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"(CNN) -- Germany and the United Kingdom are pulling nonessential embassy staff out of Yemen, they said Thursday, with the British citing \"the rapid deterioration in the security situation.\"",
"Both nations are keeping small core staffs in place in Sanaa, they said.",
"Yemen, a key U.S. ally and a central battleground against al Qaeda, has been wracked by protests since the beginning of the year.",
"Support for President Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to be slipping away.",
"Saleh has accepted opposition demands for constitutional reforms and holding parliamentary elections by the end of the year, according to a statement issued by his office.",
"The statement said Saleh was \"committed to undertaking all possible initiatives to reach a settlement\" with the opposition JMP bloc and \"prevent any future bloodshed of the Yemeni people.\"",
"According to the statement, Saleh \"has accepted the five points submitted by the JMP, including formation of a government of national unity and a national committee to draft a new constitution, drafting a new electoral law, and holding a constitutional referendum, parliamentary elections and a presidential vote by the end of the year.",
"Saleh's aim would be to \"end the current state of political turmoil facing the nation and paving the way for a smooth, peaceful and democratic transition,\" the statement said.",
"There was no immediate reaction from the opposition, which previously has demanded Saleh's immediate resignation.",
"On Tuesday, a JMP spokesman rejected a report that Saleh was offering to step down by early 2012.",
"\"Any offer that does not include the president's immediate resignation is rejected,\" JMP spokesman Mohammed Qahtan said.",
"Saleh's statement came on the same day that Yemen's parliament approved a 30-day extension of emergency powers he declared last week in response to the protests.",
"The emergency law expands the government's powers of arrest, detention, and censorship.",
"The president's standing has weakened after some government officials and military officers declared their support for the opposition Monday in the wake of a crackdown on protesters that left 52 people dead last week.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Wednesday for full political dialogue in Yemen involving all players to find a peaceful solution.",
"\"The people of Yemen have the same rights as people anywhere, and we support dialogue as a path to a peaceful solution,\" Clinton said in Washington.",
"Asked about putting any pressure on Saleh, Clinton said: \"We are certainly making our views known on both a regular and consistent basis, both publicly and privately.\"",
"Yemen's army repelled an attack Tuesday on a military position by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, killing 12 militants and wounding five, a Yemeni official told CNN, citing sources at the Interior Ministry in Sanaa.",
"The official, who spoke on condition of not being named because he is not authorized to talk to the media, said the attack occurred east of the city of Lawdar, in Abyan province in southwest Yemen.",
"The violence against opposition demonstrators last week drew international condemnation.",
"Rupert Colville of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday that the agency deplored the reported killings of protesters, including allegations of snipers shooting from rooftops.",
"\"All such violations of human rights must indeed be investigated by independent and impartial mechanisms,\" Colville said in Geneva, Switzerland.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday the United States was \"obviously concerned about the instability in Yemen.",
"We consider al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is largely located in Yemen, to be perhaps the most dangerous of all the franchises of al Qaeda right now.\"",
"Radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is believed to be hiding in the country.",
"The cleric has been linked to terror plots including the attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day 2009, and he corresponded separately with a British Airways employee about trying to smuggle explosives onto planes.",
"Top American officials, including U.S. President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism chief, have traveled to Yemen to meet with Saleh.",
"Leaked diplomatic cables suggest Saleh's government helped disguise strikes by U.S. unmanned drones on terror targets in Yemen by calling them Yemeni actions.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
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"Germany and the United Kingdom pull all but essential staff out of their missions .",
"Yemen has been wracked by protests since the beginning of the year .",
"President Saleh has offered to step down by 2012 .",
"The opposition demands that he resign immediately ."
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"Acapulco, Mexico (CNN) -- Pascal Clemens arrived in Acapulco 17 years ago.",
"The native of Germany who owns a real estate company in the Mexican beach resort says he immediately fell in love with the place.",
"His original plan was to move to New York, but he couldn't get enough of the sunny beaches, friendly people, cool breezes, and above all, the spectacular weather in Acapulco.",
"\"It's not only good, it's excellent, it's outstanding, every day!",
"Have you seen any rain here?,\" asks Clemens as he looks up to the deep blue sky standing by a sandy beach on a recent, pleasant morning.",
"Temperatures in the mid to upper 80s Fahrenheit (about 30 Celsius), sunny skies, and cool breezes are among the main reasons why countless foreigners have made Acapulco their paradise for decades.",
"Back in the 1950s, actor John Wayne owned the Hotel Los Flamingos, which was built on top of Acapulco's highest cliffs.",
"Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in Hollywood films, spent the last four years of his life here and is buried in Acapulco.",
"Latin pop sensation Luis Miguel lived here for many years as well.",
"The Mexican beach resort is full of luxury homes overlooking the bays and mansions with private gardens.",
"According to local officials, at least 3,000 foreigners including Americans, Canadians, and Europeans call Acapulco home.",
"A recent wave of drug violence that has sent the murder rate soaring to more than 80 violent deaths per 100,000 people is keeping some tourists away, especially spring breakers who were no-shows this year.",
"Acapulco, with a population of 1.2 million, had 1,010 violent deaths last year, according to the Acapulco morgue, marking a steady increase from previous years.",
"But violence is apparently having only a minimal effect on the real estate market.",
"\"Right now the market is down in terms of sales, but the prices have maintained, surprisingly stable,\" says Clemens, who owns a property management, realty, and villas rental company called Beachfront Acapulco.",
"The current situation is mildly affecting the luxury rental market.",
"A $1.6 million home with two pools and six bedrooms located in the luxurious Las Brisas residential area used to rent for about $1,000 a day.",
"Now it's down to about $700. Natalie Farmer, a Canadian who owns a time-share condominium and has spent weeks here every year since she was a little girl, has kept coming with her family in children in spite of the violence.",
"\"I've always felt safe here.",
"You certainly don't go looking for trouble and you stay within the compound and go out in groups, you know?",
"And I think it's safe,\" says Farmer.",
"Mayor Manuel Anorve says government agencies are working hard to turn the tide of violence, increasing police and military presence.",
"\"Acapulco is standing on its feet, and of course, the three levels of government are working together to solve these problems, but I will say it again, Acapulco is bigger than its problems,\" says Anorve.",
"Twenty-two-year-old Shana Dewale, a native of Belgium, has spent spring breaks here since she was a toddler.",
"\"I see more violence in my country, in Belgium, than I see here in Acapulco.",
"I never saw anything here as a tourist.",
"I love it. I come every year and it's the best vacation I have,\" says Dewale.",
"Joyce Patterson, an American from California who teaches English at the Universidad Americana de Acapulco, has been living in Mexico for 42 years, 35 of them here.",
"She says she's concerned about the violence, but is not about to pack her bags anytime soon.",
"She explains her reasons the way a native would.",
"\"There's a phrase that they use here it's called 'el embrujo costeno' ('the coastal spell'),\" Patterson says.",
"\"Once you're here, you won't want to leave because we've got the beach, we've got the breeze.",
"It's a beautiful place to live.\""
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"The tourist mecca has seen its murder rate soar due to drug violence .",
"Spring breakers were no-shows this year .",
"But foreigners who live in Acapulco say they feel safe; real estate values remain strong .",
"\"Once you're here, you won't want to leave,\" says an American resident of Acapulco ."
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"(CNN) -- Leading Japanese golfers Ai Miyazoto, Mika Miyazoto and Momuku Ueda have joined forces in launching a website to aid the rescue effort in their native country following the recent earthquake and tsunami.",
"Speaking ahead of this week's $1.7 million Kia Classic in California, the trio revealed they have created a fund-raising website for a relief organization to combat the devastation.",
"All three players, who were in Japan when the disaster struck, have designed buttons with a Japanese logo which translates into: \"Never Give Up Japan\".",
"They will be wearing the buttons on their caps during this week's LPGA event and have also distributed them to their fellow-players in an effort to promote the website further.",
"Current world number one Yani Tseng wore one of the buttons at her press conference for the tournament.",
"World number six, Ai Miyazoto told a news conference: \"My whole family lives in Okinawa which is way down south from Tokyo, so they are all safe.",
"\"But I went to high school in Sendai City, so I know many people over there.",
"I heard everyone is safe but some of my friends lost their houses and they stay together in a gymnasium,\" she added.",
"World No.51 Ueda added: \"I think all three of us had an idea of what we wanted to do to help.",
"\"But the reason why all three of us got together is because by doing it together, we could have a bigger influence.\""
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"Ai Miyazoto, Mika Miyazoto and Momuku Ueda launch a website to help Japan .",
"The trio were all in their native country when the recent earthquake and tsunami struck .",
"They have designed a button which will raise awareness of their fundraising side .",
"The button have been handed out to all the players at this week's LPGA Kia Classic ."
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"(CNN) -- Riccardo Ricco has been suspended by his Dutch-based Vacansoleil cycling team amid claims that the Italian gave himself a blood transfusion.",
"Ricco -- who only returned to the sport last March after being handed a 20-month ban for doping during the 2008 Tour de France -- was admitted to a hospital in Modena on Sunday.",
"His father told reporters at the time that Ricco had been suffering from a high fever and suspected kidney failure.",
"But Italian media claimed the 27-year-old had admitted to doctors that he had made himself ill by injecting contaminated blood.",
"And now his team have issued an official statement, saying they have found enough proof of a doping infraction to suspend the rider with immediate effect.",
"The statement said: \"Internal research results following the illness and rumors regarding Ricco have given the team sufficient reason to suspend the Italian with immediate effect.\"",
"It continued: \"Last Tuesday, the team started an urgent investigation following the hospitalisation of Riccardo Ricco.",
"Three days later the results of this study brought the team to the conclusion that an immediate suspension of Ricco was required.",
"\"The violation of internal regulations of the team and other indications justify this measure.",
"The team cannot prejudge but emphasises that a zero-tolerance policy towards doping is practised.\"",
"Blood doping -- an action that increases the amount of red blood cells available to carry oxygen to the muscles -- has been a problem in cycling for a number of years, with disgraced 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis admitting last year that he blood-doped during his career.",
"Blood cells are not damaged by freezing, consequently a \"blood doper\" can remove blood from their body, safely store it, and re-inject it when increased aerobic capacity and stamina is needed.",
"However, if the blood is stored incorrectly, it can become infected, resulting in severe illness if transfused.",
"The practice of blood doping is banned by all official sporting governing bodies and Ricco now faces expulsion from competitive cycling if found guilty, as well as a possible jail sentence in a country where all forms of doping are classed as illegal.",
"Ricco has yet to react to the claims surrounding his hospital stay."
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"Riccardo Ricco is suspended by his Dutch-based Vacansoleil cycling team .",
"The team say they have found enough proof of a doping infraction to suspend him .",
"Ricco was admitted to an Italian hospital last week with a high fever and kidney problems .",
"Italian media claimed the 27-year-old fell ill after injecting infected blood ."
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"(CNN) -- In his Oscar-nominated role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather: Part III, Andy Garcia played a ruthless, murderous mob boss with a violent temper.",
"But this week the Hollywood star is doing his shooting on the golf course.",
"And the Corleone family will have to accept that every score he brings in at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am will go to charity.",
"The Godfather, it appears, has gone legit.",
"\"I love to golf,\" Garcia told CNN.",
"\"I get out once a week and play with guys like Joe Pesci, Jack Nicholson and George Lopez.",
"I just turn up and play with whoever's waiting to go.",
"It's a great way of meeting people and being sociable.\"",
"The 54-year-old actor will be joining the likes of Bill Murray, Kevin Costner and Ray Romano at the tournament in California this week, which sees celebrities paired with professional golfers in the name of charity.",
"Garcia has been a regular at the PGA Tour event since 1996, and the 11-handicapper wouldn't miss it.",
"\"The Gods shine on that tournament.",
"It's the absolute pinnacle of what you can experience as an amateur golfer,\" Garcia said.",
"\"We play three courses, Spyglass, Monterey Peninsula and Pebble Beach.",
"They all run along the ocean and the scenery is extraordinary.",
"Then there's the atmosphere, which is pretty unique to golf.",
"\"There's also a lot of amazing work done for charity.",
"On Wednesday we have a five-hole scramble and whatever we win goes to the charity of our choice.",
"Bill (Murray) and I won it one year.\"",
"The tournament has raised over $85 million for the Monterey Peninsula Foundation since it was launched by Hollywood legend Bob Hope in 1937 -- with the funds distributed as grants to non-profit organizations across America.",
"For Garcia, the opportunity to play alongside the world's best golfers is considered an honor and a privilege.",
"But that Godfather ambition still burns beneath the surface.",
"\"Of course you want to be competitive,\" he said.",
"\"Paul Stankowski and I won the tournament back in 1997 (best combined Pro-Am total).",
"I think the golfing Gods touched us that year.",
"\"It's also a great place to pick up tips.",
"You're hitting balls out of a practice bunker and you've got all these guys around you who can help you out.",
"You're on the tee and suddenly Phil Mickelson is hitting a drive right next to you.\"",
"Garcia's love affair with golf began in his childhood, inspired by the likes of Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino.",
"He remembers jumping the fence to steal a few holes in while the sprinklers were still running at a course near his Florida home.",
"But the Cuban-born actor turned his attentions to other sports at high school, and it wasn't until his early 30s that he returned to give the game his full attention.",
"\"I'm a member at Lakeside Golf Club in Burbank now, the course where Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bob Hope and guys like that used to play,\" he said.",
"\"I try to play once a week.",
"But when the days get lighter I'll sometimes get out for nine holes in the evenings too.",
"I'd love to play more if I had the time.",
"I'm still pretty inconsistent.",
"One day I play well, the next I don't.\"",
"Garcia's film credits include The Untouchables, When a Man Loves a Woman and Ocean's 11, and he's made his name in Hollywood as one of the coolest cats in the business.",
"But even A-List Hollywood superstars get nervous on the golf course.",
"\"The acting experience helps you focus, and I'm used to the crowds, but I still get those jitters on the first tee at Pebble Beach,\" he said.",
"\"I don't command a game of golf like I do a scene in a movie.\""
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"Actor Andy Garcia will be among the celebrities at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am .",
"The annual PGA Tour event in California pairs celebrities with professional golfers .",
"The tournament was started by Bop Hope in 1937 and has raised $85 million for charity .",
"American Dustin Johnson has won the event the last two years in a row ."
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"(CNN) -- Asian football chief Mohammed Bin Hammam will be Sepp Blatter's only opponent in the forthcoming FIFA presidential elections, the sport's governing body confirmed on Monday.",
"The 75-year-old Blatter, who has held office since 1998, will go head-to-head with the Qatari on June 1 in Zurich, Switzerland.",
"Elias Figueroa, a former international defender for Chile, had intended to put himself forward for the role but announced last week there was not enough time for a credible campaign to be launched.",
"American journalist Grant Wahl said earlier this year he was hoping to stand, but it was more a ploy to raise awareness about what he called the \"need for change\" at an organization which has earned $4.189 billion over the last four years than a realistic challenge to Blatter's supremacy.",
"Marvelous Mourinho record falls -- but will it ever be beaten?",
"Africa's Issa Hayatou was the last candidate to run against the Swiss when he was defeated in the 2002 ballot, which came after a campaign of accusations of financial mismanagement at FIFA.",
"Bin Hammam, a FIFA executive committee member and president of the Asian Football Confederation, told CNN last month that the time had arrived for change in the organization after more than a decade under the stewardship of the Swiss.",
"Blatter, who has been involved with FIFA since 1975, announced at a recent UEFA congress in Paris this will be his last term as president if he is elected for another four years at the helm.",
"Blatter plans final term as Bin Hammam calls for change .",
"The 61-year-old Bin Hammam became AFC chief in 2002 and has called for greater transparency among football's decision makers.",
"If successful in his bid to succeed Blatter, Bin Hammam would become the ninth president in FIFA's history."
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"Sepp Blatter and Mohammed Bin Hammam are the only candidates in FIFA's presidential vote .",
"The Qatari has been head of the Asian Football Confederation since 2002 .",
"Incumbent Blatter, 75, has been president of world football's governing body since 1998 .",
"He has not been opposed since the 2002 elections, when he beat Issa Hayatou ."
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"(CNN) -- The launch of the first Google-backed Android tablets is drawing near.",
"Flashing another sign of the new software's imminence, Google has posted an updated version of its development kit.",
"This new set of tools for application developers works with the upcoming Android 3.0 operating system.",
"Android was designed with smartphones in mind.",
"Android 3.0, also called Honeycomb, is the first version from Google geared toward tablet computers.",
"The first fruit of that work will come late in February, when Motorola releases the Xoom, which works on Verizon Wireless' network.",
"Later, LG and T-Mobile USA will debut the G-Slate.",
"Google's hardware partners have taken shots at molding Android to fit larger screens.",
"For example, Samsung Electronics did so for its Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch touch-screen tablet.",
"But these types of products have been criticized for taking baby steps, rather than creating a system tailored entirely for tablets.",
"The Galaxy tablets have also struggled to attract many app makers willing to retool programs for the larger screens, despite Samsung selling a million of them in two months.",
"Google is expected to have better luck with its official foray into tablets.",
"Not long after releasing the Android 3.0 development kit, blogs and message boards devoted to Android apps were digging through documentation and beginning to experiment with code.",
"The package provides a closer look at some of the tablet's primary apps.",
"The Web browser looks like Google's Chrome computer program, with tabbed browsing abilities, and integrates tightly with that desktop software for synchronizing things like bookmarks.",
"The camera app has a wheel on the side for toggling effects.",
"To help developers build new apps, Google also details how the new Android handles multi-tasking and notifications.",
"Google's developer information also goes in depth on how people will navigate on a tablet with no physical buttons -- using what's called a System Bar, a sliver displayed at the bottom for accessing the home screen and navigation controls, as well as an Action Bar at the top, which changes depending on the app being used.",
"Developers have about a month to get apps ready to meet the demand that may come from the Xoom's anticipated release.",
"But it's not just about software that works on bigger screens.",
"App makers will be able to tap features not present in any other tablet or phone, such as the barometer sensor installed in Motorola's upcoming tablet."
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"The launch of the Xoom tablet from Motorola Mobility is scheduled for late February .",
"Google began asking developers to start testing apps for the tablet-optimized Android .",
"The new documentation details how a gadget with no physical buttons will work ."
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"(CNN) -- World champion Jorge Lorenzo triumphed in his home MotoGP on Sunday after an incident-packed race at Jerez.",
"It was a Spanish one-two with Dani Pedrosa finishing second for Honda with Ducati's Nicky Hayden completing the podium.",
"But it proved a heartbreaking afternoon for Italy's Marco Simoncelli, who looked to be headed for his maiden MotoGP win on his Honda before sliding off in wet conditions when leading Lorenzo by three seconds.",
"Pole sitter Casey Stoner, who won the opening round in Qatar, did not finish in a chaotic race as he fell victim to a mistake by his arch-rival Valentino Rossi, who started from 12th before joining the leading group.",
"But the Ducati star, who had overtaken former teammate Lorenzo, tried to pass Stoner, but as he overtook on the inside he lost control of his bike, sending both of them off.",
"\"Rossi came up the inside and wasn't able to stay on the bike and took me out,\" Stoner told the official MotoGP website.",
"\"It was not the best day for us for sure, after such a good weekend.",
"We're very disappointed with this result.\"",
"Rossi was able to restart his bike, but Aussie Stoner was not so lucky and missed out on the points with Lorenzo taking over at the top of the standings after two rounds from Pedrosa.",
"Rossi eventually finished fifth, taking advantage of spills for compatriot Simoncelli and American Ben Spies, who had passed Pedrosa for second but then ended in the gravel, losing 20 points.",
"Colin Edwards was also set for the podium, but also went off to allow former world champion Hayden and fellow American Hayden the chance to claim that honor for Ducati for the first time.",
"In the Moto2 category, Italian Andrea Iannone rode his Suter to victory with Swiss Thomas Luthi, also on a Suter, second and Italian Simone Corsi (FTR) third.",
"Spaniard Nicolas Terol won on his Aprilia in the 125cc category."
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"World champion Jorge Lorenzo wins Spanish MotoGP at Jerez .",
"Spaniard takes victory after Marco Simoncelli slides off while leading .",
"Former champion Valentino Rossi collides into polesitter Casey Stoner .",
"Rossi able to carrry on to claim fifth in wet conditions which claim many riders ."
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"(CNN) -- Just days after a Boeing 737 flown by Southwest Airlines made an emergency landing with a hole in its fuselage, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a press release Monday that it will mandate operators of about 175 specific older Boeing 737s to conduct inspections for wear and tear.",
"The FAA said the \"emergency directive\" it plans to issue on Tuesday would affect about 80 U.S.-registered 737-300s, 737-400s and 737-500s, mostly operated by Southwest.",
"The remaining 95 or so aircraft are registered outside the United States.",
"Each of the 175 or so planes in question have taken off and landed more than 30,000 times and will receive repetitive electromagnetic inspections at regular intervals for fatigue damage.",
"In a separate statement, Boeing said it was working with the FAA, the National Transportation Safety Board and Southwest, and it was preparing a service bulletin to recommend lap joint inspections on certain 737 models.",
"NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said Monday that inspectors have visually checked lap joints in the past, but haven't used high-tech monitoring, because no one thought that part of the plane was susceptible to cracks.",
"Moving forward, inspectors will test the joints with an electromagnetic process.",
"The chairman on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation said in a statement that the American public wants answers to retain confidence in commercial air travel.",
"\"As the details of this unusual incident unfold, we will get a better understanding of what caused the plane's fuselage to tear open,\" said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia.",
"\"I expect the FAA to be painstakingly diligent in reviewing the safety of all aircraft, and to conduct a careful investigation into what caused the cracks that have been discovered on the bodies of these planes.\"",
"Rockefeller took advantage of the occasion to renew his call for reauthorizing the FAA.",
"\"The FAA reauthorization bill now headed to conference takes steps to strengthen the inspection process of passenger aircraft, and I hope we can move that bill quickly to a resolution,\" he said.",
"After Southwest canceled about 600 flights over the weekend to accommodate inspections, the airline said it canceled another 70 flights on Monday.",
"By 3:30 p.m. Monday, the company had checked out 67 of the 79 planes it had grounded for inspection.",
"Southwest said 64 of the 737-300s were being returned to service, while inspectors had discovered subsurface cracks on three jets.",
"Those three will remain out of service \"until Boeing recommends an appropriate repair,\" Southwest said.",
"As planes are cleared, they will be put back into service, Southwest said.",
"Inspections are expected to be completed by late Tuesday.",
"The airline recommended that customers should check with the website SWA.com for the status of a particular flight or rebook a trip before heading to the airport.",
"Eighteen minutes into Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento, California, on Friday, a hole 5 feet long and 1 foot wide opened in the fuselage, causing the cabin to lose pressure, the NTSB said.",
"One flight attendant received minor injuries, the agency said.",
"The pilot initially planned to return to Phoenix, but he made an emergency landing at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, after flight attendants reported seeing blue sky through the jet's roof, the safety board's Robert Sumwalt told reporters.",
"Some of the 118 passengers who were aboard the crippled Boeing 737 said they feared for their lives.",
"\"We were in shock,\" passenger Debbie Downey said Saturday.",
"\"We were in row 16, and my husband and I could see blue sky ... the wiring, the cabling.",
"It actually was terrifying.\"",
"Greg Hansen said fellow passengers panicked and screamed as the sun shone through the cabin.",
"\"Most people were just white knuckles, holding on to the arm rests,\" he said.",
"The airline said it provided a full refund, an apology and two complimentary round-trip passes on the airline for future flights.",
"In July 2009, another Southwest Airlines 737-300 made an emergency landing when cabin pressure dropped because of a football-size hole in the jet.",
"That incident prompted the airline to inspect its entire fleet of 737-300s.",
"Earlier that same year, the airline was fined $7.5 million by the FAA after the agency found that Southwest operated 46 of its Boeing 737s on nearly 60,000 flights without performing mandatory inspections for fatigue cracks in their fuselages.",
"Sumwalt said the 737 used for Flight 812 had a maintenance check in March at Southwest's Dallas facility, and the jet had no outstanding maintenance issues at the time of the accident, with all its records \"positive, up to date, (and) with no discrepancies.\"",
"The plane's flight data recorders had no noteworthy information on them, Sumwalt said.",
"CNN's Mike Ahlers, Ric Ward and Marnie Hunter contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Southwest Airlines says as of 3:30 p.m., it had inspected 67 of its 79 grounded jets .",
"NEW: The joint where the breach opened had been visually, not electromagnetically, inspected in past .",
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"About 175 planes, including about 80 registered in the United States will be subject to inspection ."
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"Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Ivory Coast's diplomatic squabble centered Wednesday on a siege laid to a posh waterfront hotel where the president-elect has been holed up under the protection of United Nations peacekeepers.",
"The world body, meanwhile, said it would ask the Security Council to approve up to 2,000 more troops to help ensure the presidency for Alassane Ouattara, recognized as the rightful winner of the disputed election that sparked the current political crisis.",
"Alain Le Roy, the under-secretary-general for U.N. peacekeeping, said after a Security Council briefing that he was worried \"we are facing more difficulties\" in Ivory Coast.",
"As the political standoff continued, the top U.S. diplomat on Africa said Laurent Gbagbo, the defiant self-declared president, had \"stolen\" the vote that removed him from office.",
"\"There is no question but that the election in the Ivory Coast was stolen by President Gbagbo and those around him,\" Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson told reporters Wednesday.",
"Gbagbo's \"continued presence in office amounts to a theft of the election,\" Carson said.",
"The United States and other countries have offered Gbagbo what they call a \"dignified exit,\" which could mean living and working in other countries, including the United States.",
"Gbagbo, however, has ignored those offers and has refused to accept telephone calls from U.S. officials.",
"Carson said Gbagbo has challenged democracy not only in Ivory Coast but also in the entire region.",
"Gbagbo, appearing to be softening his stance, had agreed to remove a military blockade around Ouattara's headquarters, but had not done so by Wednesday afternoon.",
"\"The promise has not been kept,\" Le Roy said.",
"Alcide Djedje, Gbagbo's foreign minister, said Gbagbo justified the continued siege as \"a measure of security\" because 300 of Ouattara's soldiers within the hotel are heavily armed.",
"This hotel is a short boat ride from Gbagbo's residence.",
"Djedje said the armed soldiers also posed a danger to people living near the hotel.",
"Gbagbo, said Djedje, is waiting for Ouattara to release the soldiers before pulling back the military.",
"\"The information I have is that he will lift the blockade,\" said Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union envoy for the mediation effort.",
"\"He called the head of the military in our presence and asked him to lift the embargo, and I'm assuming that has happened.\"",
"Odinga, who visited Abidjan earlier this week with a delegation representing West African states, said Gbagbo was open to a meeting with the president-elect.",
"\"He (Gbagbo) does not want any conditions,\" Odinga said.",
"\"He wants amnesty, he wants to know he's safe if he chooses to stay.",
"These are things that have to be discussed face-to-face.\"",
"In short, Odinga said, the disputed president is willing to negotiate unconditionally.",
"\"But Ouattara is not willing to negotiate unless Gbagbo accepts that he's president,\" Odinga said.",
"\"Ouattara is being difficult.\"",
"Ouattara has said he will ensure protection for Gbagbo if he concedes, Odinga said.",
"Major organizations, including the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union, have declared Ouattara the winner of the November 28 presidential runoff vote.",
"Gbagbo, the incumbent, considers himself the rightful winner, and has not budged amid international pressure on him to step down.",
"Violence following Gbagbo's refusal to vacate office has left more than 170 people dead in Ivory Coast and disrupted life for residents in Abidjan, the country's commercial hub.",
"West African states will oust Gbagbo using military force if the standoff continues, Odinga said.",
"\"We made it very clear that the stand of the African Union and ECOWAS is that Ouattara is the legitimate president,\" he said.",
"\"And in the absence of a peaceful settlement, military action will be pursued.\"",
"Odinga, who was named prime minister after an election dispute led to the formation of a coalition government in Kenya, said power-sharing will not be an option for the West African nation.",
"\"It is dangerous,\" Odinga said.",
"\"It was replicated in Kenya and Zimbabwe, and set a dangerous precedence ... because it tells losers that they can cling to power in the hopes that a power-sharing will be worked out.\"",
"A coalition government is not \"a healthy process,\" he said.",
"\"Losers must agree to surrender power.\"",
"The United States will not consider a power- sharing agreement because the outcome of the election was clear, State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said.",
"\"No one disputes the results of the election besides President Gbagbo,\" Crowley told reporters.",
"\"And we believe that for the future of democracy in Cote d'Ivoire and West Africa that he should step down.",
"And that is why we continue to support diplomatic efforts to resolve that with the peaceful transfer of power to Mr.",
"Ouattara.\" Cote d'Ivoire is the French name for Ivory Coast, a former French colony.",
"Gbagbo has demanded a recount, which mediators have said is not an option because the election documents have been in the custody of his supporters.",
"Mediators will return to Ivory Coast in the near future, but a date has not been set, Odinga said.",
"CNN's Whitney Hurst, Faith Karimi and Jill Dougherty and journalist Eric Agnero contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Firefighters in Texas worked Monday to contain fast-moving wildfires that had destroyed at least 60 homes, burned more than 130,000 acres, and caused an accident that killed a 5-year-old child, state forestry officials said.",
"The fires broke out about noon on Sunday, said Lewis Kearney, a spokesman for the forest service's Texas State Lone Star Incident Management Team.",
"Officials believe many were started by power lines that fell from high winds.",
"Since Sunday, forestry officials, who were called in to assist local fire departments, responded to 63 fires covering 132,854 acres, the Texas Forest Service said on its website.",
"Most of the fires were across the Texas Panhandle, Kearney said.",
"Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said a 61,000-acre fire in his county was ignited when a man cut pipe with a metal grinder in high wind Sunday.",
"Austin Lynn Stephens, 52, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass because he was on private property when he was using the grinder.",
"Firefighters battled blazes in a dozen other counties including a 35,000-acre fire in Matador West in Motley County, and a 21,000-acre fire in Andrews County.",
"They also fought fires in the counties of Haskell, Tom Green, Randall, Howard, Midland, Scurry, Motley, Crockett, Mitchell and Eastland.",
"Crews that worked through the night to douse the flames got a little help from the weather Monday.",
"The wind that propelled the fires was somewhat calmer, although it was still breezy and parts of the area remained under a fire-weather watch.",
"Kearney said Sunday's high winds made it difficult for firefighters to use aircraft to battle the blaze.",
"Interstate 20 was shut down for several hours Sunday after heavy smoke from the fires limited visibility.",
"Authorities in Midland County responded to numerous accidents along the highway, including an eight-vehicle crash in which a little girl died, according to Sgt.",
"Pete Cordova.",
"One wildfire destroyed a dog kennel near Amarillo, said Capt.",
"Wes Hall of the Amarillo Fire Department.",
"Authorities were trying to account Monday for the animals missing or dead after the fire tore through the Willow Creek Kennel.",
"Firefighters were able to open cages to free at least some of the dogs before the flames overtook the facility.",
"As many as 27 homes were destroyed in the area and \"the fire was on the kennel in a matter of minutes,\" employee Chance Smith said, adding he did not have an exact number of dogs lost.",
"In the community of Matador, north of Lubbock, families could do nothing but watch as their homes burned to the ground.",
"The Segovias hadn't been gone 20 minutes when they returned to a panic-stricken neighborhood and found they had lost everything they owned.",
"\"To know everything you worked so hard for, it's all gone,\" a tearful Juan Segovia told CNN affiliate KCBD.",
"He and his wife, Rosemary, stared in disbelief at the blaze.",
"The family of seven is without a home, but grateful for what was not lost.",
"\"I'm glad our family wasn't home when it happened,\" Rosemary Segovia said before falling into her husband's arms.",
"\"That's all I care about is I have my family.\"",
"One firefighter sustained second-degree burns battling a blaze near Colorado City, where a nursing home had to be evacuated before the fast moving flames swept through.",
"And a Potter County sheriff's deputy narrowly escaped the flames while searching homes after a mandatory evacuation was ordered for the Mesilla Park area.",
"Deputy Kevin Parvin entered a home as the flames were bearing down on the neighborhood, Thomas said, and by the time he left the home, the smoke was so thick he couldn't find his patrol car.",
"Parvin had left the car running, and he followed the sound of a squeaking engine belt to find it and radio for assistance, Thomas said.",
"He was treated for minor smoke inhalation.",
"No other injuries were reported.",
"CNN's Dave Alsup contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazilian relatives of a 9-year-old boy, caught in an international custody battle with the child's father, will not file any further appeals after the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled against them, their attorney told CNN Wednesday.",
"The family is just looking for a peaceful handover of Sean Goldman to his father, attorney Sergio Tostes said, and plan on starting dialogue to allow the transfer to happen immediately.",
"The chief justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of David Goldman, who had been battling the family of the boy's deceased mother for custody.",
"The ruling by Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes will reunite Sean with his father.",
"Last week, a lower court unanimously upheld a decision ordering that Sean Goldman be returned to his father in New Jersey.",
"David Goldman arrived in Rio de Janeiro to reunite with his son, but one Supreme Court justice issued a stay, ordering Sean to remain with his Brazilian relatives until the high court could consider the case.",
"Mendes' decision lifted the stay.",
"This week the U.S. State Department issued a passport to Sean, given to his father, so that he can travel back to the United States, spokesman Philip J. Crowley said Wednesday.",
"\"Our embassy in Brasilia, our consulate in Rio de Janeiro, many people have been up through the night just to provide support to the Goldman family, to maintain contact with the Brazilian government ... as we, hopefully, come to the end of this process and look forward to the reuniting of Sean Goldman with his father, David,\" Crowley said.",
"The regional court decreed the boy must be handed over by 9 a.m. (6 a.m.",
"ET) on Thursday.",
"\"Sean is very sad because it is not and has never been his desire [to return to the United States],\" his grandmother, Silvana Bianchi, told CNN.",
"\"He got especially disappointed about not having the right to speak in his own country [about] what he wanted for himself ...",
"They are sending the boy to the United States without the right to defend himself.",
"Where is the Brazilian constitution?\"",
"Bianchi was initially expected to appeal.",
"But Tostes said Wednesday the family wants to act in the boy's best interest, and he was meeting with an intermediary to arrange the handover.",
"He said he would like Bianchi to meet with David Goldman so she can tell him what Sean likes to eat, what he enjoys doing and other details.",
"Asked whether she would accompany Sean on the flight to the United States, Bianchi would only say Tostes is negotiating what is best for the boy.",
"Upon hearing the family would file no further appeals, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, said, \"This is not good news.",
"This is great news.\"",
"The custody battle began in 2004, when Goldman's wife, Bruna Bianchi, took their then-4-year-old son from their home in New Jersey to Rio de Janeiro for what was to have been a two-week vacation.",
"She never returned, instead remarrying there and retaining custody of Sean.",
"She died last year in childbirth.",
"Goldman has argued that as the sole surviving parent, he should be granted custody.",
"The Bianchi family maintained it would traumatize Sean to remove him from what has been his home for five years.",
"The custody battle garnered much media attention and spilled over into the political arena as well.",
"U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, had placed a hold on a trade bill that would have benefited Brazil to the tune of $2.75 billion, but he lifted it after the court's ruling, spokesman Caley Gray told CNN.",
"The bill in question, which sailed through the Senate after the senator dropped the hold, provides export tariff relief to 130 countries, of which Brazil would be the fifth largest recipient, Gray said.",
"Lautenberg's hold was designed to exert additional pressure on Brazilian authorities to abide by the court order to return Sean to his father, he said.",
"Silvana Bianchi told CNN Wednesday it was \"very sad, a country that exchanges children for economic agreements.\"",
"While the chief justice was still studying the case, Brazilian Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams said the executive branch of Brazilian government sided with Goldman.",
"\"Once we stop cooperating and start breaking our treaties and international obligations, Brazil risks the chance of not having its own requests in the matters regarding international judicial help granted, based on the principle of international reciprocity,\" Adams said Monday.",
"\"Not releasing the minor into the custody of his father could bring sanctions against Brazil,\" he added.",
"\"It could damage Brazil's image before the international community.\"",
"CNN's Mariano Castillo and Adam Reiss and journalist Luciani Gomes contributed to this report."
