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"(CNN) -- At least 27 fishermen were missing after a Vietnam-registered vessel sank in the South China Sea, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday, citing maritime rescue authorities.",
"Strong gales caused the Phu Tan to capsize and sink and the fishermen fell overboard, the report said.",
"The accident occurred about 110 nautical miles to the west of Sanya City in the southern island province of Hainan, a South China Sea Salvage Bureau spokesman said.",
"A rescue vessel was headed to the site of the sinking, and a towboat was ordered to assist."
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"(CNN) -- An unofficial watch group is forming in a central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, neighborhood, residents say, in an effort to protect themselves against a serial strangler responsible for at least three homicides.",
"The 12-member unit has been patrolling the city's rough-and-tumble Kensington district since Friday, two days after the partially clothed body of the latest victim, Casey Mahoney, was discovered.",
"\"We are warning residents to go out in pairs,\" said group organizer Tom Potts.",
"\"I've been talking to women in the area.",
"Most are carrying pepper spray.\"",
"One of women has been walking with an electric stun gun, he added.",
"Police are also trying to determine whether three strangulation assaults that occurred in the same area are also linked to the suspected killer.",
"The victims were all white females, police said.",
"Potts said the neighborhood group walks up and down Kensington Avenue and nearby streets each night in the drugs- and prostitution-riddled neighborhood.",
"Their actions come as police ask residents for information of those involved in the attacks, but also warn the public against taking matters into their own hands.",
"\"We are cautioning people to wait and get the person identified,\" said police spokesman Ray Evers.",
"\"We need the public to be our eyes,\" he said, warning against the potential dangers of vigilante action.",
"Some residents are pairing up when walking at night.",
"\"I've never felt safe alone,\" said Arianna Hall-Reinhard.",
"The 22-year-old Kensington resident says she carries pepper spray and joins friends when she heads home from work.",
"\"It's a whole new level of having to be aware,\" she said.",
"Others have taken to social media, joining a Facebook page called \"Catch the Kensington Strangler, before he catches someone you love.\"",
"The page featured an incorrect sketch of the suspected killer, prompting police to contact the site, Evers said.",
"Elaine Goldberg, 21, and Nicole Piacentini, 35, were both killed in November attacks.",
"Mahoney had been sexually assaulted and strangled on December 15, said police spokeswoman Jillian Russell.",
"DNA has linked the slayings of three women, and authorities are offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions, said task force Capt.",
"James Clark.",
"\"We now know that this predator is responsible for three murders in this area,\" he said.",
"Authorities say they believe the attacker likely is still in the 10-block radius where the attacks occurred.",
"\"It's time to bring this offender to justice,\" Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey told reporters.",
"\"Help us stop this brutal violence from occurring in the future.\"",
"But authorities say they lack corroborating DNA evidence linking the assaults to the homicides because too much time had elapsed between the initial two assaults in October and when the victims notified police.",
"\"The assault victims did not come forward until police began combing the Kensington (neighborhood) for suspects and potential victims following the November homicides,\" Evers said.",
"Federal agents joined the investigation earlier this month, bringing in resources from the FBI's behavioral analysis unit, violent criminal apprehension program, and National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.",
"\"The investigation appears to be limited to Philadelphia,\" said FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver.",
"\"This could change if there are any indications that the subject or subjects responsible for the crimes ... are linked to similar crimes elsewhere.\"",
"The assault victims described the attacker as an African-American male in his early 20s, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds.",
"Police said a third assault victim was pulled into an alley earlier this month.",
"Despite being choked, punched and hit on the head with a brick, the 33-year-old woman escaped, and her assailant fled the scene, according to a police report.",
"All victims were involved in prostitution and narcotics, police said."
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"A resident watch group is forming to protect a neighborhood from a serial killer .",
"The 12-member unit has been patrolling Philadelphia's Kensington district since Friday .",
"Philadelphia police are looking for a serial strangler responsible for at least 3 homicides .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- Before Wednesday's Delaware Senate debate, the bulk of what people knew about Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell came from clips from a talk show from the 1990s.",
"In the month since O'Donnell rocked the political world with her upset win over Rep. Mike Castle in the Republican primary, she's dominated headlines despite avoiding the national media.",
"Wednesday's debate, co-moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer and longtime Delaware news anchor Nancy Karibjanian, could prove to be make or break for O'Donnell's Senate bid.",
"She and Democrat Chris Coons are vying to fill the seat held for nearly four decades by now-Vice President Joe Biden .",
"The debate gave O'Donnell an opportunity to reintroduce herself to voters, define her views and chip away at the 19-point deficit she must overcome to defeat Coons.",
"It also provided a chance to do the opposite.",
"O'Donnell and Coons focused largely on the economy and national issues during their 90-minute exchange.",
"Updates from Delaware .",
"O'Donnell threw rocks at Coons throughout the debate, while he tried to paint her answers as frivolous and unintelligible.",
"\"Coons can can barely contain his disdain for his opponent,\" noted Gloria Borger, a senior political analyst for CNN.",
"The debate produced a few humorous moments, such as when Coons said O'Donnell's well-publicized statements that she dabbled in witchcraft and questioned evolution theory were distractions instead of a substantive campaign issue.",
"\"You're just jealous that you weren't on Saturday Night Live,\" O'Donnell said, referring to the comedy show's satirical skit about her.",
"\"I'm dying to see who's going to play me,\" Coons responded with a smile.",
"The debate was tense and O'Donnell was feisty -- until a flub near the end.",
"O'Donnell was tripped up by the same question that caused problems for then-VP candidate Sarah Palin in her interview with Katie Couric about Supreme Court decisions.",
"Asked if she could name a recent Supreme Court case she disagreed with, O'Donnell said, \"can you give me a specific one?\"",
"O'Donnell was unable to provide a case, but said decisions she disagreed with would be posted on her website.",
"While the forum was one of the most anticipated events of the campaign season, not everyone was as captivated.",
"\"Even if I lived in [Delaware,] I wouldn't watch.",
"I already know about this woman to question everything she has done.",
"Her ethics and character leave a lot to be desired,\" commented CNN reader Marie MD.",
"Commenter Laverne planned to tune in for the entertainment.",
"\"Anybody in their right mind will be able to tell right away if she is truly knowledgeable of the topics,\" the reader said.",
"Delaware voters had varying impressions of the debate.",
"Bob Ashby said O'Donnell did a good job showing who she really is.",
"\"I think that Christine O'Donnell needed to show that she's a human being, a real person and that she's impassioned, that all this other sort of conversation that's been going on about her is not really accurate.",
"And I think that's what she attempted to do, and I think she did very well with that,\" he said.",
"But voter Lisa Lucas was hardly impressed.",
"\"I find it abundantly disconcerting that we have this much in common with Wasilla,\" she said.",
"\"Even if you have some concerns about Chris Coons' history or his politics or whatever, yet again, we have a polarized election where it's a black and white thing, because she is so far off the grid.\"",
"Another voter, identified by her first name only, said that after watching the debate, she decided she wasn't voting for either candidate.",
"\"I just feel that Christine O'Donnell doesn't really answer any questions.",
"She goes very circular on things.",
"And I just feel like Chris Coons has been kind of condescending.",
"And it's just I don't get a good feeling from either candidate,\" Meghan told CNN.",
"Immediate reaction from the blogosphere was also mixed.",
"The Conservative Journal said the debate \"didn't have a clear cut winner as far as who answered better,\" but it predicted O'Donnell would benefit most.",
"The blog gave credit to both candidates for substantive answers, but was turned off by Coons' \"snide retorts.\"",
"The left-leaning blog Talking Points Memo said that while O'Donnell may have mastered her talking points, she \"had a tough time this evening with some basic questions about issues she'd face if she is elected to the Senate.\"",
"How do you think she did? Did O'Donnell win or lose votes based on her performance?"
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"O'Donnell, Coons face off in first debate .",
"O'Donnell has largely avoided the national media .",
"She came across as aggressive but stumbled on a question about Supreme Court cases .",
"Immediate reaction form the blogosphere was mixed ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea will conduct naval fire drills near a flashpoint with the North that resulted in the deaths of four people, military officials said Thursday.",
"The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the exercises will take place in the seas southwest of Yeonpyeong Island on a day to be announced between December 18 and 21.",
"The South previously announced military exercises for this week, but Thursday's announcement adds to them.",
"Tensions mounted between the Koreas on November 23, when North Korea shelled the island, which lies in South Korean territory.",
"The attacked killed two marines and two civilians and injured 18 people.",
"Last month's attack was the first direct artillery assault on South Korea since 1953, when an armistice ended fighting.",
"The North has accused the South of provoking the attack because shells from a South Korean military drill landed in the North's waters.",
"North Korea Thursday accused the South's new defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, of \"going reckless like a puppy knowing no fear of a tiger,\" state-run KCNA reported.",
"During his confirmation hearing this month, Kim said South Korea would respond with airstrikes if the North attacks it again.",
"The South Korean joint chiefs said the drills will be carried out in the presence of officials from the Military Armistice Committee and representatives from U.N. party members to ensure that the exercise is lawful and follows rules of the armistice."
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"North Korea shells a South Korean island last month .",
"The drills will take place near a flashpoint that left four people dead ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 28 people were killed Wednesday after a boat carrying asylum seekers crashed into cliffs along the shore near the coast of Christmas Island, Australia's minister for immigration and citizenship said.",
"Rescuers were able to pull 43 people from the \"dangerous\" waters and one person was able to swim to shore.",
"\"It's a very difficult situation for everybody involved and of course, particularly, for those on Christmas Island: for the asylum seekers and for those involved in the rescue,\" Minister Chris Bowen said in an Australian radio interview.",
"\"Those involved in the rescue -- both the naval officials, the customs officials and the locals -- did an outstanding job in saving so many people yesterday.\"",
"Bowen noted -- as Australia's border protection agency did earlier -- that weather in the area is treacherous.",
"\"The rescue is being conducted in extremely difficult and dangerous conditions,\" the Australia's border protection agency said in a statement.",
"'\"We will continue the search until last light and review the situation and determine what further actions might need to be taken before first light tomorrow.\"",
"Bowen said 11 of the survivors were \"clearly children or say they're under 18.",
"Of the deceased, we don't know yet.\"",
"Bowen also said it was unclear how many people were on the boat.",
"\"People who have survived say that there were between 70 and 100, but we really don't know and we probably never will,\" he said.",
"Most of the people on the boat were from Iran and Iraq, a rescue worker told Sydney radio station 2GB.",
"\"Eyewitnesses told us that they saw babies being held in people's arms and then when the boat was hit by the wave and crashed up against the rocks, they could no longer see those young babies,\" said Jessica Campanaro, a reporter with the Australian radio station.",
"\"There is an ongoing situation which involves a rescue of people off Christmas Island,\" a statement from Australian Customs and Border Protection said.",
"\"Our paramount priority is the safety of all involved.\"",
"The group will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo security, identity and health checks and their reasons for travel will be established, according to the Customs and Border Protection statement.",
"The tragedy has spurred discussions of Australia's immigration policies, but Minister Bowen said there would time enough for those discussions later.",
"\"It's appropriate that there be a political discussion about this, and people will have strong views,\" he said.",
"\"My focus, together with [Minister for Home Affairs] Brendan O'Connor and the prime minister [Julia Gillard] is on the situation we have at Christmas Island.",
"There'll be inquiries and investigations, but I think what we can best do today is lend our support to the valiant rescue efforts of our naval and customs personnel, and also the locals on Christmas Island who responded magnificently.\"",
"Christmas Island is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, nearer to the Philippines than to Australia.",
"The island is about 1,600 miles northwest of the western Australian city of Perth and 220 miles south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.",
"CNN's Mila Sanina contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Australian minister says 44 have been rescued .",
"The group will be transferred to Christmas Island, police say ."
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Five suspects were arrested on terror-related charges, including one of Indonesia's most wanted men, Abu Tholut, Indonesian police said Tuesday.",
"Tholut and the others were arrested in Central Java on December 10, authorities said at a news conference Tuesday.",
"Tholut helped create a militant training camp in Aceh that was raided by authorities in February, said Inspector General Iskandar Hasan, a National Police spokesman.",
"The group was allegedly training and planning attacks in Indonesia that were similar to the 2008 Mumbai, India terror attacks, in which 164 people were killed.",
"Tholut is a weapons expert and is a former senior leader of the terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, police said.",
"Tholut could also be connected to detained radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir and his organization Jama'ah Ansharut Tauhid or JAT.",
"Bashir has been in police detention since August and Monday police sent charges to state prosecutors accusing him of multiple terror charges including inciting others to commit crimes of terror.",
"The charges carry the maximum penalty of death.",
"Bashir has denied these allegations.",
"Tholut served four years in jail on terrorism charges from 2003 to 2007.",
"He got off for good behavior but police say he rejoined Indonesia's terror network after his release.",
"It was clear Tholut, as were other top suspects either caught or arrested in recent months, were reporting to Bashir, authorities said."
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"The suspects were planning attacks similar to the 2008 Mumbai, India terror attacks .",
"The suspects may be connected to at least two terror groups, police say ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- The prime minister of the Hamas government in Gaza denied Wednesday Israeli claims of an al Qaeda presence in the coastal strip, claiming there is no such thing.",
"Speaking to reporters, Ismail Haniya said there was an active Palestinian resistance in Gaza but that it \"does not work outside of the borders of Palestine.\"",
"He said recent Israeli accusations that al Qaeda had secured a foothold in the Palestinian territory were \"an illusion\" and were being used a pretext for future Israeli military action in Gaza and to incite American and international public opinion against Palestinians.",
"The remarks were made in reference to Israel's targeted killings last month of two Palestinians in Gaza.",
"The Israeli military claimed the victims were senior operatives of an al Qaeda inspired radical group known as the Army of Islam and were planning attacks against Israeli and American targets in the Sinai Peninsula.",
"Haniya said he had written a letter to Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, assuring him that no Palestinian resistance groups were operating in the Sinai Peninsula.",
"Asked about Hamas' relationship with Salafist organizations in Gaza, Haniya stressed the \"moderate\" nature of the Palestinian people and said the government was \"not seeking a clash with any party.\"",
"Salafists are a Muslim splinter group.",
"Haniya acknowledged that Hamas had some differences with Salafist organizations in the past but claimed there had been \"no significant incidents\" since a violent showdown with a radical group in August of last year which left 21 dead and scores injured.",
"Haniya argued Israel's targeted killings were part of a coordinated Israeli government media campaign to portray Palestinians as the aggressor.",
"\"We are the ones being strangled in the siege, and now Gaza is being marketed as the ones who have the bombs, missiles and anti-aircraft missiles\" Haniya said .",
"\"This is purely made up and all lies.\""
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"Prime minister says al Qaeda is not operating in Gaza .",
"He says charge is \"an illusion\" by Israel .",
"Haniya says he has assured Egypt Palestinians are not planning attacks in the Sinai ."
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"Haifa, Israel (CNN) -- Israeli police said Friday that they suspect arson in the wildfire that has killed at least 41 people and injured 17 in northern Israel over the past two days.",
"Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld cited \"suspicious objects\" found Thursday.",
"He did not elaborate. Officials called the wildfire, which had scorched more than 7,400 acres and continued to burn, the worst in the nation's history.",
"A police investigative team and a fire expert team have been working to determine the cause of the fire, which started from a single location, said Dudi Cohen, Israeli police commissioner.",
"Forty of the fatalities were cadets in Israel's prison service who were en route Thursday to help evacuate 500 inmates from Damon prison near Haifa when their bus became engulfed in the fast-moving blaze, the Jerusalem Post reported.",
"\"The bus had no chance; they tried to escape but were burned alive,\" a firefighter spokesman told the newspaper.",
"\"It was a horrific scene.\"",
"Eight funerals were held Friday and several bodies were still being identified, the Jerusalem Post reported.",
"Israeli firefighter spokesman Yoram Levy said shifting 29 kph (18 mph) winds made the inferno harder to control as flames neared a neighborhood in Haifa, a major tourist destination on the northern coast.",
"Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel about 50 miles north of Tel Aviv, Haifa's metropolitan area is also host to historical sites that date to Biblical times.",
"More than 15,000 people have been evacuated from villages and towns in the area, emergency officials said.",
"The fire has also threatened a sensitive ecological area near the Hai Bar nature reserve.",
"Known as Mount Carmel's \"Little Switzerland,\" the reserve is home to a wildlife preservation project that seeks to bring back native species mentioned in the Old Testament.",
"The fire, which began Thursday morning on Mount Carmel and spread through nearby areas, has triggered an outcry in Israel.",
"Though the nation is known for its military might, it has failed to handle the calamity, according to critics.",
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Friday during a Security Cabinet briefing that Israel could not cope with the wildfire alone and thanked the more than 13 nations sending emergency crews and equipment to help douse the blaze.",
"During a visit to victims in a hospital in Haifa, most of which was blanketed in smoke, Netanyahu said Russian planes were the latest addition to the international force aiding Israel.",
"Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported that an II-76 plane capable of holding 42 tons of water, an amphibious BE-200 and an Mi-26 transport helicopter also used for fighting fires were scheduled to fly to Israel.",
"\"On the way here, we flew over Carmel, where we heard and saw the Greek aircraft fighting the fire,\" Netanyahu said.",
"\"I very much appreciate the mobilization of many countries.\"",
"Netanyahu talked Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama, who said in a statement that officials from the two nations have been \"in near-constant contact since the fires began.\"",
"Chemicals to suppress the flames -- including 45 metric tons of fire retardant and 12,000 liters of foam -- will arrive this weekend through the U.S. Agency for International Development, that agency said, with teams of U.S.-based firefighting specialists also on their way.",
"Additionally, a U.S. military official said that Israel has asked for satellite imagery from the U.S. military, as well as planes to carry water and flame retardants.",
"Israeli fire crews were also aided by Cyprus, England and Turkey, among others.",
"Relations between Turkey and Israel have been tense since last spring, when Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish ship carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza, killing nine people.",
"\"This is a very blessed step that the prime minister of Turkey has decided to take,\" Netanyahu told reporters about Turkey's help.",
"\"I appreciate this much in a time of a humanitarian and ecological crisis.",
"We will find ways to show our appreciation.\"",
"CNN's Michal Zippori contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has been arrested in Salzburg, Austria, an Austrian Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said Friday.",
"His arrest came after an international warrant was issued by Croatian prosecutors accusing him of abuse of position and power, according to Croatia's Ministry of Interior.",
"Sanader was arrested on a highway in Salzburg, said the spokeswoman, who works for the extradition division of Austria's Justice Ministry and did not want to be named.",
"Sanader will be extradited to Croatia, according to Croatian state-run HTV.",
"Sanader faces allegations of corruption dating to his years as prime minister from 2003 to 2009, according to prosecutors.",
"A popular, conservative politician, Sanader was a leading member of the Christian Conservative HDZ party founded by Croatia's first post-communist president, Franjo Tudman.",
"Fellow party member Jerko Rosen said Sanader, who left the country on business, will return to Croatia immediately to fight the charges, RTL-Croatia reported.",
"Rosen said he does not know Sanader's whereabouts.",
"Sanader, who has an international passport, has been stripped of any official immunity, RTL reported.",
"He is listed on the Interpol site as a fugitive wanted on fraud and organized crime offenses.",
"Secret U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by the WikiLeaks website allege that kickbacks were being investigated during Sanader's term, and that there \"appears to be a new attitude toward allegedly corrupt party members that is strengthening the political will to fight corruption at all levels in the Croatian government and economy.\"",
"\"For the past three years, the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office for the Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption (USKOK) has been ratcheting up its activity in corruption cases,\" the cable stated.",
"It is not clear whether Sanader has hired an attorney to represent him."
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"NEW: Ivo Sanader was arrested in Salzburg, official says .",
"Sanader is wanted for abuse of position and power in Croatia .",
"A party member claims Sanader will return to Croatia to prove his innocence .",
"Interpol and Croatian prosecutors accuse Sanader of fraud and corruption ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Less than one month after being rescued, one of the now-famous Chilean miners will compete in the New York City Marathon Sunday, according to Mary Wittenberg, president of the New York City Road Runners Club.",
"Edison Pena, 34, was originally invited by the club, which organizes the annual marathon, to attend the event as a spectator.",
"But Pena insisted on running in the 26.2-mile marathon, Wittenberg said.",
"Pena earned the nickname \"the runner\" for jogging through one of the mine's tunnels, but he was eventually forced to stop after rocks began to fall along his route.",
"\"He had the fortitude to take the time and run when in what most would describe as a pretty scary situation,\" Wittenberg told CNN.",
"\"To be out there whether running or walking is such an affirmation of the human spirit,\" she said of the marathon.",
"Wittenberg said Pena will be traveling to New York with his wife.",
"The 12th miner to be rescued, Pena is a diehard Elvis Presley fan who, despite speaking little English, knows most of the words to Elvis classics and led the trapped miners in sing-alongs during their 69-day ordeal underground.",
"CNN's Lonzo Cook contributed to this report."
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"Edison Pena was one of 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for more than two months .",
"While trapped, Pena ran in the mine's tunnels .",
"He will run the 26.2-mile New York City Marathon on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- The new-look Miami Heat recorded their first win of the NBA season on Wednesday, but their conquerors in the opening round the Boston Celtics could not back up the victory.",
"On Tuesday, 17-time NBA finals champions the Celtics defeated the much hyped up Heat and their star signings LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in the most watched regular season basketball game of all-time.",
"But in a reversal of fortunes in Wednesday's games, the Heat defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 98-87 with \"The Big Three\" securing their first win while playing together in the Florida-side's shirt.",
"Meanwhile the Celtics -- who lost last season's final to the Los Angeles Lakers -- struggled against LeBron's old team the Cleveland Cavaliers, losing 95-87.",
"Playing at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, the Heat performed closer to what had been expected of basketball's new dream team, spurred on by their disappointing loss to Boston.",
"\"I saw a tangible difference in how we were playing,\" coach Erik Spoelstra told the official NBA website.",
"\"Guys took it to heart and wanted to come out with a better disposition defensively and keep the ball in front of us to challenge at the rim.\"",
"Wade scored 30 points, James 16 and Bosh 15 to complete a better performance from the trio.",
"But it was another James, James Jones, who really stood out for the Heat, finishing with 20 points on nine attempts and receiving praise from his star teammates.",
"\"JJ was unbelievable today,\" James told the NBA website while Wade added: \"Give it up for JJ, really stepping up.\"",
"But Wade believes there is still more to come from Miami, who almost allowed Philadelphia to catch them in the final quarter.",
"\"We're not at our peak, we're not even close,'' he said.",
"\"Eventually when it's time to be there, we will.''",
"The Celtics were stunned by the Cleveland Cavaliers, playing in their first match for more than seven years without LeBron James, who announced his decision to leave the Ohio side in an hour long television program in July.",
"Boston coach Doc Rivers was congratulated by Cleveland fans for having overcome the Heat, but his side then received no mercy from the Cavaliers.",
"\"Guys in this locker room believe.",
"We've been listening to what people are predicting for us,\" Cleveland forward Antawn Jamison said.",
"\"We're going to let our game do the talking.",
"It's probably going to take a month or so for people to realize, 'Hey, this is a team that can win and compete for the playoffs.'''",
"For the Cavaliers, JJ Hickson finished with 21 points and Daniel Gibson 16 -- all in the second half -- to hold off the challenge from the Celtics.",
"The east coast side had led by 11 points in the third quarter but were outscored 27-14 in the fourth.",
"\"`We took them a little bit too lightly,'' Shaquille O'Neal, who spent last season with Cleveland, admitted to the NBA website.",
"Elsewhere in Wednesday's other NBA Eastern Conference games, the New York Knicks beat the Toronto Raptors 98-93, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated Chicago Bulls 106-95 and The New Jersey Nets won 101-98 against the Detroit Pistons."
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"Celtics beat new-look Heat in the opening game of the season on Tuesday .",
"The Heat defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 98-87 with LeBron James scoring 16 points .",
"Celtics lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers 95-87 ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- India's prime minister said he has nothing to hide and would be \"happy\" to appear before a parliamentary panel looking into a multi-billion dollar telecom scandal.",
"\"I wish to state categorically that I have nothing to hide from the public at large, and as a proof of my bona fides, I intend to write to the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee that I shall be happy to appear before the PAC if it chooses to ask me to do so,\" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a speech at a national meeting of the ruling Congress party.",
"\"I sincerely believe that, like Caesar's wife, the prime minister should be above suspicion, and it is for this reason that I am prepared to appear before the PAC even though there is no precedent to this effect.\"",
"Opposition parties have stepped up their attacks on Singh, hailed as the father of India's economic reforms, since the country's main auditor reported in November that a sale of a second-generation wireless spectrum two years ago had been carried out at below-market prices.",
"According to the government audit, the treasury lost up to $31 billion from under-valuation of airwaves.",
"The alleged scam, seen as the biggest to hit India in recent times, has forced the country's Telecom Minister A. Raja, to step down.",
"Raja, member of a key regional ally of Singh's Congress party, denies the charges.",
"But opposition lawmakers are seeking a larger probe into the 2008 phone-license awards, and accuse Singh of having not acted swiftly.",
"India's prime minister, on his part, insists the wrongdoers will be punished.",
"\"It is my promise to you that no guilty person will be spared -- whether he is a political leader or a government official, whichever party he may belong to and howsoever powerful he may be,\" Singh said Monday.",
"The damning audit report came on the heels of allegations of massive fraud in sports and real estate.",
"Investigators are already probing complaints of financial malfeasance in the Commonwealth Games that India hosted in October.",
"And several politicians, military officials and bureaucrats are the subjects of a separate inquiry for allegedly taking apartments meant for war-widows.",
"CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A senior U.S. official is denying allegations that American officials ignored warnings by the Moroccan-born wife of David Headley, a Drug Enforcement Administration informer in Pakistan who was convicted of helping to plan the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.",
"\"She expressed concern about individuals that her husband was hanging around with,\" he said.",
"\"She had concerns that they were involved in a terrorist plot.",
"She had no details about who he was associated with or what they might be contemplating.\"",
"He added, \"There was nothing specific.",
"There was nothing necessarily to follow up on.\"",
"The official, speaking on background because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the subject, said the wife \"walked into the U.S. Embassy in December 2007.",
"There was a follow-up meeting in 2008.",
"That was the last contact that we had with her.\"",
"The attack occurred in November 2008.",
"An American former wife of Headley also expressed concern about Headley's activities to U.S. investigators two years earlier, news reports say, but Headley was able to continue his contacts and training with militants in Pakistan.",
"The senior U.S. official denied, however, that the information was ignored.",
"\"We took what the wives told us seriously,\" he insisted.",
"This official said the State Department shared the information with \"relevant\" U.S. agencies.",
"He said he did not know whether that information was shared with Pakistan.",
"He would not say whether the information was shared with India, although he added that, as a matter of course, the U.S. shares intelligence with India and did so both before and after the Mumbai attacks.",
"Asked whether the State Department fully investigated the Moroccan wife's concerns, the official said that since the United States has limited authority in a foreign country it \"checked out what she told us.\"",
"He provided no details.",
"Monday, State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley told reporters that if the United States had had specific information on possible planning for the Mumbai attacks it would have shared it with India.",
"\"We would have absolutely provided it to the Indian government, you know, beforehand,\" he said.",
"\"The fact is that while we had information and concerns, it did not detail a time or place of the attack.\"",
"Any information she did provide was followed up on, Crowley said.",
"\"We followed up on that information and provided it to relevant agencies across the U.S. government,\" he said at a State Department news conference."
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"The information received included \"nothing specific,\" a U.S. official says .",
"It came from the wife of a man later convicted of helping plan the attack .",
"Reports: A former wife had expressed concern about the man two years earlier ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The board of British chocolate maker Cadbury accepted a buyout offer from American food giant Kraft Tuesday, a deal that would end the nearly 200-year-old independence of the beloved British brand.",
"The board has agreed to recommend the offer to Cadbury shareholders, who have until February 2 to decide -- but they are expected to approve it.",
"Kraft's offer Tuesday is its biggest one yet for the maker of Creme Eggs and Dairy Milk chocolate bars.",
"It values Cadbury at £13.3 billion ($21.8 billion), or £8.40 ($13.77) per share.",
"In addition, Cadbury shareholders will be entitled to receive 10 pence (16 cents) per Cadbury share.",
"\"We believe the offer represents good value for Cadbury shareholders and are pleased with the commitment that Kraft Foods has made to our heritage, values, and people throughout the world,\" Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr said in a statement.",
"He said Cadbury would work with Kraft to ensure the growth of the business for customers and employees.",
"\"We have great respect for Cadbury's brands, heritage, and people,\" said Kraft Chairwoman and Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld.",
"\"We believe they will thrive as part of Kraft Foods.\"",
"Will takeover affect Cadbury's taste?",
"Cadbury had previously rejected two hostile takeover bids by Kraft because Carr said they did not value the company high enough.",
"Illinois-based Kraft earlier this month sold its North American frozen pizza business to Nestle to finance a fresh bid for Cadbury.",
"The January 5 sale helped Kraft boost the cash element of its offer, which would give Cadbury shareholders cash in addition to Kraft shares.",
"There had been rumors that Swiss firm Nestle, which has a chocolate and confectionery unit, would make its own offer for Cadbury.",
"But Nestle squelched those rumors when it bought Kraft's frozen pizza business in the United States and Canada for $3.7 billion.",
"U.S. chocolate maker Hershey also had reportedly been considering a $17.9 billion bid for Cadbury.",
"Cadbury is a beloved brand in Britain, producing chocolate products that have become a cultural fixture.",
"Its Dairy Milk and Bournville brands have been around for more than 100 years, and its Milk Tray and Roses samplers -- which are still sold today -- were some of the first to be marketed as an everyday purchase.",
"John Cadbury established his shop in Birmingham, England, in 1824, selling drinking chocolate alongside coffee and tea.",
"Cadbury, a Quaker, was trying to give people an alternative to alcohol, which he thought destroyed lives, according to the company.",
"Cadbury: From grocery store to global giant .",
"The company now employs around 45,000 people in 60 countries, including around 5,700 staff at eight manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland, .",
"Kraft's roots go back to 1903, when J.L.",
"Kraft began selling cheese from his horse-drawn wagon in Chicago, Illinois.",
"Today the company owns products from Oreo Cookies and Jell-O gelatin to Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Miracle Whip salad dressing, though it may be most famous for its Macaroni & Cheese instant dinner and Velveeta processed cheese products.",
"Kraft's takeover of Cadbury has also been criticized by British trade unions who urged the UK government and the EU to block the bid.",
"Unite, the UK's largest union said a merger will destabilize the company and hit future returns to shareholders.",
"Outside Cadbury's plant in the Birmingham suburb of Bourneville on Tuesday some workers expressed their fears about possible job losses.",
"One man told the Press Association: \"There are a lot of worried people inside that building.\"",
"The employee, who asked not to be named, added: \"Nobody really knows what is going on or what this might mean in terms of job losses, but inside that factory there are a lot of people who are very, very worried about the future -- the future of the company and their own future, their jobs and their families.",
"\"It is not a good atmosphere here today.\""
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"Kraft offer for Cadbury is 840 pence per share, valuing Cadbury at £21.8 billion .",
"Agreed cash-and-stock offer ends five months of hostile relations .",
"Combined Kraft/Cadbury will be one of world's biggest confectionery companies ."
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"(CNN) -- Not long ago, I was very kindly invited to Buckingham Palace, as a member of Britain's food industry.",
"Hundreds of very smart foodies turned up, having showered, shaved and left behind their stoves, whisks and knives.",
"It is a funny thing seeing many of your contemporaries in suits and dresses when you're used to seeing them in their whites and aprons.",
"I spent most of the evening introducing myself or just observing the many groups of people that mingle at occasions like these.",
"One group caught my eye for most of the evening.",
"It was made up of gentlemen all dressed in military uniform -- rather splendid military uniforms, obviously designed for just such a royal occasion.",
"It was not the uniforms or even the rows of medals on their chests, but the fact that military members were there at all.",
"Watch an interview with Arthur Potts Dawson .",
"What would the military be doing at a food gig at Buckingham Palace?",
"Well, the answer stopped me short, so short that I have been unable to think of much else since that rather uneventful night -- uneventful except for the firm handshake of Her Majesty the Queen.",
"The answer in its simplest form was that the uniforms were the catering corps, a corps that has catered all over the world for British soldiers on every battlefield ever since men needed to fight and eat at the same time.",
"The answer in its most shocking form was that these were the men who would be in control of the food in Britain should we face shortages.",
"Shortages? Yes, shortages, of oil, water and their means of distribution.",
"Shortages of flour, milk and eggs.",
"Shortages of meat, fruit and vegetables.",
"In fact, should this country suffer from any number of potential problems with our oil-dependent food chain, our very lives could be in the hands of the small group of men standing in a corner in Buckingham Palace.",
"All of Britain's superstar chefs had turned out for this event, but none was more important than the gentlemen who stood watching the rest of us, as we rather arrogantly walked around the room as if food would always be available to perform tricks with, to swear at and make jokes with.",
"Well, food security is a serious issue and I better find out as much as I can about it.",
"TED.com: Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish .",
"In Britain the big supermarkets dominate our food chain.",
"British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.",
"Controlling food and its distribution takes a huge amount of money and energy, but because the British food producer could not keep up with the supermarkets' demands for ever-lower prices, the supermarkets have moved to buying globally.",
"They turned to the products provided by cheap labor in northern and southern Africa, South America and Asia.",
"But in shifting from Britain to the world, our supermarkets managed to destabilize Britain's food infrastructure.",
"The supermarkets have left behind farmers, milk producers and fishermen.",
"They all have knowledge they should be passing down, but there is no new blood wanting to pick up the rake, the fishing net or the gate latch at 4 a.m. TED.com: Michael Pollan gives a plant eye's view .",
"There is no money in food production in Britain: The supermarkets have taken the potential for a decent living away.",
"The cost to produce milk is higher than the supermarkets are willing to pay.",
"The cost of meat is too high, and the cost of fish is too high.",
"But the supermarkets reply that they are only trying to \"give the customers what they want,\" so they must go abroad.",
"In this statement is the manipulation.",
"We as customers are led to believe that the low costs we pay are borne by the supermarkets.",
"Well, think again.",
"It is the producers in this country who are paid such low prices by the supermarkets for their produce that they are going out of business by the hundreds every year, and with it goes their knowledge.",
"The supermarkets are not delivering cheap food, it is the farmers and producers of Britain, and now the world -- and at a cost to the environment too.",
"Increased yield means increased use of fertilizers, pesticides and antibiotics in animals.",
"About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it.",
"British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away too.",
"Where are we going with this over-producing, over-consuming super-cheap food system?",
"We are going global with a huge reliance on oil.",
"TED.com: Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet .",
"But when the oil stops flowing, and our systems fail, no safety procedures are in place to help us.",
"No localized food networks, and no agricultural schools developing our next wave of farmers -- this in a country where the average age for a farmer is 64.",
"It feels to me as if we are becoming so overly reliant on our supermarket system, that when it breaks down, all we can turn to is military intervention.",
"Surely we should be striving to teach and educate people how to feed themselves.",
"How to grow food and distribute it locally.",
"How to barter for food items that can bring the essential vitamins and minerals for healthy life.",
"Be mindful of what supermarkets are doing and demand to see their business practices.",
"Stop throwing away food.",
"Compost as much as you can, eat as locally and as seasonally as you can.",
"Share knowledge and information.",
"We are stronger as a group than an individual.",
"Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.",
"I have tried to create that type of idea in The People's Supermarket, and hope that it grows in popularity.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Arthur Potts Dawson."
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"Arthur Potts Dawson: British supermarkets control and deliver very cheap food .",
"Potts: They buy cheap food globally, driving local producers out of business .",
"Dairy and meat farmers, fishermen are becoming a vanishing breed, he writes .",
"Consumers must work for fresh, sustainable food systems not reliant on oil, he writes ."
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"(Mashable) -- Dell Inspiron Duo, the hybrid tablet that flips open to become a netbook, is due for a launch next week, CNET has learned from sources familiar with the matter.",
"The Duo is a Windows 7 machine with a dual core Intel Atom CPU, a 10-inch touchscreen, and a full QWERTY keyboard which is revealed when you flip the lid open.",
"Close it, and you have a device that looks and operates pretty much like a regular tablet.",
"According to CNET, the Inspiron Duo will be launched \"early next week\", possibly on November 23.",
"Check out a teaser trailer for Dell Inspiron Duo here.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Dell Inspiration Duo is the hybrid tablet that flips open to become a netbook .",
"CNET says Inspiron Duo will be launched \"early next week,\" possibly on November 23 .",
"Tablet has a dual core Intel Atom CPU and 10-inch touchscreen ."
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"(CNN) -- Rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region said Friday they will launch new raids on oil installations to seize more hostages after Nigerian authorities freed 19 who had been seized.",
"\"Our fighters have been instructed to carry out more raids on oil installations from where fresh hostages will be taken,\" the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in a statement.",
"The 12 Nigerians and two Americans, two Frenchmen, one Canadian and two Indonesians were released Wednesday.",
"Nigeria has launched an ongoing offensive targeting Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers states, the largest military campaign in the Niger Delta since the government offered an amnesty program in 2007.",
"MEND is one of several militant groups in the Niger Delta that has been battling the government for years over the distribution of the country's oil wealth.",
"In its statement, the group offered its own version of the rescue operation, saying the fighters guarding the hostages retreated in order to prevent a gun battle that would have \"endangered the lives of these hostages.\"",
"The group said the Nigerian military were tipped off to the location of the hostages by \"certain persons from this community,\" but did not elaborate.",
"The statement ended with a threat: \"As earlier promised, we will soon commence with a all-out attack on oil installations across the Niger Delta.\""
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"MEND is one of several militant groups battling the government .",
"It says it will launch an all-out attack on oil installations ."
