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"Moscow (CNN) -- Russia has lifted a ban on some fresh vegetable imports from the European Union as of Tuesday, a senior official said.",
"Gennady Onishchenko, head of Russia's state consumer protection watchdog, said vegetables from Belgium and the Netherlands are now allowed into the country.",
"Moscow banned imports of fresh vegetables from the European Union earlier this month following an outbreak of E. coli in Germany that is blamed for 47 deaths.",
"French health officials said Monday the same strain of E. coli appeared to have resurfaced in an outbreak in the Bordeaux area that has left nine people in need of hospital treatment.",
"Onishchenko told Russian news agencies that Belgium and the Netherlands were the first to have the vegetable import ban lifted because they have reliable laboratories and because no one there has been affected by the recent cases of E. coli.",
"The Netherlands is Russia's biggest supplier of fresh vegetables, providing one-third of such imports in monetary terms, he is quoted as saying.",
"The two countries will have to provide certificates for their exports, stating their origin and that they are safe, he said.",
"Poland, Lithuania, Spain, Denmark and the Czech Republic are on a \"waiting list\" and may be allowed access to the Russian market again if certain conditions are met, Onishchenko added.",
"European Union nations exported about 600 million euros worth of vegetables to Russia last year, according to the European Commission.",
"Both the French and German outbreaks have been linked to sprouted salad seeds.",
"An investigation in Bordeaux suggested the seeds concerned were supplied by a British company, but no definitive link has been established, an official with France's economy ministry said.",
"The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said on Monday the number of deaths in the outbreak centered in Germany had risen to 47, including one death in Sweden."
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"NEW: Five other countries on a \"waiting list\" to resume vegetable exports to Russia .",
"Vegetable imports from Belgium and the Netherlands will be allowed from Tuesday .",
"Russia banned fresh vegetables from the EU after a deadly E.coli outbreak centered in Germany .",
"A fresh outbreak in France has sickened several people ."
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has some apple picking to do.",
"Clinton placed a bet on the women's World Cup finals with her Japanese counterpart -- New York apples for Japanese pears.",
"The Japanese women's soccer team won the World Cup Sunday after defeating the United States on penalty kicks.",
"Clinton alluded to the bet in a phone call she placed to the U.S. team to wish them luck ahead of the game.",
"At the time, she didn't say what the bet with Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto entailed.",
"\"I am sorry I can't be there with you tonight, but I sent my very best good luck charm for one extra bit of luck: my daughter Chelsea,\" Clinton told them.",
"Her daughter Chelsea Clinton was among those who attended Sunday's game in Frankfurt, part of a delegation that included Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. vice president."
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"Clinton bets apples for pears with her Japanese counterpart .",
"She tells the U.S. team she is sending her best good luck charm: Chelsea ."
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"(CNN) -- High temperatures in America's Plains States are expected to rival those in Death Valley again Monday, according to the National Weather Service, which predicts a heat wave to roast the county's midsection for yet another day as it spreads to the east.",
"The hottest spots located in Oklahoma through South Dakota should see highs over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and top temps are forecast in the 90's for most of the rest of the county -- with the exception of some mountain and coastal regions.",
"Much of middle America baked in a heat wave Sunday, and the National Weather Service declared excessive heat warnings in at least 14 states, most of those in the upper Midwest.",
"Several daily temperature records were broken -- from Alpena, Michigan, south to Miami, Florida.",
"\"Heat index values\" -- how hot it feels outside -- have been running over 125 degrees Fahrenheit in the worst-hit areas, the National Weather Service said.",
"The scale designed to describe how intense heat feels also includes factors such as humidity.",
"\"This is the hottest it's been for the longest period of time,\" said Emily McNamara from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the temperatures were expected to hover in the mid-90s through the middle of the week.",
"Extreme heat is forecast to bear down on the eastern United States by the end of this week.",
"Jacob Beitlich, a Des Moines, Iowa-based meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said that two factors contribute to make this current heat wave especially dangerous: the lack of a significant drop in temperatures overnight to allow people's bodies to cool down and relatively high humidity, which makes it feel appreciably hotter than the thermostat may indicate.",
"In Iowa, for instance, he noted that the impact of mid-90s temperatures have been compounded by relatively high dew points in the upper 70s and low 80s.",
"These combine to make the heat index -- a meteorological measure for how it feels outside -- spike so that it feels as hot as 126 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the weather service.",
"\"That takes a toll on your body,\" Beitlich explained.",
"\"When it's more humid, it's more difficult to cool down from sweating.\"",
"Prevent heat-related illnesses .",
"The National Weather Service notes that typically extreme heat is the biggest weather-related killer in the United States, taking about 115 lives each year.",
"That's why it and other government agencies urge people to minimize their time outdoors in periods of extreme heat, drink plenty of fluids, and keep especially close tabs on the elderly and young people.",
"In Missouri scores of cooling centers have been established in libraries, senior centers, schools and other sites around the state to help deal with continuously high temperatures.",
"At Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota Twins supporters stood in long lines to get water from coolers, used spray fans, wrapped wet towels on their head during a Sunday game -- anything to keep cool.",
"\"It is blistering out,\" said one fan, Jeff Ferris.",
"\"Brutal. I've probably lost 10 pounds today -- it's crazy.\"",
"While the recent stretch has been particularly difficult, it's all part of what's been a continuously long, hot and in many cases dry summer in numerous locales.",
"The weather service indicates that Oklahoma, for instance, already has had 27 days this year in which the temperature surpassed 100 degrees.",
"Not everyone in the region sweat it out though this weekend.",
"McNamara notes that the Wild West Waterpark, where she is aquatic manager, has had \"record-breaking days in terms of attendance\" in recent days, with several thousand flooding in to get wet and beat the heat.",
"\"It's awesome,\" she said.",
"\"You see people coming out having fun.",
"It makes for a fast day.\"",
"CNN's Ted Rowlands and Jacqui Jeras contributed to this report."
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"NEW: No break from the heat Monday, says the National Weather Service .",
"The National Weather Service declared excessive heat warnings Sunday for 14 states .",
"High humidity has driven up heat indices, making it feel as hot as 126 degrees .",
"The extreme heat is forecast to move east by week's end, affecting the East Coast ."
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"(CNN) -- A Continental Airlines jetliner flew with one engine powered by a mix of oils from algae and jatropha plants Wednesday in what the plane's manufacturer called an \"outstanding\" test flight.",
"Continental Airlines is the third commercial carrier to test biofuels in their planes.",
"The Boeing 737 burned less fuel in the biofuel-powered engine than a conventionally powered engine, and the two performed identically during the one-hour, 40-minute flight, Boeing spokesman Terrance Scott said.",
"\"There was no hesitation at all,\" Scott said.",
"\"If you had to grade it on a scale of one to 10, it would be an 11.\"",
"Wednesday's test, conducted from Continental's hub in Houston, Texas, was the first by a U.S. carrier and the first to use a blend of oils from algae and the jatropha, Scott said.",
"One engine ran on a 50-50 mix of that combination with conventional jet fuel, while the other ran entirely on conventional fuel.",
"The 737 is one of the most common aircraft in service in U.S. markets.",
"A crew of two pilots and an engineer put the jet through a series of exercises, including measuring the biofuel's response to the cold of a 38,000-foot cruising altitude and stopping and restarting the engines in mid-flight, Scott said.",
"Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways flew a much larger Boeing 747 on a test flight last February using a mix of coconut and babassu oil in one of the plane's four main fuel tanks.",
"And last month, Air New Zealand tested a 747 with one of its engines powered by a blend of conventional jet fuel and jatropha oil.",
"\"What we're starting to see here is even when you combine two of them that haven't been flown before, the performance is equal to or better than traditional jet fuel with no degradation,\" Scott said.",
"He said work on the fuels has been going on for about three years, and biofuel blends could start going into service in three to five years.",
"In a statement announcing the flight, Continental said it would examine the engines to make sure the fuel had \"substantively no different\" effect on them."
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"Continental Airlines used biofuel mix in 737 jet test flight .",
"Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand have also tested biofuels in their aircraft .",
"Biofuel blends in aviation fuel could go into service in three to five years ."
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"(CNN) -- The trial is being held under strict security measures.",
"The defendant was transported to the courthouse compound in a military convoy.",
"Because he is a minor, the public is not allowed inside the courtroom in Cuernavaca, Mexico.",
"Only the judge, defense and prosecution attorneys, family members, and a human rights observer are allowed inside.",
"The defendant, known as \"El Ponchis\" (\"The Cloak\") is an American citizen who is 14 years old.",
"A video provided to CNN by the Mexican military shows the San Diego native after he was captured near Mexico City in December, as he allegedly was trying to flee.",
"In an on-camera interrogation by Mexican military authorities, the youth admitted to brutally killing people -- the victims all were beheaded.",
"The video shows a military interrogator asking the slim teenager with curly hair several questions.",
"\"How many have you killed?\"",
"he asks. \"Four,\" responds the accused, who seems calm and collected.",
"\"How did you execute them?\" \"I slit their throats.\"",
"A YouTube video that circulated last year purportedly showed the teenager beating a man with a two-by-four while the man was tied at the wrists and hanging from the ceiling, as other young people watched.",
"Juan Carlos Castro, a spokesman for the juvenile court holding the trial, says the charges against the teenager go well beyond what he admitted on video.",
"\"This teenager is accused by the state attorney's anti-drug unit of crimes related to drug trafficking -- specifically cocaine and marijuana -- illegal possession of military weapons, and violations against federal organized crime law with the objective of committing kidnappings and aggravated murder,\" Castro said.",
"Raul Diaz Garcia, the state human rights commissioner for Morelos state, where Cuernavaca is located, is attending the trial.",
"Diaz said he had an opportunity to speak with the defendant.",
"\"He seemed coherent and looks clean.",
"He spoke with us without any trouble and was smiling.",
"We told him that we were there in case he had any questions (about his rights),\" Diaz said.",
"\"El Ponchis\" is not the only minor in Mexico allegedly involved with drug cartels.",
"Social media pictures have surfaced in the last year showing teenagers and young men holding high-caliber assault weapons and wearing masks.",
"Six youths were captured in October in a town about 30 miles south of Mexico City.",
"Graffiti in the house where they were hiding linked them to the so-called South Pacific Cartel, a splinter group that formed after cartel leader and drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a shootout with the Mexican military in December of 2009.",
"Veronica Morales, the director of the Mexican Network for the Rights of Children, said that unfortunately this is not an isolated case.",
"\"According to academic studies, around 30,000 children and adolescents are currently involved or may be involved in organized crime,\" Morales says.",
"If found guilty, \"El Ponchis\" faces a sentence of three years in a correctional facility, the maximum allowed under Mexican law because of his age.",
"There will be about 60 witnesses testifying at the trial, which is expected to last about three weeks.",
"A juvenile judge will determine guilt and decide on a sentence after hearing all the testimony and arguments by the prosecution and defense.",
"There is no trial by jury in Mexico.",
"Christian Fragoso, a criminal defense attorney familiar with the case, says that even if prosecutors can prove a long criminal history, they will be restricted by current criminal juvenile law.",
"\"Only those crimes committed after reaching the age of 14 can be taken into account.",
"He cannot be found guilty or sentenced for anything he did before,\" Fragoso says.",
"\"El Ponchis\" has been held at a state correctional facility in Cuernavaca since he was captured last December.",
"CNN's Krupskaia Alis in Mexico City contributed to this report."
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"In a video, the 14-year-old defendant tells an interrogator he has killed four people .",
"\"I slit their throats,\" the American-born teenager says .",
"A children's rights activist in Mexico says as many as 30,000 youths may be in organized crime ."
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"(CNN) -- Heavy swells were expected along Mexico's Pacific coast as Hurricane Dora strengthed into a Category 2 storm Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Dora was churning in the Pacific Ocean on a path that was moving it parallel to the southwestern Mexican coast, the center said.",
"The hurricane was about 215 miles off the coast of Lazaro Cardenas, the center said.",
"It was moving at 17 mph in a west-northwest direction, which placed it on a route outlining the Mexican coast.",
"A tropical storm watch was in effect for the coastal area from Lazaro Cardenas to Cabo Corrientes, the center said.",
"The storm had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.",
"Strengthening of the storm was expected in the next 48 hours, and Dora could become a major hurricane by Wednesday night, the center said.",
"The storm was expected to produce strong winds and swells that will be felt on the Mexican coast.",
"\"These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions,\" the center said."
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"It has maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour .",
"A tropical storm warning is in effect for southwestern Mexico ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack Friday on a convoy of U.S. Consulate vehicles in northwest Pakistan, saying it was in retaliation for the killing of Osama bin Laden.",
"A car bomb targeted the vehicles in Peshawar, killing one person and wounding 11 others, police said.",
"The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks in the nation following a raid this month by U.S. commandos that left the al Qaeda leader dead.",
"In a telephone call to CNN, a Taliban spokesman said the remote-controlled car bomb attack was also retaliation over ongoing military operations targeting the militant group.",
"The car bomb, packed with 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives, detonated as the consulate cars passed by in Peshawar, said Liaqat Ali Khan, the police chief.",
"It was unclear whether the vehicles were stationary or moving at the time, he said.",
"The blast killed a motorcycle rider passing by, said Ibrar Khan, a Peshawar police official.",
"The motorcyclist was identified as a local resident, and he was not a suicide bomber, Khan said.",
"But a U.S. Embassy spokesman said it was a suicide bomber, who detonated himself next to one of the two vehicles in the convoy as it was making its way to the consulate.",
"The blast injured two U.S. government employees, said spokesman Alberto Rodriguez.",
"He said the employees suffered minor injuries.",
"Nine others, described as bystanders, were wounded in the blast, Khan said.",
"Peshawar is about 90 miles west of the capital, Islamabad.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The Taliban says the attack was an act of revenge over the killing of bin Laden .",
"NEW: The bombing kills one and wounds 11, including two U.S. employees .",
"The bombing comes less than a month after U.S. forces kill the terror leader .",
"Police say the car bomb was packed with 50 kilograms of explosives ."
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"(CNN) -- As Rupert Murdoch and his son took the hot seat Tuesday in the British Parliament, old questions about News Corp.'s business practices were getting fresh scrutiny on the other side of the Atlantic.",
"The fallout of the British phone-hacking scandal has resulted in the arrest of 10 people, including Rebekah Brooks, a former News of the World editor who resigned Friday from her post as chief executive of News International, and the resignation of Les Hinton as CEO of the Dow Jones unit, which publishes The Wall Street Journal.",
"Murdoch's company has suffered a stock plunge, is facing questions over future leadership and is under an FBI investigation.",
"Now, the business ethos of another arm of News Corp. could deepen the controversy and raise eyebrows about the media mogul's entire corporate culture.",
"News America Marketing, an in-store coupon and newspaper ad insert marketing business, has been hauled into U.S. courts several times over unsavory practices that include hacking into the computers of competitors.",
"In one of the lawsuits, New Jersey-based Floorgraphics charged that News America attacked Floorgraphics directly by breaking into a password-protected computer system to acquire sensitive proprietary information, including past and future contracts.",
"The company claimed it had lost several big-name contracts because of News America's tactics.",
"In another lawsuit, rival Valassis described a scene from the movie \"The Untouchables\" in which mobster Al Capone beats an enemy to death with a baseball bat.",
"It said Paul Carlucci, then the chief operating officer of News America, showed the scene to his employees to get his point across: that News America employees will tackle their work with \"unbridled aggression.\"",
"\"The selected scene is a perfect metaphor for the business practices both expected and in fact being employed (by News America) to illegally leverage its market dominance,\" Valassis said in its federal lawsuit.",
"In Minnesota, Insignia Systems Inc. filed an anti-trust claim seeking restitution for millions of dollars it said it lost because of the behavior of News America Marketing.",
"In these cases, Murdoch's company attempted to smooth over its problems by settling lawsuits with millions of dollars and, in the case of Floorgraphics, buying out the company.",
"The business news website Bnet described the acquisition as \"more like a face-saving gesture for News America than a real deal.\"",
"New York Times media columnist David Carr reported that News America has a history of solving its problems with large sums of money.",
"The company, wrote Carr, \"paid out about $655 million to make embarrassing charges of corporate espionage and anticompetitive behavior go away.\"",
"In making his point, Carr quoted Mark Lewis, the lawyer for the family of slain British girl Millie Dowler, whose mobile phone voice mail was hacked into by journalists.",
"\"This is not just about one individual but about the culture of an organization,\" Lewis said after Brooks' resignation.",
"A News America spokeswoman said the company had no comment.",
"The scandal potentially could be far-reaching in America.",
"Besides Dow Jones, News Corp. also is the parent company of Fox News, the New York Post, and Harper Collins publishers in the United States.",
"9/11 victims .",
"Some Americans have already reacted with outrage and shock after allegations that the phones of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks were hacked as Millie Dowler's was.",
"\"We are aware of the allegations and are looking into them,\" said a federal law enforcement source, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigation.",
"\"We'll be looking at anyone acting for or on behalf of News Corp., from the top down to janitors,\" to gather information and determine whether any laws may have been broken,\" the source said.",
"The alleged 9/11 privacy violations appear to be traceable to a story published the Mirror, a British tabloid that publishes a section it calls \"gossip gone toxic.\"",
"The newspaper cited a source who referred to a former police officer who now works as a private investigator.",
"The source said the investigator was used by journalists in America and that he was asked to hack into the 9/11 victims' private phone data.",
"\"Until we get some accountability, they're just going to keep doing it,\" said Jim Riches, a retired Fire Department of New York deputy chief who lost a son in the attacks.",
"\"It's completely unethical, unprofessional and basically criminal.",
"Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, told CNN that \"Congress has important oversight responsibilities\" in responding to the charges and \"getting to the bottom of this evolving scandal.\"",
"Reports were also circulating that actor Jude Law, already in the center of the celebrity hacking scandal in Britain, may have a case in the United States.",
"An FBI spokesperson said the agency was \"aware of the media reports\" that Law was hacked in the United States and that News Corp. had settled several lawsuits with American businesses, but said there would be no official comment \"since these matters are under review.\"",
"Anti-bribery laws .",
"News Corp. could face trouble in the United States on another front as well.",
"As the parent company of the British newspapers, News Corp. could be prosecuted for possibly breaking federal anti-bribery laws.",
"News of the World, a 168-year-old British newspaper owned by Murdoch, folded in the wake of accusations that its reporters illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of murder and terrorist victims, politicians and celebrities.",
"Police in the United Kingdom have identified almost 4,000 potential targets of phone hacking.",
"There also were allegations that reporters may have bribed law enforcement officers.",
"Potential liability flows from journalists at News of the World to its parent, News International, and to its parent, News Corp., which is a publicly held company in the United States.",
"Several U.S. lawmakers sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to look into concerns that News Corp. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, known as the FCPA.",
"The law, enacted in 1977, makes it illegal for a U.S. person or company to pay foreign officials to obtain or retain business.",
"In a statement posted on his website, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, said he wants the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission to step in: .",
"\"The limited information already reported in this case raises serious questions about the legality of the conduct of News Corporation and its subsidiaries under the FCPA.",
"Further investigation may reveal that current reports only scratch the surface of the problem at News Corporation.",
"Accordingly, I am requesting that DOJ and the SEC examine these circumstances and determine whether U.S. laws have been violated.\""
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"A News Corp. in-store ad company's practices have led to lawsuits .",
"Rivals claimed News America employed unsavory tactics .",
"Is News America isolated or is it Murdoch's corporate culture?",
"News Corp. also faces allegations of phone hacking and possible anti-bribery violations ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- If you make like a hermit crab at the shore, we've got nine spots where you'll have the sand (mostly) to yourself.",
"Now please don't blab about them.",
"1. High Bar Harbor, New Jersey .",
"Tucked behind the Barnegat Lighthouse, you'd never know that this lollipop-shaped stretch of sand is on Long Beach Island, one of the most popular Jersey shores.",
"But watch the water -- when the tide comes in, you'll likely be stranded.",
"Get There: Take Long Beach Blvd.",
"north into the town of Barnegat Light and turn left on 20th St., a.k.a.",
"Auburn Road.",
"Go a third of a mile, then bear right at the Y-shaped intersection onto Sunset Blvd.",
"Take it to the end. You'll see a footpath to the beach.",
"See Budget Travel's gallery of the beaches .",
"2. Caladesi Beach, Florida .",
"To be honest, you'll hardly be alone here.",
"Caladesi Island State Park is home to armadillos, gopher tortoises, and hundreds of species of birds nesting among the sunflower-flecked dunes.",
"On the other hand, there's not a parking space in sight.",
"Get There: The park, off the west coast, is accessible only by private boat or ferry from Honeymoon Island State Park.",
"$12 adults, $6 kids.",
"3. Ruby Beach, Washington .",
"Rugged yet serene, Ruby Beach feels almost mythical, especially at low tide and in the fog.",
"The rock outcroppings are eerie, but the tidal pools can be stunning, too.",
"Get There: There's a sign seven miles north of Kalaloch on Hwy.",
"101. From the parking lot, follow the path through the trees, down a decline, then toward the water.",
"You'll have to clamber over driftwood at the end, but it's worth the effort.",
"Budget Travel: 10 best affordable beachfront hotels .",
"4. Pfeiffer Beach, California .",
"The rock formations are gorgeous.",
"In some places, the sand is a light shade of purple.",
"Sure, it can get windy, but that's a small price to pay for paradise.",
"Get There: The turnoff is actually just past the Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park entrance, at Sycamore Canyon Rd.",
"Drive two miles to the beach, then walk 10 minutes north to Deer Canyon.",
"There's no sign, but you'll know it when you see it.",
"5. Packard Park Beach, Michigan .",
"South Haven is home to several celebrated (and crowded) spots on Lake Michigan.",
"This section is the uncelebrated but equally lovely area just north.",
"You won't find any lifeguards here, but civilization is just a short walk away (if you must).",
"Get There: From the center of South Haven take Broadway north about two blocks, then west onto Dyckman Ave. over the drawbridge to North Shore Dr.",
"Turn right and Packard Park Beach is about one block on the left.",
"6. Queen's Pond, Hawaii .",
"The mountains are to your back, the ocean is in front, and in between is sand made for napping.",
"In other words, your average, amazing Kauai beach, this one in Polihale State Park.",
"Get There: Take Hwy.",
"50 past the Pacific Missile Range Facility and look for a sign, then a dirt road to Polihale on the left.",
"Go 3.3 miles to where the road curves near a large monkeypod tree.",
"Take the left fork and park.",
"Walk north.",
"Spread your blanket.",
"Budget Travel: 8 perfect summer lake towns .",
"7. Big Bay Beach, Wisconsin .",
"We won't recommend swimming -- even on a hot day Lake Superior is cold enough to freeze your butt off.",
"But the sandstone cliffs and pristine woods enveloping this 1.5-mile pocket of beach make for a lovely hideaway.",
"Get There: Located on Madeline Island, the beach is accessible only by ferry ($12 adults, $6 kids 6-11) from Bayfield, off Hwy.",
"13. Follow the signs to Big Bay State Park.",
"8. Orient Beach, New York .",
"At the tip of Long Island's North Fork, Orient is well-known to locals but few others.",
"After just a stroll down the pebbly beach, you'll be alone with views of the Long Beach Bar Lighthouse, Shelter Island, and awesome sunsets.",
"Get There: Take the L.I.",
"Expressway to the east end, where it becomes Rte.",
"25. Follow the signs to Orient Beach State Park.",
"9. Cow Yard Landing, Massachusetts .",
"Chatham is on the elbow of Cape Cod, which means that just about every beach view is drop-dead gorgeous -- if you can see around all the people.",
"Cow Yard is one rare spot where you'll be able to ditch those crowds.",
"This is also one of the better places on the Cape to launch a kayak, if that's the kind of thing that floats your boat.",
"Get There: Take Rte.",
"28/Main St. to Old Harbor Rd.",
"Go 1.1 miles; turn right on Cow Yard Lane.",
"Get there early. Parking is limited.",
"Budget Travel: Greatest travel books of all time .",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2010 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved."
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"The best beaches in North America to soak in rays and feel the sand between your toes .",
"Cow Yard Landing in Massachusetts is a rare spot on Cape Cod where you can ditch the crowds .",
"Only Long Island locals know about Orient Beach, where you can catch gorgeous sunsets ."
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"Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan has replaced his lead defense attorney, John Galligan, it was revealed Wednesday.",
"Galligan, the former Army lawyer who has been the lead attorney for Hasan since nearly the beginning of the case, was not present at Hasan's arraignment Wednesday at Fort Hood.",
"It is unclear why Galligan was ousted.",
"The judge in the case asked Hasan if he had removed Galligan voluntarily and without outside pressure, and Hasan said, \"Yes.\"",
"The only other thing Hasan said in court was the names of his current lawyers: Col. Chris Poppe, Maj. Christopher Martin and Capt.",
"Justin Oshana.",
"Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of Muslim background, is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in November 2009.",
"Galligan had fought the Department of Defense for months to make sure his client gets a fair trial.",
"He tried to get the Army to take the possibility of a death sentence off the table.",
"But when Fort Hood Cmdr.",
"Gen. Donald Campbell ordered that Hasan face general court-martial, he also ruled that Hasan would face possible execution if found guilty.",
"Galligan issued a statement referring to his departure as a \"leave of absence,\" but giving no details of why he is leaving the defense team.",
"\"I have consistently argued that Major Hasan has not been treated fairly.",
"I maintain that belief.",
"As such, I deeply regret that my presence on the Defense Team has been interrupted.",
"However, Major Hasan fully understands that I stand ready and anxious to resume an active role.\"",
"Galligan also said he and his family have been vilified for defending Hasan.",
"In a telephone interview with CNN, Galligan maintained that he was not fired from the defense team.",
"He was only released and he may be back, he said.",
"However, Galligan would provide no reason for his removal other than to say it had nothing to do with his health or the fact that his family has been attacked.",
"Galligan went on to say there are a lot of issues: \"Stay tuned.\"",
"Other than the change of attorneys, the arraignment was formal and quick.",
"Hasan's new lead attorney Poppe said they wished to defer entering a plea or any new motions in the case.",
"Hasan did not have the option of pleading guilty.",
"When a person faces a possible death penalty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the law prohibits a guilty plea.",
"The judge set a trial date of March 5, 2012.",
"Hasan appeared in court in standard-issue Army camouflage fatigues.",
"The rest of the officers involved in the case have been ordered to wear more formal Army dress uniforms during hearings and the trial.",
"He appeared alert during the proceeding, speaking frequently to Poppe.",
"Witnesses at a preliminary hearing have identified Hasan as the man who walked calmly through a medical building on the country's largest military base, shooting and frequently reloading his handgun as he shouted \"Allah Akbar,\" which means \"God is great\" in Arabic.",
"Hasan was shot by Fort Hood police officers and has been paralyzed from the center of his chest down since the attack.",
"He now uses a wheelchair.",
"Aside from protecting Hasan's rights, Galligan has fought to get him proper medical treatment while he awaits trial.",
"For example, it took a lot of time just to get a blanket to keep Hasan warm during hearings in the well-air-conditioned courtroom.",
"When Hasan was brought into court on Wednesday, he had no blanket but was wearing an olive green stocking cap on his bald head.",
"He took it off during the hearing and put it back on just before wheeling himself out of the courtroom."
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"Suspect arraigned with new head lawyer .",
"No reason given for switch .",
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A lapse in Lindsay Lohan's health insurance -- because she's not been working in the past year -- has prevented her from paying for the psychological counseling ordered as part of her probation, her lawyer revealed in court Thursday.",
"\"Maybe she knows somebody who can help out,\" Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said, warning Lohan she had 21 days to sign up for counseling.",
"Judge Sautner ordered the actress to appear in court Thursday so she could review the actress' progress on meeting the requirements of her probation for a shoplifting conviction and two older drunk driving convictions.",
"Lohan, 25, entered a guilty plea in May to stealing a necklace from a Venice, California jewelry story.",
"While Lohan is in compliance with her community service, fines and shoplifting counseling requirements, but she has not signed up for the court-ordered psychological counseling, the judge said.",
"She could be ordered to jail unless she proves within three weeks that she has found a psychologist, Sautner said.",
"Group counseling, which probationers attend, is often free or low-cost, but Judge Sautner agreed with Lohan's lawyer, Shawn Holley, that Lohan's celebrity status makes that unworkable.",
"\"I don't want group counseling for her,\" Sautner said.",
"\"She needs one on one counseling.\"",
"Lohan scribbled a note to her lawyer during the hearing saying she believed she could raise the cash soon to enter counseling.",
"The judge chided Lohan for only completing 33 of the required 480 hours of community service so far.",
"If it's not finished within a year, she could go to jail, she said.",
"Lindsay Lohan wore these shoes to court?!",
"She must work 120 hours at the Los Angeles County morgue after she completes 360 hours at the a women's center on Los Angeles' Skid Row section.",
"\"Get done with that community service and your life can be back in order,\" Judge Sautner said.",
"Lohan's legal woes, which began four years ago with two drunk driving arrests, have been compounded over the past two years by her failure to attend counseling classes and alcohol and drug test failures.",
"The 120-day jail sentence also ordered translated into just 35 days of home confinement that ended on June 29.",
"Jail overcrowding rules and and state rules that give credit for good behavior for prisoners allowed for the shortened term.",
"Her probation is scheduled to end within a year, unless Lohan is charged with breaking any laws before then.",
"It has been extended several times because of probation violations, including failed alcohol and drug tests.",
"Lohan failed an alcohol test administered by a probation officer in June and was ordered to go before the judge for a probation violation hearing the next week.",
"But Lohan's attorney convinced the judge the testing requirement had lapsed in February.",
"Judge Saunter ruled that Lohan is now allowed to drink alcohol and she is no longer required to take random drug tests.",
"The actress has managed to avoid more than a few days in jail despite two drunken-driving convictions, a long list of probation violations and the recent theft conviction.",
"\"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,\" Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.",
"Lohan entered drug rehab last year to avoid a jail sentence imposed by another judge.",
"But Sautner made it clear in court last month that she didn't think drugs and alcohol were the root of Lohan's legal troubles.",
"\"She's got other problems for which she self-medicates,\" Sautner said at her sentencing in May.",
"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.",
"A probation report released in May 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."
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"NEW: The judge gives Lohan three weeks to start counseling or face jail .",
"NEW: Cheap group therapy won't work because Lohan's famous, the judge says .",
"The actress has a year to complete 480 hours of community service ."
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"(CNN) -- A demonstration erupted Sunday outside an Iranian detention center, where 33 members of a women's group were being held following their arrest during a peaceful protest in a Tehran park a day before, a human rights organization reported.",
"The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, citing an eyewitness account, said more than 100 police and plainclothes officers broke up a gathering of the Mourning Mothers in Laleh Park on Saturday afternoon.",
"The group, formed by women whose children have been killed in recent anti-government protests, gathers every weekend at the park to call attention to the deaths.",
"\"They would not allow anyone to even sit on the benches or congregate,\" the organization quoted the unidentified witness as saying.",
"\"After about 70 mothers entered the park, security forces engaged them and started chasing them, grabbing them, and forcing them into police vans.",
"They used a lot of violence and insults in the process.\"",
"Thirty-three women were taken to the Vozara Detention Center, said Hadi Ghaemi, director of the human rights campaign.",
"Later, nine women were taken to emergency rooms in two hospitals, but all nine were returned to the detention center late Saturday, he said Sunday.",
"Families and other group members went to the detention center Sunday to demand answers to why the women were detained.",
"Officials provided the names of those detained.",
"Those gathered outside the detention center Sunday were alarmed about the health of those inside when an ambulance entered the center, Ghaemi said.",
"The gathering turned into a protest, with people chanting, \"Free the mothers!\"",
"Security forces attacked the crowd to disperse it, Ghaemi said.",
"Two people passing by in a car who took pictures were placed in the detention center, he said.",
"With Iran's tight restrictions on international media, CNN could not independently verify the report.",
"The group's Web site had no details about the reported arrests.",
"\"No culture permits such violence to be unleashed against mothers,\" Ghaemi said in a news release posted on the campaign's Web site.",
"\"How can this government, which claims to have moral and religious authority, treat mothers who have lost their children in such a way?",
"The Iranian officials should know that the activities of Mourning Mothers will not stop until their legitimate grievances are properly addressed.\"",
"Mourning Mothers was formed after the violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrators following the disputed June 12 presidential vote, which re-elected hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi.",
"Since then, opposition activists and mothers whose children have disappeared or have been executed or detained have also joined the group.",
"Among its members is the mother of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, whose chilling death in post-election protests was caught on video and became a powerful symbol for the opposition.",
"The mothers are demanding government accountability for the deaths, disappearances and detentions of their children."
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"NEW: Security forces Sunday dispersed crowd protesting women's arrests, group says .",
"Rights group: 33 women's group members arrested Saturday by Iranian security forces .",
"Arrests made during a peaceful protest in a Tehran park on Saturday, rights group says .",
"Group formed by women whose children were killed in recent anti-government protests ."
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"(CNN) -- An Al-Jazeera cameraman was killed in an apparent ambush near Benghazi, Libya, becoming the first journalist killed in the country since the start of the civil war, the network reported Saturday.",
"Ali Hassan al Jaber was returning to Benghazi, an opposition stronghold in the east, from a nearby town where he had reported on an opposition protest when \"unknown fighters opened fire on a car he and his colleagues were traveling in,\" Al-Jazeera reported on its English-language website.",
"The cameraman and another person were wounded.",
"Al Jaber was rushed to a hospital, but did not survive, the network said.",
"\"Al-Jazeera condemns the cowardly crime, which comes as part of the Libyan regime's malicious campaign targeting Al-Jazeera and its staff,\" the network reported.",
"A civil war has broken out between forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and a tenacious opposition movement.",
"Since the start of the revolt last month, the government has kept a close eye on journalists.",
"Reporters in Tripoli have been given minders and, in some cases, prevented from covering protests.",
"The Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday it has documented more than 40 attacks on the media in Libya since February.",
"They include 25 detentions, four assaults, two attacks on news facilities, the jamming of transmissions, and the interruption of internet service, the New York-based advocacy group said.",
"Several journalists have also reported the confiscation of their equipment, it added.",
"Friday, CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson and his crew were detained in Tajura, Libya, east of Tripoli, by forces loyal to Gadhafi.",
"They were released, though their cabdriver was not.",
"\"We are free to go anywhere, any time, talk to who we want, when we want.",
"That's what Moammar Gadhafi's son told me, that's what Libya told the U.N. We already knew it was all lies -- look at any number of our colleagues arrested, detained, in some cases, beaten -- but today it came home to us personally,\" Robertson wrote.",
"Wadah Khanfar, director-general of Al-Jazeera, said the network \"will not remain silent\" and vowed to hold those responsible for al Jaber's death to account, Al-Jazeera reported.",
"Al Jaber, a Qatari national, was born in 1955 and studied cinematography in Cairo, the network said."
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"NEW: CNN's Nic Robertson and crew were detained Friday by forces loyal to Gadhafi .",
"The Al-Jazeera cameraman had reported on an opposition protest .",
"The network says it will not be silent ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- More than 100 people protesting mountain-top removal coal mining were arrested Monday outside the White House for failing to obey an order to disperse, the U.S. Park Service said.",
"All 114 people arrested at the protest against mountain-top mining were later released pending a court date, according to the park service.",
"The protesters, most from the Appalachian coal-mining states, had a permit to gather in front of the White House, but some failed to follow rules set out in the permit, according to a park service spokesman.",
"The protest capped a three-day event called \"Appalachia Rising\" in the nation's capital.",
"Residents of states in the coal mining region -- West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee -- first came together for a weekend conference called \"Voices from the Mountains.\"",
"On Monday, organizers said, hundreds of people gathered at Freedom Plaza for a rally and march to the White House, where 114 people staged a sit-in.",
"They were arrested when they refused to move.",
"\"The science is clear, mountaintop removal destroys historic mountain ranges, poisons water supplies and pollutes the air with coal and rock dust,\" said climate scientist James Hansen, who was arrested at the White House.",
"\"Mountaintop removal, providing only a small fraction of our energy, can and should be abolished.",
"The time for half measures and caving in to polluting industries must end.\"",
"\"I have talked, begged, debated, written letters to officials, published op-ed pieces in newspapers and lobbied on the state and federal level to end mountaintop removal,\" said Mickey McCoy, former mayor of Inez, Kentucky, who was also arrested.",
"\"Being arrested? That's such a small price to pay for being heard.",
"My home and people are paying the real price for mountaintop removal.",
"They are dying.\" Mountain-top mining refers to a form of coal mining most common in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States in which the peak or top of a mountain is removed.",
"The resulting degradation of the environment affects water sources such as streams, as well as animal and plant life in the area."