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"(ArsTechnica) -- The latest mobile phone user survey from market research firm ChangeWave reveals similar levels of overall satisfaction between iPhone 4 users on Verizon versus those on AT&T.",
"However, Verizon iPhone 4 users seem to suffer from dropped calls far less often than their AT&T peers, supporting early anecdotal evidence from Verizon iPhone users.",
"\"In terms of overall satisfaction the two iPhones are virtually indistinguishable,\" according to ChangeWave vice president of research Paul Carton.",
"In March, 82 percent of Verizon iPhone 4 users reported being very satisfied with the device, while 80 percent of AT&T iPhone users reported the same.",
"Only two percent reported any dissatisfaction with the device on either carrier.",
"Half of Verizon smartphone users mulling switch to iPhone .",
"That doesn't mean users on Verizon don't see at least one significant benefit: fewer dropped calls.",
"Verizon iPhone 4 users reported a dropped call rate of 1.8 percent.",
"AT&T iPhone 4 users, in contrast, had a dropped call rate of 4.8 percent -- more than double that of Verizon iPhone 4 users.",
"That difference isn't limited to iPhones, though.",
"Comparing dropped call rates for all mobile users on all four carriers, Verizon users reported just 1.4 percent of calls were dropped unexpectedly, while AT&T users reported a 4.6 percent rate.",
"T-Mobile and Sprint users reported rates of 2.3 percent and 2.7 percent respectively.",
"16% of AT&T customers ready to jump ship for Verizon iPhone .",
"A look at ChangeWave's historical data suggests that AT&T is actually improving.",
"At the height of the iPhone 4 release, AT&T users were reporting dropped call rates as high as 6 percent -- the highest rate recorded by ChangeWave's survey since tracking began in 2008.",
"At the same time, however, Verizon has also been improving.",
"The 1.4 percent rate is the lowest recorded since 2008.",
"While our own testing didn't reveal much of a difference in dropped calls, ChangeWave's results jibe with the accepted dogma about using an iPhone on Verizon versus AT&T -- namely, that dropped calls were much less of a problem.",
"If voice calls are a primary reason you use a smartphone, Verizon is likely to be a better choice if you don't want your calls to unexpectedly cut themselves short.",
"COPYRIGHT 2010 ARSTECHNICA.COM ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- February 15, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Iran • Algeria • Tokyo, Japan .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: This is for you, Carl!",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Gotta say thanks to the students at Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland for that.",
"As a former drummer, I can tell you were right on rhythm!",
"I'm Carl Azuz. Today's commercial-free subjects include economics, social studies and health.",
"Let's go ahead and get started.",
"First Up: 2012 Budget .",
"AZUZ: First up, economics, as President Obama presents his ideas for the federal government's 2012 budget.",
"You or your family have to make budgets, looking at how much money you earn versus how much you spend.",
"The government does the same thing, but with a lot more zeroes.",
"In fact, this budget request from the president, which is just for 2012, is for $3.7 trillion; more money than most of us can even imagine.",
"The goal of a budget is to make sure you don't spend more than you make.",
"But that's exactly what the U.S. government is doing right now, which is why we have what's called a deficit.",
"President Obama says his new budget will cut that deficit by $1 trillion over the next 10 years by making some pretty big cuts to a lot of government programs, and by making more money from increasing some taxes.",
"But there are critics on both sides.",
"Some Republicans argue that the president's proposed cuts won't do nearly enough, and some Democrats say that President Obama wants to cut too much.",
"Another important thing to keep in mind.",
"What the president released is a budget request.",
"He doesn't actually decide on what the budget is.",
"That's the job of Congress, and it can choose to accept, reject or modify the president's plan.",
"Protests in Iran .",
"AZUZ: Going global now, with headlines of political protests in two different countries.",
"First, Iran, where tens of thousands of people marched through the capital yesterday.",
"They were speaking out against the Iranian government.",
"Security forces were out on the streets too.",
"At times, they allowed the protesters to march, but there were also reports of fighting between police and protesters.",
"This YouTube video shows tear gas being used to break up a protest.",
"It's hard for CNN to verify some of the reports coming from Iran because the country makes it hard for journalists to cover these kinds of protests.",
"And the Iranian government slowed down the internet in what seems like an attempt to limit how much information gets out.",
"Algeria Unrest .",
"AZUZ: The other country we're looking at where people are calling for change in their government is Algeria.",
"This is a north African nation that's home to nearly 35 million people.",
"As you can see from these pictures, protesters and security forces faced off against each other this past weekend.",
"Yesterday, Algerian officials said they're going to lift a \"state of emergency\" that Algeria has been under since 1992.",
"Some experts say that decision might be an attempt for Algeria to avoid uprisings like we've seen recently in Egypt and in Tunisia.",
"I.D. Me . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D.",
"Me! I'm an organic compound that works as a stimulant.",
"I affect the body's nervous system, as well as the heart and kidneys.",
"I have a bitter taste, but no odor.",
"I'm caffeine, and having too much of me can make you anxious or irritable.",
"Energy Drink Warning .",
"AZUZ: It's the caffeine, plus the other stimulants in energy drinks, that can give young people health problems.",
"This is according to new medical research on the risks of energy drinks.",
"Caffeine, as you know, is a legal stimulant.",
"It's just that large amounts of it can be dangerous.",
"One study found that almost half of all caffeine overdoses back in 2007 happened in people younger than 19.",
"So what are the risks? Well, caffeine -- too much of it -- can mess up your sleep patterns.",
"It can increase your blood pressure, which can put a strain on your heart.",
"And if you're on any medications, caffeine can interfere with them and cause additional problems.",
"Symptoms of too much caffeine: nausea, dizziness, rapid heart rate and seizure.",
"I wanna be clear we're not talking about sports drinks, like Gatorade or Powerade.",
"Those can actually be good for you, helping hydrate you after a big game.",
"You can distinguish energy drinks by their ingredients.",
"Energy drinks might include caffeine, taurine and guarana, additional stimulants that can hit different people in different ways.",
"Responding to this report, the American Beverage Association says a lot of drinks you can get have caffeine in them, and that \"young adults getting coffee from popular coffeehouses are getting twice as much caffeine as they would from a similar size energy drink.\"",
"Giffords' Recovery .",
"AZUZ: U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is talking to her brother-in-law.",
"Might not sound like a major news story, but it is a huge step for Rep. Giffords, whom you see here.",
"She was shot in the head last month during an attack in Arizona.",
"Family members and officials say she is making incredible progress in her recovery.",
"Part of that is her conversations with her brother-in-law Scott Kelly, an astronaut currently on board the international space station.",
"Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, is also an astronaut.",
"He's scheduled to go into space in April.",
"Shoutout . JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Giorno's humanities class at Girard College Lower School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!",
"What country has the world's fastest growing economy?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) China, B) Japan, C) the United States or D) Russia?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"China has the world's fastest growing economy.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"The New #2 Economy .",
"AZUZ: It's because of that growth that China has made a move in terms of the world's largest economies.",
"China is now the second largest, behind only the U.S. What does that mean for the former number two, Japan?",
"We're checking in with Kyung Lah, who explains how a move in the economic rankings means a change in power.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT, TOKYO: Step into Laox electronics store and you can hear the shift of economic might in Asia.",
"Chinese greets shoppers.",
"Sales signs are in Chinese.",
"Workers assist shoppers in Mandarin.",
"What's odd: we're in downtown Tokyo.",
"But the people with the purchasing power here are not the Japanese.",
"You don't have to tell this electronics store about the economic power shift in Asia.",
"It's something they've seen for quite some time.",
"When it comes to the number of paying customers, they see about 200 Japanese a day.",
"Compare that with the number of Chinese: 1,000 customers every single day.",
"LIN DONG DONG, LAOX TRANSLATOR: I'm proud of China!",
"LAH: ...says Lin Dong Dong, a Chinese immigrant who's risen with the fortunes of his home country.",
"He works for Laox as a translator but plans to become a doctor.",
"Today, he's helping out this Chinese tour group here in Tokyo to spend money.",
"NOBUKAZU IINO, LAOX STORE MANAGER [TRANSLATED]: \"Japan was once like China,\" says Laox's store manager, referring to Japan's economic surge in the 1980s.",
"\"It's China's turn now.\"",
"LAH: China has blazed ahead, expanding its manufacturing sector and domestic infrastructure.",
"At this pace, Japan's government estimates China will overtake the U.S. economy in just 15 years.",
"Japan, meanwhile, has been stuck in two decades of stagnation and deflation amid indecisive economic policymaking.",
"It now faces a demographic tsunami: the world's fastest aging population, one of the lowest birthrates, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that's highest among developed nations.",
"That may be a snapshot of economic might, but economists warn it's not so black and white.",
"KIRBY DALEY, SR.",
"STRATEGIST, NEWEDGE: Japan's demographic tsunami, as it was termed, is very real and is going to stunt growth in that country for years to come.",
"They need to get that situation under control.",
"But China also has a demographic tsunami of its own, to re-use that term, coming as well.",
"UNIDENTIFIED CHINESE MALE [TRANSLATED]: \"I know we became the world's number two economy,\" says this Chinese shopper.",
"\"But we still have very poor people and there's a gap between rich and poor.",
"I hope China as a whole becomes a wealthy country like Japan.\"",
"KEIICHI YAMAMOTO, TOKYO RESIDENT [TRANSLATED]: \"I envy China's hungry spirit,\" says Keiichi Yamamoto, who says what's missing most in Japan is passion and drive.",
"\"But I believe Japan still has potential.",
"It'll come back again.\" LAH: Two Asian powers adjusting to a new economic world order.",
"Kyung Lah, CNN, Tokyo.",
"(END VIDEO) Free Downloadable Maps .",
"AZUZ: Japan, Algeria, Iran.",
"You know where you can find all of them? CNNStudentNews.com!",
"You scroll all the way down our page, and you'll discover our downloadable maps.",
"These free resources help you pinpoint locations in the headlines.",
"You can always track them down at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, it's time to walk the dog.",
"But this little lady doesn't need to go far.",
"She just hops on a treadmill, cranks it up to two-and-a-half miles per hour, and she's on her way.",
"The terrier and her 86-year-old workout partner hit the gym twice a day.",
"It's nice that they exercise together.",
"But if this gym rat wants to put on some serious muscle and all she does is walk on the treadmill... Goodbye .",
"AZUZ: ...I don't think she's going to get anywhere.",
"But I bet I know her favorite feature on the machine is the paws button.",
"Man, I tried. That tail end brings us to the end of today's show.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. Bye."
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"(CNN) -- Two people were injured when a parcel bomb exploded on Thursday in the offices of a Swiss umbrella group for the nuclear industry, police said.",
"The incident occurred in the offices of Swissnuclear in the town of Olten.",
"The pair suffered minor injuries and were taken to a hospital.",
"Police are investigating and Swissnuclear could not be immediately reached for comment.",
"Matthieu Buchs, spokesman of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, confirmed that the approval process for three new nuclear power plants had been stopped because of the disaster in Japan.",
"Safety standards will be reviewed in all existing nuclear power plants, he said.",
"Buchs also said Switzerland derives 39.3% of its electricity from nuclear energy.",
"Nuclear energy makes up 10% of the overall production of energy in the country, he said.",
"Journalist Roman Lehberger contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Five who desperately needed new kidneys got them Friday in an unusual five-way kidney transplant swap at a San Francisco hospital made possible by a computer program.",
"\"It's just an amazing gift,\" said April Langstraat, a 65-year-old Selma, California, woman who waited on a transplant list for five years before Friday's surgery.",
"Alan Langstraat, 62, wanted to give a kidney to his wife, but his organ was incompatible.",
"Instead, his kidney was transplanted into another patient at California Pacific Medical Center Friday, while his wife received an organ from a stranger who agreed to the swap.",
"\"It's a rare opportunity,\" Langstraat told CNN affiliate KTVU-TV before a surgeon removed one of his kidneys.",
"The process was repeated five times Friday, with a live kidney going to someone who had a friend or relative willing to donate an organ that was not compatible for them but was a match for one of the others.",
"This was the third five-way kidney swap done in the United States, hospital spokesman Kevin McCormick said Sunday.",
"Computer software is becoming increasingly effective in making complex paired donation matches, he said.",
"\"Every time we do one of these kidney paired donations, taking the patients off the waiting list, in a sense, it's another kidney available for somebody who doesn't have a living donor option,\" said Dr. Steve Katznelson, the medical director of California Pacific's kidney transplant program.",
"Each recipient and donor agreed to guidelines to prevent \"a breakdown along the way,\" with a donor \"suddenly saying 'I changed my mind'\" after the surgeries for the first had started, McCormick said.",
"\"Everyone was pretty much in the same boat,\" he said.",
"The donors did not know which patient would get their kidneys before the surgery and no one would find out unless each person agreed later.",
"The procedures, involving 50 doctors, nurses and support staff, began at 7:30 a.m. with the last patient rolling out of surgery 10 hours later, McCormick said.",
"\"They're all doing well,\" he said Sunday.",
"The transplant results are \"very promising,\" he said.",
"For the Langstraat family, the paired donation advance has added importance for their future.",
"April Langstraat's daughter Charlotte and son Henry inherited her genetic polycystic kidney disease, which means they expect to need transplants in the future.",
"Although 83,000 people are on the U.S. waiting list for kidney transplants, the number of live kidney donors declined from 6,647 in 2004 to 6,387 in 2009, according to the National Kidney Foundation."
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"(CNN Student News) -- November 9, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• India • Haiti .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"MR. KOCZOT'S CLASS, BROAD CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, NEWPORT, NORTH CAROLINA: We are students at Broad Creek Middle School in Newport, North Carolina and we are flying you in to CNN Student News!",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Thank you to Mr. Koczot's class for that exemplary introduction!",
"My name is Carl Azuz, and today's top stories are right now!",
"First Up: President Obama in India .",
"AZUZ: An interesting headline came out of President Obama's third day in India: He was giving a speech to India's parliament, its government, and the U.S. president officially endorsed India getting a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.",
"Okay, so what? Well, since 1945, the U.N. Security Council has had five permanent members.",
"They include the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia.",
"These five countries have had the ultimate power to veto any major move that the U.N. wants to make, so a permanent seat there is very powerful.",
"CNN's Ali Velshi explains why President Obama wants India, to have one: .",
"ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR AND CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Why did President Obama bring it up?",
"Well, the U.S. sees a huge potential upside to a powerful India in terms of democracy.",
"President Obama sees India's system as a model for developing countries.",
"And then there's the economy. We've discussed this. India is booming, creating more and richer consumers every year.",
"And, finally, there's the issue of security.",
"India is involved in Afghanistan, is joining the cause for nuclear nonproliferation.",
"As for Pakistan, America's ties with that country do complicate its ties with India because those two are arch rivals.",
"But that, too, was part of the president's address.",
"AZUZ: Besides Pakistan, though, China also sees India as a rival and doesn't want India permanently on the Security Council.",
"And Japan has been trying to get a permanent U.N. seat since the early 1990s.",
"So while the president's statement was welcomed in India, action isn't expected anytime soon -- if ever.",
"Cargo Embargo .",
"AZUZ: No air cargo from Yemen will be allowed into the United States anytime soon.",
"The Department of Homeland Security is also saying \"no\" to any air cargo from the African country of Somalia.",
"And no airline passengers can travel with large printer cartridges.",
"These new rules are in effect immediately, and here is the reason: An apparent terrorist plot involving two package bombs.",
"They were discovered in late October on air cargo shipments from Yemen to the U.S. Is This Legit?",
"CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is This Legit?",
"The disease cholera is caused by a virus.",
"This is false; cholera is caused by a bacterial infection.",
"Unhealthy Living Conditions .",
"AZUZ: That means that cholera can be treated with antibiotics if needed.",
"And in most cases, it is an easily curable disease: The World Health Organization says proper treatment can keep the number of people who die from cholera to less than one percent.",
"The problem in Haiti is, there's not a lot of proper treatment.",
"Cholera can spread where drinking water and conditions are generally dirty.",
"That's exactly what Paula Newton saw in Haiti's capital.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There is no delicate way to put this, Port au Prince looks and smells like a dump, because it is.",
"Ten months after the earthquake, the city has degenerated into a filthy cauldron of water, garbage and human waste.",
"The garbage situation has always been a problem here, but now no one pays any attention to where they dump it and the government makes virtually no effort to pick it up.",
"Don't you think that Haitians deserve better than this?",
"UNIDENTIFIED HAITIAN MALE: We get used to it.",
"Everybody who grew up in this country are used to it.",
"NEWTON: But the stakes are higher now.",
"As cholera stalks the city, these are the conditions that so worry health experts.",
"Just look, Haitians desperate for water, collect it from a pipe right next to a burning collection of waste.",
"The city is like an open garbage pit, this is a central canal that cuts right through the middle of the city and garbage of all descriptions flows right through it.",
"And this is where it ends up, right down the canal and piled up.",
"Tons of garbage just laying waste here in the canal that no one ever seems capable of collecting.",
"With cholera now a reality in Haiti, this is not just a matter of aesthetics or hygiene, it may soon become a matter of life and death.",
"(END VIDEO) Drowsy Drivers .",
"AZUZ: Okay, our next story today: You know distracted driving -- texting, eating, makeup -- is a dangerous problem.",
"You're not gonna believe this: In a survey taken by AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, two out of every five drivers -- this is 40 percent we're talking about -- say they've fallen asleep while driving!",
"And in the previous month, more than 25 percent of drivers surveyed said they had trouble keeping their eyes open on the road.",
"And this isn't just quick dozing without consequences.",
"Researchers figure that drowsy driving is a factor in one of every eight crashes that send someone to the hospital.",
"The head of the AAA Foundation says people are just underestimating how tired they are and overestimating how well they can deal with it while driving.",
"Shoutout . CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Wheeler's social studies and science classes at Tomahawk Creek Middle School in Midlothian, Virginia!",
"Which of these observances was previously known as Armistice Day?",
"Is it: A) Memorial Day, B) Arbor Day, C) Flag Day, or D) Veterans Day?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"The U.S. Congress established Armistice Day in 1921; the name was changed to Veterans Day in 1954.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Helping Veterans Cope .",
"AZUZ: So while it started as a way to honor those who served in World War I, Veterans Day is now a tribute to everyone who's served in the military.",
"A man and some mammals in Florida, are working together to help America's veterans.",
"Those who return home with \"post traumatic stress disorder\" sometimes feel intense anxiety, long after the ordeal of combat.",
"Meet the ones who are offering helping hands and fins.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) MANDY RODRIGUEZ, U.S. MARINE CORPS VETERAN: Come on, lets go out to the dock.",
"Come on up. Who wants to play?",
"There you go. So this is not a bad way to spend the rest of your life; watching these wonderful animals, learning from them.",
"My name is Mandy Rodriguez and I served in Vietnam.",
"When I joined the Marine Corp, I was a teenager.",
"And um, I was, I went through my training.",
"And was sent to Vietnam almost immediately, like the rest of us.",
"I make the best friends ever in um, in um Vietnam.",
"And I've also seen some of the most horrific things I've ever seen in my life.",
"Which, unfortunately, still stick with me.",
"After coming back from Vietnam as a young Marine, I was very confused, very angry.",
"Probably just like all of us out of war.",
"And these animals helped me.",
"They actually saved my life, if you want to say.",
"They're just a wonderful way, their happiness, the way they look at you, the way they treat you.",
"Uh, and it carries through.",
"And I actually used that with other humans, and guess what?",
"It works! I'm Mandy Rodriguez, nice to meet you.",
"We figured that maybe this would be a good way to help these veterans.",
"Ready Marine?",
"That a girl, there she comes, she's sizing you up.",
"Now there you go, now look this way, big smile.",
"Do you feel the vibration?",
"We developed the program to help the men and women who are coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"These are heroes and these people deserve our accolades, deserve our applause.",
"For that one half hour of time they probably would have forgotten all those things that they have gone through in their war.",
"Can you kiss Johnny goodbye, please?",
"They have that ability to put you in a world where you're accepted.",
"To put you in a world where it's a good world and not, you're not thinking about those things, those traumatic things that you've experienced in the past.",
"(END VIDEO) Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: We want you to be part of our Veterans Day show this Thursday; we're looking for your comments!",
"Talk to us on our blog or our Facebook page about the best way you can think of to honor America's veterans.",
"The blog is live at CNNStudentNews.com; you'll find our official Facebook page at Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: All right, I know we're a little early in the year for this, but the \"12 Days of Christmas\" lyric is supposed to be \"12 drummers drumming.\"",
"This is six hundred!",
"Or somewhere close to it.",
"You've heard of \"Woodstock\"; welcome to Woodstick!",
"A plethora of percussionists playing, pounding, and putting paradiddles to work in an effort to raise money to help schools and to benefit sick children.",
"Every imaginable instrument of percussion was there, including a $35,000 gong.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: That definitely snared some attention.",
"But the event can't be beat, as a fine cymbal of helping people out.",
"Stick around tomorrow for more CNN Student News!"
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"(WIRED) -- As Sly Stone said, the nicer the nice, the higher the price.The question is, is the more expensive Xoom nicer than the comparable iPad?",
"The experience is markedly different, that's for sure.",
"Anyone familiar with Apple's market-leading tablet -- and the Xoom invites the comparison -- will face a few moments of disorientation when picking up the Xoom for the first time.",
"A few details are unsettling to iPad users, such as the location of the power button (on the rear of the device), the lack of front-facing command buttons, and the unfamiliar location of the volume rocker.",
"Those details will be irrelevant to non-Apple users, of course, but even dedicated Android fans will find that the Xoom's version of the OS, Android 3.0 Honeycomb, takes a bit of getting used to.",
"Some things don't work the same as they do on older versions of Android.",
"For instance, instead of holding down the (virtual) \"home\" button to see a list of running apps, there's now a separate icon for displaying a vertical menu of apps.",
"To see the full list of installed apps, you press a separate \"apps\" button in the upper right of the screen.",
"And while the lack of front hardware buttons gives the device a cleaner look, it does mean that virtual buttons clutter up the display and rob you of screen space in most applications.",
"It's a tradeoff. But once you've oriented yourself to Honeycomb's and Xoom's idiosyncracies, what emerges is a tablet that's very well suited to reading and to video.",
"The Xoom has a 10.1-inch screen (measuring 8.5 by 5.25 inches), and it's as bright and sharp as any other high-end tablet.",
"We did notice a slightly discolored band running down the edge of the screen on one side, but since we can't compare it to other Xooms yet, we don't know if this is a problem with our review unit or a more general manufacturing defect.",
"The 1280×800 screen is pretty close to a standard widescreen aspect ratio, so videos can fill the whole screen with minimal clipping.",
"The Xoom is a little bit shorter than the iPad in landscape mode, but that means that when you flip the Xoom to portrait mode, the screen is skinnier and taller.",
"This is actually perfect for reading books, scrolling down web pages, or catching up on Instapaper.",
"It's comfortable to hold the Xoom with one hand while you swipe with the other, and because the vertical page is so tall, there's less swiping than on smaller screens.",
"WIRED: Read more about iPad's FX Photo Studio .",
"The rubbery back panel has enough grip that you don't really need to clamp onto the thing while you're reading.",
"If you feel fatigued by holding your iPad one-handed for long periods of time like I do, you'll appreciate this.",
"In short, it's an excellent, basic media consumption device -- as long as your media doesn't rely on stellar audio.",
"If you're planning on zoning out with a movie or a few videos, we'd recommend keeping a decent pair of headphones on hand.",
"The big problem with the sound?",
"The speakers are in the back of the tablet.",
"They sound fine if you turn the tablet around to face the speakers toward you, but if you're holding the Xoom so you can see its screen, the sound is projecting away from your head.",
"Everything sounds muffled: movie dialog is harder to understand and music just sounds dead and lifeless.",
"There's an optional dock with speakers built in, but when you plop the Xoom into the dock to watch a movie, the dock speakers sit behind the tablet, too.",
"So it's the same problem all over again, just a little louder.",
"The Xoom has two cameras: A front-facing, 2-megapixel camera is meant for video conferencing and webcam chats, while a rear-facing, 5-megapixel camera is meant for shooting still photos and video.",
"Taking pictures with it feels funny.",
"It's the same as snapping a picture your phone, except the thing you're holding is four times the size.",
"On the other hand, being able to compose a photo while looking at something bigger than a 5×7 print is a real luxury, as it lets you see details you wouldn't otherwise notice on a small phone screen or camera viewfinder.",
"It's awkward, but we suspect it will become commonplace within a few months now that every tablet is getting a camera built into the back.",
"With an $800 entry price (or $600 if you're willing to commit to a two-year Verizon data contract at $20 per month), the Xoom is a bigger leap of faith than Apple's market-leading tablet.",
"Granted, the most comparable iPad -- the one with 32GB of storage and a 3G wireless connection -- costs $730, making it just $70 cheaper than the un-subsidized Xoom.",
"But if you want to sample the iPad, a 16GB Wi-Fi only version is available for $500, and so far Motorola has announced nothing in a comparable price range for the Xoom.",
"For that reason we think fewer people are likely to jump on the Xoom bandwagon.",
"Those who do will be attracted by the widescreen format, the ability to buy apps without going through Apple's restrictive App Store.",
"For those who want a more fully-finished, polished experience, however, we recommend waiting for a future Android tablet -- or the iPad.",
"The Xoom is a credible contender, but it's not quite on par with the market leader yet.",
"WIRED . Big, widescreen display offers plenty of room for video and for reading.",
"Fast 1-GHz processor promises great performance for future games and apps.",
"Honeycomb simplifies and optimizes the Android interface for tablets.",
"Dual cameras and an optional external keyboard make this a credible notebook (or at least netbook) replacement.",
"TIRED . Rear-facing speakers don't do justice to any kind of audio.",
"The button thing is weird.",
"Honeycomb seems to have some bugs to work out.",
"No support for Adobe Flash-based content.",
"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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"(CNN) -- Emmanuel Adebayor scored a header in each half, while Angel Di Maria and Cristiano Ronaldo added further goals, as Real Madrid overpowered 10-man Tottenham 4-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal at the Bernabeu.",
"Real boss Jose Mourinho is attempting to become the first coach in history to win three Champions League titles with three different clubs, and he remains on course to achieve that feat after this comfortable victory.",
"The home side had the perfect start when they took the lead in the fourth minute -- Adebayor climbing above the Spurs defense to head home a Mesut Ozil corner, with goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes and Luka Modric getting in each other's way as they attempted to clear the ball on the goalline.",
"Tottenham's task was made even harder when England forward Peter Crouch was sent off in the 15th minute.",
"Booked early on for a sliding tackle, Crouch committed an almost identical foul on Marcelo to receive a second yellow card to leave the visitors with a mountain to climb.",
"And Real made Tottenham pay for Crouch's indiscipline with a second goal 11 minutes after the break, Adebayor converting another header from Marcelo's left-wing cross.",
"It continued former Arsenal striker Adebayor's superb scoring record against Tottenham, with the Togo international having now netted 10 goals in 10 games against Spurs.",
"Adebayor almost made it a hat-trick of headed goals in the 66th minute when he rose at the far post to meet Lassana Diarra's cross, but Gomes did superbly to parry the ball over the crossbar.",
"But, by now, the home side were piling on the pressure and they scored the goal of the night in the 72nd minute with Di Maria curled a delightful left-foot shot into the top corner.",
"And Real added a fourth with three minutes remaining when Ronaldo, who had been doubtful to start the match because of injury, scored from an acute angle, although his weak shot appeared to go straight through Gomes.",
"The result means Real Madrid now have one foot in the semifinals and a potential last four encounter with bitter rivals Barcelona in what could be one of the most anticipated pair of matches in European football history."
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"Emmanuel Adebayor scores twice with Andel Di Maria and Cristiano Ronaldo also netting .",
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"Tobruk, Libya (CNN) -- Like everyone else, Aisha Ahmad watched the riveting drama unfold in a Tripoli hotel as a desperate woman burst into a dining room filled with journalists, sobbing, screaming, wanting the world to know she had been raped by 15 of Moammar Gadhafi's militia men.",
"The arresting images of how swiftly the woman, Eman al-Obeidy, 29, and the journalists were stifled stirred viewers around the world.",
"But perhaps none more so than Ahmad.",
"This was her daughter. And she was enraged. Just weeks before, Ahmad might have wept in silence.",
"But now, with war engulfing Libya and its future hanging in the balance, Ahmad feared Gadhafi no more.",
"\"If I were to see his face, I would strangle him,\" she told CNN in an interview at her modest home in the eastern coastal city of Tobruk.",
"This is where she raised her 10 children with her husband, a retired customs agent.",
"As a little girl, al-Obeidy looked out over the deep blue waters of the Mediterranean, calling on the oil tankers to carry her away to France.",
"She loved languages, most of all French.",
"Ahmad recalled her daughter wanting always to be a journalist, but, discouraged by the lack of press freedoms under Gadhafi, she opted instead to study law in Tripoli and make a better life.",
"She was living with her sister when she was, as she claimed, held against her will for two days, beaten and raped.",
"Ahmad said she believes her daughter's every word, despite attempts by the Gadhafi regime to discredit her.",
"The Libyan government first said al-Obeidy was mentally ill and drunk.",
"They called her a prostitute.",
"Later, it changed its story and said al-Obeidy was sane enough to withstand legal proceedings.",
"Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said the men accused of raping al-Obeidy are being investigated, but the suspects, in turn, have filed counter-charges for slander.",
"The attempt to discredit al-Obeidy as a promiscuous, un-Islamic woman ties into the idea of sexual shaming in a conservative Muslim society where it's commonly believed that a woman who has been raped has lost her honor, said Mona Eltahawy, a columnist on Arab and Muslim issues.",
"For a woman in such a society to come forward to claim she has been raped is no small thing.",
"\"No one would do that unless they were raped, and especially in a conservative society,\" Eltawhy told CNN.",
"Al-Obeidy's act ended up being as significant as the discontented fruit vendor in Tunisia who set himself afire and sparked revolt in the entire region, Eltawhy said.",
"The way al-Obeidy spoke out was unprecedented and she has already been hailed a hero on social networking sites.",
"Ahmad said she received a call Sunday from a man who offered her a bribe to reject al-Obeidy's claims and persuade her daughter to change her tale.",
"Ahmad refused.",
"She stands by her daughter, she said.",
"So does her entire family and tribe.",
"To show their support, the family held an in-absentia engagement ceremony for al-Obeidy at a mosque in Tobruk Monday.",
"No one here thinks she has lost her honor.",
"The government said al-Obeidy was freed but she has not been seen publicly since she was dragged away by security men and bundled into a waiting white car outside the Rixos Hotel Saturday.",
"Ahmad has not heard from her daughter and challenged Gadhafi to air video of her on state television as proof of her well-being.",
"Ahmad said she was also worried about her other daughter.",
"No one has apparently seen her either since Saturday.",
"A group of lawyers and human rights activists tried to approach al-Obeidy's sister's house Monday, but were blocked by security forces.",
"The sister's mobile phone has apparently been turned off, a source with the opposition in Tripoli told CNN.",
"Al-Obeidy's story raced around the world after she stormed into the Rixos Hotel as international journalists were having breakfast Saturday morning.",
"Her face was bruised.",
"So were her legs. She showed reporters blood on her right inner thigh.",
"She said she had been held against her will for two days and raped by 15 men.",
"Her visible injuries appeared to support her claims, but CNN could not independently verify al-Obeidy's story.",
"\"Look at what Gadhafi's brigades did to me,\" she said.",
"\"My honor was violated by them.\"",
"Al-Obeidy displayed what appeared to be rope burns on her wrists and ankles.",
"Government officials tried to subdue her, but she persisted.",
"Even a member of the hotel's kitchen staff drew a knife.",
"\"Traitor!\" he shouted. Another staffer tried to throw a dark tablecloth over her head.",
"One government official, who was there to facilitate access for journalists, pulled a pistol from his belt.",
"Others scuffled with reporters and wrestled them to the ground in an attempt to take away their equipment.",
"Some journalists were beaten and kicked.",
"CNN's camera was confiscated and smashed beyond repair.",
"As security forces dragged her away, al-Obeidy warned: \"If you don't see me tomorrow, then that's it.\"",
"Ahmad said she has not been able to stop crying.",
"She hasn't slept or eaten.",
"She sees only her daughter's distress shared so publicly at a pivotal moment of her nation's history.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson and Khalil Abdallah contributed to this report ."
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"Denver, Colorado (CNN) -- A charter flight carrying family members of U.S. military service members serving in Japan landed Thursday on U.S. soil in Denver.",
"The flight contained 144 people who voluntarily left Japan in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami and ongoing concerns about the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant.",
"Weary from a 14-hour journey, the families and 18 pets filed into a hangar converted into a welcome center.",
"Representatives from all four branches of the military and Red Cross volunteers were on hand to give them food and water and help get them to their final destinations around the country.",
"About half of the passengers were children who immediately set about playing in a dragon-shaped \"moonbounce\" and by tossing footballs around with the service members on hand to help.",
"One of the parents was Airman 1st Class Megan Pencook of the Air Force, clutching her 5-week-old son, Adrian.",
"Pencook is stationed at Yokota Air base near Tokyo.",
"She was holding her son when the earthquake hit.",
"\"I felt huge shaking.",
"I was feeding my son and just holding him to me and trying to remember what earthquake safety was.",
"I was shaking so bad,\" Pencook said.",
"\"It was the scariest experience of my life.\"",
"The child¹s father is an Air Force airman serving in Korea.",
"He wanted them to leave riight after the earthquake, but Pencook wanted to stay in Japan, a country she has grown to love.",
"\"Then I heard of radiation positioning in the water in Tokyo and I said, 'It's time to go,\" she said.",
"When she landed in Denver there were service members on hand to help her with Adrian and make sure she had whatever she might need.",
"\"It feels so good to know that in a crisis, your military family is there for you,\" she said.",
"The chartered Delta jet first touched down in Seattle where all aboard were screened for radiation.",
"\"Every international flight is monitored and there have been no significant amounts of radiation,\" said Army Col. Marc Hutson.",
"As the afternoon wore on, the hangar resembled a children's birthday party as much as a military operation.",
"Footballs flying, moon-bouncers bouncing and dogs chasing each other.",
"Hutson took in the scene with a smile.",
"\"It's awesome. These are our families; this could be my family coming back.",
"Morale is high,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- A brutal, fatal case of suspected cruelty to animals is under investigation in Louisiana, the state's wildlife department said in a press release Tuesday.",
"The animal cruelty doesn't involve the typical household pet.",
"This time, the United States' national bird was victimized.",
"Agents from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries found a beheaded bald eagle Sunday in a drainage ditch in Franklin Parish, in the northeastern part of the state, according to the release.",
"\"To see any protected animal decapitated in a ditch is disheartening enough, let alone the animal that represents our symbol of freedom,\" said Capt.",
"Alan Bankston of the wildlife department.",
"The agents believe the bird had been dead for a couple of days before it was found.",
"Wildlife and Fisheries spokesman Adam Einck said the eagle was found in a very remote location, and agents are unsure if the bird was killed there, or slain somewhere else and dumped there.",
"Agents are trying to schedule a necropsy to determine how the eagle died, Einck said.",
"Bald eagles are protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.",
"Anyone who is convicted of violating those acts could be fined $5,000 and jailed for up to 18 months for each count, the state wildlife department said.",
"Bankston urged the public to call the department with any information about the beheading.",
"Anyone providing information leading to an arrest or conviction would be eligible for up to $2,000 in cash rewards.",
"The agency's hotline number is 1-800-442-2511."
