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"(CNN) -- England striker Wayne Rooney scored his 100th English Premier League goal to help Manchester United keep their title hopes alive with a stunning 3-1 win at rivals Arsenal.",
"The in-form Rooney, who had scored 22 goals in all competitions this season prior to the match -- including four against Hull City last weekend -- achieved the milestone with United's second goal, a brilliant finish following a devastating counter-attack.",
"United, who won by the same scoreline at the Emirates in last year's Champions League semifinal, needed a victory to keep pace with Chelsea at the top of the table -- and they took a 33rd-minute lead with a moment of skill from Portuguese winger Nani.",
"Nani, who has failed to establish himself as a regular during his time at Old Trafford, flicked the ball past Arsenal's Gael Clichy and Samir Nasir on the right wing, before producing a delicate lob that goalkeeper Manuel Almunia could only palm into his own net.",
"And United doubled their lead four minutes later when Nani out-stripped the Arsenal defence on the break and Rooney -- who had started the move -- ran half the length of the pitch to be on hand in support to fire past Almunia.",
"Arsenal continued to press forward looking for a way back into the match, but once again they were caught on the break as this time Korean Ji-Sung Park burst through a huge gap in the home defence to slide home the decisive third goal early in the second half.",
"United had chances to increase their advantage with both Rooney and Nani close to adding a fouth, but it was Arsenal who claimed a late consolation when Thomas Vermaelen's shot found the net after taking a deflection off Jonny Evans.",
"\"That was a great performance by us.",
"We played really well,\" United manager Sir Alex Ferguson told Sky Sports.",
"\"This is the time of the season we really need to kick on -- and it was an impressive result.",
"We were sharp and incisive and could have scored more.",
"\"But we are still behind Chelsea and I hope that Arsenal go there and batter them next Sunday!\"",
"The result means United remain a point behind Chelsea at the top of the table, although the London side have a game in hand -- at Hull on Tuesday.",
"Arsenal are now five points behind Chelsea in third place having played a game more and, if Chelsea win in midweek, that gap will increase to eight points ahead of the two sides meeting at Stamford Bridge next Sunday.",
"It proved a good day for Manchester as United's rivals City maintained their push for a Champions League place with a comfortable 2-0 home win over crisis-club Portsmouth.",
"Bottom-of-the-table Portsmouth -- who agreed to sell defender Younes Kaboul to Tottenham this weekend just so the wage bill could be paid -- went behind when Emmanuel Adebayor fired City ahead with his first goal since his traumatic experience with Togo at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.",
"And City made the points safe on the stroke of half-time when Vincent Kompany powered a header past goalkeeper David James from Martin Petrov's corner."
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"Rooney helps Manchester United claim a superb 3-1 victory at Premier League rivals Arsenal .",
"The result keeps champions United just a point behind leaders Chelsea at the top of the table ."
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"(CNN) -- England captain John Terry shrugged off lurid allegations about his private life to score the winning goal as Chelsea claimed a vital 2-1 victory at Burnley to go four points clear in the Premier League.",
"Terry unsuccessfully failed with a High Court injunction to prevent newspapers publishing the revelations about an alleged affair with the former girlfriend of ex-teammate Wayne Bridge.",
"There were doubts that Terry would even play at Turf Moor, but with the clock counting down and the scores tied 1-1, he came up for a corner and headed an 82nd minute winner.",
"The win takes Chelsea four points clear of Manchester United, who play third-placed Arsenal in a vital match in the title race at the Emirates on Sunday.",
"\"It was a very difficult game,\" Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti told ESPN before praising his captain.",
"\"He's a fantastic player.",
"Every game, he plays very well.",
"\"He's an important player for us.",
"All of Chelsea support him.\"",
"Nicolas Anelka had given Chelsea a 27th-minute lead with his sixth goal in six games, but the relegation battlers equalized in the 50th minute as Steven Fletcher foxed defender Alex before shooting past Petr Cech.",
"Earlier, the race for the fourth Champions League place tightened up as Tottenham were held 1-1 at Birmingham.",
"Jermaie Defoe looked to have given Spurs three points until Liam Ridgewell's injury-time equalizer.",
"But their rivals for fourth, Liverpool and Aston Villa, both won to keep up the pressure.",
"Liverpool beat Bolton 2-0 to stay a point adrift of Spurs in fifth while Villa, who have a game in hand, are two points behind after defeating Fulham by the same scoreline in a match where Gabriel Agbonlahor scored both goals.",
"In the tight relegation battle, second from bottom Hull failed to climb out of the relegation zone after a 2-2 home draw with fellow strugglers Wolves.",
"In-form Everton made it four league wins from five with a 1-0 victory away to Wigan while Blackburn Rovers and West Ham shared the points in a goalless draw at Upton Park."
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"Terry played despite headline-grabbing allegations about his private life in English newspapers .",
"Chelsea go four points clear in the English Premier League with the victory .",
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"(CNN) -- On a crisp Halloween night, icicle lights and Santa Clauses mingled with ghosts and jack-o'-lanterns in a Washington, Illinois, neighborhood.",
"The community is helping a family squeeze in a little extra holiday cheer with their young son.",
"Doctors say 2-year-old Dax Locke is losing his fight with acute myeloid leukemia and may only have weeks to live, so parents Julie and Austin Locke put Christmas lights up outside their home for the little boy, who loves glowing things.",
"Dax opens presents each day under a tree that's already been up for several weeks.",
"\"We don't have much time left with Dax, don't know if he will make it to Christmas, so we wanted to have Christmas early,\" Julie Locke told local news station WMBD.",
"Neighbor and friend Trish Hurtgen says she and her husband were inspired by the family's efforts, so they put up their own lights and encouraged neighbors to do the same.",
"Soon, the entire block was lit up with Christmas lights.",
"They also planned a special surprise for the family.",
"While the Lockes traveled to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium for a special trip with Dax, the neighborhood banded together to decorate a huge tree in the family's yard so the Lockes could be delighted when they returned just after Halloween.",
"From there, she and other neighbors have helped encourage people to show silent support for the family by putting up Christmas lights at home and around the community.",
"The effort, called Decorate for Dax, has its own Web site with space for people everywhere to send pictures and see others' displays.",
"Hurtgen calls the Lockes a \"family of courage\" that she found inspirational, and she wanted to help if she could.",
"\"This is a family who stayed united and formed a team to help Dax,\" Hurtgen said.",
"\"They gave everything they had.",
"We're trying to do the same thing.\"",
"Dax has spent past holidays at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, but this year, he's at home.",
"Save for receiving palliative radiation to improve his quality of life, he is off cancer treatments.",
"Hurtgen says Dax enjoys going for car rides and seeing the lights on around him.",
"The family plans to make a book out of photos that people send so Dax will be able to see all the lights for Christmas if he's too sick to go outside.",
"iReporter Cindy Miller lives in the area and got involved in local neighborhood decorating projects.",
"She posted a video on CNN iReport to raise awareness of the Decorate for Dax project.",
"She narrated a drive through Dax's neighborhood shortly after Halloween, and many houses were illuminated.",
"Take a cruise through Dax's brightened neighborhood .",
"During one project, locals put up lights and luminarias at a local park.",
"Miller sent photos and video of the illuminated areas she spotted, including a red, white and green sign with Dax's name in bright lights.",
"Miller said her heart was warmed by all the work the community put into the decorations, and she was overjoyed to see Dax out with the family amid all the people helping to decorate.",
"\"I sobbed like a baby, but was overjoyed at the show of support for this family who may not have their baby here at Christmastime.",
"It's unusual to see Christmas lights up so early, but this year, there's a good reason.\"",
"Hurtgen says she's been surprised by how Decorate for Dax has taken off.",
"Submissions have come from all over the United States and in far-flung countries like Australia and Germany.",
"\"I don't know how the word is getting out,\" Hurtgen said.",
"Hurtgen added that one woman even wrote in to say that her husband, stationed in Afghanistan, was working with fellow troops to photograph a lights display for Dax.",
"Send photos of decorations to CNN .",
"Some of the colorful and bright displays she's seen include big signs with Dax's name on them and holiday-themed shapes and figurines.",
"Other displays are more humble, like a message from another boy in a hospital and a makeshift tribute inside a tiny apartment.",
"\"It doesn't have to be big, just your way of showing support.\"",
"The Lockes aren't the only family hosting an early Christmas.",
"Diana Biorkman of South Lyon, Michigan, told CNN affiliate WDIV that her son, Noah, is dying of a Stage 4 neuroblastoma, which is a type of cancer that forms in nerve tissue.",
"Noah loves opening mail, so the family asked people to send him a Christmas card.",
"Word got out, and he started getting gifts and cards from strangers.",
"The family recently picked up a carload of mail and toys.",
"Detroit Tigers baseball player Brandon Inge even sent a card and stopped over for a \"play date\" that included building a snow fort with Noah.",
"Hurtgen says the silent show of support works well for their community because Dax needs his rest and the family needs their privacy.",
"Perhaps, she said, people will see this odd display of early lights and wonder what is going on.",
"Maybe they'll also pause for a moment to think about Dax and about what they can do to help.",
"The family is asking people to make donations to St. Jude.",
"\"That's what Christmas is about, giving and not needing to get in return.\"",
"Everyone is holding out hopes Dax will make it to Christmas.",
"\"Christmas would be a miracle.",
"We're praying for a big miracle.\""
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"(CNN) -- Paraguay coach Gerardo Martino has named Argentina-born striker Lucas Barrios in his 23-man squad for the World Cup in South Africa.",
"Barrios, who has a Paraguayan mother, was given citizenship in April and scored in World Cup warm-up matches against the Republic of Ireland and the Ivory Coast.",
"The 25-year-old, who netted 19 goals for German club Borussia Dortmund this season, will be vying for a starting place with clubmate Nelson Valdez, Roque Santa Cruz of English side Manchester City, Benfica's in-form Oscar Cardozo, Edgar Benitez of Mexico's Pachuca and Libertad's Rodolfo Gamarra.",
"Martino dropped Argentina-based Eduardo Ledesma, Marcos Caceres, Marcelo Estigarribia and Jorge Achucarro from his preliminary 30-man selection, along with midfielders Sergio Aquino and Osvaldo Martinez and defender Julio Manzur.",
"Blog: The World Cup's missing men .",
"Striker Salvador Cabanas was omitted from the initial squad despite being nearly recovered from head wounds after being shot in a bar in Mexico City in January.",
"Mexico coach Javier Aguirre dropped young Barcelona midfielder Jonathan Santos from his final 23-man World Cup squad along with home-based defenders Juan Carlos Valenzuela and Adrian Aldrete.",
"The 20-year-old has won five caps since making his debut last September, and played the whole match as Mexico thrashed Gambia 5-1 on Sunday.",
"His father Geraldo, a Brazilian also known as Zizinho who played for Mexican clubs in the 1980s, said his son would now turn his back on the national team.",
"\"Jonathan will not play for Mexico anymore,\" he told Mexican television network Televisa.",
"\"I love Mexico, I adore it, it is my country even though I am Brazilian but they cannot hurt him this way.\"",
"Blog: Who will be the World Cup's best player?",
"Aguirre's decision leaves the squad with just four specialist midfielders: Jonathan's older brother Giovani, Andres Guardado, Gerrardo Torrado and Israel Castro.",
"Aguirre picked nine defenders, including captain Rafael Marquez of Barcelona, who can also play in midfield.",
"Seven strikers were selected, including 21-year-old Carlos Vela and 37-year-old Cuauhtemoc Blanco, who came out of international retirement last April when Aguirre returned for his second spell in charge to help Mexico qualify.",
"Striker Miguel Sabah, who scored a late winner in a qualifier against the U.S. last August, was ruled out of Aguirre's earlier provisional squad by injury.",
"Argentina coach Diego Maradona surprisingly named defender Ariel Garce in his final 23-man squad for South Africa.",
"The 30-year-old, who plays for Argentine club Colon, was recalled for the 4-0 friendly win over Haiti on May 5 for the first time since winning his first two caps in 2003.",
"Garce kept his place ahead of 33-cap Fabricio Coloccini, who missed out along with fellow defender Juan Manuel Insaurralde, Napoli striker Ezequiel Lavezzi and midfielders Jose Sosa, Juan Mercier, Jesus Datolo and Sebastian Blanco.",
"Blog: Is Messi better than Maradona?",
"Coloccini's Newcastle teammate Jonas Gutierrez made the cut despite playing in the English second division this season, with Liverpool's Maxi Rodriguez vying with him for a wing place.",
"Veteran striker Martin Palermo, 36, has the chance to play at his first World Cup, being one of five Argentina-based players selected by the 1986 title-winner Maradona.",
"Maradona had earlier omitted Inter Milan stars Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso from his 30-man preliminary squad.",
"The 36-year-old Zanetti, Argentina's most-capped player, was controversially axed by Jose Pekerman for the 2006 World Cup but then brought back by his successor Alfio Basile and retained by Maradona for the 2010 qualifiers -- though he lost the team captaincy to Javier Mascherano.",
"He was a key figure in Inter's charge to a hat-trick of trophies this season, having won the Italian Cup, Serie A and Champions League.",
"Cambiasso, who played in Germany four years ago and had a spot-kick saved in the quarterfinal penalty shootout defeat to the hosts, has not been called up since Maradona took charge despite establishing himself as one of the best defensive midfielders in Europe.",
"Become a CNN Super Fan: Why your country needs you!",
"Inter's Champions League final hero Diego Milito was selected despite playing a limited role in the qualifiers, and central defender Walter Samuel has the chance to feature at his second World Cup after missing out in 2006.",
"Center-back Martin Demichelis, who helped Bayern Munich win the German league and cup titles, was rewarded for his fine form this season.",
"England-based Mascherano and Carlos Tevez were also included, but Maradona omitted Barcelona defender Gabriel Milito and Real Madrid midfielder Fernando Gago.",
"Brazil coach Dunga ended the World Cup dreams of Ronaldinho and Adriano by omitting the duo from his final 23-man squad for the World Cup in South Africa.",
"The 30-year-old Ronaldinho, a two-time world player of the year, misses out for the second tournament in a row despite returning to form this season with Italian club AC Milan.",
"Former Inter Milan striker Adriano raised his profile by returning home to play with Flamengo following well-documented personal problems, but has failed to impress Dunga.",
"\"Adriano was given several opportunities,\" the 1994 World Cup winner said.",
"\"There was a moment when we made a decision about the group.",
"The group always welcomed Adriano, but there is a moment when reason talks louder than the heart.\"",
"Ronaldinho's Milan teammate Alexandre Pato also missed out, along with highly-rated Santos teenager Neymar, but Germany-based striker Grafite was included at the age of 31 after his fine form for deposed Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg.",
"United States coach Bob Bradley included Mexico-based striker Herculez Gomez and midfielder Jose Torres in his final 23-man squad.",
"Veteran striker Eddie Johnson missed out on his second World Cup after being cut from the 30-strong preliminary selection along with fellow forward Brian Ching, defenders Chad Marshall and Heath Pearce plus midfielders Alejandro Bedoya, Sacha Kljestan and Robbie Rogers.",
"Bradley's squad, which includes his son Michael, features 15 players who have never been to a World Cup alongside two-time veterans Steve Cherundolo, Landon Donovan and Marcus DaBeasley.",
"Defender Oguchi Onyewu and midfielder Stuart Holden are in the squad despite recent long-term injury absences.",
"Gomez and Robbie Findley did not play in any of the qualifiers -- and neither did their fellow forward Edson Buddle, who won his first cap since 2003 in the 4-2 friendly defeat by the Czech Republic on May 25.",
"Chile coach Marcelo Bielsa made defender Roberto Cereceda the unlucky man to miss out on the World Cup after Marco Estrada recovered from injury.",
"Having earlier dropped striker Hector Mancilla of Mexican side Toluca to whittle his squad down to 24, Bielsa dispensed with Colo Colo's Cereceda -- who had been brought in as cover.",
"Union Espanola's Luis Marin was given the third goalkeeping place behind captain Claudio Bravo of Real Sociedad and Miguel Pinto.",
"Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez axed Catania striker Jorge Martinez, River Plate midfielder Jorge Rodriguez and Nacional winger Alvaro Gonzalez from his provisonal 26-man squad.",
"He had earlier omitted Cristian Rodriguez, with the Porto winger set to start a two-game ban after his red card in the final qualifier.",
"Penarol's Egidio Arevalo-Rios and Defensor Sporting goalkeeper Martin Silva were the only home-based players named in the final 23.",
"Like Dunga, Honduras coach Reinaldo Rueda took the unusual step of naming his 23-man squad well ahead of the June 1 deadline, plus seven reserves.",
"Key striker Carlos Costly is one of the standby players after being ruled out for four weeks with a foot injury, with his place taken by Georgie Welcome -- who in 2008 was the first Honduran to make his international debut while playing for a second-division side.",
"England-based Wilson Palacios, Hendry Thomas and Maynor Figueroa are named along with Italy-based forward David Suazo and 36-year-old Carlos Pavon, who is set to win his 100th cap."
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"(CNN) -- What's new: Welcome to the new CNN iReport!",
"Thank you to all 395,759 iReporters in 209 countries who have contributed 376,586 personal, shocking, sweet, urgent, impassioned, hilarious, beautiful, riveting, bizarre, smart and critically important stories to CNN's global news coverage in the past three years.",
"This week, iReport officially became part of CNN.com.",
"We threw off our blue banner and our separate URL and moved inside the world's leading site for news and information.",
"We did it because we know that together, CNN and iReport paint a more complete picture of the news.",
"Vroom, vroom -- Imagine getting a $42,000 tax break for buying a new car.",
"That's what Colorado residents can do if they buy the new Tesla Roadster, an electric car that can go from 0 to 60 in four seconds.",
"Car reviewer Roman Mica couldn't wait to go for a test drive.",
"Mystic masks -- Two New York University students shared a beautifully produced video about why people love to wear masks.",
"You know, masks have a rich cultural history from ancient Athenians to modern Manhattanites.",
"They're also a ton a fun every Halloween.",
"Happy Halloween -- iReporters shared stories of how they go all out for Halloween each year.",
"We're talking extreme Halloween, from elaborate annual themed displays to a spooky take on the news.",
"Oh, can you say balloon boy?"
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"(CNN) -- There are 3,626 songs in my music library.",
"Some are played every day, others just a few times a year.",
"There are songs that remind me of relationships I've royally screwed up (Hoobastank's \"The Reason\") and a few on my iPhone that were clearly DWIs -- downloaded while intoxicated (think Huey Lewis and the News, circa 1985).",
"But despite the wide range of emotions triggered by my 3,626 songs, I typically don't have a problem listening to any of them at any given time.",
"Except for four: \"Run It,\" \"Forever,\" \"With You\" and \"Kiss Kiss.\"",
"Haven't played them since last winter.",
"For those of you a little slow on the pop culture uptake, these are all songs by Chris Brown, the R&B singer who back in February assaulted his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna, was sentenced to 180 days of community service, and now, eight months later, wants us to download his new music.",
"And forgive him. \"Honestly, I would just like to get past it,\" Brown recently told Rolling Stone.",
"\"At the end of the day, I'm sorry for what I did, whatever it is.\"",
"This week, Brown headlines his first concert since the assault, the next step in revitalizing his image.",
"As a one-time fan, there's a part of me that would like to get back to playing his music and get back to the party.",
"But the last three words of that sentence just won't let me do it.",
"\"Whatever it is\" doesn't sound like the words of a man who has done some serious soul searching.",
"Rather, \"whatever it is\" sounds like the words of a man trained by his lawyers or marketing team to offer up a public admission of wrongdoing while avoiding linking his name to unpleasant phrases such as \"domestic violence\" and \"physical assault.\"",
"It's the same avoidance we saw during his interview with CNN's Larry King.",
"The reason why I am having a tough time moving on -- and thus playing Brown's music again -- is because he doesn't appear willing to say exactly what we're supposed to be moving on from.",
"He's trying to speak up while remaining silent, which makes me wonder if he's sorry for what he did, or sorry he got caught.",
"I'm not saying Brown is a terrible person.",
"I'm not saying he doesn't still love Rihanna.",
"And I'm certainly am not trying to dictate when someone should be forgiven.",
"But I am having a hard time hearing his voice over a dance beat right now.",
"And I am having difficulties singing along to lyrics such as \"I won't let you fall girl\" knowing that's not all together true.",
"We're all human, capable of making some terrible mistakes.",
"I certainly have done some things I am not proud of and likely will do more things that fall short of being admirable.",
"But when the nation's domestic violence 24-hour hot lines are receiving 14 calls a minute, \"whatever it is\" just rubs me the wrong way.",
"Any PR guru will tell you it's nice to have the public forgive your sins, but it's even better to have them forget.",
"Forgetting starts with redirecting the conversation and distancing yourself from the controversy, and it appears that is exactly what Brown is trying to do.",
"He doesn't want to be thought of as a perpetrator.",
"He doesn't want to be linked to criminal behavior.",
"He just wants to move on.",
"I do, too. But reality won't let me.",
"Multiple studies show that nearly 2 million women are victims of domestic violence annually, and with the added tension fueled by a hurting economy, some crisis centers are seeing an increase of cases.",
"I can remember women in my neighborhood, and even in my own family, trying to cover up bruises they believed they deserved for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.",
"\"He's a good man,\" is what they would say to each other, as if it was encouragement.",
"And we all know this isn't just an issue that affects the everyday family.",
"It was just a year ago this week the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of Jennifer Hudson were killed, allegedly by her sister's estranged husband.",
"Prosecutors believe he shot them in a jealous rage because Hudson's sister was dating someone else.",
"Also a year ago this month, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius was arrested on charges of domestic violence.",
"This fall, actor Tom Sizemore was arrested on charges of domestic violence -- again.",
"It's an ongoing problem, and yet culturally it doesn't feel that way.",
"Culturally it feels as if we treat it like a private matter, an aspect of the couple's relationship that should be determined by the two of them.",
"Culturally, it doesn't even feel like it's a crime, with generations being spoon fed images of Ricky Ricardo spanking Lucy or hearing Ralph Kramden threaten to knock Alice to the moon.",
"When the incident first occurred, some fans assumed Rihanna did something and thus deserved the assault, underscoring the sentiment that it's less of a crime and more of a fight between lovers.",
"To his credit, Brown is donating a portion of the proceeds from the fan appreciation tour he is doing next month to a Los Angeles, California, based nonprofit that helps victims of domestic violence.",
"A nice gesture that, unfortunately, is somewhat undermined by the bravado spewing from his latest single, \"I'll Transform Ya,\" which brags about him being a great catch.",
"Talk about disconnects.",
"I guess this is why there are 3,626 songs in my music library and not 3,622.",
"I haven't deleted the four songs by Brown from my music library because there's a part of me that understands this dialogue is way bigger than the incident that surrounds a 20-year-old kid.",
"Hopefully Brown really is a changed person, who, over time, will continue to use his fame to bring public awareness to the dangers of domestic violence.",
"There's a part of me that wants to play his music again, rejoin the party, and yeah, move on.",
"Just not yet. Right now I still have the images of a battered Rihanna in my head, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't feel like dancing to the songs of the person who did it.",
"\"Whatever it is\" he did. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson."
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"(CNN) -- A soldier suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military, the base's commander said Thursday evening.",
"A civilian officer who was wounded in the incident shot the suspect, who is \"in custody and in stable condition,\" Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told reporters.",
"\"Preliminary reports indicate there was a single shooter that was shot multiple times at the scene,\" Cone said at a news conference.",
"\"However, he was not killed as previously reported.\"",
"The suspect, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood around 1:30 p.m., Cone said.",
"Three others initially taken into custody for interviews have been released, Cone said.",
"Hasan, 39, is a graduate of Virginia Tech and a psychiatrist licensed in Virginia who was practicing at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, according to military and professional records.",
"Previously, he worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.",
"A federal official said Hasan is a U.S. citizen of Jordanian descent.",
"Military documents show that Hasan was born in Virginia and was never deployed outside the United States.",
"In a statement released Thursday, Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, said his family is \"filled with grief for the families of today's victims.\"",
"\"Our family loves America.",
"We are proud of our country, and saddened by today's tragedy,\" the statement said.",
"\"Because this situation is still unfolding, we have nothing else that we are able to share with you at this time.\"",
"Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq \"and appeared to be upset about that,\" Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said.",
"\"I think that there is a lot of investigation going on now into his background and what he was doing that was not known before,\" Hutchison said.",
"Hutchison said she was told that the soldiers at the readiness facility \"were filling out paper processing to go to Iraq or Afghanistan,\" according to CNN affiliate KXAN in Austin, Texas.",
"The readiness center is one of the last stops before soldiers deploy.",
"It is also one of the first places a soldier goes upon returning to the United States.",
"The base reopened Thursday night after being under lockdown for more than five hours.",
"At a news conference earlier in the day, Cone said at least 10 of the dead were soldiers.",
"The shooter had two weapons, both handguns, Cone said.",
"iReport.com: Are you there?",
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"A witness in a building adjacent to where the shooting happened said soldiers were cutting up their uniforms into homemade bandages as the wounded were brought into the building.",
"\"It was total chaos,\" the witness said.",
"Cone said a graduation ceremony was being held in an auditorium just 50 meters from where the shooting took place.",
"\"Thanks to the quick reaction of several soldiers, they were able to close off the doors to that auditorium where there were some 600 people inside,\" he said.",
"Peggy McCarty of Missouri told CNN affiliate KSHB that her daughter, Keara Bono, was among Thursday's wounded.",
"She said she briefly spoke to Bono, who told her she had been shot in her left shoulder but was doing well.",
"\"She's being deployed to Iraq on December 7,\" McCarty said.",
"\"I thought I was more worried about her going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in Texas.",
"She just got there yesterday.\"",
"A woman who lives on base, about eight blocks from the shooting, said she and her daughter were at home when her husband called and told them to stay inside.",
"\"And I asked him why, what was going on.",
"He said that there was a shooting,\" said the woman, Nicole, who asked that her last name not be used.",
"She said her husband called her back about 20 minutes later and told her to go upstairs, stay away from doors and windows and keep the doors locked.",
"\"It's just been crazy,\" she said.",
"\"Sirens everywhere.\"",
"A soldier who asked not to be identified told CNN that an e-mail went out to all base personnel instructing them not to speak to the media.",
"President Obama called the shootings \"tragic\" and \"a horrific outburst of violence.\"",
"He expressed his condolences for the shooting victims.",
"\"These are men and women who have made the selfless and courageous decision to risk, and at times give, their lives to protect the rest of us on a daily basis,\" Obama said.",
"\"It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas.",
"It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.\"",
"Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, posted an online appeal for blood as it began receving victims.",
"\"Due to the recent events on Fort Hood, we are in URGENT need of ALL blood types,\" it said.",
"Fort Hood, with about 40,000 troops, is home to the Army's 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 13th Corps Support Command.",
"It is located near Killeen, Texas.",
"The headquarters unit and three brigades of the 1st Cavalry are currently deployed in Iraq.",
"At least 25,000 people are at Fort Hood on any given day, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon said.",
"Fort Hood is home to the Warrior Combat Stress Reset Program, which is designed to help soldiers overcome combat stress issues.",
"In June, Fort Hood's commander, Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, told CNN that he was trying to ease the kind of stresses soldiers face.",
"He has pushed for soldiers working a day schedule to return home for dinner by 6 p.m., and required his personal authorization for anyone working weekends.",
"At the time, two soldiers stationed there had committed suicide in 2009 -- a rate well below those of other posts.",
"Nearby Killeen was the scene of one of the most deadly shootings in American history 18 years ago when George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and began shooting, killing 23 people and wounding 20.",
"Hennard's spree lasted 14 minutes.",
"He eventually took his own life."
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"Army: Suspect is Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist .",
"Senator: Hasan was \"upset\" about scheduled deployment to Iraq .",
"Shooting happened in building that is one of last stops before soldiers deploy ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United have been drawn against seven-time European champions AC Milan in the draw for the first knockout stage of this season's Champions League.",
"The heavyweight pairing throws up the prospect of Milan's David Beckham returning to Old Trafford to play against his former club.",
"Soccer icon Beckham, who is on loan at Milan from LA Galaxy, was part of United's Champions League winning side in 1999.",
"\"We've come up against AC Milan many times in the quarter and semi-finals so it'll be a fantastic setting for two great clubs,\" Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson told the club's official Web site.",
"\"We're very much looking forward to it.\"",
"Friday's draw in Nyon in Switzerland also threw together English Premier League leaders Chelsea against Inter Milan, coached by Jose Mourinho, who led the Blues to back-to-back titles during his spell in England.",
"Moody Mourinho needs makeover .",
"Defending champions Barcelona will need to beat Bundesliga Stuttgart over two legs to reach the quarterfinals, while Spanish rivals Real Madrid were drawn against French powerhouses Lyon.",
"The third English side in the draw, Arsenal, have been paired with Portuguese champions Porto.",
"Other ties see Greek champions Olympiakos face their French counterparts Bordeaux, CSKA Moscow of Russia against La Liga hopefuls Sevilla and German giants Bayern Munich play Serie A Fiorentina.",
"The first leg of the ties will be on February 16 and 17 with the returns on March 9 and 10.",
"In the second-tier Europa League Dutch side Ajax and Serie A Juventus were drawn together in a repeat of the 1996 Champions League final.",
"Juventus won that clash on penalties, but since then both sides have struggled to make an impression in the higher reaches of European football.",
"The winner over two legs faces a tough last 16 clash against either Premier League Fulham or Shakhtar Donetsk of the Ukraine, who are effectively the defending champions after claiming last season's UEFA Cup before it was revamped as the Europa League.",
"Five-time European champions Liverpool and Unirea Urziceni of Romania, who were both eliminated from the Champions League, were paired while AS Roma of Italy will meet Greek side Panathinaikos."
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"Jose Mourinho will face his former club as Inter take on Chelsea .",
"Real Madrid will play French side Lyon while Barcelona take on Stuttgart .",
"Liverpool draw Unirea Urziceni in Europa League last 32 and Juventus face Ajax ."
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"(CNN) -- It was like Mary Pipher was on a runaway train of success.",
"She had multiple best-selling books and was much in demand as a therapist and an inspirational speaker.",
"And at one point in 2002, she felt like she had given all she could give, and she suffered a meltdown.",
"She detailed the struggles in her life and her recovery in her latest book, \"Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World.\"",
"And in the wake of that book, she is sounding an alarm about danger of being a joyless \"constant working machine.\"",
"\"If you ask anyone how they've been any more, they always say, 'busy,' \" Pipher said.",
"\"I'm just stubborn enough that sometimes I say, 'You know, it's been really slow for me lately,' just to see people's shocked looks, because nobody in America ever says that anymore.\"",
"Pipher, the author of \"Reviving Ophelia,\" an acclaimed book that examined the stresses and perils young girls face, took some time off to heal herself by just sitting and enjoying simple things like birdwatching and viewing sunsets.",
"Now that she has slowed down, she's noticed how so many adults are living at a fast pace despite their feelings of being burdened, anxious and confused.",
"She also fears that her too-busy country has developed what she calls \"a culture of anhedonia,\" or the lack of ability to feel pleasure and joy.",
"\"People just are not laughing as much,\" Pipher said, adding that she rarely hears anyone walking around singing or whistling, like she did growing up.",
"The psychologist says many people fault themselves for being too busy and think they just have to grab more control of their lives.",
"Women put too many expectations on themselves: having a career, being physically fit, being in good relationships with family and friends, reading good literature, doing community work, recycling and buying green, and being involved in some sort of spiritual quest.",
"And when they fail to accomplish all that in one day, she said, \"they go to sleep thinking, 'I didn't get done what I needed to, and somehow that is my fault.'",
"\" Men are also heading down the path of feeling like a failure, as more of them share the \"second shift\" work of child care, cooking and cleaning at home.",
"But the workplace hasn't shifted much to accommodate men who are more involved in their families, Pipher says.",
"People's efforts to squeeze so much more work into the unchanging number of hours in a day has caused them to abandon the mammalian rhythms that \"we've operated on since the beginning of the human race.\"",
"Breaking those natural rhythms, Pipher says, leads people to avoid eye contact as they tell themselves it might distract them from the busy and important work that they've got to rush to do.",
"Also, moving too fast makes it difficult to see anything that isn't moving at the same speed, again leading to people not seeing each other.",
"\"That's got to be some kind of enormous human tragedy on a cultural level,\" she noted.",
"\"Our time famine is actually diminishing the quality of the human experience in a very serious way.\"",
"Our too-frenetic lives also dulls our senses, she says, leading us to \"lose all capacity for joy, because joy comes from actually appreciating and being in the senses and being in the body.\"",
"Pipher realizes that most people don't have the ability or the money to take an extended leave, like she did for about three months.",
"But she says there are other ways they can slow down.",
"The author says she has become a \"seeker of moments\": those times when you stop in your tracks and really pay attention to something beautiful or feel a connection to another person.",
"She suggests ways others can capture such moments: .",
"• Take part in any daily practice that allows for stillness and quiet, such as meditation, sitting and drinking a cup of tea, stopping to watch a sunset or just lying in bed and being aware of your breathing for five minutes every morning before getting up.",
"• Make a gratitude list at the end of the day to remind you where there was joy, or something spontaneous or fun during the day.",
"• Choose to make human connections by looking directly into the eyes of the barista taking your latte order, your coworker or your child's teacher or day care provider.",
"• Set aside an area in your home -- a room or even a chair -- that is the quiet or calm spot.",
"And any member of the family can go there and be undisturbed while they \"deal with their own inner architecture for a little while.\"",
"• Turn off machines and live as close as possible to olden times by walking, talking or cooking with others.",
"• Interact with pets.",
"\"Dogs and cats move at the same speed in 2010 as they did in 1910,\" so there is a calmness in being with them, and they don't care if you're a high achiever or successful or well-paid."
