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"(Mashable) -- Apple has unveiled Final Cut Pro X, the newest version of its popular video-editing software.",
"Final Cut Pro X is a rebuild of the 12-year-old software, according to Apple's Peter Steinauer and Randy Ubillos.",
"It's the first 64-bit version for the software, capable of utilizing all eight cores and more than 4 GB of RAM of the Mac for professional video editing.",
"Apple revealed the new version of Final Cut Pro at an event at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas.",
"Final Cut Pro X comes with a slew of new features, including advanced people and shot detection, automatic audio cleanup and \"range-based keywording,\" which gives video editors the ability to apply keywords to specific portions of a video.",
"The new Final Cut Pro also sports a feature that prevents audio and video tracks from being pushed out of sync by accident.",
"Photography Bay also reports that Final Cut Pro X will come with feature that automatically matches color between two clips.",
"Final Cut Pro X will be available for download via the Mac App Store in June for $299, far less than the Final Cut Studio's $999 price tag.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
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"Final Cut Pro X is rebuild of the 12-year-old software .",
"New features include advanced people and shot detection, automatic audio cleanup ."
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"(CNN) -- Seven people were arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb densely populated areas in Amsterdam, Netherlands, police said Thursday.",
"One member of the group of six men and one woman has ties to a bombing in Madrid, Spain, said Amsterdam police spokeswoman Shermain Canbamme.",
"Late Thursday, police were still searching buildings where the arrests were made, she said.",
"Several shopping areas and the area around a soccer stadium had been closed as a precaution.",
"The suspects were being held at several police stations, police said, and no charges had been filed as of late Thursday night."
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"6 men, 1 woman arrested; 1 man has connections to a Madrid bombing, police say .",
"Police searching buildings where the arrests were made .",
"Shopping areas, area around a soccer stadium closed as a precaution ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan authorities have recovered the bodies of five police officers and three intelligence agents just days after they were kidnapped by insurgents in the country's volatile Wardak province, officials said Sunday.",
"The men had been driving through a mountainous district outside the provincial capital of Maidan Shar on Thursday when gunmen stopped their vehicle and took them hostage, according to Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial governor's spokesman.",
"The Taliban have since claimed responsibility for the killing, according to the group's spokesman.",
"Wardak has long been considered a hotbed of insurgent activity and is the province where militants reportedly shot down a NATO Chinook helicopter last week that killed 38 people, including 30 Americans."
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"The men were kidnapped Thursday and killed .",
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"Wardak has long been considered a hotbed of insurgent activity ."
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"(CNN) -- The census is inherently political, even if most people don't see it that way.",
"Every 10 years, new census data is used to reapportion congressional seats across the country, while all states must use the census to redraw congressional districts.",
"These processes don't get much attention, but the stakes are high: They help determine control of Congress and state legislatures and, because they determine the Electoral College map, who wins the White House.",
"And the census's political influence doesn't stop there.",
"Because it presents a unique demographic portrait of the country, the census is mined for political intelligence by strategists from both parties and applied to campaigns from the county level all the way up to the presidency.",
"Here are eight political takeaways from the 2010 Census: .",
"1. Republicans need to improve relations with Hispanics.",
"Fast. The single biggest headline from the 2010 Census may be the explosion in Hispanic growth.",
"More than half of U.S. population growth in the last decade is due to growth among Hispanics; nearly one in six Americans now identify as Hispanic.",
"That's bad news for Republicans, who've seen Hispanic support slip since 2004, when President George W. Bush made major inroads among those voters.",
"Bush won 44 percent of Hispanics.",
"Last November, by contrast, when the GOP wave swept control of the House out of Democratic hands, Republicans captured just 38 percent of that vote.",
"Much of the falloff is due to the tough Republican line on illegal immigration, including widespread GOP opposition to immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for undocumented workers.",
"Bush's efforts at such reform were brought down by his own party.",
"And then there's Arizona's 2010 immigration law, championed by Republicans, that requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and allows police to question people's residency status while enforcing other laws.",
"Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and an influential conservative strategist, says the problem runs deeper.",
"\"Republicans have not reached out to Hispanics as they should have for the last 20 years,\" he says.",
"\"The census numbers are not the wake-up call, they're the follow-up call.\"",
"Look for a handful of rising Hispanic Republican stars, like newly elected Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, to echo that line.",
"2. Democrats need to compete harder in red states .",
"Of the 12 new U.S. House seats that will be created this year because of population shifts revealed by the 2010 Census, eight are in solidly red states: Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.",
"The booming Hispanic population -- among which Democrats have an advantage -- is responsible for much of that growth, but not all of it.",
"Demographers say there has also been a migration of Americans from the Northeast and the Rust Belt, both traditional Democratic strongholds, to the more Republican-dominated South and West.",
"GOP strategists argue that those transplants are more likely to be entrepreneurial and connected to business -- and therefore more likely to vote Republican.",
"And they say that policies like no state income tax in Texas and Florida, identified with the GOP, will win over new arrivals.",
"\"People who are showing up here are tired of policies that have driven jobs and families from their old states,\" says Chris Elam, a spokesman for the Texas Republican Party.",
"\"They're showing up with a chip on their shoulders about failed government policies.\"",
"Democratic pollster Cornel Belcher, who worked for President Barack Obama in the 2008 campaign, won't go that far.",
"But he says his party has a lot of work to do in the South and West.",
"\"The Western states don't lean left, so the Democratic Party has to shift its brand,\" he says.",
"\"Issues like new energy sources and energy independence are what appeal to a Western audience.\"",
"3. The battleground states are moving south and west .",
"It wasn't long ago that Ohio was considered the central battleground in presidential politics.",
"Winning the Buckeye State put George W. Bush over the top in 2004.",
"But Ohio and other Rust Belt battlegrounds have seen their populations plateau, shifting electorate clout to the West and parts of the South, like Georgia and North Carolina.",
"The 2010 Census numbers will take two House seats each from Ohio and New York and give seats to states like Georgia and Arizona.",
"But it's not just that Southern and Western states are gaining political muscle.",
"They're also growing more politically competitive, thanks to increasing racial diversity and suburbanization, both threats to Republican hegemony.",
"\"Moving forward,\" Belcher says, \"we're going to be waiting for returns from states like Colorado, Nevada and Arizona to determine how our national elections turn out.\"",
"4. New electoral math makes it harder for a Democrat to win the presidency .",
"In shifting congressional seats to the South and West, the 2010 Census is also shifting Electoral College votes in that same direction.",
