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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly 200,000 U.S.-supplied rifles and pistols meant for Iraqi security forces are unaccounted for in Iraq, according to a report to Congress.",
"Loose record-keeping caused the Pentagon and the U.S. command in Iraq to lose track of about 110,000 AK-47 rifles and 80,000 pistols provided to the new Iraqi national police and army, the Government Accountability Office told Congress.",
"The investigative arm of Congress, the GAO also found that 250,000 pieces of body armor and helmets can't be accounted for.",
"The report also says a review of the 2007 property books shows continuing problems with missing and incomplete records.",
"The report, issued July 31, follows an October accounting by the Defense Department's special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, which put the number of weapons missing at close to 500,000.",
"Auditors were unable to determine whether the weapons -- which included heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers -- were stolen, being used by insurgents or still in the hands of Iraqi units.",
"A Pentagon official in Baghdad, who asked not to be identified, said some of the weapons went back to Iraqi forces and some were destroyed.",
"But he conceded some of them may be missing.",
"Asked whether they ended up in the hands of insurgents, he said there was no hard data, but \"anything is possible.\"",
"Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday he is not aware of any reports that show U.S. weapons designated for Iraqi security forces have been found in the hands of insurgents.",
"The missing weapons mostly dated back to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's rule, and none had serial numbers, the official said.",
"Coalition commanders have tightened procedures for tracking the weapons, including using biometric data from Iraqi soldiers and police -- and since June, Iraqi units have been issued U.S.-made M-16 and M-4 rifles, which are electronically tracked, the official said.",
"Officials with the U.S. training command blamed insufficient staff and the lack of a \"fully operational distribution network\" for the poor record-keeping, the GAO report states.",
"Coalition trainers did not keep centralized records of the equipment they issued to Iraqi police and troops before December 2005, and the coalition \"has not consistently collected supporting documents that confirm when the equipment was received, the quantities of equipment delivered, or the Iraqi units receiving the equipment.\"",
"The report said the U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi forces reported about 185,000 AK-47 rifles, 170,000 pistols, 215,000 items of body armor, and 140,000 helmets were issued to Iraqi security forces as of September 2005, while the accounting books from the U.S. military contained records for only about 75,000 AK-47 rifles, 90,000 pistols, 80,000 items of body armor, and 25,000 helmets.",
"The GAO recommended the Pentagon set accountability standards for the training program and make sure it has adequate staff and technology to oversee the program.",
"The GAO also recommended the Secretary of Defense determine what DOD accountability procedures should apply to the program and ensure sufficient staff, functioning distribution networks, and proper technology are available to meet the requirements.",
"The Defense Department concurred with the recommendations and has begun a review \"to ensure proper accountability is in place for the Iraq train-and-equip program,\" the report states.",
"Pentagon officials said Monday the accounting systems should be \"continuously improved upon and refined.\"",
"According to the report the United States has provided $19.2 billion to develop the Iraqi security forces and the United States has asked for another $2 billion to continue training and equipping Iraqi troops.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Dan Rivers in Baghdad contributed to this report ."
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"Pentagon: not aware of reports of insurgents with U.S.-issued weapons .",
"U.S. lost track of 110,000 AK-47 rifles, 80,000 pistols for Iraqi security forces .",
"Training command blames lack of staff for weapons problem .",
"Defense Department agrees to revise oversight procedures ."
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"(Mashable) -- Facebook released a new version of its Questions feature on Thursday, the result of nearly a year of beta testing.",
"The new version of Questions takes the focus off public inquiries (a service already dominated by Q&A sites like Quora) and instead focuses on soliciting recommendations from friends.",
"\"There are a lot of places you can go on the internet to ask questions of people who you don't know, but there are very few places you can go to get responses from your friends,\" said Adrian Graham, a project manager for Questions.",
"\"We thought that this is where we should focus.\"",
"The updated version will be rolled out to current testers first.",
"When they start asking questions, the feature will automatically be pushed to their friends.",
"Those who don't want to wait for a friend to ask a question on their profile in order to use the new feature can download it here.",
"For now, the feature is only available in English.",
"Here's a quick look at the new product: .",
"Asking a question .",
"When asking a question, users have an option to create a poll with restricted answers or one that allows anybody to add answers.",
"The latter option is helpful if, for instance, they want to ask their friends for restaurant recommendations.",
"Generally, this type of question only requires a short answer, but it's not as though there are a limited number of options.",
"Friends can add their favorite restaurants to the answer list easily, and if they have something else to say can write it in an attached comment section.",
"For questions that don't work with a poll format (i.e.",
"\"Can we have a long discussion about the meaning of life?",
"\"), this comment section becomes the answer section.",
"When we last checked in on the product in July, wall posts about Questions merely referenced isolated pages where friends could respond.",
"Now questions can be answered and commented on within newsfeeds and profile pages.",
"When a friend participates, the question is also posted to his or her profile page.",
"Hypothetically, a compelling question could spread to every Facebook user in this way.",
"Answering a question .",
"As users respond, each option's box fills to reflect its popularity.",
"This way, viewers see the poll questions and results at the same time.",
"Facebook also displays the profile photos of respondents next to the options they select.",
"More on social media from Mashable .",
"When users are adding an option to a poll-style question, Facebook prepopulates a drop-down menu with corresponding Facebook pages.",
"One of these pages can be tacked to the answer so that other users can see a preview window of that page.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Facebook's new version is the result of nearly a year of beta testing .",
"Version focuses on soliciting recommendations from friends .",
"Updated version will be rolled out to current testers first ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"Sure, NBC can launch a reality show,\" competitors pointed out last week after \"The Voice\" debuted huge, \"but then what happens?",
"Remember 'The Marriage Ref,' 'The Singing Bee,' 'Grease: You're the One That I Want?'",
"All premiered big, but then fell off a cliff... \" Well, last night's second episode of \"The Voice\" not only didn't tumble, it climbed up the mountain a little higher.",
"\"The Voice\" was seen by 12.4 million viewers and had a 5.6 preliminary rating among adults 18-49.",
"That's up 10 percent from last week's premiere, which broke NBC records.",
"Here's how unusual this is: \"The Voice\" is the only new show this season on a major broadcast network whose ratings rose for its second episode.",
"The big question now is whether \"The Voice\" will continue its winning streak when the coaches ditch the swivel chairs and start the \"battle rounds\" next week.",
"(See exclusive pics of the coaches and their new teams here).",
"\"Biggest Loser\" (7.4 million, 2.6) opened the night.",
"As the runner-up, CBS had \"NCIS\" (17.3 million, 3.5) glaring at spin-off \"NCIS: LA\" (14 million, 2.9).",
"Both were down about 10 percent, followed by \"The Good Wife\" (12.2 million, 2.4), raising a nice 20 percent.",
"On third-place Fox, \"Glee\" (8.6 million, 3.6) rose 6 percent from last week's season low, followed by \"Raising Hope\" (4.9 million, 1.9) and \"Traffic Light\" (3.0 million, 1.2).",
"Then there was ABC with \"Dancing With the Stars\" results (15.6 million, 2.9), getting crushed by \"The Voice\" in the demo, down 19 percent.",
"At 10 p.m., \"Body of Proof\" (10.4 million, 2.0) slipped 9 percent.",
"The CW had \"One Tree Hill\" (1.2 million, 0.6) falling to a series low, and \"Hellcats\" (1 million, 0.4) tying its low.",
"Both shows, along with \"Nikita,\" are awaiting word whether they will be renewed, but The CW is expected to bring at least two of them back.",
"At this point \"Hellcats\" is the most likely to be left without a chair.",
"See the original article on EW.com .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"The Voice\" seen by 12.4 million viewers -- that's up 10 percent from last week .",
"\"The Voice\" is only show on major network whose ratings rose for second episode .",
"Big question now is whether \"The Voice\" will continue its winning streak ."
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"(Mental Floss.com) -- You might be planning a weekend camping trip with your family or friends.",
"As you stuff your car with all the necessary equipment, take a moment to reflect on the fascinating history of some of those must-have camping accessories.",
"1. Duffel bag .",
"While rucksacks have been around for hundreds (if not thousands) of years, they were usually made from animal skins or wool, which only did so much to protect contents from the harsh elements.",
"But Spanish and Portuguese sailors of the early 17th century hit on a better solution.",
"They found that bags made from the leftover scraps of fabric used to repair a ship's sails did a fine job against rain and seawater.",
"This coarse, sturdy, waterproof material was imported from its one supplier in the town of Duffel, Belgium.",
"2. Flashlight . When D cell batteries became commercially available in 1896, it opened the door for all kinds of battery-powered inventions.",
"One was the \"electrical hand torch,\" introduced in 1898 by the American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Company, which would later change its name to The American Ever-Ready Company.",
"The first lights were paper and fiber tubes, with a carbon filament bulb covered by a lens on one end, two D batteries inside, and a metal ring on the side.",
"Pressing down on the ring caused it to hit two metal poles -- one positive and one negative -- which completed the electrical connection, lighting up the bulb.",
"Early batteries were quite weak, though, so the light only came on in brief flashes before going out again, which is how they got their nickname, \"flashlights.\"",
"Heavy use of the light also meant that it had to be \"rested\" so that the batteries could recharge.",
"Still, it was much better than carrying a candle that could go out, a lantern that had to be refilled with oil, and, more importantly, there was no chance of starting a fire.",
"As battery and filament technologies improved, the flashlights could stay on for minutes at a time, but the name had already become synonymous, so it stuck (in America and Canada anyway; the rest of the world still calls them \"torches\").",
"While the lights were fairly popular, sales really skyrocketed in 1898 when Ever-Ready donated their new and improved metal flashlights to the New York City Police Department.",
"When officers reported how useful the lights were in their duties, these testimonies were included in the company's product catalog, adding weight to the quality and usefulness of the brand.",
"Mental Floss: The origin of the Boy Scouts .",
"3. Sleeping bag .",
"The modern sleeping bag was influenced by a number of different sources.",
"In the 1850s, French officials who patrolled the mountains had a knapsack bag made of sheepskin and lined with wool that could be rolled up and buckled in place, then carried with shoulder straps.",
"Then, in 1861, Alpine explorer Francis Fox Tuckett tested a prototype sleeping bag made from a blanket with a waterproof rubber bottom.",
"Both of these designs were little more than an open-ended man-sized bag, so getting in and out for a late-night bathroom break was a bit of a hassle, but it got the job done.",
"A more convenient design came from Welsh inventor and father of the mail order business model, Pryce Pryce-Jones.",
"In 1876, he introduced the Euklisia Rug.",
"The Rug consisted of a wool blanket with an off-center pocket at the top for a sewn-in, inflatable, rubber pillow.",
"Once inside, you folded the blanket over and fastened it together to keep you snug as a bug.",
"P.J., as he called himself, had produced 60,000 Rugs exclusively for the Russian Army; many were used in the 1877 Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War.",
"However, when the city fell, the Russians canceled the rest of their order, leaving P.J.",
"with 17,000 Rugs left undelivered.",
"He quickly added the Euklisia Rug to his catalog and sold it as an inexpensive bedding solution for charities working with the poor.",
"The rug caught on, and it was soon being used by the British Army and Australians camping in the Outback, too.",
"No known examples of the Euklisia Rug exist today, but in 2010, the BBC commissioned a replica made from the original patent as part of a special TV series called \"A History of the World.\"",
"They donated the recreation to a museum in Powys County in Wales, where Pryce-Jones lived.",
"4. Air mattress .",
"The first air mattress was invented in 1889 by the Pneumatic Mattress & Cushion Company in Reading, Massachusetts.",
"Surprisingly, the design of the mattress has remained virtually unchanged over the last 120 years, closely resembling the standard air mattress used for lounging in the swimming pool today.",
"The rubber mattresses were originally produced as an alternative to hair-filled mattresses on Atlantic steamships because they could be deflated and stowed easily, and could even be used as a life raft if needed.",
"The mattresses' easy storage was also a big selling point for landlubbers who, in the early part of the 20th century, moved out of the country and into one-room city apartments where space was limited.",
"To sell their inflatable mattress, the company offered a 30-day trial period, a tactic still used today by many mattress retailers.",
"If you didn't love your pneumatic mattress, you could return it for a full refund of $22 for the adult version, or $11 for the baby crib-sized version.",
"Mental Floss: How Teddy Roosevelt got Abe Lincoln's hair .",
"5. Leatherman tool .",
"Ask any outdoorsman, farmer, EMT, computer technician or soldier to give up his Leatherman Multi-tool and you'll likely be told, \"You can pry it from my cold, dead hands.\"",
"Fans of the handy gadget are dedicated to the multi-tool thanks to its compact size, versatility, and quality construction.",
"But just what is a \"Leatherman\" anyway?",
"Is it a nickname given to rough and tumble mountain men in the 19th Century?",
"Maybe they were soldiers that were part of a special brigade that fought in the Civil War?",
"Nope. It's a guy. His name's Tim. When Tim Leatherman, a mechanical engineer, and his wife were traveling through Europe in 1975, their rented Fiat kept breaking down.",
"Tim was pretty handy, but he found that his old Scout knife, which had a couple of blades, a can opener, and a flat head screwdriver, simply wasn't enough tool to keep the old car running.",
"So, using cardboard cutouts, and then later making a metal prototype in his garage workshop, he developed what he called a \"multi-tool\" that he thought would change the world.",
"Unfortunately, the world wasn't too impressed.",
"Tim tried to sell the idea to knife companies, but they said it was more like a tool.",
"Tool companies said it wasn't a tool, but a \"gadget,\" so they weren't interested, either.",
"Tim eventually decided to make and sell the Leatherman on his own, but still couldn't find anyone to carry it in their stores.",
"Finally, in 1983, he convinced a mail-order catalog to sell his \"Sportsmen\" multi-tool.",
"Tim had the resources to produce as many as 4,000 Leatherman multi-tools.",
"He received 30,000 orders in his first year.",
"6. Sterno . If starting a campfire isn't your strong suit, it never hurts to have some Sterno, the flammable gel in a can, within reach.",
"This \"canned heat\" has been around since 1893 and takes its unusual name from the company's founder, S. Sternau.",
"The product really hit its stride during World War I, when the Sternau Company ran a marketing campaign suggesting soldiers going to Europe could use Sterno to heat water and rations, sterilize surgical instruments, and provide light and warmth in the cold, dark trenches.",
"Soon, just about every Doughboy had a few cans in his duffel bag.",
"Mental Floss: 7 alternative uses for beer .",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Mechanical engineer Tim Leatherman invented Leatherman Multi-tool .",
"Early batteries only powered the first flashlights briefly, hence the name \"flashlight\"\n17th century Spanish and Portuguese sailors used ship sails to make duffle bags .",
"Air mattresses designed as alternatives to hair-filled mattresses on Atlantic steamships ."
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"(CNN) -- The site of a deadly truck-train collision east of Reno, Nevada, remained shut Saturday as federal accident investigators examined the scene, a state trooper said.",
"Two people died in the Friday morning accident, Trooper Dan Lopez of the Nevada Highway Patrol confirmed Saturday morning.",
"The highway patrol could not be reached later Saturday.",
"Amtrak said Friday it had reports that at least one passenger, an Amtrak train crew member and the operator of the truck died.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board would not comment on the death toll Saturday.",
"It was not immediately clear how many people were injured when a tractor-trailer slammed into the Chicago-to-California Amtrak passenger train at a railroad crossing near Lovelock, Nevada.",
"Amtrak said that numerous people aboard the train had been taken to area hospitals for treatment.",
"Amateur video taken after the crash showed huge plumes of black smoke billowing from the train as a fire burned.",
"Passengers and crew members stood outside.",
"One voice on the video can be heard telling people to get away from the smoke.",
"Another tells a woman, out of view, to \"hang and jump.\"",
"A third voice asks someone, \"Are you OK?\"",
"\"Next thing I know, we get hit by something.",
"A big ball of fire comes in.",
"I jumped out the window,\" passenger Justin Rhine told CNN affiliate KOLO-TV in Reno.",
"\"I saw people flying on the other side of the train.\"",
"The National Transportation Safety Board dispatched investigators within hours of the accident, the agency said.",
"The NTSB has scheduled a press briefing for 9:30 p.m. PT.",
"Saturday. Spokesman Nicholas Worrell declined to comment on the case before then.",
"The truck struck the train, which was on its way to Emeryville, California, at 11:20 a.m., Amtrak said in a statement.",
"The train was carrying 204 passengers and 14 crew members, the company said."
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"Nevada Highway Patrol confirms two deaths in truck-train collision .",
"The accident scene is shut down for federal accident investigators .",
"The crash involved a Chicago-to-California Amtrak passenger train ."
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"(Mashable) -- Apple's production partners are already hard at work on the new model of iPad, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.",
"The fact that Apple is working on an iPad 2, of course, is common knowledge.",
"The famously tight-lipped company rarely talks about upcoming product launches, and isn't talking now.",
"But Apple has never denied that it intends to follow up on one of its most successful products.",
"Nearly $5 billion worth of iPads have been sold in the three quarters since its launch.",
"And a quick glance at the history of the iPhone, which launches a new model every year, suggests that we should expect to see the iPad 2 right around the first anniversary of its predecessor's launch: April 3, 2011.",
"A prototype of the iPad 2 was apparently spotted by a Reuters reporter after the launch of News Corp's iPad publication, the Daily, last week.",
"And an unconfirmed report from DigiTimes in December said that Foxconn, the Chinese makers of the iPhone and iPad, had been ordered to manufacture the iPad 2 in market-ready quantities by the end of February.",
"The Journal report, which carries three bylines and cites \"people familiar with the matter,\" offers a few more nuggets of detail.",
"It confirms the widely-held belief that the iPad 2 will have a front-facing camera, enabling use of the Facetime videoconferencing app.",
"It says that the 3G version will again be available on Verizon and AT&T, with Sprint and T-Mobile still shut out.",
"But it contradicts earlier reports that Apple will endow the iPad 2 with a higher-resolution screen, much as the iPhone 4 had significantly higher resolution than the iPhone 3GS.",
"Apple is likely still working on a higher quality iPad display -- it just won't be ready for the iPad 2.",
"So will a slightly improved Apple tablet with camera be enough to persuade millions of iPad users to upgrade?",
"Are there other bells and whistles we don't know about yet?",
"We have previously reported on rumors that the new device will have an SD Card slot, and that it will feature rear-facing and front-facing cameras.",
"(Click here for our comprehensive roundup of iPad 2 rumors).",
"We'll know when Apple's acting CEO Tim Cook takes the stage, if this product timeline is accurate, in a few months' time.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"The iPad 2 might have a front-facing camera, enabling use of the Facetime app .",
"There are rumors that the new device will have an SD Card slot .",
"Nearly $5 billion worth of iPads have been sold in the three quarters since its launch ."
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"Chicago (CNN) -- In Roseland, one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, many residents stay off the streets to protect themselves from rampant gang violence.",
"But one grandmother opened her door and invited gang members to come inside.",
"\"They say I'm a nut because I let kids into my home who I didn't even know,\" said Diane Latiker, 54.",
"\"But I know (the kids) now. And I'll know the new generation.\"",
"Since 2003, Latiker has gotten to know more than 1,500 young people through her nonprofit community program, Kids Off the Block.",
"And she hopes that by providing them with support and a place to go, she is also bringing hope to a community in crisis.",
"\"We are losing a generation to violence,\" said Latiker, who started the program in her living room.",
"According to Chicago Public Schools, 140 of its students have been shot since the school year started in September.",
"\"How can a kid get a gun like he can get a pack of gum?",
"It's that crazy,\" Latiker said.",
"Latiker, a mother of eight and grandmother to 13, has lived in Roseland for 22 years.",
"She said she was once \"young and dumb,\" dropping out of high school and having seven children by age 25.",
"But she said that by 36, she had turned her life around: She got remarried and earned her GED.",
"She had also given birth to her eighth child, Aisha.",
"This time, she said, she was determined to do things right.",
"But when Aisha became a teenager in 2003, Latiker worried that Aisha and her friends would fall in with a gang.",
"After all, gang members lived next door, and there weren't many safe things for teenagers to do.",
"\"I started taking (Aisha and her friends) to swimming and movies and whatever,\" Latiker said.",
"\"My mother saw that, and she said: 'Diane, why don't you do something with the kids?",
"They like you and respect you.'",
"\" Latiker was hesitant at first.",
"She wanted to focus on being a grandmother and rebuilding her relationships with her older children.",
"But after thinking and praying about it, she decided to make use of the natural rapport she had with young people.",
"\"I invited them into my living room,\" she said.",
"\"They all started saying: 'I want to be a doctor.",
"I want to be a rapper.",
"I want to be a singer.'",
"They didn't want to be out here running up and down the street.",
"They wanted to be involved in something.\"",
"Latiker told them her house was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.",
"They could come over for food, or homework help, or just to talk about their hopes, dreams and fears.",
"Kids Off the Block was born.",
"\"It doesn't matter where they come from, what they've done,\" Latiker said.",
"\"We've had six gangs in my living room at one time. ...",
"But that was the safe place.",
"And you know what? They respected that.\" As Latiker began to see positive change in many of the kids, she quit her job as a cosmetologist to focus on them full-time.",
"She set up tutoring sessions with teachers and retired educators.",
"She provided job interview training and opportunities to play football, basketball and soccer.",
"Latiker and volunteers also started taking the kids on field trips to museums, movies, skating rinks, water parks and professional sports games.",
"In 2004, the group started traveling to other cities across the country, including Detroit and St. Louis, so they could talk to the young people living there.",
"The experiences \"let them know there is something beyond their block,\" Latiker said.",
"Latiker has also made many personal sacrifices along the way.",
"She sold the family television to put extra money into the program, and she gave away her dining room set to make room for a computer station.",
"\"We moved into the dining room, and then we moved into one of my bedrooms,\" she said.",
"\"(At one point) there were 75 young people in my three rooms.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"In 2008, just when Latiker thought her home would burst at the seams, some potential donors came to her home for a visit.",
"Impressed, several of them pooled their money to buy a bus for the program.",
"But a few days later, Latiker learned the building next door was for sale -- for the same price as the bus.",
"\"I prayed about it and finally called the donors and asked if the money for the bus could be spent on the building next door instead,\" Latiker said.",
"Her prayers were answered.",
"The building was hers, and Kids Off the Block opened the doors of its new home on July 15, 2010.",
"\"We call it The KOB Youth Community Center, and we invite everyone -- all of the youth in the community -- to come,\" she said.",
"With 301 members from Roseland, Latiker said the center has brought community outreach to \"a whole new level.\"",
"Every day, 30 to 50 young people show up at the center for tutoring, counseling or activities such as sports, drama, dance or music.",
"\"KOB\" caters to people age 11 to 24, but 80% of those in the program are male, Latiker said.",
"She emphasizes activities that target males because they are most often perpetrating or confronting the violence of the streets.",
"Maurice Gilchrist, 15, is one teenager who credits Kids Off the Block with turning his life around.",
"Gilchrist joined a gang when he was 12, and he says life in a gang meant looking behind his back every day.",
"\"We always used to jump on people, rob everything, steal,\" he said.",
"Gilchrist discovered Kids Off the Block when he went to Latiker's house after school with a friend, Latiker's grandson.",
"There, Gilchrist connected with others his age, ate pizza, did his homework, and talked with Latiker, who invited him to join the group.",
"Today, Gilchrist's grades have improved and he has set his sights on playing football in college.",
"Without Latiker and her program, \"I would be locked up, (or) dead, somewhere beat up, in a hospital,\" he said.",
"\"You name it, I would be there.",
"\"Miss Diane, she changed my life.",
"I love her for that.\" For Latiker, opening up her door was the first step toward change.",
"And she hopes other people will follow her lead.",
"\"If we came outside, we could change so many things,\" she said.",
"\"This community -- if it was once vibrant and safe -- how did it get to this point?",
"Because people started going inside.\"",
"To help \"shock the community\" into action, Latiker set up a stone memorial in front of the community center for all the young people who have lost their lives to violence since 2007.",
"There are 220 stones lining the memorial, each representing a victim, and Latiker said they are still 150 stones behind.",
"Through her efforts, Latiker has become a voice for local youth and she wishes more people would take the time to listen to them.",
"\"Our young people need help,\" Latiker said.",
"\"All of them are not gang-bangers.",
"All of them are not dropouts. But the ones that are, they need our help.",
"Somehow or another, something ain't right here.",
"And why don't we ask them about it?\" Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Kids Off the Block website at www.kidsofftheblock.bbnow.org and see how to help."
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"Diane Latiker is reaching out to young people in her troubled Chicago neighborhood .",
"\"Kids Off the Block\" provides recreational activities and valuable life skills .",
"Latiker urges others in the community to listen to children and help them when possible .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"London (CNN) -- Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, presented medals Saturday to soldiers of the Irish Guards who have served in Afghanistan.",
"The ceremony in the town of Windsor was the first time Prince William had visited the regiment since he was appointed colonel of the Irish Guards in February.",
"Six soldiers from the regiment performed ceremonial duties at the couple's wedding in April.",
"About 400 Irish Guards received operational medals during the ceremony, British media reported, with the duke and duchess pausing to speak to each soldier as they presented them.",
"Afterwards, Prince William spoke of his \"pride and humility\" as he paid tribute to the soldiers' service.",
"\"I am proud to be your colonel.",
"I am humbled by the thought of the sacrifices that you and your families have made and the losses that you have suffered -- all in the service of our country,\" he said.",
"\"Along with thousands of others back home, I followed your tour in Afghanistan with a mounting sense of awe.\"",
"The duke and duchess also presented the families of three fallen servicemen with the Elizabeth Cross, a medal granted to the relatives of military personnel killed on operations.",
"The couple spoke to the families privately before the medal parade.",
"It was the first time the duchess had carried out a military role as a member of the royal family.",
"The 1st Battalion Irish Guards returned in April from a six-month tour in Afghanistan.",
"Their responsibilities included helping mentor the Afghan National Army.",
"The regiment, which is based at the Victoria Barracks in Windsor, was formed in 1900 by order of Queen Victoria."
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"NEW: Prince William speaks of his \"pride and humility\" as he meets troops .",
"He was appointed colonel of the Irish Guards in February .",
"This was the first time he and Catherine had been to visit the regiment since then .",
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- It's official: Ashton Kutcher is filling the gap left by Charlie Sheen on \"Two and a Half Men.\"",
"\"I can't wait to get to work with this ridiculously talented 2.5 team and I believe we can fill the stage with laughter that will echo in viewers' homes,\" Kutcher said Friday in a statement released by CBS and Warner Bros. Television.",
"\"I can't replace Charlie Sheen but I'm going to work my ass off to entertain the hell out of people!\"",
"Kutcher, who gained his early fame on a TV sitcom, \"That 70s Show,\" has more recently been seen on the big screen.",
"His last film was \"No Strings Attached,\" which hit theaters in January.",
"He's also made his mark as a TV executive producer, most notably for MTV's hidden-camera show \"Punk'd.\"",
"\"Ashton is a pop culture triple threat -- film star, cutting-edge producer and a social media pioneer,\" said Nina Tassler, the head of CBS Entertainment.",
"\"He brings creativity, energy and personality to everything he touches.",
"We are thrilled to have him.\" CBS and Warner Bros. did not disclose how much Kutcher will earn.",
"Sheen, who is embroiled in a lawsuit over his sudden dismissal from the show in March, was earning a reported $2 million for each episode.",
"Sheen responded to the news by praising Kutcher while taking a shot at the show's executive producer, Chuck Lorre.",
"\"Ashton Kutcher is a sweetheart and a brilliant comedic performer.",
"Oh wait, so am I! !,\" Sheen said in a written statement.",
"\"Enjoy the show America.",
"Enjoy seeing 2.0 in the demo every Monday, WB.",
"Enjoy planet Chuck, Ashton.",
"There is no air, laughter, loyalty, or love there.\"",
"Producers had been scrambling in recent weeks to find a replacement for Sheen to keep one of TV's highest-rated sitcoms on the air for another year.",
"CNN's Alan Duke contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Floyd Mayweather is returning to boxing after a year out of the ring, announcing he is to fight Victor Ortiz.",
"The five-time world champion's last bout was against Shane Mosley in May 2010 as he won a unanimous decision in Las Vegas.",
"Mayweather, 34, has won all 41 of his professional fights and is a six-time world champion at five different weights.",
"Ortiz became the current World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion after beating Andre Berto in April and the bout has been set for September 17.",
"\"I am ready to return to the ring and give my fans a fantastic night of boxing by fighting the best out there,\" Mayweather said in a statement.",
"\"For me, that is Victor Ortiz.",
"He is the current champion and an extremely talented fighter, who showed amazing skills and heart in his last performance.",
"\"At this stage of my career, these are the challenges I look for -- a young, strong, rising star looking to make his mark in boxing by beating me.",
"\"Ortiz is just going to be another casualty, the 42nd one who tried and failed.",
"Trust me. I will be ready.\" Mayweather has recorded 25 knockouts in his 41 bouts, while Ortiz has suffered two defeats and two draws in his 33 fights.",
"The 24-year-old American said: \"I respect Mayweather because he has been a champion for many years and I know he will be ready but so will I.",
"\"I'm a world champion for a reason and I am not going to let go of my title any time soon.",
"This is going to be a great fight, but I will remain a world champion for many years to come.\"",
"Mayweather's return to the ring will again raise the prospect of a so-called \"superbout\" with eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.",
"Since Mayweather last fought he was arrested at a Las Vegas casino in December last year on a misdemeanor battery charge after he allegedly assaulted a security guard at his housing complex .",
"He has also been embroiled in domestic violence claims from his former girlfriend.",
"He faces criminal charges in court in January."
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"(CNN) -- A judge has ordered Jared Lee Loughner to undergo a mental evaluation at a specialized facility in Springfield, Missouri, as soon as possible to help determine if he is competent to stand trial, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tucson, Arizona.",
"Loughner, an Arizona man, faces 49 counts -- including murder and attempted murder -- related to the January 8 mass shooting in a grocery store parking lot.",
"Six people were killed in the shooting and 13 others were wounded, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.",
"Loughner's defense attorneys argued that the suspect should not be moved to Springfield because he is \"'seriously ill' and that physically transferring him from Tuscon could worsen his mental state and disrupt counsel's relationship with him,\" according to court documents.",
"But U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sided with prosecutors stating in his order that he \"acknowledges that moving the defendant to Springfield for a relatively short period of time will be temporarily inconvenient for the defense team.",
"But the inconvenience is unavoidable ...\" Burns said the mental evaluation should happen no later than April 29.",
"A competency hearing in the case has been scheduled for May 25.",
"Loughner is accused of killing John M. Roll, a federal district judge; Gabriel M. Zimmerman, a staff member for Giffords; Dorothy J. Morris, Phyllis C. Schneck, Dorwan C. Stoddard and nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green.",
"Loughner has pleaded not guilty to the charges.",
"CNN's Leslie Tripp contributed to this report."
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"The judge says the move is inconvenient but \"unavoidable\"\nThe judge rules that the evaluation should happen no later than April 29 ."
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"(Fast Company) -- Users in China are reporting that access to LinkedIn has been blocked throughout the country.",
"By all indications, it seems that the popular career networking site has run afoul of the country's infamous Great Firewall.",
"According to LinkedIn's Hani Durzy, the company is aware of a blockage in China and is \"currently in the process of investigating the situation further.\"",
"The shutdown follows days of calls for a \"Jasmine Revolution\" in China, on the model of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions.",
"Access to Twitter and Facebook has been blocked throughout China for some time; Chinese internet users seeking to use Twitter have been forced to access the site through difficult-to-use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).",
"However, Chinese dissidents have another way of accessing Twitter... LinkedIn.",
"Use of LinkedIn, which is fully integrated with Twitter, was by far the easiest way to access Twitter in China.",
"Messages can be easily read and posted through Twitter via LinkedIn.",
"One Chinese Twitter user who accesses both Twitter and LinkedIn through a proxy posted photos to Twitpic that seem to confirm a Chinese LinkedIn outage.",
"Adding credence to the LinkedIn-shutdown-to-block-Twitter strategy is the news that the Chinese government has started censoring the name of U.S.",
"Ambassador Jon Huntsman from search results on the wildly popular homegrown Twitter/Tumblr clones Sina Weibo/QQ Weibo.",
"Weibo means \"microblog\" in Chinese.",
"Huntsman faces widespread charges in China of support for the Jasmine Revolution after a citizen journalist spotted him watching a pro-democracy protest from within a crowd this past Sunday.",
"Like any good American abroad, Huntsman was standing outside a McDonald's.",
"According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese dissidents have been disseminating calls to protest and organizing events via LinkedIn.",
"Reuters notes that the LinkedIn outagecould hurt the firm's chances at an IPO: .",
"\"If the disruption for LinkedIn is permanent in China, it could hurt the company's prospects at an IPO as a ban would exclude the company from the world's largest Internet market--about 450 million users and growing.\"",
"\"It certainly would be a negative in terms of the company's future growth and profitability,\" said Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Florida.",
"\"This is something where investors would take it into account and be willing to pay a little lower price per share.\"",
"Luckily for LinkedIn, China's Internet censors are notoriously fickle: Sites blip on and off the Great Firewall frequently, with no prior warning.",
"Related: Fast Company's Anya Kamenetz recently interviewed LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman.",
"Read more about the social networking site as part of our Most Innovative Companies of 2011 project.",
"Copyright © 2010 FastCompany.com, a unit of Mansueto Ventures, LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- It's one thing to sing about a motorcycle, and it's another to sing about a unicorn.",
"But when you put your motorcycle song and your unicorn song in the same song?",
"And call it \"Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)\"?",
"Now that's a pop visionary.",
"Lady Gaga knew it was time to crank up the crazy, and she didn't hold back: \"Born This Way\" is her Eighties arena-rock move, going for maximum goth Catholic bombast.",
"The whole album thumps like the soundtrack to a lost \"Eddie and the Cruisers\" sequel, one where Eddie gets crucified by Roman soldiers, while Gaga stands under the cross weeping and sending dirty texts to the DJ.",
"\"Born This Way\" has all the electro-sleaze beats and Eurodisco chorus chants that made her the Fame Monster.",
"But the big surprise is the way Gaga pillages the Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar and Eddie Money records of her childhood.",
"In the 1980s, radio was full of tormented Catholic kids, from Madonna to Springsteen.",
"Gaga clearly grew up on that stuff.",
"She doesn't just give her Springsteen homage \"The Edge of Glory\" a sax solo -- she gets Clarence Clemons himself to play it.",
"Exclusive: How E Street Band Saxophonist Clarence Clemons Ended Up on Lady Gaga's New Album .",
"All over \"Born This Way,\" she takes on the big topics dear to her heart: sex, religion, muscle cars, her hair.",
"She sings in French, German, Spanish and whatever language wants to claim \"punk-tious.\"",
"She seduces men, women, deities and dead presidents.",
"(\"Put your hands on me/John F. Kennedy\" -- hey, it rhymes.)",
"And in \"Heavy Metal Lover,\" Gaga purrs the immortal pickup line \"I want your whiskey mouth/All over my blond south.\"",
"Some songs are already familiar -- at this point you could hum the Tarzan-boy yodels of \"Judas\" in your sleep.",
"But the singles gain resonance on the album, where they're surrounded by similar-minded psychosexual turmoil.",
"\"Born This Way\" pulls an expert (expletive)-stole-my-look on Madonna's \"Express Yourself.\"",
"But that isn't even the most brazen Madonna rip here: That honor goes to \"Judas.\"",
"And if you thought the Catholic angst of \"Judas\" was over-the-top, check out \"Bloody Mary,\" where Gaga does the Stations of the Cross to a Chic bass line.",
"Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way': A Track-by-Track Breakdown .",
"What makes \"Born This Way\" so disarmingly great is how warm and humane Gaga sounds.",
"There isn't a subtle moment on the album, but even at its nuttiest, the music is full of wide-awake emotional details.",
"The friendliest cut is \"Yoü & I,\" her love song to a \"cool Nebraska guy.\"",
"She has been playing it live for a while, but who knew she would let Mutt Lange put \"We Will Rock You\" drums all over it?",
"Or bring in Queen's Brian May to play guitar?",
"All that excess just amps up the emotion in the song, especially when Gaga wails, \"There's only three men that I'm-a serve my whole life/It's my daddy and Nebraska and Jesus Christ.\"",
"Gaga loves overheated cosmic statements for the same reason she loves dance pop and metal guitars -- because she hears them as echoes of her twisted rock & roll heart.",
"That's the achievement of \"Born This Way\": The more excessive Gaga gets, the more honest she sounds.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"(CNN) -- Ten years after last voicing Autobot leader Optimus Prime on the original \"Transformers\" animated series, Peter Cullen decided to go to his first fan convention, BotCon, in Rochester, New York, after some coaxing from his daughter.",
"\"I was taken aback by the response and the sheer love that was in the audience,\" he said.",
"\"It became quite evident that (voicing this character) was a responsibility that I wanted to fulfill.",
"I had no idea he was so popular.\"",
"That 1997 convention was the first of many for Cullen, who said that Optimus' influence over the lives of children made the character his favorite.",
"\"It's been wonderful to listen to the experience of growing up and how the character affected their lives in a good, positive way.",
"It's a joy to know that I made a difference.\"",
"So, why all the adoration? \"Optimus Prime is basically a bulletproof Abraham Lincoln,\" said iReporter and \"Transformers\" toy collector Shaun Martens.",
"\"(He's) someone so competent, virtuous and level headed that you trust him more than yourself.",
"To kids he represents the perfect father figure, someone who is strong in every way and holds the best interests of others above those of himself,\" Martens said.",
"\"Optimus Prime is capable, loyal, forgiving, just, approachable, a brilliant strategist, merciful, selfless,\" said iReporter Kevin Farren.",
"\"Optimus Prime can do no wrong.",
"He can't even stay dead.",
"If you ever needed a leader you'd want him to be Optimus Prime.\"",
"Ten years after that first convention, Cullen was asked to voice Optimus in the first of the wildly popular \"Transformers\" movie series, something for which he gives full credit to the fan base.",
"This summer, he is playing the character in the third film, \"Transformers: Dark of the Moon,\" as well as the new animated series on the Hub network, \"Transformers: Prime.\"",
"\"It was very important to me that he voice the character of Prime in the movie,\" said iReporter Cody Helms, who like Martens and Farren often check sites like Seibertron.com to interact with other fans and find out the latest \"Transformers\" news.",
"\"I believe he gives the character a better sense of humanity.\"",
"Like classic characters Bugs Bunny and Fred Flintstone, the voice of Optimus Prime is instantly recognizable for a certain generation.",
"\"You know it's him when you hear the voice,\" said Farren, who added that despite his disappointment in the movies overall, the highlight is hearing Cullen's performance.",
"Martens described Cullen's voice as \"a perfect balance between warmth and authority.\"",
"Cullen said he is personally touched by how strong the response has been.",
"\"I remember an officer in the Marine Corps who had just returned from Iraq, and he gave me his golden anchor emblem from his officer's hat,\" he said.",
"\"He presented that to me and said this is how much you mean to me.",
"There are no words to describe it, but I was humbled.",
"That sticks with me forever.\"",
"Cullen -- who said that police officers have made similar gestures toward him -- came up with the voice because of his brother Larry, an officer in the Marine Corps.",
"\"I saw a difference in him when he came home.",
"There was a maturity and calmness and understanding, and a very strong source of confidence, respect, caring and dignity,\" he said.",
"\"I was called to audition and said goodbye to Larry, and I said I was auditioning for a hero.",
"He said, 'Be tough enough to be gentle, you don't have to always be loud.'",
"It stuck with me when I read the character description.",
"I just echoed Larry's voice in the first few lines, and fell right into it.",
"And I thought, boy, this feels like home.\"",
"When the producers of \"Transformers: Prime\" began casting, they knew that it was very important to get Cullen to play Optimus once again... and along with that, they felt strongly that they needed to get the original Megatron, Frank Welker, as well.",
"\"Those two guys love each other,\" said executive producer Jeff Kline.",
"\"They're so obviously happy together that you get better stuff from the cast.",
"That stamp of approval on what we were doing went a long way with the fan community, as well.\"",
"Cullen said that he and Welker go back to the 1979 Saturday morning cartoon, \"Mighty Man and Yukk,\" about a miniature superhero and a dog so ugly he had to cover his face with a dog house.",
"\"He played the dog, and I played Mighty Man,\" he said.",
"\"Now, sometimes we won't see each other for a while, but we'll inevitably end up in the same studio together and reinforce our great appreciation for each other.\"",
"That camaraderie extends to younger members of the \"Prime\" cast, as well.",
"\"The most surprising thing is being in the room with Peter and Frank and all of these guys whose careers I've followed for so long and the fact that they were still so excited to be there, and so grateful after all these years -- especially Peter, he's done it all, and he's like a little kid in there and just as excited as we are,\" said Steven Blum, who plays the villainous Starscream.",
"\"He's not the huge man you would expect him to be listening to his voice.",
"He's a normal size guy, but he opens his mouth and it's almost as though the jaw would unhinge and the windows start to flex with all the vibrations coming out.",
"It's just astonishing.\" On the flip side from Optimus' heroism, anime veteran Blum explores the darkness of Starscream while getting into character.",
"\"I just go as dark and delusional as I possibly can and sort of build my way up from there,\" he said.",
"\"Sprinkle in a little deviant and cowardly and megalomaniacal and I think from moment to moment, he's one or all of those things.\"",
"\"He's a villain that is so completely out for himself that it actually works against him,\" said Martens, who counts Starscream as his favorite \"Transformers\" character.",
"\"You never know if he's going to follow Megatron's plan against the Autobots, or try to off Megatron and take control of the Decepticons himself.\"",
"Between good and evil, Blum is somewhat on the fence as to which he prefers.",
"\"The villains are certainly therapeutic.",
"I get to act out all the badness that I am not really allowed to do in my day to day life,\" he said.",
"\"But I like the heroes too, I do like setting a good example for kids once in a while instead of turning them into demented monsters.",
"They both have their charm, but I would say more days than not, the villain is more fun to play.\"",
"Not surprisingly, Cullen feels differently: \"I played a villain - Venger in 'Dungeons and Dragons' - and I got some feedback that it was pretty scary.",
"I'm not the kind of guy that likes to scare people.",
"If it's going to have an entertaining value, it's got to be funny or inspiring.",
"The evil part of it is part of the acting generator but it's not one of my favorites.\"",
"One burning question for both actors: do they own action figures of themselves?",
"\"I used to have Transformers figures, and I think I broke them because I played with them too much,\" said Blum.",
"\"I have the original G1 figure (from the 1980s),\" said Cullen.",
"\"I even broke a portion trying to configure it -- it ended up on a shelf where it remains in pieces, several pieces I might add.",
"Nonetheless, it's quite important to me, it was my first one and I cherish it.\"",
"Nowadays, Cullen keeps the figures in a closet, to bring out during birthdays and holidays for his grandson.",
"\"I love the 18 wheeler that transforms and speaks at the same time.",
"I was knocked out by that one.",
"He will get that at Christmas.\"",
"True enough, \"Transformers\" transcends generations, as Cullen has seen for himself.",
"\"My grandson is turning five in August and we were at dinner at a pizza house several days ago.",
"He got up on his chair standing next to his dad and said 'I'm Optimus Prime!,' and I just dropped!",
"He's into 'Transformers: Prime' and it just made my heart swell.",
"That was a total surprise -- it knocked me out.\""
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"(CNN) -- Support from the United States, Pakistan and other Afghan allies is crucial to the success of reconciliation talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria that aired Sunday.",
"\"The High Council for Peace is authorized by the Afghan people to talk with the Taliban,\" Karzai said.",
"\"These are initial contacts being made, but these contacts would not yield results, would not give us the results that we seek, unless and until the United States and Pakistan, especially, with our other allies, back it with practical application of the means that they have in their disposal.\"",
"Last week, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, \"there's been outreach (to the Taliban) on the part of a number of countries, including the United States.",
"I would say that these contacts are very preliminary.\"",
"\"My own view is that real reconciliation talks are not likely to be able to make any substantive headway until at least this winter,\" Gates said.",
"Among the conditions required by the United States of the Taliban: complete disassociation from al Qaeda and \"meeting the redlines that President Karzai and the coalition have laid down.\"",
"Karzai said earlier this month that \"peace negotiations with the Taliban and with other countrymen have been started.",
"Those who accept the constitution, freedom, democracy and development of Afghanistan can take part in this negotiation.\"",
"\"The Afghan people need peace,\" Karzai said in the CNN interview.",
"\"The Afghan people want peace.",
"They want their children sent to school.",
"Mothers want to be without worry when they have their children go to school or their husbands to (a) job, or when the women go out to work.",
"This country needs to live like all other nations live.\"",
"\"... We must reach this human desire through a reasonable means, through a realistic approach,\" he said.",
"\"And that is dialogue with a condition that the gains of Afghanistan over the past 10 years not be compromised, that the gains of our women not be compromised, that our children must continue to go to school, that our constitution be respected and recognized.",
"And that having fulfilled that, that the Taliban, who agree to this -- and the absolute majority of them agree to this -- will return to their homes in dignity.\"",
"Karzai also said he welcomes U.S. President Barack Obama's plans for a drawdown of American troops, calling it a sign that Afghanistan is ready to take control of security in the war-torn nation.",
"\"The number of troops that he has announced to be withdrawn is a sign that Afghanistan is taking over its own security and is trying to defend it territory by its own means,\" Karzai said.",
"\"So we are happy about the announcement.\"",
"As the United States pulls back, Karzai painted a picture of a more stable Afghanistan, despite the fact that May was the bloodiest month for Afghan civilians since 2007.",
"Karzai, who spoke to Zakaria earlier this week, said Afghans were ready to take the reins of their own country.",
"\"It is the responsibility of the Afghan people to protect their country and to provide security for the citizens of the country,\" Karzai said.",
"\"If you fail in fulfilling our most important responsibility with regard to our country and our people, then somebody else should take over.\"",
"Obama announced Wednesday night that 10,000 U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan this year and all 33,000 forces, sent as part of a 2009 surge, would return home by the summer of 2012.",
"Karzai also defended his public criticisms of NATO, which in recent weeks have taken on a more angry tone.",
"Karzai blasted the alliance for civilian deaths and nighttime raids.",
"He said his comment on NATO becoming an \"occupying force\" was taken out of context.",
"\"No I don't regret having made that comment,\" he said.",
"\"That comment was not seen in the full sentence that I spoke.",
"It was after the incident of civilian casualties in Afghanistan where children were killed in an aerial bombing, where I said, 'No more of such aerial bombings on our residents.'",
"\"The question was what if they continue?\"",
"Karzai said.",
"\"When Afghanistan asks that these operations cease and even then, if they continue, this means we are not in charge of our country,\" he said.",
"\"And that, of course, becomes an occupation.",
"It was in this context that I spoke, and I stand by that.\"",
"\"My statements are neither hostile nor inflammatory nor designed to get anything but an understanding from our partners that the Afghan people need to feel secure, they need to see this war take a direction in which they can see the end of the tunnel,\" Karzai said.",
"He said Afghanistan, dependent on U.S. dollars for security and development, was grateful to American taxpayers but expressed dismay that U.S. humanitarian efforts have not always taken Afghan wishes into account.",
"He cited a Kandahar electricity project in which he said the United States spent $250 million to buy generators.",
"Karzai said Afghanistan would have preferred the construction of a dam, which he called a more lasting solution."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan failed a court-ordered alcohol test last week, requiring her to go before a judge for a probation violation hearing Thursday morning, according to a source close to the case.",
"Lohan's failed test, which the source said happened on June 13, comes while the actress is confined to her Venice Beach, California home because of a jail sentence imposed last month.",
"The actress will appear before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner at 10 a.m. Thursday, the same judge who sentenced her to 120 days in jail after she pleaded guilty to stealing a necklace, a prosecution spokeswoman said Wednesday.",
"Lohan was allowed to serve a reduce sentence at home because, as a non-violent offender, she qualified a home confinement program intended to reduce overcrowding.",
"But it is not likely Judge Sautner has missed seeing media reports showing Lohan socializing on the roof of her luxury home in recent days.",
"\"When my friends come over, they're not drinking,\" Lohan told an interviewer with Life & Style magazine.",
"\"Alcohol is not in my house, so it's just not a part of my life.\"",
"That interview was given on June 18, five days after she failed test.",
"The actress, who turns 25 on July 2, has managed to avoid more than a few days in jail despite two drunk 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.",
"Without the latest violation, it was expected she would be released from home confinement in early July.",
"She would then resume her work on 480 hours of community service the judge imposed.",
"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 not the root of Lohan's legal troubles.",
"\"She's got other problems for which she self-medicates,\" Judge Sautner said.",
"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 last month 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.",
"HLN's Selin Darkalstanian contributed to this report."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan(CNN) -- A suicide bomb attack targeting a hospital in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 35 people and wounded more than two dozen, a brazen strike that rocked a maternity ward and claimed the lives of numerous women and children.",
"The incident occurred Saturday in the Azra district of Logar province when a truck packed with explosives detonated, according to Sifatiullah Haqmal, a member of the provincial council.",
"The head of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said \"much of the damage was in the maternity ward of the hospital, and many of those killed and injured were women and children.\"",
"The mission noted that assaults on hospitals \"are strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law\" and that \"medical workers, clinics and hospitals must be respected and protected in all circumstances.\"",
"Dr. Khaliq Yar, head of the provincial projects for a national medical program, described the hospital as a four-ward comprehensive health center, including a section for mothers and children and ten beds for maternity patients.",
"The Logar assault follows a similar strike last month when a suicide bombing tore through a military hospital in Kabul, killing six people and injuring others.",
"\"This is a despicable attack against civilians who were seeking medical care, as well as visiting family members and health workers,\" Staffan de Mistura, the special representative of the secretary-general for Afghanistan, said in a statement on Saturday.",
"\"The terrorists demonstrated a disregard for human life when they targeted Afghans who were patients in a hospital and their visitors and relatives, and hospital personnel,\" the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said in a statement.",
"Casualty reports fluctuated in the hours after the attack.",
"Logar governor's spokesman Den Mohammad Darwish told CNN that along with the 35 deaths, 25 others were wounded.",
"The Logar strike is the second attack in as many days in Afghanistan that targeted civilians, just days after President Barack Obama outlined a plan to withdraw 30,000 troops from the country by September 2012.",
"Along with the Logar strike, a bomb attack in the northern province of Kunduz on Friday killed at least 10 people, actions the embassy called \"devastating.\"",
"The Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO's International Security Assistance Force also issued statements condemning both incidents, and said the violence underscores warnings from military commanders that insurgents are intent on pursuing large-scale strikes.",
"\"The insurgents have a complete disregard for the innocent people of Afghanistan who are trying to live in peace,\" ISAF spokesman Rear Adm. Vic Beck said.",
"The Kunduz incident on Friday occurred in the province's Khan Abad district square, said Mohibullah Saidi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.",
"Along with the 10 deaths, 24 people were wounded in the attack, the Ministry of Interior said.",
"The bomb was placed in a bicycle and was detonated by remote control, Saidi said.",
"ISAF also reported the deaths of two service members on Saturday in separate insurgent attacks in eastern Afghanistan, and the alliance confirmed that one of them was a French service member.",
"The nationality of the other soldier was not immediately available.",
"There have been 48 international troop deaths in June and 264 this year, according to a CNN count of casualties.",
"The French government said its soldier was wounded by insurgent fire in a fight during a reconnaissance mission in Kapisa province and died later at a hospital.",
"He is the 63rd French soldier to die in the Afghan war.",
"France announced Thursday that it would also begin to reduce troop numbers, saying it \"will initiate a progressive withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan, and will follow a timetable comparable to the withdrawal of the American troops.\"",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said the withdrawal will be done in consultation with NATO allies and the Afghan government.",
"All French soldiers could be out of Afghanistan by 2013, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet told France Info radio Thursday.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati and Joe Sterling contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- French workers on Thursday freed the manager of a factory run by U.S. company 3M held hostage in his office for more than 24 hours in a labor dispute over terms for laid-off staff.",
"The manager of 3M's French operations, Luc Rousselet, eats in his office while he was held hostage.",
"Luc Rousselet, who was unharmed, was allowed to leave the plant in Pithiviers, central France, early on Thursday morning after talks between unions and officials from 3M France.",
"\"We have an agreement with 3M that they will provide the means to respond to our demands,\" union representative Jean-Francois Caparros told news agency AFP.",
"\"The negotiations will resume and that's a very good thing,\" said Rousselet as he left an office where he took refuge on Tuesday afternoon.",
"\"I am very happy for the employees of the Pithiviers factory.",
"I know that this was a very difficult lay-off plan for them,\" he said as workers shouted \"Scoundrel boss!\"",
"Is there any justification for taking this action?",
"The 3M factory at the center of the dispute makes pharmaceutical products and employs 235 people.",
"Of those 110 are being cut this year and 40 more are being transferred to another plant.",
"Rousselet was briefing the laid-off workers about a compensation package but retreated to his office after feeling threatened.",
"Maryse Bulte, 44, one of the employees, said: \"Initially we didn't want to hold him.",
"We just sought talks and concrete results.",
"\"It was despair and distress which made us do this,\" added Cyril Foufelle, 36.",
"The manufacturer 3M, based in Minnesota, has announced thousands of job cuts around the world amid the economic downturn.",
"Anger has been growing in the U.S. and Europe over job cuts and high bonuses for executives whose companies have been rescued with taxpayers' money.",
"Earlier this month the boss of Sony France was held overnight before workers freed him after he agreed to reopen talks on compensation when the factory closed.",
"And last week angry tire factory workers threw eggs at their bosses in a protest over the closure of their plant.",
"The drama at Pithiviers, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Paris, came as figures showed the number of jobless in France rose nearly 80,000 in February to reach 2.38 million.",
"More than a million striking workers protested last week urging President Nicolas Sarkozy to do more to protect their jobs."
