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"(CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is \"recovering well\" after skull surgery Wednesday, officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston said.",
"The Arizona Democrat had a cranioplasty procedure, officials said.",
"Doctors will discuss the procedure and Giffords' next step in rehabilitation at a Thursday morning press briefing.",
"Jared Lee Loughner is accused of opening fire outside a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket where Giffords was meeting with constituents in January.",
"Six people -- including a federal judge -- were killed and 13 others were wounded in the attack.",
"After the shooting, surgeons in Arizona cut a hole in Giffords' skull to give her brain space to temporarily swell.",
"The congresswoman later was transported to Houston for further treatment and rehab.",
"Dr. Dong Kim told CNN's Elizabeth Cohen before the surgery he would implant a piece of synthetic bone made specially for the congresswoman.",
"\"More than just getting the bone back, it is a marker for where we are\" in Giffords' recovery, the neurosurgeon said.",
"Kim told Cohen that a shunt may have to be inserted to carry excess fluids from the brain to the abdominal cavity."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- The nightmare in Libya's war-torn city of Misrata intensified Monday amid more shelling on the city and desperate measures to get medical care, an opposition spokesman said.",
"\"The aid coming from outside is not enough.",
"There is no hospital,\" said the spokesman, who wanted to be identified only as \"Mohammed\" for safety reasons.",
"He said 23 people were killed and 104 were injured in shelling Sunday in Misrata.",
"Another person was killed and nine were injured Monday, Mohammed said.",
"\"The shelling and destruction by Gadhafi's forces has not stopped since yesterday,\" he said.",
"\"They are shelling mortar shells, cluster bombs and splinter mortar shells.",
"The splinter mortar shells explode and throw lethal shrapnel, which has caused most of the tragedies.\"",
"The shelling was happening around residential and industrial areas of Misrata, the witness said.",
"Monday's shelling also fell on the city's critical port area, Misrata's lifeline to humanitarian aid.",
"With a city hospital taken over by pro-government forces, makeshift clinics have popped up to treat the wounded.",
"And in a city where access to food, water and electricity has been scarce, Mohammed said, people have been using cell phones for light during surgery.",
"Latest developments, country by country .",
"\"(With) all of this happening, we haven't seen NATO,\" Mohammed said, referring to the alliance that has led airstrikes against Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi's military resources.",
"\"There have been no strike for four days in Misrata.\"",
"Misrata residents are \"disappointed and let down\" by NATO, he said.",
"\"They hear NATO flying above, but Gadhafi's forces do not run from them anymore.",
"Gadhafi's forces are not threatened by NATO anymore.",
"The NATO planes are circulating as the destruction continues.\"",
"As the battle between pro-Gadhafi forces and rebels demanding an end to Gadhafi's four-decade rule forges ahead, a United Nations official said Monday that her meeting with Gadhafi regime members did not end with a promise to stop attacks.",
"Map: Libya's civil war .",
"Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, spoke to reporters Monday in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi.",
"She said she visited Gadhafi regime officials in Tripoli on Sunday.",
"\"Let me be absolutely clear.",
"I got no guarantees with respect to my call for the overall cessation of hostilities to enable people to move, to enable us to deliver supplies,\" Amos said.",
"\"I did get an assurance from the government to carry out a needs assessment in Misrata.\"",
"She added, \"I have to say, in that instance, we got no guarantees at all that the violence would cease.\"",
"iReport: Unrest in the Arab world .",
"Britain will help 5,000 people trapped in Misrata \"escape the besieged city and will provide vital medical assistance to those who remain in towns across western Libya,\" the UK Mission to the United Nations announced Monday.",
"The evacuations \"will get foreign workers who have managed to reach Misrata's port safely out of the town,\" the mission said in a statement.",
"Meanwhile, a British official met with U.N. leaders Monday to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Libya.",
"\"Agencies working inside (Misrata) report shortages of critical supplies and attacks targeted against civilians and medical facilities,\" according to a statement from the UK's Department for International Development.",
"The statement said International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell would travel to the United Nations for \"urgent talks\" Monday.",
"Misrata isn't the only city deluged by violence.",
"On Sunday, forces loyal to Gadhafi shelled the city of Ajdabiya from 40-50 kilometers (25-31 miles) away, Libyan rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said.",
"The loyalists who were targeting the city \"have no problem with the weather conditions there,\" referring to unconfirmed reports that NATO airstrikes were halted in the area due to weather conditions.",
"Gadhafi's forces were using missiles and mortars, \"and sometimes we feel that NATO wants to use any excuse out there so they don't carry out their duties,\" Abdulmolah said.",
"Read CNN Arabic's coverage .",
"\"We can't understand (NATO's) excuses.",
"We want to save our population from being murdered by (Gadhafi's) merciless death squads,\" he added.",
"NATO did not immediately respond to a CNN inquiry about its operations Sunday.",
"Earlier, however, the NATO press office said that it does not discuss ongoing operations and would not confirm or deny any reports.",
"An official report from NATO said the alliance conducted 142 sorties on Saturday, of which 42 were strike sorties.",
"NATO is operating under a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to protect Libyan civilians.",
"The alliance has said Gadhafi's forces started hiding resources in civilian areas, making airstrikes much more difficult to carry out without harming civilians.",
"Misrata remained in control of the rebels Sunday, Abdulmolah said, though they were fighting about 200 to 300 Gadhafi troops inside the city.",
"Rebel fighters pushed Gadhafi's squads back to a shoe factory, from where they were shelling residential areas in the city, he said.",
"NATO refused to bomb the shoe factory because it is a civilian facility, he said.",
"In the end, the rebels pushed the loyalists out of the shoe factory, which they burned.",
"Despite the incessant struggle, Abdulmolah said he was optimistic the rebels could overcome Gadhafi's forces.",
"\"We are confident that we will be able to liberate the city completely and rescue our civilians who are being targeted by the madness of Gadhafi's death squads,\" he said.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Yousuf Basil, Frederik Pleitgen, Saad Abedine, Salma Abdelaziz, Mitra Mobasherat and Bharati Naik contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Death toll up to 24 Sunday and Monday, a witness says .",
"NEW: Misrata residents are \"let down by NATO,\" a witness says .",
"U.N. official: Gadhafi's regime gave \"no guarantees at all that the violence would cease\"\nBritain to help 5,000 escape Misrata ."
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- The fiery crash that brought down a Concorde supersonic jet in 2000, killing 113 people, was caused partially by the criminal negligence of Continental Airlines and a mechanic who works for the company, a French court ruled Monday.",
"Continental Airlines was fined 202,000 euros ($268,400) and ordered to pay 1 million euros to Air France, which operated the doomed flight.",
"Mechanic John Taylor received a fine of 2,000 euros ($2,656) and a 15-month suspended prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter.",
"The aircraft manufacturer EADS was also found partly responsible for the crash and ordered to pay 30% of damages to victims involved in the case.",
"Air France has already paid an unspecified sum in damages to the families of most of the victims of the only crash ever of a Concorde.",
"The mechanic was the only person found guilty in the trial before a judicial panel in the Paris suburb of Pontoise.",
"He was not present for the verdict.",
"His former supervisor, Stanley Ford, and three French officials were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.",
"Henri Perrier, Jacques Herubel and Claude Frantzen were responsible for the design, testing and certification of the Concorde.",
"The charges had said the engineers could have acted much earlier to correct well-known design flaws in the plane.",
"Lawyers for Continental and Taylor rejected the guilty verdicts.",
"\"I am shocked by this verdict, Taylor's lawyer Francois Esclatine said.",
"\"I haven't had a chance to speak with my client yet, but I will tell him that he should appeal.\"",
"Olivier Metzner, a lawyer for Continental, said the airline \"will not let itself be pushed around in this way and we will definitely appeal.\"",
"The airline called the verdict \"absurd\" in a statement.",
"Saying that the airline and Taylor were \"the sole guilty parties shows the determination of the French authorities to shift attention and blame away from Air France,\" which operated the flight and maintained the aircraft, Continental said.",
"\"To find that any crime was committed in this tragic accident is not supported either by the evidence at trial or by aviation authorities and experts around the world,\" the statement said.",
"Air France, which was a plaintiff in the Concorde trial, posted a statement on its website saying, the French national carrier \"welcomed the decision of the criminal court which recognizes Continental's full criminal and civil liability in the Concorde accident.\"",
"The Concorde burst into flames and smashed into a hotel on takeoff on July 25, 2000.",
"Air France stopped flying the supersonic jets in 2003.",
"A Continental Airlines plane that took off shortly before the doomed flight was found to have played a key role in the crash.",
"A titanium strip allegedly fell off a Continental DC-10 which took off just before the Concorde.",
"Judicial investigators say the strip was improperly installed on the DC-10 engine, prompting the charges against the airline, Ford and Taylor.",
"A lawyer for the American airline had argued that Concorde's problems were apparent decades before the crash and that Continental was not to blame.",
"An investigation revealed a tragic chain of events that brought down Air France Flight 4590 shortly after takeoff from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport: a tire under the left wing blew on takeoff when it struck the small strip of titanium on the runway.",
"The blown tire sent debris into the wing, causing the fuel tank to rupture and sparking the catastrophic fire that led to the crash that killed 100 passengers, nine crew and four people on the ground.",
"CNN's Ayesha Durgahee contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- You've just finished a round of golf on a floating course in the middle of the Indian Ocean.",
"An underwater tunnel leads you to the clubhouse, where a glass elevator drops down to a main bar that doubles as a spectacular natural aquarium.",
"It might sound far-fetched, but a $500 million development in the Maldives is set to make the world's biggest water hazard a reality -- and at the same time offer a potential long-term solution to the threat of climate change in the area.",
"Designed by floating architecture specialists Dutch Docklands, the proposed site is just a five-minute speedboat ride from Maldives capital Male, and will offer 27 holes of golf, set upon three interlinked islands.",
"The government-approved development will also boast around 200 villas, 45 private islands and a conservation center -- and all at little or no cost to the wildlife-rich coral reefs it will call home, according to the people behind it.",
"\"We told the president of the Maldives we can transform you from climate refugees to climate innovators,\" said Paul van de Camp, CEO of Dutch Docklands.",
"\"And we have a way of building and sustaining this project that is environmentally friendly too.",
"This is going to be an exclusively green development in a marine-protected area.\"",
"With over 80 percent of their 1,190 coral reef islands no more than a meter above sea level, the Maldivian government is at the forefront of the battle against climate change.",
"As sea levels reach dangerous levels, one option is to build defense walls, as they have around Male.",
"Another is to buy land from other countries and effectively move their population to other areas.",
"The third is to live on floating landscapes.",
"\"Climate change is upon us and the Maldives are feeling it most.",
"That's why they're leading the way in trying to find a way to combat the problem.\"",
"said Mark Spalding, senior marine scientist at the Nature Conversancy.",
"\"But building on floating islands clearly comes with a risk of pollution.",
"Golf courses need pesticides and you need to deal with that properly to make sure it doesn't get into the ocean.",
"There's also the issue of desalinating the water to irrigate the course.",
"That has to be done cleanly too.\"",
"Dutch Docklands appear to have a green solution.",
"They plan to capture pesticides in concrete troughs, and recycle them in a fresh water \"sweet lakes\" in the middle of the golf course afterwards.",
"That same water will then be used to irrigate the course.",
"When it comes to the environmental cost of constructing the islands and developments in the first place, the solution is far more straightforward.",
"\"We'll be building the islands somewhere else, probably in the Middle East or in India,\" said designer Koen Olthuis, the man whose vision will be realized when work officially starts on the project later this year.",
"\"That way there's no environmental cost to the Maldives.",
"When it comes to the golf course, the islands will be floated into position first, and then the grass will be seeded and the trees planted afterwards.\"",
"Troon Golf, who will be lending their expertise to the project in designing the course itself, stressed the economic benefits that could result from the construction in a release issued from their headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.",
"\"The scar less development, which has zero footprint on the Maldives region will include state-of-the-art golf courses that look set to bring a wealth of new tourism and investment to the country,\" said managing director Bruce Glasco.",
"But Spalding is not getting carried away.",
"With some of the world's most valuable coral reef real estate at stake, he plans to watch the development closely and treat all environmental claims with caution.",
"\"I just hope the Maldives government have been wise enough to not just fall for rhetoric,\" he said.",
"\"In an ideal world a development like this would be on land, but the world is changing.",
"I just hope they get it right.",
"If they do, this type of development could be a harbinger of things to come.\"",
"If things go to plan, Van de Camp expects the golf course to be ready for play by the end of 2013, will the full development set to launch in 2015.",
"And he's in no doubt visiting golfers will be in for a treat.",
"\"This will be the first and only floating golf course in the world, and it comes with spectacular ocean views on every hole,\" he said.",
"\"And then there's the clubhouse. You get in an elevator and go underwater to get to it.",
"It's like being Captain Nemo down there.\""
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"The project plans to use an array of techniques to protect the environment .",
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 17, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Israel • Pakistan • Memphis, Tennessee .",
"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: An economic face-off, a special graduation speaker, and a look at what happened on this day in history.",
"I'm Carl Azuz, and CNN Student News is ready to take flight.",
"First Up: Shuttle Launch .",
"UNIDENTIFIED NASA ANNOUNCER: ...liftoff for the final launch of Endeavour.",
"Expanding our knowledge, expanding our lives in space.",
"AZUZ: The space shuttle Endeavour taking off on its final endeavor.",
"The launch was delayed due to mechanical problems, but NASA officials said those were all fixed.",
"The shuttle and its crew are headed to the international space station.",
"This is a 16-day mission and the next-to-the-last mission for the space shuttle program.",
"Mae Jemison has flown on Endeavour before.",
"On that mission, she became the first African-American woman to travel into space.",
"She said yesterday's launch brought up mixed emotions.",
"DR. MAE JEMISON, FORMER ASTRONAUT: It's very bittersweet, because it was a wonderful, beautiful launch.",
"I was on the second mission of Endeavour.",
"And things are transitioning.",
"When we spoke last year, we were there talking about the fact that the shuttle era was coming to an end, and now the United States was putting more of its research money into how to do interplanetary travel, how to come up with the kinds of engines that are needed to go, to taking us to an asteroid.",
"So, that transition is great, but it's sort of hard to see the shuttle program ending.",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Fulton's business class at Shepton High School in Plano, Texas!",
"Which of these words means failing to make required payments on time?",
"Is it: A) Arbitration, B) Bankruptcy, C) Collusion or D) Default?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"When you default, it means you haven't made your payments on time.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Debt Ceiling .",
"AZUZ: There's a chance the U.S. government could default on its debt, money that it has borrowed.",
"Congress actually sets a limit on how much money the government can borrow.",
"It's called the debt ceiling.",
"It's kind of like the limit on a credit card: once you've maxed out, you can't borrow any more.",
"And the government is there, at that maxed-out limit: $14.294 trillion.",
"If it can't borrow any more money, the government might not be able to pay its bills.",
"That's not a good thing.",
"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress yesterday that there are ways to keep things running for a few months, but he's urging lawmakers to raise the country's debt ceiling.",
"That's something lawmakers have been debating for a while now.",
"Maggie Lake looks at some of the arguments from both sides.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) MAGGIE LAKE, CNN ANCHOR AND BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT, NEW YORK: Republicans want trillions in cuts and no tax hikes.",
"Democrats say tax hikes should be included in the mix.",
"And they caution against tying the debt limit too closely to deficit reduction.",
"JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We believe that we can reach an agreement on significant deficit reduction within the same time frame that Congress needs to take action to raise the debt ceiling.",
"But it simply would be folly, as I've said before, to say that if we don't get an agreement, or if we don't get the agreement we want, then we're just not going to raise the debt ceiling, come what may.",
"LAKE: As politicians squabble, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has vowed to take \"extraordinary measures\" to allow the U.S. to continue paying its creditors, including borrowing from federal pension plans.",
"Because of this, the U.S. will not default on its debt immediately.",
"But Geithner says he'll run out of options in early August.",
"Many in the Capitol believe Congress must act by then, and creditors will be watching every step of the way.",
"Creditors like China, which holds more than $1 trillion worth of U.S. treasuries, and Japan, which holds more than $890 billion worth of debt.",
"Over the years, the U.S. has been forced to raise the debt ceiling 74 times since 1962 to pay for tax cuts, foreign wars and other spending increases.",
"In fiscal year 2000, total national debt stood at $5.5 trillion.",
"Since then, debt has almost tripled.",
"Most in Washington agree, not raising the debt ceiling, and defaulting on debt, would trigger a spike in borrowing rates and a loss of confidence in the ability of the U.S. government to honor its obligations.",
"A high stakes game of political chicken is underway, and the national debt clock is ticking.",
"Maggie Lake, CNN, New York.",
"(END VIDEO) This Day in History .",
"AZUZ: On this day in history, May 17th, in 1792, 24 stockbrokers and merchants signed the Buttonwood Agreement.",
"That established the New York Stock Exchange.",
"In 1875, Oliver Lewis rode Aristides to victory.",
"It was the first running of the Kentucky Derby, now one of the world's most famous horse races.",
"And in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case of Brown vs.",
"The Board of Education, saying that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.",
"Border Violence .",
"AZUZ: Increased tension around the nation of Israel after protesters who support the Palestinian people fought with Israeli forces on Sunday.",
"The violence broke out on \"Nakba Day.\"",
"Nakba is Arabic for \"catastrophe.\"",
"The day marks the time in 1948 when Arabs were moved out of their homes after Israel was established.",
"At least 12 people were killed in the fighting on Sunday.",
"Hundreds of others were injured.",
"Officials from Syria and Lebanon -- two of Israel's neighbors -- accused Israeli troops of firing on protesters.",
"Israel said the protesters were illegally crossing the border.",
"Israel's prime minister said he hoped for a quick, peaceful resolution.",
"But he added that Israel is determined to defend its borders.",
"U.S. & Pakistan .",
"AZUZ: There's also been some tension between the United States and Pakistan recently, especially after U.S. forces killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.",
"The country accused the U.S. of violating Pakistani law by launching the attack on bin Laden inside of Pakistani borders.",
"The U.S. has questioned how bin Laden lived near a Pakistani military academy without being discovered.",
"Yesterday, U.S.",
"Senator John Kerry, who's the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, traveled to Pakistan.",
"During the visit, he said the U.S. doesn't need to apologize for the raid that killed bin Laden.",
"But he said that it's important for the two countries to find a way to resolve their differences, and he pointed out that the U.S. and Pakistan still share the same goal.",
"SEN. JOHN KERRY, (D) MASSACHUSETTS: We must never lose sight of this central fact: we are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism.",
"Both of our countries have sacrificed too many citizens and troops in the fight, and many too many to consider abandoning this important relationship for one reason or another.",
"Far too much is at stake here.",
"Commencement Contest .",
"AZUZ: Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee had a high-profile graduation speaker for this year's ceremony: President Obama.",
"He was there because the school won this year's Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.",
"Public high schools across the country were judged on how they prepare students for college and for careers.",
"Booker T. Washington used this video to show off some of the school's achievements.",
"That includes test scores higher than the state average and the school's dramatically improved graduation rate.",
"At yesterday's commencement, President Obama said that Booker T. Washington's progress should be an example for schools around the U.S. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Today, Booker T. Washington is a place that has proven why we can't accept excuses -- any excuses -- when it comes to education.",
"In the United States of America, we should never accept anything less than the best that our children have to offer.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, we offer for you a little case of identity crisis.",
"Golden retrievers are supposed to hunt ducks.",
"This one adopted them!",
"They even follow her around, as if she's their mother.",
"For instance, when it gets warm outside, they all cool off by pooling their resources.",
"Though with any other retriever, these feathered friends would be duck soup.",
"The retriever will raise them for two months with dogged determination before they leave the nest... or the pool.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Of course, the dog could've ducked that kind of responsibility, but that kind of behavior wouldn't fit the bill.",
"Oh yeah: duck puns!",
"You can't deny it: they quack you up. I'm Carl Azuz, and I'm out!"
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"Discover why President Obama delivered a high school graduation address .",
"Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ."
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"(CNN) -- A businessman accused of helping facilitate the November 2008 terrorist attacks that killed as many as 164 people in Mumbai, India, goes on trial in a federal courtroom in Chicago on Monday.",
"Prosecutors accuse Tahawwur Hussain Rana of allowing his office, First World Immigration Services, to be used a front for a co-conspirator traveling abroad to scout possible locations for the terrorist attacks, according to court records.",
"Rana is also accused of taking part in a plot to bomb the offices of a Danish newspaper that had published irreverent cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and angered Muslims across the world.",
"Rana, who denies the allegations, is listed among seven co-defendants in the indictment, five of whom are unnamed and considered to be at large.",
"Prosecutors allege the co-defendants are members of the terrorist group, Lashkar-e Tayyiba, or \"Army of the Pure.\"",
"David Coleman Headley, the only other defendant named in the suit, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges last year and is expected to testify against Rana.",
"If convicted, Rana could be sentenced to life in prison.",
"According to the indictment, Rana helped Headley obtain a fake visa to travel to India as well as approve the opening of a First World office in Mumbai.",
"Headley, who is Pakistani-American, \"misrepresented his birth name, (his) father's true name, and the purpose for his travel,\" on the visa, the indictment states.",
"Between September 2006 and July 2008, Headley made repeated trips to Mumbai where he made video recordings of potential terrorist sites, the indictment states.",
"In July 2008, according to the indictment, Rana allegedly passed messages from another plotter to Headley.",
"On November 26, 2008, a group of 10 attackers armed with guns, grenades and other explosive devices launched attacks on various targets in Mumbai, including two hotels, a train station and a Jewish center.",
"Those killed in the attacks included six U.S. citizens, the indictment states.",
"After the Mumbai attacks, according to prosecutors, Headley again obtained Rana's permission to use his company's name as a cover to conduct surveillance on a Danish newspaper that had publish the offensive cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.",
"Those attacks were never carried out.",
"Journalist Ben Smith contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- In the wake of the Arab Spring protests across the Middle East and North Africa, President Barack Obama will pledge U.S. economic assistance to Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday in a speech highlighting his administration's revised policies toward the changing region.",
"The highly anticipated address at the State Department will touch on all the Middle East-North Africa flash points -- the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Libya, Syria, Iran and the recent killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- with a focus on Obama's plan for how the United States can help the region develop through political and economic reforms, according to administration officials.",
"New bin Laden audio tape released .",
"Obama \"will be laying out a vision tomorrow for the region of what it can be long-term and its role in the world, and as part of that, we'll be announcing a series of initiatives to support that long-term vision,\" a senior administration official said Wednesday.",
"He was one of three senior administration officials who briefed reporters on condition of not being identified by name.",
"Want to reach Arabs Mr. President?",
"Try this . The speech comes nearly two years after a 2009 address in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, by Obama that called for \"a new beginning\" between the United States and the Muslim world.",
"Now many in the Middle East and North Africa consider the Cairo speech a collection of lofty ideals that lacked sufficient follow-through, and they want Obama to signal substantive and concrete policies that support the aspirations of the region's people.",
"Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign minister and longtime advocate of Arab reform, said the Middle East is a new environment now, where young men and women are laying their lives on the line for democracy throughout the region.",
"They need to be told their cause is just and how the United States will support them.",
"\"If this is going to be another Cairo speech, forget it,\" said Muasher, now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"\"It was great two years ago, and even then the feedback was mixed because people wanted to see what he would do.",
"If he doesn't have much to add this time, people will not be fooled by it.\"",
"Obama's do-over on the Middle East .",
"Gigi Ibrahim, a 24-year-old Egyptian activist and blogger, said that Obama's words will have little impact in her country.",
"\"At this point, whatever President Obama will address will really be irrelevant to what the situation is now because we're really building democracy from the bottom up,\" Ibrahim said, adding that \"America is not the model of democracy that we are striving for.\"",
"She called U.S. policy on the Middle East \"hypocritical\" because, she said, the United States \"will support a dictatorship if it's aligned with its interests.\"",
"That attitude is rife throughout the Middle East and North Africa, noted CNN senior political analyst David Gergen.",
"With Egypt facing economic crisis, the Libyan conflict at a stalemate, an ongoing harsh crackdown on demonstrators in Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at a standstill, there is little belief in the region that Obama or the United States can do much to help, Gergen said.",
"\"I think it's going to be very difficult in the near term to generate excitement about his policies in the Middle East,\" Gergen said.",
"What's next for the Arab Spring .",
"In an effort to start changing such perceptions, the Obama administration on Wednesday imposed tough sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other senior Syrian officials in an effort to stop the regime's fierce crackdown on anti-government protests.",
"The sanctions also target two top Iranian officials whose unit was a \"conduit for Iranian material support\" to Syrian intelligence, according to a copy of the executive order issued by the White House.",
"According to the senior administration officials, Thursday's speech will focus on the opportunity for the United States to help people in the Middle East-North Africa region gain a say in their future governance through the changes they have launched.",
"Obama will emphasize U.S. principles such as freedom of assembly, the right to self-determination and respect for human rights while promoting economic development as a significant contributor to helping people of the region realize their aspirations, the officials said.",
"\"It's important to note that some of the protests in the region are deeply rooted in a lack of individual opportunity and economic growth, as well as a suppression of political rights,\" one of the senior administration officials said.",
"\"We also know from our study of the past that successful transitions to democracy depend in part on strong foundations for prosperity, and that reinforcing economic growth is an important way of reinforcing a democratic transition.\"",
"That means that \"one of the most important areas for us to focus on is supporting positive economic growth that again can incentivize and reinforce those countries that are transitioning to democracy,\" the official continued.",
"\"We see this as a critical window of time for the United States to take some concrete action to demonstrate our commitment to their future and to again reinforce their democratic transition with support for a broader base of prosperity,\" the official added.",
"In particular, the senior administration officials focused on economic aid for Tunisia and Egypt intended to bolster the democratization and economic development efforts of two countries at the vanguard of political reform.",
"Will there be aid for Arab Spring nations?",
"Obama will announce several programs intended to increase U.S. and international investment, create jobs and spur economic growth in the two countries, the officials said.",
"The goal is for Tunisia and Egypt to serve as models for a region undergoing change, so that other countries have incentive to undertake similar reforms, according to the officials.",
"Specific programs include relieving Egypt of up to $1 billion in debt over the next two to three years so the money can be invested by the Egyptian government in economic development plans, and providing $1 billion in loan guarantees to finance infrastructure development and job creation, the senior administration officials said.",
"In addition, programs through international banking and funding organizations such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will be worth a few billion dollars, the officials said.",
"\"One of the most important things we can do is empower positive models\" in Egypt and Tunisia, one of the officials said.",
"\"That will have a positive impact beyond their borders.\"",
"The United States also will work with international groups and allies to help Middle East-North African countries modernize and integrate trade policies, according to the senior administration officials.",
"Currently, nations in the region of 400 million people export about the same amount of goods as Switzerland, a country of 8 million people, if oil is removed from the equation, said a White House background document on the speech.",
"Obama's speech comes in a week when the White House has focused on Middle East issues.",
"He met Tuesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House and will meet Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.",
"After his talks with King Abdullah, Obama said it was \"more vital than ever that both Israelis and Palestinians find a way to get back to the table and begin negotiating a process whereby they can create ... two states that are living side by side in peace and security.\"",
"However, former Sen. George Mitchell unexpectedly submitted his resignation as the president's Mideast envoy Friday, and deadly clashes broke out Sunday between pro-Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces.",
"Ongoing Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and Palestinian steps toward a unilateral declaration of statehood have driven the two sides further apart since Obama took office.",
"They have also placed new obstacles in the path of the administration's push for a mutually acceptable two-state solution.",
"Arab Spring not good for Israel?",
"Additional doubts about the viability of the stalled peace process were raised this month in the wake of a formal reconciliation agreement between the two largest Palestinian factions: President Mahmoud Abbas' party, the West Bank-based Fatah; and the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza.",
"Both Israel and the United States consider Hamas a terrorist organization and have voiced strong opposition to the inclusion of the group in any unity government, demanding that it first renounce violence, recognize the state of Israel and abide by all previous agreements.",
"Netanyahu has called on the Palestinian Authority to pull out of the deal, saying it jeopardizes prospects for a peace agreement.",
"The Obama administration has \"made it clear that Hamas must stop its outrageous use of terrorism and must recognize Israel's right to exist,\" White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.",
"\"Any participation in a Palestinian government would require that it abides by those standards in our view.\"",
"In other engagement in the region, Obama helped push Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from office in February and subsequently committed U.S. forces to a NATO air campaign in support of the rebel movement in Libya.",
"The administration has repeatedly called for an end to strongman Moammar Gadhafi's nearly 42-year rule.",
"The White House has been much less vocal, however, in dealing with allies such as Bahrain, a small Persian Gulf state that is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.",
"CNN's Elise Labott, Alan Silverleib and Matt Smith contributed to this story."
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"Obama will pledge economic development help for Egypt and Tunisia .",
"Many in the Middle East-North Africa region are skeptical of what the United States can do ."
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"(CNN) -- The captors of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, two Americans currently being held in Iran on suspicion of espionage, allowed them to telephone home over the weekend, according a statement released Monday by members of their families.",
"The Sunday calls, the third received by the families in more than 21 months, lasted less than five minutes, according to the statement.",
"Bauer, Fattal and Bauer's fiancee, Sarah Shourd, were arrested July 31, 2009, while hiking along an unmarked border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.",
"Shourd was released last year.",
"U.S. officials have repeatedly said the charges against Bauer and Fattal are meritless and have called on the Iranian government to release the two men.",
"A trial for the men was supposed to take place earlier this month, but it was delayed without an explanation after Bauer and Fattal were not brought to the courthouse.",
"The statement from the Bauer and Fattal families said the men sounded \"reasonably well.\"",
"However, the detainees told family members they had been on a 17-day hunger strike to protest their captors' refusal to give them letters sent from home, according to the statement.",
"Last week, Cindy Hickey and Laura Fattal, the respective mothers of Bauer and Josh Fattal, announced they were going on a hunger strike to protest their sons' treatment.",
"In the Monday statement, both women said they would continue their \"open-ended, rolling hunger strike\" until their sons are released.",
"\"Their inhumane treatment has to end with their immediate release,\" the family statement read.",
"\"The people responsible for their unjustified imprisonment are bringing shame on Iran by continuing to hold Shane and Josh without due process and for no legitimate reason\""
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"Relatives say they've spoken only three times in 21 months to detainees .",
"Iranian authorities accuse the men of spying ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Senate rejected a Republican measure Wednesday to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. coastal waters, signaling a continued partisan stalemate over energy policy and, more specifically, how to respond to rising gas prices.",
"The bill was defeated in a 42-57 vote.",
"Sixty votes were required for passage.",
"Five Republicans -- Alabama's Richard Shelby, Louisiana's David Vitter, Maine's Olympia Snowe, South Carolina's Jim DeMint, and Utah's Mike Lee -- voted against the bill.",
"One Democrat, Montana's Max Baucus, didn't vote.",
"On Tuesday, the Senate rejected a Democratic measure to strip major oil companies of about $20 billion in tax subsidies over the next 10 years and use the savings to pay down the federal deficit.",
"Among other things, the GOP bill would have required the Interior Department to complete a number of offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of Virginia and Alaska.",
"It also would have extended lease terms by one year for Gulf contracts suspended by the drilling moratorium imposed by the Obama administration in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.",
"The GOP bill would have established a 30-day review period for drilling permit applications, and allowed for default approval if an application wasn't rejected within 60 days.",
"The Interior Department would have been required to provide a rationale for rejecting a permit application.",
"\"At a time of near-record gas prices, this is a modest approach, a good first step that takes everyone's concerns into account so that we can actually achieve a practical result,\" said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.",
"\"It's time to stop holding Americans back with moratoriums, fees, bureaucratic roadblocks, and the ever-expanding reach of a president who seems to think that business owners in this country need to get his permission first if they want to create jobs.\"",
"Top Democrats argued that the GOP plan would do little to ease the country's long-term energy crisis.",
"\"We can't lose sight of the fact that our great country uses more than 25% of the oil (consumed in the world) on any given day, and we have less than 3% of the oil reserves,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said Tuesday.",
"\"We need to do everything we can to increase domestic production, but there's a limit to what we can do,\" Reid said.",
"The Republican measure \"on its face doesn't make a lot of sense,\" he said.",
"The Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, called the bill a \"misguided attempt to expand drilling and weaken safety and environmental oversight.\"",
"Some senators from oil-producing states argued the bill didn't go far enough.",
"Republican Vitter and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, claimed it would actually \"slow down the permitting process instead of streamlining and accelerating it.\"",
"The bill \"would add an unnecessary and burdensome new layer of regulation regarding containment plans just when energy companies have figured out how to comply with the administration's new requirements,\" they argued in a joint statement.",
"President Barack Obama used his weekly address last Saturday to push what he called \"safe and responsible\" oil production.",
"Administration officials have said they are working to speed up the leasing process for the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve, while also giving oil companies better financial incentives to use and extend certain existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.",
"The president also has indicated he backs steps to accelerate the testing of areas off the East Coast for possible future drilling.",
"At the same time, however, Obama also has announced the formation of an interagency working group to oversee Arctic drilling projects to make sure they meet health, safety and environmental standards.",
"The president opposes controversial plans for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.",
"GOP leaders argue the White House has not done enough to bring down gas prices, which are now topping $4 a gallon in many parts of the country."
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"The Senate has rejected a GOP bill to expand offshore oil and gas drilling .",
"A faster process for permit applications was among the bill's elements .",
"A Democratic plan to strip billions in tax subsidies for oil companies failed Tuesday .",
"Democrats and Republicans are at odds over how best to address rising gas prices ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexico's Sinaloa state has named a new target in the government's war on organized crime: bars, restaurants and night clubs that play songs glorifying drug trafficking.",
"Those that do will have their licenses revoked, according to new rules published in the state's official register.",
"\"They can play other types of songs, but nothing that incites violence or justifies crimes,\" Sinaloa Gov.",
"Mario Lopez Valdez said as he announced the measure this week.",
"The popular ballads, known as narcocorridos, tell of shootings, police chases and armored cars .",
"Federal lawmakers have suggested banning them, but the proposals haven't passed.",
"Elijah Wald, author of the book, \"Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas,\" has documented dozens of past attempts by politicians to stop the songs.",
"\"The pattern seems to be, when anything happens in the real world, let's crack down on the fantasy world,\" he said.",
"\"You know, it's nutty, but it makes a certain amount of sense, because it's something that the government can do, whereas the real violence is completely out of control.\"",
"A top Mexican official praised the Sinaloa governor's move.",
"\"Narco-corridos justify crime .... Good for (Mario Lopez Valdez),\" national security spokesman Alejandro Poire said in a Twitter post.",
"On Thursday, he said silencing the songs is a key part of Mexico's \"cultural fight\" against violence.",
"\"The rhythm they dance to is that of the violence that harms many families in Mexico,\" Poire wrote in a blog post on an official government website.",
"\"It is not a matter of censorship because it isn't a moral matter; it is a matter of legality and stopping the growth of the culture of indifference and violence,\" he said.",
"The owner of a night club in the state capital of Culiacan said he was annoyed by the government's decision, which he said would take a toll on his business.",
"\"We live in a state and a city where this music is played and the people like it,\" said the night club owner, who declined to give his name due to security concerns.",
"The government is unfairly targeting the songs rather than dealing with crime, he said.",
"\"There are people that are doing bad things, and they are not going to stop doing them because we listen to cumbia or disco,\" he said.",
"CNNMexico.com and CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet and Krupskaia Alis contributed to this report."
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"The popular songs tell of shootings, police chases and armored cars .",
"Sinaloa governor: Bars cannot play songs that incite violence or justify crimes .",
"A government spokesman says Mexico must wage a \"cultural fight\" against violence .",
"A bar owner criticizes the move, saying it will do nothing to stop crime ."
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"(CNN) -- Advancing Sudanese troops have prompted a massive evacuation by inhabitants of the oil-rich city of Abyei, a humanitarian medical group said Monday.",
"The organization, Doctors Without Borders, said many of the evacuees have fled 40 kilometers (24 miles) south to Agok.",
"That includes 42 people wounded in violent clashes over the weekend who are being treated at the aid group's hospital there.",
"\"This morning, the entire population of Abyei town fled the city, which is now almost empty,\" the organization said in a statement.",
"Meanwhile, a spokesman for the military wing of the movement that governs Southern Sudan confirmed Sunday that Sudan's military had taken control of the oil-rich region.",
"\"Abyei has been under attack by the Sudanese armed forces from air and ground,\" said Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesman Philip Aguer.",
"Southern Sudan in January voted to split from the north, and is expected to officially become an independent nation in July.",
"However, the fate of the oil-rich Abyei region remains a flash point.",
"The Sudanese armed forces said the military in Southern Sudan was behind the attack, but the SPLA denied responsibility.",
"A statement from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's press office noted that the U.N. compound was shelled by mortar rounds, leaving two peacekeepers injured.",
"The release, from Ban, also asked for \"justice\" following earlier attacks May 19 on a U.N.-escorted convoy and on U.N. troops May 10 in Goli.",
"At least 22 people were killed in the more recent attack, which was on Sudanese armed forces and U.N. peacekeepers, according to Sudanese army sources.",
"\"The Secretary-General remains deeply concerned for the safety of the civilian population of the area, the vast majority of whom (have) been forcibly displaced due to the fighting,\" the U.N. statement said Sunday.",
"\"The Secretary-General calls on both parties to immediately cease their military operations, withdraw all forces and armed elements from Abyei and desist from further acts of antagonism.\"",
"The Commission of the African Union responded to the latest developments in Abyei \"with very grave concern,\" according to a prepared statement released Sunday.",
"\"The AU Commission would like to urge all the parties to immediately withdraw all the unauthorized forces from the area ... and to restrain from any provocative actions,\" the statement read.",
"\"The AU Commission calls on the parties to resume the dialogue towards a political settlement on Abyei by returning to the negotiating table.\"",
"Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir issued a decree Saturday dissolving Abyei's administration.",
"The area had been governed by representatives from the north and south.",
"The United Nations said this month that violence in the Abyei region will jeopardize relations between the two sides as they gear up for a permanent separation July 9.",
"Its peacekeeping mission in Sudan issued a statement Saturday urging \"all parties in Abyei to resume dialogue towards reaching a lasting political settlement.\"",
"British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the recent spike in violence.",
"\"I call on all sides to cease hostilities immediately.",
"All unauthorized forces should be withdrawn from the entire area of Abyei in accordance with past agreements by the parties,\" he said in a statement Sunday.",
"In a statement Saturday, the White House called on the Sudanese Armed Forces to stop its offensive in Abyei and withdraw forces.",
"\"Failure to do so could set back the process of normalizing relations between Sudan and the United States and inhibit the international community's ability to move forward on issues critical to Sudan's future,\" the statement said.",
"A U.N. Security Council delegation had arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Saturday to discuss the ongoing peace process with government officials.",
"Journalist Ismail Kushkush contributed to this report."