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"Djerba, Tunisia (CNN) -- The evacuation of the tens of thousands of refugees who have streamed across the Libyan border to Tunisia has stepped up dramatically.",
"Tunisian authorities have established an air bridge from a provincial airport on the island of Djerba that is now moving out thousands of migrants a day.",
"\"We are expecting 10,000 passengers to leave every day with 66 movements, that's to say 66 planes,\" said Djerba airport director Zouhaier Badreddine told CNN.",
"\"The majority go to Egypt.",
"But there are also Chinese, Pakistanis, Filipinos, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese, Turks in the beginning but now they all seem to have left.",
"There are many nationalities and many destinations.\"",
"As of Thursday, more than 172,000 people had left Libya, most of them migrant workers returning home, the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator, Valerie Amos, said in a statement issued Friday.",
"Among them were women and children, she said.",
"The United Nations' figure was slightly less than that of the International Organization for Migration, which has been working with the U.N. refugee agency and estimated that 200,000 people had fled Libya.",
"Some of those crossing the border told CNN that government forces in Tripoli had confiscated their mobile phones and cameras.",
"A majority of those fleeing are Egyptians who had been working in Libya.",
"But the foreign workers also include citizens of other nations including Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Sudan, Ghana and Mali.",
"A U.S. Agency for International Development official said approximately 90,000 people were in transit camps over the Libyan border in Tunisia.",
"Almost half of them are Egyptian, said the official, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak on the record.",
"Closer to the Egyptian border, in the eastern city of Benghazi, about 8,000 foreigners awaited evacuation.",
"They included Eritreans, Ethiopians and Somalis, according to the refugee agency.",
"\"They appear to have gathered spontaneously and are camping together for security as they await,\" refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said in a statement.",
"She said most of those people will be evacuated within two days.",
"Another 110,000 people inside Libya have been affected by the crisis, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday.",
"It appealed for $26 million to help those inside the country and those in Tunisia.",
"The agency said it will use the money for food, water, medical care, sanitation and hygiene items.",
"As the violence has escalated in the past few days, U.S. military aircraft and French charter jets have scrambled to evacuate tens of thousands from the north African nation.",
"In Washington, President Barack Obama said he has approved the use of U.S. military aircraft to help Egyptians who have fled the unrest to return home.",
"He said he authorized the U.S. Agency for International Development to charter additional planes.",
"\"Tens of thousands of people from many different countries are fleeing Libya, and we commend the governments of Tunisia and Egypt for their response, even as they go through their own political transitions,\" Obama said.",
"The Pentagon announced that two planes carrying humanitarian supplies were being dispatched Friday to Tunisia in what has been dubbed Operation Odyssey Dawn; the planes were carrying blankets, rolls of sheeting and water cans.",
"CNN learned that a C-130 cargo plane labeled with a U.S. flag landed in Tunisia.",
"Badreddine stood in the departure hall of an airport that normally welcomes sun-hungry European tourists traveling to the wind-swept beaches of Djerba's Mediterranean coast.",
"Instead, the hall was filled with hundreds of tired and dirty migrant workers.",
"Some camped out on the floor on blankets.",
"Others stood in orderly lines in front of a booth normally reserved for car rental companies and money exchange, which instead held Tunisian volunteers distributing sandwiches, fruit and water to the arrivals.",
"\"Of the 50,000 refugees who have come through here\" since the crisis began, Badreddine said, \"everybody has been given shelter and food at the airport.\"",
"The conditions at the airport were dramatically better than the scene that awaited many migrants immediately after entering Tunisia from Libya.",
"On Thursday, more than 5,000 Bangladeshi men were camped out in a vacant lot next to the border gate, huddled under blankets next to a fetid pond of muddy water as howling winds whipped dust through the compound.",
"Tunisian authorities and volunteers distributed food and water.",
"A tent city that serves as a transit center was erected this week some 10 kilometers from the border.",
"But the camp can hold only some 15,000 people -- that's how many people are estimated to have arrived in a single day and not near enough to accommodate all those in need.",
"Still, conditions have improved dramatically since Wednesday, when Libyan authorities began regulating the flow of refugees across the border.",
"Instead of allowing them to mass by the thousands in front of the Tunisian border gate, refugees must now approach the border with Tunisia in orderly groups in single file.",
"The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that the number of civilians fleeing the violence in Libya to Tunisia \"has dropped significantly since Wednesday afternoon,\" with armed, pro-government forces manning the Libyan side.",
"Compared with earlier in the week, when 10,000 to 15,000 people were crossing daily into Tunisia, fewer than 2,000 made it across on Thursday and about the same number did so on Friday, the agency said.",
"The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said it was \"very concerned that the security situation in Libya may be preventing people from fleeing.\"",
"The Libyan government appeared eager to show off the orderly border.",
"Officials bused in a group of foreign journalists from Tripoli Thursday afternoon as part of a guided tour of the frontier region.",
"But, upon their arrival in Egypt, dozens of refugees have said they had been robbed at Libyan checkpoints.",
"Many said that, as they sought to get out of Libya, they were stopped and searched by Libyan security forces who confiscated their cell phones and computers.",
"Many refugees also accused Libyan police and soldiers of having robbed them at gunpoint.",
"\"I have no passport, only a passport photocopy,\" said Mohammed Shafiq al Islam.",
"The 29-year-old man sat on the floor of the airport with more than 100 Bangladeshis -- all of them awaiting a flight home.",
"He wore a uniform labeled \"Hanil,\" the name of the supply company that paid him $250 a month to work in Libya.",
"\"The Libyan people take my money and passport and all the time say 'I will kill you, I will kill you,'\" al Islam said, speaking in broken English.",
"\"I am run away (for) my life.\"",
"Like many Bangladeshi migrant workers, al Islam had borrowed some $4,000 to pay employment agencies to give him a job in Libya.",
"Upon their arrival in Libya, many migrant workers were forced to hand over their passports to their employers.",
"Human rights groups have denounced such practices, arguing they amount to little more than indentured servitude.",
"The flight back to Bangladesh for al Islam and his fellow migrants will be free, but he and many of his fellow Bangladeshis face crushing debts.",
"\"We are very helpless now; we are beggars now,\" al Islam said.",
"Djerba airport officials said 25 flights were scheduled to take off Friday for Cairo.",
"The French government has helped with the Egyptian airlift by chartering several passenger planes to Cairo.",
"A number of charter flights are scheduled as well to India, Jordan, China, Vietnam and Dubai."
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"\"We are helpless now\"\nU.N. estimates 172,000 people have fled Libya .",
"Most of them are migrants returning home .",
"10,000 are expected to leave daily, a Tunisian airport official says ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Predawn gunfire and clashes from a violent military crackdown on protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday left Egyptians feeling shocked, confused and angered in the hours that followed.",
"Long bursts of machine-gun fire erupted overnight starting around 3 a.m., when scores of soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers launched a raid on the square.",
"Amateur video posted on YouTube showed troops storming the square's central roundabout amid rattling gunfire.",
"Hundreds of protesters -- calling for Egypt's ruling military council to prosecute former president, Hosni Mubarak -- fled the scene as clouds of tear gas billowed through central Cairo.",
"Among them were at least four wounded and bleeding men.",
"Protesters tried to stop an ambulance from leaving the square.",
"Two badly beaten men in military uniform were lying in the back of the vehicle.",
"It is not clear whether or not they were troops engaged in the crackdown -- or whether they were some of the 15 uniformed army officers and soldiers who defied direct orders by joining a protest of tens of thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square on Friday.",
"By morning, security forces withdrew from the square, leaving behind spent bullet casings and in one place, a pool of blood.",
"Egyptian military confirmed that one person died from a gunshot wound overnight and that 42 people were detained, including three foreigners.",
"\"It was a disaster,\" said protester Shadi Essam.",
"\"The army attacked us in coordination with the police.\"",
"Essam said activists tried to help the dissenting military personnel to escape the crackdown by dressing four of them as civilians.",
"Gen. Adel Amara, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, said security personnel did not attack the protesters.",
"\"Because of the pushing and clashes between the armed forces -- who I assure you had no weapons whatsoever -- because of clashes and pushing and shoving and you can imagine how a big group of protesters and soldiers could get some bruises in the pushing and shoving.",
"Four from the armed forces (who joined the protesters) have some bruises plus nine civilian protesters,\" he said.",
"Tensions mounted between demonstrators and the military hours before the raid.",
"Late Friday, activists were seen confronting two military officers who tried to approach the square's central traffic circle.",
"Demonstrators shoved the officers, knocking their hats off their heads, and then pursued them as they fled the square.",
"By daybreak, the military had withdrawn from Tahrir.",
"Lines of barbed wire and several burned-out trucks blocked vehicle traffic from entering the area.",
"The clashes came a day after large crowds of protesters amassed at Tahrir Square, many of them angry with Egypt's new military rulers.",
"After Mubarak's ouster in February, the military took control -- riding a wave of popularity for refusing to fire on pro-democracy protesters during 18 days of anti-government protests.",
"But in the weeks since, the secretive 20-man council has produced increasing frustration and criticism from different portions of the Egyptian political spectrum.",
"Critics have complained of human rights abuses and lack of transparency in the council's decision-making process.",
"On Friday, some soldiers joined the protests in a direct challenge to Egypt's military rulers.",
"For long intervals, they took to one of the stages erected in the crowded square and called for the country's military rulers to be replaced.",
"\"If they really wanted to prosecute these corrupt officials they would have done it immediately.",
"That's why we are here today,\" one of the protesting officers said during the Friday protests.",
"Earlier this week, several military officers took to the Internet, recording video statements accusing the chairman of the ruling council, Field Marshal Mohammed Tantawi, of protecting Mubarak from prosecution and of leading a counterrevolutionary movement.",
"\"He should step down. He makes stupid moves.",
"He did not learn from the mistakes of the last 60 years.",
"Military should not run countries,\" said Mohamed Ibrahim Garib, who makes a living importing and exporting clothing, on Saturday.",
"Tempers flared at one point between soldiers and citizens outside the gates of the Egyptian Museum, which has been used in past months as a detainment center by the Egyptian military.",
"An officer fired shots in the air, prompting angry youths to mob the gates and hurl stones into the museum compound.",
"After several minutes, the confrontation subsided.",
"The military issued a communique Saturday morning, accusing a former member of Hosni Mubarak's long-ruling National Democratic Party of \"inciting people in Tahrir.\"",
"The military announced it had issued arrest warrants for NDP member Ibrahim Kamel and several of his associates, after accusing them of being \"present in Tahrir Square after curfew as thugs and scaring the citizens.\"",
"In scenes reminiscent of street protests last January and February, activists have once again blocked entry into Tahrir, using coils of barbed wire apparently left behind by the military.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report ."
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"Military launches predawn raid on Tahrir protesters .",
"The demonstrators are seeking the prosecution of former President Hosni Mubarak .",
"They are also unhappy with the military's secretive 20-man council ."
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"(CNN) -- The first woman to be president of Kosovo took office Thursday after being elected by the Kosovo Assembly in a special session.",
"Atifete Jahjaga, 35, is the former deputy general director of Kosovo police.",
"She received 80 votes in the 120-member Assembly.",
"Her election follows a ruling by the constitutional court that the process leading to the election of businessman Behgjet Pacolli as president on February 22 was unconstitutional.",
"Opposition members boycotted the session, leaving fewer lawmakers than required by law, it said.",
"The opposition threatened to repeat the boycott if Pacolli ran again.",
"Jahjaga, who has no political background and is a relative unknown among the Kosovo public, came up as a compromise candidate only Wednesday night in a meeting that included Pacolli, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and the leader of the main opposition party, Isa Mustafa.",
"The U.S. ambassador to Kosovo, Christopher Dell, took part as a mediator.",
"At a news conference Wednesday night, Thaci said a memorandum of agreement reached in the meeting calls for formation of a committee to alter the constitution so that the president would be directly elected by the people.",
"It says a presidential election is to be held six to nine months after the constitutional change takes effect.",
"The agreement also calls for forming a committee to amend election law in time for parliamentary and local elections in 2013.",
"Former President Pacolli's decision to withdraw as a candidate played an important part in ending the crisis, Thaci, Mustafa and Dell said Wednesday night."
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"Atifete Jahjaga, a relative unknown, was selected as a compromise candidate .",
"The election of a president in February had been ruled unconstitutional .",
"The constitution is to be amended to allow popular election of the president ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Six Kenyan political leaders who are accused of crimes against humanity following the country's disputed 2007 elections will make their first appearance Thursday before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.",
"The court's top prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, named the six as suspects in December, claiming they organized violence that left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands more.",
"The suspects are Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura, former national police chief Hussein Ali, former Agriculture Minister William Ruto, radio journalist Joshua Arap Sang and opposition leader Henry Kosgey.",
"Three are from one side of the political dispute, and three are from the other.",
"Last month, Kenya challenged the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, saying its own authorities will investigate and prosecute the cases on Kenyan soil.",
"The Netherlands-based court calls itself, on its website, as \"an independent international organization ... established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community.\"",
"Kenya's disputed presidential election sparked chaos that escalated into ethnic violence pitting supporters of incumbent President Mwai Kibaki against those of challenger Raila Odinga, who was later named prime minister in a power-sharing agreement.",
"Muthaura, Kenyatta and Ali are accused of committing or contributing to the killing, rape and other acts of violence against supporters of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement.",
"Ruto, Sang and Kosgey are accused of being co-perpetrators in the murder, deportation and commission of other offenses against supporters of Kenya's Party of National Unity."
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"The six are accused of organizing violence that left more than 1,000 dead .",
"The violence pitted supporters of two political parties following a disputed election .",
"Kenya has challenged the jurisdiction of the Netherlands-based court ."
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"New York (CNN) -- An average of $32 million a day in national parks revenue could be shut off if the Beltway showdown results in a government shutdown, officials say.",
"The measure would be the first shutdown in more than 15 years, shuttering national parks, seashores and historic sites, and barring some 800,000 daily visitors, according to David Barna, a spokesman for the National Parks Service.",
"Places such as Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona would be closed as a result of the impasse.",
"Tourist draws such as the Smithsonian National Museums in Washington would be locked and parades such as the National Cherry Blossom Festival could be called off, though organizers have pledged to hold a short parade despite the outcome.",
"That festival draws roughly 1 million visitors each year.",
"Congressional lawmakers have been scrambling to negotiate a spending bill set to expire Friday, worrying those reliant on park tourism cash.",
"\"These parks are the economic engines of some communities,\" said Barna.",
"\"They're often the largest employer in an area,\" referencing a network of restaurants, shops and hotels that often surround historic sites.",
"No budget deal as shutdown looms .",
"Barna, who says he remembers the last shutdown in 1995, says the potential loss of revenue could stymie local businesses.",
"\"The biggest difference from '95 may be the affect on our website,\" he said.",
"The National Parks Service website tallies roughly 1 million daily hits, catering to would-be travelers and inquisitive students of history.",
"\"It's the most popular website in the federal government,\" Barna said.",
"As part of the agency's contingency measures, it plans to post an out-of-service notice in place of the website.",
"Meanwhile, some 17,000 park service employees would be furloughed, with an additional 15,000 private contract workers also forced at least temporarily out of work.",
"The impasse's affect on tourism is perhaps most visible in Charleston, South Carolina, where Civil War re-enactors are descending.",
"Podcast: What happens in a shutdown?",
"For years, Charleston has been planning the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.",
"There, at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, Confederate artillery opened fire on Union positions on April 12, 1861, igniting a bloody conflict that would last for the next fours years.",
"The Tuesday re-enactment of the bombardment is expected to take place regardless of the shutdown, with the firing of guns to take place outside federal land.",
"But the hundreds of blue- or gray-clad re-enactors who planned to camp at the historic fort will find it locked in the event of a shutdown.",
"Money: The price of a shutdown .",
"\"We were expecting 2,000 visitors a day from now until Easter,\" said Fort Sumter Tours owner Rick Mosteller, whose company ferries boatloads of Civil War buffs out to the historic fort.",
"The effects, however, are also anticipated beyond Charleston Harbor.",
"\"This is a tourist town,\" said city resident Robert Mikell.",
"\"A lot of businesses here rely on these national sites.\"",
"Farther to the north on Liberty Island in New York, the possible shutdown had already skewed the plans of some travelers.",
"What would be shut down?",
"\"We started scheduling this week's vacation about four weeks ago,\" said Michigan resident Case Vaandering, who toured the Statue of Liberty on Thursday with his wife, Rochelle.",
"The pair said they had changed their route to visit the Smithsonian museums in Washington before venturing up to New York, fearful that a shutdown would block their favored Washington sites and museums.",
"\"We thought the parks weren't going to open for us when we got here,\" Vaandering said.",
"iReport: Looming government shutdown .",
"Others remain more hopeful.",
"Kendra Barkoff, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of the Interior, said, \"We still believe that there is the opportunity for Congress to avoid a government shutdown.\"",
"But the agency, like others around Washington, is also preparing \"for all possible scenarios,\" she said.",
"In the event of a shutdown, all visitors and nonessential employees at national parks and historic sites would be given 48 hours to leave."
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"Places such as Yellowstone National Park would be closed as a result of the impasse .",
"Shutdown could crimp plans in South Carolina for 150th anniversary of Civil War start ."
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"Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- A mutiny led by members of the Sudanese Armed Forces' Joint Integrated Units along the north/south border in Sudan has left up to 50 dead, officials said Monday.",
"Fighting broke on Thursday in the city of Malakal near the airport when south Sudanese soldiers loyal to Gabriel Tang, a southern Sudanese militia leader who fought in a 22-year-old civil war alongside the Khartoum government, refused to turn in their weapons.",
"An agreement to end the war, which pitted the Arab-Muslim-dominated government of north Sudan against the predominantly Christian and animist south, was signed in 2005.",
"The Joint Integrated Units are a coordinated military force consisting of the northern Sudanese Armed Forces and the southern Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army.",
"Tang's forces had been merged into the units along with SAF.",
"\"The redeployment of Joint Integrated Units was scheduled to take place starting February 1 in accordance with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,\" said Maj. Gen. Ahmad al-No, spokesperson for the Joint Defense Council, which oversees security and military arrangements between northern and southern Sudan.",
"\"Tang fled SAF nearly a month ago and is somewhere around Malakal,\" al-No said.",
"Southern Sudanese voted last month in a referendum on whether to remain part of a united Sudan or go independent, with final results to be announced on Monday.",
"Preliminary results show an overwhelming vote in favor of independence.",
"Official independence would be declared in July this year.",
"During the civil war, a number of southern militias loyal to Khartoum fought against the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), the rebel group that fought Khartoum and currently governs the south.",
"Noting that it appears Tang is now in opposition to both Sudan's military and the southern separatists, al-No told CNN, \"I am concerned that he may have and affect on the security in the region.\""
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"Soldiers loyal to militia leader Gabriel Tang refused to turn in their weapons .",
"Tang had fought alongside government and loyalist forces in southern Sudan .",
"Southern Sudanese voted last month on a referendum for independence ."
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"(CNN) -- A year ago, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history began on April 20 -- which, ironically, also marked Earth Day.",
"The catastrophe started with a massive explosion on an offshore oil drilling rig that killed 11 workers and sparked a huge fire that eventually sank the rig.",
"More than 200 million gallons of crude oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over the next five months, killing thousands of marine animals and affecting thousands of people in the fishing industry -- already struggling in the economic downturn.",
"CNN's full coverage of the Gulf oil disaster .",
"The exact toll on the Gulf's ecosystem is still as murky as the ocean waters affected by the disaster.",
"This year, as Earth Day approaches, tragedy and uncertainty may once again temper the mood of the annual event: Japan is still assessing what could be its worst environmental disaster -- the damage to its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.",
"The situation has forced other countries, including the United States, to take a closer look at the safety of nuclear power plants within their borders.",
"The nuclear issue is still a fierce topic of debate, and environmental experts think it will be an important theme for this year's Earth Day on April 22.",
"Recent polls suggest that Americans are divided over nuclear energy.",
"More than half of the 1,012 respondents in a recent CNN poll said they opposed building more nuclear plants, while 46% said they favored it.",
"When asked by CNN if they are OK with nuclear energy as a source of electricity, 57% of the respondents said they approved, while 42% disapproved.",
"Despite the crisis in Japan, nuclear energy is still a centerpiece of President Obama's clean energy policy.",
"His administration's fiscal year 2012 budget request includes $36 billion in loan guarantee authority to help spur growth in the nuclear industry.",
"Energy secretary defends U.S. nuclear industry .",
"Nuclear energy produces practically no pollution, and it is more reliable than other clean alternative sources -- like wind and solar energy -- that depend on the weather, according to nuclear power advocate Burton Richter, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.",
"While nuclear is his favorite clean energy source, there are other ways to create electricity that Richter believes can help achieve a reduction in greenhouse gases.",
"Two years ago, Richter and 34 other Nobel laureates wrote a letter to Obama to encourage him to put more money into alternative energy research, including nuclear, wind and solar energy and renewable fuels.",
"Richter, who also teaches at Stanford University, says the American public needs to pay close attention to how Congress is handling environmental issues.",
"He is worried that too many people in Washington are more concerned about politics than the environment.",
"\"We're not going to see a fee on carbon emissions, we're not going to see cap and trade, we're going to see a fight to see whether the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] is going to be able to regulate anything,\" he predicted.",
"\"It's not going to be a pretty year.\"",
"Richter encouraged everyone to use this year's Earth Day to speak out about the environmental issues that they care about.",
"\"They should be thinking about their grandchildren and the world that those children are going to get left with,\" he said.",
"\"People need to let their government know, let their representatives know, that they are very concerned about this issue and they are going to hold their representatives accountable for their actions.\"",
"Besides being a call to action, Earth Day also continues to be a good opportunity for public education, he said.",
"On April 22, Richter says he'll probably be speaking on campus about nuclear power, because Stanford students are interested in what happened in Japan and want to be assured that nuclear power is safe.",
"Michael Vandenbergh, director of the Climate Change Research Network, says he hopes nuclear concerns don't overshadow other pressing environmental issues that Americans should remember as Earth Day approaches.",
"\"We have to continue to discuss climate change, because if we get that problem wrong, many of the other things we talk about in the environmental area won't matter,\" said Vandenbergh, who also teaches at Vanderbilt University Law School.",
"Both professors were encouraged to see that their students -- although probably not as politically outspoken as their counterparts when Earth Day began in 1970 -- are anxious to learn as much as they can about being environmentally friendly.",
"Everyone should realize the importance of doing his or her part to help improve the environment for future generations, Vandenbergh said.",
"\"Sometimes, people focus on the upfront cost rather than on the net benefit,\" Vandenbergh said, referring to the price of more efficient cars, home weatherization products or new heating and cooling units for our houses.",
"\"Individuals have a much larger role than they realize in both contributing to environmental problems and to the solutions.\""
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"Earth Day will be held on April 22 .",
"A year ago, the environmental community was concerned about the Gulf oil spill .",
"The issue of nuclear power is top of mind this year after the crisis in Japan .",
"Experts say individuals can effect change in themselves, government ."
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"(CNN) -- Amanda Garcia's peaceful life in Saltillo, Mexico, was shaken this past March when she witnessed a military convoy heading at full speed and against traffic on one of the city's important avenues.",
"The lawyer had taken an alternate route to get home sooner and be with her 7-year-old son.",
"It had been a difficult day in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila state: Seven people had been killed and four police officers were injured in a series of firefights that caused alarm throughout the city, the state attorney general's office said.",
"A few yards from reaching her home, she was stopped at a military checkpoint.",
"\"When I parked I saw at least six soldiers in front of my car, getting out of their vehicle and aiming at me, asking me to get out.",
"One came close to my door and I heard a sound I had never heard before, apparently of a weapon when you take the safety off.",
"Few times in my life had I felt so scared,\" she said.",
"After an inspection, the soldiers told Amanda that they were looking for a vehicle similar to hers and that she was free to return home.",
"\"Usually, the presence of the army does not make me nervous at all, to the contrary.",
"But that day, I really thought they were going to shoot at me,\" she said.",
"\"I've never seen the city so empty.\"",
"Two days later, a soldier died and another was injured in a confrontation with suspected drug traffickers, after four cartel roadblocks were reported in various parts of the city, according to the attorney general's office.",
"Saltillo, with some 700,000 residents, is a colonial city that until recently was known for its auto industry -- General Motors, Chrysler and Freightliner have plants there -- and construction.",
"However, the situation has changed progressively until the city has reached notoriety for other reasons.",
"According to a report from intelligence company Stratfor, the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels formed the New Federation, an alliance combating the Zetas cartel, and launched an offensive to control the trafficking routes in Mexico's northeast.",
"\"There were pacts here, and now those pacts are broken and a battle has begun between various criminal groups for this territory.",
"This is evident,\" said Raul Vera, the Catholic bishop of Saltillo.",
"The Coahuila attorney general's office declined to let any of its officials be interviewed to give their version of escalating violence in the region.",
"\"This was something that has been coming for a while, not only the dispute for control of the territory for the routes, but also for control of the population, through terror, (and) control of the economy,\" said Blanca Martinez, director of the Fray Juan de Larios Human Rights Center.",
"In the four years of Felipe Calderon's term so far, more than 34,612 drug-related killings have been recorded in Mexico, of which 659 happened in northern Coahuila, according to the federal government.",
"Of these, a little more than 3% occurred in Saltillo.",
"Like neighboring states Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, all on the U.S. border, Coahuila has seen peaks in violence associated with the capture or killing of important trafficking leaders who had influence in the region.",
"\"The people in the city are afraid.",
"It can be felt in the streets, homes, with friends.",
"All the conversations are about security now,\" said Jorge Muniz, a young graphic designer who lives in the city.",
"The day after the confrontation between security forces and the presumed drug traffickers, a rumor surged on social media that there would be a curfew in Saltillo, something that was denied by Gov.",
"Jorge Torres Lopez.",
"\"Even then the city took its precautions and that false curfew turned into a real curfew,\" Muniz said.",
"\"The city was deserted from five in the afternoon.",
"There were few people in the streets, and after seven at night, it looked like a ghost town, shops closed, with little traffic.\"",
"He added, \"I think this is just the beginning of the violent acts.",
"Other nearby cities, like Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon, also started like this and now are cities where they live a climate of strong violence.\"",
"Another indicator of the growing insecurity in Saltillo and the rest of Coahuila is the increase in the number of disappearances in the past two years, the majority believed to be linked to organized crime.",
"From 2007 to January 2011, the Fray Juan de Larios Human Rights Center, in coordination with United for Our Disappeared of Coahuila, documented 118 disappearances, of which 91 presumably were related to organized crime, according to a report by the organization.",
"The report indicates that the average age of the victims is 30, the majority are men, and five of them were minors at the time of their disappearance.",
"Five others were women.",
"Only one out of the 118 cases has evidence that the objective of the disappearance was kidnapping.",
"There was never a request for ransom from the others.",
"Another characteristic of the disappearances in Coahuila is that they happen in groups.",
"Only 17 of the victims disappeared individually, and in 23 cases it is alleged that there was involvement by police or the military, the organizations reported.",
"The state attorney general's office declined to comment on the disappearances.",
"Saltillo could be considered a refuge for the Zetas, the U.S. consul in Monterrey, Bruce Williamson, said in February 2010 in a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks.",
"The cable is full of doubt about the effectiveness of the Mexican military in the fight against organized crime.",
"In another cable from 2009, the consul writes that the security model implemented in Coahuila by then-Gov.",
"Humberto Moreira was inadequate, and described them as \"baby steps.\""
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"Two cartels have united to fight a third in the area, an intelligence firm says .",
"More than 100 disappearances have been reported in recent years ."
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"St. Paul, Minnesota (CNN) -- The long, complicated legal road for NFL players and owners kicked off in a federal courtroom Wednesday, as both sides made their case for and against lifting a lockout that could delay the start of the football season.",
"At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge Susan Richard Nelson said she expected to make a decision in a couple of weeks.",
"The lockout is the result of an ongoing dispute between the NFL owners and the players who failed to reach a collective-bargaining agreement last month.",
"Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and seven other players have filed a lawsuit on behalf of other current and eligible NFL players against the league to halt the lockout, which could affect the start of the 2011-12 season scheduled for September 8.",
"What to expect from Brady v. NFL .",
"They want a preliminary injunction to block the lockout.",
"The players also want a future trial to determine if the NFL lockout is in violation of federal antitrust laws.",
"In his opening statement to the judge, the players' attorney James Quinn stressed the players face \"irreparable harm\" to their careers, income and health, if a preliminary injunction is not granted.",
"NFL attorney David Boies disagreed with that position.",
"\"They say there is irreparable harm, we say there is not,\" Boies told the judge.",
"\"There are numerous factual disagreements between the parties.\"",
"Nelson asked several times whether an evidentiary hearing is necessary to resolve the factual disputes.",
"But Quinn said, among other things, that would only \"delay\" this process.",
"The players present in the courtroom were Vincent Jackson of the San Diego Chargers, Ben Leber and Brian Robison of the Minnesota Vikings, Mike Vrabel of the Kansas City Chiefs, draft-eligible Texas A&M linebacker Von Miller and retired NFL player Carl Eller.",
"On Monday, Nelson agreed to combine Brady v. National Football League with another class-action lawsuit, Eller v. NFL, filed in March by a group primarily made up of retired NFL players.",
"That second lawsuit is \"potentially more threatening\" because the plaintiffs in Eller v. NFL are not bargaining members of the NFL's players union, the National Football League Players Association, or NFLPA, and the NFL cannot argue that they engaged in bad faith during collective-bargaining discussions, according to SI.com's legal analyst Michael McCann.",
"\"The NFLPA may be removed from the picture in Eller v. NFL, a point which would take away a key defense the NFL enjoys in Brady v. NFL,\" McCann said.",
"Last month, negotiations between the NFL and players union aimed at preventing a work stoppage broke down.",
"The union decertified itself.",
"By giving up their collective-bargaining rights, the players could file individual antitrust suits against the league and the owners.",
"That move set the stage for a lengthy legal battle with owners.",
"At the time, the NFL accused the union of walking away from \"a very good deal on the table.\"",
"If the players are locked out from playing in September, it would be the first NFL work stoppage since 1987, with months of labor and legal maneuvering for football fans already confused about how a $9 billion industry lacks enough money to satisfy everyone.",
"NFL prepares players for lockout .",
"The heart of the issue between the players and the owners is how to divide the league's $9 billion in revenue.",
"Right now, NFL owners take $1 billion off the top of that revenue stream.",
"After that, the players get about 60%.",
"The owners say that the current labor deal doesn't take into account the rising costs related to building stadiums and promoting the game.",
"The players argue that the league has not sufficiently opened up its books to prove this point.",
"In addition, the owners also want to increase the season by two games, which some players are against because of the risk of injuries.",
"While star players earn millions of dollars each year, the median NFL salary is $790,000 and the average career lasts about four years.",
"A lockout also affects the league's employees: the receptionists, ticket salespeople and stadium workers.",
"The New York Jets have announced that they will require all business-side employees to take a one-week unpaid leave each month during any lockout.",
"Poll: Who do you think is to blame?",
"The lockout will not stop the NFL Draft, which will proceed as scheduled on April 28-30, the league said.",
"All other regular off-season activity would cease, threatening to delay or cancel the start of the new season.",
"The teams might approach the draft a bit differently in the midst of a lockout, according to Steve Politi, a sports columnist for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey.",
"\"Teams might (pick) based on needs rather than the best players available, because who knows when they'll be able to address those needs on the free-agent market,\" Politi said.",
"It is possible for the NFL season to go forward with replacement players, but analyst McCann said that is not likely: .",
"\"Practical and legal hurdles would make doing so extremely unlikely,\" he said.",
"But it's still a possibility.",
"\"The NFL might argue that if NFL players won't accept the league's best CBA (collective-bargaining agreement) offer, the league has no choice but to resume games with other players who are willing to play,\" he added.",
"CNN's Tricia Escobedo reported from Atlanta, and Chris Welch reported from St. Paul."
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"NEW: Judge says she will make a decision in a couple of weeks .",
"The lockout would affect the start of the next season ."
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"(CNN) -- A blogger who endured a four-year stint in an Egyptian prison for his writings has been released, saying he was jailed for defying convention.",
"Abdel Kareem Nabil -- known by his blogger name, Kareem Amer -- is a self-proclaimed secularist who was convicted and imprisoned by Egypt for \"spreading information disruptive of public order and damaging to the country's reputation,\" \"incitement to hate Islam\" and \"defaming the president of the republic,\" according to a statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists.",
"The former law student at Cairo's Al-Azhar University is a critic of conservative Muslims and has accused his school of promoting extremist ideas, calling Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak a \"dictator,\" it said.",
"Nabil was released from prison November 16.",
"The now famous blogger said he was jailed because he challenged tradition.",
"\"There are things we inherit without even thinking about them,\" Nabil said.",
"\"I tried to change my way of thinking.",
"\"I tried to read what was forbidden in our house, things written by people who in my home and in religious institutions are considered infidels.\"",
"Nabil had at times been kept in solitary confinement, largely prohibited from communicating with his lawyers until late January, according to an Amnesty International statement.",
"His time in prison has rendered him a cause celebre among bloggers and other advocates of free expression.",
"But the former law student is not the only blogger to be arrested for expressing controversial views in Egypt.",
"In January, police detained Al-Jazeera producer Howayda Taha Matwali after her work on a documentary that examined alleged torture in Egyptian police stations, the statement said.",
"An Egyptian court found Matwali guilty of \"harming Egypt's national interest\" and \"falsely depicting events,\" sentencing her in absentia to six months in prison, it said.",
"Others, like Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, say they have faced cyber attacks from state security for years.",
"\"There are troubles that start online,\" he said.",
"Abbas blames the Egyptian government for \"trying to hack your website, trying to block it, trying to disable your account by sending fake reports that you're posting inappropriate material like they did with my you-tube, with my email, with my facebook.\"",
"While the internet is among few spaces where Egyptians can express themselves freely, it is far from risk-free.",
"Upon his release, Nabil told reporters that police officers beat him just before he left prison, sending him off with a warning not to blog again."
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"A blogger who endured a stint in an Egyptian prison for his writings has been freed .",
"The former law student at Cairo's Al-Azhar University is a critic of conservative Muslims .",
"He said his former school promoted extremism; he called Egyptian president a dictator ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has stopped, Tokyo Electric Power Company said early Wednesday.",
"The leak had stopped as of 5:38 a.m. Wednesday (4:38 p.m.",
"ET), said the company, which runs the plant.",
"Earlier, Tokyo Electric officials had said an attempt to plug the leak had shown a \"significant difference,\" despite the material not setting as hoped.",
"The company had injected a silica-based polymer dubbed \"liquid glass\" to reduce the leak.",
"The utility's assessment comes after the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the substance had not hardened as expected.",
"The material had been pumped from below into the leaking shaft at the plant's No.",
"2 reactor. The news was a bright spot amid a series of setbacks Japanese authorities faced Tuesday, including the detection of radiation in a fish and news that the water gushing into the Pacific had radiation levels millions of times above the regulatory limit.",
"Readings from samples taken Saturday in the concrete pit outside the turbine building of the No.",
"2 reactor -- one of six at the crisis-plagued plant -- had radiation 7.5 million times the legal limit, a TEPCO official said.",
"Newer findings, from Tuesday afternoon, showed a sizable drop to 5 million times the norm.",
"Town near nuclear plant rejects Japanese utility's 'token' offer .",
"The utility company also noted Tuesday that the radiation levels diminished sharply a few dozen meters from the leak, consistent with their assessment that the spill might have a minimal effect on sea life.",
"But even in these spots, radiation levels remained several hundred thousand times the legal limit.",
"Both the utility and Japan's nuclear safety agency said they didn't know how much water is leaking into the sea from reactor No.",
"2. But engineers have had to pour nearly 200 tons of water a day into the No.",
"2 reactor vessel to keep it cool, and regulators say they believe that is the water leaking out.",
"Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the presence of radioactive iodine \"in one sample of fresh fish\" prompted authorities to regulate the radiation in seafood for the first time.",
"While fishing has been forbidden within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of Fukushima Daiichi, there had been no restrictions on seafood, as there were for some vegetables and milk from certain locales.",
"Now, the same radiation standards that apply to vegetables will apply to ocean products as well.",
"Nuclear crisis explainer .",
"\"The \"provisional ingestion limit, equivalent to vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately,\" the Cabinet minister said.",
"Meanwhile, the deliberate dumping of radioactive water into the sea continues, Tokyo Electric said Wednesday.",
"On Tuesday, Edano apologized for the decision to dump the water -- all part of the effort to curb the flow of the more toxic liquid spotted days ago rushing from outside the No.",
"2 unit. TEPCO said that as of Tuesday evening, more than 5,740 tons had been released -- about half the total volume.",
"The process of expelling contaminated water in the plant's water treatment facility and around several of its reactors began Monday and will take five days, a Tokyo Electric official said.",
"\"The water contains a high level of radiation,\" Edano said of the liquid being dumped into the Pacific.",
"\"We are sorry for this decision we have to make.\"",
"Special coverage: Japan earthquake aftermath .",
"The most contaminated batch of this water comes from outside the No.",
"6 reactor, likely having gotten in via groundwater (and not a breach in the unit itself), officials said.",
"It has a concentration of iodine-131 that would be 100 times more than the maximum amount in tap water that infants could drink, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.",
"Overall, the dump equates to about 3 million gallons, noted Gary Was, a nuclear engineering professor from the University of Michigan.",
"Yet Hidehiko Nishiyama, a Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency official, said, \"We've decided that discharging the contaminated water into the sea poses no major health hazard.\"",
"Experts say this is a fair assessment, given the likelihood the contamination should quickly dilute, especially if the tainted material is largely iodine-131, which loses half its radiation every eight days.",
"\"To put this in perspective, the Pacific Ocean holds about 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they are going to release about five swimming pools full,\" said Timothy Jorgensen, chair of the radiation safety committee at Georgetown University Medical Center.",
"\"So hopefully the churning of the ocean and the currents will quickly disperse this so that it gets to very dilute concentrations relatively quickly.\"",
"John Till, president of the South Carolina-based Risk Assessment Corp., said he does not expect to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant.",
"However, he added that officials should monitor radiation levels closely -- in the ocean as well as in seafood that reaches restaurants and markets.",
"U.S. scales back military aid units in Japan .",
"A piece of good news, according to Japanese government reports, is that airborne radiation appears to be steadily falling around northeast Japan.",
"Two measurements from 15 kilometers (nine miles) or less from the plant showed amounts of radioactive iodine-131 at 2 to 3.7 times the legal standard, with levels of a far longer-lasting cesium isotope well below the official limit.",
"Also, utility and government officials have described conditions recently in the Fukushima Daiichi plant's reactors and spent nuclear fuel pools as generally stable.",
"There have been exceptions -- like the new need to pump 3-meter-deep water from a drain outside the Nos.",
"5 and 6 units for fear it could rise, enter nearby turbine buildings and short out power for the units' nuclear fuel cooling systems.",
"But such problems aren't occurring at the same pace, or with the same apparent severity, as was evident weeks ago.",
"The top priority, however, is stopping the water that's been gushing directly into the Pacific through a cracked concrete shaft outside the No.",
"2 reactor. How to help in Japan relief efforts .",
"Edano said Monday that the decision to dump tainted water from other reactors and the wastewater treatment facility was unavoidable in order to ensure the safety of the No.",
"2 reactor core.",
"The idea is to expeditiously pump the tainted water from around the No.",
"2 reactor's turbine building, lowering levels inside so that water no longer rushes out into the sea, a Japanese nuclear safety official said.",
"This came after the first two failed attempts to plug the problematic crack -- one by pouring in concrete, the other using a chemical compound mixed with sawdust and newspaper.",
"Reactors No. 1 and No. 3, which have lower levels of water, need to be drained as well.",
"Tokyo Electric's plan is to pump that water to other storage tanks, including some that still need to be set up.",
"Water in and around the Nos.",
"5 and 6 reactors is being jettisoned directly in the sea, officials said.",
"Interactive map on Japan crisis .",
"Another big problem may be that authorities still don't know how exactly the gushing water got contaminated, where it came from or how to fix potential leaks and cracks deep inside the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.",
"Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities will continue to have problems related to excess, radioactive water -- and the need to dump some of it -- as long as they inject huge amounts in to prevent fuel rods from overheating in reactors' cores and spent fuel pools.",
"\"This is not a one-off deal,\" Friedlander said of dumping radioactive water into the ocean.",
"\"This issue of water and water management is going to plague them until they can get (fully operating) long-term core cooling.\"",
"CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung Lah and journalist Hiroo Saso contributed to this report ."
