupled with the consequences of failure of this section of pipeline, the likelihood of a failure makes the risk of a failure at this location unacceptably high,\" the company said in that filing.",
"TURN officials think they know where some of the money went -- in 2009, the year PG&E didn't spend $5 million on fixing the pipeline, the company did spend $5 million on bonuses for six top executives.",
"\"The company's priorities appear to be skewed,\" TURN executive director Mark Toney said.",
"The line that exploded in San Bruno was laid down in 1948, as was the section PG&E was supposed to replace.",
"In the first filing, the utility noted that the \"vintage 30-inch pipeline\" runs through \"several High Consequence Areas.\"",
"In the second, it said the pipeline was \"located in a heavily urbanized area.\"",
"Four people were killed in the September 9 explosion and fire in the San Francisco suburb, and three are still missing.",
"The blast blew in the doors of a grocery store a quarter-mile (400 meters) away, and the explosion and resulting fire injured 52 people and destroyed 37 homes.",
"The explosion blew a 28-foot section of the pipeline 100 feet in the air.",
"In the filing documents provided by TURN, the section of pipe to be replaced is identified as in the top 100 for highest risks of failure.",
"Since exact locations of pipelines are generally kept secret because of terrorism threats, residents may not even know they live near one until it's too late.",
"\"If they fixed that section that they said wanted to fix maybe they would have found something that led them to look a mile or two south of there,\" Florio said.",
"\"We don't know that. We do know that the project was slated for 2009.",
"It didn't get done. Now they're proposing to do it again in 2013.\"",
"The California Public Utilities Commission has not made a decision on this latest increase request.",
"PG&E has agreed to set up a $100 million fund to help rebuild parts of San Bruno.",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"Pacific Gas & Electric got $5 million to replace pipeline in 2009 .",
"PG&E says it's \"committed\" to \"the safety of its gas transmission system\"\nWatchdog group says PG&E spent $5 million in bonuses in 2009 ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korea's Red Cross has offered $8.4 million in flood aid to North Korea, the Yonhap news agency said Tuesday.",
"The aid includes medical kits, food and emergency supplies, South Korea Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters.",
"The Red Cross is Seoul's main channel for humanitarian aid to North Korea.",
"The communist nation has not replied to the offer, Chun was quoted as saying.",
"The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies blamed a flash flood for displacing more than 23,000 people in a North Korean province bordering China.",
"\"The whole city of Sinuiju with its 350,000 residents is without piped drinking water at the moment because the main pumping station was inundated,\" said Henk Schipper, Red Cross water and sanitation delegate in North Korea.",
"In August, nearly 260,000 people in northeastern China and North Korea fled their homes as heavy rains caused the Yalu River to overflow its banks, state news outlets in those countries reported Sunday.",
"Tensions between North Korea and its southern neighbor have escalated since a May report from Seoul blamed North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.",
"The report, whose findings have been endorsed by the United States, alleged that a North Korean sub sank the ship, the Cheonan, with a torpedo, killing 46 sailors.",
"North Korea denies it was responsible for the sinking."
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"The communist nation has not replied to the offer .",
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"(CNN) -- It should come as no surprise that even after consumer-friendly bank reform it costs more than ever to use your own money.",
"A veritable credit card fee frenzy over the past decade meant many banks could easily offer free checking and other perks, subsidized by the big fees generated elsewhere.",
"(A checking account costs the typical bank $100 to $200 to set up and maintain.)",
"But now that these fees have been tamed by new rules, fees are rising elsewhere.",
"New analysis by Bankrate.com shows fewer banks offer free checking and the costs associated with your bank account are rising.",
"You can be charged by the bank to hold your money for you, if you don't have a minimum balance.",
"You can be charged to take your own money out of an ATM.",
"And you will still pay if you bounce a check or overdraw your account with a debit card.",
"Average ATM fees are up 5 percent, to an all-time high of $2.33, and the average out-of-network charge to use an ATM for another bank is $1.41.",
"Overdraft fees rose another 3 percent to $30.47 and the cost to maintain a checking account rose on average to $13.04 a month -- that's the cost for not keeping the minimum in an interest bearing account.",
"The typical consumer pays $620 year in unnecessary and avoidable fees, Bankrate's senior financial analyst Greg McBride figures.",
"Here's how to avoid paying the bank for the use of YOUR money: .",
"Never use an out of network ATM machine .",
"Walk or drive the extra distance.",
"It is literally the easiest money you can save in your budget.",
"Avoid overdrafts .",
"Avoiding one overdraft a month saves you $360 a year.",
"There are new rules to protect you from the most egregious overdraft fees, but make no mistake, you can't spend money you don't have in the account.",
"Do not opt in for overdraft protection for your debit card.",
"Unfortunately, the consumers getting dinged by overdraft fees tend to be what I call \"fee-quent fliers.\"",
"Bank of America reported last week that 10 percent of its customers generate 70 percent of its overdraft fees.",
"Strive to not be a fee-quent flier.",
"Shop around for bank accounts .",
"If you have a low balance and your bank will charge you a few dollars for dipping below a minimum level, check out community banks and credit unions.",
"Bottom line, don't pay to use your own money."
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"Fewer banks offer free checking, according to new analysis by Bankrate.com .",
"Costs associated with checking accounts are rising; ATM fees are up 5 percent .",
"To save -- avoid overdrafts, shop for best rates, only use in-network ATMs ."
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"Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle just might be the Tea Party's biggest gamble yet.",
"A staunch conservative with a history of making bold and sometimes controversial comments, Angle insists her comments have been taken out of context in her campaign to oust Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in upcoming midterm congressional elections.",
"\"I'll be a mainstream senator,\" said Angle.",
"A grandmother of 10 children who secured the backing of Tea Party leaders on her way to winning the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, Angle has been both praised and criticized for her views.",
"In past remarks during the campaign, Angle has said Social Security and Medicare should be phased out.",
"She's also advocated the elimination of the Departments of Education and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the IRS.",
"Angle established herself as an ardent conservative during her six-year tenure in the Nevada State Assembly.",
"\"Sharron Angle was the Tea Party before the Tea Party existed,\" Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston said of the Republican, adding she was a \"far right\" candidate.",
"While Angle's controversial stances have bolstered her standing with the Tea Party, they have provided fodder for Democrats, who perceive the 60-year-old Tea Party candidate a threat to one of Washington's most prominent Democrats.",
"In response, Reid has called his opponent \"too extreme\" in TV ads airing across the state, and even President Obama weighed in at a July event for Reid, saying, \"[Angle] favors an approach that's even more extreme than the Republicans we've got in Washington.",
"That's saying something.\"",
"When CNN caught up with Angle at one of her Las Vegas, Nevada, campaign stops, she complained some of her more controversial statements had been taken out of context.",
"\"As you speak, as we're conversationally speaking, sometimes when you pick out words, they're not the best words you could have used,\" she told CNN in a rare one-on-one interview.",
"\"When taken out of context, you can make anybody look like they don't know what they're talking about,\" she said.",
"\"It's a little hard to take out of context when they say they want to phase out Social Security,\" Reid responded to CNN.",
"\"Her words are what she is. My words are what I am. So I don't think you can run from what you say and what you do.\"",
"Angle has also made some contentious comments on friendly conservative talk radio programs, which have bolstered her detractors' views that she is an extremist.",
"In a January appearance on the Reno, Nevada-based Bill Manders Show, Angle implied the purpose of the Second Amendment right to bear arms might be to keep the federal government in check.",
"\"I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies.",
"I hope that the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems,\" she said, generating a slew of questions about her intent.",
"When CNN asked about Angle's ominous-sounding warning, she laughed off the notion she was promoting an armed revolution.",
"\"Those are not the issues people are concerned about.",
"They're concerned about our economy, our homes, our jobs.",
"That's what people are concerned about,\" she said, not offering an explanation of her remarks.",
"CNN also asked Angle about her affirmation of the same conservative host's observation that there are \"home-born, homegrown\" enemies operating in Congress.",
"\"The larger focus of that conversation is what has happened domestically here and our country for the last 18 months,\" Angle said, pointing out that no names were mentioned during the conversation, and again not addressing directly the intent of her statement.",
"It's easy to see how Angle's staunch views appeal to the Tea Party, but even some of her fellow Nevada Republicans are wary that she is too conservative.",
"In an interview with CNN affiliate KLAS, Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, who is a Republican from Angle's hometown, called Angle \"an ultra-right winger\" who he will not support in November.",
"Another prominent Nevada Republican, former Rep. Barbara Vucanovich described Angle as \"rigid\" in her beliefs in an interview to the Las Vegas Review Journal.",
"\"She's a very difficult person.",
"She's very positive in her own way, but when you're elected you have to work for everybody,\" Vucanovich told the newspaper.",
"But it's not just politicians who are concerned.",
"In a poll released by the Las Vegas Review Journal on August 27, 71 percent of Nevada Republicans admit they would prefer to see a different Republican candidate take on Reid.",
"Of those Republicans who voted for Angle in the primary election, 66 percent now say they'd like another nominee.",
"Reid fares better with his own party, but is still far from a perfect candidate in the eyes of Nevada voters, many of whom see the high-profile Democrat as a Washington insider who brokered deals infamously known as the \"Cornhusker Kickback\" and \"The Louisiana Purchase\" to pass health care reform.",
"\"Harry Reid is the most negatively viewed person in this state and there is a hardened opposition to him.",
"I think Sharron Angle could be arrested for a felony tomorrow and still get percent 40 percent of the vote,\" Ralston told CNN.",
"That explains why, despite Angle's controversial candidacy, polls show Nevada voters evenly split between the \"extremist\" challenger and the \"establishment\" senator.",
"The high-profile race is considered a statistical dead heat where, even in the gambling capital of the world, there is no odds-on favorite, making it a bellwether of just how influential the Tea Party might be in future elections."
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"Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle insists her words have been taken out of context .",
"Angle challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada .",
"Reid has called his opponent \"too extreme\" in TV ads airing across the state .",
"Despite her controversial candidacy, polls show Nevada voters split between Angle and Reid ."
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"(CNN) -- Fantasia Barrino did not deny an alleged relationship with a married man, but a statement from her manager said the singer-actress did not wreck his marriage.",
"A North Carolina woman, in a child custody case filing, charged that Barrino carried on a year-long affair with her husband, Antwaun Cook, who is the father of her two young children.",
"Paula Cook alleged her husband and the \"American Idol\" winner \"have at times recorded their illicit sexual activity,\" although her lawyer stopped short of explaining whether a sex video existed.",
"The woman is seeking full custody of her sons, 2 and 6, along with child support, alimony, the family home and a car.",
"The suit was filed last week in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.",
"\"Fantasia is certain that she is not responsible for the deterioration of the Cook's marriage,\" manager Brian Dickens said in a statement to CNN Monday.",
"Barrino has said in past interviews that she was friends with a married man, but she has consistently denied there was a sexual relationship.",
"Photos of Barrino and Cook together, including on a personal watercraft and also walking hand-in-hand, have circulated on the internet for months.",
"Paula Cook's petition said her husband \"frequents bars, restaurants, nightclubs and the like\" with Barrino.",
"She accused her husband of enjoying \"the lavish benefits associated with the high-profile relationship.\"",
"\"Ms. Barrino flew defendant/husband to places such as Atlanta, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Barbados\" where he \"attended celebrity parties, concerts, photo shoots and award shows with Ms.",
"Barrino.\" The petition, which said the couple separated in June, described a phone conversation in July in which Barrino allegedly told the wife: \"He don't want you.",
"... Maybe the next time that you get a husband, you'll know how to keep him.",
"... That's why he is here with me.\" While Barrino is not directly involved in the current legal case, North Carolina is one of only a few states that allow a spouse to sue a third party who interferes with a marriage for alienation of affection.",
"\"Fantasia will weather this storm with the dignity and grace that she has exemplified throughout a life in which she has repeatedly overcome obstacles and challenges,\" Barrino's manager said.",
"The High Point, North Carolina, native has enjoyed a successful recording and acting career since winning \"American Idol's\" third season."
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"A North Carolina woman's petition claims her husband had a year-long affair with Barrino .",
"The wife's filing says her husband and Fantasia \"recorded their illicit sexual activity\"\nThe document says Fantasia told the wife: \"He don't want you\"\nFantasia manager says the singer will \"ride out this storm\""
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer cruised into the quarterfinals of the Toronto Masters tournament with a 7-6 6-3 win over Frenchman Michael Llodra on Thursday.",
"It earns the former world number one a rematch with Czech Tomas Berdych, who beat him in the quarterfinals to end his reign as Wimbledon champion in a massive upset.",
"Earlier, seventh seed Berdych continued his fine form this season with a hard-fought 6-3 6-7 6-4 win over Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine.",
"Federer, who is playing his first tournament since the grass court grand slam, showed he is returning to best form after an early scare.",
"Llodra went up an early break in the first set, but once Federer drew level it was one-way traffic.",
"The third seed claimed the subsequent tiebreak seven points to two and early breaks of service in the second put him in command.",
"Federer, who has slipped behind Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the rankings, will be intent on revenge when he faces his Wimledon nemesis.",
"\"Playing Berdych is going to bring back memories, some not so nice,\" he told Sky Sports.",
"Defending champion Andy Murray survived a second set slump to record a 6-2 0-6 6-3 victory over 15th seed Gael Monfils.",
"Scot Murray was in total command in the opener but his French opponent hit back with a vengeance as he whitewashed him in the second.",
"But fourth seed Murray regained his composure and with the injury-hit Monfils receiving treatment for a shoulder problem in the decider, he eased to victory.",
"Washington champion David Nalbandian is also into the last eight, claiming the scalp of fifth seed Robin Soderling as he claimed his 11th straight victory on the ATP Tour, a personal record.",
"The Argentine won 4-6 6-4 6-1 as he broke the Swede's powerful service six times, sweeping through the decider after falling a set behind.",
"Sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko is also out, the Russian beaten 6-3 6-2 by unseeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.",
"World number one Rafael Nadal was playing his last 16 match later Thursday in the night session, taking on giant South African Kevin Anderson."
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"Roger Federer reaches quarterfinals of Rogers Cup tournament in Toronto .",
"Former world number one eases past Michael Llodra in straight sets .",
"He next plays Tomas Berdych who beat him at Wimbledon in big upset .",
"Rafael Nadal is top seed in the Masters Series tournament ."
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"(CNN) -- Four months after a criminal investigation began into the disappearance of an Oregon boy, officials continue to ask the public for leads and tips.",
"Thursday marks Kyron Horman's 8th birthday.",
"Desiree Young, Kyron's biological mother, said she will celebrate the birthday by releasing red balloons outside a church in Medford, Oregon.",
"His stepmother, Terri Horman, said she dropped him off at Skyline Elementary School on the morning of June 4.",
"She has been the subject of intense scrutiny for several months.",
"In divorce filings, her ex-husband, Kaine Horman, said he believes that Terri Horman \"is involved\" in the boy's disappearance.",
"Court documents also allege Terri Horman attempted to hire a man to kill her husband.",
"Meanwhile, Skyline Elementary began its first day of classes for the year on Tuesday with additional security measures to protect the children and staff.",
"In a letter to parents, Principal Ben Keefer said video cameras will be installed this weekend at Skyline.",
"\"These cameras will show external views of the building as well as the main hallway,\" he wrote.",
"Also, security procedures will be reviewed to ensure they are effective, he added.",
"Tributes, messages, posters and cards that adorned a \"Wall of Hope\" for Kyron were moved from school property to a fence outside a nearby fire station, said the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"We're happy that the fire district can provide this service to the community,\" said Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Communications Officer Brian Barker.",
"\"Our hearts go out to Kyron's family and we all hope for a positive resolution to this case.\""
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"His mother says she will release balloons to celebrate his birthday .",
"Video cameras are being put in place at Skyline Elementary ."
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"(CNN) -- A drive to turn China's only tropical island into a golfing haven is causing uproar among environmental groups.",
"Luxury golf resorts are springing up in all corners of Hainan as the local government steps up its campaign to transform the island into the Hawaii of the east.",
"The biggest project is Mission Hills Hainan, a vast undertaking that when finished will have at least 10 courses and cover an area nearly one and a half times the size of Manhattan.",
"Environmentalists are alarmed by the potentially damaging effects of golf course construction on an island featuring rainforests, mountains, volcanoes and more than 300 endangered species.",
"\"Where does this begin and where does it end?\" said Jonathan Smith, chief executive of the Golf Environment Organization, a non-governmental organization aimed at promoting sustainable golf.",
"\"What level of economic development can Hainan sustain while still having functioning ecosystems?",
"You have to set a threshold on the level of development that can hit a region otherwise you will simply destroy its natural and cultural aspects,\" Smith told CNN.",
"Golf development in Hainan has gone into overdrive since January, when the state announced plans to make the island an international tourist destination by 2020, sparking a full-scale property boom.",
"Clearwater Bay Golf Club is planning to compliment its three courses with a six or seven star hotel, while Yalong Bay Golf Club has bought the land to open a second course.",
"But those developments are dwarfed by the scale of Mission Hills, where there are three courses, a 525-room hotel, 11 restaurants and plans for three conference rooms, three shopping malls and a spa.",
"In October, Hollywood actors including Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey will join multiple major winners Greg Norman and Nick Faldo for the Mission Hills Star Trophy, with the winner set to scoop $1.28 million.",
"The sheer scale of development has also raised eyebrows at international environmental activists Greenpeace.",
"\"Because Hainan is known for its vast and dense rainforest, it is very important to China and to the world,\" Yi Lan, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace China, told CNN.",
"\"Any large-scale construction of golf courses would damage the local ecosystem.",
"\"We are very concerned about the rapid development of golf courses in Hainan and we think the local government should take strong measures to ensure the golf projects do not damage the local ecosystems.\"",
"Dan Washburn, a China-based journalist who has visited the Mission Hills complex in Hainan, says although the development mostly occupies an area designated as wasteland, fruit trees have been uprooted and local residents displaced from their homes.",
"He told CNN: \"I met with the head of a local environmental group who thought he had secured rights to open up a forest park on part of the land.",
"They had worked for years to get approvals from the government and local village groups.",
"\"Then, all of a sudden, they were told their plans had been shelved.",
"They soon found out the reason why.",
"It was because of the Mission Hills project.\"",
"Mission Hills, which also owns a massive 12-course golf complex in Shenzhen on the Chinese mainland, say their Hainan project has created thousands of jobs and was subject to stringent environmental impact assessments.",
"\"Mission Hills has always strived to balance economic benefits to the community with proper stewardship of the environment,\" Dr Ken Chu, Group Executive Vice Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of the Mission Hills Group, told CNN by email.",
"\"By incorporating low-density development with vast open-space greenbelts, our current project in Haikou has transformed a barren, lava-rock landscape into an economically productive community.\"",
"Their claims are backed up by the local government, with spokesman Mr. Zhao telling CNN that the location of the complex followed \"careful\" investigation.",
"\"Therefore, the project will not pollute the environment,\" he said.",
"But those statements are not enough to pacify environmental groups, with Greenpeace vowing to investigate the case.",
"\"You have to say that the Mission Hills developments have been high-impact in environmental terms,\" says Smith.",
"\"You can't deny that when there's the level of earth-shifting and movement of land form that there has been in the previous development.",
"It's large-scale and each development couldn't really be defined as light touch.",
"\"Then you have the longer-term concerns over where does the water come from, where does the energy come from?",
"Is it all fossil fuels?",
"How much energy is required to desalinate or treat the sewage water?\"",
"Shane Templeton, a golf course consultant on Hainan for six years, says the sport can bring huge benefits to the island's economy if it is kept in balance with the local infrastructure.",
"\"Golf is great for Hainan and it's a vehicle for bringing a lot of foreign exchange, but it's got to be done carefully and within reason,\" he told CNN.",
"\"I don't know who is regulating these people.",
"You don't want 50 golf courses but no buses and no sewage systems -- it's got to grow together with everything.\"",
"Smith wants to see an end to the clandestine culture surrounding golf course construction in China.",
"\"What we would like to see is more transparency,\" he said.",
"\"We would like to see the government's plans for the levels of development in Hainan clearly depicted so that people can understand the levels and type of development that are likely to take place in such regions.\"",
"\"There comes a point, particularly on an island setting, where too much development puts too much pressure on the natural resources, and the cultural heritage and the landscape of that particular region.\""
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"Mission Hills has three courses, a 525-room hotel, restaurants and plans for shopping malls .",
"Greenpeace alarmed by trend on island which has rainforests and rare species .",
"Golf Environment Organization calls for transparency over course development ."
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"(CNN) -- Top seed Rafael Nadal made short work of fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco on Thursday to advance to the semifinals of the U.S. Open with a 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 win.",
"Mikhail Youzhny now stands between Nadal and his first final at Flushing Meadows after the Russian edged out Stanislas Wawrinka in five sets, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.",
"Five-times winner Roger Federer will face Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the other semifinals after the Swiss second seed battled high winds to beat fifth seed Robin Soderling in a repeat of their 2009 quarterfinal 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.",
"Nadal started slowly on a cold and windy evening in New York and dropped his serve for the first time in the tournament early in the first set.",
"But he finished the match with just 16 unforced errors to complete a routine victory over eighth seed Verdasco.",
"\"It's great news for me, especially this year without losing a set,\" Nadal said.",
"\"Today I played, for the conditions, I think I played a great match against very difficult opponent like Fernando.",
"\"So for me, to be in semifinals is amazing.",
"But I have to keep going and keep playing better if I really want to have a chance to be in the final.\"",
"Federer's victory reaffirmed his dominance in the tournament; the five-time champion has not dropped a set in New York, and remains on course for a record-breaking sixth U.S. Open crown.",
"Federer beat world number three Djokovic in the 2007 final at Flushing Meadows and in the semifinals the past two years.",
"\"Here we go again,\" Federer said in comments carried by AFP.",
"\"He has been playing great.",
"He's hungry to make a breakthrough.",
"It's going to be a tough match.\"",
"Home hopes distant ahead of U.S. Open .",
"Soderling's only victory over Federer came in the French Open quarterfinals this year, ending the Swiss champion's run of 23 consecutive grand slam semifinals.",
"Federer saved three break points in the second game of the match and another in the sixth before snatching the set by converting his first break point.",
"The Swiss broke again in the fifth game of the second before closing out for a 2-0 lead.",
"Soderling broke in the eighth game of the third and served for the set, but Federer came roaring back with four straight games to surge into the last four.",
"\"I just feel happy that I played a good match under tough circumstances against a player who's really hard to beat these days, especially on the hard courts,\" Federer told the U.S. Open website.",
"\"It really favors his game, and he's had a wonderful run the last couple of years.",
"For me, this is obviously a big victory.\"",
"Djokovic earlier thrashed Gael Monfils in the quarterfinals amid high winds 7-6 (2), 6-1, 6-2.",
"Rock'n'Roll tennis in the Big Apple .",
"The Serb came from a break behind to take the opener on a tie-break before running away with the second and third sets against the 17th seed from France.",
"\"Maybe the wind helped me a little bit more because it neutralized his serve,\" the U.S. Open's Web site quoted Djokovic as saying.",
"Monfils, meanwhile, was playing in his third grand slam quarterfinal after becoming the first Frenchman into the last eight at this event since Arnaud Clement in 2000."
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"Nadal beats Fernando Verdasco to reach U.S. Open semifinals .",
"Federer beats Soderling in quarterfinal; will face Djokovic in last four .",
"Federer has yet to drop a set in this year's U.S. Open in New York .",
"Federer remains on course for record-breaking sixth U.S. Open crown ."
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been charged with improper conduct by the English Football Association (FA) after his angry disagreement with a match official following his side's 1-1 draw against Sunderland.",
"Arsenal appeared set for three points at the Stadium of Light on Saturday as they led 1-0 deep into injury time.",
"But the home side equalized through Darren Bent 15 seconds after the end of the allotted four minutes of extra time.",
"Clearly furious, Wenger confronted fourth official Martin Atkinson and appeared to shove him in the back.",
"The Frenchman faces an £8,000 ($12, 440) fine and one-match touchline ban if he accepts the charge under the FA's new fast-track disciplinary process.",
"\"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been charged with using insulting and/or abusive language and behavior amounting to improper conduct,\" a statement on the FA's official website read.",
"Wenger has until Thursday September 23 to respond to the charge and could opt for the case to be heard by a disciplinary panel.",
"On Saturday he was unrepentant about his actions.",
"\"Take the pictures and look at it.",
"I complained to nobody,\" Wenger insisted in the post-match press conference.",
"Meanwhile, Cesc Fabregas, who scored Arsenal's freak opener at the Stadium of Light, but then limped off injured could make a quick return to action.",
"The Spain World Cup hero told his official Twitter account: \"Good news on my injury.",
"\"I have some fluid but nothing bad in the muscle.",
"I hope I can be playing in two weeks.\"",
"Fabregas has been in inspirational form in Arsenal's strong start to the season, putting close season speculation of a move to Barcelona behind him."
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"Wenger confronted fourth official Martin Atkinson after his side's 1-1 draw at Sunderland .",
"Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas will be out for two weeks with leg injury ."
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"(CNN) -- A new study released Thursday suggests mammograms might not be as effective in reducing deaths from breast cancer in women over 50 as previously thought.",
"The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed data from more than 40,000 women with breast cancer.",
"It concluded the availability of mammography screening corresponded with a reduction in the rate of death from breast cancer, \"but the screening itself accounted for only about a third of the total reduction.\"",
"The study involved women in Norway between ages 50 and 69.",
"Researchers from Norway and Harvard University compared the death rates from breast cancer in four groups: one group of women from 1996 through 2005 who were living in Norwegian counties with screening; another group in the same time period who were living in counties without screening; and two similar groups from 1986 through 1995.",
"\"Among women in the nonscreening group, there was an 18 percent reduction in the rate of death from breast cancer, as compared with the preceding 10-year period, presumably as a result of increased breast-cancer awareness, improved therapy, and the use of more sensitive diagnostic tools,\" the findings state.",
"\"Among women in the screening group, there was a 28 percent reduction in mortality from breast cancer during the same period.",
"Thus, the relative reduction in mortality that was causally related to the screening program alone was 10 percent.\"",
"The publication notes that in 2002, the World Health Organization concluded that mammography screening for women between ages 50 and 69 reduced the death rate from breast cancer by 25 percent.",
"Researchers said challenges in measuring the effectiveness of mammography screenings include increases in breast-cancer awareness and advances in treatment."
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"The study says advances in awareness and treatments have likely improved survival .",
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United winger Antonio Valencia could return to action in February, manager Alex Ferguson told the English Premier League club's official website.",
"Valencia dislocated and fractured his left ankle after tangling with Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot in a UEFA Champions League match on Tuesday, and it was feared he may miss the remainder of the season.",
"However, Ferguson allayed these concerns, saying the injury was not as bad as first thought.",
"\"Antonio had his operation and it was successful.",
"The break was clean and we were delighted to announce that.",
"It was a major concern for us at the time.\"",
"The 68-year-old Scot is hopeful Valencia may still be able to play a part in the Premier League season, and has praised the attitude of the former Wigan player.",
"\"There is ligament damage but we are looking at the end of February, which is better than we thought on Tuesday night.",
"He is a strong boy and he is very positive about it -- being positive helps in these situations.\""
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"Valencia suffered a broken ankle in Tuesday's Champions Leagu game against Rangers .",
"Manager Alex Ferguson said : \"He's a strong boy and he is very positive about it.\""
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"(CNN) -- A goal from striker David Villa handed Spanish champions Barcelona a deserved 1-0 victory against Sporting Gijon.",
"Villa struck four minutes after halftime from a tight angle inside the box after a ball from Brazilian full back Dani Alves.",
"Barcelona's win takes them to within one point of Real Madrid at the top of the La Liga table.",
"Jose Mourinho's side are level on ten points with Valencia, who drew 1-1 with Atletico Madrid thanks to a late Aritz Aduriz strike.",
"Elsewhere, Sergio's goal was enough for Levante to claim three points at Almeria while Real Zaragoza and Hercules drew 0-0.",
"How CNN asked Alex Ferguson your questions .",
"In Italy, defending champions Inter Milan ran out 4-0 winners over Bari in the San Siro.",
"Two goals from Argentina striker Diego Milito and two penalties from Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o took Rafael Benitez's team top of the Serie A table.",
"Inter's city rivals AC Milan drew 1-1 at Lazio.",
"Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave the Rossoneri a 66th minute lead but Sergio Floccari rescued a point for Lazio.",
"Ten-man Roma were beaten 2-1 at Brescia after defender Philippe Mexes was sent off while Genoa and Fiorentina drew 1-1.",
"Napoli lost 3-1 at home to Chievo, Bologna beat Udinese 2-1 while Cagliari and Sampdoria drew 0-0.",
"In Germany, Schalke finally recorded their first win of the season after beating Freiburg 2-1.",
"Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar grabbed the decisive goal.",
"Lucas Barrios scored twice as Borussia Dortmund thumped Kaiserslautern 5-0, while a last minute penalty from Arturo Vidal helped Bayer Leverkusen to a 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt.",
"Grafite grabbed two goals as Wolfsburg ran out 3-1 winners at Hamburg and Nurnberg beat Stuttgart 2-1 thanks to Javier Pinola's injury-time strike.",
"Newly-promoted St Pauli recorded their second win of the season after beating Borussia Monchengladbach 2-1."
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"Valencia and Atletico Madrid draw 1-1 at the Mestalla .",
"Inter Milan thump Bari 4-0 while AC Milan draw 1-1 with Lazio .",
"Schalke grab their first win of the season beating Freiburg 2-1 ."
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"(CNN) -- More than 7,200 children in Gaza dribbled their way to an unofficial record Thursday night at an airport in Rafah, officials from a United Nations agency said.",
"\"It was a fantastic day today,\" John Ging, head of the U.N.",
"Relief Works Agency said of the event.",
"\"Children of Gaza once again show they have fantastic abilities, fantastic talent, and all we need to do is help them to realize their potential.\"",
"Relief agency spokesman Chris Gunness said the mass-dribbling record still needs to be verified by the Guinness Book of World Records.",
"Organized by the U.N. agency, the Great Gaza Global Bounce is part of the annual Summer Games program that provides recreational activities for more than a quarter of million children across Gaza.",
"Now in its fourth year, the games are the largest recreation program for Gaza's children and are designed to bring a positive summer experience for many of the children who have been affected by poverty and unrest.",
"Children in Gaza, who often have few outlets for recreation outside of school, attend the camps to engage in sports, arts and craft, theater, and drama activities.",
"The record attempt wasn't the first for the children of the U.N.-backed summer camp.",
"Last year, Summer Games participants set the record for the number of kites flown simultaneously.",
"Prior to Thursday's attempt to break the basketball-bouncing record, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his support in a video message.",
"\"I want to congratulate the children of Gaza for taking part in this great event,\" he said.",
"\"You are showing the world that if you are given the opportunity ... you can be number one!\"",
"The previous world record for simultaneously bouncing basketballs was set in 2007 at the Hoosier Basketball Celebration in Indiana where more than 3,000 were bounced simultaneously."