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"At least 42 people are wounded in violent clashes in Abyei, aid group says .",
"The U.N. condemns the violence, saying 2 peacekeepers were hurt by mortar fire .",
"Southern Sudan voted in January to split from the north, but Abyei remains a flash point .",
"Britain's foreign secretary urges all sides to \"cease hostilities\""
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"(CNN) -- They stood and squatted for hours, crammed into two sweltering semi-trailers, clinging to ropes so they would not fall as the trucks traveled through winding mountain roads.",
"Mexican authorities say the more than 500 illegal immigrants they detained Tuesday wanted to reach the United States and each had paid $7,000 to get there.",
"But by Wednesday, a day after X-ray equipment detected them at a highway checkpoint, the majority of them had been deported to their home countries in Central and South America.",
"In a migrant detention center surrounded by high walls near Mexico's southern border, the remaining 23 immigrants, who hailed from countries as nearby as the Dominican Republic and as far away as Nepal, will wait as officials arrange their deportation.",
"Immigrant detentions are nothing new in the southern Mexican border state of Chiapas, where at least 25,000 immigrants were apprehended last year.",
"But the large number authorities found in two vehicles Tuesday was a startling reminder of the desperation that drives immigrants to risk dangerous conditions.",
"The case drew national attention in Mexico, where the country's interior minister announced he would begin following the \"migrant's route\" through Mexico on Wednesday.",
"The three-day trip was scheduled to include meetings on immigration with local officials and his Guatemalan counterpart.",
"The vast majority of the immigrants detained Tuesday were from Guatemala, and all 410 of them had been handed over to Guatemalan police by Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexico's National Migration Institute.",
"The 80 detained immigrants who hailed from El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras were scheduled to be deported Wednesday evening.",
"The immigrants who hailed from the Dominican Republic, India, Nepal, China and Japan awaited their fate Wednesday in Tapachula, Chiapas, at the recently renovated 21st Century Migration Station, Mexico's largest immigrant detention center.",
"Experts say the passage of Central American immigrants through Mexico on their way to the United States is hardly a 21st century phenomenon.",
"Immigration of Central Americans into the United States began to grow in the early 1980s, said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington.",
"And for at least 15 years, American authorities have been pushing Mexican officials to crack down on \"transit migration.\"",
"\"Going back to the 1990s when we start to engage Mexico, this has been one of the two main goals of our conversation,\" Papademetriou said.",
"But the Guatemala-Mexico border was easy to cross until recently, said Andrew Selee, director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.",
"\"There's more of a federal presence today than there's ever been, for two reasons,\" he said.",
"\"One, because Mexico has been trying to make a case that the country is secure, and that they're doing their part on terrorism and on illegal immigration; but also, in part, because Mexico is very concerned about crime on the southern border.\"",
"That hasn't stopped immigrants from embarking on the journey, despite the dangers.",
"\"People are going to keep coming,\" Selee said.",
"\"As bad as the economy has been in the U.S. over the past couple years, there are still people willing to take the risk of not finding a job because they also see no prospects where they are.\"",
"Journalist Angeles Mariscal of CNNMexico.com contributed to this report."
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"After X-rays detect them, the immigrants are sent to a detention facility .",
"The case, a reminder of dangers immigrants face, draws national attention in Mexico .",
"The country's interior minister tours the \"migrant's route\" Wednesday .",
"Expert: Mexican authorities beef up enforcement along the Guatemala border ."
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"(CNN) -- In 1990, Garen Staglin received a phone call that would change the course of his life.",
"Between his freshman and sophomore years at Darmouth College, Staglin's son Brandon had schizophrenic break -- a mental episode that is often followed by a diagnosis of schizophrenia.",
"From the moment they learned of their son's illness, Staglin and his wife, Shari, took on the disease and delved into the world of mental disorders in an attempt to end brain disease and the cultural stigmas attached to them.",
"The Staglins delved into piles of medical resources and found a dense array of research, studies and multiple professional options to the point that they were overflowing with information.",
"As they waded through the options and got their son care he needed, the family realized the need for continued scientific advancements to understand the development of mental illness.",
"So the Staglins, who own Staglin Family Vineyards in Rutherford, California, decided to throw their own small benefit for mental health in their backyard.",
"In 1995, a small concert series began that harnessed top scientists, donors, and an array of entertainment, fine dining and of course wine.",
"What started out as a community gathering to discuss mental health has turned into a major annual event with celebrity performances, top professionals and a sold out dinner that has raised more than $114 million for research efforts.",
"In 2008, with the growing success of the concert events, Staglin co-founded the International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO) which allows for additional financial support across the nation and increases the ability to fund and propose research opportunities that might not otherwise be studied in the field of mental illness.",
"The Staglins wanted to not only to raise cash for fundraising for brain disease but remove the stigma of admitting you or a loved one suffer from one.",
"\"What we need to do is study and get all the basic circuits of the brain identified and understood, and once we have that super highway of information, the off ramp of these illnesses will be much more evident and much more proximate to us,\" Staglin told CNN's Sanjay Gupta.",
"Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who comes from one of the most recognizable American families, has been vocal of his battles with addiction and depression.",
"It seemed only natural that when the two men met they would find friendship around a topic that has affected them both personally.",
"Kennedy and Staglin will unite together May 23-25 as they launch their new national initiative, \"The Next Frontier, One Mind for the Brain\" -- a new space for scientists, government, industry, academia, philanthropy, patients and their families.",
"\"The Next Frontier\" is a reference to Kennedy's uncle, President John F. Kennedy, who embarked on a scientific mission of his own.",
"Patrick Kennedy: Brain research is the new 'moon shot' This project aims to be a one-stop shop for the latest and best in specific development and treatments for those suffering from neurological diseases.",
"\"Everything from Autism to Alzheimer's, the entire spectrum of brain disorders... we are going to unite the field,\" said Staglin.",
"Domestic researchers, clinicians, scientists and policy makers will gather later this month in hopes of trailblazing a new map of the brain.",
"Both Kennedy and Staglin hope this event can serve Americans in the same way the American Heart Association does.",
"Brandon Staglin maintains websites for the winery and the family's nonprofit research efforts with IMHRO.",
"After taking a year off from Dartmouth College and getting help for his schizophrenia, he graduated with a degree in engineering and is now doing his best to lead a normal life.",
"Brandon Staglin is an example of the success that's possible with the right support, Garen Staglin said.",
"\"He is a role model for what can happen with people with these kind of illnesses.",
"He is on the right medications, he is medically compliant but he is also very conversant and not in denial about the illness -- and that is the biggest problem with many people.",
"They don't really want to talk about their disorder; they want to mask it.\"",
"And that's what the Staglins and Kennedy hope to do for all Americans who suffer with brain disease -- allow those individuals access to the best information possible about treatment options so they can remedy their ailment and live their best life."
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"\"The Next Frontier\" aims to unite the entire spectrum of brain disorders ."
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"(CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI spoke Saturday with the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and specifically mentioned Cmdr.",
"Mark Kelly's wife, Gabrielle Giffords, who is recuperating from recent brain surgery.",
"\"I know that Mark and his wife were the victim of a serious attack, and I hope that her health continues to improve,\" the pope said.",
"Kelly thanked the pope for mentioning Giffords.",
"The Arizona congresswoman was shot in the head in a January assassination attempt.",
"The two men also talked about how technology used in space may be able to help relations between people on Earth.",
"\"I think it must be obvious to you how we all live together on one Earth, and how absurd it is that we fight and kill each one,\" the pontiff said.",
"\"We fly over most of the world and we don't see borders, but at the same time we realize that people fight with each other and there is a lot of violence in this world,\" Kelly said.",
"Unlike on Earth, technology on the space station allows for almost unlimited power from the sun, he said.",
"\"If these technologies could be adopted more on Earth, we could possibly reduce some of that violence,\" he said.",
"The space shuttle Endeavour launched last Monday on a 16-day mission."
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"(CNN) -- Indiana Gov.",
"Mitch Daniels, a former top aide to President George W. Bush, ended his very public flirtation with running for president early Sunday with an e-mail to supporters that narrowed the field of plausible 2012 Republican challengers to President Barack Obama.",
"\"The counsel and encouragement I received from important citizens like you caused me to think very deeply about becoming a national candidate,\" Daniels said in the message distributed through the Indiana Republican Party.",
"\"In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one, but that, the interests and wishes of my family, is the most important consideration of all.\"",
"With top Republicans anxious about what many view as the underwhelming state of the Republican field, Daniels was pressed to enter the race by close advisers and former Bush administration officials who worked with him when he served as White House budget director from 2001 to 2003.",
"Former Minnesota Gov.",
"Tim Pawlenty, who is expected to announce Monday in Iowa that he will seek the Republican nomination, issued a statement Sunday praising Daniels.",
"\"Mitch Daniels is a friend of mine and one of the best governors in the country,\" Pawlenty said.",
"\"While he may not be running, he is an intellectual powerhouse and will continue to play a leading role in the party's politics and the nation's policies.\"",
"Pawlenty also said he and Daniels \"agree that America's out-of-control national debt is a threat to our nation's future, and that the next president must restore fiscal responsibility in Washington, DC.\"",
"Former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney, a top contender in 2008, is also expected to run.",
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has declared his candidacy.",
"\"Mitch Daniels is a great governor and a remarkable innovator,\" Gingrich said in a statement Sunday.",
"\"Mitch has brought successful reforms to Indiana that should be replicated across the country and in Washington.",
"He will continue to be an important leader in solving America's problems.\"",
"Radio host Herman Cain has declared candidacy as well.",
"Jon Huntsman, who recently stepped down as U.S. ambassador to China and is mulling a White House run himself, said \"Mitch Daniels will be missed in this presidential debate, but his message about the most immediate threat facing our nation -- the massive debt -- will not go unheard.\"",
"In his statement, Huntsman said he has \"learned a lot from (Daniels') leadership\" and looks \"forward to working with him to promote long-term solutions\" to problems facing the United States.",
"Mississippi Gov.",
"Haley Barbour, a Republican Party powerhouse, said last month that he would not run, and encouraged Daniels to go for it.",
"Indiana Democrats used Daniels' announcement to knock the Republican contenders.",
"\"We've disagreed with Mitch Daniels myriad times, but there's no doubt that his decision not to enter this race is a loss for Republicans,\" the Indiana Democratic Party said in a statement Sunday.",
"\"Daniels would have brought a serious tone to a GOP field that's thus far been characterized by silliness and distraction.\"",
"The killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs in Pakistan gave President Obama's popularity a big boost.",
"But America's economic recovery remains sluggish.",
"If it stays weak, some believe, Obama is beatable next year.",
"In considering a presidential bid, Daniels had publicly fretted about his family's well-being.",
"His dramatic marriage -- he and his wife Cheri divorced, then re-married in the 1990s -- had recently spilled into public view.",
"The famously private Cheri Daniels spoke at a spring fundraiser for the Indiana GOP this month, an event political observers watched closely to see whether the Daniels family was prepared to leap into the presidential fray.",
"Even after the speech, the Indiana first lady said she was \"nervous\" about her personal life becoming public fodder.",
"Daniels, too, seemed reluctant to join the race and openly questioned whether he had the desire to survive the long and exhausting marathon of running for president -- indecision that led some observers to dub him \"The Hoosier Hamlet.\"",
"\"Maybe I could do that, maybe someone else could do it better,\" Daniels said recently when asked whether he wanted to run.",
"It seemed throughout the decision-making process that his advisers and supporters wanted him to run more than he did.",
"\"If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry,\" Daniels wrote in the late night e-mail.",
"\"If you feel that this was a non-courageous or unpatriotic decision, I understand and will not attempt to persuade you otherwise.",
"I only hope that you will accept my sincerity in the judgment I reached.\"",
"Daniels, who became Indiana governor in 2005, would have presented himself as the most fiscally conservative choice among the Republican presidential candidates.",
"He flipped a state budget deficit into a surplus, reduced tax rates and passed a sweeping education reform package in the most recent legislative session.",
"The announcement that Daniels will not run in 2012 comes a week after former Arkansas Gov.",
"Mike Huckabee announced he would not seek the nomination.",
"Huckabee won the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses in 2008 and was considered a top contender this time around.",
"Flamboyant television personality and real estate magnate Donald Trump also said this month he would not seek the Republican nomination after appearing to position himself for ."
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"Daniels 'would have brought a serious tone' to the GOP field, Indiana Dems say .",
"Top Republicans are anxious about the state of the GOP field .",
"Daniels cites family considerations for his decision ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Caroline Wozniacki enjoyed the perfect preparation for the French Open as she beat Chinese star Shuai Peng Saturday to win the WTA tournament in Brussels.",
"Wozniacki will be aiming to win her first grand slam title at Roland Garros and warmed up with a 2-6 6-3 6-3 victory in the final to claim her 16th career title.",
"The Dane also beat reigning French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in three sets in the semifinals and now heads to Paris where she faces Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm in her first round match.",
"\"It's my fourth title of the season.",
"I was pleased with the way I played and fought today,\" Wozniacki told the official WTA website.",
"\"Now I'm looking forward to Roland Garros -- I think I play on Monday, but I'll be ready.\"",
"Peng had beaten number two seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia in her semifinal but was unable to make the most of her strong start as she took the first set.",
"Wozniacki's victory came after two hours 35 minutes as she wrapped up her first title on red clay.",
"Meanwhile, hosts Germany won a record fifth ATP World Team Cup title on Saturday as they beat defending champions Argentina 2-1 in the final in Dusseldorf.",
"Philipp Kohlschreiber partnered Philipp Petzschner as they gained a 6-3 7-6 win over Juan Ignacio Chela and Maximo Gonzalez in the deciding doubles.",
"Chela had earlier drew Argentina level with a 6-4 7-6 win over Kohlschreiber after Germany's Florian Mayer had earlier scored a straight-sets 7-6 6-0 win over Juan Monaco.",
"\"This title is very special for us and to play in a team like this is always great fun,\" Kohlschreiber told AFP."
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"(CNN) -- Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has once again denied claims from a former teammate that he used drugs during his cycling career.",
"Armstrong has been dogged by allegations of drugs abuse in recent years with compatriot Floyd Landis -- who was found guilty of doping in the 2006 Tour de France resulting in him being stripped of the title -- making a series of claims last year.",
"Now, 39-year-old Armstrong has come out fighting once again, in the face of fresh allegations made on the CBS News \"60 Minutes\" show by another American Tyler Hamilton.",
"Speaking on his Twitter page, Armstrong said: \"I have had a 20-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition, and never a failed test.",
"I rest my case.\" In the CBS interview, to be aired on Sunday, Hamilton -- who retired in 2009 after twice testing positive himself -- says he first saw Armstrong use blood boosting substance EPO in 1999, the year of his first Tour de France victory.",
"\"I saw it in his refrigerator,\" Hamilton told the American news program.",
"\"I saw him inject it more than one time like we all did, like I did many, many times.\"",
"Hamilton added: \"Armstrong took what we all took -- the majority of the peloton took.",
"There was EPO, testosterone, blood transfusions.\"",
"Armstrong, Hamilton and Landis were all members of the US Postal squad that is now the subject of a probe by U.S. federal investigators, who are trying to determine if their success came via a systematic doping program.",
"Meanwhile, Armstrong's lawyer Mark Fabiani blasted the \"60 Minutes\" report, releasing a statement saying: \"Tyler Hamilton is seeking to make money by writing a book.",
"\"He has completely changed the story he has always told before so that he could get himself on \"60 Minutes\" and increase his chances with publishers.\"",
"Fabiani continued: \"Greed and a hunger for publicity cannot change the facts: Lance Armstrong is the most tested athlete in the history of sports: He has passed nearly 500 tests over 20 years of competition.\"",
"Meanwhile, defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will find out next month whether he will be banned for doping.",
"The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and world's cycling's governing body (UCI) are appealing the Spanish cycling federation's (RFEC) decision to acquit the Spaniard over a failed doping case.",
"Contador tested positive for a tiny amount of banned muscle-building substance clenbuterol during last July's Tour.",
"But he was cleared to compete when the RFEC accepted the rider's claim that he had unknowingly eaten contaminated meat.",
"The case has now gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which will decide Contador's fate on June 6-8.",
"Meanwhile, on the road, Contador continues to blaze a trail in the Giro d'Italia, finishing second to Venezuela's Jose Rujano in the mountainous 13th stage to extend his overall advantage.",
"Contador is now three minutes and nine seconds ahead of Tour of Spain champion Vincenzo Nibali in the general classification, following the arduous 167km stage up to Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan's national soccer team will not play as a guest nation at the Copa America tournament in Argentina after failing to secure the release of the earthquake-hit country's Europe-based players.",
"The J-League has been so badly disrupted by the March 11 disaster that domestic clubs will not allow players to travel to South America.",
"However, the Japanese Football Association was persuaded to revise its April 3 decision to pull out of the July 1-24 tournament, and had hoped to participate with a squad made up of its overseas stars.",
"\"It is a great pity that we won't be able to take part in the tournament as the local people were preparing to welcome us,\" JFA president Junji Ogura told his association's website on Wednesday.",
"\"We realized that we would not be able to form a squad good enough to play in the Copa America, and on that basis we had no choice but to give up the opportunity to play in the tournament.\"",
"JFA technical director Hiromi Hara met with officials at 11 clubs, but was told that they could not release the players because next season will start earlier than usual due to the mid-2012 staging of the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.",
"\"Many of our players have become top players at these clubs, and that is something to be pleased about,\" Hara said.",
"\"Club officials told me they would understand if this was the Asian Cup or a one-off charity match, but they had a problem with it being the Copa America.\"",
"The JFA has made alternative plans to prepare for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in September.",
"The Samurai Blue will play Peru and the Czech Republic in the Kirin Cup in early June, and then take on South Korea in August in a friendly.",
"Japan won the 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar in January, beating Australia in the final under the guidance of coach Alberto Zaccheroni.",
"\"This year has turned to be an exceptional year following the East Japan disaster, and we have been put into a situation where we have had to make a difficult decision,\" the Italian said.",
"\"However, we would like to move on to set our full focus on our preparations for our important World Cup qualifiers.\"",
"The Copa America tournament traditionally features two guest nations and 10 from South America.",
"Costa Rica will replace Japan, while Mexico will be the other team from outside the CONMEBOL federation."
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"(CNN) -- Bernard Hopkins erased the legendary George Foreman from the record books when he became boxing's oldest world champion with a points decision over Canadian Jean Pascal to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight title.",
"Hopkins, who is 126 days beyond his 46th birthday, won the unanimous verdict of the judges after 12 rounds in the Bell Centre arena in Montreal Saturday night.",
"The two had fought to a draw in December 18 in Quebec to deny Hopkins the crown.",
"\"I have always fought with heart and courage to get a guy out of there,\" Hopkins told gathered reporters.",
"\"You save the best for last.",
"I want to go out a winner and not beat up, punch drunk and not broke.\"",
"Hopkins (52-5-2) is 24 days older than Foreman was when his fellow American defended the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title against Germany's Axel Schulz in 1995 with a split-decision victory.",
"Foreman had claimed claimed the title the year before when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round to win the IBF and World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight crowns on November 5, 1994.",
"Hopkins built up a big points lead through the middle rounds, but came under pressure in the closing stages as the 26-year-old Pascal rallied with home support.",
"\"I am going to fight until I am 50,\" said Hopkins.",
"\"I didn't feel like I am 46 but closer to 36.",
"\"I worked hard for this.",
"I have been accused of being boring but I just wanted to buy time and buy years.",
"Before I leave this game you are going to see the best fights of Hopkins' career.\"",
"Pascal acknowledged he had been beaten by the better fighter but said he would learn from his loss.",
"\"He's a great champion.",
"These two fights will help take me to the next level.",
"I learned a lot from Bernard and his style\""
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United's 24-match unbeaten run this season came crashing to a halt in an extraordinary, record-breaking schedule of English Premier League fixtures on Saturday.",
"The leaders lost 2-1 at bottom club Wolverhampton on a day that saw title rivals Arsenal draw 4-4 with Newcastle, as an unprecedented 41 goals were scored in eight matches -- the previous record for one day was 36.",
"French striker Louis Saha netted four times in Everton's 5-3 win over Blackpool while Wigan edged a seven-goal thriller against Blackburn.",
"United ended the day four points clear of Arsenal, with Manchester City another point back on 49 after beating West Brom 3-0 thanks to a first-half Carlos Tevez hat-trick.",
"Chelsea are 10 points adrift ahead of Sunday's home clash with Liverpool, which should see new signing Fernando Torres face his former team.",
"Fifth-placed Tottenham beat Bolton 2-1 in the day's other lowest-scoring match, alongside Wolves-United, and even that game featured a missed retaken penalty and another awarded and then wiped out.",
"Despite losing England defender Rio Ferdinand to a calf injury in the warm-up, United made the perfect start at Molineux as Nani fired home a left-foot shot in just the third minute.",
"But Wolves leveled seven minutes later as fullback George Elokobi, who gave the Portugal winger far too much time and space in the penalty area, made amends with a header from Matt Jarvis' cross.",
"The Cameroon-born defender was also involved in the winner, credited to striker Kevin Doyle, after the duo lunged to meet a free-kick by Serbian playmaker Nenad Milijas five minutes before halftime.",
"United's much-vaunted forward line of Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov could not breach the Wolves defense, with the Bulgarian replaced by Javier Hernandez with a similar outcome despite five minutes of time being added on.",
"The visitors could have ended the match with 10 men, but veteran midfielder Ryan Giggs was lucky to stay on after kicking out at Doyle.",
"\"It's disappointing, it's been a long run for us,\" United manager Alex Ferguson told reporters after his team's first loss in 29 league games going back to last season.",
"\"But we didn't get going really in the second half today.",
"Wolves are a handful at set-pieces and they proved that again today.\"",
"Arsenal led 4-0 at 10th-placed Newcastle, but had to settle for a draw after French midfielder Abou Diaby was sent off soon after the halftime break.",
"England forward Theo Walcott and Johan Djourou scored inside three minutes, then a double from Dutch striker Robin van Persie on 10 and 26 gave the London side an apparently insurmountable lead.",
"But Joey Barton -- who was at the center of Diaby's dismissal -- reduced the deficit in the 68th minute with a penalty and the midfielder added another on 83 for 4-3 after striker Leon Best bundled in Jose Enrique's cross (75).",
"Ivory Coast midfielder Cheik Tiote then volleyed a spectacular equalizer with two minutes to play, and Arsenal held on with another five added on.",
"Manchester City won for the first time in four matches as Tevez celebrated his 27th birthday with three goals in 19 minutes at home to West Brom, two of them from the penalty spot.",
"The Argentina forward is now the league's second-highest scorer on 18, one behind Berbatov, and City have not lost in a game when he has netted.",
"His first was a penalty in the 17th minute, having earlier hit the post, while David Silva set up his second before West Brom went further behind following handball by Jerome Thomas.",
"The result left Roberto Di Matteo's team just two points above the bottom three.",
"Tottenham went ahead with Rafael van der Vaart's sixth-minute penalty at home to Bolton, and should have doubled the lead soon after but the Dutchman was made to retake his second spotkick and promptly missed the target for what would have been his 13th goal this season.",
"Referee Mark Clattenburg awarded Spurs another penalty before halftime before realizing that Peter Crouch had been flagged offside.",
"Loan striker Daniel Sturridge leveled with his second goal in two matches 10 minutes after halftime, but Croatian substitute Niko Kranjcar snatched victory for Tottenham with an injury-time strike to leave Bolton in eighth place.",
"Sixth-placed Sunderland trail Tottenham by seven points after a 3-2 defeat Stoke, where Germany defender Robert Huth scored two late goals to put his team ninth.",
"Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan had given the visitors the lead with his ninth goal this season, but Huth netted from Jermaine Pennant free-kicks with seven minutes to play and then in time added on.",
"Wigan joined West Brom on 26 points after holding on at home to 11th-placed Blackburn, with James McCarthy scoring twice.",
"Ben Watson's penalty made it 4-2 before David Dunn replied in kind with nine minutes left to set up a tense finish.",
"Everton moved up to 13th place as Saha's four-goal salvo condemned Blackpool to a seventh defeat in eight league matches.",
"The 32-year-old former France international leveled the game at 3-3 with his hat-trick, then sealed victory after Jermaine Beckford's spectacular volley.",
"Fulham remained above Everton on goal difference after the London side continued to improve under Mark Hughes with a 2-2 draw at Aston Villa that left their opponents a point ahead of Blackpool in 14th.",
"American Clint Dempsey earned the point with his 10th goal this season with 12 minutes to play, after on-loan defender Kyle Walker put Villa ahead from long range."
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"(CNN Student News) -- April 26, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Missouri • Syria • Libya .",
"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: A color change, an egg roll, and an extraordinary talk show host.",
"CNN Student News is back -- and so am I -- to bring you 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines from around the world.",
"First Up: Storm Aftermath .",
"AZUZ: First up, police in Poplar Bluff, Missouri are going door to door, telling people to get out.",
"That's because of concerns about a levee on the Black River.",
"Levees are barriers that are designed to prevent flooding.",
"But according to an alert that went out yesterday from the National Weather Service, this levee \"is weakening by the minute and may fail at any time.\"",
"It's another way that the state is suffering from the effects of severe weather.",
"Poplar Bluff is about 130 miles south of St. Louis, and that's where this damage happened.",
"Parts of St. Louis hammered by a tornado over the weekend.",
"If you're in the path of a tornado, you've probably heard the big safety tips, which might include get in the basement if you're in a building that has one.",
"Dan Simon is about to show you why.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) DAN SIMON, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This was the most destructive tornado of the season.",
"This is what an F-4 twister looks like.",
"That assessment was made, in part, by the damage you see here at this house and what you're seeing throughout the Harmon Estate subdivision, where we are in Missouri.",
"I believe we're in the kitchen area, and the reason why I'm saying that is because we see that the refrigerator is right here.",
"In any event, the guy who lives here has had a really rough time.",
"He actually works at the airport.",
"He was there when the tornado struck.",
"He and his colleagues hunkered down there.",
"Then he got a phone call saying that maybe his home was destroyed.",
"He drove here and this is what he saw. And there's something I want to point out here, because this is worth showing here on camera.",
"You know how they always say that you should go to the basement.",
"This is exactly why you should go downstairs to the basement during a tornado, because while the upstairs is gone, the house is destroyed, the basement is basically intact.",
"You have a little bit of the roof coming down here from the rain, but for the most part, this basement is intact.",
"The guy who lives here has a couple of dogs.",
"The dogs actually took refuge in the basement and are OK.",
"But here's why you should go to the basement during a tornado.",
"(END VIDEO) New Alert System .",
"AZUZ: The U.S. government's updating its terrorism alert system to let Americans know about possible threats, and the new version goes into effect today.",
"And you might be familiar with the old, color-coded system.",
"It was put in place after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.",
"There were five colors, from green through red, that indicated risks from low to severe.",
"Under this new system, announced by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week, there will be two kinds of alerts: an elevated threat and an imminent threat.",
"Napolitano said the goal of this change is to help people understand the threat better.",
"That way they can know how to react.",
"When she announced the new system last week, Secretary Napolitano said there is currently no threat that would qualify for either of the two new alert levels.",
"This Day in History .",
"AZUZ: On this day in history, April 26th: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth was tracked down and killed 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.",
"In 1986, unexpected problems during a mechanical test at the Chernobyl plant in the former Soviet Union led to the worst nuclear accident in history.",
"And in 1994, South Africa began its first multi-racial elections, which would lead to Nelson Mandela becoming the country's first black president.",
"Syria Unrest .",
"AZUZ: The United States is threatening penalties.",
"United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon is calling for an investigation.",
"All of it has to do with what's going on right now in Syria.",
"People in the city of Daraa, in southern Syria, have been protesting against their government for weeks.",
"What we know is that Syrian military troops went into Daraa yesterday morning.",
"What we don't know is what exactly happened next.",
"Some reports, including from the United Nations, say the military forces just started attacking residents, killing several people.",
"But the Syrian government says residents asked the military to come to Daraa in order to protect them from supposed terrorists there.",
"CNN hasn't been able to verify the reports out of Syria because CNN is not allowed inside the country.",
"NATO Strike .",
"AZUZ: This is what Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound looked like after an airstrike hit it yesterday.",
"The strike was carried out by NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.",
"That's the group that's leading the military operation in Libya.",
"NATO says the target of the strike was a communications center that Colonel Gadhafi used to direct attacks against civilians.",
"But a Libyan spokesman said NATO was trying to kill Gadhafi.",
"He added, \"The message that was sent by NATO in the early hours... was sent to the wrong address,\" meaning that the attack missed Gadhafi.",
"He also said the Libyan leader was still in command of the country.",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's shoutout goes out to Ms. Capilla's students at Madrid Middle School in El Monte, California!",
"According to a famous saying, what is the best medicine?",
"If you think you know it, then shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Love, B) Laughter, C) Money or D) Happiness?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Laughter is the best medicine.",
"That's how the saying goes, so that's your answer and that's your shoutout!",
"TV Host Inspires Others .",
"AZUZ: It's an idea that Zack Anner is certainly familiar with.",
"He's a comedian and filmmaker, and he's about to add another title to that resume: TV host.",
"But one thing Zack says he doesn't want to be called is inspirational.",
"He might not think so.",
"But after watching this report from our Dr. Sanjay Gupta, you might disagree.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) ZACH ANNER, TV TALK SHOW HOST: I come from a very creative family.",
"My mother is a playwright; my dad made videos, too.",
"So, it was a great place to be.",
"DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: When he was growing up, Zach Anner always knew he wanted to work in film.",
"ANNER: It was always like, whatever you want to do, we can find a way to do it.",
"GUPTA: Now, at 26, he lives in Austin and spends his days writing, editing and brainstorming with his production and support team, his friends.",
"A year ago, Austin -- and really, the rest of the country -- didn't know who Zach was.",
"And then he decided to enter a contest to become Oprah Winfrey's next TV talk show star.",
"OPRAH WINFREY, TV TALK SHOW HOST: How old were you when you figured out that you were different than the other kids?",
"ANNER: I knew that I had a wheelchair, obviously.",
"They didn't shield that from me. GUPTA: As a result of the contest, Oprah gave Zach his own travel show, scheduled to air later this year.",
"ANNER: That's what the travel show is, taking life as it comes.",
"And whatever you run into, you just learn to roll with it.",
"GUPTA: And rolling with life's obstacles, well, that's just what Zach does.",
"ANNER: You gotta have a sense of humor about everything.",
"Because humor is just pain with perspective.",
"GUPTA: You see, Zach has cerebral palsy.",
"It's a neurological disease that affects the brain's ability to control body movements.",
"But having CP never stopped him from doing what he wants to do.",
"ANNER: Everybody has problems, is what I always say.",
"And like, mine are no bigger than anyone else's.",
"And I think that's the message that I want to get across.",
"What I've got to deal with is really small in the scheme of things.",
"GUPTA: Zach gives his family a lot of credit for not dwelling on his disability.",
"And his TV show won't either.",
"He hopes some day to be an inspiration to others, but says he is not there yet and has this advice.",
"ANNER: I would say to anybody who feels really like they are bogged down by their obstacles, just really think of who you are without those.",
"And imagine yourself doing what you love to do, because that will drive you to do things you never thought you were capable of.",
"GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.",
"(END VIDEO) iReport Promo .",
"AZUZ: Excellent story there.",
"All right, next today: Teacher Appreciation Week.",
"It's next week. We're gonna give you the chance to brag about your favorite teachers.",
"You know you love them. So, bust out the camera, shoot a quick video, and tell us who your favorite teacher is and why.",
"Then we want you to go here. This is our home page. You're gonna scroll down to the \"Spotlight\" section, which you see over here.",
"Click on the \"Send Us Your iReport\" link.",
"And then maybe you'll see yourself -- and your teacher appreciation message -- on CNN Student News.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Finally, before we go today, we want to check out a White House tradition.",
"It's the annual Easter Egg Roll!",
"President Obama playing referee for the competition, but the entire first family was there.",
"Although, of course, the Easter Bunny was introduced first.",
"The event included readings from popular children's books and a special tent for cooking presentations.",
"Guests also had the chance to do some yoga on the White House lawn and run through an obstacle course.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: So, I guess the egg roll included a dairy dose of exercise, too.",
"All right! We're gonna roll on out of here.",
"But we'll be back tomorrow with another egg-cellent edition of CNN Student News.",
"You saw that coming.",
"We'll see you tomorrow."
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"(WIRED) -- Amazon and Barnes & Noble are duking it out over the respective battery lives of the Kindle and the new touch-screen Nook.",
"The field of battle is the ghostly ground of press releases and promo-page blurb, and the last word seems to have been had by B&N.",
"After B&N laid out the specs for its new e-reader, Amazon took issue with the numbers, saying that B&N's claim rested on usage tests of just a half hour of use per day, with wireless switched off.",
"Amazon's usage tests assume an hour of use per day, also with wireless switched off.",
"So what did Amazon do? It simply doubled the battery life on the product page to reflect a half-hour daily usage.",
"Sneaky. WIRED: Barns & Noble slims, simplifies Nook e-reader .",
"B&N countered with a very detailed statement, outlining the exact tests made.",
"It also looks like the Kindle was also tested in the same way: .",
"\"With up to two months on a single charge, the all-new Nook has the longest battery life in the industry and superior battery performance to Kindle 3.",
"In our side-by-side tests, under the exact same conditions, continuous use of the device resulted in more than two times Kindle's battery life.",
"\"While reading at one page a minute, the all-new Nook battery lasts for 150 hours, where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours (both with Wi-Fi off). \"",
"WIRED: Despite reports, Nook competes just fine, thank you .",
"We've also done a continuous page turn test and at one page turn per second, the all-new Nook offers more than 25,000 continuous page turns on a single charge.",
"I love that B&N calls 150 just \"two times\" 56, when it could easily say \"almost three times.\"",
"That shows some confidence.",
"However this works out, it's certain that both e-readers have insane battery life compared to any other kind of gadget.",
"And if you're basing your decision on this spec alone, instead of depth of catalog and ease of use, then you're probably looking in the wrong direction.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"(CNN) -- You voted for prolific 19th century musician Ludwig van Beethoven as the most iconic composer of the western world.",
"Last month, CNN's arts and culture program, icon, asked you to vote for your top five iconic composers.",
"Your top choice, Beethoven, was the first great composer to earn a successful living without patronage and composed some of his greatest works after becoming profoundly deaf.",
"In second place came Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.",
"Perhaps the most famous composer of all time, Mozart penned his first work aged five and went on to write the opera's \"Don Giovanni\" and \"Cosi fan tutte.\"",
"One of Baroque music's greatest champions, Johann Sebastian Bach, took third place, while Romantic composer Tchaikovsky and child prodigy pianist Chopin rounded out the top five.",
"In March, we want to know which iconic fashion designs revolutionized the way we dress.",
"We'll name your top five when the show airs on March 24."
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"(CNN) -- The arrest in Serbia of Ratko Mladic brings to an end a 16-year man hunt for the highest profile suspect still at large from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.",
"Here is a timeline of key dates in Mladic's involvement in military action in the former Yugoslavia, his subsequent indictment for war crimes and the efforts to bring him to justice.",
"1992: After helping found the Serbian Democratic Party in 1990, Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic declares a new independent Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and proclaims himself president.",
"Mladic gets command of the Bosnian Serb army which the majority of Bosnia and Herzegovina.",
"His troops reportedly massacre more than 200,000 Muslims and Croats.",
"April 23, 1995: The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal names Karadzic and Mladic as suspected war criminals.",
"July 11, 1995: In what becomes known as the Srebrenica massacre, Karadzic and his army allegedly slaughter between 6,000 and 8,000 Muslims over the course of two days in a supposed U.N. safe area.",
"July 24, 1995: The U.N. Tribunal indicts both Karadzic and Mladic on several charges, including war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.",
"November 16, 1995: A second indictment against Karadzic and Mladic brings charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for the Srebrenica massacre.",
"November 21, 1995: An agreement struck in Dayton, Ohio, gives Serbs half of Bosnia.",
"They are required to cooperate with the U.N. war crimes court.",
"1997: Karadzic believed to be in permanent hiding after not being seen for more than a year.",
"June 28, 2001: Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic is handed over to U.N. Tribunal.",
"July 21, 2008: Karadzic arrested after more than a decade as a fugitive from war crimes charges.",
"June 16, 2010: Mladic's family launches court proceedings to have him legally declared dead saying he had been in poor health and there had been no contact with him.",
"October 28, 2010: Serbia raises its reward for information leading to Mladic's arrest from $1 million to $14 million.",
"May 26, 2011: Serbian President Boris Tadic announces the arrest of Mladic."