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"New York (CNN) -- The bus company involved in an accident that left 15 people dead in New York this weekend has been involved in at least two other crashes with injuries in the past two years, government records show.",
"World Wide Travel was involved in a crash in New York in 2009 that resulted in one injury, and a crash in New Jersey in 2010 resulting in one injury, according to records on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration website.",
"The company has been cited five times for \"fatigued driving\" between December 2009 and October 2010 -- twice in in New Jersey, twice in Pennsylvania and once in Connecticut, records show.",
"At least 14 passengers died early Saturday after the driver of their tour bus lost control of the vehicle and struck two sign poles, one located directly behind the other, on Interstate 95 in the Bronx, New York police said.",
"World Wide Travel declined to comment to CNN, despite repeated calls, other than to refer to a published statement saying the company was \"heartbroken\" at the deaths and injuries.",
"\"We are a family owned company and realize words cannot begin to express our sorrow to the families of those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic accident,\" the company statement said.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers are with them.",
"We will continue to use every resource at our disposal to assist and work with investigators to determine what happened.\"",
"The crash occurred about 5:30 a.m. on a stretch of I-95 called the New England Thruway near the Bronx-Westchester County line, officials said.",
"The accident forced the closing of I-95 in both directions until late Saturday, police said.",
"Along with those who were killed, eight of the 31 passengers suffered severe injuries and were transported to area hospitals with the remaining survivors.",
"At least five people being treated at New York's St. Barnabas Hospital suffered skull and spinal fractures, internal bleeding and broken bones, Dr. Ernest Patti told reporters.",
"The bus, which had departed from the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, was bound for Chinatown in Manhattan, according to news reports.",
"The bus driver, Ophadel E. Williams, 40, of Brooklyn suffered \"non-life-threatening injuries,\" police said.",
"Five of the injured were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, 14 were transported to Jacobi Medical Center.",
"Passenger Chung Ninh, 59, who suffered only a hand inury, told reporters he was asleep when the accident occured.",
"Ninh said he woke to find himself hanging upside down in his seat belt, surrounded by other passengers either screaming or dead and covered in broken glass.",
"Ninh he said he tried to help an unconscious woman nearby.",
"\"I put my hand on the neck and no movement, no nothing,\" Ninh told reporters.",
"Police said Williams told investigators that the accident occurred after he swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer that might have clipped the bus.",
"The bus then flipped on its side and smashed into the poles, which cut through two thirds of the vehicle.",
"Police recovered a tractor-trailer that was traveling through the area at the time and interviewed the vehicle's driver.",
"The driver of the tractor trailer denied that two vehicles collided before the bus crashed, the law enforcement source told CNN.",
"\"We're treating him as a witness, not a suspect,\" according to the the law enforcement source, who is involved in the investigation.",
"Meanwhile, federal investigators are considering other potential causes of the crash, including mechanical problems, steering and brake issues as well as the possibility the driver fell asleep.",
"Some surviving passengers, according to news reports, told police that they felt the bus roll over rumble strips before the crash.",
"At a Sunday afternoon press conference, National Transportation Safety Board Vice-Chairman Christopher Hart said investigators are looking for video recordings taken at the casino and, possibly, an electronic hotel key card that might track some of Williams' activities within 72 hours of the accident.",
"Police officials have said they are also looking into the possibility that the bus driver had been speeding prior to the accident.",
"Two UPS couriers told CNN affiliate WABC-TV that they twice saw the bus traveling very fast on the highway before the accident.",
"\"I felt my vehicle shake from the turbulence of the wind,\" driver Joe Insalata told WABC .",
"Insalata's co-worker, Ira Berman said they saw the bus a second time.",
"\"When we saw the logo on the back of the bus, we were like, 'World Wide Tours,'\" Berman told WABC.",
"\"'That's the guy that passed us about 15 minutes ago at a very high rate of speed.'\"",
"\"And that was when Joe was like, \"I'm calling the cops,'\" Berman said.",
"Investigators are examining Williams' background and testing his blood for the presence of alcohol.",
"New York State Police Maj. Michael Kopy said Saturday a video camera had been recovered from the bus, but that investigators had not yet viewed it.",
"Hart described the video as coming from a \"forward looking camera\" that had been installed on the bus.",
"Meanwhile, the bus engine control module, also known as the black box, was sent to an NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C. NTSB investigators visited the crash site for the first time Sunday.",
"According to Hart, skid marks left by the bus show the vehicle hit the guardrail on the right of I-95 \"at least three times\" over the course of 480 feet before crashing into sign posts that sliced through the vehicle.",
"At least seven passengers had to be extracted by removing seats and cutting a hole in the remaining roof.",
"Most of the passengers were thrust to the forward third of the bus as it split open, suffering injuries mainly from the chest up, Fire Chief Edward Kilduff said.",
"\"Our -- and the entire city's -- prayers, thoughts and sympathies are with the victims, and their families and loved ones,\" Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a written statement Saturday.",
"\"Many of the victims are Chinese, and we have brought in translators to help assist the families.\"",
"CNN's Marina Landis, Susan Candiotti and Monika Plocienniczak contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Venus Williams will have the chance to avenge last year's shock Wimbledon defeat by Tsvetana Pironkova after the Bulgarian pulled off another upset victory to reach the fourth round in London on Friday.",
"Pironkova earned her own revenge as she knocked out second seed Vera Zvonareva, who beat her in the 2010 semifinals before losing to Serena Williams in the title match.",
"Venus, a five-time winner of the English grass-court grand slam, had few problems in continuing her winning form in just her second tournament since January as she crushed Spain's Maria Jose Martinez 6-0 6-2.",
"Rain late in the day meant that her sister Serena was unable to start her third-round match against Russian 26th seed Maria Kirilenko, which will be played on Saturday.",
"Can the Williams sisters triumph after a troubled year?",
"Venus was relieved not to repeat her hard-fought win over Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm in the previous round.",
"\"Today I played a similar player -- thankfully I was able to get through a bit easier today.",
"I was able to take her volley away, which felt great,\" the 31-year-old told reporters.",
"\"I'm feeling great and now I've got a couple of days off to get things in order.\"",
"The American will next take on a player who has risen to 33rd in the rankings, despite this being her first appearance past the second round of a grand slam since that semi last year.",
"She also beat Williams at the 2006 Australian Open.",
"The 23-year-old Pironkova won through in straight sets, beating world No.",
"3 Zvonareva 6-2 6-3 to end the Russian's hopes of landing a first major title.",
"Zvonareva slipped in the fourth game and had her ankle strapped after losing the first set, and capitulated after having more treatment at 3-2 down in the second.",
"Fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus also progressed into the last 16 as she beat Slovakia's No.",
"25 Daniela Hantuchova 6-3 3-6 6-2.",
"The 21-year-old will next face Russia's two-time quarterfinalist Nadia Petrova, who eliminated Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko 6-3 6-2.",
"Eighth seed Petra Kvitova ended the run of Italy's No.",
"29 Roberta Vinci, with the Czech winning 6-3 6-3 to set up a clash with Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer.",
"Wickmayer, seeded 19th, came from behind to defeat Russia's two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6 6-3 6-4.",
"German 11th seed Andrea Petkovic crashed out, losing 6-4 7-6 (7-2) to Russian debutant Ksenia Pervak.",
"The 20-year-old earned a clash with either Italian sixth seed Francesca Schiavone or Austria's world No.",
"80 Tamira Paszek.",
"French Open runner-up Schiavone was battling to stay in the tournament as she trailed 6-3 4-6 2-3 when rain halted.",
"In second-round matches, world No.",
"1 Caroline Wozniacki kept alive her hopes of a first grand slam title as the Dane dispatched unseeded French player Virginie Razzano 6-1 6-3 in a second-round match.",
"The 20-year-old will next play Australia's 27th seed Jarmila Gajdosova, who reached the fourth round last year.",
"Fifth seed Maria Sharapova also moved into round three, beating British 17-year-old Laura Robson 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.",
"The Russian, champion as a 17-year-old herself in 2004, will next play Czech world No.",
"35 Klara Zakopalova as she seeks to build on the form that took her to the French Open semifinals earlier this month.",
"Marion Bartoli, the 2007 runner-up, came from behind to beat Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lion 4-6 7-5 6-2 to earn a third-round clash with Italy's Flavia Pennetta.",
"Peng Shuai is the only Chinese player left in the draw following French Open champion Li Na's exit on Thursday, with the 20th seed moving into the third round with a battling 4-6 6-2 7-5 win over Britain's Elena Baltacha.",
"The 25-year-old will seek to reach the last 16 for the first time as she takes on Hungary's Melinda Czink."
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"Dawu, Taiwan (CNN) -- Typhoon Nanmadol pounded Taiwan with heavy rains Monday before it was downgraded to a tropical storm and headed toward China.",
"The storm made landfall in the southern portion of Taiwan about 3 a.m. Monday, dousing some areas with up to 300 mm (11 inches) of rain, officials said.",
"There were no immediate reports of casualties, although officials closed several highways in the landslide-prone region.",
"Nanmadol reached Taiwan after pummeling the Philippines over the weekend.",
"By Monday, the death toll in the Philippines had climbed to 12.",
"Among them were two children who died when Nanmadol, known locally as Mina, triggered a landslide in northern Philippines on Saturday, authorities said.",
"The landslide buried the victims in Pangasinan province, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.",
"Ten others were killed in different incidents, 21 people were injured, and nine remain missing, the council said in a statement Monday.",
"Journalist James Reynolds contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Southwest Airlines announced Saturday that it is grounding 79 planes for inspection after a 3- to 4-foot hole tore open in the fuselage of one of its planes, bringing a view of the blue sky and a white-knuckled emergency descent.",
"The plane -- which had been traveling from Phoenix to Sacramento, California -- managed to make an emergency landing at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday.",
"There authorities \"discovered a hole in the top of the aircraft,\" the company said earlier.",
"Investigators are trying to determine what caused the \"depressurization event\" and have \"decided to keep a subset of its Boeing 737 fleet out of the flying schedule to begin an aggressive inspection effort in cooperation with Boeing engineers,\" according to a company statement.",
"\"The safety of our customers and employees is our primary concern, and we are grateful there were no serious injuries,\" said Mike Van de Ven, Southwest's executive vice president and chief operating officer.",
"The airline initially reported that 81 of its Boeing 737 aircraft would be grounded, but later decreased the number of planes to be inspected for what it called \"aircraft skin fatigue.\"",
"The inspections will take place at five locations over the course of the next several days, the airline said.",
"Southwest expected to cancel about 300 flights Saturday to accommodate the inspections.",
"It advised customers to check the status of their particular flight or rebook their trip before heading to the airport.",
"They may \"experience sporadic delays of up to two hours on some flights.\"",
"National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said a preliminary investigation showed the aircraft suffered a \"structural failure\" and \"depressurization\" that prompted the emergency landing.",
"A subsequent review will investigate the aircraft's structure, metallurgical aspects of the plane, flight data recordings and its maintenance records, he said.",
"\"We're in the beginning stages of the investigation,\" Sumwalt added.",
"Meanwhile, some of the 118 passengers who were aboard the crippled Boeing 737 said they had feared for their lives.",
"\"We were in shock,\" passenger Debbie Downey told CNN Saturday.",
"\"We were in row 16 and my husband and I could see blue sky ... the wiring, the cabling.",
"It actually was terrifying.\"",
"She said. \"a lot of people were crying and holding hands\" but had trouble hearing due to the noise of air rushing through the plane's opening.",
"\"It was very, very scary.\" \"I heard a loud popping sound about three or four minutes before it blew open on us,\" passenger Greg Hansen said.",
"\"(Then) a big explosion happened.",
"A big noise, and from there, you felt some of the air being sucked out.",
"It happened right behind me, in the row behind me and it covers about 2 1/2 rows,\" he said from seat 11C.",
"Hansen, 41, a regional sales manager for a biotech company, was flying home to Sacramento, California, from a business trip.",
"Some people panicked and screamed as the blue sky and sun began to shine through the cabin in midflight, he said.",
"\"Most people were just white knuckles holding onto the arm rests.",
"The pilots did a great job and were under control to get us to a manageable level,\" he said.",
"But just behind him, Hansen said he could see the jagged edge of the aircraft where the rivets used to be.",
"\"You can see the insulation and wiring.",
"The interior ceiling panel was bouncing up and down with the air,\" he said.",
"\"It was surreal, when you're riding in a modern aircraft.",
"You're used to being enclosed and not having the window rolled down,\" he said.",
"Hansen described the hole as being about 3 or 4 feet long and about a foot wide.",
"Passenger Brenda Reese told CNN affiliates KCRA and KOVR she began to fear for her life.",
"\"I was texting my sister to make certain that she told my kids that I loved them,\" Reese said.",
"Southwest Flight 812, which had a five-member crew, then made an emergency landing at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station/International Airport at 5:07 p.m. (7:07 p.m.",
"ET.) The Federal Aviation Administration said the captain made a rapid, controlled descent from 36,000 feet to about 11,000 feet after the cabin lost pressure.",
"\"We do not know the cause of the decompression,\" said Ian Gregor of the FAA.",
"Hansen said the incident took place about 35 minutes into the flight.",
"He said it took about 45 seconds or a minute before the oxygen masks came down after the hole blew open.",
"\"The crew was pretty calm about it.",
"They walked around and checked on everyone,\" he said.",
"\"But it wasn't like the movies where papers get sucked out of the hole, but you could feel it and hear the noise.\"",
"Hansen said most of the passengers were complaining of a pain in their eardrums from a rapid descent.",
"Southwest said Saturday at least two minor injuries were reported, but neither the flight attendant nor the passenger were taken to a hospital.",
"Hansen said one male flight attendant appeared to fall and was bleeding from a facial injury.",
"Yuma International Airport spokeswoman Gen Grosse said passengers were tended to and given refreshments because the temperature on the tarmac was close to 100 degrees.",
"Southwest said it provided a full refund, an apology and two complimentary round-trip passes on the airline for future flights.",
"The second flight landed in Sacramento on Friday night.",
"Boeing spokeswoman Julie O'Donnell declined to comment on possible causes of the incident.",
"\"Boeing is committed to ensuring safe flight and to supporting our customers,\" the company said in a statement.",
"\"We are working closely with Southwest and are providing technical assistance to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board as it investigates the incident.\"",
"An NTSB investigative team arrived Saturday in Yuma and entered the plane.",
"A total of 288 Boeing 737-300s are currently operating in the U.S. fleet, and 931 operate worldwide, according to the FAA.",
"CNN's John Branch, Rich Phillips, Ted Rowlands, Deborah Doft and Greg Morrison contributed to this report ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans to return to Yemen following the investigation into his attempted assassination, a government spokesman said.",
"The announcement follows claims weeks ago by the Yemeni government it had completed the investigation, accusing two leading opposition figures of planning the June palace bombing that left Saleh with severe burns and shrapnel wounds.",
"The Yemeni government switched gears Sunday, saying the investigation was nearly complete.",
"Abdu Ganadi, the government spokesman, did not say when it would be finished nor whether those accused earlier were still considered suspects.",
"\"I cannot give you a specific time of when President Saleh will arrive.",
"But I can assure you that after the palace bombing investigation is over, the president will be back,\" Ganadi said.",
"The Yemeni political crisis started January 16, when youth protesters took to the streets demanding Saleh's resignation.",
"Fears of all-out civil war have spiked in recent months as government forces and people alleged to be Hashed tribesmen slugged it out in the capital.",
"Saleh, who has been faced with widespread anti-government sentiment and militant activity, has been urged to accept a political transition plan that will lead to his departure.",
"He has been in Saudi Arabia for treatment of wounds he suffered in a June 3 attack on his palace.",
"Some see the timing of Ganadi's announcement as a tactic by Saleh to delay stepping down from power.",
"Saleh said in March he would leave office by the end of the year.",
"\"If Saleh leaves office before the end of the year, history will report it that he was ousted by the revolution,\" said Ali Abdul Jabbar, an analyst and the director of the Sanaa-based Dar Ashraf Research Center.",
"Opposition members, though, see it as a way for Saleh to avoid returning to Yemen to face possible criminal prosecution.",
"\"The opposition and revolution youth hope that Ali Abdullah Saleh comes back to Yemen so that they can try him for all the crimes he committed against the people over the last 33 years,\" said Hamid al-Ahmar, a leading opposition figure.",
"Ahmar, the opposition's wealthiest businessman, and Ali Mohsen, the most powerful military leader in the country, were accused by the Yemeni government on August 18 of planning the palace attack."
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"(WIRED) -- Research In Motion is preparing to release its much-awaited response to the iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, a month behind schedule.",
"Among other reasons, Adobe Flash is probably contributing to the delay.",
"The PlayBook was supposed to be out the first quarter of 2011 but is now set to release April 19.",
"Some publications speculated on Thursday that the PlayBook's late launch is related to touchscreen supply.",
"The PlayBook also lacks a finished software development kit for making apps, and won't have native mail, messaging and contacts apps.",
"Difficulty getting Flash to work properly on the PlayBook is probably another one of RIM's woes.",
"Let's take a look at the evidence.",
"First, other tablet makers have had trouble with Flash.",
"Motorola's Xoom launched without it, despite the fact that Motorola highlighted Flash support as a key feature.",
"Even though Flash Player 10.2 for Android is now available in the Android Market, the version meant for Android 3.0 Honeycomb (which the Xoom runs) is a prerelease version with significant limitations and lots of instability.",
"Second, sluggish performance and battery drainage have been problems for Flash before, and they're the reason Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave for nixing Flash support on Apple's mobile products.",
"The Samsung Galaxy Tab, which runs an earlier version of Android, is the only major tablet that currently supports a shipping version of the Adobe plugin.",
"Finally, Wired.com's Erik Malinowski tried a PlayBook tablet at CES and reported that Flash performance proved to be a \"choppy and (ironically) limiting experience.\"",
"RIM officials at the time were tight-lipped about the tablet's expected battery life, saying only that it would be more than an hour.",
"That was an early version of the tablet, but choppiness in one of its key features doesn't bode well.",
"Without great Flash support, a PlayBook tablet would practically have nothing to do.",
"Last year RIM drummed up Flash support for the upcoming PlayBook, saying that it was going to deliver the full internet experience.",
"That would, in theory, give the PlayBook an edge over the iPad.",
"\"We're not trying to dumb down the internet for a small mobile device,\" says Mike Lazaridis, RIM's CEO, during the PlayBook demonstration.",
"\"What we're trying to do is bring up the performance and capability of the mobile device to the internet.\"",
"RIM's planned April 19 launch lines up with Adobe's claims that Flash will be available for tablets \"within a few weeks of Android 3 Honeycomb devices becoming available.\"",
"It's been six weeks since Motorola released the Xoom, and April 19 is probably as long as Adobe can wait before Flash can no longer be considered \"a few weeks\" late.",
"Adobe and RIM didn't respond to a request for comment on this story.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 20, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Vicksburg, Mississippi • Japan • Carmel, Indiana .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"SOUTH KOREAN CNN STUDENT NEWS VIEWERS: Annyeonghaseyo!",
"We love CNN Student News.",
"We are watching CNN Student News from South Korea.",
"Yay! CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Someone introducing our show from half a world away?",
"Might have found something that's more awesome than Fridays.",
"I'm Carl Azuz. Let's get started.",
"First Up: Middle East Policy .",
"AZUZ: First up, President Obama announces a \"new chapter\" in the U.S. policy toward the Middle East.",
"In yesterday's speech, the president talked about all of the upheaval that's been sweeping across that part of the world.",
"He called the revolutions and political protests a wave of change that cannot be denied.",
"President Obama said the U.S. does and will support reforms in the Middle East and North Africa that help ordinary people in the nations there.",
"And he spoke out harshly against governments that have used force on protesters.",
"He also pushed to re-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, saying that the demand for change in the region might help kick-start negotiations.",
"In terms of changes across the entire Middle East, the president said \"it will be years before this story reaches its end.\"",
"But he explained why the U.S. supports change.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There's no straight line to progress, and hardship always accompanies a season of hope.",
"The United States of America was founded on the belief that people should govern themselves.",
"And now, we cannot hesitate to stand squarely on the side of those who are reaching for their rights, knowing that their success will bring about a world that is more peaceful, more stable and more just.",
"Severe Flooding .",
"AZUZ: The Mississippi River is setting a record in the city of Vicksburg.",
"But not the kind anyone wants to celebrate.",
"The river crested -- reached its highest point -- at just over 57 feet.",
"That's more than a foot higher than the old record, set in 1927.",
"What you should be seeing here is a runway.",
"This is a small airport.",
"These hangars are the only sign of that now.",
"Mississippi also suffered its first flood-related death yesterday.",
"We've reported on some of the people affected by the Mississippi's rising waters.",
"There are also concerns about wildlife, like this coyote you saw a moment ago, who's searching for higher ground.",
"This Day in History .",
"AZUZ: It's May 20th, and on this day in history in 1902, Cuba gained its independence after being ruled by Spain.",
"In 1927, American aviator Charles Lindbergh took off for his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean.",
"It was the world's first solo, non-stop, transatlantic flight.",
"And five years later, in 1932, Amelia Earhart made her solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic.",
"It was the first time that goal was accomplished by a female pilot.",
"Japan's Economy .",
"AZUZ: Next up, we have a report from Kyung Lah that's related to Japan's gross domestic product, or GDP.",
"That's the total value of all the goods and services that a country produces in a given amount of time.",
"Japan's GDP is down. And to find out one of the big reasons why, you just need to look back at what happened a couple months ago.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The tsunami that leveled Japan's northern coastline on March 11th is now, two months later, destroying a new terrain: the country's economy.",
"Japan's government announced the nation's gross domestic product fell at a surprising 3.7% annualized rate in the first quarter of 2011.",
"It's the second quarter in a row the GDP has fallen, meaning Japan is now in a recession.",
"Look deeper into the GDP fall, and the numbers are even more grim.",
"Industrial output, which includes all the consumer products Japan sends around the world, plunged 15.3% in March, the worst ever recorded in Japan's history.",
"The auto industry hurt the most.",
"Car production fell almost 60 percent in March.",
"Nissan's President and CEO Carlos Ghosn re-opened a hard-hit factory in the tsunami zone just this week, leading workers in a rah-rah session, but acknowledging full recovery for the company is still months away.",
"In the hard-hit region of Miyagi Prefecture, half of the companies and factories -- 10,000 of them -- are affected by the earthquake and tsunami; 600 expected to close.",
"Japan's government says a quarter of a million foreigners left Japan in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.",
"As far as tourism coming in, it's fallen off a cliff.",
"Airports are reporting a 35 to 60 percent drop in travelers.",
"The nuclear crisis at Fukushima is also fueling concerns of an energy shortage, impacting Japan's ability to produce cars, electronics and parts for months to come.",
"Experts say Japan's economy was already struggling before the disaster.",
"HSBC Senior Economist Frederic Neumann believes there is a chance the disaster could have an unintended positive outcome.",
"FREDERIC NEUMANN, HSBC SENIOR ECONOMIST: The silver lining of this earthquake was that perhaps this will accelerate the reform pressures, and that Japan, then, in a year or two years from now, emerges stronger than it actually had been in the run-up to the earthquake.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Griffin's social studies classes at Faith Middle School in Fort Benning, Georgia!",
"What does an odometer measure?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Speed, B) Distance, C) Rotation or D) Temperature?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"An odometer measures distance, like how far your car has traveled.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Tax on Driving?",
"AZUZ: Some lawmakers are looking into the idea of charging drivers based on their odometers.",
"Right now, part of what you pay to fill up your car is a federal gas tax.",
"That money gets used to build and maintain highways and to help pay for mass transit systems.",
"But with more fuel-efficient cars on the road, people are driving more miles using less gas.",
"So this \"driving tax\" would charge people by the mile, either instead of or in addition to the gas they buy.",
"The more you drive, the more you pay. It might help bring in money to the government, but some critics say collecting mileage information raises concerns about privacy.",
"Should the government know how much you drive?",
"Also, they're worried that this could be unfair to drivers in more rural areas who have to drive farther.",
"Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: Now, this isn't an official proposal; it's just an idea at this point that some people are talking about.",
"We want you to talk about it! Do you think it's better to tax drivers by the mile or the gallon?",
"Zoom on over to our blog at CNNStudentNews.com and share your opinions.",
"Around in Circles .",
"AZUZ: All right, we're going to stay in the driving lane here and look at something called a roundabout.",
"It's a kind of intersection, but not one with a traditional crossing.",
"A roundabout -- as the name suggests -- is a circle.",
"Officials say they don't make sense in every situation.",
"But Tom Foreman steers us toward one mayor who's all about the circular logic.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: North of Indianapolis, in the suburb of Carmel, Mayor James Brainard has been going around in circles for years over traffic jams.",
"MAYOR JAMES BRAINARD, (R) CARMEL, INDIANA: Roundabouts work everywhere .",
"FOREMAN: He has done away with traffic lights at 80% of his town's major intersections, replacing them with roundabouts.",
"Whirlpools of traffic that keep people moving.",
"BRAINARD: It's made a huge difference in the way our city looks and feels, and the way people get around.",
"FOREMAN: Roundabouts, not to be confused with bigger, more intimidating rotaries on the East Coast, are designed to smoothly sweep drivers in from any direction, slowly guide them around, and just as easily let them out and on their way.",
"Since cars don't stop, commuters save time and, officials say, use 30% less gas at intersections.",
"BRAINARD: A roundabout can handle about 4 to 5 times the amount of traffic in the same amount of time as a stop light intersection can have.",
"FOREMAN: The mayor says intersection accidents are also way down, improving insurance rates.",
"And the city saves money, too.",
"BRAINARD: We don't have to buy a $150,000 signal.",
"We don't have to buy electricity every year.",
"And we don't have to replace it after 15 years when all that mechanical equipment wears out.",
"FOREMAN: Some drivers and pedestrians don't like roundabouts, but local officials insist this simple idea is building up the quality of life here, and that's building up the business climate all around.",
"Tom Foreman, CNN.",
"(END VIDEO) Promo .",
"AZUZ: The CNN documentary \"Don't Fail Me\" looks at the state of education in America.",
"If you didn't catch the premiere, the program is re-airing this Saturday, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on CNN.",
"Our educator guide for \"Don't Fail Me\" is in the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, you might be planning a trip to the beach for this summer.",
"These dogs get to take one every day.",
"And it's all thanks to the Doggie Beach Bus.",
"The driver picks up her passengers in the morning.",
"Some of them even wait for her out on the street.",
"Once the beach bus rounds up all of its canine companions, it heads out to the water for an hour of fun.",
"Then it's back on the bus to head home.",
"Daily delivery service to and from the beach?",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Those are some lucky dogs, fur-real.",
"They even have a designated place to leave the bus: a barking lot.",
"Aack! We just hope they behave during the ride, 'cause a dog who's acting up can be a real pet peeve.",
"All right! For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"Have a great weekend!"
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"The mayor of a town in Indiana talks about the circular logic of roundabouts .",
"Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News ."
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"(CNN) -- For decades, Harlem has been a hub of African-American culture and the NAACP.",
"But this month, the issue of charter schools has turned the New York City neighborhood into a battleground between activists and the 101-year-old civil rights organization.",
"The strain was as clear as the signs and chants during a rally Thursday in Harlem -- \"NAACP, Don't Divide Us, Unite Us!\"",
"About 4% of New York City's roughly 1 million students currently attend charter schools -- which are paid with public funds but typically have different mandates, approaches and staffing arrangements that traditional schools.",
"Another 50,000 students are on waiting lists.",
"A proposal to expand access to charter schools and allow charters to co-locate -- or be based in the same building -- as regular schools has turned some traditional allies against each other.",
"The rift accelerated in May, when the NAACP and the United Federation of Teachers -- a union of 200,000 New York City teachers and school staff -- filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court.",
"Besides asking to stop 22 school closings, the lawsuit urged halting the plan to expand or co-locate 20 charter schools.",
"On its website, the teachers' union calls the initiative illegal and claims it would give \"charter school students more access to school facilities, including libraries, auditoriums and lunchrooms, than students in the public schools that would share the buildings.\"",
"While a teachers union opposing charter schools is hardly unprecedented, leaders of the local NAACP said they decided to step in and support the lawsuit in order to best ensure a level playing field for all New York City students.",
"Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP's New York chapter, said the group is fighting for equal education for all -- similar to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education, which mandated equal education regardless of race.",
"\"The facilities should be in good condition on both sides,\" said Dukes.",
"\"There should not be a 10 o'clock lunch hour and a 12 o'clock lunch hour.",
"There should be one 12 o'clock lunch hour.\"",
"Yet Geoffrey Canada, a nationally renowned educator who is the president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone, thinks more charter schools in New York City are the solution -- not the problem.",
"That's why he joined parents Thursday calling for the NAACP and teachers' union to drop the lawsuit, or at least the part pertaining to charter schools.",
"Aisha Moore, who attended the rally, said the NAACP's stance is counterproductive if its goal is to support the rejuvenation of New York City schools.",
"\"The NAACP has always backed minorities and African-Americans, so it's just surprising they're moving against us now,\" she said.",
"\"It's like moving backwards, when we should be pushing forward.\"",
"Keona Moore, a single parent whose daughter attends a charter school, said that the trickle-down effect of closing schools and limiting options could be devastating.",
"\"I'm not going to put her in a failing public school,\" Moore said.",
"Zakiyah Ansari said that's where the efforts should be focused: on making sure no existing public schools are failing, not to create more charter schools at the expense of traditional ones.",
"The mother of eight insisted that those rallying in Harlem on Thursday and those behind the lawsuit -- like herself -- have more in common than they might think.",
"\"Now we're engaged with parents and having them come out in busloads to fight against other parents fighting for the same thing -- the right for a quality education,\" said Ansari, an organizer with the Alliance for Quality Education. \"We're not asking for more.\""
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"The NAACP and a New York City teachers' union are trying to stop 22 school closures .",
"The groups want to stop the expansion or co-location of 20 charter schools .",
"An NAACP official says the plan unfairly favors charters at the expense of regular schools .",
"But some, like activist Geoffrey Canada, say more charter schools are needed ."
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"(CNN) -- The New York Yankees made Major League Baseball (MLB) history on Thursday when they became the first team to hit three grand slams in a single game.",
"The match at the Yankee Stadium saw the home team run out 22-9 winners against the Oakland Athletics, with the Yankees hitting home runs with the bases loaded on three occasions.",
"A grand slam is when a team's batter hits a home run with three of his teammates already stood on the bases, resulting in four runs being scored.",
"Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson and Russell Martin were the three men on the plate to hit the grand slams for the Yankees -- who sit second in the Eastern Conference behind the Boston Red Sox.",
"\"It's pretty amazing,\" Martin, 28, told the MLB's official web site.",
"\"This game has been played for a long time.",
"Pretty much everything has already happened.",
"\"I'm waiting to see who's going to hit four -- I don't know if it's ever going to happen, but we'll see.",
"Three is pretty cool.\"",
"Center-fielder Granderson connected with the hit which sealed the historic achievement, and the 30-year-old had to look at the stadium's scoreboard to be sure of what the Yankees had accomplished.",
"\"When I saw it, I was like, 'Oh, wow,'\" Granderson said.",
"\"I'm surprised it hasn't been done before, just with all the great teams and great individual hitters that have come throughout the course of the game.\"",
"In the 108-year history of the New York Yankees, the team have only ever hit two grand slams in a match on three occasions -- and never at their own ballpark.",
"Paul O'Neill and Bernie Williams were the last two players to record grand slams in the same game, during a trip to the Toronto Blue Jays on September 14 1999."
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"The Yankees achieved the feat during a 22-9 victory over the Oakland Athletics .",
"Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson and Russell Martin struck the historic home runs ."