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- The French foreign ministry Thursday said a photograph of seven hostages in Niger -- including five French nationals -- has been authenticated and is an \"encouraging sign\" showing the hostages are alive.",
"\"On September 30th a television network broadcast a photograph of the seven people who were kidnapped in Arlit [Niger] on September 16th, including five French nationals,\" the foreign ministry statement said.",
"\"Even if we do not know what date it was taken, it is an encouraging sign as it shows all the hostages alive.",
"All state services are mobilized and are doing everything they can to free them.\"",
"The photograph was also posted on an al Qaeda-linked website, along with audio of what appeared to be the hostages responding to rapid questions from an unknown man.",
"Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the terror movement's affiliate in North Africa, claimed responsibility for the abductions of the six men and one woman, who are all linked with the French nuclear reactor builder Areva.",
"The group included an Areva employee and his wife, along with five subcontractors who worked for the French construction firm Vinci.",
"A spokesman for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Sunday that France was \"ready to discuss\" the hostages' release.",
"On the recording, four men and one woman are heard giving information, including name, age, nationality, hometown, job title and marital status.",
"All the hostages said they are French and gave the names of French cities as their hometowns.",
"One man and the woman, who said they are married, gave their ages as 59 and 62.",
"Three others said they are 25, 30 and 33.",
"The photograph showed seven people sitting on the ground.",
"Six were men, and the seventh person's face was intentionally blurred.",
"Behind them stood people with covered faces, carrying large guns.",
"Officials for Areva and Vinci say they have beefed up security measures for their employees in the area and are working closely with both Nigerien and French authorities to secure the release of the hostages.",
"French military planes have been flying reconnaissance missions from the airport in Niamey, Niger's capital, trying to locate the hostages or their abductors.",
"Areva has been mining uranium for the past four decades in Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world.",
"French director Michel Germaneau was abducted in Niger and executed in July in nearby Mauritania.",
"A video showed Germaneau's photo along with images of the French flag and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's black-and-white flag."
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"Five of the hostages in Niger are French nationals .",
"The group's September 16 kidnapping was claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ."
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"(CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration issued a statement Thursday signaling its intention to focus on insulated beverage containers, noting growing concerns that terrorists might conceal explosives inside such items.",
"The announcement came during the Christmas holiday, traditionally one of the busier times at airports nationwide.",
"Passengers can still carry insulated beverage containers through security and onto flights, the federal agency noted.",
"But, the statement noted, airport security officers alerted passengers that they will observe \"additional security measures ... in the coming days\" on such items.",
"The agency said that it is \"carefully monitoring information related to terrorist tactics and working with out international partners to share information.\"",
"Still, the statement did not offer any details on what, specifically, provoked the latest change in security tactics."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid kept up the pressure on La Liga rivals Barcelona on Sunday with a 1-0 win over Sevilla at the Bernabeu.",
"A 77th minute strike by Angel Di Maria was enough to see Jose Mourinho's side secure three points.",
"The win came despite playing the last quarter of the game with ten men, after Ricardo Calvalho was shown his second yellow card for a challenge on Alvaro Negredo.",
"The Portuguese international was one of twelve players to be cautioned during an ill-tempered match, which also saw Sevilla defender Dabo sent off late in the game.",
"Sevilla remain in 11th place, while Madrid remain right on the heels of Barcelona in second -- two points behind as La Liga takes its winter break.",
"Atletico Madrid put the disappointment of this week's Europa League exit behind them as they cruised to a comfortable 3-0 win over Malaga to move up to sixth in La Liga.",
"Portuguese midfielder Tiago opened the scoring after 22 minutes and bagged a second in the 69th minute after Dominguez had made it 2-0 three minutes earlier.",
"Malaga have now lost 11 league games this season and remain third from bottom in the table.",
"The victory moves Atletico above Getafe on goal difference, who came from two goals down to beat Almeria 3-2 at the Estadio Mediterraneo.",
"Kalu Uche opened the scoring after seven minutes and Leonardo Ulloa doubled the home side's lead in the 24th minute.",
"Manu pulled a goal back for Getafe five minutes later and three minutes into the second half Venezuelan striker Miku bundled home an equalizer.",
"Derek Boateng completed the comeback in the 71st minute to extend Michel's men's unbeaten run to six matches.",
"Osasuna and bottom-of-the-table Real Zaragoza played out a 0-0 draw.",
"Meanwhile in Germany's Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen missed the chance to close the gap on league leaders Borussia Dortmund to eight points as they were held to a 2-2 draw against Freiburg.",
"Leaders Dortmund miss out on Bundesliga record .",
"The hosts took the lead after 16 minutes when Arturo Vidal converted a penalty to score his eighth goal of the season.",
"But a determined Freiburg fought back with goals from Jan Rosenthal after 24 minutes and Stefan Reisinger midway through the second half.",
"But the visitors' lead didn't last long as substitute Patrick Helmes finished calmly after Stefan Kiessling set up the scoring opportunity in the 75th minute.",
"Mario Gomez scored his second hat-trick of the Bundesliga season as Bayern Munich hammered Stuttgart 5-3 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.",
"Gomez opened the scoring after 31 minutes and Thomas Muller doubled the lead five minutes later.",
"Stuttgart's defensive frailties were further exposed when Franck Ribery made it 3-0 with a superb individual goal a minute before half-time.",
"Stuttgart tried to mount a comeback with substitute Martin Harnik pulling a goal back five minutes after the break.",
"But any hopes of a lasting revival were immediately snuffed out by Gomez who struck twice in two minutes to complete his hat-trick.",
"Harnik claimed his second goal on the hour mark, and Christian Gentner made the scoreline slightly more respectable for Stuttgart with a 70th minute strike.",
"Bayern now lie fifth in the table heading into the winter break.",
"Stuttgart remain in trouble in 17th place with only 12 points."
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"Newark, Delaware (CNN) -- A feisty Christine O'Donnell attacked her Democratic opponent but also stumbled in Wednesday's debate with Chris Coons in their election battle for Delaware's U.S. Senate seat held for nearly four decades by Vice President Joe Biden.",
"The highly anticipated showdown between two candidates considered surprise contenders featured O'Donnell displaying her conservative credentials that gained Tea Party backing while Coons, put on the defensive at times, generally backed Democratic policies favored by President Barack Obama.",
"O'Donnell's primary victory over a veteran mainstream Republican candidate last month shook up the GOP establishment, with party strategist Karl Rove even questioning her qualifications.",
"Now trailing badly according to the latest polls, she appeared nervous at the start but quickly went on the attack, accusing Coons of raising taxes and offering a \"rubber stamp\" to Obama administration policies if elected.",
"\"My opponent wants to go to Washington and rubber-stamp the spending bills\" that she said are hurting the nation and Delaware.",
"Later, O'Donnell said, a vote for Coons would cost the average Delawarean $10,000 \"instantly\" in tax hikes and energy reform costs.",
"At other times, her attacks were less precise and drew scorn from Coons, such as when she said the influence of a Marxist college professor on Coons' political beliefs should \"send chills up the spine of every Delaware voter.\"",
"\"If it were accurate, if it were true, I'd agree,\" Coons responded.",
"\"It's not accurate and it's not true.\"",
"He emphasized his experience as New Castle County executive but also attacked O'Donnell, calling some of her positions extreme and accusing her of lying about his record in campaign messaging.",
"\"Most of them are untrue,\" Coons said of claims about him on her campaign website.",
"\"Some of them are just flat-out lies, some of them are mischaracterizations, some of them are just factually untrue.\"",
"Both candidates framed the election as a clear choice for voters, and their stance on issues showed that.",
"CNN iReport: Tell us how you think the candidates did .",
"Coons said he supports abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research while opposing the ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service, and he backed most Obama administration policies, with a few refinements.",
"For example, he said Bush-era tax cuts should be extended to the vast majority of the county but questioned Obama's plan to limit the extension to those families making up to $250,000 a year.",
"He also said the health care reform law needed some adjustments.",
"O'Donnell backed Republican positions such as calling for tax cuts and spending cuts to balance the budget, and she repeatedly said tough social issues such as abortion rights and teaching creation theory in public schools should be state or local issues instead of federal decisions.",
"When pressed on a comment from more than decade ago when she questioned evolution theory, she responded: \"What I believe is irrelevant.",
"What I will support in Washington, D.C., is the ability of the local school system to decide what is taught in their classrooms.\"",
"In one testy exchange, O'Donnell referred to Obama administration policies creating what she called \"a culture of dependency\" by expanding the number of people getting food stamps.",
"Coons immediately tried to portray her as insensitive saying: \"To simply denounce people as being dependent because they're applying for and receiving food stamps in the worst recession in modern times is frankly slandering people who are in incredibly difficult times.\"",
"O'Donnell interrupted, saying, \"That's not fair.",
"That's not fair of you to say that because that's not at all what I'm doing,\" and then counter-attacking by declaring: \"I'm not the person who would cut the tax benefits of disabled and low-income citizens as you did as county executive.\"",
"The most serious problem for either candidate came when O'Donnell was asked to cite any specific recent Supreme Court rulings that she opposed.",
"\"Oh gosh, give me a specific one,\" she said, and when told the question required her come up with cases, O'Donnell responded, \"I'm sorry,\" and promised to put the information up later on her website.",
"Coons quickly referred to the Citizens United ruling in January in which the court lifted some limits on corporate contributions to campaign spending.",
"The debate produced a few humorous moments, such as when Coons said O'Donnell's well-publicized statements from a decade earlier that she dabbled in witchcraft and questioned evolution theory were distractions instead of a substantive campaign issue.",
"\"You're just jealous that you weren't on 'Saturday Night Live',\" O'Donnell said, referring to the comedy show's satirical skit about her.",
"\"I'm dying to see who's going to play me,\" Coons responded with a smile.",
"O'Donnell scored a major upset last month when she defeated Rep. Mike Castle to win Delaware's GOP Senate nomination.",
"She had support from the Tea Party Express, a major endorsement from former Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin, as well as the strong anti-establishment and anti-incumbent feelings among voters this year in topping Castle, a moderate Republican who served nine terms in the House and eight years as governor before that.",
"However, her victory made a race considered relatively safe for Republicans based on the expected nomination of the popular Castle into one in which the little-known Coons suddenly became the favorite, due to O'Donnell's inexperience and questions about her past.",
"Since O'Donnell's primary victory, she has had to deal with controversial and colorful comments she made about a decade ago when she was a spokeswoman for conservative causes.",
"Her first campaign commercial began with O'Donnell declaring, \"I am not a witch\" in response to her statement years ago on the program \"Politically Incorrect\" that she \"dabbled in witchcraft.\"",
"She acknowledged in an interview with CNN that the resurfaced clips have forced her to reinvent herself in the final weeks of the campaign.",
"\"I haven't been embarrassed. And I'm not saying that I'm proud,\" O'Donnell told CNN's Jim Acosta last week.",
"\"I've matured in my faith.",
"I've matured in my policies.",
"Today you have a forty-something woman running for office, not a 20-year-old.",
"So that's a big difference.\"",
"The debate at the University of Delaware in Newark was co-moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer and by longtime Delaware news anchor Nancy Karibjanian of Delaware First Media.",
"Results of a CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday showed Coons with a 19-point lead over O'Donnell.",
"However, O'Donnell enjoys a lead in campaign cash, which is one reason both President Barack Obama and Biden are coming to Delaware on Friday to help Coons raise money.",
"O'Donnell, 41, ran unsuccessfully for Senate twice before, in 2006 and 2008.",
"Since winning the primary, she's had to deal with controversies involving unpaid income taxes and allegations of misusing campaign donations, as well as attacks from Democrats and some Republicans, including Rove, on her qualifications.",
"Coons, the 47-year-old executive of New Castle County, the state's most populous county, faced no serious opposition in the Democratic primary.",
"While he is running his first statewide campaign, Coons is neither a political novice nor a party outsider.",
"In 1988, Coons served as a policy researcher for the failed Senate campaign of then-Lt. Gov.",
"S.B. Woo. He went on to earn a degree from Yale Law School, as well as a master's in ethics from Yale Divinity School.",
"The winner in November will fill out the remaining four years of Biden's final term in the Senate.",
"Biden stepped down from his seat after his election in November 2008 as vice president.",
"Former Biden aide Ted Kaufman was named as an interim replacement, and did not seek a full term.",
"CNN's Tom Cohen, Paul Steinhauser, Jim Acosta, and Bonnie Kapp contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Coons criticizes O'Donnell for comment on food stamp recipients .",
"Candidates spar on issues on CNN debate .",
"O'Donnell expresses conservative views; Coons takes mostly liberal stances ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Senate Republicans mounted a counter-attack Sunday against ratifying a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia this year, trying to put off a vote that Democrats say they will win if it is held.",
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky led the way, telling CNN's \"State of the Union\" that members of his party need more time to consider the START accord.",
"\"I've decided I cannot support the treaty,\" McConnell said in his first outright rejection of ratifying the treaty during the current lame-duck session of Congress.",
"The treaty would resume mutual inspections of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, while limiting both nations to 1,550 warheads and 700 launchers each.",
"On Sunday, Democrats rejected a Republican amendment to the treaty's preamble that would have added a reference to tactical nuclear weapons, which are not covered by the pact.",
"Republican senators are \"uneasy\" about the treaty, and trying to get a vote before Christmas was not the best way to \"get the support of people like me,\" McConnell said.",
"His unequivocal stance increased the GOP's public opposition to ratification, which would require at least 10 GOP senators to vote with the Democrats to reach the two-thirds majority of 67 needed.",
"The Democratic caucus has 58 members, but one of them, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, is preparing for prostate cancer surgery Monday and is expected to miss the rest of the current lame-duck session that expires January 4.",
"If the vote gets put off to the new Congress, as Republicans want, the number of GOP votes needed for ratification rises to at least 14 because the Democrats will have a diminished majority of 53 seats.",
"McConnell's comments prompted a response from his Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who issued a statement saying he was \"deeply disappointed\" at McConnell's opposition to the treaty.",
"Reid's statement noted that \"respected Republican leaders\" including former President George H.W.",
"Bush and several former secretaries of state, as well as the current military leadership all called for ratification.",
"In addition, Reid's statement said, the proposed treaty has been available since May and the Obama administration has answered questions from senators and taken steps to address concerns.",
"For example, the administration has committed to increased spending on modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal at the request of Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, who had been leading the GOP opposition to the treaty.",
"\"I know many senators, including my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, who share the belief that this treaty is too critical to our national security to delay, and I look forward to strong bipartisan support to pass this treaty before we end this session of Congress,\" Reid's statement concluded.",
"Later Sunday, Reid filed a cloture motion -- a necessary procedural step to end debate and set up a vote.",
"\"After months of consideration and five days of open and robust debate, it is time to move forward on a treaty that will help reverse nuclear proliferation and make it harder for terrorists to get their hands on a nuclear weapon.",
"Every day we delay is another day we do not have inspectors on the ground in Russia monitoring their nuclear arsenal,\" he said in a statement.",
"Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, predicted Sunday that Democrats have the necessary support for ratification and that the vote would occur in the coming days.",
"\"I believe it will pass, and I believe there will be a vote,\" Kerry said on the ABC program \"This Week.\"",
"However, the ranking Republican on the Senate panel, Richard Lugar of Indiana, said he was uncertain that the vote would occur before the lame-duck session expires.",
"\"Several Republicans will support it, and I join the chairman (Kerry) in believing that there are the votes there,\" said Lugar, who backs ratification.",
"\"The problem is really getting to that final vote.\"",
"Lugar noted that the Senate still needs to debate Republican amendments to the treaty.",
"Any change in the language or substance of the pact would require reopening negotiations with Russia, effectively killing the agreement.",
"So far, Democrats have defeated the two Republican amendments proposed -- Sunday's attempt to add a reference to tactical nuclear weapons, and a Saturday bid by Sen. John McCain of Arizona to remove from the preamble language recognizing a relationship between offensive and defensive weapons.",
"In both cases, however, Democrats were at least seven votes shy of the 67 they will need to ratify the treaty.",
"Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, on Sunday continued questioning the language cited in the failed McCain amendment, telling the CBS program \"Face the Nation\" that it could undermine future development of U.S. missile defense systems.",
"According to Graham, Russia could object to continuing U.S. development of missile defense capability as a violation of the treaty and withdraw from it.",
"Kyl, appearing on \"FOX News Sunday,\" also challenged the language in the preamble, which he said changes the past U.S. stance by linking offensive and defensive weapons.",
"\"In the last arms control treaty with Russia in 2002 we absolutely separated the two issues,\" Kyl said.",
"Now, he said, the Democrats were insisting the treaty can't be changed.",
"If that's the case, Kyl said, \"we're just a rubber stamp for the administration and the Russians, the administration that for the first time wasn't willing to stand up to the Russians and say, 'You're not going to implicate our missile defenses.'",
"\" However, Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, labeled the missile defense concern a \"straw man\" argument without substance.",
"The nation's top military leaders say \"there is no restriction, no limitations whatsoever\" on missile defense in the treaty, Levin said.",
"Lugar also challenged some of the GOP arguments, saying the resumed inspections under the new treaty were essential for verifying compliance by Russia.",
"In addition, the treaty represents new opportunities to engage with Russia on important issues in the continuing evolution of relations between the countries after the Cold War era, he noted.",
"\"To throw away all of those opportunities simply because some feel the Russians are no longer relevant or we should just simply build whatever we want to quite apart from the Russians seems to me is an illogical stance, but we're hearing a lot of that,\" Lugar said on the ABC program.",
"Democrats argued that the Senate has plenty of time to consider further Republican amendments and debate the treaty before the new Congress gets sworn in during the first week of January.",
"Previous arms control treaties have taken a similar amount of time to debate, Levin noted on the CBS program.",
"The Senate is expected to go into a closed session Monday afternoon to discuss classified information related to the treaty.",
"On Saturday, President Barack Obama sent letters to McConnell and Reid expressing his support for the accord.",
"\"The New START treaty places no limitations on the development or deployment of our missile defense programs,\" Obama wrote.",
"CNN's Gabriella Schwarz contributed to this report."
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"Senate Democrats defeat a second Republican amendment .",
"The Senate Republican leader says he opposes the treaty if the vote occurs now .",
"Wait until a new Congress convenes in January to debate it, McConnell says .",
"The treaty resumes inspections and limits nuclear arsenals of both nations ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Six unidentified men were found in a cargo truck at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a random security sweep, officials said.",
"Transportation Security Administration spokesman Jon Allen said the Transportation Security Administration, along with more than a dozen federal and state agencies, were conducting counter-terrorism exercises Tuesday when agents discovered the men.",
"The men were handed over to two federal agencies -- Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Allen said.",
"The men were illegal immigrants, said ICE spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez.",
"\"None of those encountered were in secure areas of the airport, nor did they have access to those areas,\" she said.",
"Gonzalez previously said all the men had been processed for removal from the United States, but she later clarified the statement.",
"\"They have not been processed for removal at this time.",
"We are still looking into the matter and there is an ongoing investigation,\" she said.",
"Gonzalez said five of the men were from Mexico and one man was from El Salvador.",
"\"Additionally, our investigation has revealed that none of these individuals had any ill intent\" against the United States, Gonzalez said.",
"The security operation took place outside a cargo facility that has no connection to any airport terminals, and the sweep was part of a routine exercise carried out randomly at various transportation hubs, Allen said.",
"\"We conduct thousands of these across the country on a regular basis.",
"This particular operation was targeted to facilities carrying cargo,\" he said.",
"Agents were using a three-tiered method, including an X-ray machine, radiological detection equipment and bomb-sniffing canine teams, he said.",
"\"Finding individuals in the back of the truck was not expected.\""
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"NEW: The investigation is ongoing, ICE spokeswoman says .",
"NEW: The men have not yet been processed for removal from the U.S., ICE says .",
"NEW: Five of the unidentified men are from Mexico and one from El Salvador .",
"The men were found during a security exercise outside a cargo facility ."
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"Rome, Italy (CNN) -- Fugitive Italian mobster Antonio Iovine has been arrested in the country's south, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Thursday.",
"Iovine, 46, was on the ministry's list of the country's 30 most-dangerous fugitives and was apprehended in a Naples Police operation.",
"\"It is a beautiful day for the fight against the mafia,\" Maroni said.",
"\"The capture of the boss constitutes a fundamental threshold in the context of the biggest contrasting operation started against the Camorra clans that operate in Campania.\"",
"A Naples court in 2008 sentenced him to life in prison for his mafia activities.",
"While a fugitive for more than 14 years, Iovine is believed to have managed the Camorra clan's financial affairs as its \"boss manager.\""
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"(CNN) -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the only goal from the penalty spot as AC Milan went back to the top of Serie A with a 1-0 home win over city rivals and reigning champions Inter on Sunday night.",
"Earlier, Lazio had briefly gone top as they beat Napoli 2-0 in Rome, but the defeat for European champions Inter drops them to fourth in the standings, six points behind their city rivals.",
"Milan won a fifth minute penalty when Clarence Seedorf released Swedish star Ibrahimovic and as he dragged back the ball had his legs taken from under him by Marco Materazzi.",
"Ibrahimovic got up to score from the spot and Milan might have gone further ahead as he volleyed just over while Robinho had the ball in the net on 22 minutes but was denied by a linesman's flag.",
"Inter had their best attacking moments through Wesley Sneijder and they looked set to come back into the match when Milan's Ignazio Abate saw red on the hour mark for a second yellow.",
"But they failed to take advance and Seedorf nearly added a second with a fierce shot from 18 meters.",
"In the German Bundesliga, reigning champions Bayern Munich moved up to sixth in the standings with a 3-0 win over Nuremberg.",
"Mario Gomez scored twice for the Bavarian giants, but they are still 12 points behind league leaders Borussia Dortmund, who kept up their relentless pace with a 2-0 win over Hamburg on Friday.",
"But coach Louis van Gaal has not given up hope his team can retain the title despite the big gap.",
"\"We have to try and get at least 30 points, then we will have a chance,\" the Dutchman told AFP.",
"\"I think Dortmund are very lucky at the moment, but they have a good team, they are well organized, play well and have a good coach.",
"\"Their players really want to win.\"",
"Germany captain Philipp Lahm scored the other goal for Bayern from the spot in the 75th minute before Gomez rounded off the scoring.",
"He then missed a penalty three minutes from time at the Allianz Arena which would have completed his hat-trick."
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"(CNN) -- Living in Tokyo, Japan, during the late '90s, Geoffrey Barnett found it extremely difficult -- even dangerous -- to ride his bicycle to work every day.",
"\"The traffic is incredible, and there's so much pollution,\" said Barnett, an Australian who worked in the city as an English teacher.",
"His students shared his frustration, and they would often talk about Tokyo's jam-packed streets during class.",
"\"It was always a topic of discussion that motivated the students to talk, because it was a part of their life as well,\" Barnett recalled.",
"Out of those frequent discussions evolved Barnett's idea for Shweeb, a system of personal, pedal-powered monorail pods that he hopes can one day become an alternative form of urban transit.",
"With Shweeb, pods hang from an elevated track that, theoretically, would stretch to destinations throughout a city.",
"\"Cumbersome, jammed-up cities of today should be rendered into completely accessible worlds once you've got a way to shoot over the traffic,\" said Barnett, who derived the name Shweeb from the German word \"schweben,\" which means to hang, hover or float.",
"He left Tokyo in 2000 to design a prototype.",
"Barnett's vision received a significant boost last month when Google awarded Shweeb $1 million for research and development.",
"Shweeb was one of five winners of Project 10^100, Google's \"call for ideas to change the world.\"",
"The public suggested more than 150,000 categories for Google to consider.",
"Five were eventually chosen, including \"drive innovation in public transportation.\"",
"\"The cost of innovation in public transportation is often very high, sometimes in the billions of dollars,\" Google spokesman Jamie Yood said.",
"\"We looked for a concrete project where the funding available to us with Project 10^100 has the potential to yield impact.",
"Shweeb's innovative approach toward low-cost and environmentally friendly urban transport has the potential for significant impact in the future.\"",
"Google tests cars that drive themselves .",
"During its global search, Google was able to see a Shweeb prototype in action.",
"Since November 2007, Shweeb has been a star attraction at Agroventures, an adventure park in Rotorua, New Zealand.",
"People of all ages can race the bullet-shaped capsules on a closed track there.",
"\"We've been able to prove a lot of good things about the technology: that we can get the transmission working at high speeds so we can swing around corners, that it's efficient,\" said Barnett, 40.",
"\"It's going faster [up to about 28 mph] than most of our customers would be going on a bicycle.",
"\"The downside is that because it's set up as a racetrack, we don't really give the customers the chance to enjoy it as an efficient way to move.",
"They're under a lot of pressure to put in all their energy and get a good [lap] time.\"",
"Barnett said the first concern people usually have about Shweeb is that it might be hard work, but he said it's anything but.",
"\"Although it is pedal-powered like a bicycle, it's got none of the resistances that are inherent in a bicycle, being that you're riding feet-first into the wind with a very small frontal area,\" he said.",
"\"The wind resistance is really low compared to a bicycle. ...",
"I can see people of any age and any fitness level being able to cover a kilometer [0.62 miles] without any effort at all, let alone sweat.\"",
"Barnett envisions people using Shweeb -- which uses no fuel, no batteries and has no emissions -- for short trips in major urban centers where residential towers are relatively close to central business districts.",
"That's about the only place that Robert Lang, an expert in urban studies, could see it working out.",
"Lang, a sociology professor and director of Brookings Mountain West at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, says Shweeb might be a viable solution, but only in the few areas with a high population density.",
"\"It would make sense in China and New York and places like that, but you wouldn't have that much opportunity through much of urban America,\" Lang said.",
"\"There's not the imperative for congestion relief like there is in the center of London or New York.\"",
"Lang said he sees light-rail trains and plug-in hybrid vehicles, not Shweeb, as the future of urban transit because they fit existing expectations and institutions.",
"\"It doesn't require any change in behavior,\" he said.",
"As one might expect with any new technology, there are plenty of questions surrounding Shweeb.",
"How large will the pods be?",
"Will there be room for cargo or another passenger?",
"Can they function in severe weather?",
"What about hills? The Shweeb website has answers for all of these questions and more, but the system is still very much in the conceptual phase.",
"For example, many people have expressed concern about slow riders holding up traffic on the monorail, where there's nowhere to pass.",
"Barnett says there would be no need to pass, however, because shock absorbers would allow the pods to stack together and let the faster people \"push\" the slow rider in front.",
"\"The Shweebs behind the front one can push it along so the front one is taking the wind resistance but all the ones behind her are basically extra engines to counter that wind resistance,\" he said.",
"\"They'll act as a team. Everyone will just go up to a higher gear, and they'll all pedal together and all their energies will be combined.\"",
"But Barnett acknowledges that he still needs more testing to make sure this idea works efficiently.",
"So the next step for the company is to build a flat, straight track about a mile or so long.",
"Barnett has been in talks with several sites about hosting the new test track, and he estimates that it is probably about a year and a half to two years away from completion.",
"While there's still a long way to go until his ultimate vision can be fulfilled, Barnett said he feels encouraged by Google's vote of confidence.",
"\"It just felt like a real affirmation of what I've believed in for the last 10 years, and it just felt like what they wanted for a system that would change the world was exactly what I've been trying to push for what feels like a lifetime now,\" he said.",
"\"But then on top of that, there's also just a huge responsibility that you've got all this goodwill from all around the world, and you've got to not let them down.\""
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"Inventor pushes \"a system that would change the world\"\nGoogle says Shweeb could be a low-cost, eco-friendly solution to traffic woes .",
"But expert sees more potential in light-rail trains and plug-in hybrid cars ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- One media outlet billed it as the miners versus King Kong.",
"The seemingly invincible 33 miners from Chile and five of their rescuers toured the Universal Studios theme park on Friday, and they were entertained with a tram ride through a tunnel featuring a lifelike 3-D clash with King Kong and Tyrannosaurus rex.",
"\"One more time! One more time!\" the miners, the rescuers and their relatives chanted after the short movie feature concluded.",
"The earthshaking simulator -- rocking the tram as if it were under attack by the beasts of the \"King Kong\"' film -- didn't scare the miners, who were trapped 69 days after their gold and copper mine collapsed in August.",
"\"Why not,\" the tram driver said.",
"\"Let's do it again.\" So it went. The miners of Chile -- who survived the longest mine entrapment in history -- had their way again, along with their relatives and the five rescuers.",
"Helicopters and other TV news crews continued to follow them.",
"The miners, rescuers and relatives are in Los Angeles this week for their first group tour to the United States since being freed last month.",
"The group is in the nation's second-largest city to attend \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,\" which will air worldwide on Thanksgiving evening, November 25.",
"Organizers invited them as special guests.",
"On Thursday, the entourage visited Hollywood landmarks such as the Walk of Fame stars on Hollywood Boulevard, including one belonging to Elvis Presley.",
"It was an appropriate pilgrimage because miner Edison Pena had led sing-alongs to Elvis music to lift the spirits of fellow miners during the dark ordeal.",
"In fact, he had asked for the music to be sent down into the mine as rescuers drilled a bigger hole to pull the miners out of the ground.",
"\"He is the king, he is the best,\" Pena, 34, said, as he posed for photographs beside Elvis' star on Hollywood Boulevard.",
"\"The sweetest of dreams.\"",
"One passerby, Ron Prouty, 30, a writer, was surprised to happen upon the miners.",
"He was returning home from a Starbucks.",
"\"To me they're real heroes, and I think it's beautiful they're out in Hollywood,\" Prouty said.",
"\"I thought a celebrity was here but this is better than a celebrity.\"",
"For the majority of the visitors, the trip was their first time outside of Chile.",
"At the top of their to-do list, besides resting after a 12-hour flight from Santiago, Chile, was shopping.",
"\"I want to go to the mall and buy some shoes for my son and daughter,\" said Katty Valdivia, 40, the wife of Sepulveda.",
"For miner Juan Carlos Aguilar, 49, and wife Cristy Coronado, 40, the visit was a double celebration -- because they experienced the birth of their first grandchild, Emily Sofia Studer, born Wednesday.",
"When Aguilar was trapped in the mine, his wife was concerned whether the ordeal would be too much of a strain on her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Damaris.",
"\"We were really worried,\" Coronado said, speaking in Spanish as did his colleagues.",
"\"My daughter was far into her pregnancy and we were all consumed with what could happen.",
"For those 69 days, we were a separated family.\"",
"The miner-poet Zamora said he overcame the gloom of entrapment by doing something he had never done before: write poetry.",
"He wrote 32 poems -- about his wife, mother, son, relatives, friends.",
"He left copies of his verse at home and was unable to share his poetry.",
"\"I never wrote before,\" Zamora said.",
"\"It was a way of keeping me from suffering inside the mine.",
"I wrote about feelings and how people were suffering on the outside and how they would ever rescue us.\"",
"Like some other miners, he readily offered up his autographs to anyone wanting to meet him.",
"\"The Poet,\" he wrote in Spanish near his name.",
"Monica Araya, the wife of Florencio Avalos, the first miner who was pulled out of the ground last month, described the 69 days of waiting and wondering as one of her worst experiences.",
"\"It was bad, really bad,\" said Araya.",
"\"I couldn't believe it. I was worried about his life, but I believed they would all survive because I had faith and hope.\"",
"She has since noticed a few different things about herself and husband.",
"\"We have changed,\" Araya said.",
"\"We are more sentimental, and we enjoy more what moments we have together.\"",
"Before arriving in Los Angeles, the group made a brief stopover at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, where the miners signed flags.",
"One signed \"Corazon de Minero,\" which means \"heart of a miner.\"",
"When miner Richard Villarroell prepared to board the plane in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday night, the 27-year-old said he has only traveled to Argentina.",
"\"I want to see the world,\" he said, smiling.",
"\"I know all of Chile, but not the rest of the world.\"",
"Villarroell, a mechanic, worked at the San Jose mine for two years.",
"His girlfriend was pregnant while he was trapped.",
"The miners captured the world's imagination when they survived the longest mine captivity in history, beginning August 5.",
"For more than two weeks, many officials thought they were dead.",
"But crews made contact after a small borehole enabled communication with the men trapped 2,300 feet underground.",
"Rescue crews encountered repeated setbacks.",
"Initially, authorities expected the miners to be trapped until Thanksgiving or Christmas because of the difficulty of drilling a new tunnel to extract them.",
"On their U.S. trip, the miners and rescuers will get a whirlwind tour of southern California.",
"They'll see the sights and shop in Los Angeles and Hollywood through the weekend.",
"The visit is a world away from the miners' experience in the weeks after the mine collapse that trapped them.",
"In the days before they made contact with the ground, some ate about a bottle cap's worth of canned fish per day and drank mine water that tasted like machine oil.",
"They have said they were prepared to die, even as they awaited their rescue.",
"The miners and rescuers were invited by CNN to attend \"Heroes,\" an annual program now in its fourth year that shines a light on \"everyday people changing the world.\"",
"The Chileans were extended the invitation because their plight and rescue captured the world's attention and symbolized the resilience of the human spirit.",
"CNN Heroes received 10,000 nominations from more than 100 countries.",
"That list was narrowed down to the Top 10 CNN Heroes.",
"The Hero of the Year will be revealed on the show; the public votes to select that winner.",
"\"The heroic efforts of the rescue of these miners was one of the most unifying and inspirational events of the year,\" said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.",
"\"CNN Heroes is a fitting way for CNN to honor these men and their rescuers,\" he said.",
"\"We hope viewers around the world will be heartened by the story of their rescue as well as the stories of this year's top 10 CNN Heroes.\"'",
"The miners' imprisonment began when a ramp into the San Jose mine -- located in the arid Atacama region of northern Chile -- collapsed.",
"Shift foreman Luis Urzua told the men that they had a shot of surviving the catastrophe, but there was a good chance they would never again see daylight.",
"The men occupied themselves by voting on everything, including how food should be distributed.",
"Majority rule prevailed -- 17 votes plus one -- but the miners often managed to find common ground and most decisions were unanimous.",
"Everyone had a task.",
"No one was left alone.",
"And they became masters of compromise and patience, even as their rations quickly began running out.",
"CNN's Alec Miran and Lonzo Cook contributed to this report."
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"Workers and their relatives sing \"We the miners of Chile\" from double-decker buses .",
"A miner's wife feared the ordeal would be too much on her pregnant 17-year-old daughter .",
"But the daughter gave birth to a girl this week, the first grandchild ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A Malaysian man was charged on Thursday for hacking into the computer network of a U.S. Federal Reserve bank and for stealing more than 400,000 stolen credit card and debit card numbers, according to federal authorities.",
"Lin Mun Poo, 32, is suspected of accessing financial records at a Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, Ohio, by \"exploiting a vulnerability he found within their secure system,\" according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York.",
"At least 10 Federal Reserve Bank computers were affected by the breach, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage, the statement said.",
"Poo was arrested on October 21, hours after his arrival in the United States, when Secret Service agents observed him selling stolen credit card numbers for $1,000 at a Brooklyn diner, the statement said.",
"Authorities discovered a \"massive quantity\" of stolen personal financial data following a forensic examination of Poo's \"heavily encrypted\" laptop computer, the U.S. attorney's office statement said.",
"Poo had obtained the numbers by hacking into numerous systems, including FedComp, a data processor for federal credit unions, the statement said.",
"\"As today's technology continues to evolve, cybercriminals use these advances and enhancements to perpetrate an expanding range of crimes,\" Secret Service Special Agent Brian Parr said in the statement.",
"The four counts against Poo include access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.",
"If convicted, he could a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.",
"Poo's attorney, Kannan Sundaram, could not immediately be reached for comment."
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"Malaysian man charged with hacking into computer network of a Federal Reserve bank .",
"Lin Mun Poo also is suspected of stealing 400,000 credit card and debit card numbers .",
"Poo is charged on four counts including access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.",
"If convicted he could a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison."
