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[ "Washington (CNN) -- The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday that the situation in the wake of the Japanese nuclear reactor crisis is static but not yet stable.", "On the day that Japan bumped up the seriousness of its nuclear accident from a Level 5 to a Level 7 priority, on par with the Chernobyl disaster, a Senate committee heard from U.S. environmental officials, scientists and NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko.", "\"From the information we have, we believe the situation currently is static, namely we don't see significant changes on a day-to-day basis with the reactors,\" Jaczko told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.", "\"It is not yet, however, what we believe to be stable: namely that given additional events or other circumstances ... there would not be the potential for significant additional problems at the reactors.\"", "Thus, Jaczko said, the focus is \"on these efforts to transition from static to stable to ensure (the) long-term ... ability to cool the reactors and to provide cooling for the spent fuel pools.\"", "California Sen. Barbara Boxer's state has a number of nuclear plants in areas with high seismic activity near millions of people.", "She pressed Jaczko for reassurances that enough is being done to protect people in the United States, especially California residents.", "\"We've got to move beyond talk and get to the serious question (of) what do we do, to do everything in our power to make it safe,\" Boxer said.", "Boxer pointed out that officials once said it was \"very unlikely\" Japan would ever face the kind of crisis it finds itself in today.", "Questions were raised at the hearing about how far to extend evacuation zones in the United States in the event of a nuclear incident.", "The NRC has recommended that Americans in Japan stay at least 50 miles away from the damaged reactors.", "The current standard in the United States is a 10-mile evacuation zone.", "\"As we've seen in Japan, nuclear events tend to develop over a long period of time,\" said Jaczko.", "\"This is three weeks into this event, and we've had the time and the ability to make protective action recommendations, and to update and modify them as conditions of the plant changed.", "So that 10 miles is really based around the idea of what do you need to have prepared right away so that if you have an event that develops quickly, you can address that and have prestaged and prepared what to do,\" he said.", "Boxer pointed out that two of the nuclear plants in California were built to withstand a certain level of earthquake, pointing out in Japan it was 7.5 but the devastating quake was much more powerful.", "She said nuclear regulatory officials are being too conservative.", "\"It's eerie to me, because I don't sense enough humility from all of us here.", "You know, as some great scientists once said, we think we have all the answers, but Mother Nature may not agree with us.", "So a lot of what you're saying is the same thing that they said,\" Boxer pointed out.", "\"You can't know for sure what's going to happen,\" she said.", "Lisa Jackson, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, reassured senators that air and water sampling for radiation contamination continue in the United States and that so far there is nothing to worry about.", "\"Let me be clear, EPA has not seen and does not expect to see radiation in our air or water reaching harmful levels in the United States,\" said Jackson.", "\"All of the data that we have seen, which we continue to make public and available on our website, indicates that while radiation levels are slightly elevated in some places, they are significantly below problematic levels.\"" ]	[ "NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko speaks to members of Senate public works panel .", "\"We don't see significant changes on a day-to-day basis with the reactors,\" Jaczko says .", "Sen. Barbara Boxer seeks assurances on safety of U.S. reactors in seismic zones .", "Questions arise about whether evacuation zones in the U.S. need to be extended ." ]	[ 1, 2, 9 ]
[ "Los Angeles (CNN) -- Cardinal Roger Mahony visited Bryan Stow Tuesday to pray for the 42-year-old, who remains in a medically induced coma nearly two weeks after he was attacked after a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, a hospital spokeswoman said.", "\"His condition remains critical and doctors are hoping Bryan's condition improves over the next 24 hours,\" said hospital spokeswoman Rosa Saca, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center .", "Relatives of the Giants fan launched a website -- www.support4bryanstow.com -- in part to provide daily updates on his condition.", "Stow's sister, Bonnie Stow, told CNN that one priority of the neurosurgeons is keeping him sedated to prevent seizures and swelling in the brain.", "In a recent Web posting, she wrote: \"The doctors want to limit visitors, noise and physical contact with Bryan.", "They're wanting to keep his brain calm and just ... quiet ... to see how that works.", "... That way the neurologists can get a better reading of brain activity.", "Fever down.\" Bonnie Stow said her brother's seizures have subsided, and over the next 24 to 48 hours doctors want to gradually reduce the sedation he is under and, hopefully, bring him out of the medically induced coma.", "\"We can't wait for Bryan to wake up so he can see for himself just how much people love him, whether they are family, friends or strangers.\"", "Since the unprovoked attack after the March 31 game at Dodger Stadium, money has poured in from numerous donors and fundraising events to help pay for medical costs and provide support for his two young children.", "Bonnie Stow said the website also identifies fundraising activity endorsed by Stow's family.", "L.A. officials ask two suspects to surrender .", "\"We are trying to post only legitimate fundraisers that we can confirm because unfortunately there are those trying to take advantage of this tragic situation,\" said Bonnie in a posting.", "At a dual fundraiser Monday at Dodger Stadium and AT&T Park in San Francisco, where the Giants and Dodgers played Monday, more than $120,000 was raised, said American Medical Response spokesman Jason Sorrick.", "More than $200,000 has been raised for Stow, who works for AMR.", "Meanwhile, investigators continued their search for the two suspected assailants, who fled after the beating in a light-colored, four-door car driven by a woman with a young boy inside, authorities said.", "Since the release of composite sketches, police have investigated more than 100 clues based on calls and tips, said Los Angeles Police Detective PJ Morris.", "About 100 witnesses saw Stow attacked as he left the stadium parking lot, and Morris said some of them have provided useful information.", "Officials are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions.", "\"Whether it's the reward money or a Good Samaritan who wants to help solve a horrific crime, there has been a tremendous outpouring of calls from people who might have useful information,\" Morris said.", "Morris said detectives have compiled and presented photographic lineups of possible suspects to witnesses in the Los Angeles area but no one has identified Stow's attackers.", "Another team of detectives has been showing the photos to witnesses in the Bay Area.", "\"Every call and tip is helpful in some capacity, even if it eliminates someone who may resemble the composite sketches,\" Morris said.", "\"There is no forensic evidence in this case, therefore that person who comes forward is most likely how we're going to solve this thing.\"", "LAPD officials released a tip line for anyone with information: 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)." ]	[ "Cardinal Roger Mahony visits Bryan Stow, 42, to pray for the injured father of two .", "Doctors want to gradually reduce the sedation keeping him in a medically induced coma .", "Stow, a paramedic, was attacked after a baseball game at Dodger Stadium on March 31 .", "Police have gotten many tips, and money has poured into funds to help with medical bills ." ]	[ 0, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A proposal by a coalition of Persian Gulf nations to decrease tensions between the government and the opposition in Yemen may have done just the opposite.", "One day after the Gulf Cooperation Council released a statement urging Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh to transfer powers to his vice president, thousands of protestors returned to the streets Monday for marches and opposition leaders are vowing not to back down.", "One eyewitness claims protesters number in the tens of thousands at a anti-Saleh march in Abyan province.", "CNN could not independently verify the estimate.", "\"The youth protesting today are being used by the JMP who are trying to steal the revolution from them,\" Abdu Ganadi, deputy minister of information for the GCC said Monday.", "The Joint Meeting Parties bloc, Yemen's largest opposition group, said the GCC initiative \"does not clearly state that Saleh must step down and only focuses on Saleh's transferring power.\"", "\"We all know the VP is not strong and will never be able to tell Saleh no, even if all his powers are transferred,\" said senior JMP official Hasan Zaid.", "The Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Washington responded to the GCC initiative on Monday in a statement which said Saleh has agreed to transfer powers in accordance with the Yemeni Constitution, which means he will not step down from power until his term ends in 2013.", "\"We will not accept any initiative that will have Saleh still in rule whether the initiative is from the GCC or Europe,\" Zaid said.", "The GCC, a six-nation bloc of oil producing countries, met on Sunday in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, in an effort bring an end to the current political impasse in the country.", "\"The opposition wants everything and President Saleh is still the most powerful person in the country,\" GCC's Ganadi said.", "\"The opposition is now the one going against the GCC initiative,\" said Ganadi.", "A leading revolutionary attending a march on Monday in Sanaa spoke out against the coalition's proposal.", "\"The youth are not involved in any agreement and in the end, we have the powerful voice,\" said Khaled Anesi.", "\"No initiative will save Saleh from the crimes he committed against the peaceful youth,\" Anesi said.", "In addition to pushing the transfer of power, the GCC's initiative also called for the formation of a national unity government to be chaired by the opposition.", "There was no mention of that proposal in the statement released by the Yemen government.", "Last week, Saleh said he welcomes the council's efforts to help resolve the political crisis in his country.", "He has said he intends to step down but only under a peaceful and constitutional transition process.", "Despite increasing pressure from neighboring countries and opposition groups, the Yemeni government has said calling for Saleh's departure now is going too far.", "Yemen's president has promised not to run in the next round of elections.", "The United States, which has been allied with the Saleh government in its fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has welcomed past Gulf council initiatives.", "\"We strongly encourage all sides to engage in this urgently needed dialogue to reach a solution supported by the Yemeni people,\" Mark Toner, spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said Friday.", "\"President Saleh has publicly expressed his willingness to engage in a peaceful transition of power; the timing and form of this transition should be identified through negotiation and begin soon.\"", "Violence and protest have raged in Yemen, where protesters have called for the ouster of Saleh.", "He has ruled the country since 1978.", "An eyewitness claims hundreds of protesters attended an anti-government march in streets of Sanaa, and other cities across Yemen.", "\"We will not be scared to march and make the regime understand that we will not stop until our demands are met,\" student activist Hareth Abdullah said.", "\"Every day we increase in power and the regime decreases in power,\" Abdullah said.", "High unemployment fuels much of the anger among a growing young population who have suffered from poverty.", "The protesters also cite government corruption and a lack of political freedom.", "\"We will not differ with the revolution youth and we will support them,\" Yahya Abu Osbaa, a senior JMP official said.", "\"In the end, I can assure you that we will agree on terms,\" Osbaa said.", "CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom, Yousuf Basil, Amir Ahmed and Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Gulf Cooperation Council accuses the opposition of trying to steal the youth revolution .", "NEW: Eyewitness reports tens of thousands gather for anti-Saleh march .", "Senior opposition official: \"We will not accept any initiative that will have Saleh still in rule\"\nYemen president commits to peaceful transfer of power in accordance with Yemeni constitution ." ]	[ 2, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- April 13, 2011 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• Japan • Chernobyl • Washington, D.C. 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: To our Facebook fans in Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and to everyone who's watching us around the world, welcome to CNN Student News.", "From the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, I'm Carl Azuz.", "First Up: Japan Nuclear Crisis .", "AZUZ: First up, Japan's prime minister wants some answers from the company that runs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.", "Specifically, the prime minister wants to know when the crisis at the plant is going to be over.", "He's looking for a timetable from the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and he says one should be coming soon.", "He's also promised to get this crisis under control \"at all costs.\"", "In the meantime, the Japanese government has classified the situation at the Fukushima plant as a level 7.", "That means it is among the most serious nuclear accidents ever.", "That rating is based on how much radiation has been released from the plant, and it means officials expect long-term efforts to deal with all the issues caused by this accident.", "Thousands of people have had to leave the region around the plant.", "The prime minister promised to help them find jobs, housing and education.", "What's happening in Japan has some people remembering another nuclear accident that took place nearly 25 years ago.", "It was a meltdown at Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union.", "Diana Magnay looks at the long-lasting effects of the worst nuclear accident in history.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We're driving through the exclusion zone en route to Chernobyl.", "It doesn't feel like a place where the world's worst-ever nuclear accident happened almost 25 years ago.", "The sun lends a wintry charm to the derelict homes we passed.", "In all, nearly 350,000 people were forced to abandon their homes as a radioactive cloud blew over Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.", "This village is called Zalissya in Ukrainian, which literally means \"behind the forest.\"", "But as you can see now, it has been completely consumed by the forest.", "And when the villages were evacuated about ten days after the accident took place, they thought that they'd be able to come back here, that this village would be inhabitable again.", "But as you can see, that wasn't to be the case. So, this is the memorial. How many people died immediately after the accident?", "YURI TATARCHUK, CHERNOBYL GUIDE: Answer, about 30 people in one month died overall.", "Highly radiated.", "MAGNAY: Yuri Tatarchuk, who's our certified guide from Ukraine's ministry of emergencies, says the final death toll from the nuclear fallout is impossible to calculate, but that it's less than people feared.", "Estimates from the International Atomic Energy Agency put the number at 4,000.", "But the World Health Organization points to 4,000 incidents of thyroid cancer among children from the affected areas.", "TATARCHUK: So now, it's 8.7, 9 microsieverts.", "MAGNAY: Radiation's not down to normal, but Tatarchuk says it's not a health risk if you're just here for the day.", "TATARCHUK: We're staying here just minutes, but it's not so sure if such levels of radiation inhabiting here is not allowed.", "MAGNAY: We're not the only visitors.", "A Russian tour group picked their way through frozen tower blocks in nearby Pripyat.", "The town was evacuated the day after reactor number four exploded, before the Soviet Union admitted it had a serious problem in one of its nuclear plants.", "This year, the government will remove restrictions to the exclusion zone, turning these Soviet ghost towns into a tourist destination, a chance for people to see for themselves the relics of a nuclear catastrophe frozen in time.", "Diana Magnay, CNN, Pripyat, Ukraine.", "(END VIDEO) What's the Word .", "TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: What's the word?", "When a government spends more money than it takes in, the difference is called a _____?", "DEFICIT . That's the word! Budget Battle .", "AZUZ: In March, the U.S. federal deficit was $188 billion.", "President Obama and Congress are looking at ways to reduce that deficit.", "Republicans laid out some ideas last week.", "The president is scheduled to outline his plan in a speech later today.", "In more immediate budget news, though, we're getting some details about the spending cuts that could be voted on this week.", "This is part of the deal that helped avoid the government shutdown last week.", "$38.5 billion in cuts would affect programs from the Transportation, Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services departments.", "Of course, Congress has to pass that deal before any of it would happen, and votes are scheduled for later this week.", "Shoutout . STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to the social studies students and teachers at Salisbury High School in Salisbury, North Carolina!", "Which space shuttle went into orbit first?", "Here we go! Was it: A) Atlantis, B) Columbia, C) Discovery or D) Endeavour?", "Start the countdown at three seconds -- and GO!", "Columbia was the first shuttle to launch into orbit.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Retiring Shuttles .", "AZUZ: The launch happened exactly 30 years ago this week.", "And in honor of the anniversary, NASA is announcing where the shuttle fleet is going to spend its retirement.", "You'll be able to visit Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Endeavour at a science center in Los Angeles.", "Discovery is headed to the Smithsonian in Washington.", "And Enterprise -- a shuttle that never actually went into space -- will be on display at a museum in New York.", "The 30th anniversary of Columbia's first flight was also the 50th anniverary of a major milestone for the Russian space program.", "Matthew Chance has more on that celebration.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, MOSCOW: It was perhaps the greatest journey one man has ever taken.", "Propelled 50 years ago into space on a Soviet rocket, Yuri Gagarin made the first ever orbit of the Earth.", "For 108 minutes, he was crammed inside his tiny capsule, giving the world a vivid commentary of the planet far below.", "YURI GAGARIN, SOVIET COSMONAUT [TRANSLATED]: I am continuing the flight.", "The overload is somewhat increasing, as well as the vibration.", "But I am feeling well, and I'm in great spirits.", "I can see the Earth and can distinguish the features of its terrain.", "CHANCE: Well, this is just a replica of the actual Vostok capsule in which Yuri Gagarin made that first historic flight.", "For some reason, the original is kept in the museum of a state corporation and isn't on general public view.", "But this space exhibition in Moscow is filled with originals, including a number of contemporaries of Yuri Gagarin himself.", "Men like Alexei Leonov, the first Soviet cosmonaut to conduct a spacewalk, here to celebrate the achievements of 50 years ago.", "ALEXEI LEONOV, RUSSIAN COSMONAUT [TRANSLATED]: In the past, we used to make a point of whether he or she was an American or a Russian or whatnot.", "In my view, if we don't remember what happened 50 years ago, we will forget everything in 100 years.", "CHANCE: At the height of the Cold War, Gagarin's success was a high-profile victory over the United States, seen as evidence of Soviet domination in the space race.", "He was dispatched overseas in what the Kremlin called \"missions of peace.\"", "It made him a global icon.", "And his flight on April 12, 1961 also led president John F. Kennedy to declare that America would put a man on the moon by 1970.", "Today, American astronauts are ready to acknowledge Gagarin's pioneering mission.", "THOMAS STAFFORD, U.S. ASTRONAUT: Well, there always has to be a first (inaudible).", "And at the time, you know, there was a big competition (inaudible).", "I will say here today, without Yuri Gagarin's flight, I probably would not have flown to the moon.", "CHANCE: Everybody's friends now.", "STAFFORD: Oh, yes.", "CHANCE: Gagarin didn't live to witness the hundreds who've journeyed to space since his first flight.", "He was killed in 1968 in a plane crash.", "But an untimely death has only added to the mythical status of the first man in space.", "(END VIDEO) Before We Go .", "AZUZ: Before we go, do you remember the states we mentioned at the beginning of today's show?", "You would if you were in this competition.", "It's the U.S. Memory Championship; we're talking mental muscle.", "The tournament involves memorizing names, faces and numbers.", "For one round, you have to memorize the order of a shuffled deck of playing cards.", "This year's champion took home the title -- and broke two U.S. records along the way -- last month in New York.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: We were going to tell you about it then, but then we, uh, forgot.", "We hope you remember to tune in for more CNN Student News tomorrow. We'll see you then." ]	[ "Witness the long-term effects of the world's worst nuclear accident .", "Hear which U.S. government departments could be affected by spending cuts .", "Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first person to travel into space .", "Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ." ]	[ 1, 19, 49, 54, 65, 85 ]
[ "Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Moammar Gadhafi's forces Thursday pounded the strategic port of Misrata, his sole daughter defied the coalition and the three leaders of that alliance declared the Libyan leader \"must go and go for good.\"", "To the west, in Tripoli, antiaircraft fire followed several thunderous explosions, and Libyan state television reported civilian casualties from 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 will appear 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, 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.", "In Misrata, at least 23 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the dawn attack at the port and a nearby residential area, said the director of one of the four clinics open in the city.", "He said at least 700 people have died since the violence erupted in Misrata in February .", "The attacks Thursday destroyed a cement factory and cargo containers at the Misrata port, where a medical aid ship was expected to dock, residents said.", "\"If people do not die here from shelling, they will die from starving since Gadhafi is preventing aid from arriving to the port,\" said Mohammed, a medical assistant.", "He said the shelled port had reopened and did not sustain major damage.", "Misrata residents interviewed by CNN did not want to be identified because of security reasons.", "CNN could not independently verify the reports but the International Organization for Migration said it chartered an 800-person-capacity boat to evacuate at least 6,000 stranded migrant workers in Misrata, many of whom have been living in warehouses with little food and a lot of fear.", "The organization said the boat was carrying hundreds of tons of medical aid to Misrata and was en route to the port.", "\"From reports on the ground, this rescue mission cannot come soon enough,\" an IOM worker on the boat said in a news release.", "\"It is going to be heartbreaking not being able to take everyone out at once.\"", "Misrata has been under siege for weeks.", "Reports of civilian casualties streamed in Tuesday and Wednesday.", "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." ]	[ "NEW: Rebels show more discipline, cohesion in Ajdabiya .", "U.S., French and UK leaders write op-ed piece .", "Gadhafi's daughter rallies supporters .", "Emir says \"it's possible\" rebels have received Qatari weapons ." ]	[ 25, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He is someone you might want for a son.", "Except you can't adopt him.", "He's somebody else's favorite son.", "Derrick Rose, raised to be humble, groomed to be great, is Chicago Jr.", "The place that gave birth to a bouncing basketball boy is thrilled that the kid, all grown up now, is still living at home.", "As the human blur of a point guard for the Bulls, Rose could become the team's first player since Michael Jordan to win the NBA's Most Valuable Player award.", "And while Rose may never reach the level of worship enjoyed by Jordan, there's a certain love for Rose that Jordan never knew.", "A love only a parent can give.", "You see it nightly at the United Center, feel it in warm applause, sense it in a basketball season that's going Chicago's way.", "Rose justifies all the fuss with performances that manage to entertain fans and win games, a combination that makes him worth the price of admission alone.", "Really, what's not to love about a player with the speed necessary to reach the rim, and an improved outside shot that makes him deadly from 20 feet, and an air of confidence that has him and the city thinking anything's possible?", "Here on the eve of the playoffs, where the Bulls will enter as the No.", "1 seed in the East, he's pumping 25 points a game, good for seventh in the league, which would be fine if that was the whole story.", "But it is not. He was born in one of the armpits of Chicago, a 'hood that would make Al Capone flinch, a place where kids like Rose don't need a GPS to find trouble.", "A quick pair of fists come in handy where Rose comes from, but best we can tell, all he ever beat up were stereotypes.", "Let's just say he doesn't carry himself in a way society has come to expect from young men raised on That Side Of Town.", "Ego and me-me attitude?", "Oh, sure, he has one.", "Like any star who makes grown-ups slobber all over themselves, Rose brings a list of demands.", "A list the size of a postage stamp.", "And there's only one item on it: He asks for access to the Bulls' practice facility at all hours because sometimes the urge to work on his game dawns upon him at the break of dawn.", "Take last summer.", "After spending an entire day at his youth camp -- and you don't know the definition of \"exhaustion\" until you've worked with a few hundred boys with short attention spans -- Rose recuperated by shooting jumpers for a few hours at the team gym.", "And the season was still months away.", "\"I just want to win games and be true to my family, team, my teammates and the city,\" Rose said.", "\"They've all given me so much.\"", "Just recently, on a day off, he drove himself to his old high school to watch a few buddies in a pickup game.", "Yeah, that sounds exactly like what a famous 22-year-old athlete would do for a thrill in a city like Chicago.", "\"He had a great time,\" said Robert Smith, Rose's old coach and still the current coach at Simeon Academy.", "\"It was a big deal to the kids at school but no big deal to him.", "He's just that way.\" Rose will deliver a magnificent game, for example his 39-point effort against Orlando just last Sunday, and then rave about a screen set for him by a teammate.", "At the All-Star Game in Los Angeles two months ago, when Lenny Kravitz and a smoke machine introduced each player in a Hollywood-style opening, Rose gently waved and smiled slightly and quickly walked off the stage, looking somewhat embarrassed by the attention.", "In a sports era where players love to pull their jersey to celebrate a big basket, Rose pulls no stunts.", "No chest-thumping or fist-pumping or shimmy-shaking.", "He does not teach anyone how to Dougie.", "He leaves the screaming to the fans.", "\"He's just a grounded guy,\" said John Paxson, the Bulls' executive vice president of basketball operations.", "\"The things that are most important to him are family and basketball.\"", "If it seems Rose was made for this, that's because he was.", "When he began to outplay high school kids at age 7, the process began in earnest.", "His mother, a single parent, put her three oldest sons in charge of Derrick.", "They formed a brotherly shield around him, blocking out all unwanted intrusions, especially the aggressive reptiles known as street agents.", "At least one brother shadowed him everywhere: to and from school, games, practices and parties.", "They didn't want Derrick to fall through the cracks, to end up another sad statistic.", "Or to become an innocent victim like Ben Wilson, the famed Chicago schoolboy who was gunned down decades ago before he graduated from Simeon.", "\"The manner in which he was raised while he was little gave him a great perspective on life,\" Paxson said.", "Derrick chose to wear Ben's number, 25, and continue the slain player's journey as a tribute.", "With his brothers' help, he stayed straight and avoided the most vicious double-team a young player can face: temptation and trouble.", "Perhaps he was protected too much; his SAT score was voided over suspicions that someone took it for him.", "Rose has always denied this, but after taking Memphis to the NCAA title game as a freshman, that season was wiped from the books by the NCAA.", "Rose went to the NBA where, fate had it, the hometown Bulls awaited.", "\"I was happy, because there was only one team I really wanted to play for,\" Rose said.", "Not many local players get the chance to start their career, or spend most of it, with the home team.", "Some of that is merely by chance; Rose just happened to be the best player in college basketball and the Bulls owned the No.", "1 pick in the draft.", "But some teams are allergic to drafting or trading for locals because they worry about the demands placed on the player: old blood-sucking friends and pressure to play well.", "When these players fail spectacularly the way Stephon Marbury did in New York with the Knicks, they crumble twice as hard.", "They're not locals anymore; they're home-groan.", "\"A lot of these guys didn't grow up in the best areas, and didn't have the best influences in their lives,\" Paxson said.", "\"Sometimes you bring them back to that element, where people are trying to get something from them.", "Once we delved into Derrick and his family, if there was going to be an element, it would be handled.", "His brothers are still around and watching very carefully what's going on.\"", "They're not the only ones. We're all watching what's going on: the early evolution of a star who's taking his status in stride.", "The most recent example of a local who became a hometown star was LeBron James spending seven seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers (LeBron's from Akron, not Cleveland, but close enough).", "And we saw how that turned out.", "LeBron is welcome in Cleveland like a Steelers Super Bowl trophy.", "\"One of the things that impresses me about Derrick is he feels the responsibility to be the best, and to carry himself as a great player would,\" Paxson said.", "\"He understands the position he's in and what's expected of him from his coaches, teammates, the organization and the community.", "There are some young players in this league who understand the right way to play the game, who are professionals and who are fantastic role models for this league.", "He's one of them. He gets it.\" Before each home game, when the Bulls' starting lineup is introduced, the players are announced by position and where they attended college.", "With one exception.", "Rose is also announced as being from Chicago.", "\"There's a sense of pride involved, and it teaches something to young people around here,\" Paxson explained.", "\"It's a story of a guy who didn't grow up with much.", "With the help of his family, he rose from grim circumstances.", "That's something people here need to look at, and also emulate.\"" ]	[ "Powell: Chicago native Rose was born in \"a 'hood that would make Al Capone flinch\"\nRose remains humble: He still lives at home and remains involved in a local youth camp .", "Rose's only \"demand\": 24-hour access to Bulls' practice facility so he can work on his game .", "NBA often avoids drafting locals, citing \"old blood-sucking friends and pressure to play well\"" ]	[ 13, 20, 55 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- If you're one of the millions of Americans who get even a portion of your electric power from a nuclear generating plant, for more than three decades you've been paying a tax, whether you realize it or not, to fund the storage of nuclear waste from that plant in a safe place.", "Collected at an estimated $750 million a year, the Nuclear Energy Institute now says this so-called \"nuclear waste fund\" amounts to close to $30 billion.", "And it is not being used to pay for the storage of a single ounce of spent nuclear fuel.", "\"The government has made much more of a mess than it should have been,\" Jay Silberg, a Washington lawyer, told CNN.", "Silberg represents many of the nation's biggest nuclear power companies and for more than 20 years, he's been involved in lawsuits against the government, trying to make it pay for what he says it promised to do way back in 1982.", "\"That program, when it was set up, was supposed to be science-based,\" he says.", "At one point, all of the nation's spent nuclear fuel -- at least the spent fuel used for commercial power generation -- was supposed to end up at a bleak spot in Nevada, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, called Yucca Mountain.", "Since the project began, the government has spent close to $11 billion in construction, engineering and scientific studies and there have been several blue ribbon commissions examining the safety of Yucca Mountain to hold all that waste.", "What happened? \"Rather than let the science take its course, politics has interfered and the plug has been pulled on Yucca, at least so far,\" Silberg told CNN.", "And by politics, he means politics at the highest level.", "Almost from the start, Nevada politicians said they wanted nothing to do with the Yucca Mountain Project.", "But it wasn't until Barack Obama began his presidential campaign that Nevada's opposition gained serious traction.", "Obama wrote to a Las Vegas newspaper, The Review-Journal, in the spring of 2007 saying he had \"always\" been against storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.", "And then after he became president, Obama killed nearly all of the essential government funds for Yucca Mountain.", "And he did one more thing. Obama appointed Gregory Jaczko as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government agency with the power to regulate the nation's nuclear plants and with oversight over Yucca Mountain.", "Jazcko (pronounced \"Yaz-Koh\") served for years as chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who vowed never to allow Yucca Mountain to proceed.", "The offices of Sen. Reid and Jaczko told CNN that the nation's spent nuclear fuel is safe right where it is, strung out across 65 storage sites nationwide.", "That spent fuel ...tiny uranium pellets surrounded by steel rods coated with a zirconium alloy all packaged in a highly engineered assembly... now totals more than 70,000 tons nationwide.", "Two thirds of that spent fuel, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, is now in pools under about 40 feet of water.", "Some anti nuclear organizations say those pools are too jammed with spent fuel rods and are vulnerable to accident or terrorist attack.", "The nuclear industry says the spent fuel is safe and NRC officials say they believe the spent fuel can be reliably stored where it is for another 40 years.", "CNN wanted to visit Yucca Mountain to see what's become of the project.", "The most recent television footage available of Yucca Mountain was taken in 2002.", "But officials from the Department of Energy, which oversees Yucca, declined, citing safety reasons.", "Some Republican members of Congress say they, too, were blocked in an attempt to visit Yucca.", "At a Senate hearing this week in Washington, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, pointedly told NRC Chairman Jaczko that it was \"important to ask about Yucca Mountain.\"", "\"We have collected $30 billion to pay for an eventual disposal,\" he said. \"Why not use it?\"" ]	[ "America's nuclear waste fund has close to $30 billion .", "Obama opposes Yucca Mountain site for nuclear storage .", "Spent fuel is stored in 65 storage sites ." ]	[ 1, 2, 21 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Aircraft will soon shoot high-resolution photos of the Long Island, New York, beach area where the search for a missing woman has led to the remains of at least eight people.", "Airplanes and helicopters will begin circling the barrier island beach later this week as federal, state and local search efforts continue, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer told reporters on Wednesday.", "\"The high-resolution technology should be able to provide a detailed representation of the area and will extend through Nassau County,\" Dormer said.", "\"We're hoping the technology will help identify skeletal remains that may still be out there.\"", "The aerial imagery will supplement police-dog search units, which expected to resume searching later this week.", "Meanwhile, diver teams are already scouring the waterways on the north side of the barrier island.", "Eight different sets of confirmed human remains have been found in Suffolk County, Long Island, since December, in what police say could be the work of a serial killer or killers.", "Additional remains -- including a human skull -- were uncovered Monday.", "Police have not said whether the latest remains are from different people, or if they could have come from the eight victims.", "Some of the remains found Monday in a Nassau County wildlife preserve were wrapped in a \"black plastic product\" similar to a plastic bag, a law enforcement source said Wednesday.", "The remains \"appeared to be part of a lower extremity,\" the source said.", "Medical examiner investigators are trying to determine the age and sex of the remains and attempt to find out how long they were at the location before being discovered.", "Federal agents first joined police in their investigation in December, after four bodies had been found.", "That discovery on a quarter-mile stretch of Oak Beach indicates that \"they were dumped there by the same person or persons,\" Dormer told reporters at the time.", "\"It's too coincidental that there were four bodies in the same location.\"", "They were all found stuffed in bushes along an isolated strip of waterfront property.", "The grisly find occurred as police searched for 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert, who was last seen alive in May 2010 in the Gilgo Beach area.", "Gilbert's sisters said Shannan was an escort who was visiting a client.", "They said she ran from the man's house and called 911, claiming that someone was trying to hurt her.", "In a strange series of events, a local resident -- who lives a few miles from where the remains were found -- said a young woman who \"looked like she was partying all night\" came to his door at about 5 a.m. on May 1.", "\"She was screaming 'Help me, help me!'", "and said somebody was chasing her,\" said Gustav Coletti, who lives in the town of Oak Beach.", "He described the woman as a \"young, light-brown-haired person in her early 20s.\"", "Coletti said he called 911 after opening his front door to the woman, prompting her to flee into the weeds along an embankment near his house.", "Moments later, Coletti said an \"Asian-looking man\" man driving a dark-colored sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside his home, looking for the woman.", "\"Things got out of hand at a party and I'm just looking for her,\" Coletti quoted the man as saying.", "When Coletti told the man that he had called police, the man said he \"should not have done that\" and drove toward where girl had fled, Coletti said.", "But he says it took police more than four months to question him about the incident, potentially losing crucial evidence over that time frame.", "Coletti later told CNN that he believes the woman he saw that night was Gilbert.", "CNN can not independently verify that claim.", "Dormer said Wednesday that he has \"no idea when the detective spoke to whomever you're talking about,\" referencing Coletti.", "Police said they received a written statement from Coletti in June.", "Gilbert's body has not been among the remains identified.", "CNN's Allan Chernoff and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report ." ]	[ "8 sets of confirmed human remains have been found in Suffolk County .", "More remains and a skull were found Monday .", "Police have not confirmed that the newly found remains were of different people .", "Resident says it took police more than four months to question him as a potential witness ." ]	[ 6, 7, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The remains of a Massachusetts airman missing in action from World War II have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.", "Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Martin P. Murray, 21, of Lowell, Massachusetts, took off on October 27, 1943, from an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea, with 11 other crew members aboard a B-24D Liberator.", "At the time, plans were being formulated to mount an attack on the Japanese fortification at Rabaul in Papua New Guinea's New Britain Province, the Defense Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office said in a statement.", "The crew was assigned to conduct reconnaissance on nearby shipping lanes in the Bismarck Sea.", "During the mission, however, the crew was told to land at a friendly air strip nearby due to poor weather, officials said.", "\"The last radio transmission from the crew did not indicate their location.", "Multiple search missions in the following weeks did not locate the aircraft.\"", "After World War II, the Army Graves Registration Service searched for missing airmen, including Murray, in the area, but concluded in June 1949 all of them were unrecoverable, the department said.", "In August 2003, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command received information on a crash site from a citizen in Papua New Guinea while investigating another case, according to the statement.", "The citizen gave the team an identification card from one of the crew members and said there were possible human remains at the site.", "Other teams attempted to visit the site twice in 2004, but were unable to because of poor weather and hazardous conditions at the helicopter landing site, authorities said.", "\"Another team was able to successfully excavate the site from January to March 2007 where they found several identification tags from the B-24D crew as well as human remains.\"", "Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used forensic identification tools, circumstantial evidence, dental comparisons and mitochondrial DNA to identify Murray's remains, the statement said.", "Murray's remains will be buried Saturday in Marshfield, Massachusetts, the Defense Department said.", "At the end of World War II, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify 79,000 Americans, the statement said.", "Now, that number has decreased to 74,000." ]	[ "Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Martin P. Murray will be buried Saturday .", "The remains were found at a crash site in Papua New Guinea ." ]	[ 1, 13 ]
