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"Baghdad (CNN) -- A pair of suicide attacks Wednesday morning in Iraq's Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed at least 16 people and wounded nearly 100 others, authorities said.",
"A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into the headquarters compound of Force Protection Services in the heart of the provincial capital of Baquba during morning training, according to police officials in Baquba and Baghdad.",
"Force Protection Services is the Iraqi security agency responsible for protecting the country's government institutions.",
"At least 13 people were killed and 70 wounded in that attack.",
"Two of those killed were security guards, who were stationed at the first and main checkpoint before the attacker forced his vehicle forward.",
"South of Baquba, a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives detonated near a convoy carrying the deputy head of Diyala's provincial council, Sadiq al-Husseini, police said.",
"The attack in al-Ghalbiya killed at least three people and wounded 26 others, including al-Husseini.",
"Al-Husseini's convoy was traveling with a procession of Shiite pilgrims who were making a four-day trek by foot to Karbala for Arbaeen, a religious observation that falls after 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed who was felled in a 7th century battle in the Iraqi city.",
"The three killed in the blast were pilgrims, as were several of the wounded.",
"Thousands of Shiites are making their way to Karbala, and there is fear of more bloodshed ahead of next week's Arbaeen commemoration.",
"The bloody attacks came a day after a suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest detonated at a police recruitment center in Salaheddin province, also in northern Iraq.",
"That strike killed at least 65 people and wounded 160 others.",
"Five others -- all Shiite pilgrims -- were wounded Tuesday in a separate attack in Taji, just north of Baghdad.",
"Diyala was an al Qaeda stronghold until 2008, when Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, conducted major military operations in the province to push the militants out.",
"Awakening Councils also played a major role in hunting down al Qaeda fighters in the province.",
"Awakening Councils, whose members are predominantly Sunni, have been recruited by the U.S. military to work against al Qaeda in Iraq and other militias."
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"NEW: Three of the dead were Shiite pilgrims headed to the holy city of Karbala .",
"A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed vehicle into a security agency headquarters .",
"Another detonated near a convoy carrying a provincial official and escorting pilgrims .",
"The attacks came a day after 65 people were killed in Salaheddin province ."
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- The body of Michaela Harte-McAreavey, a newlywed killed on her honeymoon in Mauritius, has been returned to her home in Northern Ireland.",
"Friends and neighbors lined a route Friday night as the hearse carrying the body passed.",
"The 27-year-old daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte and wife of Down Gaelic footballer John McAreavey was found strangled in her hotel room on the Indian Ocean island Monday.",
"She was killed less than two weeks after her wedding.",
"Three suspects are all employees of a luxury hotel where the 27-year-old newlywed was found strangled, according to the Mauritius Police Force.",
"Room attendant Avinash Treebhoowoon, 29, and Sandip Moneea, 41, a floor supervisor, have been charged with murder.",
"Room attendant Raj Theekoy, 33, faces a conspiracy charge.",
"Police said one of the men has confessed and participated in the reconstruction.",
"Authorities believe the men were inside the teacher's hotel room when she returned alone.",
"\"We presume they were inside and burgling the room when the lady returned and were surprised and attacked her,\" Mauritius police Superintendent Yoosoof Soopun, who is leading the investigation, said earlier this week.",
"Authorities said the killer used an electronic key card to enter the room.",
"The former beauty queen's husband was in the restaurant of the hotel when his wife was killed and is not a suspect, Soopun said.",
"She had returned to their room to fetch biscuits to go with her tea.",
"When she failed to return, her husband went to look for her and found her dead, Soopun said.",
"An autopsy showed that she had died from asphyxiation.",
"Harte-McAreavey taught Irish at St. Patrick's Academy in Dungannon, County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland.",
"She won the Ulster Rose of Tralee contest and participated in other beauty pageants.",
"Hundreds of people are expected at Harte-McAreavey's wake over the weekend.",
"Harte-McAreavey's funeral is scheduled to take place Monday at the same church where she was married on December 30."
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"Michaela Harte-McAreavey's wake will take place over the weekend .",
"The 27-year-old teacher was strangled in her luxury hotel room in Mauritius .",
"She was on her honeymoon with Gaelic footballer John McAreavey .",
"Police think Harte-McAreavey walked in on a burglary ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Twenty years after the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm to roll back Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Iraq still owes its smaller neighbor billions in reparations and more than 1,000 people are still missing.",
"It was in August 1990 that Iraq invaded, declaring that Kuwait was its 19th province.",
"The United States led a counteroffensive starting January 16, 1991.",
"While the era of Saddam Hussein is now part of history, the impact of the invasion he ordered is anything but.",
"\"Kuwait was of course traumatized by the invasion in 1990,\" said Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group, which monitors conflicts around the world.",
"\"It has yet to overcome the fear that Iraq will yet again want to show that Kuwait is the 19th province rather than an independent neighboring state -- and Kuwait will want some kind of guarantees that will not be repeated.\"",
"The United Nations lifted Hussein-era sanctions against Iraq in December, a largely symbolic step toward Iraq regaining full sovereignty and its status in the international community.",
"And although its government has continued to reassure the international community that the new Iraq is no longer a threat, Baghdad is still subject to U.N. resolutions over its outstanding disputes with Kuwait.",
"More than 1,000 people -- or their remains -- are still missing, including Iraqis, Kuwaitis and others.",
"The Kuwaiti government also wants back government documents that disappeared during the invasion in 1990.",
"Iraq, Kuwait and the International Committee of the Red Cross are working together on the missing persons.",
"Iraq is also continuing to pay off its war reparations to its neighbor.",
"Baghdad says it has paid about $30 billion to date and still has to pay more than $20 billion more.",
"The money is deducted from Iraq's main income, oil revenues.",
"Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh says Iraq needs money itself, and has paid enough.",
"\"We are subject to the deduction of 5% of our revenue.",
"That is, of course, influencing the revenue of the Iraqi people.",
"It's influencing the budget,\" he said.",
"\"I do understand that Saddam created damages to the others, but again, it's enough,\" he told CNN.",
"\"We do need each and every penny\" for \"reconstruction of our destroyed country\" and because the Iraqi people need services, he said.",
"And while the borders between the two countries have finally been established with the help of the United Nations, questions remain on both sides regarding rights and access, and some 200 Iraqi families must be relocated.",
"In what is arguably the biggest step toward improving these strained ties, Kuwait's Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah visited Baghdad on Wednesday, the highest-ranking Kuwaiti visit in decades.",
"Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is expected to make a visit to Kuwait soon.",
"\"Now we see a thaw of sorts, we'll have to see how far it goes,\" said Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group.",
"\"That could lead to a peace treaty of some sort because there are some outstanding issues that need to be resolved, but all of them are resolvable, and I think if the political will is there, it can be done.\"",
"Analysts say while there are signs of progress being made, the issue is essentially a lack of trust on both sides -- and building that trust will not be easy."
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"Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, and the U.S. led a counteroffensive in January 1991 .",
"Baghdad continues to pay reparations to its neighbor .",
"Iraq's government spokesman says enough is enough .",
"About 1,000 people who disappeared have never been found ."
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"(CNN) -- An Indonesian court on Wednesday handed a seven-year sentence to a former tax official for corruption in a case that exposed rampant government graft.",
"Gayus Tambunan was also fined 300 million rupiah ($30,000 ) after being found guilty of corruption.",
"Crowds booed and jeered when the judge read the verdict, which was less than the 20 years demanded by the prosecutors.",
"Prosecutors plan to appeal.",
"Gayus case came into the spotlight after he cooperated with the police to become a whistle-blower and expose the corruption in almost all aspect of the Indonesian judiciary system.",
"\"This case have been influenced by many sides to make me look like public enemy number one in Indonesia,\" Gayus said after the verdict.",
"\"I'm really disappointed with legal system mafia task force (formed to combat corruption in the judiciary system), who didn't investigate the high level officials and instead politicized the issue.\"",
"Gayus first came to national attention when he was arrested for bribing the judges, prosecutors and the police for more than $2 million to have his corruption case dismissed.",
"He was initially accused of helping companies evade taxes.",
"Police later revealed that the lowly tax official, despite making a only modest income a month, had reportedly amassed millions of dollars in cash and assets.",
"Gayus stirred anger in the country when he was photographed in Bali watching a tennis tournament when he was supposed to be in custody for his corruption case.",
"He said he was in need of a holiday after feeling \"stressed out\" in prison.",
"He later admitted that he had escaped prison at least 68 times by bribing the guards.",
"He said he has taken trips to various destinations, including Macau, with fake passports obtained from the immigration office.",
"\"Gayus is just the tip of the iceberg, his case indicates rampant corruption in the judiciary system, the tax office and the immigration office but the main issue seems to be avoided,\" said Adrianus Meliala, a criminology professor and police observer.",
"\"For instance, the police investigation didn't include where the funds were funneled.",
"This case doesn't surprise me because corruption has become a culture in the tax office and this shows that the reform process is far from finished.\"",
"The case prompted the president to order authorities to look into dozens of companies allegedly linked to Gayus and recover state assets."
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"Gayus Tambunan was also fined $30,000 .",
"He was found guilty of helping companies evade taxes .",
"His daring exploits amid corruption charges stunned the nation ."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran said the gunman who killed Neda Agha-Soltan may have mistaken her for the sister of an Iranian \"terrorist,\" the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday.",
"In death, Neda Agha-Soltan has emerged as a powerful symbol of opposition to the Iranian government.",
"Iran blamed the death of the woman known to the world simply as Neda squarely on \"those groups who want to create division in the nation,\" saying they planned the woman's killing \"to accuse the Islamic republic of ruthlessly dealing with the opposition,\" according to IRNA, Iran's state-run news agency.",
"The report said the investigation into her death is ongoing, \"but according to the evidence so far, it could be said that she was killed by mistake.",
"The marksmen had mistaken her for the sister of one of the Monafeghin who had been executed in the province of Mazandaran some time ago.\"",
"Monafeghin refers to the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, or PMOI, which promotes a secular, Marxist government for Iran, and has waged a violent campaign against the fundamentalist Islamic regime, including bombings that killed politicians, judges and Cabinet members.",
"Also known as Mujahedin-e-Khalq, the group initially was formed to oppose the Shah of Iran but fell out of favor with the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after 1979.",
"The European Union removed the group from its list of terrorist organizations this year, prompting outrage from Tehran.",
"The Iranian Foreign Ministry accused the European Union of \"making friends and cooperating with terrorists\" by removing the group from its list.",
"Neda, 26, rose to prominence within hours after a crudely shot video documenting her final moments was uploaded to the Web.",
"Shortly after she died Saturday from a single gunshot wound to the chest, she emerged as a powerful symbol of opposition to the Iranian government.",
"See images of Neda and the impact of her death » .",
"\"It's heartbreaking,\" President Obama said Tuesday, referring to the video of Neda, which means \"divine calling\" in Farsi.",
"\"And I think anyone who sees it knows there's something fundamentally unjust about it.\"",
"The Iranian government has sought to minimize the impact of her death.",
"Watch how Neda's death has attracted world attention » .",
"IRNA reported Wednesday that the killer, or killers, may have \"thought that they were targeting one of the government opposition people and that is why they immediately distributed the video of the aftermath of the killing through the official and unofficial media in order to reach their murderous objectives against the Iranian government and revolution.\""
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"Iran blames Neda Agha-Soltan's death on \"groups who want to create division\"\nNeda may have been mistaken for \"terrorist's\" sister, state-run news agency says .",
"Woman has emerged as powerful symbol of opposition to Iranian government .",
"Iranian regime has sought to minimize the impact of Neda's death ."
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"(CNN) -- European Ryder Cup star Miguel Angel Jimenez snapped his putter in frustration at the Volvo Golf Champions tournament in Bahrain but then carded three birdies with his lob wedge to tie for the lead.",
"The Spaniard became increasingly frustrated with his play on the greens after missing a succession of birdie chances and snapped his putter in two on the 13th hole.",
"But if anything, it gave his game a boost as he picked up shots on the 15th, 16th and 17th to finish with a 65 and tie with three other players at 11-under-par after the second round.",
"Italian Edoardo Molinari, Sweden's Peter Hanson and Frenchman Raphaël Jacquelin share the lead with Jimenez.",
"After his extraordinary hat-trick of birdies Jimenez joked on the European Tour website: \"I think now I putt with my lob wedge.\"",
"Northern Irishman Darren Clarke, who was a vice-captain during Europe's Ryder Cup victory over the United States in Wales last year, was playing with Jimenez when his putter felt the full force of his anger.",
"Clarke told how his playing partner \"just caught the edge of his bag\" with the putter, joking that his backswing was \"a bit long.\"",
"Molinari came flying out of the traps carding six birdies in the opening six holes but after such an impressive start he managed only one more in his round of 65.",
"Hanson shot a five-under round of 67 to take a share of the lead, while Jacquelin matched Molinari and Jimenez with seven birdies in his round.",
"Clarke is in a group of four players one shot behind the leaders with England's Paul Casey, Scot Stephen Gallacher and South Africa's James Kingston.",
"It wasn't such a good day for England's Ian Poulter who finished on three-under and tied for 50th place.",
"After his opening round of level par on Thursday he ranted on his Twitter site.",
"He said: \"Played great today 35 putts, missed 1 green, Simply the WORST greens i have ever seen & im not joking they are embarrassing.\"",
"He later added: \"Apparently the Architect wanted to make a statement with the greens, he did that alright they are &%$#.\""
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"Miguel Angel Jimenez takes share of Volvo Golf Champions after snapping putter .",
"Spaniard broke putter in two after becoming frustrated on 13th hole .",
"Jimenez then carded three birdies with his lob wedge to tie for the lead .",
"Edaordo Molinari joins Jimenez on 11-under after round of 65 ."
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"Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) -- A day after the Tunisian president indicated that he wouldn't run again, protesters peacefully took to the streets in tense North African nation's capital to protest his rule.",
"Thousands of people congregated in front of the Interior Ministry in Tunis, and chanted slogans such as \"Get out!\"",
"and \"Freedom for Tunisia!\"",
"Haykal Maki, a pro-opposition lawyer who was in the throng, said protesters want a \"regime change,\" the resignation of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and lawsuits addressing the regime's corruption.",
"Tunisia has been wracked by angry demonstrations, with citizens protesting high unemployment, alleged corruption, rising prices, limitations on rights, and anger with the government's performance.",
"The wave of protests was sparked by the suicide of an unemployed college graduate, a man who torched himself in December after police confiscated his fruit cart.",
"In an address on national TV on Thursday night, Ben Ali addressed the crisis in a speech that came as street unrest percolated and a message purportedly from an al Qaeda affiliate announced its support of protesters.",
"He vowed to cut prices of basic foodstuffs, to lift censorship and to ensure police do not use live ammunition except in self-defense, and indicated that he will not run again for president.",
"\"Enough violence,\" Ben Ali said on national television after days of riots that have killed at least 21 people.",
"\"I also gave orders to the interior minister ... not to use live ammunition.",
"It is unacceptable and unjustified unless someone uses his weapon and forces you to defend yourself.\"",
"Ben Ali said he had asked the prime minister to reduce prices of staples, including sugar, milk and bread and said he had decided to give \"complete freedom to all media outlets ... as long as they respect our values and the value of the profession.\"",
"The 74-year-old president added that he would not push to change the law setting an age limit for presidential candidates in the next election in 2014.",
"By then, he would have exceeded the 75-year age limit.",
"\"There will not be presidency for life,\" he said.",
"Organized mainly by the country's lawyers' union mainly and other unions, the crowd on Friday was under the watchful eye of a contingent of riot police officers.",
"But the protesters freely were not shy about slamming the government and Ben Ali's rule.",
"Demonstrators shouted \"Public trial for the president's family!\"",
"and \"Yes to water and bread, but NO to Ben Ali!\"",
"Reem Ben Yousef, a 37-year-old university professor, told CNN that the protesters say the ruling family have robbed citizens and they want them to depart from public life.",
"Reem says that Ben Ali's speech was staged and was cynical about the presence of a pro-government demonstration after his speech.",
"\"We do not believe in Ben Ali and his regime,\" she said."
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"The demonstration is peaceful .",
"This comes a day after the president's speech ."
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"(CNN) -- Tennis superstar Roger Federer is hoping to help the victims of the Australian floods by setting up a fund-raising event this weekend.",
"Rising waters in Queensland have left the state's premier warning of \"the worst natural disaster in our history\" as homes have been flooded and power cut off in the capital city Brisbane.",
"Federer, who is in Melbourne preparing to begin the defense of his Australian Open title next week, set up a similar exhibition following the Haiti earthquakes a year ago.",
"\"The floods here in Australia are devastating!",
"I am on my way to practice now and am going to speak with Tennis Australia to see if we perhaps can organize something on Sunday to help raise some funds for the people of Queensland who have been affected,\" Federer said on his Facebook page on Wednesday.",
"\"Stay tuned as it would be great if the sport of tennis can help out right before the Australian Open begins.\"",
"Tense waiting game for Brisbane residents .",
"The 29-year-old Swiss player supports several charities, having launched his own foundation in 2003 to help disadvantaged children.",
"He and tennis rival Rafael Nadal raised $2.6 million in the first of two offseason charity matches in Zurich in December.",
"He also visited tsunami victims as part of his role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.",
"Tennis stars have already contributed to the Queensland disaster fund, with American Andy Roddick donating $10,800 after reaching the final of the tournament in Brisbane last weekend.",
"Australian star Samantha Stosur also made a donation, and Roddick's website reported that the men's and women's ATP and WTA ruling bodies would pledge $10 for every ace serve hit by their players in Brisbane, Sydney this week and the Australian Open."
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"Queensland has been hit by rising flood waters in the past week or so .",
"Tennis stars have already made contributions to the disaster fund .",
"Former world No.",
"1 Roger Federer hopes to stage exhibition this weekend .",
"He did the same ahead of last year's Australian Open for Haiti earthquake appeal ."
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"(CNN) -- Lie-detector tests could be used in a bid to stamp out corruption in cricket, an advisory committee of the sport's rule-making body announced on Wednesday.",
"Cricket was shrouded in controversy earlier this year when three members of the Pakistan team became the subject of match-fixing allegations during a tour of England.",
"Following a police investigation, captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif -- who all protested their innocence -- will face a disciplinary hearing by the International Cricket Council in January.",
"But after a meeting of the MCC World Cricket Committee in Perth on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials admitted that the latest corruption scandal has had a negative impact on the sport.",
"Blog: Will Australia's one-day cricket reign end in 2011?",
"\"We are concerned at the scale of the problem, and the detrimental effect it has placed on the integrity of the game,\" a statement on the MCC's official website read.",
"\"The committee feels more resources -- and increased powers -- are required to attempt to eradicate this issue from the game.",
"The education of players should not be a meaningless formality; the message should be pressed home with regularity by figures known and respected by the players.\"",
"As well as the possible introduction of lie-detector tests, other suggestions included the legalizing and regulating of betting markets in India, the inclusion of anti-corruption clauses in playing contracts and the non-inclusion of \"tainted\" players.",
"The committee, comprised of past and present cricketers and officials, also said that captains should take more responsibility for their players.",
"Its recommendations will be considered by the MCC Laws sub-committee in February.",
"However, the proposal to use lie-detectors to determine whether or not players are competing for the right reasons has already been questioned.",
"\"I don't know about the accuracy of lie-detector tests,\" England captain Andrew Strauss told the UK Press Association on Wednesday on the eve of his side's third Ashes Test against Australia in Perth.",
"\"But what I do know, and is probably more important, is that we don't want the whiff of anything suspicious going on in the game.\"",
"Strauss' team also came under the spotlight when Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt made accusations -- which he later withdrew -- that some England players had themselves accepted money to fix match results.",
"The ongoing scandal took a further turn when Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider fled to Britain during a series with South Africa in Abu Dhabi, claiming he had refused to fix a match.",
"\"We've seen how disruptive and detrimental to the game of cricket it is.",
"If we have to take extreme measures in order to be 100% confident the game is being played in the right spirit, then I'd certainly be happy to do that,\" Strauss said.",
"\"I'd have to think about the arguments (for lie-detector tests) first.",
"But the principle, of having 22 guys on the pitch that the supporters are absolutely 100% certain are playing the game for the right reasons, is a good thing.\""
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"Cricket rule makers could introduce lie-detectors to help fight corruption in the sport .",
"Several suggestions made after a meeting of MCC World Cricket Committee in Australia .",
"The sport came into disrepute when members of Pakistan team were accused of match-fixing .",
"Other recommendations included the inclusion of anti-corruption clauses in all playing contracts ."
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"(Mashable) -- Hulu's premium service Hulu Plus, which launched as a preview in July and recently opened up to everyone, is now out of testing period and has a new price tag of $7.99 per month.",
"Hulu Plus gives subscribers access to all the episodes in a season of popular shows such as \"Glee,\" \"House,\" \"The Office,\" \"Modern Family,\" \"30 Rock,\" \"Grey's Anatomy\" and others.",
"It also lets subscribers watch the shows on devices such as the iPad, iPhone, PS3 and (newly added) Roku, with support for Xbox 360, TiVo Premiere DVRs, and many Internet-enabled HDTVs, Blu-ray players and media centers coming in the following months.",
"Originally, Hulu Plus cost $9.99; current subscribers who joined during the preview period will receive a credit for the difference from the original price, which will automatically be applied to their next billing cycle.",
"Recently, Hulu shared some impressive stats: 30 million users and an estimated $240 million in revenue in 2010.",
"The price drop for the Hulu Plus service, however, probably means that interest from subscribers was lacking; we'll see how the service will do at the lower price point.",
"Unfortunately for folks outside of the U.S., Hulu is still only available in that country, despite recent hints that it plans to expand internationally soon.",
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"Hulu Plus also lets subscribers watch the shows on your TV or phone ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities have found a second homemade explosive and more of a type of explosive previously discovered in a house in an unincorporated area near Escondido, California, officials said Thursday.",
"The house occupied by George Djura Jakubec, a computer software consultant who is now under arrest, has been described by authorities as a bomb-making factory.",
"They say it holds the largest cache of the two homemade explosives ever discovered in one spot in the United States.",
"San Diego County authorities confirmed Thursday they have found pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, a favorite of al Qaeda bomb-makers that is now the target of new U.S. airport body scans and pat downs.",
"They also found more hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, in a bottle inside the house, but the two types of homemade explosives were not immediately removed because they are too volatile and the house is too cluttered to negotiate safely, Assistant Sheriff Ed Prendergast said.",
"Authorities had already recovered 8 or 9 pounds of HMTD, an explosive powder that suicide bombers use, authorities said.",
"The search of the house also turned up items \"suggestive of armed robberies,\" Prendergast said in a written statement.",
"In addition to bomb-making charges, Jakubec, 54, is charged with two bank robberies.",
"Now being held in lieu of $5 million bail, he was on probation for a 2009 burglary conviction when he was arrested last week.",
"Authorities are investigating Jakubec's intentions.",
"He is a Serbian national who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and he lived in the house with his wife.",
"Authorities also found Wednesday more blasting caps, adding to others discovered in the past week, but they were not removed from the house, officials said.",
"A San Diego County hazardous materials team removed chemicals from a shed on the property, authorities said.",
"They included about 4 liters of hydrochloric acid, 1 liter of nitric acid, 25 gallons of sulfuric acid and 50 pounds of hexamine.",
"A bomb squad from San Diego County agencies and the FBI has suspended a search inside the home until Wednesday, as authorities study how to proceed within the cramped, cluttered home without causing a blast, Prendergast said.",
"Authorities also found inside the house some more hazardous chemicals, which also won't be moved for now, he said.",
"The sheriff's department has secured a perimeter around the suburban house and closed the street off except to residents, Prendergast said.",
"One explosives expert described the eight or nine pounds of previously discovered HMTD as potentially \"devastating.\"",
"\"If you had 8 or 9 pounds in a vehicle in a street, you have a pretty large and devastating car bomb,\" said James Cavanaugh, a retired special agent of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.",
"\"Inside a home, it's going to blow all the windows and doors and walls out, but it's not going to destroy the neighborhood.",
"People would be in danger if they were immediately in front of the house or adjacent to the house,\" he said. \"",
"It would be almost like a gas explosion.\"",
"Bomb squads must be wary of potential booby traps, Cavanaugh said.",
"\"These explosives, like HMTD, I call the devil's own mixtures, and they can be set off by shock, friction, static electricity, heat, flame or even a chemical reaction,\" he said.",
"\"Added to the danger is that they are difficult to find in a filthy hoarder's hovel.\"",
"Outside court this week, Jakubec's wife, Marina Ivanova, was distraught.",
"\"He's crazy,\" she told camera crews.",
"\"I think he lost his mind.",
"He lost his mind or something. ...",
"I know that he was collecting, obsessively collecting stuff.\"",
"Bomb technicians must work slowly inside the house because the slightest friction -- such as opening a drawer -- could ignite the explosives, Prendergast said.",
"Jakubec appears to be a hoarder, and the clutter of paper and boxes in the house makes the hunt for explosives more difficult, the assistant sheriff said.",
"Bomb crews were wearing less gear so they can move about the house without brushing up against anything and accidentally triggering the explosives, he said.",
"\"We are wearing some protective gear, not the big protective gear\" that resembles moon suits, Prendergast said.",
"\"It's just not practical for this operation.\"",
"Authorities discovered the explosives last Thursday after a gardener was injured when he unwittingly set off some of the HMTD powder in the back yard, Prendergast said.",
"The blast went up one side of his body, from lower leg to head, he said.",
"\"We believe he scraped against some of the powder in the yard, and the friction caused it to explode,\" Prendergast said.",
"\"Apparently the suspect was experimenting in his yard, and some of it got left over\" the ground, he added.",
"The 8 or 9 pounds of HMTD was in six jars that had apparently been moved out of the house and into the back yard, he said.",
"Last Friday, authorities had to evacuate two nearby houses and even closed down the southbound lanes of nearby Interstate 15 for three hours, he said.",
"The two adjacent houses remained evacuated Wednesday, he said.",
"\"It's amazing he didn't blow himself up.",
"He must have some knowledge of how to do this safely,\" Prendergast said.",
"\"Part of the story should be about the bravery of the bomb technicians and haz-mat team, for risking their lives trying to build a case against this guy so that justice can be served, and trying to render the site safe so that homeowners can return to their homes,\" he added.",
"During Wednesday's search, only two or three bomb technicians entered the house for less than an hour and seized a computer and other items, Prendergast said.",
"The crew videotaped the interior and will review the tape later to determine their next mission, officials said.",
"In recent days, technicians found improvised grenades that weren't live, he said.",
"\"If you look at the video of this, you can see items piled on top of items.",
"It gives you a mental picture of how difficult it is,\" Prendergast said.",
"\"Counter space and tables, every bit of space had items piled on top of items -- papers and boxes.",
"\"We only pull things out that have easy access,\" he added.",
"Law officers have defined \"a hot zone\" consisting of the house itself and the two nearby evacuated houses.",
"A \"warm zone\" is the street in front of the house, and a \"cold zone\" is the area beyond a police tape where the media and public are allowed to stand, Prendergast said.",
"At night, after bomb crews have finished their work, the hot zone is reduced to just the house, he said.",
"Authorities said the HMTD discovered inside the house Wednesday is stored in a bottle.",
"\"We have not removed it yet.",
"It's too dangerous to move.",
"Any movement can set it off,\" Prendergast said.",
"\"We have a saying: We'll go as fast as we can but slow as we must,\" he added."
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"Authorities say a house holds a second homemade explosive, PETN .",
"PETN happens to be the target of new U.S. airport body scans and pat downs .",
"The 8 or 9 pounds of HMTD found is equivalent to a \"large\" car bomb, expert says .",
"Bomb technicians must be careful; the slightest friction could cause an explosion ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The Netherlands froze all ties with Iran Sunday after Tehran hanged a Dutch-Iranian woman a day earlier, calling the execution a \"shocking act by a barbaric regime.\"",
"And Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal will \"discuss possible measures\" against Iran by the European Union on Monday, the foreign ministry said.",
"Iran hanged Zahra Bahrami Saturday, saying she was a drug smuggler, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, although the Dutch government expressed \"great concern\" about her case three weeks ago.",
"Fars said Bahrami smuggled cocaine into Iran with the help of a Dutch partner.",
"But the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran suggested the drug charges were only a pretext to execute her.",
"The campaign said Bahrami was originally charged with security offenses in the wake of widespread protests against the government over a controversial presidential election in June 2009.",
"Her lawyer was \"shocked\" to find she had been hanged, the group said.",
"\"I was absolutely not informed about this.",
"They should have informed her lawyer of the execution, but I had no idea.",
"I don't know what to say. Just that I am shocked,\" Jinoos Sharif Razi told the group.",
"The campaign said it learned of the hanging from Bahrami's daughter.",
"Bahrami was accused of bringing cocaine into the country twice and selling it.",
"Cocaine and opium were found during a search of her house, Fars reported.",
"Her sentence also included 70 lashes and a $1,400 fine, Fars reported.",
"Fars added that during a search of her house, while she was charged with security crimes, 450 grams of cocaine and 420 grams of opium were discovered and, following further investigation, it was found that she had also distributed 150 grams of cocaine.",
"Iran denied Bahrami access to Dutch consular assistance and would not let Dutch officials attend her trial because Tehran did not recognize her dual citizenship, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands said on January 5.",
"'I'm greatly concerned about Zahra Bahrami's situation, and I immediately asked the Iranian authorities to clarify the very disturbing reports that she had been condemned to death,\" Foreign Minister Rosenthal said in a statement at the time.",
"It is not clear if Iran ever responded to the Dutch request.",
"On Sunday, the Netherlands strongly advised Dutch-Iranian citizens not to travel to Iran.",
"CNN's David Wilkinson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The Netherlands vows to discuss possible EU measures against Iran Monday .",
"Authorities say Zahra Bahrami smuggled cocaine into the country .",
"Human rights campaigners say she was originally charged with security offenses .",
"Her lawyer is \"shocked\" by the execution ."
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"(EW.com) -- In a surprisingly close race, \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1\" held on to its box-office crown Friday by grossing $20.8 million, according to early estimates.",
"That's a 66 percent drop from the fantasy film's opening last Friday, which was inflated due to an enormous turnout at Thursday midnight screenings.",
"If \"Deathly Hallows\" follows the Thanksgiving trajectory of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\" -- the last Potter film to open in November -- the PG-13 movie should finish the weekend with about $50 million.",
"That would bring \"Deathly Hallows'\" 10-day tally to $220 million, making it the 10th greatest 10-day gross in box-office history and the best ever for a Potter flick.",
"But Friday wasn't only a celebration for wizards, as Disney's animated musical \"Tangled\" came in close behind with $19.7 million.",
"The PG movie, which debuted Wednesday, has grossed $39.7 million so far, and has a shot at overtaking \"Deathly Hallows\" for the three-day weekend.",
"If that happens, it'd be due to one reason: incredible word-of-mouth.",
"CinemaScore audiences rated the fairy-tale film an \"A+\" -- the first movie this year to garner the rare grade.",
"Even more impressive is the fact that while moviegoers under the age of 25 rated \"Tangled\" an \"A,\" those over the age of 25 gave it an \"A+.\"",
"Clearly this retelling of Rapunzel is delivering for all age groups, and when that happens, watch out.",
"\"Tangled\" is on pace to finish second this weekend with about $47 million, but again, it could very well upset Potter for first place.",
"Seems the lesson here is: Never underestimate a woman with ridiculously long hair.",
"The next five films are fairly clumped together, and their positions could swap by Sunday night.",
"DreamWorks Animation's \"Megamind\" came in third on Friday, grossing $5.3 million for an actual increase of 41 percent from last week.",
"In fourth place was the action thriller \"Unstoppable,\" which gained 13 percent from last week for $4.6 million.",
"After that were this week's three other new releases.",
"The Cher-Christina Aguilera musical \"Burlesque\" fared best, bringing in $4.5 million on Friday.",
"Despite mediocre reviews, audiences liked the PG-13 film -- CinemaScore moviegoers graded it an \"A-.\".",
"The R-rated romantic comedy \"Love and Other Drugs,\" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, was next in sixth place with $3.8 million.",
"And \"Faster,\" Dwayne Johnson's return to the action genre, rounded out the top seven with $3.2 million.",
"1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1 -- $20.8 mil .",
"2. Tangled -- $19.7 mil .",
"3. Megamind -- $5.3 mil .",
"4. Unstoppable -- $4.6 mil .",
"5. Burlesque -- $4.5 mil .",
"6. Love and Other Drugs -- $3.8 mil .",
"7. Faster -- $3.2 mil .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Deathly Hallows\" grossed $20.8 million, a 66 percent drop from last Friday's opening .",
"\"Tangled,\" which scored an \"A+\" from CinemaScore, came in second with $19.7 million .",
"No other movies grossed more than $6 million this weekend .",
"\"Unstoppable\" gained 13 percent from last week with $4.6 million ."
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"(CNN) -- Less than a week after Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Washington, senior diplomats from China and the United States sat down in Beijing Friday to follow up on the visit and discuss other issues.",
"U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo.",
"The two were expected to discuss tensions between North Korea and South Korea and U.S.-China relations, among other issues.",
"\"This year is the year of the rabbit, so we have to work very fast.\"",
"Steinberg said at the beginning of the meeting, which was later closed to reporters.",
"\"The year of the rabbit is auspicious,\" Dai said.",
"\"I'm confident this year will be even better for U.S.-China relations.",
"I am hoping this new year the world will be a more tranquil place.",
"Please convey my greetings to Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton.\"",
"Chinese Vice Minister Cui Tiankai also was present at the meeting.",
"Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama hosted Hu in talks defined largely by economic issues.",
"The two met behind closed doors at the White House for several hours as top officials from both countries worked to address issues tied to the global economic crisis, international security, the environment and human rights.",
"Obama administration officials used the president's meeting with Hu to highlight economic progress between the two countries, announcing Beijing's approval of $45 billion in new contracts for U.S. companies to export goods to China.",
"The contracts will support an estimated 235,000 American jobs, according to the White House.",
"The two leaders acknowledged continuing differences on human rights, but pledged to keep working on the matter in a \"frank and candid way,\" according to Obama.",
"CNN's Jo Ling Kent contributed to this report."
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"Meeting follows Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington last week .",
"Two sides expected to discuss Korean peninsula tensions, other issues ."
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"(CNN) -- Myanmar convened its first parliament in more than two decades on Monday in the capital, Naypyidaw.",
"Members are expected to vote for chairman and vice chairman during the session.",
"November's elections, which were also the first in 20 years, drew fire from critics, who said the voting was aimed at creating a facade of democracy.",
"The regime refused to allow international monitors to oversee the elections and would not allow international journalists to cover the voting from inside the country.",
"Journalists who reported from inside Myanmar had to do so surreptitiously.",
"The military junta also recently overhauled Myanmar's constitution in a way that critics say was aimed at tightening the regime's grip.",
"The constitution now requires more than 100 military nominees in parliament.",
"Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been under military rule since 1962.",
"Parliament began a day after opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy launched its first official website.",
"\"A good communication system is essential to our endeavour to set up a people's network for democracy that will span the whole world,\" Suu Kyi said in a message on the site, which went live Sunday.",
"\"By communication, through the web page, with strong supporters of our cause, as well as with those who want to know more about our movement for democracy and about the NLD, I believe we shall be able to achieve our goal of a democratic union at a faster pace.\"",
"The web address for the site is: www.nldburma.org.",
"The daughter of General Aung San, a hero of Burmese independence, Suu Kyi has repeatedly challenged Myanmar's regime over the years.",
"For her efforts, she won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.",
"She was released from house arrest on November 13, after spending most of the past 20 years under house arrest or in prison.",
"Her release came after the national elections which her National League for Democracy party boycotted, describing them as a sham."