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"Cape Girardeau, Missouri (CNN) -- The comeback story of the one-eyed pitcher is the buzz of baseball dugouts in the Mississippi River Valley, passed down the bench like a bag of sunflower seeds.",
"No one would have called Jordan Underwood a quitter if he had never walked onto a pitcher's mound again.",
"But two years after a line drive smashed his cheekbone and destroyed his left eye, Underwood is back up on the hill, starting games.",
"And winning. Underwood, who now pitches with tinted safety glasses covering his acrylic left eye, is undefeated this season, 4-0, for Southeast Missouri State.",
"\"To me, it doesn't seem like a big deal.",
"I guess I am kind of a modest guy,\" Underwood, a senior, told CNN.",
"\"I just hope this is a teaching tool.",
"Maybe if someone else is having a tough time -- not necessarily losing an eye -- and my story can inspire somebody else and motivate them, guess it's all worth it in the end.\"",
"Two years ago, when Underwood played for Seminole Junior College in Oklahoma, one of his pitches was launched back at his head by the batter.",
"Ky Burgess catches for Underwood at Southeast Missouri State now and was behind the plate to see and hear a baseball obliterate an eye-socket, but not a young man's will.",
"\"I heard this smack when it hit his face,\" Ky recalls.",
"\"My first thought was: 'Oh my God!",
"Is he alive?' He was not moving. We did not know if he was conscious.",
"It's one of the scariest things I have seen in my life, and I am still jumpy when I see a ball hit back through the box.\"",
"Underwood says doctors told him if the ball had struck a few inches away, on his temple, he might have died.",
"\"It took about a month or six weeks after that (accident) for me to realize I still wanted to play,\" Underwood said.",
"\"I told myself I at least want to try to make this work.\"",
"Underwood said he started from scratch, adapting in practice to pitching with one eye.",
"The 22-year-old explains he needed to focus more on certain spots around home plate to make up for the change in depth perception.",
"Underwood is left handed, so his remaining good right eye has a wide open view of the plate.",
"The baseball experts say he would not be pitching if the line drive had crushed that closer-to-home-plate right eye.",
"\"I wasn't afraid of signing him,\" said Mark Hogan, his current coach at Southeast Missouri.",
"\"I knew nothing was wrong with his arm.",
"And after I met him I was 100 percent in.",
"\"He was looking for an opportunity and was serious about it.",
"He was sort of dealt a bad hand.",
"But he said he would give it his best shot.",
"So he was my kind of guy.\" Underwood's journey back almost got derailed by an obscure NCAA rule concerning all athletes missing one of a pair of organs, such as a kidney.",
"Those players must get waivers and signed paperwork confirming they are aware of the risk of accidentally losing the remaining organ.",
"Underwood, his parents, doctors and others have signed that they are aware an accident to his right eye would leave him blind.",
"\"He hung in there,\" Hogan told CNN, admiring the way Hogan also took on the regulatory obstacles to his return.",
"Some 10 separate signatures and a batter's box full of NCAA paperwork later, Underwood got cleared and began fooling hitters again last spring.",
"Burgess, the catcher, describes Underwood's assortment of pitches as moving fastball, a sharp-breaking slider, a great curve ball and a change up \"looking just like his fastball until it dives down at the last second.\"",
"Underwood's fastball is timed out at 84 or 85 miles per hour.",
"Underwood says he's not heard a lot from any teams about being picked in the major league draft in June, but adds there is always a chance.",
"\"I'd really like to work in public relations,\" Underwood, a marketing major, said.",
"\"Maybe I could do this for a team or sports organization, something in that area.\"",
"But graduation is still a few weeks off and until then, Underwood still has the final weekend of this season and the possibility of the NCAA playoffs.",
"For every batter who will face Underwood, there's dealing with those four pitches and a competitive edge built up from losing an eye and regaining his swagger on the mound."
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"Two years ago, a line drive smashed into Jordan Underwood, destroying his left eye .",
"Underwood now pitches with tinted safety glasses covering his acrylic left eye .",
"Coach Mark Hogan at Southeast Missouri: \"I wasn't afraid of signing him\"\nThe winning pitcher hopes \"my story can inspire somebody else and motivate them\""
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"(Mashable) -- Lady Gaga is the first Twitter user with over 10 million followers, which is a first for both the singer and Twitter itself.",
"Lady Gaga celebrated this milestone with a tweet saying: \"10MillionMonsters!",
"I'm speechless, we did it! Its an illness how I love you.",
"Leaving London smiling.\"",
"The mega-popular music celebrity is a huge social media star, having been the most popular user on Twitter for quite some time now.",
"She was also the first person to hit 10 million fans on Facebook, as well as 1 billion views on YouTube.",
"Lady Gaga recently partnered up with social gaming company Zynga to launch GagaVille, a Gaga-themed offshoot of Zynga's hit game, FarmVille.",
"See the original article on Mashable.com .",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Gaga tweets: \"10MillionMonsters!",
"I'm speechless, we did it!",
"Its an illness how I love you\"\nShe was also first to hit 10 million fans on Facebook, 1 billion views on YouTube ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"The Avengers\" officially begins filming today, according to a letter posted yesterday by writer-director Joss Whedon at Whedonesque.",
"\"Tomorrow we start shooting,\" writes the geek auteur, before adding, \"I THINK I'm legally permitted to say that.\"",
"Whedon doesn't offer any hints about the plot of the movie, although he does say that they'll be shooting \"the pivotal death/betrayal/product placement/setting up the sequel/coming out scene,\" which is probably a joke, but a boy can dream, can't he?",
"(Elsewhere in the letter, Whedon says that he's pretty sure the movie is about the Justice League.)",
"\"The Avengers,\" currently slated for a May 4 release next year, will unite the lead characters from Marvel's \"Iron Man,\" \"Captain America,\" \"Hulk,\" and \"Thor\" into one mega-adventure.",
"(And remember: If everything goes according to plan, \"The Avengers\" will also inspire a few franchises of its own.)",
"See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"The Avengers\" is currently slated for a May 4 release next year .",
"It will unite the lead characters from \"Iron Man,\" \"Captain America,\" \"Hulk\" and \"Thor\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- As winds, rains and fears calmed in the Washington, D.C., area Sunday, hundreds arrived at the newly opened Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Sunday afternoon to revel, share stories and celebrate.",
"Sunday's planned dedication of the $120 million Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington was to coincide with the 48th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and King's famed \"I Have A Dream\" speech.",
"But while many of the MLK weekend events went ahead, the centerpiece Sunday dedication was postponed as the East Coast hunkered down for the battering winds and rains of Hurricane Irene.",
"As the clouds cleared Sunday afternoon, visitors to the memorial were greeted by blue skies and mostly intact bleachers that had been placed ahead of the ceremonies.",
"Officials on site say there was little debris left by the time crowds began to swell, which meant a pleasant experience for revelers.",
"\"I'm very impressed. It is done just right,\" said visitor Daniel Boyle from Virginia.",
"\"It's a powerful projection of Martin Luther King's personality and achievements.",
"It captures it.\" Boyle was accompanied by his daughter Ann from Washington, who noted that the atmosphere in the crowds was friendly and hopeful.",
"Many of the visitors had come from around the country for this weekend's events only to be stuck inside during the rains.",
"Al Lee, a teacher from California, says he made the decision in January to attend the dedication and, despite the event cancellation, he made the most of the weekend.",
"\"I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to have enjoyed the opportunity to be here.",
"I'm blessed.\" The memorial site, which features a striking 30-foot statue of King gazing out on the iconic Tidal Basin, lies between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on the National Mall.",
"The statue, representing a \"Stone of Hope,\" sits forward from a \"Mountain of Despair.\"",
"Visitors pass through the mountain on their way to King's statue and an expanse along the Basin rimmed with an inscription wall covered with stone carvings of some of his most famous quotes.",
"The 4-acre area will also feature the iconic cherry blossom trees that draw thousands of tourists to the Mall each spring.",
"In between snapping jubilant photos, visitors Sunday found much to reflect on in the writings and visuals of the memorial.",
"Teacher Travis Parker spoke of feeling \"refueled\" after his visit, ready to take lessons from the memorial home with him.",
"\"We've come quite a ways, but not far enough,\" Parker said.",
"\"The fact that we have an African-American president doesn't mean that we've arrived, but that there are possibilities.\""
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"Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (CNN) -- Hurricane Irene lashed coastal North Carolina late Friday and had metropolitan New York in its sights, staying on an unusual track that could bring deadly storm surge, heavy rainfall and misery to millions.",
"With winds at 100 mph, Irene churned toward an anticipated 7 to 8 a.m. landfall Saturday between Beaufort and Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.",
"The latter had a curfew in effect.",
"But the massive storm -- which is shutting down hundreds of airline flights, Broadway shows and the New York subway system -- won't be content to curve away from the mainland after striking North Carolina.",
"Instead, a weakening Irene will head for the Jersey shore, New York and southern New England, dangerous conditions in tow, forecasters said.",
"\"We're going to see tropical storm-force winds for as much as 24 hours in some places and, in North Carolina, near and to the east of the center, they could experience hurricane force winds for as much as 10 hours,\" Ed Rappaport of the National Hurricane Center told CNN.",
"Irene roiled the surf and blew strong gusts of rain into the Carolinas as it neared landfall.",
"Ernie Seneca, a North Carolina spokesman, said authorities were concerned about the \"entire eastern half of the state.",
"This hurricane could potentially impact an area that includes 20 counties and 3.5 million people.\"",
"Irene was about 195 miles south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, at 11 p.m.",
"ET Friday, according to the hurricane center.",
"Hurricane warnings were in effect from Little River Inlet, North Carolina, to Cape Cod, Massachusetts.",
"A hurricane warning means sustained winds of 74 mph or higher are expected within 36 hours.",
"President Barack Obama warned that Irene could be a \"hurricane of historic proportions.\"",
"The Category 2 storm had top sustained winds of 100 mph, and it is expected to be borderline Category 1, with maximum winds of 95 mph, when it comes ashore Saturday and moves toward the Mid-Atlantic states, according to forecasters.",
"\"This could still be a large and powerful storm,\" North Carolina Gov.",
"Bev Perdue said.",
"Evacuations were ongoing in 19 counties.",
"An ocean surge of up to 11 feet is possible in coastal North Carolina, tearing away beaches and probably damaging homes, businesses and other structures before sliding up the East Coast to New England, Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said.",
"Storm surges of 4 feet to 8 feet are possible in the Virginia Tidewater region, with 3- to 6-foot surges farther north along the New Jersey shore, Read said.",
"Other areas were under tropical storm warnings or watches.",
"A tropical storm warning indicates that sustained winds of 39 to 73 mph are expected within 36 hours.",
"A watch means such winds are possible.",
"New York City issued what Mayor Michael Bloomberg said was its first mandatory evacuation order, covering low-lying areas of all five of the city's boroughs.",
"About 250,000 people are affected.",
"Authorities warned of widespread and prolonged power outages, flash flooding and storm surges that could flood low-lying communities and possibly inundate subway systems.",
"The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority will shut down its system at noon Saturday.",
"Five airports in metropolitan New York will close to arriving flights beginning at noon Saturday.",
"New Jersey Transit will shut down at noon, and the transit system in Philadelphia will halt service at 12:30 a.m. Boston said it intends to keep its system operating.",
"The Garden State Parkway in New Jersey closed 98 miles of southbound lanes Friday night.",
"The storm also was forcing cancellations of concerts, sporting events and, in New York, all the weekend's Broadway shows.",
"Authorities on Friday urged residents who needed to leave to do so immediately.",
"\"The sun is shining, but don't be misled,\" Bloomberg said.",
"\"There is a very dangerous storm headed in our direction.\"",
"Even guests in Atlantic City's iconic casinos were being asked to go.",
"And the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, will be quiet during one of the busiest times of the year.",
"Some plucky businesses were digging in.",
"A restaurant in Wilmington, North Carolina, posted a message reading, \"We are open until the letters fly off this sign,\" CNN affiliate WRAL reported.",
"Steve Aarthun, a resident of Wilmington, was preparing for his first hurricane.",
"His wife, Sally, has seen three.",
"They bought a generator, stocked up on bottled water and flashlights, and filled the bathtub with water.",
"\"I feel the lull,\" Aarthun said mid-afternoon Friday.",
"\"You just have the sense it is coming.\"",
"The couple lives about a mile from the ocean and were hopeful they could avoid the storm surge.",
"Drew Goulde, a Kill Devil Hills resident and a maintenance worker at a hotel, was surfing, taking advantage of a higher-than-usual tide.",
"\"It is fun,\" Goulde said.",
"\"I'm just messing around right now.",
"It's kind of heavy out there, though.\"",
"Governments and private agencies launched an immense effort to prepare for the storm.",
"\"All indications point to this being a historic hurricane,\" Obama said from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, shortly before cutting short his vacation to return to Washington.",
"The mayor of Washington declared a state of emergency.",
"The move opens up additional resources to deal with a storm that Vincent Gray said would \"bring heavy rain, flash floods and high winds to the area.\"",
"The federal government began moving tons of supplies to military bases and other staging areas.",
"The U.S. Navy was sending 38 ships to sea, 13% percent of the deployable battle force vessels, a U.S. Navy official said.",
"Tens of millions of people could be affected by the storm as it moves up the densely populated East Coast, and officials urged residents to be prepared for the worst.",
"In New York, Bloomberg said, \"The low-lying coastal areas that will be endangered most by storm surge include Coney Island and Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, Far Rockaway and Broad Channel in Queens, South Beach, Midland Beach, and other low-lying areas on Staten Island, Battery Park City in Manhattan, and some small sections of the Bronx.\"",
"He added, \"Now, we have never done a mandatory evacuation before, and we wouldn't be doing this now if we didn't think the storm had the potential to be very serious.\"",
"Amtrak, Greyhound and major U.S. airlines canceled routes and flights.",
"American Airlines canceled all flights in the Washington area from noon Saturday to noon Sunday, said spokesman Ed Martelle.",
"AirTran Airways has canceled 308 flights through Monday, according to an airline spokeswoman.",
"JetBlue Airways has canceled almost 900 flights in the Northeast ahead of the storm.",
"Most of those are Sunday and Monday flights out of the New York metro area and Boston, said spokesman Mateo Lleras.",
"Delta Air Lines will cancel 1,300 flights from Saturday to Monday, spokesman Anthony Black said.",
"Southwest Airlines said it is canceling scores of flights to and from the East Coast.",
"US Airways is planning \"significant flight schedule reductions\" at a number of airports, including Reagan Washington National, John F. Kennedy International and Newark International.",
"CNN's Chris Boyette, Gustavo Valdes, Phil Gast, John Zarrella, Kristina Sgueglia, Dan Merica, Sarah Hoye, Rafael Romo, Eden Pontz, Nina Raja, Kristina Sgueglia, Poppy Harlow and Larry Shaughnessy contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center canceled a tsunami warning less than an hour after it was issued Wednesday for Kermadec Island, Tonga and New Zealand.",
"A tsunami was detected following a major earthquake nearby.",
"A 1-meter-high tsunami washed ashore at Raoul Island, the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, said Vinhlu Hsu, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.",
"It caused no damage, he said.",
"The tsunami formed after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 shook the Kermadec Islands at 7:03 a.m. Thursday (3:03 p.m.",
"ET Wednesday), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"The quake was centered 163 kilometers (101 miles) east of Raoul Island, and 913 kilometers (567 miles) south of Nuku'alofa, Tonga, the survey said.",
"The depth was a relatively shallow 20 kilometers (12.4 miles).",
"\"Sea-level readings confirm that a tsunami was generated,\" the center said.",
"New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management said it was keeping a marine threat warning in place throughout Thursday for waters off northern New Zealand.",
"Spokesman Vince Cholewa told CNN that boaters should not take to sea or operate in estuaries and people should stay off the beaches and coasts.",
"\"There's no foreseen threat of inundation, but tides and waves could cause serious problems for boaters,\" said Cholewa.",
"\"We don't want people sightseeing down along the beaches today.\"",
"Boaters should take extra care to secure their ships in harbor, and should contact portmasters for the latest conditions, he urged.",
"The West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami was expected along the Pacific Coast in the U.S. or Canada.",
"In coastal locations that have experienced strong shaking, underwater landslides can trigger local tsunamis, the center said.",
"CNN's Brian Walker contributed to this report."
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"1-meter-high tsunami washes ashore at Raoul Island .",
"The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 .",
"The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was centered east of the Kermadec Islands ."
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"(CNN) -- The NBA Finals are now all-square at 2-2 after the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat 86-83 in a thrilling Game Four of the best-of-seven-series.",
"Once again in-form Dirk Nowitzki top scored for the Mavericks, scoring 21 points, with 10 of these coming in the final quarter, as the lead changed hands no fewer than 12 times on Tuesday.",
"German Nowitzki, who performed to his best despite suffering from a fever, also helped himself to 11 rebounds, while Shawn Marion scored 16 points and Tyson Chandler finished with 13 points and 16 rebounds for the Mavericks.",
"Wade turns up Heat on Mavericks .",
"Jason Terry and DeShawn Stevenson made significant contributions from the bench, coming on to score 17 and 11 points respectively for the Mavericks in front of a crowd of 20,430 at the American Airlines Center.",
"However, the game's overall top scorer was Dwyane Wade with 32 points for the Heat, while Chris Bosh helped himself to 24 points.",
"But LeBron James struggled to find his shooting form, finishing with just eight points in a disappointing display.",
"Game five is in Dallas on Thursday before the series switches back to Miami for game six on Sunday.",
"This year's final is a rematch of the 2006 NBA championship series that Miami took in six games for its first title in franchise history.",
"Dallas has never won the NBA title in its 31-year history."
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"Dallas Mavericks defeat Miami Heat 86-83 to win Game Four of the NBA Finals .",
"The result means the teams are all-square at 2-2 in the best-of-seven series .",
"The final is a rematch of the 2006 NBA championship series that Miami won in six ."
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"(WIRED) -- From the results of the Pwn2Own hacking competition, it looks like Android and Windows Phone 7 are tough nuts to crack.",
"It took only two days for hackers to crack into the Apple and Blackberry operating systems during the three-day Pwn2Own tournament last week, while Android and Windows Phone 7 models were abandoned and left unhacked by the end of the contest.",
"Is this because their operating systems are more secure?",
"Yes and no. \"The survival of a target at Pwn2Own does not automatically declare it safer than a target that went down,\" last year's Internet Explorer Pwn2Own winner Peter Vreugdenhil cautions.",
"The contestants who were lined up to beat the Android and WP7 devices in the competition withdrew for a variety of reasons.",
"Pwn2Own, now in its fifth year, is a hacking competition divided into two areas: web browsers and mobile phones.",
"This year, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Apple Safari 5.0.3, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome were the web-browser targets.",
"In the mobile phone category, the Dell Venue Pro (Windows Phone 7), Apple iPhone 4 (iOS), BlackBerry Torch 9800 (Blackberry 6) and Nexus S (Android) were targeted.",
"The OS and browser versions were frozen last week (so for example, Apple's Safari 5.0.4 update was not used), ensuring that all contestants are working on the same version of each OS.",
"Pwning and owning occurs if the hacker defeats the frozen version.",
"If the exploit they used still exists in the current firmware, they are also eligible to receive a monetary prize.",
"The 2011 Pwn2Own competition ran March 9 to 11.",
"Vreugdenhil says many different factors determine how hard a target is to hack.",
"There's the safety of the software itself, the exploit mitigations that are already in place for that software, and then the amount of research that has already been conducted (which can speed up the process of writing an actual exploit).",
"Firefox and Chrome web browsers were also left undefeated because contestants withdrew from Pwn2Own.",
"\"Chrome has the advantages of having multiple exploit-mitigation techniques that certainly make it more difficult to hack.",
"As for Android, we see no particular reason why Android would be harder to hack than one of the other targets.\"",
"Safari, Chrome, iPhone, Android and Blackberry all use WebKit in their browsers, which means that they are all susceptible to exploitation through the browser -- and that's exactly how the iPhone and Blackberry were attacked.",
"Charlie Miller, a Pwn2Own veteran, worked with Dion Blazakis to hack the iPhone 4 in this year's competition using a flaw in its Mobile Safari Web browser and a \"specially-crafted webpage.\"",
"A team of 3 (Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, and Ralf Philipp Weinmenn) defeated the BlackBerry Torch using a similar technique.",
"So what did the contest's organizers think of the outcome of 2011's Pwn2Own?",
"Vreugdenhil and other organizers were not surprised that the iPhone went down quickly.",
"It has been a major target and a lot of research has already been done on that platform.",
"Android's survival was a bit of a surprise, since it is also a big target and had four contestants lined up.",
"Although no device is unhackable, some factors contribute to a safer product.",
"For those that are out to find the safest phone on the market, Vreugdenhil says you'll want to compare features such as DEP (Data Execution Prevention), ASLR (address space layout randomization), Sandboxing, code signing and the ease with which software can be updated on the device.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"At Pwn2Own hacking competition, Android and Windows Phone 7 tough nuts to crack .",
"Took only two days for hackers to crack into the Apple and Blackberry operating systems .",
"\"Survival of a target at Pwn2Own does not automatically declare it safer,\" winner cautions ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- One afternoon a few months ago, my husband walked into the house carrying a cookbook and then stood in the kitchen for a long time, turning the pages, reading it.",
"This was interesting. He looked deeply absorbed.",
"When his cell phone rang, he went out onto the porch for a minute, the cookbook still opened on the counter, and I came over to inspect.",
"He had been interrupted in the midst of \"How to Choose a Pork Roast.\"",
"There was a silhouette of a pig, connected by arrows to detailed line drawings of 13 hefty-looking cuts of raw meat.",
"In retrospect I see that I was completely dim about what was already under way in our household, but I remember nodding to myself and thinking, \"Oh, okay.",
"Meat.\" The whole book was about meat, serious meat, the kind I'd never been any good at cooking: beef chuck, short ribs, leg of lamb, brisket.",
"Bill wanted more meat in our dinner menus, apparently, and had brought me an instruction manual -- 600 pages long, I couldn't help noticing, and with the same sort of heft as the sirloin pork roast in the picture.",
"I was studying the corned beef recipe, which called for boiling up your own brine and then submerging the meat in it for 12 days, when Bill came back in and made a complicated spousal throat-clearing noise.",
"\"Uh, that's for me,\" he said. \"My cookbook.\" I might have been more startled if Bill had said \"My mascara,\" or \"My pedicure kit,\" but I doubt it.",
"Every domestic arrangement that works reasonably well is stretched out over a web of understandings about who does what, and for 24 years -- three houses, that is, and two children and two extended families and a long, noisy, generally good-natured parade of teenagers and exchange students and visiting nephews and whole soccer teams clumping in and out -- I have been the one who cooks.",
"Oprah.com: How chocolate cake can help you win over the men in your life .",
"I don't want to give the wrong impression here: I'm a slovenly housekeeper, blessed with a gratifying inability to see grime at all until the hour before a fussy relative is about to arrive.",
"But I can follow a recipe.",
"I keep a stack of CDs in the corner of the kitchen, because I like singing to Ella Fitzgerald or the Rolling Stones while I'm dropping cut-up things into a hot frying pan.",
"In the days when carbohydrates were fashionable, I used to make risotto with fresh corn and goat cheese; and one of my daughter's friends once told me he craved my chocolate chip cookies so much that if I made some for the school ski bus, he wouldn't smoke any pot for the entire trip.",
"I had a really muscular period a while back that involved twice-risen whole wheat bread and home-canned apricot preserves.",
"Not that I'm invested in this. It was clear, is all I'm saying.",
"Delineated. Mom tears recipes from the food pages and puts a green vegetable on the plates every night; Dad does barbecue on the weekends and on the nights when Mom's away takes a pizza out of the freezer or makes boiled noodles with sliced hot dogs on top.",
"Bill did have a way of broiling chicken that I never quite understood, something with kosher salt and high heat so that even the breasts were juicy and crispy at the same time, but I elected not to think about that.",
"It was much more satisfactory to smile gently at him, making a visible effort not to roll my eyes, when he asked where we kept the spatulas.",
"If Bill were reading over my shoulder right now, he'd try to sell you some story about how every time he offered to help I would wave my large kitchen knife at him and tell him everything was under control, but this would be a tremendous, tremendous exaggeration.",
"Often I didn't have a knife.",
"Or if I did, I wouldn't say I waved it. I was busy slicing things with it in exactly the right way, which was essential to whatever I was cooking and difficult to explain clearly to anybody else, unless, of course, that person happened to be doing it wrong.",
"Why a sensible adult would want to interfere with this simple and fully understandable system of household order I cannot really say, except that it might be like that part in the action thrillers when the cable starts to fray on the mountain gondola with 13 passengers inside and then shot by shot the metal threads snap off in slow-mo and the gondola's tipping and people are shrieking and finally the butcher sets a new meat cookbook out on the counter where a husband can spot it while his wife is next door buying flowers.",
"Oprah.com: How cooking with cardamom spiced up a marriage .",
"I think that's what happened.",
"Anyway, here's what Bill made for dinner one week after bringing home his cookbook, having waited until an afternoon when I was gone so that he could conduct a stealth sortie into the kitchen: Oven-Roasted Tri-Tip.",
"He used the meat thermometer.",
"He served the tri-tip already sliced thin, perfectly rare, in its juices.",
"I poked at it suspiciously, made a polite remark regarding its flavor, and then ate about 18 slices.",
"Two days later: Oven-Roasted Tri-Tip with Southwestern Spice Rub.",
"Three days after that: Sautéed Pork Chops with Wilted Greens, Pine Nuts, and Raisins.",
"By the time he got to Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Dried Cranberry and Apple Stuffing and Cranberry-White Wine Reduction Sauce, Bill had bought a new meat thermometer, digital, with protruding wires and flashing lights that made it look as though he'd lifted the whole apparatus from an intensive care unit.",
"He had driven to the Indo-Pakistani food store one city over, brought home a dozen bags of spices, and rooted around in the cupboards for empty jars to store them in.",
"Six o'clock had become a delicate, perilous time at the kitchen end of our house; a white-wrapped butcher package would show up on the counter, and I would say to myself, \"Ah!",
"We should talk about this!\" But then we wouldn't. I would stand around the kitchen for a while, looking for some lettuce to wash, and finally Bill would stride in and start pulling out frying pans and turning on three burners at once and flipping through measuring cups.",
"I couldn't figure out how he had found the measuring cups, but he had, and furthermore he appeared to have mastered the trick of opening that cabinet door slowly, so the bud vases and the tea bag boxes don't fall out on your head.",
"Oprah.com: Lunch at Bergdorf's - A promising recipe for a lifelong friendship .",
"And now here he was on Roasted Pork Tenderloin night with his dried cranberries and his apples and his big damn cookbook, and he was holding a measuring cup up to the light, pouring wine precisely to the three-quarters mark, and he glanced over and saw the expression on my face.",
"We regarded each other for a minute.",
"He scooped a wooden spoon into the stuffing, keeping his eyes on me; he had already sliced the meat, I noted stiffly, and fanned the pieces down the length of my grandmother's china serving platter.",
"\"You should taste this,\" he said.",
"It smelled ridiculously good -- sage, I guessed, and butter and garlic and onion, and maybe some thyme, and the faint sweetness of the fruit.",
"I did a rapid calculation of the number of holiday tables at which Bill must have watched me push turkey around my plate while taking thirds on stuffing, and somewhere in the back of my head a tiny cloud of reason began to form.",
"I thought about gratitude, about adaptability, about the splendid and infinite reach of marital give-and-take.",
"I thought about compromise.",
"I thought about grace.",
"I thought about pecans, which it seemed to me the stuffing needed, you know, for the crunch, and not cut too big, and perhaps a bit more pepper.",
"But did I say that? I did not. What I said was, \"If you start baking desserts, I will blow up the kitchen.\"",
"Get the recipe for Cynthia Gorney's Chocolate Chip Cookies .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Gorney was always the cook, until her husband came home with a 600-page cookbook .",
"Her husband began making elaborate dinners every night .",
"Both spouses cooking shows a balance of marital give-and-take .",
"However, she says he better stay away from cooking desserts ."
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"(CNN) -- Scores of people died Thursday in and around the restive Syrian city of Hama, activists said, corroborating reports of widespread casualties a day after the start of a new military clampdown targeting protesters.",
"At least 109 people died in and around Hama, said Avaaz, a global activist group, citing a medical source.",
"The Local Coordination Committees of Syria said 30 people were killed Wednesday.",
"\"The brutality continues in Hama on the fourth day of Ramadan.",
"Communication with the city and surrounding area is very difficult as the electricity supply has been cut off,\" Avaaz said.",
"The activist group, citing the medical source, said scores more were wounded.",
"\"Bodies are lying in the streets as ambulances and private vehicles are unable to get through,\" the group said.",
"The western Syrian city is the center of the country's anti-government movement, whose efforts have prompted a crackdown by security personnel on the huge demonstrations there in an effort to secure the city.",
"Citing the medical source, Avaaz said bodies taken to al Hourani Hospital had been shot at close range, most of them in the head.",
"The geographic breakdown was 48 dead in the town of Hai al Hadyr, 31 in the town of Janoub al Manaab, and 30 in the northern part of Hama and the Hamidia area, it said.",
"One resident who spoke to CNN by satellite phone said some of the casualties who were taken to hospitals died there because the facilities were without electricity.",
"There were reports of a breakdown and cutoff in communications and electricity accompanying the siege, and of the military bombing the city.",
"The resident said entrances of the city were blocked, with no one getting in or out, and snipers were stationed across the city.",
"People who tried to leave, he said, were being shot.",
"The man said about 10 people had been killed and dozens more were wounded.",
"Hama, which has seen massive demonstrations by anti-government protesters, was the site of the 1982 bloody crackdown by the Alawite-dominated government against a Muslim Brotherhood uprising.",
"Memories of that siege, carried out by late President Hafez al-Assad, the father of President Bashar al-Assad, have reverberated during the nearly five-month uprising, and the ongoing violence in Hama has prompted international anger against the al-Assad regime.",
"Reports of violence also emanated from the capital.",
"Four people who were at al-Rifai Mosque in Kafr Sousa Square in the suburbs of Damascus offered separate but similar accounts.",
"One of the sources is a representative of the Syrian Revolution Coordination Union, an opposition group.",
"Two of the others were among the protesters.",
"After prayers, worshipers exited the rear of the mosque to join an anti-government demonstration, but were met by about 24 thugs -- men in civilian clothes armed with guns and batons, the sources told CNN in telephone interviews.",
"The men fired into the air and beat some of the worshipers as they left the buildings, the sources said.",
"Upon reaching Kafr Sousa Square, where they chanted for freedom and the fall of the regime, they were set upon by gunmen and others who threw rocks at them.",
"At that point, the demonstrators returned to the mosque and closed themselves inside, the sources said.",
"A few militia members entered the front yard of the mosque carrying batons and stun guns and attacked the protesters who were there, the sources said.",
"The protesters were allowed safe passage out of the mosque after they promised to end their protests, the sources said.",
"But the protesters were expected to resume Friday, when rebels said the theme would be \"God is With Us.\"",
"CNN is unable to independently confirm death tolls or events in Syria, which has restricted access to the country by international journalists, including CNN's.",
"The move came a day after the U.N. Security Council issued a presidential statement condemning the Syrian government's crackdown on protesters and calling for an immediate end to violence by all parties.",
"But Amnesty International on Thursday slammed the council's response as \"completely inadequate\" and \"limp\" because it failed to take action.",
"The council issued a presidential statement, which carries no enforcement weight.",
"\"It's crucial that a U.N. Human Rights Council fact-finding mission to Syria is able to investigate the situation as soon as possible,\" said Jose Luis Diaz, Amnesty International's representative to the United Nations.",
"\"Unfortunately, the Security Council has also failed to provide support for such a mission.\"",
"He noted that Syrian authorities have not permitted a U.N. fact-finding delegation into the country to investigate the situation.",
"\"The U.N. must act now, with a firm and legally binding position.",
"At the very least, its position must include imposing an arms embargo, freezing the assets of President al-Assad and other officials suspected of responsibility for crimes against humanity, and referring the situation to the ICC prosecutor,\" he said, in reference to the International Criminal Court.",
"Two permanent members of the Security Council weighed in on how to proceed.",
"The Russian Foreign Ministry said Syria's citizens should solve their problems themselves, state-run RIA Novosti said.",
"\"The settlement in this country should be carried out by the Syrians themselves without outside interference and should be based on an all-Syria dialogue, which is the only way to resolve the conflict,\" the ministry said in a statement.",
"But later Thursday, RIA Novosti said that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told reporters that he had told al-Assad during meetings and in letters that \"it is necessary to hold a referendum, put up with the opposition, restore peace and create a modern state.\"",
"Medvedev added that if al-Assad were to fail, he would be destined to \"a sad fate, and ultimately we will also have to make some kind of decisions.\"",
"French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday that the Security Council may take a tougher stance on Syria \"if nothing changes on the Syrian side.\"",
"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, issued on Thursday an update about Deir Ezzor, a city in the country's northeastern region.",
"It said an opposition leader in the city reported that the government had launched a series of measures to punish residents.",
"They include not paying government employees, halting wheat deliveries to bakeries, preventing hospitals from rescuing wounded protesters, and asking governmental medical staff to leave their posts.",
"Some pharmacists have closed their shops over fears that they will be detained for giving medications to wounded protesters.",
"Meanwhile, al-Assad has issued a decree authorizing a multiple-party political system, state media reported Thursday.",
"Syrian lawmakers had already passed a law granting citizens the right to establish political parties with the aim of contributing to political life \"through peaceful and democratic means,\" the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.",
"However, the Syrian opposition has argued the decrees are intended for show and will not effect real change.",
"That's because it is questionable whether the move, absent constitutional reform, could end decades of single-party Baathist rule.",
"One of the articles of the Syrian constitution guarantees supremacy for the ruling Baath party.",
"CNN's Kamal Ghattas and Jack Maddox contributed to this story ."
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"NEW: Friday's theme will be \"God is With Us\"\nMedvedev calls for reform or \"we also will have to make some kind of decisions\"\nAn activist group reports more than 100 deaths in and around Hama .",
"Amnesty International slams the United Nations' statement ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- When Adele finished a soaring rendition of \"Hometown Glory\" to open her set at Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club last night -- the kickoff gig for her North American tour -- she did a mini-curtsy and took a long swig from a teacup.",
"\"I'm really, really, really nervous,\" she told the mostly female sell-out crowd.",
"\"The last time I was here, the guy who inspired '21' was with me.\"",
"The assembled roared in solidarity.",
"It was the beginning of a non-stop monologue that continued between the set's 16 songs, drawn mostly from \"21,\" the deeply personal break-up album that has sold 1.5 million copies this year.",
"It seemed that if she stopped talking, even for a moment, the emotions that clearly simmered just below the surface might explode.",
"Her fans could easily have filled a venue much larger than the 1,200-capacity club -- as, clearly, could her voice.",
"But Adele's nerves might not be ready for anything less intimate.",
"Choose the cover of Rolling Stone: Vote now!",
"Wearing a high-belted black dress and standing mostly still on a set seemingly designed to look like a retro London flat, with Persian rugs and two dozen vintage lampshades dangling at various heights, Adele belted out her heartache in song after earnest song.",
"The material might have turned grating or repetitive in the hands of a lesser talent, but the 23-year-old Brit's reservoir is so deep and the passion so palpable that it's hard to take your eyes off her.",
"\"I don't know why I get so hot -- it's not like I'm dancing like Beyoncé,\" she quipped after the particularly melancholic \"Don't You Remember\" before releasing a signature laugh-honk and moving on to gabbing about the royal wedding.",
"\"I liked the kissing bit best,\" she said.",
"\"They just seemed like any boyfriend and girlfriend.\"",
"\"Turning Tables,\" one of the angrier tracks on 21, was given a smart, spare arrangement that highlighted the power of Adele's voice, which carried effortlessly into the high rafters, pulling goosebumps from hundreds of arms -- and more than a few tears.",
"Read excerpts from Rolling Stone's cover story on Adele .",
"One of the night's biggest ovations came when the singer introduced her cover of \"If It Hadn't Been for Love,\" by bluegrass band the Steeldrivers.",
"\"It's about shooting your wife,\" she said.",
"\"I'm not condoning it, but I want to shoot a few f***ing men in my life.\"",
"When she played the re-imagined cover of the Cure's \"Lovesong\" from 21, she mentioned that the arrangement was originally written for Barbra Streisand, who passed on it.",
"She went on to list her \"favorites\" as Streisand, Bette Midler, Etta James, and June Carter -- a list that accurately reflects Adele's own potent mix of soul and schmaltz.",
"Rolling Stone: Before Adele -- a history of British soul divas .",
"As the set wound down, it was clear the weight was lifting off her shoulders.",
"\"I can't believe I've managed to wear my high heels throughout the whole show!\"",
"she blurted before launching into \"Someone Like You,\" perhaps the most devastating song on 21, in which she confronts her former lover's marriage.",
"\"Nevermind, I'll find someone like you/I wish nothing but the best for you too,\" she sang with shaking hands.",
"\"Don't forget me, I beg.\"",
"Returning for a triumphant encore -- \"The shoes are off!\"",
"she declared -- Adele didn't so much deliver her propulsive, bitter signature hit \"Rolling in the Deep\" as introduce it.",
"This time, her booming voice was just the loudest in a sing-along in which her thousand-plus tribe shared the cathartic joy of acceptance and resilience.",
"Adele, in all her pop-culture referencing, quippy glory, delivers that as well as anyone.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"It seems emotions that clearly simmered just below the surface might explode .",
"Material might have turned grating or repetitive in the hands of a lesser talent ."
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"(CareerBuilder.com) -- Do you ever wonder who decided potato chips should come in such a loud, crinkly package?",
"And why a bag of chips? Why not a box? Or a can? Someone had to decide.",
"Luckily, you can take comfort in knowing that the \"bag of chips\" decision was made by an expert.",
"Packaging, the art of developing appropriate vehicles for consumer goods to arrive safely at our homes in, is actually a major at multiple colleges in the U.S. And packaging isn't even the strangest college degree out there.",
"We rounded up some of the most unique and interesting degrees offered at colleges and universities around the country, and then went a step further to find out what, exactly, people do with these degrees when they graduate.",
"Here, a look at some of the nation's most interesting college programs, and the post-grad job possibilities.",
"CareerBuilder.com: An entire career at one company .",
"1. Race track management .",
"The Race Track Industry Program at the University of Arizona is the only program of its kind, providing students with the background necessary for a number of career paths in the horse racing industry.",
"Should students choose the \"animal path,\" they will graduate prepared to work as a horse trainer or breeder.",
"Those opting for the \"business path`\" will be suited to work on the management side of the industry.",
"So how do students fare in the real world after graduating from such a unique program?",
"According to Douglas Reed, the program's director, graduates do pretty well.",
"\"We have a placement rate in excess of 80 percent immediately upon graduation and [students] receive jobs in all facets of the industry due to the nature of the two paths and the broad based knowledge they receive,\" Reed says.",
"\"Some students start at a racetrack in mid-level management or entry level jobs, others work with the horses either on farms or at the track for a trainer.",
"Still others enter the business in related companies [like those] that process wagers or service the industry.\"",
"Interested in finding out more about what can be done with the degree?",
"A list of alum can be found on the program's website.",
"2. Packaging . Students who enroll in one of the nation's few undergraduate packaging programs don't spend four years learning to think outside the box.",
"They learn to think about the box.",
"A degree in packaging teaches students how to create the most economically, aesthetically, environmentally and technically sound packages for the good we use on a daily basis.",
"According to the University of Wisconsin-Stout, graduates of its packaging program go on to work for companies like Snap-on Tools, Frito-Lay, Kohler and FedEx.",
"In a survey on 2009 graduates of the UWS program, in the months following graduation, 95 percent of packaging graduates were employed, 90 percent in a field related to their major.",
"3. Viticulture and enology .",
"In laymen's terms, Cornell University's Viticulture and Enology Program is it's school of Grapes and Wine.",
"Though the school began offering coursework in the discipline in the early 1990s, Viticulture and Enology only recently became an official major at Cornell.",
"According to Kari Richards, Cornell's Viticulture and Enology Major Coordinator, there are currently about 35 students enrolled in the major and 20 enrolled in the minor.",
"\"Of the approximately 20 graduates over the past five years, the majority are involved in the industry,\" Richards says.",
"\"Some have continued enology-related studies in graduate school, others travel worldwide to gain experience in harvest and crush, [and a] few will or have returned to the home winery/vineyard.\"",
"CareerBuilder.com: Get the most out of a fall-back job .",
"4. Puppetry . The University of Connecticut is one of only two schools in the country to offer an undergraduate degree in puppetry arts, and the only school in the country offering a Master's program.",
"According to the program's website, enrollment is limited to only 22 students, who take classes like \"Trends in Contemporary American Puppetry\" and \"Marionette Construction.\"",
"According to the site, \"graduates of the program perform and design for theatres around the world; appear in, build for and manage internationally recognized television programs and films; write books; design toys; teach children; and direct prominent schools and museums.\"",
"5. Decision making .",
"Indiana University's Kelley School of Business offers a Doctorate degree in decision sciences, a program literally designed to help future business leaders analyze and make decisions.",
"Though the name may make this degree sound like fluff, the course of study is quite rigorous.",
"According to the program's website, \"Decision Sciences is devoted to the study of quantitative methods used to aid decision making in business environments.",
"Using mathematical models and analytical reasoning, students examine problems ... and learn how to solve these problems by using a number of mathematical techniques, including optimization methods (linear, integer, nonlinear), computer simulation, decision analysis, artificial intelligence and more.\"",
"6. Turfgrass management .",
"Michigan State University is one of a handful of schools in the country that offers a turfgrass specialization.",
"Under its College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, students in the MSU program learn to maintain golf-course greens, athletic fields and parks by taking classes like \"Golf turf irrigation,\"\"Management of turfgrass weeds\" and \"Plant genetics.\"",
"Graduates of the program have nabbed some pretty notable jobs, too.",
"According to Jill Cords, a career consultant with the college, two alumni actually faced off at last year's World Series.",
"One alumnus was a groundskeeper for the Texas Rangers, and another was working for the San Francisco Giants.",
"CareerBuilder.com: 7 things you should never say in an interview .",
"Kaitlin Madden is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder.com.",
"© CareerBuilder.com 2010.",
"All rights reserved.",
"The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority."
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"The Race Track Industry Program at the University of Arizona prepares students for a career in the horse racing industry .",
"Students can study wine at Cornell University .",
"Michigan State University offers a turfgrass specialization ."
