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[ "(CNN) -- Spain's Dani Pedrosa will miss the Malaysian MotoGP on Sunday, after the rider broke his collarbone in practice for the Grand Prix in Japan last week.", "Pedrosa's absence means championship leader Jorge Lorenzo will now only have to finish in the top 10 at the race in Sepang, in order to be crowned 2010 champion.", "Respol Honda racer Pedrosa suffered a double fracture of the collarbone in Motegi, and has subsequently undergone surgery.", "It was thought that the 25-year-old, who currently lies in second place behind Lorenzo in the MotoGP standings, might have recovered in time to challenge for the championship in Malaysia.", "However, in an announcement on the sport's website on Thursday his team confirmed he would not be racing.", "\"Pedrosa has made the understandable decision to stay at home to continue his recovery,\" the statement from Respol Honda read.", "\"The target for his return remains the Australian Grand Prix, practice for which begins on October 15.\"", "The team also confirmed that they would not be fielding a replacement driver for the race, leaving Italy's Andrea Dovizioso as their sole representative.", "With Pedrosa not competing, Yamaha driver Lorenzo is now more than 100 points clear of his nearest challenger -- Australian Ducati driver Casey Stoner.", "The 25-year-old is looking for his first world title at MotoGP level, after twice achieving the feat in the 250cc category, first in 2006 and again in 2007." ]	[ "Dani Pedrosa is out of the Malaysian MotoGP, after the rider broke his collarbone .", "Honda driver was injured in practice for the Grand Prix in Japan last week .", "Championship leader Jorge Lorenzo will be crowned champion with a 10th-place or better finish on Sunday ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It has all the right ingredients for a tense situation: Scorching hot weather.", "Relentless humidity.", "Sidewalks, subways and hotels packed to capacity.", "Long lines.", "Nerds and jocks.", "But instead of being a pressure cooker, downtown Atlanta, Georgia, is serving up a huge party.", "Labor Day weekend finds the city of Atlanta host to several well-attended events, including Nascar, Georgia Tech's season opening football game, the Decatur Book Festival and Atlanta Black Gay Pride.", "The weekend's two largest events, DragonCon and the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, happen only a few blocks away from each other, essentially taking over the downtown area.", "Atlanta's long-established science fiction and fantasy convention DragonCon and Chick-fil-A's college football extravaganza are the strangest of bedfellows.", "Event organizers and attendees readily admit that three years ago, the first pairing of DragonCon and the kickoff game was as an awkward, giggly mashup of Storm Troopers and face-painted alumni.", "But all are quick to point out that it didn't take long for fans to foster an enthusiastic weekend of unabashed celebration and mutual respect.", "\"It's kind of like the ultimate pop culture weekend,\" said Katie Wall, a digital marketing consultant.", "\"Where else can you find a place full of sci-fi and fantasy fans next to beer-guzzling football fans, all decked out in their school colors?", "It's like everyone's in costume for the weekend.", "\"But I think at the end of the day it's just a lot of people getting excited about what they love and coming together to celebrate it with other people who love the same thing,\" she said.", "\"I don't know that there's so much of a difference, except that we'll all be wearing Carolina Blue and they'll all be wearing costumes.\"", "The University of North Carolina will be playing Louisiana State University in the big game.", "Kris Harter, a chemist and DragonCon attendee, says it's not always easy for the two groups to get along, but there's enough room for everyone.", "\"I think they are as amicable as possible with each other,\" Harter said.", "She says that three years on, DragonCon attendees are more accepting of the football fans and are joining in during the buildup toward the game.", "\"They're more willing to say 'Roll Tide!'", "or 'Go War Eagles!'", "or 'Geaux Tigers!'", "which you'll hear a lot of this weekend,\" she said.", "As early as Thursday night, people dressed in Steampunk garb were checking into hotels next to people dressed in purple and gold or Carolina blue.", "And the organizers of the two events are digging the vibe.", "\"The truth is, most of DragonCon attendees have a college football preference.", "It's not the old style stereotype of someone who's reading comic books and avoiding sports or not caring about sports, it's someone who's reading comic books while they're watching sports.", "I've had a running e-mail chain for weeks with the chairman of DragonCon about ACC versus SEC,\" said DragonCon spokesman Dan Carroll.", "Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO Gary Stokan sent an open invitation to DragonCon attendees for exactly that reason.", "\"We've reached out to them this year to say, 'Hey, you have your parade, if you want to come down to Centennial Olympic Park [for the ESPN College Game Day broadcast prior to the Kickoff Game] let's get the groups together and see what happens here,'\" Stokan said.", "\"I actually know they'll be getting a lot of takers,\" Carroll said.", "\"We do have a group that's all ready to go right after the parade.", "A lot of people [will be] in costume, and we're going to be going over to ESPN, to their Game Zone area by the stadium, and just getting to meet some of the football fans.\"", "Sometimes called \"Comic Con's little brother,\" but fiercely defended by attendees as the country's most fan-oriented convention, DragonCon had more than 30,000 preregistered guests as of Thursday night, Carroll said.", "Celebrities on the Con circuit anticipate an attendance closer to 70,000 people this year, based on over-packed hotel rooms and local visitors.", "\"It's not intimate. It's not a small convention,\" Harter said.", "Because it's so massive, DragonCon attendees need to prepare, Harter said.", "\"First thing on my list, a good pair of shoes.", "\"You definitely need to bring your patience.", "There are long lines, there's a lot of people, you definitely need to fight your way through crowds.", "And you need to bring something nerdy,\" she said.", "Harter suggests wearing a T-shirt with a nerdy quote on it (like one from \"The Big Bang Theory\" that says \"Bazinga,\" or \"See DOS run\") or a costume.", "Bringing food can also be advantageous for long lines, she said.", "This year the convention spans four of downtown's largest hotels.", "Sharing some of those packed rooms will be the close to 20,000 LSU and UNC fans in town for the Kickoff Game.", "Stokan said they are still selling tickets and hopes this year will be another sold-out game." ]	[ "What happens when nerds and jocks share Atlanta for Labor Day weekend?", "Fairy wings and vampire fangs or football jerseys and face paint, everyone is in costume .", "DragonCon and the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game offer events across downtown Atlanta .", "Over 100,000 nerds and jocks could be in downtown Atlanta at the same time this weekend ." ]	[ 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 22, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A onetime contestant on \"The Dating Game\" was sentenced to die Tuesday for murdering four women and a child, Orange County, California, officials said.", "Rodney Alcala, 66, was convicted in February of kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old girl and raping and murdering four Los Angeles County women in the 1970s.", "\"Losing Robin, we lost so many things,\" said Marianne Connelly, the mother of Robin Samsoe, 12, whom authorities said Alcala murdered in 1979.", "\"We didn't get to watch her grow up.", "We didn't get to see her graduate high school or college, see her have a dance career, get married and/or have children,\" Connelly told the court Tuesday.", "\"He took her life, her future and our joy.\"", "Deidreann Parenteau, Jill Parenteau's sister, said she never understood why her sister had to die at Alcala's hands.", "\"If there is a hell, I hope Rodney Alcala burns eternally,\" she told the court.", "\"I wish he would experience the terror that he put his victims through.\"", "The crimes took place between November 1977 and June 1979, and covered a wide swath of suburban Los Angeles, California, from Burbank to El Segundo, authorities said.", "A jury recommended this month that Alcala receive the death penalty.", "He was found guilty February 25 of murder, kidnapping and an array of sexual offenses.", "He acted as his own attorney during the penalty phase of the trial.", "In 1978, Alcala was a winning bachelor on the television show \"The Dating Game.\"", "At the time, he had been convicted in the 1968 rape of an 8-year-old girl, authorities said.", "He served a 34-month sentence.", "A year earlier, according to the Orange County district attorney, Alcala had raped, sodomized and killed two women: Jill Barcomb, an 18-year-old New Yorker who had recently moved to California, and Georgia Wixted, a 27-year-old nurse.", "The district attorney said Alcala used a large rock to smash in Barcomb's face and then \"strangled her to death by tying a belt and pant leg around her neck.\"", "Her body was left in a mountainous area in the foothills near Hollywood.", "Wixted was beaten with the claw end of a hammer, the district attorney said.", "Alcala \"strangled her to death using a nylon stocking and left her body in her Malibu apartment,\" according to the district attorney's Web site.", "On \"The Dating Game,\" Alcala -- who was introduced as a \"successful photographer\" who might also be found sky diving or motorcycling -- succeeded in charming bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw from behind a wall.", "\"Who will it be?\" the host asked Bradshaw at the end.", "\"I'll take One,\" she said, and Alcala strode out.", "Three more murders followed Alcala's appearance on the show, the district attorney said.", "In June 1979, he beat, raped and strangled Charlotte Lamb, a 33-year-old legal secretary, with her shoelace in the laundry room of her El Segundo apartment complex, according to the district attorney's office.", "The case was investigated but went cold.", "The same month, according to the district attorney's office, Alcala raped and murdered 21-year-old Parenteau in her Burbank apartment.", "She was also strangled with a cord or nylon.", "Alcala's blood was collected from the scene after he cut himself crawling out a window, the district attorney said.", "\"Based on a semi-rare blood match, Alcala was linked to the murder,\" the district attorney said.", "Though he was charged with murdering Parenteau, the case was dismissed after his first conviction in the Samsoe case.", "In that 1979 case, Alcala approached the 12-year-old at the beach in Huntington Beach and asked her to pose for pictures, the district attorney said.", "She did and then rode off on her bicycle to dance class.", "She never made it.", "\"The defendant kidnapped and murdered Samsoe and dumped her body near Sierra Madre in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains,\" the district attorney said.", "Alcala was convicted in 1980 of Samsoe's murder and was sentenced to death, but the conviction was overturned by the California State Supreme Court.", "A second trial in 1986 also resulted in a conviction and death sentence, but it was overturned by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.", "As he awaited a third trial, Alcala's DNA was linked to the crime scenes in the Barcomb, Wixted and Lamb cases.", "He was charged with the four Los Angeles murders, including Parenteau's.", "Police investigating Alcala discovered dozens of photographs of women and children in a storage unit he kept in Seattle, Washington.", "The locker also contained earrings belonging to Samsoe, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.", "Police have asked for the public's help in determining whether any of the people in the photographs are victims of Alcala's." ]	[ "Rodney Alcala convicted last month in deaths of four women, child .", "He was winning bachelor on television show in 1978 .", "At the time, he had been found guilty of raping 8-year-old ." ]	[ 1, 13, 14, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- One of the exhibits at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has come to life, literally.", "It's reminiscent of the wildly popular \"Night at the Museum,\" movies, except this is real.", "Twenty-four-year-old Kate McGroarty is living at the museum for a month, roaming the large 14-acre space, exploring every nook and cranny at all hours of the day and night, sleeping where she wants, and basically seeing sights that most people never get to see.", "McGroarty won a \"Month at the Museum\" promotional contest, beating out 1,500 other applicants for the opportunity to call the museum home for a few weeks.", "She won based in part on her answer to a question about how a month in a museum could change or transform a person's life.", "\"I've always loved this museum, and I've always really loved adventure.", "And I'm hugely passionate about education, and I saw this as really interesting social experiment and an interesting education-through-social-media kind of experiment,\" says, McGroarty, who will get $10,000 at the end of her month-long stay.", "Museum of Science Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Rob Gallus concedes that the \"Night at the Museum\" movies were part of the whole \"whimsy\" of the Month at the Museum promotion.", "\"Everybody wonders, 'Wow, what would I do if I were alone in the museum at night?", "Where would I go? What would I see? What strange things do happen after dark in the museum?'\"", "says Gallus.", "McGroarty, who works for a travel company in Chicago as well as working in local theater, moved into the largest science center in the Western Hemisphere last week.", "She has a couple of private rooms near the museum's administrative offices and a large, glass cube science office.", "It's her exhibit display case on the museum's main level, where she updates her daily online blog and tweets about what she's learning and seeing.", "\"She has unlimited access to every nook and cranny of the museum.", "She can sleep on the U-505 submarine or in the smart home.", "She can get to all those out of the way places that people can't get to,\" Gallus told CNN Radio.", "Her meals are catered, and she can leave the museum as needed for errands or other reasons.", "Part of McGroarty's responsibilities for the month require that she mingle with museum guests.", "And she says that's been a lot of fun.", "She's become a sort of rock star of sorts, with crowds flocking to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry to see her and follow her online.", "\"I love, love interacting with the school groups that come by.", "They have the best questions,\" she says.", "\"They're so inquisitive. They're so energetic. I love them. And just seeing how they react to all the exhibits is so exciting for me.\"", "At night, museum staff members are on duty as are the usual security personnel, but in the sprawling complex they may be under the same roof yet not-so-near at the same time.", "\"It is a completely different world,\" says McGroarty.", "\"It's not spooky. If anything it's just a very quick and hard transition from there being so many people -- like on Saturday, we had 4,200 people in attendance.", "Then to go from that to just the security staff -- it's a big staff, but it's also an enormous museum.", "So you can walk around for long periods of time without seeing absolutely anyone.", "I wouldn't call it scary.", "I would say it is a different kind of experience, maybe a little bit spooky, but nothing to keep me in my room at night.\"", "McGroarty doesn't have a set schedule of displays or exhibits she plans to explore during her month-long adventure, but she said she does have one very definite must-do before her adventure is over.", "She plans to climb to the top of the museum's dome to see the sunrise over Lake Michigan.", "McGroarty explains, \"I've found that a key part of this program is trying to find a balance between experience and exploring things, and then interacting with people who are physically at the museum and interacting with people who are in the online community.\"", "McGroarty, originally from Minnesota, attended Northwestern University in Illinois and majored in theater.", "She graduated two years ago and has spent time teaching, performing and writing.", "She laughingly jokes, \"I'm not certain if anyone ever had this particular job in mind.\"", "McGroarty says the whole experience, so far, has been very overwhelming.", "She's shot to sudden fame -- she's getting tweets from people around the country who are following her adventures in the museum.", "\"Last night I was talking to a woman who said that her daughter, her 7-year-old daughter, is so into this, she comes home every day and checks to see if I've made a blog update,\" says McGroarty.", "\"This is day five. And she has to tell her daughter that she has to finish her homework before she can read my blog post.\"" ]	[ "Kate McGroarty won a promotion contest to spend a month in a museum .", "She's in her second week at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry .", "McGroarty has developed a fan following on Twitter and among visitors to the museum .", "\"I've always loved this museum, and I've always loved adventure,\" she says ." ]	[ 4, 5, 20, 37 ]
[ "Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) -- The recent news item about a Connecticut worker fired for Facebook postings that annoyed her employer, like other accounts of employees sacked for private speech, was bound to draw a lot of attention.", "Americans hold First Amendment rights to free speech as a kind of sacrosanct birthright, and for many of us the idea that you can lose your job for expressing private thoughts away from work offends the core principle of freedom of expression.", "In fact, though, firing a worker for off-the-job speech that unsettles an employer is pretty routine, and for the most part very legal.", "The First Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights protect us from infringements on our liberties by acts of government, not from the oppressive acts of nongovernmental actors such as private-sector employers.", "Combine that with the labor law concept of \"employment at will,\" which makes it possible to fire someone without due process for just about anything short of discrimination, and you are left with an American workplace where free expression has scarcely more moral credibility than employee theft.", "A particularly eye-catching example is an Alabama woman who lost her job -- with no legal recourse -- during the 2004 election season because her Republican boss didn't like the John Kerry bumper sticker on her car in the factory parking lot.", "Widespread use by just about everyone of online networks and social media opens new opportunities for workers to engage in personal expressive activity that might arouse the notice and disapproval of one's employer, and by extension opportunities for touchy or paranoid employers to police and punish essentially harmless extracurricular speech.", "So in a sense, the situation involving Dawnmarie Souza, the Connecticut emergency medical technician fired by an ambulance services firm for posting negative comments about her boss on Facebook, is just the latest skirmish in an ongoing conflict between employers' desire to keep workers in line and the rights of employees to live their private expressive lives without unwarranted employer interference.", "But there's a wrinkle that makes this case important: the involvement of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which contends that Souza's Facebook comments could be protected activity under labor law.", "Americans don't enjoy general free speech protections against infringement by a private employer (with some limited exceptions, such as certain kinds of whistle-blowing).", "But federal labor law does grant union-eligible workers the right to engage in \"concerted activity\" for the purpose of \"mutual aid or protection\" -- essentially, to communicate with each other about working conditions and terms of employment.", "Those same federal laws bar employers from interfering with workers' efforts to improve their work situations.", "If Souza had dissed her boss in, say, a blog post or a letter to the editor, her expressive act would likely earn no protection against her employer's wrath.", "But on Facebook her comments catalyzed responses from and interaction with some of her co-workers.", "That online \"conversation\" involving Souza and other employees of the same firm is what the NLRB alleges could amount to protected concerted activity.", "If the courts agree (at this point it's just a charge by the NLRB, with a hearing slated for early next year) then Souza's dismissal was illegal.", "When this case does reach a courtroom, lawyers will tussle over the nature of social media sites.", "Does interaction within a closed Facebook circle of friends amount to private conversation, or are negative comments about one's job or boss on Facebook the equivalent of a public statement that could affect a firm's reputation?", "Does it matter how big one's network is?", "How many co-workers have to chime in to the conversation to make it \"concerted\" activity?", "Until this works its way through the courts, employment lawyers are advising corporate clients to ensure that employee policies regarding internet use are not written so broadly that they chill workers' exercise of their associational rights under labor law.", "Souza's situation turns more on labor law protections than on constitutional free-speech rights because she worked for a private-sector employer.", "The First Amendment does afford more protection to public-sector workers, but government employees reading this shouldn't get their hopes up.", "Federal court decisions along with developments in management practice have combined to make even the public-sector workplace rather inhospitable to employee free-speech claims.", "Consider the cautionary tale of Ashley Payne, a Georgia public school teacher forced to resign last year when administrators learned in an anonymous email about pictures of her on Facebook holding an alcoholic beverage during a trip to Europe.", "According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Payne kept her network settings private, and never friended any students.", "A year later, as her case crawls through the legal system and she awaits her day in court, Payne is still unable to find a teaching position.", "A common reaction among working professionals to stories such as Souza's and Payne's is to advise people to manage their online presence and their digital footprints more carefully and prudently.", "Avoid giving your employer a reason to frown on your online expressive activity, goes the argument, even when you do it on your own time, on your own device, and on private networks.", "This is reasonable advice to the extent that it equates to \"avoid being really stupid,\" but it's unfortunate advice if it counsels individuals to suppress their own private expressive life as a career strategy.", "To be sure, employers need not tolerate any and all extracurricular speech by workers that might genuinely pose a legitimate threat to the firm's interests or to its workplace harmony.", "If I worked for CNN, with a spare-time hobby maintaining the web site timewarnerisevil.com, it certainly shouldn't behoove my employer to retain my services in the name of some abstract notion of off-work freedom of personal expression.", "Employers need not allow workplaces to become debating societies or free-for-alls for hostility and harassment.", "But it's troublesome when employers favor a management culture so bent on predictability and control that even mild or tangential departures from expressive conformity are treated with suspicion and rebuke.", "Employees will kvetch about jobs and bosses until the day there no longer are jobs and bosses, and enlightened employers understand that new technological vehicles for said kvetching will inevitable emerge and evolve.", "Holding a job should not require giving up your right to an expressive private life, even if you might be prone to the occasional untoward remark about the people who sign your paycheck.", "Cultivating a thin-skinned managerial impulse to treat workers' expressive activities as existential threats to the enterprise isn't how you manage a workforce; it's how you chase talent away to your competitors.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bruce Barry." ]	[ "Bruce Barry: Losing private-sector job over a Facebook remark doesn't violate freedom of speech .", "Employers shouldn't view offhand remarks on Facebook as threats, he writes .", "Barry: National Labor Relations Board says comments may be protected under labor law .", "Workers shouldn't forfeit rights, he says, and thin-skinned bosses can scare away talent ." ]	[ 1, 8, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Aaron Douglas, better known as \"Chief Tyrol\" on \"Battlestar Galactica,\" is a DragonCon veteran.", "Well known for being open with fans and the life of the DragonCon party, Douglas made a pit-stop at CNN to answer some of our BSG-fan questions.", "CNN: Had you seen the original BSG before taking the role?", "Aaron Douglas: Absolutely, I grew up on the original BSG, I grew up on \"Star Wars.\"", "The great thing about \"Battlestar\" was that it was basically \"Star Wars\" but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out.", "I was a huge \"Battlestar\" fan.", "CNN: Tell us about when you first auditioned for \"Battlestar Galactica\" -- was it for the part of Capt.", "Tyrol? Douglas: No, no I originally auditioned for the part of Apollo (Capt.", "Lee Adama) which Jamie Bamber got, which is good because Bamber has to go to the gym and I never did.", "That was good for me. And my callback was for [the role of] Lt. Gaeta, which went to Alessandro, who's great.", "He's a great actor and he can do the tech talk really well.", "When they got to the end of the casting there was just no one for the Chief, this Tyrol character that they had left, and David Eick [one of the creators of the show] said, \"Why don't we get Aaron to do this?\"", "because David had seen my auditions and quite liked me.", "So, they offered me this and it grew into what it was.", "CNN: At what point did you find out that your character was a Cylon?", "[a robot] . Douglas: Officially, the day before we started shooting it.", "But we shot that scene in December, and I had seen some papers that I wasn't supposed to see over at [director] Michael Rymer's house, in September.", "So I had to sit very quietly for three months, not say a word, furious the whole time.", "And constantly walking past Ron Moore and David Eick, who are the creators of the show, and say, \"So, anything coming up for the Chief?\"", "And they'd say, \"Oh no, just fixing vipers, just the usual.\"", "Just lying to me! So we finally found out officially and I got Ron [Moore] on the phone, yelled at him for five minutes and then he talked me off the ledge and convinced me that it was a good thing, and he was right.", "CNN: Did you suspect that you might be one of the Cylons?", "Douglas: God, no.", "Absolutely not. I thought that the great thing about the Tyrol character is he's such a human, and I guess if they want to humanize the Cylons there's no better character to do it than him and Col. Tigh, but I did not see it coming.", "I thought it was going to be new people revealed, I didn't think that it was going to be cast revealed to be.", "CNN: Did you draw inspiration for your own character from having watched the original BSG?", "Douglas: No, my character wasn't in the original BSG, and I don't really know how I do what I do.", "I literally, I just show up and I say the words as simply as I can.", "I have a new show now called \"The Bridge,\" where I play a guy who's a real-life guy.", "My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.", "It was the decision to either play it like him or just play it as I see it, so I just play stuff as I see it.", "CNN: What were your thoughts about the ending of BSG?", "Douglas: I loved it.", "Other than, what the hell was Starbuck?", "I still don't know what Starbuck was.", "But I loved the ending, I thought it was a brilliant piece of writing, certainly Ron's opus.", "There was no better way to end it.", "And I love the fact that the Chief just walks off and goes up to Scotland and lives alone.", "Yep, makes whiskey and builds castles and herds sheep.", "Yeah. CNN: Was \"The Bridge\" your next project, then?", "Douglas: I literally wrapped the last day of Battlestar, I wrapped at 5 a.m. on Friday and on Monday I was on a plane to Toronto to start the new show.", "So, yeah, there wasn't much of a break.", "CNN: How would you compare the character you're playing now to Chief Tyrol?", "Douglas: You know, they're very similar guys.", "They're both blue-collar guys, they're both in charge of a group of people that they are fiercely loyal to, they will do whatever it takes to get the right thing done, they're both very flawed, which makes them interesting to watch and interesting to play, they're two guys that you could definitely go to a ball game and have a beer and make fun of people around you.", "CNN: How did you get into acting in the first place?", "Douglas: My mom says that when I was a little kid I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.", "I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie \"And Justice for All\" when I was a kid and thought, \"That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.\"", "I want to be a lawyer on TV is what I finally figured out.", "I fell into it late. I think I was 27 or 28.", "I was working with a sports nutrition company doing diets for athletes and I met a guy who was working on his nutrition and he was an actor.", "I eventually quit my job and went back to theater school and that was it, the rest is history.", "CNN: Besides acting, what are your hobbies?", "Douglas: Sitting quietly and reading a book.", "I play hockey, I'm a goalie, so people fire pucks at me.", "And I like to golf and I travel, I travel a lot.", "But mostly I'm a pretty quiet guy.", "I just kind of go home and hide away.", "CNN: I see you're wearing a shirt that says \"Chronicles of the Nerds.\"", "Douglas: \"Chronicles of the Nerds,\" yeah!", "These are some friends of mine from Oregon that have a website, chroniclesofthenerds.com.", "I have literally almost 400 T-shirts, because everywhere I go the fans know I like T-shirts.", "So they're constantly giving me T-shirts.", "So, any time I get a chance to plug one of my friends or plug a band or something like that, I like to wear their shirts.", "And the fans think it's really cool.", "So when I'm at ComicCon or DragonCon I'll switch shirts throughout the day, so people get pictures.", "CNN: You were at DragonCon last year, right?", "Douglas: I've been at DragonCon, I think five of the last six years.", "I love coming here.", "It's unbelievable fun.", "Last year I came as a fan.", "I snuck in. I didn't do any panels except for the one that I crashed.", "I didn't sign or do anything, I just wanted to experience it from the fan's point of view, and it was really, really cool.", "I come here with, literally, like 25 friends and we take over an entire floor of the hotel and we just have a blast, it's a great place.", "It's like Vegas without the gambling.", "CNN: What's your favorite part of DragonCon?", "Douglas: The best times are usually in one of our rooms, where we're all just sitting around having a drink and just laughing our faces off.", "It's just hilarity for four or five days.", "It's just hanging out with friends.", "I travel so much and I work so much and we're all from such disparate parts of the country in different jobs.", "It's hard for us all to get in the same place at the same time and Dragon*Con creates a good venue for that.", "CNN: Anything you want to say to your fans?", "Douglas: Everybody, go to CNN.com every day!", "Every, frackin day!" ]	[ "Aaron Douglas auditioned for 2 parts on \"Battlestar Galactica\" before landing role of Chief Tyrol .", "Known for being the life of the party at Dragon*Con, Douglas brings a party with him .", "Once upon a time, Douglas thought he would make a good lawyer ." ]	[ 0, 1, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Actress and filmmaker Ricki Lake has a special connection to CNN Heroes.", "Her friend and onetime nanny, Marie Da Silva, was chosen as a Top 10 CNN Hero in 2008 for her work starting a school for AIDS orphans in her native Malawi.", "Lake sat down with CNN Entertainment senior producer Denise Quan to talk about CNN Heroes.", "Below are excerpts from that interview.", "Denise Quan: You have a very personal connection with Marie Da Silva, don't you?", "Ricki Lake: Well, let me just say that I'm the one who discovered Marie.", "I knew! No, Marie was my employee; she worked as my nanny for a decade.", "I knew from the second Marie walked in to the interview there was something special about her.", "She leads her life in such a positive way that she's just a great example for me.", "Quan: So besides the personal connection, why is this cause so important to you?", "Lake: My grandfather died of AIDS back in the late '80s, when a blood transfusion in a hospital could give you HIV and AIDS.", "So I'm personally, obviously, connected to this disease and wanting to find a cure.", "But then you look at continents like Africa and how the population is completely annihilated by it.", "With Marie, to see her family members that have succumbed to the disease and the children in her village that are all left behind -- not only without parents, but without an education -- it just seems like an obvious cause to get behind.", "And it's just remarkable when you think of what one person, a nanny of all professions, was able to do while working for me full time.", "To me, Marie's picture is in the dictionary next to the word \"hero.\"", "Quan: This is your third year of involvement with CNN Heroes -- .", "Lake: Riding Marie's coattails.", "[laughter] Yes, I'm so appreciative of all that you guys do and personally how I've been affected by what you do.", "Quan: How have you been inspired by some of the CNN Heroes that you've met?", "Lake: They're amazing.", "The fact that they do so much in their own lives, it's like they're so separate but so organically similar.", "There are so many parallels about these remarkable people that give so much of themselves to help others for very little fanfare.", "That's what I love about this event.", "It gives this, you know, just due recognition, knowing firsthand what Marie did pre-CNN Heroes acknowledgment, and post.", "She's been able to build a secondary school.", "Now they have a school bus.", "Now her goal is to change the curriculum of AIDS education in all of Africa.", "It feels like none of that would have been possible without the exposure that CNN Heroes has given her.", "Quan: Why do you think celebrities like you keep coming back to help us out, year after year?", "Lake: I think we're all inspired.", "We're all just regular people and want to do our part.", "I want to be close to what you guys are doing, I want to do more.", "I can't wait to see who's being honored this year.", "I look forward to that night and just being a part of it.", "Being there live, it's in your blood, you know?", "You just feel like you're walking on air to meet these people.", "Quan: Why do you think we need to honor everyday heroes?", "Lake: We all could use a little inspiring.", "To see what our neighbor is doing to help others, I think, makes us do better and be better.", "It makes you feel good.", "It makes you feel like you're doing something worthwhile. We all can do a lot more than we're doing." ]	[ "Marie Da Silva, a top 10 CNN Hero in 2008, was once a nanny for actress Ricki Lake .", "Da Silva funds a school for AIDS orphans in her native country of Malawi .", "Lake has a personal connection to the disease; her grandfather died of AIDS in the '80s ." ]	[ 0, 1, 10 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis and Sean Becker were fresh from their raucous \"The Guild\" panel at DragonCon when they sat down with CNN to answer our fan-oriented questions.", "It was their first time at DragonCon, and the crowds did not disappoint.", "One fan in the question line even dressed as Lewis' \"Vork\" character from the \"Game On\" video, eight arms and all!", "Here's what they had to say about \"The Guild,\" gaming and what happens when Felicia Day makes you play \"World of Warcraft.\"", "CNN: How psyched were all of you when the \"Game On\" video bumped Katy Perry off the top of iTunes?", "Parikh: Stoked!", "Lewis: I'm OK with, I mean, I don't hate Katy Perry.", "Parikh: I did get to tweet something like, \"I finally got on top of Katy Perry.\"", "Becker: I screen-grabbed the hell out of that page on iTunes.", "Parikh: It's just so cool.", "We don't have a record label; we don't have anyone besides ourselves, Felicia, Kim, George Ruiz and some other folks that are pushing our show.", "It's very grass-roots.", "Microsoft [\"The Guild\" sponsor] is not like, \"here's a budget for marketing.\"", "It doesn't really happen.", "I mean, they do some internal marketing, but ultimately it's up to us to push our own stuff.", "So, to be in the same breath as, you know, Justin Bieber and all these people and to watch our video climb the charts ... Becker: We've done the work, and now it's the fans who are deciding and buying.", "I mean, it happened with \"Date My Avatar,\" too.", "That was No. 1. We got No. 1 on Pop. Parikh: We were 2 overall; we couldn't beat Kenny Chesney.", "Becker: Who came out with a video the exact same day about football.", "Lewis: Nobody can beat him.", "Becker: And we put that thing together in like a month total, from writing it to recording it to filming it to editing it.", "It had to be quick. And it was in the middle of all the season four stuff we were currently doing, too.", "So it was really ambitious, but I think we're all happy with how it turned out.", "CNN: Fans will want to know, what did Zaboo do with the dancers once it was all over?", "Parikh: With the hour that I had them for, or the 58 minutes that I had left on the clock?", "We had some improvs where I was like, \"I don't pay them not to dance, DANCE!!\"", "I don't know, I think Zaboo probably just kind of danced around with them, learned more about their history and background, took blood samples and, like, added them to his database.", "Becker: Sounds like another viral hit!", "Parikh: That's what I think Zaboo would do.", "He's very friendly, so he would want to get to know them.", "He would just ask very invasive, personal questions.", "CNN: Sandeep and Jeff, you both do a very good job portraying very specific types of gamers.", "How did you research your roles?", "Lewis: For me, I didn't really understand a lot of the stuff when I read the pilot, so I went on and played.", "Felicia got me membership into it, into \"World of Warcraft,\" and I went on and played.", "And I came back a few weeks later and said, \"Oh, now I understand it.", "Now I understand the phrases and the words and all that stuff, all the three-letter things that people say.\"", "Parikh: QQ more nub [which in \"World of Warcraft\" circles is a way of making fun of new players.", "The two Qs look like crying eyes.]", "And for me, I read a lot of fantasy and grew up playing some RPG games and some Ultima and stuff like that.", "I didn't play WoW specifically.", "In fact, I specifically stayed away from it because I didn't want the addiction.", "And someone had already written a funny show about it, so I couldn't turn that addiction into something profitable, like Felicia [Day] did.", "So I didn't play WoW specifically, but I knew all the terms, roughly what they meant, and Felicia filled us in with stuff we didn't know.", "But we all got subscriptions.", "The president of Blizzard [the game company that distributes \"World of Warcraft\"] was a fan of the show after the first couple seasons.", "We got a tour, and everybody there was awesome to us.", "They were into it and into the show. That was cool. And we all got free subscriptions to play around and got hooked for a little while.", "I can say that I'm not hooked on WoW anymore.", "It was intense for about two months, but then the real world came calling.", "I like to play games that I can beat, that have a beginning, middle and end.", "So that's what I play these days, mostly XBox stuff.", "CNN: So none of you mentioned \"Ever-crack.\"", "Parikh: Yeah, I stayed away from \"EverQuest\" too.", "We actually appeared in the \"EverQuest\" documentary called \"EverCrack.\"", "We shot on set of \"The Guild\" just a tiny little thing where we're playing hard-core fans with the creators of \"EverQuest.\"", "But I didn't actually get into that game either.", "\"EverQuest\" was really hot during the end of my college years, so I was like trying to get good grades.", "But if that stuff was out in high school, I would have been toast.", "CNN: Of you three, who has the maddest keyboard skills, and who has the maddest controller skills?", "Becker: I have zero keyboard skills.", "I don't play any computer games.", "I only play console stuff.", "Lewis: I have the keyboard skills, just for playing WoW for a year straight after I got addicted.", "So, definitely me. Parikh: I don't know, I played like the old, the \"King's Quests\" and those games, so my keyboard skills are probably pretty raw.", "Now, I like playing with my XBox and my Wii.", "Soon, hopefully, I'll have no controller and be playing with that new thing Microsoft has, Kinect, which would be rad.", "Lewis: Yeah, I've been switching over to XBox and DS and PSP .", "Parikh: We sound like total ... Becker: Let's name every system.", "Lewis: Yeah, I've got an N64.", "Becker: Virtual boy.", "Parikh: See, I feel like I have to segment my life.", "My computer is for work/stalking my friends on Facebook.", "And my console is for gaming.", "CNN: How do you create buzz for your online series?", "Now that \"The Guild\" and \"The Legend of Neil\" have momentum behind them, is it easier now than it used to be?", "Becker: The audience for \"The Guild\" has continued to grow and grow and grow, but at first it was just a community of gamers.", "Then it was people outside of gaming.", "I direct the show, and I don't play \"Warcraft.\"", "I've never played \"Warcraft,\" and I'm a big fan of the show.", "I understand the characters and what's going on, and I have a lot of friends who do the exact same.", "But one thing we've been doing lately are these music videos.", "When \"Do you want to date my avatar\" came out, all of a sudden we had a whole new crop of people who saw the video and loved it, but they didn't know that it was part of a show.", "And then now we've got the \"Game On\" video, which did the same thing -- people just wanted to watch this fun video, but then it's like, \"oh, wait, this is part of a series.\"", "Lately, people have been -- even here at Dragon*Con -- people tell me, \"Oh, I just got into your show.\"", "Parikh: Whether it's through Netflix or XBox, every new place we distribute we find new fans.", "Becker: Actually, the Netflix thing is huge, because people take it more seriously.", "You may look at it and think, \"oh, this is just a Web show,\" but then you see, \"this is a Netflix show,\" and it's on a DVD.", "Parikh: And it holds up.", "You watch it on your TV, and it's shot very well, it's lit well, and it can look like a TV show, really, or a movie.", "So keeping the production value very high is important.", "Lewis: And we're lucky, too.", "The next projects we do from this day forward, we can ride the coattails of \"The Guild.\"", "We have the fanbase, so we can do the online buzz, but we also have the fans from \"The Guild\" and \"Legend of Neil\" to take advantage of, too.", "CNN: What's the difference between a nerd and a geek?", "Lewis: God, that's a good question.", "I envision this, I don't know if this is right or not, but a nerd to me is a guy who like in high school has pimples and maybe glasses and sort of socially awkward.", "Whereas a geek to me is anybody who's doing something that's not the general norm.", "Becker: Like, a geek embraces it, maybe?", "I've always thought of nerd as someone who's into nerdy stuff, pop culture stuff like comics.", "I think a geek is someone who embellishes.", "Parikh: For me, I feel like a nerd is more knowledgeable about their geekdom.", "Lewis: Maybe even arrogant?", "Becker: Where a geek is more of a fan, maybe?", "Parikh: Yeah, that's it.", "If you're a nerd, it's because you know something.", "You're a nerd about that. But if you're a geek about it, that means you just love it." ]	[ "\"The Guild\" created \"Game On\" in about a month and landed at the top of the iTunes chart .", "Jeff Lewis, who plays Vork on \"The Guild,\" is not ashamed of his WOW addiction .", "Sandeep Parikh says his character, Zaboo, on \"The Guild\" is very friendly, just invasive ." ]	[ 2, 4, 12, 30, 76, 101 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Young German driver Nico Hulkenberg is looking for a new Formula One team after failing to agree a contract extension with Williams, the motorsport's official website reported on Monday.", "While the British-based team has retained veteran Brazilian Rubens Barrichello for 2011, the 23-year-old Hulkenberg will seek a new race seat following an impressive rookie season.", "\"I heavily regret that, because I would have been happy to stay with Williams,\" said Hulkenberg, who secured the team's first pole position since 2005 in Brazil this month.", "\"I want to thank the team for a great time and I wish Williams all the best for the future.\"", "His agent Willi Weber, who also represents seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, said the 2009 GP2 Series winner would remain in motorsport's elite class next year.", "\"Nico will have his seat in F1 in 2011,\" Weber told the official website.", "Williams finished the season in sixth place overall, repeating last year's effort, despite not scoring any points at the final race in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.", "The 38-year-old Barrichello was 12th to finish 10th in the drivers' standings on 47 points in his first season at Williams, while Hulkenberg -- Williams' test driver for two years before making his F1 debut this year -- was 16th to be 14th overall on 22 points.", "\"'First, I would like to thank Nico for his hard work this year, and before that in preparing himself for Formula One,\" team boss Frank Williams told his outfit's official website.", "\"We are very proud to have supported him as he secured the Formula 3 and GP2 titles and during his debut in Formula One.", "At Williams we have for many years tried to bring new talent into the sport, and we are convinced that Nico will go on to great things.", "We wish him well and hope that our paths will cross again in the future.", "\"We recruited Rubens to Williams knowing that he would bring technical expertise, experience and passion.", "He has delivered everything we could have hoped for this season and we are delighted to confirm that he will drive for us again in 2011.\"", "Williams said Barrichello's teammate for his 19th season driving in F1 will be announced before the end of this year." ]	[ "Nico Hulkenberg leaves Williams after contract negotiations for 2011 break down .", "British team will retain veteran Rubens Barrichello and name new driver by end of year .", "Hulkenberg had an impressive rookie season, claiming pole position in Brazil .", "The drivers helped Williams to retain sixth place in the constructors' standings ." ]	[ 1, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Actress Debi Mazar is passionate about food, and she recently used her cooking skills to raise money for The Midnight Mission, a Los Angeles-based organization that helps the homeless.", "Mazar is also an enthusiastic supporter of CNN Heroes, and she recently sat down with CNN Entertainment senior producer Denise Quan to talk about the campaign and her philanthropy.", "Below are excerpts from that interview.", "Denise Quan: Why did you decide to get involved with the feeding the homeless?", "Debi Mazar: I grew up on food stamps.", "I come from a very humble background.", "And I've had many friends that have been destitute -- you know, running into trouble -- and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.", "It can happen to anybody, and with the economy crashing and what's going on in the world today, I just thought it was time to try to find a place to go to help people.", "They're the oldest food bank in Los Angeles ... and I like to cook, I like to serve people.", "So we cooked up a bunch of food, and they let us use their truck, helped us serve it, and we raised a lot of money.", "Quan: What's so special about The Midnight Mission?", "Mazar: Not only are they feeding people, but they are giving them housing, they are giving them beds, a shower, fresh sheets, fresh clothing.", "They are finding them jobs.", "There is a recovery program for addiction, a program to learn to get back on your feet and to adjust within the community again.", "It's incredible what they do and how many people walk through their doors, rich and poor, no questions asked.", "They just open these doors and they give these people a fresh start.", "Quan: What is a hero to you? Mazar: A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people.", "A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.", "Quan: You attended \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" last year.", "What was that like? Mazar: Being at the CNN Heroes event last year was almost life-changing.", "I saw the prior year from my living room, and when I got invited I was so excited.", "Each person that went up and each little film that was played brought me and my husband to tears because of the generosity of their soul and spirit.", "These people came from nothing, had nothing, and yet did the unimaginable.", "They weren't Hollywood people.", "They weren't rich people.", "They were just people that wanted to help other people.", "It just really made me think, \"Wow.", "I want to help, too.\" Watching those people made me feel like I wasn't doing enough.", "They were so inspirational. So now I'm on the bandwagon, and I'm just trying to help as well because it makes you feel really great and we need it.", "We need a sense of community again.", "Quan: Did any of those CNN Heroes particularly inspire you?", "Mazar: There was one young Filipino man [CNN Hero of the Year Efren Penaflorida] who would go into the slums and help bring education to all these children that had nothing and teach them how to read and write.", "It was just beautiful what he did. There was Jorge Munoz from Queens, [New York], who just had like a regular job, had no money, but he and his family would cook in their little kitchen that was, you know, New York-style -- I'm talking closet-size -- and half of their house was stocked with restaurant supplies.", "And every night he would cook and bring out food and serve the homeless on the streets of New York City.", "This guy was just selfless.", "I just thought, \"How wonderful.\"", "Quan: Why do you think we need to honor everyday heroes?", "Mazar: There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero.", "It doesn't take money.", "It doesn't take connections.", "What matters is that people get involved.", "Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed." ]	[ "Actress Debi Mazar has raised money for The Midnight Mission, a Los Angeles food bank .", "Mazar said the organization does more than feed people; it also gives them a fresh start .", "Mazar said she came from humble beginnings, too: \"I grew up on food stamps\"" ]	[ 0, 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He was the first Spanish player to reach the top of the tennis world rankings, but now Carlos Moya is contemplating life away from the sport that he has played at the top level for the past 15 years.", "The 34-year-old has been unable to overcome a foot problem, with his last match on the ATP Tour circuit being a first-round defeat at the Madrid Open in May.", "\"I wanted to play the big tournaments and say goodbye, but I got to the Madrid tournament and I still wasn't 100 percent.", "I am still young for life, but for sport I am already knocking on a bit,\" he told reporters at a press conference.", "\"I realized with that match that the moment had arrived.", "It's not how I dreamed of ending my career.\"", "Moya won the French Open in 1998 before taking the top men's spot in March the following year, holding it for just two weeks as he became the first Spaniard at the summit since the introduction of the rankings system in 1973.", "Born on the island of Majorca but now resident in Switzerland, he has earned more than $13 million in prize money since his debut in 1995.", "Moya has slumped to 519th in the world, but can look back to better days when he won 20 titles on the main circuit, lost in the final of the 1997 Australian Open and reached the semis of the 1998 U.S. Open.", "That year he also reached the title match of the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals, losing to compatriot Alex Corretja.", "In 2004, alongside a youthful Rafael Nadal -- the current No.", "1 -- Moya helped Spain to win the Davis Cup for the second time as he was victorious in both his singles matches against the United States .", "Moya -- who plays right-handed despite being a natural lefty -- will bow out in a farewell tournament in Seville next month, according to the ATP Tour website, then look to a life outside tennis.", "\"I'll keep on with my gym in Majorca.", "I have a sports business and I'll dedicate more time to my wife, my daughter and my family.", "But I'll definitely miss tennis,\" said Moya, whose baby Carla arrived in August." ]	[ "Former world No.", "1 Carlos Moya calls time on his tennis career due to injury problems .", "The 34-year-old Spaniard has not played since losing at the Madrid Open in May .", "He won 20 titles in 15 years on the ATP Tour, including the 1998 French Open .", "Moya was the first player from his country to top the men's world rankings ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In the late 1980s through the end of the 1990s, an unusual show on Comedy Central (once called the Comedy Channel) cultivated a devoted audience that loved bad B-grade movies and inspired heckling.", "\"Mystery Science Theater 3000\" showed series creator Joel Hodgson as a man stranded in space with some wisecracking robots.", "As original cast members left the show and new comedians were introduced, the show continued to deliver a unique brand of humor.", "Years later, \"MST3K\" has given rise to Cinematic Titanic, comprised of Hodgson, J. Elvis Weinstein, Trace Beaulieu, Mary Jo Pehl and Frank Conniff.", "Cinematic Titanic met with CNN to discuss their process and something called \"Weisenheimer's.