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"Ratko Mladic rose to prominence in 1992 as commander of Bosnian Serb army .",
"Mladic was the highest-ranking Yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large .",
"He is wanted on charges of genocide, extermination and murder ."
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"(CNN) -- French football has been hit a 'race quota' row with the country's sports minister demanding clarification from the national federation of their policy.",
"Reports allege that senior officials have secretly approved limiting the number of black and Arab trainees to 30 per cent from the age of 12-13 and that national team coach Laurent Blanc had approved the quota.",
"Both the federation and Blanc issued denials Friday but minister Chantal Jouanno is seeking guarantees that there are genuine equal opportunities.",
"\"Discrimination has no place in sport, whether it's in the stands or in the training academies,\" Ms Jouanno said.",
"\"I take note of the French football federation's denial about the existence of such a policy and I invite it to very quickly shed light on the allegations in the article,\" she added in a statement released to CNN.",
"The French investigative website Mediapart broke the story about a supposed secret quota Thursday.",
"Quoting \"scandalized\" sources within the French Football Federation (FFF), it said the alleged directive from its National Technical Direction (DTN) had already been sent out to training academies.",
"It further alleged that senior FFF members, including Blanc, had knowledge of the quota.",
"\"A genuine segregation applied to football,\" it said.",
"But Philippe Tournon, media officer for the French national team, said Laurent Blanc was outraged by the allegation.",
"\"[He] categorically denies that he could have supported selections based on ethnicity or skin color,\" Mr Tournon said.",
"\"It goes against his philosophy.\"",
"FFF president Fernand Duchaussoy also denied the reports Friday.",
"\"I heard about this on Thursday with a great deal of surprise, I was taken aback.",
"I thought it was a joke in bad taste.",
"These are terrible accusations,\" he told AFP.",
"Race became a controversial issue again in French football after the shambolic performance of the national team in last year's World Cup, where the players briefly went on strike.",
"Accusations were made that the team, which had six black players, had mutinied in South Africa because of race.",
"It contrasted with the euphoria around the 1998 World Cup winning-side when the nation adored its multi-ethnic team of \"Blacks, Blancs, Beurs\" - blacks, whites and Arabs."
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"French football hit by 'race quota' row at its national training centers .",
"Report alleges black and Arab players to be restricted to 30 per cent at age 12-13 .",
"French football federation and national coach Laurent Blanc deny accusations ."
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"(CNN) -- Francesca Schiavone returned \"home\" to the scene of her French Open triumph last year with an emphatic victory in her opener against 19-year-old American Melanie Oudin Monday.",
"Schiavone, who beat Samantha Stosur in last year's women's singles final, showed her liking for the red clay of Roland Garros with a 6-2 6-0 rout of the unfortunate Oudin.",
"The fifth-seeded Italian will meet Russian Vesna Dolonts in round two and on the evidence of her victory on the Philippe Chatrier will take some stopping.",
"\"I'm still shaking a little bit,\" Schiavone told gathered reporters after her swift win.",
"\"That court is fantastic because it's compact and the court is perfect.",
"It goes all around you.",
"\"It's like when you go home and your mum does everything for you and you feel comfortable.",
"I felt like this, but with a lot of adrenaline.\"",
"Top seed Caroline Wozniacki later made light work of Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm in their first round match, winning for the loss of just two games.",
"The Dane is bidding for her first grand slam title.",
"Another pre-tournament favorite, Russian third seed Vera Zvonareva, also reached the second round by beating Spanish veteran Lourdes Dominguez Lino 6-3 6-3 on Court Suzanne Lenglen.",
"Zvonareva was a losing finalist at both Wimbledon and the U.S Open last year.",
"Her fellow Russian and 26th seed Nadia Petrova was a first day casualty, going down 6-7 6-3 6-4 to Australia's Anastasia Rodionova."
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"Francesca Schiavone wins opening match of her title defense at Roland Garros .",
"Italian fifth seed beats Melanie Oudin of United States 6-2 6-0 .",
"Top seed Caroline Wozniacki brushes aside Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm .",
"26th seed Nadia Petrova crashes out to Australia's Anastasia Rodionova ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan showed up three weeks early at a Los Angeles jail to begin serving her sentence for a theft charge, but it was determined that she would be allowed to serve her time in home confinement, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Thursday.",
"Lohan was sentenced May 11 to 120 days in jail, but overcrowding at the facility and state rules could reduce the time she must be confined to her Venice, California, home to about two weeks, according to information previously provided by the sheriff's office.",
"Lohan, 24, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor theft charge stemming from a January incident in which she apparently left a Venice jewelry store wearing a gold and diamond necklace for which she had not paid.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner gave the actress until June 17 to begin the sentence, but Lohan reported to the jail early Thursday, Whitmore said.",
"Once there, it was determined that she was eligible for home confinement instead of jail, he said.",
"The actress was fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor her movements and ensure she stays at home, except as allowed by the court, he said.",
"Early release formulas, required by a federal order to reduce jail overcrowding, will likely reduce the sentence to about 14 days, Whitmore said after the sentencing.",
"\"Because of budget constraints and because we're under a federal consent decree that requires us to curb our overcrowding situation, nonviolent offenders, lesser crimes, get 20% of their sentence,\" the spokesman explained.",
"Sautner remarked that the discounts on the sentences \"seems to be like shopping at Costco.\"",
"As part of Lohan's sentence, Sautner also ordered that the actress remain on supervised probation until she completes 480 hours of community service.",
"But the judge rejected Deputy City Attorney Melanie Chavira's request for substance abuse counseling for the actress.",
"Sautner said drugs and alcohol are not the root of Lohan's legal troubles, but \"she's got other problems for which she self-medicates.\"",
"Lohan's four years in and out of court -- and sometimes jail -- started with two drunken driving arrests in 2007.",
"Since then, she's spent more than eight months in substance abuse rehabilitation programs.",
"After her sentencing, the court released a probation report that said the actress \"appears to be continuing to struggle with substance abuse issues.\"",
"\"It would appear that the defendant's criminal conduct is increasing in seriousness and severity,\" the probation report said, yet it suggested she serve her sentence on probation and not in jail.",
"Lohan tested positive for alcohol use, a violation of probation rules, in February, the report said.",
"It also revealed that the drug test failure last August, which resulted in a jail sentence and court-ordered rehab, involved cocaine and amphetamines.",
"Lohan was not at the May 11 hearing, but her lawyer entered a no-contest plea -- equivalent to a guilty plea -- to the misdemeanor theft charge on her behalf.",
"\"I am glad to be able to put this past me and move on with my life and my career,\" Lohan said in a written statement released by her lawyer.",
"\"I support the judge's decision and hold myself accountable for being in this situation.\"",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"Lohan could have waited until June 17 to start her sentence .",
"She may only serve two weeks of a 120-day sentence .",
"The actress pleaded guilty to a necklace theft charge ."
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"(CNN) -- CNN International's \"Going Green\" is back for another series of special programming with \"Extreme Science,\" a special one-hour documentary that will take viewers on a journey where scientists study global warming in one of the coldest places on earth.",
"Airing July 16 and 17 and hosted by special correspondent, environmentalist and explorer Philippe Cousteau, the documentary will showcase his journey to the Arctic and the significance of the science studied in the extreme conditions.",
"\"Extreme Science\" will be followed by \"Going Green: Green Pioneers,\" the second installment of this year's green weeks, starting July 18, 2011.",
"The week of special in-depth reports looks at the world's pioneers who are working to make a difference at the front lines of our world's environmental challenges.",
"The series culminates with \"Green Pioneers,\" a half-hour program hosted by Philippe Cousteau.",
"\"Green Pioneers\" focuses on the people who are using innovative ways to tackle today's environmental challenges.",
"Watch on CNN International: .",
"Extreme Science .",
"Saturday, 16 July: 4pm ET Sunday, 17 July: 5am ET Saturday, 30 July: 9am, 4pm ET Sunday, 31 July: 5am ET .",
"Going Green: Green Pioneers .",
"Saturday, 23 July: 9am, 4pm ET Sunday, 24 July: 5am ET Tuesday, 26 July: 630am, 130pm ET ."
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"CNN International will air \"Extreme Science,\" exploring global warming in the Arctic, in July 2011 .",
"The documentary will be hosted by CNN special correspondent, Philippe Cousteau .",
"Next up will be \"Going Green: Green Pioneers,\" a week of special reports looking at people who are working to make a difference to the environment .",
"The series ends with \"Green Pioneers,\" a half-hour program looking at environmental innovation ."
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"(CNN) -- Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel led from start to finish to win the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang Sunday.",
"It was the second straight victory for the reigning Formula One world champion after he claimed the season-opener in Australia a fortnight ago.",
"Jenson Button finished second in his McLaren with Nick Heidfeld rewarded for his brilliant drive in the Renault with the final podium place.",
"Vettel's teammate Mark Webber of Australia made up ground after a poor start to finish fourth.",
"Veteran Heidfeld moved ahead of Button's teammate Lewis Hamilton into second position on the first corner and was always among the front runners through the pits stops.",
"It was the start of a disappointing afternoon for 2008 champion Hamilton, who crossed the line seventh behind the Ferrari pair of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in fifth and sixth.",
"But he was later penalized 20 seconds by race stewards following a collision with Alonso as they battled for third spot on lap 46.",
"It meant he was relegated to eighth spot behind Japan's Kamui Kobayashi in his Sauber.",
"Alonso, who was also penalized, stayed sixth.",
"Can Ferrari find some trump cards?",
"But this was another dominant display by Germany's Vettel, who has now won fourth successive F1 races, claiming the final two of the 2010 season to wrap up the title.",
"He qualified in pole position and quickly opened up an advantage which he comfortably maintained without real challenge.",
"\"It was a great day,\" he told the official post-race press conference.",
"\"The start was crucial.",
"I had a good one, and then I was surprised going into turn one when I saw the Renault alongside me.",
"\"I think it was a good thing because it meant I could pull away.",
"\"We now have to take the momentum into the next race.",
"It's two out of two, which is perfect, but we have to keep our feet on the ground.\"",
"Vettel leads 2009 champion Button by 24 points in the drivers' standings with Hamilton and Webber a further four points adrift.",
"Completing the minor points scoring, seven-time champion Michael Schumacher was ninth for Mercedes.",
"Tenth-placed Paul Di Resta scored another point for Force India in only the second F1 start for the young Briton."
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"Germany's Sebastian Vettel wins Malaysian Grand Prix for Red Bull .",
"Reigning champion Vettel has claimed the two opening races of 2011 season .",
"Jenson Button finishes second with Nick Heidfeld completing the podium .",
"NEW: Lewis Hamilton relegated to eighth spot after clash with Fernando Alonso ."
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"(Mental Floss) -- 1.",
"Diego Rivera's \"Man at the Crossroads\" The moral: Never hire a communist to do a capitalist's job.",
"During the Great Depression, Mexican artist Diego Rivera was on a roll.",
"In 1931, he painted a massive mural for San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange.",
"And by 1933, he'd completed two more enormous murals of Ford's assembly line for the Detroit Institute of Arts.",
"But there was a disconnect in Rivera's work.",
"Although the artist was a vocal and committed communist, his art was decidedly capitalist.",
"After a few friends pointed out the hypocrisy, Rivera decided to put his paintbrush where his mouth was.",
"Opportunity knocked in 1932, when the Rockefeller family hired Rivera to create one of his signature paintings in the lobby of the new RCA Building in Rockefeller Center.",
"Their suggested theme for the work was \"Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future\" -- an allusion to the crossroads between industry and technology.",
"Rivera's final product depicted a crossroads, but hardly in the way the Rockefellers had intended.",
"Instead, the sprawling 63-foot masterpiece illustrated two alternate futures: a communist heaven and a capitalist hell.",
"Rivera might have gotten away with his political statement if it hadn't been for one detail -- he painted his personal hero, Vladimir Lenin, into the piece.",
"When building managers realized Rivera was filling their lobby with Red propaganda, they ordered him to cease and desist.",
"To preserve the art, the Rockefellers asked Rivera to morph Lenin's portrait into an unrecognizable worker.",
"But when the artist refused (Rivera offered instead to balance the picture with a portrait of Lincoln), he was paid his full fee, then barred from the site.",
"The mural was immediately covered, and months later, workers were ordered to destroy the piece altogether.",
"It wasn't long before the artist got his revenge.",
"Later that year, Rivera re-created the piece for the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.",
"Only this time, he added a portrait to the capitalist side; it was of Nelson Rockefeller, holding a martini glass, under a swarm of syphilitic bacteria.",
"Mental Floss: 5 geniuses who renounced their work .",
"2. Robert Arneson's \"Portrait of George\" The moral: If you're going to put the Mayor on a pedestal, don't build that pedestal with Twinkies.",
"In 1978, after mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated, the city of San Francisco wanted to commemorate its fallen leaders.",
"Officials set about building a new convention center in Moscone's honor, and held a competition for a proper memorial sculpture to be displayed in the lobby.",
"Artist Robert Arneson quickly won over the selection committee with his proposal for a grinning, oversize bust of the slain mayor.",
"But when the sculpture was unveiled in 1981, it was met with gasps of horror.",
"The audience wasn't shocked by Moscone's smiling head, but by its nearly 5-foot-tall pedestal, which was imprinted with five bloody bullet holes and graffiti that read \"BANG BANG BANG\" and \"HARVEY MILK TOO.\"",
"Arneson even included an image of a revolver and a Twinkie -- a reference to the assassin, Dan White, who'd tried to exonerate himself in court by arguing that junk food binges were to blame for his violent mood swings.",
"Arneson claimed he was trying to portray the totality of the crime, but San Franciscans wouldn't have it.",
"Mayor Moscone's successor, Dianne Feinstein, denounced the work, and the city demanded its money back.",
"A handful of people did appreciate the sculpture, though.",
"A private collector purchased the piece immediately, and in 1997, \"Portrait of George\" resold for $155,000.",
"Today, even Feinstein agrees the work would be \"appropriate for a museum.\"",
"Just don't count on it showing up in the Moscone Center lobby anytime soon.",
"3. Horatio Greenough's \"George Washington\" The moral: Founding Fathers look less distinguished in the nude.",
"In 1832, Congress commissioned a giant sculpture of George Washington for the 100th anniversary of the president's birth.",
"They tapped artist Horatio Greenough for the job, and he seemed like a perfect fit.",
"Not only did the Boston native come with a great reputation, but he'd also trained in Rome with the best European artists.",
"Considering Greenough's background, Congress assumed that his work might be classically influenced.",
"What they didn't expect was to see the Founding Father on a pedestal, almost naked as the day he was born.",
"To be fair, Horatio Greenough had good intentions.",
"Inspired by ancient depictions of Greek gods, the artist wanted to portray America's first president with the strength of Zeus, bestowing power on the people.",
"But when Greenough unveiled his work in the Capitol rotunda, the audience didn't get it.",
"Instead of greeting the statue with thunderous applause, onlookers simply gawked and snickered at the half-naked George Washington.",
"Wrapped loosely in a toga, the president looked out of character with his nipples and belly button exposed.",
"Worse still, Washington's arm was extended outward in a grand gesture, and many in the crowd joked that the embarrassed president was trying to reach for his clothes.",
"Congress was outraged.",
"They tried to relocate the piece, eventually sticking it on the east lawn of the Capitol.",
"By 1908, however, politicians had acquired a sense of humor about the sculpture, and the statue was moved to the Smithsonian.",
"Today, it can be seen in all its naked splendor at the National Museum of American History.",
"Mental Floss: 8 times museum patrons mangled works of art .",
"4. David Cerný's \"Entropa\" The moral: Not everyone appreciates racist, nationalist humor.",
"On January 1, 2009, the Czech Republic took over the revolving presidency of the European Union, and to commemorate the event, the government turned to Czech artist David Cerný.",
"For his piece, Cerný proposed working with 26 other artists, one from each EU member nation, to create a grand monument.",
"But when \"Entropa\" was unveiled on January 12, the international community was scandalized.",
"Rather than celebrating Europe, \"Entropa\" mocked each and every country.",
"\"Entropa\" is a huge map in which each nation is represented as a stereotype.",
"Some are silly; others are blatantly offensive.",
"Romania is depicted as a Dracula theme park; Germany is a network of motorways that resembles a swastika; Sweden is a large, IKEA-style box; Bulgaria is a collection of squat toilets.",
"Upon seeing the work, the Bulgarian government immediately issued a formal complaint.",
"The controversy grew when newspapers noticed that Cerný's \"team\" of international artists was nowhere to be found.",
"Cerný soon admitted that they didn't exist; his only collaborators were his two assistants.",
"Outraged, Czech officials accused him of misappropriating state funds, but Cerný insisted that he'd always intended to return the money.",
"Three days later, when the work was ceremonially presented to the public, Cerný formally apologized to the Czech government.",
"He said his intention was \"to see if Europe is able to laugh at itself.\"",
"Apparently, it can't. Mental Floss: 9 really dangerous pieces of art .",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Artists have their own vision when it comes to creating commissioned works of art .",
"These works have been rejected because of political, emotional or moral content .",
"The nude \"George Washington\" can still be seen at the National Museum of American History ."
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"(CNN) -- The father of the woman who was dragged away by officials loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi after telling journalists that some of his troops had beaten and raped her said Monday that his daughter is in Qatar.",
"Eman al-Obeidy, who garnered worldwide attention for her vocal allegations against Gadhafi's regime, had told CNN she fled Libya, fearing for her safety.",
"Her father declined to provide further details about her whereabouts, but said he spoke to her Monday and she told him she is in Qatar.",
"Al-Obeidy told CNN in a previous interview that she crossed into Tunisia on Thursday with the help of a defecting military officer and his family.",
"She said she left Tripoli in a military car, wearing a head cover that hid everything except one eye.",
"Al-Obeidy said she entered at the Dahibah border crossing disguised \"in the local manner\" and was not challenged.",
"She described the trip from Tripoli as \"very tiring.\"",
"Along the road to Tunisia, the car she was in was stopped several times at checkpoints, al-Obeidy said.",
"The military officer would show his permit and they would be allowed to continue, she said.",
"Al-Obeidy said she was able to make the crossing by using a refugee document.",
"European diplomats drove her from the border region to Tunis, and gave her sanctuary there while she considered her future, according to Western diplomatic sources.",
"She said she was afraid she was being followed and might still be in danger, adding that she hoped she could obtain protection from a Western government.",
"\"I still do not know what I am going to do.",
"Of course I'd like to see my family,\" she said, speaking in Tunisia.",
"Al-Obeidy's mother learned about her daughter's escape after seeing news reports on TV, her father told CNN from the family's hometown of Tobruk, Libya, on Sunday.",
"Atiq Al-Obeidy said that his wife then called him, and both parents were overjoyed.",
"Atiq Al-Obeidy admitted he was \"not optimistic\" that his daughter would be able to safely leave Libya, thinking forces loyal to Gadhafi \"would do the worst to her, given his past.\"",
"\"I am extremely delighted, and I will be looking forward to more information about how she was able to escape,\" the woman's father said Sunday.",
"Eman al-Obeidy received worldwide attention on March 26, when she burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli while international journalists staying there were having breakfast.",
"She told reporters she had been taken from a checkpoint east of Tripoli and held against her will for two days while being beaten and raped by 15 men.",
"In an interview with CNN last month, she said she felt defeated and lived in fear that she would be punished gravely for her words.",
"\"I usually get harassed when I have to show my Identification card to government officials somewhere and they find out who I am and that I have put complaints forward against Gadhafi's people,\" she said.",
"\"They humiliate me to the point where other people gather around and start saying that it is shameful to treat a Libyan woman that way.\"",
"The legal proceedings in her rape case have not gone far, she said last month.",
"She also had not been able to go home.",
"CNN's Khalil Abdallah, Nic Robertson, Amir Ahmed and Sara Sidner contributed to this report."
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"Eman al-Obeidy accused Libyan security forces of rape in March .",
"She crossed into Tunisia on Thursday, she tells CNN .",
"She is hoping for protection from a Western government .",
"Her father says she is now in Qatar, declining to provide more detail ."
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"(CNN) -- An Al Jazeera reporter who disappeared after landing in the Syrian capital of Damascus last month to cover anti-government protests has been released, the network said early Wednesday.",
"The network said Dorothy Parvaz was safe and well in Doha, where her fiance had gone to greet her.",
"The journalist will head to Canada.",
"Al Jazeera lost contact with Parvaz after she disembarked from a Qatar Airways flight from Iran on April 29.",
"In a statement last week, Syria said the 39-year-old journalist was taken into custody after she arrived in Damascus with an expired passport and deported to Iran two days later.",
"But Iran's state news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Saturday as saying the Islamic republic had \"no information\" about her.",
"A statement that Parvaz's fiance, Todd Barker, posted on the \"Free Dorothy Parvaz\" Facebook page indicated she had been taken to Iran.",
"\"She said that she was treated well in Iran.",
"She sounded positive and grateful for the support - but a little embarrassed.",
"We are very thankful to Iranian authorities for her release and good treatment,\" the statement said.",
"Added an Al Jazeera spokesman: \"We are with her now to find out more about her ordeal over the last 18 days.\"",
"Syria has been roiled for six weeks by anti-government protests and has largely prevented foreign journalists from covering the unrest.",
"Media organizations have been relying on social media, eyewitness accounts and cell-phone video to report the story.",
"Thousands of supporters from around the world started a social media campaign on Facebook and Twitter in an effort to draw attention to her disappearance.",
"Dozens of international journalists have been detained and expelled from Syria since March 15, when anti-government protests began, said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists in the Middle East and North Africa."
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"NEW: Her fiance thanks Iran for Parvaz's release .",
"Syria says it deported the Al Jazeera reporter to Iran .",
"Iran says it has \"no information\" about her whereabouts .",
"Al Jazeera says Dorothy Parvaz is safe and well in Doha ."
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"(CNN) -- South Africa fought back after Sachin Tendulkar's 99th international century to claim an unlikely three-wicket win over World Cup co-hosts India Saturday.",
"India looked set to run up a massive score in Nagpur but after Tendulkar went for 111 they lost their last nine wickets for just 29 to be bowled out for 296.",
"Paceman Dale Steyn did the damage with a brilliant five-wicket burst but it was still a tough total to chase on a slow pitch.",
"Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers all scored half centuries to keep them in the hunt before Faf du Plessis and JP Duminy plundered late runs.",
"But 13 were still needed off the final over by seamer Ashish Nehra with Robin Peterson on strike and du Plessis at the other end.",
"Only four balls were needed as Peterson hit a four, a massive six and then two runs to pull the scores level.",
"A boundary through the covers clinched victory and left the Indians, who still top Group B, crestfallen.",
"Earlier, Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag put on 142 in just 17.4 overs in an explosive opening stand.",
"Gautam Gambhir (69) joined Tendulkar in another century partnership and a score well in excess of 300 looked on the cards.",
"But Steyn, who was named man-of-the-match for his inspired spell, turned the game his side's way after their disappointing defeat to England in their previous match.",
"Tendulkar has scored 48 one-day international tons to add to his record 51 Test match centuries.",
"Meanwhile, England off-spinner Graeme Swann has been fined 10 per cent of his match fee for his conduct in his side's shock World Cup defeat to Bangladesh Friday.",
"Swann was openly furious that the night-time dew at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium made it difficult for him to grip the ball."
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"South Africa beat co-hosts India in World Cup cricket match in Nagpur .",
"Robin Peterson strikes winning runs in three-wicket victory .",
"Sachin Tendulkar scores 48th one-day international ton for India .",
"Five wickets for Dale Steyn cause late Indian batting collapse ."
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"(CNN) -- Canada secured only their second-ever win at the Cricket World Cup on Monday with a five wicket defeat of Kenya.",
"The match in the Indian capital of Delhi was between two nations searching for their first victory of the tournament, and it was Pubudu Dassanayake's Canada who came out on top after they reached a target of 199 with 27 balls to spare.",
"The result leaves Kenya bottom of Group A, with Canada one place above them in seventh after picking up their first points of the tournament.",
"Eldine Baptiste's Kenya team batted for the full 50 overs for the first time at this World Cup, with all-rounder Thomas Odoyo their top scorer after he hit 51 runs off 62 balls.",
"Canada responded superbly though, and a fourth-wicket stand of 132 runs between captain Ashish Bagai and Jimmy Hansra helped them towards their triumph.",
"The North American nation's only previous win at cricket's premier 50-over competition was against Bangladesh in 2003.",
"Canada's next match is against New Zealand, who are currently fourth in Group A with four points, on March 13.",
"Kenya will go up against reigning champions Australia on the same day at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.",
"Meanwhile, England were hit with an injury blow after it was announced that key batsman Kevin Pietersen will miss the rest of the tournament.",
"The South-Africa born opener will return to England in order to have surgery on a hernia injury.",
"\"Sad to leave India.. Love the people & the hospitality,\" Pietersen, 30, said via social-networking website Twitter.",
"The International Cricket Council have granted England permission to call up 24-year-old Eoin Morgan as a replacement.",
"Morgan, who represented Ireland in the 2007 World Cup, was initially ruled out of the competition with a finger injury."
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"Canada win only their second-ever Cricket World Cup match after beating Kenya .",
"The North Americans reached their target of 199 runs with 27 balls remaining .",
"Canada's only previous World Cup win was over Bangladesh in 2003 .",
"England's Kevin Pietersen will miss the rest of the tournament in order to have surgery ."
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"(CNN) -- An explosive century from birthday boy Ross Taylor helped New Zealand crush Pakistan by 110 runs and go top of their group at the Cricket World Cup.",
"Taylor hit an unbeaten 131 off just 124 balls as the Kiwis smashed an incredible 100 runs off the final five overs of their innings.",
"New Zealand looked set to post a modest total as they labored to 164-4 with ten overs remaining but fireworks from Taylor -- who hit seven sixes -- and Jacob Oram saw them amass 138 more runs.",
"Finishing on 302-7 off their 50 overs the Kiwis shell shocked Pakistan, who contributed to their own downfall with sloppy fielding and poor bowling.",
"Pakistan then slumped to 23-4 in their reply and only a partnership of 66 between Abdul Razzaq (62) and Umar Gul (34 not out) added a modicum of respectability to their total of 192.",
"The only negative for New Zealand was an injury to their captain Daniel Vettori who limped off after diving to stop a ball in the field.",
"Martin Guptill got New Zealand off to a brisk start as he compiled 57 runs but it was Taylor who held the innings together.",
"Brendon McCullum, Jamie How and James Franklin went for low totals but Scott Styris steadied the ship with 28 runs.",
"At 164-4 though, New Zealand were looking as if they would post a below-par total.",
"Taylor was dropped twice early in his innings, with wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal at fault, but he made the most of his reprieve with some devastating hitting, taking 24 runs off a Shoaib Akhtar over and 30 off one from Abdul Razzaq.",
"Jacob Oram also chipped in with three sixes as New Zealand transformed their innings and finished with 302.",
"Tim Southee then took three wickets as Pakistan faltered in their reply with Styris, Kyle Mills and Nathan McCullum also taking two wickets apiece.",
"New Zealand are now top of Group A, replacing Pakistan.",
"Elsewhere, England were dealt another injury blow after bowler Stuart Broad was ruled out of the World Cup.",
"Broad is suffering from a side strain picked up in the win over South Africa and will return to England soon.",
"His injury comes just two days after batsman Kevin Pietersen was forced to pull out of the tournament with a hernia.",
"His replacement, Eoin Morgan, joined up with the England squad on Tuesday."
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"New Zealand beat Pakistan by 110 runs at the Cricket World Cup .",
"Ross Taylor smashes a superb unbeaten 131 as Kiwis make 302-7 .",
"New Zealand smash 100 off final five overs before Pakistan slump to 192 all out .",
"England fast bowler Stuart Broad ruled out of World Cup with a side strain ."
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"(CNN) -- Ratko Mladic, the onetime Bosnian Serb commander accused of presiding over Europe's worst massacre since World War II, was in custody Thursday after more than 15 years in hiding, Serbia's president announced.",
"Mladic was the highest-ranking war crimes suspect to remain at large from the wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.",
"He was arrested in the Serbian town of Lazarevo after a three-year investigation, President Boris Tadic said in a dramatic and hastily announced news conference in Belgrade.",
"\"All war criminals must face justice,\" Tadic said.",
"He refused to give more details about the operation but said Serbian authorities continue to probe \"who aided and abetted Mladic ... and those people will face justice.\"",
"Mladic, now 69, led Bosnian Serb forces during the 1992-95 war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.",
"The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has charged him with leading a genocidal campaign against Bosnia's Muslim and Croat populations and with having \"direct involvement\" in the 1995 killings of nearly 8,000 men and boys in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.",
"He was transferred from Lazarevo, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Belgrade, to courthouse in the capital for a preliminary hearing after his arrest, and the tribunal said it looked forward to his \"expeditious transfer\" to the Hague, Netherlands, for trial.",
"Once there, he will be allowed to enter a plea to the charges against him, which include genocide, crimes against humanity and violating the laws of war, according to a statement from the court.",
"\"The arrest of Mladic is a milestone in the Tribunal's history and brings the institution closer to the successful completion of its mandate,\" the tribunal said.",
"The sole remaining fugitive from the court is former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, \"and the Tribunal hopes he will be arrested in the very near future.\"",
"Mladic is accused of leading a campaign of \"ethnic cleansing,\" widespread killing, forcible deportations, torture, forced labor and physical, psychological and sexual violence during the Bosnian war.",
"But he remains a hero to some of his former soldiers, said David Owen, a former European Union envoy to Yugoslavia, suggesting that his supporters had sheltered him in Serbia.",
"The international police agency Interpol praised the arrest as \"a triumph for international justice.\"",
"Interpol officials had met with Tadic in January to discuss closer cooperation in the hunt for war crimes suspects, the organization's secretary-general, Ronald Noble, said in a statement on Mladic's capture.",
"\"After today's arrest, no one should doubt Serbia's commitment to the rule of law and justice,\" Noble said.",
"Tadic said the arrest will help the process of reconciliation throughout the Balkans and should pave the way for Serbia's entry into the EU.",
"James Ker-Lindsay, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, called Thursday \"an incredibly important day for Serbia.\"",
"\"Ratko Mladic was the person to get hold of.",
"This totally transforms Serbian prospects for getting into the European Union,\" he said.",
"EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton hailed the arrest as a victory for \"the rule of law in Serbia\" and praised Tadic and his government for \"this courageous action.\"",
"Ashton called for the quick transfer of the suspect to the Netherlands for trial.",
"But Tadic declined to say how long the extradition would take, explaining it was not up to him.",
"Mladic had been on the run since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended in 1995.",
"The Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List was the first to report his arrest, saying police were doing DNA tests on a suspect to determine whether he was the notorious former commander.",
"Mladic was the last fugitive from a triumvirate of Serbian leaders accused of genocide against Muslims and Croats as the three populations fought a brutal war over Yugoslav territory.",
"Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was toppled in 2000 and sent to face charges in The Hague.",
"He died in 2006 while the trial was still going on.",
"Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested in July 2008 and is now on trial in The Hague.",
"Karadzic was removed from power under the Dayton Peace accords that ended three years of brutal fighting.",
"He went into hiding, grew a full white beard and long hair, and was working in an alternative medicine clinic in Belgrade -- right under the noses of authorities -- when he was captured.",
"Karadzic has insisted on defending himself at The Hague.",
"Prosecutors accuse him of deliberately obstructing the trial with delaying tactics, and judges have threatened to impose a defense lawyer on him if he does not cooperate.",
"The Bosnian war was the longest of the conflicts spawned by the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.",
"Backed by the Milosevic government, Bosnian Serb forces seized control of more than half the country and launched a campaign against the Muslim and Croat populations.",
"The United Nations declared Srebrenica to be a safe haven, and tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims flooded in, expecting protection.",
"But a small contingent of Dutch U.N. peacekeepers, lightly armed and aware that no reinforcements were coming, stood aside and allowed Mladic's troops to overrun Srebrenica, leading to the slaughter.",
"NATO intervened in the conflict, bombing Bosnian Serb military positions.",
"The United States brought the leaders of the warring factions to an agreement in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995, bringing the violence to an end.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling, Moni Basu and Lateef Mungin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The Balkan war crimes tribunal praises Mladic's arrest .",
"Mladic was wanted on charges of genocide, extermination and murder .",
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"(CNN) -- They've already conquered YouTube.",
"Now, a dream team of viral video superstars is hoping to hit the big screen.",
"On Monday, the masterminds behind \"The Chronicles of Rick Roll\" released a four-minute trailer they hope will help them finish bankrolling a feature-length film.",
"The video, an update of a shorter, more cryptic teaser trailer that has been circulating online for a few weeks, features Antoine \"Bed Intruder\" Dodson, Bear \"Double Rainbow\" Vasquez and Gary \"Numa Numa\" Brolsma among others.",
"Executive producer Andrew Fischer estimates the half-dozen internet meme makers in the trailer have accounted for more than 2 billion page views combined (including, he said, copycat versions of their videos and views on sites other than YouTube).",
"He said he's hoping the film, for which he said he's still pursuing additional financial backing, \"will quite literally market itself.\"",
"Others in the low-budget trailer include Brian \"Boom Goes the Dynamite\" Collins, Ben \"Leeroy Jenkins\" Schulz and Steven and Jack Quire, the brothers from the \"Freakout Kid\" video.",
"No word on whether \"David After Dentist\" or the dramatic chipmunk were unavailable.",
"Fischer, who also wrote the script and appears as title character \"Rick Rolland\" (a role he said he'd happily hand over to a more professional actor), said the trailer was shot in Colorado in January.",
"\"Everyone was pretty excited from the beginning and everyone really enjoyed working together, too,\" he said.",
"\"That's one of those dynamics -- you don't know how it's going to turn out, but it went really well.\"",
"All of the video stars were asked to stay quiet about the ultimate goal of the filming until now, Fischer said.",
"\"We're obviously all hoping to be working again in the near future,\" he said.",
"The trailer, which Fischer previewed for CNN earlier Monday, comes across as a tongue-in-cheek take on epic adventures such as \"The Chronicles of Narnia\" and \"The Lord of the Rings.\"",
"In it, the main character is transported into a woodsy realm called \"Middle Internet\" to rescue a girl he met on a dating site.",
"With the help of the viral stars, he battles evil creatures such as living, breathing pop-up ads.",
"Fischer said he hopes the new trailer will help convince financial backers to jump onboard.",
"He said he also hopes it will help dispel the theory that the whole thing is just a big joke.",
"Some, including fans of the movie's Facebook page, have questioned whether it's all a setup.",
"After all, the movie's name is a reference to a viral online trick.",
"Fischer acknowledged a grand con would be fun but said that's not what's going on.",
"He's put the name of his production company, NURV, behind it -- not to mention the money spent to record a theater-quality trailer, he said.",
"\"That would be a lot of money to waste on a RickRoll,\" he said.",
"\"We have a reputation to keep.",
"We're not going to put something on IMDB, do all of these press interviews and put a trailer out just for a joke.",
"I'd never be able to do anything again.\"",
"NURV, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, specializes in viral marketing, video production and editing and other media-related jobs.",
"The movie effort isn't Fischer's first time embarking on a high-profile, unconventional Web-based venture.",
"In 2005, Fischer grabbed international attention by auctioning off advertising space on his forehead on Ebay.",
"The winners, a stop-snoring-fast company, paid him more than $37,000 for a temporary tattoo."