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"(CNN) -- After months of not-so-coy will-he-or-won't-he political flirtation, Fred Thompson has finally and officially announced that he is a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.",
"Fred Thompson joins the race for the GOP nomination only four months before the first voting.",
"\"I am running for president of the United States,\" he said during a taping of NBC's \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\" Wednesday evening, drawing applause and cheers from the audience.",
"It's the same venue that helped launch the electoral career of another celebrity-turned-politician, California Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger.",
"Thompson also talked about his decision to join the race in a webcast that went online early Thursday.",
"\"I'm going to give this campaign all that I have to give, and I hope that you'll join me,\" Thompson said in the video announcement posted on his campaign Web site.",
"\"Our country needs us to win next year, and I'm ready to lead that effort.\"",
"Thompson, 65, who has had a multifaceted career as a prosecutor, lobbyist, actor and U.S. senator from Tennessee, is angling for a conservative base that has yet to coalesce around a favorite.",
"His decision to run was widely expected, after he formed an exploratory committee in June to begin raising money.",
"But political observers say Thompson may be late by entering the race months after his GOP rivals.",
"The first voting is only four months away and the other candidates have been in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond for months.",
"But Thompson dismissed suggestions that he took too long to make the decision.",
"\"I don't think people are going to say, 'You know, that guy would make a very good president, but he just didn't get in soon enough,\"' Thompson told Leno.",
"\"If you can't get your message out in a few months, you're probably not ever going to get it out.\"",
"In his video announcement, Thompson touted his support for what he termed common-sense conservative principles, including low taxes, free markets, balanced budgets and the \"sanctity of life.\"",
"\"These principles made our country great, and we should re-dedicate ourselves to them, not abandon them,\" he said.",
"On the Iraq war, Thompson also challenged Democrats pushing for a withdrawal of U.S. forces, embracing President Bush's view that the U.S. effort in Iraq is a central front in the war on terror.",
"\"Our courage as a people must match that of the brave men and women in uniform fighting for us,\" he said.",
"\"They know if we abandon our efforts, or appear weak and divided, we'll pay a heavy price for it in the future.\"",
"Even before he became a candidate, Thompson showed well in recent national poll averages, trailing only the front-runner, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.",
"His acting role on NBC's popular \"Law and Order\" TV shows has buoyed his name recognition and prompted comparisons to another actor-turned-president beloved by conservatives, Ronald Reagan.",
"Thursday morning, Thompson will begin a two-day tour across Iowa, whose precinct caucuses traditionally kick off the nominating season in January.",
"See Thompson's new presidential campaign buses » .",
"He will travel from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Mason City, Cedar Rapids and Davenport on a brown, yellow and red bus festooned with the slogan \"United By Our Core Beliefs.\"",
"After his Iowa tour, Thompson will take his campaign to three other states with early primary contests -- New Hampshire, Florida and South Carolina.",
"\"Expectations are sky high, which means he'd better perform flawlessly out of the box or a lot of people are going to start grumbling that he's not the great savior we thought he was,\" said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.",
"Thompson's virtual campaign kickoff came just hours after his GOP rivals held their latest campaign debate Wednesday night in New Hampshire -- an event he skipped to unveil his political plans on the set of \"The Tonight Show.\"",
"Thompson joked that while he meant no disrespect to the organizers of Wednesday's Granite State event, \"It's a lot more difficult to get on 'The Tonight Show' than it is to get into a presidential debate.\"",
"Over the summer, Thompson's nascent non-campaign campaign ran into turbulence with the departure of several staffers, including veteran Republican campaign adviser Tom Collamore, who left after disagreements with the candidate's wife, Jeri, over organization and staffing decisions, according to Republican sources familiar with Collamore's decision.",
"Jeri Thompson, 40, was a GOP media consultant before marrying Thompson in 2002.",
"The political world was also roundly unimpressed with the $3.4 million Thompson's exploratory committee raised during its first month of operation in June -- a fundraising pace far weaker than his GOP competitors.",
"Despite those bumps and his late start, Thompson has said he believes his campaign is still well-positioned to win the nomination.",
"Thompson's government service goes back to 1969, when he became a federal prosecutor in Nashville.",
"His profile went national in 1973, when he was appointed as the Republican counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee investigating misdeeds by President Richard Nixon and members of his staff.",
"During televised hearings that riveted the nation, it was Thompson who famously and dramatically asked White House aide Alexander Butterfield about the existence of tapes made of Oval Office conversations, which would eventually turn out to be Nixon's undoing.",
"After Watergate, Thompson returned to Tennessee to practice law.",
"He fell into a career as an actor when he was asked to play himself in the 1985 movie \"Marie,\" which was based on a real-life case in which he represented a whistleblower who exposed corruption.",
"His performance in the film led to other film and TV roles.",
"In 1994, Thompson sought political office for the first time, running for the remaining two years of the Senate term that Democrat Al Gore gave up when he was elected vice president in 1992.",
"After barnstorming the Volunteer State in a red pickup truck while wearing cowboy boots, Thompson won in a landslide, and, in 1996, easily won re-election to a full six-year term.",
"In 2002, however, Thompson decided not to seek re-election and left the Senate.",
"He worked as a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington and also took on the role of the gruff, conservative New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on \"Law and Order.\"",
"Thompson left the show earlier this year when he began considering a presidential bid.",
"In April, Thompson disclosed that in 2004, he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system.",
"However, he said the cancer was in remission and he was suffering no symptoms.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's John King, Bethany Swain and Doug Schantz contributed to this report."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- An environmental group on Monday urged the incoming Japanese prime minister to delay the start of school near a nuclear plant crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami six months ago.",
"Fukushima city schools are scheduled to reopen Thursday.",
"The March 11 disaster triggered the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, as cores overheated and spewed radioactive material into surrounding areas.",
"Greenpeace said the government's decontamination plan is lacking, adding that its team found average radiation doses remained high in areas decontaminated by the government.",
"Areas where local communities had conducted further cleanups contained decreased radiation levels, the group said in a statement.",
"\"No parent should have to choose between radiation exposure and education for their child,\" said Kazue Suzuki, Greenpeace Japan nuclear campaigner.",
"A foreign affairs spokesman said it was premature to ask the incoming prime minister to delay school.",
"\"Mr. Yoshihiko Noda was just elected as Democratic Party leader.",
"He has not assumed the post of prime minister yet, therefore he cannot comment on this,\" said Kazuhiro Kawase, the spokesman.",
"Japan's ruling party on Monday picked Noda, the finance minister, as its new leader, bringing him a step closer to becoming the prime minister.",
"Parliament will vote Tuesday on whether he will assume the position of prime minister -- the country's sixth in five years.",
"Japan has launched a sweeping review of nuclear power since the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, which displaced more than 100,000 residents."
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"(CNN) -- Larry Smith's desire to make sure he's alive to watch his grandchildren grow up was his light bulb moment.",
"\"I was on the path to not living old and this bothered me,\" he said.",
"\"I want to live long enough to see my young grandkids reach big milestones like graduate from school and get married, or even enjoy simple activities like playing in the yard with them.",
"My grandkids mean the world to me.\"",
"The 63-year-old epidemiologist from Jackson, Mississippi, recently dropped 58 pounds in a 12-week fitness challenge involving 200 people from the Mississippi governor's office, state legislature workers and civilians.",
"\"When they announced I was the winner of the challenge, it was a very emotional experience for me,\" Smith said.",
"\"I've never won any kind of athletic event, and it felt like a huge achievement to do it,\" he said.",
"Smith, who is 5-foot-10, started the boot camp at 261 pounds and with much hesitation.",
"\"During the first day of the program I thought I wouldn't be able to keep up with it because it felt very intimidating and I worried about my weak knees,\" he said.",
"Smith has struggled with his weight most of his adult life.",
"Before the fitness program, he led a very sedentary lifestyle.",
"He often felt sluggish, lacked energy and felt \"miserable.\"",
"He always dreamed of losing weight, but kept putting it off.",
"\"By nature, I think many people are procrastinators, and losing weight was something I always wanted to do but was on my procrastination list,\" he said.",
"The grandfather of three said an e-mail in his work inbox announcing the \"Fit 4 Change Mississippi Fitness Challenge\" was the final push he needed to jumpstart his journey toward a healthier lifestyle.",
"\"I had known people who participated in the challenge last year and were successful at it, so I thought I'd give it a try,\" he said.",
"\"I thought it would be worth it for both me and my grandkids.\"",
"The program was led by Mississippian Paul Lacoste, a former pro football player turned fitness coach, with a vision to help slim down the Magnolia State, which has an adult obesity rate of 33% - the highest in the United States.",
"Participants shed a collective 3,043 pounds and 714 inches from their waists by the end of this year's challenge.",
"\"The fitness event was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life,\" Smith said.",
"\"Paul worked us really hard during our early morning workout sessions and pushed us to our limits,\" he said.",
"Weight lifting and various cardiovascular exercises were a major part of the fitness plan.",
"Smith and other participants met four days a week for intense one-hour workouts.",
"Before the challenge started, Smith had high blood pressure, high sugar glucose levels and did not eat well-balanced meals.",
"After he started the fitness challenge, he added healthy food to his diet, such as fruits, vegetables, fish and chicken, and he eliminated fatty foods and red meats.",
"\"One of my favorite things to add to food is mayonnaise, but I substituted it with Greek yogurt during the program and this helped me reduce calories,\" he said.",
"\"I'm still eating the yogurt, and enjoy it.\"",
"Smith said the first few weeks of the program were the most challenging, but after a while he adjusted to his new routine and diet and appreciated the opportunity to get fit.",
"\"It took a lot of effort for me to change my lifestyle, but once I started seeing the pounds shed away, it gave me the motivation I needed to keep going,\" Smith said.",
"Smith said his goal was simply to get in shape, and he never aspired to win the fitness challenge.",
"He was pleasantly surprised when he did.",
"His blood pressure and sugar glucose levels are normal now, and he feels much better since dropping his weight.",
"Since the program has ended, he continues to work out and has dropped eight more pounds.",
"\"I just joined the 'Y,' signed up for kick boxing, step and Pilates classes and continue to both walk and run every day,\" he said.",
"\"Paul's program was the jumpstart I needed, and now I am continuing my weight loss journey on my own,\" he said.",
"Smith said everyone needs to find their own way to a healthy lifestyle and says his best advice is to \"just do it,\" find something you like and don't procrastinate or \"wait for tomorrow\" like he once did.",
"\"I look forward to spending many healthy years into the future with my grandkids, and am glad I am taking the necessary steps to do it,\" he said."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- What do you most want to know about your mom but would never ask?",
"When psychoanalyst Joyce McFadden posed this question to hundreds of women in an online survey that began in 2006, she was surprised by their answers: Half of the respondents wanted to know more about their mothers' sexuality.",
"The queries ranged from the seemingly straightforward to the profound: \"Did she date other men before my dad?\"",
"\"Had she had an abortion?\" \"Why did she have an affair?\" In her new book, \"Your Daughter's Bedroom,\" McFadden explores the great value in sharing these kinds of intimate secrets -- even when it's awkward to do so.",
"Oprah.com: How to get your daughter to talk to you .",
"Understanding our mothers, she says, is vital to understanding ourselves.",
"We asked McFadden how to get the conversation started.",
"Q: Why are these discussions so hard?",
"It's not easy to blurt out the private details of your life to anyone.",
"But moms often don't discuss their sexual pasts because they're embarrassed about things that happened, or worried they'll scare their daughters.",
"The daughters then withhold from their moms for fear of being judged.",
"It's a cycle. We're not allowing ourselves to be real, whole women together.",
"Oprah.com: 14 really good sex questions .",
"Q: What are we missing out on? We lose our moms as advisers, for one.",
"Intimate relationships are bafflingly complex, and when things go wrong, many women consider themselves failures.",
"But if they could talk about it, they might be able to move past that shame.",
"Q: What were your survey respondents hoping to learn about their moms?",
"Many were hoping that certain aspects of their mothers' personalities might be illuminated.",
"They said things like \"I think she must have been abused\" and \"I have to assume she was sexually unhappy with my father.\"",
"They wanted to get to know their mothers better as women, because we look to our moms as guides.",
"We study them all the time as we grapple with our own identity.",
"Oprah.com: What is your daughter thinking?",
"Q: Any advice on approaching Mom?",
"Make sure you consider the risks first, because you may learn things that you're not prepared to know.",
"If you feel ready, try looking for conversation starters in your everyday life -- like a movie that touched on sexual relationships or a friend who is going through a divorce.",
"I find that mothers are often happy to talk once their daughters give them an opening.",
"Oprah.com: The \"Eew\" factor .",
"Q: How did you start talking about sex with your own daughter?",
"When she was little, I made sure she knew the correct names of her body parts.",
"I didn't know what a vulva was till I was, like, 30.",
"Q: Now that she's a teenager, has it become more difficult?",
"She comes to me with questions, but there are definitely topics I have to broach.",
"Before she started high school, I said, \"We're going to have a conversation about oral sex.\"",
"And she said, \"I'm going to jump out of this car.\"",
"But I made the conversation happen.",
"It's my responsibility to teach her.",
"Now we don't have to talk about it again -- unless she wants to.",
"Oprah.com: Adventures in sex education .",
"Unspoken Questions .",
"McFadden asked the women in her survey what they most wanted to know about their moms.",
"This is what some of them wrote: . • If she's ever loved anyone as much as she loves my dad.",
"• Why she stayed with my father.",
"• Why she never told us that she married my dad after my older brother was born.",
"• Why did she allow Grandma to push her into a marriage she wasn't sure was right?",
"• I want to know about her desire for sex.",
"• Why she never had an affair after my father became ill. • Why doesn't she get help for her marriage?",
"Oprah.com: More ways to talk to your daughter about sex .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Half of the respondents wanted to know more about their mothers' sexuality .",
"McFadden: We study our mothers all the time as we grapple with our own identity .",
"One risk: You may learn things that you're not prepared to know ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- March 14, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Japan • Santa Cruz, California .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: We're dedicating this edition of CNN Student News to our audience in Japan.",
"The world is watching in support, and you are not alone.",
"First Up: Japan Earthquake .",
"AZUZ: The nation of Japan is reeling today, trying to recover from a devastating natural disaster.",
"The earthquake hit the island nation on Friday.",
"It registered a magnitude of 8.9.",
"That makes it the most powerful quake to hit Japan in at least 100 years.",
"There were reports over the weekend that the quake moved the main of island of Japan -- the entire island -- by 8 feet!",
"And this is what it left behind: scenes of destruction.",
"On Sunday, officials estimated that more than 1,500 people had been killed; more than 1,900 injured; more than 1,500 more missing.",
"Those estimates all expected to go up.",
"And the worst may not be over. Witnesses have reported feeling aftershocks.",
"And scientists in Japan say that there's a strong chance of another quake, one with a magnitude of 7.0 or higher, hitting in the next few days.",
"Just to get a sense of what this was like, take a listen to this iReport.",
"This was shot by someone outside his house.",
"You can hear the crashes as the area is rattled by the quake.",
"Something just as devastating as the quake was the tsunami -- this giant ocean wave -- that the quake caused.",
"It slammed into the Japanese coast, washing over cities and leaving death and destruction behind it.",
"Tsunami Strikes Japan .",
"AZUZ: The northeastern part of the country took the worst of it.",
"This is what the water looked like rushing into one city.",
"Some areas were completely flattened, with foundations the only sign of the buildings that once stood on them.",
"You might think of a tsunami as this towering tidal wave that crashes down on shore.",
"That's not what this was. Tsunamis are more accurately described as these \"walls of water\" that push onto shore and plow through anything they hit.",
"Scientists believe that when there's friction between two plates below the ocean's surface, like in an earthquake, energy is released.",
"That energy shoots up to the surface, spreads out in a wave.",
"And it travels very fast, as fast as 500 miles per hour!",
"You can see it spreading right here.",
"Now, if you're in a boat out at sea, you might not even feel it.",
"It's incredibly powerful, but not necessarily very high.",
"But look at what happens when that wave gets closer to shore: it slows down and builds up.",
"And that wall of water just bulldozes inland.",
"Look at how this tsunami wave spread.",
"This animation shows you just how far these things can travel.",
"It stretched out in all directions, spanning the Pacific Ocean.",
"It hit Hawaii, causing millions of dollars in damage there.",
"And it even reached the California coast, 5,000 miles from the area near Japan where the quake hit.",
"And when the wave did reach Santa Cruz, California, it was still strong enough to do this: boats tossed like toys in the tub.",
"It's not nearly as destructive as what happened in Japan, but a clear illustration of ocean energy radiated across the world.",
"Japan Earthquake .",
"AZUZ: Trying to put the impact of this earthquake in perspective.",
"Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, called it \"the toughest and most difficult crisis\" for his country since the end of World War II, more than 65 years ago.",
"He said he's confident that the Japanese people can work together to overcome the crisis.",
"That could include making sacrifices, like dealing with electrical blackouts for one thing.",
"The government is planning to run these rolling blackouts in order to save electricity while workers repair power plants.",
"But Prime Minister Kan says right now, Japan has one main goal.",
"NAOTO KAN, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER: Saving people's lives must be our first priority.",
"We must do all that we are able to do to save as many lives as we can now.",
"Just the Facts . STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Just the facts!",
"Nuclear power plants generate power through a process called nuclear fission.",
"This is when atoms of uranium, a radioactive element, are split apart.",
"Fission produces a lot of heat energy, and that energy produces steam.",
"The steam turns a turbine, and that's how the plants generate electricity.",
"Meltdown Concerns .",
"AZUZ: Officials in Japan are worried about what's happening at one of the country's nuclear power plants.",
"It has six reactors, six facilities where that fission happens.",
"And three of those reactors were running when the quake hit.",
"The plant has safeguards in place for this kind of a situation.",
"The reactors are supposed to shut down, and emergency generators are supposed to pump water into the reactors to cool them down.",
"Remember, fission generates heat, so if you want it to stop heat quickly, you need to cool it down.",
"But in one of those three reactors, the back-up generators failed.",
"Experts are blaming that on flooding from the tsunami.",
"Another element -- hydrogen -- started building up inside the facility until it caused an explosion that blew the roof off.",
"The reactor was not damaged in the explosion.",
"But that's the big concern here: a problem with the reactor.",
"Like we said, the uranium inside of it is radioactive.",
"And if too much of that radiation gets out, it could contaminate air or water and lead to very serious health problems.",
"World Response .",
"AZUZ: You heard Japan's prime minister say that the number one priority is saving lives.",
"Rescue crews have been working furiously to try to find and help the victims of this earthquake.",
"And the world is coming to Japan's aid as well.",
"The United States, United Kingdom, China, South Korea: just a handful of the nearly 70 countries that have offered to help.",
"Some search-and-rescue teams have already arrived in Japan.",
"More are on the way. International aid groups, like the Red Cross, Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders are getting involved, too.",
"The USS Ronald Reagan -- the warship that you see here -- is also on the scene.",
"Crew members are working with Japanese forces to fly supplies and equipment into the areas that were hit hard by the quake.",
"They're hoping to deliver 30,000 portions of emergency food supplies in the first run.",
"Impact Your World .",
"AZUZ: Sometimes, you hear about a crisis somewhere in the world and wonder \"What can I do?\"",
"We have a way for you. CNN's \"Impact Your World\" program has information on some of the groups that are helping the victims of this quake, and it has ways for you to get involved.",
"You'll find a link to \"Impact Your World\" in the Spotlight section of our home page, CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: This is a huge story, and one that we'll certainly be covering more on our show.",
"But there's also a lot of information up on our web site.",
"We have In Depth Coverage on the quake itself and explainers on things like earthquake magnitudes and how nuclear reactors work.",
"Finally today, we have a video that demonstrates the power of this natural disaster and its impact on Japan.",
"We're going to let that close out the show, and we'll see you again tomorrow.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) RYAN MCDONALD, WITNESS, CNN IREPORTER: My wife and I stood outside and basically held on to the outside of our house.",
"You couldn't even stand up.",
"We have never, ever felt anything on the magnitude, the literal magnitude, of what we experienced today.",
"HARRIS PAYTON, WITNESS, CNN IREPORTER: The whole ground was shaking so much.",
"It was unreal. I can't describe it. MCDONALD: Oh, my god.",
"That is the biggest earthquake to date.",
"Oh, my god, the building's going to fall!",
"AUGUST AMBRISTER, WITNESS, CNN IREPORTER: It just blew up.",
"Woo! Woo! Do you all see this? BRENT KOOI, WITNESS, CNN IREPORTER: The crack is just moving.",
"There's water. I don't know if water lines are broken, but this water was not there a minute ago. (END VIDEO)"
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"Motherboard.tv is Vice's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology.",
"The reports, which are being produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (Motherboard.tv) -- Tucked between a bodega and a bar in a former industrial neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, an unassuming door leads to New York's newest, most radical punk scene.",
"But the slouched-over kids and bearded scenesters who slide into the cavernous space, known as Silent Barn, aren't just here for the fine underground music.",
"They really come for the video games.",
"This is the home of Babycastles, an underground collective and gallery dedicated to pressing the reset button on the concept of the video game arcade, with loving help from a growing culture of independent developers, players and fans.",
"Don't expect any change machines, prizes, or incessant video game musak wafting across a linoleum-lined room full of pale adolescents.",
"Descend into the basement of Silent Barn on any given night, and you're likely to encounter a rowdy scene that looks more like CBGBs if it had been founded by hackers with a predilection for florescent neon.",
"That's how you might describe Kunal Gupta and Syed Salahuddin, who met each other through the independent gaming scene after college and launched Babycastles with a smattering of music and beer-soaked events in 2009.",
"They grew up in the 1980s and '90s, as a steady stream of home gaming consoles were eclipsing the arcade and the privacy of the living room was replacing a lively -- if not completely functional -- public space.",
"\"It was a dark, dingy place with a lot of teenagers who were really into arcade games,\" Salahuddin says of his favorite arcade from childhood, the recently-closed Chinatown Arcade.",
"\"There were a lot of random strangers and friends you made that night.",
"People stood around these machines discussing the games, talking about the games, deconstructing these games.\"",
"In Babycastles' cozy underground space, visitors gather around homemade games, installed on often aging computers that are embedded inside ramshackle cabinets.",
"The games -- often constructed around an array of silly, bizarre and downright fascinating conceits and told in a vibrant, minimalist aesthetic, are designed by young developers from New York and around the world whose clever antics are more accustomed to internet message boards, blogs and IRC channels.",
"The cabinets are lovingly decorated in all manner of artwork, from intricate painted cardboard panels to collage-covered wood panels.",
"See the rest of Babycastles: DIY Arcade at Motherboard.tv .",
"For the opening exhibition at a temporary space near Times Square last year, Thu Tran, the inimitable maestro of the IFC show \"Food Party,\" turned a former storefront into a veritable zoo of brightly-colored furniture and cabinets.",
"In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art.",
"Here was a kind of proof that you don't have to choose.",
"Nor do you have to play by the rules -- in fact, often no one knows what they are.",
"In B.U.T.T.O.N., a staple of the gallery, players are left guessing at the objective: will they be asked to beat their opponents to a single magic button, to force their opponents to press the button, or to carry out instructions printed on the screen in Danish?",
"In the current exhibition, hosted at a separate music venue in Williamsburg, a game by Ivan Safrin lets players reenact a popular YouTube video showing a zealous ATV-rider with a giant American flag who celebrates the death of Osama bin Laden by firing his shotgun aimlessly.",
"A game by Adam Saltsman simply asks users to press any key -- they win when they find the correct one.",
"Doing things the wrong way -- an ethos obvious in the eccentric, sometimes iconoclastic design of many of the gallery's games -- echoes the progenitors of other devil-may-care and do-it-yourself artistic movements.",
"That's why the music and games at Babycastles events play together so nicely.",
"Indie rock and punk fare isn't the only soundtrack at Babycastles -- the collective also pairs up with a steady global roster of chiptune musicians, who, with their hacked Game Boy controllers and Genesis consoles, are in many ways the musical breatheren of today's lo-fi game developers.",
"(Babycastles launched as a party alongside the Blip Festival, a showcase of chiptune musicians; this year's festival begins this week in New York.)",
"Meanwhile, the patrons of both of these independent communities are in one way or another striving to experience something new -- something that can't be bought in a store, but that is available for anyone to see and hear if they look in the right places.",
"Just like indie music, the independent gaming scene is trading in neat, mass-produced convenience for a rough-hewn, playful provocation.",
"\"[At big gaming studios] games have become massive undertakings in which each developer acts like a cog.",
"The budget for games has increased by billions of dollars, and developers don't take as much risk anymore,\" says Salahuddin.",
"\"So you see a lot of rehashed games from the same video game engine, like another \"Unreal\" clone.\"",
"The independent gaming movement \"is in response to that.\"",
"The implications of Babycastles remixing go wider than the music, art and gaming worlds.",
"The hope, says Salahuddin, is to build a kind of economy for independent gaming developers outside the large studios, something akin to what supports indie musicians who make much of their money through touring and merchandise.",
"Babycastles' other mission is to bring an obscured world of hobbyist game development to a larger audience -- a public that may be jaded with a culture often built on testosterone-fueled first-person shooters, or that tends to roll its eyes at the premise of games altogether.",
"It's a formidable challenge, but, as the gallery's raucous and diverse gatherings prove, one that isn't so hard to beat.",
"Still, mixing games with the underground music scene can have its downside too -- some musicians who come to play fall in love with the games in the basement, Salahuddin says.",
"\"So bands started missing their sets.\""
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A member of Pakistan's paramilitary Sindh Rangers has been sentenced to death in the killing of an unarmed teenager whose fatal shooting was caught on video, a prosecutor told CNN.",
"Five other soldiers, also members of the Sindh Rangers, and a civilian were given life sentences for their roles in the June killing of 17-year-old Sarfraz Shah, Muhammed Khan Buriro, a special public prosecutor with the Anti-Terrorism Court, said Friday.",
"The sentences of the seven men still must be confirmed by the Pakistan's higher court, Buriro said.",
"All seven also were ordered to restitution, ranging from $1,162 to $2,325 each to Shah's family, he said.",
"The case prompted a public outcry after a chilling video captured by a local television cameraman showed Shah pleading for his life before being shot twice in a park in Karachi.",
"In the video, which was broadcast across Pakistan's networks, Shah cries \"I am helpless\" and \"please do not fire.\"",
"After being shot twice, Shah then begs to be taken to a hospital before bleeding to death.",
"The shooting death was the latest in a series of human rights incidents that has deeply eroded public confidence in security agencies.",
"Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered transfers for the heads of the Sindh Rangers and the provincial police force after the shooting.",
"Pakistan's Supreme Court also ordered the six soldiers and the civilian to be tried before the country's Anti-Terrorism Court,, a special court where hearings are expedited and decisions come more quickly than in the regular court system.",
"Authorities, at the time of the shooting, said Shah tried to rob people at a park named in honor of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.",
"They said Shah had pointed a pistol and wanted to steal cash and cell phones.",
"Authorities said he was handed over to park security and then to the Rangers.",
"Shah apparently tried to snatch the Rangers' guns, authorities said at the time.",
"That's when the soldiers opened fire.",
"The video shows Shah reaching for their weapons before backing away.",
"Shah's family has repeatedly said he was innocent."
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"Six soldiers and one civilian are convicted in the shooting death of Sarfraz Shah .",
"One man is sentenced to death, six others to life in prison, prosecutor says .",
"Those convicted are also ordered to pay restitution to the teen's family .",
"The sentences still must be confirmed by Pakistan's higher court, prosecutor says ."
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"(Mashable) -- Twitter has rolled out an update to its search tool that makes it easier to find new people to follow.",
"Now, when you search for a given topic on the microblogging site, you'll get suggestions of people and accounts that tweet about that topic.",
"For instance, a search for \"movies\" yields Roger Ebert, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau and the iTunes Trailer account under the \"People results for movies\" sidebar.",
"You can get further suggestions by clicking on the \"People\" tab on the left-hand side search results where you can also browse recent tweets about the queried topic.",
"In the movies example, further results include Tom Hanks, Disney-Pixar and Kevin Smith.",
"Previously, people results used a far simpler algorithm, showing people and accounts to follow based on keywords, the company said in a blog post.",
"Though a relatively small and obvious move, it's yet another addition to Twitter's web interface that makes third-party tools for performing the same task a little less relevant (though the service has also been offering personalized follow suggestions for some time).",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Twitter has updated its search tool to help users find people to follow .",
"When you search for a topic, you'll get suggestions of people that tweet about that topic .",
"You can get further suggestions by clicking on the \"People\" tab ."
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"Shanghai, China (CNN) -- The Shanghai Auto Show -- the biggest automobile exhibition in the most lucrative car market in the world -- opens Tuesday amidst a flurry of China-focused global car premieres.",
"Meanwhile, shortages in the supply chain continue to worry car manufacturers, just one month after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami.",
"Major brands including GM, Chevy, BMW, and Citroen are racing to win over Chinese customers this week, slating highly anticipated global releases for Shanghai, which this year coincides with the New York Auto Show.",
"European car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen hosted a flashy global unveiling of its new hatchback DS-5 in Shanghai because the company is convinced China's car market will continue growing dramatically in the coming years.",
"\"Ten percent growth will last for several years,\" Peugeot's CEO Philippe Varin told reporters Monday.",
"The DS-5 will be produced in China by Changan Automobile, which ranks fourth in the mainland.",
"Also this week, Chevy will unveil its new Malibu 2013.",
"BMW will premiere its new 6-Series luxury coupe in Shanghai, along with a concept M5 luxury sport sedan.",
"Audi, a popular brand with a major market share in China, announced it will unveil a new Q3 crossover.",
"Mercedes-Benz will reveal its entry-level A-Class concept car, among others.",
"On Monday, General Motors unveiled Baojun, its first dedicated car brand aimed specifically at Chinese consumers.",
"The American car brand announced that it aims to more than double the number of cars it sells in China to 5 million by 2015.",
"\"We have set some aggressive goals,\" GM China head Kevin Wale told reporters on Monday.",
"\"We are confident we will achieve every one of our goals.\"",
"The first model for Baojun, which means \"treasured horse\" in Chinese, is a mid-size 1.5-litre engine sedan that is priced between US $10,000 and $15,000, according to Wale.",
"It is a price point that Ford hopes will be attractive to young buyers in China's second- and third-tier cities.",
"China's rapidly expanding car market is expected to grow even if the economy slows.",
"According to the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, even if China's annual gross domestic product growth rate declines from 10 to 7 percent, as projected by the International Monetary Fund and laid out in China's 12th Five-Year Plan, some 600 million vehicles could fill China's roads by 2030.",
"However, the announcements across Shanghai were muted by the auto industry's continued struggle to rebound from a components shortage caused by the Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which caused forced factory closures.",
"Short supply of crucial car parts has caused some brands, including Toyota, to temporarily half production due to shortages.",
"\"Obviously it's a terrible tragedy for the people of Japan,\" Ford's China CEO Joe Hinrichs told CNN on Monday.",
"\"It's not just the supply base that directly supply the auto companies, but their suppliers and their supplies so it's a complex situation that is evolving everyday.\"",
"Ford has moved up previously planned stoppages in their manufacturing facilities to project their supply of cars in certain locations.",
"Volvo, which is owned by China's Geely Holding Group, has been forced to look elsewhere for some parts.",
"\"So far we have managed it very well, we had no loss of any production and no change in our model mix,\" Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby told CNN.",
"\"We have some specific components where we are relying on Japan but we managed together with suppliers from Japan to find alternatives within Japan but also out of other countries and other production locations abroad.\"",
"Jacoby predicted a new wave of semiconductor shortages will emerge this summer, affecting their ability to produce gear box control units and powertrains.",
"As for the long term impact, auto manufacturers are cautiously optimistic.",
"\"I think Japan quake results are going to play out over the next several months,\" Ford's Hinrichs said.",
"\"It's a critical time when suppliers are ramping back up and inventory levels have been coming down throughout the system, so over the next couple of months we'll know the real proof of impact of what's happening.\"",
"\"I don't think there will be a major long term impact,\" Hinrichs told CNN.",
"The 14th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition opens to the media on Tuesday and to the public on Thursday."
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"GM, Chevy, BMW and Citroen are among brands showing in Shanghai this week .",
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"Supply-chain concerns loom after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami ."
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"(CNN) -- \"There's no more skeletons in my closet,\" Russell Brand told CNN's Piers Morgan.",
"\"I live in a haunted house.\"",
"On Wednesday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" Morgan introduced Brand as \"the man who put the sex, drugs and rock and roll into comedy,\" calling the comedian \"a lawbreaker, a line-crosser, a madman and a genius.\"",
"Brand, who makes no secret of his shaky past, told Morgan, \"They know I'm a junkie.",
"They know I carried on with women.",
"They know I've been in trouble with the police.\"",
"The actor also talked to the CNN host about his new movie, \"Arthur,\" a remake of the 1980s classic, his marriage to pop superstar Katy Perry and his thoughts on the royal family.",
"Brand described his pre-sobriety self in detail, saying he was \"a scrawny, retched, ne'er do well -- a twig crow man, scorching across the north London streets, fingerless gloves, outstretched palm, bags of smack in pocket, pipe on the lips.\"",
"\"I used to hang out with pimps and hookers and junkies and crooks,\" continued Brand.",
"\"But the reality of that life, you know, you can snatch glistening pearls of amusement from it.",
"But when that's your daily life, it's miserable.\"",
"Morgan asked Brand if his newfound immense success made him happier.",
"\"Given that I had an early life that was about like sort of stealing to survive,\" said Brand, \"and having to get on the public transport without paying, and sort of petty incidents, and low-life crime sort of stuff, then yes.",
"It's obviously easier to have money than to be dirt poor.",
"But I think that to say that money brings happiness is reductive.\"",
"Morgan argued that Brand getting a California driver's license was a step toward the straight and narrow because \"wild rockers can't drive.\"",
"Brand, who drives a Range Rover, said he takes driving very seriously and tries \"to accept that driving is not a medium in which to express your true nature.\"",
"The actor, who married singer/songwriter Perry in October, told Morgan, \"I really love married life.",
"I love the companionship and the friendship and the consistency of someone being there.\"",
"Morgan asked if there was any truth to the rumors that Brand is teaming up with Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin to make a film version of the stage musical \"Rock of Ages.\"",
"Brand said, \"As a man who is married to a person that can often be on another continent, I need to put my marriage first.",
"See if we can work out the schedule in there, and then I'll do it.\"",
"\"Arthur,\" hits theatres Friday.",
"\"Obviously, you're replacing a legend,\" said Morgan.",
"\"I mean, Dudley Moore made 'Arthur' this immortal character.",
"Did you have any qualms about taking over such a part from one of your comedy heroes?\"",
"\"I hold Dudley Moore in such reverence,\" Brand said.",
"\"I have such strong feelings and affection for the original film.",
"It just felt like a privilege and an honor.\"",
"He called the film \"a beautiful way of updating a very traditional and archetypal story.\"",
"Brand, a recovering alcoholic who played a womanizing drunk, had an interesting way of preparing for his scenes.",
"\"I was smelling the bottles of booze to get me into character, 'cause I don't drink anymore as you know.",
"\"I would take the bottles of rum, bottles of tequila, just to evoke the memory.\"",
"He called the experience \"a distilled, but positive aspect of alcoholism,\" saying it was like being drunk with the exception of \"having to wake up with a terrible headache and a stranger.\"",
"Brand said the overall message of the film is that \"Arthur is a billionaire, but he's unhappy and he is lonely until he finds love.\"",
"When the subject of the upcoming nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton came up, the two Englishmen discussed the monarchy.",
"Brand noted he has been \"overwhelmed by patriotism\" since moving to the United States.",
"\"I have become sort of seduced by it,\" continued Brand.",
"\"I think those things have contributed to a renewed appreciation for the monarchy; while I still believe absolutely in equality at my core.\"",
"Morgan asked Brand what the difference between British and American humor is, and whether the comedian tailors his act for American audiences.",
"\"I think there's a very direct corollary that's based around our language,\" Brand said.",
"\"And I, I certainly don't think it holds true that the American sense of humor is in any way unsophisticated when you think of the geniuses like (Jerry) Seinfeld and (Richard) Pryor.\"",
"As for upcoming plans, Brand told Morgan he wishes \"to continue being a stand-up comedian, continue to be happy in my marriage and to make sure that when I interact with people, I make them happier.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A special court set up by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that had been prosecuting alleged electoral fraud by 62 parliament members has been dissolved, a presidential spokesman announced Wednesday.",
"Karzai said in a written statement that the country's electoral commission has final say over election outcomes, noting that Afghan courts cannot change electoral results.",
"The decree appears to put an end to months of legal wrangling over the legitimacy of roughly one quarter of the lawmakers in the country's lower house of parliament.",
"But presidential spokesman Siamak Herawi said the commission will now review the court's findings to determine if any lawmakers need to be removed.",
"Critics of the Afghan president have long suggested that the creation of the now-dissolved special court had been part of an effort to stack the lower house with Karzai supporters.",
"Herawi declined to comment on those claims.",
"Meanwhile, four police officers were killed in southern Afghanistan during an inadvertent clash between NATO forces and Afghan police, according to an Interior Ministry statement on Wednesday.",
"The incident occurred in southern Kandahar province late Tuesday evening when NATO \"mistakenly attacked a police checkpoint in Arghandab district,\" the statement said.",
"Two other police officers were also injured in the clash.",
"NATO says it is aware of the incident and an investigation is underway, according to International Security Assistance Force spokesman Capt.",
"Pietro D'Angelo.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati contributed to this report ."
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"NATO \"mistakenly attacked a police checkpoint,\" Afghan officials say .",
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece is set to impose further austerity measures and a number of privatization plans in return for more international aid to avoid defaulting on its debt.",
"The move comes after a 110 billion euro European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund bailout last year has failed to cover the country's needs.",
"The Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, was scheduled to present his government's plans to the Eurogroup chairman, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Luxembourg Friday.",
"Papandreou was expected to give Juncker details on a medium-term fiscal plan that will aim to raise an extra 28 billion euros by 2015.",
"Part of that money is expected to come from the sale of state assets.",
"The plan also includes extra taxes for employees and pensioners.",
"The additional measures come at a time when daily strikes and demonstrations are being held across Greece against existing plans.",
"Thousands of people were in their tenth day of protest Friday at Athens' main square and there have been several outpourings of anger in recent days against ruling politicians by angry crowds.",
"Friday morning a group of protesters from the communist-affiliated union PAME was holding a sit-in at the finance ministry, blocking entrance.",
"Protesters also hung a banner at the ministry building calling for a general strike against additional measures.",
"In a statement, protesters referred to the measures as \"barbaric.\"",
"Greece's main labor unions have called a general strike on June 15.",
"The government has failed to achieve political consensus on its policy and there is opposition to additional measures within the ruling party, with a group in parliament asking for a full-party debate on the issue.",
"A cabinet meeting was to be held before additional measures were announced.",
"Greece was hoping to return to the markets to help fund its deficit but with borrowing costs being prohibitively high this has left Greece with very little negotiating power.",
"Earlier this week, ratings agency Moody's cut its rating of Greece to one of the worst levels possible, only slightly above recently-defaulted Ecuador.",
"Last week, the IMF threatened to veto the release of the latest 12 billion euro portion of Greece's existing rescue package because the country could not guarantee its solvency.",
"Greece's creditors are were expected Friday to announce a decision on the release of that money."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- The widow of an al Qaeda in Iraq leader has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, after being convicted of involvement in terrorism.",
"Hasna Ali was the wife of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, one of the two top leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq who were killed in a joint Iraqi-U.S. operation in April 2010.",
"Al-Masri was military leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdul Sattar al-Berqdar told CNN Sunday that Hasna Ali, who is from Yemen, was sentenced in an Iraqi court.",
"Abu Ayyub al-Masri was the military leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"He was killed along with Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who was .",
"leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"When they were killed more than a year ago, then-commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq Gen. Raymond Odierno called it \"potentially the most significant blow to al Qaeda in Iraq since the beginning of the insurgency.\"",
"Journalists Fattah Mahmood Fattah and Muhaimen Najm contributed to this report."
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 16, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Louisiana • Atlanta, Georgia .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz, and today on CNN Student News, we're gonna be talking about something that won't happen until November 6th... of 2012!",
"But we start things off down in Louisiana.",
"First Up: Severe Flooding .",
"AZUZ: Officials facing the threat of massive flooding there have opened several gates on the Morganza Spillway.",
"A spillway is something that goes over or around a dam.",
"It's a safety feature.",
"When too much water builds up around the dam, the spillway's gates can be opened to let some of that water through.",
"This is what the Morganza Spillway looks like normally: gates closed, nothing coming through.",
"But with floodwaters from the Mississippi River rushing in, engineers opened up some of the spillway's gates for the first time in nearly 40 years.",
"That's what you see here: water barreling through the gate.",
"The Morganza Spillway has 125 total gates.",
"Officials plan to open up to one-fourth of those.",
"Opening the gates should divert floodwaters away from major cities, like Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana.",
"But it will send water toward homes and farmland in other parts of the state.",
"People who live there -- many of whom have had to evacuate their homes -- are preparing for devastation.",
"KELLI TRIMM, BUTTE LAROSE, LOUISIANA RESIDENT: It's worse than we thought.",
"It's really worse than we thought.",
"We thought maybe we might have water in our yard.",
"Instead, this is going to come into our home.",
"It's going to take everything we have got.",
"Presidential Politics .",
"AZUZ: The next U.S. presidential election is more than 500 days away.",
"Might sound like the distant future, but there's a lot that happens between now and then.",
"And since that process is already underway, we're going to break some of it down for you today.",
"Ultimately, one candidate from each party will face off in the general election.",
"That's on November 6th, 2012.",
"Before that, candidates have to win their party's nomination.",
"That's what the primary elections help decide.",
"There are lots of political parties out there.",
"The Green Party, the Libertarian Party.",
"We're going to look at the two biggest parties: the Democrats and Republicans.",
"On the Democratic side, President Obama is an incumbent candidate.",
"He's running for re-election to the office he already holds.",
"He announced his campaign last month.",
"The Republican side has a field of candidates.",
"Some of them, like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Representative Ron Paul, and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, have announced their plans to run for president.",
"Others have formed what are called exploratory committees.",
"They haven't officially announced their candidacy, but they're looking pretty seriously at the possibilities.",
"Lot of steps to go through between now and election day.",
"We'll take you through it as campaign season rolls along.",
"Shoutout . STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's first Shoutout goes out to Mr. Essex's geography students at Washington Middle School in Miles City, Montana!",
"Whose slogan is \"the toughest job you'll ever love\"?",
"Here we go! Is it the: A) Boy Scouts, B) Air Force, C) Peace Corps or D) Supreme Court?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"A promotional campaign described the Peace Corps as \"the toughest job you'll ever love.\"",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Peace Corps at 50 .",
"AZUZ: The organization promotes peace and friendship by having Americans live and work in developing countries.",
"A simple idea, but one that's lasted.",
"The Peace Corps celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.",
"Brooke Baldwin caught up with a new member of the corps as she began her journey.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) JOHN F. KENNEDY, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: I have today signed an executive order providing for the establishment of a Peace Corps.",
"BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: That was March 1961.",
"In the 50 years since President John F. Kennedy launched the Peace Corps initiative, more than 200,000 volunteers have served in some 139 countries.",
"Twenty-two-year-old Katie Pollak is now one of them.",
"KATIE POLLAK, PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER: It's an exciting thing to be a part of.",
"So many amazing people have been Peace Corps volunteers, and just the network of people who have done it.",
"They use the word \"family\" a lot.",
"It's exciting to sort of be going into that.",
"BALDWIN: Katie recently earned her college degree in human biology and African studies.",
"She plans to put it to good use for the next 27 months in Senegal, where she'll work in the Peace Corps malaria program.",
"POLLAK: Professionally, this is going to be sort of the best thing that I can do, in terms of on-the-ground experience and whether I want to work broadly in life or doing policy work.",
"And personally, I think it's going to be the biggest challenge of my life, being in an entirely new culture.",
"BALDWIN: Peace Corps volunteers serve in several areas: education, HIV/AIDS awareness, agriculture, and business development, just to name a few.",
"They are provided with health insurance, a housing allowance, and they receive about $7,500 at the end of their 27-month assignment.",
"And the desire to serve is still very strong.",
"KRISTINA EDMUNSON, DEP.",
"COMMUNICATIONS DIR., PEACE CORPS: Today, we have more Peace Corps volunteers in the field than at any time in the last 40 years.",
"And, you know, I think it's representative that Americans are ready to serve.",
"They're standing up. They're answering President Obama's call to service.",
"BALDWIN: Forty-seven people in this latest group of Peace Corps volunteers are heeding that call.",
"COSTA KOKKINOS, PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER: I just hope to do stuff, to complete projects that people will appreciate.",
"Maybe something that's sustainable, so when I leave they will have it.",
"SARAH KUECH, PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS: Two years seems a lot like now, but in the grand scheme of things, it's really not that big.",
"So, if I can donate a little of my time to try to do some good, I think it's worth a shot.",
"BALDWIN: And for Katie Pollak, she says she is ready for the learning experience of a lifetime.",
"POLLAK: One of the goals of the Peace Corps is to bring a better understanding of Americans to other people around the world.",
"And I hope I can, like, be an ambassador for America.",
"And show sort of the good side.",
"BALDWIN: Brooke Baldwin, CNN.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout Extra Credit .",
"BARBARA HALL, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"When did Jackie Robinson become the first African-American to play in baseball's major league?",
"You know what to do! Was it the: A) 1930s, B) 1940s, C) 1950s or D) 1960s?",
"Another three seconds on the clock -- GO!",
"Jackie Robinson made his major league debut in 1947.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Celebrating Civil Rights .",
"AZUZ: Starting with Jackie Robinson, black and white major leaguers played together on the field.",
"But for many years, they couldn't go to the same restaurants and hotels off the field.",
"That changed with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.",
"Saturday, young people got to play and talk with former all-stars as Major League Baseball honored those who fought for social justice in the game and in the country.",
"The celebration continued yesterday when the Atlanta Braves hosted the Civil Rights Game.",
"The teams wore uniforms from 1974.",
"That's the year that Hank Aaron hit home run number 715 to break Babe Ruth's career record.",
"T.J. Holmes talked to \"Hammerin' Hank\" about the influence of the civil rights era.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Some of them were out there before you.",
"But when you kind of got into the mix, is that something you wanted?",
"Did you ever consider yourself kind of a leader being out front, a leader in the civil rights era?",
"Or did you just want to play baseball?",
"HANK AARON, BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER: I wanted to play baseball and I never felt like I was a leader.",
"But I felt like Jackie Robinson had paved the way for, and I wanted to be a baseball player.",
"Let me put it that way.",
"And Jackie Robinson had paved the way for all of us.",
"When I say all of them, myself, Willie and some of the other black who's came before him and was a little bit younger than he was, had paved the way.",
"And I felt like it was my responsibility, not only as a baseball player, but to carry myself in such a way that other blacks would be able to look at me and say, \"oh, I not only want to be the same kind of ballplayer that Hank Aaron was, but I want to carry myself off the field the way that he did.\"",
"HOLMES: Do you ever look back and think, \"You know what?",
"I could have done without it, without the record\"?",
"AARON: No, I never did.",
"No. I felt like it was my responsibility.",
"God had given me the ability to play baseball.",
"I had the world on my shoulders.",
"I knew that I could do most anything I wanted to do out on the baseball field.",
"And I always felt like I was, it may sound kind of silly, but I always felt like I was surrounded by angels on the baseball field.",
"You know, I just felt like there was absolutely nothing that could happen to me.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Before we go, we've got the scoop on a big story out of Canada.",
"It's the world's largest ice cream cake!",
"The massive dessert tipped the scales at more than 22,000 pounds.",
"That's more than 10 tons of ice cream!",
"Engineering students figured out how to build the thing without it melting.",
"Talk about a brain freeze.",
"Thousands of people showed up for the cake's debut.",
"Thousands of lucky people; they each got to try some.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Must have been sweet to witness a slice of history.",
"We're gonna chill out for a little bit, but we'll be back tomorrow with more CNN Student News. See you then."