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"Session of parliament is the first in more than 20 years .",
"Opposition leader Suu Kyi launches website .",
"Suu Kyi spent most of the past 20 years under house arrest or in prison."
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"(CNN) -- A 26-year police veteran who headed the Dallas Crime Stoppers has been indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the tipster-based crime fighting program, U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas said Thursday.",
"Dallas Police Department Senior Cpl.",
"Theadora Ross, 50, of Rowlett, Texas, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeff Kaplan on Wednesday, and she was released on bond, Jacks said in a statement.",
"A co-defendant, Malva R. Delley, 36, of Dallas also was indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Jacks said.",
"Between February 2005 and May 2010, the conspirators allegedly collected at least $250,000 in cash rewards for bogus tips, the prosecutor said in a statement.",
"No arrests, which would have been false, were ever made, Jacks said.",
"Crime Stoppers is a nationwide program that offers cash rewards for information from anonymous callers as long as the tip leads to the arrest and indictment of criminals, Jacks said.",
"The program's Dallas office is funded by the North Texas Crime Commission (NTCC) as well as with fines levied by the Dallas and Collin County courts, private donations and fundraising, Jacks' statement said.",
"Dallas police officers and the Dallas County Sheriff's deputies staff the program, Jacks said.",
"According to the indictment, Ross worked at the Dallas Crime Stoppers office from 2003 to May 2010, and headed that office from March 2006 to May 2010, Jacks said.",
"Any tipster calling Crime Stoppers receives a \"tip number,\" and the tipster then must regularly call the Crime Stoppers office to see if the information resulted in a reward, Jacks said.",
"Ross and other officers determined which tips were eligible for a cash reward, based on whether an arrest or indictment of a particular subject was related to the tip, Jacks said.",
"Ross selected the tips to be presented to the NTCC for approval of a cash reward, Jacks said.",
"Once the NTCC gave its approval, the anonymous tipster could call Crime Stoppers with a previously assigned tip number and would be given a tip number and code word, Jacks said.",
"The tip numbers and code words were emailed to JP Morgan Chase Bank, where the anonymous tipster was required to present the tip number and code word to collect the reward, Jacks said.",
"Ross allegedly sent the bank the Crime Stoppers cash reward list that included legitimate code words as well as tip numbers and code words for tips that Ross had allegedly altered, Jacks said.",
"Ross allegedly gave the bogus tip information to Delley, who would collect reward money from the bank, Jacks said.",
"Ross allegedly instructed Delley to deposit the money into Ross' personal bank account or give the cash directly to Ross, Jacks charged.",
"If convicted, Ross and Delley each could face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a $250,000 fine, Jacks said.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Theadora Ross is head of the Dallas Crime Stoppers program .",
"She and another defendant are accused of collecting at least $250K in rewards for bogus tips .",
"Indictment alleges Ross altered codes sent to bank for distributing rewards securely .",
"Accomplice called bank and collected money using altered codes, indictment alleges ."
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"(CNN) -- New Chelsea signing Fernando Torres said his transfer deadline-day move to the English Premier League champions from division rivals Liverpool was a \"step forward\" in his career.",
"After much media speculation over the striker's future, Torres joined the Blues on a five-and-half-year contract on Monday, in a deal secured just before the January transfer window came to a dramatic close.",
"\"I felt that I needed a step forward in my career and for my ambition as a footballer,\" the 26-year-old Torres said in an interview with the club's official website on Tuesday.",
"\"I am joining a team that is at the top level -- there is not another level after Chelsea,\" he added.",
"\"When I played against Chelsea there was always a big motivation because it was a special game -- always one of the biggest games of the season.",
"This is one of the reasons why I wanted to join Chelsea because I want to be part of this kind of team.\"",
"The Anfield club compensated for the departure of Torres by signing two new strikers shortly before the 23.00 GMT transfer deadline -- Uruguay's Luis Suarez moved from Dutch-side Ajax while England's Andy Carroll signed from Newcastle.",
"Chelsea meanwhile coupled their Torres capture by completing the signing of defender David Luiz from Portuguese club Benfica.",
"The best and worst deals of a dramatic deadline day .",
"The fee for Torres' transfer has not been disclosed although British newspaper The Daily Telegraph speculated he had cost $80 million -- a figure that would break the previous British record set when Manchester City paid $53 million for Brazil's Robinho in 2008.",
"Chelsea's big-money signing had spent three-and-a-half years at Liverpool scoring 81 goals in 142 matches.",
"But following the side's failure to qualify for the Champions League and poor form in the league, Torres felt he needed to move to have the chance to challenge for silverware.",
"\"The Champions League is a big ambition, it is a very important competition,\" the former Atletico Madrid player said.",
"\"But also Chelsea have the chance every season to win all the trophies that they play for, so when you have the chance to play in a team like this you cannot say no.\"",
"Ironically, Torres' first match in a Chelsea shirt could be against seventh-placed Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in a league clash on Sunday.",
"It is not thought he will feature in Tuesday's away fixture against sixth-placed Sunderland.",
"\"It is like the destiny,\" he said after a group of Liverpool fans were seen burning Torres' number nine shirt outside Anfield when the news of the transfer broke.",
"\"It is not perfect for me but we will see what happens and I only have good words about Liverpool.",
"They made me a top player and gave me the chance to play at the top level.",
"I will never say anything bad about Liverpool, I have been very happy there.",
"\"But now the history is different and I am playing for Chelsea.",
"If I have the chance to play I will do my best for Chelsea and hopefully I can score.\"",
"Madrid-born Torres added that his move had been made easier thanks to the support he had received from the London-based club's loyal fans.",
"\"They really want me and it is important you have the support of the people in the club, and the support of the fans -- I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.",
"Now I am very happy to be a Chelsea player.\"",
"Will deadline-day spending buck European transfer downturn?",
"With Torres' record-breaking deal and Liverpool reportedly paying in excess of $53 million for Carroll, the Premier League showed little sign of being affected by the current economic situation.",
"According to statistics from UK business advisory firm Deloitte, English clubs spent a record $363 million in the mid-season transfer window -- smashing the previous record of $282 million set in January 2008, and far exceeding amounts spent by leagues in Spain, Italy and Germany.",
"However, Dan Jones, a partner in Deloitte's Sports Business Group, said this can be solely put down to a handful of lucrative deals made by just four clubs.",
"\"We were surprised to see more than $360 million spent in a January window for the first time, particularly after only around $48 million was spent in January last year,\" Jones told CNN in a statement.",
"\"When you scratch beneath the surface you find that around 80% of the total spending is concentrated across Chelsea, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Manchester City -- and spread across only six players.",
"\"So this was a particularly polarized window, with only a few clubs flexing their financial muscles, on what was a deafening final day of an otherwise quiet window.\""
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"Fernando Torres speaks to Chelsea TV after signing for the club on Monday .",
"EPL champions agreed a deal with Liverpool just before the transfer day deadline .",
"Spain striker's first game for Blues could be against Liverpool on Sunday .",
"Liverpool signed strikers Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez; Chelsea also secured David Luiz ."
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"(CNN) -- European Union finance ministers on Sunday agreed on an 85 billion euro (U.S. $113 billion) bailout package for Ireland.",
"The announcement comes a day after protesters snarled the streets of Dublin.",
"Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen requested the loan last Sunday after days of insisting Ireland did not need help.",
"The three-year, joint IMF and euro-zone loan was offered as a way to stabilize financial markets in the region.",
"The loan is to be used to immediately strengthen Ireland's banking system, and to allow the country to undertake ambitious fiscal adjustment, including deficit reduction, said Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Eurogroup said.",
"Another condition of the loan is that Ireland tackle labor reform, he said.",
"Of the 85 billion euros, 10 billion will be made available for immediate recapitalization.",
"Another 25 billion will be destined for banking system support, and the remaining 50 billion for the country's budget needs.",
"\"The Irish authorities have today proposed a clear and realistic package of policies to restore Ireland's banking system to health and put its public finances on a sound footing,\" said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF.",
"\"Immediate actions to tackle vulnerabilities in the banks and the continued strong fiscal adjustment are set in a multi-year policy framework for sustained growth and job creation.\"",
"The approved bailout package will leave Ireland with a smaller, but more robust and better capitalized banking system, he added.",
"The IMF will contribute 22.5 billion euros of the loan amount, a proposal expected to be approved by the fund in December.",
"Another 45 billion euros will come from the European Union and bilateral European lenders, and the final 17.5 billion euros will come from the Irish themselves, via their cash reserves and other liquid assets.",
"The Eurogroup also addressed the need for a mechanism to help out member countries in distress.",
"On Sunday, the leaders said that last month they agreed on a European Financial Stabilization Mechanism that will be set up to aid countries in need, together with the IMF.",
"\"The recent events have demonstrated that financial distress in one member state can rapidly threaten macro-financial stability of the EU as a whole through various contagion channels,\" the Eurogroup said in a statement.",
"Irish government representatives had met Saturday night and were briefed on the negotiation ahead of the announcement, according to an Irish government statement.",
"\"We're trying hard to find a solution and I hope tomorrow the financial markets will understand and see that the euro is a safe and stable currency now and for the future,\" German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble said as the finance ministers arrived to discuss the bailout.",
"British Finance Minister George Osborne said that it is in Britain's and the entire region's interest to achieve economic stability in Ireland because of trade in the eurozone.",
"\"I think we're going to make some very good progress today,\" he said.",
"Cowen announced austerity measures during the week as the Irish government reels from the cost of saving its banks.",
"The moves are unpopular in the country, and Cowen's party lost an election Thursday for a parliamentary seat.",
"An estimated 50,000 people demonstrated against austerity in Dublin on Saturday.",
"The protests were organized by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), which has called the four-year plan for spending cuts and tax hikes \"savage and regressive.\"",
"Families, retired people, the unemployed and members of unions and community groups were among the demonstrators who braved a rare dusting of snow to come out Saturday, the ICTU said.",
"Cowen announced the budget-cutting plan this week after agreeing to a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund and European Union, needed to tackle Ireland's massive debt.",
"The plan saves 10 billion euros ($13.4 billion) through welfare cuts and an additional 5 billion euros ($6.7 billion) through higher taxes.",
"There will be reductions in the minimum wage and public-sector pay, and a hike in the value-added tax on goods and services, Cowen said.",
"The plan calls for introducing water meters, making students pay more for higher education, and requiring more Irish workers to pay income tax.",
"Trade unions complain the plan unfairly targets lower-paid workers, while making no provision for a tax on asset wealth.",
"They say it fails to explain how the Irish people can carry the banks' massive debts and sets out no strategy .",
"for creating jobs.",
"\"People are angry and they've had enough of this government,\" local journalist Juliette Gash told CNN.",
"\"They're furious because they feel like the government has handed over the keys to the country.\"",
"Journalist Peter Taggart contributed to this report."
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"50,000 people demonstrate against Irish austerity plans, police estimate ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A federal appeals panel on Wednesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that halted enforcement of the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy banning openly gay and lesbian soldiers from the military.",
"The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the government the delay it sought in challenging a federal judge's order last week to stop enforcing the policy around the world.",
"\"The order is stayed temporarily in order to provide this court with an opportunity to consider fully the issues presented,\" said the appellate panel's ruling, which gave parties in the case until October 25 to file further documents.",
"CNN iReport: Please share your thoughts on don't ask, don't tell .",
"Aubrey Sarvis, an Army veteran and executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said the appeals court panel's ruling \"means that 'don't ask, don't tell' is once again on the books, and is likely to be enforced by the Defense Department.\"",
"\"Gay and lesbian service members deserve better treatment than they are getting with this ruling,\" Sarvis said.",
"The American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign also expressed disappointment and called for an end to \"don't ask, don't tell.\"",
"Earlier Wednesday, the Obama administration filed an emergency request with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the military from allowing openly gay troops from serving, putting itself in a strange position.",
"In effect, the administration wants to continue barring gays from the military even though it ultimately favors repealing \"don't ask, don't tell.\"",
"\"They are in a very bizarre position, frankly, of their own making,\" CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said.",
"On Wednesday, the White House referred all questions about the issue to the Department of Justice.",
"The administration filed a motion Tuesday asking U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips to stay her order last month that banned the enforcement of the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy.",
"When Phillips denied the request, government lawyers took their case to the 9th Circuit on Wednesday.",
"In court documents filed in San Francisco, California, the administration argued that \"don't ask, don't tell\" should remain intact for now.",
"The administration argued that changing it abruptly \"risks causing significant immediate harm to the military and its efforts to be prepared to implement an orderly repeal of the statute.\"",
"Toobinsaid the administration would like Congress to deal with the issue on a political level and doesn't want the courts to take it on unilaterally.",
"A measure that would repeal the policy after a military review and approval from the president, defense secretary and Joint Chiefs chairman has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate.",
"By battling the legal challenge to the existing law -- a traditional practice of the U.S. government -- the administration is trying to buy time to implement the repeal process worked out with military leaders and contained in the legislation before Congress.",
"If the 9th Circuit eventually overturns Phillips' ruling and Congress does not take any action, \"don't ask, don't tell\" could be back.",
"\"And the Obama administration would be responsible for that,\" Toobin said.",
"Meanwhile, spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Wednesday that the Defense Department \"will continue to obey the law, and we will abide by the terms of the court's injunction unless and until the injunction is stayed or vacated.\"",
"The Log Cabin Republicans, plaintiffs in the case that Phillips ruled on, said Wednesday that the group remained fully committed to defending this worldwide injunction because it is what is best for all service members.",
"\"While we are disappointed with the court's ruling granting a temporary administrative stay, we view the decision as nothing more than a minor setback,\" said Dan Woods, a partner in the law firm White & Case who is representing the group it the case.",
"\"We didn't come this far to quit now,\" he said in a statement, adding that the group expected the appeals court to uphold the lower court injunction against \"don't ask, don't tell.\"",
"The Pentagon has already begun advising recruiting commands that they can accept openly gay and lesbian recruit candidates, according to Smith.",
"The guidance from the personnel and readiness office was sent to recruiting commands Friday, Smith said.",
"The recruiters were told that if a candidate admits that he or she is openly gay and qualifies under normal recruiting guidelines, the application can be processed.",
"Recruiters are not allowed to ask candidates if they are gay as part of the application process.",
"Christian Berle, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said there have not been any incidents of consequence the administration feared would occur.",
"\"The armed forces continues to move along and succeed because it is the greatest military in the world,\" Berle said.",
"Dan Choi, an infantry officer who was discharged under the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy, turned in paperwork Wednesday to re-enlist in the Army.",
"He said the Obama administration ought not to lift a finger to defend discrimination.",
"\"They should walk their talk,\" Choi said after re-enlisting.",
"The Obama administration has said it needs more time to work with the Pentagon to repeal the policy, blasted by critics as blatantly discriminatory.",
"\"This president has made a commitment, and it's not a question of whether that program, whether that policy will change, but when,\" Obama adviser David Axelrodsaid.",
"\"We're at the end of a process with the Pentagon to make that transition, and we're going to see it through.\"",
"The arrangement worked out with the Pentagon includes a military review of how to make the transition work, which is to be completed in December.",
"After that, Obama, the defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs chairman would have to certify that the plan won't harm the combat readiness of U.S. troops.",
"Obama and White House Press Secretary Robert Gates have repeatedly stressed the need for an orderly transition from the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy in order to deal with myriad issues including barracks arrangements and benefits.",
"Speaking to a mostly young audience at the MTV, BET, CMT town hall meeting last week, Obama reaffirmed that the \"policy will end and it will end on my watch.\"",
"\"I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve,\" he said.",
"At the same time, Obama said, \"it has to be done in a way that is orderly,\" and he insisted that congressional action is needed because Congress passed a law that prohibits the president from unilaterally changing the policy.",
"CNN's Adam Levine, Dan Lothian and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"Appellate panel says it needs more time to make a final decision .",
"Defense Department says it will obey the law as set by courts .",
"The administration favors repealing the policy, but not abruptly ."
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"Amman, Jordan (CNN) -- Several hundred protesters braved rain and cold temperatures here in the capital to protest against Jordan's new prime minister Friday.",
"The demonstration, called by the Islamic Action Front, passed off without incident amid a low-profile police presence.",
"The protesters chanted \"Alahu Akhbar\" (\"God is Great\"), demanded political reforms and railed against government corruption.",
"Most of them marched from Friday prayers at Salahuddin Mosque the short distance to the office of Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit, who was appointed by King Abdullah II a few days ago.",
"They then moved on to the Egyptian embassy before dispersing.",
"It was the smallest Friday demonstration in Amman in several weeks.",
"Other groups involved in previous protests decided not to join this week, leaving the Islamists and a small leftist party as the only groups involved.",
"Earlier this week, King Abdullah promised the new government would launch a national dialogue on political reform, tackle corruption and review Jordan's restrictive election law to involve a wider range of political opinion.",
"The king met with Islamist leaders Thursday, among them the leadership of the Islamic Action Front and Muslim Brotherhood.",
"Afterwards, the Islamists described the meeting as \"clear and frank\" in which they asked for political reform beginning with a new more democratic election law and a government chosen by Parliament rather than the king.",
"The Palace said the king had emphasized inclusive reforms that could overcome \"external forces\" who are resisting change for their own personal interests.",
"The general secretary of the Islamic Action Front, Hamza Mansour, told CNN Thursday that democracy in Jordan was marginalized and warned that when political and economical conditions worsen, social violence surfaces."
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"Friday's demonstration in Amman was the smallest in weeks ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The family of a man who fought alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam have been told their relative will not be allowed to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.",
"Major General Vang Pao led thousands of Hmong soldiers as they fought alongside the United States against the North Vietnamese Army during the war in Southeast Asia, according to a news release from Congressman Jim Costa of California.",
"Costa, on behalf of Pao's family, asked the Army to grant an exception to Arlington's rules to allow Pao to be buried in the nation's most hallowed burial ground.",
"Pao died recently of complications from pneumonia, according to Costa.",
"\"The Vang Pao family's request for an exception to the burial policy was thoroughly reviewed by a board comprised of senior military and civilian officials.",
"... After a comprehensive analysis, the board unanimously recommended denial of the request for exception to policy.",
"Upon receipt of the board's input, the Secretary carefully reviewed and deliberated on this matter and accepted the board's recommendation,\" according to a statement from the Army released Friday evening.",
"According to the cemetery's policy, Pao would have had to have served in the U.S. armed forces to be eligible for the honor.",
"The family can still ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates and President Obama to make an exception.",
"A Pentagon spokesman said he did not know if any request regarding Pao's burial had reached Gates as of Friday afternoon."
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"Vang Pao fought alongside U.S. troops in the Vietnam War .",
"His family wants him buried at Arlington National Cemetery .",
"Arlington denied the request for exception to its burial policy ."
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"(CNN) -- A Texas produce distributor has recalled nearly 7,000 cases of cilantro and curly parsley after samples in Quebec, Canada, and Michigan tested positive for salmonella, the company said Monday.",
"The latest recall comes days after dozens of people fell sick after consuming bacteria-tainted alfalfa sprouts in an apparently unrelated situation.",
"The \"precautionary, voluntary recall\" announced Monday pertains to cilantro and parsley from J&D Produce, Inc., packed between November 30 and December 6, the Edinburg, Texas-based company said in a statement.",
"Cilantro and parsley processed and branded as Little Bear between those dates can be taken to retailers for a full refund.",
"No one has reported getting sick from eating the vegetables, according to J&D Produce.",
"Also Monday, the Food and Drug Administration announced a source of a salmonella outbreak that had sickened at least 89 people in 15 states and the District of Columbia.",
"Health officials said those first cases became known November 1, with many getting ill after eating alfalfa sprouts in products from Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches outlets.",
"The FDA said Monday that those vegetables came from Tiny Greens Organic Farm.",
"Tiny Greens' alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts (which have alfalfa sprouts plus radish and clover sprouts) were distributed in 4-ounce and 5-pound containers to farmers' markets, grocery stores and restaurants including Jimmy John's.",
"In addition to a variety of sprouts, the Urbana, Illinois, produce company distributes arugula, broccoli, fennel, cauliflower, onion, radish and other items, according to its website.",
"In a letter to Jimmy John's franchisees, founder Jimmy John Liautaud said that the chain had pulled sprouts from all its Illinois establishments after store locations came up negative for the bacteria.",
"About 23% of those sickened in that outbreak were hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last Thursday.",
"No deaths have been linked to the outbreak.",
"The FDA said Monday that the sprouts were distributed in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and possibly other Midwestern states, with roughly half the illnesses occurring in Illinois.",
"The separate J&D Produce recall, meanwhile, came after independent tests found salmonella on the company's parsley in Quebec and its cilantro in Detroit, Michigan, both of which came from the same processing line in Texas.",
"The company's products are sold retail as well as to wholesalers, who may then distribute them to restaurants and other establishments, according to Sharon McNerney, a public relations consultant for the company.",
"The recall involves 2,498 cases of the parsley -- which have expiration dates 12 days after being packed -- that went out to the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.",
"The 4,411 recalled cases of cilantro, carrying the same packing and expiration dates, were distributed in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin as well as Quebec and Ontario .",
"After the positive results, regulators and health officials in the United States and Canada have stepped up inspections of J&D Produce's facilities, the company's president, James Bassetti, said.",
"They also undertook other measures, including stopping and sanitizing all production lines, adding manual inspections, rinsing products more and bringing in consultants.",
"\"We have a good track record, but we'll bring our expectations and standards to even higher levels,\" he said.",
"\"We've already begun improving our systems.\"",
"In addition to cilantro and parsley, the Texas company gathers, packs and distributes a variety of fruits and vegetables such as carrots, limes, eggplants, peppers, greens, onions, melons, mangos and asparagus, according to its website.",
"Those with questions can call J&D Produce at 956-380-0353.",
"Salmonella is a bacterial infection that usually lasts four to seven days.",
"About 40,000 cases of salmonellosis are reported each year in the United States, according to the CDC.",
"Those who get it typically develop fever, abdominal cramps and diarrhea between 12 and 72 hours after becoming infected.",
"Most people recover on their own, without needing significant treatment.",
"But salmonella in very young and very old people, as well as those with weakened immune systems, can lead to severe illness and even death.",
"The CDC recommends that anyone suspecting he or she may be ill from eating contaminated food should talk to a doctor."
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"NEW: A recall of parsley and cilantro affects 14 states and 2 Canadian provinces .",
"No one has reported getting ill eating the Little Bear branded items, the company says .",
"Separately, the FDA calls Tiny Greens Organic Farm a source of a alfalfa salmonella outbreak .",
"That outbreak first appeared on November 1, with many cases traced to a sandwich chain ."
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"(CNN) -- A small plane landed on a New Jersey highway on Monday, fire officials said.",
"The two-seater craft was heading toward an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, but instead touched down on Interstate 80 in Hackensack, New Jersey, after the pilot reported a loss of fuel pressure, said the city's fire chief, Thomas Freeman.",
"There were no reports of injuries.",
"Authorities closed one highway lane as emergency vehicles towed the plane alongside the beginnings of rush-hour traffic."
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"(CNN) -- Don Crisman has never missed a Super Bowl.",
"\"My family knows not to die on Super Bowl Sunday,\" he said, \"because I won't make it to the funeral.\"",
"And with great game attendance comes myriad memories.",
"The 74-year-old Rhode Island native paid $8 to see Green Bay defeat Kansas City at the first AFL-NFL championship in 1967.",
"Thirty-five years later, he roared with fellow Patriots fans as kicker Adam Vinatieri nailed a 48-yard field goal to beat the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI's final seven seconds.",
"He barely noticed Janet Jackson's infamous \"wardrobe malfunction\" during Super Bowl XXXVIII's halftime show in 2004.",
"Now, he's ready for the Steelers-Packers matchup in Dallas, blizzard or otherwise.",
"Crisman is one-fourth of the \"Never Miss a Super Bowl Club,\" an exclusive group featured in Visa's latest advertising campaigns.",
"Test your Super Bowl knowledge .",
"He and three other men boasting a perfect attendance record -- 49ers fan Larry Jacobson, Steelers fan Thomas Henschel and Packers fan Robert Cook -- can be seen in the national commercials, flashing more than four decades of Super Bowl ticket stubs.",
"\"Sports fans see the Super Bowl as the pinnacle of U.S. sporting events -- an American institution, really,\" said Alex Craddock, head of Visa's American marketing.",
"\"This year, our NFL campaign was developed to celebrate the passion that fans have for the sport of football and the Super Bowl.\"",
"Members of the club, who met and devised their name when a reporter profiled them individually for an NFL media guide, will attend their 45th Super Bowl on Sunday.",
"This time, the game's on Visa's tab.",
"\"44 years, 44 games, and we never had a free ticket,\" Jacobson said.",
"\"This is a pretty good deal for me.\"",
"Are you planning a Superbowl trip?",
"Jacobson, who went to the first Super Bowl to impress a date, said he spends thousands of dollars yearly to fund his football obsession.",
"\"The game is an excuse to travel,\" he said.",
"\"We've been to Disney World, the beach, all over, the week of the Super Bowl.",
"It's even better knowing I'm on a vacation while my friends are working.\"",
"The club members don't intend to break their Super tradition anytime soon.",
"Crisman said he'll keep going for \"as long as the Big Guy Upstairs allows.\"",
"\"Just before playoff time, there's a big magnet somewhere in the sky drawing me in the direction of the game,\" he said.",
"\"It's kind of a crazy, expensive odyssey I'm on.",
"A pilgrimage -- whatever you want to call it.\""
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"Don Crisman and three other men have never missed a Super Bowl .",
"When a reporter introduced the men to one another, the \"Never Miss a Super Bowl Club\" began .",
"On Sunday, they will attend their 45th Super Bowl ."
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"(WIRED) -- For those of you with lengthy tech-toy wish lists and not-so-deep pockets, T-Mobile's new tablet offering may provide the answer you've been waiting for.",
"Beginning February 2, the Dell Streak 7 tablet will be available for $200, after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract, T-Mobile has announced.",
"Off-contract, the tablet will retail for $450.",
"The new 7-inch Streak is a bump up in size from Dell's last 5-inch offering, as well as a dip in price from the $300 charged for the 5-inch AT&T version.",
"But unlike its teensy predecessor, the Streak 7 will be able to connect to T-Mobile's HSPA+ 4G network -- although as we've recently noted, the term \"4G\" seems to be in the eye of the beholder.",
"We got our hands on the Streak 7 today, and our first impressions are generally positive.",
"It's chunkier in shape than the iPad, but with rounder edges than the Galaxy Tab.",
"It rests comfortably in one hand or two, suggesting it will serve just as well for passive reading and video watching as it will for more-active browsing.",
"The interface will be familiar to anyone who's used Android, and neither T-Mobile nor Dell have mucked up the basic operating system with too many widgets.",
"The screen is bright and somewhat responsive, although it's a little \"jumpy.\"",
"While the screen moves quickly, it's not quite as smooth as the iPad at tracking your finger motions when you swipe or pinch the screen.",
"It's as if the makers decided to compensate for the touchscreen's lack of sensitivity by making the screen move faster, and the result is that the screen sometimes feels as if it's jumping ahead of your finger.",
"Web browsing and video playback were all quite smooth, and stereo speakers built into the case provide decent if somewhat anemic audio.",
"The Streak will come packing one of Nvidia's much-hyped dual-core Tegra 2 processors, while touting the suite of recent tablet debut standards -- SD card slot, Wi-Fi access, Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, 5-megapixel back-facing camera for photos and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera with video-chat capability.",
"T-Mobile is targeting the lower-priced end of the tablet market with the $200 tag, beating out the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which recently dropped its sticker price to $250, after a $50 mail-in rebate.",
"Though the Streak's off-contract $450 isn't exactly a bargain-basement price, its still 50 bucks cheaper than the lowest-priced iPad.",
"The Streak 7's debut comes at the forefront of a 2011 tablet-debut onslaught.",
"Rumors of a March release for HP's new webOS-powered \"Topaz\" have been circulating recently, with the Android-fueled Motorola Xoom soon to follow.",
"While the Streak may have a leg up on Motorola in terms of pricing -- leaked screenshots suggest a hefty $800 price tag for the tablet on debut -- it might be at a disadvantage running the antiquated Android version 2.2 (Froyo) against the version 3.0 Honeycomb-powered Xoom.",
"But despite version-fragmentation issues, a relatively low-cost option like the Streak 7 may be impetus enough for shoppers to jump on one of the first big tablet offerings of the year.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"Beginning February 2, the Dell Streak 7 tablet will be available for $200 .",
"Streak 7 will be able to connect to T-Mobile's HSPA+ 4G network .",
"Web browsing and video playback were all quite smooth ."
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"(CNN) -- Northern Michigan University officials say the situation \"is under control\" after a telephone threat against students, faculty and others prompted a lockdown of the Marquette, Michigan, campus Wednesday morning.",
"However officials continued to urge students to remain in their dormitories and visitors to stay away from the campus until further notice.",
"The administration closed the university at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday after campus police learned of a telephone caller who had earlier threatened to attack NMU.",
"Cindy Paavola, the university's director of community relations, said campus police took the threat seriously, thus prompting the administration to close the university as a precautionary measure.",
"\"The caller threatened that there would be harm to students, faculty, staff and administrators,\" Paavola said.",
"\"They didn't identify particular people, but it was a wide-ranging threat and we are taking it seriously.\"",
"\"We don't know the seriousness of the threat because we haven't caught up with this person.",
"Rather than be sorry, we're going to be safe,\" Paavola said.",
"State and local law enforcement authorities are assisting university police in the investigation, she added.",
"The Marquette Area Public Schools also sent students and staff home, interim superintendent Debra Veiht told CNN.",
"She said police referred to a threat on a blog, which they deemed credible.",
"\"We put in our emergency plan into place and it's running smoothly,\" Veiht said.",
"The public school system has more than 3,000 students and 400 staff members, she said.",
"The Marquette Senior High School is located about a half-block away from the university.",
"University officials locked down all buildings so no one could enter or leave, and told students living on campus to stay in their dormitories.",
"Paavola said several office buildings were evacuated Wednesday morning.",
"CNN's Chris Kokenes contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Northern Michigan University police say situation is under control .",
"Officials continue to urge students and others not to wander on campus grounds .",
"NMU put the campus on lockdown early Wednesday because of threat against students, others .",
"Public schools in Marquette were also closed, the interim superintendent says ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Opposition leaders and intellectuals met with Egypt's vice president Saturday to discuss avenues for easing embattled President Hosni Mubarak from power, the number one demand of of tens of thousands of demonstrators.",
"Among the proposals under discussion is Article 139 of the constitution, which allows for the vice president to assume control if the president is no longer able.",
"At least one opposition group, the leftist Tagammu party, is asking the government to activate the article's powers so that Suleiman can take charge immediately and allow Mubarak to make a graceful exit.",
"A member of the self-declared Committee of the Wise, told CNN that Suleiman was willing to listen.",
"The group of independent elites -- intellectuals, artists, diplomats and businessmen -- wants to be at the table during crucial government transition talks.",
"They called on protests to continue at Tahrir Square every Tuesday and Friday until Mubarak \"resigns and makes true the demands of the people.\"",
"Mubarak, said the committee, can remain as a symbolic leader but should delegate to Suleiman responsibility for the transition period.",
"Saturday's talks were taking place as crowds massed again in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square for a 12th day of protests demanding an end to Mubarak's 30-year authoritarian rule over the Arab world's most populous nation.",
"After chaos and bloodshed earlier in the week, Cairo remained calm Saturday.",
"Cars traveled over a nearby overpass in the central city.",
"Outside the Egyptian Museum, people prayed as soldiers stood guard.",
"Protesters who had spent the night swept sidewalks with palm branches and bought food from carts stationed in the square.",
"The justice minister announced that courts would reopen Sunday and the government eased its daily curfew now imposed from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. \"We're in better shape,\" Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq said on state television.",
"\"And we can sense that day by day.\"",
"Heavy military presence persisted on the streets of central Cairo.",
"Interior Ministry spokesman Ismail Othman said \"the army remains neutral and is not taking sides because if we protect one side we will be perceived as biased.... our role is to prevent clashes and chaos as we separate the opposing groups.\"",
"But in a scene exposing how volatile the situation remains, demonstrators formed a human chain to prevent tanks from passing through the barricades into the anti-Mubarak enclave in Tahrir Square.",
"A witness said scuffles broke out when an army general asked demonstrators to take down their make-shift barricades of corrugated steel and debris, put up during the 48 hours of fighting near the landmark Egyptian Museum.",
"And hours earlier, gunshots rang out as protesters said scores of Mubarak defenders tried to assault the square early Saturday morning.",
"Troops fired into the air to disperse them, according to the protesters.",
"Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei's National Association for Change and the Tagammu party's leader announced a newly formed opposition group of 10 people, including ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Beltagy and liberal Ghad party leader Ayman Nour.",
"They called for Mubarak's immediate resignation and the right for peaceful demonstration.",
"\"We have been in agreement right now that we'd probably have a presidential council of three members including somebody from the army,\" ElBaradei told CNN.",
"\"We have a caretaker government ... who would then run the country for a year, prepare the grounds for the necessary changes in the electoral process to ensure that we will have all what we need for a free and fair election,\" he said.",
"Tagammu and the liberal Wafd party met with Suleiman Saturday, buoyed by the government's promises to investigate the bloodshed at Tahrir Square.",
"At least 11 people were killed and more than 900 injured, according to the Health Ministry.",
"Many believe the violence was instigated by government provocateurs.",
"But some opposition groups are refusing to come to the table until Mubarak steps down.",
"\"The so-called dialogue is the first step to exhaust this revolution.",
"The president must go,\" said Mohammed Habib, deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, an opposition Islamist umbrella group that if officially banned but tolerated in Egypt.",
"The group reported that a security force accompanied by a \"gang of thugs\" stormed the office of its news website Friday and arrested the journalists, technicians and administrators.",
"The Al-Jazeera news network reported a similar attack on its Cairo office.",
"Those attacks came after two days of violence and a government crackdown on journalists and human rights activists bearing witness to the crisis.",
"Some had predicted the demonstrations might lose their momentum.",
"But Friday, dubbed the \"Day of Departure\" saw massive crowds gather in Cairo and other Egyptian cities to demand change.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed, Frederik Pleitgen and Ivan Watson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Demonstrators try to prevent tanks from passing in Tahrir Square .",
"Protesters in Tahrir Square form new opposition group .",
"Some opposition leaders meet with the government; others dig in .",
"Anti-government protesters are still gathered in central Cairo ."