[ "Los Angeles (CNN) -- Thursday's Los Angeles Dodgers game was a \"safe\" event, police said, after security was beefed up in the wake of a March 31 attack in which a San Francisco Giants fan was seriously injured.", "\"We had a great safe game,\" said Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Jose Perez, after the Dodgers loss.", "\"This is the benchmark we will have at future Dodger games.\"", "As police talked about their efforts to add security to baseball games, Bryan Stow was still hospitalized from being beaten after a recent Dodgers-Giants game.", "Stow, 42, was put in a medically induced coma following the attack.", "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.", "There was increased police presence inside and outside the stadium Thursday.", "Officers were tasked with ensuring the no-tailgating rule was enforced and no fans were drinking in surrounding areas before entering the stadium, police said.", "In addition, increased lighting has been added to the parking lots.", "There were at least 38 people cited for various violations including having an open container of alcohol and drinking in public, Perez said.", "Perez said he had not heard of any reports of violent offenses Thursday.", "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's cousin, John Stow, told CNN affiliate KRON on Thursday, 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.", "Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum announced on his Facebook page that he plans to contribute $25,000 to the Bryan Stow Fund.", "\"This was a senseless act of violence, and I wanted to help out Mr. Stow and his family,\" Lincecum stated.", "\"I encourage Giants fans to support Mr. Stow in a positive way and hope there are not any more unfortunate acts between fans in this great rivalry.\"", "At a dual fundraiser Monday at Dodger Stadium and AT&T Park in San Francisco, where the two teams play, 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.", "CNN's Stan Wilson contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Giants pitcher says he'll donate $25,000 to injured fan fund .", "San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow was beaten March 31 .", "Doctors put him in a medically induced coma, but have decreased his sedation .", "There were at least 38 people cited for minor violations Thursday as police beefed up security ." ]	[ 0, 4, 15, 21, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Investigators and community members in Tennessee continued their hunt Sunday for a 20-year-old nursing student, offering a fresh appeal for tips on the man they believe forcibly took her from her home last week.", "Holly Bobo was on her way to school when her brother saw her being led from their Darden, Tennessee, home into the woods by a man wearing camouflage, said John Mehr, special agent in charge for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.", "Mehr's state agency urged people Sunday \"to take notice of anyone whose whereabouts were unaccounted for Wednesday morning, when Holly went missing, and changes in behavior since the incident.\"", "Police have not yet named anyone who they believe was behind the alleged kidnapping.", "\"It's possible the suspect missed work or appointments last Wednesday, Thursday or Friday unexpectedly,\" the bureau of investigation said in a statement.", "\"He may also have excessively cleaned a car or ATV, suddenly sold a vehicle, or reported it stolen.", "The suspect may be showing signs of anxiety or stress.\"", "The community, which is near Parsons, is offering $25,000 for information that helps authorities locate Bobo and/or arrest her alleged abductor.", "While authorities have backed away from their earlier assertion that Bobo was dragged away, they do not believe she went willingly either.", "\"We feel she was in fear of her life so she was compliant with his demands,\" Mehr has said.", "As of Sunday, the investigative bureau said law enforcement had gotten more than 250 leads.", "Search teams were combing for evidence in parts of Decatur and Henderson counties, including in Natchez State Park.", "On Saturday, the state agency had said teams were looking in parts of Henry, Carroll and Benton counties.", "Decatur County Mayor Michael Smith told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Friday that new evidence had been found in the search for Bobo, who was taking nursing classes at a Tennessee Technology Center campus in Parsons.", "Smith wouldn't elaborate on what type of evidence was found, but CNN has learned that a white lunch box was found near a creek eight miles away.", "Bobo is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs about 110 pounds.", "She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and light blue jeans.", "The case has galvanized many in the rural central Tennessee community, which is roughly halfway between Memphis and Nashville.", "Hundreds of volunteers -- some on horseback and foot, others on all-terrain vehicles -- have turned out in recent days to hunt for clues, while many more have attended memorial services or offered supportive thoughts online via several groups on Facebook.", "\"We're just all close,\" one volunteer, Bryan Smith, told CNN affiliate KSMV.", "\"Everybody's close in this town and the county.\"", "Her parents, meanwhile, have struggled to come to grips with their daughter's disappearance.", "Her mother, Karen Bobo, cried throughout her husband's brief statement to reporters Thursday and then spoke directly to Holly and whoever might know what has become of her.", "\"Holly, I love you so much.", "Please try to get home to us.\"", "Karen Bobo said.", "\"She's ... so precious, you just don't even know. I just want her back.\"" ]	[ "NEW: A volunteer looking for the woman says of the community, \"We're all just close\"\nInvestigators have gotten 250 leads in their search for Holly Bobo since Wednesday .", "They are urging people to \"take notice\" of anyone who might have kidnapped her .", "One official has said Bobo \"was in fear of her life\" when she was led from her home ." ]	[ 1, 2, 9, 19, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Robert Mugabe said Thursday that Zimbabwe will go ahead with the takeover of foreign-owned companies, a scheme that has rattled investors, and warned Western countries to stop interfering in his country's affairs.", "\"We proceed with our indigenization and empowerment policy, and programs must be worked out to ensure that our resources are managed by us, they are controlled and exploited by us, and that they benefit the majority of our people,\" Mugabe said in an hourlong speech at the burial of the deputy director of the nation's intelligence organization.", "For most of the time, Mugabe, 87, was speaking off the cuff in his vernacular Shona language without reading his prepared speech.", "Zimbabwe's indigenization law, described as ruinous by Mugabe's partners in the country's fragile coalition, compels foreign firms to cede at least 51 percent of shareholding to black locals.", "The former guerrilla leader said the process will go forward, starting with mines.", "The policy has been opposed by his coalition partner and political foe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change.", "The two-year-old coalition government of the resource-rich state published regulations in March giving mining companies 45 days to set out their plans for transferring ownership stakes to \"indigenous\" Zimbabweans.", "\"If our economy is controlled by outsiders, similarly the politics will be controlled by outsiders,\" added Mugabe, who has been at loggerheads with the West after it imposed targeted sanctions on him and senior officials of his Zanu PF party in 2002, following reports of human rights abuses and rigged elections.", "\"We don't worry ourselves about the goings-on in Europe, about the unnatural things happening there, where they turn man-to-man and woman-to-woman,\" Mugabe said.", "\"We say, well, it's their country.", "If they want to call their country British Gaydom, it's up to them.", "That's not our culture. We condemn that filth.", "We get alarmed when these countries have the audacity to schedule us as an item to discuss in their parliament.\"", "He urged his supporters to \"unite in opposing and condemning the sanctions\" that he blames for the country's economic freefall.", "\"We must demonstrate that we are ready to defend our country and sacrifice our lives.", "The enemy will try by all means to destroy us, but if we are united, we are strong,\" he said.", "Without mentioning his political rival, Tsvangirai, by name, Mugabe said \"some of us\" have been asking the West to keep the targeted sanctions in place.", "Mugabe's appearance Thursday was keenly watched by observers after his return at the weekend from his fourth trip to Singapore since the end of December.", "Officials have confirmed that he has undergone medical treatment there on previous visits.", "Reports said that two weeks ago, at a meeting of Southern African leaders in neighboring Zambia, Mugabe was transported around the venue in a golf cart, looking exhausted.", "But Thursday, Mugabe appeared energetic for an 87-year-old as he walked to around the gravesite unassisted." ]	[ "Zimbabwe President Mugabe says the takeover of foreign-owned companies will go on .", "Under \"indigenization,\" black locals must be given at least 51 percent share of companies .", "He condemns other nation's acceptance of gays, saying \"That's not our culture.\"" ]	[ 0, 3, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal and second seed Roger Federer are through to the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters after straight sets victories on Thursday.", "Top seed Nadal, who is aiming for a remarkable seventh successive win on the Monaco clay, saw off local favorite and 13th seed Richard Gasquet 6-2 6-4 in 93 minutes.", "\"I'm very happy how I played today,\" Nadal told the official ATP Tour website.", "\"I think I played much better than yesterday.", "\"In general, I think it was a very positive victory against a very difficult opponent,\" continued the Spaniard.", "Gasquet, who hails from nearby Nice, has now lost all his eight matches against Nadal, who is unbeaten in Monte Carlo since 2003.", "Federer was also in impressive form as he cruised past 15th-seeded Croat Marin Cilic 6-4 6-3.", "\"Today was another solid performance, which I'm very happy about.", "I'm happy that I'm solid on my serve,\" said the Swiss.", "\"That allows me then to get an opportunity, when I'm returning, which could be the set if I can then break,\" he added.", "Third seed Andy Murray maintained his revival with a 6-3 6-3 success over Gilles Simon while fourth seed David Ferrer of Spain continued his progress by crushing Canadian Milos Raonic, who made a staggering 40 unforced errors, 6-1 6-3.", "Meanwhile, 11th seed Viktor Troicki is also through to the last eight after opponent Tommy Rodrebo was forced to pull out with a thigh injury while leading 6-3 1-2.", "There was a shock when Ivan Ljubicic upset Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych 6-4 6-2 -- and the Croatian veteran must now face the daunting challenge of stopping Nadal from reaching the semifinals.", "Talking about facing Ljubicic, Nadal added: \"He is a very experienced player.", "He played well against Berdych and it is going to be a really difficult match for me.\"" ]	[ "Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer both reach the Monte Carlo Masters last eight .", "Nadal defeats Richard Gasquet while Federer sees off Marin Cilic in straight sets .", "Spanish top seed Nadal now faces Ivan Ljubicic, who shocked Tomas Berdych .", "Fourth seed David Ferrer also impressive in brushing past Milos Raonic ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Syrian soldier was killed in the restive city of Baniyas on Thursday, Syria's official news agency said.", "But an activist says he is hearing that the soldier was shot by a secret police sniper in an effort to frame demonstrators in the city.", "\"An armed group of snipers opened fire today on a number of elements in the army while they were patrolling in the city of Baniyas,\" the Syrian Arab News Agency said.", "The slain soldier was identified as Fadi Issa Mustafa.", "Another identified as Tayseer Omran, was wounded by a \"criminal group,\" the news agency said.", "Activist Rami Nakhle said a doctor in Baniyas claimed that police shot the soldier.", "The incident comes as the army has been sent in to replace the secret police and establish order, a move welcomed by many Baniyas residents.", "Residents are claiming that the secret police have been firing on the government's own security apparatus to paint the demonstrators as violent, Nakhle said.", "The developments reported by eyewitnesses and state media reports in Syria cannot be independently confirmed.", "Protests against the Syrian regime have swept through the country and scores of people have died in clashes.", "Demonstrations have erupted lately in Baniyas, a city of about 40,000 on the Mediterranean coast.", "Opposition activists say security forces have fired on and beaten peaceful protesters, but the government claims that armed groups are firing at security forces and citizens.", "CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Activist says doctor in Baniyas claimed secret police shot an army soldier .", "NEW: Residents claim police are trying to portray protesters as violent .", "Syria says the soldier was killed by \"an armed group of snipers\"\nProtests against the regime have swept through Syria in the past month ." ]	[ 1, 6, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- There are few careers that can match the pedigree of Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho.", "Having just set a remarkable nine-year unbeaten home league record -- which spanned 150 matches and four clubs in four different countries -- the Portuguese manager is eyeing yet another remarkable record.", "As he leads his Real side in the quarterfinal second leg against Tottenham Hotspur tonight, Mourinho is on the trail of becoming the first coach to win three European Cups with three different clubs.", "But as the 48-year-old aims to push his career to the next level, there may be the birth of a new star in his midst.", "It was merely a coincidence that Porto clinched their 25th title as Los Merengues were shocked by Sporting Gijon at the Bernabeu -- Mourinho's first home defeat in nearly a decade -- but what is not coincidental is the way Porto have dominated their domestic championship this season.", "In a fashion not seen since the heady days of Mourinho between 2002 and 2004 -- when the self proclaimed \"Special One\" plundered two league titles, the UEFA Cup and the Champions League -- the youthful, dynamic and ambitious coach Andre Villas Boas has swept all before him.", "Will Mourinho's record ever be beaten?", "Villas Boas is Mourinho's protege and student, but aged just 33 -- seven years younger than Mourinho was when he won his first title with Porto -- the question is whether the apprentice can match his former master's astonishing achievements at the Estadio do Dragao.", "Porto have simply outclassed their rivals this season, winning 23 and drawing the other two of their 25 matches to wrap up the title with five games remaining.", "Along the way, they have scored 61 goals and conceding a miserly 11, and are also through to the quarterfinals of the Europa League -- a competition Mourinho also won, under its former guise of the UEFA Cup, in his first full season.", "\"I can find similarities between Villas Boas and Mourinho in the way they started their careers and the way in which they reached immediate success at Porto,\" Rui Orlando, a football commentator for Portuguese-based SportTV told CNN.", "\"Furthermore, both of them were not known as players and started coaching very early on, working with some really well known coaches.\"", "CNN Sport anchor Pedro Pinto, who has followed the careers of both men closely, is even more forthright in his comparisons of the pair.", "\"There is no doubt in my mind that Villas Boas is the second coming of Jose.", "He is is a young, ambitious, disciplined football lunatic, who has soaked up as much knowledge as he can from working with the best coach in the world.\"", "It is impossible not to draw comparisons between the two men.", "Mourinho learned his trade working as an interpreter for Bobby Robson at both Porto and Barcelona, picking up tips from the legendary English coach before eventually impressing with his own coaching acumen.", "Villas Boas was also at Porto in the mid 1990s.", "At the tender age of 17, and with no football apprenticeship behind him, his mastery of English and attention to detail impressed Robson so much that the veteran coach hired the teenager to work as part of his scouting and statistics team -- sending him to Scotland to achieve his first coaching badges.", "And when Mourinho returned to Porto, after cutting his managerial teeth at Uniao Leiria, he took Villas Boas under his wing, going on to employ the willing student at both Chelsea and Inter Milan in exactly the same manner as Robson had done with him.", "Like Mourinho, Villas Boas started his coaching career at a small club.", "Leaving his mentor behind in Italy, Villas Boas took over at bottom of the table Academica last season, performing a minor miracle to steer a club, without a win before his arrival, to mid-table respectability.", "Porto, looking for a coach after sacking Jesualdo Ferreira following their failure to retain the league title and qualify for the Champions League, quickly came a-calling -- and Villas Boas has more than justified the decision to make him the youngest coach in the Portuguese top flight, with the club suffering just one defeat in all competitions.", "\"He has had a very strong impact at the club, in the city and in the region,\" continued Orlando.", "\"He came in after a disappointing season and immediately asserted himself with a positive and confident attitude.", "\"His philosophy is similar to Mourinho when he was at Porto.", "He likes to play attacking football based on ball possession and forcing opponents into submission and his planning is superb.", "He spends countless hours in his office sourcing information to give to his players.\"", "And Pinto believes Villa Boas will go on to even greater success in the coming years.", "\"His strength is not only tactical, it is his ability to program players into doing exactly what he tells them to do.", "\"His organizational and motivational techniques are so good that players really believe they can do what he tells them.\"", "Even within the pantheon of great football coaches, there are few who have won titles before their 40th birthday; even Mourinho fails to make the grade.", "But with Villa Boas claiming silverware at such a young age, maybe \"master\" Jose should beware of the burgeoning talent of his pupil." ]	[ "Andre Villas Boas is following in the footsteps of his mentor Jose Mourinho .", "Villas Boas has led Porto to the Portuguese title at the age of just 33 .", "Mourinho was seven years older when he won his first league title with the club .", "Both men are motivated, ambitious and superb at organizing their players ." ]	[ 7, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An Arizona judge agreed Wednesday with defense attorneys that prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of self-help author James Ray improperly withheld evidence, but he decided not to grant a defense motion for a mistrial.", "Ray is accused of manslaughter in three deaths at his October 2009 \"Spiritual Warrior\" retreat in the desert.", "Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, New York, died that night.", "So did James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee.", "Volunteer Lizbeth Marie Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, died nine days after the ceremony.", "At least 15 others who took part in the sweat lodge ceremony became ill. More than 40 others were uninjured.", "Prosecutors argued that the lodge -- made of willow trees and branches, and covered with tarpaulins and blankets -- was heated to a perilously high temperature, causing the participants to suffer dehydration and heatstroke.", "Defense attorneys filed a motion Monday accusing prosecutors of intentionally withholding a report from environmental expert Richard Haddow, which suggests that the faulty design of the sweat lodge caused or contributed to the deaths.", "\"At issue is a report, or an e-mail, drafted by an environmental engineer that states two relevant factors,\" defense attorney Luis Li told Judge Warren Darrow during Wednesday's hearing.", "\"One, that carbon dioxide, not heat stroke, is a possible cause of death.", "... And secondly, that various environmental conditions created by the design of the sweat lodge -- for which Mr. Ray has no responsibility -- could have contributed to those deaths.\"", "Li told Darrow that prosecutors' response to the motion was \"aggressively unrepentant.\"", "Defense attorneys contend that a \"Brady violation\" has taken place.", "A Brady violation occurs when the failure to disclose material exculpatory evidence to the defense deprives a defendant of a fair trial.", "Exculpatory means the evidence could be used to establish a defendant's innocence; material means the evidence is relevant and significant.", "Prosecutor Bill Hughes said the state doesn't believe that the conduct met the criteria for a Brady violation.", "\"It was not disclosed due to an oversight,\" Hughes said, adding that the state has turned over thousands of pages of information.", "Darrow said he agreed that a Brady violation had occurred but declined to grant a mistrial.", "The trial is set to continue Thursday.", "Haddow's findings were in a report that was e-mailed to lead detective Ross Diskin almost a year ago, on April 29, 2010.", "Ray's attorneys first learned about Haddow when he was listed as a potential witness in late October.", "Since November, they say, they asked prosecutors for Haddow's report four times.", "They got it last week.", "Though the state decided not to call Haddow as a witness at the trial, Arizona's discovery law requires prosecutors to provide the expert's report.", "There is also an ongoing obligation by prosecutors to turn over all material that could exonerate a defendant.", "Because they are receiving Haddow's report several weeks into the trial, and because that testimony could have had a profound impact on their strategy, defense attorneys argue that the judge has no choice but to grant a mistrial.", "The sweat lodge ceremony consisted of eight rounds, with each round lasting 10 to 15 minutes.", "Although they were not prevented from leaving, participants have said they were told to wait until the breaks between rounds.", "Ray's attorneys have argued that the deaths were accidental and suggested that exposure to an unknown toxin in the lodge -- perhaps a pesticide, rat poison or something in the type of wood used to heat the rocks -- could have caused the fatalities.", "The event participants paid up to $10,000 to seek \"new areas of consciousness\" at the retreat, according to testimony.", "Many had attended previous James Ray International seminars.", "In Session's Beth Karas and Michael Christian contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The trial is set to resume Thursday .", "Judge Warren Darrow agreed that prosecutors withheld evidence .", "At issue is an e-mail that was not turned over to the defense .", "Ray is charged with manslaughter in three deaths at his 2009 retreat ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8, 18 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Police and FBI agents finished searching 18 \"spots of interest\" in Long Island, New York on Thursday without uncovering additional evidence in their investigation of a possible serial killer.", "\"We didn't uncover anything that was noteworthy,\" said Nassau County Police spokesperson Kevin Smith.", "\"Most of it was debris.\" Their efforts are part of a probe into suspected serial killings that have turned up at least eight bodies -- four of them identified as prostitutes -- since December 2010.", "New York State troopers alongside some 30 police officers from Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties hacked their way through the area's thick brush and bramble, using guidance from a helicopter overhead and, in some cases, using chainsaws to cut through the thick foliage.", "Aviation teams that flew over parts of Long Island had \"identified a significant number of items that aren't natural for the area,\" said Nassau County Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter.", "But as of Thursday, authorities had not uncovered any further human remains.", "Earlier this week, police discovered skeletal remains -- including a human skull -- prompting the widening search.", "Police have not said whether they are from different people, or if they could have come from the eight victims found previously.", "Airplanes and helicopters with high-resolution technology are being used in the search effort, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer explained Wednesday. \"", "Police also are using canine search units to scour the beaches and diver teams to search the waterways on the north side of the barrier island.", "But they have met obstacles.", "\"Canine teams have been of limited assistance,\" said Detective Vincent Garcia.", "\"The problem with this brush is it's so thick dogs won't even go in.\"", "Meanwhile, medical examiner investigators are trying to determine the age and sex of the victims from the remains, and how long they were at the locations before they were discovered.", "\"We're going back to some of the unidentified people in our system to try to see if we can identify them so we can notify loved ones if we have their remains,\" said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office.", "\"Hopefully we're going to get some IDs and we'll find out who these people are, and then the families will know,\" she added.", "The remains found Monday in a Nassau County wildlife preserve were wrapped in a \"black plastic product\" similar to a plastic bag, a law enforcement source said Wednesday.", "The remains \"appeared to be part of a lower extremity,\" the source said.", "But police say the remains are not connected to the bodies of four prostitutes found near Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2006.", "\"The indications we have right now is that there's no connection between the Atlantic City case and the Suffolk County case,\" Dormer said.", "\"There are other items connected with the two cases\" that would indicate the same killer was not involved in the slayings, he said.", "Dormer did not provide additional details, but said Suffolk County police officers have been in contact with their Atlantic City counterparts since the early stages of the Long Island investigation.", "Federal agents first joined police in the investigation in December after the first four bodies were found.", "That discovery on a quarter-mile stretch of Oak Beach indicates that \"they were dumped there by the same person or persons,\" Dormer told reporters at the time.", "\"It's too coincidental that there were four bodies in the same location.\"", "They were all found stuffed in bushes along an isolated strip of waterfront property.", "The grisly find occurred as police searched for Shannan Gilbert, 24, who was last seen alive in May 2010 in the Gilgo Beach area.", "Gilbert's sisters said Shannan was an escort who was visiting a client.", "They said she ran from the man's house and called 911, claiming that someone was trying to hurt her.", "A man who lives a few miles from where the remains were found told CNN that a young woman who \"looked like she was partying all night\" came to his door at about 5 a.m. on May 1.", "\"She was screaming 'Help me, help me!'", "and said somebody was chasing her,\" said Gustav Coletti, who lives in the town of Oak Beach.", "He described the woman as a \"young, light-brown-haired person in her early 20s.\"", "Coletti said he called 911 after opening his front door to the woman, but she fled, eventually hiding under his boat, which was elevated and parked on his lawn.", "Moments later, Coletti said, an \"Asian-looking man\" man driving a dark-colored sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside his home.", "\"Things got out of hand at a party and I'm just looking for her,\" Coletti quoted the man as saying.", "When Coletti told the man that he had called police, the man said he \"shouldn't have done that.\"", "The woman then fled toward the beach and the driver pursued her, Coletti said.", "But he told CNN it took police more than four months to question him about the incident, an allegation that police deny.", "Coletti later told CNN that he believes the woman he saw that night was Gilbert.", "CNN can not independently verify that claim.", "\"I have no idea when the detective spoke to whomever you are talking about,\" Dormer told CNN.", "\"If you want to see somebody after this press conference we'll certainly follow up on that.\"", "Police later clarified that they spoke with Coletti on May 1 after he made the 911 call and several times since.", "Pressed for the dates of the police department's conversations with Coletti and the length of time between them, they revealed that they obtained a statement from Coletti in June but provided no further specifics.", "\"They never got a statement from me in June,\" Coletti told CNN.", "Gilbert's body has not been among the remains identified.", "CNN's Allan Chernoff and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Authorities finished searching 18 \"spots of interest\" in Long Island, New York on Thursday .", "NEW: Their search did not uncover additional evidence in their investigation of a possible serial killer .", "A helicopter has been hovering over the Tobay Beach area since morning .", "The remains are not linked to the bodies of four prostitutes found near Atlantic City in 2006 ." ]	[ 0, 18, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Manchester United's hopes of winning a treble this season ended on Saturday with a 1-0 defeat to arch-rivals Manchester City in the semifinals of the English FA Cup at Wembley Stadium.", "Alex Ferguson's team are on course for a record-breaking 19th English league title and have also reached the semifinals of the European Champions League, but Yaya Toure's second-half winner gave City the chance of winning a first trophy in 35 years.", "The Ivory Coast midfielder pounced after consecutive errors by veteran goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar and midfielder Michael Carrick allowed him the chance to drill in a low shot seven minutes after halftime.", "United's bid to reach the final of the 140-year-old knockout competition for a record 19th time was then sabotaged by a moment of madness from 36-year-old midfielder Paul Scholes.", "The former England international, the only player of the two squads actually born in Manchester, was sent off with 18 minutes left for a reckless high lunge into the thigh of City's Argentine defender Pablo Zabaleta.", "Ferguson casts doubt over Hargreaves future .", "City last won the tournament in 1969, and most recently reached the final in 1981 -- one of the modern classics which was won in a replay by Tottenham.", "Roberto Mancini's team will face either Bolton or Stoke in the final on May 14, with the two Premier League teams meeting in Sunday's second semifinal also at England's national stadium.", "The Italian urged his team not to get carried away, with the club still battling to qualify for next season's Champions League.", "\"We have everything in our hands.", "If we have the same spirit we had today, we have the fourth spot,\" he said, having molded City into contenders since taking charge December 2009 after being handed a lavish transfer kitty by billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.", "\"Manchester City was a small team until three, four, five years ago.", "It's important to start to win the first trophies.\"", "United should have taken an early lead after dominating the first half-hour, with Dimitar Berbatov guilty of two bad misses in quick succession.", "The Bulgarian, starting in place of suspended England striker Wayne Rooney, was first denied by quick-thinking goalkeeper Joe Hart and then belied the form that has seen him become the Premier League's top scorer this season by inexplicably scooping the ball over the bar from close range after being found by Nani's inviting low cross.", "City, missing injured captain and top scorer Carlos Tevez, capitalized on some slack United defending after the interval as the 40-year-old Van der Sar -- who retires at the end of this season -- made a poor clearance and then Carrick gave the ball away to Toure.", "Hart did well to tip a 65th-minute freekick from Nani onto the crossbar before Scholes' red card forced a reshuffle with Berbatov replaced by midfielder Anderson.", "Man of the match Toure was denied by Van der Sar in the final minute and City survived five minutes of time added on to reach the club's second final since winning the English League Cup in 1976.", "The match ended in ugly scenes as United defender Rio Ferdinand had to be restrained after Anderson reacted to City striker Mario Balotelli's unwise celebrations in front of opposition fans.", "Ancelotti in troubled waters at the Bridge .", "In Saturday's Premier League action, third-placed defending champions Chelsea moved five points clear of City with a 3-1 victory at mid-table West Brom.", "The London club bounced back from the midweek Champions League exit at the hands of United as striker Didier Drogba leveled the scoring after this time being given the chance to start instead of $80 million signing Fernando Torres.", "West Brom had led through Nigeria striker peter Odemwingie, but Salomon Kalou put Chelsea ahead in the 26th minute and Frank Lampard sealed victory just before halftime.", "The result eased any fears that Chelsea will not qualify for next season's top European competition, moving Carlo Ancelotti's team eight points clear of fifth-placed Tottenham -- who host United's main title rivals Arsenal on Wednesday.", "Arsenal can reduce United's lead to four points by beating sixth-placed Liverpool on Sunday in a match that Kenny Dalglish's team also need to win in order to beat Tottenham to the sole Europa League spot.", "Everton consolidated seventh place with a 2-0 victory at home to Blackburn thanks to second-half goals by midfielder Leon Osman and defender Leighton Baines, the latter a penalty.", "Aston Villa moved up to ninth with a last-gasp 2-1 victory at second-bottom West Ham as substitute striker Gabriel Agbonlahor headed an injury-time winner after teammate Darren Bent canceled out Robbie Keane's early opener.", "Sunderland, European hopefuls earlier this season, slumped to an eighth defeat in nine games as the 2-0 loss at Birmingham left both clubs in a group of four teams on 38 points -- five clear of the relegation zone.", "Wigan moved out of the bottom three with a 3-1 win at Blackpool that dropped the promoted home team into the danger area for the first time this season." ]	[ "Manchester City through to English FA Cup final for the first time since 1981 .", "Yaya Toure's 52nd-minute winner ends United's hopes of winning three trophies this season .", "Roberto Mancini's team will face either Stoke or Bolton in the final on May 14 .", "Third-placed Chelsea move five points clear of City with a 3-1 win at West Brom ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The National Basketball Association fined Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers $100,000 on Wednesday for \"offensive and inexcusable\" comments he made during Tuesday night's game, the league said in a statement.", "Bryant used an expletive and an anti-gay slur directed at a referee after receiving a technical foul in a game against the San Antonio Spurs.", "In a pregame phone call Wednesday night to Joe Solomonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, Bryant apologized for using the slur, the commission said in a statement.", "\"We had a very sincere conversation in which he expressed his heartfelt regret for the hurt that his words caused,\" Solomonese said.", "\"He told me that it's never OK to degrade or tease, and that he understands how his words could unfortunately give the wrong impression that this is appropriate conduct.", "At the end of a difficult day, I applaud Kobe for coming forward and taking responsibility for his actions.\"", "Earlier, Bryant issued a statement saying his remarks should not be taken literally.", "\"My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period,\" he said.", "\"The words expressed do not reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were not meant to offend anyone.\"", "But, said NBA Commissioner David Stern in a statement, \"Kobe Bryant's comment during last night's game was offensive and inexcusable.", "While I'm fully aware that basketball is an emotional game, such a distasteful term should never be tolerated.", "Accordingly, I have fined Kobe $100,000.", "Kobe and everyone associated with the NBA know that insensitive or derogatory comments are not acceptable and have no place in our game or society.\"", "The Human Rights Campaign said earlier it supported the fine.", "\"We applaud Commissioner Stern and the NBA for not only fining Bryant but for recognizing that slurs and derogatory comments have no place on the basketball court or in society at large,\" Solomonese said.", "\"We hope such swift and decisive action will send a strong and universal message that this kind of hateful outburst is simply inexcusable no matter what the context.\"", "The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation also issued a statement supporting the decision.", "\"The NBA has sent a clear message to sports fans everywhere that anti-gay slurs have no place in the game,\" said Jarrett Barrios, president of the organization. ...", "This decision will serve as an important precedent that will help ensure a safer, more inclusive environment for fans and players everywhere, and we look forward to continuing our dialogue with the NBA.\"" ]	[ "NEW: In pregame phone call, Bryant apologizes to Human Rights Campaign president .", "Bryant used an expletive and an anti-gay slur about a referee .", "The NBA says, \"Such a distasteful term should never be tolerated\"" ]	[ 1, 2, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A California Republican official has apologized for sending an email that depicts President Barack Obama as a young chimpanzee.", "\"To my fellow Americans and to everyone else who has seen the email I forwarded and was offended by my action, I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness of my unwise behavior,\" Marilyn Davenport said in a statement obtained by CNN.", "Davenport, who is a Tea Party activist and an elected member of the central committee of the Republican Party of Orange County, said she felt the email was a joke, CNN affiliate KTLA reported.", "The email contains a doctored photo of what appears to be a family portrait of two adult chimpanzees posing with a young chimpanzee with Obama's face pasted on it.", "The caption that ran with the photo says \"Now you know why no birth certificate,\" the affiliate reported.", "Davenport said she would not repeat her error in the apology that included two Bible passages.", "\"I am an imperfect Christian lady who tries her best to live a Christ-like honoring life,\" the statement said.", "\"I would never do anything to intentionally harm or berate others regardless of ethnicity.", "So I ask for your forgiveness, for I am truly sorry.\"", "Despite criticism, Davenport told the affiliate that she does not need to resign her position because of the e-mail.", "Scott Baugh, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, said he was surprised by the e-mail.", "\"There's no question the e-mail is racist.", "The only question is what was in Marilyn's heart, what was her intent.", "But I don't think there's anybody on her committee or anybody in the world really that doesn't see it as a racist,\" Baugh said on CNN's \"AC360.\"", "Baugh said he feels Davenport should resign.", "\"The bottom line is being sorry for something and having a sincere apology doesn't undo the action, it doesn't stop the consequences,\" Baugh said.", "\"There's still consequences for what she's done and what she's done will continue to bring controversy to my party so I'm inclined to think at this time that she should still resign from the committee.\"", "Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.", "For the latest from AC360° click here." ]	[ "The e-mail contains a doctored photo of a young chimpanzee with Obama's face on it .", "The official says that sending the email was \"unwise behavior\"\nDespite criticism, the official says she does not need to resign ." ]	[ 3, 9 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- February 16, 2011 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• Middle East & North Africa • Washington, D.C. 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: Hey, I'm Carl Azuz, this is CNN Student News!", "Today's show is dedicated to Mrs. Klapperich's students in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.", "Thank you for your \"likes\" at Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.", "Let's get today's show started!", "First Up: Domino Effect?", "AZUZ: Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain.", "If you've been watching the news the past several weeks, you know what these countries have in common: political unrest.", "People speaking out against their governments, calling for changes.", "What's happening in that part of the world could certainly have an impact on other countries around the globe.", "During a speech yesterday, President Obama talked about the role that the U.S. might play.", "U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: What happens in each of these countries will be determined by the citizens of those countries.", "We do want to make sure that transitions do not degenerate into chaos and violence.", "That's not just good for us, that's good for those countries.", "AZUZ: We're seeing some of these same themes with these protests.", "They're often organized with social media.", "The focus is on government leaders or policies that have been in place for a long time.", "But the situations are unique.", "And Jill Dougherty is going to show us how the U.S. has been involved so far.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: Is this what the Obama administration hopes could be the next people's revolution?", "Iranian police clash with demonstrators on the streets of Tehran, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton connects the dots with Egypt's revolution.", "U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: We wish the opposition and the brave people in the streets across cities in Iran, you know, the same opportunity that they saw their Egyptian counterparts seize in the last week.", "DOUGHERTY: As Iranian police round up activists, the State Department begins tweeting encouraging messages in the Farsi language, telling Iranians we want to join in your conversation.", "Just days after a revolution toppled Egypt's longtime ruler, Hosni Mubarak, unrest is rippling through the region, and the U.S. is trying to figure out how to handle it.", "In Algeria, protesters clash with security forces and the State Department proclaims their support for the universal rights of the Algerian people, adding, these rights apply on the internet.", "The government of Syria puts a blogger on trial for espionage; the State Department calls for her freedom.", "In Jordan, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and a top State Department official meet with King Abdullah II to show support for the new government he swore in following anti-government protests.", "Yet nothing is settled in Egypt.", "Trying to muster international support, President Obama has been speed-dialing fellow leaders in Great Britain, Jordan and Turkey to help keep pressure on the Egyptian military to turn a revolution into a real democracy.", "Secretary Clinton called the Egyptian foreign minister and her counterparts in eight other countries.", "The tide of democracy opens opportunities, officials say, but a former CIA director says this is not a stack of dominoes.", "MICHAEL HAYDEN, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR: The challenge is how does one manage that during the transition period so that you don't see some of the more radical and, unfortunately, those are generally the best organized groups, seizing control, capturing the revolution and taking it into a direction that's very dark.", "(END VIDEO) Medal of Freedom .", "AZUZ: The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor that's given out by the U.S. government.", "In a ceremony yesterday at the White House, President Obama gave out 15 of them, describing this year's recipients as \"the best of who we are and who we aspire to be.\"", "That includes former President George H.W.", "Bush, America's 41st president, whose career of public service spanned 70 years.", "Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel were also given Medals of Freedom.", "But it wasn't just politicians. Artists, like the famous poet Maya Angelou, whom the president's sister is named after, along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and artist Jasper Johns were honored at the ceremony.", "Sports legends Bill Russell and Stan Musial were also among the Medal of Freedom honorees.", "Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!", "What part of the human brain is associated with memory?", "If you think you know it, then shout it out!", "Is it the: A) Cerebrum, B) Medulla, C) Thalamus or D) Brain Stem?", "You've got three seconds -- GO!", "Your memory is controlled by part of your cerebrum.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Man vs. Machine .", "AZUZ: How does our cerebrum stack up against a computer's memory banks?", "That is the challenge playing out on \"Jeopardy!\"", "this week. It's a three-day event pitting two of the show's biggest all-time winners against a super-computer named Watson.", "This thing was created by IBM.", "The company says Watson has the processing power of 2,800 powerful computers.", "Watson's developers say it's a major step forward in the ability of machines to understand human language.", "That's part of what makes this game so interesting, since a lot of Jeopardy!", "clues involve word play or double meanings.", "Host Alex Trebek described Watson's first day of performance as \"very bright, very fast, but some weird little moments once in a while.\"", "Blog Promo .", "AZUZ: So, we're not in The Matrix just yet.", "But we want to hear your take on this man vs. machine face-off.", "Are you interested to see if a computer can learn language?", "Do you think machines could ever be as smart as people?", "Head to our blog at CNNStudentNews.com, let us know what you think.", "This Day in History .", "AZUZ: It's February 16th, and on this day in history in 1923, British archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed the tomb of ancient Egyptian ruler King Tut.", "In 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as the prime minister of Cuba after leading a communist revolution that overthrew Cuba's previous leader.", "In 1968, the first ever 9-1-1 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama.", "The answer on the other end of the line?", "\"Hello.\" And in 2005, the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, went into effect.", "Inspiring Youth .", "AZUZ: Well, in more recent history -- like last week -- I interviewed former NFL running back Warrick Dunn.", "He's known for his accomplishments on the field during 12 seasons with the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Atlanta Falcons.", "But he's also known for his humanitarian work with the Warrick Dunn Family Foundation, that helps single parents achieve their dream of owning a home.", "In the second part of our conversation, I talked with Mr. Dunn about what advice he has for young people.", "Take a listen to this.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) AZUZ: How does somebody who does that, who plays for the Atlanta Falcons, the Tampa Bay Bucs, how do you stay humble and positive through all that?", "WARRICK DUNN, FORMER NFL RUNNING BACK, PHILANTHROPIST: I've learned early in my life that treat people the same way you want to be treated.", "But also, I thought about my mom, her dream, her mission, how she treated people, how she wanted better for other people.", "I've tried to live through her, live through her lessons in life, and I wanted to be like her.", "AZUZ: What would you tell some of the high school students who are watching our show, who they love what they do, they love playing, but they might not have the talent or the gift to play professionally?", "DUNN: It's a lot that goes into it.", "I think, first and foremost, you have to understand \"why are you in school?\"", "Your focus has to be education, and I learned that early.", "Set yourself up, put yourself in a position to really go to the next level, and that's get a college scholarship, graduate from college, get the degree.", "The game, you can't play the game forever.", "AZUZ: What advice do you have for today's students who don't know what they want to do?", "DUNN: You can experience so many different things to really understand what you love or to find something that you're passionate about.", "That's really going out of your comfort zone and really trying new and different things.", "It's all about checks and balances.", "It's all about thinking about not, \"how am I going to live today,\" but \"how am I going to live 20, 30 years down the road.\"", "You have to have a plan; nothing is going to come easy.", "You have to work for the things that you want.", "(END VIDEO) Before We Go .", "AZUZ: That man was a very good interview.", "And we're gonna be putting both parts of it up in the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com, so keep an eye out for that.", "Our last story, before we go today, my very first job was bagging groceries at a supermarket.", "Believe that. But I don't remember it being anywhere near this intense!", "These folks are the best of the best.", "That's why they're competing in the 2011 Best Bagger National Championships.", "Contestants have to fill three bags with everyday items, like bread, eggs and cans.", "The winner, Krystal Smith from Burlington, Vermont, did it in just 38 seconds.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: With her superior speed and technique, that title was in the bag.", "But it's time for us to check out for now.", "We'll be back tomorrow with more commercial-free headlines.", "Hope you have a great day." ]	[ "Examine U.S. attempts to define its involvement in political unrest overseas .", "Consider a face-off between human and machine playing out on a game show .", "Find out what advice former NFL star Warrick Dunn has for students .", "Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ." ]	[ 0, 6, 27, 32, 53, 63, 80, 89 ]