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"NEW: Guinness Book of World Records officials needs to verify the achievement .",
"\"Great Gaza Global Bounce\" is part of an annual summer games program for the children .",
"Many children in Gaza have been affected by poverty and unrest ."
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"CNN -- Newly-appointed Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier will take control of the squad after Saturday's English Premier League match against Bolton Wanderers.",
"Houllier was presented to the media as Martin O'Neill's successor on September 10, but was unable to begin work with his new club due to his current role with the French Football Federation (FFF), where he is a technical director.",
"The former Liverpool and Lyon manager's first game in charge will be a Carling Cup clash against Blackburn Rovers on September 22, but he will be present at Villa Park to see Aston Villa take on Bolton this weekend.",
"Another new appointment is Milovan Rajevac, who has become the new coach of Saudi Arabian side Al Ahli.",
"The Serbian, who guided Ghana to the quarterfinals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, will face Al Ittihad in his first match on September 16."
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"Milovan Rajevac has become the new coach of Saudi Arabian side Al Ahli ."
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"Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Jorge Ramos has been the face of Univision's News broadcast for 24 years.",
"The program's estimated audience of more than 2 million viewers exceeds most English language news broadcasts.",
"Ramos is also a best-selling author of 10 books.",
"His latest is \"A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto.\"",
"CNN spoke to him in Phoenix where he was covering Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB1070: .",
"CNN: You came to the United States as an immigrant yourself.",
"What is your story? Jorge Ramos: Well I was working as a journalist in Mexico, and one day when I was very young out of college they censored one of the stories that I was doing on the president of the country.",
"And back then I was very idealistic -- and I still am -- and I decided to quit.",
"I quit my job in Mexico.",
"I sold my car for $2,000, got a student visa and came to the United States.",
"And it was supposed to be for only one year, that was January 2, 1983, and that year has become 27 years.",
"So this country gave me the opportunities that my country of origin, Mexico, couldn't give me.",
"CNN: How were you able to stay in this country on a student visa?",
"JR: The student visa became a work permit.",
"With the work permit I started working as a reporter in Los Angeles and then after being a few years in Los Angeles I became at 28 the anchorman for Univision news.",
"CNN: You have written 10 books in your time here, often focusing on Latinos.",
"But why immigration? Why now? JR: It's a book on the urgent need to have immigration reform.",
"As we can see what happened in Arizona [the overturning of parts of SB 1070] it's a step in the right direction for Latinos and immigrants, but it's simply not enough.",
"Things are exactly the same as two weeks ago or two months ago or two years ago or even 20 years ago because we still have 11 million people in the U.S. without any rights whatsoever.",
"It's really incredible that the most powerful country in the world is treating 11 million people as second-class citizens or second-class human beings.",
"CNN: You're getting a lot of criticism with this book not for criticizing the conservatives who are targeting immigrants, rather for accusing President Obama of breaking a campaign promise.",
"Please explain this.",
"JR: Yea, when Barack Obama was running for president he told Univision in an interview that he was going to have an immigration bill during his first year in office.",
"It was an important promise because back then Barack Obama was trying to the get the Democratic nomination against Hilary Clinton.",
"Hillary Clinton had promised that she was going to do it during the first 100 days.",
"Anyway, Latinos believed Barack Obama; 67 percent of Latinos voted for Barack Obama and at the end President Barack Obama didn't keep his promise.",
"He broke a promise.",
"So, Obama broke his promise, Democrats don't have the political will to push for immigration reform right now and Republicans are missing in action during immigration.",
"Nobody is really doing anything for immigrants right now.",
"CNN: As an anchor for one of the largest Spanish-speaking news networks in the world, have you been able to get the Democratic leadership or the president to tell you what is behind the delay?",
"JR: I think it's politics, simply politics.",
"Democrats are very scared of losing the elections in November.",
"The Democrats are afraid of losing control of the House of Representatives, if not the Senate.",
"So they are not willing to push their luck right now on immigration and since immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, can't vote there is really nothing to gain.",
"But it was a campaign promise.",
"Democrats were, most of them, for immigration reform and right now when they see the political wings are going the other way they are doing nothing.",
"Because of the lack of action and leadership in Washington, that's why things like this are happening in Arizona.",
"Other states realize that nothing is happening in Washington and they're taking immigration into their own hands.",
"It's wrong, but that's what they're doing. CNN: Let's talk about the Republican Party at the national level.",
"There's a movement within Christian Republicans, many of whom are Latino, who are trying to promote a \"Not Arizona but not Amnesty\" position.",
"Is the Republican Party listening to them?",
"JR: I don't think honestly that the Republican Party is listening to them.",
"The Republican Party has to make peace with Latinos, otherwise they're going to keep on losing election after election after election.",
"Latinos will become the majority in this country in less than 100 years.",
"We won't be here to see it, but without the Hispanic vote, no one can make it to the White House.",
"If Republicans don't make peace with Latinos, Texas is going to become a blue state and Republicans are going to keep on losing elections.",
"They don't get the fact that immigration is the most important symbolic issue for Latinos.",
"Other issues are more important jobs, education, health care, but immigration is the most important issue.",
"If Republicans don't get it, they are going to keep on losing the Hispanic vote.",
"CNN: Millions of Spanish-speaking people living in America watch Univision.",
"During the SB1070 story when you were in Phoenix at the State Capitol, you were surrounded by hundreds of people watching your live shots.",
"What do your viewers want in the way of immigration reform?",
"JR: It's very simple. They want to be legal in this country.",
"They know that they are not criminals.",
"They know that they are not terrorists, yet they're being blamed for the crime in this country.",
"Those who are criticizing them, they're completely wrong.",
"Crime is down in all the United States.",
"Most immigrants are not terrorists or criminals.",
"They pay taxes. They create jobs.",
"They don't abuse the system and they are very frustrated because no one is paying attention to them.",
"So what they see in Univision -- the Spanish language media -- is the kind of leadership that they don't see in politicians.",
"I mean look, Latinos are 15 percent of the population and we only have one U.S. senator, so there is a lack of leadership in the Hispanic community.",
"The only way for them to communicate is through Spanish language media.",
"That's why you see hundreds of people whenever we go, you know?",
"CNN: As a journalist you know that we must remain objective.",
"Seeing all these admirers, I cannot help but wonder how you can remain objective on this story.",
"JR: I think it is a fair question and I think its something that I that I have to answer very honestly.",
"As a journalist, I am not allowed and I will never give my opinion on the air when I'm doing the newscast.",
"I have to give both points of view and that's exactly what I do all the time.",
"But as an immigrant with a voice, because I have the privilege of having a voice, there are times when I have the need to talk for those who don't have a voice.",
"As long as you're very clear on your roles, as long as you tell people exactly what you're doing, I think I am being fair and honest.",
"CNN: Will your next book be based on this immigration coverage?",
"JR: I don't know, I don't know.",
"But right now I know that immigration reform has to be won in English.",
"I mean the book in Spanish has sold very well, but it really doesn't matter because I'm speaking to the converted.",
"Immigration reform has to be won in English and that's the only way.",
"Even with an accent, you know?"
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"He came to the United States from Mexico in his 20s .",
"He is critical of Obama for not getting an immigration bill in his first year in office ."
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"(CNN) -- The National Football League has sent a memo to all 32 of its teams, reminding players and league employees that female reporters should be treated professionally and with respect.",
"The note comes on the heels of news that the New York Jets team is investigating allegations of harassment by team members toward television sports reporter Ines Sainz.",
"The memo cites the NFL's Media Relations Playbook, which states that \"by law, women must be granted the same rights to perform their jobs as men.",
"Please remember that women reporters are professionals and should be treated as such.\"",
"Among other things, the playbook stresses that \"it is important to you and this organization that you present yourself to the media in a manner and style in which you yourself would like to be received and treated.\"",
"The memo also notes that \"barring individual members of the regularly accredited media ... for what is perceived as 'unfair coverage' or any similar reason is not permitted.\"",
"It is still unclear what exactly happened when Sainz, from the Mexican network TV Azteca, entered the Jets locker room last Saturday after practice but Sainz told CNN's Rick Sanchez on Monday that from the moment she entered, she felt all eyes were on her.",
"\"I feel [a] little uncomfortable because evidently it is not easy to be in the locker room and hear and notice that everybody is speaking about you,\" Sainz said.",
"CNN was not able to contact anyone else in the locker room at the time but Sainz said that a female colleague took her aside and expressed concern and embarrassment for the situation she was in.",
"But Sainz said she was just trying to focus on her job, and not the joking and talking going on behind her.",
"\"But I really know that she heard something that I didn't hear, and the rest of the media that was inside heard things that I didn't hear,\" Sainz told CNN.",
"The Association of Women in Sports and Media spoke out Monday on Sainz' behalf, calling for a sharp rebuke.",
"\"If Jets players, coaches and staff allegedly involved in the incident are found to have acted in unprofessional and harassing behavior toward Ms. Sainz, we expect and demand reprimand and punishment by the NFL and Jets,\" the association said in a statement.",
"The Jets released a statement on Sunday saying, \"We will continue to work with the league to gather the facts and take any appropriate steps necessary to maintain a respectful environment for the media.\"",
"Sainz confirmed in her interview on CNN's \"Rick's List\" that Jets team owner Woody Johnson called her personally to stress that all Jets members are expected to act professionally and to extend courtesy to members of media regardless of gender.",
"Sainz told CNN that she accepted the apology from Johnson and that she also made a statement to the NFL about the incident.",
"Although Sainz at first seemed surprised by the attention she was garnering, she told CNN that she does not believe this type of behavior is acceptable.",
"\"I think that it's not good that these kinds of things happen and it mustn't happen anymore,\" Sainz told CNN.",
"\"Everyone knows that a woman or a man deserves the same treatment in the locker room.\"",
"CNN's Chris Kokenes and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"The NFL is reminding players and other league employees that women journalists should be treated with respect .",
"The reminder comes in the wake of allegations that sports reporter Ines Sainz was harassed .",
"The NFL is also warning players that women reporters must be granted the same access as men .",
"Sainz received an apology from the Jets owner after an incident last Saturday ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Last year, downtown Atlanta lost a convention to another Southern city because the visiting group perceived the other city as \"greener\" than Atlanta.",
"The loss propelled Holly Elmore into action.",
"Hotel food waste is diverted from Atlanta landfills, turned into compost soil, which is then sold to urban gardens.",
"\"Environmental practices are fast becoming a strong consideration in business decisions,\" explains the Green Foodservice Alliance founder.",
"Elmore teamed up with Atlanta Recycles and Laura Turner Seydel -- eco-awareness consultant and an Atlanta native -- to create the South's first Zero Waste Zone.",
"First stop: The downtown Atlanta convention district, where the EPA estimates hundreds of thousands of tons of \"waste\" are sent to landfills -- \"waste\" that could be recycled into reusable products.",
"If it grows, it goes .",
"In 2008, the Hyatt Regency Atlanta served an average of 8,143 meals per week, a total of 423,433 meals in a single year.",
"Imagine the \"waste\" that was sent to rot and pollute the overflowing landfill.",
"Watch how the project saves landfill space and grows food » .",
"The hotel already recycled common goods such as plastic and glass, but now every little bit that is able to be reused, is.",
"The food residuals are organic matter that when sent to landfills actually formed into dangerous greenhouse gases.",
"Now that the Hyatt is part of the ZWZ, an estimated 928,000 pounds of residual food product will be diverted from the landfill and instead be turned into valuable compost.",
"Every single plate returning from the dining area is scraped clean into the compost containers -- berries, salad, meat and bones -- everything.",
"Excess food, in accordance with the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, is donated to the Atlanta Community Food Bank, which aids in feeding the city's hungry.",
"Even spent grease from frying is captured in bins and then suction-collected and turned into bio-fuel.",
"The full circle effect .",
"Grease into gas.",
"The grease is transformed into commercially available biodiesel fuel, now selling for $2.29 a gallon at a pump for any engine that runs on diesel.",
"\"We use only locally collected used fryer oils ... By sourcing this way, we avoid issues related to the food versus fuel debate, and issues surrounding land use change and deforestation ... we make a local fuel in the most sustainable way,\" explains Refuel Biodiesel program manager Robert Del Bueno.",
"With Chick-fil-a and Emory University, Del Bueno's group collects their fryer oils, converts them into biodiesel and supplies the biodiesel back to them for use in their produce trucks and bus fleets.",
"Crumbs, compost, cabbage.",
"Greenco Environmental collects the residual food from places like the Hyatt and blends that with wood and yard \"waste\" from tree companies, landscapers and municipalities.",
"After 90 days, a high-quality organic compost is ready for landscapers, farmers and gardeners to fertilize their soil.",
"\"We are running out of room on our planet with the amount of waste we produce,\" says Tim Lesko, founder and president of Greenco Environmental.",
"\"Paper and food waste are the highest proportion of garbage in our landfills, and food waste composting is the next step in recycling in the U.S.\" \"Due to land clearing, development and erosion, our soils have been stripped of their natural, beneficial nutrients,\" Lesko explains.",
"Compost added to soil replenishes the nutrients and promotes plant growth.",
"\"Adding compost to the soil dramatically increases its ability to hold water, aiding in water conservation,\" he adds.",
"Eco-friendly Daron \"Farmer D\" Joffe then buys this soil and uses it in his urban gardens and at his Organic Garden Center.",
"Farmer D believes \"good compost is an essential ingredient in organic gardening, as it rapidly improves the structure and vitality of the soil, thus increasing the health of the plants growing there, making them more resistant to disease, drought and pests.\"",
"\"Organic gardening helps foster healthy soils, clean water and nutritious food,\" he says.",
"Farmer D closes the circle: \"If more people grew their own food and ate locally, it would greatly reduce the amount of fuel, chemicals and energy that are exhausted to put food on the table, while keeping money in the local economy and improving the quality of life for everyone.\"",
"Money does grow on trees .",
"There also are direct financial benefits for Zero Waste Zone participants.",
"\"In addition to our commitment to responsible, sustainable practices, recycling is just good business.",
"Increasingly, our customers share our commitment to sustainability, and demand these efforts from the hotels where they choose to stay,\" says Randall Childers, senior director of engineering at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.",
"\"The economics of recycling are also good, with most of these efforts representing cost savings to our operation, or at least are cost-neutral.",
"With respect to our food waste recycling, we expect to save $8,000 this year,\" Childers says.",
"Reduce, reuse, recycle .",
"Georgians dispose of more than 17 million tons of solid waste in municipal solid waste landfills per year, according to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.",
"Recoverable products (paper, organics, and plastics) make up 82 percent of the recyclable materials disposed in landfills, says the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.",
"With the ZWZ, these tons of perfectly reusable products are effectively being recycled.",
"What's next? Holly Elmore and the ZWZ crew hope to expand the program across the state and nation soon with the strong support of the federal Environmental Protection Agency."
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"Spent grease from frying is converted into biodiesel, used in vehicles .",
"\"We are running out of room on our planet\" for waste .",
"Zero Waste Zone sees tons of perfectly reusable products effectively recycled ."
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"(CNN) -- More state restrictions on fishing in the Gulf of Mexico were lifted Monday as the fall shrimping season began, but efforts to permanently plug the ruptured BP oil well were delayed again.",
"The worst oil spill in U.S. history has hobbled fishermen across the Gulf as federal and state authorities put much of its waters off-limits due to safety concerns.",
"With the well capped on a temporary basis for a month, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Gulf states have begun lifting those restrictions -- but Louisiana shrimpers like Anthony Bourgeoif say more needs to be done, and soon.",
"\"It's open down over here with small shrimp, where it should be open over there where the big shrimp are,\" Bourgeoif told CNN.",
"\"Can't make no money with no little shrimp, man.\"",
"Bourgeoif said he planned to go out, because \"I ain't made nothing since the BP spill.\"",
"But he was concerned that inspectors might find signs of oil in his catch and make him dump it.",
"\"So why go out there and catch it if they're just going to be dumped, and I ain't going to make no money off it?\"",
"he asked. \"I've got to make money.",
"I've got four grandkids I'm raising, man.\"",
"Deborah Long, a spokeswoman for the Southern Shrimp Alliance, said it will likely take days to assess what impact the spill has had on the Gulf catch.",
"And while some shrimpers are eager to get back out, many are still working for the well's owner, BP, which has hired many boats to skim oil off the surface and lay protective booms along the shorelines.",
"And concerns about the long-term impact of the spill persisted with a new report from researchers at the University of South Florida, who reported that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected -- and at levels toxic to marine life.",
"Initial findings from a new survey of the Gulf conclude that dispersants may have sent droplets of crude to the ocean floor, where it has turned up at the bottom of an undersea canyon within 40 miles of the Florida Panhandle.",
"The results are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but CNN obtained a summary of the initial conclusions Monday night.",
"Plankton and other organisms at the base of the food chain showed a \"strong toxic response\" to the crude, and the oil could well up onto the continental shelf and resurface later, according to researchers.",
"\"The dispersant is moving the oil down out of the surface and into the deeper waters, where it can affect phytoplankton and other marine life,\" said John Paul, a marine microbiologist at USF.",
"The spill erupted April 20 with an explosion that sank the offshore drilling platform Deepwater Horizon.",
"The blast killed 11 men and uncapped an undersea gusher that spewed an estimated 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf before it was temporarily shut in July 15.",
"Thad Allen, the federal government's point man in the Gulf, said Monday that attempts to permanently seal the well won't start until the latest potential problem is evaluated.",
"Allen said engineers are now concerned about how to manage the risk of pressure in the annulus, a ring that surrounds the casing pipe at the center of the well shaft.",
"The \"timelines won't be known until we get a recommendation on the course of action,\" Allen said.",
"Scientists began new pressure tests last week to gauge the effects of the mud and cement poured into the well from above during the \"static kill\" procedure that started August 3.",
"From those pressure readings, they believe that either some of the cement breached the casing pipe and leaked into the annulus, or cement came up into the annulus from the bottom.",
"The scientists believe that process may have trapped some oil between the cement and the top of the well, inside the annulus.",
"Now, given that new variable, they're trying to figure out how to safely maintain the pressure within the well before launching the \"bottom kill,\" a procedure aimed at sealing the well from below.",
"Allen told reporters that when it comes to giving a green light to the \"bottom kill\" of the well through the nearby relief well, \"nobody wants to make that declaration any more than I do.\"",
"But the process \"will not start until we figure out how to manage the risk of pressure in the annulus.\"",
"\"We're using an overabundance of caution,\" he said.",
"Allen said crews could remove the capping stack that sealed the oil in the well on July 15, then replace the well's blowout preventer with a new one stored on the nearby Development Driller II in the Gulf.",
"Allen said a new blowout preventer would be \"rated at much higher pressure levels than the annulus.\"",
"The other option would require BP to devise a pressure-relief device for the current capping stack.",
"Once crews get their marching orders, it will take them about 96 hours to prepare, drill the final 50 feet of a relief well and intercept the main well.",
"Then, the bottom kill process of plugging the well from below would begin.",
"BP acknowledged Monday that the disruption the oil spill has caused to lives across the Gulf coast has built up tension among residents.",
"In response, the company announced Monday it is providing a total of $52 million to five behavioral health support and outreach programs.",
"BP released a statement saying it would give the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration $10 million; the Florida Department of Children and Families, $3 million; the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, $15 million; and the departments of mental health in Mississippi and Alabama, $12 million each.",
"\"We appreciate that there is a great deal of stress and anxiety across the region, and as part of our determination to make things right for the people of the region, we are providing this assistance now to help make sure individuals who need help know where to turn,\" said Lamar McKay, president of BP America and incoming leader of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization.",
"CNN's Vivian Kuo, Reynolds Wolf, Ed Lavandera, Rich Phillips, Matt Smith and Chris Turner contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The District of Columbia public school system announced Friday that it is letting 226 employees go for poor performance under the education assessment system IMPACT.",
"Another 76 employees will be terminated because of licensing issues, schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said in a news release.",
"Of the 302 employees who are losing their jobs, 241 are teachers, she said.",
"\"Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly effective teacher -- in every classroom of every school, of every neighborhood or every ward, in this city,\" Rhee said.",
"Rhee said on CNN's \"John King, USA\" that she thought the cleanup was a long time coming.",
"\"We want to get along with the union.",
"We want to get along with this person or that person.",
"We don't want to fire anyone,\" she said.",
"\"But in the meantime, children have been done a disservice every single day.",
"We have graduated a generation of Washingtonians who don't have the skills and knowledge that they need to be productive members of society because our schools have failed them.\"",
"Rhee did not break down the number of teachers fired for poor performance versus licensing issues.",
"Under the IMPACT program, teachers were judged on five classroom observation visits by principals and outside education experts.",
"The system also rates teachers based on their students' achievement.",
"In response to the firings, the Washington Teachers Union released the results of a membership study showing that \"a large majority of teachers believe that IMPACT is not a fair evaluation system.\"",
"Washington Teachers Union President George Parker said, \"It is evident from this survey that our members agree that IMPACT is a flawed instrument with many loopholes.\"",
"The union claims that teachers under the IMPACT system need clearer communication on expectations, among other things.",
"The teachers union has no say in which evaluation system that the D.C. public school system chooses to use, and by contract, teachers can be let go for low evaluations.",
"Parker added that the union plans to challenge the firings of about 81 of the teachers.",
"Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told CNN's Rick Sanchez that the IMPACT system needed more evaluation itself.. \"Everyone who teaches gets better with time and gets better with experience, just like ballplayers and others,\" she said. \"",
"... All we're saying is that if an evaluation system is thorough, competent, comprehensive, measures how we're doing as teachers and how students are learning, then it's fine,\" she said.",
"\"But the thing is, in the whole year, we have raised, and the teachers have raised, lots and lots of different issues about the evaluation system, and the person who turned a blind eye to it was Michelle.\"",
"Rhee told King that she had heard the teacher's union say teachers with poor evaluations should have been given more time to improve.",
"\"But the question that I ask to them is 'Whose children are we going to put in the classroom of ineffective teachers next year?'",
"My two kids go to DCPS.",
"I'm not willing to put my kids in those classrooms, and I don't think any parents anywhere in this city should be forced to make that decision,\" Rhee said.",
"The 2009-10 school year was the first full year of implementation of the IMPACT program for the D.C. Public Schools.",
"Also Friday, the district announced that it has notified 737 employees that if their performance doesn't improve, they will be terminated after the upcoming school year."
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"NEW: Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee says children are done \"a disservice\" by poor teachers .",
"Teachers union says most members dislike IMPACT program .",
"Union plans to challenge 81 firings .",
"Hundreds of other employees are put on notice ."
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"(CNN) -- It is a problem of massive plastic proportions -- a giant floating debris field, composed mostly of bits and pieces of plastic, in the northwest Pacific Ocean, about a thousand miles off the coast of California.",
"Researchers recover nets from the Pacific Ocean on August 3, 2009.",
"It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it covers a vast area of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of miles of open ocean.",
"Now researchers are trying to learn more about the sea-bound trash zone and perhaps find answers to basic questions.",
"A crew of scientists from the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has embarked on a three-week mission aboard the research vessel New Horizon, heading for the debris field to study it.",
"The mission is not as straightforward as it sounds.",
"\"There may be a misapprehension ... that if you got out there and stood on the middle of a deck you'd see nothing but plastic litter from horizon to horizon,\" said Robert Knox, deputy director for research at the Scripps Institution.",
"\"It's relatively sparse, and you might or might not see something visible to the human eye at any particular location out there,\" Knox says.",
"\"Certainly one does encounter pieces of plastic stuff that are big enough to see.",
"But the other side of the puzzle is all the little bits and pieces of plastic that you can't even see unless you scoop up a sample of seawater and see what's in there.\"",
"\"I think it's a little misleading to think of it as a great big island that you could practically get out and walk on, but the point is it's a big area of ocean.",
"So even a few pieces of plastic per square meter amounts to a lot of plastic when you add it up over this enormous ocean area.\"",
"There has been some previous research on this garbage field, but not much.",
"It's been very poorly studied in a scientific sense.",
"Major questions remain: .",
"How how much stuff is there?",
"What size is the stuff?",
"Where is it distributed in the ocean, at the surface or at what depth?",
"What does it do to the food chain, especially the small particles of plastic that may be ingested by smaller organisms at the bottom of the food chain?",
"While the main focus of the Scripps mission is the impact of this plastic trash on marine life, researchers will gather information on a wide variety of issues.",
"Here's what scientists do know: They know the size of this zone is huge, maybe as big as Texas.",
"And they know that all the plastic accumulated in the patch has mostly broken down into smaller bits, floating just under the water's surface like confetti, basically a soupy mix of plastic-filled seawater that stretches for maybe thousands of miles.",
"They know the garbage patch has been growing for many years, and scientists first became aware of the problem years ago when fisherman reported encountering widespread debris.",
"They know there are other debris fields in other oceans of the world, but this one is the biggest.",
"Rusty Brainard with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says this giant garbage patch, in addition to plastic, also contains huge masses of fishing nets, which destroys ecosystems around the Hawaiian Islands.",
"But the plastic is really the toxic killer.",
"While it slowly degrades, it turns into increasingly smaller bits of plastic.",
"Seabirds mistake it for food and they dive down and eat it.",
"Brainard says they find a lot of skeletons of seabirds on the Islands and \"their gut content is just filled with plastic.\"",
"Brainard says that has scientists wondering what other animals are eating this plastic.",
"As the larger animals and marine life eat the smaller animals, this plastic eventually ends up in the human food supply, too.",
"But even the size is of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is uncertain.",
"\"It's not a hard and fast number.",
"It's a little bit like a whirlpool on the surface of a river or a lake.",
"You'd be hard-pressed to tell me where the edge is.",
"All you know is that it's stronger in the middle than it is in the outer reaches.",
"But it's an area of many hundreds of miles -- perhaps thousands -- in which the ocean currents tend to bring it together,\" according to Knox.",
"NOAA has tracked the Great Pacific Garbage Patch movement to some degree.",
"Scientists know it moves as much as a thousand miles north and south in the Pacific seasonally.",
"And during warmer ocean periods, known as El Nino, it drifts even further south.",
"A kind of large, clock-wise circulation of currents driven by the wind around the Pacific ocean basin causes the plastic and other garbage to mix together in convergence zones, forming this giant trash zone and making its movements comparable to a whirlpool.",
"Researchers believe this enormous trash zone accumulated over many years from trash being dumped off boats and ocean-going ships, and from trash accumulated on beaches, where it eventually washed in the Pacific Ocean and into the huge zone.",
"This study mission may even help scientists determine whether there's any way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and, if so, the best way to do it.",
"CNN's Ninette Sosa contributed to this report."
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"Researchers are trying to learn the effects of the plastic and debris on wildlife .",
"Experts from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will spend three weeks at sea .",
"Scientists say this sea-bound trash zone is largest among worldwide debris fields .",
"Researchers believe this enormous trash zone accumulated over many years ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Corey Haim seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death, his manager and closest friend said Wednesday.",
"The 1980s teen movie actor and heartthrob died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment he shared with his mother, authorities said.",
"Haim was \"weaned down to literally zero medications\" in the last two weeks by an addiction specialist, manager Mark Heaslip said on HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell.\"",
"The doctor \"put him on a new line of medications,\" Haim's longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman said on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Feldman pleaded with people not to draw conclusions that Haim died from a drug overdose.",
"He said that until the autopsy report is issued, \"nobody knows and nobody's going to know.\"",
"\"I know that there were symptoms that he was showing that expressed it could be a number of things,\" Feldman said.",
"\"This could have been a kidney failure.",
"This could have been a heart failure.\"",
"Heaslip said Haim's mother, Judy, told him \"there were no signs of him overdosing.\"",
"His death came as his career was picking up, with Haim booking \"movie after movie,\" Heaslip said.",
"His latest film is set for release soon, he said.",
"Haim \"really became a man\" in recent months as he helped his mother in her battle with cancer, Feldman said.",
"\"He's been there for her, taking care of her, being responsible,\" he said.",
"Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, early Wednesday, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m., Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said.",
"Haim was in the apartment he shared with his mother, Judy, when he \"became a little dizzy, he kind of went to his knees in the bedroom,\" Winter said.",
"\"His mom assisted him in the bed.",
"He became unresponsive.\"",
"His mother called paramedics to the apartment, which is between Hollywood Hills and Burbank, he said.",
"Los Angeles Police Sgt.",
"Frank Albarran said earlier that Haim's death appeared to be accidental and may have been because of an overdose.",
"Haim had suffered flu-like symptoms for two days, the deputy coroner said .",
"\"We found no illicit drugs; however, we did recover four of his prescription meds at the location,\" Winter said, adding he does not know what those drugs were.",
"An autopsy, including toxicology tests, will be conducted Wednesday, Winter said.",
"It is likely to be weeks before any conclusions are made public.",
"The actor was under the care of his doctor, who visited him Tuesday night, as well as another doctor who specializes in treating addictions, Heaslip said.",
"Feldman said he was angry about how Haim has been snubbed in recent years by the entertainment industry.",
"He was broke, without a car and living in a month-to-month rental apartment with his mother, he said.",
"\"We build people up as children, we put them on pedestals and then when we decide that they are not marketable anymore, we walk away from them,\" he said.",
"Haim's most famous role was in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys,\" in which he appeared with Feldman.",
"Haim played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.",
"In later years, the two friends, who appeared in eight movies together, struggled with drug abuse and went their separate ways.",
"They reunited for a reality show, \"The Two Coreys,\" in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.",
"In a 2007 interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" Haim and Feldman discussed their battle with drugs.",
"Feldman told King that he had gotten clean, but it took Haim longer.",
"Haim called himself \"a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.\"",
"\"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything,\" he said.",
"\"I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.\"",
"iReport: Share your memories of Haim .",
"In 2008, Feldman told People magazine that he would no longer speak to Haim until his former co-star got sober.",
"In a clip from \"The Two Coreys,\" Feldman and his wife, along with two other former teen stars, called on Haim in an effort to get him to admit he needed help, the magazine said.",
"The meeting followed an incident in which Haim, scheduled to film a cameo appearance in a direct-to-DVD sequel to \"The Lost Boys,\" appeared on the set \"clearly under the influence,\" People reported.",
"Feldman told King on Wednesday that he renewed his contact with Haim in the past year because of the progress he made against his addiction.",
"Haim was born December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, according to a biography on his Web site.",
"He made his first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series \"The Edison Twins.\"",
"His first film role was in the 1984 American movie \"First Born.\"",
"Haim also won rave reviews for his title role in the 1986 film \"Lucas.\"",
"Film critic Roger Ebert said of him at the time, \"If he continues to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor.\"",
"After \"The Lost Boys,\" Haim and Feldman appeared in \"License to Drive\" and \"Dream a Little Dream.\""
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"Cause of actor Corey Haim's death unknown .",
"His agent says his career was picking up .",
"Friend Corey Feldman says Haim \"became a man\" caring for sick mother ."