\"", "CNN: What's it like being back with some of the old \"MST3K\" gang?", "Hodgson: It's been great.", "We're kind of like different gangs all intersected because our times at \"Mystery Science Theater\" didn't all overlap.", "But we all knew each other before \"Mystery Science Theater\" even started, because we were all comics.", "So it's been great. It's been fun to hang out with these guys after so many years.", "We hang out a lot now because we're on the road together quite a bit.", "Conniff: It feels safe.", "[Everyone giggles.] ...", "Weinstein: This is like our third year doing this, so we've had a lot of experience.", "We've done 60 shows on the road these last three years, and each time we go to a new location, so we're spending a lot of time with each other now.", "Or, just enough time.", "Pehl: And we all share one room, so that's ... [Mary Jo rolls her eyes.] ...", "CNN: Can you explain the process of finding the movies that you're going to give the Cinematic Titanic treatment to?", "Hodgson: I do it now. Frank did it for \"Mystery Science Theater,\" so he can give you his take on it for that.", "For Cinematic Titanic we use certain vendors who search for movies, so occasionally they'll bring stuff to me.", "Or I'll just look for stuff.", "Half of our stuff is licensed, so they're representing different producers, and half of it is public domain, so that's a whole different process.", "You find a movie, and you have to find the right print and you have to do a copyright search, talk to the lawyer, make sure it's OK to use.", "Then, once we have those that fit that profile, then I show it to everybody and we go through the process of everyone signing off on it, saying if this will work.", "We just did that with a new movie we're working on right now.", "It's called \"Watch Out for Snakes.\"", "[Cinematic Titanic grins and snickers.] ...", "Pehl: People get ravaged.", "Is that a bad way to use that word?", "Beaulieu: They don't get ravaged in a good way, they get ravaged in a bad way.", "By snakes. Conniff: For \"Mystery Science Theater\" it was a little different, in that we would be sent a bunch of screeners.", "When we were working with Comedy Central they would find screeners and send them to us, and I would just do the initial process of going through the boxes and watching them, find the ones I thought could work as a show, and then show them to everybody else.", "But back then we had the machinery of a cable network to help us with that kind of stuff, but now we're on our own.", "CNN: How is Cinematic Titanic distributed?", "What's working, what's not and what are your future plans?", "Weinstein: We're self-financed and self-distributing.", "Trace and his wife do fulfillment stuff.", "We also offer the show through download at a site called easytakes.com.", "And it seems like it's about half and half.", "Beaulieu: Yeah, it runs, hard disks maybe twice as much as downloads.", "Hodgson: Plus easytakes is packaging our movies as apps for the Droid so you can buy the app and it will just play the movie.", "Weinstein: The Droid thing has yet to launch.", "Beaulieu: We sell a good number of DVDs here [at DragonCon] and at our live shows, too.", "It's a real manufacturing to customer direct line.", "Conniff: We leave out the middle man and pass the savings on to you!", "Hodgson: He's waited his whole life to say that.", "CNN: Do you find that audiences at DragonCon are especially tuned in to your brand of humor?", "What is the con circuit like for you?", "Hodgson: Well we don't really do the circuit, we sort of just go to the occasional con.", "Beaulieu: This is the one we've been to the most.", "This is our third year.", "This one fits our sensibility more because our MO has always been do-it-yourself, and this one is all that.", "It's really people-powered.", "Comic-Con is really just Hollywood blowing you away with how much money it has and awing you with its giant displays and you really are, as a fan or an observer, you're really put in this category.", "Here it really just, like, flows everywhere.", "You just can see people being creative and kind of doing their own thing.", "I think this one fits much better, I prefer this con way more than Comic-Con.", "Weinstein: We did the Cinematic Titanic panel last night to a packed ballroom and then we showed our episode and then came back afterwards and did some signing afterwards.", "But 90 percent of that audience stayed to watch the episode.", "Beaulieu: Yeah and they were a great audience for that episode.", "Weinstein: Yes, they were totally tuned in and it was exciting to see.", "CNN: Josh, how did you decide on the moniker J. Elvis?", "Weinstein: I decided on it because when I joined the writer's guild there already was a Josh Weinstein, and I gave myself the Elvis because I loved that it gave me the initials J. E. W. and also somewhat inspired by being a fan of Elvis Costello, but mostly it's about J. E. W. Hodgson: In LA there are very few people not named Josh Weinstein.", "CNN: Can you describe the transition from \"Mystery Science Theater\" to what you're doing with Cinematic Titanic and what your old coworkers are doing with RiffTrax?", "Hodgson: Well, when we started we were really interested in doing very quirky movies, and [RiffTrax] were doing big movies.", "They did \"Lord of the Rings,\" and any big blockbuster that came out.", "It seemed really clear that we're working this side of the street with old movies and they're working new movies.", "But that's getting kind of muddled now because they're coming back and doing old movies.", "Like we did in \"Mystery Science Theater.\"", "CNN: What's the secret to making wisecracks for a living?", "Conniff: That's a long process.", "We all started out as stand-up comics, so we all set out for careers being weisenheimers, making wisecracks.", "Beaulieu: You have Weisenheimers, don't you?", "[Everyone laughs.] ...", "Conniff: I do, actually, it's painful.", "Hodgson: I'm grappling with Weisenheimer's disease.", "Pehl: We're having a walk for you. Weinstein: But we were lucky enough, when we started \"Mystery Science Theater\" to have a UHF station that sort of gave us free reign.", "So we had a little laboratory to create this art form, if you will.", "Hodgson: Back then we did 20 shows, and we just improvised.", "It was unheard of back then to make a show where you just kind of talk over a movie.", "Prior to that there had been people who re-synched, added sound, redone the dialogue on movies, but this was really different so it grew very organically.", "By the end of it we kind of had it figured out.", "If we didn't have that, I can't imagine just walking in and trying to pitch this idea to anybody.", "Conniff: And we had 20 shows that we could edit down to a four-minute sizzle reel that we could show them.", "Hodgson: We had a thousand people in a fan club, so we had this kind of packet that we could lay down when we went to the Comedy Channel.", "And we said, \"Hey, this is happening,\" and they just happened to need content.", "So it was just 'cause it was the beginning of basic cable and they needed to fill time more than anything.", "Conniff: Sad but true.", "Hodgson: It worked for us.", "CNN: What's the difference between a geek and a nerd?", "Weinstein: Geeks will talk to us, nerds find us too weird.", "Hodgson: To me, for geeks there's an extra level of involvement for whatever it is they're focused on.", "A geek kind of implies a specificity of interest for whatever it is they're geeking out about.", "Beaulieu: Geek is more intense than nerd .", "Conniff: I think a nerd gets beat up, and a geek gets beat up and then goes and watches an episode of \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer.\"", "Weinstein: Yeah, and starts a software company." ]	[ "Cinematic Titanic take their wisecracking brand of movie-heckling humor on the road .", "Dragon*Con is a good fit, because of the individuality fostered at the convention .", "Coming up next: \"Watch Out for Snakes\" in which people are ravaged ." ]	[ 10, 17, 25, 27, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Evan Lysacek became a household name in February when he won the Olympic gold medal in men's figure skating.", "Since his rise to fame, he has made it a point to get involved with charitable work.", "He currently works with Help USA, a nonprofit organization that provides housing and support services so the homeless and other people in need can become self-sufficient.", "Lysacek, a supporter of CNN Heroes, recently spoke to CNN producer Megan Clifford about the Heroes campaign and his humanitarian work.", "Below are excerpts from that interview.", "Megan Clifford: Why did you decide to get involved with Help USA?", "Evan Lysacek: Well, I've always looked up to -- in my lifetime and in my career -- athletes and people who are strong members of the community.", "As I've gained a little bit of success, I thought the most important thing to do, first and foremost, was to give back and help out.", "Homelessness can happen to anyone within the blink of an eye.", "Job loss is so prevalent in the country today with the state of our economy ... a lot of people have become homeless or jobless very quickly, and they did not see it coming.", "Help USA is the largest homeless advocate in the country.", "Knowing their reputation, I wanted to get involved immediately and asked how.", "They said, \"Come on down, we'll film a public service announcement.\"", "Clifford: What exactly does Help USA do?", "Lysacek: Help USA helps [its] clients by teaching the skills that they're going to need to go out and reclaim their lives ... life skills, education, job placement and training, child care, as well as counseling.", "They provide a variety of services at their residences to help their clients get their lives back on track.", "Clifford: How has your work with Help USA affected you?", "Lysacek: It's inspired me more than I could have imagined.", "I thought I would be signing on to teach and give as much as I could ... but in turn, they've taught me so much about working and remaining positive with the circumstances that you're dealt.", "As gratifying as it was for me to work my entire life for my Olympic dream and somehow, someway achieve it in Vancouver by winning gold, I get so much more appreciation and I feel so much more heart when I can help more than one person.", "As memories of competitions, of medals and podiums, fade away, there are pictures that are embedded in my head with families in need that will really stick with me for the rest of my life.", "Clifford: You're a sports hero to many people.", "What is a hero to you? Lysacek: A hero to me is a person that leads by example, and they don't always take the easy road.", "Sometimes, they're the only one on a certain path, but they always do what they think is right and they're positive members of their community.", "Clifford: Why did you get involved with CNN Heroes?", "Lysacek: CNN Heroes honors everyday people who've given extraordinary things to their communities.", "It inspires everyone to get up, go out and do something -- take a stand for what you believe in, team up with an organization you really care about, help someone in need.", "That's something everyone in this world could learn from -- seeing a positive force within their community.", "It's sometimes difficult to comprehend how you can possibly make a difference, but when it's right there in front of your eyes through a program like CNN Heroes, it's easy to believe that you truly can.", "And that's why I feel like this is so important." ]	[ "Olympic champion Evan Lysacek supports Help USA, the nation's largest homeless advocate .", "Help USA provides housing and support services so people can get back on their feet .", "Lysacek: Help USA experience has \"taught me so much about working and remaining positive\"" ]	[ 2, 10, 16, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dikembe Mutombo came to the United States on an academic scholarship to study medicine at Georgetown University.", "But his career path soon changed after joining the school's basketball team.", "Mutombo would go on to play in the NBA for 18 years and become one of the league's all-time best defensive players.", "Mutombo has always been involved in humanitarian work, particularly through the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation.", "He has been involved with CNN Heroes since 2007, when he served on the Blue Ribbon Panel that selects the top Heroes of the year.", "Mutombo recently sat down with CNN producer Allison Blakely to talk about Heroes and his philanthropy.", "Below are excerpts from that interview.", "Allison Blakely: What was your inspiration for starting the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation?", "Dikembe Mutombo: After traveling so much in Africa, doing some work for different organizations, we [had] witnessed so much suffering and pain.", "The Democratic Republic of Congo [has suffered] more than 10 years of civil unrest, where more than 5.3 million people have died.", "People have [called it] the World War III of Africa.", "(shakes his head) People are left with nothing.", "I decided to create the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to change the living condition of my people in Africa.", "Blakely: You originally intended to be a doctor.", "Now you've built a hospital in your homeland.", "Tell me about it. Mutombo: [It] was my [hope] in building a hospital to let people know that things can be much better in the future. ...", "The Old Testament says, \"People perish because of lack of education,\" and that's what we are trying to do.", "It's through education we will reduce the mortality rate: telling those moms how they can keep their babies away from mosquitoes, how they can get their baby vaccinated and deliver the baby in better circumstances.", "There was a woman that delivered a premature baby; I think that baby was like the size of my hands.", "We were the only hospital that was well-equipped with the high technology.", "The baby was able to grow stronger until it was able to go home.", "To see that child every time I go home is like I gave life to somebody.", "I think each one of us in this world, we have a duty to fulfill our mission.", "God has blessed some of us in the position to touch many people, and so many people can hear our voices from distances away, and I think I am capable to do it.", "Blakely: What is a hero to you, and what do you think inspires some of these people?", "Mutombo: A hero is someone who inspires you with their voice or with their acts or with their hands.", "That's a hero. Blakely: You were on the CNN Heroes Blue Ribbon Panel back in 2007.", "What was that like? Mutombo: I think it's great.", "I [would] encourage more people who have the strength and the courage and the love and the commitment of going out and making a difference to go and try.", "... You can't just live in a society where you think, \"I don't have anything to contribute.\"", "It's all about the gift that you have. ... You can inspire so many people.", "Blakely: You went out to the \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" last year, right?", "How was that? Mutombo: I was just walking down the red carpet, able to meet Anderson Cooper and everybody who came from the different parts of the world, celebrating our work and our contribution to this world.", "It was amazing. Blakely: So, you've met some of the CNN Heroes.", "How have you been inspired by them? Mutombo: Oh, inspired a lot.", "To see some of the people -- how they have gone on with no money, with no mean[s] -- there's a lot of people out there who are contributing.", "We all have some obligation to fulfill something in this world we're living in.", "It doesn't matter how long your life [is].", "It is about your contribution, how much difference you're making.", "That's what those people are doing. I thank them, and I compliment them, and I salute them for their effort." ]	[ "Former NBA star is committed to helping people in Democratic Republic of Congo .", "His foundation helps provide health care and education for many Congolese .", "Mutombo has been a part of CNN Heroes since 2007, when he served on the Blue Ribbon Panel ." ]	[ 0, 4, 11, 26 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Iraqi authorities have shared information obtained from captured insurgents who claim al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas holiday season, a U.S. official said Thursday.", "The official said the threat report is being taken seriously, but there is no intelligence indicating there is a specific or credible threat against the U.S. homeland.", "But, the official added, al Qaeda in Iraq remains a dangerous force.", "The official indicated the United States remains vigilant, especially during the holidays, in light of what happened last Christmas -- a reference to the failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit.", "Another U.S. official said \"we are looking closely\" at the information coming from Iraq.", "Interpol spokesman Pietro Calcaterra told CNN that \"we have received information from our office in Baghdad about possible al Qaeda attacks on U.S. and European targets.\"", "He didn't elaborate. Two Iraqi officials, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, are saying there is no specific information about a Christmas attack.", "The U.S. military in Baghdad told CNN the American mission in Iraq \"will work closely with the government of Iraq and our interagency partners to help determine the extent of any potential threat.\"" ]	[ "No specific threat is indicated against the United States .", "An \"underwear\" bomber tried to bring down a U.S. plane last Christmas ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Not everyone wishes others well in fulfilling their New Year's resolutions.", "Giyen Kim has gone from 190 to 186 pounds in four weeks.", "A doctor says that's \"very reasonable.\"", "On a video that Giyen Kim recently posted on iReport.com about her frustration with trying to lose weight, one user commented, \"Who cares how much you have lost you are still a fat a**.", "Stop eating and go to the gym.\"", "In the past, Kim might have cried and turned to a pint of ice cream for comfort, she reflected.", "But this time, she hit the gym -- a reaction she views as a revelation.", "\"I think that when you are doing what you need to be doing, things like that don't matter,\" she said.", "See Kim talk about losing weight .", "Kim, 34, is one of many CNN readers who are using CNN's iReport.com to share frequent updates of progress on their New Year's resolutions.", "iReport.com: Share your journey to change .", "Kim started out at 190 pounds on January 1 with the intention of losing about a pound or two a week throughout the year.", "Lately she has been cooking more for herself and trying to stay away from foods that have refined carbohydrates.", "She also tries to eat one vegan meal every day, but still occasionally indulges in bacon, the namesake for her blog Bacon is My Enemy.", "She exercises six days a week, mostly cardio, but wants to work on strength training and resistance training.", "She would also like to take step classes.", "So far she's shed four pounds in four weeks, but the pace feels slow compared with her diet regimens in the past, she said.", "She found that those extreme diet plans were not realistic options in the long run for maintaining a comfortable weight.", "Still, Kim maintains a positive outlook on her situation.", "\"No matter if you get derailed, if you just pick yourself up again and get back on track, it makes a big difference,\" she said.", "\"If you're in a place of feeling good about yourself, regardless of how your self-image has been in the past, it propels you to go forward.\"", "Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist from San Francisco, California, said losing a pound per week is very reasonable.", "At most, Kim could probably lose an additional half-pound to pound a week, \"but any more than that and she would probably be losing water weight and muscle,\" Jampolis said.", "Jampolis recommends that Kim keep a daily journal of what she eats, and review it to see where she might be able to cut 50 to 100 calories, and where there might be hidden calories in her diet.", "Kim should also make sure she is varying the intensity, duration, and type of workout, Jampolis said.", "\"As she loses weight and becomes more fit, she is burning fewer calories doing the same thing, so it is critical to change things up,\" Jampolis said.", "But generally Kim's current pace is great -- \"At that rate, she will be down another 20 pounds by summer!\"", "Jampolis said.", "As far as Kim's professional goals, she has secured an interim position at a non-profit organization, and continues to do video blogs for Momversation.com.", "The market for freelance writers is tough, particularly with many newspapers struggling, she said.", "Still, Kim is optimistic about following her dream to become a writer.", "\"I'm not optimistic about our economic future as a country, but as far as me and my journey to find happiness, and accomplish some of these goals that I've had -- weight loss and following my writing passion -- absolutely, I'm still really positive about it,\" she said." ]	[ "iReporter Giyen Kim has been losing a pound per week since the start of 2009 .", "She exercises six days a week, eats one vegan meal per day .", "Dr. Melina Jampolis says a pound a week is a reasonable pace .", "Share your journey to change with iReport.com ." ]	[ 10, 11, 14, 21 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- I don't do dogs and I don't do yoga.", "CNN's Lola Ogunnaike, right, conquers her fear of dogs and yoga with a doga class in Manhattan.", "Having inherited my mother's abject fear of animals, I try to stay clear of anything with four legs and fur.", "Yoga is too slow for me. All that breathing and stretching and chanting and centeredness.", "Boring. I'd rather jump and kick and pump and gasp for air.", "But my curiosity got the best of me when I discovered that Bideawee, an animal welfare organization in Manhattan, offers a yoga class for dogs -- doga.", "During the 45-minute session, pooches and their masters give new meaning to the phrase \"downward facing dog.\"", "The room was small but comfortable, and the dogs, I must admit, were adorable with saccharine-sweet names such as Picasso, Bailey and Sophie.", "Awww. Since I didn't have my own pup, I borrowed Sophie, a 10-pound Shih Tzu, who was so calm I wondered if she'd been slipped a quaalude before class.", "In \"child's pose,\" she stood on my back and slowly surveyed the room.", "I lifted her with my legs.", "Held her in \"warrior pose.\"", "Stretched her hind legs.", "Stroked her little head as we chanted Ommmmmm and Boooone.", "Watch this special yoga class » .", "Were we bonding? I think so. It was as bizarre as it was sweet.", "And some women in the class admitted as much.", "\"There are a lot of people who think it's a little silly, but the class is very lighthearted,\" said Sophie's \"mother,\" Grace.", "She carries Sophie around in a Louis Vuitton bag that's bigger than my apartment.", "\"No one takes it too seriously.", "It's just a chance to bond with your dog and have fun,\" she said.", "Another class member brought her \"baby\" because she thinks he's a bit too hyper and needs to chill out.", "Instructor Kari Harendorf has been teaching doga for several years.", "She said she believes the classes are perfect for these stressful times.", "\"It's actually been proven scientifically that just the simple act of petting a dog will release happy hormones in humans and will lower their cortisol, which is the stress hormone,\" she said.", "\"Studies have also shown that it goes both ways, that when dogs receive the petting and attention that their stress levels decrease.\"", "By the end of our session, the dogs did appear to be more \"blissed out,\" to borrow a term from Harendorf.", "Not a bark or a growl was heard.", "The only person panting was me.", "As I lay on my mat contemplating how I'd become so inflexible, everyone filed out quietly.", "I was one step closer to conquering my fear of animals and touching my toes." ]	[ "CNN reporter borrows dog for special yoga class .", "In doga classes, pooches do poses, assist owners .", "Sophie, a 10-pound Shih Tzu, comes in a Louis Vuitton bag .", "Dog owner says class helps humans bond with their animals ." ]	[ 1, 8, 14, 18 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama told CNN's Larry King on Thursday that he is furious about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but his job is to fix things instead of just yelling at people.", "In a White House interview for the 25th anniversary of \"Larry King Live\" on CNN, Obama called the oil spill an unprecedented crisis for the country but added it could have been worse.", "Despite the challenges posed by the oil spill, global threats involving North Korea and Iran and political battles with Congress, Obama called being president \"the best job on Earth.\"", "\"It's an extraordinary privilege to wake up every day and know you have the opportunity to serve the American people and make life better,\" he said.", "King noted that the latest CNN Poll of Polls showed Obama at 48 percent support among the American people, which the president called pretty good, considering the circumstances.", "\"Given everything that's going on, my poll numbers are all right,\" Obama said.", "Asked about his anger toward the oil spill situation, Obama said he was furious because \"somebody didn't think through the consequences of their actions.\"", "Obama also said he had not seen enough of a rapid response from BP to the environmental catastrophe.", "\"I would love to just spend a lot of my time venting and yelling at people, but that's not the job I was hired to do,\" Obama said.", "\"My job is to solve this problem and ultimately this isn't about me and how angry I am.", "Ultimately this is about the people down in the Gulf who are being impacted and what am I doing to make sure that they're able to salvage their way of life.\"", "Oil giant BP caused the spill and is responsible for paying the costs, Obama said, adding: \"My job is to make sure they're being held accountable.\"", "In the wide-ranging interview to be broadcast Thursday night, Obama also acknowledged Israel's security concerns while questioning the Israeli blockade of Gaza following this week's military raid on a flotilla of ships carrying relief supplies to the Palestinian territory.", "The president called the incident that killed nine people, including a Turkish-American man, a \"tragic situation\" that could serve as \"an opportunity\" to advance the Middle East peace process.\"", "On the oil spill, Obama said BP has the best technology and know-how to try to stop the leak, but the president indicated that the spill could continue until relief wells being drilled now are completed in August.", "Despite the havoc that the oil spill is causing to Gulf fisheries and fragile wetlands, Obama said he still supports off-shore drilling \"if it can be done safely.\"", "Asked about reports that his administration had extended a moratorium on offshore drilling to shallow water rigs, Obama denied it.", "\"Actually the moratorium is not extended to the shallow waters,\" the president said.", "On another topic, Obama criticized Arizona's controversial new immigration law because it could lead to \"50 different laws in 50 different states\" regarding border security, which is a federal concern.", "The interview took place shortly after Obama met with Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer, who said Obama pledged to work with her on solving the immigration problem.", "The new Arizona law, which takes effect in July, allows police officers to check the residency status of anyone who is being investigated for a crime or possible legal infraction if there is reasonable suspicion the person is an illegal resident.", "Critics, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have said the law will promote racial profiling.", "Obama told CNN that the issue required a broader response than just strengthening border security, and he urged Congress to work with him on comprehensive immigration reform that would tighten the border while requiring illegal immigrants to register, pay back taxes and penalties, learn English and seek citizenship through normal channels.", "The president also discussed the status of pending free agent basketball star Lebron James, saying that part of him hoped James would re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers because it would be a \"great story.\"", "Obama, who is from Chicago and a known fan of the hometown Bulls, acknowledged his response might make people there unhappy.", "The president also called Wednesday night's White House concert honoring former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney a great event, particularly when McCartney serenaded the first lady with the love ballad that shares her first name, \"Michelle.\"", "\"When she was a little girl growing up on the South Side (of Chicago), I don't think she ever imagined that happening,\" Obama said." ]	[ "President Obama says he's furious about the Gulf oil spill, but his job is to fix it, not vent .", "Obama calls the crisis unprecedented, but says it could have been worse .", "Despite challenges, Obama calls being president \"the best job on Earth\"\nObama was interviewed by CNN's Larry King for the 25th anniversary of \"Larry King Live\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Harry Kewell scored a dramatic extra-time winner as Australia beat holders Iraq 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup in Doha Saturday.", "The former Liverpool star struck with three minutes left of added time to deal a hammer blow to Iraq's title defense.", "The Socceroos will now take on Uzbekistan for a place in Saturday's final in Qatar.", "Kewell, who now plays for Galatasaray in Turkey, headed a cross from Matt McKay past Iraqi goalkeeper Mohammed Kassid to settle a tense encounter.", "Victory was sweet revenge for the Australians, who were beaten 3-1 by eventual winners Iraq in the group stages of the competition four years ago.", "Chances were few and far between in the first half of normal time, although McKay and Kewell came close just before the break.", "But in the second half, the Lions of Mesopotamia started to roar and Emad Mohammed hit the post with Mark Schwarzer beaten.", "Into extra-time, it was Australia who looked the more likely to make the breakthrough with Sasa Ognenovski nearly scoring with a spectacular overhead kick.", "Penalties were looming though when 32-year-old Kewell cropped up to score the vital goal to send Holgier Osieck's men through.", "\"We showed great character in this game.", "It was delightful for the coach to watch.\"", "he told AFP. \"Basically, we should have done it in the regular 90 minutes.", "Iraq played better in extra time.\"", "Meanwhile, South Korea beat Iran 1-0 in in the later quarterfinal, again after extra-time, to set up a last-four meeting with Japan.", "South Korea dominated for most the match but created few clear-cut chances at the Qatar Sport Club stadium.", "However, a goal from South Korean midfielder Bit Ka Ram Yoon in the 105th minute was enough to knock out the three-time champions.", "Both semifinals are scheduled to take place on Tuesday." ]	[ "South Korea score in extra-time to beat Iran 1-0 in Asian Cup quarterfinals .", "Harry Kewell scores only goal of the game as Australia knock out 2007 champions Iraq .", "Kewell heads home winner with three minutes left of extra time in Doha .", "Australia to face Uzbekistan in semifinals; South Korea to meet Japan ." ]	[ 0, 13, 15 ]
[ "LAUREL, Maryland (CNN) -- Seth Owusu knew at a young age that he wanted to help his countrymen.", "Seth Owusu shows children in his native Ghana how to use a computer during his visit in June.", "\"I came from Ghana,\" Owusu recalls.", "\"It all started when I was in primary school and we had some missionaries come to the school.\"", "The visit touched Owusu, who was 8 years old at the time.", "He tried to figure out why these missionaries had journeyed so far.", "\"I couldn't understand why somebody would travel thousands of miles just to come to a very rural, poor dirt road,\" he said.", "\"I thought it was great.", "I wanted to transfer that feeling to somebody else.\"", "That passion followed Owusu when he immigrated to the United States at age 24.", "He began working at hardware store, where he was tasked to pick up and deliver items.", "Owusu used a small bar code scanner to enter information about the items he'd pick up, his first encounter with a computer-like device.", "\"I had no idea what a computer was,\" he said.", "After work one day, he went home and decided to learn as much as he could about computers.", "Just after he graduated from a technical college, Owusu established Entire Village Computer Organization, a small nonprofit organization that donates refurbished used computers to schools.", "He runs EVCO with the help of four volunteer staff members in Ghana.", "Watch Owusu and children with the new computers » .", "EVCO goes much further than simply dropping off the computers in villages.", "\"We make a three-calendar-year commitment because we don't want it to be a teaser, where it's working two months and after that, it's gone,\" Owusu said.", "He says technicians go to the schools if there is a broken computer, and they also show teachers how computers can be fixed if they fail again.", "Owusu and other members of EVCO spend hours in each village, not only installing and teaching about computers, but also giving motivational speeches and teaching about other topics.", "\"In the donation ceremony ... we have everybody there,\" Owusu said.", "\"We talk about how the Internet has revolutionized everything; how we live in the global community.", "We talk about staying in school.", "We talk about HIV/AIDS.", "We talk about kids' behavior, peer pressure.", "We talk about a whole range of things.", "So it's a community affair.\"", "Before each trip to Africa, Owusu picks up and refurbishes donated computers, doing most of the work himself.", "The garage and his shop in the basement of his home in suburban Maryland are crowded with piles of CPUs and monitors.", "But most of the work goes into planning his trips, he says.", "Much of his free time is spent combing through applications from various villages and working out logistics.", "\"Before we visit a village, it takes about six months,\" he said.", "\"My wife, she thinks I'm crazy ...", "I work eight hours and I come home, and the moment I sit down ...", "I work for the next eight or 10 hours.\"", "Owusu traveled to Ghana again late this spring and was able to incorporate a new program -- this time for younger children who have traditionally been left out.", "\"There's nothing we can give them, other than little school supplies and soccer balls and things like that,\" he said.", "The new program, Photos and Fun, lets the children take photos and display them in classrooms.", "\"Most of these kids haven't ever seen a digital camera before,\" Owusu said.", "Last year, EVCO also began to donate computers to villages in Nigeria.", "Owusu hopes to add one more African country to the list each year.", "\"If we can go to a country and plant the seed there, this program can take care of itself,\" Owusu said.", "\"We can be a major player in education in rural communities and help the people who need help and cannot get it.\"", "EVCO has donated 120 computers and visited 18 villages in Ghana and Nigeria.", "Owusu says the nonprofit group has seen an improvement in villages and a higher interest in education in schools that have received EVCO donations.", "\"The first school we donated to in 2005 ... the population was 700 when we donated the computers.", "Two years later, the school grew to 1,300 students.", "In order for Owusu's dream to come true, he has had to sacrifice many things.", "\"I sold my house in 2006 to support one of the trips,\" he said.", "He works in the \"Geek Squad\" department at a Best Buy electronics store in Washington.", "He says his employer has been very accommodating, but because of the economy, his hours have been cut.", "He recently decided to step down from his supervisor position because it was too demanding and he wasn't able to put in the hours needed to spend with EVCO.", "But for Owusu, it's all worth it.", "\"It's been amazing,\" he said. \"It's been just amazing.\"" ]	[ "Seth Owusu grew up in Ghana, where he was inspired by missionaries .", "After he moved to the United States, he trained in computers .", "Owusu runs a charity that takes refurbished computers to his native country .", "He and his staff see more interest in education in villages that receive donations ." ]	[ 1, 9, 10, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A three-goal blitz in 17 minutes preserved Manchester United's unbeaten record in the English Premier League and saved them from an embarrassing defeat at Blackpool.", "The league leaders eventually won 3-2 at Bloomfield Road after newly-promoted Blackpool had stunned Alex Ferguson's side by leading 2-0 at the interval.", "But two goals from Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov and one from Mexican Javier Hernandez spared United's blushes and extended their lead at the top of the table to five points over Arsenal.", "Blackpool, entertaining United in a top flight game for the first time in 40 years, flew out of the traps against their illustrious opponents and were ahead inside a quarter of an hour.", "Defender Craig Cathcart, who joined Blackpool from United in August last year, rose to head Charlie Adam's corner into the net.", "When Blackpool doubled their advantage on 42 minutes a major shock looked to be on the cards.", "Again United failed to deal with a Blackpool corner and DJ Campbell nodded home at the far post.", "Ferguson sent his side out five minutes before the restart in an attempt to kick start their reply but they very nearly conceded a penalty when Rafael upended Luke Varney in the penalty area.", "Blackpool began to tire as United upped the tempo and they pulled a goal back when Berbatov turned home Darren Fletcher's cross on 72 minutes.", "Just two minutes later Hernandez, on as a substitute for Wayne Rooney, collected Ryan Giggs' pinpoint pass before firing low into the net.", "And with 88 minutes on the watch Berbatov grabbed his second and United's winner when he ran onto a Paul Scholes pass and drilled a left foot shot into the net.", "After the match Ferguson told Sky Sports: \"In the first half we were battered.", "We were all over the place. Maybe we were too confident.", "\"We changed at half-time, Ryan Giggs made a tremendous difference.", "We started to penetrate and I think we were deserved winners in the end.\"", "Aston Villa made it two wins in four days as they beat Wigan Athletic 2-1.", "Gabriel Agbonlahor put Gerard Houllier's side in front when he pounced on a loose ball to head past Wigan's Omani goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi.", "Ashley Young then extended Villa's lead from the penalty spot after he was brought down by Hendry Thomas.", "Wigan pulled a goal back with ten minutes left after James McCarthy's long range effort deflected off James Collins but Villa held on for a win that takes them up to 13th in the table.", "Arsenal booked their place in the League Cup final after beating second division side Ipswich 3-0 at Emirates Stadium.", "The Premier League side trailed 1-0 from the first leg but sealed their place at Wembley thanks to goals from Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner, French defender Laurent Koscielny and Spain international Cesc Fabregas." ]	[ "Manchester United come back from two goals down to beat Blackpool 3-2 .", "Two goals from Dimitar Berbatov help United extend their lead at the top to five points .", "Aston Villa win 2-1 at Wigan thanks to goals from Gabriel Agbonlahor and Ashley Young .", "Arsenal beat Ipswich Town to claim a place in the Carling Cup final ." ]	[ 2, 15, 19, 20 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Seven midshipmen were expelled from the Naval Academy for using a drug called \"spice\" in violation of the Navy's policies on illicit substance abuse, officials said.", "The midshipmen were \"separated from the Naval Academy\" as of Thursday, said Cmdr.", "Joe Carpenter, spokesman for the academy.", "\"While we will not go into the details of individual cases, the violations of the Navy's substance abuse policies included use and possession,\" Carpenter said in a statement.", "\"These cases involved 'spice,' which is considered a banned substance by the departments of Defense and Navy.\"", "\"Spice,\" also known as K2, is a mixture of herbs and spices that typically is sprayed with a synthetic compound chemically similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration fact sheet.", "\"K2 is commonly purchased in head shops, tobacco shops, various retail outlets and over the Internet,\" the DEA said.", "\"It is often marketed as incense or 'fake weed.'\"", "Its effects on the body are similar to that of marijuana.", "The midshipmen included juniors and sophomores, Carpenter said.", "The academy, located in Annapolis, Maryland, did not identify them.", "On whether they will have to repay the cost of their education, Carpenter said the decision is up to the Department of the Navy.", "\"Consistent with Navy policy, the Naval Academy has a zero tolerance policy regarding illicit drug use or possession,\" Carpenter said.", "The investigation is ongoing, he said.", "Other midshipmen told academy leadership about the allegations after the fall semester began, he said.", "In 2009, 11 midshipmen were found to be in violation of the Navy's substance abuse policy.", "In 2010, four other midshipmen were found to be in violation.", "Spice is usually smoked in joints or pipes, according to the DEA, but some users make it into a tea.", "Its key ingredients are not regulated in the United States, but they have been banned or declared illegal in some European countries.", "The U.S. military has banned their use, the DEA noted.", "CNN's Adam Levine contributed to this report." ]	[ "'Spice' is a form of synthetic marijuana .", "The 7 midshipmen included sophomores and juniors .", "They were found to be in violation of the Navy's substance abuse policies ." ]	[ 3, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Polar Bear Plunge is not an event for the coldhearted.", "Participants actually pay up to jump into freezing-cold water, with the proceeds benefiting Special Olympics.", "Last year, the various Polar Bear Plunges held by each state raised a collective $16 million.", "\"Each event is so much more than just a Plunge, with hot tubs and huge heated tents, bands, vendors, costume contests, DJs and more,\" said Bronwyn Schaefer Pope, vice president of marketing and communications for Special Olympics Minnesota.", "The events \"allow people of all ages and abilities to do something wild and crazy to shake off the winter blues.\"", "Be it a lake, an ocean or a river, plungers continue to jump.", "CNN looks at the five biggest Plunges in the United States: .", "Maryland -- January 29, 2011 .", "Unlike many of the other Polar Bear Plunges in the United States, Maryland holds one massive event instead of multiple smaller ones.", "\"We determined that we would invest our time and energy into one event and maximize the craziness of that one event,\" said Tom Schniedwind, executive vice president for sports marketing for Special Olympics Maryland.", "He says that Maryland's Plunge, which takes place in Chesapeake Bay, has five giant festival tents on the day of the event, including an extreme sports tent and a music tent.", "\"It's kind of a bucket list thing for our plungers, whether they're veteran plungers or first-timers,\" Schniedwind said.", "Wisconsin -- February 5, 2011-March 5, 2011 .", "Plungers can choose from a dozen different Polar Bear Plunge locations and a variety of dates.", "However, the Madison Plunge, which takes place on February 19, and the Oshkosh Plunge, which also takes place on February 19, are the largest.", "\"In Madison, you walk out onto the ice, turn around and face the crowd, and jump into a 20-by-20-foot hole that's cut in the ice,\" said Kelly Kloepping, vice president of communications for Special Olympics Wisconsin.", "At other locations, you might jump off of a dock or run off the beach into the water.", "Minnesota -- January 29, 2011-March 12, 2011 .", "What started in 1998 with 65 plungers has grown into a massive fundraising effort, including 14 different plunge locations.", "Last year, the Minneapolis location alone had 1,800 plungers and raised more than $320,000.", "\"Each site has unique aspects which build on the character of the local community,\" Schaefer Pope said.", "In Rochester, Super Plungers can jump 24 times in 24 hours.", "In Minneapolis, those too chicken to plunge can run a 5K.", "\"The Plunges in Minnesota are not for the faint of heart and can definitely be considered an extreme sport,\" Schaefer Pope said.", "\"But they are also accessible to people of all ages and abilities.\"", "New Jersey -- November 27, 2010-February 26, 2011 .", "In New Jersey, Polar Bear Plunge participants can take a dip in the frigid Atlantic Ocean at two different locations.", "The Seaside Heights Plunge is the largest, with more than 4,500 plungers.", "\"They know exactly why they are jumping into the 30-degree water: for the athletes,\" said Doreen Pustizzi, senior director of communications for Special Olympics New Jersey.", "Last year's event at Seaside Heights had more plungers than ever, despite being postponed a week because of bad weather.", "Illinois -- February 25, 2011-March 19, 2011 .", "More than 10,000 people attended the various Plunges in Illinois in 2010, and with 18 locations in 2011, Special Olympics Illinois is expecting plenty of participants.", "\"We strive to have a consistent, quality experience at all of our plunge locations around the state,\" said Michele Henson, director of communications and publications for Special Olympics Illinois." ]	[ "Polar Bear Plunges are held all across the United States to raise money for Special Olympics .", "A Plunge consists of jumping into a body of water during the winter .", "Maryland raised the most money of all the states in 2010 ." ]	[ 8, 22, 28 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The Renault F1 team have shown a united front with Ferrari with a threat to boycott the 2010 Championship unless proposed rule changes are dropped by the sport's governing body.", "Renault have now joined Ferrari in saying they will not race in 2010 unless proposed changes are dropped .", "The decision comes in the wake of plans by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to introduce optional cost-caps and technical restrictions for competing teams.", "Renault stated on their official Web site that the decision by the FIA to introduce two sets of technical regulations has led to the team \"reconsidering its entry in next year's World Championship.\"", "Renault F1 Team Managing Director, Flavio Briatore said: \"We refuse to accept unilateral governance handed out by the FIA.", "If the decisions announced are not revised, we have no choice but to withdraw ... at the end of 2009.\"", "Are Ferrari and Renault right to serve the FIA with an ultimatum?", "President of the team, Bernard Rey, added: \"We remain committed to the sport, however, we cannot be involved in a championship operating with different sets of rules.\"", "The controversy centers on plans for an optional cost-capping policy to operate next season which the FIA argued, in an April press release, would allow technical innovation to flourish without promoting a \"spending race.\"", "It would mean that teams operating within a budget cap of $60 million would be free of technical restrictions, while those over this amount would not.", "The FIA believed this would attract new teams to join the sport and stated in April \"interest has been extraordinarily high from both existing teams and potential new entrants\" to the idea.", "However, Ferrari and Renault fear this will create a two-tier competition with cars in the same race competing under different rules.", "Renault's announcement comes after Ferrari - the only constructor to have taken part in every season since 1950 - confirmed they would not be entering a team for the 2010 world championships, for the same reasons on May 12.", "\"Ferrari confirms its opposition to the new technical regulations adopted by the FIA and does not intend entering its cars in the 2010 F1 Championship,\" the team said in a statement on its official Web site.", "The spotlight now turns to a crunch meeting between the teams and the FIA in London on Friday which will aim to resolve the growing crisis in Formula 1.", "The furore comes despite F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone telling the Times newspaper that he did not envisage the Italian team carrying through its threat earlier in the week.", "\"Ferrari are not stupid,\" he said.", "\"They don't want to leave Formula 1 and we don't want to lose them, so we'll get to grips with it.\"" ]	[ "Renault unite with Ferrari with a threat to boycott the 2010 Championship .", "Decision is the result of a dispute with the sport's governing body the FIA .", "Ferrari's uninterrupted participation in Championship goes back 60 years ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World No. 1 Roger Federer faces a potential quarterfinal clash with Nikolay Davydenko after his recent nemesis was drawn in the same quarter of the field for the Australian Open, which starts on Monday.", "The Russian has beaten Swiss star Federer in his past two meetings as he has risen to sixth in the rankings, winning the 2009 season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.", "Last year's losing finalist Federer faces Davydenko's unseeded compatriot Igor Andreev in the first round, and could play former world No.", "1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia in the third.", "To get to Federer, Davydenko -- who starts against a qualifier -- may have to face last year's semifinalist Fernando Verdasco, or the Spanish ninth seed's compatriots Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moya, who are both former top-ranked players.", "Third seed Novak Djokovic is also in Federer's half of the draw, along with No.", "8 Robin Soderling.", "The Serbian could face Soderling, last year's French Open finalist, in the quarterfinals before a potential semifinal with Federer.", "World No. 2 and defending champion Rafael Nadal heads the other half of the draw, where he could face Andy Murray in the quarterfinals.", "Murray has paid the price for deciding against defending his Qatar Open title earlier this month, with the Britain dropping outside the top four in the rankings.", "If he were to get past Nadal, Murray could possibly face a semifinal against U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro, who is fourth seed and expected to play despite pulling out of the Kooyong Classic with a wrist problem.", "Del Potro could play American seventh seed Andy Roddick in the last eight.", "Verdasco will play Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who is seeded 10th for the season's first Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, in Saturday's final in the exhibition event.", "Meanwhile, 2006 Australian Open runner-up Marcus Baghdatis will play Richard Gasquet in the final of the Sydney International event on Saturday.", "Cypriot Baghdatis is aiming for his second title in three tournaments, having won the Stockholm Open at the end of last year.", "Frenchman Gasquet is seeking his first ATP Tour title since September 2007, having served a ban for a positive cocaine test last year which was later reduced due to mitigating circumstances.", "Australian Open men's singles draw (seeds in bold): .", "1-Roger Federer (Swi) v Igor Andreev (Rus) Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) v Victor Hanescu (Rom) Stephane Robert (Fra) v Potito Starace (Ita) Oscar Hernandez (Spa) v 31-Albert Montanes (Spa) 22-Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) v Qualifier Christophe Rochus (Bel) v Qualifier Paolo Lorenzi (Ita) v Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) Frederico Gil (Por) v 15-Gilles Simon (Fra) 9-Fernando Verdasco (Spa) v Carsten Ball (Aus) Qualifier v Dudi Sela (Isr) Rajeev Ram (USA) v Qualifier Qualifier v 23-Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) 30-Juan Monaco (Arg) v Ernests Gulbis (Lat) Martin Vassallo Arguello (Arg) v Michael Llodra (Fra) Carlos Moya (Spa) v Qualifier Qualifier v 6-Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) 3-Novak Djokovic (Ser) v Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spa) Marinko Matosevic (Aus) v Marco Chiudinelli (Swi) Kristof Vliegen (Bel) v Michael Berrer (Ger) Denis Istomin (Uzb) v 32-Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 20-Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) v Richard Gasquet (Fra) Jan Hajek (Cze) v Robby Ginepri (USA) Lukasz Kubot (Pol) v Mischa Zverev (Ger) Santiago Giraldo (Col) v 16-Tommy Robredo (Spa) 10-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) v Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) Fabio Fognini (Ita) v Taylor Dent (USA) Ryan Harrison (USA) v Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) Simon Greul (Ger) v 18-Tommy Haas (Ger) 26-Nicolas Almagro (Spa) v Qualifier Benjamin Becker (Ger) v Qualifier Alejandro Falla (Col) v Marcos Daniel (Bra) Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa) v 8-Robin Soderling (Swe) 7-Andy Roddick (USA) v Thiemo De Bakker (Ned) Teimuraz Gabashvili (Rus) v Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) Feliciano Lopez (Spa) v Pablo Cuevas (Uru) Rainer Schuettler (Ger) v 25-Sam Querrey (USA) 21-Tomas Berdych (Cze) v Robin Haase (Ned) Daniel Brands (Ger) v Evgeny Korolev (Rus) Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) v Qualifier Olivier Rochus (Bel) v 11-Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 14-Marin Cilic (Cro) v Fabrice Santoro (Fra) Qualifier v Bernard Tomic (Aus) Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) v Jose Acasuso (Arg) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) v 19-Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) 29-Viktor Troicki (Ser) v Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) Philipp Petzschner (Ger) v Florian Mayer (Ger) James Blake (USA) v Arnaud Clement (Fra) Michael Russell (USA) v 4-Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) 5-Andy Murray (GB) v Qualifier Marc Gicquel (Fra) v Simone Bolelli (Ita) Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) v Nick Lindhal (Aus) Florent Serra (Fra) v 28-Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 17-David Ferrer (Spa) v Andreas Seppi (Ita) Qualifier v Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) Daniel Koellerer (Aut) v Qualifier Qualifier v 12-Gael Monfils (Fra) 13-Radek Stepanek (Cze) v Ivo Karlovic (Cro) Julien Benneteau (Fra) v Qualifier Mardy Fish (USA) v Andrey Golubev (Kaz) Jason Kubler (Aus) v Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) (24) 27-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) v Horacio Zeballos (Arg) John Isner (USA) v Wayne Odesnik (USA) Lukas Lacko (Svk) v Leonardo Mayer (Arg) Peter Luczak (Aus) v 2-Rafael Nadal (Spa)" ]	[ "Roger Federer faces potential quarterfinal clash with Nikolay Davydenko at Australian Open .", "The Russian sixth seed has beaten the world No.", "1 in their last two meetings .", "Defending champion Rafael Nadal faces possible last-eight tie with Andy Murray .", "Nadal could then face U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro in semifinals ." ]	[ 0, 8, 10 ]