"While deep blue New York will lose two Electoral College votes, deep red Texas will pick up four.",
"Measured against the national total of 538 Electoral College votes -- used to determine the outcome of presidential elections -- such modest swings might seem like small potatoes.",
"They certainly wouldn't have mattered in the landslide 2008 election, when Obama beat Republican presidential nominee John McCain by 192 electoral votes.",
"But in squeaker elections like 2000, when George W. Bush bested Al Gore by just five electoral votes, the slightly revised electoral math could have big consequences.",
"5. Mormon political influence is growing .",
"The U.S. Census Bureau hasn't asked Americans about their religious affiliation since the 1950s, saying that such questions infringe church/state separation rights.",
"But the 2010 Census found that Utah, home to the headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the nation's largest Mormon population, was the second-fastest-growing state in the last decade, seeing a 24 percent population spike.",
"The other three fastest-growing states -- Nevada, Arizona and Idaho -- all have substantial Mormon minorities.",
"With Mormon numbers growing, through high birth rates and proselytization, and with the religion gaining greater acceptance among other Americans, especially in the West, look for more Mormon-fueled political activism, especially in the GOP.",
"The trend is already visible: Former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney and former Utah Gov.",
"Jon Huntsman, both Mormons, may soon announce bids for the presidency.",
"6. The face of American politics will get less white .",
"Obama is the country's first African-American president, but, racially speaking, he's probably more of a sign of things to come than a political anomaly.",
"New census figures show that minorities are becoming a bigger slice of the American pie, while white Americans are claiming a smaller share.",
"In fact, white Americans were the only racial group to see their proportion of the population shrink in the last 10 years, from 75 percent to 72 percent.",
"Want to help define America?",
"Take the iReport cultural census .",
"That's due to more than just Hispanic growth.",
"The Asian population, for instance, grew by 43 percent in the last decade, faster than any other major racial group.",
"The election of Indian-American governors like Bobby Jindal in Louisiana and Nikki Haley in South Carolina, both Republicans, shows how the face of politics is already changing to reflect the new racial map.",
"The next frontier: Congress, where whites are still overrepresented.",
"Asians occupy just 3% of congressional seats, while Hispanics occupy 6% -- substantially less than those groups' shares of the nation's population.",
"7. Our politics are moving from country to city, or at least near the city .",
"More than 80% of Americans now live in metropolitan areas -- places with cities of 50,000 or more people.",
"An additional 10%, the 2010 Census found, live in so-called micropolitan areas, organized around towns of 10,000 to 50,000.",
"Both kinds of population-dense areas saw big growth in the last decade, with greater Houston and metro Atlanta watching their numbers surge by around 25 percent.",
"Some of that growth came on the backs of the country's rural areas.",
"The census found that large swaths of Appalachia and the Great Plains -- which encompasses the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska and the Texas panhandle -- lost population.",
"Many Democrats argue that a national shift from traditionally Republican rural areas to more urban ones gives them a leg up.",
"\"It's the red states that are growing, but it's blue terrain in those states,\" says Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.",
"But it's suburban and exurban counties -- as opposed to cities themselves -- that are seeing the biggest growth, which means that areas outside of cities are becoming more politically powerful -- they'll be focal points for many new House districts that will be carved up this year -- and more competitive, but not necessarily more Democratic.",
"8. 2011 is a good year to be a Republican .",
"OK, this isn't political intelligence gleaned from the census -- it's a fact that will determine how census numbers are used politically: The state governments tasked with drawing up new House districts based on the most recent census data are dominated by Republicans.",
"Every 10 years, each state is required to draw up new congressional and state legislative districts that reflect population shifts from the last census.",
"This year, the GOP has a big advantage: It controls 26 state legislatures, while Democrats control just 15, with eight others divided.",
"(Nebraska, not included in that tally, has a nonpartisan legislature.)",
"\"Republicans are in the best position for redistricting since the 1960s,\" says Tim Storey, senior fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures.",
"Redistricting of House and state legislative districts will occur in all states by early next year.",
"Look for Democrats to challenge most of the redistricting plans in Republican-controlled states -- and for the GOP to do the same in Democratic-controlled states.",
"Political posturing around the process is already under way.",
"\"Even in places where Republicans control the process,\" says the DCCC's Ferguson, \"they can't control the demographic realities that voter growth is happening among Democratic communities.\""
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"The census's influence doesn't stop with redistricting .",
"Hispanic population is exploding, but GOP has seen Hispanic support slip since 2004 .",
"The battleground states are moving south and west .",
"New electoral math makes it harder for a Democrat to win the presidency ."
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"(CNN) -- For the second time in two days, security forces fired live ammunition and lobbed tear gas during protests in Change Square outside Sanaa University on Sunday, Ala'a Al-Khowlani, a witness at the scene, said.",
"Other witnesses told CNN that at least 10 people were injured.",
"The clashes began after pro-government demonstrators and security forces set up a road block preventing anti-government protesters from entering Change Square, witnesses said.",
"While protesters were allowed to leave, they were not allowed to re-enter.",
"Anti-government protesters demanded they be allowed in, and tensions heightened when they forced themselves through the road block, witnesses said.",
"After the protesters made their way in, the shooting started and tear gas was used, they reported.",
"According to Al-Khowlani, some believe that security forces and police dressed as civilians were shooting into the crowd from nearby rooftops.",
"In Aden City on Sunday, four protesters were injured by security forces gunfire, witnesses there said.",
"One day earlier, three people in Aden City died from gunshot wounds when security forces tried to disperse an anti-government rally, a medical official with the group Youth for Change said.",
"A fourth person was killed in Dar Saad, in Aden Province, when a group of anti-government protesters stormed a government complex and set a police station on fire, the medical official said.",
"A Yemeni Interior Ministry official acknowledged that one person was killed by security forces, but said those who raided the complex were gang members and not protesters.",
"Regarding the killings in Aden City, a security official called the demonstrators \"separatists\" rather than protesters, and would not comment on the alleged shootings by security forces.",
"\"The government is trying to keep people as safe as possible,\" the official said.",
"Across Yemen, high unemployment fuels much of the anger among a growing young population steeped in poverty.",
"The protesters also cite government corruption and a lack of political freedom.",
"On Thursday, President Ali Abdullah Saleh -- who has promised not to run for president in the next round of elections -- pledged to bring a new constitution to a vote by the end of the year and transfer government power to an elected parliamentary system.",
"Human Rights Watch released a statement Saturday, calling on countries that support Saleh to make aid contingent on the government stopping its attacks on demonstrators.",
"\"President Saleh has once again broken his promise to end attacks on peaceful protesters, and those who supply his government with weapons risk complicity in this bloodshed,\" said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at the rights organization."