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"NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy wizard lives in on college classes across the country where the children's books are embraced as literary and academic texts.",
"J.K. Rowling's books are often analyzed in the context of other relevant texts.",
"Drawing on their expertise in theology, children's literature, globalization studies and even the history of witchcraft, professors have been able to use Harry Potter to attract crowds of students eager to take on a disciplined study of the books.",
"Danielle Tumminio, a Yale Divinity School graduate student and the instructor for Yale's Harry Potter course \"Christian Theology and Harry Potter,\" said her academic background in literature and theology, combined with her personal interest in the books, inspired her to design the course.",
"The course uses all seven Potter books and the students examine Christian themes such as sin, evil and resurrection.",
"Interactive: All about Harry » .",
"\"It was a struggle for me as I put the class together, because I knew if I didn't construct this really well ... that a lot of what I was doing would be missed or misconstrued.",
"I certainly didn't want to come across as someone trying to indoctrinate my students,\" Tumminio said.",
"\"I also wanted to make it clear that it was a critical endeavor, and that it wasn't ... that you'd sit around all day talking about how great Luna Lovegood was.\"",
"The class was an immediate draw for students.",
"Seventy-nine people showed up at the first session for the 18 open seats.",
"Although Yale's course is its first Harry Potter-themed offering, other universities, including Georgetown University, Liberty University, Pepperdine University, Stanford University, Lawrence University, Swarthmore and Kansas State University, also have integrated the series into their curricula.",
"Rowling's books are often analyzed in the context of other relevant texts, such as contemporary British fantasy or potential influences, including C.S.",
"Lewis and J.R.R.",
"Tolkien. Philip Nel, author of \"J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide\" and professor of children's literature at Kansas State University, started teaching the books in 2002.",
"\"Harry Potter is unfairly maligned simply because of the audience for which it is intended.",
"Children's literature is literature, and if people don't agree with that definition, it's sort of hard to have a conversation with them,\" Nel said.",
"\"They see things that ... are easily accessible as therefore not serious and therefore not worthy of serious inquiry.\"",
"John Granger, author of \"Looking for God in Harry Potter,\" argues that children's literature is the most important because it has the greatest formative impact.",
"\"If you sit down with anybody now, almost of any age, if they are literate, they know Harry Potter.",
"They know these stories,\" Granger said.",
"Among students, there is considerable diversity of opinion as to how the books ought to be read.",
"Cat Terrell, a student in Tumminio's course at Yale, said regardless of whether the books are worthy as literary texts, they have helped enhance her understanding of other academic disciplines, including theology.",
"\"If somebody says this isn't worth a Yale class, I would say if we were just reading the Harry Potter books for their literary merit ...",
"I would probably agree with them.",
"[But] the lens of the Harry Potter books actually makes theology ... easier to understand,\" she said.",
"\"It's amazing how many connections you can draw between the theology that we're reading outside of class and the Harry Potter that we've known for 10 years.\"",
"Edmund Kern, author of \"The Wisdom of Harry Potter\" and professor at Lawrence University, was originally attracted to the books based on his training as a historian of early religion, magic and witchcraft.",
"For him, the books' historical impact, rather than their literary context, makes for a more intriguing analysis.",
"\"As a kind of global cultural phenomenon, Harry Potter in a sense is unprecedented.",
"I think movies have been extremely popular around the world, I think that certain music has been extremely popular around the world, but never before has a single literary endeavor caught the attention of so many people,\" Kern said.",
"Erika Slaymaker, a student at Swarthmore where another Potter-themed class is offered, thinks the books hold the most significance as a cultural phenomenon.",
"\"I'm not completely convinced that it is such a fabulous set of deep writing that it deserves to be in the Western canon,\" Slaymaker said.",
"She said she considered taking Swarthmore's class, but ended up going for another first-year seminar called \"Women and Popular Culture.\"",
"Regardless of academic arguments, the phenomenon of Harry Potter as a whole continues to elicit awe and wonder.",
"Lisa Lowe, professor of American Studies at Yale, has read all seven books not as a scholar, but as a parent.",
"\"What [Rowling's] really done is come up with a mode of captivating a whole generation: it's a form of captive concentration that took place over a course of nearly 10 years,\" Lowe said.",
"\"As an adult, you'll be thinking, 'What would Harry have done?'\"",
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"(CNN) -- A Massachusetts woman convicted of attempted murder after failing to properly care for her cancer-stricken son was sentenced Friday to spend eight to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said.",
"Kristen LaBrie, 38, also was ordered to serve five years on probation and to complete an anger management program, said Essex County district attorney spokesman Steve O'Connell.",
"Prosecutors argued during LaBrie's trial that she intentionally withheld medications and medical treatments, such as chemotherapy, from her son, Jeremy Fraser.",
"Fraser, an autistic child who at age 6 was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was recuperating and his cancer was in remission.",
"But in 2009 he died of leukemia.",
"He was 9 years old.",
"Prosecutors argued that LaBrie's negligence was a factor that contributed to her son's death, allowing the cancer to spread after it had been beaten back into remission.",
"LaBrie had faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the crime.",
"She will be eligible for parole after eight years, O'Connell said.",
"She was sentenced to probation for convictions of child endangerment and assault and battery.",
"LaBrie's attorney said earlier that the system failed his client.",
"\"Some of the times when people have mental problems they have a hard time reaching out.",
"That's the purpose of social workers.",
"Social workers are supposed to be able to detect when people have problems.",
"The social workers on this case failed to do that.",
"Certainly the warning signs were there,\" attorney Kevin James said on HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell.\"",
"\"Why didn't the people that knew better, why didn't they come forward and help?\" he asked."
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"Prosecutors argued that LaBrie intentionally withheld medications from her son .",
"LaBrie's attorney has said that the system failed his client ."
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"Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- A radio station in Mexico has aired parts of a telephone conversation it alleges took place between a top drug lord and a federal congressman.",
"In the recording, voices the station identify as those of lawmaker Cesar Godoy and Servando Gomez -- also known as \"La Tuta,\" leader of the La Familia cartel -- express support for one another and discuss a wide range of topics including upcoming elections and a local reporter stirring up stories.",
"The tape has renewed concerns about corruption in a country struggling to subdue its powerful drug cartels.",
"More than 28,000 people have died in drug violence in Mexico since 2006, according to authorities.",
"W Radio says the conversation took place more than a year ago and was collected as part of an investigation into Godoy's suspected cartel ties.",
"The station did not disclose its source for the tape.",
"An official at the Mexican Attorney General's Office confirmed the recordings represent the real voices of Godoy and Gomez, but declined further comment.",
"\"First of all, I want you to win.",
"You have total support.",
"You will win,\" the voice identified as Gomez' says in a conversation broadcast by W Radio.",
"The two male voices are heard talking about possible informants and a journalist who is said to be causing the congressman trouble.",
"Toward the end of the recording, the voice identified as Godoy's warns his friend: \"Much care must be taken.",
"This thing is heating up.\"",
"Godoy, who represents the state of Michoacan, already faces federal charges for allegedly helping the cartel, which is active in his area.",
"He currently has immunity from arrest because of his status as a lawmaker, but he could lose that.",
"On Thursday, Godoy responded to the recordings, calling them part of a broad smear campaign.",
"Godoy, who was elected last year, failed to appear Friday at a congressional committee hearing meant to address his alleged cartel ties.",
"He sent word his mother was ill and is now expected to appear Monday.",
"Thursday, he spoke briefly to reporters.",
"He never specifically denied the voice in the recording was his.",
"Godoy accused the government of leaking the tapes to discredit him.",
"As it cannot prove its case against him in court, the government will try to win it politically, Godoy said.",
"\"It all has to do with a political persecution against me,\" he said."
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"W Radio identifies the voices in the taped conversation as those of Godoy and Gomez .",
"The station does not say how it got the recording .",
"An official at the attorney general's office says the voices in the tape are authentic .",
"Godoy, a congressman, says the recording is part of a smear campaign ."
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"(CNN) -- San Francisco police are saying a man they thought was fatally shot by officers actually killed himself.",
"Police earlier said Kenneth Harding was shot by an officer Saturday while trying to run away.",
"But on Thursday, authorities said they found evidence that proved something different.",
"\"We believe that the fatal wound on Mr. Harding was self-inflicted,\" said police Cmdr.",
"Mike Biel. Biel revealed the new theory at a news conference Thursday at the city's medical examiner's office.",
"Kenneth Harding died Saturday after a confrontation with undercover officers who were doing a fare check on passengers on the city's Muni bus transit system.",
"Police say when he was approached by the officer who wanted to see his ticket, Harding ran and police pursued him.",
"During the chase, a gunbattle started and Harding was fatally wounded, .",
"Initially, authorities believed that San Francisco police shot and killed Harding during the confrontation in the city' Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.",
"The shooting triggered angry protests by some community members who challenged the police version of what happened.",
"The medical examiner said new evidence reveals a different story.",
"\"The bullet which was recovered from his head is not consistent with the service ammunition used by the San Francisco Police Department,\" Chief Medical Examiner Amy Hart told reporters.",
"She demonstrated her point with a photo of the bullet removed from Harding's head.",
"It was a .380-caliber and San Francisco Police are armed with .40-caliber ammunition, Hart said.",
"Medical examiner's staff also found a second, unfired cartridge (.380-caliber) in Harding's right jacket pocket.",
"Harding was also wounded in the leg by a round apparently fired by pursuing officers, authorities said.",
"\"Based upon evidence known at this time including: officer and witness statements that Harding shot at the police officers, Shot Spotter data, video tape evidence that depicts a firearm at the scene that was subsequently taken and the location of gunshot residue on Harding's right hand, it appears that Mr. Harding's head wound was self-inflicted.",
"It is unknown if Harding's injury was intentional or accidental.\"",
"When the shooting occurred, a crowd had gathered challenging officers, police said in a statement released at the news conference.",
"At one point, a bystander recorded cell phone video of the situation, including a handgun that was laying on the ground near Harding.",
"The Police Department believes that the weapon used by Harding is still outstanding along with a cell phone and bullet casings removed from the scene.",
"Authorities are offering a $1,000 reward for the return of the .380-caliber firearm picked up from the scene.",
"Harding was listed as \"a person of interest\" by Seattle Police who were investigating the shooting death of a young woman in that city a few weeks ago, CNN affiliate KGO reported."
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"\"We believe that the fatal wound on Mr. Harding was self-inflicted,\" police say .",
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"(CNN) -- A heat wave blamed for as many as two dozen deaths settled over portions of the East Coast as the National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning for much of the Mid-Atlantic, saying Friday would be the hottest day in the region.",
"The highest heat index values -- how hot it feels -- could reach 115 degrees in some locations, the weather service said.",
"\"These triple-digit temperatures are forecast to remain in place across the eastern U.S. through Saturday,\" it said.",
"How hot is it where you live? Share your photos, videos and stories .",
"The weather was expected to cool slightly to the mid-90s by Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.",
"The warnings came as the heat wave set 55 record highs and tied 60 more records in portions of the Midwest and the Ohio Valley, forecasters said.",
"Millions were also being warned to avoid strenuous activity and exercise outdoors after the National Weather Service issued a number of code red air quality alerts -- meaning air pollution levels are considered unhealthy for the general population -- in a handful of cities, including Baltimore and Washington.",
"Beat-the-heat advice from a pro .",
"The heat has affected many outdoor activities, prompting one Minneapolis movie theater marquee to read, \"We have AC.",
"Who cares what's playing,\" and one Canadian couple to forgo their original plans while visiting the Twin Cities.",
"Scott Hoffort and his wife, Colleen, of Saskatchewan arrived in Minneapolis on Sunday with their camping gear, planning for a vacation spent mostly outdoors at a campground.",
"Instead they're now doing \"more touristy\" things.",
"\"We went from camping in a tent to staying in hotels so that we could get air conditioning,\" Hoffort said.",
"\"We spent a fair amount of time in the Mall of America yesterday because of the heat.\"",
"Heat hurts your insides too .",
"About 100 people, primarily teenagers, were overcome Thursday by the heat at the Vans Warped Tour in Camden, New Jersey, where more than 12,000 people gathered at the outdoor concert, authorities said.",
"\"I just, I guess got overheated and I got really dizzy,\" 17-year-old Maureen Meckly, who attended the concert, told CNN affiliate KYW.",
"\"I had to grab onto her (friends') shoulder to tell her I was passing out.\"",
"In Wildwood, New Jersey, tourists and residents beat the heat by heading to the ocean.",
"What a heatstroke feels like .",
"But for some working hot food concession stands at Morey's Piers in Wildwood there was little relief.",
"\"Sometimes it's so hot, I can't even breathe,\" Erik Perez, who works at Curley's Fries, told KYW.",
"In Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker announced that facilities were available in every ward to help keep citizens cool.",
"\"It is imperative that our residents drink plenty of fluids, stay indoors in a cool climate, and avoid strenuous activity,\" Booker said in a statement.",
"\"I urge our senior citizens and Newark residents who lack air conditioning to come to one of our cooling centers.\"",
"In New York, Con Edison called on customers to stay cool and not waste energy.",
"\"Store owners who leave doors open with the A/C running could be subject to fines from the city,\" ConEd said.",
"The first confirmed heat-related death in Kansas City was declared Thursday, but it stemmed from a death last month.",
"A 57-year-old man was found dead in his home June 5, according to Dan Ferguson, who works for Jackson County.",
"In addition to the man's death, there are 13 other possible heat-related deaths in Missouri: the youngest was a woman in her mid-30s and the oldest were two women in their mid-70s, said Jeff Hershberger, spokesman for the Kansas City Health Department.",
"It may take six weeks to several months for officials to process toxicology tests to determine whether all 13 died of heat-related causes, Hershberger said.",
"In Wisconsin, a 65-year-old man from Fountain Prairie was confirmed by health officials to have died from heat-related causes Thursday, according to CNN affiliate WKOW.",
"Columbia County Medical Examiner Angela Hinze said the man had underlying medical conditions that were made worse when he was helping a family member outside with housework.",
"In Oklahoma, four heat-related deaths have been confirmed since May, said Cherokee Ballard, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner.",
"Three of those occurred in the past 30 days, including a 3-year-old boy in a car in Norman and a 69-year-old man from Blackwell, she said.",
"An additional eight Oklahoma deaths may be related to the heat, she said, with most occurring in July.",
"CNN affiliate WPXI reported Thursday that a child accidentally locked in a hot car was rescued in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania.",
"The girl's mother locked her keys in the car and immediately called for help, the report said.",
"The girl was not hurt. The high heat is also taking its toll on animals.",
"In South Dakota, 1,500 head of livestock have been lost to the heat, Larry Olsen of the Farm Service Agency told CNN affiliate KSFY.",
"Dozens of cattle died south of Harmony, Minnesota, CNN affiliate KTTC reported.",
"And on a cattle farm just across the border in northern Iowa, an estimated 100 cattle died, the report said.",
"At the Brookfield Zoo just outside Chicago, staff kept water misters in exhibits and gave some animals huge blocks of ice filled with meat and fruit.",
"CNN's Chris Welch, Sean Morris, Jacqui Jeras, Dave Alsup, Phil Gast, Chelsea J. Carter and Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report."
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"Weather service: Triple-digit temperatures to remain across the eastern U.S.",
"Weather expected to cool off slightly beginning Sunday, forecasters say .",
"About 100 concert-goers overcome by heat at Vans Warped Tour .",
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"(CNN) -- An 11-year-old California girl snatched from the street in front of her house in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and was forced along with the children to live in backyard sheds, police said Thursday.",
"Jaycee Lee Dugard as she looked in 1991 and an age-progression image of what she might look like as an adult.",
"\"From what they have both said, he fathered both of those children with Jaycee [Dugard],\" El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar told reporters.",
"The girls, now 11 and 15, had been living with their mother, now 29, in a series of sheds behind Phillip Garrido's house in Antioch, California, until they were discovered on Wednesday, Kollar said.",
"\"None of the children had ever gone to school, they had never been to a doctor, they were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will, at the rear of the house,\" he said.",
"\"They were born there.\" In a rambling telephone interview from jail, Garrido told CNN affiliate KCRA of Sacramento he was relieved at being caught.",
"\"I feel much better now,\" he said.",
"\"This is a process that needed to take place.\"",
"Kollar said Garrido's wife, Nancy, was with her husband when Dugard was abducted from the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe.",
"Garrido was already a registered sex offender at the time.",
"Watch police talk about why they arrested Garrido » .",
"\"There was nothing then nor is there anything now to indicate that this was anything other than a stranger abduction of an 11-year-old,\" Kollar said.",
"The investigation went years without apparent progress until Tuesday, when Garrido showed up on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley with his two daughters and attempted to get permission to hand out literature and speak, Kollar said.",
"He did not know the subject of either the literature or the planned talk.",
"Police officers \"thought the interaction between the older male and the two young females was rather suspicious,\" so she confronted them and performed a background check on him, Kollar said.",
"That check revealed that Garrido was on federal parole for a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, for which he had served time in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.",
"A school spokesman identified the officers as Allison Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, and said the two became suspicious of \"subtle behavior\" Garrido exhibited.",
"They passed on the information to Garrido's parole officer, who requested that the 58-year-old man appear Wednesday at the parole office.",
"Garrido did just that, accompanied by his wife, Nancy, \"and a female named Allissa,\" Kollar said.",
"The presence of \"Allissa\" and the two children surprised the parole officer, who had never seen them during visits to Garrido's house, Kollar said.",
"\"Ultimately, Allissa was identified as Dugard,\" Kollar said.",
"DNA confirmation is being sought to confirm her identity, but Dugard revealed information during an interview that only she could have known, Kollar said.",
"\"The two minor children turned out to be children of Jaycee and the male suspect, Garrido,\" he said.",
"Scott Kernan, undersecretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told reporters that Garrido admitted to having abducted Dugard.",
"El Dorado County Sheriff's Office online records showed that Phillip and Nancy Garrido were in the county jail, held on suspicion of offenses including conspiracy to commit a crime and kidnapping with the intent to commit robbery and rape.",
"Dugard had been living behind Garrido's home since she was kidnapped, Kollar said.",
"But her presence there apparently went unnoticed by others in the residential neighborhood, where homes on one-fourth to one-half-acre lots typically sell for less than $200,000, said Kathy Russo, whose father has lived two houses away from the Garridos for 33 years.",
"\"My dad said he never saw a young woman,\" said Russo, who added that her father, 94-year-old Dante Confetti, considered Garrido to be a \"kind of strange, reclusive, kind of an angry kind of guy.\"",
"She said the one-story house's backyard was obscured by trees and ringed by a wooden fence.",
"Her family's last contact with Garrido was last fall, she said.",
"\"He was burning something in the backyard and my home health aide called the fire department,\" Russo said.",
"\"He was really pissed off,\" she said.",
"\"Came over to the house and started yelling.\"",
"Garrido told KCRA that he left documents three days ago with the FBI in San Francisco, California, that would shed light on the case.",
"\"They're going to be a part of the trial,\" he said.",
"A call from CNN to the FBI's San Francisco bureau was not immediately returned.",
"Garrido said he could not go into detail about why he chose to abduct Dugard.",
"\"I haven't talked to a lawyer yet, so I can't do that,\" he said.",
"But Garrido said he had \"completely turned my life around\" in the past several years.",
"\"You're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim,\" he said.",
"\"If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backward and in the end you're going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story.\"",
"He added, \"Wait 'til you hear the story of what took place at this house.",
"You're going to be absolutely impressed.",
"It's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning, but I turned my life completely around.\"",
"Describing the two daughters, he said, \"Those two girls slept in my arms every single night from birth; I never kissed them.\"",
"But in a later comment, he said that, from the time the youngest was born, \"everything turned around.\"",
"Asked about the fact that they had not seen doctors, he said, \"We just didn't have the finances and so forth.\"",
"Kollar said a search of Garrido's property \"revealed a hidden backyard within a backyard,\" he said.",
"It included several sheds no higher than 6 feet tall, two tents and several outbuildings \"where Jaycee and the girls spent most of their lives.\"",
"The \"secondary\" backyard was inside the first and was \"screened from view.\"",
"One of the sheds was soundproof, he said.",
"\"The way the backyard is set up you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house and never know that there was another set of living circumstances in that backyard.\"",
"At the end of the backyard is a 6-foot fence lined with shrubs, tall trees, garbage bags and a tarp, all of which obscured views of what was there, he said.",
"Extension cords provided electricity to the sheds and tents, and an outhouse and rudimentary shower \"as if you were camping\" were there, too, he said.",
"Dugard \"was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll,\" Kollar said.",
"He described her as \"relatively cooperative, relatively forthcoming\" in discussions with detectives.",
"He said Dugard was \"in relatively good condition,\" neither obviously abused nor malnourished.",
"He added, \"There are no known attempts by her to outreach to anybody.\"",
"The mother and her two daughters were staying at a motel in the area, he said.",
"\"Family reunification has begun and will be a long and ongoing process,\" he said, presumably referring to Dugard's parents.",
"Earlier Thursday, Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, told CNN that an FBI agent had called his wife, Terry, on Wednesday afternoon to tell her that Dugard had been found.",
"\"Jaycee remembers everything,\" he said.",
"\"They talked back and forth and she had the right answers to all my wife's questions.\"",
"He said, \"I'm feeling great! ...",
"It's like winning the Lotto.\"",
"He witnessed the abduction of the blond, blue-eyed girl, who was wearing a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants as she walked to her bus stop on June 10, 1991.",
"Watch the stepfather describe finding out Jaycee is alive » .",
"At the time, \"It was reported that a vehicle occupied by two individuals drove up to Jaycee Dugard and abducted her in view of her stepfather,\" the El Dorado County Sheriff's office said Thursday.",
"Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said the reappearance of Dugard is \"absolutely huge.\"",
"\"One of the things that we preach to searching families all the time ... is that even in these long-term cases there's hope,\" he said.",
"\"Even in these long-term cases ... it's important that we not let the world forget.\"",
"CNN's Taylor Gandossy, Tom Watkins and Stan Wilson contributed to this report."
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"Sex offender admitted to having abducted girl in South Lake Tahoe, police say .",
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"(CNN) -- China reassured its neighbors Sunday that it will maintain \"peace and stability\" in the turbulent South China Sea, a day after the U.S. renewed concerns over territorial disputes.",
"Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie said China was keeping its agreements to the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes.",
"However, Liang underscored the \"freedom of navigation and overflight\" in the South China Sea.",
"Chinese military has been accused of harassment in the waters recently.",
"The area rich in oil deposits is rife with territorial disputes with claims by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.",
"It's considered to be one of Asia's more dangerous potential flashpoints.",
"Liang said China is no threat to world peace, noting its military policy is purely defensive.",
"\"To judge whether a country is a threat to world peace,\" he said, \"the key is not to look at how strong its economy or military is, but the policy it pursues.\"",
"He sought to relieve concerns about China's modernization of its powerful military, saying \"no matter how developed it may be, China will never seek hegemony or military expansion.\"",
"Vietnamese defense minister, Gen. Phung Quang Thanh, reiterated calls for the conclusion of a code of conduct between the regional organization ASEAN and China to help restrain disputes in the South China Sea.",
"In his speech, Thanh recounted a May 26 incident when surveying cables of a Vietnamese oil exploration vessel were cut.",
"Vietnam has handled the incident with \"patience,\" he said, adding that they \"expect no repetition of similar incidents.\"",
"Philippine President Benigno Aquino said last month that the disputes in the South China Sea could spur a regional arms race.",
"The Philippines accused China of intimidation in disputed oil-rich Spratly islands in the South China Sea, where its oil exploration ship was confronted by Chinese ships in March.",
"The U.S has expressed concern about the potential for clashes in the region.",
"In 2010, China was angered when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for peaceful resolution of the competing claims, saying it was in the U.S. \"national interest.\"",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday warned that clashes could occur in the sea if nations do not agree on ways to deal with disputes."
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"Chinese military has been accused of harassment in the South China Sea .",
"The area rich in oil deposits is rife with territorial disputes ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A coalition operation against militants in southeastern Afghanistan has left at least 50 insurgents dead as Afghan and NATO forces swept through a \"known Haqqani network\" area.",
"The encampment was considered a staging ground for Haqqani and foreign fighters, NATO's International Security Assistance Force reported Friday.",
"The Haqqani network is an insurgent group loosely affiliated with the Taliban, and is believed to be based in Pakistan's lawless frontier territories.",
"They operate along the porous Afghan-Pakistan border regions.",
"The group has been responsible for \"several high-profile attacks against the Afghan government and its citizens,\" ISAF reported.",
"The coalition operation -- which included Afghan special forces -- engaged \"multiple groups of insurgents,\" who were armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and heavy machine guns.",
"The firefight took place against multiple insurgent groups, who were holed up in areas that included caves and fortified bunker positions, ISAF reported.",
"The operation spanned night-time hours as NATO airstrikes pummeled insurgent positions."
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"The Haqqani network is an insurgent group loosely affiliated with the Taliban .",
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"(CNN) -- Police and neighbors were searching for three young Michigan boys Saturday who have been missing since their father claimed he dropped them off with a woman before trying to kill himself a day earlier.",
"The father survived his suicide attempt and is being cared for in a mental health facility, said Morenci, Michigan, Police Chief Larry Weeks on Saturday.",
"But Michigan authorities do not know what has happened to his boys -- 5-year-old Tanner Skelton, 7-year-old Alexander William Skelton and 9-year-old Andrew Skelton -- prompting them to issue an Amber Alert on Friday.",
"Weeks said that the boys' father, John Skelton, told police that he dropped the boys off Friday morning with a woman he identified as Joann Taylor -- in part to ensure they didn't see him while and after he tried to commit suicide.",
"John Skelton told police that the woman, whom he allegedly met on the internet, was supposed to drop the boys off at their home in Morenci, a southern Michigan town of about 2,400 people about 40 miles west-northwest of Toledo, around 3 p.m. Friday.",
"But the boys never went home and, Weeks added, authorities still aren't sure if John Skelton's story -- including Joann Taylor's existence -- is true or a fabrication.",
"\"We have not been able to locate a Joann Taylor or confirm that she even exists,\" Weeks told reporters Saturday evening.",
"The last non-family member saw the boys at 5 p.m. on Thursday, according to the chief.",
"Their mother, Tanya, has been with police \"virtually the entire day\" on Saturday, answering questions and serving as what Weeks called a \"valuable resource at this time.\"",
"Weeks said Tanya Skelton had \"contact with someone alleging to be Joann,\" adding only that this communication was not necessarily by phone or in person.",
"According to the Amber Alert, Taylor may have been from Jackson or Hillsdale counties and may be driving a silver van.",
"Still, Weeks reiterated that they have yet to confirm she is real and, if so, if she is with the boys.",
"Saturday's press conference was crowded with media and residents of Morenci, many of whom have been searching for the young boys.",
"Dozens spent Saturday searching along Bean Creek, Wakefield Park and the Riverside Natural Area -- all in Morenci -- according to Toledo-based CNN affiliate WUPW.",
"\"We just hope they're somewhere safe and warm playing video games,\" volunteer Carol Garcia told WUPW.",
"But authorities thus far have offered few tips pointing community members to places where the young Skeltons might be.",
"\"We understand their drive and desire to be out there,\" said Weeks.",
"\"The fact is, I cannot tell the community there's a specific location they should be searching.\"",
"The alert notes that Tanner is 3 feet, 6 inches tall, has strawberry blond hair, has blue eyes and weighs about 40 pounds.",
"Alexander is 3 feet, 9 inches tall, has brown hair and eyes, weighs about 45 pounds and has scars on his hairline and chin.",
"The oldest brother, Andrew, is 4 feet, 1 inch tall, has brown hair and eyes and weighs roughly 57 pounds."
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"NEW: Dozens have searched for three missing boys along Michigan-Ohio border .",
"An Amber Alert is out for three boys -- ages 5, 7 and 9 -- who were last seen Friday .",
"The boy's father told police he left the boys with a woman he'd met on the internet .",
"Police still don't know if the father's story is true or whether the woman he mentions is real ."
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"HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Way back in 1888, Kodak popularized the hobby of snapshot photography with its famous slogan: \"You press the button, we do the rest.\"",
"Zink paper is is dry, waterproof, smudge-proof, tear-proof, peel-off, sticky-backed -- and recyclable.",
"Now, 120 years later, Zink says: \"Just add paper\" and do it yourself.",
"Zink is a zero-ink printing company that has updated the instant gratification that comes from developing pictures for the digital age.",
"The pleasure of snapping a picture and admiring the print hasn't changed, but the technology has, plus there is a new eco-friendly element.",
"Zink paper is an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta and cyan dye crystals that change color when heated.",
"For a 2\"x3\" print, a Zink-enabled printer uses 200 million heat pulses to activate and colorize 100 billion crystals, in 30 seconds, in a single pass.",
"The final result is a photographically correct print that is not only completely dry, but also waterproof, smudge-proof, tear-proof, peel-off and sticky-backed -- not to mention recyclable.",
"If Zink's thermal printing process sounds familiar, it differs from D2T2 (dye diffusion thermal transfer), or dye sublimation technology, used by other companies such as Kodak, Canon or Sony, in one crucial aspect -- Zink involves zero ink.",
"\"The source of heat conveyed to the printer head is similar,\" says Steve Herchen, one of Zink's original inventors and present chief technology officer.",
"\"The advantage with Zink is that there is no need for an ink ribbon.",
"The heat is applied directly to the paper.",
"There are no gears, no motors, no mechanism is required to manage the ink ribbon.",
"All the information is in the paper.\"",
"Inkless footprint .",
"So not only is Zink compact, it's ecological.",
"Because there is no ink, there are no empty ink-ribbon cartridges and no extra packaging to dispose of.",
"\"The paper is the print,\" concludes Herchen.",
"\"Printers can be the smallest footprint of any printing technology.\"",
"As the company's first consumer application to hit the market, the Zink-enabled Polaroid Instant Mobile Printer is only slightly bigger than an iPhone, weighs 230 grams, uses a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and connects to a mobile phone via wireless Bluetooth or to a digital camera through a USB cable.",
"The pocket printer will be available later this summer in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia, and will sell for about $150, while Zink paper will be sold in packs of 10 or 30, at 33-40 cents per sheet.",
"With sales of camera phones and digital cameras growing exponentially, one can easily speculate about hundreds of billions of digital photos being snapped and \"trapped\" on memory cards and hard drives around the world.",
"But hold on a nanosec -- Why print to paper at all when we inhabit the global digisphere?",
"You know you want to . \"Our research shows that in this digital age, more than ever, people still have a deep-rooted need to see, feel, mark, share or use their digital images or information in a physical form,\" remarks Scott Wicker, Zink's chief marketing officer.",
"\"We know there's a pent-up need to print,\" confides Herchen, a 30-year Polaroid veteran.",
"\"Even though not everyone wants to print every image, there is still a real customer need to be able to print on-the-go, whenever you want, wirelessly, from portable devices.\"",
"So far, Zink has partnered with Polaroid and manufacturer Alps Electric to produce the Instant Mobile Printer, and with toy-maker TakaraTomy and manufacturer Foxconn for an upcoming product.",
"In addition, Zink has produced its own not-yet-released 6-megapixel digital camera-printer.",
"If the combo-device doesn't appeal immediately to all die-hard digerati, it might be more likely to win over Polaroid Instamatic nostalgics, or anyone keen on wallet-sized snaps and Japanese-style \"purikura\" photo-sticker booths.",
"Commemorating those Kodak moments .",
"Twenty-five-year-old student Caroline enjoys printing out those special shots for her scrapbook or making collages for friends, and she is happy to pick them up from the self-service kiosk after a short wait.",
"\"I like to physically hold the prints and look at them in my hands,\" she says.",
"\"You appreciate a photo more when it's not on the computer.",
"It's one that you've taken the trouble to print, maybe even frame, so you pay more attention.\"",
"If one person's print is that same person's carbon footprint, most people seem to agree that printing remains an inalienable delight.",
"Andy, of the Photo 2000 express kiosk in Hong Kong, confirms: \"About half of the people out there prefer to view their pictures printed, rather than on a computer.",
"But all people like to see real photos.",
"All our customers print photos for friends and family, never for business...",
"If they don't want to print, then we close.\"",
"Whether instant or not, at least now zero-ink provides us with an environment-friendly alternative to satisfy our pent-up printing desires."
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"Because it uses no ink-ribbon cartridge, it is ultra-compact and ecological .",
"More than ever in the digital age, people feel compelled to print their photos ."
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"(CNN) -- So, what exactly is news in a virtual world?",
"CNN has opened an I-Report hub in the virtual world of Second Life.",
"CNN aims to find out by opening an I-Report hub in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world created entirely by its residents.",
"There, CNN will look to those most familiar with the virtual world -- the Second Life residents themselves -- to determine what constitutes news \"in-world.\"",
"Developer Linden Labs opened Second Life to the public in 2003.",
"According to its Web site, Second Life is inhabited by millions of \"residents\" from around the globe.",
"However, traffic at any given time hovers around 40,000 users.",
"See the many views of Second Life. ...",
"Just as CNN asks its real-life audience to submit I-Reports -- user-generated content submitted from cell phones, computers, cameras and other equipment for broadcast and online reports -- the network is encouraging residents of Second Life to share their own \"SL I-Reports\" about events occurring within the virtual world.",
"\"The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in Second Life is to learn about virtual worlds and understand what news is most interesting and valuable to their residents,\" said Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services.",
"Watch CNN's welcome video from Second Life » .",
"When Second Life residents observe an in-world event they deem newsworthy, they can take snapshots, shoot video, or write a report about the event and submit to CNN.",
"Submissions selected by CNN I-Report producers will go back into Second Life for residents to view throughout the virtual world.",
"SL I-Reports may also be viewed and discussed in the real world at CNN.com's SL I-Report Blog.",
"CNN's in-world I-Report hub includes a news desk where CNN producers will hold weekly editorial discussions, and an amphitheater for larger in-world events, such as training sessions and appearances by CNN anchors and correspondents.",
"CNN's first in-world training session will be held Tuesday, November 13, at 5 p.m.",
"ET at the I-Report Hub.",
"At the I-Report hub, residents can also meet other resident reporters, as well as access I-Report kiosks, free-standing terminals where residents can pick up free gear and tools for gathering and viewing in-world user-generated content.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Second Life is a 3-D digital world developed by Linden Labs .",
"Users create \"avatars,\" characters with features that can be customized .",
"I-Report: Share your Second Life I-Reports with CNN ."
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"(CNN) -- Carefully constructed looks that borrow from another time are all the rage on the streets of St. Paul and Minneapolis.",
"But with vintage and thrift clothing stores popping up on every corner, the vintage look of the Twin Cities almost can't be helped.",
"Since 2006, Minneapoline blogger Ellen Lawson has been documenting the evolving street style in her hometown.",
"She has watched the neighboring cities shed a DIY-esque style and celebrate the rise of local designers.",
"After moving back to Minneapolis once she finished college in Iowa, Lawson found her style evolving as well.",
"\"The blog was really bare bones at first,\" Lawson said.",
"\"I had a point-and-shoot camera, and took photos of everything.",
"I think I'm a little more edited now.",
"I have a grasp of my own personal style.",
"Dressing up in Dallas .",
"\"There's a difference between 25 and 31, as well,\" Lawson said with a laugh, referring to her age.",
"The individualism in the Twin Cities challenges Lawson to capture as much of it as she can.",
"Feminine lace and crochet meet up with menswear and masculine footwear to create a mash-up of different styles.",
"\"We are a really interesting, creative city,\" Lawson said.",
"\"I don't think a lot of people know that.\"",
"Below, Lawson describes the basis for Twin Cities style.",
"CNN: What was the 2006 fashion scene in Minneapolis like when you started the blog?",
"Lawson: I had noticed around that time the local fashion scene was picking up -- a lot of local designers and more fashion shows popping up.",
"People thought more about what they were wearing.",
"They were evolving from a DIY aesthetic to more of a regular fashion aesthetic.",
"Colorful layers of style on Chicago's streets .",
"We kept that grassroots feeling at the base of how we evolved, but now it's kind of a hodge-podge.",
"CNN: How would you compare the style now?",
"Lawson: I think people are really budget-conscious here, so thrifting is big.",
"There are so many styles, but it's largely 'budget-friendly creative'.",
"We're just getting to be more open to paying high-fashion prices, but it's a little hard for a lot of people here to get their minds around it.",
"But they're creative, and always carry a retro element.",
"We do have a big hipster contingent in the city, so that affects the style.",
"The high-waist/accentuated waist has been very popular and it goes back to the retro feel of Minneapolis.",
"When you have a lot of people thrifting, you're going to end up having clothes from another time.",
"CNN: Is the local designer scene still alive and well?",
"Lawson: I just found out one of our local designers is going to be on Project Runway.",
"We've had five people from the city in Project Runway.",
"We also have a big fashion show each spring called Voltage.",
"It's a runway show mixed with a rock concert.",
"And then we have MNFashion, a collective support group for local designers.",
"I know they want to start sewing cooperatives, where designers help each other sew their collections.",
"There is a huge support network for local designers here.",
"Get smart: Portland street style .",
"CNN: Who are some of the favorite local designers and where do the style-inclined shop?",
"Lawson: Raul Osorio, Danielle Everine, Maritza Ramirez, Emma Berg are a handful of designers.",
"You can find some of their designs at Design Collective.",
"As far as thrift stores, Rewind, Blacklist Vintage and Via's Vintage are all popular.",
"There's so many. They kind of pop up all over. All of the sudden, you're going down the street and then there's another vintage store.",
"CNN: What are you looking for when you scout street style?",
"Lawson: Someone catches my eye first.",
"I get a better overall, thoughtful look at them and decide if it hits me more in my brain and not just my eye, then I approach them.",
"My personal style tends towards kind of boyish, almost menswear-inspired.",
"That always catches my eye, but also outfits where a lot of pieces come together.",
"But at the same time, I'm developing an appreciation for seeing the beauty in one simple dress.",
"Fashion from Tokyo to Toronto ."