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"(CNN) -- When international supermodel Naomi Campbell took the witness stand Friday in the trial against Liberia's former President Charles Taylor, Western media outlets showered unprecedented attention on this largely ignored war crimes trial.",
"But many witnesses besides Campbell have testified since the trial began in January 2008.",
"Judges have heard accounts of bravery and fortitude by ordinary civilians whose limbs were amputated, who were raped or forced into slavery; stories of horrifying acts of wickedness by faction commanders and their fighters; and the unsavory involvement of outsiders, often business opportunists.",
"These business leaders' willingness to seek profit in diamonds, timber, rubber or weapons on the back of the war is shocking.",
"Yet despite the dramatic and horrifying nature of this testimony, the trial garnered only minimal Western media coverage.",
"That is, until the trial took a surprising twist, with supermodel Naomi Campbell and actress Mia Farrow testifying about a dinner in South Africa that happened nearly 13 years ago.",
"At that dinner, then-newly elected President Charles Taylor allegedly gave the supermodel a parcel of rough diamonds.",
"The judges will ultimately determine what exactly happened that night and how it relates to Taylor's case.",
"But the Campbell-Farrow-diamond saga might bring public attention to an issue that goes far beyond the celebrities and even the trial itself.",
"The supermodel, perhaps unintentionally, said it best when she described the gift she received at that dinner in South Africa.",
"She called them \"dirty little stones\" unfamiliar to her because she was used to seeing diamonds \"shiny and in a box.\"",
"Campbell's comment spoke not only of her relative naïvety, but of the troubling nexus between Western economies and some of the world's worst resource-based conflicts and most corrupt regimes, particularly in Africa.",
"The wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone were perhaps the first and most vivid examples of the new nature of post-Cold War conflicts in Africa.",
"The Liberian civil war and eventually the larger regional war involving four neighboring countries started on December 24, 1989, the day that some mark as the end of the Cold War.",
"The old client patronage support system for belligerents quickly evaporated.",
"Commercial entities and transnational organized criminal networks, often overlapping, filled the void, providing weapons and a market for resources that sustained military campaigns conducted by both governments and rebel forces.",
"In Liberia, it was timber, rubber and gold.",
"In Sierra Leone, it was diamonds.",
"But the pattern was evident in other wars as well, whether it was diamonds, oil, timber, or even rare minerals like coltan, used in today's cell phones.",
"Commentators in the West typically point to the corruption and human rights abuses of African leaders, as if this happens in isolation.",
"But it is a two-way street.",
"In nearly every armed conflict or instance of a highly corrupt regime coupled with some desired resource, a network of outsiders extending from organized criminal networks to reputable financial institutions facilitates and exacerbates some of the world's worst abuses.",
"This is not simply about a few unsavory businessmen willing to make back-room deals.",
"It is also about major international financial institutions that exercise little due-diligence as they oppose stricter transparency regulations.",
"It's about major corporations that transact with shell companies representing criminal networks, or that make payments to off-budget bank accounts.",
"In short, it involves the \"see no evil\" approach by some of the world's largest mineral extraction, oil and financial institutions.",
"For the people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, Naomi Campbell's association with this whole affair is of little consequence.",
"But it is a cruel reminder of another stark fact: In the years of war that engulfed both countries, not only were thousands of innocent lives lost and people maimed, not only were women and girls raped or made sex slaves, not only were children conscripted to fight, but the people's resources also were stolen out from under them and never returned.",
"The diamond industry has given almost nothing back to Sierra Leone, despite the critical role diamonds played in the war.",
"The same is true for segments of the timber industry that profited from the deforestation of Liberia during the war.",
"I hope the recent media attention surrounding Naomi Campbell will last beyond fashion critiques of the custom-fitted suit, bouffant hairstyle and high-heeled shoes she wore to court, and chatter of a celebrity feud between her and Mia Farrow.",
"Instead, I hope Campbell's appearance at court will raise awareness about a truly significant and profound issue -- how some within the affluent economies of the world profit from the world's worst conflicts and their \"dirty little stones.\"",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Christopher Santora."
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"Christopher Santora: Naomi Campbell brought attention to Charles Taylor's war crimes trial .",
"Since 2008, he writes, judges have heard of rape, amputation, slavery, child soldiers .",
"Big businesses complicit by profiting from timber, diamonds in war zones, he says .",
"Dirty secret is that affluent countries profit from the world's worst wars, he writes ."
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"(CNET) -- An attack directed at the DNS provider for some of the Internet's larger e-commerce companies -- including Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Expedia -- took several Internet shopping sites offline Wednesday evening, two days before Christmas.",
"Neustar, the company that provides DNS services under the UltraDNS brand name, confirmed an attack took place Wednesday afternoon, taking out sites or rendering them extremely sluggish for about an hour.",
"A representative who answered the customer support line said the attacks were directed against Neustar facilities in Palo Alto and San Jose, California, and Allen Goldberg, vice president of corporate communications for Neustar, confirmed that at about 4:45 p.m. PST, \"our alarms went off.\"",
"Goldberg said the company received a disproportionately high number of queries coming into the system, and analyzed it as an attack.",
"Neustar deployed \"a mitigation response\" within minutes of the attack, he said, and brought matters under control within an hour.",
"The response limited the problems to Northern California, he said.",
"In addition to the high-profile sites, dozens of smaller sites that rely upon Amazon for Web-hosting services were also taken down by the attack.",
"Amazon's S3 and EC2 services were affected by the problems, according to Jeff Barr, Amazon's lead Web Evangelist, who retweeted a report to that effect without clarification and confirmed it in later tweets.",
"For a brief period Wednesday evening, \"ultradns\" was the top search term on Google, likely as frantic technicians at Web sites attempted to figure out what was going on with their sites.",
"Web sites need DNS providers to translate the character-based URLs that people can remember to the IP addresses that Web sites actually use to list themselves on the Internet.",
"When a DNS provider is overwhelmed with malicious requests for IP addresses, the system can overload and prevent legitimate users from reaching their destinations.",
"Amazon's Web Services Health Dashboard declared an all-clear around 6:40 p.m. PST, saying that DNS resolution had returned to normal.",
"Amazon and several other big sites seemed to recover around 5:40 p.m., but some other sites continued to report problems until around 6 p.m. Needless to say, the timing of such an outage could not have been much worse, as holiday procrastinators rushed to make sure they could get one-day shipping for gifts to be delivered before Christmas Day on Friday.",
"Wolf Austad, a CNET reader, wrote in around 5:00 p.m. PST Wednesday to report that a last-minute gift purchase for his wife from Amazon.com had gone awry.",
"He later reported that his transaction was stored in Amazon.com's history once he was able to get back into the site.",
"However, \"now I need to explain to my wife why she is getting her gift on the 26th,\" he wrote in an e-mail.",
"UltraDNS suffered a similar attack earlier this year, which took out Amazon, Salesforce.com, and other sites.",
"Goldberg described Wednesday's attack as smaller than that one, in that it affected fewer customers.",
"However, Amazon is no small customer.",
"Goldberg declined to comment on specific customers affected by the outage, and said Neustar had not yet determined the source of the attack.",
"One expert thought the attack might have been more widespread.",
"\"This was wider than just UltraDNS,\" said Bill Woodcock, research director at Packet Clearing House, which operates domain name servers and supports Internet exchange points around the globe.",
"\"It's difficult to tell at this point how much is a DDoS attack and how much is collateral damage from the attack that is being felt in other ways,\" like a domino effect, he said.",
"\"There were routing problems at some major European exchanges at the same time that caused major Internet service providers' routers to encounter a higher load and pass fewer packets.\"",
"CNET's Elinor Mills contributed to this report.",
"© 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"A DDoS attack Wednesday evening crippled some of larger e-commerce sites .",
"Neustar, a DNS provider in California, was targeted, hurting Amazon, Wal-Mart and more .",
"The attack, two days before Christmas, foiled plans of some last-minute shoppers ."
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"(EW.com) -- Shad Gregory Moss hasn't gone by the name Lil' Bow Wow for some time now.",
"But if you squint hard enough and try to ignore the barrage of broad African-American stereotypes in his latest film, \"Lottery Ticket,\" it's easy to see that the former pint-size Snoop Dog protégé has grown into a likable leading man.",
"In this frenetic, family-friendly riff on the Friday formula, Bow Wow plays Kevin, an honest, hard-working high school grad who lives in an Atlanta housing project and punches the clock selling Air Jordans at the local Foot Locker.",
"That is, until he realizes he's holding the winning ticket in a $370 million lottery.",
"After his loose-lipped, Bible-thumping grandma (Waiting to Exhale's Loretta Devine) spills the beans about his imminent payday, a flood of characters (or, to be more accurate, caricatures) cozy up to him to get their cut.",
"Gangsters, gospel preachers, gold diggers -- Kevin sees through their greed and ulterior motives.",
"But not before going on a wild spending spree that would make Pretty Woman proud.",
"The problem is, music video director Erik White's blue-collar fantasy wants to have it both ways: For every well-intentioned speech Kevin gives about the lottery being a rigged game designed to keep poor folks down, there's a montage of him giddily blowing wads of cash on sneakers and sports cars.",
"If \"Lottery Ticket\" had as much conviction as laughs, it could have hit the jackpot.",
"EW Grade: B- .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Shad Gregory Moss, formerly known as Lil' Bow Wow, has grown into a likable lead .",
"For every well-intentioned speech, it shows a montagge of him blowing wads of cash .",
"If \"Lottery Ticket\" had as much conviction as laughs, it could have hit the jackpot ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- British forces in southern Afghanistan have handed responsibility for security in the Sangin district of Helmand province to the U.S. Marines, the British and American militaries said Monday.",
"British forces have been in Sangin since 2006.",
"The transfer of authority was first announced by the British defense secretary in July.",
"It follows heavy British losses in the area, a Taliban stronghold.",
"The British sustained 105 casualties in Sangin -- roughly a third of all British deaths in the country, according to Lt. Campbell Spencer, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force.",
"British Defence Secretary Liam Fox acknowledged that \"the level of sacrifice has been high\" in praising the British mission in \"one of the most challenging areas of Afghanistan.\"",
"Campbell described the militants in the area as \"very skillful, very organized (and) very difficult to combat,\" adding that the Taliban is \"very well entrenched\" in Helmand province.",
"NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the handover was possible because of the increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.",
"Shamsullah Sahrai, a Sangin resident and a candidate in Saturday's parliamentary election, told CNN that residents in the district are happy that the United States is taking over because \"they believe that the United States has more decisiveness in the war than the British.\"",
"Sahrai said that under British control the security situation worsened, adding that residents are waiting to see whether security improves under U.S. control.",
"\"They are waiting to see if the Americans can create security, job facilities, opening schools and investment on reconstruction projects,\" Sahrai said.",
"The switch of command in Sangin is not a defeat for British troops, but simply works well militarily, said Michael Clarke, director of the Royal United Services Institute, an independent defense and security think tank in London.",
"\"It never made much military sense to put troops into the northern areas of Sangin, Musa Qala and Kajacki in the first place,\" Clarke said in July when Fox announced the plan.",
"\"But in 2006 they were sent there at the insistence of [Afghan] President [Hamid] Karzai, and once established, any pullback would have represented a victory for the Taliban.\"",
"With the arrival of some 18,000 U.S. Marines in the region by the end of August, it makes sense for the British troops to reorganize themselves and reinforce their numbers in central Helmand, Clarke said.",
"It will make the British force more effective and safer, he said.",
"The political fallout of the move, however, is unpredictable, Clarke said.",
"When the Brits ended operations in the southern Iraqi city of Basra last year, it was under similar circumstances, but still appeared as a \"furtive retreat,\" he said.",
"\"The image at home that Britain was giving up a job it could no longer handle was impossible to shake off,\" Clarke said.",
"\"The same may attach to Sangin.",
"This war is as much about image and perception as it is about who controls the ground in Afghanistan.\"",
"Spencer emphasized Monday that the handover \"is in no way the British backing away from Sangin.",
"It's the redeployment of forces.\"",
"CNN's Melissa Gray and Ivan Watson contributed to this report."
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"British Royal Marines turn control of Sangin district to the U.S Marines .",
"The British have suffered heavy losses in the Taliban stronghold .",
"The handover was possible because of the increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, NATO says ."
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"(CNN) -- Former champion Maria Sharapova was the biggest name to fall as she lost an epic three-set match with fellow-Russian Maria Kirilenko on a wet and windy opening day at the Australian Open.",
"Sharapova committed 66 unforced errors to lose 7-6 3-6 6-4 in a match that lasted a marathon three hours and 21 minutes.",
"It was a disappointing early exit for 14th seed Sharapova and continued a poor recent run in majors after she lost in the second round at Wimbledon and third round at the U.S. Open last year.",
"The 2008 winner told reporters.",
"\"I could be disappointed or I could take it as it is and just go back on the court and keep working.",
"\"I choose option two.",
"It's just a bad day. A bad day's not going to stop me from doing what I love.",
"\"I'm still going to go back on the court and work hard and perform.",
"I'll be back here on a Saturday of the second week, so you watch.\"",
"The anticipated second-round clash between returning Belgian Justin Henin and fifth seed Elena Dementieva will occur after they both negotiated the first round.",
"Henin made her return to a grand slam after a 20-month retirement by beating compatriot Kirsten Flipkens 6-4 6-3, before Dementieva conceded just three games to see off Vera Dushevina 6-2 6-1.",
"Both players are in form with wild card entrant Henin reaching the final at Brisbane a fortnight ago in her first tournament back, while Dementieva won the Sydney International last week after beating world number one Serena Williams in the final.",
"Henin's fellow-returning Belgian Kim Clijsters hardly needed to raise a sweat as she beat Canadian qualifier Valerie Tetreault 6-0 6-4.",
"The U.S. Open champion raced through the opening set in just 23 minutes, and while she took her foot off the accelerator in the second, the match was always within the 15th seed's keeping.",
"Last year's runner-up and second seed Dinara Safina was made to battle for her first win beating Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4 6-4 in 89 minutes, while fellow-Russian and third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova was a straight-sets winner over Anastasia Rodionova 6-1 6-2."
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"Former champion Maria Sharapova is the biggest name to fall in the first round of the Australian Open .",
"The Russian is beaten 7-6 3-6 6-4 by compatriot Maria Kirilenko in a match lasting over three hours .",
"Justine Henin and Elena Dementieva both through to set up a mouth- watering second round showdown ."
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"(CNN) -- Police in Texas are looking for a convicted murderer after a tip led them to a body in his back yard.",
"Last week, Harris County Sheriff's Office investigators received a Crime Stoppers tip about a body being in a barrel at a northwest Houston address.",
"The homeowner, Dennis Anderson, 64, was not home when police arrived but a roommate allowed them to check the property.",
"Court documents say an old, rusted barrel with black paint on it was found and pried open.",
"\"Upon opening the barrel, investigators discovered the skeletal remains of an unknown person,\" a statement from the Harris County Sheriff's Office says.",
"The decaying body was that of a female, and it had been wrapped in a bed sheet and trash bags and was covered in dirt, the documents say.",
"The legs had been tied together by what appeared to be weed trimmer line that also was tied to the neck of the victim.",
"Authorities examining the barrel said it appeared to have been in place for some time, and noted that the bolts on top were rusty.",
"The victim had been dead for several months, the documents say.",
"The remains were taken to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences for identification and to try to find the cause of death.",
"While no charges have been filed against the homeowner, authorities are now searching for him.",
"\"Mr. Anderson is only wanted for questioning at this time,\" said Christina Garza of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.",
"Michelle Lyons of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Anderson was sentenced to life in prison for committing a double murder in 1972, but was paroled after serving 17 years.",
"He also had concurrent sentences for theft and arson, Lyons said.",
"More recently, he was sentenced to 180 days in prison for theft, and was held from July 12 to August 13 of this year.",
"According to court documents, the tipster who led police to the body said Anderson had told him he had strangled a person and placed the body in the barrel.",
"The informant also said Anderson had told him he takes the barrel with him when he moves from state to state."
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"A Crime Stoppers tip led police to look for a body in a backyard barrel .",
"Harris County Sheriff's investigators are searching for the homeowner .",
"He previously served 17 in prison after being convicted in a double murder ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A New York police officer getting her hair done over the weekend thwarted a would-be robber in a beauty salon, shooting the weapon from the gunman's hands, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in awarding the officer a promotion.",
"Kelly praised the actions of newly promoted Det.",
"Feris Jones Tuesday, saying she \"showed the steely courage and professionalism that epitomizes the finest traditions of the New York City Police Department.\"",
"\"Well done and congratulations,\" the commissioner said as he pinned a gold detective shield to Jones' uniform.",
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg also expressed his gratitude at the news conference.",
"\"This officer, like the other officers that are out there every day, really do take care of us,\" he said.",
"Kelly said Jones was a customer in a salon Saturday when a man walked in with a gun.",
"\"'This is no joke, this is a robbery.",
"I will kill you,\"' Kelly quoted the gunman as saying.",
"After the man ordered the customers and employees into the bathroom, Jones reemerged with her weapon drawn, identified herself as a police officer, and told the man not to move, Kelly said.",
"The suspect fired four shots at Jones, narrowly missing her head with one, the commissioner recounted.",
"She fired five shots back -- emptying her service revolver and marking the first time she'd ever fired her weapon in the line of duty -- and hit both of the man's hands, causing him to drop his 44-caliber gun.",
"Her shots also knocked the handle off the door of the salon, briefly trapping the man as he tried to escape, Kelly said.",
"He eventually broke the window in the door and fled on foot.",
"\"She knew the gunman might shoot, and when he did, she was ready for him, demonstrating stunning marksmanship in the process,\" the commissioner said.",
"\"To describe Officer Jones as cool under fire would be a gross understatement,\" he added.",
"\"That's my personality. I don't fuss about much,\" Jones responded modestly, asking reporters to address her as \"Jonesy\" instead of Detective Jones.",
"The new detective said she got her start in the department when her then-husband brought home an application for the force because he \"liked the coverage and medical benefits.\"",
"The accused gunman was arrested Monday, police said.",
"Winston Cox, 19, is charged with attempted murder, attempted aggravated robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon."
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"Kelly says Jones showed \"steely courage\"\nThe officer had never fired her weapon in the line of duty in 20 years of service ."
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"(CNN) -- With his nine special-needs children in his house and one of them with him in the master bedroom, a Florida man was on his knees when an armed intruder shot him in the face, then fired twice more after the victim had fallen face down on the floor, a medical examiner said Wednesday.",
"Byrd Billings died execution-style the night of July 9, 2009, as did his wife, Melanie, after a band of people dressed as ninjas broke into their Beulah, Florida, home.",
"Prosecutors say Leonard Gonzalez Jr., 35, led six other men into the house looking to steal an expected $13 million and personally killed the defenseless couple.",
"Dr. Andrea Minyard testified Wednesday, the second day of Gonzalez's first-degree murder trial in Escambia County Circuit Court in Pensacola.",
"She pinned needles on human-sized dummies to show how nine bullets hit the Billings' couple.",
"Video footage aired earlier in the trial showed a masked, armed man hovering over a shirtless Byrd Billings in the palatial home's living room shooting a shirtless Byrd Billings twice, with one shot in each leg.",
"Frederick Thornton -- part of the group who testified after pleading guilty to second-degree murder -- fingered Gonzalez as the man who fired the shots, then led the couple into the first-floor bedroom.",
"After shooting Byrd Billings the first time, Gonzalez said \"where's the money at, and he told him to get up,\" said Thornton, 20.",
"Defense attorneys dispute Thornton's assertion, claiming he's not a credible witness and saying another masked man fired the shots.",
"The Billingses had 16 cameras around their home, set up to keep tabs on the nine special-needs children for whom they cared.",
"There was no camera in the master bedroom, but prosecution witnesses Wednesday cited DNA tests as showing that Gonzalez likely handled the rifle used in the fatal shootings.",
"One of the videos aired in court Tuesday shows the scene from one girl's bedroom as a red van packed with people arrives outside the house.",
"The girl gets up out of bed as the masked men enter the house, then hides under the covers pretending to sleep after hearing the commotion nearby.",
"The team had started, then called off, an armed invasion at the home on July 4.",
"Before the second try, Rakeem Florence -- who, like Thornton, plead guilty to second-degree murder for his role and testified for the prosecution -- said there was no mention anyone would be killed until he overheard Gonzalez minutes before they went to the house.",
"\"He said he was going to kill somebody,\" Florence, now 18, said of Gonzalez.",
"Florence and Thornton claimed Gonzalez captained the scheme, leading pre-invasion meetings, supplying the firearms and all-black clothing, and ordering they destroy the clothing afterward.",
"Florence testified that he was told the plotters were trying to get laundered cash believed to be in a safe at the house, as the Billings family was \"washing money from the Mexican mafia.\"",
"Defense attorneys for Gonzalez questioned the credibility of the two witnesses, since they are related (Florence is the father of a child born to Thornton's sister) and had changed the stories they told their family and police, saying they had \"practiced lying.\"",
"Also Wednesday, the jury of 11 women and two men saw prosecutors try to establish the guns used in the crime, as well as see the safe taken from the Billings' home.",
"Prosecutors say a small safe containing prescription medication, family documents and some jewelry was later was found in the backyard of a woman who said she was a friend of Gonzalez, authorities said.",
"Two sources familiar with the investigation told CNN that a second safe at the home contained at least $100,000.",
"The defendant's wife, Tabitha Gonzalez, testified Tuesday that the family's business, a karate school, had gone under.",
"Byrd Billings had even donated $5,000 to the Gonzalez's school.",
"Prosecutors argue this indicates that financial gain was Leonard Gonzalez's overriding motive in the armed invasion.",
"\"He was so broke ... that his mother had to buy him a car, which turned out to be a big red van that was used in the murders,\" prosecutor Bill Eddins said in his opening statements of Gonzalez, who had six children with Tabitha.",
"Of the eight people arrested in the case, seven males faced charges of murder and home invasion robbery.",
"Two of them have already pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges.",
"The woman is accused of being an accessory after the fact.",
"The remaining males, including a 16-year-old charged as an adult, have pleaded not guilty to the charges.",
"If convicted, Gonzalez could be sentenced to death.",
"In Session's Jean Casarez and Nancy Leung contributed to this report."
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"Byrd and Melanie Billings died after masked invaders fired nine bullets at them .",
"Two men involved in invasion say Leonard Gonzalez Jr. was ringleader, shooter .",
"Florida couple known for caring for special-needs kids were shot and killed in 2009 ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday stoody by a decree to disband private security firms operating in his country, despite objections from the United States and other countries that the move would leave international development organizations without adequate protection to do their work.",
"Karzai said that he has wanted to disband the organizations for some time and had warned about security for development organizations before, but that his words went unheeded.",
"\"I mentioned that problem five years ago but international friends called it impossible and threatened to close the development projects at that time,\" Karzai said.",
"\"Again, I mentioned that problem three years ago and I requested the international community to help us in implementing it but they asked me to give them time more two years.",
"Now the Afghanistan government is committed in its decision to disband the private security companies.\"",
"Karzai believes that the private security companies are creating a parallel security system that challenges the Afghan security forces, his office said.",
"Regarding protection for the development organizations, Karzai asked other countries to present a list of security requirements for large national projects and that the Afghan government would take decisions on whether and how to safeguard them.",
"The only exception to the closure of private security firms is their work protecting embassies and diplomats.",
"Meanwhile, some U.S.-funded development organizations have begun implementing contingency plans that could result in those organizations pulling out of the country.",
"The U.S. government and NATO have been talking to the Afghan government about the ramifications of the measure.",
"The most recent meeting was Sunday, when Karzai and members of his government met with U.S.",
"Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Gen. David Petraeus -- top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan -- and others.",
"All the participants at the meeting reiterated their support for the decree and agreed to continue working together on implementing the ban in a way that doesn't leave development agencies in a lurch, U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.",
"\"As a matter of priority, the United States will continue to work with the Afghan government and international community to fully implement the decree over a period of time to ensure the protection of our development implementing partners as they continue their operations,\" Hayden said.",
"One day earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to Karzai to offer ideas on how to implement the ban on private security firms, according to State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley in a Twitter message.",
"Crowley said the Clinton suggested building a joint plan to steadily replace contractors while managing the impact on existing operations.",
"Clinton also pledged to work cooperatively with Karzai to support a smooth transition to full Afghan security responsibility, he said.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr, Jill Dougherty and Matiullah Mati contributed to this report."
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"Afghanistan is banning all private security firms .",
"President Karzai stands by the decision .",
"The U.S. is concerned about the ramifications for development organizations ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The grease-covered orange overalls can't hide 14-year-old Nazer Ahmad's frail frame.",
"As he leans under the hood of a wrecked car, torn plastic sandals on his feet, I know I cannot possibly understand the life this young boy is forced to lead in war-torn Afghanistan -- where jobs are few, pay is appalling, and young children must work rather than go to school and play with their friends.",
"Nazer is one of the boy mechanics of the Sarai Malim yard in western Kabul.",
"CNN producer Matiullah Mati has brought me here.",
"As an Afghan, Mati sees a side of life here that the NATO generals and politicians never see.",
"There are dozens of young boys here -- thin and frail because of a lack of nutrition brought on by staggering poverty.",
"They are typically brought to the muddy yard by a male relative.",
"Dozens of ramshackle huts, lean-tos and tiny one-room buildings house auto mechanics and repair shops where cars, buses and trucks are brought by local Afghans to be fixed.",
"There is no safety gear.",
"Welding sparks hit one young boy's eye as Nazer carries large pieces of metal across the yard.",
"Another young boy struggles under the weight of large pails of supplies he is carrying.",
"Nazer agrees to sit for a few minutes to talk to me, with Mati translating.",
"His words are few. I quickly learn he works ten hours a day, six days a week.",
"The boss pays him less than a dollar a day.",
"And his wages are the only income for his family of five.",
"His father was blinded years ago in a Soviet rocket attack and cannot work.",
"His mother has two other small children at home.",
"Nazer has had three years of school.",
"Then, last year, his uncle brought him here.",
"It takes Nazer one hour to walk from his one-room home to the yard.",
"He arrives at 7 a.m. and begins to work.",
"He and the boys get a morning and noon meal.",
"At the end of his ten-hour day, this small boy walks home again, often in the very lonely dark.",
"When I ask if he ever plays with friends, I get a heartbreaking answer of one word: \"No.\"",
"In Nazer's world there is no time for play.",
"He tells me he just works and there is \"no time for fun.\"",
"He tells me he is happy to have the job and be able to help his family.",
"But these boy mechanics of Kabul do have dreams of another life for themselves -- and, remarkably, for their country.",
"Nazer tells me he would like to go back to school and become a teacher.",
"He says he feels it's a way he can \"serve\" his country.",
"Throughout our chat, Nazer never smiles.",
"Not once. Across the yard we meet 12-year-old Mohammed Azam inside one of the dark shops, bent over his cooking pots.",
"His father brings him here to cook for the workers and then he can go to school.",
"Mohammed says he doesn't want to be a mechanic.",
"He says he wants to be a doctor so he can \"serve society.\"",
"Mohammed's father Najibullah has a philosophical outlook tempered by the reality of life in this country.",
"\"Knowledge is good, education is good.",
"But most of these boys are poor and they must work.\"",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati contributed to this report."
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"14-year-old Nazer Ahmad earns less than a dollar a day -- his family's only income .",
"Nazer works ten-hour days, says he has no time for fun .",
"He'd like to go back to school and become a teacher to \"serve\" his country ."
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"(CNN) -- A roadside blast killed a NATO service member Wednesday in northern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said.",
"The international alliance does not provide the nationalities of victims.",
"An alliance statement did not provide an exact location of the improvised explosive device attack.",
"This year is already the deadliest for coalition and U.S. forces since the battle against the Taliban started some nine years ago.",
"Last year, 516 coalition troops were killed in Afghanistan.",
"More than 600 have died so far in 2010, according to a CNN tally -- with more than two months left in the year.",
"The morbid milestone comes as the United States is making a strong effort to fight the Taliban.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of 30,000 extra U.S. forces to Afghanistan this year, increasing the total American troop commitment to almost 100,000.",
"At least 25 other countries pledged an additional 7,000 troops.",
"The international alliance was formed under a U.N. mandate to bolster a secure environment and support the reconstruction of Afghanistan.",
"NATO took command in 2003.",
"The force comprises troops from dozens of countries."