[ "Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she took on the \"complicated and difficult\" task of trying to restart talks on Israeli-Palestinian peace during her talks with Egypt's leaders.", "Egypt is \"an essential partner\" in that effort, she said.", "\"President Obama, special envoy [George] Mitchell -- who is here with me today -- and I are all deeply and personally committed to achieving a two-state solution and comprehensive peace between Israelis, Palestinians and all of their Arab neighbors,\" Clinton said at a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit.", "She spoke on the final stop on her weeklong trip that stretched from Pakistan to the Middle East.", "Clinton met with Aboul Gheit and other Egyptian leaders before consulting Wednesday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.", "Clinton angered Palestinian leaders during her stop Saturday in Jerusalem when she praised Israel for what she called \"unprecedented\" steps to limit -- but not fully halt -- the construction of Jewish settlements.", "Egyptian leaders told Clinton her statement was perceived as \"a sort of backtracking\" and \"listened with great interest\" as she insisted the U.S. opposition to settlements has not changed, Aboul Gheit said.", "\"We talked about this very clearly and very candidly,\" he said, noting that Egypt feels that Israel \"is hindering the process\" by continuing its settlement activities.", "Clinton again clarified the U.S. position at Wednesday's news conference in Cairo: \"Our policy on settlements has not changed.", "I want to say that again: Our policy on settlement activity has not changed,\" she said.", "\"We do not accept the legitimacy of settlement activity.", "And we have a very firm belief that ending all activity -- current and future -- would be preferable, and that is what we have put forth, and that is what we have continued to support.\"", "But Palestinian frustration over Clinton's statement in Jerusalem and the stalled peace process was still on display Wednesday in the West Bank city of Ramallah.", "Saeb Erakat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, said that if Israeli settlement construction did not end, it may be \"the moment of truth\" for the Palestinian leadership.", "Erakat raised the possibility that \"the two-state solution is no longer an option and maybe the Palestinian people should refocus their attention to the one-state solution where Muslims, Christians and Jews can live as equal.\"", "Israel is opposed to any notion of a \"one-state solution,\" seeing it as a fundamental threat to the Jewish nature of the state.", "However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been reluctant to embrace the idea of a two-state solution, something the United States and others see as the only way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.", "Clinton returns to Washington later Wednesday.", "She said she felt \"very satisfied by what we accomplished on this trip\" despite the complex issues at hand.", "\"Every issue that we touched on during this trip is complicated and difficult; each requires patience, perseverance and determination to see them through,\" Clinton said.", "\"If these were easy questions with simple answers, I would not have made this trip.\"", "She said that a key part of getting the peace process back on track is improving the image of the United States in the region.", "\"It is important to recognize that after a period of time in which the United States' position was rejected or was certainly questioned, what we are doing is very carefully and consistently rebuilding those bonds, creating those partnerships, finding common ground so we and our international partners will be able to make progress,\" she said.", "When asked for a timeline of the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks, Clinton would only say, \"We are working hard to see that happen.", "I'm not going to make predictions.\"" ]	[ "Hillary Clinton: Egypt \"essential partner\" in helping restart Mideast talks .", "Clinton meets with Egyptians after angering Palestinians with praise for Israel .", "Egyptians reportedly tell Clinton her comments perceived as \"a sort of backtracking\"\nClinton says U.S. position hasn't changed on Israeli settlement construction ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(OPRAH.com) -- People across the country are counting their pennies more closely than ever and asking themselves some tough questions about what they can really afford.", "Suze Orman is here to approve or deny what your finances can handle -- and this time around, she's settling a few family feuds.", "Money expert Suze Orman answers the question that keeps people up at night: Can I afford this?", "Many women have husbands with expensive hobbies, and Michaela is one of them.", "Michaela has her own Mary Kay business and just started her own cake decorating business.", "Her husband Chris works in sales and is the ultimate Washington Redskins fan.", "\"When I met him, I knew he was a Redskins fan.", "I just really had no clue he was a Redskins fanatic,\" she says.", "Michaela estimates her husband has spent about $25,000 on his \"man cave\"--including a $2,200 television, a $900 surround-sound system, custom-framed photos worth about $300 and a poker table worth $500 to $1,000.", "Chris spares no expense to get Redskins gear for their three kids, Michaela says -- including jerseys and a Power Wheels Escalade in the Redskins' burgundy color.", "\"I happen to know my husband's e-mail password, and there are 320 e-mails of tracking purchases,\" she says.", "\"I would say that [delivery services are] at our house almost every day.\"", "Oprah.com: Battle your urge to splurge .", "Michaela says Chris didn't grow up with much and now wants to enjoy some of his success.", "But Chris and Michaela aren't debt-free.", "Together, they owe $130,000 in student loans.", "\"It often makes me wonder if we will ever get them paid off.", "If we'll ever get to the point where we can start thinking about our kids' college and the future so they don't have the loans that we have,\" she says.", "Watch saving money in tough times » .", "So Michaela has a question for Orman: \"With all of our student loans and his fabulous hobby, can we afford his hobby or should we be putting the money somewhere else?\"", "Chris estimates that he spends about $7,000 a year on his hobby.", "Can he keep it up? Orman runs the numbers.", "Chris and Michaela's monthly income is $9,000, and their monthly expenses are $7,700.", "Even with $1,300 leftover every month, they still face their large student debts and only have $5,000 in an emergency fund.", "\"In this economy, what I'd like to see is that people have at least an eight-month emergency fund, which would be $40,000 because we have three children here,\" Orman says.", "Orman denies Chris -- but with love.", "\"We only have $5,000 of an emergency fund,\" she says.", "Chris and Michaela have life insurance, but Orman says it's simply not enough.", "Chris is insured for $350,000, and Michaela is insured for $200,000.", "The couple still owes $290,000 on their mortgage, which is $2,200 each month.", "If Chris dies, his life insurance policy will only cover the mortgage --and still leaves the Michaela with $4,000 a month in expenses.", "\"What is the rule of thumb?", "You plan for the worst and you hope for the best,\" Orman says.", "\"But [Chris is] in sales.", "Anybody in sales, anything can happen at any time.", "So I love that you love football ...", "But you cannot afford it, sir.\"", "Chris takes everything in stride.", "He says he's already started to look into better life insurance policies and wants to start college savings funds for his kids.", "\"My friend, he gets it!\"", "Orman says.", "Oprah.com: How to save for college .", "Ken and Deb are a couple facing a heart-wrenching life decision in the middle of a poor economy -- divorce.", "Married for 12 years, the couple has a 9-year-old son and twin 7-year-old girls, one with Down's Syndrome.", "\"Having the three children, it's been taxing on us.", "It just seems like we never get a chance to be alone and be together and just talk things out,\" Ken says.", "\"We're just not on the same page.\" Deb says she doesn't put Ken -- or herself -- first.", "\"My children are first and foremost in our life, and I don't think that's a good way to build a marriage or a life either,\" she says.", "\"You kind of cast the other person aside.\"", "Ken and Deb signed separation papers in April 2008 but still live together in the house they purchased 10 years ago.", "\"Ken and I have been living in separate rooms since last November.", "He lives down the hall in what used to be our home office, and it's very difficult living under the same roof,\" Deb says.", "\"Unfortunately, we cannot afford to financially divorce and move on with our lives.\"", "In April 2009, Ken and Deb will be officially divorced.", "To complicate matters, Ken recently found out that he will be losing his job.", "\"I think if Ken and I separated, we'd both be more relaxed and we'd be happier people,\" Deb says.", "\"Obviously, we cannot afford to maintain separate households.\"", "Deb has come to Orman for help with her question -- can she afford to get divorced?", "Before Ken lost his job, the couple made a combined $4,500 a month.", "With only Deb's income, the household total will decrease to $1,645.", "Monthly expenses that will not decrease total about $4,300 each month.", "The couple also has $10,000 in credit card debt.", "Despite their precarious financial situation, Orman approves Deb for a divorce.", "\"In this particular situation, if they were to sell the house, there is enough equity in the house to pay off their mortgages for them to have $10,000 extra to pay off the credit card debt and for them each to have $5,000 to start over in renting an apartment,\" Orman says.", "Orman says Deb could rent an apartment for about $800 a month.", "\"And on everything else that I figured for her, she could live in that apartment with her children and make it for $1,645 a month, also assuming that one day Ken will have to pay child support when he does get a job,\" Orman says.", "Still, Orman says the real question here isn't about the money.", "\"Can she afford not to, emotionally speaking?\"", "Because Deb says she never puts herself first, Orman wants to know how much longer Deb would stay in a marriage she says is already over.", "\"How much longer are you going to stay in a situation that you know is absolutely over because you think you don't have the money to leave?\"", "\"You lose your soul for money.", "You lose your children in terms of not understanding what's happening for money.", "Is money worth that?\"", "But Deb's not alone. Orman says the No.1 deficit in this country is women not taking care of themselves.", "\"Women give of themselves.", "They never give to themselves.", "And that we have to change,\" Orman says.", "Deb says she's willing to try Orman's recommendations.", "\"I think we need to be separate to find out what we both need,\" she says.", "Oprah.com: Can one woman afford her dream wedding?", "From The Oprah Winfrey Show .", "Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.", "That's like getting 18 issues FREE.", "Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ]	[ "Suze Orman explains what two couples' finances can handle in this economy .", "Ken and Deb want to get divorced because living under the same roof is hard .", "Until Chris and Michaela save emergency fund, insurance -- hobby is out .", "Orman: \"No.1 deficit in this country is women not taking care of themselves\"" ]	[ 1, 27, 53, 73 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At a time when partisan politics are bitter, midterm election races are tight and almost every legislative effort is stalled, who would you expect to take the boldest step in years to address the deadliest war in the world, in the heart of Central Africa?", "Congress, of course.", "Quietly, over the past four presidential administrations, a powerful and deep bipartisan consensus has developed in Congress in support of a stronger U.S. policy toward Africa.", "The latest manifestation of this cooperation is a small but potent provision addressing Congo's \"conflict minerals,\" folded into the recently passed Wall Street reform bill.", "The trade in four conflict minerals -- tin, tantalum, tungsten (the 3Ts), as well as gold -- fuels the war in eastern Congo today.", "It's been the deadliest war in the world since World War II.", "We regularly travel to eastern Congo, and on our last trip, we traced the minerals from the mines.", "At the mines, we saw militiamen armed with AK-47 machine guns standing over miners and forcing them to work and pay bribes, including child miners as young as 11.", "We then crossed through army and rebel checkpoints, where smugglers paid off the commanders in U.S. dollars, and then witnessed how these same minerals were packed into barrels with Congolese flags on them and loaded onto planes and flown out of the country.", "We've seen how armed groups on all sides of the conflict are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars per year by controlling mines and trading routes, selling minerals to international traders and smelters, which in turn sell them to electronics and jewelry companies.", "By requiring that publicly listed manufacturers who use these minerals conduct independent audits of their supply chains, this legislation will help curb the conflict minerals trade.", "Courageous members of Congress from both parties fought hard together with a coalition of faith-based organizations, women's rights advocates and student groups for the past two years to enact this law, standing up for what is right and bravely battling against special-interest lobbyists.", "But some companies would have you believe otherwise and are using negative tactics to stall reform.", "Some critics in the corporate world have accused those campaigning for an end to the conflict minerals trade of advocating for a boycott of electronics companies.", "Some minerals trading companies have also argued that Congress and the conflict minerals movement will force them to pull out of Congo, creating an embargo and hurting miners.", "These statements significantly distort what human rights advocates in Congo and the U.S. are pressing for.", "Let's first be clear: The statements originate with many of the same companies that have been knowingly purchasing conflict minerals for the past decade, according to the United Nations, and did nothing for years to avoid them.", "The bill and our campaign aim to develop a peaceful, legal minerals trade in Congo that will be the real benefit to war-torn communities on the ground.", "We oppose a boycott and, on the contrary, are asking consumers to urge their own cell phone, laptop and jewelry companies to ensure their products are conflict-free.", "Companies now have an opportunity to achieve this goal and help Congolese communities through three key steps: .", "-- Tracing: Determining the precise sources of their minerals.", "-- Auditing: Independently verifying these sources and trading routes.", "-- Certifying: Working with the Congolese, Rwandan, U.S. and other governments to develop a certification process that improves upon systems already created for other exports such as blood diamonds.", "These steps are complex, but they are achievable.", "The reality is that the bill will accelerate this supply chain reform, and Intel and Motorola are already starting a forward-looking audit process to purchase tantalum from legitimate mines, including those in Congo.", "Companies have at least 18 months from now to report to Congress on their audits, and during that time they will have ample opportunity to trace, audit and certify their supply chains.", "Some companies may choose to temporarily stop buying minerals from Congo while they reform their supply chains.", "In order to cushion the blow for those mining communities affected by such a decision, a miners' livelihood fund should be created to offer them real opportunities and help the Congolese economy through small business, microfinance and agriculture.", "Electronics, jewelry and minerals companies should partner with donors to set up this program as soon as possible.", "Congress has taken the first step, but we still have a long way to go in ending the conflict minerals trade and the war in Congo.", "Now the Obama administration must come through and partner with the Congolese government to help create a process for conflict minerals that builds on the lessons of the process that excluded blood diamonds from the marketplace, as well as addressing wider issues of army and governance reform.", "And electronics and jewelry companies should support these processes with a fraction of the profits they've earned from these conflict minerals over the past dozen years.", "Consumers, companies and governments can all play a part in ending this deadly trade and cutting off the fuel for the deadliest war in the world.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sasha Lezhnev and John Prendergast." ]	[ "Congo's \"conflict minerals\" used in cell phones, other products, co-authors say .", "Financial regulation law requires makers of electronics to audit supply sources .", "Co-authors: Consumers should urge companies to make products conflict-free .", "They say Obama administration should work with the Congo to develop legitimate mining ." ]	[ 15, 18, 26, 31 ]
[ "Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- A powerful bomb exploded on a passenger bus Tuesday afternoon in Manila's financial district, killing four people and injuring 15 others, police said.", "\"It's a huge explosion; it's so huge that it created a hole at the side of bus where it is presumed that the bomb was placed,\" said Makati Police Chief Froilan Bonifacio.", "Bonifacio said the explosion occurred around 2 p.m.", "The bus, owned by Newman Bus Lines, was approaching a Metro Rail Transit station on Buendia Avenue in Makati City, Manila's financial district, when it blew up.", "The area has been placed on high alert, according to Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay Jr., who arrived on the scene a short time after the blast.", "He said most of the victims were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.", "\"We are still trying to determine what kind of bomb was used,\" Bonifacio said.", "An initial investigation showed the explosive device could have been placed under a seat on the bus, he said.", "Journalists Arlene Espirtu and Winona Cueva contributed to this report." ]	[ "A police chief says the bomb might have been planted under a seat .", "Investigators are trying to determine the type of bomb .", "The explosion blows a hole through the side of the bus .", "Makati City is Manila's financial district ." ]	[ 1, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- China's Li Na made history on Thursday by becoming the first Asian tennis player to reach the singles final of a grand slam tournament in the Open era, ending the Australian hopes of world No.", "1 Caroline Wozniacki.", "The 28-year-old, a beaten semifinalist in Melbourne last year, battled back to win 3-6 7-5 6-3 in two hours and 35 minutes as she saved a match-point in the second set.", "Wozniacki, seeking her first grand slam title, led 5-4 but Li responded with a superb forehand down the line to escape and went on to set up a clash with former No.", "1 Kim Clijsters.", "The Belgian progressed to the Australian Open final for the second time with a 6-3 6-3 win over Vera Zvonareva that will lift her above the Russian to second in the world rankings.", "Tennis will miss the elegance of Henin .", "Last year Li and compatriot Zheng Jie both made the semifinals in an unprecedented achievement by Chinese players, and now she is looking to savor Saturday's experience against three-time U.S. Open champion Clijsters.", "No male or female player from the Asia region has reached the final of a grand slam event since the fully professional era began in 1968.", "\"This is good for me, for my team and good for Chinese tennis,\" the ninth seed told the WTA Tour website after beating a top-ranked player for the second time in her career, following 2008's victory over Serena Williams in Stuttgart.", "\"It's a good experience for my whole life, because many players play a long time but never come to the final of a grand slam.\"", "Elbow injury forces Henin to quit tennis .", "The 20-year-old Wozniacki, who won the 2010 season-ending championship, is hoping to bounce back from her disappointment.", "\"I had a match-point and I didn't take it.", "Sometimes in tennis it's one ball that can change everything,\" said the Dane, runner-up at the 2009 U.S. Open.", "\"It's quite difficult to get through this one.", "I just need to get back on the practice court and keep working hard.", "Hopefully I'll get many more chances.\"", "Clijsters is seeking her second successive grand slam title, but her first in Melbourne after losing the 2004 final.", "The 27-year-old had lost three of her previous four meetings with Zvonareva, but this time powered to victory in an hour and 13 minutes.", "\"I'm happy I was able to raise my level,\" Clijsters said.", "\"It's nice to be in the situation of last two standing and trying to finish on top.", "This is the last match -- give everything you have.\"", "The 26-year-old Zvonareva was disappointed to fall short, having made the finals of the previous two grand slams at the U.S. Open -- where she also lost to Clijsters -- and Wimbledon.", "\"I just have to think about what I can do next time if I meet a player like Kim, who's playing her game perfectly.", "What can I do to hurt them? What can I improve in my game to come up with something better next time?\"" ]	[ "Li Na goes one better than last year by reaching the final of the Australian Open .", "Chinese ninth seed saves match-point to upset world No.", "1 Caroline Wozniacki .", "The 28-year-old will play U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters in Saturday's title match .", "Clijsters will move up to second in world rankings after beating Vera Zvonareva ." ]	[ 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An electrical fire on board a Boeing Dreamliner caused the plane to lose primary electrical power during a test flight Tuesday, the company said.", "The crew relied upon backup systems to land the aircraft.", "\"The pilots executed a safe landing and at all times had positive control of the airplane and all of the information necessary to perform that safe landing,\" Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter said Wednesday.", "Boeing is analyzing flight data from the plane, a process it says will take several days, to determine the exact cause of the fire.", "The company's initial inspection of the aircraft indicated damage to a power control panel in the rear of the aircraft.", "Boeing employees were conducting a test of a system designed to prevent fires when smoke began filling the back of the cabin of the next-generation 787 Dreamliner, according to the company.", "The crew was testing a \"nitrogen generation system,\" which separates nitrogen from ambient air and pumps it into fuel tanks as jet fuel is burned during a flight, Boeing said.", "The system is designed to prevent oxygen from filling the empty space and potentially igniting the fuel.", "There is no indication, however, that Tuesday's fire was caused by the nitrogen generation system, according to Boeing spokesman Jim Proulx.", "Boeing is grounding its entire fleet of test Dreamliners pending results of its analysis of hundreds of different data measurements to determine the cause of the fire.", "The Dreamliner departed from Yuma, Arizona.", "After about six hours of flight, smoke entered the cabin as the plane was on approach to Laredo, Texas.", "\"It's something that needs to be taken very seriously,\" said Proulx.", "\"We need to know what happened before we can determine the likelihood of its repeatability.\"", "The 42 people aboard evacuated using the plane's emergency slides, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Lynn Lunsford said.", "One person was injured during the evacuation.", "\"We are continuing to gather data regarding this event,\" Gunter said in a statement.", "\"It's too early to tell what may have gone wrong.\"", "The plane is the second of six test Dreamliners, having undergone 179 flights and 558 hours of flight, according to Boeing data posted on its website.", "The company does not intend to sell the test plane to any airline customers.", "Boeing says it still intends to deliver the first 787-08 Dreamliner to ANA Airlines in the middle of the first quarter of next year.", "ANA has 55 Dreamliners on order, which Boeing plans to deliver over the course of several years.", "The Dreamliner is Boeing's new passenger jet, touted as a highly fuel-efficient aircraft made largely with composite materials.", "It made its maiden flight in December 2009 after two years of delays, but the head of Boeing's commercial aircraft division told CNN in July that the Dreamliner could still make its debut in early 2011.", "The company has nearly 900 orders for the jet around the world.", "Aviation experts say Boeing's testing problems are not indicative of the Dreamliner's ultimate safety.", "\"If I were a prospective passenger in a 787 I wouldn't be concerned,\" said Snorri Gudmundsson, assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.", "\"All these bugs will be weeded out.\"", "\"Boeing is quite thorough, not just because of requirements from the FAA but because of Boeing's position in the industry,\" added Todd Curtis, a former Boeing electrical engineer.", "CNN's Frances Causey and Jason Kessler contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: An electrical fire cause the plane to lose power, Boeing says .", "NEW: The crew relied on backup systems to land the aircraft .", "The crew was testing fire prevention system .", "Boeing says no new flights will be scheduled for now ." ]	[ 0, 1, 27 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- As President Obama is set to take stock of the nation during his State of the Union address Tuesday, a civil engineers group gives the U.S. transportation system low grades.", "For example, the nation's bridges.", "Most of us don't think much about bridges until one we need is closed or is damaged or collapses, as the I-35W one did in Minneapolis in 2007, killing 13 people.", "Yet engineers all over the country who really know about such things say we ought to be thinking about bridges a lot more.", "And here is something we should consider: One in four of our bridges is either in need of repair or obsolete in terms of handling modern traffic and loads.", "That startling fact comes from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which every few years consults with dozens of the nation's experts on all sorts of infrastructure matters.", "The society gives U.S. bridges a grade of C. And bridges aren't the only problem in what we could call the State of the Union's Infrastructure.", "Roads, airports, water supplies, railways, dams, schools and on and on it goes; all are, according to the engineers' latest report in 2009, in pretty dire shape.", "The amount of air travel in the U.S. increased by 7% last year, but an overhaul of the air travel infrastructure is long overdue, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.", "The group gave the nation's aviation system a grade of D. Compared with trucks, railways are much more efficient for moving goods: using about 20% less energy per mile if used properly.", "But comparatively little has been invested in expanding U.S. railroad capacity.", "Rail gets a C minus.", "What is the state of your community?", "Tell us . Consider this: Although a steady drinking water supply is crucial to even the most basic success, water systems nationwide are so old and decrepit that the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates 7 billion gallons of drinking water are being lost through leaky pipes every day.", "How can America save crumbling water delivery systems?", "Inland shipping along canals and rivers keeps millions of American homes warm with coal and families fed with grains such as wheat and corn.", "But locks on canals and rivers, which were made to last only 50 years, are now on average 60 years old.", "Navigable waterways get a D minus from the civil engineers.", "See details of the ASCE report card .", "Public transit use grew 25 percent in the past 10 years, and yet fully half of all Americans have no access to commuter buses or trains; many more have sketchy access at best.", "You get the picture.", "However, it may be a little harder to see the multiplying effect.", "Experts at the American Society of Civil Engineers point out that for each year that these infrastructure problems are not addressed, they grow exponentially worse.", "It's kind of like a leak in the roof.", "It may be painful to pay for new shingles when the leak is small, but if you wait until it expands and soaks the walls and floors below, the damage and cost will be much, much harder to bear.", "In recent years, many politicians have started talking much more seriously about infrastructure problems, but when faced with a stumbling economy, they are finding it harder than ever before to lean into big-ticket repairs.", "After all, until the day comes that a bridge falls down, it often looks just fine.", "The problem is, no one really knows which day that will be." ]	[ "Society of civil engineers gives U.S. low grades for transportation infrastructure .", "Air travel infrastructure overhaul is long overdue, while traffic increased by 7% last year .", "Half of all Americans have no access to commuter buses or trains .", "The longer these problems go unaddressed, the worse they grow ." ]	[ 8, 19, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Eight people who died in a fire in an abandoned building in New Orleans, Louisiana, overnight are believed to have been in their late teens or early 20s, the city fire department said Tuesday.", "The victims, who were in a small warehouse in the Upper Ninth Ward, are believed to have been homeless and were burning a fire to stay warm, officials said.", "Two squatters tried to wake the others but had to eventually flee through a window in the tin building, authorities said.", "A fire department dispatcher said the call came in shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday.", "\"The area is known to be frequented by transients,\" said fire department spokesman Capt.", "Edwin Holmes Jr. Those inside apparently were burning trash in a barrel, Holmes said.", "An investigator indicated the bottom of the barrel may have burned through, Holmes said.", "Authorities also found the remains of two dogs.", "Chief Charles Parent told CNN affiliate WDSU that the victims may have sough warmth inside the building as temperatures dipped below freezing in the area.", "A freeze warning was in effect for the region early Tuesday, WDSU reported.", "Holmes said that numerous phone calls Tuesday indicated that some of the victims may have been from out of town.", "The building is less than a mile from the French Quarter and was likely abandoned before Hurricane Katrina.", "Many of the victims may have known each other by nicknames, Holmes said.", "The area is known for panhandling, he said.", "Authorities were in the process of identifying the badly burned victims, who may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning or smoke inhalation, Holmes said." ]	[ "NEW: Victims were in their late teens or early 20s .", "WDSU: The victims may have sought warmth from freezing temperatures .", "The victims are believed to have been homeless .", "The call came in shortly before 2 a.m." ]	[ 0, 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Japan secured their place in the final of the Asian Cup after a dramatic penalty shoot out victory over South Korea.", "Coach Alberto Zaccheroni's side triumphed 3-0 on penalties after the game was level at 1-1 after 90 minutes and 2-2 after extra time.", "Japan will now face Australia in Saturday's final, after the Socceroos demolished Uzbekistan 6-0 in the other semifinal.", "South Korea started the match brightly and took the lead on 23 minutes after Japan defender Yasuyuki Konno brought down Manchester United star Park Ji-sung in the penalty area.", "Ki Sung-yong converted from the spot.", "CNN blog: Can an Asian team ever win the World Cup?", "Japan have been no strangers to going behind in this tournament, and they duly struck back nine minutes before the break.", "Yuto Nagamoto latched onto Keisuke Honda's through ball and squared for Ryoichi Maeda to level the tie up at 1-1.", "South Korea enjoyed the best of the second half and went close when Koo Ja-cheol hit the side-netting with a low shot before Lee Yong-rae's free kick flashed narrowly wide of the target.", "As the game moved into extra time Japan upped the tempo and were rewarded when Shinji Okazaki was felled in the area by Hwang Jae-won.", "The striker's penalty was saved by Jung Sung-Ryong but substitute Hajime Hosogai made no mistake from the rebound.", "Though South Korea laid siege to Japan's goal in the closing stages they couldn't fashion an opportunity to level.", "But right on the full time whistle Hwang Jae-won slammed home a loose ball after a scramble in the area.", "South Korea's joy was short lived though, as they missed all three of their penalties -- Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima making two fine saves -- which left Yasuyuki Konno to convert the winning penalty and spark wild scenes of celebration.", "The other semifinal was a hugely one-sided affair as Australia thrashed Uzbekistan 6-0.", "It took just five minutes for Australia to break the deadlock as Harry Kewell fired a low shot into the bottom corner.", "Sasa Ognenovski made sure Australia went in with a 2-0 cushion at half time as he fired home a loose ball after Tim Cahill had nodded down a David Carney center.", "Carney added the third on 65 minutes when he tucked the ball under Uzbek goalkeeper Temur Juraev after Matt McKay's precise pass.", "Moments later Ulughbek Bakaev was dismissed after picking up his second yellow card.", "It was 4-0 less than ten minutes later as Australia sprang the offside trap and substitute Robbie Kruse squared for Brett Emerton to tap into an empty net.", "Carl Valeri made it five eight minutes from time as he turned home McKay's cross and Uzbekistan's misery was complete when Kruse's shot squirmed past Juraev." ]	[ "Japan beat South Korea on penalties to book their place in the Asian Cup final .", "The game ends 1-1 after 90 minutes but Japan win 3-0 on penalties .", "Japan will face Australia after the Socceroos beat Uzebkistan 6-0 in the other semi .", "The final will be played on Saturday ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- With its well-killing effort reported to be going \"extremely well,\" BP plans to start pouring concrete into the crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday.", "The U.S. official overseeing the response to the spill, retired Adm. Thad Allen, has given BP a green light to pour cement on top of the 2,300 barrels of heavy drilling mud already sent down the well.", "The mud drove oil back into the reservoir in an operation known as a \"static kill.\"", "But Allen said BP should follow that with a second well-killing procedure that has been in the works as sort of an insurance policy -- pouring additional mud and cement through a relief well that's expected to be ready in mid-August.", "\"Based on the successful completion of the static kill procedure and a positive evaluation of the test results, I have authorized BP to cement its damaged well,\" Allen said Wednesday in a statement.", "\"I made it clear that implementation of this procedure shall in no way delay the completion of the relief well.\"", "Earlier Wednesday, Senior Vice President Kent Wells reported that the initial step in the static kill had gone \"extremely well.\"", "The company began pumping the mud Tuesday afternoon, and the operation continued for some eight hours.", "BP pumped mud into the well from a ship on the surface mostly at the rate of five barrels a minute.", "That eventually increased to 10 and then 15 barrels a minute near the end of the operation, according to Wells.", "\"Everything proceeded exactly as we expected it to,\" he said.", "The move essentially sealed the well, which had poured oil into the Gulf for nearly three months until a tight-fitting cap was placed on it in mid-July.", "Wednesday marked the 107th day since the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history began with the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon that sank the rig and killed 11 workers.", "The government estimates that nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil spilled into the Gulf.", "But Wells noted that it has been 20 days since the well was fitted with a tightly-fitting cap, which stopped the oil from flowing and made it possible to permanently seal the well through the operations now under way.", "\"It's getting very difficult to find any oil on the surface, but I want to emphasize that BP remains committed to getting this well permanently shut and cleaning up any pollution and restoring the Gulf Coast,\" Wells said.", "\"That was our commitment from the beginning, and we're just as committed to that today.\"", "While it may be difficult to find much oil on the surface for skimming ships to collect, local officials are quick to point out that coastal areas are still being affected.", "The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries issued a report Wednesday indicating that oil sheen and patches of oil are still being spotted in marshes and various coastal areas in St. Bernard, Paquemines and Jefferson parishes.", "And in another development Wednesday, Louisiana wildlife officials and the state's Special Investigations Unit said two men had been arrested and accused of falsifying documents to file claims with BP.", "Authorities said An Ly, 36, the owner of Ly Ly Seafood, and Samith Huynh, 31, falsified documents from January through April, reporting the sale of 6,347 pounds of crabs for $9,548.91 during that period -- in the months before the Deepwater Horizon explosion.", "According to the arrest warrant, Huynh acknowledged receiving $5,000 checks from BP America in May and June.", "But the warrant said that when confronted by authorities, both men admitted they did not sell or purchase any crabs in the months leading up to the explosion, after it was pointed out that Huynh didn't have a commercial fishing license during that time -- and only obtained one in May.", "The men, from the town of New Iberia, Louisiana, southwest of Baton Rouge, were booked Tuesday in the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail.", "If convicted, they could face fines up to $5,000 and up to five years in jail.", "BP has promised to compensate people impacted by the spill, and In a meeting with President Barack Obama in June, BP executives agreed to set up a $20 billion dollar fund for that purpose.", "Meanwhile, Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, talked about the well-killing efforts on CNN's Situation Room.", "She told Wolf Blitzer, \"It's not mission accomplished, but obviously, it's an important day.\"", "\"We know the static kill worked, and we know we're not going to have more oil leaking into the Gulf,\" she said.", "But she noted the relief well operation lies ahead, and said, \"We also have the long-term restoration.", "So we're just beginning one phase as we end one phase.\"", "Looking ahead to that next phase, coastal parish leaders and state officials in Louisiana submitted a transition plan to the Coast Guard on long-range cleanup efforts.", "The plan was developed after a meeting last week with Gov.", "Bobby Jindal, coastal parish presidents, Coast Guard officials and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles.", "The plan notes that federal, state and local authorities all must agree that shorelines are clean, before the effort will stop.", "On that cleanup front, a government report released Wednesday indicated that 74 percent of the oil that leaked from the well over nearly three months has been collected, has dispersed or has evaporated.", "Several agencies were involved in the study including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of the Interior.", "Of the total amount of oil that spilled in the Gulf of Mexico -- the most recent estimate is 205.8 million gallons -- just 26 percent remains in the water, either on or just below the surface as a light sheen and weathered tar balls.", "Of the remaining 26 percent, \"much of that is in the process of being degraded and cleaned up on the shore,\" said Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator.", "The tar balls are either washing ashore, being collected from the coastlines, or buried in sand and sediment and are in the process of being degraded, the report said.", "CNN's Vivian Kuo contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: BP given green light to pour cement down well as part of \"static kill\"\nNEW: U.S. says BP must still proceed with relief well .", "NEW: Louisiana officials submit long-term cleanup plan .", "BP exec says well-killing efforts so far have gone \"extremely well\"" ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Utah military facility that tests chemical and biological weapons was opened Thursday after a nearly 12-hour lockdown that officials said was prompted by a missing vial of \"nerve agent.\"", "\"On January 26, during a routine inventory of sensitive material in the chemical laboratory, Dugway officials discovered a discrepancy between the records and the agent on hand,\" said a statement issued by the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground.", "\"As a precaution, the commander immediately locked down the installation and began efforts to identify the cause of the discrepancy.\"", "The facility was put on lockdown about 7:25 p.m.", "ET on Wednesday, spokeswoman Paula Thomas said.", "Authorities said only that the move was \"to resolve a serious concern within the Test Area.\"", "The discrepancy was found to be less than a milliliter, or less than one-fourth of a teaspoon, of VX \"nerve agent,\" the statement said.", "A vial containing 1 ml was located about 3 a.m. Thursday (5 a.m.", "ET), the statement said.", "As of about 6:15 a.m., authorities said personnel had been allowed inside and would be allowed to go home shortly.", "\"All personnel are uninjured and safe,\" the facility said in a news release.", "\"The public is safe as well.\"", "VX is an amber-colored, odorless and tasteless oily liquid that does not evaporate easily unless temperatures are high, officials said.", "\"It evaporates very slowly, almost like motor oil.\"", "People can be exposed to the agent through skin contact -- the most toxic way -- or through eye contact or inhalation, the statement said.", "VX affects the body's ability to carry messages through the nerves.", "About 1,500 employees and contractors are stationed at the proving ground, which covers 798,214 acres and is located in the Great Salt Lake Desert, around 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.", "\"Testers here determine the reliability and survivability of all types of military equipment in a chemical or biological environment,\" according to Dugway officials." ]	[ "NEW: The lockdown was prompted by an inventory discrepancy .", "NEW: The missing vial was found about 5 a.m.", "ET .", "NEW: No one was ever in danger, authorities say .", "The base is 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City ." ]	[ 0, 6, 8, 16 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Diplomatic cables expected to be released soon by WikiLeaks could contain highly sensitive information that reveals U.S. negotiating positions, secret intelligence and other confidential matters, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia told CNN.", "The expected online disclosure has to be taken seriously, said James F. Collins, who served as ambassador to Moscow from 1997 to 2001 and is currently director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.", "\"Leaking information of this kind will be detrimental to building the trust among officials necessary to conduct effective and productive diplomacy.", "It will impede doing things in a normal, civilized way,\" Collins said.", "\"I would think the information they will leak is likely to contain analysis, records of discussions or reporting on confidential conversations between officials or official policy recommendations or suggestions about policy or diplomatic actions,\" he added.", "The threat by WikiLeaks, the online whistle-blower website, to publish the information has prompted the State Department to undertake a massive review of diplomatic documents.", "A source tells CNN that every diplomatic mission document from 2006 to 2009 is under review.", "The United States has started to alert nations around the world about the possible leaks.", "In preparation for the WikiLeaks dump, the British government warning United Kingdom news organizations about the publication of any material which could endanger national security.", "The Ministry of Defence on Friday issued a so called \"D-Notice.\"", "In the rarely used notice, the MOD told the media that before they publish potentially sensitive stories of a national security nature, they should seek the advice of a senior military official to avoid breaking the order.", "A senior Israeli government official said the American government contacted the Israeli government a few days ago to inform them about the possibility of internal U.S. communications about Israel being publicly released.", "The official would only speak on condition he not be identified.", "He did not know the full scope of what topics the documents may cover, the official said, but noted that Israel was told by the Americans that the leak was part of a much larger document dump by WikiLeaks, most of which had nothing to do with Israel.", "The Israeli government official added that the American government said it did not want Israeli officials hearing about the leak for the first time in the media.", "Israel was satisfied with the way the United States was handling the problem and there was little expectation in Israel that this would create a major rift in relations, the official said.", "A spokesman for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tobias Nilsson, told CNN his government also had been alerted by U.S. authorities.", "\"We have been in contact with the U.S. Embassy here in Stockholm and they have informed us about a possible release of documents by WikiLeaks,\" Nilsson said.", "\"I am, however, not going to speculate on why they contacted us or the reason for them alerting us about this.", "All I can say is that they have told us this might happen.\"", "Norway also has been contacted, said Bjorn S. Jahnsen, spokesman at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.", "\"They have only told us that WikiLeaks might release new documents,\" Jahnsen said.", "\"They haven't said anything specific about the contents, they only alerted us that the release might happen.\"", "The United States did not discuss whether the leaks might affect relations between the two nations, Jahnsen said.", "The information blitz from WikiLeaks would offer a glimpse into the worldwide communications of the State Department and its 297 embassies, consulates and missions through what commonly are referred to as \"cables.\"", "Collins says cables are the telegrams used for official instructions, reports and communications from the Department of State in Washington to its international posts as well as from those posts back to the United States.", "Much informal communication today is by email and other kinds of modern communications, he says, \"but official instructions to the ambassador tend to come through telegrams, which an ambassador can assume have been properly coordinated in Washington.\"", "Telegrams, when they go out of the Department of State, are shown as signed by the secretary of state and when they come in from any embassy or consulate in the field are shown as signed by the ambassador or a principal officer.", "\"Obviously,\" however, Collins notes, \"these individuals cannot and do not write and sign all of the telegrams.\"", "Embassies send Washington \"reporting\" telegrams, which can include analysis by embassy officers of developments of importance to U.S. policy in their country or they may report meetings that the ambassador or other embassy officials had with officials in their host country.", "They also can contain substantive policy recommendations and observations.", "In addition, there are housekeeping and operational messages that are dedicated to the daily operations and needs of diplomatic offices and personnel.", "Telegrams are an essential means for keeping U.S. diplomats informed about policy and views in Washington and to alert them to important developments.", "The State Department sends \"world-wide\" telegrams to its missions around the world, \"regional\" telegrams to a select number of posts and telegrams to individual posts.", "\"They can be informational,\" Collins says, \"telling the ambassador and his or her staff about a policy initiative, for example: they can send texts of speeches, convey in-house information the Department of State wants embassies to be aware of or provide the reasoning behind policy, what Washington wants clearly understood.\"", "Another kind of telegram contains official instructions.", "\"It says to an ambassador, 'Go take this action,' \" Collins said, \"instructing the ambassador or his staff, for example, to 'see so and so and seek his support for an American position on Afghanistan.'", "As an ambassador you would take that instruction, for example and, using it, seek out the appropriate person in the foreign ministry and make the case Washington has asked to be conveyed.\"", "\"The most sensitive kinds of telegrams are instructions such as those to negotiators.", "These instructions were routinely sent to our negotiators on the START treaty or to those carrying on negotiations with allies about next steps in Afghanistan.\"", "Collins says his major concern about leaking telegraphs and other official communication is that \"you cannot conduct business between governments effectively on CNN or in the news media.", "People with whom you talk on a confidential basis, where you're talking as government-to-government, or representative-of-government-to-representative-of-government and discussing something, implicitly assume that the confidentiality of the discussion will be preserved.", "Sure, everyone understands that you're going to report back to your own government what you said and what you heard, but they don't expect to see the exchange in the newspapers.", "\"Similarly, analysis that mentions names or says, 'No matter what everyone else is saying, we think the place is going to fall apart next week' is very sensitive,\" Collins says.", "\"It's not that you're trying to cover up somebody's mistakes.", "It's that you cannot expect people to provide their superiors candid advice and analysis if they expect to see their views politicized and made public.", "\"If WikiLeaks is putting out a whole raft of embassy reporting from Moscow or State Department instructions on Russia policy this is not good news,\" Collins told CNN, \"because these cables almost certainly will say things that will complicate relations between and among people involved, create resentments about publication of private information, and decrease the fragile confidence that has been building between the two governments.", "It could also reveal strategies or intentions to the detriment of our diplomatic strategy and tactics on a number of issues.", "And it can simply make life very difficult for embassy officers and other officials working to conduct our relations with Russia, depending on how all of this is released.\"", "In Baghdad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq told a group of journalists Friday that diplomats \"are worried about additional documents coming out.\"", "Ambassador James Jeffrey said, \"WikiLeaks are an absolutely awful impediment to my business, which is to be able to have discussions in confidence with people.", "I do not understand the motivation for releasing these documents, they will not help, they will simply hurt our ability to do our work here.\"" ]	[ "NEW: British government warns media against endangering national security .", "Former ambassador says leaks likely to damage efforts to build trust .", "Leaks expected to include \"cables\" used by State Department .", "WikiLeaks is threatening to publish thousands of classified documents ." ]	[ 5, 8, 25 ]