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"(CNN) -- In an exclusive interview with CNN's Matthew Chance, Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit has said the beleaguered bank, which has received $45 billion in bailout money from the U.S. government, is on its way to financial recovery.",
"Pandit: \"We've made a lot of progress in a very short period of time.\"",
"MC: Vikrim Pandit, you've been named as one of the worst CEOs in America.",
"There are calls for your resignation from Citi Group.",
"Have you considered stepping down?",
"VP: I have a job to do and I haven't finished it.",
"I'm going to keep doing the job.",
"You know, we've gone through enormous change at Citi.",
"The management team was brought in during the crisis to clean up what happened with the crisis.",
"And, the leadership team, our people have done a wonderful job, we've made a lot of progress in a very short period of time.",
"We have restored financial strength, we have restructured Citi, there's still more work to do but we have a clear strategy, and a clear focus on the future.",
"I keep going back to how much we've accomplished in a very short period of time but really, all the credit goes to our people.",
"MC: But there have been such massive investor losses at Citi bank, losses which you did not anticipate.",
"Shouldn't you be held ultimately accountable for that?",
"VP: I came into the job and from day one I've held myself accountable for restoring Citi to its right place.",
"I've held myself accountable for getting Citi through this economy, through the crisis that we're in.",
"Unfortunately, a lot of us inherited a lot of things.",
"The new management team...came in with a lot of assets particularly focused on the U.S. consumer.",
"And these are losses that we've had to take but we've also made a lot of progress.",
"We've cut our cost structure by twenty-five percent, we've reduced our balance sheet also by about twenty-five percent.",
"Our riskiest assets have been sold for a lot more than that.",
"We've sold businesses, refocused the company and in the first quarter we did show a modest profit.",
"MC: But there's already word that federal authorities in the United States are putting out their feelers, looking for possible successors to your position.",
"Do you believe that you still have the full confidence of the U.S. government, which after all, is now a major shareholder in Citi Group?",
"VP: You know speculation is only natural when we've had the kind of losses that you've talked about and until we've had sustainable profitability, that doesn't make it right.",
"The most important part is that this management team and leadership team was brought in to address the issues at Citi and our people have done a wonderful job.",
"What really counts is the confidence our people, our clients and our regulators around the world, including our primary regulators, have in the leadership of the company...and the strategy that's being laid out in order to restore Citi to its pre-eminence.",
"MC: Let's talk a little about that strategy and for instance, the money for the past year or so that Citi Group has taken -- billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars in tax payer's money as a bail out.",
"When will that money be given back?",
"Can it ever be repaid?",
"VP: The government invested $45 billion in Citi.",
"It has invested that amount in at least one other bank, it's invested a lot of money into a lot of banks.",
"All due to what happened in the financial markets, post-Lehman brothers disappearing, and the lack of confidence that created.",
"We, and I'm sure others are, thankful for the help we received and our goal is very clear, our goal is to repay every dollar as fast as we can with a great rate of return.",
"MC: What about the fact the government holds such a high percentage of stock?",
"Do you see that as a long term situation or do you think that sometime in the future, very near, when the government will cease to become the major shareholder?",
"VP: A lot of extraordinary things have happened in this extraordinary market.",
"Nobody, nobody believes that we've gone through something that is normal, by any means.",
"The government ownership stake is a result of our converting preferred stock, investment of the government and the common stock.",
"The goal is very straightforward, the goal is to manage the company, to sustain profitability, create a rate of return, so that we can repay the government with a great rate of return and thank the taxpayer for the support that we receive.",
"MC: As a result of this crisis there have been calls for greater regulation in the financial services industry.",
"Do you think it is now inevitable?",
"VP: There is no question this has been an issue for governments through this entire crisis.",
"And it is about the fact there was a large shadow banking system in the U.S. that was mostly not regulated, as an example, although that's not the only example.",
"I do think for capital markets to work well we need good governance and good governance is not always about good regulation.",
"Good governance goes up and down every organization.",
"It's really about how countries come together to work together, so actually I'm looking forward to an environment where the governance structure is stronger than the ones we've gone through.",
"MC: Is there a fundamental problem with the ethics in this business?",
"Has the pursuit of profit gone too far?",
"VP: It's all back to governance isn't it?",
"And standards are part of governance as well and so when you think about the overall aspects of the government structure for the future, the market architecture for the national system for the future, you've got to keep coming back.",
"You have to take a look at all of it. You have to look at it right from the fact that certain central banks didn't think financial stability was part of its mandate all the way through.",
"What are the right incentives?",
"And how do you think about compensating people?",
"We have to look at all of that -- and we are. I must say that we've weathered the debate that we've seen.",
"We are getting at the answers, but most importantly we are making sure that all the right questions are getting asked.",
"MC: So what specific measures would you suggest to try and fix some of these problems that have occurred in the financial industry?",
"VP: There are a lot of suggestions that have already been made.",
"As a matter of fact we were the ones talking about how transparency is important.",
"You have to attack market structure correctly, clearing houses, exchanges, have to have level playing fields on capital, accounting around the world.",
"It's important to understand that I'm happy to have my 136 regulators around the world but we also need one overarching regulator, a systemic regulator that can actually help us and help the system aggregate what's going on.",
"There are suggestions that are not original necessarily.",
"We may have been one of the first ones to talk about them but those are generally the sort of answers people are looking at and more importantly I think we need to debate this a little more.",
"MC: When will this crisis be over? Do you see any signs, at this point, of a recovery?",
"VP: What you have to understand is that, this is a significant shock to the world economy.",
"Just think about it, when you look at the last 5, 10 years there were two engines of growth.",
"There was the U.S. consumer and credit creation.",
"None of those are likely to be the engines of growth going forward.",
"The world's looking for a new business model.",
"It's about new engines of growth and it's not only about creating stability and saying that we're out of the crisis mode.",
"But we all have work to do as we search for what the new business model is for the world.",
"I am optimistic about the signs that we're seeing, suggesting that stability is arriving.",
"We still have more to look at, to see that it's here for sure, but I'm optimistic that we might start seeing stability in the financial markets, which I think is good, but that's stage one.",
"Stage two is about what kind of world we want to have going forward, what's the new business model?",
"And that's what we're really focused on at Citi.",
"We are a global bank, and by the way, we have a very significant merging business heritage.",
"Two things I'm sure of: the merging markets growth and globalization of trade and finance.",
"We're squarely positioned against both of those.",
"We've taken the harder steps...a lot of the world needs to do the same."
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"Citibank CEO Pandit: \"We have made a lot of progress in a short period of time\"\nPandit says bank has a \"clear strategy\" and is focused on future .",
"Citibank committed to paying back $45B government bailout, Pandit says ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Thousands of bottles of alcohol were destroyed in Kabul this week, in what authorities described as the product of a crackdown on illegal smuggling and sales.",
"The bottles were confiscated over a two-year period in and around the Afghan capital, according to Kabul police and criminal investigations chief Mohammad Zahir.",
"They were taken almost exclusively from \"Afghan sources and not foreigners,\" he said.",
"The illicit items were being stored by Afghan customs officials, who burned the bottles Wednesday after receiving authorization from the city's attorney general's office, he added.",
"Alcohol is largely banned in Afghanistan, and its sales and consumption considered a criminal offense for the country's .",
"Muslims, who constitute roughly 99% of the population.",
"Certain areas that cater to foreigners, however, are permitted to sell it.",
"Zahir said that it was in these areas -- mostly international hotels -- that local sellers had come into possession of the alcohol.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati contributed to this report ."
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"Official: Bottles are almost exclusively from \"Afghan sources\" and not foreigners .",
"Alcohol is largely banned in Afghanistan .",
"Certain areas, however, that cater to foreigners are permitted to sell it ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Police arrested more than a hundred protesters during an anti-war demonstration outside the White House fence Thursday.",
"The event was part of a rally that also was in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website has revealed secret U.S. documents about Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.",
"\"This lynch mob mentality is America at its lowest,\" said Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who, a generation ago, leaked the \"Pentagon Papers\" to The New York Times.",
"Ellsberg, now 79, told reporters this would be his 80th arrest for civil disobedience in the time since his revelations helped shed light on how badly the war in Vietnam was going for the United States.",
"After a noisy but peaceful demonstration involving a few hundred people, police ordered the group to disperse.",
"Those who refused were then placed in plastic handcuffs, led to a processing tent during a snow shower, photographed and placed on a bus for transport.",
"Ellsberg was among them.",
"Police continued to clear the demonstrators nearly two hours later.",
"U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt.",
"David Schlosser later told CNN a total of 131 people were arrested and charged with failure to comply with a police order.",
"Most, if not all, were expected to admit guilt, pay a $100 fine and be released.",
"Before the protest began in nearby Lafayette Park, Ellsberg held a news conference with an Australian group that had placed a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for fair treatment of Assange as he fights potential legal action as publisher of secret materials his website received.",
"Assange is Australian.",
"The activist group GetUp said nearly 95,000 of his countrymen have signed a statement of support for him and for the concepts of free speech and presumption of innocence.",
"Ellsberg said there are parallels in the WikiLeaks case with what he went though in 1971 when he supplied The New York Times with details of a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. decision-making during the Vietnam War.",
"He said of the latest leaks, \"I regard it as a very admirable act,\" and added he believes the person who supplied the information to WikiLeaks acted out of the same obligation \"to inform the American people.\"",
"And where the Nixon administration had The New York Times as a clear target for the Pentagon Papers, he said the \"effort now is to distinguish WikiLeaks from the establishment press in order to prosecute.\"",
"He called that effort \"a fool's mission,\" since Assange is a digital publisher.",
"The right of The New York Times to publish the Pentagon Papers was eventually upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"\"When I revealed the Pentagon Papers, I thought at most there was a very small chance that it might have an effect on the war, just as sure Bradley Manning didn't have any guarantee what he's doing would have any effect, but he was ready to go to prison for life to have some small chance of doing it,\" Ellsberg said.",
"Manning, a U.S. Army private first class, is a suspect in the WikiLeaks disclosures.",
"He is awaiting trial in a Virginia stockade in connection with earlier WikiLeaks revelations he is accused of involvement with.",
"He has not admitted guilt in either incident, his supporters say."
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"The anti-war protest also was a rally in support of WikiLeaks .",
"Daniel Ellsberg, of \"Pentagon Papers\" fame, was among those arrested .",
"Ellsberg says he regards the latest leaks \"as a very admirable act\""
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"Paris (CNN) -- Reaction to the arrest of International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranged from concern to outrage to sadness Tuesday in France, where one politician said he was the victim of a \"lynching\" and others cautioned against what they see as a rush to judgment.",
"Underscoring the cultural differences between France and the United States, many French recoiled from images of Strauss-Kahn, who is charged in the alleged sexual assault of a New York hotel housekeeper, in handcuffs and in court -- photographs that would be prohibited under French law to protect the presumption of innocence.",
"Some French speculated about whether he was the target of a political setup, while others questioned what they see as a rush to judgment by U.S. authorities and the American media.",
"\"There's a general feeling of a media, a judicial fury -- of a lynching,\" Jack Lang, France's former minister of culture and education and a Socialist Party lawmaker, told Europe 1 radio.",
"Lang called the American justice system \"inhumane.\"",
"\"For 48 hours now, only the side of the accusation has been heard ... and the versions given by police have been contradictory,\" he said.",
"\"The refusal to allow him out on bail, when no violent crime has been committed -- even in America suspects are usually let go on bail if a violent crime has not been committed.\"",
"Strauss-Kahn's defense attorneys have insisted he is innocent.",
"Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman on Monday called the case \"very defensible.\"",
"\"The forensic evidence, we believe, will not be consistent with a forcible account, and we believe there is a very, very defensible case, and he should be entitled to bail,\" Brafman said during the hearing Monday.",
"A judge disagreed Monday, decreeing Strauss-Kahn a flight risk and denying him bail.",
"He is currently housed in New York's Rikers Island jail complex.",
"Strauss-Kahn's arraignment was televised and clips played on various networks.",
"\"Perp walks,\" in which defendants -- accompanied by police -- walk in front of photographers handcuffed are standard fare in America.",
"\"That is not the case in France,\" where cameras are not allowed in courtrooms, the head of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, told reporters Tuesday in Paris.",
"A 2000 law prohibits the publication of photos of a defendant in handcuffs or in court.",
"Aubry said many of her colleagues were \"shocked\" at what they saw.",
"\"Since yesterday we've been overwhelmed by the images and also by the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn,\" she said.",
"\"So we are here to say what we have always done unanimously for the last three days, to remind everyone first of all of the presumption of innocence.\"",
"She took no questions from reporters.",
"\"I think that for Americans it's the normal procedure, so there's nothing shocking about these pictures, but in France it's true that these pictures are very shocking for us, because in France we don't have the right to show images of a man who is charged but not yet convicted,\" French resident Veritas Galabova, who works in finance, told CNN on Tuesday. ...",
"It's two cultural points which are different.\"",
"Benoit Hamon, spokesman for the Socialist Party, said, \"It's very bizarre, strange for us to see one of our leaders between two American cops, like in a movie.\"",
"Some French also said they believe investigators moved too quickly to arrest Strauss-Kahn, who was pulled off a plane to Paris in police custody hours after the alleged incident took place in a $3,000-a-night suite at New York's Sofitel hotel.",
"\"There is a real feeling that there's a rush to justice here,\" said Nathan King, a correspondent for France 24 television network.",
"However, Linda Fairstein, former head of the Manhattan district attorney's sex crimes unit, defended the investigators, saying if the special victims unit \"had probable cause ... they did the only thing that they could do, which was to stop this man before he left the country.\"",
"Strauss-Kahn was widely considered a leading contender to be put forth as the Socialist Party's presidential candidate and face President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's election.",
"\"If you are pro-Sarkozy, you are happy,\" French teacher Paul Verite said Tuesday.",
"\"If you're not pro-Sarkozy, you have many worries, because it was clear that he was the one with the most chance of beating Sarkozy.\"",
"Verite said he believes the timing is suspect.",
"\"It makes more sense that it was a setup than that he's really guilty,\" he said.",
"\"It could happen, but it's quite strange for something like this to happen a year before the presidential election.\"",
"Explaining the impact of the news in France, King said, \"If John Edwards had won the nomination for the Democratic Party to run for president and then find out everything we know now and add a criminal element to it -- you get how big that is.\"",
"Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, admitted in January 2010 that he had fathered a child with his mistress.",
"Many French also said they feel Strauss-Kahn hasn't been given a chance to present his side of the story adequately, King said.",
"\"We have a tradition in France ... not to judge one way or the other until the real facts have been clearly established,\" Galabova said.",
"\"For the moment, we have only heard the side of the accusation, and I'm not saying that's not true, but simply that we haven't heard the opposing side and the defense's side, so I think we really have to wait for the real facts to understand what happened.\"",
"The Socialist Party's Aubry told reporters, \"So far, we have only heard accusations from the prosecutor.",
"That is the law. They are following it. There you go. It's not our (system). And we are waiting for that other voice, the one of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his lawyers, which we will hear in the days to come.\"",
"The Socialist Party, meanwhile, insisted Tuesday it will not be deterred from its efforts to win back the presidency in 2012.",
"Presidential primaries will be held on schedule, said Hamon, the party spokesman.",
"France typically has a laissez-faire attitude toward extramarital affairs, even if they result in children.",
"News like that involving Edwards or former California Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger, who acknowledged Tuesday he fathered a child a decade ago outside of his marriage, doesn't cause much of a stir.",
"When the scandal involving President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky broke during the 1990s, many French said it proved Clinton was strong and could lead the country, King said.",
"The late French President Francois Mitterrand fathered a child during a long-term affair.",
"When asked about it by reporters, King said Tuesday, that Mitterrand responded, \"Yes, of course, but it's my private life.\"",
"\"The cultural difference is fascinating,\" King noted.",
"However, criminal charges in the Strauss-Kahn case may decrease the French tolerance, King said.",
"\"I think the French press knows the difference here,\" he said.",
"\"They've long put up with affairs and not reported them ... but this is criminal.\"",
"In addition, sympathy for Strauss-Kahn may be eroded, King said, by allegations from French politician Anne Mansouret, who said following Strauss-Kahn's arrest that he attacked her daughter, French journalist Tristane Banon, in 2002.",
"Mansouret said she cautioned her daughter not to report the alleged incident to police out of concern it might adversely affect her career, as Banon was just starting out in journalism.",
"Banon's attorney told CNN Monday they are considering filing a police complaint in light of the charges against Strauss-Kahn.",
"Strauss-Kahn's attorneys have not responded to CNN requests for comment on the 2002 allegations.",
"In arguing against allowing the IMF chief to go free on bond Monday, prosecutors said during his arraignment they believe Strauss-Kahn has engaged in \"similar acts\" at least once before.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson, Saskya Vandoorne, Alanne Orjoux and Catherine Clifford contributed to this report."
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"Many French find pictures of a handcuffed Dominique Strauss-Kahn disturbing .",
"One French politician compares the case to a \"lynching\"\nSome French says Strauss-Kahn should be able to present his defense sooner .",
"The Socialist Party pledges to forge ahead with presidential primaries for 2012 ."
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"(CNN) -- Two Gulf States are putting more than pride on the line.",
"There's also dessert and a condiment.",
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry has wagered a case of barbecue sauce.",
"Florida Gov.",
"Rick Scott is putting up a key lime pie.",
"Each is betting that their home team will win the best-of-seven NBA Finals, whose opener Tuesday night pits the Dallas Mavericks against the Miami Heat.",
"The series is a rematch of the 2006 NBA finals, which the Heat won in six games.",
"\"LeBron (James) may have taken his talents to South Beach, but there's no way he'll be taking the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy there this season,\" Perry of Texas said in a statement.",
"\"The Mavericks' combination of teamwork and experience will overwhelm Miami's raw star power, and at the end of the series, folks in Texas will be celebrating yet another NBA championship here in the Lone Star State.\"",
"Texas' two other NBA franchises, the San Antonio Spurs and the Houston Rockets, have won a combined six NBA titles.",
"The Florida governor says his team has the hotter hand.",
"\"It might be warm in Texas, but there is no way the Dallas Mavericks will be able to withstand the Heat,\" Scott said.",
"\"Not even Dirk Nowitzki will be able to stop Miami from bringing home another NBA title.\"",
"No word yet on which state can serve up the best main course."
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"Tuesday night is the opener of the NBA Finals .",
"The Dallas Mavericks will play the Miami Heat in a rematch of the 2006 finals .",
"The governors of Texas and Florida are wagering their states' best comestibles ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Los Angeles authorities said Friday that they had arrested three people for an attack this spring outside Dodgers Stadium, adding that the man they'd arrested exactly two months ago and described as the \"primary aggressor\" was not responsible.",
"Louie Sanchez, 29, and Marvin Norwood, 30, have been charged with mayhem and assault -- both felonies -- related to the March 31 beating of Bryan Stow, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.",
"Sanchez is also charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery stemming from another incident on the same day.",
"Both men, who are from Rialto, are being held on $500,000 bail.",
"They are expected to appear Monday for their arraignment in Los Angeles Superior Court.",
"A woman was also taken into custody with the men, though she has not yet been charged.",
"Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters Friday that charges against the woman -- whom he called 31-year-old Dorene Sanchez -- are pending.",
"Bryan Stow, the man they allegedly attacked, meanwhile remains hospitalized in a San Francisco hospital, recovering from extensive brain and other trauma.",
"Police said the 42-year-old paramedic from Santa Cruz, a Giants fan, was attacked by two men in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium after the opening game of the Dodgers and Giants seasons.",
"Unprovoked, the men began to kick and punch Stow, yelling profanities about the Giants, before heading off in a car driven by a woman, police said.",
"Stow's mother, Ann Stow, said that her son was first hit from behind, at which point he fell and his head hit the concrete.",
"\"It was just a brutal attack,\" she said.",
"\"Whatever that guy hit my son with, Bryan was unconscious before he hit the ground, so he had no way to protect his head.\"",
"Stow was placed in a medically induced coma following the incident.",
"He underwent emergency surgery Monday morning at San Francisco General Hospital, precipitated by \"massive amounts of fluid building up that caused a 30-second seizure,\" his family said on their website.",
"By Friday, though, the family said that Stow's condition had improved and he appeared \"very alert\" -- able to open and close his eyes on command, move his right hand and mouth his last name to medical staff.",
"He struggles to recover as investigators continued to wrestle with a case that's drawn intense public attention.",
"Beck said that police had interviewed more than 600 people and devoted thousands of hours trying to crack the case.",
"They thought they'd gotten their break May 22.",
"Los Angeles authorities announced then that they had arrested Giovanni Ramirez, 31, because they believed he was the \"primary aggressor\" in the attack.",
"Ramirez, a documented gang member associated with the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang in East Los Angeles, was then ordered jailed on $1 million bail.",
"On June 20, he was ordered to serve 10 months -- a term that cannot be reduced -- for violating parole related to a 2005 conviction for possession of a firearm, California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a press release.",
"He previously had been convicted in 1998 for robbery, court records show.",
"But a second charge related to Stow's assault was dropped \"without prejudice\" on that same date \"due to the lack of the evidence presented on that charge,\" the corrections department statement said.",
"Beck said Friday that Ramirez was exonerated as a result of the continuing investigation, adding that police met a \"burden of proof\" required to arrest him, but not to proceed with a criminal case.",
"He conceded that the backtracking may not help police credibility, but said it is \"just as important that we find out the innocent that we find the guilty.\"",
"\"What this investigation speaks to is that we do the right thing, even when it's the hard thing,\" Beck said.",
"\"This is about the character of the police department ... even when it reflects badly on us.\""
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"NEW: The man initially arrested for the beating has been exonerated, but remains in jail .",
"Two men have been arrested on mayhem and assault in the beating of Bryan Stow .",
"A woman is also in custody and charges against her are pending, the police chief says .",
"Stow is in a San Francisco hospital, recovering from extensive trauma from the attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Champions League winners Barcelona have signed Chilean star Alexis Sanchez from Serie A Udinese on a five-year deal.",
"Barcelona confirmed Thursday on their website that they had been successful in their pursuit of the 22-year-old, who had been linked to a number of other top European clubs.",
"Sanchez has cost the Spanish champions €26 million ($38.2m) but could pay an additional €11.5 ($16.5m) depending on appearances.",
"He will be the first Chilean to play for the Catalan giants and gave clear indications that he wanted to join them in preference to other clubs.",
"\"He has been strongly committed to playing for Barca,\" the statement said.",
"Sanchez will have medical before being officially presented at the Nou Camp Monday.",
"Sanchez, who was voted best player in Serie A last season with 12 goals in 31 games, is Barcelona's first major signing of the close season transfer window.",
"In another major signing Thursday, Portuguese giants Benfica completed the signing of Spain's World Cup winning defender Joan Capdevila from Villarreal.",
"The 33-year-old left-back has been signed as a replacement for Portugal international Fabio Coentrao, who departed Lisbon for Real Madrid earlier this month.",
"Capdevila played every match of Spain's successful campaign in South Africa and the former Atletico Madrid full-back has signed a two-year deal at the Estadio de Luz.",
"The one-time Deportivo la Coruna player has represented Spain on 57 occasions and was also part of Luis Aragones' victorious Euro 2008 squad.",
"Elsewhere, Dutch coach Ronald Koeman returned to football Thursday after agreeing to take the reigns at Dutch first division club Feyenoord.",
"The 48-year-old has been out of the sport since leaving AZ Alkmaar in December 2009 and signed a one-year deal with the Rotterdam side.",
"As a player, Koeman won the 1988 European Championships with Netherlands and the European Cup with both Barcelona and PSV.",
"He also spent two years with Feyenoord between 1995-97.",
"Former Feyenoord coach Mario Been left the club after a disappointing season yielded a 10th place finish in the league and saw the one-time European champions humiliated 10-0 by PSV Eindhoven last October.",
"Koeman has previously had spells in charge of Ajax, Benfica, PSV and Valencia."
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"Alexis Sanchez joins Barcelona from Serie A Udinese in big money deal .",
"Sanchez was voted Serie A best player of the year last season .",
"Joan Capdevila goes to Benfica from Villarreal on a two-year deal .",
"Ronald Koeman has returned to football as the new coach of Dutch side Feyenoord ."
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"(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in his home country from Cuba, where he underwent cancer treatment, the Venezuelan state-run broadcaster VTV reported Saturday.",
"He returned after roughly a week in Cuba, where he received chemotherapy treatment.",
"Chavez underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor last month.",
"He has not said what type of cancer he has.",
"VTV published an image of the president arriving Saturday night."
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"He underwent chemotherapy treatment for cancer .",
"Chavez has not said what type of cancer he has ."
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"(CNN) -- A man opened fire at a Texas roller skating rink during a birthday party for one of his children, killing his estranged wife and four of her family members before turning the gun on himself, police said Sunday.",
"Tan Do, 35, and Trini Do, 29, were hosting the party at the Roller World Skating Rink in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, Texas, on Saturday for one of their two children, Grand Prairie police said in a statement.",
"\"The couple had been involved in ongoing marital problems and it is believed that this led to the shooting,\" police said.",
"\"Trini Do was among the deceased.\"",
"Police responded to a call of a shooting at 7:10 p.m. Saturday (8:10 p.m. ...",
"Officers found the bodies of five people; a sixth person -- the suspect -- with a gunshot wound to the head; and four other people who had sustained non-life-threatening injuries.",
"Others who were killed included Trini Do's sisters, Lynn Ta, 16, and Michelle Ta, 28; her brother, Hien Ta, 21; and her sister-in-law, Thuy Nguyen, 25.",
"\"It appears the suspect targeted his estranged wife and her family members,\" police said.",
"The couple's two children were not harmed, and were in the care of other family members Sunday, authorities said.",
"Tan Do was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.",
"About 30 people were attending the party at the time of the shooting, but the roller rink was not open to the public, police said.",
"Employees of the rink were not injured.",
"Witnesses were interviewed by police, and the police department's crisis counselors and chaplain were working with the survivors, authorities said.",
"CNN's Leslie Tripp contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Neither of the couple's children were hurt .",
"NEW: About 30 people were attending the party ."
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"(CNN) -- Former FIFA presidential hopeful Mohamed Bin Hammam believes that soccer's ruling body has already decided he is guilty of bribery.",
"The ex-head of the Asian Football Confederation was suspended pending an investigation on May 29, having been accused of trying to buy votes in his bid to win the July 1 election against incumbent Sepp Blatter.",
"FIFA's ethics committee has begun a two-day hearing to decide the Qatari's fate, and the 62-year-old is pessimistic ahead of the verdict.",
"\"I want you all to know that my legal team and I remain confident that the case and the evidence presented against me are weak and unsubstantiated,\" Bin Hammam said via his official website on Friday.",
"Bin Hammam wants a \"fair FIFA hearing\" \"They are flimsy and will not stand up to scrutiny in any court of law; that has been clear throughout this process and it remains to be so.",
"\"I am not confident that the hearing will be conducted in the manner any of us would like.",
"It seems likely that FIFA has already made its decision weeks ago.",
"So, none of us should be completely surprised if a guilty verdict is returned.\"",
"Bin Hammam vowed to clear his name if he is found guilty.",
"\"Justice will eventually prevail whether through the FIFA ethics committee, the Court of Arbitration of Sport or, if necessary, through other courts or legal proceedings in courts where we will be equal and no special privileges will be granted to either party.\"",
"FIFA set date for Bin Hammam verdict .",
"Bin Hammam withdrew from the presidential election in the wake of the accusations, with Blatter maintaining the position for a fourth term.",
"Jack Warner, the former head of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, faced similar charges to Bin Hammam.",
"The investigation into Warner was stopped, with his innocence presumed, after the Trinidadian resigned in June."
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"Mohamed Bin Hammam believes FIFA has already decided he is guilty of bribery .",
"The Qatari is accused of offering bribes in exchange for support in presidential election .",
"FIFA's ethics committee is meeting to reach a verdict on the accusations ."
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"(CNN) -- Gilles Simon secured his second title of the 2011 season by defeating Nicolas Almagro to lift the German Tennis Championships in Hamburg.",
"The Frenchman beat his Spanish opponent 6-4 4-6 6-4 in two hours and 38 minutes to claim his ninth career triumph.",
"Simon's victory was his first on clay since the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy in 2008 and will see him move up to 11 in the world rankings.",
"Under the roof at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center, Simon, the number five seed, needed just one break of serve to take the opening set, after his opponent had squandered eight break points.",
"Almagro edged the second set but an early break in the decider set Simon on course for his first title since winning the Medibank International in Australia back in January.",
"\"I feel very, very good. I had to win so many tough matches this week,\" Simon told the ATP World Tour's official web site.",
"\"Today, the final was really hard to win.",
"I had to play my best tennis to win and I'm proud to win this tournament.\"",
"\"It was a high intensity final.",
"I think Nicolas played very good tennis, very consistent,\" said Simon.",
"\"I knew before he could hit very hard, but also, he didn't miss anything, so I really had to fight hard on every point.",
"We played almost three hours and it was a really, really hard match.\"",
"\"I think the first game of the third set, I didn't play my best tennis.",
"That game, I made three mistakes in the important moments,\" admitted Almagro.",
"\"He played really well.",
"I had many break points and didn't do anything on many of them.",
"Congratulations to him as he played really good all week.\""
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"Gilles Simon beats Nicolas Almagro to win the German Tennis Championships .",
"Frenchman beats his Spanish opponent 6-4 4-6 6-4 in Hamburg .",
"Simon's win will take him to number 11 in the world rankings ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Violence and heavy metal seem to have been inextricably entwined since the dawn of the metal genre.",
"Accusations that the Columbine killers were influenced by Marilyn Manson's music were found to be false.",
"Judas Priest, Marilyn Manson and Black Sabbath are just some of the household metal names to have come under public fire for supposedly inciting teenagers to commit murder and suicide.",
"It's a fire the international media has been happy to flame, quick to draw links between various acts of savagery and heavy metal even if, as in the case of the Columbine shootings and Marilyn Manson, evidence points to the contrary.",
"For anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and self-confessed \"Metalhead\" Sam Dunn, heavy metal is often used as a scapegoat to distract from the thoroughly more complicated societal problems surrounding such incidents.",
"\"I think people look at heavy metal and label it for all sorts of things because we need easy answers to complex questions,\" Dunn says.",
"\"I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.\"",
"It's easy to see where the journalists, parents and religious groups get their ideas from.",
"A quick scan of the lyrics of any heavy metal band worth its salt will often reveal some gasp-inducing subject matter.",
"For instance in his film \"A Headbanger's Journey,\" Dunn quotes some of his favourite lyrics by a metal band called Autopsy: \"Burning from the inside out, bloody foam spews from your mouth, smell the putrid stench of flesh, as it burns you to your death.\"",
"Not the sort of poetry to be quoting to grandmother over lunch, but can such ludicrous gore really incite people to violence, not to mention murder?",
"As one young Norwegian metal fan told the UK's Guardian newspaper: \"It's all fantasy, none of this is real, you can't take this seriously, it's just like a movie.\"",
"But compared to some of the images filling our cinema screens -- The Devil's Rejects, Wolf Creek, The Passion of the Christ to name a few -- even Autopsy's lyrics seem a little tame.",
"\"I have listened to enough metal for me to essentially be a serial killer,\" says James McMahon from UK music magazine NME.",
"\"But there's something in me that says no, that's not what I believe life is about.",
"Serial killers existed before Slayer, you know.\"",
"\"I'm a big fan of horror movies but Hostel, Saw, those torture porn films, I found myself repulsed -- metal is pantomime comparatively.\"",
"As Alice Cooper quips: \"There's more blood in 'Macbeth' than in my shows and that's required school reading.\"",
"For metal musicians, death, blood and mayhem, in its various guises, are all simply part of the act, part of \"the show.\"",
"\"I think it comes from being a child of the '70s,\" says Iron Maiden's lead singer Bruce Dickinson.",
"\"I was brought up on Hammer horror movies and things like \"The Devil Rides Out,\" classics like that.\"",
"\"So while we do the devil type things, it's done...",
"I wouldn't always say in a tongue-in-cheek way, but there is an element of it.",
"It's done with a view to storytelling and drama, with a bit of dressing-up going on.\"",
"Iron Maiden has also endured its fair share of controversy.",
"The title of its 1982 album, \"The Number of the Beast,\" and repeated use of \"666\" in the titular track's chorus had America's religious right up in arms.",
"They accused the band of being devil worshippers, Satanists and of \"trying to pervert our kids.\"",
"\"When I play that song I think, well, ok, this isn't glorifying the devil, because that's certainly not what I would do,\" says Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, a born-again Christian.",
"\"It's making an awareness that yes he's out there, and you've got to be aware.",
"There is a man with 666 tattooed on his noggin somewhere.\"",
"Ironically, the fundamentalist reaction to \"The Number of the Beast\" packed out Iron Maiden tour gigs in every American town they visited.",
"Kids squeezed into arenas desperate to see what was scaring their parents so badly.",
"Despite this marketing draw, Dickinson is keen to distance Iron Maiden from the violence for violence's sake approach practiced by some of his contemporaries, such as musicians from the extreme Black Metal and Death Metal sub-genres.",
"\"We're not interested in being extreme,\" he says.",
"\"We're interested in being interesting and in animating people's imaginations with the stories that we tell and the songs.\"",
"It's an approach that chimes with what one female Iron Maiden fan, Ruth, tells us, \"I really don't see any violence in the fans and I have been to loads of their gigs,\" she says.",
"\"I am in a tiny minority of women, in a room full of men wearing black -- which should seem scary, but it totally isn't.",
"The men hold doors open for me and apologize if they bash into me.",
"They are basically really meek and polite.\"",
"So while upside-down crucifixes, homicidal zombies and lashings of blood might continue to fuel our preconceptions about heavy metal music, it's worth remembering, appearances and reality can be very different beasts indeed."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Sixteen people -- including five children -- died when an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO exploded Saturday morning in Khyber Agency, a district in Pakistan's volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a government official said.",
"A remote-controlled bomb caused the explosion, said Shafeer Ullah Khan, a top government official of Khyber Agency.",
"Khan said the bomb was planted under the oil tanker, which exploded when the vehicle was about 8 kilometers (5 miles) east of Afghan border.",
"Khan said when the people in the area gathered to collect oil leaked from the tank, it caught fire and killed the 16 people.",
"A NATO spokesman said the alliance won't be commenting.",
"Khan said in another incident on Friday evening, nine oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO caught fire after a planted bomb was also detonated by a remote control at Torkham, at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.",
"He said the oil tankers were parked at the border waiting their turn to enter in Afghanistan.",
"It was not immediately clear who was behind either attack.",
"In the past year, dozens of oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan have been attacked in Pakistan.",
"Militants in the region have frequently targeted Pakistani security forces and supply trucks headed for Afghanistan in an effort to undermine U.S. and NATO efforts there.",
"At least 29 people have died in such attacks since October.",
"The tankers are often operated by contracted Pakistani firms hired by NATO, using Pakistani equipment and drivers."