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"Paipote, Chile (CNN) -- In short order, freed miner Victor Antonio Segovia dispatches with some of the myths swirling around the 33 men rescued from the depths of the earth this week: He has no plans to write a book about what he endured in the San Jose mine, he isn't going to sue anyone for the collapse, and he intends to go back to working in the area's mines.",
"\"Just not that one,\" Segovia says.",
"All day Friday in the hardscrabble mining town of Paipote, Segovia's family and neighbors ready the Segovia family home for his arrival from the nearby hospital.",
"All 33 men underwent a barrage of medical testing to see how their record days of imprisonment underground had affected them mentally and physically.",
"All but two miners were released from the hospital Friday, and all the men are expected to make a full recovery.",
"The Segovia family was particularly hard hit by the collapse.",
"Two of the other trapped miners, Esteban and Pablo Rojas, are Segovia's cousins.",
"\"Welcome home Victor Segovia,\" one neighbor said as she carried a handwritten sign greeting the miner into his home.",
"\"If God has given you a new life and chance, grab on to it with everything you have.\"",
"The family has received gifts.",
"While Victor's brother Pedro Segovia waits under the scorching sun of Chile's Atacama desert, he nervously toys with a brand new Sony media player.",
"An anonymous gift left for the now famous miner.",
"Pedro Segovia said his brother is tough and untouched by how close he came to dying in the dark recesses of the earth.",
"\"We missed him a lot,\" Pedro Segovia said.",
"But for him its just like another shift.",
"As if he worked for eight hours and came home.",
"If Segovia has troubling memories of his long, forced stay in the mine, so far he hasn't shared them with his brother.",
"\"He'll tell me at some point,\" Pedro Segovia said.",
"\"What happened, what he lived through.\"",
"Inside the Segovia house are hints of how he passed the long weeks of eternal darkness.",
"Two Chilean flags decorate a wall in a courtyard behind the Segovia's home.",
"In carefully etched blue ink Victor drew a miner with a drill over a 33 on the white section of the flag.",
"Below, each miner wrote his name and put his signatures in ordered columns.",
"\"For you with all my heart,\" Segovia wrote his mother Blanca.",
"The flags were a gift for her 50th wedding anniversary and were delivered by way of the \"paloma\" tube system that sent food and letters to the men.",
"\"He likes to play the guitar, accordion and organ,\" Blanca Segovia said with pride about her son, who learned to play the instruments without any formal training.",
"\"We are going to have a nice party for him.\"",
"But for the guest of honor just getting to the party will be almost as difficult as the previous legs of his journey.",
"As the afternoon wears on, more and more media trickle into the neighborhood.",
"Tripods and cameras are posted like sentries in front of the Segovia home.",
"It has all the makings of an ugly media scene.",
"So photographers agree and shake hands that all will stay in a fixed line so everyone can get an unobstructed shot of Segovia's homecoming.",
"But hours later as Segovia steps from a van, a still photographer lurches forward and the plan is scrapped.",
"Pushing against the wave of cameramen, Chilean police nearly have to carry the miner into his family's home.",
"One of the photographers gets into a showing match with an officer after the melee.",
"As the party gets under way, though, clapping and joyous chants of \"Chi Chi Chi, Le Le Le, los mineros de Chile,\" can be heard from outside the house.",
"Then journalists still hanging around the house receive an invitation to come in and speak with the miner.",
"Segovia appeared understandably worn from his ordeal and the crush of media attention.",
"As reporters ask him questions, he looks down.",
"His voice is soft and his answers are clipped.",
"\"That was quite something,\" he said simply of the August 5 mine collapse.",
"\"That was something very ugly.\"",
"He said he has been to Camp Hope, where family members waited for the miners' rescue.",
"\"I don't need to go back,\" he said.",
"Segovia said he missed his family terribly while in the mine.",
"And, he said, he has become someone who \"thinks more about God.\"",
"\"We were a team,\" he said of the 33 men.",
"\"But all the same there were problems. So much time together, like any family, the problems start but were ones we worked out.\"",
"Other miners have told CNN that the 33 men swore an oath never to discuss the details of what took place as the men struggled to survive in the mine.",
"Before he goes back to the party, Segovia makes it clear he is not completely free of the mine.",
"\"Down there you were always tired and didn't have any nightmares,\" he said.",
"\"Here you have nightmares until you realize you are out.\""
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"Segovia says he has become someone who \"thinks more about God\""
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"Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- This weekend marks the end of an era for many fans of the iconic Liberace.",
"The Las Vegas museum dedicated to preserving the glitz, the glamour and even the gaudiness that defined the entertainer's career is closing Sunday after more than 30 years.",
"Despite his dynamic history, the draw of the Liberace Museum has been eclipsed by some of Vegas' increasingly lavish attractions.",
"Low attendance is the primary factor in the decision to close the museum, Liberace Foundation President Jack Rappaport said.",
"Liberace himself opened the museum in 1979, and in its prime, it brought in 450,000 visitors a year.",
"\"We've dwindled down to 50,000,\" Rappaport said.",
"He blames the low attendance on the museum's location three miles off Las Vegas Boulevard, commonly known as the Strip.",
"\"We are just geographically not desirable,\" he said.",
"[When the museum opened in 1979] we weren't competition for the Strip.",
"We actually complemented the Strip.\"",
"Rappaport feels that the megaresort style of the new casinos of Las Vegas -- with high-end shopping, an abundance of restaurants, shows and other museum-type attractions -- gives tourists everything they could need.",
"\"It's kind of like going to Disney World or Disneyland resort.",
"You go there, and you don't really have to go anywhere else.\"",
"If there is a bright side, it's that since the closing was announced weeks ago, attendance has nearly tripled, according to one tour guide's estimate.",
"A significant number of this influx are locals who've lived in Vegas for decades but never made it to the museum.",
"But positive attendance news in the 11th hour doesn't change the fact that for most of the 23 employees, not only will they be out of a job, they'll be out of a way to educate people on a man they've come to admire.",
"\"I mean, [Liberace] was Las Vegas,\" museum director Tanya Combs said.",
"\"Reading everything and seeing everything ... you start to believe in what a nice man he was, and you really wanted everyone to know that.\"",
"Museum archivist and historian Pauline Lachance has been the go-to gal for anything and everything Liberace.",
"\"He's made such an impact on my life; it's unbelievable.",
"I get kind of choked up talking about him,\" she said.",
"She could tell you about all sorts of things, from \"Walter\" Valentino Liberace's early life as a piano prodigy to his prime years as the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with the highest flamboyance factor to boot.",
"He was a man who, in the midst of a battle with HIV, sold out New York's Radio City Music Hall so fast that his record still stands.",
"Lachance's very first experience with Mr. Showmanship himself was a night that almost didn't happen.",
"\"I really didn't want to go,\" she recalls of the show her husband roped her into attending.",
"But that evening sparked a passion, some might say obsession, for the king of bling.",
"Up until his death in 1987 at 67, she attended no fewer than 50 of his shows.",
"\"All you need to do is go to one performance, and you want to go to every one after that.",
"He just captivates you with his charm and his music.\"",
"After the museum closes Sunday, Lachance will continue to work for the Liberace Foundation part-time.",
"But there will be no more camera-wielding visitors oohing and aahing over Liberace's rhinestone-studded piano, complete with matching costume and Roadster.",
"See an iReporter's snapshots of the glitzy museum .",
"The musician's remarkable costumes became more elaborate as the decades went on, some taking more than a year to construct.",
"Throughout his career, he played eight major hotels in Las Vegas, with his longest run at the Las Vegas Hilton.",
"In addition to establishing the museum in Vegas, Liberace set up a foundation to provide scholarship money to students of the arts.",
"To date, the foundation has given more than $6 million to more than 2,700 students.",
"But what it's able to offer these days has diminished significantly.",
"Two years ago, the scholarship fund amounted to $112,000.",
"The following year, that number dropped to $62,000.",
"Rappaport said people can rest assured that the museum's collection -- which includes more than 60 of Liberace's intricate eye-popping costumes, his 9-foot mirrored Baldwin grand piano and his 7-foot rhinestone studded Baldwin grand -- won't go into hiding for too long.",
"A traveling tour of part of the collection is planned.",
"The tour might be under way as early as summer 2011, according to Jeffrey Koep, chairman of the Liberace Foundation board of directors.",
"A new incarnation of the museum isn't out of the question.",
"\"The board felt it best to close while we are still solvent and create a new business plan as we examine ways to sell our current location and search for locations that would allow for more patrons,\" Koep said in an e-mail.",
"Tour guide Howard Shapiro said he wasn't terribly surprised that the museum in its current form won't be around forever, but he agrees that Liberace is too much a part of Sin City to be totally forgotten.",
"\"Las Vegas has a history of tearing down and not preserving.",
"It's a sad commentary, but that's what this town is about, reinventing itself,\" Shapiro said.",
"\"I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere down the line, Liberace gets reinvented again.",
"By whom and how, I don't know. But it is sad to see it close.\""
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"Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, is closing Sunday .",
"The museum was opened by the celebrated entertainer in 1979 .",
"Low attendance is a key reason for closing .",
"A traveling tour of the museum's collection is planned for next year ."
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"(CNN) -- Australia got its first Catholic saint Sunday, a feisty 19th-century nun who was briefly excommunicated when her colleagues exposed an abusive priest.",
"Mary MacKillop co-founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1867, and gained a reputation as the first Australian nun to leave the cities and minister to the rural poor.",
"Nuns in her order got evidence that a priest was engaged in \"scandalous behavior,\" according to the Rev.",
"Paul Gardiner, who has spent decades researching MacKillop's life.",
"The nuns reported it to the Rev.",
"Julian Woods, MacKillop's first spiritual mentor who co-founded the Sisters of St. Joseph.",
"Woods in turn reported the abuse to church authorities, resulting in the Rev.",
"Ambrose Patrick Keating being sent back to Ireland from Kapunda, Australia.",
"But Keating's friends \"were really upset with Father Woods and thought they could best get at him by getting at Mary,\" said Claire Larkin, the chair of the Mary MacKillop Centre in Penola, Australia.",
"\"They told a lot of lies to the bishop,\" who excommunicated MacKillop and the entire order in 1871, she said.",
"Bishop James Quinn revoked the excommunication five months later, on his deathbed, the order says in its biography of Mary MacKillop.",
"But she still had to spend decades fighting local Catholic leaders for control of the order she founded.",
"\"She was a charismatic entrepreneur,\" the Rev.",
"Thomas Reese, author of \"Inside the Vatican,\" told CNN.",
"\"She was a feminist before her time.",
"She struggled in a male-dominated institution and got things done.\"",
"Her familiarity with church politics may have played a role in the instructions she issued to her nuns when women got the vote in Australia.",
"\"It is the duty on us all to vote ... Get advice from some leading man in whom you have confidence or from the priest, but keep your voting secret,\" she wrote in 1903.",
"The order grew to include 300 nuns in Australia and New Zealand by 1891, its website says, and now has about 1,200 members.",
"She died in 1909 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1995.",
"The Catholic Church credits her with miraculously helping to cure a woman named Kathleen Evans of cancer.",
"She took to wearing a piece of MacKillop's clothing pinned to her nightgown and asked her family and friends to pray for MacKillop to intervene with God on her behalf.",
"Her cancer disappeared, Evans said in a statement.",
"Pope Benedict XVI recognized the cure as a miracle in December 2009, and announced two months later that MacKillop would be canonized.",
"He praised her \"courageous and saintly example of zeal, perseverance and prayer\" on Sunday in canonizing her as St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop.",
"Some 4,000 people attended an outdoor mass Sunday to celebrate the canonization in Penola, where she started her ministry in a disused stable.",
"\"It's so exciting, we've had a marvellous day,\" Larkin said from Penola.",
"\"It's been a long journey\" to sainthood, she said.",
"\"Her dream started in a little country outback town, to think that she's gotten that recognition.\""
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"The Catholic Church credits her with miraculously curing a woman's cancer .",
"Nuns in Mother Mary MacKillop's order reported an abusive priest, leading to excommunication .",
"She is known as the first Australian nun to minister to the continent's rural poor ."
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"(CNN) -- Stargazers who were willing to give up a little sleep got to catch the last lunar eclipse of 2010 early Tuesday.",
"The total lunar eclipse lasted about three and a half hours, starting as a partial eclipse about 1:33 a.m.",
"ET and finishing at 5:01 a.m.",
"ET, according to NASA.",
"As a coincidence, the eclipse fell on the same date as the 2010 winter solstice.",
"The last lunar eclipse to happen on the day of the winter solstice was in 1638.",
"\"For eclipse watchers, this means that the moon will appear very high in the night sky, as the solstice marks the time when Earth's axial tilt is farthest away from the sun,\" NASA said.",
"In areas with clear skies, only watchers across North America, Greenland and Iceland were able to see the eclipse.",
"Those in western Europe could see the beginning stages before the moon set, and stargazers in western Asia saw the later stages after moonrise, according to NASA.",
"Share your lunar eclipse images, videos .",
"The Twitter universe was aglow as the eclipse reached its peak.",
"\"Moon fully covered, appears red - very cool,\" said Adam Goodman in Toronto, Ontario.",
"The weather didn't cooperate for everyone though.",
"\"Thank you cloudy sky for ruining the eclipse for me, apparently I woke up 3 for no reason,\" Seth Pelletier in Utah tweeted.",
"The most recent lunar eclipse occurred June 26.",
"A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth lines up between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun's rays and casting its shadow on the moon, according to NASA.",
"As the moon moves into the Earth's shadow, it appears to change color, turning from gray to orange or deep red.",
"The new color stems from indirect sunlight that passes through Earth's atmosphere and casts a glow on the moon, NASA said.",
"\"Our atmosphere filters out most of the blue colored light, leaving the red and orange hues,\" the agency said.",
"Lunar eclipses differ from their solar counterparts, as no special equipment is needed for viewing.",
"NASA will stream a live video feed of the eclipse from a camera mounted at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.",
"Tuesday was the last chance for those in the continental United States to see a total lunar ecllipse until April 15, 2014, according to NASA.",
"CNN's Emmanuella Grinberg contributed to this report."
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"The eclipse was visible to North America, Greenland and Iceland .",
"The United States won't see another total lunar eclipse until 2014 .",
"The last lunar eclipse to happen on the day of the winter solstice was in 1638."
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"(CNN) -- A British couple kidnapped by pirates has been released after more than a year in captivity, Somali leaders said Sunday.",
"Paul and Rachel Chandler were seized from their yacht in October last year, just after they set sail from the Seychelles Islands for Tanzania.",
"\"They are physically and mentally doing well, and excited to be alive,\" said Mohamed Aden, a local elder in Adado.",
"\"Paul and Rachel Chandler are safe and doing fine.",
"They have had a good shower and they are eating breakfast.\"",
"Aden was one of the key elders involved in helping secure their release.",
"Last year, Paul Chandler pleaded for their life in a two-minute video broadcast on Britain's Channel 4.",
"He was surrounded by armed men pointing weapons at him.",
"British couple's plight as pirate captives .",
"At the time, Chandler said the captors could kill them if a $7 million ransom were not paid.",
"\"We are concerned that these people will lose patience and will not feed us -- and I have no doubt that they will not hesitate to kill us, perhaps within a week or so of now if there is no response,\" he said.",
"\"So, please somebody get in touch.",
"Otherwise we just sleepwalk to a tragic ending.\"",
"It was unclear whether a ransom was paid for their release.",
"Last year, British officials refused to pay a ransom or negotiate with pirates.",
"\"The government will not make substantive concessions for hostage takers, including the payments of ransom,\" the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a statement.",
"Pirates have been very active off the east coast of Africa in the past several years, operating out of lawless Somalia."
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"Paul and Rachel Chandler were seized from their yacht last year .",
"\"They are physically and mentally doing well,\" a local leader says .",
"It is unclear whether a ransom was paid for their release ."
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"(CNN) -- The worst secret in boxing is out of the bag: \"Sugar\" Shane Mosley is the most likely opponent for Manny Pacquiao's next fight.",
"The 39-year-old American boxer used Twitter to announce that discussions between the two camps are at an advanced stage, with confirmation expected in the next 24 hours.",
"\"Just excited about the fight with Pac [Manny Pacquiao].",
"I know you're going to be there,\" he tweeted to former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on the social networking website.",
"\"The ink hasn't dried yet but it's pretty much a go.\"",
"Speculation has mounted over who would fight the Filipino eight-division world title-holder on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, with Juan Manuel Marquez mooted as another possible opponent.",
"Mayweather fight will define Pacquiao's career .",
"But in a subsequent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mosley confirmed that he would meet with Pacquiao's representatives on Tuesday to finalize a deal.",
"\"We've already discussed the fight about three to four weeks ago, so now we'll go over it again,\" said Mosley.",
"\"Both sides just need to commit to what we've talked about and then I think we're done.\"",
"Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach had earlier ruled out Marquez while, at the same time, insisting on an important caveat if Mosley was indeed chosen.",
"\"[Mosley] won't be an easy fight for Manny,\" Roach told assembled reporters in the Philippines, where he was celebrating Pacquiao's 32nd birthday.",
"\"He can punch with either hand.",
"But if the fight pushes through, I'll insist on a drug test.",
"He's been known to take steroids and it shows in his body.\"",
"Marquez calls out Pacquiao for rematch .",
"Roach was referring to a 2003 U.S. grand jury submission by Mosley where he admitted using EPO, a performance enhancing drug, as he prepared to fight Oscar De La Hoya.",
"But Mosley never tested positive, and denied knowing what it was or that it was illegal.",
"\"I'm disappointed that this is coming out again, four years after I've been to the grand jury and gave my truthful testimony,\" Mosley said in a 2008 statement, issued after the allegations first came to light.",
"\"I even took a lie-detector test back then to let everyone know that I wasn't trying to be an unfair fighter.\"",
"But it looks like Mosley will now have a chance to fight arguably the best pound-for-pound boxer in the sport to prove his detractors wrong."
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"U.S. boxer Shane Mosley reveals that he will be Manny Pacquiao's next opponent .",
"Mosley tells former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on Twitter that he's \"excited\"\nMosley and Pacquiao's camps to meet in the next 24 hours to discuss terms .",
"The Filipino is booked to fight in Las Vegas in May ."
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"(CNN) -- Five consumers who found shards of glass in their bags of frozen vegetables set off what has become a national recall that the products' supplier is tracing to a single lot of peas.",
"The packages were supplied by the Pictsweet Co. of Bells, Tennessee, and sold in Kroger grocery stores in the Southeast and Wal-Mart stores east of the Rocky Mountains.",
"All carry the Kroger or Wal-Mart's Great Value brand, said Anne Tyrrell, spokeswoman for Pictsweet.. Tyrrell said the company became aware that glass was inside some packages of frozen vegetables after getting complaints from five consumers.",
"All involved peas originating in a single lot, and the company issued a voluntary recall for any product containing peas from that location.",
"There were no indications that anyone consumed or was injured by the glass in the packages, Pictsweet said in a statement.",
"The company said the federal Food and Drug Administration has been notified, and it is conducting a \"top-to-bottom review\" to look into the incident.",
"The voluntary recall covers the following items: .",
"-- Kroger 12-ounce Green Peas (UPC 11110 89736).",
"Production codes of 1440BU, 1440BV, 1440BW, and 1600BD.",
"-- Kroger 12-ounce Peas and Carrots (UPC 11110 89741).",
"Production codes of 1960BD and 1960BE.",
"-- Great Value 12-ounce Steamable Sweet Peas (UPC 78742 08369).",
"\"Best by\" dates of July 20, 2012; July 21, 2012.",
"-- Great Value 12-ounce Steamable Mixed Vegetables (UPC 78742 08026).",
"\"Best by\" date of July 15, 2012.",
"Consumers who have those products are urged to return them to where they bought them for a full refund, Pictsweet said.",
"Consumers can contact Pictsweet at 1-800-367-7412, extension 417, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday, the company said.",
"CNN's Greg Botelho and Joshua Levs contributed to this report ."
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"Five consumers said they found pieces of glass in frozen vegetables .",
"The vegetables were sold at Kroger and Wal-Mart stores .",
"The supplier of those vegetables initiated a voluntary recall of products that contain peas .",
"The company now traces the problem to a single lot of peas ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea's star striker Didier Drogba has been suffering from malaria, his club manager revealed on Tuesday, but the Ivory Coast player will still line up for the London derby against Fulham in the English Premier League on Wednesday.",
"Drogba started on the bench for Chelsea's 2-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday, having missed recent matches against Aston Villa and Spartak Moscow due to a suspected virus.",
"However, the results of blood tests showed that he had in fact contracted the tropical disease.",
"\"A test showed malaria,\" Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti told his club's official website.",
"\"He lost his condition, he lost power.",
"\"Didier had a difficulty to train because he didn't feel good, he didn't have power to train.",
"He was unselfish to play also when he was not 100 percent.\"",
"But the Italian said Drogba was now back to health and would be fit for the league leaders' home clash with Fulham on Wednesday.",
"\"He suffered obviously but after treatment, he will be better,\" Ancelotti said.",
"\"One time it was serious, now there is the possibility to treat and come back well.",
"He is okay. Tomorrow he will play.\"",
"Ancelotti said Ghana midfielder Michael Essien would return to the Chelsea line-up, having missed the Liverpool game with a toe problem, but Frank Lampard is not yet ready to make his long-awaited return.",
"The England midfielder, who has been sidelined following a hernia operation, is scheduled to make his comeback against Sunderland on Sunday.",
"\"Lampard has been training with us and he is good.",
"He is able to play; he is fit because he worked very hard physically,\" Ancelotti said.",
"\"Physically he is 100 percent -- he just has to be comfortable to play with the ball and with his teammates.'",
"Meanwhile, second-placed Manchester United have been hit by illness and injury ahead of Wednesday's local derby at Manchester City.",
"United's website reported on Tuesday that manager Alex Ferguson had yet to finalize his line-up, with several players having been sent home from training.",
"\"So we're not in a great position at the moment.",
"Hopefully tomorrow we're better, but there seems to be a lingering aspect of this virus going around and there's nothing we can do about it.",
"We've a strong squad and we just carry on,\" Ferguson said.",
"United will be without injured midfielders Nani, Owen Hargreaves and veteran Ryan Giggs.",
"Giggs will miss a Manchester derby for the first time since making his senior debut, the UK Press Association reported, ending a club-record run of 33 appearances against City.",
"City boss Roberto Mancini will be without striker Mario Balotelli, who starts a three-match ban after on Tuesday failing in his bid to have the punishment reduced following his red card against West Brom on Sunday."
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"Chelsea striker Didier Drogba discovers reason for his recent lack of health .",
"Drogba has missed recent matches and started on the bench against Liverpool on Sunday .",
"Manager Carlo Ancelotti confirms Drogba has contracted malaria but is now recovering well .",
"Manchester United hit by illness and injury ahead of Wednesday's local derby ."
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"(CNN) -- After all the celebrating, overeating and overdrinking with friends and family, sitting down quietly with a good book could be just the thing you need.",
"Sure, you could turn to the old holiday standbys, but if you want to think outside the Christmas box, here are 10 great nontraditional books for holiday-themed reading: .",
"1. \"Pat Hobby Stories\" F. Scott Fitzgerald spent his last years in Hollywood, working on an unfinished final novel and screenplays that didn't go anywhere.",
"His \"Pat Hobby Stories,\" wry and winning tales of a washed-up screenwriter who just never learns, suggest he never stopped learning or lost his sense of humor.",
"The first, \"Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish,\" has him attempting to blackmail a producer into a promotion on the day before Christmas.",
"2. \"A Likely Story\" We find another writer with Christmas headaches in Donald Westlake's \"A Likely Story.\"",
"Westlake is best known for his crime novels; here he goes in a different direction, with a very funny story about families in the age of divorce.",
"Tom Diskant is doing his best to sort out a complicated personal life while trying to keep his glossy publishing project, \"The Christmas Book,\" on track.",
"Both go wrong in unexpected ways.",
"3. \"Last Night at the Lobster\" In \"Last Night at the Lobster,\" Stewart O'Nan gives us all the small details that make up a day's work in a popular franchise restaurant.",
"It's just before Christmas, and we share the regrets, hopes and best intentions of the beleaguered manager after corporate tells him to shut the place down.",
"4. \"P.S. Your Cat Is Dead\" James Kirkwood won a Tony and a Pulitzer for \"A Chorus Line,\" but his comic novel, \"P.S.",
"Your Cat Is Dead,\" has its own devoted following.",
"It's New Year's Eve when Jimmy, a just-dumped, out-of-work actor, catches Vito breaking into his apartment.",
"It's his third break-in, and Jimmy's had enough.",
"He decides to hold Vito responsible for everything that's gone wrong.",
"The two hit it off, though, and over the course of a long night, things get stranger and gayer and better.",
"5. \"I Remember\" You can find a more traditional holiday in Joe Brainard's \"I Remember.\"",
"The episodic memoir from the New York-school poet is filled with simple striking moments recalled from the sort of middle-American childhood that we all miss, whether we had one or not.",
"6. \"Santa Claus: A Biography\" There's no bigger Christmas celebrity than Santa Claus.",
"But like most celebrities, we only think we know him.",
"Gerry Bowler's sprightly cultural history, \"Santa Claus: A Biography, examines his origins and evolution.",
"The book suggests there's still hope for Santa, despite the corporate spokesperson and entertainment icon he's been turned into today.",
"7. \"Wise Blood\" Of course, there's one bigger name in Christmas, the one people say gets forgotten amidst all the parties and wrapping paper.",
"In Flannery O'Connor's \"Wise Blood,\" Hazel Motes wants to forget about Jesus and sin and salvation so badly that he takes to the streets, preaching the gospel of the Church Without Christ.",
"The more he insists, though, the more we don't believe him.",
"Southern gothic at its finest.",
"8. \"An Atheist's Guide to Christmas\" Genuine atheists have to make it through the holidays too, and they aren't confused about what they really believe.",
"They aren't necessarily as angry as you'd think from the current crop of Big Atheism books, either.",
"The writers who contributed to \"An Atheist's Guide to Christmas\" are in a friendlier and funnier mood and remain consistently thoughtful and entertaining.",
"Edited by Robin Harvie and Stephanie Meyers.",
"9. \"Doomsday Book\" The time-traveling historians in Connie Willis' award-winning science fiction novel, \"Doomsday Book,\" don't have religion on their minds as the holidays come to Oxford University in 2054.",
"Something's gone wrong, and a young grad student is stranded back in a dangerous, plague-ravaged 14th-century England.",
"Willis makes the otherness of medieval society disconcertingly real.",
"10. \"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\" Things weren't all plagues and suffering back then, though.",
"\"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\" is a tricky, playful 14th-century tale, one of the great stories of chivalry.",
"It starts when the mysterious Green Knight crashes a sumptuous holiday feast at King Arthur's court.",
"He proposes a Christmas game to the best and the brightest of Camelot: \"Any one of you can try to chop off my head,\" he says, \"and if I survive, a year from now, you must let me chop off yours.\"",
"What could possibly go wrong?"
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"\"P.S.",
"Your Cat Is Dead\" is by James Kirkwood, the man behind \"A Chorus Line\"\nFind out the truth in \"Santa Claus: A Biography\" by Gerry Bowler .",
"Enjoy a Southern gothic tale with Flannery O'Connor's \"Wise Blood\""
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli authorities are investigating whether the attack that left an American woman dead and her friend injured was \"nationalistic,\" a police spokesman said Monday, using a term for crimes in which a victim is targeted based on an Arab or Israeli background.",
"American Kristine Luken died in the attack.",
"Her body was found Sunday after Kay Susan Wilson, Luken's friend and co-worker at a Christian ministry, stumbled into a picnic area with her hands bound, bleeding from multiple stab wounds and asking for help.",
"Wilson told authorities the two were hiking in a forest near Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, when two men attacked them, tied them to a tree and stabbed them, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.",
"Wilson told reporters from her hospital bed Sunday that one of the men was armed with a long serrated knife and that she believes they were Arab.",
"\"It was clear that they came to kill,\" the Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted Wilson as saying.",
"\"Who carries around a knife like that?\"",
"Wilson said she was wearing a Star of David on a necklace when she was attacked, according to the newspaper.",
"\"He took it off like a gentleman and then turned me around and stabbed in the place where the Star of David had been,\" Haaretz quoted her as saying.",
"Rosenfeld confirmed Monday that investigators' primary focus is that the attacks may have involved nationalistic intent, but he said investigators have not yet completely ruled out other possibilities.",
"Luken and Wilson both worked for CMJ UK, a Christian ministry based in England.",
"Wilson, a British citizen living in Israel, was a senior tour guide for the group, according to a statement posted to the group's website by its CEO, Robin Aldridge.",
"Luken was an administrator for the group and had recently taken over responsibility for managing the group's tour operations in Israel, Aldridge said.",
"\"She had a beautiful and gentle spirit as well as a strong and vibrant faith,\" Aldridge said of Luken.",
"\"She loved Israel and had visited on several occasions both as a tourist and as a member of CMJ.\"",
"\"It is a tragedy that such a lively, caring and faith-filled person should have been struck down in such a way,\" he said.",
"The Foreign Office in London said it was \"aware of the hospitalization of a British national\" and was ready to provide assistance if needed.",
"Luken had worked for CMJ UK for one year, having previously been a government employee, according to Aldridge.",
"\"She had to cope with a move to a new country as well as a new job but quickly made the adjustment and became a key member of our team,\" Aldridge said.",
"He said the group's work sharing the Christian faith with the Jewish people in Israel would continue despite the attack."
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"NEW: Police confirm they are focusing on whether the attack was \"nationalistic\"\nNEW: The term is used when victims are targeted based on their Arab or Israeli background .",
"Kristine Luken was hiking with a friend and colleague from a Christian ministry .",
"Luken's friend survived the attack and summoned help ."
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"(CNN) -- The Kroger Co. is recalling select pet food packages from stores in 19 states fearing some of these products may contain aflatoxin, a toxic chemical byproduct that could be harmful to animals.",
"The recall involves certain bags of Pet Pride Cat Food, Pet Pride Kitten Food, Old Yeller Chunk Dog Food, Kroger Value Cat Food and Kroger Value Chunk Food, the company said Saturday.",
"The Kroger Co. urged customers to immediately consult with their veterinarian if their animals show any signs of sluggishness or lethargy combined with a reluctance to eat.",
"A yellowish tint to the eyes or gums, severe blood or diarrhea are also warning signs, the company said.",
"According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Aflatoxin is a fungal toxin that contaminates maize and other types of crops during production, harvest storage or processing.",
"The company has set up a Customer Recall Notification system to help customers determine whether they have purchased any of the contaminated products.",
"Most of recalled products have an expiration date of October 23 and 24, 2011.",
"States with Kroger-operated stores included in the recall are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia."
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"The contaminant is a fungal toxin introduced during production, harvest storage or processing .",
"Pet symptoms include sluggishness and loss of appetite ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The recent recovery of one of his stolen trophies and several scrapbook items at a Los Angeles park left tennis legend Pete Sampras \"a little more optimistic\" that the rest of his coveted memorabilia will soon be found, his agent said Monday.",
"Thieves last month broke into a public storage facility that the 14-time Grand Slam titleholder was renting as he and his family moved from their Thousand Oaks, California, estate to nearby Brentwood.",
"Afterward, Sampras learned that 51 of his 64 championship trophies -- including one marking his first Australian Open cup -- were among the coveted items stolen.",
"His agent, Grant Chen, said authorities contacted Sampras after one of those trophies and several other items were found late last week at the Griffith Park Recreation Center in Los Angeles.",
"The park, one of the nation's largest situated south of Burbank and west of Glendale, is about 20 miles east of the West Los Angeles storage site from which the trophies were stolen.",
"Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation spokeswoman Andrea Epstein declined to comment on the find, referring inquiries to Los Angeles Police.",
"That office would not talk about the investigation.",
"Sampras and his wife Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, an actress, recently listed their Thousand Oaks property, which is on the grounds of the Sherwood Country Club, for sale at $25 million.",
"\"The moving company we hired is very well trusted, and we've used them before,\" said Chen, who helped the Sampras family -- including sons Christian, 8, and Ryan, 5 -- pack and move.",
"\"Only a few people knew the contents of the 50 to 60 tightly sealed boxes that we stored.\"",
"Sampras can account for all but one of the 14 Grand Slam trophies -- given for his wins at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.",
"Most of them Sampras brought personally to his new home, while he loaned his 1993 Wimbledon men's singles trophy, 1997 Australian men's singles title and one Davis Cup trophy to the Nike headquarters in Oregon.",
"The only one stolen was his 1994 Australian Grand Slam title, said Chen.",
"Steven Glick, a spokesman for Public Storage in West Los Angeles, told CNN that his company is \"fully cooperating\" with investigators, but he declined to elaborate.",
"Sampras, 39, was awarded five season-ending Association of Tennis Professional World Tour trophies and six trophies for finishing No.",
"1 in the world from 1993 to 1998.",
"Those valuables, as well as seven ESPY awards, two Davis Cup medallions and an Olympic ring, were among those stolen from two rental units, Chen said.",
"In addition to his titles, Chen said thieves took framed photographs of Sampras with Presidents George H.W.",
"Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as some personal letters written by Bush.",
"Other stolen items included a piano bench signed by singer Elton John and a signed guitar from Carlos Santana.",
"Sampras, who grew up in Southern California, defeated Andre Agassi at the 2002 U.S. Open before retiring the following year with the most Grand Slam wins in tennis history.",
"Roger Federer later surpassed his record with 16 major titles.",
"\"Sampras pleaded with the public as a last resort, (hoping) that someone will offer a tip or come forward,\" said Chen.",
"\"Those stolen items represent memories of a lifetime, and Pete wants nothing more than to share those memories with his sons.\""
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"Pete Sampras is \"a little more optimistic\" his stolen mementos will be found, his agent says .",
"One of the tennis legend's stolen trophies was found late last week in a Los Angeles park .",
"Thieves took 51 of Sampras' championship trophies and other items last month, police say ."
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"Pristina, Kosovo (CNN) -- Kosovo's prime minster lashed out at critics Monday over a recent report alleging that officials may have stolen organs from prisoners of war and political rivals, calling it \"pure fabrication.\"",
"European authorities charged in a report released last week that executives who control the country may have stolen organs when the Kosovo Liberation Army was fighting Serbian forces in the late 1990s.",
"\"It is a political accusation based on no facts or proof,\" Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said.",
"\"Therefore, it is a pure fabrication.\"",
"The report says Thaci, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, was the \"boss\" of a prominent faction in the militia that \"apparently wrested control\" of \"illicit criminal enterprises\" from rivals across the border in Albania.",
"\"Numerous indications seem to confirm that ... organs were removed from some prisoners ... to be taken abroad for transplantation,\" read the report.",
"It suggested that illegal organ trafficking continued after the war ended.",
"And links between \"criminal activity\" and \"certain KLA militia leaders ... has continued, albeit in other forms, until today,\" the report charges.",
"Thaci said he is looking into all legal and political possibilities to correct what he sees as the report's inaccuracies.",
"It was not immediately clear what action he planned to take.",
"\"It is a lie for which Dick Marty will be accountable,\" the prime minister said of the author of the draft report.",
"Nearly 1,900 people who disappeared during the conflict still have not been found, and another 500 disappeared after NATO troops arrived in June 1999, according to Marty.",
"The report is based partially on investigations by European Union officials and was written for the Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.",
"European Union officials in Kosovo have said that anyone with concrete evidence of war crimes or organized crime should step forward.",
"Kosovo was a province of Serbia but declared independence in 2008.",
"About 70 countries have recognized the declaration, but Serbia does not, and international organizations including the United Nations and European Union continue to have administrators in Kosovo.",
"The Council of Europe, an organization with 47 member countries, seeks to promote democracy and human rights.",
"The council's parliament plans to debate the report in January.",
"\"This (report) of course is a blow (for Kosovo), but this challenge will be overcome because it has nothing in common with the truth, and the truth is that Kosovo is a story of success,\" Thaci said."
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"Prime Minister Hashim Thaci says the report is \"pure fabrication\"\nIt says authorities may have stolen organs from prisoners of war and political rivals .",
"European Union officials have asked anyone with evidence of crimes to step forward .",
"\"Kosovo is a story of success,\" Thaci says ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- -- The mother of a 24-year-old California woman whose decomposed remains were found in Malibu Canyon in August said Monday she believes her daughter was murdered and asked that the coroner exhume the remains and the FBI crime lab examine her clothing.",
"Mitrice Richardson was last seen leaving a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lost Hills/Malibu station in September 2009 after being detained by deputies on a citizen's arrest complaint made by a restaurant manager.",
"She was missing for 11 months until her remains were discovered by park rangers searching an area of the Santa Monica Mountains for marijuana fields, authorities said.",
"Sheriff Lee Baca said last August that authorities had \"no indication of a homicide,\" but Latice Sutton, 46, Richardson's mother, said she and a forensic anthropologist with the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Missing Persons Identification Resource Center disagree with the sheriff.",
"Sutton says evidence wasn't analyzed .",
"The Los Angeles County coroner already has agreed with Sutton's request that medical examiner personally visit the remote area where deputies retrieved Richardson's remains, said Clea Koff, a forensic anthropologist with the resource center, who's working with Sutton.",
"And Baca has agreed to meet with Sutton on December 29, Sutton said.",
"For the FBI crime lab to examine Richardson's clothing, the sheriff has to request their involvement, she said.",
"But Sutton said she isn't satisfied that her daughter's death has been investigated thoroughly.",
"She held a news conference at a Los Angeles church Monday to highlight her crusade.",
"\"Today is the day I'm going public and I've announced some of the hidden facts that people are not aware of so that they can understand why I'm pushing that Mitrice's case be looked at as a homicide case,\" Sutton told CNN.",
"Sutton, of La Verne, California, is an operation manager at a Boys and Girls Club of San Bernardino.",
"Richardson's father, Michael Richard, has acknowledged that his daughter was in a troubled mental condition the evening of her arrest for allegedly being unable to pay $89.51 for food and drink at a Malibu restaurant.",
"The woman's remains were found about eight miles from the sheriff's station, in the Monte Nido section of the Santa Monica Mountains, which bisect Los Angeles, Richardson's mother said.",
"\"Mel Gibson gets driven to his car, and Charlie Sheen gets taken to his house,\" the father said last August, referring to practices by law officers in Malibu.",
"Richardson was just released, though she was in a manic state, Koff said.",
"Sutton cited several circumstances about her daughter's skeletal remains and mummified arm that made the mother believe her daughter was murdered.",
"Sutton said the mummified arm was bent in a way that would made if difficult for floodwater or other acts of nature to wash clothing off the body.",
"Richardson's bra was found unsnapped and her pants unzipped several hundred feet away from the remains, the mother said.",
"Her underwear, shoes and shirt were never recovered, the mother said.",
"Koff, the forensic anthropologist who has worked for the United Nations' international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, examined Richardson's remain at Sutton's request prior to burial.",
"She said that metallic jewelry and man-made artifacts were found in Richardson's hair, but the coroner's exam didn't examine those materials sufficiently.",
"Koff claimed that the pupae casings -- the eggs from which maggots hatch -- found on the remains were never tested to determine if the insects were consistent with the area in which the remains were found.",
"\"We believe that it is imperative that the coroner complete the examination,\" Koff said."