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"Masterminds behind \"The Chronicles of Rick Roll\" release a four-minute online trailer .",
"Trailer features Antoine \"Bed Intruder\" Dodson, Bear \"Double Rainbow\" Vasquez and others ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The deadly protests in northern Afghanistan over a Quran burning spread to the country's war-torn southern region on Saturday, with provincial government officials reporting at least nine civilians dead and dozens injured.",
"The violence struck the city of Kandahar when demonstrators took to the streets to protest the torching of Islam's most sacred book by a U.S. church.",
"The unrest followed a demonstration on Friday in the northern town of Mazar-e Sharif, in which five demonstrators and seven U.N. employees were killed when an angry throng stormed the U.N. compound there.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday extended condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed in Mazar-e Sharif, but also decried the burning of the Quran.",
"\"The desecration of any holy text ... is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry,\" he said in a statement released by the White House.",
"\"However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity.\"",
"Besmellah Afghanmal, a Kandahar provincial council member, said hundreds gathered in Kandahar city to protest the Quran burning.",
"\"Today the enemies of peace in Afghanistan killed and injured our people in Kandahar,\" said a statement from the office of the Kandahar governor.",
"The demonstration started peacefully, but protesters turned violent, setting fire to a school and vehicles in Kandahar city, said Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province.",
"Along with the nine deaths, 73 others were injured, the provincial government said.",
"Ayoubi said Afghan security forces arrested 17 people, including seven who were armed and are suspected of shooting at protesters.",
"Pastor Terry Jones sparked international controversy last year when his Gainesville, Florida, church planned \"International Burn a Quran Day\" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.",
"Jones' church did not host a Quran burning on that day, but the Dove World Outreach Center's website announced an \"International Judge the Koran Day\" set for last month.",
"Another post on the site's blog showed an image of a burning book and read, \"The event is over, the Koran was found guilty and a copy was burned inside the building.\"",
"Some witnesses in Kandahar said protesters were shot by police.",
"\"I saw personally three people who (were) shot to death, and one of them was shot just next to me,\" protester Shah Meer said.",
"But police said they neither shot at nor killed anyone.",
"\"There (was) gunfire into the air in order to bring the people under control, and luckily not one has been killed as a result of the gunfire,\" said Zemarai Bashari, spokesman for the interior ministry.",
"Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Taliban said the group was not behind any deaths during the event.",
"\"What happened in Kandahar today was the feeling of the nation, and the Islamic movement of the Taliban was not involved in any (violence),\" Zabiullah Mojahed said.",
"\"It was the Afghan police that killed the innocent people of Kandahar while they were expressing their feeling against the burning of holy Quran in Florida.\"",
"The Mazar-e Sharif killings generated worldwide condemnation, from the U.N. Security Council to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a 57-state group that calls itself the \"collective voice of the Muslim world.\"",
"Jones in a statement Friday called the assault \"a very tragic and criminal action.\"",
"Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a spokesman for the police in Mazar-e Sharif, told reporters that a number of suspects \"who might be the main organizers\" had been arrested from the Friday attack .",
"The United Nations says the seven U.N. staffers killed were four Nepalese security guards and three civilians.",
"A U.N. source said the three civilians were from Norway, Sweden and Romania.",
"U.N. Peacekeeping Director Alain Le Roy said five demonstrators also were killed.",
"He said no Afghan U.N. staff members were among the dead, he said.",
"\"I understand there were hundreds, if not thousands, of demonstrators.",
"Some of them were clearly armed and they stormed into the building,\" Le Roy said.",
"He said the security guards tried their best to halt the demonstrators' advance, but were overwhelmed.",
"Le Roy said it was not clear that the United Nations was the target.",
"\"It happened to be the U.N. because the U.N. is on the ground.\"",
"Another 24 people were wounded, said Abdul Rauof Taj, security director of Balkh province.",
"The U.N. Security Council met Friday and issued a statement condemning the attack, which occurred at the operations center of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA.",
"Haji Sakhi Mohammad, a businessman in Mazar-e Sharif, said the incident began after Friday prayers, when many people joined a protest against the burning of the Quran.",
"People calling \"Death to America\" marched to the U.N. compound and broke in, he said.",
"Gunfire broke out, and \"I saw protesters shot to death,\" he said .",
"A student in Mazar-e-Sharif said he and his friends joined the protesters, who numbered in the hundreds.",
"\"When we reached the UNAMA office, we came under gunfire by Afghan security guards.",
"Protesters became angry and stormed the building.\"",
"Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the Quran burning during a speech before Pakistan's legislature on March 22.",
"\"May I, at the outset, strongly condemn on behalf of the people of Pakistan and on my own behalf the deliberate desecration of the holy Quran by a fanatic in Florida,\" he said, according to a transcript of speech.",
"\"We condemn this act in the strongest possible words. ...",
"It is a serious setback to the efforts at promoting harmony among civilized communities throughout the world.\"",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report ."
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"Witnesses say the police shot protesters in Kandahar .",
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese regulators discounted concerns about damage to the still-potent spent fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No.",
"4 reactor Thursday, saying high radiation levels reported earlier this week \"most probably\" came from outside debris.",
"A high reading above the pool prompted the plant's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, to take a sample from the spent fuel pool on Tuesday.",
"But the radiation levels are far lower than they would be if there were damage to the fuel rods, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, the chief spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Commission.",
"\"We need more analysis to identify the precise status of the spent fuel in unit 4,\" he said.",
"Tokyo Electric said Thursday night that the sample was the first time they have taken a reading off one of the spent fuel pools.",
"The water temperature in the No.",
"4 pool was 90 degrees Celsius, more than twice a normal reading, and more coolant water was poured into the reservoir on Wednesday.",
"The company said it suspects the fuel rods were damaged due to insufficient coolant at some point since the crisis began, but could not clarify the timing.",
"Nishiyama told reporters Thursday evening that the fuel rods have not suffered \"any particular damage.\"",
"Officials are still looking at the readings from that water sample before reaching a final conclusion, but said the radiation reading was \"most probably due to debris\" blown into the badly damaged housing around the No.",
"4 reactor. The Tokyo Electric Power Company reported a cumulative radiation reading above the pool at 84 millisieverts on Tuesday, about a third of the annual allowable dose for plant workers during the emergency.",
"Water samples from the pool showed a concentration of radioactive iodine-131, the most commonly measured reactor byproduct, at 220,000 bequerels per liter -- more than 730 times the amount considered safe for drinking water in Japan.",
"Outside observers have expressed concerns about the status of the spent fuel in reactors 1, 3 and 4 several times during the month-long crisis at Fukushima Daiichi, about 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.",
"Temperature sensors in those pools have been out since mid-March, and workers have been spraying water into the damaged housings of those reactors on a near-daily basis to keep them topped off.",
"The battle began March 11, when the tsunami that followed Japan's magnitude 9 earthquake knocked out the plant's cooling systems.",
"Tokyo Electric estimated the height of that wall of water at 14 to 15 m (45 to 48 feet) -- a level Nishiyama said would be the new standard for barriers around Japanese nuclear power plants.",
"The sea wall around Fukushima Daiichi was 5 m. In the aftermath of the tsunami, the cores of three of Fukushima Daiichi's six reactors were damaged by overheating and resulting hydrogen explosions blew apart the buildings surrounding reactors 1 and 3.",
"The vast amount of radiation released from the plant, largely in the first two weeks of the disaster, prompted Japanese authorities to rate the crisis at the top of the international scale that measures nuclear accidents.",
"The Level 7 designation puts Fukushima Daiichi on par with the April 1986 Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union, though Japanese authorities say their plant has spewed only 10 percent of the radioactivity that was emitted from Chernobyl.",
"Plant workers have been pouring hundreds of tons of water a day into the three reactors that were damaged in the aftermath, and at least one of the reactors, in unit 2, is believed to be leaking highly radioactive water.",
"Radioactive contamination spread across a wide swath of land around the plant and into the adjacent Pacific Ocean, though data released by government ministries has shown a decline in radiation levels in recent weeks.",
"Engineers have taken steps this week toward containing the disaster, pumping radioactive water from service trenches and tunnels into a storage reservoir for No.",
"2 reactor's steam condensers.",
"And they are laying the piping needed to transfer an estimated 10,000 tons into a facility designed for treating low-level radioactive waste Tokyo Electric said Thursday.",
"The company dumped more than 9,000 tons of less-radioactive water into the Pacific last week to make room for the more-dangerous fluid believed to be leaking from reactor No.",
"2 -- a move Japanese authorities described as an emergency measure, but one that enraged the country's fishermen.",
"The government issued expanded evacuation orders Monday for several towns outside the 30-kilometer radius that was declared a danger zone in the early days of the disaster, warning that prolonged exposure to radiation levels there could pose a long-term danger to human health.",
"And Japanese government data this week reported finding low levels of radioactive strontium, another reactor byproduct, in two of those towns in the days after the disaster.",
"Strontium-90 is considered a health hazard not only because of its 29-year radioactive half-life but because a portion of it gets absorbed by bone if ingested, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.",
"There is no acceptable standard for strontium under Japanese regulations, but Japan's science ministry said the reported figures were not high enough to pose an immediate danger to human health.",
"The Japanese government has tried to limit the damage done to farmers in Fukushima and other prefectures where contamination from the plant has been found, lifting bans on farm products from surrounding areas if they pass three tests in three successive weeks.",
"Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, the government's point man on the crisis, announced Thursday that kakina, a leafy green, from Tochigi Prefecture was now safe for shipment.",
"The move follows a ban on outdoor-grown shiitake mushrooms from 16 towns and villages neighboring damaged plant to the country's banned food list Wednesday.",
"Asuka Murao, Gen Shimada and Susan Olson contributed to this report for CNN."
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"Samples show high radiation levels in unit 4's spent fuel pool .",
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"Joplin, Missouri (CNN) -- Authorities in Missouri will release Friday an updated list of people who are still missing after the tornado that devastated the region.",
"This list will be an update of the tally of 232 missing people the Missouri Department of Public Safety released Thursday.",
"As officials worked to ensure the community was up-to-date, some residents got answers on the fate of loved ones following the massive tornado that hit the Missouri city of Joplin on Sunday.",
"Michelle Hare said she learned that her 16-year-old son had been confirmed dead.",
"Lantz was ripped from a car Sunday night by winds exceeding 200 mph, and was one of the people named Thursday.",
"Authorities also said 126 people had died from the storm, making the tornado the single deadliest to touch down in the U.S. since modern record-keeping began in 1950.",
"The Hares had been among many around Joplin, still desperately searching for missing loved ones.",
"But one of the frustrations was a holdup at the morgue.",
"Some were told that they may have to wait for two weeks before they can visit the morgue to search for relatives.",
"A local coroner said that this will change for some Friday as some people will be allowed into the morgue to identify family members if they know unique characteristics such as tattoos.",
"Missouri Gov.",
"Jay Nixon said the sheer magnitude of the storm has made the process of identifying victims difficult and will mean that some of the bodies will have to be identified by DNA.",
"\"This is not a series of bodies lying in a row that are easily identifiable.",
"There are pieces of folks,\" Nixon told CNN's Anderson Cooper.",
"\"There are very, very difficult scenes.",
"It's not as easy as walking down a row and being able to instantly identify.\"",
"And many of the people who survived the powerful storm had stories to tell.",
"Aaron Cox said after the storm, he frantically tried to find his sister.",
"Unlike many others in Joplin, Cox said he found his sister while frantically searching through leveled streets that were barely recognizable.",
"\"I've lived in Joplin my entire life.",
"But everything was so leveled.",
"You had no idea where you were... With the street signs gone.",
"There was no houses, no trees, no nothing,\" said Cox, who documented his search for his sister on video.",
"\"It was just completely barren.\"",
"CNN's Chuck Johnston, Joe Sutton, Marlena Baldacci, Phil Gast, Mike Pearson, Jessica Jordan, Sean Morris and Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"At least 126 people are confirmed dead, coroner says .",
"Lantz Hare, who was ripped from a car Sunday, was killed, teen's mother says .",
"He was on a list of 232 people in Joplin who'd been reported missing .",
"Coroner will allow some family members to search for loved ones at the morgue ."
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"Al-Zarqa, Jordan (CNN) -- Several civilians and scores of police officers were injured Friday when pro-monarchy supporters clashed with hard-line Islamic activists in this city a half hour northeast of the capital.",
"The confrontation between government loyalists with dozens of Salafi jihadists -- followers of a strict interpretation of Islam who advocate jihad -- brought a violent end to what had been a largely peaceful demonstration during which protesters demanded the release of 200 jihadists being held in Jordanian prisons.",
"The incident occurred as vehicles carrying Salafi activists came under a barrage of stones as they were leaving the city, the birthplace of former al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.",
"As the clashes between stone-hurling loyalists and knife-wielding Salafis escalated, police fired tear gas to disperse them and traded a volley of stones with Salafi supporters, witnesses said.",
"After the incident, Jordanian public security department chief Hussein Majali told reporters that 83 police officers sustained injuries -- including knife wounds -- in what he described as a \"premeditated attack\" by the Salafis.",
"Of the total, 32 officers suffered smoke inhalation due to misfired tear gas, he added.",
"Shiekh Saad Hneiti, a senior leader of the Jordanian Salafist movement, denied that there had been any premeditated attack, insisting that protesters picked up arms only in self-defense after coming under attack by pro-monarchy supporters.",
"\"We were observing our right to peacefully express our opinions when we were attacked by plain-clothed security agents,\" Hneiti told CNN.",
"He added that two members and a senior leader of the movement were hospitalized with mild to severe injuries following the incident.",
"Hneiti vowed that Jordan's jihadists will continue to demonstrate in the streets until their demands are met.",
"\"Our demands are pure and just and clear: we want our brothers freed from prison and to be governed by the Holy Quran, which most Jordanians support,\" Hneiti said.",
"\"You can attack us, you can imprison us, but you can't stop the will of the Muslim nation.\"",
"During Friday's two-hour demonstration, held at al-Zarqa's Omar bin Khatab Mosque, some 1,000 participants chanted slogans including \"The people want Sharia law,\" \"Down with America,\" and \"No to democracy, no to racism, no to globalism, only Islam.\"",
"Salafi jihadists are among several groups taking advantage of newfound freedom in Jordan, holding demonstrations across the country over the past month, calling for the release of imprisoned jihadists, and for the implementation of Sharia law.",
"Unlike pro-democracy activists who have held weekly demonstrations across the Hashemite Kingdom since early January, Salafis reject calls for political reform as they view the Jordanian regime as \"un-Islamic.\"",
"The scene in Amman was more peaceful.",
"There, more than 1,000 people marched Friday demanding democratic and economic reforms, protesting corruption and calling for social justice and constitutional changes.",
"The protesters, from many political parties and opposition groups, took to the streets of the capital city demanding governmental and constitutional reforms and an end to what many call government corruption amid tight security from hundreds of police and security personnel.",
"Laila Naffa, 66, a leader of the Communist Party -- one of the main political parties demanding reform -- said that, amid ongoing revolutions across the Arab world, Jordanians too want change.",
"\"Today with the revolutions sweeping the Arab world, Jordanians are taking to the street asking for the same slogans, freedom, social justice, because after the signing of the Wadi Araba Treaty with Israel, things have been deteriorating,\" Naffa said.",
"The 1994 treaty normalized relations between the two countries.",
"\"Now we are asking to reform the system, freedom rights for legalizing political parties and for getting rid of the current political parties law, calling (for) and demanding free elections under the auspices of the judiciary control, reform of the constitution. ...",
"This should be done through national dialogue and by the king to assure this will be implemented,\" she added.",
"Local media reported similar protests Friday in other cities, including Karak in the south and Irbid in the north.",
"Jordanians have held regular protests since January.",
"Most of them, unlike demonstrators in Arab countries that have seen uprisings, have not been seeking regime change but changes to the regime.",
"In February, King Abdullah II sacked his prime minister and cabinet and instituted a number of economic measures and promises of political reform in an effort to appease those demands.",
"But the protesters' list of demands grew longer as many Jordanians felt emboldened by the popular uprisings in the region.",
"Although the protests in Amman have been largely peaceful, more than 100 people were injured and one person died last month when pro-government loyalists attacked anti government protesters with sticks and stones.",
"A CNN team at the protest reported that police forces used water cannon and batons to disperse a sit-in in a main Amman square.",
"Mohamad Khateeb, a spokesman for the public security directorate, said Friday's demonstrations in Amman were peaceful.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Kareem Khadder and Journalist Taylor Luck contributed to this story."
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"Protesters call for government, constitutional reforms .",
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"(Rolling Stone) -- Last night, Lady Gaga's \"Born This Way\" (out Monday) leaked online.",
"The contents of the disc haven't been a total mystery -- Gaga's released four singles from the album, her third, since February, and has performed other songs from it in concert -- but she still managed to pack in some surprises.",
"Here, Rolling Stone senior critic Jody Rosen goes through the album song by song.",
"\"Marry the Night\" -- It begins big, with Gaga belting \"I'm gonna marry the night/I won't give up on my life\" over tolling, church-like synths.",
"And it just gets bigger.",
"And bigger. And bigger still.",
"The chorus arrives in an eruption of drums and power chords; there's a pummeling funk-rock breakdown; and the touchstones are Eighties arena pop and hair metal: Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, Bon Jovi.",
"\"Born This Way\" -- Yeah, yeah: it's an \"Express Yourself\" bite.",
"And yes: you've heard the song 700 hundred times in the last month.",
"But Gaga's big hit sounds different in the context of the album that shares its name: like an experiment in the audacious plus-sizing of Eighties dance-pop.",
"\"Government Hooker\" -- The requisite \"kinky\" song -- though what exactly Gaga is saying here isn't clear: \"I'll be your hooker/Government hooker,\" \"I could be Mom/Unless you want to be Dad.\"",
"But the techno-pop production, by DJ White Shadow, is gripping: a shape-shifting assemblage of buzzes, beeps and clattering beats.",
"Choice couplet: \"Put your hands on me/John F.",
"Kennedy.\" \"Judas\" -- \"Wear an ear condom\" next time, Gaga sings in a track with one of the catchiest choruses on an album devoted to catchy choruses above all.",
"Gagaologists will spend years pouring over the runes of that rapped bridge.",
"(\"But in the cultural sense/I just speak in future tense,\" etc.)",
"The rest of us will be busy dancing to Red One's walloping production.",
"(Watch the video.)",
"\"Americano\" -- The campiest song Gaga's recorded yet, which is saying something.",
"A disco-fied showtune with a pronounced \"Latin\"-flavor, complete with flamenco guitars and castanets.",
"Possibly about a star-crossed lesbian romance.",
"Definitely set in East Los Angeles.",
"Completely hilarious.",
"\"Hair\" -- Gaga is not the first songwriter to link self-esteem and liberation to free-flowing coiffure.",
"(Remember that rock musical called, um, \"Hair\"?",
"Remember \"Whip My Hair\"?)",
"But she's definitely the most committed.",
"\"I am my hair!\" she cries. Red One supplies the gale force hair-tousling synths.",
"\"Scheiße\" -- Gaga speaks a little German and intones some inspirational platitudes alongside some generic Eurodisco thump and a wisp of a chorus.",
"\"Bloody Mary\" -- A sluggish tempo, goofy \"goth\" atmospherics and a lyric that sounds like bad high school poetry: \"We are not just art for Michaelangelo to carve/He can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart.\"",
"\"Bad Kids\" -- In which Gaga reminiscences about her misspent youth and croons an ode to juvenile delinquents, set to forgettable Eighties synth-pop.",
"\"Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)\" -- Gaga does her best Springsteen.",
"Or is it Meatloaf? \"Get your hot rods ready to rumble/'Cause we're gonna fall in love tonight/Get your hot rods ready to rumble/'Cause we're gonna drink until we die.\"",
"Sublime schlock, with the biggest, thuddingest drum sound you've heard this century.",
"\"Heavy Metal Lover\" -- More smutty talk, set against a wall of fuzzy synthesizer sound.",
"\"I want your whiskey mouth/All over my blond south,\" Gaga commands.",
"\"Electric Chapel\" -- It earns its title with some heavy guitar riffing and a squealing metal solo towards the end.",
"The lyric holds out hope for monogamous romance: \"Together we'll find a way/To make pure love work in a dirty way.\"",
"\"You and I\" -- Gaga's signature power ballad -- a fan favorite since she first played it live in 2009 -- gets the treatment it merits.",
"Produced by \"Mutt\" Lange, guitar solo by Queen's Brian May, with a torrid, sturm und drang vocal turn by Gaga.",
"It's a confession. (Gaga watchers speculate it's about her on-again off-again boyfriend Luc Carl.)",
"It's also the greatest Def Leppard song Lady Gaga has ever written.",
"\"The Edge of Glory\" -- Those hooks!",
"That chorus! That Clarence Clemons sax solo!",
"\"Born This Way\" goes out in a blaze of shlock-pop glory.(Listen.)",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"\"Americano\" is a disco-fied showtune with a pronounced \"Latin\"-flavor .",
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"(CNN) -- At first, Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma thought she would pick one cow and document all of the uses to which it would ultimately be put.",
"\"But when I thought about it more, I realized that in the Netherlands you see a lot of cows still standing outside in the landscape, but you never see a pig.",
"I thought that was strange, because there are 12 million of them this very small country. \"",
"So she wound up spending three years tracing the products made in part with pieces of a 228-pound (104-kilogram) pig, known only as number 05049.",
"Watch an interview with Christien Meindertsma .",
"Meindertsma, who spoke at the TED Global conference in Oxford, England, in July, published a book, essentially a product catalog of pig 05049's products -- 185 in all.",
"The book, \"PIG 05049,\" is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.",
"Museum staff supervisor Paul Galloway says the book illustrates \"the level of disconnect, physically and psychologically, consumers have from the production of objects we use on a daily basis.\"",
"For an earlier project, Meindertsma catalogued and photographed more than 3,000 items confiscated at airport security in the Netherlands after the 9/11 attacks.",
"TED.com: The brain in your gut .",
"Among the uses of pig 05049, according to Meindertsma, are certain varieties of the following products: .",
"• Soap, shampoo, conditioner, cosmetics and toothpaste; .",
"• Dough improver, which uses proteins from pig hair; .",
"• Gelatin, which is used in low-fat foods as well as in cheesecake, vanilla pudding, chocolate mousse and tiramisu; .",
"• Beer, wine and fruit juice, which can be filtered by using a gelatin sieve to clear out impurities; .",
"• Bone china and paint, paintbrushes and sandpaper; .",
"• Collagen to remove wrinkles and pig heart valves to replace defective human valves.",
"\"What I learned from doing it is that the product world is more complicated then you can imagine and that we have no clue of what is in the products that surround us,\" she told CNN.",
"\"Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.\"",
"TED.com: The roots of plant intelligence .",
"\"The reason that I find this important is because I think we have a responsibility in what we consume, but it is hard to make a good choice when you have no idea of what is in a product.",
"\"But, even without this knowledge, consumers could have a lot of power to change these systems if they wanted to.",
"Companies just want to make a profit so if the demand changes they will start making other products.",
"\"If consumers would make a choice to buy products that are transparent in what they are and who made them, that could be the standard.\""
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"She found it was used in everything from toothpaste to dough improver .",
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"She says the project showed \"we have no clue of what is in the products that surround us\""
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"(CNN) -- The tornado-ravaged city of Joplin, Missouri, is an authentic American crossroads, a truck stop and regional mecca with a rich mining heritage that straddles a cultural vein linking the Great Plains and the Ozarks.",
"Hugging Missouri's southwestern border, Joplin is bigger and more influential than the dot on the U.S. map may indicate, and really can't be defined without recognizing its importance as a hub, its current and former residents say.",
"The city numbers about 50,000, its two-county metro area in Missouri is about 175,000, and thousands more people live in neighboring regions of Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.",
"In fact, the city says, there are about 400,000 people in a 40-mile radius of the city, making it Missouri's fourth-largest region.",
"It is inextricably tied -- economically and culturally -- to the smaller communities around it, as people in nearby hamlets travel to Joplin for employment, medical care, a movie on Friday night, or a late night stopover on a journey.",
"And, Joplinites have jobs in other towns outside the city.",
"\"It's easy to look at us and say we're this little hillbilly town in southwest Missouri,\" said Virginia Laas, professor of history emeritus at Missouri Southern State University.",
"\"I think it's unfair.\"",
"Founded in the late 19th century, the Joplin area and neighboring parts of Kansas and Oklahoma constituted a major center of zinc and lead mining, starting out with individual operators and followed by bigger companies.",
"\"There's is a real spirit of individualism,\" Laas said, describing the mining industry's legacy.",
"\"Taking care of yourself and doing for yourself.\"",
"It's a town with names that ring through American history, Joplin was a hideout for Bonnie and Clyde and their gang in the 1930s and the birthplace of African-American poet Langston Hughes.",
"The mining industry and the gritty world of the 19th and 20th centuries have faded away and the region has been making the transition to different white-collar and blue-collar industries.",
"But Jared Roll, a native of nearby Mount Vernon, Missouri, and now a history professor at the University of Sussex in England, said the character of the town is strongly linked with the tri-state mining region.",
"Roll said the town's \"hardscrabble qualities\" give Joplin \"a wonderful sense of character, a wonderful sense of community, of local meaning.\"",
"\"It's quite surprising that it has remained as large as it is,\" he said.",
"Trucking is a major industry in the region, and highways such as Interstate 44 and U.S. 71 carry drivers to and from big cities like St. Louis, Kansas City, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Little Rock, Arkansas.",
"Another major place of industry is Missouri Southern State University, a revered institution spared by the tornado.",
"But as in many American towns, people get an education at a place like Missouri Southern, and then they head out.",
"\"We'd give young people from the area the tools to leave,\" said Larry Cebula, a history professor at Eastern Washington University who used to teach at Missouri Southern.",
"\"It's the truth. A really bright young person with a college education would head off to Kansas City, Tulsa, St.",
"Louis.\" The hospitals are another major industry.",
"There's Freeman Health System, which dodged the tornado bullet, and St. John's Regional Medical Center, which got slammed.",
"\"It seems that most of the jobs requiring college education have to do with teaching, medical,\" said Lori Bogle, a history professor at the U.S.",
"Naval Academy who got her bachelor's degree at Missouri Southern.",
"\"This is going to be a real blow.\"",
"There are other industries in and around Joplin: One is EaglePicher Technologies in Joplin, which designs and makes batteries and battery management systems for the defense and aerospace industries.",
"\"EaglePicher's batteries helped bring the crew of the Apollo 13 home safely,\" its website says.",
"Leggett & Platt, in nearby Carthage, is a diversified manufacturer that produces bed and furniture components and other items.",
"Robert McKinzie, Leggett staff vice president of labor relations, said there are more than 2,100 employees in the Carthage area and many of them are from Joplin.",
"Wal-Mart's home base is not far away in Bentonville, Arkansas, and there's Empire District Electric, which provides electricity to southwestern Missouri and parts of Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.",
"There also are chicken farms and processing plants.",
"\"The region is sort of a transition between the Ozarks and the Great Plains,\" Cebula said.",
"\"Historically, (with) lead and zinc, like a lot of mining areas, it was sort of a boom and a bust,\" The region is largely white and Protestant, a town full of churches, Cebula said, and it is gritty and blue collar.",
"He and others note a growth in the Mexican presence and other newcomers, such as Vietnamese.",
"There is a Native American community and many people in the area have that ancestry.",
"There is a small but long-standing black community.",
"The city has historically appeared to be more tolerant than smaller nearby hamlets in the past, historians said.",
"Roll said some African-Americans found their way to Joplin when they were driven out of neighboring communities last century.",
"Bogle, who studied the integration of Joplin schools, said she found it wasn't as difficult as it had been in other cities.",
"It has had more of a \"northern attitude\" and more of a sense of community, she said.",
"'It's sort of southern,\" she said.",
"\"But it's not part of the South.\"",
"One part of life across this swath of America is the weather.",
"Three years ago, a tornado ravaged the town of Picher, Oklahoma, 20 miles away, and continued into Missouri.",
"Roll attended a wedding south of Joplin that day, and one casualty of the tornado was a man who had been scheduled to sing at the wedding but was killed in his car on the way.",
"The aftermath of tornadoes evokes an eeriness, Roll remembers.",
"\"It becomes very, very still, calm, sun-shining.\""
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Levels of radioactive iodine in seawater just offshore of the embattled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant spiked to more than 1,250 times higher than normal, Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency said Saturday.",
"Samples taken Friday morning from a monitoring station 330 meters off the coast were significantly higher than results from the previous morning, when the level was 104 times above normal.",
"The measurements also showed high levels of cesium and were taken outside the discharge canal for the plant's Nos.",
"1, 2, 3 and 4 reactors.",
"Readings from a short distance away, outside the Nos.",
"5 and 6 units' discharge canal, showed lower but still high radioactive iodine levels some 284 times above normal.",
"These high levels suggest there may have been some sort of leakage directly into the ocean -- unlikely to be because of atmosphere emissions or rain alone, said an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the nuclear plant.",
"A Tokyo Electric official told CNN that authorities are not sure why the levels spiked.",
"The official speculated that the radioactive iodine may have been swept off the coast recently into the Pacific Ocean or the tainted water may have seeped from turbine buildings for two nuclear reactors that have shown the presence of radiation 10,000 times the normal amount.",
"Still, an official with Japan's nuclear safety agency told reporters Saturday that -- while drinking such tainted seawater would be dangerous, given the radiation's potential to cause cancer -- the effect on aquatic life may be relatively minimal.",
"That's because the radiation tends to dilute, the farther one moves away from the nuclear plant.",
"Data posted on the Japan's education and science ministry website showed relatively small amounts of radioactive particles several kilometers offshore.",
"The International Atomic Agency reported online Saturday that radioactive iodine and cesium was detected 30 kilometers (19 miles) offshore, but it said that these levels differed only slightly from the previous day.",
"That said, its potential effect on Japan's fishing industry -- even if consumers stay away, for simple fear of contamination -- remains a major concern.",
"So, too, is the fact that authorities have yet to pinpoint the exact source of the radiation, and thus to determine if it's stopped.",
"The latest data, from Friday, posted online by Japan's education, science and technology ministry show continuing evidence of airborne radiation in prefectures around the nation.",
"Still, in no cases is the exposure considered harmful to human health -- and, in fact, in many cases, radiation readings have gone down.",
"In the Fukushima prefecture where the plant is located, officials had screened 87,813 people for radiation exposure as of Thursday, Japan's nuclear safety agency said a day later in a news release.",
"Of those 98 people had tested above limits for exposure, but once their clothes were removed and other measures taken, the exposure levels dropped and there was no effect on health.",
"The agency also said screeners have examined thyroid glands of 66 children ranging in age from 1 to 15 and found that the \"level of exposure of no problem.\"",
"The thyroid gland, particularly in children, can readily absorb radiation, health experts say.",
"Meanwhile, authorities continue to monitor radiation levels in tap water around Japan.",
"Information from Japan's education, science and technology ministry indicate the presence of radioactive iodine in the tap water of 12 prefectures.",
"This does not include Fukushima and Miyagi, where measurements aren't being taken because of damage from the March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.",
"The government of Ibaraki prefecture reported Saturday that radiation levels had fallen considerably in the past 24 hours -- to levels that now would be considered safe enough even for babies to drink.",
"Levels of radioactive iodine, taken Friday from water treatment facilities that serve the cities of Tokaimura and Hitachi, range from 31 to 97 bequerels per kilogram of water.",
"This is below the 100 becquerel threshold authorities advise it not be given to infants under 1 year old -- and well under the 300-becquerel threshold for adults.",
"A day earlier, water samples from four sites in Ibaraki had levels between 119 becquerels of radioactive iodine to a high of 230 becquerels, all above the recommendations for babies.",
"A second batch of data released Friday from Tokyo's waterworks bureau showed levels remaining steady at 51 becquerels of radioactive iodine per kilogram of tap water.",
"There were 76 becquerels from samples from Asaka purification plant, which serves Saitama prefecture, according to data on the Tokyo government site.",
"The previous day, Tokyo Gov.",
"Shintaro Ishihara lifted the previously announced recommendation that babies not drink tap water after tests from Tuesday night showed levels of radiation more than twice the limit for babies.",
"There was also good news Friday's in the Chiba prefecture, where all five water treatment facilities had levels of radioactive iodine less than 100 becquerels per kilogram of tap water.",
"The previous day, two plants in Chiba had reported high levels."
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"NEW: Besides radioactive iodine, high levels of cesium are also detected .",
"A Tokyo Electric official says it's not known what caused the radiation spike .",
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"(CNN) -- Second seed Kim Clijsters suffered her earliest French Open exit in 11 years as she crashed out in the second round on Thursday.",
"The Belgian, seeking to win the clay-court grand slam event for the first time, failed to capitalize on two match-points as she was eliminated by unheralded Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus.",
"Former world No.",
"1 Clijsters was 5-2 ahead in the second set, but her 20-year-old opponent fought back to win 3-6 7-5 6-1 on center court.",
"The 114th-ranked Rus, whose only previous match against a top-10 player was a three-set defeat by Maria Sharapova in Madrid this year, earned a clash with Russian 25th seed Maria Kirilenko.",
"Rafael Nadal: Anatomy of a champion .",
"The result means that Caroline Wozniacki will retain the No.",
"1 ranking, no matter her performance in Paris.",
"The 20-year-old Dane moved into the third round with a nervous 6-3 7-6 (8-6) win over Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak on Wednesday and next faces 28th seed Daniela Hantuchova.",
"Clijsters returned to Roland Garros for the first time since losing in the 2006 semifinals, with her preparations hampered by a two-month injury layoff.",
"She comfortably won her opening match against Anastasia Yakimova of Belarus, but the 27-year-old failed to finish off a player who had never before got past the second round of a grand slam tournament.",
"\"I'm still trying to figure it out,\" Clijsters, who lost in the first round of her French Open debut in 2000, told the WTA Tour website.",
"\"I started doubting a little bit.",
"That's definitely the wrong attitude to have, especially for me on clay.",
"\"She obviously started building up more confidence, playing a lot better and putting me on my back foot all the time.",
"I couldn't really play my aggressive tennis anymore in that third set.\"",
"Clijsters insisted that she had recovered from the shoulder, wrist and ankle injuries that had sidelined her since March.",
"\"My ankle feels fine, that had absolutely nothing to do with it.",
"If I felt like I wasn't as ready as I would have liked to be, I wouldn't have come here,\" the four-time grand slam winner said.",
"\"Physically everything was fine.",
"If I wasn't feeling I was able to play tough matches, I wouldn't have made the decision to come to Roland Garros.",
"I'm not going to sit here and say maybe I shouldn't have come here.",
"That's the attitude of a real loser, I think.",
"I gave it the best I had with the abilities I had.\"",
"With the Williams sisters ruled out by long-term injuries, and four-time Paris champion Justin Henin retired for a second time, Clijsters was one of the favorites to take the title.",
"Her exit is a boost to the chances of former No.",
"1 Sharapova, who survived a scare against 17-year-old world number 188 Caroline Garcia, who was playing in only her second tour level event.",
"The seventh-seeded Russian was a set and 4-1 down but recovered to triumph 3-6 6-4 6-0.",
"Afterwards she told reporters: \"She played unbelievable and the conditions were really tough.\"",
"Fourth seed Victoria Azarenka, from Belarus, took just 57 minutes to beat Pauline Parmentier 6-0 6-1.",
"Chinese sixth seed Li Na moved into the third round with a 6-4 7-5 win over Spanish qualifier Silvia Soler-Espinosa.",
"The Australian Open runner-up will next take on Romania's Sorana Cirstea, who knocked out 27th-seeded compatriot Alexandra Dulgheru 6-2 7-5.",
"Czech ninth seed Petra Kvitova eased to a 6-4 6-1 win over China's Zheng Jie to set up a clash with American Vania King.",
"Polish 12th seed Agnieszka Radwanska beat India's Sania Mirza 6-2 6-4, and could face Sharapova in the last 16 if she gets past Belgian No.",
"21 Yanina Wickmayer."
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"2 Kim Clijsters beaten by 114th-ranked Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus .",
"The 20-year-old saves two match-points to earn third-round clash with Maria Kirilenko .",
"Maria Sharapova survives a scare against 17-year-old Caroline Garcia .",
"Australian Open runner-up Li Na reaches third round along with Petra Kvitova ."
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"(CNN) -- The last of Bernie Madoff's ill-gotten gains that remain in the hands of the U.S.",
"Marshals Service will go on the auction block next week, authorities said Friday.",
"A diamond watch, platinum diamond rings and artwork belonging to Madoff and his wife, Ruth, will be up for grabs on June 4, the Marshals Service said.",
"Proceeds from the auction will go into a U.S. Department of Justice fund and be used to compensate the victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, described by authorities as the largest in history.",
"He cheated thousands of people out of billions of dollars.",
"Auctioneers in Miami will sell off 276 lots of property taken from the Madoff residences in New York and Palm Beach, Florida, the Marshals Service said.",
"The auction will also be simulcast online, authorities said.",
"Madoff was known as an aficionado of fine watches, and the auction will include a men's Audemars Piguet watch with a diamond dial.",
"Other items will include an English rosewood apothecary; a carved wood bull sculpture; and a John Wootton oil painting, authorities said.",
"The auctioneers are also putting 262 bottles of fine wine and liquor on the block, though some of the alcohol is more valued because of the scandalous background of its owner.",
"\"As artifacts of history they are unique, which is why we have chosen to offer all of the bottles seized, including those which normally wouldn't pass muster and make it into our auction,\" Morrel Wine Auctions said in a news release.",
"\"Some of the bottles are better viewed as conversation pieces rather than valued for their contents, but conversation pieces they are.\"",
"To date, about $23 million in property sales and $80 million in cash assets from the Madoffs have been recovered, the Marshals Service said.",
"Madoff's scheme fell apart with his arrest in December 2008, and he pleaded guilty in federal court in New York in March 2009 to multiple federal counts of running the largest, longest-running Ponzi scheme ever.",
"He was sentenced to 150 years in prison and is serving time at a federal facility in Butner, North Carolina."
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"He cheated thousands of victims out of billions of dollars .",
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"Marshals Service is auctioning his belongings to compensate those swindled ."
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"(CNN) -- Torrential rain and massive floods that have been pounding Colombia this year have not let up, and dozens of people are dead amid widespread destruction, the Colombian Red Cross said Wednesday.",
"Eighty-six people have died so far this year, it said, mainly in the central region that includes the provinces of Cundinamarca, Caldas and Antioquia.",
"Fifty have been injured and 21 are still missing.",
"In addition, 378,000 people have been evacuated in the South American country because their homes were destroyed by the floods, the Red Cross said.",
"Affected areas include 1,001 municipalities in 28 of the 32 Colombian provinces.",
"The Federal District, in which Bogota, the capital, is located, also has been affected.",
"Sandra Calvo, a spokeswoman with the Colombian Red Cross, called the situation \"very complicated\" and a \"total emergency.\"",
"\"This is the longest rainy season we've had in the last 40 years and the one that has caused the most destruction,\" Calvo said.",
"\"We've had everything from mudslides and flooding to rivers overflowing and destroying everything in their path.\"",
"After touring one of the most affected areas, the municipality of Puerto Nare in Antioquia province, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said more rain is expected, which will further complicate the situation.",
"\"This tragedy has no precedent in our history.",
"These mountains behind me are literally crumbling and that's going to cause many problems,\" he said.",
"Santos also called on Colombians to \"work together,\" and \"coordinate our efforts\" to reduce the \"immense costs resulting from this tragedy.\"",
"Andres Gonzalez Diaz, governor of Cundinamarca province, said this is \"the worst catastrophe\" his government has faced.",
"\"We have hundreds of destroyed houses and important crops that were swept away by the floods, but fortunately we've been able to minimize the loss of human lives,\" he said.",
"Gonzalez also said that at least 20 people have died in Cundinamarca.",
"A dozen people died in accidents resulting from roads and bridges left structurally unstable by floods and heavy rain.",
"Antioquia is the province with the highest number of fatalities.",
"The death toll there stands at 131, according to the Colombian Red Cross.",
"This is the second consecutive year that Colombia has been devastated by torrential rain and massive flooding.",
"Last year 408 people died in the nation and more than 2.8 million people were left homeless or affected in some way by the rain."