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"The battle against the Taliban started nine years ago ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Chandra Levy's mother averted her eyes Wednesday as prosecutors showed the jury a photograph of her daughter's skull discovered in woods by a man and his dog, a year after the Washington intern vanished in 2001.",
"Philip Palmer testified he found the skull while walking his puppy \"Paco\" in an area away from established paths in Washington's Rock Creek Park.",
"Authorities believe the young woman was attacked while jogging and dragged away from a trail by suspect Ingmar Guandique, who allegedly killed her when she resisted.",
"Guandique denies killing the woman, who had just turned 24 and was preparing to return to her parents' home in California after a federal internship.",
"Her mother, Susan Levy, who also is on the government's witness list, has been in the spectator gallery throughout the trial.",
"When prosecutors brought out the 8-by-10 glossy police photograph, she turned her head aside and avoided watching as the picture was placed on an overhead projector for the jury to see on a large screen in the courtroom.",
"Prosecutors then played an audio recording of a call to 911 Palmer made from a borrowed telephone at a construction site some distance away.",
"After explaining he had been walking with his dog in the woods, Palmer was heard telling police, \"I came across a human skull.\"",
"The emergency worker answering the phone asked him if he was sure, and Palmer replied that he was \"not sure anything else looks like that, that has (dental) fillings.\"",
"The emergency worker seemed to chuckle at the description and said \"guess not,\" as he took down a location.",
"\"I've got a dog leash marking the spot,\" Palmer added.",
"The jury Wednesday also heard from Guandique's former landlord, who said she twice allowed Guandique to stay at her own apartment after what were said to be fights with his girlfriend.",
"\"She had attacked him,\" property manager Sheila Phillips quoted Guandique as saying.",
"Phillips said there were family ties with the suspect that began while \"Ingmar was living with my husband's uncle.\"",
"Eventually he moved in with a woman in the same apartment complex, but the two didn't get along, Phillips testified.",
"Guandique showed up at her place with cuts and a swollen lip around May 1, 2001, saying he'd had another fight with the girlfriend, Phillips told prosecutor Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez.",
"The date was at about the same time Chandra Levy is thought to have been attacked and killed.",
"Prosecutors hope to prove Guandique's injuries are from Levy fighting for her life.",
"\"He told people his girlfriend did it,\" said prosecutor Amanda Haines during opening statements Monday.",
"\"But the girlfriend at four-foot something and 90 pounds, will say no,\" Haines told the jury.",
"Defense attorney Santha Sonenberg, during cross-examination of the landlord, challenged the time frame of Guandique's purported May 1 fight, saying Phillips later said she was not sure of the exact date.",
"Prosecutors prepared to call the former girlfriend to the witness stand later Wednesday.",
"The woman was expected to tell the jury Guandique physically attacked her during the arguments.",
"On Tuesday the jury heard from Robert Levy, the dead woman's father, who described the family's frantic search for Chandra, who by the first week of May was overdue for a flight home, and missing her graduation ceremony in southern California.",
"Looking through her cellphone records, Levy testified he called one that rang at the office of then-California Rep. Gary Condit.",
"The family immediately thought he was linked to her disappearance.",
"\"We were mad at Condit, trying to point him as the villain,\" Robert Levy testified on cross-examination Tuesday.",
"\"I was suspicious of him. He was the primary suspect,\" Levy said, reflecting on a transcript of what he earlier had told a grand jury investigating the case.",
"\"We were thinking Condit was the guilty one before we knew about this character here,\" Levy testified, looking toward the defendant.",
"Levy's disappearance nine years ago received widespread publicity because of her alleged relationship with the sitting California Democrat.",
"The revelation contributed to the political downfall of Condit, who will be called to testify during the trial.",
"Police said Condit was never a suspect in the case, although he was questioned intensively as investigators tried to find Levy.",
"A police supervisor testified Tuesday he was taken off the case when he told his superiors their pressure to pursue Condit was interfering with the investigation.",
"Still, when authorities questioned Condit in the weeks after Levy's disappearance, he seemed evasive, according to detective Sgt.",
"Ronald Wyatt of the Metropolitan Police Department.",
"He testified Condit \"was a bit arrogant and not forthright\" in a 2001 meeting at the congressman's condominium in Washington.",
"Wyatt said Condit denied having an intimate affair with Levy.",
"Guandique's public defenders say DNA evidence exonerates him since it does not match the suspect, Levy, or Condit.",
"Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Haines told the jury in opening statements Monday that the \"dozen or so skin cells\" found on Levy's jogging tights are the result of contamination by poorly-handled evidence.",
"Prosecutors admit their case is circumstantial, but have presented testimony from two women Guandique has admitted attacking along the same wooded trails of Rock Creek Park where Levy's remains were found.",
"Both women survived and positively identified the man on trial.",
"The government plans to call jailhouse associates who claim Guandique described killing Levy, and hope the judge will see the other attacks as something the jury should consider when it deliberates the murder charges."
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"NEW: The suspect's landlord describes a history of domestic violence .",
"Police show photograph of crime scene; audio played of 911 call .",
"Levy's mother avoids looking at images of the young woman's remains .",
"Defendant Ingmar Guandique is fighting charges of murder for the intern's death ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 20 people have died in severe flooding in Vietnam, official media reported Monday.",
"But the death toll varied as the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said the death toll is 30 as of Sunday, sourcing a government flood committee.",
"Floods damaged crops and hindered transportation leaving passengers stranded in trains and blocking roadways, and flood waters covered more than 150,000 homes, VNA reported.",
"Seven died in Ha Tinh province after Sunday's rainfall reached more that 800 millimeters (31.5 inches), according to VietNamNet.",
"The province accounted for more than half the homes reported flooded.",
"A similar amount of rain fell on Nghe An province, triggering flooding that killed eight people but inundating far fewer homes, VietNamNet reported.",
"Four more died in Quang Binh province.",
"One person has been reported missing in this week's floods.",
"Throughout the region, people and cattle could be seen sitting on roofs, while boats floated through what would otherwise have been the nation's streets.",
"About 1 meter of water lay over some parts of a Highway 1A, a north-south connection through Vietnam, and service on the north-south railway through the southeastern Asian nation was suspended, reported state-run Vietnam News.",
"The Vietnamese government is distributing 2,000 tons of rice and $10 million worth of aid to the worst-hit areas, in Ha Trinh and Quang Binh provinces, reports said.",
"Record-setting rains a few weeks earlier in central Vietnam spurred severe flooding that killed 66 people and inundated more than 10,000 dwellings.",
"Hundreds of Vietnamese troops were dispatched to the region in the first week of October to help with rescue operations and help residents and business owners deal with millions of dollars of damage."
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"Over 30 inches of rain in one day triggered heavy flooding .",
"Over 150,000 homes were submerged .",
"Two weeks earlier, 66 people in region died after record-setting rains and subsequent flooding ."
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"(CNN) -- A massive drilling machine broke through rock beneath the Swiss Alps on Friday, creating what is being touted as the world's longest railroad tunnel.",
"The Gotthard Base Tunnel is 57 km (34 miles) and links northern and southern Europe, AlpTransit Gotthard company said in a statement.",
"\"The world's longest tunnel should become operational at the end of 2017,\" the statement said.",
"The tunnel will cut regional travel time on routes including Zurich, Switzerland, to Milan, Italy, an important business link.",
"Officials say demands for railroads have increased as international trade goes up and road traffic worsens.",
"Freight traffic in the entire Alpine region will grow by as much as 75 percent by 2010, according to a study by the EU Commission.",
"The trend will affect the environment, prompting Switzerland to adopt environmentally-friendly means of travel.",
"The company says the tunnel is an environmental feat and will allow millions more tons of items to pass through the Alps by rail.",
"\"Only by upgrading its railway infrastructure can Switzerland meet the rising demand for freight transportation and the increasing needs of customers,\" the statement said."
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"The tunnel will cut travel time in the region, including between Switzerland and Italy .",
"Officials say demands for railroads have increased as international trade goes up .",
"It will also allow millions more tons of items to pass through the Alps by rail, officials say ."
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"(CNN) -- Arab nations meeting in Libya said they will support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to refrain from direct peace talks unless Israel stops settlement construction.",
"\"Restarting negotiations is conditional to the complete stop of settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem,\" according to a statement issued Friday from the Arab League Ministerial Committee on the Arab Peace Initiative.",
"\"The Israeli government is responsible for halting the direct negotiations ... as a result of its continued unlawful settlement policy.\"",
"The Israeli prime minister's office had no immediate comment on the developments in Libya.",
"The statement supported U.S. peacemaking efforts and President Barack Obama's speech at the U.N. General Assembly last month regarding Palestinian rights.",
"It also called for a \"U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state with pre-June 4, 1967, borders and east Jerusalem as its capital.\"",
"The statement also said there won't be \"real peace with Israel\" unless the Jewish state withdraws from occupied Arab lands, including Syria's occupied Golan and Palestinian territory.",
"The statement said the international community should \"take necessary steps\" to end Israel's blockade of Gaza and it called for ending political differences among Palestinians.",
"The peace initiative committee comprises the foreign ministers of Jordan, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar.",
"Nabil Shaath, an adviser to Abbas, told CNN on Friday that all the efforts should be focused on settlement activities and that the United States should pressure Israel to halt all the settlement activities.",
"He also said Abbas will be delivering an important speech during the Arab League summit this weekend.",
"The United States had been scrambling to find a way to save the recently started direct Middle East peace talks ahead of the Arab League meeting in Libya this weekend.",
"U.S., Israeli, Palestinian and Arab sources say intensive negotiations continue between the United States and Israel to find a formula on Israel's construction of new settlements that will keep Abbas at the talks.",
"Sources said the Obama administration has floated a possible set of assurances the United States could offer if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would agree to extend a freeze on new settlements.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed and Kevin Flower contributed to this report."
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"Palestinians want U.S. to pressure Israel over settlements ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama gently sparred with Jon Stewart on \"The Daily Show\" in the final run-up to next week's midterm elections, after the comedian called his legislative progress \"timid.\"",
"Playing off the title of Obama's book \"The Audacity of Hope,\" Stewart challenged the forcefulness of the president's political agenda during his first two years in office.",
"\"Is the difficulty that you have here the distance between what you ran on and what you delivered?\"",
"Stewart said.",
"\"You ran with such, if I may, audacity ... yet legislatively it has felt timid at times.\"",
"\"Jon, I love your show, but this is something where I have a profound disagreement with you ...\" Obama said, leaning forward and intently tapping his finger on the desk, \"this notion that health care was timid.\"",
"\"This is what most people would say is as significant a piece of legislation as we have seen in this country's history,\" the president continued, saying the Affordable Care Act will provide health coverage for 30 million people, introduces a Patient's Bill of Rights and will cut the deficit by over a trillion dollars.",
"\"What happens is, it gets discounted because the presumption is we didn't get 100 percent of what we wanted, we only get 90 percent of what we wanted -- so let's focus on the 10 percent we didn't get as opposed to the 90 percent we did,\" Obama said.",
"The 30-minute program taped at Washington's Harman Center for the Arts took place before a packed house, with some waiting in line for up to four hours to attend.",
"\"The Daily Show\" is in Washington all week ahead of Stewart's planned \"Rally to Restore Sanity\" on the National Mall on Saturday.",
"\"You ran on the idea that this system needed basic reform ... feels like some reform was done in a political manner that has papered over a system that is corrupt,\" Stewart said, again challenging the pace and extent of change initiated by the Obama administration.",
"\"Over the last two years, in emergency situations, our basic attitude was we have to get things done, in some cases quicker,\" the president said, acknowledging the global economic crisis that was swirling at the time he took office.",
"\"[Democratic leaders] worked within the process instead of transforming the process.\"",
"During a lighter moment, Stewart presented Obama with Mug Force One -- a presidential coffee cup.",
"The men traded quips over \"The Daily Show\" stage, which resembled a Grecian temple.",
"\"This is a nice set,\" Obama said.",
"\"It reminds me of the convention.\"",
"\"We actually bought it, it was in a warehouse,\" Stewart retorted.",
"The president's theme of change from the 2008 race resurfaced during the show, along with a popular campaign slogan.",
"\"When we promised during campaign 'change you can believe in,' it wasn't 'change you can believe in' in 18 months,\" Obama said to applause from the audience.",
"\"We're going to have to work for it.\"",
"Noting the tough election climate, the president said he hopes Democratic members of Congress are rewarded on election day for the tough votes they took on health care and financial regulatory reform.",
"Near the end of the interview, Obama invoked his famous campaign phrase, \"Yes we can, but it's not going to happen overnight,\" prompting a laugh from Stewart.",
"CNN's Ed Payne and Padma Rama contributed to this report."
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"\"The Daily Show\" is taping in Washington this week ."
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"(CNN) -- Help trickled in Thursday, three days after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck off Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that has killed at least 311 people and left more than 400 missing.",
"An assessment team from the nonprofit group SurfAid International had reached the disaster zone, but the area's remoteness prevented further contact with headquarters in Sumatera Barat, Indonesia.",
"SurfAid had shipped 1,000 shelter kits to victims, and is preparing to send more supplies once communication is established, spokeswoman Jossi Syahrial said Thursday.",
"The group was trying to work with government officials to establish an information and coordination hub for all non-governmental organizations, she said.",
"The hard-hit Mentawai Islands region is among Indonesia's myriad islands.",
"\"It's very difficult\" to reach the region either by boat or road, said Andrew Judge, CEO of SurfAid.",
"The trip takes at least 10 hours in good conditions, according to aid agencies.",
"The Indonesian Red Cross also had sent at least two aid teams.",
"One aid shipment included about 400 body bags.",
"Urgent needs are expected to include clean water, food, blankets, clothing, medical attention, emergency shelter and hygiene kits, said Ita Balanda, a program manager for the World Vision aid organization in Padang, Indonesia.",
"An estimated 7,900 households were affected, she said.",
"\"The worst hit area is North and South Pagai Island.",
"Reports of villages flattened are coming from there,\" said Antorizon of the West Sumatra disaster management agency, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.",
"The first pictures from North Pagai Island showed damaged and flattened structures.",
"Monday's quake generated a \"significant\" tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.",
"Some of the missing might include people who are unaccounted for after fleeing to higher ground, said Henri Dori Satoko, head of the Mentawai Islands parliament.",
"Though communication poses a challenge in the remote area, some witnesses in West Sumatra reported seeing a wave 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) high.",
"Other reports described the tsunami as being about 3 meters (almost 10 feet) high.",
"At least one village with a population of about 200 people was swept away, with only 40 people recovered, Satoko said.",
"The quake struck at 9:42 p.m. Monday, triggering a tsunami warning.",
"Its epicenter was 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of Padang, at a depth of 20.6 kilometers (12.8 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"The magnitude was revised upward from a preliminary magnitude of 7.5.",
"\"On Mentawai, a [tsunami] warning was issued seven minutes after detection of earthquake, which is what the existing system is capable of doing.",
"Preliminary report indicates the destructive waves hit the Mentawai Islands after five minutes.",
"... For Mentawai villagers, the warning is late, as they are very close to the tsunami source,\" said Sanny Jegillos of the U.N. Development Programme.",
"He oversees the Indian Ocean tsunami warning system, including Indonesia.",
"Indonesia's government has since warned residents of West Sumatra province to stay alert and stay away from the coastline for up to five days because of the possibility of more earthquakes, Balanda said.",
"The city of Padang and the Mentawai Islands are at the meeting place of two tectonic plates, making them vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis.",
"On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Sumatra.",
"A tsunami generated by that earthquake killed more than 225,000 people in 14 countries -- mainly India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand.",
"The Indonesian region of Banda Aceh was hard-hit: About 150,000 died there.",
"CNN's Kathy Quiano and Stan Grant contributed to this report."
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"At least 311 people have died and more than 400 are missing .",
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"CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- As a young man, Barack Obama idolized the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.",
"A young Barack Obama, left, joins fellow Chicago community activists for this snapshot in the mid-1980s.",
"\"Reading about people not that much older than me who had gone to jail and suffered beatings in order to liberate a people,\" he said, \"I thought there's something powerful about that.\"",
"Fellow Harvard University student Kenneth Mack remembered walking around the Harvard Law campus with his friend, who was constantly quoting the Rev.",
"Martin Luther King Jr. \" 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,' \" Mack remembered Obama saying.",
"\"For other people to say things like that, people wouldn't take it seriously, but with Barack, people really did take him seriously.",
"They thought of him as someone who really sincerely believed it.\"",
"But Obama was about 20 years too late to join King's movement.",
"So, he decided to do the next best thing.",
"In 1985, a few years before he went to Harvard, Obama took a job as a community organizer.",
"Test your knowledge about Obama » .",
"He worked with Jerry Kellman's Developing Communities Project.",
"As a leader, he stayed in the background, but he taught residents of Chicago's poor South Side how to effectively lobby their government to get badly needed services.",
"\"Remember, at the time in Chicago, the wards were really politically motivated,\" said the Rev.",
"Alvin Love, pastor at Lilydale First Baptist Church.",
"\"If you weren't onboard with the political process and people in leadership, then your garbage didn't get picked up on time and your street didn't get fixed.\"",
"Obama helped bring pastors like Love and other community activists together to work on their neighborhood's problems.",
"En masse, they showed up at city meetings, and in a professional but firm manner made their concerns heard.",
"\"Politicians understand that the number of community residents that come out for a community meeting probably represent 10 times the number of votes,\" Love said.",
"\"So they pay attention.\"",
"See Obama timeline » .",
"At first, the group achieved simple things.",
"It got the city to clean up Palmer Park, a park filled with garbage and overrun with drug dealers.",
"It got the city to start an after-school program.",
"It even got the area its first badly needed job center.",
"See photos of Obama campaigning » .",
"\"It might have been small victories to the outside world, but to us, it was big.",
"It meant those kids could get the jobs; they could buy things to start back to school,\" said Yvonne Lloyd, one of the residents Obama trained to lead lobbying efforts.",
"The small success gave residents something that would last a lot longer than a clean park or a job center.",
"Residents said Obama gave them hope.",
"\"We saw what could happen.",
"We saw what can be done if the community has the resources and somebody to come in and train them.",
"I'll always be grateful for that,\" Lloyd said.",
"The biggest challenge Obama's group faced was the one that eventually ended Obama's career as a community organizer.",
"Linda Randle, a fellow activist, brought a dramatic injustice to Obama's attention.",
"At her job at the Ida B. Wells housing project, she noticed workers removing asbestos from the Public Housing Authority's offices in that building.",
"When she asked management when they planned to remove the dangerous substance from residents' apartments, she said they told her they had no such plans.",
"She was livid. \"I'm a lot more of a hothead than Barack is,\" she said.",
"\"Barack is more for compromise, you know.",
"He'll wait and see.\" Obama joined the growing effort to lobby the city to remove the asbestos from public housing.",
"Randle said he counseled calm and added that was good for her, because he encouraged her to take the high road in negotiations.",
"\"So I would say to myself, OK, I'm not really great at the high road, because the road is already crumbling, OK?",
"So, I don't know if I can make the road higher.\"",
"Eventually, the Housing Authority gave in to the residents' pressure.",
"The management promised to remove asbestos from all parts of the buildings, not just its offices.",
"The effort took years, and the slow pace of this change frustrated Obama.",
"He told friends at the time he felt he'd be more effective on the other side of the negotiating table.",
"Soon, he left Chicago for Harvard.",
"But before he left, he told residents he would come back and help.",
"Twenty years later, a few of those same residents he trained to speak truth to power appeared in his Senate offices.",
"They were recently in Washington to lobby him for federal funds to extend the elevated train to their neighborhood.",
"\"This is the only area of Chicago where real transportation does not run to the city limits,\" Love said.",
"\"We have a whole community that's isolated with no way to get to jobs.\"",
"After lobbying their old friend, Love and his fellow residents got some of the money they requested.",
"\"With Sen. Obama's help, we wound up getting President Bush to sign the transportation bill allocating $580 million for the extension of the Red Line train,\" he said.",
"But the group is still waiting for Illinois to come up with its share of the funds.",
"If that doesn't work, Love said, he hopes he will be able to take the issue even higher.",
"\"We may someday soon have a president in the White House who will listen to people like us,\" Love said.",
"\"Then maybe, finally, we'll have someone who will respond to our needs.\""
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"London, England (CNN) -- Three Pakistani cricket players at the center of a gambling scandal have been charged with \"various offenses\" by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council announced Thursday.",
"Team captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have all said they were innocent but have been provisionally suspended pending a decision on the charges, the council said.",
"\"We will not tolerate corruption in cricket -- simple as that,\" said the council's chief executive, Haroon Lorgat.",
"\"We must be decisive with such matters and if proven, these offenses carry serious penalties up to a life ban.\"",
"A fine could also be imposed as part of the punishment.",
"Lorgat cautioned that the players' guilt has not been proven.",
"\"That is for the independent tribunal alone to decide,\" he said.",
"Meanwhile, Pakistani High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hassan told reporters after meeting with the players that he believes their claims of innocence.",
"\"They have not been proven guilty,\" Hassan told a throng of reporters.",
"\"And until you are proven guilty, you are innocent.\"",
"A police investigation into the alleged scandal is continuing, but no further meeting with police or questioning of the men is scheduled, he said.",
"Hassan did, however, vow to take legal action to defend the players if necessary.",
"\"I think we will go to the court of law to defend them,\" he said.",
"Eighteen-year-old Amir is the youngest-ever bowler to reach 50 Test wickets.",
"He took six wickets -- considered an impressive feat -- against England in the Test on which the betting allegations are centered.",
"For such an exciting prospect, already hugely popular in his homeland, to be tarnished by a scandal like this has depressed many cricket fans in Pakistan.",
"Asif has already courted controversy in his career.",
"He has tested positive for steroids twice, and soon after the second offense, he was caught with a recreational drug in his wallet at the Dubai airport and was kept in detention for three weeks.",
"The betting allegations emerged Sunday in the British tabloid News of the World, which reported that two Pakistan players deliberately bowled \"no balls,\" or fouls, during their Test series with England in London last week.",
"It said the alleged ringleader made 150,000 pounds ($232,800) in the scam.",
"England won the match at Lord's Cricket Ground.",
"It ended Sunday afternoon, after the scandal broke.",
"Hassan said Thursday it is possible the players are the victims of a setup, saying they have been \"maligned by the media\" and are the victims of \"character assassination by the media.\"",
"\"You have to investigate to find out whether they've been set up or not,\" he said.",
"Referring to the News of the World -- a newspaper known for its sensational headlines -- he added, \"What is the reputation of those people who have brought us this story?\"",
"Team manager Yawar Saeed said London's Metropolitan Police have already questioned him and the three players.",
"Several people have been arrested in connection with the case.",
"The Met Police arrested a 35-year-old man late Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers and released him on bail Sunday, and customs officials arrested three people Sunday on suspicion of money laundering.",
"Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari also ordered an investigation into the scandal, his spokesman said Sunday.",
"CNN's Chris Murphy and Don Riddell contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Tour de France legend Laurent Fignon has died from cancer in a Paris hospital aged just 50.",
"Fignon won the Tour in 1983 and 1984 but was perhaps most famous for the 1989 contest, when he was beaten by Greg Lemond by only eight seconds -- the smallest winning margin in the history of the race.",
"The Frenchman actually held the lead going into the final stage time-trial into Paris, but he let his advantage slip to allow American Lemond to snatch victory in the most dramatic finish ever seen.",
"As well as his two Tour victories, Fignon won nine stages and held the leader's yellow jersey for 22 days.",
"His other big race successes included two wins in the Milan-San Remo one-day classic and two stage wins in both the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta Espana.",
"Fignon was a colorful character on and off the bike, famous for his flowing blond hair and glasses, and was also regarded as an anti-establishment figure.",
"In his autobiography, \"We Were Young and Carefree\", Fignon admitted taking amphetamines and cortisone during his career but did not establish a direct link with his cancer.",
"\"In those days everyone was doing it,\" he explained in his book.",
"\"But it is impossible to know to what extent doping harms you.",
"\"Whether those who lived through 1998, when a lot of extreme things happened, will get cancer after 10 or 20 years, I really can't say.\"",
"Meanwhile, tributes for Fignon have poured in from the world of cycling.",
"Defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador led the tributes on his Twitter page, saying: \"Today we lost a great champion, Laurent Fignon, after a hard struggle.",
"It was a privilege to share some time with him in Paris.",
"Rest in peace.",
"Lance Armstrong, who himself battled cancer before becoming the greatest Tour de France champion of all time, said on his official website: \"I awoke today to the terrible news that my dear friend and legendary cyclist Laurent Fignon has passed away.",
"\"I will never forget the early 90's when I first turned pro, of course terrified of the older guys.",
"Laurent was always a friendly face with words of advice.",
"He was a special man to me, to cycling, and to all of France.",
"Laurent, we will all miss you.\"",
"And fellow-American Lemond, whose name will always be linked with Fignon after their epic 1989 duel, echoed those sentiments.",
"\"I will miss Laurent Fignon as a great person and competitor.",
"A truly sad day for everyone whose lives he touched.\"",
"In later life, Fignon became a consultant for French television and commentated on the Tour de France in 2009 and 2010 despite the treatment he was receiving."
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"The 50-year-old won the Tour de France twice in the 1980s and was second in 1989 .",
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A Los Angeles photographer claims singer and former Playboy model Tila Tequila kidnapped his girlfriend and threatened to kill him a week ago, according to a court filing made public Wednesday.",
"Garry Sun filed an application for a temporary restraining order against Tequila, who stands less than 5 feet and weighs just 90 pounds.",
"\"The story is patently absurd,\" said Alan Gutman, Tequila's lawyer.",
"\"The allegations are delusional and a work of fiction.\"",
"Sun, who said he is Tequila's former boyfriend, accused her of making \"several threats to my girlfriend (21-year-old Shyla Jennings) that if police were in any ways notified of her crimes, that either she or I would be killed.\"",
"His application for the restraining order, which was obtained by CNN, alleged that on October 19, Jennings \"was kidnapped from her home in Houston, Texas, and was flown to Los Angeles.\"",
"It does not detail how Tequila was involved in the alleged kidnapping.",
"Tequila \"drove to my home address with four armed men with guns threatening to kill me and threatening my father,\" Sun said.",
"Tequila's lawyer said Sun \"is a former paparazzi who was terminated from his role on Tila's website and is now desperate to get back at her.\"",
"She has two witnesses who \"can confirm that she had nothing to do with any of these ridiculous claims,\" Gutman said.",
"\"Mr. Sun's filing shows that anyone can file anything in a courthouse,\" Gutman said.",
"\"He will undoubtedly be held accountable by appropriate authorities for making these false allegations.\"",
"Sun has not returned CNN calls for comment.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anthony Jones has not yet decided whether he will grant the temporary restraining order."
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"Garry Sun files for a temporary restraining order against the model-singer .",
"Sun claims Tequila orchestrated the kidnapping of his current girlfriend .",
"The judge has not decided yet on Sun's restraining order request ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazilian striker Robinho, the most expensive player in English football history after Manchester City paid Real Madrid 42.5 million euros for him two years ago, has joined AC Milan on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee.",
"The 26-year-old became the first big-name signing in City's recent revolution, but he failed to settle in the north of England -- going back home to join Santos on loan in January before eventually leaving Eastlands on a permanent basis for the San Siro.",
"Robinho will link up with recent Barcelona loan signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic and compatriots Ronaldinho and Alexandre Pato in an exciting-looking forward line for the new Serie A season.",
"\"I am really happy to be here,\" Robinho told Milan's official website.",
"\"I am delighted to have been given this opportunity and I want to prove my worth.",
"\"My ambition is to play well and to help Milan regain the title,\" added the Brazilian, who scored 14 goals in 41 appearances for the English side.",
"With Robinho's arrival, Milan have allowed Klass Jan Huntelaar to leave the club with the Dutch striker signing for German Bundesliga side Schalke, as the final day of the summer transfer window saw a host of players move clubs.",
"Schalke have paid Milan 14 million euros for the 27-year-old, who was a member of the Netherlands squad that reached the World Cup final in Soouth Africa.",
"Huntelaar failed to establish himself as a regular in his one season at the San Siro following his move from Real Madrid in 2009.",
"\"Negotiations were tougher than expected,\" Schalke coach Felix Magath told German newspaper Bild on Tuesday, \"I am happy to have Klaas Jan.",
"He will help us.\" Huntelaar was not alone in leaving the San Siro with long-serving defender Kakha Kaladze ending a 10-year association with Milan by joining Genoa.",
"And striker Marco Borriello has also been allowed to move on following the signings of Robinho and Ibrahimovic, joining Roma on a one-year loan deal.",
"Huntelaar will link up again with fomer Real Madrid team-mate Raul, who signed for the Gelsenkirchen-based side earlier in the year.",
"On a busy day for Schalke, they have also signed 24-year-old Spanish midfielder Jose Manuel Jurado from Atletico Madrid and Lille defender Nicolas Plestan on a three-year deal.",
"Elsewhere in Germany, Bundesliga leaders Hoffenheim have announced the signing of Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson on a four-year deal from English Championship side Reading for a fee of seven million euros.",
"Meanwhile, Stuttgart have announced the arrival of Italian international Mauro Camoranesi from Juventus on a one-year deal with an option for an additional year.",
"The 34-year-old moves on after eight seasons with the club and joins Frenchman David Trezeguet, who has joined Spanish Primera Liga newcomers Hercules, in leaving the Turin giants as coach Luigi del Neri continues reshaping his squad.",
"Hercules added to the signing of Trezeguet by completing the capture of Real Madrid's Dutch midfielder Royston Drenthe on a one-year loan deal.",
"Another player to leave Juventus is French defender Jonathan Zebina, who has joined Brescia on a two-year contract.",
"Juve have replaced Zebina in their squad with Arsenal left-back Armand Traore, who has joined on a season-long loan deal.",
"In England, Sunderland have smashed their transfer record with the signing of Rennes striker Asamoah Gyan on a four-year contract.",
"Gyan, who starred for Ghana in the World Cup finals, has cost Sunderland 15 million euros, beating the fee paid last year for Tottenham striker Darren Bent.",
"The biggest domestic transfer in England saw Liverpool swoop for Fulham left-back Paul Konchesky for an undisclosed fee on a four-year contract.",
"Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson, who was in charge of Konchesky when he was at Craven Cottage, has allowed Finnish striker Lauri Dalla Valle and Swedish winger Alex Kacaniklic to move to London in the opposite direction.",
"Elsewhere in England, Birmingham City have pulled off a transfer coup by signing former Arsenal winger Alexander Hleb on a one-year loan deal from Barcelona.",
"On a busy day for Birmingham manager Alex McLeish, the club also confirmed the signings of Spartak Moscow's Czech defender Martin Jiranek on a one-year contract and the capture of Chile international midfielder Jean Beausejour from Mexican outfit Club America on a three-year contract.",
"Meanwhile, Argentine midfielder Javier Mascherano was unveiled as a Barcelona player to fans at the Camp Nou on Monday, after passing a five-hour medical at the Catalan club.",
"The 26-year-old had made no secret of his wish to leave Liverpool and expressed his delight at signing a four-year deal with the Spanish champions.",
"\"When I landed, I said that I was achieving a dream.",
"At last I will be able to say that I play for Barcelona, the team who I wanted to play for,\" Mascherano told the official FIFA website.",
"\"I'm going to have the chance to play with players who I admire.",
"This is an opportunity of a lifetime.\""
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"The 26-year-old signs a four-year contract and leaves City after failing to settle at club .",
"Bundesliga club Schalke confirm signing of Dutch striker Klass Jan Huntelaar from Milan .",
"The 27-year-old leaves Milan for a fee of 14 million euros after one season in Italy .",
"Long-serving players Mauro Camoranesi and David Trezeguet both leave Juventus ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Bullying and harassment in schools often includes violations of federally protected civil rights, the federal government warned Tuesday in new guidelines for educators on how to address the problem.",
"If school administrators fail to properly deal with harassment based on gender, race or other issues, they risk being cited for contributing to a pattern of civil rights violations that could, in extreme cases, lead to a cut in federal funding, according to top officials who spoke to reporters on a conference call about the new guidelines.",
"\"In extreme cases, schools could be stripped of their federal education monies if they don't comply with all of our civil rights laws,\" said Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights.",
"Also on the call were Arne Duncan, secretary of education, and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes.",
"The issue of harassment gained prominence this year after a spate of suicides by students who were being bullied.",
"President Obama has called for greater awareness of the problem, saying the nation must \"dispel the myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up.\"",
"The guidelines were part of a letter that began \"Dear Colleague\" sent Tuesday to thousands of schools, colleges, universities and school districts around the country that included examples of bullying and harassment cases that constituted violations of federal civil rights laws.",
"In addition, the government said the White House will host a conference next year on preventing bullying and harassment, building on efforts by Duncan's department and other agencies.",
"In August, the Obama administration hosted the first National Bullying Summit and launched a national campaign against bullying.",
"Ali said the government proposed $410 million in fiscal year 2011 spending for \"successful, safe and healthy students,\" a 12 percent increase over 2010.",
"In a statement Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union welcomed the new government guidelines for making clear that most religious, gender and sexual harassment comes under federal civil rights prohibitions, but it called for expanding the federal law to eliminate any doubt.",
"\"Though the guidance goes far under current law, it does not replace having a federal statute that explicitly protects\" lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, said Laura Murphy, the director of the ACLU's Washington legislative office.",
"Murphy called for Congress to pass the Student Non-Discrimination Act, a bill pending in the House and Senate that the ACLU said would guarantee that homosexual and transgender students are explicitly protected from harassment and discrimination under federal law."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama got help from baseball great Joe Torre at a White House event Wednesday highlighting new steps the government is taking to reduce domestic violence.",
"Torre told the East Room audience about domestic abuse in his childhood home, where he said his father beat his mother.",
"He pledged to help in any way he could to better protect the nation's children, whom he called \"our treasure.\"",
"\"Awareness is probably the biggest deterrent to domestic violence and abuse that goes on,\" said Torre, who with his wife started the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation to raise awareness about domestic violence.",
"\"What better place than the White House to raise awareness?\"",
"The new initiatives announced Wednesday include creation of a national advisory committee on violence against women that will work with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and others to come up with best solutions for reducing domestic violence and helping the victims.",
"Obama noted 25 percent of women in America experience domestic violence at some point in their lives.",
"He described new initiatives that focus on protecting children, improving legal protection for victims, increasing arrests and successful prosecutions of sexual assault cases and helping victims attain financial independence.",
"\"Nobody in America should live in fear because they are unsafe in their own home.",
"No adult. No child,\" Obama said, adding that one goal is to make sure \"no one has to choose between a violent home and no home at all.\"",
"A background document provided by the White House said Obama \"has called on every agency in the federal government to be part of the solution to ending violence against women.\""
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Senior police officers failed to pursue extensive intelligence that indicated a Catholic priest was involved in one of Northern Ireland's worst terrorist attacks, an independent report concluded Tuesday.",
"Nine people died and 30 were wounded July 31, 1972, when three bombs went off in the town of Claudy, in County Londonderry.",
"The first was a car bomb that had been parked outside a local pub.",
"Minutes later, bombs exploded outside a post office and a hotel, according to Irish state broadcaster RTE.",
"No one was ever charged in the case, but there have long been suspicions that a Catholic priest was involved.",
"Tuesday's report was issued by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, an independent body that investigates complaints against the police.",
"The report found that, rather than acting on the information about the priest's possible involvement, the police sought the government's help in dealing with the Catholic Church.",
"The police then accepted the government's \"understanding\" that was reported back to them, the report found.",
"\"The consequence of their acquiescence was that the investigation was further compromised,\" wrote Al Hutchinson, the police ombudsman.",
"\"The decision failed those who were murdered, injured, and bereaved in the bombing.",
"The police officers who were working on the investigation were also undermined.\"",
"The priest at the center of the controversy was identified by the report as Father James Chesney, who died in 1980.",
"According to the ombudsman's investigation, police had \"extensive intelligence\" after the bombing from which they concluded Chesney worked for the Irish Republican Army as its regional director of operations.",
"Police also knew of allegations he had been directly involved in both the Claudy bombings and other terrorist incidents, the report found.",
"That should have led the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) -- the police force in Northern Ireland at the time -- to pursue further investigation that could have either implicated or cleared the priest, the report said.",
"A detective wanted to arrest Chesney in the months after the bombing, but an assistant chief constable turned down that request, the report found.",
"That senior officer then suggested to the government that it hold a meeting with Catholic officials about the issue.",
"A government official wrote to the RUC in December 1972 to say the secretary of state for Northern Ireland met with Cardinal William Conway to express \"disgust\" at the priest's behavior, and that the cardinal said he knew the priest was a \"very bad man.\"",
"The cardinal promised to see \"what could be done\" about the priest, including a possible transfer to another parish.",
"Then-chief Constable Graham Shillington wrote back to say only that he had seen the letter about the meeting and preferred a transfer.",
"Chesney was moved to a parish in the Republic of Ireland in late 1973.",
"Church records indicate that when questioned by his superiors, Chesney denied involvement in terrorist activity, the report said.",
"As a result of the way police handled the case, the report said, the priest's denials were never tested.",
"Hutchinson, the ombudsman, said the decisions made by those in charge at the time have to be considered in the context of the time.",
"He said 1972 was one of the worst years of violence in Northern Ireland and the arrest of a priest could have aggravated the security situation.",
"Without more information about why the police failed to follow up the leads, however, Hutchinson said their actions look like a collusive act.",
"\"The key police decision-makers referred to in this statement are deceased,\" he said.",
"\"Had they been alive today, their actions would have demanded explanation, which would have been the subject of further investigation.\"",
"The report found no evidence of criminal intent on the part of any government or Catholic official.",
"It also found no evidence that the police had information that could have prevented the bombings.",
"In a joint statement, Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh, and Bishop Seamus Hegarty said they accepted the report's findings and conclusions.",
"They said the church had made all known material available to investigators.",
"\"Throughout the Troubles (the 30-year period of violence in Northern Ireland), the Catholic Church, along with other churches in Northern Ireland, was constant in its condemnation of the evil of violence,\" they said.",
"\"It is therefore shocking that a priest should be suspected of involvement in such violence.",
"\"This case should have been properly investigated and resolved during Father Chesney's lifetime.",
"If there was sufficient evidence to link him to criminal activity, he should have been arrested and questioned at the earliest opportunity, like anyone else.",
"We agree with the police ombudsman that the fact this did not happen failed those who were murdered, injured and bereaved in the bombings.\"",
"They appealed for any information about other suspects in the case.",
"\"Father Chesney is dead and, as a suspect in the Claudy bombing, he is beyond the justice of earthly courts,\" they said.",
"\"Clearly a number of people were involved in the planning and carrying out of this terrible atrocity, some of whom may still be alive.",
"Those bereaved and injured deserve to know the truth.",
"We appeal to anyone who has information in relation to this horrific crime to provide it to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\"",
"The RUC became the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in 2001.",
"The ombudsman began its investigation in late 2002 after the PSNI said the RUC had information that a priest was an active IRA member and had been involved in the Claudy bombings ."