[ "Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- It's the week before finals at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and all over campus, students are hunched over books and laptops under the shelter of immense palm trees and sprawled out on the cement benches lining the campus' long, grassy mall, the anticipation palpable.", "Elsewhere, in the Cesar Chavez Building, graduate student Francisco Baires sits in a windowless office that could have been a closet in a previous life, immersed in a different kind of work: He is sending a statement condemning Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law to the media and other opponents of Senate Bill 1070.", "\"As students, we have a responsibility to fight this law through action and to raise our voices so those in power hear us,\" he said.", "\"The time has come for us to stop talking about it and be about it.\"", "Baires is one of many student activists in Arizona and across the country leading the charge to kill SB 1070 before it takes effect this summer.", "The law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally.", "It also targets those who hire illegal immigrant day laborers or knowingly transport them.", "Tea Partiers to illegal immigrants: 'Sign guestbook' The letter, which Baires and his cohorts are circulating as a petition, sums up the sentiments of many students.", "The 12 students of various ethnicities who spoke with CNN said they did not support the bill, citing concerns that the law would promote racial profiling and foster an environment of fear and paranoia among Hispanics, whether they are in the country legally or not.", "\"We believe that it is a law based in fear and racism.", "The law targets not only immigrants, but all Latinos (even those who are U.S. citizens) as well as any U.S. citizen who may associate with members of either group,\" the letter states.", "\"We want to halt the prejudicial momentum of Arizona's legislators and keep the campus of the University of Arizona a free, safe place for persons of all races, backgrounds and ethnicities.\"", "The students' views are also a microcosm of the broader opposition nationwide to the bill, which Gov.", "Jan Brewer signed into law Friday, citing concerns over crime and the failure of the federal government to regulate immigration.", "Dozens of protests have been staged nationwide, including in Tucson, where hundreds gathered outside the state capitol as the bill was being signed.", "What will Arizona immigration law do?", "\"It was incredible to see that the vast majority of those assembled were young people, some as young as high school,\" professor Roberto Rodriguez said.", "\"To many of them, who may have parents who are illegal or have relatives that live in Mexico, this is more than just a law; this is personal.", "This is a threat to their families.", "This could tear them apart.\"", "Students have been at the forefront of the major social movements of the past century, but the advent of social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter allows them to organize at a faster and more efficient rate.", "\"The Internet really helps us reach a wide audience with the most up-to-date information,\" said student coordinator Jessica Mejia, one of many who helped organize the protest at the capitol.", "\"Now that the bill has passed, this is just the beginning.\"", "iReport: Share your thoughts on immigration policy .", "Some critics of the bill are threatening legal action; others are pledging to boycott travel and business in Arizona unless they overturn the legislation.", "At the University of Arizona this week, resistance took the form of Immigration Awareness Week, a series of programs and information sessions organized by Mejia and others that included meetings on how the law works and an open forum for students to share their struggles with immigration.", "\"In my community, everyone has a sense of persecution.", "We're living in a constant state of fear,\" said Hector Gonzalez, 21, a Mexican-born U.S. citizen whose family lives in Phoenix.", "\"The law is instilling fear and limiting people from going out and doing chores, which will eventually have a direct economic impact on the community, too.\"", "Even students who support immigration reform called the law ill-conceived.", "\"I can see how something needs to be done about illegal immigration, but this is taking it too far,\" said Nick Lunn, a 21-year-old film major.", "\"They say there won't be racial profiling, but I don't see how you can look past it.\"", "Supporters of the bill point to language stating that officers cannot stop someone solely based on race, ethnicity and country of origin.", "Read the full text of Senate Bill 1070 (PDF) But student body representative Tyler Quillin said the word \"solely\" leaves the door open for race to be among the reasons that influences an officer's decision to detain someone.", "\"I see a definite separation, a disjoint between Latinos and law enforcement,\" Quillin said.", "\"Like they said on 'Saturday Night Live,' there's nothing more Nazi than 'Can I see your papers?'", "\" People also worry that the law will further marginalize undocumented immigrants by discouraging them from reporting crimes, accidents or injuries.", "\"It really worries me that this will increase public health issues and make them worse for women and children who might too scared of being deported to go to the hospital or to police if something happens to them,\" said Grecia Ramirez, a public health major.", "\"It really scares me to think about the long-term implications of this bill.\"", "Ramirez and other students said they planned to continue attending protests such as the one Baires and his collaborators are setting up Wednesday, when they plan to present their petition to the school's president to sign.", "\"We want him to publicly state his support for our position in a show of solidarity,\" he said.", "\"We need to come together to fight this.", "There's strength in numbers.\"" ]	[ "University of Arizona students crafting petition against Senate Bill 1070 .", "Dozens of protests have been held nationwide since bill was signed .", "Even students in favor of immigration reform call measure ill-conceived ." ]	[ 14, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Irish low-cost airline Ryanair posted a €169 million ($240 million) loss in the last year after being hit with higher fuel costs and a writedown in its investment in rival carrier Aer Lingus.", "Ryanair has forecast a rise in passenger numbers this year.", "Ryanair's boss Michael O'Leary said though that he hoped to see a recovery this year, forecasting profits to \"at least double\" thanks to anticipated lower fuel costs.", "The loss compares with a profit of €390 million the previous year.", "The company said that with the writedown on the Aer Lingus stake stripped out, its figures showed a more \"robust\" net profit of €105 million.", "The number of passengers travelling on Ryanair planes increased by 15 percent in 2008/09 to 58 million and the airline said it hoped to increase that number to 67 million this year by cutting average fares by upt to 20 percent.", "Richard Hunter, head of UK equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said the Aer Lingus stake was \"an albatross around the company's neck.\"", "He told the Press Association: \"There are, however, also a number of positives, not least of which is the determination of Ryanair to continue to make life uncomfortable for its competitors.", "\"Growth in passenger numbers and a focus on costs were proof that the company has a close eye on strategic wins, while further reductions in fares could well tempt travellers who are currently deserting other legacy carriers.\"" ]	[ "Irish low-cost airline Ryanair posts €169 million ($240 million) loss in last year .", "Ryanair's boss Michael O'Leary said he hoped to see recovery this year .", "Company said that after stripping out writedowns it made €105 million profit ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has started talks with representatives of the Taliban, a move that analyst Fareed Zakaria says could bring an end to the nine-year-long war.", "Karzai convened a meeting Thursday with the Afghan Peace Council, which was formed to help negotiate with the Taliban.", "Referring to the militants, Karzai said, \"I call on them once again to use this opportunity and say 'yes' to this endeavor.", "I want them to come and bring peace to this land.\"", "The author and host of CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\" spoke to CNN on Thursday.", "Here is an edited transcript: .", "CNN: Hamid Karzai has launched a council to help negotiate with the Taliban?", "What's the significance of that step?", "Fareed Zakaria: I think it's about time.", "If you look at any good study of civil wars, what you find is that most of them end in a negotiated settlement.", "Maybe because Americans have the memory of our civil war in which the North crushes the South, we somehow think that that's how civil wars end.", "But that's actually is very unusual.", "Watch an excerpt from Larry King's interview with Hamid Karzai .", "What normally happens is some kind of settlement that is negotiated in which the losers are reintegrated into the political order.", "Civil wars are unlike normal wars, because the winners and losers are going to have to live with one another.", "CNN: How does that apply to Afghanistan?", "Zakaria: The Taliban, which is mounting this insurgency, is not a foreign element within the body politic.", "The Taliban is basically the political representative of the conservative elements of the Pashtun community.", "The Pashtuns are 50 percent of Afghanistan. ...", "It is a political force in Afghanistan.", "Coming to terms with it politically and seeing if there's some way it can be reintegrated into the political order makes sense.", "You're not going to kill every member of the Taliban.", "They're not going to be exiled to a foreign land.", "They're going to be there at the end of the day so it's better to to have them in the tent.", "CNN: The U.S. military view seems to be that the talks haven't yielded progress so far, and a senior defense official told CNN, \"We don't think the Taliban believe that they're losing to the degree that they'd come to terms in large numbers.\"", "Are the talks premature because the effects of the U.S. military buildup haven't been felt yet?", "Zakaria: First the very fact that the Taliban are coming to the table in a way they had not been willing to before suggests that they are feeling some pressure.", "But I also think you can't get too hung up with this idea that you have to negotiate from a position of strength.", "Ideally we would have them totally prostrate on the floor and that would be the time to negotiate.", "But the reality is that this is a very mixed military campaign.", "I don't know if it's going to be dramatically better one year from now or three years from now.", "See more opinion articles .", "This is a little like somebody who owns a stock, who says, it's at six now, I need to sell it, but I'm going to wait till it goes to eight.", "Well maybe it will go to eight, maybe it will go to four.", "You might as well start talking at this point.", "First of all you learn a lot in the process of negotiations.", "And secondly, the military campaign could move in many different directions.", "If the surge starts succeeding even more, that will be reflected in our negotiating posture.", "CNN: Is there an idea yet of what a negotiated settlement might involve?", "Zakaria: It seems as though the Taliban demands are that they want all foreign troops out.", "They don't want to accept the Afghan constitution and they don't want to lay down their arms.", "Now those are obviously their opening demands.", "Foreign troops aren't going to be out, but one could point out that President Obama has said there is going to be a reduction of foreign forces next year.", "On the Afghan constitution, there is a compromise there where there could be a few amendments to the constitution.", "But on laying down their arms, that it seems to me you can't really compromise, they would have to lay down their arms.", "Could some elements be integrated into the militia, or the Afghan national army?", "Perhaps -- that's what happened in Iraq.", "CNN: Isn't there also a clashing conception of society, with the Taliban being a closed society that doesn't recognize an elevated role for women as opposed to a potentially democratic kind of society that's envisioned by the Afghan constitution?", "Zakaria: Yes, it is the kind of society envisioned by the Afghan constitution.", "But Afghanistan is a fairly conservative society.", "While the extreme elements of the Taliban have draconian visions which are obviously not supported by the Afghans -- the polls bear this out -- it's also true that on issues of women's rights and some of the more progressive elements of the Afghan constitution, the Karzai government is in a minority and those rights are not popularly supported.", "There are clashing visions, but there is probably a reality of Afghanistan which is a lot more progressive and open than the Taliban believe but is still a society that is somewhat conservative, and often tribal, and with very traditional views on something like women's rights.", "The key is creating a situation where these rights are guaranteed but not fetishizing it.", "For example, one of the things the Afghan constitution has is a requirement for 25 percent representation of women in parliament.", "We don't have such a requirement either in the U.S. Constitution or in the amendments.", "Many European countries don't.", "Is it conceivable that something like that could be compromised?", "Perhaps, and that's the kind of thing where we'd have to be creative in coming up with a solution that moderates and some elements of the Taliban could live with.", "CNN: Is this an honorable exit for the United States?", "Zakaria: I think so, and it's not really an exit, it's a reduction in our forces and in our role.", "And I think it would be appropriate.", "We've been there for nine years.", "It's not the only battleground, the only place where al Qaeda operates.", "There are many more members of al Qaeda in Pakistan than in Afghanistan.", "You're trying to create a political settlement, and a self-sustaining political framework in Afghanistan that can survive the departure of American troops.", "And finally you're leaving enough troops in there where you could still prosecute a fairly vigorous counterterrorism operation against those elements of the Taliban or al Qaeda that continue to plot and plan to do violence to civilians, foreigners, westerners.", "And I do think, if we could get this kind of a settlement, it would be an honorable way for the United States to begin reducing its exposure in Afghanistan." ]	[ "Afghan president Karzai is talking to Taliban representatives .", "Fareed Zakaria says a negotiated settlement is the only way to end the war .", "He says compromise possible between Karzai government and Taliban .", "After nine years, the U.S. needs to reduce its forces in Afghanistan, he says ." ]	[ 0, 19, 26, 38 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Britain's new coalition government has embarked on a budget-deficit cutting strategy that is bold, brave and potentially very risky, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.", "It could turn out to be a model for the United States to follow -- or a prime example of what not to do in the wake of a severe recession.", "After forming a government in the wake of the May election, the ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats announced plans last month to cut spending and raise taxes in an effort to reduce the budget deficit.", "Zakaria, the author and host of CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\" spoke to CNN on Wednesday from London.", "Here is an edited transcript: .", "CNN: The new coalition government in Britain has announced major steps to cut the budget deficit.", "What has the impact been? Fareed Zakaria: In general, I'd say the government is benefiting from having announced these cuts.", "There's a sense that they're being bold, they're being brave, they're taking on a big challenge.", "It particularly helps them that you have this coalition government, so the fact that the Liberal Democrats, who are really quite a left-wing party, are supporting the budget has given Conservatives more cover. ...", "It's important to remember that it's not just budget cuts, it's also tax raises.", "You have to give them credit for being serious about this.", "It is not pure ideology as with the right in the United States.", "They understand that if you're going to do something serious about the budget deficit, you've got to do both spending cuts and tax increases .There's simply no way for the math to work without doing that.", "Now, on the political side though, these changes have not come into effect yet.", "So there are two big questions, what happens economically when these budget cuts start going into effect and what happens politically -- how popular does the government remain at that point?", "But the biggest question is what happens economically.", "CNN: Is it too soon to take these steps as the world is coming out of a big recession, and government spending is seen as a way to speed the recovery from a recession?", "Zakaria: The crucial question here is about timing, and very few people would disagree that Britain had to get its public finances in order.", "There's a universal sense that the last Labour government spent too much money and borrowed too much money.", "But in the midst of a very weak economic recovery, does it make sense to slash spending, raise taxes, all of which will have the effect of putting some people out of work and reducing people's spending power.", "Here's the debate -- one side says that will reassure markets, that will bring interest rates on things like mortgages even lower, and that will give businesses confidence to invest, and the other side says once you inflict that much pain on the economy, people are going to spend less as people lose jobs or are taxed more heavily, which will cause an even more severe downturn.", "CNN: What does this mean for the rest of the world?", "Zakaria: Britain is the guinea pig here.", "We're all going to watch the outcome very closely because President Obama has taken a position in this debate.", "He told the G-20 countries, which includes Britain of course, that it is too soon to start withdrawing the stimulus measures.", "Britain is going further than withdrawing the stimulus measures, it's actually cutting spending.", "The big debate is over what will restore business confidence and what will make businesses start spending again.", "Because everyone agrees that government spending is only a bridge to business spending.", "At some point business has to start spending again.", "I'm pretty persuaded that the timing on this is bad.", "I think it would have made more sense to wait at least six months, if not nine to 12 months before beginning these measures.", "CNN: If you're going to have to do it eventually, why wait?", "Zakaria: It's really quite brave of the Conservatives to take on the fiscal problem but there is definitely a danger that they are doing it too soon and will put the economy into a lower growth mode.", "This is something that you have to remember for the United States as well.", "If you have lower growth, you also have a worse deficit because the biggest contributor to deficits is a decline in tax revenue.", "So the slower the economy grows, the fewer people who are employed, the lower the taxes going to the government treasury, the bigger and bigger the deficit becomes.", "So, in a strange sense, even to help the deficit in the short term, you need a little bit of government spending to get the economy going, to get people spending, to get them paying taxes.", "CNN: Does David Cameron's victory in the U.K. election tell us something about the future of conservatives in America?", "Zakaria: Outside Britain, people are struck by David Cameron, the fact that he's become prime minister, that he's fairly popular and he seems to be taking big, bold measures.", "But here people are still struck by how limited was the Tory victory, if you could call it a victory.", "After 13 years of Labour rule, when it would be only natural for the Conservatives to be given power for just cyclical reasons, after a very unpopular Labour prime minister and the worst economic crisis since the great depression, the conservatives still were not able to muster a majority and had to go into a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.", "CNN: Why couldn't the Conservatives put together a majority in the election?", "Zakaria: What thoughtful observers say was that the Conservatives still made no inroads in Scotland, did not make many inroads with working women -- which is a growing part of the population -- and they did not make many inroads with nonwhite minorities, people from India, and Pakistan and the Caribbean.", "As somebody put it to me, the Conservative brand is still a tarnished brand.", "To me, that was a very interesting lesson for the right in America.", "You can have the small government argument David Cameron was making.", "It did have a lot of appeal -- but to England, not Scotland and not to the nonwhites in England either.", "It made me wonder about the Republican Party in the United States, which of course has broader appeal, but still faces some of these same challenges.", "The midterm election looks like it's going to go very well for the Republicans because there is a lot of anti-incumbency sentiment and some anger at the Democratic Party.", "But to seal the deal, Republicans need to close the gap with nonwhites and working women, and there, the Republican Party, like the Conservatives, still faces some challenges.", "CNN: What other lessons are there for conservatives in the United States?", "Zakaria: The Republicans should really watch the British Conservatives.", "What David Cameron is trying to do is to modernize the Conservative Party.", "The Conservative Party was seen in Britain as too right wing, too extreme and too intolerant in many ways and what he's been trying to do is to broaden its appeal.", "David Cameron is more green, more environmentally active, than Gordon Brown.", "He's come out very strongly in favor of gay rights, he's come out in favor of the National Health Service.", "All of this is a signal that he's not a Conservative who's going to completely destroy England's welfare state.", "In a sense, working with the Liberal Democrats has been a godsend for David Cameron.", "The fact that he's in coalition with them means that when the far right of his party asks him to do something, he can say, I'm sorry guys, I just can't do it because we're in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, and to keep the coalition together I have to moderate my stance.", "Now there's an interesting debate in Britain about whether he's modernizing the Conservative Party because he is himself a great moderate or because he just wants to win and he knows the center is where the electability is.", "In a sense it doesn't matter for Republicans watching it.", "You still need to be attractive to the center, to the younger generation, to working women and to ethnic minorities.", "Of course it will all depend on how this economic experiment goes.", "If these cuts put Britain in a double-dip, you'll see great strains on the coalition itself, and the Liberal Democrats will find it difficult to stay in this coalition.", "Then this whole thing spins out of control." ]	[ "Britain's aggressive plan to cut its deficit is a bold but risky move, says Fareed Zakaria .", "The coalition government has announced plans but they haven't gone into effect, he says .", "Zakaria: Question is will it restore business confidence or cause recession .", "He says GOP should take note of how Cameron is modernizing the Conservative Party ." ]	[ 0, 15, 32, 59 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The office of the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair refused to comment Thursday on UK media reports that she has swine flu.", "Cherie Blair, wife of former British premier Tony Blair, is reportedly suffering from swine flu.", "A spokeswoman for Cherie Blair told CNN: \"This is a private matter and we will not be making a comment.\"", "Blair was reported to have contracted the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, on Tuesday, according to the British Press Association and various media reports.", "PA reported that she has been given a course of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, and told to rest.", "Tony Blair and the couple's four children have not shown any signs of being infected, PA added.", "Cherie Blair, who is a human rights lawyer, had been due to pick up an honorary degree at the Liverpool Hope University in north-west England Thursday.", "With 29 deaths and a dramatic increase in the number of cases, Britain has the worst swine flu figures in Europe.", "Official figures released Thursday by the UK's Department of Health have revealed that swine flu will cause one in eight workers to stay off work in September, potentially crippling many businesses still struggling in the wake of the recession.", "General health practitioners in Britain have also reported a 50 percent increase in the number of people complaining from flu like symptoms.", "Doctors say they have also seen a significant rise in the number of children reported to be affected." ]	[ "Reports: Wife of ex British PM Tony Blair has suspected swine flu .", "Cherie Blair was prescribed Tamiflu and told to rest, British media says .", "She had been due to pick up an honorary degree Thursday .", "Britain's swine flu cases rising dramatically ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Airways posted the airline's worst annual loss since its privatization in 1987 as its chief executive declared there were \"absolutely no signs of recovery\" in the industry.", "BA CEO Willie Walsh says he's never seen conditions in the airline industry so bleak.", "The airline slumped from profit to loss in the last financial year.", "During the year ended March 31, its operating loss swelled to £220 million ($348 million) from a restated profit of £878 million ($1.4 billion) in 2008.", "\"I'm 30 years in this business and I've never seen anything like this.", "This is by far the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced,\" BA chief executive Willie Walsh told CNN's Richard Quest.", "Follow Quest on Twitter .", "Demand for the airline's passenger seats and cargo holds fell during the last financial year, while its fuel bill rocketed to almost £3 billion ($4.7 billion).", "Walsh said British Airways' woes were inextricably linked to the downturn in the global economy and that there had been no sign of any \"green shoots\" of recovery.", "Watch Richard Quest's interview with Willie Walsh » .", "\"None whatsoever, and that's across the board,\" he said.", "\"In all of the markets we're operating in we see no evidence of recovery at this stage.", "I think there's some evidence of it bottoming out in some markets but absolutely no signs of recovery at this point.\"", "Like its premium-class competitors, British Airways is losing customers to cheaper rivals.", "BA's premium passenger numbers fell 13 percent in the second half of last year, in line with the industry average.", "Total traffic fell 3.4 percent and while BA carried 33.1 million passengers in last year, a drop of 4.3 percent on the previous year.", "The dip in demand for British Airways flights has forced a switch in strategy at the premium airline from yields to volume.", "From the end of last year, it's been tempting passengers with lower fares, sacrificing profit per seat for \"bums on seats.\"", "\"We're now saying it's getting that balance between yield and volume so it's more a focus on volume than it has been,\" Walsh said.", "He said the airline would target market share, \"where we believe that it is sustainable in the long term and will be profitable.\"", "It plans to reduce capacity by four percent next winter by parking up to 16 aircraft.", "Walsh said the tough trading conditions hadn't killed off its plans for a merger with Spanish airline Iberia.", "He said the main barrier to the deal was corporate governance.", "\"It's getting the corporate governance for the combined single entity right -- that's a critical issue as far as I'm concerned.\"", "\"Iberia do have some concerns about our pension deficit.", "We are very happy to listen to those concerns and I'm also very confident that we can address that,\" Walsh said.", "Watch Quest Means Business for the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money, week nights at 1900 London, 2000 CET, 0300 HK." ]	[ "BA's annual profit disappears into a loss as the global downturn takes its toll .", "Passenger numbers, demand for cargo falling, fuel costs increasing .", "BA has shifted focus from protecting yields to chasing higher volumes .", "Willie Walsh: \"This is by far the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced\"" ]	[ 2, 5, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- 2010 has opened on an unsettling note for Democrats in the U.S. Senate.", "Connecticut's Chris Dodd and North Dakota's Byron Dorgan -- two longtime power players in the chamber -- have announced their intention to step down at the end of the year.", "If history is any guide, the party now faces an uphill struggle to maintain its 60-seat supermajority.", "Failure to do so could have serious ramifications for President Obama as he tries to look past the health care debate and tackle global warming, ballooning budget deficits and a range of other politically contentious issues.", "The fight over health care reform has clearly demonstrated that 60 votes is now the minimum threshold for passing major legislation through the Senate.", "Anything less leaves the majority party at the mercy of a minority increasingly willing to employ the filibuster to grind the legislative gears of the Senate to a halt.", "Democrats currently have exactly 60 members in their caucus; Republicans have 40.", "The GOP knows that presidents typically lose House and Senate seats during midterm elections, and is banking on that fact to block much of Obama's agenda.", "\"Midterm elections are usually low-turnout affairs,\" noted CNN polling director Keating Holland.", "\"Conservative Republicans, however, have been energized by their strong opposition to Obama's agenda.", "They're likely to vote this November.", "Many liberals, on the other hand, don't feel Obama has pushed strong enough on their issues.", "It's unclear at the moment if they'll be as likely to show at the polls.\"", "This year, Democrats must defend 19 seats, including an opening that occurred when veteran Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy died.", "A special election for Kennedy's seat -- widely expected to be won by the Democrats -- will take place January 19.", "Republicans are defending 18 seats.", "The GOP, according to many analysts, is now placing a high priority on picking up Democratic seats in Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.", "The Illinois and Delaware seats were once held by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, respectively.", "Obama's replacement, Sen. Roland Burris, was immediately tainted after being tapped to fill Obama's vacancy by Rod Blagojevich, the state's scandal-plagued former governor.", "Burris is not seeking election in his own right.", "Biden's replacement, Sen. Ted Kaufman, is likely to step aside in favor of the vice president's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, analysts believe.", "Delaware's longtime GOP congressman, Mike Castle, is being touted as the likely Republican nominee.", "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is struggling to manage Obama's more progressive agenda while also seeking a fifth term from his traditionally conservative state.", "Republicans, however, are having a tough time unifying behind an opponent.", "At the same time, five-term Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter remains a high-profile target for conservatives enraged by his decision to switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party last year.", "Before he can get to the general election, Specter will face a tough primary challenge from Rep. Joe Sestak, a former admiral.", "Also in the GOP's crosshairs is two-term Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln, who recently cast a tough political vote in favor of Reid's health care bill.", "Dodd's decision to retire, however, is widely believed to be beneficial to Democratic chances in largely liberal Connecticut.", "The state's popular Democratic attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, declared his candidacy a few hours after Dodd announced he was stepping down.", "Democratic leaders, for their part, are placing a high priority on picking up GOP seats in Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Ohio.", "Republicans have been stung by incumbents' decisions to retire in all four states.", "Louisiana, a more conservative state, has attracted the interest of Democratic strategists.", "First-term GOP Sen. David Vitter has been tarred by his 2007 admission that he had a relationship with a prostitute.", "This year's race in Florida has also become an increasingly high-profile contest, largely due to Republican infighting.", "GOP Sen. George LeMieux, who was appointed to the Senate after former Sen. Mel Martinez unexpectedly stepped down last year, is not seeking a full term.", "The state's GOP governor, Charlie Crist, was widely expected to take the seat, but is now facing an unexpectedly strong conservative primary challenge from former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio.", "Republicans are still, however, favored to hold the seat.", "CNN's Mark Preston and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report." ]	[ "Democrats need 60-seat supermajority in Senate to get major bills passed .", "Sens.", "Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan announced this week they won't seek re-election .", "GOP targeting vulnerable seats, including those vacated by Obama and Biden .", "Flipping could go both ways, with Dems picking up some GOP seats ." ]	[ 1, 7, 10, 14, 16 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Actor and political activist Ron Silver, who played a recurring role in TV's presidential drama \"The West Wing,\" and who also let his political views play out in real life, died Sunday after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer, according to a colleague.", "Ron Silver is seen in this 2006 photograph.", "He had a recurring role in TV's \"The West Wing.\"", "Robin L. Bronk, executive director of The Creative Coalition, said Silver, a New York native, died in his sleep with his family around him.", "\"Nothing could hold Ron back, not even a debilitating illness.", "His contributions as an artist and activist will never be forgotten,\" said Bronk, who runs an organization founded in 1989 by Silver, actor Christopher Reeve and other prominent figures in the arts as a political advocacy organization for the entertainment industry.", "Silver's politics moved from working for the Democratic Party and its candidates for most of his life to becoming a supporter of many Republican candidates and causes, with the shift occurring after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.", "He was quoted as saying the terrorist attacks and the Democratic Party's policies regarding terrorism had persuaded him to become a political independent.", "He backed then-President George W. Bush for a second term in 2004, and he spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York.", "One of Silver's final television appearances was on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" last October, when he was part of panel discussing Sen. John McCain's campaign against then-candidate Barack Obama.", "Asked by King about rifts within the Republican Party as the election neared and the country's financial crisis worsened, Silver said, \"The Republican Party, if they are out of power for a while, needs to regroup and rethink who they are as a party.", "This deregulation, this whole Reagan Revolution, did not seem to work in this crisis.\"", "Silver's many roles included playing political consultant Bruno Gianelli in \"The West Wing,\" and attorney Alan Dershowitz in the movie \"Reversal of Fortune.\"" ]	[ "Silver's many roles included playing consultant Bruno Gianelli in \"The West Wing\"\nSilver was 62 and had been battling esophageal cancer for two years .", "Silver was also known for his political activism, first for Democrats, then for GOP .", "Colleague says Silver died in his sleep with his family around him ." ]	[ 0, 3, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum was forced to retire from the fourth game of the NBA finals with an ongoing knee problem, as his team went down 96-89 to the Boston Celtics.", "Bynum had fluid drained from his knee just days before the first game of the best-of-seven series last week, but until now the injury has not hampered his performance.", "However, the 22-year-old spent almost half of Thursday night's game in Boston on the bench, only managing 12 minutes of action in the second half as L.A.'s East Coast rivals leveled the finals at 2-2.", "\"Obviously we miss Andrew when he's not out there,\" the Lakers' Spanish center Pau Gasol told his team's official Web site.", "\"He's been so effective blocking shots and rebounding.", "Those two things alone are a big plus for us.\"", "Trailing two points going into the last quarter, the Celtics came from behind to win the game to prevent the defending champions from pulling ahead in the series.", "Paul Pierce was Boston's top scorer, finishing with 19 points.", "But veteran Celtics players Glen Davis and Nate Robinson were instrumental in their team sealing the win.", "Coming off the bench Davis scored nine of his 18 points in the final quarter and Robinson all of his 12.", "\"I just felt like a beast.", "I just felt like I couldn't be denied,\" Davis told the official NBA Web site.", "\"It was all will and determination. This is where you grab the moment.", "All you can do is play in the moment.\"", "Lakers coach Phil Jackson believes that his team were outplayed by the New Englanders, especially in the closing stages of the game.", "\"They really stepped on it in the fourth quarter,\" said Phil Jackson.", "\"We seemed to not be able to stop the momentum of their game.", "And Jackson has hinted at a change of tactics in the next game in order to make the most of guard Kobe Bryant, who scored 33 points but was not effective in the fourth quarter.", "\"He was tired,\" Jackson said.", "\"Physically he had to work too hard in the course of the game, and he couldn't finish it out like he wanted to.", "We'll have to do something different the next game to get him off the floor and keep him ready for that fourth quarter.\"", "The Lakers are now hoping they can bounce back in game five, hopefully with the help of a fully fit Bynum, and not allow the Celtics to take a series lead.", "\"I think we have enough in our arsenal to produce,\" said Gasol.", "\"We know what to do, we know how to get it done.", "Game five will take place in Boston on Sunday, before the series moves back to L.A. for the sixth, and if required, seventh game.", "The Celtics are seeking a record breaking 18th NBA title, and the Lakers their 16th." ]	[ "Boston Celtics beat the L.A. Lakers 96-89 in the fourth game of NBA finals to level series .", "Lakers' Andrew Bynum was forced to withdraw from the game with a knee problem .", "Veteran Celtics players Glen Davis and Nate Robinson helped Celtics come from behind in final quarter .", "L.A.'s Kobe Bryant scored 33 points but tired in the closing stages of the game ." ]	[ 0, 8, 17 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Two state supreme court justices from neighboring states find themselves in disagreement these days -- not over a legal issue, but over how they should have gotten their jobs.", "The two justices, Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer and Pennsylvania Justice Seamus McCaffery, were both elected in statewide votes.", "Moyer said having to raise funds can erode public confidence in the courts.", "\"Going out asking for money creates a real strain in my judicial work, and I can't promise or predict to voters how I would decide a particular issue,\" Moyer said.", "\"It conflicts with the idea that judges are and should be impartial and not be influenced by anything, especially money.\"", "But as Pennsylvania's newest elected high court member, McCaffery said it was a treat visiting all of his state's 67 counties on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.", "\"That's the beauty of having electoral process where we need to be responsive to the community,\" said the Philadelphia former cop-turned-judge.", "\"And I think it's important that judges should be out there.", "It's just as important as other elected officials.\"", "The experiences of both men are now at the forefront of a growing national debate over selecting judges.", "Twenty-one states have some sort of contested system for top judges.", "The other 29 states, along with the District of Columbia and the federal government, appoint their judges, often under a merit-based selection system in which the governor gets the final say.", "Some, including retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, are pushing for reform, saying election-based systems could raise doubts about a judge's impartiality.", "\"Studies show that roughly 70 percent of the public believe judges are influenced by campaign contributions, and more than one quarter of judges agree,\" O'Connor said in an exclusive interview with CNN.", "\"This is alarming because the legitimacy of the judiciary rests entirely on its promise to be fair and impartial.", "A judge's sole constituency should be the law.", "If the public loses faith in that impartiality, then there is no reason to prefer the judge's interpretation of the law to the opinions of the real politicians representing the electorate.\"", "O'Connor is lending her reputation, her energy and her name to a new project, the O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative.", "The initiative assists state-level efforts to name judges by merit-based selection systems, not elections.", "\"This initiative is a matter of great importance to our country,\" O'Connor said.", "\"The amount of money poured into judicial campaigns has skyrocketed, intensifying the need to re-examine how we choose judges in America.", "I believe it is our moral duty and obligation to restore the public's confidence in our judicial system.\"", "The O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative was created by the Denver, Colorado-based Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.", "The group's founder and director, Rebecca Kourlis, said O'Connor has long been a passionate defender of judicial independence.", "\"Justice O'Connor adds practical experience with a system [in her home state of Arizona] that works, and she adds a perception of balance and moderation [in] that she has never been associated in the minds of the public with extremes on either side of the political ledger,\" said Kourlis, a retired justice from Colorado's Supreme Court.", "Kourlis said she senses increased momentum for change on the national level, partly because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that arose from a judicial scandal in West Virginia.", "In the so-called Caperton Caper, the U.S. Supreme Court found that West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Brent Benjamin acted improperly when he refused to remove himself from a 2006 civil appeal.", "The court ruled that there was a perceived conflict of interest in the 2006 case because Benjamin had previously received financial support from the CEO of the key defendant.", "\"What the [U.S. Supreme Court] made clear in 'Caperton' was that judges are different, that campaign donations need to be thought of in a different way when those donations are going to fund a judicial campaign,\" Kourlis said.", "\"It put on the front burner those questions of propriety with respect to campaign donations to judges and how that impacts people's perception of impartiality on the bench.\"", "Nevada has scheduled a ballot initiative that could make it the first state in 15 years to switch from a voter-based selection of judges to a merit-based selection.", "Ohio, too, has begun rethinking its voter-based system.", "Moyer, who has been through four elections on the state high court, said he notices voters growing more skeptical of judges.", "That perception, he said, is fueled in part by negative ads from political and business interests with a stake in elections.", "\"The only way to eliminate the public distrust is to eliminate money from the process,\" Moyer said.", "Moyer is heading an effort that would give the governor and an independent review panel the power to select state judges.", "Voters could then decide a few years later whether to retain those justices.", "Many states that choose judges by merit also have accountability systems that include independent performance evaluations and retention votes.", "Supporters call that a transparent, unbiased tool for the public to essentially \"judge the judge\" on their record.", "McCaffery knows his personality and personal story helped get him elected.", "An Irish immigrant, he used his law enforcement background to get a spot as a Philadelphia trial judge, famously dealing with unruly football fans at the small \"Eagles Court\" underneath Veterans Stadium.", "The bald, burly judge with an easy grin was elected in 2007 and says he enjoys his work.", "\"I'm electable, not appointable,\" he said during the run for his seat.", "\"If I'm elevated, I am responsible to the citizens -- not the governor, not the folks who talk about merit selection.\"", "McCaffery calls the merit-based system \"elitist.\"", "The 19 states that held state supreme court elections in 2007 spent a combined $34.4 million, shattering previous campaign spending records.", "In 2008, nearly $20 million was spent on TV advertising for the 15 states that held contested elections for 26 supreme court seats.", "The political and financial stakes have become enormous, from ideological groups sparring over abortion rights and gay marriage to business groups dueling with trial lawyers over multibillion-dollar punitive damage awards.", "Reform advocates say judicial independence comes only with public confidence in the system.", "\"People don't like the notion of cash in the courtroom -- any whiff of any expectation that judges can be bought is just not acceptable in our country,\" Kourlis said.", "\"People understand how important it is to have an impartial judge.", "From your own personal perspective, walking into a courthouse, you don't want to be asking whether that adverse party donated to that judge's campaign.\"" ]	[ "Former Supreme Court justice wants to reform the way judges are chosen .", "Twenty-one states have some sort of contested system for selecting judges .", "Reform advocates say campaign contributions can bring judges' impartiality into question .", "Elected judge in Pennsylvania says it's \"elitist\" to appoint judges ." ]	[ 10, 28, 48 ]
[ "Editor's note: This is an excerpt from CNN Contributor Bob Greene's new book, \"Late Edition: A Love Story,\" a memoir of his time working at an Ohio newspaper in the 1960s.", "The localness of what we did down at the paper defined everything.", "Even as a kid brand-new to the staff and brand-new to the newspaper business, hired to work during summer vacations, I could tell that.", "Bob Greene recalls a 1967 lesson in manners from Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes.", "It was a localness not confined to the geographic scope of our news coverage -- it went without saying that the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen-Journal wasn't about to send its reporters to Africa or France (or even to Kentucky or Indiana).", "The men and women in the city room arrived at work each day knowing that they weren't going to be assigned to anyplace from where they couldn't drive back to the office by deadline.", "The localness extended beyond that, though, and infused the very feel of the place.", "One night in the summer of 1967 the phone on the sports desk rang and I picked it up with the customary: \"Sports!\"", "The person on the other end said: .", "\"Now, that's no way to answer a telephone, is it?\"", "\"Who's calling?\" I said. \"To whom am I speaking?\" the caller said.", "\"This is Bob Greene,\" I said.", "\"Now, I've seen your name in the paper,\" the caller said.", "\"It's Bob Greene Jr., isn't it?\"", "I had been permitted to write a few sports stories that summer; I used the \"Jr.\" at the end of the byline.", "\"Yes,\" I said. I thought I recognized the voice from somewhere.", "\"Now, I believe I know your mother and father,\" the caller said.", "\"Are your parents Robert and Phyllis Greene, from Bexley?\"", "\"Yes,\" I said. \"I know they didn't raise you to answer a phone that way,\" the caller said.", "\"When you answer a business telephone, the proper way to do it is to tell the caller your name first.\"", "\"All right, sir,\" I said.", "\"I know your parents are fine people, and I'm sure they taught you good manners,\" the caller said.", "\"You don't want to disappoint them by giving a bad impression of yourself on the telephone, do you?\"", "\"No, sir,\" I said. \"Good,\" the caller said.", "\"Now, this is Woody Hayes.", "I was calling to speak with Tom Pastorius.", "Is Tom there, please?\"", "And, my hands shaking, I connected him with Pastorius, one of the paper's sportswriters.", "I knew it really was the head coach of the Ohio State University football team because of that phrase early in his lecture to me -- \"To whom am I speaking?\"", "His grammar was always scrupulous -- no \"Who am I speaking to?\"", "The localness was all around us.", "Woody had met my mother and father on a few occasions, he remembered them, and he was setting their son straight.", "He may have been the most nationally famous person in the community, but he was first and foremost a member of that community -- during all his years as head football coach at Ohio State, Woody kept his home telephone number listed in the Columbus phone book: W.W. Hayes, on Cardiff Road.", "That made for a lot of late-night crank calls from a lot of insulting or drunken people, but he thought that if he was going to represent the community, then he should be as available as any other man or woman in town.", "Once, years later, I heard a story -- I'm almost certain that it was Citizen-Journal sportswriter Kaye Kessler who told it.", "It seemed that very early in Jack Nicklaus's golf career, Nicklaus's father, Charlie, a Columbus pharmacist, was following his son on tour, and Woody Hayes offered to travel with Charlie Nicklaus to keep him company and provide moral support.", "Apparently at one tournament someone in the gallery kept referring to Nicklaus as \"fat Jack\" -- Nicklaus was a little hefty in those younger days.", "And, the way I remember the story, either Woody Hayes had to physically restrain Charlie Nicklaus from going after the fan, or Charlie Nicklaus had to restrain Woody.", "(I have a feeling I know which one was which.)", "It was all part of the localness.", "Woody Hayes and Charlie Nicklaus were two Columbus residents on the road to cheer for a local golfer; the fact that the local golfer would become the greatest ever to play the game was incidental.", "And we -- in the eyes of our readers, and in our own eyes, too -- were, proudly, the local paper.", "That was all, and everything, we aspired to be.", "Just like the proud local papers in a thousand other American towns.", "\"I know they didn't raise you to answer a phone that way,\" Woody said.", "He thought, by saying it, he was doing me a favor.", "He was. Excerpted by permission from \"Late Edition: A Love Story,\" published this week by St. Martin's Press." ]	[ "Bob Greene's new memoir is titled \"Late Edition: A Love Story\"\nThe book chronicles his tenure at an Ohio newspaper in the 1960s .", "Author recalls lesson in etiquette from Ohio State University's football coach ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland S. Martin is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother!", "A Black Man's View of America.\"", "Visit his Web site for more information.", "Roland Martin says fathers across America are failing their children by shirking their responsibilities.", "(CNN) -- \"I'll kill all y'all.\" Imagine looking at the man whose DNA you carry standing in your home, telling you those chilling words, as he wields a shotgun.", "The frightening image is a scary thought.", "But according to former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry, it was an actual scene, one that begins his book, \"Straw: Finding My Way.\"", "I vividly remember the towering home runs hit by the former star, who played for four big league teams, including the New York Mets and Yankees -- and of course, the many times he was in the news for failing drug tests, beating wives, getting cancer twice, going to prison.", "He was a man fighting enormous demons.", "Yet as I read the book, there is one consistent theme that runs throughout and that sheds a spotlight on a figure that continues to plague neighborhoods all across the country: the missing-in-action father.", "Strawberry makes a point repeatedly in \"Straw\" that he does not blame his dad for the trials and tribulations in his life; he says all decisions he made willingly.", "But he does speak to the issue of having a father who, by Strawberry's account, while technically in the house, was a raging drunk who spent his paycheck doing what he wanted, showing no love and affection towards his children, viciously beating Strawberry and his brother, all while telling them that they would be nothing in life.", "Watch Darryl Strawberry talk to Roland Martin about his father » .", "\"I grew up in an inner city, South Central Los Angeles.", "When you grow up in the inner cities, most young men don't have a father figure around.", "Most mothers are raising the kids,\" he told me in an interview.", "He later said, \"I loved playing baseball; I loved playing basketball; excelling and achieving my goals was my own personal goals, but inside, I just never loved myself.", "I can remember the times when I excelled in baseball and I [would] do extremely well and the cheers and the glitter and everything that came along with it, but you know what, Roland?", "When I went home at night, here was I again, me myself, [asking] 'Who am I?'", "\" The cynical in our world undoubtedly will say, \"Who cares about a drugged-out, washed-up ballplayer?\"", "But the mental damage that Strawberry says wreaked havoc on him as a child cannot be discounted, and it's something that millions of young children, especially boys, are growing up with every day.", "This isn't a tale of the stereotypical black athlete who grows up with the black father not in the home, leading to the cycle of violence and lack of family unity we see all around the country.", "Strawberry's dad was there.", "But, according to the former ballplayer, he was a horrible father.", "And right now, there are also young white boys in suburban and rural America who have dads in the home, physically, yet they have mentally and emotionally checked out.", "And the same for Hispanics and Asians.", "It has gotten to the point that a mother is considered essential in a family, but a father is optional, expendable, and increasingly irrelevant.", "I remember watching an OnStar commercial.", "And as the company touted the features, it showed a father driving his child around, and when the kid starts to cry, the dad freaks out and has to quickly call the mom to calm the baby down.", "I'm watching that and saying, \"Man, it's your child, too!", "So calm it!\" Then there is the commercial -- I don't even remember what they were pitching -- of two or three kids in the kitchen making a mess after spilling the cereal.", "The hapless and hopeless dad looks at them and says, \"Where is your mom?\"", "Every time that commercial comes on I scream at the TV, \"Where is your mom?", "Where are your parenting skills, you ingrate!\"", "See, I take seriously the importance of fathers -- men -- in the lives of children.", "My wife and I don't have children of our own, but we are raising four of my nieces because they were struggling at home.", "They need to see a husband and a wife caring for them, but also instilling the right values in their lives.", "I am convinced that our city streets have turned into killing fields because dads have abdicated their responsibility in the raising of their children.", "Yes, mom is vital.", "But there is something different about dad speaking, lecturing, cajoling, disciplining, embracing, loving and caring.", "Our schools are filled with children losing their minds, and teachers unable to control them.", "When that happens, it's typically mom, grandma or an aunt coming to the school to deal with the problem.", "Ask a teacher or principal today and they will say they rarely see dads.", "My mom has gotten ticked at times because I often talk more about my father than her on TV or radio.", "It's not that I don't love or appreciate her.", "But I do it because it is rare to hear men, especially black men, speaking affirmatively about their fathers.", "I know what it means to have a dad raising and caring for you, and not seeing his child in a drive-by style, or just sending a check.", "Dads must be present and accounted for, playing a vital role in their children's life.", "That's why I appreciated it when President Obama spoke about the issue of fatherhood on the campaign trail.", "We all know the story of his father leaving when he was 2 years old.", "And yes, he was able to be successful.", "But for every Obama, there are numerous boys who aren't able to hold it together.", "I've called on pastors nationwide to stop the stream of momma, grandmother, aunts and female cousins coming to the altar for baby dedications with no man in sight.", "That pastor should say, \"Until I personally meet with the father, I will not dedicate this child.\"", "Somebody has to hold that man accountable for his actions.", "It's time that men hold their \"boys\" accountable.", "Actor Hill Harper had a friend who once said that he hadn't seen his child in some time, but he found time to play basketball with Harper.", "Hill said, \"Unless you call your child now, we can't play ball.\"", "See, Hill had to force him to accept his responsibilities.", "The failure of manhood in America -- fatherhood -- has reached epidemic proportions.", "And unless our religious and cultural institutions say enough is enough, we are going to see another generation of children growing up with dad absent and unaccounted for.", "It's time for men to man up, so children can grow up with an equal amount of love and affection from both parents.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin." ]	[ "Roland Martin: Darryl Strawberry's book says his father failed his family .", "Martin says fathers across America aren't living up to their responsibilities .", "He says mothers are bearing the burden of raising kids, dealing with schools ." ]	[ 1, 3, 12, 15 ]