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"More than 5,700 tons of less radioactive water have been purposefully released so far .",
"Radiation levels drop sharply offshore, but are many times over the legal limit .",
"Water in a pit that's leaking into the sea had radiation 7.5 million times above the norm ."
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"Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Anger swept Port-au-Prince on Wednesday as protests erupted throughout the Haitian capital the day after election results were announced.",
"Mobs charging election fraud burned the headquarters of the government-backed candidate and blocked roads using earthquake rubble and flaming tires.",
"At the smoldering headquarters of candidate Jude Celestin, one man shouted that life was better under the Duvaliers, referring to years of Haiti's father-son dictatorship.",
"At least one person died in the post-election violence, authorities said.",
"\"People are very angry,\" said Franz Large, a Haitian doctor who lives near the burned headquarters.",
"\"People expected there would be a fair election.\"",
"He accused the government of adding the names of those who perished in the earthquake to voter lists, to push the vote in their favor.",
"He also said many people feared they would lose out on cash-for-work programs if they did not vote for the government.",
"\"We need someone who has the trust of the people,\" Lange said.",
"\"It's a very sad day for people who believe in democracy.\"",
"All flights in and out of Port-au-Prince, including American Airlines flights, were canceled, said Henry Marc-Charles of Haiti's national airport authority.",
"Early Wednesday, the normally bustling city felt an eerie quiet as residents hunkered down in their homes, fearful of potential danger on streets normally jammed with people and traffic.",
"Many shops and businesses remained shuttered throughout the day.",
"But the quiet was pierced by large protests as thousands marched on the streets yelling that the election had been stolen from them.",
"They chanted \"Tet Kale!\"",
"which means bald head in Haiti and is the moniker used by the popular musician and presidential candidate Michel Martelly.",
"Some of the protesters wanted Martelly to speak publicly.",
"Martelly had planned a news conference but canceled due to security concerns.",
"Instead he issued a short statement Wednesday evening.",
"\"Since last night, the (electoral council) put our country in total chaos by publishing manipulated results,\" he said.",
"\"Since then, the whole country reacted and is now in turmoil.",
"They stood up to defend their votes and asked that they be respected.",
"\"I understand your frustration,\" he said.",
"\"You have the constitutional right to peacefully protest.",
"I am with you and will be all the way to victory.",
"Tet kale.\" Polls had suggested Martelly, a political novice, had emerged as a front-runner, but the Provisional Electoral Council announced Tuesday night that he had come in third behind former first lady Mirlande Manigat and Jude Celestin, the head of the state-run transportation company who was handpicked by President Rene Preval as his successor.",
"No candidate won a majority, forcing a runoff set for January 16, four days after the first anniversary of the quake.",
"If the results hold, Martelly will not be in that runoff.",
"The Joint OAS (Organization of American States) - CARICOM (Caribbean Community) election observation mission said Wednesday the results were not the last word on the Haitian election.",
"It said candidates have a legal recourse to pursue a challenge -- and they should use it.",
"The mission said in a statement that it called on the electoral council to \"ensure that these claims and challenges that are part of the contestation process are treated with the strictness, transparency and fairness they deserve in this difficult electoral environment where suspicions abound.\"",
"A final outcome in that process is expected on December 20.",
"The post-tabulation protests Wednesday were largely fueled by Martelly's supporters.",
"\"He's our president,\" they said.",
"Martelly's political advisor, Daniel Supplice, said that Martelly was huddling with his advisors to decide how he would proceed but the campaign has already said it will challenge the results.",
"Supplice said it was the government's responsibility to ensure that the protests do not spiral into chaos.",
"\"We did not ask for anyone to take to the streets,\" Supplice said.",
"\"This is only a natural reaction.",
"People have the right to have their vote respected.\"",
"Preval, barred from seeking another term, has grown increasingly unpopular for what Haitians perceive as a lack of progress in their troubled homeland.",
"And it had been feared all along that a win or runoff spot for Celestin would trigger unrest in the Haitian capital.",
"The next president of Haiti will inherit the daunting task of leading this Caribbean nation in its struggle to recover from years of dictatorship and poverty compounded by the killer earthquake, Hurricane Tomas and now a cholera epidemic that has sickened almost 100,000 people.",
"Protests erupted immediately after the result were announced Tuesday night and spilled over into Wednesday.",
"A police commissioner in the northern town of Cap Hatien reported one person had died in violence there.",
"In a radio speech Wednesday, Preval appealed for calm and urged the candidates to thoroughly review the electoral council's data.",
"The council said Manigat, a Sorbonne-educated professor and a former first lady of Haiti, led the presidential election with 31.37 of the votes.",
"Celestin narrowly ranked second with 22.48 percent of the votes while Martelly received 21.84 percent.",
"But the vote was fraught with allegations of fraud.",
"Martelly said aloud what many others in Haiti were thinking: Preval would go to any lengths to ensure a win for Celestin and preserve the power of his party, INITE.",
"The U.S. Embassy issued a statement Tuesday saying that the United States stands ready to support efforts to review irregularities in the vote so that results are \"consistent with the will of the Haitian people expressed in their votes.",
"\"Like others, the government of the United States is concerned by the Provisional Electoral Council's announcement of preliminary results from the November 28 national elections that are inconsistent with the published results of the National Election Observation Council (CNO), which had more than 5,500 observers and observed the vote count in 1,600 voting centers nationwide,\" the embassy said.",
"The CNO, a European Union-backed local election monitoring group, had said Celestin was running behind the other two candidates.",
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern Wednesday over the post-election violence.",
"He urged the candidates \"to exhaust the formal remedies and legal procedures, which will allow a clearer picture to emerge.\"",
"\"A peaceful solution to the current situation is crucial not only to confront the cholera epidemic in the short-term but also to create the conditions in the medium term for recovery and development from the earthquake,\" Ban said in a statement.",
"The anger voiced on the streets was also targeted at the United Nations after reports suggested the cholera outbreak originated in a Nepalese peacekeepers' camp.",
"In a tense scene Wednesday, protesters faced off with U.N. soldiers from Brazil tasked with guarding the road at the entrance of the electoral council's office.",
"\"No peace mission.",
"No MINUSTAH,\" protesters said, referring the United Nations Haiti mission by its French acronym.",
"Veteran Haitian journalist Ernest Moskolot said Haitian people were simply fed up.",
"They endured an earthquake, a hurricane and cholera.",
"It was time, he said, for the government to deliver.",
"\"This is a tough time for Haiti,\"Moskolot said.",
"\"I got a feeling God has something for us.",
"We cannot take it anymore.\"",
"CNN's Devon Sayers contributed to this report ."
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"Mobs burn the headquarters of the government-backed candidate .",
"Protesters face off against U.N. troops .",
"The airport in Port-au-Prince is shut down; American Airlines cancels Haitian flights ."
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"(CNN) -- A man who had a relationship with college student Jenni-Lyn Watson was charged Saturday with second-degree murder after the discovery of a body believed to be hers, authorities in Syracuse, New York, said.",
"A massive manhunt for the dance major, who'd been missing since November 19, culminated with the discovery of what are believed to be her remains at 10:30 a.m. at Clay Central Park in North Syracuse, the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office said.",
"On Saturday, Steven Pieper was charged in her killing.",
"Pieper, 21, and Watson, 20, had dated on and off for 18 months, said District Attorney William Fitzpatrick at a Saturday press conference.",
"\"Our indication is Ms. Watson desired this relationship to end in early October ...",
"Apparently that message didn't get through to Mr. Pieper,\" Fitzpatrick said.",
"Authorities believe Watson was killed in her Liverpool residence on the morning of November 19.",
"Her body was \"dumped, frankly, like garbage\" in a heavily wooded area a couple miles away, Fitzpatrick said.",
"Pieper has been interviewed twice, Fitzpatrick said.",
"\"He has denied involvement.\"",
"The suspect, who was taken into custody Saturday, was arraigned Saturday evening in Clay Town Court, CNN affiliate YNN reported.",
"A judge entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Pieper, who will have a preliminary hearing Friday, YNN said.",
"He is currently being held without bail.",
"Fitzpatrick told CNN Syracuse affiliate WSTM that it appeared someone tried to conceal the body, but that it was not buried.",
"It was behind a utility shed, he said.",
"An autopsy will be conducted Sunday.",
"Watson was last seen at her family's home.",
"She was on Thanksgiving break from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.",
"Liverpool is a suburb of Syracuse.",
"\"This [disappearance] is extremely uncharacteristic for Jenni-Lynn,\" Sgt.",
"Robert Marshall said earlier this week.",
"Watson's parents reported her missing the night of November 19.",
"The college junior's purse and other personal items were found at the home, but a Verizon LG enV3 phone was missing.",
"One call was made on the phone from a heavily wooded area near other residences, said Marshall, who declined to provide details.",
"Someone other than Watson made the call, Fitzpatrick said.",
"The phone has not been recovered.",
"Pieper is alleged to have been at Watson's residence on the morning of her disappearance and is believed to be the last to have seen her, the sheriff's department said in a statement.",
"Detectives are looking for anyone who may have seen Pieper's black 2008 Volkswagen Jetta in the vicinity of Watson's home or near the area where the body was found.",
"Fitzpatrick said authorities believe the Jetta carried Watson's body.",
"The district attorney said he spoke Saturday with Watson's parents.",
"\"These people are extraordinary people,\" Fitzpatrick said.",
"\"They are now trusting that justice will be done.\"",
"Simultaneous vigils were held Wednesday for Watson.",
"One of the church vigils was organized by the family; the other was held in a chapel at Mercyhurst College, a Catholic school.",
"About 200 people attended, including members of the football team, which has a NCAA Division II game this weekend.",
"\"You felt overwhelming worry, but you still felt there was reason to hope,\" Mercyhurst spokeswoman Debbie Morton said.",
"Watson was a dance major and ballet dancer at Mercyhurst.",
"\"It is a highly disciplined area,\" Morton said of Watson's field of study.",
"Mercyhurst College will have a Sunday evening prayer service and will offer counseling beforehand.",
"\"Our Mercyhurst family poured their hearts and souls into finding Jenni-Lyn in a genuine outpouring of humanity,\" college president Tom Gamble said in a statement.",
"\"Her death is devastating to our entire college community.",
"We continue to pray for her family and extend our deepest sympathies.\"",
"CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Coming off two days of demonstrations, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry warned Saturday that it would crack down on protesters who continue to take their grievances to the streets.",
"Saudi security forces will be \"authorized to take all measures against anyone who tries to break the law and cause disorder,\" the ministry said, according to the country's state-run news agency.",
"The government cited how some were trying \"to get around the systems\" and \"achieve illegitimate goals.\"",
"The Interior Ministry spokesman said that kingdom law prevents all kinds of demonstrations, protests, strikes and even a call for them because they're against Sharia law and Saudi values and traditions.",
"In response, Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, president of the Human Rights First Society, told CNN that the Interior Ministry is \"not at all sensitive\" to the massive unrest sweeping the Arab world.",
"\"I'm hoping that the Ministry of the Interior and the government of Saudi Arabia will not choose to take the security solution road because that was already tested in other Arab countries and, by God, it did not work,\" said al-Mugaiteeb, who's in Saudi Arabia.",
"On Saturday, the Saudi government downplayed Friday's protests in the Eastern Province, saying the people weren't calling for a regime change.",
"\"The protests that took place in the Eastern Province were small and were not political in nature,\" a Saudi government official told CNN.",
"\"The protesters weren't calling for regime change, they were asking for more jobs and calling for release of prisoners they feel were imprisoned unjustly.\"",
"The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Friday's protest was not worrisome.",
"\"We don't feel they will spread throughout the kingdom or become bigger in nature,\" he said.",
"Demonstrators who protested in Eastern Province were demanding the release of Shiite prisoners they feel are being held without cause.",
"An outspoken Shiite prayer leader who demonstrators say was arrested more than a week ago was a focal point of the \"day of rage\" protest, said Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, president of the Human Rights First Society.",
"Sheikh Tawfeeq Al-Amer was arrested Sunday after he gave a sermon two days earlier, on February 25, stating that Saudi Arabia should become a constitutional monarchy, human rights activists said.",
"Friday's protest comes on the heels of two similar demonstrations held in the province Thursday, al-Mugaiteeb said, when about 200 protesters in the city of Qatif and 100 protesters in the city of Awamiyya called for the release of Shiite prisoners.",
"Al-Mugaiteeb said authorities arrested 22 people who participated in Thursday's protest in Qatif.",
"\"We deplore this action by the Saudi security forces,\" he said.",
"Another protest took place in Riyadh after Friday prayer, according to two Saudi activists.",
"The sources asked not to be identified because of concerns for their safety.",
"According to the activists, as many as 40 anti-government demonstrators gathered outside Al-Rajhi Mosque for a short protest.",
"At least one man involved in organizing the protest was arrested by Saudi police, the activists said.",
"The activists said the protesters attracted a crowd of worshipers leaving the mosque.",
"Some of the protesters carried signs showing a map of Saudi Arabia that did not contain the words \"Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,\" a clear affront to the Saudi royal family.",
"The government official told CNN that he was not aware of any protests or arrests in Riyadh.",
"When asked about the various rights groups in the kingdom who have been calling for the creation of a constitutional monarchy over the course of the past 2 weeks, the government official on Saturday stated, \"Yes, there are groups here asking for more rights, calling for constitutional reforms, and that is their right to do so.",
"King Abdullah has always encouraged a national dialogue and continues to do so.\"",
"The official insisted that the king \"is doing all he can to improve things for Saudis.\"",
"\"But in Saudi Arabia -- it's not like other countries -- we don't have or allow protests here.",
"If people have a grievance, they can go and address it with the governors of their provinces or they can go to the Royal Court and address grievances directly there,\" the official said.",
"Saudi Arabia has cracked down on protests in the past.",
"Shiites are a minority in Saudi Arabia.",
"They live primarily in the Eastern Province, where many major oil companies operate.",
"The protests come as sectarian violence between Shiites and Sunnis flares in neighboring Bahrain.",
"Analysts believe protests in Bahrain could spill over into Saudi Arabia's oil fields, located mostly in Shiite provinces.",
"After three months abroad for medical treatment, Saudi King Abdullah returned home late last month to a Middle East shaken by unrest, and announced a series of sweeping measures aimed at relieving economic hardship and meeting with Bahrain's beleaguered monarch.",
"The Saudi government released three Shiite political prisoners ahead of the king's return."
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"The focus of Friday's protest is a Shiite prayer leader arrested last week ."
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"Oranjestad, Aruba (CNN) -- Aruban prosecutors plan to release Tuesday the results of tests conducted on a jawbone found on an island beach and disclose whether it belongs to missing U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, officials said.",
"The tests, conducted at the Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, Netherlands, were to first determine whether the bone is that of a human or that of an animal.",
"If the bone is human, authorities said, they would attempt to determine through DNA testing if it belonged to Holloway.",
"The Alabama 18-year-old was last seen on the island in 2005.",
"Aruba Solicitor General Taco Stein said prosecutors will issue a statement Tuesday with the test results.",
"Holloway's dental records were sent to the forensic institute last week, according to the FBI.",
"Tim Miller, director of Texas EquuSearch -- a search-and-rescue organization that has looked for Natalee Holloway -- said the girl's father believes it is his daughter's bone.",
"\"Dave has been in contact with Aruban authorities and spoke with FBI this morning, the agent working the case.",
"Dave believes it is Natalee,\" Miller said about Holloway's father, Dave Holloway.",
"A call to the father was not immediately returned Monday.",
"Part of a jawbone with a tooth was found earlier this month by an American tourist near the Phoenix Hotel, a large resort on the western side of the island, Aruban prosecutor Peter Blanken said.",
"Contacted by CNN, the hotel referred questions to local authorities.",
"The prosecutor said the bone was initially examined by a forensic expert in Aruba, who determined it was from a young woman.",
"But Blanken cautioned the final determination would be made by the forensic institute.",
"Also on Monday, police collected a second bone that was found earlier this month on the beach by a New Jersey family, said Ana Angela, spokeswoman for Aruban prosecutors.",
"However, \"it does not appear to be human,\" said Richard Roy, general manager of the Westin Hotel.",
"The bone was found in the same general area as the first.",
"The family, who was staying at the Westin, put it on their hotel balcony.",
"They told CNN that once they returned home and heard media reports on the jawbone, they called the FBI and then contacted the Westin.",
"Staffers at the hotel found the bone on the balcony and notified police.",
"Holloway was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving an Oranjestad nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and two other men.",
"She was visiting the island with about 100 classmates to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.",
"Van der Slootwasdetained twice in connection with Holloway's disappearance but never charged.",
"He is now awaiting trial in Lima, Peru, on a murder charge in the death of Peruvian student Stephany Flores.",
"Her body was found in May in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot.",
"A surveillance camera captured images of the two entering the room .",
"Van der Sloot, 23, is also charged with wire fraud and extortion in Alabama for allegedly attempting to extort more than $250,000 from Holloway's family in return for disclosing the location of her body.",
"CNN's Rich Phillips, In Session's Jean Casarez and HLN's Rupa Mikkilineni contributed to this report."
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"The jawbone was found near an Aruba beach hotel .",
"A second found bone doesn't appear to be human ."
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"LONDON, England -- A military-grade laser that blinds temporarily is the latest security technology available to wealthy superyacht owners afraid of pirate attacks.",
"The SeaLase laser temporarily blinds pirates -- preventing them from attacking the yacht.",
"The \"SeaLase\" laser, similar to weapons used for crowd control in Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S. military, has a range of four kilometers and becomes harder to look at the closer an attacker comes.",
"At a distance of one kilometer, attackers develop strong nausea and can no longer see, according to Lasersec Systems, the Finnish company that developed the lasers for commercial use.",
"\"We don't have guns, so we need non-lethal systems to defend yachts,\" Lasersec CEO Scott Buchter told CNN.",
"Buchter, who recently launched the $104,000 multi-colored laser at Monaco Yacht Show, says the loss of eyesight the laser inflicts is only temporary and that no permanent damage is inflicted.",
"Hi-tech military-grade security systems like SeaLase have become increasingly popular with superyacht owners looking to protect multi-millon dollar yachts on the open seas.",
"Pirate attacks on oil tankers and other boats in dangerous waters like the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia -- a maritime link between Europe and Asia --have fueled the growing worry that superyachts may be the next target.",
"Because law regarding the use of deadly force on ships is ambiguous in some countries and the transport of guns is illegal in most international waters -- yacht crews favor the use of non-lethal weapons for security.",
"This has fueled the recent market boom for weapons like SeaLase, according to Buchter.",
"SeaLase is the latest of these kinds of weapons, which include \"L-Rad,\" a long-range acoustic device that temporarily deafens enemies and the $450,000 \"SeaOwl\" tracking system, which combines radar and infrared or thermal cameras to detect incoming threats as far as five kilometers away.",
"BAE Systems, the world's second largest global defense company, is thinking even bigger with plans for a sophisticated electronic early warning system for supertankers that some experts say could cost several million dollars.",
"\"Piracy is on the rise,\" said Nick Stoppard of BAE systems.",
"\"Attacks in 2008 were double those of the previous year and there is a clear need for better methods to help commercial ships identify and evade pirates before an attack occurs.\"",
"The early warning system would use extremely advanced radars that could see over the horizon, as far as 25 km away.",
"But pirates are not the only enemies of affluent yacht owners.",
"For some, the paparazzi, using long range lens to take pictures of them on their yachts, can pose a privacy headache.",
"According to reports in UK newspaper, The Times, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has installed an \"anti-pap system\" that would fire light beams at a camera, disrupting its ability to take images.",
"Aside from the anti-pap system, it has been widely reported that Abramovitch's yacht \"Eclipse\" carries an anti-missile defense system and an escape submarine.",
"The yacht is also said to have doubled in price to $1.2 billion since its commissioning three years ago.",
"Michael Howorth, former super-yacht captain and technical editor at SuperYachtWorld magazine, told CNN for a previous article: As a yacht owner, \"you would be an absolute fool if you didn't have this sort of advanced defense technology."
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"The lasers only temporarily impair eye-sight and make the assailant nauseous .",
"Systems such as SeaLase are on the increase with growing piracy figures ."
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"(CNN) -- Las Vegas police caught two people as they were about to board a plane for Colombia, then charged them with the murder of a woman who went missing hours after being dropped off for a cosmetic surgery procedure.",
"The female victim was dropped off Saturday morning to undergo a cosmetic procedure, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Police Department.",
"The victim's daughter contacted police after she was unable to find her mother at the same location where she had dropped her off about eight hours earlier.",
"A police report, obtained and posted online by CNN affiliate KLAS, quoted the daughter as saying the office did not even have the same furniture in the office as was there earlier in the day.",
"The report claims that, before she left originally, the daughter saw the victim, identified as 42-year-old Elena Caro, disrobe and be injected in the buttocks by a man later identified by the daughter as one of the suspects, Ruben Dario Mattallana-Galvas.",
"The daughter told police she got a call about an hour later from her mother, and was told to return several hours later.",
"In that span, authorities learned that the woman had been picked up in an ambulance about three miles north from the original location and taken to a local hospital.",
"There, she was pronounced dead, according to the police statement.",
"Las Vegas police detectives soon identified two suspects as Mattallana-Galvas, 55, and Carmen Olfidia Torres-Sanchez, 47.",
"Both are from Medellin, Colombia.",
"The pair were arrested Saturday night at McCarran International Airport, while preparing to board a flight for Colombia.",
"The pair actually had tickets for April 22, but were hoping to leave the United States earlier, according to the police report.",
"Instead, they were taken to the Clark County Detention Center and each charged with one count of murder, police said.",
"Mattallana-Galvas and Torres-Sanchez are due to be formally arraigned in court Tuesday on the charges, according to Las Vegas police.",
"After being informed he was being arrested for murder and being read his Miranda rights, Mattallana-Galvas told detectives that Caro had come into his office that day for a buttocks enhancement procedure, the police report stated.",
"He claimed that, afterward, Caro had walked away from his office.",
"Mattallana-Galvas admitted to authorities that he was not licensed to pr active medicine in Nevada, but claimed he was a homeopathic doctor in Colombia.",
"Also Saturday, Las Vegas detectives interviewed an assistant to Mattallana-Galvas, who claimed that Mattallana-Galvas told her to cancel his appointments for that afternoon because \"something had gone wrong,\" the police report said.",
"The assistant said that her husband eventually took Mattallana-Galvas to the airport.",
"The toxicology report examining the exact cause and timing of Caro's death is still pending, John Fudenberg, the assistant coroner for Clark County, said Monday evening.",
"CNN's Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich climbed to third place in the Bundesliga on Saturday with a 4-0 victory over Hoffenheim.",
"Luis Van Gaal's team started brightly and took the lead after two minutes through Germany striker Mario Gomez, who scored his 17th league goal of the season.",
"Gomez's compatriot Thomas Muller doubled the reigning champions' advantage with only 15 minutes gone when he fired home from inside the box after a pass from Franck Ribery.",
"Dutch winger Arjen Robben netted a brace in only his fourth game of the season to seal a comprehensive victory.",
"The win sees the 2010 double winners move ahead of Mainz and Hannover who are both in action on Sunday.",
"League-leaders Borussia Dortmund were held to a 1-1 draw away to Kaiserslautern after having defender Neven Subotic sent off.",
"Jurgen Klopp's team looked to have secured an away victory when Sven Bender put them ahead with nine minutes left, but Subotic picked up his second yellow card four minutes later.",
"With the match entering stoppage time, striker Jan Moravek fired home from the edge of the penalty area to rescue a point for Kaiserlautern.",
"Despite the setback, Dortmund still hold a 10-point lead over second-placed Bayer Leverkusen and are still well-placed to secure their first league championship since 2002.",
"Leverkusen picked up three points after they earned a 3-0 victory away to Eintracht Frankfurt.",
"German international Simon Rolfes put Leverkusen ahead in the ninth minute when he fired a left-footed shot past Frankfurt goalkeeper Ola Nikolov.",
"Rolfes' center-midfield partner Renato Augusto made it 2-0 after 32 minutes, before substitute Hanno Balitsch made sure of the win with a third for Jupp Heynckes' side in the 81st minute.",
"Mid-table Frankfurt have now failed to find the net in their last five Bundesliga outings.",
"Hamburg moved up to seventh position in the table with a 1-0 win over struggling Wolfsburg.",
"A goal from Croatia forward Mladen Petric was enough to defeat Wolfsburg, who recently sacked English coach Steve McLaren.",
"Nuremberg remain in ninth place after a convincing 4-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Stuttgart.",
"Goals from Timmy Simons and Julian Schieber gave Nuremberg a two-goal lead inside 29 minutes, before Patrick Funk reduced Stuttgart's arrears on the stroke of half time.",
"Jens Hegeler and Mehmet Ekici made sure of victory for Nuremberg in the second half to leave Stuttgart languishing in 17th position.",
"Elsewhere, Jefferson Farfan's strike was enough to secure a 1-0 success for Schalke over Freiburg and FC St Pauli scored a 3-1 win at home to Borussia Monchengladbach."
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"League-leaders Borussia Dortmund were held to a 1-1 draw by Kaiserslautern .",
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The commander of U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday after an investigation concluded that coalition troops accidentally killed nine civilians -- including some children -- in a strike Tuesday.",
"Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said he would personally apologize to Afghan President Hamid Karzai after Karzai returns from a trip to London this week.",
"\"We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan, and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions,\" Petraeus said in a statement Wednesday.",
"Some children were among the dead, an ISAF spokesman said.",
"Preliminary findings of an investigation show that ISAF forces accidentally killed nine civilians in the Darah-Ye Pech district of Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province Tuesday, the statement said.",
"The incident happened after insurgents fired rockets at a base used by U.S. and allied troops.",
"\"These deaths should never have happened...\" Petraeus said.",
"\"Regrettably, there appears to have been an error in the hand-off between identifying the location of the insurgents and the attack helicopters that carried out the subsequent operations.\"",
"In a statement Wednesday, Karzai condemned the incident \"in the strongest terms possible.\"",
"He noted the incident occurred less than 10 days after another incident \"that left many civilians dead in the same province.\"",
"On February 20, Kunar provincial Governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi said 64 civilians had died in a joint operation by ISAF and Afghan security forces over several days.",
"The dead included 20 women and 15 children, he said.",
"Karzai said the children were collecting firewood when they were killed.",
"Karzai emphasized Wednesday that \"NATO needs to focus on the safe havens of terrorists,\" adding that killing innocent civilians will create \"huge problems.\"",
"Civilian casualties have been a hot-button issue in Afghanistan and have hurt the coalition's efforts to win backing for its efforts.",
"Petraeus recently directed military commanders in Afghanistan to review changes meant to minimize civilian casualties.",
"He has ordered commanders to brief helicopter attack crews again on the changes, he said.",
"Should the facts of the investigation warrant it, he said, the military could take disciplinary action against some of the troops involved.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati and Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Jenson Button fears the weather could have a huge impact on the Malaysian Grand Prix as his McLaren team try to haul back Red Bull's lightning start to the season.",
"Button emerged victorious at the Sepang circuit in 2009 when the race had to be cut short due to torrential rain, and he went on to clinch the drivers' championship at the end of that campaign.",
"The British McLaren driver finished sixth in the season-opener in Melbourne two weeks ago, as reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel drove from pole to flag to secure an impressive victory for Red Bull.",
"And Button thinks whoever handles the inclement weather best in Asia will stand a good chance of claiming the checkered flag.",
"He told Formula One's official website: \"It is a fun place to race and the weather can really play a big part here, especially with the four o'clock start, it is pretty much on the dot when it starts raining.",
"\"It makes it tricky for every team in the pit-lane and every driver to really understand the conditions and to make the right call.\"",
"Only 33 laps were possible when Button won in 2009 as thunderstorms and failing light made racing too dangerous.",
"Drivers also have to contend with the humidity in Malaysia and Button has been training in Hawaii for the past week to prepare for the tough conditions.",
"He told British newspaper The Daily Telegraph: \"With the heat and humidity, and with it being a very tough circuit on tires, then we are going to see a very different race to the last one in Melbourne.",
"\"Then you chuck the weather into it and it's going to be absolute madness.",
"It will still be good, and we're all looking forward to it because you never really know what's going to happen.\"",
"Button might well have improved on his sixth place in Melbourne but for a tussle with Ferrari's Felipe Massa, which resulted in a drive through penalty after he overtook the Brazilian illegally.",
"But the 31-year-old thinks overtaking will be far easier in Malaysia, with the help of the Drag Reductions System (which helps cars boost speed in passing situations).",
"He said: \"It is one of those circuits where you can really have a good tussle as corners flow into each other.",
"I think with the DRS it is going to make overtaking a lot easier than it was in Melbourne.\""
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid kept the pressure on Spanish leaders Barcelona with a 2-1 victory in the capital derby against Atletico on Saturday.",
"Barcelona earlier defeated Getafe by the same scoreline to move eight points clear at the top, but Jose Mourinho's men responded by beating Atletico for the fourth time this season.",
"Karim Benzema continued his recent hot scoring run to put Real ahead in the 11th minute at the Vicente Calderon, with the France forward netting for the eighth time in five games after a clever stabbed pass from Sami Khedira.",
"Khedira's fellow Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil made it 2-0 in the 32nd minute with his sixth La Liga goal this season, sidefooting a powerful left-foot effort from Marcelino's left-wing cutback that Atletico keeper David de Gea could only help into the net.",
"The lead at times flattered Real, who needed a string of fine saves from goalkeeper Iker Casillas to keep Atletico at bay.",
"Striker Sergio Aguero finally scored a deserved goal in the 86th minute after a well-worked one-two with Koke inside the penalty area, but Atletico did not seriously threaten again in the three minutes of time added on.",
"It capped a fine week for Mourinho, who guided Real into the quarterfinals of the European Champions League for the first time since 2004, with a tie against England's Tottenham awaiting.",
"Barcelona are also through to the last eight of that competition, facing Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk with the winner to play either Real or Spurs in the semis.",
"Pep Guardiola's team went into the home match against Getafe without veteran French defender Eric Abidal, who had an operation to remove a liver tumor last Thursday, plus captain Carles Puyol, winger Pedro and Maxwell.",
"But with the likes of Lionel Messi and David Villa in the line-up, the Catalans always had too much firepower against a team which has slumped out of European qualification contention.",
"That star duo did not add to their formidable goal tally this season, as Brazil fullback Dani Alves broke the deadlock in the 17th minute with a fierce half-volley from outside the penalty area.",
"Villa was booked for diving before halftime, then Messi helped 20-year-old Bojan Krkic make it 2-0 four minutes after the break with a low shot that took a huge deflection.",
"It was Krkic's 100th La Liga outing for Barcelona, and featured his second successive goal and sixth of the campaign.",
"With Barca coasting, Getafe gave the home fans a late scare when Manu del Moral volleyed home a cross in the 87th minute.",
"In Saturday's other game, Real Mallorca moved up to ninth place with a 1-0 win at home to Real Zaragoza, who remained four points above the bottom three.",
"In Italy, Serie A leaders AC Milan suffered a shock 1-0 defeat at Sicilian club Palermo on Saturday.",
"Defender Dorin Goian's 11th-minute winner gave defending champions Inter Milan the chance to close to within two points of their city rivals by beating lowly Lecce on Sunday.",
"Third-placed Napoli can cut Milan's lead to three points by beating Cagliari in Sunday's late match.",
"In Saturday's other game, Lazio moved back into fourth place with a 1-0 win at home to struggling Cesena thanks to a second-minute goal from striker Mauro Zarate."
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"Italian Serie A leaders AC Milan suffer a shock 1-0 defeat at Sicilian club Palermo ."
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"(CNN) -- A satellite surveillance project spearheaded by actor George Clooney's organization will monitor violence in Sudan during a January vote that could split the country in two.",
"The program will use satellite images to assess the situation on the ground for any signs of conflict, monitor hotspots in real time and post the findings online, organizers said.",
"The satellites can help capture threats to civilians, keep track of displaced people and inspect razed villages, the organizers said in a statement.",
"\"We want to cast a spotlight -- literally -- on the hotspots along the border to record any actions that might escalate the chances of conflict,\" the statement said.",
"\"We hope that if many eyes are on the potential spoilers, we can all help detect, deter and interdict actions that could lead to a return to deadly violence.\"",
"Clooney said in the statement the program will help avert crime.",
"\"We want to let potential perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes know that we're watching, the world is watching,\" he said.",
"\"War criminals thrive in the dark.",
"It's a lot harder to commit mass atrocities in the glare of the media spotlight.\"",
"Humanitarian agencies hope the alert system will prevent human rights violations in a country where attacks in the western Darfur region have killed hundreds of thousands in the past seven years.",
"Not On Our Watch, an organization co-founded by Clooney that focuses on Darfur, is funding the satellite effort.",
"It is collaborating with other groups, including the United Nations, Google and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, organizers said.",
"The January referendum, which will determine whether southern Sudan will become an independent state, has sparked fears of renewed violence.",
"The vote is part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended two decades of violence between the north and oil-rich south.",
"The conflict led to the deaths of 2 million people, many from starvation.",
"The program, dubbed the Satellite Sentinel Project, launched Wednesday at www.satsentinel.org.",
"The United Nations' Operational Satellite Applications Programme -- which is part of the effort -- said it is ensuring its \"capabilities for satellite analysis and geographic information\" are utilized to avoid another humanitarian crisis."
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"(CNN Student News) -- March 3, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Frankfurt, Germany • Libya • Los Angeles .",
"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: Oh say can you see a new edition of CNN Student News?",
"'Cause it starts right now!",
"From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"First Up: Frankfurt Shooting .",
"AZUZ: First up, President Obama says the U.S. will spare no effort to learn how an outrageous attack took place.",
"Happened yesterday at Germany's Frankfurt Airport.",
"Two American troops were shot and killed on a U.S. military bus.",
"Two others were wounded.",
"They were security forces who were being deployed.",
"German police have one suspect in custody.",
"Officials say that what they think happened is that the gunman rushed onto the bus while it was waiting outside the terminal and then started shooting.",
"This would be a federal crime in both the United States and in Germany.",
"This story was developing when we produced this show yesterday.",
"For the latest: CNN.com.",
"Crisis in Libya .",
"AZUZ: The fighting between Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's troops and the rebels who are against Colonel Gadhafi is getting worse.",
"Libyan aircraft bombed two parts of the country yesterday where rebels have taken control.",
"In this incident that you're watching, a CNN crew saw an aircraft drop two bombs near a town that has major oil and natural gas facilities.",
"U.S. officials say one option to try and push Gadhafi out of power is to create a no-fly zone over Libya.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates says if Congress orders that, the U.S. military could do it.",
"But he warned lawmakers that in order to set up the no-fly zone, first, the U.S. would have to attack Libya's anti-aircraft weapons.",
"Shoutout . JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's first Shoutout goes out to Mr. Brown's global studies classes at Goodrell Middle School in Des Moines, Iowa!",
"Which of these documents discusses freedom of speech?",
"Is it the: A) Declaration of Independence, B) Preamble to the Constitution, C) Gettysburg Address or D) Bill of Rights?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Freedom of speech is found in the Bill of Rights.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Free Speech Decision .",
"AZUZ: The First Amendment, to be specific.",
"People have the right to exercise their freedom of speech, even if what they're saying is hurtful.",
"That's the ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court made yesterday in a case about the balance between free speech and privacy.",
"On one side was the Westboro Baptist Church.",
"They believe that God is punishing America for \"the sin of homosexuality.\"",
"And they think that U.S. troops deserve to die because they fight for a country that tolerates homosexuality.",
"Church members have raised controversy by protesting near funerals for members of the military.",
"That includes the 2006 funeral for Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder.",
"Matthew's father Albert -- who says his son was not gay -- is on the other side of this court case.",
"He says the protesters shouldn't have been at the funeral, and he sued the church for invasion of privacy.",
"The case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"And in an 8-1 decision, the court ruled in favor of the Westboro Church and said members had a right to promote their message in public settings.",
"Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that, \"Speech is powerful.",
"It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow and -- as it did here -- inflict great pain.",
"On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker.\"",
"He also pointed out that the protest happened far enough away from the memorial service that there wasn't any indication that it interfered with the funeral.",
"But Chief Justice Roberts added that while Westboro believes that America is morally flawed, many Americans might feel the same about Westboro.",
"Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: Wanna talk about this?",
"Head to CNNStudentNews.com.",
"We've posted this story on today's blog and we're looking for your thoughts on both the controversy itself and the Supreme Court's decision.",
"Senate Budget Vote .",
"AZUZ: Americans are split on the possibility of a government shutdown.",
"According to a recent survey, 46 percent of people say a shutdown would be good because it would stop the government from going further into debt.",
"44 percent say it would be bad because of the federal services that would stop running.",
"It'll be two more weeks before that possibility comes up again.",
"Yesterday, the Senate voted to keep funding the government through March 18th.",
"The House passed the bill the day before.",
"And once President Obama signs the extension, it'll be law.",
"Rodney King Anniversary .",
"AZUZ: Many of you might not know the name Rodney King.",
"Back in 1991, not a lot of other people did either.",
"But that changed after something that happened twenty years ago today.",
"King led Los Angeles police on a high speed chase.",
"The video of what happened when he was caught got attention across the country.",
"A man nearby took this video, which shows the police beating Rodney King.",
"He was arrested, but later released without being charged.",
"And a little more than a year later, four of the officers were acquitted of beating King.",
"The ruling caused racial tensions and set off a week-long riot in L.A. that left 55 people dead.",
"Don Lemon recently sat down with Rodney King to talk about some of the struggles he's gone through over the past two decades and what his life is like now.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR, CNN NEWSROOM: In the 20 years since his life was turned upside down, Rodney King has relocated to suburban Rialto, California.",
"He's 20 years older and, according to him, a lot wiser.",
"He admits his past is riddled with bad decisions.",
"If you could do it all over again, what would you do?",
"Would you go out that night?",
"RODNEY KING, POLICE BEATING VICTIM: I would have stayed, stayed home.",
"I think I would have stayed home.",
"LEMON: For years after the beating, Rodney King continued to have run-ins with the law.",
"In 1996, he was sentenced to 90 days for a hit-and-run involving his wife.",
"He was also arrested several times on charges related to domestic abuse, drug intoxication and indecent exposure.",
"Why, after all that, that's what people would say, especially black people, why after all that, Rodney, are you still getting in trouble?",
"KING: I guess the trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.",
"LEMON: And 20 years later, Rodney King still lives in fear.",
"Years after the beating, you wore a vest?",
"KING: Oh, yeah.",
"Yeah. LEMON: Do you still wear a vest?",
"KING: Yeah. I do. I do. LEMON: He wears a bulletproof vest in large crowds because threats against his life were all too real.",
"The FBI once infiltrated a white supremacist plot to assasinate king.",
"UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Are you constantly looking over your shoulder?",
"KING: I never feel safe, just things that happened.",
"When you are part of history, and it changes for the better, you got a lot of devilish people out there that don't like it.",
"LEMON: When Rodney King had the blood on his face, that mug shot of you with the blood on your face, who was he then?",
"KING: Oh man.",
"A guy that was almost dead and just, like, happy to be able to still have that face, to be able to see that face.",
"LEMON: And Rodney King now?",
"All cleaned up, trimmed goatee, beads around his neck.",
"Who is Rodney King now?",
"KING: I consider myself a decent, you know, good human being.",
"(END VIDEO) Web Promo .",
"AZUZ: Teachers, our daily e-mail gives you a sneak preview of what's coming up in tomorrow's show.",
"And signing up for it is simple as one, two, three.",
"One: Go to our home page, CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Two: Scroll down to the \"How do I\" box and click on \"sign up for the daily e-mail.\"",
"Three: Just fill out the form.",
"It's just that easy. Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"The phrase \"twilight's last gleaming\" is part of what song?",
"You know what to do! Is it in: A) God Bless America, B) The Star Spangled Banner, C) America the Beautiful or D) My Country 'Tis of Thee?",
"Another three seconds on the clock -- GO!",
"\"What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.\"",
"That's part of the Star Spangled Banner!",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: 80 years ago today, the Star Spangled Banner officially became the U.S. national anthem.",
"But the original is on the move!",
"This is the manuscript -- the original poem -- of the words that Francis Scott Key wrote while he watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.",
"That's where the \"bombs bursting in air\" line comes from.",
"Can you imagine that? You come up with a poem that, more than 100 years later, becomes your country's national anthem.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: That's what I call a banner achievement.",
"It's time for us to wave goodbye.",
"But don't let your spirits flag.",
"CNN Student News returns tomorrow, puns and all. We'll see y'all then."