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"\"This is the longest rainy season we've had in the last 40 years,\" she says .",
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 26, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• London, England • Libya • New York City .",
"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: Hi, everyone.",
"I'm Carl Azuz, and you're tuned in to CNN Student News!",
"It's Thursday, May 26th, and you can leave the next ten minutes to us.",
"First Up: Speech to Parliament .",
"AZUZ: First up, President Obama makes a speech that some people are calling the main event of his week-long trip to Europe.",
"It happened in front of the British Parliament; it's a legislative group that's kinda like the U.S. Congress.",
"During the speech, the president talked about a lot of world issues that the U.S. and Britain have faced together.",
"That includes the economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the revolutions, protests and conflict happening right now in the Arab world, like in Libya.",
"The president said the U.S. and U.K. should and will provide an example for other nations to follow.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The time for our leadership is now.",
"It was the United States and the United Kingdom and our democratic allies that shaped a world in which new nations could emerge and individuals could thrive.",
"And even as more nations take on the responsibilities of global leadership, our alliance will remain indispensable to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.",
"AZUZ: All right, you just heard the president mention the alliance between the U.S. and U.K. Suzanne Malveaux looks back now at some of the recent moments in that close relationship.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Ladies and gentlemen, we are here to celebrate the tried, tested and, yes, special relationship between our two countries.",
"SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: And it's that special relationship that has defined U.S. foreign policy for generations.",
"Think Thatcher and Reagan.",
"RONALD REAGAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Prime minister, the entire world salutes you and your gallant people and gallant nation.",
"MALVEAUX: Or remember former Prime Minister Tony Blair, sometimes criticized for being a little too friendly with President Bush.",
"Their chumminess got Blair in political trouble at home.",
"His support for the Iraq war won him more friends in the U.S. Congress than across the pond.",
"TONY BLAIR, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We will be with you in this fight for liberty.",
"And if our spirit is right and our courage firm, the world will be with us.",
"MALVEAUX: And now, the U.S. and UK have come together on two other wars: in Afghanistan and Libya.",
"Beyond the battlefield, there are real economic ties that bind.",
"Each country invests over $400 billion in the other's economy.",
"And nearly 200,000 U.S. citizens live and work in the UK.",
"So, for Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama, this relationship is not something either leader takes for granted.",
"OBAMA: As Winston Churchill said on a visit to the United States, above all, among the English-speaking peoples, there must be the union of hearts, based upon convictions and common ideals.",
"(END VIDEO) Libya Cave Hideaways .",
"AZUZ: President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron both discussed progress being made in Libya's civil war.",
"But they also said that the conflict could last longer than people expect.",
"Libya's long-time leader, Moammar Gadhafi, and his forces are fighting against rebels who want Gadhafi out of power.",
"And there's concern about how Libya's civilians are being affected in all this.",
"Nic Robertson traveled to the outskirts of one Libyan town to find out how living conditions -- and living locations -- can change in times of war.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: He's taking us to see some caves where we're told families have been hiding from the shelling.",
"We've yet to see the caves, but we're certainly seeing a lot of children.",
"And this is the only place in Zintan we've seen children.",
"Look at them here: families and children.",
"They've deserted the streets of the city and they're living out here on the edge.",
"The caves, we're told, haven't been lived in by people for about 60 years, but because of the random shelling, they're now going back to hiding in them again.",
"This is the old part of Zintan, right on the hills, on the edge.",
"Down here? Steep. You really feel like you're going into the ancient city here.",
"This is quite incredible.",
"Look up here. These ancient homes here.",
"You can see the power cable now, running inside here.",
"The people can have electricity, some light at night.",
"This is a whole underground labyrinth of caves.",
"The roof is blackened by soot from fires, years of fires.",
"They're black. Then you come out here into this, and the only way out of here is a ladder.",
"It's an absolute labyrinth.",
"Every side you look, there's an entrance here, here, here, here, another room here with a light bulb.",
"This wasn't here 60 years ago.",
"There's blankets in there if you take a look.",
"Blankets, carpets, space for people to live and hide from the shelling.",
"(END VIDEO) U.S.",
"Severe Weather .",
"AZUZ: To the U.S. now. Parts of the country's mid-section are struggling through a historic tornado season.",
"Officials say more than 500 people have been killed in the storms.",
"The latest round of severe weather hit Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas.",
"Oklahoma's governor declared a state of emergency in 68 of the state's 77 counties.",
"That will help free up resources for recovery efforts.",
"Emergency personnel were called out immediately after the storms.",
"Some are searching for victims.",
"Others are working to get power back up and running for the tens of thousands of people who lost it.",
"Officials have determined that the tornado that hit nearby Joplin, Missouri was a 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.",
"The scale measures tornado intensity based on how much damage they cause.",
"A 5 is as high as you can get.",
"Fleet Week in NY .",
"AZUZ: A handful of U.S. Navy ships are sailing into New York.",
"That's because it's Fleet Week!",
"The Parade of Ships kicks off the annual event before the vessels drop their anchors at different spots around New York City.",
"Fleet Week gives service members the chance for some R & R in the Big Apple.",
"And it gives civilians the opportunity to go aboard these Navy ships.",
"This week's Fleet Week also brings the USS New York back to New York for the first time since it was commissioned.",
"Part of the ship was made from steel that was recovered from the Twin Towers that were attacked on 9/11 nearly ten years ago.",
"New Fuel Labels .",
"AZUZ: When you go to buy a car, the window sticker gives you a lot of information.",
"But government officials want it to give you more, and in a year or two, that sticker will.",
"New fuel efficiency labels will be required for all new cars starting in 2013.",
"In addition to miles per gallon, you'll see how much you might save -- or spend -- on gas over five years, and how the vehicle stacks up against similar models.",
"Environmental groups support the idea of offering consumers this extra information, but some of them wanted the new labels to assign each vehicle a letter grade.",
"A, B, C, things like that.",
"Critics thought the grades might be too confusing.",
"CNN Teachers' Lounge & Blog .",
"AZUZ: At CNNStudentNews.com, we are all about your input.",
"First, you teachers.",
"We want to know your thoughts on class rankings.",
"Are you for or against them? That's the newest question in our CNN Student News Teachers' Lounge.",
"You can find that on our home page.",
"Next one is for students.",
"As we wrap up our school year next week, we're going to be talking about the biggest headlines from 2010-2011.",
"You'll see a list of the stories on our blog.",
"What we want is to hear your thoughts on them.",
"Why were these headlines significant?",
"What do you remember most? So teachers: class rankings.",
"Students: top stories.",
"CNNStudentNews.com: get to it!",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. DeLand's social studies students at North Rowan Middle School in Spencer, North Carolina!",
"U.S. pennies are made mostly of what metal?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Aluminum, B) Bronze, C) Copper or D) Zinc?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"The first pennies were pure copper; today, they're more than 97% zinc.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: A project with pennies is making some students angry in Washington state.",
"And it's not because they're not worth much.",
"MAYRA EVERSON, STUDENT: How has this gotten out of control?",
"Why did this get out of control?",
"Why wasn't there a stop to it? AZUZ: 14,300 pennies laid out on the cafeteria floor.",
"She's not angry about the project.",
"She's talking about what it represents: the U.S. national debt.",
"Students spent four hours laying out the pennies, with each one symbolizing one billion dollars.",
"The idea was to get other students thinking about the country's $14.3 trillion debt.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Using pennies as a visual aid?",
"It's an idea that makes a lot of cents.",
"And it's definitely a change of pace from your normal economics lesson.",
"And if you're out there groaning, just imagine how I feel.",
"CNN Student News returns tomorrow. You can take that to the bank."
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"Discover what information will be displayed on new fuel labels .",
"Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ."
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"Dafniya, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces fired mortars and guns at rebel forces in an apparent effort to break through a stalemated line west of the rebel-held city of Misrata on Sunday, CNN's Ben Wedeman reported from the scene.",
"Rebels returned fire, and while some pulled back to seek cover from the incoming artillery shells, others moved forward toward the front line near the town of Dafniya, about 35 kilometers west of Misrata.",
"Libya has been in the throes of a civil war for months, since Gadhafi dug in his heels against popular efforts to force him out of power as anti-government protests sweep the Arab world this year."
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"(CNN) -- One woman was killed and another injured after they fell from a 10th-floor window at an Atlanta hotel, authorities said Saturday.",
"According to Atlanta Police, witnesses said the two were attending a birthday party early Saturday at the W Atlanta-Midtown.",
"The pair were \"play fighting\" when they accidentally crashed through the window around 3:15 a.m., according to a preliminary investigation, said department spokesman Officer John Chafee.",
"It was unclear Saturday where they landed.",
"The Fulton County medical examiner identified the woman who died at the scene as LaShawna M. Threatt of Atlanta.",
"The cause of death is pending.",
"The other woman, who was unidentified, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition.",
"Hotel manager Michael O'Donohue said information on the investigation must come from authorities.",
"\"The incident at the W Atlanta early Saturday is very tragic and our thoughts and prayers are with the woman who was injured and the family and friends of the woman who died in the fall,\" he said in a statement.",
"CNN's Anna M. Gonzalez contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- An explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant Saturday ignited a fire and forced the evacuation of some 750 people, an official said.",
"The local fire department received a call about an explosion at Chemical Coatings Inc. around 3 p.m.",
"ET, said Denise Michaud, Caldwell County health director.",
"The blast ignited a fire, which was under control, but still burning Saturday at 6 p.m.",
"ET, she said. Aerial video of the scene showed huge plumes of white smoke rising as firefighters blasted the blaze with water.",
"No injures were reported.",
"Residents living within one mile of the plant, which makes aerosols and other coating products, were told to evacuate, Michaud said.",
"It was not immediately known what caused the explosion."
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"About 750 people were forced out of their homes .",
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"The explosion at Chemical Coatings Inc. ignited a fire .",
"The blaze was under control, but still burning Saturday evening ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the skies clear and blue in this seaside town.",
"Yet apart from the occasional bark of a dog or the moo of a meandering cow, the most glaring aspect about life in Tomioka is the lack of it.",
"Japan's government five weeks ago mandated that everyone must leave the town, amid concerns about dangerously high levels of radiation emanating from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about eight kilometers (five miles) away.",
"But Kazuhiro Shirato felt he had to go home.",
"So, with a Japanese journalist and cameraman alongside, he got in a car and headed toward Tomioka, where he and many others hadn't been since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck on March 11.",
"They drove with ease past signs that read \"Forbidden Entry\" stationed 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from the power plant, meaning they'd entered the so-called \"evacuation zone.\"",
"Going farther, their main barriers were not police but occasional roads that had been cracked and heaved by the epic tremor.",
"Cruising down Tomioka's tree-lined streets, Shirato saw many stores, residences and other buildings that, while damaged, were largely intact.",
"But the eerie silence reminded him how it had transformed into a ghost town, save for a few animals left to fend for themselves.",
"U.S., Japan announce joint rebuilding effort .",
"\"There was nobody there, so I finally understood everyone had really left,\" he said.",
"\"I could see dogs and cows belonging to my neighbor.",
"I was surprised cows could get so skinny after just one month.\"",
"Shirato's first stop was his mother's house, closing windows and blinds that had been left wide open.",
"Then, he moved on to the family business -- a funeral parlor -- where flowers for services that never took place littered the floor.",
"His last stop was his own home, carefully stepping past his belongings, which had been flung everywhere by the earthquake.",
"In between picking up his DVD collection and unplugging the electricity, Shirato searched for bank records and identification cards.",
"As he returned to Tokyo, where he's been in government housing, Shirato couldn't help but feel that part of him -- his sense of security growing up in the shadows of the Fukushima Daiichi plant -- had been lost due to the nonstop nuclear crisis.",
"Enduring psychological and emotional stress .",
"He said he's angry with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant and has led the often problematic recovery operation, for convincing him at a young age that the nuclear facility was completely safe.",
"Beyond that, Shirato said he is losing hope that he'll ever return home for good.",
"He is one of more than 78,000 people who lived within a 20-kilometer radius of Fukushima Daiichi who were ordered to flee, on top of another 60,000-plus in the next 10 kilometers who were told to shelter indoors.",
"And Japan's government recently told residents of several towns outside that zone that they would soon have to evacuate, due to possible long-term health risks from radioactive particles.",
"\"Two weeks ago, I thought I would be back home within six months,\" Shirato said Saturday.",
"\"But the situation (at the nuclear plant) got worse and worse.",
"\"Now I doubt I will ever be able to go back.\""
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"Kazuhiro Shirato went to his hometown of Tomioka, Japan, which has been evacuated .",
"The town is about 8 kilometers from the nuclear plant that's been in crisis since March 11 .",
"He says he found the town was totally abandoned, except for dogs and some cows .",
"Angry at the plant's owner, Shirato says, \"I doubt I will ever be able to go back\""
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"(CNN) -- FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam wants the current head of world football Sepp Blatter to be included in the organization's investigation into bribery.",
"Bin Hammam, who is the sole challenger to Blatter in presidential elections scheduled for June 1, is due to be quizzed by FIFA's ethics committee this weekend along with Jack Warner, who runs the CONCACAF federation covering Central and North America.",
"The pair have been accused of bribery by FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer in relation to a meeting the two held with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) on May 10 and 11 this year.",
"Bin Hammam, who is head of the Asian Football Confederation, denied any wrongdoing and has now demanded Blatter be included in the probe after claiming he was also named in evidence handed to the ethics committee.",
"FIFA probes fresh bribery scandal .",
"A statement sent to CNN by the Qatari read: \"Mohamed Bin Hammam, member of the executive committee of FIFA, was surprised by yesterday's accusations of bribery.",
"He rejects these accusations and confirms that they are without substance.",
"\"The accusations also contain statements according to which Mr. Blatter, the incumbent FIFA president, was informed of, but did not oppose, payments allegedly made to members of the Caribbean Football Union.",
"\"Mr. Bin Hammam has therefore requested that the investigation by the Ethics Committee be extended to include Mr. Blatter himself.",
"\"The timing of the accusations so close to the election of FIFA president on June 1 suggests that they are part of a plan to damage Mr. Bin Hammam and force him to withdraw as a candidate for the FIFA presidency.''",
"Bin Hammam added: \"I am not at all afraid to answer any questions that the Ethics Committee may have for me at the hearing next Sunday.",
"As long as the committee guarantees a fair process, I have nothing to fear.\"",
"Warner has also been named in allegations made by David Triesman, the former head of England's 2018 World Cup bid, who claimed he was asked to provide money to the Trinidadian in exchange for his vote.",
"Warner denies the allegations.",
"Meanwhile, Blatter has insisted he \"takes no joy\" in seeing his election rival being hauled before the ethics committee, and rejected the idea he had anything to do with the situation.",
"Writing for the Inside World Football website he said: \"To make a point very clear, let me say this: I take no joy in having to observe yet another ethics committee hearing and investigation.",
"And I take absolutely no joy in seeing my friends and colleagues of many years dragged before the ethics committee.",
"\"I take no joy to see men who stood by my side for some two decades suffer through public humiliation without having been convicted of any wrongdoing: nobody is guilty until a judge has found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt.",
"\"To now assume that the present ordeal of my opponent were to fill me with some sort of perverse satisfaction or that this entire matter was somehow masterminded by me is ludicrous and completely reprehensible.\""
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"Mohamed Bin Hammam wants Sepp Blatter included in probe into bribery claims .",
"Bin Hammam has been accused of breaking FIFA rules and must face ethics board .",
"Qatari is accused of bribery along with fellow FIFA executive Jack Warner .",
"FIFA president Blatter insists he \"takes no joy\" in Bin Hammam's plight ."
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"(CNN) -- An extraordinary thing is about to happen in my native state.",
"More than three decades of communism is about to fall -- not through revolution or bloodshed but by the sheer power of the ballot box.",
"Even as communism waned around the world with the disintegration of the Soviet empire, West Bengal's communists built up a political dynasty in India, winning seven consecutive state elections in the world's largest democracy.",
"But if election results to be announced Friday are as predicted, one of the world's little-known bastions of communism will be no more.",
"Exit polls this week confirmed what political analysts have been predicting for months.",
"The Left Front, firmly entrenched in West Bengal since 1977, will go down in defeat to the populist Trinamool Congress.",
"People have descended on the state capital, Kolkata, this week to watch the retreat of the red tide, to document for themselves a pivotal moment of Bengali history.",
"Local media outlets reported record turnout in the state elections that were staggered over several weeks to ensure security and transparency.",
"Word on the street from many who voted against the communists was this: We need change.",
"We need it now. Led by the former Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool won support as the champion of the poor and through its alliance with the Congress Party that rules India.",
"The fiery Banerjee, known affectionately as \"Didi,\" the Bengali word for elder sister, has pledged to revive industry and agriculture in West Bengal, a state that has seen its economy plummet under the communists.",
"The communists rose to power on promises of land reform for the millions of the state's rural and impoverished residents.",
"\"The Congress governments in the past were all urban oriented and connected with the landed gentry,\" said Shibashis Chatterjee, a professor of international relations at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.",
"\"The idea was to economically enfranchise the rural poor who had been long neglected in the past.\"",
"The ideology was appropriate for the time, when huge numbers of people were marginalized, Chatterjee said.",
"The communists gave them hope for a new life.",
"But after three decades, many questioned the relevancy of their ideas in a modern, fast-growing India.",
"Critics accused West Bengal's Marxist leaders of corruption, cronyism and failing to deliver what they promised to the people.",
"\"I watched the city of my childhood steadily go to ruin,\" said political scientist Sumit Ganguly.",
"\"Unions rose, industry fled, law and order deteriorated.",
"It has a significant effect on my life and the lives of my family.\"",
"How much real change comes to the Indian state remains to be seen but one thing is for sure.",
"Culturally, the end to a government dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is sure to be huge.",
"For decades, hammers and sickles have been plastered on buildings and billboards in Kolkata, where I was born.",
"Workers were routinely called to my grandfather's house to remove the painted signage on our front wall calling for the people's support.",
"We drove down Karl Marx road and past Vladimir Lenin's statue.",
"Fidel Castro was a hero.",
"And in a snub to Americans, the street where the U.S. consulate stands was renamed Ho Chi Minh Street after the North Vietnamese leader.",
"We grew up with the power of labor unions and government employees who called bandhs, or strikes, that were frequent enough to paralyze the city, sometimes for days.",
"The juxtaposition of communist ideology and India's thriving democracy was difficult to reconcile at times.",
"\"This is a real anachronism that the world has moved on but this peculiar form of communism still persists in a corner of India,\" said Ganguly, who holds a chair of Indian cultures and civilizations at Indiana University.",
"Perhaps even more so because it took hold in a corner of India that was known historically for its intellect, talent, skills.",
"Bengal was the home for the Indian intelligentsia, the birthplace of Indian independence.",
"At one time, West Bengal was considered a leading state in India.",
"Now, the state has lagged behind other places that were once less successful.",
"Kolkata, the old capital of the British Raj, has faded into history.",
"It is a dying, run-down city, likely loved solely by natives like myself.",
"Young people, including many of my relatives and friends, have fled in droves to seek jobs elsewhere in India.",
"\"And here are some people clinging on to their ideas which have no significance almost anywhere in the modern world,\" Ganguly said of the communists.",
"\"Even Hugo Chavez (of Venezuela) is a populist.\"",
"For the younger Bengalis, some of whom have always lived under communism, enough was enough.",
"\"The younger generations seem fed up,\" Chatterjee said.",
"\"They have no memories beyond the left to compare with.\"",
"But while many in West Bengal are eagerly anticipating the end of the Left Front, Chatterjee is not sure that communist ideology will vanish with the political loss of power.",
"That is evident, perhaps, in the clout of groups like the Maosist rebels known as the Naxals, who have launched a violent insurgency in parts of India, including West Bengal.",
"As long as there are millions of poor in India's still burgeoning population, Chatterjee said, there will be room for the ideas of Karl Marx."
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"West Bengal's communists built a political dynasty in India in recent decades .",
"That may end when election results are announced Friday, Basu writes ."
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"Herat, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Suicide bombers targeted security forces and foreign civil affairs workers in separate blasts Monday in the western Afghanistan city of Herat, killing at least four people and wounding 26, a police official told CNN.",
"The attacks occurred within minutes of each other just blocks apart in Herat, an area where U.S. military officials have hinted American troops would be withdrawn by July because it has been largely free of violence.",
"The bombers targeted the Ministry of Transport in central Herat, and a compound that houses an Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team -- an outreach unit made up of civilian affairs and aid workers, said police commander Abdul Rauf Ahmadi.",
"The first explosion occurred when a suicide bomber on foot detonated an explosive vest near at the Ministry of Transport, a busy section of central Herat, he said.",
"Witnesses say there were civilian casualties, though it was not immediately clear whether anybody was killed in that blast.",
"The second attack came minutes later when a suicide bomber, also on foot, blew himself up outside the main gate of a compound housing the Italian PRT team, paving the way for gunmen to launch an assault at the compound, Ahmadi said.",
"Afghan and NATO-led forces battled gunmen, who had taken up position inside a building next to the compound, Harif Taib, a government official in Herat, told CNN.",
"Ahmadi said the situation was under police control and the gunfight had ended, though witnesses said gunfire could still be heard hours after the initial explosions coming from direction of the compound.",
"The Italian news agency ANSA reported 15 Italian soldiers were among the wounded in Herat.",
"But none were among the dead, a government official said.",
"\"We can reassure the families that among the dead, there are no Italian soldiers,\" Undersecretary of Defense Guido Crosetto told Rai1 radio.",
"The blasts rattled Afghans in Herat, which has been considered one of the country's success stories with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force turning some of the primary security for the area over to Afghans.",
"\"It's a big surprise,\" said Nemaqullah Rahimi, 22.",
"\"We've haven't had a bombing in six months.\"",
"Rahimi, a driver-for-hire in Herat, said his girlfriend's uncle was among the wounded in the blast near the transport ministry.",
"The number-two American commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, hinted in a CNN interview in February that Herat may be one location U.S. forces could begin to withdraw from as part of President Barack Obama's self-imposed deadline to begin bringing home troops by July 2011.",
"The attacks come the same day that Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, joined two other generals in offering \"sincere apologies\" for an airstrike that killed nine civilians in southern Afghanistan.",
"Maj. Gen. John Toolan, the head of ISAF command in southwest Afghanistan, said his apology was being made \"on behalf of the coalition\" and its top leaders, including Petraeus.",
"Earlier, Afghan officials said that Saturday's attack in Helmand province killed a dozen children and two women.",
"There was no immediate explanation for the disparity between this figure and the toll of nine civilians killed offered Sunday by Toolan, who also noted that a U.S. Marine was killed immediately before the strike.",
"The strike provoked the ire of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who strongly condemned the airstrike and insisted he was warning the U.S military and government \"for the last time\" on behalf of the Afghan people about civilian deaths.",
"He called the operation a mistake, but offered a different death toll, saying 10 children, two women and two men were killed.",
"In the statement, Toolan pleaded with Afghans to not only forgive, but also to work with coalition forces in hopes of bolstering their security.",
"\"I offer our heartfelt apologies to the families and friends of those killed,\" Toolan said in a statement.",
"\"I ask that the Afghan people continue to trust and assist their security forces, so that together we can stop the senseless killing brought upon us by an enemy who wants to exploit the Afghan people through fear and violence.",
"Journalist Jennifer Glasse contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Resident: \"We've haven't had a bombing in six months\"\nTwo suicide bombers strike within minutes of each other, just block apart .",
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A Chinese national living in California allegedly created a false Army special forces unit, providing recruits with false documents and uniforms and even marching with them in a parade, authorities said.",
"Yupeng Deng, 51, also known as David Deng, was arrested Tuesday morning by agents from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Defense, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said in a statement.",
"He faces 13 counts of theft by false pretenses, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeit of an official government seal.",
"Deng, of El Monte, California, a Los Angeles suburb, allegedly recruited more than 100 other Chinese nationals into the unit, dubbed the U.S. Army/Military Special Forces Reserve unit, telling them it was a path to U.S. citizenship, authorities said.",
"He allegedly called himself \"supreme commander\" of the unit, created in October 2008.",
"Recruits were allegedly charged initiation fees ranging from $300 to $450, with annual renewal fees of $120, according to Deputy District Attorney Richard Ceballos.",
"In addition, authorities said, recruits could increase their rank in the fraudulent unit by making cash donations to Deng.",
"The recruits were provided with phony U.S. Army uniforms, fake documents and fraudulent military identification cards, authorities said.",
"Deng also allegedly instructed them to report to his office in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City -- which authorities said was decorated to look like an official U.S. military recruiting center -- to undergo training and indoctrination, according to prosecutors.",
"\"These recruits even marched in a parade in Monterey Park and took a tour of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, all while dressed in uniform,\" the district attorney's statement said.",
"Deng is to be arraigned Wednesday in Pomona Superior Court.",
"If convicted as charged, he would face up to eight years and four months in state prison.",
"In a separate case, Deng also was charged last week with one count of possession of child pornography, stemming from a search warrant executed at his home.",
"Authorities investigating the document case allegedly found child pornography on a computer, prosecutors said.",
"He is set for arraignment in that case April 18 and would face up to three years in state prison if convicted."
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"(CNN) -- Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville believes Sunday's trip to Arsenal on Sunday is \"the most difficult\" away game of the season for the English Premier League leaders.",
"Alex Ferguson's United team lead third-placed Arsenal by nine points after Javier Hernandez's late goal earned a 1-0 win over Everton on Saturday, while Arsene Wenger's side slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Bolton Wanderers 24 hours later.",
"Defeat at the Emirates Stadium would end Arsenal's hopes of securing the EPL title and a first major honor since victory over United in the 2005 FA Cup final.",
"Victory would put the Red Devils within touching distance of a record 19th English league title.",
"Has time run out for Arsene Wenger?",
"\"Going to Arsenal is probably the most difficult game, and has been for many, many years,\" Neville, who announced his retirement in February aged 35, told CNN.",
"\"Along with Liverpool and Chelsea, those games you can never tell if you're going to win.",
"Anything can happen and, while we've had some good results there in the last couple of years, we've some bad experiences down there as well.\"",
"Former team captain Neville won eight league championships during a 19-year career with United, and the 85-cap England international said a draw against Arsenal would represent a good result for Ferguson's side.",
"\"I think if we can get a point on Sunday, come out of there with something, it would be really important for us.\"",
"Neville, who was part of the 1999 European Champions League-winning squad and also won the FA Cup on three occasions, claimed the midfield area could be where the match is won or lost.",
"\"The key battle against Arsenal is midfield.",
"We've always gone into the games over the last five or six years making sure we dominate midfield.",
"It's Arsenal's strongest area,\" he said.",
"\"We always make sure we pack our midfield with strength, power and make sure we can get physical against them.",
"If you let Arsenal play, they are the best football team in the country playing through midfield.",
"\"If you win that battle, towards the end of the game you can start to show your strength.\"",
"Hernandez, also known as \"Chicarito,\" has enjoyed a successful debut season in England after arriving in Manchester from Mexican side Guadalajara.",
"The Mexico striker has hit 12 goals in 24 league matches, and Neville has been impressed with the form shown by the 22-year-old.",
"\"I don't think anyone had heard of him when we signed him at the end of last season.",
"But then he played for Mexico at the World Cup and everyone started to think 'This kid doesn't look bad.'",
"\"I think you'll see that United are developing a new young team, with the likes of Rafael (Da Silva), Fabio (Da Silva), Darron Gibson, Jonathan Evans, Chicarito, Chris Smalling ... That's what the manager does, he integrates young players.",
"\"He lets them get the hunger for winning, see the work ethic, and I think Chicarito is an unbelievable example of how that's happened.",
"Someone who cost $11.5 million and looks like one of the best center-forwards in the league.\""
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"The former United defender is confident Ferguson's team can secure at least a draw .",
"Neville has also hailed the form of United's Mexican striker Javier Hernandez ."
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"(CNN) -- For the wife of at least one survivor of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, April 20, 2010 is the day she lost her husband.",
"Meccah Boynton-Brown says although her husband Doug made it off the ill-fated rig, he will never be the same.",
"\"There were more than 11 lives lost that day.",
"Yes, there are 11 people that will never come home and see their families again, and my heart is so sad for them,\" Boynton-Brown said.",
"But she added, \"I am married to a different person now.",
"I will always stand by his side but it seems like his previous spirit and character will never return.\"",
"First 100 days of oil disaster .",
"According to medical records provided to CNN, Doug Brown has been diagnosed with a litany of mental issues from the injuries he sustained and the horrors he saw onboard the Deepwater Horizon including post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and depression and anxiety.",
"His wife Meccah says his near-constant cycle of anxiety, frustration, anger and depression has had a profoundly detrimental effect on them and their 11 year-old daughter Kirah.",
"\"My life has come to a stop.",
"My daughter's life has pretty much come to a stop . ... ...",
"the first thing I think Doug wants is to sleep a whole night without having a nightmare,\" she said.",
"Doug Brown worries about the welfare of his wife and daughter too.",
"\"My family is suffering from it.",
"My daughter even has asked Mommy, my wife, 'What's wrong with Daddy?",
"He's not acting like he used to,'\" he said, adding, \"I just want to go sit in the corner and just cut off the world . ... ...",
"so I don't hear or think about anything that has to do with that night.\"",
"Another survivor's wife, Amanda Barron, admits she feels guilt from knowing her husband Dan could've suffered a much worse fate while, at the same time, still lamenting that he's not the man she married.",
"Commission spreads blame in Gulf oil disaster report .",
"\"I love him and there's little glimpses of the old Dan, like his sense of humor, but it's his temperament and everything is totally different than what he was,\" she said.",
"She added, \"I feel so guilty saying . ... ...",
"'I don't have the same man' you know when they, the eleven [families] don't have their husbands, brothers, uncles anymore.\"",
"Dan Barron too has been diagnosed with PTSD and depression, according to medical records provided to CNN.",
"He witnessed one of his good friends, who he calls a \"fallen brother,\" die right in front of him when a second explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon 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 last year shortly after the disaster.",
"\"Just to see him get blown up like that, I mean, it was, it's heart wrenching,\" Barron also told Cooper.",
"Barron says one night the psychological pain, and the guilt of surviving when so many friends did not, became overwhelming.",
"Witness to explosion saw a \"bunch of smoke\" \"I had a 6-shot pistol, and I just wanted it to be over,\" he said.",
"His wife was in bed, heard a clicking sound and jumped up in horror.",
"\"I had a hard time getting it [the gun] from him,\" she said.",
"\"It was like he was playing Russian roulette to see how many times it would take to click it until the bullet went,\" she said, adding, \"I still have nightmares.\"",
"Both survivors are suing Transocean for pain and suffering and loss of wages.",
"While technically still employees of the company, they have not worked on a rig since the disaster and stopped getting paid by Transocean last December but do still get some health costs covered.",
"Transocean does not specifically dispute their claims of injuries and a company spokesman told CNN in a statement, \"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.\"",
"Transocean suing Gulf oil spill widow .",
"Both families worry how their children are being affected by the fallout from the disaster.",
"The Barrons 11-year-old daughter Faith is autistic and so far seems unaware of changes in her father, but their 15 year-old son Austin has gone from being an exemplary student to getting C's and D's.",
"Amanda Barron says the worst moment for Austin came when he found out his father attempted suicide.",
"\"He had the hardest time with it because he loves his Dad so much,\" she said.",
"For Doug Brown and Dan Barron, Wednesday's anniversary marks a year since their lives irrevocably changed and for their wives, a year since they lost the husbands they fell in love with.",
"\"I don't know how she stays with me, you know?",
"I really don't,\" Dan Barron said of his wife Meccah, adding, \"She's a saint.\"",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"\"I am married to a different person now,\" says survivor's wife .",
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"Transocean does not specifically dispute their claims of injuries ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- Could Beastie Boys possibly give less of a (expletive) about trying to sound young?",
"In a word, no. As Ad-Rock proudly declares on their excellent new \"Hot Sauce Committee Part Two,\" \"Oh, my God, just look at me/Grandpa been rapping since '83!\"",
"The Beasties revel in their older-than-old-school references (\"Be kind, rewind\") and cultural touchstones (\"braggadocio\" rhymes with \"I'll make you sick like a Kenny Rogers Roaster\").",
"Where they used to boast about rocking Adidas instead of Fila, now MCA has different footwear issues: \"I don't wear Crocs, and I don't wear sandals/The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.\"",
"The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Beastie Boys .",
"That's the kick of \"Hot Sauce\" -- the Beasties sound exactly like themselves, cutting loose without straining to fit anyone else's idea of relevance.",
"Adam \"MCA\" Yauch, Michael \"Mike D\" Diamond and Adam \"Ad-Rock\" Horowitz originally scheduled \"Hot Sauce\" for release in 2009, until the project was derailed by MCA's battle with cancer.",
"Now cheekily retitled \"Hot Sauce Committee Part Two,\" it's their first album in seven years, unless you count 2007's stoner-funk instrumental throwaway, \"The Mix-Up.\"",
"It's also a return to classic Beasties chutzpah: On \"Hot Sauce Committee,\" they're not sweating to impress anyone except one another.",
"Video: Beastie Boys' Star-Studded 'Make Some Noise' Lead single \"Make Some Noise\" sets the tone with the group's feistiest and funniest groove since \"Intergalactic\" soundtracked the summer of 1998.",
"(Have you listened to \"Hello Nasty\" lately?",
"Even nuttier than you remember.)",
"The Beasties ride vintage synths and cowbell, with MCA chanting, \"We gonna party for the mother (expletive) right to fight!\"",
"Amid references to Rotary Connection and Ted Danson, Ad-Rock drops the best line: \"Can't tell me nothing, can't tell me nada/Don't quote me now because I'm doing the Lambada.\"",
"Photos: Beastie Boys Through the Years .",
"The group's self-production has gained bounce since 2004's To the 5 Boroughs.",
"They get guest shots from Nas (\"Too Many Rappers\") and Santigold (the reggae detour \"Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win\").",
"The music is full of signature touches, from the punk drum solo in \"Lee Majors Come Again\" to the low-end electro funk of \"Here's a Little Something for Ya.\"",
"MCA sounds as gruff as ever in \"Nonstop Disco Powerpack,\" giving it up to hip-hop pioneers like Rammellzee and K-Rob's \"Beat Bop,\" Afrika Bambaataa and Spoonie Gee (\"The one MC who you can't deny\"), while both the bass line and the distortion-filter vocals echo Spoonie's 1980 classic \"Spoonin Rap.\"",
"Beastie Boys were already old-school back when they were young-school, hyping an early-Eighties hip-hop revival on \"Paul's Boutique\" before the Eighties were even over.",
"So it's no surprise that on \"Hot Sauce Committee Part Two\" they make no effort to accommodate or even acknowledge any of the latest hip-hop trends.",
"Instead, we get the sound of master musicians in their comfort zone, doing everything their own way.",
"Nobody would want to hear the Beasties try anything else.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Beastie Boys were already old-school back when they were young-school .",
"They sound like themselves -- cutting loose without fitting anyone else's idea of relevance .",
"They make no effort to accommodate or even acknowledge any of the latest hip-hop trends ."