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"At least 10 oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO catch fire in two days .",
"Government official: A remote-controlled bomb causes the explosion Saturday .",
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"(CNN) -- Three times, Adrian Pracon prepared to die on Utoya island, a Norwegian paradise turned to hell Friday.",
"Friends he laughed with earlier in the day fell one by one in a gunman's hail of fire.",
"He survived to tell a horrifying tale Saturday.",
"When the shooting started Friday afternoon, many of the 600 people at the ruling Labour Party's youth camp ran down a hill and to the water.",
"The shooter came after them, screaming.",
"\"You are all going to die!\" Pracon was one of the last ones remaining between the shooter and the water and didn't have time to take his heavy clothes or boots off.",
"About 100 meters into the chilly water, he realized he would not make it.",
"He would drown with all that weight.",
"\"I felt I couldn't breathe.",
"I already swallowed too much water,\" he said.",
"\"I felt the clothes pulling me down.\"",
"He managed to swim back to shore and crouched behind a boulder with others.",
"But the gunman found him.",
"He was so close that Pracon could see down the barrel of his weapon.",
"He was sure to get a direct hit.",
"Pracon thought he was going to die.",
"Another survivor, Otzar Fagerheim, described the gunman as having blond hair and pale skin.",
"He carried three guns, he said.",
"At times, he shot those guns with disarming calm, like he was shooting photographs.",
"He even smiled, Fagerheim said.",
"Pracon was surprised to hear the shooter speaking Norwegian.",
"He was certain a compatriot could never commit such a heinous act.",
"Pracon spoke back.",
"\"Do you want to hurt a fellow Norwegian?",
"Please, no. Don't shoot.\" Miraculously, the gunman pointed his weapon away.",
"Instead, he aimed for those who were desperately trying to swim to safety.",
"As though Pracon was too easy a target.",
"As though it was more satisfying to shoot at a group of fleeing people, Pracon thought.",
"He heard his friends begging for help.",
"Some fell limp on Pracon.",
"The gunman went away but returned to find Pracon again, hiding with about 10 others.",
"The madness started again.",
"More rounds of gunfire.",
"He could hear so many of them say: \"Please don't shoot me.\"",
"One by one, their voices were silenced.",
"A woman next to him was shot in the leg.",
"Pracon could see her wound was gaping.",
"Pracon clung to the dead.",
"Tried to play dead.",
"It was the only way he knew to survive.",
"He heard footsteps getting closer.",
"He could hear the heavy breathing of the man.",
"Then, \"boom!\" Pracon's world fell silent.",
"His hearing was gone.",
"But he could feel intense pain on the back of his left shoulder.",
"He bore it, lay face down, and kept perfectly still.",
"\"I am sure he intended to hit me in the head,\" Pracon said.",
"The gunman missed by inches.",
"'I had to get out of there' That afternoon, before the carnage, Stine Renate Haheim spoke to her party's youth about violence against women and children.",
"It's a big issue for the young member of parliament, who began her political career a decade ago in the youth movement.",
"She came to idyllic Utoya island often for such gatherings -- 11 times, to be exact.",
"It was \"the most beautiful adventure of the summer,\" she said.",
"She drew inspiration from Utoya.",
"It was an important place for people from all over Norway to gather to discuss the future of their own nation as well as the problems plaguing other parts of the world.",
"It was a place to get away from the daily grind, the day-to-day debates in parliament, and think big.",
"And most of all, Haheim said, Utoya was a place of fraternity, of peace.",
"\"We love it there,\" she said. Everything changed Friday.",
"It will be remembered from now on as a place where 85 people died, seemingly for no reason.",
"Eskil Pedersen, a youth movement leader, assured everyone that they would be able to speak with counselors about the carnage they witnessed.",
"\"We will not be threatened to silence,\" he said.",
"\"We will continue fighting for what we believe in.",
"This is the best way to honor the memory of those we have now lost.",
"We will go back to Utoya.\"",
"But it will be difficult. Haheim will hear the gunfire play over and over again in her head, just like she did Friday.",
"After her speech Friday afternoon, she was informed about the explosion in downtown Oslo.",
"Many of the youth camp attendees huddled for an informational meeting on what was happening to their colleagues in the government buildings.",
"But when the shots rang out, the 600 people at the main building and surrounding camp scattered.",
"Haheim quickly realized she should not be alone and followed others tumbling down the hill.",
"Like Pracon, she hid behind boulders on the beach.",
"When there was a lull in the shooting, she thought it was over.",
"But then it started again. Terrifying minutes that seemed never-ending.",
"She repositioned herself in another spot, away from the gunman's sight.",
"She found herself with a girl, shivering in her underwear, who had shed her clothes in a desperate but failed bid to swim away.",
"Haheim took off her jacket to warm her companion.",
"\"What is your name? Where are you from? Nice to meet you,\" they said to each other.",
"\"It was a conversation about nothing,\" Haheim said.",
"That's how they found calm in that moment of fear.",
"Haheim called her father, a police officer, on her mobile phone.",
"\"The police are on their way,\" he reassured her.",
"She imagined that all the police and ambulances in the area had rushed to Oslo after the bombings.",
"So her father's words gave her relief.",
"Maybe the madness would end soon.",
"Shortly thereafter, she could hear helicopters overhead, and vehicles with sirens in the distance.",
"She was one of the older people at the gathering.",
"She felt a sense of obligation to calm the younger people around her.",
"Some were still in their teens.",
"\"You find some kind of way to get freakishly calm in that situation,\" she said.",
"Finally, she heard someone say: \"The police are here.",
"We are safe.\" She hugged the man next to her.",
"But within moments, the shooting began again.",
"They had all been deceived -- the gunman was wearing a police uniform.",
"\"Run, run, run!\"",
"Haheim shouted.",
"The rocks were slippery.",
"She stumbled, fell, picked herself up.",
"She had to keep running.",
"\"The only thing on my mind was that I had to get out of there,\" she said.",
"'Bloody, bloody mess' When real police officers finally showed up, the survivors were suspect.",
"Were these more gunmen in uniform?",
"\"Everyone started screaming, crying, begging the police to throw away their weapons,\" Pracon said.",
"After about a two-hour ordeal, Pracon and Haheim were rescued -- Haheim without injury and Pracon with a gunshot wound that was closed up at the hospital.",
"Police arrested a man the Norwegian media identified as Anders Behring Breivik, 32, a Norwegian who apparently had taken issue with his homeland's growing multi-culturalism.",
"It was only many hours later, in his hospital bed, that Pracon began realizing the magnitude of the \"bloody, bloody mess.\"",
"Recuperating after stitches Saturday, Pracon said fear was setting in anew.",
"Now he would begin to discover the names of the dead.",
"They were friends who would never again share a laugh with him.",
"Police and rescue teams were still combing Utoya island -- 13 boats on the water and a meter-by-meter land search, said Sven Mollekleiv, president of Norwegian Red Cross.",
"\"We have now also mothers and fathers who don't know if their sons or daughters are alive,\" Mollekleiv said.",
"\"They are just waiting.\" Doctors cleared Pracon for solid food Saturday afternoon and he sought comfort in a plate of lasagna.",
"\"It was a perfect dinner for me right now,\" he said.",
"A moment of joy, perhaps.",
"But for Pracon, Haheim and other survivors of the slaughter, a long journey of healing lies ahead."
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"(CNN) -- One of the most widely read authors of recent times, Brazilian-born novelist Paulo Coelho talks exclusively to CNN about what Brazil means to him.",
"Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, the best-selling author of \"The Alchemist\" dreamt of becoming a writer from an early age, but was stifled by his parents, who insisted he follow his father's footsteps and become an engineer.",
"But only a year into his studies the adventurous young Brazilian had dropped out, and by the 1970s had made a name for himself in Brazil's politically infused artistic movement, becoming a successful songwriter and co-creator of the controversial comic strip \"Kring-ha.\"",
"However, his messages were viewed as left-wing and dangerous: Coelho was branded a \"subversive\" by Brazil's then-ruling military government and was arrested and tortured.",
"The experience had a strong affect on the writer and by the 1980s, Coelho had abandoned his artistic lifestyle and settled down.",
"However, his passion for writing continued and after a few unsuccessful first starts, Coelho hit major success with his 1988 novel, \"The Alchemist.\"",
"Initially only given a small print run, the book eventually became a global bestseller, garnering numerous literary awards -- translated into 67 languages and edited in more than 150 countries.",
"Now a household name, the novelist and United Nations messenger for peace talks to CNN about what he loves most about his country.",
"CNN: What does Brazil mean to you?",
"Paulo Coelho: Brazil is my way to see the world.",
"Being born in that country means: \"you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.\"",
"Therefore, since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.",
"CNN: What do you like most about Brazil today?",
"PC: My people. Hard working, filled with fun and enthusiasm, understanding that if hope exists, there is room for everything else.",
"CNN: Where are your favorite places to go in Brazil?",
"PC: There are many, so I need to single out just one: Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, where I live.",
"Every hour I go to the window and look to all the transformations that a day may bring -- the light, people walking, vendors etc.",
"And then I smell the sea, and this smell takes me to a beautiful place inside of my soul.",
"CNN: What are your fondest memories of Brazil?",
"PC: Every single day that I spend here.",
"My childhood and its innocence, my teenager period and its rebellion, my young adult years and the freedom to believe that everything was changing, my adult years -- fighting for my dream of being a writer, and having the help of my friends.",
"CNN: How has Brazil changed in your lifetime?",
"PC: Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.",
"I was arrested three times and tortured once.",
"Little by little the political situation changed -- and this was the most important change of my lifetime.",
"Yesterday we thought we were just instruments of a most powerful game, beyond our control.",
"Today we are proud of being Brazilians.",
"CNN: What does the future hold for Brazil?",
"PC: I don't know. But as a Brazilian poet said: \"Don't lose your hope in difficult times: God was born in Brazil\"."
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"His favorite place is Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, where he currently lives .",
"Having survived Brazil's military dictatorship Coelho is proud of his country's transformation ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Raw video clips of Michael Jackson's last rehearsals will not be shown in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the late pop singer's personal physician, the judge ruled Monday.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor spent several hours at Sony Pictures Studio on Friday reviewing about a dozen hours of video that prosecutors or defense lawyers proposed for the jury to see.",
"\"It was a waste of my time,\" Pastor said.",
"It was not immediately clear if the prosecution would still be allowed to show parts of the \"This Is It\" documentary about Jackson's preparations for his London comeback shows.",
"Defense lawyers had suggested clips \"left on the cutting room\" floor by the documentary editors might show that Jackson was in failing health in the days before his June 25, 2009, death.",
"\"It's quite the contrary,\" Pastor said.",
"Lawyers for each side spent two weeks this month viewing more than 100 hours of video, narrowing down what they thought was relevant to the case.",
"The prosecution selected 12 hours of video, while the defense identified four.",
"Defense lawyer Michael Flanagan said after a hearing last Wednesday that the video showed him that Jackson was \"very talented, that he's pretty good; even on his bad days, he's good.\"",
"The defense was looking for clues in the video to show that Jackson was in ill health in his final days, but Flanagan said it was not detectable in his performance video.",
"Jackson also did not appear to be depressed in his final days, he said.",
"The defense will argue that none of the \"This Is It\" video is relevant to the criminal trial and would be \"a big waste of time.\"",
"\"It shows him onstage performing,\" Flanagan said.",
"\"I don't know why that's relevant as to what happened the night that he died when he couldn't sleep.\"",
"Jackson's death was from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol combined with other drugs, the Los Angeles coroner ruled.",
"Murray, whom Jackson hired to care for him as he prepared for his comeback concerts in London, allegedly administered the fatal dose.",
"Jury selection in the trial is set to begin on September 8 in a Los Angeles County courtroom, with opening statements later in the month.",
"CNN's Michael Cary contributed to this report."
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"Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial starts in September ."
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"(CNN) -- Norway's Alexander Dale Oen won gold in the 100m breaststroke in an emotional day of medal winning at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai.",
"The 26-year-old pointed to a Norwegian flag in reference to the shootings in his home country on Friday that claimed the lives of over 90 people.",
"\"It's a very special medal after what happened in my country in the last days,\" he told FINA's official web site after his victory.",
"\"Seeing the flag, hearing the national anthem, everything was coming back and even though it's been three days, it is still a shock.\"",
"Elsewhere, tears were shed when the Brazilian Cesar Cielo won the 50 meters butterfly, but not from all quarters.",
"Cielo had been banned for alleged doping offences earlier in the year but, after taking his case to the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS), the ruling was overturned four days before the race.",
"As Cielo wept during the medal ceremony, other swimmers made pointed gestures, unhappy at his appearance.",
"It was reported that some members of the crowd jeered his victory too.",
"\"This gold has definitely a different taste than the other ones.",
"That was probably the hardest medal in my life; I knew I was going to race against the world's best, and to be able to compete after what I have been through this last month is really a blessing,\" Cielo told FINA's official web site.",
"\"With what happened, it was a time to test how much I could take and if I would be able to stand up again, and I am really proud of myself for doing this.",
"Medals are important but I cannot imagine my life without the environment of swimming.\"",
"The U.S. and China won their first gold medals when American swimmer Dana Vollmer triumphed in the 100m butterfly and 15-year-old Shiwen Ye secured the 200 meter individual medley for the hosts."
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"The 100m breaststroke champion held back tears .",
"The victory was good nation for a nation rocked by tragedy .",
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"(CNN) -- A clean-cut young man buys tons of fertilizer, which he uses to create a huge bomb.",
"He puts it into a box truck, brings it into the middle of the city, and then sets off a massive, and deadly, blast.",
"That happened in 1995, when Timothy McVeigh unleashed terror in Oklahoma City.",
"And it happened again Friday in Oslo, Norway, when, police say, a 32-year-old man sparked a explosion that killed seven people in the heart of the city center.",
"In Norway, the suspect allegedly and then traveled 20 miles to Utoya island, where he gunned down at least 85 others at a youth camp.",
"Sixteen years and nearly 5,000 miles separate the sites of the bombings.",
"Yet Kari Watkins, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, said she has been flooded by calls and e-mails from survivors, victims' relatives and others affected by the attack in that Midwestern city who have been shaken by this week's violence in Scandinavia.",
"\"It's a senseless and needless attack,\" said Watkins, noting that the Norway incident caused \"flashbacks\" for many.",
"\"And it's almost exactly what our people went through.\"",
"It has struck close to home in two parts of the world, in part because both McVeigh and the prime suspect in the Norwegian attacks are being painted as \"domestic terrorists.\"",
"Scores of innocent civilians, including a number of children, were killed in both locations as attackers went after symbols and institutions -- in McVeigh's case a U.S. federal government building, and in the other a Norwegian government building and a youth camp affiliated with the ruling political party.",
"McVeigh had some help from Terry Nichols, who was convicted and is serving a life sentence for conspiracy and manslaughter for helping build the bomb; and Michael Fortier, convicted for failing to alert authorities.",
"Meanwhile, Acting National Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said that although only one man had been arrested as of Saturday, Norwegian police have yet to determine definitely that only a single person was responsible for both of the Norwegian attacks.",
"Growing up, McVeigh didn't appear to stand out, working at Burger King and a security guard.",
"With his crew cut, the son of a automobile factory-line worker and homemaker looked the part of an all-American and even joined the military, where he became a decorated Army veteran before leaving the service.",
"Anders Behring Breivik, who Norwegian media have identified as the first and then only person detained in the more recent attack, appears to fit the role of a quintessential Norwegian.",
"Pictures show him with blond hair, blue-green eyes and chiseled features, dressed in a preppy style.",
"He had been a youth and adult member of the conservative Fremskrittspartiet (FrP) or Progress Party, VG newspaper reports, but there has been no indication he'd ever been arrested prior to this week.",
"Yet police say they believe the Norwegian is responsible for the deadliest attack ever on its soil.",
"That was true for McVeigh, too, before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
"\"When it's one of your own, when it's one of our folks doing it to us, it's hard to stomach,\" said Watkins, who joined the memorial effort soon after the 1995 attack.",
"Both Breivik, according to reports, and McVeigh had extreme political agendas.",
"In the American's case, this included a growing disillusionment with the federal government.",
"He viewed its treatment of the Iraqi people as that of a schoolyard bully, then became angered at its role in the disastrous raids at the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, and the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.",
"Up through his execution in 2001, McVeigh never expressed remorse for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 dead.",
"The suspect in the bombing and mass shooting in Norway conceded the terrorist attacks in that nation were \"horrible,\" but \"in his head (they) were necessary,\" a man who identified himself as the suspect's lawyer told Norwegian broadcaster TV2.",
"Geir Lippestad told TV2 late Saturday that Breivik \"is ready to explain himself\" in a court hearing Monday.",
"The fact the Norwegian suspect doesn't look the part of a terrorist, especially in an age marked by threats and strikes by members of the Islamic fundamentalist group al Qaeda, doesn't surprise Watkins.",
"One thing the Oklahoma City bombing taught her is that \"evil doesn't have to look like a monster.\"",
"That is one of many lessons learned by people in and around Oklahoma's capital.",
"Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said that another is that there's no one, clear path toward emotional recovery from such a traumatic event.",
"\"It's impossible to sum up the emotions of an entire city,\" the mayor said.",
"\"It's so emotional individually.\"",
"Cornett said that, in time, the experience made the Oklahoma City \"stronger,\" more united and more patriotic, invigorated by the sense that \"we were not going to let a criminal act tear us apart.\"",
"And Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg spoke to this sentiment hours after the attacks, when he vowed, \"You won't destroy our democracy ... No one will bomb us into silence.",
"No one can scare us from being Norway.\"",
"The people of Oklahoma City know, more than most, that such resiliency is possible -- but it is also difficult.",
"Watkins said that the city's memorial and museum plans to offer its assistance to the people of Norway, including children's psychiatric counseling and other resources.",
"One lesson that the Midwestern city's residents have learned, the hard way, is that evil exists and it can strike at any time -- at times perpetrated by seemingly the least likely people.",
"\"It seems so simple that we should be able to stop this, but it's so much harder than that,\" Watkins said.",
"CNN's Catherine Shoichet contributed to this report."
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"Bombers in both cases are described as domestic terrorists, attacking their native countries .",
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Sunday that the results of the recent Iraqi national election mark a turning point for democracy there, but he warned that challenges remain.",
"Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's secular Iraqiya bloc won 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives in the March 7 elections, edging ahead of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition, which received 89, according to elections officials.",
"Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, said the results suggest \"there there is democracy in this country.\"",
"\"People have looked at different candidates, and people have gone in different directions,\" Hill told CNN in an exclusive interview.",
"\"And so, I think frankly, it's a good sign that Iraq could have this election.\"",
"Allawi also acknowledged Sunday the significance of the results, saying Iraqis \"voted against sectarianism\" when they voted for his secular coalition.",
"\"They don't want to see sectarianism prevailing in this country,\" Allawi told CNN.",
"\"They want to have a government that can provide services, can provide security and ensure stability of the country, and improve the income of the Iraqi family.\"",
"Hill pointed to the challenges Iraqi officials have had to overcome leading up to the elections -- including deadly bombings of government buildings last fall and a delay in passing a key election law.",
"\"What is important is that they've gotten this far,\" Hill said.",
"\"When you look at some of the problems [that] have come up in Iraq in the last six months ... a lot of people predicted the Iraqis can't get through that.",
"Indeed they got through ... those challenges and now they have an even bigger challenge, and I would not bet against them.\"",
"Hill said Allawi's biggest test will be in how he campaigns for more seats to achieve a majority in the Iraqi parliament.",
"Hill said Allawi must be inclusive in assembling supporters and building a government.",
"\"If you're the frontrunner -- as Mr. Allawi is right now -- you've got to look out there to other coalitions (and) say how can I put together a government that's going to work?\"",
"said Hill, adding \"This isn't all about ... who's a Shia or who's a Sunni; it's about who can govern better.\"",
"Allawi appeared up to the challenge Sunday, saying he wants a \"quick formation of a strong government\" and one \"that can take Iraq forward.\"",
"\"We fought for democracy, and we are continuing to fight for democracy,\" Allawi said.",
"\"That's why we are ready to talk to everyone who is ready to engage and ready to play by the roles of democracy. ...",
"Even if they have been nasty to us and not positive in their dealing with us ... we have an open mind.\""
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"Christopher Hill is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq .",
"He says the results of the recent election show that Iraqis have a real democracy .",
"Hill points out challenges Iraqis overcame in past six months to hold elections .",
"Winner Ayad Allawi: Iraqis \"voted against sectarianism\""
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"(CNN) -- European leaders are meeting to attempt to resolve the debt crisis in Greece and prevent it infecting other countries -- an outcome that could potentially tear apart the 17-member eurozone and lead to another global economic slump.",
"So what can they hope to achieve, what's behind the crisis and how serious is it?",
"Who is meeting and why? Eurozone leaders are gathering in Brussels, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.",
"They are meeting to discuss ways to bring Greece's spiraling debt problem under control, chiefly through a multi-billion dollar bailout package.",
"They are also addressing concerns that Greece's woes could infect other eurozone countries.",
"Why is Greece in trouble?",
"Years of unrestrained spending, cheap lending and a failure to implement financial reforms left Greece badly exposed when the global economic downturn struck.",
"This revealed partly-fiddled statistics that showed debt levels and deficits exceeded eurozone limits.",
"As the dust settled, it emerged that Greece is teetering on the brink of default as it faces debts of about $500 billion.",
"It has become reliant on international funds to make repayments.",
"How bad is it? Bad enough to warrant an initial $145 billion bail out last year.",
"Now, with the crisis showing no sign of abating, another multi-billion dollar bail out is in on the table.",
"The initial package assumed Greece would eventually be able to borrow again from the open market, but high lending rates mean this has been impossible and a second rescue is needed.",
"This, however, will only be forthcoming if European leaders can agree on terms.",
"Why is the rest of Europe worried?",
"Greece's woes reflect badly on the credibility of the euro.",
"A default from Greece is also bound to rekindle fears of possible defaults by other bailed-out euro nations, like Portugal and Ireland, and re-ignite the debate on whether the eurozone can survive.",
"See a map of Europe's debt levels .",
"This could knock the whole bloc into the red, affecting the global economy.",
"And if European countries continue to resort to rescue packages involving bodies such as the International Monetary Fund, this would further damage the euro's reputation and could lead to a substantial fall against other key currencies, especially the U.S. dollar.",
"Why is the second bailout package a problem?",
"The eurozone's leading economy Germany has been at loggerheads with the rest of Europe over how Greece should repay its spiraling debt.",
"Germany has been pushing for a \"soft restructuring\" of Greece's loans -- a move that would make private investors share the burden -- but the European Central Bank has warned any compulsory restructuring could lead to a broader crisis.",
"Talks between finance ministers have until now failed to reach consensus, resulting in the latest summit between eurozone leaders.",
"Can a deal be reached?",
"Early indications are favorable.",
"Sarkozy and Merkel -- arguably the two most influential participants -- have reportedly thrashed out a possible solution ahead of the summit.",
"Details aren't clear but the Financial Times says they have already run the plan past European Union President Herman van Rompuy and Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank.",
"That said, many European leaders involved in the talks will be wary of agreeing to anything that commits them to using public cash to fund the bailouts.",
"Some are also likely to argue that any deal reached now can only be palliative, failing to stop the crisis spreading at a later date.",
"What are the likely solutions?",
"There are several possibilities.",
"The most basic fix would see a reduction in interest payments made by Greece on earlier rescue loans and a fresh bailout of about $150 billion to plug impending holes in the Greek economy.",
"Another option is a rollover of debt -- which would buy time, but not solve the problem.",
"There is also talk of a controversial $42 billion tax on banks.",
"This would raise bailout money without putting a strain on the public purse, but would involve a major legal shake up across the eurozone.",
"Also up for discussion is a $628 billion expansion of eurozone crisis funds to deal with further problems.",
"The doomday scenario sees a dramatic slide in confidence as investors retreat from European financial markets.",
"This pushes up the cost of borrowing across the region, triggering new fears about the threat of debt crises in Spain and Italy.",
"This begins to drag on countries with debt exposure to Spain and Italy.",
"Eventually, the whole eurozone could be pushed the brink, generating financial shockwaves across the world that will herald a new global economic slump.",
"What is Greece doing to help itself?",
"To be fair, Greece isn't standing idly by.",
"It has already imposed hugely unpopular austerity measures against an explosive backdrop of public discontent.",
"It is also taking drastic steps to ease its debt burden by selling off numerous assets.",
"It is looking at an extensive privatization program that could see it unload prized assets including stakes in banks, railways, utility firms, ports and the postal service.",
"There is also a plan to offload Hellenikon, Athens' former international airport.",
"Other measures include floating Olympic and tourism property assets on the stock exchange and issuing gaming licenses.",
"The target is to raise about $71 billion by 2015."
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"(CNN) -- At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured on Saturday when security forces in the restive Syrian city of Homs Saturday greeted anguished mourners with brute force, an activist told CNN.",
"The latest confrontation rattled a country on edge after at least 44 people died in Homs and other cities Friday when Syrian security personnel fired at demonstrators, according to the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria.",
"The violence erupted after as tens of thousands of people marched in a funeral procession and went to a graveyard to bury some of the Friday's victims, the activist said.",
"The assault began after mourners were filing out of the cemetery, the activist said.",
"\"We were chanting and praying for the martyrs and they just sprayed us with their bullets.",
"I saw seven to eight people on the ground bleeding and moaning.",
"I ran as fast as I could as bullets flew past us towards the fields and hid among the olive trees until another mourner saw me and helped me walk to the main road,\" the activist said.",
"\"From there I ran to my apartment to see my wife and children.",
"We live very close to the graveyard and I can still hear the sound of heavy gunfire coming from the area.\"",
"Security forces earlier used force against 300 demonstrators in Homs who were demanding the right of mourners to march through the city center.",
"But security forces forcefully put down the turnout in about 30 minutes, and many of the demonstrators were arrested.",
"Later Saturday, tens of thousands of people gathered for the funeral procession on the outskirts of the city to bury eight victims of the Friday demonstrations, and it appeared the event would remain peaceful.",
"The miles-long funeral procession defiantly passed by army stations and several tanks, but the marchers were greeted kindly by soldiers to which the crowd responded by chanting, \"The people and the army are one hand.\"",
"However, violence erupted as security forces stepped in, the activist said.",
"Mourners quickly dispersed some into the graveyards and surrounding fields, and gunfire could be heard.",
"CNN has not been granted access into Syria and is unable to independently verify witness accounts.",
"The deaths occurred after demonstrations broke out after Friday prayers in Syrian cities, as they have for weeks.",
"Every week, the demonstrations have particular themes.",
"May 20 was Azadi Friday in honor of the Syrian Kurdish protesters.",
"Azadi means \"freedom\" in Kurdish.",
"A military source quoted by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said at least 17 civilians and security personnel were killed on Friday by the unidentified \"armed groups\" the government has been blaming for the discord.",
"For two months, Syria has been torn by street protests against political repression and a fierce security crackdown against demonstrators.",
"The government's fierce actions toward marchers and its thousands of mass arrests have drawn widespread criticism.",
"Around 830 people have been killed in protests, according to the Syrian Human Rights Information Link.",
"That number does not include security personnel, many of whom have been killed in attacks by \"armed groups,\" according to the Syrian government.",
"The United States has imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior officials.",
"On Thursday, President Barack Obama singled out Syria for criticism during his speech on the Middle East.",
"The clashes have spurred people to flee to other countries, such as Turkey and Lebanon.",
"Seven injured Syrians and four others people crossed the border into Turkey and were brought to Antakya state hospital Friday night, according to a doctor and the Hatay province governor quoted by Turkey's state-run Anatolian Agency.",
"The doctor at the Antakya State Hospital said the patients were between the ages of 25 and 40 and the injuries stemmed from gunshots.",
"One patient was in intensive care and some of them had injuries on their feet.",
"Another patient who was shot on the eye, was transferred to the university hospital in Hatay.",
"About 250 Syrians fled to Turkey end of April, mostly from Latakia, on the western coast of Syria.",
"They have been living in a tent camp set up by the Turkish Red Crescent for them in the border town of Yayladagi since then.",
"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and al-Assad developed close ties between Turkey and Syria in recent years.",
"Turkey lifted visa restrictions on Syrian visitors last year.",
"But escalating violence in Syria is increasing worries of the Turkish government which has been advocating a \"zero problems\" foreign policy with its neighbors.",
"The U.N. refugee agency on Friday said it is helping serve the thousands of Syrians who \"escaped to the border areas of Wadi Khaled and Tall Bire in northern Lebanon. \"",
"\"Local leaders say some 1,400 people have crossed into these two regions over the past week from Tall Kalakh in Syria.",
"\"This is in addition to those that have crossed since late April.",
"Local authorities estimate that around 4,000 Syrians have crossed to Lebanon recently,\" the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.",
"The agency said many have found refuge with host families or relatives and some have taken shelter in a school.",
"The Human Rights Watch on Friday said locally elected officials are estimating that 3,500 Syrians \"are currently present\" in the Wadi Khaled area.",
"But it criticized Lebanon's security forces for detaining Syrian refugees in some instances.",
"It said nine Syrian men and a child have been detained since Sunday.",
"The relatives and friends of these people said they fled to Lebanon because they were afraid Syrian forces would arrest or shoot them.",
"\"Lebanese authorities should instead provide them with at least temporary asylum, and above all refrain from deporting them back to Syria,\" Human Rights Watch said.",
"\"Syria welcomed many Lebanese fleeing war back in 2006,\" said Nadim Houry, Beirut director at Human Rights Watch.",
"\"Now it's time to return the favor.",
"Lebanon should be offering immediate refuge to Syrians fleeing death or torture in their country.\"",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, Yesim Comert, Hamdi Alkhshali, Salma Abdelaziz and Joe Sterling contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- In Sao Paulo's affluent Butanta neighborhood, a green haven in the heart of the notoriously polluted megalopolis, Guilherme Amaral Nunes, 25, and partner Luiz Ramirez, 51, enjoy a brief respite from the limelight.",
"While trying to seem tranquil while playing with their \"children,\" two rescued dogs and a cat, excitement is building as news of their plans to become the first married gay couple in Sao Paulo goes viral.",
"On Monday, court papers are set to publish their names as the first couple to petition for a marriage license in this conservative-leaning state, two weeks since Brazil's Supreme Tribunal ruled unanimously that the nation should recognize gay marriages.",
"\"We feel anxious until we hear the results,\" Ramirez said.",
"\"We hope we won't receive a legal challenge to block our dreams.\"",
"Nearly two weeks ago, Brazil's highest court voted on behalf of gay marriages by 10-0.",
"The court ruled that the same rights and rules that apply to the \"stable union\" of heterosexual couples will apply to same-sex couples, including the right to joint declaration of income tax, pension, inheritance and property sharing.",
"Argentina became the first Latin American nation to approve same-sex marriages in 2010.",
"Mexico City recognized same-sex marriages in 2009.",
"Several other countries in the region now recognize same-sex unions.",
"Brazil's ruling, however, does not allow same-sex marriage.",
"It leaves it to judges to evaluate on a case-by-case basis.",
"\"It's not like Argentina, where the law is more evolved, Nunes said.",
"\"But it's a step ahead,\" he said.",
"On Friday, Ramirez and Nunes took the first legal step to legalize their union.",
"Holding hands and brushing off some curious onlookers in one of the city's busiest public registries, the two delivered a petition to convert their civil union document into a marriage certificate.",
"Next stop, the Sao Paulo courts, Ramirez said.",
"That is where the fate of their legal bond will be decided by a judge.",
"\"This is not really about us,\" said Nunes, who added that his job as an IT consultant for HP already allows them to have very good same-sex benefits.",
"\"It will be a victory for many of us, many of my friends who suffered discrimination.\"",
"According to many gay rights groups in Brazil, discrimination and bullying is rampant in Brazil, despite generational and cultural changes.",
"Ramirez, president of CORSA, a large gay-activist group, said government studies show that 260 people die a year in Brazil as a result of homophobia.",
"Gay people in Brazil, as in other Latin American nations heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, continue to encounter strong resistance.",
"\"On one hand, we have made some considerable judicial strides,\" said Ramirez, who helped turned Sao Paulo's gay parade into one of the world's largest.",
"\"On the other, the intensity and frequency of homophobia in Brazil is alarming,\" he said.",
"Ramirez was referring to a hotly contested issue by Brazilian lawmakers on the proposal to distribute the so-called \"homophobia-kit\" in public schools, an educational packet that includes a DVD and other information distributed through Brazil's Ministry of Education to address homophobia among Brazil's youth.",
"Ultraconservative lawmaker Jair Messia Bolsonaro of Rio de Janeiro, has led the outcry against the ministry's move to deliver the packets, joining hands with evangelist lawmakers, who are growing in numbers.",
"\"I have now seen the most scandalous thing I have ever seen in my 20 years in politics, and of course I am not talking about corruption, which is a daily matter here in our circles,\" he said.",
"\"Attention parents of 7-, 8-, 9- and 10-year-olds in public schools!",
"Next year, your children are going to receive educational kits titled, 'Combating homophobia,\" Bolsonaro told Brazil's House of Deputies in November.",
"\"But what this is is an incentive to enforce homosexuality and promiscuity,\" he said.",
"Bolsonaro claimed that in one of the videos, a boy named Ricardo goes to the bathroom to urinate when he sees another boy and falls in love.",
"\"Listen here lawmakers, this was published in our congressional papers.",
"This could be your son one day,\" he said.",
"Brazilian Minister of Education Fernando Haddad denied that the so-called \"kit homophobia\" circulating among lawmakers was created by his office.",
"During a meeting Thursday with evangelical and other conservative lawmakers, Haddad said the kit was still being put together by his ministry.",
"\"Yesterday, this material was delivered to the Ministry of Education from hired NGOs,\" Haddad told Agencia Brasil.",
"\"Now, we will have an internal debate within the ministry,\" he said.",
"While the debate heats up in conservative circles, throughout Brazil, gay couples are trickling into local courts to fight for their marriage rights.",
"\"This is not about making people gay.",
"This is about letting people who are gay live respectfully and in peace,\" Ramirez said.",
"\"There won't be any more gays in Brazil as a result,\" he said.",
"\"But there will be happier ones.\"",
"CNN's Marilia Brocchetto and journalist Luciani Gomes contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) -- Health advisories were issued for four beaches in New York City Thursday evening as wastewater from a plant continued to discharge into the Hudson River, according to a press release from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.",
"A four-alarm fire at the North River wastewater treatment plant triggered flooding of wastewater into the Hudson River Wednesday morning, after a blaze began in the plant's engine room.",
"The health advisories were issued for South Beach, Midland Beach and Cedar Grove Beach on Staten Island, and Sea Gate in Brooklyn, according to the release.",
"The beaches are not closed but the New York City Department of Health recommends that people not swim or enter the water at those locations.",
"They also recommend that young or elderly people, or anyone who suffers from a medical condition not go near the water at those beaches.",
"The advisories will last through Monday.",
"Popular Coney Island Beach was unaffected by the advisories as of Thursday evening.",
"All employees at the plant were accounted for following the incident with no injuries, New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway told CNN affiliate WPIX.",
"The facility was not operational on Thursday evening but department staff and contractors were inside the facility working to bring the plant online.",
"The plant is responsible for treating 120 million gallons of wastewater a day on Manhattan's west side."
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"Beach-goers are urged to avoid three beaches on Staten Island and one in Brooklyn .",
"The health advisories will last through Monday .",
"Coney Island Beach remained unaffected Thursday night ."