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"She says people fault themselves for being too busy, try to grab more control .",
"\"Time famine is actually diminishing the quality of the human experience\""
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United have netted a sponsorship deal with American insurance giants Aon Corporation that will reportedly earn the Premier League champions a staggering $131 million over four years.",
"United's worldwide appeal has brought them a reported record $131m sponsorship with a U.S. insurance giant.",
"That would send United to the top of football's sponsorship income league ahead of the likes of Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Chelsea.",
"United chief executive David Gill did not reveal the figures involved but confirmed that the Chicago-based Aon brand will take over from another another U.S. company AIG on the club shirts from the start of the 2010/11 season.",
"\"Today's announcement clearly strengthens our position as one of the biggest clubs in world football,\" Gill told the United Web site after unveiling the global partnership and principal sponsorship agreement.",
"Gill confirmed: \"We are delighted to be entering such an important relationship with a company of the stature of Aon and to have its logo adorn our shirts from the start of the 2010/11 season.",
"\"We look forward to being closely aligned with the world leader in risk management, a firm which shares our values and is an exciting partner for Manchester United.\"",
"President and chief executive officer of Aon, Greg Case, added: \"It is a unique opportunity when two leaders in their respective fields can come together in a partnership such as the one we are announcing today.",
"\"Manchester United has one of the most recognised sports brands in the world.",
"David (Gill) and his team are all about winning and about excellence; the same holds true for the Aon team.",
"We play to win in our business, and that is why we believe this partnership will create tremendous benefits for both organisations worldwide.",
"\"While we are delighted that our brand will be showcased to over 330 million fans of Manchester United as well as the countless followers of football worldwide, we also are extremely excited about the opportunity to maximise the value of this partnership globally.\""
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"Reports say it will earn Premier League champions $131million over four years .",
"That would send United to the top of football's sponsorship income league ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While California's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a ban on same-sex marriages that voters voters passed in November, the fight will undoubtedly go forward.",
"Four states -- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa -- currently allow same-sex marriages.",
"The ruling by the court allows about 18,000 same-sex marriages performed before the ban to remain valid.",
"The decision was met with chants of \"shame on you\" from a crowd of about 1,000 people gathered outside the court building in San Francisco on Tuesday.",
"Proposition 8 passed in the 2008 general election with about 52.5 percent of the vote.",
"California had been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples since the state Supreme Court ruled in May 2008 that the unions were legal.",
"iReport.com: Couples' thoughts on Prop 8?",
"But the question now remains whether gay rights activists across the country will take their fight -- despite the California ruling -- to state courts, push for ballot initiatives or simply pressure state politicians to move legislation.",
"Currently, four states -- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa -- approved of same-sex marriages.",
"Vermont's legislature passed a law making same-sex marriages legal that will take effect in September.",
"New Hampshire and Rhode Island remain the New England states that have not approved the marriages into law.",
"Most recently, on May 6, same-sex marriage became legal in Maine when Democratic Gov.",
"John Baldacci signed a bill less than an hour after the state Legislature approved it.",
"\"I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage,\" he said in a statement.",
"But he raised the possibility that the residents of the state would overturn the law.",
"\"Just as the Maine Constitution demands that all people are treated equally under the law, it also guarantees that the ultimate political power in the state belongs to the people.\"",
"The fight for same-sex marriage in New Hampshire, meanwhile, has hit a roadblock.",
"The House and Senate have approved allowing gay couples to marry.",
"But Gov. John Lynch, a three-term Democrat, said last week that he would sign a same-sex marriage bill only if it provides \"the strongest and clearest protections for religious institutions and associations, and for the individuals working with such institutions.\"",
"Lynch said that any such measure needs to \"make clear that [clergy and other religious officials] cannot be forced to act in ways that violate their deeply held religious principles.\"",
"On Wednesday, the House fell two votes short of approving Lynch's language, 186-188.",
"The chamber voted to send the legislation to a committee to be considered further.",
"Others state have implemented same-sex marriages.",
"Interactive: States that allow same-sex unions » .",
"In April, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that it is illegal to discriminate against same-sex couples by denying them the right to marry.",
"The first gay marriages in the state took place April 27.",
"The District of Columbia voted May 5 to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, though it does not itself give marriage licenses to same-sex couples.",
"But that measure faces a potentially large hurdle: being sent to Congress for a review and vote, setting up what would amount to a straight up-or-down vote on same-sex marriage.",
"Because Washington is not a state, its legislation must pass congressional muster.",
"Some measures approved by overwhelmingly Democratic Washington voters, including a restrictive gun law and a proposal decriminalizing medical marijuana use, have been vetoed by Congress in recent years.",
"In New York, Gov.",
"David Paterson introduced legislation in April to make same-sex marriage legal.",
"\"The time has come to act.",
"The time has come for leadership.",
"The time has come to bring marriage equality to the state of New York,\" the Democratic governor said.",
"The legislation would allow same-sex couples in the state to enter into civil marriages and enjoy the same rights afforded to heterosexual married couples.",
"A similar bill died in the state Senate in 2007.",
"Gay rights advocates in nearby New Jersey have said they believe that the state could be the next to pass same-sex marriage into law.",
"Although the state already recognizes civil unions for gays and lesbians, its legislature will have to take up the issue.",
"Meanwhile, recent CNN polling has shown that a slim majority of Americans are against legal recognition of same-sex marriage.",
"Fifty-four percent of Americans questioned in an April 23-26 CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said that marriages between gay or lesbian couples should not be recognized as valid, but 44 percent said they should be considered legal.",
"But there was a large gap between the opinions of younger and older people, with younger people far more likely to approve of gay marriage.",
"Nearly six in 10 people ages 18 to 34 said same-sex marriages should be legal.",
"Just over four in 10 people ages 35 to 49 agreed, and the number was similar for 50- to 64-year-olds.",
"Only 24 percent of people 65 and older agreed.",
"The survey's sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"And the marriage debate is also changing for some Republicans, who have long opposed same-sex marriages.",
"In a speech April 17 to the conservative gay-rights group Log Cabin Republicans, Steve Schmidt -- an architect of Republican Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign -- said that allowing same-sex marriage is in line with the conservative credo of keeping government out of people's private lives.",
"\"There is a sound conservative argument to be made for same-sex marriage,\" said Schmidt, who was McCain's campaign manager.",
"\"I believe conservatives, more than liberals, insist that rights come with responsibilities.",
"No other exercise of one's liberty comes with greater responsibilities than marriage.",
"In a marriage, two people are completely responsible to and for each other.\"",
"Schmidt says he knows that his is a minority view.",
"In the presidential campaign, McCain ran against same-sex marriage.",
"McCain's own daughter Meghan recently said the Republican Party needs to embrace issues facing gays and lesbians -- most notably, approving of same-sex marriage.",
"Although moderates such as Schmidt and Meghan McCain approve, opposition is coming mainly from the party's base: conservatives.",
"And the fight among conservatives and religious groups will probably heat up as more states begin to examine marriage rights.",
"CNN's Dana Bash, Alan Duke, Peter Hamby, Laurie Segall and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"Activists across the country may push for ballot initiatives or legislation .",
"Poll finds that attitudes on same-sex marriage are generational ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The Los Angeles County coroner's office has subpoenaed medical records from 20 doctors in its investigation into actor Corey Haim's death, a coroner investigator said.",
"Haim, who died earlier this month, obtained drugs using prescriptions written under the names of these doctors in the past year, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter told CNN on Friday.",
"California drug investigators found evidence that Haim, who fought a decades-long battle with drug abuse, used at least one fake prescription to obtain a narcotic in the months before he died, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said last week.",
"The coroner is waiting for toxicology results before deciding if drugs were involved in the death of the 1980s teen movie actor, Winter said.",
"Those test results are several weeks away, he said.",
"An autopsy revealed that Haim, 38, suffered from pneumonia, an enlarged heart and water in his lungs when he collapsed at his Los Angeles home on March 10, Winter said.",
"\"We get medical records all the time,\" Winter said.",
"\"What's kind of unusual in this is how many doctors are involved.\"",
"Pharmacy records show the actor got thousands of potentially dangerous pills from multiple doctors in the past year, according to Brown.",
"State investigators know that Haim obtained \"massive amounts\" of legal drugs \"in what looks to me like a questionable manner because of so many doctors,\" Brown said.",
"\"How many people go to 10 or 15 or 20 doctors and then run around to 10, 12 and more pharmacies to go fulfill them and sometimes two different doctors in the same day?\"",
"Brown asked.",
"Haim did not necessarily visit all of the doctors, but the prescriptions carried their names, he said.",
"An arrest was made last week in connection with an \"illegal and massive prescription drug ring\" connected to at least one of Haim's prescriptions, Brown said.",
"The ring involved the use of stolen identities from doctors to order official prescription pads, he said.",
"\"Once they get that prescription pad in the doctor's name, then they can write a prescription, or they can sell it to someone to write a prescription like Corey Haim,\" Brown said.",
"\"Then he can go into the pharmacy and get his legal drugs illegally.\"",
"Although the actor's family said Haim had reduced his drug use to near zero, Brown said that he didn't see \"any 'zero' pill consumption.\"",
"\"If he took all the pills that our records show he was prescribed over the last year and three months, he took very damaging assaults on his body,\" Brown said.",
"Haim's most recent prescription was filled March 5 for Vicodin, he said.",
"\"In the weeks before that, more Vicodin, more Valium and other things,\" Brown said.",
"\"If you go back to 2009, you're talking thousands of pills,\" he said.",
"\"You're talking many, many doctors.",
"I doubt if they know about each other.",
"You're talking about many, many pharmacies.\"",
"In recent years, the actor was reunited with longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman in a reality show.",
"\"The Two Coreys\" ran for two seasons on the A&E Network before it was canceled.",
"Haim's most famous role was in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys,\" in which he also appeared with Feldman.",
"Haim played a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire."
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"Coroner issues subpoenas for records of 20 doctors in Haim death inquiry .",
"Attorney general says at least one of Haim's prescriptions linked to prescription drug ring .",
"Haim, 38, had pneumonia, enlarged heart, water in lungs when he died March 10 .",
"Toxicology results, which are weeks away, to help determine if drugs were involved in death ."
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"(CNN) -- The 16-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston died Friday morning after suffering a seizure while vacationing with his family in the Bahamas, Travolta's attorney told CNN.",
"Jett Travolta, right, joined his father weeks ago in Paris, where John Travolta has been filming a movie.",
"\"At this point, we know that John Travolta and Kelly Preston's only son, Jett, had a seizure at around 10 a.m. this morning,\" attorney Michael Ossi said.",
"\"All attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.\"",
"The boy hit his head after the seizure, but the exact cause of death is not known, Ossi said.",
"An autopsy will be conducted Monday.",
"His body will be transferred to Ocala, Florida, for burial, he said.",
"Jett's death \"was completely out of the blue,\" he said.",
"\"John and Kelly are happy when their children are happy.",
"This is the worst day of John's life.\"",
"Watch John Travolta and son Jett in Paris » .",
"The Travoltas also have a daughter, Ella, 8.",
"Bahamian police said a caretaker at the West End resort where the Travoltas were vacationing found the teenager unconscious in the bathroom.",
"Jett Travolta was taken by ambulance to Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport and was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.",
"iReport.com: Can you relate to the loss of a child?",
"Share your story .",
"Jett's death was mourned by the staff and residents of West End, where the Travoltas were beloved members of the community, Obie Wilchcomb, former minister of tourism for the Bahamas, told CNN's Larry King.",
"\"We in West End had admired Mr. Travolta and his wife, Kelly,\" Wilchcomb said.",
"\"The people of the community of West End, particularly those who work at Old Bahama Bay, certainly today were in such shock, and they felt the tragedy because they had become a part of the community.\"",
"Wilchcomb said the Travoltas' love and affection for their son was apparent to those in the community.",
"See photos of Jett with his family » .",
"\"Mr. Travolta spent a tremendous amount of time with his son, Jett.",
"He never left him at home.",
"He always brought him with him.",
"And once you saw John Travolta, you saw his son, Jett.",
"They were very close, very affectionate.",
"Lots of love, you see at all times,\" Wilchcomb said.",
"The family was on the island this weekend for a gathering of 60 family and friends who were arriving throughout the day as the tragedy unfolded, Wilchcomb said.",
"In 1994, Travolta told People magazine that he loved fatherhood.",
"\"I can't imagine what life would be like without Jett,\" he said.",
"\"After he was born and cleaned up, I held him for hours while Kelly slept.",
"When they came to take him away for various tests, I said, 'No, you can't see him today.",
"You'll have to do it another day.'",
"I went a little nutsy.\"",
"Jett Travolta had a developmental disability that his parents, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, have linked to Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory disorder of the artery walls that most commonly occurs in young children and can lead to heart disease.",
"Watch CNN's Sunjay Gupta discuss Kawasaki disease » .",
"In 2001, John Travolta told CNN's Larry King that his son had a near brush with death related to the condition.",
"\"I was obsessive about cleaning -- his space being clean, so we constantly had the carpets cleaned.",
"And I think, between him, the fumes and walking around, maybe picking up pieces or something, he got what is rarely a thing to deal with, but it's Kawasaki syndrome,\" Travolta said of his then-2-year-old son.",
"Watch Travolta talk about his son's condition » .",
"\"It was that the immune system overreacts, because they have almost the equivalent of metallic chemical,\" Travolta said.",
"In 2003, Kelly Preston told Montel Williams that when Jett was 2, he became ill with flu symptoms, including fever, rashes and swollen lymph nodes, before a doctor diagnosed him with Kawasaki disease.",
"Echoing her husband's comments, Preston blamed chemicals in household cleaners and pesticides for attacking her son's immune system, triggering the condition.",
"A dedicated Scientologist, Preston told Williams that she credited a detoxification program from the writings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard with helping improve her son's health.",
"Kawasaki disease is characterized by fevers and inflammation in the blood vessels that can be caused by a number of inciting factors, including virus, bacteria or infection, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said on \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"You get pretty sick for a few days.",
"In the worst-case scenario, sometimes it can affect the blood vessels of the heart, called the coronary arteries,\" Gupta said.",
"\"Sometimes they can develop aneurysms in it.",
"That's probably the most dangerous thing.",
"But again, this is typically a disease associated with young children.",
"It's typically in Japan, and it's pretty rare.\"",
"Gupta said it was rare for teens to display symptoms of the disease, which usually occurs in young children.",
"\"Most of the patients are usually between 2 and 5 years old.",
"Sometimes they get up to age 8.",
"But it's very rare in fact for someone to be in their teens and still have symptoms of Kawasaki.",
"They may have had it earlier in life, but to still have any manifestations of it is unusual,\" he said.",
"The causes of Kawasaki disease are unknown.",
"Some scientists think it's caused by an infectious agent, such as a virus.",
"Some studies have noted a link between the disease and carpet cleaning chemicals.",
"John Travolta gained fame in the 1970s, starring in the television series \"Welcome Back, Kotter\" and the movies \"Saturday Night Fever\" and \"Grease.\"",
"His career got a boost in 1994 with his second Best Actor Oscar nomination, for his role as a hit man in \"Pulp Fiction.\"",
"He also wrote and illustrated a 42-page novel for his son called \"Propeller One-Way Night Coach,\" a \"fable for the ages\" about a young boy whose first trip on an airplane changes his life forever, according to Amazon.com.",
"It was a nod to Travolta's experience as a licensed pilot.",
"Preston has numerous TV and movie credits, including a supporting role in 1996's \"Jerry Maguire.\"",
"CNN's Valerie Streit contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Ever since his blistering debut as an angry, disenfranchised ghetto kid in \"La Haine\", Vincent Cassel has gained a reputation for giving the kind of performances it's hard to ignore.",
"Cassel has won plaudits for his virtuoso turn as a French gangster in the movie \"Mesrine.\"",
"Angular and athletic with a menacing pout and searing blue eyes, the French actor has made his name playing hard-edged, morally compromised, often unlikeable characters.",
"Away from the onscreen bad boys, he's one half of France's most glamorous screen couple.",
"His wife, the Italian actress Monica Belluci is a big name in her own right, and has starred in the last two films of the \"Matrix\" trilogy as well as acting alongside Cassel in a number of movies.",
"A huge star at home, Cassel has enjoyed critical success abroad with roles in films like \"Eastern Promises\", David Cronenburg's 2007 tale about the Russian mafia in London, and is one of only a handful of French male stars to get parts in Hollywood.",
"He has enjoyed cameos in \"Ocean's Twelve\" and \"Ocean's Thirteen\" as well as voicing the character of Monsieur Hood in the \"Shrek\" cartoon.",
"That said he's yet to score a real Hollywood hit in his own right.",
"The moment for that may not be far away, especially after his recent virtuoso turn in the French blockbuster \"Mesrine\".",
"In the film he plays the real-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine.",
"His performance helped make the film a huge hit in France and netted him a best actor César, the French equivalent of the Oscars.",
"\"(Cassel) is viewed in France as a very good actor with charisma and intelligence,\" Agnes Poirier, a London-based French film critic told CNN.",
"\"Like most intelligent actors, he's politically aware and doesn't mince his words.\"",
"France's most wanted criminal in the seventies, Mesrine is a controversial figure in his native land.",
"A charismatic and psychotic criminal, he courted the press and was known for daring bank heists and prison breaks.",
"He was eventually gunned down by police on the streets of Paris in 1979.",
"The two-part movie --released in the UK and the U.S. this month -- is the perfect showcase for Cassel's muscular brand of acting and pairs him up with the grand old master of French cinema, Gerard Depardieu, who plays the head of Mesrine's band of hoodlums in the film.",
"\"He's not yet seen on a par with Depardieu,\" said Poirier.",
"\"Not being of a classic beauty, Cassel belongs to the \"gueules cassées\" (which literally means \"broken faces\") such as Jean-Paul Belmondo before him.",
"It's French gallic charm with character.\"",
"Cassel's first movie role was in \"La Haine\" (or \"Hate\" in English) the 1995 indie hit about a group of youths living on a Paris housing estate.",
"Directed by \"Amelie\" star Matthieu Kassovitz, the film stirred controversy because of its stark depiction of racial tensions.",
"In it Cassel plays an angry young boxer with a Robert De Niro obsession.",
"The middle-class son of the popular film actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, he was not an obvious choice to play the part of a disenfranchised street kid.",
"Even so, he made the part his own and still maintains the movie is one of his proudest moments.",
"\"I love that \"La Haine\" is still so accurate, but that also horrifies me,\" Cassel told London's Observer newspaper in an interview earlier this year.",
"He told the paper that he didn't think France was a racist place but that the country still had \"many problems with our immigrant past.\"",
"The 42-year-old Parisian didn't rest on his laurels following \"La Haine.\"",
"He made a string of hard-hitting films, the most controversial of which by far was the 2002 movie \"Irréversible.\"",
"The film is told backwards and features an excruciating 10-minute rape scene in which Belluci, his wife, plays the victim.",
"In spite of the raw subject matter, the experience of filming with his wife on \"Irréversible\" is something Cassel clearly enjoyed since the two have appeared with each other in eight other movies.",
"The golden couple of the Gallic movie scene have a daughter together but France's strict privacy laws mean they're afforded a degree of freedom not always permitted to their Hollywood counterparts.",
"\"The French press is famously respectful of personalities' private lives especially if those celebrities don't play with the fire of self-seeking publicity,\" said Poirier.",
"\"Mesrine: Killer Instinct\" is in UK cinemas now.",
"\"Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1\" is in UK cinemas 28 August ."
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"In his latest role Vincent Cassel plays a famous French gangster .",
"For his part in \"Mesrine\" Cassel gained nearly 20 kilos .",
"The actor has made his name playing screen tough guys .",
"He has a daughter with the Italian actress and ex-model Monica Belluci ."
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"(CNN) -- MetroPCS, the fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, appears to be moving to bring more smartphones to lower-income consumers -- and also to capitalize on the FCC's new \"open internet\" rules which exempt wireless carriers from key net neutrality requirements.",
"This mixed news could set a precedent that might eventually constrict the kind of mobile internet options available to all U.S. mobile users.",
"Specifically, on January 3 MetroPCS announced three tiers of plans for its new 4G LTE network.",
"Here's how The Washington Post summarized these flat-rate-per-month offerings: .",
"• $40 \"for unlimited talk, text, 4G Web browsing with unlimited YouTube access;\" • $50 \"for unlimited talk, text, 4G Web services and unlimited YouTube; also international and premium text messaging, navigation, mobile instant messaging, corporate e-mail and 1 GB of additional data access.",
"With Wi-Fi, customers also get audio capabilities to listen and download music and access to preview and trial video content;\" • $60 \"for the same premium features as the $50 plan, plus unlimited data access and MetroSTUDIO premium content such as 18 video-on-demand channels and audio downloads.\"",
"On the bright side, these MetroPCS plans cost considerably less than most smartphone plans currently offered by Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint -- which tend to cost at least $90 per month, with a two-year contract and high early termination fees.",
"Plus, the fact that these are no-contract plans means that customers have more flexibility to switch phones, plans or carriers at will to suit fluctuating budgets.",
"Such benefits might significantly influence the phone choices of many U.S. mobile users.",
"But on January 10, a coalition of public interest groups -- including Free Press, Media Access Project, and the Center for Media Justice -- sent a letter to the FCC asking the agency to investigate whether the MetroPCS plans violate the few substantial net neutrality provisions which do apply to wireless carriers.",
"Under the new rules, mobile providers are forbidden to block access to lawful sites, as well as applications and online services that compete with the carrier's voice or video telephony services.",
"Wireless carriers are permitted to slow delivery of certain content for the purposes of network management.",
"However, they are required to be transparent with the FCC, consumers, and others about how they make these decisions -- and such transparency is so far lacking from the new MetroPCS plans.",
"In the big picture, the MetroPCS plans might deepen the mobile digital divide by normalizing the practice of charging users more to get full mobile access to a free choice of internet services and content.",
"This would disproportionately affect lower-income mobile users and people of color, who are more likely to rely more heavily on mobile devices for internet access.",
"As the coalition explained: \"Being forced to pay an additional monthly fee for access to new or competing services creates barriers to consumer choice and experimentation, and jeopardizes the social and economic benefits associated with the Internet.\"",
"MetroPCS denies that its new plans will limit users' online access.",
"In a statement to The Washington Post, CEO Roger Lindquist wrote: .",
"\"The complaints about our new, pro-consumer, pro-competitive 4G LTE rate plans are erroneous.",
"We continue to offer consumers a full service, unlimited data plan.",
"We increased consumer choice by adding two new rate plans that are less expensive and enable consumers to select the service and content they want at a price point they can afford.",
"These new rate plans comply with the FCC's new rules on open mobile Internet.\"",
"This year, I expect to see this mobile drama play out on the streets of my own city, Oakland, California.",
"My recent survey of Oakland mobile users indicated that MetroPCS is the most popular carrier in this economically challenged city -- used by nearly half of those surveyed.",
"Only 30% of respondents used smartphones (a figure that reflects the national average), yet 80% of respondents reported accessing the Web from their phones daily or most days.",
"This indicates a strong drive for mobile internet access.",
"Just under 40% of those surveyed reported paying less than $50 per month for their phone.",
"(The MetroPCS \"$40/everything\" plan is especially popular around here.)",
"And according to recently released U.S. Census data, Oakland has a lower median per-household income than the national average.",
"Also, 17.5% of Oakland residents are officially living in poverty.",
"Internet access connects people to much more than YouTube, LOL Cats, and Skype.",
"It's a portal to opportunity, learning, and much-needed services -- and these days it's necessary in order to apply for many jobs or to interact with social service agencies.",
"Last December, MetroPCS launched its 4G network in the San Francisco metro area -- and it's reportedly live in Oakland now.",
"I suspect that if the smartphones that go along with the new MetroPCS plans cost less than about $80, many Oaklanders will upgrade -- probably unaware of the limitations carefully built into these plans.",
"The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Amy Gahran."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City's rate of HIV infection is about three times the national rate, according to estimates released Wednesday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.",
"Rapid HIV test swabs incubate at the Iris House in New York in 2007.",
"The agency estimates that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers -- a total of 4,800 individuals -- contracted HIV in 2006, more than triple the national rate of 23 per 100,000.",
"The findings are based on new lab technology and a newly derived statistical model developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"The lab technology enables health officials to determine whether HIV-positive individuals contracted the virus within the past five months, and the statistical model allows researchers to then make projections about a population's infection rate.",
"HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that causes AIDS.",
"The Health Department points to the city's demographics.",
"\"The populations that bear the greatest burden nationally -- blacks, for example, and men who have sex with men -- are highly represented in New York City,\" Health Commissioner Thomas Freidan said in a written statement.",
"\"Because HIV is more prevalent within those groups, the risk of HIV infection per sexual contact is higher.\"",
"In June, the city launched a three-year initiative to administer HIV tests to the 250,000 Bronx adults who have never been tested.",
"The program was announced just days after release of a study finding a high rate of \"unsafe sexual behavior\" in the city.",
"Freidan said the study showed that 36 percent of gay and bisexual New York men who had five or more partners in the previous year did not use condoms consistently.",
"\"This is a core group which is at high risk for getting and spreading HIV,\" Freidan said.",
"In July, a study of 452 men interviewed anonymously at gay bars and clubs found 39 percent of those having sex with other men had not revealed their sexual orientation to their doctors, significantly diminishing their likelihood of being tested for HIV."
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"Agency estimates 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006 .",
"Expert: Demographics of the city contribute to the high rate of HIV infection .",
"The city launched a three-year initiative to give HIV tests to untested Bronx adults ."
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"(CNN) -- When most people think of Miami, they think of South Beach, with its glorious sands, glamorous people and gorgeous Art Deco buildings.",
"In the 1920s and 30s Art Deco was the style of choice for the developers intent on turning Miami into a tourist hot spot and the Art Deco Historic District includes hundreds of examples of the style.",
"Take a tour of the Art Deco historic District.",
"The Art Deco Welcome Center (1001 Ocean Drive) is a good place to start, and no tour of the area would be complete without seeing the Marlin, Delano, National and Kent hotels in Collins Avenue, and the Crescent, Colony and Waldorf Towers hotels on Ocean Drive.",
"Once you're done with the Deco, stroll among the boutiques and cafes of Lincoln Road, Washington Avenue and Ocean Drive.",
"For a dash of Latin flavor, head to Little Havana.",
"Wandering along Calle Ocho, soaking up the sights and sounds, you could almost believe you're in Cuba.",
"Drinking a syrupy \"cafecito\" bought from a walk-up window will help you suspend your disbelief.",
"Eccentric Coconut Grove is home to the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (3251 S Miami Avenue).",
"This beautiful building was created in the style of a 16th-century Italian villa by industrialist James Deering in 1916.",
"The 30-acre gardens include Florentine gazebos and a waterfront terrazzo that looks like it's been towed straight from Venice.",
"Inside, you'll find Deering's extensive collection of Italian art and antiques.",
"What are your Miami must-see sights?",
"The Coral Gables neighborhood is known as \"The City Beautiful\" and has a wonderfully Mediterranean feel.",
"Gawp at the opulent villas that abound and then make your way to the most lavish of them all, the Biltmore Hotel (1200 Anastasia Avenue).",
"This palatial construction was built in 1926, modeled on the Giralda bell tower in Seville, and beautifully captures the architecture of southern Spain.",
"While you're in The City Beautiful, take a dip in the Venetian Pool (2701 De Soto Boulevard).",
"The ornate pool was transformed from a rock quarry in 1923, and includes decorative canals, fountains, waterfalls and coral caves, while palm trees and porticos provide some welcome shade.",
"In recent years, Miami has become something of a center for contemporary art.",
"Sample the scene in Wynwood, an up-and-coming district that houses the Rubell Family Collection (95 NW 29th Street) and the Margulies Collection (591 NW 27th Street).",
"In Downtown Miami, the Miami Art Museum (101 W Flagler Street) has an extensive collection of postwar art and some far out conceptual pieces.",
"The Design District is, as the name suggests, a hotbed of art and design.",
"The Moore Space (4040 NE 2nd Avenue) is a vast gallery that showcases cutting edge art, while the façade of the Living Room Building (4000 Miami Avenue) includes an open-air recreation of a gigantic living room.",
"Sitting on its oversized couch is a photo-opportunity not to be missed.",
"...................... Miami City Guide: .",
"Where to stay | What to see | Where to be seen | Where to eat | Where to shop .",
"Do you agree with our Miami picks?",
"Send us your comments and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best ."
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"Learn more about South Beach Deco at the Art Deco Welcome Center .",
"Take a stroll in Little Havana and soak up the atmosphere of old Cuba .",
"Spend an afternoon at the opulent Vizcaya Museum and Gardens .",
"Wynwood is an up-and-coming area with some great modern art spaces ."
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"FLORENCE, Italy (CNN) -- Never one to follow the crowd, fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's clothes are bright, sexy and fearless.",
"His innovative techniques, especially with leather and silk, and his love of adornment -- embroidery, applique, patchwork and diamante -- have made him the A-list's red-carpet darling.",
"Designer Roberto Cavalli in Florence .",
"My City, My Life spoke to Cavalli about his fashion creations, his inspiration and his city of Florence.",
"CNN: What do you feel passionate about?",
"Roberto Cavalli: I'm passionate to be a fashion designer, because fashion is part of our life.",
"When you wake up in the morning you say, \"What do I have to wear to look beautiful, fantastic, sexy, special?\"",
"Fashion is our mind.",
"That is the reason I love being a fashion designer because I can use it to measure your mood, your life.",
"I love being a fashion designer.",
"CNN: What's so special about Florence?",
"Roberto Cavalli: Florence is such a special city.",
"I travel a lot, today I am here, tomorrow maybe in London or Paris or New York.",
"New York is a city where I feel more excited, sometimes I say New York is like a drug it gives you so much energy, but afterwards I need Florence, I live to come back here.",
"I need to continue to breathe art, the air that is in Florence, to walk in my city, to walk in my streets.",
"It's so charming -- Pitti Palace, the Ponte Vecchio, Michelangelo's David.",
"That is Florence. I love it. CNN: How has the city inspired you?",
"Roberto Cavalli: Florence has helped me to judge what is beautiful, what is less beautiful, gave me the feeling of art.",
"Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.",
"CNN: What do you love most about the city?",
"Roberto Cavalli: What I love most about my city is the architecture, the buildings.",
"Every time I discover something new and something different.",
"The color of the stones, for example: I say, \"Oh my God, that stone is 700 years old; 700 years ago America doesn't exist.\"",
"It's something so special.",
"CNN: Do you think that the architecture, the surroundings, inspire you?",
"Roberto Cavalli: Sure, because to live in Florence means to breathe art and my collection, my fashion, why it's so unusual, so colorful.",
"My dream, maybe because of my family of course, was to be a painter.",
"I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion; but for me, I make one fashion show, it is like making one art exhibition.",
"I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.",
"CNN: Have you seen Florence change since you were young?",
"Roberto Cavalli: Everything has changed, all over the world.",
"I believe Florence has changed less than many other cities because we are more conservative, we try to keep everything that is fantastic, everything that is unbelievable, in Florence.",
"In the next 1000 years we need to take care about the beauty and the fantastic things that are in Florence.",
"CNN: What are your favorite colors?",
"Roberto Cavalli: It depends on my mood.",
"Sometimes it depends on where I am, sometimes I adore and love red, sometimes the yellow when I am in the country because the yellow that is with the green and around me I say, \"Fantastico!\"",
"I love the turquoise when I am in my boat and around me you have the light blue, the dark blue, and I say, \"My God, I love this special turquoise combination.\"",
"I love the combination of colors.",
"Color is my life.",
"CNN: Where do you go to relax?",
"Roberto Cavalli: Florence for me is my relaxing place.",
"Also there is my factory, I have all my workers, some workers for 25, 40 years -- they love me, I love them -- but this is my relaxing place.",
"My office, my first factory, my house -- the greenness of my house, my animals.",
"I love my animals, they are all my babies.",
"I love being here, being outside to read, I have music all over here.",
"The winter, Florence is a city where we don't see the snow so much.",
"I love to appreciate the changing of colors, the brown to red of the autumn, I love the beginning of the spring, I love to see the small flowers in the cherry trees and I can see day-by-day the difference.",
"I like to appreciate how nature is born again.",
"See Cavalli's Tuscan farmhouse .",
"CNN: Where else do you like to go?",
"Roberto Cavalli: I am a helicopter pilot.",
"Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird.",
"In this moment I feel free.",
"I feel in this world and life we've lost our freedom, maybe because we are too confused about the politics, maybe confused about the television that washes your brain.",
"I love to be there flying.",
"To feel that in the moment I move my clutch I feel like I move my wings.",
"CNN: Is there anything about Florence that you would like to change?",
"Roberto Cavalli: No, no, no absolutely nothing has to be changed in Florence.",
"Florence is beautiful like it is.",
"CNN: Where do you think your self-belief comes from?",
"Roberto Cavalli: If you want to be successful, you have to believe in yourself.",
"When you are not sure, you show weakness.",
"To be strong you have to show your power, not your muscle power but the brainpower, the character of your heart.",
"If you shoot people with the energy of your mind you become something special.",
"CNN: You're famous for having collections that celebrate women.",
"What kind of woman do you design for?",
"Roberto Cavalli: I don't like to speak sometimes about beauty.",
"I love to speak about feminism: I love to speak about a woman with a lot of personality.",
"That is my woman. A woman that loves to show you how intelligent she is.",
"I love women.",
"Maybe I am the only man in the world who says the woman is stronger than the man, the woman has more personality in the world than the man, because the woman is my muse.",
"I don't have one muse. All the women are my muse.",
"CNN: Do you think you are a typical Florentine?",
"Roberto Cavalli: Yes, I think I am a typical Florentine.",
"CNN: Why? Roberto Cavalli: Because I'm a crazy artist!"
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"The Italian city is famous for its Renaissance works of art .",
"Cavalli cites Florence as an inspiration for his colorful clothes .",
"He says he feels most free when flying his helicopter above the city ."
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"(CNN) -- Johan Eliasch has served as Chairman of the Management Board of Head N.V. and Group Chief Executive Officer since September 1995.",
"Johan Eliasch, chairman and CEO of Head N.V.",
"He is the UK Prime Minister's Special Representative on Deforestation and Clean Energy.",
"He is also a board member of the Centre for Social Justice, a member of the Advisory Boards of Brasilinvest, Societe du Louvre and the British Olympic Association, Chairman of Starr Underwriting Agents, President of the Global Strategy Forum and a Patron of Stockholm University.",
"Along with Labour politician Frank Field, Eliasch co-founded the Cool Earth foundation, which seeks to buy areas of Amazon rainforest to save them from logging, and so reduce the world's carbon emissions.",
"Outside of work he is a keen sports enthusiast, taking part in world-class skiing events at super giant and giant slalom levels.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Johan Eliasch is the chairman of the sports equipment company Head .",
"He is the UK PM's Special Representative on Deforestation and Clean Energy .",
"Eliasch co-founded \"Cool Earth,\" which saves areas of Amazon rainforest ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A California food processing plant is voluntarily recalling up to 1 million pounds of roasted pistachio products that may have been contaminated with salmonella, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday.",
"Salmonella strains were found last week during routine test by Kraft Foods, one company that purchased the nuts.",
"The nuts came from Setton Farms in Terra Bella, California, about 75 miles south of Fresno.",
"They were largely distributed in 2,000-pound containers to food wholesalers who would then package them for resale or incorporate them as ingredients in other products, such as ice cream and trail mix.",
"No illnesses have been linked to this case, said Dr. David Acheson, FDA's associate commissioner.",
"But salmonella strains were found last week during routine test by Kraft Foods, one of about three dozen companies that purchase pistachios from Setton Farms, he said.",
"Kraft notified the FDA on March 24.",
"Setton Farms did not immediately respond to CNN requests for comment.",
"Acheson emphasized that unlike the recent case of salmonella-tainted peanut butter, this recall was not prompted by an sickness outbreak, saying the decision was a \"proactive\" move.",
"He said the FDA has received two recent complaints, from the East and West coasts, from people who say they became ill after eating pistachio products, but a link to Setton Farms has not been confirmed, he said.",
"The FDA is advising consumers not to eat any pistachio products, but not to throw them out, either, because additional recalls are likely and having products that could be turned in would allow for easier tracing of contamination.",
"The agency is setting up a Web site to update the public.",
"Dr. Jeff Farrar, head of the California health department's food and drug division, said it's likely that the roasted pistachios will be found in a wide variety of products.",
"He noted that Setton Farms is the second-largest pistachio processor in the nation.",
"Raw pistachios are roasted to a temperature that should kill salmonella, Acheson said.",
"Because the roasted products tested positive for salmonella suggest cross-contamination with raw products.",
"Acheson added that the Setton Farms recall is related to the one announced Friday by Kroger, a grocery store chain with stores in 31 states.",
"Kroger recalled Private Selection shelled pistachios from its retail stores because of possible salmonella contamination.",
"Kroger, in a statement Friday, said no illnesses have been reported in connection with the product.",
"In February, Kroger was among retailers that recalled peanut products tied to the Peanut Corporation of America, a Virginia-based company accused by the FDA of knowingly selling peanut butter and peanut paste that was contaminated with salmonella.",
"PCA's peanut processing plant in Blakely, Georgia, is being investigated in connection with a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 500 people and has been linked to eight deaths."
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"The pistachios, mostly sold to wholesalers, came from Setton Farms in California .",
"Kraft is one of three dozen companies to purchase pistachios from Setton Farms .",
"No illnesses have been linked to this case so far .",
"Setton Farms is the second-largest pistachio processor in the nation ."
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"(CNN) -- Operating from its corporate headquarters in New York City's Rockefeller Center, Sirius Satellite Radio broadcasts over 130 digital-quality channels, including 69 channels of commercial-free music, plus exclusive channels of sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic, weather and data to more than 7.1 million subscribers.",
"Sirius' high-profile lineup of program hosts and providers includes Howard Stern, CNBC, CNN, Martha Stewart, BBC World Service, E!",
"Entertainment, Maxim, NPR and Radio Disney.",
"Mel Karmazin has been the Chief Executive Officer of Sirius Satellite Radio since November 2004, overseeing all aspects of the company's operations.",
"He strongly supported shock radio talk-show host Howard Stern, recruited Martha Stewart, acquired the programming rights to NASCAR, and raised $500,000,000 in debt financing in 2005.",
"Most recently, Karmazin is slated to become CEO of the merger between Sirius and XM Satellite Radio when the two become one company pending federal approval.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Sirius radio personalities include Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Jamie Foxx .",
"Mel Karmazin's Sirius Satellite Radio competes with XM Satellite Radio .",
"They faced off at antitrust hearing \"Competition and the Future of Digital Music\""
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"(CNN) -- Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, with customers throughout the country.",
"The company began life as part of the Postmaster-General's Department, established in Australia in 1901, to deal with domestic telephone, telegraph and postal services.",
"After several name changes over its more than 100-year history, the company became Telstra in 1993.",
"Today the company has more than more than 9 million fixed line and 9 million mobile services, handles international calls to 230 countries and territories worldwide, and is Australia's 3G market leader, with over 2 million 3G customers.",
"It also has more than 11,000 telephone exchanges, installs an average of 12,000 services per day and in the financial year ending June 30, 2007 it handled 6.5 billion local calls, 7.1 long distance minutes and 4.9 billion SMS messages.",
"In the financial year ended June 30, 2007 sales revenue was $23.7 billion Australian ($22 billion) and underlying EBIT $5.8 billion Australian ($5.4 billion).",
"Telstra is one of Australia's top 10 listed companies, and is a Fortune 500 company.",
"The company sponsors a large number of sports and teams, including organizations in the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League and V8 Supercars.",
"It also endorses the arts through groups such as Australian Ballet and the Great Southern Blues and Rockabilly Festival.",
"Telstra won \"Next Generation Network Service Provider of the Year\" award at the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards in June 2007 and the Innovation Mobility Award for its Next G!",
"network rollout at the 2007 ACOMMS Awards.",
"Telstra's Access for Everyone package, valued at over $200 million Australian($186 million) per year, provides support to over 1.5 million Australians who are experiencing financial hardship each year, including more than a million pensioners.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Telstra began life in 1901 as part of the Postmaster-General's Department .",
"The company installs an average of 12,000 services per day .",
"Telstra is one of Australia's top 10 listed companies, a Fortune 500 company ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- A judge has given a Mexican singer accused of raping a teen a six-day extension to present evidence in the case, state media reported.",
"In a hearing Saturday that was closed to the media and the public, pop singer Kalimba signed a statement stating that he was innocent of the charges, lawyer Eliezer Garcia told the state-run Notimex news agency.",
"Prosecutors in the state of Quintana Roo allege he raped a 17-year-old girl in a hotel there in December.",
"Last week, the singer, whose full name is Kalimba Marichal Ibar, was deported from the United States to Mexico after an immigration violation in El Paso, Texas, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Ramiro Cordero said.",
"The 28-year-old singer is a former member of the group OV7, and also was the voice of Simba in a Spanish version of Disney's \"The Lion King.\"",
"After Saturday's hearing, an employee and a guard at the prison where the singer is being held asked him for his autograph, Notimex said.",
"Outside the prison, the news agency reported that hundreds of fans marched to show their support.",
"Groups of teenagers carried signs and shouted, \"Let Kalimba out!\"",
"and \"He is innocent!\" About 500 fans also gathered to show support for the singer in the nation's capital Saturday, Notimex said, carrying signs that said, \"Kalimba we are with you\" and \"Kalimba, cheer up, Christ loves you.\""
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"He is accused of raping a teen in a hotel in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo .",
"Fans march in support of the pop star outside the prison where he is held .",
"Report: An employee and a guard at the prison ask for the singer's autograph ."