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"(CNN Student News) -- February 18, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Middle East & North Africa • Egypt • Iran .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"JOYCE JOSEPH, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: You're tuned in to CNN Student News, where Fridays are always awesome!",
"Hi, everyone.",
"Carl Azuz is off today.",
"I'm Joyce Joseph.",
"Let's get to the headlines.",
"First Up: Lessons To Be Learned?",
"JOSEPH: First up, political protests turn violent in some of the Middle Eastern nations we've been talking about these past few weeks.",
"The U.S. government says it's \"deeply concerned\" about the crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bahrain.",
"Yesterday, several people were killed and hundreds more were injured in fighting between protesters and security forces.",
"In Yemen, at least 20 people were hurt when groups that support and oppose that country's government threw stones at each other yesterday.",
"And in Libya, some web sites called for a \"Day of Rage\" Thursday.",
"That could be a sign that anti-government protests are picking up in the country.",
"In all of these countries protesters are calling for change.",
"That's already happened in Egypt, where long-time President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down.",
"Sandra Endo explains why Egypt should study history to see where things might go from here.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: A revolution in Iran 32 years ago.",
"Months of bloodshed, protest, but success: the ouster of the Shah and his oppressive government.",
"Three decades later, a similar fight, this time powered by Egyptians.",
"The sweet taste of victory, forcing a dictator out of office.",
"But what's next? For Iranians, more than thirty years later, the battle for freedom still remains.",
"Mehdi Amini was 17 years old when he took part in the Iranian revolution.",
"He says the honeymoon was short lived after the Shah's regime was over and a repressive Islamic republic took charge.",
"He wants Egyptians to learn from Iran's history.",
"MEHDI AMINI, IRANIAN PROTESTER: We have Iran as a good example of the hopes that people had and what it eventually ended up being.",
"So, I'm just hoping that they don't have the same outcome and that they should be under watch.",
"ENDO: A big warning for Egyptians.",
"TRITA PARSI, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: It's very positive that there's so much optimism, but it should not be translated into naivety.",
"This is where the hard work begins, to ensure that getting rid of a dictatorial system actually translates into achieving democracy.",
"And that's a very, very hard path that the Egyptians will walk.",
"But hopefully, they will be more successful than the Iranians were in 1979.",
"ENDO: For Iranians like Amini, their fight will continue.",
"AMINI: I hope to see a day where I can go and vote freely for someone who I choose.",
"I hope to see a day when women and men have the right to just, basically, walk with each other, not be fearful of the repercussions of what's going to happen.",
"And I hope to see, basically, a day when I can go back to my country.",
"ENDO: Sandra Endo, CNN, Washington .",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) This Day In History .",
"JOSEPH: It's February 18th, and on this day in history...",
"In 1861, Jefferson Davis became the president of the Confederate States of America.",
"The Confederacy ended with its loss in the U.S. Civil War.",
"In 1930, Pluto was discovered by an astronomer at an observatory in Arizona.",
"It was once thought to be the solar system's 9th planet, but Pluto was downgraded in 2006.",
"And in 2001, NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr., \"The Intimidator,\" was killed in a car crash during the last lap of the Daytona 500.",
"Stimulus: Two Years Later .",
"JOSEPH: It didn't happen on this day in history, but two years ago yesterday, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law.",
"Most of us know it better as the stimulus bill.",
"This law, which had a final price tag of $814 billion, caused a huge controversy.",
"It was designed to give the U.S. economy a jump start, but Democrats and Republicans disagreed about whether or not it would work.",
"Two years later, they still disagree.",
"President Obama's administration says the stimulus has helped save more than 3 million jobs and kept the country from suffering another depression.",
"Republicans say the stimulus hasn't created the kind of recovery that the president promised it would.",
"As part of their argument, Republicans point to the country's unemployment rate.",
"It's gone down recently, but it's higher now than when the stimulus bill was signed.",
"Some experts say it's hard to judge the success of the stimulus because more than a third of the money from it hasn't even been spent yet.",
"Shoutout . JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Savannah's social studies class at Heartland Academy in Radcliff, Kentucky!",
"What name was associated with U.S. laws that enforced racial segregation?",
"Was it: A) John Brown, B) Jim Crow, C) Dred Scott or D) Homer Plessy?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation between the 1870s and 1950s.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"The Green Book .",
"JOSEPH: You might have learned about some of the Jim Crow laws in school: whites and blacks had to use separate water fountains, sit in different parts of the bus, go to different schools.",
"While these laws were in effect, and even after they were overturned, African-Americans weren't welcome everywhere.",
"Fredricka Whitfield shows us how a special book helped people travel safely around the country.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR, CNN NEWSROOM: The pictures on his wall are from 50 years ago, but Ernest Green remembers it like yesterday.",
"Green was one of the Little Rock 9, a group of African-American students who enrolled in Central High School in the Arkansas capital in 1957.",
"While Green was making history in the schools, his family navigated the segregated roads using a little-known guide for African-American families.",
"ERNEST GREEN, LITTLE ROCK NINE: The Green Book was a, I think an institution in black life.",
"It was one of those unknown survival tools for black people that had to move around the country.",
"I was a teenager, so I knew that the Green Book was a necessity for us to have a place to stay.",
"WHITFIELD: A place to stay, a place to eat, even a car repair shop that would be friendly to blacks, all pulled together in this directory.",
"GREEN: I had had a personal experience with the Green Book.",
"My aunt and mother mapping out a program for us to travel from Little Rock to Hampton, Virginia for my sister's graduation.",
"WHITFIELD: Personal tales like this inspired the playwright, and he learned about the travel guide's 1936 genesis.",
"CALVIN RAMSEY, PLAYWRIGHT, AUTHOR, \"RUTH AND THE GREEN BOOK\": Well, Victor Green, an African-American gentleman who had traveled himself and had hardships on the road, embarrassment, embarrassing situations that he didn't want to see his people continue to have.",
"So he said, \"If I can do something about this, I will.\"",
"WHITFIELD: The idea took off.",
"And year after year, the Green Book grew, providing resources for all 50 states.",
"Today, Ramsey takes his children's book, \"Ruth and the Green Book,\" to elementary schools, bringing old tales to a new audience.",
"And in the process, picking up on a dream that the creator of the Green Book held dearly.",
"GREEN: Travel, exposure, knowledge, all of it is fatal to prejudice.",
"It requires people to think broader to this idea about universality that begins to see people as people.",
"WHITFIELD: Big lessons from the little guide that history almost forgot.",
"Fredricka Whitfield, CNN, Atlanta.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Pictures Don't Lie .",
"JOSEPH: Teachers, we have a documentary we think you'll want to check out.",
"\"Pictures Don't Lie\" tells the story of civil rights photographer Ernest Withers, who may have also been an FBI informant!",
"The program airs at 8 p.m. Eastern this Sunday on CNN.",
"And you can find our discussion guide in the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com!",
"Blog Promo .",
"JOSEPH: And right underneath the Spotlight section you'll see a link to our blog.",
"Today's question: Who are your Black History Month heroes?",
"They might have made significant achievements in the world of politics, entertainment, sports, business or civil rights.",
"Head to our blog at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Tell us who you're picking, and why.",
"Before We Go . JOSEPH: Before we go, I hope you guys are hungry, because somebody's gonna have to finish all these fish tacos.",
"260 in all. Of course, before anyone eats them, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia is hoping they measure up to a world record: the world's longest taco line.",
"That's 80 pounds of fish, 45 pounds of veggies, four gallons of salsa.",
"The stunt is helping promote a new menu item at the cafeteria.",
"Goodbye . JOSEPH: So, they may \"taco\" good game about the world record, but it's also possible they're fishing for compliments.",
"Either way, it's food for thought.",
"CNN Student News will cook up our next program on Tuesday.",
"We're off on Monday for Presidents' Day.",
"We hope you enjoy the long weekend."
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"Consider the impact of the stimulus bill two years after it became law .",
"Learn about a book that helped African-Americans travel safely around the U.S.\nUse the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News ."
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"(CNN) -- Conflicting reports hit the international media this week about whether Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was negotiating a deal with the opposition for a guaranteed safe exit if he relinquished power.",
"Speculation percolated again Wednesday after few details were available about a private Libyan aircraft that landed in Cairo, Egypt.",
"But two questions remain: Will Gadhafi ever step down, and if he did, where would he go?",
"Gadhafi is sure not to go down easily.",
"He has defiantly vowed to die a martyr on Libyan soil and declared on state television, \"I am Libya.\"",
"At the moment, he has leverage, said David Pollock, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.",
"Those who have studied the strongman's megalomanic ways agree that he would probably not retreat from his revolution or his country without a fight to the end.",
"Analysts have raised the grim prospect of a protracted, bloody war in the vein of Somalia.",
"\"The tipping point wasn't reached quickly enough,\" Pollock said.",
"\"Now, this has turned into something that got stuck.",
"It's grim. Very grim.\" But if it came to a do-or-die scenario, Gadhafi, despite his bravado, would look for a way out, Pollock said.",
"There is no possibility of power-sharing, so if the opposition were to oust him, Gadhafi would have to leave the country, as U.S. President Barack Obama and others have already urged him to do.",
"But few would be willing to welcome a man with such a tarnished reputation, reinforced in recent weeks by the bloody crackdown on unarmed protesters, analysts said.",
"Saudi Arabia's name pops up in discussions of this nature; after all, Tunisia's ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile in the Gulf kingdom.",
"And there were rumors at one time that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would do the same.",
"But Gadhafi is another matter.",
"His relationship with Saudi King Abdullah is, to put it mildly, strained, especially after the Saudis accused Libyans of an assassination attempt on the king several years back.",
"\"I would be extremely surprised if he went to Saudi Arabia,\" said Christopher Boucek, a Saudi Arabia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"Boucek suggested that Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe might be more amenable to taking in Gadhafi.",
"The Libyan leader's adoption of pan-African solidarity drew him closer to the Zimbabwean dictator.",
"The relationship between the two nations blossomed also from the leaders' shared anti-colonial fervor and a realpolitik bond of being isolated nations, according to Boucek.",
"Others have suggested that Gadhafi could find a home in Cuba or Venezuela.",
"President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is considered Gadhafi's main ally in Latin America, a love born, again, from a mutual distaste for Western \"imperialism.\"",
"When the uprising began to escalate in Libya last month, rumors surfaced that Gadhafi had already fled to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.",
"Pollock listed one more possible future home for the Libyan strongman: Sudan.",
"Reva Bhalla, an analyst with the global intelligence company Stratfor, said Gadhafi has reportedly sought friendship from Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and tried to shore up that alliance.",
"But even the Syrians, said Bhalla, are less than enthused.",
"European nations, Bhalla said, would suit Gadhafi's sons just fine but not the eccentric leader, who has been famously known to travel with female bodyguards and sleep under a tent, even when he came to New York to address the United Nations.",
"After all, she said, Gadhafi remains a hardcore Bedouin.",
"And for the moment, it seems, he will remain in his Bedouin homeland, unwilling to let go of 40 years of power."
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"But the strongman appears as defiant as ever .",
"If he were to flee, he would have few options on where to go .",
"Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Sudan could take him in ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Holding back tears of nervousness, Zeng Yuhan accepted China's first peace prize Thursday at a hotel conference room in Beijing, a day before the Norwegian Nobel committee honors imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as this year's peace laureate in Oslo.",
"The six-year-old local girl received a trophy and a certificate in front of a sea of television cameras from the organizers of the Confucius Peace Prize, which also comes with an award of $15,000.",
"The ceremony's hosts said Zeng was chosen to accept the award on behalf of Lien Chan, the real winner and Taiwan's former vice president, because \"children symbolize peace and future.\"",
"Members of the prize jury said Lien, who they deemed had made major contributions to bridging the gap between Taiwan and mainland China, could not attend the event for \"reasons known to everyone\" -- but apparently not to the recipient himself.",
"\"We know who Confucius is, but don't know anything about this prize,\" Ting Yuan-chao, director of Lien's office in Taipei, told CNN earlier.",
"The hour-long award ceremony and press conference appeared thrown together at the last minute, jarred by microphone malfunction, awkward moments of silence and egregious English interpretation errors.",
"None of these factors seemed to have deterred the organizers, who promised to make this an annual event.",
"Brushing aside suggestions that their prize was meant to counter the Nobel award, the head of the jury insisted their focus to be promoting the ancient Chinese sage's philosophy.",
"\"China is a great nation that has been influenced by the Confucian concept of peace for a long time,\" Tan Changliu, chairman of the prize committee, told CNN before the ceremony.",
"\"We want to promote world peace from an Eastern perspective.\"",
"\"Europe is full of small countries that had fought each other for centuries,\" he added.",
"\"We don't want to see people who don't understand peace to ruin the concept.\"",
"Other members of the jury launched tirades against the United States, accusing it of destabilizing northeast Asia for staging war games in the region amid current tensions on the Korean Peninsula.",
"Tan declined to give details about his group -- other than stressing it is a non-government organization and the prize money came from an anonymous donor -- or how the five judges selected the nominees and the eventual winner.",
"Candidates for this year's Confucius prize included Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates and the Panchen Lama, a Tibetan Buddhist leader loyal to Beijing.",
"Of the eight nominees, only a Chinese poet, Qiao Damo, showed up and said it was a great honor to be chosen along with the other men.",
"China has responded furiously since the Nobel committee announced its decision on October 8.",
"Officials have repeatedly called Liu -- currently serving an 11-year sentence for \"inciting subversion\" -- a common criminal and the award a Western plot against China.",
"A businessman first proposed a rival peace prize in a commentary on the November 17 edition of Global Times, an English-language newspaper published by the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.",
"Echoing government spokesmen, Liu Zhiqin said that by awarding the prize to a criminal, the Nobel committee created 1.3 billion \"dissidents\" in China.",
"\"We often stress the need to fight for the right to speak,\" he wrote.",
"\"China's civil society should consider setting up a 'Confucius Peace Prize'... to declare China's view on peace and human rights to the world.\"",
"The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution to praise Liu Xiaobo, prompting strong condemnation from Beijing.",
"\"We urge relevant U.S. lawmakers to realize their mistake, change their arrogant and unreasonable attitude and show respect for the Chinese people and national sovereignty,\" said Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman.",
"Back at the Confucius award ceremony, organizers refused to say if they will watch Friday's Nobel event.",
"Despite the perceived rivalry between the two peace prizes, they seem to have one important thing in common -- the absence of their recipients at this year's award ceremonies."
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"A six-year-old girl accepted the award for Lien Chan, Taiwan's former vice president .",
"A spokesman for Lein Chan said he did not \"know anything about this prize\"\nOrganizers of the Confucius Peace Prize said the prize was not created to rival the Nobel Peace Prize ."
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"(CNN) -- The death toll from the latest round of heavy rain and flooding in central Vietnam continues to soar, with 46 people killed and 21 missing, state-run media report.",
"Rescuers were able to save 18 people whose bus was swept away Monday on the north-south highway 1A through Ha Tinh Province, but 19 people remain unaccounted for, according to VietNamNet.",
"The homes of 200,000 people are underwater in Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Bing provinces because of floods caused by storms that began October 14, official media report.",
"On Sunday alone, about 30 inches of rain fell in parts of the country.",
"The storms have hit the southeast Asian nation's agricultural sector hard, with waters inundating 8,000 hectares (31 square miles) of rice fields.",
"Prices of some crops have increased 200 to 500 percent as a result.",
"This storm follows rains and floods at the beginning of October in Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Bing, Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces that caused an estimated $137.5 million in damage, according to VietNamNet.",
"The two rounds of flood calamities have contributed to the deaths of 112 people, reported state-run television network VTV4, which cited Vietnam's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control as its source.",
"The Vietnamese government has dispatched 20,000 troops to help with the rescue and recovery process in the latest flooding, with Red Cross staffers from Vietnam, Spain, China, Germany and the United States among those helping the cause, reported VietNamNet.",
"The number of fatalities has climbed significantly in recent days.",
"On Monday, state-run media were reporting that at least 20 people had died.",
"A flood and landslide warning remains in effect for much of the region, with water levels dangerously high in the Ca River in Nghe An province and the Ngan Sau River in Ha Tinh province.",
"Landslides have already dumped tons of dirt and debris, clogging the Pe Ke mountain pass and parts of the Ho Chi Minh Highway.",
"And the situation might get worse, as Typhoon Megi, also known as Typhoon Juan, barrels across the South China Sea after killing 11 people in the Philippines.",
"Besides rain, the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting forecasts strong winds, big waves and rough seas over the next several days."
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"Landslides and flooding leave 46 dead, 21 missing in central Vietnam .",
"Homes of 200,000 people and 8,000 hectares of rice fields are underwater .",
"Rescuers saved 18 people after their bus was swept away, but 19 are still missing .",
"Two weeks earlier, 66 people in the region died after record-setting rains caused flooding ."
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"(CNN) -- A Reno, Nevada, man is charged with four counts of murder in the deaths of four northern California women dating back more than three decades, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Joseph Naso, 77, was arrested Monday by Marin County, California, detectives following his release from the El Dorado County jail, also in California, where he had been in custody over the past year on unrelated charges, Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian told reporters.",
"Naso is charged in the 1977 murder of Roxene Roggash in Marin County; Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tofoya of Yuba County, California, whose bodies were found in 1993 and 1994, respectively; and the death of Carmen Colon in Contra Costa County, California, whose body was found in 1978, Berberian said.",
"He is eligible for the death penalty.",
"Nancy Grace's Cold Cases .",
"Roggash's murder was considered unsolved until Naso was arrested in April 2010 by Nevada parole and probation authorities, Berberian said.",
"During that arrest, police found items that implicated Naso \"in multiple murders of young women,\" he said.",
"CNN affiliate KGO said Naso, who had been convicted of grand theft at a grocery store, had a probation officer visit him at his home near Reno and found weapons.",
"Naso spent a year in the El Dorado County Jail for the violation and was arrested upon his departure Monday, KGO said.",
"A search of his home turned up photographs and writings tying him to the deaths, according to the station.",
"Berberian was tightlipped about details Tuesday, citing the ongoing investigation.",
"He said Marin County has agreed to prosecute Naso for all four murders.",
"Naso's arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, Berberian said, and he will be presented with a criminal complaint at the hearing.",
"He was being held without bail in the Marin County Jail on Tuesday, Berberian said.",
"Although authorities have yet to link Naso to any slayings in Nevada, Chris Perry, acting director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety, left open the possibility of more victims.",
"\"We're hoping that people who have missing relatives will take a look at this and maybe put a couple of the pieces together and get that information to us so we can follow up on it,\" he told reporters.",
"A tip line will be set up for people to offer information, Washoe County, Nevada, Sheriff Mike Haley told reporters."
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"Authorities say he will be arraigned on Wednesday .",
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona have maintained their eight-point lead at the top of La Liga with a 3-1 victory over bottom-placed Almeria at the Nou Camp.",
"The visitors took a shock lead five minutes into the second half when Miguel Angel Corona finished off a counter attack.",
"But the hosts were back on level terms almost immediately as Almeria goalkeeper Diego Alves brought down David Villa with Lionel Messi converting the resulting spot kick.",
"Barcelona did have to wait long for their second as Thiago Alcantara gave them the lead in the 64th minute, and Messi wrapped things up with his second goal, capitalizing on some sloppy defending in injury time.",
"Real Madrid enjoyed a comfortable 3-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao to put their title challenge back on track after the shock defeat to Sporting Gijon last weekend.",
"Two penalties from Kaka -- one in each half -- and a 70th minute strike from Cristiano Ronaldo -- his 28th league goal of the campaign -- ensured Jose Mourinho's team remain within striking distance of the Spanish champions who visit the Bernabeu next weekend.",
"Meanwhile in Serie A, Inter Milan kept up the pressure on leaders AC Milan on Saturday night with a 2-0 win over Chievo at the San Siro.",
"Second-half goals from Esteban Cambiasso in the 66th minute and Maicon six minutes from time saw Inter take all three points to move ahead of Napoli who play Bologna on Sunday.",
"The win also moves them to within two points of Milan, who face Fiorentina on Sunday evening.",
"In Serie A's only other Saturday tie, Roma moved to within one point of fifth-placed Lazio, with a 2-1 victory over fourth-placed Udinese at the Stadio Friuli.",
"The win puts Vincenzo Montella's side back in contention for the fourth Champions League place.",
"Lazio play Parma on Sunday."
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"(CNN) -- A doctor at a Pennsylvania weight-loss clinic is scheduled for a preliminary hearing next week on charges that he sexually assaulted at least six female patients, according to the criminal complaint from the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, district attorney's office.",
"Dr. Arie Oren, 64, is charged with multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault that allegedly occurred during patient visits at the Conshohocken Weight Control clinic between the spring of 2008 through November 2010, the complaint said.",
"Conshohocken is a suburb of Philadelphia.",
"Oren was formally charged earlier this week, with allegations in the district attorney's criminal complaint including that he told several patients that an orgasm would help them burn calories.",
"The six female victims listed in the affidavit, who range in age from 24 to 59, described similar experiences with Oren at the clinic.",
"The victims told prosecutors they were all touched inappropriately or groped and he allegedly penetrated most of the victims' genitals with an electronic massager as an excuse to \"break up the fat.\"",
"One victim recounted that after Oren used the massager and touched her below the waist, he said, \"You know, if you have an orgasm you will burn 200 calories,\" according to the document.",
"Another victim claimed that Oren tried to kiss her after assaulting her and said that the visit was free because she was \"so hot,\" the complaint said.",
"Oren has a valid medical license that expires in December 2012, according to Pennsylvania's Department of State website.",
"Efforts by CNN to reach Oren on Tuesday evening were not successful and a person who answered the phone at the Conshohocken Weight Control clinic said personnel there were not commenting on the case.",
"Efforts to reach an attorney reported to be representing Oren also were unsuccessful.",
"Oren is free on bail pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for April 21, according to Assistant District Attorney Kate McGill."
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"Prosecutors: At least six female patients say the weight-loss doctor assaulted them .",
"The incidents allegedly occurred during patient visits, prosecutors say .",
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"(CNN) -- After a three-week trial and one hour of deliberations, an upstate New York jury on Monday found Muzzammil \"Mo\" Hassan guilty of second-degree murder for beheading his wife.",
"In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Orchard Park and told officers his wife was dead, police have said.",
"Aasiya Hassan had been decapitated, with prosecutor Paul Bonanno saying during opening arguments that the long knife used by her husband had left marks on his office's tile floor.",
"Hassan gave his own closing arguments Monday.",
"Earlier in the trial, he had dismissed his attorney, Jeremy Schwartz, who by trial's end was acting as his legal adviser.",
"\"Mr. Hassan has felt that throughout the tenure of his marriage, no one had listened to his side,\" Schwartz told reporters after the verdict.",
"\"It was important for him in the two hours that he had for summation to get across his side and how he saw his marriage.\"",
"Hassan listened quietly to the jury verdict, Schwartz said.",
"Hassan has the right to appeal after he is sentenced, Schwartz said.",
"According to prosecutors, Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce less than a week before she died.",
"On the day she died, Aasiya Hassan agreed to take some of her husband's clothes to his office after he had moved out of their home.",
"He had told her he would not be there, prosecutors said.",
"\"The defendant viciously killed ... and desecrated her (Aasiya's) body because six days earlier she had dared to file for divorce.",
"Dared to seek a better life for herself and the children,\" Assistant District Attorney Paul Bonanno said in the prosecution's opening statement.",
"Schwartz, then his client's defense lawyer, said in his opening statement that the couple's marriage was a \"sad and unhealthy relationship\" and that Aasiya Hassan threatened to embarrass his client and take away his children.",
"\"It ended with 'Mo' Hassan in fear of his very life,\" he told jurors.",
"\"Mo Hassan killed his wife, but he is not guilty of murder in the second degree.\"",
"During the trial, Michael and Sonia Hassan testified that their father had become violent in the past, CNN affiliate WIVB in Buffalo reported.",
"While both said the couple argued, neither recalled a case in which Aasiya -- their stepmother -- instigated a fight.",
"Police earlier said they had responded to several domestic violence calls at the couple's home, but no one had ever been arrested.",
"Hassan was the chief executive officer of the network Bridges TV, and Aasiya Hassan was the general manager.",
"He launched Bridges TV, billed as the first English-language cable channel targeting Muslims inside the United States, in 2004.",
"At the time, Hassan said he hoped the network would balance negative portrayals of Muslims following the attacks of September 11, 2001.",
"Hassan fired three defense attorneys before the trial.",
"Schwartz was the fourth to be dismissed, though he stayed as an adviser."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The latest assessment of human rights by the United States is critical of the records of Middle Eastern governments, including those of allies like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and adds that it will take \"years\" before the impact of the wave of unrest across the region is understood.",
"In a gripping introduction to its 2010 Human Rights Report released Friday, the State Department said, \"Because we are publishing this report three months into the new year... our perspectives on many issues are now framed by the dramatic changes sweeping across countries in the Middle East in 2011.\"",
"\"At this moment,\" it said, \"we cannot predict the outcome of these changes, and we will not know the lasting impacts for years to come.\"",
"The detailed report chronicles human rights conditions in 194 countries but it focuses significant attention on events in the Middle East and North Africa.",
"No \"sweeping analysis\" of the entire region is possible, it said, because the internal dynamics of each country are different.",
"But, singling out Tunisia, which sparked the so-called \"Arab Spring\" and Egypt, which threw out one of the most powerful leaders in the region, the report says, \"We are witnessing popular demands for meaningful political participation, fundamental freedoms, and greater economic opportunity.\"",
"\"These demands are profound, they are homegrown, and they are being driven by new activists, many of them young people.",
"These citizens seek to build sustainable democracies in their countries with governments that respect the universal human rights of their own people.",
"If they succeed, the Middle East region, and with it the whole world, will be improved.\"",
"The 2010 Human Rights Report lists three trends that are affecting rights around the world: .",
"The first is the \"explosive growth\" of non-governmental advocacy organizations promoting democracy and human rights issues and causes.",
"\"In many countries \"citizens' organizations have been created against great odds and only because individual human rights activists were willing to face great personal risk,\" it says.",
"In the last several years, more than 90 governments have sought to pass restrictive laws and regulations hampering the ability of organizations to register, operate freely, or receive foreign funding .",
"The second trend is the explosion of connective technologies like the internet and mobile phones.",
"In Egypt and Tunisia, the report notes, \"while it is the courage of the people themselves that led the way and was the driving force, the amplifying impact of these new technologies, coupled with the power of television stations and the internet to broadcast videos obtained by citizens using these mobile phones, cannot be denied.\"",
"More than 40 governments, however, it says, now are using a combination of regulatory restrictions, technical controls on access to the internet, and technologies designed to repress speech and infringe on the personal privacy of those who use these rapidly evolving technologies.",
"In China, for example, it says bloggers and webmasters have been arrested and charged with \"subverting state power\" for re-tweeting a post or operating a website where others posted comments.",
"The third trend, a negative one, the State Department said, is the escalation of violence, persecution, and official and societal discrimination against members of vulnerable groups, such as racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.",
"The discrimination extends to women, children, persons with disabilities; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons.",
"\"In Uganda, intimidation and harassment of LGBT individuals worsened during the year,\" it said, \"and some government and religious leaders threatened LGBT individuals.",
"Honduras saw an upsurge in killings of members of the LGBT community by unknown individuals.",
"LIBYA . In Libya, currently in a state of civil war as its leader, Moammar Gadhafi, clings to power, the State Department said, \"Colonel al-Gadhafi and his close associates monopolized every aspect of decision-making in the government.\"",
"Read about alleged Libyan rape victim thankful for support.",
"The Libyan government, it says, continues to use torture and arbitrary arrest.",
"\"A large but unknown number of persons remained in detention or prison for engaging in peaceful political activity or for belonging to an illegal political organization.\"",
"SYRIA . In Syria, swept with dissent against its president, Bashar al-Assad, government security forces in 2010 committed \"unlawful killings, detained political and human rights activists, and tortured and physically abused prisoners and detainees with impunity,\" the State Department said.",
"TUNISIA . In an update on Tunisia , however, the report is optimistic, saying the United States is \"encouraged by the creation of a fact-finding committee to investigate human rights abuses that took place during the uprising,\" it said.",
"EGYPT . In Egypt, the State Department says the United States is \"waiting for the government to lift the state of emergency, which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has promised to do prior to parliamentary elections.\"",
"SAUDI ARABIA .",
"A key U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia, comes in for criticism, with the report noting \"there were severe restrictions on religious freedom and discrimination on the basis of religion was common.\"",
"In addition, the Saudi government, it said, restricted access to the internet and interfered with citizens' privacy while online, monitoring e-mail and internet chat rooms and blocked sites, \"including pages about Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and certain forms of Islam deemed incompatible with Sharia law and national regulations.\"",
"BAHRAIN . In Bahrain, the report cites were \"multiple allegations of mistreatment and torture, especially of Shia activists associated with rejectionist and opposition groups.",
"Authorities arbitrarily arrested activists, journalists, and other citizens and detained some individuals incommunicado,\" it said.",
"Shia Muslims are underrepresented in leadership positions in the civil service, police, and security forces and citizens in general \"did not have the right to change their government.\"",
"The government restricted civil liberties, including freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, and some religious practices, it notes.",
"ISRAEL . In Israel, the State Department cites \"institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against Arab citizens, Palestinian residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, non-Orthodox Jews, and other religious groups.\"",
"It says there is societal discrimination against persons with disabilities, as well as discrimination and domestic violence against women, particularly in Bedouin society.",
"\"While trafficking in persons for the purpose of prostitution decreased in recent years, trafficking for the purpose of labor remained a serious problem, as did abuse of foreign workers and societal discrimination and incitement against asylum seekers.\"",
"YEMEN . In Yemen, the report cites \"arbitrary and unlawful killings, politically motivated disappearances, and reports of torture and other physical abuse accompanied the use of excessive force against civilians in internal conflict.",
"Human rights abuses included\" severe limitations on citizens' ability to change their government due to, among other factors, corruption, fraudulent voter registration, administrative weakness, and close political-military relationships at high levels.",
"PAKISTAN . In Pakistan it cites media and non-governmental organization reports on allegations of extrajudicial killings and detention of civilians by the security forces.",
"The total number of reported torture and rape cases of individuals in custody almost doubled, the report notes, compared to 2009.",
"CHINA . Last year, the state of human rights in China was a hot-button issue, with charges that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was downplaying abuses.",
"The 2010 report says a \"negative trend in key areas of human rights continued.\"",
"The government, it said, \"stepped up restrictions on lawyers, activists, bloggers, and journalists; tightened controls on civil society; and increased attempts to limit freedom of speech and control the press, the internet, and internet access in 2010.\"",
"It notes the increased use of \"forced disappearances,\" strict house arrest, arbitrary detention in \"black jails\" and other forms of \"soft detention\" to silence independent voices and punish activists and their families.",
"It singles out legal activist Chen Guangcheng, along with his wife and child.",
"Chen remained under house arrest, as did other released political prisoners.",
"RUSSIA . In Russia, the report says, the government detained demonstrators and continued to pressure non-governmental organizations, independent media, some religious minorities, independent labor unions, and political opposition.",
"Attacks on and the murder of journalists and activists continued.",
"BELARUS . And in Belarus, the State Department report highlights \"particularly harsh treatment\" of pro-democracy activists and journalists.",
"More than 700 pro-democracy activists, including seven presidential candidates, were arrested during public demonstrations following the flawed December 2010 presidential elections, it says.",
"In the weeks that followed, the offices and homes of civil society representatives, independent journalists, and political activists were raided as part of an effort to stifle expression.",
"The State Department's Human Rights Report is translated into over 50 languages and made available online.",
"In conjunction with the new report, State Department launched a new website called humanrights.gov."
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"Report notes \"dramatic changes sweeping across countries in the Middle East in 2011\"\n\"We cannot predict the outcome of these changes\""
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"London (CNN) -- Buildings were burning at a prison in southern England on Saturday, more than 12 hours after prisoners started a riot by smashing windows and setting fires.",
"Fires were burning in at least two buildings at HMP Ford, an open prison with numerous one-story residence halls on a grassy campus.",
"At least one of the buildings was destroyed, according to aerial footage of the scene.",
"Two fire engines escorted by specialist prison officers in riot gear went onto prison grounds Saturday afternoon as fires engulfed large parts of two more buildings, sending thick black smoke into the air.",
"The Ministry of Justice said there were no reports of injuries to either prisoners or staff.",
"The incident began around midnight (7 p.m.",
"ET Friday) and forced prison staff to retreat.",
"Police, firefighters and specialist teams of prison officers had to be called in.",
"An additional 140 prison service staff arrived at Ford around midday Saturday to help bring the prison under full control, the Ministry of Justice said, emphasizing it was not an indication the situation was escalating.",
"Ford is in a former Royal Navy station in Arundel, near the coast about two hours south of London.",
"It was converted to a prison in 1960 and houses offenders who have fewer than two years left to serve on their sentences.",
"Prisoners there are convicted of a variety of offenses, though the prison does not accept those convicted of arson, some sexual offenses and harassment."