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"(CNN) -- Civic-minded residents of Bismarck and Mandan, North Dakota, found there's nothing like a major flood to make new friends while filling thousands of sandbags.",
"As cities along the Missouri River brace for the onslaught, the \"Sunday Sandbag Thrown-Down\" in Bismarck resulted in 1,600 people producing about 300,000 sandbags in six hours, Burleigh County Commissioner Mark Armstrong said.",
"\"The crisis is just beginning,\" Armstrong said Wednesday.",
"\"There has been a great community spirit.\"",
"Over the past few weeks, Armstrong, who has filed several CNN IReport photos and videos of the river and flooding, has been sounding the alarm over the threat to the community.",
"Already, 2,400 residents and 632 homes in the county have been evacuated, he said, adding most of the displaced are staying with family and friends.",
"\"It's going to get worse,\" the official said.",
"\"People who never saw water in their basements are seeing water.\"",
"Such flooding hasn't happened here in nearly 60 years, before a system of Missouri River dams in North Dakota and South Dakota were in place.",
"In recent weeks, about 15 miles of emergency levees have been built in the capital area, according to Armstrong.",
"Upstream, at Garrison Dam, a peak release of 150,000 cubic feet of water per second is expected later this month.",
"Heavy rains and snow pack runoff could result in near-record flooding along significants portions of the Missouri River this year, officials have said.",
"Armstrong is concerned that a fast melt of an unusually heavy snow pack in Montana could have devastating consequences.",
"Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches in July and August also could potentially destroy levees, he said.",
"Hundreds of National Guard members are in the area, performing levee patrols and other duties.",
"Across the Upper Midwest, townspeople are remembering the devastating Missouri River flood of 1952, which caused tens of thousands to flee.",
"The 1952 flood saturated parts of downtown Omaha before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the current flood protection system, according to CNN affiliate KMTV.",
"The Missouri River in Omaha was at 30.38 Wednesday, slightly more than its peak during the 1993 flood, said National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Chermok.",
"It is expected to rise to more than 32 feet by Tuesday, he said.",
"Flood stage is 29 feet.",
"By comparison, the river was at a record 40.20 feet on April 18, 1952.",
"It had an astounding water flow of 396,000 cubic feet per second.",
"The Army Corps of Engineers, which controls the dams, said Wednesday that it is committed to the Missouri River flood fight.",
"\"This will be a long, sometimes frustrating and intense effort as the situation evolves and as we work together to avoid loss of life, minimize damages and help communities deal with the situation,\" said Brig.",
"Gen. John McMahon, commander of the Corps' Northwestern Division.",
"\"The Corps is committed to doing its best in close collaboration with city, county, state and federal agencies as well as congressional representatives and others as we address this daunting challenge.\"",
"The Missouri River was 1.39 feet above flood stage Wednesday afternoon at Bismarck, with an increase expected later in the week.",
"CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) -- A grand jury indicted Levi Aron on Wednesday as authorities revealed new details about the death of the 8-year-old Brooklyn boy he is accused of kidnapping and killing last week.",
"The grand jury indicted Aron, 35, on eight counts, including two of felony murder in the first degree.",
"If convicted, he would face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole, Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes announced.",
"Hynes had said he would ask a grand jury for the \"maximum charges permitted by law\" for \"the vicious and callous murder and dismemberment of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky.\"",
"The indictment accuses Aron of abducting Kletzky in his Brooklyn neighborhood on July 11.",
"After kidnapping the boy, the indictment says, Aron took him to Aron's apartment and killed him there, according to a statement from Hynes' office.",
"\"I should note that the child's body contained marks on the wrist ... which would indicate at some point that he was tied,\" Hynes told reporters.",
"Hours before Hynes announced the indictment, New York City's chief medical examiner said that Kletzky died after being drugged and then smothered.",
"\"We charge that the child was kept for more than 12 hours, that it was an intent to kill, and that's based on ingestion of the medication,\" Hynes said.",
"The autopsy results for Kletzky listed a cocktail of four prescription and over-the-counter drugs in the boy's system: cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant; quetiapine, an antipsychotic drug; hydrocodone, a pain medication; and acetaminophen, the drug found in Tylenol, according to a statement from the medical examiner's office.",
"Kletzky disappeared July 11 while walking home alone from his summer day camp.",
"Police located human remains in Aron's freezer during a search of the Brooklyn neighborhood, as well as in a trash bin.",
"Both Aron and Kletzky are members of the borough's close-knit Orthodox Jewish community, although police say it doesn't appear that they knew each other.",
"On Wednesday, Hynes detailed some of the evidence that he alleged links Aron to the kidnapping and killing -- including extensive video footage that shows Kletzky talking to a man and following him to a brown car authorities later traced to Aron.",
"Detectives later concluded that Aron was also the man they saw in the video footage, Hynes said.",
"Aron, who was being held without bail, did not enter a plea at his arraignment last week.",
"He is under a suicide watch.",
"A mental evaluation that his attorneys asked be conducted on their client has been completed but the results have not been released, said attorney Gerard Marrone.",
"New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said last week that Aron told authorities he was sorry for the trouble he has caused.",
"Statements made by the suspect indicated that he kidnapped Kletzky and, as the neighborhood search for the boy intensified, he panicked and killed him, Kelly said.",
"Aron is currently at Bellevue Hospital Center, where doctors are examining him, Hynes said.",
"\"His mental capacity is a question for the doctors,\" Hynes said, adding that he expected their findings to be released before a scheduled court appearance July 28.",
"Defense attorneys Marrone and Pierre Bazile say Aron has said he hears voices and hallucinates.",
"\"He's been hearing voices for quite some time,\" Marrone told reporters at a news conference Monday, adding that his client tries to silence the voices by listening to music.",
"\"He listens to it with earphones and he listens to it very loud, and that helps him quell some of his voices.\"",
"\"I have sincerest concerns about the defendant's mental state and his cognitive abilities,\" Bazile said Wednesday.",
"Kelly called the case \"heartbreaking.\"",
"\"Obviously in this business you see a lot of violence, but there's usually some sort of irrational twisted logic that's given to why a violent event took place,\" Kelly said in a news conference last week.",
"\"Here, I mean, it's just, it defies all logic and I think that's what's really so, so terribly disturbing about this case.",
"There's absolutely no reason.",
"There's nothing more innocent than an 8-year-old child and to be, you know, killed in this manner it's just ...",
"heartbreaking.\" On the day he disappeared, Kletzky was supposed to meet his parents after walking seven blocks from his summer day camp, but he became lost and asked the suspect for directions, Kelly said.",
"Surveillance video showed Aron entering a dentist's office while Kletzky waited for him across the street for seven minutes, Kelly said.",
"Aron claims he took Kletzky to a wedding July 11 in Monsey, New York, and then brought him back, Kelly said.",
"Police said Aron went to the wedding, but they have not been able to confirm that Kletzky went with him, as no one has said they saw him.",
"Hynes said Wednesday that authorities have evidence showing that Kletzky had been in Monsey, saying a clerk reported seeing the boy at a gas station there.",
"According to Kelly, police showed up at Aron's third-floor attic apartment at 2:40 a.m. July 13 and asked him about Kletzky's whereabouts.",
"The suspect pointed them to the kitchen, where blood was visible on the freezer handle.",
"Inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three blood-spattered carving knives, Kelly said.",
"Remains were found in Aron's freezer and in a trash bin more than two miles away, wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a suitcase, Kelly said.",
"Aron worked as a clerk at a maintenance supply company, authorities said.",
"His only known criminal summons was for urinating in public last year.",
"The grand jury's charges against Aron on Wednesday also included three counts of murder in the second degree, two counts of kidnapping in the first degree and one count of kidnapping in the second degree.",
"CNN's Jesse Solomon, Nina Raja and Leigh Remizowski contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Levi Aron is hospitalized while doctors evaluate his mental state, prosecutors say .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Anthony Weiner has said he has no plans to resign over a \"sexting\" scandal, and that his wife wants him to stay in Congress, a Democratic source told CNN Thursday.",
"Weiner made the remarks to a House Democratic colleague from New York on Wednesday afternoon, rejecting growing calls from fellow legislators -- including key Democrats -- for him to step down, said the source, who was familiar with the conversation.",
"Weiner also cited polling data showing a majority of New York City voters want him to remain in office, the source said, describing Weiner as \"dug in.\"",
"The source spoke to CNN on the condition that the name of the Democratic New York lawmaker to whom Weiner spoke would not be made public, because it was a private conversation.",
"After more than a week of bad news that began over Memorial Day weekend with the first reports of his sexual-tinged online communications with several women, Weiner got some good news Thursday: new polling information showed 56% percent of constituents in his home disrict want him to stay on.",
"However, Democratic colleagues on Thursday continued to call for him to bow out, including veteran Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and Utah Rep. Jim Matheson.",
"Leahy, who ranks second in Senate seniority, \"supports Minority Leader (Nancy) Pelosi's request for a House investigation, and he believes that a decision by Congressman Weiner to voluntarily leave office would be in the best interests of his constituents and the House,\" Leahy spokesman David Carle said.",
"He and Matheson joined Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Reps. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania, Michael Michaud of Maine, Mike Ross of Arkansas, Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts, Larry Kissell of North Carolina and Joe Donnelly of Indiana in calling for Weiner's resignation.",
"\"Enough is enough,\" Donnelly said in a written statement.",
"\"It's time for Congressman Weiner to resign.",
"His actions have disgraced the Congress.",
"Everyone should be focused on jobs and the economy, and his refusal to do the right thing is a distraction.\"",
"In addition, Donnelly and some other Democrats have announced that previous campaign contributions they received from Weiner would be donated to charity.",
"Another top Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, stopped short of calling for Weiner's resignation but offered a barb attributed to former President Woodrow Wilson in saying, \"Don't murder someone who is already committing suicide.\"",
"\"I think he has some serious problems that will not go away soon,\" Durbin added.",
"The actual quote attributed to Wilson, a Democratic President who served from 1913 to 1921, is: \"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.\"",
"A Democratic legislator familiar with discussions on the situation told CNN that Weiner's colleagues are telling him he should resign \"to preserve his own dignity.\"",
"The legislator, who spoke on condition of not being identified by name in order to discuss private conversations, said the public call by Schwartz was part of a stepped-up effort to force Weiner out.",
"According to the source, the effort includes private and public calls explicitly telling him it's time for him to leave Congress.",
"\"There is increased resentment by his colleagues that far from having a press conference where he was going to tell the truth and roll with the flames, the flames are just getting worse and he's dragging us through it,\" the source said.",
"\"We really thought by now, after the press conference, we would be able to talk about the Republicans' Social Security privatization bill and instead we keep talking about Anthony Weiner.",
"And people are getting angrier and more resentful.\"",
"A new explicit photograph now published on the Internet, allegedly of Weiner's naked genitals, is the latest example of how the issue is not going away, the Democratic legislator said, adding it was unclear if Weiner would listen.",
"Meanwhile, it is highly likely Weiner's district will be eliminated as part of next year's redistricting process, multiple New York Democratic sources told CNN.",
"New York will lose two of its 29 U.S. House seats by 2012 in line with recent U.S. Census results.",
"Weiner, who is married, admitted earlier this week that he engaged in sexually tinged communications with multiple women and lied about it.",
"Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, are expecting their first child, CNN has learned.",
"Pelosi, D-California, who called Monday for an ethics investigation, released a letter Tuesday detailing her formal request for the inquiry.",
"She has not spoken on or released further statements on what she thinks Weiner should do.",
"Weiner, who has said he would welcome an ethics probe, publicly apologized Monday for sending flirtatious messages and images on Facebook and Twitter to six women over the past three years and then denying it for a week.",
"Over the past three days, he has been reaching out to a number of colleagues and supporters, according to one source.",
"Among other things, Weiner called former President Bill Clinton -- who officiated at his wedding ceremony -- to personally express regret for his actions.",
"According to a Democratic congressman who got one of the calls, Weiner was \"very contrite\" and said he \"let everyone down.\"",
"The legislator, speaking on condition of not being named because it was a private conversation, said Weiner was so choked up he could \"barely get the words out,\" and told him that he was going to \"get some help.\"",
"Wednesday's publication online of the explicit photo that a conservative blogger claims shows Weiner's genitals was the latest twist in the scandal.",
"Andrew Breitbart, whose biggovernment.com website broke the story of Weiner's sexting, said the photo came from a woman who told him Weiner sent it to her.",
"Weiner acknowledged Monday that such an X-rated photo of him could exist.",
"Also Wednesday, one of the women with whom Weiner communicated online said the congressman initiated sexual exchanges.",
"\"I would want to talk politics.",
"But he would turn it creepy,\" Lisa Weiss, a 40-year-old blackjack dealer from Las Vegas, told CBS' \"Inside Edition.\"",
"Weiss said she believes Weiner has \"a weird fetish,\" but that \"it doesn't make him a bad politician ... or a bad congressman.",
"It makes him a bad husband.\"",
"Asked what she'd say to Weiner's wife, Weiss said: \"I want to apologize.",
"I should not have been flirting with her husband.\"",
"An ethics investigation would examine if Weiner violated House rules or brought the chamber into disrepute.",
"The code of conduct for members of Congress calls for them to conduct themselves \"at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.\"",
"However, ethics experts say legislators are rarely, if ever, disciplined for violating that rule alone.",
"Using government technology such as telephones and computers for his sexting could be another story.",
"Weiner said Monday he used his personal BlackBerry and home computer, but added: \"I don't have the knowledge of every last communication, but I don't believe that I used any government resources.\"",
"Even if he did, that doesn't automatically subject him to House discipline, said Stan Brand, a former House general counsel who has represented legislators before the ethics panel.",
"Members of Congress sometimes use official resources for nongovernment activities, Brand noted, adding that \"the House has never taken a position or disciplined someone for that use.\"",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Tom Cohen, Peter Hamby, Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh, Mary Snow, Meghan Rafferty, Josh Levs, Ted Barrett and Kate Bolduan contributed to this report."
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"NEW: New poll shows majority in Weiner's district want him to stay on .",
"Weiner told a colleague he does not intend to resign, a source tells CNN .",
"Sen. Leahy is the most senior Democrat to date to call for Weiner to leave .",
"An explicit photo claimed to be of Weiner is posted online ."
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"(CNN) -- Efforts to reform the Afghan National Police force have been stymied by \"corruption and lack of political will,\" and police are wrongly being used to help fight the insurgency instead of crime, an independent research group said in a report.",
"An Afghan policeman guards the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul on November 27.",
"\"The U.S. military ... still mainly sees the police as an auxiliary security force rather than an enforcer of the law,\" the International Crisis Group concluded in a report posted Thursday on its Web site.",
"\"Too much emphasis is still placed on using the police to fight the insurgency rather than crime.",
"\"The Afghan National Police (ANP) is ill-equipped for this role, and has been targeted by the Taliban, with 1,200 killed in 2007 and a similar toll expected in 2008,\" the group added.",
"The Taliban will be on the agenda during the first visit by Pakistan's president to Afghanistan on Friday.",
"The talks come amid ongoing warfare and tension along the Afghan-Pakistan border.",
"Some of the Taliban militants conducting attacks in Afghanistan have been based in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and nearby tribal regions.",
"\"The goal of the Afghan government and the international community should be a national police force able to uphold the rule of law, and thereby help tackle the root causes of alienation that drive the insurgency,\" the International Crisis Group said.",
"The group described Afghanistan's Interior Ministry as a \"hub of systemic corruption,\" and accuses the department of placing \"personal enrichment\" above the need for improved policing.",
"Recent leadership changes at the Interior Ministry should be used to stress that abuses will no longer be tolerated.",
"\"There has been little political will in Kabul or foreign capitals to tackle the power brokers who are preventing reform,\" said Samina Ahmed, the group's South Asia project director.",
"\"Organized crime and lawlessness lie at the heart of much popular disillusionment and instability.",
"Better law enforcement, including a functioning judicial system, would help counter any appeal the insurgents may hold in Afghanistan,\" he added.",
"The International Crisis Group covers more than 60 countries and territories, using field-based analysis and advocacy to deter and resolve deadly conflicts."
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"Afghan National Police is ill-equipped to fight insurgents, group says .",
"There have been 1,200 insurgency-related police deaths in 2007 .",
"Group alleges Interior Ministry puts personal gain above improved policing .",
"Taliban on the agenda during visit by Pakistan leader to Afghanistan on Friday ."
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"Marietta, Georgia (CNN) -- A Georgia woman who potentially faced more jail time than the driver who struck and killed her son last year was spared any time behind bars Wednesday.",
"Raquel Nelson of Marietta was sentenced to 12 months of probation and 40 hours of community service by Judge Kathryn Tanksley.",
"Half of those hours must relate to child safety.",
"Nelson has already faced the ultimate nightmare for a mother -- seeing her child die after being struck by a car in 2010.",
"She initially faced up to 36 months in jail in connection with the incident -- a sentence six times longer than the time served by the driver of the car that hit her son.",
"The case had become a cause for radio talk show hosts, the NAACP and even transportation advocates, who said Nelson is being punished because she chose to cross the road at the bus stop across from her apartment instead of traveling to the nearest crosswalk, three-tenths of a mile away.",
"\"Your office's decision to prosecute Raquel Nelson for the death of her four-year-old son on a vehicular homicide charge is disgusting and inhumane,\" wrote one poster to the Facebook page of the Cobb County Solicitor General's office, which is handling the case.",
"More than 135,000 people have signed an online petition calling for leniency.",
"\"It's just so confusing and unreal that it would happen in this manner,\" said Loretta Williams, Nelson's aunt.",
"Nelson and her three children had just gotten off the bus at a stop across from their apartment building in October 2010 when her 4-year-old son, A.J., broke away from her and ran into the street.",
"A car struck the boy.",
"Nelson and one of her two daughters also suffered minor injuries.",
"Five weeks after the accident, investigators came to Nelson's home, Williams said.",
"She was charged with three misdemeanors -- second-degree vehicular homicide, failing to cross at a crosswalk and reckless conduct, according to court records.",
"A jury convicted her last week.",
"Each count carried a potential sentence of one year in jail.",
"The man driving the car, Jerry Guy, fled the scene after the accident, but later admitted being involved, according to CNN affiliate WXIA-TV.",
"He was sentenced to five years in prison, but served only six months.",
"He is serving the remainder of the sentence on probation.",
"A representative of the Cobb County Solicitor General's office said the agency could not comment on the case until sentencing is complete.",
"The NAACP called the case against Nelson a \"grave miscarriage of justice when the mother who is still grieving is forced to fight harder for her freedom than the man who killed her son.\"",
"The case has also attracted attention from transportation advocates, who say Nelson is being treated unfairly because transportation planners fail to take into account the needs of pedestrians when designing roads.",
"\"Because she did as her fellow bus riders, who crossed at the same time and same place, and because she did what pedestrians will do every time -- take the shortest reasonable path -- she is guilty of vehicular homicide,\" Transportation for America communications director David Goldberg wrote on the advocacy organization's blog.",
"Nelson had hoped to receive a minimal sentence Tuesday, Williams said.",
"CNN's Tristan Smith contributed to this report."
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"Nelson, 4, died in 2010 when he ran into traffic .",
"Transportation advocates and the NAACP called the case an outrage ."
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"(CNN) -- Alaska's a big place.",
"It sounds obvious, but it's an important fact to remember when planning a visit, because you won't get to see everything in one trip.",
"I spent the first 24 years of my life in four different Alaska towns, and there are still new things to do when I go back to visit.",
"So tip No. 1 is to make some decisions: Do you want to camp in a national park?",
"Hike to the top of a glacier?",
"Go backcountry skiing?",
"Catch and/or eat some of the best seafood in the country?",
"See the northern lights?",
"You won't be able to do it all, but with a bit of planning you can pack quite a few adventures into a week or two.",
"Here are some ideas for activities based on a recent trip I took with some friends: .",
"As the state's largest city and home to its biggest airport, Anchorage is the place where many will start their adventures on the Last Frontier -- and our trip was no different.",
"The city is surrounded by water on two sides and a mountain range on the third.",
"At sea level, the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail skirts the city along the water.",
"It's an 11-mile paved trail available for walking and cycling, or skiing and snowshoeing, depending on the season.",
"For those looking for more elevation, Chugach State Park is just east of the city and has several trails.",
"I recommend heading up Flattop Mountain.",
"It's a relatively short hike, just 1.5 miles from the trailhead to the mountain top, but the trail is steep in parts, especially near the summit.",
"With a bit of care, though, most people shouldn't have too much trouble making it up and enjoying the sweeping view of the city and surrounding scenery.",
"On our trip, we left Anchorage after a couple of days and drove 130 miles south to Seward.",
"From there, we spent a day hiking alongside Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park.",
"The National Park Service calls this 7.4-mile hike \"strenuous,\" but seeing the ice field at the top makes the hard work worthwhile.",
"And it doesn't get much better than an Alaskan Amber beer and fresh halibut once you make it back down.",
"If your legs are tired from hiking, you can work out your arms with a sea kayaking trip in Resurrection Bay.",
"The clouds were low the day of our excursion, but we saw bald eagles in the tree tops and were escorted by sea lions as we paddled along the rocky shoreline.",
"To finish off our Alaska adventure, we left Seward and drove 360 miles up to Denali National Park, home of the tallest peak in North America, Mount McKinley.",
"The public is allowed to drive only a few miles into the park, but there are buses that provide access farther into the wilderness.",
"On our bus ride we saw bears, mountain goats, moose and coyotes.",
"A few lucky visitors will get to see wolves, but sightings are rare.",
"After a few nights of camping in the park, it was time to drive back to Anchorage and catch our flights home.",
"And even though we experienced a lot during our visit, there are plenty more adventures to be had when we go back.",
"Like fishing for king salmon on the Kenai River, or watching the northern lights while relaxing in natural hot springs, or downhill skiing in Hatcher Pass, or sailing along the Inside Passage, or panning for gold in the Tanana Valley, or ..."
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"Alaska is a huge state, so start by figuring out what kinds of things you want to do .",
"Many travelers start in Anchorage, site of the state's largest airport and several trails .",
"Denali National Park is home to North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley .",
"Have you ever been to Alaska?",
"Share photos from your journey ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Boasting 6,000 seats, a 360-degree glass viewing concourse and an elliptical race track which required 56 kilometers (35 miles) of surface timber from sustainably-sourced Siberian pine for its construction, the velodrome for the 2012 London Olympics has been unveiled as the pride of local organizers.",
"Pressure to deliver is always a concern for the host city of the quadrennial Olympiad -- with Athens and Atlanta being notable illustrators of the struggle endured in 2004 and 1996 respectively -- and it is a demand keenly felt in the capital of Britain, 18 months before the start of the latest edition of the iconic Games.",
"Olympic Development Agency chairman John Armitt said the completion of the venue marked the site's \"biggest milestone to-date,\" emphasizing the ambition of all associated with event to maintain the \"on-budget, on-time theme\" set by the velodrome.",
"Whether this goal can be achieved has yet to be seen but lead architect for the cycle-center project, Mike Taylor, told CNN he felt the aesthetic challenge set for his team had been met.",
"\"[The aesthetic] was fundamental, because most velodromes end up being on a piece of government land somewhere.",
"This site was always going to be in the Olympic Park, so ... we designed it [instead] for legacy.",
"\"We put a ring of glass all the way around the venue because we thought we could landscape the park up to the glass, allowing anybody to walk up and look in to see the cyclists,\" Taylor, of Hopkins Architects, said.",
"Creatively, the team tried to use the vehicle at the center of the building's function as inspiration; namely the bicycle.",
"\"We hadn't designed a velodrome before, so at the beginning we sat down with the engineers and looked at it with a clean sheet of paper, and I think that was a big advantage,\" Taylor said.",
"\"We decided to base everything on the bicycle -- so the engineering would be infused with that sense of efficiency and lightness.",
"The roof, for instance, is held up with cables that are only 36 millimeters in diameter, [but] there's 100 tonnes of steel in the whole roof, so it's incredibly efficient.",
"\"On top of that, we have daylight streaming in, very sustainable [lightning]; the model of the bike has been reapplied to the architecture and engineering of the building in this way.\"",
"The echoes of strength provided to the wheels of a bike via the tension of its spokes with the construction of the sweeping roof is obvious, but it proved to be only the first of many hurdles to be crossed in the design and construction process.",
"\"The track is a real piece of difficult furnishing to build.",
"It's 250 meters long, it's made up of 40 by 40-millimeter sections, five or six meters in length, of Siberian pine which was specifically selected because the trees grow very straight,\" Taylor said.",
"\"It's got no expansion joints in it, so when it's hot and dries out it tends to move up and down, so it sits in a concrete bowl, almost like a piece of furniture.\"",
"The smooth curves of the new oval track, with its vertiginous banks at either end, was designed by specialist Ron Webb.",
"And though the British cyclists -- four-time Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy among them -- who tested out the decking for the first time seemed happy with the results, Taylor could only look on with envy.",
"\"I'm a cyclist myself, we're all dying to have a go, but today it's their turn.\"",
"The plan is for the $150 million stadium to remain at the center of British cycling once the Olympic Games have finished.",
"London 2012 will also have a road-cycle circuit, mountain-bike track and BMX layout to create what is hoped will be an \"all-in-one\" cycling hub for all disciplines."
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"The velodrome for the 2012 Olympics is the first venue to open in London ahead of Games .",
"Cycle track requires 56km of surface timber from sustainably-sourced Siberian pine .",
"Lead architect Mike Taylor says the inspiration for the arena came from the bicycle ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City's Carlos Tevez will not be returning to Corinthians after the Brazilian club pulled out of negotiations to sign the Argentina striker on Wednesday.",
"Corinthians had wanted to bring the 27-year-old back to the team he represented between 2004-06, but they have now said it would be impossible to conclude the deal before the Brazilian transfer window shuts on 20 July.",
"City manager Roberto Mancini said on Monday the English FA Cup winners had accepted a bid from the Sao Paulo outfit for Tevez, but it seems Corinthians were unable to close the deal.",
"\"The board of Corinthians hereby officially announce the impossibility of hiring the Argentine striker Carlos Tevez,\" read a statement on the club's official web site.",
"Copa America flops: Who is to blame?",
"\"While acknowledging the efforts of Manchester City and all involved in the negotiation, more time is needed for the transfer to be achieved, given that the window to sign players from abroad closes on Wednesday, 20 July.\"",
"Despite being unable to conclude a deal for the forward, the team based at the Pacaembu Stadium did not rule out a future bid for Tevez.",
"\"We are aware our fans wanted Tevez to join our club again and we hope we can have the player with us in the future,\" the statement added.",
"Tevez has been linked with a move away from the Etihad Stadium since handing in a transfer request in December 2010.",
"City accept Corinthians offer for Carlos Tevez .",
"The former West Ham United striker arrived in England in 2006 and moved to City from their local rivals Manchester United in 2009.",
"Tevez has scored 43 goals in 63 appearances for City and was a key member of the team that finished third in the English Premier League last season, a position which meant qualification to the European Champions League for the first time in their history.",
"Meanwhile, one player has definitely left City after the club confirmed that Brazilian striker Jo has returned to his native country, signing a permanent deal with Internacional.",
"The 24-year-old was briefly City's record signing when he joined from CSKA Moscow in 2008 for a fee of around $30 million.",
"However, he only scored six goals in 41 matches and has now left the club after loan spells at Everton and Galatasaray.",
"In other transfer news, Galatasaray have confirmed the signing of Lazio goalkeeper Fernando Muslera.",
"The Uruguay number one, currently with Oscar Tabarez's squad in Argentina preparing for Sunday's Copa America final, has signed a five-year deal with Istanbul-based team.",
"The 25-year-old joined Lazio from Montevideo Wanderers in 2007 and has represented Uruguay on 25 occasions.",
"Meanwhile, Brazilian midfielder Denilson has also returned to his homeland after Arsenal agreed to allow the 23-year-old to join former club Sao Paulo on a season-long loan deal.",
"Denilson has played 96 times for Arsenal since making his debut in 2006, scoring seven goals.",
"Another Brazilian on the move is Danilo, who has agreed a switch from Santos to Europa League winners Porto.",
"The young full-back becomes new Porto coach Vitor Pereira's sixth signing of the current transfer window."
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"The Brazilian club are not able to conclude the signing prior to close of the transfer window .",
"One player leaving Manchester City is Jo, who has joined Internacional ."
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"(CNN) -- South Africa risks witnessing mass uprisings if it doesn't act urgently to deal with rampant youth unemployment, the leader of the country's trade union movement has warned.",
"As general secretary of the Congress of South African trade unions (Cosatu), which boasts some two million members, Zwelinzima Vavi's voice is an influential one.",
"Speaking to CNN's Nkepile Mabuse, Vavi warned that 35 years after a youth revolt against the apartheid regime, the country's unemployment levels could lead to a new uprising.",
"\"If we don't do something urgent enough with the crisis of youth unemployment in South Africa we will be in Tunisia and Egypt very soon,\" he said.",
"An edited version of the interview follows.",
"CNN: You've warned that South Africa risks another 1976 uprising, tell us what you mean by that?",
"Zwelinzima Vavi: I've participated in the struggle and I know what type of aspirations and hopes all of us carried throughout those many dark years of struggle against apartheid ...",
"I'm only pointing out that after 17 years of all that democracy in the country we've seen little change when it comes to economic freedom, and I normally say we have a political freedom, but the economic jewelry is not hanging on our necks.",
"We have unemployment that I've already described at 36.6%, with 48% of our people living in poverty.",
"We're now number one in the world when it comes to inequalities.",
"I participated in local government elections and I see the face of poverty every day: it's a grinding, humiliating type of poverty that many people will be on the streets demonstrating if they were to be subjected to the same conditions that the poor are subjected to in the country, and already in my view we're seeing an implosion in the country.",
"CNN: Service delivery protests?",
"ZV: You saw the service delivery protest, and having interacted with that thing, I'm of the view that even if we can get the best councilor elected in some of those rural towns, you're not going to get that situation turned around.",
"The crisis is structural; as long as your economy is not put in a new growth path that can absorb large numbers of youth into employment in South Africa, we're sitting with that unemployment.",
"Seventy-three percent of all the people who are unemployed are below the age of 35 -- that's a crisis, that's 1976 waiting to happen again and we've urged that we must address that crisis with the necessary speed and my sense is that more and more South Africans are coming to accept that is true.",
"If we don't do something urgent enough with the crisis of youth unemployment in South Africa we will be in Tunisia and Egypt very soon.",
"CNN: Why do you think there hasn't been urgency within the ruling party to address this issue?",
"ZV: There's been, in my view, a serious lack of political willingness because people are not put under pressure enough.",
"You know when you feel that your tomorrow is guaranteed, your levels of support are guaranteed, you tend to loosen up and the urgency disappears -- that's what's been lacking.",
"CNN: Some analysts would say, if you had it your way, South Africa would not be a business-friendly and investor-friendly environment.",
"ZV: Not true, not true -- I'm a realist, I'm a socialist but (one) who is a realist.",
"I know that 80% of all people employed in the economy of South Africa are employed in the private sector and that demonstrates the extent of the role of the markets, of the private sector, in the South African economy.",
"I wish that was not true, but that is true.",
"I think that sometimes there is an exaggerated, completely misinformed view about the South African labor laws.",
"Lots of people say that they have become too rigid and (are) not creating space for private firms, or it is not an attractive investment destination -- I don't think that is at all true.",
"CNN: Would you ever accept a government job, if it was offered to you again?",
"I understand that when President Jacob Zuma became president you were offered a government position.",
"ZV: Under the conditions of today?",
"No I would not. My basic belief is that we must build a stronger movement of the ANC outside government, capable of holding the leadership to account in every respect.",
"You don't wait for the elections to do correct things, you do them because they are right things to be done every day, which is what I think has become lacking in the country."
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"(CNN) -- Paraguay will meet Uruguay in Sunday's Copa America final in Argentina after a dramatic penalty shoot-out win over Venezuela.",
"The 5-3 loss denied Venezuela the chance to reach the final of the Latin American tournament for the first time.",
"The match itself was largely disappointing and finished goal-less, a far cry from the 3-3 thriller played out in the group stages by the same two sides -- Venezuela had come back from 3-1 down.",
"Uruguay books place in final .",
"Venezuela increased the tempo in extra time; twice hitting the woodwork through Maldondo's deflected cross-come-shot and a free-kick from Juan Arango.",
"Meanwhile, Paraguay, twice winners of the competition, were reduced to ten men for the last 20 minutes after Jonathan Santana received his second caution of the match.",
"But still Venezuela could not make the breakthrough.",
"After the match, Venezuela's coach, Cesar Farias, was left to rue his team's ill fortune.",
"\"I don't want to do them down -- but Paraguay were incredibly lucky,\" he said, in quotes carried by Agence France-Presse.",
"\"But we go home with our heads held high.",
"\"They chalked off a goal for us, we hit the woodwork three times and created more chances.",
"We should have won but it didn't work out for us. This is how things go with football and I cannot reproach my players.\"",
"Paraguay goalkeeper Justo Villar also conceded fortune had favored his side.",
"\"It's not that we have been practicing penalties -- we've been rather lucky,\" he told AFP.",
"Venezuela will now play Peru, who lost to Uruguay in the other semi-final, for 3rd place."
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"Paraguay beat Venezuela 5-3 on penalties to reach Copa America final .",
"It was Venezuela's first-ever appearance in the last four of the competition .",
"Venezuela, who twice hit the woodwork in extra time, play Peru for 3rd place ."
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"(CNN) -- Kezai started receiving professional tennis coaching at the age of eight.",
"Since then his father has worked hard to cover his training costs.",
"Two years on and it all seems to have paid off.",
"In June, a local Chengdu company reached out to Li Chengpeng, Kezai's father, with an offer to sponsor Kezai.",
"Soon after, a professional photographer took pictures of Kezai and his father for advertisements.",
"But the family's happiness was short lived.",
"The company withdrew the sponsorship.",
"Though he says he was never given an explanation, Kezai's father believes it was because of his political activity.",
"The company could not be reached for comment.",
"As a controversial blogger and writer, Li announced his plan to run for office as an independent candidate for China's National People's Congress of Wuhou District, a legislative body at the local level in Sichuan province.",
"\"You never know the benefit of standing up if you always stay on your knees,\" Li declared in a campaign statement on his microblog, where he has more than three million regular followers.",
"Through the power of social media, Li's original message was forwarded more than 3,000 times within a few hours on micro-blogging site Sina Weibo, a popular twitter-like service.",
"But such campaigns are rare in China.",
"The Chinese do not choose their own president or premier because all government officials are pre-decided.",
"However, elections are held on the local level, with all candidates approved by the party beforehand.",
"China's electoral law stipulates that every Chinese citizen over 18 has the right to vote and run in local elections.",
"Those, like Li Chengpeng, seeking to become candidates for county or township legislatures must first register and secure confirmation of their candidacy.",
"They must then be nominated as \"deputy candidate\" by political parties, social organizations or have the signed support of at least 10 registered voters in their constituency.",
"In practice, the government can rule candidates or any of their supporters unqualified and refuse to put them on the ballot, which critics say leaves ample opportunity for manipulation of the results.",
"\"I know nobody on the ballot sheet.",
"And I don't think my vote will make much difference,\" a retiree in Beijing said when she was asked to vote for the People's Congress district's last election.",
"In recent months, an unprecedented number of Chinese citizens have declared themselves as independent candidates, according to Li Fan, founder of the World and China Institute that promotes democracy at the local levels.",
"He said many candidates have grievances with the local government and feel they cannot get their voices out.",
"\"They bid for the position as they think they can draw attention from the public for better solving of the problem,\" he said.",
"\"Some local governments did think that their leadership was threatened by these (independent candidates), which is obviously not the case.\"",
"Li Fan said.",
"Some believe there are concerns among the central government as well.",
"On June 8, state-run media Xinhua quoted the head of the Commission for Legislative Affairs of the National People's Congress Standing Committee as saying that \"there is no such a thing as an 'independent candidate' as it's not recognized by law.\"",
"All candidates must follow the guidelines laid out by the government.",
"But some do manage to meet the guidelines and run under the banner of an independent.",
"The history of China's independent candidates dates back to 1998, when Yao Lifa, a teacher in Hubei Province, became the first self-described independent candidate elected to the local congress.",
"He lost out when attempting a bid for a second term in 2003.",
"With the government in control of the media and potential candidates subject to government approval, many question whether a truly independent candidate can win.",
"Li Fan says more than 100 people -- many using the internet -- have declared themselves as candidates for upcoming elections for people's congresses across the country.",
"\"There are no fair and free elections in China,\" said Li Fan.",
"\"Chances are not good for these people leading the wave, but with their appeals, a lot more people will stand out to join in the election.",
"They are the future.\" No matter what the chances are for Li Chengpeng, he says he is determined.",
"\"In China, there is so much unfairness and many choices in life are decided by the others,\" he explained during an interview with CNN.",
"\"I want to make decisions on my own.\"",
"To achieve his goal, Li Chengpeng has visited more than 100 residents in his constituency, listening to their appeals to work out his campaign plan, trying to secure the government-required support from 10 registered voters.",
"He also continues to speak out on his blog.",
"Li Chengpeng is not sure whether his name will appear on the ballot in September, when the election process officially begins, but he tries to be optimistic.",
"\"I'm confident. If I'm not confident, how can I convince my supporters?\"",
"he said. Li Chengpeng is not so confident about securing another tennis sponsorship for his son, if his political activities indeed caused him to lose the first one.",
"He says he plans to fight on as an independent -- and he has his son's support.",
"Visqi He contributed to this report."