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"(CNN) -- Now that 33 miners who have been trapped in the earth for 19 days have been found alive, the focus is shifting to their physical and mental health as they face a potentially long period before being rescued.",
"Chile is calling on experts from space and sea to consult on how to maintain the psychological well-being of a group of men crammed into a small space.",
"Experts from NASA and Chilean navy submarine experts have been called to help, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Tuesday.",
"The miners have been trapped inside the San Jose copper and gold mine since an August 5 cave-in.",
"A probe over the weekend reached the miners, who survived inside a shelter some 2,300 feet underground.",
"Officials have estimated that it could take three to four months to reach the miners.",
"So far, authorities have spoken with the miners via microphone, but have not disclosed to them their lengthy prediction for a rescue.",
"\"We have still not told them the timetable, but we are sure that as miners, they know this will take a long time,\" Health Minister Jaime Manalich said.",
"As it is, relief such as food and nutrients will also be reaching the miners in small amounts.",
"Manalich said that the miners will likely not be given solid food for five days.",
"Instead, authorities will send down fluids, liquid proteins and liquid vitamins.",
"The strategy is a precaution, Manalich said, as doctors do not know the exact health of the miners.",
"So far, however, the diagnosis looks good, he said.",
"None of the men suffered major injuries, though some have minor injuries, Manalich said.",
"Some of the miners reported eye irritation from the dust.",
"Health officials are designing an exercise program and light work to keep the trapped miners physically and mentally active, Manalich said.",
"On Monday, the trapped workers cheered, applauded and sang the country's national anthem in their first verbal contact with officials.",
"Several of Chile's top officials gathered around a white telephone outside the mine as the miners' voices crackled through the speakers in an emotional conversation that was also broadcast on television.",
"\"We are listening all of us, strong and clear.",
"Who's speaking?...How are you doing?\" said Golborne, according to CNN Chile.",
"Miner Luiz Urzua responded: \"We are well and hoping that you will rescue us.\"",
"The miners cheered as officials informed them that their family members had been keeping vigil outside the mine, CNN Chile reported.",
"The San Jose mine is near the town of Copiapo, in the Atacama region in northern Chile.",
"\"Yesterday, all of Chile celebrated in all the plazas of the country that we had made contact with you.",
"Today they are going to be even happier that we have spoken,\" Golborne said.",
"The miners survived for more than 17 days by sharing small amounts of tuna and mackerel that were in a shelter, along with water, President Sebastian Pinera told CNN en Espanol on Monday.",
"\"They had very little food,\" he said.",
"\"They told us they ate tuna and mackerel every other day, and that they shared ... a jar of peaches among the 33.\"",
"The area where the miners find themselves is about 50 square meters (538 square feet), Pinera said.",
"He described the shelter as a type of cavern where they had access to an area called the \"workshop,\" where they found batteries for light and water for consumption.",
"Pinera estimated the temperatures where the miners are hover between 32-35 degrees Celsius (90-95 degrees Fahrenheit).",
"\"They've got the immediate problem of getting supplies and food to these individuals who have been trapped for 18 days now. ...",
"They've got to satisfy their basic needs,\" he said.",
"\"Then, they've got the secondary problem, longer-term problem, of drilling down a 28-inch, 30-inch hole and getting it down 2,500 feet in very unstable rock conditions.",
"And to do that, in order to make it successful, they have got to go slow.",
"And that's the problem, is that despite the fact that everybody wants to rush, the fact is they have to use a slow drill in order to try to stabilize and get stable the hole so that they can, in fact, pull people out from that entrapment underground,\" McAteer said.",
"McAteer told \"American Morning\" the mental and emotional components of the miners' entrapment may be difficult to overcome.",
"\"How do you come up with things for them to do and arrange things so that they can get their attention diverted from just sitting there waiting?",
"That's going to be the real challenge for the Chileans and for the rescuers,\" he said.",
"\"I think the fact that they've made it these 18 days is very, very positive.",
"But the euphoria of making contact with the surface is going to last a couple days and then it is going to be a long slope.\"",
"McAteer added that the Chilean government and counselors were helping the \"resilient\" miners, but modern technology could be the biggest boon to the caged miners' mental health.",
"\"I see no reason why you couldn't pass cellphones down to them or computers, tethered down to them.",
"We're in a new day. There'll need to be -- something will need to be done to divert their attention,\" he said.",
"Chile's mining minister reiterated Monday that those responsible for the cave-in will be prosecuted, a point also made a few minutes later at a separate event by the Chilean president.",
"\"We will investigate and punish those who are responsible,\" Pinera said.",
"Family members had cheered Sunday when Pinera held up a handwritten note pulled from the mine.",
"The note was tied to a probe authorities had lowered earlier Sunday.",
"Written in Spanish in red ink, it said simply: \"We are fine in the shelter, the 33 of us.\"",
"CNN's Karl Penhaul contributed to this report."
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"Former U.S. mine safety chief says two problems exist: supplies and rescue .",
"Authorities say it could take months to rescue miners ."
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"(CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter predicted that Republicans' obstructionist ways should change and President Obama's re-election prospects could improve after next week's midterm elections.",
"Speaking Wednesday on HLN's \"The Joy Behar Show,\" Carter said the Republican party has been \"completely irresponsible\" in the past 18 months by opposing most legislative initiatives backed by Obama and his fellow Democrats.",
"But the nation's 39th president said that approach might not work as well, if Republicans go from the minority to the majority in either the Senate or House of Representatives.",
"He said it could also end up leading to less of a logjam on Capitol Hill.",
"\"If they, maybe, gain control, ... they'll have to show some responsibility, so that Obama will will have an opponent with whom he can debate with some degree of rationality,\" Carter said.",
"Carter praised Obama for doing \"an extraordinary job\" despite numerous challenges, including an environment in which most every move he made, even if it had once been championed by Republicans, faced immediate opposition.",
"If and when Republicans engage the White House after voters hit the polls on November 2, Obama may be more able to engage them as well as voters in drawing a clear distinction between himself and his opponents, Carter said.",
"\"They've been able to snipe away at what he does, and (Obama) hasn't had a target to debate,\" he said.",
"\"But that's going to change over the next two years.",
"So I think he'll have a better chance to be re-elected than I think he (may seem to have) now.\"",
"A devout Christian and longtime Sunday school teacher, Carter also addressed recent comments from Republican senatorial candidates Sharron Angle of Nevada and Christine O'Donnell of Delaware talking openly about religion on the campaign trail.",
"He said that it's very different from when he was president in the 1970s, because \"there's sort of a marriage between religious groups and one political party\" -- the Republicans.",
"Carter said the growing role of money in politics had poisoned the process, not only in funding relentless rounds of negative advertising, but also when the candidates set up shop in Washington.",
"\"That's been the main cause of the change in the political environment -- the enormous influence of vast amounts of money, (sometimes) secretly without identifying donors.",
"A lot of that money is used in negative advertising to destroy the reputations of opponents,\" said Carter.",
"\"That animosity, that hatred, carries over.\""
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"(CNN) -- An Argentine government report released Tuesday alleges that two of the country's largest newspapers, Clarin and La Nacion, resorted to human rights violations against the owners of a paper company in what was an illegal appropriation of its shares.",
"Founded in 1972, Papel Prensa is the main manufacturer of newsprint in Argentina and is owned by Clarin, La Nacion, and the government.",
"The report alleges that the two newspaper conglomerates colluded with Argentina's dictatorship in 1976 to force the sale of the shares through torture and threats.",
"Both newspapers have denied the claims, and say the shares of Papel Prensa were bought legally.",
"President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner presented the 233-page report herself.",
"The government will present the findings of the report to the judiciary to see if criminal charges will be brought against the papers.",
"She also accused Clarin, which owns 49 percent of Papel Prensa, of managing a monopoly that put some competitors out of business and kept other newspapers from emerging in Argentina.",
"The government is the second largest stakeholder in the company, with more than 27 percent of the shares.",
"La Nacion owns 23 percent of the company.",
"The report comes amid tensions between the government and the media, particularly Clarin.",
"Clarin has been highly critical of the leadership of Fernandez and her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner.",
"Last year, Fernandez spearheaded a controversial audio-visual communication policy that critics said was aimed at hobbling the holdings of Clarin, which also has business interests in cable, television and radio.",
"In a recent editorial, Clarin accused the government of trying to gain control over Papel Prensa in order to control the print media in the country.",
"Fernandez agreed that whoever controls the company controls the print media, but said that Clarin has abused that power.",
"The president announced that she would send a proposal to congress to create a commission that would regulate the production of newsprint \"as a public interest\" to make its access more equitable among publishers.",
"Among the evidence that Fernandez cited was the price the then-owner of Papel Prensa, Linda Graiver, sold the company for.",
"According to the report, Graiver sold it for just under $1 million, when records show the firm was worth between $2.3 million and $4 million.",
"In the end, Fernandez said, Graiver was paid only $7,000 before she was detained by elements of the dictatorship.",
"\"When you read this, you feel you are reading a thriller, an Argentine thriller,\" Fernandez said."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The message from President John F. Kennedy's January 20, 1961, inaugural address has withstood the test of time, but not the elements at his grave site at Arlington National Cemetery.",
"To remedy that, workers Thursday began to restore the legibility of the inscription on a granite wall near Kennedy's tomb.",
"\"Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country,\" it reads in part.",
"Generations of Americans and international visitors have thronged to Kennedy's grave and eternal flame, which lie on the slope beneath the Custis-Lee Mansion.",
"Words from other Kennedy speeches also are on the wall, which was erected in 1965.",
"The original engraving was done by master stone mason John Everett Benson, who was on hand Thursday to advise workers.",
"The project is being underwritten by the Knights of Columbus.",
"Kennedy, the first Catholic president, was a member of the Catholic fraternal organization from 1946 until his assassination in November 1963.",
"The restoration work is being done by Gordon Ponsford, the Knights of Columbus said.",
"The work will take about a week and will cost less than $10,000, said Knights spokesman Patrick Korten.",
"The group noticed the weathering in August after members walked to the site after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.",
"\"We all looked at the wall and we could not read it,\" said Korten.",
"The organization also is sponsoring a high school essay contest to mark the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inaugural address.",
"CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report."
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"He asked Americans to serve their country .",
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"(CNN) -- Veteran Portugal international Deco is poised to end his career in the country of his birth after agreeing to join Fluminense, the Brazilian club announced on Saturday.",
"The 32-year-old midfielder will leave English champions Chelsea and sign a two-year contract on Monday, Fluminense revealed on the club's website.",
"\"The vice president of Fluminense, Alcides Antunes, has officially signed Deco from Chelsea,\" a statement said.",
"\"After intense negotiations, the player, who participated in two World Cups for the Portugal national team, got his release from the English club and will sign a two-year contract with the Tricolor.",
"Deco will be officially presented to the press at 12:30 (local time) on Monday.\"",
"Deco, who played just once as Portugal reached the second round in South Africa, made only 14 starts for Chelsea in the Premier League last season.",
"He struggled to make an impact in England, having been signed by former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari in 2008.",
"Deco, who was born in Sao Bernardo do Campo in Sao Paulo state, was previously a big hit at Spanish club Barcelona, where he won the Champions League for the second time in 2006 following his triumph with Porto two years previously.",
"He started his career in Brazil, playing for Corinthians before Benfica took him to Portugal in 1997, and he subsequently played more than 70 times for his adopted nation.",
"Deco will join former Barcelona teammate Juliano Belletti at Fluminense, who signed the Brazil international defender last month following his release by Chelsea.",
"Meanwhile, Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta has signed a new five-year contract with English Premier League club Everton, ending speculation that the 28-year-old would be leaving."
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"Portugal international will sign a two-year contract as he returns to country of his birth .",
"The 32-year-old struggled to make an impact in two seasons in England .",
"He has twice won the UEFA Champions League with Barcelona and Porto ."
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"(CNN) -- They were elected to serve their small towns, but recently, mayors throughout Mexico have found themselves the targets of violent killings believed to be perpetrated by drug cartels.",
"As the cartels face challenges from the military and rival cartels, many of the groups have sought to increase their influence over the towns in the areas where they operate.",
"Not only do they traffic in drugs, but cartels have diversified into human smuggling, extortion, and even into public works.",
"A typical drug trafficking organization has a network of lookouts on city streets, \"tax\" collectors who collect protection money, and hit men who enforce their will on populations.",
"The result has been situations where the duties of mayors -- to collect taxes, provide security, and carry out public works -- have butted against the interests of the cartels, oftentimes with fatal results.",
"Thirteen mayors have been killed so far this year in Mexico, in states around the country.",
"The killings represent just a fraction of all the mayors throughout the country, but illustrate a disturbing new development in the drug war.",
"The turf wars that the cartels are fighting are reflected in the office of the mayor, said Ana Maria Salazar, a television and radio political commentator in Mexico City.",
"\"These groups are demanding more from the mayors,\" Salazar told CNN.",
"The cartels seek information, police protection and means of communication from the local governments, she said, adding that she was surprised that more mayors have not been killed.",
"This year, the largest number of mayors -- four -- have been killed in the border state of Chihuahua, a hotbed of fighting between the Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa cartel.",
"Killings have also been recorded in hot spots such as the state of Michoacan, home to the Familia Michoacana cartel.",
"Also affected have been Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, two border states where the Zetas drug cartel is battling an alliance comprised of the Sinaloans, La Familia Michoacana and the Gulf cartel.",
"George Grayson, a Mexico expert and professor of government at the College of William and Mary, said that he sees the Zetas, who got their start as army defectors, as a force behind some of the killings.",
"The Zetas have been on the defensive against the alliance that formed against them, as well as from the government forces.",
"\"They are trying to demonstrate they are still important players,\" Grayson said.",
"\"They want to regain the reputation they think they have lost as the most ruthless organization in the Americas.\"",
"While the Zetas are not known for doing public works, some of their illicit activities -- collecting money for protection, for example -- shadow the responsibilities of the local government.",
"\"You are expected at least to turn a blind eye, if you are a mayor, especially,\" Grayson told CNN.",
"Most of the violence against mayors has happened in small towns in drug cartel territory, where the leaders are more vulnerable than their big-city counterparts.",
"One example is the small border town of Puerto Palomas, known locally simply as Palomas, in Chihuahua.",
"A year ago this month, the mayor, Estanislao Garcia, was kidnapped and then found executed.",
"Palomas, located across the border from Columbus, New Mexico, literally scrapes along the border with the United States.",
"As a town, it is known as a staging area for immigrants looking to steal across the border, and lacks an industry of its own.",
"\"It's been a difficult challenge,\" Maria Lopez, the current mayor of Palomas, said of her position.",
"But since that killing, things have been relatively calm.",
"\"I have not had any problems, thank God,\" she told CNN.",
"At first, she says that she was not scared when she succeeded Garcia.",
"Then, she restated her answer.",
"\"I first I was scared, why should I lie?",
"But not anymore\" No drug traffickers have come to negotiate with her on any issues, she said.",
"Lopez says she doesn't know who killed Garcia, though speculation is that it was one of the cartels that work in the area.",
"\"It's sad. It's truly sad. I don't know what is behind it,\" she said.",
"Garcia had been in a quarrel with local teachers at the time of his death, but she doesn't think they were the ones who ended his life.",
"Other killings offer more clear evidence of cartel involvement.",
"In September, in the town of El Naranjo in San Luis Potosi, witnesses saw four armed and hooded men exit a white truck in front of city hall in the early afternoon.",
"Two men waited in front of the building while the other two went inside Mayor Alexander Lopez's office and shot him.",
"Other killings have been even more violent.",
"The mayor of Tancitaro, Michoacan -- Gustavo Sanchez -- was found stoned to death on the side of the road.",
"An aide who was with him met the same fate.",
"Being a mayor in Mexico these days requires great courage because they face intimidation, threats and bribes, Mayor Jaime Dominguez of Ascension, Chihuahua, told CNN.",
"\"As mayors we are under a lot of risk,\" he said.",
"Dominguez says that he tries to focus on his job, helping the people of his community with infrastructure and water projects in his agricultural town.",
"The only crime he is concerned with are local ones, such as robbery and domestic violence.",
"Drug trafficking and murders fall to the state and federal authorities to investigate.",
"\"Our job is to work closely with the community,\" he said.",
"\"I feel safe, I feel secure.",
"My hands are clean.\"",
"Still, he wishes for more federal and state help for issues such as social development and security.",
"\"In a way, this (violence) was expected,\" Salazar said, referring to how cartels continue to push the limit to who they can kill.",
"Before the mayors were targeted, cartels had been targeting police chiefs throughout the country.",
"Grayson agreed.",
"\"I think the death toll will rise with the mayors.\"",
"Could governors be next?",
"A leading gubernatorial candidate in Tamaulipas state, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was gunned down in June."
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Help trickled in Thursday to remote islands where whole villages were flattened by a earthquake and tsunami in western Indonesia.",
"At least 343 people died and another 340 were missing after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake Monday, according to Indonesia's National Disaster Agency.",
"Meanwhile, nature continued to shows its force, with hot clouds and ash spewing from a Java volcano that erupted and killed more than 30 residents.",
"A magnitude 5.3 earthquake rumbled in Maluku province to the east.",
"There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage there.",
"The delivery of aid to the devastated islands near Sumatra is a logistics challenge.",
"An assessment team from the nonprofit group SurfAid International began surveying villages on the islands of North Pagai and South Pagai, the group said Thursday.",
"The nonprofit is one of the few to have reached the remote disaster zone.",
"The trip takes at least 10 hours in good conditions, according to aid agencies.",
"The hard-hit Mentawai Islands region is among Indonesia's myriad islands.",
"\"The village of Sabeugungung has been completely wiped out, with 50 dead and 150 missing presumed dead.",
"Sikakap hospital is overflowing with over 200 people seeking assistance,\" SurfAid said in a blog post.",
"Ten villagers in Bosua had been killed, another was missing, and 78 houses had been destroyed, the nonprofit said.",
"Late Wednesday, SurfAid sent 1,000 shelter kits, 500 building kits and 500 hygiene kits to victims by charter boat.",
"Another charter boat had delivered an initial batch of supplies, including blankets, tarps and water containers, and more aid shipments were planned, SurfAid said.",
"The group was trying to work with government officials to establish an information and coordination hub for all non-governmental organizations, spokeswoman Jossi Syahrial said.",
"The Indonesian Red Cross also had sent at least two aid teams to the disaster zone.",
"One aid shipment included about 400 body bags.",
"Urgent needs are expected to include clean water, food, blankets, clothing, medical attention, emergency shelter and hygiene kits, said Ita Balanda, a program manager for the World Vision aid organization in Padang, Indonesia.",
"An estimated 7,900 households were affected, she said.",
"\"The worst hit area is North and South Pagai Island.",
"Reports of villages flattened are coming from there,\" said Antorizon of the West Sumatra disaster management agency, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.",
"The first pictures from North Pagai Island showed damaged and flattened structures.",
"Monday's quake generated a \"significant\" tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.",
"Some of the missing might include people who are unaccounted for after fleeing to higher ground, said Henri Dori Satoko, head of the Mentawai Islands parliament.",
"Though communication poses a challenge in the remote area, some witnesses in West Sumatra reported seeing a wave 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) high.",
"Other reports described the tsunami as being about 3 meters (almost 10 feet) high.",
"At least one village with a population of about 200 people was swept away, with only 40 people recovered, Satoko said.",
"Indonesia's government has since warned residents of West Sumatra province to stay alert and stay away from the coastline for up to five days because of the possibility of more earthquakes, Balanda said.",
"The city of Padang and the Mentawai Islands are at the meeting place of two tectonic plates, making them vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis.",
"On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Sumatra.",
"A tsunami generated by that earthquake killed more than 225,000 people in 14 countries -- mainly India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand.",
"The Indonesian region of Banda Aceh was hard-hit: About 150,000 died there.",
"To the east, on Java, the death toll from Tuesday's eruption of Mount Merapi has climbed to 32, medical officials said Thursday.",
"Merapi, which looms on the horizon north of the major city of Yogyakarta, is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes and lies in one of the world's most densely populated areas.",
"The volcano has a summit elevation of nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters).",
"Hundreds of displaced residents have crammed a small government building in Yogyakarta.",
"Many had fled with only the clothes on their backs.",
"Some refused to flee, holding out to watch over their crops and livestock.",
"Some residents awaited word from the traditional gatekeeper of Mount Merapi.",
"But Maradjin, the gatekeeper, fell victim to the volcano as well.",
"He was to be buried Thursday.",
"He died in his 80s, after being appointed about two decades ago by the last Sultan of Java.",
"Maradjin's father was gatekeeper before him.",
"\"Merapi is a house of spirits, which also means a living mountain,\" Maradjin told CNN in a 2006 interview.",
"\"When Merapi emits smoke, we have to be respectful.\"",
"CNN's Kathy Quiano, Paula Hancocks and Stan Grant contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods may have clung on to his world number one status but after a disappointing final round at the PGA Championship will have to rely on captain Corey Pavin to play in the Ryder Cup.",
"Woods needed to finish in the top 15 at Whistling Straits to have any chance of forcing his way into the eight automatic selections for the United States team to face Europe at Celtic Manor in October.",
"Handily placed after three rounds, Woods stumbled to a one-over 73 to end up in a tie for 28th.",
"\"I hit my irons really good today.",
"I drove it terrible,\" was his verdict.",
"His performance was certainly an improvement on a disastrous showing in the preceding WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and Woods briefly led at the start of his first round, but after that the inconsistencies crept in.",
"\"I didn't miss a shot for the first four holes.",
"And then after that I hit it awful,\" he added.",
"Woods could have done with replicating the final round 67 of arch-rival Phil Mickelson, which lifted him into a tie for 12th, but not enough to surpass his fellow American in the rankings.",
"Woods is now hoping that U.S. captain Corey Pavin will make him one of his four captain's picks.",
"\"Corey texts me a lot so, I'm sure he'll be texting me or calling me and I'm sure we'll be talking.",
"\"We still have what, two more weeks, right?",
"Two more weeks before the picks?",
"Three more weeks?\"",
"Woods is still searching for his first win of a truncated season and has not claimed a major since the U.S. Open in 2008.",
"Consolation for runner-up Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson, who was penalized two shots to miss out on the playoff, comes as they have moved into the automatic eight spots.",
"Germany's Martin Kaymer has sealed his place in the Europe team after his first major victory, while Paul Casey, who tied 12th, has also forced his way into the nine automatic selection spots.",
"It leaves Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington and Justin Rose now requiring picks from captain Colin Montgomerie, but Sergio Garcia's decision to take a break from golf has made his decision a little easier."