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"(Mental Floss) -- Some companies find their niche and stick to it.",
"Others, though, have to adapt to changing markets in order to thrive.",
"Here's a look at some companies that switched industries at some point in their histories, usually for the better.",
"Tiffany's may know how to prettily wrap jewelry because the company began in the paper business.",
"1. Avon . David H. McConnell started Avon in 1886 without really meaning to.",
"McConnell sold books door-to-door, but to lure in female customers he offered little gifts of perfume.",
"Before long, the perfume McConnell was giving away had become more popular than the books he was selling, so he shifted focus and founded the California Perfume Company, which later became Avon.",
"2. Nokia . The telecom giant got its start in Finland in 1865, when Fredrik Idestam opened a pulp mill and started making paper on the banks of Tammerkoski.",
"The company later bounced around a number of industries before getting serious about phones in the 1960s.",
"3. 3M . When the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company's founders opened their business in Two Harbors, Minnesota, in 1902, they weren't selling Post-It Notes.",
"The partners originally planned to sell the mineral corundum, an important ingredient in building grinding wheels, directly to manufacturers.",
"4. Berkshire Hathaway .",
"The sprawling holding company helmed by Warren Buffett was originally a textile manufacturer that took off in 1839.",
"Buffett took control in 1962, though, and by 1967 he started to move outside of textiles into insurance and other sectors.",
"Mental Floss: Ginsu Knives, Dairy Queen and what else Warren Buffett owns .",
"5. Wrigley . Like Avon, the chewing gum company got its start with a popular freebie.",
"William Wrigley, Jr. founded the company in 1891 with the goal of selling soap and baking powder.",
"He offered chewing gum as an enticement to his customers, and eventually the customers didn't care about the baking powder; they only wanted the gum.",
"6. Tiffany & Co.",
"The jewelry and silverware hot bed was originally a stationer called Tiffany, Young, and Ellis when it started in 1837.",
"In 1853 Tiffany switched its core business and began focusing on jewelry.",
"7. Coleco . The defunct electronics corporation actually began as a leather goods company in Connecticut in 1932.",
"In the early days it was known as the Connecticut Leather Company, which was later shortened to \"Coleco.\"",
"8. Hasbro . The company behind Transformers and G.I.",
"Joes began in 1923 as Hassenfeld Brothers.",
"The titular brothers didn't make toys, though; they sold textile remnants.",
"Their business gradually shifted into school supplies before making the leap to toys after the 1952 introduction of Mr.",
"Potato Head.",
"Mental Floss: How 10 classic toys were invented .",
"9. Raytheon . The defense contractor started up in 1922 as the American Appliance Company, which worked on refrigeration technology.",
"Eventually the company branched out into other areas of electronics and became Raytheon in 1925.",
"10. Colgate .",
"The hygienic products company got its start in 1806, but it didn't make its first toothpaste until 1873.",
"Founder William Colgate initially manufactured soap, candles, and starch.",
"11. Xerox . When Xerox got off the ground in 1906, it was as a maker of photographic paper and photography equipment called the Haloid Company.",
"The company didn't introduce what we would think of as a copier until the Xerox 914 made its debut in 1959.",
"12. John Deere .",
"The man behind the giant fleet of green tractors got his start as a blacksmith in Grand Detour, Illinois.",
"After struggling to make plows that could cut through the area's tough clay, Deere hit on the idea of building plows out of cast steel, and his blacksmith gig gave way to a booming farm-supply business.",
"13. Reading Entertainment .",
"Remember the Reading Railroad from the last time you played Monopoly?",
"The company still (sort of) exists!",
"The Reading Company got out of the railroad business in 1976 but was reborn as Reading Entertainment, which operates movie theaters mainly in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.",
"Mental Floss: 11 things Wal-Mart has banned .",
"14. Abercrombie & Fitch .",
"When David Abercrombie founded the clothing store in 1892 in New York City, he wasn't dreaming of clothing high school and college students everywhere.",
"The store was originally a sporting goods shop and outfitter; Abercrombie even outfitted Charles Lindbergh for his famous flight across the Atlantic.",
"The version Abercrombie & Fitch you see in your local mall started to come about after Limited Brands bought the company in 1988.",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"14 famous companies switched industries or at least products .",
"Wrigley's first bubbles came from soap, but gave gum away to customers .",
"Telecom giant Nokia began with a pulp plant to make paper .",
"Hasbro started with textiles, moved into school supplies then into toys ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea's chances of retaining the English Premier League title suffered another setback on Sunday as struggling Aston Villa snatched a last-gasp 3-3 draw in London.",
"Carlo Ancelotti's team had fought back to lead 3-2 with two goals in the last 10 minutes, but poor defending allowed young Villa fullback Ciaran Clark to equalize with a free header in the second minute of time added on.",
"The result left Chelsea in fifth place, a point behind Tottenham and six adrift of the leading Manchester clubs United and City.",
"The Blues ended 2010 with a morale-boosting win over Bolton last Wednesday, and looked like extending that form when Frank Lampard scored his first goal since returning from long-term injury in the 23rd minute.",
"The influential midfielder netted a penalty after James Collins was punished for a clumsy shove from behind on Florent Malouda, but Villa equalized four minutes before halftime when Ashley Young smashed home another spotkick following Michael Essien's foul on Nigel Reo-Coker.",
"New year, new Rooney as United stay top .",
"Former England striker Emile Heskey put Villa ahead two minutes after the break with a powerful header from Stewart Downing's cross, but Chelsea's relentless pressure finally told in the 84th minute when Didier Drogba fired home a low shot after the visitors could not clear his clever chest-down to Malouda.",
"Defender John Terry then popped up to slot in a rare goal with a minute to go in regulation time after Villa's otherwise excellent goalkeeper Brad Friedel could only parry Drogba's header into the former England captain's path.",
"That sparked scenes of jubilation and relief on the Chelsea bench, but Villa left Ancelotti's future in some doubt when the 21-year-old Clark stole into the penalty area unmarked to head home a teasing cross from substitute Marc Albrighton.",
"Chelsea have now won only once in eight league games, having played one more game than United -- a situation that is unlikely to please the club's billionaire owner Roman Abramovich.",
"\"We needed to win this game.",
"We didn't and now it's more difficult to prepare for the next game,\" Italian coach Ancelotti told reporters.",
"\"I'm disappointed because we worked very hard in the second half to come back into the game when 2-1 down.",
"We did a fantastic job, we came back and scored to make it 3-2 and everyone thought the game was finished.\"",
"While Ancelotti will have to face more questions about his increasingly insecure tenure, the result lifted the pressure on Villa's French manager Gerard Houllier, whose team moved two points clear of the bottom three.",
"Football's heroes and villains of 2010 .",
"\"It's a massive point,\" American veteran Friedel told match broadcaster Sky Sports.",
"\"We've been in such a bad run of form we needed something, and it's great to get it at Stamford Bridge.",
"\"We've got over what I thought was a poor penalty decision against us at the start and we've fought back, and hopefully this will kick-start our season and we can get back up the table.\"",
"In Sunday's late game, Newcastle won 1-0 at Wigan to give new manager Alan Pardew his second victory after two successive defeats.",
"Striker Shola Ameobi, playing alone up front in place of England striker Andy Carroll, scored a 19th-minute winner from close range after Joey Barton's shot was blocked and Peter Lovenkrands poked the follow-up against the post.",
"Newcastle moved up to 10th place, above Blackpool on goal difference but below Liverpool, to be six points clear of the bottom three.",
"Defenders Steven Taylor and Fabricio Coloccini headed against the bar, while Gary Caldwell struck the woodwork for Wigan, who remained just a point above the relegation zone.",
"Meanwhile, Celtic moved four points clear in the Scottish Premier League with a 2-0 victory at defending champions Rangers as Greece striker Giorgios Samaras netted both goals, the second from the penalty spot after he was fouled.",
"Rangers have played two fewer games than their Glasgow rivals following recent postponements due to snowy weather in Britain."
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"Aston Villa deny Chelsea a much-needed victory with a late equalizer in six-goal thriller .",
"Premier League champions fought back from 2-1 down to lead with a minute to play .",
"Struggling Villa earn a precious point in time added on to leave Chelsea in fifth place .",
"Newcastle win 1-0 at Wigan to give new manager Alan Pardew his second victory ."
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"(CNN) -- The sisters Kardashian -- Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe -- don't have to spend millions on focus groups and dynamic PR strategists to get noticed: Twitter does it for them.",
"In an interview to air on Thursday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" Morgan pointed out that all three are in the top 100 list of people being followed on Twitter worldwide: Kourtney is number 72, Khloe is number 47, and Kim is the sixth-most followed.",
"With 6 million followers, she's neck and neck with President Barack Obama.",
"Kourtney called Twitter \"the best decision-maker,\" pointing out that she Tweets everything from potential perfume bottle designs for the sisters' signature fragrance, to outfit dilemmas, to asking fans what she should have for dinner.",
"Morgan, who has only been on Twitter for six weeks, has more than 200,000 followers, and asked Kim and Kourtney to help him gain more, pointing out that the sisters' influence was \"fascinating.\"",
"In light of the fact that their opinions are clearly in demand, Morgan asked them about Obama and Sarah Palin, stating, \"What would you say if I said, 'Sarah Palin'?\"",
"To which Kourtney replied, \"I just think, like, hunter.",
"That's just like the first thing that comes into my head.",
"Kim said that Obama was the first presidential candidate to get her \"motivated enough to vote.\"",
"When Morgan asked Kourtney and Kim if they would have any talent if they were to appear on \"America's Got Talent,\" Kim Kardashian said, \"I would absolutely say that marketing is a skill.\"",
"Kim also said that \"fashion\" was a skill, pointing out that the sisters all worked as stylists at some point and that they currently own \"three successful clothing stores.\"",
"The Kardashians pointed out that much of their brand revolves around promoting a healthy body image and that none of the three sisters are \"stick skinny.\"",
"Kourtney admitted that while she is, in fact, a size zero, she is also very petite at 5 feet tall, and curvy.",
"Kim, at 5-foot-3, said her size wavers between the 4 and 6 range.",
"\"We're not trying to fit in the same mold,\" said Kim.",
"\"We know that we feel our best when we look our best.\"",
"Kim said she is always \"super honest\" when plastic surgery rumors surface and had no trouble admitting that while she has \"tried Botox before,\" her breasts are \"completely, 100 percent real.\"",
"Kourtney admitted she does, in fact, have implants.",
"Kim also said she often uses body shapers, masking tape, and other under-clothing body smoothers to boost her confidence -- particularly on the red carpet.",
"\"If you know your body type,\" said Kim, \"then you can dress to feel -- its like, 'Fake it until you make it' is what we always say.\"",
"When Morgan asked them what the most extravagant thing they ever bought for themselves was, Kim said she had purchased a $115,000 watch that she \"got a really good deal on.\"",
"Even the most savvy pop culture connoisseurs may not realize that Ryan Seacrest is the Kardashians' boss.",
"Seacrest has served as executive producer of the E!",
"network's \"Keeping Up with the Kardashians\" since the reality series premiered in 2007.",
"\"He is pretty evil,\" joked Kim.",
"The Kardashians count Seacrest among their greatest friends.",
"\"Ryan is so easy to talk to.",
"He just gets it,\" said Kim.",
"\"He completely trusts us and our vision.\"",
"Morgan also asked the Kardashians if there is anything about their lives that is off-limits.",
"\"Relationships,\" said Kim.",
"\"I only show very little bits and pieces.\"",
"When Morgan asked Kim if she was \"in love\" with New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries, Kim was tight-lipped.",
"\"I think that this time around, I am really trying to keep things a little bit more private than I have in the past,\" she said.",
"The Kardashians were quick to point out that their solid American values and work ethic keep them grounded.",
"Kim, who said she \"never\" talks money because she thinks its \"inappropriate,\" maintains that she gives 10 percent of her yearly income to her church because that's how she was raised.",
"\"Whatever it is, I give 10 percent away to the church, and that's what I was taught.\"",
"When asked if she did the same, Kourtney said, \"I'm going to now,\" with a laugh.",
"\"I was taught that, too, but I forgot about it.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"The Kardashian sisters credit Twitter with helping them make major decisions .",
"The sisters tell Piers Morgan their marketing and fashion savvy help keep their brand going strong .",
"Kim Kardashian says her most extravagant purchase was a $115,000 wristwatch .",
"See the full interview with Kim and Kourtney Kardashian on \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" 9 p.m.",
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"(CNN) -- Mark Webber has a maiden Formula One title in his sights to banish memories of an agonizing end to his 2010 campaign.",
"The Australian led the crivers' championship for Red Bull for most of the season only to be pipped at the post by team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who secured the title in the final race at Abu Dhabi.",
"Webber's year was dominated by controversy, as he accused his team of treating him as a \"number two driver\" and had a high-profile collision with Vettel in the Turkish Grand Prix which cost them both the chance of victory.",
"But despite missing out on the F1 crown, the 34-year-old says he has moved on from the disappointment of his near miss.",
"\"I'm completely over it,\" he told the official Formula one website.",
"\"Life goes on and I don't feel any regret.",
"It was quite a season.",
"It was an incredible year.",
"\"I lost the championship in the last race and over the whole season no one had a one-race lead over the other guys fighting for the title.",
"I still think I had the opportunity to be the champion, but I didn't do it because I didn't get the job done on the track.",
"\"Every race was alive.",
"Even if we'd had one more race after Abu Dhabi four guys could have still won the championship.",
"He (Vettel) did a great job and deserved the championship.",
"\"There been a lot of great moments for me, but of course I didn't get the jackpot.",
"But I am still very proud of what happened.",
"I am definitely looking to improve this year.\"",
"Away from the track, the relationship between Webber and Vettel was a running theme throughout the season as the pressure of the title race set in.",
"But Webber says it is important for Red Bull that he and Vettel enjoy a harmonious start to the season.",
"He said: \"I would say our relationship is pretty good at the moment.",
"We had some contact over the winter -- not a huge amount, but enough I would say to have a good start into the season.",
"\"I am not stupid and know that harmony in the team is important and the drivers play a key role in this.",
"What is important is that we don't destabilize the team.\"",
"Red Bull were propelled into the limelight as their drivers finished first and second in the title race, while the team romped away with the constructors' championship.",
"And Webber says Red Bull will come back stronger in 2011 as a result of the pressure they experienced during a record breaking season.",
"\"Of course you always learn from such a situation.",
"Probably everybody does -- not only the drivers.",
"It was a new situation for us -- suddenly being the pacemaker on the grid.",
"\"In the end it was a very, very successful season for the team so I would say we managed all the hiccups perfectly.",
"You need to be flexible and adjust to what might happen.",
"\"That's what we've learnt as a team.",
"It was a new situation for everybody in the team, from the drivers to the management to everybody on the floor.\""
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"Mark Webber aiming to end his Formula One title drought in the upcoming season .",
"Red Bull driver finished third in 2010 after leading most of the season .",
"Webber's teammate Sebastian Vettel won the drivers' championship .",
"Australian says his relationship with Vettel is 'pretty good'"
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"(CNN) -- Medical workers expressed alarm Friday over the increase in hospitalizations and deaths in Haiti's cholera outbreak as the earthquake-devastated nation's already strained health system overflowed with the sick.",
"On the outskirts of the capital city of Port-au-Prince in the slum of Cite Soleil, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) saw 216 cases of cholera at Choscal Hospital on Thursday.",
"Five days ago, that number was only 30.",
"Stefano Zannini, the head of mission for Medecins Sans Frontieres, said his staff was seeing seven times the cases they were seeing three days ago.",
"\"The trend is extremely, extremely alarming,\" he said.",
"\"We have not reached a peak yet, but it could arrive next week.\"",
"The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs put the death toll Friday at more than 800, with more than 12,000 people hospitalized.",
"Epidemiologists predict the outbreak could last for months and say the entire nation of almost 10 million people is at risk because they have no immunity to cholera.",
"The United Nations warned that Haiti is facing one of the most severe outbreaks of the disease in the past 100 years.",
"It appealed to international donors for $164 million in aid and said it anticipates as many as 200,000 people to be sickened with cholera over the next six to 12 months.",
"\"A major effort has already been made, but the sheer quantity of relief items that need to be delivered in the days and weeks ahead is going to require more logistical and financial support for the government by all humanitarian agencies and donors and very close coordination,\" said Nigel Fisher, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Haiti.",
"\"Without this the epidemic could well outrun our efforts.\"",
"Of grave concern are cases that originated in the tent cities of Port-au-Prince, which sprang up to shelter those left homeless by the massive earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people last January.",
"Health officials fear that infection could spread quickly in the makeshift cities' congested, unsanitary conditions and in impoverished neighborhoods where clean drinking water is at a premium.",
"Symptoms of cholera, an acute, bacterial illness caused by drinking tainted water, can be mild or even non-existent.",
"But sometimes they can be severe: profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps, which can cause rapid loss of body fluids and lead to dehydration, shock and death.",
"Aid workers in Haiti are scrambling as the nation recovers not only from the earthquake, but from last week's hurricane.",
"\"We are stretched thin,\" said Julie Schindall, a spokeswoman for the humanitarian agency Oxfam.",
"Zannini reminded the world that cholera is as much a logistical problem as a medical one.",
"It's not just a matter of medical donations or more doctors on the ground, he said.",
"Who will supply clean drinking water?",
"Who will make sure there are proper bathroom facilities?",
"Who will dispose of the waste?",
"Or for that matter, the dead bodies?",
"\"It's not just about donating money,\" Zannini said.",
"\"It's about concrete actions.\""
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"The death toll has passed 800; more than 12,000 people have been sickened .",
"The United Nations warns that 200,000 people may get sick .",
"It has asked for $164 million in a global aid ."
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"A volleyed goal from substitute Tadanari Lee in the second half of extra time earned Japan a 1-0 victory over Australia and a record fourth Asian Cup Saturday.",
"Lee hammered home a cross from Yugo Nagatomo in the 109th minute to settle the clash and leave Holgar Osieck's Australia heartbroken at Qatar's Khalifa International Stadium.",
"The Socceroos had twice gone close with Everton's Tim Cahill having an effort cleared off the line and winger Harry Kewell firing straight at goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima when clean through on goal.",
"But Alberto Zaccheroni's \"Blue Samurai\" weathered the storm to add to their previous triumphs in 1992, 2000 and 2004 as Lee proved their hero.",
"\"It is a great victory.",
"We have a really great team,\" Zaccheroni told AFP.",
"\"They were united and won the title against such strong opponents,\" added the Italian.",
"\"I knew he would do it.",
"What is great about this team is that players, who started on the bench, could produce results on the pitch.\"",
"The triumph secures Japan an automatic place at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil -- a warm-up for the World Cup proper a year later.",
"Australia had only conceded once in the competition before the final and goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, who became his country's most capped player with his 88th appearance, easily dealt with Keisuke Honda's effort in the first half.",
"It was Osieck's side, appearing in only their second Asian Cup, who looked the more dangerous and they struck the woodwork early in the second half through Luke Wilkshire's cross that became a shot.",
"Japan hit back when the lively Nagatomo provided a delivery for Shinji Okazaki, whose header drifted narrowly wide of the post.",
"With 20 minutes left Kewell spurned his chance when one-on-one with Kawashima and as the game drifted towards extra-time, Japan started to take control.",
"After 109 goalless minutes and with the match headed for penalties, Lee fired the telling blow to spark scenes of wild celebration on the Japan bench.",
"By contrast, Australia's German coach Osieck was left to rue earlier missed chances.",
"\"You can imagine how disappointed we are to come second because we had our opportunities.",
"Unfortunately, we couldn't convert them,\" he told AFP."
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"Japan win a record fourth Asian Cup after a 1-0 win over Australia .",
"Substitute Tadanari Lee's volley deep into extra time is the difference between the teams .",
"Australia twice go close through Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell but fail to score .",
"Tournament staged in 2022 World Cup host nation Qatar ."
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"Hollywood, California (CNN) -- Dr. Paul Nassif couldn't tell if his friend Charlie Sheen was drunk last Thursday when the actor made the phone call that eventually led to a hospital visit and the latest controversy about Sheen's rehab.",
"\"I just was waking up, I was still very, very groggy and the phone rang and it was Charlie Sheen's residence,\" Nassif told CNN Tuesday.",
"\"I spoke to Charlie for a few minutes and he said he was in a lot of pain, and remember I'm Charlie's friend.",
"I'm not his doctor. I'm a facial plastic surgeon.",
"\"When I spoke to Charlie it sounded like he was in a lot of pain, severe pain, so when someone's in severe pain you know it's not like I'm going to walk out my door and go see him.",
"Plus I don't even live that close next to him,\" Nassif said.",
"\"When I usually hear something like that -- you don't know what's going on -- so the thing you always are going to do is dial 911.",
"\"I instructed the person I was speaking with to call 911 and then I also followed up to make sure that it was performed and kind of communicated somewhat to the paramedics,\" Nassif said.",
"Porn actress Kacey Jordan has told media outlets that a two-day party preceded Sheen's collapse in his Los Angeles home.",
"Sheen has since entered rehab, and his hit sitcom \"Two and a Half Men\" has suspended production.",
"Nassif couldn't determine whether Sheen was drunk or high.",
"\"I couldn't tell if he was inebriated.",
"I only spoke to him for a very brief moment because as soon as I heard him say he's in a lot of pain I wanted to get on the phone with the assistant so they can just immediately dial 911,\" Nassif said.",
"Sheen and now ex-wife Brooke Mueller were married in Nassif's Beverly Hills home, Nassif said.",
"Nassif's wife, Adrienne Maloof-Nassif, appears on \"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.\"",
"\"They wanted to get married, and a mutual friend introduced all of us, and they said, 'Let's get married, can we get married at your house?'",
"and that's how we met and soon after that we became very good friends,\" Nassif said.",
"Nassif drove Sheen home from the hospital, but he declined to provide details of their conversation.",
"\"There were things he said I don't feel comfortable\" disclosing, Nassif said.",
"At another point in the interview, Nassif added: \"Obviously we all want Charlie to keep his sobriety.",
"No one can push him into it.\" Sheen's manager has said the actor is undergoing rehab at home, not in a residential facility.",
"\"Where you do it doesn't matter if you have someone with you that's helping you,\" Nassif said.",
"\"That would be nice to be at your own environment as long as you have the right structure.\""
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"Surgeon tells Sheen's assistant to dial 911 ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Charlie Sheen plans to return to work on his hit sitcom \"Two and a Half Men\" by the end of February, his representative said Thursday.",
"CBS placed the show on \"production hiatus\" after the actor began rehab treatments in the wake of an emergency hospital visit last week.",
"\"My understanding is that he will be back on the set at the end of February,\" Sheen representative Stan Rosenfield said.",
"The network ordered additional episodes of the sitcom \"Rules of Engagement\" to fill any gap in their Monday night schedule, but if Sheen returns as expected they may not be needed.",
"Sheen issued a written statement Wednesday thanking his fellow cast members, the show's crew and network executives for their support.",
"It did not directly address the incident.",
"\"I have a lot of work to do to be able to return the support I have received from so many people,\" Sheen said in a statement .",
"\"Like Errol Flynn, who had to put down his sword on occasion, I just want to say, 'thank you,'\" Sheen said.",
"Sheen was \"very, very intoxicated, also apparently in a lot of pain\" last Thursday morning, according to a 911 call from a doctor who had just talked to the actor.",
"\"Kind of weird, the phone call I received,\" Dr. Paul Nassif told the Los Angeles Fire Department dispatcher in the recorded call, which was released by the fire department Wednesday.",
"Porn actress Kacey Jordan has told media outlets that a two-day party preceded Sheen's collapse.",
"Paramedics went to Sheen's Los Angeles home and then took him by ambulance to a hospital, where he spent several hours.",
"Sheen's representative later blamed a hernia for Sheen's pain and ambulance ride to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.",
"He did not respond to a CNN request for comment on the 911 call Wednesday.",
"Sheen's manager has said the actor is undergoing rehab at home, not in a residential facility.",
"Nassif, in an interview Tuesday with HLN's \"Showbiz Tonight,\" said he couldn't tell if Sheen, who is his friend, was drunk.",
"What he told the emergency dispatcher last week was different.",
"\"I got him on the phone and he was very, very intoxicated, also apparently in a lot of pain,\" Nassif said on the 911 call.",
"He told the dispatcher that Sheen was saying, \"Don't call 911.\"",
"Nassif is a facial plastic surgeon and is not Sheen's medical doctor, Nassif told HLN.",
"He later explained to HLN that he was protecting his friend by saying in Tuesday's interview that he wasn't sure Sheen was drunk.",
"Sheen and now ex-wife Brooke Mueller were married in Nassif's Beverly Hills home, Nassif said.",
"Nassif's wife, Adrienne Maloof-Nassif, appears on \"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.\"",
"\"They wanted to get married, and a mutual friend introduced all of us, and they said, 'Let's get married, can we get married at your house?'",
"and that's how we met and soon after that we became very good friends,\" Nassif said.",
"Nassif drove Sheen home from the hospital, but he declined to provide details of their conversation.",
"\"There were things he said I don't feel comfortable\" disclosing, Nassif said.",
"At another point in the interview, Nassif added: \"Obviously we all want Charlie to keep his sobriety.",
"No one can push him into it.\" CNN's Kareen Wynter contributed to this report."
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"The actor began rehab last week after an emergency hospital visit .",
"Sheen's \"Two and a Half Men\" is on a \"production hiatus\"\nCBS ordered extra espisodes of another sitcom to fill the gap ."
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"(CNN) -- Napoli missed a great chance to cut the gap on Italian league leaders AC Milan after crashing 2-0 at Chievo Verona as favored teams struggled to impress in Wednesday's games.",
"Walter Mazzarri's second-placed team could have moved within two points after Lazio held Milan 0-0 on Tuesday, but suffered a sixth defeat in 23 Serie A games.",
"Striker Davide Moscardelli put Chievo ahead in the 20th minute after controlling the ball well and curling a left-foot shot in off the post, and should have doubled the lead but miskicked with the goal at his mercy.",
"Defender Gennaro Sardo netted five minutes after halftime after winning the ball and beating three men before firing home to lift his team up to 10th in the table and completed the double over Napoli after the 3-1 away victory in September.",
"Vote for the best clubs in the world in new CNN poll .",
"Champions Inter Milan, meanwhile, can move above third-placed Lazio on goal difference with victory at bottom club Bari on Thursday, having two games in hand.",
"Fourth-placed Roma could have gone third on Wednesday but were held 1-1 at home by second-bottom Brescia.",
"Loan striker Marco Borriello put Claudio Ranieri's team ahead in the 58th minute, but Brazilian forward Eder equalized 11 minutes later.",
"Juventus coach Luigi Delneri is battling to save his job after the 2-1 defeat at Palermo -- his team's fifth in eight games this year.",
"Lazio hold leaders Milan in goalless draw .",
"Palermo moved above the Turin team into sixth place as captain Fabrizio Miccoli beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon from a tight angle in the seventh minute and midfielder Giulio Migliaccio headed the second on 20.",
"Claudio Marchisio reduced the deficit nine minutes before halftime after goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu failed to deal with a corner, but the 27-time Italian champions could not equalize.",
"Udinese dropped to seventh after coming from behind to draw 1-1 at home to 14th-placed Bologna.",
"Captain Marco Di Vaio put the visitors ahead in the 65th minute, but defender Maurizio Domizzi leveled with 13 minutes to play.",
"Cagliari claimed ninth place with a 1-0 victory at Sampdoria, Fiorentina moved up to 11th with a 1-0 home win over Genoa, Cesena drew 1-1 with fellow relegation battlers Catania and Lecce moved away from the bottom three with a 1-0 win at Parma."
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"Napoli fail to move within two points of leaders AC Milan after defeat in Verona .",
"Chievo complete the double over second-placed team with 2-0 victory .",
"Turin giants Juventus suffer fifth defeat in eight games this year, losing at Palermo .",
"Fourth-placed Roma held 1-1 at home by second-bottom Brescia ."
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"Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"London (VBS.TV) -- At the end of 2010, VBS attended a series of violent student demonstrations in London.",
"The first saw thousands of students storm the Conservative Party HQ and someone lob a fire extinguisher from the roof, nearly killing a police officer.",
"Two weeks later, when the second protest rolled around, we were locked inside a 200-meter area with thousands of young protesters for 10 hours.",
"It was a fun place to be \"kettled\" midwinter, and we watched as kids burned bus stops, held impromptu grime raves, smashed the windows of the treasury and were beaten up by police.",
"We also noticed that a small number of protesters seemed to be assaulting each other.",
"A week later, a journalist named Graham Johnson who specializes in gang crime confirmed what we'd suspected: that gangs had been using the protests as cover for while they made money.",
"Various gangs had been coming from around the capital to pickpocket, mug, loot and throw the occasional lump of concrete at riot cops.",
"We met up with a gang in South East London who, from behind facemasks, told us that they didn't care at all about politics but that they had walked away from the last protest with more than 2,000 pounds worth of goods and cash.",
"See the rest of Teenage Riots at VBS.TV .",
"They also predicted that as the government cuts spread their way across society, more riots would spring up, not in relatively policeable central London locations but in the estates of the most impoverished parts of the city.",
"The protesters would not be students, either; they would be armed gang members, willing to \"wipe out a whole constabulary\" of police.",
"Teenage Riot, which resulted from our time at the protests, is a five-part film looking at the riots, their significance and the strange combination of students, schoolkids, gangs, anarchists and police that made up the clashes that would define the most violent period of political upheaval in this country since the '80s."
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"Reporters \"kettled\" with thousands of young protesters for hours at a time .",
"Film looks at significance of riots and \"strange\" mix of players involved ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Every one of the 3,000 students at T.C.",
"Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, has met with a guidance counselor and come up with individual goals that include plans for graduating high school and beyond.",
"\"I'm surprised by how invested the students have gotten in creating the goals for themselves,\" said guidance counselor Elisabeth Neace.",
"While students at T.C.",
"Williams have thought about their future, many high school students have not, and leave high school unprepared for adult life.",
"That transition from secondary school to employability is the focus of a new report released by the Harvard Graduate School of Education that advocates a shift in the way the United States looks at college degrees.",
"\"It is long past time that we broaden the range of high-quality pathways that we offer to our young people, beginning in high school,\" according to the Pathways to Prosperity report.",
"It says that in the United States, too much emphasis is placed on attending and graduating from a four-year college as the only path for success.",
"While 47 million new jobs are projected to be created in the United States by 2018, only a third of those will require a bachelor's degree or higher, according to the report.",
"Thirty percent of those new jobs will require an associate's degree or a post-secondary occupational certificate.",
"\"In our view, the U.S. system would be greatly strengthened if the pathways to all major occupations were clearly delineated from the beginning of high school,\" the report says.",
"This would let students and their parents clearly see what courses of study and other experiences would \"best position them to gain access to that field,\" the report adds.",
"Also, the report advocates a larger role for future employers by linking classroom learning to actual jobs through paid internships, and providing more access to jobs related to the students' field of study while they are still in school.",
"The report recommends that future employers work with educators to design programs of study for students.",
"\"Our goal should be that beginning no later than middle school, all students should have access to this system of employer involvement and assistance,\" according to the report.",
"\"Unless we are willing to provide more flexibility and choice in the last two years of high school, and more opportunities for students to pursue program options that link work and learning, we will continue to lose far too many young people along the path to graduation,\" says Robert Schwartz, who heads the Pathways to Prosperity Project at Harvard.",
"Traditionally, U.S. students receive career advice from middle and high school guidance counselors, but the report points out that under the current system, the average ratio of students to counselors is 500 to 1.",
"The counselors at T. C. Williams feel extremely lucky to have a ratio of 151 students to one guidance counselor.",
"The high school restructured its administration for the 2010-2011 school year and added an additional five counselors to its staff of twelve.",
"\"The lower ratio means the counselors are having access to students in ways we haven't been able to before,\" according to Greg Forbes, the director of secondary school counseling there.",
"The additional staff allows them to have more interaction with the students.",
"\"It's a different type of feel when you are talking about customizing and personalizing education for each and every child,\" said Forbes."
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"Too much emphasis is placed on college as the only path for success, the report says .",
"The report advocates \"clearly delineated\" pathways to all major occupations ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea's big spending on Europe's transfer deadline day has been criticized by one of the club's English rivals, who questioned how the Premier League champions can meet UEFA's new financial fair-play rules.",
"The London team announced a loss of $113 million on Monday for the year ended June 30, 2010 -- but then smashed the British transfer record with a reported $80 million acquisition of Spain striker Fernando Torres, and also laid out $34 million for Brazil defender David Luiz.",
"The Torres deal allowed his former club Liverpool to spend $55 million on Newcastle's relatively unproven England striker Andy Carroll, who is injured, and $36 million on Uruguay forward Luis Suarez.",
"However, European football's governing body UEFA will take sanctions against clubs who cannot balance their books by the end of the 2012 reporting period.",
"The best and worst deals of a dramatic deadline day .",
"Chelsea's London rivals Arsenal were again quiet in the January transfer window, and manager Arsene Wenger questioned the tactics of the Blues' billionaire Russian owner Roman Abramovich.",
"\"Chelsea supported UEFA's financial fair-play proposals but in the morning they announced a £70 million loss and in the afternoon they buy £75 million worth of players.",
"Where's the logic in that?\" he told reporters after Tuesday's 2-1 Premier League win over Everton.",
"\"It's hard to guess.",
"Officially they vote for financial fair play, but they can explain why they have done this much better than I can.",
"Abramovich can tell you why, but that's how you can read it from the outside.",
"\"If you don't invest for a while, it looks as if you're not as involved in it anymore, that he doesn't like it as much.",
"But £75 million means more will come.",
"\"Abramovich was a bit in no-man's land where nobody could guess if he wanted to still invest or not.",
"He has been like that for a long time, but that has changed.",
"He has decided to put big money in again and that tells you in the summer more will come.",
"He is back to full investment.\"",
"Adriano Galliani, vice-president of Italian club AC Milan, also criticized the level of spending in England -- which reached a record $363 million.",
"\"Everyone's talking about balancing the books but then they spend like crazy people,\" he told reporters.",
"\"Chelsea strengthened in an amazing way, spending 80 million euros.",
"I just don't know where financial sense will end up.\"",
"Chelsea sign Torres and Luiz in frantic end to deadline day .",
"Chelsea dressed up the club's financial results by saying they were \"cash positive\" with a net inflow of £3.8 million compared to an outflow of £16.9 million in 2008-09.",
"\"The club is in a strong position to meet the challenges of UEFA 'financial fair play' initiatives which will be relevant to the financial statements to be released in early 2013,\" chief executive Ron Gourlay told the Chelsea website.",
"UEFA released a statement saying that clubs \"are increasingly aware of the nature of the financial fair-play rules, which aim to encourage clubs to balance their incomes and expenses over a period of time covering four to six transfer windows.\"",
"It refused to comment on individual clubs, but said the rules did not stop them from spending money on transfers as such -- the emphasis is on balancing books at the end of the season.",
"\"There is no doubt that transfers made now will impact on the break-even results of the financial years ending 2012 and 2013 -- the first financial years to be assessed under the break-even rule,\" UEFA said.",
"\"The clubs know the rules and also know that UEFA is fully committed to implementing them with rigor.",
"As from this summer, all payments due on transfers and to employees will be assessed by the Club Financial Control Panel as part of the 'enhanced overdue payables' rule.\""
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"Arsenal manager unhappy with Chelsea's $114 million outlay on two players .",
"Arsene Wenger says spending shows no logic after announcing a massive loss .",
"AC Milan official also criticizes England's record level of January outlay .",
"European clubs must balance their books by end of 2012 or face sanctions ."
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"(CNN) -- Inter Milan moved into third place in Italy's Serie A after inflicting yet more misery on bottom-placed Bari with a 3-0 win.",
"Late goals from Houssine Kharja, Giampaolo Pazzini and Wesley Sneijder sealed three points for the Nerazzurri, who are now seven points behind city rivals and league leaders AC Milan with a game in hand.",
"It was their fifth win in the last six games since former AC Milan coach Leonardo took over from Rafael Benitez.",
"The only stain on a good night for Inter was a punch thrown by Romanian defender Christian Chivu at opponent Marco Rossi.",
"The officials missed the incident but Chivu may be retrospectively punished.",
"A poor playing surface gave rise to a scrappy first half of few chances.",
"Bari did threaten through Sergio Almiron and Simone Bentivoglio before Inter's Brazilian defender Maicon flashed a shot wide of the post for the defending champions.",
"The home side again went close in the early stages of the second half when Alessandro Parisi forced Julio Cesar into a save.",
"But with 20 minutes to go Inter made the breakthrough as Kharja, from Morocco, swapped passes with Samuel Eto'o before firing low into the net.",
"With Bari desperately seeking an equalizer Inter added two more goals late on.",
"First Pazzini scored his third goal in two games since his $16m move from Sampdoria -- his shot squirmed under Bari goalkeeper Jean Francois Gillet in injury time.",
"Then Dutch international Sneijder rounded off the scoring, finishing from close range after Kharja's lay-off."