[ "Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's renowned resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh that attracts millions of tourists from around the world is growing tired of its most famous guest: Hosni Mubarak.", "The ousted president, say residents, is bad for business.", "\"We want him to leave,\" said Ahmed Fahmy, a construction worker who lives here.", "\"He has created a lot of problems and affected tourism.", "Tourism is dead now.\"", "Added Mohamed Nasr, who runs a limousine service: \"Everbody wants\" Mubarak to leave.", "\"Tourism now is no good ... My business is nothing now.\"", "Fahmy spoke across the street from Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital, where Mubarak has been staying under heavy police protection since prosecutors began questioning him on Tuesday.", "The sight of helmeted riot police forming a human chain of black uniforms around the perimeter of the pyramid-shaped hospital, contrasted sharply with the palm trees, souvenir shops and sun-burned European tourists who wander past, staring curiously at them.", "This week, Egypt's general prosecutor officially detained Mubarak for 15 days in connection with the deaths of hundreds of activists during the street protests that toppled him from power on February 11.", "His two sons, Gamal and Alaa, were transferred to Cairo's Tora prison this week.", "Egypt's revolution succeeded in toppling a once-untouchable dictator.", "But it has also crippled the country's vital tourism industry, which according to some conservative estimates, accounts for 10% of the Egyptian economy.", "Sharm el-Sheikh, an international scuba-diving and nightclubbing mecca that normally welcomes an estimated 5 million tourists a year, has been particularly hit hard.", "The beaches in \"Sharm,\" as locals affectionately call it, are all but deserted.", "The once bustling harbor in Namma Bay is mostly quiet, except for the occasional motorboat puttering past pulling squealing tourists riding inner-tubes.", "Hotel operators estimated they were below 30% capacity at what is normally the peak tourist season.", "\"You need to be at 35% just to break even,\" said Mohamed Abbas, manager of the Iberotel Lido Hotel.", "In the last half of February, the hotel was at 6% to 8% capacity.", "Abbas estimated the current free-fall in tourism receipts is worse than decline after three deadly bombings in Egypt's Sinai in 2004, and after a series of shark attacks last November.", "British tourist Jane Dixon said she didn't think twice about bring her teenage son and daughter to Sharm el-Sheikh.", "\"Its no different from the possible threat in London,\" she said, sitting in a rooftop swimming pool with a view of the Red Sea.", "\"You're just as likely to get blown up riding the Tube,\" she added, referring to London's subway system.", "Still, the political instability gripping Cairo kept Dixon from visiting the pyramids.", "Her 15-year-old son, Josh, was surprised to see the cordon of riot police outside of the Sharm el-Sheikh's hospital.", "\"It was pretty cool,\" he said.", "\"I didn't know the president was staying there.", "There are scary guards all over the place.", "So I feel pretty safe.\"", "Asked why tourists stopped coming, hotel and nightclub operator Adly El Mestekawy had one simple answer: the revolution.", "\"For the first time in the history of Egypt for 7,000 years a pharaoh is being investigated.", "His whole family is being investigated,\" Mestekawy said.", "But Mestekawy, who says he opened the first grocery store and hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh when it was little more than a desert campground in the 1980s, hopes Egypt's largely peaceful revolution will pay off in the long run.", "\"Egypt is no longer enslaved.", "Egypt is free and open to the world through peaceful means,\" he said.", "\"This will bring tourists back in large numbers and this is what the country needs.\"", "Egypt still has a long way to go before its security forces embrace transparency.", "Secret police accosted a CNN camera-man as he was filming a sunset over the Red Sea on Friday.", "Without showing any identification, the plain-clothed officers tried to confiscate the camera before finally being convinced no state secrets had been filmed.", "Not far away, workers outside a souvenir shop called out an often-repeated motto to passing tourists.", "\"Welcome to Egypt,\" they said." ]	[ "Tourism workers say Mubarak's presence has hurt business .", "He is receiving treatment at a Sharm el-Sheikh hospital .", "Mubarak's police protection contrasts with tourism vibe ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 7, 24 ]
[ "Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- The leader of Uganda's main opposition party was taken to a hospital in Kampala on Thursday after being shot in the hand, apparently by a rubber bullet allegedly fired by a member of the military police during a protest march.", "\"We met all of a sudden a blockade of the military police,\" Kizza Besigye told NTV Uganda after the shooting, his hand wrapped in white gauze.", "\"Maybe there were about 100 or so, all across the road and beside.", "And so I kept on walking towards them.", "It was when I was about 10 meters from them that they started charging onto us and firing all kinds of things.", "Just shortly after they started firing, I was hit.\"", "The demonstrations in Kampala -- Besigye's hometown -- were used by opposition parties to protest the government and recent increase in commodity and fuel prices.", "Thursday's incident occurred as Besigye -- the leader of the Forum for Democratic Change Uganda -- was leading hundreds of Ugandans in a march to work in the suburbs of Kampala for the second time this week.", "\"We just ask people to walk to work two times a week, and we want to do so to show solidarity,\" he said.", "\"There are already tens of thousands of people who are walking to work every day because they can no longer afford the cost of public transport.\"", "The shooting occurred when police fired tear gas and what appeared to be rubber bullets at the demonstrators -- who had surrounded Besigye in order to protect him, he said.", "Video from NTV showed police firing into the air and a number of people laying wounded on the ground.", "The British High Commission in Kampala and the U.S. Embassy condemned the arrest of Besigye that occurred during Monday's walk to work.", "Police released him soon after with a warning.", "In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Police Force said the march in Kampala violated the laws governing peaceful demonstrations.", "\"This has occasioned lawlessness in some areas of the city suburbs, which included blocking roads, throwing stones and general disruption of day to day activities,\" said spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba.", "She said that police had asked Besigye to walk alone, without being accompanied by his supporters.", "His insistence on including them led to a standoff that lasted for three hours, \"at which time the gathered supporters became rowdy and started throwing stones and other objectives,\" she said.", "\"Police officers stepped in to break up the ensuing mob action.\"", "The report that Besigye was hurt \"in the ensuing scuffle\" is under investigation, she said.", "In February, Besigye lost in an election bid to replace President Yoweri Museveni, who has led the country since a rebel group with which he was aligned seized power in 1986.", "Besigye, a former doctor to Museveni, lost previous presidential bids in 2001 and 2006.", "Journalist Tom Walsh contributed to this story." ]	[ "Kizza Besigye was shot in the hand, apparently by a rubber bullet .", "\"Just shortly after they started firing, I was hit\"\nThe walk was intended to highlight the fact that many cannot afford public transport .", "A police spokeswoman said the march violated the law ." ]	[ 0, 5, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times were awarded two Pulitzer Prizes each Monday for their outstanding work in journalism.", "The New York Times' Clifford J.", "Levy and Ellen Barry won in the international reporting category for their work on the struggling Russian justice system, while the paper's David Leonhardt won for commentary.", "The Los Angeles Times won in the public service category for its coverage of Bell, a small California city where officials' sky-high salaries sparked national outrage and then arrests.", "The paper's Barbara Davidson won for feature photography.", "Surprisingly, given big news stories last year like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the earthquake in Haiti, the prize board did not name a winner in the breaking news reporting category, a traditional favorite.", "Finalists in that category included the Chicago Tribune staff, for its coverage of the deaths of two Chicago firefighters, the staff at The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, for their coverage of the Haiti earthquake, and the staff of The Tennessean for its coverage of a devastating flood, the board said.", "The Pulitzer Prizes are U.S. awards handed out once a year to recognize outstanding work in journalism and the arts.", "Read bios and more about this year's winners .", "Jennifer Egan's book, \"A Visit from the Goon Squad,\" won the award for fiction.", "Her book is about growing up and old in the digital age, the board said.", "In the music category, Zhou Long won for \"Madame White Snake,\" which was premiered by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in February 2010.", "Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida won the investigative reporting award for her coverage of the state's property-insurance system.", "ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein won in the national reporting category, while three photographers at The Washington Post won for breaking news photography for their work around the earthquake in Haiti.", "Here is a complete list of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners: .", "JOURNALISM . Public Service -- Los Angeles Times .", "Breaking News Reporting -- No Award .", "Investigative Reporting -- Paige St. John of Sarasota Herald-Tribune .", "Explanatory Reporting -- Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel .", "Local Reporting -- Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of Chicago Sun-Times .", "National Reporting --Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica .", "International Reporting -- Clifford J.", "Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times .", "Feature Writing --Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey .", "Commentary -- David Leonhardt of The New York Times .", "Criticism -- Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe .", "Editorial Writing -- Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal .", "Editorial Cartooning -- Mike Keefe of The Denver Post .", "Breaking News Photography -- Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post .", "Feature Photography -- Barbara Davidson of Los Angeles Times .", "ARTS . Fiction -- \"A Visit from the Goon Squad\" by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf) Drama -- \"Clybourne Park\" by Bruce Norris .", "History -- \"The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery\" by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company) Biography -- \"Washington: A Life\" by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press) Poetry -- \"The Best of It: New and Selected Poems\" by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) General Nonfiction -- \"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer\" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner) Music -- \"Madame White Snake'\" by Zhou Long (Oxford University Press)" ]	[ "The papers snag two awards each .", "A prize is not given in the breaking news reporting category .", "Jennifer Egan's \"A Visit from the Goon Squad\" wins for fiction ." ]	[ 9, 16, 30 ]
[ "Ofunato, Japan (CNN) -- More than a month after the devastating tsunami and earthquake that flattened seaside communities across northern Japan, many aid groups are wrapping up operations.", "One team of volunteers is just ramping up, however.", "For those wondering what they can still do to help, the U.S.-based charity All Hands has an answer: Buy a plane ticket, and come ready to get to work.", "\"What we do is come in after natural disasters all around the world and help people by bringing in volunteers in the recovery process,\" said Marc Young, the charity's operational director in Ofunato, a small port city on Japan's northeastern coast.", "Ofunato was swamped in the tsunami that left nearly 500 dead and missing.", "The survivors are now faced with a mountain of debris to clear and a need to find new homes for more than 6,500 people.", "By Monday, the U.S.-based secular nonprofit had 23 volunteers from the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia working alongside Japanese from across the country.", "They were cleaning out houses and businesses and helping people salvage any personal goods and gear they could.", "Chris Turner, a staff project coordinator for All Hands, just arrived from working in Leogane, Haiti.", "Unlike Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Japan is the world's third-largest economy and its government is functioning.", "Help is still needed, however.", "\"Some people, what they most like to donate is their hard work,\" says Turner, a Canadian.", "\"We kind of give people that opportunity.\"", "The group is staying at a nearby house donated by a local resident and are getting a campground up and running to service the expected 100 volunteers who are streaming in every day.", "All Hands also is setting up a \"smart distribution\" warehouse to better allocate donated goods to the people who need them.", "In the immediate aftermath of the quake, truckloads of donated food, clothes and household goods were sent in.", "Now there are huge pallets of toilet paper, plates and other scattered goods from people who were well-meaning, but unclear on what was needed.", "\"We think that there is enough shampoo and detergent here for every person in every shelter to use a bottle a day for a year,\" Young said.", "There are few baths or working washing machines in the area, and what people really need is fresh food, he said.", "Most people have temporary shelter, and All Hands is forming a partnership with Habitat for Humanity to build 50 new homes.", "The group also is working with local leaders to team volunteers with Japanese carpenters to pull out waterlogged floors and walls from homes that are otherwise structurally sound.", "\"It's rewarding to get all the debris out of the homes,\" Young said.", "\"But it's especially exciting to take the next step and get people back in to their own homes.\"", "The group members are from all over the world, but All Hands says they had to pick the first volunteers from among thousands of offers based on skills they could contribute.", "Amya Miller, a volunteer from Boston, was born and raised in Japan, and now works as an interpreter.", "Miller said she her family and business on hold for two months to come and help in Japan and called in every favor she was ever owed to raise money.", "\"You can't forget about these people,\" she said.", "\"This is a multi-year recovery process.\"" ]	[ "All Hands cleans houses and helps families salvage posessions .", "More than 6,500 people need homes in the city of Ofunato .", "\"You can't forget about these people,\" one volunteer says ." ]	[ 5, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A California Republican official has apologized for sending an e-mail that depicts President Barack Obama as a young chimpanzee.", "\"To my fellow Americans and to everyone else who has seen the e-mail I forwarded and was offended by my action, I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness of my unwise behavior,\" Marilyn Davenport said in a statement obtained by CNN.", "Davenport, who is a Tea Party activist and an elected member of the central committee of the Republican Party of Orange County, said she felt the e-mail was a joke, CNN affiliate KTLA reported.", "The e-mail contains a doctored photo of what appears to be a family portrait of two adult chimpanzees posing with a young chimpanzee with Obama's face pasted on it.", "The caption that ran with the photo says \"Now you know why no birth certificate,\" the affiliate reported.", "Davenport said she would not repeat her error in the apology that included two Bible passages.", "\"I am an imperfect Christian lady who tries her best to live a Christ-like honoring life,\" the statement said.", "\"I would never do anything to intentionally harm or berate others regardless of ethnicity.", "So I ask for your forgiveness, for I am truly sorry.\"", "Despite criticism, Davenport told the affiliate that she does not need to resign her position because of the e-mail.", "Scott Baugh, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, said he was surprised by the e-mail.", "\"There's no question the e-mail is racist.", "The only question is what was in Marilyn's heart, what was her intent.", "But I don't think there's anybody on her committee or anybody in the world really that doesn't see it as a racist,\" Baugh said on CNN's \"AC360.\"", "Baugh said he feels Davenport should resign.", "\"The bottom line is being sorry for something and having a sincere apology doesn't undo the action, it doesn't stop the consequences,\" Baugh said.", "\"There's still consequences for what she's done and what she's done will continue to bring controversy to my party so I'm inclined to think at this time that she should still resign from the committee.\"", "Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.", "For the latest from AC360° click here." ]	[ "New: A Republican chairman says Marilyn Davenport should resign .", "The e-mail contains a doctored photo of a young chimpanzee with Obama's face on it .", "Davenport says that sending the e-mail was \"unwise behavior\"\nDespite criticism, the official says she does not need to resign ." ]	[ 3, 9, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Portuguese champions Porto are through to the semfinals of the Europa League after a thumping 5-2 win at Spartak Moscow gave them a 10-3 aggregate victory .", "Porto went into the match in control of the tie following their 5-1 win in Portugal, and added to that lead when Hulk burst through to score a 28tth-minute opener.", "Cristian Rodriguez doubled their advantage with a near post header on the stroke of half-time and Fredy Guarin converted Falcao's pull back early in the second half for the third goal.", "Is Villas Boas the new 'Special One'?", "Artem Dzyuba gave the home side some pride by pulling a goal back in the 52nd minute but Porto soon regained their three-goal cushion when Falcao headed home.", "Ari pulled another back for the hosts but Ruben Micael rifled home a late fifth as Porto achieved the highest-ever quarterfinal winning margin in the history of the competition.", "In what proved to be a famous night for Portuguese football, Porto were joined in the last four by compatriots Benfica and Braga, who will now face each other ensuring a Portuguese representative in next month's final in Dublin.", "Braga secured their place thanks to a 0-0 home draw with Dynamo Kiev, putting them through on the away goals rule after a 1-1 first leg draw in Ukraine.", "And they secured qualification the hard way, playing for over an hour with just 10 men after the dismissal of Paolo Cesar for a late tackle in the 29th minute.", "Meanwhile, Benfica secured their place after a 2-2 draw at Dutch side PSV Eindhoven gave them a 6-3 aggregate success.", "PSV threatened to create a shock following their 4-1 defeat in Lisbon, racing into an early 2-0 lead on the night.", "But goals from Luisao and an Oscar Cardazo penalty ensured Benfica now face their compatriots Braga.", "Meanwhile, Porto face Villarreal in the other semi, after the Spanish side eased past Dutch champions FC Twente.", "Already 5-1 up from the first leg in Spain, Villarreal completed the job with a 3-1 victory in the Netherlands for an 8-2 aggregate win.", "Twente gave themselves a glimmer of hope with Emir Bajrami's 32nd minute tap in but the visitors levelled on the hour when Giuseppe Rossi scored from the spot after Twente's Dwight Tiadealli was sent off for fouling Wakaso Mubarak.", "Marco Ruben added a second penalty on 84 minutes and Cani completed the scoring with a superb left-foot volley late on." ]	[ "Portugal have three teams through to the semifinals of the Europa League .", "Porto lead the way with a 5-2 thrashing of Spartak Moscow for a 10-3 aggregate win .", "Villarreal are the only non-Portuguese side through after they thrashed FC Twente .", "Braga and Benfica will face each other in an all-Portuguese semifinal clash ." ]	[ 0, 6, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arsenal have announced the death of director and shareholder Danny Fiszman, just three days after he agreed to sell his stake in the Premier League club to Stan Kroenke as part of the deal which allowed the American to complete his takeover.", "Fiszman, who joined the Arsenal board in 1992, died at the age of 66 at his home in Switzerland after a long battle with throat cancer.", "In a statement on Arsenal's official website, chairman Peter Hill-Wood said: Danny Fiszman was a visionary director, a gentleman and a true Arsenal fan.", "Kroenke nears takeover of Arsenal .", "\"We are all deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend Danny.", "His voice, wisdom and presence around the football club he so dearly loved will be sorely missed.", "\"Arsenal Football Club will forever be indebted to Danny for his invaluable foresight and contribution during the move from Highbury to our new stadium.", "\"Our thoughts at this time are with Danny's wife Sally, family and friends.", "We have lost a much loved husband, father, grandfather and friend.\"", "Fiszman, who made his wealth in the diamond industry, was ranked as the 348th richest person in Britain by the renowned Sunday Times Rich List in 2008 -- prior to moving to Switzerland.", "His decline in health was athought to be the main reason for his decision to sell his 16.11% stake of the club to Kroenke." ]	[ "Arsenal director and shareholder Danny Fiszman dies at the age of 66 .", "The news comes just days after Fiszman sold his Arsenal stake to Stan Kroenke .", "Kroenk'e purchase of Fiszman's 16.11% stake allowed him to launch club takeover ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The 8.9-magnitude earthquake and coastline-devouring tsunami that hit Japan has led 49 countries, the European Union and even the International Atomic Energy Agency to band together and offer relief to the devastated island nation.", "With Japan's death toll at 686 people, the international relief effort has been spurred by the stark, globally televised videos of homes and offices rattled to near collapse and entire waterfront communities being washed away by a rising ocean.", "The international community's assistance complemented the United States' expansive relief mission, which includes supplies, several warships, search-and-rescue teams, radiation-contamination specialists, and two officials from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission with expertise in boiling water nuclear reactors.", "On Sunday, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived off the coast of Honshu to support Japanese forces in disaster relief operations, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement.", "Also Sunday, the Chinese government sent a 15-member team to assist in the search for survivors, Xinhua News Agency reported.", "The team brought with them four tons of equipment and material for the search as well to provide power and telecommunications to areas that have temporarily lost those services because of the quake.", "In addressing one of the bigger potential threats, the international atomic agency's Incident and Emergency Centre has offered technical assistance to Japan in the wake of an explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.", "An evacuation order for a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) radius around the plant is affecting tens of thousands of people.", "On Saturday, the United Kingdom said it was sending a team of 59 fire service search-and-rescue specialists, two rescue dogs and a medical support team, according to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.", "With a scheduled arrival on Sunday, the crew will immediately join the international search for survivors in shattered and inundated communities, the British office said.", "The teams will take up to 11 tonnes of rescue equipment, including heavy lifting and cutting equipment to extract people trapped in debris, the government said.", "The UK foreign office also dispatched a 10-member consular response team, including British Red Cross workers, to Japan on Saturday morning, the government said.", "South Korea is sending two rescue dogs, two handlers and three assistants to carry out what are expected to be dramatic searches of people inside collapsed structures.", "The rescue teams were scheduled to arrive Saturday, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a written statement.", "In China, Premier Wen Jiabao, who expressed \"deep sympathy\" to the Japanese government and people, made a formal offer of assistance.", "Members of the country's international rescue team were ready to depart for Japan if needed, Chen Jianmin, director of the China Earthquake Administration, told the government's Xinhua News Agency.", "The United States is providing as many 11 warships, with their helicopters, to assist Japanese authorities in rescue and recovery missions.", "The U.S. Agency for International Development was dispatching two urban search-and-rescue teams, one from Fairfax County, Virginia, and the second from Los Angeles County -- totaling 150 people and 12 canines trained to find survivors.", "They are scheduled to arrive Monday morning in Japan.", "On Saturday, the Japanese foreign ministry listed the 49 countries extending offers of relief, in no particular order: Australia, Taiwan, the United States, South Korea, China, Mexico, Thailand, New Zealand, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, India, Russia, Turkey, Germany, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Slovakia, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Jordan, the United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, Greece, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Denmark, Serbia, Uruguay, Mongolia, Ecuador, Iran, Kyrgyz Republic, Malaysia, Argentine, Philippines, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Kosovo, Iceland, Norway, Romania, and Slovenia." ]	[ "NEW: China sends 15-member team and four tons of equipment .", "Korea is dispatching rescue dogs .", "The International Atomic Energy Agency is offering its nuclear experts ." ]	[ 5, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ailing German champions Bayern Munich thrashed second-placed Bayer Leverkusen 5-1 on Sunday to boost the club's hopes of European Champions League football next season.", "Germany international striker Mario Gomez scored a first-half hat-trick for the 22-time Bundesliga winners in a victory which saw the Bavarians climb into the third and final qualifying position for Europe's premier club competition.", "The 25-year-old scored his treble between an early Simon Rolfes own-goal and a late strike from French winger Franck Ribery, with Switzerland striker Eren Derdiyok restoring some pride for Jupp Heynckes' team.", "Leverkusen, four-times German runners-up but not since 2002 when the club also lost in the Champions League final, could have closed to within two points of league leaders Borussia Dortmund.", "But Dortmund instead moved eight points clear with a 3-0 victory over Freiburg in Sunday's late match.", "Heynckes, who has coached Bayern on two previous occasions, is set to move to the Allianz Arena next season as a replacement for sacked Dutch coach Louis van Gaal.", "Van Gaal guided Bayern to a domestic league and cup double last season, also losing in the Champions League final, but the 59-year-old lost his job after last weekend's draw with Nuremberg.", "Bayern, currently under caretaker boss Andries Jonker, are now one point ahead of fourth-placed Hannover -- who drew 0-0 at Hamburg on Saturday -- with four games left.", "The opening goal against Leverkusen arrived after just seven minutes when Bastian Schweinsteiger headed a Thomas Muller corner onto the unfortunate Rolfes, who deflected the ball beyond goalkeeper Rene Adler.", "Gomez grabbed a second in the 28th minute when Chile's Arturo Vidal made a mistake with a backpass, before 2010 World Cup golden boot winner Muller grabbed his second assist of the match as he teed up his teammate at the far post a minute before halftime.", "Gomez claimed the match ball with his 22nd Bundesliga goal this season in first-half stoppage time, before Derdiyok found the roof of the net for the visitors just past the hour mark.", "A neat move between Ribery and Belgium defender Daniel van Buyten led to Bayern's fifth and final goal with 15 minutes remaining.", "Borussia Dortmund, seeking a first title since the club's sixth success in 2001-02, had few problems at home to eighth-placed Freiburg.", "Defender Marcel Schmelzer burst to the byline and cut the ball back for 18-year-old Mario Gotze to open the scoring in the 23rd minute, then Dortmund playmaker Nuri Sahin limped off with a knee injury.", "Striker Robert Lewandowski made up for two earlier misses with the second goal just before halftime, with the Poland international pouncing after Freiburg's Omer Toprak deflected a pass from defender Mats Hummels into his path.", "Kevin Grosskreutz sealed victory in the 78th minute with his 15th goal in all competitions this season after Lewandowski released Gotze and the teenager squared the ball to the 22-year-old." ]	[ "Bayern Munich beat title hopefuls Leverkusen 5-1 to move into third in the Bundesliga .", "Bayern need to finish in the top three to qualify for next season's Champions League .", "Germany striker Mario Gomez scores first-half hat-trick for the defending champions .", "Borussia Dortmund go eight points clear of second-placed Leverkusen ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number three Roger Federer exited the Monte Carlo Masters at the quarterfinals stage to Austrian Jurgen Melzer Friday.", "Melzer was securing his first victory over the 16-time grand slam champion as he ran out a 6-4 6-4 winner at the prestigious clay court event.", "It was the earliest defeat for Federer in a tournament this year, ending his hopes of claiming the Monte Carlo title for the first time after being beaten three times in the final by Rafael Nadal.", "He has drawn blank since claiming the ATP season-opener in Doha, Qatar.", "Federer had breezed to the last eight, but was always struggling against Melzer in blustery conditions.", "Melzer broke for 3-2 in the opening set after an errant Federer forehand and held on to close it out.", "Blog: Can Sharapova return to the top?", "The second followed a similar pattern, with Federer unable to capitalize on his seven break points in the match as the seventh seed went through.", "Melzer was delighted to finally get past his old nemesis in such convincing fashion.", "\"He beat me three times last year and I didn't even win a set,\" he told AFP.", "\"But many things went well for me, my shots worked well.", "When he had break points I was calm and served well.", "\"I did well on the big points and played my game.\"", "Federer shrugged off his defeat as he now takes a two-week break before the Madrid Masters in his build-up to the French Open next month.", "\"I don't think I played terrible, it was OK. Obviously, it was still the first week of clay, so I don't expect myself to play my very best.", "If I had, it would be a pleasant surprise,\" said the second seed.", "Melzer will now play world number six David Ferrer after the Spaniard saw off 11th Viktor Troicki of Serbia 6-3 6-3 in an earlier match Friday.", "There was no stopping world number one Rafael Nadal, bidding for his seventh straight title in Monte Carlo, as he swept aside Croatian Ivan Ljubicic 6-1 6-3 to reach the last four.", "Nadal will face off against Britain's Andy Murray for a place in Sunday's final after the number three seed continued his fine run with a 6-1 6-2 dismissal of Portuguse qualifier Frederico Gil in just over an hour." ]	[ "Roger Federer beaten in quarterfinals of Monte Carlo Masters by Jurgen Melzer .", "Melzer wins 6-4 6-4 to earn a semifinal meeting with Spain's David Ferrer .", "Rafael Nadal crushes Ivan Ljubicic to stay on course for seventh straight Monte Carlo crown .", "Andy Murray next up for World No.1 after he beat Frederico Gil 6-2 6-1 ." ]	[ 0, 17, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Heavy rains that began early in January in northern central Namibia have reached staggering proportions, with 80 people drowned and half a million others affected directly or indirectly, officials said.", "President Hifikepunye Pohamba declared a national emergency in all six northern regions on March 28.", "The affected region is in the Cuvelai Basin, which drains southern Angola via a complex of streams that typically result in an annual flood called the efundja, which is named for the fish that spawn in spring.", "This year's efundja has resulted in the wettest year since systematic measurements started in 1891, with rainfall in affected areas nearly double the normal average.", "Government figures cite 263 school closures, with a total of 320 affected, leaving 114,000 schoolchildren shut out of their classrooms.", "Up to 40 health clinics are under water, and more than 100 health mobile outreach points have been made inaccessible as a result of damage to roads and bridges, according to the World Health Organization.", "In addition, roads, bridges, homes and staple crops in all six northern and northeastern regions in Namibia have been destroyed, according to UNICEF.", "They represent some of the country's poorest areas.", "The Red Cross Society of Namibia estimates that 500,000 people have been affected, with the densely populated central-northern regions -- Omusati, Oshona and Ohangwena -- hit worst.", "But other areas are also threatened, as rivers -- including the Zambezi -- drain southern and central Angola.", "Forecasters predict areas like Caprivi, which is about 500 kilometers (310 miles) east, may experience more flooding by next week.", "About 40,000 people have been displaced, some 10,000 of whom have been accommodated in 68 camps set up by the government, officials said.", "The death toll is expected to rise as water-borne diseases, mainly malaria, are predicted to spread.", "The Red Cross and the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are appealing for help, and the U.S. government and some European countries have made donations.", "OCHA said in its southern Africa flood and cyclone report, published Wednesday, that 2011 marks the third consecutive year of heavy rains in the region.", "The result is that the water table has risen and that \"flood water levels are unlikely to recede for the next three to six months.\"", "More rain is expected.", "Journalist John Grobler contributed to this report." ]	[ "80 people reported drowned; death toll expected to rise as diseases spread .", "40,000 people have been displaced; roads, bridges, homes, crops destroyed .", "Flooding has closed schools, cut off access to health facilities .", "Namibian president has declared a national emergency ." ]	[ 1, 5, 12 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- February 11, 2011 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• Egypt • Washington, D.C. Transcript .", "THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.", "THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.", "CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz, and Fridays are awesome, especially when they start with a former NFL star.", "WARRICK DUNN, FORMER NFL RUNNING BACK: What's up!", "I'm Warrick Dunn, and this is CNN Student News.", "Check it out! First Up: Egypt in Crisis .", "AZUZ: Scenes of celebration turn to shouts of anger as the crisis in Egypt takes a new turn.", "This political unrest in the North African nation started late last month.", "Thousands of protesters marching in the streets, calling for a change in leadership.", "Their main target: long-time President Hosni Mubarak.", "These protesters want him out of office now.", "Yesterday, a huge crowd showed up in the downtown square where a lot of these protests have been going on.", "The people there were cheering, getting ready for a speech that President Mubarak was scheduled to make, and the rumors were that he was going to step down.", "During his speech, Mubarak said that he will keep his promise to leave office in the fall after new elections.", "He said that he's delegating power to the vice president.", "And he said that he will respond to protesters' demands.", "What he did not say was that he would immediately leave office.", "The response from the crowd in the square was immediate, and it was angry.", "Crowds began chanting \"get out\" as the president spoke.", "This is a dynamic situation; things are changing; they're developing all the time.", "We want you to go to CNN.com for the latest updates.", "Is This Legit? TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?", "The next U.S. presidential election takes place on November 6, 2011.", "Not true! It's exactly one year after that, on November 6, 2012.", "2012 Contenders .", "AZUZ: The election might be 21 months away, but the lines are forming for people who may want to get into the race.", "And a convention happening right now in Washington, D.C. may offer some ideas about who will be on the ballot.", "It's CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.", "Thousands of conservatives from across the country are spending three days in the nation's capital.", "They'll hear speeches from some big names in the Republican party, and they'll take part in a straw poll.", "It's an unofficial vote, and this one includes 15 candidates.", "Some analysts use these polls to make predictions about who might end up running for president.", "Ed Henry is CNN's senior White House correspondent; no stranger to the presidential campaign trail.", "He's here to help explain some of the pros and cons of running for the country's highest political office.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) ED HENRY, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: When we take a close look at the contenders for 2012, we obviously need to include the sitting president of the United States.", "But while incumbency has its privileges, it also clearly brings some challenges as well.", "Call it the power of the presidency.", "Especially that 416-ton, taxpayer-financed jet that helps you rally voters, rake in millions, and grab headlines from coast to coast.", "JACK QUINN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: When he goes into local markets -- you've been all over with him -- he sucks all the oxygen out of the air.", "HENRY: Allowing President Obama to road-test a potential 2012 campaign slogan popping up on new t-shirts that say \"we do big things.\"", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We can do what this moment demands and focus on what's necessary for America to win the future.", "HENRY: But incumbency also has a downside.", "ED GILLESPIE, FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN: They do bad things, and the policies that they've imposed have not helped us get unemployment down to where it ought to be.", "HENRY: The candidate of hope and change in 2008 was largely a blank slate.", "Now, he has to defend a controversial record, which is why he tried to hit the reset button and focus on jobs in his State of the Union.", "But the crisis in Egypt is a reminder: sometimes incumbents set the agenda, other times it gets set for them.", "So far, there's no sign of a serious primary challenge to the president.", "And he may also be helped by the Republicans' muddled field so far.", "But Ed Gillespie argues that tough competition could help the GOP, just like the Democratic primary of 2008.", "HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: Shame on you, Barack Obama!", "HENRY: While the pundits warned that the long drama of Clinton v. Obama would hurt the party, just the opposite happened.", "GILLESPIE: It made Obama better when he emerged as the nominee.", "He was a stronger nominee for it.", "HENRY: By 2012, the president will have had four years of hand-to-hand combat, this time with Republicans.", "The big question now is whether those battles have, once again, made him a stronger nominee.", "(END VIDEO) Shoutout .", "JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Finn's 6th grade social studies students in Pewaukee, Wisconsin!", "Which U.S. president is known as the \"Great Emancipator\"?", "You know what to do! Is it: A) Washington, B) Jefferson, C) Lincoln or D) Roosevelt?", "You've got three seconds -- GO!", "President Abraham Lincoln, or Honest Abe, is also known as the Great Emancipator.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Lincoln's Birthday .", "AZUZ: Lincoln got that nickname because he's credited with freeing, or emancipating, the country's slaves through his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.", "President Lincoln also pushed for the passage of the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States.", "That was one of his big campaign issues when he ran for re-election in 1864.", "And Honest Abe has a birthday coming up.", "This Saturday, February 12th, marks the 202nd anniversary of the birth of the 16th president.", "The fact that Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, was born in February is part of the reason why February was picked as Black History Month.", "Black History Month Quiz .", "AZUZ: And our commemoration of Black History Month continues today.", "For this quick quiz, we're focusing on African-American inventors.", "First question for you: Ironing out wrinkles is a lot easier thanks to the ironing board.", "Who created it? Was it George Washington Carver, Sarah Boone or Garrett Morgan?", "Anwer is: On April 26, 1892, Sarah Boone received a patent for an ironing board made of a narrow wooden board, collapsible legs and a padded cover.", "Next up, something you're probably familiar with: the pencil sharpener.", "Who came up with this invention?", "Your choices here: Charles Brooks, Lonnie Johnson or John Love?", "Here we go: It was John Love, patented his design for the pencil sharpener in 1897.", "Last question, and this one's gonna be tough.", "Any of you who use a hair brush with synthetic bristles, who do you have to thank for it?", "Was it Madam C.J. Walker, Lyda Newman or Marie Brown?", "Our last answer: Lyda Newman didn't invent the hair brush, but she was the first person to make one with synthetic bristles.", "You can research all of these inventors and their inventions as part of your celebration of Black History Month.", "And stay tuned for more coverage on CNN Student News, including our interview with Warrick Dunn, whom you saw at the beginning of today's show.", "Guiding the Way .", "AZUZ: You hear a lot about how you'll use what you learn in school later on in life.", "But there's a group of 7th graders in Texas that don't want to wait that long.", "They're using knowledge from their robotics class right now.", "Shannon Murray of affiliate KOSA shows us how a class lesson turned into a lifeline for one of their fellow students.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) DANTE HALL, 7TH GRADER: In 2007, I lost my eyesight from a bad asthma attack.", "The worst one I've ever had.", "SHANNON MURRAY, KOSA REPORTER: An asthma attack so bad that Dante Hall not only lost his sight, but all feeling in his fingertips, making it difficult to learn braille.", "CLAIRE LANCASTER, CLASSMATE: He was just telling us how it's really hard for him to get around with a cane because people jump over it and run in front of it.", "JOSEPH VELASCO, CLASSMATE: He only has a cane and he's walking through the halls, and people mess with him and play around and he can't see anything.", "MURRAY: And they found the perfect way to help.", "CURT COWDREY, TEACHER: After I was told about his impairment and some of the abilities he doesn't have, our thinking was get him in here, get him working with robotics, get his fingers to working again.", "DANTE: Robotics is a great class, the best class I've ever been in.", "I've got a lot of people helping me.", "SAMUEL HIGGINS, CLASSMATE: We're trying to get it to go to each one of his classes, and I think he would love that.", "I know he will. MURRAY: Not only is Dante finding his way to class, he's also found a group of friends.", "VELASCO: We're kind of like a little bit of a family.", "DANTE: I haven't been happy in a long time.", "(END VIDEO) Make us your home page!", "AZUZ: It's an excellent story.", "You can watch that -- or any of our shows -- again at CNNStudentNews.com.", "Just one reason why you should make us your home page.", "Links that take you more in depth into stories from the program.", "And our Spotlight section, where you can find all of our Black History Month materials.", "CNNStudentNews.com: a one-stop spot for everything you need.", "Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, we want you to check out a business model that's designed for all seasons.", "When the temperature gets colder, the drinks get warmer, and you end up with the winter version of a lemonade stand.", "The igloo supposedly maintains a steady 55 degrees.", "Would be a little worried that the hot chocolate might melt the walls, but I'm sure these enterprising entrepreneurs have a solid plan in place.", "And it seems like they're making at least one sale.