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"(CNN) -- When the dust settled on LinkedIn's IPO on Thursday afternoon, the company was valued at $8.9 billion, making it worth more than household names like JC Penney, Electronic Arts and Chipotle.",
"As the biggest Internet IPO since Google and the first pure social networking site to go public, its jaw-dropping opening-day surge of 109% will also go down as a watershed moment for the Web, as historically significant as the debuts of Netscape in 1995, TheGlobe.com in 1998 and Google in 2004.",
"Whereas Netscape's IPO symbolized the dawn of the dotcom boom, TheGlobe.com's epitomized the height of irrational exuberance and Google's ushered in a renaissance of tech innovation after the Internet bubble burst, LinkedIn's debut will be remembered as social media's arrival on the capitalist stage known as Wall Street.",
"For starters, LinkedIn's lofty valuation by most anyone's standards (at Thursday's closing price of $94, it's trading at 36 times its 2010 revenue; Google trades at five times) will have venture capitalists scrambling to take their Internet investments public.",
"As venture capitalist Albert Wenger put it on Twitter, \"LinkedIn is Netscape of this decade.",
"IPO window blown wide open.\"",
"Further, the social dynamics that companies like LinkedIn thrive on offer something completely different from the first-generation Internet companies: incredibly rapid and organic growth.",
"Whereas in the 1990s, Web companies shelled out tens of millions of dollars on advertising to find users, today's social media leaders like LinkedIn acquire new users through network effects -- their services become more valuable to users when their friends sign up.",
"This trend isn't going away, and there are undoubtedly dozens if not hundreds of little-known or yet-to-be-founded startups that will go from zero to publicly traded juggernaut in remarkably shorts periods of time.",
"Add to that the fact that Internet companies with a lot more sex appeal than LinkedIn -- including Facebook, Groupon, Pandora, Yelp and Zynga (makers of FarmVille) -- are all likely to go public within the next year, and you have LinkedIn taking the pole position in what will be a tidal wave of social media companies entering the public markets.",
"Aside from the almost inevitable historical significance, however, is the new dynamic that will be created for social media companies that IPO.",
"As entities that depend on their users to grow through word of mouth, there will suddenly be a need for community-centric services to balance the needs of their members with the expectations of Wall Street.",
"There are only a few examples to draw on to predict how this may play out.",
"In their \"Founders' IPO Letter\" in 2004, Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page wrote that their goal was, \"to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible.",
"In pursuing this goal, we may do things that we believe have a positive impact on the world, even if the near term financial returns are not obvious.\"",
"Indeed, the company's stock has been punished at times when investments in businesses that have become enormously important to Google -- like Android -- weren't showing results on the bottom line.",
"In the long run, of course, this philosophy has helped Google's stock price increase by more than five times since going public.",
"While some of today's soon-to-be-public social media companies might not be quite so aspirational, they certainly will face similar challenges.",
"Will Pandora play more ads on its Internet radio service to beef up its numbers?",
"Will the quality of Groupon's daily deals diminish as it looks to keep its tremendous growth rate intact?",
"Will Facebook finally push the privacy envelope too far in the name of meeting earnings estimates?",
"These are the types of decisions that the current generation of Internet companies will have to make when they enter the public markets.",
"We've already seen one prominent example of a company not finding the right balance and the dire consequences that can result.",
"While MySpace's fall from grace can be attributed to a variety of factors, there is no disputing that innovation and user experience languished after its 2005 acquisition by News Corp., paving the way for Facebook to swoop in and take the social networking crown.",
"Returning to LinkedIn, while today's story about its IPO may be about whether it represents a new financial bubble in the Internet sector, the story in years to come will be its symbolism in changing the world in which social media companies operate.",
"Let's hope, as Sergey and Larry put it so well in 2004, that the change leaves a positive impact on the world."
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"LinkedIn's stock market debut is the biggest Internet IPO since Google .",
"IPO may inspire little-known startups to become publicly traded juggernauts .",
"LinkedIn's example will create a new dynamic for social media companies that IPO ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- \"We'd like to send this out to our brother Richie,\" Jon Bon Jovi announced during the encore of Bon Jovi's Saturday set at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.",
"It was the first and only time Bon Jovi acknowledged the absence of guitarist Richie Sambora, who recently entered rehab.",
"Otherwise, it was business as usual, with Sambora's fill-in, Phil X (Xenidis, an L.A. session guitarist) subbing in admirably, picking up Sambora's talk box parts and adding muscle to a show that only got better and better, especially in its last hour.",
"RollingStone.com: Choose the cover of Rolling Stone: Vote now!",
"Openers \"Blood on Blood\" and \"You Give Love a Bad Name\" aside, the first half of the show leaned heavily on recent material, leaving the crowd a little restless.",
"But Bon Jovi's showmanship kicked in as the band worked parts of \"Dancing in the Streets,\" \"Start Me Up\" and \"Oh Pretty Woman\" into other songs, complete with a faux-Jagger strut during the Stones classic.",
"Earlier in the day, New Orleans jazz vocalist John Boutte -- best known for singing the theme song to \"Treme\" -- performed an emotional set that included a mesmerizing version of Leonard Cohen's \"Hallelujah.\"",
"RollingStone.com: Bon Jovi to tour without Richie Sambora .",
"At the other end of the spectrum, rapper Big Freedia, the self-proclaimed \"queen diva,\" walked on the Congo Square Stage with \"Excuse / I don't mean to be rude / Get out my way and let me do what I do.\"",
"The biggest name in what's come to be known as \"sissy bounce\" -- a sub-genre of New Orleans bounce -- proudly shook her ass with her onstage dancers.",
"Like much of the music at Jazz Fest, bounce makes more sense performed at night and in a bar, but Big Freedia kicked an element of danger into her music.",
"\"I got gin in my system,\" she rapped.",
"\"Somebody's gonna be my victim.\"",
"RollingStone.com: Mumford and Sons, Band of Joy and more rock the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival .",
"See the original article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Bon Jovi and Big Freedia played at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival .",
"Richie Sambora's fill-in is Phil X -- Xenidis, an L.A. session guitarist .",
"Big Freedia is one of the biggest names in what's come to be known as \"sissy bounce\""
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"(CNN) -- Fernando Torres finally ended his goal drought on Saturday as second-placed Chelsea won to boost the club's hopes of retaining the English Premier League title.",
"The Spain World Cup winner had gone 13 matches without scoring since his $80 million move from Liverpool at the end of January, but netted the London team's second after coming on as a substitute in the 3-0 victory over bottom side West Ham.",
"On top of that Chelsea streak, he had also failed to score in his last match for Liverpool and an international for his country in March.",
"The striker was mobbed on the sodden pitch by his relieved teammates, including Didier Drogba -- who lost his regular starting place after the 27-year-old's arrival in a record fee between British clubs.",
"\"I kept working and it's thanks to all my teammates that I scored.",
"There's less pressure for me now, now I can enjoy it,\" Torres said.",
"\"The fans have been very patient with me.",
"I had more and more anxiety for them than for me. Hopefully this is the first of many.\"",
"The victory helped Chelsea reign in leaders Manchester United, who had moved nine points clear with a 1-0 win over Everton in the opening game of the day.",
"United know that victory in their next two Premier League fixtures against third-placed Arsenal on May 1 and Chelsea on May 8 should clinch a record 19th title.",
"Those games come either side of the Champions League semifinal ties with Schalke, the first being in Germany on Tuesday.",
"Arsenal can also close to within six points again by beating Bolton on Sunday, after which the top three teams will all have four matches left.",
"Chelsea's European involvement was ended by United in the quarterfinals, and since then Torres has been relegated to the bench by coach Carlo Ancelotti while Drogba has helped reignite the club's championship hopes.",
"In a match played in pouring rain after Britain's recent spell of fine weather broke, man of the match Drogba was instrumental in setting up Chelsea's opening goal a minute before halftime.",
"The Ivory Coast forward's neat pass helped fullback Ashley Cole burst down the left and cut back a perfect cross for his England teammate Frank Lampard to lash into the net.",
"With conditions making defending difficult, both teams squandered chances before Chelsea defender David Luiz crashed an effort off the crossbar.",
"Torres replaced Drogba in the 76th minute, and he ended his miserable run eight minutes later with a composed left-foot shot after pivoting when the ball got stuck in a puddle.",
"France winger Florent Malouda settled the match in the third minute of time added on with his 13th league goal this season.",
"The result left .",
"Mexico striker Javier Hernandez edged Manchester United closer to a record 19th English top-flight title on Saturday with a late winning goal against Everton.",
"It was the 22-year-old Hernandez's 12th league goal this season and United's 100th in all competitions, but the first the Old Trafford outfit had scored since the 2-1 European Champions League quarterfinal second-leg win against Chelsea on April 12.",
"United and Beckham top Forbes' football rich list .",
"United made five changes from the team which suffered a 3-0 FA Cup semifinal defeat against local rivals Manchester City last weekend, while England defender Rio Ferdinand played in a league game for the first time since February 1 after missing Tuesday's 0-0 draw with Newcastle.",
"Hernandez had the game's first chance when his snapshot from 12 yards forced a smart save from Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard after neat play from Antonio Valencia and Wayne Rooney.",
"David Moyes' visiting side appealed for a penalty on 34 minutes when Jonathan Evans tussled with Toffees striker Jermaine Beckford, but referee Peter Walton waved played on.",
"Hernandez, also known as \"Chicarito,\" was heavily involved but he prevented United taking the lead in the 37th minute when he inadvertently blocked Nani's goal-bound shot.",
"Everton rarely threatened, but came close to going ahead when veteran United goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar produced a fine finger-tip save from Jack Rodwell's low drive on 68 minutes.",
"The breakthrough arrived with six minutes of regulation time left when Brazilian midfielder Anderson slipped a pass through for Valencia, whose deflected cross was headed home by Hernandez at the far post.",
"Tottenham Hotspur failed to climb above fourth-placed City and into the final Champions League position, being held to a 2-2 draw at home by West Bromwich Albion.",
"Peter Odemwingie's 13th goal of the season put Roy Hogson's side ahead after only five minutes before Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko netted an equalizer with a driven shot from the edge of the penalty area.",
"Spurs took the lead with England's Jermain Defoe's 100th Premier League goal just past the hour mark, but Simon Cox secured a point for West Brom with nine minutes left after his sublime curling shot from the corner of the box beat goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes.",
"Harry Redknapp's Spurs stayed in fifth position, one point behind City -- who travel to struggling Blackburn on Monday.",
"A hat-trick from Maxi Rodriguez helped sixth-placed Liverpool to a comprehensive 5-0 victory over League Cup winners Birmingham City.",
"Kenny Dalglish's Reds dominated throughout and went ahead in the sixth minute, when Rodriguez converted after visiting goalkeeper Ben Foster had failed to keep hold of Jay Spearing's shot.",
"Dutch forward Dirk Kuyt also scored a rebound to make it 2-0, before Rodriguez grabbed a second with a close-range volley.",
"The 30-year-old completed his treble with a well-struck left-footed shot, before former Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole completed the scoring with his first EPL goal for the club in the closing moments as Liverpool closed to within three points of Spurs, having played one more match.",
"Sunderland moved back into the top-10 after recording a first three-point haul since January 22 with a 4-2 defeat of strugglers Wigan Athletic.",
"Wigan went ahead through Mohamed Diame at the beginning of the second half, but Steve Bruce's team came roaring back through goals from Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan and young England midfielder Jordan Henderson.",
"A Stephane Sessegnon penalty made it 3-1 before Henderson doubled his personally tally after 76 minutes.",
"Substitute Franco Di Santo scored a consolation goal in the 90th minute for Wigan, who stayed inside the relegation zone in 18th place on goal difference below.",
"Blackpool could not capitalize on Wigan's defeat, being held to a 1-1 draw by visiting Newcastle United.",
"Ian Holloway's Seasiders went behind when Peter Lovenkrands pounced on a mistake by Blackpool captain Charlie Adam after 17 minutes.",
"D.J. Campbell rescued a point for Blackpool with his 11th top-flight goal of the season after 32 minutes.",
"Wolverhampton Wanderers moved off the bottom after a 1-1 draw in the home fixture with Mark Hughes' Fulham left the club a point above West Ham and one behind Wigan.",
"Steven Fletcher's 22nd-minute header put the hosts in front, before former England striker Andrew Johnson restored parity for Fulham within one minute of coming off the bench.",
"FA Cup semifinalists Stoke City ended a run of seven-consecutive away defeats with a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa.",
"No heart surgery for hospitalized Houllier .",
"The home team were under the guidance of assistant coach Gary McAllister, with manager Gerard Houllier still recovering in hospital after being taken ill on Thursday.",
"Tony Pulis' Stoke took the lead when striker Kenwyne Jones flicked a trademark Rory Delap long throw beyond Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel.",
"But Villa, who had won their two previous matches, responded when England striker Darren Bent headed his seventh goal in 11 games since a January transfer from Sunderland."
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"Misfiring record signing Fernando Torres scores in Chelsea's 3-0 win over West Ham .",
"Spanish striker comes off bench to net the second goal, his first in 14 games .",
"Win puts defending champions six points behind leaders Manchester United .",
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"(CNN) -- At least 10 people died Saturday after Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters who turned out across the country to mourn dozens of demonstrators slain the day before, eyewitnesses told CNN.",
"The violence erupted in the Damascus suburb of Douma and the southern town of Izraa, where people attended funerals and buried people shot dead during the \"Great Friday\" protests.",
"The brazen Friday killings rippled through the Syrian political establishment Saturday when Syrian parliament member, Khalil Al Rifai, announced his resignation in a television interview over the deaths.",
"He said security forces opened fire even though President Bashar al-Assad promised not to use force against protesters.",
"The developments occurred amid growing discontent in Syria with the al-Assad regime, whose tough response to peaceful protests has emboldened the citizenry to take to the streets.",
"Douma is one of the towns where Syrians have staged anti-government demonstrations for weeks.",
"On Saturday, as thousands of people marched from the burial grounds towards the main hospital, security forces on the rooftops of government buildings fired shots, a witness said.",
"\"We were chanting 'with our bloods with our souls we will sacrifice for you martyrs.'",
"And all of sudden and without warning, they fired indiscriminately into the crowd,\" the witness said.",
"The witness said five were killed and others were injured.",
"People fled the violence, but several hundred demonstrators remain in smaller alleyways and side streets awaiting the opportunity to come out and demonstrate again.",
"Activist Wissam Tarif, who is not in Syria but remains in contact with activists across the country, said he was told the forces were firing in the air and at random targets.",
"His contacts told him more than 10,000 protesters took to the streets.",
"Witnesses in Izraa said tens of thousands of people gathered for a funeral procession, when, one witness said, \"suddenly they opened fire on us and it was raining bullets.",
"We were chanting 'peacefully, peacefully' and they fired at us.\"",
"Two people were critically wounded in the assault and medical personnel transported them to a hospital in nearby Daraa, a doctor said.",
"There was a confrontation between security forces and families of the victims.",
"Shots were fired in the air but the security forces left the scene and there were no casualties.",
"Tarif said there were reports of shootings in the city of Homs, but an eyewitness said the city is eerily quiet and many people are too scared to leave their homes.",
"There were burials of slain protesters but the funeral ceremonies were performed quickly and they were sparsely attended as if to not attract attention, the witness said.",
"As for Friday's killings, they occurred in several flashpoint regions as thousands of Syrian protesters defiantly marched after Muslims' weekly prayers in a display of mass discontent toward the government.",
"Violence ripped through the Damascus suburbs of Douma, Moademy and Zamalka, and other cities -- Homs, Harasta and Izraa.",
"Firm casualty figures were difficult to come by.",
"The Syrian government does not permit CNN to report from inside the country and CNN bases its figures on reports from witnesses.",
"Tarif said activists have confirmed at least 84 deaths from Friday's confrontations between protesters and security forces.",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said a \"group of people, some of them armed\" assaulted guards in Izraa on Friday, leading to the deaths of eight and the wounding of 28, both from the group and the military.",
"Ted Kattouf, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, expressed admiration for the demonstrators' courage, but made no predictions about where it might lead.",
"\"Unfortunately, repression, if used repeatedly, ruthlessly, brutally, can work.",
"We saw that in Iran and, I'm afraid, we could see it in Syria,\" he told CNN's \"AC 360.\"",
"The demonstrators do not have the critical mass needed to effect regime change, Kattouf said.",
"He noted that massive demonstrations have yet to appear in Damascus or Aleppo, where millions of people reside, most of them Sunni.",
"Al-Assad is Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.",
"The Alawite sect is a minority in Syria but it has maintained control of the regime for decades.",
"\"There's a coalition of interests here, and the demonstrations would have to get much, much larger and stretch the capacity of the regime's security services to the point where some people thought about maybe making their own ways and abandoning Assad.\"",
"Amnesty International, which reported at least 75 deaths on Friday, said two boys aged 7 and 10 and a 70-year-old man were killed and urged the regime to stop its attacks on \"peaceful protesters.\"",
"\"The Syrian authorities have again responded to peaceful calls for change with bullets and batons,\" said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director.",
"The protests began last month in the southern city of Daraa after a violent crackdown by security forces on peaceful demonstrators protesting the arrests of youths who scribbled anti-government graffiti.",
"The tough crackdown in Daraa spurred more protest.",
"As peaceful demonstrations spread to other regions, such as Latakia, Banias, and the Damascus suburbs, the protests were met with force that emboldened the protesters' resolve.",
"The government made some efforts at reform, include the lifting of the country's emergency law, the abolition of a special court that tried regime opponents, the establishment of a new cabinet, and the granting of citizenship to stateless people in the country's northeastern Kurdish region.",
"The emergency law permitted the government to make preventive arrests and override constitutional and penal code statutes.",
"The security court was a special body that prosecuted people regarded as challenging the government.",
"But activists think the violent crackdown Friday undermines the lifting of the emergency law.",
"They also have other complaints with the government, such as immunity for its security officers and the incarceration of political prisoners and those arrested for participating in peaceful protests.",
"They want the easing of the ruling Baath Party's power and a law that would permit the establishment of independent political parties.",
"CNN's Nada Husseini, Joe Sterling, Salma Abdelaziz and Samira Said contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- The list of people missing in tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri, shrunk to eight on Wednesday, as officials told CNN that the bodies of two people previously on the list had been identified.",
"Stanley Kirk and Maria Alvares Torres died in the storm, and their next-of-kin were notified, said Seth Bundy with the Department of Public Safety.",
"News reports suggested that two other people listed as \"unaccounted for\" may have been declared dead as well.",
"Bundy said declarations are not made official until family members are informed.",
"Authorities also announced that a woman who was not listed as missing has died as a result of the severe weather that struck May 22, Bundy said.",
"Over the weekend, Joplin City Manager Mark Rohr told CNN the death toll stood at 142.",
"Not all the names had been released.",
"It was not immediately clear whether the deaths announced Wednesday were included in the toll.",
"The May 22 tornado flattened buildings, destroyed neighborhoods and killed more people than any other U.S. tornado since modern record-keeping began in 1950.",
"\"It's indescribable ... just devastating to see all the destruction of my school, my home,\" said Joplin High School sophomore Chanci McGowen, CNN affiliate KODE reported.",
"\"My whole neighborhood is gone, but everyone's OK.\" The station broadcast images of a memorial service at the school, where a sign out front just had the letters \"op\" from \"Joplin.\"",
"Someone used what looked to be duct tape to add letters, creating the word \"Hope.\"",
"-CNN's Dana Ford contributed to this report."
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"More deceased victims have been identified .",
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"(CNN) -- Maria Sharapova remains on track for a first French Open title after reaching the last 16 with a comprehensive win over Taiwanese qualifier Chan Yung-Jan on Saturday.",
"The former world No.",
"1, who has won the other three grand slam titles, is among the favorites following the earlier exits of top seeds Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clijsters.",
"The Russian, seeded seventh, won 6-2 6-3 against her 129th-ranked opponent.",
"She set up a fourth-round clash with Agnieszka Radwanska as she seeks her best showing at Roland Garros since reaching the semifinals in 2007.",
"Polish 12th seed Radwanska, who has beaten Sharapova only once in seven meetings, also won in straight sets as she defeated Belgium's No.",
"21 Yanina Wickmayer 6-4 6-4.",
"Wozniacki dumped out of French Open .",
"\"It'll be a really tough match because I think this is one of her best surfaces,\" Sharapova, who counts clay as her least favorite, told reporters.",
"\"She's a really good mover and gets a lot of balls back.\"",
"The winner of their match will face either Russian 25th seed Maria Kirilenko, who had no problems in ending the run of Clijsters' young Dutch conqueror Arantxa Crus, or Germany's Andrea Petkovic.",
"Petkovic, seeded 15th, overcame Australian No.",
"24 Jarmila Gajdosova 6-2 4-6 6-3 to reach the fourth round for a third successive grand slam event, having lost in the quarterfinals of this year's Australian Open.",
"Fourth seed Victoria Azarenka is one of Sharapova's main threats to the title, and the Belarusian moved into the last 16 with a comfortable 6-3 6-2 win over Italy's Roberta Vinci.",
"Azarenka reached the quarterfinals in 2009, and will seek to emulate that effort by beating Russia's world No.",
"33 Ekaterina Makarova -- who eliminated Estonian 16th seed Kaia Kanepi 6-4 7-5.",
"The winner of that match will face either Chinese sixth seed Li Na or Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.",
"Australian Open runner-up Li equaled her best performance in Paris, in 2009, by beating Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-2, while ninth seed Kvitova defeated American Vania King 6-4 6-2.",
"Meanwhile, Swiss player Patty Schnyder has announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 32 following her first-round exit in Paris.",
"7 has won 11 titles in a 17-year career, reaching 27 finals.",
"Her best performance at a grand slam was reaching the semifinals of the 2004 Australian Open, while she helped Switzerland reach the Fed Cup final for the only time in 1998."
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"Former world No.",
"1 Maria Sharapova cruises into fourth round at Roland Garros .",
"Russian seventh seed seeking to win the only grand slam yet to elude her .",
"Fourth seed Victoria Azarenka also progresses into the last 16 in Paris .",
"Belarusian joined by Chinese sixth seed Li Na and Czech No.",
"9 Petra Kvitova ."
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"(CNNGo) -- After months of anticipation and cast speculation, \"The Hangover Part II\" finally hit screens in Bangkok this week.",
"For anyone unfamiliar with the film, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis, it is much the same as the previous one: a wedding, a bunch of blokes, alcohol, memory loss and a missing person.",
"Though instead of Las Vegas, this time it's set in Thailand.",
"According to the film's producer, Dan Goldberg, Bangkok is \"the last place in the world that these guys should be, which, of course, makes it the perfect place to send them.\"",
"Sure, red light districts may be a cliché here in the City of Angels, so they were bound to have a role in the film.",
"But there are plenty more surprises as you follow the wolf pack on their sick night out.",
"\"The different locations provide an interesting cross-section of the city,\" says \"The Hangover Part II\" line producer Chris Lowenstein, of Thailand-based Living Films.",
"\"Bangkok is essentially one of the characters in the movie, and we're trying to show how rich of a tapestry it is.\"",
"Review: \"The Hangover Part II\" If you are looking to create your own \"Hangover\" night to forget, here's the insider's guide to the film's Thailand locations and characters.",
"Don't worry, we left out the spoilers.",
"The Location: Phulay Bay Resort, Krabi Ritz Carlton .",
"The Scene: Wedding for Stu (played by Helms) and fiancée Lauren (Jamie Chung).",
"The Action: The world's first Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Phulay Bay Krabi has 54 one-bedroom villas with private plunge pools, outdoor baths, 24-hour butler service and the limestone-studded splendor of the Krabi coastal landscape just a Champagne flute's throw away.",
"Amnesia has never been so pricey nor contracted at such a stunning venue -- online rates starts at 19,550 baht (nearly $650) during low season for a night at this more-than-five-star resort.",
"111 Moo 3 Nongthalay, Krabi.",
"+66 (0)7 562 8111 .",
"More on CNNGo: 5 'super luxury' Thailand resorts .",
"The Location: Soi Plaeng Nam, Chinatown .",
"The Scene: Phil (Cooper), Stu and Alan (Galifianakis) wake up the next morning in a dirty hotel in Bangkok sans Teddy (Lauren's brother, played by Mason Lee).",
"The Action: Down this alley, best reached by taxi, you can still find bird's nest soup or buy some Chinese red lanterns to deck out your home.",
"Don't try to find the room they woke up in -- those \"The Hangover Part II\" scenes were filmed on Los Angeles sets.",
"Instead, enjoy an icy drink in a plastic bag while you wait for your rubber stamps to be engraved.",
"Or, the lone wolf can take a prowl through vibrant Chinatown by following this mapped outwalking tour.",
"Bangkok Food Tours also organizes a nighttime \"Chinatown Foodie Walk & Culture Tour\" daily, from 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. Standard tickets start at 1,550 baht (about $50) per person, inclusive of savories at seven tasting locations and four historical stops.",
"More on CNNGo: Places to avoid when hungover in Bangkok .",
"The Location: Song Wad Road Roundabout, Chinatown .",
"The Scene: The monkey's drug dealing intersection.",
"The Action: Last time we checked there weren't any Capuchin monkeys nickel-and-dimeing in this 'hood near the river.",
"But it's a good place to sit and have a bowl of roadside guay tiow -- noodles -- as you imagine how location manager Somchai Sanitharangkun managed to close off all seven streets leading out from the one-tree roundabout for the filming.",
"To get there, take the Chao Phraya Express boat to the Ratchawong Pier and hang a right at Song Wad Road.",
"The Location: Ancient City (Muang Boran), Samut Prakan Ancient City .",
"The Scene: In an attempt to recall the missing night, the boys are led to the Chinese temple of Ching Mei to meditate, and Alan has a juvenile vision.",
"The Action: Self-proclaimed as the \"world's largest outdoor museum,\" Muang Boran offers a Cliffsnotes-esque what's what of Thailand's architectural monuments.",
"A sala was added to create the temple atmosphere for the film near the existing Phra Kaew Pavilion, which, as an Ayuttayan representation for Buddhism, is a fitting place to calm the mind.",
"And don't worry, stick-wielding Chinese monks -- as depicted in \"The Hangover Part II\" -- don't really live here.",
"Entrance fees for foreigners are 400 baht (about $13) for adults and 200 baht ($6.50) for children, exclusive of optional golf carts, bicycles and guides.",
"296/1 Sukhumvit Road, Bangpoo, Samut Prakan.",
"+66 (0)2 709 1644 .",
"More on CNNGo: Why Thailand can enjoy \"The Hangover Part II\" without shame .",
"The Location: Soi Cowboy .",
"The Scene: At Siam Sam's Bar, things get a little crazy.",
"The Action: The colorful stretch of dubious nightlife that runs parallel to Sukhumvit Road, linking Asoke to Soi 23, needs little introduction.",
"\"Siam Sam's\" entrance is actually Cactus Bar, with the interior scenes filmed at Tilac Bar.",
"We can't provide links to any of the sites that review these places for obvious reasons, but a Google search will easily lead the way.",
"Don't bother looking for the back room in search of extracurricular activities or try to escape through the back alley when you're chased by \"ladies\" of the night.",
"All that was filmed in Los Angeles and Chinatown respectively.",
"If you are under 20 years of age or don't like the color red, loud music, or skimpy clothing, this place is not for you.",
"More on CNNGo: Thailand crowns its newest transgender beauty queen .",
"The Location: Sukhumvit Soi 7/1 .",
"The Scene: A clue leads the wolf pack to a party street and barber shop, where the boys find themselves strangely unpopular.",
"The Action: This was the set of \"The Hangover Part II\" that Bill Clinton visited, but the bars and tattoo parlor purpose-built for the film are not there anymore.",
"(Contrary to rumors, the ex-president does not have a cameo role in this movie).",
"Small restaurants and bars line this pseudo-red light district, so you can have a drink and reflect on how \"dead-end\" applies to more than just the soi.",
"To get there, take the BTS to Nana station.",
"More on CNNGo: 10 easy ways to look like a tourist in Bangkok .",
"The Location: Bangkok's Lebua hotel .",
"The Scene: Crime figure Kingsley (Paul Giamatti) first appears.",
"The Action: The entrance to Bankgok's high-end Sirocco restaurant on the 64th floor of luxury hotel Lebua at State Tower provides arguably the most stunning views of Bangkok you can get, and was the site of several key scenes in the movie.",
"The hotel's Tower Club was also turned into a film set during the shoot, with the landmark \"golden dome\" on top of the building making a few appearances as well.",
"To commemorate the film, the al fresco Sirocco restaurant and adjacent bar (sticklers for dress code) are offering Hangovertini cocktails for 490 baht to kickstart your night in style.",
"The hotel is also offering a special two-night \"The Hangover Part II\" package priced at US$2,200.",
"Or fans can stay in Lebua's \"The Hangover Suite,\" a three-bedroom luxury suite that sleeps up to six guests and has a fully-stocked mini-bar and ample party space.",
"1055 Silom Road, +66 2624 9999; http://www.lebua.com/ .",
"More on CNNGo: 7 of Asia's best hotels with a view .",
"Who: Ska Rangers .",
"What: The wedding band .",
"Where: Ska Rangers is a quirky Thai band based in Chiang Mai.",
"Give them a listen here.",
"Two of their songs appear on \"The Hangover Part II\" original motion picture soundtrack, available on Amazon.com.",
"If you want them to provide the soundtrack to your big day, contact them via www.facebook.com/skarangers.",
"The Hangover Part II opens in theaters in the United States, Thailand, Australia and the United Kingdom on May 26, followed by Singapore and Hong Kong on June 2.",
"Japan's opening \"Hangover Part II\" date is July 1.",
"© 2011 Cable News Network Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved ."
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"Fans can visit film locations for \"The Hangover Part II\" in Thailand .",
"Bangkok's Lebua hotel has a \"Hangover Part II\" package for film enthusiasts .",
"Bangkok Food Tours organizes a nighttime \"Chinatown Foodie Walk & Culture Tour\""
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"(CNN) -- Louisiana's swollen Atchafalaya River was slowly receding along its entire length Tuesday after federal authorities flooded it to save the Mississippi River cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the National Weather Service reported.",
"The Atchafalaya crested at more than six feet above flood stage at Morgan City, about 80 miles west of New Orleans, and forecasters are projecting a long, steady decline, said Shawn O'Neil, a meteorologist at the Weather Service office in Slidell.",
"The river's peak at Morgan City was 10.35 feet -- barely two inches below its historic high-water mark in 1973 -- \"and now it's slowly, slowly falling,\" O'Neil said.",
"Leroy Breaux, a resident of nearby Amelia, said the water rose about halfway up Morgan City's sea wall, where the name of the town is etched into the concrete.",
"\"The water is up over the wall, and it's like the word Morgan City is sitting in the water,\" he said.",
"Some businesses along the waterfront outside the sea wall flooded, but the sea wall -- and a massive barge sunk into nearby Bayou Chene -- prevented high water from reaching neighborhoods in and around the area, Breaux said.",
"\"The blessing is there's no rain.",
"If you had the amount of rain you had in 1973, you would have a much worse problem,\" said Breaux, who lived in Amelia during that year's flood and now serves as chairman of a local flood-control district.",
"The Army Corps of Engineers began diverting water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya basin on May 14 by opening the Morganza Spillway above Baton Rouge.",
"The agency began closing the spillway last Wednesday, shutting seven of the 17 bays opened during the operation by Tuesday evening, Corps spokeswoman Rachel Rodi said.",
"At the peak of the diversion, as much as 1.2 million gallons of water per second were pouring into the Atchafalaya basin from the Mississippi, the Corps reported.",
"The Atchafalaya may not reach its normal levels until \"well into June,\" O'Neil said.",
"Officials said last week that flooding in the basin was not as severe as expected after the spillway's opening.",
"But at least 1,230 structures in 13 parishes were affected by rising water, according to the state Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness office."
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"NEW: \"The blessing is there's no rain,\" one area resident says .",
"The Atchafalaya River has crested at Morgan City, Louisiana .",
"Federal officials diverted water down the Atchafalaya from the swollen Mississippi .",
"The river is now \"slowly, slowly falling,\" a U.S. forecaster says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A CIA team of forensics specialists has been granted permission by the Pakistani government to visit the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, to search for possibly hidden or buried documents, a U.S. official confirms to CNN.",
"The team will \"gather up any additional information that can be found,\" the official said.",
"During the raid earlier this month, the Navy SEAL team was able to gather a substantial amount of intelligence documents and computer media during its 40-minute assault on the compound in Abbottabad.",
"But the CIA has wanted to return to see if other material could be found.",
"Former Pakistan leader: U.S. showed \"arrogance\" The team of agents also wants to have a close look at the compound to see what else it can learn about Bin Laden's stay there, the official said.",
"The agreement was reached several days ago by CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell and the Pakistani government.",
"The official declined to say when the visit will happen and if more than one trip is planned."
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"An official declined to say when the visit will happen .",
"The CIA has wanted to return to the compound where bin Laden was killed .",
"Official: The team will \"gather up any additional information that can be found\""
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"(CNN) -- World number one Caroline Wozniacki suffered another morale-sapping defeat at the French Open as she was dumped out by 28th seed Daniela Hantuchova.",
"The Dane, who is yet to win a Grand Slam tournament, was beaten 6-1 6-3 in just 73 minutes to extend her miserable run at Roland Garros.",
"Her best performance in Paris was reaching the quarterfinals in 2009 and she struggled against Hantuchova, from Slovakia, who was competing in her 41st major.",
"Hantuchova reeled off nine straight games to seal the opening set and take a commanding lead in the second but Woznaicki offered herself hope when she secured her first break to reduce the deficit to 4-2.",
"But Hantuchova held serve twice to seal one of the biggest victories of her career and set up a meeting with 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the last 16, after she beat Canadian Rebecca Marino 6-0 6-4.",
"\"She played very well today, better than me for sure,\" Wozniacki told a press conference.",
"\"She knew what she wanted to do and I need to get back on the court and practice and come back stronger.",
"\"Kim had a tough loss yesterday and I had a tough loss today and that's what can happen.",
"Since we are number one and two we must be doing something right.",
"\"I am young and I get experience every time and you learn more from your losses than from your wins.\"",
"After Wozniacki's exit, and Kim Clijsters defeat on Thursday, the trend for upsets continued as Australian 8th seed Samantha Stosur was beaten by unseeded Gisela Dulko.",
"The Argentine set the tone by taking the first four games of the match, and though she dropped the second set, Stosur's 35 unforced errors counted as Dulko wrapped up the match.",
"Afterwards, she told a press conference she was dedicating her victory to her brother's twins, Myla and Teo, who were born overnight.",
"\"Yesterday night I was awake really late,\" she said.",
"\"You know, it was very emotional, because I would have loved to be there, but I'm here.",
"The key to the match was to start well, to be aggressive from the start,\" Stosur added: \"She seemed to be out ahead a little bit better and really kind of be the one dictating the points, which, for me, I'm usually the one able to do that.\"",
"Elsewhere, defending champion and fifth seed, Francesca Schiavone, from Italy, had no such trouble making the fourth round after her Chinese opponent Shuai Peng retired hurt with the score at 6-3 1-2.",
"Russian third seed Vera Zvonareva beat Anastasia Rodionova, from Austria, 6-2 6-3 and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the 14th seed, triumphed over Nuria Llagostera Vives, from Spain, 3-6 6-3 6-3.",
"Serb Jelena Jankovic, the 10th seed, beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands, from the United States, 6-2 6-2, while 11th seed Marion Bartoli, from France, beat Julia Goerges, from Germany, 3-6 6-2 6-4."
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"Caroline Wozniacki beaten at the French Open by Daniela Hantuchova .",
"World number one loses 6-1 6-3 in just 73 minutes at Roland Garros .",
"Australian 8th seed Samantha Stosur dumped out by Gisela Dulko .",
"Defending champion Francesca Schiavone through as Shuai Peng retires hurt ."
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"(CNN) -- The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station for the last time late Sunday, as the craft nears the end of its final mission.",
"The scheduled 16-day mission began two weeks ago after multiple delays.",
"When Endeavour pushed away from the space station just before midnight, it had been docked for 11 days, 17 hour, 41 min, according to NASA's website.",
"The shuttle is scheduled to land at 2:35 a.m.",
"ET Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.",
"Space shuttle Atlantis will make NASA's final shuttle voyage July 8 on a mission to deliver supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station, the agency said."
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"Endeavour spends more than 11 days docked at the International Space Station .",
"The shuttle is scheduled to land early Wednesday ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City football player Kolo Toure has expressed his relief after receiving only a six-month suspension for using a banned drug.",
"The Ivory Coast international will miss the start of the 2011-12 season, but can return to action from September 2 after the punishment for taking weight-loss pills was backdated.",
"\"This has been a difficult period for me, and I am sad to have missed the team's triumph of securing Champions League football for Manchester City and also the FA Cup victory at Wembley,\" Toure told the English club's website after Thursday's ruling.",
"\"But I am relieved that I will be able to return to football in September and thank the FA's commission for their understanding about my case in coming to their decision.\"",
"Toure faced a possible two-year ban after admitting to using water tablets given to him by his wife, but several factors meant he escaped the maximum penalty.",
"Wenger blames Toure positive test on diet pill .",
"One member of the panel recommended that the 30-year-old be sidelined for just three months as it was his first offense and he admitted his guilt.",
"Lawyer Christopher Quinlan, who headed the English Football Association's independent panel, said Toure \"did not intend to enhance sporting performance or to mask the use of a performance-enhancing substance.\"",
"\"The player accepted he was at fault and with that concession we agree,\" Quinlan said in a statement on the FA's website.",
"\"He was at fault in the limited and perfunctory efforts he made in relation to the water tablets; the checks he made in relation to those tablets were inadequate and fell some way below what it would be reasonable to expect of a professional footballer in these circumstances.\"",
"Toure, who will be target-tested for drug use for the next two years, was provisionally suspended on March 2.",
"The defender had to watch from the sidelines as City qualified for Europe's premier club competition for the first time, finishing third in Premier League.",
"His younger brother Yaya scored the winning goal in both the semifinal and final of the FA Cup, England's prestigious knockout competition, as City ended a 35-year wait to lift a trophy."
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"Kolo Toure relieved after receiving a backdated six-month ban for using diet pills .",
"Manchester City player will miss start of next season but can return from September 2 .",
"The 30-year-old admitted taking his wife's water tablets in order to lose weight .",
"He could have been suspended for two years but was given a reduced punishment ."