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"Editor's note: Steve Politi is a sports columnist for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, who has covered Bob Hurley Sr.'s career.",
"Bob Hurley Sr. is about to hit a milestone few basketball coaches on any level have reached: 1,000 victories.",
"He has won them the hard way at St. Anthony High in Jersey City, New Jersey, sweeping the hardwood floor before home games and riding yellow buses to cramped gymnasiums up and down the East Coast.",
"The victories helped make him just the third boys high school coach to earn enshrinement in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.",
"They earned him the respect of some of the highest-profile coaches in the sport, including Mike Krzyzewski at Duke.",
"But his true legacy is much deeper than the lights on the scoreboard.",
"Hurley said he would trade in those wins -- every last one of them -- for a chance to help more inner-city kids.",
"\"You know what? I would give them up for one more chance with some of the kids I didn't reach over the years,\" Hurley said.",
"\"If I could have a second chance with some of those, it would be worth all the adulation.\"",
"Hurley doesn't coach for the attention.",
"If he wanted that, he long ago would have left St. Anthony, a tiny Catholic school a few blocks from the Holland Tunnel, for the arenas and riches of the college game.",
"He chose to stay in Jersey City, becoming one of the coaching legends in the high school game.",
"Hurley, whose current team is ranked second in the country in an ESPN poll, will likely win his 1,000th game late next week.",
"No one is sure exactly how many losses that includes -- 109 or 110 is the best guess -- but they rarely happen more than once or twice a season.",
"Still, even with 25 state parochial titles, the victories are a small part of what he has accomplished.",
"Hurley, 63, has been a father figure for hundreds of inner-city teenagers over the past four decades.",
"He has placed nearly all of them in four-year colleges, most on scholarships.",
"Some are doctors and businessmen now.",
"Others are lawyers and police captains.",
"One owns a popular restaurant in Jersey City and once held a seat on the city's board of education.",
"Terry Dehere, who went on to play at Seton Hall and in the NBA, could have moved on from his roots.",
"Instead, he moved back to Jersey City, twice renovating his boyhood playground, restoring an abandoned building for low-income housing and hands out 500 turkeys annually each Thanksgiving.",
"\"(Hurley) had a direct effect on a lot of young men's lives growing up in Jersey City,\" Dehere said.",
"\"To have a coach who was dedicated and a taskmaster helped a lot of kids -- and I'm a living testament to it.\"",
"Dehere played for Hurley in the late '80s.",
"Two decades later, Mike Rosario was the star of the team, a hot-tempered kid who used basketball as a refuge from the life in a housing project.",
"\"He started disciplining me like I was one of his sons,\" Rosario said.",
"\"It was to the point where I was like, 'Wow, I had never been pushed like this in my life.'",
"I learned how to be a man and not a boy.\"",
"Rosario now plays college ball at the University of Florida.",
"Coaching at a place like St. Anthony isn't always a glamorous life, but Hurley has always recognized its importance in the city where he grew up.",
"The school, with just 250 students, boasts a 100% college acceptance rate over the past 18 years, according to its Web site.",
"Hurley has helped keep the doors open through his fundraising efforts, never making more than a $6,500 stipend for coaching.",
"He worked as a probation officer and then a parks department official before retiring from his day jobs to focus on his team and his grandchildren.",
"His first victory came on December 8, 1972.",
"It was an impressive debut, a 64-43 win over a team whose coach was ejected in frustration, but there were few signs of a dynasty in the making.",
"\"I remember that like it was yesterday,\" Hurley said.",
"\"You think, 'Wow. It would be nice to do that again.'",
"\" St. Anthony kept winning and winning, and producing college-ready players along the way.",
"That attracted attention from the next level.",
"Finally, in the spring of 1985, he received a phone call from then Xavier coach Pete Gillen with a simple message.",
"\"It's time.\" He accepted an offer to become Gillen's top assistant.",
"But then he arrived home to find his three children waiting.",
"Bobby, his oldest son, had written a list of reasons why he had to stay at St. Anthony that left the old man in tears.",
"\"Who's going to be my coach?",
"You're going to be on the road all the time.",
"Are you ever going to see me play?\"",
"So Hurley stayed put.",
"His team with his son at point guard is regarded as one of the best in state history, and when he graduated from St. Anthony, Bobby Hurley helped turn another coach into a legend, too.",
"Krzyzewski has won four national championships at Duke, including two when Bobby Hurley was his point guard.",
"He was the presenter on August 13 when Hurley Sr. was inducted into the Hall of Fame, standing proudly over his shoulder as the high school lifer joined the most exclusive club.",
"\"Bob has a passion to help young men get the opportunities they would never have gotten unless he and basketball entered their lives,\" Krzyzewski said.",
"\"He should be in the Hall of Fame not for the number of wins, but for the number of lives he's changed.\"",
"His induction was not just a victory for Hurley.",
"It was a validation for thousands of high school coaches across the country.",
"Few will ever get the same recognition.",
"Hurley has been the subject of a best-selling book, \"The Miracle of St. Anthony,\" and an award-winning documentary, \"The Street Stops Here.\"",
"But in a way, when he stood with NBA stars such as Scottie Pippen and Karl Malone at the induction ceremony, he stood for all the coaches who work at the grassroots level of the sport.",
"The men and women who not only shape the lives of young people, but sweep the floors before games.",
"\"What we see is the finished product,\" Malone said before the induction ceremony.",
"\"But somewhere along the line, somebody looked at every one of us and said, 'I think I'll give that young man a chance.'",
"Our high school coaches don't get nearly enough credit.\""
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"Hurley is only the third boys high school coach to be entered into the Basketball Hall of Fame .",
"He bypassed collegiate career to make a difference in the lives of inner-city kids .",
"His students have gone on to play college hoops, become doctors and businessmen ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid will face arch-rivals Barcelona in the final of the Spanish Cup after both teams won the second legs of their semifinals on Wednesday.",
"Barcelona progressed first with a 3-0 win at struggling Almeria which sealed an 8-0 aggregate victory to surpass Athletic Bilbao's 34 final appearances.",
"Real then knocked out defending champions Sevilla with a 2-0 home win to extend their record to 37 finals, having taken a 1-0 advantage into the match.",
"Coach Jose Mourinho has the chance to end Real's 17-year trophy drought in the Copa del Rey as Madrid face Barca twice in the space of a week in April.",
"The final on April 20 comes just three days after the second scheduled La Liga \"Clasico\" between the two teams this season at the Santiago Bernabeu.",
"Vote for the best clubs in the world in new CNN poll .",
"Real went down 5-0 in the first meeting at the Camp Nou on November 29, and trail Barcelona by seven points in the league after Sunday's defeat by Osasuna.",
"But Mourinho's men bounced back to beat 10-man Sevilla with second-half goals from Mesut Ozil and new signing Emmanuel Adebayor.",
"Real winger Angel Di Maria hit the post in the fifth minute, but Ozil finally broke the deadlock with eight to play as he rounded goalkeeper Jari Varas after a defense-splitting pass from fellow Germany midfielder Sami Khedira.",
"Sevilla had defender Sergio Sanchez sent off soon after for his second booking after a challenge on substitute Adebayor, who marked his home debut with a goal in the fourth minute of time added on.",
"'Cocky' Ronaldo ridiculed by 'the Rifle' The Togo international, signed on loan until the end of this season from English club Manchester City, controlled a cross from fellow replacement Lassana Diarra on his chest and smashed a volley into the net.",
"While Real can boast 17 cup wins and 19 runner-up finishes, Barcelona will be seeking to extend the Catalan club's record of 25 triumphs, with the last coming in 2009 against Bilbao.",
"With key players such as Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Gerard Pique and Pedro Rodriguez all rested at Almeria, Barca still cruised with goals from Adriano, Thiago Alcantara and Ibrahim Afellay.",
"Brazilian defender Adriano scored his first goal for the club in the 34th minute after cutting in from the left flank to slot home, while 10 minutes after halftime 19-year-old Thiago headed in a cross from the right by Dani Alves.",
"Dutch midfielder Ifellay then scored his first goal since joining from PSV Eindhoven at the start of last month in the 65th minute to kill off Almeria, who reached the last four for the first time."
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"Barcelona reach Copa del Rey final for the 35th time after beating Almeria 3-0 .",
"Josep Guardiola's team will seek to clinch record-extending 26th title on April 20 .",
"Real Madrid qualify for record 37th final after eliminating cup holders Sevilla .",
"Jose Mourinho's side win 2-0 at home to seal a 3-0 aggregate victory in semi ."
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"Houston, Texas (CNN) -- The doctor currently in charge of Gabrielle Giffords' neurological recovery, the man who's had his very hands in Giffords' brain, was once mistaken for a kung fu expert.",
"It was 1972, and the second-graders at Ed Smith Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, didn't quite know what to make of Dong Kim, the boy who'd just arrived from Korea.",
"\"There were probably not that many Asian people there at that time, so a lot of the kids just assumed I knew kung fu,\" Kim remembered, laughing.",
"\"I got some notoriety out of that.",
"I knew nothing about kung fu, but I could kind of fake it and impress people, or at least impress other 7-year olds.\"",
"That boy grew up to be chairman of the director of the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center.",
"Giffords came under his care last week when she was transferred to Texas from the University Medical Center in Arizona.",
"On Monday, Kim removed a drain from Giffords' brain, which had been placed there to remove excess fluid.",
"Kim, whose father was studying library science at Syracuse University, recalls his early days in the United States sitting in a classroom not understanding anything \"a little anxiety-provoking, but I felt pretty comfortable.\"",
"He enjoyed math from the beginning, since the numbers made sense, and within the year, he learned English.",
"\"I do think that the immigrant experience is quite a strong one,\" he said.",
"\"I remember growing up feeling strongly that my parents had come here for me and my sister.",
"I remember them commenting over and over again what a great country this was and how we're lucky to be here.",
"I think that kind of instills in you that you're getting this real opportunity and you should try to take advantage of it.\"",
"Kim's family later moved to Southern California, and he received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University.",
"Medicine was not his first love.",
"\"At 18 or 19, I was trying to write the great American novel, but I would stare at the page for an hour and half and get two sentences out, so that's not good,\" he said, laughing.",
"\"What I wrote didn't read well, even to me.\"",
"By his junior year at Stanford, Kim had taken an interest in medicine, and he received his medical degree from the University of California-San Francisco.",
"Within a few years of finishing his residency, he arrived at one of his chosen fields of research, the genetics of brain aneurysms, a condition in which a blood vessel bulges out and can later rupture and bleed, causing a stroke.",
"His interest lay partly in his own family history.",
"Three of his four grandparents died of brain hemorrhages, or bleeding in the brain, as did his 37-year-old uncle, a surgeon who Kim says was kidnapped by the North Koreans.",
"Kim and his team discovered several genes related to aneurysms.",
"He had his parents tested, and both were negative.",
"Another area of research involves using stem cells from a patient's skin to treat spinal cord injuries.",
"The treatments they developed have allowed paralyzed rats to walk again, and they hope to begin studies in humans in the next two to three years.",
"Kim says his favorite part of his work is when a patient returns to his office after undergoing a traumatic illness, such as a brain injury, stroke or tumor.",
"\"When I first meet a new patient with a new problem, it's tough for everybody.",
"They're upset. I'm worried about them. I feel for what they're going through, and it's the best thing to get them through it,\" he says.",
"The hardest part of his job is when things don't go so well.",
"Sometimes, for example, he has a patient with cancer, and there are few treatments.",
"Or \"even worse,\" he said, is when a patient has a surgical complication.",
"\"No matter who you are, a few times a year, that happens, and the thought that you did something, even though you were trying to help them, and things didn't go well, is very, very difficult,\" he says.",
"\"But nobody's perfect, and you can't have a 100% success rate.\"",
"As for his most famous patient, Kim has very little to say aside from a few comments at news conferences.",
"At a recent interview with CNN, a public relations representative from his hospital interrupted whenever a question was asked about Giffords.",
"When asked whether he couldn't speak because the hospital had limited him or because Giffords' family had asked him not to, he laughed.",
"\"I don't know if I can comment on not commenting,\" he said.",
"\"It would be dishonest if I said (treating Giffords) wasn't different, because there's all this scrutiny.",
"Everybody's calling,\" he added.",
"\"Certainly, that heightens the situation.\"",
"But he knows that doing anything different for her, breaking with regular protocol, would be a mistake.",
"\"I think the best way to handle it is in the mechanics of care of the patient is to do everything the same,\" he said.",
"\"I think you can potentially get into trouble when you try to start doing things differently or making exceptions.\""
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"Dr. Dong Kim in charge of Gabrielle Giffords' neurological recovery .",
"Kim is chairman of the dept.",
"of neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School .",
"Doctor says medicine was not his first love; it was writing ."
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"(CNN) -- Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn made himself the player to beat at the Qatar Masters with a late surge on Saturday, claiming a one-shot lead going into the final round of the European Tour tournament.",
"The 39-year-old birdied four of the last five holes on Saturday to card a six-under-par 66 which moved him up to 11-under 205, leapfrogging overnight leader Markus Brier of Austria.",
"European Ryder Cup vice-captain Bjorn, last a winner at the 2010 Estoril Open in Portugal, is aiming for his 11th tour title having followed up Friday's round of 65 with another strong showing.",
"\"When you finish a round with four birdies in the last five, you have to walk off very happy,\" Bjorn told the European Tour website.",
"\"I played fantastic yesterday to shoot that 65 and felt comfortable this morning, and felt good with the way my golf is.",
"\"I'm feeling quite comfortable on the golf course considering it's been a while since I've been in that kind of situation, so I'm pleased with the way the day panned out.\"",
"Brier, ranked 478th in the world, could not improve on Friday's second-round 66 as he finished on 69 after his second bogey of the round at the final hole -- but is still in second place with 18 to play on Sunday.",
"The 42-year-old, who was without a single top-20 finish on the European Tour last year and is playing only by virtue of a sponsor's invitation, is confident he can reignite his career with success in the Middle East.",
"\"Obviously when you bogey the last, it's never nice.",
"But I just had a really bad shot -- it happens, and the rest was good,\" said Brier, who birdied the fourth and sixth before his first slip at the ninth.",
"\"I made a few crunch putts at the end.",
"I got a bit lazy with my shots but I managed to keep my score good, and just one shot back is nothing.\"",
"Defending champion Robert Karlsson is also still in touch with the leaders as he seeks to become the first player to win back-to-back titles in the event.",
"The Swede was just three strokes behind Bjorn in third spot after carding five birdies in his last seven holes for a 69 which put him on 208.",
"Thomas Aiken of South Africa also shot 69 to finish the day in fourth place on seven under, while Spain's Alvaro Quiros (66) and England's Richard Finch (71) tied for fifth on six under.",
"British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (69) was joined on five under by Spain's Rafael Caberra (66) and Scotland's Paul Lawrie (71) and Stephen O'Hara (69).",
"But a disappointing round of 75 left South Africa's first-round leader and 2007 champion Retief Goosen tied for 28th place on 215 alongside world No.",
"2 Martin Kaymer and Spain's Sergio Garcia (69).",
"Kaymer could replace Lee Westwood at the top of the rankings with a first or second-place finish after the Englishman missed the weekend cut, but was 10 shots off the pace despite his best round of the week.",
"The German made up for a ninth-hole bogey with five subsequent birdies -- including one at the last -- but his opening 77 and Friday's 70 mean he has a mountain to climb.",
"Meanwhile, Tommy Gainey continued to defy expectations by leading at the halfway stage of the PGA Tour's weather-affected Phoenix Open in Arizona.",
"The 35-year-old, who played on the second-tier Nationwide Tour last year before earning his card, followed up his opening eight-under 63 with a 65 to be one shot clear of fellow American Mark Wilson when the second round was finally completed on Saturday.",
"Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson also shot 65 to be tied for fifth with 2010 rookie of the year Rickie Fowler, who fired a tournament-best 62 to also be on 132 -- four shots off the lead.",
"The Scottsdale tournament is expected to finish on Monday after seven hours' play has been lost so far due to freezing morning conditions."
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"The 39-year-old shot a bogey-free round to usurp Austria's Markus Brier at the top .",
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"Defending champion Robert Karlsson is still in with a chance, three shots off lead ."
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"Srinagar, India (CNN) -- A protest erupted Saturday in a village in northern Indian-administered Kashmir after the killing of a man by the Indian army late Friday or early Saturday.",
"The Indian army said the man was shot after he walked into an ambush it laid after getting specific information about movement of militants in the area.",
"But the family of the victim alleged he had been taken out of his home by the soldiers and his body was found early Saturday.",
"Mohammad Shafi Rather, district magistrate in the Kupwara district, where the death occurred, told CNN that an investigation has been ordered into the killing of the man, identified as Manzoor Ahmad Magray, 24.",
"A case has also been registered against the army unit, he said.",
"\"The enquiry would be conducted by the additional district magistrate Kupwara and the probe report would be submitted within a month,\" Rather said.",
"As the news of the killing spread in the village of Chogul, hundreds of residents assembled there and staged a protest.",
"Shouting pro-freedom slogans, the villagers carried the man's body to a highway and laid it there, blocking traffic.",
"After the district magistrate provided assurances of an investigation, the villagers took the body to a graveyard for burial.",
"The Indian army issued a statement Saturday morning regretting the man's death, but maintaining that \"the troops had adhered to standard operating procedure (SOP) in the incident.\"",
"The army's statement said Magray had walked into the ambush along with another individual.",
"After being challenged to surrender, the two started running away, at which point the troops opened fire.",
"\"We deeply and sincerely express our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family on this incident,\" said Lt. Col. J.S.",
"Brar, a Srinagar-based defense spokesman.",
"A long summer of pro-independence unrest was sparked in Indian administered Kashmir last year by the killing of an 18-year-old boy in police action in the capital, Srinagar."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Los Angeles district attorney will decide if Lindsay Lohan will be charged with stealing a necklace from a jewelry store last week, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said.",
"\"They presented the evidence about mid-day,\" spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said Wednesday afternoon.",
"\"We have the case under review.",
"No decision will be made today.",
"I can't say when it might be made.\"",
"A \"one of a kind necklace\" reported stolen last week was given to Los Angeles police just before detectives were to search for it in Lohan's Venice, California, home, Los Angeles police said earlier Wednesday.",
"The necklace, valued at $2,500, was taken from a jewelry store in the Venice area, a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department said.",
"\"As part of the grand theft investigation, detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific area obtained a search warrant on February 1, 2011, for actress Lindsay Lohan's Venice residence, to search for the necklace,\" the statement said.",
"Her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holly, did not offer a response to the police or the prosecutor's statements.",
"Lohan, 24, is currently on supervised probation for a drunk driving conviction.",
"The judge overseeing her case told her in October that he would send her to jail for 180 days if she violated her probation rules before her next court appearance set for February 25.",
"She left the Betty Ford clinic a month ago after three months in a drug rehabilitation program.",
"The rehab stint convinced the judge not to send Lohan to jail for failing a drug test.",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Necklace theft evidence goes to the district attorney .",
"Detectives got a warrant to search Lohan's home for the missing necklace .",
"The $2,500 piece of jewelry was given to police just before the search .",
"Lohan's lawyer has not responded to the police statement ."
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"Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- Arizona shooting victim James Eric Fuller sent his apologies Monday for telling a Tea Party leader, \"you are dead.\"",
"Dorothy DeRuyter, a companion of Fuller's, provided CNN with a statement.",
"\"I would like to tender my sincerest apologies to Mr. (Trent) Humphries for my misplaced outrage on Saturday at the St. Odelia's town meeting,\" Fuller said in the statement.",
"\"It was not in the spirit of our allegiance and warm feelings to each other as citizens of our great country.\"",
"Fuller, 63, was involuntarily committed to a county mental health facility after he photographed Tucson Tea Party founder Humphries and said, \"You are dead\" when Humphries began speaking at the event.",
"Fuller \"is apologetic and very sad\" about his outburst, DeRuyter said.",
"\"He wishes he could go back and do things differently,\" she said.",
"Humphries said Fuller's comment came when the town hall discussion turned to gun control.",
"\"I was asked to give my thoughts on gun control laws and perhaps the passage of new laws,\" Humphries said of the incident.",
"\"I said something to the effect that although gun rights and laws are not necessarily the primary focus of the Tucson Tea Party, our community needs to be given the opportunity to allow some time to pass and people to heal before we start this type of political dialogue.\"",
"Fuller, one of 13 people wounded in the January 8 shooting that left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, is a disabled veteran and former volunteer for Giffords' campaign.",
"Giffords is still hospitalized, but her condition has been improved to serious.",
"Fuller, who was shot in the knee, had been very vocal since the incident, blaming rhetoric from the right for the shooting.",
"Jared Loughner, 22, has been charged in the shooting, but no evidence has been found that could link a motive to incendiary rhetoric.",
"From CNN's Tom Laabs."
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"(CNN) -- Former Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat will face popular musician Michel Martelly in the second round of presidential elections in Haiti, the electoral commission announced Thursday.",
"The government-backed candidate, Jude Celestin, was eliminated from the race.",
"The announcement followed pressure from the United States and others on President Rene Preval to honor recommendations from the Organization of American States regarding the runoff election.",
"In early December, the electoral council announced that Manigat had won but lacked the majority of votes needed for an outright victory.",
"Initial results put her in a runoff with Celestin, a protege of the president.",
"The third-place candidate, Martelly, claimed he had won more votes than Celestin and a review of results by an Organization of American States team supported that contention.",
"That review suggested that Martelly earned a spot in the runoff.",
"When the initial results were announced, Haitians responded by charging fraud and burning cars, tires and Celestin's campaign headquarters in Port-au-Prince.",
"With Thursday's decision, the council accepted the findings of the review.",
"The vote is set for March 20.",
"Final results will not be known until April 16, officials say.",
"U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten told reporters in Washington that Thursday was \"a good day in Haiti.\"",
"Merten called for all of Haiti's politicians and people to remain \"calm and peaceful\" in the run-up to the second round of voting.",
"The attempts to resolve the political turmoil come as the toll in the nation's cholera outbreak surged past 4,000, the public health ministry said.",
"Nearly 216,000 people have been sickened and 4,131 had died as of January 28, according to the latest report posted by the ministry.",
"Struck by a massive earthquake a year ago, Haiti has been struggling to recover.",
"Its troubles were compounded first by cholera and then by the controversy surrounding the November 28 presidential election.",
"CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama and his administration \"strongly condemn the outrageous and deplorable violence that's taken place on the streets of Cairo today\" and want it to end quickly, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.",
"Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak attacked anti-government demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and the ensuing violence killed three people and injured more than 600, according to Egypt's health minister.",
"\"It is our hope that what we saw today we won't see tomorrow or Friday or into the weekend,\" Gibbs told reporters.",
"\"Obviously ... this is not all going to be wrapped up in a matter of hours.",
"It's going to take some time.\"",
"Gibbs reiterated the Obama administration's opposition to any violence in the Egypt demonstrations, either by Egyptian security forces, protesters or criminal elements.",
"He added that if the Egyptian government is instigating any of the violence, \"it should stop immediately.\"",
"At the State Department, spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley called the attacks by what he described as \"thugs\" a clear attempt to intimidate the anti-government protesters, who were demonstrating for a ninth straight day.",
"The United States doesn't know the identity of the \"thugs,\" Crowley said, adding that others have identified them as \"supporters of the government.\"",
"In an operation that started Monday, more than 1,900 U.S. citizens and their family members have been evacuated from Egypt, Crowley said, adding that further evacuations would take place Thursday.",
"The attacks came the day after Mubarak announced he would not seek re-election as part of a series of political reforms.",
"Opposition activists and protesters, however, said Mubarak must step down immediately with a caretaker unity government running the country until elections for president and a new parliament can take place.",
"It was unclear whether such confrontations were being repeated elsewhere.",
"Other Cairo neighborhoods were calm, and contesting rallies in Egypt's second largest city, Alexandria, were largely peaceful.",
"Gibbs said the time for a political transition in Egypt \"is now\" because the Egyptian people \"need to see change,\" and a \"meaningful transition must include opposition voices and parties being involved in this process as we move toward free and fair elections.\"",
"At the same time, Gibbs noted that events in Egypt \"have moved enormously quickly in a very volatile region of the world,\" adding: \"What we're watching is history being made.\"",
"High-level contacts between the U.S. and Egyptian governments continued Wednesday, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talking to newly appointed Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, Crowley said.",
"And Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke by phone with Egypt's defense minister on Wednesday, their third conversation in recent days.",
"Those contacts followed separate meetings on Monday between former U.S. ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner, who traveled to Cairo to deliver a message on behalf of Obama, with Mubarak and Suleiman, according to Crowley.",
"A senior State Department official said on condition of not being identified that Mubarak has \"a narrow amount of time\" to make changes or take steps, with more demonstrations planned for Friday.",
"However, the official said \"there is a sentiment in the (Egyptian) government they can outlive the protesters.\"",
"\"This is a false assumption,\" the official said.",
"\"They are not going away.\"",
"Meanwhile, a senior U.S. official who spoke on condition of not being identified expressed concern that Mubarak loyalists might have unleashed pro-Mubarak forces to intimidate protesters.",
"The Obama administration believes Mubarak's inner circle is debating whether Mubarak needs to do more to meet protester demands, according to the senior U.S. official.",
"However, an Egyptian government official said on condition of not being identified that his government has a \"serious problem\" with how the Obama administration has been \"spinning\" the events to give the impression that Mubarak's statement Tuesday night resulted from pressure from Obama.",
"\"This is Mubarak's decision,\" the Egyptian official said.",
"\"Clearly, yes, he has been listening to the messages coming from the administration ... but at the end of the day, this is a decision he had come to on his own in the interests of Egypt, first and foremost, and as he said, as a result of listening very carefully to the demands of the Egyptian people.\"",
"The Egyptian official said his government has rejected calls by Obama and other world leaders to begin the transition now.",
"\"This is an Egyptian process,\" the official said.",
"\"What President Mubarak said is that his primary responsibility is to ensure security and order so as to ensure a peaceful transfer of power so that the Egyptian people may decide their next leader in the upcoming presidential elections.\"",
"The official noted that the steps announced by Mubarak included the resignation of the government, formation of a new cabinet, appointment of Suleiman as vice president, announcing he will not run again, planned changes to the constitution, opening a dialogue with the opposition and various issues involving last year's parliamentary elections.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty, Elise Labott, Chris Lawrence and Tom Cohen contributed to this story."
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"U.S. officials stop short of blaming Egyptian government for attacks on protesters .",
"Gibbs: Change in Egypt has to begin now .",
"A U.S. source says Mubarak might try to wait out the protesters .",
"More than 1,900 U.S. citizens and family members have been evacuated ."
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"(CNN) -- Professional kiteboarder Sean Reyngoudt is unique -- and it is not just the dangerous stunts he performs that set him apart.",
"\"I'll be out there doing all my tricks and everything -- having a good time and then I come in to the beach and people realize that I'm missing my leg and they are totally shocked by it,\" says Reyngoudt.",
"Reyngoudt, 27, is an amputee.",
"About eight years ago, he fell off a forklift and the accident caused him to lose his left leg just below the knee.",
"Before the accident, Reyngoudt had played football, baseball, soccer and ran track for his high school team.",
"His mother Esthi Reyngoudt was devastated when she saw her son after the surgery.",
"\"I just saw my kid without a leg and thought that he would sit around on the couch and he wouldn't be able to do anything anymore,\" she said.",
"That thought did not last long, since her son was back in the water swimming before he was even fitted for his prosthesis.",
"\"When I first got my prosthesis, that made a huge difference,\" says Reyngoudt, \"I was running out of their office.\"",
"He hasn't stopped running since.",
"It was soon after when Reyngoudt took up extreme sports like kiteboarding and wakeboarding.",
"His dedication and perseverance had Reyngoudt exceeding all expectation and his talent landed him a spot on the Best Kiteboarding Team.",
"He now competes solo.",
"Fellow professional kiteboarder Matt Sexton agrees that it is Reyngoudt's abilities and not his unique status as the only professional amputee that earns him respect.",
"\"He's beaten us a lot of times in races and freestyle stuff,\" says Sexton.",
"\"It's motivating for us as much as it is for people sharing the same problems as his.\"",
"Reyngoudt says he doesn't view his amputation as a problem.",
"He says he looks at it as more of a challenge -- one that he appears to have overcome.",
"\"We actually have a poster of Sean up in the shop, riding,\" says Mike Walsh, owner of Otherside Boardsports a sponsor of Reyngoudt.",
"\"Unless you look close, it's just a sick picture of a kiteboarder doing a nice trick.\"",
"Walsh didn't look close when he first met Reyngoudt.",
"He says Reyngoudt must have been wearing long pants when he first started coming into his shop because it took months until Walsh noticed his leg.",
"It was Reyngoudt's talent that Walsh first noticed.",
"\"It is a disability, but I don't think he's by any means disabled.\"",
"\"I don't have a disabled parking sticker on my car, I enjoy walking far away from the store,\" Reyngoudt says.",
"\"It doesn't bother me.\" Referring to him as disabled doesn't bother him either, says Reyngoudt.",
"\"I think what every amputee should do is to just take full advantage of what you have.",
"And live life every day as you can and enjoy it.\"",
"Reyngoudt and his friends enjoy spending every minute they can out on the water where he isn't treated any different.",
"Walsh says, \"It just takes an extra minute to get ready, but other than that, he's just one of the boys.\"",
"Getting treated like and acting like one of the boys is exactly what his mother hoped for after her son's accident.",
"Offering advice to other families of amputees, Esthi Reyngoudt says, \"You got to encourage them to get up every day and do what they did before and not give up.",
"Because it's not the end of the world. It's your attitude that keeps you going.\"",
"It's Reyngoudt's attitude that has put him in the unique position of being the only professional kiteboarder that happens to be an amputee.",
"\"He's an excellent ambassador for the sport,\" and that has nothing to do with his leg, says Walsh, and everything to do with \"his personality, his perseverance, his commitment, his loyalty.\""
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"He learned the sport after losing his leg in an accident .",
"Before his accident, Reyngoudt played football, baseball, soccer and ran track .",
"Reyngoudt: \"Live life every day as you can and enjoy it\""
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"(CNN) -- Firefighters battled bushfires in and around Perth in Western Australia on Monday, emergency officials said.",
"The raging flames have destroyed at least 59 homes, Sally Bowery with CNN affiliate Seven Network reported, citing fire authorities.",
"Western Australia's premier, Colin Barnett, said that the severity of the fire damage was bad enough that he has declared a natural disaster in the Perth's hills region.",
"The declaration means residents can qualify for emergency accommodation, food, essential clothing and other personal items, temporary living expenses, housing repairs and replacement of household furniture.",
"Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) officials declared a total fire ban for \"Perth, Perth hills and surrounding areas, Mandurah, inland parts of the Central Wheatbelt and the Central West.\"",
"The flames are being fanned by 75 kph (47 mph) winds.",
"An initial investigation indicates the fire was accidentally started from sparks caused by a person using an angle grinder."