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"The company began life in 1989 as MSI Cellular Investments, a telecommunications consultancy company based and operating in Africa.",
"It was founded by Dr Mo Ibrahim.",
"In January, 2004 the company changed its name to Celtel International.",
"In the early days, employees were rewarded with bonuses consisting of shares, so that by 2000, 30 percent of the company was owned by staff.",
"Although the shares were worthless until the company was listed on the stock exchange, they were given an estimated initial value of £0.14 ($0.28) each.",
"When they were eventually bought out in 2005, they were worth £14 ($27.76).",
"In 1998 the company expanded its services to become a mobile telephony operator and now has a series of networks in 15 different African countries, under licenses that cover more than a third of the total population of the continent.",
"The company was acquired by Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC (MTC) in 2005 and at the time, Celtel had 4,000 employees, of which 98% were African.",
"Celtel has invested more than $750 million in Africa, as part of a goal to build and operate world-class networks that will keep pace technologically with networks in Europe and North America.",
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"Company was founded by Mo Ibrahim in 1989 as MSI Cellular Investments .",
"Initially a consultancy firm, 1998 it became a mobile telephony company .",
"It has networks in 15 African countries, covering a third of Africa's population ."
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"(CNN) -- As you might expect from a city that has districts called Little Havana and Little Haiti, there's no shortage of hearty Cuban and Caribbean cuisine in Miami, but the city's elaborate mix of immigrants has also resulted in some fascinating culinary fusions.",
"The real deal: Cafe Cubano at Versailles.",
"\"Floribbean\" cooking mixes elements of traditional Caribbean cookery with modern techniques and an emphasis on fresh produce, while the style known as \"Nuevo Latino\" revisits classic recipes from all over Latin America, using choicer cuts of meats, healthier ingredients and an added an North American sensibility.",
"There's nothing \"nuevo\" about Versailles Restaurant (3555 SW. Eighth Street), which, in spite of the French allusions of its name, serves reassuringly traditional Cuban dishes.",
"This Little Havana institution specializes in cheap hearty staples like \"moros\" (black beans and rice) and \"vaca frita\" (shredded fried beef with a garlic seasoning), but the real draw is people-watching in the heart of the Cuban exile community, as the émigrés reminisce about the old country.",
"The Versailles bakery next door does great empanadas, fruit juices and Cuban coffee, which is an entirely different beast from the regular American filter variety.",
"Café cubano, or \"cafecito,\" is like a sweet espresso and is served in tiny, potent shots.",
"Add a splash of steamed milk to get a delicious \"cortadito.\"",
"Outside Little Havana, David's Café (1058 Collins Avenue) in South Beach knows how to whip up a mean \"café con leche.\"",
"As with so many things in Miami, when it comes to fine dining, South Beach is the place to be.",
"If you like to eat in the company of the glitterati and you've got the bank balance to back you up, take your meat-loving self to Prime One Twelve (112 Ocean Drive).",
"It may be just a steakhouse, but this is the kind of steakhouse favored by A-list celebs.",
"A filet mignon will set you back $52, and you'll love all 12 juicy ounces of it, while a dessert of fried Oreos is diet-wreckingly good.",
"Do you agree with our Miami picks?",
"Or have we missed out your favorite spot?",
"Tell us in the sound-off box beow.",
"Elsewhere in South Beach, Lincoln Road is home to some very chic eateries, many of which get away with charging ridiculous prices for very ordinary fare.",
"Fortunately, there's Sushi Samba Dromo (600 Lincoln Rd), with its seafood-based fusion of Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian cuisine.",
"Think sashimi flavored with exotic fruits and you'll be on the right track.",
"Kind of... For sushi of the more traditional kind, try Nobu at the Shores Club hotel (1901 Collins Ave, Miami Beach), which also does excellent tempura and teriyaki.",
"Joe's Stone Crab (11 Washington Ave) is another South Beach favorite.",
"Joe's doesn't take reservations and there are huge queues for its legendary crab, but if you've got better things to do than queue for two hours for your supper, you can always grab a takeout from the counter next door.",
"If you want to impress that special someone, there's nowhere better than Casa Tua (1700 James Avenue).",
"This secluded, romantic hideaway has superb Italian food and is suitably expensive.",
"Vegetarians are well catered for at the Lost and Found Saloon (185 NW 36th Street) in the Wynwood neighborhood, a relaxed but stylish option for breakfast, lunch and dinner.",
"Gourmet Carrot (959 West Avenue, Miami Beach) is another good spot for veggies, or anyone with a hankering for a deliciously healthy smoothie.",
"...................... Miami City Guide: .",
"Where to stay | What to see | Where to be seen | Where to eat | Where to shop ."
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"Versailles Restaurant is a bastion of authentic Cuban cuisine in Little Havana .",
"Miami is the place for a Cafe Cubano -- a sticky sweet shot of espresso .",
"Celebs flock to Prime One Twelve to devour succulent slabs of steak .",
"Lost and Found Saloon is a great spot for a veggie breakfast -- or lunch ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Authorities in southwestern Afghanistan have seized 19 tons of explosive devices that had been transferred across the border from Iran, police said.",
"Nimruz Police Chief Abdul Jabar Purdel said a suspect was detained.",
"Nimruz province, in Afghanistan's southwestern corner, borders Iran and Pakistan .",
"The devices had been placed in 337 boxes inside a 40-foot shipping container transferred from Iran over a bridge linking Afghanistan and Iran, he said.",
"Earlier this year, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said that new U.S. military intelligence suggests Iran planned to smuggle new shipments of weapons into Afghanistan as part of an increased effort to interfere with coalition operations.",
"The information came from an \"Iranian source\" whose tips on past shipments have been verified by the United States, the official said in April.",
"The official also noted that Iran -- a majority Shiite country -- and the Sunni Taliban almost went to war with one another in the late 1990s, so it's not really in their interest to be a major source of top-shelf arms to the Taliban.",
"Tehran has consistently denied supporting groups opposed to the Afghan government.",
"U.S. and coalition troops have found evidence of some Iranian weapons inside Afghanistan in seized caches or in the aftermath of attacks."
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"Material is found in Nimruz province .",
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan coach Leonardo does not want unsettled midfielder Gennaro Gattuso to leave the club during the winter transfer market.",
"The veteran has failed to earn a regular spot in Leonardo's side because of injuries and the coach's squad rotation policy.",
"Gattuso, a near-certain selection for Italy's World Cup squad, said last week he could leave Milan before the end of his contract in June 2011 if his playing time did not increase.",
"\"If Gattuso has this idea in his head, I will try to make him change his mind,\" Leonardo told reporters.",
"\"I know Rino (Gattuso) well.",
"I played with him. I always speak to Gattuso and try to be very clear.",
"Now the most important thing is that he recovers from the muscular injury.\"",
"Gattuso has been a reported target for Manchester City but AC Milan club administrator Adriano Galliani added: \"The other day I showed him (Gattuso) the midfield of the top five teams in Europe and he would not have been a starter in any of those.",
"\"Why leave, only to be relegated to the bench somewhere else?\"",
"The 31-year-old has been with the Rossoneri since 1999 and was a crucial member of the Italy squad which won the 2006 World Cup.",
"He has made seven league appearances for Milan this campaign."
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"AC Milan coach Leonardo does not want unsettled midfielder Gennaro Gattuso to leave the club .",
"Gattuso is unsettled at the club after failing to earn a regular place in the first team this season .",
"The 31-year-old Italian international has been with the Rossoneri since 1999 ."
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"(CNN) -- Britain and France are calling for an additional 3,000 United Nations troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the U.N. already has its biggest peacekeeping mission, a senior British diplomat said Wednesday.",
"A U.N. peacekeeper rides atop an armored vehicle last week in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"Mark Malloch-Brown, the British Foreign Office minister for Africa, the Middle East and the United Nations, announced a draft resolution on the troop increase while on a four-day mission to the war-torn Congo.",
"Britain expects the U.N. Security Council to adopt the resolution by the end of the week, a spokeswoman for the British mission to the United Nations said.",
"The resolution follows calls from the United Nations' own peacekeeping experts, Human Rights Watch, and local human rights groups in Congo for more troops to support the 17,000 U.N. soldiers already there.",
"A coalition of 44 organizations in eastern Congo wrote to the Security Council on Tuesday, pleading for more troops.",
"\"This would help to prevent the atrocities that continue to be committed against civilians on an ever greater scale here in North Kivu [province], on the border of Rwanda and Uganda,\" the coalition wrote.",
"Fighting between government forces, allied militias and rebels under the command of Laurent Nkunda has forced an estimated 250,000 people to flee their homes since August.",
"\"Since August 28, fighting has intensified in many areas, causing deaths, rapes, lootings, forced recruitment and further displacements of civilian populations,\" the local coalition wrote.",
"\"The population has thus been immersed in unspeakable suffering.",
"In the last few days, fighting has drawn closer to large populated areas, such as the town of Goma.",
"Fighting has also invaded and torn apart the region of Rutshuru, particularly in the town of Kiwanja, where hundreds of civilian deaths have now been recorded.\"",
"The letter echoes concerns expressed by the British aid group Oxfam last week.",
"\"The world is failing in its responsibility to protect the Congo's innocent civilians,\" Juliette Prodhan, the head of Oxfam in Congo, said in a statement released November 13.",
"Watch international efforts to avoid a health catastrophe in Congo » .",
"\"There has been an increase in incidents of forced labor, rape and widespread brutality, according to assessments carried out by international agency Oxfam over the past week, as armed men from all sides prey upon those who have sought 'sanctuary' from the fighting in North Kivu\" province, she said.",
"Another aid group, World Vision, says the conflict in the African country is the deadliest since World War II.",
"The country has been at war since 1997.",
"\"The last decade of conflict has resulted in some 4 million deaths; an estimated 1,200 people die every day due to ongoing epidemics and war-related causes; some aid agencies estimate upward of 1,400 deaths per day,\" World Vision said in a statement.",
"The local groups in Congo specifically requested help from the European Union, which can deploy military units faster than the United Nations can.",
"Georgette Gagnon, the executive director for the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said she also would like to see the European Union send troops.",
"\"Our concern is that it is going to take three months [for the United Nations] to get anybody on the ground,\" she said.",
"\"Our request is for the EU to send a bridging force.",
"The EU has done this in the past for the Congo, and they have the capacity to get people on the ground within two weeks.\"",
"The \"goal would be provide civilian protection, to do patrols and other things that would prevent looting, pillaging and raping by either the Congolese troops -- which are doing this -- or the rebel group,\" she said.",
"The European Union has not announced plans to send troops to police the conflict.",
"A spokeswoman for the British mission to the United Nations said London is \"not ruling in or out EU forces,\" instead focusing on strengthening the U.N. presence in eastern Congo."
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"Peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo is already U.N.'s largest .",
"Britain, France call for 3,000 more U.N. troops in Congo .",
"Human rights groups in Congo also have been calling for more troops there .",
"Fighting in Congo has caused about 250,000 people to flee homes since August ."
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"(CNN) -- Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been dropped from Stuttgart's first-team after he paid an unauthorized visit to the Oktoberfest just hours after his side's defeat to Cologne.",
"Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been dropped from Stuttgart's first-team after he paid an unauthorized visit to the Oktoberfest.",
"The 39-year-old former Germany international was spotted at Munich's beer festival following Stuttgart's 2-0 home defeat to Cologne in the Bundesliga and did not have permission to attend.",
"Lehmann made an error to gift Cologne their second goal of the match when he raced out of his area only to lose possession and allow Wilfried Sanou to shoot into an empty net from 45 yards out.",
"Marcus Babbel confirmed the decision to axe him from the side and told the Stuttgart Web site: \"Director of sport Horst Heldt and I will talk with Jens about this on Thursday and then we will see where to go.\"",
"Lehmann apologized for breaking club rules, accepted the suspension and claimed his motives were in a good cause.",
"\"The visit to the Wiesn (Oktoberfest) was part of a charity event and it had been planned for a long time,\" he explained.",
"\"However, it was not agreed with the club.",
"Of course I accept the measures taken by the sporting management.\"",
"Meanwhile Hamburg midfielder Ze Roberto has urged his teammates to set their sights on winning the Bundesliga title this season.",
"The Brazilian, who won the league with Bayern Munich, has played a key role in the unbeaten start to the season which has left Bruno Labbadia's side at the top of the table.",
"He said: \"Hamburg must think big for the future.",
"A team like Bayern Munich want to win the Bundesliga title every season.",
"That should be our target as well.",
"\"I want to win the league title this year already.",
"I feel like we have a good chance to win the Bundesliga if we continue like this.\""
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"Stuttgart goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been axed from the club's first team .",
"The 39-year-old made an unauthorized visit to the Munich beer festival .",
"Only hours earlier Lehmann had played in Stuttgart's 2-0 defeat to Cologne .",
"Hamburg midfielder Ze Roberto has targeted a Bundesliga title challenge ."
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"(CNN) -- Ronaldinho plundered a hat-trick as AC Milan crushed 10-man Siena 4-0 on Sunday to close the gap on Serie A leaders Inter Milan to just six points and with the Milan derby to come next week.",
"Milan also have a game in hand meaning they could potentially draw level with the four-in-a-row champions if they were to win next weekend's crunch clash.",
"The hosts started in determined mood following Inter's 2-2 draw at Bari on Saturday and Ronaldinho took an Alessandro Nesta cross on his chest on three minutes before sending a spectacular overhead bicycle kick just off target.",
"But on 10 minutes the referee took the decision that essentially ended the game as a contest.",
"Jardim Brandao dithered on the ball in his own box and Marco Borriello dispossessed him before trying to go round goalkeeper Gianluca Curci.",
"There was minimal contact and Borriello crumpled to the ground but the striker's last touch had been too heavy and left him no chance of reaching the ball before a back-tracking defender.",
"Even so, the referee pointed to the spot and showed Curci a straight red card.",
"Substitute goalkeeper Gianluca Pegolo's first task was to pick the ball out of his net.",
"Siena battled on gamely, and on 26 minutes Massimo Maccarone escaped three defenders on the edge of the Milan box to bundle through before firing over on the stretch as Thiago Silva came across to put him under pressure.",
"Two minutes later the lead was doubled as Andrea Pirlo curled a cross into the near post and Borriello hooked a brilliant volley over his shoulder and into the top corner.",
"Ronaldinho proved a constant menace and had two early second half chances, flicking the ball over the bar with the first and being denied by Pegolo with the second.",
"But 18 minutes from time he rose unmarked in the box to head home a David Beckham corner.",
"The Brazilian sealed his first Milan hat-trick with a rocket into the top corner from outside the area a minute from time.",
"Meanwhile, Juventus slumped to their seventh defeat in 10-games with a 1-0 reverse at Chievo that is sure to increase the pressure on under-fire coach Ciro Ferrara.",
"Gennaro Sardo's stunning first-half strike proved to be the only goal of the game as Juve turned in a performance lacking energy and confidence which comes on the back of a 3-0 hammering at the hands of Milan in their last league outing.",
"Juve dropped to fifth and out of the Champions League places as both Roma and Napoli overtook them.",
"Roma moved up to third as on-loan Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni scored his first goals for the club in a 3-0 win over Genoa.",
"Simone Perrotta opened the scoring on 17 minutes after a scramble at a corner and then Toni turned home Mirko Vucinic's cross on the stroke of half-time.",
"And, on the hour mark, Vucinic turned provider again for Toni to head home his second.",
"Napoli could not fully capitalize as they were held 0-0 at home by Palermo but still extended their unbeaten league run to 14 matches."
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"Brazilian Ronaldinho plundered a hat-trick as AC Milan crushed 10-man Siena 4-0 in Serie A .",
"The result means Milan close the gap on Serie A leaders and city rivals Inter Milan to just six points .",
"Juventus continue to slide down the table after slumping to a 1-0 defeat at Chievo ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The miners who survived 69 days in a Chilean mine toured Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard in two double-decker buses Thursday evening, receiving cheers and a hero's welcome from passersby in the the street.",
"The miners serenaded anyone who would listen.",
"\"Chi-chi-chi!\"",
"\"Le-le-le!\" \"We the miners of Chile!\"",
"they sang in unison.",
"Some people from the street and even a rooftop sang \"Chile!\"",
"in return. The 33 miners, along with relatives and five of their rescuers, landed in Los Angeles earlier in the day Thursday 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.",
"The Los Angeles police department gave the miners' two-bus entourage a motorcycle escort from Los Angeles International Airport to a downtown hotel.",
"Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa greeted the group at the hotel with the traditional Spanish saying of \"mi casa es su casa,\" or \"my house is your house.\"",
"\"The entire world was watching the success of your rescue,\" Villaraigosa told the group.",
"Later, the miners, rescuers and their relatives ventured outside the hotel for the first time and found a TV news helicopter and local news stations filming them as they boarded two double-decker buses.",
"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.\"",
"The entourage strolled outside the landmark Capitol Records building, built to resemble a stack of records on a turntable.",
"They walked to the heart of the Hollywood noir district, at Hollywood and Vine Boulevards, which is enjoying a construction boom.",
"They also toured Beverly Hills and its Rodeo Drive boutique district.",
"Bus guides also showed them the grand business concourse of Wilshire Boulevard.",
"Throughout the sightseeing, the miners, wives and relatives took photographs on their cameras or smartphones.",
"Shortly after their arrival at the hotel Thursday morning, the miner known as \"the poet\" was freewheeling in the hallway with the other miner known as \"Super Mario.\"",
"\"Where can we go dancing?\"",
"shouted Mario Sepulveda, 40, the Chilean miner whose exuberant personality earned him the super nickname.",
"He and Victor Zamora, 34, the miner-poet, were expressing the collective excitement of the miners, rescuers and their families.",
"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 for 69 days, 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 entrapment 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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"One miner became a poet while underground just to survive gloom .",
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"But the daughter gave birth to a girl this week, the first grandchild ."
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"(CNN) -- Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has fought off competition from a clutch of Manchester United players to be named Footballer of the Year in England.",
"Gerrard has proved the driving force for Liverpool this season.",
"The 28-year-old England international topped the poll of journalists ahead of United pair Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney with their teammates Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand rounding out the top five.",
"Gerrard secured 73 votes from a total of 202 with Giggs on 63.",
"The prestigious award has been running since 1948 and been won by some of the greats of the game such as Stanley Matthews, Bobby Moore and George Best.",
"The chairman of the football writers' association Steve Bates gave the reasons for his selection.",
"\"Steven's performances this season have been of the highest quality,\" he told Press Association.",
"\"His drive and desire have underpinned Liverpool's Premier League title challenge and ensured a tight finish to the season.\"",
"Gerrard, who was brought up on Merseyside, has been in outstanding form for Liverpool this season in their sustained challenge to Manchester United in the Premier League title race, scoring 15 goals from midfield.",
"His loyalty to his hometown club saw him reject overtures from Chelsea soon after helping Liverpool to their epic Champions League victory over AC Milan in 2005.",
"Gerrard's ultimate ambition in club football is to help the Reds win the English championship for the first time since 1990.",
"He is the first Liverpool player to win the award since John Barnes from that successful side.",
"\"I'm delighted but I'm a little bit surprised,\" the 28-year-old told his club's official Web site.",
"\"When you look at the quality of the players there are in this league, it's a great privilege to win this kind of award.\"",
"Veteran Giggs was named the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year in April and has been in superb form for United in their relentless quest for multiple trophies."
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"Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is named Footballer of the Year in England .",
"Manchester United pair Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney are second and third .",
"Gerrard has scored 23 goals in Liverpool's English title challenge this season ."
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"Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from CNN executive producer and author Suzanne Simons' new book, \"Master of War: Blackwater's Erik Prince and the Global Business of War.\"",
"Donna Zovko, mother of Jerry Zovko, who was killed in Fallujah, testifies at a House hearing.",
"(CNN) -- March 31, 2004, started early for the four men and the convoy they were escorting.",
"Their differences set aside for the time being, the men hopped into their Pajeros and pulled out, heading to the heart of Falluja.",
"Westerners would typically avoid the downtown area, opting instead for a bypass route around the city, but that morning, the convoy set out on Highway 10, right through the busy streets of the city.",
"There were just two men per vehicle.",
"Two of the men who would have provided rear cover in the vehicles had been held back to help with clerical work.",
"Scott Helvenston and Mike Teague were in one SUV, Wesley Batalona and Jerry Zovko in another, as the convoy drove a little over a mile into town.",
"With traffic coming to a halt, the convoy found itself stuck in a growing swarm of traffic and people.",
"Suddenly, a few armed men emerged from the streets and approached the vehicle that Helvenston and Teague were in.",
"They fired off shots, hitting the Blackwater men in the back of the head, the stricken men's bodies slumping forward in their seats.",
"Witnesses watched the other Pajero attempting to move out of the way, but it failed to pass through the gathering crowd fast enough.",
"Within minutes of the first attack, Zovko and Batalona were also shot.",
"The crowd began working itself into a frenzy.",
"Locals videotaped as a mob of men and boys began to chant and celebrate, many of them cheering, \"Falluja is the graveyard of Americans.\"",
"The video showed a chilling display of hatred, as the bodies were burned, ripped from the vehicles, beaten and dragged through the streets to a steel bridge spanning the Euphrates River.",
"The crowd was jubilant, chanting like football fans celebrating a Super Bowl victory.",
"A torso, now decapitated, was tied with electrical cord and hung from the girders.",
"A second body, blackened from the fire, was also strung up for the cheering crowd to see.",
"It was sometime between 3:30 and 4:30 in the morning in McLean, Virginia, when Erik Prince got the call.",
"In Moyock, North Carolina, Gary Jackson had gotten word of the attack as well.",
"Jackson headed into his office at the Blackwater training facility, where he was joined by Chris Taylor, who had just been promoted to vice president of strategic initiatives, and Mike Rush, the director of Blackwater Security Consulting.",
"They linked up with Prince by phone, as he arrived at his unmarked office in a McLean high-rise in the dark hours of morning.",
"The details were still sketchy, but they knew that four of their own had been killed.",
"\"I'd been a low-level officer before, but I'd never had anybody under my responsibility seriously injured or killed,\" said Prince.",
"\"That struck home.\"",
"It wasn't long before the images began showing up on TV screens.",
"The pictures shown on Arabic networks were incredibly disturbing: the chanting crowd, the burning vehicles, the bodies hanging from the bridge.",
"Even what aired on American networks was disturbing, and those pictures were heavily edited.",
"\"It was already on CNN,\" said Taylor.",
"\"We had preliminary information that it was our guys.\"",
"It was an outrage for Prince, remembering his trip to the area just weeks before.",
"\"The first thing I thought of when I saw that was Jerry [Zovko] would be the guy to go and sort this out and find the guys who did this,\" said Prince.",
"By midmorning, the worst was confirmed.",
"The four men were four of their own.",
"Prince, Jackson, Taylor, and Rush knew what they had to do.",
"Jackson was angry but tried to keep his emotions in check.",
"\"I was pissed; you know, I come from the Special Operations community, and I was mainly just pissed,\" said Jackson.",
"\"You've got to understand at that particular point in time, no matter how bad it was, it was going, and we had stuff to do.\"",
"The four dead men had listed next of kin information in the company paperwork.",
"The four Blackwater executives packed their bags and headed out to inform the families.",
"U.S. marshals or sheriff 's deputies would be waiting at their respective destinations.",
"Prince set out for Cleveland, Ohio, to tell Jerry Zovko's parents.",
"Jackson, who had seen Mike Teague less than two weeks before, would be the one to tell Teague's wife and 15-year-old son that Mike wouldn't be coming home.",
"Taylor headed for a San Diego, California, suburb to tell Tricia Irby, Scott Helvenston's ex-wife, that the father of her children had been killed.",
"Rush was on a plane bound for Hawaii.",
"That afternoon, Katy Helvenston was sitting in her home office in a bedroom community just outside Orlando, Florida, when images of the gruesome, chaotic mob scene flashed on her TV screen.",
"She couldn't help but think briefly of the son she called Scotty."
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"Blackwater sent personnel to Falluja on March 31, 2004 .",
"The men were ambushed and fatally shot .",
"The bodies were burned, beaten, dragged through the street and hung from a bridge .",
"The men's deaths sparked a U.S. military assault on the Iraqi city ."
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"(CNN) -- Afghan civilians were killed in U.S. airstrikes during fighting this week in western Afghanistan, local officials and the Red Cross said.",
"Villagers pray at a mass grave this week after an airstrike in Afghanistan's Farah province.",
"The reports come as concerns mount over noncombatant casualties in the war against the Taliban.",
"But the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the U.S. military suspects the incident started when Taliban militants entered the area and beheaded three civilians.",
"And another senior U.S. military official said Taliban militants may have killed as many as 15 civilians with grenades and then paraded their shrapnel-riddled bodies through villages in western Afghanistan.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she \"deeply regrets\" the loss of civilian lives but pointed out \"we don't know all of the circumstances\" and promised an investigation.",
"Afghan officials have said that a number of civilians died Tuesday during U.S. airstrikes on villages in Farah Province.",
"The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a news release that its \"impression was that dozens of people, including women and children, had been killed.\"",
"The ICRC workers were told that some of the dead had already been buried by the time they arrived on the scene.",
"\"We are deeply concerned by these events,\" Reto Stocker, the ICRC's head of delegation in Kabul, Afghanistan, said in a statement.",
"\"We know that those killed included an Afghan Red Crescent volunteer and 13 members of his family who had been sheltering from fighting in a house that was bombed in an airstrike.\"",
"But U.S. officials believe the Taliban deliberately engineered a ground attack against Afghan and U.S. forces, expecting the United States would call in airstrikes.",
"They said the Taliban were then prepared to kill the civilians.",
"A senior U.S. military official said there was \"very reliable intelligence\" that Taliban fighters rounded up three families, including women and children, and killed them with grenades.",
"The official would not allow his name to be used because a preliminary investigation into the matter is ongoing and no conclusions have been reached.",
"Their bodies, shrapnel wounds visible, were then put into the backs of trucks and driven through the area in an effort to convince villagers that the U.S. military operation had killed them.",
"The official said he did not know who drove the trucks -- other Taliban or local Afghans forced into duty.",
"\"No one is disputing people died, it's how they died,\" the official said.",
"\"What we do have is strong evidence to support that a number of women and children were killed by the Taliban and their bodies were driven by locals as evidence of U.S. bombing,\" the official said.",
"Some Afghan civilians may have been killed or wounded before the airstrikes during ground fighting between the Taliban and Afghanistan and U.S. forces, the official said.",
"But the military's investigation found no evidence of large-scale civilian deaths resulting from the airstrikes themselves, despite the claims from Afghan officials and the Red Cross.",
"U.S. military investigators found no evidence of human remains in any of the four bomb craters it examined, the official said.",
"The news comes as Afghan President Hamid Karzai visits Washington this week.",
"Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart, President Asif Ali Zardari, are talking with key congressional leaders and policymakers ahead of meetings with President Obama and Clinton.",
"Speaking in Washington, Clinton -- flanked by Karzai and Zardari -- said the United States and Afghanistan will jointly investigate the airstrike and its aftermath.",
"She said Washington already has sent a team of investigators to the region.",
"The ICRC team found dozens of dead bodies in two villages, spokeswoman Jessica Barry in Kabul, told CNN.",
"The increase of international troops in Afghanistan has raised a concern that fighting will intensify and civilians will face greater risks of getting hurt, she said.",
"\"It's all sides who need to respect the civilians,\" Barry said.",
"\"And this is the message we pass to all the armed forces, to the international forces, to the Taliban, to the armed opposition.\"",
"CNN's Barbara Starr and Chris Lawrence contributed to this report."
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"News of strike comes as Afghan president visiting Washington for talks ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- When the final whistle blew after Iraq's 4-0 win over Palestine at the Al-Shaab Stadium it was abundantly clear this was not just any international friendly.",
"Iraq's first international match in Baghdad was a special moment for the country's football fans.",
"Supporters spilled out on to the streets to celebrate not just the goals from Hawar Mullah Mohammed, Karrar Jasim, Ala Abdel Zahra and Emad Mohammed, but the fact Iraq had staged their first international match in Baghdad since 2002.",
"Iraq fan Sadiq Alwohal believes it was a poignant moment in the history of the game in the country.",
"To put it simply; football in Iraq had come home.",
"Alwohal fled Baghdad for England 14 years ago to pursue his love of football, where he eventually found work as a coach in London.",
"He now runs the Football for Change program which, among other projects, has set up soccer schools in post-war Iraq.",
"\"It is really special day that we are able to play a match in the capital city in our home stadium -- I believe this is big progress for football in Iraq,\" Alwohal told CNN.",
"\"You could see from the faces of the people and the celebrations after the match how important it was.",
"Football has the potential to help heal the wounds of what has happened in Iraq and the reaction of people shows what it means.",
"\"Now we need to develop the infrastructure in Iraq well so that we have better facilities, so grounds are brought up to the required standard and football can progress.",
"\"For Iraqi people, football is religion -- we are all crazy for it -- and I hope that this match is the dawn of a beautiful new era for the game in Iraq.\"",
"Indeed the foundations for the next stage also seem to be coming into place.",
"The Iraq Ministry for Youth and Sport has plans for the construction of a new FIFA International quality stadium in Basra as a location to host the 21st Gulf Cup in 2012.",
"See a video of the plans for the new stadium.",
"But Simon Freeman, author of Baghdad FC, which tells the story of Iraqi footballers who lived under the reign of Saddam Hussein and is an expert on the game in the country, admitted that the match maybe a milestone in the country's development, but there is still much work to be done.",
"Can football help heal Iraq?",
"Leave your comments in the Sound Off box below.",
"\"Obviously this match is important because when sporting fixtures make a return to country -- or city -- blighted by war it does tend to suggest that progress is being made there,\" he said.",
"\"But it a very small step and there could be a temptation to overplay the significance of the game against Palestine.",
"It's an encouraging sign but there have been false dawns before so I don't think people should get too carried away.",
"\"There is still a very long way to go before Iraq returns to something like normality so while it's great news that the game has gone ahead, I'd be inclined to exercise caution.\"",
"The impact of the organization of the match though has not been lost on the Asian Football Confederation who have subsequently approved a proposal by Iraq Football Association president Hussein Saeed to lift the sanction imposed on it from hosting the international games.",
"Citing successful organization of friendly games against Palestine as an example of a safe and secure Iraq, the Asian Cup holders will now host home matches for the national team and club teams in the city of Arbil.",
"\"We are glad to be the first sports federation of Iraq to host official international matches of national teams at home after the war,\" Saeed told the AFC Web site.",
"\"We had asked for approval of Baghdad, Arbil and Sulaimanyia venues but AFC has only approved Arbil as a first step.",
"We will continue to press for the approval of the remaining two cities.",
"\"Football plays an important role in the lives of the Iraqi people and they are waiting anxiously to watch their national team play the official international matches at home.\""
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"Iraq football fans celebrate first international match in Baghdad since 2003 .",
"Plans for a new international stadium for 21st Gulf Cup in Basra are revealed .",
"Expert Simon Freeman warns of overplaying significance of the fixture .",
"Iraq FA president confirms the return of national team matches to Arbil ."