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"(CNN) -- An Iowa community was shut down much of Sunday afternoon while emergency crews remained hard at work, sifting through wreckage caused by a wave of powerful tornadoes that swept across the state overnight.",
"The twisters caused major damage to about 60% of Mapleton, a city of about 1,200 residents, Monona County Sheriff Jeff Pratt told reporters Sunday.",
"It was all part of a violent storm system that struck overnight, originating in eastern Nebraska and following a warm front across northern Iowa, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Boksa.",
"But despite causing extensive damage, it did not lead to any fatalities, said Stefanie Bond, a spokeswoman for Iowa's Homeland Security & Emergency Management Division.",
"Wildfires in Texas | Flooding in upper Midwest .",
"Mapleton was among the hardest-hit areas.",
"Initially, concerns about a gas leak had prompted all nonresidents to be barred from the community, which is about 45 miles southeast of Sioux City.",
"By 5 p.m., people were being allowed back in, though authorities remained on the scene, according to the sheriff's department.",
"The high winds tossed cars and tractors, tore off roofs, caused a car wash to collapse, uprooted trees and downed power lines.",
"Yet Pratt said there had been only minor injuries, giving credit to advance warning as well as an emergency response effort that included authorities both local and from elsewhere.",
"\"There was major devastation to the southwest portion of town, but no fatalities,\" the sheriff said.",
"Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad issued a disaster proclamation for Monona County, according to a statement from his office.",
"The proclamation allows officials to use state funds to help.",
"He later issued a similar proclamation for Pocahontas County, which also suffered severe damage.",
"He then toured the tornado-ravaged town on Sunday afternoon, posting pictures online of uprooted trees and conversations with residents.",
"On his Twitter page, Branstad wrote, \"Please keep the victims in your thoughts and prayers.\"",
"The twisters struck just before midnight Saturday.",
"Amateur video recorded by storm chasers shows a large funnel cloud spinning across a flat terrain outside Mapleton.",
"In the background, a passenger can be heard exclaiming, \"It's going to hit that town!",
"... Mapleton's in big trouble!\"",
"Did you witness the storm?",
"Share your story .",
"Afterward, National Guard troops were brought into the area, according to Stefanie Bond, a public information officer for the state's Homeland Security & Emergency Management Division.",
"She also said that natural gas service was temporarily shut off in the city.",
"The Red Cross was also on the ground providing assistance.",
"Bruce Spence, a government liaison for the group, called the damage to the town \"extensive.\"",
"\"The whole town is without power.",
"Main Street is a disaster,\" he told CNN.",
"\"They've shut down the town. As we speak, I'm looking down one of the residential streets.",
"There's debris all over, trees are down.",
"\"This isn't going to get fixed soon,\" Spence said.",
"The National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa, reported tornado sightings by storm chasers and trained spotters in as many as 11 towns and cities in northern and west-central Iowa over a four-hour period Saturday night.",
"At least three of the twisters, including the Mapleton tornado, caused significant damage, according to Boksa.",
"In Early, a town of 1,600 residents, a tornado ripped roofs off buildings and homes and uprooted large trees, authorities said.",
"There were no reports of injuries in that town.",
"In Schaller, a twister knocked down a dozen trees and felled multiple power poles, the weather service reported.",
"Tammie Pech, a Red Cross spokeswoman, said the agency was opening shelters in Mapleton and Early to take in storm victims.",
"Only four people slept in the Mapleton shelter overnight Sunday, Spence said.",
"Most displaced residents opted to stay with family and friends, he said.",
"The National Weather Service also reported major damage in Nemaha, possibly from a tornado.",
"Bond noted that strong winds also tore through hog pens in Pocohontas Country, in central Iowa, and Kossuth County, in the east along the Illinois border.",
"Three cities in Fayette County -- Fayette, Westgate and Maynard -- were without power for about an hour Sunday evening due to a blown transformer, the state's emergency management spokeswoman said.",
"Randy Frank, Fayette County's homeland security and emergency management coordinator, said that the challenges continued well after the tornadoes came through, with sustained winds blowing at least 50 mph into Sunday evening.",
"\"Our biggest problem right now is fuel fires out of control,\" said Frank, whose county is about 255 miles from Monona County.",
"\"And it's that way across the state, with the wind, which (can) be very dangerous in (fanning) the fire.\"",
"CNN's Greg Morrison, Greg Botelho and Leslie Tripp contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A Fayette County official says fuel fires, fanned by strong winds, are a concern .",
"Mapleton had been shut down as authorities probed a possible gas leak .",
"A Red Cross liaison calls the city's Main Street \"a disaster,\" with debris everywhere .",
"Other Iowa communities are also hit hard by overnight twisters ."
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"FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- A Fort Lauderdale nurse has resigned and more than 1,800 patients have been notified that they may have been exposed to diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, after the nurse allegedly admitted to the hospital that she used disposable IV equipment on multiple patients, a violation of safety standards.",
"Reuse of disposable equipment violates \"universal, standard\" safety policy, a hospital official noted.",
"Fort Lauderdale Police are investigating to determine whether any crimes were committed after an anonymous caller reported seeing the nurse use the same saline bag and a portion of tubing more than once, during adult cardiac chemical stress tests.",
"The hospital, Broward General Medical Center, said that a review of the nurse was conducted when administering intravenous fluids during the stress tests and that she was suspended pending the outcome of a full investigation.",
"The nurse subsequently resigned, according to the hospital.",
"Police have identified the nurse as Qui Lan of Fort Lauderdale.",
"On Friday, an attorney for Lan told CNN: \"Ms. Qui Lan has been a registered nurse for over 37 years providing excellent medical care to all of her patients.",
"She has an excellent reputation in the medical community due to her professionalism and ethical manner.",
"We are confident that once the facts surrounding this incident are revealed, Ms. Qui Lan will continue to be seen in the same light.\"",
"\"She's not a suspect,\" said police Sgt.",
"Frank Sousa.",
"\"We don't have a crime at this point....If any victims come forward, we're going to investigate.\"",
"Police have not released an incident report.",
"\"It's heartbreaking to every employee here,\" said Cathy Meyer, a spokeswoman for Broward General Medical Center.",
"\"She was aware that she was doing this. It's no different than changing a sheet, or a BandAid.",
"This is what nurses go into nursing school for,\" Meyer said.",
"\"It's a violation of standard nursing infection control procedures,\" she said.",
"\"It's a universal, standard policy which was violated.\"",
"The hospital says a review of medical files from the nurse's date of employment, January 2004, until today identified 1,851 patients to whom the nurse administered cardiac chemical tests.",
"These patients are being urged to get tested for the hepatitis B and C virus, and HIV.",
"Alice Taylor, the hospital's chief operating officer, said the nurse admitted to a hospital investigator that she should have used new equipment for each patient.",
"When asked why she didn't, the nurse did not respond, Taylor said, through a spokesperson.",
"\"She admitted to inconsistencies in replacing the saline bag,\" Taylor said.",
"A cardiac chemical stress test is designed for people who cannot tolerate a traditional stress test, which involves walking on a treadmill with electrodes attached to their body.",
"So, the chemical test is performed, using specific medicines that increase the heart beat as if the person were exercising.",
"It was during this intravenous process that saline bags and tubing were allegedly used more than once, according to the anonymous individual.",
"The hospital believes the risk of exposure is low but said it's important for patients to be tested and will pay all necessary costs.",
"\"This is an individual's unacceptable practice that once discovered was immediately corrected,\" said James Thaw, CEO of Broward General Medical Center, in a written statement.",
"As of Tuesday morning, the hospital had already received more than 600 calls and had counseled 30 people inside the hospital.",
"\"It's prudent for our hospital to go into an investigation and notify every patient.",
"We took a conservative approach,\" said Meyer, the hospital spokesperson.",
"But whether the nurse's actions result in criminal charges remains to be seen.",
"The police have sealed the incident report and have not yet interviewed the nurse.",
"\"We are investigating to see whether or not there was a crime that was committed,\" said Sgt.",
"Frank Sousa of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.",
"In the meantime, a 24-hour patient hotline has been established.",
"The hospital asks concerned patients to call 800-545-5716, or go to their Web site at www.browardhealth.org/patientnotice/#."
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"Hospital said the nurse admitted to reusing disposable IV equipment .",
"Notified patients are being urged to get tested for hepatitis B and C, HIV ."
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"(CNN) -- Ex-Germany international Jens Lehmann is set to make a sensational return to English club Arsenal ten months after announcing his retirement from soccer.",
"Manager Arsene Wenger confirmed the 41-year-old has re-signed for the title-chasing Gunners on a rolling monthly contract three years after leaving for Stuttgart.",
"Lehmann, who made 199 appearances for Arsenal between 2003 and 2008, also represented Germany on 61 occasions before retiring in May 2010.",
"He was part of Arsenal's 'Invincibles' side who went through the entire 2003-04 season unbeaten as they secured the English Premier League title.",
"Wenger insisted it was a good move for the club, who have been knocked out of three competitions in the last three weeks, given injuries to Wojciech Szczesny, Vito Mannone and Lukasz Fabianski.",
"He told reporters: \"Lehmann is training with us and will sign for the rest of the season.",
"\"We have no cover in the Premier League, so that is why I decided to bring Jens back.",
"I'm happy because when Jens is in training he is as motivated as ever.",
"\"If he has to play, if I choose to play him, his huge motivational level will be vitally important.\"",
"Lehmann told the club's website: \"I'm very excited to be rejoining Arsenal.",
"I have kept myself fit since the end of last season and I'm ready to contribute at any time for the team.",
"\"I have many great memories from my previous time at the club and Arsenal has always had a place in my heart.",
"It's special to be coming back.\"",
"Lehmann enjoyed a notoriously fractious relationship with Arsenal's current number one goalkeeper, Spaniard Manuel Almunia, with several of their disagreements spilling over into the public arena.",
"Lehmann lost his place to Almunia in 2007 with the German calling it \"humiliating.\"",
"He told German television: \"To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.",
"I am very angry.\" Almunia responded by telling British newspaper The Guardian: \"To have someone here who hates me is just amazing.\"",
"But despite the history of acrimony between the pair, Wenger insisted Lehmann's arrival would not be a problem as Arsenal try to overhaul Manchester United's three point lead at the top of the Premier League.",
"He added: \"There has been much more said about that relationship than what happened.",
"There is a lot of respect between the two goalkeepers.",
"\"I think Jens Lehmann will get the best out of Almunia, because he will show him every day he is ready to fight for his place -- as he has always been.",
"Almunia will be motivated by that.\""
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"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger confirms Jens Lehmann set to re-sign for the club .",
"Lehmann spent five years at Arsenal between 2003-2008 .",
"Former Germany international retired from the game in May 2010 .",
"Lehmann has had controversial career and fell out with Arsenal keeper Manuel Almunia ."
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"Ibadan, Nigeria (CNN) -- Separate bomb blasts ripped through a polling station and a collation center in northeastern Nigeria Saturday as Africa's most populous nation began voting in elections marred by violence and delays.",
"The first explosion occurred at a voting station in the city of Maiduguri, National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib said.",
"No deaths were reported; the number of injuries was still unknown.",
"The second blast was also reported in Maiduguri, at the Abba Ganaram collation center, Shuaib said, adding that the explosion caused \"serious casualties.\"",
"It was not immediately clear how many people died.",
"Also in Maiduguri, armed youths set a government building afire, Shuaib said.",
"A new election chief promised \"free and fair\" elections this year, but the election has already been plagued by related bombings, assassinations and logistical problems that delayed the vote.",
"Concerns are that continued violence could derail the vote altogether.",
"Nigerians began voting Saturday for 360 House of Representatives seats and 109 Senate seats.",
"The staggered voting structure will take them back to the polls next Saturday to vote for a president and on April 26 for a gubernatorial vote.",
"Despite domestic and international pressure, Nigeria's Electoral Commission was forced to put off elections by a week after a nationwide logistical disaster -- many voting materials were not even in the country until voting day and party logos were missing from ballot papers.",
"It was a huge setback, reminiscent of the problems of Nigeria's 2007 elections, described by the European Union as the worst it had seen anywhere in the world with rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.",
"The legitimacy of the country now rides on the three rounds of polling.",
"On the eve of the vote, a bomb exploded at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Suleja in central Nigeria, officials said.",
"A government official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, told CNN that eight people died in the attack.",
"Shuaib said more than seven people were seriously injured.",
"\"We condemn this cowardly and dastardly action, which seems designed to instill fear in Nigerians and paralyze their aspirations for peaceful and credible elections,\" the chairman of the electoral commission, Attahiru Jega, said in a statement.",
"\"Our deep sympathies go to the families of all these young Nigerians who lost their lives or were injured.\"",
"Human Rights Watch estimates that at least 85 people have been killed in political violence so far.",
"As Africa's most populous country and its largest oil producer, Nigeria is important.",
"Yet, despite its enormous oil wealth, 80% of the population lives on less than $2 a day, according to the United Nations.",
"\"Make no mistake about it: This test of honour is inescapably a collective one for all Nigerians,\" the Independent National Electoral Commission said in a recent statement.",
"\"It is our national honour at stake, and our relevance in the affairs of the modern world being redefined.\"",
"Separately on Friday, one man was killed and another seriously injured in a blast in the northern city of Kaduna, state news reported.",
"Police rushed to the scene and found unexploded dynamite there, according to the Kaduna State Police Commissioner Haruna John, Voice of Nigeria reported.",
"They found more dynamite at a house belonging to he injured man, the outlet said."
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"NEW: Separate blasts rock a voting and collation center .",
"NEW: The second blast caused \"serious casualties,\" an official says .",
"There have been riots, bombings and assassinations ahead of the elections .",
"Nigerians are voting Saturday for House and Senate seats ."
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"(CNN) -- India batsman Sachin Tendulkar became the first player in history to score 2,000 runs at the Cricket World Cup, as the hosts eased to a five-wicket win over the Netherlands on Wednesday.",
"Chasing a target of 189 runs to win, India booked their place in the quarterfinals of the tournament with 13 overs to spare in Delhi.",
"Tendulkar, 37, was playing in his 40th World Cup match and reached a score of 27 before he was caught by Bradley Kruger off the bowling of Pieter Seelaar.",
"Nicknamed \"the little master\", Tendulkar made his World Cup debut in 1992 and has hit five centuries and 13 fifties in cricket's premier 50-over competition.",
"Dutch skipper Peter Borren was top scorer for the minnows as he registered a score of 38 off 36 deliveries.",
"Zaheer Khan was the pick of the Indian bowlers with three wickets for just 20 runs as Netherlands were dismissed inside 47 overs.",
"India made an awkward start to their response after three wickets from Seelar left the hosts in a worrying position on 82 for three.",
"But left-handed batsman Yuvraj Singh steadied the ship for India with a half-century off 73 balls.",
"The victory leaves India top of Group A with seven points and assured of their place in the next phase of the competition."
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"India beat Netherlands by five wickets to book their place in the quarterfinals .",
"Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first player to score 2,000 World Cup runs .",
"Tendulkar made his World Cup debut in 1992 and he has played in six tournaments .",
"The win leaves India top of Group A with seven points and assured of a last eight place ."
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"(CNN) -- Protesters staged fresh demonstrations in Saudi Arabia on Friday, calling on the government to release Shiite prisoners and grant more rights, human rights activists said.",
"The protests, which were peaceful, also called for the withdrawal of regional forces from neighboring Bahrain, according to the activists, who requested their names not be used because they had concerns for their safety.",
"All the protesters were Shiite.",
"The protests took place in the city of Qatif and the village of Awamiyya, both in the country's Eastern Province, and each the scene of similar protests in March.",
"In Qatif, about 200 people marched through the streets, chanting for the release of the prisoners, the activists said.",
"Some carried Bahraini flags in a 90-minute march that some said was in solidarity with Bahrainis.",
"In Awamiyya, more than 150 Shiite men and women marched for the release of prisoners and for the withdrawal of Gulf Cooperation Council forces from Bahrain.",
"As in Qatif, some protesters carried Bahraini flags.",
"Several members of the council have sent troops to Bahrain to help Manama quell anti-government protests.",
"The protesters in Awamiyya also called for human rights in a march that lasted just over an hour.",
"In both places, security forces were present but didn't interfere, the activists said.",
"CNN was unable to reach the Saudi Interior Ministry for comment.",
"The issue of Shiite prisoners and a demand for more rights have been the focus of similar protests in Saudi Arabia in the past two months, although fewer demonstrations have taken place in recent weeks.",
"Others have demonstrated for the creation of a constitutional monarchy and other reforms."
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"Demonstrators call for human rights and the release of Shiite prisoners .",
"They also call for the withdrawal of forces from Bahrain .",
"The protests are peaceful ."
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"(CNN) -- At the intersection of science-fiction and science-fact was William Shatner on Monday.",
"As James T. Kirk, the fictional captain of the Starship Enterprise, Shatner voiced the opening credits of the original \"Star Trek\" TV series and several movies since 1966.",
"The 79-year-old actor reprised his role to wake up the crew of the space shuttle Discovery at 3:23 a.m.",
"ET Monday. \"Space, the final frontier.",
"These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery.",
"Her 30-year mission: To seek out new science.",
"To build new outposts.",
"To bring nations together on the final frontier.",
"To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before,\" Shatner said over the \"Theme from Star Trek.\"",
"This is the spacecraft's final scheduled mission.",
"It has made 39 flights and 13 journeys to the international space station.",
"Discovery undocked from the space station for the final time at 8:37 a.m., according to NASA, in preparation for its flight home.",
"Discovery is scheduled to land at Florida's Kennedy Space Center shortly before noon Wednesday -- one day later than originally scheduled.",
"The nearly three-decade shuttle program is scheduled to end later this year.",
"CNN's Ric Ward contributed to this report."
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"The space shuttle Discovery is on its final mission .",
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"James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise .",
"His voice is featured in opening credits for the original \"Star Trek\" series ."
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"(CNN) -- Some New York police officers still cannot communicate with each other with police radios, even though the issue plagued the rescue effort after the 9/11 attacks nearly 10 years ago, a New York state senator says.",
"And that state senator says he plans to send a letter Thursday to President Barack Obama urging him to remedy the situation.",
"NYPD helicopter video shows 9/11 attacks .",
"\"Despite nearly a decade passing since the September 11, 2001 attacks ... our first responders, the brave men and women who will be standing on the front lines of our next attack and running into buildings as most are running out, still, in far too many instances, do not have proper interoperability they need, and in some cases still cannot communicate at all,\" the letter written by state Sen. Greg Ball says.",
"Ball, who is also the chairman of the New York State Homeland Security Committee, said the issue was highlighted last week during a homeland security hearing.",
"At the hearing Robert Morris, a police union official, talked about the problems.",
"\"The officer carries a radio on his belt but he might as well be wearing a brick,\" Morris said.",
"The radios are so bad in some cases that officers have used their cell phones to communicate with each other, Ball said.",
"Officers with the Metropolitan Transit Authority have also been severely plagued with the faulty radios.",
"In 2008, a New York labor safety board urged the transit police department to fix the issue with the radios but the issue still has not been resolved, Ball said.",
"Ball said he also plans to send his letter to all members of Congress."
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"Radios so faulty some officers use cell phones to communicate, state senator says .",
"\"The officer carries a radio on his belt but he might as well be wearing a brick\"\nThe state senator will also send the letter to all members of Congress ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Dear Chinese Government,\" began a message sent late Thursday from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.",
"\"Year-long detentions for sending a sarcastic tweet are neither the way forward nor the future of your great people,\" he wrote on his Twitter profile.",
"Costolo's edict is no doubt a response to the Chinese woman who had been sentenced to a year in a labor camp for retweeting a message that officials in China disapproved of.",
"The tweet mocked Chinese people who were aligning with the Chinese government by protesting Japanese products.",
"In an hour, Costolo's message had well surpassed a hundred retweets -- an act similar to forwarding an e-mail, denoting interest in the content.",
"It quickly climbed to the top spot on the list of trending tweets, an automated system that surfaces popular messages on the service.",
"A Chinese government official could not be reached late Thursday for comment on the tweet.",
"The arrested woman, Cheng Jianping, on October 17 retweeted a message from her fiance, which read, \"Anti-Japanese demonstration, smashing Japanese products, this kind of stuff has been done by some people like Guo Quan many years ago.",
"That's nothing new.",
"Actually the most efficient way should be flying to Shanghai right away and smashing Japanese Pavilion at Expo.\"",
"She added \"Go! Angry young people!\"",
"to her retweet, according to a translation by CNN.",
"Chinese leaders have not been keen on information-sharing services like Twitter in the past.",
"China has censored or blocked access to the website during major events, along with other blogs and social networks.",
"Last year it put a wall in front of the site for Chinese Web surfers during the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest.",
"Google has had a back-and-forth business relationship with China.",
"It initially agreed to censor search results in that country but later backtracked.",
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his own website as a platform for talking about China recently, though his message was decidedly less controversial.",
"\"What are the best Mandarin-speaking cities to visit in China?\"",
"Zuckerberg posed to users of a beta feature called Questions.",
"Zuckerberg is believed to be planning a trip to China, Forbes reports.",
"The Asian country will be important to Facebook's business, he said at an event last month."
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"Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sent a message on his Twitter page late Thursday night .",
"The tweet is critical of the Chinese government for detaining one of its citizens .",
"A Chinese woman was sentenced to a year in a labor camp for one of her retweets ."
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"(CNN) -- The Israeli military fired on militants who were trying to plant a bomb near a security fence in northern Gaza, striking three, the military said.",
"Three Palestinian men in their 20s were killed by the Israeli fire, Palestinian medical sources said.",
"About 100 \"terror-related incidents\" happened last year near the security fence in Gaza, the Israeli military said in a statement.",
"Israel blames Hamas, which governs Gaza, the statement said.",
"\"The presence of Palestinian civilians in the area adjacent to the security fence is used by terrorist organizations as cover for their activities, including planting explosive devices, planning terrorist attacks and attempting to kidnap (Israeli) soldiers,\" the statement said."
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"(CNN) -- Shock and sadness etched the faces of residents in northeastern Wisconsin as daylight on Monday revealed the damage left behind by a powerful storm that cut a swath through the state.",
"An emergency declaration has been made for the city of Kaukauna, where early estimates were that 157 homes had been either damaged or destroyed Sunday night, the city's police chief said.",
"City officials, including the police, fire, planning and utility departments, went out in four teams for the morning assessment.",
"\"This tornado, what we believe is a tornado, moved through, hit the back of houses, jumped over the front of those, then hit the front of the houses homes and hit the front of the houses on the other side of the street,\" said Kaukauna Police Chief John Manion.",
"Despite the damage estimates, which officials believe will grow, no injuries were reported in Kaukauna from the storm.",
"\"People were well warned,\" Manion said.",
"\"That contributes to life.\"",
"Kaukauna is about 20 miles southwest of Green Bay.",
"Authorities in Lincoln County, in northern Wisconsin, did a door-to-door search after the Sunday night storm.",
"At least 25 homes suffered severe damage, said Mark Handlin of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.",
"The worst damage was north of Merrill, about 170 miles north-northwest of Milwaukee, he said.",
"Crews are working to clear downed trees and power lines, Handlin said.",
"A shelter has been set up at a motel.",
"Two residents were airlifted to a larger regional hospital because of the extent of their injuries, said Brian Sladek, director of Lincoln County emergency management.",
"Other minor injuries were reported."
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"Daylight reveals extensive storm damage across Wisconsin .",
"157 homes are damaged or destroyed in city of Kaukauna; no one is hurt .",
"Lincoln County officials do a door-to-door search after the storm ."
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"(CNN) -- The body of a 25-year-old northern California man swept out to sea while trying to photograph the tsunami's arrival from Japan last month has washed ashore about 380 miles away, in Oregon, officials there said Tuesday.",
"Dustin Douglas Weber of Klamath, California, was standing on a sand bar near the mouth of the Klamath River in Del Norte County, California, when he was swept away March 11, authorities said.",
"Tsunami's first moments .",
"He was with two friends who also were carried off by the surge but were able to return safely to shore, authorities said.",
"Weber was identified by a forensic odontologist using dental records, said Eugene Gray, forensic administrator in the Oregon state medical examiner's office.",
"Tsunami trash headed for U.S. His body was found on the shore south of the Columbia River in Oregon on April 2 by a person walking the beach, Gray told CNN."
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"Dustin Douglas Weber of California was swept out to sea by the tsunami from Japan .",
"He was photographing the surge last month .",
"Weber's body was found on a beach in Oregon near the Columbia River ."
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"Dallas (CNN) -- Once fearing one of the worst days in the state's history for battling wildfires, Texas firefighters got the upper hand Sunday on several blazes though others remained out of their control.",
"The six new wildfires reported Sunday, all in different counties, were relatively small and quickly brought under control, the Texas Forest Service said in a statement.",
"\"(Firefighters were) pretty lucky today,\" said Alan Craft, a spokesman for the state's Lone Star Incident Management Team.",
"The most damage -- to an unoccupied mobile home, horse trailer and another building -- occurred over an acre in Newton County, but that fire was controlled.",
"Eleven structures were threatened and one camper was lost over 129 acres in Angelina County, the state agency added.",
"Still, despite successes in squelching these blazes, authorities were fighting to manage 19 other, appreciably bigger blazes.",
"This challenge, as well as the weather outlook, had prompted the Forest Service to state that \"conditions on Sunday could shape up to be among the worst in Texas history.\"",
"Gov. Rick Perry renewed a disaster proclamation in effect for all of Texas' 249 counties -- even though major fires are occurring in 13 of them -- to expedite assistance in case of new fires, his office said Sunday in a statement.",
"In addition to more than 750 personnel working with the Texas Forest Service, the governor's statement noted that two Blackhawk helicopters with the Texas Military Forces, bulldozers from the state transportation department and resources from 60 fire departments statewide were part of the effort.",
"Authorities in the Lone Star state have responded to 6,831 fires over 643,000 acres since wildfire season began.",
"The biggest fire still not under control was continuing Sunday in 71,000 acres in parts of Stonewall, Knox and King counties.",
"Air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and personnel were being used in that fight, the Forest Service said.",
"Another of the hardest slogs may be in Presidio County, where none of the 60,000 imperiled acres was considered to be contained Sunday.",
"The Forest Service has deployed three air tankers, 60 firefighters, bulldozers and other equipment and personnel, in addition to a host of other state and local resources, focused on this blaze.",
"Already, 30 to 40 homes in Fort Davis have been lost due to this fire, according to the Forest Service.",
"Another 34 homes have burned in Midland County, due to a fire over 16,500 acres that the state agency on Sunday described as \"very active\" and not at all contained.",
"A Red Cross shelter has been set up at Midland College for those displaced or otherwise affected by this wildfire.",
"\"(Firefighters) can't outrun it,\" said Craft.",
"There have been no evacuations yet related to another 60,000-acre blaze, this one in Potter and Moore counties near the city of Masterson.",
"That fire is 50% contained and is still considered a threat to the towns of Dumas and Sunray.",
"Texas is not alone, as wildfires are burning in large swaths of the Southwest and Midwest, fanned in part by dry, warm and windy conditions.",
"The National Weather Service has issued \"red flag warnings\" through Sunday evening -- indicative of what it calls \"critical fire weather conditions\" -- in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.",
"But by Sunday night, such warnings were only in effect for parts of Texas and New Mexico.",
"Oklahoma Gov.",
"Mary Fallin on Sunday extended a state of emergency for seven counties.",
"The designation authorizes state agencies to make emergency purchases needed to quickly deliver resources to local jurisdictions, the state's emergency operations center said.",
"The National Weather Service has posted fire warnings for the western two-thirds of the state.",
"On Saturday, a grass fire burning just south of Cleveland, Oklahoma, prompted evacuations.",
"As many as 70 firefighters were involved in the response, as well as three helicopters, said Terry Dennis, a spokesman with the Cleveland Fire Department.",
"Twelve families checked into a Red Cross shelter, but more were evacuated, he said.",
"Dennis said Saturday there had been no reports of injuries.",
"In Texas, the fear is that relentless heavy winds and dry weather could spawn a rash of wildfires similar to those that swept across the southern plains states on April 9, 2009.",
"Those fires scorched 147,924 acres, destroyed 111 homes and killed four people, the Texas Forest Service stated on its website.",
"CNN's Stephanie Gallman, Mariano Castillo and Kara Devlin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Firefighters were \"pretty lucky today,\" a state spokesman says .",
"All six new fires reported Sunday are under control, the Texas Forest Service says .",
"Still, several blazes involving more 130,000 acres are uncontrolled .",
"The National Weather Services issues \"red flag warnings\" for parts of six states ."
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"Hinkley, California (CNN) -- Pacific Gas and Electric, the utility company at the center of a long standing water contamination problem in this small agricultural town, is trying to soothe growing unease by offering to buy homes located near a chemical plume .",
"In a letter to residents, which was also provided to CNN, the utility also said it will establish a community advisory group to \"more consistently hear concerns and feedback from the community.\"",
"The town of Hinkley became famous from the Oscar winning film \"Erin Brockovich\" starring Julia Roberts.",
"The movie, released in 2000, chronicles how Brockovich, a paralegal, helped win a $333 million settlement from PG&E.",
"Brockovich has been talking with residents about their renewed concerns.",
"\"I'm thinking somebody somewhere has been asleep at the wheel,\" she told CNN.",
"The problem arose after a chemical known as chromium 6 seeped into the groundwater.",
"Chromium 6 was used between 1952 and 1966 to prevent rust in machinery at a nearby PG&E plant.",
"The chemical has been proven to cause a number of life threatening illnesses, including cancer.",
"According to Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, the chemicals have continued to spread and traces of chromium 6 have been recently detected in a previously untainted aquifer.",
"\"The remediation itself has been very effective, but an underground aquifer is something that is just difficult to centralize and keep in one area,\" said Greg Pruett, a senior vice president for PG&E.",
"The utility maintains that the drinking water meets safety standards set by California, but acknowledges that it needs to give residents a sense of confidence that it takes their concerns seriously.",
"To that end, PG&E is giving some residents free bottles of water.",
"In addition, residents who live over or next to the chemical plume will be able to participate in PG&E's home purchase program.",
"Pruett hopes residents view it as a good faith offer.",
"\"Our attitude is lets work with you.",
"Lets purchase your property -- and let's help you relocate,\" he said ."
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"Utility says it will establish a community advisory group .",
"Hinkley became famous from the Oscar winning film \"Erin Brockovich\" starring Julia Roberts .",
"In the movie, a paralegal, helps win a $333 million settlement from PG&E ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- A Yemeni man injured in protests at Sanaa University died of his wounds early Wednesday morning, a medical official said.",
"Mohamed Ali Mutlak, 24, was among dozens of anti-government demonstrators wounded Tuesday when security forces fired into the air and shot tear gas into a crowd of tens of thousands of protesters who had massed in front of Sanaa University, witnesses said.",
"Eight of them were still in critical condition, said Dr. Waseem Qurashi, head of the medical department at Change Square, Sanaa University.",
"According to witness Ala'a Al-Khowlani, at least 40 anti-government demonstrators were wounded and at least one of them was in critical condition.",
"Other witnesses put the number of wounded as high as 67.",
"Protests took place across the country Wednesday, witnesses said, but there was no word of violence.",
"Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators were outside Sanaa University.",
"In Taiz, tens of thousands of protesters continued their sit-in protest, calling for Saleh's ouster.",
"Thousands were also in the streets of Ibb, Aden, Hodeidah, and Dhamar.",
"However, the recent casualties drew condemnation.",
"Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Yemeni authorities to \"end deadly night raids and other attacks on protests.\"",
"\"This is the second time in three weeks that protesters have been killed in late night raids by the security forces in the capital,\" said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.",
"\"These disturbing heavy-handed tactics used with lethal effect against protesters must stop immediately.",
"People must be allowed to assemble and protest in peace.\"",
"Amnesty said about 30 people have reportedly been killed in Yemen in the \"ongoing unrest which began early last month.\"",
"Mohammed Abulahoum, a senior government official, Wednesday condemned \"the acts of violence used by the police and the military last night against civilian protesters outside the university.",
"\"There was no need for that force.",
"This will only escalate the tension between both sides,\" he added.",
"He also rejected the official government explanation that tribesmen had tried to sneak arms into a no-weapons zone.",
"\"They had no arms with them and they had no intention of using arms,\" Abulahoum charged, saying he knows those tribesmen.",
"Yaser Al-Hasani, one of the demonstrators, said security forces cracked down after students defied their orders not to take food and blankets into the protest area outside the gates of the university.",
"The supplies were intended for the thousands of anti-government demonstrators who have camped out calling for Saleh to step down.",
"In a statement e-mailed to reporters, the government blamed the violence on people who had tried to sneak weapons into a \"weapon-free area\" outside the university, then resisted arrest.",
"\"The suspects resisted arrest and soon thereafter a gun fight broke out, injuring dozens of suspected militants, policemen and innocent bystanders,\" a government statement said.",
"\"Panic from the shootings set off a raging stampede in the area.",
"There is no official confirmation on casualties at this point.\"",
"The government said early Wednesday that the situation was under control and that the Interior Ministry would investigate the incident.",
"Yemen's anti-government demonstrations are unfolding in a nation wracked by a Shiite Muslim uprising, a U.S.-aided crackdown on al Qaeda operatives and a looming shortage of water.",
"High unemployment fuels much of the anger among a growing and impoverished young population.",
"The protesters also cite government corruption and a lack of political freedom.",
"Saleh, who has refused to step down, has said he will not run again for the presidency in the next election.",
"CNN's Christine Theodorou, Mohammed Jamjoom and journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Protests took place at locations across Yemen Wednesday .",
"A senior government official condemns the crackdown and rejects the official explanation .",
"Mohamed Ali Mutlak, 24, was critically injured Tuesday and died early Wednesday, a doctor says .",
"Eight other people are still in critical condition, Dr. Waseem Qurashi says ."
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"(CNN) -- Why do food and murder go so well together?",
"Perhaps because it presents a delicious paradox, a combination of comforting and disturbing elements that tease the imagination and palate simultaneously.",
"\"Murder is the deprivation of life,\" culinary mystery author Diane Mott Davidson said.",
"\"Talking about food is life-affirming.",
"When I read the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, I noticed that when Spenser was thinking about a case, he would often prepare a meal.",
"Cooking provided a way for him to reflect on the case.\"",
"Davidson can relate to cooking as therapy that fuels for the writing process.",
"When planning out the plots for her Goldy Schulz catering mysteries, Davidson finds relaxation in her kitchen, simultaneously coming up with recipes to include in the books.",
"\"Food is a very powerful mnemonic,\" culinary mystery author Katherine Hall Page said.",
"\"We remember what we eat from childhood, and we have a very positive association with food.",
"Then you pair it with crime, and it provides a twist.",
"You have the comfort of food, then, what's going on here?",
"It gives an element of surprise, of suspense.",
"Poison only further complicates, of course.\"",
"For Denise Swanson, author of the Scumble River mysteries, food is the comfort-aspect in her books.",
"Readers eager to try \"cozy mysteries,\" rather than thriller or suspense novels, psychologically take comfort in the inclusion of food.",
"\"While we're writing about murder, we're really writing about everyday life,\" Swanson said.",
"\"Murder is something extraordinary that happens in the everyday lives of our characters.",
"Our sleuths are in the midst of what they always do.\"",
"Half-Italian and half-Swedish, Swanson took inspiration from where she grew up.",
"\"Food plays such a big part in small-town life,\" Swanson said.",
"\"Where else but the Midwest are you served a Jell-O salad with crushed pretzels and strawberries?",
"I keep a tradition of trying to include family recipes that match the flavor of the book.\"",
"Food is already a basis for relationships in society, a way of connecting to one another or identifying personality traits based on what we eat, Swanson said.",
"Toss in a whodunit murder, and people can't help but be intrigued.",
"Regional dishes and flavors also add a twist by either reconnecting readers with their childhood favorites or introducing them to new food cultures.",
"Culinary mysteries combine all the right ingredients for a sumptuous puzzle: quirky amateur sleuths, elements of danger and a fabulous array of food set in locations with a cast of colorful characters.",
"These authors of \"traditional\" and \"cozy\" mysteries know that including food also works to reassure readers.",
"Justice will win out in the end, Page said.",
"\"I'm not going to leave you with a bleak view of the universe, and there's good food along the way.\"",
"Authors are inspired to write culinary mysteries because they already enjoy cooking.",
"\"The elements of writing crime are like a recipe,\" Page said.",
"\"You have all the ingredients, or clues, and then follow step-by-step how to put them together.",
"You stick it in the oven, which is the mystery, and then out comes a cake, or your resolution.\"",
"Whether on vacation or needing to unwind from a hectic workday, many women know they can pick up a culinary mystery and lose themselves in the comfort or even sensuality of when food and murder come together.",
"They witness glimpses of their own lives while partaking of the extraordinary.",
"\"The overwhelming majority of mystery readers are women,\" said Natalee Rosenstein, a senior executive editor of the Penguin publishing group.",
"\"They see their own lives reflected in these characters.",
"They're baking cookies for their kids or church benefits and reading about people that do the same thing, so they get that sense of identification.\"",
"Readers may be comforted by the food while reading about unacceptable violence.",
"\"It's an interesting combination, death, food and murder,\" Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in mourning, said.",
"\"Loss is not that simple, it involves a lot of issues about aggression.",
"Comfort food can momentarily take away feelings that are frightening or have aggression in them.\"",
"\"When it is on a visceral level, that's when something like a rich food can alleviate the toxicity of that feeling, but it's only a temporary fix.",
"It sounds like these (culinary mysteries) are using food to counteract something about the fears of rage that are expressed as actual murder.\"",
"Many writers who mix their murders with a good meal cite the well-fed character in the Nero Wolfe mystery books that later became TV series.",
"A Wolfe fan, Page published her first culinary mystery in 1989.",
"The food in this genre of mystery sets each series apart: Cheese, bakeshop, pizza, tea and White House chef mysteries.",
"\"I think what's new are the types that tickle people's imaginations,\" Rosenstein said.",
"\"People are reading for entertainment, and while they do, they have a nice plate of cookies and an iced tea by their side.\"",
"What comes first, the perfect crime or the perfect recipe?",
"Like Davidson, Page and Swanson, Livia Washburn, author of the Fresh Baked series, develops her recipes while she's working on each book, constantly tweaking until the last minute so they turn out just so, she said.",
"Like her sleuth working through a puzzle, recipe tweaking is trial and error.",
"\"Trying to solve a murder is much like trying to come up with a good recipe,\" Washburn said.",
"\"You have to try a little of this, a little of that, and see how it all comes together.\"",
"The inclusion of recipes in the backs of books also became a popular aspect for readers.",
"In the beginning, Page didn't include them, but when readers began requesting recipes by mail, Page knew it was time to share them with everyone.",
"But for the amount of time these novels have been popular, why the sudden boom?",
"\"Culinary mysteries are here to stay,\" Rosenstein said.",
"\"It's taken a long time for women mystery writers and cozy mystery writers to get the respect of the mystery genre community.",
"They kind of forced their way in the door, so it became hard to ignore.\"",
"Page, also author of \"Have Faith in Your Kitchen,\" a collection of recipes based on those in her Faith Fairchild series, uses a quote from a Frenchman in the late 1800s at the beginning of her cookbook to describe the relationship between murder and food.",
"\"'Bad taste leads to crime,'\" Page quoted.",
"\"It's a wonderful encapsulation of how the two go together.\""
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"Culinary murder mysteries have been popular since the days of Nero Wolfe novels .",
"Cooking inspires some plots while writers work out recipes .",
"Psychologist: Comfort foods help ease feelings of fear or aggression .",
"Recipes included in the backs of books are also a popular feature of culinary mysteries ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- It was code-named \"Dawn of Gulf of Aden,\" and when South Korea gave it a green light Friday, its daring execution led to five hours of chilling drama on the high seas.",
"A South Korean navy destroyer and Lynx helicopters fired warning shots as elite forces, in pre-dawn darkness, silently approached the deck of the freighter Samho Jewelry, hijacked by Somali pirates Saturday, according to the Yonhap news agency.",
"The pirates fired with their AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades.",
"The South Koreans shot back.",
"When it was all over, the South Koreans had rescued 21 sailors, killed eight pirates and captured five others, said Lt. Gen. Lee Sung-ho, a spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.",
"The captain of the 11,500-ton ship was shot in the stomach during the rescue, but no other crew member was hurt.",
"South Korean President Lee Myung-bak praised the bold rescue in a nationally televised address.",
"\"Our military carried out the operation perfectly under difficult circumstances,\" he said.",
"\"We will not accept any actions that threaten the lives of our people.\"",
"Lee said the U.S. military also assisted in the operation.",
"A U.S. Navy helicopter from the USS Shoup performed a medical evacuation in the operation.",
"\"This mission shows that the South Korean government will not negotiate with pirates,\" Lee said.",
"The South Koreans launched their secret rescue mission earlier in the week, chasing the Samho Jewelry for days in the Arabian Sea.",
"When the pirates seemed exhausted and after intelligence that suggested a pirate \"mother ship\" was leaving a Somali port, the South Koreans decided to attempt the rescue, Yonhap said.",
"The Samho Jewelry was carrying chemicals from the United Arab Emirates to Sri Lanka when it was hijacked.",
"Somali pirates have seized seven other South Korean ships.",
"All but one have been released with ransom payments, Yonhap said.",
"CNN's Paula Hancocks and Charley Keyes contributed to this report."