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"(Oprah.com) -- At the small worktable in Anna Rabinowicz's sunny Manhattan office, smooth slices of agate -- some as small as coins, others as big as dinner plates, in swirling shades of sapphire, rust, and olive -- mingle with wrist-thick hunks of faceted crystal, three knobby yellow gourds, and a dried version of Anna's latest muse.",
"\"A neat thing about sea fans,\" says Anna, 39, who is wearing silver sea-fan-shaped earrings, \"is how they move.\"",
"She imitates the meshlike creature's undulations with her hand.",
"\"They're at the whim of the current; they get their nutrients from whatever happens to pass through.\"",
"She lifts the stainless steel colander/fruit bowl she recently designed based on her sea fan research, its sides veined with silver tendrils.",
"If a sea fan mated with a Rolex, this would be the result.",
"I'm spending today dipping a toe into the ocean of Anna's creative output -- and the colander is just one of the creatures in a vast and lively sea.",
"The woman draws, sews, sculpts, and dreams things up as naturally as the rest of us breathe.",
"For her company, RabLabs, she designs coasters, clocks, and picture frames from those pieces of agate, along with handblown-glass napkin rings, amethyst bottle stoppers, and lacquered wooden boxes -- and at home, her creative juices just keep on flowing.",
"Over eight hours with Anna, I'll discover that her default thought process works like this: .",
"That [sea fan, kangaroo, hunk of quartz, sequined fabric] is fascinating.",
"I must learn all about it and then make something!",
"Next comes studying, sketching, model-making, and finally, the finished product -- which might be anything from a letter opener to a medical device to a fetching new cape.",
"Oprah.com: How one woman was saved by a poem .",
"When I arrived this morning at Anna's apartment, she told me that a full day lay ahead: We'd go shopping for supplies to create a prototype of a new RabLabs bowl (a mission that would require walking about 40 city blocks), we'd have searching discussions about creativity, and we'd get our hands really dirty.",
"Hey, who ever said innovating was a cakewalk?",
"\"I tell my students, 'If it's easy to create, someone has probably already created it,'\" says Anna, who teaches product design at Parsons The New School for Design.",
"\"Work through the setbacks, and you can make things no one else has.\"",
"Like the unique items in Anna's home, for example.",
"The light fixture that resembles an upside-down red umbrella.",
"The key ring of plastic doodads she assembled for her 1-year-old, Talia, to teethe on.",
"(\"Her body is telling her to bite.",
"She must bite! So I give her these, to keep her from biting me.\")",
"The little cloth squares she sewed for Talia and her 3-year-old brother, Izzy, to sleep with -- they're soft and worn, and hand-embroidered with trees and abstract whorls and the babies' initials.",
"\"I cut them from my husband's old T-shirts,\" says Anna, whose husband, Aden Fine, is a lawyer for the ACLU.",
"Even Anna's home is an Anna original: Three years ago, she and Aden bought a dim studio in a former sewing factory, then gut-renovated the space into a snug two-bedroom nest, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a kitchen bedecked in vintage red tiles.",
"Anna's mother, Lisa, arrives to take Talia to baby dance class just as Anna is describing her collaborations with New York's Hospital for Special Surgery.",
"\"My dad made surgical instruments,\" says Anna, who has helped create an artificial knee and an assistive device for people recovering from elbow surgery.",
"\"He was a pediatric ophthalmologist and surgeon.",
"He taught me how to sew and solder.\"",
"\"She has her father's hand-eye coordination,\" Lisa chimes in.",
"\"And such fine-motor control.\"",
"\"Thank you,\" Anna says, looking moved.",
"She pulls out her sewing kit from the 1890s -- her father, who died in 2001, bought it at an antiques market.",
"\"Look at all these crazy needles,\" she says.",
"There are thick needles, teeny needles, needles that look like fish hooks.",
"\"I sew by hand,\" she tells me, \"so the project will be imbued with my love.\"",
"Oprah.com: How to write a poem .",
"After Lisa and Talia depart, Anna and I go on a coffee run.",
"I ask her about Stanford's Joint Program in Design -- where she was the third-ever person to graduate with both an MFA in design and an MS in engineering.",
"For her thesis, she traveled to Australia, enticed kangaroos to bounce on treadmills while she tracked their motion using high-speed video, and created chairs that mimic their movements.",
"\"A kangaroo uses its tail like a third leg, leaning on it to push off for the next hop,\" Anna explains.",
"When you sit in her kangaroo chair, it reclines on its curved tail and gently bounces forward -- like a movie theater seat only much more fun.",
"While I'm still processing the concept of marsupial furniture, Anna is already onto the business at hand: buying materials for the RabLabs bowl prototype.",
"She's envisioning a ceramic vessel encrusted with crystal-like formations -- sort of an inside-out geode.",
"She'll make the mock-up with real crystal, using clay to affix the stones to a steel mixing bowl, then create a mold of the whole piece, which she'll use to cast the ceramic version.",
"Beneath her desk, wrapped in Portuguese newspaper, is 50 pounds of Brazilian crystal waiting for its shot at glory.",
"To find the right steel bowl, we visit a baking shop.",
"The place is packed ceiling-high with little objects that light up all kinds of circuits in Anna's mind: shiny pastry tips (\"These could be molds for crystal-covered salt and pepper shakers\"), cardboard cake bases laminated in gold paper (\"We'll use this as a work surface -- the gold feels auspicious\"), and an accordion squeeze bottle (\"I don't know why, but I need this\").",
"On the way out, Anna marvels at pouches of red, brown, and yellow goo -- pastry filling, it turns out -- and decides it's lunchtime.",
"As she eats her chicken-chermoula sandwich, bought from a food truck on Fifth Avenue, Anna says, \"There's this book called 'I Stink!'",
"\" \"I stink?\" \"It's about a garbage truck that adores gross stuff,\" she says, \"like dog poop and fish heads.",
"Izzy laughed and laughed when my husband read it to him, because it's a bit mischievous.",
"Kids have to follow so many rules, but a book like 'I Stink!'",
"lets them be vicariously rascally without breaking the rules.",
"Designing is like that.",
"The rule is that the object has to perform its function.",
"But within that rule, you can do anything -- the object can be witty or silly or weird.\"",
"We nod, considering this.",
"\"You stink,\" I say. Anna smiles.",
"\"I stink!\" Oprah.com: Essential pleasures .",
"After lunch, we head downtown to buy clay from the art supply store -- though Anna beelines for the gift wrap and letterpress stationery (\"This is paper geek heaven!\").",
"In the pen aisle, she laments that her favorite model, the Pilot Razor Point II, has been unavailable for the past year.",
"In its place she's been using pens her Korean students brought her from their visits home.",
"She puts a squat, gray felt-tip to a sheet of paper, moving her arm as decisively as a symphony conductor.",
"\"That's what's called an emotive line,\" she says.",
"In the way a jagged line might suggest turmoil and a squiggle could evoke confusion, Anna's ascending swoop reads joie de vivre.",
"Then she draws a guy with big curly hair.",
"Back at the office, she puts on Hall & Oates's \"Kiss on My List\" and lays out the gold work surface, the gray clay, and translucent columns of crystal in sizes ranging from raspberry to cucumber.",
"We begin cocooning the bowl with clay for the crystals to smoosh into, as I explain that I'm much too impatient to be good at making things.",
"\"I'm always rushing to finish,\" I tell her.",
"\"I don't have it in me to keep refining until it's perfect.\"",
"Looking at the prototype, it seems I've proven myself right: One side is stunning, and the other side is mine.",
"Anna has anchored two eight-inch columns of quartz in the clay surrounding the bowl and is now accentuating them with smaller satellite crystals.",
"She's edging the place where the clay meets the rock into a kind of cuticle to the crystal's nail.",
"If you squint, you can envision the final product: an improbable, precious thing, plucked from the Earth and yet made by a human hand.",
"Anna turns the cardboard and considers my work.",
"She adds more cuticles, tweaks the angles of the crystals, and carves where I've over-clayed.",
"But for all her refining, what I've contributed -- my inter-crystal spacing, rim-smoothing, and reinforced clay base -- remains.",
"It's just been gently Anna-fied.",
"\"This is really interesting work!\"",
"she says, seeming to sense my hunger for praise.",
"Anna likes to say that a designer must understand human need: Check.",
"A designer must also find creative potential in what's around her, and Anna does -- in bouncing kangaroos and ratty T-shirts and charmless studio apartments.",
"Think of her as a human sea fan, open to the myriad unknown things riding the current, which she uses to make the world a little more fascinating, and a little more Anna, than it would otherwise be.",
"Oprah.com: 7 ways to spark your creativity .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Anna Rabinowicz studies things she's interested in and makes art out of them .",
"She studies, sketches, models and completes the project .",
"Rabinowicz: \"If it's easy to create, someone has probably already created it\""
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"(CNN) -- McLaren have officially unveiled the car they hope will rocket Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button into the Formula One title reckoning in 2011.",
"The team's English drivers were on hand as their new MP4-26 car was assembled part-by-part with the help of competition winners in the center of the German capital Berlin on Friday.",
"McLaren have won just one world championship since 1998 and lagged behind Ferrari and Red Bull last year.",
"But they are hoping a raft of new features on their car will propel them into the drivers' championship running.",
"Hamilton, the 2008 world title winner, finished fourth in 2010, 16 points behind the eventual winner, Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull.",
"Button, who succeeded Hamilton as world champion in 2009, came 42 points off the pace in fifth.",
"The MP4-26 is packed with innovative features to help with its aerodynamics, including an electronically adjustable rear-wing system and an all-new electric hybrid KERS system, to comply with this season's F1 rule changes.",
"\"We've seen it in the wind tunnel quite a lot, but it looks even better full-size,\" Hamilton said on Formula One official website.",
"\"I think people saw a unique way of revealing our 2010 car, something that's never been done before.",
"I hope the car proves just as innovative once we take to the track.",
"\"I head into 2011 in a relaxed but determined frame of mind.",
"I've spared nothing during my winter fitness preparations and, in many ways, I feel as fit, focused and refreshed as I did ahead of my first season in Formula One in 2007.",
"\"So my aim for this year is to ensure that everything comes together in the best possible way and that, like last year, I'm able to fight for the title right down to the final race.\"",
"Hamilton's teammate Button said it was an \"empowering feeling\" having had an input on the design of McLaren's new car.",
"He said he was looking forward to testing the car in Spain next week, ahead of the opening race in Bahrain on March 13.",
"\"Today really marks the beginning of our 2011 season after what seems a very long time away from the track,\" he said.",
"\"I can't wait to get behind the wheel of MP4-26 for the first time next week.",
"\"It's strange to think that this is only the start of my second season at McLaren Mercedes, because I've felt so comfortable since joining the team last January.",
"\"For the new season, I've not only got a year's experience under my belt, but I've also been able to offer input into the design and development of the new car -- something that I was naturally unable to do last year.\""
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"McLaren Mercedes unveil their car for the 2011 Formula One season .",
"English drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton showcase MP4-26 in Berlin .",
"The new car has a raft of innovative features to help with the aerodynamics .",
"Formula One season begins in Bahrain on March 13 ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Nine crew members aboard the French speed sailing trimaran l'Hydroptere were injured on Sunday when the boat flipped while traveling at more than 60 knots (over 110 kilometers an hour) off the southern coast of France.",
"Capsized: French trimaran l'Hydroptere floats upside-down after flipping in high winds Sunday.",
"The boat, which is the world's fastest yacht over one nautical mile, has been trying to claim the world outright speed sailing record, which would require an average speed of 60 miles per hour (about 52 knots or 96 kilometers per hour) over 500 meters.",
"The current record is held by French kite surfer Alexandre Caizergues who managed an average speed of 50.57 knots.",
"Sunday's accident occurred in heavy wind gusts of over 45 knots off Napoléon beach at Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, near Marseille.",
"View photos of the capsized boat » .",
"A statement from the l'Hydroptere team said the nine crew members had sustained minor injuries when an unexpectedly strong squall hit the boat and capsized it.",
"All of the crew had escaped serious injury and rescue crews on standby managed to pick them up from the water.",
"A spokeswoman from the team told CNN it was understood the mast may have been broken, which could put the boat out of action for several months.",
"• Read more about the intense race to become the fastest boat on the planet.",
"The team skipper Alain Thebault and his crew had organized for the trimaran to be towed to shore and moored in Fos sur Mer, before being put in dry dock to assess the damage.",
"The spokeswoman said conditions were too rough to remove the boat from the water on Sunday, so it was hoped this would be done Monday afternoon.",
"Despite the injuries, the crew were delighted to have achieved speeds of more than 60 knots, as it had confirmed the boat's potential, the spokeswoman said.",
"It was understood that no other vessels as large as l'Hydroptere had managed to pass the 60 knots barrier.",
"Its top speed of 61 knots equates to about 112 kilometers per hour or 70 miles per hour."
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"French speed sailing trimaran l'Hydroptere capsized on Sunday off France .",
"The nine crew on board received minor injuries but all escaped serious harm .",
"The boat may be out of action for several months due to fears the mast broke ."
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"(CNN) -- A Danish court sentenced a Somali man to nine years in prison Friday for the attempted attack on a cartoonist who drew an image of the Muslim prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban.",
"Mohamed Geele will be permanently expelled from Denmark when his prison term is complete, according to the sentence.",
"Prosecutors had sought 12 years in prison for Geele.",
"\"This is a good result, and I am very pleased with the way that it has gone,\" District Attorney Kristen Dyman said.",
"Geele was convicted Thursday of attempted terrorism, attempted manslaughter and attacking a police officer with a knife and an ax, according to prosecutors.",
"Authorities said Geele tried to break into the home of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on January 1, 2010.",
"He cracked a window, which set off an alarm and sent police to the home.",
"An officer shot Geele in the hand and leg.",
"Westergaard, who was home with his 5-year-old granddaughter at the time of the break-in, hid in a \"panic room\" when he realized what was happening, authorities said.",
"Westergaard is ordinarily accompanied by bodyguards when he leaves his home, but nobody was on guard at the house that day, the Security and Intelligence Service told CNN.",
"Danish intelligence officials linked Geele to an East African Islamist militia allied with al Qaeda.",
"Although Geele had been under surveillance because of his alleged terrorist associations, Danish authorities said they had no idea Geele was planning an attack on Westergaard.",
"The cartoonist has said he wanted his controversial drawing to show that some people exploited the prophet to legitimize terrorism.",
"However, many in the Muslim world interpreted the drawing as depicting their prophet as a terrorist.",
"CNN's Alexander Felton contributed to this story."
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"A Danish court issued a nine-year prison sentence in an attack on a political cartoonist .",
"Mohamed Geele will be permanently expelled from Denmark after his sentence .",
"Geele's target was a cartoonist who drew a picture of Mohammed wearing a bomb-turban ."
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"(CNN) -- This month icon will be with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.",
"\"It's like watching incredible shoals of fish in the Maldives just move together.",
"There's an organic feeling in how the orchestra wants to play, and it's like a type of breathing,\" Sir Simon Rattle.",
"The orchestra has played everywhere from disused warehouses to the poorer outskirts of German towns.",
"The 300-strong Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, under Sir Simon Rattle's leadership, is dedicated to making classical music accessible to everyone.",
"Rattle tells icon the ingredients that make the perfect orchestral performance.",
"Myleene Klass discusses the greatest piano recital ever written with Norwegian virtuoso and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's newly appointed pianist in residence, Leif Ove Andsnes.",
"Plus, icon uncovers how Antonio Stradivarius created some of the greatest violins on earth.",
"The show travels to Cremona in Italy, the heart of violin making to speak with the craftsmen who continue to construct instruments in the same tradition.",
"Finally, the orchestra's concert master violinist Daishin Kashimoto, along with guest musicians Yo Yo Ma and Ann Sophie Mutter, explains what it feels like to play a Stradivarius.",
"Watch the show at the times below: .",
"Thursday 24 February: 1230, 1830 Saturday 26 February: 0730, 1600, 2330 Sunday 27 February: 0430, 0830, 1930 (All times GMT)"
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"The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is trying to make classical music more accessible .",
"Conductor Sir Simon Rattle on the ingredients for a perfect performance .",
"Plus, icon travels to Cremona, Italy to speak with master violin craftsmen ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's prime minister, Ali Mujawar, on Monday defended his government, saying there is no reason Egypt-style protests should take off in the country.",
"\"Yemen is not Tunisia or Egypt,\" he said.",
"\"Yemen has its own different situation... Yemen is a democratic country.",
"Through all the stages, elections took place.",
"And therefore this is a democratic regime.\"",
"He accused opposition parties of \"trying to duplicate what happened in Tunisia and Egypt, and act as if it should be imposed on the people here in Yemen.\"",
"Last Thursday, thousands of anti-government demonstrators gathered near Sanaa University in Yemen's capital.",
"People of all ages chanted and held signs with messages against poverty and the government.",
"Many not only expressed solidarity with the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt but also demanded that Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in office for 32 years, needed to step down.",
"While the protests in recent weeks in Yemen have been on a smaller scale than in Tunisia and Egypt, analysts say that Yemeni protesters are seeking many of the same things -- particularly a government that they feel represents them and that will provide them with more economic opportunities.",
"President Saleh recently announced that he would not seek re-election in 2013, after more than three decades in office, and won't install his son to replace him.",
"He also has asked his political opponents \"to re-engage in dialogue in hopes of reaching a sustainable and reconcilable political agreement,\" the Yemeni government said.",
"Prime Minister Mujawar said that if the opposition responds negatively to the president's initiative, \"democratic life in Yemen will continue because it does not rely only on the opposition of 'joint meeting parties.'",
"We have the people of Yemen who want to see the implementation of their constitutional entitlements through parliamentary elections.\"",
"Asked whether political turmoil in Yemen could benefit al Qaeda, Mujawar responded, \"Absolutely -- everything is possible.",
"Those extremists who are in Yemen found a suitable environment where there is poverty and unemployment.",
"\"By the way, they also take advantage of Yemen's terrain, which is complex and difficult -- it is mountainous and has widespread desert areas,\" he added.",
"\"They are now spread in rural areas and therefore, the size of their attacks are not frequent and they happen at specific times in the cities.\""
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"Yemen saw a large anti-government demonstration last week .",
"\"Yemen is not Tunisia or Egypt,\" says the prime minister .",
"Analysts: Yemeni protesters seek many of the same things as other demonstrators .",
"President Saleh, in office 32 years, recently announced he won't seek re-election ."
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"(CNN) -- In an effort to galvanize support for a new pair of rail tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey, two U.S. senators from the Garden State announced Monday that Amtrak would bear some of the costs.",
"The $13.5 billion Gateway Tunnel project would add high-speed and commuter rail service between the two states by 2020, replacing an earlier project that New Jersey Gov.",
"Chris Christie, a Republican, rejected after citing budget concerns.",
"\"New Jersey is facing a transportation crisis,\" Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg said Monday.",
"He said residents were \"fed up\" with train delays and \"endless traffic\" on New Jersey highways.",
"Lautenberg joined fellow Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez and Amtrak President Joseph Boardman at the Pennsylvania Rail Station in Newark, New Jersey, saying the government-owned rail corporation would spend $50 million to begin preliminary engineering and design, according to a press release from Lautenberg's office.",
"\"It is a critical first step that we can take now to bring 220 mph Amtrak high-speed service to the Northeast Corridor,\" said Boardman, according to the release.",
"Amtrak was not immediately available to verify the proposed spending plan.",
"Christie rejected a similar project in October after \"no agreement was reached on terms that would assure New Jersey's taxpayers would not pay more than $2.7 billion for a completed Trans Hudson Express ARC project.\"",
"\"The question is who's going to pay for it,\" said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.",
"\"Gov. Christie said that there was obligations potentially for the taxpayers of New Jersey that he didn't feel they should shoulder.\"",
"\"That's his decision to make,\" Bloomberg added.",
"The Access to the Region's Core project, also known as the Trans Hudson Express ARC project, would have created 6,000 jobs, with federal cost estimates ranging between $9.8 billion and $12.7 billion.",
"Lautenberg was among its proponents and led public criticism against the governor's decision to put the project on hold and ultimately cancel it.",
"\"The critical difference to ARC is that Gateway will add far less capacity for New Jersey Transit, though still a considerable amount,\" said Martin Robins, a former director of New Jersey Transit's Waterfront Transportation office.",
"\"The operators would be a lot happier having ARC-lite than nothing.\"",
"But the state also is facing a projected budget gap of $10.5 billion for the next fiscal year.",
"The New Jersey governor has made deficit reduction a cornerstone of his administration, pushing cuts to education, local governments and mass transit and tackling state pension plans and benefits packages for public-sector workers.",
"Christie is expected to deliver his annual budget presentation February 22.",
"CNN's Raelyn Johnson contributed to this report."
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"Senators say Amtrak would spend $50 million for $13.5 billion tunnel project .",
"Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg: \"New Jersey is facing a transportation crisis\"\nNew Jersey governor rejected a similar project in October, citing budget concerns .",
"New Jersey is facing a projected $10.5 billion deficit ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time defending Fed Cup champions Italy battled back to level at 1-1 against Australia in Saturday's first-round tie in the women's tennis teams competition, while 2010 runners-up the United States went 2-0 behind against Belgium.",
"In the two other World Group ties to be completed this weekend, France took at 2-0 lead over four-time champions Russia while the Czech Republic gained a 2-0 advantage over 2002 winners Slovakia, with two more singles and one doubles match left to play .",
"There will be everything to play for at Hobart's Domain tennis center on Sunday, after wins for Australia's Jarmila Groth and Italy's Flavia Pennetta in the opening singles matches left the first-round tie finely poised.",
"World number 31 Groth got the home side off to a good start in the Tasmanian city, fighting her way to an impressive 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-3 victory over reigning French Open champion Francesca Schiavone.",
"\"It is my first Fed Cup singles and it is very important and exciting, and I beat someone who is No.",
"4 in the world,\" Groth, winner of the WTA tournament held in Hobart in January, told the official Fed Cup website.",
"\"It is one of the great wins for me and I am happy and excited.\"",
"But French Open runner-up and world number five Sam Stosur could not repeat Groth's success, with Pennetta winning the equally-close encounter 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 -- the first time an Italian has beaten an Australian in the nations' sixth meeting in the competition.",
"\"We both fought hard and wanted to win the point for our teams.",
"She had a few chances in the first and second sets but I was playing well,\" Pennetta said.",
"\"This match was decided by one or two points and it was a really good match.",
"I think the crowd enjoyed it.\"",
"Stosur and Schiavone will now face each other in a repeat of their Roland Garros final on Sunday, as the two nations target a place in April's semifinals.",
"The U.S. team, defeated by the Italians in the last two Fed Cup finals, made a disappointing start to their 2011 campaign after Belgium's pairing of Kim Clijsters and Yanina Wickmayer proved too strong for Melanie Oudin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.",
"Newly-crowned Australian Open champion Clijsters and world number 31 Wickmayer have put Belgium just one win away from a place in the last four.",
"Wickmayer delighted the home crowd in Antwerp with a 6-1 7-6 (8-6) win over the flamboyant Mattek-Sands, before Clijsters -- showing no signs of fatigue following her win in Melbourne -- dispatched Oudin 6-0 6-4.",
"\"It was fun to be out here playing again,\" said the world number two, who will seal victory for her country if she beats Mattek-Sands in Sunday's first singles match.",
"\"Obviously it's nice to come here and play here after a win because the people have been so supportive.",
"I've kept them up during the night with the time change with Australia and it's nice to be back here.\"",
"The Czech Republic look likely to be Belgium's opponents in the semifinals after dominating against eastern European neighbors Slovakia.",
"World number 30 Lucie Safarova opened proceedings in the Slovak capital Bratislava with a 6-1 7-5 win over former top-10 player Daniela Hantuchova.",
"In-form Australian Open quarterfinalist Petra Kvitova, ranked a career-high 18 in the world, then disposed of Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-3.",
"\"I made a great start,\" said Kvitova, who faces Hantuchova in Sunday's first reverse singles.",
"\"Yesterday Lucie and I were joking about 2-0, and we are very happy about it -- but we didn't really expect it.\"",
"France could be next up for the winners of the battle between Australia and Italy after stunning a strong Russia line-up at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow.",
"Alize Cornet, the world number 67, did not let an ankle injury affect her in a 3-6 6-3 6-4 win over double grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.",
"Former world number one Maria Sharapova, still struggling to get back to the top of the game after a string of injury problems, was then dismantled 6-4 6-3 by 83rd-ranked Virginie Razzano.",
"Should Kuznetsova and Sharapova fare better in Sunday's reverse singles matches, the result of the tie could come down to a doubles match set to feature another struggling former world number one, Dinara Safina."
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"The two remaining singles and one doubles matches in each tie will be played on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- The lawyer representing two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran has been denied a request to visit his clients on the eve of their trial, he told CNN on Saturday.",
"\"I asked to see them before the trial, but the judge told me I couldn't,\" said Masoud Shafii.",
"The judge has granted Shafii permission to visit Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal for a few hours on Sunday prior to the start of the trial, Shafii said.",
"Bauer and Fattal, both 28, and Sarah Shourd, 32, were detained July 31, 2009, after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while hiking in Iraq's Kurdistan region.",
"Prosecutors in Iran have charged them with spying and trespassing.",
"Human rights groups have condemned their arrests and their lengthy wait for a trial in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.",
"Last September, Iranian authorities released Shourd on bail because of a medical condition.",
"Shourd has not responded to a court summons this week to return and stand trial on Sunday, Shafii said.",
"Iranian authorities said she will be tried in absentia if she doesn't appear in court.",
"Shafii told CNN he has reviewed his clients' case file and doesn't see any evidence of a crime.",
"\"In my opinion, they haven't done anything wrong,\" Shafii said.",
"\"The accusation of spying is baseless, and if they trespassed into Iran, it wasn't their fault.\"",
"Shafii said the border area where the hikers are accused of trespassing is unmarked and anyone could unwittingly cross over into Iran."
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"Lawyer Masoud Shafii says he was denied access to the hikers Saturday .",
"Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been in custody since July 2009 .",
"A third hiker, Sarah Shourd, was released on bail in September ."
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"(CNNGo) -- Burp, don't burp.",
"Slurp, don't slurp.",
"The rules of social protocol around the world are as varied, and as conflicting, as countries on the planet.",
"So how's a traveler to know what to do, when and where?",
"Never again do you need to feel like a bull in a china shop.",
"Throw away your guidebook and let actual locals tell you how to blend in with the crowds.",
"China . Be a good boyfriend .",
"\"Shanghainese men almost always carry the handbag or purse for their girlfriends.",
"You don't see it anywhere else, except sometimes Hong Kong.",
"But Shanghai men are well-known for taking care of this for their women.\"",
"-- Xenia Li, customer service rep .",
"Shop smart .",
"\"Although most Shanghai tourist guides include Nanjing Dong Lu Pedestrian Street and several 'fake' markets around the city, Shanghainese rarely shop there.",
"We consider them 'tourist only' areas.",
"\"There are exceptions -- a lot of local women shop at historic food stores on Nanjing Dong Lu, such as Shen Da Cheng and Shanghai No.",
"1 Food Store.",
"For fashion, young Shanghainese prefer to shop in the Luwan, Xuhui and Jing'an districts.\"",
"-- Eheart Chen, independent singer and director .",
"CNNGo: The world's coolest nationalities: Where do you rank?",
"Thailand . Split the bar tab .",
"\"When a group of Thais go out to drink, rather than ordering individual drinks they will buy a large bottle of whiskey to share.",
"The waitress keeps bringing small bottles of mixers and ice as required.",
"\"At the end of the night, regardless of who has had more glasses of whiskey, the bill will be split evenly.\"",
"-- Nissorn 'Bo' Jongcharoen, translator/writer .",
"Japan . Eat something raw .",
"\"In Tokyo, a classic foreign tourist thing is going to a sushi bar and never ordering any raw fish.",
"Focusing on cucumber rolls or inari rice balls or tamago doesn't cut it.",
"\"Basically, those items are for little kids in Japan, so it's funny to see adults keep ordering them and avoiding what Japanese consider to be the more flavorful fish.\"",
"-- Hiroko Yoda, CNNGo Tokyo Japanese city editor .",
"CNNGo: SulaFest: Where boys dance with girls .",
"Sit down and shut up . \"Definitely do not answer your phone on a train.",
"Locals can expect to be lambasted by teenagers for the merest mumble, or at least get the evil eye from restrained salarymen.",
"\"If you must pick up, the accepted gesture is to cup your cell with your hand, say nothing longer than, 'Am on the train, will call you back,' then bow to the disgruntled commuters around you.\"",
"-- Robert Michael Poole, CNNGo Tokyo city editor .",
"India . Pray ... and run . \"In Mumbai just cross the street.",
"Just go. God will protect you.",
"If you wait for cars to stop before you abandon the safety of the curb, you may never make it.\"",
"-- Siddharth Sikand, director/filmmaker .",
"Sikkim (northern India) Wear a beard to buy booze .",
"\"Women should not buy tobacco or alcohol from shops, or drink or smoke in public.",
"Or, if they do, they should prepare for some quizzical looks, and maybe even a raised voice asking what they think they're doing.\"",
"-- Devi Shikha Boerema, journalist .",
"CNNGo: So-bad-they're-good items at the Chinese New Year market .",
"Singapore . Adopt new family members .",
"\"In Singapore, don't question why the locals refer to anyone older as 'auntie' or 'uncle' -- it's a Singaporean thing.\"",
"-- Charlene Fang, CNNGo Singapore city editor .",
"Hong Kong . Prepare for germ warfare .",
"\"Locals wear surgical masks at the mildest hint of flu.",
"Call it post-SARS trauma.",
"Locals who have sniffles and are not wearing a mask may be evil-eyed by complete strangers on the street.",
"\"It's also local habit to overreact whenever someone near them sneezes or coughs, especially on public transport.",
"I've been in a situation in which the people around me literally formed a little ring around me with their faces averted when I coughed.\"",
"--Tiffany Lam, CNNGo staff writer .",
"South Korea .",
"Be (O/A/B) positive .",
"\"Koreans are pretty big on blood type, so have it ready when socializing.",
"There's a pretty strong perceived correlation between one's personality and their blood type here.\"",
"-- Alan D'Mello, hotelier .",
"© 2011 Cable News Network Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved ."
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"Split the bill evenly in Thailand, regardless of how much you consumed .",
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"(CNN) -- Planned Parenthood defended a Virginia clinic and one of its employees Thursday against the latest attempt at an undercover video \"sting\" by conservative activists, telling reporters its clinic worker acted properly.",
"The anti-abortion group Live Action has sent operatives posing as a pimp and prostitute to Planned Parenthood clinics in several states, trying to persuade clinic workers to help them discreetly obtain abortions for minors supposedly in the sex trade.",
"Planned Parenthood said the woman in the latest clip Live Action released \"reacted professionally to a highly unusual person posing as a patient.\"",
"\"After the encounter, the staff member immediately notified her supervisor, who subsequently notified members of Planned Parenthood's national security team, who are working with the FBI, which is investigating these visits,\" the organization said.",
"Live Action and its founder, California anti-abortion activist Lila Rose, have accused Planned Parenthood workers of covering up the sexual abuse of minors.",
"The reproductive health organization vehemently denies the allegation -- but it fired a clinic worker in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, earlier this week after the woman was caught on video in another of Live Action's stings.",
"The New Jersey worker appears to advise the fake pimp and prostitute how to avoid mandatory reporting laws for abortion and how to find another provider in case an underage girl needs an abortion.",
"Planned Parenthood spokesman Stuart Schear called the remarks \"repugnant\" and \"completely inconsistent with Planned Parenthood's guidelines.\"",
"In a statement issued Thursday, Rose said her group shot the latest footage in a clinic in Richmond and argues it shows the counselor \"coaching a pimp about how girls as young as 14-15 could circumvent parental consent laws for secret abortions.\"",
"The clinic worker depicted in the video describes Virginia's law, including a provision that authorizes a judge to waive the parental notification provision.",
"Planned Parenthood says it reported the visits by the undercover \"pimps\" and \"prostitutes\" to federal authorities in January, while raising the possibility that they could have been hoaxes.",
"It says the FBI is investigating the matter.",
"Planned Parenthood called on Live Action to release the raw footage of the visit.",
"Rose said Live Action has shared the full footage with Virginia authorities and has asked state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli -- an outspoken abortion opponent -- to investigate."
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"Planned Parenthood says the Virginia clinic worker acted properly .",
"The video is the second this week from anti-abortion group Live Action .",
"Planned Parenthood fired a New Jersey clinic worker after a video ."
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"(CNN) -- Flames danced hundreds of feet in the east Texas sky hours after a fire broke out at a natural gas and chemical facility.",
"There were no injuries reported at the fire in Mont Belvieu, about 35 miles east of Houston, said Rick Rainey, a spokesman for Enterprise Products.",
"A worker who was unaccounted for was believed to be away from the site, but the company was conducting a search, Rainey said.",
"The fire broke out shortly after noon at a facility used to store natural gas liquids.",
"The cause was not known.",
"A two-mile perimeter was cleared around the plant.",
"A nearby school restricted outdoor activities.",
"\"The plant is within five miles of the school and according to the emergency command center, there is no indication that the fire is of a toxic nature, since they believe the fuel driving the flame is natural gas,\" said Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole.",
"\"Additionally, the wind is blowing away from us.\"",
"\"We don't believe this is a safety issue,\" Poole said.",
"\"However, we do have a lot of parents here at the school who are employees over at Enterprise, so that's caused a lot of concern for us here.\"",
"According to its website, Enterprise Products owns or has interest in approximately 19,200 miles of onshore natural gas pipelines that provide for the gathering and transmission of natural gas in Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming.",
"CNN's Vivian Kuo contributed to this report."
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"No injuries or deaths are reported, but officials are looking for one worker .",
"School stops outdoor activities ."
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"(CNN) -- Two storied teams ... two superstar quarterbacks ... an iconic venue.",
"Sunday's Super Bowl XLV between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas has all the ingredients to match the inevitable hype which accompanies America's love affair with the finale of the NFL season.",
"Streets will be deserted as well over 100 million watch on television in the United States alone and it's not just the action on the pitch which attracts the massive audience.",
"The list of acts who have performed in the pre-game and halftime entertainment is a who's who of rock and pop celebrity, including Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and The Who.",
"This year pop icon Christina Aguilera will sing \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" just prior to kickoff while the halftime headline act is the hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas.",
"The Super Bowl is America's World Cup final .",
"Indeed, one of the most talked about incidents at a Super Bowl took place in the halftime show in 2004 when Janet Jackson's \"wardrobe malfunction\" raised eyebrows and became the most watched clip on the internet.",
"This year's performers, lacking the traditional cheerleaders as neither of the two teams has them, will be hoping to avoid the sort of mishap which befell Jackson, while on the pitch the pressure will be even more immense.",
"The Pittsburgh Steelers have claimed more Super Bowl wins than an other franchise with six against one defeat, the Green Bay Packers took the first two in 1967 and 1968 with a further triumph in 1996.",
"The Steelers have also won a record eight AFC (American Football Conference) championships, including their 24-19 victory over the New York Jets to reach this season's Super Bowl.",
"The Packers claimed a record nine NFL championships before the Super Bowl was instituted and their 21-14 victory over arch-rivals the Chicago Bears was their third NFC (National Football Conference) championship.",
"So with two teams with a lengthy history and impeccable pedigree a classic showdown is in prospect, particularly as the last meeting between them ended with a nail-biting 37-36 win for the Steelers.",
"Much of the pre-match hullabaloo centered around the team's star quarterbacks, Ben Roethlisberger for the Steelers, Aaron Rodgers of the Packers.",
"They were given their own podiums to address the mass ranks on Tuesday's traditional media day while other players had to do with designated spots in the stands at the Cowboys stadium.",
"Quarterbacks hold the key .",
"But with that spotlight comes an awesome responsibility, a misplaced or intercepted pass can mean the difference between triumph or despair in the Super Bowl with its history littered with tales of under performing quarterbacks.",
"Roethlisberger has been there and done it, helping the Steelers to Super Bowl wins in the 2005 and 2008 seasons, his 35-yard touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes clinching their most recent triumph.",
"And it was \"Big Ben's\" pass to receiver Mike Wallace in the final play of the game which gave the Steelers that narrow one-point win over the Packers the last time they met just over a year ago.",
"\"We were fortunate enough to get a win but what happened in Heinz Field in 2009 is going to have no bearing in this stadium.",
"So many of the components of these teams are different,\" said Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin.",
"Rodgers finally took over the mantle at the Packers from the great Brett Favre in 2008 and in his five-year professional career is the NFL all-time leader for the highest percentage of completed passes in the regular season with the lowest number of interceptions.",
"It demonstrates a precision that may prove invaluable come Sunday night as he seeks his first Super Bowl ring.",
"Packers' fans will be hoping Rodgers gets the chance to dust off his unique touchdown celebration, dubbed \"The Championship Belt\".",
"After a touchdown or scoring play, Rodgers makes a motion as if putting an imaginary belt around his waist.",
"Pittsburgh will be banking on their highly-rated defense to get to grips early with the Super Bowl rookie and disrupt his rhythm.",
"World's largest domed stadium .",
"So the stage set for a classic in a stadium which, it being in Texas, prides itself on being the biggest and the best.",
"According to the official Dallas Cowboys website, it is the largest domed stadium in the world, has the world's largest retractable glass doors at each end and possesses the world's largest video screen.",
"The world's largest freestanding support holds it all up with the stadium able to seat 80,000 fans with a maximum capacity of 110,000.",
"If a clutch of out-of-stadium tickets to watch on a big screen are counted, the record for a championship game, of 103,985 at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California for the 1980 NFL championship game, could well be broken.",
"With such huge interest and despite the economic downturn in the United States, advertisers are still willing to stump up an eye-watering $3 million for a 30-second slot on the transmission by Fox with the commercials \"take\" set to be another record.",
"The only cloud on the horizon in the build-up to match day was the appalling weather in Dallas, with sub-zero temperatures forcing both teams inside to practice and the Cowboys stadium shrouded in snow.",
"The cold snap was forecast to continue through the weekend."
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"Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers contest Super Bowl XLV in Dallas .",
"Pittsburgh have won a record six Super Bowl crowns with the Packers claiming three .",
"Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger is aiming for third Super Bowl ring .",
"The Dallas Cowboys stadium in Texas hosts the 45th edition of the NFL season finale ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Evidence found on the bodies of two men killed by a now-jailed U.S. diplomat aligns with the State Department's claim that the men were robbers, according to a Pakistani police official.",
"Raymond Davis, who works at the U.S. consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, has been jailed since January 27, when authorities say he shot and killed two men on a motorcycle.",
"Davis said the men attacked him while trying to rob him as he drove through a busy neighborhood, according to the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan.",
"When police searched the bodies, they found stolen cell phones and cash that belonged to two men who had reported being robbed earlier that day by two gunmen on a motorcycle, a Pakistani police official told CNN.",
"The official identified the dead men as Faheem Shamshad, 26, and Faizan Haider, 22.",
"Their families filed police reports accusing Davis of murder, a police spokesman said.",
"A third person, Muhammad Abad ur Rehman, allegedly was struck and killed by a U.S. consulate car responding to the shooting.",
"Police are investigating the death, but the U.S. Embassy has not revealed the identity of the person driving that car despite calls from Pakistani authorities to do so.",
"On Thursday, a judge in Lahore ordered the government to hold Davis for at least eight more days and place his name on an exit control list to ensure he does not leave the country.",
"In a statement on its website, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan said its employee shot two armed men in self-defense and renewed its call for the Pakistani government to release him, saying he is entitled to diplomatic immunity.",
"Speculation in the Pakistani media has suggested that Davis was traveling on a business visa and that he was consequently not subject to diplomatic protections.",
"U.S. officials notified Pakistan's Foreign Ministry that the employee was in the country on diplomatic business, and details about his passport and visa were irrelevant, countered acting U.S. embassy spokeswoman Courtney Beale.",
"State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said Wednesday that the U.S. government is in \"constant contact\" with the Pakistan government.",
"\"We continue to encourage the government of Pakistan to respect his diplomatic immunity and to release him,\" Crowley said.",
"Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari urged people not to use the incident for \"political point scoring,\" spokesman Farhatullah Babar said.",
"\"The president said that the government had taken a principled position, that the matter was before the judiciary whose verdict should be awaited and respected,\" Babar said.",
"The case has sparked some protest and fueled anti-American sentiments in Pakistan.",
"During several protests this week, hard-line clerics condemned the shootings and demanded the government not release Davis to the U.S. government.",
"Local television showed a rally in Karachi where protesters re-enacted their version of shooting incident.",
"Men wearing smiling masks and holding toy guns played the part of Davis and gleefully danced around several protesters who pretended to be the shooting victims.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah and journalists Nasir Habib and Nosheen Abbas contributed to this story."