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"Mitrice Richardson went missing after she left a Los Angeles County Sheriff's station .",
"Eleven months later her remains were found in a remote mountain area .",
"Her mother asks authorities to exhume her daughter's remains ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Gas and oil prices rose in Iran Monday after the country dramatically cut subsidies for its citizens to bolster the nation's sagging economy.",
"The initiative went into effect Sunday, with the country saying it will gradually remove all subsidies within five years.",
"The price of subsidized gasoline rose four-folds -- from 1,000 rials (9 cents) per liter to 4,000 rials, the Mehr news agency said.",
"Officials say energy subsidies have cost the Iranian government around $100 billion dollars a year, state run Press TV said Monday.",
"While some have said the plan will stoke inflation, others say it is in line with recommendations from international financial organizations to solve Iran's economic woes, Press TV said.",
"Five years ago, Ahmadinejad's government announced its plan to cut government subsidies and help adjust prices in Iran's economy.",
"That includes a policy to phase out subsidies on staples such as fuel and food, likely causing consumers' costs of such items to rise.",
"Iran has $10 trillion in oil resources alone, plus natural gas reserves worth between $3.5 and $4.5 trillion, International Monetary Fund mission chief Dominique Guillaume said in an interview posted earlier this fall on that world body's website.",
"But its economy nonetheless has seen lackluster growth, including between 1% and 2% of GDP this past year.",
"Despite its abundance of fuel, Iran has been pushing to expand its nuclear program.",
"Many in the international community, including U.S. officials, have expressed grave concerns and successfully pushed for sanctions fearing that Tehran might be trying to develop nuclear weapons.",
"But Iranian leaders have said the nation wants nuclear power, in part to free up more oil to export and pump more money into the economy.",
"With subsidies that effectively allowed domestic consumers to pay relatively little for oil and gas -- far below what they or people anywhere else would pay on the world market -- Iran was forfeiting potentially huge revenues, explained IMF Senior Economist Roman Zytek on his group's website.",
"The IRNA news agency reported Saturday that Iranians' use of commodities like fuel \"has not followed a reasonable pattern\" -- with Zytek saying that many Iranian citizens have been buying excess amounts of oil and gas.",
"Iran's subsidy reforms, he said, aim to decrease domestic demand for fuel, make the country more fuel-efficient, and allow Iran to profit more from its natural resources."
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"The country plans to remove all subsidies in five years .",
"The price of gasoline goes up four-folds .",
"Iran has trillions of dollars in natural resources but still struggles, experts say .",
"The changes aim to dampen domestic demand for fuel and oil, and bolster overall revenues ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Southern California faces another water-logged day Wednesday with renewed threats of flash flooding, especially in San Diego county.",
"The National Weather Service is forecasting rainfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour, which could prompt flooding in the San Bernardino, Santa Ana and Palomar Mountains, and along the Orange County coastal plains.",
"On Tuesday, storm-weary Californians slogged through another day of record-breaking snow, rain and flooding from a series of storms that prompted an emergency declaration from the state's governor.",
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proclamation covers Kern, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and Tulare counties in southern California.",
"The declaration warns that the forecast calls for \"extraordinary and continuing rainfall\" that is likely to cause more flooding and landslides in the region and authorizes state assistance to local authorities.",
"The five-day rain total has topped 10 inches in many areas, with much heavier amounts in some locales.",
"More than 21 inches has fallen on Twin Peaks in San Bernardino county, with Twin Creek receiving nearly 20 inches.",
"In Orange County, authorities were on the scene after a mudslide affecting homes in the Silverado Canyon area, the county's Fire Authority said on Twitter.",
"Rescues were needed, and evacuations were underway, according to the Fire Authority.",
"In Los Angeles County, meanwhile, authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 230 homes in two neighborhoods out of fear of debris flows.",
"Of the 232 homes ordered evacuated in the La Canada Flintridge and La Crescenta areas, however, only one family evacuated, said Nicole Nishida, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.",
"The area is a concern because it is below an area burned in the 2009 Station fire.",
"Fires burn vegetation holding the soil in place, leaving the soil more likely to dislodge after heavy rains.",
"One resident wary of the potential for mudslides was Donna McLaughlin of La Canada Flintridge who lost her home last year when a 10-foot wall of mud came barreling down a hillside.",
"She just moved back in October.",
"\"Here we go again,\" she told CNN affiliate KABC.",
"But this time, the city has bolted down protective concrete barriers and attached them to each other in the area in an effort to guard against mudslides.",
"McLaughlin said the barriers were not bolted down or attached last year.",
"\"Had they done that, our house would have at least been saved,\" she told KABC.",
"Streets in downtown Laguna Beach were closed Wednesday because of extensive flooding, KABC reported.",
"In southwestern Utah, a dam that authorities had feared was in imminent danger of giving way to floodwaters was found to be in stronger condition than previously believed, said Marc Mortensen, a spokesman for Washington County.",
"The roughly 800 residents of the towns of Virgin and Rockville were allowed to return to their homes Tuesday night, Mortensen said.",
"Engineers will monitor the dam, located on the Virgin River, and conduct more tests Wednesday, when high water flows are expected again, he said.",
"Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said he was prepared to declare a state of emergency in the south, where floodwaters also washed out at least one bridge.",
"But as of Tuesday afternoon, Utah officials said the required benchmarks for an emergency declaration had not been reached, and Herbert hadn't received a request from local authorities to issue one.",
"\"We are closely monitoring the activity in southern Utah, and praying for the safety of all of the area's residents,\" Herbert said in a statement from his office.",
"Flash flood warnings were also in effect for western Arizona.",
"In Southern California, where the car is king, a record number of motorists called their local auto club to report dead batteries, a need for emergency tows and crashed vehicles, said spokesman Jeffrey Spring of the Automobile Club of Southern California.",
"More than 25,000 distraught motorists made calls for help on Monday, the largest number ever in a 24-hour period for the AAA's largest U.S. affiliate, Spring said.",
"\"We're in Southern California, and we don't have a lot of experience driving in the rain, and some people drive through high puddles not realizing what kind of effect it can have on a car,\" Spring said.",
"\"If the engine gets splashed and gets wet, it can stop the car right there.\"",
"Spring said AAA was \"able to serve the majority of members in 30 minutes,\" although he added, \"I'm sure there were a number of people who had to wait longer than that.\"",
"Monday's call volume surpassed the prior record of about 22,000 on October 9, 2008, when a heat wave and the scorching Santa Ana winds disabled many automobiles, Spring said.",
"Monday's weather -- torrential rains -- had opposite conditions, he said.",
"\"Batteries are fickle things if they're not at full strength,\" Spring said.",
"\"Hot weather can affect them and weather like this.\"",
"In the southern Sierra Nevada, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks were effectively shut down Monday and Tuesday because flooding, mudslides and rockslides closed the two roads into the parks, said Brandy Frederich, assistant general manager of Wuksachi Lodge in Sequoia National Park.",
"In fact, the 102-room lodge was vacant Tuesday after the last couple of guests departed Monday, Frederich said.",
"\"Well, we're all up here,\" Frederich said of the hotel staff.",
"\"We would be open if the road is open.",
"It's gorgeous right now.",
"Up here, it finally turned to snow.\"",
"But the rain at lower elevations washed out the two roads, she said.",
"Deborah Craigo, 39, who lives in the Mojave Desert community of Hesperia, California, said monsoon conditions have inundated the arid landscape.",
"Fire stations are even offering sandbags to residents who want to shore up defenses to their homes, said Craigo, who is also a CNN iReporter.",
"\"It's been raining from two days ago and it just has not stopped.",
"They closed a lot of the roads down,\" said Craigo, a mother and college student.",
"\"It's pretty bad now.",
"We have a riverbed in back of our house, and two days ago it was completely bone dry.",
"And then within two days the riverbed is completely full.\"",
"In Orange County, California, four hikers whose truck was stranded by floodwater between two canyon roads were airlifted out Tuesday morning and were reported to be doing well, CNN affiliate KTLA reported.",
"The four had been stranded overnight.",
"Five other people were rescued in the same area Monday evening, the station said.",
"A bulldozer was used to help get them to safety, it said.",
"Elsewhere, 40 horses were rescued from Riverside County as water rose to heights of about 4 feet, affiliate KCAL reported.",
"The storm is actually a series of storms originating in the Pacific, known as the \"Pineapple Express\" because of their origin near the Hawaiian Islands.",
"They have brought heavy snow to the higher elevations, with torrential rainfall in lower spots, and high winds.",
"Total rainfall has approached 10 inches in some areas.",
"Numerous roads were closed because of mudslides or flooding.",
"And as much as 13 feet of snow had fallen in the Sierra Nevada as of Tuesday, according to CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano.",
"\"We get a lot of snow here, but not usually this much in a 24-hour period,\" said CNN iReporter Sarah Butner, who is visiting family in Mammoth Lakes, California.",
"The area has received about 9 feet of snow, she said Monday.",
"\"The decks have a good 5 feet of snow on them,\" she said.",
"One area of the neighborhood was also flooded, she said.",
"In Arvin, California, near Lamont, Caliente Creek washed away land near one home.",
"Hugo Figueroa, who lives there, said he and his family were told to evacuate, CNN affiliate KBAK reported.",
"Flooding washed out several roads near Lamont and Arvin, the station reported.",
"High winds also whipped much of the state, particularly at high elevations.",
"Peak wind gusts reached 152 mph in Alpine Meadows summit in northern California, the weather service reported.",
"Mudslides forced officials to close a portion of State Route 1, also known as the Pacific Coast Highway, in Ventura County from just north of the Los Angeles County line to Oxnard, according to the California Department of Transportation.",
"The Pacific Coast Highway was also closed north of Santa Barbara due to flooding.",
"A mudslide also closed a portion of State Route 41 in San Luis Obispo County.",
"A stretch of State Route 34 in the Oxnard area was closed because of flooding.",
"The danger of mudslides will probably intensify, CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera said.",
"\"A serious situation will develop now with the mudslide danger that will continue over the next several days,\" Cabrera said Monday.",
"Another danger: Falling trees.",
"Erik Budzinski of Orange told KABC he is heartsick after his vintage 1970 Ford F-150 truck was crushed by a large tree Monday night.",
"\"It was my baby,\" he said. Budzinski said he was inside his home and heard the wood cracking and popping as the tree fell.",
"\"I just knew it,\" he said. Still, many southern Californians were not deterred from holiday shopping by the rain, although the rain-slicked roads had led to thousands of accidents.",
"\"It's a little scary to be driving with this much rain, but I'm going to deal with it,\" Adriena Young told KABC.",
"\"It's better than a drought.\"",
"CNN's Jeremy Ryan, Sara Pratley, Nick Valencia, Michael Martinez, Ed Payne, Sara Weisfeldt and Daphne Sashin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Reported mudslide affects homes in Orange County .",
"Of 232 homes evacuated, only 1 family leaves, officials say .",
"Rockville, Utah, residents allowed to return .",
"Roads into two national parks are shut down, a park lodge manager says ."
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"(CNN) -- Tashard Choice recently had a great opportunity to pick up a nice present for his 3-year-old nephew.",
"The Dallas Cowboys running back went up to Michael Vick after a game and asked for his autograph.",
"Well, that kind of blew up in his face.",
"Here he was, just trying to do a nice thing for a child, and people get all crazy upset, just because Vick plays on the other team.",
"In a sign of the times, Choice even felt it necessary to apologize on Twitter.",
"Here's hoping that if you go out to get a sports memorabilia gift this holiday season you deal with a lot less criticism.",
"But you might feel some heat.",
"After all, there are some cool items, but they can be pricey, especially if someone like Vick signs his name to them.",
"We'll help you sort through the many sites that sell sports items and point you toward a few things we might even include on our wish list.",
"It's understandable why Choice's nephew wanted Vick's signature.",
"He's one of the hottest athletes in the country right now, likely leading Philadelphia to the NFL playoffs.",
"If you hunt around the internet, you can find several sites selling a jersey, even one selling one he wore during his college career.",
"The most popular jersey would be the one he wears now, No.",
"7 for the Philadelphia Eagles.",
"Or you could go for the autographed Eagles' jersey.",
"That one is $592 at Fans Edge.",
"Or you could save a little coin and get one from the Falcons (the team he played for until he went to prison for his role in a deadly dogfighting operation) for the sale price of $125.",
"Want a less controversial quarterback?",
"Tom Brady's New England top is $760 in blue and $1,049 in white.",
"If the person you are buying for digs historical baseball moments, he or she might like a ball autographed by pitcher Armando Galarraga and the umpire who cost him his perfect game, Jim Joyce.",
"The grace each showed after Joyce's blown call is an example of sportsmanship most fans will talk about for years.",
"One ball, $573.",
"It's a souvenir commemorating a moment that hadn't happened before and probably won't again.",
"While neither of those men seem likely candidates for the Hall of Fame, Andre Dawson is one of the all-time greats and is part of the 2011 class that will be enshrined in Cooperstown.",
"He was widely admired by all baseball fans during his 21-year career.",
"You can get an autographed Cubs replica jersey at Tristar Productions for $259.",
"(You'll have to pay extra to get it in a frame.)",
"One of the most exciting moments of the sports year -- at least for U.S. soccer fans and even bandwagon fans -- came at the World Cup, when in its final group game the United States needed a goal to move into the prestigious round of 16.",
"All-time leading scorer Landon Donovan pounced in the last minute, sending bars and offices across the country into scenes of pandemonium.",
"SportsMemorablia.com has a few autographed photos of Donovan and his teammates celebrating what is one of the signature moments in U.S. men's soccer history for $263.",
"Hockey fans will long remember the exciting Olympics men's final, won by Canada when Sidney Crosby scored in overtime.",
"NHL Auctions has some Team Canada jerseys, including one signed by Ryan Getzlaf ($229).",
"If you want one, bid soon, as that auction ends Monday.",
"NASCAR fans are fiercely loyal.",
"But if you are giving to someone and you don't know who his or her favorite driver is, you probably can't go wrong with a Jimmie Johnson die cast.",
"Johnson won his fifth consecutive championship this season and die casts are cool small-scale replicas of the cars used in races.",
"If you go to Johnson's Team Lowe's site, there are many cars to choose from, including cars from previous years and cars with the various color schemes used throughout the year.",
"Want something that might make a cool addition to the home office or the man cave?",
"Consider seats from stadiums that met their demise.",
"For instance a pair of seats from old Yankee Stadium will cost you $1,500 at Steiner Sports.",
"Steiner also has seats (or parts) from the Meadowlands and Wrigley Field.",
"But let's go big.",
"Say you have a blank check, and the fan who has almost everything.",
"Well, Babe Ruth collectibles are some of the most sought after sports items on the planet.",
"Sports Memorabilia offers five bats from the Sultan of Swat at $125,253 (and 50 cents).",
"They were used in games at the time he was being sold from the Red Sox to the Yankees and making the transition from pitcher to right field.",
"If that price is too steep, the company offers a store model bat for just $964.",
"Still too much?",
"They also have a Babe Ruth card by Topps from 2009 for $17.",
"While we're at it, everyone loves a good sports movie.",
"Look how much bank the film \"The Blind Side\" took in at the box office.",
"So, while it may not qualify specifically as \"sports\" memorabilia, you could also buy a prop or costume from the hit film.",
"Premiere Props in El Segundo, California, offers more than 100 items from the film, including a green Crusaders jersey worn by Quinton Aaron for $799.99.",
"His stunt double's uniform is just $599.",
"Other items range from $14.99 to $1,599."
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"Sports paraphernalia is more than just the Topps baseball card these days .",
"You can buy autographed jerseys, photos, even costumes from sports films .",
"If you have the cash, you can have your own Babe Ruth bat for around $126,000 ."
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"Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Anna Chapman, one of the Russian sleeper agents deported by the United States in last summer's spy swap, will be giving the dour face of Russian political life a bit of flash and glamour.",
"Chapman was elected to the public board of the pro-government The Young Guard of United Russia on Wednesday, according to Russian news agency reports.",
"The organization, which is the youth branch of Russia's ruling United Russia party, held a congress in Moscow on its fifth anniversary and reshuffled its leadership.",
"The country's powerful prime minister, Vladimir Putin, is chairman of the United Russia which controls more than two-thirds of seats in the Russian parliament, the State Duma, as well as most local legislatures across the country.",
"Chapman is one of the 10 Russian spies in the United States swapped last July in exchange for four Russian prisoners -- a transfer that conjured the politics and tensions during the Cold War.",
"Chapman, perhaps the most famous of the 10 Russians, has been relentlessly covered by international media and portrayed as a glamorous spy.",
"In her new role, Chapman addressed the congress's participants, according to Interfax.",
"\"So many people are hunting after power, glory and money,\" she was quoted as saying.",
"\"But does all that make us more happy?",
"Maybe all we really need is something more human and positive?\"",
"\"There would be much less negative things in the society if each of us would wake up with a smile and be happy about a new day, when one can create something new and useful,\" she said.",
"Interfax and state-run news agency RIA-Novosti reported that Chapman rushed out of the congress hall right after her short speech without speaking to journalists who chased her all the way to the exit.",
"RIA-Novosti said they were asking her about why she joined The Young Guard and what she plans to do in her new position.",
"But Chapman didn't respond to any questions, RIA-Novosti said."
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"Chapman was elected to the Young Guard of United Russia board .",
"The spy swap last summer conjured the Cold War .",
"Chapman says \"wake up with a smile and be happy\""
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"(CNN) -- A 35-year-old Florida blasting inspector is presumed dead after the ground at a mine collapsed Thursday, sending him plummeting into a lime rock pit, police said.",
"Kenneth James Stephens Jr. was working as a supervising contractor at Austin Powder Company as it detonated ammonia nitrate at the Mid Coast Aggregates mine in Webster, Florida, Sumter County Sheriff's Office Lt. Bobby Caruthers said by e-mail.",
"After the controlled explosion, the earth collapsed beneath Stephens when he was about 30 feet from the blast site.",
"He fell into a water-filled pit about 100 yards across, Caruthers said.",
"Alerted shortly after noon, police arrived and initially saw no sign of the victim at the surface, nor did a police helicopter surveying the area from above.",
"A crane lowered a pontoon, containing a dive team, into the pit to look for Stephens -- though, as of 6:30 p.m., his body had not been located.",
"Recovery personnel have begun the next step in their effort, building a berm, likely out of limestone, to seal off the area where Stephens fell from the rest of the pit.",
"When that's complete, they will pump out the water in hopes of finding the victim's body.",
"Representatives from the Occupational and Safety Health Administration and the Mining Safety and Health Administration are on site, Caruthers said.",
"He added that Austin Powder claims it has never had an accident like this since being founded in 1833, and that the sheriff's office has never responded to such an incident at this mine.",
"Stephens, a resident of Beverly Hills, Florida, had participated in more than 1,000 controlled blasts in his 11 years at the Austin Powder Company, said Caruthers."
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"NEW: Police haven't found a 35-year-old Florida man who fell into a lime pit .",
"NEW: The ground collapsed underneath veteran blasting inspector, police say .",
"Helicopter pilots and a dive team lowered into the pit haven't found him ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A crafty burglar tunneled through a hallway wall into a New York home and made off with valuable jewelry, watches and artwork by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.",
"The heist was worth between $500,000 and $1 million, said New York Police Department spokesman Sgt.",
"John Buthorn.",
"The homeowners were away for the Thanksgiving weekend when the burglar broke into the apartment.",
"Police did not identify the residents or the give the location of the apartment.",
"Among the items stolen was \"Camouflage,\" a set of eight signed Warhol prints in various colors, the American artist's abstract take on a recognizable pattern.",
"Other stolen prints included \"Thinking Nude\" and \"Moonscape,\" by Lichtenstein and .",
"\"The Truck\" and \"Superman\" by Warhol.",
"An oil painting called \"Live Cat\" by British artist Carl Fudge was also missing.",
"Police are asking the public for help in the search for the at-large suspect.",
"CNN's Chris Kokenes contributed to this report."
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"The residents were away during the Thanksgiving weekend .",
"The artwork and other items are valued at as much as $1 million ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle airport was evacuated Friday due to the accumulation of snow on the roof, and hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid, authorities said.",
"Nearly 2,000 passengers were moved from Terminal 2E to other parts of the airport, authorities said, calling the measure \"preventative.\"",
"Part of the roof of that terminal collapsed in 2004, shortly after the state-of-the-art building was inaugurated.",
"Four people were killed, media reports at the time said.",
"About a foot of snow had fallen on the roof Friday by the time authorities decided to close the terminal, French media reports said.",
"Authorities were working to clear it and reopen the terminal.",
"French authorities earlier Friday asked airlines to cancel half their morning flights to and from the airport because de-icing fluid is running low, they said.",
"That led to the cancellation of 400 flights Friday morning -- 200 arrivals and 200 departures.",
"Then, early in the afternoon, they asked airlines to scrap a third of their flights for the rest of the day.",
"Charles de Gaulle is the second busiest airport in Europe, after Heathrow in London.",
"Paris' second airport, Orly, has not had to cancel flights because they are not running out of glycol, which is using for de-icing, authorities said.",
"Airports in Europe are still struggling to get passengers to their destinations after they were snarled by unexpected snow over the weekend.",
"Dublin airport was experiencing delays Friday because of de-icing and because airplanes are in the wrong places after the week's disruptions, it said in a statement."
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"Charles de Gaulle cancels a third of afternoon and evening flights .",
"About a foot of snow falls on the roof, forcing a partial evacuation .",
"Charles de Gaulle is the second busiest airport in Europe .",
"Airports were snarled by snow over the weekend ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Federal officials are investigating whether this week's Pacific storms caused a pilot to crash his small plane into a mountain in a southern California state park, authorities said Friday.",
"It is the second death that might be related to the storms.",
"Christopher Julius Petrikas, 65, a former commercial airline pilot from Riverside, California, slammed his twin-engine Aero Commander plane into a 3,300-foot mountain summit in Lake Perris State Recreation Area on Monday, authorities said.",
"That park is just 11 miles from the city where Petrikas lived.",
"He was the small plane's sole occupant.",
"On Friday, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said his agency and the National Transportation Safety Board will examine if the weather was a factor in the fatal crash.",
"\"Yes, weather will be among the factors NTSB and FAA examine,\" Gregor said in an e-mail response to CNN.",
"The state park's superintendent, John Rowe, said visibility on the mountain was poor around the time of the crash.",
"\"The weather was not favorable at that time of the morning,\" Rowe told CNN on Friday.",
"\"Visibility was between 100 yards and sometimes, at the top of the mountain, it would be 10 to 15 yards when my partners and I were searching up there.",
"We couldn't even see the sheriff's helicopter.\"",
"The other life that might have been taken by the storms was that of Angela Marie Wright, 39, of Menifee, California, who also died in Riverside County when her car was swept off a road and into Canyon Lake on Wednesday, according to the coroner's office.",
"\"Weather might have been a factor, but we can't determine that until we complete the investigation,\" Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Melissa Nieburger said Friday.",
"\"We're investigating that as a traffic collision.\"",
"Overall on Friday, rain-soaked residents of California were enjoying a reprieve from the storms that inundated the state for most of the previous week.",
"Another round of wet weather was expected to hit the West Coast over the holiday weekend.",
"During Friday's break in the storm fronts, authorities were able to provide a detailed account of the dramatic search for the downed pilot.",
"Rains so deluged the chaparral, grasslands, and hiking and equestrian trails on the mountain that Rowe's four-wheel drive vehicle became stranded and a park ranger's all-terrain vehicle toppled over, Rowe said.",
"So his crews searched on foot in the rain for about 1.5 miles until they discovered the wreck and dead pilot, he said.",
"\"That's how messy it was. The trails were running like small rivers so it made recovery efforts very, very difficult,\" Rowe said.",
"The plane was found near a World War II crash site where a training plane from nearby March Air Reserve Base also hit the mountain and killed its crew, Rowe said.",
"Petrikas, the small plane's pilot, began his 75-mile flight from Palm Springs to Chino around 9 a.m. Monday, but when he didn't land on time, authorities launched a search for him, Rowe said.",
"The pilot was found after the Riverside County sheriff's office pinged his cell phone and investigators were able to track down his location, Rowe said.",
"The eight-hour recovery mission left some search members with near hypothermia because of prolonged exposure to rain that fell at a rate of a half-inch or an inch an hour, Rowe said.",
"Sixteen low-security state inmates, who are often used for brush clearing in wildfires, were deployed in the search, and they had to carry Petrikas' body for three miles from the soaked mountaintop, Rowe said.",
"Rangers' stranded vehicles were left abandoned for four days because the heavy rain and mud made it impossible for them to be moved, Rowe said.",
"The wrecked plane, which remains on the park summit, could be retrieved by next week, he said.",
"Friday marked Southern California's second day of sunshine after five days of storms.",
"At Malibu's renowned Surfrider Beach, surfers dressed as Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Frosty the Snowman were riding mild waves during a lull in the weather Thursday, said Malibu resident Julie Ellerton, who videotaped the spectacle for a CNN iReport.",
"But many residents of the region and three nearby Southwest states spent the time recovering from the damage wrought by torrential rains.",
"California Lt. Gov.",
"Abel Maldonado late Thursday afternoon proclaimed a state of emergency for Kings, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, to expedite government assistance and aid to the region.",
"Two days earlier, a similar order was issued -- by Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger -- for Kern, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and Tulare counties.",
"Maldonado is serving as acting governor while Schwarzenegger is out of the state.",
"The series of Pacific fronts pounded southern California hardest, but the storms also strafed western Arizona, southern Nevada and southwestern Utah, which all were under flood watches and warnings that stretched until early Friday morning.",
"Mudslides remain a threat because of the soggy ground.",
"Conditions cleared in much of those areas Thursday, but the damage left by days of seemingly nonstop rain remained.",
"That meant the chore of the day was cleaning up mud and flood damage to many homes and businesses.",
"They may not have long to dry out: The National Weather Service forecasts that another storm system could dump light to moderate rainfall on much of southern California on Christmas Day and Sunday.",
"Rainfall accumulation measurements at airports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Camarillo, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria for the month -- ranging from 6 to 8.9 inches -- made this December the wettest ever in each of those locales, even with more than a week still to go.",
"In one stark image, the field and sprawling parking lot of Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego was under water early Thursday, as crews worked desperately to pump out water.",
"They succeeded, as the Naval Academy and San Diego State University faced off in college football's Poinsettia Bowl.",
"The Mojave River was one of many at dangerously high levels, reaching 16.6 feet -- 0.6 feet above flood stage -- at 11 a.m. Thursday.",
"The heavy rains also produced potential health hazards for swimmers and surfers on particular parts of Los Angeles' beaches, and Los Angeles County officials warned recreational users to be careful when next to drains or waterways because they carry bacteria and trash from streets and mountainsides.",
"\"Fortunately, discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers only comprises a small portion of the beach, and therefore, anybody who wants to go to the beach will be able to enjoy their outing,\" said Jonathan E. Fielding, the county's public health director and health officer.",
"Throughout the Southwest, water roared through desert washes and urban waterways alike, and the ferocious strength of the rapids often damaged bridges or suburban concrete creek beds -- and dumped mud everywhere.",
"The series of storms is known as the \"Pineapple Express\" because of its origin near the Hawaiian Islands.",
"The upside to the severe weather, according to experts, is the relief the heavy rainfall has brought to a region devastated by drought and fires.",
"The storms also brought heavy snow to mountain areas in California and other states.",
"The National Weather Service issued hazardous weather outlooks for northern Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and most of Colorado.",
"An avalanche warning was in effect for parts of Colorado.",
"And locally heavy snow was forecast for much of the country's midsection, with the weather agency issuing advisories from Kansas east to Ohio.",
"CNN's Jessica Jordan, Kara Devlin, Chuck Conder, Daphne Sashin, Christina Zdanowicz and Rachel Rodriguez contributed to this report."
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"NEW: FAA is investigating whether this week's torrential rains caused a small plane crash .",
"NEW: Searcher recounts the drama of carrying the pilot's body off the mountain .",
"Authorities are also investigating whether a woman's death is storm-related .",
"Residents of parts of the Southwest fear mudslides and flood surges ."
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"(CNN) -- In the summer of 2007, two Palestinian groups -- Fatah and Hamas -- fought street battles in Gaza.",
"Fatah, loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, was losing.",
"And a U.S. diplomatic cable indicates that \"desperate, disorganized, and demoralized\" Fatah members appealed to Israel to attack their rival.",
"The cable quotes the head of the Israeli Security Agency, Yuval Diskin, as telling U.S. diplomats, \"They are approaching a zero-sum situation, and yet they ask us to attack Hamas.\"",
"Diskin is also quoted as saying that Hamas had infiltrated Abbas' Presidential Guard and seized heavy machine guns.",
"Fatah members quickly denied any approach had been made.",
"Dimitri Diliani, a member of Fatah's revolutionary council, said such comments are part of a smear campaign carried out by Israel, which had never been asked \"to address or to assist in any Palestinian national manner.\"",
"But Hamas, in a statement that underlines the continuing animosity between the two groups, said that the \"WikiLeaks information regarding the scale of security cooperation between the Israeli occupation and Fatah is dangerous information and represents additional evidence regarding the involvement of Fatah with the occupation.\"",
"According to the cable, Diskin told U.S.",
"Ambassador Richard H. Jones that Fatah was \"on its last legs,\" and Hamas was \"well-organized and ascendant.\"",
"But he opposed arming Fatah, saying, \"They are not organized to ensure that the equipment that is transferred to them will reach the intended recipients.\"",
"He was also wary of requests for Fatah members to be trained in Yemen \"with a strong al Qaeda presence.\"",
"Diskin also had harsh words for Abbas, saying, \"He knows he is weak and he has failed.",
"He has failed to rehabilitate Fatah.\"",
"According to the leaked cable, Diskin also suggested Abbas would soon retire.",
"Abbas continues as president today.",
"The leaked cables also indicate the Israelis appear to have seen an advantage in Hamas consolidating its control in Gaza.",
"A cable from June 13, 2007, quotes the head of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, as saying that \"Israel would be 'happy' if Hamas took over Gaza because the (Israel Defense Forces) could then deal with Gaza as a hostile state.\"",
"Yadlin played down the threat Hamas represented, saying Iran, Hezbollah and Syria were of greater concern, according to the cable.",
"He said that while Iran already had a presence in Gaza, \"Israel could handle the situation so long as Gaza does not have a port.\"",
"Today, three years since the cables were written, Hamas still retains control of Gaza, although much of the territory was devastated by the Israeli offensive of January 2009 in retaliation for rocket strikes across the border.",
"The situation in the West Bank, still controlled by the Palestinian Authority, is calmer, with better security and investment assisting economic growth.",
"Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian lawmaker and former minister, told CNN that the leaked cables show \"that the internal division in Palestine is serving only the interest of Israel\" and that \"Israel itself encouraged this division.\""
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"WikiLeaks cable says \"desperate\" Fatah asked Israel to attack Hamas in 2007 .",
"A Fatah official says the comment was part of an Israeli smear campaign .",
"Hamas calls it \"evidence regarding the involvement of Fatah with the occupation\""
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"San Francisco, California (CNN) -- President Obama will wake up in San Francisco, California, on Friday amid a five-state, four-day tour aimed at propping up embattled key Senate incumbents.",
"Obama will fly to Los Angeles, California, to attend a fundraiser luncheon at the University of Southern California for Sen. Barbara Boxer and former Gov.",
"Jerry Brown, before delivering remarks at a Democratic National Committee rally at USC's Alumni Park.",
"Boxer has opened a slight lead against Republican Carly Fiorina, as has Brown in his effort to win his old job back in a nasty battle with Republican Meg Whitman.",
"National Democrats are still watching these races closely to ensure they don't slip out of their hands.",
"By Friday evening, the president will be in Las Vegas, Nevada, to attend a DNC rally at a middle school before heading to a private residence for a fundraising event for Sen. Harry Reid and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.",
"Reid is stuck in the mid-40s in most polls, despite months painting his Republican opponent, Tea Party-friendly Sharron Angle, as an extremist.",
"On Saturday, Obama heads to Minnesota for a rally to support former Sen. Mark Dayton, who is running for governor.",
"The president also will headline a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee before heading back to the White House on Saturday evening.",
"In addition, the president will attend another congressional campaign panel fundraiser Monday in Rhode Island before taking four days off from campaigning to tend to other business at the White House.",
"As the president stumps across the West for several Senate incumbents, Democratic officials revealed Thursday he will shift his attention to the Midwest and Northeast in the final weekend before the midterm election.",
"Obama will headline four major rallies for the Democratic National Committee in the final stretch, starting Saturday, October 30, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bridgeport, Connecticut.",
"Both states have Senate battles that are simply too close to call, as well as competitive gubernatorial battles.",
"Also on that Saturday, Obama will return home to Chicago, where there is a tight gubernatorial fight and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias is locked in a bitter battle with Republican Mark Kirk for Obama's old Senate seat.",
"The state is also home to a close re-election battle for Democratic Gov.",
"Pat Quinn. Advisers to the president have privately said he's particularly concerned about the symbolism on election night if his party can't even hold his former Senate seat, which is why first lady Michelle Obama and the president each campaigned in Illinois earlier this month.",
"On Sunday, October 31, the president will return again to Ohio in his 12th visit as president -- just days after he and the first lady headlined their first joint rally there, drawing 35,000 people to the campus of Ohio State University.",
"White House aides have said they expect the president to be in Washington on Election Day, though that could always change if Democratic officials calculate that a last-minute visit will have an impact in another key race.",
"Vice President Joe Biden will join Obama at the Cleveland, Ohio, rally, according to Democratic officials, as the White House continues to very aggressively coordinate the travel of the president, vice president, and first lady for maximum benefit.",
"Biden led campaign events earlier this week in Washington, California, and Nevada -- three states the president is also hitting on his current five-state swing -- because of the urgency of saving incumbent Sens.",
"Patty Murray, Boxer, and Reid.",
"Michelle Obama will also be visiting Washington and California next week, and then will be in Las Vegas for Reid on Monday, November 1, the day before Election Day.",
"That same day she will also headline an event in Philadelphia, a sure sign that the White House believes that Joe Sestak, the Democratic candidate for Senate that many pundits had written off, has a legitimate shot of knocking off Republican Pat Toomey."
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"Critics say midterm election will be a referendum on Obama and his leadership .",
"President Obama seeks to shore up embattled senators from California, Nevada, Washington .",
"Obama is on a five-state, four-day tour .",
"Obama will also make another campaign swing the final weekend before midterms ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United have returned to the top of the English Premier League after a header from Ji-sung Park gave them a narrow 1-0 win over previous table-toppers Arsenal.",
"The only goal of a largely disappointing match came just before half-time when Park superbly adjusted his body to divert Nani's deflected cross past 20-year-old Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who was making his league debut for the London side.",
"Neither team found their top form in a game of mistimed passes and niggly tackling, but United had the best of the chances with England striker Wayne Rooney missing a golden opportunity to stretch the advantage in the 73rd minute.",
"Arsenal defender Gael Clichy was adjudged to have handled the ball in the penalty area but Rooney's spot-kick flew high and wide of the visitors goal.",
"Gunners manager Arsene Wenger brought on big-name players Robin van Persie and captain Cesc Fabregas, who was returning from injury, in an attempt to get back into the game.",
"But their flowing passing football deserted them and it was United who nearly snatched a second goal late on, when Rooney's clever lob was superbly clawed away by Szczesny.",
"The result means United now lead the table by two points on 34 points and remain unbeaten after 16 league matches.",
"They also have a game in hand on all their rivals.",
"Arsenal are two points behind in second, level on points with Manchester City, while defending champions Chelsea are another point behind in fourth position."