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"(CNN) -- At the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics Juan Antonio Samaranch, the International Olympic Committee president, declared that the Games had been the best ever.",
"Freeman celebrates after winning gold in the 400 meters.",
"Superbly organized and featuring a record 10,651 athletes, Sydney produced a number of memorable moments, such as Steve Redgrave's fifth consecutive rowing gold and the three golds and two silvers taken by Ian Thorpe in the swimming events.",
"But one performer stood out above all others: Australia's Cathy Freeman.",
"Every Olympics produces one unique individual who somehow comes to define those Games: Jesse Owens in 1936, Emil Zatopek in 1952, Nadia Comaneci in 1976.",
"In 2000 it was the aboriginal Freeman, whose lighting of the Olympic flame and subsequent victory in the 400 meters were of huge symbolic significance to a nation still wrestling with the legacy of its maltreatment of its indigenous peoples.",
"Freeman was already an Australian sporting icon prior to Sydney 2000, having won two gold medals at the 1994 Commonwealth Games (for 200 meters and 400 meters), and back-to-back 400 meters gold medals at the 1997 and 1999 world championships (as well as a 400 meters silver medal at the 1996 Olympics).",
"It wasn't simply her athletic prowess that had made her a national heroine, however (in 1998 she was named Australian of the year), but the fact that she was one of the very few native aborigines to achieve success, sporting or otherwise, in a country that until 1962 had refused to even allow aborigines the right to vote.",
"Although she was never an overt political activist, preferring to make her statement on the running track, Freeman was nonetheless deeply proud of her heritage, and made a point, whenever she won an international race, of carrying not just the Australian flag but the aboriginal one as well on her lap of honor.",
"Powerful statement .",
"Her choice as the person to light the Olympic flame at the Sydney 2000 opening ceremony -- the last in a relay of Australia's great Olympians, and the first time in Olympic history a participating athlete had been given the honor -- was seen as a powerful statement of national contrition and reconciliation.",
"If her role in the opening ceremony was replete with symbolism, however, it was just a prelude to the events of 10 nights later when, in the most eagerly anticipated contest of the Games, Freeman lined up in lane six of Stadium Australia for the 400 meters final.",
"Wearing a hooded green and yellow bodysuit, and cheered on hysterically by a sell-out crowd of 110,000 people -- not to mention the tens of millions glued to their television sets worldwide -- she paced herself perfectly through the race, crossing the finishing line in a time of 49.11 seconds to take the gold medal, ahead of Lorraine Graham of Jamaica and Britain's Katharine Merry.",
"So intense had been the pressure she was under, and so enormous the weight of expectation resting on her shoulders, that, once the race was over, she could do nothing but sit down on the track and hang her head, physically and emotionally exhausted.",
"\"I was totally overwhelmed,\" she later said.",
"\"I could feel the crowd totally around me, all over me.",
"I just felt everybody's emotion and happiness and joy.",
"I was totally absorbing it into every pore in my body.",
"I just had to sit down.\" Her victory was not simply a great sporting achievement, but a defining moment of modern Australian history, the entire country united in jubilation at a performance that seemed to hold out hope for a less divided, more racially inclusive society.",
"When she had finally recovered herself Freeman came to her feet again and, holding the Australian and Aboriginal flags above her head, set off on a lap of honor, the stadium echoing to the sound of the chanting of her name.",
"\"Her victory was one of the great sporting events of our generation,\" said Australian Prime Minister John Howard.",
"\"She is a great Australian.\"",
"\"All I know is that I made a lot of people happy from a lot of backgrounds who call Australia home,\" was Freeman's assessment of her achievement.",
"She retired from athletics in July 2003."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Taliban fighters killed two workers from Afghanistan's main election body in another attack that highlighted the threat of a violence-marred parliamentary election Saturday.",
"The attack occurred in a remote district of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province Wednesday morning, said Munir Ahmmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor.",
"The death toll for campaign staff and election workers in the run-up to the vote now stands at 21, according to Tabish Forugh of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission.",
"Another 26 people have been wounded.",
"The Taliban has threatened to target polling stations during the voting.",
"Security is one of the election commission's biggest concerns, Forugh said.",
"Of the 6,835 polling centers, the commission has ordered 1,030 closed due to security threats.",
"Polls in only nine of Afghanistan's 34 provinces will be fully open Saturday.",
"Afghanistan's interior ministry announced it will deploy 52,000 police, soldiers and national security officers on election day.",
"They will be complemented by troops from Afghanistan's NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.",
"\"Every vote cast by an Afghan in these elections ... is a perfect statement against the Taliban,\" said ISAF spokesman Brig.",
"Gen. Josef Blotz at a news conference Thursday.",
"\"Every time someone votes in a polling station, the Taliban loses.\"",
"Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday issued a new warning of potential violence surrounding the elections.",
"It alerted U.S. citizens to avoid crowds and public gatherings and said some road closures and checkpoints at polling stations are to be expected.",
"And the United Nations encouraged international employees not involved with supporting the election to take leave during the polling.",
"Elsewhere, an international forces service member shot a protester who aimed his AK-47 toward a guard tower at a NATO military base in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Thursday.",
"The man was pulled away by fellow demonstrators before ISAF forces were able to determine his condition.",
"The protest of about 100 Afghans at Forward Operating Base Mirwais was reported to have been held in response to an alleged Quran burning inside the base Wednesday.",
"But ISAF said the suspected burning was a routine burn-pit session in which military documents are destroyed.",
"The protest turned violent when the Afghans began throwing rocks at the base guards.",
"ISAF said the armed protester was shot in accordance with the rules of engagement.",
"Also in southern Afghanistan, two international service members were killed Thursday in a bombing and an insurgent attack.",
"No other information, including the service members' nationalities, was immediately available from ISAF.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and Matiullah Mati contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- In the history of the modern Olympics few, if any, performances have captured the popular imagination in quite the same way as that of American Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games.",
"Owens defied Hitler by winning four gold medals in Berlin in 1936.",
"His haul of four gold medals -- in the 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump and 4x100 meters relay -- would have been a notable achievement under any circumstances, especially since two of his victories resulted in new world records.",
"What gave his feat its unique resonance, however, was the fact that it took place at a Games organized by Hitler's Nazi Party, and specifically designed as a showcase for white Aryan talent.",
"As a black man, Owens' quadruple triumph was a huge embarrassment to the hosts, and a defiant snub to the Third Reich's theories of white racial supremacy.",
"No other sporting performance before or since has achieved quite the same level of symbolism.",
"The 11th Olympiad had been awarded to Germany in May 1931, two years before Hitler and his Nazi party came to power.",
"Their overtly racist policies -- including the exclusion of all Jews and gypsies from German sporting facilities -- led to widespread calls to either move or boycott the competition, especially in Europe and the U.S.",
"Despite that the Games went ahead, with 49 countries and a total of 4,066 athletes participating, more than in any previous Olympics.",
"From the outset the Nazi propaganda machine made the most of the opportunity presented by the Games.",
"For their two-week duration -- from August 1-16 -- houses and monuments throughout Berlin were decked with Nazi flags and banners, while posters and magazine spreads lauded the ideal of the white Aryan athlete, making an overt link between the racial purity of modern Teutonic culture and that of classical Greece.",
"Director Leni Riefenstahl -- dubbed \"Hitler's film-maker\" -- was employed to capture the anticipated German triumphs on camera.",
"At the same time stringent efforts were made to play down the darker aspects of Nazi ideology, including the removal from Berlin's streets of all anti-Jewish signs, and an order that foreign nationals were not to be subject to Germany's oppressive anti-homosexual laws.",
"Nazi showcasing .",
"It was against this background of tightly regimented Nazi showcasing that, on August 3, Owens started competing in Berlin's 100,000-seater Olympic Stadium, winning his first gold medal in the 100 meters (equaling the Olympic record with his time of 10.3 seconds).",
"Over the next six days he would take a further three golds, in the process setting two new world records -- for the 200 meters and 4x100 meter relay -- and incensing the Nazi authorities (Joseph Goebbels, the minister for propaganda, privately described his victories as \"a disgrace\").",
"The Owens myth is admittedly not quite as clear-cut as it has sometimes been presented.",
"German spectators were open in their admiration for the American, and he would probably have not won the long jump gold had it not been for advice given to him by his main rival in the event, the star German athlete Luz Long.",
"His place in the 4x100 meter relay team, meanwhile, was only secured when American team managers dropped two Jewish athletes -- Marty Gluckman and Sam Stoller -- allegedly at the behest of Hitler himself.",
"Claims that the latter refused to shake hands with Owens were also unfounded -- the German leader had been told at the start of the Games that he should either shake every athlete's hand or none, and had chosen the latter option.",
"Despite that, and the fact that Germany still came top of the overall medal standings, the domination of a black athlete at a Games so overtly dedicated to promoting the ideal of Aryan physical perfection proved hugely symbolic for, and satisfying to a world increasingly alarmed at the activities of the Third Reich.",
"There is a depressing coda to the Owens story, however, for the hero of the Berlin Games subsequently returned home to an America that was itself tainted by profound racial discrimination.",
"Although he received a New York ticker-tape parade, he was snubbed by President Roosevelt, and, because of his color, failed to attract the commercial sponsorship deals awarded to his fellow white athletes.",
"As Owens himself commented: \"Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.\""
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"(CNN) -- The modern Olympics have, in their 104-year history, seen the setting, and breaking, of numerous world records.",
"Beamon's 1968 long jump world record held until 1991.",
"Most of these pass virtually unnoticed; a few briefly make the headlines and are then forgotten; a very few involve performances of such unique physical prowess they transcend the Games in which they occur and pass into sporting folklore.",
"Abebe Bikila's barefoot marathon in 1960, Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Montreal Games, Michael Johnson's 200-meter run at Atlanta in 1996 -- all belong in the latter category.",
"In terms of sheer sporting achievement, however, few if any feats can compare with the record-shattering leap that won American Bob Beamon the long jump gold medal in Mexico City in 1968.",
"Before Beamon started his run-up the world record -- held jointly by Ralph Boston of the U.S. and the Soviet Union's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan -- stood at 27 feet 4 3/4 inches (8.35 meters).",
"Six seconds later that record had been increased by a staggering 21 3/4 inches (55.25 centimeters), to 29 feet 2 1/2 inches (8.90 meters).",
"In long-jumping terms it was the equivalent of the marathon time being reduced by 30 minutes, or the 100 meters by a full second.",
"No wonder Ter-Ovanesyan declared: \"Compared to this jump we are as children.\"",
"Troubled childhood .",
"Born in New York in 1946, Beamon experienced a troubled, tragedy-filled childhood.",
"He never knew his real father, his mother Naomi died of tuberculosis when he was just eight months old and, because his stepfather was in prison at the time, he ended up being raised by his maternal grandmother.",
"From an early age he became involved in New York's drug and gang culture, getting himself expelled from school for hitting a teacher and serving time in a juvenile detention center.",
"\"For most of my childhood it was just more or less survival,\" he later commented.",
"\"I was hanging out with thugs and the whole nine yards.\"",
"Sport offered him a way out of this spiral of violence and deprivation.",
"Encouraged by a series of inspirational teachers he devoted himself increasingly to athletics -- \"I got off the corner and into the community center,\" as he later put it -- and was soon setting city-wide, and then national records for long jump, culminating in his Olympic team selection in 1968.",
"His preparations for the Games were seriously disrupted when, four months before their opening, he was suspended from his university track team for refusing to compete against Brigham Young University, a Mormon college with then-segregationist policies.",
"The suspension left him without a coach, and it was only when existing long-jump world record holder Ralph Boston agreed to coach him unofficially that he was able to resume normal training.",
"Once in Mexico the six-foot three-inch (1.91 meters) Beamon very nearly didn't make it into the long jump final after fouling in two of his qualifying jumps.",
"He just scraped through with his third jump, and the following day, October 18, 1968, lined up for the final alongside the cream of world long-jumping: Boston, Ter-Ovanesyan and Lynn Davis of Wales, holder of the Olympic, European and Commonwealth records.",
"The three record-holders all fouled their first jump.",
"Determined to gain the psychological advantage Beamon paused at the start of the run-up track, took a deep breath and launched himself down the approach.",
"Nineteen strides later he hit the board and took off, coming down again so far along the sandpit that the jump was out of the range of the electronic measuring eye and officials had to use an old-fashioned measuring tape to judge the distance.",
"As the stadium waited for the result one veteran sports commentator was heard to say: \"Gentlemen, I believe we have just witnessed the first 28-foot long jump in history.\"",
"His prediction proved to be an underestimate.",
"When the official length was finally announced it turned out to be the first 29-foot long jump in history -- 29 feet 2 1/2 inches (8.90 meters) to be precise.",
"Cataplectic seizure .",
"Reigning Olympic champion Lynn Davis turned to Ralph Boston and said: \"I can't go on.",
"What's the point?\" Beamon himself was so stunned by the distance that he collapsed to the ground in what doctors later diagnosed as a cataplectic seizure brought on by nervous excitement.",
"The competition continued, but the size of Beamon's first jump made the result a foregone conclusion.",
"The silver medal was eventually taken by East Germany's Klaus Beer and the bronze by Boston.",
"The result sent shockwaves through the athletics world.",
"Although there were those who disparaged Beamon's achievement, claiming it was assisted by Mexico City's high altitude, the fact was that all the long jump finalists were competing under the same conditions and none of them came close to Beamon (Klaus Beer's silver medal jump was 2 feet 4 inches -- 71 centimeters -- shorter).",
"It was, altitude or not, quite simply one of the greatest feats in the history of athletics, and one that turned the former New York delinquent into a sporting icon.",
"Beamon himself would never again match or surpass that jump, and it was not until 23 years later that Mike Powell of the U.S. broke the record by two inches (5 centimeters) at the 1991 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.",
"Beamon was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, and in 1999 published his autobiography.",
"It was, with some justification, titled \"The Man Who Could Fly.\""
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"Here is Travis Stanton's response to comments on the essay he wrote after learning his father was going to become a woman.",
"Friday night my dad came down from Lake Worth to watch Her Name Was Steven -- the CNN documentary about him -- with our family and some friends.",
"It meant a lot to me and my mother that my dad was down at our house, in the room much less where all of this first happened.",
"My dad, my mother, some neighborhood friends and my girlfriend Ashlee all sat down Saturday night to watch it.",
"We all loved it. The next day my dad showed me some of the comments on the CNN web site about the essay I wrote about him in 8th grade for a school project.",
"These comments were some of the nicest things I've read about myself in my life.",
"As people saw my posting, they started asking me some questions.",
"I started answering them.",
"One good question was: \"How did my schoolmates react to all of this?",
"Were they supportive or negative towards this? \"",
"Well, the night my dad told me about his plans to become a woman was also the same night that the news stations found out and aired the story.",
"Surprisingly to my parents, I decided to go to school the next day.",
"I went to a small school at the time.",
"It was a school with grades 4-8 and had about 300 kids total.",
"I was in the 8th grade. As I got dropped off, before I could even walk in the school, some teachers and a bunch of my friends came running out to hug me and say it's going to be okay.",
"I was still in shock from all of this, but I'm pretty good at hiding my emotions.",
"Unfortunately having all of your friends hugging you and knowing about this brought out some tears.",
"All of my 8th grade friends knew about this, and mostly all of them were supportive.",
"Now I'm in the 10th grade at high school with about 3000 students, so it's a bit different.",
"When I started high school, the story of my dad had kind of settled down.",
"I've not really gotten any support from my new high school friends because we don't talk about it.",
"I've been asked a few times if Susan Stanton was related to me and I say, \"Yes, that's my dad.\"",
"Other than about three of those little \"are-you-related\" questions from people I partially knew, I haven't been approached by any kids at school.",
"Yes, some people tell me that my dad is kind of weird and I completely agree.",
"When you truly love someone you learn to accept the choices they make.",
"It's no different if your mom said, \"I am going to shave off all my hair.\"",
"Would you stop loving her because of that?",
"Hopefully not. This is the same thing with my dad, but its i obviously a little more than a haircut.",
"One of the comments that I read was that it was selfish for my dad to use the money on his surgery.",
"Was it selfish of my dad?",
"Absolutely -- 100 percent -- not.",
"If you had those feelings, I am sure all of us would do the same thing.",
"It would be almost rude to live the rest of his life in pain knowing he wasn't himself and not truly who he felt he was.",
"Money was always a problem ever since my dad got fired.",
"Like I said in the documentary, the biggest negative change that impacted our family was dad losing his job.",
"I know that if we were really down to the last dollars we had, my dad would not have done the surgery until we got back on our feet.",
"Both of my parents are really financially smart and we have planned ahead to live a comfortable life.",
"The more important part is me and my mom still live in our house.",
"I've lived in this house since I was a baby and I can't imagine having to move.",
"In conclusion, I would like to thank everyone who read my essay.",
"The comments I read about myself are some of the nicest things I have ever read about me.",
"I love the feedback that I get, good or bad. Travis ."
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"Travis Stanton watched CNN's \"Her Name Was Steven\" with his father, Susan Stanton .",
"Travis appreciates all of the feedback he gets.",
"Here, he responds to viewer comments about his earlier essay .",
"In particular, Travis discusses his schoolmates' reactions ."
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"(CNN) -- Italian champions Inter Milan had to come from two goals down to earn a point at Bari on Saturday night in a match featuring three penalties.",
"The 2-2 draw put Inter nine points clear of city rivals AC Milan, who have played two fewer matches ahead of Sunday's home clash with Siena.",
"After a goalless first half, Bari took the lead on the hour when visiting defender Walter Samuel handled a shot by former Inter youth player Riccardo Meggiorini, allowing Barreto to score from the spot.",
"The Brazilian, on loan from Udinese, repeated the feat three minutes later when Alessandro Parisi went down under a challenge from Lucio to give ninth-placed Bari hope of an upset victory.",
"But Inter pulled a goal back in the 69th minute as new signing Goran Pandev scored his first for the Nerazzurri, and his 50th in Serie A, with a close-range effort.",
"Argentina striker Diego Milito then earned Inter a point from the penalty spot five minutes later after former Lazio forward Pandev was tripped by Leonardo Bonucci.",
"Meggiorini had a chance to score a late winner against his old club, but shot just wide.",
"Cagliari moved up to sixth place, ahead of Fiorentina and Palermo on goal difference, after beating Livorno 3-0 at home.",
"Joaquin Larrivey scored early in each half, while substitute Jeda netted in the 64th minute, as the Sardinians moved to within three points of third-placed Napoli, who host Palermo on Sunday while Fiorentina are at home to Bologna.",
"In Germany, Bayer Leverkusen returned to the top of the Bundesliga table with a 4-2 victory at home to Mainz.",
"Leverkusen moved two points clear of Bayern Munich, who had taken top spot for the first time since May 2008 with a 2-0 win at home to Hoffenheim on Friday night.",
"Hamburg moved up to third with a 2-0 victory at home to Freiburg on Saturday, while Schalke can climb to second with victory at home to second-bottom Nuremberg on Sunday.",
"Leverkusen remained unbeaten with 38 points from 18 matches despite going behind in the eighth minute to Tim Hoogland's goal.",
"The hosts hit back with Michal Kadlec, Tranquillo Barnetta and Toni Kroos scoring inside half an hour, while Eren Derdiyok sealed victory for Jupp Heynckes' side with two minutes to go after Niko Bungert gave Mainz hope on 67.",
"Hamburg moved to within two points of Bayern, and above Schalke on goal difference, as Marcell Jansen and Mladen Petric scored in each half against Freiburg, who hover just above the relegation zone.",
"Defending champions Wolfsburg crashed 3-1 at Stuttgart, who moved out of the bottom three and up to 12th place.",
"Sixth-placed Werder Bremen lost 1-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt, while bottom club Hertha Berlin stunned Hannover 3-0 to claim their second win this season.",
"Bochum eased their relegation worries with a 2-1 win at mid-table Borussia Moenchengladbach."
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"Serie A leaders Inter Milan come from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw at Bari .",
"Italian champions now nine points clear of second-placed city rivals AC Milan .",
"Diego Milito's 74th-minute equalizer was the third penalty of the match in Bari .",
"Bayer Leverkusen return to the top of German Bundesliga with 4-2 victory against Mainz ."
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"(CNN) -- As an event attracting worldwide attention and mass media coverage, it is perhaps not surprising that the Olympics have, over the course of their history, served as a platform for all manner of political statements and protests.",
"From the Nazis' manipulation of the 1936 Berlin Games to promote the myth of white Aryan supremacy, through to Cathy Freeman's iconic parading of the aboriginal flag at Sydney 2000, politics and the Olympics have never been too far apart, despite the best efforts of the International Olympic Committee to keep the competition rigorously neutral.",
"Of all the many occasions on which the Games have been used as a stage for political dissent, however, few, if any, were as powerful, or as eloquent, as the moment at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics when U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the winner's podium and gave a Black Power salute in protest at continued racial oppression in their native America.",
"The action had its roots in the formation the previous year of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR).",
"Inspired by the growing U.S. Black Power movement, the Project's aim was to encourage black American athletes to boycott the 1968 Games as a means of highlighting American civil rights abuses.",
"As its founding statement declared: \"We must no longer allow this country to use a few so-called Negroes to point out to the world how much progress she has made in solving her racial problems when the oppression of Afro-Americans is greater than it ever was.\"",
"Although the boycott itself failed to materialize, the OPHR's ideals were not forgotten by many of the black athletes who went to Mexico City, among them Smith and Carlos, both OPHR members.",
"When both men won medals in the 200 meters -- Smith the gold, Carlos the bronze -- they determined to hold a non-violent protest to draw attention to the plight of their fellow black Americans (the timing was especially poignant since Martin Luther King, the leader of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, had been assassinated only six months previously).",
"Olive branch .",
"The two sprinters took to the winner's podium shoeless, wearing black socks (to represent the poverty of Afro-Americans), black scarves (to symbolize the horror of lynchings) and black gloves (as a mark of black unity and strength).",
"Smith also carried a box containing an olive branch as an emblem of peace.",
"As the American flag was raised and the national anthem played they held up their fists -- Smith his right, Carlos his left -- in a Black Power salute.",
"Beside them silver medallist Peter Norman, a white Australian, sported an OPHR patch in order to show solidarity with their actions.",
"\"I just couldn't salute the flag in the accepted manner,\" Smith later said, \"because it didn't represent me fully, only asking me to be great on the track and then obliging me to come home and be just another nigger.\"",
"Although the protest was both dignified and peaceful, it provoked instant outrage among the U.S. athletics authorities.",
"Smith and Carlos were suspended from their national team, stripped of their medals and expelled from the athletes' village.",
"The response back in America was even more hysterical.",
"The Los Angeles Times condemned the athletes for what it described as a 'Nazi-like salute,' while Time Magazine ran a picture of the Olympic logo with the traditional Olympic motto \"Faster, Higher, Stronger\" replaced by the words \"Angrier, Nastier, Uglier.\"",
"Both men's families received death threats.",
"If there was anger, however, there was also widespread admiration for the men's courage in daring to defy Olympic protocol.",
"Mohammed Ali described it as \"the single most courageous act of this century,\" while Wyomia Tyus, anchor of the U.S. women's gold-medal winning 4x100 meter relay team, dedicated the team's victory to the two ostracized sprinters.",
"Despite that, both men's athletics careers were badly damaged by their protest.",
"Although his 200-meters winning time set a new world record that was to stand for 11 years Smith never ran for the U.S. again, and was eventually forced to give up athletics and turn to American football instead.",
"Carlos was also cold-shouldered by the U.S. sporting establishment, and for years struggled to land a proper job .",
"Neither, however, have any regrets about their iconic protest.",
"\"I had no regrets, I have no regrets, I will never have any regrets,\" Smith said.",
"\"We were there to stand up for human rights and to stand up for black Americans.",
"We wanted to make them better in the United States.''"
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"U.S. sprinters Carlos and Smith stand up for civil rights in 1968 in Mexico City .",
"they were suspended from their national team and stripped of their medals .",
"Mohammed Ali described it: \"the single most courageous act of this century\""
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal's English Premier League clash with Bolton has been postponed because of heavy snow in north London, the club have confirmed.",
"The playing surface at the Emirates was fit to allow the match to take place on Wednesday evening but there were safety issues affecting fans and concerns about transport.",
"A statement on the club's Web site said: \"Despite making every effort to stage tonight's match against Bolton Wanderers, the sudden and unpredicted adverse change in weather conditions in the Highbury area has left us no choice but to postpone the fixture.",
"\"We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and wish to state that this decision was not made lightly and supporters' safety and travel arrangements were major factors in our thinking.",
"\"All tickets currently held will be valid for the rearranged fixture.\"",
"The postponement of the match was the latest football fixture to be hit by the harsh weather in Great Britain.",
"Manchester City's League Cup semifinal clash with Manchester United scheduled for Wednesday evening was called off on Tuesday along with Blackburn's tie with Aston Villa."
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"Arsenal's English Premier League clash with Bolton has been postponed because of heavy snow in north London.",
"The playing surface at the Emirates was fit to allow the match to take place on Wednesday evening but there were safety issues affecting fans.",
"The postponement of the match was the latest football fixture to be hit by the recent harsh weather in Great Britain."
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"(CNN) -- Milan legend Paolo Maldini played his final match in front of his San Siro fans on Sunday, but Roma spoiled the celebrations by claiming a shock 3-2 defeat.",
"Maldini salutes the crowd on his lap of honor as his San Siro career ends in a 3-2 defeat by Roma.",
"The 40-year-old Maldini made his debut for the club in 1985 as a 16-year-old and he was awarded an emotional lap of honor despite the match result.",
"Roma took a first-half lead when Norwegian defender lashed home a fierce shot after David Pizarro rolled a free-kick into his path -- and the scoreline remained the same until an explosive final 15 minutes.",
"Milan levelled in the 75th minute when Roma goalkeeper Artur saved Filippo Inzaghi's shot from Kaka's cross -- and Massimo Ambrosini swept home the loose ball.",
"But just five minutes later Roma were back in front as Jeremy Menez twisted and turned in the area before shooting across Dida into the far corner.",
"That lead lasted only a minute as Ambrosini was left unmarked at the back post to turn home Kaka's cross for his second of the game.",
"But Roma came back again and they took the lead for the third time when captain Francesco Totti thumped home a free-kick with five minutes to play.",
"Milan and Juventus are now level on points in second position, but Juve lead on their head-to head after a 3-0 victory at Siena, their first win in eight matches.",
"Both teams are guaranteed Champions League football and are 10 points behind champions Inter Milan with just one match remaining, despite Jose Mourinho's side going down 2-1 at Cagliari.",
"Meanwhile, a last-minute Martin Jorgensen goal earned fourth-placed Fiorentina, who will go into the Champions League qualifiers, a 1-1 draw at Lecce -- a result that relegates the home side to Serie B. Lecce join already relegated Reggina in the second tier.",
"They will be joined by either Bologna, who drew 0-0 against Chievo, or Torino -- who lost 3-2 against Genoa -- in losing their top flight status."
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"Paolo Maldini plays his final match at the San Siro as Milan lose 3-2 to Roma .",
"One-club legened Maldini made his AC Milan debut as a 16-year-old in 1985 .",
"Juventus claim first victory in eight games while champions Inter Milan beaten .",
"Lecce and Reggina relegated to Serie B, with another place still to be decided ."
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan kept up the pressure on Serie A table-toppers and city rivals Inter Milan with a 3-0 win at Juventus on Sunday night -- a result which turns the heat firmly on home coach Ciro Ferrara.",
"Alessandro Nesta put Milan ahead in the 29th minute with Ronaldinho adding a 72nd minute second as Juve struggled to produce a display that would ease the calls for Ferrara's head.",
"Another goal from Ronaldinho two minutes from time came amid protests from the home fans, who shrouded the field with smoke by burning any item possible, and sealed the win for Milan, who move within eight points of Inter with a game in hand.",
"Napoli remain firmly in the hunt for Champions League football after substitute German Denis came off the bench to score the winner against Sampdoria.",
"Denis headed home after 71 minutes to move Napoli on to 33 points in fourth place and extend their unbeaten run to 12 points.",
"Livorno eased their fears of relegation with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Parma at the Stadio Armando Picchi.",
"Francesco Tavano gave the home side the lead midway through the first period and veteran forward Cristiano Lucarelli doubled their advantage 17 minutes into the second half.",
"Blerim Dzemaili pulled one back for Parma six minutes later but Livorno held on as Francesco Guidolin's side ran out of steam.",
"Substitute Jose Castillo struck the winning goal for Fiorentina as the Viola came from behind against Bari to prevail 2-1 and climb to sixth in Serie A. Castillo struck the winner in the 74th minute but he was shown a red card 10 minutes from time, with Bari's Sergio Almiron already dismissed for two bookings.",
"Fiorentina striker Adrian Mutu had earlier cancelled out Paulo Barreto's 25th minute opener.",
"Genoa jumped above city rivals Sampdoria in the table thanks to a routine 2-0 win over 10-man Catania at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.",
"The home side struggled to get into the game until Giuseppe Bellusci was sent off for the visitors in the 28th minute.",
"Genoa went ahead through Giandomenico Mesto in the 36th minute with Giuseppe Sculli sealing their win in the 71st minute before Catania coach Sinisa Mihajlovic was also sent to the stands.",
"Alessandro Matri struck the winner as Cagliari won their first away fixture since October 29, edging strugglers Bologna 1-0 at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara.",
"Palermo extended their unbeaten league run to five games with Edinson Cavani scoring the only goal against Atalanta from the penalty spot.",
"Udinese halted a worrying run of defeats but could not claim all three points as Lazio held on for a point with a 1-1 draw at the Stadio Friuli.",
"Gianni De Biasi's side went into the game having lost five of their last six games following their midweek defeat by Bari and got off to another miserable start as Sergio Floccari put Lazio ahead after 16 minutes.",
"But Antonio Di Natale's free-kick levelled matters 11 minutes later and neither side could find a second."
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"AC Milan keep up the pressure on Serie A table-toppers and city rivals Inter Milan .",
"Brazilian Ronaldinho scores twice as Milan win 3-0 at Juventus to heap pressure on Juve coach Ciro Ferrara .",
"The result lifts Milan within eight points of Inter at the top of the table with a game in hand ."
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"(CNN) -- As the decade draws to a close it is time to reflect and reminisce on 10 years of glorious football drama -- and what better way to do this than by paying respect to the characters who have contributed so much to the soccer story that has captivated fans since 2000.",
"Two World Cups -- in South Korea and Japan, and Germany respectively -- provided the grandest of stages for some of the greatest footballers of the era to perform and show off their skills.",
"Aside of the biggest tournament in world football, these talented theatricals of the ball wowed audiences around the globe as they helped their sides, in both international and club arenas, to glory and success.",
"The top stars of soccer have seen their salaries climb to record levels since the turn of the century, a reflection of the drawing power these modern-day entertainers wield, but if a team were to be selected of the eleven best performers, who would be included?",
"Here is the Fanzone select eleven of Noughties soccer heroes -- let Fanzone know what you think by adding your comment at the bottom of the page.",
"1. Zinedine Zidane: The three-time FIFA World Footballer of the Year (1998, 2000 and 2003) Zidane brilliantly guided his nation France to the European title in 2000.",
"The most famous of the \"Galacticos\", he also inspired Real Madrid to domestic honors and the Champions League title in 2002.",
"His career almost had a fairy tale ending, but an infamous sending off in extra time of the 2006 World Cup final against Italy saw his last game soiled with controversy.",
"2. David Beckham: The global power of Brand Beckham showed no sign of losing its luster as the decade came to an end as the former England captain remained the highest paid footballer in the world.",
"Super-fit at 34, Beckham continues to keep his place in Fabio Capello's England and holds the record 115 caps for an outfield player.",
"The midfielder won two English Premier League titles with Manchester United, a La Liga title with Real Madrid and the Western Conference with LA Galaxy since the turn of the century.",
"3. Cristiano Ronaldo: Ronaldo became the most expensive player in football history after his $132 million transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009, and his early performances for the Spanish giants indicate he is worth every dime.",
"2008 FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldo also captains the Portugal national side and won the European Champions League, the Club World Cup and three Premier League titles with United.",
"4. Marta: Brazil's Marta is a four-time FIFA World Player of the Year and has raised the bar in the women's game by showcasing her talents at Olympic and World Cup level.",
"Marta has scored 54 goals in just 53 appearances for her country and helped them to silver medals in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.",
"Only 23, surely gold beckons in 2012.",
"5. Ronaldo: Ronaldo's goal scoring feats with two in the final against Germany helped Brazil to the 2002 World Cup and cemented his reputation as one of the greatest players to wear the green and gold.",
"He is the record scorer in World Cup finals and in club football has averaged nearly a goal a game, notching 87 in 123 appearances for Real Madrid from 2002 - 2007, a statistic which helped Los Meringues capture the La Liga title in 2003.",
"6. Paolo Maldini: It is testament to Maldini's ability and longevity that he made his final appearance in AC Milan colors in 2009 at the ripe old age of 40.",
"Maldini retired from international football with Italy in 2002 after 126 appearances but he remained one of the best defenders in the world and helped Milan to the Champions League in 2007, his fifth win in Europe's top club competition.",
"The evergreen Italian also notched up a Scudetta title win and Club world Cup win in the same decade.",
"7. Lionel Messi: Lionel Messi is the newly-crowned FIFA World Player of the Year and his outstanding performances for Barcelona and Argentina made him an almost unanimous choice.",
"The 21-year-old inspired Barca to a Spanish league and cup and Champions League treble, scoring the clinching second in the final against Manchester United.",
"Add to this two other La Liga titles and a European Champions League win in 2005-06 as well as scoring the winning goal to lift the Club World Cup in 2009, it is easy to see why Messi was a must pick.",
"8. Park ji-Sung: Park ji-Sung was the first Asian to play in the Champions League final when he appeared in Manchester United's 2-0 loss to Barcelona earlier this year.",
"His tireless displays for the English champions marked him down as the finest player from that continent and he has played 84 times for South Korea, helping them to South Africa 2010.",
"The energetic midfielder helped United to three domestic titles and a Champions League trophy in 2008.",
"9. Luis Figo: Luis Figo began the decade as the most expensive footballer in the world after a controversial move from Barcelona to arch-rivals Real Madrid.",
"His performances for Real and Portugal saw him named European and then World Footballer of the Year in 2000 and 2001.",
"He retired in 2009 having helped Inter Milan to four straight Serie A titles and Real to two league titles and a European Cup win in the preceding decade.",
"10. Thierry Henry: The French hit man produced the most outstanding displays of his star-studded career during his spell in the English Premier League with Arsenal, scoring 174 goals in 254 games for the Gunners before he transferred to Catalan giants Barcelona in 2007.",
"On the international front, Henry has scored a record 51 goals for France.",
"Since 2000 Henry picked up winners' medals for two Premier League titles, a La Liga title, a Champions League and Club World Cup win.",
"11. Samuel Eto'o: Inter Milan striker Eto'o is widely acknowledged to have been the most accomplished footballer to emerge from Africa and has helped Cameroon to Olympic gold in 2000 as well as two Africa Cup of Nations triumphs (2000, 2002).",
"Eto'o -- who named African Footballer of the Year in 2003, 2004 and 2005 -- scored 108 goals in 145 games for Barcelona helping the side to three La Liga title wins that culminated in their historic treble in 2009 before being transferred to Inter.",
"The Indomitable Lion is also the official face of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa."
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"Fanzone reflects on the characters who have contributed so much to the soccer story that has captivated fans since 2000 .",
"The top stars of soccer have seen their salaries climb to record levels since the turn of the century but are they worth it?",
"Here is the Fanzone select eleven of Noughties soccer heroes -- do you agree with the line-up?"
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"(CNN) -- Coach Luciano Spalletti has parted company with Roma following the Italian club's poor start to the Serie A season, with former Juventus manager Claudio Ranieri replacing him.",
"Luciano Spalletti has ended his four-year tenure at Roma after coming under attack from fans.",
"Speculation had been rife that the 50-year-old Spalletti would quit following Sunday's 3-1 home defeat by Juve, which followed the 3-2 opening day loss to Genoa.",
"Spalletti met with the capital club's president Rosella Sensi on Tuesday morning before confirming his resignation to reporters.",
"\"I offered my resignation and the club has accepted it,\" he said.",
"Roma confirmed on Wednesday that former Juventus, Valencia and Chelsea coach Ranieri would take over ahead of the club's next match against Siena on September 13.",
"He has signed a two-year contract.",
"Ranieri, who began his playing career at Roma in 1973, earlier confirmed that he wanted the job.",
"\"This is a great satisfaction for me,\" he said.",
"\"This is a dream come true as I follow a professional journey that began many years ago.",
"I am honoured and convinced I will be able to do and give the best for Roma.\"",
"Spalletti joined Roma in 2005 after guiding unfancied Udinese to fourth place in Serie A and qualification for the Champions League the previous season.",
"He turned around Roma's fortunes, winning two Italian Cups and providing the main opposition for Italian champions Inter Milan following the match-fixing punishments handed out to Juventus and AC Milan.",
"However, last season's sixth placing was the worst of his reign in the Eternal City, and he came under fire from fans after a lack of major summer signings and then the club's poor start to the 2009-10 campaign.",
"Midfielder Alberto Aquilani was sold to English club Liverpool, while defenders Nicolas Burdisso and Marco Motta joined from Inter Milan and Udinese respectively.",
"Roma are drawn with England's Fulham, Swiss side Basle and CSKA Sofia of Bulgaria in Group E of the second-tier Europa League."
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"Coach Luciano Spalletti has parted company with Italian club Roma .",
"Spalletti resigned following his side's second successive defeat on Sunday .",
"The 50-year-old was criticized by fans after failing to make major signings .",
"NEW: Former Juventus coach Claudio Ranieri is taking over at the Serie A club ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o has moved a step closer to joining Inter Milan after agreeing personal terms with the Italian champions, his agent has revealed.",
"Prolific striker Samuel Eto'o is on the verge of moving to Serie A with Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan.",
"The Cameroon international will reportedly sign a five-year contract worth almost $15 million per season.",
"Spanish champions Barcelona have already agreed a deal to swap Eto'o for Inter's star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic plus $74 million and the loan of Nou Camp fringe player Aleksander Hleb.",
"Sweden forward Ibrahimovic, who suffered a sprained wrist in Tuesday's defeat by Chelsea, is still negotiating his own terms with the European champions.",
"Latest transfer rumors and gossip .",
"Eto'o's agent Josep Maria Mesalles told reporters on Thursday that the deal to take the 28-year-old to the San Siro was almost complete.",
"\"It's done. We have reached an agreement with Inter,\" he said.",
"\"Samuel talked to (coach Jose) Mourinho yesterday and is very happy to be wearing the Nerazzurri shirt.",
"All the details have been filed.",
"\"It's complete harmony with us and the club.",
"We are very happy and satisfied.",
"The deal's sealed, next week he will start working with Inter.",
"\"As soon as he signs the contract he will be at Mourinho's disposal.\"",
"Eto'o is poised to end what has recently been an acrimonious five-year stay in the Catalan capital.",
"He was the club's top scorer last season with 34 goals, but annoyed the club while being courted by English club Manchester City, leading coach Pep Guardiola to state that it would be best for the club if the player left despite him having been offered a new contract.",
"Two years ago he was criticized by former teammate Ronaldinho after refusing to come on as a late substitute following his recovery from a broken leg.",
"Eto'o will leave the Nou Camp as the fourth highest goalscorer in the club's history, and netted in both finals as Barcelona won the Champions League in 2006 and 2009.",
"On Thursday Barcelona bolstered Guardiola's strike force, announcing an agreement to sign Keirrison from Brazilian club Palmeiras.",
"Barca will pay an initial $20 million for the 20-year-old forward, who will undergo a medical on Friday and sign a five-year contract.",
"Meanwhile, Inter's veteran France midfielder Patrick Vieira will be assessed again this week to determine whether he needs to have surgery.",
"While Ibrahimovic's wrist injury was not as serious as Inter first feared, Vieira may need to have an operation after it was revealed that he had torn a ligament in his left index finger."
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"Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o agrees reported five-year contract with Inter Milan .",
"Cameroon international will be paid a reported $14 million per season in Italy .",
"Barcelona are still negotiating terms with Inter's Zlatan Ibrahimovic in swap deal .",
"Spanish champions to sign Brazilian striker Keirrison from Palmeiras on Friday ."
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"(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal returned to singles action Wednesday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal but his comeback lasted just 36 minutes as his opponent, David Ferrer, was forced to withdraw with injury.",
"Nadal was on court for just 36 minutes on his singles return.",
"World No. 2 Nadal -- playing his first singles match since losing in the fourth round at the French Open -- was leading 4-3 by a break in the first set of the second round clash when fellow Spaniard Ferrer was forced to quit with a knee injury.",
"Nadal, who had already played two doubles matches this week, said he was happy to be back on the court after spending two months on the sidelines with tendonitis in both knees.",
"\"The first movements is tough and hard to move well and to feel confident when you are touching the ball.",
"But that's the normal thing.",
"I must be happy, because I didn't play terrible,\" said the 23-year-old, according to the ATP's Web site.",
"\"And the next round, I have another chance tomorrow to continuing to improve.",
"Every match, every game is important to feel better for me.\"",
"Nadal faces Philipp Petzschner on Thursday after the German eliminated Spanish 15th seed Tommy Robredo 7-6, 7-6.",
"Seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also advanced, beating Germany's Rainer Schuettler 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to set up an all-French quarter-final against Gilles Simon."