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"Tiger Woods finishes outside the top eight spots for the U.S. Ryder Cup team .",
"World number one blows his chance with disappointing final round at Whistling Straits .",
"He will now rely on a pick from United States captain Corey Pavin .",
"PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer clinches his spot on European team ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Latinos in the United States are divided over a host of issues, including what to do about unauthorized immigrants, a reflection of the national political controversy over illegal immigration, a national study released Thursday finds.",
"Slightly more than half of the nation's Hispanics say illegal immigrants should pay a small fine but not be deported, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center.",
"Another 28 percent of the Latino respondents to the Pew poll say unauthorized immigrants should not be punished.",
"On the other side, 13 percent say they should be deported.",
"Explainer: Illegal immigration 101 .",
"Latinos also are feeling increased concerns about discrimination, again the result of the national controversy over illegal immigration, the survey found.",
"This year, 61 percent of Latinos say discrimination is a \"major problem,\" an increase from the 54 percent who categorized it that way in 2007, Pew said.",
"\"Asked to state the most important factor leading to discrimination, a plurality of 36 percent now cites immigration status, up from a minority of 23 percent who said the same in 2007,\" the report states.",
"\"Back then, a plurality of respondents -- 46 percent -- identified language skills as the biggest cause of discrimination against Hispanics.\"",
"In addition, the Pew report says, Latinos are divided about the impact of illegal immigration on Hispanics living in the United States.",
"\"Roughly equal shares say the impact has been positive (29 percent), negative (31 percent) or made no difference (30 percent),\" the report says.",
"\"This mixed judgment stands in sharp contrast to views that Latinos expressed on this subject in 2007.",
"Back then, fully half (50 percent) of Latinos said the impact was positive, while just 20 percent said it was negative.\"",
"The latest survey also finds that Latinos are divided over whether immigrant and native-born Hispanics are working together to achieve common political goals.",
"About half (45 percent) say they are and about half (46 percent) say they are not.",
"Both the native born (who comprise 47 percent of the adult Latino population) and the foreign born (who comprise 53 percent) are roughly equally divided on their perceptions of political solidarity, Pew said.",
"\"The native born and foreign born have different views on many topics explored in the survey,\" the report says.",
"\"For example, seven in 10 (70 percent) foreign-born Latinos say discrimination against Hispanics is a major problem preventing Latinos from succeeding in America.",
"Less than half (49 percent) of the native born agree.",
"\"And when it comes to their views of immigrants, fewer than seven in 10 native-born Hispanics say immigrants strengthen the country, while 85 percent of immigrant Hispanics say the same.\"",
"Although the survey found differences of opinion among Latinos, it also revealed areas of broad agreement.",
"For example, Pew said, 86 percent of Latinos support providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants if they pass background checks, pay a fine and have jobs.",
"That level of support surpasses the 68 percent of the general public who favor such a path to citizenship, Pew said.",
"Among Latinos, 82 percent of the native born and 90 percent of the foreign born say they support providing that path.",
"Latinos also are united in their opposition to Arizona's SB 1070, a controversial law enacted this year that authorizes police to check the immigration status of anyone who is being investigated for another suspected crime.",
"According to Pew, 79 percent of Latinos oppose the measure, most of which has been stayed pending a lawsuit by the federal government.",
"The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found this year that the general population supports the law by a 2-to-1 ratio.",
"With regard to rising concerns about a backlash triggered by illegal immigration, the Pew survey found no increase over past years in the percentage of Latinos who report that they or someone they know have been targets of discrimination or have been stopped by authorities and asked about their immigration status.",
"About one-third of all Latinos (34 percent) say they, a member of their family or a close friend have experienced discrimination in the past five years because of their race or ethnic group, Pew said.",
"That amount is largely unchanged from 2009, when it stood at 32 percent.",
"Perhaps even more significantly, only 5 percent said they had been stopped by police or other authorities and asked about their immigration status, down from 9 percent in 2008.",
"Despite the immigration controversy, Pew also found that Latinos are more satisfied this year with the direction of the United States.",
"Thirty-six percent said they are satisfied, a significant increase over the 25 percent who said the same thing in 2008.",
"By contrast, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in a late summer survey found 25 percent of the general public satisfied with the country's direction.",
"Latinos also remain as upbeat about their lives as they were three years ago, Pew said, with 24 percent rating it as \"excellent\" and 45 percent as \"good.\"",
"About 80 percent on the nation's estimated 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants are of Hispanic origin.",
"Latinos are the nation's largest minority.",
"The 47 million Hispanics in the United States make up nearly 15 percent of the nation's population.",
"About 38 percent of the nation's Latinos are immigrants.",
"Of those, about 19 percent are unauthorized.",
"The study results come from a new national survey of 1,375 Latino adults conducted by land line and cellular telephones in English and Spanish from August 17 through September 19, Pew said.",
"The margin of error is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points for the full sample and larger for subgroups.",
"The Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that does not take positions on policy issues.",
"It is part of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan institute based in Washington that is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, a Philadelphia-based public charity."
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"The divisions come from the national political row over illegal immigration, Pew says .",
"Latinos also feel heightened concerns over discrimination based on immigration status .",
"But Latinos also share areas of broad agreement, such as their opposition to SB 1070 .",
"The survey of 1,375 Latinos was conducted in August and September ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's national security adviser has resigned from his post in order to run in the 2011 presidential election, he told CNN on Sunday.",
"In announcing his bid for the presidency, Gen. Aliyu Gusau will compete against President Goodluck Jonathan, who appointed Gusau to his national security post earlier this year to help quell religious clashes in the city of Jos.",
"Gusau is one of four main contenders from the country's north who announced Friday that they would put forth a single candidate to challenge Jonathan in next month's primaries for the People's Democratic Party.",
"Gusau's announcement comes a day after Jonathan formally declared that he will run in the 2011 elections.",
"\"I have decided to humbly offer myself as a candidate in the presidential primaries of our party, the great PDP (People's Democratic Party),\" he said Saturday.",
"Under Nigerian \"zoning\" rules, power must shift to different regions and ethnic groups every eight years.",
"Jonathan -- who is from the Niger Delta, in the south -- was part of the joint ticket of the late President Umaru Yar'Adua, who was from the north.",
"Yar'Adua's death in May, after a long illness, upset the order of the zoning.",
"Yar'Adua was elected in 2007 and his southern replacement threatened to halt the north's turn at holding power.",
"Under an agreement with the four contenders from the north, Gusau will challenge Jonathan and the bloc will support his bid to try to win the election in favor of the north.",
"The challenge has the potential to split the ruling party when primaries are scheduled to be held between October 18 and 20.",
"However, Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission indicated in a communique Sunday that it could extend the timeline for the election.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"Gusau is part of a northern bloc hoping to take control of the ruling party .",
"Primaries are scheduled to be held next month ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Hundreds of energy workers across the UK have taken strike action Friday in protest over the use of foreign workers on a multimillion-dollar oil refinery project on the northeast coast of England.",
"Protesters gather outside the Total Lindsey oil refinery in north-east England on January 30.",
"The dispute surrounds the decision by oil giant Total to award Italian company IREM a contract to build a new hydro desulphurization facility at its Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Lincolnshire.",
"The British Press Association reported that several hundred demonstrators had gathered for a third day outside the plant, following a walk-out by contractors on Wednesday, but the unofficial action has now spread to other parts of the UK, including Scotland and Wales.",
"In Scotland, hundreds of workers at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery walked out following an early morning meeting Friday.",
"According to PA, the mechanical contractors, who work for BP and INEOS, said they were supporting their colleagues in Lincolnshire.",
"Elsewhere, PA reported that police were called to the Aberthaw power station near Barry in South Wales after workers staged a protest, while around 400 workers staged a demonstration at the Wilton oil refinery in Teesside, north-east England.",
"In a statement released Friday, Total said: \"We recognize the concerns of contractors but we want to stress that there will be no direct redundancies as a result of this contract being awarded to IREM and that all IREM staff will be paid the same as the existing contractors working on the project.",
"\"It is important to note that we have been a major local employer for 40 years with 550 permanent staff employed at the refinery.",
"There are also between 200 and 1000 contractors working at the refinery, the vast majority of which work for UK companies employing local people.",
"\"On this one specific occasion, IREM was selected, through a fair and competitive tender process, as the most appropriate company to complete this work.",
"We will continue to put contracts out to tender in the future and we are confident we will award further contracts to UK companies.\"",
"But Bernard McAuley, a representative of Britain's Unite union, was quoted by the BBC telling demonstrators in Lincolnshire that there was \"sufficient unemployed skilled labor wanting the right to work on that site and they are demanding the right to work on that site.\"",
"Five British companies and two European contractors bid for the work before it was awarded to the Italian firm on the basis that it was supplying its own permanent workforce, PA said.",
"The news agency added that 100 Italian and Portuguese workers are currently on site, with a further 300 expected to arrive next month.",
"The workers are being accommodated in large, gray housing barges moored at nearby Grimsby.",
"Meanwhile, The Guardian newspaper reported Friday that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was quizzed about the strikes during a news conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.",
"He said: \"I understand people's worries about their jobs.",
"I understand people's anxieties about employment across the country.",
"But we are doing everything we can both to get economic growth moving in our country and to help people who are unemployed, to help them into new jobs.\""
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"Dispute over Total's decision to award oil refinery contract to Italian company .",
"IREM will supply their own permanent workers from Italy and Portugal .",
"Striking workers at Lincolnshire site joined by energy workers across UK .",
"Total: There will be no direct redundancies as a result of this contract ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Airline passengers can expect to see as well as feel new pat-down procedures at U.S. airports over the coming weeks in an effort to provide another layer of security for travelers, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.",
"\"Pat-downs are one important tool to help TSA detect hidden and dangerous items such as explosives,\" according to a TSA statement sent to CNN.",
"The TSA said passengers should continue to expect \"an unpredictable mix of security layers that include explosives trace detection, advanced imaging technology, canine teams, among others.\"",
"But it's the hands-on procedures that have at least one traveler concerned that the TSA may be going too far.",
"Rosemary Fitzpatrick, a CNN employee, said she was subjected to a pat-down at the Orlando, Florida, airport on Wednesday night after her underwire bra set off a magnetometer.",
"She said she was taken to a private area and searched, with transportation screening officers telling her the pat-down was a new procedure.",
"According to Fitzpatrick, a female screener ran her hands around her breasts, over her stomach, buttocks and her inner thighs, and briefly touched her crotch.",
"\"I felt helpless, I felt violated, and I felt humiliated,\" Fitzpatrick said, adding that she was reduced to tears at the checkpoint.",
"She particularly objected to the fact that travelers were not warned about the new procedures.",
"Fitzpatrick sent an e-mail complaint about her experience to the TSA that said the agency needs to get the word out so that travelers know their rights.",
"The TSA employees \"conducted themselves in a professional manner, so my complaint is not about them professionally,\" Fitzpatrick wrote.",
"She told the TSA the agency needs to get the word out so the travelers know their rights.",
"\"I am appalled and disgusted at the new search procedures and the fact that passengers have not been made aware of the new invasive steps prior to entering the security area,\" Fitzpatrick wrote.",
"\"It appears once you enter the security area, passengers forfeit their rights.",
"There were no signs, video information, etc.",
"at the entrance of the security area the airport.",
"Why?\" She added: \"As an experienced traveler for work who was in tears for most of the search process, I have never experienced a more traumatic and invasive travel event!\"",
"The TSA sent an automated initial e-mail response to Fitzpatrick saying, \"Thank you for your inquiry to the Transportation Security Administration.",
"We have forwarded your e-mail to the appropriate group for response.\"",
"In its statement to CNN, the TSA said: \"Pat-down procedures are used to resolve alarms that occur at a walk-through metal detector, if an anomaly is detected during screening with advanced imaging technology or during random screening.\"",
"The statement also indicated that \"passengers who opt out of advanced imaging technology screening will receive alternate screening to include a thorough pat-down.\"",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve and Carol Cratty contributed to this story."
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"CNN employee complains of invasive pat-down, lack of communication .",
"Pat-downs are only used after an initial alarm is triggered, TSA says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The United States is contributing an estimated $4.5 million worth of firefighting equipment and other supplies to help battle massive wildfires in Russia, according to the Obama administration.",
"President Barack Obama called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday to express his \"deepest condolences\" for Russian losses in the fires, which have killed hundreds of people this summer, the White House noted.",
"\"The president told President Medvedev that he is monitoring the situation closely, and that the United States is responding to Russia's request for technical assistance in combating the fires,\" the White House said.",
"U.S. deliveries include \"water tanks, pumps, hand tools, fire-protective clothing, and medical kits,\" a State Department release said Friday.",
"The United States also donated $50,000 to support Red Cross and Red Crescent efforts \"to provide relief items, including blankets, bedding, and food parcels, for victims.\"",
"We stand \"with the people of Russia as they fight to contain the destructive spread of wildfires,\" State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said.",
"\"We are taking action to support the heroic efforts of Russian firefighters and emergency responders as they seek to bring these fires under control.\"",
"The U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Forest Service, and the state of California are mobilizing firefighting equipment and airlift capacity for Russia, it added."
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"NEW: The United States sending $4.5 million in supplies to help Russia fight wildfires .",
"The aid includes firefighting equipment and airlift capacity .",
"Hundreds have died in the wildfires this summer ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- An official with the Indian lawn bowls team has been diagnosed with dengue fever but is in stable condition, doctors confirmed Monday.",
"Ruptu Gogoi was hospitalized on Friday, according to doctors, who suspect the 30-year-old male patient could have contracted the mosquito-borne viral disease from outside the Commonwealth Games athletes' village in New Delhi.",
"Gogoi had complained of feeling sick a day after he arrived at the athletes village last month, said Rajiv Sagar, a spokesman for the G.B.",
"Pant Hospital in the city.",
"Doctors, therefore, think he may have acquired the mosquito-borne viral disease from outside the facility, Sagar said.",
"Dengue is the most common virus transmitted by mosquitoes in the world.",
"It causes as many as 100 million infections and kills 25,000 people every year.",
"Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas, according to the World Health Organization.",
"Meanwhile, after harsh criticism and controversy, the 2010 Commonwealth Games began Sunday with a lavish opening ceremony.",
"Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium gleamed with multi-colored lights as representatives from Commonwealth countries walked the length of the field by turns, waving their flags and wearing traditional native costumes.",
"It's the first time India has hosted the international sporting event between countries of the former British Empire.",
"The games, held every four years, include many Olympic events as well as other sports played traditionally in those countries.",
"Among the competitions is lawn bowling, where the object is to get more of one team's ball closer to a small white ball, or jack, than the opponent.",
"Britain's Prince Charles and Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil officially declared the games open.",
"Prince Charles was representing his mother, Queen Elizabeth.",
"The games have been a tough act for a nation that has never hosted such a large international event.",
"Parliament has been forced to deal with accusations of corruption in the planning of the games.",
"Two weeks ago, gunmen fired on a tourist bus in New Delhi and injured two Taiwanese tourists.",
"A car blaze turned out to be a crudely manufactured bomb.",
"And a militant group warned that it planned to target the games.",
"Indian law enforcement authorities responded with a heightened security plan, placing thousands of extra forces on the streets of the capital.",
"If all that weren't enough, two days before athletes were scheduled to begin arriving, complaints rang out across the globe about their shoddy living quarters.",
"\"You know, construction dust is still there, filth, excrement, it really is disgusting in parts and it really requires a professional deep clean throughout the entire complex,\" said Michael Hooper, chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Games Federation.",
"As if to amplify Hooper's complaint, a pedestrian bridge leading to Nehru stadium collapsed that same day.",
"Two world-class athletes canceled their trips, citing security and health concerns.",
"Entire teams threatened to do the same, while others delayed their arrival date.",
"Indian officials went to work on a massive clean-up effort.",
"In the end, athletes from 71 countries showed up.",
"CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"Doctors think Gogoi may have contracted the disease outside the athletes' village .",
"Dengue kills 25,000 people every year .",
"The games open in a lavish ceremony ."
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"(CNN) -- FIFA will investigate the latest allegations of corruption which have further brought into question the integrity of the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.",
"Football's ruling body faces further embarrassment after its former secretary general was accused of identifying members of the current executive committee who are open to bribery.",
"Committee members Amos Adamu, of Nigeria, and Oceania representative Reynald Temarii of Tahiti have already been provisionally suspended ahead of another ethics hearing next month, along with four other FIFA officials.",
"Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, which provided evidence that led to that decision after an undercover investigation, has now released secretly-filmed video of Michel Zen-Ruffinen offering inside information on others who might be open to selling their votes ahead of the December 2 decisions on which countries will host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.",
"FIFA must challenge any potential corruption cancer .",
"Zen-Ruffinen was forced out of his FIFA post before the 2002 World Cup, having prepared a report which led to FIFA taking unsuccessful legal action against president Sepp Blatter over allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.",
"He told undercover Times reporters that two current executive committee members could be bribed with money, another would accept sexual favors from women and that a fourth -- \"the biggest gangster you will find on earth\" -- would require a payment of $500,000.",
"\"FIFA has already requested to receive all the documents and potential evidence that the newspaper has in relation to this matter, and will in any case analyze the material available,\" the Switzerland-based body said in a statement on Monday.",
"\"As announced on October 20, the FIFA ethics committee decided, at the request of FIFA, to open an investigation into alleged agreements between member associations and between their bid committees in relation to the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bidding process.",
"FIFA will provide all of the information collected on this matter to the ethics committee.\"",
"The Sunday Times reporters posed as lobbyists linked to the United States' initial bid to host one of the tournaments.",
"The U.S. has since withdrawn from the running for 2018, meaning a European nation will host the event as only England, Russia, Spain-Portugal and Belgium-Holland remain as candidates.",
"The Americans will bid against Australia, Japan, South Korea and Qatar for the right to host in 2022."
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"Soccer's governing body faces more claims of corruption in World Cup bidding process .",
"FIFA to investigate the latest revelations made by a British newspaper on Sunday .",
"Its former secretary general was filmed identifying officials who can allegedly be bribed .",
"Michel Zen-Ruffinen was dismissed in 2002 following claims against Sepp Blatter ."
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"(CNN) -- France captain Thierry Henry says he considered quitting international football over the handball controversy as Les Bleus qualified for the World Cup finals at the expense of Ireland last week.",
"Henry told the French sports paper L'Equipe that he felt \"truly alone\" as the row raged over his blatant handball to assist William Gallas for the winning goal in the playoff match with the Irish at the Stade de France.",
"The Barcelona striker faced a barrage of criticism at home and abroad and admits he questioned his future in French colors.",
"\"Yes, I asked myself the question.",
"\"Without the support of my family, I perhaps would not have made the same decision.",
"\"But I will always fight to the end - even if what just happened will be engraved.",
"You can always forgive but you cannot always forget.\"",
"FIFA must act after Henry handball goal .",
"Henry revealed that he had little support from his own federation and as the row raged decided, with the help of his lawyer, to issue a statement in which he said that a replay of the second leg would be the \"fairest solution.\"",
"It came hours after world governing body FIFA had turned down Irish appeals for a second chance.",
"\"After the game, and even for the next two days, I felt alone, truly alone,\" Henry claimed.",
"\"It was only after I sent my statement that people from the French federation appeared.\"",
"The 32-year-old, who forged his reputation in a glittering clear at English Premier League Arsenal, is France's record scorer with 51 goals and will be a key player in the World Cup finals in South Africa.",
"\"Despite everything that has happened, the fact of feeling abandoned, I do not let go of (playing for) my country,\" he added.",
"But Henry was repentant over his celebration with teammates after referee Martin Hansson had waived away Irish appeals to award the goal.",
"\"I should not have done it,\" he said. \"But frankly, it was uncontrollable.",
"After all that had happened... yes, I regret it.",
"That's why right after I spoke with the Irish one by one.\"",
"France, runners-up to Italy at the 2006 World Cup, will go into the draw for the finals in South Africa on December 4 as one of eight-seeded teams."
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"Thierry Henry claims he nearly quit international football after 'handball' goal against Ireland .",
"Henry came under fire after his blatant handball set up winner for William Gallas .",
"Barcelona striker says he felt 'truly alone' in the aftermath of the match .",
"Henry is France's leading scorer in internationals with 51 goals ."
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- Former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six-year captivity in a book due to hit the shelves Tuesday.",
"Betancourt, a former presidential candidate in Colombia, was held for more than six years by Marxist rebels before the Colombian military rescued her and 14 others in 2008.",
"\"Meme le Silence a une Fin,\" or \"Even Silence Has an End,\" will go on sale around the world, the publishing house Gallimard said.",
"In June, Betancourt filed a suit, asking for about $7 million from the Colombian government for the years she spent as a hostage.",
"Betancourt and her family members say the government did not do enough to protect her.",
"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.",
"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.",
"CNN's Sarah Goddard contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Cattle carcasses dot the desert.",
"More beggars show up at street corners in the capital, Niamey.",
"These are indications that Niger is on the brink of catastrophe, say aid workers.",
"But few outside the country have noticed these signs in one of the world's least developed nations.",
"And now an encroaching emergency caused by months of severe drought is threatening to leave 8 million people, or half the nation's population, hungry.",
"The United Nations' World Food Programme announced Tuesday that it is \"massively scaling up\" food distribution to people who have lost crops and livestock.",
"In this nomadic, pastoral nation, they are people who have lost everything.",
"\"The drought in Niger is an unfolding catastrophe for millions of people and we are struggling against time to scale up quickly enough to reach the escalating number of hungry,\" said Josette Sheeran, executive director for the U.N. agency.",
"Sheeran traveled to Niger to see the crisis for herself and saw a landlocked, drought-prone nation where hunger has been growing steadily since the last harvest in September 2009.",
"\"We are massively scaling up special nutritional help for children under two years of age, whose brains and bodies face permanent damage from acute malnutrition,\" said Sheeran in a statement released Tuesday after her visit.",
"The agency said it aims to feed about 8 million people through the end of the year by distributing food rations that include a corn and soy supplement, a peanut paste and vitamin-fortified sugar and milk for children.",
"Earlier this month, 10 leading international aid agencies had called for a surge in the humanitarian response to the hunger crisis across the Sahel region of west and central Africa -- 2 million more people are threatened in Chad and thousands others in Mali, Mauritania, parts of Burkina Faso and northern Nigeria.",
"But Niger is at the heart.",
"And despite months of warnings, the money for emergency aid has been what aid agencies described as paltry.",
"The United Nations needs another $229 million to reach its recently revised target aid amount of $371 million.",
"The World Food Programme's appeal follows a similar call by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which earlier this month increased the aid requirement for Niger to $253 million from $191 million.",
"The food agency said it only has half the $213 million it needs to expand its feeding operation.",
"\"I think it has been a really slow onset emergency,\" said Johannes Schoors, chief of missions in Niger for the aid agency CARE International.",
"\"We got very little response from donors.\"",
"That's partly because Niger's has been an invisible problem so far.",
"There are not yet thousands of people starving.",
"Nor are there images of distended bellies and bones piercing out of flesh, as there were in the Sudan famine in the 1990s.",
"The markets still carry fresh fruit for those who can travel far and have deep pockets.",
"But, Schoors said, if things are allowed to go on this way, human suffering will become unbearable.",
"Schoors' colleague Stephane Petitprez, CARE's emergency director who just returned from 10 days in eastern Niger, said the people of Niger have no way to survive without their livestock.",
"Their future is dying with the animals.",
"\"They have to start a new life,\" she said.",
"But without rain, it will be difficult."
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"The last harvest was in September 2009 .",
"Niger is one of the world's least developed countries .",
"Many people are dependent on livestock ."
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"Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish authorities have detained American activist and freelance journalist Jake Hess in the southeastern, predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.",
"At a court appearance Sunday, a prosecutor charged Hess with \"taking orders from a terrorist organization\" and called for his immediate deportation from Turkey, witnesses said.",
"Turkish officialdom regularly refers to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as a terrorist organization.",
"U.S. diplomats say Hess rejected their offer of assistance after he was taken into custody.",
"\"We have spoken with him on the phone regarding his situation, and he specifically asked us not to share any information on his case,\" said Deborah Guido, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.",
"\"He did not sign a privacy waiver.",
"We can take an oral privacy waiver [by phone], and it was his choice.",
"He did not want to be helped.\"",
"Asked why he rejected the American offer, Hess answered that \"the U.S. is an imperialist country, and I disagree with U.S. policy towards Turkey and the Kurds.",
"It would be hypocritical to support an American journalist who is persecuted for human rights journalism while at the same time supporting the Turkish policy of criminalizing Kurdish political activists.\"",
"Hess spoke with CNN by telephone on Monday from the detention center in Diyarbakir.",
"He said he was initially detained by a Turkish anti-terrorist police unit on August 11.",
"\"I am being targeted for criticizing the Turkish government and criticizing human rights abuses,\" he said.",
"\"The prosecutor accused me of waging a smear campaign against the Turkish republic.\"",
"Turkish officials in Diyarbakir and in the capital, Ankara, have declined to comment on Hess' case.",
"The 25-year old American said he hoped his detention would focus attention on the arrest of hundreds of ethnic Kurds in recent years, including elected mayors from Turkey's Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), a Kurdish nationalist political party.",
"\"Some of these people have been in custody since April 2009 without trial,\" he said.",
"\"It's an absolutely unbelievable and outrageous injustice.\"",
"Hess is a native of New Hampshire who studied at Suffolk University and Brown University.",
"He said he previously volunteered as an activist with several Kurdish activist organizations in Europe and in Turkey.",
"After moving to Diyarbakir more than a year ago, Hess volunteered with the Human Rights Association (IHD), a local non-governmental organization that has reported extensively on abuses committed against ethnic Kurds during Turkey's quarter-century long war with PKK guerrillas.",
"More than 30,000 people, most of them ethnic Kurds, have been killed in the conflict.",
"Hess had also begun writing as a freelance journalist with the online Inter Press Service news agency, filing a report this month from Iraqi Kurdistan about periodic Turkish and Iranian artillery bombardment of Kurdish villages on the Iraqi side of the border.",
"Hess denied charges that he was an active accomplice to the PKK, which is formally classified by the Turkish and U.S. governments as a terrorist organization.",
"\"The only relationship I had with the PKK was maybe two months ago, when I went to northern Iraq and interviewed a PKK spokesman there,\" Hess said.",
"Media watchdog organizations are demanding Hess's release.",
"\"We call for Hess's immediate release.",
"Neither placing him in pre-trial detention nor deporting him are appropriate solutions,\" said the Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders in a statement.",
"\"Kurdish media and journalists who cover the consequences of Turkish policy towards the Kurds are too often the target of harassment, which the authorities clumsily try to justify as a necessary part of their efforts to combat terrorism.\"",
"Turkish police also briefly detained several other residents of Diyarbakir in connection with Hess's case, including Yilmaz Akinci, a respected Kurdish journalist who has worked with Reuters, National Public Radio, ABC News and CNN, and who is now a producer with Al Jazeera's Arabic language service.",
"Akinci said Hess approached him in June, looking for work.",
"\"He had been applying for jobs everywhere,\" Akinci said.",
"\"He came to me and said, 'I want to be a journalist.'",
"\" Turkish police detained Akinci at his family's home in a predawn raid Sunday.",
"He said he later learned that security forces had secretly photographed him during his earlier meeting with Hess.",
"Akinci said he was released later Sunday, after authorities learned that he was a journalist."
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"He is charged with taking orders from a terrorist organization .",
"Turkey often refers to Kurdistan Workers' Party as a terrorist group .",
"American diplomats say Jake Hess did not want help .",
"Hess says he is not Kurdistan Workers' Party accomplice ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The three Pakistani cricket players at the center of a betting scandal have been summoned to meet their country's top cricket authorities in London, England, where the alleged fixing took place, team manager Yawar Saeed told CNN on Tuesday.",
"Salman Butt, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir may remain in London for two days for meetings with the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, their manager said.",
"They have not been arrested, suspended, or summoned for further questioning by police, Saeed said.",
"Saeed made his remarks two days after allegations surfaced that gamblers fixed part of a Pakistan match against England last week.",
"Separately, customs authorities said Tuesday that three people were arrested Sunday in connection with the scandal.",
"They were held on suspicion of money-laundering, a representative of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs told CNN.",
"The head of cricket's world governing body said Tuesday he wants disciplinary action within days if anyone on the Pakistan team was involved in the alleged betting scheme.",
"Haroon Lorgat, chief executive of the International Cricket Council, said he wants any action taken by Thursday, if at all possible, an ICC spokesman told CNN.",
"\"The integrity of the game is of paramount importance,\" Lorgat said in a statement.",
"\"Prompt and decisive action will be taken against those who seek to harm it.",
"However, the facts must first be established through a thorough investigation and it is important to respect the right of due process when addressing serious allegations of this sort.\"",
"Investigators from the ICC, the sport's governing body, are already in the United Kingdom making inquiries into the allegations, the council said Tuesday.",
"The investigators, from the council's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, are working with London's Metropolitan Police on their criminal investigation, the council said.",
"Federal investigators from Pakistan had been expected to arrive in England on Tuesday to look into the alleged scandal, but Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik later said their plans changed.",
"\"We have requested Interpol and Scotland Yard to provide us with [the] preliminary report, and we have asked for permission to send our team there,\" Malik told CNN.",
"\"The moment we get permission, we will send them.\"",
"Lorgat said that if any players are found guilty, \"the ICC will ensure that the appropriate punishment is handed out.",
"We will not tolerate corruption in this great game.\"",
"Police have questioned four people over the scandal, Pakistani manager Saeed said Sunday.",
"The four are Saeed, team captain Salman Butt, and two players, he said.",
"The alleged scandal came to light Sunday when a British tabloid newspaper reported that two Pakistan players deliberately bowled \"no balls\" -- fouls -- during their four-day series with England.",
"A \"no ball\" is when the bowler -- the equivalent of a pitcher in baseball -- steps over the line as he unleashes the ball.",
"The batting team gets a run when that happens.",
"The News of the World posted video of what it said was an undercover reporter meeting with a man identified as Mazhar Majeed, who tells the reporter exactly which bowlers will bowl \"no balls\" and when, then lays out 14 thick stacks of bills on a table.",
"The video of the meeting -- which the newspaper said took place Wednesday, the day before the match between Pakistan and England began -- is intercut with clips from the following two days, where the players perform as Majeed said they would.",
"The tabloid said the alleged ringleader pocketed 150,000 British pounds ($232,800) in the scam.",
"The Met Police said a 35-year-old man was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers and released on bail Sunday.",
"Police said no date had been set for a hearing or further proceedings, but that the investigation was continuing.",
"Saeed did not name the two players questioned by police, but Britain's Press Association earlier reported he identified them as bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.",
"Police refused to confirm to CNN who was being questioned.",
"The Pakistani players at the center of the scandal were free to leave the country, police said Monday.",
"Team captain Butt said Pakistan gave 100 percent throughout the match.",
"\"We have given our best,\" Butt said after his team lost to England.",
"The team manager refused to comment on the report that Pakistan players intentionally committed three fouls during the match.",
"\"No allegations are true until they are proved either way,\" said Saeed.",
"\"So that this point in time they are just allegations.",
"Let's wait until the case is complete.\"",
"England beat Pakistan in the four-day match at Lord's Cricket Ground, which ended Sunday afternoon, after the scandal broke.",
"Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari ordered an investigation into the scandal, his spokesman said Sunday.",
"He directed the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board to submit a preliminary report \"immediately,\" Farhatullah Babar said, adding that Zardari asked to be kept informed about any British investigations as well.",
"It is the second allegation of corruption directed at the Pakistan cricket team this year.",
"Betting on cricket matches is legal in England.",
"CNN's Melissa Gray in London, England, and Samson Desta in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Three people arrested on suspicion of money-laundering .",
"ICC chief Haroon Lorgat says he wants any disciplinary action by Thursday, if possible .",
"ICC investigators are in England making inquiries ."
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"(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania woman was charged Monday with criminal homicide after forensic tests showed her to be the mother of four infants whose remains were found in her home in July, according to Berks County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney John Adams.",
"Authorities also linked her to a fifth set of infant remains found in a nearby landfill.",
"Michele Kalina, who has been in jail since she was arrested August 9 on charges relating to the discovery of the infants' remains at her home in Reading, was charged Monday with criminal homicide and five counts of \"abuse of corpse\" and is being held without bail, Adams said in a statement released by his office.",
"Kalina's teenage daughter first contacted authorities on July 29, unsure of what she had discovered in the living room closet, Adams told CNN.",
"Later that day, officers recovered the suspected remains of three infants from Kalina's apartment.",
"\"These remains were stored in a living room closet and each infant was recovered from an individual plastic container,\" according to the district attorney's statement.",
"\"One of the containers contained an amount of cured cement, which was later determined to have encased the remains of one of the infants.\"",
"Detectives later recovered a fourth set of infant remains at the house, and found a bone believed to be from a fifth set of infant remains in a landfill.",
"Adams said DNA testing matched her positively to four of the five remains and a man Adams described as her boyfriend to three.",
"Adams said both the boyfriend and Kalina's husband denied knowledge of any pregnancies.",
"Kalina, a nurse's aide, \"always sort of wore those scrubs and hid [her pregnancies] well,\" Adams told CNN.",
"According to the statement from Adams' office, the pathology report indicated four of the deaths were, \"consistent with asphyxia, poisoning, or neglect.\"",
"\"We may make the determination that we will charge her with four separate counts,\" Adams said.",
"\"However, this is a very unusual case and frankly we're going to have to discuss this with our forensic pathologist.\"",
"Kalina's attorney, public defender Holly Feeney, had no comment."