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: Though you might chocolate of that up to being the only game in town.", "Today's sign-off line from Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews comes from Spencer: I'm Carl Azuz, and up next is your teacher speaking.", "Have a great weekend!" ]	[ "Find out why scenes of celebration turned into shouts of anger in Egypt .", "Consider some of the challenges involved in running for the U.S. presidency .", "See how some Texas students are using their robotics class to help a peer .", "Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News ." ]	[ 0, 9, 36, 91, 92, 110 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Faced with some of driest conditions Texas has seen in nearly a century, firefighters around the state are struggling to fight off what a forest service official on Sunday called the \"perfect storm for wildfires.\"", "April Saginor, a spokeswoman with the Texas Forest Service, said crews were having difficulty getting hundreds of blazes under control due to a rare combination of strong winds, unseasonably warm temperatures and low humidity.", "Conditions this spring are the driest they've been in Texas since 1917, she claimed.", "Authorities have responded to 7,807 fires across more than 1.5 million acres since this year's wildfire season began, Gov.", "Rick Perry wrote in a letter late Saturday to President Barack Obama requesting that the federal government declare Texas a disaster area.", "These have affected all but two of the state's 254 counties.", "On Sunday, some 1,300 personnel representing 34 states were on the front lines battling these fires.", "And, unless there is a drastic and sustained change in conditions, Saginor said she expects the fight to continue for several months more.", "\"We're looking at this as a marathon, not a sprint,\" she said.", "\"We're very committed to this.\" To that end, Perry's request to federal authorities -- which he made late Saturday and announced Sunday -- was an attempt to expedite federal assistance.", "\"I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments, and that supplementary federal assistance is necessary,\" the governor wrote in his letter to Obama, sent through a Texas-based Federal Emergency Management Agency official.", "Saginor noted that rural areas and more populated areas like Austin have been affected -- though she added that there have been no civilian casualties and problems with numerous evacuations that have taken place.", "The governor noted that one firefighter has died and 18 others have been injured, while 244 homes have been destroyed and another 8,514 threatened residences \"saved.\"", "\"The wildland fire risk potential has reached a critically high level,\" Perry said.", "These conditions \"present a serious hazard to the lives and property of the citizens of the state.\"", "New and evolving wildfires prompted three sets of evacuations Sunday, all while crews tried to prevent further damage all around the state.", "The Texas Forest Service announced in a statement that, as of 2:15 p.m. Sunday, people were being ordered to evacuate from Strawn and other parts of Palo Pinto County and Caddo in Stephens County.", "Strawn's population of 764, the forest agency said, is endangered by a fire fanned by strong winds and fueled by \"extremely dry\" conditions in north central Texas.", "People in other parts of Palo Pinto County, including those in about 300 homes and a campground in the Peninsula on Possum Kingdom Lake, have also been told to leave.", "Saginor explained that these actions are part of a trio of nearby fires that, collectively, have burned 55,000 acres.", "Numerous resources -- including three helitankers (helicopters that dump water), two Blackhawk helicopters and three 20-man crews -- have been brought in, she said.", "A 2,200-acre fire imperiled Caddo, where 40 people lived in 2000, according to the Texas State Historical Society.", "Two hours later, the forest service noted that evacuations were \"in progress\" in Travis County, home of the state capital of Austin.", "That fire, while smaller than many others at 60 acres, raised alarms as it crept near 100 homes, 10 businesses and Austin Community College.", "The forest service update, posted online at 4:19 p.m. Sunday, said \"extreme fire behavior is being exhibited,\" though no additional information was immediately available.", "Mother Nature didn't appear to be doing firefighters any favors.", "Sustained winds in many locales were blowing 20 to 25 mph from the south this weekend, and gusting even stronger.", "And the long-term forecast didn't look much better.", "The forecast in Palo Pinto County for instance, called for high temperatures in the mid-90s through Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.", "In Austin, temperatures are expected to hit or surpass 90 all week.", "\"With the winds that we've got today, it's hard to be aggressive with any suppression activities; it's just too dangerous to get in front of that type of fire,\" Texas Forest Service spokesman Marq Webb told CNN affiliate WFAA.", "\"The fires we're experiencing in some cases are moving four or five miles an hour.", "That's the length of a football field every minute.\"", "As of Saturday, Texas Forest Service personnel were responding to at least 14,758 acres of new fires -- five of them major -- that broke out during the day.", "A blend of potent winds, dense growth of flammable material and low humidity have made this a challenging season for firefighters in the state, with 195 Texas counties banning any burning in a bid to prevent more blazes.", "The biggest of the new fires Saturday was in Jack County, where more than 150 homes were threatened and ultimately saved in the town of Bryson, according to the forest service.", "That 7,500-acre fire was 40% contained as of 11 a.m. Sunday.", "A 1,440-acre fire in Trinity County burning in mostly pine forest 20 miles northwest of Livingston and 800 acres that imperiled 40 homes in Tyler County some 10 miles northeast of Kountze were both 50% contained.", "Two Blackhawk helicopters, from the National Guard, were called in to assist with the latter blaze, the Texas Forest Service said.", "Some 1,850 acres in Cisco were threatened by a new 1,400-acre fire in Eastland County that was 75% contained, and forces had batted down an even higher percentage of the 2,000-acre blaze burning in Young County, six miles northeast of Graham.", "All these blazes paled in size to several others elsewhere in Texas.", "The biggest this season has been the so-called Rockhouse fire that spanned more than 182,000 acres in Presidio and Jeff Davis counties.", "That blaze, which destroyed 23 homes and two businesses, is 70% contained.", "In Coke County, north of San Angelo, crews had only managed to contain 10% of 130,000 acres of what's being called the Wildcat fire.", "The Texas Forest Service said late Sunday afternoon that this blaze was moving north and northwest, making it a threat to the county seat of Robert Lee and its 1,171 residents.", "New resources were brought in this weekend to fight this fire, with the state agency saying crews planned to approach it from the south.", "Another major wildfire centered in Cooper Mountain Ranch -- spanning 152,000 acres in Kent, Stonewall and Fisher counties -- was half-contained as of Sunday morning, with shifting winds the previous day pushing the flames toward Camp Springs.", "CNN's Stephanie Gallman contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: A forest service spokeswoman says conditions are the driest since 1917 .", "One fire Sunday spurs evacuations and threatens a college in Travis County, near Austin .", "Governor asks for help, saying the wildfire fight \"is beyond the capabilities of the state\"\nTexas authorities have battled 7,807 fires over more than 1.5 million acres so far this season ." ]	[ 0, 3, 22 ]
[ "Kaduna, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigerians voted for president Saturday, a week after parliamentary elections were marred by violence and accusations of fraud in Africa's most populous nation.", "Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan is the presidential front-runner despite a poor performance in the parliamentary and senate elections by his People's Democratic Party.", "The former vice president assumed office after President Umaru Yar'Adua died last year following treatment for a kidney ailment in Saudi Arabia.", "Jonathan has led the nation of about 150 million people since May.", "About 73 million people are registered to vote.", "His main challenger -- former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari -- was a contestant in the past elections in 2003 and 2007.", "Buhari is the candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change.", "Other candidates include Nuhu Ribadu and current Kano state Gov.", "Ibrahim Shekarau.", "A CNN iReporter in Lagos, who gave her name as Jan Young, said she expected the race to be tight.", "\"If the incumbent president wins, it won't be a landslide victory but a fair split between the ruling and opposition parties who campaigned for our votes.", "I also expect our nation would demand accountability from whoever wins at the end of the day,\" she wrote.", "The winner will face tough challenges in the former British colony that has been mostly under military rule in its 50 years of independence.", "For starters, to avoid a runoff, the winner must get at least a quarter of the vote in two-thirds of the 36 states and the capital.", "The ruling party has a tradition of alternating power between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south after two terms in office.", "The rhythm was broken when Jonathan, a southerner, succeeded Yar'Adua during his second term in office.", "Some ruling party leaders have demanded a candidate from the north.", "Saturday's voting was largely peaceful, except for a bomb that exploded in northeastern Nigeria early in the day.", "The blast was in Maiduguri city in Borno state, according to a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency.", "Gunfire also rang out in that city, the spokesman said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.", "The relative calm stood in contrast to the violence that marred the country's parliamentary elections last week.", "During that vote, separate bomb blasts ripped through a polling station and a collation center in northeastern Nigeria.", "Human Rights Watch has estimated that at least 85 people have been killed in political violence so far.", "A new election chief promised free and fair elections, but the electoral commission was forced to put off elections earlier this year by a week after logistical problems, including party logos missing from ballot papers, were reported nationwide.", "It was a major setback reminiscent of the nation's 2007 elections, which the European Union described as filled with rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.", "Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and its largest oil producer, is a major supplier of crude oil to the United States, and hosts many Western oil companies and workers.", "Nigerians voted April 9 for 360 House of Representatives seats and 109 Senate seats.", "After the presidential election on Saturday, a gubernatorial vote will be held on April 26.", "Nigerians are working to harness the power of the internet this year to demand accountability and encourage citizens to get involved in the voting process.", "The west African nation has 43 million internet users -- the largest in Africa -- and they are increasingly using Twitter, Facebook and blogs to report cases of voting problems during the election season." ]	[ "The voting was largely peaceful .", "Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan is the front-runner .", "His lead comes despite a poor performance in the parliamentary vote last week .", "His main challenger is former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two mothers expressed outrage Friday night that their young children -- about 1,000 miles away and days apart -- were inadvertently given alcohol by servers at franchises of national chain restaurants.", "Jill Vanheest, whose 2-year-old son was given sangria on March 31 at an Olive Garden in Lakeland, Florida, told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell that she's having difficulty accepting what happened.", "\"They poisoned my child right in front of me,\" Vanheest said Friday.", "\"There aren't really words for how distrustful that makes me feel, how angry I am.\"", "Just over a week later, on April 8, Taylor Dill-Reese said that her 15-month-old son was given alcohol during a meal -- rather than the apple juice he'd ordered -- at an Applebee's in Madison Heights, Michigan.", "She said that the staff there explained that the boy got the wrong drink due to a mix-up at the bar, after containers for apple juice and margarita mix (which has tequila and triple sec) were somehow switched.", "This week, Applebee's issued a statement apologizing to the parents of Dominic Wilson Jr. \"for the stress and worry this caused them.\"", "It vowed to immediately retrain servers on the company's \"beverage pouring policy\" and change to pouring apple juice only from single-serve containers, like a juice box.", "\"We recognize our responsibility to constantly assess our safety policies and procedures to ensure they are rigorous and consistently followed,\" the Kansas-based chain said.", "\"We believe today's strong actions make a statement to our guests of all ages around our commitment to provide a safe and enjoyable dining experience.\"", "But Dill-Reese told Velez-Mitchell on Friday that she's not convinced.", "The mother, who is 18 and was at the restaurant with her son and fiance, said she was particularly angry given that a similar incident happened before at Applebee's -- namely, a 2006 case in which a 5-year-old boy was given a Long Island iced tea, which contains rum, gin, vodka and tequila, at a New York City establishment of the national chain.", "\"it's just sad, the simple fact that this isn't the first time this happened (or) that they were going to change the way they were going to serve drinks,\" the mother said.", "\"Why wait two, three kids later to change the way you serve drinks?", "What if my son was the one that died?\"", "Steven Krawitz, a personal injury attorney who represented the family involved in the 2006 case, told HLN that -- whatever Applebee's and other restaurant's promises to change their policies for serving drinks to children -- a parent should never rely on a server fully when their son or daughter gets a beverage.", "\"The parent, unfortunately, cannot now trust what used to be a no-brainer,\" Krawitz said.", "\"Restaurants are serving drinks for kids, millions of drinks, but now, given this sort of rash of ... unavoidable or unacceptable mistakes, the parents now have to test the drink.\"", "Police were called to the Applebee's in Michigan after Dill-Reese and her fiance noticed Dominic acting strangely -- \"saying 'hi' and 'bye' to the walls (and) laid his head down like he was sleepy, then woke up and got really hyper,\" recalled the mother.", "Once a server told the parents that the boy was given margarita mix, he was rushed to the hospital, where Dill-Reese said he had a blood-alcohol limit of .10.", "Applebee's, though, said that Madison Heights police conducted a field test and found the drink itself only registered a .014 alcohol level.", "While Dill-Reese has already filed a lawsuit against Applebee's, Vanheest said she has not decided whether to do the same against Olive Garden.", "Vanheest claims that her son, Nikolai, ordered an orange juice and started drinking it.", "But then a waiter \"came over and said there's been a mistake, grabbed the cup and kind of scurried away.\"", "Meanwhile, her son \"was not acting like himself\" -- climbing in and out of his high chair and people's laps, not responding to requests to calm down, and \"just getting louder and louder.\"", "When the restaurant's staff admitted that the boy had gotten sangria, which contains wine, the child was brought to the hospital.", "After some struggle, he was given intravenous fluids and had his blood drawn before being checked and eventually released.", "\"He ended up with a lot of bruises,\" Vanheest said.", "After the incident came to light, Olive Garden released a statement in which it called the incident \"unacceptable.\"", "The chain, which is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, said \"we have implemented a change in our procedures to prevent this situation from happening again\" -- though it didn't detail what those changes were.", "\"We take the responsibility that comes with serving alcohol seriously,\" the statement said.", "\"As much as we strive for perfection, this was an unfortunate case of human error.\"", "But Vanheest, the toddler's mother, said she's not yet ready to forgive.", "\"Just that their disorganization allowed this ever to happen -- it's extremely frustrating,\" she said.", "\"I've lost all trust and all faith in them.\"", "Watch ISSUES with Jane Velez-Mitchell Monday through Sunday at 7pm ET on HLN.", "For the latest from ISSUES click here." ]	[ "A Florida mother says of Olive Garden: \"They poisoned my child right in front of me\"\nHer toddler was taken to the hospital after being served sangria at a Florida restaurant .", "8 days later, a Michigan boy was served alcohol at an Applebee's franchise .", "Both chains apologized and vowed to change their drink-serving policies ." ]	[ 2, 4, 11, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will face compatriot David Ferrer in Sunday's final as he seeks a remarkable seventh successive title at the Monte Carlo Masters clay-court event.", "The Spaniard had to battle for almost three hours before overcoming third seed Andy Murray, whose hopes of a first win on the surface against Nadal were ultimately hampered by an elbow injury.", "Nadal finally triumphed 6-4 2-6 6-1 to set up a clash with Ferrer, who reached his first final in the principality with a 6-3 6-2 win over Roger Federer's conqueror Jurgen Melzer in Saturday's opening semifinal.", "Murray's participation was in doubt before the first serve as he needed a pre-match injection, and he required lengthy treatment in the deciding set at 3-0 down -- having been denied it after the previous game due to tournament rules.", "He told reporters that he will have a scan on Sunday to determine the extent of the injury.", "Can Murray become a grand slam champion?", "The British player has restored his confidence in this tournament, coming into it on a four-match losing streak after early exits in Miami, Indian Wells and Rotterdam following his Australian Open final defeat by Novak Djokovic.", "The world No. 4 had lost both previous clay clashes with Nadal and was seeking to redress a 4-9 career record against a player whose only defeat in Monte Carlo came in his first appearance in 2003.", "\"It's good to know you're able to play at a similar level to what he does on the clay.", "To win against him, you need to be able to do that for three and a half hours, four hours.", "He's the best player in the world for a reason,\" Murray said.", "\"It's good to be close to him, but I want to try to play better than that.", "I'll need to, if I want to beat him, because he's going to improve the next few weeks the more he plays on clay.\"", "Nadal, the first man to win an ATP Tour event six times in a row, is seeking to extend his record of Masters Series titles to 19 following hard-court final defeats in Miami and Indian Wells by Djokovic -- who missed this tournament due to injury.", "He bounced back after dropping an early service game and won four in a row before Murray leveled at 4-4.", "Nadal held to take the lead and then broke Murray as the 23-year-old conceded the set with a backhand error.", "The Scot bounced back well, hitting 13 winners to Nadal's three as he won the second set, but he could not maintain that momentum in the decider.", "It was only the sixth time Nadal had lost a set in 39 matches at the tournament.", "Fourth seed Ferrer lost to Nadal in the semifinals last year before being beaten again by him in the final of the Rome Masters.", "The 29-year-old, a semifinalist in Melbourne in January, reached his third final of 2010 having won on clay in Mexico's Acapulco and on hard-court at Auckland, New Zealand.", "Ninth-ranked Melzer was playing in his first Masters Series semifinal, having become the first Austrian to reach the last-four stage in Monte Carlo since clay-court legend Thomas Muster 15 years ago.", "Is Sharapova back as a real contender?", "Meanwhile, women's Fed Cup champions Italy face an uphill battle to reach this year's final after losing both rubbers on the opening day of the semi against Russia in Moscow.", "World No. 3 Vera Zvonareva thrashed Sara Errani 6-0 6-2 in Saturday's first singles match, then two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova battled past Roberta Vinci 6-2 6-7 (4-7) 6-1.", "Zvonareva, making her first appearance in the teams competition since helping Russia to a fourth title in 2008, can clinch victory in the best-of-five tie by beating Vinci in Sunday's opening reverse singles tie.", "Italy have won it the past two years, but went into this match without top-ranked players Francesca Schiavone and Flavia Pennetta.", "The other semifinal between Belgium and the Czech Republic was level at 1-1 in Charleroi.", "The home team were without injured world No.", "2 Kim Clijsters, and her replacement -- the 106th-ranked Kirsten Flipkens -- lost 6-2 7-6 (7-4) to No.", "18 Petra Kvitova in the opening match.", "The Belgians, beaten by Italy in the 2006 final and winners for the first time in 2001, drew level when world No.", "23 Yanina Wickmayer triumphed 6-4 6-4 against Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova." ]	[ "Rafael Nadal through to seventh consecutive Monte Carlo title match .", "No.", "1 is looking to bounce back after two Masters Series final defeats in the U.S.", "He will face fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in Sunday's final, having beaten Andy Murray .", "Fed Cup champions Italy trail 2-0 to Russia in semifinal of women's teams event ." ]	[ 0, 21, 22, 29 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A plane carrying Michelle Obama had to abort its landing on Monday after it came too close to a military C-17 cargo plane ahead of it, according to a senior administration official and the Federal Aviation Administration.", "The planes -- which were both trying to land -- were three miles apart, when they are supposed to be five miles apart, the official told CNN.", "The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating what went wrong, as it is believed to be an air traffic controller mistake, the official said.", "The White House does not believe the first lady's life was ever in danger, the senior official said.", "The FAA said in a statement controllers at Andrews Air Force Base instructed an incoming Boeing 737 to perform a \"go around\" \"because the plane did not have the required amount of separation\" behind the military plane.", "Air traffic controller caught watching movie on duty .", "The FAA is investigating.", "\"The aircraft were never in any danger,\" the agency said.", "The landing was briefly aborted and Obama's plane had to circle, the official said.", "Obama was actually on a C-40, a military version of the 737 that was part of the Air National Guard -- not the regular Air Force fleet used by VIPs at Andrews, said Maj. Michelle Lai of the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base.", "What it's like to be an air traffic controller .", "The FAA did not want Obama's plane to be caught in the \"jet wash,\" of the C-17 as it landed, Lai said.", "That refers to the force of the air from the back of the C-17.", "\"It's important to know the FAA made the right call and at no time was the first lady's life in danger,\" Lai said.", "When the Potomac TRACON, the regional radar facility, handed off the plane to the Andrews Air Force Base tower, the planes were three miles apart, a government official told CNN.", "\"Both facilities knew how far apart they were\" at the time of the handoff, the official said.", "But the official declined to say why the hand-off occurred.", "Plane clipped by tractor-trailer at Boston airport .", "The TRACON could have slowed Obama's plane down or order it to turn earlier, the official said.", "Why that wasn't done is under investigation.", "But \"it was a controlled situation,\" the government official said.", "The National Transportation Safety Board said it was gathering information on the incident and will be making an assessment to determine whether it will investigate more closely.", "CNN's Ed Henry, Jeanne Meserve and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report." ]	[ "The FAA says the aircraft were never in any danger .", "The incident happened Monday at Andrews AFB .", "Obama's plane had to circle again before landing ." ]	[ 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A California Republican official on Wednesday apologized once again for sending an e-mail depicting President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee, but insisted she was not motivated by racism.", "\"To my fellow Americans and everyone else who saw that e-mail and was offended, I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness for my unwise behavior,\" Marilyn Davenport told reporters gathered before the Orange County Republican Party headquarters in Fullerton, California.", "\"I say unwise because I didn't stop to think about the historic implications of what I was sending.\"", "\"Unintentionally I have offended many,\" Davenport added.", "\"Knowing what I now know, I would never have sent the e-mail.\"", "Davenport recently found herself in a storm of controversy after forwarding an e-mail she says she received from a friend.", "It contained a doctored photo styled like a family portrait, showing two adult chimpanzees and a baby.", "The younger chimpanzee had a photo of Obama's face superimposed over the animal's face.", "The caption that ran with the photo read, \"Now you know why no birth certificate.\"", "The chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, Scott Baugh, called for her resignation in a Twitter message posted on the group's website.", "California's Democratic Party has also demanded that Davenport step down.", "But during Wednesday's news conference, Davenport said she would not resign her post, citing an overwhelming number of appeals she has received from her constituency asking her not to do so.", "She represents the state's 72nd Assembly District for the Republican Central Committee.", "When queried by reporters about who she may have offended, Davenport responded, \"I assume that I offended the black people.", "And having friends that are black I never intended for that, not at all.\"", "Davenport said repeatedly that she is not racist, a sentiment echoed by her husband, Dick, who stood at her side as she faced reporters.", "\"We've been involved in many interracial activities,\" he said, \"and we have no animosity toward any person.\"", "The e-mail in question, according to Davenport, was political satire.", "\"I don't think i would consider it racist,\" she told reporters.", "\"It's a political satire.", "Pretty much about bringing up the birth certificate, or lack of it.", "It wasn't about black, white or other.", "I had no intention of doing anything that would be racist.", "I guess I'm political and I thought of it only in a political stance.\"", "Davenport went on to say that the e-mail grabbed her attention because of concerns she has about where Obama was born and where he went to school.", "\"I am concerned, knowing the responsibility of a president, that we should know these things, shouldn't we?", "There are some that are really adamant about it and I wonder why he doesn't tell us.", "... From what I hear in the media, he's not brought forth his college records and his birth certificate.\"", "Davenport is referring to claims made by what is called the \"birther\" movement.", "These groups believe that the president was not born in the United States and his birth certificate is a forgery, making him ineligible to be president under the U.S. Constitution.", "Obama and his staff produced copies of his birth certificate when he was running for president in 2008.", "Despite her professed concerns over his place of birth, Davenport addressed her apologies directly to Obama.", "\"To the president, I would say absolutely that it was inappropriate and absolutely I would not do that again.\"" ]	[ "Marilyn Davenport apologizes once again for forwarding e-mail .", "The e-mail contained a doctored photo of a chimpanzee with Obama's face on it .", "Davenport insists she is not racist and that she thought the e-mail was \"political satire\"\nDavenport says she was focused on concerns about where the president was born ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7, 17, 24 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Military prosecutors have recommended the death penalty for the accused mastermind of the deadly 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole.", "The announcement Wednesday from the Defense Department is another signal the case against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri will be moving closer to trial before a military commission.", "As one of 16 \"high-value\" detainees, he has been held for years at the U.S. Navy's detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.", "If approved, this would be the first death penalty trial in the reconfigured military trial system.", "Intelligence sources have said al-Nashiri headed al Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf region before his 2002 capture by U.S. intelligence agents.", "CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed six years later that al-Nashiri and two other high-value terror suspects were subjected to waterboarding, a harsh interrogation technique.", "The chief prosecutor recommended capital charges against the 46-year-old Saudi native.", "He has been formally recharged with planning the bombing attack on the U.S. Navy vessel, which was in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen.", "Two suicide bombers rammed a garbage barge full of explosives into the USS Cole during a refueling stop.", "Seventeen sailors were killed, and 47 others were injured.", "The blast left a 40-by-40-foot hole in the port side of the Norfolk, Virginia-based guided-missile destroyer, which was carrying a crew of 293.", "Al-Nashiri also is charged with heading the aborted attack on the destroyer USS The Sullivans that same year.", "The decision to formally move ahead with the prosecution had been expected for weeks, ever since Defense Secretary Robert Gates in January lifted a previous order that had prevented any new cases from moving forward.", "The final decision about whether the death penalty can be pursued is now in the hands of retired Vice Adm. Bruce McDonald.", "In military terminology he is the convening authority of the military commissions, the equivalent of a civilian criminal court.", "The American Civil Liberties Union, however, said the \"broken military commissions system\" should not be used to try al-Nashiri.", "\"We are deeply disturbed that the Obama administration has chosen to use the military commissions to try a capital case in which much of the evidence is reportedly based on hearsay and therefore not reliable enough to be admissible in federal court,\" said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project.", "\"Allowing hearsay is a backdoor way of allowing evidence that may have been obtained through torture.", "\"All of our concerns about the inherent unfairness of the military commissions are compounded in cases like this one, in which the result could be death,\" Shamsi said.", "\"The Constitution and international law rightly require enhanced protections in death penalty cases, but the military commissions are incapable of providing those necessary protections.\"", "Yemen had separately sentenced the man to death in absentia for his alleged role in the Cole attack.", "His four-year custody in secret overseas CIA prisons before his 2006 transfer to Guantanamo is expected to be a key point of contention in any trial, since al-Nashiri did not have access to legal counsel for months nor had any charges been filed against him.", "It is unclear what rules of evidence the government could present that would withstand judicial scrutiny.", "Military justice rules allow al-Nashiri to have defense counsel represent him.", "He was charged in December 2008 before a military commission in Guantanamo, but the charges were suspended a few months later when the Obama administration took over and sought a fresh review of all detainees at the overseas prison.", "Later that year Attorney General Eric Holder announced al-Nashiri, alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other key terror suspects would face prosecution in the military justice system.", "The Obama administration had considered transferring some terror suspects to the United States for prosecution in either special military or civilian courts.", "But the president earlier this month announced all prosecutions would be in military courts in Guantanamo.", "The CIA has admitted tapes of al-Nashiri's interrogation at a secret location in 2002 were destroyed in 2005.", "Waterboarding involves strapping a person to a surface, covering his or her face with cloth and pouring water on the face to simulate the sensation of drowning.", "Critics have called it torture.", "Destruction of CIA tapes sparked concerns .", "During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- a preliminary court proceeding -- at Guantanamo in March 2007, al-Nashiri acknowledged knowing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and said he had accepted money from him.", "But bin Laden gave many people money to help them get married or conduct businesses, al-Nashiri said.", "Al-Nashiri said he is not a member of al Qaeda, according to the 4-year-old documents.", "He said he knew the perpetrators of the bombing because he had business dealings with them in the fishing industry.", "The suspect said he \"was tortured into confession, and once he made a confession his captors were happy and they stopped questioning him,\" according to a statement read during a 2007 hearing.", "\"Also, the detainee states that he made up stories during the torture in order to get (the torture) to stop.\"", "In addition to Mohammed, charges could be forthcoming against Ahmed al-Darbi -- a Saudi man accused in the failed plot to bomb oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz; and Obaydullah, an Afghan accused of planting explosives.", "The last military execution was in 1961, involving a U.S. Army private who had been convicted of rape and attempted murder of an Austrian girl.", "CNN Pentagon Correspondent Chris Lawrence contributed to this report." ]	[ "Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is charged with planning the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole .", "Seventeen sailors died and 47 were wounded .", "The chief prosecutor is recommending capital charges against al-Nashiri .", "He will be tried before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ." ]	[ 1, 6, 9, 11, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities in the Mexican north-central state of Durango have confirmed the discovery of 26 bodies in a mass grave.", "According to the Durango State's Attorney's Office, the bodies were found in a residential area in the capital city of the same name.", "Officials say the bodies found late Wednesday were already badly decomposed and so far they haven't been able to identify the victims.", "The bodies were found in a lot apparently belonging to an auto shop located in the residential area known as \"Las Fuentes.\"", "According to local media reports, four other bodies were found on April 11, but the Durango State Attorney's Office did not immediately confirm that information.", "Crime scene pictures obtained by the Diario Contexto de Durango newspaper after the bodies had been removed show shallow mass graves right next to a brick wall.", "The area had already been cordoned off by authorities.", "The grisly discovery comes in the same week that authorities in Tamaulipas, a Mexican state that shares a border with Texas, confirmed they have so far found 116 bodies in multiple mass graves.", "Fifty-nine bodies were originally found on April 6 in eight mass graves in the town of San Fernando, located 90 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.", "As the investigation widened, authorities kept on finding more bodies, some in groups of several dozen.", "Sixteen San Fernando police officers were arrested last week for allegedly protecting those responsible for the mass graves that had been uncovered, according to the Mexican attorney general's office.", "Martin Omar Estrada Luna, an alleged drug kingpin nicknamed \"El Kilo,\" was captured last Saturday in connection with the mass graves.", "According to officials, Estrada is a presumed leader of Los Zetas.", "The Mexican drug cartel has operated for years in the area of San Fernando.", "The investigation in Tamaulipas began after reports of bus passengers in northeastern Mexico being forcibly removed from buses and taken away by heavily armed men.", "Another 72 bodies were found in San Fernando last August.", "They were identified as the remains of Central and South American immigrants on their way to the United States.", "Another presumed member of Los Zetas identified as Jose Manuel Garcia Soto was arrested earlier this month as a suspect in the death of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata.", "Zapata and his partner were ambushed in the state of San Luis Potosi while traveling from the northern city of Monterrey to Mexico City.", "His partner survived." ]	[ "Mexican authorities uncovered a mass grave in the north-central state of Durango .", "Twenty-six badly decomposed bodies were found .", "Authorities have not been able to identify the victims .", "Authorities in Tamaulipas had said they had found 116 bodies in multiple graves ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Evelyn Einstein, who spent the last years of her life trying to fight for money generated by her late grandfather Albert's estate, has died, her close friend said Wednesday.", "The friend, Allen Wilkinson, said the two had just started to work on her memoirs.", "\"She always said her grandfather wasn't this great god of science, to her he was just Grandpa,\" Wilkinson said.", "Einstein had been ill for years suffering from heart problems and diabetes.", "She died at her home in Albany, California, last week, Wilkinson said.", "Albert Einstein made many contributions to modern science, but it's the videos, bobblehead dolls and Halloween masks using his image that continue to generate millions of dollars long after his death.", "Evelyn Einstein told CNN she hadn't received a dime from the marketing and sales of Einstein merchandise, while others have profited.", "\"I'm outraged,\" she told CNN in a February interview, adding that she was a 69-year-old cancer survivor and needed the money for health care.", "\"It's hard for me to believe they would treat the family the way they have, which has been abysmally.\"", "Her grandfather, the German-born physicist who formulated the general theory of relativity, bequeathed the literary rights for the more than 75,000 papers and other items in his estate to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem when he died in 1955.", "The Israeli university also owns the rights to his likeness, using a Los Angeles-based company called Greenlight LLC to handle licensing for items such as Einstein apparel, mugs, puzzles, coins, posters and other collectibles.", "\"What does a bobblehead have to do with a literary estate?\"", "asked Evelyn Einstein, who said she had been ignored by the university in her requests for an arrangement that would allow her to profit from the sales.", "Just recently she had begun preparations to sue the university.", "The school responded with a statement saying, \"Einstein left all of his intellectual property, encompassing his literary estate and personal papers, to the Hebrew University, including the rights to the use of his image.\"", "The statement added that \"the income of the university from the use of his image is dedicated to scientific research.\"", "Greenlight spokesman Dan Perlet said the company has strict guidelines covering the dozens of annual requests to license the Einstein name, including ones from Disney and Baby Einstein.", "It asks whether the companies seek to promote the scientists' values, intellectual curiosity and innovation, Perlet said.", "Einstein, known for his wry sense of humor when he was alive, is paid homage in an animated television show called \"Little Einsteins\" long after his death.", "The show, which airs on Disney Playhouse, has generated DVDs, books and toys.", "The famed physicist was crowned Time magazine's person of the century in 1999, where he was described as \"the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by science.", "A memorial service for Evelyn Einstein is planned for June.", "She requested that her ashes be scattered in the Berkeley, California, marina." ]	[ "Einstein's granddaughter had been fighting for money from his estate .", "Evelyn Einstein had been ill for years with heart problems and diabetes .", "She had gotten nothing from the use of Albert Einstein's image on apparel, mugs, etc." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- If you ever feel overwhelmed at work, imagine breaking up fights and taking a puck to the face while trying to earn a not-so-great salary.", "Alex Stagnone's face once needed eight stitches while on the job, but he quickly returned to the ice, ready for another 20 minutes of relentless action.", "\"That's hockey,\" is a common response from any player when suffering sport-related injuries.", "But Stagnone, 23, is a linesman with the ECHL, the NHL's double-A league.", "\"Ninety-five percent of hockey players wouldn't take our job,\" said hockey official Graham Skilliter, referring to the lower pay, heavy travel schedule, verbal abuse and stiff competition for a coveted officiating position in the NHL.", "Skilliter is an ECHL referee or \"the boss on the ice.\"", "They make all final decisions on calls, penalties and disputed goals.", "Linesmen follow the action, break up fights, call minor penalties and drop the puck.", "Officials face a crowd of hockey fans who will never be satisfied with every call -- and fans aren't shy about voicing it.", "\"You get booed a lot, but you learn to like it.", "You get so used to it, it kind of becomes comical,\" Stagnone said, adding he tries not to take it personally.", "After growing up playing hockey, Stagnone attended one of USA Hockey's weeklong summer camps taught by seasoned supervisors.", "He then worked his way up through the tiered levels of hockey.", "Joe Ernst, director of Officiating for the ECHL, hires skilled skaters with good judgment who are hungry for a spot in the NHL and are physically and mentally tough.", "While the hockey players get regular line changes, officials only get a real break every 30 minutes.", "\"Our general rule of thumb is to be in as good of shape as the players, if not better,\" Skilliter said.", "\"The players will be out for 45 seconds and go red line as hard as they can.", "For us, it's more of a marathon.\"", "During the playoffs under way now, the officials face more pressure than normal because their calls could land an important player in the penalty box or disallow a goal.", "So each call could have an affect on who wins the league title.", "Both referees and linesmen need thick skin to deal with angry coaches and players over disputed calls.", "\"You have to stay professional no matter how unprofessionally someone may treat you.", "It's keeping your cool when most people would lose it,\" Stagnone said.", "Officials also have to anticipate plays before they happen.", "It's called \"hockey sense,\" and it can't be taught, Skilliter said.", "Successful officials tune into their hockey sense by blocking out personal off-ice issues at all times, he said.", "Once a full-time fireman, Skilliter, a 26-year-old Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, native, now regularly travels from East Coast to West Coast.", "\"When we have days off, we call them 'GTL' or gym/tan/laundry days,\" Skilliter said.", "\"At our level, if we don't work, we don't get paid, so we try and stay as healthy as possible.\"", "Since becoming a full-time official this season, Stagnone has worked 94 games between the ECHL and the slightly more skilled American Hockey League.", "Working developmental leagues required him to live in Omaha, Nebraska, for the last two years.", "This season, Stagnone relocated to Greenville, South Carolina, to work as one of 69 linesmen for the ECHL's southeastern teams.", "The men are competing against others in the field for a narrow chance in the NHL while making little pay; officiating in the lower leagues may seem like it has little to recommend itself as a career.", "Skilliter recommends having a solid back-up career in place, because leagues can only hire a few guys at a time.", "If you can't imagine not wearing the stripes, ask about officiating at your local hockey rink.", "\"You can have a career where you work 9 to 5, but it's not near as exciting as this,\" Skilliter said.", "\"There are no guarantees. You have to put your life on hold and you never get to go home.", "You have to be a little nuts.\"", "The pressure of making quick judgments on disputed goals or penalties is part of officiating life, but never so much as right now during the playoffs.", "\"In the playoffs, when the crowd gets going and there have been some big hits and things are going crazy, you don't know what to expect next,\" Stagnone said.", "\"That's when you just kind of think to yourself, 'Wow, this is a pretty good job.'\"" ]	[ "Getting hit by pucks and breaking up fights is just one challenge for hockey officials .", "Developmental leagues hire skilled skaters with good judgment, hungry for the NHL .", "While the hockey players get regular line changes, officials get a break every 30 minutes .", "\"Hockey sense,\" anticipating plays before they happen, is a must for officials ." ]	[ 13, 14, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Pirates seized an Italian-flagged vessel off the Horn of Africa on Thursday morning, the European Union's anti-piracy taskforce said.", "The ship was seized 350 nautical miles southeast of the Omani port city of Salalah, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Aden, said the European Union Naval Force Somalia.", "It had a crew of 22 on board: six Italians and 16 Filipino nationals, the naval force said.", "The force did not have information on the crew's condition or the pirates' demands.", "On March 28, pirates firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades seized an oil tanker in the same area.", "The UAE-flagged vessel was on its way to Singapore from Sudan when it was attacked.", "CNN's Christine Theodorou contributed to this report." ]	[ "The ship is seized off the coast of Oman .", "It has a crew of 22 on board .", "Another ship was seized in the same area last month ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Even before he was officially declared president, Michel Martelly was making the rounds in Washington.", "The bad boy of Haitian music was not going to waste a minute in starting the job of a lifetime, something particularly daunting in Haiti, where past administrations stand accused of massive corruption and fraud.", "His supporters say they elected him for being an outsider.", "They believed his promises that he would lead his nation out of despair.", "Now he appears ready to show them tangible proof that Haiti is finally moving forward.", "He said he had already begun doing just that on his trip to Washington.", "\"The message I am carrying back is that the international world, the financial institutions are ready to back up this new government,\" Martelly told CNN Thursday as he prepared to return home.", "\"It is important to rebuild confidence and trust in this process,\" he said.", "\"And that can only be done through transparency.