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"Rafael Nadal returns to singles action at Rogers Cup in Montreal .",
"World No.",
"2's return cut short as David Ferrer quits because of knee injury .",
"Nadal was leading 4-3 by a break of serve; had been on court just 36 minutes .",
"Nadal: \"Every match, every game is important to feel better for me\""
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer sent out an ominous message to his rivals by claiming the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati with a straight sets demolition of Novak Djokovic in the final on Sunday.",
"Federer was getting his hands on his 61st career title after an emphatic win.",
"Federer was playing his second tournament since returning to the ATP Tour circuit after becoming the father of twin girls and was back to his peerless best ahead of the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadow next week.",
"The Swiss maestro swept aside world number two Andy Murray in straight sets in their semifinal match up and afforded Djokovic the same treatment with a 6-1 7-5 victory to claim his 16th Masters crown.",
"Djokovic had played superbly to dispatch former world number one Rafael Nadal in their semifinal and had not dropped a set all week, but had no answer to the world number one.",
"Federer breezed through the opening set, but encountered more resistance in the second, having to save a set point as he served at 4-5 down.",
"But it was saved with a fine service and in the next game he broke Djokovic for the fourth time in the match.",
"Federer duly served out the match to love, claiming his third Cincinnati title as his Serbian opponent netted a return after one hour and 30 minutes.",
"It was his 61st career title.",
"He heads into his defense of the U.S. Open crown having won the last two grand slams at the French Open and Wimbledon to take his tally to a record 15 and as warm favorite.",
"Following his Wimbledon triumph, Federer took an enforced break as his wife Mirka gave birth to Charlene Riva and Myla Rose, but returned to be beaten in the quarterfinals in Montreal by Jo-Wilfred Tsonga.",
"Murray claimed the title, but met his match against a much-improved Federer in Cincinnati."
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"Roger Federer wins the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio .",
"World number one beats Novak Djokovic in straight sets in Sunday's final .",
"Federer bidding for third straight grand slam title at U.S. Open next week ."
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"(CNN) -- Italian champions Inter Milan recorded their fifth straight win under new coach Leonardo, defeating Cesena 3-2 at the San Siro despite the visitors coming back from 2-0 down.",
"Samuel Eto'o gave the home side a 14th-minute lead when firing in his 24th goal of the season.",
"And, within a minute, Inter had doubled their advantage when Goran Pandev set up Diego Milito to tap home from just six yards out.",
"But Cesena refused to lie down and scored twice within six minutes in a frantic opening 45 minutes.",
"First, Erjon Bogdani was given far too much space to turn and shoot home low into the corner of the net in the 23rd minute.",
"Then, just six minutes later, Cesena remarkably drew level when former Inter midfielder Luis Suarez played the ball over the home defence for Emanuele Giaccherini to volley home.",
"But the first-half scoring was still not over -- and Romanian defender Christian Chivu put the home side ahead once again on the stroke of half time when he burst into the box to head home Maicon's cross.",
"That was the end of the scoring, but not the chances, and Eto'o should have added his second of the game after the break but somehow managed to hit the crossbar from just eight yards out.",
"And any chance Cesena had of getting back into the game was finally extinguished when Giaccherini was sent off for a second bookable offence.",
"The result moves Inter up to fourth place in the Serie A table, six points behind leaders and rivals AC Milan but with a game in hand.",
"Meanwhile, Roma are through to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup after beating rivals Lazio 2-1 in a match marred by crowd trouble.",
"Roma took the lead eight minutes after the break when Marco Borriello scored from the penalty spot after Stephan Lichsteiner's handball in the area.",
"Lazio levelled just four minutes later when Hernanes also scored from the spot after Mauro Zarate had been fouled in the area.",
"However, Simplicio scored the winning goal 13 minutes from the end, firing home with a well-struck right-foot shot.",
"Police made four arrests before and after the match after trouble between rival fans which resulted in a teenage Lazio fan being taken to hospital with a knife wound to his leg.",
"Sampdoria have also reached the quarterfinals after defeating Udinese on penalties following a 2-2 draw after extra time.",
"The Genoa-based side scored all their five spot-kicks while Argentine striker German Denis missed his penalty as Udinese went out 5-4."
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"Italian champions Inter Milan record their fifth straight win under new coach Leonardo .",
"Inter defeat Cesena 3-2 to move up to fourth place in Serie A, six points behind AC Milan .",
"Roma and Sampdoria are both through to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup ."
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"(CNN) -- As Tunisia adjusts to a new government, Selma Beji is cautiously optimistic about the future -- and freedoms -- of her fellow Tunisians.",
"A Tunisian native who is pursuing a master's degree in the United States, Beji said she was amazed that demonstrations -- driven largely by young adults and social media -- have led to such an uprising, which some people call the \"Jasmine Revolution.\"",
"\"We were like, this is going to die off,\" said Beji, whose family lives in the northern suburbs of Tunis.",
"But \"Facebook was the drive of this revolution.",
"Everybody was on Facebook ...",
"If these protests started five years ago, they would have died.\"",
"President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's departure followed weeks of protests over what Tunisians said were poor living conditions, high unemployment, government corruption and repression.",
"Al Kallel, a Tunisian native living in California, and a group of Tunisian friends held up signs at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday to \"thank Facebook for enabling our nation (both inside and outside the country) to freely share their opinion online, bridging our way to democracy.\"",
"Kallel said when he lived in Tunisia, residents didn't have access to Facebook.",
"\"You can't pass info around without being censored,\" Kallel told CNN's iReport.",
"The Tunisian unrest were sparked by the suicide of an unemployed college graduate in December.",
"The man set himself on fire in front of a government building in the town of Sidi Bouzid after police confiscated his fruit cart, saying he was selling without a permit, according to Amnesty International.",
"He died January 4 from his injuries.",
"The event tore the lid off what appears to have been long-simmering fury at Ben Ali and his associates.",
"Tunisians accuse the ruling circle of rampant corruption and nepotism.",
"After a month of largely leaderless popular protests against the government, Ben Ali fled the country on Friday, and Fouad Mebazaa, the speaker of parliament, was sworn in the following day as interim president, and new elections are due within 60 days.",
"The instability could be an omen of the future since Tunisia has been far from the only Arab nation with a long-time president and a young, underemployed population.",
"Beji said some of her friends in Tunisia who have college degrees are unemployed.",
"\"I'm very optimistic about (employment) after this,\" she said.",
"\"I think more investors are going to start coming into the country.",
"The country has a lot of potential.\"",
"Already, filters on websites such as YouTube -- put in place under Ben Ali -- were dropped, and internet speed picked up considerably -- a development that followed the new government's vow to ease restrictions on freedoms.",
"Beji said she hopes the next president will support freedoms for Tunisians -- especially after what regular citizens showed what they are capable of.",
"\"I think the next president is going to be scared.",
"The revolution happened with no arms, no guns, no nothing -- just people on the streets,\" she said.",
"\"I think the next president would be a little worried if he didn't give us freedom of any kind.\""
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"\"Facebook was the drive of this revolution,\" Selma Beji said .",
"Tunisia, like other Arab lands, has young, underemployed population .",
"Beji says \"the country has a lot of potential\""
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"(CNN) -- The Kurdish region of Iraq has seen gains in human rights, but security forces \"regularly abuse their authority\" and women continue to be targets of violence, Amnesty International said Tuesday.",
"Iraqi Kurds mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in November 2008.",
"The international human rights group drew the conclusions in a report titled \"Hope and Fear, Human Rights in Kurdistan Region of Iraq.\"",
"The Kurdish region has been an island of relative stability during the Iraq war, and the report said it has \"witnessed growing prosperity\" and has made progress in human rights.",
"But serious problems remain, Amnesty said.",
"Asayish forces, as the local security forces are called, arrested and arbitrarily detained people, \"including some who were tortured or forcibly disappeared and whose fate and whereabouts remain unknown,\" the report said.",
"The report said the torture included electric shocks, sleep deprivation, kicking, suspension by the wrists and ankles, and beatings with fists, cables and batons.",
"Malcolm Smart, Amnesty's director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme, said the Kurdistan Regional Government \"must take concrete steps to rein in these forces and make them fully accountable under the law if recent human rights gains are to prove effective.\"",
"Amnesty said that Kurdish authorities have also failed to control the security wings of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the two major Kurdish political movements that make up the regional government.",
"The report, based on research from a fact-finding mission last year, said the Kurdistan Regional Government has made progress in human rights, citing, for example, the release of political prisoners detained without charges or trial.",
"It also cites legislation expanding freedom of expression and measures that strengthen women's rights, and said several agencies are working to monitor and prevent violence against women.",
"But Smart said problems such as \"arbitrary detention and torture, attacks on journalists and freedom of expression, and violence against women\" haven't ended and \"need urgently to be addressed by the government.\"",
"As for abuse against women, authorities must \"redouble their efforts to overcome discrimination and violence against women,\" he said, \"and end the vicious cycle of so-called honor killings and other attacks on women by men who wish to subordinate them.\"",
"According to official records, the report said, at least 102 women and girls were killed between the beginning of July 2007 and the end of June 2008 in the region.",
"\"These include an unknown number of 'honor killings' -- women who were killed by male relatives because their behavior was considered to have infringed traditional codes of 'honor.'",
"Victims of 'honor crimes' include women who have objected to being forcibly married as well as women who were found having telephone contact with a man without approval of their family,\" the report said.",
"The report said 262 women and children \"died or were severely injured in the same period due to intentional burning, including suicides.",
"Some women were reported to have been burned to disguise a killing.\"",
"The report cites one woman who was strangled to death apparently by her brother \"because of her suspected relationship with another man.\"",
"A 17-year-old female \"was shot dead after she sought a divorce from her husband.\"",
"A 13-year-old girl burned herself to death \"to escape forcible marriage to an adult man.\"",
"\"Such cases show how much more still needs to be done by the KRG authorities to give women and girls effective protection against violence from those who wish to control their behavior or force them into marriages against their will,\" Smart said.",
"\"No effort should be spared to prosecute and imprison those who commit violence against women, and to make clear that those who perpetrate these crimes cannot escape justice.\"",
"The report also said that emerging independent press outlets that have criticized the KRG or have focused on the security forces, human rights violations and government corruption have been harassed.",
"Journalists \"have been detained, beaten and harassed\" by security forces, and several newspapers have been sued by the KRG."
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"Kurdish security forces arbitrarily detain, torture people, Amnesty International says .",
"Government has made progress in human rights, but problems remain, agency says .",
"Honor killings, other attacks on women need to end, it says .",
"Journalists have been detained, beaten and harassed by security forces, report says ."
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"(CNN) -- A former Marine and suspected serial rapist pleaded not guilty this week to raping and murdering 19-year-old college student Brianna Denison.",
"The family of Brianna Denison launched a Web site dedicated to her memory after her death in 2008.",
"James Biela, 27, is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault in the disappearance of Denison, who was last seen alive on her friend's sofa in Reno, Nevada, January 20, 2008.",
"The construction worker entered his plea in Washoe County District Court on Wednesday.",
"Judge Robert Perry set a tentative trial date for February 22, 2010, according to online court records.",
"Denison, a sophomore at Santa Barbara City College in California, was visiting friends in her hometown of Reno when she disappeared.",
"Three weeks later, her body was found in a field near her friend's home, partially covered with snow.",
"An autopsy determined she had been sexually assaulted and strangled.",
"A pair of panties that were not hers also were found near the body, in what police said was a \"calling card\" that helped them connect Biela not only to Denison, but also to another sexual assault.",
"In a press conference after Biela's arrest in December, police said they were able to connect the former Marine's DNA with a sample on the panties.",
"Police also found DNA matching Biela's on the rear door of the off-campus house where Denison was staying with friends.",
"The sample also matched DNA found at the scene of a December 16 sexual assault, police said.",
"The victim, a student at the University of Nevada , was able to escape her attacker and describe him in detail, police say.",
"Both crimes bear a striking resemblance to several other sexual assaults in the area, leading police to believe that Biela is a serial rapist.",
"They are asking other possible victims to come forward.",
"The case went unsolved for almost 10 months until an anonymous tip from a friend of Biela's former girlfriend broke this cold case wide open, police said.",
"Investigators had established that the killer was from the Reno area and had an unusual fetish of collecting one victim's underwear and leaving it at the next victim's crime scene.",
"The tipster caught investigators' attention by telling them that Biela's former girlfriend had found two pairs of thong panties in his truck.",
"Detectives immediately followed up on the tip and, with permission from the former girlfriend, took DNA samples from Biela's 4-year-old son.",
"Lab tests showed that the boy's father -- Biela -- was almost certainly a match for the DNA found on the doorknob and at the crime scene, police said.",
"The finding was confirmed when Biela was arrested and ordered to submit DNA samples.",
"An overnight session at the crime lab confirmed the match, and charges were filed, police said.",
"Investigators said they since have learned that Biela was familiar with the grounds of the university, having worked there on a construction job last year.",
"Police say his work on campus put him in a position to easily target women.",
"When first questioned about the Denison case in early November, Biela refused to submit DNA samples and provided an alibi to police, saying he'd been with his girlfriend.",
"The girlfriend denies that he was with her the night Denison disappeared, investigators said.",
"Calls to Biela's public defenders Friday were not answered.",
"Meanwhile, investigators are certain there are other victims who haven't come forward.",
"Police are urging anyone with more information to call the Reno Police Hot Line at 775-322-4900.",
"CNN's Emanuella Grinberg and Rupa Mikkilineni contributed to this report."
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"James Michael Biela, 27, is charged with murder of Brianna Denison, 19 .",
"Tentative trial date set for February 22, 2010 .",
"Denison last seen on friend's couch during visit to hometown of Reno, Nevada .",
"Police say Biela left previous victim's panties as \"calling card\" near Denison's body ."
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"Bogota, Colombia (CNN) -- Jorge Elias Benjumea proudly inspects his plantain field.",
"The 46-year-old father of three says he's not only happy his crops are doing well, but also, for the first time in years, he can tell the world that what he's growing is legal.",
"Benjumea, a resident of the Colombian province of Meta; used to grow coca, the plant from which cocaine is produced.",
"\"Everything is different now, more peaceful.",
"I go to bed at night with no worries,\" Benjumea says.",
"He used to make $2,800 a month growing coca.",
"Now he makes about $840 with plantains.",
"On the flip side, he doesn't have to deal with guerrillas or drug traffickers anymore.",
"The Colombian government has greatly increased its military presence in the area, improving security and giving farmers an alternative to growing coca.",
"Bolivia hopes for buzz with coca campaign .",
"Benjumea says his peace of mind and the safety of his family are priceless.",
"\"Coca is a plant that can make you a lot of money, but also gives you a lot of headaches,\" he says.",
"He's part of a new wave of Colombian farmers growing alternative crops in a region called La Macarena.",
"This region was known for decades as a stronghold of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the guerrilla group commonly called FARC.",
"La Macarena used to be not only a recruiting and training hub for guerrillas, but also a major coca production center and a key transit route for illegal armed groups.",
"In a community called Albania, farmers grow and process sugar cane.",
"Not far from there, in El Pinalito, also in the province of Meta, another group is venturing into fish farming.",
"Last year they sold 1.5 metric tons of a fish known regionally as cachama.",
"The United States has provided more than $7 billion in the past 10 years to help Colombia fight drug trafficking.",
"Most of the money has been used to help Colombia strengthen its military with equipment, training and intelligence.",
"But another portion, recently rising, has been used to provide assistance to farmers interested in developing alternative crops like cacao (from which chocolate is made), plantains, yucca and papaya.",
"Colombian National Security Adviser Sergio Jaramillo said government partnerships with the farmers in Meta have been very successful, but he emphasized that none of this would have been possible without a military presence to improve security.",
"\"You need to stabilize those drug-producing areas.",
"That's what we're doing here, and there's no better investment for prosperity in a country like Colombia than supporting the integrated approach of security and social development,\" Jaramillo said.",
"During a three-day visit to Colombia, U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske visited several communities that are developing alternative crops and met with President Juan Manuel Santos, a key U.S. ally in Latin America.",
"\"We have to continue to be supportive of Colombia in a whole host of ways, (and) none of this was possible without safety and security first,\" Kerlikowske said.",
"According to U.S. government figures, cocaine production in the South American country fell from 700 metric tons in 2001 to 270 in 2009, a 61 percent decrease.",
"Going into alternative crops hasn't been easy for local farmers.",
"At the fish farm in El Pinalito, the locals say at the beginning they only saw \"failures.\"",
"But after getting specialized training and equipment from the government, production began to increase considerably.",
"At the sugar cane processing plant in the Albania community, farmers say they received financial support to buy machinery, which \"made all the difference.\""
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"Some Colombian farmers take huge drop in income for more safety, peace .",
"National security adviser: \"You need to stabilize those drug-producing areas\"\nU.S. estimates: Cocaine production in Colombia fell 61% between 2001 and 2009 .",
"Government helped alternative enterprises start up ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections Monday, with political parties competing for 272 seats in the National Assembly.",
"Election posters jostle for space on a street in Rawalpindi ahead of Pakistan's elections on Monday.",
"The elections were due to take place in December of last year but were postponed after the assassination of Pakistan People's Party chairman, Benazir Bhutto.",
"In 2008, 49 political parties applied for poll symbols with the Election Commission.",
"Outlined below are the main contenders: .",
"PPP . The assassination of leader Benazir Bhutto looms large over the PPP, which had been banking on the charismatic leader to rally supporters to its cause and shake off the charges of corruption that have dogged the party since Bhutto fled prosecution after two terms as prime minister.",
"The fortunes of the party, launched in 1967 by her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, remains in the hands of her family, with son Bilwal installed as chairman.",
"Founded on promises of \"egalitarian democracy,\" the PPP flirted with socialist principles in its early days, gaining a mass popularity that continues to ensure it is among Pakistan's largest political parties.",
"While the PPP has lost touch with its socialist roots, it remains popular among Pakistan's oppressed and underprivileged, particularly in the southern province of Sindh, from where the Bhutto family hails.",
"PML-N . The PML-N is the largest faction of the Pakistan Muslim League and is led by Nawaz Sharif, who has re-emerged as a political player in Pakistan in the past few months after returning from Saudi Arabia where he was exiled after being ousted from power in a 1999 coup led by Pervez Musharraf.",
"The centrist conservative party was in power twice in the 90s, with both terms ending amid damaging allegations of corruption, despite campaigning on an anti-graft platform.",
"Sharif's 1997 victory was the largest mandate every recorded in Pakistan, but was immediately called into question by his opponent Bhutto.",
"The term ended in chaos as .",
"PML-N under Sharif received a huge public mandate in 1997 and formed a government with two-thirds majority.",
"Though his rule was credited with economic growth it was cut short when complaints of corruption and an attempt to replace the head of the military backfired when newly-installed army chief Musharraf led a successful coup, forcing him into exile to avoid corruption convictions.",
"Permitted by Musharraf to return to Pakistan last year, Sharif is now banking the PML-N's fortunes on a platform of renewing the country's top judiciary -- removed by Musharraf during a state of emergency.",
"PML-Q . Formed under guidance from Musharraf in 2001, the PML-Q was originally a splinter faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, which was able to attract enough dissidents from the PML-N to cobble together an alliance and form a government in 2002.",
"The largely center-conservative party has seen its power base dented through its association with Musharraf as polls show the president's falling popularity in the face of the resurgent PPP and PML-N. MMA .",
"Formed after Musharraf allied himself to the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack on New York and Washington, the MMA is a coalition of six Islamic parties that emerged as a powerful challenger to the president.",
"Opponents have decried the MMA, or Muttahida Majlis Amal's goal of establishing a theocracy in Pakistan, and its attempts to impose hardline sharia law in the impoverished areas where it exerts greatest control.",
"The resolutely anti-American alliance, dominated by JI (Jamaat I Islami) and JUI-F (Jamiat Ulema Islam) saw success in the 2002 elections in the North West Frontier and Balochistan provinces and went on to form a provincial government in the NWFP and a coalition government in Balochistan.",
"Its prospects are likely to be hampered by a dispute within the alliance over whether to boycott the parliamentary elections.",
"MQM . The MQM stands for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a party formed to protect the rights of the Urdu-speaking immigrants from India after Partition.",
"Led by Altaf Hussain from his self-imposed exile in the UK, the party has been supportive of Musharraf's policies and formed part of the PML-Q alliance.",
"Frequently facing allegations of involvement in terrorist activities, the party's recent efforts to extend its support base to other provinces have yielded little success.",
"ANP . The Awami National Party is a nationalist leftist party based in the North West Frontier province that and enjoys widespread popularity with ethnic Pakhtuns.",
"The ANP did not enjoy much success in 2002 but has renewed hopes as the MMA's following fades in the Frontier.",
"PTI . Pakistan Tehrik I Insaf is headed by the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.",
"Vitriolic in his criticism of Musharraf's policies, Khan has failed to capitalize on his popularity as a sportsman, seeing his party take just one seat in the 2002 elections.",
"PTI has said it will boycott the 2008 elections.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Political parties competing for 272 seats in the National Assembly .",
"49 political parties have applied for poll symbols with the Election Commission ."
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"CNN -- Getting enough rest should be as simple as just shutting your eyes.",
"The alpha pod, designed for napping, includes .",
"a heated, vibrating bed and a CD player.",
"But according to a recent study done by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, it's really not that easy.",
"Their research has found that 40 million Americans suffer yearly from chronic sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million complain of occasional sleeping problems.",
"For some of us, it just means dark circles under our eyes and a desperate need for triple-caffeinated products.",
"But the reality is that over the long haul, trouble with sleep can cause bigger problems.",
"\"There are studies out there which would suggest that people who sleep less over long periods of time are at much higher risks of car accidents, and also some medical disorders like high blood pressure, potentially heart or stroke disease,\" said Dr. David Schulman, director of the Emory Sleep Clinic Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"And that means fewer than the seven to eight hours most people need daily to get the proper amount of rest.",
"So what is the solution to all this restlessness?",
"For some people, the answer might be to just buy some.",
"Yes, sleep has now joined the ranks of those products we at one time thought we would never have to pay for, like water.",
"Years ago, the thought of paying money for a bottle of something you could get for free from the tap would have had people laughing.",
"Now we can add sleep, or, more accurately, napping.",
"Spas across the country have now added this new nap therapy to their offerings, so along with facials, waxing and massages, you can now grab some Z's for about a dollar a minute.",
"Susan Vanyo, founder of the Rejuvenate Spa in Atlanta, describes what her spa offers to those who need extra shut-eye: .",
"\"We have two types of nap pods,\" she says.",
"\"They are called the energy pod and the alpha pod.",
"The alpha pod has more of a spa-experience feel to it.\"",
"The pods release aromas and have a heated, vibrating bed, a CD player and headphones.",
"\"Everything outside just goes away,\" she says.",
"The energy pod reclines, and has headphones with music piped in.",
"\"You get a different sensation,\" Vanyo says.",
"Watch people try out the pods » .",
"This napping therapy, while not taking the country by storm, has found some happy clients willing to pay for sleep.",
"For Autumn Watson, whose full-time job becomes more challenging after a night where her young son doesn't sleep, a nap is worth every penny.",
"\"To have a designated place to be able to come and take a nap and relax away from the office, and not being afraid somebody's going walk in on you, is nice,\" she says.",
"\"And you get on the ball quicker, after the nap, instead of feeling like you're exhausted.\"",
"And for Tremaine Perry, who works close to the spa, it took a bit of time to embrace this latest trend.",
"\"Initially, I was skeptical.",
"You're paying for something that you can do at home for free, but it wasn't until I actually tried it and realized the difference\" between going through a full day needing rest and coming in, taking a quick break and going back to work.",
"So it seems there is some truth to the phrase \"power nap.\"",
"Schulman, the sleep expert, says, \"For people who are chronically sleep-deprived, there is evidence that as little as 15 to 30 minutes of napping during the day can improve performance for two to four hours after the nap.\"",
"But while a nap might refresh, Schulman cautions, it's not going to make up for a long-term sleep deficit.",
"So if you're getting by on five or six hours a night, \"it's ridiculous to assume that a 15- to 20-minute nap during the day, even if it's every day, is going to compensate for a two-hour deficit each night.\"",
"And finally there are other ways to recharge that don't cost money, including meditation, a walk outside, a hit of caffeine or even just getting up and walking away from your desk.",
"But Schulman says that while all of these are good options, none of them work quite as well as a 20-minute nap.",
"So maybe that dollar-a-minute price for some rest is actually money well spent."
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"Research: 40 million Americans suffer yearly from chronic sleep disorders .",
"Rejuvenate Spa in Atlanta, Georgia, charges clients for nap therapy .",
"Expert: 15 to 30 minutes of napping can improve performance that day .",
"Still, short nap not going to make up for a long-term sleep deficit, expert says ."
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"Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) -- Dayana and Moise smile as they shovel chips, with a mix of sand, into their mouths on a beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.",
"They dig in the sand and run from the waves.",
"The Haehre family looks like any other family on vacation, but this unplanned trip to Florida was where their brood grew from two children to four.",
"Mindy and Oyvind Haehre started the process to adopt siblings Dayana, now 7 years old, and Moise, 5, from a Haitian orphanage in 2008.",
"The adoption was to be completed next month when the family expected to move the children from a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, orphanage to their home in Loveland, Colorado.",
"But that orphanage partially collapsed in last week's devastating earthquake.",
"All 25 children there survived, but they had to move out onto the street.",
"Search lists of the missing and the found .",
"Mindy Haehre said her family was lucky; the good news about her children traveled quickly.",
"\"We knew they were safe,\" she said, \"but still when your kids are in danger nothing can be good enough unless you are with them.\"",
"The Haehres heard that Dayana and Moise might be among a small group of Haitian children whose adoptions were set that the U.S. military would fly to Florida.",
"So they packed up their other two children, Silje and Jakob, and caught a flight to Fort Lauderdale.",
"On Sunday as they checked into their hotel, the phone rang.",
"It was the call they were hoping for.",
"Their children were indeed among the small group of children from the orphanage being evacuated to the United States.",
"The flight was heading for an airport in central Florida.",
"The Haehres jumped in their rental car and drove about four hours north.",
"\"We said their names and they looked over and their eyes got big and they got big smiles and they came over and hugged us and kissed us and just kept smiling,\" Mindy Haehre said.",
"Big brother Jakob admitted he didn't enjoy the drive but said: \"I was pretty excited.",
"It was really fun to know that I can bring them home.\"",
"Dayana and Moise were already familiar with their new family.",
"They had met in Haiti several times while the adoption process was slowly moving along.",
"If there were any signs of trauma after the children's ordeal, the Haehres said they did not see them.",
"Watch how the children had been living outside .",
"\"Within probably 10 minutes all four kids were running around the customs area of the airport, playing and being noisy and acting like kids,\" Mindy Haehre said.",
"And being kids was exactly how they appeared on the beach in Fort Lauderdale.",
"Splashing, laughing and playing with language being no barrier for the four Haehre children."
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"Brother and sister flown from Haiti to join their adoptive family in Florida .",
"Orphanage housing Dayana and Moise had partially collapsed in earthquake .",
"Big smiles, hugs when they finally joined their family for good, mom says ."
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"Hong Kong (CNN) -- Some 290 kilograms (639 pounds) of \"high-grade cocaine\" was discovered in a shipping container at a Hong Kong terminal, the government said in a statement Wednesday.",
"The cocaine, worth some HK $260 million (U.S. $33 million) was found December 29 at the Kwai Chung Container Terminal, \"in a container arriving from South America and destined for the mainland,\" Hong Kong's Information Services Department said.",
"Hong Kong's customs department has recently stepped up inspections of \"suspicious consignments from South America\" at the terminal, the statement said.",
"Customs officers intercepted two containers that purportedly contained \"wood working products\" from a container vessel from Chile, officials said.",
"\"Following inspection using the X-ray system and drug detector dogs, officers found a batch of cocaine in one of the containers, concealed inside 88 pieces of hollowed-out wood planks,\" the statement said.",
"The investigation was ongoing, authorities said, and no arrests have yet been made.",
"Hong Kong is working closely with Chinese and overseas drug enforcement agencies, said John Lee, head of Hong Kong Customs' Drug Investigation Bureau, in the statement.",
"It was the largest seizure of drugs ever for the customs department.",
"However, Hong Kong police last April had a larger bust, which saw the seizure of 372 kilograms (820 pounds) of cocaine with a value of HK $337 million, or U.S. $43.4 million.",
"That seizure stemmed from a missing persons report that led to the discovery of the cocaine in a home.",
"Eight people were arrested in that case, police said at the time.",
"Drug trafficking is a serious offense, the Hong Kong government statement said, with a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $5 million fine.",
"CNN's Roya Shadravan contributed to this report."
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"It arrived in Hong Kong from Chile .",
"No arrests have been made, but the investigation is ongoing ."
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"(CNN) -- A 19-year-old American Muslim detained and questioned in Kuwait is suing the U.S. government, claiming it is refusing to let him fly home because he is on a \"no-fly\" list.",
"Stuck in limbo between the country he calls home and the place he was visiting on what his lawyer describes as a journey of self-discovery, Gulet Mohamed of Alexandria, Virginia, has been trapped in Kuwait for nearly a month, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Virginia.",
"\"No-fly\" lists were set up to protect Americans against potential threats.",
"They are designed to prevent terrorist suspects from boarding planes to and from the United States.",
"But Mohamed's lawyer, Gadeir Abbas, says in the lawsuit that the U.S. government is impeding his client's basic right to return and live freely in the United States.",
"Abbas is a staff attorney for the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations.",
"At a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, Judge Anthony J. Trenga told the government that it should make arrangements to allow Mohamed to return before the end of this week unless it could produce evidence against him.",
"The lawsuit says Mohamed came to the United States from Somalia with his family when he was just 3 years old, grew up in Virginia and is now a naturalized citizen.",
"In March of 2009, Mohamed's curiosity led him halfway around the world to visit relatives living overseas and to learn Arabic, according to the lawsuit.",
"He started his journey in Sanaa, Yemen, but then moved to Somalia where he stayed with relatives for several months.",
"By August he was on his way to Kuwait where an uncle took him in so he could continue his Arabic studies, the suit says.",
"Mohamed followed proper travel procedures, according to the lawsuit, renewing his visitor's visa twice during his stay in Kuwait.",
"But when he went to Kuwait's international airport last December to get another 90-day extension he waited several hours.",
"The lawsuit says Mohamed wrote an e-mail to his brother in Virginia while he waited, saying the process was taking longer than usual.",
"That was the last time anyone heard from him for a week, the suit says.",
"According to the lawsuit, Mohamed says he was approached at the airport by two men who handcuffed and blindfolded him.",
"They drove him to another location in an SUV.",
"Mohamed claims he was beaten, tortured and interrogated over the next week.",
"The lawsuit describes him being whipped, threatened with electrocution and questioned by captors who had private information about his family in the United States .",
"They also questioned him about his relationship with Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim cleric who has close ties to al Qaeda and who is believed to be in Yemen.",
"Mohamed's lawyer says he denies any link to al-Awlaki.",
"Mohamed was transferred to a deportation facility in Kuwait on December 28, the lawsuit says.",
"He used a fellow detainee's hidden cell phone and was able to contact his family and retain a CAIR attorney.",
"According to the lawsuit, Kuwaiti officials have told Mohamed's family they are holding him on behalf of the U.S. His lawyers say Kuwaiti officials have tried to deport Mohamed but were unable to do so because the United States had placed him on a \"no-fly\" list.",
"A U.S. official confirmed to CNN that Mohamed is on a \"no-fly\" list, but would not explain why.",
"Mohamed was visited twice by FBI agents while in detention, according to the suit.",
"He claims the FBI agents physically intimidated him, threatened him with criminal charges and told him he would remain in detention indefinitely if he didn't speak to them.",
"Mohamed refused to answer their questions without counsel, the lawsuit says.",
"Mohamed's lawyers told CNN that at the suggestion of Kuwaiti officials, his family recently bought a plane ticket for him to return to the United States.",
"However, when the officials took him to the airport Sunday, he was not allowed onto the plane.",
"Mohamad's lawyers contend that the information that his interrogators had -- and the questions he was asked -- indicate it was the U.S. government who had him held and questioned.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley denied Mohamed was being detained at the behest of the United States.",
"Crowley told CNN Tuesday that the State Department has provided Mohamed with consular access and is committed to him having fair treatment.",
"Crowley said the department hasn't had access to Mohamed since December.",
"CNN's Laurie Ure contributed to this report."
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"Gulet Mohamed, a naturalized U.S. citizen, is on a \"no-fly\" list and cannot fly home .",
"He says he was departing Kuwait after a visit when he was held and questioned .",
"His interrogators knew details about his family in the United States, he says .",
"Mohamed filed suit, claiming the U.S. is refusing to let him return home ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Growing up, my Sherman tank-like aunt constantly blamed her thyroid for inability to lose weight.",
"The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck.",
"Most of her seven sisters, behind her back, blamed something else, like her eating an entire cake by herself at their weekly coffee klatch.",
"But who knows? That was 15 years ago and our awareness of thyroid and its many problems has grown.",
"She just might have been right pointing her finger at her thyroid, because, according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, as many as 27 million Americans suffer from some type of thyroid gland misfiring.",
"And half of these folks don't even know what they are missing.",
"But their bodies do. For while this little, butterfly-shaped gland at the base of our neck, weighing in at barely an ounce, seems both delicate and innocuous, when not in hormonally balanced harmony, it packs a wallop.",
"The truth is, it's more like the Muhammad Ali of our body's hormone factories; it floats and appears like a butterfly but stings like a bee.",
"\"Our thyroid, even though it's a small gland in your neck, controls everything,\" says endocrinologist Karen Smith.",
"\"It can control your thought patterns, your mood, your heart rate, blood pressure, digestive system, menstrual system, skin and bones.\"",
"That's a lot of controlling going on, but more than controlling, this little gland's job is all about regulating.",
"The thyroid gland is in charge of making two very important hormones, respectively known as T3 and T4.",
"And it's when the levels go awry that we start to have problems.",
"For most people suffering from thyroid dysfunction, and these problems affect more women than men, their problem is that not enough hormones are being made.",
"This is called hypothyroidism, and the symptoms are somewhat elusive.",
"That is probably why doctors such as Smith use a handy tool to help patients identify the problem.",
"\"There is actually an acronym that we use for hypothyroidism,\" she said.",
"\"It's called sluggish.",
"Sometimes when you feel sluggish, this might serve as a red flag and you might think, 'Oh it might be my thyroid!'\"",
"Sluggish stands for .",
"Sleepiness, fatigue, tiredness .",
"Loss of memory .",
"Unusually dry coarse skin .",
"Goiter (enlarged thyroid) Gradual personality change .",
"Increase in weight, bloating, puffiness .",
"Sensitivity to cold .",
"Hair loss, sparseness of hair .",
"And while these symptoms might be signals that something other than your thyroid is the issue, it's worth getting it tested.",
"A simple blood test will tell you if your problems are a bigger hormonal deal.",
"The condition is lifelong, or as Smith puts it, \"from the cradle to the rocking chair.\"",
"Meaning that it can appear at just about any age, but once identified it doesn't go away.",
"Its treatment, however, is fairly straightforward: hormone replacement therapy.",
"But on the other side of the thyroid production line is the overzealous hormone maker.",
"A lot less common than hypothyroidism, this is known as hyperthyroidism.",
"\"Hyperthyroidism is when the thyroid is actually making too much thyroid hormone.",
"I tell my patients, it's like a forest fire in California, burning everything up, \"explains Smith, who just recently found out she suffered from this issue.",
"It took almost a year for her to figure it out since she had no family history to worry about, and most thyroid problems are usually genetic, even though she displayed all the classic symptoms.",
"\"My first symptoms were irritability, feeling tired and blue.",
"My memory was poor and I had a hard time concentrating.",
"Weight loss, despite being constantly hungry and eating like a pig.",
"Long durations of sleep but never feeling rested,\" Smith says.",
"Finally when her hands started trembling and her heart started racing, she sought medical help.",
"A blood test revealed her levels were off the charts.",
"Good news for the young doctor who feared she had cancer or mercury poisoning.",
"But just like hypothyroidism, this conditions is very treatable.",
"Smith, who is doing much better now, details the options.",
"\"The treatment is very different from hypothyroidism; we are actually trying to slow the function of the thyroid down.",
"\"There are actually three ways to treat it,\" Smith said.",
"\"Surgery was a way we used to treat it in the past.",
"We don't use that as much any more unless someone has a nodule and you think that may be a suspicious cell or cancer.\"",
"Today's most common treatment is anti-thyroid medications, which slow hormone production.",
"Radioactive iodine also is used, she said.",
"\"It's a substance that when you give it, it will actually damage the thyroid to help put out the fire, so to speak, to put out the flame of the overactive gland.\"",
"Doctors now recommend that everyone over 35 get his or her thyroid gland tested regularly.",
"Because there are certain risks with even mild changes in thyroid levels, those considered at high risk, including pregnant women and those with a family history of thyroid problems, need to get tested earlier and more frequently, Smith said.",
"Which leads me back to that aunt of mine.",
"If she was right and it was not just an overactive hand-to-mouth cake thing, then I better call my doctor pronto to schedule my own test."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The interpretation of complex legal verbiage is the Supreme Court's bailiwick, but sometimes the outcome of a case falls upon the meaning of single word.",
"The magic word in an appeal argued Wednesday was \"personal,\" and whether it extends beyond humans to \"artificial\" entities like corporations.",
"Telecom giant AT&T wants \"personal privacy\" protections applied to businesses, just as they have long been granted to individuals.",
"At issue is whether corporate \"personhood\" extends to the Freedom of Information Act, which exempts the public release of government documents that invade personal privacy.",
"The company wants material gathered by a federal agency during a consumer investigation to be kept secret.",
"Several justices seemed deeply skeptical of the company's claims for relief.",
"Citing \"dozens and dozens\" of examples in a study of government bureaucracy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that \"overwhelmingly, 'personal' is used to describe an individual, not an artificial being.\"",
"\"Can you give me any examples in common usage where people would refer to the 'personal privacy' of a corporation?\"",
"asked Justice Antonin Scalia.",
"\"It's a very strange phrase to me.\"",
"But others on the bench were not willing to say personal privacy applies only to a single human being.",
"The dispute began in 2004 when AT&T Inc. found out it may have overcharged the federal government for the E-Rate program, which provides affordable internet and telecom access for schools and libraries across the United States.",
"The company voluntarily turned over documents to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency charged with investigating the matter.",
"Months later, a trade group that included some of AT&T's competitors filed a Freedom of Information request for all correspondence related to the E-Rate probe.",
"The material included AT&T memos, e-mails, invoices and employee names.",
"The company said the material was exempt from public release, since it was collected strictly for \"law enforcement purposes,\" according to court filings, and it argued that disclosure would cause an \"unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.\"",
"The FCC ultimately rejected the claims, saying the personal privacy exemption applies only to individuals.",
"A federal appeals court reversed, finding for the corporation, and prompting the government's Supreme Court appeal.",
"Wednesday's hourlong oral arguments featured several justices offering various examples of the extent to which \"personal\" privacy could ever be applied to the corporate theory.",
"\"For example, you could refer to personal jurisdiction over a corporation, couldn't you?\"",
"Justice Samuel Alito asked the Justice Department's lawyer, Anthony Yang.",
"\"I suppose families have rights of personal privacy, don't they?\"",
"added Chief Justice Roberts, extending the term beyond individuals.",
"AT&T's attorney, Geoffrey Klineberg, told the court the issue is one of fairness.",
"\"All we are asking for and indeed all that Congress provided for is that the privacy interests be weighed against the public interest in disclosure.",
"And what the FCC did here was to categorically exclude corporations from the protections\" under federal law.",
"Ginsburg was unconvinced.",
"\"How does the commission, unaided by AT&T, go through the papers and decide what would be embarrassing for an AT&T employee, as distinguished from the corporation?\"",
"Klineberg said e-mails could be exposed to public view showing corporate officers who \"may engage in a frank exchange about the competence and intelligence of a would-be regulator of the corporation.",
"Or disparaging comments\" about a business competitor, something that should be protected under privacy laws.",
"\"Why does that relate to the corporation's privacy interest?\"",
"replied Scalia.",
"\"Anything that would embarrass the corporation is a privacy interest?\"",
"The AT&T lawyer ran into further trouble when he tried to mince words -- suggesting that because \"person\" is defined to include a corporation in the relevant federal statute, the term \"personal\" also must apply.",
"\"I tried to sit down and come up with other examples where the adjective was very different from the root noun,\" said John Roberts.",
"\"It turns out it is not hard at all.",
"You have craft and crafty.",
"Totally different.",
"Crafty doesn't have much to do with craft.",
"Squirrel, squirrely.",
"Right? I mean, you have a pastor and pastoral.",
"Same root, totally different.",
"So I don't think there's much to the argument that because 'person' means one thing, 'personal' has to be the same relation.\"",
"Beyond interpreting the meaning of personal privacy, the court may also have to wrestle with defining or redefining \"corporate,\" either as an association of citizens with extended, shared rights, or as a state-chartered entity with its own separate, competing rights apart from those of its members.",
"Such interpretation was key to the high court's controversial campaign finance ruling a year ago, in which the conservative majority gave corporations greater power to spend freely in federal elections, overturning a federal law that had imposed strict limits.",
"The court said corporations had to be treated as \"persons\" when it came to campaign spending, with the same power as individual donors.",
"Now the dispute is whether corporations enjoy similar protections in the privacy context.",
"Liberal groups have complained that the Roberts court has been overly friendly to businesses in recent rulings, at the expense of individual consumers.",
"They want a blanket rule exempting corporations from personal privacy protections.",
"\"Congress did not and could not imbue corporations with the dignity interests that FOIA protects when it shields living, breathing human beings from invasions of personal privacy,\" said Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center.",
"\"A corporate charter cannot blush or feel embarrassed by FOIA's policy of transparency,\" A number of media organizations have also filed briefs in support of the Obama administration, saying the Freedom of Information Act has been a powerful tool to hold governments and corporations accountable.",
"Coalitions of business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, are backing AT&T.",
"Justice Elena Kagan is not participating in the case because she had handled the appeal as the administration's solicitor general before being nominated to the high court last year.",
"The case is FCC v. AT&T Inc. (09-1279).",
"A ruling is expected in the next five months or so."