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"(CNN) -- Yemen is tightening security at all of its airports in the aftermath of a plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States, the country's National Civil Aviation Security Committee said Monday.",
"\"Every piece of cargo and luggage will go through extensive searching\" at all of its airports, the agency said.",
"Cargo companies such as DHL, FedEx and UPS will be required to make more stringent checks before accepting any packages, according to the committee.",
"Other countries also put restrictions in place Monday in reaction to the security concern.",
"Germany banned all incoming flights from Yemen, air traffic control officials said.",
"And in the United Kingdom, Home Secretary Theresa May told Parliament that all passenger and cargo flights, as well as all flights holding unaccompanied freight from Yemen and Somalia, will be banned for a month, at which time the measure will be reviewed.",
"Somalia was included in the ban because of the possibility of contact between al Qaeda in Yemen and terrorist groups there.",
"Britain banned passengers from carrying toner cartridges larger than 500 grams in hand baggage on flights departing the country.",
"South Korea is stepping up security ahead of a summit of world leaders next week, it announced Monday.",
"Incheon International Airport will inspect all air cargo coming from destinations on the list of nations that sponsor terrorism, South Korean customs said Monday.",
"The FBI has dispatched teams of explosive experts to the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates to help examine the explosives found late last week, a federal law enforcement official said.",
"The parcel companies also remained on alert.",
"FedEx, for instance, is not transporting or accepting any parcels originating from Yemen, spokesman Jim McCluskey said.",
"The company continues to work with U.S. authorities to assure that the highest safety levels are met, he said.",
"It also is working to clear packages that have been held since Friday.",
"An embargo on shipments from Yemen, which was set to expire Monday, was extended through November 8, a U.S. Transportation Security Administration official said.",
"A senior Yemeni government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the decisions to cancel flights and shipments out of Yemen will be interpreted as a \"collective punishment\" against the country.",
"The Yemeni public will see it as a collective punishment for unclear gains, the official said.",
"Nobody benefits from this except al Qaeda, he added.",
"Meanwhile, Yemeni authorities are intensifying operations to capture militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and to capture or kill al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hasan al-Asiri, the senior official said.",
"Investigators in Yemen strongly suspect that al-Asiri, al Qaeda's top bomb maker in the region, is behind the explosive devices sent in the parcels, he said.",
"U.S. authorities are also looking at al-Asiri because the parcel bombs used the same explosive, PETN, as last year's foiled underwear bomber, also linked to him.",
"Authorities, however, have not divulged details about the purported links between al-Asiri and the explosives.",
"Yemen needs \"a lot of help\" to fight al Qaeda, an aide to the country's prime minister said Monday.",
"\"Al Qaeda has got a global sort of agenda, so you need global collaboration and regional collaboration,\" Mohammed Qubaty said.",
"\"We need a lot of help as regards security information, logistics,\" and new ways to confront them, he said, even as he emphasized that Yemen does not want foreign troops on its soil.",
"\"We have got our security and our armed forces on the ground there,\" he said, saying the country does not want to become another Iraq, presumably referring to the 2003 U.S. invasion.",
"The U.S. military commander credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq said Washington had been concerned about Yemen for some time.",
"\"When I was the commander in Iraq, we already saw the problems starting to loom in Yemen,\" Gen. David Petraeus said.",
"He said that when he was in charge of all U.S. military forces in the region, \"We did focus a great deal of additional attention on helping our Yemeni partners there, and the events of recent days have shown why that was valid.\"",
"On Friday, authorities in the United Arab Emirates and Britain found two packages with explosives that were destined for synagogues in Chicago, Illinois.",
"The explosive found in the United Arab Emirates may have traveled on passenger planes to get there, airline officials said Sunday.",
"Both explosives appear to have been designed to detonate on their own, without someone having to set them off, the top White House counterterrorism official said.",
"\"It is my understanding that these devices did not need somebody to detonate them,\" said John Brennan, President Barack Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism.",
"U.S. investigators believe that bomb maker al-Asiri, 28, is linked to that package and another one found on an airplane in Britain's East Midlands Airport on Friday, a federal official, who was briefed by authorities, said Sunday.",
"Al-Asiri, who is thought to be in Yemen, is a Saudi who was high on Saudi Arabia's list of most wanted published in February 2009.",
"He is also believed to be the bomber who designed last year's attempt to blow up an airliner on December 25.",
"\"The thinking is it's the same person or group of people that built the underwear bomb because of the way it's put together,\" said a U.S. government official, who had been briefed by multiple U.S. authorities and law enforcement sources.",
"\"But this one is about four times as powerful.\"",
"Separately, an engineering student arrested in Yemen was released Sunday, along with her mother, according to her father, Mohammed Al-Samawi.",
"Human rights attorney Abdul-Rahman Barman earlier identified her as Hanan Al-Samawi, a fifth-year student at Sanaa University in the Yemeni capital.",
"A high-level source in the United Arab Emirates said Hanan Al-Samawi's name was found on the cargo manifest of the device found in Dubai.",
"She said Monday that she was not guilty.",
"\"I am totally innocent, and there is no proof against me, and that's why I have been released,\" she said.",
"Authorities do not have any American suspects, a U.S. official said.",
"Two schools in Yemen were being looked at in connection with the plot and had been on the radar of U.S. officials, the official said.",
"The explosive device found in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was contained in a Hewlett-Packard printer and had a motherboard originating from a mobile phone but did not have a SIM card in it, the high-level source said.",
"The device was professionally assembled, the source said.",
"The motherboard was connected by a striker to the printer head and then to the cartridge, which was filled with explosives.",
"Authorities have the serial number of the motherboard and the printer, and they are searching to see where it was sold, how it was paid for and what information they can glean about the people who performed those transactions, according to the source.",
"Authorities believe an explosive device found at the East Midlands airport flew from Yemen to a Persian Gulf state and then to Cologne, Germany, the official said.",
"The device was then transferred onto a UPS plane.",
"Investigators are still attempting to retrace the route of the Dubai device, according to the high-level official.",
"Some believe that it went to Doha, Qatar, on Qatar Airways, where it spent the night before traveling to Dubai the following day.",
"However, it does appear the devices flew on commercial passenger planes, the high-level official said.",
"Screening the devices would have been difficult, since printers normally contain computer parts and wires, according to Richard Quest, CNN's aviation correspondent.",
"American authorities are now endorsing British Prime Minister David Cameron's position that the explosives were designed to take down an airplane, the official said.",
"However, a U.S. official said Sunday that the United States has not drawn any conclusions on the intent of the bombs and whether they were intended to explode in flight, at the synagogues or somewhere else.",
"American and British authorities think al Qaeda's branch in Yemen is linked to the plot.",
"A key figure in the group is al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemeni militant cleric whom U.S. authorities have linked to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan and the man accused in the Christmas Day bomb attempt.",
"On Friday, Brennan declined to name al-Awlaki specifically as a suspect.",
"\"Anybody who's associated with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is a subject of concern,\" he said.",
"The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is sending six inspectors to Yemen to help improve cargo security, an official with the agency said Sunday.",
"\"Even before this incident, 100 percent of identified high-risk cargo on inbound passenger planes was being screened,\" TSA Administrator John S. Pistole said in a statement Sunday, noting that security procedures will evolve based on the latest intelligence information.",
"Over the past several months, Yemen, which wants to be seen as a committed partner in the fight against terrorism, has launched several offensives against al Qaeda in its country but has not captured al-Awlaki.",
"CNN's Caroline Faraj, Bharati Naik, Caroline Paterson, Jeanne Meserve, Mohammed Jamjoom, Susan Candiotti, Brian Walker and Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived in Casablanca, Morocco, on Saturday to continue his recovery from back surgery late last year, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.",
"The king, who was met by Moroccan King Mohammed VI, will undergo physical therapy in the north African country following treatment in the United States for a herniated disc and a blood clot that was causing him back pain, according to Saudi state media.",
"He underwent his first surgery November 24 at New York's Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.",
"A follow-up surgery to stabilize several vertebrae in his spine was performed December 3.",
"Abdullah, 86, had been recuperating at his New York home since late December."
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"(CNN) -- Three teens, one a U.S. citizen, were killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez this weekend, a spokesman with the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office said late Monday.",
"The killing was the first case this year of an American student being killed in Juarez, which has been beset recently by violence and is just across the border from El Paso, Texas, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"The shooting happened at 4:22 p.m. Saturday at a car dealership, where the teens were looking at cars, according to Sandoval.",
"Police recovered at least 18 bullet casings at the scene from an AK-47, an automatic weapon commonly used by drug traffickers in the city.",
"Two of the victims were born in Ciudad Juarez and were identified as Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez, 16, and Cesar Yalin Miramontes Jimenez, also 16, according to Sandoval.",
"The other victim, identified as Juan Carlos Echeverri Jr., 15, was born in El Paso, the prosecutor's spokesman said.",
"The teen's parents identified his body over the weekend and confirmed that he was an American citizen.",
"Virginia Staab, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said Monday that U.S. authorities are actively looking into the incident and had not yet confirmed the citizenship of any of the victims.",
"At least one of the victims attended a Juarez prep school called Tecnológico de Monterrey, Sandoval said.",
"A message on the website of Cathedral High School in El Paso asked students and families to remember Bermudez and said he was a sophomore.",
"His fellow students had an assembly and prayer service in his honor Monday morning, the El Paso Times reported.",
"\"We believe (Echeverri) and the two others had been friends for a long time.",
"He was here in the city to visit them,\" Sandoval said.",
"The fatal shootings come on the heels of numerous similar violent incidents in recent months in Juarez.",
"In one 48-hour span last week, for instance, at least 14 people were killed -- including a municipal police officer and a newspaper vendor who police believe was targeted due to her job, according to Juarez Police spokesman Adrian Sanchez."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan's lawyer \"vehemently\" denied that the actress stole a necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store last month.",
"The Los Angeles County district attorney is considering a felony theft charge against Lohan after her stylist handed over the \"one of a kind necklace\" to police just before they were to search her apartment, according to the police and the prosecutor's spokeswoman.",
"\"We vehemently deny these allegations and, if charges are filed, we will fight them in court, not in the press,\" Lohan lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley said Saturday.",
"Los Angeles County district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons on Saturday denied a media report that a decision had already been made to charge Lohan.",
"\"The case remains under review,\" Sandi Gibbons said.",
"\"When we make a decision, we will let everyone know.\"",
"The necklace was valued at $2,500, a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department said.",
"\"As part of the grand theft investigation, detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific area obtained a search warrant on February 1, 2011, for actress Lindsay Lohan's Venice residence, to search for the necklace,\" the statement said.",
"Lohan, 24, is currently on supervised probation for a drunk driving conviction.",
"The judge overseeing her case told her in October that he would send her to jail for 180 days if she violated her probation rules before her next court appearance, set for February 25.",
"She left the Betty Ford clinic a month ago after three months in a drug rehabilitation program.",
"The rehab stint persuaded the judge not to send Lohan to jail for failing a drug test.",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who has been missing for more than a week following his purported arrest in Cairo, is to be released Monday, according to two Egyptian television news networks.",
"Telecom executive Naguib Sawiris announced on OTV Sunday that Ghonim would be released at 4 p.m. Monday.",
"Sawiris told CNN that Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman assured him during a Sunday meeting between government officials and opposition leaders that Ghonim would be released.",
"State-run Nile TV reported that Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq called the network to announce that a Google executive missing for more than a week will be released Monday.",
"There was no explanation as to the executive's whereabouts or condition.",
"Sawiris is a member of the so-called Committee of the Wise, a group of independent elite leaders of Egyptian society taking part in talks over the future of the country.",
"The announcements follow the release of a statement earlier Sunday by the human rights group Amnesty International.",
"The statement warned that Ghonim was at risk of being tortured by Egytian authorities.",
"\"The Egyptian authorities must immediately disclose where Wael Ghuneim is and release him or charge him with a recognizable criminal offence,\" said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director of Middle and North Africa at Amnesty International.",
"\"He must be given access to a doctor and a lawyer of his choice and not be subjected to torture or other ill-treatment.",
"His case is just one of many that highlight the continued crackdown by the Egyptian authorities on those exercising their right to protest peacefully.\"",
"Ghonim, according to Amnesty International, was declared missing after he failed to meet with his brother January 28, as planned, to take part in street demonstrations.",
"Ghonim, who heads Google's marketing operations in north Africa and the Middle East, had been in Cairo on a business trip since January 23.",
"Ghonim is from Dubai, according to the human rights group.",
"Family members became concerned when they discovered that Ghonim's telephones had been disconnected, according to the human rights group.",
"Eyewitnesses later told family members they had seen Egyptian authorities arrest Ghonim during demonstrations near Mustafa Mohamed Street."
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"(CNN Student News) -- November 2, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Yemen • Baghdad, Iraq .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: There's an old saying: It's not what you know, it's who you know.",
"It might also be how you act.",
"We're gonna make sense of that in just a bit.",
"I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN Student News!",
"First Up: Midterm Elections .",
"AZUZ: The primaries, the rallies, the debates: Let's call all that the pre-game.",
"The big show kicks off today, Election Day in the U.S.",
"This has been the most expensive midterm election in U.S. history.",
"And it wraps up today as voters cast their ballots all over the country.",
"What's at stake: control of Congress.",
"You've heard us talk about it.",
"The Democrats currently have a majority in both chambers.",
"Republicans are expected to make gains today.",
"In order to take over that majority, the Republicans need to hold onto the seats that they currently have, plus win 39 more seats in the House of Representatives, 10 more in the Senate.",
"Sandra Endo checks in now with a report on the final push leading up to today's election.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: One last cry to rally the troops.",
"President Obama was on the campaign trail trying to get out the vote in Cleveland.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Because if everyone who fought for change in 2008 shows up to vote in 2010, we will win this election.",
"I am confident in that. ENDO: Former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama are fanning out across the country to help in key races, like in Kentucky, Nevada and Delaware.",
"For the Republican Party, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is stumping for GOP Senate candidate John Raese in West Virginia.",
"Republican leaders are looking for big wins, a shift in power, in at least one chamber of Congress.",
"MICHAEL STEELE, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: My goal in talking to our team out in the field is let's get our folks to the 39, because that's the momentum point you really want to go for, and then you can continue to build from there.",
"ENDO: In fact a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Sunday shows a majority of Americans think Republicans will take over control of Congress after the midterm elections: 51 percent to 36 percent.",
"According to the poll, 34 percent say the country will be better off if Republicans win back Congress; 28 percent say the nation will be worse off; and 36 percent say it won't make a difference.",
"Another poll out today shows 75 percent of Americans think things are going badly in the country.",
"It's the worst outlook going into a midterm election since the mid '70s, and the economy remains issue number one on voters' minds.",
"In Washington, Sandra Endo, for CNN Student News.",
"(END VIDEO) Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: We're taking a poll on our blog, From A to Z.",
"The question: What's the biggest issue on your mind leading up to this midterm election?",
"Imagine you're in the voting booth.",
"What issue matters most to you?",
"Head to our home page, CNNStudentNews.com, go to our blog, and weigh in.",
"Teachers, we want to hear from you, too.",
"You get to sound off in the CNN Teachers' Lounge!",
"Same page, CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Just scroll down 'til you see the teachers' lounge on the right-hand side like you do right there, highlighted.",
"Same kind of question: What issues are on your minds this election year?",
"Teachers, students, we're looking forward to hearing what you have to say.",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Taylor's class at Florence High School in Florence, Colorado!",
"What country is highlighted on this map?",
"Is it: A) Jordan, B) Yemen, C) Afghanistan or D) Egypt?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"This is Yemen, a Middle Eastern country that's home to more than 23 million people.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Security Concerns .",
"AZUZ: Officials are tightening up security at Yemen's airports.",
"That's part of the reaction to a suspected terrorist plot that was stopped last week.",
"Two bombs, both coming from Yemen and addressed to locations in the United States.",
"They were stopped along the way.",
"Yemeni officials say \"every piece of cargo and luggage will go through extensive searching\" at all of the airports in the country.",
"The same thing is happening at airports around the world, like you see right here.",
"As for the response outside of Yemen, Germany and Britain are both banning any flights from Yemen, at least for a while.",
"And shipping companies, like FedEx and UPS, are staying on high alert.",
"The two bombs were discovered on cargo planes.",
"Iraq Church Shooting .",
"AZUZ: In Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, a Catholic church was the scene of a hostage standoff on Sunday.",
"You might think of Iraq as mostly a Muslim country, but there is a small percentage of people there who are Christian.",
"This standoff started right as the church was about to begin Sunday night services.",
"A group of men carrying guns and explosives took over the church.",
"U.S. military officials say the gunmen took around 120 people hostage.",
"Eventually, Iraqi forces stormed the church.",
"At least 50 people were killed in the violence.",
"Around 75 others were injured.",
"Eight of the suspected gunmen were arrested.",
"Downloadable Maps .",
"AZUZ: If you're not exactly sure where to find Baghdad or which countries are around Yemen, we have some geographic guides that can point you in the right direction.",
"Our free, downloadable maps!",
"Every day, we help students track down locations in the headlines.",
"They're 100-percent free, and you can always find them at CNNStudentNews.com!",
"Shoutout Extra Credit .",
"MATT CHERRY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Which of these words means appropriate or proper behavior?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Effervescence, B) Vitriol, C) Etiquette or D) Verisimilitude?",
"Rewind that clock to three seconds -- and GO!",
"Etiquette is a French word that means proper social or professional behavior.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Importance of Etiquette .",
"AZUZ: Guidelines for a proper handshake.",
"How you make eye contact.",
"That's the kind of stuff we're talking about.",
"Some people say etiquette can play a big role in getting a job.",
"Right now, with so many people looking for work, any advantage helps.",
"Alina Cho shows us how some job hunters are brushing up on their p's and q's.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) PATRICIA FITZPATRICK, THE NEW YORK SCHOOL OF ETIQUETTE: It's four steps.",
"Let me show you. One, two, quietly, three, four.",
"ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What does this... FITZPATRICK: OK. CHO: Have to do...",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I leaned over a little bit.",
"Is that OK? FITZPATRICK: You can tilt, uh-huh.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. CHO: ...With getting a job?",
"FITZPATRICK: OK, that's a big bite, Sarah.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I couldn't break it any smaller.",
"CHO: Would you believe etiquette counts for a lot?",
"FITZPATRICK: Eighty-five percent of success in life, in getting a job, is people skills.",
"Fifteen percent is technical skills, or what you know.",
"CHO: So, how do you improve your people skills?",
"By taking a class.",
"FITZPATRICK: Welcome to Outclass the Competition: Business Etiquette.",
"CHO: In just a year, Patricia Fitzpatrick says her business has doubled, and she charges $200 per person for a two-hour group session.",
"JODI R. R. SMITH, MANNERSMITH ETIQUETTE CONSULTING: One, two, three shakes is OK. Four is getting strange and five is creepy.",
"CHO: Other etiquette classes are going gangbusters.",
"And the students are younger, 20-somethings just out of school looking for a job and an edge.",
"LINDSAY YUHASZ, ETIQUETTE SCHOOL STUDENT: I want to be the person that they're like, \"This girl is great.",
"When she came in, she smiled, she was confident, she shook my hand well.\"",
"I want to be that person.",
"CHO: Which is why these young women are learning how to properly dine, communicate and network.",
"All the little things that can show a potential employer you're up for the job.",
"FITZPATRICK: First of all, you don't go to events to eat, OK?",
"You're not there to eat. So, eat something before you go.",
"CHO: Make eye contact in the area Fitzpatrick calls the triangle.",
"Anything lower is too personal.",
"Once you get the job, know how to eat.",
"There's always a business lunch.",
"Number one rule, eat with the back side of your fork.",
"Cross your utensils while you rest, and leave them parallel at 10:20, like a clock, when you're done.",
"So many details.",
"Does it really matter?",
"Anna Post is the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, the woman who literally wrote the book on etiquette.",
"ANNA POST, THE EMILY POST INSTITUTE: This will put you apart from the crowd.",
"There are so many qualified resumes.",
"This is a way to show that the boss can send you out and have absolute confidence that you won't embarrass them in front of the client, bottom line.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Alright.",
"Before we go today, you might have seen some good jack-o-lanterns on Halloween.",
"We bet you didn't see anything like this.",
"A group of world-renowned carvers took their tools to these gigantic gourds.",
"What they came up with was pretty good.",
"And in some cases, kinda creepy.",
"But before you call them a bunch of hacks, remember, they're trying to turn a 250 pound pumpkin into a larger than life jack-o-lantern.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: We think they deserve glowing reviews.",
"Offering up puns is always a treat.",
"The trick is knowing just which one to make.",
"For example, orange you glad we didn't write a pumpkin pun?",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Britain is about to have a massive expansion in renewable energy after awarding licenses for nine offshore wind farms Friday.",
"The energy generated from the new wind farms will provide a quarter of Britain's electricity needs by 2020, according to the Crown Estate, which awarded the contracts.",
"Companies had bid for the right to build wind farms in nine zones around Britain, from the English Channel to the North Sea off Scotland.",
"The successful bidders must now plan their projects and receive approval before they can build.",
"\"Our island has one of the best wind energy resources in Europe and today's news shows we're creating the right conditions for the energy industry to invest in harnessing it,\" said British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.",
"The wind farms will be able to offer 32 gigawatts, or about a quarter of Britain's electricity needs, said Roger Bright, chief executive of the Crown Estate.",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the expansion could provide as many as 70,000 jobs by 2020.",
"He promised to remove any barriers to rapid development.",
"The Crown Estate belongs to the queen and is one of the largest property owners in the United Kingdom.",
"It pays its entire revenue to the British Treasury.",
"It owns half of the United Kingdom's foreshore, 55 percent of tidal river beds and estuaries, and almost the entire seabed out to 12-nautical-mile territorial limit.",
"Under the Energy Act of 2004, the Crown Estate can also issue leases for development beyond the territorial limit, out to 200 nautical miles.",
"Friday's announcement is \"the biggest tender for renewables ever,\" said Antonio Mexia, chairman of EDP Renovaveis, a Portuguese company that won a license to build in the Moray Firth, off Scotland's eastern coast.",
"\"This is about delivering a whole new industry for the U.K., one that provides sustainable, secure, and indigenous power as well as tens of thousands of new jobs throughout the supply chain,\" said Eddie O'Connor, the chief executive of Irish company Mainstream Renewable Power.",
"Mainstream, together with Germany's Siemens Project Ventures, won the license to build off Hornsea, on England's eastern coast."
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"(CNN Student News) -- September 23, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• New York City • Cuba • Chile .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Old McDonald had a farm.",
"And if you could text about that fast enough, you might have won 50 grand!",
"Today, you'll meet the teenager who did.",
"I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN Student News!",
"First Up: U.N. General Assembly .",
"AZUZ: First up, leaders from around the world are coming together for a meeting in New York City.",
"It's the United Nations General Assembly, and it gets together every year.",
"The group is going to talk about world issues; different leaders will make speeches.",
"President Obama is scheduled to address the assembly today.",
"So what? Why does it matter that a bunch of leaders are having a meeting?",
"Well, the United Nations General Assembly is made up of 192 countries.",
"And when we say they're talking about world issues, we mean big subjects, like poverty and security, and specific things, like the war in Afghanistan or Iran's nuclear program.",
"They can't create new laws.",
"But the decisions that they make and the policies that they come up with can have a big influence on what goes on in the world.",
"Health Care Provisions .",
"AZUZ: In the health care reform bill that you see President Obama signing over my shoulder here, that might've been his biggest victory of his first two years in office.",
"And parts of that law go into effect this week.",
"For example, you can stay on your parents' health insurance until you're 26, and insurance companies can't turn down children with medical conditions that exist at the time they apply for insurance.",
"Some people were and still are against this law, though.",
"For one thing, it can cost a lot of money.",
"Plus, critics don't like the idea that people have to get health insurance.",
"That part of the bill goes into effect in a few years.",
"What's the Word? TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: What's the word?",
"the sector of a country's economy that isn't run by its government .",
"PRIVATE SECTOR .",
"That's the word! Cuban Economy .",
"AZUZ: Running a business in the private sector means risks and rewards.",
"You can set your own prices, but there's no one to really fall back on if things don't go so well.",
"Shasta Darlington looks at what's in store for thousands of Cubans who are about to lose their government jobs and make the shift into the private sector.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT, HAVANA: A tall order in communist Cuba: finding jobs for half a million laid-off workers in the private sector.",
"Here in Old Havana, not everyone is celebrating this capitalist notion.",
"Like it or not, employees at this barbershop around the corner are being pushed off the state payroll and handed the shop.",
"They'll be able to set prices and keep earnings, but they'll now have to pay taxes and rent, and there's no longer the guarantee of a fixed income.",
"GERARDO, HAVANA BARBER [TRANSLATED]: \"I've been working for the state for years now and I'm not interested in going private,\" says Gerardo.",
"\"I want to keep working for the state.\"",
"DARLINGTON: Cuba plans to shed ten percent of public sector jobs over the next six months and allow more private enterprise to absorb the unemployed.",
"A dramatic attempt by President Raul Castro to reshape the sputtering economy.",
"He says the state simply can't afford a bloated and unproductive workforce.",
"But don't expect American-style big business.",
"Cuba's new entrepreneurs will be encouraged to start small operations, maybe driving taxis, laying bricks or perhaps repairing toys.",
"Now, to get an idea of what's in store for them, we're talking to some of the people already working in the country's miniscule private sector.",
"Emilio Mendoza was laid off during Cuba's last major economic crisis in the '90s.",
"He bought a government license and set up a cobbler's shop in his driveway.",
"He says Cubans should see this as an opportunity.",
"Isidro, a taxi driver, says it depends on how much the state charges its new entrepreneurs in taxes and licensing fees.",
"They all agree, the days of getting paid by the government, whether you work or lounge about, are over.",
"Still, the state controls about 90 percent of the economy.",
"These modest proposals aren't likely to radically shift that balance, but they will give life to a new class of small businesses that could change the face of Cuba.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"Which one of these is the flag of Chile?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A, B, C or D? You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Option C is Chile's flag; its design was influenced by the U.S. flag.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"24 Hours in the Chilean Mine .",
"AZUZ: The 33 men who are waiting to be rescued from a mine in Chile are experiencing things most people never will and most people hope they never will.",
"Take something as simple as time.",
"We can check our watches, our cell phones.",
"They can do that too. But when we look outside, we can see the sun, we can see the moon, we can sort of estimate what time of day or night it is in some cases.",
"They can't do that. Karl Penhaul shows us a day in the life when you are trapped underground.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT, CHILE: A new dawn breaks.",
"33 miners face another day trapped half a mile deep.",
"Rescue workers say the men never lost their notion of time.",
"MIGUEL FORTT, CHILE RESCUE COORDINATOR [TRANSLATED]: The miners have cell phones, so they had a calendar.",
"They knew perfectly what day it was and what time it was.",
"The only thing they didn't know was what the weather was like.",
"PENHAUL: It's 8 a.m. on the surface.",
"Far underground, day shift is starting.",
"They're working to help rescue themselves.",
"FORTT [TRANSLATED]: They have eight hours of rest, another eight-hour work shift, and eight hours to play games, read, write letters, jog or have a walk, because they have access to about 2.5 km of tunnels.",
"PENHAUL: Time is marked by meals sent down in metal tubes rescuers call carrier pigeons.",
"Nurse Mabel Rios is supervising.",
"MABEL RIOS, NURSE [TRANSLATED]: About 7:45, we send them breakfast.",
"At 10 a.m., a milkshake.",
"At 12, we send them lunch.",
"At 4 p.m., another milkshake.",
"And around 7 p.m., we send them their dinner.",
"PENHAUL: First job of the day: check air quality.",
"By midday, paramedic Yonni Barrios has checked all the miners' vital signs and sent the data to doctors above.",
"Around the clock, miners help with the rescue effort, clearing debris from the drills now boring an escape shaft.",
"At 4 p.m., day shift ends.",
"Miners play games, listen to music, and work out on the orders of a personal trainer far above.",
"FORTT [TRANSLATED]: Because they're sitting down all day, they have a personal trainer to help them cut down their waistline so they can fit in the rescue capsule.",
"PENHAUL: Work or rest, the miners spend their day wandering up and down between the workshop, refuge or camp.",
"But until the day one of the drills finally rescues them, those 33 lives must stay on hold.",
"Karl Penhaul, CNN, at the San Jose Mine in northern Chile.",
"(END VIDEO) Heroes Promo .",
"AZUZ: The CNN Heroes program honors everyday folks who find ways to change the world.",
"This year's top 10 CNN Heroes are being announced today.",
"You can go to CNN.com to find out who they are and learn about what they do.",
"Teacher's Lounge Promo .",
"AZUZ: And teachers: the CNN Teachers' Lounge is open!",
"You can find it in the bottom right corner of our front page, that's CNNStudentNews.com.",
"The Teachers' Lounge is a place for you teachers to sound off on issues in education.",
"This week, we want to know what advice you have for new teachers.",
"Texting Champion .",
"AZUZ: We're not sure we have any advice for Brianna Hendrickson.",
"At least not when it comes to texting.",
"The 13 year old took first place in the National Texting Championship.",
"The final challenge: type out a modified version of \"Old McDonald.\"",
"Brianna nailed it in just 60 seconds.",
"The prize: $50,000!",
"She won $50,000 for texting and the chance to compete again.",
"Win that one, and she might get another 50 grand, plus get to pick a charity that'll get a $50,000 donation.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: That's a lot of dough.",
"We're cooking up a different ingredient for today's Before We Go segment: corn!",
"You probably can't tell from this high up, but that's what this is.",
"It's actually a corn maze.",
"The annual Idaho attraction is opening up this week.",
"The designer says it took him two days; he does it all by hand.",
"Can you imagine spending two straight days out in the fields making this?",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: That's a guy who really gets lost in his work.",
"We're back tomorrow.",
"We hope you'll lend us an ear then!",
"You'll find many kernels of knowledge!",
"It's gonna be cobs of fun!",
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"(CNN Student News) -- November 29, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• North Korea • Portland, Oregon • Haiti .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: CNN Student News welcomes you back from Thanksgiving break!",
"Hope you had a great turkey day.",
"Here is your commercial-free news on this last Monday in November.",
"First Up: Island Attacked .",
"AZUZ: First up -- things are tense with North Korea.",
"Again. U.S. Senator John McCain says he doesn't think the Asian country really wants war, but that's what it's talking about as the U.S. and South Korea start military exercises off the coast of the Korean peninsula.",
"Here's CNN's Chris Lawrence.",
"CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: You're talking in the neighborhood of about 7,000 American sailors, 75 fighter jets on board.",
"This is going to be a combination of air and sea, last for about four days.",
"And, so, that's when we will have to start really keeping an eye on what North Korea's response will be when those training exercises start.",
"AZUZ: These military exercises have been planned for awhile.",
"North Korea characterizes them as a \"pretext for aggression\" that could ignite a war and says they're creating a state of \"ultra emergency\" in the Korean peninsula.",
"Why do some American lawmakers doubt there'll be a war?",
"Because North Korea's done this sort of thing before -- they've made these threatening statements -- in hopes of getting other countries to pacify North Korea with aid or money.",
"Senator McCain says the U.S. has given North Korea more than a billion dollars in the past 15 years to try to get North Korea to negotiate.",
"So why is that country's threat still serious?",
"Because last week, North Korea attacked a South Korean island, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.",
"It said that was in response to military exercises being done by South Korea alone.",
"And North Korea has moved surface-to-air missiles to its border with South Korea.",
"Why does all this matter so much to the U.S.?",
"Well, you know that the U.S. was involved in the 1950s Korean War.",
"Today, America has a defense treaty with South Korea.",
"If war breaks out again between North and South, the U.S. is committed to help defend South Korea.",
"Plot in Portland .",
"AZUZ: The place: Portland, Oregon.",
"The event: The lighting of the city's Christmas tree.",
"The problem: Officials say someone wanted to bomb the celebration, which attracts thousands of people.",
"He failed, as you can see here, the tree shining with lights and the flashes of cameras from the crowd.",
"Those who were here are thankful to the Portland police and the FBI who say this man -- 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud -- tried to blow up what he thought was a car bomb at the ceremony on Friday night.",
"Police say the Muslim teen was interested in violent religious attacks, but that the people at the event were never in any real danger, because officials had had their eye on Mohamud for a long time.",
"The FBI says it had worked undercover to trap the suspect.",
"This included getting in touch with Mohamud, finding out what he allegedly wanted to attack, and then providing a fake car bomb that Mohamud is accused of trying to detonate several times during the ceremony.",
"Muslim leaders in the Portland area spoke out against the plot and any violence that targets innocent people.",
"Is This Legit? STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is This Legit?",
"Haiti's government is a constitutional monarchy.",
"Not legit! Haiti is a republic; its president is elected by popular vote.",
"Haiti Elections .",
"AZUZ: So Haiti's people may choose their leader directly, but did they have the chance to do it fairly?",
"There were 18 candidates for president in yesterday's election in Haiti.",
"11 of them say the vote was tainted by fraud all over the country.",
"The leading politician even asked for the election to be canceled!",
"Ivan Watson takes you to the political scene in a country crushed by poverty, disaster and disease.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Haiti's presidential palace still lies in ruins, but that hasn't stopped these politicians from competing for the top job.",
"Eighteen candidates, mobilizing supporters and money, to win the post of president.",
"Historically, Haitian elections are plagued by violence, allegations of fraud, and logistical problems.",
"This year, election officials say they've trained staff and carefully prepared ballot counting centers to ensure a smoother election.",
"But 48 hours before the polls were scheduled to open, crowds waited in line to receive identification cards that will allow them to vote.",
"At the beginning of this month, hundreds of thousands of ID cards had yet to be distributed.",
"Election workers, disorganized, struggling to maintain order.",
"At least one woman collapses after waiting for hours.",
"And tempers start to flare.",
"Meanwhile, fresh reports of violence.",
"The United Nations says it deployed peacekeepers and police to one southern town Friday night after supporters of presidential candidate Michel Martelly clashed with members of the outgoing president's political party.",
"Last week, U.N. Peacekeepers lost control of the streets of Haiti's second largest city, after a deadly cholera outbreak triggered violent protests.",
"Haitian authorities aren't taking any chances.",
"They're imposing strict curfews on vehicle traffic on election day, banning the sale of alcohol, and suspending licenses for guns until three days after the vote.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"APRIL WILLIAMS, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for a Shoutout!",
"What is the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend known as?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Leftover Monday, B) Online Monday, C) Cyber Monday or D) Manic Monday?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Many stores see Cyber Monday as the beginning of the online shopping season for the holidays!",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"More Hype than Sales?",
"AZUZ: That means today, millions of Americans will be shopping online; many of them are going to be at work when they do.",
"Consumer Reports says that 17 percent of adult Americans will be surfing for internet deals today, while 13 percent are expected to actually set foot in a store.",
"So you can see the difference between Cyber Monday, and Black Friday, which was last week.",
"Retailers were hoping to get in the black, meaning they'd be making profits, but this time around, it looks like Black Friday was more hype than sales.",
"The crowds were bigger overall.",
"But the actual increase in Black Friday sales was only slight.",
"In fact, it was about the same increase over last year as last year was over the year before.",
"Football Concussions .",
"AZUZ: CNN recently interviewed Fred McNeill.",
"He's a former Minnesota Vikings linebacker who clearly remembers one of the big plays he made in Super Bowl 11.",
"That was back in 1977. But if you were to ask McNeill where he was yesterday and whom he just met, the 58-year-old has trouble remembering.",
"Doctor Sanjay Gupta interviews another football player and tells us what could be the reasons why for these memory issues.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Do you feel like now, in retrospect, you ever stayed in the game or was sort of pushed to stay in the game when you shouldn't have?",
"KURT WARNER, FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK: Yes, there's no question that's happened.",
"A lot of guys when they get those hits or those concussions, they think, \"OK, I'm just going to play through it here for the short-term and it's going to get better.\"",
"UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: He was just lifted up and deposited - .",
"GUPTA: Playing through it is part of football says Warner.",
"A big part. WARNER: Probably 100 percent of the guys that played my sport in the NFL have been there.",
"And I think for a long time it was felt like, well, if you didn't get up dizzy or with no memory, then you really didn't suffer a concussion.",
"GUPTA: What does a concussion feel like?",
"WARNER: It's like a mental fogginess, where you almost seem like you're separated from the situation.",
"You're in it, but you're kind of looking at it from the outside looking in.",
"GUSKIEWICZ: How many of you have -- by show of hands - had a concussion?",
"GUPTA: Kevin Guskiewicz, formerly a Pittsburgh Steelers trainer, studies concussions' impact on the brain in high school players.",
"KEVIN GUSKIEWICZ, BRAIN INJURY RESEARCHER, FORMER NFL TRAINER: This is showing moderate levels of atrophy.",
"GUPTA: And retired NFL athletes.",
"In his study, players who've had three or more concussions get MRIs.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm going to say three words.",
"GUPTA: And memory tests.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Apple, penny, table.",
"Now you say those. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Apple, penny, table.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good.",
"GUPTA: Memory problems are not the only thing they are finding.",
"GUSKIEWICZ: The brain has shrunk.",
"GUPTA: Concussions may be shrinking memory and learning centers in the brain, thwarting its ability to transmit signals.",
"(END VIDEO) AZUZ: We asked the NFL about Kurt Warner's statement about players staying in the game even if they are hurt.",
"The organization's response: \"If anything, we are going in the other direction where people sit out until they are totally symptom-free.",
"There are so many protocols now, if a guy gets pulled out in a game, he cannot go back until he's cleared by the team doctor.\"",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: 'Tis the season when you see members of the Salvation Army, ringing bells outside stores.",
"They don't have to be human. Here's Tinker, a miniature horse who's harnessed the heart of the holidays.",
"His owner says she saw too many people passing by the kettle without making donations.",
"So with a little training, Tinker rings a bell and brings money to the pan!",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Silencing all the neigh-sayers.",
"Hey, Tinker may be a little guy, but he's still a stud.",
"We're riding out -- I'm Carl Azuz for CNN Student News and we'll see you tomorrow."