\"", "As a first step, Martelly proposed setting up an e-governance system that would enable ordinary Haitians to access information on a website and even post complaints or expose fraud anonymously.", "\"We will also do it by example,\" he said.", "\"The government has not served its people.", "It has been 14 months since the earthquake and people are still living in tents.\"", "Martelly met Wednesday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and officials at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Banks.", "Those meetings came before Haiti's election council officially declared him the winner Wednesday night with 67.67% of the presidential vote, finally ending a balloting process that began in late-November and was drawn out by irregularities.", "Martelly responded to the announcement on Twitter.", "\"Begin to take our tools, to clean our country, to get to work,\" he said in Creole.", "Speaking to reporters Thursday at the National Press Club, Martelly said his meeting with Clinton was \"productive.\"", "\"We discussed ways of streamlining U.S. aid to Haiti,\" he said.", "\"We will ... strengthen our partnership with the United States and its people.", "As President Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton stated many times, we need to strengthen the capacity of Haitian institutions so they can answer to the needs of the Haitian people.\"", "Martelly's candidacy was unexpected -- he was better known as Sweet Micky, the kompa singer with flamboyant stage presence.", "He appealed to voters who had grown weary with the status quo and what they perceived as a lack of progress after the devastating 2010 earthquake.", "\"The reconstruction process is despairingly slow,\" he said Wednesday, citing it as a key complaint of the electorate.", "\"This is why recovering and restarting the economy is a fundamental necessity for my government.\"", "Since the earthquake, Haiti has received more than $1 billion in donations from Americans through several non-governmental organizations.", "In addition, the U.S. government has provided some $1.5 billion in aid.", "Signs of renewal are appearing in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.", "On Wednesday, lawmakers there received a temporary parliament building in place of the nation's Legislative Palace, which was demolished after the earthquake.", "But \"Haiti today is the republic of NGOs,\" Martelly said Thursday.", "\"The state has been weakened and this must change.", "We need to build up the state's institutions while making the valuable work of the NGOs more effective.\"", "\"My focus, as I promised during my campaign, is to revive and modernize Haiti's economy as its new president and provide free access to education, moving people out of tents by jump-starting reconstructions and focusing on the agricultural sector,\" he said.", "After their meeting, Clinton pledged U.S. support for progress in Haiti, referring to Martelly by his campaign nickname: Tet Kale.", "\"Now I'm told the literal translation of that slogan is bald head, which doesn't need any further explanation,\" she said after meeting with him.", "\"But Tet Kale is also an expression that means all the way.", "And the people of Haiti may have a long road ahead of them, but as they walk it, the United States will be with you all the way.", "Initial results in the first round of voting put Martelly in third place and ousted him from a runoff.", "But after weeks of review, the final results ranked him second.", "He was then able to defeat former first lady Mirlande Manigat in the runoff election.", "Martelly will be inaugurated May 14 in Port-au-Prince.", "He said one of his first actions as president will be to nominate high court judges.", "Creating an independent judiciary will send an important signal, he said.", "\"We have to establish a rule of law,\" he said.", "\"We want justice for everyone.\"", "Martelly admitted the tasks ahead seem herculean in nature.", "But he is determined to seize upon the moment.", "\"I am excited to take command and make the right decisions for my country,\" he said.", "CNN's Padmananda Rama and Journalist Allyn Gaestel contributed to this report." ]	[ "Martelly says he will set up an e-governance system to stave corruption .", "He was officially named the winner of the presidential vote .", "Even before that, he was meeting officials in Washington .", "He faces many challenges in ensuring progress for the quake-devastated nation ." ]	[ 0, 9, 10, 14, 44 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When most people go to Hawaii, they head to the beach to relax and get a tan.", "Sarah Vowell locks herself in historical libraries.", "The result of that sun-free research is her latest take on history, \"Unfamiliar Fishes.\"", "\"I came to Hawaii because it had been attacked,\" she writes in her book, referring to her visit to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, after she compares the combination of foods she was eating for lunch to the ethnic variety of the current Hawaiian citizens.", "She acts like a tour guide on a trip through time -- stopping at this place and that in Hawaii to expound on historical events -- often flavoring the accounts with personal anecdotes or wry comments.", "When writing about Hawaiian royals in 1819 dropping one taboo on what women could eat, she notes, \"As a female carnivore, I'm delighted that half the population was freed to eat pork.\"", "Exploring U.S. history in a very chatty tone and with personal asides has put several of Vowell's books on bestseller lists.", "In \"Assassination Vacation,\" she dipped into the times of political violence that claimed the lives of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley.", "In \"Wordy Shipmates\" she wrote about the English Puritans that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.", "The author, essayist and frequent public radio commentator can hold her own against the quick wits of TV political satirists John Stewart and Stephen Colbert as she proved on her latest book tour.", "With her writing, Vowell says she aims to put a human face on the people from the past.", "She describes the bloody tactics that Kamehameha the Great used to end more than a century of warfare and establish the Hawaiian monarchy in 1810.", "Like a tourist she also details how her 8-year-old nephew twists his underwear into a loincloth and performs \"an amusing if insensitive impression\" of the warrior.", "Vowell finds the pluck of the New England missionaries admirable for their willingness at barely 20 years old to leave home, family and country to sail to \"the most isolated island chain in the world\" aboard a ship \"so crappy it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.\"", "But their mission to convert the heathens to Christianity does not impress the self-described godless heathen author.", "She opines \"there's not much difference between Jehovah and Ku (except that once a year the Hawaiian god of war actually takes time off).\"", "Vowell describes the native hula dances -- including one that is accompanied by chants praising the genitals of the king -- as part of an \"academic nearly-religious spiritual tradition that is incredibly rigorous.\"", "There are so many rules on behavior, land management, fishing and other areas that Vowell describes the Hawaiian culture as very conservative.", "So to her, the disagreements between the missionaries and the Hawaiians about what was proper behavior, \"was like watching two kind of conservative traditions squaring off.\"", "She admits that she especially likes writing about historical characters that she didn't like -- including a man who faked being a Mormon leader as he unsuccessfully plotted to establish his own Pacific empire.", "But one of her favorite scenes to write about was the funeral procession of King Liholiho who had died along with his wife from measles during a trip to visit King George IV in England in 1823.", "Their bodies were returned to Hawaii aboard a British Royal Navy frigate commanded by the seventh Lord Byron, a cousin of the late poet.", "Vowell describes a \"fantastical scene\" of all these people participating in a procession through Honolulu: Hawaiian royals in Western clothes, nine other Hawaiians in yellow-feathered war cloaks, British Royal Navy officers in their uniforms and the missionaries in their black wool outfits.", "And then there were native Hawaiian guards who were wearing a variety of western garb - but who apparently didn't understand the need for pants.", "Vowell says the changes in the years that followed mostly had a negative impact on the Hawaiian people.", "Much of their land fell into the hands of the sugar plantation owners, the descendants of the missionaries overthrew Hawaii's last monarch and despite the natives' petitions and pleas -- U.S. politicians maneuvered to turn the kingdom into a U.S. territory.", "But while the results are somewhat sad, she says, learning more about the meetings of strangers in history has always intrigued the traveler in her.", "\"There's this part of me that wants to leave home and wants to see something new and wants to meet new people,\" she muses.", "\"Maybe that is how I, too, will meet my doom.\"" ]	[ "Sarah Vowell's latest book explores the history of Hawaii and how it became a state .", "She describes missionaries and natives as two conservative groups squaring off .", "Although sad in many parts, she says Hawaiian history is fascinating ." ]	[ 2, 15, 17, 26 ]
[ "Los Angeles (CNN) -- A hearing in Charlie Sheen's custody battle with estranged wife Brooke Mueller took place Tuesday in private, despite a request from the actor's lawyer that reporters be allowed to witness the proceeding.", "While the results were sealed by the judge, Mueller was smiling broadly as she left court, in contrast to a stone-faced Sheen.", "Los Angeles County, California, Superior Court Judge Hank Goldberg granted Mueller's request for privacy, agreeing with her lawyer that the publicity would not be good for the couple's twin 2-year-old sons.", "About an hour after he entered the courtroom, the actor departed, strolling down the hallway with a woman on one arm and lawyers and guards surrounding him.", "He looked straight ahead as he moved to a non-public elevator for a departure from the basement garage.", "Mueller, surrounded by cameras and reporters as she left the courthouse, smiled but said little.", "Asked how she was doing, she said, \"Excellent, now let's go home.\"", "She then pushed through the scrum of media toward her limo.", "Sheen detoured Tuesday from the East Coast leg of his \"Violent Torpedo of Truth\" stage tour to ask Goldberg to award him full custody of the boys after Mueller failed to appear for a drug test that was required under their child-custody agreement.", "As he arrived Tuesday night in Washington for a performance, Sheen told a crowd of about 30 people gathered outside that he could not talk about his custody battle and didn't know the current status of his legal battle with Warner Bros. television over his firing from the CBS sitcom \"Two and a Half Men.\"", "His performance was pushed back an hour as he was traveling cross-country from the hearing.", "\"I was about to make a phone call and see how that thing went today,\" Sheen said.", "\"I just landed, got a police escort from the airport.", "We ran more red lights than Brooke Mueller going to a pawn shop.\"", "At the California hearing, Sheen's lawyer, Mark Gross, had argued that Mueller was \"a dollar short and a day late\" in asking for the case to be sealed since she did not ask the same last month when she accused Sheen of threatening to kill her.", "\"Now that she has failed to appear for a test, she wants it sealed,\" Gross said.", "But Goldberg was unmoved.", "\"I don't think it would be in the best interest of the children to be exposed to that material,\" he said.", "While the couple reached a custody agreement before filing for divorce last year, they have argued recently over visitation arrangements.", "The dispute boiled over in early March when Mueller asked for a restraining order, swearing in a statement that Sheen had threatened to kill her.", "\"I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom,\" Mueller said that Sheen told her.", "The assertions were made in a court document that resulted in a court order that removed Sheen's sons from his home.", "In an interview the next day with NBC's \"Today Show,\" Sheen denied that he had threatened Mueller.", "The quote against him was fabricated, he said, calling the allegation \"colorful.\"", "Sheen launched his nationwide stage tour last month after Warner Bros. fired him.", "Sheen's lawyers were also at another hearing Tuesday morning.", "A judge will decide if the actor's legal battle with the studio over his firing will be heard in open court or in arbitration.", "CNN's Jessica Rosgaard contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Charlie Sheen arrives in Washington, says he can't discuss custody battle .", "\"Excellent, now let's go,\" says the actor's estranged wife as she approached her limo .", "Sheen wanted Tuesday's hearing open, but Brooke Mueller wanted it private .", "Sheen and Mueller are fighting over the custody of their twin sons ." ]	[ 0, 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- California Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor ruled Thursday that two autopsy photos of Michael Jackson can be submitted as evidence during the upcoming trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, a person inside the courtroom told CNN.", "Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter.", "Authorities allege that he gave Jackson propofol, a surgical anesthetic drug, that combined with several sedatives found in his blood to kill the singer on June 25, 2009, the Los Angeles County coroner has said.", "Jury selection in Murray's trial began last month and will continue into early May.", "Opening statements and testimony are scheduled to begin May 9.", "Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and his team had filed a motion Tuesday to allow jurors to see the photos, arguing that California courts \"permit (prosecutors) to admit autopsy photographs, as they are relevant, (that) will illustrate the testimony of witnesses and will enhance the jury's understanding of the prosecution's case.\"", "The photographs will be \"properly redacted as deemed appropriate,\" the prosecution said.", "\"These limited photographs will help demonstrate that Michael Jackson was generally in excellent health and that, while thin, his body weight was within the normal range,\" the prosecution said in its motion, adding that the medical examiner and other experts may reference the autopsy photos during the trial.", "The defense has argued that Jackson self-administered the propofol in a desperate attempt to get sleep before a rehearsal.", "Murray told investigators he was trying to wean Jackson off propofol in the last days of his life, but that he used it along with other drugs to help the pop star sleep that last morning.", "The defense claims that the singer's dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, injected Jackson with powerful painkillers dozens of times in the last months of his life, unknown to Murray.", "The Medical Board of California and Los Angeles County coroner investigated Klein after Jackson's death, but he was never charged, and no action was taken to revoke his medical license.", "Earlier this month, Michael Jackson's dermatologist was ordered to give copies of the pop star's medical records to Murray's attorneys.", "Defense attorney Ed Chernoff argued he needed the financial and medical information to make the case that Jackson, who he said was \"a desperate man in many respects,\" gave himself the fatal dose of surgical anesthesia while the doctor was not watching.", "Judge Pastor did not order estate executors to give the defense detailed financial information about money the singer owed when he died.", "But he did say that Jackson's former business manager, Tohme Tohme, must testify in Murray's trial." ]	[ "NEW: \"Properly redacted\" photos will show Jackson \"in excellent health,\" prosecutors say .", "A California judge rules 2 Jackson autopsy photos can be admitted as evidence .", "They will be part of the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, who is accused in Jackson's death .", "Murray contends that Jackson personally administered the fatal dose of a drug ." ]	[ 0, 6, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- CNN colleagues have been paying tribute to the network's former Jerusalem correspondent Jerrold Kessel, who died Thursday at age 65 after a long battle with cancer.", "Kessel was a tireless reporter in a troubled part of the world.", "\"Jerrold worked for CNN for 13 years from 1990 to 2003 during some of the most spectacular highs and lows of the Middle East and was one of the network's regular reporting faces from the region,\" said Jerusalem Bureau Chief Kevin Flower.", "\"He was a passionate journalist and a guiding force for many he worked with.\"", "Kessel was born in South Africa and moved to Israel as a young man.", "He was a widely published print reporter who worked for the Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio before joining CNN as a field producer, then correspondent and deputy bureau chief.", "He led CNN's viewers through events ranging from the Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians, to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli elections and the intifada.", "A portly man with a fuzzy white beard, Kessel's gentle appearance and warm friendly manner gave no hint of his inner intensity.", "He was known to colleagues for his seven-day-a-week commitment to the story, his voluble personality and his insider's knowledge of Middle East events.", "\"Jerrold was an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian story, and managed to explain the complicated politics of the Mideast on our air for so many years,\" said Parisa Khosravi, CNN's Senior Vice President of international newsgathering.", "CNN Anchor Jim Clancy, a former Beirut correspondent well-traveled through the region in his own right, said he also benefited from Kessel's experience.", "\"Jerrold always went out of his way to help others understand the context of the story and shared his knowledge and his sources unselfishly.\"", "Kessel's encyclopedic knowledge of the region made him a favorite of CNN producers when news broke.", "As the network scrambled to figure out the story, Kessel could vamp on air as long as needed.", "\"If the producer said in his ear, 'keep going' there would be a hint of a smile, and he would keep right on going,\" said CNN Senior Editorial Director Richard Griffiths.", "Even faithful viewers would probably be surprised to learn that Kessel was devoted to cricket, his vegetarian diet and more profoundly, to his family.", "He is survived by his wife, son and four grandchildren." ]	[ "CNN's former Jerusalem correspondent Jerrold Kessel dies from cancer .", "He covered the Oslo peace accords, Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and the Palestinian intifada .", "CNN anchor Jim Clancy: He went out of his way to help others understand the context .", "He is survived by his wife, son and four grandchildren ." ]	[ 6, 10, 11, 16 ]
[ "Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Two people on motorcycles shot and wounded a Pakistani diplomatic official in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday morning, authorities said.", "Mehboob Asif, a visa assistant at the Pakistan embassy, was hit by eight to 10 bullets while he was riding a motorcycle to work, according to police.", "A Pakistan embassy official who did not want to be named said Asif was taken to the hospital and is now out of danger.", "He said authorities didn't know a motive for the attack.", "\"The Embassy of Pakistan is confident that the Government of Nepal would undertake investigations at appropriate levels to bring the criminals to justice,\" Pakistan's Embassy said in a statement.", "Although no arrests have been made, around 150 people have been rounded up for questioning, Kathmandu police chief Pushkar Karki said.", "The attack happened three days after a newly-appointed Minister for Energy Gokarna Bista was attacked with knives by two persons on motorcycles on Monday evening." ]	[ "Officials say Pakistani diplomat was shot 8 to 10 times but is out of danger .", "Diplomat is attacked by two people on motorcycles .", "Police: around 150 people have been rounded up for questioning ." ]	[ 2, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In April, Inside the Middle East discovers how some of the region's most creative artists are being inspired by current events taking place in the Middle East.", "Egyptian artists inspired by the revolution .", "We visit Art Dubai to talk to Egyptian artists who interrupted their work when revolution came to Tahrir Square and repainted the country's political landscape.", "Inspired by the events they witnessed in person, the artists have been given a new perspective on their world and their work.", "Jordan's cartoon commentary .", "In Jordan we meet two brothers whose political cartoons have raised chuckles from Amman to Abu Dhabi.", "Graffiti in Lebanon .", "Continuing the fraternal theme we travel to Beirut to encounter identical twins Omar and Mohammed Kabbani, who believe a spray can is more powerful than an AK-47 as they deliver social messages through graffiti, music and fashion.", "Web creativity inspired by revolutions .", "Millions are watching the internet for parodies of political leaders including Mubarak, Gadhafi and Ben Ali.", "We embark on a web search for the funniest clips.", "Watch the show at the times below (all GMT): .", "Wednesday 30 March, 6 April: 0730, 1730 Saturday 2 April, 9 April: 0730, 1230, 1830 Sunday 3 April, 10 April: 0530, 1730 Monday 4 April, 11 April: 0330 ." ]	[ "Artists are being inspired by current events taking place in the Middle East .", "In Jordan, two brothers are getting a laugh with their political cartoons .", "In Beirut, the Kabbani twins deliver social messages through graffiti, music and fashion ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For some survivors of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, escaping the inferno of the doomed rig made them feel like they'd cheated death.", "But living with the scars of what they witnessed that night, and the memory of the 11 men who perished when the rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana a year ago, has in many ways taken their lives away.", "\"I remember feeling invincible when it first happened.", "I remember driving in my truck on the way home after the rig exploded and (I) pushed the gas (pedal) to the floor and never let off it,\" says Daniel Barron.", "But the high Barron felt from surviving didn't last long.", "\"You have that guilty conscience of, 'Okay, I made it, that's great, but then these guys didn't.'", "Was there something I could have done to save more people?\"", "Barron says his guilt is compounded by physical and mental issues that are a result of the disaster.", "He suffers from memory loss, and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, according to medical records provided to CNN.", "He witnessed one of his good friends, whom he calls a \"fallen brother,\" die right in front of him when a second explosion rocked the rig.", "\"It literally picked him up . ... ...", "like a child would throw a toy . ... ...", "and he ended up bouncing off of the pedestal for the crane,\" he told CNN's Anderson Cooper shortly after the disaster.", "\"Just to see him get blown up like that, I mean, it was, it's heart-wrenching,\" Barron said.", "Barron says one night, the psychological pain and the guilt of surviving when so many friends did not, became overwhelming.", "\"I had a 6-shot pistol and I just wanted it to be over,\" he says.", "His wife discovered him playing Russian roulette and persuaded him to hand over the gun before it was too late.", "Douglas Brown, one of Barron's fellow survivors, also speaks of the guilt of surviving the disaster.", "\"I am thankful that I, I made it out alive but a lot of times, I don't -- there's a lot of times where I feel I should, I should have died there too, along with my friends,\" Brown said.", "Like Barron, Brown has been diagnosed with multiple mental issues including PTSD, traumatic brain injury, depression and anxiety, according to medical records.", "A third survivor, Matthew Jacobs, says he thinks of the 11 victims of the Deepwater Horizon every day and wakes up screaming from nightmares where he's re-living the explosions.", "\"It's something that I just can't quit, you know, get out of my head,\" he says.", "Jacobs first told the story of his harrowing escape to Cooper in the weeks after the disaster.", "He expected to die as his lifeboat, which was being lowered 75 feet down from the rig, was filling with smoke and started to free-fall after another explosion.", "\"I prayed for my family to let God know that I love my wife and that I love my kids,\" he said.", "In the year since, Jacobs and his wife have started divorce proceedings because of his mental issues including, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, he says.", "Those mental issues are also corroborated by medical records provided to CNN.", "All three survivors say their physical and mental injuries have left them unable to work and they're suing their employer Transocean for lost wages and pain and suffering.", "While technically still employees, they have not set foot on a rig since the disaster and their employer stopped paying their salaries last December.", "They accuse Transocean of valuing profits over safety prior to the accident, and of valuing minimizing monetary losses over the welfare of its employees after it.", "In a statement, Transocean responded to their allegations writing: \"From the first hours, Transocean has focused on providing support for its employees and the families of those who were lost aboard the Deepwater Horizon, including continued full pay and benefits for eight months following the incident and professional counseling for those in need.", "Today, more than one third of the Deepwater Horizon crew are back to work at Transocean and the entire company continues to be inspired by their courage and commitment.\"", "Transocean still pays for some of the three survivors' health care costs and gives them a small monthly stipend for room and board as required by law.", "The survivors were offered an additional six months of pay to drop any claims, but they declined, according to legal records provided to CNN.", "On the anniversary of the disaster, the survivors say they hope to one day put the accident behind them but also hope people never forget the 11 men who died that night on the Deepwater Horizon.", "\"I would ask people just to remember them and pray for their families, because I know those families are still suffering,\" Brown says.", "Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.", "For the latest from AC360° click here." ]	[ "Survivors say the scars from the disaster have taken their lives away .", "Medical records: Survivors have been diagnosed with multiple mental issues .", "One says he wakes up screaming from nightmares .", "Transocean says its focus is on providing support for employees ." ]	[ 19, 20, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Japan's government has lifted restrictions on vegetables and milk from some parts of the country's north after inspections found radiation levels below legal limits for three straight weeks, a top government official announced Friday.", "The move lifts a ban on spinach and kakina, another leafy green vegetable, from Gunma Prefecture, southwest of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.", "Milk from the Aizu area of Fukushima Prefecture, inland from the plant, will also be allowed for sale, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.", "\"The level of radiation has stayed low for last three samplings,\" said Edano, the government's point man for the nuclear crisis.", "The government has slapped bans on a variety of farm products products grown or produced around the plant, which has spewed radioactive particles into the sky and water since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out its coolant systems.", "Workers are still battling to keep three damaged reactors at the plant from overheating four weeks later.", "Radiation levels have been trending downward in the area around the plant since mid-March, according to data released by government ministries.", "And farmers have been pushing Japanese authorities to lower standards on radiation in food, calling them excessively stringent and not necessary to protect consumers.", "Edano said Monday that the government's legal standards would not be changed, but food would be allowed for sale if it passed three weekly tests." ]	[ "A ban on spinach and kakina from Gunma Prefecture has been lifted .", "Milk from parts of Fukushima Prefecture can be sold as well ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Cairo (CNN) -- Thousands of demonstrators who gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a protest titled \"Day of Justice and Cleansing\" confronted two officers and sent them running late Friday, according to a witness.", "The numbers in the square have swelled dramatically compared to last Friday's rally, in part because the Muslim Brotherhood has now joined alongside secular, liberal groups to put pressure on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which currently rules Egypt.", "Demonstrators stepped up their demands this week.", "Muhammad Taman, a spokesman for the January 25 Coalition, told CNN the diverse collection of political groups are demanding Egyptian authorities bring ousted president Hosni Mubarak before a court for his alleged role in the deaths of hundreds of activists last January and February and on corruption charges.", "If Mubarak is not prosecuted, Taman said, activists are prepared to organize a march towards the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where Mubarak has been living on his estate since he stepped down from office on February 11.", "\"This is the army's last chance,\" Taman warned.", "Mubarak's eldest son, Gamal, is expected to appear before the Justice Ministry's Illicit Profiteering Committee on Sunday.", "Meanwhile, Mubarak's long-time chief of staff, Zakaria Azmi, was questioned and then arrested on Thursday by Egypt's general prosecutor.", "Azmi is being investigated for alleged corrupt activities.", "He was shown on Egyptian television Friday being escorted to a vehicle by uniformed Egyptian police while bystanders chanted, \"Thief, thief!\"", "An army lieutenant colonel and a military police officer tried to walk to the center of square, where they were surrounded by demonstrators who chanted \"get out, get out,\" said journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, who witnessed the incident.", "Within moments, members of the crowd began pushing the officers and knocking their hats off their heads.", "\"The officers got scared and started running and they were pursued,\" said Fahmy.", "Demonstrators are protecting 15 army officers and soldiers who broke ranks with the Egyptian military and joined Friday's Tahrir Square protest, ignoring a warning from the top military brass that any uniformed troops participating in the rally would be arrested.", "Some of the officers addressed the demonstration, demanding Egypt's ruling military council be replaced by a presidential committee of civillians." ]	[ "NEW: Two Egyptian officers forced to leave square, witness says .", "Numbers of demonstrators have swelled because the Muslim Brotherhood has joined .", "Groups are seeking prosecution of former president Hosni Mubarak .", "Mubarak's chief of staff has been arrested ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An exiled Libyan dissident recently returned to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi after 30 years to fight on the opposition side.", "Mansour El-Kikhia, a Texas college professor, called his return a \"new adventure.\"", "\"It's a fantasy land.", "\"Alice in Wonderland,\" \"Waiting for Godot,\" it's unbelievable.\"", "El-Kikhia told \"In The Arena\" host Eliot Spitzer.", "\"This has taught me to look at life in a different way.\"", "El-Kikhia is an adviser to the rebel opposition against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.", "He said the rebels are battling uncertainty.", "Recent reports say rebels are questioning the commitment of western countries such as the United States, France and Italy to the opposition fight.", "\"There this constant question going on in their minds.\"", "El-Kikhia said.", "\"Will Gadhafi come back?", "Will the allies let us down?", "Will they help us?\" On Wednesday, the United Kingdom, France and Italy announced they sent military advisers to aid Libyan rebels.", "Obama on Thursday approved the use of armed drones in Libya.", "El-Kikhia said the rebels are divided into two military groups.", "\"We have the actual military itself.", "Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis, whom I personally think is very, very capable,\" he said.", "\"He (is) working very hard to train young men to actually take over, to be able to defend the city.\"", "El-Kikhia said the second group of rebels at times can be a problem for the opposition.", "\"You have the other group, the insurgents.", "They're fixated on removing Gadhafi.", "They're more of a hindrance than help.", "But they keep on moving forward toward Tripoli and they're being pushed back,\" El-Kikhia said.", "Spitzer pressed El-Kikhia to explain in detail what the rebels needed from U.S. forces.", "When asked whether they needed recognition and weapons, he said America's role shouldn't be limited to force.", "He said he wants to see the U.S. advising Libyans on how to sustain its fragile democracy.", "\"(Libya) is like a child.", "This is a new child that just opened their eyes and they need as much help as they can,\" he said.", "\"Help guide the Libyans.", "It doesn't require total military force.", "It requires administration, some help (and) advice.\"" ]	[ "\"It's a fantasy land, \"Alice in Wonderland,\" he says .", "The college professor is an adviser to the rebel opposition .", "The rebels are fighting against Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi's forces ." ]	[ 2, 3, 6, 7 ]
[ "Toronto (CNN) -- Two men authorities say played a key role in a 2009 al Qaeda plot to bomb packed New York subway cars now face charges in Canada, although their whereabouts are unknown, police said Tuesday.", "At a news conference in Winnipeg, Canadian police accused Ferid Imam, a former student at the University of Manitoba, of training Najibullah Zazi, the Afghanistan-born New Yorker who has pleaded guilty to trying to bomb the city's subway system.", "Imam was identified by the New York plotters as a weapons instructor who went by the name of \"Youseff,\" police said.", "\"This extensive and thorough national security investigation has provided us with the evidence we require to lay criminal charges,\" said Bill Robinson, assistant commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.", "Imam, 30, is charged with instructing to carry out terrorist activity and conspiracy to participate in the activity of a terrorist group.", "Another Canadian, Maiwand Yar, 27, was charged with conspiracy to participate in activity of a terrorist group and participation in the activity of terrorism.", "Yar is also a former student at the University of Manitoba.", "Imam and Yar are now the subjects of an international manhunt that is believed to include the CIA.", "Canadian authorities said the Canadians left their homes in Manitoba in 2007, bound for Pakistan, in order to train for and carry out terrorist acts against NATO forces in Afghanistan.", "Robinson said the investigation is ongoing.", "\"We continue to work with Canadian border services and domestic and international security partners on this matter,\" he said.", "Canadian authorities confirm to CNN that their Pakistani counterparts provided help to them during the investigation, but they now have no firm leads on the whereabouts of the two men.", "\"Are they still alive?", "There's been no proof of life for more than a year,\" Gilles Michaud, the RCMP's assistant commissioner, told CNN.", "Police believe the suspects were in the tribal areas of Pakistan about a year ago, but have had no credible intelligence about their whereabouts since then.", "Canadian counterterrorism and government officials say the radicalization of these men, and others from North America and Europe represents a true reflection of a small but dedicated group of recruits that pose a direct threat to national security.", "\"There is no set criteria.", "It affects all walks of life.", "These were well-educated, young individuals with no past criminal history and supportive families,\" Michaud said.", "U.S. authorities charged Imam in July with providing material support and receiving military-type training from al Qaeda, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York.", "Federal prosecutors allege that Imam, while in Pakistan in 2008, helped train Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay advance of their plot to detonate bombs on subway trains on the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, according to the indictment.", "Imam is also charged with use of a destructive device, the indictment said." ]	[ "NEW: Canadian authorities have no firm leads on the suspects' whereabouts .", "The two Canadians are accused of role in al Qaeda plot .", "They are said to have departed for Pakistan in 2007 .", "Police say their current whereabouts are unknown ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "Tokyo (CNN) -- It's billed as \"the happiest place on Earth.\"", "And Friday, Disneyland's Tokyo theme park reopened in hopes of bringing some of that missing happiness back to the Japanese people.", "The park has been closed since the March 11 earthquake that devastated northern Japan and the electricity shortage that followed.", "Disney fans lined up as early as 6:30 a.m., an hour and a half before Friday's reopening, hoping to be the first into the park.", "Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy, and a host of other Disney characters surprised visitors as the gates opened at 8 a.m. A sort of Disney hysteria swept over the crowd as Mickey danced in front of visitors minutes before the official opening of the park.", "\"We were so excited, we were almost crying,\" Tokyo Disneyland visitor Mika Hasegawa said.", "The re-opening comes at a critical time for Japan, as the country struggles to regain some semblance of normalcy after the earthquake and tsunami that killed 13,500 people in the country's northeast.", "Many Tokyo residents have refrained from excessive celebrations and parties out of respect for the victims.", "But Disneyland visitor Minako Ootsuka said that while Japanese people should be mindful of the disaster, it's also important to have a good time and release stress.", "Hiroshi Suzuki, public relations manager for Oriental Land Co. -- the company that owns Tokyo Disneyland -- agreed.", "He said visitors were so elated when they saw Mickey and the other characters, he wished he could bring that kind of happiness to all people in Japan.", "Other visitors to the park said they thought it was important to start getting out and spending money to get the economy running again.", "Erika Kanehira said she planned on visiting Tokyo Disneyland as often as she could and would also purchase merchandise to help the disaster area recover.", "For every guest admitted to the park through May 14, Tokyo Disneyland will donate 300 yen (about $4) to the Japanese Red Cross.", "The park will also be operating under shortened business hours in order to save power.", "Suzuki says the company hopes to get the park up and running on usual business hours as soon as possible.", "But most visitors are happy to have the park back at all.", "Tomomi Takehashi said Disneyland was a place where people can come to laugh and smile -- and that may be exactly what the Japanese public needs right now." ]	[ "\"We were so excited, we were almost crying,\" a park visitors says .", "Tokyo Disneyland has been closed since the March 11 earthquake .", "The park is donating about $4 to the Japanese Red Cross for every ticket ." ]	[ 2, 5, 13 ]