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"Many Chinese citizens have recently declared themselves independent candidates .",
"A controversial blogger says he has faced prejudice due to his political activity ."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champion Serena Williams will face former winner Maria Sharapova in the fourth round at Wimbledon after both players progressed comfortably on Saturday.",
"World No. 1 Williams thrashed unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 6-0 7-5 as she did not lose a game in the opening set for the third successive match.",
"Williams is seeking her fourth title at the grass-court grand slam in England, but said she has yet to find the form of last year despite an ominous start to the two-week tournament.",
"\"I was playing a little better last year, so hopefully I can pick it up -- obviously I'll have to in the next match,\" the American told reporters.",
"\"It's really intense when I play Maria.",
"It's a great match-up and it's good for the tour that she has come back and is playing well.",
"I'll have to play better if I'm to continue to do well.",
"\"I could have played better in the second set today.",
"I stepped off the gas a little too much, and you just can't afford to do that in big grand slams like this.\"",
"Sharapova, the 2004 champion, continued her comeback from long-term injury with an error-strewn 7-5 6-3 win over Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic.",
"The former world No.",
"1, seeded 16th this year, made 35 unforced errors against a player ranked 68th in the world who has never made it past the third round at Wimbledon.",
"She beat Williams to claim the title as a 17-year-old, but has fallen down the rankings after a difficult past year.",
"\"It'll be a really tough match.",
"She's a defending champion and playing really well,\" the 23-year-old Russian told reporters.",
"The winner of the Williams-Sharapova tie will take on either Polish seventh seed Agnieszka Radwanska or Chinese No.",
"9 Li Na. Radwanska won 6-3 6-1 against Italian 32nd seed Sara Errani on Saturday, while Na beat Australia-based Russian Anastasia Rodionova 6-1 6-3.",
"Third seed Caroline Wozniacki, who is in the same half of the draw, progressed into the last 16 with a 7-5 6-4 victory over Russian 29th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.",
"The 19-year-old Dane will next face unseeded Czech Petra Kvitova after the 20-year-old knocked out 14th seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus with a 7-5 6-0 victory.",
"Italian 10th seed Flavia Pennetta also exited, losing 6-2 6-3 to Klara Zakopalova.",
"The unseeded Czech will appear in the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time when she takes on Estonia's Kaia Kanepi, who has never before been past the second round at Wimbledon."
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"Defending champion Serena Williams cruises into the fourth round at Wimbledon .",
"World No.",
"1 will next play Maria Sharapova, who beat her in the 2004 final .",
"Third seed Caroline Wozniacki also progresses into last 16 of grass-court grand slam .",
"Italian 10th seed Flavia Pennetta and No.",
"14 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus crash out ."
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"(CNN) -- Park Ji-Sung will sign a new two-year contract with Manchester United, according to the English football champions' manager Alex Ferguson.",
"The midfielder, 30, has one year remaining on his current deal, but Ferguson is confident the former South Korea star will commit his future to the club he joined from Dutch outfit PSV Eindhoven in 2005.",
"\"He's been offered a new contract, yes,\" Ferguson, 69, told the Old Trafford team's official web site.",
"\"I'm sure he'll sign it. His career at United has been nothing but excellent.",
"He's a tremendous professional.",
"I'm sure he'll accept a new offer and tie himself to the club for the next two years.\"",
"Park, who is in the U.S. on United's preseason tour, scored in the Red Devils' first two matches against New England Revolution and Seattle Sounders respectively.",
"Since arriving in Manchester, Park has picked up four Premier League titles and helped United become champions of Europe in 2008.",
"He won 100 international caps for his country and became the first Asian player to score at three successive World Cups with a goal against Greece in June 2010.",
"Park, who began his career with Japanese club Kyoto Purple Sanga, announced his retirement from international football on January 31."
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"Alex Ferguson is confident Park Ji-Sung will sign a contract extension at Manchester United .",
"South Korean midfielder has been at United since 2005, joining from PSV Eindhoven .",
"Manager Ferguson says Park will agree to a new two-year deal at Old Trafford .",
"The 30-year-old became the first Asian player to score at three World Cups in 2010 ."
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"(CNN) -- Samuel Sanchez finally won his first stage at the Tour de France on Thursday, but the title hopes of his fellow Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador suffered a surprise blow as the race headed into the mountains.",
"Sanchez was fourth in the sport's biggest event last year, but found himself more than five minutes behind leader Thomas Voeckler going into the 12th leg from Cugnaux to Luz Ardiden.",
"However, the 2008 Olympic road race champion sped clear of the bunch of escaped riders going into the final ascent along with Jelle Vanendert, and the 33-year-old held off the Belgian for a memorable victory by seven seconds in the Pyrenees.",
"It came almost 10 years after his Basque-based Euskaltel team's first stage win at Le Tour, also at Luz Ardiden.",
"Cavendish sprints to third win of 2011 Tour de France .",
"\"I knew it was an important day, and I had to try something because I was late to my position in the general classification meant that I was not a dangerous rival for some of the GC riders,\" Sanchez told the race website.",
"\"I had my chance and I decided to go.",
"I was also aware that Andy Schleck had lost a lot of teammates and so did Alberto Contador, so they were not able to reel in our escape.\"",
"Sanchez came in 50 seconds ahead of Voeckler, who retained the yellow jersey after placing ninth.",
"Defending Contador, seeking a fourth title, was eighth as he lost time on his main rivals to be four minutes adrift overall with nine stages left.",
"\"I had a really sore knee, it was bothering me so I'm happy with the result even if I did concede a few seconds.",
"I couldn't do any better,\" he said.",
"\"I've been feeling the effects of those crashes in the first week, my pedal stroke hasn't been great.",
"But I'm sure things are going to improve.",
"The engine is taking some time to warm up but I think everyone is feeling tired and I hope that will play to my advantage.\"",
"Voeckler kept his lead of one minute and 49 seconds, though Luxembourg's Frank Schleck moved up to second place as he finished third -- 10 seconds behind Sanchez.",
"Two-time runner-up Cadel Evans of Australia was 30 seconds behind the winner in fifth to be third overall, 2:06 behind Voeckler.",
"Andy Schleck, who lost out to Contador last year after a controversial chain-break incident, was left 2:17 adrift after finishing sixth in the same time as Evans and Italy's Ivan Basso, who was fifth overall with a deficit of 3:16.",
"Voeckler was happy after keeping pace with the stage leaders until 1,800 meters from the end.",
"\"I was a little bit afraid when I crashed at the top of the first climb.",
"I'm normally not so bad in the downhill but I was very scared this time.",
"The road was very slippery and I decided to change my bike and that helped,\" said the Frenchman, who has held the maillot jaune since finishing second in stage nine.",
"\"On the final climb, I was still in the race along with the best climbers.",
"I told myself, 'Keep going!",
"Keep going!'",
"And Pierre Rolland gave me a great hand in the final -- he really helped me.",
"My legs felt good but it was the great job done by the Europcar team that really helped me today.\"",
"Thursday's stage winner Mark Cavendish was more than half an hour off the pace in 153rd, but retained the sprinters' green jersey as he extended his lead to 18 points from Spain's Jose Joaquin Rojas.",
"Sanchez won the climbers' polka-dot jersey for King of the Mountains, while the Schlecks' Leopard-Trek lead the teams.",
"Friday's 13th stage is a 152.5-kilometer route from Pau to Lourdes, featuring a steep climb up the 1,709-meter Col d'Aubisque."
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"Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador now four minutes off leader's time .",
"Defending champion finishes ninth in Thursday's 12th stage of cycling showpiece .",
"Fellow Spaniard Samuel Sanchez wins the first stage of his career to be 4:11 off pace .",
"France's Thomas Voeckler retains the leader's yellow jersey after finishing ninth ."
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"New York (CNN) -- He was one cool cat, trekking half way across America before meeting an untimely death by car on a Connecticut parkway.",
"The 1,500-mile feline journey is a \"testament to the wonders of nature and the tenacity\" of the species, said Daniel Esty, commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.",
"It was one of the longest known movements ever recorded for a land mammal and nearly double the distance for a mountain lion, the agency said.",
"There had been sightings of the large cat in Greenwich, Connecticut, its presence an anomaly in a state where none has been seen in more than a century.",
"Sadly, it was the cat's death that helped tie everything together.",
"A 2006 Hyundai Tucson SUV hit and killed the animal in the very early hours of June 11.",
"Police were informed of a collision between a vehicle and a mountain lion in the northbound lane, near exit 55, of Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford.",
"A necropsy and genetic tests revealed the lion's origins and travels, the Connecticut environmental agency said.",
"The young, lean mountain lion hailed from the Black Hills of South Dakota, making its way east 18 months ago in search of a mate.",
"Normally the majestic male cats don't wander beyond 100 milles while looking for females.",
"But this one kept going, through Minnesota and Wisconsin, where its sightings were recorded and DNA evidence collected from droppings, blood and hair.",
"In Wisconsin, biologists dubbed the animal the \"St. Croix Mountain Lion,\" after the first county where a sighting was confirmed .",
"The cat was not neutered or declawed, the necropsy showed, meaning that it was probably not a captive animal that escaped or was released.",
"It also had porcupine quills stuck in the tissue under its skin, indicating that it had spent some time in the wild.",
"Analysis of an extracted tooth could help determine a precise age for the cat, believed to have been between 2 and 5 years old.",
"Wildlife experts were still examining the cat, including the contents of its stomach.",
"They could still learn more in the days ahead."
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"The mountain lion was sighted in several states .",
"It was struck by a car in Connecticut and killed in June .",
"Tests show that it came all the way from South Dakota .",
"It was the longest journey ever recorded for a mountain lion in America ."
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"(CNN) -- European champions Barcelona have agreed to sell forward Bojan Krkic to Italian club Roma for $17.3 million.",
"Barcelona have an option to buy back the 20-year-old for $18.7 million at the end of the 2012-13 season, but Luis Enrique's Roma can override the clause if they pay the Spanish champions a further $40 million.",
"Bojan's exit follows Thursday's announcement that the Catalan side had captured Chile winger Alexis Sanchez from Udinese.",
"The one-cap Spain international made his Barca debut in 2007, and scored seven times last season despite being a fringe member of Josep Guardiola's team.",
"Barca land Chile star Sanchez .",
"\"I want to be happy about football again.",
"I am 20 years old and I want to continue demonstrating what I couldn't here,\" he told reporters on Friday after confirming the end of his 12-year stay at the Nou Camp.",
"\"Especially this last year there has been a lack of confidence in me.",
"I didn't get much continuity, and that hurts, but I am also aware of things and consider myself privileged to have been part of such a magnificent team.",
"These were four great years.",
"I take away the positive aspects.\"",
"Roma finished sixth in Serie A last season under interim coach Vincenzo Montella, the club's former striker who replaced Claudio Ranieri as boss in February.",
"Enrique, 41, was appointed at the Stadio Olimpico last month after a three-year spell as coach of Barca's B team.",
"The former Spain international spent eight years as a player at the Nou Camp between 1996-2004.",
"Diego Capel has followed his national under-21 teammate Bojan in leaving Spain, with the Sevilla winger joining Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for $5 million on a five-year contract.",
"The 23-year-old became the 12th player to sign for new coach Domingos Paciencia, having helped Spain win the European U21 Championship in May.",
"Capel made his league debut for the Andalusian club as a 16-year-old in October 2004, and won the last of his two senior Spain caps nearly three years ago.",
"Domingos guided Braga to the Europa League final last season, losing to Porto, and was subsequently appointed to replace Sporting's caretaker manager Jose Couceiro -- who joined Russia's Lokomotiv Moscow.",
"Turkish club Galatasaray announced the signing of Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo on a season-long loan from Italian side Juventus on Friday.",
"The 28-year-old joins Sweden striker Johan Elmander and Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera in joining the Istanbul team, now coached by former Turkey boss Fatih Terim after finishing only eighth in the domestic league last season.",
"Galatasaray paid a loan fee of $2.15 million, and must deliver another $18.5 million to secure Melo on a permanent basis at the end of next season.",
"Scotland striker Kenny Miller is poised to make a quick return to Britain after passing a medical with English second division team Cardiff on Friday.",
"His former club Rangers had tried to re-sign him from Bursaspor, but the Turkish club rejected the Scottish champions' offer.",
"The 31-year-old scored five goals in 15 games following his move to Bursa in January on a two-and-a-half-year deal."
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"Barcelona sell young forward Bojan Krkic to Italian side Roma in a deal worth $17.3 million .",
"European champions have option to buy back 20-year-old in 2013 for $18.7 million .",
"Bojan's Spain under-21 teammate Diego Capel joins Portugal's Sporting Lisbon .",
"Turkish club Galatasaray sign Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo on loan from Italy's Juventus ."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators Wednesday exhumed the body of a 7-year-old Illinois girl slain more than five decades ago in hopes that modern science will bolster the case against the man now accused of killing her.",
"The remains of Maria Ridulph, dead since 1957, were exhumed for tests as the 71-year-old suspect in her killing was headed back to Illinois from Seattle, DeKalb County State's Attorney Clay Campbell told reporters.",
"\"Suffice to say science has advanced greatly, thankfully, since that time and we're hoping that advancement in science can assist us in our investigation of this case,\" Campbell said.",
"Ridulph disappeared while playing with a friend near her home in Sycamore, Illinois, about 60 miles west of Chicago.",
"Her body was found five months later and 120 miles away.",
"Jack Daniel McCullough, the man now facing murder charges in her death, was an early suspect in the disappearance but had an alibi: He told police that he was at a military recruiting station in Rockford, Illinois, about 20 miles away, the evening Ridulph was reported missing.",
"McCullough told investigators he had been given a train ticket from Rockford to Chicago by the military, then returned home and went on a date with his girlfriend.",
"But when police interviewed the woman again in 2010 and asked if she had any photos of McCullough, she discovered an unused train ticket from Rockford to Chicago that she said he had given her on the date of the crime.",
"The discovery led to McCullough's arrest in Seattle in early July.",
"Campbell said Wednesday that McCullough was en route to Illinois from Washington state to face murder charges in Ridulph's death.",
"Maria's brother, Charles Ridulph, appeared at a news conference with Campbell and said the family had agreed to the exhumation.",
"\"Although the events were very difficult and very unsettling, we understand the necessity for these things, and we are in complete agreement and thankful for the way this case is being handled,\" he said."
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"Maria Ridulph's remain were exhumed Wednesday, 54 years after her death .",
"Investigators hope new tests will bolster their case .",
"The man accused of killing the 7-year-old is being extradited from Seattle ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- India and Pakistan Wednesday pledged not to let their fragile peace process slide again because of thorny issues that have made the nuclear neighbors bitter enemies.",
"Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar met her Indian counterpart S.M.",
"Krishna in New Delhi in an engagement that saw no major breakthroughs over outstanding disputes but a commitment to pursue dialogue.",
"Their talks came barely two weeks after three deadly explosions ripped through Mumbai, an attack that revived memories of the 2008 terror siege of India's financial hub.",
"Pakistan was quick to condemn the July 13 bombings of Mumbai while New Delhi was careful not to finger Islamabad.",
"\"This is indeed a new era of bilateral cooperation between the two countries and it is our desire, and I believe after having spoken to you mister foreign minister, that it is the desire and commitment of both the governments to make it an uninterrupted and uninterruptable process,\" Khar remarked, standing beside the Indian leader after their meeting.",
"In his comments, Krishna too acknowledged sustained negotiations were the way forward.",
"\"We have reaffirmed our commitment to resolve all outstanding issues through a comprehensive, serious and sustained dialogue.",
"While being fully cognizant of the challenges that lie ahead, I can confidently say that our relations are on the right track,\" he said.",
"\"We have some distance to travel, but with an open mind and a constructive approach, which has been demonstrated in this round of dialogue, I am sure we can reach our desired destination of having a friendly and cooperative relationship between the two countries,\" Krishna added.",
"As part of their confidence-building measures, both sides agreed to double the frequency of trade across Kashmir -- the disputed region divided between the countries -- to four days a week.",
"The current three-year agreement involves 21 locally made items, which a joint statement issued after the talks said would be reviewed for possible additions.",
"India and Pakistan have have fought three wars since the partition of the Asian subcontinent in 1947, two of them over Kashmir, which both nations claim.",
"\"The ministers held discussions on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and agreed to the need for continued discussions, in a purposeful and forward looking manner, with a view to finding a peaceful solution by narrowing divergences and building convergences,\" the joint statement noted.",
"Earlier this year, New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to resume peace talks frozen by the 2008 Mumbai strikes, which have been blamed on Pakistan-based militant groups.",
"Under U.S. pressure, Indian and Pakistani leaders held meetings last year in a bid to put their dialogue back on track, but no dramatic headway has been made.",
"In 2004, the nations agreed to negotiations that cover eight issues, including Kashmir, terrorism and Pakistan's concerns over river dams on the Indian side of the border, which it sees as a threat to its water supplies.",
"Since then, successive governments have held talks in an effort to end the historical acrimony.",
"Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari hailed results from the dialogue in September 2008 as the countries completed four rounds of diplomatic meetings.",
"But talks were suspended two months later, in November 2008, after the terror raid on Mumbai that left more than 160 people dead."
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"Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers meet .",
"No breakthroughs are announced but there is a commitment to pursue dialogue .",
"Both sides express optimism that dialogue will lead to progress ."
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- It's been more than five months since Indonesians have seen the latest Hollywood flicks on the big screen.",
"But cinema owners say the long wait is now over, with monster hit \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2\" releasing on Friday.",
"Djonny Sjafruddin, head of the Indonesian Cinema Companies Union, says blockbusters \"Transformers 3\" and \"Kung Fu Panda 2\" will follow a few weeks later.",
"In February major Hollywood studios stopped distributing films to Indonesia, after the government said it would impose a new royalty tax on imported movies.",
"That led to a protracted dispute between the government and the country's movie distributors.",
"Sjafruddin says a new tax scheme is now in place, eliminating the royalty tax but increasing import duties by 100%.",
"Earlier this month, many Indonesians looked on enviously as long-awaited summer blockbusters screened in cinemas around the globe.",
"Some made their way to neighboring Singapore.",
"Avid movie enthusiast Erza Setyadarma flew to the city state and watched Harry Potter and five other movies in just three days.",
"He was not alone. \"I was shocked to see so many Indonesians there.",
"We bumped into almost everyone we knew, in all the cinemas\", he says.",
"There were enough Indonesians in Singapore for at least one theater chain to offer them a free pass for every eight movie tickets.",
"The short flight is relatively inexpensive, so this became a common last resort among Indonesians who had the means.",
"Many others resorted to buying pirated DVDs on the black market or settled for second-tier foreign movies and locally made flicks.",
"Setyadarma heads the Indonesian Opera Society and is a supporter of the arts and movies.",
"Many like him are appalled that Indonesians were deprived of quality films for so long.",
"\"We're supposed to be a progressive, modern country and we can't see a decent movie.",
"It's ridiculous\", he says.",
"According to the Cinema Companies Union, there are 16 film distribution companies but the two largest previously brought in films by Hollywood's major studios.",
"Shortly after the boycott was announced, the government ordered three film importers to pay a total of 31 billion rupiah ($3.6 million dollars) in unpaid taxes.",
"One importer has paid up but the two larger ones are still contesting it in court and are still banned from importing films.",
"Sjafruddin says the government is auditing all the other distributors.",
"A new distribution company was then given a permit to import \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,\" \"Transformers 3\" and \"Kung Fu Panda 2.\"",
"While moviegoers express relief over the news, others doubt the real issues have been resolved.",
"Advertising executive Ricky Pesik and his family also squeezed in as many movies into their recent Singapore holiday.",
"Pesik says \"the real problem is fair business practice in movie distribution\".",
"Setyadarma applauds the government for clamping down on the errant distributors but adds \"the tax issue isn't the problem.",
"The problem is the monopoly.",
"I can't stand it. Why not open up the distribution to others?",
"I love playing the game of Monopoly but it shouldn't be applied in real life\".",
"In this game, moviegoers and local cinemas have been the biggest losers.",
"Syamsul Lusa, director of film at the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, says the absence of marquee films in Indonesia has taken its toll on local cinemas, citing a decrease in business of roughly 30% to 40% over the last four months.",
"Sjafruddin says income from the taxes dropped 50% in the first quarter of 2011, from 3.9 billion rupiah to only 1.8 billion rupiah.",
"Movie fans are sure to pack theaters when the final Harry Potter installment releases on Friday.",
"The dispute has played out like an extended suspense flick and many in Indonesia hope it's reached the end of its reel.",
"Anantha Natalegawa and Masyitha Chita Baziad contributed to this story."
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"In February major Hollywood studios stopped distributing films to Indonesia .",
"Government taxes led to a protracted dispute with the country's movie distributors .",
"Some Indonesians have been visiting neighboring Singapore to see the latest films ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Fashion designer to some of golf's big names, Tony \"The Tailor\" Q'aja, was hanging out with the stars at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews in October.",
"Samuel L.Jackson, sporting Tony's outfit at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.",
"He also went to Munich to see the new technology that will revolutionize golf fashion and looks at a golfer's susceptibility to harmful UV rays.",
"Here's Tony's monthly blog for Living Golf: .",
"Dunhill week with Samuel L. Jackson \"My favorite week of the year.",
"Spending time with some of the most admired people in the world, although many were missing this year.",
"No Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones or Bill Murray.",
"However, with the wonderful atmosphere that only St Andrews can give, there was plenty of fun to have.",
"Mr Qool (Samuel L. Jackson), who had enjoyed all the compliments wearing his Q'aja's at the Bob Hope earlier in the year, asked us to design something appropriate for the first day of Dunhill this year.",
"With the great Scottish culture and weather (rumor has it that it rains there) in mind, I put together a cream and black, bold tartan trouser with the Q factor of cream trims worn with a silk black polo and a cream angora jumper.",
"Fortunately the rain stayed away on Thursday (I promised \"Him up there\" a Q VIP outfit) so Sam looked fantastic -- even Tim Henman and Michael Campbell (both have used Q'aja in past) wished they had the courage.",
"Dunhill week wouldn't be complete without curry night in the great company of Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Henman, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sean Fitzgerald, to name a few -- wonderfully organized as always by Netjets supremo Rob Hersov and the lovely Claire -- thanks guys.",
"Munich Golf Expo It was my first ever trip to the German expo, which I must say was a disappointment.",
"Could it have been the fact the beer festival was going on at the same time or is the German market not as big as I thought it was?",
"However, it did give me the chance to witness the amazing Ion-Mask.",
"Ion-Mask is a gas treatment to a product through a gas chamber, which applies a nanometer thick protective layer that will make the product water repellent, and gives protection against scuffs and stains without affecting the breathability.",
"Although it's in its early stages, I am really excited about this innovation.",
"This could change the apparel industry totally.",
"The first item to be Ion-Masked is a golf shoe by Hi-Tec, which was on the stand with water pouring onto it and yes, amazingly, the water just slid off... wow!",
"No, people, I don't think you'll be able to do it to yourself so you never have to wash again.",
"Skin cancer Now, you know how much I am into health in sport.",
"Well, my partners Sunderland of Scotland have come out with a collection with a very high UV factor of 50.",
"This basically means that the yarn the fabric is made from has gone through a treatment which gives protection from sun rays.",
"We don't realize how vulnerable we are to the natural elements from four to five hours of continuous sun rays.",
"I am glad that the National Cancer Institute is getting involved in the awareness of this disregarded health risk.",
"So please, like the safe driving campaign of \"Belt Up,\" Cover Up for safe golf!\""
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"Tony designed clothes for Samuel L. Jackson to wear at the Dunhill Championship .",
"He attended the Munich Golf Expo and was impressed by the Ion-Mask technology .",
"Tony's design partners have released a line with a UV factor of 50 ."
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"New Orleans (CNN) -- The legendary Chaka Khan, dressed in a regal purple and blue blouse and slacks, glides into the CNN Red Chair Interview room.",
"She's wearing stunning, large, hoop earrings crafted by her mother.",
"Her energy, warm and embracing, is big enough to blow out a nearby spotlight.",
"\"Did I do that?\" she calmly asks.",
"\"No,\" I assure her as I try to get the attention of my shooter/producer/editor to resolve the problem.",
"I ask the singer what I should call her.",
"She seems surprised and tells me to please call her \"Chaka.\"",
"I respond that my stepdaughter is also named \"Chaka.\"",
"Her face lights up.",
"\"People usually name their dogs after me,\" she whispers, as though we are girlfriends sharing a funny secret.",
"But she keeps no secrets during our interview.",
"She says she'll answer just about any question, and she does.",
"Chaka tells funny stories and shares pivotal moments, a few of them sad.",
"She apologizes for not remembering anything about her childhood, but later sent some of her baby pictures.",
"The one thing she recalls from way back when, however, is that she always wanted to be an anthropologist.",
"Her singing career allowed her to become one, she says.",
"She loves children and cries when she relives the day she realized she could not have a conversation with her nephew Tallon, who has autism.",
"I remind her of how many people she's helping through her Chaka Khan Foundation, which has raised more than $4 million.",
"The foundation says it \"is dedicated to assisting women and children at risk with a particular emphasis on education and autism.\"",
"Through tears, she smiles, \"I hope so.",
"I hope so.\" Her \"God Shots,\" as she calls her \"aha\" moments, keep coming.",
"She loves life and each moment God gives her, she says.",
"Her latest special moment was during a flight with an autistic boy who was \"talking, talking, talking\" as he got on the plane, she recalls.",
"A storm during the flight made everyone including him go silent.",
"However, when the plane landed safely, the boy announced, \"We're all back now.\"",
"That's right, she reflected.",
"It was like a homecoming, a shot at life again.",
"After our conversation, she won't leave the room until she sees a picture of my little Chaka.",
"My husband gladly thumbs through his iPhone for photos of his daughter.",
"Chaka Khan says she is \"just Chaka.\"",
"Her CNN Red Chair Interview shows that she's someone to remember.",
"CNN Red Chair Interviews strive to look at people's past to see what made them who they are today.",
"We also want to know the biggest pivotal and \"aha\" moments of their lives.",
"Be sure to read and watch next Wednesday's revealing conversation with minister and author Jacquie Hood Martin."
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"Music legend Chaka Khan opens up during a CNN Red Chair interview .",
"She says many people have named their \"best friend\" after her .",
"Chaka calls special moments in her life \"God Shots\"\nShe raises money to help children who share her nephew's disease ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- The Rev.",
"Howard Creecy Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died early Thursday in Atlanta from what is believed to be a heart attack, spokesman Maynard Eaton said.",
"Creecy died about 12:30 a.m., Eaton said.",
"An autopsy was being performed Thursday.",
"Creecy, 57, was elected president of the SCLC in January after Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev.",
"Martin Luther King Jr., declined the post, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.",
"Creecy, pastor of Olivet Church in Fayette County, Georgia, had previously served as the interim president of the SCLC.",
"Before joining Olivet Church, Creecy was senior pastor of St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta for 26 years, according to the Olivet Church website.",
"He and his wife have two daughters.",
"The SCLC, one of the nation's most prominent civil rights groups, was founded by King and others in 1957."
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"Creecy, 57, died about 12:30 a.m. Thursday in Atlanta .",
"The cause of death is believed to be a heart attack ."
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"(CNN) -- CNN-sponsored Team Lotus have drafted in Karun Chandhok to replace Jarno Trulli for Sunday's German Grand Prix.",
"Chandhok, 27, joined Team Lotus team as a reserve driver in March and has not taken part in a race since representing Hispania at the 2010 British Grand Prix.",
"Trulli, 37, is currently in his second season with Team Lotus, but the veteran Italian, who has also raced for Jordan and Renault during a 14-year career, has failed to score a point in 28 races with the marquee.",
"\"Ever since I first joined the team I have been looking forward to this opportunity and I am determined to do my best to repay their faith in me and help the team progress,\" India's Chandhok said in a statement Thursday.",
"Alonso claims British win for Ferrari .",
"\"I know there will be millions of Indian fans, and Team Lotus fans around the world, who will be behind me and the whole team, so I will do the best I can to give them something to cheer for.\"",
"Chandhok also received the backing of one-time grand prix winner Trulli, who vowed to help his teammate in the build up to the Nurburgring event.",
"\"I'm looking forward to working with Karun this weekend and doing whatever I can to help him get the most out of his opportunity in Germany,\" said Trulli.",
"\"It's great that the team is true to its word of helping develop young talent, particularly from parts of the world where it is even harder to break through into the top rung of motorsport.\"",
"Passing judgment: Hamilton must stay aggressive .",
"When Chandhok lines up on the grid for the race he will be alongside his compatriot Narain Karthikeyan, who is in his first season with Hispania.",
"Both drivers will be hoping to be in the cockpit when India makes its bow as a Formula One venue with a grand prix in New Delhi on October 30."
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"Karun Chandhok will race for CNN-sponsored Team Lotus at the German Grand Prix .",
"The Indian will replace the veteran Italian Jarno Trulli who sits out the race .",
"Chandhok has been in Formula 1 since the 2010 British Grand Prix at Silverstone ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time African footballer of the year El-Hadji Diouf has been banned from international football for five years by the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF).",
"The ban follows comments the striker, who plays for English club Blackburn Rovers, made in the media relating to corruption in African football.",
"In a statement posted on their official web site the FSF said Diouf would be forbidden \"from performing any football-related activity for a period of five years with effect from the date of notification of this decision.\"",
"The FSF accused Diouf of \"having greatly damaged the image of both Senegalese football and of its officers and administrative techniques.\"",
"In an interview with Radio France International Diouf said \"the whole system of African football is corrupt\" and spoke of \"shenanigans\" and \"scams\" within Senegalese soccer.",
"The FSF claim Diouf failed to appear at a disciplinary hearing earlier this month, though the player denied having been informed about it in a subsequent interview with French sports magazine Stade.",
"He also claimed he would \"go to war\" with the Senegalese football authorities if it followed through on its threat to ban him.",
"Controversy has followed Diouf throughout his career in the UK, where he has played for Liverpool, Celtic, Sunderland and Bolton.",
"Earlier this month his current manager at Blackburn, Steve Kean, said he thought it was time Diouf left the club after he failed to report on time for pre-season training."
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"El-Hadji Diouf has been banned from international soccer for five years by Senegal .",
"Diouf banned for claiming the football system in Africa is corrupt .",
"Two-time African footballer of the year also spoke of \"shenanigans\" in Senegal soccer .",
"Diouf claimed he didn't receive an invitation to a hearing earlier in the month ."
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"(CNN) -- The long-time companion of notorious fugitive James \"Whitey\" Bulger has sold her share of her family's Boston home for $1 to her twin sister, according to registry records.",
"Catherine Greig, who faces charges of harboring a fugitive, appeared in court July 13 for a detention hearing.",
"The government has 30 days from the hearing day to indict Greig, who is being held without bail.",
"In an apparent move to protect her assets, Greig sold \"all my rights, title and interest\" in the house and land in South Boston to Margaret McCusker, according to a filing with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.",
"Greig also sought to protect her $343,700 home in Quincy by declaring it covered by the state's Homestead Act, the Boston Globe reported.",
"The house could be safe from creditors as long as she can prove it is her primary residence, the newspaper said.",
"During Greig's detention hearing, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, told the judge that his client was a \"kind, gentle person\" who had a \"loving personality.\"",
"Prosecutors released a series of photographs showing cash, weapons and even a grenade recovered from the Santa Monica, California, apartment that she apparently shared with Bulger for 15 years while he was being hunted by the FBI.",
"The government also released a brief security camera video of Greig walking in and out of a local drugstore, picking up a prescription, prosecutors said, that was under an assumed name.",
"Bulger and Greig were known in Santa Monica as Charles and Carol Gasko.",
"Bulger has pleaded not guilty to all counts against him, including his alleged role in 19 murders.",
"Prosecutors say Bulger was the head of a South Boston Irish gang before he fled an impending racketeering indictment in 1995.",
"At the same time, he was an FBI informant whose handler tipped him off about the charges.",
"The reputed mobster became the inspiration for the Jack Nicholson character in the 2006 Martin Scorsese film \"The Departed.\""
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"Catherine Greig sold her share of a family home to her sister .",
"She had another home protected under the Homsetead Act, the Boston Globe reports .",
"Greig faces charges of harboring a fugitive .",
"She shared an apartment with Bulger while the FBI was hunting him ."