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"Some justices seem skeptical as they hear oral arguments ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Tuesday's State of the Union address will be watched closely not only for what is said, but also for who will there in person to hear it -- especially the black-robed members of the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"At least one member of the bench, Justice Samuel Alito, has publicly stated he will not attend after the dramatic criticism leveled at a court ruling by President Barack Obama.",
"One or more justices have attended the annual speech to Congress and the nation in recent decades.",
"Court members are not required by law to be there, but custom has dictated their appearance, mostly for show.",
"They are a key, if low-key, part of the pageantry, and are compelled to sit politely and stoically amid the often high-spirited partisan rhetoric and response of the event.",
"There is no word yet from the high court on who will attend.",
"Invitations are sent to each chamber, and the justices have individual discretion as to whether to go.",
"When they do, they wear their traditional judicial robes, are escorted into the House chamber as a group and take prominent seats up front, joined by other officers of the court such as the marshal and clerk.",
"Justices Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy have been regular attendees.",
"Government sources say Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who joined the bench in 2009, is expected to be there, and so is the court's newest member, Justice Elena Kagan, on the job since August.",
"Obama nominated both women.",
"Democrats last year cheered the president when he dressed down high court conservatives in last January's State of the Union address.",
"Obama criticized the majority ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, issued a week earlier, which removed legal barriers preventing corporations and unions from spending unlimited sums on federal elections.",
"\"With all due deference to the separation of powers,\" Obama said, \"the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections.\"",
"Alito, sitting just feet away in the audience, shook his head and mouthed words interpreted as \"not true.\"",
"He had been a regular at previous addresses, but in October 2010 he told an audience in New York that he felt \"like the proverbial potted plant\" at such occasions and would not be attending in the near future.",
"The 60-year-old justice also, with a smile, noted that his colleagues \"who are more disciplined refrain from manifesting any emotion or opinion whatsoever.\"",
"Most of the intrigue over who will attend his year's speech centers on Chief Justice John Roberts, who has labeled the political atmosphere at last year's address \"very troubling.\"",
"Roberts, who turns 56 next Thursday, said last March that partisan rhetoric and gestures aimed at the court left him questioning whether his colleagues should continue to attend.",
"\"It does cause me to think whether or not it makes sense for us to be there\" he said.",
"\"To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we're there.\"",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs responded quickly with an indirect attack on Roberts, saying \"the only thing troubling\" was the Citizens United ruling itself.",
"During the 2010 address, members of Congress sat just behind the justices, many applauding loudly when Obama made his remarks about the court's election spending case.",
"Sources close to Roberts have said he has grown increasingly \"frustrated\" at what he views as the growing partisanship aimed at the federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court .",
"Both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden -- when they were senators -- voted against Roberts and Alito during court confirmation proceedings.",
"Some justices have been regular no-shows at the State of the Union, including John Paul Stevens, who stepped down from the court last year.",
"Roberts' predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, also rarely appeared in person.",
"Another more vocal no-go is Justice Antonin Scalia, who has compared the televised State of the Union to \"cheerleading sessions.\"",
"\"I don't know at what point that happened, but it has happened, and now you go and sit there like bumps on a log while applause lines cause one half of the Congress to leap up while [another line] causes the other half to leap up,\" he said last November.",
"\"It is a juvenile spectacle.",
"And I resent being called upon to give it dignity.\"",
"Scalia, a generally verbose and animated jurist, said bluntly: \"You just sit there, looking stupid.\"",
"Breyer, on the other hand, has crossed the street to attend every State of the Union but one since joining the court in 1994.",
"He missed President Bill Clinton's last annual address in 2000 because of the flu.",
"Many believe the justices have go to such events, that it's just another unwanted chore of office.",
"Not so, Breyer told CNN in 2005.",
"\"People attend if they wish to attend.",
"I do wish to attend, so I go.\""
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"In the wake of that speech, Justice Samuel Alito has said he won't attend this year .",
"Chief Justice John Roberts last year derided the \"pep rally\" atmosphere .",
"Justice Stephen Breyer, however, said he enjoys attending and will again ."
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"CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (CNN) -- Sens.",
"Barack Obama and John McCain are well aware of what's at stake in Ohio.",
"Mike Milburn, left, and Dan DeGarmo are skeptical about what both candidates bring to the table.",
"No Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio, a state that has received more visits from the candidates and their running mates this year than any other.",
"Inside the bellwether state is the bellwether town of Chillicothe, a town that often mirrors the state's election results.",
"Voters there are divided.",
"With less than a month to go until the election, it's concerns about the financial markets and the economy that dominate the airwaves at the town's radio station.",
"\"The only other people that've experienced something like what we're experiencing now are our grandparents or our great-grandparents,\" host Dan Ramey said on his radio show on WBEX-AM.",
"At Carl's Townhouse, the outlook among the breakfast crowd was gloomy.",
"\"I think that the money they just passed in Congress is just postponing what's going to happen in the future, which I think is going to be another Depression,\" said resident Mike Milburn.",
"Milburn said he lives paycheck to paycheck to support his four kids.",
"For Dan DeGarmo, it's the same -- his fourth child is due soon.",
"\"I don't see how either of those candidates offer any solid solutions that give Americans comfort,\" he said.",
"Watch more on Ohio's bellwether town » .",
"Both men are registered Republicans.",
"Milburn said he might not vote at all, while DeGarmo said he plans to vote for McCain.",
"Jeff Ragland, a cement worker, said he's voting for Obama.",
"\"I feel like he's more for the people that are people like me,\" he said.",
"People like Theresa Hall, an undecided Independent, are the targets of both candidates as they enter into the final weeks of campaigning.",
"\"It seems like when you watch them, they're pretty much just at each other.",
"He says this, he says that,\" Hall said.",
"Along Chillicothe's Main Street, buildings in need of repair provide reminders that this once booming industrial town has seen better days.",
"Obama's troops are trying to make inroads among the population of 22,000 that went for George Bush in the past two elections, and team McCain is working to keep the county red.",
"Right now, people say the town is divided -- and so are the predictions.",
"\"This community seems to just be enough Republican to help [McCain] out,\" WBEX's Ramey said, adding that his gut feeling is that will be the case this year.",
"DeGarmo, however, disagreed.",
"\"Honestly, I think Obama is going to win,\" he said.",
"Weighing sentiments like those is one way to get a pulse on how this town might vote in November.",
"But in one indication of the town's importance, McCain has already visited, and Obama is scheduled to stop by on Friday."
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"Chillicothe, population 22,000, is considered a bellwether town in Ohio .",
"Voters at local restaurant are skeptical about the upcoming election .",
"The town voted for George Bush in the past two elections .",
"John McCain has visited Chillicothe; Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Friday ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In our constant battle of the bulge, a new weapon is gaining in popularity.",
"Mineral body wraps are supposed to help you lose weight, but doctors are skeptical.",
"The basic concept is simple: loss by bondage, or body wraps.",
"Around for decades, body wraps were first made popular by Hollywood stars but have since become available to lesser-known mortals.",
"These wraps come in a host of styles; from minerals to mud, from moving to motionless.",
"Their aim: better bodies.",
"Their claim: less of you when you're done.",
"\"We do mineral body wraps that take off inches and we guarantee people will lose 6 to 20 inches on the first wrap or the next one is free,\" says Julie Tracey, co-owner of Atlanta's Suddenly Slimmer salon.",
"But Dr. Erica Brownfield, associate professor of medicine at Emory, is skeptical, at best.",
"\"These results are going to be temporary and there is no scientific data to support what they're claiming is actually going on,\" she said.",
"In the land of wraps, measurements are key.",
"You wear very little clothing for the body wrap -- a small top matched with a small bottom.",
"These are preferably made from breathable fabric without buttons or zippers, which could get in the way and cause chafing or pinching.",
"The next step is all about the numbers.",
"The wrapper puts measuring tape around various parts of your body and draws marks in black -- sort of \"slash marks the spot.\"",
"Typically, between a dozen and 20 spots are measured.",
"And it's the sum total of these spots that will tell you how many inches you've lost when the treatment is over.",
"Most providers will guarantee some inches lost from your first wrap but say you need a series of visits if you want to reduce by as much as, say, a clothing size, Tracey says.",
"Health for Her: What's it like to get a wrap? ...",
"And priced at $50 to $100, a treatment like this is not a cheap quick fix.",
"But how do they work? The treatment \"draws out metabolic waste and impurities from the body that lets water flow through better,\" Tracey says.",
"\"Retained water dilutes the metabolic waste and those go between the fat cells and spread things apart.\"",
"\"With the compression of the bandages, because you are wrapped up real tight, we push those fat cells back together and that is what changes the shape.\"",
"Aside from inches gone, body wraps claim to help with issues such as cellulite, skin tone and body shaping.",
"Tracey, whose company has done almost 8,000 wraps, says the treatments also help with stretch marks, wrinkles and lines.",
"But Brownfield and others in the medical field aren't quite buying it.",
"\"Their claims say they are squeezing the fat cells closer together,\" Brownfield says,\" but I think it's very important for people to realize that they're not losing fat cells.\"",
"\"Those fat cells, once you decompress them and take those wraps off, they're going to go back to their usual shape and size.\"",
"Brownfield is also concerned that, in some cases, these wraps could be a health hazard.",
"\"Actually, depending on which wrap you use they can be harmful, they can dehydrate the body,\" she says, which can be dangerous for some people.",
"She also cautions people to make sure they know what type of minerals and solutions are being used in the procedure.",
"Allergic reactions are one concern, but also any type of open wound, contagious disease or rash might make a body wrap a bad idea.",
"And finally, if you have any medical concerns, talk to a doctor before deciding if wrapping up is your best bet for shaping up."
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"Many kinds of materials are available for the treatment, which costs $50 to $100 .",
"It could cause dehydration or allergic reactions, Dr. Erica Brownfield says .",
"There is no scientific data to support the claims of body wraps, she says ."
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"(CNN) -- An Alaska judge warned Gov.",
"Sarah Palin's family against trying to get her then-brother-in-law fired, according to court records.",
"Investigators want to know if Sarah Palin tried to use her position improperly to get her former brother-in-law fired.",
"That warning came long before the controversy over her dismissal of the brother-in-law's boss, the state's public safety commissioner, records show.",
"Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, is battling allegations she and her advisers pressured Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her sister's husband, State Trooper Mike Wooten.",
"Palin's sister, Molly McCann, and Wooten were in the process of getting a divorce when the judge hearing the couple's case said McCann's family appeared to be putting Wooten's job at risk at a time when he would be required to pay child support.",
"\"It appears for the world that Ms. McCann and her family have decided to take after the guy's livelihood, that whatever who did what to whom has overridden good judgment,\" Superior Court Judge John Suddock said during an October 2005 hearing.",
"\"Aesop told us not to slay the goose that lays the golden egg.",
"For whatever reason, people are trying to slay the goose here, and it tends to diminish his earning capacity.\"",
"At the time, Palin was a private citizen and would not become governor until 2006.",
"In complaints filed with the state police, she and other relatives had accused Wooten of threatening her family during the divorce.",
"Suddock was in the process of settling the couple's property and child-support arrangements in the 2005 hearing.",
"The judge said his decision might have been different had Wooten's continued employment with the state police been more certain.",
"\"The plaintiff's table has created a situation where that is a very fragile outcome,\" he said.",
"Wooten's union representative testified that the trooper was the subject of a \"constant stream\" of complaints from his ex-wife's family.",
"\"If things don't change, Mike's career is in jeopardy,\" the union rep said.",
"\"My advice to Mike was to find another job,\" said John Cyr, now executive director of the Public Safety Employees Association.",
"\"I think he needs, career-wise, to look for work elsewhere.\"",
"CNN obtained audio recordings of the hearing from the court clerk's office in Anchorage, Alaska.",
"Roberta Erwin, the attorney who represented McCann, declined comment on the case Wednesday, and other representatives of the governor did not immediately return phone calls.",
"Wooten was suspended for five days in March 2006, after state police commanders determined he had used a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson \"in a training capacity,\" drove his patrol car while drinking beer and illegally shot a moose using his wife's hunting permit.",
"In a February 2008 hearing over new custody issues, Wooten briefly complained that \"disparagement\" by his ex-wife's family was continuing.",
"Complaints about Wooten from Palin and her family have been under scrutiny since Gov.",
"Palin's July firing of Monegan, whose duties included management of the state police force.",
"After his dismissal, Monegan said he was fired because he refused to succumb to pressure from the governor's office to fire Wooten, and his allegations have led to an investigation by the state Legislature.",
"Palin has denied any wrongdoing, saying the commissioner was removed because of disagreements over budget issues.",
"Her attorneys have called Wooten a \"rogue trooper\" and said no one in the governor's family knew of his suspension until after Monegan's dismissal.",
"Spokesmen for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign have said the legislative probe has become a \"political circus\" since McCain tapped Palin as his running mate in August.",
"Palin originally pledged to cooperate with the investigation and disclosed that members of her administration had contacted state police officials nearly two dozen times to discuss Wooten.",
"But last week, she asked the state personnel board to conduct its own probe, and a string of witnesses has failed to show up at scheduled depositions with the investigator hired by the Legislature.",
"Last week, Cyr's union filed its own complaint against Palin and top aides, accusing them of improperly attempting to use confidential information from Wooten's personnel files against him.",
"The McCain campaign says Wooten agreed to release his files during the divorce proceedings, and the information was in the public domain."
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"Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, denies wrongdoing ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- The doors to the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference civil rights group have been welded shut and padlocked, an escalation in a power struggle between two factions claiming leadership of the organization, the two sides said Tuesday.",
"The doors were discovered shut Monday night.",
"The Rev. Markel Hutchins, a recent aspirant to the organization's presidency who claims to be on the board, said the doors were welded and padlocked to keep the current leadership out of the headquarters building.",
"\"They refused to leave the building, and under the law you can't remove them forcibly,\" Hutchins told CNN affiliate WSB.",
"\"So what we had to do was make certain we secured the building while no one was inside to protect the safety and security and the integrity of the organization.\"",
"\"I am troubled by this conduct.",
"It is the act of reckless individuals,\" SCLC Chairwoman Sylvia Tucker said in a statement released Tuesday.",
"\"Hutchins has no right to be on SCLC property,\" Tucker said.",
"\"His conduct of vandalizing and damaging SCLC property proves that Hutchins will do anything to try to control the SCLC.\"",
"Tucker and her faction say that Hutchins has never been on the board of the SCLC or been a national officer for the organization.",
"The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the co-founders of the SCLC, which was formed in 1957 to coordinate protest activities across the Southeast, the group's website says.",
"The organization has seen a power struggle dating back about a decade, said Ralph Luker, a retired professor who specialized in the civil rights movement and has been an observer of the SCLC.",
"But the current crisis stems from accusations that former officers diverted SCLC funds into non-SCLC accounts, he said.",
"Those charges remain under investigation.",
"A former chairman and former treasurer were removed from the board, and those who backed them formed the faction that is quarrelling with the current leadership.",
"Hutchins aligned himself with the faction backing the ousted leaders, Luker said.",
"Hutchins ran for SCLC president last year but was defeated by Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter.",
"He was then appointed to the board by the faction led by the ousted chairman, a move that a judge has since ruled invalid.",
"\"That essentially is what this is about: who effectively is going to control the organization,\" Luker said."
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"Markel Hutchins: Doors secured to keep current leadership out of the building .",
"Sylvia Tucker: Conduct \"is the act of reckless individuals\"\nHutchins wants to lead SCLC, claims to be on board; Tucker is SCLC chairwoman ."
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"Editor's note: Rep. Dave Camp is a Republican from the 4th district of Michigan and is his party's ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee.",
"Rep. Dave Camp said Americans pay too much for health care due to waste, lawsuits and fraud.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans want, deserve and demand health care reform.",
"Wednesday, I and my Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives are unveiling common sense health care reforms that focus on increasing the affordability, accessibility and availability of quality health care.",
"Our plan will lower costs, make health care more convenient for patients and improve quality at a price our country can afford.",
"Our chief concern is making health care affordable for all Americans.",
"To do so, we believe in reforming before spending.",
"The system now is so complex and unwieldy that billions of dollars are wasted every year.",
"In fact, Americans pay more for their health care per person than anyone else in the world; twice what the Canadians do and two-and-a-half times what the British spend.",
"It makes no sense.",
"To lower health care costs, we must 1) weed out the rampant overspending in our current system that is driven by the twin forces of trial lawyers and fraudsters, 2) modernize medical regulations that haven't been changed in decades, and 3) make sure the government is helping every American get insurance, not just those who have health insurance through their job.",
"Attacking the unnecessary costs in our current system starts with implementing comprehensive medical liability reform, so when doctors are in exam rooms they are thinking about their patients, not about ordering more tests in case somebody tries to sue later.",
"This will reduce the practice of defensive medicine and save billions of dollars in wasted health care spending.",
"We also must demand greater oversight and fraud prevention in Medicare and Medicaid -- the nation's health care programs for the seniors, the poor and the disabled.",
"Abuse is so rampant in these programs that the chief counsel to the Health and Human Services Inspector General said, \"building a Medicare fraud scam is far safer than dealing in crack or dealing in stolen cars, and it's far more lucrative.\"",
"Malpractice reform and fraud prevention are a good start, but just a start.",
"We will build on those successes by accelerating the move toward an electronic record system, minimizing the numerous administrative requirements at doctor offices, hospitals and insurance companies.",
"By doing so, we can tackle the mountain of repetitive and unnecessary paperwork that clogs our system, drives up costs and creates headaches for patients and doctors alike.",
"It is also time to allow states, small businesses and other organizations to increase their purchasing power by banding together to offer health insurance at lower cost.",
"A small business in Ohio might not be able to afford health insurance on its own, but when joining with dozens of other small employers in Michigan and Indiana, the pool gets bigger and the price gets lower.",
"Even with these reforms, the cost of health care is still too high for many Americans.",
"The federal government has a patchwork of subsidies for those buying health insurance that is full of inequities.",
"While we are waiting for the cost of our plan to be determined by the Congressional Budget Office, we already know it would be cheaper than other alternatives being discussed.",
"To help address the inequities, our plan gives Americans who purchase insurance on their own a tax deduction, treating them more like those who get insurance through a job or who are self-employed.",
"And we create incentives for all Americans to save now for future and long-term health care needs by improving health savings accounts and flexible spending arrangements and creating new tax benefits to offset the costs of long-term care premiums.",
"Republicans also provide financial assistance through new refundable and advanceable tax credits to those who need it most: low- and modest-income Americans.",
"And, especially in today's economy where so many workers have been forced to retire early or have been laid off, we recognize that many Americans who have not yet hit retirement age often have an especially hard time finding affordable health insurance.",
"Thus, we offer additional financial help to those ages 55 to 64.",
"We also recognize that many Americans with pre-existing conditions find insurance is either unaffordable or unavailable.",
"Our plan addresses this by fostering innovative state reinsurance programs and improved high-risk pools, ensuring that high-risk individuals get affordable coverage.",
"These and other measures will ensure every American, regardless of income, regardless of where they choose to live, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illness, will have access to affordable, quality health care.",
"Republicans stand ready to work with the president and our Democratic colleagues in Congress to improve the affordability, accessibility and availability of health care in this nation.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dave Camp."
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"Rep. Dave Camp: Health care must be made available and affordable .",
"He says fraud, lawsuits and waste drive up the cost of health care .",
"Camp: Americans pay much more per person than other countries .",
"He says tax incentives can help people pay for health care ."
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"(CNN) -- Concerned about her family's finances, a university student in Australia cashed some long-forgotten lottery tickets this week -- hoping the money would help her parents.",
"Have you ever won big after mislaying a lottery ticket?",
"Tell us -- click on Sound Off below.",
"She discovered their worries are over.",
"The university student won $10 million (A$13 million) -- and helped solve a lottery mystery that has made headlines in Western Australia for 10 months.",
"\"People had been wondering for months, who is this mystery winner?",
"Do they know about this ticket?\"",
"said Jodi Eastman, spokeswoman for Lotterywest, the state lottery.",
"\"We have a 12 month expiry on lottery tickets.",
"And people thought it might end up expiring and go unclaimed.\"",
"Have you ever won big on an old lottery ticket?",
"Sound Off below . It would have, too, had the student -- who is in her 30s and asked lottery officials to keep her anonymous -- not woken up earlier this week, suddenly remembering the bundle of lottery tickets collecting dust in a drawer.",
"She didn't know that among them was a gift from her father, who had purchased a ticket to test the family's luck when the Oz Lotto jackpot climbed to $39 (A$ 50 million) million last July.",
"\"She said she thought, 'If I can win some money on these tickets, I can possibly help the family out,\" Eastman said.",
"The first couple of tickets yielded small amounts -- $16 total.",
"\"She was pretty excited,\" Eastman said.",
"Then the woman had the clerk check the gift from her father.",
"At first glance, she thought she'd won $10,000 (A$13,000).",
"No, the retail store clerk told her, it's $10 million (A$13 million).",
"\"I checked the commas and decimal places and then I realized,\" the woman told Lotterywest.",
"\"I always remember Mum telling me that if I won the Lotto, not to start jumping up and down in the shopping center,\" she added.",
"Had she waited two more months, she would have missed the fortune.",
"The woman told lottery officials she's not planning a spending binge.",
"\"The people close to me will be looked after and I might give some to research or a charity of some kind,\" she told Lotterywest.",
"\"It's nice to have this much to fulfill my dreams and the dreams of the people around me.\"",
"The winning ticket cost $6.70 (A$8.70).",
"The odds she beat: 1 in 45 million."
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"Student finds old lottery ticket left to languish in drawer, wins $10 million .",
"Unclaimed prize made headlines in Western Australia, win solves mystery .",
"Ticket had been due to expire after 12 months, the winner claimed after 10 .",
"Anonymous winner: \"It's nice to have this much to fulfill my dreams\""
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"London, England (CNN) -- On-form Wayne Rooney came off the bench to score the winner as Manchester United beat Aston Villa 2-1 in the English League Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.",
"United manager Alex Ferguson opted to rest the England striker, preferring Michael Owen in attack alongside Dimitar Berbatov.",
"Villa took the lead early on when James Milner converted a penalty after the pacey Gabriel Agbonlahor was pulled down in the box by Nemanja Vidic.",
"Vidic was lucky not to receive a red card as he appeared to be the last defender.",
"But United were back on level terms barely seven minutes later when Villa defender Richard Dunne lost the ball to Berbatov.",
"Dunne's attempt at recovering the situation succeeded only in diverting the ball to the on-rushing Owen.",
"The former Liverpool and Real Madrid frontman slid the ball first time past Brad Friedel and into the net.",
"Owen, who has struggled to claim a regular starting place in the United side, was forced off just before the interval with a hamstring injury.",
"The stage was set for his replacement, Rooney.",
"The 24 year-old didn't disappoint as he nodded in a cross from Antonio Valencia with only 16 minutes remaining.",
"After the match, Ferguson told Sky Sports he decided to drop his match-winner for the game because of the number of key matches coming up for the club -- including the Champions League second leg tie against AC Milan.",
"\"There are a lot of big games coming up now and that's why we didn't play him today, but he's had 45, 50 minutes,\" he said.",
"\"Michael Owen had a great first half, but unfortunately he got a hamstring injury and had to come off with that.",
"Wayne comes on and scores the winning goal.",
"With the form he's in you expect that.\"",
"In the English Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur beat Everton 2-1 to regain fourth spot from Manchester City, who shocked leaders Chelsea 4-2 on Saturday.",
"First half goals from in-form Roman Pavlyuchenko and the influential Luka Modric put them in charge at White Hart Lane, but Ayegbeni Yakubu's reply just after the break set up a tense second half.",
"Liverpool stay a point behind in sixth place after a 2-1 home win over Blackburn with talismen Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres scoring.",
"Keith Andrews drew Blackburn level from the spot but Spanish striker Torres grabbed a valuable winner as he continues his comeback from an injury layoff."
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"James Milner penalty gave Aston Villa the lead at Wembley .",
"Replacement Michael Owen leveled for United but then left pitch injured .",
"Substitute Rooney headed the winner 16 minutes from the end .",
"Tottenham and Liverpool win in English Premier League in battle for fourth spot ."
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"(CNN) -- United States captain Landon Donovan is poised for a January switch to Everton after the English Premier League club confirmed talks were underway about a loan move.",
"The 27-year-old, who has won a record 120 international caps, will lead his country against England in their opening group game at the World Cup finals in South Africa next year.",
"The versatile Los Angeles Galaxy forward is expected to join compatriot Tim Howard on Merseyside from January 2 if negotiations are successful, and remain at Goodison Park until mid-March.",
"\"Landon is a player who [manager] David Moyes has identified as someone he would like to bring to the club,\" chief executive Robert Elstone told Everton's official Web site.",
"\"We are working to make that happen and hope we can reach agreement soon with all the appropriate parties.\"",
"Donovan has previous experience in Europe, having gone to Bayer Leverkusen while a teenager.",
"But he failed to make an impact at the German club and was loaned to U.S. Major League Soccer outfit San Jose Earthquakes before joining the Galaxy in 2005.",
"He spent a spell on loan at Bayern Munich at the start of this year, making six appearances, and then after a public falling-out with teammate David Beckham helped the galaxy reach the final of the MLS Cup.",
"Donovan would join a growing list of American players in Britain, joining Howard and his fellow-goalkeepers Brad Friedel and Brad Guzan of Aston Villa, Fulham's Clint Dempsey and Eddie Johnson, West Ham defender Jonathan Spector plus Maurice Edu and DaMarcus Beasley at Scottish club Rangers.",
"Everton are struggling in the bottom half of the Premier League following a debilitating series of injuries to key players, but have qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League."
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"United States captain Landon Donovan is poised for a January switch to Everton .",
"The English Premier League club confirms talks are underway about a loan move .",
"The 27-year-old will lead his country in opening World Cup group match against England .",
"He will join Everton on January 2 if talks are successful and stay until mid-March ."
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"WIXOM, Michigan (CNN) -- The lock on the gate is rusting, as are the ramps once used to drive shiny new Lincolns onto transport trucks.",
"The giant sign that once carried the Ford logo is painted white, the factory is shuttered, and the jobs gone.",
"Democrat Barack Obama polls well with Michigan's independent voters.",
"In Michigan, the evidence of economic strain is everywhere -- from the vacant Ford plant in Wixom, to the barren lot a short drive away in Pontiac that was once home to a GM truck assembly line, to the empty storefronts with \"For Lease\" signs in the windows.",
"With an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent and an unpopular Republican president, the political climate should favor Democrats, especially in Michigan, where 1988 marks the last time the GOP carried the state in a presidential election.",
"But the new CNN/Time Opinion Research Corp. battleground poll shows a virtual dead heat, with Barack Obama holding a statistically insignificant 49 percent to 45 percent lead over John McCain.",
"One reason McCain is within striking distance is his support in the critical Detroit suburbs, which include Oakland County and neighboring Macomb County.",
"Those communities are heavily shaped by the fortunes of the auto industry and are known in national politics as the home of the legendary Reagan Democrats.",
"And more and more, they're becoming known as places where independent voters swing close elections.",
"See which states are toss-ups » .",
"In the new poll, McCain leads 55 percent to 37 percent in the Detroit suburbs, while Obama has the edge, 47 percent to 42 percent, among voters who identify themselves as independents.",
"Watch how the suburbs have become political battlegrounds » .",
"Brent Colburn, communications director for Obama in Michigan, says Democratic organizing is in full swing.",
"\"We are building efforts around all of them,\" Colburn said of the state's diverse voting blocs, noting that key Obama targets include African-Americans, union members and students.",
"Watch more on the battle for Michigan » .",
"Oakland County GOP Chairman Dennis Cowan says Republican intensity has increased since McCain's pick of Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin to share the ticket, after some initial disappointment among the many supporters of Michigan native Mitt Romney here.",
"Because of Sen. Hillary Clinton's support among blue-collar voters here, \"We did fear the Obama-Clinton ticket,\" Cowan tells CNN.",
"Instead, in the GOP view, \"He [Obama] kind of made the safe choice for VP, and John McCain made a bold choice for VP, which has gotten everybody's attention.\"",
"Vote: Which state is the most important swing state?",
"Among those impressed with the Palin pick is Ray Gardella, who began his homebuilding business in the Detroit suburbs 35 years ago.",
"Gardella was a McGovern Democrat in those days, but leans more Republican now.",
"He says McCain and Palin \"are more in line with my values\" and says he isn't sold on Obama's talk of change.",
"\"He has talk, but we need a lot more than that, especially in the economy we have,\" Gardella said outside a home site in Bloomfield Hills.",
"\"Certainly a strong candidate.",
"An easy-to-listen-to candidate, but I don't think he gives us the substance we need.\"",
"Like many in his generation here, Gardella shrugs off Obama's talk that McCain has been in Washington too long to change it.",
"\"I think he is more of a man of action,\" Gardella said of the GOP nominee.",
"\"He has been waiting for 30 years to become a man of action, and I think he wants to do that in the executive office.\""
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"GOP hasn't carried Michigan for 20 years .",
"State's unemployment rate is 8.5 percent .",
"New poll shows Barack Obama, John McCain in tight race in state .",
"McCain leads in Detroit suburbs; Obama has edge among state's independents ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods, who suffered minor injuries in a car accident Friday near his Florida home, is not only the greatest golfer the world has ever seen, he is a true sporting phenomenon and one of the most recognizable faces in the world.",
"The 33-year-old was the highest-paid professional athlete in 2008, reportedly earning an estimated $110 million from tournament winnings and endorsements.",
"Although Woods has yet to pass Jack Nicklaus' overall record of 18 Major tournament victories, he is currently on 14 Major wins, there is little doubt that the Florida native is one of the most iconic sportsmen that has ever lived.",
"Woods, who was nicknamed Tiger by his father Earl, who befriended a Vietnamese soldier of the same name, was destined from an early age to become a golfing great.",
"Before he could walk, the baby Woods -- aged just six months -- was already imitating his father's swing, and at the age of two he famously appeared on the Bob Hope show to display his already considerable golfing skills.",
"A year later, Woods played nine holes in a remarkable 48 shots and it was no surprise when in 1991 he became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S.",
"Junior Championship at the age of 15.",
"More success quickly followed, defending his junior title before becoming the youngest-ever winner of the U.S.",
"Amateur Championship.",
"In 1996, Woods turned professional and signed a reported $25 million five-year sponsorship deal with Nike, before claiming his first major with an astonishing 12-stroke Masters victory a year later -- the tournament's largest-ever winning margin.",
"Three more Majors followed in 2000, the U.S. Open, British Open and U.S. PGA, before winning his second Masters in 2001 to become the first player ever to hold all four Majors at the same time, dubbed the 'Tiger Slam'.",
"Success followed success through the decade with notable landmarks including breaking Byron Nelson's record for 114 consecutive cuts made on the PGA Tour while also passing the $40m career earnings mark in 2004 -- the year Woods married Swedish model Elin Nordegren.",
"The death of father Earl in 2006 prompted Woods to take a nine-week lay-off from golf, following which he missed his first cut in 38 Majors at the U.S. Open.",
"Woods became a father for the first time in 2007, when Elin gave birth to daughter Sam Alexis but in 2008 recurring problems forced him to undergo a third operation on his left knee.",
"However, he continues to dominate the world golfing scene and proved he has lost none of his brilliance earlier this month when winning the Australian Masters after being paid $3.3 million just to appear in the tournament."
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"Tiger Woods is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures in the world .",
"The American can lay claim to being the greatest golfer that has ever lived .",
"The 33-year-old was the highest-paid sportsman in 2008, reportedly earning $110 million ."