[ "Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- An investigation was under way aboard a cruise ship in Barcelona's port on Friday after 26-foot waves crashed into a cruise ship and killed two people off northeast Spain, officials said.", "\"We are extending all cooperation to all relevant authorities.", "The captain has been cooperating and is aboard the ship,\" said Michael Maratheftis, spokesman for the Greece-based Louis Cruise Lines.", "Its vessel the Louis Majesty suffered the casualties and damage on Wednesday.", "Two male passengers -- a German and an Italian -- were killed and 14 other people were injured.", "Maltese government officials arrived in Spain on Thursday to lead the investigation, because the Greece-based vessel flies a Maltese flag, a Spanish government spokeswoman said.", "\"It's a weather investigation,\" Maratheftis said, adding that the crew's actions after the three \"abnormal\" waves struck the ship were crucial in preventing further casualties or damage.", "The waves smashed five windows on deck five in public areas -- on the forward part, or bow, of the 14-deck ship.", "Two male passengers -- a German and an Italian -- were killed, Maratheftis said.", "Were you on the ship? Share your story with iReport .", "\"It was a shock. It was unexpected,\" Vito Sgobba, the cruise ship's hotel manager, told CNN in a phone interview from Barcelona.", "The first wave, Sgobba said, pushed down the ship's bow, and the second wave soon after struck the front of deck five.", "Sgobba was on an upper deck and quickly rushed to the scene with other crew members, who evacuated the injured to the ship's hospital.", "Several doctors and nurses traveling aboard as passengers also helped, he said.", "The two deceased apparently died at the scene, and did not make it to the ship's hospital, Sgobba said.", "The victims were a German man, 69, from North Rhine Westphalia, and an Italian man, 52, who was traveling with his family, their respective governments told CNN.", "Fourteen others were treated aboard the ship for light injuries, but were hospitalized as a precaution when the ship returned to Barcelona on Wednesday night, Maratheftis said.", "By Friday, only two of the injured remained hospitalized, and they were to be released over the weekend, Maratheftis said.", "The ship's owners on Thursday repatriated most of the 1,350 passengers from 27 nations -- including Americans, Dutch, Germans and Italians -- aboard flights from Barcelona.", "Only 200 passengers remained in Barcelona early Friday, for their convenience, Maratheftis said.", "Dutch passenger Tom Berg told CNN that he had been in the hardest-hit area of the ship just five minutes before the waves struck.", "\"All people crying from that side, because there was a lot of water.", "We felt the wind going through the boat.", "After a few minutes, the cry ... calling for a doctor and we realize it was more serious than we expected,\" Berg said at the Barcelona airport, while awaiting a flight.", "Another Dutch passenger, Elly Maat, said she was on deck six, one level above the worst damage.", "The second wave broke the ship's windows, and some passengers donned life vests, she said.", "\"A lot of people were very angry and children were crying,\" Maat said at the airport.", "The 580 crew members remain with the ship, which is under repair.", "The next scheduled cruise has been canceled, but plans are for the ship to sail from Barcelona to Genoa on March 10, and to resume its normal cruise operations from there on March 12, Maratheftis said.", "CNN's Al Goodman, Stephanie Halasz, Ben Brumfield and Chad Myers contributed to this report." ]	[ "Cruise ship was hit by three \"abnormal\" waves, each about 26 feet (8 meters) high .", "Maltese government officials begin investigation .", "German, Italian passengers killed when waves smashed windows .", "Fourteen other people injured in the incident which occurred off Cabo de San Sebastian ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two-time English FA Cup holders Chelsea needed a late goal from substitute Salomon Kalou to stay in the competition Saturday as the Ivorian's 75th-minute goal rescued a 1-1 draw at Everton in their fourth round clash.", "France striker Louis Saha gave Everton the lead in the second half of the contest -- which was a repeat of the 2009 final -- with a close-range header from Leighton Baines' corner.", "Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti reacted by replacing winger Florent Malouda with Kalou after 70 minutes and his decision paid dividends.", "The 25-year-old Kalou finished off a swift counter-attack when he drilled a low shot past Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard from just inside the penalty area to earn a replay for the visitors.", "\"We had a good attitude and spirit and were able to score and take a draw,\" former AC Milan boss Ancelotti told the club's official website.", "\"It was not an easy game because Everton put strong pressure all the time on the pitch, used a lot of long balls, they were very dangerous on set-pieces and scored on one.", "It was a difficult game.\"", "Premier League leaders Manchester United survived a scare at third division Southampton before they scored a 2-1 win.", "Alex Ferguson's team fell behind to Richard Chaplow's firmly hit strike moments before half time as the Saints took a well-deserved lead.", "But United responded after the break when Michael Owen headed Gabriel Obertan's drilled cross into the net to restore parity.", "The comeback was complete with 76 minutes gone after Javier Hernandez latched on to substitute Ryan Giggs' through ball and calmly converted the chance with a side-footed finish.", "It was the Mexican's ninth goal of the season and it ensured the Red Devils reached the last 16 of this competition for the eighth time in nine years.", "Veteran French midfielder Robert Pires scored his first goal for Aston Villa as Gerard Houllier's side earned a 3-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers to reach the fifth round.", "Pires, 37, found the net with a neat half-volley to restore Villa's lead after Croatia striker Nikola Kalinic had canceled out Ciaran Clark's opener.", "England under-21 striker Nathan Delfouneso wrapped up the game for the home team with a header just before half time.", "Non-league outfit Crawley Town caused one of the day's biggest shocks as they earned a 1-0 success away to fourth division Torquay United.", "Matthew Tubbs' goal after 39 minutes was enough to secure a place in the last 16 for the final non-league club left in the competition.", "In an all-Premier League tie, Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic will have to play again after the two north-west rivals could only manage a 0-0 draw." ]	[ "NEW: Manchester United come from behind to beat Southampton 2-1 .", "Salomon Kalou's 75th minute goal rescues a 1-1 draw for Chelsea against Everton .", "Aston Villa are through to the fifth round after a 3-1 victory against Blackburn .", "Crawley Town upset Torquay United with a 1-0 win, Bolton and Wigan draw 0-0 ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12, 15, 17 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Frank DiPascali, formerly the finance chief at Bernard Madoff's investment advisory business, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday to 10 charges including securities fraud and international money laundering.", "Frank DiPascali, center in this courtroom sketch, said he knew for about 20 years he was engaged in wrongdoing.", "The charges carry a maximum sentence of 125 years.", "With his guilty plea, DiPascali waived his right to a trial.", "As Tuesday's hearing commenced, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan explained that for him to accept DiPascali's guilty plea, DiPascali would have to sufficiently convince him that he was, in fact, guilty.", "That set the stage for a dramatic statement from DiPascali about his history at Madoff's firm, his personal relationship with Madoff, and the mechanics of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme for which Madoff was convicted in June.", "While DiPascali's guilty plea and the judge's acceptance of it were expected, both the defense and the prosecution were surprised by the judge's decision to reject DiPascali's bail agreement -- and to have him escorted from the courtroom in handcuffs.", "The defense and even the prosecution pleaded with the judge not to order DiPascali into custody.", "Prosecutors told the judge they believed remanding DiPascali would impede the \"efficiency\" of their Madoff investigation.", "Marc Mukasey, the lead defense attorney, stood multiple times to dispute the decision, variously suggesting to the judge that DiPascali instead be put under house detention, that he wear an electronic monitoring device, and that the decision on his bail agreement be postponed for 48 to 72 hours.", "He added that DiPascali's family was \"completely unprepared\" for this outcome.", "While Sullivan patiently heard out Mukasey's many counterproposals, he refused to back down from his decision, asserting that DiPascali was too serious a flight risk given the \"astronomical\" maximum sentence he may receive.", "The judge also said that he could not \"overlook the conduct [DiPascali] admitted to\" despite DiPascali's avowed determination to do the right thing henceforth.", "Though DiPascali remained outwardly calm for much of Tuesday's proceedings, the judge's decision not to grant him bail appeared to stun him.", "He seemed in a daze as it became clear he would leave the courtroom in handcuffs, cupping his head in his hands and rubbing his temples.", "Earlier in his testimony, DiPascali recounted how he joined Madoff's company as a newly minted high-school grad in 1975.", "He held numerous jobs during his 33-year tenure -- options trader and research analyst among them -- but above all he was a \"guy who did whatever he was told to do around the office.\"", "Working side by side with Madoff for decades, DiPascali developed a tight bond with his employer.", "\"Bernie was a mentor to me and more,\" he said, adding that he was \"loyal to a terrible, terrible fault.\"", "His sense of loyalty led him to falsify documents for his boss for years on end, he said.", "Using a financial program, he looked up historical prices of stocks and then drafted customer statements showing bogus stock transactions.", "He calculated theoretical commissions that the business should have received from the trades that it did not actually make, and then wired money from account to account to make those commissions appear, he said.", "And as a principal point of contact for investors in Madoff's investment advisory business, DiPascali said, he also regularly fielded calls from investors curious about how their money was being managed, knowing that the trades he told them about were entirely fictitious.", "He said he had been aware that what he was doing was wrong since the \"late '80s, early '90s.\"", "\"I don't know how I went from an 18-year-old kid who happened to have a job [to] standing in front of you today,\" he said.", "DiPascali repeatedly stated that he perpetrated the massive fraud in collusion \"with others,\" though he specified neither who those other were nor how many they numbered.", "DiPascali said he rationalized to himself that Madoff's victims would have a soft landing if the Ponzi scheme ever came crumbling down.", "He said he thought Madoff had assets he could liquefy in a worst-case scenario.", "\"I know my apology means nothing,\" DiPascali said.", "His voice quavered as he expressed remorse for his part in swindling charities that had invested with Madoff.", "Miriam Siegman, a Madoff victim who said she lost 40 years' worth of personal savings in the scheme and was now on the brink of homelessness, asked the judge to reject DiPascali's guilty plea.", "She insisted that the \"full truth\" would come out only if DiPascali stood trial.", "Both legal teams said they expected sentencing to happen in May.", "Each side will have the opportunity to submit documents and testimonies in support of or against DiPascali before Sullivan hands down the sentence.", "DiPascali is the second person involved in the Madoff scheme to land behind bars as a result of the fraud.", "In June, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 counts and was sentenced to 150 years in prison for masterminding the scheme.", "Prosecutors have said it was the largest investor fraud committed by a single person, totaling billions in losses to investors." ]	[ "NEW: Judge denies bail for Frank DiPascali, despite deal he had with prosecutors .", "DiPascali, Bernie Madoff's fiance chief, pleads guilty to securities fraud .", "Madoff was sentenced to prison this year for orchestrating Ponzi scheme .", "DiPascali admits to creating false statements with historical stock prices ." ]	[ 0, 12, 17, 20, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He's thrown himself off more buildings than he can remember and broken more bones than an actor has any right to and still be alive and working today, but at 54 years old, Jackie Chan's days of taking spectacular tumbles may be coming to an end.", "Jackie Chan: From chop socky superstar to Olympics ambassador.", "\"You gotta change,\" he told Anjali Rao for Talk Asia.", "\"I want to be an actor, not an action star; I want to be an actor who can fight.\"", "The body, battered as it has been by thousands of stunts, may still be willing, but a will to be taken more seriously as an actor means that at the very least, his next project is a self-directed drama rather than an action flick.", "Despite his best efforts, it's probably too late for Jackie Chan to be seen by most film-goers as anything other than a comedic action star.", "The fact that he can now direct his own productions, however, indicates just how far he's come in a career in film that has spanned four decades.", "The movie hero has been at the heart of Hong Kong's chop socky film industry for over 30 years, fostering a knock-about on-screen image that has seen him appear in almost 100 films and pioneer the comic kung-fu genre.", "As a boy he studied theatre and acrobatics at the China Drama Academy in Hong Kong.", "He describes the hardship of life under his master at the academy - where learning was based on strict physical discipline - as more like the army than a school.", "After nearly a decade spent learning the physical hardships that a career in the Hong Kong film industry had in-store, his first foray into film was as a stuntman on Bruce Lee films.", "It was only when he developed his humorous on-screen persona in \"Drunken Master\" in 1978 that he found greater success as a leading actor, and one more than capable or doing his own stunts.", "After several attempts to translate his success in Hong Kong cinema to wider audiences in the U.S. and Europe, it was only after he made 'Rumble in the Bronx\" that Hollywood took notice.", "His big-budget Hollywood films include the \"Rush Hour\" series and \"Shanghai Noon,\" where he starred alongside Owen Wilson.", "His next cinematic venture to hit the screens is alongside Jet Li in \"The Forbidden Kingdom,\" before he takes a lead role as an ambassador for the Beijing Olympics leading up to this year's Games and as one of the torch bearers when the Olympic Torch arrives in Hong Kong in May.", "As well as being as firm supporter of the Olympic Games in China, he has combined his dubious penchant for singing ballads (he has released over 20 albums) with this role, releasing an official song to mark the impending event last summer.", "There is also a more serious side to Chan away from the screen.", "As well as funding a number of charitable projects he has also become a UNICEF Good Will Ambassador, leading Forbes magazine to him as one of the 'Top 10 Generous Celebs.'", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Action hero who does his own stunts is international movie star .", "Actor trained at China Drama Academy before starting career as stunt man .", "Chan is an official ambassador for the Olympic Games this summer ." ]	[ 4, 15, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Fidel Castro will continue to have a hand in shaping Cuba's future, but his brother and successor will remain in firm control of the government, Castro's daughter said Monday.", "Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro, has long opposed her father's regime.", "\"He is still behind the scenes, but Raúl is making the decisions,\" Alina Fernandez told CNN.", "\"No doubt about it.\" Fidel Castro's nearly five decades of rule ended Sunday when Cuba's National Assembly chose his younger brother to be the Communist nation's new president.", "Raúl Castro, 76, assumed temporary control of Cuba more than a year ago after his brother suffered health problems.", "The lawmakers' selection, which had been widely expected, came five days after Fidel Castro, 81, announced his resignation in a letter published in Cuba's state-run newspaper, Granma.", "In his address to the National Assembly, Raúl Castro proposed that \"we consult Fidel\" on important decisions, which the 614 members of the legislative body unanimously passed.", "Watch CNN's Morgan Neill on what the transfer of power means » .", "Fernandez, who lives in Florida and has long opposed her father's regime, said her uncle may bring some changes for Cuban business people and foreign relations for the the island.", "\"I think he will encourage some foreign investment,\" Fernandez said.", "\"Small businesses also will be allowed.", "He wants more commerce with America, and that is what he will get.\"", "Raúl Castro was leader of the Cuban army for almost 50 years.", "As Cuba's acting president, he has kept a low profile.", "About six months ago, he began what he called a national debate on the problems of the country, acknowledging high unemployment and other economic concerns.", "However, he has said that only the Communist Party can guarantee continuity.", "In his address Sunday to the National Assembly, he called the party \"the guarantee of the Cuban nation.\"", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Shasta Darlington contributed to this report." ]	[ "Raúl Castro will seek more commerce with U.S., Fidel Castro's daughter says .", "Fidel Castro still involved in Cuba's future, his daughter says .", "Younger Castro brother chosen Sunday to be Cuba's new president ." ]	[ 0, 3, 11, 12 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Oxford Circus is one of the busiest junctions in the heart of London.", "Until recently, it was also the most congested.", "Every hour, almost 40,000 people were herded around the crossroads in slow, cramped, and sometimes dangerous conditions.", "It is also the busiest pedestrian crossing in Europe, according to Westminster City Council.", "Getting from one side of the road to the other, a distance of a few meters, could take an unreasonably long time and many Londoners thought there was little that could ever be done about it.", "That is until Westminster City Council, inspired by Tokyo's famous Shibuya crossing, decided that a similar crossing could solve their Oxford Circus congestion, and make the lives of tens of thousands of pedestrians just a little more pleasant.", "The redesigned crossing has increased the amount of pavement space by 312 square meters, up 69 percent from its previous capacity.", "Martin Low, director of transportation for Westminster City Council told CNN: \"It has really been a phenomenal change from pedestrian hell to pedestrian heaven and what it has done is actually make retailers worldwide want to think about coming to the West End.", "\"We created more space, increased the amount of pedestrian space by about 70 percent, we have removed all of the pedestrian guard railing, we have created a much better environment for pedestrians.\"", "Jacqui Ames, a secretary on a day trip to London from Bexhill, East Sussex, agrees: \"It is much better, there isn't so much congestion and I got across the road without getting pushed and shoved.\"", "Steven, a security guard in one of the retail stores on Oxford Circus said: \"It works really well, I use it every day and it is it quicker and safer than it was before.", "There's a junction down the road that I think is really dangerous and should be changed as well.\"", "Westminster City Council believes the $7.6 million investment is worth it, saying the diagonal crossing not only reduces pedestrian travel time but also safety and that it has transformed what was once a haven for pickpockets into a much safer environment because pedestrians now have more personal space.", "The crossing was jointly funded by The Crown Estate, which owns Regent Street, and Transport for London.", "Could it work in other congested cities?", "\"I can see it working in an awful lot of other places, yes.", "I think across the world people are now starting to think more about the pedestrians.", "And let us face it, all of us, for some part of our journey, are a pedestrian,\" says Low." ]	[ "Almost 40,000 people use Oxford Circus crossing every hour says Westminster City Council .", "The $7.6 million diagonal crossing was inspired by Tokyo's famous Shibuya crossing ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- I'm traveling with a chunk of gold -- the World Cup Trophy -- from Zurich, Switzerland to Cairo, Egypt.", "CNN's Ben Wedeman checks the World Cup is not getting a better seat than him.", "When CNN Johannesburg Bureau Chief Kim Norgaard suggested I fly from Zurich to Cairo to cover the arrival of the World Cup trophy in Africa in the lead-up to the games in South Africa next summer, I thought he was joking.", "Kim, an unabashed football (soccer) fanatic, knows I'm, well, skeptical about a group of grown men paid hefty salaries to kick a little ball around a big field.", "But variety is the spice of journalism, you might say, and Kim is a friend with whom I needed to settle an old debt from Turkey, so I agreed to give it a try.", "Football isn't a subject I know much about, so I realized I would have to cram.", "As it turned out I didn't have much time to prepare because someone broke into our house in Cairo the day before I was scheduled to depart.", "Rather than study World Cup football, I had to deal with the police, change locks, etc.", "Whoever it was didn't steal much, but here's an odd aside: the thief left behind his (or hers?)", "battered black running shoes, making off with my 15-year old son Christopher's brand-new trainers.", "Preparing, perhaps, for a career in football?", "Watch CNN's journey with the World Cup. ...", "Flying from Cairo to Zurich, where FIFA or the International Federation of Football Associations is headquartered, I finally found time to learn a few things about the object that would be my travel companion from Switzerland back to Egypt.", "The trophy is made of more than five kilograms of 18 carat gold, with two bands of malachite running around the bottom.", "Probably for good reason mere mortals such as myself and Beirut cameraman Christian Streib, who is with me on this trip, aren't allowed to touch the trophy.", "According to FIFA regulations, only heads of state and members of teams that won the World Cup have that privilege.", "The trophy's guard can handle it, but must wear special white gloves.", "The trophy is worth a fortune -- for its symbolic value as well as its gold -- and is protected around the clock.", "But the trophy on tour in Africa is not the first -- it's a replacement created after Brazil were allowed to keep the original when they won the tournament for a third time.", "And it's that one currently in circulation, and presumably in the back of the plane we're flying to Cairo in, packed away in a simple aluminum case.", "While on tour the trophy is under constant guard, though as we passed through security at Zurich Airport to board the charter flight to Cairo I saw it go through the x-ray machine -- a big black mass of metal on the screen.", "The airport security personnel asked the guard to open the box, and that was the closest Christian or I came to it.", "We resisted the urge to get our grubby hands all over it, however.", "The chances are slim that either of us will ever be on a winning World Cup team, and slimmer still that either of us will become head of state.", "I'd share more information about how the trophy is transported, but the tour organizers are worried that too much detail might endanger the cup and those guarding it, especially in some African countries where crime is rife.", "According to the plan, after Cairo the trophy will be flown to almost every African capital before ending up in South Africa.", "The Coca Cola Company is covering the cost of the trip.", "There is one African capital it probably won't be going to, however, and that's Mogadishu, in Somalia.", "The city has been a battlefield on and off for the last 20 years, the airport often bombarded by mortars and artillery.", "FIFA and Coca Cola have yet to officially turn down the request by the interim Somali government to bring the trophy to Mogadishu.", "If peace suddenly breaks out, they might actually do it.", "Here is a personal World Cup footnote.", "Thanks to Italy's defeat in the 1990 semifinals of the World Cup in Italy, the birth of my daughter Amira was uneventful.", "My wife Yasmine and I were in Rome that summer when Italy and Argentina had a semifinal match.", "Yasmine, a native of Rome, was nine-months pregnant and then some, and went into labor shortly after the game ended, thankfully, with Italy's defeat.", "If Italy had won there would have been celebratory chaos in the streets until sunrise, and my wife would have ended up delivering in the back seat of the car.", "As it was, the streets were empty.", "Italy was in mourning. And I was relieved." ]	[ "World Cup trophy starts publicity trip ahead of 2010 tournament .", "Only members of tournament winning teams and heads of state can touch trophy .", "The gold trophy has a 24-hour security detail .", "CNN reporter, cameraman allowed nowhere near it ." ]	[ 14, 15, 16, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A large oil drilling platform is on its way to the Chilean mine where 33 trapped miners are awaiting rescue and is expected to arrive later Thursday or Friday, an engineer overseeing the drilling said.", "According to Andre Sougarret, the 42-truck convoy carrying the drill was in the area of Antofagasta, Chile, approximately 500 kilometers (311 miles) north of the San Jose mine.", "Other pieces of equipment will arrive from Puntarenas, Chile, and Bolivia, he said.", "The oil platform will be part of Plan C, the third operation to drill to reach the miners.", "Chilean mining officials have said they believe that drill will dig faster than the other drills currently at work.", "But they cautioned that the miners, trapped since August 5, still may not be rescued until December.", "Progress on the other two rescue operations was mixed, Sougarret said.", "The drill being used in Plan A -- a type usually used in mining operations -- reached a depth of 171 meters (187 yards) Thursday, 40 more meters (about 44 yards) since an update given by officials Wednesday.", "The Plan B drill, usually used to drill water bore holes, hit a snag at 268 meters (293 yards), Sougarret said, when it struck a reinforcement beam used in the mine's operations.", "The men have been trapped for 35 days now, 2,300 feet under the earth.", "When rescuers first found them, the miners told officials they had survived for more than 17 days by sharing a jar of peaches and small amounts of tuna and mackerel that were in their shelter.", "Officials were weighing how to best proceed after the problem with the Plan B drill but said the drill bit would have to be retrieved and replaced.", "\"It was totally destroyed,\" Sougarret explained.", "The Plan B device, which had been drilling for less time than Plan A's drill and had already surpassed its distance, also had a problem Wednesday with a cable malfunction.", "The drill is widening a hole already drilled into the mine.", "Sougarret said that once it begins drilling again, it could reach its target -- a workshop used by the miners -- within several days.", "Then a larger drill could be used until the hole is wide enough so that the miners can be hoisted out, one at a time, in a small cage.", "At Camp Hope, the tent camp set up by miners' families holding vigil, residents eagerly scanned the rocky horizon for any sign of the caravan bearing the Plan C drill.", "\"I wish it were here already,\" said Milton Alvalos, whose nephew is one of those trapped.", "As residents waited for the arrival of the newest weapon in the arsenal being used to rescue the miners, workers walked the route the convoy will take to make sure the heavy trucks will clear the winding road into camp.", "\"Just the logistics part is the tough part, getting the people and equipment to where you need it.", "We've got to figure out the route [and the] power lines,\" said Shaun Robstad, who was coordinating the equipment's arrival for Precision Drilling, a Canadian oil drilling company.", "\"We do this all the over the world,\" Robstad said, but always for oil, never before for trapped humans. \"This is a first.\"" ]	[ "It's expected to arrive Thursday or Friday, an engineer overseeing the drilling said .", "Platform, called Plan C, will be part of operation to drill to reach the miners .", "Plan A drill is making progress; Plan B drill has hit a snag .", "33 miners have been trapped for 35 days, 2,300 feet under the earth ." ]	[ 0, 3, 9 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's budget chief blamed the faltering economy and the bipartisan stimulus package for the record $482 billion deficit the White House predicted for the 2009 budget year.", "The White House blames a faltering economy and the stimulus package for the increased budget deficit.", "Jim Nussle, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the deficit would be about 3.3 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, the measure of the nation's total economy.", "The fiscal year begins October 1, 2008.", "The federal deficit is the difference between what the government spends and what it takes in from taxes and other revenue sources.", "The government must borrow money to make up the difference.", "While the deficit would be a record in absolute dollar terms, Nussle said it would be below the 2004 deficit, 3.6 percent of GDP, and the record deficit of 1983, 6 percent of GDP, when compared with the size of the overall U.S. economy.", "White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the stimulus package was necessary, even if it increased the deficit.", "\"We do think the plan was the right one, and it will have an effect,\" she said.", "\"And the best way to help reduce the deficit is to make sure you are keeping a lock on spending, but also that you can also try to help to build the economy.", "So we hope this will help us pull out of the economic downturn over the next few months because of the stimulus package.", "\"I remember that back when we were discussing the stimulus package, both parties recognized that the deficit would increase, and that would be the price that we pay in order to help improve the economy,\" she said.", "Nussle said the $170 billion, bipartisan stimulus, which congressional Democrats and Bush agreed to earlier this year, was a major reason the deficit was expected to reach record levels next year.", "The deficit projection for 2009 would have been only 2.2 percent of the economy, or $272 billion, if the stimulus package is excluded, Nussle said.", "Watch Nussle warn Congress not to increase spending » .", "\"The determination was made that getting the economy back on track was a higher priority than immediate deficit reduction,\" Nussle said.", "He said the OMB projects that the deficit would fall after the 2009 budget year, and he predicted that the government would have a surplus in budget year 2012, if the president's budget blueprint is followed.", "\"Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if -- and only if -- we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing,\" Nussle said, warning that congressional Democrats were planning to add billions of dollars in spending to the federal budget.", "President Bush inherited a budget surplus of $128 billion when he took office in 2001 but has since posted a budget deficit every year.", "View a history of the government deficits and surpluses » .", "The Bush administration has spent heavily on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and faces a large budget shortfall in tax revenue in part because of Bush's tax cuts and a souring economy.", "A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its \"reckless fiscal policies,\" blaming the president's tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush \"will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in our nation's history.\"", "Watch Conrad call the federal debt Bush's legacy » .", "Conrad, who chairs the Senate's budget committee, accused the president of \"squandering\" the surplus he inherited from President Bill Clinton and said the increased debt the government has taken on to cover the deficit has undermined the value of the dollar and hurt the overall economy.", "\"If they gave out Olympic medals for fiscal irresponsibility, President Bush would take the gold, silver and bronze,\" Conrad said.", "\"With his eight years in office, he will have had the five highest deficits ever recorded.", "And the highest of those deficits is now projected to come in 2009, as he leaves office.\"", "But a senior administration official says the budgetary problems stem from what he called inadequate defense, intelligence and homeland security resources that were handed down from Clinton.", "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in March projected the deficit for the 2008 fiscal year, which ends September 30, would be $357 billion.", "It predicted the 2009 deficit to be $342 billion, if the president's proposals were adopted.", "Both assumptions, however, were made before the economic stimulus package was passed by Congress and signed by the president this spring.", "The CBO said it would release revised deficit estimates in September.", "The two major presidential candidates -- Democrat Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain -- used news that the United States' budget deficit will hit a record high as an opportunity to criticize each other's fiscal plans.", "CNN's Brianna Keiler and Scott Anderson contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Deficit in budget year 2009 expected to grow to $482 billion, budget chief says .", "NEW: 2009 deficit is smaller than 2004 deficit in terms of GDP, Nussle says .", "White House points to faltering economy, budget stimulus package for increase .", "Top Democrat says Bush has won \"gold medal\" for fiscal irresponsibility ." ]	[ 0, 14, 18, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thousands of people converge on the small town of Marlinton, West Virginia, each fall for a feast whose main ingredients were unlucky enough to crawl, slither or lurk too close to a speeding car.", "Unusual food festivals include BugFest in Raleigh, North Carolina, where a young visitor tries a stir-fried scorpion.", "It's RoadKill Cook-Off time, where past years' crowds have sampled dishes like Pothole Possum Stew, Fricasseed Wabbit Gumbo and Smeared Hog with Groundhog Gravy.", "Welcome to the world of unusual -- dare we say weird?", "-- food festivals.", "Sure, you can find plenty of culinary celebrations dedicated to everything from rhubarb to seafood, but there are also options to satisfy your cravings for rattlesnake, fried pig intestines or garlic ice cream.", "The RoadKill Cook-Off is so popular that it fills all the motels and hotels in the county when it takes place on the last Saturday in September, said David Cain, who runs the event and samples all the dishes.", "\"There are some that are better than others, but I've never really had anything that I really didn't like,\" Cain said.", "\"But there was one year they cooked a rattlesnake in some kind of stew, and ... there was no way I could taste that one.\"", "See photos from these unusual food festivals » .", "The RoadKill Cook-Off began in 1991, when organizers thought it might boost attendance at the main event: the Pocahontas County Autumn Harvest Festival.", "Did it ever. About 10,000 people from all over the country came to last year's gathering, Cain said.", "All dishes featured in the festival must have animals commonly found dead on the side of the road -- such as deer, squirrels and snakes -- as their main ingredient.", "But the meat doesn't have to be actual roadkill.", "\"Judges will deduct points for every chipped tooth resulting from gravel not removed from the RoadKill,\" the official rules warn.", "\"All judges have been tested for cast-iron stomachs and have sworn under oath to have no vegetarian tendencies.\"", "All about Spam . Thousands of miles away, in Honolulu, Hawaii, aficionados of canned luncheon meat gather in April for the annual Waikiki Spam Jam, described by organizers as \"a street festival that celebrates the people of Hawaii's love for Spam.\"", "Some may call it mystery meat, but it's not advisable to do so in Hawaii, which has the highest per-capita consumption rate of Spam products in the United States.", "Almost 7 million cans worth of the pinkish product are eaten every year in the Aloha State, according to festival officials.", "The crowds at this year's Spam Jam sampled dishes such as Spam Fried Rice, Spam Burgers and Guava Mango BBQ Spam Sliders.", "\"I think people are amused by the whole idea because it is pretty different.", "Like, why would you celebrate Spam?\"", "said Barbara Campbell, one of the founders of the festival.", "\"It's just about having fun, and they love the different Spam items.\"", "A restaurant that offered Spam Chili Nachos at the festival was so amazed by their popularity that it's thinking of adding the dish to its permanent menu, Campbell added.", "Fans who admire the yellow and blue design of Spam cans also have a chance to splurge on Spam-themed merchandise, including T-shirts, baby items and slippers.", "Celebrating the 'stinking rose' Some unusual food festivals can tickle the nose as well as the palate.", "Vampires may hate garlic, but the pungent cloves draw huge crowds of hungry mortals each July to the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, \"the garlic capital of the world.\"", "If you're a fan, pack some breath mints and enjoy everything from traditional garlic-infused fare like scampi and stuffed mushrooms, to more exotic choices.", "Garlic ice cream, anyone?", "Those who have tried the frozen dessert describe it as an \"acquired taste.\"", "\"I would say when you first taste it, it's like regular vanilla ice cream, and then give it about 10 seconds, and you feel the kick of garlic,\" said Peter Ciccarelli, director of media relations for the festival.", "\"It's not something that people would eat by a bowlful, nor would they put chocolate syrup on it.\"", "Last year's festival drew more than 100,000 people who consumed more than 15,000 servings of garlic bread and 10,000 servings of garlic fries.", "Almost 3 tons of the \"stinking rose,\" as garlic is sometimes fondly called, were used to flavor the dishes.", "A meal with legs . The truly adventurous foodies may opt for BugFest and the leggy dishes served up by Café Insecta at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh each September.", "Popular choices include the Ant-Chilada, a cheese enchilada in which toasted freeze-dried ants are used as both the filling and topping, and Hush-Grubbies, in which wax worm grubs are coated with hush-puppy batter and deep fried.", "For dessert, visitors can try Chocolate-Chirp Cookies, which have crickets baked in.", "\"We basically use recipes that we would use for any other dish and substitute the protein,\" explained Matthew Busch, head chef at the museum's Acro Café, who creates the dishes at Café Insecta during BugFest.", "So, instead of doing a shrimp stir-fry, the museum might do a scorpion stir-fry.", "Busch, who said he tries anything he cooks, recommended the Hush-Grubbies, calling the bugs inside \"tasty\" and \"a little buttery.\"", "Stir-fried scorpions, on the other hand, can be a little bitter, he cautioned.", "Watching the reactions of visitors who dig in to the bug-laden food is Busch's favorite part, and he described seeing an entire range of responses, from people who are gung-ho and want to try everything to those who are squeamish and have to be peer-pressured to take a bite.", "Some people's strategy is just to eat around the bugs, Busch said." ]	[ "There are many options for people who seek food festivals with an unusual twist .", "RoadKill Cook-Off features dishes incorporating meat from deer, squirrels, snakes .", "Waikiki Spam Jam in Hawaii celebrates the canned luncheon meat .", "Garlic ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival tastes like vanilla ice cream with a kick ." ]	[ 5, 10, 16, 26, 31 ]
[ "One of the world's greatest fashion designers, Yohji Yamamoto has helped blaze a trail for Asia over the last three decades.", "Yohji Yamamoto brought masculine styles to the catwalk, rejecting traditional ideas of sexiness.", "He brought geometric minimalism to the catwalk in the late 1970's while other designers focused on flamboyance, and if his name and clothing has become a brand over the last 30 years, for the man himself, it is always \"creation first\".", "\"I had no intention of working in the mainstream and I've stated my objection against the main currents of fashion for the last 27 years,\" he told Anjali Rao.", "His firm standpoint on style, and his designs, has brought popularity with an international chain of clothing outlets and the courting of celebrities and companies -- he designed Elton John's wardrobe for his latest world tour and has collaborated with Adidas to produce the Y-3 street wear range.", "Talk Asia toured one of his ateliers and showrooms in Tokyo, before moving to Paris for Fashion Week, where Yamamoto opened the doors to a model-casting session for the first time.", "While successful, his design house is far removed from the mega-brands of some labels such as Dior or Gucci, and he has stuck to his ethos throughout.", "\"I have no intention to deal with a market first and put my creation into it.", "I create my clothes at will and that will change the market -- that's what I hope to see.", "\"Independent fashion houses are in an extreme minority.", "Most fashion makers have to sell accessories, there are only one or two or three that are successful just selling clothes.", "This is the era that clothes cannot sell.\"", "Known for his distinctive black, minimalist style, he discussed how he perceives his own impact on fashion and his unique philosophy: \"Civilized humans must wear monochrome.", "There is a minimum etiquette of fashion that you must not upset other people's vision .", "It is wrong to think that standing out is a good thing.\"", "\"I prefer to be behind the scenes -- that to me is a fashion designer.\"", "And behind the scenes, Yamamoto practices karate to relax -- at black belt level, or course -- and recreating action through his designs.", "\"I'm very much interested in cutting, making forms, silhouettes, making motion; that's why I forget the color.\"" ]	[ "Yohji Yamamoto is known for his distinctive black, minimalist style .", "He has been a leading fashion designer over the last three decades .", "He opens the doors to a model-casting session for the first time ." ]	[ 0, 5, 12 ]
[ "Houston (CNN) -- In the days and weeks to come, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery from a gunshot wound to the head will be a marathon, not a sprint, doctors say.", "Nearly three weeks after her brain injury, there are several acute medical issues to be concerned about, according to doctors not involved with her care.", "It could take months -- or longer -- for her to get back to where she was before the bullet ripped through her brain.", "One immediate worry is an infection in her brain, according to Dr. Greg Zorman, chief of neurosurgery at Memorial Healthcare System in southern Florida.", "\"With gunshot wounds to the head, an infection can still happen, even this late,\" Zorman said.", "The other concern is the buildup of fluid in the brain.", "Giffords had hydrocephalus after she was shot, a condition where an excess of cerebral-spinal fluid puts pressure on the brain.", "Surgeons in Arizona implanted a drain to get rid of the fluid, and on Monday, Dr. Dong Kim, Giffords' neurosurgeon in Houston, removed the drain, saying she no longer needed it.", "Zorman said doctors will be monitoring Giffords closely to make sure the excess fluid doesn't return.", "Giffords on Wednesday moved from the intensive care unit to the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) at Memorial Hermann in Houston, where she'll undergo physical, occupational and speech therapy to try to get her brain back to where it once was.", "Her doctors there are optimistic.", "\"It's only been a few weeks since this happened and she has been tolerating our aggressive therapy program,\" Dr. Gerard Francisco, chief medical officer at TIRR Memorial Herman, told CNN's \"American Morning.\"", "That program began as soon as Giffords arrived in Houston after being transferred from Tucson, Arizona's University Medical Center, he said, and has been upgraded.", "Neurosurgeons on Giffords' team describe the brain fluid situation as \"stable,\" Francisco said, \"but we're going to monitor that.\"", "\"Neural recovery is a hurry up and wait situation,\" Zorman said.", "\"Recovering from that injury just takes time.\"", "One of the first things doctors will do is try to get Giffords back to a regular schedule, said Dr. Alan Novick, medical director of rehabilitation for Memorial Healthcare System.", "\"In the intensive care unit, patients get their days and nights mixed up.\"", "Rehab doctors will give Giffords a series of tests to assess her physical and cognitive abilities, he said.", "For example, they might ask her to draw a clock.", "\"It sounds simple, but sometimes they'll put in the wrong numbers, or put all the numbers on the right hand side,\" he explained.", "\"That shows us which part of the brain is having issues.\"", "Another area doctors will look at is called \"executive function,\" or the ability to incorporate many different thoughts all at the same time.", "\"In our everyday lives, there are snippets of info coming in all at once, and we integrate multiple things that are going on at the same time,\" said Dr. Ross Zafonte, chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.", "\"Obviously, she was really good at that, and hopefully she will be again,\" he said.", "With a brain injury, functioning may be impaired depending on what area of the brain was damaged, Francisco said.", "Doctors will watch Giffords' functioning closely and modify her therapy program \"to address individual impairments and deficits,\" he said.", "Still, Francisco said he continues to be surprised at the speed of Giffords' recovery.", "\"When I see her every day, there is something new,\" he said.", "That has been a challenge to her medical team, but provides them opportunities to challenge her as well, he said.", "Trying to become the person you once were can be very trying, doctors said.", "\"Emotionally, this kind of recovery can be very difficult,\" Zafonte said.", "\"Depression rates in this situation are well over 50%.\"", "Some brain injuries affect not just a patient's emotional state, but their basic personality.", "\"They may have different behaviors,\" Novick said.", "\"Spouses and other family members have to relate to a person who was not necessarily the same person they knew before the injury.\"", "All of this requires patience from the patients and their families.", "\"People like (Giffords) often have a rocky road,\" Zafonte said.", "\"But they often get to places that surprise us, and surprise them.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Giffords' doctors say she is undergoing \"aggressive therapy\"\nDoctors: It could take months -- or longer -- for her to get back to where she was .", "One immediate worry is an infection in her brain .", "The other concern is the buildup of fluid in the brain ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) -- After 31 years and two months at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, John Bundy is joining the ranks of the unemployed.", "He showed up for his last day at 7 a.m. Friday, turned in his employee badge and then left to go hunting.", "\"I'm very proud I was a part of this,\" he said.", "\"There were some challenging times, but I am glad I was part of this team.\"", "He is one of more than 1,200 United Space Alliance employees whose were laid off October 1: coincidentally, the same day NASA began operating in 1958.", "Bundy, 50, started his career as a technician on the shuttle thermal protection system and then worked his way up to manager for Kennedy Space Center's orbital processing facility.", "Now, he's updating his résumé and taking welding classes at Brevard Community College in hopes of finding another job.", "\"I don't know how to put 31 years into a sentence,\" Bundy said.", "McGinnis and the others who walked out the door of the Kennedy Space Center on Friday are some of the nearly 9,000 NASA employees whose jobs will be cut as the shuttle program nears its end.", "Some of those jobs may be extended if President Obama signs the $19 billion budget for the space agency, passed by Congress this week, that authorizes an additional shuttle launch.", "Congress passes NASA budget .", "But the extension comes too late for Bundy and the other United Space Alliance employees.", "The ending came as no surprise: Six years ago, President George W. Bush announced that 2010 would be the last year for the shuttle program.", "Because many NASA workers like Bundy have specialized jobs, it will be hard to transition from the space agency to other employment.", "With the help of federal funding, Florida has set up a transitional program to help aerospace workers prepare for new employment.", "Read more coverage from CNN affiliate WKMG .", "Many of the NASA employees seeking employment help are \"like deer in the headlights,\" said Lisa Rice, president of Brevard Workforce, which runs the federally funded aerospace transitional program.", "\"First reaction: 'Where do I go?", "What do I do?' \" she said, describing NASA employees' responses after being laid off.", "Job loss, Rice explains, is kind of like a grieving process.", "With the help of the transitional program, aerospace employees are lead through the process of résumé writing, sharpening interviewing techniques and developing skills needed for new jobs.", "Many Kennedy Space Center workers, like Bundy, have not written a résumé for more than 30 years.", "Transitional instructors teach workers how to include decades of experience into a one- or two-page résumé.", "\"You need to have a plan B,\" said transitional program director Judy Blanchard.", "\"The shuttle is retiring, and the end is inevitable.\"", "Boeing aerospace engineer Juan Vazquez took the warning to heart, having worked on shuttles for 23 years.", "This year, he opened two laundromats that he runs in his spare time.", "To ensure that he would succeed as a small-business owner, Vazquez completed the transitional program's entrepreneur training class.", "\"I grew up on shuttle.", "I've been working on shuttle since I was 18 years old,\" Vazquez said.", "\"I pretty much live and breathe this stuff.", "I really enjoy what I do.\"", "Other shuttle workers have had a hard time coming to terms with the idea that there is no definite replacement for shuttle, according to Rice.", "When Bush announced that the shuttle program would end in 2010, he said it would be replaced by the Constellation program to return man to the moon and beyond.", "Many shuttle workers held out hope that they could find new jobs in the Constellation program, which would have included two new rocket systems and a new crew module to transport astronauts into space.", "From the beginning, Constellation was plagued by underfunding.", "This year, Obama killed the program's future funding because of budget overruns and because it was behind schedule.", "That could affect more than 20,000 workers along Florida's space coast, according to Rice.", "\"We are looking at 9,000 aerospace workers who will be affected with another 14,000 indirectly affected in community,\" she said.", "For Bundy, walking away from Kennedy Space Center was not as hard as he thought, he said Friday morning.", "He praised United Space Alliance for going \"above and beyond to help their people adjust, from job placement to constant job fairs.\"", "But it's more about just losing a job, he explained.", "\"I have a lot of friends, a lot of teammates,\" Bundy said.", "\"I wish them all the best, and I'm going to miss them all.\"" ]	[ "More than 1,200 NASA workers were laid off Friday because of the shuttle program's end .", "The layoffs went ahead despite Congress' approval of NASA's $19 billion budget .", "Many NASA workers, like John Bundy, haven't updated their résumé in decades .", "Bundy, whose last day was Friday, is taking welding classes at a community college ." ]	[ 4, 6, 10, 21, 36 ]