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"A fifth set of infant remains was found in a landfill .",
"DNA tests showed a woman to be the mother of at least four of the infants, police said .",
"She was charged Monday with criminal homicide ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- India has unveiled a $35 computer prototype as part of its program to provide connectivity to its students and teachers at affordable prices.",
"Kapil Sibal, the country's human resources development minister, displayed what he called a low-cost computing and access device in New Delhi on Thursday.",
"The ministry said the price would gradually fall to $10 apiece.",
"India said connectivity to all its colleges and universities is key to achieving its education goals.",
"Home to a billion-plus population, the country's literacy rate stands at 65 percent, according to the 2001 census figures.",
"Nevertheless, the South Asian nation has made giant strides in various areas since it opened up its economy in the early 1990s.",
"The country ushered in a telecom revolution that delivered mobile telephony to nearly 600 million people in just a little more than a decade with highly competitive call tariffs.",
"Now, India is preparing for another leap into the digital world.",
"Recently, it auctioned off its airwaves for third-generation services to enable super-fast multimedia streaming of wireless.",
"The move is aimed at bringing India's online market on a par with its booming cell-phone business through Internet penetration with technology allowing quick access, data transfer and entertainment on mobile handsets.",
"The country has announced plans to link up all its 250,000 village councils by 2012 in a bid to plug massive broadband divides between rural and urban communities as it emerges as one of the world's few growth markets.",
"Authorities say technical institutions involved in designing the new device are now setting up research to address price and quality issues in developing budget gadgets for students.",
"\"The aim is to reach such devices to the students of colleges and universities, and to provide these institutions a host of choices of low-cost access devices around Rs 1,500 [$35] or less in near future,\" the human resources ministry said at the launch of the computer.",
"Ministry spokeswoman Mamata Varma said the government aimed to introduce the new touch-screen computing tool at higher educational institutions in 2011.",
"The ministry, she said, is expected to tender out contracts to private companies for mass production of its prototype.",
"The Linux-based computer is equipped with an Internet browser, a PDF reader and several other facilities, she said."
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"India: Connectivity to all colleges is key to achieving education goals.",
"Officials say the price would gradually fall to $10 apiece .",
"The country's literacy rate stands at 65 percent ."
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"Sykesville, Maryland (CNN) -- It's the dirty little secret of the racing industry.",
"Thoroughbreds who don't make the winner's circle, are injured or simply too old to race are discarded by their owners, auctioned off -- sometimes to the slaughterhouse.",
"Now these horses are getting new lives.",
"The twist? Prison inmates looking for their own second chances are helping save them.",
"In the rolling hills of Carroll County, Maryland, is Second Chance Farm.",
"Alonzo Pickett leads a horse to the pasture to graze.",
"\"Greek is a beautiful horse.",
"I love him,\" says Pickett.",
"\"I think he's a gentle giant.\"",
"The 7-year-old gelding came to the farm after a leg injury ended his racing career.",
"Each year thousands of racehorses in the United States like Greek are sent to slaughterhouses and their meat sold overseas, according to the nonprofit Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation.",
"That's why the foundation funds programs in eight prisons across the United States to rescue these abandoned horses and train prisoners to \"gentle\" them so they can be adopted.",
"The inmates also have duties beyond grooming the horses.",
"They maintain the farm buildings and the grounds.",
"Pickett, 44, figures he has spent at least 14 years of his life behind bars.",
"It is his third prison sentence, this time for drug possession.",
"\"It could have been a lot worse,\" he confides.",
"\"A lot of guys that I grew up with ... are deceased.\"",
"But Pickett maintains this will be his last time in prison and he thinks working with Greek as part of this program is what has changed him.",
"\"It gave me a chance to really evaluate who I am,\" he says.",
"\"Everybody thinks it's about the horses,\" says Gary Maynard, Secretary of Public Safety for Maryland prisons.",
"Maynard saw the benefits of the program in other prison systems where he worked and brought it here.",
"\"It's really about the men that work with the horses and what changes they go through as they learn to care for an animal, as they learn mutual trust and self-respect.\"",
"The bond between Pickett and Greek is evident as the inmate gently prods the animal for grooming and softly speaks to him.",
"Pickett calls the bond they share a mutual support system.",
"\"I have a chance to face my obstacles head on and to overcome [them],\" he says, and \"[Greek] knows we are here for him ... [that] we love him.\"",
"Conni Swenson worked with racehorses many years ago before coming to work for the Maryland Department of Corrections.",
"She is the program coordinator for Second Chance Farm and says she daily observes the unconditional acceptance the horses have for the inmates as each come to trust the other.",
"\"They learn compassion.",
"They learn patience,\" says Swenson.",
"\"If you have a 150-pound gentleman and you have a 1,200-pound horse and you need the horse to do something, you're not going to teach that horse to do it through brute force.\"",
"There is a striking difference between the farm and the prison, where the inmates return each night.",
"There are guards at the farm but no bars, no razor wire.",
"Pickett notes the atmosphere of serenity at the farm, far from what he calls \"negative conversations\" at the prison.",
"\"You look at these grounds, the meadows, the horses grazing in the field,\" says Felicia Hinton, assistant commissioner, Maryland Department of Corrections.",
"\"It can only put gentleness inside of you,\" she says, smiling.",
"It's her responsibility to make sure each inmate is ready to begin life outside the prison walls.",
"\"It gives them a sense of humanity,\" she says.",
"Hinton calls the program an opportunity to change a life.",
"Pickett agrees.",
"He will be released from prison in just a few months.",
"He plans to move to his grandfather's farm to care for his aging father.",
"\"If I could come out here and take care of Greek every day,\" he says, \"then I can go home and take care of my father.\"",
"Hinton considers that a measure of the success of the program.",
"\"Our responsibility is to send a man or woman out of prison a better person.\"",
"As Pickett cleans and scrapes Greek's hooves, he speaks with pride about his time at Second Chance Farm.",
"\"I love the work and I love to know that I have a responsibility and they can depend on me for that responsibility being met.\"",
"Swenson says she believes in each of the inmates who has gone through the program.",
"She likes to quote visitors her favorite Winston Churchill passage, \"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.\"",
"\"That is absolutely true here,\" she says.",
"\"I see it every day.\""
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"The horses come to the Second Chance Farm after race career ends .",
"Inmate says prisoners and rejected horses share a common bond ."
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"(CNN) -- Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell has revealed he will join the U.S. PGA Tour next year, but Europe teammate Lee Westwood insists he will not be switching allegiance.",
"U.S. Open champion McDowell, who beat Hunter Mahan in the deciding singles match at Celtic Manor on Monday, told reporters that he plans to try to qualify for the lucrative FedEx Cup playoffs.",
"\"I won't be playing as many events in America as, say, Luke Donald and Justin Rose, but I am taking up my card,\" the Northern Irishman said on Wednesday.",
"\"I had one in 2006 but got injured early in that season, and now I want to give it a real try.\"",
"But world No. 2 Westwood, who can topple Tiger Woods from the top of the rankings if he finishes first or second at the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland this week, has decided to stay on the European Tour -- which he won last year.",
"If he succeeds, he will be the first European golfer to reach No.",
"1 since compatriot Nick Faldo in 1994.",
"\"The FedEx Cup sits right in the middle of the kids' summer holidays, and I like going on holiday with them,\" said the Englishman, who has twice finished second in major events this year.",
"\"I don't want to be dictated to by having to go to America to play FedEx Cup when it doesn't really mean that much to me.",
"It doesn't mean enough to me, anyway.",
"\"I think they [the PGA Tour] would like me to go and be a member there, but as of Monday evening I became an individual again and I do what's right for Lee Westwood now.\"",
"The 37-year-old could end Woods' five-year reign even if he took the next fortnight off, but has decided to defend his Portugal Masters title next week as well.",
"\"That's not me. That's not the way I want to do it. I want to get to world number one by playing the way I have for the last two years and proving I'm the best,\" he said.",
"Woods, who has struggled following his return to action after his well-publicized marital problems, will not play again until November, when he plays tournaments in China and Australia.",
"Westwood is paired with Ryder Cup teammate Rory McIlroy for Thursday's opening round at Gleneagles, and the 21-year-old Northern Irishman revealed that he will be cutting back his schedule next year.",
"McIlroy played on both circuits this year after finishing second overall in Europe in 2009, making his breakthrough triumph on the PGA Tour at Quail Hollow in May.",
"\"I will only be playing 25 tournaments in all next year as against 29 on both tours this year,\" he said."
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"McDowell's Ryder Cup teammate Lee Westwood will stay on European Tour .",
"World No.",
"2 Westwood can topple top-ranked Tiger Woods this weekend .",
"Another Ryder Cup winner, Rory McIlroy, plans to reduce his playing schedule next year ."
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"(CNN) -- Water testing by a private environmental engineering firm has discovered toxic chemicals in wells in a township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.",
"Victoria Switzer, a resident of the northeastern Pennsylvania township of Dimock, revealed the results of the water tests from her well this week at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing on hydraulic fracturing in Binghamton, New York.",
"Hydraulic fracturing, or \"fracking,\" is a controversial process used to extract natural gas from deep underground.",
"Critics say chemicals used in the process can be injected into groundwater.",
"How fracking works .",
"Farnham & Associates confirmed that ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and toluene were present in her water, Switzer said.",
"\"I'm fighting for my home,\" Switzer said Thursday.",
"\"Hasn't this proven that [fracking] hasn't been done safely?\"",
"The contaminated Dimock wells are in the Marcellus shale formation underneath parts of Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio, one of the largest natural gas deposits in the nation.",
"The profitable natural gas reserve is attracting a flurry of gas companies wanting to drill.",
"Fracking yields fuel, fear in Northeast .",
"The tests, which were verified by three certified laboratories, found chemicals in the majority of samples taken from water wells in Dimock, said Daniel Farnham, president of Farnham & Associates, based in Scranton, Pennsylvania.",
"\"For anybody to say this was occurring prior to drilling is ludicrous,\" Farnham said Friday.",
"\"The water was not like this before.\"",
"In 2008, Farnham was contracted by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., the company working in the Dimock area, to perform pre-drilling tests on numerous wells in Susquehanna County, he said, adding that he did not test for nor discover ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and toluene.",
"Despite his latest findings, however, Farnham said he cannot reach any conclusions about the source of the chemical compounds found in the drinking water wells.",
"\"Unfortunately no one can say that right now, until there is a way to track frac fluids,\" he said.",
"\"And I think the gas companies know that.\"",
"Ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and toluene are on the list posted on the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's website of chemicals used by hydraulic fracturing companies in the state.",
"But George Stark, a spokesman for Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., said his company does not use the chemicals discovered by Farnham & Associates.",
"\"When we look at the ingredients we use in fracking and completing of wells, these chemicals are not found.",
"Toluene is not at all used,\" Stark said.",
"\"If you look at what Dan said, he found these and he can't trace these to fracking.",
"\"The fact is that we don't use these chemicals,\" Stark said.",
"The chemicals have a number of common applications and appear in products ranging from toothpaste to antifreeze, Farnham said.",
"But they can be toxic in higher concentrations.",
"The Department of Environmental Protection is conducting its own water tests across Dimock, spokesman Tom Rathbun said.",
"\"We want to see if our findings agree with Farnham,\" Rathbun said.",
"\"We want to see if we can duplicate it.\"",
"Department water tests in April across Dimock for ethylene glycol and propylene glycol were negative, and the agency is testing for \"toluene and a host of other constituents,\" he said.",
"On Friday, Rathbun said that Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger plans to make a \"major announcement\" regarding water supplies in Dimock at the end of September.",
"He would not elaborate about the details of the announcement.",
"The Environmental Protection Agency concluded its final hydraulic fracturing hearing on Wednesday in Binghamton.",
"The EPA plans to begin a study in January and release initial results by late 2012.",
"Switzer is among a group of Dimock residents who sued Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas in November, alleging that the company contaminated their well water with methane gas and other contaminates.",
"In hydraulic fracturing, drillers pump large amounts of water mixed with sand and chemicals into the shale formation thousands of feet underground under high pressure.",
"Fracturing the shale around the well then allows the natural gas to flow freely.",
"\"This industry is cradle-to-grave,\" Switzer said.",
"\"And this baby has teeth.\""
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"Resident says it shows controversial hydraulic fracturing is not safe .",
"Drilling company says it does not use those chemicals ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- HBO's \"True Blood\" is already in its third season and it is one of the most watched shows on cable.",
"The last show on HBO to garner as large an audience was \"The Sopranos.\"",
"The show has tons of fan sites and more \"True Blood\" fanatics worldwide than you can shake a stake at.",
"So what better time to launch a comic book right?",
"Well, that's exactly what creator Alan Ball thought.",
"He, along with publishers IDW and HBO, are putting out the first \"True Blood\" comic book in a series which debuts at Comic-Con.",
"But if you think it's just like the TV show, think again.",
"CNN recently spoke with Ball about the comic book, the show and what's next for \"True Blood.\"",
"CNN: So we are going into the third season of \"True Blood.\"",
"Alan Ball: Yeah.",
"CNN: It's as popular as ever.",
"There couldn't be a better time to bring out the comic book.",
"Ball: Well, we were approached last year by some comic book publishers and it seemed like a great fit.",
"I mean it seems like there's definitely characters and a story to fill comic books outside of the world of the show.",
"So I said yeah, let's go for it.",
"We got together and we talked about stories, and we came up with a story.",
"Now issue one is ready and it's going to be available at Comic-Con on July 21.",
"CNN: Was it hard to create this comic book series? ...",
"The TV show is based on a book, so are you paralleling the comic book to the actual show?",
"Ball: Well it was a little difficult for me because comics are such a distinct medium in which I have never worked.",
"So I had to learn a little bit about the medium and what it was all about.",
"What we decided to do was to take the characters of the show and put them in a story that's independent of the show itself, but is very true to the mythology of the show.",
"It's not something that is dependent on the show or the show is dependent on it, which makes a lot of sense.",
"CNN: But is it hard to essentially write two different \"True Blood\" scripts?",
"Ball: Well, you have to stay on top of the mythology.",
"You can't have vampires being made one way in the comic book and a different way in the show.",
"You can't have characters having different histories in the show and another one in the comic.",
"... You just really have to stay true to what we call the bible of the show and not deviate from that.",
"And that's hard. As each year goes on there's more stuff to stay on top of.",
"CNN: The creatures are very interesting in the comic book series.",
"Ball: There is a new creature in the comic book that is different from any creature that we've done on the show.",
"But who's to say what's going to happen in the future.",
"CNN: How hard was it to develop the picture for that?",
"Ball: We actually knew what the creature was.",
"But in terms of how it manifested physically and what powers it had to work with -- well, I sort of left that up to the artist.",
"We knew that it was vicious, it was supernatural, it was not human, and it could do some real damage.",
"And that sort of got incorporated into the writing of the script.",
"CNN: Are you influenced by the fans because many times these fans know stuff that even the \"True Blood\" writers and publicists don't know about.",
"Ball: It's true, they are very hardcore.",
"CNN: Putting a comic book together, are you looking at some of those fan sites to see what people want or what they're saying at all?",
"Are you influenced by that? Ball: I'm not. I personally do not go to those sites.",
"I don't read what people post.",
"There are plenty of people in the writers room who do and communicate things to me.",
"I just don't have the time. And obviously I spend so many hours per day working on \"True Blood\" that in my free time the last thing I want to do is have more \"True Blood\" -- you know what I mean?",
"I tend to read or play with my dogs or go in the canyon or something like that, because I don't want to go crazy.",
"I want to maintain some reality.",
"CNN: So you guys are unveiling the comic book at Comic-Con this week.",
"Who's going to be there? What are we going to see at Comic-Con?",
"Ball: A lot of us are going to be there -- a lot of the cast.",
"I know that Anna and Stephen and Ryan and Sam and Rutina and Nelson and Deborah will be there.",
"I think Joe is going to be there.",
"I don't think Alexander Skarsgard is going to be there because he's going to be shooting a movie.",
"I'm assuming it'll be pretty much the same group, and we have a big panel discussion.",
"We're going to sign autographs and just sort of partake in the wackiness that is Comic-Con.",
"It's really fun.",
"CNN: How many comic books are in the first series?",
"And how many will be put out? Ball: We're going to do six issues this year.",
"I think there will be a new one every month.",
"And then once all six issues are published, they will be bound in a special collector's anthology edition.",
"And I'm assuming we'll do it again next year if it works out well.",
"CNN: So where do you hope to rank in the world of comic books?",
"Ball: Oh I don't know, I'm such a newbie.",
"To use a \"True Blood\" term, I'm such a newbie to the world of comics that I'm not really sure.",
"I know the comic book is really good.",
"It's a really fun story.",
"It's really entertaining.",
"It's all the characters that you know and love in a new situation fighting a new adversary.",
"You also get some very interesting back story on all the characters, which is very true to who they are.",
"I'm very pleased with it. CNN: Since it's independent of the actual show, will you have new characters being introduced into future issues of the comic book series?",
"Ball: There is a main story where one known character encounters this creature in a situation that they can't get out of, and each of them sort of shares a story from their past and that's where we might meet some new people.",
"We'll see some people who may no longer exist on the show.",
"CNN: Okay so give us a sneak peak of upcoming episodes on season three.",
"Ball: Very soon you're going to find out something that is very important from Eric's past and that is going to motivate him and has been motivating him for years.",
"That is a little bit of a big shocker."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The same weapon was used in three recent incidents of shots fired at military buildings, including the Pentagon, the FBI said.",
"Tests at the FBI Laboratory showed that the Tuesday night shooting at a vacant Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Chantilly, Virginia, involved the same weapon as earlier similar incidents at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps, an FBI statement said.",
"On Friday, the FBI said that more shots were fired overnight at the National Museum of the Marine Corps building in Triangle, Virginia.",
"No one was injured in any of the earlier shooting incidents, which all involved shots fired into the buildings during overnight hours.",
"The FBI Washington field office's Joint Terrorism Task Force is leading an investigation of the shootings.",
"CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"No one injured in those earlier shootings .",
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"(CNN) -- His past largely defined by his World Series heroics, Jim Leyritz's future is now in the hands of a Florida jury that could send him to prison for up to 15 years for hitting and killing a woman while allegedly driving drunk.",
"Opening statements begin Monday in the trial of the former baseball star, who is charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter while driving drunk in a 2007 wreck.",
"A jury of five men and one woman, plus two alternates, has been seated in the case.",
"According to court documents, the incident began as a nighttime celebration for Leyritz, who was ringing in his 44th birthday with friends by bar-hopping in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.",
"While driving a friend home shortly after 3 a.m.",
"ET on December 28, 2007, his red 2006 Ford Expedition hit the vehicle of 30-year-old Freida Veitch, a Fort Lauderdale police report stated.",
"She was thrown from her dark green 2000 Mitsubishi Montero, knocked unconscious and pronounced dead at 4:08 a.m.",
"Blood drawn from Leyritz three hours later showed he had 0.14 percent blood alcohol level, above the 0.08 benchmark in Florida.",
"He also failed field sobriety tests, according to police.",
"Veitch was also legally drunk with a 0.18 blood alcohol level and was not wearing her seat belt, according to court documents.",
"In pre-trial court actions, questions have also been raised as to whether Veitch was distracted by calls and texts on her cell phone, how fast she was driving and if her headlights were on.",
"Still, beyond determining if he was legally intoxicated, Leyritz's fate may be most tied to one key question: whether the light he went through, prior to hitting Veitch, was red or yellow.",
"Based on court documents, defense attorneys are also expected to argue that Veitch was to blame for the accident and there's little to nothing Leyritz could have done, sober or not.",
"Leyritz and his passenger, Bruce Barger -- a 19-year-old who was with the former baseball star from midnight on and who was getting a ride home -- claim the light was yellow and turned red while Leyritz's SUV was in the intersection, court documents state.",
"But a pedestrian at the scene, Garth Henry, said it was red even before Leyritz drove through.",
"Leyritz played eleven years in the major leagues, including all or parts of eight seasons with the New York Yankees.",
"His career highlight came in 1996, when he hit a winning home run in Game 4 of the World Series.",
"He also hit pivotal homers during the 1995, 1998 and 1999 postseasons.",
"He remained in the limelight after his career ended in 2000, appearing on national and New York-based radio programs.",
"An outspoken character during and after a career, Leyritz admitted that he'd used amphetamines in his playing days.",
"After his arrest, the twice-divorced Leyritz told In Session that he lost his job as a sports commentator and an endorsement deal, leaving him to rely on loans from friends and reporters.",
"If convicted, under Florida law, Leyritz faces a minimum of four years and a maximum of 15 years in state prison.",
"In Session's Beth Karas and Grace Wong contributed to this report."
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"Opening statements are next week in the vehicular manslaughter trial of Jim Leyritz .",
"Leyritz is a well-known former professional baseball player and sports commentator .",
"He is accused of a running a red light while drunk, hitting and killing a woman in Florida .",
"Leyritz claims the light was yellow, and he could not have prevented the crash ."
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"(CNN) -- Former German international star Lothar Matthaeus is to take charge of the Bulgarian national team, it was announced Tuesday.",
"The much-traveled Matthaeus replaces Stanimar Stoilov, who quit after Euro 2012 qualifying defeats to England, and more damagingly, Montenegro earlier this month.",
"\"Lothar Matthaeus is the new national team coach,\" Bulgarian Football Union president Borislav Mihaylov told a press conference Tuesday.",
"Mihaylov said Matthaeus will be given a one-year contract with an option to extend for two more years.",
"The 49-year-old enjoyed a glittering playing career, taking part in five World Cups and leading Germany to their 1990 triumph.",
"He was also named as the first-ever FIFA World Player of the Year in 1991 and earned a record 150 caps for his country.",
"Matthaeus also won Bundesliga and Serie A titles with Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.",
"But his managerial career has been less successful and his last job was a one-year spell in charge of Maccabi Netanya in Israel and he has also coached Partizan Belgrade and Red Bull Salzburg.",
"The former midfielder's only international experience was with the Hungarian national side from 2003-2005, leaving after they failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup finals.",
"His first game with Bulgaria will be against Wales next month as they attempt to get their qualifying campaign back on track in the October 8 clash.",
"Meanwhile, Paulo Bento was confirmed Tuesday as the new Portugal coach until the end of Euro 2012.",
"The 41-year-old, who won 35 caps for Portugal, succeeds Carlos Queiroz, who was sacked earlier this month.",
"Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho had been linked with the job on a temporary basis but later ruled himself out."
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"49-year-old German international legend replaces Stanimar Stoilov .",
"Matthaeus has previously managed Hungary and a clutch of minor clubs .",
"NEW: Paulo Bento appointed coach of Portugal ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Not everyone expects a response when they write a letter to the president of the United States.",
"But Caroline Jamieson got much more than she expected when her husband ended up in jail and afraid he would be deported.",
"Jamieson, vice president of marketing at a new-media advertising company, wrote President Barack Obama in January because her husband, Hervé Fonkou Takoulo, was facing deportation to his native Cameroon.",
"Takoulo failed in a bid before political asylum almost a decade ago, and a judge issued a deportation order after they were married.",
"After he and Jamieson married on 2005, Takoulo applied for a green card based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen.",
"But immigration law requires that the deportation order be lifted before the couple can appear before immigration officials to argue their case that the marriage is legitimate and not a ploy to legalize Takoulo's presence in the United States.",
"\"We want to be given the chance to interview and prove that we are a married couple, so Hervé can get a green card, and that has proven extremely difficult to do,\" Jamieson told CNN.",
"They never received a direct response to the letter.",
"But they did get two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers waiting outside their East Village, Manhattan apartment on June 3 when Takoulo was leaving the apartment to go to the gym.",
"Jamieson told CNN that the officers cornered her husband and asked him if he had written a letter to the president.",
"\"He said 'No, but my wife did.' And they explained that with that letter -- when it was brought to their attention -- that the Obama administration wanted them to resolve this quickly,'\" Jamieson said.",
"Her husband was held at ICE headquarters for six hours, alone in a room, until he was chained at the wrists, around his stomach and his ankles and taken to the Hudson County Correctional Center in New Jersey, she said.",
"For the next two weeks, a frantic Jamieson wrote letters to politicians and anyone else who might be able to help.",
"She got responses, she said, but none seemed to lead anywhere.",
"Takoulo was allowed to call his wife once a day at designated times but he knew little about his situation.",
"He spent his days with repeat sex offenders and men accused of felonies, fearing imminent deportation.",
"\"I did everything I could and went into survival mode and pushed for all these connections to the press,\" she said.",
"\"We are fortunate to have that leverage.",
"What about the people in the country who don't have access to those means?\"",
"Then, on Thursday, he was brought to an immigration processing jail in Manhattan and released.",
"There was no explanation offered for his release, but Takoulo is now wearing an electronic ankle monitor while his case is being reviewed.",
"ICE spokesman Brian P. Hale said the circumstances of Takoulo's arrest were undergoing an internal review and he was released as \"an alternative to detention pending a review of his case.\"",
"Investigators are looking to determine whether \"appropriate separation\" between Jamieson's letter to the president and Takoulo's deportation case were violated.",
"If so, he said, the case will go to the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility and the Homeland Security Department's inspector general for \"immediate and appropriate action.\"",
"Takoulo graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with an engineering degree in 2008 and received several job interview offers after graduation.",
"But the deportation order hung over his head and prevented any followup.",
"\"All he wants to do is contribute to this economy,\" Jamieson told CNN.",
"\"We want to be a productive couple.",
"He's been dying to work.\"",
"The couple has been following Barack Obama's rise in the political world since 2004.",
"\"I felt a special kinship to him because I'm of mixed race, and my husband obviously has a similar background,\" Jamieson told CNN.",
"Regardless of whether or not her letter was mishandled, the incident has deeply affected the couple's faith in the Obama administration.",
"\"I feel really confused, I don't understand how something like this is possible.",
"I can't imagine that at the top of the Obama administration that they realize that something like this is happening,\" Jamieson told CNN."
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"Srinagar, India (CNN) -- The Indian army accused Pakistani troops of violating a cease-fire agreement early Thursday by firing across the Line of Control that divides Kashmir.",
"Pakistani border troops fired for about 90 minutes in Poonch district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, said Biplab Nath, an Indian army spokesman.",
"The Pakistanis used heavy volumes of small arms, and heavy caliber weapons such as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, Nath said.",
"Indian troops retaliated \"appropriately\" to the \"unprovoked\" firing, he said.",
"A spokesman for the Pakistani military confirmed the gunfire, but said Indian troops fired at their soldiers.",
"Spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said the two nations have agreed to meet soon to discuss the incident and seek clarification.",
"Nath said there were no casualties on the Indian side.",
"\"Our assessment is that this firing was to primarily assist infiltration of terrorists,\" he said.",
"Such ceasefire violations have been common since 2003, but Nath described the latest incident firing as \"major.\"",
"Kashmir has been a source of bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since the independence of both nations in 1947.",
"Under terms agreed by the two countries, Kashmir's rulers could either opt to merge with India or Pakistan or remain independent.",
"One part sided with Pakistan.",
"The ruler of the other part sided with predominantly Hindu India, sparking a controversy among the region's Muslim majority.",
"India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir and militants, who India says are backed by Pakistan, have been fighting since the late 1980s to end Indian rule in the region.",
"A cease-fire to end the violence was agreed to in 2003.",
"Both India and Pakistan routinely accuse each other of firing across the border.",
"CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this report."
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"India alleges that Pakistani border troops fired across the line of control in Kashmir .",
"Indian troops retaliated \"appropriately,\" army spokesman says .",
"Kashmir is a source of bitter dispute between India and Pakistan ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- A lot of work remains to be done at the venues and athletes' village at the Commonwealth Games in India, just a week before they are due to begin, the head of the games said Saturday.",
"\"It's not over yet. There is still a lot of work to be done,\" said Mike Fennell, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation.",
"Fennell spoke to reporters in New Delhi after a week of criticism and concern about safety and security, and the apparent poor state of the athletes' accommodation.",
"He said the Indian organizing committee was \"responding to the needs in a very positive way\" and that now was not the time for finger-pointing, with the games due to open Oct. 3.",
"\"I'm well aware that we could say to them this should have been done before, yes, but right now we're concentrating on getting it right, and all systems are geared toward ensuring that the remedial work that's necessary is done and completed in time,\" Fennell said.",
"The \"great concern\" remains safety and security at the athletes' village and making sure the buildings are equipped with the necessary fire and alarm systems, Fennell said.",
"Organizers scrambled to pull the games together after a pedestrian bridge at a stadium collapsed Tuesday and officials called village accommodation uninhabitable and filthy.",
"Pictures emerged showing soiled rooms that included excrement, exposed wiring, and animal footprints on a mattress.",
"Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top officials got involved.",
"Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram told CNN on Friday that all security issues had been addressed and that the midnight Friday deadline to clean up the venues was met.",
"Chidambaram said 10 of the 11 village venues had been taken over by security, with another to 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.",
"Asked why there hadn't been more monitoring of the progress in the seven years since New Delhi was awarded the games, Fennell said on the contrary, he has noted the poor progress before.",
"\"Last year, when I paid a visit, I made some very critical remarks about what needed to be done, and there were a lot of people that were upset about those remarks at the time,\" Fennell said.",
"\"But I said far more needed to be done very urgently, and I have had visits subsequently ... and we pointed out all along the way what needed to be done.",
"So this is not something that was just discovered now.\"",
"Fennell said it is the local organizing committee that is ultimately responsible for the preparation of the games.",
"He pointed out the committee depends on developers to deliver the venues on time, though he said organizers must monitor the progress of that construction.",
"New Delhi organizing committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi said Fennell was not singling out organizers for blame.",
"\"We have taken on the venues a little late, and that's where the problems came,\" he said.",
"As head of the committee, \"I will take on the blame,\" he said, \"but I wish the venues were handed over to me last year.\"",
"Concerns about the conditions for the New Delhi games have prompted some teams like Canada and New Zealand to delay their departures and some athletes to cancel their trips altogether.",
"Other teams, like Scotland and Wales, departed for the games after receiving assurances from organizers.",
"English diver Peter Waterfield on Saturday became the latest athlete to withdraw, citing security fears and conditions at the village.",
"\"I have a wife and two young children who were very concerned about me attending the event and this decision is one that we have made as a family,\" said Waterfield, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games medalist.",
"\"My decision to pull out of the Commonwealth Games has been especially hard because I am probably in the best form I have ever been in at the moment.\"",
"Such concerns led to the withdrawals Friday of New Zealand cyclist Greg Henderson and four British cyclists -- Peter Kennaugh from the Isle of Man, Geraint Thomas from Wales, and Ian Stannard and Ben Swift from England.",
"The withdrawal of the four British cyclists was confirmed by Team Sky, their professional cycling team.",
"The Commonwealth Games take place every four years among members of the former British empire.",
"Fennell defended the decision to give the games to India and called it the right host for the competition.",
"\"We've got to give these people an opportunity to learn how to host these events,\" he told Olympic news website Around the Rings after arriving in New Delhi.",
"\"India's the largest Commonwealth country that we have, with 1.2 billion people.",
"How will you ever know unless they're given an opportunity to make an effort?\""
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"(CNN) -- A flu shot can do more than just fight against influenza, a new study suggests.",
"It may also fight against heart attacks.",
"Adults who take the flu vaccine may be less likely to get their first heart attack the next year, researchers say.",
"The study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, was conducted to add to other studies that suggested that there is a link between respiratory infections and heart attacks.",
"\"By the nature of the study, it does not prove cause and effect.",
"So it does not prove that the flu vaccine prevents heart attacks.",
"But it does show that the flu vaccine is associated with the reduction,\" said Niro Siriwardena, one of the authors of the study and a professor at the University of Lincoln in England.",
"British researchers, who conducted the study, compared the medical records of a little more than 16,000 first-time heart attack victims age 40 and older with the records of nearly 62,700 people who had not had heart attacks.",
"After factoring other major risks for heart attacks, such as smoking and family history of heart ailments, the research found that the flu shot was associated to a 19 percent reduction in the rate of first heart attack, the study found.",
"And the benefit was even more for those that received flu shots earlier in the flu season.",
"Those who got the shots early had a 21 percent reduction in the rate of heart attacks in the next year, the study found."