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"(CNN) -- Italy international midfielder Alberto Aquilani has left English Premier League side Liverpool to join AC Milan on loan for the rest of the season.",
"Aquilani, 27, joined Liverpool from Roma in 2009, but the playmaker has struggled with form and fitness during his two years on Merseyside, spending last term on loan at Juventus.",
"\"Alberto Aquilani has completed his loan transfer from Liverpool to AC Milan,\" read a statement on five-time European champions Liverpool's web site.",
"\"The deal, which includes the option of a permanent move, will end on June 30, 2012.\"",
"Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish revealed the reasons behind the transfer and said he could not find room for Aquilani in his team.",
"\"It's a great move for Alberto,\" said the Scot.",
"\"He's got his wife and kid over there.",
"It was difficult for him here. \"When he came back his pre-season training was excellent.",
"We gave him a few games, he did well in those games.",
"But the problem for us was trying to get him in the team.",
"\"Obviously everybody wants to play and Alberto is moving over to a fantastic football club.",
"He goes there with the best wishes of everyone and we hope it works out for him, because he was never a problem in any way, shape or form.\"",
"Aquilani has won 17 caps for Italy and was part of the Azzurri squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.",
"Elsewhere, English midfielder Joey Barton has left Newcastle to join newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers on a four-year deal.",
"Barton, 28, fell out with the Newcastle hierarchy after criticizing the way the club was run on the social-networking site Twitter.",
"The former Manchester City player signed for Newcastle in 2007 and was part of their squad which was relegated from the Premier League in 2009, and then gained promotion back to England's top division in 2010.",
"QPR were recently taken over by AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes and Barton said the ambition of the London outfit is what convinced him to make the move.",
"\"The ambition of the club really impressed me,\" Barton told their official web site.",
"\"There's a great set of lads here already and that's why they had such a great season in the Championship.",
"\"The manager is talking about adding two or three more bodies and that, combined with the potential of the club and the new owners' ambitions, bodes really well for the future.\"",
"Another player on the move on Friday was Dedryck Boyata, with the central defender joining Bolton Wanderers from Manchester City on a season-long loan deal.",
"The 20-year-old Belgium international will spend the rest of the campaign with Owen Coyle's side.",
"Meanwhile, in Italy, Macedonian international striker Goran Pandev has left Inter Milan to join Champions League rivals Napoli on loan.",
"Pandev joined Inter in January 2010 after five seasons at Lazio but scored only two goals in 27 matches last season."
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"Alberto Aquilani has joined AC Milan from Liverpool on a season-long loan .",
"Midfielder Joey Barton has completed a move from Newcastle United to QPR .",
"Man City defender Dedryck Boyata will spend the rest of the season with Bolton ."
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"Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- President Obama began his \"town hall\" event at Facebook's offices on Wednesday with an anecdote.",
"\"I hate to tell stories about Mark,\" Obama said, referring to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was moderating the session.",
"As if the two former Harvard students were old friends, Obama then launched into a brief retelling of a dinner party he atttended in February with the 26-year-old computer whiz and about a dozen other tech-industry elites.",
"There, Zuckerberg sat to the president's immediate right.",
"\"I'm the guy who got Mark to wear a jacket and tie,\" Obama said, referring to Zuckerberg, who abandoned his usual T-shirt and hoodie ensemble that day.",
"\"Halfway through dinner, he's starting to sweat a bit.",
"It's really uncomfortable for him.",
"I helped him out of his jacket.",
"\"In fact, if you want Mark, we can take our jackets off.\"",
"And so, like Obama has often done during less-formal speeches, the president on Wednesday removed his coat.",
"Zuckerberg followed, revealing a dress shirt and black tie.",
"(Though, he did wear sneakers.)",
"\"Yeah, you're a lot better at this than me,\" Zuckerberg joked.",
"That kicked off a very cordial hour-long conversation and seemed to loosen up the sometimes chilly technology prodigy.",
"Zuckerberg stumbled during his opening remarks.",
"\"Sorry, I'm kind of nervous,\" he said after a flub in his introduction.",
"For Obama, Wednesday was a chance to connect with both Silicon Valley influencers and young people in one poke.",
"Throughout his answers, Obama related his typical talking points -- federal deficit, education, healthcare and immigration -- to those two groups.",
"To the technorati, Obama promoted education in math and sciences, highlighted the especially acute real-estate market in the affluent area here, and talked up immigration reform.",
"\"We don't want them starting Intel in China, or starting Intel in France.",
"We want them here,\" he said. To the youthful audience of Facebook employees, he provided advice and stirred his familiar call for change.",
"\"Historically, part of what makes for a healthy democracy, what is a good politics, is when you have citizens who are informed, who are engaged.",
"And what Facebook allows us to do is make sure this isn't just a one-way conversation,\" Obama said.",
"For Facebook, the meeting was an opportunity to validate itself in the eyes of Washington, where it's ramped up lobbying efforts recently.",
"That's important for most companies growing at the rate and size Facebook is.",
"Zuckerberg has already proven himself to 500 million people who use the service and to wealthy investors.",
"The Facebook founder is worth $13.5 billion, according to data from Forbes.",
"That fact provided an opening for another ribbing from Obama, when discussing the president's proposal for ending tax cuts for the wealthy.",
"\"People like me and you, Mark, (should be) paying a little more in taxes,\" Obama said.",
"\"I know you're OK with that.\" Despite the president's plan to take more of Zuckerberg's money, the young billionaire praised Obama's efforts in education reform.",
"\"I think that the Race to the Top stuff that you guys have done is one of the most under-appreciated and most important things that your administration has done,\" Zuckerberg told the president.",
"For his part, Zuckerberg announced in September that he would donate $100 million to Newark, New Jersey, public schools.",
"Obama has commended Facebook in past speeches, including in his State of the Union address in January.",
"He placed Zuckerberg's creation in a pantheon of great American ingenuity success stories, beside the inventors of the light bulb and the airplane.",
"\"We're the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook,\" Obama said in that speech.",
"\"In America, innovation doesn't just change our lives.",
"It is how we make our living.\"",
"Facebook indicated in statements leading up to Wednesday's event that this was not an endorsement for the president.",
"Likewise, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters on the flight over here that the event was not meant to be a promotion for Facebook.",
"\"This is not about endorsing a specific company,\" Carney said.",
"\"It's about accepting an invitation for a forum to speak to the American people.\"",
"People traveling on Air Force One watched \"The Social Network,\" the controversial movie about the founding of Facebook, Carney said.",
"Facebook did, however, offer a gift to Obama at the end of the event.",
"It was a sweatshirt with the website's logo stamped on the front -- \"in case, for some reason, you want to dress like me,\" Zuckerberg said."
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"The pair had met before at a dinner for the president and Silicon Valley elite .",
"Mark Zuckerberg praised Obama's efforts in education reform ."
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"(CNN) -- A Nigerian militant group has claimed responsibility after a car loaded with explosives rammed into the United Nations' building in the capital, killing 23, a government spokesman said Monday.",
"The suicide attack Friday shattered windows, set the building ablaze and left gaping holes on the walls.",
"Radical Muslim sect Boko Haram, which aims to enforce a strict version of Sharia law, has claimed responsibility, said Reuben Abati, the government spokesman.",
"Eighty-one people were injured, he said.",
"The attack targeted a building that housed 26 U.N. humanitarian and development agencies, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week.",
"The Liberian and U.S. embassies are also nearby.",
"\"This was an assault on those who devote their lives to helping others,\" Ban said.",
"Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan described the suicide bombing as \"barbaric, senseless and cowardly\" and intensified security around the capital.",
"The capital of Abuja has experienced a series of bombings in recent months.",
"In June, a car blast killed at least five people at the police headquarters in the city.",
"A month later, at least three people died in an explosion near a church outside the capital.",
"The number of casualties could have been higher if services had still been going on, according to a police spokesman.",
"The attacks on the church and police station may have been the work of Boko Haram, the nation's officials said this year.",
"Africa's most populous nation is divided between a largely Christian south and a Muslim north.",
"\"Boko Haram\" translates loosely as \"Western education is forbidden/sinful.\"",
"The group holds all government authority in contempt and wants to establish a Sharia state in northern Nigeria.",
"Boko Haram has been running religious schools for years, but did not rise to national prominence until it attacked police stations and prisons two years ago.",
"In retaliation, security forces launched a fierce crackdown that destroyed the group's camp and led to the arrest of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf.",
"He died in police custody."
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"Boko Haram claims responsibility for the blast .",
"Nigeria's president says the bombing was \"barbaric, senseless and cowardly\"\nThe capital has suffered a series of bombings in recent months .",
"Ban: \"This was an assault on those who devote their lives to helping others\""
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- Five gang members have confessed to involvement in last week's torching of a casino in Monterrey in which 52 people were killed, Nuevo Leon Gov.",
"Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz told reporters Monday.",
"The five are members of Los Zetas and carried out the attack because the owners of the casino had not complied with their extortion demands, Medina de la Cruz said, according to the state-run Notimex News Agency.",
"The State Agency of Investigations identified the suspects as Luis Carlos Carrazco Espinosa, 25; Javier Alonso Martinez Morales, alias \"el Javo,\" 37, from Monterrey; Jonathan Jahir Reyna Gutierrez, 18; Juan Angel Leal Flores, 20; and Julio Tadeo Berrones, 28, alias \"El Julio Rayas.\"",
"The five have been arrested and \"have confessed, and we have scientific proof that these people participated,\" Medina de la Cruz said.",
"The attorney general's office said evidence points to involvement by all five men, \"some as intellectual authors, others as accomplices and lookouts, others as material authors, others as drivers.\"",
"\"Presumably, there was a disagreement and this crime was perpetrated as a reprisal,\" Medina de la Cruz said.",
"At least two other people were being sought for alleged participation in the killings, he said, adding that he would not reveal details that might jeopardize the investigation.",
"The attack appears to have been directed at the casino and not at city residents, \"and the situation got out of the criminals' control.\"",
"\"They may not have counted on killing 52 human beings,\" he said.",
"Medina de la Cruz, who was accompanied at the news conference by Nuevo Leon Attorney General Leon Adrian de la Garza, and the state's security spokesman, Jorge Domene, underscored that the investigation into the casino properties is continuing.",
"The governor presented a video that he said showed two vehicles that participated in the attack, with people putting gasoline in tanks later used at the casino.",
"He added that a fingerprint taken from one of the cars led investigators to one of the suspects and, from him, to the others, who have criminal records that include homicide and kidnapping, among other offences.",
"He called for any witnesses who may recognize the suspects to contact authorities.",
"Mexico's Attorney General's Office had offered a 30-million peso ($2.4 million) reward for information leading to the capture of the men they suspect were behind Thursday afternoon's attack in the affluent city.",
"The ambush left a charred shell of a building where the high-end casino had stood.",
"Photos of the scene at the Casino Royale showed singed slot machines.",
"A video released by Mexican authorities showed armed men bursting into the casino carrying what appeared to be gallons of gasoline.",
"Seconds later, dozens of people fled as smoke and fire engulfed the building.",
"On Saturday, 300 soldiers from the Mexican Army and Air Force boarded planes in the nation's capital, bound for Monterrey as part of President Felipe Calderon's plan to help local authorities fight drug trafficking and organized crime, Mexico's defense department said.",
"The number of victims in the casino attack drew national attention in a country where headlines routinely describe brutal drug-related violence.",
"\"It is evident that we are not facing common criminals,\" Calderon said Friday.",
"\"We are facing true terrorists who have crossed all the limits, not only of the law, but also of common sense and respect for life.\"",
"Over the past three years, the state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico has seen an increase in violence due to clashes between rival gangs -- the Gulf Cartel and The Zetas -- over control of drug-trafficking routes to the United States.",
"Two mayors were assassinated in 2010.",
"Last month, four civilians were wounded when two grenades were thrown at a prison in Apodaca.",
"Monterrey, the state's capital, is a key industrial hub and Mexico's wealthiest city.",
"Since 2008, the government has stepped up the military's presence in Nuevo Leon as it tries to crack down on crime.",
"It sent more troops to the state last November.",
"More than 34,600 people have died since Calderon announced a crackdown on cartels in December 2006, according to government statistics.",
"Other reports have listed higher tolls.",
"The latest Mexican government tally was released in January.",
"CNN en Espanol's Krupskaia Alis and journalists Javier Estrada, Mauricio Torres and Victor Badillo contributed to this report."
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"All five have confessed to involvement in the arson, the governor says .",
"The fire killed 52 people .",
"Attorney general says the suspects are members of the criminal gang Los Zetas .",
"\"We have scientific proof\" of their participation, the governor says ."
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"Minot, North Dakota (CNN) -- With record water levels poised to inundate the North Dakota town of Minot, the mayor and the state's governor congratulated citizens on an organized and efficient evacuation .",
"\"It's been a very orderly process,\" Mayor Curt Zimbelman said Wednesday of the evacuation process.",
"Gov. Jack Dalrymple said it had \"gone extremely well.\"",
"Earlier Wednesday, sirens sounded in Minot, urging residents to abandon their homes in the face of major flooding.",
"Water is already overtopping the city's dikes, which are leaking in some places.",
"There are roughly 12,000 people in the evacuation zone in and around Minot.",
"Zimbelman and Dalrymple warned that more water than expected is headed toward the town, and it will likely arrive sooner than expected.",
"The Souris River is expected to crest on Monday, two to three days earlier than had been forecast.",
"Zimbelman said the river is expected to rise to a level five feet higher than any previously recorded.",
"Residents were given until Wednesday evening to evacuate because of what state emergency services spokeswoman Cecily Fong called \"historic proportions of water.\"",
"There are also concerns the Souris River may be rising more rapidly than expected, Fong said.",
"The National Weather Service predicted record flooding as heavy rains and dam releases cause the river to swell at Minot.",
"Minot got some support from a hometown hero who was halfway around the world.",
"Actor Josh Duhamel, in Moscow for the \"Transformers: Dark of the Moon\" premiere, asked for donations to the local Red Cross.",
"\"My heart goes out to all the incredible people of Minot & surrounding areas,\" Duhamel said on his Twitter account.",
"The Souris River, which locals call \"The Mouse\" after the French translation of its name, flows through the center of town, and there are several homes and businesses along its low-lying banks.",
"Fearing the main levees would not hold back the water, emergency workers have been constructing local levees around a school and the Broadway Street Bridge, a main thoroughfare.",
"Residents appear to be heeding evacuation warnings.",
"In a sign they're taking the flooding seriously, some residents were pulling up carpets because they are easier to remove now than after their homes have been inundated with water.",
"Not everyone, however, was planning to evacuate.",
"Troy Erickson, 44, lives across the street from the perimeter of the evacuation zone and said he plans to ride out the flood.",
"His neighbor has a bucket loader and they have distributed several loads of sand and gravel around four houses, which are home to 13 people, he said.",
"They have \"lowered a couple hundred sandbags\" on top of the mixture, he said.",
"\"We've got more sandbags coming to have just in case we need to build it higher,\" said Erickson, a lifelong North Dakotan.",
"\"It if happens, it happens.\"",
"He said he is \"a little bit\" frightened because he's never been in this situation, though he was a toddler during the flood of 1969.",
"Minot, in the north central part of the state, is the fourth-largest city in North Dakota.",
"The evacuation order covers a third of its population, Fong said.",
"Residents have until 6 p.m. Wednesday to leave.",
"The river at Minot, which currently stands at close to 1,555 feet above sea level, is forecast to rise to 1,559 feet on Friday or Saturday -- which would be a record.",
"The river hit 1,558 feet above sea level in 1881.",
"The Souris River looks like a \"U.\"",
"It swoops in and out of North Dakota from Canada.",
"CNN's Richard Benson contributed to this report."
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"NEW:Actor Josh Duhamel, who is from Minot, appeals for public's help .",
"Officials warn that river crest will come sooner and be higher than expected .",
"City mayor and state governor congratulate residents on smooth evacuation .",
"Evacuation orders cover a third of the Minot area's population ."
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"(Mashable) -- After a brief period of downtime Tuesday, the Apple Store has returned with brand new iMacs, confirming recent rumors about an imminent refresh of the lineup.",
"The new iMacs sport the latest Intel Core i5/i7 Sandy Bridge architecture, a HD camera and the new super-fast Thunderbolt port, first seen on MacBooks Pro.",
"Customers will be able to choose between quad-core Intel Core i5 processors and iCore i7 processors clocked up to 3.4 GHz.",
"The 21.5-inch iMac features one Thunderbolt port, and the 27-inch model has two.",
"Finally, the new FaceTime HD camera is included in all new models.",
"Mashable.com: Your next iPad might be an iMac .",
"As for the rest of the specifications, 4GB of RAM comes standard; graphics start with AMD Radeon HD 6750M, which can be upgraded to 6700M or 6970M and the storage ranges from 500 GB to 1 TB, with configure-to-order options allowing for even more memory and storage space.",
"All models come with an IPS LED-backlit high resolution display, SD card slot and a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad.",
"The prices for the new models are the same as the prices of old iMacs, ranging from $1,199 to $1,999.",
"See the original article at Mashable.com.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"New iMacs sport the latest Intel Core i5/i7 Sandy Bridge architecture .",
"The 21.5-inch iMac features one Thunderbolt port, and the 27-inch model has two .",
"The new FaceTime HD camera is included in all new models ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Eddie Vedder's second solo album \"Ukulele Songs\" and a live concert film titled \"Water on the Road\" will both be released on May 31st, Vedder announced today.",
"As the title suggests, \"Ukulele Songs\" will feature Vedder performing original songs and covers on his ukulele.",
"Cat Power's Chan Marshall and Glen Hansard of the Frames and the Swell Season will guest on one track each, and the set will include a new recording of the Pearl Jam tune \"Can't Keep.\"",
"The album's first single \"Longing to Belong\" will be available in digital stores tomorrow.",
"RollingStone.com: Contest: Choose the cover of Rolling Stone .",
"\"Water on the Road,\" Vedder's first solo concert film, was directed by Brendan Canty of Fugazi and Christoph Green at a pair of shows in Washington, D.C. in August of 2008.",
"That set will include several songs from Vedder's soundtrack for the film \"Into the Wild\" along with early versions of \"Ukulele Songs\" tracks, covers and relatively obscure Pearl Jam numbers such as \"Sometimes,\" \"Driftin'\" and \"Around the Bend.\"",
"See the original article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Eddie Vedder performing songs with Cat Power and Glen Hansard .",
"The album's first single \"Longing to Belong\" will be available in digital stores tomorrow .",
"\"Water on the Road\" was directed by Brendan Canty of Fugazi and Christoph Green ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Former NBA guard Javaris Crittenton is wanted in connection with the murder of an Atlanta woman, authorities said Monday.",
"Crittenton, 23, of Fayetteville, Georgia, faces murder charges from the August 19 shooting of 22-year-old Julian Jones in Atlanta.",
"Jones suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at a hospital, the FBI said.",
"Authorities believe Jones was killed in a drive-by shooting involving a dark-colored SUV and an assault rifle.",
"The FBI said Crittenton probably is in Los Angeles with family and friends.",
"He purchased a one-way plane ticket to Los Angeles five days after the shooting.",
"He is also named in a federal arrest warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.",
"Crittenton, who played for Georgia Tech before going pro, was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2007 and then traded to the Memphis Grizzlies.",
"He was picked up by the Washington Wizards in December 2008 but was suspended and later released by the NBA in 2010 after a gun-related incident involving teammate Gilbert Arenas.",
"Crittenton's representatives could not be immediately reached for comment Monday."
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"Crittenton is accused of murdering a 22-year-old woman .",
"The FBI says the former NBA player has fled to avoid prosecution .",
"He is believed to be in Los Angeles ."
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"Rome (CNN) -- Two inmates testified Saturday that Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of murder in Italy, was not actually involved in the killing of her roommate.",
"But they offered two different accounts on who the actual killers were.",
"Three other inmates testified as well.",
"Knox was sentenced last year to 26 years in prison for the death of Meredith Kercher at a house the two shared in Perugia, the central Italian town where both were students.",
"Knox has vehemently proclaimed her innocence and her family has continued to fight the conviction.",
"Two hours of legal wrangling between attorneys passed before the judge decided to allow inmates Mario Alessi and Luciano Aviello to testify.",
"Alessi is serving a life sentence for kidnapping and killing an 18-month-old boy.",
"Alessi testified that Rudy Guede, who has also been convicted in Kercher's murder and is serving a 16-year sentence, told him that neither Knox nor her Italian boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, were involved in the killing.",
"Later in the day, Aviello, who has ties to the Naples Mafia, testified that it was his brother who was the killer, together with an Albanian man.",
"According to Alessi, Guede said that he and an unnamed friend visited Kercher to try to get her to participate in sexual acts.",
"When Kercher denied them, Guede's friend forced himself on her, and Guede also participated, Alessi said.",
"At one point, the friend pulled out a knife, and then Guede, who was holding Kercher at the time, noticed she had started bleeding, Alessi testified.",
"Alessi told the court that Guede tried to stop the bleeding, but that his friend urged him to leave.",
"\"We need to finish her otherwise she will tell on us,\" Alessi quoted the friend as telling Guede.",
"The friend then proceeded to inflict another wound on her, Alessi testified.",
"Alessi said Guede remained by himself with Kercher for a while, but eventually left her injured.",
"Prosecutors and the lawyer for Kercher's family questioned the validity of Alessi's testimony.",
"Through his lawyers, Guede denied Alessi's version of events.",
"During his testimony, Aviello gave a different account.",
"Aviello said that on the night of the killing, his brother came home with scratches and other wounds.",
"As Aviello tended to the wounds, his brother confessed to him that he had killed Kercher, he said.",
"According to Aviello, his brother said that he and an Albanian man entered the residence to steal a painting, and in the act ended up killing the girl.",
"Aviello said he hasn't seen his brother in three years.",
"\"Inside me I know that a miscarriage of justice has taken place,\" Aviello said of Knox and Sollecito's conviction.",
"Prosecutors questioned his credibility and Aviello admitted that he has been convicted of defamation seven times.",
"The appeals process will continue June 27, when Guede is expected to testify.",
"In an additional twist Saturday, another inmate who the defense put on the stand to verify Alessi's version of events, testified that he, in fact, did not know anything about who carried out the killings.",
"Even though his cell was adjacent to Alessi's and Guede's, the inmate was Romanian and didn't know what they discussed, he said.",
"Another witness Saturday was Marco Castelluccio, a Mafia member who testified from behind a screen because he is a protected witness.",
"Castelluccio said that he also heard from Guede that Knox had nothing to do with the crime.",
"Kercher, 21, was found dead on November 2, 2007, seminaked with her throat slashed.",
"Knox and Sollecito were both found guilty of the murder.",
"Knox was sentenced in December 2009.",
"Guede, a drifter originally from Ivory Coast, was tried separately.",
"As part of her appeal, forensic experts are retesting evidence that was used to convict Knox.",
"That evidence includes a knife found in Sollecito's apartment with Knox's DNA on the handle and what Perugia prosecutors say is Kercher's DNA in a tiny groove on the blade.",
"The prosecution contends that the knife was used to stab Kercher in the neck and that it had been cleaned.",
"The DNA matter attributed to Kercher consists of flesh, not blood, they say.",
"The sample, however, was so small that forensic scientists investigating Kercher's murder were not able to double-test it in accordance with international forensic science norms, which Knox's legal team says raises doubts about its validity.",
"The second piece of evidence the forensic experts are testing is the tiny metal clasp from Kercher's bra, which was cut from her body after her slaying.",
"Forensic scientists in the investigatory phase determined that Sollecito's DNA is present on the metal clasp.",
"The clasp was identified on an investigatory video the same day Kercher's body was found.",
"But it was not collected until nearly six weeks later, giving the defense cause to question whether the sample may have been contaminated."
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"(CNN Student News) -- April 5, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Japan • Atlanta, Georgia .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: You're locked in for 10 minutes of commercial-free news headlines!",
"My name is Carl Azuz, it is Tuesday, April 5th and CNN Student News is up and running.",
"First Up: Change in Plan .",
"AZUZ: The Obama Administration announced yesterday afternoon, that five suspected 9/11 terrorists will get military trials at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"Here's why that's significant: before he won the 2008 election, candidate Obama promised he'd close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.",
"And his Justice Department said the terrorism suspects would be tried in civilian courts -- not by military tribunals.",
"Most Americans didn't want those suspects tried in civilian courts.",
"When Attorney General Eric Holder announced the trials at Guantanamo, he criticized Congress for restricting the Justice Department's ability to prosecute the five suspects.",
"Plane Investigation .",
"AZUZ: Hundreds of flights aboard Southwest Airlines have been canceled over the past few days.",
"It's because one of its Boeing-737 passenger jets had a problem on Friday: this.",
"A hole measuring five feet long and one foot wide.",
"It opened up over passengers' heads on a flight from Phoenix, Arizona to Sacramento, California.",
"The pilots made an emergency landing in Yuma, Arizona, and no one was seriously injured.",
"Southwest grounded 79 of its planes to check them out afterward.",
"The model with the problem is an older one.",
"One that's not made anymore.",
"Southwest found indications of cracks in three other aircraft while dozens of others have been inspected and returned to the flight line.",
"Air France Mystery .",
"AZUZ: It's not known exactly what caused the crash of an Air France jet two years ago, though.",
"Flight 447 was traveling from Paris to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, when it went down in the southern Atlantic ocean.",
"That was on June first, 2009.",
"And until recently, large parts of the plane had not been found.",
"On Monday, though, a French government minister said search teams located this: what's believed to be the wreckage of the Airbus 330 plane.",
"The 228 people aboard were killed in the crash.",
"And even if the flight data recorder is located, it's possible it won't be working anymore because of corrosion and water pressure.",
"This area of the Atlantic typically has rough and quickly changing weather.",
"Japan Radiation Fears .",
"AZUZ: This is a shot of radioactive water leaking from one of Japan's damaged nuclear reactors.",
"It's spilling into the Pacific Ocean.",
"Japanese workers have tried a couple different methods to stop this leak; nothing has worked yet.",
"But because so much water has been used to prevent a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials say they have no choice but to intentionally dump millions of gallons, into the sea.",
"They're hoping a planned silt fence will keep radioactive material from spreading into the ocean.",
"This is just one of the major problems caused by Japan's March 11th earthquake and tsunami -- it killed more than 12,000 people; more than 15,000 are still missing.",
"And Kyung Lah explains how concerns about nuclear contamination are reaching far beyond Japan.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KYUNG LAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: What does this toy monkey have to do with the crisis of the Fukushima nuclear plant?",
"Nothing. But Sven Kilian is still scanning with a Geiger counter.",
"SVEN KILIAN, JAPANTRENDSHOP.COM: It's 0.13 microsievert.",
"LAH: All of his toys and gadgets at Japan trend shop.com.",
"There's a notice on his company's home page to his international customers stating the nuclear crisis has no connection to his exports.",
"KILIAN: People just scared.",
"I understand this. So we just want to prove to everybody and show you don't need to be scared.",
"LAH: But many are afraid.",
"As news reports show countries like Thailand testing Japanese food exports.",
"Hong Kong, screening passengers from Japan for radiation.",
"In the United States, inspectors have picked up traces of radiation from the Fukushima plant on both coasts, including milk in Washington state.",
"None have found dangerous levels of radiation but the headlines add up to a fear of products dubbed made in Japan.",
"Public sentiment does have a real impact on the economy.",
"Japan watchers say in this case, it's an impact that will be felt for some time to come.",
"WILLIAM SAITO, ADVISOR TO JAPANESE GOVERNMENT: This is going to be a measurable impact.",
"And some industries and some companies will not survive.",
"LAH: William Saito is an advisor to Japan's government on the economic fallout of the Fukushima and tsunami crises.",
"Saito believes high-tech, nameless parts to go into vehicles and popular electronics, won't be impacted due to radiation fears.",
"But given a choice between a brand dubbed made in Japan versus another country, consumers will not choose Japan.",
"SAITO: I think that consumer sentiment and going forward, things like this, once they make the decision.",
"It's hard to change, at least for a generation.",
"And this will affect buying habits.",
"LAH: Sven Kilian has this plea to global consumers.",
"KILIAN: Continue buying stuff.",
"This is what helps us in Japan.",
"It doesn't help us if everyone stops buying and panicking now, for no reason.",
"Just makes the economy worse and doesn't help anything.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"Which word best describes someone who currently holds an elected office?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Lobbyist, B) Constituent, C) Nominee or D) Incumbent?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"D is the answer here -- an incumbent already holds political office.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"2012 Bid . AZUZ: The incumbent president is officially running for re-election.",
"He made that announcement yesterday when filing papers with the Federal Election Commission -- something every presidential candidate, even an incumbent, must do.",
"No Republican candidates have done that yet, though several are doing research and visiting voters nationwide.",
"Nicole Collins explains why the president's announcement came in April, 2011 for an election that isn't 'til November, 2012.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) NICOLE COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The 2012 presidential election begins with this.",
"UNKNOWN: Here it is 2012 the election.",
"COLLINS: A video posted on barackobama.com in which President Obama does not appear and an email from him to his supporters that reads.",
"\"...as my administration and folks across the country fight to protect the progress we've made and make more we also need to begin mobilizing for 2012, long before the time comes for me to begin campaigning in earnest.",
"The president wrote that his campaign would file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission a crucial step that allows him to begin fundraising.",
"The president's early start on his bid for re-election is a move democrats hope will allow him to reach the unprecedented fundraising goal of one billion dollars.",
"The Republican National Committee issued its own web ad in response to the president's announcement.",
"UNKNOWN: We need jobs.",
"We need leadership.",
"Yet, you do nothing as we pile up debts we can't afford.",
"COLLINS: A sentiment echoed by republicans on Capitol Hill amid an ongoing, contentious budget battle.",
"SENATOR JOHN CORNYN, (R) TEXAS: You see the president really, you know, M-I-A., and you see him planning his announcement for his re-election bid.",
"It's kind of like, where are your priorities?",
"This has to be the nation's number one priority at this point, because debt is a national security problem.",
"COLLINS: No republicans have officially announced a bid for the white house but several have made a steady stream of appearances in key early voting states.",
"In Washington, Nicole Collins for CNN Student News.",
"(END VIDEO) Is This Legit?",
"CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is This Legit?",
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Totally true.",
"Martin Luther King was named \"Michael Luther King Jr.\" when he was born in Atlanta in 1929.",
"Remembering Dr. King .",
"AZUZ: And Americans gathered at several locations in Atlanta yesterday to remember the civil rights leader.",
"It was the 43rd anniversary of the day that Dr. King was assassinated.",
"Members of his family were scheduled to lay a wreath at his tomb in Atlanta.",
"Other events included a ceremony hosted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which Dr. King and his followers organized in the late 1950s.",
"He was at a Memphis hotel when he was killed on April 4th, 1968 -- almost five years after he delivered his famous \"I have a dream speech\" and four years after Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Daily Email Promo .",
"AZUZ: You already know that CNN Student News is awesome.",
"But know this too: You can get advance notice on what we're covering each day!",
"It's every bit as free as our show.",
"All you have to do is sign up for our daily e-mail at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Go to our home page and just scroll down to the \"How Do I\" box, clicking on \"Sign up for the daily email.\"",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, one word: Boater-cross!",
"We realize this is gonna require some explanation, so here you go.",
"Ski slope plus kayak plus pool plus hypothermia?",
"Don't fall in; the water's not great!",
"But the event is a Colorado ski resort's way to show the season is coming to an end with a speeding, slicing, sledding, splash-down!",
"It's a unique way to illustrate the switch from ski season, to kayaking, biking and fishing season.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: And it allows people to do a little show-boating, before they go boating -- and feature what snow kayaking is all a-boat.",
"We're a-boat out of time, but we'll pool our resources and paddle back with a new program tomorrow.",
"You're gonna love it! See ya then."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama took to the Spanish-language network airwaves Monday to discuss challenges in educating Hispanics students.",
"In a Univision-sponsored town hall meeting with Hispanic students and educators at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, the president said to out-educate and out-innovate the global competition, the Latino community must play a key role in the future.",
"\"Our workforce is going to be more diverse; it is going to be, to a large percentage, Latino.",
"And if our young people are not getting the kind of education they need, we won't succeed as a nation,\" Obama said.",
"With several students and parents asking questions about immigration and deportations, Obama said the answer wouldn't be overnight.",
"He hoped the DREAM Act, which would give kids who have grown up in the United States an opportunity to earn citizenship despite their family's immigration status, would be passed in the future.",
"\"We didn't get it passed this time, but I don't want young people to be giving up because if people in the past had given up, we probably wouldn't have women's rights, we wouldn't have civil rights.",
"So many changes that we've made had to do with young people being willing to struggle and fight to make sure that their voices are heard,\" said Obama.",
"Carrie Cofer, an English teacher at Lincoln-West High School in Cleveland, says one challenge she faces with her Hispanic students is that they haven't been in the United States long enough to become proficient in English.",
"Although they only read at the \"first-grade, or second-grade level,\" Cofer and other teachers are supposed to teach them the material they will need to pass state-mandated tests in order to graduate from high school and possibly attend college.",
"It doesn't help that many of the students don't speak English at home.",
"\"They don't have the skills because they don't practice except in the classroom,\" she said.",
"Obama said that strong programs, including both bilingual education and immersion programs, are key to making sure bilingual students keep up with their studies while becoming fluent in English.",
"He said that it's up to both schools and parents.",
"\"We have schools that do it very well; there are some schools that don't do it as well.",
"We want to lift up those models that do it well,\" the president said.",
"\"And parents should be demanding and insisting that even if your child is not a native English speaker, there is no reason why they can't succeed in school, and schools have an obligation to make sure that those children are provided for.",
"They have rights just like everybody else.\"",
"Latino students make up over 20% of the pre-kindergarten-through-high-school students in the United States, Secretary of the Education Arne Duncan said in a conference call with reporters last week.",
"\"These students face real and growing challenges that we have to address.\"",
"Duncan said that only about half of all Latino students earn their high school diploma on time, and only one in eight end up with a bachelor's degree.",
"The problems faced by Latinos in high school are unique, said Juan Sepulveda of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.",
"\"We have a small percentage of the population that has a college degree,\" said Sepulveda.",
"\"Even if you throw in community college degrees, we only get up to 19%.\"",
"Sepulveda said these students are often the first in their family to go to college, suggesting school officials need to target parents to make sure they understand what courses their children need to take to get into college and how student loans work.",
"CNN's Sally Holland contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A Royal Wedding: The Marriage of William and Catherine.",
"CNN will provide extensive live coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton to its global audiences across TV, online and on mobile.",
"A special live program will be presented by Piers Morgan, Richard Quest, Anderson Cooper, Kiran Chetry and special contributor Cat Deeley on CNN/U.S.",
"and CNN International.",
"Watch as the guests arrive at London's Westminster Abbey, where the couple will be married before traveling along the parade route to Buckingham Palace.",
"Our coverage begins at 4 a.m.",
"ET, 9 a.m. London, 4 p.m. Hong Kong.",
"If you are not in front of a TV, you can watch the event live on CNN.com.",
"Within the live video player you can also be part of the debate on Facebook and iReport.",
"And if you miss it first time, don't worry, we will be repeating the whole event on CNN.com throughout Friday.",
"You will also be able to watch live via the CNN apps for iPhone and iPod touch, iPad and Android.",
"The actual wedding ceremony in London's Westminster Abbey beings at the following times: .",
"3 a.m. in Los Angeles 6 a.m. in New York 10 a.m. GMT 11 a.m. in London 12 noon in Paris 2 p.m. in Abu Dhabi, UAE 6 p.m. in Hong Kong 8 p.m. in Sydney .",
"Watch live coverage of the wedding on CNN/U.S.",
"_______________________________________ . CNN Presents: The Women Who Would Be Queen .",
"A prince looking for love.",
"A commoner destined to be queen.",
"One family hoping to get it right this time around.",
"All haunted by memories of a fairytale turned tragedy.",
"A young girl thrust into the international spotlight, her world under a microscope, her life in danger.",
"Will this time be different?",
"Anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien looks at the life of Catherine Middleton, the woman who will someday become Queen of the United Kingdom.",
"Featured in the documentary are Jules Knight, close friend of the couple from the origins of their fairytale romance during their university days at St. Andrews, and Arthur Edwards, longtime royal photographer, who has chronicled the princes' entire lives during his 30-year career at England's The Sun newspaper.",
"Edwards has captured the princes' childhoods, how they've coped with the tragic loss of their mother, and their transition into manhood.",
"The documentary also explores the ways in which the future King and Queen have honored the life and legacy of Diana, Princess of Wales.",
"On CNN/U.S. Saturday, April 30 CNN/U.S.",
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"On CNN International Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 CNN International TV schedule .",
"Missed an episode?",
"Watch online. _______________________________________ ."
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"The event will also be streamed on CNN apps for iPhone, iPad and Android .",
"Look out for \"CNN Presents: The Woman who would be Queen,\" a revealing look at Kate Middleton's fairytale romance hosted by Soledad O'Brien ."
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"(CNN) -- On December 15, 2001, Pakistani border troops came across some 30 al Qaeda fighters in a mountain pass.",
"They had fled the U.S. bombardment of Tora Bora, Osama bin Laden's last stronghold in Afghanistan.",
"The group turned out to be members of the al Qaeda leader's security detail, and U.S. intelligence swiftly dubbed them the \"Dirty Thirty.\"",
"They were transferred to U.S. custody in Kandahar and then moved to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba early in 2002.",
"It soon transpired most of the \"Dirty Thirty\" were from Yemen, a country where al Qaeda has an even greater presence today than it did before 9/11.",
"Analysis of many profiles of Guantanamo detainees suggest that becoming a member of al Qaeda in Yemen in the late 1990s was relatively easy, which may explain why (after Afghans and Saudis) Yemenis comprised the third largest group held there.",
"The documents, compiled by the U.S. Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay, show that: .",
"-- A network of al Qaeda recruiters was able to operate in Yemen with virtual impunity.",
"-- Salafist religious institutes in Yemen influenced many to take up jihad and join bin Laden.",
"-- Many of the recruits had little education and few opportunities.",
"The documents were obtained by WikiLeaks and published this week.",
"Several religious institutes in Yemen were fertile al Qaeda recruiting grounds, according to the documents.",
"They included Al Khair Mosque in Sanaa, the Dammaj Institute in Sadah and the al Furqan Institute.",
"The founder of the Dammaj Institute, Sheikh Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi, is described in the documents as \"one of the most influential Yemeni Islamic leaders who preached and financed jihad.\"",
"(He was also an influence on bin Laden's thinking, but consistently opposed violence against other Muslims.)",
"From the Dammaj Institute, recruits were taken to a training camp in Yemen where they would learn assassination techniques and bomb-making.",
"Rarely did the Yemeni authorities interfere.",
"In fact, the documents suggest Yemeni officials could be bribed to provide medical releases and alter travel documents.",
"Recruiters also had money to assist with airline tickets.",
"Al Qaeda expands presence in Yemen .",
"One of the recruiters was Sharqawi Abdu Ali al-Hajj, a Yemeni who \"had access to the identities of many al Qaeda-related travelers and plausible knowledge of the detainees' travel times and locations,\" according to the documents.",
"Al-Wadi, who died in 2001, and other radical imams in Yemen also provided money to several of the jihadists who would end up among the \"Dirty Thirty.\"",
"Many of the young Yemenis who ended up in bin Laden's security detail were capable fighters but poorly educated.",
"Mohammad al-Ansi failed 11th grade three times and worked as a bus driver before turning to jihad.",
"Another detainee never made it past seventh grade, while Mahmud al-Mujahid finally got his high school diploma at 22.",
"Several had odd jobs and felt unable to support their families.",
"Frequently, recruitment into al Qaeda was a family affair.",
"Among those captured in that freezing mountain pass in Pakistan was a 21-year-old by the name of Uthman al-Rahim.",
"His brother was also an al Qaeda fighter and he allegedly had ties to several al Qaeda members responsible for the attack on the USS Cole in 1998.",
"Mahmud al-Mujahidand and his brother were both bodyguards to bin Laden.",
"2010: USS Cole crew praised at memorial .",
"The Yemeni recruits were given similar basic training before being deployed to the front near Kabul to fight against the Northern Alliance as members of al Qaeda's elite 55th Arab Brigade.",
"They later became bin Laden's bodyguards, according to the profiles.",
"The documents say several of the \"Dirty Thirty\" also took part in a close combat course that bin Laden used to select militants for special operations.",
"Some of the Yemenis were fast-tracked for advanced training.",
"Mohammed al Ansi would later train for an aborted al Qaeda operation in southeast Asia to hijack airliners and crash them into U.S. military bases in the region.",
"Bin Laden planned to use Yemenis in the operation because they could easily travel to the region, according to another detainee.",
"Others ran training camps or safe houses.",
"Hamza al-Qaiti was one; he was at large until 2008, when he was killed in Yemen.",
"The Guantanamo documents might be solely of historical interest were it not for Yemen's chronic instability today, and the growing presence of al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula in the provinces of Shabwa, Abyan and Hadramut.",
"Even though Yemeni security forces have stepped up operations against al Qaeda in the last year, U.S. officials describe al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula as the most effective operational arm of the group.",
"John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said in December the group was \"increasingly active\" in reaching out to find terrorist recruits, even in the United States, and was \"the most operationally active node of the al Qaeda network.\"",
"It was in Yemen that the alleged Detroit \"underwear\" bomber was recruited and trained in 2009.",
"Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula militants have killed dozens of Yemeni soldiers and police; earlier this month Islamist militants briefly occupied a town in southern Yemen and raided an ammunition factory.",
"The Guantanamo documents suggest that Yemen remains a recruiting ground for al Qaeda, with one written in 2008 saying Yemeni sheikhs \"continue to recruit Yemeni youth to participate in hostilities against U.S. and coalition forces.\"",
"That's perhaps why today so many Yemenis are left at Guantanamo.",
"The risk of sending them home to a volatile country with a history of jail breaks and a vibrant al Qaeda franchise is too great.",
"Of the 112 Yemenis taken to the detention center over the past nine years, nearly 90 are still there.",
"(The New York Times, which has seen all the Guantanamo documents, reports that 23 have been sent back to Yemen and two died in custody.)",
"Few of those left are likely to be leaving anytime soon."