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"Madrid (CNN) -- The European Commission on Wednesday rescinded its health warning against cucumbers from Spain, according to a statement from the Spanish Health Ministry.",
"Spanish officials have been denying accusations that their country was the cause of a deadly E. coli outbreak that has swept across Germany and Sweden.",
"The health warning was lifted after Spanish authorities shared negative test results on the produce in question with the commission, the statement noted.",
"Last week, German officials implied Spanish cucumbers were the cause of an illness that has sickened more than 1,000 people.",
"The outbreak is responsible for 15 deaths in Germany and one in Sweden, according to media reports citing local authorities.",
"CNN has confirmed at least 12 deaths including the one in Sweden, a woman who had recently visited Germany.",
"Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Spain will not rule out \"taking action against the authorities (in Germany) who questioned the quality of our products.\"",
"He was speaking in an SER radio interview.",
"The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's federal unit responsible for disease control and prevention, has reported 1,064 cases of E. coli infection, and 470 cases of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious complication that can result from E. coli.",
"Rubalcaba later responded forcefully to the accusation that the outbreak originated with produce from Spain after chairing a meeting of government officials and fresh produce exporters Wednesday in the southern city of Almeria.",
"\"What we ask of Germany is get to the bottom of this,\" Rubalcaba told a nationally televised news conference after the meeting.",
"\"The country most interested in knowing the truth is Spain.",
"It's not our products. All of the people who are affected are in Hamburg or were in Hamburg, so it seems the problem is there.\"",
"\"The proof is that there are no cases in Spain.",
"If the bacteria came from Spain, we would see infections.",
"Our products are absolutely clean, our cucumbers in this case.",
"It's not a problem of the origin of the products,\" Rubalcaba said.",
"\"If it was from the cucumbers, there would be cases (of illness) in Spain,\" Rubalcaba said, adding that there haven't been.",
"\"The Hamburg (Germany) authorities don't know where it comes from.",
"I understand they have a problem.",
"We have said, 'You need to say it wasn't us.'",
"\" While authorities in Germany worked to contain and respond to the outbreak, the specific cause remained unclear.",
"The European Food Safety Alert Network said EHEC, or enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, a strain of E. coli that causes hemorrhaging in the intestines, was found in organic cucumbers originating from Spain, packaged in Germany and distributed to countries including Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg and Spain.",
"But the source has not yet been pinpointed, authorities said.",
"Spanish officials and export producers have talked publicly of demanding compensation from Germany or the European Union.",
"The produce export sector says it stands to lose $290 million a week, as consumer fears over cucumbers have spread to most European countries, largely stopping imports of Spanish produce, including tomatoes, lettuce and other vegetables.",
"Rubalcaba told the news conference there'll be time to talk about demands for proper compensation but added, \"It's evident they have endangered the jobs of many people without proof.",
"We know (the infection) is a serious problem, but the Spanish products have nothing to do with that crisis.\"",
"Health officials in Hamburg, where many remain hospitalized from the infection, said Thursday that Spanish cucumbers appeared to carry the E. coli.",
"But on Tuesday, they said two of the three Spanish cucumbers tested showed they did not carry the E. coli strain that has caused the health problems, while a third Spanish cucumber and another cucumber of unknown origin were still being tested.",
"Spanish media reported that as a significant backtracking by Germany.",
"The export producers federation Fepex issued a statement Wednesday saying the \"priority now is to return to normal in the European markets for fruits and vegetables and re-establish confidence in Spanish products after Germany corrected itself on Tuesday and removed Spanish cucumbers as the origin of the lethal strain of E.",
"coli.\" Germany is the top purchaser of Spain's produce, according to Fepex.",
"In 2010, Spain exported 9.4 million tons of produce; a quarter of that went to Germany, Fepex said.",
"Fresh produce exports had $11 billion in revenue overall in 2010.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and Eileen Hsieh contributed to this report."
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"\"It's not our products,\" Spanish official insists .",
"Media report 16 deaths linked to the outbreak, including 1 in Sweden .",
"The specific source has not been pinpointed ."
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"(CNN) -- A 73-year-old man shot dead five people around Yuma, Arizona, before turning a gun on himself, police said.",
"Another victim was flown about 180 miles northeast to a Phoenix-area hospital after being seriously injured, Yuma Police Sgt.",
"Clint Norred said in a joint press release with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office.",
"According to Yuma police, an \"elderly male\" went into a business in the city limits and shot an adult male.",
"Police Chief Jerry Geier later identified this victim as Jerrold Shelley, a local attorney.",
"The four others were killed in greater Yuma County, where the other person was injured, according to Yuma Police Officer Cruz Vidal.",
"Police determined that these shootings were linked and identified the suspect as Carey Hal Dyess, a 73-year-old Yuma man.",
"Around 11:30 a.m., Yuma County sheriff's deputies found Dyess dead off U.S. Highway 95 in Blaisdell, a community east of Yuma.",
"He died from \"what appears to be ... a self-inflicted gunshot wound,\" police said.",
"Yuma is a city of more than 87,000 people, according to a 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, out of nearly 200,000 people in the county.",
"It is near the intersection of Arizona, California and Mexico, about 170 miles east of San Diego.",
"CNN's Justin Lear contributed to this report."
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"4 killed in Yuma County and 1 in the city of Yuma, a police officer says .",
"Another person was injured as a result of shootings in Yuma County .",
"One of those killed was a Yuma attorney, the police chief says .",
"The suspect, a 73-year-old man, apparently killed himself, police say ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- As searches for nearly 13,000 missing continued Sunday, police in Japan said 8,199 people had died since the monster earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck last week.",
"Meanwhile, the March 11 tremors shifted the Oshika Peninsula near the epicenter by just over 17 feet and dropped it by just over 4 feet, the Geospatial Information Authority in Tsukuba, Japan, reported Saturday.",
"Those two land mass movements are records for Japan, according to government figures.",
"The global positioning system data from the Tsukuba University-based authority revealed the peninsula on the Pacific coast moved in an east-southeasterly direction toward the epicenter.",
"The quake also moved land masses in many areas ranging from the northeastern region of Tohoku to the Kanto region including Tokyo, the authority said.",
"Search and rescue efforts have been hampered by snowfall in the hardest-hit areas, said spokesman Patrick Fuller of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.",
"\"The cold is a real issue, particularly for the thousands of people in shelters, many of them elderly,\" he said, describing providing medical care as a \"massive challenge.\"",
"While efforts accelerated Saturday to restore power to cooling systems at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the focus shifted toward rebuilding in some parts of the country hardest hit by the temblor and the devastating wall of water that followed.",
"\"We need to go forward,\" Rikuzentakata Mayor Futoshi Toba told construction workers, according to Kyodo News.",
"Crews began building hundreds of temporary, prefabricated housing units in the coastal city, the agency said.",
"A widely reported rescue Saturday offered a brief glimmer of hope amid headlines of death and destruction.",
"But Japanese authorities later changed their story, saying a man rescued from the rubble of his home Saturday had actually been staying in a shelter.",
"Originally, the Japanese Self-Defense Force reported that the man had been trapped for eight days.",
"Meanwhile, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said workers had laid extensive electrical cable near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's No.",
"2 nuclear reactor -- a key step in an effort to restore power to the plant that authorities hope will keep temperatures low.",
"That would curb the emission of radioactive material and, in a worst-case scenario, a full nuclear meltdown.",
"Tokyo's fire department also began a new method of spraying water in and around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's No.",
"3 reactor using an unmanned system that can spray sea water for up to seven hours at a time.",
"In previous missions, firefighters, soldiers and power company workers had manually done the same in brief intervals to avoid prolonged radiation exposure.",
"Tests revealed abnormally high levels of radiation that violate Japanese food safety laws in samples of spinach and milk from areas near the nuclear plant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters Saturday.",
"Authorities are mulling regulating movement of agricultural products from the area, as well as collecting more data for analysis, Edano said.",
"On Friday, authorities acknowledged that the situation at the troubled power plant was far more serious than they had originally estimated.",
"Tokyo Electric's managing director, Akio Komiri, broke down in tears after leaving a news conference in Fukushima at which exposure levels were discussed.",
"In a written statement, company president Masataka Shimizu said, \"we sincerely apologize ... for causing such a great concern and nuisance.\"",
"Even as the country's emergency agency raised its rating of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from a 4 to 5 -- putting it on par with the 1979 incident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told his compatriots to bury their pessimism Friday.",
"\"With a tsunami and earthquake we don't have any room to be pessimistic,\" he said.",
"\"We are going to create Japan again from scratch.",
"We should face this challenge together.\"",
"Kan acknowledged the situation at the Fukushima plant remains \"very grave\" and said his government has disclosed all that it knows to both the Japanese people and the international community.",
"\"The police, fire department and self defense forces are all working together, putting their lives on the line, in an attempt to resolve the situation,\" he said.",
"Meanwhile, the government raised the radiation exposure level for workers trying to avert a further crisis, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Saturday.",
"Tokyo Electric said workers at the plant -- including company employees, members of the military and firefighters -- can now be exposed to 250 millisieverts of radiation before they must leave the area.",
"An individual in a developed country is naturally exposed to about 3 millisieverts of radiation a year.",
"The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends no more than 50 millisieverts exposure in a given year for nuclear rescue and recovery workers.",
"It offers no restriction in a crisis when \"the benefit to others clearly outweighs the rescuer's risk.\"",
"Tokyo Electric has said it was doing all it can to protect workers' health.",
"Japan's nuclear agency said Friday several hundred workers, including nonpower company employees, remained on site.",
"In populated areas outside the nuclear facility, there have been few indications of any immediate, dangerous fall-out from the crisis so far.",
"For the past eight days, weather patterns indicate that the wind has likely blown most emitted radiation out to sea.",
"The British Embassy will run its last bus from Sendai to Tokyo on Sunday.",
"As of Saturday, five of the embassy's free buses had transported 61 British nationals, 15 dependents and 31 persons of other nationalities over that route, according to Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.",
"\"Based on demand, we do not plan to run any more coaches after Sunday,\" the office said in a statement.",
"CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report ."
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"Police say more than 12,000 people are missing .",
"Tests detect radiation in spinach and milk near the Fukushima Daiichi plant .",
"Red Cross: Providing medical care in shelters is a \"massive challenge\""
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"(CNN) -- At a shelter near Mexico City, Belkis Nunez is recovering.",
"She's lying down on a bunk bed at the San Juan Diego Migrant House in Tultitlan, just north of the Mexican capital.",
"The Honduran migrant says she's lucky to be alive: She was traveling on a cargo train in southern Mexico with other migrants when a group of armed men assaulted them.",
"They were held at gunpoint and threatened.",
"All were robbed and one of assailants held Nunez captive.",
"Nunez, 23, says she had no option but to obey her captor's orders.",
"He was demanding money.",
"\"And then I told him, 'I'm not carrying any money, not at all.",
"I'm with them.' And he asked me 'Which one of them is in charge of you?'",
"'No one; we're just all together.'",
"And then he said 'OK, you women are always putting the money in your privates or in condoms,\" Nunez says.",
"The group of Central American migrants was traveling on \"The Beast,\" a noisy, often-dangerous cargo train that rumbles through Mexico.",
"It is used by migrants to reach the U.S. border.",
"Mexican authorities say they're investigating the incident.",
"Salvador Beltran del Rio, head of the Mexican Institute of Migration, says his agency is helping the migrants.",
"\"Here in Mexico City we have 13 people.",
"Twelve have said that they witnessed the incident,\" Beltran said.",
"\"They have given their statements to the National Human Rights Commission first and then to the National Migration Institute.\"",
"In a separate incident, 50 Central American migrants who were apparently kidnapped in mid-December are still missing.",
"The case was brought to the attention of authorities by Alejandro Solalinde, a Catholic priest who operates a shelter for traveling migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.",
"Last summer, 72 migrants who were trying to reach the United States by traveling on the ground in Mexico were shot and killed in the border state of Tamaulipas.",
"The migrants came from Central and South American countries including Honduras, El Salvador, Brazil and Ecuador, according to Alejandro Poire, Mexican national security spokesman.",
"The victims had been tied by the hands.",
"The ranch where they were found was only 100 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border.",
"An 18-year-old Ecuadorian national survived the massacre and notified authorities.",
"The lead investigators in the case went missing shortly after the discovery of the migrants was made on August 24.",
"The bodies of Jaime Suarez Vazquez and Juan Suarez Sanchez, deputy public investigator and secretary of public safety in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, were found in early September.",
"Mexican investigators said at the time that Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, might have been responsible for the massacre.",
"The disappearances and killings of Central and South American migrants is creating tension between Mexico and the Latin American countries from which the migrants originate.",
"The governments of Central American countries like Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are asking Mexico to thoroughly investigate disappearances, abuses and deaths of their citizens in Mexican territory.",
"Mexican officials say they're doing everything in their power to protect the migrants.",
"Back at the shelter, Nunez says this was the second time she had tried to reach the United States hidden in The Beast and she will probably try again.",
"She has a very powerful reason: Her son is waiting for her in America.",
"She says that's why she didn't think twice about risking her life along with the other Central American migrants.",
"Mario Gonzalez in Mexico City contributed to this report ."
] | [
"Central Americans traveling through Mexico toward the United States are often targeted .",
"Belkis Nunez considers herself lucky to be alive after armed robbers attack her group .",
"Dozens of migrants are missing or dead from two other attacks ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Drinking water is in short supply in parts of eastern China where a months-long drought has reservoirs tapped, state-run media reported.",
"More than 230,000 people -- mostly in rural areas of Jiangxi Province -- are bearing the brunt of the water shortage, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said Tuesday.",
"For the first four months of 2011, the province has received about half its normal rainfall, the agency said."
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"Jiangxi Province has received half its normal rainfall in 2011 .",
"The province is in the midst of a months-long drought ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 10 people being smuggled by boat died in the Gulf of Aden \"after a two-day journey from Somalia to Yemen,\" the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.",
"\"Ten Ethiopians suffocated en route to Yemen as the smugglers crammed and confined 25 people to the engine room with no ventilation,\" the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.",
"\"Survivors claim that their bodies were thrown into the sea some seven hours after departure.\"",
"There were reports that another four people reportedly died in waves, the agency said.",
"This reportedly happened as \"smugglers, fearing detection by the Yemeni navy, forced the remaining passengers to disembark too far from the coast.",
"After the exhausting trip they were simply too tired to swim and succumbed to the rough sea.\"",
"The Horn of Africa has been wracked by warfare, famine and political instability, conditions that have spurred flight.",
"More than 9,000 Somalis and 27,000 Ethiopians have arrived in Yemen by boat so far this year.",
"Some of the passengers found on Yemen's shore near Al Hamra said the smuggler's boat left Bosaso in the Puntland region of northern Somalia on Sunday.",
"There were 101 survivors.",
"\"We condemn the unscrupulous and inhumane treatment of refugees and others who are desperately seeking to flee the violence, human rights abuses and seriously debilitating life options in the Horn of Africa,\" said Erika Feller, UNHCR's assistant high commissioner for protection.",
"\"We have witnessed similar, isolated, individual incidents before utter disregard for human life.\"",
"The agency said 108 people \"are known to have drowned or fallen victim to risky crossings on the Gulf of Aden since the beginning of the year."
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"10 Ethiopians suffocated after smugglers crammed the engine room .",
"There were reports of another four people dying in waves .",
"The Horn of Africa has endured famine, warfare and political instability ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police raided a clinic in southeast Nigeria and rescued about 30 girls allegedly used in a \"baby industry\" in which they would give birth to children who then would be sold, authorities said Thursday.",
"\"There are about 30 pregnant young ladies -- the eldest was 20 years old,\" said Geoffrey Ogbonna, a police spokesman.",
"\"Some belong in secondary, even in primary school.\"",
"In addition to the expecting mothers, 12 children were found at the clinic ranging in age from 2 to 12 years old, according to Arinze Orakwue, a spokesman for the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons.",
"It was not clear whether the children found were related to the pregnant girls and women.",
"Orakwue called the operation of the clinic, which was officially registered, \"a failure of oversight.\"",
"Police stormed the Cross Foundation clinic in Abia state over the weekend after receiving a tip, but no babies were found at the location, the spokesman said.",
"Authorities believe there were cases in which babies were sold for between 100,000 and 150,000 naira ($640 to $960), with the women receiving about $131, according to Ogbonna.",
"Some of the women had unwanted pregnancies and wanted to get rid of their babies, while others were impregnated as part of the operation of the clinic's business, Orakwue said.",
"A doctor arrested at the location said the babies had been handed over to social welfare for adoption.",
"Police said the women seized were not cooperating.",
"Only one of the women has talked so far, and she said her friend took her to the clinic, according to Ogbonna.",
"\"They do not want to open up,\" he said.",
"The investigation continues, police said."
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"The girls rescued were used to give birth and their children sold, police say .",
"Officials: The oldest girl rescued at the clinic is age 20 ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Fighting continued Wednesday into Thursday between government forces and tribesmen in Yemen's capital, as Sanaa residents reported hearing explosions near the presidential palace, a government source said.",
"\"The reason the street fighting in Sanaa has gotten a lot more intense in the past several hours is because special forces are now involved,\" said the source, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the news media.",
"\"The special forces of the Republican Guard, the elite units, got involved on Wednesday.",
"They're being used because the government wants to minimize collateral damage and the special forces have particular training in clearing fighters from buildings.\"",
"Sanaa is, by most accounts, the most secure city in Yemen, which has a weak central government and contains vast stretches where tribal law reigns supreme.",
"The intensity of the fighting in the capital, where most of Yemen's security forces and army units are based, has increased fears that the country is on the verge of civil war.",
"The impoverished, arid and mountainous nation has been a key U.S. ally in the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network.",
"The government official expressed frustration that international mediation was no longer being attempted in Yemen.",
"\"Where are the Gulf countries?",
"Where are the mediators? Where are our international friends?",
"Someone needs to step in.",
"It seems like people are just kind of giving up and I'm not sure why.",
"What's troubling is that this kind of fighting could go on for a long time in the country's capital.\"",
"The official expressed concern over looting of government buildings during electricity outages, with hundreds of computers and furniture being taken from ministry buildings.",
"CNN was not able to verify the government source's report.",
"Nor was it immediately able to reach a spokesman for the tribesmen.",
"The fighting was occurring as residents of Sanaa reported early Thursday hearing heavy explosions, which had spread from the Hasaba district and were approaching the presidential palace, some eight kilometers (five miles) away.",
"\"Strong explosions have been going on all night -- we've been hearing them for hours in many different areas of Sanaa,\" said one resident of the capital.",
"\"The clashes are spreading and tonight have been much more intense than they have been the last few nights.\"",
"Yemen state television reported that an army general and a civilian were killed and 13 soldiers were wounded in clashes with supporters of the al-Ahmar family.",
"They are members of the powerful Hashed tribe who rose up last month against President Ali Abdullah Saleh after the longtime leader backed out of a regionally brokered deal meant to ease him out of office and end months of demonstrations.",
"\"The excessive use of force all day and night by the two fighting parties, the Army and the Al-Ahmar tribe, on many residential areas of Sanaa is causing great human and capital loss,\" said Amal Basha, a rights activist in Sanaa.",
"State television, citing a security source, said al-Ahmar supporters were bombing governrment installations and institutions in the Sanaa neighborhood of Hasba.",
"Ibrahim Mothana told CNN he was hiding in his house near the palace after hearing continuous machine-gun firing.",
"Journalist Raja Althaibani said residents in her Sanaa neighborhood were carrying weapons and the explosions were intensifying.",
"\"It isn't even because the explosions are loud, it's that they sound heavy and powerful -- giant thuds!\"",
"she said. \"I can feel it in my bones.\"",
"Information was difficult to get out of the country, which has blocked access by CNN journalists.",
"Thursday's unrest came more than a day after four missiles struck a compound where generals who had defected from the Yemeni regime were meeting, a spokesman for the defected generals said Wednesday.",
"The spokesman, Askar Zuail, said there were no casualties as a result of the Tuesday night assault, which he blamed on Saleh's regime.",
"But government spokesman Abdu Ganady on Tuesday denied the claim to Al Jazeera.",
"A senior defense ministry official who did not want to be named for security reasons also denied the claim to CNN.",
"The defected generals are running Sanaa's largest military base.",
"Despite such cracks in Saleh's regime, the deadly unrest rages on.",
"Fierce clashes erupted Wednesday between government security forces and Hashed tribesmen in front of the Ministry of Local Administration in Sanaa, witnesses said.",
"The Hashed tribe has opposed government forces in intermittent fighting for more than a month.",
"Fifteen tribesmen were killed and 31 wounded in clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Abdul Qawi Qaisi, spokesman for the head of the Hashed tribe.",
"On Tuesday, clashes between Yemeni security forces and tribal groups left at least five tribesmen dead while a leading tribe seized more government buildings in Sanaa, according to a spokesman for the leader of the Hashed faction.",
"In the southern city of Taiz, a center of protests against Saleh, three people were killed and at least 26 were wounded by gunfire on Tuesday, said Yasser Nomeree, a hospital staffer, and Bushra Maktari, a youth leader.",
"The Organizing Committee of the Youth Revolution said members of the Yemen Army's Republican Guards shot at demonstrators in downtown Taiz.",
"In a written statement Tuesday, the United Nations said at least 100 people had been arrested in Taiz, while hundreds more had been wounded nationwide in recent fighting, according to a U.N. statement Tuesday.",
"\"Saleh does not want peace,\" said the spokesman for the head of the Hashed tribe.",
"\"Saleh thrives with blood being spilt.",
"They attacked us and we had to defend.\"",
"Government spokesman Tarek Shami said mediation efforts meant to stem the violence between the country's tribal groups and Saleh's government ended Saturday without a peace accord because Hashed tribesmen would not negotiate.",
"\"They occupy ministries and police stations.",
"They walk armed in the streets of Sanaa.",
"They spread fear amongst the people,\" Shami said.",
"\"The tribes are attacking homes of civilians; that is why the cease-fire cannot continue.\"",
"Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief of the European Union, denounced the attacks in Taiz.",
"\"I am shocked and condemn in the strongest terms the use of force and live ammunition against peaceful protesters in the city of Taiz,\" Ashton said in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"The continued repression by the Yemeni regime and grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law cannot be accepted.\"",
"The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa has condemned what it called the \"unprovoked and unjustified attack\" on demonstrators in Taiz.",
"It praised the protesters and called on Saleh \"to move immediately on his commitment to transfer power.\"",
"CNN's Jack Maddox contributed to this report."
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"one government official asks .",
"\"Strong explosions have been going on all night,\" says one Sanaa resident .",
"Yemen state TV reported that an army general and a civilian were killed .",
"Defected generals are running the largest military base in Sanaa ."
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"(CNN) -- Guatemalan authorities arrested an alleged drug lord wanted by both Guatemala and the United States for aiding the transit of cocaine for a Mexican drug cartel, officials said.",
"Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, described as one of the most wanted in the United States, was captured Tuesday by Guatemalan National Police in the central town of Jicaro, Attorney General Claudia Paz said.",
"Lorenzana and his three sons were labeled \"Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers\" by the U.S. Treasury Department last year, a distinction that froze any U.S. assets and prohibits anyone from doing financial transactions with them.",
"The Lorenzanas played a key role in moving cocaine between Colombia and Mexico, and ultimately, the United States, according to the Treasury Department.",
"Lorenzana used Guatemala as a trans-shipment point for the drugs from Colombia, and he would then transfer them to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, which would take the contraband north.",
"The U.S. government was offering a reward of up to $500,000 for information regarding Lorenzana.",
"\"This arrest shows that no one is above the law,\" Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Menocal said, the state-run AGN news agency reported.",
"Lorenzana was transferred to a court building, where he was awaiting a judge for an initial hearing."
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"He received the shipments from Colombia and sent them to Mexico, authorities say .",
"He was arrested Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- The wide avenues of Havana became a colorful mosaic of the faces and flags of throngs of Cuban people -- 600,000 of them, according to state media -- as people gathered to commemorate International Workers' Day, or May Day, on Sunday.",
"But with the recent announcement of possibly sweeping, dramatic changes to Cuba's economic system, and the difficulties international media face in speaking to Cubans, it is difficult to know with certainty what the mood on those streets is.",
"Two days ago, Cuba's state-run Granma predicted that today's parade would be a \"brilliant culmination of the popular mass participation of workers and people in the open and democratic process of discussion\" that yielded the recent announcement of economic changes following the Sixth Party Congress of mid-April.",
"But if mood and turnout at the parade were predictable, it was precisely because \"Cuban workers are told by the government to march on May 1, and then afterwards, the Cuban government decides what the people were marching for,\" said Tomas Bilbao, executive director of the online Cuba Study Group, a site dedicated to the opening and reform of Cuba's society and economy.",
"Bilbao says similar turnouts in previous years have officially been attributed to other reasons.",
"But given compulsory attendance and the lack of full, transparent information among Cuban people, he finds efforts to attribute large turnouts to people's strong political feelings misleading.",
"An end to those classic cars in Cuba?",
"Less than two weeks ago, Cuba's Communist Party held its Sixth Party Congress -- its first in 14 years -- and announced that it had approved drastic changes, including term limits for its top leaders, the gradual elimination of the ration card system, the purchase and sale of housing and cars, and massive layoffs, which the president has said will exceed one million.",
"Among average Cubans, neither the timetable of implementation nor the final details of these changes are known.",
"It is not even clear if they will be formally announced at some future time.",
"This leads to a cautious, if optimistic, uncertainty, Bilbao said.",
"\"There is a lot of anticipation because people are in a desperate situation.",
"But a lot of the fear is from people who will lose state jobs, or people concerned with losing elements of the ration system, especially older people.",
"People are curious ... because in the past, these types of reforms have been rolled back.\"",
"\"Plans are still to lay off 500,000 workers in the next few months, and one has to wonder how many of those who attended (the May Day commemorations) are doing so in the hope of avoiding that fate,\" said Eusebio Mujal-Leon, director of the Cuba XXI Project at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Bilbao says the timing of the Sixth Party Congress is indicative of a lack of party confidence: By preceding the Congress with the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and following the Congress with May Day marches, the party maximized nationalist sentiment and the appearance of massive popular support.",
"And as to why the Congress would happen this year, as opposed to previous years, Bilbao said the desire for change has simply grown too strong.",
"\"It's no longer taboo in Cuba to recognize that the system has failed.",
"(President) Raul Castro has encouraged people to debate what measures should be taken,\" Bilbao said of the possibilities of real reform.",
"\"More importantly,\" he added, \"there is no alternative.\""
] | [
"Official Cuban media: 600,000 people from Havana gathered at the capital's Revolution Square .",
"Activists say dire economic conditions in Cuba have necessitated structural change .",
"Around the world, May Day has historically brought displays of support for Communism and socialism ."
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"(CNN) -- The president of the Ivory Coast is urging the International Criminal Court to investigate major crimes committed in his country after a disputed November election sparked a political standoff that left hundreds dead.",
"In a letter posted on the court's website Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara asked for an \"independent and impartial investigations into the most serious crimes committed\" after the presidential poll.",
"Ouattara has been in power since the April arrest of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, who defied international calls to step down after he lost the election.",
"Hundreds died in the ensuing standoff, according to rights groups.",
"Human rights investigators said this month that they have found a total of 10 mass graves near the commercial capital of Abidjan.",
"Human Rights Watch has said forces loyal to both leaders killed or raped citizens, burned homes and kidnapped civilians during the standoff.",
"The president asked the international court to ensure those with the \"greatest criminal responsibility\" for the crimes are brought to justice.",
"He made the request in a letter to Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo this month, the court said.",
"Perpetrators will be brought to justice, according to the international court based in The Hague, Netherlands.",
"\"Since the upsurge of violence following the second-round of the presidential election ... the office of the prosecutor has carefully examined all crime allegations and repeatedly reminded the political and military leaders of Cote d'Ivoire that the most serious crimes falling under the court's jurisdiction will not remain unpunished,\" the court said in a statement.",
"On Monday, the criminal court sought the arrest of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and two relatives, linking them to \"widespread and systematic\" attacks on civilians as they struggle to hold power in the North African nation.",
"And the court has accused two prominent Kenyan politicians -- Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and member of Parliament William Ruto -- and four others of multiple counts of crimes against humanity for the bloody post-election violence that wracked Kenya in late 2007 and early 2008."
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"President Alassane Ouattara urges an \"independent and impartial\" probe .",
"He has been in power since the April arrest of strongman Laurent Gbagbo .",
"Forces loyal to both leaders killed hundreds during election standoff, rights group say ."
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"(CNN) -- A Palestinian radical group believed to be responsible for a series of abductions and attacks has been labeled a foreign terrorist organization by the United States.",
"Known as the Army of Islam, the group \"has been responsible for numerous terrorist acts against the governments of Israel and Egypt, as well as American, British and New Zealander citizens,\" the State Department said.",
"\"These actions include a number of rocket attacks on Israel, the 2006 kidnapping of two Fox News journalists in Gaza (an American and a New Zealander) and the 2007 kidnapping of a British citizen, journalist Alan Johnston, in Gaza.",
"The group is also responsible for early 2009 attacks on Egyptian civilians in Cairo and Heliopolis, which resulted in casualties and deaths,\" the State Department said.",
"While the statement doesn't make reference to the abduction five years ago of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Palestinian security sources have said the group was involved in Shalit's capture, along with Hamas and another entity.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued the designation on Thursday.",
"It is the latest of many such moves against militant groups over the years.",
"The designation would result in a prohibition against Americans \"providing material support or resources\" to the group.",
"It also includes the \"freezing of all property and interests in property of the organization that are in the United States, or come within the United States, or the control of U.S.",
"persons.\" The group is led by Mumtaz Dughmush and \"operates primarily in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian territories,\" the State Department said.",
"The International Crisis Group said Dughmush is a former member of the Palestinian Authority's \"Preventive Security Organization who for years allegedly had been contracted for militant operations by both Hamas and Fatah.\"",
"Hamas runs the Palestinian territory of Gaza and the Palestinian Authority, which is dominated by the Fatah group, is in charge of the West Bank, the other Palestinian region.",
"Both groups, which have been adversaries for years, are working to reconcile their movements.",
"Hamas opposes the existence of Israel but Fatah is not as hard-line and has been involved in peace talks with Israel.",
"The State Department says the Army of Islam \"subscribes to a Salafist ideology of global jihad together with the traditional model of armed Palestinian resistance.",
"AOI has previously worked with Hamas and is attempting to develop closer al Qaeda contacts.",
"On May 7 the group released a eulogy for Osama bin Laden via its Al Nur Media Foundation,\" \"Salafis are Sunni Muslims who adhere to a literalist reading of scripture,\" according to an International Crisis Group report in March called \"Radical Islam in Gaza.\"",
"The Army of Islam's designation comes after President Barack Obama delivered a speech on Thursday detailing his Middle East policy, which includes attempts to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.",
"In the speech, Obama said the pre-1967 borders of Israel should serve as the basis for negotiations in the formation of a future Palestinian state.",
"He said there could be \"mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.\"",
"Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday at the White House in a session that could highlight the tensions between the allies.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report ."
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"The group, based in the Palestinian territories, is called the Army of Islam .",
"It is accused of deadly attacks and abductions of journalists .",
"Palestinian sources have said it was involved in Gilad Shalit's abduction ."
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"(CNN) -- The body-checking incident that left a National Hockey League player with a concussion and fractured vertebrae has not only some fans concerned but also at least one corporate sponsor -- Air Canada fired off an open letter to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, threatening to yank its sponsorship of the league.",
"The letter, sent last Wednesday by Denis Vanda, director of marketing communication for the airline, expressed Air Canada's concern about recent violent checks.",
"The letter said unless the league \"takes immediate action with serious suspension to players to curtail these life-threatening injuries, Air Canada will withdraw its sponsorship of hockey.\"",
"Boston Bruins' Zdeno Chara slammed Montreal Canadiens' Max Pacioretty during last Tuesday's game, causing Pacioretty to fall to the ice.",
"Pacioretty was taken from the ice on a stretcher and currently he is in a hospital.",
"He is out indefinitely, according to Canadiens' coach Jacques Martin.",
"Chara received game penalties, but no fine or suspension.",
"The NHL said it stands by its ruling that no suspension is warranted.",
"Veteran sportscaster Len Berman told CNN the controversy may not be over.",
"\"The commissioner has already said it's not going to affect anything, but I have to guarantee you that if sponsors stepped up and said, 'Hey we're going to be pulling out' that the NHL is going to listen.\"",
"The NHL's annual general managers meeting began Monday with attendees looking at the effects of the leagues' Rule 48, put into effect this season and banning purposeful checking of players' heads and from their blindsides, according to NHL.com.",
"During the meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, the NHL released data showing there has been a decrease in the incidences of concussions during the League's 2010-11 season.",
"NHL.com says the data shows one blindside hit that has caused concussion this season, compared to four from the previous season.",
"For a lot of hockey fans, fights and hard hits are part of the lure of the game.",
"Berman says fans enjoy watching the fights, \"Next time you see a hockey fight, look at all the fans right behind the fight.",
"They all have big smiles on their faces.",
"You never hear booing at a hockey fight.",
"You only hear cheering. \"",
"Chara says the hit on Pacioretty wasn't intentional and he meant no harm.",
"Yet, days later, Chara -- not known for dirty plays -- is still hearing booing from fans.",
"\"It doesn't bother me. It's just a part of the game. The fans are...they have the right to express their opinion....towards different players.\"",
"Chara told CNN.",
"But do the sponsors have that right?",
"One player sees it both ways.",
"Andrew McDonald, a New york Islanders' defenseman, said, \"I can see their concern.",
"They're obviously worried about player safety...I think as players, we appreciate that.",
"But again, as players, we know what we're going into when we go into a hockey game.\"",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt and Laura Batchelor contributed to this report."
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"A body check during a National Hockey League game last week put one player in the hospital .",
"Air Canada tells the NHL to \"curtail these life-threatening injuries\"\nThe airline says is might withdraw its sponsorship .",
"Sportscaster Len Berman says pressure from sponsors could cause the NHL to act ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A popular television and radio DJ was shot to death in Staten Island early Sunday morning, according to New York City police.",
"Corey McGriff, known to fans as DJ Megatron, died of a gunshot wound to the torso shortly after 2 a.m.",
"The incident is still under investigation and no arrests have been made, police said.",
"McGriff, 32, was best known for his appearances on the BET's music countdown show, \"106 & Park.\"",
"He had worked for both the show and BET.com since 2006, according to a statement released by the network.",
"\"The BET Networks Family is saddened by the news of the untimely loss of our friend and colleague, Corey 'Megatron' McGriff,\" the statement said.",
"\"We extend our deepest condolence to his family.",
"He will truly be missed.\""
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"(CNN) -- The author of the Sookie Stackhouse series of supernatural thrillers and inspiration for HBO's popular drama \"True Blood,\" Charlaine Harris, is putting her eye for suspense toward an equally arresting subject: Video games.",
"Produced for iPlay, the fruit of her labor, downloadable PC puzzler \"Dying for Daylight,\" features an original tale starring Dahlia, a wisecracking, fashion-forward vampire hunting for a potion that lets vampires survive in sunlight.",
"A hidden-object game designed for casual play by both women and men, it aims to bridge the gap between paperback readers and gaming fans, leveraging Harris' gift for crafting clever characters and scenarios.",
"Now that she has contributed to one of a growing range of collaborations between the gaming and publishing industries, we asked Harris why critics haven't written the final word on interactive entertainment's potential to craft compelling narratives yet.",
"CNN: How do video games compare to books and TV as a storytelling medium?",
"Harris: Video games are visual like TV, but involve a certain amount of comprehension that TV often doesn't.",
"It's a refreshing change from both books and TV, I find.",
"CNN: What key differences are involved in writing for passive and interactive formats, e.g.",
"novels vs. games?",
"Harris: For me, writing books is about the progression of the characters as they change to meet circumstances on their way to the climax of the book.",
"Games seem to have a more clearly cut goal and to require little change on the part of the character you're maneuvering through the stages of the game.",
"Since I have discovered I'm really linear, the one step forward, one step back structure of games was at first very frustrating; you don't keep going forward but are having to go back to get this item or that item.",
"Perhaps it's more like real life in that respect!",
"CNN: Many authors, such as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Michael Crichton and James Patterson have dabbled with gaming in the past.",
"Will we see more embracing the format going forward?",
"Harris: I'm sure more will, simply because it's another way to publicize your books, after all.",
"And it's a fresh and fun market for many writers; the chance to do something different is always interesting.",
"CNN: Digital seems to be the watchword for authors these days.",
"Do you believe games and interactive fiction, like Kindle Singles, eBooks and other virtual platforms, may someday reinvent publishing?",
"Harris: I'm certain digital will permanently alter the publishing industry.",
"I hope that books will not completely go by the wayside, but I fear they will.",
"I love to hold a book in my hands, but I can't deny it's much more convenient and green to have all my books on one device and to be able to take that device with me when I travel, instead of bulky and heavy books.",
"For that time alone, eBooks are worth it.",
"And the same thinking applies to all the other uses.",
"Portable is the way the world is going.",
"CNN: Knowing this, are games becoming a better medium both artistically and commercially than typical channels such as books, essays and short stories for writers to make their mark?",
"Harris: No, not yet.",
"Short stories put your name in the path of the reading public, and therefore publishers.",
"Publishers will take you much more seriously if you've had several short stories in reputable markets like magazines or anthologies.",
"I don't know how much credence they'd put in a book proposal by a writer who'd written games, but I'm willing to believe that is mounting.",
"I think any way you can get published is good though, as long as you're getting paid for it.",
"I don't know if games have the power to create a career, but they certainly could add to one.",
"CNN: What do titles like \"Dying for Daylight\" allow you to do that you could never accomplish with print media?",
"Harris: I'm hoping that people who enjoy playing the game will decide to read my books, naturally.",
"This is a chance to reach out to a whole new audience.",
"Also, it's simply fun for me.",
"CNN: How do you foresee the worlds of literature and gaming continuing to collide in the future?",
"Harris: I'm sure that mystery, with its defined structure and clear goal, is a great genre for gaming.",
"Science fiction, with its \"quest\" structure, also adapts well.",
"I think more and more of the big names in those genres will come to the adventure of gaming with good ideas and I look forward to seeing that."