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"(CNN) -- Riding through the streets of Moscow or flipping through channels of Russian TV, it's difficult to escape messages from the country's natural gas monopoly, Gazprom.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the central control room at the Gazprom HQ, Moscow, January.",
"\"I'm driving under a huge Gazprom sign right now,\" Yuri Pogorely, vice-president of Interfax, the Russian business news wire, said in a phone interview.",
"Television ad campaigns have promoted the company as a \"national treasure\" and, more recently, the business that makes \"dreams come true.\"",
"\"It can make someone think, why does a Russian monopoly need this kind of branding?",
"After all, there are other state-owned companies that don't present themselves as a symbol of Russia,\" Pogorely said.",
"\"But Gazprom is not just any company.\"",
"If the Soviet Union promoted its interests through satellite states and military prowess, Russia today flexes its might on the global stage through its vast oil and natural gas fields.",
"And no company exemplifies this more than Gazprom.",
"\"By reputation, it is the largest and most powerful Russian company,\" said Lev Snykov, an analyst with VTB Capital in Moscow.",
"Watch Gazprom chief Alexander Medvedev explain future strategy » .",
"But its strong-arm tactics in contract negotiations with the Ukraine -- shutting off gas supplies three times in the past four years at the height of winter -- have European Union customers looking for alternatives to their reliance on Russian natural gas.",
"The company has the world's largest distribution system of gas, maintaining 97,560 miles (157,000 kilometers) of pipelines that stretch, like Russia, from the Far East to Europe.",
"The perennial conflict with the Ukraine -- through which much of the natural gas supply of Eastern Europe flows -- is of deep concern to nations such as Germany and Greece, which depend on Russia for up to 50 percent and 90 percent of their natural gas, respectively.",
"Gazprom saw its market share in the European Union drop in the second half of 2008.",
"Gas exports from Russia to Europe dropped 33 percent in October alone, according VTB Capital.",
"\"The Ukraine conflict may have served as a catalyst for European customers to become more averse to Russian gas imports,\" says a VTB report on the Ukraine crisis.",
"The Russian economy, reliant on commodities, is suffering because of the fluctuating oil market, down from its record of nearly $150 a barrel to about $60 today.",
"As a result, Gazprom saw profits fall 84 percent in the last quarter of 2008, prompting the company to slash its dividend by 86 percent, to 11 cents a share.",
"Russia has 20 percent of the world's gas reserves, and is the single-largest producer of natural gas.",
"Gazprom posted profits of $30.8 billion last year -- down from $40 billion the year before -- and its business alone accounts for 10 percent of Russia's gross domestic product.",
"So it's no surprise that Gazprom is a pet project of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.",
"His replacement as president, Dmitry Medvedev, is a former chairman of the company.",
"Putin's \"interest in Gazprom is very deep.",
"As a journalist who writes about energy issues, I've seen him give very detailed information and knowledge about what's happening with the company and company logistics,\" said Pogorely of Interfax.",
"\"When you hear him speak, it's like you're not talking to the prime minister of Russia, but one of the top company managers.\"",
"Alexander Medvedev, deputy chief executive officer of Gazprom Exports, deflects questions about the perception that Gazprom is a tool of Russian government and energy policy.",
"Watch Medvedev explain Gazprom's plans » .",
"\"Nobody is challenging the view that Gazprom is a very special company, that we have a mixed capital structure, the majority of our shares are in the hands of the Russian government,\" he said.",
"\"But the rest are in the hands of private shareholders, including private citizens all around the world.\"",
"The company's goal is to become an energy leader with a diversified portfolio around the world, he said.",
"\"Like Alexander Ovechkin... not everyone enjoys him, but he's a leader, and we would like to perform as good as Ovechkin in hockey,\" he said, referring to the controversial Russian ice hockey star who was named Player of the Year this week by National Hockey League players.",
"That sentiment echoes how Russians feel about Gazprom.",
"A recent poll by the Public Opinion Foundation found one in five Russians under 26 would like to work for Gazprom.",
"\"In rural areas, Gazprom is dramatically important for people because of our harsh winters,\" Pogorely said.",
"\"Russians love someone big who sticks up for you.",
"OK, sometimes they may not be very nice to you.",
"But if he cares for you and makes your life better, that's OK,\" Pogorely said.",
"\"But if you're doing business in Russia, Gazprom is the power you wouldn't mess with.\""
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"Gazprom business accounts for 10 percent of Russia's gross domestic product .",
"Gazprom disputes with Ukraine has seen European nations wary of the company .",
"Russian president and prime minister show strong interest in the company ."
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"(CNN) -- World No. 1 Tiger Woods marked his first appearance in Australia in 11 years with his first tournament victory on the continent on Sunday.",
"The American bounced back from a disappointing showing on Saturday to cruise to victory by two shots at the Australian Masters despite being infuriated by an over-enthusiastic photographer at Kingston Heath in the state of Victoria.",
"The 14-time major winner's only dropped shot in his final-round four-under-par 68 came at the par-four 13th hole when he was snapped while in the middle of his approach shot.",
"\"That got me right on my downswing,\" he shouted in dismay.",
"But Woods, who was paid a reported $3 million to play in the event and was tied for the lead after 54 holes despite his 72 on Saturday, bounced back with his fifth birdie of the day at the 15th hole.",
"\"I said yesterday I was thankful I was still in the tournament, but I kept myself in it and it allowed me to go out today and go for the chance to win,\" said Woods, who attracted unprecedented crowds of more than 25,000.",
"\"It was going to be tough today.",
"I had to make some birdies early and I was able to do that and was able to keep it.\"",
"Greg Chalmers, who had also shared the lead along with fellow Australian James Nitties, also birdied 15 and followed Woods' lead by parring the last three holes to card 70 and finish second on 12-under 276.",
"Nitties finished fifth on 279 after carding four bogeys in his 73, with France's Francois Delamontagne (69) and American Jason Dufner (70) tied for third on 278.",
"Defending champion Rod Pampling carded a final-round 73 to finish tied for 14th on four-under.",
"The Australasian Tour tournament is co-sanctioned with the European Tour."
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"World No.",
"1 triumphs by two shots at the Australian Masters after closing with 68 .",
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"Woods and Chalmers had shared the lead going into final round along with James Nitties ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied in Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.",
"Demonstrators burn an American flag at a rally in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday.",
"They rallied at Firdous Square, where Hussein's statue was pulled down on April 9, 2003, shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.",
"The protesters carried Iraqi flags, religious banners and posters for al-Sadr.",
"They chanted religious songs.",
"Hazem al-Araji, a senior aide to the radical Shiite cleric, called on the Iraqi government to release all Sadrist detainees inside U.S. and Iraqi prisons.",
"Watch rally fill Baghdad streets » .",
"\"Everyone shout out loud and let all those who live inside the Black Zone and Bush, the damned, hear our voices and release the Sadrist detainees immediately,\" al-Araji said.",
"He also called on President Obama to support Iraqis and remove U.S. troops from Iraq.",
"One protester called on the \"occupation\" to get out of Iraq and, at his urging, the crowd chanted \"down, down America.\"",
"Al-Araji also called on the protesters to shout out \"No no America, No no Israel, Yes yes Iraq.\"",
"Iraqi security forces closed off the surrounding streets and a number of the bridges during the rally, which al-Sadr announced on March 21."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, museum and research facility, has launched a YouTube channel in Farsi, the primary language of Iran.",
"This is being added to the already existing channels in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and Spanish.",
"The Farsi YouTube channel contains a chronological description of the Holocaust, accompanied by video, photos, documents and artifacts.",
"It also includes the \"Auschwitz Album,\" a multimedia presentation about the infamous Nazi death camp where more than 1 million Jews were murdered during World War II.",
"Testimonies from Holocaust survivors are presented on the channel, several of whom attended the launching event held at Yad Vashem.",
"The channel also features Holocaust historians speaking about contemporary anti-Semitism.",
"\"Today, when there is so much disinformation and distortion easily available online, we provide an alternative to anyone who is interested in the truth,\" said Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem.",
"Shalev affirmed to CNN that the Farsi channel is, in part, a countermeasure against the official Holocaust denial of the Iranian regime, \"and I do believe that there are those circles inside Iranian society, we know about them, who are making many efforts to get more information about the Holocaust.\"",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned, repeatedly and publicly, whether the Holocaust actually happened.",
"He went as far as organizing a conference in Tehran on December 11, 2006, titled the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust.",
"The attendees included individuals who propagate that the Holocaust was a fabrication.",
"Ahmadinejad himself in a speech given in June 2009 referred to the murder of six million Jews as \"the great deception of the Holocaust.\"",
"Ya'acov Handeli, a survivor of Auschwitz whose testimony is included on the YouTube channel said, \"Holocaust denial exists in many countries, and that is why it is important that people will see us, the Holocaust survivors, and listen to our testimony and learn about the events of the Holocaust also in Farsi.\""
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"New channel contains a Holocaust chronology, with videos, photos, documents and artifacts .",
"Yad Vashem chairman affirms the channel, in part, targets Iran's official Holocaust denial .",
"Holocaust survivor: \"It is important that people will ... learn about the events ... also in Farsi.\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Obama told his war council Wednesday that the U.S. troop commitment to Afghanistan is not open-ended, and he asked for revisions to options he previously received for sending more troops, a senior administration official told CNN.",
"The war council -- made up of top Cabinet, Pentagon and administration officials -- met with Obama for the eighth time to discuss a request by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan for up to 40,000 more troops.",
"The meeting lasted more than two hours, according to the senior administration official.",
"\"The president and his team discussed the length of time that it would take to implement the options he's been presented,\" the senior official said.",
"\"The president believes that we need to make clear to the Afghan government that our commitment is not open-ended.",
"After years of substantial investments by the American people, governance in Afghanistan must improve in a reasonable period of time to ensure a successful transition to our Afghan partner.\"",
"In particular, Obama pushed for revisions in proposed plans for troop increases to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, the official said.",
"The president's questions at the meeting could change how many troops eventually are sent to Afghanistan, as well as how long they would be there, according to the senior administration official.",
"Before the meeting, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, said the meeting would continue evaluating how best to carry out the mission in Afghanistan.",
"Petraeus provided no specifics on options under consideration, but said the process is approaching completion.",
"\"I think we are indeed nearing a decision on this very important topic,\" he said, emphasizing the need to focus on the mission of ensuring that Afghanistan \"does not once again become a sanctuary or safe haven for al Qaeda and the kind of transnational extremists that carried out the 9/11 attacks.\"",
"Earlier, a senior administration official and a U.S. military official independently told CNN that one option presented to Obama calls for sending about 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in addition to the 68,000 already committed to the country.",
"The military official said the plan would send three U.S. Army brigades, totaling about 15,000 troops; a Marine brigade of about 8,000 troops; a headquarters element of about 7,000 troops; and 4,000 to 5,000 support troops.",
"The combat brigades would be brought in gradually, in three-month intervals, according to the military official.",
"The troops would be spread across the country, mainly focusing in the south and southeast, where much of the fighting is, according to the official.",
"The military official said the option has been a favorite at the Pentagon in recent weeks.",
"That is only one option, the senior administration official emphasized.",
"Three other options, the official said, would be \"different mixes,\" or \"different components of it.\"",
"The senior administration official said Obama was expected to ask the war council meeting about cooperation the United States can expect from the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, civilian support the United States is willing to offer, and support the United States can expect from other countries.",
"On Wednesday night, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that concerns have been raised recently by the U.S.",
"Ambassador in Kabul about Karzai's ability to rid his country's government of corruption and mismanagement.",
"All those factors could lead to \"further refinements\" or some \"greater elements being considered,\" the official said, adding: \"He's got to fine-tune this, put it all together ... for what direction best advances our interests.\"",
"Despite reports to the contrary, Obama has not decided the number of U.S. troops he will send to Afghanistan, White House officials said.",
"Such reports are \"absolutely false,\" Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.",
"Anyone who suggests otherwise, \"doesn't have, in all honesty, the slightest idea what they're talking about.\"",
"White House officials would not say whether Wednesday's meeting with the war council would be Obama's last with that group before deciding on Afghanistan.",
"They said he would continue to discuss the war effort in smaller groups in coming days, including during his trip to Asia, which starts Thursday.",
"Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee urged Obama in a letter sent Wednesday -- Veterans Day -- to agree to the request for additional troops by U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan.",
"The letter, signed by 10 GOP committee members, said success in Afghanistan will require local leaders and citizens being able to govern and secure their own country without \"substantial\" international assistance.",
"\"This won't be perfect or easy, but it will allow America's fighting men and women to leave Afghanistan with honor, and it will enable Afghans to build a better, more peaceful future,\" the letter said.",
"\"That is our goal, and we must stay in the fight until is is won.\"",
"Republican leaders have criticized Obama for taking so long to decide on the troop request, but Petraeus said the process of analyzing the situation has been \"very useful.\"",
"\"There has been a refinement of objectives; there has been discussion of various courses of action,\" he said.",
"\"There have been explanations and discussions about how the civilian component of this will complement what is done by the work of our military troops.",
"All in all, I think it has been a very productive couple of months that we have spent on this.\"",
"Also Wednesday, a new national poll showed Americans are split over whether Obama is taking too long to decide whether to send more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey also indicated that, by a narrow margin, Americans think the president should listen to the recommendations of the generals in charge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.",
"According to the survey, 49 percent of people questioned say the president is taking too long to decide whether to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan; 50 percent do not.",
"\"There is a gender gap on this question, with most men saying Obama is taking too long and most women willing to give him more time,\" CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.",
"\"That's due in part to the partisan differences between men and women, but gender differences on the use of military force, and maybe even differences in how the genders make important decisions, can also be contributing to the split.\"",
"The poll indicates that 52 percent think Obama should listen to the generals, with 48 percent saying the president should take other matters into account as well.",
"But a troop buildup remains unpopular, with a separate question indicating that a majority opposes sending more troops.",
"Roughly one in five Americans opposes more troops, yet also thinks that Obama should pay attention to the U.S. military leaders in that country, Holland said.",
"\"That suggests that a lot of people who don't support a troop build-up are unaware of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a bigger U.S. military presence there,\" he said.",
"\"And that, in turn, indicates that the military leaders in the field might provide Obama some political cover if he decides to increase troop strength there.\"",
"The poll also suggests widespread agreement among Americans that Afghanistan will never have a stable democratic government, with only one in 10 people questioned saying that will occur within a year, and one-third saying it will ever happen.",
"Overall, 56 percent of Americans oppose sending more troops, while 42 percent favor increasing troop strength.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted October 30-November 1, with 1,018 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall sample.",
"CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser and Tom Cohen contributed to this story."
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"Obama discusses options with war council Wednesday afternoon .",
"One confirmed option calls for sending about 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan .",
"Discussions include how Afghan President Hamid Karzai figures into strategy .",
"Obama has not decided the number of U.S. troops he will send, White House officials say ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini has confirmed that winger Cristiano Ronaldo has been ruled out of his side's La Liga clash with Sevilla on Sunday with an ankle injury.",
"Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo will miss his side's La Liga clash with Sevilla with an ankle injury.",
"The 24-year-old Portugal international picked up the injury in Real's 3-0 victory over Marseille in the Champions League during the week having scored twice in the game.",
"Ronaldo was keen to be involved in the clash at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, but Pellegrini revealed the club's medical staff have taken the decision to leave him out of the squad.",
"\"The only issue was Cristiano Ronaldo's ankle.",
"He tried playing yesterday and today and everyone, including the medical staff, believes he isn't ready to play,\" Pellegrini told the club's Web site.",
"\"He trained on his own but wasn't able to recover and will therefore not play tomorrow.",
"\"Cristiano's absence is significant, but we have a good squad and sufficient alternatives.\"",
"The match will be the first competitive game Ronaldo has missed a since his arrival from Manchester United for $130 million having contributed nine goals in seven games so far this season.",
"The injury is not thought to be serious and he should be involved in Portugal's World Cup qualifying clash against Hungary next weekend.",
"Pellegrini also left midfielders Lassana Diarra and Fernando Gago, striker Ruud van Nistelrooy and defender Alvaro Arbeloa out of the squad for the trip to Sevilla."
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"Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo will miss his side's clash with Sevilla .",
"Ronaldo picked up an ankle injury against Marseille in the Champions League .",
"The injury is not a serious one Ronaldo should be fit for Portugal next weekend ."
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"(CNN) -- A few dozen protesters picketed the restaurants of acclaimed chef Thomas Keller last weekend, over his use of an ingredient that has become a lightning rod in the culinary world -- foie gras.",
"Chefs like Anthony Bourdain sing its praises, calling foie gras \"one of the 10 most important flavors in gastronomy.\"",
"\"It's one of the best foods in the world for a couple of reasons, and I think it's because it has this very unique trait which is that it is on one side, extremely rich, but on the other, extremely delicate,\" Ariane Daguin, the CEO and founder of D'Artagan, a gourmet food company that started 25 years ago supplying Americans with foie gras.",
"French for \"fat liver,\" this delicacy comes from ducks and geese that are fed massive amounts of food in the last weeks of their life.",
"Foie gras is used in terrines and mousses, and by more adventurous chefs, shaved cold to add a creamy fat element to restaurant dishes.",
"The force-feeding process, called gavage, causes the animals liver to expand up to 10 times its size.",
"Anti-foie gras activists call the process cruel.",
"Producers insist it doesn't hurt the fowl.",
"\"We are the easiest target in the world for a couple of reasons, one our accent, it's called foie gras, it's a French word,\" Daguin tells CNN.",
"\"Two it's an organ. It's easy to say that we don't need a meat organ to survive or to live.",
"Three, it's expensive, so it's 'elitist,' and four, it's so easy for somebody just to take a look at the photo of the funnel inside the esophagus and to say 'Oh my god, if it were me, it would hurt.'",
"Well, you are not a duck, so it is not you, you know?",
"But it's so easy to empathize with the duck.\"",
"Foie gras has been produced by farmers since the days of ancient Egypt, when farmers discovered that the waterfowl's liver expanded in the days leading up to the bird's planned migration.",
"The liver, in the center of the bird's body, stores fat the bird traditionally uses on long migratory flights.",
"Only three farms in the United States produce foie gras.",
"D'Artagnan gets its foie gras from Hudson Valley Foie Gras, two hours north of New York City, which produces about 375,000 pounds of the delicacy a year.",
"Each foie gras sells for between $70 to $100 per lobe.",
"At Hudson Valley, ducks are raised to 12 weeks before they begin the gavage process in pens 4-feet by 6-feet with 11 ducks in each enclosure, according to Marcus Henley, the farm's operations manager.",
"Over 21 days the ducks are fed three times a day by a worker who uses a tube to fill the bird's esophagus with grain.",
"At the beginning, each bird gets about 3 ounces of food, which increases to 10 ounces by the end of the program, Henley said, noting that the esophagus can hold up to a liter of volume.",
"Each duck will yield a liver that weighs about 1.5 pounds.",
"The rest of the bird is processed for its meat, remaining organs, bones and feathers.",
"It's this feeding process that anti-foie gras protesters target with photos of the feeding tubes and banners that read \"How much cruelty can you swallow?\"",
"\"The idea that you can produce the products that we produce -- that are a delicacy -- by mistreating animals is just completely, it's inconceivable,\" Henley says.",
"\"It's not how farming is done.\"",
"Veterinarians say the bird lacks a gag reflex and their esophagus is lined with collagen, which makes it insensitive to pain.",
"The bird breathes through a hole on the tongue.",
"Still, protesters call the process a travesty.",
"\"The whole point of the production method is to create this diseased liver, which is unlike any other form of animal agriculture where you're not just growing animals to be eating, but you're also torturing the animal to grossly enlarge its organs for consumption,\" Bryan Pease, an attorney and chairman of the board of the Animal Protection and Rescue League, said.",
"Foie gras producers argue against use of the word \"diseased.\"",
"\"When we force-feed ducks and geese and we stop the force-feeding, the liver recesses to normal,\" Daguin says.",
"\"So we do not induce a sickness, we just use the natural propensity to expand the liver.\"",
"Those opposing the production of foie gras have succeeded in getting California to adopt a law that will make it illegal to serve or produce in 2012.",
"A ban on the ingredient in Chicago, adopted in 2006, was overturned by the City Council 22 months later.",
"\"The key will be both banning the sale and getting restaurants to just remove it voluntarily and not sell it,\" Pease said.",
"\"They'll always be able to find a place to produce that is going to make it be legal.",
"They'll just go to a country with no laws, like China.",
"The key is either for consumers to stop eating it or for restaurants to stop selling it.\"",
"Pease says his group has hired staff in New York to begin to target Manhattan restaurants to have them remove foie gras from the menu or face protests.",
"But foie gras producers say they're being targeted by people whose ultimate goal is a meat-free world.",
"\"There cannot be an agreement because for vegetarian activists, no farm is a good farm,\" Daguin says.",
"\"They don't want us to eat meat period.",
"So eventually, if they were to succeed, once somebody is out of the picture, the next one will be the chicken farm down the road.",
"There is no 'good' farm for activists.\"",
"Still, there may be middle ground.",
"Chef Dan Barber, inspired by the work of a Spanish foie gras producer, Eduardo Sousa, has begun experimenting with \"ethical foie gras,\" harvested from geese allowed to roam Stone Barns Center in Pocantico Hills, New York., foraging for food, according to their natural feeding cycles.",
"Daguin says that even those without an interest in the delicacy should pay attention to this fight.",
"\"What they should be interested in is making sure that the farming practices in the world are sound,\" she said.",
"\"That they are not destructive -- to me that's the most important thing.\""
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"(CNN) -- In a special report for CNN's Eye on Russia week, Moscow Correspondent Matthew Chance travels across the vast country from the northern port of Murmansk in the Arctic to the southern city of Sochi on the Black Sea.",
"Here Chance recalls some highlights from his epic journey.",
"Matthew Chance undergoes cosmonaut training at Star City.",
"Arctic Ambitions .",
"MURMANSK -- What an incredible, surprising place to begin a journey.",
"At latitudes where most other Arctic states maintain little more than a few isolated scientific outposts, Russia has an entire city of 300,000.",
"In fact, Murmansk is one of the friendlier, more pleasant cities I have ever visited in this country.",
"The northern air is rich to breathe; the strange Arctic light lends a magical glow to the landscape.",
"And there's a cafe culture!",
"We sipped cappuccinos in the Arctic Circle and made friends with locals who seemed genuinely pleased to be living in their frigid metropolis.",
"You might think Murmansk is just a freezing monument to the Soviet Union's grim determination to settle citizens across its sprawling territory at any cost.",
"But today it's as much a symbol of modern Russia's Arctic ambitions: a strong foothold in a region believed to possess vast natural resources.",
"In the global race for control of the Arctic, Murmansk is giving Russia a crucial head start.",
"Beast from the East .",
"ST. PETERSBURG -- For a day and a half, we trundled through the tundra on board the Arctic Express to St. Petersburg --- plenty of time to watch the white blankets of snow that covered the land gradually disappear.",
"But we had come to Russia's city of beauty to meet its beast.",
"Nikolai Valuev stands an incredible 7 feet tall, is a heavyweight boxing champion of the world and a Russian sporting hero.",
"He used to be known to U.S. boxing promoters as \"The Beast From The East\" -- but he didn't care much for the name.",
"Now he prefers \"The Russian Giant\" which was absolutely fine with me.",
"In fact, Valuev is disarmingly pleasant and soft-spoken.",
"He told me he had to work hard on being extra nice simply to stop people from being frightened when meeting him.",
"Now he concentrates on encouraging Russia's youth to take up boxing.",
"The country, he says, is a potential hotbed of future champions.",
"Valuev has found fame outside the ring too, starring in several Russian movies and writing a book.",
"He also writes poetry.",
"Star City . MOSCOW -- If you've got $30 million to spend, you might want to consider training to be a space tourist in Russia's Star City.",
"This is the country's biggest cosmonaut training center and the next stop on our journey.",
"Between 2010 and 2015 --- when NASA's space shuttle ends its missions, and until the new generation of U.S. craft come online -- Russia will be the only country to have manned missions into space, including to the International Space Station.",
"NASA is now sending all its astronauts here to train in the Soyuz capsule, the vehicle on which they will depend to carry them through their missions.",
"And the training is vigorous.",
"I know because someone, somehow, convinced me to sample it!",
"Ever been strapped in a centrifuge and subjected to the same G-force as a cosmonaut taking off in a Soyuz? I have, and I didn't like it."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In making \"Into the Wild,\" Emile Hirsch forded rivers in Alaska, coped with blazing desert heat and rode raging rapids in the American Southwest.",
"Emile Hirsch has starred in \"The Girl Next Door,\" \"Lords of Dogtown\" and now \"Into the Wild.\"",
"But ask him about a dangerous location he dealt with during the production of the Sean Penn film and he answers, \"South Dakota.\"",
"South Dakota?",
"It seems that Hirsch had a couple close calls while shooting scenes on a farm in the other Sunshine State.",
"At one point, while in a grain elevator set to handle 300-pound loads, Hirsch took out the pin holding the elevator in place.",
"The platform rose with such speed that it \"launched me in the air and shot wood chips all over me\" when it hit the top, he recalled.",
"\"Into the Wild,\" based on Jon Krakauer's bestselling book, is the story of Chris McCandless, whose good-natured restlessness drove him in search of soul-searching adventure.",
"Watch Hirsch talk about life on the road » .",
"As he traveled through the West and Upper Plains on his way to Alaska, McCandless met farm workers, itinerant old hippies, a philosophical old man and a variety of other people, establishing short-lived relationships as he made his way along the road.",
"At director Penn's urging, the Los Angeles-raised Hirsch (\"The Girl Next Door,\" \"Lords of Dogtown\") stayed true to McCandless' spirit throughout filming, to the point of losing more than 40 pounds off his already slight, 5-foot-7-inch frame.",
"\"That was part of the commitment of the role,\" he said.",
"But the impact of the film went beyond that, the actor said in an interview at CNN Center.",
"\"It's presumptuous to say I am changed,\" he said, but added that the shock of going from \"civilization to the middle of nowhere\" had its effect.",
"\"A lot of Hollywood seems pretty ridiculous [now],\" he said.",
"\"L.A. seems pretty goofy.\"",
"Of course, that's nothing like the shock of going from the wilds of Alaska to the green-screened studios of Berlin, Germany, where he just finished principal photography of next summer's big-budget production of \"Speed Racer.\"",
"\"There was a point where I was sitting in this green cockpit ... strapped in, getting rotated and spun around,\" he recalls, \"and I was thinking about this: I went from being in the mountains with a big grizzly bear to being strapped in ...",
"I'm not making it very easy on myself, am I,\" he recalled.",
"He describes \"Speed Racer,\" a Wachowski brothers (\"The Matrix\") film based on the 1960s cartoon as \"a really crazy, Andy Warhol-meets-'Blade Runner' kind of big colors, pop-art, really crazy special effects, very goofy movie.\"",
"With \"Into the Wild\" now safely in Hirsch's past, what he thinks about -- besides the outdoor travails -- was his work with several notable performers, including Catherine Keener, Hal Holbrook, William Hurt and Vince Vaughn.",
"\"It was so much fun to go to all of these locations and work with different actors,\" he says.",
"They didn't work with each other, he observes, but \"I had the experience of being with all of them.",
"I kind of connected them.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Hirsch recently finished principal filming for next summer's \"Speed Racer\""
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- A magistrate in Zimbabwe ruled Friday that Tendai Biti, the secretary-general of the opposition party, must face trial on charges that include treason.",
"Tendai Biti, a leading opposition figure, is facing treason charges after returning to Zimbabwe.",
"Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe said the state had enough evidence to disclose an offense against Biti, a high-ranking member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).",
"\"After a careful perusal of the submissions by both the state and defense, there is a reasonable suspicion that the accused [Biti] committed the offense,\" Guvamombe said to a full courtroom.",
"As the magistrate read the ruling, Biti -- still wearing the red jacket he wore a day earlier -- remained motionless and only shook his head before prison guards whisked him away.",
"Biti's defense team has requested he be granted bail while he awaits trial.",
"Acting Attorney General Bharat Patel was expected to decide on the request later Friday.",
"Biti faces four charges including treason, which carries the death penalty.",
"The treason charge, which the MDC said was \"trumped-up,\" stems from a document titled \"The Transitional Strategy\" that Biti is said to have written ahead of the March 29 election between President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai.",
"Biti denies he wrote the document and his lawyers have described it as \"doctored.\"",
"From the same document stem two other charges of causing dissatisfaction among the army and bringing the office of the president into disrepute.",
"The fourth charge Biti faces is communicating falsehoods prejudicial to the state by allegedly announcing that Tsvangirai had won the March presidential election by an outright majority.",
"Results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission five weeks later indicated that while Tsvangirai had beaten Mugabe, he had failed to garner a majority.",
"Watch Mugabe say he'll fight to keep is party in power » .",
"That outcome set up a runoff election, now scheduled for June 27.",
"Biti denies all the charges, which the MDC calls \"maliciously politically motivated.\"",
"The party called for Biti's immediate release.",
"\"The regime wants to frustrate both the internal cohesion of the MDC and its election campaign,\" the party said in a statement Friday.",
"\"The regime knows fully well that its time is up and is trying to postpone the inevitable -- its departure.",
"\"Come the 27th of June we will finish this regime of thugs and warlords and usher [in] a new era of jobs, health care, education and general prosperity.\"",
"African and international leaders have criticized Biti's arrest and the treason charge, characterizing it as a ploy by supporters of Mugabe to intimidate the opposition party before the runoff.",
"The MDC has claimed that Mugabe supporters have beat, kidnapped, arrested and killed supporters of their party.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Mugabe on Thursday of sponsoring efforts to starve, beat and kill supporters of his opponent so he can win next week.",
"Learn more about Zimbabwe » .",
"\"Mugabe is increasing violence against [the] opposition,\" Rice said at the UN.",
"\"President Mugabe has squandered the promise of the very nation that was hailed as the jewel of Africa.\"",
"The MDC has accused supporters of Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party of beatings, torture, and killings, saying more than 70 MDC party members have been killed since the beginning of the three-month-long election process.",
"Mugabe's party denied any part in the deaths, saying MDC officials hurl such accusations frequently."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Flo Rida wants you to call him.",
"Flo Rida's latest single, \"Right Round,\" was No.",
"1 on Billboard's pop chart for 10 weeks.",
"In an attempt to reach his fan base on a more intimate level, the Floridian rapper has made his personal cell phone number public.",
"\"If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call,\" he says.",
"\"A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail.",
"And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back.",
"Because I think that's very important.\"",
"To prove that the number he shared on camera during our interview was the real deal, he showed CNN his iPhone.",
"The device was on overdrive, constantly lighting up and vibrating with an influx of texts and calls.",
"\"Yo this is your boy Flo Rida,\" he said to one caller.",
"\"What's your name? What's good?\" But it was too much for the person on the other end -- he or she hung up before uttering a response.",
"Watch Flo Rida take a call » .",
"\"Most of them hang up,\" says Flo Rida (real name Tramar Dillard).",
"\"They don't think it's really me.\"",
"So how many calls and texts does a top-selling, in-demand rap star actually respond to?",
"\"About 30 percent,\" he says.",
"Flo Rida has been moving quickly these days.",
"His single, \"Low,\" featuring T-Pain, broke digital sales records last year, selling 467,000 downloads in its first week.",
"He's also breaking his own records: His new single \"Right Round\" sold more than 636,000 downloads in the week after its release.",
"It also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart.",
"\"Right Round\" features singer Kesha and borrows an infectious sample from the Dead or Alive hit \"You Spin me Round (Like a Record).\"",
"It can be found on Flo Rida's sophomore album, \"R.O.O.T.S.\"",
"(Atlantic), which dropped last week, only a year after the release of his debut album, \"Mail on Sunday.\"",
"Flo Rida is also scheduled to be a guest on Wednesday night's \"American Idol.\"",
"Flo Rida talked to CNN about having to record music while on the road, keeping in tune with his international fans, and being a shy guy (yeah, right!).",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN: In \"Right Round\" you sample the '80s group Dead or Alive.",
"Are you a fan of '80s music?",
"Or [do] you just like that song in particular?",
"Flo Rida: I grew up [with] seven sisters so I listened to all types of music.",
"And Dead or Alive was one of the records in particular that I've heard.",
"But my A&R [man] Mike Caren actually brought it to my attention.",
"Me putting out a sophomore album, I thought I'd broaden my horizons, show people my growth, so I got in the studio with Dr. Luke, who's the producer of the song, and we made history.",
"CNN: Seven sisters?",
"Flo Rida: Yeah.",
"I'm the youngest. And I have a twin sister.",
"I'm a twin. CNN: What does \"R.O.O.T.S.\" stand for? Flo Rida: Route of overcoming the struggle.",
"CNN: What do you mean by \"struggle\"?",
"Flo Rida: I was definitely inspired by the fact that I had a chance to go to Africa recently, did the MTV Awards there. ...",
"But going back to my neighborhood, you know, I had a lot of struggling, too, where it was a lot of drug dealing around me, killing. ...",
"But my mom always instilled in me to keep the faith, dream big and that's what I did.",
"I was a great follower of my mom, very loyal and everything.",
"And right now I'm happy that the world looks at me as a great leader as far as me doing my music and coming with a positive approach.",
"CNN: Your first hit song, \"Low,\" broke digital sales records.",
"How did that change the pace of your career?",
"Flo Rida: We had to hurry up with the album and put it out because we definitely want to keep the attention on the fact that we have a No.",
"1 record, and let that follow into having a No.",
"1 album. I'm definitely happy that on this album versus the last, there's more substance so at the same time the fans get a feel of me ... where I come from, how I got the success as well as me being the life of the party.",
"They can continue to have a smile on their faces around the world.",
"Hit the dance floor, shake it off, put your hands in the air and ... the hot ladies have my head spinning right round so I definitely had to get that album out.",
"CNN: It has barely been a year since you released your debut album, so you're really striking while the iron's hot.",
"Are you putting this pressure on yourself or is it mainly coming from outside forces?",
"Flo Rida: The most pressure came from traveling.",
"I actually found myself in hotel rooms in the bathroom, whether I was in Japan or in Sweden, recording records, trying to get an acoustic sound.",
"I definitely worked hard ... it was just a challenge as far as time goes, with me doing two -- sometimes three -- shows a night for two weeks straight.",
"I enjoy doing all the shows and performing, but at the same time all that work -- and trying to put out an album -- was definitely hectic.",
"CNN: You've worked hard to build up your overseas fan base.",
"Why is having a global audience important to you?",
"Flo Rida: It's very important ... the loyalty that they have overseas.",
"You have a No. 1 record in almost 12 different countries: To me, that's like having nine lives.",
"Most people don't even have an idea that you can really sell music overseas.",
"I always love the fact that I can do things internationally.",
"When I was going to school I took the approach that I wanted to take international business versus just taking business classes.",
"So I always had that approach prior to me doing music.",
"CNN: Are you surprised by how responsive the rest of the world is to American rap?",
"Flo Rida: Most definitely.",
"Sometimes they don't even know the language, and they can repeat a song.",
"CNN: Some might say that your music is less rap and more good-time club jams.",
"Would you agree with that?",
"Flo Rida: People can have their own thoughts of what they think it is.",
"But for the most part I'm happy that they know it's music.",
"CNN: What kind of feedback do you get when you have a hit record?",
"What do people tell you they like about it?",
"Flo Rida: At this moment everybody wants to be a rock star, so it has that vibe in it.",
"The way I ride a beat definitely gets everybody's attention.",
"And in using a Dead or Alive sample intertwined with what's going on here in the new millennium is definitely what catches everyone's attention.",
"CNN: What's your dream collaboration?",
"Who would you really like to work with?",
"Flo Rida: Andre 3000.",
"I've always been a fan of OutKast.",
"Every time they drop an album they step it up a notch.",
"And there's a lot of diversity between Andre and Big Boi.",
"CNN: What is the quirkiest thing about you?",
"Flo Rida: Most people see me on stage and they think that I'm this crazy dude, but for the most part I'm a little shy and laid back."
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"(CNN) -- If you think this is the year George Clooney will finally settle down, don't hold your breath.",
"In an interview airing on Friday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" he told both Morgan and his own father that his one marriage, to actress Talia Balsam that ended in 1993, was enough.",
"Morgan pointed out that George's father, Nick, who appeared on the show with him, had \"one of the great marriages.\"",
"Nick Clooney has been married to his wife, Nina -- George's mother -- for more than 50 years.",
"Morgan asked whether, as a parent, Nick was \"yearning for the moment\" his son would walk down the aisle.",
"Nick Clooney turned to his son and said, \"I want you to think about that.",
"I want you to think about -- we've been married -- Nina and I've been married 51 years.\"",
"\"I hate to blow your whole news story,\" said the younger Clooney, \"but I was married, so I gave it a shot.\"",
"Clooney said the \"shot\" he gave marriage ought to have \"proven how good I was at it.\"",
"Clooney also said his dad taught him that he has an inherent responsibility to share his luck and good fortune with others.",
"Clooney said his father urged him \"to help look out for people that are less fortunate than you and to challenge people that are in power.\"",
"Clooney also said his career luck came late and pointed out that his acting successes came relatively late.",
"\"I did eight television series before \"ER\" hit and if we didn't get a Thursday night at 10 o'clock time slot, you know, I wouldn't have the career that I have.\"",
"When Morgan asked Clooney if he was considering following in the footsteps of other Hollywood A-listers who ventured into the political arena, the actor dashed any hopes of a President George Clooney: \"Honestly, my job is as good as they get.\"",
"\"I think that I am best suited as an advocate for issues,\" said Clooney.",
"\"And I look to people who are far smarter and far better at this than I am to lead.\"",
"His primary issue now is the situation in Sudan.",
"Earlier this month, Clooney continued his ongoing humanitarian efforts to shed light on deadly violence in the troubled border area of Abyei.",
"Clooney was a firsthand witness to the voting process that will most likely lead to independence for Southern Sudan.",
"Clooney also told Morgan he contracted malaria while in Sudan, but said he's no longer infected with the disease, and even made light of the situation, saying, \"Even with malaria, it's just good fun.\"",
"Clooney, who has been infected with malaria twice, joked, \"I guess the mosquito in Juba looked at me and thought I was the bar.\"",
"When Morgan asked whether Clooney gets angry when people say he's wasting his time in Sudan and that his charity work is for \"self-aggrandizing reasons,\" Clooney told Morgan, \"I don't need to be more famous.\"",
"\"I've got all the attention I need,\" Clooney continued, \"and I'm just trying to use that attention on other people.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"He says if not for \"ER's\" 10 p.m. time slot, \"I wouldn't have the career that I have\"\nClooney contacted malaria on a humanitarian trip to Sudan in early January .",
"Watch the full George Clooney interview on \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" 9pm ET ."