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"Anti-government protesters wanted to enter Change Square .",
"Security forces set up a road block .",
"Protesters forced their way in .",
"Security forces responded by shooting and lobbing tear gas, witnesses say ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan rebels expressed fresh optimism that Moammar Gadhafi's reign is about to crumble as a deadline looms for Gadhafi loyalists to disarm or face assault.",
"\"I think this thug, this killer knows that he has nowhere to go,\" said Ali Tarhouni, finance and oil minister for the opposition's National Transitional Council.",
"Tarhouni said he expects Gadhafi's four-decade rule to fall apart within a week.",
"\"I really have no problem with waiting another week,\" he said Tuesday.",
"\"I've waited 42 years.\"",
"But Gadhafi's whereabouts are still unconfirmed, 11 days after opposition forces stormed the capital and later captured his Tripoli compound.",
"Rebels now have their sights set on the remaining bastions in Libya under Gadhafi's control, including his hometown of Sirte.",
"The rebel government issued an ultimatum Tuesday for tribal leaders in towns under the control of loyalists: Surrender or face attack on Saturday, after Eid al-Fitr festivities end.",
"While battles rage on between pro-Gadhafi and rebel forces, a humanitarian crisis in Tripoli mounts.",
"Sixty percent of Tripoli was without water or sanitation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.",
"\"I cannot overstate the urgency of this moment,\" he said.",
"\"Time is of the essence.\"",
"Ban said he hoped to have U.N. personnel on the ground \"as quickly as possible.\"",
"The European Union said pro-Gadhafi forces closed water-pumping stations while fleeing the capital.",
"The resulting disruption of the water supply in Tripoli is \"a major issue,\" an EU spokeswoman said, adding that security concerns along the road to the stations made it impossible to predict when the flow could be restored.",
"The U.N. children's agency was gathering 5 million liters (1.3 million gallons) of water to ship to Tripoli.",
"And the United Nations' World Food Programme was sending 600 tons of food commodities -- wheat flour, pasta, vegetable oil and tomato paste -- for the Red Cross to distribute in Tripoli.",
"Elsewhere in the capital, a former Gadhafi family nanny has emerged as the marred face of brutality in the country.",
"Shwygar Mullah said Aline Gadhafi, the wife of Gadhafi's son Hannibal, poured boiling water on her.",
"Mullah said Aline lost her temper when her daughter wouldn't stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child.",
"Mullah's scalp and face are now a grotesque mosaic of red wounds and scabs.",
"Her chest, torso and legs are all mottled with scars -- some old, some still red, raw and weeping.",
"As she spoke, clear liquid oozed from an open wound on her head.",
"\"She took me to a bathroom.",
"She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet.",
"She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this,\" Mullah said, imitating the vessel of scalding hot water being poured over her head.",
"Mullah is now being treated at a Tripoli hospital after a guard secretly brought her in.",
"While rebels continue searching for Moammar Gadhafi, a clue came from a 17-year-old who told Sky News he saw Gadhafi on Friday in a Tripoli compound belonging to Gadhafi's son Khamis.",
"The teen said he had been working for the previous month as a guard for Khamis Gadhafi.",
"The ruler arrived and spoke with his son for 10 to 15 minutes, said the teen, Abdu Salam Ataher-Ali.",
"Friday's visit by Moammar Gadhafi came as rebels were seizing control of the capital and Gadhafi loyalists were preparing to flee, the teenager told a translator during an interview in a rebel compound.",
"During the visit, the leader's daughter, Aisha, arrived at the compound, where she and her father got into a convoy of vehicles and drove off, the teen told the translator.",
"\"He said one of the high-ranking soldiers come to us and we asked him, 'Where is Gadhafi going?'",
"and he said, 'To Sabha,'\" the teen said.",
"Sabha is a city in southwestern Libya and one of the loyalist strongholds.",
"Khamis Gadhafi then got into an armored Toyota Land Cruiser and drove toward the town of Bani Walid, the teen said.",
"Bani Walid is a city in the Misrata district in the north.",
"An armored Land Cruiser was among a number of vehicles that were destroyed later by NATO bombs along the road northward.",
"It was not clear whether Khamis died in that attack, though residents in Tripoli celebrated word that he was dead.",
"A rebel commander said Khamis Gadhafi was buried in the area.",
"The teen said he had been persuaded to join Khamis Gadhafi's group when he was told that foreign forces were attacking the country, Sky News reported.",
"CNN has not been able to verify the Sky News report.",
"A rebel military commander claimed Tuesday that at least 50,000 people have been killed in the Libyan conflict.",
"The number was calculated by adding death tolls reported in battle zones and accounts from agencies such as the Red Cross, said Hisham Abu Hajer, the Tripoli Brigades coordinator.",
"But he did not divulge the data underlying the total and CNN cannot independently verify it.",
"After months of carnage on both sides of the battle lines, rebels say a peaceful resolution is possible.",
"Tarhouni, the TNC minister, said one of Gadhafi's sons -- he did not disclose who -- is trying to negotiate.",
"But \"there is really nothing to negotiate,\" he said.",
"\"What we offered -- and are still offering -- is that (if) they surrender, they will be safe, they will be brought to court under international supervision, and that's basically the deal on the table.",
"Take it or leave it.\"",
"CNN's Nic Robertson, Dan Rivers, Frederik Pleitgen and Arwa Damon contributed to this report ."
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"Report: A teen says he saw Moammar Gadhafi on Friday in Tripoli .",
"Rebels set a Saturday deadline for Gadhafi loyalists to surrender ."
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"(CNN) -- Jihad Azour (JA) was hand-picked by Lebanon's Prime Minister to steer the country's economy in 2005.",
"Finance Minister, Jihad Azour, talks about how the political deadlock may affect the Lebanon's future .",
"MME's Charles Hodson (CH) has a frank conversation with the country's finance minister about how the ongoing political upheaval may impact on Lebanon's future.",
"Plus, Azour who is a key figure in compiling the country's budget shares his insights into economic growth and the government's ongoing reform program.",
"(CH): With the uncertainty in your region, and your neighbors in particular, Syria and Iran, Iraq and clearly Israel, where is the growth going to come from in Lebanon over the next few years?",
"(JA): Growth will come in Lebanon from high-value added services and industries.",
"This is a country where in fact talent is driving growth and the economy.",
"We don't have natural resources.",
"We have, in fact, the best resource which is the brains of the Lebanese.",
"We are very well positioned in the region as you know at a crossroads between various economies.",
"Therefore, we project that growth, as soon as the political situation improves, can reach easily seven to eight percent.",
"(CH): You've talked about the reform process and said that of 300 odd measures which you plan, about 123 have already been achieved.",
"What are the next major steps going to be along this road to reform?",
"(JA): In fact, it showed that one third of the reform measures were introduced in the first year of a five year reform program, which is a good track record.",
"And by the way, the International Monetary Fund in assessing the implementation of our reform program is very much satisfied with the results Lebanon is achieving despite a very challenging political and security environment in Lebanon.",
"In less than nine months we were able to move ahead with one third of our reform agenda.",
"We were not really navigating in calm waters -- on the contrary.",
"The region was not also in the best environment and the international markets were not conducive with the increase in oil prices and international interest rates.",
"But despite all of that, we are on track when it comes to our reform agenda.",
"(CH): You've also signed an agreement with the World Bank to cut red tape, to decrease bureaucracy in order to make it easier for companies to come in.",
"How do you plan to improve the climate for investors in Lebanon?",
"(JA): First of all, we are working on several reforms and changing the legal framework.",
"We have sent to Parliament more than 10 different pieces of legislation to improve the business environment.",
"Privatization will also play a great role in improving and attracting additional investment to Lebanon.",
"In addition, there are a certain number of doing business measures that we are changing in Lebanon.",
"Lebanon, as you know, is one of the most attractive platforms for business and for trade in the region.",
"We want to bring it back as a center for excellence, as a center for finance, as a center for trade, as a center for business in the whole Middle East region.",
"(CH): So it's very much, it's that old role that you always traditionally had -- a kind of Switzerland of the Middle East.",