[ "Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- Chilean officials said Thursday the first test of a rescue capsule designed to rescue 33 trapped miners was carried out successfully.", "\"We did a test with a capsule in a tube 12 meters long,\" said engineer Rene Aguilar.", "\"We were trying to see how the capsule functions in the tube -- the wheels, the springs -- and that works perfect.\"", "Once one of the three drills working to reach the trapped miners breaks through, a rescue capsule will be lowered at least 600 meters (1,968 feet) to begin ferrying the men to the surface.", "Before the capsule goes down, though, officials said, metal casing or tubes would have to be lowered into the hole to provide a buffer between the capsule and rock.", "\"We will need to build a platform and bring heavy winches that can lift 400 tons,\" Aguilar said, \"You can imagine how big they are, we will need to position them.", "The casing could take take 48 hours to implement.\"", "Interior Ministry adviser Cristian Barra said that by October 8, all the personnel and equipment rescuers need -- including two additional rescue capsules and a field hospital to immediately treat the miners -- will be on site.", "Officials said the tentative date they are setting for the rescue is the beginning of November but that they will be ready for a potential rescue as early as the end of next week.", "The Plan B drill continued to lead the efforts to free the men, reaching a depth of 333 meters (1,092 feet) on Thursday, the government's rescue coordinator Andre Sougarret said.", "The drill was taken offline for about six hours after it lost pressure while hammering at the tough Chilean rock, officials said.", "On Tuesday the Plan B drill passed the halfway point to the miners, spurring a celebration in Camp Hope, the makeshift tent village where many of the miners' family members anxiously wait.", "The Plan A drill -- a mining drill -- reached 148 meters (486 feet), but the hole it was drilling would still need to be widened to 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) to accommodate the rescue capsule.", "The Plan C drill -- an enormous oil drilling platform that dominates the rescue site -- had reached 156 meters (512 feet), Sougarret said.", "Sougarret said that officials were working with physicians and psychologists to determine the order in which miners would be pulled from the mine, but said no decision had been made.", "Meanwhile, the miners continued to aid with their own rescue by clearing rock that had fallen into the mine as a result of the drilling.", "The miners used front-loader machines that were not damaged in the collapse to clear the rubble.", "Officials said the miners were clearing about eight tons of rock every 12 hours to keep the mine shaft clear.", "Officials had no comment on a lawsuit filed Thursday by some of the miners' family members against the San Esteban Mining Co., which owns the mine, and the government for negligence.", "An attorney for 27 of the miners families filed the lawsuit, which seeks $12 million (U.S.) from the mine and government for harm inflicted on the men.", "Chilean government officials has criticized the mine for not having the right safety measures in place.", "Chilean President Sebastián Piñera dismissed several officials in charge of mine safety after the cave-in.", "\"Everyone who is here recognizes and appreciates the work being done by the rescue workers,\" said lawyer Edgardo Reinoso.", "\"This has nothing to do with one government or another but we have to ask why are these miners at the bottom of a mine?\"", "The mining company did not return calls seeking comment.", "San Esteban is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings and its assets are being sought by creditors.", "Government officials have also said the company will bear the cost of the army of rescue workers and drilling teams being flown in from around the world.", "At Camp Hope, several relatives said they had not participated in the action and the lawsuit was of of little interest to them.", "Said family member Maria Segovia: \"I just want to get my brother out.\"", "CNN Chile's Viviana Encina and John Castillo contributed to this report." ]	[ "\"We did a test with a capsule in a tube 12 meters long,\" engineer says .", "Rene Aguilar: \"We were trying to see how the capsule functions in the tube\"\nMetal casing would have to be lowered into the hole before rescue attempt .", "Officials: Tentative date for bringing up miners is early November ." ]	[ 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A researcher who warned of Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic damage sued Louisiana State University on Wednesday, accusing university officials of pushing him out of his job over his criticism of the Army Corps of Engineers.", "Ivor van Heerden led the investigation into the failure of the levee system surrounding New Orleans, which flooded when the levees failed during the 2005 storm.", "The inquiry put much of the blame for the disaster on the Corps, which his lawsuit called \"an important funding source\" for LSU.", "The suit accuses LSU of putting \"the bureaucratic interests of university officials above the health and safety of millions of people who live in the path of the hurricanes that threaten the Gulf Coast every year.\"", "It argues that school officials \"engaged in illegal reprisal\" against van Heerden, the deputy director of LSU's Hurricane Center, because of his critical research and testimony about the levee system.", "Van Heerden was told in 2009 that his contract, which expires in May, would not be renewed.", "There was no immediate response from LSU officials to the complaint, which was filed in a state court in Baton Rouge on Wednesday.", "In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, LSU Chancellor Michael Martin said the decision not to renew van Heerden's job was made before Martin joined the university administration, but he said he had reviewed the issue \"and am confident that the process was handled appropriately.\"", "\"LSU cannot comment on confidential personnel matters or on pending litigation, but I can tell you that LSU wholeheartedly supports its faculty and values their research, teaching and scholarly publishing,\" Martin said.", "\"LSU also values its role as the state's flagship university, and, as such, will continue its work to help preserve Louisiana's coastline, mitigate hurricane damage and search for ways to protect the state's coastal populations.\"", "Katrina killed more than 1,800 people when it struck near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line in August 2005.", "Most of the dead were in or around New Orleans, where more than three-quarters of the city flooded.", "Van Heerden has said the university barred him from testifying as an expert witness in a case against the Corps of Engineers.", "But he served as an adviser to the plaintiffs in that suit, which resulted in a finding of negligence against the agency in November." ]	[ "NEW: Chancellor says \"process was handled appropriately\"\nIvor van Heerden led inquiry into failure of New Orleans levee system .", "It put much of blame on Army Corps of Engineers .", "He was told last year that his contract will not be renewed ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- For one trapped miner in a collapsed mine in Chile, \"Hope\" weighs only 7 pounds.", "Esperanza, which means hope in Spanish, is the name of Ariel Ticona's baby girl.", "She is also believed to be the first child born to any of the 33 miners during their nightmarish weeks buried underground.", "Esperanza was born Tuesday in a hospital about an hour's drive down a winding mountain road from the mine where her father is trapped.", "Ticona and his wife, Elizabeth Segovia, learned they were having a girl the day before the mine cave-in.", "They had planned to call her Carolina.", "The girl's birth was not just a celebration for Ticona, his father said.", "\"Immediately it gave all the miners there a lot of excitement,\" Hector Ticona said.", "\"They were all very happy about her birth and that she will be called Esperanza.\"", "The day after the birth, Hector Ticona carried Chilean newspapers he was saving for his son with front-page photos of Elizabeth holding the new baby.", "The story of the baby's birth has been reported as far away as New Zealand, Germany and Singapore, and Esperanza has become a symbol that life continues for the miners despite their underground imprisonment.", "Photos released from their hospital room showed a tiny baby, her eyes shut tight and with no idea that she is already famous at birth.", "The decision to change her name arrived to Ticona in the mine's depths.", "That all the miners had survived the cave-in and then the 17 days it took rescuers to drill the holes that found them was already miraculous.", "But their continued physical and mental well-being was far from assured.", "Faced with the fact that he and his fellow workers were about to experience an isolating darkness that no one had ever endured before, Ticona put pen to paper.", "The letter he wrote reached his family through what the Chileans call \"palomas,\" metal tubes that carry food, supplies and messages to the trapped men.", "\"He said, 'What if we call her Hope?'\"", "Hector Ticona recalled.", "\"Hope for the camp backing us, hope for getting us out of here, hope to keep fighting for my daughter, hope to unite my family.'", "\" Ticona's wife agreed to the new name.", "For her, though, the experience would be a tug of war between worrying for her unborn child and for her trapped husband.", "\"I have been talking to her and telling her Daddy's OK,\" Segovia told CNN a few weeks before she gave birth.", "\"I can't cry because she would feel everything.\"", "Before the mine collapse, Ticona promised Segovia he would be in the room when she gave birth.", "He had not been present for the births of their two sons, one time because he wanted to watch a beloved soccer team play and the other time because of \"squeamishness,\" Segovia said.", "Segovia decided to have the birth of their daughter videotaped.", "But videotaping a natural birth was against hospital policy.", "So, to get around the policy, she had a Caesarean section on camera.", "Family members say mother and daughter have been released from the hospital and are doing fine.", "Over a video conference system that is one of their links to the outside world, Ticona was shown the birth of his daughter, deep in the mine.", "\"We sent the video and Ariel was very happy,\" engineer Rene Aguilar said.", "\"It was a very beautiful moment for them.\"", "Around Camp Hope, the encampment that runs up the entrance to the mine where many families have moved to wait out the miners' rescue, word of Esperanza's birth brought joy.", "As she sat in a light blue tent at Camp Hope, Nelly Burgueño said it is a joy she hopes to experience herself soon.", "Her son, trapped miner Victor Zamora, and his wife also are expecting a daughter.", "When the girl is born in six months' time, Burgueño said, the couple has decided to call her Paz Victoria, or Peace Victory.", "\"I am going to be a father,\" Burgueño said her son wrote her.", "\"I am happiest man in the world even though I am in the depths of the earth.", "I want to share this happiness with everyone in the world, with you, Mom, and my brothers.\"", "Burgueño said her son has been \"reborn.\"", "\"He wrote me,\" she said, \"that even in the deepest part of the earth there shines light.\"", "CNN's Karl Penhaul and Esprit Smith contributed reporting to this article." ]	[ "Wife of trapped miner in Chile gives birth to third child .", "Couple names daughter Esperanza, which means hope .", "Woman evades hospital's no-recording rule by having Caesarean .", "Second couple also expecting ." ]	[ 1, 27, 35 ]
[ "Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- Chile's mining minister expressed optimism Thursday that the 33 miners trapped since early last month 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground here will be rescued in early November and maybe sooner.", "\"Everything is going a little bit better than anticipated,\" Laurence Golborne told CNN about the three holes -- dubbed Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C -- being dug in an effort to open a passageway to safety for the men.", "\"On Plan A we didn't have to change the drill bit at 200 meters [656 feet] but instead we were able to drill and change it at 320 meters [1,050 feet],\" he said.", "\"Plan B today reached 500 meters [1,640 feet] and we're reaching 700 meters [2,296 feet] probably by this weekend.", "\"We have finished assembly of the Plan C drill and that will be ready to start operating over the next couple of days possibly this weekend.\"", "He added, \"So, we're optimistic we will comply with our target date at the beginning of November and, if everything stays on path and we have no big problems, then it could be earlier.\"", "Plan A and Plan B each require two holes to be drilled -- a small hole first and then a wider one about 26 to 28 inches (65-70 centimeters) in diameter.", "Golborne said the second pass would be slower progress than the first pass.", "\"It's like eating a donut,\" he said.", "\"What we are doing first is eating a little bit a around the hole in the middle of the donut and then we have to eat the rest of the donut and that is slower.\"", "Drilling under Plan A will stop this weekend once the drill bit reaches 1,247 feet (380 meters), then the drill will receive scheduled maintenance before resuming early next week, engineer Rene Aguilar said.", "According to Golborne, the first stage of drilling on Plan B has reached a depth of 1,640 feet (500 meters) and will pierce the ceiling of the mine shaft where the men are trapped this weekend.", "The assembly of the drill to be used in Plan C has been completed, he said, adding that he hoped it would begin drilling this weekend.", "Plan A involves using a drill placed directly above the shelter where the miners are holed up.", "Engineers estimated last week that this plan would take between three and four months to complete the hole at 701 meters (2,300 feet).", "Under Plan B, a hole is being drilled at a roughly 80-degree angle into an area of the mine shaft that is used as a mechanical workshop.", "That distance, engineers estimate, is around 2,034 feet (620 meters).", "The drill used in Plan C would need to cut through some 1,969 feet (600 meters) of rock and earth, they said.", "Golborne said rescue workers were betting which plan would rescue the miners.", "\"Between our teams members we are betting one another a barbecue, but I won't tell you which one I'm betting on.", "But no matter which plan wins, I will be very happy if we can have them back as soon as possible.\"", "Two bore holes -- each about 8 centimeters in diameter -- are currently being used to supply the miners.", "The first carries compressed air, water, communications and a constant supply of electricity to power lights that are intended to simulate daytime and nighttime.", "Supplies -- such as food, clothing and letters -- are sent down to the miners via metal cylinders known as \"carrier pigeons\" through the second bore hole.", "Golborne said the miners' pay was being distributed to their families from the mutual security system.", "\"And in the future, due to their heroism, they will probably be welcome to work anywhere,\" he said.", "The company has continued \"for now\" to pay the salaries of some 300 other mine employees who have not been working since the August 5 cave-in, he said.", "\"We have to see in the future but we, as the government, are prepared to give them the right support, and to help them in the process to defend their rights and to help them find jobs on the future,\" he said.", "Two prototypes of cages to be used to hoist the men to the surface will be reviewed Tuesday as will the design of the winch, Golborne said.", "He predicted the cage that is used will have a diameter of 55 centimeters (21.7 inches) to 60 centimeters (23.6 inches) and will be pulled upward at a rate of one meter per second, meaning each man could make the trip in 10 to 12 minutes.", "Previous estimates had suggested it could take 2-1/2 hours to hoist and then lower the cage,.", "Asked whether new laws were needed to enforce mining codes, Golborne said the laws were not to blame for the men's predicament: \"The problem was that the owners did not do what they were told to,\" he said.", "\"Not because it was too expensive or they were greedy, but just because they didn't care.", "... we have got good regulations but maybe we need to improve auditing of those regulations.\"", "Representatives of the owner, the San Esteban Mining Co., have said previously they will collaborate fully with Chilean authorities and the Chilean Congress in their inquiries about what went wrong at the mine.", "CNN's Patrick Oppmann and Esprit Smith contributed to this story." ]	[ "NEW: Prototypes of cages to be used to hoist the men to the surface to be reviewed .", "NEW: Crews are betting on which of three drilling efforts will lead to rescue .", "Chile's mining minister: Rescue by early November or earlier is possible .", "Lead hole for Plan B expected to break through to cavern this weekend ." ]	[ 11, 18, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A day after the disheartening loss of its star-studded team in the men's hockey preliminaries, Canada got a warm boost when the pair of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won ice dancing gold Monday night.", "Leading after two rounds, the duo scored a 110.42 in the free dance for a 221.57 total and the title.", "The gold was the fifth for Canada in these Winter Olympics.", "The pair, which has been skating together since 1997, edged the U.S. team of Meryl Davis and Charlie White (215.74).", "Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (207.64) were third.", "\"We're just so proud to be Canadian and to have won on home ice,\" Virtue said.", "Moir said he and his partner have a special connection to Davis and White, whom they train with.", "\"We knew they would be our biggest competition all year long.\"", "The Americans said the fact they had won silver hadn't sunk in yet and they were ecstatic about the way they skated.", "\"We had three great programs so we are very happy,\" White said.", "Team ski jumping .", "A giant leap from Gregor Schlierenzauer gave Austria a sensational gold medal in the men's team ski jumping competition in Whistler on Monday.", "The 20-year-old -- already a winner of two bronze medals in the individual jumping events -- nearly sat down on his landing and just managed to avoid touching the ground with his hand to ensure his jump of 146.5 meters remained valid.", "The giant leap made up for the fact that style points were lost due to the awkward landing -- and helped Austria claim a comfortable victory over Germany, who took the silver.", "The Austrian quartet of Schlierenzauer, Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Kofler and Thomas Morgenstern, collected an Olympic record points total of 1107.9.", "Germany's total of 1035.8 gave them the silver with Norway taking the bronze medal with a total of 1030.3 points.", "Cross-country skiing .", "Norway's Petter Northug produced a devastating late burst to make up for individual disappointment by claiming victory in the men's team sprint.", "Northug had been roundly criticized by Norwegian media for failing to find his form in the Games so far, but his class shone through as he overhauled Germany's Axel Teichman in the final race to the line.", "Along with compatriot Oeystein Pettersen, the Norwegians claimed gold in a time of 19 minutes and one second.", "Teichman and Tim Tscharnke won the silver for Germany with Russian pair Nikolay Morilov and Alexey Petukhov taking the bronze.", "There was a similar outcome to the women's team sprint, but this time it was the Germans who powered through late on, courtesy of Claudia Nystad.", "Nystad, who was partnered by Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle, overtook Sweden's Anna Haag at the death to steal the gold medal by just 0.6 seconds with Russia claiming the bronze.", "Ice hockey .", "Tournament favorites the United States are through to the women's final after crushing Sweden 9-1 in the first semifinal -- avenging their 2006 semifinal defeat at the hands of the same opponents.", "Monique Lamoureux scored a hat-trick as the United States reached their first Olympic final since 2002.", "The Canadian women overtook Finland 5-0, and will match up against the U.S. team in the gold medal contest on Friday." ]	[ "Austria defeat Germany and Norway to secure gold in the men's team ski jumping .", "A giant leap of 146.5 meters from Gregor Schlierenzauer ensured Austria's victory .", "The Austrian quartet collected an Olympic record points total of 1107.9 ." ]	[ 11, 14 ]
[ "(InStyle.com) -- Objective: Find a fabulous but not outrageously priced gift for the label-loving fashionista on your holiday list.", "This seemingly daunting task is no problem, with InStyle.com's seven stylish picks.", "Marc Jacobs Geo Ring Set .", "Slipping into something by one of her favorite designers has never been so easy (or affordable!)", "than with these geometric stackable plastic rings from Marc Jacobs ($11 for a set of 3, marcjacobs.com for stores).", "Chanel Nail Polish Trio .", "Chanel nail polishes are practically collector's items, with their newest shades often selling out before they hit stores thanks to pre-order wait lists.", "Fortunately this set ($66, chanel.com) includes three full-size bottles of iconic Chanel shades Rouge Noir, Gold Lamé and Coromandel, plus a reusable makeup bag.", "InStyle.com: 14 perfect stocking stuffers .", "Diane von Furstenberg Kindle Holder .", "Make sure her techie accessories look as good as she does with a canvas Diane von Furstenberg Kindle holder ($85, dvf.com).", "Not only does it feature a cute poppy print on the outside, the inside is lined with hot pink and features convenient credit card holders.", "Valentino Rosette Handbag .", "Valentino's iconic rose handbags are hard to resist, and this adorable mini version ($325, saksfifthavenue.com) is at the top of our own list.", "Remove the chain link strap to turn it into a party-ready clutch.", "InStyle.com: Gifts guys will love .", "Louis Vuitton Key Chain .", "While losing keys will never be fun, finding them can be more chic!", "Deliver a lot of Louis Vuitton style in a little package with this resin LV monogram keychain ($310, select Louis Vuitton stores).", "Tom Ford Black Orchid Trio .", "Legendary designer Tom Ford's inaugural namesake women's line doesn't hit stores until early next year, so tide her over with this Black Orchid Trio ($140, Bloomingdale's) from the former Gucci creative director's makeup collection.", "The boxed set includes his first ever nail polish, along with a matching lipstick and a compact filled with Black Orchid pressed perfume.", "InStyle.com: Gifts that give back .", "'American Dior' Add to her fashion library with this gorgeous coffee table book ($70, horchow.com) that chronicles Christian Dior's dressing of America's most glamorous women, like Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.", "Find even more perfect gift ideas at InStyle.com.", "Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2010 Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "It is possible to find a moderately-priced gift for your fashionista friend .", "A three-piece ring set from Marc Jacobs will only cost you $11 .", "For the bookworm on your list, \"American Dior\" is a fashionable find ." ]	[ 0, 4, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Some Americans are giving homegrown food and specialty items as presents this holiday season and spending a fraction of what they'd pay in a store.", "Who doesn't like a tasty bargain?", "According to the National Gardening Association, about 41 million households participate in food gardening; 58 percent do it to grow better tasting food and 54 percent do it to save money on food bills.", "But Kenneth Wingard, a home furnishings designer, is among the 23 percent of growers who share their tasty treats with others.", "This year, he's giving away organic peach jam and preserves from his California ranch for the holidays.", "\"It's definitely a cost savings,\" Wingard said.", "\"It probably ends up costing us about $2 a jar and we are handing out 60 this year.\"", "But he doesn't just do it for the cost, he enjoys the warm, fuzzy feeling it brings him.", "\"They are the kind of fuzzy peaches I remember growing up with in Georgia -- where you buy them off the side of the road and they make the whole car smell like summery goodness,\" Wingard said.", "\"The jam is the same way -- the color of the peaches stays vibrant and when it hits warm bread it smells like I'm back on the side of the road with peach juice dripping down my chin.\"", "The 46-year-old peach grower and his partner, Mike Gotham, planted about 30 trees on their ranch in Boonville, California, three years ago and are just starting to get some fruit from them.", "So far, they make their jams and preserves from an older tree.", "\"Luckily, we have a mature peach tree that was planted by a forward-thinking former owner, which makes me more than a little nervous about what we're going to do with fruit from 30 trees one day,\" Wingard said, chuckling.", "Wingard said he makes his peach jam and preserves his grandmother's way.", "\"For canning, we parboil, peel and pit the peaches, then cook them down with some sugar and pectin and put them in jars in an enamel canner to sterilize,\" he said.", "The jam has a velvety smooth sweetness without a hint of tartness.", "\"We leave some big chunks of peaches in it, so you'll get those real bursts of peach flavor and not too much sugar,\" Wingard said.", "His father is his No. 1 recipient.", "\"He starts dropping hints around harvest time,\" Wingard said.", "The couple stopped giving store-bought holiday gifts a few years ago and enjoy giving \"noncommercial\" gifts.", "\"At this point in our lives, no one needs more 'stuff,' so we like giving consumables and creating something from scratch, with special meaning,\" said Wingard.", "Liz Porter of Hickory Flat, Georgia, had a similar inspiration to grow holiday gifts from her garden.", "\"I wanted to find ways to do something for our grown children without buying them gifts they may not really need,\" Porter said.", "She also grows food for friends and business associates.", "She's been making holiday gift baskets filled with homemade jams, jellies, pickles, relishes and breads for about 10 years.", "She also adds items like bay leaves, garlic and rosemary.", "Porter makes breakfast baskets, too.", "She grows her own field corn to grind for cornmeal and grits and will add fresh eggs from her chickens.", "She likes to add a bit of pizzazz to her gifts, so she'll use cheese boxes, copper pots or iron skillets as containers for her food.", "\"I think people always appreciate something that comes from the heart,\" Porter said.", "\"I can recall some experimental recipes that may not have tasted that good, like my whole-wheat fruit breads, but my gifts always bring a smile to my recipients.\"", "Porter said she has always made homemade gifts to save money.", "\"In these times, saving dollars means a great deal,\" she said.", "\"And the one benefit that cannot be priced is the time one can spend with family, friends and community while gardening and harvesting.\"" ]	[ "Some people will receive homegrown food gifts this holiday season .", "Kenneth Wingard gives away peach jam and preserves from his California ranch .", "Liz Porter makes gift baskets filled with homemade jams, jellies, pickles, relishes ." ]	[ 4, 24, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Apple's Steve Jobs gave quite a monologue Monday, dressing down competing makers of smartphones, tablets and software.", "The brunt of that was aimed at Google, which makes the Android software that powers smartphones from a range of manufacturers including Motorola, Samsung Electronics and HTC.", "First, Jobs expressed skepticism about how Google reports its number of Android users.", "This is an issue Jobs has raised in prior speeches, yet he freely addressed the point of comparison, saying Apple has activated 75,000 more iOS devices over the last 30 days compared to Google's last reported Android activation number.", "Jobs, who made his comments in an unusual appearance on Apple's quarterly earnings call with investors, then took issue with the geeky argument of open versus closed, which refers to how transparent a system's source code is to developers.", "\"Google loves to characterize Android as open, and iOS and iPhone as closed,\" Jobs said.", "\"We find this a bit disingenuous and clouding the differences between our two approaches.\"", "He called Android \"fragmented.\"", "He highlighted how Android handset makers install layers on top of Google's software, which can introduce unexpected problems.", "And Amazon, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone say they intend to create their own digital stores to sell applications to Android users, despite Google's own Marketplace.", "\"This is going to be a mess for both users and developers,\" Jobs said.", "\"We believe integrated will trump fragmented every time.\"", "Later, Jobs criticized Google for not having a version of Android that plays nicely with tablets.", "The animated executive then turned his attention to tablet-device makers, which are ramping up production in advance of the holiday season.", "\"Almost all of them use 7-inch screens, as opposed to the iPad's 10-inch screen,\" Jobs said.", "\"This size isn't sufficient to create great tablet apps.\"", "Jobs joked that people would need to sandpaper their fingers in order to use these gadgets comfortably.", "While a smaller tablet is obviously more portable, he says consumers won't want something that replaces a smartphone.", "\"Every tablet user is also a smartphone user,\" he proclaimed.", "His comments will perhaps put an end to speculation that Apple will make a 7-inch iPad.", "\"We think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum screen size required to make great tablet apps,\" he added.", "Additionally, Jobs said tablet makers will have a hard time matching Apple's prices.", "The most inexpensive iPad sells for $499.", "Competitors' tablets will be \"dead on arrival,\" Jobs said.", "He added: \"Sounds like lots of fun ahead.\"", "Jobs began his comments Monday by relishing in Apple's successes with the iPhone 4, pointing to the 14.1 million smartphones the company sold during the recent three-month fiscal period.", "That tops Research in Motion's 12.1 million units sold, as Jobs was quick to note.", "\"We have now passed RIM, and I don't see them catching up to us in the foreseeable future,\" Jobs said.", "\"I think it's going to be a challenge for them to create a competitive platform and to convince developers to create apps for yet a third software platform, after iOS and Android.\"", "RIM, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer, is popular with corporate IT departments for its tight security mechanisms and reliable keyboards for tapping out long emails.", "Despite the slow quarter for RIM, the BlackBerry maker still has the highest market share of smartphone users, according to independent data.", "The company is preparing to enter the tablet market with its PlayBook, an area dominated by Apple's iPad.", "\"RIM has a high mountain to climb,\" Jobs concluded.", "On Adobe Systems, which makes the Flash platform that powers most of the Web's video, Jobs dodged questions.", "He finally addressed the lack of Flash support on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, saying: \"Flash hasn't presented any problem at all.\"", "On Nokia, which sells the most cell phones worldwide, Jobs said: \"Nokia is the biggest, and we admire them for being able to ship the number of handsets that they do.", "But we don't aspire to be like them.\"", "\"Nokia makes $50 handsets, and we don't know how to make a great smartphone for $50,\" Jobs said.", "\"We're not smart enough to figure that one out yet.\"", "For the famed business leader to take part in the company's earnings call is strange enough, as he acknowledged after being introduced in the meeting Monday.", "(Apple broke a number of its sales records this quarter.)", "But his comments were even more unexpected.", "Oftentimes, his discussions would come back to Google, as they did again after a question about Nokia.", "\"Android is our biggest competitor,\" Jobs said.", "\"They outshipped us in the June quarter when we were transitioning to the iPhone 4.\"", "\"Eventually it will turn into a zero-sum game or a lot closer to that,\" Jobs said of the smartphone market.", "\"Right now, iPhone and Android are winning that battle.\"" ]	[ "Apple's Steve Jobs participated in the company's earnings call, which is unusual .", "Jobs had choice words for competitors including Google, RIM, Nokia and Adobe .", "Android is Apple's biggest competitors in the smartphone industry, Jobs said ." ]	[ 0, 35, 39, 43 ]
[ "(WIRED) -- Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's complete do-over of its mobile operating system, is off to a promising start with the Samsung Focus.", "Despite a few imperfections with usability and web browsing, the big M has polished a gem with this OS, and it truly shines through this iPhone lookalike's beautiful display.", "The Focus feels slick and smooth the first time you pick it up.", "It's a teensy bit longer, wider and thicker than the iPhone 4 (4.84 x 2.56 x 0.39 inches compared with the iPhone 4's 4.5 x 2.31 x 0.37 inches).", "And the Focus is lighter at 4.07 ounces, versus the iPhone 4's 4.8 ounces.", "Holding it in your hand, you can tell the Samsung phone's plastic parts are a bit cheaper than Apple's luxury glass-and-metal components.", "That's not to say the Focus isn't a sweet device, though: The vivid Super AMOLED display makes Windows Phone 7's colorful tile-based interface a visual treat.", "Selecting a tile brings you into a \"hub\" containing integrated experiences for different features.", "For example, the Marketplace hub displays the four different software stores where you can purchase media: third-party apps, games, music and Samsung Zone, a separate app store serving software made by Samsung.", "WIRED: General download of Windows Phone 7 interface .", "You can move tiles around on the home screen to suit your preferences just by holding your finger over them and dragging.", "The tile interface is plenty intuitive, so you probably won't need an instruction manual when you're setting up the phone.", "The People tile is pretty fun: It blends your contacts list with your Facebook account.", "When you dial a friend's number, his or her Facebook mug appears next to the call.", "Selecting a contact brings up the person's phone number, e-mail address and Facebook profile all in one screen.", "Pretty neat.", "The Mail hub is especially impressive.", "You select your service (Hotmail, Google Mail, Yahoo!", "and others), enter your login info and boom -- the inbox is a tile on your home screen.", "The e-mail app in general looks great: Facebook integration comes into play here, too, so when you load an e-mail it's accompanied with the sender's Facebook portrait as well.", "To me, this visual experience makes e-mail far less boring.", "For transferring music, photos and video you can sync media from your computer to the Focus with a USB cable.", "I tested syncing on a Mac.", "The official syncing program for Mac users isn't available yet, but I had a chance to try the beta version, and it was surprisingly smooth at syncing music from my iTunes library and photos and video from iPhoto.", "(Don't get your hopes up, though: This is a feature that Apple is most likely going to break with future iTunes updates, just like it did with the Palm Pre's iTunes sync feature.)", "As for snapping photos, there's a dedicated shutter button on the right side of the phone to load the camera app and to take a picture.", "In the Photo hub, you can also enable pictures to automatically sync to a free SkyDrive folder stored online in your Hotmail account, sparing you the need to manually upload them.", "Overall, this entire camera experience is a lot snappier than photo features on the iPhone and Android devices.", "However, the pictures shot with the Focus's 5-megapixel camera are only passable, and are a little blurry even in good lighting conditions.", "With all that said, there were a few minor gripes that drove me a bit crazy.", "To wake up the phone, you have to press the physical power button on the right side.", "It feels unnatural to have to grip the phone and push a button on the side whenever you want to quickly check an e-mail or send a text message.", "I wish you could power on the device just by pressing the main menu button, which is centered under the screen -- similar to how you can press the iPhone's Home button to turn it on.", "And then there's the mobile version of Internet Explorer.", "It's not as bad as Microsoft's desktop browser, but it's not much better.", "The mobile browser doesn't seem to load text properly on some websites, such as Reddit and Digg.", "Small text doesn't render smoothly, which is evident even when loading Wired.com.", "Also, photos on some websites appear over-sharpened, making rough pixels become visible.", "Long story short, two thumbs down for Internet Explorer.", "Oh, yeah -- and just like the iPhone, there's no support for Adobe Flash on Windows Phone 7 (yet), so Hulu junkies won't be thrilled.", "The phone seemed more reliable at holding a call than the iPhone 4, but it wasn't any better at pulling in a signal in areas where AT&T's coverage is weak (like San Francisco's Mission District).", "My testing was hardly scientific, though.", "Texting is surprisingly fast on the Focus.", "Hitting Send shoots out a text almost instantly.", "There's no progress bar or anything.", "Why can't the iPhone do that? Overall, the Samsung Focus is a solid all-around device, and the pros heavily outweigh the cons.", "Most of the listed problems will probably be fixed in software updates.", "And with Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has largely redeemed itself after putting that bloated carcass known as Windows Mobile to rest.", "Rest in peace -- and good riddance -- WinMo.", "WIRED Gorgeous tile-based UI laced with large, smooth text doesn't rip off the iPhone's app interface.", "Provides a rich dose of social savvy thanks to tight Facebook integration.", "Physical camera shutter button is a nice shortcut for shooting quick photos.", "TIRED Internet Explorer lives up to its super-lame reputation.", "Camera shots too blurry to be taken seriously.", "Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com." ]	[ "Microsoft off to a promising start with the Samsung Focus .", "Despite a few imperfections with usability and web browsing, the OS is a polished gem .", "Windows Phone 7's colorful tile-based interface is a visual treat .", "Mobile Internet Explorer isn't as bad as desktop browser, but not much better ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6, 34 ]
[ "ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he governs Italy out of a sense of duty and sacrifice, not because he enjoys the job.", "Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a press conference in Rome on Oct. 7, 2009 .", "The conservative, flamboyant Italian leader, 73, says he actually doesn't like governing at all.", "But he stays in the job because he is considered the \"only leader able to hold the center-right together.\"", "Berlusconi says there's nothing simple about the prime minister's job.", "He said: \"I'm doing what I do with a sense of sacrifice.", "I don't really like it.", "Not at all.\" He added: \"Very often there is a lot of dirty dealing, there is really the gutter press, worse than that, the shameless and sickly.", "It's a difficult life to be responsible for leading the government in a country like Italy.\"", "In a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Paula Newton, Berlusconi also discussed some of the controversial statements he has made, including calling U.S. President Barack Obama \"tanned.\"", "He denied the comment was a gaffe.", "\"I have never made any gaffes, not even one.", "Every gaffe is invented by the newspapers.\"", "He said he always thinks before he speaks.", "\"I tell stories and tell jokes,\" he said.", "\"I only tell jokes that can be heard by anyone.", "I'm always conscious of what we are talking about.\"", "Berlusconi said his supposed gaffes, like the time he left German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting by the side of the Rhine while he finished a call on his mobile, were \"invented by the papers.\"", "Watch more about his extraordinary year » .", "Berlusconi explained the incident to CNN, saying had been on the phone to Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan.", "Afterwards Merkel -- who he described as \"happy\" -- asked him if the call had been successful.", "Another time, he startled Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a group photo at Buckingham Palace when he shouted over to the American president: \"Mr. Obama!", "It's Berlusconi.\" This prompted the queen to raise a gloved hand and complain: \"Why does he have to shout?\"", "Look at photos of Italy's flamboyant leader » .", "Berlusconi told CNN \"the Queen defended me.\"", "The billionaire media mogul-turned politician also blames the Italian media as the reason his second wife and mother of three of his five children, Veronica Lario, asked him for a divorce, saying Lario erred by believing what was in the Italian papers.", "Lario cited Berlusconi's presence at the birthday party of an 18-year-old Naples model, reported in the Italian press, as the reason for seeking a divorce earlier this year.", "\"There is absolutely nothing at all which is negative,\" Berlusconi told CNN about his appearance at the birthday party of Noemi Letizia in Naples.", "Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving prime minister, said his friendship with the young woman and her family were \"relationships which have a right to privacy.\"", "He said the newspapers had accused him of lying in statements he made to them about it.", "\"I will react and I will explain the situation,\" Berlusconi told CNN.", "\"I will have all the Italians with me and the accusations will be a boomerang against those who made it against me.\"", "Lario also accused him of choosing starlets and showgirls as European parliament candidates and of consorting with young women.", "At the time Lario was interviewed by Dario Cresto-Dina, a reporter from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, who told CNN, \"In Veronica's words, 'This time he went beyond the limit with his latest public humiliation.", "I want to close this chapter on this marriage.\"", "Allegations that Berlusconi went to parties with escorts were also widely reported.", "Giampaolo Tarantini, the businessman accused of hiring the escorts denied any wrongdoing and said he brought women to the parties to make a \"beautiful impression.\"", "\"I have never paid money to those who accompanied me except for refunding their trip expenses,\" he said in a statement issued in June this year.", "\"I exclude that the premier could have been aware of these reimbursements and I want to ask forgiveness for having involuntarily damaged him.\"", "The scandals have done little damage to Berlusconi's political standing in Italy.", "Polls have shown his popularity has dipped only slightly, mostly among women, since the scandals broke in the spring.", "Watch more about Berlusconi's love for his people » .", "\"When I go around, it's embarrassing to see the affection showered upon me,\" Berlusconi told CNN.", "\"I know that people can change their opinions ... but I must say that I just note the fact that I am close to the heart of many Italians and they show this to me very often.\"", "Berlusconi, who's also a songwriter, a real estate and insurance tycoon, and owner of Italian soccer team AC Milan, said he's always been \"liked by those who have worked with me.", "I'm liked and loved by all the people in politics.\"", "Even his critics acknowledge his popularity among Italians.", "Giulio Anselmi, veteran Italian journalist and chairman of the Italian news agency ANSA, says Berlusconi's popularity is because he's a populist.", "He describes him as \"a man who pulls the most elementary strings of the public opinion; a public opinion, which in Italy in these times, prefers simple paths.\"", "Berlusconi, who controls almost half of Italy's television stations, was elected in 2008 to his third term.", "The next Italian election, barring an early vote, is scheduled for 2013.", "His conservative coalition has control of both the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.", "Berlusconi, a former cruise ship singer before turning his hand to media ownership, said he entered politics in 1994 to combat the growing power of the Left and \"communist ideology\" in the country.", "\"I couldn't imagine that the country where I had lived, where I had great success as the first Italian entrepreneur, that it would fall prey to these people,\" he said.", "Asked for the secret of his success, the wise-cracking entrepreneur replied: \"Everybody knows that I have a sense of friendship, I'm loyal, I always say what I think -- I don't have any hidden thoughts, I don't hide anything, I speak openly.\"", "He also attributed his success to sheer hard work, his practice \"not to leave anything undone.", "To aim for 10 if you want to achieve eight.\"", "Paula Newton contributed to this story." ]	[ "Berlusconi says he doesn't like his job as Italian leader .", "Says he entered politics because of growing power of communists in Italy .", "He insists he hasn't committed a single gaffe; all \"invented by the papers\"\nBlames press for his wife's divorce announcement earlier this year ." ]	[ 0, 2, 12, 25, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When she was a public health administrator for the state of California, Kathryn Hall-Trujillo found that her greatest challenge was paying for babies who were born sick.", "\"The figure we were working with at that time was about $300,000 ... to stabilize a baby for the first 90 days,\" said Hall-Trujillo, who worked for the state from 1976-1991.", "At the same time, she said, it cost just $2,000 to ensure pregnant mothers received all the care they needed for a healthy pregnancy and proper delivery.", "The staggering disparity, along with troubling rates of infant mortality in America, compelled Hall-Trujillo, 62, to find a solution.", "\"It occurred to me that one of the things that we could do that would cost hardly anything was to make sure that moms who were at risk ... [were] really connected to care,\" she said.", "What Hall-Trujillo came up with was Birthing Project USA.", "Since 1988, the nonprofit organization has been battling high infant-mortality rates by pairing soon-to-be moms with volunteer \"sister friends\" who provide guidance and support through the pregnancy and first year of the baby's life.", "Of every 1,000 babies born in the United States, at least six (6.14) do not survive their first year of life, according to the CIA World Factbook.", "That gives the United States only the 45th best infant mortality rate in the world, trailing top-ranked Monaco (1.78 deaths per thousand births) and countries such as Japan (2.79) and the United Kingdom (4.78).", "And African-American babies, regardless of the mother's age, income or educational level, are more than twice as likely to die before the age of 1 than Caucasian babies, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.", "It is this at-risk group that the Birthing Project primarily targets.", "\"By the act of going back and saving what we consider to be our little sisters at risk, we have found out that we're also saving our own lives, because we need this kind of information and ... support, regardless of where we are on the socioeconomic ladder,\" Hall-Trujillo said.", "Hall-Trujillo started the project as an experiment while working for the state in 1988.", "She paired 10 young, pregnant African-American women who had little access to financial, educational and emotional support with more experienced black women who had further education and more stable income.", "The idea was to have the pairs work together to ensure positive birth outcomes.", "This became the founding \"sisterhood\" that has since been replicated thousands of times.", "Hall-Trujillo participated in the experiment as a \"sister friend\" herself.", "But just days after delivery, the baby of her \"little sister\" died from complications.", "\"I used the words infant mortality ... every day of my working career.", "But until I held DeAndre in my arms, I never realized that that meant counting dead babies,\" she said.", "\"[That] was...enough to really change my life.\"", "The experience moved Hall-Trujillo to quit her job and work on the Birthing Project full time.", "Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2010 CNN Heroes .", "Since its inception, the Birthing Project has welcomed more than 12,000 babies in 94 community chapters in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Honduras and Malawi.", "\"We've been doing this long enough now that you can hear a child -- 20 years old -- say, 'I was born into the Birthing Project,' \" Hall-Trujillo said.", "\"That means more to me than anything that I may have given up, because in return I have received a whole community.\"", "Hall-Trujillo and veteran chapter leaders train women who step up and create chapters in their own communities.", "Together, they identify local partner organizations that provide the support services needed for maternal and child health, such as parenting classes and transportation to doctor appointments.", "The volunteers then help connect their pregnant sisters to those resources.", "\"All of us want to see our babies born as healthy as possible to families who are prepared to care for them,\" Hall-Trujillo said.", "Laniqua Roussell, 36, and her \"little sister,\" Evan Batiste, 20, are part of the group's newest chapter in New Orleans, Louisiana.", "The two were paired together in April, at the end of Batiste's first trimester.", "Roussell has played a key role in Batiste's pregnancy.", "She not only helps make sure Batiste is eating right and attending her prenatal appointments, but she also helps Batiste budget her money and find access to affordable, stable housing.", "\"I wanted a big sister that [has] kids, [has] accomplished a lot in life already to teach me things I don't know,\" Batiste said.", "\"I could tell she cares about me.", "I could sense it. ...", "I needed that.\" For Hall-Trujillo, seeing the difference the Birthing Project is making is \"magical.\"", "\"We can do something to help save the world,\" she said.", "\"All these women prove me right.\"", "Want to get involved?", "Check out the Birthing Project website at www.birthingprojectusa.org and see how to help.", "You can nominate a 2010 CNN Hero at cnnheroes.com." ]	[ "Birthing Project USA helps soon-to-be mothers find guidance and support .", "The goal of the mentoring program is to prevent babies from being born sick .", "Kathryn Hall-Trujillo came up with the idea while she was a public health administrator .", "Do you know a hero?", "Nominations are open for 2010 CNN Heroes ." ]	[ 0, 5, 14, 22 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- About 30 U.S. military personnel are training members of Pakistan's Frontier Corps on how to fight Taliban and al Qaeda militants in Pakistan's tribal regions, according to several U.S. military sources.", "A missile, perhaps from a U.S. drone, hit a Taliban school Thursday in Pakistan's North Waziristan province.", "The Pakistanis trained by the U.S. contingent -- which includes Army Special Forces troops -- will in turn become trainers for Frontier Corps troops on the front lines fighting the militants, the sources said.", "Pakistani Lt. Col. Attique Rehman confirmed the same details to CNN on Saturday.", "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Wednesday that U.S. military trainers have been in Pakistan and the mission \"has been stepped up, but it still remains very, very small.