[ "Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs has signed a new one-year contract that will extend his career to 21 seasons with the English Premier League leaders.", "The 37-year-old Welsh midfielder, seeking to help United win a record 19th English league title this year and his 12th, made his debut for his only team in March 1991.", "He has made a club-record 862 first-team outings, scoring 158 goals, as a key figure under manager Alex Ferguson -- who signed him on his 14th birthday from the youth development school of local rivals Manchester City.", "\"You run out of words to describe Ryan Giggs.", "He is a marvellous player and a wonderful man,\" Ferguson told United's website on Friday.", "Has Rooney joined the ranks of football's immortals?", "\"To have the desire and the ability to play at the top level in such a physically demanding position at his age requires a special person.", "\"He is still turning in man-of-the-match performances, and his experience is so vital for the younger players in the squad.\"", "Giggs, twice a European Champions League winner, has kept up his record as the only player to score in every season since the English Premier League's inception in 1992.", "\"All I've ever wanted to do is play for United, and I've been lucky enough to do that for 20 years,\" he said, having extended his previous one-year deal.", "\"It's great to know I'm still contributing to the team's success and I feel I've got a lot to offer on and off the pitch.", "This is an exciting time to be involved with so many good young players coming through.\"", "Cup magic shared by cross-channel minnows .", "Giggs is in the United squad for Saturday's FA Cup fifth-round clash with non-league club Crawley, as he seeks to win England's fabled knockout competition for the fifth time this year.", "In a top-flight tie, cup holders Chelsea host Everton, while Birmingham and Stoke face third division opposition in Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton respectively.", "On Sunday, Arsenal travel to Leyton Orient, Manchester City host another division three team Notts County, and Fulham take on Premier League rivals Bolton." ]	[ "Ryan Giggs agrees a new one-year contract at Manchester United until mid-2012 .", "Welsh veteran is currently in his 20th season with the English league leaders .", "He has made a club-record 862 first-team appearances since his debut in 1991 .", "Giggs is in squad as United face non-league side Crawley in the FA Cup ." ]	[ 0, 1, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal insists he is fully prepared for a punishing schedule leading up to the defense of his French Open title at Roland Garos in a month's time.", "The Spaniard had little time to celebrate his record-breaking victory over David Ferrer in the Monte Carlo Masters on Sunday, before flying home to participate in the Barcelona Open.", "Fresh from his landmark seventh successive Monaco title, Nadal has two more tournaments in the diary after Barcelona before he aims to claim a sixth title in Paris.", "But despite his history of injuries, the 24-year-old claims he is fit and ready for a bruising lead-in to the second major tennis championship of the year.", "\"During the match I was more tired than usual.", "But in general it was positive,\" he told the official ATP Tour web site.", "\"That's important because these kinds of matches improve your condition physically and mentally.", "\"It's negative because you spent a lot of time on court, you have to run a lot on court, it's always tough for the body.", "But if you talk about [what it does] mentally and physically, that can help a lot for the rest of the clay season.\"", "Nadal has played 17 matches in the last four weeks but is due to appear at masters events in Rome and Madrid after defending his Barcelona title.", "The 24-year-old has a formidable record at the event he has won five times, tasting defeat just once in 25 matches, and says this is a vital period in shaping his season.", "\"That's the calendar. That's where I have to play my best, where I have to defend a lot of points,\" Nadal said.", "\"Indian Wells to Wimbledon is the most [important] part of the season for me.", "These four or five months are decisive in my season.", "\"Every year I did a fantastic clay court season.", "I have to try to do it another time.", "With these four or five tournaments, if I am playing very well, I'm going to have the biggest chances to have enough points to try to be in the top position at the end of the year ranking.", "\"That's the top of my system in general.", "So I have to try. I am healthy now, so why not?\" Despite his victory in Monte Carlo, Nadal says there are areas of his game he needs to work on -- something he is aiming to do when he faces the winner of the first round clash between Daniel Gimeno-Traver and Potito Starace.", "\"I think I can improve a few things for next weeks,\" Nadal said.", "\"I am sliding less than usual on clay.", "It is easier to defend well when you are sliding, especially to the forehand.", "But I have two more days to practice for Barcelona. Let's see.\"" ]	[ "Rafael Nadal unconcerned by busy schedule leading up to the French Open .", "Nadal won the Monte Carlo Masters for the seventh time on Sunday .", "He flew straight to his native Spain to participate in the Barcelona Open .", "The world number one says there are still areas of his game that can be improved ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- American golfer Stacy Lewis banished the ghosts of her nightmare final round at the 2008 U.S. Open when she clinched the Kraft Nabisco Championship by three shots on Sunday.", "The 26-year-old, whose grandfather died on the eve of the tournament at Mission Hills in California, claimed the first title of her professional career in the first of four major events in the 2011 women's season.", "\"Everybody in the family knew that he would have wanted me to finish out this week,\" she told the LPGA website.", "\"I mean, he lived via my golf.", "He loved watching it on TV.", "He recorded it every week so he could keep watching it over and over again.", "\"But him and my grandma, they both got to see me play the whole round today and they were out there with me, for sure.\"", "Lewis, who won an unofficial rain-shortened LPGA Tour event as an amateur in her native Arkansas in 2007, had looked set to follow that up three years ago when she led the U.S. Open heading into the last day, but a final-round 78 ended her hopes of glory.", "It was a different story this time, though, as the world number 28 overhauled top-ranked defending champion Yani Tseng of Taiwan to finish on 13 under par after a round of 69.", "\"It doesn't even feel real yet,\" said Lewis, who turned pro in 2008 four years after having a titanium rod and five screws put in her back to cure her teenage problems with scoliosis.", "\"I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out if I actually won, but I played so good today and I was just proud of the way I hung in there.\"", "The victory was all but assured for Lewis on the 17th hole, when she held a tricky putt while three-time major winner Tseng recorded a bogey.", "\"Probably the look on my face was I was shocked it went in, too, honestly,\" said Lewis of her finish on the penultimate hole.", "\"It was a putt you had to hit on the perfect line with the perfect speed for it to go in.\"", "Tseng, who has won four titles already this year, closed with 74 to finish three shots back.", "\"I did my best. I tried my best today, and I didn't give her any shots today.", "So I hung in there until the last putt and smiled the whole way, whole day.", "So it was good and it was very good experience for me this time,\" the 22-year-old said.", "\"Golf is golf, so this is normal.", "I just didn't play well. And hopefully next tournament will be good, and I just really want to congratulate Stacy.", "She did really awesome.\"", "American Michelle Wie achieved her first top-10 finish at a major since 2006 after ending the weekend sixth on three-under following a closing 69, leaving the 21-year-old one shot behind third-placed compatriots Katie Futcher, Morgan Pressel and Angela Stanford." ]	[ "Stacy Lewis wins first career title at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in California .", "The event is the first major on the women's golfing calendar for 2011 .", "The 26-year-old American overhauled world number one Yani Tseng of Taiwan .", "Michelle Wie finishes sixth for her first top-10 placing in a major since 2006 ." ]	[ 1, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Verizon iPhone train started rolling this week, but Apple's main smartphone competitors aren't about to be left at the station.", "This week, cellular carriers released details about a trio of upcoming smartphones, all of which run an older version of Google's Android operating system.", "AT&T announced a March 6 release deadline for the Atrix 4G, a Motorola Mobility \"transformer\" phone that grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show last month.", "With a speedy dual-core processor inside, the Arix can be used as a media center or limited-function PC when connected to a television or monitor using a dock accessory.", "Motorola will also sell a laptop shell that allows the Atrix to essentially convert into a sort of netbook, complete with a keyboard.", "New details about the much-anticipated Atrix came on the same day Verizon Wireless began letting current customers pre-order the iPhone 4, formerly exclusive to AT&T in the U.S. At $200 with a two-year contract, the Atrix will be among the first to run on AT&T's faster data network and carry the \"4G\" branding.", "(For $500 with a contract, you get the phone and the laptop dock; the latter is also sold separately for $500.)", "The Atrix, an AT&T exclusive, will be available for pre-order starting on February 13.", "On the same day, AT&T will begin selling another so-called 4G phone.", "The second-largest U.S. carrier by subscribers announced the launch date and a $100 price tag, two-year agreement required, for HTC's Inspire 4G.", "That info came on Tuesday, kicking off a big week for smartphone news.", "The Inspire has a 4.3-inch screen -- the same large size as the Evo 4G.", "The new device will be the inaugural smartphone to offer AT&T's Mobile Hotspot service.", "Having long struggled to support the bandwidth needs of its millions of smartphone subscribers, AT&T lags behind competitors in offering this feature.", "Customers will have to pay an extra $20 per month to use the feature, which adds 2 gigabytes of wireless internet usage, the carrier said on Wednesday.", "T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest U.S. network, said on Tuesday that it expects to begin selling the Galaxy S 4G from Samsung Electronics this month.", "It's similar to Samsung's several other Android handsets, but this one is compatible with T-Mobile's faster data network.", "All three of these new smartphones, strangely, come with a seven-month-old version of Android, called Froyo.", "Since releasing that version, Google launched another called Gingerbread, which powers a Samsung-made phone called the Nexus S. Google held a news conference on Wednesday to say developers are close to releasing the first device that will run the next Android, called Honeycomb, this month." ]	[ "AT&T and T-Mobile announce details about three new Android phones this week .", "The most hyped of the trio is called the Atrix 4G, which can transform into a laptop .", "None of these upcoming devices run the newest versions of Android ." ]	[ 1, 5, 17 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- This is what the world looks like, according to the Facebook social graph.", "Facebook intern Paul Butler was interested in the locations of friendships, so he decided to create a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe.", "How local are our friends?", "Where are the highest concentration of friendships?", "How do political and geological boundaries affect them?", "Butler started by using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, correlated them with their current cities and then mapped that data using the longitude and latitude of each city.", "That was the easy part. Creating the right effect to show connecting relationships between thousands of cities proved to be a challenge.", "Butler wrote a fascinating Facebook note explaining some of the challenges he faced creating his visualization: .", "\"I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment.", "As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates.", "To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world.", "Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points.", "After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map.", "Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines.", "I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn't handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted.", "Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted.", "I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them.", "Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others.", "I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line's color depending on its weight.", "I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world.\"", "With a few more tweaks, he eventually came up with the amazing visualization you see here.", "At first glance, it provides some expected data -- the U.S. has the highest concentration of Facebook friendships, and Africa has the lowest concentration.", "While most of Russia and Antarctica are nowhere to be found, the rest of the world is easily identifiable.", "What do you think of the visualization?", "Does anything about it surprise you?", "Let us know in the comments.", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "A Facebook intern created a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe .", "Using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, he correlated them with their current cities .", "The U.S. has the highest concentration of Facebook friendships while Africa has the lowest ." ]	[ 1, 5, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ninety-five acres of farm land where young men in blue and gray fought and died during the epic Civil War battle is being added to Gettysburg National Military Park, federal officials said.", "Land that once belonged to the now-closed Gettysburg Country Club is where major fighting occurred on the first day of battle on July 1, 1863.", "Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday thanked the Conservation Fund and The Civil War Trust for helping to make the department's acquisition of the former Emanuel Harman Farm possible.", "\"Gettysburg will always have a sacred place in America's heritage for the pivotal role it played in our nation's history and for the enormity of the sacrifice that took place here,\" Salazar said in a statement.", "\"With the addition of the Emanuel Harman Farm to the Gettysburg National Military Park, we are able to include another important chapter in the story that helped shape our country.\"", "In 1863, the property was part of the historic Harman and Abraham Spangler farms where Confederate Brigades advanced and retreated during an attack on the Union positions on McPherson and Seminary Ridges, according to the National Park Service.", "The National Park Service has long tried to add the tract.", "In the 1950s, the property was developed into the Gettysburg Country Club, which closed in 2008.", "A developer who bought the property and had planned to build more than 200 housing units agreed to the sale, the Interior Department said.", "The purchase price was $1.6 million, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.", "CNN left a message with the department Saturday.", "The Civil War Trust is pursuing the purchase of three other pieces of the battlefield at Gettysburg, where the Confederate forces of Gen. Robert E. Lee were turned back after three days of combat that included Pickett's Charge.", "\"Even as we celebrate this great success, we must remember that other vital pieces of the Gettysburg story are still vulnerable,\" trust president James Lighthizer said in a statement." ]	[ "The Gettysburg battlefield is adding 95 acres .", "The tract of land was the scene of intense fighting on first day of the Civil War battle .", "A developer had planned to build housing on the tract ." ]	[ 1, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arsenal's hopes of winning the English Premier League title were dealt a severe blow as Arsene Wenger's team conceded a heartbreaking 102nd-minute equalizer in a pulsating climax to Sunday's 1-1 draw with Liverpool.", "Dutch striker Robin van Persie looked to have given the Gunners all three points, and closed the gap on leaders Manchester United to four points, with a penalty in the eighth minute of injury time at the Emirates Stadium.", "But with the last kick of the game, Van Persie's compatriot Dirk Kuyt converted a spot-kick for Kenny Dalglish's team to hand the visitors an extraordinary leveler in the 12th minute of time added on.", "The result left Arsenal six points behind Alex Ferguson's team with only six matches left of the season, ahead of United's trip to Newcastle on Tuesday and the Gunners' London derby at Tottenham the following evening.", "Referee Andre Marriner allocated eight minutes of stoppage time after Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher received treatment on the field and was subsequently replaced following a clash of heads with young teammate John Flanagan.", "Liverpool also lost record signing Andy Carroll to a knee injury.", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was unhappy that play was allowed to continue for so long.", "\"I feel hard done by in the end because the time was over by three minutes,\" the Frenchman told reporters.", "\"But you have to take it and you continue to fight.", "Lucas played in an intelligent way.", "He stopped his run and the referee saw penalty, but what can you do about it?\"", "The draw dampened the Anfield club's hopes of playing Europa League football next season.", "The Merseysiders are four points behind fifth-placed Tottenham, having played two more games than Harry Redknapp's team.", "Arsenal escaped an early penalty appeal when Swiss defender Johan Djourou tussled with Jay Spearing on his return from a dislocated shoulder, but could have gone ahead after 16 minutes when Laurent Koscielny rattled the crossbar from captain Cesc Fabregas' corner.", "In a match of few chances, the breakthrough finally arrived for Arsenal deep into injury time when Spearing tripped Fabregas as the Spain midfielder looked to dribble through the Liverpool rearguard.", "Van Persie stepped up to confidently dispatch the penalty for his 13th league goal of the campaign, sending goalkeeper Pepe Reina the wrong way, but Arsenal's defensive frailty was once again exposed.", "Uruguay forward Luis Suarez saw his free-kick slam off the wall before Emmanuel Eboue inexplicably shoved Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva inside the box as the Brazilian looked to gather the loose ball.", "Just like his international teammate, Kuyt coolly slotted home to steal a point for Liverpool.", "Meanwhile, Stoke City will play Manchester City in the FA Cup final after a convincing 5-0 win over fellow Premier League side Bolton Wanderers at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday.", "Manchester City end United's treble bid .", "Stoke have never lifted the FA Cup in their 148-year history, but the four-time semifinalists booked their place in a first-ever final thanks to goals from Matthew Etherington, Robert Huth, Kenwyne Jones and a Jonathan Walters brace.", "Owen Coyle's Bolton are four-time winners of the knockout competition, but the club's hopes of a first victory since 1958 were extinguished by three first-half goals.", "Winger Etherington opened the scoring for Tony Pulis' team after 11 minutes when he rifled home a 20-yard shot from Jermaine Pennant's pass.", "Stoke doubled the lead seven minutes later when Germany defender Huth took advantage of a sloppy clearance from Gary Cahill to find the bottom corner from the edge of penalty area.", "It was 3-0 to the Staffordshire side after half an hour, when Trinidad and Tobago striker Jones provided a cool finish from another Pennant pass.", "Republic of Ireland international Walters claimed his first goal after 68 minutes when he ran from inside Stoke's half before curling a wonderful finish beyond Bolton goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen.", "The rout was complete with nine minutes remaining when Walters scuffed his shot over the veteran Finn from a Jones cross.", "Stoke will return to England's national stadium on May 14 to face Roberto Mancini's City, who beat archrivals Manchester United 1-0 on Saturday." ]	[ "Arsenal concede a 102nd-minute equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Liverpool .", "Robin van Persie had given Arsenal the lead in the 108th minute with a penalty .", "Dirk Kuyt scored a spot-kick for Kenny Dalglish's team in the 12th added minute .", "Stoke City into the FA Cup final after a 5-0 win over Bolton Wanderers at Wembley ." ]	[ 0, 2, 18 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- Wikipedia is just the latest in a long line of encyclopedias.", "In fact, encyclopedias have been around in some form or another for 2,000 years.", "The oldest, Naturalis Historia, written by Pliny the Elder, is still in existence.", "How do I know this? I looked it up on Wikipedia, of course.", "Is it true? Possibly. Ten years after its founding, it's hard to imagine what life was like before Wikipedia.", "When I was growing up, our family had a dusty set of encyclopedias that were at least 10 years old, which is fine if you're looking up dinosaurs, but not so good if you want to know, for instance, who the current president of the Congo is.", "But though the limitations of the old encyclopedias were obvious, they were authoritative in ways that Wikipedia is not.", "Mashable: 9 ways to get more out of Quora .", "Like most people, I'll take the tradeoff.", "I have no desire to go back to the days of printed Funk & Wagnalls.", "If someone would have told me back in 2001 that, within a few years, there would be a comprehensive, free online encyclopedia, I wouldn't have believed them.", "Why would someone do that?", "How? Origins . By now, we all know the story: Two Ayn Rand devotees, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, created Wikipedia in January 2001.", "The founding can be traced to a post by Sanger entitled \"Let's Make a Wiki\" that was intended as a feature to Sanger and Wales's other project, Nupedia.", "Wiki, Sanger explained in the post, was derived from \"wikiwiki,\" a Polynesian word for \"quick.\"", "\"What it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly editable series of web pages,\" Sanger wrote in the post.", "As often happens, the feature grew out of proportion with its original intent.", "Wales, who was originally against the idea of a Wiki, became a strong proponent of it, while Sanger, who became estranged from the project in 2002, now charges that Wales hogged the credit for the venture.", "Mashable: The future of the social media strategist .", "(Wales could not be reached for comment.", "To his credit, Sanger is mentioned as a co-founder on Wikipedia's entry about its founding.)", "Rooted in open source thinking, Wikipedia contributors began penning a voluminous number of entries (the site claims there are now 17 million such articles), which began showing up in Google searches, furthering the site's growth and notoriety.", "Meanwhile, a subculture developed around Wikipedia, with self-appointed guardians doing their best to make sure entries were accurate and free of vandalism.", "As an authoritative 2006 Atlantic article on Wikipedia noted, \"A study by IBM suggests that although vandalism does occur (particularly on high-profile entries like 'George W. Bush'), watchful members of the huge Wikipedia community usually swoop down to stop the malfeasance shortly after it begins.\"", "'Truth' on the internet .", "All of this made Wikipedia a pretty good reference, but one that you'd be wise not to take completely at face value.", "Wikipedia works best as an introduction to a subject.", "Since the articles usually cite references, readers can investigate further whether the claims are actually true.", "Despite this, Wikipedia soon earned a reputation for loopy reportage, an aspect best expressed in The Onion headline \"Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years of American Independence.\"", "Such criticism, though, has it backwards.", "Wikipedia is, in the best-case scenario, an antidote for the echo chamber of the web.", "After all, good luck finding \"truth\" on the Internet.", "Facts may be facts, but they're subject to so much spin that it can be hard to get a handle on what's objectively real.", "All the more reason why the idea of Wikipedia is laudable, albeit a bit impractical.", "Though Jimmy Wales could have made a fortune selling ads on the site, he decided to make the Wikimedia Foundation a non-profit charitable organization.", "Mashable: 6 web pioneers on what the future looks like .", "But someone has to keep all those servers running and pay those 50 full-time staffers, which is why Wales appeared in a ubiquitous banner ad on Wikipedia asking for donations.", "The site eventually collected $16 million.", "The future . Can Wikipedia sustain itself for another 10 years?", "As The Economist recently pointed out, the number of Wikipedia's English language contributors fell from 54,000 in March 2007 to 35,000 in September 2010, but here Wikipedia may be the victim of its own success.", "As the site gets more comprehensive, there are fewer entries that need to be written.", "One thing's for sure -- if Wikipedia ever does go away, it will be hard to believe it.", "After all, where will we go to confirm such a thing?", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger created Wikipedia in January 2001 .", "Site is a very open, very publicly editable series of web pages .", "Not authoratative source but good for introductions to subjects ." ]	[ 12, 15 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal lost his job when Rolling Stone magazine ran an article in which some of his aides made disparaging remarks about the vice president and others.", "But a newly released investigation by the Department of Defense inspector general finds neither McChrystal nor any of his aides did anything wrong.", "In the article called \"The Runaway General\" reporter Michael Hastings wrote that one of McChrystal's aides referred to Vice President Joseph Biden as \"Bite Me\" and another referred to then-national security adviser Gen. James Jones as a \"clown.\"", "After interviewing 15 people, the inspector general's office completed its report on April 8.", "It was made public Monday after a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times.", "Neither McChrystal, who cooperated with an earlier Army investigation, nor Hastings were interviewed for the inspector general's report.", "In the report, the inspector general writes, \"The evidence was insufficient to substantiate a violation of applicable DoD standards.\"", "The report goes on to say, \"Not all of the events at issue occurred as reported in the article.\"", "It concluded \"none of the matters we reviewed warrant further investigation.\"", "McChrystal, who had been in charge of all U.S. and International Security Assistance Force units in Afghanistan, was brought back to Washington after the article was published.", "After meeting with President Barack Obama, he resigned his command and later retired from the military.", "But four days after the inspector general's report was completed, the White House announced McChrystal would be part of the Michelle Obama's and Jill Biden's new Joining Forces initiative.", "The organization is set up to support and honor America's service members and their families.", "McChrystal is now a senior fellow at Yale University." ]	[ "McChrystal commanded U.S. and ISAF forces in Afghanistan .", "A magazine article quoted his aides making disparaging remarks about U.S. leaders .", "McChrystal resigned his command and later retired from the miliary .", "A DoD inspector general's investigation finds neither he nor his aides did anything wrong ." ]	[ 0, 1, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Kenyan runner Emmanuel Mutai laid down a marker for the 2012 Olympics by winning his first London Marathon in a course-record time on Sunday.", "Runner-up in the men's race last year, the 26-year-old came home in two hours four minutes and 40 seconds to eclipse the 2:05.10 set by compatriot Samuel Wanjiru in 2009.", "He ran the fifth-fastest time in marathon history as he ended the two-year title reign of Martin Lel -- who was more than a minute behind in second place.", "Lel edged out a third Kenyan, Patrick Makau, in a sprint finish as both clocked 2:05:45.", "Marathon star Haile Gebrselassie shares his secrets .", "The African nation tasted further success in the women's race, where Mary Keitany headed off defending champion Liliya Shobukhova of Russia by 56 seconds, while Edna Kiplagat claimed third in her race debut.", "Mutai, the runner-up at the 2009 World Athletics Championships, said he was delighted to finally win a major event.", "\"My dreams have come true because I had it in my mind that one day I would win one of the five major marathons,\" he told the UK Press Association.", "\"I was second here and in New York last year, but today has finally come for me.", "My aim was just to win, I was not focusing on the time, but I tried my best to push it when I saw we were inside world-record pace at one stage.", "\"It was fantastic to win the race and improve my personal best.\"", "Marathon mission: Why those final steps are a killer .", "Keitany is also a major contender for 2012 in the UK capital, having shaved almost 10 minutes off her time in New York a year ago as she came home in 2:19:19 -- the fourth-fastest women's time.", "The 29-year-old did not have to compete against record-holder Paula Radcliffe, who missed her home race for the second year in a row but will return to action in a 10 kilometer race next month for her first outing since the 2009 New York Marathon.", "\"I think I surprised myself because I was running with the champion from last year and I was a bit scared,\" Keitany told PA. \"But then I started to believe in myself that I could do it and I feel very happy.\"", "The race attracted more than 35,000 competitors, with British celebrities taking part alongside the general public -- some running for fun and others to raise money for charity.", "One English couple stopped six miles from the end to get married, PA reported, while there were 34 records recognized by Guinness including fastest times for a super hero, cartoon character and marching band.", "Meanwhile, Ethiopia's Gebrselassie Tsegaye Reda became the first non-Kenyan in five years to win the Belgrade men's marathon in Serbia on Sunday.", "He came home in 2:14:41 to head off Kenya's Michael Rutto Chetoo, while Reda's compatriot Tadele Geremew Mulugeta was third.", "Kenya's Frashiah Nyambura Waithaka won the women's race in 2:34:31." ]	[ "Kenyans dominate London race with Emmanuel Mutai and Mary Keitany winning .", "Mutai claims his first major marathon victory with fifth-fastest time run by a man .", "Keitany wins women's race by 56 seconds in fourth quickest time by a female .", "British event attracts more than 35,000 competitors ahead of 2012 Olympics ." ]	[ 0, 5, 15 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Humanitarian assistance from the United States began its journey to Japan Friday, as President Barack Obama extended a helping hand to the nation after it was hit by a devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami.", "There are eight warships either near Japan or headed for it.", "All are attached to the U.S. 7th Fleet, which is headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan.", "Navy personnel began loading tons of disaster relief supplies aboard the U.S. 7th Fleet command flagship, the USS Blue Ridge, currently in Singapore The vessel and its crew were scheduled to depart for Japan Saturday morning, according to a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs.", "The USS Essex was scheduled to leave Malaysia Friday evening carrying about 2,000 Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary movement.", "The USS Harpers Ferry and the USS Germantown are en route to Japan from the Philippine Sea.", "The USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered carrier, has been pulled from a long-planned exercise off the Korean Peninsula and is now headed for the earthquake area, accompanied by USS Chancellorsville and the USS Preble.", "And the USS Tortuga has left its base at Sasebo, a port city in far southern Japan.", "The ship already has several landing craft on board, but it's heading to South Korea to take delivery of MH-53 cargo helicopters, which it will then carry to Japan.", "In addition to the 7th Fleet ships that have already received orders to head to the island nation, all ships in the fleet that can carry helicopters or aircraft have been ordered to be ready to deploy within 24 hours, if necessary.", "Fleet vessels not designed to carry aircraft must be able to deploy within 48 hours.", "The fleet is also undertaking a full accounting of all personnel in Japan, as well as the condition of their family members.", "However, no reports of injuries among 7th Fleet personnel have been received and no major damage has been reported among fleet assets, according to the public affairs statement.", "The public affairs statement pointed out that the 7th Fleet is not conducting full-scale disaster response operations, which would only come after a formal request from the Japanese government.", "It's not just the military that is taking steps to get help to victims of Friday's earthquake.", "The Federal Emergency Management Agency and its partner agencies are on standby in case their assistance is needed, the agency said in a news release.", "In addition, six Los Angeles County canine disaster search teams have been activated.", "The dogs were trained by the Search Dog Foundation and are now getting health clearance from their veterinarians to ensure they are ready to deploy.", "They will be part of a Los Angeles task force mobilized along with one from Virginia by the U.S. Agency for International Development.", "Each team will come with more than 70 personnel and approximately 75 tons of search and rescue equipment, in addition to the search and rescue dogs.", "\"On behalf of the American people, I wish to convey our sympathy, thoughts and prayers to the people of Japan who have been affected by this devastating earthquake and tsunami,\" said Rajiv Shah, the administrator for USAID, in a written statement.", "\"We are working with the government of Japan to provide any assistance needed in the rescue effort as quickly as possible.\"", "The agency also is dispatching a disaster assistance response team.", "California Gov.", "Jerry Brown said in a news release that he has \"directed California's Emergency Management Agency to make state resources available to the Japanese government.\"", "Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig even promised assistance from Major League Baseball.", "Citing \"our shared love of baseball for more than a century,\" Selig said in a statement that Japan is \"a particularly special place to us\" and that MLB will provide aid in the coming days and weeks.", "The American Red Cross is communicating with the Japanese Red Cross Society and its global partners, according to a statement from the agency.", "So far, the American Red Cross has not received any requests for blood from its Japanese counterparts, or from the U.S. or Japanese governments.", "The organization is encouraging people with loved ones in Japan to use the Red Cross \"Safe and Well\" website, an online tool which helps families connect during natural disasters and emergencies.", "Earlier in the day, Obama described his country's assistance priorities at a news conference.", "\"I offer our Japanese friends whatever assistance is needed,\" he said.", "\"Today's events remind us how fragile life can be.\"", "He said the main U.S. assistance to Japan would probably be \"lift capacity\" in the form of heavy equipment to help clean up damaged infrastructure.", "The U.S. government is taking inventory of how many military personnel are in Japan to provide help, he said, adding that American citizens in Japan will also receive assistance.", "Obama called the earthquake and tsunami \"a potentially catastrophic disaster,\" saying the images of destruction were \"simply heartbreaking.\"", "At a session of the President's Export Council on Friday morning at the Old Executive Office Building, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged \"immediate disaster relief assistance\" and said, \"We are working closely with the government of Japan to provide additional help,\" according to a State Department statement.", "The State Department on Friday said there were no immediate reports of casualties among the tens of thousands of U.S. citizens -- tourists, military personnel and others -- in Japan.", "The State Department issued an alert against nonessential travel to Japan because of the earthquake and tsunami.", "The alert said that Tokyo airports were closed and others also may be closed or restricted, and that public transportation in Tokyo and other areas has been interrupted.", "The alert also said strong aftershocks are likely \"for weeks\" and included instructions for what to do if caught in an earthquake or aftershock.", "It urged U.S. citizens in Japan to contact family and friends to let them know of their well-being.", "American Airlines told CNN that it would resume flights into Japan on Saturday.", "Both American and Delta Airlines canceled flights into Tokyo Friday.", "It was unclear if flights to other Japanese airports also were affected.", "In addition, Delta, United and Continental airlines announced they were waiving change fees for people whose travel plans involving Japan were affected by the disaster.", "The Yokota Air Base, a U.S. Air Force facility in Japan, accommodated 11 commercial planes carrying more than 500 passengers, after the flights were diverted to the base when the earthquake closed Tokyo's Narita International Airport, according to a news release from the Air Force's 374th Airlift Wing.", "Volunteers from various organizations brought food, water and cots for the stranded passengers and helped them register with the Red Cross.", "At the State Department, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Janice Jacobs said a 24-hour consular task force has been set up to help Americans affected by the earthquake.", "Americans in Japan who need help, or people seeking information about a loved one in Japan, can send an e-mail to japanemergencyusc@state.gov, Jacobs said.", "Americans outside Japan but in tsunami-affected areas who need help, or people seeking information about an American in affected areas outside Japan, can e-mail pacifictsunamiusc@state.gov, she said.", "A telephone information line also has been set up at 1-888-407-4747, said Jacobs, who encouraged people to use the e-mail options if possible.", "When seeking information about Americans in Japan or other affected areas, Jacobs said, people should provide the full name, birth date and location of the person, as well as any pre-existing medical conditions, and if they are elderly or a child.", "CNN's Kim Hutcherson, Michael Martinez, Ed Henry, Barbara Starr, Elise Labott, Larry Shaughnessy, Dave Alsup and Bonney Kapp contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The U.S. 7th Fleet takes the lead regarding delivery of aid to Japan .", "Eight major U.S. warships are ordered to Japan .", "U.S. federal agencies coordinate search and rescue teams .", "Bud Selig promises aid from MLB, citing a \"shared love of baseball\"" ]	[ 2, 3, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A rural Pennsylvania community will say goodbye Tuesday to seven children who were killed when their parent's farmhouse went up in flames last week.", "The children -- ages 7 months to 11 years -- died March 8 when the fire fully engulfed the Mennonite family's two-story house in Loysville, about 25 miles northwest of Harrisburg.", "Their parents were both outside the house at the time of the fire.", "Mother Janelle Clouse was milking cows in the barn and father Ted Clouse was making deliveries on his milk route.", "\"While mom's milking cows, her 3-year-old daughter comes running into the barn and the 3-year-old tells the mother that there's smoke inside the house,\" Tom Pinkerton of the state police said last week.", "\"Mom leaves the barn, comes running out, sees that the house appears to be on fire.\"", "The mother went to two neighbors' houses before she could get someone to call 911, he said.", "She then found her husband sleeping in his milk truck and they rushed back to the home to find their home engulfed in flames and firefighters trying to put out the blaze.", "The children -- six girls and a boy -- were found dead inside the house.", "The 3-year-old was the only child who survived.", "The funeral is scheduled for the Perry Mennonite Reception Center in Elliottsburg.", "Burial will be at the Church of the Living Christ cemetery.", "The fire sent shock waves through the central Pennsylvania community.", "\"It's just hard to explain how somebody could lose their whole family in a wink of an eye like that,\" Steve Orris, who works at an insurance company in Loysville, said last week.", "\"It's just unbelievable.\" \"Everybody I've talked to here ... has felt a lot of sympathy toward these people.", "It's a real shame the way things like that happen,\" he said." ]	[ "The funeral is scheduled for the Perry Mennonite Reception Center in Elliottsburg .", "The children's ages range from 7 months to 11 years .", "The six girls and one boy were found dead inside the house .", "Police: The mother was milking cows in the barn and the father was at work ." ]	[ 1, 3, 8, 10 ]
[ "Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Snubbing the United States, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned home from exile Friday, just ahead of a critical runoff election.", "Aristide spoke briefly after landing at Toussaint L'Overture Airport in Port-au-Prince but made no direct reference to Sunday's vote.", "He alluded, however, to the exclusion of his own party, Fanmi Lavalas, banned from participating in the election.", "\"Today the Haitian people mark the end of exile and coup d'etats while peacefully we must move from social exclusion to social inclusion,\" Aristide said in the airport's diplomatic lounge.", "Speaking in Creole, French and several other languages, Aristide, 57, said he condemned the violence that has wracked his nation since the disputed late November presidential election.", "Aristide, a polarizing figure in Haiti, became the second former president to return to Port-au-Prince this year.", "Dictator Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier flew back from France unexpectedly in January.", "Aristide made his way from the airport to his former home in the neighborhood of Tabarre, which was recently fixed up and painted in anticipation of his return.", "Haitians waved flags, danced and chanted his name along the road leading to his house.", "They carried signs that said \"Titid,\" Aristide's nickname, and sported T-shirts with his picture and slogans supporting his return.", "\"He could be the king of Haiti.", "He is a president we love so much,\" said Willy Joseph, a 48-year-old mason who waited outside Aristide's house to catch a glimpse of the former president.", "Raoul Jean Cetoute, a 66-year-old carpenter, said he would refrain from the visiting the polls Sunday.", "\"I'm not going to vote in this masquerade election.", "We'll listen and analyze what (Aristide) says to know what to do,\" he said.", "The former Roman Catholic priest and Haiti's first democratically elected president chose to go back at a tense time.", "Haitians, still reeling from last year's devastating earthquake and a cholera epidemic, are set to choose a new leader Sunday.", "Many, including the Obama administration, have questioned Aristide's timing and said his presence would disrupt the vote.", "Aristide's chartered jet took off Thursday night from Johannesburg, South Africa, where he had been living for the past seven years, and landed shortly after 10 a.m. in the Haitian capital.", "He was accompanied by his wife, Mildred; U.S. actor and longtime supporter Danny Glover; and U.S. attorney Ira Kurzban.", "Also traveling with Aristide was Amy Goodman, host of the news program \"Democracy Now!\"", "At a refueling stop in Dakar, Senegal, Aristide told Goodman that he believes the Haitian people were happy to see him return.", "\"I think that the Haitian people are very happy, happy to know that we are on our way heading to Haiti, happy to know that finally their dream will be fulfilled by things on the ground because they fought hard for democracy,\" Aristide said.", "\"I share their happiness, I share their hope, and I renew my commitment to serve them in the field of education, once we move together\" toward such a goal, he said.", "The White House, however, was less than thrilled by Aristide's return, warning this week that it would prove destabilizing.", "State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday that Aristide seeks to influence the election.", "\"Mr. Aristide has chosen to remain outside of Haiti for seven years,\" Toner said.", "\"To return this week can only be seen as a conscious choice to impact Haiti's elections.\"", "Kurzban said Aristide plans to get involved with educational projects and teach.", "He wanted to return before Sunday's election, Kurzban said, because he had \"genuine concerns that the next president may take a different view\" and not allow Aristide to return.", "\"It is not to be involved in the elections, as the United States suggests,\" Kurzban said.", "A group of prominent U.S. lawyers sent a letter Thursday to Cheryl Mills, chief of staff at the State Department, objecting to what they said was American interference with Aristide's \"constitutional and human right to return.\"", "\"The United States trying to control when any Haitian citizen -- especially a former president -- can enter Haiti is outrageous,\" said Bill Quigley, a New Orleans law professor and legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.", "\"It violates a stack of binding international human rights treaties,\" he said.", "\"I felt compelled to speak out to defend both President Aristide's human rights and the American tradition of rule of law that I teach in my classroom.\"", "Aristide was shuttled out of Haiti in 2004 on a U.S. plane after bloodshed on the streets and charges of authoritarianism and corruption.", "His supporters, including Glover, say the White House wants to keep Aristide out of Haiti in favor of a leader more in line with its own views.", "\"I am going to South Africa to show our solidarity with the people of Haiti by standing at the side of the leader they elected twice with overwhelming support: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,\" Glover said in a statement.", "\"People of good conscience cannot be idle while a former dictator is able to return unhindered while a democratic leader who peacefully handed over power to another elected president is restricted from returning to his country by external forces,\" Glover said, referring to Duvalier, who fled into exile in France in 1986 after 15 years of iron-fisted rule.", "Duvalier stunned the world by returning to Haiti in January.", "Shortly afterward, Aristide again aired his desire to go back home.", "The Haitian government issued him a new passport last month.", "Aristide retains a following in Haiti, especially among the poorest of the poor, who catapulted him to power in 1990 with more than 67 percent of the vote.", "But Aristide's relationship with his homeland, as well as the international community, has been a complicated one.", "He gained popularity in Haiti by giving the poor and disenfranchised a voice, but his critics accused him of corruption, greed and human rights abuses -- problems that have plagued the impoverished Caribbean nation under other leaders as well.", "Last year, a massive earthquake devastated Haiti.", "Recovery efforts have been slow and have added to electoral turmoil.", "The United Nations voiced concerns this week over violence marring the campaign and called on \"all candidates, especially those in the presidential runoff, to avoid threats, intimidation and harassment.\"", "\"Consolidation of democracy in Haiti depends largely on the will of politicians to adopt the principles of a peaceful transfer of power and to accept election results in accordance with mechanisms provided by the electoral law,\" said a statement from the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti, which has been in Haiti since Aristide's departure.", "The presidential vote pits former first lady Mirlande Manigat against popular musician Michel Martelly in a runoff that was delayed by two months because of unrest and charges of fraud.", "Both candidates had said earlier they support a Haitian citizen's right to return home.", "Martelly, considered the frontrunner in the race, had no comment on Aristide's return, spokesman Damian Merlo said.", "CNN's Moni Basu in Atlanta and journalist Allyn Gaestel in Port-au-Prince contributed to this report." ]	[ "Aristide's chartered jet lands in Port-au-Prince shortly after 10 a.m.\nHis supporters line the road to his former home .", "U.S. officials have said former president could disrupt Sunday's election .", "Aristide says the Haitian people will be happy to see him ." ]	[ 5, 10, 17, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Italian and French governments were both trying to defuse an escalating diplomatic row Monday after France refused entry to a train carrying North African migrants from Italy.", "Italy complained to France on Sunday after authorities blocked a train with Tunisian migrants from the border city of Ventimiglia entering Menton on the Cote d'Azur.", "The Tunisians had been issued resident permits by Italy, allowing them to travel freely in many European countries.", "French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Monday in Bucharest that France did not want any continuing tensions with Rome regarding the train incident.", "Gueant said Rome's decision to give temporary resident permits to more than 25,000 Tunisian migrants arriving in Italy since January had been \"heavily contested by many countries in the European Union.\"", "Some 300 French and Italian protestors from a group named \"Train for dignity,\" were also aboard the train in a show of support for the 60 Tunisians who were hoping to enter France.", "Gueant said that although France accepted this decision, there were conditions - namely that the migrants had to prove they could support themselves financially.", "Since the mass political unrest started in North Africa and other Arab states in January, a large number people have fled Tunisia and Libya to Europe, where governments have been trying to prevent a refugee crisis.", "Italy's coast guard said at least 1,623 migrants landed on the island of Lampedusa over a 24-hour period in mid-March alone.", "Italy's foreign minister has estimated that as many as 300,000 Libyans could try to leave and could potentially end up in his country.", "Medecins Sans Frontieres said Saturday that it had evacuated nearly 100 people by boat from Misrata in Libya and on Monday the UK Department for International Development (DFID) said that it would help 5,000 migrants trapped by fighting in western Libya.", "The DFID said £1.5 million ($2.43 million) would be made available to charter ships to get people out of the rebel-held town of Misrata and transfer them to Benghazi.", "Andrew Mitchell, the UK International Development Secretary, said his department would help fund their evacuation in ships chartered by the International Organization for Migration, which says the majority of unauthorized immigrants arriving in Lampedusa are Tunisian.", "Italy for its part has issued temporary resident permits to thousands of Tunisian migrants and the country on Sunday said it was angered after trains were stopped at the border for around six hours until traffic resumed later that evening.", "However, at a briefing with journalists Monday, a spokesman for the Italian Foreign Minister Maurizio Massari, tried to play down the issue: \"The situation was clarified and the incident resolved yesterday (Sunday).", "On the immigration issue, there is a continuous dialogue taking place between the Interior Ministers of the two countries to deal with the problem.", "We are working together.", "There is no tension. We are working together to find steps to take to solve the immigration problem.'", "According to a spokesman for the French Interior Ministry the border was never closed but circulation was \"temporarily halted in order to avoid any risk of an accident,\" because of an unauthorized protest in support of the Tunisian migrants.", "Claude Gueant insisted that France had respected the Schengen agreements to the letter and a first analysis by the European commission on Monday showed that France's decision to stop the trains was in line with the Schengen rules.", "The Schengen agreement allows people to travel between 25 European countries without the need of a passport.", "CNN's Saskya Vandoorne, Hada Messia and Thair Shaikh contributed to this report." ]	[ "France refused entry to a train carrying North African migrants from Italy .", "Tunisians had been issued permits by Italy, allowing them to enter France .", "Italian foreign minister estimates 300,000 Libyans could leave country .", "Schengen agreement allows people to travel freely between 25 European ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- What would truly delight the geek in your life?", "It's nearly impossible to know if you don't share his or her peculiar tastes.", "It's not good enough just to get them a Rubik's Cube or copy of \"The Hobbit.