"Do you seriously think that you can get that back, that you can attract those sort of sectors - or have they already gone down the road to Dubai?",
"(JA): Of course we can. In fact, we're not competing.",
"We believe that everybody can has their own chance.",
"You know activities like technology, like media, advertising services, financial services, even industry.",
"Lebanon and the Lebanese entrepreneurs are very well equipped to compete in the region.",
"The diaspora is huge and it's very successful and many of them are interested in coming back and investing in Lebanon.",
"(CH): You say, as soon as the situation improves.",
"(JA): A lot of it seems to be on hold until the political situation changes, particularly in terms of bringing the diaspora back home and harnessing it to the Lebanese economy.",
"(JA): We were able to maintain the stability in Lebanon despite the challenging political and security environment we're living through today.",
"We were also able to keep attention on investment in Lebanon.",
"Of course, we're expecting much more investment.",
"In fact, we're expecting to be one of the best destinations for investment in the Middle East.",
"This is what the figures were showing in early 2006.",
"The political uncertainty, it is hurting us.",
"But I think what makes Lebanon unique is despite all these difficulties, the system is still holding.",
"There is financial stability despite the macroeconomic imbalances.",
"We were less hurt than other emerging markets after the crisis of the international capital markets.",
"Still, we see a lot of appetite in investing in Lebanon in the real estate.",
"And you know, many Arab and non-Arab investors are very bullish on Lebanon.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"MME's Charles Hodson sits down with Lebanon's Finance Minister, Jihad Azour .",
"Azour was hand-picked by the Prime Minister to run the economy in 2005 .",
"He talks frankly about how political upheaval could affect Lebanon's future .",
"And shares his insights into economic growth and the government's reform plans ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A bit actor who appeared on ABC's \"Ugly Betty\" series has been charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon after police said they found him wielding a 3-foot long sword near the body of his dead mother.",
"Police arrested Michael Brea, 31, after responding to neighbors' complaints of shouting coming from a Brooklyn apartment that Brea shared with his mother, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.",
"Neighbors described hearing screams and loud voices coming from the apartment early Tuesday.",
"\"I heard the scream for help.",
"'Call 9-1-1',\" said Clinton Clare, a neighbor who lives below the Brea apartment.",
"\"It's like something you would hear in the movies,\" said neighbor Vernon Bent.",
"\"A scream, like, 'Ahhhh'.",
"It's more feminine, fear, a curling scream.\"",
"The victim, Yannick Brea, suffered multiple stab wounds and was found in a kneeling position in the apartment's bathroom, police said.",
"She was pronounced dead at the scene.",
"Neighbors said they heard chanting coming from Brea's apartment after the screaming had subsided.",
"Bent said he heard what he believed to be Brea's voice \"repeating certain words, religious words.\"",
"Bent quoted the voice as saying, \"Jerusalem, Aaron, Moses.",
"Jesus said pick up your bed and walk.\"",
"When authorities entered the apartment, in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood, they found Michael Brea sitting in a chair with the sword in his hand, the police spokesman said.",
"Brea's father, Marcel Brea, said the sword allegedly used to kill his former wife is a martial arts weapon that he used for martial arts practice .",
"The elder Brea said that he refuses to believe his son committed the alleged crime.",
"\"My son is not a violent person, a peaceful person,\" he said.",
"\"My son would have done anything for his mother.",
"I don't know what happened,\" he added.",
"\"My son did not kill his mother.\"",
"The elder Brea said his son -- a Freemason -- had attended a Freemason's meeting at a Masonic Lodge in Harlem, on the day of the incident.",
"He said he later recieved a phone call from his son, complaining of a headache.",
"The elder Brea -- who is also a Freemason -- said he told his son just hours before the incident occurred to \"say your prayers [and] lay in your bed and your headache will go away.\"",
"Neighbors said police arrived at the building quickly following reports of a disturbance, but questioned how long it took authorities to actually enter the apartment.",
"Neighbor Gregory Clare, who lives in Brea's apartment building, told CNN affiliate NY1 that \"for about 45 minutes, [police] didn't follow through [in entering the apartment].\"",
"\"It would've made a big difference,\" he said.",
"\"I think Miss Brea would still be here [had police responded sooner].\"",
"But New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said during a news conference officers were following police procedures.",
"\"When there is a barricade situation, responding patrol officers, if possible, wait for emergency service officers to come,\" he said.",
"Brea is being held at the Bellvue Hospital Psychiatric Ward, after having first been evaluated at Kings County Hospital, according to the spokesman.",
"Yannick Brea had worked as housekeeper at a Marriott Hotel in Manhattan, New York.",
"\"We were shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of our housekeeping associate, Ms. Yannick Brea,\" said Kathleen Duffy, spokesperson for NYC Marriott Hotels.",
"\"Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to Ms. Brea's family and friends,\" she said.",
"The elder Brea said he is in the process of hiring a lawyer to defend his son."
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"NEW: The 3-foot sword allegedly used is a martial arts weapon, suspect's father says .",
"NEW: Brea attended a meeting the night of the incident, later complained of headaches .",
"Brea, an actor who appeared on ABC's \"Ugly Betty,\" is charged with 2nd-degree murder .",
"Police say they found him wielding a 3-foot long sword near his dead mother ."
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"(Mashable) -- Groupon is fervently preparing for its most ambitious venture yet: the launch of a new mobile application that the company hopes will change when and how society chooses to eat, shop and play.",
"The application, known as Groupon Now, is remarkably and elegantly simple, yet it's a radical departure from Groupon's current deal-a-day business model.",
"When a user opens up the smartphone app, he or she will be presented with just two buttons: \"I'm hungry\" and \"I'm bored.\"",
"Clicking either button will open up a list of time-specific daily deals, based on his or her location.",
"The familiar $10 coupons for $20 worth of food are still there, but they're not one-time offers.",
"Instead, businesses can choose when they want these deals to be available.",
"Say a restaurant is incredibly busy on Saturdays but could use more business on Wednesdays.",
"With Groupon Now, that business can fill its seats during slow business days using time-specific deals.",
"That's the beauty of Groupon Now: local businesses have never really had a simple way to manage their perishable inventory, especially labor and food.",
"Why waste those resources during slow periods when you can bring savings-savvy consumers through the doors with a highly targeted Groupon deal?",
"\"For merchants, the daily deal is like teeth whitening, and Groupon Now is like brushing your teeth.",
"It can be an everyday thing to keep your business going,\" Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason told Bloomberg Businessweek in an extensive interview on the new product.",
"The daily deals company has been on a tear recently -- in fact it is the fastest growing company in history -- but it faces stiff competition from companies with increasing muscle.",
"Groupon is reportedly preparing for a $25 billion IPO just months after famously rejecting a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google, but its biggest competitor, LivingSocial, is preparing to raise half a billion dollars in funding.",
"Not only that, but the #2 daily deals service has an app similar to Groupon Now already on the market.",
"Groupon clearly believes Groupon Now is the future, so much so that its employees call the current iteration of its daily deals service \"Groupon 1.0.\"",
"While the market has made it clear that the group-buying business model is easily replicable, the coupon giant believes that its new offering will provide it with a unique technology and value proposition that will keep it ahead of the pack.",
"With 70+ million subscribers and growing, Groupon will also have a big head start.",
"It won't be long until we find out if Groupon Now is the future of local commerce; the mobile app launches in April.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Groupon is preparing to launch a new app, Groupon Now .",
"User opens the app, will be presented with just two buttons: \"I'm hungry\" and \"I'm bored\"\nClicking either button will open up a list of time-specific daily deals, based on location ."