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"Manchester United return to the top of the English Premier League table .",
"A header from Ji-sung Park gives them a 1-0 victory over Arsenal at Old Trafford .",
"United remain unbeaten and are now two points ahead of Arsenal in second place ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A \"farce,\" \"bitter\", \"ugly and chaotic,\" \"sinister and slapstick and a \"public relations nightmare;\" the Olympic torch's journey of harmony and peace hit a large protester-sized road hump in London, the world's press commented Monday.",
"British newspapers said the Olympic torch relay through London was a \"public relations nightmare.\"",
"The British and Chinese press were far from impressed with the chaotic scenes as the Olympic torch was carried through London by a mixture of celebrities, politicians and athletes on its way to Beijing.",
"In the UK, The Times said the relay was \"reduced to farce and ignominy\" as 35 protesters were arrested after clashing with police over China's actions in Tibet.",
"\"Despite nearly a year of planning and the deployment of 2,000 officers, the Metropolitan Police were unable to stop protesters breaking through the security cordon at vulnerable points,\" the Times reported.",
"\"It was a public relations nightmare for London, with images of Tibetans pinned to the tarmac by police, and demonstrators waving placards outside Downing Street.\"",
"Watch a gallery of the torch relay in London » .",
"The Daily Telegraph said the relay was nearly abandoned because of the \"ugly and chaotic\" scenes.",
"\"Organizers, including Chinese officials, discussed \"pulling out\" of the day-long relay after just a few hours, as police fought running battles with wave after wave of anti-China protesters,\" the newspaper reported.",
"The Daily Telegraph said police were surprised by the \"relentless\" attempts to disrupt the parade at \"every corner\" of the route.",
"The Mail said the relay turned into a \"sinister and slapstick\" event \"which did Britain no favor in the eyes of the world.\"",
"\"Terrified athletes and celebrities carrying the torch were forced to run for cover,\" it reported.",
"Watch supporters, opponents of the Beijing Olympics show up at the London leg of the torch relay » .",
"\"Downing Street was privately furious as the embarrassing fiasco -- costing $2 million and likened to \"Chinese police state tactics\" in London -- was beamed around the world on TV.\"",
"The Mail described the Chinese guards helping escort the flame as a \"mysterious private army.\"",
"\"Wearing blue tracksuits, the hired 'thugs' barged protesters out the way and even shoved spectators in Downing Street, where the torch was greeted by [British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown.\"",
"The Independent said \"most spectators saw little more than a blur of fluorescent-yellow police jackets.\"",
"\"An enormous security cordon that had something of the pantomime about it turned the relay into a public relations embarrassment for both the Chinese and British authorities,\" it said.",
"The Guardian said the relay was \"a journey of harmony\" but there was precious little unity on display\" while the tabloid Sun described the scenes as \"shocking.\"",
"The New York Times said the relay descended into a \"tumult of scuffles,\" and expressed concern about the torch's future path ahead of its arrival in San Francisco on Wednesday.",
"Look at a map of the international torch relay route .",
"\"The tour could prove jarring for Beijing.",
"What organizers had billed as an occasion to celebrate the Olympics' sporting ideals of peace and harmony turned into a daylong contest between China's supporters and demonstrators protesting China's crackdown in Tibet and its wider human rights record.\"",
"The Chinese press said London residents were indignant about the protests and quoted angry officials.",
"The China Daily said \"tens of thousands of people lined the route of the relay to cheer the event; far outnumbering protesters.\"",
"\"Many spectators voiced disapproval of attempts to disrupt the torch relay by those who claimed they had done so for 'political causes,'\" it reported.",
"It quoted Nick, a British university student, who said that \"sports should be separated from political things.\"",
"A spokesman for the torch relay center of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee told the newspaper that the Olympic flame \"belongs to the world and the act of violating the Olympic spirit will surely arouse the indignation of the peace-loving people and is bound to fail.\"",
"Watch a report on the torch's journey, Jowell's comments » .",
"The China People's Daily newspaper also carried comments from an organizing committee official criticizing the attempt by some \"pro-Tibet independence\" activists to sabotage the relay in an \"obvious act of defying the Olympic spirit.\"",
"Meanwhile the Xinhua news service made no mention of the protests, preferring to focus on the cold weather and crowd numbers.",
"\"The heavy snow in London exerted slim effect on people's passion of seeing Beijing Olympic flame as large crowds lined along the street to greet the relay of torch on Sunday in the host city of 2012 Games,\" it reported.",
"The relay continues in Paris Monday, with an estimated 3,000 French police chaperoning the torch as it departs from the Eiffel Tower.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Visitors to the Los Angeles Police Department website have identified five women depicted in photographs found in a suspected serial killer's home this summer, but police need to independently confirm those claims, spokeswoman Norma Eisenman said Friday.",
"Authorities would not say whether those women are alive or dead, Eisenman said.",
"A website displaying the photos received 10 million hits in 24 hours after police asked for assistance in naming more than 100 women depicted in 180 photos, which police released Thursday, Eisenman said.",
"Some women were featured in more than one picture, police said.",
"Police have also received more than a dozen phone calls since releasing the photos, they said Friday.",
"Authorities want to know whether a serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper has more than the 10 murder victims that police are now alleging.",
"\"We are grateful for the public's response to the release of the images,\" a statement said.",
"\"It is our fervent hope that with this response, coupled with the tireless efforts of our detectives, the women depicted in these images will be positively identified.\"",
"In July, 57-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was arrested and charged with 10 murders and one attempted murder dating to 1985, and Los Angeles police spent hundreds of hours sifting through thousands of photographs, Polaroids and videotape found in Franklin's house.",
"The bodies of victims, many working as prostitutes, were all found in close proximity to each other in a neighborhood formerly known as South Central Los Angeles.",
"Franklin, a mechanic who once worked for the LAPD, was arrested in July after police say they matched his DNA with DNA left on some of the victims.",
"Police were led to Franklin after his 28-year-old son got arrested and gave a DNA swab, authorities said.",
"Authorities said they narrowed the confiscated images down to 180 photographs.",
"At a news conference Thursday attended by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck, authorities said they had difficulty determining whether some of the women were alive or dead in the photos.",
"\"We cannot tell,\" Beck said.",
"\"Obviously, as all of you can see, some of them are animated, and some are not.",
"It's impossible to tell by the photographs.",
"Robbery Homicide Detective Dennis Kilcoyne said police have a responsibility to try to determine the whereabouts of the women.",
"\"These are clearly photos of women that Mr. Franklin had contact with,\" Kilcoyne said.",
"\"We have a responsibility to identify these women.",
"They may be alive and well, but we need to be certain.",
"\"If there's nothing we glean from this, we are able to fill in the timeline of Mr. Franklin's life, and that's one of our goals as well,\" Kilcoyne said.",
"He declined to talk about the context in which the women's images appeared.",
"\"The lifestyle or the situation that these women are in would defeat our plea with the public,\" Kilcoyne said.",
"Police are not sure where the women in the images resided, because Franklin's movements throughout his life are not yet ascertained, authorities said.",
"\"His travel habits are unknown to us,\" Kilcoyne said.",
"\"We believe he spent the majority of his life right here in the city of Los Angeles.\""
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"NEW: The public has identified five of more than 100 women depicted in photographs .",
"NEW: Authorities still need to confirm those claims .",
"NEW: Website posting the photos gets 10 million hits in the first 24 hours .",
"Photos were found in the home of the Grim Sleeper suspect ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Longtime Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was gunned down on Sunset Boulevard early Tuesday, just minutes after she left a star-studded party to celebrate the premiere of the movie \"Burlesque,\" police said.",
"\"We were all on such a high,\" songwriter Diane Warren said.",
"\"And then she left -- I'm guessing about 10 minutes before I did.",
"What on earth? What happened? Why?\" Chasen, 64, died when \"multiple shots\" were fired into her Mercedes seconds after she drove past the posh Beverly Hills Hotel on her way home, according to Beverly Hill Police Sgt.",
"Lincoln Hoshino.",
"Police found her car crashed into a light pole after responding to a report of gunfire heard near the intersection of Sunset and Whittier Drive at 12:20 a.m. (3:20 a.m.",
"ET), Police Sgt.",
"Robert Maycott said.",
"Chasen died later at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, according to Lt. Fred Corral, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner.",
"Detectives searched Chasen's West Los Angeles home and her public relations firm for clues Tuesday, but Hoshino called it \"a wide open investigation.\"",
"They have no suspects or motive for the attack, he said.",
"Warren, who was Chasen's celebrity client, called the killing senseless.",
"\"They didn't steal anything,\" she said.",
"\"Her purse was still there.\"",
"Chasen had been on the red carpet at Grauman's Chinese Theatre walking with Warren as she and \"Burlesque\" star Cher were interviewed about the music in the film.",
"Warren, who contributed a song to the movie's soundtrack, said Chasen also went with her to the after-party at Hollywood's W Hotel.",
"\"I am devastated beyond belief,\" Warren said.",
"\"I can't believe this. I can't believe this.\" Michael Levine, head of Levine Communications Office, called Chasen a \"beloved, iconic figure.\"",
"Levine, who said he has known Chasen for 25 years, has started a reward fund with a goal of raising $25,000 by next week.",
"\"We must do everything possible to assist the Beverly Hills police in solving this horrific crime,\" Levine said.",
"\"Ronni gave the utmost for her clients and this industry.\"",
"Hollywood celebrity public relations is \"like a small family,\" said Edward Lozzi, who operates a small Beverly Hills firm.",
"Chasen was a \"class act\" and \"the ultimate professional,\" Lozzi said.",
"Chasen was \"so good promoting great films,\" and had special talent for creating pre-Oscar buzz for her acting clients, publicist Steve Jaffe said.",
"CNN's Denise Quan and David Daniel contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"We were all on such a high\" before the shooting, her client says .",
"\"Multiple shots\" were fired into Ronni Chasen's Mercedes .",
"Police have no suspects or motive in the publicist's killing .",
"Publicists start a reward fund for information about the killing ."
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"(CNN) -- Federal authorities were investigating Friday the circumstances of a drone that crashed in El Paso, Texas, this week, which U.S. officials said originated in Mexico.",
"Mexican Attorney General spokeswoman Rocio Torres denied her country's involvement with the drone Friday, but later in the day, another Mexican official said the drone was being operated by the Ministry of Public Security and was following a target at the time of the mechanical malfunction.",
"The Mexican official did not know the nature of the surveillance but said \"we know they were following a target.\"",
"He did not know how the malfunction affected that operation, if at all.",
"Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in the United States, also said the drone belonged to Mexico and was part of an operation in coordination with the U.S. government.",
"\"It was flying on the Mexican side of the border when it had a mechanical malfunction,\" Alday said.",
"\"It is my understanding both Mexican and U.S. authorities were fully cognizant of what was going on in the area.\"",
"Alday said the drone malfunctioned, entered U.S. airspace and landed in El Paso.",
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection Special Operations Supervisor Ramiro Cordero said a resident called his agency Tuesday evening \"about something in front of his property.\"",
"The agency picked up the device and consulted with officials in the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, Mexico.",
"\"We determined it was the property of the Mexican government,\" Cordero said.",
"U.S. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said he believed that the drone \"was owned by the government of Mexico, and I think they were the operators.\"",
"\"We are collecting data,\" Holloway said.",
"\"We are not sending anyone down to the scene.",
"We are collecting information to see what occurred.\"",
"A U.S. government official said authorities are \"100 percent\" sure that the drone belonged to the Mexican government, which used it for law enforcement and homeland security.",
"Operators lost control of the drone, and it crashed, the official said.",
"Another U.S. official said the drone flew out of control.",
"He described it as small, with a 6-foot wingspan.",
"\"They are little. They are squirrelly. A gust of wind can wreak havoc on these things,\" the second official said.",
"A parachute deployed before it hit the ground, and the drone was found intact, with no one hurt and no property damage, the official said.",
"\"There is nothing to suggest that there was any kind of surveillance activity that was going on with anything used by the government of Mexico in U.S. airspace,\" the official said.",
"\"There is nothing to support that they were spying on us,\" the official added.",
"\"There is nothing to cause alarm or suspicion.\"",
"A spokesman for NORAD, which is responsible for the aerial defense of the United States, said that it had real-time awareness of the situation but that it was not deemed to be a threat and did not require any NORAD response.",
"NORAD said the Federal Aviation Administration and its Mexican counterpart are responsible for the civil airspace over their respective countries and coordinate cross-border air traffic.",
"Officials with the Mexican military, which also uses drones, didn't respond immediately to calls for comment.",
"The crash of an unmanned aerial vehicle from Mexico would be a first on U.S. soil, Cordero said.",
"He said U.S. Homeland Security has turned the drone over to the Mexican Federal Secretariat of Public Safety in Juarez.",
"Holloway said the craft was an Orbiter Mini UAV designed by Aeronautics Defense Systems, whose website describes it as \"a compact and lightweight system designed for use in military and homeland security operations\" and \"the ultimate solution for over-the-hill reconnaissance missions, low-intensity conflicts and urban warfare operations.\"",
"Unmanned drones are routinely used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to look for illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez, Nick Valencia and Dave Alsup contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Embassy says drone crashed during operation with U.S. government .",
"U.S. authorities say they are looking into the incident .",
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi scored a superb late goal to give Argentina a 1-0 victory over South American rivals Brazil in a prestige friendly international in Qatar on Wednesday.",
"The world player of the year struck in time added on to give Argentina a first win in five years against the five-time world champions, who they will meet again in La Plata on December 19.",
"The diminutive Barcelona gathered a pass from substitute Ezequiel Lavezzi and waltzed in from the right flank past four defenders before angling a low left-foot shot into the corner of the net.",
"It was Messi's first goal against Brazil, who recalled Ronaldinho for the first time since April 2009.",
"\"It's always important to win and this victory is even more important because it's against a direct rival and it gives us confidence,\" Messi told AFP.",
"\"My goal was important because it enabled us to beat Brazil.\"",
"It was Brazil's first defeat in four matches under new coach Mano Menezes, who replaced Dunga after the team lost in the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup.",
"Sergio Batista, however, triumphed in his first match as fulltime Argentina coach as his side bounced back from the 1-0 defeat by Japan while he was still in temporary charge.",
"Brazil's Dani Alves hit the crossbar in the first half, while Messi fired a shot which grazed the woodwork.",
"The United States beat 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa 1-0 in Cape Town thanks to a late goal from teenage debutant Juan Agudelo.",
"The Colombia-born forward, who turns 18 next week, scored the only goal with five minutes to play after being set up by fellow newcomer Mikkel Diskerud -- a 20-year-old Norwegian midfielder whose mother is from Arizona.",
"It was South Africa's first defeat in four matches since the World Cup, with England-based striker David Somma -- who lived in the U.S. in his early teens -- making his debut for Bafana Bafana.",
"Paraguay romped to a 7-0 win away to Hong Kong, with striker Roque Santa Cruz scoring twice in the first half and Jose Ortigoza netting twice in the second.",
"Edgar Barreto, Marcos Riveros and Cristian Riveros were also on target for the World Cup quarterfinalists.",
"African champions Egypt crushed Australia 3-0 in Cairo, with first-half goals from Ahmed Abd El-Zaher and Gedo before Mohamed Zidan scored a last-minute penalty.",
"The Ivory Coast lost 3-1 to Poland in Poznan as young striker Robert Lewandowski scored twice for the home side.",
"Gervinho equalized just before halftime but Ludovic Obraniak put Poland ahead again on 64 before the 22-year-old Lewandowski struck for his second with 10 minutes to play.",
"Morocco drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland in Belfast as striker Marouane Chamakh scored an opportunist opener in the 56th minute before Rory Patterson leveled with a penalty with four minutes left.",
"In other games involving African teams, Malawi beat Rwanda 2-1, Ghana drew 0-0 away to Saudi Arabia, Mali defeated the visiting Congo Republic 3-1, Senegal beat Gabon 2-1 and Algeria drew 0-0 with Luxembourg.",
"China defeated European minnows Latvia 1-0 in Kunming thanks to a header in time added on from substitute Yang Xu.",
"Oman crashed to a 4-0 home defeat by Belarus, for whom defender Alyaksandr Martynovich scored twice in the first 11 minutes.",
"Kuwait were held 1-1 at home by Asian champions Iraq."
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"Lionel Messi scores the only goal of the game with a solo effort in injury-time .",
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"World Cup quarterfinalists Paraguay thrash Hong Kong 7-0 in another friendly ."
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"Chicago (CNN) -- A fire that killed two Chicago firefighters and injured 17 earlier this week grew from wood or trash burning in the \"rear portion of the building,\" the fire department said Friday.",
"An \"open-flame ignition of ordinary combustibles,\" such as wood or rubbish, led to Wednesday's blaze, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said in a news release.",
"There had not been any gas or electric service in the abandoned building -- located on the city's south side -- for months, he added.",
"The Chicago police department has opened a criminal investigation into the fire, Langford said.",
"On Wednesday, Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff said the building was boarded up in the front but the back was open, leading firefighters to think that homeless people may have sought shelter there.",
"The casualties came after a wall and roof of the commercial building, which is on East 75th Street, collapsed without warning.",
"Hoff told reporters Wednesday afternoon that none of the injuries was life-threatening.",
"At that time, one firefighter was in stable condition, he said.",
"The commissioner identified those killed as Corey Ankum, who had been with the department less than two years, and 12-year veteran Edward Stringer.",
"Both were inside the structure.",
"Other firefighters were working the blaze from the roof.",
"CNN affiliate WGN aired footage of a line of firefighters saluting one body as it arrived at the medical examiner's office later Wednesday.",
"Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley issued a statement saying, \"The deaths of Firefighters Stringer and Ankum are both a sad reminder of how much gratitude we owe our first responders and a tragedy for all Chicagoans.\"",
"The deaths came on the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Stockyards fire, which killed 21 firefighters and the city fire marshal.",
"The fire was reported shortly before 7 a.m. in the office area of the building, Langford said.",
"The routine fire call became a multiple-alarm blaze after part of the roof collapsed as firefighters were inside, he said.",
"Ankum, Stringer and two other firefighters were trapped by the collapse.",
"The commissioner said Wednesday that investigators will look at whether ice or weather was a factor, as well as the age of the building and its heavy roof.",
"\"There are things that happen when buildings are aged, and that could have been one of the contributing factors in this case,\" Hoff said.",
"Langford said it was his understanding that both of the fallen firefighters had children.",
"While the loss of a firefighter is always a tragedy, he said, \"it's been compounded\" by the deaths occurring so close to the holidays.",
"CNN's Sara Pratley contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The police department has opened a criminal probe into the fire, a spokesman says .",
"Two Chicago firefighters were killed and 17 were hurt when a wall and roof collapsed .",
"The deaths occurred on the 100th anniversary of massive Chicago Stockyards fire ."
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"(CNN) -- Fears of a serial killer stalking women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have prompted some residents to take matters into their own hands -- and onto the internet, with frightful results for one man.",
"Many residents of the city have joined a Facebook page titled \"Catch the Kensington Strangler, before he catches someone you love,\" and police say a male Philadelphia resident was falsely accused of being responsible for three strangulation murders and three other assaults that have occurred in the central Philadelphia area in recent weeks.",
"The post contained a photograph of the man and listed his address and contact information, police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers told CNN.",
"Shortly after the posting, a group of people began gathering outside the man's home, prompting him to call the police, according to Evers.",
"\"He probably feared for his life.\"",
"Evers said.",
"Police later escorted the man to the city's special victims unit, where he was interviewed and his DNA was compared with samples taken from the scene of the three killings that all came from the same individual.",
"The man's DNA didn't match the DNA from the crime scenes, and he was cleared.",
"Police said they are unsure who made the accusation, but they believe whoever did it had a vendetta against the man and could face charges if caught.",
"Authorities are warning female residents not to walk alone, as police and community watch groups continue to search for the killer.",
"\"The task force we've put together is sweeping the area, but we caution females in the area not go it alone at any cost,\" Evers said.",
"On Tuesday night, police announced they are looking for a serial killer after it was determined that DNA found at the scene of the third homicide matched that found at two previous killings.",
"The partially clothed body of the third victim, Casey Mahoney, 27, was discovered December 15, according to police spokeswoman Jillian Russell.",
"Mahoney had been sexually assaulted and strangled.",
"Two other women, Elaine Goldberg, 21, and Nicole Piacentini, 35, were killed in November.",
"Police originally told CNN that all of the homicide victims were involved in prostitution and narcotics, but a Philadelphia TV station, WCAU-TV, has reported that Goldberg was a nursing student who attended Gwynedd-Mercy College.",
"Authorities are offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, said task force Capt.",
"James Clark.",
"Earlier this week, authorities said they believe the attacker likely is still within a 10-block radius of where the attacks occurred.",
"Police said the assault victims described the attacker as an African-American male in his early 20s, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds.",
"Authorities say they lack DNA evidence that would link the three assaults, in which the victims were choked in a manner similar to the homicide victims.",
"Too much time had elapsed between the initial two assaults in October and the victims' notifying police.",
"\"The assault victims did not come forward until police began combing the Kensington (neighborhood) for suspects and potential victims following the November homicides,\" Evers said.",
"Federal agents joined the investigation earlier this month, bringing in resources from the FBI's behavioral analysis unit, violent criminal apprehension program, and the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.",
"\"The investigation appears to be limited to Philadelphia,\" FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver said this week.",
"\"This could change if there are any indications that the subject or subjects responsible for the crimes ... are linked to similar crimes elsewhere.\"",
"Police said a third assault victim was pulled into an alley earlier this month.",
"Despite being choked, punched and hit on the head with a brick, the 33-year-old woman escaped, and her assailant fled the scene, according to a police report."
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"Six women have been attacked, three of them fatally, in the city's Kensington area .",
"Authorities are warning female residents not to walk alone .",
"Because of DNA linking all three killings, police have said they are looking for a serial killer ."
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"Morgantown, West Virginia (CNN) -- Wealthy Republican businessman John Raese has run three times for statewide office in West Virginia over the past few decades and has never won.",
"It wasn't that long ago that most political observers here and in Washington thought his fourth campaign would be a losing battle too -- a Senate race against popular Democratic Gov.",
"Joe Manchin.",
"But now, several public surveys as well as parties' private polls show Raese within striking distance of snatching the seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd from Democratic hands.",
"In interview at his campaign headquarters, Raese, who joked that the Tea Party is to the left of him, said he believes voters are now more open to his anti-government views.",
"\"I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular,\" said Raese.",
"\"I've seen a change in West Virginia.\"",
"Raese's leading argument to voters fits neatly on a bumper sticker his campaign is distributing: \"No rubber stamps.\"",
"In television and radio ads, and on the campaign trail, Raese is pounding Manchin -- warning voters he would be a \"rubber stamp\" for President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress.",
"Those are stinging accusations in a conservative state that voted decisively for John McCain over Obama, and where the president's approval rating is extremely low.",
"Still, in any other election year, those charges might not resonate against Manchin, who is incredibly popular in West Virginia.",
"But Democratic strategists say their internal polling and focus groups show that tying Manchin to Obama, Democratic congressional leaders and their policies is dragging him down.",
"It could be heard in Milton, West Virginia, along the Pumpkin Festival parade route.",
"\"I think he's doing a great job here and I voted for him both times he's run here in West Virginia,\" said Dave Ridel, who had just waved to the governor going by, \"but going to Washington, it scares me to death that he's just going to be a rubber stamp.\"",
"It's a dichotomy that speaks volumes about the frustration voters have with Washington.",
"Manchin says he knows it's a challenge for him.",
"\"Yeah, they're mad.\" he said in an interview, \"The Democrats in Washington are in control and so absolutely it resonates to them.",
"The bottom line here is that people don't want government on their backs and they want them out of their pocket.\"",
"Manchin also admits that the president's unpopularity in West Virginia is a real issue.",
"\"It has made a difference in my race,\" said Manchin, but quickly noted, \"President Obama is not on the ballot.",
"He will not be a U.S. senator. He's definitely not on the ballot in West Virginia.",
"It's me\" The \"me\" Manchin reminds people of is the governor they really like who has brought the state's deficit down and kept unemployment lower than the national average.",
"\"Our state is stronger now than ever.",
"Most states are struggling to survive,\" he said.",
"\"We have not cut any services.",
"We have not raised any taxes.",
"We're still cutting the taxes, you know, and we have not laid anybody off.\"",
"Manchin also boasts about the broad coalition of support for his candidacy, from the AFL-CIO, to the Chamber of Commerce, to the NRA and coal miners associations.",
"\"I am fiercely independent,\" Manchin said.",
"He is now working harder to reinforce that image and distance himself from his own party's policies that are unpopular in his state.",
"Earlier this year, Manchin said he supported the Democratic Party's health care legislation.",
"Now he wants to repeal all but a handful of provisions, like no discrimination for pre-existing conditions.",
"\"That's a pretty good start.",
"Why don't you start with that? Kill the rest of it. Start with what you agree on,\" said Manchin.",
"He also said in an interview that he now believes if the near $800 billion stimulus bill was before him as a senator, he would have voted no.",
"\"You know what? The expansion of that, that's not who I am,\" said Manchin.",
"The federal government allocated about $1.5 billion in stimulus money for West Virginia, but Manchin said he would only take part of that, and insisted he would spend it slowly and judiciously.",
"Manchin and Democrats here are hitting back against Raese by painting the wealthy miner and media magnate as out of touch with West Virginia voters.",
"Democratic strategists have been pushing the fact that Raese's family lives in Florida, not West Virginia.",
"The GOP candidate told CNN the reason for that is because his 12-year-old daughter has special needs.",
"\"There are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her,\" said Raese.",
"\"But we have houses here in West Virginia.",
"This is where I vote. This is where I'm from. I'm running for the U.S. Senate, but I'll do anything I can to take care of my children,\" he added.",
"Democrats are also sending around a photo of a pink marble driveway outside of Raese's Florida home.",
"\"I think it's a good freedom of choice and the last time I checked here in America we are free, even to have a pink marble driveway,\" he said.",
"But Manchin's television ad hits the Raese-is-not-like-you theme on an issue, not a personal preference: Raese wants to end the mimimum wage.",
"\"Minimum wage is something Franklin Delano Roosevelt put in during the Depression.",
"It didn't work during the Depression and it certainly hasn't worked now,\" Raese said.",
"\"The laws of supply and demand have to start working.",
"We have to get back to free enterprise in this country.\"",
"He emphatically defended what he called his \"conviction.\"",
"\"Minimum wage has never worked in this country.",
"It's something that hurts a lot of youth employment in this country,\" he said.",
"The GOP Senate candidate also wants to eliminate the Department of Education, which he calls redundant to what the states are doing, and get rid of the Department of Energy too.",
"\"It costs us $32 billion a year to have the Department of Energy.",
"They don't drill wells and they don't dig mines,\" Raese said.",
"If Raese makes it to the Senate, he says he'll also vote to do away with the Internal Revenue Service.",
"\"We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that?",
"Why don't we simplify it?\" asked Raese, who says he is considering a \"fair\" or flat tax.",
"It is unclear how much support Raese has for those views in West Virginia.",
"What is clear is that to beat the popular governor, he's going to have to rely on a lot of voters like Nathan Rose, the manager at First Watch diner in Charleston.",
"Rose said in an interview that he doesn't know a lot about Raese, and doesn't much care.",
"\"I just know that the primary thing about him is that he's going to oppose Obama,\" said Rose. \"That's what matters to me.\""
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"Raese says he's more conservative than the Tea Party .",
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"Joe Manchin calls himself \"fiercely independent\""
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"London (CNN) -- Britain's Royal Mail has added nearly 14,000 extra rounds for its postal deliverers, hoping to clear a huge holiday backlog caused by winter weather woes.",
"The service said it planned to complete 7,000 extra delivery routes Sunday, bringing packages, cards and letters to a million homes and addresses in an effort to catch up on deliveries during what it calls Britain's coldest December in decades.",
"About 6,500 extra deliveries were made last Sunday in the areas hardest hit by the severe weather, Royal Mail said.",
"\"This is already the worst December weather the UK has seen for almost 30 years,\" Mark Higson, managing director of Royal Mail, said in a statement.",
"\"We are planning up 7,000 delivery rounds this Sunday as we continue our drive to deliver items as quickly as possible.\"",
"Online retailers are feeling the chill, too.",
"Amazon.com's UK service has halted taking orders for its special rush delivery option and recommends giving e-gift cards instead of packages.",
"Retailer Marks & Spencer also said that it could no longer guarantee that orders placed now would arrive in time for Christmas, except for flowers.",
"Royal Mail had previously announced plans to add up to 3,000 extra workers and 250 delivery trucks to brave the icy roads.",
"It warned there's little time left to get packages delivered.",
"Tuesday is the deadline for first-class mail and packets that customers want to arrive in time for Christmas, Royal Mail said.",
"CNN's Brian Walker contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- A purse used to smack a gunman at a Florida school board meeting has sold on eBay for $13,100, the auction site said Wednesday.",
"Proceeds from the sale will go to Salvage Santa, a charity started by Mike Jones that restores old bicycles and toys and gives them to children in the Florida Panhandle around the holidays.",
"Jones is the security officer who police said shot and wounded 56-year-old Clay Duke after he took over a Bay District School Board meeting earlier in December, upset that the district had fired his wife.",
"Duke later shot and killed himself.",
"Before that, Duke allowed board member Ginger Littleton to leave the room, while ordering six of her colleagues to stay.",
"But she came back, snuck up from behind Duke and swung her purse at his hand.",
"The move didn't work: Duke kept control of the gun.",
"But he didn't pull the trigger, and Littleton was allowed to leave a second time.",
"A television reporter contacted Littleton and proposed that she put her faux crocodile leather purse up for sale on eBay.",
"She said it was an easy decision, especially given that it would benefit Jones' charity.",
"\"The hero of the day was Mike Jones,\" Littleton said.",
"\"I thought, 'Wow, what closure for everyone.",
"This was a way to tie everything up.'\"",
"CNN's Amanda Watts contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Democrats, as President Obama said Wednesday, took a shellacking in Tuesday's contentious midterm elections.",
"They lost control of the House to Republicans but managed to cling onto a reduced majority in the Senate.",
"The election will reverberate throughout American politics, with the newcomers vowing to lower government spending, cut taxes and torpedo the president's health-care legislation.",
"The Republican victory generated an outpouring of commentary.",
"Here are some thoughts from CNN.com's opinion section.",
"Message to Obama: Americans want jobs .",
"The midterm election was clearly a repudiation.",
"The question is, a repudiation of what?",
"Fifty years of data from one election after another has shown that people vote with their gut, and this year the gut of the American voter -- left, right and center -- was angry and anxious.",
"It's not hard to understand why: One in 10 Americans of working age is out of a job and six in 10 are living from paycheck to paycheck.",
"In times like these, most people can tell you what they are feeling, but when asked what would make them feel better, they can only guess.",
"So in exit polls, some said we need to cut deficits and that would make them feel better.",
"Others said they'd like to see the government do something, anything, to create jobs, something an anemic private sector has proved unable to do -- and has not done since the passage nearly a decade ago of the Bush tax cuts, which stimulated nothing but inequality.",
"Read full post by Drew Westen, author and a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University and founder of Westen Strategies, a strategic messaging firm.",
"Why did California vote down legal pot?",
"California voters have just rejected Proposition 19, the ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana under state law.",
"Where did Prop 19 go wrong?",
"Prop 19 failed in part because many proponents emphasized the wrong arguments for legalization.",
"Many advocates promised major benefits to California's budget because of reduced expenditure on marijuana prohibition and increased revenue from marijuana taxation.",
"Other supporters claimed Mexican drug violence would fall substantially.",
"Both claims were overblown.",
"The budgetary benefits, while not insignificant, would have been small compared with California's fiscal mess.",
"Mexican drug violence is mainly associated with the cocaine and methamphetamine trades, as well as from marijuana traffic to other states.",
"Many voters sensed that Prop 19 supporters were overreaching, and this made them suspicious of all the arguments in its favor.",
"Common sense should have recognized that since marijuana was close to legal already, Prop 19 would not have had dramatic effects.",
"Read full post by Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.",
"Ten most memorable political ads .",
"Billions of dollars poured into political ads this election cycle.",
"They weren't just negative commercials or attack ads, but messages of searing personal indictment.",
"The question is: Did they work?",
"There's no easy answer, but there's a nuanced one.",
"Under the right circumstances -- where these attack missiles connect with a pre-existing (even a latent) negative perception -- they can be devastatingly effective.",
"Repetition makes them work even better.",
"This is a phenomenon called the \"illusory truth effect\" and holds that hearing something multiple times increases its perception of accuracy.",
"Read full post by Adam Hanft, who writes about American culture, politics and branding strategies for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Slate and others.",
"Shades of 1994 and Clinton-GOP gridlock .",
"Republicans effectively gained control over Congress on Tuesday.",
"The GOP won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives, thus overturning the gains Democrats made in 2006 and 2008.",
"In the Senate, where the procedural power of the minority has already given Republicans the power to shape deliberations, the narrowed Democratic ranks will further weaken the majority.",
"In the weeks running up to the election, there were some commentators who concluded that the current situation would be the best outcome for President Obama. ...",
"Yet this analogy rests on a selective memory of what happened after 1994, which is particularly surprising from someone who worked in the administration.",
"The period that followed those midterms was among the most contentious in recent American politics.",
"Read full post by Julian Zelizer, author and professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.",
"Next time, Democrats should try wooing the loyal youth vote .",
"Many will call the 2010 election the rejection of the Obama agenda heard round the world.",
"But young voter turnout tells a very different story.",
"CNN's exit polls show 55 percent of voters 25 to 29 voted for Democrats, compared with 42 percent for Republicans.",
"Even more striking, 58 percent of voters age 18 to 24 voted for Democrats compared to 39 percent for Republicans.",
"Ironically, the group often labeled fickle and impatient have remained solidly committed to the agenda of change they overwhelmingly voted for in 2008.",
"In the face of record unemployment and the very circumstances that pundits speculate make the country more resistant to change, young voters sent a very clear message of support for Obama's agenda.",
"Read full post by Erica Williams, deputy director of Progress 2050 and a senior adviser to Campus Progress, both projects of the Center for American Progress.",
"Tea Party activist: Republicans beware!",
"Tuesday's elections show America is indeed a center-right country.",
"Americans widely rejected the Democrats' big-spending policies and sent the Democratic majority in the House packing.",
"And rightly so. For nearly two years, Americans told the Democrats they did not approve of expanded government programs with large price tags such as bailouts, the stimulus bill, Cash for Clunkers, cap and trade and \"Obama care.\"",
"Time and time again, the Democrats, misreading their election win as a mandate to increase the size and scope of the federal government dramatically, rammed through unpopular legislation against the will of the majority of the American people.",
"Tuesday, they paid the price for their arrogance and miscalculations.",
"The Republicans won by virtue of not being Democrats.",
"They did little to earn their victory.",
"To many, their Pledge to America is weak tea and doesn't go far enough in reducing spending and the size of the federal government.",
"Read full post by Phillip Dennis, founder of the Dallas Tea Party and Texas state coordinator of Tea Party Patriots.",
"How Meg Whitman spent a fortune -- and lost .",
"On a day that millions of Americans in other parts of the country turned the electoral map red by electing a sea of Republicans, California voters stayed true blue and kept doing what they usually do on Election Day -- elect Democrats.",
"And, in a year where a lot of voters wanted to throw the bums out and get rid of career politicians, Californians -- in the headliner contests -- rejected a pair of wealthy and former Silicon Valley CEOs in favor of a couple of longtime politicians and party insiders who, between them, have spent more than a half century (58 years) in political office.",
"The rest of the country was experiencing a revolution.",
"In California, it was more like a \"retro-lution.\"",
"Familiarity did not necessarily breed contempt.",
"In fact, it helped put a couple of high-profile victories in the Democratic column.",
"Read full post by Ruben Navarrette Jr., a nationally syndicated columnist, NPR commentator and a regular contributor to CNN.com.",
"Quick shots .",
"John Avlon: A victory for checks and balances .",
"So far, the election isn't quite the far-right stampede it was supposed to be.",
"Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado and Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania were putting on strong showings in their Senate races; independent gubernatorial candidates Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island and Eliot Cutler in Maine were also hanging tough.",
"William Bennett: Vice President Rubio in 2013 .",
"Tuesday was a great night for Republicans because as Marco Rubio said, we now have a second chance.",
"It's still important to remember this country is not quite yet a Republican country, but as of Tuesday night, it is saying it is most definitely not a Democratic Party country either.",
"Let us celebrate, but then let us get to work, the serious work we promised.",
"Erick Erickson: GOP gains not sky-high .",
"The expectations game was one the Republicans built up for themselves, with, in closing days, a number of Republicans really buying the hype that they could get to a gain of 80 or 90 seats in the House.",
"Paul Begala: Congratulations to Republicans -- and to Nancy Pelosi .",
"Good manners compels me to congratulate the GOP on what looks to be a historic victory.",
"And I would be remiss if I did not recognize the historic speakership of Nancy Pelosi.",
"Ruben Navarrette: Having it both ways .",
"Here's an election story that won't go away.",
"Last week, President Obama caused a dustup when he went on a Spanish-language radio show hosted by Eddie \"El Piolin\" Sotelo and advised Latino voters to reward their friends and punish their enemies.",
"James Carville: Big congressional shift is near .",
"Leon Spinks once said of Mike Tyson that \"he hits you so hard it changes the way you taste.\"",
"Anyone politically astute enough to know that Tuesday night will not be particularly favorable for the Democrats will be expecting the coming blows.",
"And if pollsters, pundits and prognosticators are right (and I think they are), everything is going to taste different at the White House on Wednesday.",
"Read more of the above full posts .",
"The opinions in these commentaries are solely those of the writers."
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"Drew Westen says the election was a repudiation -- of what?",
"Americans just want jobs .",
"Jeffrey Miron explains why California rejected Prop 19, to make pot legal .",
"Ten of the craziest, most effective or most damaging attack ads, from Adam Hanft .",
"Remember 1994; the youth vote; Tea Party's message to Republicans and more ."