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"LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- A Nigerian militant group tangling with government forces in the country's southern oil-producing region declared \"an all-out war\" Friday after what it said was a deadly bombing raid on civilians.",
"Militants from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta have declared war on Nigerian troops.",
"The military, meanwhile, pressed ahead against the fighters, wresting control of a hijacked tanker and capturing a militant stronghold.",
"The developments are the latest in the escalating hostilities between the government and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which demands that more of the country's oil wealth be reinvested in the region instead of enriching those whom the militants consider corrupt politicians .",
"In e-mail messages to reporters, the militant group said it sank six army gunboats, destroyed three others and captured three in the restive Niger Delta region.",
"\"Many soldiers have been killed, and the military has made a hasty retreat,\" said the group, which is calling on \"men of fighting age to enlist\" in its battle against government forces.",
"Also, the group said, it had captured personnel from a Nigerian warship deployed from Liberia to help the military and was \"in the process\" of torching the vessel.",
"\"We have some casualties on our side, obviously,\" a militant spokesman said.",
"\"Obviously, the battle is more serious as night comes.\"",
"Col. Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for the Nigerian military's joint task force, confirmed exchanges of fire between government forces and militants and reported the seizure of a militant camp, saying one soldier was wounded and the militants \"suffered a lot of casualties.\"",
"The troops are conducting cordon-and-search operations designed to nab militants in their suspected hideouts along the southern region's creeks.",
"Abubakar said that the military conducted a successful \"rescue\" mission of a recently hijacked oil condensate tanker, and that the captain and the crew, some foreign, were safe.",
"The militant group said Nigerian troops fired stray bullets that killed a Filipino \"hostage\" on the ship in Delta state, but the Nigerian military couldn't confirm the killing of a \"foreign hostage.\"",
"The violence, which has included attacks on pipelines and hostage-taking, has limited shipment of crude oil supplies out of Nigeria.",
"The militant group said Friday the country's armed forces conducted \"indiscriminate aerial bombardment on the defenseless civilians in the Gbaramatu area of Delta state.\"",
"It said the strikes were punishment \"for the humiliating defeat\" of the army in raids on two militant camps Wednesday.",
"\"Casualties are mostly women, children and the elderly who could not get away quickly into the bush or high sea,\" the militant group said.",
"It also repeated its \"directive\" for oil companies in the region to \"evacuate by the deadline of midnight today and cease oil production until further notice.\"",
"The military made reference to the directive, saying it is responding to attacks on troops, hijackings of vessels and threats to innocent people, such as the \"expatriates who were given ultimatum to leave the region by the militants.\"",
"It characterized the various claims by the militants as \"propaganda.\"",
"\"We are not at war with any individuals or groups in the region,\" Abubakar said.",
"\"Ours is to protect lives and property and also to rid the region of criminals who hide under the guise of struggle agenda to perpetrate crime.\"",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) -- A 19th-century artwork by French artist Edgar Degas will be handed back to the French government Friday -- nearly four decades after it was stolen.",
"The painting, \"Blanchisseuses souffrant des dent\" (\"Laundry Women with Toothache,\") was taken in 1973 from the Malraux Museum in Le Havre, in Normandy, France, the U.S. District Attorney in Eastern New York said.",
"It had been on loan from the French government, which considers the painting a national treasure.",
"The piece did not resurface until October this year when it appeared in a catalog from the auction house Sotheby's, it said.",
"The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the French government will take part in a repatriation ceremony at 1 p.m. at the French ambassador's residence in Washington D.C. to return the painting.",
"U.S. customs officials, working with authorities from INTERPOL, said the painting was consigned to French art collector Ronald Grelsamer.",
"Grelsamer said his father gave him the painting as a gift, but was unaware that it was stolen, the statement said.",
"Sotheby's said they had nothing indicating that the painting was stolen, saying it did not appear in any of its lost art databases, said company spokeswoman Diana Phillips.",
"The auction house had a longstanding relationship with Grelsamer without incident, she added.",
"\"Sotheby's is happy to have been able to be involved in this discovery, and we are pleased that this painting will be returned to the government of France,\" Phillips said.",
"The U.S. District Attorney office says that Greslamer intends to seek compensation for the painting.",
"\"The return of this masterpiece to the French government reflects our commitment to ensure the return of stolen artwork and cultural patrimony,\" it said in a written statement.",
"The 6.25-inch-by-8.5-inch piece -- painted between 1870 and 1872 -- has an estimated value of $350,000 to $450,000, the statement said, quoting the company catalogue.",
"The painting reflects a break from the academic focus of Degas' early years when he dedicated himself to the \"search for the essence of modern life,\" said Sotheby's spokeswoman Lauren Gioai.",
"\"The 1870s gave rise to some of Degas most celebrated works,\" she said."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Former President George H.W.",
"Bush is getting his old foreign policy team back together on the 20th anniversary of the Gulf War.",
"The reunion is being held on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, where the Bush presidential library is located.",
"A roundtable discussion by the Bush team is expected to include the 41st president, former vice presidents Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney, who was secretary of the defense at the time, and former secretaries of state James Baker and Colin Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.",
"Iraq invaded on August 1990, declaring Kuwait its 19th province.",
"The United States led a counter-offensive starting January 16, 1991.",
"The United Nations lifted Saddam-era sanctions against Iraq in December, a largely symbolic step toward Iraq regaining full sovereignty and its status in the international community.",
"More than 1,000 people -- or their remains -- are still missing, including Iraqis, Kuwaitis and others.",
"Iraq is also continuing to pay off its war reparations to its neighbor.",
"Baghdad says it has paid about $30 billion to date and still has to pay more than $20 billion more.",
"The money is deducted from Iraq's main income, oil revenues."
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"(CNN) -- It could be argued when Tony Blair left the office of Prime Minister in June, his parting from the public stage was mourned by few but chief among those mourners were Britain's satirists.",
"The characteristics of the Blair government with its emphasis on spin and sound bites created a wealth of material for top British satirist Craig Brown.",
"Dubbed \"the wittiest writer in Britain today,\" by comedian Stephen Fry, Brown's new book The Tony Years celebrates a decade of satire that Brown thought would never end.",
"He writes: \"For years, he seemed so permanent; it was hard to imagine that Tony Blair would one day become a forgotten figure, like Harold Wilson or Sir Anthony Eden.",
"He seemed more ubiquitous than Mrs. Thatcher in her prime.",
"Perhaps this was because she was so unique (or so peculiar, according to one's taste) while Tony was an archetype, a familiar figure from all our pasts: the eager boy with his hand in the air throughout double maths; the well-spoken estate agent; the energetic youth leader, full of exciting new ways to cross a river.\"",
"Brown has been satirizing British politicians and celebrities for almost 30 years in a variety of publications from The Spectator to the Guardian.",
"He writes regular satirical columns in both the Daily Telegraph and Private Eye where targets are as disparate as feminist Germaine Greer, 'glamour model' and author Jordon and playwright Harold Pinter.",
"While Brown's writing is consistently witty, clever and often laugh out loud funny, Brown himself is softly spoken and self deprecating.",
"\"I'm not actually funny in real life,\" he says.",
"\"Usually people can do one of the two (write with humor or speak with humor) there are hardly any people who can do both like Stephen Fry.\"",
"Occasionally Brown will perform his work before an audience, which he enjoys (\"I rather like reading my parodies out.",
"There nothing like having an audience laughing\") but the life of a satirical writer is often one that's quite isolated from his audience.",
"Instead he is quite happy working from his home in the country and keeping a low profile.",
"He admits to only visiting the offices of employer, The Daily Telegraph twice (\"I never know quite what to do with myself in an office\") and spending a large part of the day in his pajamas.",
"He even shy's away from calling himself a satirist -- a term he thinks has become loaded: \"I used to think of myself as a satirist but satirists are people who really want to be politicians.",
"Satire is an unfunny form of humor and it has an agenda that works against the comedy.",
"Satirists think they can change the world, and that's an illusion.\"",
"Part of success as a satirists (or humorists as some like to be called) is to capture the not just the personality they are satirizing but the zeitgeist of the times.",
"For Brown part of the zeitgeist of the Blair years are CCTV, ASBOs, binge drinking, the acceleration of the cult of celebrity but most of all spin: \"Publicity was all: privacy dwindled.\"",
"The thirst for spin extended to unlikely quarters observes Brown: \"I couldn't believe it when the Freemasons appointed a PR -- even a secret society wants to raise the profile.",
"Peculiar but also funny.\"",
"\"As for Blair -- there were things about him that were very funny.",
"There was the spin which John Major hadn't developed and that's always funny -- its also funny parodying conference speeches.",
"They are always parodied baby-talk, lower than banal -- those were funny with Blair.\"",
"Brown parodies New Labour's conference speak in The Tony Years as sounding like this: \"I believe in Britain.",
"Great! A country with a great history.",
"Great!... I want a Britain that we can all feel part of.",
"I want a Britain in which what I want for my own children I want for yours- but only after I have got it for mine.\"",
"Brown's inclination towards satire started young.",
"A pupil at Eton, he coped with being away from home at a young age by mimicking teachers.",
"\"I was at a boarding school since I was 7 and I had a tape recorder: all the people you are terrified of you can reduce.",
"We did their voices and dramatizations.",
"English prep schools when you're very young and you are threatened by these very gothic figures; it's (mimicking) a way of reducing people.\"",
"Over the years his parodies have hit the mark, sometimes a bit too closely.",
"One target, Germaine Greer \"was very touchy when I first met her (but) angry people are always funny to parody.\"",
"He says the journalists he has parodied \"are more touchy than politicians.",
"Politicians are aware they are being hated from the moment they are elected.\"",
"But Brown doesn't feel guilty about upsetting his targets.",
"News reporting has the capacity to inflict greater wounds, says Brown.",
"\"Other forms of journalism are more hurtful.",
"The raw materials of journalism can hurt people a lot more.",
"The act of printing is the original hurt and the gags come later.",
"I used to worry if the targets liked or disliked them -- now it doesn't matter.",
"Now it doesn't matter if they like it or not.\"",
"Brown admires satirists that reduce things \"to the essence of itself.\"",
"He's keeping an eye on new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who will present different challenges from Blair: \"I think Gordon Brown has an anger in him.",
"Everyone says how awkward and controlling he is -- it will surface soon.\"",
"And the satire won't be too far behind.",
"The Tony Years by Craig Brown (Random House) RRP £7.99 E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- The world's top-ranked women's tennis players, Caroline Wozniacki and Vera Zvonareva, have crashed out of the Australian Open warm-up event in Sydney in their opening matches.",
"After receiving a bye in the first round, Danish top seed Wozniacki won just six games as her Slovakian opponent Dominika Cibulkova cruised to a straight-sets 6-3 6-3 win on Tuesday.",
"Russian second seed Zvonareva -- winner of last week's Hong Kong Classic exhibition event -- put up more of a fight in her first match against Italy's Flavia Pennetta, but eventually succumbed 7-5 7-5 to the world number 24.",
"The results are a blow to both players' preparations for the Australian Open, the first grand slam of this year beginning in Melbourne on January 17.",
"Poland-born Wozniacki had won her last nine sets against Cibulkova, but the world number 32 made a quick start, breaking serve in the opening game before taking the first set.",
"After trailing 2-3 in the second, she took four straight games to secure her first win over Wozniacki, who is attempting to cement her place as the world's best player with her first grand slam victory in 2011.",
"She lost in the fourth round in Melbourne last year.",
"\"At the start of the new season you need to get into match play.",
"I didn't feel I was playing great tennis out there,\" the 20-year-old Wozniacki told the official WTA Tour website.",
"\"Now I just need to get some training matches, head to Melbourne and get ready for the Australian Open.",
"Last year I had the same start, so hopefully slow start, good finish.\"",
"Wimbledon and U.S. Open finalist Zvonareva could now drop a place in the rankings next week after her defeat by former top-10 player Pennetta.",
"Belgian third seed Kim Clijsters, who booked her place in the quarterfinals with a straight-sets win over the Czech Republic's Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, would replace Zvonareva as world number two if she progresses further in the tournament.",
"The triple U.S. Open champion next faces seventh seed Victoria Azarenka, following the Belarusian's 7-5 6-3 triumph over Israel's Shahar Peer.",
"In the other women's second-round matches completed on Tuesday, China's Li Na battled past French qualifier Virginie Razzano 6-4 1-6 6-4.",
"The eighth seed set up a third-round meeting with Russia's former world number two Svetlana Kuznetsova, who upset home favorite and fourth seed Sam Stosur in three sets.",
"In the men's draw, past Sydney finalist and former top-20 player Juan Ignacio Chela recorded his first win at the event in eight years beating Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic in three sets.",
"The Argentine's next opponent will be France's Richard Gasquet after the fifth seed claimed a late-night straight sets victory over Australia's Matthew Ebden.",
"In other completed first round matches, number seven seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain beat home favorite Chris Guccione.",
"And Italy's Potito Starace and Andreas Seppi defeated Julien Benneteau of France Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan respectively.",
"On Monday, former world number five Juan Martin Del Potro returned to winning ways with a first-round win.",
"The Argentine overcame Spanish sixth seed Feliciano Lopez in three tie break sets to book a second round tie with Germany's Florian Mayer.",
"At the ATP event in Auckland, New Zealand on Tuesday, Argentine former world number three David Nalbandian beat Italy's Fabio Fognini in straight sets to get his 2011 campaign off to a winning start.",
"The 29-year-old 2001 Wimbledon finalist will face Phillip Petzschner in the second round after the German knocked out Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Two Egyptians allegedly tried to set themselves on fire but security guards stopped them from carrying out the acts, an Egyptian Interior Ministry official confirmed to CNN Wednesday.",
"The incidents occurred in Cairo Tuesday, and both men were arrested on suspicion of trying to burn themselves.",
"Sayed Ali Sayed, a 65-year-old retired accountant, was stopped outside the Egyptian parliament building by guards who found him carrying gas canisters, said the official, who wants to remain anonymous because he's not authorized to speak to the media.",
"Sayed's motives are not known.",
"Mohamed Ashour Mohamed, a 53-year-old former EgyptAir employee, attempted to set himself ablaze in protest to being fired three years ago.",
"The man said a court order to give him his job back was never enforced, the official said.",
"The men's attempts are the latest in a series of self-immolation incidents that began last month in restive Tunisia, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old unemployed college graduate, set himself on fire after police took away his fruit cart.",
"Since then, more such incidents are being reported from other countries such as Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania -- where other people are turning to self-immolation, some for apparent social and personal reasons.",
"In an incident Monday night, Ahmed Hashem Sayed, a 25-year-old unemployed construction worker in Alexandria, Egypt, slashed his wrists, set himself on fire, and died of his injuries, the Egyptian Interior Ministry official said.",
"Two others in Egypt were injured in self-immolation attempts, one on Tuesday and the other on Monday.",
"News reports from Mauritania say a man set himself on fire Monday in front of the presidential palace.",
"In Algeria, security officials said Sunday that three people set themselves on fire.",
"Riots and demonstrations have erupted in Algeria in recent weeks due to the rising cost of food, unemployment and housing issues."
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"HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- A man named Ernesto pressed an old-fashioned radio to his ear, listening to a baseball game roughly 5,000 miles away.",
"Ernesto listens to the Baseball World Cup gold medal game by radio in Havana.",
"The U.S. beat Cuba 10-5.",
"\"Oh, it's already over,\" he groaned, listening to the staccato play-by-play of Sunday's Baseball World Cup championship.",
"In the gold-medal game, played in Nettuno, Italy, team USA defeated Cuba, 10-5, to wrap up the World Cup played this year throughout Europe.",
"In the winning country, that news likely was overshadowed in most places by Major League Baseball, professional football, or dozens of other sports stories that developed on Sunday.",
"But in Cuba, where baseball is as much a source of national pride as it is a game, the Baseball World Cup was big news.",
"Reverberations of that last out in Italy could be felt as far away as Havana's central park, where a daily gaggle of baseball fans often provide for the country's liveliest debate.",
"\"The American pitching was strong,\" said Ernesto, still listening to the crackle and pop of his radio.",
"\"But Cuban batters were not as good,\" he added.",
"For the widely anticipated match-up, Havana residents holed up in their homes Sunday afternoon to watch their national team take on their northern neighbor on TV.",
"Those without televisions huddled around a small radio in the capital's central park, appearing to hang on every broadcasted pitch.",
"\"Strike three!\"",
"the radio sputtered as another Cuban batter was retired by U.S. starter Cory Luebke, who tallied seven strike-outs in four-and-a-third innings.",
"He prompted a near-unison groan among the group.",
"The United States, led by Los Angeles Dodgers prospect Lucas May, scored early and often as May put the Americans ahead with a second inning three-run home run.",
"The Cubans refused to go quietly, rallying in the fourth inning and scoring two runs on three singles.",
"A two-run blast by Cuban first baseman Ariel Borrero in the sixth inning tied the game at 4-4 before a salvo of U.S. hits in the seventh drove in six runs, enough to secure the American win.",
"For team USA, the contest capped a 14-game winning streak that began after a first-round loss to Venezuela.",
"Sunday's win is only the fourth U.S. championship in World Cup competition, with Americans having previously earned gold in 1973, 1974 and 2007.",
"For the Cubans, whose teams have brought home gold in 25 of the last 30 Baseball World Cup championships their country has played in, it was time to start looking ahead in quintessential baseball philosophy.",
"\"They won it this year, but we will win it the next,\" said one Havana resident who declined to give his name.",
"Long a baseball powerhouse, Cuba has never finished out of the top three in World Cup competition, according to International Baseball Federation spokesman Jake Fehling.",
"But million-dollar contracts in professional baseball often have lured away top Cuban prospects and depleted national team talent, pulling star athletes such as Orlando \"El Duque\" Hernandez and Jose Contreras away from state salaries at home.",
"Cuban pitcher Ardoldis Chapman, who defected in July during a national trip to the Netherlands, is the latest example of top Cuban players seeking the bigger payoffs of major-league salaries.",
"Chapman, a lefty who reportedly throws over 100 mph, has sparked rumors of a potential bidding war among top major-league franchises.",
"Residents in Havana's central park, however, were unwilling Sunday to say more than a few words about the loss of star talent.",
"\"If they leave, they leave,\" Ernesto said, still clinging to his radio.",
"Players come and go, but in Cuba, baseball -- and baseball talk -- is one steadying constant.",
"And in Havana's central park, the talk of Sunday's game -- the talk of baseball -- buzzed on, long after the last pitch was thrown."
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"(CNN) -- Issam Al-Chalabi worked as Iraqi oil minister from March of 1987 to October 1990.",
"He left Iraq shortly after the invasion by Saddam Hussein of Kuwait in August 1990 and retired from government service in 1991.",
"Since then he has been working as a consultant in Amman, Jordan.",
"John Defterios caught up with Mr Chalabi at the Oil and Money Conference in London this week to ask him about what's driving surging oil prices, the future of the Iraq Oil Industry, and tensions in the region.",
"Issam Al-Chalabi: None of us had expected that £93 would be reached so quickly.",
"There had been some speculation that maybe $100 is achievable but I think it has happened too fast within the past few weeks.",
"It is related to so many factors, so many elements and so many reasons.",
"You cannot just say that it is a result of the value of the dollar.",
"Definitely it is one hell of a factor because the value of the dollar has depreciated compared with six major currencies in the world.",
"John Defterios: But let's take a look first at demand here.",
"Some economists are scaling down their expectations for growth in the U.S. and in Europe.",
"Is the demand outside of the G8 strong enough to underpin the prices that we see today?",
"IC: Yes of course, everybody now is talking about the increasing quantities and demand from China and India.",
"China will certainly consume as much oil as the United States, maybe in 2020.",
"The same thing with India.",
"The rate of growth is increasing tremendously.",
"And there is going to be a strong demand in general, maybe not as much from Europe and the G8 countries, but definitely from the new giants.",
"JD: What is your biggest concern politically in the region right now?",
"We're talking about tensions between Turkey and Northern Iraq and the Kurdish region.",
"And you say there is not a lot of production coming out of that area, but the tensions could overspill into Iran.",
"What's the potential down for here? IC: I don't think that the tension between Turkey and the Kurds will have much influence on the price of oil.",
"But Iran, with the question of the nuclear file and the possibility of the U.S. taking military action against Iran, that is a possibility.",
"Why? Because you have about 18 to 20 million barrels a day that are being exported through the Gulf.",
"And whether Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz or they retaliate by attacking some oil installations in the region, then you have 18 or 20 million barrels a day off the market.",
"If this happens, don't be surprised if you reach $150 or even $200.",
"JD: In Iraq right now, they're talking about a national oil law.",
"That's in draft form.",
"Will that actually be the subject that breaks Iraq apart?",
"IC: Oil certainly could be one major element.",
"If the politicians who are running the country now go ahead and try to divide the oil wealth among various regions as they had drafted in the revenue-sharing law, then I would say that is going to lead to the break up of the country.",
"JD: Meanwhile we have different regions like the Kurdish region signing contracts with U.S. and European oil companies for production agreements.",
"Will these contracts be recognized in the next year as valid?",
"IC: They started, or in fact they never stopped, negotiations with a number of companies.",
"So within the last four or five weeks, they have signed five different contracts.",
"One of them is American, and that's the one that made the news, and that is Hunt Oil.",
"And all these contracts, according to the central government, are illegal.",
"This is because they have not been done with the blessing of the central government.",
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"Future demand for oil, he says, will be spurred by growth in India and China .",
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"(CNN) -- The Jonas Brothers have canceled a planned concert in Monterrey, Mexico, they announced Thursday, following an outbreak of drug-related violence there.",
"The pop trio said they were saddened not to be going through with the show, scheduled for October 21.",
"\"While they wish to apologize to everyone who planned to attend the concert, this difficult decision was made out of their great affection and concern for their loyal fans in the region,\" their management said in a statement.",
"The Disney-backed boy band will go ahead with concerts in Guadalajara on October 23 and Mexico City the following day, the statement said.",
"Monterrey tickets can be exchanged for tickets to those concerts or refunded at the place of purchase.",
"Moneterrey has seen a wave of violence as rival drug gangs battle each other and the police.",
"There have been at least three grenade attacks this month.",
"One was thrown at a police station on October 10, wounding four police officers.",
"Fourteen people, including eight children, were injured when a grenade was thrown in a public square in front of a city hall on October 3, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing local officials.",
"At least three grenades were thrown in the vicinity of the U.S. consulate in Monterrey late on October 1, a consulate employee told CNN the next morning.",
"The consulate does not appear to have been the target.",
"A local newspaper reported that a guard at a local courthouse was injured by shrapnel in that incident.",
"Monterrey is one of Mexico's leading business centers.",
"It is the capital of the state of Nuevo Leon, which has witnessed much violence as rival drug cartels fight with each other over lucrative smuggling routes and with the federal authorities."
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"The boy band said the \"difficult decision was made out of their great affection and concern for fans\""
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"(CNN) -- Longtime film critic Roger Ebert, who lost much of his jaw to thyroid cancer, will show off his new face -- thanks to a prosthesis -- when his PBS show debuts this weekend.",
"The creators of the prosthesis \"did a pretty wonderful damn job,\" Ebert wrote in his online blog, which provided a few photos.",
"\"I like my new prosthesis and know from observation their work was painstaking and done with love and care.\"",
"The process of crafting the silicone prosthesis and matching it to his face and features took about two years, Ebert said.",
"The effort was led by Dr. David J. Reisberg.",
"Since the cancer, Chicago-based Ebert, 68, has been unable to speak or eat conventionally.",
"He has used various text-to-speech technologies to provide a voice.",
"According to \"Entertainment Tonight,\" the Chicago Sun-Times critic is producing and will appear in brief segments in his new show \"Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies,\" which launches on PBS stations nationwide.",
"\"I will wear the prosthesis on the new television show,\" Ebert wrote in a Wednesday evening post entitled \"Leading with my chin.\"",
"\"That's not to fool anyone, because my appearance is widely known,\" said Ebert, who appeared with the late Gene Siskel on a movie review show for more than 20 years.",
"\"It will be used in a medium shot of me working in my office, and will be a pleasant reminder of the person I was for 64 years.\"",
"Ebert wrote he initially assumed he would wear the prosthesis all the time when he leaves the house.",
"But his thoughts have changed, in part because people know what he looks like beneath the feature.",
"\"And something else has happened since that day in the hospital: I accept the way I look.",
"Lord knows I paid the dues.\""
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- A Mexican singer who is accused of raping a teen is scheduled to testify Saturday, state media reported.",
"Pop star Kalimba will testify in a private hearing before a judge in the state of Quintana Roo, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.",
"Prosecutors allege he raped a 17-year-old girl in a hotel there in December.",
"His attorney, Rodrigo Cejudo, told Notimex that the singer is calm and confident because he is innocent.",
"On Thursday, the singer, whose full name is Kalimba Marichal Ibar, was deported from the United States to Mexico after an immigration violation in El Paso, Texas, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Ramiro Cordero said.",
"The 28-year-old singer is a former member of the group OV7, and also was the voice of Simba in a Spanish version of Disney's \"The Lion King.\"",
"He is in custody in a prison in Chetumal, Mexico, Notimex said."
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"The state-run Notimex news agency says Kalimba will testify in a private hearing Saturday .",
"He is accused of raping a teen in a hotel in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo .",
"His attorney says Kalimba is calm and confident because he is innocent ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich returned to the top of the Bundesliga for the first time since May 2008 with a 2-0 victory at home to Hoffenheim on Friday night in the first match after the German winter break.",
"Louis van Gaal's team climbed a point above halfway leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who host Mainz on Saturday.",
"Third-placed Schalke can also move above Bayern with victory at home to second-bottom Nuremberg on Sunday.",
"Van Gaal was again without the services of playmaker Franck Ribery, who is expected to return from injury in the trip to Werder Bremen next weekend, but the club insisted before the match that all efforts will be made to keep the France star, a reported target of Real Madrid and Chelsea.",
"But Dutch forward Arjen Robben was fit to start as 21-time league champions Bayern continued the form that saw them win six consecutive matches at the end of last year, while captain Mark Van Bommel returned from suspension in front of a capacity 69,000 crowd at the Allianz Arena.",
"Argentina defender Martin Demichelis opened the scoring in the 35th minute, with the center-back stabbing home from close range after Hoffenheim's Josip Simunic headed a cross from Bastian Schweinsteiger into his path.",
"Germany striker Miroslav Klose came off the bench to replace the injured Ivica Olic and score his first league goal in nine months.",
"With four minutes of regulation time remaining, he guided a speculative shot from Van Bommel into the net after the midfielder was set up by Robben.",
"Mario Gomez, who started up front with Olic, had a miserable match as he hit the post in stoppage time to add to four earlier misses.",
"Hoffenheim, who topped the table 12 months ago before an alarming slump in form that saw them miss out on a place in Europe, were left in seventh place with 25 points from 18 matches -- 11 adrift of Bayern."
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"Bayern Munich return to the top of Bundesliga table for first time since May 2008 .",
"Louis Van Gaal's team win 2-0 at home Hoffenheim in first match after winter break .",
"Martin Demichelis scores opener in 35th minute and Miroslav Klose adds late second .",
"Hoffenheim were left in seventh place with 25 points from 18 matches, 11 adrift of Bayern ."
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"(CNN) -- The Venezuelan government initiated a new charge against a private television broadcaster and said that 29 additional radio stations would soon be closed, the latest move in what critics call a crackdown on freedom of expression.",
"Demonstrators hold up a picture of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a pro-Chavez rally on Saturday.",
"The Saturday announcement by Minister of Public Works and Housing Diosdado Cabello, who oversees the state telecommunications regulator, came at a counter-rally to marches protesting the hardline tactics of President Hugo Chavez.",
"Friday's marches against Chavez were in part to protest the government's closure of 32 radio stations and two television broadcasters last month.",
"The government said the stations were shut down for violations relating to their broadcast licenses.",
"Critics say the president was clamping down on critical press.",
"\"There are 29 [radio stations] that will be off the air shortly,\" Cabello said at Saturday's pro-Chavez rally.",
"Cabello also announced a new legal complaint against television broadcaster Globovision as a sanction for allegedly calling for a coup against Chavez during its coverage of Friday's rallies.",
"Globovision carried text messages from viewers on a ticker on the bottom of the screen during the anti-Chavez protests that called for an overthrow of the government, Cabello said.",
"\"If you call for a coup, if you call for assassination, assume your responsibility,\" he said.",
"The government has already initiated a number of charges against Globovision.",
"The station, known for being critical of Chavez, is being investigated for breaking a law on \"social responsibility\" on some programs on certain dates.",
"The station violated a statute that makes it illegal to utilize telecommunication channels to further criminal acts, the government alleges.",
"Venezuelan authorities had also opened an investigation into whether Globovision broke the law May 4 when it reported about an earthquake before an official report had been issued on the matter.",
"Two other investigations had previously been launched against the station.",
"The relationship between privately-owned media in Venezuela and the leftist Chavez have never been rosy.",
"Chavez has accused private television stations of supporting his brief ouster in 2002, and the president was a driving force behind denying a license renewal in 2007 to one broadcaster he said cooperated with the opposition."
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"Venezuela says 29 more radio stations to be closed; 32 already shut down .",
"Minister also announces new charges against TV station critical of president .",
"Critics say President Hugo Chavez' government is trying to silence press criticism .",
"Announcements come at pro-Chavez rally, countering anti-Chavez rallies on Friday ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's parliament has passed a $58.8 billion budget for 2009 after cutting $3.2 billion from government spending because of weak oil prices, a Iraqi lawmaker said.",
"The Iraqi presidential council, including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, still must approve the spending plan.",
"The three-member Iraqi presidential council, including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies, still needs to approve the spending plan.",
"The budget, adopted Thursday, was calculated based on $50 a barrel, said Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman.",
"Crude oil currently is trading around $44 a barrel, and Iraq's oil-dominated economy has taken a beating due to the world financial downturn.",
"According to the Iraqi parliament Web site, Iraq still would expect to run up a deficit in 2009 of about $15 billion.",
"The original budget proposals made in July totaled $79 billion.",
"As a part of the trimming of government spending, Othman said that the Iraqi parliament voted to reduce the salaries of key officials by 20 percent.",
"Those affected include members of the presidential council, including the speaker of the parliament and his two deputies, the Iraqi president and his two vice presidents, the prime minister and his two deputies and the chairman of the judiciary council and his two deputies.",
"The Iraqi parliament also voted to cut lawmakers' own salaries by 10 percent.",
"The 10 percent cut also will affect other high-ranking government officials.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Weak oil prices force $3.2 billion cut in spending, Kurdish lawmaker says .",
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"RITTMAN, Ohio (CNN) -- Donna Zovko walks to her son's grave.",
"Tears stream down her face and she begins trembling amid a steady rain.",
"She kisses her right hand and with it strokes her boy's headstone.",
"Donna Zovko stands next to her son's headstone.",
"A wreath with 36 roses marks Jerry Zovko's birthday.",
"Three and a half years ago, she watched on TV as the bodies of her oldest son, Jerry Zovko, and three of his Blackwater colleagues were dragged through the streets of the Iraqi city of Falluja, burned and mutilated.",
"As horrifying as the pictures are, Donna Zovko -- a Catholic -- finds comfort in an image of her son's body before the mobs got to him.",
"His eyes were closed, his mouth open, as if he were calling God \"to take his soul.\"",
"\"I just hope that he was referring to the Holy Mother or calling God to help him,\" she says, just steps from where her son is buried.",
"Watch remembering \"my Jerry\" » .",
"Donna Zovko also hopes that she will get some answers as to how -- and why -- her son died.",
"Blackwater officials have not been forthcoming, she says.",
"After seeing Donna Zovko's story on CNN, Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince said of her: \"I would be willing to meet with her without media present, out of fear of it becoming a media circus.\"",
"Donna Zovko would welcome such a meeting.",
"\"I would like that.",
"It would be one of my prayers answered.",
"Maybe he'll tell me the truth,\" she says.",
"Then, she adds: \"Why does it have to be 44 months before they tell us anything?\"",
"Watch a mom's message to Erik Prince: \"Tell the truth\" » .",
"Two weeks ago, on October 26, Donna Zovko was at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery to celebrate her son's birthday.",
"A wreath adorned with 36 white roses -- 32 for his years alive and four for the birthdays he's missed -- stood next to the grave.",
"Three yellow roses sat next to the headstone with a hand-written note: \"Happy Birthday Jerry.\"",
"\"I miss him more today than yesterday.",
"But I love being here,\" his mother said.",
"Jerry Zovko, a former Army Ranger, had gone to Iraq as a security contractor to train Iraqi soldiers.",
"When that contract ended in late 2003, he signed on with a different company, Blackwater, according to his mother.",
"On the mission in Falluja, he and his comrades Scott Helvenston, Mike Teague and Wesley Batalona were killed when they were ambushed in their two vehicles as they escorted three empty flatbed trucks.",
"It was the death of Zovko and his comrades that led to the first major U.S. offensive in Falluja, lasting three weeks, and killing 36 U.S. servicemen.",
"Donna Zovko, a Croatian immigrant whose original name is Danica, told CNN.com that Blackwater chief Prince paid a personal visit to her to inform her of her son's death.",
"He also attended the funeral, and the company held a memorial service for her son and the other slain guards.",
"After that ceremony, she said, she and her family were taken to a private room where they pressed for more details about the events surrounding her son's death.",
"She said she didn't get answers.",
"A congressional committee had a similar complaint about Blackwater not being forthcoming.",
"In late September, the House Oversight Committee released a report on the deaths of Zovko and his three colleagues, saying Blackwater had \"delayed and impeded\" its investigation of the killings.",
"\"Blackwater agreed to the Falluja mission before its contract officially began, ignored multiple warnings about the risks involved and did not provide its team with adequate equipment, intelligence or directions,\" the report said.",
"\"Mistake apparently compounded mistake.\"",
"Blackwater has taken issue with the House report.",
"The incident in Falluja \"was a tragedy in which no one -- but the terrorists -- are to blame,\" the company said in a recent statement.",
"Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said Donna Zovko is \"a grieving mother, understandably so, and our thoughts remain with her and her entire family.\"",
"Watch Donna Zovko's quest » .",
"Today, Blackwater's Prince added this: \"I was communicating with her all the way up until the time the lawsuit was filed.\"",
"The Zovko family disputes that claim.",
"The company, which provides security across the globe, has come under intense scrutiny since its employees were accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians and wounding 27 others on September 16 of this year in a hail of gunfire in Baghdad.",
"Donna Zovko and the three other families who lost their relatives in the Falluja ambush have sued Blackwater, alleging the company failed to provide their loved ones with adequate gear, weaponry and support.",
"Blackwater has denied the allegations and argued the men agreed to assume the risks of working in a war zone.",
"As for those who murdered her son, Donna Zovko said: \"It's not mine to judge and I don't want to judge them.",
"But it would be nice to know what happened to those people that celebrated the deaths of my son, Mike, Wes and Scotty.",
"It would be nice to know if they had to answer to anyone besides God.\"",
"One day, she hopes to visit that site on Highway 10 in Falluja where the killings occurred to build a monument to those who died.",
"\"They can knock it down and I'll just build it back up,\" she said.",
"This mother -- who arrived in the United States when she was 15, three years to the day before her son was born -- then walked over to Jerry's grave and said the Lord's Prayer.",
"\"I'll see you Sunday,\" she said, rubbing the headstone.",
"She met Pope John Paul II in August 2004 after her son was killed and he told her \"God has accepted Jerry's soul\" -- comforting words that still give her peace.",
"Watch why she would \"give back\" pope meeting » .",
"\"It was a big gift for me to see the Holy Father and to meet the Holy Father, but for the truth of my Jerry's death, I'd give it back,\" she said, choking back tears.",
"\"I'd say, 'No, I want Blackwater to tell me everything.'\"",
"Later that day, the tight-knit family gathered at a Croatian community center for dinner.",
"Afterward, Jerry Zovko's brother, Tommy, watched his mom and dad walk through the darkness to their car as rain poured down.",
"\"We try to live a normal life,\" he said.",
"\"But it's anything but normal.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"NEW: After seeing CNN report, Erik Prince says he'd be willing to meet with her .",
"NEW: Donna Zovko responds: \"I would like that\"\nJerry Zovko was one of four Blackwater guards mutilated on March 31, 2004 ."
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