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"(CNN) -- Numerous U.S. rescue and assistance teams arrived Sunday in Japan and are helping lead a broad international effort to bring relief to areas ravaged by Friday's earthquake and tsunami.",
"The United States, the United Kingdom, China, and South Korea are among 69 governments that have offered to help, Kyodo News Agency reported, citing the Japanese foreign ministry.",
"Aid groups such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have sent teams to some of the worst-hit areas, including Sendai, Narita, Asahi and Tokyo.",
"Mercy Corps International teamed with Peace Winds Japan to rush aid to affected regions.",
"Stephen McDonald of Save the Children told CNN Sunday his group had multiple teams in the country, reaching out to families left homeless.",
"There are water shortages at evacuation centers, creating hygiene challenges, he said.",
"Children are distressed and shaken by the many aftershocks, and unable to rest at the cramped evacuation sites.",
"\"In many cases, they've lost their homes.",
"Some have lost family members,\" he said.",
"Doctors Without Borders said it sent a 10-member team to the area and is assisting \"in the massive government-led relief effort.\"",
"The group will split in two on Monday and expand its reach.",
"\"On Sunday, we conducted mobile clinics and assessments in two evacuation centers,\" said Mikiko Dotsu, coordinator of the team, in a statement Sunday.",
"\"It appears that medical needs are increasing in evacuation centers.\"",
"The group said it is \"closely monitoring the situation around the Fukushima nuclear power plants.\"",
"But it warned, \"In the event of a serious nuclear incident, it is only the Japanese government that will be in a position to react.\"",
"The U.S. response effort includes supplies, several warships, search-and-rescue teams, radiation-contamination specialists and two officials from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission with expertise in nuclear reactors.",
"On Sunday, the USS Ronald Reagan started delivering aid in the coastal regions of Japan's Miyagi prefecture.",
"Crew members, in conjunction with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces, conducted 20 sorties delivering aid pallets using eight U.S. and Japanese helicopters, according to Sgt.",
"Maj. Stephen Valley of U.S.",
"Forces Japan.",
"The team hopes to deliver 30,000 portions of emergency food rations in this initial operation, Kyodo reported.",
"U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos said Sunday that numerous helicopters were ready to take part in missions to reach different parts of the country.",
"A U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Disaster Assistance and Response Team was in Japan and working to coordinate the overall response effort with the U.S. Embassy, Roos said on Twitter.",
"Urban search-and-rescue teams, including about 150 personnel and 12 canines trained to detect live victims, arrived in Japan as well on Sunday, Roos said.",
"The teams are from Los Angeles and Fairfax County, Virginia.",
"\"There are a lot hazards that have never been experienced by a search-and-rescue team,\" Los Angeles Fire Department Inspector Don Kunitomi said, including \"the radiation factor.\"",
"He added, \"We're all a little anxious about this.\"",
"\"It looks like it'll be part Katrina because of the flooding and part New Zealand because of the earthquake,\" Kunitomi said, referring to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and last year's earthquake in New Zealand.",
"He also noted lessons the search-and-rescue team had learned in Haiti.",
"The Chinese government sent a 15-member team to assist in the search for disaster survivors on Sunday, the Xinhua news agency reported.",
"The team brought with them four tons of equipment and material for the search as well to provide power and telecommunications to areas that have temporarily lost those services because of the quake.",
"A British search-and-rescue team comprising 63 fire service search-and-rescue specialists, two dogs and a medical support team are in Japan, the UK foreign office said Sunday.",
"Specialist consular teams are in the country as well.",
"The teams were taking up to 11 metric tons of rescue equipment, including heavy lifting and cutting equipment to extract people trapped in debris, the government said.",
"South Korea said it was sending two rescue dogs, two handlers and three assistants to carry out what are expected to be dramatic searches of people inside collapsed structures.",
"\"U.S. experts have been in close consultation with Japanese experts regarding the evolving situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant,\" Roos added.",
"The International Atomic Energy Agency's Incident and Emergency Centre has offered technical assistance to Japan in the wake of an explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.",
"The government has evacuated more than 200,000 residents from homes close to the plant and tested 160 people for radiation exposure, authorities said Sunday.",
"CNN's Brian Walker, Michael Martinez and Sarita Harilela contributed to this report."
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"NEW: There are hazards \"never experienced\" by a search-and-rescue team, an official says .",
"Numerous U.S. teams arrived in Japan Sunday .",
"Save the Children describes cramped evacuation sites .",
"Kyodo: 69 governments offer assistance, according to Japan's foreign ministry ."
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"(CNN) -- As the Passaic River in New Jersey threatened to crest to dangerously high levels Tuesday, residents continued to battle the floodwaters that have forced thousands of people to relocate, authorities said.",
"Search and rescue teams are combing through Passaic County, evacuating residents who are still stuck inside their flood-ravaged homes in the wake of Hurricane Irene, said Edward O'Connell, a spokesman for the county's Office of Emergency Management.",
"About 1,700 residents have been evacuated from their homes in Wayne, Towa, Little Falls, Paterson and Woodland Park communities, said O'Connell.",
"Many more left their homes on their own over the weekend, he added.",
"Rescuers are pulling families and pets alike from their homes and using rafts to transport them down the county's flooded roads.",
"Evacuees are being transferred to several area shelters or taken to the homes of family members living on higher ground.",
"\"It's been pretty much 24 hours a day,\" said Sgt.",
"Alex Popov of the Paterson, New Jersey, Police Department.",
"Popov estimated that about 500 people had been rescued from their homes in Paterson.",
"\"We're dealing with elderly people, families, small children and pets,\" he explained.",
"Forecasters have predicted that the Passaic River, which runs through the southern tip of the county, will swell to a level that is double what is considered to be a \"flood stage\" in some areas.",
"\"They are expecting it to crest sometime today and the other rivers will be rising a little bit as well,\" O'Connell said.",
"\"Hopefully it will crest soon and we can assess the damages,\" he added.",
"CNN's Katie Silver and Rachel Garrett contributed to this report ."
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"The Passaic River is expected to crest at double the flood level, officials say .",
"Crews are trying to rescue people stranded in their homes .",
"Hurricane Irene made landfall in New Jersey Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Just a few weeks after the Los Angeles Unified School District approved thousands of pink slips for employees, incoming superintendent John Deasy has requested a pay cut.",
"The superintendent position pays an annual salary of $330,000.",
"But Deasy, who is currently serving as deputy superintendent, sent a letter to the district requesting he keep his current salary of $275,000, according to A.J Duffy, president of the teachers union.",
"Duffy said the request comes as the district is dealing with budget shortfalls and after it approved layoffs for more than 5,000 teachers, and health and human services personnel.",
"The teachers union is praising Deasy's decision.",
"\"Bravo John, you did the right thing,\" Duffy said.",
"Deasy was appointed superintendent in January and will begin his new job on April 15."