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"\"Video games are visual like TV,\" author says .",
"\"Dying for Daylight\" features an original tale starring a fashion-forward vampire .",
"Author: \"I'm hoping that people who enjoy playing the game will decide to read my books\""
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"(CNN) -- Sir Philip Green is the retail king of Great Britain, but can his empire of clothing stores conquer the U.S.?",
"The launch of his flagship Topshop store in New York was delayed and coincided with the height of recession two years ago, but the self-made billionaire still believes he can crack America.",
"\"There's nothing I have seen that tells me we can't get this brand to work in America,\" says Green.",
"Green's Arcadia Group has over 2,500 outlets in the UK, including affordable fashion chain, Topshop, and employs over 44,000 staff.",
"His transformation of Topshop from cheap high street shop to a fashion-forward brand has grabbed the attention of supermodels, fashionistas and the queen of fashion, U.S. Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour.",
"A good combination to grow a brand in the U.S. \"Philip has a larger than life personality... (He) has been very successful in attracting attention for Topshop,\" says Wintour.",
"\"Asking Kate Moss to design a collection that really put the spotlight on Topshop in a way that hadn't before, so that was a very smart move.\"",
"The supermodel is no-longer connected to the brand, but the New York store has weathered the recession and built up the brand despite some misgivings from Green himself.",
"\"Being honest, would I rather be a hundred meters further north in Broadway?",
"Yes, I would,\" he says.",
"\"Is it the furthest south a retailer has taken on that's never traded in America?",
"Did we take a site that was horrid, did it have risk in terms of where it is, how far down SoHo it is, getting people to come down there?\"",
"They may be rhetorical questions, but despite the calculated risks Green and his Arcadia Group remains an emerging player in the U.S. retail scene where so many British companies have tried and failed before: a common joke in the rag-trade says that the only way to make a small fortune in America is start with a large fortune.",
"\"It is a bit of a gamble because it's such a sophisticated market, but the risks are worth the rewards,\" says Isabel Cavill from Planet Retail.",
"\"The U.S. is still the largest retail market in the world.\"",
"Cavill cites the lack of brand awareness, too rapid expansion and badly thought out partnerships with U.S. chains as typical reasons why British and other foreign brands have failed to make much of a dent in the U.S. Last year profits of Arcadia Group were more than healthy -- around $440 million in 2010 -- but faced with the U.S. market, \"we are a pimple in terms of one brand, in terms of scale, of what the size of the opportunity could be,\" Green says.",
"\"Naturally if we want to build a global business, we have got to develop so I think from an investment strategy, from size of the marketplace, from what I think we need to do with the brand, (we need) to move the needle as they say.\"",
"Doubling the size of Topshop sounds a big ask, he says, but \"there's good acceptance of the product, there's good acceptance of the brand, there's work to do but I think we've got a shot.\"",
"Opening new stores in other big cosmopolitan cities in the U.S. is the immediate plan; one that Wintour believes would be successful.",
"\"The American retail market is different from the British one,\" she says.",
"\"Philip doesn't take unnecessary risk but with everything being so positive in the States and the economy picking up, I'm really hopeful that he'll expand across the country.",
"\"America is a more casual country (than the UK).",
"You go outside of the more fashionable cities you tend to see a lot of jeans and sweatshirts, it's less responsive to what Topshop stands for.",
"\"I'm confident that with Philip's expertise he will conquer the United States the way that he has conquered Britain.\""
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"British retail billionaire Sir Philip Green aims to make his fashion brand big in the U.S.",
"Editor-in-chief of American Vogue thinks Green will be successful where many others have failed .",
"Green's Topshop has a flagship store in Manhattan with expansion plans to other U.S. cities ."
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"(CNN) -- A New Jersey school employee is under fire for enlisting an impersonator to fill in for Lady Gaga, who was slated to talk to elementary school students about the dangers of bullying, school officials said.",
"Tenafly Public Schools administrators were alerted of the gaffe by one school-aged Lady Gaga fan who wasn't fooled by a phony autographed photo of the pop star, superintendent Lynn Trager said.",
"\"We are all disappointed and surprised,\" said Trager, who outlined the details of the May 25 stunt in a letter sent to elementary school parents in the district last week.",
"According to the letter, the staff member who arranged for Lady Gaga to give an anti-bullying presentation to students via Skype claimed to have a personal relationship with the singer.",
"But in the 11th hour, Lady Gaga backed out.",
"\"Knowing how disappointed the children would be, without authorization the staff developer made arrangements for an impersonator to take Lady Gaga's place -- a clear lapse in judgment,\" the letter said.",
"During the presentation, the impersonator claimed her microphone wasn't working and typed to students instead of speaking, Trager said.",
"School officials were tipped off to the incident by a skeptical student who wasn't convinced by the autographed photo of Lady Gaga that was distributed to students during the presentation.",
"\"It was a student who discovered that the handwriting didn't look real to her,\" Trager said of how administrators were informed of the scam.",
"The district immediately informed parents and suspended all future Skype guests.",
"\"As soon as we discovered this we felt we owed it to the parents and students to be honest,\" Trager added.",
"She would not comment on what actions, if any, are being taken against the school employee behind the Lady Gaga-swapping caper.",
"In the letter to parents, Trager said she does not believe the employee intended to be malicious.",
"\"Although her actions were inexcusable, I do believe that this was a misguided attempt to reward the children for their diligent preparation for the NJ ASK test,\" the letter reads, referring to a state standardized test, the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge."
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"(CNN) -- Last week, video game blogs lit up with excitement over a game that was previously on no one's radar.",
"The zombie survival horror game \"Dead Island,\" doesn't have a release date yet, but it's got a remarkable, haunting trailer, one so skillfully made that it's prompted some bloggers to call it the best game trailer ever released.",
"Told in reverse, presented in slow-motion, it's a stunning piece of work.",
"A chase, intercut into the scene, fills in the backstory and by the end, the two pieces of virtual film merge.",
"So what happens in the trailer?",
"A little girl dies.",
"Horrifically. She's chased down a hallway by zombies, bitten into, then temporarily rescued by her parents.",
"Moments later, she becomes a zombie herself.",
"She attacks her father and as he turns in pain, she's flung through a window and falls many stories to her death.",
"In presenting the story in reverse, the trailer begins with her body lying broken on the ground, her eye open and staring.",
"Effective? Absolutely. In less than a day, a game that sounded like a by-the-numbers zombie shooter had a built-in audience of worshipful players ready to buy \"Dead Island\" whenever it ships.",
"Deep Silver, the game's developer, said there's been strong interest in a movie adaptation for a game that nobody's yet played.",
"As a gamer and as a parent of two little girls, I can say that as much as I admire the craft of putting such a game trailer together, it's not one that I can enjoy.",
"The game itself may turn out to be fantastic, but the cinematic preview strikes me as exploitative and cynical, a successful marketing ploy meant to evoke shock and pity.",
"The \"Dead Island\" trailer wouldn't bother me so much if it didn't feel like part of a growing, disturbing trend in video games.",
"Last year, I played \"Heavy Rain,\" a dark, story-driven melodrama about a serial killer who drowns young boys.",
"In the game, you play as four main characters trying to stop the crimes, including the father of a boy who's been kidnapped by the murderer.",
"[SPOILER ALERT] It's only in the last act of the game that you discover one of those characters is the killer and at points in the game you were unwittingly helping the serial killer along.",
"The 2007 hit \"BioShock\" introduced players to the Little Sisters, mutant children you could save or harvest for power-ups that would help you in the game.",
"Players literally held the lives of the little girls in their hands and had to decide whether to kill.",
"And in a game I'm currently playing, \"Dead Space 2,\" some of the enemies you mow down with futuristic weapons include small, quick moving \"Necromorphs\" that resemble fierce little Gollums.",
"The disgusting space mutants, it turns out, were once children living on a large space station.",
"To guide the point home, you're tasked with exploring a day care center where they used to play.",
"These are all games I've played and enjoyed; \"BioShock\" was considered one of the best games of 2007.",
"\"Heavy Rain\" was well-regarded for its uncompromising storytelling and adult themes.",
"And \"Dead Space 2\" has earned raves from game critics for its unrelenting action and scares.",
"But, increasingly, I'm getting uncomfortable with how comfortable game developers have become with putting children in peril and, often, allowing them to be gruesomely killed.",
"If you watch local TV news, read the newspaper or skim through CNN's headlines, there's not a day that goes by when you don't hear about some unthinkable violence or long-term abuse against a child.",
"The video game industry, which has strived since the 1980s to have the same cultural cachet as TV and movies, has found a taboo that can make gamers feel like they're consuming more mature, provocative entertainment.",
"When such depictions are presented in an artful, entertaining way, video game advocates are put in a position of defending content that might be less palatable in other mediums.",
"Would the \"Dead Island\" trailer work as a live-action preview of a movie or would it have provoked outrage?",
"I wonder if our tolerance for virtual gore and bloodshed in games has numbed us to the mutilation and torture of children because they're virtual characters, no more real than the barrel-chested Nazis in \"Wolfenstein 3D\" or the turtles in \"Super Mario Bros.\" Or, more disturbingly, maybe we've become so used to hearing about violence directed at kids that its depiction in video games is just another reflection of our culture.",
"Perhaps developers, many of whom have kids of their own, are exploring their own fears as they build complex, dark game narratives, fully aware that once there's an \"M for Mature\" label on the package, there'll be little outcry.",
"Perhaps there are some people who like the queasy feeling of taking down kid-sized zombies and space monsters in their video game entertainment.",
"If that's the case, then the \"Dead Island\" trailer has done its job.",
"It's horrified me and has left me feeling haunted and sad.",
"The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of Omar L. Gallaga."
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"The trailer for zombie survival horror game \"Dead Island\" has sparked intense interest online .",
"But game developers seem to be getting comfortable with putting children in peril .",
"Gallaga says this is just another reflection of our culture ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Killzone 3,\" in stores this week, is one wild, rolling firefight.",
"Set across many different terrains, it challenges players to show off their mental capabilities as well as their shooting prowess.",
"The first-person shooter (Sony, Guerrilla Games) picks up where \"Killzone 2\" left off, with the opposition leader dead and a city in ruins after a nuclear bomb goes off.",
"The gameplay quickly becomes run-and-gun, as players race to get out of a war zone where they are vastly outnumbered.",
"The Helghast, sort of a futuristic pseudo-Nazi/Cold War Russian looking group, are on the trail of our intrepid heroes through a nuked-out city, leafy jungle, polar mountains and outer space.",
"Each setting presented its own challenges and really varied the tactics needed to survive.",
"Guerrilla Games producer Kyle Shubel said the team spent the two years in production listening to fans about what they liked and didn't like from the series.",
"He said the gaming engine -- the software system that runs the game -- remained the same as \"Killzone 2,\" but that this time developers had the time to do more with it.",
"\"The fans requested so many things,\" he said.",
"\"But being given time to respond has been a strength.",
"We really wanted to squeeze more out of the engine and we think we've done it.\"",
"The environments play a big role in gameplay, as buildings and roads crumble under the weight of armored vehicles in the city or darkened areas hide players from enemy eyes as they sneak through the jungle.",
"All are well rendered and help get players immersed in the action.",
"The jungle missions were probably the most fun and the most mentally challenging.",
"Players are forced to get stealthy -- and when I say forced, I mean it.",
"The bad guys are so overwhelming that when I got spotted, there was no chance of survival despite being well-armed.",
"However, the slow, methodical movements were a nice change of pace from running from building to building for survival.",
"The boss battle with the towering MAWLR, a mechanical walker that could only be slowed down by shooting its exhaust ports (Death Star, anyone?",
"), was as frantic and bombastic as the jungle was slow.",
"Attacks are needed from the ground and from the air to stop this beast and don't let your guard down for a second.",
"The polar mission and the outer space mission showed off some of the vehicles you'll get to use.",
"I thought the ice-saw cycle in the snow regions was not as much fun as it could have been.",
"Piloting space fighters to take out battle cruisers wasn't new, but it was exciting to play.",
"Jet packs helped hopscotch around the battlefield and reach places that couldn't normally be reached.",
"The EXO walker (think \"Aliens\") was bulky and hard to manage, but offered a big punch when needed.",
"Shubel said each environment was designed to have its own style of play and its own set of missions.",
"He explained that emerging technology allowed them to ramp up the look of \"Killzone 3\" from its predecessors.",
"\"We learned a lot and worked on leveraging new technology.",
"It allows us to do a lot of cinematic tricks that Hollywood does in blockbuster movies.\"",
"There are plenty of cut scenes to help round out the story and move it along.",
"The Helghast leaders, voiced by Malcolm McDowell and Ray Winstone, are brutal and methodical in their destruction of the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance.",
"The interaction between the two leaders builds to a resounding, if perhaps expected, crescendo.",
"Single player action took about 7 hours for me, but Shubel said 8 to 10 hours was normal for completion.",
"Split-screen co-op for two players is also available for offline play.",
"Online, there are three game modes that can support up to 24 players for some of the missions.",
"Five different classes are available: Marksman, Engineer, Medic, Tactician and Infiltrator.",
"Each can earn points during the matches to improve their abilities and weapons.",
"The Infiltrator and Marksman were the most interesting to play.",
"The Infiltrator can disguise himself as a friendly trooper until right before he slits your throat.",
"The Marksman is a sniper who can remain nearly invisible until an attack is made.",
"Shubel said the development team spent a lot of time working on balancing out the power for each class so no one has an overwhelming ability to tip the scales in the fight.",
"It does take team work from different types of players to be successful in the multiplayer modes.",
"The game also can be viewed in 3-D. During a demonstration in Washington, I got to play using 3-D technology and a new peripheral (a gun-shaped controller) called the Sharp Shooter.",
"The 3-D aspects didn't really benefit gameplay, but they did make the game graphics a little bit better.",
"The Sharp Shooter, an attachment to the Sony Move controller, ended up being a lot more fun than I expected.",
"Ultimately, I would prefer to play with the Sixaxis controller.",
"However, I could easily see the game being played by a new person with the Sharp Shooter for more enjoyment than a regular controller.",
"\"Killzone 3\" isn't going to blow the doors off other first-person shooter games, but it does offer a variety of missions, scenarios, and skills that make run-and-gun gaming enjoyable.",
"There were very few disappointments and the multiplayer action was just as exciting as the single-player.",
"And, of course, there was a cliffhanger ending so be prepared for a \"Killzone 4\" in a couple of years.",
"\"Killzone 3\" is a PlayStation 3 exclusive title.",
"It is rated M for mature audiences due to blood and gore, intense violence and strong language.",
"This review was done on the PS3 using the Sixaxis controller for single player and the Move controller for multiplayer."
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"All environments are well-rendered and help get players immersed in the action .",
"Infiltrator and Marksman were the most interesting to play, reviewer says ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- She ate her favorite food all day long and rarely exercised.",
"She had a few brief failed relationships but mostly stayed single and never gave birth.",
"Defying conventional wisdom on a healthy lifestyle, she somehow found the secret to longevity.",
"When she died of kidney failure on May 7 in southern China, some local media called Ming Ming, 34, the world's oldest giant panda, generating global headlines.",
"Wild pandas live 15 years on average, while those in captivity can live much longer thanks to improved nutrition and medical care, according to WWF, the nature conservation organization whose logo famously features a giant panda.",
"CNN anchor's surprising views on pandas .",
"At least two pandas had lived longer than Ming Ming, state media has reported.",
"Tao Tao died in 2008 at the age of 36 and Chang Chang passed away in 2002 at the age of 35.",
"\"The longevity of those pandas doesn't have too much to do with our conservation effort,\" said Professor Fan Zhiyong, head of the species program at WWF's Beijing office.",
"\"In captivity pandas don't have to worry about food sources, infectious diseases and competition from other species -- all of which remain challenges to their survival in the wild.\"",
"While both Tao Tao and Chang Chang spent most of their lives in a zoo in eastern China, Ming Ming's life journey spanned half the globe.",
"Her longevity had surpassed most people's expectations.",
"She was rescued in 1979 in the mountains of Sichuan province, a rare sanctuary for one of the world's most endangered species.",
"Some 300 pandas live in captivity in China, mostly in breeding programs aimed at boosting the low population caused by disappearing natural habitats and low fertility rate.",
"Fewer than a dozen zoos outside China have pandas.",
"\"Ming Ming had always been weak ever since she was rescued,\" said Huang Zhi, one of her caretakers at China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, also in Sichuan, where she grew up.",
"\"She was quite timid and not very close to people,\" he added.",
"Despite the personality, Ming Ming played the panda ambassador when the Chinese government dispatched her to the London Zoo in 1991.",
"Fighting instead of mating with a male panda from Berlin, Ming Ming failed her most important duty and returned home three years later.",
"She moved one last time in 1998 to a safari park in the southern Guangdong province, where old age eventually caused multiple health problems.",
"Huang, Ming Ming's longtime caretaker, last visited her in April.",
"\"Her eyesight was deteriorating -- and she moved very slowly and ate very little,\" he recalled. \"I felt she was very old.\""
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"She dies of kidney failure after living in captivity since 1979 .",
"At least two pandas had lived longer than Ming Ming ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that it had shuffled some key management jobs as it continues its review of the controversy over sleeping and inattentive controllers.",
"It also named four members to a review panel that will evaluate the FAA's controller training programs to make sure new controllers are properly prepared.",
"The panel will submit a report to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt this fall.",
"\"We are continuing to do everything in our power to ensure that our nation's aviation system remains the safest in the world,\" Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.",
"He called the changes \"just the beginning of the process.\"",
"The controversy, which grew in recent weeks to include more than a half-dozen alleged sleeping or inattentive controllers, had already claimed a top FAA official, Henry \"Hank\" Krakowski, who resigned his post as head of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization.",
"It has also fired three air traffic controllers in Miami, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Seattle who were found to have slept on the job, and is continuing its review of other controllers.",
"In the changes announced Friday, the FAA said it is repositioning three veteran FAA managers to critical roles.",
"Walt Cochran will oversee terminal operations, where he will be responsible for FAA airport towers and regional radar facilities.",
"Chris Metts will oversee all of the FAA's \"en route\" and oceanic operations.",
"Glen Martin will become air traffic manager at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center.",
"The FAA said it also is assessing key mid-level management positions \"to ensure that both technical and leadership expectations are being met.\"",
"The members of the independent review panel are: Michael Barr, University of Southern California Aviation, Safety & Security program; Tim Brady, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Garth Koleszar, National Air Traffic Controllers Association; Michael New, United Airlines; and Julia Pounds, FAA.",
"Earlier this month, the FAA changed work schedules to allow controllers more time off between shifts, and Babbitt and controller union president Paul Rinaldi toured facilities to send a message to controllers about job expectations.",
"The FAA said it and union teams have so far visited facilities in and around 20 major U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Sacramento and Salt Lake City.",
"\"The FAA's focus is safety.",
"These changes ensure that we have the right people in the right places to help us carry out our mission,\" Babbitt said in a statement Friday.",
"\"I am confident our top-to-bottom review is making our air traffic system even safer.\""
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"It names four members to a review panel that will evaluate training programs .",
"The panel will submit a report to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt this fall .",
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- CNN photojournalist Khalil Abdallah was having breakfast Saturday in a Tripoli hotel that houses foreign press when a woman burst into the restaurant, screaming that she had been raped and beaten for days by Moammar Gadhafi's brigades.",
"Her sudden entrance startled the group of international journalists, who were about to begin another day covering the crisis in Libya.",
"The woman's face was heavily bruised, a long bruise running down the left side of her cheek.",
"She walked around, sobbing, shouting, lifting her dress to show a bloody thigh.",
"Her ankles and wrists were bloody where she said she had been bound.",
"One of the few present who spoke Arabic, the photojournalist understood her pleas.",
"\"She was saying, 'We are all Libyans!",
"Why don't you treat us the same?' \" Abdallah recounted Sunday for CNN.com.",
"The woman told the journalists that she had been picked up at a government checkpoint east of Tripoli, tied, beaten and raped for two days.",
"Her name was Eman al-Obeidy, she said.",
"\"Look at what Gadhafi's brigades did to me!\"",
"she screamed. \"My honor was violated by them!\"",
"Reporters gathered around her, trying to calm her, Abdallah recalled.",
"He and other photojournalists dashed for their cameras.",
"\"We were all in shock,\" Abdallah said, trying to keep a steady hand.",
"He knew that minders -- the men Libya's government assigns to foreign journalists to monitor their every move -- were nearby.",
"Reporters had barely asked a few questions before those minders were on them, pushing and shoving reporters to the side, trying to jerk the woman away.",
"Some of them were wearing their distinctive red badges, Abdallah said, while others were in plain clothes.",
"They threw punches.",
"Journalists tried to defend themselves and keep the woman away from the minders.",
"\"It was like a rugby pileup,\" Abdallah said.",
"A correspondent for Britain's Channel 4, Jonathan Miller, tried to push one of the minders back.",
"The woman was trying to fight back as well, Abdallah said.",
"\"She is pushing him (a minder) back saying, 'Don't touch me, leave me alone!'",
"\" he said. \"From that point on, everybody in this hotel was against us (the journalists),\" the photojournalist recounted.",
"Minders ran after journalists, jumping on them, beating them, he said.",
"At one point a bag was placed over the woman's head and she was led out to the hotel garden.",
"She was questioned for about 40 minutes, and then minders came back inside.",
"They announced that the woman was crazy and that she was being taken to the hospital.",
"\"All the minders were telling us she was drunk or had mental problems,\" Abdallah said.",
"A short while later, the woman was led through the lobby.",
"Journalists followed, protesting, shouting for the men to let her go.",
"A journalist can be heard on video asking her: \"Are you OK?\"",
"\"No,\" the woman answers, her voice shaky.",
"She yells into a camera: \"If you don't see me tomorrow, then that's it!\"",
"The woman is forced into a waiting car.",
"She shouts that she is being taken to jail.",
"The minders told reporters that they could see the woman again, later.",
"\"We have been told that we'd see people again, but we never do,\" said Abdallah.",
"An image he captured shows a minder pointing his finger at Abdallah just before snatching his camera and breaking it.",
"\"He ripped the microphone off, the viewfinder, his nails sunk into my arm,\" said Abdallah.",
"\"I was pulling the camera one way; he was pulling it the other way.\"",
"While wrestling for his camera, Abdallah saw a minder standing nearby holding a 9 mm handgun.",
"The photojournalist let go and slowly began to back out of the restaurant.",
"Then Abdallah heard something from the minders that he has come to expect, but that never fails to sting him.",
"\"'He is Arab!' they were shouting. 'Why is he doing this to us?'\" \"Once you're labeled like that, it doesn't matter what your citizenship is,\" he said.",
"\"But what I felt more was terrible for this woman and how the government is going to deal with her.",
"\"That is the thing that is most disturbing.\"",
"Postscript: . The Libyan woman who stormed into the Tripoli hotel Saturday to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her has been released, government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told reporters at a news conference Sunday.",
"CNN has not been able to independently confirm the spokesman's announcement."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Friday it was \"extremely disappointed\" by a Chinese court decision to uphold the eight-year prison sentence of American citizen Xue Feng.",
"\"I am extremely disappointed in the outcome although it wasn't completely unexpected,\" said U.S.",
"Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman.",
"\"We ask the Chinese government to consider an immediate humanitarian parole of Xue Feng thereby allowing him to get back to his family and his way of life.\"",
"The geologist, a naturalized American citizens, was convicted on charges of violating state secrets and faces a fine of 200,000 yuan (about U.S. $30,400).",
"Xue has spent about three years in prison since his arrest.",
"University of Chicago's Dr. David B. Rowley, Xue's former professor who has rallied for his release, said in July that Xue was languishing in prison on vague charges.",
"\"I find this whole thing just unbelievable in no small part because the rationale is just so thoroughly flawed,\" Rowley said.",
"Xue \"has always been a straight shooter,\" Rowley said.",
"\"He was not ... a wheeler-dealer type.\"",
"He is \"an honest, hard worker and this came as a real surprise to him as well.\"",
"Xue was working in China as a leading geologist for the Colorado-based IHS Consulting firm, a global provider of energy-related information, Rowley said, and the information Xue was privy to did not include state secrets.",
"While Rowley said he was not privy to the specific database mentioned in Xue's indictment, the professor said the pieces of information commonly contained in such databases are not state secrets.",
"\"These types of databases usually contain information related to the petroleum potential of a given area, and that might include what wells already have been drilled and information on the geology and geophysical or underlying structure of these areas.",
"That's pretty much it,\" he said.",
"Xue's job as a leading consultant for IHS involved acquiring and reselling this type of data, Rowley said.",
"He said that as a petroconsultant, Xue thought he was viewed favorably by the Chinese because he was able to sell to Chinese officials similar data from countries in which the Chinese had drilling interests.",
"Rowley said Xue had resigned from IHS at the time of his arrest and believed that the warnings issued by Chinese officials concerning the database were not issued against him, but against his employers, he said.",
"\"IHS is extremely disappointed at the news and is very sympathetic to the situation.",
"We are continuing to work with our advisors on the issue,\" IHS spokesman Ed Mattix at the time of Xue's sentencing in July.",
"CNN's Jaime FlorCruz contributed to this story."
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"The U.S. ambassador to China has called for his release on humanitarian parole .",
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"(CNN) -- In 1996, when she was 4 years old, Catherine MacLean learned she had aplastic anemia.",
"For seven years, she lived from hospital visit to hospital visit, one transfusion to the next.",
"It wasn't until the summer of 2002 that her world suddenly included what was possible beyond the walls of her illness.",
"She was 11. For many of the years in between, her disease controlled her life -- aplastic anemia is a type of bone marrow failure that made it impossible to produce enough red blood cells to support her body.",
"In 2001, Catherine spent three weeks in isolation at a clinic so that she could get a bone marrow transplant.",
"All visitors had to scrub down before entering the room, and her mother had to wear a surgical mask if she slept there.",
"When she went back to school, Catherine had kept up academically, but the social environment at the school made for a difficult transition.",
"\"I was definitely clearly very aware that I was different from the other kids in my class, in a lot of ways -- in terms of maturity, in terms of risk taking,\" Catherine told CNN.",
"\"There's just this gap in experience, because I've just done things and been to places that they just haven't.\"",
"To help her meet other kids who understood, Catherine's doctors encouraged her to go to a special summer camp for seriously ill children.",
"The Hole in the Wall Gang Camps were started by actor Paul Newman \"to acknowledge luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.\"",
"The camp Catherine attended, in Ashford, Connecticut, is staffed by cabin counselors, doctors and nurses, and it prides itself on giving kids a place where they will feel \"safe, respected and loved.\"",
"For these kids, suffering from diseases such as hemophilia, sickle cell anemia and cancer, it is a chance to see past the walls of the hospital to what the world might be like if a diagnosis didn't control their every move, if clinics and hospital rooms weren't like second homes.",
"CEO Jimmy Canton has been with the camp since it started in 1988.",
"He describes it as a place where children are encouraged to look beyond what they thought was possible: \"They've been told over and over again what they can't do.",
"And camp reminds them that there's an enormous amount of things that they can do.\"",
"Nicole Kucine is a pediatric hematologist and oncologist who's getting more training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and has volunteered at the camp for four years.",
"Outside of the summer, she works closely with many sick children in hospitals and clinics; at the camp, she sees ill children in an entirely different light.",
"What she sees -- children dancing around dining halls, inviting and insisting that she join in -- is invigorating.",
"\"Seeing kids kind of ignore their disease was amazing.",
"That they have to take medicine when they eat their meals wasn't a big deal.",
"They could be normal,\" she told CNN.",
"\"Normal\" was not something Catherine was that familiar with before camp.",
"The start of camp coincided with the one-year anniversary of her transplant, and her doctors were just starting to use the word \"cure.\"",
"At the camp, Catherine was embraced by young counselors, eager to get to know her.",
"Many of the counselors were in college, which helped her envision what had for so long been an intangible future.",
"\"My sort of vision of my life had always been very narrowed, and it was always very much a day-by-day.",
"It was like in a week, I have to get another blood transfusion, and in a couple months, we're gonna be changing my medication, and in a couple months, we're gonna transplant,\" she told CNN.",
"The experience allowed Catherine to think, \"There's things out there.",
"I can set long-terms goals now.",
"I can have long-term goals.",
"There's things that I'm going to be able to do.\"",
"The friends from her camp still provide support and understanding today, when \"normal\" life can get complicated.",
"Explaining the intricacies of her illness could be daunting to a college freshman trying to make new friends.",
"But her camp friends can commiserate over routine checkups and test results without requiring any explanation.",
"The camp also changes the way children interact with authority figures.",
"In hospitals, there are always many caretakers who often do things to sick children that are uncomfortable, like drawing blood or giving them medications.",
"With events like \"Silly Olympics,\" the camp puts kids back in the driver's seat.",
"Correctly answered trivia questions win campers the right to fling a spoonful of pudding in their counselor's face, or spray a counselor with a Super Soaker, or perhaps make lemonade mix in a counselor's mouth.",
"\"Silly Olympics is, here's this authority figure, but you're allowed to throw pudding at them, you're allowed to strike back, you're allowed to kind of take control of the situation in a way that a lot of these kids get control over their bodies and their lives just completely taken away from them,\" Catherine said.",
"\"In the hospital, you're a patient, that's all you are; in a lot of ways, you are your illness.",
"And here, you're getting up on stage and you're a singer or you're a wood shop craftsman or you're a fisherman, you get to try different things, and so you can take back a sense of 'I like to fish, I'm good at this, I discovered this talent,' \" she told CNN.",
"This year, as Catherine finishes up her first year of college, she looks forward to many possibilities, such as medical research and graduate school.",
"But she says the camp has also opened up her eyes to the social side of medicine, and she is considering going into public health or pursuing a job that supports patients.",
"But for now, she is just excited about her summer job.",
"She'll be going back to the camp that changed her life, but this time as a counselor.",
"For thousands of very sick children around the world, summer camp is not just a place to escape parents and make new friends."
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"Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, started by Paul Newman, helped her transition to more normal life .",
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"As Catherine finishes up her first year of college, she looks forward to many possibilities ."
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"(CNN) -- Striker Emmanuel Adebayor has committed himself to Arsenal by signing a new contract with the English Premier League club.",
"Emmanuel Adebayor has been a big success since joining Arsenal from French club Monaco.",
"The Togo international has been the subject of much speculation this summer, with Italian club AC Milan making their interest in the player well known, and he was also linked with Barcelona.",
"Arsenal were determined to keep the 24-year-old despite putting a reported $70 million price tag on him, and Adebayor revealed at the start of this month that he would sign a new contract.",
"The terms of the deal were not disclosed by the London outfit, who described it as a \"long-term contract.\"",
"\"Arsenal can confirm that Togolese forward Emmanuel Adebayor has signed a new long-term contract with the club,\" read a statement on the club's Web site on Monday.",
"\"Everyone at Arsenal looks forward to Emmanuel's continued contribution to the club over the coming years.\"",
"The UK Press Association reported that the deal was worth around $160,000 a week and would tie the former Monaco striker to Arsenal until at least 2012.",
"Adebayor scored 30 goals in all competitions last season, and was named in the PFA Team of the Year.",
"He also finished in third place in the PFA Player of the Year.",
"However, fans started to turn on him during pre-season as it became apparent that he would not turn down a move away from Arsenal, and he was again booed by sections of the crowd during Saturday's Premier League opener against West Brom.",
"However, manager Arsene Wenger said the player had his full support.",
"\"We have to get behind him and support him because he is a tremendous force and is of tremendous importance for the team -- you want your own fans to be behind him,\" Wenger told PA. \"What happened in the transfer period did not always reflect his deep desire and there was manipulation from agents on both sides, but overall I am positive he will recover.",
"Every player needs to feel wanted.",
"I think he is settled in his own mind.",
"He has given a lot in the first two games.\"",
"Arsenal defeated West Brom 1-0 with a goal from summer signing Samir Nasri to follow up last Wednesday's 2-0 victory against Dutch side Twente in the first leg of their Champions League third-round qualifier.",
"The Gunners travel to London rivals Fulham on Saturday, then play the home leg against former England manager Steve McClaren's Twente on the following Wednesday."
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"The Togo striker had been linked with a move to AC Milan and Barcelona .",
"Terms of the deal not disclosed but Arsenal say the contract is \"long term\"\nAdebayor has been booed by some of the club's fans in recent matches ."
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"(CNN) -- Emergency crews freed an injured caver Monday who fell during a difficult expedition through a remote Franklin County, Tennessee, cave, a county spokesman said.",
"The nature of the man's injuries was unclear, according to county spokesman Chris Guess, who said the victim would be transferred to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga for treatment.",
"The man fell Sunday afternoon on the seventh of eight vertical descents, or drops, inside the Sinking Cove Cave in southern Tennessee, not far from the Tennessee-Alabama border, according to Brian Krebs with the Southeastern Cave Conservancy.",
"The group holds the lease on the cave.",
"The expedition being attempted by the man, who is an experienced caver according to Krebs, would rate about a 9.5 on a difficulty scale of 10, he said.",
"Before the rescue, Krebs said extracting the injured man from the cave would be a challenge.",
"Not only did he have to be lifted through the seven drops, but the man had to pass through a small crawl space that is about eight inches high and 14 inches wide, Krebs said.",
"Rescue workers made that crawl space bigger so they could get him out, according to Guess.",
"The rescue was complicated by the lack of cell service and the remote location.",
"Krebs said the site is \"about as far back in the wilderness as you can go.\"",
"CNN's Aaron Cooper contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Rescue workers widened a small crawl space to get him out .",
"NEW: The man is being transferred to an area hospital for treatment ."
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"Amman, Jordan (CNN) -- Jordan's King Abdullah II has made a call for national unity and reform following bloody clashes between protesters and government loyalists late last week, the country's Petra News Agency reported.",
"\"What matters to us in this stage is that our national unity must not be undermined,\" the king said Sunday, while visiting the southern region of Petra.",
"\"We are proceeding in earnest with the political reform process and we have nothing to fear.\"",
"The assurances from King Abdullah came two days after Friday's clashes left dozens injured and as opposition groups continued to demand the resignations of the country's prime minister and senior security officials.",
"\"We recognize the difficult conditions and challenges the Kingdom and the whole region are passing through,\" the king said, \"but we are optimistic about the future we seek through developmental and economic projects.\"",
"The demonstrations turned violent as government loyalists clashed with protesters calling for the dissolution of parliament, an elected government and constitutional reforms.",
"Dozens were injured as the two sides converged in a hail of rocks and swinging sticks, according to protest organizers and the government.",
"At least 62 people and 58 security force members were injured, the country's General Security Directorate said.",
"One man died of a heart attack in Friday's protests, officials said.",
"Among those calling for the dismissal of government officials were family members of the 56-year-old protester.",
"The brothers and sons of Fakhri Jamil blamed the heart attack on beatings they say he sustained from security forces and \"thugs.\"",
"Meanwhile, Jordanian Interior Minister Saad Hayel Srour and Gen. Hussain al-Majali, the head of Jordan's Public Security Department, told reporters Saturday that gatherings such as Friday's, which occupy a main area and disrupt day-to-day activities, will not be tolerated.",
"Security forces have allowed peaceful protests in the kingdom for more than 12 weeks, the two said.",
"Al-Majali said security forces should not be accused of any shortcomings or negligence during Friday's protest, noting that had they not intervened during the clashes, \"today we would have had funerals that cannot be counted.\"",
"He said the forces practiced restraint and intervened only to prevent bloodshed and save citizens' lives.",
"A CNN team in Amman on Friday witnessed some security forces beating up anti-government protesters."
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"King Abdullah II urges reform .",
"Security forces should not be accused of negligence during Friday's protest, official says ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Seven people, including some accused of having ties to a U.S.-backed Farsi-language radio station, were arrested in Tehran, according to Iranian media reports.",
"The seven \"worked as liaisons for anti-revolution satellite organizations and Zionist media,\" the semi-official Iran Labour News Agency (ILNA) reported Sunday.",
"The people were connected \"with the conspiracy,\" ILNA said, referring to recent anti-government protests in Iran.",
"The arrests came in an \"intelligence ministry operation,\" ILNA said.",
"\"These people were connected with Radio Farda and had gone through the process of selection and training in Dubai and Istanbul and some of them had been officially employed by the U.S. intelligence service.\"",
"However, Radio Farda's director, Armand Mostofi, told CNN Sunday it has no employees inside Iran.",
"Radio Farda is based in Prague, Czech Republic, and in Washington.",
"It is affiliated with Radio Free Europe, and broadcasts from Prague.",
"Mostofi said he first heard of the arrests in Iranian news reports.",
"\"A lot of our news comes from the relationships with our listeners,\" he said.",
"\"It's a two-way relationship.",
"Hundreds of thousands of our listeners call in to inform us of what is going in Iran.\"",
"He said Iran has consistently blocked the station's Web site and has tried to jam their satellite signal.",
"\"The crackdown of journalists in Iran has worsened in the aftermath of the presidential elections,\" Mostofi said.",
"\"Iran used to be the largest prison for journalists in the Mideast, and unfortunately, has become the largest prison in the world for journalists.\"",
"Iran's state-owned Press TV reported the seven included \"two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives.\"",
"The group planned to \"stoke unrest and violence on a march scheduled for February 11,\" according to the report.",
"That date marks the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah.",
"There was no immediate reaction to the reports from the United States.",
"CNN's Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report."
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