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"The South Korean navy rescued 21 sailors, killed eight pirates and captured five .",
"The freighter was on its way to Sri Lanka when it was seized by Somali pirates .",
"South Korea's president praises the bold rescue operation ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- At least three people were killed in one of three attacks in Afghanistan Thursday morning, officials said.",
"The deadly attack occurred in Paktia province near a police station, said Azad Gull, a district governor.",
"Four suicide bombers attacked the police station and one was able to get inside and detonate his explosives, Gull said.",
"Three police officers were killed in the attack and two were injured, Gull said.",
"A Taliban spokesman said his organization was responsible of the attack.",
"\"(We) have killed many local policemen during the attack on a local police center,\" said Zabiullah Mojahed, the spokesman.",
"Police were able to shoot and kill one of the attackers before he could detonate his bomb and the other two attackers were unaccounted for, Gull said.",
"Two women were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in an area of Kandahar Thursday, police said.",
"Also three police officers and a civilian were wounded after a truck exploded near a district governor's office in southeast Kabul."
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"The deadliest of the attacks occurs in Paktia province .",
"Along with the deaths, that attack injured two police officers .",
"The Taliban claims responsibility for that attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Spanish motorcycling star Dani Pedrosa has had successful surgery to remove a titanium plate from his shoulder, it was announced on Wednesday.",
"The Honda rider, second in last year's MotoGP world championship, had the plate inserted last October after suffering a double fracture to his collarbone in the Japanese Grand Prix.",
"The 25-year-old experienced numbness during Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix, so chose to have the operation during a break in the 2011 calendar.",
"The next race in the elite division's season is not until May 1 in Portugal because this year's race in Japan was canceled due to the devastation caused by last month's earthquake and tsunami.",
"\"Dani Pedrosa has undergone successful surgery at Teknon Medical Center, in Barcelona, to decompress his left subclavian artery and is expected to recover satisfactorily,\" the official MotoGP website reported.",
"\"In order to release the arterial compression, the titanium plate and the screws fixed to the collarbone have been removed.",
"\"Pedrosa will remain in hospital for a further 48 hours to continue treatment with analgesia and anti-inflammatories.\"",
"The Sabadell native will be assessed by doctors next week to decide if he will be fit for the next round of competition in Estoril.",
"Pedrosa, who moved up to MotoGP class in 2006, is currently second in the standings after two races thanks to his second-place finish last weekend in Jerez.",
"He is nine points behind his compatriot Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha, the reigning champion, who won his home race for the second year in a row.",
"A two-time 250cc class world champion and once titleholder in the 125cc class, Pedrosa has won 12 races at the highest level but is yet to claim his maiden title."
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"Honda Repsol rider Dani Pedrosa has successful surgery to remove metal plate .",
"Pedrosa had the plate inserted after suffering a shoulder injury at 2010 Japanese Grand Prix .",
"The Spaniard is currently second in the MotoGP standings after two races ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Gus Coletti was shaving when he heard a bang on the door of his house on a barrier island in New York.",
"\"Help me! Help me!\" a woman pleaded when he opened the door, shaving cream still on his face.",
"Coletti says he dialed 911 as the woman bolted, tripping halfway down his steep wooden staircase before unsuccessfully seeking help at a neighbor's home.",
"Now, a year later, Coletti is convinced that the woman he saw that morning was Shannan Gilbert, a prostitute whose disappearance triggered an investigation that led police to discover at least eight bodies on a remote stretch of beach in Long Island.",
"In an interview months ago, however, he said he couldn't be sure it was Gilbert at his door that day.",
"Police say they suspect a serial killer or killers.",
"Authorities in New York's Suffolk and Nassau Counties and in New Jersey, along with the FBI, are still searching for Gilbert, a resident of Jersey City, New Jersey.",
"If Coletti did see Gilbert, he may have been the last person known to have seen her before she vanished.",
"Yet he says it took Suffolk County police four months to question him, an assertion the police deny.",
"\"A missing person detective came in August, was asking about her.",
"I said, 'Where have you been?' \" Coletti said.",
"Investigators in Suffolk County say Coletti gave them a written statement a month after he called 911 to report seeing the woman at his door, but Coletti disputes that.",
"\"They never got a statement from me in June,\" he says.",
"Coletti has insisted that he gave police a written statement in December, eight months after he says the woman knocked on his door.",
"The Suffolk County police also say they have spoken to Coletti several times since last May 1, though they did not specify when those discussions happened.",
"His account is chilling.",
"It was about 5 a.m. when Coletti, 75, says he heard a knock on the door of his home on the barrier island hamlet of Oak Beach, New York.",
"After the woman dashed away from his house, Coletti says, she hid under his boat, elevated and parked on his lawn, as an SUV drove up.",
"Coletti says he walked up to the vehicle and questioned the driver, whom he described a slim Asian man weighing about 150 pounds.",
"\"I went down, and I stopped him, and I said, 'Where do you think you're going?'",
"\" recalled Coletti.",
"The man said he was searching for the woman because she had left a party upset, and he was trying to find her to bring her back to the house, according to Coletti.",
"\"I says, 'I already called the police.",
"Stay right here.'",
"He says, 'Oh, you shouldn't have done that.",
"She's going to be into a lot of trouble.'",
"I says, 'So are you,' \" Coletti recalled.",
"Gilbert dashed from the boat and ran around the corner toward the beach, Coletti said.",
"The driver then pursued her.",
"Police arrived about 45 minutes later, and Coletti directed them to the road to the beach.",
"Coletti says a detective showed up in August to ask him about what happened that day.",
"In response to Coletti's \"Where have you been?\"",
"question, the detective told him he had just received the missing person report from New Jersey.",
"\"New Jersey dropped the ball.",
"He blamed it on New Jersey,\" Coletti said.",
"Jersey City Police Department spokesman Lt. Edgar Martinez said, \"We have no comment on any ongoing investigation in our jurisdiction.",
"We are investigating a missing person.\""
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"Gus Coletti is convinced that Shannan Gilbert came to his door .",
"Gilbert's disappearance triggered an investigation that led police to discover eight bodies .",
"Police suspect a serial killer or killers are responsible for the bodies ."
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"Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (CNN) -- A former police chief known for battling drug gangs in the Mexican border city of Tijuana has been named the new top cop in Ciudad Juarez, another city plagued by cartel violence.",
"Former Baja California state police chief Julian Leyzaola \"is our new boss,\" Juarez police spokesman Adrian Sanchez said Thursday.",
"Sanchez said Leyzaola was credited with cleaning up Tijuana during his tenure there, and \"We hope he can do the same here in Juarez.\"",
"Battles among rival drug gangs were blamed for more than 3,000 killings in Juarez in 2010.",
"Leyzaola launched a public battle with one of Mexico's most wanted drug traffickers, Teodoro \"El Teo\" Garcia Simental, after he took office in Tijuana in 2008.",
"Garcia's cartel threatened to kill five police officers a week until Leyzaola resigned -- but by January 2010, Garcia was behind bars.",
"Leyzaola survived a series of assassination attempts and moved his family out of Mexico for a period of time, sleeping on an army base during that period.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"Julian Leyzaola is credited with taking down a major drug boss in Tijuana .",
"\"We hope he can to the same here in Juarez,\" a police spokesman says ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Formula One world champion Jenson Button has told CNN that he believes the sport's decision to switch to Pirelli tires for 2011 will suit his style of racing.",
"The Italian manufacturer are producing tires that are more bio-degradable than previous years, meaning drivers need to place a greater emphasis on the way they handle their cars -- something that Button feels plays to his strengths.",
"With the new Formula One season about to start in Melbourne, Button told CNN Sport's Don Riddell: \"I am good to my tires, it is something I have worked on for many years.",
"Will new tires decide the Formula One title?",
"\"For me it is important to be precise with everything I do, the steering, the throttle, the breaks,\" added the Briton.",
"\"And with these new tires there will be more stability, which is something I really look for in a car, so hopefully it will really help me.\"",
"Button is taller than McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton and the cockpit of the MP4-26 has been moulded to his specifications, in sharp contrast to last season when the 2010 McLaren was built around Hamilton's specifications.",
"Button said: \"Last year was a little bit tricky for me to get into the car.",
"It was built for Lewis, who is shorter than me.",
"\"This new car is fitted around me so I feel a lot more at home.",
"I have got my own steering wheel with buttons fitted exactly where I want them, which is a nice feeling.",
"\"If you don't feel at home in a car, you don't feel part of it -- and you need to feel part of it to drive it well.\"",
"Button has already won one world title but believes he has the ability to add to that 2009 success and has not lost the desire to become champion again.",
"\"Racing in Formula One, and trying to win, is the most important thing in my life at the moment and to win the world title again would be a great feeling,\" said Button.",
"\"But I really don't know if that would be enough for me.",
"You always want more and, at this moment in time, one more world title would be enough for me.",
"\"But if I do win the world title this year, I think it would be very difficult for me to walk away from the sport.\""
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"Jenson Button tells CNN that he is happy with the switch to Pirelli tires for 2011 .",
"Pirelli have taken over from Bridgestone as the Formula One tire supplier .",
"Button also reveals that the MP4-26 has been built to suit his own body shape .",
"The Briton confirms that last year's McLaren was built to suit the smaller Lewis Hamilton ."
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"(CNN) -- Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi flew to Greece Sunday to deliver a personal message from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a Greek foreign ministry official told CNN.",
"Libya asked Greece to allow a special envoy to travel there to communicate a message, Greek foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras said.",
"The nature of that message was not immediately known.",
"Obeidi met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou Sunday night, according to Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas.",
"\"We stressed -- reiterated -- the clear message of the international community.",
"One of full support and implementation for the decisions of the United Nations, immediate ceasefire and an end to violence, particularly against Libyan civilians,\" Droutsas said after the meeting.",
"\"From what the Libyan envoy said, it is clear that the administration is looking for a solution,\" he added.",
"Obeidi is expected to continue talks in Turkey and Malta, according to Droutsas.",
"The envoy crossed the Libyan border into Tunisia Sunday morning, and from there boarded a private Greek plane for Athens.",
"Obeidi is the Libyan deputy foreign minister in charge of European affairs.",
"Journalists Houda Zaghdoudi and Elinda Labropoulou contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Libya's deputy foreign minister for European affairs meets with the Greek prime minister .",
"NEW: The envoy is expected to continue talks in Turkey and Malta, Greek officials say .",
"\"It is clear that the (Libyan) administration is looking for a solution\""
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"(CNN) -- Forget the immensely powerful car or the wealth of up-to-the-minute gadgets at his disposal, if Felipe Massa drives to Formula One glory this season it'll be thanks to his lucky pants.",
"The Brazilian, who drives for the Ferrari team, came agonizingly close to taking his first ever world title in 2008 but was pipped to the post by Briton Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of the final race of the season.",
"The following year he was lucky to survive after being hit on the head by a stray suspension spring that had flown from a rival's car during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.",
"But in 2011 he is hoping for no more obstacles as he guns for the world crown, with the help of his underwear.",
"\"I have special underwear which I race in most of the time,\" he told CNN.",
"\"[I wear them] just for the Saturday and Sunday I don't wash but, two days, what's the problem?\"",
"Massa replied.",
"His superstitions don't end there.",
"He always lands on his right foot when he gets out of bed in the morning and makes sure the same foot enters his car first before a race.",
"\"I think the superstition is just something that is inside your brain,\" he explained.",
"\"For sure, you would win because you have the underwear or because you are happy or whatever.",
"\"You win because you are doing the best job, but inside your brain it is important to have everything clean and everything ready and that's why sporting people are superstitious.\"",
"With some impressive pre-season testing sessions under his belt many pundits are tipping Massa to muscle his way into the title reckoning in 2011, so could this finally be his year?",
"\"Yes, I believe in my speed, I believe in the way I drive and I believe I can win many races and the championship.",
"I think that's very important to have inside your brain, to be stronger and stronger all the time.",
"\"And I know if I have all the possibilities and everything that is automatically for my driving style, for the way I drive I can be there.\"",
"After persistent problems with his car last season Massa thinks the new Pirelli tires to be used in the forthcoming campaign will benefit his racing style.",
"\"Most of the problems I had last year should be alright for this year because the tires are much softer, to get the temperature in the tires it will be easier, so I expect not to have this problem, but we are a little bit early to say that.",
"\"I like the tires, for sure.",
"They're very different from last year, so maybe we are going to have more pit-stops because otherwise after some laps you are struggling a lot on the tires.",
"So it's a big change for the championship, it's a big strategy change, but I enjoy it,\" he said.",
"Massa also rejects the oft-repeated notion that if he is to clinch a world title he will have to leave Ferrari in order to do so.",
"\"I don't think so,\" he said.",
"\"I think I'm in a top team, it's important to have a top car and if I have that I will fight to the maximum level to be the champion.",
"\"Ferrari is just the top in motorsport, it is a dream car on the road, for sure it is the most important thing.",
"When you drive for a team like Ferrari it really is a dream come true.\"",
"Massa showed courage to climb back into a Formula One car just ten weeks after his life-threatening crash in Hungary but he insists he never dwells on what might have been.",
"\"I never dream about the accident,\" he said.",
"\"What is important to say is that it was not my time.",
"I believe in God, I am Catholic, so I'm sure it was not my time, it was a not the moment to go to a different life.",
"\"There's nothing to say about that.",
"When it's not your time, you know, you stay here.\""
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"Formula One driver Felipe Massa speaks to CNN about his superstitions .",
"Brazilian wears the same underpants for qualifying and for the grand prix .",
"Massa is hoping to clinch the world title for Ferrari this season .",
"He narrowly missed out in 2008 and was seriously injured in 2009 ."
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"(Wired) -- No more will soldiers' vision be limited to the socket-embedded spheres that God intended.",
"The Pentagon now wants troops to see dangers lurking behind them in real time, and be able to tell if an object a kilometer away is a walking stick or an AK-47.",
"In a solicitation released today, Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research branch, unveiled the Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras effort, or SCENICC.",
"Imagine a suite of cameras that digitally capture a kilometer-wide, 360-degree sphere, representing the image in 3-D onto a wearable eyepiece.",
"You'd be able to literally see all around you, including behind yourself, and zooming in at will, creating a \"stereoscopic/binocular system, simultaneously providing 10x zoom to both eyes.\"",
"And you would do this all hands-free, apparently by barking out or pre-programming a command (the solicitation leaves it up to a designer's imagination) to adjust focus.",
"Then comes the Terminator-vision.",
"Darpa wants the eyepiece to include \"high-resolution computer-enhanced imagery as well as task-specific non-image data products such as mission data overlays, threat warnings/alerts, targeting assistance, etc.\"",
"Target identified: Sarah Connor...",
"The \"Full Sphere Awareness\" tool will provide soldiers with \"muzzle flash detection,\" \"projectile tracking\" and \"object recognition/labeling,\" basically pointing key information out to them.",
"And an \"integrated weapon sighting\" function locks your gun on your target when acquired.",
"That's far beyond an app mounted on your rifle that keeps track of where your friendlies and enemies are.",
"The imaging wouldn't just be limited to what any individual soldier sees.",
"SCENICC envisions a \"networked optical sensing capability\" that fuses images taken from nodes worn by \"collections of soldiers and/or unmanned vehicles.\"",
"The Warrior-Alpha drone overhead?",
"Its full-motion video and still images would be sent into your eyepiece.",
"It also has to be ridiculously lightweight, weighing less than 700 grams for the entire system -- including a battery powerful enough to \"exceed 24 hours [usage] under normal conditions.\"",
"That's about a pound and a half, maximum.",
"The Army's experimental ensemble of wearable gadgets weighs about eight pounds.",
"And it is to SCENICC what your Roomba is to the T-1000.",
"Here's how far advanced SCENICC is compared to bleeding-edge imaging and networking capabilities that the Army is currently developing.",
"Right now, the Army's asking three different companies -- Raytheon, Rockwell Collins and General Dynamics -- to build a wearable platform of digital maps, computers and radios, networked with one another.",
"Soldiers would have warzone maps beamed onto helmet-mounted eyepieces.",
"The system, known as Nett Warrior, needs to weigh less than eight pounds, and it builds on a years-long and ultimately fruitless effort called Land Warrior.",
"(One of the problems with Land Warrior is it was heavy and cumbersome, owing in part to battery weight.)",
"The Army hopes to choose one of the Nett Warrior designs by March.",
"By the time it'll actually roll out Nett Warrior after testing, production and deployment -- a few years, optimistically -- SCENICC will already be hard at work on its replacement.",
"Darpa wants a hands-free zooming function within two years of work on the contract.",
"By year three, the computer-enhanced vision tool needs to be ready.",
"Year four is for 360-degree vision.",
"Then it's on to development. The Army is generally hot for combat-ready smartphones to keep soldiers linked up with each other.",
"And the buzz-generating tool for the soldier of the near future is mapping technology, delivered onto a smartphone or some other handheld mobile device, at least judging from this year's Association of the U.S. Army confab.",
"But all of these representation tools are two-dimensional, and require soldiers to look away from their patrols in order to use them.",
"Textron's SoldierEyes Common Operating Picture, for instance, lets soldiers see icons on a tablet-mounted map telling them where their friends, enemies and neutrals are.",
"It can't put those icons onto a 3-D picture sent to a soldier's eyes, let alone allow a 10x zoom for a kilo-wide 360-degree field of vision.",
"Why would anyone use a map on a smartphone when they could have SCENICC?",
"Even with all the advances in digital imaging, it'll be a tall order to put together 360-degree vision and 10x zoom and mapping software and integration with weapons systems and lightweight miniaturization and network connectivity.",
"Darpa doesn't really address how the system's networked optics would work in low-bandwidth areas like, say, eastern Afghanistan (though maybe drone-borne cell towers can help).",
"Indeed, judging from the solicitation, while SCENICC is supposed to be networked, it doesn't seem to have any communications requirements for soldiers to talk through what their optics are sharing with each other.",
"Maybe there's a role for those new soldier smartphones after all.",
"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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"The Pentagon's Darpa unit unveiled a camera system that can project a 3-D image .",
"You'd be able to see all around you, including behind yourself, and zooming in at will .",
"An \"integrated weapon sighting\" function locks your gun on your target when acquired ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Increased security was put in place at Dodger Stadium ahead of Thursday's baseball game between the Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals in the wake of a March 31 attack in which a San Francisco Giants fan was seriously injured.",
"Bryan Stow, 42, was put in a medically induced coma following, which followed a Dodgers-Giants game.",
"About 100 witnesses saw Stow attacked as he left a stadium parking lot.",
"The two suspected assailants fled after the beating in a light-colored, four-door car driven by a woman with a young boy inside, authorities have said.",
"Family members said doctors have lowered Stow's sedation and are hoping he wakes up soon.",
"\"We have received hundreds of tips, but we are far from a solution,\" Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters Thursday.",
"He appealed to those with information to come forward, saying they can do so anonymously.",
"He showed reporters new composite sketches of the suspects.",
"Officials are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions.",
"\"I haven't had that 'Aha!' moment yet,\" said Beck.",
"\"We haven't got where I want to get.\"",
"Fans attending Thursday's game will notice an increased police presence inside and outside the stadium, Beck told reporters.",
"Officers are tasked with ensuring the no-tailgating rule is enforced and no fans are drinking in surrounding areas before entering the stadium, he said.",
"In addition, increased lighting has been added to the parking lots.",
"At the game, \"if you're unruly, if you're threatening, if you're making comments that would lead to violence, you'll be ejected,\" Beck said.",
"\"And if they rise to a criminal level, you'll be arrested.\"",
"In addition, a half-off alcohol promotion at the stadium has been discontinued, and officers will be in the crowd watching for people who appear to be intoxicated, officials said.",
"Other issues being examined include lighting and camera systems, said former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, whose risk consulting company Kroll is working with officials.",
"Dodgers owner Frank McCourt said he hopes officials can go even further and bring about changes in fans' behavior.",
"\"We sincerely hope that the solutions we put in place here at Dodger Stadium will be used at sports and entertainment venues throughout America,\" McCourt said.",
"Stow is hospitalized at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.",
"As of Wednesday, \"There have been no more seizures for a couple days,\" Stow's sister Erin wrote on a website launched to provide updates on his condition, www.support4bryanstow.com.",
"Doctors have been lowering his sedation, she wrote.",
"\"Once it's out of his system, he can be examined and hopefully (praying) he responds to commands.",
"Or better yet, wakes up.\"",
"Stow has had no seizures for five days, his cousin, John Stow, told CNN affiliate KRON on Thursday, \"which is tremendous.",
"We're very thankful.\" He said it's not known when Stow will wake up.",
"\"Head injuries are unique,\" he said.",
"\"Every case is different, so we're just going to be patient ... Bryan's going to do it when he's ready.\"",
"The family has said they are grateful for the outpouring of support.",
"Since the unprovoked attack, money has poured in from numerous donors and fundraising events to help pay for Stow's medical costs and support his two young children.",
"At a dual fundraiser Monday at Dodger Stadium and AT&T Park in San Francisco, where the two teams played, more than $120,000 was raised, said American Medical Response spokesman Jason Sorrick.",
"In all, more than $200,000 has been raised for Stow, who works for AMR.",
"\"We couldn't be more proud of Bryan and the way the community has rallied around him,\" John Stow said.",
"Another event was to be held in the San Francisco area Thursday.",
"At Dodger Stadium, collection bins will be available for those wishing to donate, officials said Thursday.",
"CNN's Stan Wilson contributed to this report."
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"Increased security is in place at Dodger Stadium for Thursday's game ."
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"(CNN) -- The more I think about it the more I am convinced I need one of Eric Clapton's old guitars.",
"Bonhams is hosting an auction of \"Slowhand's\" gear in New York.",
"I really should be there and as a responsible parent make some investments for my children's futures.",
"Now nobody should take financial advice from a washed-up, failed rock guitarist like me.",
"But if you will just go with me on this, I do think I may be onto something.",
"No doubt, vintage guitars made by the right company, at the right time, and played by the right people, are a serious investment opportunity.",
"Headlines were made in 2004 when Clapton's Blackie guitar sold for $959,000.",
"Actually that guitar broke one of the usual rules for collectors because it was not all original.",
"He had swapped parts from other guitars, which usually kills the resale value.",
"But what it did have was provenance. And what provenance. This was the guitar that Clapton had used over two decades, both in the studio and on stage.",
"It also had a lot of people who wanted to buy it -- baby boomers who grew up with Clapton, the provider of soundtracks for their lives.",
"And you can own the very guitar he played those tunes on?",
"If you had just under a million bucks burning a hole your pocket it would be crazy not to.",
"There is nothing that iconic at these sales, but there is a range of very tasty Clapton stuff.",
"Beyond guitars there are amplifiers (also very collectable), stage clothes and other memorabilia.",
"As an investment, provided you avoid bidding frenzy, these would be instruments of unquestioned authenticity, many of which have been used on record and in public performance by a star who has been making music and selling out concerts for nearly 40 years.",
"The money Clapton raised in these sales goes to the Crossroads Centre, which he founded, which treats drug and alcohol addiction.",
"So, it's for a good cause, it's a good investment, and you finish up with a really cool guitar.",
"Guitars can be a great investment.",
"Key vintage Fender guitars more than doubled in value in the last decade.",
"If you have an original \"Strat\" from the 1950s or early 1960s in what as known as a custom color (taken from popular auto colors of the period), you could be looking at a value of up to $50,000 -- not bad for something that would not have cost more than $100 when new.",
"Of course most people who bought them back then did not do so thinking they were long-term investments so parts were changed, the finishes were battered and repainted and value was subsequently diminished.",
"I bought a 1961 Strat all original expect for having been stripped down to the wood.",
"It cost between half and a third of what it would have done if the paint had still been on.",
"Now there is a thriving trade in so called \"relic guitars\" which are new but treated to give the impression of a battered old road warrior.",
"Worrying, there are also a lot of guitars being sold as original vintage pieces, which have had parts changed out.",
"The money involved makes it worthwhile for the fakers who go to great lengths to disguise the changes.",
"So the buyer beware, and always seek out what provenance and guarantees you can.",
"There is one guitar that is the Stradivarius for collectors.",
"It is the Gibson Les Paul Standard, made between 1958 and 1960.",
"If you had bought one back then -- and you may well have got a discount because it was not a big seller at the time -- you would now be sitting on a guitar which can change hands for well in excess of $250,000.",
"How does that happen? Well, it brings us back to Clapton.",
"He played a Les Paul on an album by John Mayall and Blues Breakers.",
"The recording is legendary among guitar players.",
"Suddenly the discontinued Les Paul was in demand.",
"Its value rose, and then soared as it was adopted by one superstar after another.",
"We are talking Keith Richards, Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.",
"Music world honors Les Paul .",
"Clapton's Les Paul is thought to have been stolen while he was in rehearsals with his band Cream.",
"Now if that ever showed up, Blackie might well end up being the second most valuable guitar sold in open auction.",
"So if you want to buy a vintage guitar and have a partner who takes an alternative perspective, point out you are doing it for them, for their future.",
"And if you find yourself bidding against some heavy set, balding guy, who looks like he knows he really should not be there, give him a break and let him win."
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"Bonhams auctioneers selling more than 70 Eric Clapton guitars .",
"Collector, CNN editorial chief and sometime musician Tony Maddox explains the joy of guitars .",
"Provenance and a star owner are often key to a good sale price, Maddox says .",
"In 2004 Clapton's Blackie guitar sold for $959,000; this sale has a reproduction of the iconic instrument ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Students in many districts across Japan brushed off their uniforms and shouldered their bookbags for the first day of the new school year on Wednesday.",
"But while most were worried about meeting their new teachers or what their class schedules might be, some were facing the threat of nuclear contamination or the loss of former classmates.",
"In Tokyo, a group of students evacuated from the Fukushima area began the school year in a new city and a new classroom.",
"Keisuke Takahashi, 7, is one of several children staying at a youth center in Japan's capital as their parents in the north work or take care of worse-off family members.",
"\"I just got a letter from my mom,\" he said.",
"\"It says that she is hurting because we're separated.",
"But she says don't worry, we will go home together after the nuclear power plant settles down.\"",
"\"I haven't got used to the life yet, because I have to live separately from my mom,\" he said walking into the Minamisuna Primary School.",
"\"I miss her.\" Up in northern Japan, where the worst devastation from last month's tsunami occurred, the new school year has been delayed several weeks.",
"Dozens of schools were wiped out or too badly damaged to reopen in Miyagi prefecture.",
"Governments and educators are scrambling to repair schools, round up teachers and cope with the tens of thousands of displaced people.",
"A different set of problems in Fukushima, where authorities have begun testing schools, kindergartens and playgrounds across the prefecture after parents expressed worries about high levels of radiation.",
"Teams of researchers will monitor 1,428 locations over three days ending Thursday to try to reassure the public about safety outside the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.",
"The testing coincides with the beginning of the new school year in the prefecture, as tens of thousands of students return to classes.",
"\"As the elementary schools starts on April 6th, we've heard many of the concern from the parents whether the schools are safe enough to have their children to attend,\" an officer at Fukushima Disaster Management told CNN.",
"\"In response to it, we conduct to check radiation level to secure the (safety) of the children.\"",
"Authorities have announced repeatedly that there is little danger of contamination in the region, but there are monitoring stations across the country on watch.",
"Government surveys are being taken several times daily by authorities from the area directly surrounding the damaged reactor, focusing on radiation \"hot spots\" such as ponds, low spots and drains where snow runoff and wind would naturally concentrate radiation.",
"The spots with the highest levels of radiation Wednesday were just northwest of the plant, outside the 20-kilometer zone, with one spot registering 50.9 microsieverts.",
"In comparison, the J-Village emergency site where workers are stationed at the cusp of the 20-kilometer zone showed a reading of just 1.1 microsieverts.",
"A person in a developed nation is naturally exposed to about 3,000 microsieverts a year.",
"The readings fluctuate over the day and change with wind patterns, but could also be showing that small amounts of radiation from debris and dust continue to come from the reactor site.",
"No information is being released for sites inside the exclusion zone.",
"The information, compiled by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), may eventually help create a \"minefield map\" of spots and transportation routes that are better to be avoided or closed off to the public.",
"And in Tokyo, the radiation level has been dropping over recent days, as low wind speeds have limited the scattering of radiation from the north.",
"CNN's Junko Ogura, Whitney Hurst and Greg Botelho contributed to this report ."
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"Dozens of schools in northern Japan are wiped out or too badly damaged to reopen .",
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"(CNN) -- From the workshops of Rome to the catwalks of Paris, this month icon delves into the world of fashion.",
"From the capital of couture, Myleene Klass goes back stage at Paris Fashion Week to find out what it takes to turn a clothing item into an icon.",
"Valentino . For almost half a century at the head of his eponymous label, Valentino dressed the most glamorous women in the world, from Jackie Kennedy to Julia Roberts.",
"His name has become synonymous with elegance and his fashion house remains just one of just fifteen that are officially allowed to call themselves \"haute couture.\"",
"Valentino invited icon to his home, a 17th century French chateau outside Paris, to take a look at some of his greatest designs.",
"Anna Dello Russo .",
"Paris Fashion Week -- a mecca for style watchers, trend surfers and the high priests of design.",
"Between fashion shows, Myleene Klass goes to meet the fashion director of Japanese Vogue, Anna Dello Russo -- a self-confessed fashion addict who has 4,000 pairs of shoes to prove it.",
"Her blog is visited by 25,000 users daily, who log on to see the latest outfits she is wearing.",
"Myleene gets an exclusive look inside the closet of this modern-day style icon at her room in the Ritz.",
"Louboutin . Fish scales, spider webs and the columns of buildings -- for Christian Louboutin, inspiration comes from the most unlikely of sources.",
"The high priest of the high heel has transformed footwear into fantasy and the wearers into wonder women who walk tall.",
"Louboutin prefers not to divulge his client list but his shoes aren't so discreet.",
"They speak volumes as they flash their iconic red soles on the feet of pop stars and princesses -- from the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni, to Lady Gaga and Madonna.",
"The styles of his shoes have changed over his 20-year career but one thing has remained the same -- the heels are always high.",
"Icon went to the master cobbler's atelier in Paris to discover the sources of his inspiration and to see how a pair of stilettos are made.",
"Watch the show at the times below: Thursday 24 March: 1130, 1730 Saturday 26 March: 0630, 1500, 2230 Sunday 27 March: 0330, 0730, 1830 (All times GMT)"
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"Anna Dello Russo, editor-at-large of Vogue Japan, on her passion for fashion .",
"Plus, icon meets acclaimed shoe designer Christian Louboutin in his Paris atelier ."
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"Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- An African man who claimed he could double your money simply by applying a magic potion to currency notes has been arrested at a Madrid bar where the Ecuadorean owner nearly fell victim to the ploy, Spanish national police said on Thursday.",
"Police arrived in time to catch the suspected thief, from Cameroon, with 1,120 euros ($1,556) that had been handed over by the bar owner.",
"The suspect, 28, alleged he had run out of magic potion and would need to go home to get some more, a police statement and spokesman said.",
"\"It was a very unpleasant surprise,\" bar owner Cesar Tepan told CNN.",
"He told police the suspect had come to the bar a week earlier claiming he could double currency notes by applying a magic potion, the police statement said.",
"Taking a chance, the owner provided a 20 euro note (nearly $28), and the suspect mixed it with various white papers, applied a brown liquid and white power, and mixed it up with cotton.",
"Presto, and there were soon three 20 euro notes visible, the owner told police.",
"\"He returned my 20,\" said Tepan, who's lived 16 years in Spain and has owned the bar in central Madrid for 11 years.",
"When the suspect came back last Saturday, the owner provided 1,120 euros in various currency notes, after the owner and the suspect agreed on how to split up the proceeds from the doubled money, the police said.",
"The suspect put the bills in an envelope and sealed it with tape.",
"Then he applied the alleged magic potion, repeating this various times, but finally told the bar owner he had run out of the magic potion and would need to go home and get more.",
"But he promised to leave the sealed envelope at the bar.",
"That's when an argument ensued and someone, possibly the owner or a client, called the police, a police spokesman said.",
"\"I realized he was trying to take the money,\" Tepan told CNN.",
"A neighbor called the police and Tepan's adult son arrived and locked the door to the street, with the suspect inside the bar.",
"\"He became nervous,\" Tepan said, adding he was determined not to let the suspect leave until the 1,120 euros had been returned.",
"The police arrived and opened the sealed envelope but found only white papers inside.",
"Then they searched the suspect, and found the 1,120 euros hidden in his clothing, the police statement said."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan police repelled an attack on an army recruitment center in Kandahar on Thursday, officials said.",
"One suicide attacker died when he detonated explosives, while three others were shot and killed by police, the Kandahar province's media department said.",
"In addition to the attackers, one person was killed and nine others were wounded, the director of Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar said.",
"One civilian was among the wounded, said Abdul Qayum Pokhla.",
"Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the provincial government, said the suicide attackers entered a building that was under construction and fired at the recruitment center across the street.",
"The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.",
"Meanwhile, Afghan forces and coalition troops killed more than 80 insurgents during an anti-terrorism operation in the mountainous Kunar province along the border with Pakistan, NATO said.",
"They also seized numerous weapons, materials for making improved explosive devices, and captured a radio station used to solicit money and direct attacks on civilians, NATO said.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati contributed to this report ."
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"Four insurgents are killed during attack on police HQ in Kandahar .",
"The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack .",
"Afghan and coalition forces kill 80 insurgents in a separate incident ."
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"(CNN) -- The Syrian government is freeing some activists while arresting hundreds of others in its back-and-forth bid to placate protesters and crush dissent, a human rights lawyer said.",
"Attorney Razan Zaytouni sent CNN a list Sunday naming more than 500 people she said have been arrested since the start of the unrest a couple of weeks ago.",
"Roughly half of those people have since been released, the list shows.",
"CNN could not independently confirm details of the report.",
"Last week the Syrian Arab News Agency said that a wave of arrests came as government security forces were searching for members of an \"armed group\" that killed \"a number of citizen and security forces.\"",
"SANA reported that an unidentified official said snipers from the group fired at citizens and security forces from rooftops.",
"This is disputed by activists and eyewitnesses who told CNN that government snipers fired shots at unarmed protesters and government forces beat demonstrators.",
"Protesters in Syria are upset at what they see as the nation's heavy-handed rule.",
"Opponents of the government allege massive human rights abuses and are calling for political and economic reform.",
"They also want the release of all political prisoners and an end to emergency law.",
"The emergency law allows the government to make preventive arrests and override constitutional and penal code statutes.",
"In effect since 1963, it also bars detainees who have not been charged from filing court complaints and from having a lawyer present during interrogations.",
"Zaytouni said she is part of a group of lawyers that has volunteered to help defend political prisoners.",
"\"But our role is superficial.",
"There is no judicial system in Syria and the security apparatus arrests people and send them to courts directly,\" she said.",
"Amnesty International estimated late last month that at least 93 people were believed to have been arrested by Syrian security forces between March 8 and March 23 and held in unknown locations.",
"The real number arrests is likely to be \"considerably higher,\" the rights group said, adding that the detained include students, intellectuals, journalists and activists.",
"Zaytouni spoke the same day the family of an imprisoned activist said he was freed.",
"Mohammad al-Abdallah told CNN his brother was released Sunday after more than five years in prison.",
"Omar al-Abdallah, 26, was accused of \"taking actions and making threat(ening) statements against the state in Syria,\" his brother said.",
"Their father remains a political prisoner, he added."