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"(CNN) -- Many computer engineers consider a job offer from Google as the golden ticket.",
"Outdoor volleyball courts, free gourmet food, on-site haircuts, massages and laundry are among the perks Google has offered its employees at its main campus in Mountain View, California.",
"But some of the people who do leave are challenging the company in the best way an engineer knows how: by developing programs that could detract from Google's core business.",
"Brian Kennish worked at Google for seven years, managing teams of engineers on a variety of products such as the Chrome browser and the moribund Google Wave.",
"Near the end of his stint at Google, Kennish developed a browser extension for Chrome called Facebook Disconnect.",
"The software blocks websites that have Facebook widgets installed from automatically sending information about the user back to the social networking company.",
"Facebook Disconnect has 75,000 users, Kennish said.",
"\"No one at Google asked me to do it,\" Kennish told CNN this week.",
"What sparked Kennish's project, he said, was reading the recent scrutiny of online data-collection tactics chronicled by news organizations.",
"The Wall Street Journal has been running a series called \"What They Know,\" and CNN had its own last week called \"End of Privacy.\"",
"While Facebook and the applications that run on its platform can be considered personal-data hoarders, Kennish eventually realized his then-employer was, itself, among the biggest collectors.",
"To name a few practices, Google can track search queries over time, target ads to its Gmail users based on the contents of e-mails, and use a person's location data to determine which shops' ads it will show.",
"Google, like many Web advertising companies, uses small files called cookies to track internet surfing habits in order to better target ads.",
"\"I never worked directly with user data,\" Kennish said of his time at Google.",
"\"I didn't have a good sense of what was being collected.",
"Privacy wasn't a passion of mine or something that I knew a lot about until basically two months ago, when I started reading about this stuff.\"",
"Kennish left Google in November to focus more on programs that empower people to take control of their privacy online.",
"\"I had this holy-cow moment when I realized what was going on,\" Kennish said.",
"\"There's just so much unknown about what's being done with this data.\"",
"\"I think there is a good reason to be concerned with it all and, frankly, to be fearful of it,\" he said.",
"Last week, he released a second browser extension, another tool for Google Chrome, called Disconnect.",
"Once installed, the program blocks major internet companies, including Google, from installing cookies on -- and thus tracking -- a computer.",
"People using Disconnect can decide which cookies they'd like to allow onto their system.",
"Cookies can be helpful when, for example, you'd like a website to remember your login credentials and not ask for them every time you visit.",
"\"I would like to see us move to a point where all the data that's collected about folks is intentional,\" rather than without people's knowledge, Kennish said.",
"\"So if I give you permission to collect my data, then go ahead and do it.\"",
"In its first week, 25,000 people downloaded Disconnect.",
"Kennish is releasing a new version Friday that lets users choose whether Google can personalize search queries based on the data it has about the person.",
"By default, Disconnect blocks Google from doing this.",
"\"Any data that's collected has the potential to escape the collector,\" Kennish said.",
"\"So I would like to see Google only collect data that I explicitly allow them to collect.\"",
"Google hosts a dashboard for users to review a breakdown of the messages and information attached to their accounts.",
"The Google Privacy Center provides information on how the company collects data and lets people, whether they're registered with Google or not, opt out of ad and analytics tracking.",
"Michael Gundlach, another ex-Google engineer, developed an alternative to complicated opt-out systems that vary between ad networks.",
"Like Disconnect, it's a browser extension, and there are versions for Chrome and Apple's Safari.",
"Called AdBlock, Gundlach's program can prevent Web pages from loading and displaying ads.",
"That includes Google's ads, which account for the vast majority of the search giant's revenue.",
"AdBlock offers a setting to easily enable ads from Gundlach's former employer, though those ads are disabled by default.",
"\"Google didn't ask me to put that in,\" Gundlach wrote in an e-mail.",
"\"I find Google text ads to be useful.\"",
"Still, Gundlach says he blocks most ads because \"I don't wish to be bombarded by consumerism.\"",
"The real economic conundrum: If website visitors don't pay figuratively -- by watching ads or by having their personal information sent to advertisers -- they may have to start paying real money for online services.",
"Kennish plans to devote six months to developing Disconnect and will reevaluate then whether it could be a sustainable business.",
"He's \"pretty close\" to releasing an extension for Safari and recently began working on one for Firefox, he said.",
"If he's forced to abandon the project, the source code is freely available to any enterprising developers who want to take up the cause.",
"\"The only business model I see,\" Kennish said, is to eventually provide a more advanced version of the software that costs money.",
"\"When I use something like Google, I'm paying for Google with my attention and my data,\" he said.",
"\"There's no such thing as free.",
"These are companies that have to pay employees' salaries.\"",
"Parts of Google's maturing business may clash with some of the wide-eyed engineers it hopes to attract, especially those passionate about taking risks to change the world, hopefully for the better.",
"But a Google spokesman, who declined to comment on most questions pertaining to this story, said the company's attrition rate -- that is, the percentage of employees that defect -- hasn't changed in more than seven years and is better than the industry standard.",
"In addition to all the on-campus amenities, a program called \"20% Time\" lets Google engineers devote a sizable chunk of their work weeks to projects of their choosing.",
"(Kennish said he developed Facebook Disconnect after work hours.)",
"The perks haven't stopped some high-profile people from leaving the company.",
"Product designer Douglas Bowman left in a huff last year for a job at Twitter after reportedly becoming fed up with nearly three years of what he publicly described as Google's design-by-committee mentality.",
"Some notable Google alumni are spiting their former employer in a different way -- by joining Facebook.",
"The social network is perceived by some as Google's biggest rival.",
"People are spending more of their time online using Facebook.",
"They're thumbing through photos and asking questions to friends, rather than searching the wider Web.",
"Google is unable to crawl most of the data posted to Facebook.",
"As Google-to-Facebook defections grow, Google is reportedly offering some employees multimillion-dollar packages to convince them not to go to Facebook.",
"After wooing executives who worked on Google-owned YouTube, Android and advertising; the architect of Google Maps; and at least two Gmail co-founders, this week, Facebook claimed Paul Adams, a former Google employee who was previously an outspoken critic of the social network.",
"Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's venerable chief operating officer, also came from the big G. But abandoning Google hasn't always proved to be a wise or permanent move.",
"Anna Patterson left the company in 2007 to start a rival search engine called Cuil.",
"When that tanked, she returned to Google in September."
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"Notable defections include engineers building programs that spike Google ads .",
"Google says its attrition rate hasn't changed in seven years ."
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"(CNN) -- Despite President Barack Obama's signing of a law repealing the military's \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a memo to troops warning them that it remains in effect until 60 days after the government certifies that the military is ready for implementation.",
"The Pentagon says it does not know how long the certification process may take.",
"In the meantime, Gates is essentially telling gays and lesbians serving in the military not to come out until 60 days after that determination is made.",
"\"In order to prevent any confusion, I want to be perfectly clear: at this time, there are no new changes to any existing Department or Service policies,\" said the memo, released Thursday.",
"\"Service members who alter their personal conduct during this period may face adverse consequences,\" Gates wrote.",
"Before the ban is completely lifted, the president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will have to certify that the repeal can move ahead without negatively affecting unit cohesion and military readiness.",
"Since October, the military has dismissed at least eight service members for violations of the policy, according to Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan.",
"But Lapan said those dismissals had been approved prior to Oct. 21, when Gates tightened the rules about who in the Pentagon can dismiss a service member for violating the policy.",
"Now, only the civilian service secretaries, in consultation with the Pentagon's top lawyer and head of personnel, can order dismissals.",
"No new cases have resulted in dismissals since then.",
"Gates also said he now endorses all the recommendations of the Pentagon's working group on \"don't ask, don't tell\" as the road map for implementation.",
"There will be no special bathroom or housing facilities to accommodate homosexuals, except in special cases.",
"And troops who oppose serving with homosexuals will not be allowed to quit the military before their commitment is up."
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"President Obama signed into law a repeal of \"don't ask, don't tell\"\nSecretary Gates said that the government must certify that the military is ready .",
"There is also a 60-day waiting period after that .",
"In a memo, Gates tells troops to abide by waiting period ."
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"(CNN) -- Ryan Lochte doubled his gold-medal haul on the final day of the 10th FINA world short-course swimming championships in Dubai on Sunday.",
"The American added gold in the men's 200 meter backstroke -- setting a new championship-best time -- and the men's 100m individual medley.",
"The 26-year-old, the leading U.S. swimmer in the absence of his main rival Michael Phelps, also claimed a team gold as the U.S. won the 4x100m medley relay event, taking his title tally to six in Dubai.",
"Sunday's results took his overall medal total in all short-course world championships (which are held in 25m pools) to 21 -- four more than the previous record of 17 held by Sweden's Therese Alshammar.",
"Lochte's tally of seven medals at the 2010 championships is also a record, as he also picked up a silver in the 4x200m free relay.",
"\"I knew before the meet that my last day would be one of the toughest, but I am always up for the challenge.",
"This is probably one of the worst shapes I have been in for a world championships,\" he told the sport's official website.",
"\"I'm not really 100%.",
"I've done a lot of training, I haven't really rested for this meet and it's actually very good for me because it makes me want to race harder and it's a stepping stone for the [2011] Shanghai worlds.\"",
"The United States led the final medals table with 25, which included 12 golds.",
"Russia finished second on 10 (four golds), Spain claimed third place with eight (four golds), while China finished fourth with 14 medals (three golds).",
"Brazil's Cesar Cielo Filho completed a double in the freestyle sprint events, taking gold in the men's 100m ahead of French swimmer Fabien Gilot and Russia's Nikita Lobintsev to follow up his victory in the 50m.",
"Felipe Silva gave Brazil a third gold of the week when he won the 50m breaststroke in a championships-record time of 25.95 seconds.",
"In the women's events, Rebecca Soni secured a clean sweep in the breaststroke after adding the 200 meters title to the 50 and 100 meter she won earlier in the week.",
"All her victories came in championship record times.",
"But it was Mireia Belmonte Garcia who was crowned the most successful female swimmer at the championships with four medals.",
"The 20-year-old Spaniard claimed three gold medals (200 meter butterfly, 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley) and one silver in the 800 meter freestyle.",
"Sweden's Therese Alshammar equaled the record of women's overall medals by winning silver in the 100m butterfly to match the 17 achieved by former U.S. swimmer Jenny Thompson.",
"Felicity Galvez won the race in a championships-record time of 55.43 to retain her title and give Australia a first gold of the competition.",
"China's Jing Zhao also set a new best time in winning the 50m backstroke in 26.27, while world record-holder Rebecca Soni of the U.S. set another milestone in the 200m breaststroke as she clocked 2:16.39 to clinch a hat-trick of golds in the discipline."
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"Lochte wins three golds on last day of world short-course swimming championships .",
"In all, Lochte claims a record seven medals at the championships in Dubai .",
"Spain's Mireia Belmonte Garcia crowned top female swimmer with three golds and one silver .",
"United States tops the medal table with 12 gold and 25 in total ."
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"(CNN) -- A California-based commercial pilot says the Transportation Security Administration retaliated against him after he posted videos online showing what he described as shortcomings in airport security.",
"The series of videos showed scenes from inside the San Francisco International Airport and were narrated by the pilot, who pointed out the contrast between the passengers who were heavily scrutinized, while a single door separated employees who worked on the airfield from the airport.",
"\"I was trying to bring up the obvious, ludicrous TSA-type of security,\" the pilot said, referring to the cell phone videos he posted, and later removed, from the popular video-sharing website YouTube.",
"The pilot requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.",
"He said he didn't think much about posting his videos online in late November, but that within a matter of days, his chief pilot called him to ask him to remove the videos because they were \"stirring a commotion.\"",
"A few days after that, the pilot was informed by the TSA that he was being suspended from a program in which he participated, the Federal Flight Deck Officer program.",
"As an officer in the program, he was deputized by TSA to carry a handgun in the cockpit.",
"\"Basically, an air marshal in the sky,\" the pilot said of the volunteer program.",
"After his suspension, four air marshals and two local deputies showed up at his home near Sacramento, California, to personally confiscate his weapon.",
"The only answer he could get from the TSA as to why he was suspended from the program was that he may have violated a regulation, he said.",
"The TSA said that it holds those serving as federal flight deck officers to \"the highest ethical standards,\" and said it took action because the pilot was in the program.",
"\"FFDOs must be able to maintain sensitive security information as a condition of the FFDO program,\" TSA spokeswoman Sarah Horowitz said.",
"\"As the issuing authority of credentials and firearms, TSA reviews each possible violation of those standards and acts accordingly up to and including removing an individual from the assigned role.\"",
"Horowitz also defended security measures at the San Francisco airport, saying that there are \"measures in place that are both seen and unseen.\"",
"In the aftermath of the incident, the pilot said he resigned from the program.",
"In the age of WikiLeaks, where divulging sensitive information can be so controversial, why did this pilot decide to share his videos so publicly?",
"\"I didn't think anything would come of it,\" said the 50-year-old pilot, a veteran who was a maintenance test pilot.",
"\"This is really about getting the message out and demanding intelligent security,\" Don Werno, the pilot's attorney, said.",
"\"No state secrets are being shown here.",
"What's being shown here is a lack of security.\"",
"Beyond the TSA action, the pilot's airline had not taken any action against him, and he counts on the support of his union.",
"However, when the sheriff's deputies showed up at his house with the air marshals, they also took his California concealed weapons permit.",
"The pilot said this permit was unrelated to his work for the TSA.",
"CNN's Jim Barnett contributed to this report."
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"The videos show what he called lax security at the San Francisco airport .",
"\"I was trying to bring up the obvious, ludicrous TSA-type of security,\" the pilot says .",
"The TSA suspends him from the Federal Flight Deck Officer program and takes his gun .",
"TSA says he may have violated a regulation, pilot says ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Gov.",
"David A. Paterson commuted the prison sentence Thursday of a man convicted of killing an unarmed teenage boy during a racially charged confrontation, officials said.",
"John White was convicted of second-degree manslaughter and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the shooting death of 17-year-old Daniel Cicciaro and was sentenced to up to four years in prison.",
"\"It's a blessed day, it truly is,\" White told CNN affiliate WPIX.",
"\"I want to thank my savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"I also want to thank the governor for making this happen today.\"",
"He had served approximately five months in prison before Paterson allowed his release on Thursday, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota.",
"Paterson said in a written statement: \"My decision today may be an affront to some and a joy to others, but my objective is only to seek to ameliorate the profound suffering that occurred as a result of this tragic event.\"",
"But the move was criticized by prosecutors who helped put White behind bars.",
"\"I strongly believe the governor should have had the decency and the compassion to at least contact the victim's family to allow them to be heard before commuting the defendant's sentence,\" said Spota, whose office prosecuted White.",
"The shooting occurred in August 2006 in the Long Island town of Miller Place, after a group of teenagers went to White's home over a dispute with his 19-year-old son.",
"White, who is African-American, said that he was protecting his family from a white lynch mob and the gun discharged accidentally.",
"Prosecutors said White should have called police instead of deliberately choosing to confront Cicciaro and a group of his friends with a .32-caliber Beretta.",
"Police said the incident started with an internet prank sent by another person from the MySpace page of White's 20-year-old son."
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"NEW: John White says of his sentence being commuted: \"It's a blessed day\"\nGov.",
"Paterson said he wanted to lessen the suffering after \"this tragic event\"\nJohn White shot Daniel Cicciaro in 2006 during an altercation at his home .",
"The shooting stemmed from a dispute between White's son and a group of white youths ."
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"(CNN) -- The surviving members of The Doors don't have many kind words for the recent pardon of legendary singer Jim Morrison by Florida authorities.",
"Outgoing Florida Gov.",
"Charlie Crist helped pave the way for the pardon earlier this month, clearing Morrison from a 40-year-old indecent exposure arrest and conviction.",
"But Morrison's old bandmates, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger, said the gesture was too little too late.",
"\"We don't feel Jim needs to be pardoned for anything,\" The Doors members said in a statement Wednesday.",
"\"The charges against him were largely an opportunity for grandstanding by ambitious politicians -- not to mention an affront to free speech and a massive waste of time and taxpayer dollars.\"",
"The statements also said: \"If the State of Florida and the City of Miami want to make amends for the travesty of Jim Morrison's arrest and prosecution 40 years after the fact, an apology would be more appropriate -- and expunging the whole sorry matter from the record.\"",
"Morrison had been performing with the band at a typically raucous concert at Miami's Key Auditorium on March 1, 1969, when the incident took place.",
"Reportedly drunk and slurring obscenities at the crowd, he was accused of unzipping his pants and simulating a sex act, a charge he denied.",
"Despite being acquitted of lascivious behavior and drunkenness, Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure and open profanity, and sentenced to six months in jail.",
"He was still appealing the verdict in 1971 when he died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 27.",
"He would have turned 67 on Wednesday.",
"Doors fans have long appealed for an official pardon for \"The Lizard King,\" petitioning previous Florida governors without success.",
"Many argue that the trial was a sham and that there was no conclusive evidence supporting the exposure charge against Morrison."
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"Morrison was accused of shouting obscenities at a crowd and exposing himself .",
"He was pardoned in early December .",
"Florida Gov.",
"Charlie Christ helped to get the pardon for Morrison ."
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"(CNN) -- A 13-year-old Indian boy has batted his way into cricket history with a record-breaking innings of 498 in a school tournament in Mumbai, India.",
"Armaan Jaffer, the nephew of former India international batsman Wasim Jaffer, hit the highest score ever made by a schoolboy in a local under-14 competition on Wednesday.",
"It was only three runs short of the alltime first-class record set by West Indies star Brian Lara in 1994.",
"Jaffer's huge total came from 490 balls, from which he hit 77 fours, and surpassed the 439 his Rizvi Springfield school teammate Sarfaraz Khan scored in 2009.",
"Rizvi eventually declared on an intimidating 800-8, with opponents IES Raja Shivaji School on 52-2 in reply at the end of the second day's play.",
"Despite his notable achievement, Jaffer expressed his regret that he was unable to reach 500 runs.",
"\"I am a little disappointed that I missed the 500-mark but as we say, 'One mistake and you are back in the pavilion,' \" he said in quotes reported on the Cricinfo website.",
"Jaffer and his teammates talk about his feat on YouTube .",
"His uncle Wasim had previously broken the same record, but Jaffer insisted beating the landmark figure never crossed his mind and he thanked his coach Raju Pathak for his guidance during the innings.",
"\"I was not thinking about any record, not about Sarfaraz's 439 and not even about Wasim uncle's 403.",
"I was just following my coach's instructions.",
"I am thankful to him for his motivation.\"",
"Pathak said he had given his batsman a free reign to play as he wished, having been on 295 when he resumed his innings.",
"\"He is a very disciplined player,\" he said.",
"\"I had told him last evening I want you to play a long innings, so go ahead and score as many runs you want.",
"\"Based on your innings, we will declare the target.",
"But he surprised me as well and created a record innings.",
"I am very pleased with his game.\"",
"Like millions of young cricket hopefuls in India, there is one man who Jaffer hopes to emulate when he is older.",
"\"Sachin Tendulkar is my idol.",
"His determination and focus are the things that stand out.\""
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"Indian schoolboy Armaan Jaffer hits a record-breaking 498 in an under-14's tournament .",
"Jaffer's total is the highest for a schoolboy and included 77 fours from 490 balls faced .",
"His school teammate Sarfaraz Khan scored 439 to break the record in 2009 .",
"The 13-year-old is the nephew of former India Test batsman Wasim Jaffer ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Performances of the troubled Broadway musical \"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark\" are scheduled to resume Thursday evening after a performer was injured during a show, a spokesman said.",
"The show's producers acted on the guidance of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the New York State Department of Labor, according to spokesman Rick Miramontez.",
"During Monday's performance, 31-year-old Christopher Tierney fell at least 20 feet and was hospitalized.",
"Earlier, Broadway actor Adam Pascal called for the prosecution of the show's director, Julie Taymor, because of a series of recent mishaps, including Tierney's injury.",
"\"They should put Julie Taymor in jail for assault!\"",
"Pascal posted on the social networking site Facebook.",
"He called for lawsuits against Taymor and others invested in the production, such as musical stars Bono and David Howell Evans.",
"Pascal later recanted the comments, saying, \"I think some of you missed the intended humor in my post, although my anger is real, I don't think anyone should sue Bono and the Edge you dummy!",
"Or put Julie Taymor in jail you double dummy.",
"I was making a point.\"",
"Pascal's representative, Rich Aronstein from RJ productions, confirmed the posts were authentic.",
"The show, with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and Howell (aka The Edge), is the most expensive in Broadway history, but production has been beset by cast injuries and technical problems.",
"Taymor said the accident was \"obviously heartbreaking for our entire team and, of course, to me personally.\"",
"\"I am so thankful that Chris is going to be all right and is in great spirits,\" Taymor said in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"Nothing is more important than the safety of our Spider-Man family and we'll continue to do everything in our power to protect the cast and crew.\"",
"Tierney was initially listed in serious condition at Bellevue Hospital.",
"The fall that injured him was caused by human error, the Actors Equity Association, a performers' union, said Wednesday.",
"On Tuesday, the \"Spider-Man\" company met with officials from the union, as well as representatives of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the New York State Department of Labor.",
"The union did not give details on the error, but the group said it worked with the other agencies to develop a safety plan to address the issue.",
"Initially, only the Wednesday matinee performance was postponed after the incident, and performances were to resume Wednesday evening."
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"New safety protocols are being implemented for the show .",
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"(CNN) -- When I was a child, I always wondered how an ocean liner could fit on my street.",
"Never mind that a ship needed water.",
"I lived on a small street in a small town in northern New Jersey and my father would constantly make reference to a time when his ship would come in.",
"I later learned that this was a figure of speech that described a future time when our family's financial resources would increase.",
"And until that time arrived, we would live within our means and limit our purchases to those items that we could afford.",
"My father was committed to debt-free living.",
"Now that I am an adult, I understand this commitment more than ever.",
"My congregation embarked upon a debt-free mission five years ago that has reaped tremendous rewards for many of our families.",
"The mission is called \"dfree\" and the \"d\" stands for debt, delinquencies and deficits.",
"We are attempting to break the culture of debt that has become a plague in our society and start a family-based economic empowerment movement.",
"The three focal points of debt, delinquency and deficit represent the cornerstones of family financial strength.",
"First, debt: Americans owe a lot of money.",
"The levels of family debt are threatening our ability to develop any meaningful wealth or to pass that wealth on to future generations.",
"Second, the commitment to eliminating delinquencies means that we, as a congregation, are pledging to pay our bills on time.",
"Late payments lower our credit scores and this causes us to pay higher interest rates even on good debt such as mortgages.",
"Lastly, to be free of deficit living means to live within our means and thus eliminate the need to close our spending gaps by using high interest credit cards or --even worse -- alternative financial services such as payday loans, pawnshops and rent-to-own schemes.",
"These three objectives are the foundation of our dfree campaign.",
"In formulating our campaign, (participation is free) we discovered that there is an abundance of educational and informational materials available for people who want to become financially literate and economically self-sufficient.",
"The challenge is to motivate people to find and apply the information.",
"Therefore, dfree is a strategy rather than just a curriculum.",
"Dfree does involve classes, seminars and other events.",
"But the driving principle is to popularize debt-free living and to teach people how to achieve it.",
"When church members testify on Sundays during the worship experience that they have paid off multiple credit cards or finished paying for a car, the entire congregation affirms them by celebrating their victory with handclaps and shouts.",
"Such affirmation and celebration has begun to change the culture of our entire membership.",
"This is an important mission for our church, but any church can do it.",
"This ministry helps strengthen families, it builds self-esteem and it increases the capacity of the church itself.",
"We built a new church complex in the 1990s that put the church $20 million in debt.",
"Our leadership agreed that if the church helped the members get out of debt, perhaps the members would help the church get out of debt.",
"And that is exactly what began to happen within months of our starting the dfree ministry.",
"The dfree approach is not only good for churches.",
"Community organizations, credit unions and student groups can also adapt the strategy for their members.",
"Every organization that cares about its members has the potential to help them break the cycle of debt in their lives.",
"The dfree instruction gives people a chance to grow in groups and the teaching is divided into four levels: 1.",
"Get Started; 2.",
"Get Control; 3.",
"Get Ahead; 4.",
"Give Back. Each unit lasts three months and includes training designed to help students become teachers.",
"Merchandise and tools are available for churches that decide to become a part of the dfree movement.",
"Dfree has also formed a partnership with a national bank that provides a low-cost, custom prepaid debit card that eliminates bank overdraft fees that can be so expensive.",
"This debit card is a key tool for those attempting to take control of their finances.",
"We also have a dfree pledge that we provide all of our members.",
"This plastic card is the size of a credit card that serves as a reminder to \"Say yes to No Debt.\"",
"The dfree pledge is on the back of the card: .",
"I pledge to: . • Apply biblical principles in managing my finances .",
"• Keep my expenses below my income .",
"• Pay my bills on time .",
"• Invest in assets that grow in value .",
"• Contribute to my church and its ministries .",
"There are many definitions of freedom.",
"Given the avalanche of bankruptcies, foreclosures and high-interest credit card debt that many people are experiencing, there may be no greater need than to understand the value and joy of debt-free living.",
"There may be no greater legacy we can leave our children.",
"Our ships can come in if we make a commitment to debt free living and teach our children how to manage money and invest in their futures.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the Rev.",
"DeForest Soaries, Jr."
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"Soaries says part of mission is helping church fight debt, delinquencies, deficit .",
"Church devised dfree program to guide congregants, others in resolving debt, he says .",
"Once they do this, he says, community may also help church pay off cost of new complex .",
"Soaries: There's joy, value in debt-free living; it's important legacy to leave to children ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A compromise bill to provide free medical treatment and compensation to first responders of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack won final approval Wednesday from the House and Senate, sending it to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.",
"The bill passed on a voice vote in the Senate, and then on a 206-60 vote in the House on the final day of the lame-duck session of Congress.",
"Jubilant Democrats hailed the last-minute approval as a $4.2 billion triumph for firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel who put themselves in harm's way to help others in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attack.",
"Even though the vote was kept open for more than an hour, 168 House members did not participate.",
"Missing were 89 Republicans, including incoming Speaker John Boehner, and 79 Democrats.",
"Still, there was a quorum -- a simple majority of 435 House members -- to vote on the bill.",
"Many House members also were absent Tuesday.",
"Some likely went home for the holidays after the earlier funding votes, while others were members who are retiring or lost re-election bids.",
"The vote was the last by the House for the year, as it later adjourned until January 5, when a new Congress will be sworn in and Boehner takes the speaker's gavel.",
"Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who presided over the chamber for the conclusion of Wednesday's vote, said the discussion was \"about holy and sacred ground.\"",
"New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who acknowledged that approval of the bill was in doubt until a few hours before the vote, called it a \"great day\" for the nation -- and especially for first responders sickened by exposure to toxic pollution from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, because now they know their country will take care of them.",
"In New York, outgoing Democratic Gov.",
"David Paterson said the bill \"will provide much-needed funds for medical treatment to the rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke from ground zero.\"",
"He said it also reopens the victims' compensation fund for rescue workers who were hurt as a result of the attacks.",
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the Senate's approval of the bill \"affirms our nation's commitment to protecting those who protect us all,\" and some of those first responders also welcomed the development but questioned why it took so long.",
"Kenny Specht, a former New York firefighter suffering from thyroid cancer, described his first exposure to Washington politics as a \"baptism by fire.\"",
"\"It was a lot of time and a lot of effort and it's a little disappointing to see something like this only now receive the bipartisan support that it should have received from the beginning,\" Specht said.",
"Negotiations Wednesday morning involving Schumer and fellow Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York with Republican Sens.",
"Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Mike Enzi of Wyoming led to a deal that reduced the cost of the bill by $2 billion and made other changes sought by GOP opponents, according to statements by the participants.",
"\"The Christmas Miracle we've been looking for has arrived,\" said a statement issued by Schumer and Gillibrand, adding: \"We are pleased to announce that we crafted an agreement that will allow this legislation to pass the Senate, and the House, this afternoon.",
"We thank our Republican friends for coming together to fulfill America's moral obligation to the heroes of 9/11.\"",
"Coburn, a conservative who led the opposition to the bill, said the agreement produced a better piece of legislation.",
"\"Every American recognizes the heroism of the 9/11 first responders, but it is not compassionate to help one group while robbing future generations of opportunity,\" said Coburn, who had demanded that the cost of the bill be lowered and fully paid for.",
"\"I'm pleased this agreement strikes a fair balance and improves the bill the majority attempted to rush through at the last minute.\"",
"According to Coburn, the agreement reduces the overall cost of the bill by $2 billion to a total of $4.2 billion over a 10-year period.",
"His statement said that $1.5 billion of the cost goes for health benefits and $2.7 billion will pay for compensation for health problems of emergency responders.",
"The agreement also caps attorneys' fees at 10 percent of any total compensation award, and includes potential limits on compensation for individuals who already have received workers compensation for injuries due to the 9/11 response, the Coburn statement said.",
"Democrats previously agreed to pay for the bill with fees collected on various services involving foreign countries and foreign visitors.",
"On Tuesday, Schumer said it appeared the bill would come up for a Senate vote once lawmakers voted on New START, a nuclear arms control pact with Russia that is one of Obama's top foreign policy priorities.",
"Both votes occurred Wednesday afternoon.",
"The James Zadroga 9/11 Health Bill is named after a deceased New York Police Department detective who had worked in the toxic plume at ground zero.",
"The House earlier passed the previous version of the bill on a mostly partisan 268-160 vote.",
"According to the bill's supporters, it is funded by a procurement fee on some foreign countries that trade with the United States, the continuation of a fee on some travelers to the United States and a fee on visas for some companies.",
"The version being negotiated by the senators Wednesday drops some of those funding sources.",
"On Tuesday, a group of 9/11 first responders joined lawmakers in Washington to urge the Senate to pass the health care bill.",
"\"We continue to see our friends die on a day-to-day basis,\" said Glen Klein, a New York police officer who said he is sick with lung disease.",
"\"We're asking for the right to live.\"",
"In the years following the attacks, health experts have noted respiratory and mental health conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, in those who engaged in ground zero rescue and cleanup efforts.",
"CNN's Tom Cohen, Deidre Walsh and Jesse Solomon contributed to this report."
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"The House passes the bill, sending it to President Obama .",
"Sen. Charles Schumer hails passage as a \"great day\" for America .",
"The bill provides free treatment for health issues from working at ground zero ."
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"(CNN) -- Iranians coped with soaring gas and food prices sparked by the government's removal of massive revolutionary-era subsidies as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Wednesday for a two-day economic summit in Turkey.",
"In the Iranian capital, Tehran, police manned gas stations as some cab drivers hiked fares and residents complained about prices going up fourfold for essential items after the government began slashing subsidies to help bolster the Islamic republic's sagging oil-based economy.",
"The government began its plan to remove subsidies on Sunday and deployed security forces to several major gas stations in the capital city, Tehran, to offset the threat of potential protests.",
"In 2007, protesters torched a dozen gas stations after the government's abrupt decision to ration monthly fuel allotments.",
"The cuts in subsidies are far more severe but the response has been muted.",
"Iran observers attribute it to a climate of fear following a government crackdown in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential election controversy.",
"Still, Tehran residents said the government was beefing up security.",
"Witnesses saw up to 20 police officers at three major gas stations in central and northern Tehran.",
"\"I hope enough people will protest these ridiculous changes, but they are scared of the security forces because of the past protests where our citizens were beaten,\" said a civil engineer, who like others interviewed by CNN did not want to be identified for fear of repercussions.",
"\"A lot of people are anxious and confused,\" said a taxi driver, \"They don't know what's coming next but they don't have much choice.\"",
"But a courier said he didn't have time to protest.",
"\"They just make prices go higher and life more difficult,\" he said.",
"By Iran's own admission, the subsidies have cost the government around $100 billion a year, according to a report on state-run Press TV this week.",
"Iran was forfeiting potentially huge revenues, according to the International Monetary Fund.",
"\"With the removal of subsidies on oil and gas, domestic demand for energy in Iran is expected to decline, leaving more energy resources available for export.",
"If all goes according to plan, the strategy should serve the dual purpose of generating more revenue for the country and curbing the wasteful use of energy,\" IMF Senior Economist Roman Zytek and Iran Mission Chief Dominique Guillaume said on the organization's website.",
"Adding to Iran's economic woes are the effects of blistering international sanctions, imposed for its nuclear program, which Iran says it is developing for peaceful purposes but many other nations fear is aimed at producing a weapon.",
"On Tuesday, the United States Treasury announced a new round of sanctions against five Iranian companies, including two banks and the country's national maritime carrier, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.",
"The United States says these companies are directly associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.",
"Both the Revolutionary Guards and the shipping line \"are major institutional participants in Iran's illicit conduct and in its attempts to evade sanctions,\" said Stuart Levey, the U.S. under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.",
"\"We will therefore continue to target and expose their networks.\"",
"Ahmadinejad is expected to deliver a keynote address at the Economic Cooperation Organization on Thursday.",
"The group aims to develop economic cooperation among Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and seven other regional nations.",
"In erasing the subsidies, Ahmadinejad was keenly aware he was treading on the promises made to the people in the 1979 Islamic revolution, said Iranian-American journalist and author Azadeh Moaveni.",
"But the subsidies had become unsustainable and Ahmadinejad had prepared Iranians for the need to pump more money into the economy.",
"\"We have been told for many years that subsidies are ruining the economy and must be eliminated, but no government up to now had the determination to actually go ahead and do it,\" said a mechanic who gave his name as Abbas.",
"Around the city, taxi drivers reacted to the cuts differently.",
"One said he has raised his rates for rides.",
"\"When gasoline prices almost double, my fares should also double,\" he said.",
"But another said his company told him not to charge riders extra.",
"Despite the rise in gasoline prices to as much as 7,000 rials (70 cents) a liter, the driver said that if he makes up to eight trips a day in his taxi, he will make up the difference in the higher price of gasoline.",
"Iran's gas rationing program previously allowed people to buy up to 50 liters per month at around 10 cents a liter, far below what they or people anywhere else would pay on the world market.",
"Now, Iranians are paying at least four times that -- 40 cents per liter for the first 50 liters each month and 70 cents above that.",
"Iran has $10 trillion in oil resources alone, plus natural gas reserves worth between $3.5 trillion and $4.5 trillion, the International Monetary Fund has said.",
"But its economy nonetheless has seen lackluster growth, including between 1% and 2% of GDP this past year.",
"While gas prices will affect the middle and upper echelons of society, what is most worrying to others are rising prices for food.",
"Working class Iranians will pay as much as 10 times more for bread.",
"The government is paying $800 for two months for people who registered for help in buying bread at the higher prices.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr, Reza Sayah and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"The government began cutting subsidies on Sunday .",
"It deployed security forces to several major gas stations in Tehran .",
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"(CNN) -- A Florida judge set bail at $15,000 Wednesday for a man who wrote a controversial book considered a \"how-to\" guide for pedophiles.",
"Phillip Greaves, who was arrested in Colorado on Monday, said the book, \"The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct,\" can be used as a guide to rehabilitating pedophiles.",
"And, instead of teaching them how to avoid arrest, it teaches them to avoid illegal actions, he said.",
"Greaves has been charged with the distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct, Florida authorities said.",
"He made his first appearance in a Florida courtroom Wednesday afternoon.",
"His court appearance came a day after he held court in front of reporters explaining the nature of his book.",
"Asked if he is a pedophile, Greaves said, \"I only have sex with grown-ups.\"",
"He said he has no children and \"I don't keep children around my house.\"",
"Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd has said his detectives were able to establish jurisdiction in the case by conducting an undercover operation, buying the book through the mail.",
"Greaves protested Tuesday saying he is the target of entrapment, but Judd disagreed.",
"\"He wrote this book, he published this book, he put it on Amazon to sell,\" Judd told reporters as Greaves was being booked into the Polk County Jail, \"and he freely responded to our desire to purchase it.\"",
"Greaves and his book gained national attention earlier this year after Amazon.com defended selling the book on its website despite angry comments and threats of boycotts from thousands of people.",
"The book was removed from the website in early November.",
"Officials said the book talks about safe sex and avoiding injury to children, grooming and preparing children for sex and teaching children how to lie to their parents.",
"Judd said Greaves' book outlines a \"code of ethics\" that shows pedophiles how to look for the most vulnerable children.",
"Greaves told reporters Tuesday he wrote the book to exorcise his own childhood.",
"He said he was introduced to sex at the age of 7 by a 10-year-old friend and began having sex with other children.",
"This continued, he said, until he was about 15, when he stopped and did not have sex again for years.",
"\"Once I got into adolescence, I suppose you could have identified me as an adolescent pedophile,\" he said.",
"But now, he said, he is an example of the fact that people can reform.",
"\"I think all speech should be protected,\" Greaves said.",
"But \"I was not the one who solicited the material to be sent to Florida.",
"I think Florida law is for Floridians and Colorado law is for Coloradoans.\"",
"He told reporters he will not be able to make bond: \"I'm actually quite poor.\"",
"Judge John Kirkland said Wednesday in court that if Greaves does not post bail he must remain in Florida, cannot have contact with anyone younger than 18 and cannot have access to a computer.",
"CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN's \"AC360\" Monday night that prosecutors may have a hard time convicting Greaves, and maintained his arrest was unconstitutional.",
"\"I don't think they can go forward because the book is clearly protected by the First Amendment,\" Toobin said.",
"\"This book, as awful as it is, it is only words.\"",
"Judd vehemently disagreed with Toobin's assessment of the case and the two sparred on the program.",
"\"This has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with obscenity,\" Judd said.",
"\"We had a law in Florida that applied.",
"We only needed jurisdiction.\""
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"This was Greaves first court appearance .",
"Greaves says he wrote the book to \"exorcise\" his childhood .",
"A Florida sheriff says Greaves' arrest was not entrapment ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- An \"America's Got Talent\" contestant who was questioned by police in connection with his wife's death is now offering $25,000 for information leading to a conviction in his wife's \"murder,\" the contestant says.",
"Joe Finley, 47, a Los Angeles, California-area rock musician, said he wants to find the person responsible for what he called his wife's \"murder.\"",
"His wife's body was found just hours before he auditioned for \"America's Got Talent\" in October.",
"On Wednesday, Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles County coroner's department said Laura Finley's cause of death is still being investigated, and he added he's waiting on toxicology tests, which should be completed by the first week of January.",
"Also this week, Los Angeles police said the case is still open and the death could have been an accident.",
"But Finley has described police as accusing him of killing his wife, though no charges have been filed.",
"Laura Finley, 48, who lived with her husband in Rancho Cucamonga, California, was discovered dead at the bottom of a staircase in the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles about 8 a.m. on October 23, according to police.",
"Joe Finley, who owns a spring-manufacturing business, has hired attorneys Sean Macias and Nareg Gourjian, who have represented a number of high-profile clients including Chris Brown and Scott Peterson.",
"Finley has described police as urging him to confess to killing his wife.",
"Los Angeles police declined to comment on Finley's reward offer or his assertions.",
"Laura Finley's relatives didn't respond to messages seeking a comment this week.",
"Joe Finley told CNN he had nothing to do with his wife's death.",
"\"Absolutely not,\" he said.",
"\"I would never hurt a human being.\"",
"\"I will never be arrested for my wife's murder.",
"There is no chance. There's nothing that would ever link me to this crime,\" he added.",
"Finley said he was thinking of his wife when he decided to go ahead with an audition for \"America's Got Talent,\" even though he'd just been told that she was possibly dead.",
"\"It was a very emotional moment for me and a way for me to connect with my wife.\"",
"Finley said.",
"The couple had checked into the hotel October 22 because Joe Finley was going to try out for the television talent show the next morning, he said.",
"After partying that evening, Laura Finley left the room to get some ice, and at about 3 a.m., \"she came back and I was in bed and she said, 'You wouldn't believe what happened at the ice machine.'",
"Then she walked into the bathroom and started a bath, and I fell asleep,\" Finley said.",
"He said he never asked what happened at the ice machine because he was falling asleep and didn't think it was a big deal.",
"When he awoke at 6:30 a.m., his wife was gone, he said.",
"At 11 a.m., two Los Angeles police detectives told him that his wife may have been found dead, and police were about to take him to the station when an \"America's Got Talent\" producer stopped them as they were walking out of the hotel, Finley said.",
"The producer wanted Finley to audition for the show, Finley said.",
"\"He said, 'In fact, if you want to go in right now, we'll let you go in right now,' and I thought of Laura,\" Finley said.",
"\"I thought, 'I'm gonna go in there, I'm going to be as brave and courageous as I possible can for Laura,' and so the police escorted me in there.\"",
"Finley said he chose a song that he used to sing to his wife.",
"\"I got through almost to the end, and I broke, and I just dropped my head and I took my sunglasses off, and I said, 'I'm sorry, I can't do this.",
"That's the best I can do,' \" Finley said.",
"The show's production company declined to comment about Finley's audition.",
"At the police station, detectives questioned Finley for hours about his wife's death, and they urged him to confess to killing his wife, Finley said.",
"\"They were screaming at me,\" he told CNN.",
"Finley said he was arrested for drug possession at the time, but as of Wednesday, Gourjian, Finley's attorney, said no charges had been filed.",
"Finley said people shouldn't jump to any conclusions about him just because he auditioned for the show.",
"\"To judge somebody in this position is just wrong.",
"People should just wait, wait for the facts to come out,\" he said."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Close allies since the Soviet days, India and Russia marked the first decade of their strategic partnership with a slew of agreements at their annual summit Tuesday.",
"In their talks, visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewed cooperation in military, technical, energy, high-technology and telecommunications.",
"Both pledged to boost two-way trade, an area they accept as a weak part of their multi-faceted relationship.",
"The two countries aim to achieve a trade target of $20 billion by 2015, up from about $7.5 billion last year, a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting between the Russian and Indian leaders noted.",
"\"The sides recognized that considerable potential exists for mutually beneficial investments by the Russian Federation and India in the privatization programs and programs aimed at fostering technological innovation in their respective economies,\" it read.",
"India and Russia share a robust collaboration in defense, with Moscow supplying more than 60 percent of military hardware to New Delhi.",
"Apart from 11 agreements the two countries signed during the Medvedev-Singh news conference, a contract for joint design and development of fifth-generation fighter aircraft was also being concluded on the margins of the current summit, officials say.",
"India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Russia's Sukhoi Design Bureau and Rosoboronexport will be involved in the proposed project, according to the External Affairs Ministry.",
"Other pacts the two nations reached sought greater collaboration in a range of fields, such as information technology, hydrocarbons and in the vital nuclear energy sector.",
"At present, two nuclear power plants are being built in southern India with Russian assistance.",
"Talks, Singh noted, were on for the construction of additional Russian-designed reactors.",
"\"Both sides expressed satisfaction with the progress in bilateral cooperation in the nuclear-energy sector and looked forward to further broadening and strengthening ties in this area,\" the joint statement said.",
"India attaches a huge priority to its ties with Russia, which it calls a time-tested friend.",
"\"Russia is a time-tested friend of India that has stood by us in our times of need in the past.",
"Ours is a special and privileged strategic partnership.",
"It is a partnership that has and will continue to develop independent of our relations with other countries,\" Singh remarked.",
"The two nations forged a strategic partnership in 2000 and have since been holding summits every year.",
"\"Our talks have been comprehensive and result oriented.",
"We have signed several important agreements covering a large number of sectors.",
"This reflects our mutual desire to bring our cooperation in other areas at par with our traditionally strong cooperation in the defense and nuclear fields,\" Singh told reporters.",
"Medvedev's trip to New Delhi follows similar trade-promoting visits by U.S. President Barack Obama, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao."