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"Position pays an annual salary of $330,000 .",
"Deasy is currently serving as deputy superintendent .",
"He seeks to keep his current salary of $275,000, teachers union leader says ."
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"(CNN) -- Two blasts -- the second coming after police and passersby had gathered at the site of the first -- killed seven people and wounded 18 Tuesday evening in the Russian republic of Chechnya, according to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.",
"The state-run agency said the first blast occurred when officers attempted to detain a suspected militant in the Chechen capital of Grozny.",
"About 30 minutes after that explosion, a second blast hit the same area after people had gathered there, RIA Novosti said.",
"The news agency quoted Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov as saying five police officers, an emergencies ministry official and a civilian died in the two blasts.",
"Rebels in Chechnya started out fighting for independence in the 1990s, but in recent years the fight has been aimed more at imposing Islamist rule and asserting their authority in the area.",
"The standard of living in the southwestern republic is poor compared with the rest of Russia.",
"Unemployment is rampant and infant mortality is high.",
"In addition, the Chechen population of about 1 million is mostly made up of Sunni Muslims, who maintain a distinctly separate cultural and linguistic identity from Russian Orthodox Christians."
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"NEW: A second blast hits where an earlier one had killed two police officers .",
"NEW: Five officers, a government official and a civilian are dead, RIA Novosti says .",
"The two blasts hit the Chechen capital of Grozny, the news agency says ."
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"(CNN) -- Alan Morris talked very fast about the dangers of thyroid gland radiation poisoning as his business line rang incessantly in the background.",
"\"Look, I really have to go,\" Morris said as he abruptly ended the telephone interview to fill another order.",
"Morris is president of Anbex Inc., one of only two FDA-approved U.S. manufacturers of potassium iodide, a medication that can block the thyroid glands of human beings and animals from absorbing excessive amounts of radiation from a nuclear accident.",
"Experts believe that many of the dangers posed by overexposure to nuclear fallout, including cancer, can be diminished by blocking thyroid absorption of radiation.",
"On Friday, a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered what is being called Japan's worst nuclear emergency since World War II.",
"Since, Morris said his Williamsburg, Virginia-based company has received hundreds, if not thousands, of calls from potential buyers in Asia as well as repeat U.S. customers suddenly seeking to replenish their stockpiles of the drug.",
"So, too, has Fleming Pharmaceuticals in Missouri, which, according to the FDA, is the only U.S. manufacturer of the anti-radiation medication in liquid form.",
"Anbex is the only company in the United States that manufactures the tablet form of potassium iodide, according to the FDA.",
"Fleming's owner, Debbie Fleming-Wurdak, said her is currently getting inundated by more calls than her 85 employees can handle.",
"She and company President Phill Dritsas said they are looking to add temporary employees to help handle the flood of calls.",
"They also said they've added a second shift and are considering staying open around the clock until the current crisis is over.",
"Officials for both companies said the deluge of requests stemming from Japan's nuclear crisis comes as state and local governments, hospitals, schools and other institutions in the United States have expressed renewed interest in replenishing their supplies.",
"That's partly because the threat of nuclear fallout in Japan appears to have heightened demand in this country, they said.",
"It is also because some of those stockpiled medications are close to expiring.",
"That includes the 6 million doses of liquid potassium iodide provided to the U.S. government in 2006 by Fleming Pharmaceuticals.",
"The expiration dates for those medications begin in April, Fleming-Wurdak said.",
"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said that although weather conditions in Japan have moved \"small releases\" of radiation from damaged reactors in the Fukushima prefecture out to sea, the United States was \"not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity\" given the thousands of miles that separate the two countries.",
"The federal government, Fleming-Wurdak said, isn't currently planning to purchase more potassium iodide for national stockpile.",
"The Strategic National Stockpile is a repository of vaccines, antibiotics, antidotes and other drugs and supplies for use in natural disaster, pandemic or bioterrorism attack.",
"Fleming-Wurdak said she began alerting customers that their potassium iodide supplies were starting to expire two weeks ago.",
"That prompted an uptick in orders, including one from New York state for \"hundreds of thousands of bottles,\" she said.",
"\"We don't have enough to meet the current demand,\" she said.",
"Fleming-Wurdak said eyedroppers for the medication are particularly in short supply.",
"Dritsas said the U.S. government should consider tapping into the Strategic National Stockpile for Japanese earthquake victims threatened by nuclear fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi plant.",
"\"Help Japan now,\" Dritsas said.",
"\"In the meantime, we would be definitely working towards filling those quantities that are being ordered now.\"",
"Dritsas said he made that request Monday to U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.",
"Markey has warned that Japan's nuclear accident highlights the vulnerabilities of reactors in the United States.",
"On Monday, he called on the Obama administration to fully implement a provision in the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 to make potassium iodide available for anyone who lives within 20 miles of a nuclear power plant.",
"The federal government has never purchased enough to meet that standard.",
"There is currently only enough of the medication available for populations living within 10 miles of nuclear reactors in the United States, according to U.S. officials.",
"That's not nearly enough, Morris said.",
"He cited the April 1986 incident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, considered the worst nuclear reactor accident ever.",
"Death tolls resulting from the accident have varied widely according to various studies, with totals ranging from the thousands to more than a million.",
"Several studies have found that the accident led to a rise in thyroid cancer cases in children as far away as Poland.",
"\"Even taking the most conservative numbers, it all says there is something wrong with this picture when we know there isn't more potassium iodide out there,\" Morris said as he talked on his personal telephone line.",
"In the background, the other phone was ringing."
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"The Japanese nuclear crisis prompts calls to U.S. manufacturers .",
"Potassium iodide blocks thyroid gland's absorption of radiation .",
"U.S. supplies of the drug are nearing expiration dates .",
"The U.S. is \"not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity\""
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has made an emotional appeal after his father was abducted in his native Nigeria.",
"\"Please just let him go,\" he told Sky Sports News.",
"\"He's just an old man, he hasn't done any harm to anyone as far as I know and I don't know why he has been taken.\"",
"Michael Obi, who runs a transport company in Jos, the main city in Plateau State in central Nigeria, has not been seen or heard of since he failed to return home from work last Friday.",
"Obi Mikel was told of the problem just before the start of Chelsea's Premier League match at Stoke Sunday which finished goalless and said his father was at the forefront of his thoughts throughout the match.",
"\"Nigeria is the country I am from, I've always tried to help my country in any way I can, playing for my country or anything,\" he said.",
"\"This is a time where I need the country to help me.",
"Whoever has got my dad, whoever knows where my dad is, please contact me and hopefully he can be released.\"",
"Chelsea have given Mikel their support in a statement on their official website.",
"\"Everyone at Chelsea Football Club was very concerned to hear that John Mikel Obi's father has been reported as missing and possibly abducted.",
"\"We will give Mikel and his family our full support at this most difficult time.\"",
"Mikel confirmed they had not heard from his father's abductors and no ransom had yet been demanded.",
"He expressed surprise that it had happened in the region of Nigeria where he hailed.",
"\"I think this happens a lot in the eastern part of Nigeria, but I think my dad will be the first this happened to in the north,\" he said.",
"\"It's a very safe place where I live.",
"That's why they live there.\" Mikel's plight is similar to that of fellow Nigerian international, the Everton defender Joseph Yobo, whose elder brother was kidnapped in Port Harcourt in 2008.",
"Nornu Yobo was released after 10 days, but it was unclear if any financial demands had been met.",
"Obi Mikel has been at Chelsea since 2006 and helped them to the EPL and FA Cup double in the 2009-10 season.",
"He has played 30 times for the Nigeria national team."