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"(CNN) -- A 1-year-old child whose family fought a Canadian hospital over whether he should be allowed to die will likely have an operation to allow the insertion of a breathing tube by the end of the week, his new hospital said.",
"Joseph Maraachli, widely known in the media as Baby Joseph, is being evaluated by doctors at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in St. Louis, hospital spokesman Bob Davidson said.",
"The hospital had planned to have a press conference on Tuesday but canceled it \"because there is not yet a firm treatment plan,\" he said in a statement late Monday.",
"But the head of pediatrics at the hospital, Robert Wilmott, expects a tracheotomy to go ahead by the end of the week, the statement said.",
"A tracheotomy is a surgical procedure to create an opening into the airway through an incision in the neck.",
"A tube allows for suction of fluid out of the lungs, creates a safe and stable way to use a mechanical ventilator, and is more comfortable for the child, the statement said.",
"Joseph, who has a deteriorating neurological condition, was transferred to Cardinal Glennon Sunday from a hospital in London, Ontario.",
"Joseph, who was born in January 2010, had been in the care of the London Health Sciences Centre in Canada since October.",
"His doctor, in court papers, said that \"all cranial nerve functions are now absent\" and there is no hope for recovery.",
"He recommended that the infant's breathing tube be removed and he be allowed to die.",
"The child's parents, Moe and Sana Maraachli, sought instead to have their son receive a tracheotomy combined with continued mechanical ventilation so that he could be transferred home, where he would be cared for by his family.",
"The child's aunt, Samar Nadar, has said that in 2002 the Maraachlis' daughter died at home with a tracheotomy after suffering a similar condition.",
"In January, a Canadian Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the hospital, saying it could remove the child's breathing tube without a replacement, and issue a do-not-resuscitate order and recommendations on palliative care.",
"The Maraachlis fought to have their son relocated to a U.S hospital for a second opinion.",
"The hospital in Canada said it would not perform a tracheotomy because it is an invasive procedure typically recommended for patients who require a long-term breathing machine.",
"In a statement on the hospital's website, it says Joseph's transfer on Sunday happened \"despite the strongest possible medical advice to the contrary from medical experts.\"",
"The Maraachli case gained the attention of pro-life groups including Priests for Life and the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, who organized prayer vigils and rallies in support of the family.",
"In February, the hospital began receiving threats and increased security to protect its staff.",
"Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, flew to Ontario Sunday night to help with the transfer.",
"He issued a news release saying: \"After around-the-clock negotiations, this really became a race against time.\"",
"Joseph \"needs to be in a hospital that cherishes life over the bottom line,\" he said.",
"CNN Medical Producer Sabriya Rice contributed to this report."
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"\"Piers Morgan Tonight\" airs weeknights on CNN/US at 9 p.m.",
"ET and on CNN International at 0200 GMT (Live simulcast), 1200 GMT and 2000 GMT / HKT 2000 .",
"CNN -- \"I don't have any regrets,\" Larry Flynt tells CNN's Piers Morgan.",
"\"And I do feel that I've done a great deal to expand the parameters of free speech.\"",
"The \"Hustler\" magazine publisher, free speech advocate, and the man whom Morgan called \"America's king of porn\" will be a guest on Wednesday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"Flynt's new book, \"One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies, and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History,\" presents an in-depth study of the sex lives of U.S. presidents.",
"Flynt told Morgan that he reached out to Columbia University history professor David Eisenbach when he decided to write the book partly because \"nobody would want to read a history book written by a pornographer.\"",
"Flynt and Eisenbach's research uncovered facts about presidents that they themselves unearthed.",
"For example, the youngest-ever first lady was 19.",
"After Grover Cleveland's wife died during the campaign, he married his young nanny.",
"\"What does that mean, culturally speaking,\" asked Flynt.",
"\"Today we would not accept an 18 or 19-year-old girl as first lady.\"",
"When Morgan asked who the most sexually promiscuous president was, Flynt said it was a toss-up between Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy.",
"Morgan also asked if a rumor that Kennedy would have been disgraced in a year or so -- had he not been assassinated -- were true, Flynt said it was \"probably true.\"",
"In the book, Flynt refers to Bill Clinton as \"the loveable rogue\" because even though he lied, Clinton \"always wore it on his sleeve.",
"He didn't hide it like many of the conservative Republicans do.",
"So the nation was able to forgive him.\"",
"Sex scandals have been prevalent since the founding fathers established the United States Constitution.",
"Flynt pointed out that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, and first lady Dolly Madison \"almost single handedly turned the White House into a brothel.\"",
"Flynt also stated that \"most people are under the impression that if somebody is promiscuous that they can't be a good president.",
"There's nothing more ridiculous than that.\"",
"When Morgan asked whether \"most of the greatest American presidents would have been unfaithful,\" Flynt replied \"yes,\" to which Morgan observed \"there seems to be a link between naughty boys and good presidents.\"",
"Flynt was nearly assassinated in 1978 when he was shot outside a courthouse.",
"No one was ever charged in the shooting, but Flynt maintains the sniper was a white man upset about an interracial photo shoot published in \"Hustler.\"",
"Flynt remains partially paralyzed and uses a wheelchair.",
"Flynt told Morgan that he doesn't look back at that day and that when people ask him what being in a wheelchair is like, he tells them he \"wouldn't have even thought about it\" had they not mentioned it.",
"Morgan also asked Flynt why the issue of freedom of speech means so much to him.",
"\"Freedom of speech is not freedom for the fellow you love,\" answered Flynt.",
"\"It's freedom for the fellow you hate the most.",
"And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble.",
"And that's what Americans tend to forget.",
"And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.\"",
"\"When I first started out,\" continued Flynt, \"I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater.",
"Well, I think you can.\"",
"Morgan asked Flynt what his preferred news headline would be following his death, \"Larry Flynt, pornographer,\" \"Larry Flynt, free speech campaigner,\" or \"Larry Speech, lifelong controversialist.\"",
"Flynt told Morgan he wanted something \"much bigger than that.",
"I always felt Moses freed the Jews, Lincoln freed the slaves, and I wanted to free all the neurotics.",
"And I realized in the process that I've helped millions of people get through puberty.",
"I think that's a great accomplishment.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"(CNET) -- Its shape and feature set will be familiar to anyone who's seen other Pavilion dv6000 series laptops, but the Special Edition HP Pavilion dv6985se stands out for two reasons.",
"First, its upscale design includes an eye-catching, copper-colored lid and silver interior, both bearing a faint imprint that looks like etching.",
"The other special feature: a 12-cell battery that provided one of the longest battery lives we've seen in CNET Labs.",
"Otherwise, the Pavilion dv6985se is a fairly typical mainstream laptop, with a decent feature set and strong performance.",
"Of course, the features that make the Pavilion dv6985se special are also its downside.",
"That extra battery does add weight, and the flashy design certainly isn't for everyone (though we happen to love it).",
"Users who want something more portable or more subdued should look to the Sony Vaio NR498, which offers similar performance and features (but lacks multimedia controls) for a slightly lower price.",
"Or you could scrap the 15-inch size entirely and go for a 14-inch model like the Gateway T-6836 or the Sony Vaio CR510.",
"The Pavilion dv6815se's shape is essentially the same as the Pavilion dv6915nr we reviewed earlier this summer.",
"The \"Special Edition\" designation, however, warrants a spiffy new color scheme; in the case of the Pavilion dv6985se, that means a shiny copper-colored lid and display bezel with a silver keyboard deck and keys.",
"Both the lid and wrist-rest incorporate a subtle imprint design of narrow stripes that morph into organic shapes reminiscent of Art Nouveau; the pattern even extends across the touch pad.",
"The overall effect is very appealing--certainly more expensive-looking than its actual price (more so when you factor in Best Buy currently offers it with a $100 discount)--but also seems destined to look slightly dated by the time you graduate.",
"The Pavilion dv6985se we reviewed differs from its siblings in one other significant way: the laptop includes a bulky 12-cell battery that raises the back of the system an inch and contributes to its hefty 6.6-pound weight.",
"(With HP's standard Pavilion battery, the system would weigh closer to 6 pounds--but a smaller battery isn't an option on this fixed configuration.)",
"The extra juice will come in handy when cranking out term papers, but you probably won't enjoy carrying the laptop to the library.",
"The 15.4-inch wide-screen display on the HP Pavilion dv6985se has a typical 1,280x800 native resolution, which is standard for a screen this size.",
"The screen's glossy finish produces rich colors and contrast; we found it minimally distracting while surfing the Web and typing e-mail but quite enjoyable for watching movies.",
"A 1.3-megapixel Webcam above the display lets users conduct video chats.",
"Typing was comfortable on the Pavilion dv6985se's nearly full-size keyboard.",
"The wide touch pad includes a scroll zone, and we love the on/off button above the pad, which is handy when you want to use an external mouse or just type without worrying about misplacing the cursor.",
"Above the keyboard sits a row of light-touch controls to launch HP's QuickPlay media player, control disc playback, and adjust volume.",
"Perhaps to maintain the laptop's polished aesthetic, HP left off the handy port labels found on the keyboard deck of nearly every other Pavilion laptop.",
"The HP Pavilion dv6985se includes most of the ports and connections we'd expect to see on a laptop of its size, though the Sony Vaio NR498 does manage to squeeze one more USB port into its similar footprint.",
"(We have a feeling a USB port was jettisoned to make room for the HP Expansion Port, which lets you connect to an HP docking station.)",
"The HP also lacks Bluetooth, which is surprising given its otherwise upscale bent.",
"We do like the Pavilion's dual headphone jacks, which make it easy to share movies and music with friends.",
"We're less impressed with the Altec Lansing stereo speakers, which are loud and clear but produce too-treble sound.",
"The retail-only Pavilion dv6985se comes in a single fixed configuration that includes a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor--part of Intel's previous-generation Centrino platform and the standard for mainstream systems--plus a generous 4GB of RAM.",
"Paired with 64-bit Windows Vista, that 4GB of RAM gave the Pavilion dv6985se a notable boost on our Photoshop CS3 benchmark, where the first three spots among Back-to-School systems went to 64-bit-equipped laptops.",
"Otherwise, the Pavilion dv6985se performed admirably on CNET Labs' benchmarks, showing enough multitasking and processing oomph for all your scholarly pursuits (and diversions).",
"As mentioned above, the HP Pavilion dv6985se includes a massive 12-cell battery that adds significant weight to the system.",
"But it just might be worth schlepping around: it ran for 5 hours and 17 minutes on CNET Labs' video playback drain test.",
"That's one of the lengthiest battery scores we've seen, and bests all our other mainstream Back-to-School systems, which featured six-cell batteries, by nearly 2 hours.",
"Our video playback battery drain test is especially grueling, so you can expect even longer life from casual Web surfing and office use.",
"HP backs the Pavilion dv6985se with an industry-standard one-year warranty.",
"Toll-free telephone support is available 24-7 during your warranty period, and the HP support Web site includes real-time chat with a tech representative.",
"If you want to troubleshoot problems yourself, you can search through the site's thorough FAQ database.",
"© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"Motherboard.tv is Vice's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology.",
"The reports, which are being produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (Motherboard.tv) -- Video game pioneer Richard Garriott resides in a castle-like mansion outside of Austin, Texas, that would be the fantasy dwelling for any grown-up kid.",
"But his favorite place to live is a five-bedroom fixer-upper some 250 miles up.",
"In 2008, Garriott parlayed his success in the video game industry into a lifelong dream: to fly to the International Space Station.",
"\"Literally, throughout my entire professional career, I've been investing in the privatization of space,\"says Garriott.",
"\"Helping to unlock the gates of private space travel.\"",
"Life back on Earth is far from boring for Lord British, as he's known to video game fanatics the world over.",
"Over the years, he's amassed a spectacular array of toys, ranging from medieval weapons to a fully-functional observatory dome.",
"Britannia Manor, Garriott's haunted house/amusement park residence in Austin is a veritable shrine to discovery, teeming with sentimental and inventive nods to the importance of science and curiosity.",
"In 2009, Motherboard producer Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza traveled to Garriott's home to learn how his whimsical yet inherently scientific modus operandi is helping to usher in a new generation of exploration.",
"Not to mention, securing his seat as \"nerd par excellence\" for brandishing an impressive collection of rare and unreleased versions of \"The Lord of the Rings\" series.",
"So jealous. Garriott is perhaps most famous for developing the seminal video game series, \"Ultima\"and coining the term Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, or MMORPG, under his Lord British moniker.",
"His success as a game developer earned him a stately fortune, with which he had long hoped to become the first private citizen to go to space.",
"He wasn't the first -- the burst of the dot-com bubble led Garriott to sell his spot to Dennis Tito.",
"Garriott would become the sixth private citizen to reach space, a distinction held only by a handful of people, including engineer and first self-funded woman and Iranian citizen in space, Anousheh Ansari and entrepreneur/philanthropist/poker player Guy Lalibert.",
"But don't call them space tourists -- they're \"spaceflight participants\" who've paid millions and spent years in training (and learning Russian) in preparation for orbit.",
"See the rest of \"Richard Garriott A.K.A.",
"Lord British\" Garriott's salad days were spent nearby Texas' Johnson Space Center, where his father, scientist and early space shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott was stationed.",
"He grew up in a community of astronauts and rocket scientists, nurturing his belief that space would become a common destination for everyone -- sooner rather than later.",
"With the space shuttle program gearing up for its last two scheduled flights, Garriott has become an ambassador of the next monumental relationship between mankind and the cosmos -- the privatization of space.",
"When the space shuttle program does finally end in June, leaving behind an exciting 30-year history, some of NASA's facilities will be turned over to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the leading contender in an industry poised to help NASA send astronauts and materials to the ISS.",
"Meanwhile, an important corollary to missions contracted by the government are those with more regal intentions, such as Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, which aims to offer sub-orbital spaceflights to anyone who can shell out $200,000 for a flight.",
"Somewhere in between this new spectrum of chartered space flight sits pioneers like Garriott, who is showing that even without NASA's support, everyone should get excited outer space, and have a chance to get there too."
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"Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- The final autopsy report on a San Diego State exchange student whose body was pulled from a Madrid river last March indicates an accidental drowning death with no signs of external violence, a Spanish court official said on Tuesday.",
"The student, Austin Taylor Bice, 22, was studying a semester of business courses at the University of Carlos III in Madrid when he went missing after a night out with friends.",
"He was last seen outside a nightclub on the banks of Madrid's Manzanares River.",
"Ten days later, on March 8, police pulled his body from the river.",
"\"There was nothing found in the body that would indicate external factors in the death.",
"There were no wounds on the body,\" said the official from Madrid's Superior Justice Tribunal.",
"He spoke on the customary condition of anonymity.",
"He said the autopsy also showed a \"high level\" of alcohol in the blood.",
"A Madrid judge has kept the case, which is confidential by law, open for further investigation.",
"There was no immediate word on when it might be closed definitively, the official said.",
"After his disappearance, Bice's friends quickly organized a campaign to put up posters of him around Madrid, which read \"Missing.",
"Austin Taylor Bice.",
"U.S. citizen, 22, 1.95 meters tall and 100 kilograms\" (6 feet, 5 inches and 220 pounds), and Spanish and U.S. media reported on the search.",
"Bice's father Larry, an accountant, rushed to Madrid from San Diego to search for his son and met several times with Spanish and U.S. authorities.",
"The family hired private investigators, at first to try to find the student, and later, after his body was recovered, to try to determine what happened, the elder Bice told CNN.",
"At the time of the search, a family member told CNN in Madrid that contrary to initial reports, Bice was not refused entry to the nightclub by doormen and was not drunk, although \"he had a few beers.\"",
"Instead, he just decided to go home.",
"On March 8, when police recovered the body, an initial visual inspection did not indicate any signs of violence, Madrid officials said at the time.",
"The U.S.-based Institute of International Education said that in 2007, Spain was the third most popular destination worldwide for Americans studying abroad, after the United Kingdom and Italy.",
"It said there were about 17,000 American students in Spain.",
"The University of Carlos III, where Bice was studying, has 18,000 students, of whom 1,500 are from abroad, including about 220 Americans, Carlos Lopez Terradas, the school's head of international relations, told CNN in early March."
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"(CNN) -- Three workers were killed in an explosion and fire near an oil well in eastern Wyoming on Monday morning.",
"Samson Resources Company, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based oil and gas company, confirmed the accident in Converse County, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m. No other details of the accident were available.",
"Local emergency teams responded to bring the fire under control.",
"All three workers were contract personnel, the company said in a statement.",
"It has several oil wells in Wyoming.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those who died in this accident,\" said Phil Schmucker, senior vice president of operations for Samson.",
"\"Samson will work closely with federal, state and local officials to assist with the investigation of this tragic incident and will work with the combined team to provide updates on the situation as the investigation continues.\""
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"(CNN) -- The Norse god of thunder makes his big-screen debut in the latest Marvel movie, the first of three heading our way this summer.",
"Portents are good for future developments, but director Kenneth Branagh makes heavy weather of the back story.",
"If you're not up on your Viking mythology, Thor is the guy with the hammer and the tempestuous temper.",
"In Stan Lee's resurrection, his father, Odin, punished Thor's recklessness by condemning him to a double life as Dr. Donald Blake, a physician who would pick up the cudgel when evil threatened mankind.",
"The movie gives us a brand new deity who is also a bit of both.",
"The story teeter-totters between the exiled Thor crash-landing in New Mexico -- where he's immediately run over by Natalie Portman's storm-chasing astrophysicist, Jane -- and Asgard, where he vies with half-brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to vanquish the Ice Giants (not a hockey team) and win the respect of their father (Anthony Hopkins, gamely trying to inject some Lear-like gravitas while modeling an eye patch and several bespoke bronze helmets).",
"An unholy combination of a Vegas penthouse and Disney palazzo, Asgard is a computer-generated Valhalla with gold fixtures and diaphanous walls revealing Hubblesque views of the cosmos.",
"A vast waterfall drains out into space, and an electric highway allows the gods to drop in on any of the nine realms, one of which is Earth.",
"The stereoscopic scenery is impressive, but the screenwriters have a tin ear for god-speak, settling for something between Shakespeare and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.",
"Presumably this is why Marvel turned the reins over to Ken Branagh, whose credentials include \"Hamlet,\" \"Henry V\" and \"Much Ado About Nothing.\"",
"Branagh has a penchant for back-slapping bluster and bravado, as well as the kind of kinky camera-angles that make you wonder if someone's tripod has lost a leg -- which pretty well describes the movie's exhaustingly lop-sided first act.",
"\"Thor\" is on much safer ground here on Earth.",
"The tone is immediately different: more relaxed; comic, not cosmic, as Jane and her colleagues (a wisecracking Kat Dennings and mistrustful Stellan Skarsgard) figure out whether the blond muscle man who fell to Earth is a lunatic or a miracle.",
"In this incarnation, Thor has lost his power tool -- the hammer affectionately known as Mjolnir -- but he has kept his wits about him and takes his new circumstances in his stride.",
"iReport: \"Natalie Portman should give her Oscar back\" Beefy Australian newcomer Chris Hemsworth seems to be channeling the young Branagh in his portrait of an impetuous, gallant alpha male, burning to be king.",
"There's no finesse in the performance, but broad strokes are all it takes; the other actors just bounce off him, and the movie finds its sense of fun.",
"But it never settles for long.",
"All the substantial plotting takes place on the astral plane in Asgard.",
"The New Mexico episodes feel like a sideshow.",
"iReport: Fans rave for \"Thor\" In essence another plank in the elaborate foundation work for the forthcoming \"Avengers\" movie, what \"Thor\" sorely lacks is a center of gravity.",
"On the other hand, it is as spectacular as $150 million can buy and very much at the milder end of the PG-13 spectrum.",
"It should hook legions of kids, who can look forward to years more Thor -- probably bigger and better -- in the future."
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"(WIred) -- Have you been wondering if that new 4G smartphone you purchased is really getting 4G speeds?",
"Wonder no longer.",
"RootMetrics performed an extensive study to determine how each network's 4G speeds are holding up to their claims.",
"The testing was performed across the Seattle area.",
"Their findings showed that Verizon's LTE network performed at a 100 percent data-success rate.",
"Its average data speeds were between four and 14.5 times faster than competitors, and average upload speeds were between 4.7 and 49.3 times faster.",
"The phone models tested included the HTC Thunderbolt (Verizon), HTC Inspire (AT&T), HTC Evo (Sprint) and Samsung Galaxy S (T-Mobile).",
"RootMetrics' CEO Paul Griff said that the smartphone model and its hardware had very little to do with 4G performance -- that performance is almost all network related.",
"Wired has previously broken down what each carrier means by 4G, and what speeds should be expected from each service.",
"Verizon's LTE network promises speeds of 5-12 Mbps down and 1-5 Mbps up; AT&T's HSPA+ network should provide 6 Mbps down (and they plan to upgrade to LTE in 2011); Sprint's WiMax technology promises an average of 3-6 Mbps down and 0.6-1.4 Mbps up; and T-Mobile's HSPA+ is supposed to provide 5-10 Mbps down.",
"AT&T has reportedly been capping 4G speeds on Android handsets, but this has not been definitively verified.",
"Over in Oakland, California, the folks at TechnoBuffalo decided to perform a 4G speed test of their own using the HTC Inspire and Thunderbolt.",
"Using SpeedTest.net's services and the phones' Wi-Fi hotspot modes, they discovered median speeds of 8.85 Mbps down and 3.68 up on Verizon's LTE network, and 2.16 Mbps down and .16 up on AT&T's HSPA+ service -- on par with RootMetrics' results.",
"RootMetrics was careful to point out that merely achieving high data speeds doesn't mean much unless it happens on a regular basis, though.",
"It found that Verizon's 4G download speeds were greater than 10 Mbps about 90 percent of the time, and their upload speeds were between 5 and 10 Mbps 100 percent of the time.",
"And Verizon's average upload speeds were faster than every other carrier's average download speeds by 37 percent.",
"A graph of how often each 4G service achieved a certain range of download speeds (from 0-500 Kbps to greater than 10 Mbps) shows Verizon dominating the high end, AT&T spending most of its time in the lower half, and Sprint and T-Mobile's services ranging widely throughout.",
"How will AT&T and T-Mobile's recently announced merger affect their 4G services?",
"That's yet to be seen. \"Our results stand alone and provide interesting context around consumer data experience for both carrier's networks in the Seattle area,\" said a representative from RootMetrics.",
"Until it is known how and if the two carriers will combine their networks, it's difficult to say how the merger will affect their future 4G service.",
"But it's safe to say, unless it's LTE, it won't hold a candle to Verizon's network.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own.",
"The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music.",
"The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan.",
"The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave.",
"In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal.",
"But if the past ten years haven't exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction.",
"Musicians and audiences alike have struggled to come to terms with rock's parameters and possibilities, its emotional resonance and often dormant social consciousness.",
"Rolling Stone's Original 1980 Review .",
"The following survey of the 100 best albums of the Eighties, as selected by the editors of Rolling Stone, shows that the music and the values it stands for have been richer for the struggle.",
"Punks got older and more articulate in their frustration and rage, while many veteran artists responded to that movement's challenge with their most vital work in years.",
"And rap transformed the face -- and voice -- of popular music.",
"The first 10 entries here span the Clash's polyglot punk, Prince's crossover funkadelica, Afro-bop from Talking Heads and Paul Simon and hymns of innocence and experience by U2 and Tracy Chapman.",
"Further down the list, old-timers like Dylan, the Stones and Lou Reed hit new highs; Public Enemy and Run-D.M.C.",
"kicked out some serious streetwise jams; Metallica and Guns n' Roses established new hard-rock beachheads; and Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth and the Replacements offered definitive statements of postpunk angst.",
"The embarrassment of riches on this list is all the more remarkable, since arthritic radio programming, corporate sponsorship and outbursts of racism and sexism in rap and metal have complicated rock's present and raised fears for its future.",
"Best-of lists such as this one are by nature subjective.",
"But rock in the Eighties was like that -- lively, varied, contentious and, to some degree, inconclusive.",
"Looking at the best rock has had to offer in the Eighties, it's clear that there's plenty of life left in the old beast yet.",
"The next revolution may be just around the corner.",
"See the full list of 100 best albums of the 1980s here.",
"1. The Clash, \"London Calling\" This album could not have come at a more perfect time or from a more appropriate band than the Clash.",
"Released stateside in January 1980, with the decade but a pup and the new year in gear, \"London Calling\" was an emergency broadcast from rock's Last Angry Band, serving notice that Armageddon was nigh, Western society was rotten at the core, and rock & roll needed a good boot in the rear.",
"2. Prince and the Revolution, \"Purple Rain\" Released in tandem with the film of the same name, \"Purple Rain\" was more than simply a soundtrack, and it stands as Prince's most cohesive and accessible album.",
"\"He envisioned the film as he made the album,\" says Alan Leeds, vice-president of Paisley Park Records, Prince's label.",
"\"He had a vision in his mind of the film a year before he got in front of the cameras, and he wrote the music to that vision.\"",
"3. U2, \"The Joshua Tree\" \"The Joshua Tree\" is the rather esoterically titled album he's referring to -- a title that even the typically solemn Bono could joke about.",
"500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 'London Calling' by the Clash .",
"4. Talking Heads, \"Remain in Light\" \"Remain in Light\" may have been a commercial disappointment, but musically, the band's 1980 album -- which combines funk, disco and African rhythms -- was years ahead of its time.",
"\"It got great critical acclaim, and we felt that it kind of took popular music to the next phase,\" says Frantz, \"which is what we always wanted to do.\"",
"5. Paul Simon, \"Graceland\" The journey to \"Graceland\" began with an unlabeled cassette tape that guitarist Heidi Berg gave to Simon, who listened to it incessantly, without knowing what it was, throughout the summer of 1984.",
"6. Bruce Springsteen, \"Born in the U.S.A.\" \"Born in the U.S.A.\" -- the album, the song and the sixteen-month tour -- turned out to be the breakthrough that Springsteen fans had been expecting for a decade.",
"The influential Jersey musician became the world's biggest rock star -- and a bona fide American icon, to boot.",
"7. Michael Jackson, \"Thriller\" \"Thriller,\" reportedly recorded for $750,000, has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide -- and it still sells.",
"It earned Jackson over 150 gold and platinum awards worldwide and a record seven Grammys.",
"8. R.E.M., \"Murmur\" The members of R.E.M.",
"incorporated elements of folk and country music into pop that was, by turns, bright and murky.",
"Theirs was a quasi-traditional yet boundary-breaking sound that served as a blueprint for alternative bands throughout America for the rest of the decade.",
"9. Richard and Linda Thompson, \"Shoot Out the Lights\" \"Even in the best days of our marriage, Richard and I didn't communicate with each other fabulously well,\" says Linda Thompson.",
"\"I think that the reason the music was good was that we tended to save it for work.\"",
"Perhaps that explains why \"Shoot Out the Lights\" is both the best and last album Richard and Linda Thompson made together.",
"10. Tracy Chapman, \"Tracy Chapman\" Tracy Chapman was discovered in 1987 by fellow Tufts University student Brian Koppelman.",
"\"I was helping organize a boycott protest against apartheid at school, and someone told me there was this great protest singer I should get to play at the rally,\" says Koppelman, who now works in A&R at Elektra.",
"He went to see Chapman perform at a coffeehouse called Cappuccino.",
"\"Tracy walked onstage, and it was like an epiphany,\" he says.",
"\"Her presence, her voice, her songs, her sincerity -- it all came across.\"",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"(WIRED) -- And then there was Chrome.",
"Apple made it clear this week that the next version of its Safari browser -- which will ship with the upcoming version of Mac OS -- will include the ability for users to tell websites not to track them, by using what's known as the 'Do Not Track' header, according to The Wall Street Journal.",
"It's a technically simple change that Mozilla (the maker of Firefox) and Microsoft (the maker of IE) have already included in their newest browsers.",
"Those companies included the change despite the fact that no one has actually defined what tracking is.",
"So far only two ad networks, Blue Kai and Chitika, have pledged to obey the flag.",
"That leaves Chrome, the browser created by the online-advertising giant Google, alone in not supporting the nascent feature.",
"And according to Google, it has no plans to do so anytime soon.",
"\"The idea of 'Do Not Track' is interesting, but there doesn't seem to be wide consensus on what 'tracking' really means, nor on how new proposals could be implemented in a way that respects people's current privacy controls,\" a Google spokeswoman told Wired.com by e-mail.",
"\"We're encouraged that standards bodies are working on these issues, and we will continue to be involved closely.\"",
"Instead of \"Do Not Track,\" Google says it offers a plug-in for Chrome called \"Keep My Opt-Outs,\" which prevents users from deleting opt-out cookies from advertising networks when they delete their cookies.",
"Third-party ad networks, including Google's Display Ad network, use cookies on the sites they advertise on to watch what users do across the net, in order to make guesses about their interests.",
"They then can sell ad space at a premium to advertisers, offering them the opportunity to show ads for trucks only to young men interested in sports, for instance.",
"Currently, none of those networks pays any heed to users who choose to turn on the \"Do Not Track\" flag, but do pledge to respect opt-out cookies that can be set in bulk on the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.",
"Google says it will have a version of the cookie-retaining plug-in for IE and Firefox soon.",
"The plug-in Google built mimics the functionality of one built by Indiana University security researcher Christopher Soghoian in 2009, drawing on Google's own open source code.",
"Ironically, Soghoian was also the first to suggest the idea of a DNT header, rather than a centralized list, and helped build the first prototype last summer.",
"Soghoian says Google's current lack of support from its ad side is \"pretty shocking,\" given that the company just got slapped by the FTC over privacy.",
"\"Even more shocking is the lack of support from the Chrome team,\" Soghoian says, pointing out that Google Chrome routinely supports tech specs that haven't been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force or IETF.",
"Still, Google has a point about the ambiguity of \"Do Not Track.\"",
"In fact, Apple has many of the same concerns.",
"In a new paper about online privacy (.pdf) submitted to the W3C standards-setting body, Apple questioned what \"tracking\" means online.",
"It argued that sending a \"Do Not Track\" signal to a website would only work for sites that decide to obey it, calling it \"akin to hanging a 'privacy, please' door hanger on an unlocked door -- most will respect it, but the persistent will simply walk in.\"",
"There is, therefore, an urgent need to document what, fairly exactly, it means.",
"What stops working?",
"If nothing stops working, from the user's point of view, there is a risk that it will be turned on all the time.",
"Can I login? Buy something?",
"What constitutes 'track'?",
"If someone buys something, I can obviously record the purchase, and pretty clearly the affect [sic] on my inventory.",
"Am I allowed to record statistical data (e.g.",
"the type of goods bought at different times of day)?",
"At what point does this 'personally derived data' turn into 'tracking'?",
"Even though the FTC and the Commerce Department are behind the new technology, both companies are correct that it's not clear what counts as tracking.",
"For instance, if you are signed into your Facebook or Google account, can those sites catalog what you do, even if you have the flag on?",
"What about companies that provide analysis of what users do in bulk on a website -- such as telling you how many people visited a given page and how many pages on average a visitor looks at?",
"And what about so-called \"A/B\" testing tools that let sites experiment by showing one logo to one set of visitors and another to a different set of users, to see which logo is more likely to convince people to sign up for the service?",
"But Soghoian argues that both Google's ad program and its analytics program already let users opt out, so why not simply adopt the \"Do Not Track\" flag as another signal to opt out.",
"Answering his own question, he says it's about money that Google stands to lose if users of its browser get an easy way to opt out of its advertising tracking.",
"\"The opt-out cookies and their plug-in are not aimed at consumers,\" Soghoian says.",
"\"They are aimed at policy makers.",
"Their purpose is to give them something to talk about when they get called in front of Congress.",
"No one is using this plug-in and they don't expect anyone to use it.\"",
"Of all the major browser makers, Google would have the most to lose if many people starting setting the flag and companies were forced, by public opinion or law, to obey it.",
"While Google's largest source of ad money -- search ads related to search terms -- doesn't rely on behavioral tracking, its growing business of display advertising (on other websites and in YouTube) does.",
"Ironically, the DNT header is likely not to affect Facebook, the net's single largest display advertiser and the one company Google seems to fear.",
"Although the social networking site knows every page you visit that has a \"Like\" button or Facebook widget (at least while you are signed into Facebook), the company says it doesn't keep that data for long and doesn't use it to create a profile.",
"Instead, it targets the ads inside Facebook relying on the data its users put in its profile -- which is not likely to count as \"tracking\" if a spec is finalized.",
"In that process, Google's concerns are being ironed out, according to Soghoian.",
"A first pass by a Mozilla engineer and two Stanford researchers at defining the problem for the IETF suggests that sites that get opt-in consent from users can ignore the flag.",
"So, for example, if Facebook asked users if they would mind having Facebook know what sites they visit around the web with \"Like\" buttons, Facebook can make use of that data, even if a user has the \"Do Not Track\" setting.",
"Tracking users around your own site would be fine, as would be analytics software, including those run by third parties, so long as the data isn't shared with other companies.",
"Even if Google adopts it, right now the tool is in some ways toothless.",
"In absence of legislation, the \"Do Not Track\" header doesn't mean anything legally -- unless a company promises to obey it, but then doesn't.",
"That's a situation the FTC or state attorneys general could look into under current law.",
"But otherwise, an ad network can simply ignore it, with no legal consequences.",
"Privacy legislation introduced this week by Sens.",
"John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) tightens information-sharing rules, and could include a mandate requiring U.S. companies to follow the DNT flag.",
"And finally, Apple and Microsoft's decision to include the \"Do Not Track\" header in their browsers (and Google's not to) brings up the question of how such a rule would apply on mobile devices and whether there should be a \"Do Not Track\" flag for mobile apps.",
"Right now, there's no way to get a \"Do Not Track\" --capable browser on the iPhone, and Android users need to switch to Firefox Mobile to get the flag.",
"Mobile apps have come under scrutiny from the press and even the Justice Department for allegedly mining users' data in secret.",
"But to have a \"Do Not Track\" setting for apps would require the app platform makers -- Google, Apple, RIM and Microsoft -- to bake it into their OSes, which is a trickier situation businesswise, because the two dominant platform makers, Google and Apple, are battling over supremacy in the growing market for in-app ads.",
"Which is a long way of saying that the \"Do Not Track\" header is a simple technical change that is likely to have profound effects on the online world and the politics that surround it.",
"Chrome didn't have to be last to the antitracking party, which shows no sign of ending soon, because Google was in on the first call when the idea was proposed, according to Soghoian.",
"\"Google could have been first, but instead they will be last,\" Soghoian said.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"(CNN) -- Tottenham fought back to clinch a 3-3 draw with Arsenal that further dented their north London rivals' English Premier League title hopes as another capital club, Chelsea, claimed second place on Wednesday.",
"Arsenal led 3-1 five minutes before halftime, but fifth-placed Tottenham rallied with a stunning strike from Tom Huddlestone and then a Rafael van der Vaart penalty after the break.",
"The result allowed defending champions Chelsea to go second on goal difference after a 3-1 victory at home to Birmingham, leaving Manchester United six points clear with five games to play after Tuesday's 0-0 draw with Newcastle.",
"Alex Ferguson's United are in pole position, but the May 1 trip to Arsenal and the home clash with Chelsea the following week will have a massive bearing on the title outcome.",
"Man United draw a blank at Newcastle .",
"Chelsea also face an April 30 home clash with Tottenham, who can still qualify for next season's Champions League after moving to within two points of fourth-placed Manchester City -- a team Harry Redknapp's men will travel north to face on May 10.",
"Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has now seen his team draw five of the last six league matches, including Sunday's demoralizing 1-1 stalemate with Liverpool when both goals came in a lengthy period of stoppage time.",
"\"It's not over -- we'll fight,\" the Frenchman told reporters.",
"\"In the second half we dropped physically because we had a difficult game on Sunday.",
"We've had two games in three days, our recovery was a bit short.",
"\"Maybe the second (Tottenham) goal was decisive because we wanted to get to halftime with a two-goal lead, but we had an outstanding spirit and we have to keep battling to the last day.\"",
"The Gunners looked like avenging November's 3-2 home defeat by Spurs when Theo Walcott ran clear to slot home from Cesc Fabregas' well-timed pass in just the fifth minute.",
"But Tottenham responded immediately as Van der Vaart controlled a pass from Vedran Corluka and fired a right-foot shot past goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who was beaten at his near post.",
"Arsenal suffer late, late Liverpool blow .",
"Samir Nasri restored Arsenal's lead in the 12th minute with a right-foot effort from outside the area as he was given space to shoot, scoring his first league goal since New Year's Day and his 10th this season.",
"Robin van Persie made it 3-1 in the 40th minute with his 14th in the Premier League, as the Dutchman lashed home at the second attempt after Heurelho Gomes parried his header from Walcott's delightful chip.",
"But Huddlestone gave the home fans hope as he drilled in a sublime, low left-foot strike a minute before the break as Arsenal failed to clear a corner.",
"Spurs appealed in vain for a penalty when Luka Modric was shunted to the ground by Johan Djourou in time added on, while Van Persie had the ball in the net a second time in the 57th minute but the offside flag was up.",
"His compatriot Van der Vaart leveled the scores for the third time with 20 minutes to play with his 12th league goal since joining from Real Madrid in August after winger Aaron Lennon, who came on at halftime for Gareth Bale, was brought down by Szczesny.",
"The result left Spurs five points clear of sixth-placed Liverpool, having -- like City -- played one less game.",
"Chelsea clinched a second successive victory as France international Florent Malouda scored twice against visiting Birmingham.",
"Coach Carlo Ancelotti opted to leave $80 million signing Fernando Torres on the bench again along with Nicolas Anelka, as Didier Drogba started up front with Malouda and Salomon Kalou flanking him.",
"The combination paid off as early as the third minute as Drogba flicked on a cross from Paulo Ferreira and Malouda finished off at the far post.",
"Drogba's fellow Ivory Coast forward Kalou curled a superb effort in off the post to double the lead in the 26th minute, and winger Malouda made it 3-0 just after an hour with a header from a cross by debutant left-back Ryan Bertrand for his 12th league goal this season.",
"Birmingham, five points clear of the relegation zone, pulled a goal back in the 71st minute as Sebastian Larsson converted a penalty after Chelsea's Brazil defender David Luiz fouled substitute striker Matt Derbyshire."
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"Chelsea capitalize with 3-1 victory over Birmingham as Florent Malouda scores twice ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- With a short video on BarackObama.com, the sitting president of the United States has launched his bid for re-election.",
"Using what apparently will be one of his campaign slogans, \"It begins with us,\" the campaign has told supporters that the kickoff of the campaign has started and that means the race for contributions is on.",
"The familiar-looking blue \"O\" over red and white stripes is back again for 2012.",
"And at the bottom of the website, the candidates' names are clearly identified: OBAMA-BIDEN -- for Vice President Joe Biden.",
"Shortly afterward, Obama sent an e-mail to supporters to say he will also file papers Monday with the Federal Election Commission.",
"\"We've always known that lasting change wouldn't come quickly or easily.",
"It never does. But as my administration and folks across the country fight to protect the progress we've made -- and make more -- we also need to begin mobilizing for 2012, long before the time comes for me to begin campaigning in earnest,\" Obama said in his e-mail message.",
"He is expected to host his first re-election fundraiser in Chicago on April 14, according to the sources.",
"The president is making his campaign official slightly earlier than is typical for an incumbent so he can get a jump on fundraising in a season that's likely to shatter all records.",
"Obama's team has been asking campaign bundlers to raise $350,000 each, no easy task since campaign finance laws limit gifts to $2,500 per donor.",
"Two sources tell CNN the campaign team hopes that in total its bundlers will raise $500 million, leaving the campaign to raise another $500 million and amass a record-breaking $1 billion war chest.",
"According to these sources, the president has made calls to top donors, and conference calls are planned this week to supporters and key Democratic groups.",
"Biden is already planning to be in New Hampshire on Monday and will meet with key supporters in that crucial early voting state.",
"For the past few weeks, Jim Messina, who will manage the campaign, and Patrick Gaspard, executive director of the Democratic National Committee, have been flying around the country meeting with frustrated donors working to get them re-engaged.",
"So far no Republican contenders have formally announced.",
"But these days, the likely Republican presidential contenders are making endless visits to key early voting states and meeting with supporters across the country.",
"One top Democrat says, \"The Republicans are out there day in and day out beating up on the president -- they're basically running without filing.",
"So to say we're going first isn't totally fair.\"",
"This person adds, \"No one wants to start running now.",
"The president is engaged in the country, this is about getting (campaign) staff up and running.\"",
"Additionally, top Democrats say two former White House staffers are likely to set up a third-party outside spending group.",
"Former deputy press secretary Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, former aide to then-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, have been approached by Democratic donors who are concerned about countering the influence of Karl Rove and the Koch brothers in the upcoming 2012 election.",
"CNN's Sam Feist also contributed to this report."