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"(CNN) -- An American school founder who young Haitian men once hailed as a savior was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing them.",
"Douglas Perlitz, 40, was sentenced in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, to 19 years and 7 months behind bars for abusing the Haitian men when they were boys under his care, said Bruce Foucart, special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston.",
"\"We're very pleased with the sentence,\" he said.",
"\"He was brought to justice and I hope it sends a strong message to people who are doing that or who are even thinking about doing that.\"",
"Judge Janet Bond Arterton imposed the sentence, which includes 10 years of supervised release.",
"Perlitz arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien in 1997.",
"There, he opened a charitable school called the Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT).",
"He got homeless boys off the streets and gave them shelter, food and education.",
"\"When I met Mr. Douglas, he appeared to us like Jesus Christ himself come to rescue us,\" said Francilien Jean-Charles, who was only 12 when he was plucked by Perlitz and brought to the school.",
"Over the years, PPT grew into a 10-acre compound with dorms, classrooms and a soccer field.",
"Perlitz frequently flew back to Fairfield, Connecticut, to raise money.",
"According to court documents, from 2002 to 2008, donors gave more than $2 million to help care for the kids.",
"Perlitz's alma mater, Fairfield University, awarded him an honorary degree in 2002 for helping homeless boys in Haiti.",
"But Perlitz was hardly the man he appeared to be.",
"\"I thanked God when I met Douglas,\" said Jean-Charles.",
"\"But when things started to turn bad, I realized it would have been better if I never came to PPT.\"",
"Perlitz wore a watch that lit up and at night, he used it to seek out the boys, they said.",
"Fredlin Legrand said he woke up to see Perlitz next to him.",
"\"He gave me a pill that made me fall asleep and when I woke up, I found my pants covered in sperm,\" Legrand told CNN.",
"Jean-Charles and a dozen other boys told CNN they were routinely raped by Perlitz for years.",
"But they were afraid to speak out against the man who had been such a boon for the city.",
"Finally, in 2007, some of the boys approached their teachers and other adults.",
"No one believed what they were hearing.",
"Brian Russell, a donor for the school, said Perlitz was a miracle maker, not a pedophile.",
"\"There was no way that this man could have committed these things that people were accusing him of.",
"It seemed utterly out of the realm of possibility,\" Russell said.",
"\"There was too much goodness.",
"The heart was too big.\" The boys grew desperate.",
"They painted graffiti on the outer walls of the school, most of which has been painted over.",
"But one plea for help still exists: \"Welcome, Haitian National Police.\"",
"The police never came, but journalist Cyrus Sibert noticed the writing on the wall.",
"\"I told the boys, I will go to the end with you,\" Sibert said.",
"\"Are you ready?\" But even after Sibert aired his interviews with the boys, Haitian authorities and American donors still did not believe the accusations.",
"It was only after an American volunteer at the school relayed accusations of older boys raping younger ones that red flags went up.",
"Russell said the volunteer demanded from the headmaster that something be done immediately.",
"His response was: \"Well, that's really hard because Douglas has been doing this for the last 10 years.\"",
"Russell felt broken, betrayed.",
"\"I felt like all the money I had donated, the time that I had given, something that we had worked so hard for was gone.\"",
"In September 2009, U.S. ICE agents picked up the case and arrested Perlitz.",
"He denied the accusations, but in August, Perlitz pleaded guilty to one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.",
"He also admitted to engaging in sexual conduct with eight minors.",
"The defense requested a delay in sentencing, contending Haiti's January earthquake, cholera outbreak and election-related street violence made it impossible to thoroughly review the prosecution's claims against Perlitz.",
"The court denied the request.",
"In addition, the defense maintained that Perlitz himself was a victim of sexual abuse.",
"According to a defense memorandum, while he was at Fairfield University, \"a priest began a relationship with Doug that ... ultimately took on a dark aspect, both physically and spiritually, that had a significant and long-lasting impact on him.\"",
"The prosecution quickly responded, saying: \"Perlitz's sexual abuse of minors, abuse which lasted for a decade or more, shows him to be nothing more than a wolf in sheep's clothing -- an American man who traveled to Haiti purporting to care for homeless children when in reality he preyed upon the desperation of these children so that he could sexually abuse them.\"",
"Some of the boys, now young men, were in court Tuesday for the sentencing.",
"They faced the man who abused them for years and spoke about their experience, bringing a sense of reality to the courtroom, said Foucart.",
"They testified about how afraid of Perlitz they were and how he threatened to throw them out of the school and back on the streets if they spoke up.",
"Paul Kendrick, an advocate for victims of abuse familiar with the case, was in court.",
"He said Perlitz apologized to his victims at one point during the proceeding.",
"\"The judge, I thought, gave a very strong sentence and a very strong message,\" said Kendrick.",
"\"American citizens will be held accountable for their actions with minors no matter where they are in the world.\"",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A key member of an insurgent network in the Afghan-Pakistani region has been seized recent days, Pakistani military intelligence sources told CNN on Friday.",
"He is Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Afghan insurgent leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose notorious group, called the Haqqani Network, operates in Afghanistan and Pakistan and is closely tied to the Taliban.",
"Nasiruddin Haqqani was detained in recent days while driving from Peshawar to the tribal region of North Waziristan, the sources said.",
"The United Nations says he is believed to be based out of Miram Shah in North Waziristan, where the network operates.",
"The Pakistani military intelligence sources asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.",
"This arrest comes amid concerns among U.S. officials that Pakistan has not been aggressively confronting militants operating in the tribal regions.",
"The Haqqani Network \"has been at the forefront of insurgent activity in Afghanistan, responsible for many high-profile attacks,\" the United Nations says.",
"Bill Roggio, managing editor of The Long War Journal, a website that tracks terror-related events and trends, calls the top leadership a \"family business.\"",
"The United Nations says it consists of Jalaluddin Haqqani's three oldest sons, one of whom is Nasiruddin, who operates as an emissary for the network and spends a lot of time fundraising, the United Nations says.",
"He apparently speaks Arabic and is a close aide to his father, the United Nations says.",
"His brother, Sirajuddin, is described by the U.S. Treasury Department as the overall leader of the network and the leader of the Miram Shah Regional Military Shura.",
"The United Nations says the Haqqani Network is believed to have three main sources of funds: Gulf region donations, drug trafficking, and al Qaeda payments.",
"\"In 2004, (Nasiruddin) Haqqani traveled to Saudi Arabia with a Taliban associate to raise funds for the Taliban.",
"He also provided funds in 2004 to militants in Afghanistan for the purpose of disrupting the Afghan presidential election.",
"\"From at least 2005 to 2008, Nasiruddin Haqqani collected funds for the Haqqani Network through various fundraising trips, including during regular travel to the United Arab Emirates in 2007 and through a fundraising trip to another Gulf state in 2008,\" the United Nations said.",
"And late last year, Nasiruddin Haqqani \"received several hundred thousand dollars from al Qaeda-associated individuals in the Arabian Peninsula\" for network activities.",
"Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of the Treasury cited Nasiruddin Haqqani for supporting acts of terrorism.",
"Sirajuddin Haqqani was designated a supporter of terrorism in 2008.",
"Many observers say the North Waziristan-based group has backing in the Pakistani military.",
"\"Elements within the Pakistani security establishment continue to view the Haqqani Network as a useful ally and proxy force to represent their interests in Afghanistan.",
"To this end, Haqqani forces have repeatedly targeted Indian infrastructure and construction projects in Afghanistan,\" the Institute for the Study of War said in a report this year.",
"\"The Pakistani Army has consistently refused to launch a military operation in North Waziristan despite the presence of al Qaeda senior leadership,\" it said.",
"A report published earlier this year by the New America Foundation think tank calls the Pakistani agency of North Waziristan \"the most important springboard for violence in Afghanistan today, much as it has been for decades.\"",
"And it says the Haqqani Network is \"the most important militant group\" in North Waziristan's Miram Shah, where Jalaluddin Haqqani settled in the mid-1970s after leaving his native Khost province in Afghanistan.",
"\"Jalaluddin quickly became the most important mujahedeen commander in eastern Afghanistan during the 1980s\" when Afghan fighters took on the Soviet Union, the report says.",
"North Waziristan has been a \"safe haven\" for militants eluding U.S. and Pakistani military actions, it notes.",
"\"Shortly after the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001, thousands of Taliban members associated with the regime flooded into North Waziristan,\" according to the report, titled \"The Battle for Pakistan: North Waziristan.\"",
"\"Many took shelter in (North Waziristan's) treacherous and heavily forested Shawal Valley, which became a refuge for all sorts of foreign militants, including those from al Qaeda.",
"Pakistani government forces subsequently targeted other Pakistani safe havens, including South Waziristan.",
"In 2004, a wave of militants arrived in North Waziristan after being pushed out of South Waziristan's Shakai Valley.",
"More recently, a variety of militants associated with the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan is believed to have sought safe haven in North Waziristan.\"",
"Will the arrest make an impact in the war against the Taliban?",
"Roggio doubts it.",
"He says the Haqqanis are one of the Pakistani state's premier proxies and puts them on par with Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Pakistan-based group that was blamed for a violent siege on Mumbai in November 2008.",
"He notes that there has been pressure to appease and deflect pressure from the United States and NATO.",
"\"When the heat gets turned up,\" he said, Pakistan will make a gesture but \"not a real sacrifice.\"",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim, Joe Sterling and Tim Lister contributed to this report ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan arrested two senior police officials Wednesday in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.",
"A court refused bail for the two officials, Saud Aziz and Khurram Shehzad, said special public prosecutor Chaudhary Zulfiqar Ali.",
"Aziz was the police chief in the Rawalpindi district at the time of Bhutto's assassination while Shehzad was the head of her security team.",
"The two have been accused of security breaches, covering up evidence by hosing down the crime scene and failing to conduct a post-mortem examination on Bhutto.",
"Aziz and Shehzad said Bhutto's husband and the current president, Asif Ali Zardari, ordered them to not conduct the post-mortem.",
"An audio of that request was played in court Wednesday.",
"The court found the two men had failed their legal obligation as police.",
"A United Nations panel looking into Bhutto's assassination concluded that Pakistan's military-led former government failed to adequately protect her and that intelligence agencies hindered the subsequent investigation.",
"The panel's scathing report in April said the suicide bombing that killed Bhutto \"could have been prevented\" and that police deliberately failed to pursue an effective investigation into the killings.",
"The government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Bhutto had been afforded adequate protection.",
"Bhutto had returned from a self-imposed, eight-year exile to run in the country's general elections in 2007.",
"She escaped one attempt on her life but was killed on December 27 by a 15-year-old suicide bomber while campaigning in Rawalpindi, the seat of Pakistan's military.",
"\"No one believes that this boy acted alone,\" the U.N. report said.",
"\"A range of government officials failed profoundly in their efforts first to protect Ms. Bhutto, and second to investigate with vigor all those responsible for her murder, not only in the execution of the attack, but also in its conception, planning and financing.\"",
"The two police officials are scheduled to appear for a hearing January 7.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"Two police officials are accused of security breaches and covering up evidence .",
"Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan assassinated in December 2007 .",
"Officials said Bhutto's husband ordered them not to conduct a port-mortem exam ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- When President Obama signed the bill repealing the so-called \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy, it did not immediately end the military's 17-year ban on gays serving openly.",
"In fact, it will take a series of actions to make that happen, and no one at the Pentagon seems to know when the actual end date might be.",
"\"I don't think anybody has any idea how long this will take,\" Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters Monday.",
"Even gays currently serving, albeit quietly, had muted reactions to the Senate's vote to end the ban.",
"Three such service members, speaking to CNN on the condition we wouldn't use their real names, all used the word \"relief\" when asked about the repeal.",
"Obama signs 'don't, ask' repeal .",
"Before the ban is completely lifted, the president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will have to certify that the repeal can move ahead without negatively affecting unit cohesion and military readiness.",
"And before that can happen, the Department of Defense will have to go through countless regulations and rules to see if they need to be changed to reflect the end of the ban.",
"Clifford Stanley, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, will oversee that part of the process, with input from the individual services.",
"He and his staff will be \"reviewing and revising policies, directives, establishing the education and training materials, developing communication plans on how we are going to communicate with the force.\"",
"That's where the mystery begins as far as the timing.",
"\"I can't put any kind of a timeline on it,\" Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said.",
"\"\"We plan to move out carefully, deliberately and purposefully to implement it, but right now we are in the planning stages and I don't have any specifics for you.\"",
"The closest Lapan would come to predicting how long the ban might remain in effect was when he said the process \"would not be slow-rolled.\"",
"So far, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is famous for setting hard deadlines and demanding that his subordinates meet them, has set no deadline for completion of this process.",
"Part of the problem is that so little has been done so far.",
"The Pentagon released an 87-page \"Support Plan for Implementation\" of the DADT repeal.",
"It spells out how the Pentagon should handle a myriad of issues raised by the repeal, including: .",
"• \"prohibit the creation of separate bathroom and shower facilities based on sexual orientation\"; .",
"• \"prohibit berthing or billeting (housing) assignments based on sexual orientation\"; .",
"• \"no new procedures will be developed for the early separation of Service members based on opposition to repeal or to serving and living with gay and lesbian Service members.\"",
"But the plan is all recommendations -- nothing is set in stone.",
"Even if each recommendation is accepted, there are few details in the plan and they'd all need to be worked out.",
"Even after Stanley finishes his portion of the process and the president, secretary and chairman certify it, the repeal still doesn't become law.",
"Another 60 days must pass before the repeal is official.",
"Only then can a homosexual serve openly without fear of being discharged.",
"One gay active-duty service member said getting it all done quickly is important.",
"\"The longer we drag this out, the more confused we get, and the more lack of clarity we have and the messier the situation happens,\" said \"JD Smith\" a military officer who is also a leader of OutServe, an advocacy group for gay troops.",
"The gay service members that CNN spoke to said when that day comes, don't expect anything dramatic.",
"\"It's like Y2K. Everyone is making such a big deal out of it, but the next day ... everyone's going to be like, oh, this wasn't a big deal at all,\" \"Smith\" said.",
"\"John\" is a naval officer.",
"\"I don't have any big plans to come out now, and I think I probably speak for a lot of other service members in my same position.",
"There's not going to be a huge rush to make big announcements just because the Senate has passed this law,\" he said.",
"\"William\" is an Air Force staff sergeant based in Germany.",
"\"I will be reserved about the subject, because I don't think the military needs to be in my personal life.\"",
"While the three men said the repeal of DADT won't have much short-term impact on their lives, they all agreed that in the long run, they'll likely stay in the military longer.",
"\"Had this law not passed, I was seriously considering being done with the military.",
"It's very hard to live under this policy,\" \"Smith\" said.",
"\"I was not going to re-enlist unless this policy was taken away; now I have an open path.",
"I love the military.",
"I will definitely re-enlist.\"",
"Earlier this year, a Washington think tank invited military officers from countries that have long allowed gays to serve openly.",
"Several of those officers said their countries adopted their rules almost overnight with no adverse effects.",
"They recommended that the U.S. do the same.",
"But that won't be the case. It will be months, at least, before gays can serve openly in the U.S. military.",
"By then it's possible Gates will no longer be leading the Pentagon.",
"He's already said he plans to retire next year, and Morrell said he doesn't know if Gates plans to stay until the process is complete."
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"No one in the Pentagon seems to know how long it will take to enact repeal .",
"Pentagon's \"Plan for Implementation\" is all recommendations .",
"\"The longer we drag this out, the more confused we get,\" gay service member says .",
"Gay service members say repeal makes them more likely to stay in the military ."
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"(CNN) -- Mardy Fish has criticized tennis authorities for halving the suspension handed out to fellow American player Wayne Odesnik for importing controlled drugs.",
"Odesnik will be able to resume his career from December 29 after the International Tennis Federation conditionally canceled the second year of his ban following his cooperation with anti-doping officials.",
"The 25-year-old pleaded guilty to importing human growth hormone into Australia at the start of last year, but is now free to play again when the 2011 season begins Down Under next month.",
"The ITF said he had provided \"substantial assistance\" to its anti-doping program, and that his requirement to do so is \"ongoing.\"",
"Fish described the ITF's decision as \"a black eye for all of sport, not just tennis,\" in quotes reported by U.S. newspaper USA Today.",
"\"He's a good player on enhanced substances.",
"Let's see if he can be a good player without them,\" the world No.",
"16 said. Odesnik, who was born in South Africa but moved to the United States when young, has slipped from a career-high 77th to completely off the ATP Tour's rankings list.",
"\"I am thrilled that I can return to the game and compete in the sport about which I am truly passionate.",
"I have learned a lot during my time away from competitive tennis and I now have even a greater appreciation for what a privilege it is to be a professional athlete,\" Odesnik said in a statement.",
"\"I want to take this opportunity to thank my family, true close friends and fans who have stood by me during this difficult time.",
"I am deeply grateful and humbled by your support.\""
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"Mardy Fish describe's ITF's decision on Wayne Odesnik as \"a black eye for all sport\"\nOdesnik's two-year suspension for importing HGH has been halved due to cooperation .",
"The ITF expects the 25-year-old to continue giving assistance to anti-doping officials .",
"The former world No.",
"77 is free to return to tennis from December 29 ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"The Next Three Days\" follows an ordinary guy named John (Russell Crowe) as he executes a wildly complicated plan to spring his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks,) from prison, where she has been locked up for a murder she says she didn't commit.",
"Jailbreaking is not John's forte --he's a community-college professor in Pittsburgh and he drives a Prius.",
"But all judicial appeals have failed, and the couple's young son is so very sad.",
"So, spurred by love, despair, and belief in his wife's innocence, John turns to desperate measures.",
"First, however, he does some Internet homework that leads him to Damon (Liam Neeson,) an ex-con-turned-author who provides expert advice on the art of escape.",
"Damon's how-to-break-the-law lesson -- as ludicrous as anything else in this enjoyably zigzaggy exercise in accumulating peril -- grants Neeson the fun of experimenting with an American ex-con accent for his one scene.",
"It also sets up the movie's real strength, which is generating escalating waves of plot tension and misdirection as John, heeding advice, makes his jail-busting moves.",
"Writer-director Paul Haggis (\"Crash,\") who adapted \"The Next Three Days\" from a 2008 French thriller, \"Pour Elle,\" clearly has Alfred Hitchcock's wrong-man-in-wrong-place psychological archetype in mind as John weaves all over Pittsburgh.",
"Lara, for her part, has no idea of her husband's plan -- the usually sunnier Banks is an interesting, counterintuitive casting choice -- and when she finds out, she adds her own complications.",
"Soon the chase becomes its own perpetual-motion machine, one that ticks down to the last second.",
"With cops closing in, there's passport forgery, robbery, lock picking, shooting, and driving too fast while behind the wheel of a Prius.",
"There's also a bit of tampering with medical records, the inevitable follow-up to Lara's demonstration in Act 1, Scene 1 that she's diabetic.",
"Throughout, Crowe marshals his unique physical gravitas -- his way of speaking with his eyes while remaining very still and quiet -- to bolster Haggis' more sentimental premise that the character represents any average John who loves his family deeply enough to declare, Screw the system!",
"We're outta here! While Crowe throws his serious weight behind the notion of a man angry, weary, and bereft enough of his ordinary life to take drastic steps, the movie throws obstacle after obstacle his way and says to the audience: Oh, he squeaked through that?",
"How about this? B+ . See more about \"The Next Three Days\" at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The movie's real strength is generating escalating waves of plot tension and misdirection .",
"The usually sunnier Banks is an interesting, counterintuitive casting choice .",
"There's passport forgery, robbery, lock picking, shooting, and driving too fast in a Prius ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The sham marriage trial of Mexican actress Fernanda Romero, under way in a Los Angeles federal court, offered more drama this week than the soap operas she is famous for.",
"The courtroom cast included celebrity photographer and reality TV star Markus Klinko, whom defense lawyers tried to paint as a revengeful ex-boyfriend who turned her in to immigrations agents.",
"Romero sat directly in front of jurors, holding hands with co-defendant Kent Ross, the Los Angeles musician she allegedly paid $5,000 to marry her so she could get a U.S. work visa.",
"The couple had an \"unconventional relationship,\" but their marriage was real, a defense lawyer said in opening statements.",
"The 28-year-old actress-model began sobbing as Klinko testified against her Wednesday, outlining his romantic relationship with Romero that he said began after she married Ross.",
"The judge scowled several times as the lead defense attorney questioned Klinko about areas already ruled irrelevant to the case.",
"\"Please, don't do that,\" U.S. District Judge Manuel Real warned defense lawyer Michael Nasatir.",
"Real's rulings frustrated defense efforts to press Klinko about why he hired the private investigator who dug up the evidence that prompted immigration agents to begin their probe of Romero's marriage.",
"Klinko testified that it was \"completely incorrect\" that his motivation was to get his former girlfriend deported.",
"Instead, the investigator was gathering evidence to be used in a lawsuit against Michael Ball, the founder and owner of the Rock & Republic fashion company, Klinko said.",
"The criminal complaint named Ball as a target of the federal investigation, alleging that he helped arrange the sham marriage while Romero was modeling for his company.",
"Klinko said his lawyer turned the evidence over to the government only because he feared Klinko might by extorted by Ball.",
"\"My case has never been against Fernanda,\" Klinko said after his testimony.",
"\"I wish her the best.\" The judge also rejected the defense attempt to allege that Klinko, a Swiss native, was himself involved in a sham marriage in 1987 -- a charge he denied outside court.",
"\"The defense attempted over and over again to taint Mr. Klinko with malicious and false smears,\" said Klinko's lawyer, Lisa Bloom.",
"\"The judge repeatedly blocked them from doing so by sustaining multiple objections to their improper questions.",
"We thank the judge.\"",
"The prosecutor in the case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Left, said Romero could get between 15 and 21 months in prison if convicted, though such cases usually produce shorter sentences.",
"The case is unusual because marriage fraud charges are usually litigated by immigration authorities rather than prosecuted as criminal cases.",
"The federal complaint accuses Romero of paying Ross, 28, to marry her June 12, 2005, but alleges that they never lived together as a couple.",
"Romero began dating Klinko a month later, and they lived together for several months, the complaint says.",
"According to a sworn affidavit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Senior Special Agent Bonita Canterberry filed in the case, Klinko and Romero's relationship ended in 2007, about the same time Klinko filed a lawsuit against Rock & Republic and Ball, alleging breach of contract in relation to a photo shoot.",
"Klinko also accused Ball of extortion.",
"Romero's show business career began in Mexico at age 16 when she joined the ensemble Frizzby, her Internet Movie Database biography says.",
"The group toured Mexico and Central America, releasing two top-10 singles, it says.",
"She started hosting television shows and appearing on commercials in Mexico when she was 18, it says.",
"Romero has appeared in print and TV ad campaigns for Rock and Republic, Clean and Clear, Pepsi, Apple and JC Penney, it says.",
"\"She was cast in Telemundo's original production 'Wounded Soul,' where she was not only a lead actress, but also a lead singer, performing two songs in the soap opera's soundtrack,\" her online biography says."
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"Defense: Fernanda Romero's marriage was \"unconventional\" but real .",
"The Mexican actress is accused of using a fake marriage to get a U.S. green card .",
"Photographer Markus Klinko was the key prosecution witness .",
"Klinko says his goal was not to get his ex-girlfriend deported ."
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"(CNN) -- No one can deny that these are difficult days.",
"Ireland this week became the second Eurozone nation in six months to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund.",
"The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted a slowing down of economic recovery through 2011, with more turbulence ahead if \"global imbalances\" and high levels of sovereign debt are not brought under control.",
"As currency speculators hover in search of easy pickings, Western nations rush to impose self-styled \"austerity measures.\"",
"No one wants to be the next economic basket case.",
"Let's cross our fingers and pray to the gods that we escape the luck of the Irish.",
"The temptation for national governments to panic and retrench is powerful.",
"But the instinct is misguided and damagingly regressive.",
"Even the language of austerity, with its overtones of punishment, is painfully wrong.",
"And the pain is inflicted first and foremost on the public sector -- where spending cuts abound and job losses are rife -- and on the poorest in society.",
"Frontline services evaporate and the most deprived communities are left hanging out to dry.",
"Austerity comes from the Greek verb \"to dry.\"",
"It is sour and astringent.",
"Self-flagellation is the order of the day.",
"TED.com: Bjorn Lomborg sets global priorities .",
"Some at least of this new austerity is a form of ideological revenge.",
"The UK is a striking case in point.",
"Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne smiled all the way to the dispatches box as he delivered plans to cut the UK deficit to nothing in the space of five years.",
"His was the moral high ground.",
"The finger of blame was pointed clearly at his predecessors who had been \"profligate\" with the nation's resources and built an \"overblown\" public sector.",
"It's a tempting and convenient narrative.",
"But it's also profoundly inaccurate and a damaging basis for economic renewal.",
"The first casualty in party warfare is a sense of perspective.",
"For all his failings, one of Gordon Brown's most significant achievements as chancellor from 1997 to 2007 was to bring the national debt down below 40 percent of the gross domestic product and keep it there consistently for the longest period in UK history since World War I.",
"That is, until the crisis struck -- and then all hell broke loose.",
"Public sector spending, having been stable in relative terms for decades, leapt from 40 percent to 50 percent of the GDP.",
"The public deficit approached 12 percent of the GDP and the sovereign debt is set to double -- all in the space of a few short years.",
"Amidst the ideological bloodletting, the architecture of the crisis has been conveniently forgotten.",
"This was not a crisis born from rampant socialism, but from unbridled capitalism.",
"What collapsed was not the internal viability of the social economy but the structural integrity of capital markets.",
"And the biggest casualty of all has been our ability to invest meaningfully in the future.",
"When the language is all about spending cuts, the mere mention of investment in public goods is seen as heretical.",
"And one of the most vital tenets of economics -- that our future welfare depends on the services provided by capital assets -- is left waving in the ideological wind.",
"For one brief moment during early 2009, the political rhetoric around stimulus lingered tantalizingly on the need to invest in transition -- away from a carbon-intensive, fossil-fueled economy and toward a sustainable, green society.",
"We missed the chance to take that opportunity seriously.",
"TED.com: John Hardy's green school dream .",
"What we cannot afford to do now is to erase the lessons of the global financial crash from our minds in our desire to avoid a visit from the IMF.",
"In fact, it is we who should pay a visit to the IMF.",
"A global institution which has failed to protect global capitalism from itself is no longer fit for its purpose.",
"Imposing austerity as a means to revive business as usual is a moribund strategy.",
"If institutional reform is the order of the day, then the transformation of the IMF may not be a bad starting point.",
"But beyond such reform, where should we turn for inspiration and renewal?",
"This is where frugality comes in.",
"Austerity is all about cutting back the public sector in an attempt to reinvigorate the private sector.",
"Frugality is about shifting our attention, and our income, away from restless consumption and toward long-term saving.",
"Spending less, yes, but investing more -- both in the public and the private sphere.",
"And in our rush to rebuild financial markets, we need to pause long enough to make them fit for the purpose.",
"Investing responsibly in social and ecological assets is the key design criterion.",
"Creating robust vehicles to direct public and private savings toward long-term investment in low carbon technologies and infrastructures, in resource productivity, in social goods and public spaces, in land and water and ecosystem services -- here is the cornerstone for economic renewal.",
"TED.com: Saving the ocean one island at a time .",
"Government must guide and lead this transition.",
"This is not a time to dismantle the state.",
"By all means let's question again the boundaries between the private and the public sectors.",
"Let's explore new models of ownership and enterprise.",
"Let's question the role of productivity and the meaning of welfare.",
"Let's revisit the concept and function of public goods.",
"But for goodness' sake, let's leave sufficient governance in place to have a decent chance at a new prosperity.",
"Frugality comes from the Latin.",
"It speaks of bearing fruit.",
"Of our ability to flourish, not through relentless material profligacy, but through a due attention to season and cycle and the processes of maturation.",
"Austerity presents us with an arid world, stripped bare of meaning, devoid of hope.",
"Frugality offers us a way to re-enchant the future.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tim Jackson."
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"Tim Jackson: Nations are hoping to avoid bailouts like those of Greece, Ireland .",
"He says there's a rush to embrace austerity measures that inflict pain on the poor .",
"Jackson says we need to adopt frugal policies, spending less but investing more .",
"Government must lead; this is not a time to dismantle the state, he says ."
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"(CNET) -- For Stanford University student Feross Aboukhadijeh, what started off as a bet fueled by youthful ambition and technical bravado, ended up an Internet hit and quite possibly a job.",
"Last week, Aboukhadijeh, 19, was just an ordinary, albeit talented, college student as he tested out Google Instant, the Web giant's new predictive search results feature.",
"He was immediately impressed on its debut Wednesday but also inspired.",
"To his roommate, he said, \"I bet you I can build YouTube Instant in an hour.\"",
"And his roommate took him up on the bet.",
"Aboukhadijeh didn't quite make the hour deadline, but three hours later, YouTube Instant was born.",
"The site lets people search the enormous YouTube video database in real time.",
"He spent a couple more hours Thursday sprucing up the user interface.",
"And before going to sleep that night, he posted his work to his Facebook page.",
"\"When I woke up Friday morning there was craziness,\" he said.",
"By \"craziness,\" Aboukhadijeh means countless e-mails congratulating him, a bevy of interview requests, a server flooded with Web traffic, the creation of a Wikipedia entry in his name, and -- perhaps most notably -- a job offer from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley via Twitter.",
"Unsure just how seriously to take the tweeted job offer, Aboukhadijeh replied along the lines of \"Is this a for-real offer?\"",
"Hurley then e-mailed him to set up a meeting, which is scheduled for Monday at YouTube's San Bruno, Calif., headquarters, Aboukhadijeh said.",
"YouTube officials didn't respond to an e-mail request sent Friday from CNET seeking confirmation of the job offer or meeting.",
"Aboukhadijeh is just finishing up a summer internship with Facebook, but he doesn't see how that would prohibit his taking a job at YouTube, which is owned by Google.",
"\"I'd like to finish college,\" he added, which he agreed could pose the bigger problem.",
"Much like Google Instant, YouTube Instant lets people type in what they're looking for, and the engine guesses what that video is.",
"By design, it plays the video immediately.",
"However, based on feedback, Aboukhadijeh said he's working on play and pause features, among other improvements.",
"\"It's not as useful as Google Instant if you know exactly what you're looking for, since you're shown distracting YouTube videos on the way to your destination,\" Aboukhadijeh told All Thing Digital's Peter Kafka.",
"\"But I think this is perfect for many Internet users.\"",
"He built the site using the YouTube API but scraped YouTube search suggestions after Google blocked his server for making too many repeated requests to the search suggestion endpoint.",
"Aboukhadijeh ended up re-writing the site to instead query YouTube directly for search suggestions, \"eliminating the round-trip to my server,\" he said.",
"Aboukhadijeh, who is from Sacramento, California, said he's been blown away by how quickly his tool went viral and is grateful for all the supportive feedback.",
"\"I'm amazed and humbled by all the attention it's received.",
"So thank you,\" he said.",
"But imitation is the highest form of flattery, and it appears he's got that, too.",
"TechCrunch on Saturday pointed to Alabama-based developer Michael Hart, who, inspired by Aboukhadijeh, used jQuery and the Google Maps API to build Google Maps Instant.",
"And the same blogger later pointed to an all-encompassing Instantise page that gives a home to the evidently quickly growing number of sites with instant, predictive search results.",
"Instantise was reportedly designed by Scottish engineer Tam Denholm, TechCrunch said.",
"Aboukhadijeh is a majoring in computer science, but his technical expertise has been developing over many years.",
"Around age 5, when his parents bought a new microwave oven, he took the manual and learned how to turn on the child lock, something his parents never learned to do.",
"That knowledge came in handy when he was old enough to get grounded -- he would lock it up and use it as a bargaining chip.",
"© 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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"The site lets people search enormous YouTube video database in real time .",
"Student says he's been blown away by how quickly his tool went viral ."