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"John Obi Mikel's father abducted in Nigeria where he runs a transport company .",
"Chelsea midfielder heard the news just before their game at Stoke Sunday .",
"No ransom demand has so far been sent to the family .",
"Obi Mikel makes emotional appeal for his release Monday ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- In one of soccer's biggest showdowns, Mexico rallied from an early deficit with four straight goals to defeat the United States 4-2 and win the 2011 Gold Cup on Saturday.",
"The American team jumped out to an earlier lead when Michael Bradley, a center midfielder and the son of coach Bob Bradley, scored the first goal just nine minutes into the game.",
"Landon Donovan, the leading goal-scorer in U.S. history, netted a second goal roughly 20 minutes later.",
"But Mexico answered back, with Pablo Barrera and then Andres Guardado scoring two goals within 10 minutes of each other to tie the score.",
"A few minutes into the second half, Barrera scored another goal to give Mexico its first lead of the game.",
"Giovani dos Santos gave Mexico a 4-2 advantage with a score with about 13 minutes remaining, effectively cinching his team's victory.",
"Fox Soccer reported that 93,420 spectators watched the game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, above its capacity of 92,542 according to the stadium's website.",
"Mexico's win gives in bragging rights in the rivalry, the third consecutive time both teams have met in the tournament's final.",
"As it is every year, the game was organized by the soccer confederation for North America, Central America and the Caribbean.",
"Besides boasting privileges, Mexico earns a ticket to the Confederations Cup in Brazil in 2013, a year before the World Cup.",
"Mexico and the United States had split the last two Gold Cups, with the Mexicans embarrassing the Americans with a 5-0 thrashing in 2009.",
"In 2007, the Americans took the contest, sending the team to the 2009 Confederations Cup where it finished second behind Brazil.",
"Until Saturday night, the United States had not lost to Mexico on American soil when at full strength in 12 matches dating back to the year 2000.",
"Still, the American players know that soccer draws many fans to Mexico's team, as was evident at this weekend's game.",
"Hispanics are now the nation's second-largest group under the latest census.",
"\"You come into your country and you know they are going to have more fans than you are,\" U.S. defender Jonathan Bornstein said in remarks on the confederation website, \"but nonetheless, we're going to have enough fans out there supporting us.",
"We're on our home turf, and so we need to be considered the home team even though we might not have all the fans.\"",
"Added U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard about the rivalry: \"It's been the same since I was a kid watching it.",
"It's the same today. It's passion. There's a ton of respect, but yet again it borders on hatred.\"",
"\"But it's passion. It's good. I think we have very healthy respect for them and whether they want to say it or not, they have healthy respect for us and they should,\" Howard said on the confederation website.",
"Mexico's team manager Jose Manuel de la Torre said before the contest that the game \"has transformed into something very important to the Mexican people that live in the United States.\"",
"\"It is a clasico,\" de la Torre told the confederation, before Saturday's match.",
"\"That makes for a heated atmosphere.",
"But the final is still a soccer game featuring two strong, well-coached teams that have worked hard to reach a final we will enjoy.\"",
"For the United States, it marks its fourth consecutive appearance in the final -- a confederation record, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation.",
"The Gold Cup is being held in Southern California for the first time in nine years, the federation said.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Mexico scores 4 straight goals to earn a 4-2 win over the United States .",
"Mexico takes the Gold Cup, the top tournament for the region .",
"This is the 3rd straight time the U.S. and Mexico have met in the Gold Cup final ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- When police walked into the home, they found a 5-year-old girl weighing nearly 160 pounds, her teeth rotting, her skin covered in spider bites.",
"Her 4-year-old sister was lying on a filthy mattress, wearing only a urine-soaked diaper.",
"Police were responding to a domestic dispute call at the Marietta, Georgia, house Monday when they encountered the shocking scene.",
"They called in child abuse investigators, and ultimately arrested the parents, James and Anne Cardona, charging both with second-degree child cruelty, Cobb County police spokesman Joe Hernandez said.",
"The children are now in the state custody.",
"Their parents were released on bond, but Anne Cardona was arrested again late Thursday for giving \"misleading information\" to a magistrate judge at the couple's first court appearance Tuesday, said Col. Milton Beck of the Cobb County sheriff's department.",
"She remained in jail Friday without bond until further notice from court, he said.",
"Attempts to reach her husband were unsuccessful Friday, and it wasn't immediately clear whether they had retained legal counsel.",
"Asked by CNN affiliate WSB-TV on Thursday whether the children were mistreated at the home, Anne Cardona said no.",
"Police had only stopped at the family's home in the Atlanta suburb one other time, more than a year ago, but hadn't observed anything like they saw Monday, Hernandez said.",
"The house \"stunk of urine and mold,\" according to the arrest warrants for the Cardonas.",
"It is \"infested with roaches, [fleas], cobwebs and gigantic spiders,\" the documents said.",
"The bathroom and shower are covered in black mold and dirt, they said.",
"Neither girl is enrolled in school.",
"Both are severely obese.",
"The older daughter, who weighs 158 pounds, could not walk 10 feet without \"becoming out of breath and wheezing,\" officers said.",
"The younger child weighs 89 pounds and still drinks from a baby bottle.",
"Her feet were blackened with dirt, her skin also covered in insect bites.",
"\"A situation like this is tragic -- tragic for the family, but mostly for the kids,\" said Normer Adams, executive director of the Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children, a trade group representing a range of agencies, including foster homes and family support programs.",
"\"This is an extreme case of neglect by the parents,\" he said.",
"\"These kids are hurting on many levels -- certainly educational development, and probably social development.\"",
"Adams said it's unlikely that the Cardonas would be able to regain custody of their children, saying it's \"too late\" for the family to avoid foster care."