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"UK researchers say flu vaccine is associated with a 19 percent drop in first time heart attacks .",
"Researchers studied a large group of people age 40 and older ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Artwork that used to adorn the walls and halls of Lehman Brothers' offices in London is expected to fetch two million pounds ($3.1 million) when it goes up for auction Wednesday.",
"Christie's auction house in London is selling the art, which includes works by Lucian Freud and Anthony Gormley, antique maps and surveys, Chinese ceramics, and even Lehman Brothers signs.",
"Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in the United States two years ago following a nearly $4 billion loss, the failure of buyout negotiations with Bank of America and Barclays Capital, and the refusal of U.S. regulators to offer a government-backed bailout.",
"At the same time, Lehman in the United Kingdom went into liquidation, with administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) appointed to sell off the assets.",
"Christie's said there are many people who may like to own art with a Lehman connection.",
"\"We look forward to presenting what is a fascinating glimpse into the history of what was a giant of the financial world,\" said Benjamin Clark, director of corporate collections at Christie's London.",
"The sale takes place Wednesday and the art will be up for public viewings starting this weekend.",
"Barry Gilbertson, a partner at PWC, said the auction date was chosen to coincide with the second anniversary of the Lehman collapse.",
"Old masters up for sale include seascapes and naval scenes.",
"Tea caddies, cigar boxes, porcelain, and leather-bound books including the works of Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, and William Shakespeare are also being offered.",
"Modern art includes \"Madonna\" by Gary Hume, once described by the Guardian newspaper as \"disconcertingly featureless,\" and estimated between 70,000 and 100,000 pounds ($110,240 and $157,000).",
"Two etchings by Lucian Feud are also up for sale.",
"Lehman Brothers corporate signs, including a plaque commemorating then-Chancellor Gordon Brown's opening of the European headquarters in 2004, estimated at 1,000 to 1,500 pounds ($1,566 to $2,349), are also available.",
"Lehman Brothers has its roots in Montgomery, Alabama, where Henry Lehman -- who had emigrated from Bavaria -- founded a convenience store in 1844.",
"His brothers, Mayer and Emanuel, soon joined the business and later steered it toward the local cotton trade.",
"They opened an office in New York, which became their headquarters, and in 1870 Mayer Lehman was one of the founding members of the New York Cotton Exchange.",
"It was the earliest commodities exchange in the city and still exists.",
"The company developed into primarily an investment bank by World War I.",
"\"The brothers Lehman collected artwork which adorned their offices since the 19th century,\" Gilbertson said.",
"\"Over the subsequent years, of course, as the business expanded and the leadership changed, so did their corporate taste in art.\""
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"The sale will help to pay off creditors ."
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"San Bruno, California (CNN) -- California Sen. Barbara Boxer demanded answers Saturday to questions about why a gas transmission line ruptured in a suburban San Francisco town, triggering a massive fire that killed four people and left five people missing.",
"Accompanied by state and federal officials, Boxer toured blocks of the charred neighborhood in San Bruno that now looks like a war zone.",
"The Democratic senator saw firsthand the intensely hot fire's wrath: melted cars, burned out skeletons of houses.",
"At a news conference later, she said it was hard to put into words how a beautiful neighborhood almost disappeared.",
"\"Many questions must be answered by all of us whose job it is to protect our people,\" Boxer said.",
"\"What was the cause of this blast of course, first and foremost?\"",
"she asked. \"Were there reports that there were odors escaping from the pipeline?",
"If there were those reports, what actions took place in response to those complaints?",
"Were emergency systems such as water supply up to the task?",
"Was the gas flow shut down as quickly as possible?",
"Does danger lie in similar pipelines in populated areas?\"",
"Lt. Gov Abel Maldonado said he has written a letter to the California Public Utilities Commission, seeking information on gas pipelines across the state, including their age, inspection dates and records.",
"New remains were found in the debris left by the large fire, Steve Firpo, a city spokesman, said on Saturday, though he could not immediately confirm whether they were human.",
"He had initially told CNN two more bodies were found.",
"San Bruno Police Chief Neil Telford said five people were still missing.",
"Residents packed a town hall meeting later Saturday, seeking answers from public officials about when they can go home and other rebuilding and compensation issues.",
"Pacific Gas and Electric President Chris Johns said the company has been scouring phone records and so far, there is no evidence that complaint calls were placed.",
"Nor was there evidence, he said, that utility crews had been in the area Thursday, the day of the blast.",
"Firefighters were able to fully contain the blaze Friday, but federal and state investigators had not yet determined the cause.",
"\"We are not hear to determine liability or blame, but we are here to determine the cause of the accident,\" National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Vice Chairman Christopher Hart said.",
"Hart said the 30-inch natural gas pipe was installed in 1956.",
"\"We have seen that piece of pipeline that was blown away, and it is really quite amazing to see this huge piece of pipeline blown the distance it was blown,\" he said.",
"Hart said investigators will look closely at the pipe's welding and whether the pipe properly emitted an odor that may indicate a gas leak.",
"There have been allegations of a smell in the neighborhood at least a week before the blast.",
"Officials have identified three of the dead.",
"Rescue workers initially feared the death toll would climb higher as they combed through the smoldering scene with cadaver dogs.",
"Jacqueline Greig, 44, and her 13-year-old daughter Janessa were killed, San Mateo County Deputy Coroner Michelle Rippy said.",
"A third victim was identified as Jessica Morales, 20.",
"Another 52 people were injured, including three patients who were taken to the hospital with third-degree burns and four firefighters who suffered from smoke inhalation.",
"Boxer assured those affected by the fire that state and federal authorities would do all they could in ensuring recovery.",
"\"We must leave no stone unturned,\" she said about getting assistance to the devastated community.",
"Some residents remained in shelters and watched the harrowing drama unfold on television in a Starbucks or other restaurants at the Bayhill Shopping Center.",
"Patty Blick did not know whether to laugh or cry.",
"Anger, she told CNN iReporter Brad Bailey, has not yet set in, even though she watched her entire block burn to the ground and her home of seven years vanish into ashes.",
"Blick was still worrying about some of her neighbors.",
"She didn't know whether they were lying in a hospital or whether they had escaped unscathed.",
"Outside in the parking lot, food and other donated items piled up as San Bruno residents chipped in to help their neighbors.",
"One person even left a baby stroller.",
"The NTSB investigation will include analyzing many aspects of the blast and its aftermath, Hart said, including the history of the pipeline, the training and performance of its operators, emergency response and injuries sustained.",
"Employees involved in operating the pipeline have been tested for drugs and alcohol, he said.",
"The fire destroyed 37 homes and damaged eight, California Emergency Management Agency Secretary Matthew Bettenhausen said.",
"Those numbers were considerably lower than the estimate of roughly 170 homes that NTSB's Hart originally said were affected by the blaze.",
"Companies operating natural gas transmission pipelines reported an average of one death per year from 2004 to 2008, a February report from the Congressional Research Service.",
"Carl Weimer, head of the watchdog group Pipeline Safety Trust, told CNN that, unfortunately, when it comes to pipelines, for most of the public it's \"out of sight, out of mind.\"",
"\"I'm betting in San Bruno most people didn't even know the pipeline was under their neighborhood,\" he said.",
"Weimer noted that there can be multiple causes for a pipeline failure, including unintentional excavation-related damage and, more often, age and corrosion.",
"CNN's Dan Simon contributed to this report."
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"Sen. Barbara Boxer tours the charred neighborhood in San Bruno .",
"Authorities identify three of the known dead ."
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"(CNN) -- Two decades ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, becoming a hallmark of American civil rights legislation.",
"The act forbids discrimination against individuals with disabilities in a range of areas like employment, access to public facilities, transportation and telecommunications.",
"Over the last 20 years, sidewalk ramps have been installed and accessibility to most public places has been improved.",
"Yet, vehicles largely have been ignored.",
"But that's about to change. Vehicle Production Group, a Miami, Florida-based company plans to start production of the MV-1, which stands for first mobility vehicle, at a plant in Mishawaka, Indiana, late this year.",
"\"This is the first vehicle that's been built from the ground up for wheelchair accessibility and the only vehicle that's factory-produced that meets the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act,\" according to Dave Schembri, the CEO for Vehicle Production Group.",
"Schembri said there are 54 million Americans who have some kind of of disability, with 4 million of them being wheelchair dependent.",
"Those needing wheelchair accessibility typically have to convert a new or used vehicle, including the addition of a ramp, which Schembri says compromises vehicle's structural integrity.",
"That, he said, negates the safety ratings of the vehicle and negates the factory warranty as it pertains to those modifications.",
"\"Our vehicle, you drive up the ramp, and you turn right and immediately you're sitting in the prime seat of the vehicle which is shotgun next to the driver,\" Schembri said.",
"During a test drive, Schembri said he took a friend of his, who is a member of the New York Knicks wheelchair basketball team, out to lunch.",
"\"He's sitting there having a sandwich and his coke and he says 'I'm sitting in the front seat using a cup holder looking out the front window of this car.",
"And I can't even remember the last time I did that,'\" Schembri said.",
"Smaller than your typical passenger van converted to handle wheelchairs, the MV-1 will be rated as a car, standing about five-feet tall.",
"The 36-inch door opening and access ramp complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, while fitting nearly every size wheelchair.",
"Schembri said he expects the MV-1 to start below $40,000, noting the company has received 4,000 reservations."
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"The MV-1 is made \"from the ground up\" for people with disabilities .",
"The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel's anti-missile system, the Iron Dome, will become operational within four months, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Monday.",
"The security system -- which was designed to protect Israel from short-range missiles and rockets -- is part of a larger defense system that includes protection from mid- and long-range missiles, intended to protect Israel from a possible Iranian attack, the ministry said in a statement Monday.",
"Video released by the ministry shows the interception of Grad and Qassam-like rockets, similar to those launched into Israel from Gaza in recent years and from Lebanon during the second Lebanon war of 2006.",
"Israel has considered rockets and missiles the main threat to its security since it withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza in 2005.",
"\"This is an important landmark for the security system and the security industries,\" Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a written statement.",
"\"We will work to station the systems on the ground as soon as possible.\"",
"\"The importance of the new system is major,\" concurred Ron Ben Yishai, national security and defense commentator for Yediot Aharonot newspaper and its website, known as Ynet.",
"\"The IDF can easily identify and target heavy missiles before being launched because of the time required to prepare them, whereas short-range rockets can easily be hidden behind any bush or house in southern Lebanon,\" he said.",
"\"It is the lighter -- up to 70 kilometers range -- rockets that pose the serious nuisance to the Israeli population.\"",
"In Washington, the White House is asking Congress to approve $205 million to help Israel build the system, Obama administration officials said.",
"White House spokesman Tommy Vietor explained the administration's rationale, saying, \"The president recognizes the threat missiles and rockets fired by Hamas and Hezbollah pose to Israelis.\"",
"According to an Israeli defense ministry spokesman, the cost of developing and manufacturing the first two batteries was approximately $218 million.",
"The cost of each additional battery is estimated at $13 million and rises to $21 million with the addition of radars and missiles.",
"\"A good coverage of Israel's borders requires 15 to 20 batteries,\" Ben Yishai said.",
"He said he believes the advantages of the system justify the cost.",
"\"Each intercepting missile costs the IDF $50,000, yet the price should not be compared to the cost of the cheap Qassam but rather to the cost of the damages it causes both in human lives and in property.",
"When examined this way, (the) equation is clear.\"",
"The funds proposed by the White House are expected to pay for up to nine more Iron Dome batteries.",
"Two senior administration officials said the $205 million would be in addition to the $3 billion the United States spends each year to support Israel's defense.",
"One senior administration official said a U.S. team traveled last fall to Israel to see work on Iron Dome, and concluded that it was \"a system that made sense.\"",
"Another senior administration official said the funding is part of an ongoing partnership between the United States and Israel to promote steps \"we can jointly take to improve Israel's security.\"",
"Israel's short-range rocket-defense system is \"one of the security measures we've been talking (about) with them over time,\" the official added.",
"The Obama administration is helping Israel enhance its security systems, in part, to address Israeli fears that the establishment of a Palestinian state would create a safe launching pad for rocket attacks.",
"The batteries \"can be transferred anywhere within Israel within a matter of hours,\" the defense ministry said."
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"NEW: The batteries are portable .",
"The Israeli defense system is known as the Iron Dome .",
"It is designed to protect against short-range missiles and rockets ."
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"(CNN) -- A mechanical problem forced NASA to delay the final launch of the Space shuttle Discovery at least until next Tuesday, the space agency said Friday.",
"Engineers found an air leak in the right hand Orbital Maneuvering System Pod, which they say will take a day to repair.",
"Launchtime on Tuesday is set for 4:12 p.m., when weather experts predict a 70 percent chance of acceptable weather, NASA said.",
"The Discovery's 11-day flight, which had been set to launch on Monday, will be a \"very busy mission,\" according to NASA Flight Director Bryan Lunney.",
"\"After we fly around the Earth about 170 times, Discovery will come home for its last flight,\" Lunney said during a news conference last month.",
"\"The crew is ready to go.\"",
"The six-member crew, led by Cmdr.",
"Steven Lindsey, will install a new \"permanent multipurpose module\" called Leonardo on the International Space Station.",
"This will be the 133rd space shuttle mission and the final one for Discovery.",
"The shuttle Endeavour is set to launch February 26, and Congress passed a bill this month authorizing another, final space shuttle mission."
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"NEW: Weather experts predict 70 percent chance of good launch weather .",
"Engineers expect it will take a day to fix the air leak .",
"The Discovery could launch on Tuesday .",
"NASA will retire the Discovery after it's November mission ."
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"(CNN) -- Retired baseball star Roger Clemens says he's looking forward to fighting perjury and other charges brought against him Thursday and again denied he ever used performance-enhancing drugs.",
"A federal grand jury in Washington has charged the seven-time Cy Young winner with perjury, obstruction of Congress and making false statements over his insistence to a House committee that he never used steroids or human growth hormone.",
"\"I never took HGH or steroids.",
"And I did not lie to Congress,\" Clemens said in a statement posted on the website Twitter.",
"\"I look forward to challenging the government's accusations, and hope people will keep an open mind until trial.",
"I appreciate all the support I have been getting.",
"I am happy to finally have my day in court.\"",
"Clemens left baseball in 2007 after 24 seasons in the major leagues, during which he played for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and New York Yankees.",
"He was the first pitcher to win seven Cy Young awards, ranks third in all-time career strikeouts with 4,672 and ninth in all-time wins with 354.",
"The charges stem the longtime pitcher's February 2008 appearance before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.",
"Both Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, and a report by former Sen. George Mitchell stated that Clemens had used banned substances at points in his career.",
"Rep. Henry Waxman, then the committee's chairman, said perjury and false statements \"are serious crimes that undermine the ability of Congress to perform its duties.\"",
"\"Whether he committed a crime will be up to the judge and jury,\" the California Democrat said in a written statement.",
"But he said the investigation, which Waxman and then-ranking Republican Tom Davis requested, \"are important actions to protect the integrity of the Committee's oversight work in this area and to help end the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in professional sports.\"",
"During the February 2008 hearing, Clemens vehemently denied using performance-enhancing drugs.",
"Steroid use \"is totally incompatible with who I am and what I stand for,\" he told lawmakers, adding, \"I cannot in good conscience admit to doing something that I did not do, even if it would be easier to do so.\"",
"The six-count indictment, returned by a grand jury in Washington, states that Clemens \"did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede\" the congressional investigation into the use of steroids by him and other major league players.",
"It includes three counts of making false statements to investigators about the use of human growth hormone, steroids and vitamin B12, and two counts of perjury stemming from his appearance before Waxman's committee in 2008.",
"That testimony put him at odds with McNamee as well as one-time Yankees teammate Andy Pettite, who told a league investigation led by Mitchell that Clemens admitted using human growth hormone.",
"A few weeks later, the committee's leaders asked the Justice Department to launch a perjury probe of Clemens.",
"Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, told reporters Thursday that the pitcher expected the indictment.",
"\"Roger has known from the very beginning that if he chose to publicly deny the accusations in the Mitchell report, that this day would come,\" Hardin said.",
"He said he warned Clemens he would be called before the House committee if he issued that denial, and if he repeated it in front of Congress, he would likely face perjury charges .",
"If he had used steroids, \"All he had to do was just admit he did it and move on like Andy,\" Hardin said.",
"But he added, \"I think people will understand sometimes the government's wrong.\"",
"\"Now that they are ready to move forward, we are too, and we'll let everything get taken care of in the courts,\" he said.",
"Clemens told investigators that Pettite -- who admitted to using human growth hormone on two occasions himself -- must have \"misheard\" him, and he accused McNamee of lying \"to save his own skin\" as federal authorities began probing the use of steroids in major sports.",
"He filed a defamation suit against his ex-trainer in late 2008.",
"Clemens said the shots he recieved from his trainer were vitamin B12, which is an allowed substance.",
"But the trainer never had access to B12 and never injected him with such supplements, the indictment states."
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"NEW: Pitching legend's lawyer says Clemens knew \"this day would come\"\nClemens denies allegations and says he wants his day in court .",
"Charges include obstructing Congress, false statements and perjury .",
"In 2008, Clemens testified that he didn't use performance-enhancing drugs ."
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- All 12 of France's oil refineries have reopened after being shut down for two weeks or more following a series of massive union-led actions protesting the government's planned pension overhaul.",
"Strikes ended Friday at all six of Total's refineries, according to a spokesman for that company.",
"It should take about a week for those facilities to start producing fuel again.",
"Yves le Goff, a spokesman for the French Union of Petroleum Industries, said industry leaders planned to meet Friday afternoon to discuss the situation.",
"The refineries and the nation's 219 petroleum depots were targets this month when hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets to rail against a plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.",
"Unions call the move unfair, though France's government say it is critical to keep public finances in order.",
"The latest round of nationwide protests took place Thursday.",
"France's Interior Ministry estimated that 560,000 people demonstrated, while unions -- six of which called for the protest, along with another one planned for November 6 -- put the number at a much higher 2 million.",
"A day earlier, the lower house of France's parliament approved the controversial pension reform bill; the Senate had approved it Tuesday.",
"But lawmakers can still force the bill to go to the Constitutional Council before it becomes law.",
"The opposition Socialist party has said it will try that route, which requires 60 legislators.",
"The pension plan is the latest in a continuing round of moves by President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration to pare down France's deficit and curtail government spending.",
"While many nations in Europe and elsewhere have undertaken or proposed major cuts, such moves are especially significant in France, where historically one in four jobs has been tied to the public sector.",
"Already, 40,000 teachers and staff have been laid off since 2008 in schools and universities.",
"And 54,000 military jobs are set to be lost through 2015, per a plan announced two years ago.",
"The government says that another 100,000 civil service jobs have been cut since Sarkozy took office in May 2007.",
"CNN's Winnie Andrews contributed to this report."
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"NEW: All of France's 12 oil refineries have reopened after several strikes ended Friday .",
"NEW: A Total spokesman says it will take a week for facilities to produce oil again .",
"Production had been halted at the refineries during protests over national pension reform ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A Virginia man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to help others he thought were members of al Qaeda in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington area, the Department of Justice said.",
"Farooque Ahmed, 34, appeared briefly Wednesday before federal Magistrate John Anderson at the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.",
"The court will appoint an attorney for Ahmed, and he was ordered to remain in custody until a detention hearing Friday, said Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria.",
"A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Ahmed on Tuesday, the Justice Department said in a statement.",
"\"In announcing this arrest, officials emphasized that at no time was the public in danger during this investigation and that the FBI was aware of Ahmed's activities from before the alleged attempt began and closely monitored his activities until his arrest,\" the statement said.",
"\"The public should be assured that there was no threat against Metrorail or the general public in the Washington, D.C., area.\"",
"Metrorail is the name of the subway system that serves the greater Washington area, including suburbs in northern Virginia and south-central Maryland.",
"Ahmed is charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility and attempting to provide material support \"to help carry out multiple bombings to cause mass casualties\" at the Washington-area stations, authorities said.",
"If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison.",
"An administration official said Wednesday that Ahmed has no known connections to any overseas terrorist groups or individuals.",
"The investigation is continuing, the official said on condition of not being identified.",
"White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters the arrest is \"another important example\" of work by the FBI, all levels of law enforcement and the national security team \"to keep our country safe.\"",
"\"At no point was the public in any danger,\" Gibbs said.",
"In a statement, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said, \"This arrest reinforces the need for continued vigilance by Metro and its customers.\"",
"Carr said Ahmed was dressed in casual clothes and had a long beard at the court appearance, where he appeared reserved and \"addressed the judge respectfully.\"",
"Ahmed was arrested at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday at a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, according to Carr.",
"Ahmed attempted to assist others \"whom he believed to be members of al Qaeda\" from April through Monday in planning multiple bombings at the stations, according to the indictment.",
"Federal authorities declined to provide further information on the identities of the purported al Qaeda members who allegedly were in contact with Ahmed.",
"On April 18, Ahmed allegedly drove to a hotel in Dulles, Virginia, and met with a courier who he thought was affiliated with a terrorist organization, the indictment said.",
"That person \"provided Ahmed with a document that provided potential locations at which future meetings could be arranged,\" the Justice Department said, citing the indictment.",
"On May 15, Ahmed allegedly agreed to \"watch and photograph\" a Washington hotel as well as a Metrorail station in Arlington, Virginia, \"to obtain information about their security and busiest periods,\" the department said.",
"Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Pakistan, \"allegedly participated in surveillance and recorded video images of Metrorail stations in Arlington, Virginia, on four occasions,\" the statement said.",
"On or about July 19, in a Sterling, Virginia, hotel room, Ahmed allegedly gave a memory stick containing video images of the station to \"an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda,\" according to the indictment.",
"That same day, he allegedly agreed to assess the security of two other Metrorail stations in Arlington as possible locations of terrorist attacks, the Justice Department statement said.",
"And in a Herndon hotel room on September 28, Ahmed allegedly handed over a USB drive containing images of two Arlington Metrorail stations to a person he thought was affiliated with al Qaeda, authorities said.",
"He also allegedly provided diagrams he drew of three Arlington Metrorail stations and provided suggestions as to where explosives should be placed on trains at the stations \"to kill the most people\" in simultaneous attacks planned for 2011, the Justice Department said.",
"\"Today's case underscores the need for continued vigilance against terrorist threats and demonstrates how the government can neutralize such threats before they come to fruition,\" said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security.",
"\"Farooque Ahmed is accused of plotting with individuals he believed were terrorists to bomb our transit system, but a coordinated law enforcement and intelligence effort was able to thwart his plans.\"",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Dan Lothian, Carol Cratty and Devon Sayers contributed to this report."
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"Source says suspect has no known terrorism links .",
"Farooque Ahmed faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted .",
"Ahmed was arrested Wednesday morning .",
"Feds: At no time was the public in danger ."
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"(CNN) -- The body of Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, the mayor of the city of Santiago in Nuevo Leon state, was found Wednesday, two days after he was abducted, Mexico's interior ministry announced.",
"His handcuffed and blindfolded body was found on the outskirts of Santiago along a road leading to a tourist attraction, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.",
"There were signs of torture, Notimex said.",
"Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake Mora said he will travel to Nuevo Leon to confer with local officials.",
"Nuevo Leon, which borders Texas, has been the frequent site of drug cartel violence, especially around the state capital of Monterrey.",
"Santiago is on the outskirts of Monterrey.",
"Cavazos was kidnapped by gunmen early Monday, Nuevo Leon state officials said at a news conference later that day.",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon lamented the killing Wednesday.",
"\"Edelmiro's death makes us indignant and obligates us to redouble our fight against these cowardly criminals who kill our citizens,\" Calderon posted on the online service Twitter.",
"More than 28,000 people have been killed in Mexican drug violence since Calderon initiated a crackdown against the cartels shortly after coming into office in December 2006."
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"NEW: His bound and blindfolded body was found with signs of torture, Notimex says .",
"Edelmiro Cavazos Leal was kidnapped early Monday, officials say .",
"Nuevo Leon state has been the site of much drug cartel violence .",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon lamented the mayor's slaying ."
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"Zhouqu, China(CNN) -- A day after a miraculous rescue, the sounds of cheers were replaced by crying families, the roar of bulldozers and dynamite blasting debris in Zhouqu, China, on Wednesday.",
"More than 24 hours after a man was pulled from the debris of his collapsed home, the grim reality is setting in that the death toll in the region is rising rapidly.",
"Recovery teams pulled another dead body from one destroyed building.",
"Another group carried what appeared to be the remains of a young child through the streets.",
"The bodies are delivered to a makeshift morgue just outside the city.",
"The roads in are also jammed with trucks carrying hundreds of coffins, along with the much needed supplies of water, food and medicine.",
"The official death toll stands at 702, with more than a thousand still reported missing after mudslides and flooding engulfed this ethnic-Tibetan city in northwest China Saturday night.",
"One village of 300 houses that local people said was home to more than 2,000 people was completely wiped out.",
"The mud is becoming a threat to rescue teams as well.",
"Pockets of air remain just below the surface, threatening to swallow up anyone who steps through them.",
"The heat also hampered the rescue efforts, compounded by a severe lack of drinking water and the growing threat of disease.",
"Temperatures on the ground are hovering around 34-degrees Celsius (93-degrees Fahrenheit).",
"Teams of workers combed through the city spraying for insecticide and disinfectants.",
"With so many dead bodies still believed to be decomposing in the heat and mud, fears of epidemic were on the rise.",
"State media reported that 7,000 tents were delivered to the city to help house the displaced.",
"But a lack of flat and stable ground to pitch camps meant that most survivors faced the prospect of another day without shelter, while digging through debris in search of loved ones.",
"China's rainy season started with a vengeance in early May and has brought the worst flooding in a decade.",
"More rain is forecast in the next few days.",
"Some of the rocks and debris from the mudslide landed in the middle of the Bailong River that snakes through the area.",
"The river overflowed and inundated low-lying neighborhoods.",
"The government has been using explosives to break up the river debris, in an attempt to gradually release the water safely.",
"CNN's Emily Chang in Zhouqu, China, and Brian Walker in Atlanta contributed to this report."
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"The death toll stands at 702 .",
"A village of 300 houses is completely wiped out .",
"Heat, lack of drinking water, and threat of disease hamper rescue efforts .",
"The mudslides were triggered by heavy rains that have tormented China all summer ."
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"(CNN) -- Iran unveiled the first long-range military drone manufactured in the country on Sunday, state media reported.",
"The unmanned aerial vehicle is capable of carrying out bombing missions against ground targets and flying long distances at a high speed, Press TV said.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the unveiling of the drone, dubbed the \"Karrar,\" in a ceremony marking Iran's Defense Industry Day.",
"In February, Iran inaugurated the production line for two types of drones with bombing and reconnaissance capabilities, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.",
"Iran has manufactured its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes since 1992, according to Press TV.",
"The country successfully tested a radar-evading drone with bombing capabilities in June 2009, Press TV said.",
"In March 2009, U.S. military officials said U.S. fighter jets in Iraq shot down an unmanned Iranian spy drone aircraft.",
"At the time, most major state-run media outlets in Iran did not carry news of any incident involving an Iranian drone and Iraq's national security adviser declined to comment.",
"Unmanned vehicles have become a staple of modern combat.",
"U.S. military officials have said remotely-controlled drones minimize risk and allow troops to spy on and attack enemy combatants.",
"Ahead of the drone's unveiling, Iran's defense minister said the country's military planned to reveal a project of \"great importance\" on Sunday, according to state-run Press TV.",
"\"Iran's defense capability has reached a point which does not need any aid from other countries,\" Defense Minister Brig.",
"Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said, according to the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency.",
"It is not clear whether the unveiling of the long-range drone was the announcement he was referring to.",
"Vahidi's announcement Saturday came as Iran began fueling its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of Bushehr, the nation's state media reported.",
"Press TV said the effort will help the country create nuclear-generated electricity.",
"But some Western nations have questioned whether the nuclear fuel will be used solely for electricity, suggesting that Iran would eventually try to enrich uranium on its own, providing material for nuclear weapons.",
"The United States has questioned Iran's motives in continuing to enrich uranium within its borders.",
"\"Russia is providing the fuel, and taking the fuel back out,\" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said earlier this month.",
"\"It, quite clearly, I think, underscores that Iran does not need its own enrichment capability if its intentions, as it states, are for a peaceful nuclear program,\" he said.",
"Iran has maintained all along that the site will produce energy, but the United States and some other international observers remain unconvinced.",
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking to Russian reporters in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday, brushed off Western concerns about the Bushehr facility, calling it \"the most important anchor holding Iran to the nonproliferation regime,\" according to the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti."
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"Ahmadinejad attends unveiling ceremony .",
"Drones have become a staple of modern combat ."
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