\"", "\"But the hope is that the more trainers we train, the more effective they will be in training their forces and the more capable forces will then be able to take the fight to the militants in the tribal areas where they operate,\" Morrell said.", "The mission comes as the U.S. military and the Pakistanis confer about how to train, arm and equip some tribal militias in the fight against militants in the tribal areas.", "Members of the Frontier Corps are ethnic Pashtuns recruited from Pakistan's tribal region.", "They are on the front lines in the fight against militants along the Afghan border but they've long had a reputation of being poorly trained and underfunded.", "CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr contributed to this report." ]	[ "About 30 U.S. military personnel in Pakistan, sources say .", "Frontier Corps being taught how to fight Taliban, al Qaeda militants .", "Training focuses on Pakistan's tribal region, which borders Afghanistan .", "Frontier Corps are ethnic Pashtuns recruited from tribal region ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thirty armed militants were killed on Thursday during a fight with troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.", "Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers listen to a speach in Nadi Ali district, Helmand province, on February 5, 2009.", "The incident occurred in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, and the militants were killed by Afghan soldiers advised by coalition troops, the U.S. military said in a statement.", "Afghan soldiers had been conducting \"combat reconnaissance in an area of known militant presence,\" the statement said, when militants fired at the troops with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenades and a firefight eventually broke out.", "The troops made sure non-combatants were not in the area when they fired at the militants, the military statement said.", "One Afghan soldier received minor injuries in the incident.", "\"This engagement was yet another blow to the militants, who are quickly losing their ability to operate in Helmand province,\" a coalition official said in the statement.", "\"The Afghan National Army is working to rid Afghanistan of extremists who are only trying to destabilize the country and sabotage Afghan freedom.\"", "Meanwhile, an Australian soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive device Thursday during operations in southern Afghanistan, Australia's Defense Ministry said.", "He is the second Australian to be killed in Afghanistan this week.", "Ten Australian troops have died in the Afghan conflict.", "Defense Force Chief Angus Houston said the \"soldier was trying to clear the route of an Australian patrol when the explosion happened.\"", "He was trying to defuse the explosive when \"there was an explosion and he was killed,\" Houston said.", "Houston said the soldier was an expert in countering roadside bombs.", "\"He lost his life trying to make the environment safe for his mates.", "At this point in time we do not know what caused the explosion,\" said Houston, who did not say where in the south the incident occurred.", "On Monday, Australian Cpl.", "Mathew Hopkins was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan.", "He had been part of a joint patrol near Kakarak, north of Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province." ]	[ "Militants killed during a fight with troops in Gereshk district of Helmand province .", "Afghan soldiers had been conducting combat reconnaissance .", "Militants fired at the troops with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenades .", "Australian soldier killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan ." ]	[ 2, 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Top seed Caroline Wozniacki kept her hopes of a maiden grand slam title alive on Tuesday when she came from behind to defeat Francesca Schiavone in the Australian Open quarterfinals.", "Denmark's Wozniacki lost the first set in her last-eight tie with sixth seed Schiavone before she fought back to clinch a 3-6 6-3 6-3 success.", "Schiavone, from Italy, overcame Svetlana Kuznetsova in an energy-sapping four-hour match on Sunday, however, she still had enough in the tank to take the opening set and steal a break of serve at the start of the second.", "Wozniacki had never reached the semifinals at Melbourne Park, but she battled back to set up a last-four meeting with ninth seed Li Na.", "\"It was very difficult,\" Wozniacki told the WTA Tour's website.", "\"Francesca was playing well.", "I just thought, 'Take one ball at a time and don't give up.'", "\"That's what happens sometimes in tennis.", "You just need to stay focused.", "Today everything went in my favor afterwards and I'm happy to sit here as the winner.\"", "World number one Wozniacki, who was beaten in the 2009 U.S. Open final by Kim Clijsters, ensured she will remain at the top of the rankings with her last-eight victory.", "\"I don't think about the rankings,\" she said.", "\"I just want to win every match I'm playing, then we'll see what happens.", "If I'm number one, it's fantastic, but I'm focusing on my matches.\"", "Li booked her second-successive semifinal appearance in Melbourne with a 6-2 6-4 over Germany's Andrea Petkovic.", "China's Li has enjoyed a perfect start to the 2011 season with a run of 10 victories in a row.", "\"It was tough,\" the 28-year-old said.", "\"I only practiced with Andrea one time last year.", "So, at the beginning of the match, I was a little bit nervous.", "But I played well today.\"", "Li, who lost to eventual winner Serena Williams in the 2010 tournament, is bidding to become China's first grand slam singles champion.", "Germany's Petkovic said after their clash she believes her conqueror will go on to claim the title.", "\"I think she played really well,\" the 30th seed said.", "\"I think she's going to win the tournament.", "\"It's just the feeling, how she is on the court, her confidence and the way she's playing.", "Sometimes you get the feeling during the match that somebody is really strong and just has that confidence going on, that aura maybe.\"" ]	[ "Top seed Caroline Wozniacki is into the semifinals of the Australian Open .", "The Dane beat Francesca Schiavone 3-6 6-3 6-3 to reach her first Melbourne semifinal .", "She will face Li Na of China, who defeated Andrea Petkovic in straight-sets .", "Li is bidding to become China's first grand slam singles champion ." ]	[ 1, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The holidays have arguably come early for armchair disc jockeys, who can scratch along with exclusive musical mash-ups of songs by popular artists in remix simulator \"DJ Hero 2.\"", "Supporting two turntables and a plastic microphone, additional freestyle tricks and an expanded single-player career mode, the sequel to last year's popular rhythm game also enjoys a healthy co-sign from rapper and actor Common.", "\"The game is exciting, brings good music to the forefront and captures the real DJ aesthetic,\" he says in a recent interview.", "\"I love that two players can go head-to-head, and the freestyle aspect is really cool.", "... You have a microphone you can sing into and you can scratch at your own pace.", "When you play it, you feel just like you're at a party.\"", "While no substitute for actual spinning Common says it's a reasonable starting point for beginners looking to immerse themselves in DJ culture.", "Even more important than letting players live the dance-floor dream, he says, is that games like this can help introduce modern fans to classic artists.", "\"People today might not be watching as much TV or listening to music,\" he told CNN.", "\"But even when people aren't buzzing about a hot new track, they're still playing these games and hearing our songs.", "As an artist, everything you do is a brick you have to build on.", "Getting a song in a video game is a major stepping stone,and way to get introduced to new audiences.\"", "A fan of classic titles like \"Pitfall,\" \"Donkey Kong Jr.\" and \"Ms. Pac-Man\" before giving the controller a temporary rest, Common also says that motion-sensing video games are making former arcade enthusiasts take notice again.", "These so-called \"active\" games are a great way to grab people's attention, says common, adding that he's not surprised they're such high-tech sensations.", "\"Music games are making a comeback this year,\" he says.", "\"These titles are constantly improving, the music gets more exciting and more people are being attracted to them.\"", "Part of the appeal, he says, is that they fit right into nearly any social setting, especially parties, and are as fun to watch and listen to as actively play.", "High-profile releases like \"DJ Hero 2\" and recent karaoke outing \"Def Jam Rapstar,\" show hip-hop finally getting some respect from game makers.", "\"[The genre] would've been much bigger today if we'd had games like this early on.\"", "He says he secretly yearns to do a \"DJ Hero 2\" track with Sade -- \"You'd have to speed her up or something\" -- and says he plays the game with producer No I.D.", "during studio downtime.", "Should new album \"The Believer,\" due Spring 2011, get pushed back, you'll know why.", "\"No, we don't plan on any delays,\" he says with a laugh." ]	[ "Game supports two turntables; plastic microphone and more freestyle tricks .", "Common says that games like this can help introduce modern fans to classic artists .", "MC says motion-sensing video games are making former arcade enthusiasts take notice ." ]	[ 7, 12 ]
[ "Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- The body of a missing sailor was recovered in the wreckage of a South Korean ship that went down in the Yellow Sea in March, Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.", "The ship sank mysteriously in an incident that heightened tensions between North and South Korea.", "South Korea is investigating what caused the ship to sink and has not ruled out a theory that North Korea was involved, but Seoul has avoided directly blaming North Korea, which denied allegations it was responsible.", "South Korea's Yonhap reported Saturday that authorities have lifted the remaining half of the vessel, which could help aid the investigation.", "The 1,200-ton patrol ship Cheonan sank near the western sea border with North Korea on March 26.", "Forty of Cheonan's 104 crewmembers have now been confirmed dead, and six more are also believed dead, though they are still listed as missing.", "Fifty-eight crewmembers were rescued before the vessel sank." ]	[ "Crews recover body of missing sailor from sunken South Korea ship .", "Ship went down in Yellow Sea; cause not yet known .", "Death toll now stands at 40; six sailors listed as missing ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tyson Gay sent out a world championship message to Usain Bolt as he eased to victory in the 200 meters at the London Grand Prix on Saturday in a super-fast 20 seconds dead.", "Tyson Gay powers off the bend on his way to 200m victory in the London Grand Prix.", "Gay shrugged off a minor groin injury coming into the meeting to make a rapid start and had the race wrapped up as he entered the straight.", "He left compatriot Wallace Spearman 20 meters adrift with Ireland's Paul Hession in third.", "In May, reigning double world champion Gay set the fastest time in the world this year when he ran the 200m in 19.58 seconds in New York, but Bolt responded with a 19.59 seconds clocking in difficult conditions in Lausanne.", "Bolt showed his superlative form by winning the 100 meters on the first day of the London Grand Prix in 9.91 seconds into a strong headwind and anchored Racers TC to an easy victory in the sprint relay which rounded off the action on the second day.", "The Kingston-based club which included fellow Jamaicans Yohan Blake and Mario Forysth, plus Antigua's Daniel Bailey, run the fourth-best time in history, 37.46 seconds, as Bolt strode out in typical style.", "Bolt and Gay are set for a massive showdown for global supremacy in the world championships next month but the American admitted his injury was still a concern.", "\"My groin has been tight on me, I'm trying to take a little Advil (painkillers) to run through the pain,\" he told reporters.", "\"I've got to be tough about it. I don't feel it when I run, it's after. \"I'm just taking it one day at a time, it's just frustrating.", "Any time a sprinter feels any type of nagging pain they get frustrated and the mind has to get strong again.", "\"I didn't get to warm up like I wanted to because of the situation but I don't think about limping once the gun is shot, I just run.\"", "In other action on Saturday, Carmelita Jeter of the United States showed she will be a contender at the world championships with a 10.92 second clocking to win the women's 100m.", "Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia made a successful return to the track after injury to win the women's 5,000 in 14 minutes 33.65 seconds, the fastest in the world this year." ]	[ "Tyson Gay powers to 200m victory in 20 seconds dead at London Grand Prix .", "Gay has been struggling with a groin injury ahead of the world championships .", "American is set to take on Usain Bolt over 100 and 200m in Berlin next month .", "Bolt anchors Racers TC to victory in sprint relay in 37.46 seconds ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7 ]
[ "Pensacola, Florida (CNN) -- Evelyn Rasco started crying early Saturday morning as soon as she saw the cars carrying her daughters turn the corner.", "Minutes later, her voice took on a tougher tone: \"I'll tell you one thing, y'all ain't going back to the state of Mississippi.", "I'll tell you that. Y'all ain't going there to get a drink of water.\"", "Her daughters, Gladys and Jamie Scott, were released from a Mississippi prison Friday after 16 years behind bars.", "Gov. Haley Barbour suspended their armed robbery sentences on one condition -- that one sister donate a kidney to the other.", "Jamie Scott, 38, is gravely ill and needs a kidney transplant, said attorney Chokwe Lumumba.", "Barbour said last week it \"should be scheduled with urgency.\"", "And Jamie Scott told CNN she feared at one point that she would die in prison.", "The sisters were convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to life in prison for their role in a 1993 ambush in Scott County, Mississippi.", "Authorities accused the sisters of leading two men to a group of three teenagers, who hit them with a shotgun and took their wallets.", "The robbers netted between $11 and $200, according to CNN affiliate WLBT.", "Both sisters have maintained their innocence.", "After their release Friday, they told reporters they planned to continue fighting.", "\"The governor granted us our first step and we are grateful for that,\" Jamie Scott said, her sister next to her, nodding in agreement.", "\"The fight is not over until our name is cleared.\"", "Early Saturday morning, the sisters arrived at their mother's home in Pensacola, Florida.", "Gladys Scott, 36, walked arm-in-arm with her mother toward the door.", "\"We're home, Mama, we're home,\" she said.", "\"You don't know how many nights I prayed for this,\" Rasco replied.", "Gladys Scott's 22-year-old daughter, Olivia, placed her arm around her mother's shoulder and said she was looking forward to making up for lost time.", "\"We're going to get her an up-to-date cell phone.", "We're going to show her the beach... We're going to have fun, do what we couldn't do, do what the state of Mississippi took from us,\" she said.", "In Florida, the sisters will be under the supervision of the Florida Department of Corrections parole office, said Suzanne Singletary, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.", "Lumumba said Friday that Gladys Scott had not yet been tested to determine whether her kidney could be used in a transplant.", "\"I'm praying to God I'm a match,\" she said.", "\"I want her to raise her grandkids with me.\"", "Bumper stickers on cars parked in the Rasco's driveway Saturday said \"The Scott Sisters\" -- a lingering sign of the legal fight the family says it's determined to continue.", "Lumumba said the sisters would seek a pardon from the state of Mississippi.", "\"We're not going to lay down the guns.", "We're going to keep fighting in order to get them totally exonerated,\" he said." ]	[ "A governor suspends their sentences, saying one must donate a kidney to the other .", "\"You don't know how many nights I prayed for this,\" their mother says .", "The two sisters spent 16 years in prison for armed robbery .", "A lawyer says Jamie Scott is gravely ill and needs a kidney transplant ." ]	[ 4, 5, 8, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- International music stars Shakira, the Black-Eyed Peas and Alicia Keys will now be joined by several top South African names at the launch concert for the soccer World Cup in June.", "Local artists had been upset that the host nation would not well-represented at the June 10 event after only three acts -- BLK JKS, The Parlotones and folk singer Vusi Mahlasela -- were named in the initial line-up.", "But legendary jazz musician Hugh Masekela, the award-winning Freshlyground and Soweto Gospel Choir are among those added to the bill following a meeting with organizers last month.", "Soweto's Mzansi Youth Choir and Canada-based, Somalia-born hip-hop artist K'naan will also now appear at Johannesburg's Orlando Stadium the night before the month-long tournament kicks off.", "\"As South Africans we are proud to be hosting the first ever World Cup on African soil,\" the 71-year-old Masekela told the South Africa Organizing Committee Web site.", "Hugh Masekela: The sound of South Africa .", "\"I am very humbled and flattered to be part of this global event and am looking forward to the concert with great interest and excitement.\"", "Freshlyground, five-time South African Music Award winners, will perform the tournament's official anthem \"Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)\" with co-collaborator Shakira, the multi-million-selling Colombian singer.", "K'naan's Canadian hit \"Wavin' Flag\" has been remixed into a bilingual English-Spanish song which is Coca-Cola's official World Cup tune.", "Other featured artists include blind Mali duo Amadou & Mariam, 2008 Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo of Benin and six-time recipient John Legend of the United States.", "Hugh Masekela's Johannesburg .", "Shakira's platinum-selling compatriot Juanes is also on the bill along with Tuareg group Tinariwen and their fellow Malian Vieux Farka Toure.", "\"We wanted to have an eclectic, international mix of music genres to appeal to as many people as possible around the world whilst at the same time showcasing the immense home-grown talent of the host country,\" said Niclas Ericson, director of TV for world soccer's governing body FIFA.", "The concert will be broadcast live worldwide, with profits going to FIFA's project to build 20 centers across Africa providing education, healthcare services and football training to disadvantaged communities.", "Orlando Stadium, in the suburb of Soweto, is also being used as a training facility for World Cup teams." ]	[ "Hugh Masekela, Freshlyground and Soweto Gospel Choir among those added to concert .", "Local artists had been angry that South Africans would not be properly represented .", "Organizers initially named only three South African acts for June 10 line-up .", "Concert takes place in Johannesburg the night before the World Cup kicks off ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Exposure to debris at Ground Zero may be linked to heart problems in police officers, according to a new study announced Saturday.", "The study revealed that police officers who worked at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks had unusually high occurrences of abnormal left and right ventricular functioning, leading doctors to consider the role Ground Zero played in their diminished heart function.", "The study, which started in January 2008 and ended in June, was funded by the Fraternal Order of Police of New York State.", "The study was not intended at first to focus on the effects of Ground Zero, but rather to test the strains of the job, said Dr. Lori Croft, the study's lead investigator.", "Many Ground Zero workers have been reported to suffer from lung ailments after exposure to dust and debris at the site, but this is the first study that offers evidence that work at Ground Zero may lead to cardiovascular problems, said Croft of the Mount Sinai Medical Center.", "Once microscopic matter is inhaled, it can result in harmful scarring to the lungs and heart, said Croft.", "Croft said that a healthy person's heart muscle relaxes when it fills with blood.", "In the cases of the study participants, Croft said the heart remains somewhat stiff, which hinders blood flow and can lead to heart disease later in life.", "Croft tested about 1,200 police officers over an 18-month period and found that 53 percent had abnormal left ventricular functioning and 59 percent had problems with their right ventricle.", "This would come as little surprise if they were in their 80s, but the mean age in the group was 49, Croft said.", "\"If you're talking about 80-year-olds with these statistics, that's one thing,\" she said.", "\"But these are people in their 40s and 50s.", "That's unusual.\" About 7 percent of 50-year-olds have this problem, Croft said.", "Croft said some questions remain.", "Law enforcement is generally a stressful occupation and police often work varying shifts and might sit in a patrol car for long periods -- all unhealthy for the heart, she said.", "The study, while revealing, needs to be further explored, she said.", "For example, testing police officers in other cities might help put the findings in context, she said." ]	[ "Study finds unusually high occurrences of abnormal left and right ventricular functioning .", "Findings are first to possibly link work at Ground Zero to cardiovascular problems .", "Study was initially intended to test strains of job and effects of Ground Zero .", "Testing officers in other cities could help put findings in context, study's leader says ." ]	[ 1, 3, 16 ]
[ "Moderate exercise can help patients with failing hearts feel better -- and it's safe, according to the largest-ever study of exercise in people with chronic heart failure, published as two articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association.", "Patients in the exercise group were given exercise training and either a treadmill or an exercise bike.", "The study's results may not have been groundbreaking: Fewer than half of patients were fully following the recommended exercise regimen (the equivalent of brisk walking or stationary cycling for about two to three hours a week) by the end of the study, and the effect of exercise on mortality and hospitalization risk was small.", "But these benefits shouldn't be dismissed, given the poor quality of life many chronic heart failure patients have, says Clyde Yancy, M.D., medical director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in Houston, Texas.", "\"Having any strategy that's reasonable, that has the potential to help even a little bit, is pretty important,\" says Yancy, who was not involved in the research.", "\"The real gain might be in helping our patients feel better.\"", "About 5 million people in the United States have chronic heart failure, in which the heart becomes too weak to pump blood through the body effectively.", "Not too long ago, bed rest was the standard treatment for these patients, who suffer from fatigue, difficulty breathing, and swelling of the legs, among other symptoms.", "But for the past 20 or 30 years, evidence has been trickling in to show that these patients can actually benefit from being active, says Kathryn E. Flynn, Ph.D., of Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.", "To get a clearer sense of the benefits (and potential risks) of exercise for heart failure patients, Flynn -- along with Christopher M. O'Connor, M.D., director of the Heart Center at Duke, as well as colleagues from several centers across the country -- randomly assigned 2,331 men and women with heart failure to one of two groups: standard medical care plus aerobic exercise training or standard care only.", "People in the exercise group started out with 36 supervised-exercise sessions, then were sent home with a treadmill or exercise bike and instructed to get 120 to 200 minutes of exercise a week.", "Within three months, Flynn and her team found, the exercisers said they felt better.", "\"The average difference was modest, but it happened early,\" Flynn says.", "\"And it persisted over time: 54 percent of the men and women in this group reported clinically meaningful improvements in their health status three months into the study, compared with 29 percent of people in the control group.\"", "After two and a-half years, the people in the exercise group were slightly less likely to be hospitalized for any cause or for heart failure.", "They were also at modestly reduced risk of death from any cause, as well as death from heart failure.", "Unsurprisingly, exercisers also were somewhat more fit than they were at the study's outset.", "Health.com: What puts you at risk for high cholesterol?", "\"I think this study really helps to show that when you look across a lot of different people, exercise is a good thing,\" Flynn says, noting that past studies have included far fewer women and older people.", "Given that fewer than half of the patients in the exercise group were actually following recommendations for physical activity by the end of the study -- par for the course with behavioral-intervention trials requiring lifestyle changes -- O'Connor says he wasn't disappointed that the benefits were small.", "\"Really, it's quite remarkable in my opinion that we found these modest improvements,\" he adds.", "Health.com: Good fats vs. bad fats: Which fats are good for your heart?", "When O'Connor and his colleagues broke down the results based on how well people were sticking to the exercise recommendations, an analysis not published in the JAMA paper, more striking differences emerged.", "\"The more you did with greater intensity, the greater benefit,\" O'Connor says.", "It's also important, he adds, that the research was able to confirm that exercise does not carry risks for people with stable heart failure.", "\"It was not known that it was safe with this degree of certainty,\" O'Connor says.", "The question now, Yancy says, is whether insurers will decide to pay to help chronic heart failure patients exercise, given the modesty of the benefits.", "\"We really can't deploy this in a broad way without getting support from payers,\" he adds.", "\"I can't forecast which way that will go.\"", "Health.com: How I survived a heart attack at 43 .", "But O'Connor is willing to hazard a guess.", "Because his analysis suggests that patients with the most severe heart failure benefit the most from exercise, he says, it's likely that insurers will pay for exercise training for these patients who will offer them the \"biggest bang for the buck.\"", "Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Health - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright Health Magazine 2009 ." ]	[ "Study: Exercise in heart-failure patients is safe, helps well-being, reduces mortality .", "About 5 million people in the United States have chronic heart failure .", "In heart failure, the heart is too weak to pump blood through the body effectively ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Cell phones and TVs converging with the Internet?", "That's so 2008. The next big tech trend may be the marriage of computer technology to your car or truck.", "This spring, Ford will offer a dashboard computing system on its full-size pickups and E-series vans.", "This month, Hyundai is launching a system that warns motorists when they drift out of the lane they're traveling in.", "Another manufacturer has developed pedestrian-detection software that works with heat-seeking cameras to alert drivers when someone is in their path.", "In March, Ford will release a fully functional, dashboard computer -- complete with keyboard -- geared to contractors and other business folks who want to access the Web, review documents and log inventory while on the go.", "In the spring, AT&T will launch an in-car entertainment service with 22 satellite TV channels.", "Industry executives hope the new technological bells and whistles will put some sizzle back into stagnant vehicle sales.", "\"Consumers want a vehicle that's always on and always connected,\" said Kieran O'Sullivan, vice president at Continental Automotive Systems, which supplies parts and technology to automakers.", "In the near future, he said, \"consumers and carmakers will be able to customize the [dashboard] instrument panel to their individual tastes the same way that people customize their mobile phones.\"", "O'Sullivan spoke Thursday at a panel discussion at the International Consumer Electronics Show subtitled, \"The Automobile's Convergence with Consumer Electronics.\"", "Panelists, including executives from Microsoft, Nokia and GM's OnStar service, agreed the industry is just beginning to tap the potential of in-car computing.", "\"We'll someday use this information technology in ways we can't even predict today,\" said Tom Phillips, general manager of Microsoft's automotive unit.", "\"To me, we're in the infancy in terms of the amount of evolution that's going to occur.\"", "As consumers are growing accustomed to having mobile Internet through their smart phones, more car buyers are seeking connectivity in their vehicles that will allow them to move seamlessly between their digital lives at work and home, panelists said.", "Half of the new vehicles sold in the United States are now compatible with MP3 players and 80 percent can connect with wireless Bluetooth headsets, said automotive technology expert John Waraniak, who served as the panel's moderator.", "iReport.com: Are you attending CES?", "General Motors' OnStar service, which can remotely unlock car doors, reduce gas flow to a stolen vehicle or dial 911 if a car is involved in a crash, now has almost 6 million subscribers.", "Toyota said this week it plans to launch a similar driver-assist program on certain models beginning this summer.", "Not to be outdone, Ford's similar Sync system, which now comes standard on many vehicles, is adding voice-activated, on-demand traffic, sports and weather reports, plus GPS-assisted navigation.", "In a keynote speech Thursday at CES, Ford CEO Alan Mulally said the automaker is learning to think more like an electronics company.", "Ford will begin installing its Works Solutions package on its full-size pickups and E-series vans this spring.", "The dashboard computing system costs $1,195 plus a monthly Web access fee, has a 6-inch touch screen and runs on Windows.", "It will allow electricians and other contractors to create Excel spreadsheets, print invoices and even access other computers.", "\"Ford is truly making the office mobile,\" said Ford product development manager Bill Frykman while demonstrating the system Thursday to reporters in an F-150 parked in a large tent outside the Las Vegas Convention Center.", "\"This bridges the gap between the full laptop and a smart phone.\"", "Meanwhile, an entire hall at CES is devoted to the latest in automotive technology, from portable navigation units to rear-mounted cameras which, with the help of a dashboard screen, allow the driver to see what's immediately behind his vehicle while backing up.", "Here's a quick peek at some other automotive technology on display at CES this week: .", "-- FLIR Systems, Inc. makes a thermal-imaging camera, an option on BMW's 6-series sedans, with a new pedestrian-detection feature.", "When the camera detects a heat source in the shape of a human being, the on-board computer alerts the driver by highlighting the pedestrian in yellow on the dashboard screen.", "-- AT&T's CruiseCast service brings 22 satellite TV channels to your vehicle with the help of a small rooftop antenna, augmented by video-buffering technology that supposedly maintains the signal underneath overpasses and trees.", "It will cost $1,299 plus a $28 monthly fee and is being pitched to parents with kids and pre-game tailgaters.", "\"It's an extension of your living room,\" said Jackie Lapin, a spokeswoman for AT&T.", "-- Nervous about handing the car keys to your 16-year-old?", "The CarChip ($119) plugs into any post-1995 model vehicle and records 300 hours of how the car has been driven, including mileage, speed, braking and acceleration.", "Parents can remove the chip, download its data to a computer and use the information to verify driving agreements with their teens.", "Newer features even let parents set restrictions on their kids' driving.", "\"If you want to set it at a certain speed -- say, 'I don't want my kid going over 65 mph' -- it'll beep at them until they slow down,\" said Michael Copeland, sales manager for manufacturer Davis Instruments.", "-- Hyundai's latest vehicles can be outfitted with a system that detects when a car is drifting across lanes, then sounds a buzzer or vibrates the wheel to alert the driver.", "Some Hyundai vehicles also contain ultrasonic sensors that help drivers to park by measuring the distance between a car and other objects.", "In fact, the next generation of automotive technology may employ automatic steering and braking systems that relieve drivers of much of the responsibility for, well, driving.", "\"Maybe 15 years from now, cars will drive themselves.", "That's certainly a goal some companies have,\" said Jay James of FLIR Systems.", "\"It's not just 'Jetsons' stuff now.", "It's really starting to happen.\"", "Some 2,700 exhibitors and 130,000 attendees are in Las Vegas, Nevada, for CES, the nation's largest consumer electronics trade show.", "The event runs through Sunday.", "The 2009 North American International Auto Show follows next week in Detroit, Michigan." ]	[ "More automakers are shipping vehicles with computerized features, Web access .", "Features include pedestrian-detecting cameras, on-demand traffic reports .", "Ford to include Web-enabled dashboard computer in full-size pickups, vans ." ]	[ 2, 5, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Travelers heading for Mumbai were urged to postpone their journeys Thursday amid fears that foreigners could be targeted following Wednesday's terror attacks that left more than 100 people dead and two luxury hotels under siege.", "Indian reserve soldiers keep vigil outside the residence of the Indian Prime Minister on Thursday.", "In a televised statement Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the attacks had been intended to \"create a sense of panic by choosing high-profile targets and indiscriminately killing innocent foreigners.\"", "At least six foreigners were reported dead in the attacks including Italian and British nationals.", "The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi said the situation in Mumbai remained fluid and warned those planning to travel to Mumbai to postpone their journeys for at least the next 48 to 72 hours.", "\"Those currently in Mumbai are asked to take shelter at their current location and contact family and friends,\" the embassy said in a statement.", "The U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai opened for emergency passport issuance Thursday despite the Thanksgiving holiday.", "\"U.S. citizens who have immediate travel plans and have lost or damaged passports can come directly to the Consulate to obtain an emergency replacement passport,\" a statement said.", "The UK's Foreign Office advised against \"all but essential travel to Mumbai until further notice.\"", "\"We have said to the people of Mumbai they should avoid going out and about more than they need to for the time being.", "And those planning to visit Mumbai should only do so if they have essential business to do.", "That is roughly in line with the advice the government has given, that today is not the day to go to Mumbai,\" Richard Stagg, the British High Commissioner to London, told CNN-IBN.", "Read more on the international reaction .", "The French Embassy in New Delhi said those living in or traveling to Mumbai should be \"doubly cautious\" and warned: \"Hotels, public places (markets, railway stations, cinema halls, etc.)", "should be avoided and movements outside restricted to a strict minimum until fresh instructions are issued.\"", "Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade urged Australians to avoid travel to Mumbai and told those already in the city to remain in a safe location and monitor the media for information about new security risks.\"", "Flights to and from India were largely undisrupted Thursday.", "A spokesman for Air India at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport told CNN the airline was maintaining a normal schedule and said there had been no cancellations or major delays.", "Singapore Airlines urged passengers to allow extra time for check-in because of additional security checks at the airport's perimeter.", "A spokeswoman for London's Heathrow Airport told CNN services were operating normally.", "British Airways was running a regular service to Mumbai but said customers with bookings made prior to the attacks could rebook on a different date or to an alternative Indian city at no extra cost.", "The Taj hotel chain, whose flagship Mumbai residence was attacked by gunmen, said it was working closely with authorities and was taking \"necessary precautions\" across all its hotels.", "The Oberoi hotel chain said it was \"monitoring the situation closely\" and cooperating with police and government authorities.", "Meanwhile Indian cricket authorities have canceled the remaining two matches of India's one-day series with England and postponed the inaugural Champions League tournament which was due to start next week.", "Participating teams from England and Australia had been due to fly to India on Thursday." ]	[ "Travelers urged to postpone journeys to Mumbai following terror attacks .", "Indian PM says attackers aimed to \"indiscriminately kill innocent foreigners\"\nVisitors to Mumbai urged to stay indoors, await further developments .", "Flights to, from Mumbai's main airport undisrupted, Air India spokesman says ." ]	[ 0, 4, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Lynn Malerba has years of experience taking care of hearts -- those of her patients as a nurse, those of her community as health director and now, as chief, those of her tribe.", "Recently, Malerba officially accepted the leadership role of chief of the Mohegan tribe -- the tribe's first female leader in almost 300 years.", "Malerba, 56, holds a nursing degree and a master's degree in public administration and lives in Uncasville, Connecticut.", "CNN talked with her about her role, beliefs and the future of the Mohegans.", "Who are you? How do you define yourself? I define myself by my relationships as well as by my chosen career path.", "I need to know that my actions personally and professionally make a positive difference in people's lives.", "My name, Soqsqua Mutawi Mutahash, translated means \"Female Sachem Many Hearts\" or \"Chief Many Hearts.\"", "It reflects my life's work: I have cared for many hearts in my past roles as critical care nurse and health and human services director for the tribe.", "As the new Mohegan Chief, I will care for the many hearts I know today and those I have yet to meet.", "It is an honor to be so connected to our ancestors and to share such a vibrant and rich culture with an extended family.", "It is unique and something to be celebrated.", "My great-grandfather, Chief Matagha, was known for the love of his culture.", "His name represents both \"He Who Dances\" as well as \"Brave and Faithful Soldier.\"", "He passed that love down to all generations following him.", "My generation has seen a tribal chairman, a tribal chairwoman and two elected elders in service to the tribe.", "His example is obviously one to live up to.", "It is my duty to faithfully follow in his footsteps as well as the footsteps of my mother, who so carefully kept our tribal history and culture alive for my family.", "What is something that everyone should know about you?", "I love being Mohegan because it is something bigger than ourselves.", "We are a community that shares a very rich history that informs us as a people.", "It is also essential that we pass on our tribal traditions to the next generations and that we pave the way for them to live successfully in two worlds: Mohegan and the local community.", "We have a sense of family and roots that goes very deep, and stays with us wherever we go.", "Growing up in Uncasville, Connecticut, in the 1950s was a much simpler time than what we have today.", "We lived next door to my grandmother, two aunts lived on my street and two of my mother's cousins lived on my street.", "So to say we were surrounded by family is a bit of an understatement.", "Growing up on Mohegan Hill, you were immersed in your culture and in your greater Mohegan family in a very casual way.", "We visited the museum regularly, visited with our Mohegan relatives, went to Fort Shantok (which holds one of our burial grounds) for family picnics (and even swam in the little pond there) and understood our place on this earth.", "The thought of being chief was never in my consciousness as an aspiration.", "When the tribal membership was asked by the Council of Elders who they thought should be appointed chief, I exercised my right as a tribal member and wrote a letter stating who I thought should be appointed (not me) and certainly never in my wildest dreams thought I would be selected.", "What gets you up and going each morning?", "I love the fact that each day brings something new and that no two days are the same.", "This was true both in my career in critical care nursing as well as my role here as chairwoman and now chief of the tribe.", "I love being busy and working hard -- and love that there is no shortage of surprises in my day.", "My greatest hopes for the future of Mohegan are simple: that we always look back and are faithful to the vision of our ancestors while we protect the generations to come.", "We need to work to ensure that our tribal family preserves our culture, protects our lands and protects all generations of the tribe through health care, education, elder services and youth programming.", "What is in your pocket right now that might surprise us?", "I keep an arrowhead in my purse that someone had given me as a reminder of the fact that we Mohegans live in two worlds -- the modern world of commerce and business, and the ancient world of nature and tradition.", "What would you tell your younger self about who you are now?", "It is great to have a plan but not to hold on to that plan too tightly, because you might miss all the surprises and fun along the way.", "What do you believe in? I believe that one should try to always be a positive force in the world.", "It is a form of spirituality to work for the good of others.", "What message does this (being voted as the new Chief of the Mohegan tribe) send both to today's \"Indian Country,\" and the U.S. as a whole?", "My being elected as chief confirms to those outside of Indian Country, what we have known all along: Tribes are very egalitarian and women are strong advocates for their people.", "The word \"chief\" may conjure up a male image to many peoples' minds, but in truth women such as Ada Deer and Wilma Mankiller have also provided inspirational leadership for Indian Country -- I hope to be able to continue that kind of legacy in my work as chief." ]	[ "Malerba is the tribe's first female leader in almost 300 years .", "She believes that one should try to always be a positive force in the world .", "She wants to help members straddle both the Mohegan world and the local community ." ]	[ 1, 10, 39 ]
[ "BANGOR, Maine (CNN) -- Karen Walker has shaken half a million hands in the last few years -- at least that's her best guess.", "Korean War veteran Don Guptill greets a returning soldier at Bangor International Airport in Maine.", "She and the other 40 or so members of the Maine Troop Greeters have made it their mission to welcome every incoming and outbound flight of soldiers and Marines who use Bangor International Airport as a refueling stop.", "No matter what time of day or night, there will always be applause, handshakes and hugs to make the troops feel appreciated.", "The goal is clear: \"Greet the troops, and thank them for what they do,\" says Korean War veteran Don Guptill.", "Watch the volunteers in action » .", "Guptill says he remembers coming home from that conflict and receiving no welcome at all.", "Guptill and other veterans, including those who served in Vietnam and World War II, were determined not to let that happen again.", "For those heading to Iraq or Afghanistan, the recognition is noticed and greatly appreciated, troops say.", "\"It makes me feel good,\" said one soldier headed out on his first deployment.", "\"I'm a little nervous,\" he continued, adding that the warm greeting helped ease his nerves.", "Another soldier, firmly shaking the hands in line, said, \"This is fantastic.", "These people are wonderful for coming down.\"", "The group of volunteers first started during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and continued following the invasion of Iraq in 2003.", "As of October, the group has seen off 3,598 flights, 727,292 troops and 135 military dogs, according to the greeters.", "Besides the support of the receiving line, troops also are offered snacks and the use of a cell phone to call their loved ones, free of charge.", "\"All they do is put an ID card down and pick up a phone,\" says Bill Knight, who stands behind a counter giving out the phones.", "Cell phone carriers donate the minutes.", "The airport donates the room where Knight works.", "Once a duty-free shop, it's now decorated with flags, unit patches, pins, photos and other items given to the Maine Troop Greeters as a show of appreciation from the many units that have passed through the airport.", "While the firm grips of so many soldiers sometimes can make the greeters' hands a little sore, the volunteers get used to the strong handshakes.", "\"They used to [cause tenderness],\" Walker says, \"but not anymore.\"", "When a handshake won't do, some military men and women will reach out and just hug the person who came by to welcome them home.", "Meeting the troops also tugs at the emotions of the greeters.", "\"It's a good feeling,\" Guptill says.", "\"Some days it's a tear-jerker.\"", "After about an hour and a half on the ground, it's time for an outbound flight to take off and head to a war zone.", "The greeters line up again to wish the soldiers well as they head up the ramp to the plane, thanking them for their service.", "Guptill says if the war ended tomorrow it would be fine with them, but adds, \"We'll do this until this thing ends.\"" ]	[ "Maine Troop Greeters welcome soldiers and Marines at Bangor International Airport .", "The mission includes troops returning from or heading to a war zone .", "\"It makes me feel good,\" says one soldier headed out on his first deployment .", "Troops also are offered snacks and the use of a cell phone to call their loved ones ." ]	[ 2, 9, 15 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- They are the tales of two very different people.", "Director Danny Boyle's film \"Slumdog Millionaire\" shines a stark light on poverty in India.", "One an amoral businessman pouring out his life story to the Chinese Premier, the other a lovelorn teenager appearing on \"Kaun Banega Crorepati,\" the Indian version of \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\"", "But if their protagonists are polar opposites, both stories -- one as told in Aravind Adiga's best-selling novel \"The White Tiger,\" the other in \"Slumdog Millionaire,\" the new movie from \"Trainspotting\" director Danny Boyle -- have much in common.", "Both are based in modern day India, both feature characters who succeed against all the odds, and both have garnered considerable critical acclaim, with \"Slumdog Millionaire\" recently awarded the three top prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.", "\"Slumdog,\" which is set in Mumbai, has also assumed a particularly poignant resonance in light of the recent terror attacks that left 174 people dead.", "Above all, both narratives shine a stark light on poverty -- an aspect of Indian society that has increasingly been pushed into the background by a decade and more of upbeat headlines about the country's dramatic economic growth.", "\"The growth aspect has tended to receive much more attention than the darker side of the Indian story,\" Professor Babu Mathew, Country Director of Action Aid India, told CNN, \"More and more the poverty goes unnoticed, and there is less and less of a voice for the excluded peoples.\"", "The breadth of the divide between what Aravind Adiga calls the \"India of Light,\" and the \"India of Darkness,\" is both dramatic and shocking.", "Since 1991 when \"neo-liberal\" market reforms were introduced, India's economy has ballooned.", "From 1991 to 2004, the world's largest democracy grew at 6.5 percent annually, a figure which increased to over 9 percent between 2005 and 2007.", "The result has been a massive explosion of wealth creation among the middle and upper echelons of Indian society, with Indian billionaires now occupying four of the top eight slots on the annual Forbes rich list.", "While growth has benefited one section of society, it has left a vast swathe of the population lagging far behind.", "\"People in urban areas, the rich, the middle classes, the educated -- all of these have benefited from economic growth,\" Dr Arun Kumar of Development Alternatives Group, a sustainable development organization based in Delhi, told CNN, \"Those who have not benefited are the small farmers, the rural poor, the artisans -- for these their situation has worsened.\"", "Nisha Agrawal, CEO of Oxfam India, agrees.", "\"Economic growth has been primarily focused on manufacturing and services and largely in urban areas,\" she told CNN, \"Rural agriculture has not received the kind of attention it deserves.", "And since the bulk of poor people derive their incomes from agriculture, that has left us with two Indias, one rich, one impoverished.\"", "Even a cursory glance at the statistics reveals a problem on a huge scale.", "According to World Bank estimates, 456 million people -- just over 40 percent of India's population of 1.2 billion -- now live on less than $1.25 per day, a sum recognized as the international poverty line.", "Almost half of India's children are malnourished; 1000 die every day from diarrhea; hundreds of millions have no access to proper sanitation.", "These figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high-rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country's major cities.", "How to narrow this gulf between the haves and the have-nots is a fiendishly complex issue and one that has no quick or easy solutions.", "More investment in basic infrastructure is seen as crucial, as is a reform of international trade agreements.", "\"Import and energy prices have increased for farmers, but global markets are not opening up for Indian agricultural products,\" Agrawal told CNN, \"That needs to change.\"", "Greater access to institutional finance, the creation of new jobs and economic opportunities, and the spread of information technology all have a major role to play.", "\"We already have small pockets of improvement,\" says Arun Kumar, \"But these involve limited numbers in limited geographies.", "\"We need to scale everything up.", "It is a huge challenge.\"", "The global economic problems have not bypassed India.", "Inflation is now running close to 12 percent and the Mumbai Stock Exchange has almost halved in value from a peak in January 2008.", "Sensex -- the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index -- has not registered any significant drop as a result of the recent Mumbai attacks, and it remains to be seen what the longer term effect will be on the Indian economy.", "Nonetheless, these difficult and uncertain times may make the challenge of poverty reduction an even harder one.", "Will India be able to successfully reduce the gap between rich and poor?", "Leave your comments in the SoundOff box below .", "Both Kumar and Agrawal remain hopeful that change is coming to India, albeit slowly.", "\"We are eternal optimists,\" says Kumar, \"I do believe things are changing.\"", "\"The government recognizes that people don't just want a high level of growth,\" adds Agrawal, \"But also growth that is more equalizing.", "We need to bring the two Indias together, and I believe we can do it.\"", "Despite their optimism, the problems remain vast, and the darkness intense.", "For the foreseeable future it seems likely the question most on the minds of India's 456 million poor will be less \"Who wants to be a millionaire?\"", "than \"Will I be able to feed myself and my family today?\"" ]	[ "Danny Boyle's \"Slumdog Millionaire\" shines a light on slum-dwellers in India .", "Huge growth means four of top eight billionaires on Forbes rich list are Indian .", "But the new wealth has bypassed India's 456 million poor .", "Nisha Agrawal of Oxfam says there are: \"two Indias, one rich, one impoverished\"" ]	[ 1, 11, 14, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rivers are the arteries of our infrastructure.", "Flowing from highlands to the sea, they breathe life into ecosystems and communities.", "A levee breach in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River System could have dire effects, a new report says.", "But many rivers in the United States are in trouble.", "Rivers in Alaska, California and the South are among the 10 most endangered, according to a report released Tuesday by American Rivers, a leading river conservation group.", "The annual report uses data from thousands of rivers groups, local governments, environmental organizations and citizen watchdogs to identify waterways under imminent threat by dams, industry or development.", "\"Our nation is at a transformational moment when it comes to rivers and clean water,\" said Rebecca Wodder, president of American Rivers.", "\"Water is life, yet our nation's water infrastructure is so outdated that our clean drinking water, flood protection and river health face unprecedented threats.