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"A rights lawyer says more than 500 people have been arrested in the recent crackdown .",
"Roughly half of those people have since been released, she says .",
"Omar al-Abdallah is freed after 5 years in prison, his brother says .",
"Protesters in Syria are calling for the release of all political prisoners ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Opposition forces in the rebel-held city of Benghazi called for massive demonstrations on Friday to show solidarity with like-minded Libyans in the capital, Tripoli, which remains under the control of leader Moammar Gadhafi.",
"The developments came as the leaders of the United States, France and England delivered an editorial piece to European newspapers on their vision of Libya's future.",
"Rebels have been under intense pressure from government forces in several cities.",
"Gadhafi's troops pounded rebel positions in Misrata on Friday, firing mortar and artillery rounds into the strategic port city, while to the west, in Tripoli, aircraft could be heard circling the city.",
"Libyan state television, meanwhile, reported civilian casualties from Thursday's NATO airstrikes.",
"The attacks came as the alliance chief asked for more precision fighter jets in order to avoid civilian deaths.",
"At a NATO summit in Berlin, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters that NATO has the necessary assets to continue aerial strikes, but the tactical nature of the fight has changed.",
"\"Now they hide their heavy arms in populated areas, where before many targets were easier to get to,\" Rasmussen said.",
"\"To avoid civilian casualties, we need very sophisticated equipment.",
"So, we need a few more precision fighter ground-attack aircraft for air-to-ground missions.\"",
"With the conflict at a deadly impasse, Britain and France have been pressuring NATO to step up airstrikes.",
"In a joint op-ed that appeared Friday in three European newspapers, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron wrote about their vision of Libya's \"pathway to peace.\"",
"\"We are convinced that better times lie ahead for the people of LIbya,\" they wrote.",
"They likened the fighting in Misrata to a \"medieval siege.\"",
"The White House released text of the opinion piece, which called on the Libyan troops to return to their barracks.",
"\"Our duty and our mandate under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 is to protect civilians, and we are doing that.",
"It is not to remove (Gadhafi) by force.",
"But it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with (Gadhafi) in power,\" the three wrote.",
"\"The International Criminal Court is rightly investigating the crimes committed against civilians and the grievous violations of international law.",
"It is unthinkable that someone who has tried to massacre his own people can play a part in their future government.\"",
"Gadhafi's daughter, Ayesha, speaking to a cheering crowd in Tripoli on Thursday, said the United States tried to kill her and other children in 1986.",
"\"In 1911, Italy attacked my country and killed my (great-) grandfather,\" she said.",
"\"Now in 2011, they're trying to kill my father.\"",
"\"My father once said that 'if the Libyan nation doesn't want me, then I don't deserve to live,'\" Ayesha Gadhafi said.",
"\"The Libyans answered him in a united voice: 'Those who don't want you don't deserve to live!'\"",
"Ayesha Gadhafi also said rebel forces were being wrongly portrayed.",
"\"Who are those civilians that you're trying to protect while killing us?",
"Are they those who hold RPGs and other weapons?\"",
"The emir of Qatar, meanwhile, told CNN \"it's possible\" weapons provided by his state have reached Libyan rebels in the past two days.",
"Hamad bin Khalifa told \"The Situation Room\" that the opposition first must be trained in use of the weapons.",
"Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim accused Qatar late Wednesday of providing rebels in eastern Libya with anti-tank warheads, but he did not say when.",
"A week ago, a CNN team in eastern Libya saw the rebels with anti-tank missiles, which they didn't have before.",
"Rebels near Ajdabiya were beginning to show signs of discipline and have received new equipment, CNN's Ben Wedeman reported.",
"Despite the enhanced organization, they were not ready to take the offensive.",
"Misrata has been under siege for weeks.",
"Reports of civilian casualties are commonplace.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that in addition to Misrata, the situation also is particularly grave in the cities of Zintan and al-Brega because of critical food and water shortages.",
"Rebels have pushed back the battle lines in the east from the war-weary city of Ajdabiya toward al-Brega.",
"\"We are also deeply concerned with the fate of third-country nationals who are trapped in the areas of fighting,\" Ban said at an Arab League meeting on Libya in Cairo.",
"\"As the fighting rages, the situation will only get worse and the more distant a political solution.\"",
"International delegates attending a meeting on Libya Thursday in Qatar again urged Gadhafi to step down immediately.",
"But the Libyan strongman has shown no signs of backing down.",
"State-run television aired video Thursday of Gadhafi hanging out of the sunroof of a sport utility vehicle and waving to other cars and people on the streets.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen, Ben Wedeman and Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"U.S., French and UK leaders write op-ed piece .",
"Rebels show more discipline, cohesion in Ajdabiya .",
"Misrata and other cities have been under siege for weeks .",
"Emir says \"it's possible\" rebels have received Qatari weapons ."
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"(CNN) -- World champion Sebastian Vettel has taken an early stranglehold on this year's championship after his second straight win in the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang.",
"Vettel won the season-opener in Austrlia and has now claimed fourth successive victories after two at the end of the 2010 season to clinch the title.",
"Red Bull's Vettel led from start to finish to come home ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button with Nick Heidfeld giving Lotus Renault their second podium of the season.",
"Formula One teams, drivers and circuits .",
"The German has 50 points, 24 ahead of Button, with Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber, who was fourth in Malaysia, four further points adrift.",
"Hamilton, who had a difficult afternoon, crossed the line in seventh, but was relegated to eighth after being penalized for a coming together with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.",
"It lifted Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi into seventh, scoring points again for the second straight race.",
"Force India's Paul di Resta secured his second straight 10th place finish on his F1 debut.",
"Red Bull continue to lead the constructors' championship as they bid to repeat their success of last year.",
"Drivers' standings after second F1 race of season in Malaysia: .",
"1. Sebastian Vettel Ger - Red Bull 50 points .",
"2. Jenson Button GB - McLaren 26 .",
"3= Lewis Hamilton GB - McLaren 22 .",
"3= Mark Webber Aus - Red Bull 22 .",
"5. Fernando Alonso Sp - Ferrari 20 .",
"6. Felipe Massa It - Ferrari 16 .",
"7= Nick Heidfeld Ger - Renault 15 .",
"7= Vitaly Petrov Rus - Renault 15 .",
"9. Kamui Kobayashi Jpn - Sauber 6 .",
"10. Sebastien Buemi - Sui STR Ferr 4 .",
"Constructors' standings after round two: .",
"1. Red Bull 72 points .",
"2. McLaren 48 .",
"3. Ferrari 36 .",
"4. Renault 30 .",
"5. Sauber 6 . 6=STR Ferrari 4 .",
"6=.Force India 4 ."
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"Reigning champion Sebastian Vettel wins second successive race .",
"The victory gives the Red Bull driver the maximum 50 points after two rounds .",
"Jenson Button lies second in the standings after finishing second in Malaysia .",
"Red Bull lead the constructors' standings from McLaren ."
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"Dallas, Texas (CNN) -- Some people see body painting as semi-nudity and therefore taboo.",
"Others see it as a form of artistic self-expression.",
"A talented few see it as a challenge.",
"Artists from around the world raised their paint brushes in Dallas, Texas, recently with hopes of turning a human body into a prize-winning work of art at the 2011 North American Body Painting Championship.",
"A lot of brightly colored paint was sprayed or brushed on cheeks, lips, chests, backs, arm pits, legs and feet -- and even inside ears.",
"Each team of up to three artists -- all required to be at least 21 years of age -- worked on a human volunteer who would be turned into what looked like a fantasy creature.",
"Because each human body is unique, that can also influence the end product, according to veteran Canadian artist Yvonne Boyd of British Columbia.",
"\"Each person has their own unique energy and shapes.",
"Skin textures pull out different colors in the paint,\" she said.",
"Some of the contestants have years of experience.",
"Others like Dallas resident Brenda Brewer, a face painter on cruise ships, was body painting for the first time.",
"\"Its a form of expression but instead of using a canvas you are using a body as a canvas\" Brewer says.",
"With a curvy and moving body, artists say it can be tough to keep the paint in place for long.",
"\"The most difficult part to paint are the crease like under the arms and neck which have a lot of movement and rubs off,\" said Lymari Mittot, an artist from Mexico.",
"Paul Malachi, a carpenter who occasionally body paints, learned a love for the art from his stepmother who is a face painter.",
"He said body painting is growing in popularity because \"its such an attractive median for the audience, artist and models that it beckons people to look and be curious.\"",
"Casey Crowell, a baker in her unpainted life, volunteered to be a model for the first time at the competition, despite the near-nudity required.",
"\"This the best of any form of creativity you can think of,\" Crowell said, explaining how it also gave her body a new freedom.",
"\"The most exposed I've ever been (before) was giving birth to my son,\" she said.",
"\"But yesterday I walked around Dallas in pasties and a thong.\"",
"Competition rules bar total nudity, but some artists feel that uninformed public perception of body painting gives their artwork a negative connotation.",
"\"The misconception of body painting is that the models pose nude,\" said artist Amber Downs.",
"\"They wear pasties and thongs and those get painted,\" she explained.",
"Lisa Richardson, executive producer of the North American Body Painting Championship, said body painting is not something that should be kept hidden behind closed doors.",
"\"It's not taboo, it's not based on sexuality.",
"It's art that just happens to be alive\" Richardson said.",
"She said having your own body painted can boost your confidence.",
"\"No matter what your flaws are, paint can cover that and make you feel incredibly beautiful and make you feel strong.\"",
"At least one model agreed.",
"\"I've become more comfortable with myself.",
"I know myself a little bit better,\" Crowell said."
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"Artists compete in 2011 North American Body Painting Championship in Texas .",
"They turn human bodies into colorful canvases for prize money .",
"Say their art is misunderstood and is not about nudity .",
"Artists say body curves and movement are challenging ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt because an anti-whaling group is tailing its ship, a government official said Wednesday.",
"Hirosh Kawamura, an official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said the hunt has been \"temporarily suspended\" since February 10 due to the actions of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.",
"\"We have experienced the dangerous attacks from them, it might take the life of crews,\" he said.",
"\"Considering the safety as the first priority, we decided to halt the whaling temporarily.\"",
"Sea Shepherd regularly dogs Japanese whaling vessels during their hunts to make their task more difficult and to lower the number of whales harvested.",
"Japan annually hunts whales in the Antarctic, despite a worldwide moratorium on whaling, under the loophole that a country may legally do so if its purpose is scientific research.",
"Sea Shepherd has said the science argument is a sham, noting that the whale meat is sold in Japan and served in restaurants."
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"Japan suspends its annual whale hunt after anti-whaling group chases its ship .",
"The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society regularly dogs Japanese whaling vessels .",
"The group aims to lower the number of whales harvested ."
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"Sanya, China (CNN) -- A leadership summit of five emerging economic powers took a decidedly political turn on Thursday, going beyond customary economic issues with a joint declaration against Western-led airstrikes in Libya and urging a peaceful solution to the conflict.",
"\"We share the principle that the use of force should be avoided,\" the heads of state of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa declared in the Sanya Declaration, which was issued at the conclusion of the annual BRICS Summit in this southern China resort city.",
"Earlier this year, Brazil, Russia, India and China abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution that authorized a no-fly zone over Libya.",
"By contrast, South Africa had voted in favor of the resolution.",
"This is the third annual BRICS Summit, which adopted a new acronym after South Africa joined Brazil, Russia, India and China for the first time.",
"Chinese President Hu Jintao chaired the one-day meeting, which was also attended by South African President Jacob Zuma, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a host of cabinet-level representatives.",
"This year, the BRICS countries angled for greater collective influence in political affairs.",
"Hu, China's president, called for cooperation to increase the influence of emerging economies in international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank.",
"In the joint declaration, the five countries specifically called for reform and diversification of the UN Security Council by adding more emerging economies so \"it can deal with today's global challenges more successfully.\"",
"\"We underscore our support for multilateralism and the UN system but also agree on the need for the UN, including the UN Security Council, to make it more representative and effective,\" said South African President Jacob Zuma.",
"Indian Minister of Commerce Anand Sharma agreed.",
"\"This platform as such can make a significant and defining contribution to the global architecture as the world is seeing a major shift,\" Sharma told CNN.",
"The BRICS countries also agreed to use their own currencies in place of the U.S. dollar when issuing credit or grants to one another.",
"The declaration, which called for a broad-based international reserve currency system, asserted that such a move would provide more stability and certainty for emerging economies.",
"While the summit focused on major areas of agreement between the five countries, it was apparent that the meeting purposefully steered clear of controversial topics that still plague this diverse group of nations.",
"Controversial issues directly related to trade, including currency valuation, were pointedly avoided on Thursday.",
"\"As of now, there has been no debate on this issue,\" Yu Ping, Vice Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, told CNN on Thursday.",
"Brazil, which has been sharply critical of the way China values its currency, avoided direct comment.",
"\"Brazil has to do what Brazil has to do,\" said Luciano Coutinho, President of the Brazilian National Development Bank.",
"\"We cannot expect others to take care of our problems.\"",
"Together, the BRICS countries account for 40% of the world's population, and their combined economic output neared one-fifth of global GDP in 2010.",
"The BRICS countries are expected to pass the G-7's output by 2035, according to official statistics published by the summit.",
"Next year's BRICS Summit will be hosted in India."
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"Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in Chinese resort city .",
"The five nations also call for more representation on the UN Security Council .",
"Controversial topics such as currency valuation are pointedly avoided .",
"South Africa makes its first appearance at the BRICS Summit ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and four city councilmen were fined for ethics violations for receiving gifts worth more than $100 and tickets to Hollywood's hottest awards shows, the city ethics commission voted Tuesday.",
"Villaraigosa was fined $20,849 by the city commission.",
"He had earlier been fined $21,000 by the state's Fair Political Practice Commission.",
"In a statement, Villaraigosa said his failure to report admission to 34 of the 3,000 civic events he attended between 2005 and 2010 was \"unintentional.\"",
"He believed the tickets weren't gifts, he said.",
"He noted the penalties were below the maximum and that he cooperated with the investigations.",
"\"While appreciating that the Fair Political Practices Commission and city Ethics Commission concluded this was 'unintentional' and that I acted in 'good faith,' I am fully accountable.",
"It is my responsibility to make sure I act in strict compliance with the applicable rules,\" the mayor said in a statement.",
"\"I will continue to attend these events and have taken the necessary steps to ensure full compliance in the future,\" he added.",
"Councilman Eric Garcetti was fined $4,800 for accepting tickets to the 2007 Emmy Awards and the 2007 and 2008 Oscars.",
"\"While I paid the full cost of the awards show tickets,\" Garcetti said, \"I messed up when it came to the dinners afterward.",
"That's my mistake, and I'm personally paying for the cost of these three dinners now to clear it up.\"",
"The city ethics commission fined Councilman Herb Wesson $3,900 for accepting tickets to the BET Awards in 2007, 2008 and 2009.",
"He didn't return messages from CNN.",
"Councilman Tony Cardenas was fined $2,500 for accepting tickets to the 2008 Emmy Awards.",
"Cardenas told CNN that he was a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Science, and he accepted the tickets to 2008 Emmy Awards because he thought his membership in the academy justified his attendance.",
"\"The Ethics Commission has concluded that the specific facts of this case, including lack of prior enforcement history, my full cooperation throughout this investigation and my willingness to abide by the commission's decision have resulted in a penalty below the maximum allowable fines,\" Cardenas said.",
"Councilman Jose Huizar was fined $2,100 for accepting tickets to the 2007 Academy Awards.",
"\"This infraction occurred in 2007 and was completely unintentional and resulted from a misunderstanding of the city's gift rules,\" said Huizar.",
"\"I take full responsibility and agree with the commission's recommendation.\"",
"The city ethics commission's vote to fine the five elected officials was unanimous.",
"The fines totaled $13,300.",
"The Oscars were also fined $13,250 for giving two tickets worth $700 to the mayor for the 2007 Academy Awards and Governors Ball; two tickets worth $2,200 to the mayor for the 2008 Academy Awards and Governors Ball; a $1,100 ticket to the mayor to the 2009 Academy Awards and Governors Ball; four tickets worth $4,400 to the mayor to this year's Academy Awards and Governors Ball; and two tickets worth $2,200 to Huizar to attend the 2007 Academy Awards and Governors Ball.",
"The city ethics commission also fined the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. -- the Grammys -- $8,300 for giving the mayor two Grammy tickets worth $2,400 in 2008, one ticket worth $1,400 in 2009 and four tickets worth $4,800 this year.",
"The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was fined $7,900 for giving two tickets worth $2,500 to Garcetti for the 2007 Emmy Awards and Governors Ball at Shrine Auditorium.",
"The fine was also for giving the mayor two tickets worth $1,200 for the 2007 Emmy Awards, a $600 ticket for the 2008 Emmy Awards and two tickets worth $2,600 to the 2009 Emmys and Governors Ball.",
"The Black Entertainment Television Networks was fined $3,900 for giving four tickets worth $1,400 to Wesson for the 2007 BET Awards, four tickets worth $1,400 to Wesson for the 2008 BET Awards and four tickets worth $1,400 to Wesson for the 2009 BET Awards.",
"The commission fined Anschutz Entertainment Group $799 for giving the mayor two tickets worth $239 for a Spice Girls concert at the Staples Center in 2007, two tickets worth $160 for a Los Angeles Lakers game against the Utah Jazz at the Staples Center in 2008 and six tickets worth $600 for the ESPY Awards at the Nokia Theater in 2008."
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"The five Los Angeles elected officials received tickets to Hollywood's hottest shows .",
"Those shows included the Oscars, the Emmys, the Grammys .",
"The show organizations were also fined by the city's ethics commission ."
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"(CNN) -- England's flamboyant batsman Kevin Pietersen has been fined by Australian police for speeding in a Lamborghini laid on for him by former spin-king Shane Warne.",
"Pietersen took the $466,200 bright yellow car for a drive along the Great Ocean Road near Melbourne, Australia, thanks to former leg spinner Warne's connection with the car company.",
"The South African-born star is currently with the England team as they take on Australia in the five-match Ashes series.",
"He was named man of the match after making a double century last week as England won the second Test in Adelaide to take a 1-0 lead.",
"Warne comeback talk grows .",
"Pietersen had no problem with the Australian bowling but it was a different matter when he had to face Victoria police just hours after he updated his Twitter site to say: \"Stunning beaches on The Great Ocean Rd.. Gorgeous drive.\"",
"He was reportedly fined $235 and docked three points for driving at 121 kph by police.",
"The England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed Pietersen had been fined, but said that he wouldn't face disciplinary action.",
"On Wednesday he had tweeted a picture of the super car and said: \"Massive thanks to Lamborghini Melbourne & @warne888 for letting me play with this for a few days..\" England's emphatic victory in the second Test has prompted calls for Warne to make a comeback and attempt to add to the 708 Test wickets he took in a sparkling 15-year career.",
"One group of businessman has even set up a website -- bringbackwarne.com -- to coax the 41-year-old out of retirement.",
"Warne would only say the clamor was \"flattering.\"",
"Another high-profile sports star to fall foul of the Australian police is McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton after he was fined for anti-social driving in his Mercedes in March this year.",
"Meanwhile in the UK, former England footballer Paul Gascoigne -- who rose to prominence during the 1990 World Cup in Italy -- has been handed a suspended jail term for drink-driving."
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"Kevin Pietersen fined for speeding in Melbourne, Australia .",
"England batsman had Lamborghini laid on for him by spin legend Shane Warne .",
"Victoria police reportedly fine Pietersen three penalty points and $235 .",
"Pietersen hit a double hundred as England won second Test in the Ashes series ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Authorities confiscated an antique gun and some bullets from the home of Charlie Sheen after a search, the actor's divorce attorney said Friday.",
"Mark Gross told reporters he did not believe that by having the items his client was in violation of a temporary restraining order taken out against Sheen this month.",
"Gross said no drugs were found and police were courteous during the Thursday night search -- a sentiment authorities echoed about the actor.",
"\"Mr. Sheen was very cooperative and we are done,\" said Los Angeles police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman.",
"The actor took to Twitter immediately afterward, informing his 2.5 million followers, \"the LAPD were AWESOME.",
"Absolute pros!",
"they can protect and serve this Warlock anytime!!!",
"c.\" The restraining order was filed March 1 after Sheen's estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, requested it, alleging that he had threatened to kill her.",
"\"I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom,\" Mueller claims that Sheen told her late last month.",
"The revelations were in a court document that resulted in a court order that removed Sheen's twin boys from his home.",
"The restraining order states Sheen cannot possess, have, buy or try to buy, receive or try to receive, or in any other way get guns, other firearms or ammunition.",
"It came to the attention of the Los Angeles police department that Sheen is the registered owner of firearms, Eisenman said, and the search was conducted to see if any firearms or ammunition were in his possession.",
"A source close to Sheen told CNN the actor knew authorities were coming to search his home for firearms.",
"Sheen told the source that he had no weapons there.",
"His attorney, Gross told reporters that both he and Sheen were aware beforehand that that the search was going to occur, though Gross did not offer specifics as to when he or Sheen were notified.",
"The attorney said he did not believe Mueller was behind the tip that led to the search.",
"Warner Bros fired Sheen from the hit sitcom \"Two and a Half Men\" on Monday after he conducted a long-running rant against the show's producers.",
"Warner Bros is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.",
"CNN's Denise Quan, Douglas Hyde and Scott Thompson contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Police find, confiscate an antique gun and bullets from Sheen's home .",
"\"The LAPD were AWESOME,\" Sheen says on his Twitter account .",
"A temporary retraining order was filed against Sheen this month .",
"His estranged wife says he threatened to kill her last month ."
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"(WIRED) -- Microsoft showed off a host of visual and search enhancements to its search engine Bing Wednesday, in hopes that better packaging will help it eat away at Google's online dominance.",
"\"We are neck-to-neck in terms of search quality,\" said Bing head Satya Nadella.",
"\"Why would an end user, if you are neck to neck on search quality, use Bing?",
"That's the question we ask ourselves every day.\"",
"The answer the company is betting is a combination of a prettier interface, results informed by what your friends think, and focussing on helping people do things faster, whether that's finding a product review or buying an airline ticket.",
"Wednesday's announcements includes a new mobile app for Android and the iPhone, that brings some of the design feel of Windows Phone 7 to their competitors' devices, along with some nifty maps, real time bus directions, and an easy way to make beautiful panoramas.",
"You can also easily make reservations via OpenTable and take a virtual tour of a restaurant's interior when a restaurant shows up in map search results.",
"Microsoft also redesigned its browser-based image search and maps, reducing the latter's reliance on the Silverlight plug-in and instead doing more with the power of modern browsers and HTML5.",
"Traditional search also got a slight makeover, with visual changes being made to how results are returned for musical artists, destinations and movies, among other types of search.",
"One particularly good new search result that Microsoft demoed, but which is not yet live, is for movies that are no longer playing in theaters.",
"The Movie page for that movie will, like those for in-theater movies, show you a preview and links to reviews.",
"But it substitutes direct, deep links to places to watch the movie online, including Netflix, for the typical showtime listings.",
"Bing now has 11.8% of the U.S. search market, a 48% hump growth since Bing replaced Live search in the summer of 2009, according to Nadell.",
"But even better, he said, is that Bing is now gaining adherents, particularly younger users, who like its visual emphasis, use the site regularly and perhaps, most importantly, recommend it to other people.",
"WIRED: Picture this -- Google chases Bing .",
"Certainly, its rival Google has taken notice of Bing's visual splashiness -- and even disastrously tried to imitate the background images on its famously sparse search home page, only to cut short the trial within hours.",
"Google also revamped its image search earlier this year, clearly imitating Bing's innovations.",
"While Google's visual search technology still trumps Bing's when it comes to identifying images, Bing's new UI makes it very easy to browse through large images, not just thumbnails.",
"Perhaps most importantly, Bing now has a partnership with Facebook, and one out of five Bing users are candidates for \"instant personalization,\" since they are logged into Facebook and haven't chosen to opt-out.",
"What that meant for searchers when the partnership launched in October wasn't much.",
"For instance, if you search for \"how to quiet a baby\" and one of your friends on Facebook has liked one of the articles that shows up in the search results, you will see their picture next to that result.",
"But now Bing is going further.",
"When you search for say \"Tron\", Bing actually looks into what your friends are interested in, finds stories they have liked via little \"Like\" buttons all over the net, and then inserts that into the top results -- even if that story wouldn't have shown up in Bing's natural search results.",
"WIRED: Firefox 4 adds Bing to list of search engines .",
"That could turn into a huge advantage for Bing, if over time there is enough information in social networking profiles to really make search better.",
"\"Even if only a small percentage of queries have moments where the social graph informs and improves search results, it's a huge difference,\" Nadella said, adding that it is only the beginning of using social sites like Facebook to improve search.",
"Facebook, which sees Google as its biggest rival, is unlikely to share its core user data with Google, which itself is at work on a social add-on to its services.",
"Overall, Microsoft's emphasis on finding new ways to group information and make doing things easier seems to be stealing a page from its old rival Apple.",
"Design matters.",
"Since Google's design sense heavily relies on minimalism, that leaves lots of room for Microsoft (and its search partner Yahoo) to experiment with alternative, graphics-heavy designs.",
"Being in second place also lets Microsoft play with new visual approaches to search faster than Google can, as there are fewer users who will get upset when the location of a link moves.",
"WIRED: Bing will add video, animation to homepage .",
"Microsoft didn't announce anything today on par with Google's recent announcement of \"Instant Search,\" a huge engineering feat that lets users see search results before even finishing typing their query.",
"But Microsoft showed today they are still in the lucrative search game, even if they aren't making money at it yet, and if you haven't used Bing in recent months, it's definitely worth giving it another test spin.",
"You might like what you see.",
"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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"Microsoft shows off visual and search enhancements to its search engine Bing .",
"Managers hopes better packaging will help it eat away at Google's online dominance .",
"\"We are neck-to-neck in terms of search quality,\" says Bing head Satya Nadella ."
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"(CNN) -- Andy Carroll scored twice, his first goals for Liverpool, to help his club comfortably defeat Manchester City 3-0 in Monday's Premier League encounter at Anfield.",
"City, who needed a victory to move above Chelsea into third place in the table, were blown away by a devastating first half performance from Liverpool, who have consolidated sixth position with this result.",
"Liverpool began brightly and nearly took a seventh-minute lead when Luis Suarez's fine strike was tipped onto the post by City's England goalkeeper Joe Hart.",
"But the visiting defense was struggling to cope with Liverpool's wave of attacks and the hosts took a deserved lead six minutes later when Carroll's superbly struck left-footed strike, from just outside the area, swerved past Hart for his first goal since joining the club for a British record transfer fee in January.",
"Liverpool doubled their lead in the 34th minute when City failed to clear a succession of crosses and blocked shots, the ball eventually falling to the feet of Dirk Kuyt who fired through the legs of defender Alexander Kolarov and past Hart.",
"Liverpool made it 3-0 a minute later when Raul Meireles curled in an inviting cross from the left for Carroll to outjump Kolarov and help the ball into the far corner of the net.",
"Liverpool had chances to increase their lead after the break but Hart did well to keep out efforts from Meireles and Kuyt, while Suarez fired wide from an acute angle and Carroll headed over the crossbar from a good position.",
"City's defeat means they lie just three points ahead of Tottenham, who have a game in hand, in the race for the final Champions League place, with the teams still to play each other this season.",
"A bad night for Roberto Mancini's side was made worse with the news that talismanic striker Carlos Tevez is now doubtful for Sunday's FA Cup semifinal against rivals Manchester United at Wembley, after limping off in the first half with a hamstring injury."
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"Andy Carroll scores his first Liverpool goals in a 3-0 win over Manchester City .",
"They are Carroll's first goals since his records transfer from Newcastle in January .",
"Dirk Kuyt also scores as Liverpool consolidate sixth place in the table .",
"Manchester City remain fourth, just three points ahead of Tottenham in fifth ."
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"(CNN) -- Syrian authorities have arrested at least 117 activists, intellectuals and anti-government supporters since early Monday, a human rights group said.",
"\"The wave of arrests across the country includes journalist Faiz Sarah ... along with many more,\" Wissam Tarif, executive director of the human rights group Insan, told CNN.",
"\"We were able to confirm only 117 arrested but we expect the number to be a lot higher,\" he added.",
"The group said authorities raided homes and arrested opponents in the capital, Damascus, and also in the cities of Latakia, Homs, Aleppo, Jubah, Tartus and Banias.",
"The coastal city of Banias remained sealed off Monday after violence broke a day earlier.",
"At least four people were killed and 17 others injured in clashes between security forces and pro-democracy protesters, according to eyewitnesses.",
"Some people ventured out Monday to bury some of the dead, with more burials expected Tuesday.",
"Phone lines were spotty and are believed to be monitored, eyewitnesses told CNN.",
"Electricity returned in certain parts of the city but remained unreliable.",
"Other parts of the country also were tense as military and security forces gathered around government buildings and university campuses in anticipation of protests.",
"In the capital, for the first time faculty members joined hundreds of students demonstrated Monday at Damascus University's applied science and law colleges in the city's central Baramka area, Tarif said.",
"\"They were peaceful, then pro-regime forces closed off the campus and white busses came and detained at least seven people, some were beaten.",
"One student from the city of Jassem, in Daraa province, was severely beaten inside the campus because the forces believed he organized the protest.\"",
"Tarif said.",
"A video on YouTube.com claiming to show the protest showed students chanting slogans in support of Banias and Daraa, where the anti-government protests started in the country last month.",
"The Syrian government blames foreigners and instigators for infiltrating peaceful demonstrations and feeding violent confrontations.",
"The country's official news agency, SANA, published on Monday the names of six police officers who SANA said were killed and 166 others who were injured \"when militants fired at them over the last few days in Daraa, Reef, Damascus, Homs and Latakia.\""
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"An official of a human rights group describes a \"wave\" of arrests across Syria .",
"At least 117 anti-government activists and intellectuals were arrested, the official says .",
"\"We were able to confirm only 117 ... we expect the number to be a lot higher,\" he adds ."
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"(CNN) -- In the beginning was a word, sketched on a legal pad.",
"And the word was Status.",
"That was the working title used by programmer Jack Dorsey in 2000, when he designed the service that was to become Twitter six years later.",
"An urban-design geek, Dorsey envisaged a city full of people buzzing short messages at each other the way taxi dispatchers and bike messengers do.",
"Where are you? What's up? What's your status? Today, five years after its inception, Twitter's status seems in flux.",
"On the one hand, it is a vibrant virtual metropolis beyond Dorsey's wildest imaginings.",
"It has garnered 200 million citizens from every corner of the world, yet manages to be more orderly and simple than that noisy Facebook megalopolis down the road.",
"There are no annoying Mafia Wars notifications here, no targeted ads, no anxiety-producing friend requests -- nothing but real-time messages from whomever you're interested in, be they Lady Gaga or the girl next door.",
"On the other hand, all is not well in Status City.",
"This week's cover story in Fortune warns that Twitter usage appears to be flatlining.",
"One hundred million of those citizens are absent altogether, and Twitter.com has fewer visitors per month -- about 20 million -- than MySpace, according to comScore.",
"The company has a steady hand on the tiller in new CEO Dick Costolo but lacks a visionary product leader (Dorsey is equally focused on his next company, Square).",
"It still suffers from irritating outages and isn't turning a profit.",
"And as CNN reported on Wednesday, UberMedia, the company behind mobile Twitter apps like Echofon, is planning to build a rival microblogging network, one that may shun the famous 140-character limit.",
"So are the buzzards circling over Status City?",
"Should tweeters head for the hills or prepare to move to a competing town with fewer regulations?",
"In a word: no. The city that Jack built is a lot more robust -- and unrepeatable -- than it may seem.",
"First of all, let's look at those numbers.",
"They vary wildly according to which service you use and how you slice them.",
"Quantcast says there has been a 50% jump in Twitter usage in the past five months.",
"Most of that is overseas: Google Analytics says international traffic has risen 83% in the past year.",
"And because so many people are tweeting on their mobile device or third party app, the Twitter.com numbers are incomplete and misleading.",
"But even if we take the extremely conservative estimate of 20 million hardcore Twitter users, that ain't chopped liver.",
"It's a phenomenal achievement for a 5-year-old company.",
"These devotees could fill New York and Los Angeles combined.",
"They ensure a neverending stream of news of every kind, perfectly customizable to your needs.",
"You may be overwhelmed in Status City, but you will never be bored.",
"No other service, not even Facebook, gives the impression of immersing you in a global conversation, a fact that becomes abundantly clear any time there is a natural disaster, revolution or major sporting event.",
"As Costolo frequently says, the service has barely reached 1% of its potential.",
"A hardcore elite of 20 million-plus also represents an unassailable lead over would-be competitors like UberMedia.",
"Many have tried, such as Jaiku (bought and then abandoned by Google) and the now-defunct Pownce.",
"But this isn't a medium like TV, where many channels can succeed.",
"This is more like a network where Twitter itself contains all the channels.",
"Barring Twitter doing something phenomenally stupid, like charging users for the service, why would you change the dial?",
"Indeed, the only successful fellow microblogging services thus far are the ones that build layers on top of Twitter, such as Stocktwits, or open-source additions like Identi.ca.",
"Be they gated communities or anarchic communes at the edge of Status City, they all need the vibrant metropolis itself in order to thrive.",
"And what of that 140-character limit?",
"Far from being a problem, it remains Twitter's greatest asset, as much as a tiny minority of users may chafe against it.",
"In urban terms, it is the stop-light system that keeps traffic flowing -- and allows everyone to get a word in edgewise.",
"Art thrives on constriction.",
"Screenwriters and poets have long known that if something is worth saying, it's worth saying as briefly as possible.",
"With Twitter, the rest of the world is finding that out.",
"Call it the democratization of writing.",
"Anyone can enter the elite of Status City and gain thousands of followers, if they have the wit for it.",
"In short, the ability to churn out interesting tweets has become a much-admired skill -- the ultimate 21st-century status symbol."
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"Five years after its inception, Twitter's status seems in flux -- but it's actually doing just fine .",
"Quantcast: There has been a 50% jump in Twitter usage in the past five months .",
"No other service gives the impression of immersing you in a global conversation ."
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"(WIRED) -- Apple's loose-lipped overseas partners are exchanging whispers about the next-generation iPad, claiming it will come in three different versions, one of which would work with Verizon's network.",
"The iPad 2 will support three different wireless configurations: UMTS, CDMA and Wi-Fi only, according to \"industry sources quoted by DigiTimes\" citing component makers.",
"That's up from the two versions Apple currently offers: UMTS plus Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi only.",
"To explicate the alphabet soup, UMTS is the standard used by major 3G carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile, while CDMA is compatible with Verizon and Sprint networks.",
"Currently the 3G iPad ships with a MicroSIM card slot, and in the United States, the only carrier that uses MicroSIM is AT&T.",
"Customers who want to connect to non-AT&T 3G networks must either buy an external wireless hotspot device such as the Verizon MiFi (Verizon already sells a MiFi plus iPad package) or trim a standard SIM card down to MicroSIM size, like Wired.com's Charlie Sorrel.",
"The current 3G model of the iPad is not tied to a contract: Customers pay a flat monthly rate for data and can opt out whenever they please.",
"So if this rumor is true, it means that when the iPad 2 ships, you'll have to pick a 3G model based on your carrier preference.",
"If you don't plan to be on the road a lot, there's still the Wi-Fi option.",
"Support for both major wireless standards in the United States will make the iPad 2 available to a much larger potential audience, whereas before it was only available in the states from AT&T.",
"WIRED: With iPad, Apple still has fatal attraction for AT&T .",
"Whether Apple hammers out sales agreements with Verizon or Sprint remains to be seen.",
"Recent rumors suggestion that the iPad 2 will hit stores April 2011, one year after the original iPad's release.",
"Some third-party protective cases for a purported \"iPad 23 have been cropping up in Asia, hinting at the possibility of a bigger speaker and a rear-facing camera.",
"Persistent rumors -- so far unsubstantiated -- have also pointed to a Verizon-compatible iPhone to be released in early 2011.",
"If Verizon gets the iPhone and the iPad, it would greatly expand Apple's potential market, and would also likely deal a severe blow to AT&T, which has been roundly criticized for the inability of its 3G network to keep up with iPhone-induced demand.",
"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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"Next generation iPad could come in three different versions .",
"Currently 3G iPad ships with a MicroSIM card slot, which is only used on AT&T .",
"If Verizon gets iPhone and iPad, it would greatly expand Apple's potential market ."
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