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"Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- An independent commission will be set up to examine Friday's terror attacks in which at least 76 people died, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced Wednesday.",
"Stoltenberg said he wants the commission to prepare an overview of both the bombing in Oslo, in which eight people died, and the mass shooting on Utoya Island, where 68 people attending a youth political camp lost their lives, and report back to Parliament within a year.",
"He wants the commission to have a high degree of integrity, the prime minister said, and hopes its work will prevent any other such attack.",
"\"Part of the work of the commission will be to look into the whole scale of the attack,\" he said.",
"\"We've never had an attack on this scale since the Second World War, and it was targeted against a youth movement -- it's an attack against our nation, it's an attack against our democracy.\"",
"He said it is important for all those affected to have answers to all their questions about what happened.",
"A suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, is in custody and has admitted carrying out the bombing and the shootings, his lawyer and a judge have said.",
"He is being held in solitary confinement at Ila Prison, near Oslo, police said Wednesday.",
"Police released the names Wednesday of 13 more of those killed in the twin attacks.",
"Twelve of them died on Utoya Island, and the 13th was killed in the blast targeting government buildings in Oslo.",
"The youngest among those killed on Utoya was 14-year-old Sharidyn Svebakk-Bohn.",
"The other victims there were Silje Merete Fjellbu, 17; Hanne Balch Fjalestad, 43; Bano Abobakar Rashid, 18; Syvert Knudsen, 17; Diderik Aamodt Olsen, 19; Simon Saebo, 18; Synne Royneland, 18; Trond Berntsen, 51; Birgitte Smetbak, 15; Margrethe Boyum Kloven, 16; and Even Flugstad Malmedal, 18.",
"Anne Lise Holter, 51, was named as having died in the Oslo bombing.",
"Their names take the number of victims formally identified to 17.",
"Police have said they will post an update at 6 p.m. every day until all the victims have been named.",
"Their families will be notified first.",
"In New York, a bell that was given to Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks rang out in memory of all those killed in Norway as those names were released.",
"The Bell of Hope in the churchyard of lower Manhattan's St. Paul's Chapel, a block from ground zero, was sounded by Norwegian Consul Aslaug Nygardat at midday local time, sending out four sets of five somber rings.",
"Meanwhile, police are using a mini-submarine and a specially equipped boat to continue to search waters around Utoya Island, they said Wednesday.",
"They have found personal effects and clothes, they said, adding that the depth of the water and the strength of the currents make it a challenging task.",
"Police and local residents rescued about 300 people who jumped into the waters around the island during the shooting spree, they said Wednesday.",
"Police carried out controlled explosions Tuesday and Wednesday at a farm associated with the suspect, they said.",
"They took samples of bomb-making materials for analysis and detonated the rest because they were considered unstable and unsafe to transport, an Oslo police spokesman told CNN.",
"Stoltenberg said earlier Wednesday that it was too early to look at changes to Norway's security measures, saying now is a \"time for mourning ... time for caring for those who have lost loved ones.\"",
"Norway will look at what it can learn from the tragedy after the police investigation, he said.",
"Stoltenberg said he is proud of the way Norwegians responded to the massacres, with hundreds of thousands rallying in the streets of Oslo on Monday in memory of those killed.",
"He rejected the idea that Norway lost its innocence in the attacks and said he hopes the country will grow stronger in its commitment to its core values.",
"\"It's absolutely possible to have an open, democratic society and at the same time to have security measures and not to be naive,\" he said.",
"Norway's security forces were aware of the danger of violent attacks and were prepared for them, he added.",
"The country remains tense after the bombing and gun rampage.",
"Police in Oslo shut part of the main train station Wednesday morning because of a suspicious package.",
"They evacuated part of the station before declaring an all-clear later in the morning, state broadcaster NRK reported.",
"And an unnamed police officer sparked a panic by accidentally distributing to some media an internal police memo saying they were searching for a man associated with the terror suspect.",
"Police captured the man, who was not linked to Breivik, said police lawyer Per Thomas Omholt.",
"\"There's a policeman someplace in Norway today having a bad day,\" he added, referring to the internal police memo inadvertently being sent out to the media.",
"On Tuesday, Breivik's lawyer told reporters that his client was \"a little bit surprised\" that he was able to pull off the bombing and shooting rampage, for which authorities say he has claimed responsibility.",
"The attorney, Geir Lippestad, said Breivik was surprised that his plan \"succeeded -- succeeded in his mind.\"",
"Lippestad said Breivik didn't expect to reach Utoya.",
"Before the attacks, Breivik used drugs to keep himself strong and awake, Lippestad said.",
"While he said it was too early to say whether Breivik will plead insanity, Lippestad added, \"This whole case indicates that he's insane.\"",
"During a closed court hearing Monday, the 32-year-old suspect said the attacks were necessary to prevent the \"colonization\" of Norway by Muslims, said Kim Heger, the presiding judge.",
"Breivik accused the Labour Party of \"treason\" for promoting multiculturalism, Heger said.",
"Lippestad said Breivik had told him that he was in touch with two terror cells in Norway and in contact with other cells abroad, but that he acted alone in carrying out the attack on Utoya and the Oslo bombing.",
"Police have said they are investigating the claim that Breivik was in contact with other cells but have not confirmed that they exist.",
"Prosecutors are considering charging Breivik with crimes against humanity, according to police.",
"He is facing terror-related charges that carry a maximum 21-year sentence.",
"Breivik appears to have written a 1,500-page manifesto that rants against Muslims and lays out meticulous plans to prepare for the attacks.",
"In it, the author vilifies Stoltenberg and the Labour Party, accusing it of perpetuating \"cultural Marxist/multiculturalist ideals\" and indoctrinating youths with those ideals.",
"The author accuses the Labour Party of embracing those ideals and allowing the \"Islamification of Europe.\"",
"CNN has not independently confirmed that Breivik is the author of the manifesto, which bears his name and says it is intended to be circulated among sympathizers.",
"The writer rails against Muslims and their growing presence in Europe, and calls for a European civil war to overthrow governments, end multiculturalism and execute \"cultural Marxists.\"",
"CNN's Jonathan Wald, Nic Robertson, Antonia Mortensen, Laura Smith-Spark, Laura Perez Maestro, Michael Holmes, Jennifer Deaton, Erin McLaughlin and Greg Botelho contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Anders Breivik is being held in solitary confinement in a prison near Oslo, police say .",
"NEW: A bell tolls near Manhattan's ground zero in memory of the 76 people killed in Norway .",
"Police release the names of 13 more victims, the youngest of them just 14 years old .",
"PM Jens Stoltenberg says an independent commission will look at the 22 July attacks ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- More than three weeks after seven California men went missing when the fishing vessel Erik sank in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, the families of the missing Americans are expressing anger with the U.S. and Mexican governments for not conducting a dive to find the sunken boat -- and possibly the bodies entombed beneath the sea.",
"The sinking of the 115-foot sport fishing boat during a predawn storm on July 3 captured widespread attention because the 27 passengers were nearly all friends and acquaintances who fished on the Erik as an annual outing, some for as long as 15 years or so.",
"All were from northern California, relatives said.",
"Only five of them were first-timers on a five-night trip aboard the Erik, during which the sportsmen would venture deep into the sea aboard smaller pangas in search of yellowfin tuna and dorado, relatives said.",
"Most of the 27 were Asian-American men from the San Francisco Bay area and nearby, relatives said.",
"Those close ties heightened the depth of the tragedy, especially as U.S. and Mexican authorities spent nine days searching the vast expanse of the Sea of Cortez.",
"In addition to the seven missing men, Leslie Yee, 63, died in the incident.",
"Among the survivors, several were rescued from a Mexican beach.",
"One person was rescued from a coastal island.",
"The families have expressed frustration with the investigation.",
"A State Department official said the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board are helping Mexican authorities with the probe.",
"Still, the families say they are disturbed that there was apparently no mayday issued during the sinking of the Erik.",
"Also, the boat apparently didn't carry a satellite tracking device that's often deployed when a boat is in distress, relatives say.",
"In their social media and website campaign to attract public attention to their plight, the families have become so exasperated with the two governments' apparent reluctance to conduct a dive 200 feet beneath the sea that they are trying to raise money to execute a privately funded dive -- if they can raise enough funds on their \"Find Our Fathers\" website and if the Mexican government will allow the dive.",
"The families are haunted by unanswered questions, their representatives say: Did the 16-member crew abandon ship without trying to help the passengers?",
"Did the vessel have enough life preservers?",
"Why did it take 16 hours before a search and rescue was launched?",
"\"We don't want any other families to go through the pain we went through.",
"This should not have happened at all,\" said May Lee of San Ramon, California.",
"Her husband, Don, 62, an assistant parts manager at General Motors in nearby San Leandro, is among the seven missing.",
"\"There's still a little bit of me that's hoping my husband is on some remote little island with some of his buddies,\" Lee told CNN on Tuesday.",
"But the families have become demoralized.",
"On Sunday, they will gather for the first time since the accident; at a hotel in northern California, Lee said.",
"\"Some of them are very depressed, but I'm doing my darnedest to try to bring people together.",
"I'm trying to give them as much hope as possible, to make sure we're hanging on,\" Lee said.",
"In regular conference calls with the State Department as recently as Friday, the families have asked for the U.S. military to conduct a dive.",
"Most recently, they have pressed U.S. officials to ask the governor of Baja California to fund a dive -- or at least to grant permission for the American families to carry out a private dive.",
"The whereabouts of the sunken Erik are unknown, and the boat could be drifting somewhere on the sea bed, said Lee's daughter, Mandi Lee-Han, a 34-year-old preschool teacher.",
"The boat capsized 60 miles south of San Felipe, Mexico, about two miles offshore, during the first night of the trip.",
"A State Department official said the U.S. Department of Defense doesn't have the capability or equipment to do a deepwater dive and search for the fishing boat -- and it would have to pay for a private contract to do so.",
"The official asked not to be identified, saying he wasn't authorized to speak to the media on the matter.",
"The details of the Coast Guard's and NTSB's joining the Mexican investigation into the Erik are being worked out, the official told CNN Tuesday.",
"\"When they were on the call,\" the official said about the families, \"we expressed condolences for the loss of life.",
"Unfortunately, the DOD has limited capability to operate at that depth\" beneath the sea in a dive and search.",
"\"When a U.S. citizen goes missing in a foreign country, the host government takes the lead in search and recovery efforts, often with the help of U.S. government agencies, such as the U.S. Coast Guard, who have the necessary experience and mandate,\" the official said.",
"\"The Department of State will monitor such efforts and work to ensure that the host government does its utmost to locate the missing person, but lacks the capacity and authority to conduct search and rescue operations.\"",
"But the families aren't satisfied.",
"\"It feels as though the Mexican navy is not really sharing with them what is happening,\" Lee-Han told CNN.",
"The six other missing men are Russell Bautista of Penngrove, California; Shawn Chaddock of Petaluma, Calif.; Mark Dorland of Twain Harte, California; Gene Leong of Dublin, California; Brian Wong of Berkeley, California; and Albert Mein, 62, a retired AT&T manager, of Twain Harte.",
"Mein was also Don Lee's brother-in-law, said May Lee, who works in the city hall of Fremont, California, overseeing a first-time homebuyer program and housing ordinances.",
"Families have received messages on their Facebook page that local Mexicans have taken the initiative to search coastal islands for the missing seven Americans, posting reports on which islands they've searched.",
"\"This grassroot effort is someone knows someone knows someone,\" said Lee-Han.",
"She said the families are distressed to learn of what they describe as safety shortcomings aboard the Erik.",
"\"Had we known there were all these problems in Mexico, we wouldn't have sent my father on this trip.",
"We felt blindsided to some degree,\" Lee-Han said.",
"\"What we're really trying to achieve here is to honor my father and all of the men that deserve to come back to their families,\" Lee-Han said.",
"The families want the Erik found -- to see what safety problems the vessel may have had, relatives said.",
"\"We most certainly don't want to harm the economy in Mexico, but at the same time, we want assurance from Mexico that if something is going to happen, that they're going to be responsible for whatever that may be,\" Lee-Han said.",
"\"If there is an investigation that's going to take place, we would hope that the Mexican government would do a thorough investigation, and that would include a dive.\""
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"The Erik, a Mexican sport fishing vessel, capsized in a storm July 3 in the Sea of Cortez .",
"Seven California fishing enthusiasts disappeared .",
"Another California man was found dead .",
"The families of the missing want authorities to dive and find the sunken boat ."
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"(CNN) -- Paris Saint Germain completed the signings of France internationals Jeremy Menez and Blaise Matuidi from Roma and Saint-Etienne respectively on Monday.",
"The French club also announced the arrival of Serbia defender Milan Bisevac, who like Menez and Matuidi has joined on a three-year contract.",
"Winger Menez spent three years in Italy after leaving Monaco, while defensive midfielder Matuidi has spent all his career in France, having started out at Troyes.",
"The 24-year-old pair both made their debuts for Laurent Blanc's France team in 2010, with Menez gaining his first cap in a friendly against Norway in August and Matuidi making his international bow against Bosnia and Herzegovina in September.",
"Bisevac, 27, has moved to the Parc des Princes from Valenciennes -- becoming the club's third acquisition since the takeover by a Qatari investment group was completed and former Inter Milan coach Leonardo was installed as sporting director in July.",
"The trio followed former Lorient striker Kevin Gameiro -- also a recent France call-up -- and Rennes goalkeeper Nicolas Douchez in joining the PSG squad since the end of last season.",
"Several players have departed since the club finished fourth in Ligue 1 last term, including experienced international midfielders Ludovic Giuly, who was released, and the retired Claude Makelele.",
"Meanwhile, English Premier League club Aston Villa have agreed a fee for Wigan Athletic's Charles N'Zogbia.",
"The France winger also made his international breakthrough in last year's clash with Norway, and the 25-year-old will now discuss personal terms with the Birmingham-based team.",
"\"The club are pleased to confirm that we have agreed a fee with Wigan for French international winger Charles N'Zogbia,\" read a statement on Villa's official website.",
"\"We will now discuss personal terms with the player and arrange a medical, with a view to completing the transfer later this week.\"",
"N'Zogbia joined Wigan from Newcastle United in 2009 and scored nine goals for the Latics last season as they avoided relegation from England's top division on the final day.",
"If the transfer is completed, N'Zogbia will become Villa manager Alex McLeish's second signing of the offseason following the arrival of former Newcastle goalkeeper Shay Given from Manchester City.",
"Switzerland under-21 midfielder Pajtim Kasami has joined English club Fulham from Italian side Palermo.",
"Kasami, 19, was part of the Switzerland team which reached the final of last month's European Under-21 Championship, losing 2-0 to Spain, and has signed a four-year contract at Craven Cottage.",
"Czech Republic under-21 international defender Ondrej Celustka, who also played at the tournament in Denmark, has joined Turkish first division side Trabzonspor.",
"Celustka, 22, agreed a five-year-deal according to his former club Slavia Prague."
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"Paris Saint Germain confirm the signings of Jeremy Menez and Blaise Matuidi .",
"The pair of 24-year-old France internationals both sign three-year deals .",
"PSG also announce the arrival of Serbia international defender Milan Bisevac .",
"Aston Villa have agreed a fee with Wigan Athletic for France winger Charles N'Zogbia ."
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"(CNN) -- A second-half brace from striker Luis Suarez secured Uruguay a 2-0 win over Peru and a place in the 2011 Copa America final.",
"The Liverpool forward scored in the 52nd and 57th minute to down Sergio Markarian's side, who were later reduced to 10 men.",
"Uruguay, three-time winners of the tournament in its modern format, will now face either Venezuela, who have never lifted the continental competition, or 1979 champions Paraguay in Sunday's final.",
"The second semifinal will take place on Wednesday at the Estadio Malvinas Argentinas in Mendoza.",
"The deadlock was broken seven minutes after the break, when Peru goalkeeper Raul Fernandez could only parry Diego Forlan's shot and Suarez, 24, found the net from an acute angle.",
"Copa America flops: Who is to blame?",
"Victory was sealed for Oscar Tabarez's side when Suarez rushed onto a lofted ball up field before rounding Fernandez and rolling a low shot into the unguarded goal.",
"Suarez now has three goals in the tournament, which leaves him level with Argentina's Sergio Aguero as the competition's top goal scorer.",
"Peru's misery was complete on 68 minutes with the dismissal of their captain Juan Manuel Vargas for an elbow on defender Sebastian Coates.",
"\"This victory is important,\" Uruguay right-back Alvaro Pereira told the tournament's official web site.",
"\"I'm very happy, but we must keep our feet on the ground.",
"This team has demonstrated an amazing hunger for glory and now we must think about what is and how we did from the beginning, when we thought all games were finals.",
"\"There are always mistakes and we made mistakes [against Peru], but now we must correct them and hopefully we can win this cup.\"",
"The final will take place in Buenos Aires' Estadio Monumental on Sunday."
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"Liverpool striker Luis Suarez scored a second half brace to secure the win .",
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"San Angelo, Texas (CNN) -- Attorneys are scheduled to be in court Wednesday to argue a motion to suppress evidence, a day after jury selection in the sexual assault trial of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs.",
"It's unclear when the jury of 10 women and two men will hear opening statements.",
"The jury selection Tuesday followed a full day of questioning.",
"At one point, nearly half of 207 potential jurors raised their hands when asked by defense attorney Deric Walpole \"if you do not presume my client to be innocent.\"",
"Jeffs is charged with two counts of sexual assault on a child and one count of bigamy stemming from a 2008 raid on a ranch operated by his church.",
"Authorities raided the Yearning for Zion ranch near Eldorado, Texas, and removed 400 children who they feared had been sexually abused.",
"Some of the men at the ranch were charged with sexual abuse and most of the children were later returned to their families.",
"The ranch is operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an offshoot sect of the mainstream Mormon Church.",
"Walpole said he needs more time to present a defense, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the defense has had sufficient time to prepare.",
"District Judge Barbara Walther told the pool of potential jurors Monday that the trial could last two to three weeks.",
"He is expected to be tried on the bigamy charge later.",
"The FLDS splintered from the Mormon Church more than a century ago when Mormons renounced the practice of polygamy.",
"Jeffs' church is believed to have about 10,000 followers.",
"In Session's Jim Kyle, Lena Jakobsson and Beth Karas contributed to this report."
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"Jury is selected in Warren Jeffs case .",
"The judge says the trial could last two to three weeks .",
"The polygamous sect leader faces charges of sexual assault and bigamy .",
"They stem from a 2008 raid on a ranch operated by his church ."
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"London (CNN) -- The mother of a British girl whose murder spurred legislation to protect children says her phone was targeted by a private investigator working for the now-defunct tabloid that led the campaign for the new law.",
"Sara Payne, whose slain daughter was the namesake of Sarah's Law, said Thursday that police have confirmed unspecified \"details\" on a list kept by private eye Glenn Mulcaire, one of the central figures in the scandal that took down the 168-year-old News of the World earlier this month.",
"\"Sara is absolutely devastated by this news, we're all deeply disappointed and are just working to get her through it,\" a statement from her literary agency said Thursday.",
"\"Sara will continue to work with the proper authorities regarding this matter.",
"There will be a further statement in due course, but at this point in time, she (or we) can make no further comment.\"",
"Sarah's Law, which went into effect in 2008, allows parents to look up the records of convicted pedophiles.",
"The News of the World led the crusade for the law for a decade and provided a mobile phone for Payne, the paper's ex-editor said Thursday.",
"Payne wrote a column in the paper's defense in its final edition, arguing the News of the World \"has often been a force for good\" and pointing out that earlier claims that it had hacked her phone \"turned out to be untrue.\"",
"In Thursday's statement, Payne's representatives said police had informed her during an earlier probe of the allegations that Mulcaire did not have her information -- but a subsequent review found that he did.",
"News International, the now-shuttered tabloid's corporate parent, said Thursday that it \"takes this matter very seriously and is deeply concerned like everyone.\"",
"\"As the facts are established, the Company and the independent Management and Standards Committee will take all appropriate actions, including cooperating fully with any potential criminal enquiries or civil proceedings which may arise,\" it said.",
"And Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and News International chief who has been arrested as a result of the scandal, called the revelation \"abhorrent and particularly upsetting as Sara Payne is a dear friend.\"",
"\"The idea that anyone on the newspaper knew that Sara or the campaign team were targeted by Mr. Mulcaire is unthinkable,\" said Brooks, who touted the Sarah's Law campaign during her testimony to a House of Commons committee last week.",
"\"It is imperative for Sara and the other victims of crime that these allegations are investigated and those culpable brought to justice.\"",
"News of the World provided Payne with a mobile phone for the past 11 years as part of the campaign for Sarah's Law, and \"The idea of her being targeted is beyond my comprehension,\" Brooks said in a statement regarding the allegation.",
"Brooks was arrested and released on bail a week after the tabloid closed.",
"She has not been charged with a crime, however, and her lawyer says she is not guilty of any offense.",
"News International is the British arm of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which also owns the Fox television and cable networks and the New York Post in the United States.",
"Murdoch and his son James also faced questions about the scandal last week from the same committee that grilled Brooks, and James Murdoch is among three witnesses who are being recalled for further questions Friday, a member of that panel, Tom Watson, told CNN.",
"Thursday's disclosure was the latest twist in a scandal that has reverberated across the highest levels of the United Kingdom, featuring allegations of widespread phone-hacking, bribery of police officers by journalists and a bungled initial probe.",
"Journalists at News of the World are accused of bribing police to get private details about people, including members of the royal family.",
"The scandal has led to the arrests of several reporters and the resignations of the two top officers of London's Metropolitan Police Service.",
"A British judge launched a new inquiry into the scandal Thursday, saying the probe would start ordering people to testify and hand over documents \"as soon as possible.\"",
"The judge, Brian Levenson, said the inquiry would try to deliver its initial report within a year, as instructed, despite the wide range of subjects it's supposed to cover.",
"Prime Minister David Cameron announced the inquiry July 13 in response to public fury at the accusation that people working for News of the World illegally hacked into the phone of a missing British schoolgirl who was later found dead.",
"And London's Metropolitan Police are running two investigations, one into the allegations of hacking and one into charges of police bribery.",
"CNN's Richard Allen Greene, Laura Perez Maestro and David Wilkinson contributed to this report."
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"Anti-pedophile activist Sara Payne says her phone was targeted .",
"Payne had defended News of the World in its last edition .",
"Ex-tabloid editor Brooks calls the action \"abhorrent\""
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"(Rolling Stone) -- One question loomed large before Friday's Alice in Chains concert at Madison Square Garden: How would new singer William Duvall measure up to Layne Staley, the band's original front man, who died in 2002?",
"On \"Black Gives Way to Blue,\" the album Alice in Chains released last year with Duvall (ending a fourteen-year hiatus for the group), the new guy sounds remarkably like Staley.",
"In concert, the similarity became almost eerie: The band kicked off its set by nailing the first three tracks from 1992's \"Dirt,\" (\"Them Bones,\" \"Dam That River\" and \"Rain When I Die\"), with Duvall recreating Staley's vocal lines with the same studiousness of guitarist Jerry Cantrell, who delivered his solos note-for-note.",
"In that sense, Alice in Chains have changed: The show felt more like a recital than an exorcism, as it would have with Staley.",
"Still, the crowd responded with cheers when Cantrell introduced \"Rooster\" by saying, \"It's been a long, strange trip, and I'm really glad it's still going.\"",
"It's going great, in fact, \"Black Gives Way to Blue\" has sold over half a million copies and produced three number one tracks on the Mainstream Rock chart.",
"The band's not on the nostalgia circuit: They're arena rockers, and the polish they put on their music just comes with the territory.",
"So do fans who know every word to the new songs, but shuffle off to buy a t-shirt during classic tracks like \"Down in a Hole\" and the ever-creepy \"Love, Hate, Love.\"",
"The set, though, cohered well, with the new acoustic song \"Your Decision\" sliding in alongside '94s \"No Excuses\" as if the two were written in the same era, and the \"Black Gives Way to Blue\" track \"Check My Brain\" just as clobbering as the four older tunes that came before it.",
"Cantrell and company are playing to their strengths, and on Friday, they sounded about as strong as they ever have.",
"Opening act Deftones, meanwhile, held their own, especially when they played more recent material, which blends dreamy atmospherics into the band's ultra-heavy attack.",
"Frontman Chino Moreno, who has at times been criticized for sluggish performances, proved to be the night's most energetic performer, bounding across the stage and unleashing his primal screams.",
"Before the show, Moreno told \"Rolling Stone\" that he has reevaluated his lifestyle since a 2008 car accident that left original Deftones bassist Chi Cheng in a semi-vegetative state.",
"\"I watched some old videos of us, and I got choked up,\" he said.",
"\"It made me think about a lot of the things I was doing and the way I was living, and gave me an appreciation for life.",
"My new drug is sweating.",
"Now I go onstage and I feel lighter on my feet -- I feel more agile.\"",
"The Deftones and Alice in Chains sets both had an undercurrent of loss.",
"But by night's end, the overwhelming sense was of rebirth.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Alice in Chains performed at Madison Square Garden on Friday .",
"The band kicked off its set by nailing the first three tracks from their album \"Dirt\"\n\"Black Gives Way to Blue\" had three number one tracks on the Mainstream Rock chart ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The mayor of Afghanistan's restive southern city of Kandahar -- a resolute and proud public official who was regularly surrounded by armed guards and long under threat of death -- was slain Wednesday in a suicide bombing.",
"Ghulam Haidar Hamidi, 65, was killed during a city hall meeting in the provincial capital when explosives detonated inside the turban of his attacker, according to Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the Kandahar governor's office.",
"The assault comes several months after Hamidi told CNN in an interview that he didn't feel safe and that his life was in danger, most particularly from what he described as corrupt officials, but sloughed off family pleas to quit his position in Kandahar city.",
"\"I was born in this province,\" Hamidi said in December, referring to Kandahar province.",
"\"I eat from this province.",
"I educate from this province.",
"I study from this province.",
"And I have good times in this province.",
"And I owe this province.",
"I have to work for this, my city.\" 2010 interview with the Kandahar mayor .",
"It is the latest in a series of recent high-profile assassinations claimed by the Taliban.",
"But the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, cautioned against definitively pinning the attacks on the Taliban, despite the group's claims.",
"\"It's not clear to me that this was a Taliban-conducted act,\" said Crocker, who pointed to a recent demonstration in front of the mayor's office over a \"road-building incident that resulted in the deaths of one or two young girls.\"",
"Crocker added that \"this could turn out to be a murder that didn't have anything to do with the Taliban.\"",
"Authorities say the mayor was leaving the meeting hall when the attack occurred, and Ayoubi said that \"it's not clear whether the suicide attack was from the children's relatives\" or from insurgents.",
"One civilian was also injured in the attack.",
"Interviewed by CNN's Nic Robertson, Hamidi had to have armed guards with him wherever he went.",
"While he traveled in a bullet-proof vehicle, he was still vulnerable because of the threat of powerful roadside bombs.",
"He cited dangers from many sources.",
"\"Police warlords, drug dealers and power brokers are enemies of peace, enemies of security and development,\" he said in December.",
"He said such people did \"very bad things\" and were destroying the city.",
"He wondered how the city could be built and how peace could be brought to it, while the rebuilding process was slow and there were delays in \"locking in\" security gains.",
"His plans have not been popular with everyone, and he blamed tribal differences.",
"\"My way is we have to do (rebuilding) very quickly.",
"We have to show to our people good service and quickly.",
"These people are hungry for good service,\" he said.",
"It is the second time in less than two weeks that a senior official was killed by suicide bombers who placed explosives in their turbans.",
"The attack is also the latest in a string of killings across the country, and the most recent for a region that appears to be deadly for high-ranking officials.",
"Two deputy mayors of Kandahar city have been gunned down by militants in the past year, according to the governor's office.",
"Kandahar Police Chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid was also killed by a suicide bomber in April.",
"Hamidi told CNN in December that the chief was a warlord.",
"But perhaps the most high-profile attack occurred earlier this month when Kandahar's provincial council chief, Ahmed Wali Karzai -- the president's half-brother and an influential power broker in country's south -- was gunned down by a longtime bodyguard inside his home.",
"The Taliban also claimed responsibility for that attack, though rumors soon swirled that his death could also have been the result of a murder over personal grievances.",
"Global Public Square: What Wali Karzai's death teaches us .",
"Still, Wali Karzai's assassination, Wednesday's attack and a list of others have highlighted security questions about who can be trusted in Afghanistan.",
"During a remembrance ceremony for the president's half-brother at a Kandahar mosque two days after his death, a suicide bomber slipped into the building and killed six people and wounded 15 others.",
"That bomber also placed explosives inside his turban.",
"Within the next week, a key political adviser to the Afghan president and a Parliament member were gunned down in a home west of Kabul.",
"The killings have taken place just as a security transfer to Afghan control and a NATO draw-down is under way.",
"Speaking to the media for the first time since being formally sworn in, Crocker said the United States condemns Wednesday's attack \"in the strongest possible terms.\"",
"\"Our condolences are with his family and with the government and people of Afghanistan,\" he said.",
"Crocker called the killing \"another indication of both the challenges that Afghanistan faces, but also the extraordinary resilience of the Afghan government and people.\"",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai also condemned Wednesday's assassination, saying the attack was carried out by \"the enemies of peace.\"",
"The new U.S. ambassador described the recent attacks as \"horrific,\" but also said that if Taliban were responsible, it can be \"interpreted as a sign of significant organizational weakness on the part of the adversary.\"",
"A recent uptick in joint Afghan-NATO raids has killed many of the Taliban's senior and mid-level commanders across the southern and eastern provinces.",
"\"The Taliban is now damaged to the point where they can no longer conduct large-scale operations,\" Crocker said.",
"\"They've had to regroup and figure out what they can do.\"",
"The incidents came as NATO forces are beginning the first stage of a troop draw-down, which is expected to remove 10,000 soldiers from Afghanistan by the end of this year.",
"The full drawdown is scheduled for the end of 2014.",
"But Crocker on Wednesday gave indications of an American presence in Afghanistan well beyond the draw-down date.",
"\"I think both we and the Afghans envision this as a very broad compact that will cover cooperation in a variety of fields\" beyond 2014, he said.",
"\"Not only security, we're going to talk about educational, economic and commercial cooperation.",
"\"The intention is to lay down the foundation ... for a strong, stable long-term relationship between our two countries.\"",
"CNN's David Ariosto contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Hamidi had known his life was in danger .",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemns the killing .",
"\"It's not clear to me that this was a Taliban-conducted act,\" Ambassador Crocker says .",
"The Taliban have taken responsibility for the attack, a spokesman says ."
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"UTTAR PRADESH, India (CNN) -- On World Population Day this year India's new health and welfare minister came out with an idea on how to tackle the population issue: Bring electricity to every Indian village so that people would watch television until late at night and therefore be too tired to make babies.",
"Could the remote control be a birth control method?",
"That statement raised eyebrows across this vast country -- but what are the realities and reactions from families who make up the second largest population in the world?",
"At 80-plus years old Omar Mohammed has never heard of population control.",
"He lives in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh and has certainly done his part in contributing to India's burgeoning population.",
"\"Now you see I have 24 children, 13 boys and 11 girls,\" Omar says.",
"Omar believes only God can decide how many children you should have.",
"He lifts his hands to the sky and says: \"This is His command.",
"It's not my doing, it's His doing.\" On the other hand there's the Arora family in the capital city of Delhi.",
"They have two children.",
"\"You can't even get enough water or electricity now.",
"So its advisable that people have only two children and then they should stop having more kids.\"",
"mother Anjana Arora says.",
"The Aroras know a little something about population issues; their daughter was given the official title of India's one billionth citizen when she was born in 2000.",
"With family planning and free contraceptive programs the Indian government has long tried to encourage families to have only two children.",
"Overall government statistics show the birth rate is coming down.",
"The numbers show 14 of India's 35 states have reached the two child per family target.",
"But the push is failing in other states, especially in villages and among the poor and illiterate where the fertility rate is as high as 3.5 children per woman.",
"There are all kinds of reasons -- from the desire to continue having children until a son is born to lack of access to contraceptives.",
"The government's concern is that a booming population will further test already scarce resources, greatly impact the environment, and make life even harder for the poor.",
"According to the United Nations, India is home to 50 percent of the world's poor and on current projections, India will become the most populous country on earth sometime in the next 50 years, overtaking China.",
"Upon hearing about the latest idea to use electricity and television to give people something else to do besides procreate, mom Anjana Arora scoffed.",
"\"That's a stupid thing\" she said in English then switched to Hindi \"The only way to change people's mentality is through education.\"",
"But not everyone is writing the idea off.",
"\"It's an idea that can really work.\"",
"says A.R. Nanda. Years ago Nanda helped draft some of India's population stabilization policies and he now runs the Population Foundation of India.",
"He says while education and access to health care is paramount, electrifying villages is not a bad idea.",
"\"It gives a message loud and clear that we need to do something for the people which is people-friendly and which in a way will keep their minds from taking irrational decisions about producing more babies,\" Nanda says.",
"He says there are studies that prove it.",
"One such survey done in 2006 by an Italian sexologist reveals couples with televisions in their bedrooms had sex half as much as those without it.",
"That being said Omar Mohammed, the man with 24 children had a different take.",
"\"After watching TV,\" he says, \"when we look at scintillating things we will probably want to make more children.\""
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"An Indian idea to curb its population growth is raising eyebrows .",
"Health minister suggested late night TV could make people too tired for sex .",
"Population expert says the idea has some merits .",
"But parents are not so sure the plan would work ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities in New Hampshire bolstered their search operations Thursday in their search for a 11-year-old who a school nurse described as a \"young girl who is afraid and needs to be home.\"",
"Speaking on behalf of her community, Kirsten Lyons pleaded for the public's help in locating \"our beautiful Celina\" Cass, who was last seen Monday night in her northern New Hampshire home.",
"\"Celina is a young girl who is afraid and needs to be home,\" Lyons told reporters on Thursday.",
"\"(She) is missed very much.\"",
"About 100 investigators -- including FBI agents, New Hampshire and Vermont state police, local authorities and employees of the state's fish and game department -- went door-to-door Thursday in the small, tight-knit town of West Stewartstown, said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kieran Ramsey.",
"New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young noted authorities had received about 150 tips as of early Thursday evening, and were checking each one.",
"Help has come from as far as Virginia -- including from FBI headquarters in Quantico -- Pennsylvania and New York, she added.",
"\"It is our greatest hope that we find her and we bring her home safely,\" Young said Thursday, declining to field questions from reporters.",
"Celina was last seen in her room, at her computer, at about 9 p.m. Monday night, according to police.",
"WMUR reported that her parents told authorities the girl was gone when they went to wake her up Tuesday morning.",
"Authorities have offered few further details on the case, nor has an Amber Alert been issued.",
"Young said that investigators are looking at computer and phone records, trying to find clues.",
"\"I can tell what we have not learned: And that is, where is Celina Cass now?\"",
"Ramsey said.",
"Celina's disappearance has rattled many in West Stewartstown, a town along the border with Vermont and Canada that has about 1,000 people, according to the state of New Hampshire.",
"Friends and relatives have spent much of the past few days putting up posters and doing what they can to find the girl.",
"\"We really want to know that she's OK, that she's safe,\" family friend Amanda Chapple told CNN Manchester affiliate WMUR.",
"\"We want her home. We need her home.\" Friends have set up a Facebook page, \"Missing Celina Cass,\" with one of the fliers serving as a profile picture.",
"According to the flier, Celina is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 95 pounds, with long brown hair and brown eyes.",
"She was last seen wearing a pink shirt, pink pullover and blue shorts.",
"Lyons, who has been a nurse for 15 years at Celina's elementary school, said that the girl \"loves her family and is especially devoted to her sister.\"",
"\"Celina, we want you to know that the entire community -- your friends, your family -- are doing everything possible,\" Lyons said."
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"NEW: The search continues for Celina Cass, 11, in northern New Hampshire .",
"NEW: About 100 federal, state and local investigators are looking for her, clues .",
"NEW: They are going door-to-door, but have offered little info to the public .",
"The girl was last seen at her home on 9 p.m. Monday ."
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"(Travel + Leisure) -- No matter how many times he steers the 450-passenger Seabourn Sojourn through Norway's Lofoten Islands, captain Hamish Elliott eagerly anticipates his favorite point: the entrance to Trollfjord, a fairytale-like landscape with towering cliffs on either side.",
"Scenic views are the most priceless part of an amenity-packed cruise experience.",
"And, as savvy travelers seek more adventure opportunities, cruise lines are responding by charting a course to ever more beautiful-and remote-corners of the map.",
"The world's most scenic cruises include the Kimberley, a gorgeous coastline of rugged red cliffs and white sands in northwestern Australia.",
"In this outback, where the Indian Ocean meets the Timor Sea, remote islands proliferate, and rivers and inlets-accessible only by small ships-lead to isolated gorges, towering rock faces, and waterfalls.",
"But big ship lines, too, are bringing passengers to ocean-accessible scenic wonders like Alaska's Inside Passage, where the roar of calving glaciers is best experienced from the vantage point of a ship's deck.",
"It List: Best new hotels 2011 .",
"Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but on the world's most scenic cruises, Mother Nature serves up views that will please even the most jaded traveler.",
"Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands .",
"The captain charts a course south from Argentina's tip to the \"Great White Continent,\" where wild beauty comes in the form of spectacular glaciers, giant white and blue icebergs, and snowcapped mountains.",
"In this stark setting, you can spot orca and sperm whales from the deck and observe penguins and elephant seals up-close on island stops.",
"What you won't find is any sign of humans (beyond a smattering of scientific research stations).",
"Season: November -- February.",
"Sample Itinerary: 11-day Antarctic Explorer, round-trip from Ushuaia, Argentina, on the 122-passenger Clipper Adventurer.",
"From $4,890 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Travel + Leisure: America's best beach hotels .",
"Galapagos Islands .",
"Located some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, and virtually untouched by man, these islands have fostered hundreds of species found nowhere else on earth.",
"Giant tortoises, curious iguanas, blue-footed boobies, and Charles Darwin's famous finches are the main attractions.",
"You'll cruise past volcanic peaks and beaches, with opportunities to schmooze with land critters, snorkel with sharks, or watch the birds and contemplate the ongoing evolution in this wild spot.",
"Season: Year-round.",
"Sample Itinerary: 7-day on the 92-passenger Celebrity Xpedition, from Baltra, Ecuador.",
"From $3,499 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Baja California/Sea of Cortez .",
"\"The world's aquarium\" is what Jacques Cousteau called the protected azure waters of the Sea of Cortez.",
"Cruisers who venture here get to mingle with marine life like the California gray whales that come to Baja to breed.",
"But the dramatic desert-meets-sea scenery is its own calling card, with views ranging from giant cacti and craggy lava-shaped cliffs to mangroves and pristine beaches.",
"Season: December -- March.",
"Sample Itinerary: 7-day Among the Great Whales on the 62-passenger National Geographic Sea Bird, from La Paz/San Carlos.",
"From $5,240 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Alaska . Cruising the calm waters of Alaska's Inside Passage delivers high-drama views, namely, the awesome sight of immense glaciers thunderously calving into the sea.",
"But what may linger in your memory is the sheer vastness of the wilderness, icy and forested.",
"Keep your binoculars handy to catch glimpses of whales, eagles, and, if you're lucky, a grizzly.",
"Season: May -- September.",
"Sample Itinerary: Weeklong Eastern Coves on the 68-passenger Wilderness Discoverer or 57-passenger Wilderness Adventurer, between Juneau and Ketchikan.",
"From $1,795 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"The Kimberley . The rugged red cliffs and white sands of northwestern Australia make for one of the wildest, most beautiful coastlines in the world -- and the best parts are accessible only by ship.",
"In this outback territory, where the Indian Ocean meets the Timor Sea, remote islands proliferate, and rivers and inlets lead to isolated gorges, towering rock faces, majestic waterfalls (as high as 328 feet), and roving saltwater crocodiles.",
"Season: April -- October.",
"Sample Itinerary: 10-day, from the frontier cities of Darwin or Broome, on the 50-passenger Coral Princess.",
"From $7,337 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Borneo . In the heart of the Malay Archipelago awaits the third largest island in the world, where ancient tropical rainforests support a zoological wonderland.",
"There are interesting plants and animal- and bird-life galore, and offshore, the reefs are full of colorful coral and marine life.",
"Don't miss the monkeys in the wild, particularly orangutans.",
"Season: September -- January.",
"Sample Itinerary: 10-day Camp Leaky on the 100-passenger Orion II (includes a stop at the orangutan rehab center featured in the IMAX film Born to be Wild).",
"From $6,930 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"French Polynesia .",
"When you picture paradise, chances are it looks a lot like French Polynesia, an ethereal collection of islands where dark volcanic peaks loom above the greenest of green foliage and turquoise sea.",
"Admire the vivid hues from a deck chair, then don snorkels to get an underwater look at bright corals and tropical fish in every color of the rainbow.",
"Sample Itinerary: 7-day Tahiti & Society Islands on the 332-passenger Paul Gauguin.",
"From $4,397 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Hebridean Islands .",
"There's an eerie beauty and otherworldly quality to the Scottish Hebrides, hundreds of sparsely populated islands with rocky cliffs and barren seashores.",
"Rolling moorland leads to striking rock pillars and pinnacles on Skye's Trotternish Peninsula, while a volcanic peak dominates Eigg, and whales and dolphins frolic off Ulva and Mull.",
"You'll also be taken in by views of spectacular lochs, bird reserves, and the occasional castle or mysterious stone circle.",
"Season: March -- November.",
"Sample Itinerary: 7-day Footloose to the Western Islands on the 50-passenger Hebridean Princess.",
"From $5,060 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Travel + Leisure: World's coolest hotel bathrooms .",
"The Arctic/Spitsbergen .",
"Around the North Pole the polar bear is king.",
"These huge carnivores live among the pristine beauty of glistening glaciers and enormous icebergs that will take your breath away -- no matter how many photos you've seen.",
"Encouraged by the midnight sun, Arctic wildflowers bloom, and thousands of rare seabirds, walruses, reindeer, beluga whales, and other creatures also make appearances.",
"Season: June -- August.",
"Sample Itinerary: 6-day Polar Encounters on the 100-passenger M/S Fram, from Longyearbyen, Norway.",
"From $3,230 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Travel + Leisure: Best barbecue restaurants in the world .",
"Madagascar . As you island-hop across the Indian Ocean, passing Mauritius, Reunion, and the Comoros, you'll be wowed by such sights as volcanoes (both extinct and active), dense forests, and some of the most pristine beaches and teeming coral reefs in the world.",
"The East African cruise experience peaks at Madagascar, so big it's been dubbed the \"eighth continent,\" which presents the added allure of lemurs -- those spooky primates whose eyes make them look perpetually startled.",
"Sample Itinerary: 15-day East Africa, from Mauritius to Zanzibar on Zegrahm Expeditions' 110-passenger Clipper Odyssey, one of the only ships that devotes more than a day to the remarkable island of Madagascar.",
"From $12,480 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"New England .",
"The colorful leaves that light up the Eastern Seaboard each fall are recognized worldwide as one of nature's best shows.",
"Seeing the red and gold display from the sea is a refreshing alternative to traffic-clogged roadways.",
"Plus there's the added delight of rugged coastline and sightings of humpback and minke whales.",
"Cruises typically head up to Canada, and some seek out a route that includes the tree-lined fjord of the Saguenay, which cuts through what may be the oldest rocks on earth.",
"Season: September -- October.",
"Sample Itinerary: 10-day Canada/New England, including Saguenay, on Holland America's 2,100-passenger Eurodam from New York or Quebec City, from $1,499 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Norwegian Fjords .",
"The crystal-clear Norwegian Fjords serve up an embarrassment of natural riches.",
"These stunning waterways cut right through 1,000-foot cliffs, revealing snowcapped mountains, glacier-fed waterfalls, and rolling lowlands.",
"The spectacular views just keep on coming and continue well past dinnertime as you cruise with the midnight sun.",
"Season: May -- August.",
"Sample Itinerary: 9-day Norwegian Fjords, round-trip from Copenhagen on the Seabourn Sojourn.",
"From $3,995 per person, based on double occupancy.",
"Planning a romantic getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to the World's Most Romantic Hotels.",
"Copyright 2010 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Cruise ships small and large are bringing passengers to secluded destinations .",
"Seeing popular scenery from the ocean, like New England's fall foliage, gives a new perspective .",
"Alaskan, Nordic and Arctic cruises are a nice contrast to traditional island spots ."