\"", "American Rivers has released its annual endangered rivers report since 1986.", "The report is not a list of the nation's most polluted waterways, but highlights 10 rivers facing decisions in the coming year that could determine their future.", "Here is American Rivers' Most Endangered Rivers list for 2009: .", "1) Sacramento-San Joaquin River System .", "Location: California .", "Outdated water and flood management puts California's largest watershed at the top of America's most endangered rivers list for 2009.", "A recent breach in the delta's 1,100-mile levee system could have dire effects on surrounding ecosystems, farming and agriculture, commercial fishing and California's civil infrastructure.", "State and federal authorities are looking at alternative water-management strategies for the river system, which serves 25 million Californians and more than 5 million acres of farmland.", "2) Flint River .", "Location: Georgia .", "The Flint is one of 40 rivers nationwide that still flow undammed for more than 200 miles.", "Conservationists say that dams proposed by Georgia lawmakers would bury more than 50 river miles, destroy fishing and boating opportunities and cost taxpayers millions of dollars.", "The American Rivers group believes that fixing the state's leaky pipes, using water meters and minimizing water waste would be a cheaper and more cost-effective alternative.", "3) Lower Snake River .", "Location: Idaho, Washington, Oregon .", "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built four dams to irrigate and generate energy for the Northwest, but these dams also prevent salmon and steelhead trout from reaching their spawning areas.", "Every year, those dams kill as many as 90 percent of juvenile salmon and steelhead trout that migrate downstream to the ocean.", "Conservationists say that removing the dams would eliminate a growing flood threat in Lewiston, Idaho, and create an opportunity to modernize the region's transportation and energy systems.", "4) Mattawoman Creek .", "Location: Maryland .", "A highway development project here jeopardizes one of the Chesapeake Bay's few remaining healthy streams.", "The project threatens clean water sources, thousands of acres of forests and wetlands, and an internationally-renowned, multimillion-dollar largemouth bass fishery.", "5) North Fork of the Flathead River .", "Location: Montana .", "A proposed coal-mining project across the Canadian border puts Montana's North Fork of the Flathead River in jeopardy.", "An estimated 50,000 acres of the Flathead headwaters could be transformed into an industrial gas field.", "The projects threaten the river's clean water, local agriculture, fish and wildlife and recreational industries such as rafting, camping, fishing and boating.", "American Rivers and its partners have called on local Canadian governments and the U.S. State Department to work together to halt these projects.", "6) Saluda River .", "Location: South Carolina .", "Excess levels of sewage waste threaten the drinking water of more than 500,000 South Carolina residents, conservationists say.", "Sewage in the river increases phosphorous and algae levels, depletes oxygen, and kills fish and other aquatic life.", "American Rivers is asking the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to improve sewage-treatment standards and ensure the river reduces its phosphorous levels by 25 to 50 percent.", "7) Laurel Hill Creek .", "Location: Pennsylvania .", "Known for its fishing, swimming and kayaking, this popular vacation spot faces threats from a bottling plant and tourism-related development.", "Without adequate planning and safeguards, withdrawals will continue to exceed the creek's reasonable capacity, putting recreation, the local water supply, and fish and wildlife in jeopardy.", "8) Beaver Creek .", "Location: Alaska .", "One of the nation's last wild rivers faces extinction if an oil- and gas-development project constructs 600 miles of roads and pipelines, airstrips, drilling pads, and gravel mines along the creek.", "Alaska native communities depend on the area for subsistence hunting and fishing.", "It's also a popular destination for anglers, boaters, skiers and hunters.", "9) Pascagoula River .", "Location: Mississippi .", "The U.S. Department of Energy wants to hollow out natural salt domes 30 miles northwest of the Pascagoula to create a storage area for up to 160 million barrels of oil.", "A pipeline 330 miles in length would be constructed to withdraw water from the Pascagoula to dissolve the salt domes and distribute oil to and from the site.", "The DOE predicts 18 oil spills and 75 spills of salty, polluted water during the construction and initial fill of the hollowed domes, damaging rivers, streams, and wetlands in the basin, conservationists say.", "10) Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway .", "Location: Minnesota, Wisconsin .", "Rezoning of a 26-mile stretch of the river's state-protected section would allow for the construction of a major development on the riverfront.", "American Rivers believes the development could lead to land erosion along the river and more storm run-off while harming the region's biodiversity.", "\"Being named as one of America's most endangered rivers is not an end for the river, but rather a beginning,\" said Wodder.", "Through the collaborative efforts of citizens and local, state and national governments, a number of waterways from past American Rivers' endangered lists have been preserved.", "\"With the listing comes a national spotlight and action from thousands of citizens across the country,\" Wodder said.", "\"These 10 rivers have a chance to be reborn and to serve as models for other rivers all across America.\"" ]	[ "Report: Rivers in Alaska, California and Georgia are among the 10 most endangered .", "Report released Tuesday by American Rivers, a leading river-conservation group .", "Waterways from past American Rivers' endangered lists have been preserved ." ]	[ 4, 17, 60 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN agreed not to use the full names of the family members in this article due to concern for their safety.", "Youssif, now in an apartment in Los Angeles, will need months of treatment.", "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Youssif, the 5-year-old Iraqi boy who was savagely burned by masked men, arrived in the United States late Tuesday with his family -- the first step toward his lengthy rehabilitation.", "For a family whose lives were tortured by the random and brutal violence of Iraq, the sheer magnitude of stepping onto American soil was surreal.", "His parents were rendered speechless.", "Quite simply they grinned from ear to ear.", "They didn't need to speak.", "The joy on their faces was palpable.", "They had traveled more than 7,500 miles to get help for their son, from war-torn central Baghdad to coastal Los Angeles.", "It marked the first time the family had ever left their homeland, let alone flown on a plane.", "\"Oh my God, it's so green.", "Am I in heaven?\" Youssif's mother, Zainab, said after arriving in Chicago before the family flew on to Los Angeles where Youssif will be treated.", "\"I feel like I'm in a dream,\" said his father, whom CNN has agreed not to name.", "\"Someone needs to pinch me.\"", "Watch Youssif's doctor's prognosis for the burned boy » .", "The family left Amman, Jordan, early Tuesday en route to the United States.", "The night before they departed, Youssif didn't sleep a wink.", "He woke the family up extra early, shouting, \"Let's go!", "Let's go!\" Youssif, his parents and his infant sister, Ayaa, finished their 24-hour journey in Los Angeles around 11 p.m. PT Tuesday.", "They were greeted by members of the Children's Burn Foundation, the nonprofit organization that paid for the family's travel and is covering all of Youssif's medical bills.", "Youssif playfully fought with his father over the luggage cart in Los Angeles International Airport.", "\"I want to push it. I want to push it,\" he said gleefully.", "The family was then whisked away to the two-bedroom, two-bath apartment where they will be staying during Youssif's treatment.", "It's a stark contrast to their humble one-room home in a rundown central Baghdad neighborhood rife with violence.", "There was a television, toys everywhere, and a balcony.", "A crib sat in the kids' bedroom and the kitchen even had a high-chair so that Youssif's sister would be able to eat with them at the table.", "For the first time in a long time, the family laughed out of pure joy.", "See Youssif play with his new toys » .", "When Youssif walked into the new home, he glanced at the plush wall-to-wall carpet and ordered everyone to take their shoes off.", "Don't get it dirty, he said.", "His mother opened a door in the master bedroom and marveled at the walk-in closet.", "\"Is this a bedroom? It can't be a closet,\" she said.", "Standing on the apartment's balcony, Youssif's father turned to Barbara Friedman, executive director of the Children's Burn Foundation.", "\"You see America on television, but you never imagine or dream that you will ever be here.\"", "He paused, tears in his eyes.", "\"It's more than paradise.\" This is the same father who walked the streets of Baghdad seeking help for his boy.", "He went to the Health Ministry and even wrote letters to the Iraqi parliament and the prime minister's office for help.", "No one would listen.", "Desperate, he turned to CNN.", "\"Look at what these monsters did to my boy,\" he said.", "Watch how Youssif was transformed from a smiling boy to a disfigured victim .", "CNN and CNN.com first reported his story on August 22 after the family risked their lives to tell his story: On January 15, masked men grabbed Youssif outside his home, doused him with gas and set him on fire.", "The story prompted an outpouring of support to get help for Youssif.", "More than 12,000 CNN.com users have contributed to a fund set up by the Children's Burn Foundation.", "In recent weeks, the foundation worked feverishly with the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to secure the necessary paperwork for the family's travel to the United States -- something that typically takes months, if not years, to do.", "Youssif and his family are expected to be in the United States for six months to a year while he undergoes multiple surgeries and extensive rehabilitation.", "They are to meet with Dr. Peter Grossman, the plastic surgeon who will perform the operations, Wednesday afternoon.", "Grossman works for the nearby Grossman Burn Center and is donating his services to Youssif's cause.", "On this day, the family was simply ecstatic to have finally made it here.", "They arrived on September 11 -- the date the United States will always remember as a day of unspeakable horror.", "But for this family, 9/11 will always mean something much different: Hope and a better future for their son -- and a newfound love for America.", "\"This is a moment that will stay with us forever,\" Youssif's dad said.", "Friedman smiled broadly and said, \"For us too.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Iraqi boy who was set on fire by masked men arrives for treatment .", "12,000 CNN readers contributed to fund to help 5-year-old Youssif .", "Boy's mom asks, \"Am I in heaven?\"", "Youssif is to meet with surgeon later Wednesday ." ]	[ 2, 11, 43, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Trying to answer the question \"Who am I?\"", "is a tricky undertaking.", "I tend to despise labels, but it's probably helpful to have some idea of who you perceive yourself to be and how others perceive you.", "It seems logical that you can examine this question from many angles: where you fit in statistically, physically, economically, spiritually, geographically, educationally and in so many other ways.", "When I was a boy, my Cal Tech-educated father, an engineer and lawyer, used to tell me I was made up of nine dollars and 73 cents worth of chemicals and minerals.", "I'm fairly certain he was joking, but I think he was also trying to get me to consider the duality of humans, as both significant and insignificant.", "He certainly caused me to ponder who and what I am.", "I grew up in many regions of the United States, and I'm a member of that particular \"baby boomer\" generation that came of age in the 1960s, so many things define me.", "I'm still guilty of believing that \"Love is all you need,\" although I usually keep that to myself.", "Without pretending to be all-encompassing, a few things pop to the front of my mind when I consider who I am.", "I'm a human being, a presumably sentient being, living in the 21st century.", "I'm one of the fortunate who lives in the United States with good health and health care, a great job, a close family, good friends and, thanks to my wife, a beautiful home.", "As a citizen of this country, I'm also a taxpayer, a consumer of many things and, I hope, someone who gives back something and isn't too voracious in his consumption.", "I love my job acting on a TV show, and I value the people I work with.", "I'm an imperfect but fairly responsive husband, father, brother, cousin, nephew, friend, co-worker and acquaintance.", "I'm also a survivor and a person with a disability.", "I became disabled in 1978 when I lost both legs in a freeway accident.", "An 18-wheeler truck hit me, and my car's gas tank blew up, leaving me burned over 60 percent of my body.", "I spent several months in a hospital and learned to walk on two prosthetic limbs.", "I've gone on to success in my career in radio and as an actor and musician.", "I used to hate the word \"disability,\" but I've come to embrace the fact that I'm one of more than 58 million Americans with some kind of physical or learning disability.", "As anyone who's been there will attest, it's difficult at first to be \"different,\" whatever that means to you.", "Discrimination is usually directed at people who are seen as the \"other.\"", "I've experienced that in my life, but not to an overwhelming degree.", "Working my way through my career and my life has been challenging but interesting.", "The obstacles I've faced have helped to shape me and make me who I am today.", "Along with my parents and teachers, my experience with disability has been a great learning tool.", "It's helped me to begin to answer the question \"Who am I?\"", "So, at the risk of sounding self-absorbed, I'm Robert David Hall, Caucasian male, early 60s, pretty strong for my age, of Irish-Welsh-Scots heritage, proud of my grandfather, Robert A.", "Hall, Naval Academy, class of 1912; my father, Robert F. Hall, very smart man and decorated WWII naval officer; my mother, Mary Martha Davies, mother of five who encouraged me in the arts and died at 47; and almost all my relatives.", "I'm college educated (UCLA), a decent guitar player and songwriter, a pretty fair actor, an AK/BK double leg amputee and a guy who values his friends.", "I hope to use my remaining days being creative with acting and music, traveling and helping to create more opportunities for people with disabilities.", "All that aside, my greatest joy in life -- my \"who I am\" constant -- is being the father of Andrew and the husband of Judy." ]	[ "Robert David Hall hates to admit it, but he still believes that \"Love is all you need\"\nHall says he's a husband, father, brother, cousin, nephew, friend, co-worker .", "He says his disability, walking on prosthetic limbs, helped him find himself .", "His greatest joy is being the father of Andrew and husband of Judy ." ]	[ 8, 14, 18, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As a child, I looked forward to nothing more than the dazzling Fourth of July laser and fireworks show in Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, Georgia.", "It was family tradition to eat a hearty meal at an Indian restaurant and then watch the show on the crowded lawn of the park.", "One year, as I struggled to eat my melting ice cream, a man sitting near us taunted, \"What planet are y'all from?\"", "I observed my family, attired in their extravagant Indian clothes and scarves from the restaurant party.", "For the first time, I wondered if we really did not belong in America, celebrating its Independence Day.", "I usually hear the friendly version of this question.", "When my parents are asked, \"Where are you from?\"", "and answer \"Georgia,\" it is not surprising to hear the follow-up, \"I mean where are you from?\"", "after which they will understandingly answer \"originally from India.\"", "But when the latter question is posed to me, I can only shrug helplessly and repeat, \"Georgia.\"", "I used to wonder if I was being facetious in offering such a simple answer, but I honestly don't know what else to say.", "The same is true when I'm occasionally told to \"go back where I came from.\"", "I don't just brush these comments aside, as many immigrants to America bravely do, but really question my identity by asking myself: Where would I possibly call home except Georgia, where I was born and raised, or Massachusetts, where I have been educated?", "To put it in perspective, if all of us \"went back to where we came from,\" meaning the places of our family origin, there would be nobody in America except for Native Americans, and the rest of us would be in a predicament.", "The popularized \"clash of civilizations\" thesis would suggest that racial and especially religious elements of my background conflict with my identity as an American.", "Many people genuinely believe that you have to fit a certain racial and religious archetype to be a \"real American.\"", "I am a Muslim and I am an American.", "My religion teaches me to treat others with dignity and respect, speak the truth, and accept one God as my creator and sustainer.", "A religious loyalty to God certainly doesn't make anyone less of an American, or three of the largest religions in the United States would not belong here.", "But sometimes, people assume that Muslims must also have a specific loyalty to another country that precludes their patriotism to America.", "Contrary to this misconception, there is no such concept in Islam.", "A fair study of Islamic and American values would find corroboration, not contradiction.", "While the 2010 U.S. Census will not ask for my religion, it will ask for my racial background.", "When my parents came decades ago, they were alternately identified as \"Asian\" and even \"Caucasian,\" since according to United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, South Asians are Caucasian, although not white like Europeans and Middle Easterners.", "They were surprised that color was a determinant of their ethnic categorization.", "Racial classification has become clearer since then, and I will choose the \"Asian Indian\" option on the Census, an element of my identity that influences my love for rich South Asian food, clothes and literary traditions.", "But I would be a stranger in my parents' birthplace of India.", "Ironically, it took my being an alien in foreign lands to realize just how American I was.", "In Britain I was told, \"Nafees, you want to see everything, just like an American.\"", "Turks discovered that my odd habit of drinking cold tea came from my Georgia origins.", "The Dutch guessed I was American based on the way I \"carried myself.\"", "I couldn't erase my apparently nasal American accent from my French in Paris.", "Indians tell me only an American can justify four years of liberal arts, as opposed to vocational, education.", "Of course, some comments were based on foreign exaggerations of what \"American\" means, and some I still don't really understand.", "But obviously, America has shaped who I am.", "What was even more significant was that the speakers never saw my religion or ethnic origin in tension with my nationality.", "Neither do I. There are three important dimensions in my life -- my religion, my ethnicity and my country -- and they are all at peace." ]	[ "Nafees Syed and family at July 4th fireworks when a man said, \"What planet are y'all from?\"", "Syed says if we all \"went back to where we came from,\" only Native Americans would be left .", "People mistakenly think Muslims are loyal to another country above U.S., she says .", "Born in U.S.A., Syed says it took being \"in foreign lands to realize just how American I was\"" ]	[ 2, 13, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar will retire from football at the end of the season, he announced Thursday.", "The 40-year-old former Dutch international has been at Old Trafford since 2005, winning three English Premier League titles and helping them to their Champions League triumph in 2008.", "Van der Sar began his professional career with Ajax Amsterdam, helping them to the Champions League in 1995.", "He subsequently had a spell in Italy with Juventus before joining United's fellow Premier League side Fulham.", "\"It's been coming for a while,\" van der Sar told the official Manchester United website.", "\"After playing for so many years, you reach a point where you have to make a decision.", "\"There are a couple of things to consider -- whether you still have an appetite for it, your family.", "Van der Sar's wife Annemarie collapsed with a brain haemorrhage in December 2009 and he admitted that retirement had been \"playing on my mind\" since that health scare.", "Van der Sar, whose brilliant save from Nicolas Anelka clinched their penalty shootout win over Chelsea in the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow, has remained in fine form during United's unbeaten start to the season.", "But he said he wanted to out out at the top.", "\"You can't play Superman into your 40s,\" he added.", "\"It's a mutual decision (with manager Alex Ferguson) that this season was the last.", "When I first came here I was just happy to sign a two-year contract.", "\"I wanted to win the league before I retired.", "I was lucky to achieve a little bit more than that.\"", "Van der Sar won a record 130 Dutch caps before announcing his international retirement at the end of the 2008 season." ]	[ "Edwin van der Sar to retire from football at the end of the current season .", "Van der Sar has helped Manchester United win three English Premier League titles .", "He claimed the Champions League with first club Ajax and with United in 2008 .", "Van der Sar won a record 130 Dutch caps ." ]	[ 0, 1, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It was April 1975 when I was packed into a military transport plane with two of my siblings as the Vietnam War ended.", "We left Vietnam to escape communist rule and eventually, take on an additional identity.", "I was 8 years old, and being separated from both parents for the first time in my life was confusing and scary.", "My mother decided to stay behind with my five remaining siblings to wait for my father to return.", "An officer in the South Vietnam Army fighting alongside the Americans during the Vietnam War, my father spent the next seven years in the communist prisons, which were euphemistically called \"re-education camps.\"", "It was many years later when our family was reunited.", "The challenges I faced growing up were probably not that different from the struggles all other immigrants face when they first arrive in the United States.", "I suppose most immigrants, regardless of origin, would have to deal with obstacles such as the language barrier and unfamiliar customs.", "I vividly remember small things like missing rice as the staple in my diet and bigger challenges, including loneliness and the sense of being displaced.", "I never imagined that one day I would think nothing of ordering gumbo or eating burritos, much less have a career in politics as the U.S. congressman representing the 2nd District of Louisiana.", "Like most immigrants, my siblings and I learned to assimilate into this big melting pot called the United States of America.", "We worked hard on our studies and in our businesses.", "Along with other Vietnamese immigrants and refugees of the time, stories of successes and heartbreaks quickly spread around the community.", "Although the academic achievements of Vietnamese students in schools were touted in the media, we also agonized over the horrific news about the plights of the Vietnamese boat people.", "Facing persecution and hardship in the old country, Vietnamese refugees braved the perilous seas aboard small fishing boats to seek freedom.", "Many lost their lives to piracy, storm and starvation.", "The lucky ones who were able to land somewhere would face cold rejections by a world grown tired of having to deal with refugee problems.", "The boat people saga continued well into the 1990s.", "I volunteered with Boat People SOS, a national organization that advocates for the refugees.", "My experience with them shaped my path in the years to come.", "After graduating from Baylor University with a bachelor's degree in physics, I joined the Jesuits for the priesthood.", "After working with some of the poorest communities in Third World countries, I decided that politics would bring about quicker changes for the less fortunate among us.", "I studied to be a lawyer, and while working as an immigration lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina changed my life.", "The storm destroyed my home and office.", "Like many in my Vietnamese-American community in New Orleans, I came back to pick up the pieces after the storm.", "Facing one obstacle after another, we fought as a community to rebuild our homes and lives.", "During our efforts to close a landfill the city and state had opened right next to our community, Rep. Mike Honda came to hear our complaint and did not find anyone from within the community in public office to advocate for ourselves.", "He asked: \"Who among you wants to run?\"", "I raised my hand and began a new course as a public servant.", "It has been 35 years since the first wave of Vietnamese refugees landed on American soil.", "Now things like Pho and spring rolls have joined the Americana mainstream.", "I no longer see myself as a displaced stranger; I am a Vietnamese-American." ]	[ "Ahn \"Joseph\" Cao left Vietnam at 8 in a military transport plane at war's end .", "His mother stayed with his five siblings as father spent years in communist prisons .", "Without parents, he faced language barrier, unfamiliar customs and loneliness .", "He was in New Orleans during Katrina; decided to run for office to change things ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4, 7, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- His father's death certificate, long-lost relatives and a town possibly named after an ancestor are just a few of the details John William Harris found as he researched his family tree.", "Harris, 62, a sales executive and consultant from Atlanta, Georgia, had always hoped to learn more about his family, including his father, John Henry Harris, whom he said was murdered by another man when he was 5 years old.", "\"The man who killed my father was never tried in a court of law.", "In small-town Gainesville, Georgia, in 1953, such a crime -- black on black -- was not considered important and often went unpunished,\" said Harris.", "Lt. Stephanie Gilbert of Hall County Sheriff's Department said there's no file telling exactly what happened, because records from that period were burned by a former sheriff.", "Gainesville police said they did not have records from that time, either.", "His death certificate indicates Harris died from complications after a stab wound.", "\"I had long put the lack of knowledge of his murder behind me,\" said Harris.", "\"This revelation about the lost records only rekindles the old feelings and my desire to know the truth of what happened.\"", "Harris' journey to learn more about his father's life and death and his family background took him to the internet and into U.S. census records and other online websites.", "Harris grew up with his mother's family on Race Street in Gainesville (the family called it the \"Big House\") and heard a lot about their history.", "But Harris said his family hid most information about his father's death in order to protect him and they did not have a lot of recorded information about that side of his family tree.", "However, Harris said he was inspired to learn more about his past after recently watching the PBS special \"African American Lives.\"", "\"After seeing what was possible and how fulfilling it was for those who discovered their backgrounds, I felt both encouraged and a little guilty I hadn't made the effort before,\" said Harris.", "Harris is one of millions of Americans interested in learning and researching details about family origins.", "A Harris Interactive poll (no relation to John Harris) found 87 percent of Americans want to know more about their family background.", "For his search into his father's side of the family, Harris didn't have much information to work with when he started -- only his father's and grandmothers' names.", "When Harris began, he found it difficult to focus on his career or even eat and sleep.", "\"I was so engaged about learning information about my history and spent many hours researching it online.", "My wife joked that I spent more time on the computer than I did with her or at my job,\" Harris said with a chuckle.", "\"Researching family history is not hard, but it takes work being a detective,\" said Harris.", "\"The computer, the internet and the accumulation of databases that never existed before make it easier to get started right in your own home.\"", "Many subscription websites allow you to access databases for a fee and it's a big business.", "For instance, ancestry.com says it has more than 1 million paying subscribers and has the largest collection of records on the internet.", "Subscribers can pay as little as $12.95 a month for access to some records.", "Higher fees provide greater access.", "Some of the other fee-based sites are onegreatfamily.com, worldvitalrecords.com and footnote.com.", "Familysearch.org is maintained by the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).", "This site is free. It is organized by volunteers, so there is no hidden cost to join or access the vast database.", "LDS said it has about 50,000 hits a day on its site.", "Microfilm copies of original U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930 are available for research at the National Archives in Washington and its 13 regional archives.", "Many libraries and courthouses also store tax and property records and other documents that might help trace people through history.", "For Harris, his first big discovery was an unknown uncle, Ebbie Harris, listed in a 1920 census record.", "Harris learned his father's brother had died as a schoolboy.", "\"I was shocked he ever existed,\" said Harris.", "Harris also said he discovered at least 50 relatives he didn't know about while using census reports from 1900 to 1930 on Gainesville, Georgia.", "\"It was exciting to see the names of all of my family.\"", "The census records opened his eyes to how big his family was.", "Harris was amused by some of the details revealed by the records.", "\"I learned my grandfather Wade Harris was 69 years old and married to my grandmother, who was only 31 when the census was taken in 1920.", "I was amazed at their age difference,\" Harris said with a chuckle.", "Harris didn't find out a lot of new details about his father beyond the year of his birth and the exact date of his death.", "\"It was thrilling to see confirmation of his date of death.", "Though the details were minute, the joy of discovery was overwhelming for me,\" Harris said.", "For Harris, researching his past has been a roller-coaster ride of many emotions, but he was glad to be on the journey.", "One of his greatest highs was when he discovered the town of Chamblee, Georgia, may have been named after his great-great grandfather.", "\"Apparently Ransom Chamblee, a former slave, made such an impression on the local people that when the town applied for a post office they may have named the town after him,\" said Harris.", "A historian in DeKalb County, Georgia, said there is a strong possibility that the town was named after a former slave named Ransom Chamblee, but could not confirm it.", "Harris said investigating his family has been rewarding and has given him a sense of belonging and knowing more about his history.", "\"Above all, I am appreciative of the struggles so many have gone through to prepare the way for us,\" said Harris.", "Harris has been married to Mary Alice, his high school sweetheart, for nearly 45 years.", "They have three children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.", "\"I'm happy that our family tree is captured for them and more will be forthcoming,\" said Harris.", "\"I hope they will take advantage and continue the efforts.\"" ]	[ "Poll finds 87 percent of Americans have interest in their family roots .", "John William Harris is one of millions of Americans who traced his family tree .", "Many free and subscription websites allow access to research genealogy in the U.S." ]	[ 14, 15, 22 ]
[ "TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran said Wednesday it is investigating reports of violence at a Tehran University dormitory in the wake of rallies sparked by last week's disputed election.", "The aftermath of anti-riot police actions at Tehran University shows smashed computer terminals.", "Tehran University students told a CNN iReporter that government forces staged a massive crackdown early Monday at the university's dorm.", "Some students were detained in the raid.", "Students jumped out of windows to escape the Iranian police forces who threw tear gas and beat students, according to the iReporter, a former Tehran University student who now lives outside Iran.", "He did not want to be identified for security reasons.", "CNN has been unable to confirm the account because of restrictions on international media in Tehran.", "Parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday called for an \"unbiased report\" by the team of lawmakers appointed to look into the \"unfortunate incidents\" at the university dorm, according to Iran's government-funded Press TV.", "\"There has been news of unfortunate incidents taking place in parts of the city such as the Tehran University dormitory, and it appears that hidden hands are at work to feed foreign media outlets with propaganda,\" Larijani said.", "The investigating lawmakers have spoken to Tehran University students and other officials and are demanding the release of the detained students, Press TV reported.", "The lawmakers are also calling for the arrest and punishment of those who perpetrated the violence and for students to be compensated for their loss, according to Press TV.", "The CNN iReporter said one Tehran University student e-mailed him as the assault on the dormitory happened between 1 and 5 a.m. Monday.", "\"So around 4 a.m., he sends this very frightening e-mail.", "He says, 'Right now Ansaar [pro-government] forces are outside of buildings and threatening students to, 'Get out of the rooms like good boys.'", "Thank God the night is going to be over soon.", "Please pray for us!'\"", "the iReporter told CNN.", "A couple hours later, the student wrote, \"Some students jumped out of windows to save themselves and got injured, but the shameless forces even beat and arrested those too. ...", "Some of the arrested students are released after more beating and interrogation, others are missing.\"", "The iReporter said he believes Iranian students have \"a very important role\" in Iranian politics, but noted that the current protests in Iran are more than just a student movement.", "\"At least the perspective that those forces have is that the students are at the leadership of this movement,\" he said.", "\"This might or might not be true especially right now because all the people are involved in this protest and it's not only students.", "They have a very important role here.\"", "There have been reports of crackdowns on other Iranian universities.", "Amateur video posted on YouTube showed several injured people identified as Isfahan University students.", "Amnesty International said it appeared students were also targeted at Tabriz University in northwestern Iran when security forces entered dormitories there and detained 10 students.", "Amnesty also reported similar crackdowns on university students in the cities of Shiraz, Mashhad and Zahedan.", "The human rights agency called on Iranian authorities to \"end attacks on students.\"", "CNN's Tricia Escobedo contributed to this report." ]	[ "Tehran University dorm raided, with tear gas and beatings alleged, iReporter says .", "Several students reportedly still being detained by Iranian police .", "Parliament speaker calls for \"unbiased report\" to reveal \"hidden hands at work\"\nThere have been reports of crackdowns on other Iranian universities ." ]	[ 4, 7, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As the mug shots of the alleged killers of NFL star Sean Taylor were shown on television, I kept wondering when we were going to see their parents step forward.", "I saw a couple of mothers, but their dads were missing in action.", "Roland Martin credits two strong parents with raising him to do right by them.", "Dads matter, and it's ridiculous for us to act as if all it takes is a loving mom.", "Now, I don't know what it means not to have a father in your life.", "I'm not familiar with a mom being strung out on a crack binge.", "And when my parents were called to the school when there was a discipline problem, Mom and Dad didn't go off on the teacher or principal.", "In fact, I can still feel the pain of my elementary school principal's paddle being applied to my butt when I acted a fool.", "The principal could only pop me three times.", "Dad? He had no limit. Bottom line: I can sit here today and celebrate them and enjoy a wonderful life because my parents were hell-bent on raising their children to do right by them, especially my dad.", "We can spend all day talking about the ills afflicting urban America -- and there are plenty that are institutional -- but the decaying value of life in inner cities clearly can be traced to the exodus of fathers from the lives of so many young men.", "Excuses often are tossed about as to why black men leave their children (and their children's moms) to fend for themselves.", "But a lot of them are just sorry and refuse to accept the responsibility that comes with raising a child.", "A lot of my colleagues will suggest it's too simplistic to assign such a high value to a dad being in the life of a child.", "But just take a visit to your local jail, juvenile hall or state prison.", "You likely will be confronted with a sea of black men -- strong, able-bodied, creative and restless -- who have spent or will spend years and years with a prison number identifying who they are.", "According to the U.S. Justice Department, of all the black men in the U.S. between the ages of 25 and 29 in 2002, 10.4 percent were incarcerated.", "Hispanic and white men?", "Just 2.4 percent and 1.2 percent respectively.", "If a poll were done on how many grew up without fathers, I can guarantee you the numbers would be staggering.", "The rampant poverty that exists has led many young blacks to a life of crime, choosing to sell drugs and involve themselves in gangs as opposed to focusing on education as a way out of the cellar of life.", "But you see, when nearly 70 percent of black kids are born to unmarried parents, likely to a too-young mom, that puts tremendous pressure on grandmothers (and some grandfathers), sisters and brothers to take up the slack.", "But if the person who impregnated that woman were on the scene, not only helping to pay for the raising of the child but also serving as a strong influence, I just don't believe we would see such a chronic condition.", "And the black men who have done their job are scared to death about what the tendency for black men to leave relationships means for their daughters.", "The day before leaving for vacation, I got word that a good friend, Chicago attorney Reynaldo Glover, had died of pancreatic cancer.", "He was 64. In our last extensive conversation before he was diagnosed in July, Reynaldo pleaded with me to use my national media stage to be a voice to sound the alarm about what's happening to black men in America, because he wanted to know that his daughter would have a respectable man to marry one day.", "(I'm sure if she chose to marry someone who's not black, Reynaldo wouldn't mind, but he realized that as a nation, we mostly marry within our race.)", "I promised Reynaldo that I would do all I can, because this has been an issue for me for many years.", "In fact, my mom gets angry because I'm always talking about my dad on television, radio and in my books.", "That's because when you see black men who have \"made it,\" the accolades are plenty for their moms, and their dads are hardly mentioned.", "I just think it's critical to show daddy some love, too.", "This is not an issue that black America can continue to sweep under the rug.", "I've heard countless folks talk about it, such as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, who noted that his dad left his family when he was a toddler and didn't see much of him growing up.", "Even in the Republican CNN-YouTube debate, GOP candidate Mitt Romney said fathers are part of the answer to addressing crime in inner cities.", "We shouldn't shame our young girls who get pregnant, but surely it shouldn't be seen as a blue-ribbon day.", "Teenage black girls and black boys should be focused on picking colleges, not the names of babies.", "When a young girl wants a baby christened, her pastor should be asking to meet with the father as well, even if the two don't get along.", "We also should be telling black women not to lie down with any fool.", "A moment of pleasure could lead you to a lifetime of raising that child.", "Alone. A friend of mine suggested more black men need to mentor young black men.", "I agree. But that's a bandage. If we get black men to handle their business in the first place, no one else would have to stand in the gap.", "Unless black America owns up to this problem -- and fast -- we are going to see another generation of young black men who are angry with their lot in life.", "And the result will be more discipline problems in school, which will lead to folks dropping out, and that is nothing but a one-way ticket to jail.", "Black men, it's time to man up.", "Enough with the sperm donors.", "We need real men to stand up and accept their responsibility.", "The state of our boys is on us.", "And no one else. Roland S. Martin is a nationally award-winning journalist and CNN contributor.", "Martin is studying to receive his master's degree in Christian communications at Louisiana Baptist University, and he is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith.\"", "You can read more of his columns at www.rolandsmartin.com.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Martin: Nearly 70 percent of black kids are born to unmarried parents .", "Martin: Black fathers need to stay on the scene, build relationships with kids .", "Martin: We also should be telling black women not to lie down with any fool ." ]	[ 21, 37 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- It's a question that I have asked myself for a long time.", "Why can't Portugal produce a top golfer?", "Antonio Sobrinho was the only Portuguese golfer to make the cut at the recent Portugal Masters.", "The weather is great, courses are popping up all over the country, and still, they don't have a single player in the top 400 of the world rankings.", "On the surface, it might not make sense, but if you dig a little a deeper, like I had a chance to do during a recent Living Golf report in the Algarve, there are plenty of reasons why golf isn't taking off among the locals.", "The most shocking statistic of all is that in the whole country there is not a single public golf course.", "This means if you want to play, you have to become a member of a club or pay something in the region of 100 Euros ($137) for a round of golf.", "Considering the minimum salary in Portugal is under 400 Euros a month, it becomes clear the vast majority of Portuguese people simply can't afford it.", "This means most of the people out on golf courses in Portugal are foreign, and while this is great for tourism, it's doing nothing to help the grass roots of the game in the country.", "Another issue is that the sport is seen as elitist and is not part of the nation's sporting culture.", "There is great passion among Portugal's youngsters, as there is in many European countries, for football.", "And though people play other sports, and you can get lessons in sports like golf, there is an almost complete lack of interest -- no-one really talks about golf.", "What the country really needs is a golfing superstar to kick-start a revolution and inspire the new generation -- a Cristiano Ronaldo of golf.", "The Portuguese Golf Federation says the tide is turning and they claim they are doing their best to invest in young amateur players.", "They also have allies with some of the private investors who have built golf courses in Portugal sponsoring some of the nation's top prospects.", "Oceanico is an example of this, with the company that has built seven courses in the Algarve backing three of Portugal's five professionals.", "The more organizations that invest in up-and-coming golfers like this, the more chance Portugal will have in producing the next Tiger Woods.", "There could yet be hope for golf in the country, but it will take more investment, more time and a figure to unite an otherwise football obsessed country around a relatively neglected sport.", "Watch Pedro examine Portugal's golf scene on this month's Living Golf, which airs Thursday, November 6, 1400, 1830; Saturday, November 8, 0800, 1830 Sunday; November 9, 0400, 0830, 1430 (all times GMT)." ]	[ "Portugal has an ever-growing number of great golf courses .", "There are no Portuguese players in the world's top 400 .", "Golf is too expensive and not high profile enough there .", "If there were a Cristiano Ronaldo of golf, children might take it up ." ]	[ 3, 8, 11 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A Latino rights group and other immigrant and labor organizations called Thursday for a national boycott of Arizona over the state's new immigration law, which allows police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency.", "The call for a boycott was led by the National Council of La Raza, which bills itself as the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.", "Other organizations calling for the boycott include the Asian American Justice Center, the Center for Community Change, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the National Puerto Rican Coalition, the Service Employees International Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the United Food and Commercial Workers union.", "The groups pledged not to hold major conventions, conferences or other special events involving significant travel to Arizona from out of state and \"asked others to consider whether their purchases of goods and services might perpetuate the unjust and discriminatory law in Arizona,\" La Raza said on its website.", "\"When a law so contrary to our values is passed, we must act decisively,\" said La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguia.", "\"We are calling for a boycott because this law will blow open the door to increased racial profiling, wrongful arrests and other discrimination.\"", "Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer, who signed the immigration measure April 23, says it does not involve racial profiling or any other illegal acts.", "The law, known as SB 1070, is scheduled to go into effect this summer.", "The measure has drawn criticism in the United States and abroad.", "In Arizona, the Tucson and Flagstaff city councils voted this week to file suit against the measure.", "The city councils said they're taking action because of concerns over enforcement costs and negative effects on Arizona's tourism industry.", "In Tucson, council member Regina Romero introduced a motion for \"the city attorney to bring a legal challenge\" because the immigration bill is \"unconstitutional\" and \"a bad law, which could cost the city millions of dollars in lawsuits.\"", "\"This bill opens the door to racial profiling, and it puts Latinos in Arizona in automatic suspect mode,\" Romero said.", "Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup said up to 38 percent of retail sales in the city come from legal Mexican visitors.", "The state immigration law threatens Tucson's businesses, Walkup said, just when \"the city is just beginning to recover from the economic downturn.\"", "Criticism also has come from abroad, with the Mexican government issuing an advisory to its citizens last week to avoid travel to Arizona.", "The Organization of American States expressed its concern about the law last week, and presidents of South American countries meeting in Argentina for a gathering of the Union of South American Nations condemned the law Tuesday.", "Well-known Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes recommended this week that dark-skinned people, men with mustaches, women who use shawls, or anyone who does not speak English well should not go to Arizona, because the state has \"officially declared itself racist,\" the government-run Notimex news service reported Wednesday.", "The Phoenix Suns basketball team also criticized the new law, and wore jerseys marked \"Los Suns\" in Wednesday night's NBA playoff game against the San Antonio Spurs.", "\"The frustration with the federal government's failure to deal with the issue of illegal immigration resulted in passage of a flawed state law,\" Suns managing partner Robert Sarver said in a statement.", "\"However intended, the result of passing this law is that our basic principles of equal rights and protection under the law are being called into question, and Arizona's already struggling economy will suffer even further setbacks at a time when the state can ill-afford them.\"", "Arizona legislators say they passed the law because the federal government has failed to safeguard the border with Mexico, allowing more than 450,000 undocumented immigrants to settle in the state.", "On Thursday, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York wrote a letter to Brewer, asking Arizona to delay implementing the law for one year \"in order to permit Congress sufficient time to enact comprehensive immigration reform to address Arizona's security needs.\"" ]	[ "Groups pledge not to hold conventions in Arizona because of new immigration law .", "Law allows police to ask anyone for proof of being in U.S. legally .", "Opponents say it will lead to racial profiling; supporters disagree .", "National Council of La Raza leads rights groups' call for boycott ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- If anyone's going to be the last man on Earth, then Will Smith seems like an ideal candidate.", "Will Smith plays the survivor of a plague in \"I Am Legend.\"", "Cool and athletic, focused and unflappable, he's not someone who's going to give up on humanity just because the odds are stacked against him.", "Even at several billion to one, he's still adamant he can fix this thing.", "A third movie version of Richard Matheson's classic sci-fi novel \"I Am Legend\" has been on the table at Warner Bros. for a long time.", "In the '90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about following in the footsteps of Vincent Price and Charlton Heston (remember \"The Omega Man\"?).", "Smith is such a different type, it's odd to think that he's taken over this mantle.", "In fact, he's scored consistently well in sci-fi, from \"Independence Day\" through \"Men in Black\" and \"I, Robot,\" and there's no reason to suppose the tense, scary \"I Am Legend\" won't continue that impressive box office run, even if the movie itself flags on the last lap.", "The opening couldn't be sharper.", "A television news report hails a medical breakthrough -- a viral cure for cancer, no less.", "Cut to New York three years later: abandoned cars, no one in sight, grass growing waist-high around Times Square.", "Something has gone very, very wrong.", "Smith is Robert Neville.", "The cover of Time on his fridge door pictures a \"Soldier.", "Scientist. Savior?\" but that hanging question mark is well chosen, and we divine that his immunity is pure chance.", "He's not quite alone.", "Neville patrols Fifth Avenue in his Mustang with Sam, a German Shepherd (also immune to the airborne virus), broadcasting into the void, then returning home to his Washington Square townhouse to put up the shutters before nightfall.", "That's when the \"Dark Seekers\" venture out: feral, contaminated people with a rabid appetite for flesh but no pupil dilation reflex to protect them against sunlight.", "By now, anyone who caught \"28 Days Later\" or last year's sequel \"28 Weeks Later\" may be experiencing deja vu -- in fact, if they called this movie \"2.8 Years Later\" it could pass as the third installment in the series with very little tweaking.", "Which is not to downplay the special frisson of seeing the Brooklyn Bridge ripped across the middle, for example.", "Wisely dispensing with the Luddite rhetoric that bogged down \"The Omega Man,\" \"I Am Legend\" doesn't have much time for Neville the soldier.", "While Chuck Heston dedicated himself to exterminating the albino hordes, Will Smith starts out firmly on the other end of the kill-or-cure scale.", "At the same time, the film suggests his self-sufficient scientific rationalism is not enough.", "By day 1,001 he's on the point of suicide -- which is when the movie gets God in the comely intervention of born-again Alice Braga.", "If the last half-hour feels thrown together, \"Constantine\" director Francis Lawrence mostly makes a virtue of the lean script, getting in and out quick, suppressing those inevitable nagging questions (are cockroaches immune?", "), always stressing Neville's solitary isolation.", "So often, sci-fi is overproduced, but \"I Am Legend\" doesn't look like a CGI extravaganza.", "It looks like an edgy suspense movie shot on the fly in New York City after the fall.", "And because of that, it's all the more effective. \"I Am Legend\" is rated PG-13 and runs 100 minutes.", "For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Three years after a medical breakthrough, something is wrong in New York .", "Will Smith is cool and unflappable as he takes on flesh-eating mutants .", "Version of Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel flags at the end but mostly good ." ]	[ 1, 4, 10, 11, 14, 15 ]

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