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"(WIRED) -- Cisco is shutting down a business unit that it bought for over half-a-billion dollars: the Flip camcorder division.",
"That's a shame, considering how high the Flip was flying a few short years ago.",
"It's also a waste, considering that Cisco bought Flip from Pure Digital only two years ago for a cool $590 million.",
"But Cisco probably had to act fast, because its earnings fell 18% in the second quarter of 2011, and CEO John Chambers had to show he was doing something decisive to stanch the flow.",
"It's not like the Flip was doing that well of late.",
"When was the last time you saw someone actually using one of these low-quality, \"good-enough\" Flips?",
"Probably about two years ago.",
"Just what murdered those cheap, adorable camcorders?",
"The obvious culprit is the general-purpose smartphone.",
"When iPhones and Android phones began shipping with decent cameras for shooting stills, the Flip seemed excessive.",
"When phones got HD video recording, the Flip was downright redundant.",
"But the smartphone wasn't the sole cause of the Flip's fate.",
"The Flip would still be around if Cisco had bothered at all to adapt to the market.",
"After all, there are plenty of camera businesses like Canon that are still alive and well.",
"Here are a few reasons why the Flip flopped.",
"Smarter general-purpose devices .",
"Let's get the obvious reason out of the way first.",
"When Steve Jobs introduced the camera-equipped iPod Nano in 2009, he made it clear that the Flip budget camcorder was Apple's primary target.",
"\"We want to get in on this,\" said Jobs regarding the budget-camera industry, while showing a slide of the Flip at the 2009 iPod event.",
"Why buy a cheap camcorder if you could buy an iPod Nano that shot video, too?",
"In addition to the Nano, Apple had already released the iPhone 3GS, also capable of capturing standard-definition video.",
"Eventually, a slew of Android smartphones also shipped with video-capable cameras, and so did Apple's iPod Touch.",
"The iPhone 4 and others brought HD video recording to smartphones, eliminating the Flip's last possible advantage.",
"Suddenly, the notion of carrying around a cheap camcorder in addition to a general-purpose smartphone or iPod seemed impractical -- extra bulk in your pocket.",
"A slew of general-purpose devices made the Flip irrelevant.",
"The shift to real-time social networking .",
"The Flip probably wouldn't have been murdered so easily if Cisco had caught on to something that's been trendy for years: real-time social networking.",
"To make that work, the Flip would have required an internet connection.",
"You'd think that would be an easy addition, considering that Cisco is a networking company.",
"After Apple released the video-equipped iPhone 3GS, Cisco should've quickly shipped a Wi-Fi--enabled Flip for customers to immediately shoot and post media on social networking sites such as Flickr and YouTube.",
"Instead, existing Flip camcorders require a wired connection to a PC in order to transfer the files and upload them to a website.",
"That's old-school, PC-centric social networking.",
"These days, people like to share their media wherever they are, when it's happening.",
"Because the Flip lacked a wireless connection to the internet, this was another reason to just buy a smartphone.",
"Here's where the Flip had a chance to survive.",
"Kids love social networking and sharing pics and video, and they can't afford smartphone plans.",
"An affordable, cheap camera with an internet connection would've been pretty compelling.",
"Furthermore, Flip customers didn't particularly have anywhere they belonged to feel special.",
"Cisco could've bolstered an internet-enabled Flip with a unique social network made just for Flip users.",
"To be fair, evidence shows Cisco was trying to ship a Wi-Fi--enabled Flip, but it moved too slowly.",
"At this point, smartphones are already too far ahead, with popular social media apps such as Instagram and Ustream making them even cooler.",
"No compelling high-end option .",
"Cisco's line of \"high-end\" Flip products are yawn-inducing.",
"The high-end Slide HD ($230) includes 16 GB of storage, 720p video and 2x video zoom.",
"For the same price, a low-end iPod Touch includes 8 GB of storage, 720p video, an internet connection and access to hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store.",
"Which would you choose?",
"If Cisco had focused on optimizing the high end of its Flip camera line, it would've offered a compelling reason to buy a Flip versus a smartphone or iPod.",
"Imagine a high-end Flip with a Wi-Fi or 3G internet connection, 1080p video, a decent zoom lens, and a touchscreen with apps made just for Flip video and photo.",
"A solid, premium multimedia device would've enabled Flip to stand out among the \"jack-of-all-trades\" multifunction devices out there.",
"But alas, the Flip is dead.",
"RIP, Flip. Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"Its earnings fell 18% in the second quarter of 2011 .",
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"(CNN Student News) -- April 12, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Ivory Coast • Japan • France .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News!",
"We don't need 80 days.",
"We're taking you around the world in 10 minutes.",
"Asia, Europe, North and South America.",
"But we're starting things off in western Africa.",
"First Up: Ivory Coast Crisis .",
"AZUZ: The civil war that's been raging in the nation of Ivory Coast seems to be coming to an end.",
"In fact, a United Nations representative said yesterday that while there are still some small signs of resistance, to his knowledge, most of the fighting has stopped.",
"That is because Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast's former president, was arrested on Monday.",
"This is Gbagbo, and this is the hotel that he was taken to yesterday.",
"It's the headquarters of both the U.N. group in Ivory Coast and of Alassane Ouattara, the man who defeated Gbagbo in last year's presidential election.",
"Gbagbo refused to step down despite having lost the election, and that is what led to the violence.",
"Hundreds of people killed.",
"Thousands fleeing from the country.",
"Now that Gbagbo's been taken in, one U.S. official said Ivory Coast can start to return to normal.",
"Libya Civil War .",
"AZUZ: Moving northeast across Africa, we come to Libya.",
"That country's government and military, led by Moammar Gadhafi, have been fighting against rebels who want him out of power.",
"The African Union has come up with a plan to end that fighting.",
"They're calling it a \"road map.\"",
"What it would do is immediately stop the fighting and help bring humanitarian aid into Libya.",
"Colonel Gadhafi has signed off on the plan.",
"But the rebels who are fighting against him haven't.",
"The plan doesn't force Gadhafi to step down from power, so he could continue to lead Libya.",
"And while rebel leaders say they're open to ideas, they say Gadhafi leaving power has to be included.",
"Quake Anniversary .",
"AZUZ: In Japan, rescue workers briefly stopped their search yesterday as the nation paused to remember the victims of the deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit exactly one month earlier.",
"Special ceremonies, moments of silence paying tribute to the more than 13,000 people who were killed and the more than 14,000 others who are still missing.",
"Just a short time later, Japan was hit by another earthquake.",
"There have been hundreds of these aftershocks since the quake on March 11th.",
"Yesterday's had a magnitude of 6.6.",
"It caused landslides that trapped several people in one city.",
"It also caused a temporary evacuation at that troubled nuclear power plant where engineers have been trying to cool down nuclear reactors.",
"Just the Facts . STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Just the Facts!",
"Burqa is an Arabic word that dates back to the 1800s.",
"It is an article of clothing that covers someone's face and body.",
"Burqas are often associated with Islam, as they are worn by some Muslim women.",
"Burqa Ban . AZUZ: In France, it's illegal to wear a burqa according to a new law that went into effect this week.",
"Two women who were protesting the ban were arrested on Monday.",
"Police say they weren't arrested for wearing burqas, but rather for being part of an unauthorized protest.",
"French officials say burqas pose a security concern and affect the dignity of women who wear them.",
"But critics of the ban say it violates European human rights laws.",
"Atika Shubert is in France.",
"She has more on this new law and the reaction to it.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A highly controversial law has gone into effect, and it's the talk of the country, as you can imagine.",
"In fact, I'm going to hold up just a section of Le Parisien newspaper here.",
"The headline is \"the full veil is banned on the road.\"",
"It actually has a small diagram here to show exactly what is allowed and what is not allowed in France now.",
"The burqa, which covers the entire face, is banned.",
"The niqab, which covers everything but the eyes, is also banned.",
"But the hijab, which covers the head but leaves the face unveiled, is allowed.",
"Now, the nuts and bolts of this law: Basically, it is now illegal for anyone to wear a full veil covering on the streets of France in public.",
"And in public, it means anywhere on the streets, in a public office, such as a post office or a train station, even in a cinema, it is not allowed.",
"Really, the only place where the full veil is allowed is in a car, the private vehicle, or in the privacy of your own home.",
"There are only an estimated less than 2,000 women in France that actually wear the full veil, so it won't impact that many people, but it is highly controversial.",
"Now, CNN did have the opportunity to speak to one woman who is wearing the full veil and says she will continue to wear the full veil even as this law goes into effect.",
"And she told us what she thinks of this new face of France.",
"HIND AMAS, VEIL WEARER IN FRANCE [TRANSLATED]: In all honesty, I'm just sad.",
"I'm just sad and disappointed, because quite frankly to get to this point, I think it's very revealing about many things.",
"And thankfully, thankfully, not all of the French population think like the politicians who voted this law.",
"SHUBERT: Now, even though this only affects a small portion of women here in France, this law is very popular.",
"It was passed with an overwhelming majority in France's parliament.",
"And in the most latest polls, more than 80% of French respondent say they support the law.",
"Atika Shubert, CNN, Paris.",
"(END VIDEO) Debt Ceiling .",
"AZUZ: To North America, Washington, D.C.: the U.S. Congress just finished up one round of financial debate.",
"There are several more of those to go, and one of the big ones coming up soon is about the U.S. debt ceiling.",
"Now, that is the legal limit for how much money the U.S. can borrow.",
"Congress has about a month to work on this.",
"But with a two-week spring break coming up, that doesn't leave a whole lot of time.",
"So, what is the current debt ceiling?",
"How close are we to it? And what are the options facing Congress?",
"Ali Velshi is here to help break it all down.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) ALI VELSHI, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: The real fight, the one that's getting started, is over the country's debt limit.",
"By law, the amount that the U.S. can carry, the amount of debt that the U.S. can carry, is $14.294 trillion.",
"It's a credit limit that Congress sets.",
"Now, that's what they can borrow. Here's where we stand right now.",
"The actual current debt of the United States: $14.208 trillion.",
"The difference between the two is $86 billion.",
"Now, the U.S. is going to exceed this limit by May the 16th, based on current spending.",
"The government can pull a few tricks and get away with being over the limit until about July 8th.",
"But not increasing this credit limit is going to create some problems.",
"Now, there are two scenarios for what could happen if Congress doesn't raise that debt limit by May 16th.",
"Neither of them are good.",
"The government can cut spending or it can raise taxes.",
"They need to raise $738 billion to keep the country running until the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th.",
"But Democrats oppose cuts and oppose increasing taxes, so if they don't do that, the U.S. could default on its loans.",
"That could create a big problem.",
"That could send the dollar plummeting.",
"It could send oil prices higher.",
"It could hobble an already delicate economy, which is why this, this debt ceiling, is going to become the focus of our attentions for the next month.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Kelleher's computer class at Wesleyan Middle School in Norcross, Georgia!",
"Fort Sumter was where the first shots were fired in what war?",
"You know what to do! Was it the: A) American Revolution, B) War of 1812, C) Spanish-American War or D) U.S. Civil War?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"The shots fired at Fort Sumter marked the start of the Civil War.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Civil War Anniversary .",
"AZUZ: Those shots were fired exactly 150 years ago today.",
"The Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, killed more American troops than any other U.S. war.",
"And it all started here: at Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.",
"Confederate troops opened fire on the fort.",
"The Union commander surrendered the next day, and the Civil War had begun.",
"Many Civil War battles are played out today in re-enactments like this one.",
"You might've seen one nearby where you live.",
"The Civil War lasted four years, with the South ultimately surrendering in April of 1865.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Well, we promised you five continents at the beginning of today's show, and that can be a tall order.",
"But so is this. In fact, when it comes to towers built out of Legos, this is the tallest.",
"It took 6,000 people working on this -- and, yes, they needed a crane -- in Sao Paulo, Brazil to put it together.",
"500,000 Legos stacked up more than 102 feet high.",
"Something like this takes a lot of planning, a good strategy.",
"So, no matter how fast the finished product comes together... Goodbye .",
"AZUZ: ...We are sure they were toying around with the idea for a while.",
"Will that tower be a building block for future world record attempts?",
"If you ask me, for those builders, the sky's the limit.",
"But for now, we'll \"lego\" of this story.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"We will look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Bye bye!"
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"Madrid (CNN) -- Thousands of Spaniards protested on Saturday in defiance of a court-approved ban on demonstrations the day before Sunday's local and municipal elections.",
"The largest crowds, for a seventh straight day, were in Madrid and Barcelona, but there were also protests in Valencia and smaller cities, protest organizers and Spanish news media reported.",
"Overall, reports indicated that tens of thousands took to the streets across the nation, which is struggling with a 21% unemployment rate, the highest in the euro zone.",
"The ruling Socialist Party's candidates are widely expected to suffer deep losses to the conservatives, according to recent polls.",
"The Socialist government did not immediately order the police to move in to disband the demonstrations.",
"\"What we are going to do is comply with the law,\" Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told reporters Friday.",
"Yet Rubalcaba, who is also deputy prime minister, added that the police would not be there to create even more problems than already exist in the streets.",
"Spain's supreme court rejected an appeal late Friday to overturn the electoral board's order banning demonstrations on Saturday.",
"Authorities insist that the day before elections in Spain should be free of political messages and campaigning, for a so-called day of reflection.",
"\"Please don't bother us.",
"We are reflecting,\" read a large placard held by demonstrators in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol plaza on Saturday.",
"The protests against Spain's political and financial establishment started on May 15.",
"To sustain them, the protesters have erected a sprawling tent city in the plaza, with a kitchen, a painting workshop to churn out protest placards, a communications office to answer media inquiries and even a day care nursery.",
"Young people dominated the protests on Saturday but there were also families with young children strolling through the encampment, senior citizens and many people who have jobs but say they're concerned about the nation's future, which has a 42% jobless rate for people ages 15 to 24.",
"\"Everybody here is a volunteer and everything started very small but we got organized very fast and it started growing very fast,\" said Juan Lopez, a protest spokesman who's an internet technology manager who is currently unemployed.",
"\"You just can see how well one of our best committees, which is the infrastructure committee, work.",
"They made all this in just four days,\" Lopez said, pointing to the bustling encampment.",
"Economist Fernando Fernandez of the IE Business School said, \"The government does not want to have any sort of violence taking place the day prior to the elections.",
"This would have a very large political cost and electoral cost.\"",
"Sofia de Roa, a spokeswoman for the protesters, said Friday, \"People want to participate.",
"This is a fiesta of democracy.\"",
"The protests gained momentum in the closing days of the campaign and captured considerable news media coverage.",
"All major parties have acknowledged them.",
"Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in an interview with SER radio on Friday that voters ultimately will decide whether and how much change will be made.",
"On Sunday, voters in Spain's 8,000 cities and towns will elect mayors, along with 13 out of 17 regional presidents and parliaments.",
"The results are expected to be a bellwether for national elections, which must happen no later than March 2012.",
"\"It's just before elections when the Spanish politicians usually hear the voice of the people,\" Lopez said.",
"\"Now on Monday, we have to see how this develops and what the answer is.",
"The best-case scenario, which is the one we would like, is that they will come down here as citizens to hear us, and to make a new and better Spain, a new and better democracy with all of us are together.\"",
"The protesters indicate they will maintain the demonstrations after the elections on Sunday."
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"(Mashable) -- Twitter has taken a big step towards improving account security with a new setting that permanently enables HTTPS.",
"HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) allows encrypted communication between networks and users.",
"It creates a secure tunnel through the inherently chaotic web, decreasing the chance that somebody will access a user's account information on an open Wi-Fi network, for example.",
"Twitter has offered HTTPS access for some time.",
"But starting today, users can activate HTTPS permanently by going to their settings and selecting \"Always use HTTPS.\"",
"These users will always be logged into Twitter via HTTPS rather than the traditional HTTP method.",
"Mashable: The Twitter guide book .",
"The company notes that its mobile website still can't force HTTPS permanently.",
"So users currently need to make sure they are logged into https://mobile.twitter.com rather than http://mobile.twitter.com if they want a secure connection.",
"Twitter says it is working on a solution that will make the permanent HTTPS feature work on both its mobile website and Twitter.com.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- It's not specifically called a \"birther\" bill and it doesn't mention President Barack Obama by name, but proposed state legislation in Louisiana appears to be the latest attempt to keep alive arguments over whether Obama can prove he was born in the United States.",
"The proposed Louisiana legislation would require an affidavit to accompany documents, including a birth certificate and a sworn statement that identifies the candidate's place of residence for the preceding 14 years, for someone to quality for the presidential ballot.",
"Similar requirements are set for other offices including Congress.",
"Bill co-sponsor state Sen. A.G. Crowe told CNN's \"AC360\" Thursday night that his constituents wanted the legislation, although he said he had no comment on whether Obama was born in the United States.",
"\"The issue won't go away,\" said Crowe, a Republican.",
"Obama has been hounded by allegations since he began running for president in 2008 that he was not born in the United States.",
"Critics -- often called \"birthers\" -- contend, among other things, that Obama was born in his father's home country of Kenya.",
"The U.S. Constitution stipulates that only \"natural born\" citizens are eligible to be president.",
"Obama, who is seeking re-election, has insisted that he was born in Hawaii, and arguments to the contrary have been repeatedly discredited in investigations by CNN and other organizations.",
"In an effort to counter the claims, Obama's 2008 campaign produced a \"certification of live birth,\" a document traditionally accepted legally as confirmation of a birth.",
"Both the current Hawaii governor, Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, and the previous governor, Linda Lingle, a Republican, have insisted that Obama was born in their home state.",
"Nevertheless, the issue remains politically potent among segments of the electorate and has served as a rallying cry for many of the president's opponents.",
"In a call to CNN's \"American Morning,\" potential presidential candidate Donald Trump said of Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president: \"We're looking into it very, very strongly.\"",
"Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal, a Republican, has said he would sign the proposed legislation if it passes, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper.",
"But a growing list of Republican politicians and strategists, including Rep. Michele Bachmann, Republican strategist Karl Rove, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, and former Minnesota Gov.",
"Tim Pawlenty, a likely GOP presidential candidate, have distanced themselves from the \"birther\" issue.",
"Republican Arizona Gov.",
"Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed similar legislation.",
"Nearly 75% of Americans believe Obama was definitely or probably born in the United States, according to a March 11-13 CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.",
"More than four in 10 Republicans, however, believe the president probably or definitely was not born in America.",
"Fourteen other states are considering similar legislation this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.",
"Measures have failed in three states -- Connecticut, Maine and Montana.",
"Obama touched on the issue Thursday night during a fundraiser with Hollywood luminaries at the Tavern Restaurant in Brentwood, California.",
"\"You all got involved when the prospect of electing Barack Hussein Obama was slim,\" he said.",
"\"None of you asked for my birth certificate.",
"It was a complete leap of faith.\"",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"(Mashable) -- Lady Gaga fans were delighted Monday to learn that they could download her new album, Born This Way, from Amazon for a mere $0.99 -- until, of course, technical difficulties set in.",
"Downloads of the album are delayed, leaving folks unable to get the entire album immediately upon purchase.",
"Amazon issued the following statement: .",
"\"Amazon is experiencing high volume and downloads are delayed.",
"If customers order today, they will get the full Lady Gaga, Born This Way album for $0.99.",
"Thanks for your patience.\"",
"However, the damage has already been done, as users are meting out one-star ratings in droves, most of which deal with Amazon's slow service as opposed to the quality of the music (although some reviews in the lower bracket did dub the disc \"disappointing\").",
"As a result, the album has a relatively low three-star rating.",
"Reviews of the following nature reign: \"This review isn't a review of the album, but of the Amazon's digital music service.",
"I tried this as an experiment to see if I wanted to order more music this way, but it only downloaded half the songs.",
"Still a deal at 99 cents, but not an experiment I'll want to repeat with a full-price album.\"",
"Many reviews also trumpet the user's intent to buy from iTunes in the future, instead of Amazon -- a state of affairs Amazon would want to avoid, considering iTunes already holds most of the market share for digital music.",
"This backlash does not bode well for the future popularity of Amazon's new Cloud Player service, which the company was touting in the promotional language of the deal, offering users more storage space for buying the album.",
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"(CNN) -- The trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of sex with an underage nightclub dancer and abuse of power opened Wednesday in Milan.",
"It lasted 10 minutes and was adjourned until May 31.",
"The case is the latest in a long-running series of legal wrangles featuring the scandal-plagued politician and promises to be one of the most controversial trials ever to take place in Italy.",
"What is Berlusconi accused of?",
"Prosecutors allege that Berlusconi paid for sex with Karima El Mahrough, a nightclub dancer nicknamed Ruby who at the time was 17-years-old.",
"Prosecutors also say, in legal papers seen by CNN, that Berlusconi had sex 13 times with El Mahrough.",
"Who is 'Ruby the heart-stealer?'",
"They claim he abused his position when he intervened in May 2010 to get her released from the jail where she was being held on charges of theft.",
"Berlusconi says the allegations are politically motivated and are an attempt to smear him.",
"In Italy, the age of consent is 14, and it is not illegal to pay for sex.",
"However, paying for sex with a minor (under 18) is a crime, and can be punished by up to three years in jail.",
"Berlusconi has said the dancer had been introduced as a 24-year-old.",
"Did he give her any money?",
"El Mahrough said she did not know Berlusconi well but that she did receive 7,000 euros (about $9,300) from him the first time they met, on Valentine's Day 2010, because a friend told Berlusconi she needed help.",
"Has he been in court before? Yes. Many times but on March 28 he made his first personal appearance in court in for eight years.",
"It was a two-hour closed-door hearing in Milan on corruption charges.",
"He and others - including his son - are accused of tax fraud and misappropriation of funds.",
"What other legal issues is Berlusconi facing?",
"The 74-year-old Italian PM, currently serving his third term in office, also faces charges of bribing British lawyer David Mills to secure favorable testimony in legal cases.",
"His trial, suspended last spring after he was granted temporary immunity, resumed this month.",
"Mills denied receiving bribes and his conviction in the case was overturned last year.",
"He has survived a series of political, corruption and sex scandals over the years, involving allegations of embezzlement, tax fraud and bribery.",
"Berlusconi has been tried on at least 17 charges since he was first elected prime minister in 1994, but none of the cases have resulted in lasting convictions; several were overturned on appeal.",
"He has always denied any wrongdoing, and had previously claimed immunity from prosecution, though a 2008 law granting him this was overturned the following year.",
"How has he reacted to the claims?",
"Berlusconi insists he has never paid for sex -- \"not even once in my life\" -- and says any suggestion he did so is \"degrading for my dignity.\"",
"Both he and El Mahrough, who is now 18, deny ever having had sex with one another.",
"But the young woman's former roommate told investigators that El Mahrough confided to her that she did have a sexual relationship with the premier.",
"Berlusconi says he did call the police on El Mahrough's behalf, but denies this was an abuse of power.",
"He says he thought El Mahrough was related to the since-deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and he was acting in Italy's interest by trying to avoid a diplomatic incident.",
"The billionaire media magnate and football club owner says the allegations against him are simply political mudslinging.",
"His lawyers have called the investigation \"absurd and groundless\" and a \"grave interference\" in Berlusconi's private life.",
"Will this case damage him financially?",
"A media entrepreneur, Berlusconi and his family were number 74 on the Forbes list of The World's Billionaires for 2010 and worth an estimated $9 billion, so the trials are unlikely to make a significant dent to his wealth.",
"So, will Berlusconi attend any or all of the trials?",
"Yes, according to his attorney Niccolo Ghedini, who said: \"Absolutely yes, we have decided to blank his agenda for one day per week, every Monday, in order to allow him to participate to all the hearings.\"",
"Berlusconi's lawyers have previously argued that courts in Milan do not have jurisdiction in the case -- because of where the alleged crimes were committed -- or the authority to try a prime minister.",
"What about Berlusconi's political reputation?",
"Long-running scandals, a playboy lifestyle and a series of well-publicized gaffes have opened the Italian PM up to widespread ridicule.",
"Berlusconi has survived two votes of no confidence in recent months, and while his personal approval ratings have been dented, his party, the People of Freedom, still enjoys widespread support in Italy.",
"Has the Vatican commented?",
"The Vatican has made no comment on 'Rubygate', which is in keeping with normal diplomatic relations between the Vatican City and the Italian state, says CNN's Diana Magnay.",
"What has the public reaction been in Italy?",
"In mid-February thousands of Italians took to the streets in some 200 cities across the country in protest of Silvio Berlusconi's alleged behavior toward women.",
"The largest gathering was in Rome, where organizers said 100,000 people gathered, under the slogan, \"If not now, when?\"",
"In Milan, Berlusconi's birthplace, organizers estimated that 60,000 people gathered.",
"Protests also took place outside Italy, including marches in Tokyo and Geneva.",
"Many Italians on the street were clear about their opinion.",
"\"It doesn't really matter if he is found guilty or not.",
"I find it deeply upsetting when I watch the TV news, when I read the paper and when I hear about Berlusconi and Ruby, I feel sick,\" said Rome resident Belinzone Gianlice.",
"\"I think that the example that is coming from the higher powers must be different,\" said Giovanni Nani.",
"And in Milan, one banner captured the sentiment felt by many Italian women and particularly feminists, \"Stop the merchandising of women.\"",
"CNN's Hada Messia, Diana Magnay and Dan Rivers contributed to this report."
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"Berlusconi also faces charges of bribing lawyer for favorable testimony in legal cases ."
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"(CNN) -- It all started with ice cream.",
"\"I saw a long line of people waiting for a free scoop at the Baskin Robbins next to my store,\" said Joe Field, owner and operator of Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff in Concord, California.",
"\"Knowing that comics are even cooler than ice cream, I was convinced that publishers, retailers and our major distributor, Diamond, could all band together to do something powerful to attract people of all ages and interests to check out their local comics shops.\"",
"Thus, Free Comic Book Day was born.",
"It was during a tough time for the comic book industry.",
"The first one came in 2002, the same year \"Spider-Man\" became a blockbuster in theaters.",
"Just six years earlier, however, Marvel Comics filed for bankruptcy, and comic books had been struggling ever since.",
"The idea of Free Comic Book Day is simple: Publishers put out one or two comic books each year for free on the first Saturday in May for the 300,000 to 500,000 customers who show up at local comic book stores.",
"Saturday's event will be the 10th.",
"Store owners like Kyle Puttkammer, of Georgia's Galactic Quest, see it as a big success.",
"\"It's the biggest sales day of the year for us, and many people discover us for the first time,\" he said.",
"Many store owners make the day into an all-out event.",
"Puttkammer plans to have an '80s cover band, a replica of the 1960s Batmobile and actors from AMC's zombie-themed TV show \"The Walking Dead,\" among other things, at his two stores.",
"At Earth 2 Comics in Los Angeles, customers will be able to meet popular writer and DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns.",
"\"I consider it to be like a national holiday celebrating comic books, where the industry metaphorically opens their doors to the public,\" said Valerie D'Orazio, editor of MTV Geek.",
"\"Gaining new -- and especially younger -- readers is absolutely crucial to the health of the comic book industry, now more than ever before.\"",
"Comic book publishers usually offer titles with storylines that can be easily followed and, in many cases, issues aimed at younger readers.",
"\"We try to make them as new-reader-friendly as possible,\" said Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics.",
"\"We usually don't push the envelope in terms of content.\"",
"\"Our hope is that the comic books that fans pick up on Free Comic Book Day, for a lot of them, might be their first one,\" DC Comics co-Publisher Jim Lee said, explaining how it chooses which issues to offer.",
"\"We want to take a character that's well-known and accessible to the readership and at the same time, tie in to some of the future plans we have for publishing.\"",
"\"When I was growing up, there were comics in the barber shop.",
"Not any more,\" said Bob Bretall of the Comic Book Page podcast.",
"\"Today, comics are mostly in specialty comics shops.",
"They are not anyplace that a kid is likely to see them by happenstance, so having an event that will draw people to the 'few and far between' locations that offer comics is crucial to getting this key demographic interested in comics.\"",
"According to trend-watching magazine ICv2, the industry is starting to see growth.",
"\"ICv2 has tracked industry sales since 2005, when North American comic and graphic novel sales were $565 million,\" Publisher Milton Griepp said.",
"\"In 2009, industry sales were $680 million.\"",
"\"We anticipated that this year's event would be the biggest ever based on the best selection ever of free comics based on well-known properties, and based on the record orders for comics to be give away, it will be,\" he added.",
"So why is \"FCBD\" so highly anticipated this year?",
"Here's what some of the major publishers have on tap for Saturday's big event: .",
"Marvel Comics .",
"Marvel's superheroes have had movies in theaters over the weekend of \"FCBD\" for several years now.",
"This year, it's \"Thor,\" and this year's free comic is an all-ages story starring Thor and Captain America (who has his own movie in July), entitled \"Captain America/Thor: The Mighty Fighting Avengers.\"",
"Alonso compares it to \"a Pixar movie that's accessible for adults and children.",
"It's meant to be a jumping-on point into comics, essentially.\"",
"The \"Spider Island\" story arc is going to be big for the company this year, and so many fans, as well as new readers, will probably seek out the free \"Amazing Spider-Man\" comic, by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, that ties into it.",
"\"It's two of our top talents on a full-length story,\" Alonso said.",
"DC Comics . Not to be outdone, one of DC's characters is headed to the big screen for the first time next month, and \"Green Lantern Special Edition\" will be a hot issue this year.",
"It also includes a preview of the big crossover \"Flashpoint.\"",
"\"We've seen some orders that have been better in the past than Free Comic Book Day,\" co-Publisher Dan DiDio said.",
"\"The preview of 'Flashpoint' is exciting a lot of our retailers.\"",
"DC will also offer a \"Young Justice/Batman: Brave and the Bold\" issue aimed at young readers, based on the two animated series on Cartoon Network (both Cartoon Network and DC are owned by Time Warner, which also owns CNN).",
"Dark Horse Comics .",
"The company best known for \"Hellboy,\" as well as the adaptations of \"Star Wars\" and \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer,\" will also be aiming for readers of all ages with an issue that features \"Avatar: The Last Airbender\" and \"Star Wars: The Clone Wars.\"",
"\"We have an expanded library of 'Star Wars: Clones Wars' comics but are just beginning our Last Airbender program,\" Editor Sierra Hahn said.",
"\"I think we're constantly trying to find material that will appeal to younger readers.",
"When you discover something you love at a young age, chances are you'll stick by it through adulthood, and the material will age with you.\"",
"Like many of the other companies, it also has something for older readers in two horror comics, \"Baltimore\" from \"Hellboy\" creator Mike Mignola and \"Criminal Macabre.\"",
"Image Comics .",
"\"The Walking Dead\" has been a runaway hit for this company in recent years, but its \"FCBD\" offering is decidedly tamer in the \"Super Dinosaur Origin Special,\" written by \"Dead\" creator Robert Kirkman.",
"\"Super Dinosaur\" made its debut in stores last month, and the company hopes Kirkman will hit another home run, this time with a broader audience.",
"\"Whether you're talking comics or movies or music or television -- any form of entertainment -- a graying fan base is going to be your undoing just through attrition,\" Publisher Eric Stephenson said.",
"\"You have to continually find ways to appeal to a younger audience, and I think what Joe Field has come up with Free Comic Book Day is a great way of doing that.\"",
"IDW Publishing .",
"It made its name with licensed properties like \"True Blood,\" Transformers,\" \"G.I.",
"Joe\" and \"Doctor Who,\" and this year, IDW is offering up an original issue of its cult hit \"Locke & Key.\"",
"\"It was recently nominated for four Eisner awards,\" CEO and Publisher Ted Adams said.",
"\"Fox just shot a pilot for it, and hopefully it will be on air this fall.\"",
"\"Locke & Key\" is usually intended for mature audiences, but this issue is different: \"We purposefully chose a story that was all ages.",
"It's an action-based story, so it's OK for kids, but the actual book is intended for adults.\"",
"No matter their ages, Adams, like others in the industry, hopes readers will enjoy Saturday's festivities at their nearby comic book store: \"It's sort of like Christmas and Halloween and Thanksgiving rolled into one.\""
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"(CNN) -- Major questions hang over the investigation into a deadly accident involving an Amtrak passenger train and a tractor-trailer truck, and it could take up to a year for investigators to come up with answers, a federal official said Sunday.",
"At least 20 people listed on the manifest for the California Zephyr have not been accounted for by authorities, National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener told reporters at a news conference.",
"Officials have been trying to resolve the discrepancy since Friday, when a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the Chicago-to-California Amtrak train at a railroad crossing east of Reno, Nevada, killing six people.",
"Weener told reporters at an earlier news conference that investigators believed the discrepancy in passenger numbers arose because some people had either already gotten off the train or bought a ticket but did not take the train.",
"There are also troubling discoveries about the trucking company involved in the crash, John Davies Trucking of Battle Mountain, Nevada.",
"Records indicate that the company had 19 previous safety violations, Weener said.",
"But he warned that further inquiry was in order, since officials didn't have the \"context\" to put the violations in perspective.",
"The NTSB is planning to visit the company this week.",
"Investigators will review records for the company and the driver, Weener said.",
"They will examine the driver's health and medical history as well as his training and experience, he said.",
"The investigation could take up to a year to complete, Weener said, adding that this is the \"fact-finding\" portion of the inquiry.",
"The trucking company, which advertises itself as a family-owned business that hauls concrete, did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.",
"\"An investigation of this sort has many different facets,\" Weener said.",
"\"As we've gotten into the investigation we've realized there are other skills and specialties that we need, such as fire inspectors ... there are just a lot of loose ends that you have to tie up as fast as you can.\"",
"Weener said portions of the truck are still embedded in a rail car, making it difficult for investigators to do an assessment.",
"Authorities do not believe the accident was caused by a problem with the safety measures at the intersection where the accident occurred.",
"It has cantilevers, lights, crossing gates, signs and crossbar markings on the pavement, Weener said.",
"Additionally, the light that warns of an approaching train is set to flash for a period that's longer than the federal standard.",
"The 10-car train was carrying 204 passengers and 14 crew members when the accident happened, according to an Amtrak statement released Friday.",
"Skid marks show the driver of the truck involved in the crash slammed on his brakes and slid more than 300 feet before hitting the train, Weener said at an earlier news conference.",
"The slide sparked a fire that burned the truck and two train cars, he said.",
"CNN's Kim Hutcherson contributed to this report ."
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"At least 20 people listed on train manifest are unaccounted for .",
"Trucking company involved in accident had multiple violations .",
"Six people died in collision between train and tractor-trailer Friday ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment -- The Old Guard -- has posted watch at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery every second of every day for more than 63 years.",
"And they weren't about to let a hurricane get in the way of their tradition.",
"Members of the regiment earned new admiration this week for their unwavering dedication during Hurricane Irene.",
"As the storm whipped the capital with driving sheets of rain, soldiers kept their vigil at the tomb, one hour at a time.",
"Word of their service during the storm has prompted hundreds of comments on the regiment's Facebook page since Saturday, including plenty of \"hooahs\" -- the Army battle cry.",
"\"So proud of you guys!\"",
"said Kristina Wilson.",
"\"Thank you for the honor you are showing to these brave men who are known but to God.",
"You might meet them one day and they can say themselves how proud of you they are.\"",
"\"Very few things get me choked up, but seeing this put tears in my eye,\" said Greg Ledet of the photos showing the sentinels at the height of the storm.",
"\"Thank you seems not enough, your stewardship of our collective history is wonderful,\" David Magart said.",
"\"Honor, integrity, respect, these are the values your demonstrate and live by.\"",
"The foul-weather display even prompted some cross-service pride from George Gipson.",
"\"You certainly have the respect and admiration of *this* Marine. Carry on.\""
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"The Tomb of the Unknowns is at Arlington National Cemetery .",
"Their service during Hurricane Irene has prompted new admiration ."
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"(CNN) -- It's a community of crude green metal sheds, baking hot during the day and lacking clean running water.",
"Residents say thieves can slice through the thin walls with their knives.",
"A man packs up his belongings after being evicted from Borei Keila to Tuol Sambo.",
"Locals call it \"the AIDS colony.\"",
"The Cambodian government set up the community on a site known as Tuol Sambo, on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh.",
"It began relocating families affected by HIV and AIDS from the neighborhood of Borei Keila last month, and last week removed 20 more families.",
"The move sparked outrage among human rights groups, which said the conditions in Tuol Sambo do not meet standards for even emergency housing, and that the isolation would further stigmatize those affected by HIV.",
"\"By bundling people living with HIV together into second-rate housing, far from medical facilities, support services and jobs, the government has created a de facto AIDS colony,\" said Shiba Phurailatpam of the Asia-Pacific Network of People Living With HIV.",
"Human Rights Watch released a letter Tuesday that was signed by more than 100 global HIV/AIDS and social justice organizations and sent the day before to Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and Health Minister Mam Bunheng.",
"\"We are deeply disturbed by the Cambodian authorities' creation of a de facto AIDS colony at Tuol Sambo,\" the letter said.",
"\"Tuol Sambo is far away from the jobs, medical facilities and support services that had been available to Borei Keila residents in the city.\"",
"The letter said HIV-affected families are being moved to unsafe housing while, just a short distance from \"the AIDS colony,\" nonprofit agencies are helping build brick houses for other homeless families -- ones without HIV.",
"The letter acknowledged the international recognition the Cambodian government has received for treating and supporting people living with HIV.",
"But it called the Tuol Sambo relocations \"discriminatory\" and \"life-threatening\" to people whose immune systems are compromised.",
"The evictions took place despite repeated appeals to the government, including from the United Nations, the human rights activists said.",
"\"We have reason to fear that relocations of HIV-affected families are continuing even as we sign this letter,\" they said.",
"Reports compiled by the United Nations show that HIV is declining in Cambodia.",
"In 2008, an estimated 67,200 adults and 3,800 children were living with HIV.",
"A resurgence of an epidemic exists, however, according to UNAIDS.",
"The agency reported a risk of second-wave HIV infections among high-risk populations, such as female sex workers, their clients and their partners.",
"The HIV/AIDS families relocated by the Cambodian government worked mostly as day laborers, motorcycle taxi drivers, seamstresses and cleaners, the human rights groups said.",
"They said most of those relocated have little prospect of finding work in Tuol Sambo.",
"Government officials told The Phnom Penh Post that they knew about the problems at Tuol Sambo and that steps were being taken to improve conditions.",
"\"We are trying to find clean water for them,\" Phnom Penh's Deputy Governor Mann Chhoeun told the English-language newspaper.",
"\"They will also no longer face problems getting medicine, because we have given one house to [Center of] Hope, which has improved the health of the village.\"",
"A mission of an area hospital, The Center of Hope provides free medical care for the poor.",
"But Gerlinda Lucas, the deputy director of grant management, told the Post that the center had no plans to open a permanent clinic at Tuol Sambo, though it will continue weekly mobile clinic service.",
"Meanwhile, the relocated families expressed relief that they were leaving a neighborhood where landlords refused to rent to them.",
"But they worried about their safety after thieves cut through the metal walls of one resident's home.",
"\"I do not feel safe here because our houses are not strong,\" Chheang Toma told the Post.",
"And then, there was the added fear of starting anew in an unfamiliar community."
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"(CNN) -- John Memmer said his light bulb moment occurred when he couldn't fit on an amusement park ride with his son.",
"The 39-year-old auto insurance underwriter from Bloomington, Illinois, was on a family outing at a theme park in Missouri and his son, Alex, desperately wanted him to share a seat next to him.",
"\"The attendant tried to push and squeeze me into the seat, but to no avail.",
"I was too big to fit,\" said Memmer.",
"\"So there I was with hundreds of people staring at me as all of this was going on, and then I heard my son start to cry as I had to climb off the ride,\" he said.",
"A stranger in line agreed to sit with his son, but at that moment, Memmer knew it was finally time to lose weight.",
"\"All the shoulda, coulda, wouldas catalyzed into an intense desire to finally do something about it,\" he said.",
"Memmer had noticed before the trip to the amusement park that he would get winded walking up the stairs in his home and had trouble keeping up with his kids while they were playing.",
"And this depressed him. But the incident at the theme park was the \"straw that broke the camel's back.\"",
"He started his weight loss program during the summer of 2009 and eventually lost about 115 pounds over the course of a year.",
"His initial weight was 300 pounds.",
"Memmer said he kept his plan simple: eating less and consuming fewer calories.",
"\"While I was losing the weight, hunger was always a factor,\" he said.",
"\"So to counter that, I worked in lots of fruits and vegetables, as they provide lots of nutrients and have a lot of fiber and bulk per serving -- it really helped to satisfy me when I was hungry.\"",
"Memmer rediscovered his love for soup during his weight loss campaign and has learned his local grocery store stocks a large variety of options to prevent him from getting bored.",
"Although many soups contain a high amount of sodium, Memmer says \"this does not weigh on his mind and a recent check with the doctor showed a clean bill of health.\"",
"It took some time to adjust to his new eating habits.",
"Snacking became a rare event because he knew he was eating fewer calories and wanted to make each calorie count.",
"He didn't want to go on a crash diet, so instead he decreased his daily caloric intake so he'd shed about two pounds a week, which many dietitians consider safe.",
"Memmer changed his mind-set about food, too.",
"\"I realized early on that I would just eat absent-mindedly, and all those calories have to go somewhere,\" he said.",
"He now makes a conscious effort to be aware of what he's consuming and mostly selects nutritious foods to eat.",
"\"I'm not on quite as strict a regimen as I was when I was losing my weight, but I've found a nice balance that has allowed me to maintain my current weight level and I don't feel deprived at all.\"",
"The main staples of his diet are vegetables, whole grains and lean meats, but nothing is forbidden.",
"\"I may have a cookie here and there, or even a piece of pie, but I consider it a special treat instead of a daily food item.\"",
"Memmer does not think in terms of \"going on a diet\" when he eats, either.",
"\"Dieting implies that you're making a temporary change, and what is essential is making a commitment to a different way of living,\" he noted.",
"\"Once you've made the mental leap over that hurdle, you've taken the hardest step.\"",
"In moments of weakness, Memmer reminds himself to try to stay focused on his goals -- and thinks of his family and how he wants to stay healthy for them.",
"Memmer does not consider himself an athlete and doesn't have a regular workout routine.",
"But he has found ways to incorporate activity into his life.",
"He'll use the stairs at work and parks his car farther away from his office than before his weight drop.",
"Work in his garden keeps him active, too.",
"\"If you want an upper body workout, I highly recommend wrestling with a gas-powered tiller on unbroken ground,\" he chuckled.",
"He enjoys taking walks and appreciates the fact he can get around without his knees hurting or back aching, which wasn't the case before he shed pounds.",
"Memmer says his weight loss has inspired those around him and sparked a lot of conversation around his workplace.",
"In fact, some of his colleagues have started their own campaigns to lose weight and achieve a healthier lifestyle.",
"\"Sometimes, all it takes is a spark, someone you can point to and say -- if he can do it, so can I,\" he said.",
"As for amusement park rides, Memmer has \"upped his game\" and recently spent a family vacation at Walt Disney World's theme parks in Orlando where he was able to comfortably get on any ride he wanted with his children.",
"\"Space Mountain and Tower of Terror were my favorite rides.\"",
"Do you have a weight loss story?",
"Tell us about it at iReport.com."