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"In Subject Matters, we reveal the struggles faced by educators who teach subjects like science, math, English and history, and the solutions they've found.",
"Teachers, share more ideas in our weekly Teachers' Lounge.",
"As science teachers try to educate the next generation of scientists in the United States, they worry about everything from a shortage of supplies for classroom experiments to their subject's nerdy image.",
"Here are some of the challenges they face in their classrooms.",
"Pencils, paper ... and Alka-Seltzer?",
"Eighth-graders love rockets.",
"Science teacher Jennifer Judkins of Wilmington, Massachusetts, makes sure that her students build and launch small rockets as part of her curriculum.",
"\"It's a great activity for our laws-of-motion study,\" the Wilmington Middle School teacher said.",
"\"Just hearing the students talk among themselves about which rocket will go higher, seeing that learning happening right in front of you, is impactful.\"",
"This activity has a cost for Judkins -- $30 to be exact.",
"That's how much she recently spent on Alka-Seltzer tablets and film canisters to make 100 rockets.",
"\"Sure, I could read in a book and say, 'If you launch a rocket, this will happen,' but they aren't going to take that with them,\" she said.",
"For science teachers, piquing students' curiosity starts with experiments.",
"But those experiments require raw materials, and many public schools have cut budgets for frogs and owl pellets.",
"Holly Gildig, who teaches sixth-grade science in rural Livingston, Louisiana, said she has difficulty acquiring materials needed to do experiments with her class.",
"She also uses her own money to purchase materials needed for her classroom, or she sends a note home to parents to see if they can help.",
"But even that won't help her greatest need: A place to do experiments, or at least a sink in the classroom.",
"\"I don't have a lab that I can take my students to,\" Gildig said.",
"\"I really don't have the equipment to teach science.\"",
"When she can't come up with the raw materials she needs, she goes online.",
"\"Sometimes, I just have to go with technology and find something online and present it to the kids that way,\" she said.",
"Science isn't just for geeks .",
"Before Teresa Marshall became a high school science teacher, she worked as a chemist.",
"Her students are every bit as intelligent as the scientists that she worked with, she said, but the kids will never believe it.",
"\"A lot of kids come to chemistry class believing that they aren't good at science,\" said Marshall, who teaches in Wilmington, Massachusetts.",
"\"They label themselves as being not good at science.\"",
"Adrianna Dupre, a chemistry teacher at Terrebonne High School in Houma, Louisiana, said most of her students say they don't like science at the start of the school year.",
"\"They think we are just teaching them stuff to make their lives miserable,\" Dupre said.",
"But as the year progresses, she connects her lessons to real life, like relating combustion to starting a car.",
"Soon enough, the students' arguments become less pronounced.",
"Students who believe they can't do well in science may never have had a teacher that engaged them on the topic, said Janice Earle of the National Science Foundation.",
"\"There is often a problem in the parents' perceptions, since their experience back in school days may have been with science classes that they experienced as being boring or focused on memorization, rather than active learning,\" Earle said.",
"\"They may pass on to their kids the sense that science is a boring pastime for nerds, rather than an interesting, collaborative enterprise that's all about observing and understanding the world around you.\"",
"All science is not equal .",
"Kids in elementary school are focusing on English and math to keep in line with standards set by No Child Left Behind.",
"Their teachers are likely to have studied elementary education, but few will have a background in science.",
"That means kids may not be getting the early background in science that they need.",
"\"The elementary teacher in general does not have deep background in science,\" said Francis Eberle, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association.",
"\"Their understanding and their ability to help students learn science is more challenged because they don't really know science themselves.\"",
"There has been a decline in the time that elementary teachers spend on science over the past six years under the No Child Left Behind law, Eberle said.",
"\"It's hard when an elementary schedule is math- and reading-based, with little time devoted to science,\" said Jay Farnsworth, a sixth-grade teacher in Waunakee, Wisconsin.",
"By the time students get to middle and high school, they're more likely to be taught by a teacher with a degree in science.",
"But the teachers' degree may not be in the discipline they are teaching.",
"Long before Judkins was teaching classes to build rockets, she was a biologist for NASA.",
"Earth science was part of her curriculum, but she had no experience on the topic.",
"Her solution? She took a workshop and did her own research about the best ways to teach the topic. All of it was at her own expense."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan lawmakers Sunday offered a new proposal to end a political standoff with President Hamid Karzai over complaints from the losers of September's parliamentary vote .",
"Karzai is refusing to swear in the new parliament until an electoral court he established in December can review complaints from losing candidates.",
"He has refused two previous calls by lawmakers to dissolve that body, which members of the National Assembly say is unconstitutional.",
"The latest proposal, floated by lawmakers on Sunday, says criminal cases stemming from the election will be prosecuted based on Afghanistan's constitution and election laws and that members of parliament would retain their immunity.",
"It drops references to a \"special court,\" however.",
"No decision from Karzai's office was expected until Monday, said one of the lawmakers, Nahid Ahmadi.",
"Karzai's office has not returned repeated calls from CNN for comment.",
"Karzai's office on Wednesday announced a one-month delay in inaugurating parliament, saying that the special court on election fraud needed more time to investigate complaints from losing candidates.",
"The decision drew criticism from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan and concern from analysts that it could spark ethnic divisions and more violence.",
"Afghanistan's existing electoral bodies, the Independent Electoral Commission and Election Complaint Commission, have reviewed the results of last year's election.",
"In November, the Electoral Complaint Commission threw out more than 1 million ballots from around 3,000 polling stations because of suspected fraud.",
"The decision resulted in losses for candidates from Karzai's power base in the largely Pashtun south, where much of the fighting between Taliban guerrillas and NATO and Afghan troops is taking place.",
"The losing candidates argue that their constituents were unable to vote because of violence and intimidation, and that Pashtuns will feel increasingly alienated from the government and turn back to the Taliban.",
"\"The most important thing that is being ignored in these legalistic discussions and political maneuvers is the people of this country.",
"Where do they fit in? Where do they belong?\" said Daud Sultanzai, one of about 250 losing candidates who are scheduled to meet with Karzai this week.",
"In Sultanzai's home province of Ghazni, all 11 parliament seats went to the province's Hazara minority.",
"In one district, only 3 people out of 100,000 cast their ballots.",
"He blamed forces outside the country for pushing ordinary Afghans \"into this corner.\"",
"\"We are the people of this country,\" Sultanzai said.",
"\"Everyone is interfering -- embassies, warlords, drug lords.",
"They are all stepping on the people of this country.",
"We want a voice in this country.\"",
"Karzai, whose own 2009 re-election was marred by allegations of widespread fraud, appeared to concede to lawmakers' demands on Saturday and offered to convene parliament on Wednesday.",
"But under his offer, the inauguration would take place only if lawmakers accept any decision made by the special court, lawmaker Baktash Siawash said Saturday.",
"Lawmakers countered Karzai by asking him to dissolve the special court and have the nation's Supreme Court investigate the cases.",
"Karzai also rejected that proposal.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon and Mati Matiullah contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- An armed man hijacked a Greyhound bus Thursday in North Carolina and took the passengers on a short, wild ride before being arrested.",
"The bus was traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina, when the gun-toting passenger approached the driver Thursday night, said Maureen Richmond, a Greyhound spokeswoman.",
"The passenger screamed for the driver to pull over.",
"The driver did. Thirty-three of passengers were allowed to get off the bus at that time, according to Vance County Sheriff Peter White.",
"The driver, the gunman and the two remaining passengers then continued on to a nearby gas station where police were waiting.",
"The suspect, identified as Jose Flores, was shocked with a stun gun and then arrested, said White.",
"Flores faces a charge of one count of kidnapping, said Capt.",
"Shawn Bridges at the Warren County jail.",
"Authorities were trying to determine why the hijacking occurred."
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"(CNN) -- Police in three European countries were looking Sunday for 6-year-old twin girls abducted by their father, who was found dead last week.",
"Interpol issued an international Yellow Notice missing persons alert Saturday for Alessia and Livia Schepp.",
"Such notices are distributed to police in Interpol's 188 member countries to help find missing people, especially children.",
"The Schepp sisters were reported missing January 30 after their father, Matthias, took them from their home in St. Sulpice, near Lausanne in western Switzerland, Interpol said.",
"He took the girls following personal problems at home, according to the state police in Vaud, which covers the area of St. Sulpice.",
"State police said Schepp drove through Marseilles, France, on Tuesday.",
"Two days later, police in Bari, Italy, found the father's body, but there was no sign of the girls.",
"A spokesman for the Vaud state police said the investigation is focused on Switzerland, France and Italy.",
"Both girls are blonde and about 3 feet, 9 inches tall, Interpol said.",
"When they were taken, Livia was wearing a green T-shirt, jeans, a violet ski jacket, and Adidas sneakers.",
"Alessia was wearing a T-shirt with red and white stripes, jeans, a brown jacket, and black shoes.",
"CNN's Melissa Gray contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- October 28, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Haiti • Dunnellon, Florida .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: What do the Statue of Liberty, a flying car and James Bond have in common?",
"You're gonna find out in the next 10 minutes.",
"My name is Carl Azuz.",
"Welcome to CNN Student News.",
"Let's go ahead and get you today's headlines.",
"First Up: Midwest Storms .",
"AZUZ: All right, the wind and the rain are slowing down; now, it's time to start cleaning up.",
"That is what is happening all over the United States after this week's tremendous storms.",
"Maybe your town got hit by this severe weather.",
"It is not alone. Check out this map of the United States.",
"If you start over in New York on the East Coast, you go to Wisconsin in the Midwest, then down the Gulf Coast.",
"There was damage across parts of that entire area.",
"Three states -- Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky -- seemed to get the worst of this.",
"And besides the physical damage, hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed over the past couple days.",
"John Roberts wraps up some of the impact of these storms.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's that rare of an event.",
"JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: Everyone has a storm they'll talk about for the rest of their lives.",
"For many folks from the Dakotas down through the south, this was it, their hurricane, their nor'easter.",
"It even had a name: the \"Chi-clone.\"",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It sounds just like a train, like they say it does.",
"And as fast as it came is as fast as it went.",
"ROBERTS: A historic storm stretching a staggering 1,200 miles from north to south that had it all: hurricane-force winds, monsoon-like rain, blizzard warnings and tornadoes reported in at least seven states.",
"This surveillance camera kept rolling inside one possible twister in Indiana as the tin roof came off a barn and a boat went airborne.",
"Trees snapped and crushed cars in Kentucky.",
"A rogue gust of wind tipped over a semi and tore off its roof in Michigan.",
"And in Ohio, someone came home to find only half their house was there.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were at work, got a phone call that you better get out to your house, the roof's gone off of it.",
"And I said, \"Yeah, right.\"",
"ROBERTS: Now, the dangerous storm is moving on.",
"But thousands of fliers aren't, as grounded airlines struggle to catch up.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have to leave today.",
"(END VIDEO) Haiti Cholera Outbreak .",
"AZUZ: A health official says it could take months to get an outbreak of cholera under control in Haiti.",
"Cholera is a disease that's caused by a bacterial infection.",
"Most people get it from contaminated food or water.",
"This official says Haiti can expect to see cases of cholera for years.",
"Right now, the outbreak is getting worse.",
"More than 4,000 people have confirmed cases of the disease.",
"Nearly 300 others have died so far.",
"Aid workers are trying to slow down the spread of cholera by going into Haitian camps and teaching people about proper water and waste treatment.",
"Many Haitians are living in these camps because their homes were destroyed by the earthquake earlier this year.",
"What's the Word . JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: What's the Word?",
"any kind of animal that has a backbone .",
"VERTEBRATE . That's the word! Endangered Vertebrates .",
"AZUZ: When we talk about vertebrates, it includes mammals, birds, amphibians.",
"There's a new study out called the Red List that says that one-fifth of these animals -- 20 percent!",
"-- are at risk of going extinct.",
"Amphibians like this frog are in the most danger.",
"According to the Red List, over 40 percent of them are closer to extinction than we thought.",
"Scientists say habitat loss is partly to blame here.",
"When land changes --- cutting down trees, for example --animals that lived there might not be able to survive.",
"There is some good news in the report, though.",
"Experts say that the situation could have been worse if it weren't for conservation efforts to save some of these species.",
"Focus on Bullying .",
"AZUZ: We got more than a thousand comments the last time we blogged about bullying.",
"And you aren't the only ones talking about this issue.",
"A new study out -- just came out this week -- is all about bullying.",
"It says around half of all students admit to being bullied, and the same number admit to being bullies.",
"President Obama's addressing this.",
"His administration is putting out new guidelines that say schools should face penalties if they don't address certain kinds of bullying.",
"Some critics argue that the government is overreacting with these new guidelines.",
"And one expert says parents need to be part of this situation by talking to their kids and looking for signs of bullying.",
"This Day in History .",
"[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC] .",
"October 28, 1636 -- Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts .",
"October 28, 1919 -- Congress passes the Volstead Act, making it illegal to manufacture or sell alcohol .",
"October 28, 1962 -- An agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ends the Cuban Missile crisis .",
"October 28, 1886 -- The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the U.S., is dedicated in New York Harbor .",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Sauve's social studies classes at Shell Lake Junior/Senior High in Shell Lake, Wisconsin!",
"What U.S. government agency regulates air travel?",
"Is it the: A) FEC, B) FBI, C) NASA or D) FAA?",
"Start the countdown at three seconds -- GO!",
"That's the job of the FAA, or Federal Aviation Administration.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Flying Car .",
"AZUZ: Part of the FAA's job is to approve new vehicles.",
"The agency decides if they're airworthy.",
"Recently, it signed off on the Maverick.",
"This is a new design that answers the question: When is a plane not a plane?",
"Kate Bolduan took this one out: not for a test flight; for a test drive.",
"Take a look at her report.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We've all dreamed of a flying car.",
"But this man, Florida missionary Steve Saint... STEVE SAINT, I-TEC: We could probably get you flying this by noon.",
"BOLDUAN: Really?",
"SAINT: Really.",
"BOLDUAN: ...He's making it a reality.",
"SAINT: Anybody who's ever been in a traffic jam, anybody who's ever been some place where, you know, trying to get out of the parking lot at Disney, has thought about, you know, if I could just fly.",
"And this one will. BOLDUAN: It's called the Maverick.",
"Last year, Popular Mechanics gave the prototype one of its breathrough awards of the year.",
"LOGAN WARD, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, POPULAR MECHANICS: The Maverick is not only a practical flying car, but it's also a beefy car.",
"They put a Subaru engine in this thing, 250 horsepower.",
"It goes 0-60 in 3.9 seconds.",
"BOLDUAN: By air, it glides at 40 miles per hour.",
"It's the first of its kind to get FAA approval.",
"The Maverick's biggest success: it's intuitive.",
"SAINT: For driving, you have a steering wheel and you have a brake and accelerator, just like an automatic car.",
"BOLDUAN: Just like a car.",
"SAINT: Which you probably have.",
"BOLDUAN: Yep.",
"SAINT: Now, when you're going to fly, you see this one little button that says fly?",
"BOLDUAN: Yes.",
"SAINT: All you do to fly is you flip this up.",
"BOLDUAN: What is the biggest selling point of the Maverick versus another type of hybrid machine?",
"SAINT: There is no other machine that will do what this one will.",
"There is no other car that will fly and go on water and go on snow.",
"BOLDUAN: Saint and his crew at I-Tec, a non-profit organization, developed the Maverick in part to solve a transportation riddle for frontier areas like the Amazon in Ecuador, where Saint grew up.",
"What do you do when the road ends? Now, he says, the practical applications of their machine reach far beyond jungle survival.",
"SAINT: You can fly over, find somebody who needs to be rescued, and you can land and then drive to them.",
"So, that would be another one.",
"Border patrol, pipeline monitoring, ranching and extreme sports.",
"There's just all kinds of uses.",
"I'm sure we'll be surprised by the uses that people put this to.",
"BOLDUAN: The next step: commercial production.",
"For $80,000, a flying car could be coming soon to a garage near you.",
"Kate Bolduan, CNN, Dunnellon, Florida.",
"(END VIDEO) Facebook Chat Promo .",
"AZUZ: I want one.",
"All right, back by semi-popular demand: a conversation with moi!",
"I will be live on Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews, and I will be answering your questions!",
"The date: Monday night, November 1st, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time.",
"If there's something you've always wanted to know about the show, ask me Monday night.",
"I will do my best to respond to your wall post!",
"That address again: Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: And finally today, the name is Bond.",
"James Bond.",
"All right, we can't all be British super spies.",
"But we can drive his car. This is the Aston Martin that was used in two James Bond movies.",
"What's cool about this is that some of the gadgets from the films actually work on the car.",
"It's got a bullet shield; it's got a revolving license plate, an ejection seat.",
"Okay, not really the ejection seat; that doesn't actually work.",
"But the car is going up for auction this week.",
"Experts think it could pull in -- get this -- 5 million dollars.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Seems a bit high, but I guess you can't put a price on bonding with 007.",
"I spy another edition of CNN Student News coming your way tomorrow.",
"We'll look forward to seeing you then. I'm Carl Azuz."
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"(CNN) -- The Super Bowl may be the most watched television event in the United States, but that won't be the primary focus for millions of people tuning in this year.",
"Stephen Master, vice president of Nielsen Sports media research, told CNNMoney.com that close to 50 percent of viewers actually watch the commercials more than they watch the game.",
"This doesn't surprise 24-year-old Chantal Paradis of Austin, Texas, who is among the TV followers who care more about the ads and less about the Green Bay Packers-Pittsburgh Steelers matchup.",
"See a sneak peak of this year's ads .",
"\"I plan to record the Super Bowl before I start watching it so I can fast-forward to the commercials,\" Paradis said.",
"\"I really don't care who wins the game.\"",
"Twenty-five-year-old Carmelo Giangrande of Crystal Lake, Illinois, says he only watches the ads, too, and couldn't care less about football.",
"He prefers to watch ice hockey.",
"\"I like how the Super Bowl brings people together for parties, but I think the advertisements are more interesting than the game,\" Giangrande noted.",
"\"I'll eat, drink and socialize during the Super Bowl, then tune in when the commercials air,\" he said.",
"That's good news for companies paying the reported $100,000-per-second ad rate to showcase their products on Fox this year.",
"Although 106.5 million people tuned into last year's Super Bowl, it's the buzz before, during and after the game about an ad that advertisers really care about.",
"Paradis, a married insurance sales professional, says she'll be on the lookout for commercials that make her laugh.",
"\"I think the most memorable Super Bowl commercials are the funny ones,\" she said.",
"\"I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake, so I liked the one with him in the Pepsi ad a few years ago where he was playfully beat up.\"",
"Giangrande says he enjoys the beer ads and prefers commercials that make him laugh, too.",
"Mainstream media outlets and social media sites devote space and time to highlight the spots, too, which can add to the excitement and build up this pop culture phenomenon.",
"Both Paradis and Giangrande are among the growing number of members of Facebook fan pages dedicated to Super Bowl commercials.",
"\"It's almost become a sort of holiday or an American tradition to watch the ads,\" she said.",
"Viewers interested in the ads this year will get to view a variety of spots featuring beer, soda, cars -- and celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne, to name a few."
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"(CNN) -- Armed militants in southwest Pakistan torched two oil tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, a government official told CNN.",
"Azam Shahwani, a senior government official in Baluchistan province, said four gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire on a convey of five oil tankers in the area of Mithri, a village in the district of Bolan.",
"Shahwani said the oil tankers were heading toward Afghanistan.",
"No one was injured, but two of the oil tankers were destroyed, Shahwani said.",
"\"I could see roaring flames of fire even three hours after the attack,\" Shahwani said.",
"Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"(CNN Student News) -- February 4, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Washington, D.C. • Egypt • China .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"SHANELL, CNN STUDENT NEWS IREPORTER: Hi!",
"I'm Shanell. AMANDA, CNN STUDENT NEWS IREPORTER: And I'm Amanda.",
"SHANELL: And we're from Colby, Kansas.",
"AMANDA: And this is Carl Azuz with today's CNN Student News!",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Very nicely done, ladies, getting us off to a galloping start.",
"That was awesome, just like Fridays!",
"Wonder if those horses were neighbors.",
"Whether you live next door or halfway around the world, we welcome all of our viewers to CNN Student News.",
"First Up: Roof Collapse .",
"AZUZ: So, let's say you're a Steelers or Packers fan.",
"You're heading to the Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas to get away from the cold weather in your hometown.",
"But when you show up in Texas, the wind chill is 10 degrees below zero!",
"Believe that! That's what it felt like in Dallas yesterday.",
"Throw in several inches of snow and ice, parts of the city just shut down.",
"One Packers player said it was funny to see everything closed.",
"He said in Green Bay, this would've been a normal day.",
"What we're about to show you, though, is not normal.",
"Watch this. That's the power of this snowstorm.",
"The roof of the building in Massachusetts completely collapsed under the weight of all the snow.",
"Luckily, everyone who was inside got out safely ahead of time.",
"Prayer Breakfast .",
"AZUZ: The National Prayer Breakfast has taken place in Washington, D.C. every year for nearly six decades.",
"During yesterday's prayer breakfast, President Obama gave a very personal speech about his religious faith.",
"He talked about how his faith sustains him and how he asks God for strength.",
"The president wasn't the only speaker at the event.",
"U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly -- he is the husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- gave the closing prayer.",
"He also talked about his wife's recovery from a shooting attack in Arizona.",
"The president also talked about violence that's taking place in a different part of the world.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We pray that the violence in Egypt will end, and that the rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people will be realized.",
"And that a better day will dawn over Egypt and throughout the world.",
"Egypt Unrest & Social Media .",
"AZUZ: People who support and people who are against Egypt's government continued to fight against each other in the country's capital of Cairo on Thursday, though the fighting wasn't as intense as it was the day before.",
"In an interview with Christiane Amanpour of ABC News, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who's the main focus of these protests, said he was very unhappy about the fighting.",
"He also said that he would leave office right away, but that he didn't want to risk plunging his nation into chaos.",
"Political protests certainly aren't a new idea.",
"They've been happening for centuries.",
"But as Karen Caifa explains for us now, there is a very modern twist to these protests in Egypt.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KARIN CAIFA, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: Pictures that speak a thousand words.",
"Protests fueled by 140 characters.",
"The unrest in Egypt targets the 30-year tenure of leader Hosni Mubarak, protests led by a generation that's come of age and found their voice in the era of social media.",
"NASSER WEDDADY, AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS: You have a generation right now, an entire generation that was born under the Mubarak rule, that has taken to the streets and they want him out.",
"CAIFA: While the percentage of Egyptians engaging in social media is small compared to that in the United States, like young Americans, it's young Egyptians making the most use of it.",
"So before they took to the streets, they took to Twitter and to Facebook to mobilize, organize, to share their anger with each other and with the world.",
"But at points during the height of the unrest, those tools went dark, with reports of the Egyptian government cracking down on Twitter and Facebook use, and cutting off internet access.",
"A move criticized by the White House.",
"ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We believe that the people of Egypt have a right to freedom of expression and freedom of speech, and that includes the use of the internet.",
"CAIFA: And even with postings from within Egypt limited, the events stayed among the top trending topics on Twitter, piquing the interest of social media users worldwide using a number of hashtags.",
"WEDDADY: The demonstrations that you're seeing right now in the streets, that's an example of online activism going back into the real world.",
"(END VIDEO) Health Care Debate .",
"AZUZ: An effort to overturn the controversial Health Care Reform Law will not be moving forward in the U.S. Senate.",
"Senate Democrats blocked the move by Senate Republicans on Wednesday in a 51-to-47 vote that was right down party lines.",
"Two Democratic senators didn't vote.",
"The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to overturn the law last month.",
"But with the Senate vote on Wednesday, this debate may be over in Congress.",
"But it's not over in the courts. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the health care law is unconstitutional.",
"Another judge has ruled the same way.",
"But two other federal judges have said the opposite.",
"All this, what this means, this will probably end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"So there's a good chance we haven't heard the end of this health reform law debate.",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Linser's social studies classes at Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Washington!",
"On the Chinese calendar, what year has just begun?",
"You know what to do! Is it the Year of the... A) Rabbit, B) Ox, C) Snake or D) Tiger?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"The Chinese calendar has just kicked off the Year of the Rabbit.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Chinese New Year .",
"AZUZ: All right.",
"The Chinese calendar is lunar; it's based on the moon.",
"And in a 12-year cycle, every year is assigned a different animal from ancient times.",
"Astrologers describe the rabbit as kind and gentle, so maybe this will be a year of calm in China.",
"Who knows? One thing we do know.",
"These Year of the Rabbit celebrations are hopping, and they're going to go on for two weeks.",
"The new year kicks off a fifteen-day Spring festival.",
"There are parades, like this one.",
"A lot of fireworks and festivities.",
"And we're not just talking about things that happened in China.",
"These celebrations happen in cities all around the world.",
"Digital Dating Abuse .",
"AZUZ: There was a time, when you wanted to ask someone out, you'd pass them a note that said \"Do you want to go out with me?",
"Check yes or no.\" And you'd really, really hope she didn't say maybe.",
"These days, dating, of course, as you know, is a lot more high-tech.",
"But the technology can also be used in harmful ways.",
"We have a report now about some of the potential problems of dating in a digital world.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) CINDY SOUTHWORTH, NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: What else makes digital dating abuse, do you think?",
"CAIFA: Inside this classroom at Jefferson Middle School in Washington, D.C., lessons about the technology that connects teens, but also brings new challenges.",
"Many parents are aware of cyberbullying.",
"But others may not know the signs of digital dating abuse.",
"And a recent survey found that more than half of teens know someone who's been a victim.",
"PATRICIA PRIDE, JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: A lot of the things that happen on Facebook, on MySpace, on the social networks on the weekends, we see filter into the school on Monday morning.",
"CAIFA: Digital dating abuse includes things like excessive or harassing text messages or emails, accessing or manipulating a boyfriend or girlfriend's Facebook or MySpace page, or \"sexting\" with racy photos, all by simply using a mobile phone.",
"SOUTHWORTH: It doesn't necessarily cause dating abuse.",
"You can take the phone away and there's still going to be a controlling relationship, but it's definitely playing out through the technology.",
"CAIFA: So, \"Love is Not Abuse,\" a nationwide coalition that teaches teens about the dangers of domestic violence, now has a bigger focus on the role of the internet and social networking, during and after a relationship.",
"SOUTHWORTH: You're texting a lot, and it's a good thing and both people are happy.",
"But what if you try to break up and the texting keeps happening?",
"CAIFA: The students here were the first to take part in the new curriculum, a kickoff to February's National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.",
"It will soon roll out across the country, a campaign to help students understand that abuse is real, even if it's in the digital realm.",
"In Washington, I'm Karin Caifa for CNN Student News.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Before we go today, we're taking you to an obstacle course where the obstacles are alive!",
"It's at an alligator farm in Florida.",
"And it includes a zip line that takes you right over the gators!",
"The woman on the zip line's thinking, \"cool, gators!\"",
"And the gators are thinking, \"cool, lunch!\"",
"Fearless flyers are strapped onto safety lines at all times.",
"And in truth, you're zipping along about 50 feet over the reptiles' reach.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Still, you'd think they would put up a gator something.",
"Maybe these are helpful animals.",
"Maybe if you fall in their pit, they'll just offer you gator-aid.",
"I think that's one of the best one's we've done in awhile.",
"Today's sign-off line from Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews comes from Lindsey, who says a bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.",
"You can send us your sign-off lines at Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.",
"We look forward to 'em.",
"Today's last suggestion came from Philip, Lauren, Bailey and Gemma.",
"Here it comes: [Carl throws pillow at camera] ."
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"Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- After more than seven months of political gridlock, Nepal's parliament Thursday elected a 60-year-old leftist leader as the country's new prime minister.",
"Jhala Nath Khanal, chairman of the leftist Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), received 368 votes in the 601-member parliament.",
"His nearest rival, Ram Chandra Poudel of the Nepali Congress, got 122 votes and Bijay Kumar Gachhedar of Madhesi People's Rights Forum (Democratic) got 67 votes.",
"Before the vote, Khanal said in parliament that resolving the political complexities of the country would be his first priority.",
"Khanal faces the challenge of preparing -- with the support of other parties -- a new republican constitution by a May 28 deadline and finalizing an agreement on the future of nearly 20,000 Maoist combatants.",
"The country had been without a proper government since outgoing and caretaker prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned in June.",
"Sixteen rounds of voting in parliament since July failed to produce a prime minister since none of the parties had a majority.",
"Nepal's biggest party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), decided to withdraw its own candidate earlier Thursday and back Khanal.",
"He becomes the third prime minister since Nepal became a republic in 2008, ending centuries of monarchy rule.",
"He replaces Nepal, who was also of the same party but had the support of Nepali Congress, the second biggest party in parliament.",
"The Maoists fought a 10-year insurgency to end the monarchy and signed a peace deal in 2006 in which the combatants were to be integrated into the security forces, but the exact process of how that will be accomplished has yet to be agreed upon between the parties.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu congratulated the people of Nepal on the election.",
"\"We look forward to working with incoming Prime Minister Khanal and continuing the warm and constructive relationship between the United States and Nepal,\" a statement from the embassy said.",
"\"We are hopeful that today's election will give renewed momentum to the peace process and constitution drafting.\"",
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also praised the election, according to a spokesman.",
"\"He congratulates the Prime Minister-elect and reaffirms the support of the United Nations to all efforts to complete the peace process and to adopt a new constitution,\" a statement from Ban's spokesman said.",
"\"He believes this development will give a significant boost to efforts to fully implement their outstanding commitments under the Comprehensive Peace Accord and the interim constitution, notably the integration and rehabilitation of the Maoist combatants, democratization of the army and adoption of a new constitution.\"",
"Earlier Thursday, Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' withdrew his candidacy for the prime minister race, saying that his party would concentrate on the constitution and the future of the combatants.",
"He said he realized he was not going to win and the country needed a proper government.",
"\"There is a need for sacrifice to resolve the problems,\" Dahal said.",
"\"The Maoists, since it is the biggest party, should take this responsibility.\"",
"The communist leader said that if parliament could not elect a prime minister again, people would throw shoes at the politicians -- a high insult in certain cultures.",
"There has been widespread discontent among the Nepalese about the political stalemate.",
"Last month, prime minister-elect Khanal was slapped in the face by 52-year-old man at a political rally, who accused the politicians of being selfish.",
"Nepal's political crisis began when Dahal resigned as prime minister in May 2009 after the ceremonial president, who is the supreme commander of the army, reinstated the army chief Dahal had fired."
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"TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- For the first time sumo wrestling's governing body can recall, one of its revered athletes has been nabbed for drug possession.",
"Fans expect dignity from their sumo wrestlers, so the drug arrest has stunned Japan.",
"Police arrested 335-pound Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev -- better known as Wakanoho -- on Monday.",
"They say they found a third of a gram of marijuana in his wallet.",
"That's enough to land him in prison on a diet of forced labor for five years if he's convicted.",
"It's the latest black eye for a sport closely intwined with Japanese culture and history.",
"Fans have long expected humility and dignity from their sumo wrestlers, so the drug arrest has stunned people in Japan, where the national sport has taken a beating in the last year or so.",
"First, police charged three sumo wrestlers and their stable master with beating a teenage sumo to death last year.",
"They deny it. Then Japan's top sumo -- Asashoryu -- apologized on national TV after being caught in an apparent lie.",
"He pulled out of an exhibition tournament, saying he was hurt.",
"But television cameras caught him playing soccer in his native Mongolia days later, apparently without injury.",
"The Japan Sumo Association suspended Asashoryu -- the first time the country's yokozuna , or top sumo, has received that punishment.",
"Now comes the drug arrest.",
"Police say they found marijuana in Wakanoho's wallet on June 24 and arrested him Monday after an investigation.",
"The 20-year-old Russian wrester, who stands six feet four inches, has not entered a plea, authorities said.",
"But the arrest prompted the Japan Sumo Association to apologize to fans and pledge to investigate.",
"Sumo wrestling, which traces it roots back 1,500 years, is struggling not just within its ranks, but in popularity, as well.",
"Fewer Japanese boys are entering the tough life of sumo, so the Sumo Association is recruiting foreigners like Wakanoho and Asashoryu.",
"Attendance is down at the stadiums, as more Japanese embrace soccer and baseball.",
"All these struggles may have a silver lining.",
"\"These allegations, be they true or false, this one included, they're all turning points to a more open sumo,\" says Mark Buckton, a sumo analyst for the Japan Times.",
"\"It's good for the sport in the end.",
"It can open up the sport, make them follow modern society.\""
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"(CNN) -- English Premier League strugglers West Bromwich Albion have sacked manager Roberto di Matteo following a poor run of recent results.",
"The 40-year-old former Italian international led Albion to promotion from the Championship last season, his first at the club.",
"And they continued that good form into the start of the current campaign, notably winning 3-2 at Arsenal and earning a 2-2 draw at Manchester United -- the only team to avoid defeat at Old Trafford this season.",
"Their start to the season was so impressive that Di Matteo won the Premier League Manager of the Month award for September.",
"However, results have taken a turn for the worse in recent weeks, and di Matteo was relieved of his duties following Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Manchester City which left them just one place above the relegation zone in 16th place.",
"A statement on the official club website read: \"West Bromwich Albion have relieved head coach Roberto di Matteo of his duties with immediate effect.",
"\"This was the unanimous decision of the football club's board of directors in light of a worrying sequence of results which has seen the club lose 13 of their last 18 games in all competitions, winning only three.",
"\"First-team coach Michael Appleton will assume control of first-team affairs whilst the club considers all available options for a new head coach.\"",
"Club chairman Jeremy Peace added: \"This has been a tough decision, but we, as a board, believe it is the right one to give the club the best possible chance of remaining in the Premier League this decision.\""
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"The Italian loses his job following a run of results that has left them near the drop zone .",
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"London (CNN) -- The hijacking of a U.S.-bound oil tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude on Wednesday marks what one shipping official calls \"significant shift in the impact of the piracy crisis,\" with major oil lines to the West under severe threat.",
"Pirates seized the MV Irene SL, a Greek supertanker, in the afternoon -- marking the second such incident in two days.",
"They occurred in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean where hijacking have become commonplace in recent years.",
"The European Union Naval Force said the Irene departed Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates and was destined for the Egyptian port of Suez in the North Arabian Sea when it was attacked.",
"But the force doesn't always report the final destination.",
"Joe Angelo, managing director of the trade association INTERTANKO, citing the owner, Enesel S.A., said the ship was ultimately headed for the U.S. gulf.",
"\"The hijacking by pirates of 2 million barrels of Kuwaiti crude oil destined for the U.S. in a large Greek tanker in the middle of the main sea lanes coming from the Middle East Gulf marks a significant shift in the impact of the piracy crisis in the Indian Ocean,\" Angelo told CNN.",
"\"If piracy in the Indian Ocean is left unabated, it will strangle these crucial shipping lanes with the potential to severely disrupt oil flows to the U.S. and to the rest of the world.\"",
"The Wednesday incident took place about 350 nautical miles southeast of the Omani city of Muscat in the North Arabian Sea.",
"The crew consists of 17 Filipinos, seven Greeks, and a Georgian.",
"A Greek Merchant Marine Ministry spokesman said the ship was carrying 266,000 tons of crude oil.",
"There has been no communication with the ship, officials from Greece and the European Union Naval Force said.",
"On Tuesday, the MV Savina Caylyn, an Italian-flagged oil tanker, was headed from Sudan to Malaysia when five people on a skiff launched a \"sustained attack\" on the tanker with small arms and rocket propelled grenades and then got on the ship.",
"The naval force also said on Wednesday it received reports that the Golden Wave, a South Korean fishing vessel seized in October off the Kenyan coast, has been released from pirate control.",
"The condition of the 43 crew members are not known, but the naval force says \"they are in need of food, water and medical aid.\"",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"NEW: If left unabated, piracy can strangle crucial shipping lines .",
"The latest occurred about 350 nautical miles southeast of Muscat .",
"The tanker's crew numbers 25 people ."