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"(RealSimple.com) -- Readers share the uncustomary customs they celebrate year after year.",
"Since we moved to Virginia four years ago, my husband and I have attended the annual National Menorah Lighting on the Ellipse, in Washington, D.C. A military band accompanies three cantors while they give the blessing and sing, and latkes and sufganiyot (a type of doughnut often enjoyed on Hanukkah) are served.",
"Afterward we go to our favorite Mediterranean restaurant.",
"I am pregnant with twins due this month, and I can't wait to share this tradition with them.",
"-- Cyndi Alderson, Oak Hill, Virginia .",
"RealSimple.com: Holiday celebrations around the world .",
"When my two siblings and I were very young, our nana started the tradition of hiding a small plastic bird in our Christmas tree (it was notable for the Band-Aid on its left leg, courtesy of a run-in with the family dog).",
"The three of us would search high and low to find the bird, which was supposed to bring the finder luck in the coming year.",
"Once we were adults, our mom wanted us to continue the ritual with our own families, so she gave each of us a replica of a red cardinal.",
"And ever since we've enjoyed watching the next generation search for these birds.",
"-- Beth Britton, New York, New York .",
"A marshmallow fight.",
"It always happens after dinner on Christmas Eve, and usually one of my cousins starts it.",
"Everyone joins in, from the toddlers to the grandparents, until someone waves the white flag.",
"-- Jessica P. Sanchez, La Mirada, California .",
"During Hanukkah, we do a Yankee swap, a gift exchange.",
"It has always been great fun, but a few years ago my husband and I decided to make it even more interesting by sneaking decoy gifts into the mix.",
"They look like normal presents from the outside -- we wrap up things like CD cases, gift-card envelopes, and wine bottles -- but once you look inside, you see that the original item has been replaced with a note card bearing an instruction, such as \"Switch gifts with a person of the opposite gender\" or \"Choose a new gift -- and no one can take it from you.\"",
"This little twist was a surprise to everyone the first year, but now it is our favorite part of the ritual.",
"-- Christine Gritmon, Pearl River, New York .",
"Every December, my friends and I visit a nearby resort that hosts a holiday gnome hunt.",
"Twenty of these white-bearded men, which range from 6 to 12 inches tall, are hidden throughout a giant atrium.",
"Our group of 12 splits into teams of three, and we give ourselves a two-hour time limit to scavenge for the gnomes.",
"The folks who find the largest number of them win free ice cream or hot chocolate, depending on the weather that night.",
"-- Alicia Carby, Orlando, Florida .",
"RealSimple.com: Readers' recipes from their family ktchens .",
"While we decorate the tree, our family devours a spread of doughnuts and Champagne.",
"We always save the wire cage from the top of the bottle, write the year underneath the cap with a permanent marker, then affix the cage to a high branch.",
"My husband and I have done this since we got married, nearly three decades ago, so this year there will be 27 Champagne cages adorning our tree.",
"They are unusual, to say the least, and add a fun pop of color.",
"-- Evelyn Cucchiara, Madison, New Jersey .",
"One tradition that my clan adopted from our hometown of Maracaibo, Venezuela -- in fact, it's common in several Latin American countries -- is to wear a new pair of yellow underpants on New Year's Eve and into the following day.",
"It's supposed to bring good luck.",
"My husband, who is American, was amused to hear of this custom when I told him about it back in 2006.",
"Later that same day, he came home with two pairs of underwear: Mine were simply yellow, but he could find only a pair of SpongeBob Square-pants boxers for himself.",
"Two pairs of lucky underwear now top our holiday shopping lists every year.",
"-- Natalia Gustafson, Baton Rouge, Louisiana .",
"After a few glasses of wine on Christmas Eve, my family and friends play Name That Tune using my late mother's collection of wooden nutcrackers.",
"The rules are simple: You \"crack\" out the song using the jaw's lever, and the group has to guess what it is.",
"Christmas carols are typically easy to identify -- I can pull off a mean version of \"Jingle Bell Rock\" -- but opera, which was my mom's favorite, and blues, my uncle's music of choice, are nearly impossible to recognize.",
"-- Marybeth Kass, Holyoke, Massachusetts .",
"Our tree is covered with mementos instead of ornaments.",
"We have key chains from trips (Germany, the Grand Canyon); my grandmother's credit cards from high-end stores, like Harrods in London; and the hook my brother wore when he played Captain Hook in second grade -- all of which are hung with green ribbon.",
"During the year, we keep the more fragile items (origami swans, napkins with funny quotes scribbled on them, business cards) pressed between the pages of a Life magazine from the 1960s, which is when my parents started this tradition.",
"Flipping through that magazine is a beloved part of the occasion now, too.",
"-- Genna Hinkle, Saratoga Springs, New York .",
"Our New Year's Eve would not be complete without bagna cauda, a southern Italian dip.",
"Its literal translation is \"hot bath.\"",
"To make it, you combine anchovies, tuna, garlic, and heavy cream in a sizzling skillet.",
"(A word of warning: The overpowering smell may ward off some guests.)",
"Still, we believe, as the Italians of Calabria do, that you must consume at least one cabbage leaf soaked in it or your luck in the coming year may be jeopardized.",
"-- Anne Johnson, Prior Lake, Minnesota .",
"RealSimple.com: How do you make holiday entertaining less stressful?",
"I trace my kids' hands on our red flannel tree skirt with fabric-paint pens and also include their ages.",
"I have been doing this for the past seven years.",
"My boys, ages 13 and 11, have loved witnessing how their hands have grown.",
"The skirt is now half-full.",
"Someday we'll add their spouses' handprints, or just wait for their children to be born.",
"-- Rebecca Wheat Townsend, Abilene, Texas .",
"We collect dry milkweed pods in the fall.",
"Then we open them during the holidays and blow the fluffy white seeds all over our tree.",
"It looks like snow on the branches.",
"-- Vicki Ann Shannon, Marshall, Missouri .",
"At midnight on New Year's Eve, our family and friends join us to bang on the light post in front of our home.",
"Using hammers and wrenches, we hit the post for about two minutes straight while shouting, \"Happy New Year!\"",
"Hopefully, we don't drive the neighbors crazy.",
"-- Lorrie Kellerman-Fullmer, Anthem, Arizona .",
"Our tradition is eating plum pudding and hard sauce, which is a topping made of butter, sugar, and alcohol.",
"While my sisters and I were growing up, my Irish mother always bought a particular brand of pudding.",
"When the company stopped making it, we tried other versions, but nothing tasted right to us.",
"Mom experimented until she came up with a recipe that was reminiscent of the original.",
"Nowadays, we live far apart from one another, but one thing we all do during the holidays is whip up her matchless holiday treat.",
"-- Maura Diehl, Orefield, Pennsylvania .",
"Every January, my family cuts the base off the Christmas tree in order to display it in a glass-topped coffee table.",
"It's a long process: To keep the wood from rotting, we dry it out for several months, then coat the entire thing in polyurethane.",
"We then use rub-on numbers to mark the year.",
"There is the base of the tree my brother pulled down as a toddler, and one from the tiny tree my dad had when he was serving in Saudi Arabia.",
"The nearly three dozen bases make up a family time line like no other.",
"-- Marley Cassels, Columbia, Missouri .",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
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"One reader's family participates in a marshmallow fight every Christmas Eve .",
"Many families participate in a Yankee swap -- a trick gift exchange .",
"People wear a pair of yellow underpants in Latin American countries on New Year's Eve ."
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"(CNN) -- Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was rebounding Saturday after hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid during snow and ice that snarled air traffic across Europe, authorities said.",
"Flight delays at de Gaulle were expected to decrease as the day went on.",
"Officials could not give an exact number of flight cancellations.",
"The weather improved Saturday and shipments of de-icing fluid from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Germany, will help alleviate future problems, officials said.",
"Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, minister for transportation and ecology, said she wants more information on the fluid shortage.",
"About 300 people who spent the night at the airport were provided with food and blankets, officials said.",
"Transport ministry official Thierry Mariani paid them a visit and volunteers provided stuff animals for children and gifts of chocolate.",
"Some passengers and others were critical of what happened at de Gaulle, but officials blamed the situation largely on the weather.",
"Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeoan told the news agency AFP the airline had not been informed of the problems.",
"\"It is surprising and somewhat [impermissible] that an airport such as Roissy Charles de Gaulle could experience such a supply problem.",
"It is an isolated case in Europe,\" said Gourgeoan.",
"Meanwhile, the Brussels, Belgium, airport reported that operations were nearly back to normal Saturday, with two of three runways operational.",
"Gatwick Airport and Heathrow Airports in London said airlines were operating, but some delays or cancellations were possible.",
"Airports across Europe are still struggling to get passengers to their destinations after they were snarled by unexpected snow over the weekend.",
"Nearly 2,000 passengers at de Gaulle were moved from Terminal 2E to other parts of the airport on Friday because of the weight of snow on a roof, French authorities said, calling the measure \"preventative.\"",
"Part of the roof of that terminal collapsed in 2004, shortly after the state-of-the-art building was inaugurated.",
"Four people were killed, media reports at the time said.",
"About a foot of snow had fallen on the roof Friday by the time authorities decided to close the terminal, French media reports said.",
"French authorities earlier Friday asked airlines to cancel half their morning flights to and from the airport because the de-icing fluid was running low.",
"That led to the cancellation of 400 flights Friday morning -- 200 arrivals and 200 departures.",
"Then, early in the afternoon, authorities asked airlines to scrap a third of their flights for the rest of the day.",
"Charles de Gaulle is the second busiest airport in Europe, after Heathrow in London.",
"Paris' second airport, Orly, has not had to cancel flights because it is not running out of glycol, which is using for de-icing, authorities said.",
"CNN's Niki Cook and Per Nyberg contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Officials will investigate de-icing fluid shortage .",
"Christmas Day brings smoother operations at Charles de Gaulle Airport .",
"About a foot of snow falls on the de Gaulle roof, forcing a partial evacuation .",
"European airports are recovering from long delays ."
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"(CNN) -- Following in the footsteps of many other celebrities, the miners who spent more than two months trapped underground in a Chilean mine are \"going to Disney World.\"",
"\"The amazing story of these miners captured the attention of the world for demonstrating the true power and resilience of the human spirit,\" Disney President and CEO Bob Iger said in a statement.",
"\"We are proud to welcome these courageous men and their families to the Walt Disney World Resort.\"",
"Disney is picking up the tab for the miners, their rescuers and their immediate families during a six-night stay -- January 27 to February 2.",
"Each family will get a $500 gift card.",
"The group will serve as honorary Grand Marshals of a Main Street U.S.A. parade.",
"The story of the miners, known simply as \"the 33\" in Chile, transfixed much of the world during their 69 day ordeal about half a mile below ground.",
"They have been popular on the American talk show circuit since their rescue in October and have been honored by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and on the \"CNN Heroes\" show."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan and NATO troops killed 10 insurgents during separate sweeps in southern and eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Monday.",
"ISAF said coalition troops spotted insurgents placing an improvised explosive device in the Musa Qal'ah district of Helmand province and killed several with small arms fire.",
"In the Tagab district of Kapisa province, ISAF said a combined patrol of coalition and Afghan forces came under fire from insurgents.",
"The patrol returned fire, killing and wounding what ISAF described as \"numerous\" insurgents.",
"ISAF also said separate patrols found a number of weapons, ammunition and explosive components in caches located in eastern and southern Afghanistan.",
"Meanwhile, one person died and 26 were injured when a car bomb exploded Monday as police were picking up their paychecks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, authorities said.",
"The bomb detonated in a Toyota Corolla about 500 meters (1,640 feet) from Kabul Bank, a police security director there said.",
"The Kandahar Government Media and Information Center said the injured included 16 police and 10 civilians.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati and Arwa Damon contributed to this report."
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"Car bomb explodes in Kandahar as police picked up their paychecks .",
"1 person died and 26 others were injured in the bombing ."
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"(CNN) -- Thirty-six people in northern India are dead and another 28 are injured following a collision between a bus and a vehicle carrying mourners from a funeral, an official news agency reported Sunday, citing local officials.",
"The crash occurred late Saturday outside Badaun, in Uttar Pradesh state, District Magistrate Amit Gupta told the official Press Trust of India agency.",
"The state government bus collided with a vehicle, known as a matador, that was transporting people back from a ceremony marking the last rites of a relative, Badaun police Superintendent D.K.",
"Chaudhary said.",
"The bus driver, Bahm Swaroop, was among those killed, according to Chaudhary.",
"Thirty-four people were pronounced dead soon after the crash, while five of the 30 hurt were seriously wounded, officials said.",
"Two people died of their injuries early Sunday, according to Gupta.",
"Details of the accident were not available.",
"The provincial government has announced that it will give payments of 2 lakhs (about $4,500 in U.S. currency) to the families of those killed, with 50,000 rupees (about $1,100) going to the injured, the Press Trust of India reported."
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"Crash occurs late Saturday near Badaun, an official tells Indian state-run news agency .",
"In addition to the 36 killed, 28 needed treatment .",
"One vehicle was bringing people back from a ceremony marking the last rites of a relative .",
"Provincial government giving payments to those hurt and relatives of those killed ."
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"(CNN) -- Ecuador is the latest country to recognize an independent Palestinian state.",
"The government said on Friday that President Rafael Correa recognized \"the Palestine State as free and independent within its borders since 1967.\"",
"Others countries -- such as Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay -- recently made the same move.",
"These diplomatic initiatives come after the breakdown of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.",
"Palestinians have been seeking international recognition of an independent state, a strategy to achieve statehood outside the framework of talks with Israel.",
"\"Sadly, the Middle East continues to face wars and violent events that have led to the death of many innocent people, a situation contrary to the humane and pacifist position established by the Ecuadorian Constitution.",
"This recognition is meant to reinforce the valid and legitimate wish of the Palestine people to have their own free and independent state,\" the Ecuadorian government said.",
"Ecuador said the acknowledgment of such a state has been legitimized by U.N. Security Council resolutions, numbers 242 and 338, and an Arab peace initiative adopted in the 2002 Beirut Summit.",
"The recognition of an independent Palestine, the government said, \"will be fundamental to achieve the peaceful co-existence of the nations in the region through dialogue and mediation.\""
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"Palestinians have recently requested state recognition .",
"This comes amid a breakdown in talks with Israel ."
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"(CNN) -- The votes are in, the numbers tallied and icon can now reveal that Santiago Sierra is the artist you find most controversial.",
"The Spanish artist's unapologetic art frequently scandalizes audiences, with some of his more controversial works including the transformation a former synagogue in Germany into a gas chamber.",
"In second place you picked dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, famous for destroying historic Chinese urns and coming in at number three was American artist Jeff Koons.",
"Also making the top five were Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic and Richard Prince, best known for his provocative image of a 10-year-old Brooke Shields.",
"Last month, CNN's arts and culture program, icon, asked you to vote for your top five controversial artists.",
"This month, we want to know your thoughts on the greatest dancers of the past century.",
"Our top 20 list features prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Hollywood star Fred Astaire and Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta.",
"We'll reveal your top five on January 27 when the next show airs."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday congratulated President Barack Obama on the Senate's approval of a new nuclear arms control treaty between the countries, the White House said.",
"According to a White House statement, the two presidents spoke by phone on the first day of Obama's Hawaiian holiday after Congress adjourned Wednesday in a flurry of legislative action, including the Senate vote to pass the treaty -- a major foreign policy objective of the Obama administration.",
"\"President Obama and President Medvedev spoke by phone this morning to discuss the new START Treaty and their continued close cooperation on a range of critical issues,\" the White House statement said.",
"\"President Medvedev congratulated President Obama on the Senate's approval of the new START Treaty, and the two leaders agreed that this was an historic event for both countries and for U.S.-Russia relations.\"",
"Obama cited issues of cooperation with Russia including Afghanistan, sanctions on Iran and World Trade Organization developments, the statement said.",
"Obama added it was important for the two countries to work together \"to support a peaceful referendum in Sudan and a resolution to the impasse in Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) that respects the results of the recent democratic election,\" according to the statement.",
"The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, was passed on a 71-26 Senate vote, with several Republicans joining a unified Democratic caucus in support of the accord.",
"The treaty will bring resumed inspections of each country's nuclear arsenal while limiting both the United States and Russia to 1,550 warheads and 700 launchers.",
"It still needs to be approved by the Russian parliament.",
"Signed by Obama and Medvedev in April, the treaty is considered a critical component of nuclear non-proliferation efforts and the administration's attempt to \"reset\" Washington's relationship with Moscow.",
"\"This is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades,\" Obama said Wednesday after the Senate vote.",
"It \"will enhance our leadership to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and seek the peace of a world without them.\"",
"Several senators were reassured by the last-minute passage of an amendment stating that the accord should not be interpreted in a way that would hamper U.S. missile defense plans.",
"The amendment was sponsored by Republican senators John McCain of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee, among others.",
"Others said they had been assured of an administration commitment to modernize America's aging nuclear arsenal.",
"\"The people of the world are watching us, because they rely on our leadership,\" said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Massachusetts.",
"It is time to \"move the world a little more out of the dark shadow of nuclear nightmare.\"",
"\"We are the leading nuclear power on this earth.",
"It is our responsibility to lead,\" said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota.",
"This treaty is \"a step in the right direction.\"",
"Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, called it a step forward in terms of constraining \"expensive arms competition with Russia\" and frustrating \"rogue nations who would prefer as much distance as possible between the United States and Russia.\"",
"Not all Republicans were convinced of the treaty's merits, however.",
"Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, argued on the Senate floor that the basic premise of the treaty -- that America's nuclear arsenal should be at parity with Russia's -- is flawed.",
"\"Russia is a protector of none and a threat to many.",
"America is a protector of many and a threat to none,\" DeMint said.",
"DeMint also voiced an ongoing conservative complaint in the lame-duck session -- that Democrats were ramming the treaty through as part of a long list of partisan priorities rejected by the public in the midterm elections.",
"\"We should not be passing major legislation at this time of year with this Congress,\" he said.",
"The arms pact is part of \"a continued effort of accommodation and appeasement\" that makes a \"mockery of the debate and ratification process.\"",
"Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, called the treaty \"an echo from the 20th century\" that fails to account for new and emerging threats.",
"Kirk and several other senators expressed a fear that the treaty would weaken America's ability to prevent potential nuclear attacks from countries such as Iran and North Korea.",
"McCain himself, despite passage of the amendment he sponsored, ultimately voted against the accord.",
"He argued that it \"re-establishes an old and outdated linkage between nuclear arms and missile defense, which is no longer suited to the threats of today's world.\"",
"Passage of the treaty appeared to be in doubt for weeks.",
"A late burst of support came Tuesday, however, after treaty supporters voted down or tabled several Republican amendments, saying they were unnecessary and would imperil the pact by reopening negotiated language or understandings with Russia.",
"The defeated amendments included adding a reference to tactical nuclear weapons and a bid to remove from the preamble language recognizing a relationship between offensive and defensive weapons.",
"An overwhelming majority of Americans support ratification of the treaty, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday: 73 percent of people questioned in the national poll said the Senate should approve the accord, while 24 percent said senators should reject it.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Tom Cohen, Dana Bash, Ted Barrett and Lesa Jansen contributed to this report."
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"The treaty will bring back inspections and limit each nation's warheads and launchers ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- After eight months of bickering and political paralysis, Iraqi leaders were thought to have finally reached a power-sharing agreement Thursday for a new government, but that deal appeared to fall apart late in the day as members of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya List walked out of the parliamentary session.",
"Jalal Talabani, sworn in late Thursday for a second term as president, delegated Shiite Prime Minister Nuril al-Maliki to form a government within 30 days, as mandated by the constitution.",
"Thursday's session then adjourned until Saturday.",
"Quarreling that has typified Iraq's gridlock re-emerged during the parliamentary session, from which most members of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc walked out saying that the other political blocs were not adhering to their promise to vote on the tentative power-sharing agreement, which had been reached late Wednesday.",
"The Iraqiya List had wanted parliament to vote on that agreement before voting for a president in order to ensure guarantees that had been promised to the Sunnis were in fact delivered.",
"In the past, politicians have made promises to Sunnis that have not materialized, resulting in a widespread lack of trust.",
"Politicians had cobbled out a compromise Wednesday that would have left Maliki in power and created a powerful new office that was expected to be headed by his rival, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, lawmakers said Thursday.",
"Under the proposed deal, the three major governmental positions were to have been filled by three members of the country's largest ethnic groups -- the Shiites, the Kurds and the Sunni Arabs.",
"Al-Maliki is Shia.",
"Jalal Talabani, who was to remain as president, is Kurdish.",
"Lawmakers on Thursday elected Osama al-Nujaifi, a Sunni Arab from the Iraqiya bloc, to be the parliament speaker.",
"They also chose Qusay al-Suhail, a lawmaker from the hard-line Shiite Sadrists, to be first deputy speaker and Aref Tayfoor, who is Kurdish, as the second deputy.",
"But Sunnis did not consider Nujaifi to be adequate representation, and many members of the Iraqiya bloc walked out when parliament didn't accept its demand for a vote on the actual power-sharing agreement.",
"Shiite lawmakers said the vote couldn't be taken because it was not on the agenda, but Allawi disputed this.",
"Even al-Nujaifi walked out, saying he had reservations over continuing the session marked by distrust.",
"But, shortly afterward, he returned without explanation.",
"Still, politicians were hopeful that a deal could emerge.",
"Prior to the walkout, Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish lawmaker, said, \"We reached a power-sharing deal but it is like assembling a car with different parts and hoping it will work.\"",
"Iraq's government had been in a stalemate since the March 7 parliamentary elections, in which al-Maliki won 89 seats but lost to Allawi's bloc, which won 91 seats.",
"The political vacuum that followed has stoked fears that political instability would fester.",
"In Washington, a senior administration official who did not want to be identified called the agreement \"a big step for Iraq.\"",
"\"We've worked very hard in recent months with the Iraqis to achieve one basic result, and that's a government that's inclusive, that reflects the results of the elections, that includes all the major blocs representing Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups, and that does not exclude or marginalize anyone,\" the official said.",
"\"And that's exactly what the Iraqis seem to have agreed to do.\"",
"Another senior administration official who asked not to be identified told reporters, \"This really is an Iraqi victory because this was an Iraqi decision that was made by Iraqis in Iraq.\"",
"The first senior administration official said U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had spoken \"to virtually all of the major Iraqi leaders\" in recent days.",
"In the calls, Obama \"reiterated our strong desire to see an inclusive government in Iraq, and welcomed the steps that have been taken toward reaching that goal,\" said Ben Rhodes, deputy National Security Council adviser for strategic communications.",
"\"He also stressed the need for Dr. Allawi, other members of Iraqiyya, and representatives from all of the winning blocs to hold leadership positions in the new national partnership government.\"",
"The move comes as the United States has been drawing down its seven-year military presence to a noncombat force.",
"Overall levels of violence have decreased since 2006 and 2007, but the country has endured eruptions of attacks lately that resemble the Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence during the height of the war.",
"The incumbent al-Maliki, whose State of Law coalition is Shiite, has backing in Iran and from many Iraqi Shiites, including the influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.",
"The choice of a Sadrist as a deputy parliament speaker reflects the movement's clout, and al-Maliki's alliance with Sadrists has stoked concern among U.S. officials because of anti-Americanism in the group.",
"Allawi, who served as prime minister in the early years of the new post-Saddam Hussein Iraqi government, is from a Shiite background but is a secular figure who is well regarded by many American officials.",
"His bloc, regarded as secular and cross-sectarian, has won a great deal of support from Sunni Arabs and he has consistently opposed al-Maliki for another term as prime minister.",
"The two leaders had been jockeying for enough votes for a coalition government, but neither had been able to garner the 163-seat majority needed in the Council of Representatives to form a government.",
"Earlier this week, Iraq's top political leaders met in the Kurdish north to break the more than eight-month deadlock, a development sponsored by Kurdistan Regional Government.",
"There had been fears that Allawi's bloc would boycott any government led by al-Maliki, but the creation of an entity called The National Council for the Strategic Policies appeared to have helped ease the way for compromise.",
"The body was created in an effort to reduce the power of the prime minister, Othman said, and the committee was to be headed by Allawi.",
"Iraqiya was demanding that legislators pass a law within 30 days forming the national council and forming a committee to review the files of people illegally detained, a great concern for Sunni Arabs who have accused Iraq's Shiite-dominated government of persecuting them.",
"It was calling for a final agreement on outstanding legislation and for canceling a ban on three top Sunni Arab politicians from running in elections.",
"Those three have been accused of ties to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baathist movement.",
"If a power-sharing agreement is not reached in which Iraq's Sunnis feel fairly represented, sectarian violence could re-erupt in Iraq, a country where politics and violence tend to go hand in hand.",
"Many Iraqis told CNN that they blame a recent rise in violence on the political vacuum of the last eight months."
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"\"It is like assembling a car with different parts and hoping it will work,\" a legislator says ."
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"(CNN) -- The disputed head of the Ivory Coast will not step down, one of his key ministers said Saturday, despite the threat by West African leaders to use military force to force him out.",
"A day earlier, a statement from the 15-member Economic Community of West African States said its 15 members would not hesitate to use \"legitimate force\" if necessary to defuse an escalating crisis in the Ivory Coast.",
"But Alcide Djedje, the foreign affairs minister for incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo, on Saturday dismissed the threat as part of a Western plot spearheaded by France.",
"He said that his regime views the prospect of outside military action unlikely, claiming that the West African group's members would be reluctant to send soldiers into the Ivory Coast.",
"The organization's move was the latest to isolate Gbagbo, amid sweeping international sentiment that he is not the Ivory Coast's rightfully elected leader and that his forces have perpetrated human rights abuses against his opponents.",
"The United Nations, African Union, European Union and numerous individual nations have called for Gbagbo to step down, with many also calling out his regime for its actions against political foes in the past week that have reportedly killed scores of people.",
"Still, the call from the Economic Community was especially significant, given that the Ivory Coast is a member and its mention of possible military action.",
"\"In the event that Mr. Gbagbo fails to heed this immutable demand of ECOWAS, the Community would be left with no alternative but to take other measures, including the use of legitimate force, to achieve the goals of the Ivorian people,\" the group said in a statement following an emergency meeting Friday in Abuja, Nigeria.",
"Under the leadership of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, the regional bloc will coordinate, \"without delay,\" a meeting of defense ministers from member countries \"to plan future actions, including the provision of security along the Cote d'Ivoire-Liberia border,\" the statement said.",
"This back-and-forth comes as the security situation in the Ivory Coast continues to deteriorate.",
"The United Nations refugee agency said Saturday that about 14,000 Ivory Coast residents escaping that country have fled to eastern Liberia, some walking hours if not days before boarding barges on rivers bordering the West African nation.",
"A few deaths have been reported among the refugees, including a child who drowned while crossing the Cestos River into Butuo.",
"In some locales without ambulances, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees vehicles are being used to take people out to get medical care.",
"\"Some are arriving with severely swollen feet,... some families said they had walked three to four days through the bush with little food,\" the U.N. agency said in a statement.",
"A spokesman for Alassane Ouattara, widely recognized as the Ivory Coast's legitimate leader following a November 28 run-off election, accused Gbagbo of defying democratic ideals and instead embarking on new era of violence.",
"Spokesman Patrick Achi said Friday that Ouattara hopes the West African leaders will be able to help end the turmoil.",
"Meanwhile, the Dutch Defense Ministry said on Friday that at the request of France, it had dispatched one of its ships to the Ivory Coast to help evacuate European citizens in case the situation worsens.",
"And U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said earlier this week that the United States and other countries were discussing with African nations the possibility of augmenting the existing U.N. force in the Ivory Coast.",
"However, he said it was unclear what a U.S. contribution could look like -- forces of logistical support or something more indirect were among the options.",
"The African Union has suspended the Ivory Coast from the organization \"until such a time the democratically elected president effectively assumes state power.\"",
"The World Bank has halted lending and disbursing funds to Ivory Coast and has closed its office in the country.",
"On Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the decision of the U.N. General Assembly to recognize Ouattara as the winner of the disputed Ivory Coast election.",
"\"This important decision reflects the united position of the international community with respect to the legitimacy of the new government led by President Ouattara,\" a spokesman for the secretary-general said in a written statement.",
"Kyung-wha Kang, the U.N. deputy high commissioner for human rights, has said that between December 16 and Tuesday, human rights officers had \"substantiated allegations of 173 killings, 90 instances of torture and ill treatment, 471 arrests and detentions and 24 cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances.\"",
"She added that the actual numbers may be much higher because \"it has been impossible to investigate all the allegations of serious human rights violations, including reports of mass graves, due to restrictions on movement by U.N.",
"personnel.\" While acknowledging \"the situation is very, very difficult to live\" in, Charles Ble Goude -- the nation's youth minister under Gbagbo -- said Thursday the government is \"dealing with that.\"",
"He said \"the U.N. report is not correct,\" especially in its fingering fellow Gbagbo backers as being to blame for the recent violence.",
"Instead, he accused Ouattara's supporters of using weapons at what had been billed as peaceful rallies to attack soldiers.",
"After last month's election, the country's Independent Electoral Commission named Ouattara the winner.",
"But its Constitutional Council invalidated those results and declared that Gbagbo won.",
"Goude said that he and others in Gbagbo's circle couldn't accept the electoral commission picking Ouattara, noting that it announced its decision in a hotel that was also being used as Ouattara's headquarters.",
"While stressing a desire for talks on the issue, he said there is no intention for Gbagbo to forfeit a seat that he believes is rightfully his.",
"\"Why do you want someone who won an election to step down?\"",
"Goude asked.",
"\"The president has been elected.\""
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"The Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo will not step down, his foreign minister says .",
"The official dismisses as unlikely a threat by West African leaders to use force against Gbagbo .",
"On Friday, that group said it may have \"no alternative\" but to use \"legitimate force\"\nThe international community has called Gbagbo illegitimate and accused his forces of abuses ."
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"(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is set to arrive in Iran on Monday to discuss the expansion of relations between the two countries, according to Iran's semiofficial Fars News Agency.",
"Chavez will stay for two days in Tehran, and will be accompanied by a Venezuelan delegation, Fars said.",
"He will meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials.",
"Chavez and Ahmadinejad are also expected to discuss regional and international issues, Fars said."
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"Hugo Chavez is expected to arrive in Tehran, Iran, on Monday for a two-day trip .",
"He and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will talk about expanding relations ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- The cholera epidemic already blamed for more than 1,100 deaths in Haiti could worsen because of poor sanitation in the earthquake-ravaged country, U.S. medical researchers reported Thursday.",
"A lack of treated drinking water, coupled with poor hand hygiene and food-preparation practices, make the 1.3 million people still living in camps particularly vulnerable, according to a new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"\"The course of the cholera outbreak in Haiti is difficult to predict,\" the report states.",
"\"The Haitian population has no pre-existing immunity to cholera, and environmental conditions in Haiti are favorable for its continued spread.\"",
"Jordan Tappero, a CDC epidemiologist in Haiti, said Haitian authorities and aid agencies are working to limit the epidemic by emphasizing clean water and sanitation.",
"But he added, \"We expect we will be working very hard for many months to come.\"",
"Haiti has not reported a cholera outbreak in more than a century.",
"The current epidemic was first reported in October and has now spread to eight of the Caribbean nation's 10 provinces, the CDC found.",
"Reports linking the outbreak to Nepalese troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSTAH sparked riots in the northern port city of Cap-Haitien on Tuesday.",
"A new round of violent protests erupted Thursday in the capital Port-au-Prince, eyewitnesses told CNN.",
"U.N. officials have denied the Nepalese were to blame for the outbreak.",
"The CDC has said the strain of the cholera bacteria responsible is \"indistinguishable\" from one found in other parts of the world, including south Asia, but researchers are unlikely to be able to pinpoint how it arrived in Haiti.",
"\"The reality is that we have a serious problem here,\" CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell said.",
"The emphasis is on controlling the outbreak, \"so that more people do not become ill and potentially die from cholera.\"",
"The epidemic comes as Haiti -- already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere -- struggles to recover from the January earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.",
"Even before the quake, only 12 percent of the Haitian population of 9.8 million received treated tap water and only 17 percent had access to adequate sanitation, the CDC noted.",
"\"The water safety and sanitation systems in Haiti were weak be before the earthquake and made weaker by the earthquake, so conditions are ripe for the further spread of cholera,\" Tappero told CNN.",
"Some symptoms of cholera, an acute, bacterial illness caused by drinking tainted water, can be mild or even nonexistent.",
"But the disease can cause profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting, leading to death by rapid dehydration.",
"The heart of the outbreak is the Haitian province of Artibonite, north of Port-au-Prince.",
"Interviews with victims hospitalized in the first days of the outbreak found that two-thirds of them had been drinking untreated water from rivers or canals, the same percentage did not routinely use chlorine to sanitize drinking water and nearly four out of five defecated in the open.",
"And as the current outbreak spreads, infected people could spread the disease further by preparing food without proper hygiene, the CDC reported.",
"\"The way to prevent acquiring cholera when sanitation is poor is to take your water from a clean water source or treat water yourself in the home, and use good sanitary practices with clean water when preparing and cooking food,\" Tappero said.",
"CNN's Miriam Falco and Matt Smith contributed to this report."
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"Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Like cholera itself, Haiti's protests against the United Nations spread Thursday to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets demanding the global body get out of their country.",
"Similar demonstrations erupted earlier this week in the northern coastal city of Cap-Haitien after assertions that U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal were responsible for starting the cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 1,100 lives and spread to eight of the nation's 10 departments.",
"The United Nations has denied that its forces were responsible for the outbreak.",
"In Port-au-Prince on Thursday, a planned protest began peacefully in the center of the city but turned violent as it moved toward the presidential palace, with one woman overcome by tear gas, witnesses said.",
"At the central square, Champs de Mars Plaza, several hundred young men moving in a pack blocked traffic by setting fire to tires in the street and overturning Dumpsters.",
"Several threw rocks at a campaign poster for presidential candidate Jude Celestin, whose candidacy has been endorsed by outgoing president Rene Preval.",
"Others threw Molotov cocktails at the poster.",
"Some Haitians have said Celestin is a symbol of what is not working in the country, and that Preval's endorsement of him means the election -- set for November 28 -- will not be fair.",
"Near the presidential palace, which was destroyed in the January 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left more than 1 million homeless, stores were closed and few cars were in the streets, though pedestrians were moving about freely.",
"A sprawling makeshift tent city that is home to thousands of people who lost their homes in the quake is located in the area.",
"\"The Haitian government is never do nothing for us,\" said Pierre Aliodor, a protester who lives in the camp.",
"\"And we know the international government is still spending a lot of money for the Haitian people.",
"But Preval, with his government, he still keeps their money to take back to the United States to buy some house.\"",
"Since the earthquake struck, neither he nor his wife had received any help from the government or from any of the many nongovernmental organizations that are in Haiti, Aliodor said.",
"Aliodor called for elections to be delayed.",
"\"This is not election time,\" he said, adding that both Preval and the U.N. forces should depart, \"because they are not good for the Haitian people.\"",
"In another part of town, dozens of Haitians -- most of them young and male -- attacked a government tractor that was being used to clear barricades blocking the streets.",
"In addition to the 1,110 reported cholera deaths, another 18,382 people have been hospitalized with the disease, the health ministry reported.",
"The hospital death rate was 4.0 percent, far above the none to 1.0 percent that infectious disease experts said they expect in developed countries.",
"In Washington, Mark Ward, the acting director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said U.S. authorities have \"a lot of confidence\" in the Haitian government's response to the outbreak.",
"The U.S. government strategy for aid in Haiti is to focus on prevention, he said, citing the need for clean drinking water, the addition of chlorine to the water supply, the ready availability of oral rehydration salts, education of the populace about how to protect themselves from getting the disease, and money to expand treatment centers.",
"\"We're going to invest a lot of money in their health system in the next five years,\" said Thomas C. Adams, special coordinator for Haiti.",
"\"Every hour that the efforts of medical and relief workers are obstructed means more deaths of Haitians from cholera,\" said Dr. Mirta Roses, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).",
"\"We understand the frustration of many Haitians with the tragic situation that has developed as a result of systemic poverty, the January earthquake and now the cholera epidemic.",
"But relief and medical workers are as critical to saving lives as rescue teams were after the earthquake.\"",
"In Cap-Haitien, a cholera treatment center at the main stadium is being operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors without Borders.",
"Before the recent unrest, the organization was planning to open another center in a different part of town, said Dr. Lea Guido, PAHO representative in Port-au-Prince.",
"On Wednesday alone, the center took in 100 patients.",
"PAHO said the unrest had led it and other United Nations agencies to discontinue much of their work supporting cholera treatment centers, training health personnel, and delivering supplies to affected communities.",
"\"The last shipment of medical supplies was delivered over the weekend, and we had to postpone distribution planned for Monday,\" said Guido.",
"\"The airport was closed, and many roads remain blocked.",
"We have not been able to ship new supplies to the area at all this week.\"",
"Beginning Monday, residents of Cap-Haitien, which has been hard hit by the outbreak, began demonstrations against U.N. peacekeepers.",
"The northern port city is in the North Department, the Haitian province that has the highest fatality rate from cholera, 7.5 percent.",
"\"Experience shows that without access to health care, the rate could rise to as much as five times that figure,\" PAHO said in a statement.",
"Health workers at Hopital Universitaire, the city's main hospital, treated at least six patients with gunshot wounds.",
"\"MINUSTAH shot them,\" said a man pushing a wheelbarrow holding one of the wounded.",
"He was referring to the U.N. forces in Haiti by their acronym.",
"At Cap-Haitien's Justinien Hospital, Dr. Wilton Cheruben told CNN that 37 people with bullet wounds had been treated between Monday and Wednesday night.",
"The victims included a 9-year-old and a 14-year-old who were shot in the mouth; a 6-year-old was shot in the back and an 11-year-old was shot in the arm, he said.",
"\"Right now, we don't have any anesthetics, and the people really need some help,\" he said.",
"In Cap-Haitien, PAHO staff members have been confined to their living quarters since Monday.",
"Roses said Thursday it was impossible to identify the origins of the epidemic in Haiti \"with currently available data.\"",
"Rita Colwell, a cholera expert at the University of Maryland in College Park and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said the reported links between the outbreak and peacekeepers is not based on evidence.",
"\"The evidence is not clear at all to be making any charge whatsoever for importing the disease,\" she said.",
"\"We've been jumping to conclusions without evidence, without facts.\"",
"U.N. officials said the demonstrations have disrupted logistical operations, including the supply of clean water and proper sanitation.",
"The U.N.'s World Food Programme reported that one of its warehouses had been looted and that food supplies were burned.",
"The private charity Oxfam suspended water chlorination projects and other private charities pulled out of the Cap Haitien area.",
"U.N. staffers have suggested the violence is politically motivated and said it's especially troubling just ahead of Haiti's presidential elections.",
"Journalists Dmitri Foucard and Osman Jean Junior contributed to this story from Port-au-Prince ."
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