\"", "(You know they could solve a Rubik's Cube by the time they were 7, and they already own the complete collection of Tolkien in hardback.)", "Show them you care by learning about the things they like and demonstrating that knowledge with your gift choice.", "Start by determining what the geek in your life is obsessed with.", "Geeks are passionate about niche interests, and a little digging on your part is sure to result in a wide-eyed, bouncy, emphatic \"thank you!\"", "when it's time to open presents.", "Once you have a good idea, look to niche, online shopping destinations such as ThinkGeek, Big Bad Toy Store, Nichibei, EA, SteamPowered and The Space Store.", "\"We sell what we think is cool,\" Shane Peterman of ThinkGeek said.", "\"Everyone here, all the product buyers, we're all geeks.", "So we have a pretty good handle on what we think would work.\"", "Peterman said that sci-fi and fantasy-related merchandise always sells well for ThinkGeek, including anything having to do with franchises such as \"Star Wars,\" \"Star Trek,\" \"Doctor Who\" and \"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\"", "You can also find plenty of geeky merchandise on broader sites such as Amazon or Best Buy.", "Too late for shipping?", "Head for a comic book store, where you can generally find figurines, collectable action figures and specialized merchandise as well as comic books, graphic novels, DVDs and manga.", "To find the comic book store nearest you, go to comicshoplocator.com.", "Or check out a hobby shop, which may have a room dedicated to games.", "Also go to gaming stores or bookstores.", "Bookstores such as Barnes & Noble or Borders have gaming books, comics and manga as well.", "Geek merchandise can be confusing for a gift-giver who doesn't know what \"Neon Genesis Evangelion\" is.", "(It's a popular Japanese franchise about a group of teenagers who pilot robot-like vehicles in an apocalyptic war against \"Angels.\")", "That's why CNN.com's Geek Out!", "team collaborated with experts to compile a list of gift suggestions for the geeks in your life.", "But geeks are not one-size-fits-all, and our gift suggestions might not be right for your situation.", "If you can't find the specific thing the geek in your life likes, ask for help in a bookstore or comic shop.", "There's usually one go-to geek on staff who can assist, pointing out suitable gifts within the genre.", "For example, if the comic book geek in your life has a good relationship with the local comic shop purveyor, they might have an established wish list of comic books from certain authors or artists.", "Fans of some sci-fi or fantasy television shows may also be part of the comic book fan culture, since many shows, such as \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer,\" \"True Blood,\" \"The Walking Dead\" and \"Firefly,\" continue and develop story lines in comic book format.", "Volumes collecting six-issue (or more) storylines are a growing phenomenon in the comic book world, so these would certainly be a big hit with the comic book geek in your life.", "\"Japanophile\" geeks crave stories and characters that are different from American comic books and animation, said Colette Bennett, editor-in-chief of Tomopop.com, a blog about Japanese toys, collectibles and fan culture.", "\"From Japan's obsession with over-the-top romance to the emphasis on always \"doing your best\" and working hard, there's something about [Japanese entertainment] that really makes you feel good,\" Bennett said.", "That's why these geeks turn to manga, a Japanese take on the comic book format, and anime, animated series and movies often based on the story lines in manga.", "Titans in anime include filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, often called the \"Walt Disney of Japan,\" and Katsuhiro Otomo, who created the groundbreaking 1988 film \"Akira.\"", "While \"Star Trek\" and \"Star Wars\" have long defined what a passionate, sci-fi geek is all about, other established franchises such as \"Doctor Who\" and \"Battlestar Galactica\" and newer shows such as \"Fringe\" also have large, passionate fan bases.", "It's critical to establish which character, space ship or story line the sci-fi geek is interested in.", "If your geek likes \"Star Wars,\" don't assume that anything \"Star Wars\"-related will do.", "Keep in mind there may be several iterations of the sci-fi franchise.", "Starwars.com and startrek.com include information about their different incarnations.", "The mainstreaming of some fantasy franchises certainly makes shopping for a fantasy geek easy, since merchandise is widely available.", "You'd have to be pretty out of touch not to be aware of characters and plot from \"The Lord of the Rings\" or \"Harry Potter,\" given the popularity of the books and movies in the past decade.", "\"We love to love the good guys and love to hate the bad guys.", "With the added factor of magic and/or futuristic technology thrown in, anything is possible,\" said Pat Dawson, a senior staffer of TheOneRing.net, a Tolkien fan site.", "See TheOneRing.net's Tolkien gift guide .", "Gamer geeks may prefer retro selections like the Atari and Nintendo games from arcades.", "Others could be into first-person shooter games or strategy games.", "Gamers aren't limited to computer or console games -- tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons capitalize on imagination and a role-playing penchant.", "Most gamers like to stay on the cutting edge of titles and tech.", "So if a game came out in November, it is likely they already have it.", "But downloadable content -- content that adds to games after they are released -- and add-ons that make game-play faster will be appreciated gifts.", "Of course, gift cards for game shops and outlets are the easiest way to please a gamer because they can choose exactly what they want.", "Just don't be alarmed when you hear, \"Thanks for 'Slaughter Fest 2010,' Grandma!\"", "Shopping for an astronomy geek can be tough.", "They're not a one-star-fits-all kind of crowd, explained Brittney Dempsey, office manager for NASA's online Space Store.", "There are star geeks who like memorizing constellations and myths, NASA lovers who obsess over space travel and physics geeks who love stargazing and mapping.", "Before you pick a gift, make sure you know which kind of space geek you're dealing with.", "Piece of advice: Space geeks are not necessarily \"Star Trek\" or \"Star Wars\" geeks.", "If you assume they are, be prepared -- your space geek will be quick to point out the differences between the reality that interests them and science fiction.", "Henry Hanks, Jamie Gumbrecht and Larry Frum contributed to this report." ]	[ "Shop for geeks by going niche; a little homework will go a long way .", "Don't be afraid to go into a comic book store -- you'll find helpful service there .", "Geeks are not one-size-fits-all; not every space fan loves \"Star Wars\"" ]	[ 16, 17, 24, 36, 53 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nigeria international defender Olubayo Adefemi has been killed in a road accident according to police in the Greek city of Kavala.", "Kavala police say Adefemi lost control of his car on the Engatia Highway on the outskirts of Kavala, in northern Greece early on Monday morning, colliding with the central reservation before landing in the opposing lane.", "The 25-year-old, who played at right back for Skoda Xanthi in Greece's Super League, was on his way to Thessaloniki Airport to catch a flight back to Nigeria to finalize plans for his forthcoming marriage, his manager Miguel Riera said, AFP reported.", "Police are continuing to investigate the exact causes of the crash.", "Nigeria football officials said they were devastated to hear of the death of Adefemi, who represented his country on five occasions.", "\"We are in grief, total grief.", "This has come on a day that we should be celebrating the Flying Eagles' defeat of world champions Ghana at the African Youth Championship,\" said Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) acting general secretary, Musa Amadu, AFP reported.", "\"But at this stage, we can only pray for a repose of his soul and that God should grant the family he has left behind and Nigeria's football family the fortitude to bear the huge loss,\" Amadu added, AFP reported.", "A statement issued by the Greek Super League also expressed its shock on hearing of the tragedy.", "\"The Super League and the entire Greek football family would like to express its deepest condolences and sympathy for the family of Olubayo Adefemi, who died tragically in a car accident,\" a statement by the Super League said, AFP reported.", "Adefemi represented Nigeria at the 2008 Beijing Olympics when they were runners up to winners, Argentina.", "He joined Skoda Xanthi last summer, scoring two goals in his 24 appearances." ]	[ "Nigerian international Olubayo Adefemi killed in a car accident in Greece .", "The 25-year-old Greek Super League player was returning to Nigeria to finalize wedding plans .", "Defender represented his country five times, appearing at 2008 Beijing Olympics ." ]	[ 0, 2, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 hurt Friday in clashes between tens of thousands of anti-government protesters and security forces outside Sanaa University in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, medical officials on the scene said.", "President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced that a state of emergency had been declared, and he expressed his \"deep regret\" over the casualties.", "An Interior Ministry official said both sides suffered casualties in the violence.", "The official would not be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.", "Witnesses said the clashes began after government supporters and anti-government demonstrators threw rocks at each other.", "Security forces shot into the air and then into the crowd; they also fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd, witnesses said.", "\"Orders had been issued earlier to all security apparatus to protect the protesters and the opposition, and to separate them,\" Saleh said.", "At the time the firing began, however, the two sides were far apart -- meaning security forces could not protect the protesters, Saleh said.", "He also said the protesters opened fire in an area that was full of people.", "\"Their protests have to be carried out in places away from houses of ordinary people, in order to prevent any friction between them and the people living in those areas,\" he said.", "\"Therefore we have today announced a state of emergency in all regions and the ban of any acts of armed violence in order to preserve the safety and security of citizens,\" he added.", "A spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, Mohammed Albasha, called on senior security authorities to bring the perpetrators of Friday's violence to justice.", "Separate statements from France and the United States, however, called on the Yemeni government to allow peaceful protests, implying that they believe the Yemeni government was responsible for the deaths and injuries.", "\"It is now imperative to stop attacks by security forces and pro-government armed groups against individuals exercising their right of expression and demonstration,\" the French Foreign Ministry said in a written statement.", "\"We again urge the Yemeni authorities, as they have previously pledged to do, to protect peaceful demonstrators, to guarantee the civil and political rights, and to adopt concrete and credible measures reaching out to the aspirations of the country.\"", "U.S. President Barack Obama also urged Saleh to stick to his pledge to protect peaceful demonstrations.", "\"The United States stands for a set of universal rights, including the freedom of expression and assembly, as well as political change that meets the aspirations of the Yemeni people,\" he said in a statement.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement Friday saying that the U.S. is \"alarmed by today's violence in Sanaa against anti-government protesters\" and that she joins Obama in \"condemning the violence.\"", "The U.S. is \"seeking to verify reports that this is the result of actions by the security forces,\" Clinton said, adding that \"all perpetrators of violence should should be held accountable and brought to justice.\"", "Amnesty International went further, saying the shootings were part of an \"apparently coordinated sniper attack\" on protesters.", "\"This appears to have been a sniper attack with security forces deliberately shooting to kill protesters from strategic vantage points,\" said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.", "Protesters were reportedly chanting anti-government slogans at a protest camp near Sanaa University when armed men in plain clothes, believed to be members of the security forces, started shooting live rounds from the top of nearby buildings, Amnesty International said.", "Members of the security forces also shot at protesters at street level around the same time, it said.", "The group said it heard from a witness that the shooting started from different buildings and continued for more than 30 minutes.", "Hamid al-Ahmar, a member of parliament and leader of Yemen's opposition Islah Party, also blamed the government.", "\"The attacks on protesters are unacceptable, and the end of the regime is near,\" he declared.", "\"Saleh has brought upon himself a life of disgrace after the killing of innocent protesters.\"", "Yemen has been wracked by weeks of unrest, with thousands protesting Saleh's government.", "High unemployment has fueled much of the anger among a growing young population steeped in poverty.", "The protesters also cite government corruption and a lack of political freedom.", "The president has said he will not run for another term in the next round of elections.", "He also has pledged to bring a new constitution to a vote by the end of the year and transfer government power to an elected parliamentary system.", "Journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report." ]	[ "France and the United States call on Saleh to allow peaceful assembly .", "Saleh, the president of Yemen, declares a state of emergency .", "An Interior Ministry official says casualties happened on both sides .", "Security forces open fire and use tear gas, witnesses say ." ]	[ 1, 2, 12 ]
[ "SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea's Incheon International Airport has been voted the best in the world, according to a 10-month survey of airline passengers.", "Seoul's Incheon, pictured, edged out Hong Kong's International Airport and Singapore's Changi Airport.", "Incheon, located about 70 km (43 miles) from Seoul, often ranks among the busiest airports in the world.", "It boasts a golf course, spa, private sleeping rooms, a casino, and indoor gardens that, according to the airport's Web site, offer \"travelers an oasis of calm and tranquility permeated with the refreshing scent of pine.\"", "It is no surprise then that the annual survey conducted by the British-based consultancy group, Skytrax, ranked Incheon the No.", "1 airport. The survey asked 8.6 million passengers at 190 airports to rate the facilities based on their experiences at check-in, arrival, departures and transfers.", "Incheon edged out Hong Kong's International Airport and Singapore's Changi Airport -- but barely.", "\"At one stage, it looked possible there might be a dead-heat result between these top three airports,\" Skytrax said in a statement.", "The annual survey also judged airports on individual categories.", "Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates came out tops for having the best duty-free shops, Hong Kong serves the best food, Helsinki-Vantaa in Finland is least likely to lose passengers' bags and Japan's Kansai International has the cleanest restrooms.", "The top 10 airports, according to the survey, are: ." ]	[ "Incheon boasts a golf course, spa, private sleeping rooms, casino, indoor gardens .", "Survey asks 8.6 million passengers at 190 airports to rate facilities .", "Incheon barely edges out Hong Kong's and Singapore's airports .", "Dubai voted tops for duty-free shops; Helsinki-Vantaa voted least likely to lose bags ." ]	[ 3, 5, 9 ]
[ "Dallas (CNN) -- Wildfires that have raged through parts of Texas have killed a second firefighter.", "Elias Jaquez, 49, died Wednesday, 11 days after getting trapped in a fire and suffering burns, Cactus City Manager Steve Schmidt-Witcher said Thursday.", "\"We're a very small, tight-knit community.", "Everybody knew Elias, knew his family,\" Schmidt-Witcher said.", "\"It's having a definite impact.\"", "Firefighter Greg Simmons died last Friday trying to extinguish the East Sidwynicks fire in Eastland County.", "Numerous firefighters have been injured, some seriously.", "Thousands of firefighters have been battling the blazes that have scorched more than a million acres in Texas since April 6.", "Dry, windy conditions remained in parts of Texas on Thursday, though in some areas, cooler temperatures and rain aided firefighters.", "\"We've been given a break in the weather,\" said April Saginor, spokeswoman for the Texas Forest Service.", "\"Humidity is up and temperatures are down.\"", "CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said thunderstorms are expected in the region this weekend, but they will drop little rain and the lightning could spark further wildfires.", "West Texas averages nearly 15 inches of rain a year, according to David Hennig, a meteorologist in Midland, Texas.", "Over the past six months, just 13-hundredths of an inch of rain have been recorded in that part of the state.", "While October through March is typically the dry season, that amount of rainfall is far below what it should be, Hennig said.", "Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer predicted the fires will long be remembered.", "\"This is an event that's going to mark time in our county's history,\" he said.", "\"It's something that's going to change forever the looks and the community itself.", "It will be life before the fire and life after the fire, it's that big a deal.\"", "On Thursday, Gov.", "Rick Perry declared Friday through Sunday as Days of Prayer for Rain.", "He urged \"Texans of all faiths and religious traditions\" to pray for \"an end to this ongoing drought and these devastating wildfires,\" as well as the safety of firefighters, said a news release from his office.", "The tinder-dry landscape has provided no shortage of fuel: On Thursday, the Texas Forest Service responded to seven new fires across 159 acres; Wednesday's four new fires covered more than 1,000 acres; Tuesday;s 10 new fires totaled more than 2,000 acres.", "Since January 1, the Texas Forest Service said, it has responded to more than 800 fires that have damaged some 5,000 structures across 1.4 million acres.", "The state has seen fires in 252 of its 254 counties since December 21, 2010.", "In addition to in-state crews, the Texas Forest Service is directing the efforts of more than 1,900 firefighters from 36 states.", "That figure does not include volunteer fire department responders.", "Schmidt-Witcher with the city of Cactus said he has lived in Moore County for 16 years and never seen fires this bad.", "Jaquez was among the personnel fighting a brush fire south of Dumas on April 9 when two fire trucks got stuck.", "The four firefighters abandoned their trucks and tried to run from the fire.", "Three suffered smoke inhalation.", "Jaquez was unable to get away and was burned.", "He was taken to a burn unit in Lubbock, Texas, but died Wednesday, leaving a wife and four daughters.", "Flags were flown at half-staff, Schmidt-Witcher said.", "CNNRadio's Thomas Andres and CNN's Dave Alsup contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: \"It will be life before the fire and life after the fire, it's that big a deal\"\n\"We've been given a break in the weather,\" Texas official says .", "Elias Jaquez, 49, is killed trying to fight a brush fire, becoming the second fatality .", "More than a million acres have burned in Texas since April 6 ." ]	[ 7, 9, 18 ]
[ "Minamisoma, Japan (CNN) -- The scene of sheer devastation left by powerful tsunami waves looked sadly familiar: trucks slammed into houses, uprooted trees and downed power lines soaked in muddy water, while time stood still inside abandoned homes with unmade beds and scattered stuffed toys.", "It was the eerie combination of sounds that stood out as I surveyed a deserted village on this chilly Wednesday morning: Rustling of dangling tin sheets in gusty wind, my own breathing behind a face mask and the constant beeping of my Geiger counter.", "My colleagues and I had just entered the 20-kilometer exclusion zone, a radius Japanese authorities drew around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and ordered some 78,000 residents evacuated in the early days of the crisis, now the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.", "The March 11 twin disasters of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in northeastern Japan have resulted in the plant belching radioactive particles into the surrounding environment.", "Driving for two hours on winding highways from the Fukushima train station, we had passed through rural Japan's alternating scenes of snow-covered mountains and green valleys in full bloom -- until we reached a checkpoint with a big \"no-entry\" sign and flashing red lights.", "A friendly police officer, however, waved us through, after emphasizing the need to don face masks despite the relatively low reading on radiation.", "Our shoes tightly wrapped in paper booties, we finally stepped onto the soil inside the so-called hot zone, some 18 kilometers north of the stricken nuclear plant.", "With parts of the ground still wet from days of rain, we avoided murky puddles to minimize the risk of cross-contamination.", "The numbers on our Geiger counters fluctuated while the alarms -- with base level set low -- kept going off.", "Still, we faced no danger of being exposed to anything that would harm human health.", "Cars zipped by occasionally as residents were allowed in to check on homes and businesses, but the only other sign of life appeared to be farm animals -- a few cows, horses and chickens -- left behind that have grown gaunt.", "We noticed a lone young man in a blue jacket and jeans standing by a large pool of muddy water.", "Declining to reveal his name, the 34-year-old farmer told us, before the tsunami hit, the pool was a fertile rice field that his family had tilled for 150 years.", "\"I have lost my work and my home,\" he said, adding he had come back to retrieve some personal belongings.", "\"And I am scared about my health.\"", "He said he doesn't trust government officials who say risks from radiation are low for local residents.", "His father wants to return, but he has other plans for the future.", "\"I may have to face the prospect of leaving my father behind and live faraway from here to start a family,\" he said.", "We wished the young farmer good luck and didn't linger long inside the exclusion zone as it started drizzling from the gloomy sky.", "As we exited the checkpoint, a news headline flashed on my phone: \"Japan to enforce nuclear evacuation zone.\"", "After removing face masks and paper booties, we drove past a line of shuttered storefronts and stopped at the centuries-old Senryu temple just outside the 20-kilometer perimeter.", "Sweeping its immaculately kept ground -- complete with a sand garden and a fish pond -- was Shinkoh Ishikawa, a 58-year-old Buddhist monk who offers a rare sanctuary to a community ravaged by a succession of disasters.", "The government had advised residents between the 20- and 30-kilometer zones to move away or remain indoors.", "\"Religion is not something distant, it stays next to you,\" Ishikawa explained his decision to stay after seeing hundreds of bodies of tsunami victims cremated at the local funeral home without a proper Buddhist ritual.", "\"I hope people understand that death is not the end of one's life, but a revolving step where lives meet again.\"", "Lighting a candle in the temple's main hall where eight boxes of cremated remains lay on a table, Ishikawa chanted prayers for the dead.", "But it's the tough and cheerful nature of the locals, he said, that has given him the best hope even as the nuclear fallout continues to unfold.", "\"We will rebuild,\" he said.", "\"I'm confident about that because we had done the same after the second world war.\"" ]	[ "There is a 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility .", "A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit northeastern Japan March 11 .", "The twin disasters devastate the nuclear power plant ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexican officials are revealing details of a recently announced agreement that ends a 16-year trucking dispute between Mexico and the United States.", "U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced the agreement during a visit by the Mexican leader to Washington last week.", "The two leaders solved what had been a wrench in the gears of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was signed in 1994.", "Under the agreement, U.S. and Mexican tractor-trailers were to be allowed to transport goods back-and-forth across the border beginning in 1995.", "But safety and security concerns spurred the United States to bar Mexican trucks on U.S. roadways.", "In response, Mexico retaliated with $2.5 billion in tariffs on a variety of U.S. goods.", "A pilot program in 2007 to get Mexican trucks on U.S. roads was de-funded.", "This time, Mexican officials said, in details that began to emerge over the weekend, the authorizations will be permanent.", "Unlike the failed pilot program, under the new plan there will be no limit to the number of companies who can participate and the trucks they can register for cross-border transport, said Dionisio Perez-Jacome, Mexico's Communications and Transportation Minister.", "There will be three phases to the program, he said.", "The first will be the application and inspection of Mexican trucks and the accreditation of their operators, Perez-Jacome said.", "This phase concludes with a provisional authorization being granted to enter the United States.", "The second phase starts with a three-month period of thorough inspections of the vehicles crossing the border, checks that will decrease starting the fourth month, he said.", "It concludes with a certification that the company is following all the rules.", "The last phase involves the Mexican companies being notified of their permanent authorization, which can be granted after 18 months of successful operations, Perez-Jacome said.", "This authorization can only be revoked if a safety regulation is broken.", "A binational commission will be created to monitor all the phases of the new program.", "\"This is a great step forward in our bilateral relations,\" Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said.", "\"The solution to this conflict represents a substantial advance for regional competitiveness, and, without a doubt, will offer new business opportunities for Mexican truckers.\"", "Currently, three trucks and three drivers are used to get goods across the border, Ferrari said.", "It comes out to about $150 per crossing.", "Multiplied by the 4.5 million annual truck crossings, the savings generated could exceed $675 million, he said.", "The agreement is expected to be signed by both presidents by June, at which time Mexico will drop half of its retaliatory tariffs, Ferrari said.", "The second half will be removed when the first permit for Mexican truckers is issued.", "However, Ferrari noted, Mexico reserves the right to re-introduce tariffs if any parts of the agreement are violated by the United States.", "Some in Mexico expressed concern that the U.S. Congress may block the agreement.", "Ferrari said that his understanding was that Obama was asking for a consultation period that would include Congress, but that the legislative body's approval would not be required.", "The flow of goods across the border exceeded $2.75 billion in 2010, which represents 70% of total trade between Mexico and the United States, Ferrari said.", "\"The agreement achieved will reduce the costs of transporting goods between both nations,\" he said." ]	[ "Obama and Calderon announced the agreement last week .", "It comes after 16 years of disputes .", "Mexico truckers would go through three phases before authorization ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Anything can still happen at the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at Japan, but experts are hopeful that the situation will stabilize.", "In the best-case scenario, electrical power and cooling would be restored to all of the six units of the plant, said Tom Kauffman, spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, a policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry in Washington.", "Restoring electric power is essential to stabilizing the plant, said Michael Golay, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.", "Power would ensure that the water can be provided to cover the fuel.", "Workers hope to install a crucial panel at an annex building, which was not severely affected by last Friday's post-earthquake tsunami, for a new power supply system that should be finished Friday morning, an official from the Tokyo Power Company said Friday morning.", "The improvised power system, using 1.5 kilometers total of cable, is expected to provide electricity to power the cooling systems for the Nos.", "1 and 2 reactors at the plant.", "Also, engineers got an emergency diesel generator for Unit 6 running, and it is supplying power to Units 5 and 6, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Friday.", "Water injection to the spent fuel pool was continuing.", "\"Obviously what we're hoping for is that they will bring the various cooling problems under control in the very near future,\" said Ian Hutchinson, professor of nuclear science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.", "Once the fuel rods are submerged in water, the large releases of radioactive materials should come to an end, Hutchinson said.", "When the cooling water is restored to the spent fuel pools, and the reactor is cooling and the flooding can be maintained, expectations are for a stabilization of the situation, and a major reduction of radiation emissions, he said.", "\"That's when we'll be able to say, 'We've got this under control,'\" Hutchinson said.", "Once it's been under control for a week or two, things may stabilize.", "The whole cleanup would take a matter of months or even years, Hutchinson said.", "And the site won't be usable again, said Gary Was, professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan.", "Even in the best case scenario, there will be melted fuel in the reactor that's not going to be usable, Was said.", "A real concern is the after-heat arising in the fuel rods, which need to have water cooling them, Hutchinson said.", "Unless there are much bigger releases and contaminations near the site, people may one day be able to safely get closer to Fukushima Daiichi than the current established evacuation zones, Golay said.", "The United States government has instructed Americans to stay 50 miles from the plant; for Japanese citizens, the evacuation zone is only about 12 miles.", "\"The fact that you have differing policies doesn't mean the U.S. thinks it's more dangerous,\" Golay said.", "It's simply because the U.S. is not in a position to help its citizens in Japan, he said.", "The situation at Fukushima Daiichi is worse than Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania plant that suffered a partial core meltdown in one of its reactors in 1979, Golay said.", "That's because at Fukushima Daiichi there's more radioactive material involved, and it's less contained he said.", "At the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear power plant accident, which occurred in 1986, the facility had to be sealed off with a large concrete sarcophagus.", "It's hard to say whether this will need to happen at Fukushima Daiichi, experts say.", "It all depends on the extent of the contamination, which is unknown, Was said.", "Sealing off Three Mile Island was also discussed at the time of that disaster, Kauffman said, but instead the reactor was cleaned out, with the damaged fuel and core debris shipped off-site and put into storage.", "\"We're still in the wait-and-see mode,\" Kauffman said." ]	[ "Experts: Restoring electric power is essential to stabilizing Fukushima Daiichi .", "Work is ongoing to establish a new power supply system, says TEPCO .", "It's unknown whether the plant will need to be sealed off, as Chernobyl was ." ]	[ 2, 24, 25 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- A Broadway actor injured when he fell more than 20 feet while performing a stunt in the \"Spider-Man\" musical is set to be released from a rehabilitation center this week, his father told CNN Sunday.", "Christopher Tierney, 31, was moved into the center after being discharged from New York's Bellevue Hospital on December 28.", "His father, Tim Tierney, said he isn't sure when his son will arrive at his Portsmouth, New Hampshire, home, but said he is scheduled to be released from the facility Wednesday.", "Christopher Tierney suffered four broken ribs; a hairline skull fracture; a broken scapula, or shoulder blade; a bruised lung; three cracked vertebrae; and broken bones below his elbow in the December 20 fall, the elder Tierney has said.", "Tim Tierney said his son is improving.", "\"He is up,\" he said. \"He is walking and just doing very well.\"", "He said Christopher Tierney cannot wait to return to the show, \"Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.\"", "Several of the shows were canceled following Tierney's fall, and new safety precautions were put in place before they resumed following a meeting between the show's company, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the New York State Department of Labor.", "The show, with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and Howell (aka The Edge), is the most expensive in Broadway history, but production has been beset by cast injuries and technical problems.", "Once Christopher Tierney is home, his family plans a belated Christmas celebration, Tim Tierney said.", "Jonathan Dealwis, a tourist from New Zealand, said he saw Tierney fall.", "\"Spider-Man was on a bridge, and Mary Jane was dangling from it,\" he said.", "\"I think he was meant to sort of swoop over there, but he just fell off ... the harness, you could see it just flick off his back and fly backward.\"", "CNN's Ashley Vaughan contributed to this report." ]	[ "His father says the family plans a belated Christmas celebration .", "Christopher Tierney cannot wait to return to the Broadway show, his father says .", "He says his son is up and walking ." ]	[ 6, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Dripping with tiger blood and coursing with warlock power, fired \"Two and a Half Men\" star Charlie Sheen has announced five more stops on his tour, \"My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not An Option Show.\"", "The first two shows -- in Chicago and Detroit -- sold out in minutes.", "The newly announced shows will bring the tour to Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; New York; Wallingford, Connecticut; and Boston.", "What can fans expect?", "Apparently lots of questions.", "\"Will there be surprises? Will there be guests? Will there be mayhem? Will you ask questions?", "Will you laugh? Will you scream? Will you know the truth?", "WILL THERE BE MORE?!?!\" asks the actor's website, CharlieSheen.com.", "Sheen also makes a promise in the midst of the questions.", "\"This IS where you will hear the REAL story from the Warlock.", "Bring it. I dare you to keep up with me.\" Sheen, 45, has been known for his highly publicized marital, legal and substance abuse problems as much as his acting.", "Lately he has been known for a bizarre series of rants, especially on his immensely popular Twitter account that logged 2.8 million followers in a few week's time.", "Warner Bros fired Sheen from \"Two and a Half Men\" last week after he conducted a long-running rant against the show's producers.", "Warner Bros is owned by Time Warner, which is also the parent company of CNN." ]	[ "Charlie Sheen's Twitter account has 2.8 million followers .", "The first two shows sold out in 18 minutes .", "Warner Brothers fired Sheen from the hit sitcom \"Two and a Half Men\" last week .", "Time Warner Inc. owns Warner Brothers and CNN ." ]	[ 1, 12 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A leading Senate conservative said Sunday he can accept tax reform that increases overall tax revenue as part of a comprehensive deficit reduction plan.", "Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told the NBC program \"Meet the Press\" that if lowering tax rates and eliminating loopholes and deductions ended up bringing in more money to the U.S. government, \"that would be fine with me.\"", "Asked about a pledge he signed previously against any kind of tax increase, Coburn said his more important pledge was to do what's best for the country.", "He also noted that political reality dictated the need for bipartisan support for any agreement to pass.", "\"This isn't about politics as normal,\" Coburn said.", "\"It's about making a decision now that is urgent.\"", "Coburn is one of six senators taking part in bipartisan talks on a deficit reduction blueprint.", "While they have yet to reach final agreement, the senators participating in the so-called \"Gang of Six\" want their work to serve as an impetus for both sides to meet somewhere in the middle on the deficit reduction issue.", "Another member of the Senate negotiators, Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota, told reporters that increased revenue must be part of a deficit reduction plan.", "As an example of the tax reform under discussion, Conrad told reporters the plan would limit the mortgage interest deduction to a maximum of $500,000 worth of mortgage and only on a principal residence, not a second home.", "Under current law, the amount of mortgage held by a married couple eligible for interest deduction is $1 million, and that can apply to a second home.", "The deficit reduction debate is central to two key spending issues coming up before Congress -- increasing the amount of money the government can borrow, and passing a federal budget for fiscal year 2012, which begins October 1.", "The U.S. debt is expected to hit the country's $14.3 trillion ceiling next month, though congressional leaders say the Treasury can take steps to put off the deadline until early July.", "Conservative Republicans are demanding significant deficit reduction steps attached to the debt ceiling measure before they'll vote for it.", "\"I will vote 'no' on raising the debt ceiling unless we have comprehensive, dramatic, effective and broad- based cuts to federal spending, including the reform of entitlement spending,\" Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, said on the CBS program \"Meet the Press.\"", "President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders oppose linking the debt ceiling measure to political issues, warning that a failure to raise the debt limit would amount to a U.S. default that would shake global markets, raise interest rates and stall or reverse economic recovery.", "\"We will raise the debt ceiling because the alternative, as every expert economist agrees, would be catastrophic for our economy, for our credibility around the world, for the bond markets and for the world economy,\" Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told CBS.", "\"So I think the only question is really whether raising the debt ceiling will be tied to spending reductions.\"", "However, Coburn and Republican Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois, a Tea Party conservative elected last November, rejected the Democratic argument that the debt ceiling must be raised, saying the government has enough money to pay its debt obligations, at least for a few months.", "\"It's being overstated,\" Walsh, speaking on the CBS program, said of Democratic warnings of potential economic catastrophe.", "\"Three or four times over the course of the last 20 years, Congress has voted not to raise the debt ceiling, and it's taken a few months and then they've come together and they've raised it,\" Walsh said.", "\"But over the course of those few months when the debt ceiling wasn't raised, Armageddon didn't hit.", "The government paid its bills.", "We've got enough government revenues to certainly pay -- to service all of our debt.", "And the administration knows that.\"", "So far, House Republicans have passed a 2012 budget proposal that would slash nonmilitary spending and overhaul Medicare and Medicaid while lowering tax rates with no revenue increase.", "The GOP plan drafted by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over 10 years.", "Obama and Democrats reject the Republican plan as an imbalanced approach that would put the burden of deficit reduction on senior citizens and the poor.", "Instead, Obama proposes cutting deficits by $4 billion over 12 years through cuts in both military and discretionary spending, increasing the tax burden on families making more than $250,000 a year and adjusting the Medicare and Medicaid government-run health care systems for the elderly and the poor.", "The Gang of Six negotiations focus on a deficit reduction plan compiled last year by a commission appointed by Obama that calls for increased revenue through tax reform, spending cuts in all areas and reforms to all the entitlement programs.", "Asked if the Senate talks were approaching a consensus, Conrad told NBC: \"If we don't have an agreement soon, we won't be relevant to this discussion.", "\"We intend to be relevant,\" he said, adding: \"We have made enormous progress in this group, and it is the only bipartisan effort that is under way.", "And at the end of the day, it has to be bipartisan or nothing is going to happen.\"", "CNN's Tom Cohen and Joana Godinho contributed to this story." ]	[ "NEW: Republicans reject warnings of catastrophe without a higher debt ceiling .", "Conservative senator breaks from his previous pledge of no tax increase .", "Tax reform would lower rates and end loopholes, Sen. Coburn says .", "Coburn is one of six senators in bipartisan talks on deficit reduction ." ]	[ 6, 25, 29 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Seven areas of Afghanistanwill begin to be handed over to Afghan forces to maintain their security in July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday.", "The announcement from the president marks the first step in NATO's long-awaited plan to hand over security to a series of provinces across the country, leading up to 2014 when it is expected that Afghan security forces will be in control of the whole country.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed Karzai's announcement.", "\"As we have long said, the Afghans themselves must take responsibility for their own future -- for providing security, for strengthening governance and for reaching a political solution to the conflict,\" Clinton said in a prepared statement.", "\"The United States continues to support the Afghan people as they work to build a more stable and peaceful nation, and we remain committed to the goal of a region that is free from Al Qaeda and no longer a safe haven for international terrorism.\"", "Members of NATO also applauded the announcement.", "\"This represents the next stage of Afghanistan's journey,\" said NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.", "\"We are committed not to leave any security vacuum that could breed extremism.\"", "The \"transition is a process.", "It is not flipping a switch.", "Certainly Afghans will be in the lead but we are still here and will still help,\" said Lt. Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force.", "He said the decision to begin transitioning Lashkar Gah, an area in the restless province of Helmand, was a \"testament to the progress made in the south.\"", "Areas to be handed over include parts of the capital Kabul.", "Southern regions such as Kandahar and Helmand provinces have long been major fronts in the war against the Taliban.", "In a speech last month, Karzai talked about this upcoming transition.", "During that speech, Karzai credited the influx of 70,000 international forces in 2010 for improving the situation and helping Afghan security forces.", "\"We are determined to demonstrate Afghan leadership and ownership of the transition process,\" he said.", "CNN's Matiullah Mati and journalist Nick Paton Walsh contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Secretary of State Clinton, NATO welcome news .", "The announcement is part of long-awaited plan to hand over security .", "Karzai credits the surge of international forces with improving security on the ground ." ]	[ 1, 2, 15 ]