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"(RealSimple.com) -- A lack of intimacy caused their relationship to stagnate -- until a sex therapist helped them reconnect, both physically and emotionally.",
"Elke Govertsen and Paul Donaldson Missoula, Missouri Married seven years .",
"Sex with Paul had stopped being fun, says Elke, 35.",
"\"In the middle of it, I'd make to-do lists in my head or interrupt to ask, 'Did you let the dog out?'\"",
"Five years after their 2004 marriage, Elke and Paul found they could go weeks without being intimate -- something the couple, who had been inseparable since meeting in their 20s as camp counselors, would have once found unimaginable.",
"For a time, they even joked to close friends that Elke wished she could read a book during intercourse.",
"Around the middle of 2009, the situation stopped being funny, says Elke: \"We became too lazy to be romantic.\"",
"Their conversations \"were strictly utilitarian,\" she says.",
"\"'Can you pick up the kids?' 'Did you pay that bill?' 'I need to be out of town on Saturday.'\"",
"At first Elke blamed her husband's job for their eroded connection.",
"His event-staging business requires him to travel extensively every summer to set up concert stages for popular musicians.",
"During that time, Paul was home for only a few days every two weeks, leaving Elke to juggle her job as the publisher of a regional women's magazine and caring for their two sons, Boone, eight, and Dimitri, six.",
"Elke felt lonesome when Paul was gone and resentful when he returned.",
"Paul was equally miserable.",
"\"All the hard work and late nights I was putting in were for nothing,\" he says.",
"\"What good is success if you're unhappy?\"",
"Knowing how much her sons missed their father, Elke encouraged Paul to spend what time he had at home with the boys.",
"He often fell asleep on their bunk bed while reading stories and would stay there until morning, prompting the children to refer to the master bed as \"Mommy's bed.\"",
"Finally, during one late-night call in July 2009, Elke blurted out, \"This isn't working.\"",
"Paul felt the same way.",
"But when Elke suggested they consider a separation, he balked.",
"\"I couldn't imagine finding someone else who has Elke's rare blend of brains, grace, and beauty,\" says Paul.",
"\"We had spent such a large portion of our lives growing and changing together.\"",
"But he admitted to feeling out of sync with her, too.",
"The couple batted around the idea of seeing a therapist but dithered for months over finding one.",
"Then, this past March, Elke's magazine held a contest for local business owners, and a clinical sexologist was chosen as the winner.",
"\"I called to congratulate her -- and immediately made an appointment,\" says Elke.",
"During that first session, the sex therapist pointed out that the pair had fallen into a trap common to many couples with young children.",
"\"We kept waiting to feel less busy or less tired before we had sex, but that physical connection was the crucial thing we were missing,\" says Elke.",
"Their therapist suggested they stop taking sex so seriously and try to flirt with each other again.",
"Following her advice, Elke and Paul went separately to a local pub and pretended to meet for the first time.",
"\"We felt ridiculous, but it was fun,\" says Elke.",
"\"The role-playing got Paul and me laughing again.\"",
"They also changed their routine at home.",
"To turn off her \"work brain,\" Elke moved her laptop out of the bedroom and into a home office.",
"Instead of zoning out in front of the TV, the couple insisted on spending every night together from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. And when Elke complained that she still sometimes just wanted to sleep when she got into bed?",
"The sexologist told her, \"Well, have sex somewhere else then.\"",
"Elke and Paul saw the therapist five more times over the next few months.",
"\"Speaking candidly about our sex life was awkward, but it turned out to be essential,\" says Paul, 34.",
"\"Sex really is a barometer of how much fun a couple can have together.\"",
"Once he and Elke began to relax and tease each other again, their physical relationship improved, and so did their emotional bond.",
"By late spring, says Elke, \"we had become that couple who hold hands at parties.\"",
"Last summer, when Paul came home between concerts, Elke didn't foist him off on the kids.",
"\"I need Paul's attention, too,\" she says.",
"\"He and I have seen what it's like to have nearly separate lives, and it's important to us that we don't go back to being strangers.\"",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2010 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Five years after their marriage, Elke and Paul found they could go weeks without being intimate .",
"The couple consulted a sex therapist to rekindle their romance .",
"When their physical relationship improved, so did their emotional bond ."
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"Casablanca, Morocco (CNN) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco declared sweeping constitutional reforms Friday that will boost the power of the prime minister and take away some of his own.",
"Morocco's revamped draft constitution will make officials more accountable, the parliament in Rabat more dynamic and will give the government greater powers, the 47-year-old king said in a nationally televised address.",
"In the 30-minute speech, the sovereign described the draft constitution as \"a bedrock of the special Moroccan democratic development model -- a new historical bond between the throne and the people,\" while describing himself as a \"citizen king.\"",
"His actions followed a series of unprecedented protests not seen before in this North African modern Muslim country, where street protests are normally tolerated by the state, unlike in most other Arab countries.",
"If the draft is ratified in a referendum set for July 1, its most radical change would be empowering voters to select a prime minister, thereby ending the longstanding practice in which the king has selected his own man for the job.",
"The prime minister has tended to take his lead from the sovereign on key matters of state.",
"If Moroccans back the draft, then the new prime minister would have new powers in decision-making and in day-to-day management -- relieving the king of a number of duties and aligning the style of management along the lines followed by some European Union countries.",
"In an example of power sharing, the draft constitution empowers the prime minister to dissolve the House of Representatives, and stresses that the king shall consult him before announcing the dissolution of parliament.",
"\"It specifies the conditions to be observed in each case in order to ensure the separation of powers as well as balance and cooperation between the branches,\" the king said.",
"Friday's speech stems from a process that was first announced in March, after widespread civil unrest in the wake of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.",
"The king instructed a hand-picked committee to consult with political parties, trade unions and civil society groups on constitutional changes with a brief to trim the monarch's political powers and make the judiciary independent.",
"But not all civil society groups were consulted, which sparked a wave of demonstrations across the kingdom from groups who feared they would be left out of the new plan.",
"This move alone -- to grant real power to an elected prime minister -- could satisfy a number of demands from those members of society who have called for change.",
"Confirming the full authority of the head of government over cabinet members, the draft constitution gives the prime minister the power to propose and dismiss cabinet members.",
"\"This is good news as the power of the prime minister will be greater than before,\" commented Jihad Oufargi, a leader of Fevrier 20, Morocco's Facebook youth movement, after watching the speech in a crowded cafe in the center of Casablanca.",
"\"Now the prime minister can change any minister who he sees is not doing his job properly.",
"It was not like that before.\" But King Mohammed will remain a key power-broker in the security, military and religious fields, according to the draft.",
"For example, the king would still serve as \"the supreme commander of the armed forces\" and would not relinquish the power to appoint ambassadors and diplomats under the new constitution.",
"Furthermore, the king would retain the power to dissolve parliament after consultations with the new constitutional court, half of whose members he would have appointed.",
"The blueprint also takes the first steps toward making the judiciary independent -- a hot subject in Morocco, where judges are aligned to political parties and appointed by the king himself and so -- according to critics -- are seldom guided exclusively by law in their rulings.",
"And the country will remain a Muslim state, though Moroccans in theory will be free to practice other faiths, since freedom of religion is supposed to be guaranteed under the constitution.",
"Unlike other Arab countries, Morocco has a large Jewish community, whose members have been free to worship as they wish.",
"CNN's Saad Abedine contributed to this story."
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"Moroccans will vote for the constitution in a referendum slated for July 1 .",
"King Mohammed's role would be that of \"citizen king\"\nMohammed says the constitution will guarantee independence of the judiciary .",
"Human rights would be safeguarded by the constitution ."
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"(Mashable) -- Google is beginning its rollout of Google Talk video chat to Android devices.",
"Android device users will be able to use video and voice chat with any Google Talk contact using another Android devices (phones or tablets) or Google Talk on Gmail.",
"The features will work of standard 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connections.",
"According to the Google Mobile blog, these features are rolling out to Nexus S phones over the next few weeks along with the next over-the-air OS update.",
"Video chat via Google Talk will be available on other Android 2.3 and higher devices soon.",
"Using the new features is simple.",
"On your Android device, from the Google Talk contacts list, you'll see a video and voice chat icon next to each contact.",
"Touch the button for the feature you'd like to use, and chat away.",
"Video can be paused while audio chat continues if you need to navigate elsewhere during a video session.",
"During voice or video chat, text chats from that contact are overlaid on the device screen.",
"Video and voice chat first came to Gmail late in 2008 and to iGoogle in 2009.",
"See the original article at Mashable.com.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Android mobile users will be able to use video and voice chat with any Google Talk contact .",
"The features will work of standard 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connections .",
"Using the new features is simple ."
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"(CNN) -- Four members of an Arizona family have been charged with murder in the death of a 10-year-old girl whose body was discovered locked in a box outside her family's house.",
"She had suffocated. The charges were filed Thursday, a day after Phoenix police arrested the four.",
"Police released a statement saying the four relatives of Ame Deal had been entrusted with caring for her.",
"The arrest came after police said they learned that the family routinely confined her inside the box when she misbehaved.",
"John and Samantha Allen, both 23, were charged with first-degree murder after confessing they had locked Deal in the box July 12, the statement said.",
"Cynthia Stoltzmann, 44, and Judith Deal, 62, were charged with child abuse and kidnapping after both admitted they had locked the girl in the box on previous occasions, it added.",
"CNN was not able to reach Judith Deal's attorney; it was not immediately clear whether the remaining three have retained counsel.",
"Stoltzmann was the victim's aunt and legal guardian, according to police spokesman Sgt.",
"Trent Crump.",
"Deal's and the Allens' relationship to the girl was not clear.",
"\"When we initially responded to the scene, we filed it as an unknown death,\" Crump said.",
"When first questioned, the family members told police that Deal had climbed into the box and suffocated while playing hide-and-seek, police said.",
"That was the account Stoltzmann gave to CNN affiliate KNXV-TV on July 13, the day after family members reported finding the body.",
"\"I don't break down well in front of other people, but when I'm by myself, I can lose it real easy,\" Stoltzmann said.",
"\"She was an awesome hider, let me tell you. ...",
"There were places she would squeeze into that I didn't think my dog could squeeze into.\"",
"But Crump said that, after investigating the incident, police came to believe the girl was killed.",
"Crump said Thursday that the case has troubled even veteran detectives.",
"\"This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her. ...",
"This case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives,\" he said.",
"CNN's Chelsea Bailey contributed to this report."
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"Ame Deal's body was found in a box on July 12 .",
"Family members initially told police the girl died while playing hide-and-seek .",
"Aunt: \"She was an awesome hider, let me tell you\"\nRelatives admit locking the girl in the box, police say ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- For the second time in a year, a top U.S. general has been cleared of allegations raised in a Rolling Stone article after an investigation by the Defense Department Inspector General.",
"Lt. Gen. William Caldwell had been accused in the magazine of ordering an Army officer to conduct psychological operations to try to influence congressional members.",
"Caldwell is in charge of all training in Afghanistan.",
"The Department of Defense did not release the actual IG report.",
"However, Defense spokeswoman Lt. Col. Elizabeth Robbins said the Inspector General found no evidence to support the article's claims.",
"Robbins said Caldwell did not have a psychological operations unit in his command to do such work.",
"Caldwell did, however, ask people on his staff to collect publicly available information about senators and congressmen who were coming to Afghanistan so he would be better informed during any meetings he might have with them.",
"All the information they gathered came from Internet searches.",
"The Rolling Stone article about Caldwell was written by Michael Hastings, the same reporter whose cover story about Gen. Stanley McChrystal cost the then-head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan his job.",
"An IG probe also cleared McChrystal of the wrongdoing alleged in Rolling Stone.",
"A Rolling Stone spokesman told CNN it stands by its reporting in both stories.",
"Eric Bates questioned the idea of having the Defense Inspector General investigate two top Army generals.",
"\"Letting the Pentagon investigate itself is not a good way to do the investigation,\" Bates said."
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"Magazine said Caldwell ordered psy ops on members of Congress .",
"Inspector General found no such evidence .",
"Rolling Stone said it stands by its reporting ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Manchester United and Liverpool fans dream of the arrival of superstar players ahead of a new campaign, but it seems the spending power of both Englsih giants could be on the wane.",
"Liverpool co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks took over the club in February 2007 .",
"Both Rafa Benitez and Alex Ferguson have bemoaned the extravagance of the transfer market recently, with the United boss even going so far as to suggest he will not make anymore signings despite the transfer window remaining open until August 31.",
"This despite having recently recouped a world record fee of $130m for the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo from Old Trafford.",
"So what are the reasons behind the new culture of prudence at the top of the English Premier League?",
"Well, it seems the cost of refinancing debt could significantly have curbed both clubs' spending power according to industry experts.",
"Financial prudence will be the watchword for the majority of the English Premier League in the transfer market as clubs look to consolidate their financial position in a move that could see a shift of power in Europe to Spain's La Liga.",
"It seems the Glazer family owners of United will not sanction anywhere near that amount of previous seasons for new players according to Professor Rogan Taylor at the University of Liverpool's Football Industry Group.",
"How do you feel about United and Liverpool's debt situation?",
"Sound Off below . The Americans' takeover of the Red Devils placed the club in $1.1 billion of debt, according to the holding companies' accounts of 2009; a situation that requires careful management.",
"\"The refinancing at Manchester United is structured in a very complex way but ultimately the economic difficulties now mean that there will be a reduction in Alex Ferguson's transfer budget,\" he told CNN.",
"\"Although some of the funds from the Ronaldo transfer will go back into the club's coffers there will be a tightening of the purse strings which will seriously impact on United's capacity to go after the top players.",
"\"Certainly, Ferguson would have wanted a top-class replacement for Ronaldo but with the need to keep the debt in order and -- being unable to compete with Real Madrid and Manchester City -- the funds available and the pool of players from which they can sign is a lot smaller.\"",
"Liverpool's situation is even more acute as American co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks, through their company Kop Holdings, struggle to secure the finances to fund the club's proposed new stadium.",
"A deal to refinance their $570m Royal Bank of Scotland loan appears to have been secured, but the long-term sustainability of the idea used to purchase Liverpool is serious under question.",
"Professor Taylor added: \"The whole model on which Hicks and Gillett bought Liverpool is flawed and Rafael Benitez may have to sell Javier Mascherano or Xabi Alonso before he can go out and spend during the close season.",
"\"Even then there is no certainty he will get the whole amount from the sale of either of those players back in the transfer kitty so it promises to be a difficult period for Liverpool as obviously expectation has been raised following last season's second-place finish.",
"\"The need to refinance the debt remains key to the American owners remaining in control of the club so that will be their priority -- at the expense of matters on the pitch.\"",
"Jon Keen deputy chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, and an expert in the field of club governance and ownership, admitted the situation at both clubs will stir up further resentment among fans towards their owners.",
"\"The current refinancing situation in the top-flight is like a financial house cards which could come crashing down at any time,\" he told CNN.",
"\"We have already seen a situation unravel with the banking system which has angered a lot of people and something similar could well happen with football in the near future.",
"\"Ultimately fans want to see money raised from sales of players either put back into the transfer pot or levied against their own costs of attending matches, not simply servicing huge amounts of debt as is the case with Manchester United and Liverpool at the moment.",
"\"There needs to be a reality check about the way these clubs are operating.",
"Certainly, I think the current economic climate will drastically reduce the spending power of clubs in the Premier League with the exception perhaps of Manchester City.\"",
"Of course, this contrasts with Spain's Real Madrid who have recently splashed almost $300m on Ronaldo, Kaka and Karim Benzema -- and are not finished yet if president Florentino Perez is to be believed.",
"The construction magnate and his powerful board are able to wield influence with banks and allow Real to secure credit on favorable terms which, combined with a lucrative domestic television rights deal, puts them in a stronger financial position.",
"Ultimately this appears to have precipitated a shift away from the English Premier League to La Liga for the world's best players as Spain becomes the preferred destination of choice.",
"Whether Real can convert this into a challenge to the recent English domination of the UEFA Champions League on the pitch remains to be seen."
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"Refinancing has left Manchester United and Liverpool short of transfer funds .",
"An new era of Premier League prudence reigns according to finance experts .",
"Real Madrid have spent $300 million on Ronaldo, Kaka and Benezma .",
"Spanish clubs present serious challenge to English domination in Europe ."
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"(CNN) -- India's Supreme Court received an appeal challenging the death sentence of the only surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, authorities said Friday.",
"The plea filed on behalf of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, was \"under process,\" Supreme Court registrar Pukhraj R. Bora said.",
"It was sent in by the authorities of the Mumbai jail where Kasab is being held, Bora said.",
"No date has yet been set for hearing, he added.",
"A trial court handed down the death sentence last year for Kasab, a Pakistani, on charges of murder, conspiracy and waging war on India.",
"Mumbai's High Court upheld his conviction and sentence in February this year.",
"Convicts on death-row in India reserve the right to challenge the sentencing in the nation's Supreme Court.",
"They can also file a mercy petition with the country's president if the Supreme Court also turns down their plea.",
"During the November 2008 raids, 10 men attacked Mumbai landmarks, including the luxury Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, the city's Victoria Terminus train station, and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House.",
"More than 160 people died in the three-day coordinated attack.",
"Kasab was photographed holding an assault weapon during the strikes.",
"Indian forces killed nine suspects in the attack.",
"India blamed the siege on the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based terror group allied with al Qaeda.",
"Authorities said Kasab was trained by the organization, which was banned in Pakistan in 2002 after an attack on India's parliament.",
"The group denied responsibility.",
"The Mumbai attack derailed a peace process between India and Pakistan for about 15 months.",
"This year, the two nuclear neighbors nations announced resumption of their fully-fledged dialogue after a series of high-level meetings over the past one year.",
"This week, the foreign ministers of the two countries pledged in New Delhi they will not let talks slide again because of thorny issues that made their countries bitter enemies."
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"A trial court handed down the death sentence last year for Kasab .",
"No date has been set for a hearing for the convicted gunman .",
"More than 160 people died in the three-day coordinated attack in 2008 in different locations in Mumbai ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Attorneys for the family of a 9/11 victim said they will push forward with a wrongful death lawsuit against United Airlines and a private security company despite a federal judge's decision to dismiss the Massachusetts Port Authority from the suit.",
"The lawsuit, originally filed in Manhattan federal court, alleges that Massport, United Airlines and security company Huntleigh USA were responsible for the security breaches that led to the death of Mark Bavis, 31, who was aboard United Flight 175 when it crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11, 2001.",
"Donald Migliori, an attorney for Bavis' family, said that Wednesday's dismissal of Massport -- the agency that owns and operates Boston Logan International Airport -- from the lawsuit was a disappointment, but that it narrows the case's focus around security on the airplane itself.",
"\"It will be very targeted to United Airlines,\" he said of the lawsuit.",
"\"United failed wholesale at keeping the American public safe.\"",
"The suit claims that security screeners at Logan International had trouble communicating in English, were unable to detect weapons such as the chemical spray Mace, and were operating under a general manager who was unaware of the al Qaeda terrorist threat.",
"\"This was a tragic event and we are actively working to resolve this case,\" said United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy.",
"From the start, the defendants have said they are not liable for the attacks.",
"Massport filed a motion to dismiss in May, claiming that the Federal Aviation Administrations regulations for screening passengers and their baggage was the airline's responsibility, not the airport's.",
"Massport was dismissed from the suit on Wednesday.",
"\"The entire Logan airport community will forever carry in its heart the events of September 11, 2001,\" said Massport interim CEO David Mackey in a statement released after the dismissal.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers will always be with the victims of that tragic day and their families.\"",
"The Bavis family is one of 96 families who opted not to settle through the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Migliori said.",
"Their lawsuit, which is the last remaining suit brought by family members of 9/11 victims, was filed in 2002.",
"\"There are lessons that can be learned from this and they want those lessons to be viewed and not buried,\" Migliori said.",
"The trial is set to start November 7.",
"CNN's Sheila Steffen contributed to this report ."
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"The suit also names United Airlines and security company Huntleigh USA .",
"It claims security screeners at Boston's airport were unable to detect weapons ."
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"(CNN) -- Serena Williams produced a dominating performance to beat Maria Sharapova 6-1 6-3 to reach the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Stanford.",
"The former world number one only returned to action last month after a lengthy layoff for injury and illness, but showed she is close to returning to the form that has brought her 13 grand slam titles.",
"Williams, playing only her third tournament since winning Wimbledon in 2010, is currently ranked 169th in the world but made light work of the fifth-seeded Russian.",
"\"I've just been trying my hardest and practicing and trying to get back in the top 100, Williams told the official WTA website.",
"\"It's a little crazy, but hopefully...\" Sharapova has not beaten Williams since 2004 and admitted she had not been at her best.",
"\"She was serving and returning quite powerfully, and I felt I was extremely late.",
"I didn't have my timing today at all.",
"\"Even when I had chances to change things around, I didn't do it.\"",
"Williams next faces big-hitting German Sabine Lisicki, who reached the semifinals at Wimbledon where she was beaten by runner-up Sharapova.",
"Lisicki was a 7-6 2-6 6-2 winner over fifth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in an earlier quarterfinal Friday.",
"The other semifinal will be between third seed Marion Bartoli and improving eighth seed Dominika Cibulkova.",
"France's Bartoli beat Japan's Ayumi Morita, who retired after trailing by a set.",
"Cibulkova enjoyed a 6-1 6-1 defeat of New Zealand's Marina Erakovic, who had .",
"beaten top seed and defending champion Victoria Azarenka in the second round Thursday."
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"Serena Williams crushes Maria Sharapova in Stanford hard court event .",
"13-time grand slam winner Williams enjoys 6-1 6-3 victory .",
"She will face Sabine Lisicki of Germany in semifinals in California .",
"Marion Bartoli and Dominika Cibulkova face off in other last four match ."
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"(CNN) -- American Robert Kendrick, ranked 105 in the world, has been banned from tennis for a year after testing positive for banned stimulant methylhexaneamine during May's French Open.",
"The 31-year-old Kendrick, who lost in four sets to Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first round at Roland Garros, will not be able to return to action until May 22, 2012, after his ban was back-dated to the day of the offence.",
"The International Tennis Federation (ITF) accepted Kendrick's claim that the stimulant was in a capsule he took to combat jetlag and was not intended to enhance his performance.",
"What does the future hold for African tennis?",
"However, the Tennis Anti-Doping Program makes it clear it is up to each individual player to ensure that no prohibited substance enters their body.",
"An ITF statement confirmed: \"The ITF announce that Robert Kendrick has been found to have committed a Doping Offence under Article C.1 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program.",
"\"Mr Kendrick provided a sample on 22 May 2011 at the French Open held in Paris.",
"That sample was sent to the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada for analysis, and was found to contain methylhexaneamine, a stimulant.",
"\"Methylhexaneamine is a prohibited substance under section S6 of the 2010 WADA List of prohibited substances and is therefore also prohibited under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program.",
"Mr Kendrick was therefore charged with an anti-doping rule violation under Article C.1 of the Program.\"",
"Kendrick, who reached a career-high of 69 in the world in 2009, has never won an ATP Tour title and never got past the second round of a grand slam event.",
"However, he took the first two sets against Rafael Nadal in the second round at Wimbledon in 2006 before eventually going out.",
"Meanwhile, in tennis action on Friday, three of the top four seeds are through to the semifinals of the Gstaad event in Switzerland.",
"Top seed Nicolas Almagro joined fellow-Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, seeded four, and Russian third seed Mikhail Youzhny in the last four.",
"However, second seed Stanislas Wawrinka disappointed the home fans by losing 6-3 6-2 to eighth seed Marcel Granollers, ensuring three Spaniards reached the semis.",
"There was a major surprise in the WTA tournament in Stanford as top seed Victoria Azarenka was beaten 4-6 7-5 6-2 by New Zealand's Marina Erakovic.",
"However, local favorite Serena Williams claimed a hard-fought 6-3 3-6 6-2 win over Maria Kirilenko of Russia to set up a last eight showdown with Maria Sharapova."
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"(CNN) -- A semi collided with an Amtrak train east of Reno, Nevada, on Friday, killing two people, officials said.",
"The truck crashed into the side of the train at a public railroad crossing, according to Amtrak.",
"Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Danny Lopez said two people died in the accident: one person on the train and one in the semitrailer.",
"Amtrak said it had reports of multiple injuries but could not immediately confirm that anyone had been killed.",
"Amateur video taken after the crash showed huge plumes of black smoke wafting from the train as a fire burned.",
"Passengers and crew members stood outside.",
"Emergency responders were on the scene, and buses were being sent to pick up stranded passengers, Lopez said.",
"The train carried about 204 passengers and 14 crew members.",
"It was headed to Emeryville, California, from Chicago."
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"An Amtrak train and a semi crash east of Reno .",
"One person on the train and one in the truck died, authorities say .",
"Other people were injured, Amtrak says .",
"The train was headed to Emeryville, California, from Chicago ."
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"(CNN) -- Michael Phelps claimed his third gold of the world swimming championships in Shanghai Saturday but then admitted he was short of peak fitness.",
"The American superstar won the 100m butterfly ahead of Poland's Konrad Czerniak and compatriot Tyler McGill in 50.71 seconds.",
"It was his sixth medal of the meet in his return to China where he took an unprecedented eight gold medal tally in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.",
"Phelps, who has been overshadowed by teammate Ryan Lochte in Shanghai, said he would be looking to improve with next year's Olympics in London his target.",
"\"I'm not in the right shape physically.",
"I want to be faster.",
"It's a tough race,\" Phelps told AFP.",
"In other action Saturday, controversial Brazilian star Cesar Cielo earned his second sprint title in the men's 50m freestyle with a winning time of 21.52 seconds.",
"Olympic champion Cesar was only cleared to compete in the championships when a special hearing of the Court of Arbitration in Sport let him off with a warning after he tested positive for a banned diuretic in May.",
"His appearance at the championships has drawn criticism for fellow swimmers and Cielo admitted it had taken its toll.",
"\"For now, it's a big relief for me.",
"I've had a crazy month and it's good to finish with a gold,\" he told AFP.",
"\"I think that shows a lot of mental control.",
"I think I became a more mature person.",
"Even though I'm 24, I feel like I'm 44 right now.",
"It was definitely the biggest challenge of my life.\"",
"Missy Franklin of the United States, who is only 16, showed she will be a force at the London Games with another two gold medals.",
"Franklin took the women's 200m backstroke from Australian Belinda Hocking and then helped the U.S win their first 4x100m medley in more than a decade.",
"Britain's double gold medal winner from the Beijing Games, Rebecca Adlington took her first world title as she edged out Lotte Friis of Denmark in the final length of a thrilling women's 800m freestyle with America's Kate Ziegler third.",
"Dutch swimmer Inge Dekker was an upset winner of the women's 50m butterfly to claim her first individual world title."
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"Phelps wins 100m butterfly but says he is short of peak fitness .",
"U.S. superstar Phelps has a record 25 world titles .",
"Brazil's Cesar Cielo wins 50m free for his second gold in Shanghai ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina have confirmed the appointment of Alejandro Sabella as their new national coach in succession to Sergio Batista.",
"Batista, who had replaced Diego Maradona, was sacked after just eight months in charge following Argentina's Copa America quarterfinal exit to Uruguay earlier this month.",
"That defeat heaped further pressure on Batista, who had been the subject of a media campaign to oust him following some controversial team selections.",
"Batista sacked as Argentina coach .",
"The 56-year-old Sabella was Daniel Passarella's assistant coach with both the Argentina and Uruguay national teams.",
"He then followed Passarella as his number two with club sides Parma in Italy and Corinthians in Brazil.",
"In March 2009, Sabella took his first senior coaching job with Argentine side Estudiantes and just four months later he led them to their first Copa Libertadores title in 39 years.",
"Sabella, who won four caps for his country as a player that took in spells in England with both Leeds and Sheffield United, takes over the Argentina reins despite a previous agreement to coach UAE club side Al Jazira."
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"Argentina have appointed Alejandro Sabella as their new national coach .",
"Sabella replaces Sergio Batista after Argentina's Copa America failure .",
"Sabella led Estudiantes to the Copa Libertadores championship in 2009 ."
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"(CNN) -- Novak Djokovic extended his winning run to 37 matches this year as he beat world No.",
"1 Rafael Nadal for the fourth successive time in the Rome Masters final on Sunday.",
"Second seed Djokovic triumphed 6-4 6-4 in two hours 12 minutes, despite having seemed to be on his last legs when he overcame Andy Murray in a three-hour epic the previous evening.",
"\"I'm amazed with way I'm playing, especially today given the circumstances and the conditon I was in,\" Djokovic said after the match.",
"\"I was able to perform maybe my best play on clay and I beat the number one in the world on clay.",
"It's amazing, I'm going to enjoy this victory, but then I need to get ready for Roland Garros.\"",
"Blog: Djokovic's dream year shows no sign of slowing .",
"He was given more time to rest when the men's and women's finals were delayed due to rain in the Eternal City, and Djokovic appeared the fresher of the two players as he stormed to his seventh title this year after another gripping battle.",
"Nadal had ensured he will be top seed for his French Open defense starting in little over a week by reaching the semis in the Italian capital, but it appears to be just a matter of time before Djokovic takes his mantle as the top player in men's tennis.",
"The Serbian is doing to Nadal what the Spaniard did to Roger Federer a few years ago -- despite their age difference of a mere 11 and a half months, it looks to be a case of out with the old king and in with the new.",
"Djkovic turns 24 next Sunday on the eve of his bid to win a first French Open.",
"He ended Nadal's two-year winning run on clay in Madrid last weekend, and this time he thwarted the Mallorcan's bid for a sixth Rome title in seven years.",
"His aim will now be to stop Nadal collecting a sixth French Open crown, and add to his own tally of two grand slams -- both coming in Australia, this year and in 2008.",
"Djokovic also won the Rome title three years ago, but he was unable to maintain his momentum.",
"In 2011, however, he is within striking distance of John McEnroe's record best start of 42 successive wins set in 1984.",
"As in the match against Murray, the final at Foro Italico was a see-saw affair with both players breaking each other's serve unexpectedly often -- but Djokovic had the power and precision when it counted most.",
"Serbian's No. 1 dream is fast becoming a reality .",
"He took a 5-3 lead in the opening set after an uncharacteristic miscue by Nadal, then dropped his serve and promptly returned the favor to take a 1-0 lead.",
"He went 2-0 up in the second set but Nadal, winner of a record 19 Masters Series titles, showed he is far from a spent force by battling back to level and keep it that way until the 10th game.",
"Djokovic went 40-0 up but Nadal saved three match-points -- but the five-time Rome champion could not escape the fourth one and fell to just his second defeat in the tournament.",
"\"He's doing amazing things, he's very tough mentally and physically,\" Nadal said.",
"\"Every week he's winning matches, he's playing fantastically, he's doing a lot of things very well and he has a lot of confidence.\""
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"World No.",
"2 Novak Djokovic five wins away from matching John McEnroe's record .",
"Serbian beats top-ranked Rafael Nadal 6-4 6-4 in final of Rome Masters .",
"Djokovic has defeated the Spaniard in four successive title matches .",
"Nadal is top seed and defending champion for the French Open starting in a week's time ."
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"(CNN) -- Costa Rica grabbed their first points of the 2011 Copa America on Thursday and left hosts Argentina facing elimination after a 2-0 victory over Bolivia.",
"Second half goals from strike duo Josue Martinez and Joel Campbell secured three points for Costa Rica, while Bolivia endured a torrid evening after having two players dismissed.",
"The result means two-time world champions Argentina must beat Ricardo La Volpe's Costa Rica in their final Group A match on Monday to avoid an early exit from the quadrennial tournament.",
"The Central American side went ahead after 59 minutes, when the 21-year-old Martinez swept home after goalkeeper Carlos Arias had saved Heiner Mora's effort.",
"Gustavo Quinteros' Bolivia were reduced to 10 men in the 71st minute, when defender Ronald Rivero blocked the 27-year-old Mora's goal-bound shot with his arm.",
"Midfielder Allen Guevara Zuniga stepped up to take the resulting penalty but his effort was well saved by Arias, who also smothered the rebound.",
"Despite Arias' heroics, Bolivia's task was made harder on 75 minutes when Walter Flores was given his marching orders for a strong challenge on Zuniga.",
"Costa Rica sealed an important victory with 12 minutes remaining, when the lively Campbell ran clear to slide a shot beyond the helpless Arias.",
"The team's players celebrated by holding up a shirt dedicated to Dennis Marshall, the former Costa Rica international who died in a car accident in June.",
"Colombia still lead Group A on four points after their 0-0 draw against Argentina on Wednesday, with Costa Rica second on three points.",
"Sergio Batista's Argentina are third on two points and must defeat Costa Rica in Cordoba to avoid an early exit from the competition."
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"Costa Rica grab their first points of the Copa America with a 2-0 win over Bolivia .",
"The result means Argentina must beat Costa Rica on Monday to avoid elimination .",
"Colombia lead Group A on four points, with Costa Rica on three and Argentina on two ."
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