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"Memmer said he kept his plan simple by eating less and consuming fewer calories .",
"His dramatic weight loss has inspired those around him to adopt healthier lifestyles, too ."
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"(CNN) -- The embattled Syrian army is being pushed to the limit as anti-government demonstrations persist across the restive landscape, and the opposition \"will likely take on an increasingly armed aspect in the face of brutal oppression,\" a new report says.",
"\"There are signs that army units are increasingly identifying with protesters, especially where security forces are employing violence against unarmed demonstrators,\" according to a report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank.",
"\"Although the regime's forces are not defeated and the army's potential tears may prove to be small, the dynamics for greater problems are in place.",
"Given the widespread nature of the disturbances, the regime cannot mass personnel in more than a few places.\"",
"The report, written by Washington institute defense fellow Jeffrey White and published Monday, is entitled \"Syrian Army Shows Growing Signs of Strain.\"",
"It says the various units deployed to put down disturbances since mid-March are facing \"unprecedented\" challenges.",
"\"The continuing pressure of the demonstrations, which are liable to swell during Ramadan, will stretch the army still thinner, with more defections likely given the regime's increasingly violent tactics,\" the report said.",
"\"As the army becomes less reliable, strain will increase on the regime protection forces, stretching them further and tiring them faster.",
"Clashes within army units and between army and security forces may increase as well.",
"And escalating regime violence will likely provoke a more violent response over time, fueled by armed defectors.\"",
"This grim assessment comes as two dozen people were killed overnight by security forces in various cities and towns and international condemnation against the regime rolls in toward the Bashar al-Assad regime.",
"The army is a conscript force \"in which largely Alawite officers lead largely Sunni soldiers,\" and it has \"traditionally been marked by a difficult relationship between officers and enlisted personnel, making it ill suited for the internal security missions it is now being given.\"",
"The government is dominated by the minority Alawites, who are an offshoot of Shiite Islam.",
"\"The security forces have not been able to permanently secure any area and have had to shuttle personnel from one flashpoint to another, sometimes over considerable distances.",
"As disturbances have spread, additional divisions and brigades have been pulled into the struggle,\" the report said.",
"The report said the government appears \"reluctant to order regular army units to fire on demonstrators, though it has done so in some cases where regime protection forces were inadequate.\"",
"But that produced \"breakdowns in loyalty and cohesion among the army units so ordered.\"",
"\"Current trends suggest that the army's loyalty and cohesion are not just fraying, but beginning to tear.\"",
"The opposition's \"center of gravity,\" the report said, \"is increasingly moving to the cities,\" and that is a challenge, \"forcing the regime to conduct a 360 degree defense.\"",
"With the exception of the Alawite heartland in the northwest, the report said, no area appears secure.",
"Other than Aleppo, which has seen only \"isolated protest,\" \"disturbances have erupted in more than 50 localities.\"",
"\"Subduing restive urban populations is a demanding and troop-intensive task, one that will become more difficult as demonstrations grow in size and as protesters or defectors take up arms.",
"More forces will be required, and without adequate training, they are more likely to resort to violence early.",
"More opportunities for violent, casualty-producing incidents will emerge as well.",
"This was reportedly the case in Hama on Sunday, as tanks and infantry fighting vehicles encountered protestors armed with sticks and stones,\" he said.",
"The government also faces problems along the borders, saying the flow of refugees into Turkey has been embarrassing to the government, and both Lebanon and Iraq \"are potential sources of arms and fighters.\"",
"There have been several attacks on oil facilities and a train derailment, but the cause is not known.",
"\"If such incidents mount in numbers and seriousness, the regime will have to stretch its forces even thinner to protect key facilities,\" the report said.",
"The report thinks the opposition could adopt \"an increasingly armed aspect in the face of brutal repression\" as defectors join them.",
"\"As you get more defectors and guys who take their guns with them and they see people get killed when they yell 'Allahu Akbar,' or God is greatest, some people are going to say 'we've got to do something,' \" White said."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Twenty-one-year-old Erica Ruiz plans to graduate from college in the spring with a degree in psychology and continue on to graduate school.",
"Her family is from Mexico, but she and her two brothers were born in the United States.",
"\"My parents always encouraged me to go to college and get educated because they didn't get the opportunity,\" she said of her mother and father, both farm workers.",
"Ruiz is part of a recent increase in the number of Hispanics attending college in the United States -- a figure that spiked last year and even surpassed that of young blacks, according to a study released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center, part of the Pew Research Center.",
"In 2010, approximately 1.8 million Hispanic students aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in college, the study showed.",
"In the same age group, there were 1.7 million African-American students enrolled, although when students of all ages were counted, blacks outnumbered Hispanics.",
"Analyzing U.S. Census Bureau data, the researchers found that in 2010, Hispanic enrollment surged by 24% over the previous year.",
"For that same time period, college enrollment for blacks and Asians also increased, but not as dramatically as that of Hispanics.",
"Although the enrollment of white students decreased to 7.7 million, the study showed, whites still make up the vast majority of college students.",
"Researcher Richard Fry, who worked on the Pew study, attributes the gains in Hispanic enrollment to the overall population increase of Hispanics and an increase in the number of Hispanics graduating from high school, making them eligible to go to college.",
"\"Improving the educational attainment of young Hispanics would improve the long-term socioeconomic prospects of the nation's largest minority group,\" Fry said.",
"\"It would not only be beneficial for Hispanics themselves but would also raise the education and skills of the nation's future work force.\"",
"Raul Gonzalez, the legislative director for the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights and advocacy group, noted that \"a spike does not a trend make.\"",
"\"We are hoping that this carries through to be more of a trend,\" Gonzalez said of the findings.",
"Gonzalez gives some credit for the gains to the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law.",
"\"It's been about a decade of the No Child Left Behind policy.",
"We are one of the few groups that still likes that law,\" he said.",
"\"I don't think it's coincidental that (the increased Hispanic enrollment is) coming at a time when a cohort of kids has gone through a school career under No Child Left Behind.\"",
"There was a 4% decline in college enrollment among young whites since 2009, the largest drop since at least 1993, the study showed.",
"This is at least partly due to a decrease in the 18- to 24-year-old white population.",
"Ruiz said she sees her college education as part of the American dream, and she's encouraging her brothers to take advantage of their educational opportunities as well."
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"Minami Sanriku, Japan (CNN) -- A 60-year-old Japanese man was rescued Sunday more than nine miles out at sea after clinging to the swept-away remnants of his home for more than two days.",
"\"I thought today was the last day of my life,\" Hiromitsu Shinkawa told his rescuers, according to Kyodo News Agency.",
"Amazing stories of survival began to emerge in Japan, even amid the horrific destruction of the massive quake and subsequent tsunami that has killed nearly 1,600, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and stoked fears of a potential nuclear power plant meltdown.",
"Three elderly people were found alive in a smashed car that had been tossed by the tsunami.",
"Another woman clung to branches in a tree and took her chances by grabbing onto a floor mat that drifted nearby.",
"The rushing currents pushed her around and around, past many buildings, she said.",
"Her daughter was washed away and remains missing.",
"\"I had been waiting for help all night,\" the rescued mother said.",
"Prime Minister Naoto Kan said about 15,000 people have been rescued so far.",
"Japanese troops were canvassing the destruction by the thousands in search of any sign of life.",
"Hiromitsu Shinkawa, the man rescued at sea, told rescuers he and his wife had returned home shortly after the 8.9-magnitude quake to pick up some belongings when the tsunami slammed the city of Minamisoma.",
"\"I was saved by holding onto the roof, but my wife was swept away,\" he said, according to Kyodo.",
"Video showed him barely visible amid heaps of splintered wood, shattered homes and other debris floating more than nine miles (15 kilometers) at sea.",
"He could be seen waving a self-made red flag.",
"Rescuers aboard a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer spotted him and quickly dispatched a smaller rescue boat to pick him up.",
"When a member of the force handed Hiromitsu something to drink on the rescue boat, he drank it and burst into tears, Kyodo reported.",
"\"No helicopters or boats that came nearby noticed me,\" he said.",
"In Minami Sanriku, a town in northeastern Japan, a family photo album lay on the sodden ground, showing a beaming man holding a newborn baby -- happiness out of place amid the devastation.",
"It's been estimated that some 9,500 people -- half the town's population -- may be unaccounted for.",
"Only a handful of buildings were left standing, with the rest a mangled mess of rubble.",
"A boat sat on the edge of town, carried more than two miles inland by the tsunami.",
"When the tsunami warning sounded Friday, \"most people ran away,\" said Choushin Takahaski, who was working in a local government office near the water.",
"\"Some had to leave the elderly or disabled behind on the second floor.",
"I think a lot of those left behind probably died.\"",
"As the wave hit, he said, it felt like a dream.",
"\"I saw the bottom of the sea when the tidal wave withdrew and houses and people were being washed out,\" another resident said.",
"\"I couldn't watch anymore.\"",
"Forty-two people were found alive Sunday in Minami Sanriku.",
"Search-and-rescue efforts were frequently disturbed by tsunami alerts prompted by ongoing aftershocks.",
"When the alarm sounded, police abandoned their cars, rescue workers blew whistles and people rushed to high ground.",
"\"It's your life!\" shouted one man.",
"\"Run!\" It was a false alarm, but such warnings are taken seriously in the wake of the disaster.",
"In Sendai, south of Minami Sanriku, Hiroki Otomo said his mother and uncle remain missing.",
"They were at the family's home when the tsunami struck.",
"\"Frightening beyond belief,\" Otomo said.",
"\"I have no words.\" Many areas of the town are simply gone -- mud and boards littering an area where a row of homes used to stand.",
"A vehicle was found upside-down among tree branches.",
"A school, which had 450 people inside when the tsunami hit, stood with its doors blown open and a jumble of furniture -- plus a truck -- in its hallways.",
"Some teachers and students were able to escape the building, but officials said others did not.",
"Sendai residents said the water reached the treetops as it swept into the town.",
"Cars were tossed like toys, windows blasted out and homes crushed or swept away completely.",
"\"As I was trying to evacuate, the tsunami was already in front of me,\" another young man said.",
"\"I tried to drive, but I ended up running instead.\"",
"CNN's Paula Hancocks, Kyung Lah and Wayne Drash contributed to this report."
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"60-year-old man survives clinging to debris at sea; wife swept away .",
"Japanese troops canvass region searching for any signs of life ."
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"(CNN) -- Li Na set up a French Open semifinal clash with former world number one Maria Sharapova after toppling fourth seed Victoria Azarenka at Roland Garros.",
"It is the first time that Li, from China, has made the final four in Paris and she did it in style by knocking out the highest remaining seed 7-5 6-2 on Court Philippe Chatrier.",
"Sharapova looked in fine form after a ruthless display against Andrea Petkovic, beating her German opponent 6-0 6-3, and is now in sight of completing a career Grand Slam, having won the other three major tournaments on the tennis calendar.",
"The winner of their clash will face either defending champion Francesca Schiavone, from Italy, or France's 11th seed Marion Bartoli in the final.",
"Li was beaten in the final of the Australian Open by Kim Clijsters back in January, when she became the first Chinese player to make a major final.",
"And she is now one win away from another after a battling display against her opponent from Belarus that saw her hit back from a break down in each set.",
"In the opener, Li dropped the third game on her serve but hit back immediately, before taking a 4-3 lead after a marathon seventh game.",
"She held out to clinch the first 7-5.",
"Again Li found herself a break down early in the second set but made her speed around the court count to peg Azarenka back instantly and surge to the finishing line.",
"\"After I won the match I was feeling, 'Wow, I can play semi in Roland Garros'.",
"I never think about that before,\" Li told AFP.",
"\"So many people think I'm not so good on a clay court, but I think now they should change a little bit.\"",
"Sharapova took just 91 minutes to seal her victory, breaking Petkovic in the first, third and fifth games to complete a whitewash in the opening set.",
"Despite being held at 3-3 in the second, Sharapova then stormed ahead to clinch the match.",
"\"It was tougher than the scoreline suggests.",
"There were a lot of games that could have gone either way.",
"I played really smart on the important points,\" Sharapova was quoted as saying by AFP.",
"\"There is no doubt I have improved on this surface.",
"As the years have gone on I feel I have got better and better.",
"\"I feel physically I have overcome many challenges that maybe a few years ago would have been tough for me.\""
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"Li Na will play Maria Sharapova for a place in the French Open final .",
"Li beat fourth seed Victoria Azarenka 7-5 6-2 in semifinal clash .",
"The sixth seed becomes first Chinese player to make last four at Roland Garros .",
"Russian 7th seed Sharapova dismantles Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-0 6-3 ."
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"Educators and Parents: This Educator and Parent Guide is provided for teachers and parents to use as a catalyst for discussion and learning, if they choose to watch this program with their students.",
"CNN provides Educator and Parent Guides for all of its \"In America\" programming.",
"(CNN Student News) -- Watch or record \"Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America\" when it airs on CNN on Sunday, Aug. 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.",
"By recording the documentary, you agree that you will use the program for educational viewing purposes for a one-year period only.",
"No other rights of any kind or nature whatsoever are granted, including, without limitation, any rights to sell, publish, distribute, post online or distribute in any other medium or forum, or use for any commercial or promotional purpose.",
"Program Description: Sharples, West Virginia -- population around 100 people -- is ground zero in the fight over an issue of importance to every American who has ever plugged in a computer, watched a television or taken a hot shower: How should the U.S. mine coal?",
"About 50% of U.S. power still comes from burning coal.",
"In West Virginia, over the past few decades, there has been a push for Mountaintop Removal Mining, a destructive yet highly effective form of strip mining that literally blows the tops off of mountains to reach the rich coal seams buried inside.",
"Miners say mountaintop removal projects provide much-needed jobs.",
"Their opponents say the cost of those jobs -- to the environment, the people and the future -- is just too high.",
"There is an intense, enormous struggle going on in tiny Sharples.",
"Soledad O'Brien is there to cover it from all sides in her documentary, \"Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America.\"",
"Recommended grades: 9-12 .",
"Subject Areas: Civics/Government, Contemporary Issues, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Health .",
"Before-viewing Discussion Questions: Use these questions to promote discussion before viewing the program.",
"1. What do you know about coal mining?",
"What role do you think that coal mining plays in the U.S. and state economies?",
"Why do you think that some people might support or oppose using coal as a fuel source?",
"2. What do you think might be the working conditions for a coal miner?",
"What do you think might be the potential benefits and risks of being a coal miner in America?",
"3. What are some sources of energy other than coal?",
"In your opinion, what might be the advantages and disadvantages of obtaining and using each of these energy sources?",
"Post-Viewing Discussion Questions: Use these questions to facilitate discussion and critical thinking after watching \"Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America.\"",
"1. According to the documentary: What role does coal mining play in the economy and history of southern West Virginia?",
"How has the coal mining industry shaped the economy of the town of Sharples?",
"2. According to the documentary, approximately what percent of America's power comes from coal?",
"What arguments are made in the documentary that either support or oppose the mining of coal?",
"3. What is mountaintop removal mining?",
"What comparisons are made in the video between mountaintop removal and underground coal mining?",
"4. What is reclamation? How have coal mining companies used reclamation?",
"What evidence is shown in the documentary that reclamation does or does not work?",
"What do you think might be the differences, if any, for the environment between a reclaimed mountaintop and one that has not been disturbed by mining?",
"5. According to the program: What is the significance of the proposed Spruce One project?",
"What impact might this project have on the local economy and on the environment?",
"How have people who live near Blair Mountain reacted to the Spruce One proposal?",
"Why do you think that some residents are in favor of this project, while others are not?",
"6. How did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule in the Spruce One case?",
"What factors do you think that the EPA weighed in making its decision?",
"What did EPA administrator Lisa Jackson say in the program about this decision?",
"What is your reaction to this decision and Jackson's statement?",
"7. What is the focus of West Virginia University professor Michael Hendryx's research?",
"What has Hendryx concluded from his research?",
"What do the coal mining industry officials say in response to his findings?",
"8. What was the outcome of a march on Blair Mountain that took place in 1921?",
"Why did Chuck Keeney and other West Virginia residents march on Blair Mountain recently?",
"What connections does Keeney make between these two events?",
"How does Linda Dial react to the recent march?",
"Do you think that Keeney and Dial can find any common ground with regard to the issues surrounding coal mining?",
"Explain. 9. In your opinion: Does a corporation have a responsibility to repair any damage that is done to the environment by its actions?",
"If so, why? If not, who, if anyone, should be responsible for repairing this damage?",
"10. Summarize each of the different perspectives presented in this documentary.",
"Are there any individuals whose stories resonate with you?",
"Explain. In your opinion, how should the situation at Blair Mountain be resolved?",
"Media Literacy Question .",
"How might the various stakeholders seen in this documentary use different forms of media to influence public opinion?",
"Learning Activity .",
"The Economy, the Environment and Public Health .",
"Ask students to consider how businesses in communities might impact local economies, the environment and public health.",
"Direct small groups of students to conduct research to learn more about businesses and their impact -- both positive and negative -- on the communities in which they are located.",
"Have each group choose one of these businesses and present a case study on the business and its impact on the region.",
"Groups may want to include information, for example, about jobs generated and community and infrastructure development, as well as any resulting pollution, habitat destruction and/or alleged ties to health hazards.",
"Groups will also want to share any evidence of balance among the business, environment and public health.",
"After the presentations, generate a class discussion to help students draw conclusions about what they have learned.",
"Ask: . • What benefits might a business operation bring to a region's economy?",
"• How might a business operation negatively impact a region's quality of life?",
"• Do you think that it is possible to promote economic development while protecting the environment and human health?",
"If so, how? If not, why not? After discussion around the last question, challenge students to write emails to their local elected officials expressing their opinions on economic development and quality of life.",
"They might choose to offer their suggestions for promoting economic development while protecting the environment and public health in their community, or advocate positions that prioritize one or more of these factors.",
"Curriculum Connections .",
"Science . CONTENT STANDARD F: SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES .",
"As a result of activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop understanding of .",
"• Personal and community health • Natural resources • Environmental quality • Natural and human-induced hazards .",
"The National Science Education Standards (http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/pdf/index.html ) are published by the National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu).",
"Social Studies .",
"National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: The Themes of Social Studies 3.",
"PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.",
"5. INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND INSTITUTIONS .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.",
"6. POWER, AUTHORITY, AND GOVERNANCE .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create, interact with, and change structures of power, authority, and governance.",
"The National Curriculum Standards for the Social Studies are produced by the National Council for the Social Studies."
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"\"Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America\" examines the issue of mountaintop removal, which literally blows the tops off of mountains to reach the rich coal seams buried inside .",
"West Virginia coal miners say mountaintop removal projects provide much-needed jobs.",
"Their opponents say the cost of those jobs -- to the environment, the people and the future -- is just too high .",
"Use this educator's and parent's guide to examine all sides of this issue .",
"The guide includes before-viewing and post-viewing questions and a learning activity ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Even Superman has daddy issues.\"",
"Damon Lindelof -- who, along with Carlton Cuse, oversaw \"Lost's\" six-season run -- had that to say when asked to compare the story of Superman to the story of the TV series for which he's best known.",
"Lindelof is one of a dream team of writers contributing stories to the landmark 900th issue of \"Action Comics,\" in stores Wednesday.",
"The others include David Goyer, writer of \"Batman Begins\" and the upcoming film \"The Man of Steel\"; Richard Donner, director of \"Superman: The Movie\"; Geoff Johns, DC Comics' chief creative officer and one of its most popular writers; Paul Dini, best known for producing \"Batman\" and \"Superman: The Animated Series\"; and Paul Cornell, who has been writing \"Action\" since last year and is best known for his work on the \"Doctor Who\" novels and TV series.",
"Nine hundred issues is the most any monthly comic book has ever published (though it went weekly for a brief time in the 1980s), with the first issue of \"Action\" having introduced the character of Superman in 1938.",
"(That issue also recently sold for $1.5 million.)",
"CNN recently interviewed Lindelof and Cornell, separately, about the historic issue and Superman's legacy.",
"They addressed a few topics of heated fan debate in the process.",
"CNN: What can readers expect in this 900th issue?",
"Lindelof: Obviously, \"Action\" No.",
"900 is a landmark issue -- one that covers Superman's past, present and future.",
"I tried to (write) a little story that fits into the myth that we all know but looks at it from a different point of view.",
"Cornell: (There's) an enormous lead story, closing Lex Luthor's adventure into ultimate power, setting him up against Superman in their fight of their lives and then continuing into Superman's new ongoing adventure against Doomsday.",
"With loads of extra features in the back!",
"CNN: What was it like writing for Superman?",
"Lindelof: To actually play in a world that was so inspirational to me since I was a kid is nothing less than a dream come true.",
"CNN: What did you hope to accomplish with your story?",
"Lindelof: My hope was to drum up a little emotion: As heroic as Superman is, there is also an inherent sadness to his story.",
"I wanted to try to tap that.",
"CNN: Is there anything that's surprised you about writing the character?",
"Cornell: I've discovered he really needs thought balloons.",
"He can't show doubt or fear to the world, because he wants to enthuse and support the people around him, but he can doubt and fear inside.",
"CNN: What have you hoped to accomplish in all of your time writing for him?",
"Cornell: To show his essential humanity, especially in comparison to the bad parenting that produced Lex.",
"CNN: Did you grow up as a Superman fan?",
"Cornell: I think we all did.",
"He's one of the most recognizable characters on Earth, and we all know many details of his life and supporting cast, far more than you would with virtually any other character.",
"I think that's the power of radio, that first mass medium, to establish details in the heads of a truly enormous audience, and it all got passed down from there.",
"CNN: If you could have one of Superman's powers, what would it be?",
"Cornell: Flight, obviously.",
"I'd love to be able to take off and go visit people in the States.",
"Customs might be a problem.",
"Lindelof: I'm sure everyone picks flight, so in the spirit of being unique, I'm gonna go with the ability to take the \"S\" insignia on his chest and make it grow to gargantuan proportions so I could throw it at people and ensnare them (as demonstrated in \"Superman II\").",
"CNN: Who is your favorite villain?",
"Cornell: It's obviously Lex.",
"I've been living in his head for a dozen issues now.",
"I think we have a lot in common.",
"Lindelof: Bizarro.",
"I just love everything about that guy.",
"CNN: Do you have a favorite incarnation of Superman, whether it be in the comics, TV, or movies through the years?",
"Cornell: Christopher Reeve.",
"He sorted it and balanced it so well that everyone else since has been influenced by him.",
"Lindelof: Chris Reeve will always be Superman to me ... but as far as comics go, you're never gonna do better than Alan Moore's \"For the Man Who Has Everything.\"",
"CNN: Can you settle this ongoing debate: Is Superman Clark Kent's secret identity, or the other way around?",
"Cornell: Clark Kent is a real person who acts slightly more bumbling at the Daily Planet and has an interesting ethnic heritage.",
"Superman is the job he puts on a uniform to do, and like a cop, he's a somewhat more serious person when he's doing it.",
"Lindelof: As I'm of the belief that everything uttered in \"Kill Bill\" has to be right, I have to agree with David Carradine on that one.",
"(Carradine's character, Bill, argued that Clark Kent was Superman's secret identity.)",
"CNN: What can we expect beyond issue No.",
"900? Cornell: A huge fight against Doomsday for the next several issues, with Superman and a bunch of his friends repeatedly saving the world. That's what everyone's after!"
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"\"Action Comics\" hits historical 900th issue this week .",
"\"Lost\" co-creator Damon Lindelof part of a dream team of writers for the issue .",
"Lindelof and \"Action\" writer Paul Cornell spoke about Superman's legacy .",
"In separate stories, writers explore Superman's humanity, emotions ."
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"Salt Lake City, Utah (CNN) -- Each March, college basketball's regular season fades from memory as fans and players gear up for the NCAA Tournament and all the hoopla that comes with it: The brackets.",
"Cinderellas. Buzzer beaters.",
"But this year was different.",
"Long before March arrived, this season was officially Jimmered.",
"Brigham Young University guard Jimmer Fredette spent his senior season torching opposing defenses and shooting 3-pointers from unguardable distances.",
"\"In a day and age where there's very little must-see TV, I think he's must-see TV,\" said David Locke, host of an afternoon sports radio show in Salt Lake City.",
"Heading into the postseason, Fredette isn't just leading the nation in scoring (27.9 points per game) and starting to pile up player of the year awards.",
"In the world of college hoops, the unassuming kid with the funny name is also tops in Twitter references and YouTube videos.",
"He doesn't really look the part -- undersized (listed at 6 feet 2 inches) and a little slow, with a linebacker's shoulders.",
"Yet he scores at will, inspires songs and is responsible for college basketball's version of a catchphrase -- teams don't just lose to BYU, they get Jimmered.",
"\"He's one of those guys you expect the ball to go in and when the ball doesn't go in when he shoots it, you're kind of like 'Wow, he just actually missed a shot,' \" says Bill Riley, the play-by-play announcer for BYU's chief rival, the University of Utah.",
"Fresh off a road win over then-No.",
"6 San Diego State, the Cougars looked like a sure-fire No.",
"1 or 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament -- a huge boon for a program that has yet to reach a Final Four.",
"Then news broke that the team's primary inside player, Brandon Davies, had been suspended indefinitely for violating the Mormon Church-owned school's strict honor code.",
"Critics called BYU too Jimmercentric before.",
"Now the Cougars may have no choice but to feed him the ball early and often when the tournament begins next week.",
"A social media 'phenomenon' What separates Fredette from recent college basketball stars -- say, Stephen Curry or Adam Morrison -- isn't so much what he's achieved on the court, but rather how much attention he's garnered off it.",
"It's arguable whether the state of Utah has ever produced a better college basketball player -- Utah's Keith Van Horn and Andrew Bogut and BYU's Danny Ainge are close -- but there's no comparing the hype.",
"\"He's a fabulous player, I'm not trying to take anything away from him, but he's a little bit of a social-networking phenomenon,\" Locke said.",
"Consider Fredette's place in the hierarchy of collegiate sports.",
"He doesn't play for one of college basketball's blue bloods like Duke or Kentucky.",
"BYU plays in the relatively obscure Mountain West Conference with an abysmal TV contract.",
"Jimmermania exploded on January 26 during a game on CBS College Sports, a network lost in the hinterlands of paid-TV programming.",
"Fredette scored 43 that night in BYU's first meeting against San Diego State, prompting defending NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant to famously tweet, \"Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world.\"",
"In the week that followed, he became a sports media darling.",
"Fans quickly learned that Fredette's biography was just as compelling as his scoring ability.",
"Raised in Glens Falls, New York, by a Catholic mother (who nicknamed him Jimmer; his given name is James) and a converted Mormon father.",
"His brother TJ served as a mentor and is now an aspiring rapper, best known for his song \"Amazing\" and the accompanying Jimmer highlight reel on YouTube.",
"Big brother took Jimmer to play pickup ball in New York, arranged games at a nearby prison against inmates and made him sign a contract that he'd do everything in his power to reach the NBA.",
"It's a goal Jimmer will reach next season -- though scouts remain torn on his professional potential.",
"In that last week of January, Fredette quickly rose from regional fame to household name -- and it didn't hurt that his name was a bit on the quirky side.",
"\"If his name is James, I can't Twitter search James.",
"But if somebody types in Jimmer, the only reason, they're typing in Jimmer is because of (Fredette),\" said Locke.",
"YouTube is is loaded with Fredette highlights, clip after clip of him raining 3s from seemingly ill-advised distances or twisting in the lane for how-did-he-do-that?",
"layups. \"He makes the long-range ones, but he's really creative, really clever. ...",
"Sometimes he uses his feet, sometimes he pauses, does all sorts of little things here and there that throw his defender off just enough where he can create space for himself and get off a shot,\" said Jay Drew, who covers BYU for The Salt Lake Tribune and calls Fredette \"the mentally strongest athlete I've covered in 20 years.\"",
"Music videos sing his praises, such as the multiple versions of a \"Teach Me How to Jimmer\" song on YouTube.",
"There is even a blond BYU student singing him an acoustic Valentine ode that goes, \"So baby come on over, be my point guard.\"",
"Heckling via Facebook .",
"But technology can have a downside, too.",
"San Diego State fans organized a massive Facebook onslaught on Fredette's girlfriend, BYU cheerleader Whitney Wonnacott.",
"Students reportedly \"poked\" her 7,000 times on the site before the February 26 game in San Diego.",
"SDSU student Brent Duclos designed and sold \"I Poked Jimmer's Girlfriend\" T-shirts.",
"\"They honestly were just meant as good fun, and of course to try and get into Jimmer's head,\" said Duclos via e-mail.",
"Jimmer had a bit of an off day, scoring a mere 25, but the Cougars won and Fredette and Wonnacott simply shrugged off the hijinks.",
"To a degree, that's part of college basketball and regionally part of playing for BYU.",
"Some call the school the Duke of the West because of vitriol the school attracts from opposition -- love or hate, no middle ground.",
"Somehow, Fredette seems to buck that trend.",
"He's heckled, to be sure, sometimes to classless degrees, but even opposing fans say they can't help but at least respect what he does.",
"He's unflappable. \"For the most part, you always have to respect a talented player,\" said Duclos.",
"\"I've never seen as many off-axis, fade-away 3s in a career, let alone a season.",
"That's why it gives him a bigger target on his back compared to his teammates.\"",
"The real test, however, comes closer to home in Salt Lake City, where Utah fans are bred to hate BYU and boo their players relentlessly.",
"\"He's kind of that rare guy that even (University of Utah) Ute fans seem to appreciate what he's done, whereas (normally) most of them would just hate the guy simply because he puts on a BYU jersey,\" Drew said.",
"Kristin Ward, a 20-year-old University of Utah junior, isn't about to start rooting for Fredette, but recognizes his ability -- especially after Jimmer's monster 47-point performance at Utah's Huntsman Center earlier this season.",
"\"It was hard to watch and I don't compliment BYU sports that often, but Jimmer's a really good player and it's interesting to watch a player that never misses and at the game against us, he never missed,\" she said.",
"\"He shot from everywhere and made it.\""
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"\"He's one of those guys you expect the ball to go in (when he shoots),\" announcer says .",
"Despite all the hoopla surrounding Fredette, scouts remain torn on his pro potential ."
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"(CNN) -- Hassan Addahoumi fled Libya in the late 1970s, driven from his homeland by the hard-line tactics of Moammar Gadhafi.",
"More than 30 years later, his son has returned and is watching what could be the longtime leader's collapse.",
"\"He's going to be part of the history,\" Addahoumi said about his son, Sammi, who is in the rebel hub of Benghazi.",
"\"This is our dream come true.\"",
"Addahoumi spoke to CNN from his home in Columbia, South Carolina, where he said he was glued to news about Libya.",
"The nearly 42-year rule of Gadhafi appeared on the verge of collapse early Monday, with rebel supporters making it to the same Tripoli square where regime loyalists had congregated for months.",
"Addahoumi said he left his country after studying law in Benghazi.",
"\"The regime was very, very tough,\" he said.",
"\"If you stayed there, you had to be in either the prison or the cemetery.\"",
"Over the years, Addahoumi said he has returned to Libya from time to time and that he wishes he could be there now.",
"\"I wish I could be part of this history,\" he said.",
"A part of him is. Addahoumi's son, Sammi, sent CNN an iReport from Benghazi that showed video of large, boisterous crowds in the city's Freedom Square as developments played on a large screen.",
"He also spoke to CNN by phone.",
"\"The spirits are quite high,\" said Sammi, 28, a deli manager.",
"\"Everyone is expecting Tripoli to fall.\"",
"He said he has spent time off and on in Libya since 2005.",
"Every summer, he tries to spend at least a month there, he said.",
"Watching the uprising, which he called \"42 years in the making,\" Sammi said he was filled with joy.",
"\"It's exhilarating,\" he said.",
"\"And it's also a lot of anticipation ... will Libya stay together?\"",
"An ocean away, his father voiced confidence.",
"He said Libyans have the resources they need to build the country and that they will do it, piece by piece.",
"\"This is the best thing that could have happened to us,\" Addahoumi said.",
"\"Libya is going to be a new nation.\"",
"CNN's Greg Botelho and Dana Ford contributed to this report ."
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"Hassan Addahoumi watches news of his native Libya from South Carolina .",
"His son, Sammi, is in the rebel hub of Benghazi .",
"Sammi says the Libyan uprising has been \"42 years in the making\""
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Canadian photographer Donald Weber has been documenting the long-term effects of the Chernobyl meltdown since 2005.",
"Originally an architect, Weber came to photography as a freelancer for the international press.",
"After years of drifting through the post-Soviet landscape, shooting from the perspective of the skytalets (a traditional Russian wanderer), Weber has seen the reality of the area with an intimacy few outsiders have been granted.",
"Following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast coast of Japan in March, Weber watched as the damaged Fukushima power plant quickly threw the country into nuclear panic.",
"What was once seen as an isolated and frankly unrepeatable incident, Chernobyl has found a twin in Fukushima.",
"On April 11, the Fukushima nuclear crisis was upgraded from a 5 to a 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, a level previously only reached at Chernobyl.",
"In the wake of the compound disasters, Japan has been struggling to contain the nuclear fallout in addition to rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and morale.",
"Residents of the area still cannot access their homes to retrieve personal belongings and Japanese officials have said it will be another 10 months, at the very earliest, that people can begin returning to the area.",
"See the rest of Picture Perfect: Donald Weber at VBS.TV .",
"VBS traveled with Weber to the empty streets and abandoned homes surrounding Fukushima, where the eerie silence mirrors that at Chernobyl.",
"One of the first photographers inside the zone, Weber set out to document the unfolding nuclear crisis and we set out to document him.",
"Officials who took part in the Chernobyl cleanup a mere 25 years ago say they are shocked at how slow Japan's response has been.",
"The Japanese government has yet to ask for international help in the cleanup, seemingly determined to solve the problem on its own and so far making many of the same mistakes that were made at Chernobyl.",
"\"With the earthquake and tsunami, it was a catastrophe, but it's more of an engineering catastrophe and we can fix this,\" Weber says.",
"\"But you can't fix what's happening at Fukushima.",
"People just don't understand the whole scope of the matter ...\""
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"Photographer who documented the Chernobyl disaster goes to Japan .",
"Donald Weber gets inside the buffer zone around the damaged Fukushima power plant .",
"VBS follows Weber as he explores the \"eerily silent\" streets and empty homes ."
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"(CNN) -- The roar of the jubilant crowd assembled in Cairo's Tahrir Square said it all.",
"Nearly four months ago, longtime Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak finally yielded to political reality and stepped down from power.",
"Mubarak's fall -- coming on the heels of the ouster of neighboring Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali -- was seen by many as part of a domino effect.",
"The Arab world, it seemed, was finally on the brink of a peaceful democratic transition that had eluded the troubled region for generations.",
"Today, however, the promise of a peaceful Arab Spring appears to be yielding to the reality of a long, violent summer as dictators across the Middle East and North Africa draw a line in the sand and fight to maintain control of their countries.",
"Protesters, meanwhile, are showing no sign of backing down.",
"\"We've seen the last (Middle East) dictator leave voluntarily,\" Michael Rubin, a regional expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, recently told CNN.",
"See the latest daily developments at CNN's This Just In .",
"U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western leaders will continue to push for peaceful change when possible, Rubin said.",
"But dictators in the region have been spooked by the fate of Mubarak, who is now facing trial and a possible death sentence, and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, who is facing an onslaught from armed rebels and NATO air forces.",
"They \"see there is no possibility of a peaceful retirement,\" Rubin said.",
"And many of them also \"believe that their country is their personal fight.\"",
"While it is possible to identify trends that pertain to the entire region, a number of analysts stress that each country has unique circumstances and challenges that throw the notion of an all-encompassing Arab Spring into question.",
"Libya: No signs of waning .",
"In Libya, opposition to Gadhafi has been hampered by the fact that the country's sense of national identity is \"very weak,\" according to Robert Danin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.",
"Tribal loyalty in the sparsely populated North African country comes first, a fact that has made it extremely tough for Gadhafi's opponents to present a unified front.",
"Gadhafi's violent reaction to protesters -- and threats of a massacre in the rebel-held city of Benghazi -- led to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing military steps to protect civilians.",
"NATO leaders, who believe the safety of Libyan civilians can't be secured without Gadhafi's ouster, have since embarked on a two-month bombing campaign targeting government forces.",
"NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced Wednesday that the alliance has decided to extend its mission in the country by 90 days.",
"Gadhafi still refuses to step aside, but has been discussing a possible African Union-brokered cease-fire with South African President Jacob Zuma.",
"Libya's war has the potential to become a \"protracted and costly stalemate,\" Max Boot, another senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently told reporters.",
"There's a \"real danger of chaos\" and protracted tribal warfare if Gadhafi falls, Boot said.",
"Al Qaeda may be able to exploit such a situation, he warned.",
"5 options for the U.S. in Libya .",
"Close to 900,000 people have fled Libya since that country's conflict began in February, according to the United Nations.",
"Egypt: Tension escalates .",
"Meanwhile, in nearby Egypt reformers are upset with the pace of change since Mubarak's fall.",
"\"We've waited ... and nothing has happened,\" Mehdi Ibrahim, 43, said Friday at a demonstration in Tahrir Square.",
"\"Mubarak and his men have not (yet) been punished for their crimes.",
"We need accountability.\"",
"Some protesters on Friday urged the creation of a civil presidential council to replace the military regime now running the country until democratic elections are held in September.",
"Others called for the expeditious return of stolen assets, as well as a generally more open society.",
"Fareed Zakaria: Military threatens Egypt's revolution .",
"Tension continues to exist between some of the more secular, liberal-minded activists and the more conservative Muslim Brotherhood, Mubarak's primary opposition for years.",
"\"We need rules and regulations to guide us and to protect individual freedoms and the rights of minorities\" before the elections, said law student Mohamed Badawi.",
"But Saffa Mohamed, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, said the September election will be good for the country, even if it benefits more established groups like his or remnants of the once-ruling National Democratic Party at the expense of newer political parties.",
"\"Why won't Egyptians just accept the results of the recent referendum?\"",
"he asked. \"The date ... has already been set.\"",
"Syrian powder keg .",
"To the northeast, Syria's government stands accused of committing atrocities against its own people.",
"The international watchdog group Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday alleging that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has carried out a \"systematic\" series of abuses against protesters that could \"qualify as crimes against humanity.\"",
"The group's 57-page document contains details from dozens of victims and witnesses to abuses in Daraa province, the southwestern Syrian powder keg where the unrest engulfing the country began in mid-March before spreading across the country.",
"At present, the report said, there have been around 887 deaths across Syria, including at least 418 people in Daraa.",
"The crackdown in Daraa last month became so intense that eyewitnesses spoke of bodies bloating in the streets and injured people being treated at makeshift secret clinics to avoid detection by government security forces.",
"Human Rights Watch is urging the United Nations to hold al-Assad's regime accountable.",
"Western leaders have imposed new sanctions against al-Assad and several of his most prominent supporters.",
"For its part, the Syrian protest movement shows no sign of waning.",
"A two and a half minute YouTube video clip showing multiple wounds on the body of a 13-year-old boy from Daraa -- Hamza Ali al-Khateeb -- has prompted international outrage.",
"A Facebook page calling itself \"We are all the martyr, the child Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb\" had 60,000 followers by Tuesday.",
"Bahrain: 'Iran's Kuwait' The push for democratic reform is also encountering fierce resistance on the strategically critical Arabian Peninsula.",
"The leaders of two key U.S. allies, Bahrain and Yemen, are struggling to maintain control despite slowly mounting international pressure.",
"On Wednesday, Bahrain lifted state of emergency laws in place since March that had allowed the silencing of opposition leaders and journalists.",
"King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has appealed for dialogue, saying that talks with opposition groups will begin in July.",
"The minority Sunni government, however, continued its crackdown on the country's major Shiite political opposition movement.",
"Among other things, security forces fired tear gas to disperse pro-reform demonstrators in several Shiite residential areas, according to one human rights activist.",
"A source for the opposition told CNN that \"sporadic sounds of bombs and bird-shot clusters were also heard.\"",
"The government also filed charges Wednesday against four top opposition leaders in a move that could weaken the country's Al Wefaq party, according to two opposition sources.",
"Regional monarchies eye Bahrain unrest .",
"Bahrain is set to hold parliamentary elections in September, filling seats vacated by members of Al Wefaq, which left parliament in protest over the crackdown.",
"The question of how hard Western powers -- the United States in particular -- should push for change in Bahrain is complicated by the fact that the tiny Persian Gulf country is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.",
"Neighboring Saudi Arabia and the United States are both worried that a successful Shiite uprising would transform Bahrain into an Iranian client state.",
"\"Bahrain is Iran's Kuwait,\" Rubin said, referencing former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's insistence that Kuwait was rightfully an Iraqi province.",
"If Bahrain's government falls, \"there is no question -- no ifs, ands or buts -- Bahrain would become an Iranian satellite, and the Fifth Fleet would be sent packing,\" he predicted.",
"Bahrain is \"pretty much the one country where (Washington) can't afford regime change,\" he said.",
"Yemen: Possible al Qaeda stronghold?",
"Finally, nearby Yemen continues to be rocked by escalating clashes between rebels and forces loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh.",
"CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom on the worsening crisis in Yemen .",
"Four missiles struck a compound Wednesday where generals who defected from the Yemeni regime were meeting, according to a spokesman for the generals.",
"Fierce clashes also erupted between government security forces and Hashed tribesmen Wednesday in front of the Ministry of Local Administration in Sanna, eyewitnesses and residents said.",
"The Hashed tribe has opposed government forces in intermittent fighting for more than a month.",
"Fifteen tribesmen have died and 31 have been injured from clashes in the past two days, said Abdul Qawi Qaisi, spokesman for the head of Hashed tribe.",
"Witnesses also reported seeing at least three houses on fire near where the clashes were taking place Wednesday.",
"Saleh, who has ruled his poor, arid country since 1978, \"does not want peace,\" said the spokesman for the head of the Hashed tribe.",
"\"Saleh thrives with blood being spilt.",
"They attacked us and we had to defend.\"",
"Government spokesman Tarek Shami said mediation efforts meant to stem the rash of recent violence between the country's tribal groups and Saleh's government ended Saturday without a peace accord because Hashed tribesmen would not negotiate.",
"At least 100 people have also been arrested in the city of Taiz, while hundreds more have been injured across the country in recent fighting, according to a U.N. statement released Tuesday.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa has condemned what it called the \"unprovoked and unjustified attack\" on demonstrators in Taiz.",
"It praised the protesters and called on Saleh \"to move immediately\" on the president's previous promise to transfer power.",
"Saleh, however, has been a leading U.S. ally against al Qaeda, which has a Yemen-based branch that has claimed responsibility for two attempted attacks on the United States.",
"America's main concern regarding Yemen is that the country could become an al Qaeda stronghold if Saleh falls, Rubin said.",
"But U.S. policymakers also \"have to recognize that al Qaeda rose under Saleh,\" he said.",
"\"Keeping him in doesn't keep al Qaeda out.\""
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"Violence has escalated across the Middle East and North Africa in recent months .",
"Dictators across the region are fighting to cling to power, while protesters refuse to back down .",
"Each country faces unique circumstances and challenges .",
"The U.S. and other Western powers have not pushed as hard for change in certain countries ."
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