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"(CNN) -- Linkin Park canceled its Thursday night show in Washington, D.C., after the group's lead singer fell ill, the band said on its website.",
"\"Lead vocalist Chester Bennington is ill and under doctor's orders to refrain from performing,\" the statement said.",
"\"The band sincerely regrets this unavoidable cancellation and apologizes to fans for any disappointment caused.\"",
"The California sextet is on tour to promote its latest release, \"A Thousand Suns.\"",
"The band's website says Linkin Park's next scheduled show is Friday in Uncasville, Connecticut, at the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino.",
"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says the alternative metal band has sold more than 19 million units -- a combination of CDs and digital downloads."
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"(CNN) -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, who has been living in exile in South Africa for seven years, has been issued a new passport to return home, the Haitian interior minister said Wednesday.",
"Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime said the diplomatic passport was handed over to Aristide's U.S. attorney Ira Kurzban, who picked it up in Port-au-Prince Tuesday evening.",
"That removes a major obstacle that has prevented Aristide from making the journey back.",
"However, Kurzban said last month that Aristide would still need the cooperation of South Africa and the United States to make the journey home.",
"Kurzban also said last month that Aristide had no intention of re-entering politics.",
"But Washington has already signaled its displeasure.",
"\"We do not doubt President Aristide's desire to help the people of Haiti.",
"But today Haiti needs to focus on its future, not its past,\" State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said last month.",
"\"This is an important period for Haiti.",
"What it needs is calm, not divisive actions that distract from the task of forming a new government.\"",
"The former Roman Catholic priest, who became a voice for Haiti's impoverished, remains a polarizing figure but commands a large following in his homeland.",
"Jacob Francois, coordinator for Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party in the United States, predicted crowds would greet Aristide upon his return.",
"\"It will be the greatest party of this decade,\" Francois said.",
"\"Once again the world will see that President Aristide is the most revered politician in the history of Haiti.\"",
"Aristide left Haiti on a U.S. jet in 2004 after a bloody revolt by street gangs and soldiers.",
"The leftist former president says he was shuttled out by Western powers.",
"Aristide has long expressed his desire to go home.",
"He reiterated that wish just days after former dictator Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier returned to Haiti in January.",
"\"Once again I express my readiness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time,\" Aristide said in a January statement.",
"\"The people of Haiti have never stopped calling for my return to Haiti.\"",
"His return would come at crucial time in Haiti's history.",
"The Caribbean nation's efforts to recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake has been compounded by a cholera epidemic and political chaos sparked by allegations of fraud in the presidential elections held in late November.",
"A runoff is scheduled in March and a winner will not be known until April."
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"He has been living in exile in South Africa and still commands a following in Haiti ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Bomb blasts in Pakistan rocked three police buildings near Lahore, police told CNN on Wednesday.",
"Police chief Ghulam Mehmood Dogar said the three bombs were planted on Tuesday night at a police station, an office of a senior police official and a police barracks.",
"They were detonated by remote control this morning in the city of Gujranwala, 70 kilometers northwest of Lahore, Dogar said.",
"Three police officers were injured and parts of the buildings were damaged.",
"The first two explosions happened within 30 minutes of one another, and the third bomb was detonated about three hours later.",
"Gujranwala has been largely free of the militant violence plaguing parts of Pakistan.",
"Police said there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.",
"On Monday, two people were injured when in back to back explosions at police stations in the southern port city of Karachi.",
"Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report ."
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"Three police officers were injured .",
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"(CNN) -- The Kings of Leon could perhaps 'Use Somebody' to hit the skins after their drummer's surgery forced the band to delay its March tour of Australia and South Africa.",
"\"The Frontier Touring Company regret to advise that the Kings Of Leon tour has been postponed from March 2011 to November 2011 to allow drummer Nathan Followill to recover from surgery for a torn right labrum and bicep,\" Frontier's website said.",
"\"A new itinerary is currently being secured for November in Australia and will be advised to fans this week.",
"Ticket holders should hold on to their tickets until further notice.\"",
"Followill issued an apology through his Twitter account.",
"\"Sorry to all the fans in Australia and South Africa,\" Followill tweeted.",
"\"My bum wing needs more time to heal but we'll be back later this year.",
"Sorry again.\" Brother and lead singer Jared Followill -- suddenly with time to kill -- asked for suggestions on his Twitter account.",
"\"Well, I now have March off,\" he tweeted.",
"\"Any ideas for fun? I could always fly down to Australia and party anyway.",
"I need some sun.\" This is the second time the band has run into problems during its global tour to promote their latest album \"Come Around Sundown.\"",
"The band's tour bus caught on fire at the O2 arena in London just before Christmas.",
"There were no injuries. And last week, KOL got into a media shouting match of sorts with the creator of the hit TV show \"Glee.\"",
"In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the show's creator Ryan Murphy said he's miffed at the rockers for refusing to let the cast sing the hit \"Use Somebody\" on the show.",
"\"F-- you, Kings of Leon,\" Murphy says in a tirade against the band.",
"\"They're self-centered a---s, and they missed the big picture.",
"They missed that a 7-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument.\"",
"\"This whole 'Glee' thing is a shock to us.",
"It's gotten out of hand,\" guitarist Caleb Followill told CNN in a statement.",
"\"At the time of the request, we hadn't even seen the show.",
"It came at the end of that record cycle, and we were over promoting (the song),\" Caleb Followill said.",
"\"This was never meant as a slap in the face to 'Glee' or to music education or to fans of the show.",
"We're not sure where the anger is coming from.",
"We just said no to a license for a TV show, which we do a lot.\"",
"The Kings of Leon has achieved tremendous success in recent years, scoring a multi-platinum album and several hit singles with their 2008 album \"Only by the Night.\""
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"Earlier on the global tour, the band's bus caught on fire in London .",
"KOL is on tour to promote their latest album \"Come Around Sundown.\""
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"Philadelphia (CNN) -- Philadelphia prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against suspected serial strangler Antonio Rodriguez, according to District Attorney spokeswoman Tasha Jamerson.",
"Rodriguez appeared at a preliminary hearing Wednesday where two police detectives read confessions Rodriguez gave regarding three women he allegedly killed and sexually assaulted between November and December of last year, according to Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Bretschneider.",
"Nicknamed the Kensington strangler, the 21-year-old Rodriguez was arrested after DNA testing linked him to the attacks in the city's Kensington district, according to Detective Justin Frank.",
"\"We're hopeful that this will put an end to this,\" Frank said.",
"Rodriguez is suspected of killing Casey Mahoney, 27; Elaine Goldberg, 21; and Nicole Piacentini, 35.",
"Police Capt.",
"James J. Clark said Rodriguez is a homeless man.",
"In December, a 33-year-old woman was pulled into an alley and may have been the victim of the same attacker, police said.",
"Despite being choked, punched and hit on the head with a brick, she escaped her assailant, who fled from the scene, according to the police report.",
"CNN's Upinder Pathania and Sarah Hoye contributed to this report ."
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"He was arrested after DNA testing linked him to the attacks ."
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"(CNN) -- A lot gets carried in a plane's cargo hold, but US Airways is still against people, especially those still on the clock.",
"A baggage handler at Reagan National Airport in Washington was found locked in a US Airways plane's cargo hold before takeoff Monday, said Laura J.",
"Brown with the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"Employees were searching for their co-worker when banging was heard outside the fuselage, she said.",
"While loading a departing flight, the employee watched from inside the cargo hold as a co-worker closed the forward bin door from outside.",
"According to the FAA, within \"a matter of minutes,\" a third employee arrived and questioned where the baggage handler was, because the handler also was expected to tug the plane away from the gate.",
"Upon opening his window, the first officer reportedly heard banging coming from inside the plane.",
"The worker was released and went on to operate the tug.",
"The plane departed ahead of schedule.",
"Republic Airlines Flight 3336, listed as a US Airways flight, had 29 passengers on board and very few checked bags, Brown said.",
"Liz Landau, a spokeswoman for US Airways said, \"The engines never started and (the plane) never left the gate.\"",
"It is not uncommon for baggage handlers to enter a cargo hold as part of their job, Landau said.",
"An investigation by US Airways is under way.",
"CNN's Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"He is discovered and freed before plane takes off .",
"Republic Airlines Flight 3336 not delayed by incident ."
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"(CNN) -- An electrical outage at a power station in northern New Jersey left 20,000 households -- and a major airport -- without power Monday, prompting authorities to restrict incoming and outgoing flights at Newark International Airport, officials said.",
"Several people were removed from stalled elevators, while others were stranded in the airport's monorail trains, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority for New York and New Jersey.",
"The outage occurred around 2:30 p.m. after an equipment failure at Bayway Switching Station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, according to Public Service Electric and Gas Co. spokeswoman Bonnie Sheppard.",
"Power was restored at Newark airport around 4 p.m., and flights resumed with minor delays.",
"Emergency crews were working to restore service across the region, Sheppard said."
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"NEW: Power was restored at Newark aiport around 4 p.m.\nA power outage Monday left 20,000 households without electricity .",
"The outage also cut power to Newark International Airport terminals .",
"The outage prompted airport authorities to restrict flights at Newark airport ."
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"(CNN) -- A Polaroid picture of the late Dennis Hopper was stolen from a Los Angeles art gallery and the photographer, actor Jason Lee, is offering $25,000 to the photograph back.",
"\"You've taken the one single physical document of the photographer's time with his subject.",
"This is not a print, as there is no negative.",
"There is only this single image,\" the gallery said in a letter on its website addressed to the thief.",
"\"There is no way that this Polaroid will ever have the same worth to you that it holds for Jason.\"",
"Lee, who starred in the TV show \"My Name Is Earl,\" loaned the picture to the art gallery and is very sentimental about it, the gallery, which is called This Los Angeles, said.",
"The theft occurred on Feb. 4 when \"someone stole a piece off the wall and bolted out the front door,\" the gallery said.",
"The gallery said Lee is offering a $25,000 reward for the return of the photo.",
"Lee's publicist said the actor was crushed about the loss of the large black-and-white portrait of the legendary actor.",
"\"Jason is devastated and sickened by the theft,\" said Nancy Iannios.",
"\"It has great sentimental value to Jason.\"",
"Lee said Hopper also liked the photo.",
"\"As a huge Hopper fan, I was honored to create my one-off large format Polaroid of him.",
"And I was flattered that he liked it as much as he did.",
"He was a great artist,\" Lee said."
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"Actor Jason Lee said he took the picture .",
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"(CNN) -- Despite reports this week of a return to normalcy on the Egyptian street, the situation on the ground is anything but: Protests continue while statements from the nation's leaders have served only to maintain or even stoke the tinderbox status of negotiations.",
"Demonstrations, which Human Rights Watch says have killed more than 300 people, continued for a 16th day in Cairo's Tahrir Square.",
"\"Nothing will make this regime go unless we keep on coming and keep on coming,\" said Dalia, a protester there who did not give her last name.",
"Another group of protesters tried to prevent the army from breaking up a demonstration at the parliament building in Cairo, and in the northern city of Port Said, state-run TV reported that Egyptians upset over the distribution of land and houses attacked a governor's building.",
"What the protesters want is simple: the end of a regime that has ruled them sternly for three decades.",
"President Hosni Mubarak has refused to step down but has reshuffled his Cabinet and promised he would not run for re-election.",
"Vice President Omar Suleiman has said the government will address press freedoms and the release of detainees.",
"Also, he said on state TV, a committee has been authorized to hammer out constitutional amendments that will permit free, fair and competitive elections.",
"The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group, responded that the concessions fell short and that the government was attempting to divide the opposition with its announcements.",
"Watch what might be the 'new normal' in Egypt .",
"\"That's not good enough,\" Mohammed Habib, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, said of Suleiman's announcement.",
"\"The first thing that the regime should do is for the president to leave.\"",
"The group, which is officially banned in Egypt because of its religious agenda, has rejected the notion of a religious state, saying it wants to participate in forming a democratic government.",
"\"We are not seeking power,\" said Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood's media office.",
"Observers say that while Mubarak's ouster is one of the protesters' key demands, the constitution would need a massive overhaul -- not a few tweaks -- because it is seen as a tool for keeping Mubarak's National Democratic Party in power.",
"Parliament would also need to be dissolved because the 2010 elections were widely viewed as illegitimate, analysts say.",
"Anti-government protesters do not trust the process, said Sherief Gaber, an Egyptian-American protester who feels that Suleiman and Mubarak's promises are \"a false act of contrition on behalf of what's effectively the same government it was two weeks ago.\"",
"Watch another Egyptian-American's take on the crisis .",
"Police who had largely stood down when the military hit the streets last week are again arresting and harassing protesters, creating a climate of fear, Gaber said.",
"\"I think that this is simply a change of tactics on behalf of the regime, to move from just violence toward the everyday repression that's been going on for years and years and years, and they're hoping to just asphyxiate the protests that way,\" he said.",
"Disappointment with Suleiman and Mubarak was also evident in Washington.",
"Vice President Joe Biden has told his Egyptian counterpart that he wanted to see \"immediate, irreversible progress\" and said the government should quit beating and harassing journalists, lift the country's emergency law and bring a wide range of opposition groups into the national dialogue.",
"Watch why the U.S. is growing frustrated .",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs also expressed concern that Suleiman would not rescind the martial law that has given Mubarak sweeping powers for years.",
"Gibbs took particular issue with Suleiman's claim that Egypt was not ready for democracy.",
"\"I don't think that in any way squares with what those seeking greater opportunity and freedom think is a timetable for progress,\" he said.",
"Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ambassador to the U.S., said the emergency decree would be lifted \"when it was possible in terms of the security dangers that exist.\"",
"Watch how the reports from media, government don't always jibe .",
"There are now growing concerns that Suleiman is not on the same page as the White House, said Michele Dunne, a Middle East expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"\"Up till now, the Obama administration was saying that this had to be a negotiated transition that the Egyptian government had to deal with the opposition and that the opposition had to be a partner, so to speak, in this transition,\" she said.",
"\"What Suleiman is offering now is not that at all.\"",
"As the Muslim Brotherhood has alleged, there are signs that the opposition groups are splintering.",
"Most notably, Amre Moussa, the Arab League secretary general, who stood with the protesters last week, now says Mubarak should be allowed to stay until his term ends in September.",
"Read how the Brotherhood sees itself participating in democracy .",
"\"The danger at the moment is that this opposition, which a few days ago seemed to unite, is now being divided,\" said Cairo-based analyst Issandr El Amrani.",
"\"The regime is using its tried-and-true tactic of divide and conquer.\"",
"If nothing else, this week brought the matter of who might lead the opposition into better focus.",
"The question was continually raised when the protests first erupted.",
"And despite heavy media focus on Mohamed ElBaradei, it's unclear whether the former International Atomic Energy Agency chief wields the necessary influence.",
"Now, not only is the Muslim Brotherhood, which held 88 seats in parliament before boycotting runoff elections last year, saying it wants to participate, but Google executive Wael Ghonim has emerged as a face of the revolution.",
"Read what Ghonim demanded of 'heroic Egyptians' Snatched off the streets of Cairo by security forces last month and freed this week, the Dubai-based marketing executive administered a Facebook page in honor of slain activist Khaled Said, which is credited with kicking off the demonstrations.",
"Ghonim has said he doesn't agree with the Brotherhood's ideologies but described them as \"good Egyptians\" and said the group is \"not as bad and evil\" as it has been made out to be.",
"Ghonim has shunned assertions that he is a hero and has said he is \"ready to die\" for change.",
"Though he has called for Mubarak to be treated with dignity, he has also demanded the dissolution of the president's party.",
"From a makeshift stage in Tahrir Square on Tuesday, his words inspired protesters to began chanting his mantra.",
"\"This country is our country, and everyone has a right to this country,\" he told the crowd.",
"\"You have a voice in this country.",
"This is not the time for conflicting ideas or factions or ideologies.",
"This is the time for us to say one thing only: 'Egypt is above all else.'",
"\" CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Caroline Faraj, Barbara Starr, Frederik Pleitgen, Ivan Watson, Candy Crowley, Moni Basu and Eliot Spitzer contributed to this report."
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"Announcement that Hosni Mubarak will not step down renews rage on the street .",
"Observers, protesters say government concessions aimed at dividing protesters .",
"Washington expresses frustration, demands \"immediate, irreversible progress\" in situation .",
"Perceived leadership void being filled by Muslim Brotherhood, jailed Google executive ."
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"Teresopolis, Brazil (CNN) -- It was like a tsunami from the sky in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state as floodwater gushed through hill towns and giant boulders catapulted from hillsides, instantly crushing cars and houses.",
"At least 540 people have been killed and another 10,000 people living in what used to be picturesque mountain towns popular with tourists have been affected by the torrential rains that began at the start of the year, civil defense authorities told the official Agencia Brasil news agency.",
"Rescuers have not been able to reach some hard-hit areas and many more people are feared dead, the agency said.",
"Conditions were so treacherous that rescue teams called it quits Thursday night and resumed their search and recovery work Friday morning.",
"The rain is predicted to continue for several days in areas already submerged in water or slathered with mud.",
"Thousands of families are still living on mountain slopes or on riverbanks and face extreme risk of being washed away.",
"One resident described the disaster as a tsunami that fell from the sky.",
"Chaos reigned in the especially hard-hit city of Teresopolis, where some residents donned masks and helped clean streets or deliver first aid.",
"Others combed the city, searching desperately for missing loved ones.",
"Schools and police stations turned into overflowing morgues, where people waited to identify their family and friends.",
"Municipal worker Reginald de Oliveira came to see if he could find the body of his uncle, missing in the floods.",
"He was trying to save his family when a wall of water washed him away.",
"Red Cross volunteer Maria Helena de Jesus was helping with first aid.",
"\"You have to almost have a heart of stone,\" she said.",
"\"It was very difficult.\" Teresopolis Mayor Jorge Mario Sedlacek declared his city a natural disaster area.",
"At least 229 people died in Teresopolis, while 246 were killed in the town of Nova Friburgo, Agencia Brasil reported.",
"President Dilma Rousseff flew over flood-affected areas Thursday and landed in a slushy, trash-littered soccer field in Friburgo, the agency said.",
"The floods are her first test as president.",
"She trudged through mud in her rain boots to talk to residents in a neighborhood where four of seven firefighters attempting to rescue people had been buried under mud.",
"Three others were pulled out alive.",
"\"We are going to take firm action,\" to help the devastated areas, said Rousseff, who assumed office at the first of the year.",
"Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning and allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season.",
"They are under increasing pressure to show a strong response.",
"Brazil is scheduled to host the World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics.",
"The roofs of houses and treetops peeked out from the water.",
"People used inflatable rafts or inner tubes to navigate submerged roads.",
"One family sat perched on the roof of their house, their predicament broadcast on television.",
"Another person grasped onto a rope, defying, at least momentarily, the force of an ocean of murky brown water.",
"With more rain forecast, Brazilian authorities have ordered evacuations for at least 5,000 families living in especially perilous areas in Rio de Janeiro state, Agencia Brasil said.",
"Another 3,000 families from a mountainous region were homeless and sheltered in schools and gymnasiums, the news agency said.",
"\"The most important thing right now is to assist the homeless population and reach the most critical points,\" said Rodrigo Neves, the state secretary of Social Welfare and Human Rights.",
"State health officials pleaded for people to donate blood that will be sent to the Serrana region, where only 36 units of blood remained for treatment of flood victims.",
"Rain has affected neighboring Sao Paulo as well, killing 24 people there, authorities said.",
"Journalists Fabiana Frayssinet and Helena DeMoura contributed to this report."
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"Officials fear more may be dead in the flooding in Rio de Janeiro state .",
"Bad conditions curtailed rescue missions overnight, but they resumed Friday .",
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"(CNN) -- It's time for those of us who are good men to start acknowledging the role that male socialization plays in domestic and sexual violence.",
"As good men, we must begin to acknowledge and own our responsibility to be part of the solution to ending violence against women and girls.",
"What is a good man? A good man is a man who believes women should be respected.",
"A good man would not assault a woman.",
"A good man believes in equality for women.",
"A good man honors the women in his life.",
"A good man, for all practical purposes, is a nice guy.",
"We believe this to be the majority of men.",
"There is a minority of men who perpetuate a tremendous amount of violence against women.",
"These men are counting on good men to stay true to rules -- the rules that actually allow them to be who they are in the presence of good men.",
"These rules are what we call the ingredients in the \"man box.\"",
"These rules are also the foundation of how we as men collectively define manhood.",
"The man box teaches us as men that we must be tough, strong, aggressive and dominating.",
"We are taught not to show feelings and emotions.",
"We are taught that we should be in charge, leaders and protectors.",
"And if we fall short we lose our status and are placed outside the box.",
"TED.com: Rachel Botsman on the case for collaborative consumption .",
"Outside the box is reserved for women, and for men defined as being less than fully male, or \"woman-like\".",
"The man box at times can be hypermasculine and extremely homophobic.",
"With that being said, \"outside the man box\" is a place most men don't want to be.",
"So we find ourselves staying true to the rules of the man box, many times operating from a subconscious place, just on remote control, doing what's natural to us.",
"We as good men don't realize that every time we tell a boy that he is acting like a girl, we are actually saying that girls are \"less than.\"",
"We all know that a college freshman woman is known on campus as \"fresh meat.\"",
"And while we know that domestic violence is wrong and a crime, it continues to be tolerated in many of our communities.",
"It is with this understanding that our work, our vision, is not to beat up on good men, but instead to help us understand, through a process of re-education and accountability, that with all of our goodness, we still have been socialized to maintain a system of domination, dehumanization and oppression over women.",
"While we as good men would never hurt women, our collective socialization is the foundation that violence against women is built upon.",
"TED.com: Sam Martin on the quirky world of \"manspaces\" There are three key aspects of male socialization that are the foundation of men's violence against women: .",
"• Men viewing women as \"less than;\" • Men treating women as property; .",
"• Men viewing women as objects.",
"We as good men have to find our voice and began to challenge this collective socialization of men.",
"We as good men have to teach our sons and other young men how to truly respect and promote equality for women.",
"We as good men have to envision the world we want to see for our daughters and other girls -- and in that world how would we want to see our sons and other men acting and behaving.",
"We must as good men understand that the world we want for our daughters and other girls won't happen through osmosis.",
"We as good men have to break out of the man box, stand up and speak out to end violence against women and girls.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Anthony Porter."
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"He says male attitudes enable some to lash out at women .",
"Men are taught not to express their emotions, Porter says .",
"Men who treat women as property or as objects help enable violence, he says ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- February 7, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Egypt • Simi Valley, California • Dallas, Texas .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News!",
"We're back from the weekend with 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines, including why you shouldn't believe everything you read.",
"First Up: Egypt in Crisis .",
"AZUZ: We're beginning in Egypt where there are some signs that things are slowly getting back to normal.",
"In the capital city of Cairo, some shops and banks are re-opening, and traffic is starting to look like it did before the political protests of the past couple weeks.",
"But there are some changes going on in the country.",
"On Saturday, some key members of the ruling party resigned.",
"And yesterday, Vice President Omar Suleiman met with representatives from groups that have protested against the Egyptian government.",
"They talked about some ideas for how Egypt might move forward, although some of the protesters still out in the streets said the people meeting with Suleiman don't necessarily represent them.",
"We've been watching this political unrest in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East.",
"Barbara Starr joins us now to talk about the potential impact that it could have on the American military.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: With unrest now sweeping across Egypt and neighboring countries, new questions about whether it's a security crisis here at the Pentagon.",
"A quick look at the map tells you how deeply tied the U.S. military is to regimes across the Middle East and Persian Gulf.",
"In Egypt, the U.S. provides around $1.3 billion a year in military aid.",
"In return, the U.S. gets vital military air, land and sea access.",
"U.S. warships transit the Suez Canal on their way to and from the Persian Gulf.",
"Loss of the canal could lead to catastrophic delays and a crisis.",
"In Yemen, where President Saleh is facing demonstrations and has already said he won't run for re-election, the U.S. has been quietly training Yemeni forces to go after a rising threat from al Qaeda.",
"The U.S. has conducted drone and missile strikes inside Yemen.",
"The question: will a new government cooperate with U.S. counterterrorism efforts?",
"In Jordan, King Abdullah is facing increasing discontent due to rising prices and unemployment.",
"Jordan remains one of the U.S.'s closest allies in the War on Terror.",
"Jordan's intelligence services secretly operate against key al Qaeda targets.",
"Jordan has also helped train Iraqi forces, and Jordanian troops serve in Afghanistan.",
"Three key Gulf allies provide other assistance.",
"Qatar is home of the regional headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the region and keeps a close eye on Iran.",
"Kuwait is a staging area for U.S. troops moving in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"And Bahrain is home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which patrols the Persian Gulf and pirate-infested waters off Somalia.",
"The U.S. spends billions of dollars in military aid and assistance across the region in return for all of this access.",
"But the question may now be if the social unrest that is emerging leads to regime change, will the new regimes want to do the old business with the U.S. military?",
"Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.",
"(END VIDEO) Unemployment Report .",
"AZUZ: The U.S. unemployment rate is down!",
"That should be good news, but it's not that simple.",
"During January, the rate dropped from 9.4 percent to 9 percent flat.",
"But some economists' descriptions of the unemployment report ranged from positive to mysterious to disappointing.",
"One thing most everyone agreed on: the weather played a big role in all of this.",
"All of those snow storms we've talked about kept people from getting out to look for work and kept a lot of companies from hiring.",
"Shoutout . MATT CHERRY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Armstrong's gifted class at Zora Ellis Jr. High School in Talladega, Alabama!",
"Who won the 1980 U.S. presidential election?",
"Was it: A) Ronald Reagan, B) Jimmy Carter, C) George H.W.",
"Bush or D) Gerald Ford?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Ronald Reagan won that election to become the 40th president of the United States.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Reagan Remembered .",
"AZUZ: Ronald Reagan was 69 years old when he won that election.",
"The oldest American elected president and during his his 8 years in office, President Reagan had several famous firsts.",
"He appointed the first female justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"He submitted the first trillion dollar budget to Congress.",
"And he was the first U.S. president to address both houses of the British Parliament.",
"Yesterday would have been President Reagan's 100th birthday.",
"He died in 2004. A ceremony for the late president yesterday included a wreath-laying at his memorial site and a 21-gun salute.",
"As America remembers Ronald Reagan, Ted Rowlands takes us on a tour of his presidential library in Simi Valley, California.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.",
"TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Video and sound are a constant feature.",
"Reagan's movies and speeches are played throughout.",
"JOHN HEUBUSCH, EXECECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: We have right over here to my right, the very famous debate with President Carter, where he asked the question, \"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?\"",
"ROWLANDS: There's also a Berlin Wall, with tunnels, an interactive videogame table and an inauguration day exhibit complete with Reagan's speech on the TelePrompTer.",
"His diaries have been digitized for people to flip through.",
"There's also an exhibit dealing with the assassination attempt on President Reagan after 70 days in office.",
"As in many presidential libraries, you can see an exact replica of the Oval Office.",
"And Air Force One, the actual plane used by seven U.S. presidents and the one Reagan flew in during his eight years in office.",
"HEUBUSCH: They get to see right where the president sits in the aircraft.",
"They get to see his working quarters.",
"They get to see where the Secret Service would sit, where the traveling press corps sits.",
"They get to touch and feel the airplane.",
"It's just a great experience.",
"ROWLANDS: An Iran-Contra affair exhibit deals with the low point of the Reagan presidency.",
"Also on display, the letter Reagan wrote, with the audio of him reading it, announcing to the world he had Alzheimer's.",
"REAGAN: My fellow Americans, I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.",
"(END VIDEO) Is This Legit?",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?",
"The first Super Bowl was played in 1967.",
"Yep, it's true! That game featured a face-off between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.",
"Super Bowl Ads .",
"AZUZ: In Super Bowl XLV yesterday, you saw it, the Packers and the Steelers.",
"You know what happened in the game.",
"We want to talk about the commercials!",
"Whether you thought these were good or bad, all of them had something in common.",
"They were expensive. The average cost of a 30-second ad in this year's Super Bowl was three million dollars.",
"One industry that was a big part of yesterday's ads: car companies.",
"Nine of them paid to run commercials.",
"Some experts think that could be a good sign for the economy.",
"Here's why: If the companies are willing to spend millions for Super Bowl ads, it might mean they think viewers are willing to go out and buy the cars.",
"And if people are willing to buy big items like that, that could mean people are feeling more confident about the economy.",
"Tree Octopus?",
"AZUZ: Your teacher tells you about an endangered species: the tree octopus.",
"Your assignment is to go learn more about the animal, and there's a web site with all the information you need for your report.",
"Only problem? The entire thing is a hoax!",
"That really happened.",
"The Department of Education sponsored a study run by researchers at the University of Connecticut.",
"They set up this fake web site about the tree octopus filled with all kinds of facts.",
"None of them true; there is no such thing as tree octopus.",
"The researchers wanted to see what kind of impact the internet can have on students' ability to think critically.",
"These were seventh graders.",
"And not only did they accept all the facts on the web site as they were written, after the students were told it was all made up, some of them still refused to believe it was a hoax.",
"Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: I've never spoken to a student who says he believes everything he's read on the internet.",
"But this study would suggest that many students actually do!",
"We want you to visit our blog today and tell us: What can be done to be sure that what you see online is the truth?",
"CNNStudentNews.com!",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Two things I can do: I can run four miles, and I can eat a dozen doughnuts.",
"But not at the same time! That's the challenge these folks took on over the weekend.",
"It's the annual Krispy Kreme Challenge.",
"You run two miles, eat a dozen doughnuts, then run two miles back.",
"And you have to do it all in under one hour. I don't think you need an excuse to down a dozen doughnuts, but this race does raise money for charity.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: And that kind of thing always makes you feel good, doughnut?",
"If you can stomach more puns like that one, we'll hurl some more your way tomorrow.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"A study suggests many students may not think critically about what they see online .",
"Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ."
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"Islabamad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A man who confessed to assassinating a leading liberal Pakistani politician is being showered with gifts and praise by his fellow prison inmates, his attorney told CNN.",
"Mumtaz Qadri was arrested earlier this month, moments after he allegedly sprayed Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, with more than 20 bullets outside a market in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.",
"At the time of the shooting, Qadri was working as one of Taseer's security guards.",
"Police said Qadri confessed to the killing and said he assassinated his boss because of Taseer's campaign to change Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws.",
"At the prison just outside of Islamabad where Qadri is being kept, fellow inmates are offering him their clothes, blankets and meals, said Qadri's lawyer, Malik Waheed Anjum.",
"He said his client has no regrets over Taseer's death and spends most of his time reciting the Quran in jail.",
"\"Qadri is proud and satisfied with what he did,\" Anjum told CNN.",
"Pakistan's hard-line religious groups have also congratulated Qadri.",
"Since the shooting they have held demonstrations calling him a hero, while condemning anyone who tries to change Pakistan's blasphemy laws.",
"At the rallies, pictures of Qadri's smiling face regularly adorn posters and banners.",
"In Pakistan's major cities, liberal and moderate groups have held competing although much smaller demonstrations condemning Qadri and praising what they call Taseer's campaign to change the blasphemy law that they claim was being misused to persecute minorities.",
"At a hearing on Monday inside Qadri's prison, investigators submitted to a judge their findings, claiming Qadri was indeed Taseer's killer.",
"Police recommended the death penalty for Qadri, said Raja Shuja Ur Rehman, another member of his defense team.",
"Court officials said they held the hearing inside the prison to avoid a repeat of mass demonstrations that took place when Qadri was transported to a courthouse earlier this month.",
"He is scheduled to be formally charged at a hearing in February.",
"Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"Qadri's lawyer says he has no regrets ."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champions Inter Milan continued their march up the Italian Serie A table, beating 10-man Roma 5-3 in a thriller at the San Siro.",
"Samuel Eto'o scored twice, with the returning Wesley Sneijder, Thiago Motta and Esteban Cambiasso also on target as Leonardo's side moved up to third place in the table, five points behind leaders Milan but with a game in hand.",
"Inter took a third minute lead when Sneijder fired home an unstoppable shot after collecting Maicon's pass but Roma levelled 10 minutes later when Simplicio turned in Marco Cassetti's cross.",
"However, the home side went into the break 2-1 ahead when Eto'o fired a shot that slipped through the hands of goalkeeper Sergio.",
"The game turned Inter's way early in the second half when Nicolas Burdisso was sent after fouling Giampaolo Pazzini in the area and Eto'o stroked home the penalty to take his season's tally to 27 goals in all competitions.",
"And Inter Milan increased their lead even further when Motta headed home from close range.",
"However, Roma fought back and Mirko Vucinic pulled one back when diverting home Daniele De Rossi's free-kick and they reduced the deficit to 4-3 when Simone Loria prodded home from close range after Juan's header struck the post.",
"But there was to be no dramatic comeback and Inter secured their victory through Cambiasso's late goal.",
"Milan dropped two points after behind held to a 1-1 draw at Genoa, despite Pato giving them a 29th minute lead from close range.",
"However, Antonio Floro Flores levelled on the stroke of half time when he was on hand to fire home after Mathieu Flamini deflected the ball into his path.",
"Napoli are now just two points behind Milan in second place after bouncing back from their shock midweek defeat at Chievo to beat Cesena 2-0.",
"Serie A top scorer Edinson Cavani opened the scoring with his 18th league goal of the season and Jose Sosa added a second in injury time for the home side."
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