[ "Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- A fire broke out in the Egyptian Interior Ministry on Tuesday in downtown Cairo following a protest earlier in the day.", "Flames could be seen on the roof of the multistory building, and a dark plume of smoke loomed over the city.", "People could be seen fleeing the building as it burned.", "The blaze was extinguished in under an hour.", "The ministry was the site of a peaceful protest Tuesday morning and afternoon, with thousands of ministry employees -- many of them police officers -- making demands, mainly for higher wages.", "Protesters at the building denied setting the fire, saying it originated inside.", "During the protest, some of them could be seen climbing on guard posts and the building's roof.", "\"I suspect that an electrical circuit malfunction may have caused the fire because it started at the top floors of the police communication building inside the ministry,\" said Alla Mahmoud, Interior Ministry spokesman.", "\"The protesters did not enter.\"", "He said uniforms and old furniture are stored on the top floors, which would explain the thick smoke.", "The cause of the fire was under investigation, he said, and findings will be announced Wednesday morning.", "Several firefighters suffered problems due to smoke inhalation, a Ministry of Interior spokesman said.", "Another man was rushed away from the building in an ambulance, but the cause of his injuries was not clear.", "Before the fire broke out, a procession of thousands of demonstrators made its way from the Interior Ministry through Cairo's Tahrir Square -- ground zero for protests that toppled longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last month -- and in the direction of the state television and radio offices.", "In a similar protest a few weeks ago, demonstrators set other buildings in the Interior Ministry complex ablaze, as well as cars.", "However, that fire did not grow to the size of Tuesday's blaze.", "CNN's Christine Theodorou and journalists Ian Lee and Mohamed Fahmy contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Ministry spokesman: Electrical circuit malfunction may be to blame .", "The fire has been extinguished .", "Protesters deny setting the blaze .", "The ministry was the scene of a protest earlier Tuesday ." ]	[ 3, 4, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Co-hosts India set up a much-anticipated quarterfinal clash with four-time Cricket World Cup champions Australia on Sunday, beating the West Indies by 80 runs at Chennai.", "The victory meant India finished second in Group B, while Australia ended third in Group A after their 34-match unbeaten run at the 50-over tournament was halted by table-toppers Pakistan on Saturday.", "The Windies, who had already qualified for the last eight before the concluding match of the round-robin stage, will play Pakistan in the opening knockout game in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Wednesday.", "The Indians have home advantage in Ahmedabad the following day, then Group B winners South Africa take on New Zealand in Dhaka on Friday and Group A runners-up Sri Lanka host England in Colombo on Saturday.", "Yuvraj Singh scored his first World Cup century as India posted a total of 268 at Chidambaram Stadium, being bowled out in the final allotted over.", "He collected his third man-of-the-match award of the tournament after hitting 113 off 123 balls faced, adding 122 for the third wicket with Virat Kohli (59) and then later dismissing two West Indian batsmen with his left-arm spin bowling.", "However, India lost their last eight batsmen for just 95 runs as World Cup debutant Ravi Rampaul claimed five wickets for 51 runs.", "The 26-year-old fast bowler, who had played 50 one-day internationals before this call-up in place of Kemar Roach, made an impressive start as he dismissed India's opening batsmen Sachin Tendulkar (2) and Gautam Gambhir (22).", "World record-holder Tendulkar had been seeking to score his 100th century at international level, but walked off after edging a rising delivery despite the umpire rejecting Rampaul's appeal.", "The Windies, who would have faced Australia in the quarterfinals if they had won, made a solid start in reply but then suffered a batting collapse at 154-2 in the 30th over.", "Left-arm fast bowler Zaheer Khan bowled top scorer Devon Smith for 81, while spinner Harbhajan Singh accounted for big-hitting dangerman Kieron Pollard (1) as the last eight wickets tumbled for just 34 runs.", "Khan ended with figures of 3-26, while limited-overs specialist Yuvraj chimed in with 2-18 in his 271st one-day international outing.", "\"When you lose early wickets, you need a partnership going.", "I was very happy with the way it went,\" the 29-year-old Yuvraj told reporters.", "\"I was getting stomach cramps, but wanted to bat till the end.", "Our batting is going well -- once we get the bowling and fielding going we should be okay.\"", "In Sunday's earlier Group A concluder, Zimbabwe finished on a winning note by beating fellow minnows Kenya by 161 runs in Kolkata, meaning their fellow Africans ended the tournament without a win.", "Zimbabwe scored 308-6 after batting first, with Craig Ervine top-scoring on 66 and Vusi Sibanda contributing 61, while Tatenda Taibu also made a half-century.", "The Kenyans crumbled to 147 all out in 36 overs, as slow bowlers Ray Price, Greg Lamb and Graeme Cremer each claimed two wickets." ]	[ "India beat the West Indies by 80 runs to finish second in Group B at World Cup .", "Chennai victory means the co-hosts will next face four-time champions Australia .", "Windies will play Group A winners Pakistan in Wednesday's opening quarterfinal .", "Zimbabwe beat fellow minnows Kenya by 161 runs in closing Group A match ." ]	[ 0, 1, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has told CNN Sport's Don Riddell that Michael Schumacher is still the fastest driver on the Formula One grid.", "Speaking ahead of the opening grand prix of the season in Melbourne, Australia, Alonso -- himself a double world champion -- believes that seven-time world champion Schumacher remains a cut above his rivals.", "\"If Formula One was 24 cars exactly the same, then Michael would be the driver I would fear most,\" revealed Alonso.", "\"If you look down the list of drivers on the grid for 2011, then one name stands out above the rest, Michael Schumacher.", "\"Michael is a seven-times world champion and is a legend in Formula One.", "We have to respect him because he has the ability and talent to do well this season.\"", "Despite not winning the drivers' title since 2006, Alonso confirmed that should he retire without another championship to his name, he would still be more than happy with his career.", "\"Not many drivers have had the opportunity to win one world title, let alone two.", "I have already had nine years in Formula One and hopefully have another six or seven to come,\" added the Spaniard.", "\"I could spend nearly a quarter of my life in this wonderful sport, doing what I love to do, so I consider myself lucky and am very happy.\"", "Despite this, Alonso confirmed that coming so close to his third world title last year, left him sad and frustrated.", "\"The first three or four days after the end of the season were not the best for me,\" Alonso confirmed.", "\"But I feel that Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull won the title rather than Ferrari losing it.", "\"Coming so close last year makes the team determined to go one better this time around,\" he added.", "\"Everybody at Ferrari was devastated by the result at Abu Dhabi last year but we are all very motivated now for 2011.\"" ]	[ "Fernando Alonso tells CNN that Michael Schumacher is still the best F1 driver .", "The Ferrari driver believes Schumacher remains a cut above his F1 rivals .", "Alonso confirmed he would still be satisfied even without another world title ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Some 20 years after his beating at the hands of Los Angeles police, Rodney King was pulled over in Arcadia, California, this week after allegedly running a red light, his fiancee said Thursday night.", "Cynthia Kelly said she was riding with King on Tuesday when the traffic stop occurred.", "King was then was cited for driving without a license, she said.", "Kelly was a juror in King's civil trial against the city of Los Angeles in 1994, in which he was awarded $3.8 million.", "Amateur video captured King's beating after Los Angeles police officers stopped him for speeding March 3, 1991.", "Police beat King repeatedly, delivering 56 baton blows and six kicks -- causing skull fractures, and brain and kidney damage.", "King talks to CNN about the 1991 beating .", "Four officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force but were acquitted of state charges on April 29, 1992.", "The three days of rioting that followed in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities left 55 people dead and 2,000 injured.", "There were 12,000 arrests and about $1 billion in property damage in Los Angeles.", "Two of the officers, Sgt.", "Stacey Koon and officer Laurence Powell, were later convicted of federal civil rights violations.", "Since then, King has had a handful of run-ins with the law, including a guilty plea in 2004 to driving under the influence of a controlled substance and reckless driving.", "In a recent interview with CNN's Don Lemon, King said he forgave the officers involved in the 1991 beating.", "\"I've been given a break many times in life, everybody's entitled to a break,\" King said.", "\"I didn't die, you know what I mean?\"", "CNN's Jeff Reid contributed to this report ." ]	[ "King is cited for driving without a license .", "Twenty years ago, King was beaten by police after he was stopped for speeding .", "Rioting followed after the four officers charged in the beating were acquitted .", "King has had a handful of run-ins with the law since then ." ]	[ 2, 4, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet's nucleus.", "Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, broadcast live coverage of the event on NASA Television's Media Channel.", "Controllers broke into applause after hearing of the success.", "The agency's EPOXI Deep Impact spacecraft was expected to use two imagers and an infrared instrument to acquire data about a tiny comet named Hartley 2 as it traveled at speeds of more than 27,000 miles per hour.", "Scientists are still working to determine whether there was any damage to the spacecraft as the peanut-shaped comet passed by.", "They hope to learn to more about comets from five images detailing the close approach.", "\"Those early images may not be the 'money shot,' but we on the science team will prize them just as well, as they will help us further understand the nature of comets,\" said EPOXI principal investigator Mike A'Hearn of the University of Maryland, College Park, in a NASA statement.", "\"We certainly have our hands full.", "The images are full of great cometary data, and that's what we hoped for.\"", "The images are expected to depict the comet nucleus as little more than a point of light with a fuzzy coma, a gaseous cloud, surrounding it.", "\"It was just incredible,\" Ed Weiler, associate administrator of the Science Missions Directorate for NASA, said of the encounter.", "Five years after NASA launched an 800-pound projectile into a comet in an effort to study its contents, the same spacecraft that launched the missile tracked Hartley 2 on Thursday.", "It is the first spacecraft to have visited two comets.", "NASA officials expressed hope that such missions will inspire young people to get into the field of space exploration." ]	[ "Comet Hartley 2 passes just 435 miles from spacecraft .", "EPOXI Deep Impact is the first spacecraft to have visited two comets .", "Scientists hope to learn more about comets from close imagery ." ]	[ 5, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Best-selling author Jennifer Egan is having, by all accounts, a great week.", "She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel \"A Visit from the Goon Squad.\"", "She made a deal with HBO to potentially turn the book into a TV series, and she won a spot on Time magazine's 100 most influential list.", "CNN talked to the author about her success.", "The following is an edited transcript.", "CNN: Congratulations on your Pulitzer Prize.", "It's a well-deserved honor.", "What were you doing when you received the news?", "Egan: I was just sitting down to lunch at a neighborhood restaurant when I heard the news.", "My first reaction was flat-out disbelief.", "I kept asking my publicist, \"Are you sure?\"", "It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like \"Goon Squad\" could win an award like that.", "It's such an iconic honor.", "I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.", "CNN: How did \"Goon Squad\" come about?", "What was the genesis or idea that inspired you to write your latest award-winning novel?", "Egan: The entry point for me was very much what it is for the reader; I was in a hotel bathroom, looked down and saw a wallet lying exposed in a woman's bag.", "I've had my wallet stolen many times and ways in my life -- through carelessness, oblivion or just plain being a sucker -- and when I saw that wallet, I thought, \"Oh, no!", "Someone will take it!\"", "Since I was the only person in a position to so, my mind made one of the fictional leaps that I live for: Someone would take the wallet.", "Who? And why? I began writing from that moment, and the rest followed fairly intuitively; a peripheral character in one chapter would catch my eye, and I'd think, \"Who is that person?", "What does his or her inner world look like?\"", "CNN: Your novel is filled with interesting and unusual characters; do you ever base them on other people?", "Egan: I almost never use real people; in fact, I find that quite hard to do.", "So I feel as if I'm making everyone up, that they have nothing to do with me or my life.", "I think thinking that actually helps me to write about them.", "But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her -- and by \"identify,\" I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be.", "In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.", "CNN: I have to ask about the PowerPoint chapter.", "It may be the most creative part of an already inventive book.", "What was behind it? Egan: I started wanted to try writing fiction in PowerPoint in the summer of 2008, after reading in an article about the Obama campaign's turnaround.", "A PowerPoint presentation within the campaign was credited with a change of strategy.", "In the old days, it would have been called a \"memo\" or a \"paper\" or even a \"presentation.\"", "But now it was called a PowerPoint -- actually branded!", "That really struck me.", "I thought, \"could this ubiquitous program work for fiction?\"", "Still, there were obstacles to my using PowerPoint: I had never used it before, didn't own it or have enough memory on my laptop to hold it.", "So my first attempts at writing fiction in PowerPoint occurred by hand!", "Only months later, when I'd finally bought the program and begun to work in it, did I begin to suspect that what had really been driving me toward it all along was a sense that it could provide a kind of microcosm of \"Goon Squad\": a series of moments separated by gaps, or pauses, which add up to one story in the end.", "That chapter ended up feeling like the heart of the whole book.", "CNN: You've received widespread critical and public praise for your books.", "How much importance do you give to all the accolades and reviews of your work?", "Are you more interested in what your fans have to say?", "Egan: It's amazing to connect with fans, especially because I write slowly, and often with a sense that it will be a miracle if the book I'm working on is ever finished or publishable.", "Winning prizes is a new experience for me, and I'm especially hopeful that the prizes might help me find a wider audience for \"Goon Squad,\" which struggled in the marketplace early in its publication.", "But I'm also keenly aware that many, many worthy books don't win prizes, and that there's a lot of luck involved.", "I think I got very lucky with \"Goon Squad.\"", "CNN: What prompted you to become a writer, and did you ever envision this level of success?", "Egan: I still don't envision this level of success!", "What has always driven me is a love of writing itself.", "I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do.", "But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.", "I've known that writing was essential to me since I was about 18.", "Between high school and college, I took a year off, saved up money and went to Europe with a backpack in the summer of 1981.", "It wasn't easy being in my own company for several weeks at that age, but somehow it made me realize that I wanted to be a writer.", "CNN: Do you have a daily routine, a schedule or a ritual when you're writing a book?", "I understand you like to write and edit your work by hand?", "Egan: I write and edit fiction by hand, it's true; journalism, I write on a computer.", "I don't know if the handwriting is so much a ritual as a necessary part of my process; I tend to write my first drafts in a fairly blind state, without a clear plan, and the handwriting helps me to generate the most interesting material.", "My best hours are usually in the morning, and I like to write leaning back, rather than at a desk, so I often sit in a soft chair.", "Unfortunately, that means that I often nap while writing!", "CNN: Can you tell us what you're reading right now or what authors inspire you?", "Egan: I've just finished re-reading \"The Tombs of Atuan\" by Ursula Le Guin.", "My 10-year-old son loved it and wanted me to read it, and I had little memory of my first reading as a teenager.", "She's a fantastic writer; such a huge imaginative reach, coupled with a really lovely sense of language.", "We're going to read \"A Wizard of Earthsea\" together next.", "Before that I read Emma Donoghue's \"Room,\" which absolutely flattened me, it was so good.", "For \"Goon Squad,\" I was inspired by Proust's big novel, \"In Search of Lost Time.\"", "I read it over years with a group of peers and feel a bit as if I'd lived inside it (I think we had five children among us in our years of reading it!)", "Other inspirations: Edith Wharton's \"The House of Mirth\" (one of my favorite books ever), Robert Stone, Virginia Woolf and the great 19th-century storytellers, especially Dickens, George Eliot and Zola.", "CNN: In addition to your career as a novelist, you're also a successful journalist.", "Do you have any plans to return to nonfiction writing?", "Egan: I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities.", "It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.", "CNN: What's next for you? Egan: There was a novel I was actually trying to start when I got sidetracked by that wallet and ended up writing \"Goon Squad.\"", "I hope I can still sink into that other book.", "It's new territory for me; historical fiction, set in New York during and after World War II.", "I'm especially interested in women who built and repaired ships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard near my house.", "There were thousands of women working there during the war, doing jobs like welding and riveting that would have been unthinkable for women before that.", "I've had the honor of working on an oral history project that involved interviewing women who worked at the Navy Yard, most of whom are in their 80s now.", "When the war ended, the men came home, and the women were all fired -- expected to return to traditionally feminine jobs or not work at all.", "It seems like such rich material; I hope I can come up with some fictional way to bring it to life!", "\"A Visit from the Goon Squad\" also won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award and is a finalist for the Pen Faulkner Award, the LA Times Book Prize and the UK's Orange Prize.", "You can find out more about Egan on her website." ]	[ "Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel \"A Visit from the Goon Squad\"\nEgan also just landed a spot on Time's 100 most influential list .", "Egan's inspiration for \"Goon Squad\": She saw a wallet lying exposed in a woman's bag .", "The author works in a very low-tech fashion ." ]	[ 1, 2, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The body of an Idaho miner trapped when the roof of the mine he was working in collapsed nine days ago was recovered Sunday afternoon, the company that owns and operates the mine said.", "\"Words cannot express the deep sorrow we feel at the tragic loss of our friend, colleague and 30-year veteran of the mining industry.", "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, loved ones and friends,\" Hecla Mining Company said in a statement announcing that the body of Larry Marek had been recovered.", "Earlier Sunday, the company had said it believed that Marek, a Hecla employee for more than 12 years, was dead.", "Rescue workers had been digging through rocky earth more than 6,000 feet underground in an attempt to reach Marek, 53, following the April 15 collapse at the silver and mineral mine outside Mullan, Idaho.", "Marek was one of two men working in that part of the Lucky Friday mine when a 10-foot by 20-foot section of mostly rock fell on him, said Hecla's President and CEO Phil Baker.", "This all occurred roughly 6,150 feet below the Earth's surface.", "While the other man -- who has not been identified -- got out unharmed, there was no contact from Marek.", "Baker said earlier the cause of the collapse had not been determined, promising an investigation \"after the rescue efforts are complete.\"", "Numerous special bolts and chain-link fence are used to keep the ground above the affected mine in place.", "Marek was trapped in a part of the mine where ore is removed and far from either of two possible exits, neither of which was adversely affected by the collapse, according to Baker.", "Lucky Friday is a \"deep underground silver, lead and zinc mine,\" according to Hecla's website.", "It has been in operation since 1942.", "Hecla has 275 of its employees routinely working at the mine, in addition to about 100 contractors, according to a company statement.", "Its website describes the Coeur d'Alene-based company, founded in 1891, as the \"largest and lowest-cost silver producer\" in the United States." ]	[ "Larry Marek, 53, was trapped when the roof of the mine collapsed .", "Marek was a 12-year employee of Hecla Mining Company .", "The cause of the collapse has not been determined ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- International regulators need to rethink their procedures for handling nuclear accidents in the wake of the crisis in Japan, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Monday.", "The current framework for responding to emergencies dates back to the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and \"reflects the realities of the 1980s, not of the 21st century,\" International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said.", "\"The speed at which information now travels and the huge volume of information in public circulation are among the most significant changes since then,\" Amano said.", "\"Live television and the internet provide constant updates on a crisis situation -- not always accurately -- to a global audience.", "The responsibility of the IAEA is to provide authoritative and validated information as quickly as possible, but doing this under the current arrangements inevitably takes time and has limitations.\"", "Amano said the first priority remains cooling down the damaged reactors at the earthquake- and tsunami-battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.", "But he said authorities should move to revise their playbooks for similar crises \"in a reasonable amount of time,\" and an April conference on nuclear safety would be a good opportunity to start.", "Amano, the IAEA director-general, briefed the agency's governing board in Vienna after a trip back to his native Japan.", "During that visit, he pressed Prime Minister Naoto Kan to provide more information on conditions at Fukushima Daiichi, where three of the six reactors may have suffered core damage since the March 11 earthquake that struck northern Japan.", "Japan's government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the damaged plant, have been criticized for failing to share information about conditions there fully and promptly.", "In Washington, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said information coming out of Japan \"is sometimes conflicting, and certainly isn't at the level that any engineer would like to have to do a thorough analysis.\"", "\"I don't believe we have anywhere near a clear understanding of what the plant conditions are like within the reactor building -- what kinds of electrical cabling has been damaged, what kinds of pumps and valves remain operable is a significant unknown right now, \" NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, whose agency has sent specialists to Japan to assist with the effort, said Monday.", "Amano told reporters Monday that information coming from Tokyo now is \"more extensive,\" and that damaged instruments at the plant may have prevented Tokyo Electric or Japanese regulators from having all the facts.", "However, when asked whether the response to the accident was quick enough, he said it was \"difficult to say.\"", "\"We had the information. But I personally think understanding the context was not that easy, and that was one of the reasons I went there,\" Amano said." ]	[ "Current procedures were developed after Chernobyl, the IAEA's chief says .", "Those plans reflect \"the realities of the 1980s, not the 21st century,\" he says .", "He urges the release of more information about the Japanese situation ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Snow began falling over Colorado and Kansas on Tuesday as yet another round of winter weather began marching across the United States barely a week after a record-setting winter storm roared across the Midwest.", "A powerful weather system poised over the Rockies is forecast to dump several feet of snow in the Mountain West and up to 10 inches in some parts of Oklahoma, forecasters said.", "Much of Oklahoma is under a winter storm warning, but snow and sleet are predicted as far south as central Texas, with 2 to 4 inches expected to coat the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the National Weather Service said.", "Later in the week, the system is expected to bring rain and snow to many areas of the Deep South before delivering a wintry mix along portions of the East Coast by Thursday.", "Snow is expected to spread into Oklahoma and north Texas on Wednesday and into Wednesday night, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen.", "By Wednesday, it also will begin spreading into the Southeast.", "Cities like Memphis, Tennessee, and Little Rock, Arkansas, could see 4 to 8 inches of snow, while lesser amounts are expected in Nashville; Birmingham, Alabama; and Atlanta.", "Bitterly cold temperatures will lock the center of the country in the deep freeze as the system moves east.", "\"Maximum temperature departures are expected to run 30 to 40 degrees below average for the central U.S. (Tuesday) with the same departures sinking south into Oklahoma and north Texas on Wednesday,\" the Weather Service said.", "Rain is likely across most of the Southeast on Wednesday and Wednesday night.", "Scattered snow is expected in the Great Lakes region Wednesday.", "A historic storm left its mark on at least 30 states last week, dumping about 2 feet of snow on the Chicago area and prompting Oklahoma's governor to declare a state of emergency.", "Another winter system at the end of the week left central and southern Texas a mess.", "Ice caused 800 crashes across the Houston metropolitan area and many freeways were closed because they were too dangerous to navigate, CNN affiliate KPRC reported.", "Hundreds of flights were canceled as the winter weather threatened the plans of Super Bowl enthusiasts headed for the game last Sunday in Arlington, Texas." ]	[ "Snow forecast from the Rockies into the mid-South by Wednesday .", "Much of Oklahoma is under a winter storm warning .", "The latest storm follows last week's historic weather system ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Pippa Mann is hoping to make history after becoming the first female British driver to enter the prestigious Indianapolis 500 race.", "The Londoner is among 42 entries for the 100th anniversary of the U.S. motorsport event next month, and joins three other women vying for one of 33 available grid slots.", "2010 IndyCar Rookie of the Year Simona De Silvestro of Switzerland, Brazilian Ana Beatriz and American Danica Patrick will also be among competitors going through a series of qualifying tests the week before the May 29 race.", "The 27-year-old Mann will make her debut in the 500-mile IZOD IndyCar Series, it was announced on Tuesday, driving the number 36 car for the Conquest Racing team at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.", "Mann, who made her first test in an IndyCar in March, will be joined by Colombian driver Sebastian Saavedra to complete Conquest Racing's line-up for the event.", "\"I'm really excited to be entering the Indy 500,\" Mann told CNN.", "\"Obviously it's always good to be the first to do something.", "If I can encourage other British women to compete at this level, then that's an added bonus.", "\"There are a lot of entries for the race this year, so it's a somewhat interesting time to be a rookie, but my qualifying record on super speedways is good and I'm definitely up for the challenge.\"", "Conquest Racing team owner Eric Bachelart said Mann is a \"natural\" on oval track racing, and proved her competency when she tested for Conquest in Texas earlier this year.", "Mann was the 2010 Freedom 100 pole-sitter, and the first and only woman to win a pole position at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.", "The U.S. resident joins the IZOD IndyCar Series following a successful Firestone Indy Lights campaign with Sam Schmidt Motorsports in 2010, where Mann earned three pole positions, finishing fifth in the drivers' championship." ]	[ "Pippa Mann hoping to become the first British woman to race in Indianapolis 500 .", "The Londoner will attempt to qualify for Conquest Racing team next month .", "Mann is one of four women and 42 overall entries in Indy 500's centennial edition .", "She believes her qualifying record on super speedways will help earn one of 33 places ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A year after the onset of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, one of the most prominent Louisiana figures dealing with the disaster's aftermath remains frustrated.", "\"A year later, I can't look you in the eye and tell you who's in charge,\" Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said in an interview with CNN's \"In The Arena\" host Eliot Spitzer.", "\"They've changed out so many BP and Coast Guard people, just when you get somebody you think you can trust and make promises about cleaning...they're gone.\"", "Nungesser pointed out that oil remains in the marshes.", "He admitted that although the amount of the oil is not at the same level as it was during the crisis, the oil continues to hit the shores of Louisiana, especially when a storm approaches the coast.", "\"The oil is being picked up off the bottom of Bay Jimmy, slammed into the marsh.", "It's killed the grass.", "There's nothing to hold the mud together.\"", "Nungesser added, .", "\"We've begged for bank stabilization,...nothing's really been done out here.\"", "Gulf waters reopened for fishing .", "In a BP video, \"A Year of Change,\" Group Chief Executive Bob Dudley apologizes for the crisis and highlights what BP did in solving the problem.", "\"In everything we've done since that day, we've tried to act as a responsible company should.", "The short film explains what we've done.\"", "Dudley says, .", "\"It shows how we responded to the accident.", "How we acted to stop the leak.", "It shows how we worked with thousands of local people to clean the ocean and the shoreline.\"", "Two months after the Gulf oil spill, BP agreed to create a $20 billion fund to help victims who were affected by the oil spill.", "Since the incident, BP has reportedly spent over $16 billion in claims and clean up.", "'Extreme energy' is the new wave .", "Spitzer pushed Nungesser to address reports of elected officials profiting off the recovery efforts.", "\"Anybody that took advantage of it should be prosecuted,\" Nungesser said.", "\"But let's not throw the attention.\"", "Nungesser said he wanted better transparency as to what is being done to continue the recovery of the Gulf Coast.", "\"We need full disclosure by BP and the Coast Guard, so this never happens again,\" said Nungesser." ]	[ "Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser is among those dealing with the spill .", "\"A year later, I can't look you in the eye and tell you who's in charge,\" he says .", "Oil continues to hit the shores of Louisiana, Nungesser tells CNN's Eliot Spitzer .", "\"We need full disclosure by BP and the Coast Guard, so this never happens again\"" ]	[ 1, 14, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Prosecutors in Maryland are weighing whether to bring additional charges against the two suspects who appear to be attacking a transgender woman at a McDonald's in a videotape made by one of the restaurant's employees, officials said Monday.", "The video, which went viral last week, shows two women kicking, punching and dragging another woman across the floor of the Baltimore restaurant.", "A store employee and a patron attempt to intervene, with limited success.", "Someone off-camera can be heard laughing, another yells \"Stop!\"", "several times during the attack and at one point, a voice can be heard telling the suspects, \"Y'all need to go before the police come.\"", "The video ends with the victim shaking uncontrollably on the floor.", "Authorities said the alleged attack took place on April 18 at a McDonald's in Rosedale, on the outskirts of Baltimore.", "Officers were dispatched to the restaurant for a fight and discovered a 22-year-old female who appeared to be having a seizure, according to the Baltimore County police department.", "Witnesses told officers that the victim, identified by authorities as Chrissy Lee Polis, had been attacked by two teenage suspects.", "One of the suspects was 14 and charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault, according to police.", "The other suspect was 18 and charged with one count of first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault, police said.", "The motive for the attack was not immediately clear, though one of the suspects is cited in a police report as saying the fight was \"over using the bathroom.\"", "A Maryland rights group, which is planning a vigil in support of Polis Monday night, said the attack was likely motivated by Polis being a transgender woman.", "\"No person ever deserves to be a victim of violence regardless of their gender identity or presentation.", "We encourage the state's Attorney General to investigate this as a hate crime based on gender identity,\" said Equality Maryland Board President Chuck Butler.", "Baltimore County police spokesman Lt. Robert McCullough said the state attorney's office is reviewing the case to see whether it merits additional charges.", "If the suspects are charged with a hate crime, they could face an extra 10 years in prison, in addition to whatever sentences they might get for the assault, plus an extra $10,000 fine, he said.", "Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger said his office was aware of the case and will make a determination soon as to whether more charges will be filed -- against the suspects and perhaps against other people.", "He declined to comment on whether the case was being investigated as a possible hate crime.", "The victim's mother, Renee Carr, told a producer for HLN's \"Dr. Drew\" that her daughter is devastated by the ordeal.", "Polis did not immediately respond to requests seeking comment.", "\"She's humiliated. They thought it was hilarious.", "The reason they did this is because she's an outcast, she doesn't fit in,\" said Carr.", "\"All my daughter wanted to do was use the bathroom.\"", "McDonald's released a statement condemning the attack.", "It said the employee responsible for the video is no longer with the company and that \"appropriate action regarding other employees will take place as warranted.\"", "\"We want to reassure our customers that your neighborhood McDonald's is a safe, welcoming place for everyone.", "We share our customers' concern.", "We are doing everything possible to make sure the right thing is done,\" McDonald's said.", "CNN's Dana Ford and HLN's Sarah Carden contributed to this report." ]	[ "A transgender woman was allegedly beaten outside a bathroom by two female suspects .", "One 14-year-old suspect was charged as a juvenile .", "The attack was caught on videotape by a McDonald's employee .", "The state attorney's office is reviewing the case to see whether more charges are appropriate ." ]	[ 0, 9, 15 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- As the mainstream tablet war rages, a similar device battle is heating up in the restaurant industry.", "Tablets that take orders, entertain guests and accept check payments are coming to a table near you.", "One company that is selling those tablets, E la Carte, announced on Tuesday that it has raised more than $1 million in funding from prominent investors like Y Combinator, Dave McClure and SV Angel.", "The company will soon be launching tablets in 20 restaurants on the West coast.", "It also has a partnership with a large restaurant chain in the pipeline that hasn't been announced yet -- but the fact that Applebee's executives participated in the funding round might provide a hint.", "Why the interest in providing every table with their own touch-screen tablet?", "For starters, people buy more food when they can do so instantly, without waiting for service.", "In the six restaurants that ran a pilot scheme, according to CEO Rajat Suri, customers at E la Carte tables spent 10% to 12% more than those at other tables.", "E la Carte tablets allow customers to browse a full menu and communicate their orders directly to the kitchen.", "They come loaded with social games and a calculator for check splits and tips.", "They also allow customers to email themselves a receipt or instantly sign up for a loyalty club.", "In high-end restaurants, the tablet can suggest an appropriate wine pairing for a meal.", "Eventually, E la Carte might offer restaurants the option to compile data about their customers' preferences as they use the device.", "Some restaurants have attempted similar functionality by loading their menus onto iPads or asking customers to download an app onto their own devices.", "The iPad's problem in this situation: its minimum $499 price tag.", "Restaurants that can afford menus that expensive aren't casual restaurants, like Applebee's, where a digital ordering system seems more appropriate.", "Asking users to download an app like Storific poses the problem that not everybody carries a smartphone.", "Even those who do might not want to pause and download an app as they sit down to lunch.", "A dedicated device, which E la Carte plans to install for a price that is \"significantly lower\" than the iPad, seems to be a more promising way for the tech world to break into the $6 billion U.S. restaurant industry.", "Other companies are already in this game.", "Tabletop Media makes a similar tabletop product that it began to deploy in 2008.", "The company has established customers with chains like Chili's Uno's Chicago Grill, and California Pizza Kitchen and will be in 250 stores by the end of the summer.", "Both E la Carte and Tabletop Media charge the restaurants a monthly fee to use a network of devices.", "\"It's propelling the restaurant industry into the Internet age,\" Suri says.", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "E la Carte tablets allow customers to browse a full menu and talk with the kitchen .", "The company will soon be launching tablets in 20 restaurants on the West coast .", "They come loaded with social games and a calculator for check splits and tips ." ]	[ 3, 8, 9 ]
[ "Cairo (CNN) -- Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was complicit in shootings of anti-regime protesters during a period of upheaval in the country, a member of an official fact-checking commission said Tuesday.", "\"Whether the president gave the official order or remained silent knowing the shooting of protesters would take place, he is responsible for the 846 protesters who died during the January 25 revolution, especially since the killing started from Day One,\" said Judge Omar Marawan, the commission's secretary-general.", "Marawan held a press conference after the release of the commission's report, which said 846 civilians and 26 policemen were killed during 18 days of protests that led to Mubarak's resignation on February 11.", "The report focused on the killing and injury of demonstrators during the unrest in an effort to disperse them; what it said was the intentional opening of prisons, leaving a security vacuum; and the government's manipulation of the media.", "It also issued recommendations as the country moves forward.", "The commission watched videos that confirmed several prisons were opened by security forces, according to the report.", "Members also concluded that police used extreme force against protesters and fired shots at people who were trying to film the unrest from balconies and windows.", "In addition, the report accused police of intentionally running over protesters with vehicles.", "The commission's role was to compile information about the events and hand over their findings to the general prosecutor.", "Prosecutors have questioned Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former vice president and intelligence chief, the general prosecutor's office confirmed Tuesday, about events that took place during his brief period as vice president." ]	[ "846 protesters and 26 policemen died during Egypt's unrest, commission says .", "The commission report says security forces intentionally opened prisons .", "Those who were trying to film the unrest were shot at, according to the report ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World No. 1 Rafael Nadal continued his winning ways on clay as he reached the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open with a 6-3 6-1 win over Colombia's Santiago Giraldo on Thursday.", "The Spaniard's serve was surprisingly broken early by his 54th-ranked opponent, but from 3-3 he dominated the match to set up a clash with French seventh seed Gael Monfils.", "The 24-year-old has now won 31 consecutive matches on his favored surface, with his last defeat inflicted by Robin Soderling at the 2009 French Open.", "He already holds the record on clay for his 81-match winning run from 2005-07.", "Nadal missed last year's event in the Catalan capital but won the title the previous five years, and now has a record there of 27-1.", "He has a tour-leading 26 match victories this season -- two ahead of Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, who are not in the draw.", "Nadal begins Barcelona bid in style .", "\"I will be playing against one of best players in the world who has reached the semifinals at Roland Garros, so it will be a tough match,\" Nadal said of Friday's clash with Monfils.", "The 24-year-old Monfils, who reached the last four at the French Open in 2008, moved into the last eight with a 6-4 7-6 (9-7) victory over ninth-seeded compatriot Richard Gasquet.", "Monfils, ranked ninth, lost in the last 16 at Monte Carlo in his first match in two months following a wrist injury suffered in San Jose which meant he could not take the court for his semifinal in the U.S. event.", "Fourth seed David Ferrer, who lost to Nadal in the final in the principality on Sunday, reached the last eight with a 6-3 6-2 win over Romania's Victor Hanescu.", "The 29-year-old next faces a rematch with Jurgen Melzer, who he beat in the semis on Saturday.", "The Austrian sixth seed progressed after coming from behind to beat Ferrer's 11th-seeded compatriot Albert Montanes 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-2.", "The winner of Friday's Ferrer-Melzer clash will face a Spaniard in the semifinals, with veteran Juan Carlos Ferrero and Nicolas Almagro also going through.", "Former world No.", "1 Ferrero, playing his first event since last September's U.S. Open following wrist and knee surgery, battled past Italy's Simone Vagnozzi 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-4.", "The 31-year-old won this tournament in 2001 and was runner-up four years later when Nadal embarked on his streak of titles.", "Eighth seed Almagro ended the hopes of former world No.", "3 Nikolay Davydenko, beating the the 29-year-old Russian 7-6 (7-2) 6-3.", "Almagro, 25, won two lower-level events on clay in South America in February before losing a final in Mexico.", "Another Spaniard, Feliciano Lopez, continued his country's dominance by joining Nadal, Ferrer, Ferrero and Almagro in the last eight.", "The 29-year-old left-hander beat Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-4 7-6 (7-5) to set up a clash with Croatia's 56th-ranked Ivan Dodic, who knocked out young Canadian 15th seed 7-6 (7-0) 4-6 6-3.", "Meanwhile, women's No.", "1 Caroline Wozniacki marched into the semifinals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart after a 6-4 6-1 win over home hope Andrea Petkovic on Thursday.", "The German, ranked 19th, led 4-2 in the opening set but Wozniacki fought back to avenge last month's defeat at the Miami Masters.", "The 20-year-old Dane will next play Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, who beat German wild-card entry Kristina Barrois 7-5 6-3.. Last year's runner-up Samantha Stosur also reached the last four as the fifth seed upset world No.", "3 Vera Zvonareva, beating the Russian 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3) in two and a half hours.", "The Australian, losing finalist in last year's French Open, will next face Julia Gorges -- who beat fellow German Sabine Lisicki 6-4 6-4." ]	[ "Top-ranked Rafael Nadal extends his unbeaten run on clay to 31 matches .", "Spaniard sets up quarterfinal clash with seventh seed Gael Monfils in Barcelona .", "David Ferrer to play Jurgen Melzer in rematch of Monte Carlo semifinals .", "Last year's runner-up Sam Stosur beats women's No.", "3 Vera Zvonareva in Stuttgart ." ]	[ 1, 10, 16, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Somali pirates released a chemical tanker after holding it for more than four months, the European Union's naval protection force said Thursday.", "The MV Hannibal II was seized November 11 off the Horn of Africa, EU NAVFOR said.", "All 30 members of the crew of the Panama-flagged vessel are safe and in good health, the naval force said, citing the owner of the ship.", "The waters off the coast of largely lawless Somalia have become a danger zone for ships in the past several years as pirates seize them for ransom.", "EU NAVFOR did not say if a ransom had been paid for the Hannibal II." ]	[ "The MV Hannibal's crew is safe and in good health, the ship owner says .", "The waters off Somalia are dangerous for ships due to piracy ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A female correctional officer at a Washington state prison was strangled and an inmate who told officers he had planned to escape is under investigation, authorities said Sunday.", "Jayme Biendl, 34, was discovered late Saturday night after workers at the Monroe Correctional Complex noticed her keys and radio were missing, according to a statement from the Washington State Department of Corrections.", "Staff at the prison immediately went to where she worked and found her unresponsive, it said.", "Emergency responders declared Biendl dead at the scene shortly before 11 p.m. PT, the department said.", "She had been strangled, according to Chad Lewis, a department spokesman.", "Also Saturday night, a prison inmate was reported missing during a routine count, the department said.", "He was later found in the chapel lobby and told officers he had planned to escape, but changed his mind.", "The inmate, who Lewis identified as Byron Scherf, has since been taken to a segregation unit.", "The entire complex was on lockdown Sunday as officers investigate the incident, the statement said.", "Police are interviewing Scherf as a suspect in the officer's death, Lewis said.", "Biendl had worked with the corrections department since 2002." ]	[ "Jayme Biendl had worked with the corrections department since 2002 .", "She was found strangled, with her keys and radio missing .", "An inmate who told officers he had planned to escape is considered a suspect ." ]	[ 0, 10 ]

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