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"Police found the two young Georgia girls covered in filth and bug bites .",
"The 5-year-old girl weighs 158 pounds; 4-year-old weighs 89 pounds .",
"Their parents have been charged with child cruelty, a felony ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan, whose career has been derailed by drunken driving convictions, probation violations and a shoplifting charge, admitted in an interview with talk show host Jay Leno to \"poor decisions in the past\" -- but predicted an Oscar is in her future.",
"Lohan, in a \"Tonight Show\" interview taped Monday and broadcast Tuesday, said she's \"willing to do the work that I have to do to follow through with being an actress.\"",
"She hopes to be back on Leno's show in a few years with an Oscar, Lohan said.",
"\"I've made a lot of mistakes and I've recognized that, but I'm in the clear now and I feel like as long as I stay focused then I will be able to, you know, achieve what I want to be able to achieve,\" Lohan told the NBC show's host.",
"When Leno asked what one thing she would like to change about herself, Lohan said it would be the public perception of her.",
"\"I want the public knowledge to be about my work, not about things that I didn't get into this business for, that I've put myself into positions where that was the bigger story than what I was working on,\" she said.",
"Lohan, 24, said she's been cast to play mobster John \"Junior\" Gotti's wife in a movie, but a 120-day jail sentence and several months of community service for a probation violation threatens to keep her out of the movie.",
"It starts shooting in October.",
"Lohan's next stop: Skid Row .",
"She is also scheduled to go on trial in June for allegedly stealing a gold and diamond necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store.",
"If convicted, Lohan could face up to a year in jail.",
"The 13 days she spent in a Los Angeles jail last summer \"was an interesting experience and it was definitely a wake-up call,\" Lohan said.",
"\"And I think when it happened, everything happens for a reason.",
"I don't know exactly what will happen.\"",
"Her latest legal setback came Friday when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner ruled that Lohan violated her probation on two 2007 drunken driving convictions by being arrested for the necklace theft.",
"Lohan said she was \"kind of numb\" when Sautner sentenced her to 120 days in jail and 480 hours of community service.",
"Lohan released from jail after posting bond .",
"\"I was kind of shocked, I didn't really expect the outcome to be what it was, but I'm a big girl and I'm going to do what I'm told to do, continue on with working in my life and I'm taking responsibility,\" she said.",
"The actress has admitted a drug addiction in the past, and she's spent at least eight months in substance abuse rehab in the last four years.",
"She blamed her youth on her bad choices.",
"\"Being young and being in a position that I was in, you don't really take the time to appreciate what you have, and it's all kind of a whirlwind and people make decisions for you,\" she said.",
"\"But I'm not a kid anymore.\"",
"Lohan's most optimistic statement came when Leno asked where she sees herself when she turns 30 -- six years from now.",
"\"Hopefully, sitting here after winning an Oscar,\" Lohan said."
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"Lohan says she's \"willing to do the work\" for a comeback .",
"She's cast in \"Gotti,\" but jail could keep her off the movie set .",
"Friday's jail sentence left her \"kind of numb,\" the actress says .",
"Lohan's \"Tonight Show\" appearance was taped Monday and aired Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- Rail riders along the California coast and the Boston-Washington \"Northeast Corridor\" are set to reap much of the benefits from $2 billion that Florida policymakers had earlier rejected for high-speed rail development.",
"The Obama administration on Monday announced the reallocated funding, part of its push to spur environmentally friendly transportation and modernize the nation's infrastructure that's supported partly by the 2009 economic stimulus package.",
"Fifteen states and Amtrak will receive the money to back 22 high-speed intercity passenger rail projects.",
"Among other things, the funds will be used to improve speed and service in the Northeast, add faster rail lines in the Midwest and help spur more efficient train service between Los Angeles and San Francisco.",
"Nearly $300 million will be spent to reduce major delays for trains coming in and out of Manhattan -- the nation's busiest passenger rail junction.",
"Within the next four years, high-speed rail advocate Petra Todorovich estimated trains between New York and Philadelphia will routinely move at 160 mph because of a host of upgrades aimed at improving \"train speeds, capacity and reliability.\"",
"While billed as new funding, the money actually is previously pledged funds being directed to new recipients.",
"Soon after taking office, Florida Gov.",
"Rick Scott cited expected cost overruns and long-term operating costs for his call to block federal funding for an 84-mile-long high-speed rail line that would link Tampa and Orlando.",
"Days after the Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling that allowed the Republican government to reject the federal money, the U.S. Transportation Department opened up a process to solicit fresh bids from other states and entities.",
"It is all part of the $53 billion that the White House has proposed spending over the next six years to promote high-speed rail -- an initiative facing a chilly reception in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.",
"\"President Obama and I made a commitment to improve and expand America's transportation system,\" Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement.",
"These new investments \"will continue our progress toward making this vision a reality.\"",
"Biden, a regular Amtrak commuter between his home state of Delaware and Washington during his 36 years in the Senate, is known as a leading supporter of federally supported rail travel.",
"Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, on hand at New York's Penn Station for the announcement, insisted the funds will \"help states across the country create jobs, spur economic development and boost manufacturing in their communities.\"",
"Obama said in January's State of the Union address that he was setting a goal of giving 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years.",
"The stimulus act has provided about $10.1 billion toward Obama's goal so far, according to the Transportation Department.",
"\"By 2050, the United States will be home to 100 million additional people -- the equivalent of another California, Texas, New York and Florida combined,\" LaHood noted.",
"\"We simply cannot build enough highways and airports to accommodate this growth.\"",
"Supporters insist the emphasis on faster rail transportation is a necessary investment in the country's economic competitiveness.",
"Critics contend it's little more than a massive boondoggle that is contributing to skyrocketing federal deficits while providing few proven benefits over the long term.",
"Scott's decision this winter to reject what eventually worked out to $2 billion in federal funding for the Orlando-to-Tampa plan surprised a number of observers.",
"This came after the Obama administration pulled another $1.2 billion in funding from Ohio and Wisconsin after their newly elected GOP governors vowed to kill high-speed rail projects that were under way.",
"LaHood portrayed those cases Monday as relatively rare exceptions, noting that the Transportation Department received $10 billion worth of requests for the $2 billion available.",
"\"Who says America does not have a pent-up demand?\"",
"he asked. Amtrak officials note that they set a new annual ridership record of more than 28 million passengers for the last fiscal year.",
"Regardless, the new spending makes little sense at the current time, according to Sam Staley, an analyst at the Reason Foundation, a libertarian-oriented Los Angeles-based think tank.",
"The administration \"seems to be completely deaf to the real concerns about whether this is a well thought out program,\" Staley told CNN.",
"\"There are so many other transportation needs that are going unfunded, including just bring existing transit systems up to a good state of repair.\"",
"\"I don't see how anyone looking at the numbers can say that high-speed rail is going to be a primary driver of economic growth\" in the regions targeted by the new money, Staley said.",
"\"What it will do is supplement the existing transportation network and serve a very targeted niche of that market.",
"But it's not going to be a broad-based transportation solution.\"",
"Todorovich, the director of the urban planning initiative America 2050, said she believed critics would continue to target the rail initiative because it is \"one of Obama's signature initiatives.\"",
"But she believes such efforts run counter to the needs and wants of policymakers and citizens nationwide who want such infrastructure projects to go forward -- even if that's not true in Florida.",
"\"(This) announcement helps to restore public confidence in the program, as we see that many states around the country are ready to put Florida's unwanted funding to use,\" she said.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib and Steve Kastenbaum contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Obama administration gives out $2 billion for high-speed rail projects .",
"NEW: This comes after Florida authorities reject $2 billion for an Orlando-to-Tampa line .",
"Obama wants 80% of Americans to have access to high-speed rail within 25 years .",
"Critics contend the project is wasteful and will do little to boost economic competitiveness ."
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"New York (CNN) -- One of the most well-known sports franchises in the world is facing a lawsuit over its famous logo.",
"A Yonkers, New York, woman is suing the New York Yankees for trademark infringement, claiming her uncle created the Yankees top hat logo but never got paid for his work.",
"In a complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court, Tanit Buday claims her uncle Kenneth Timur was a graphic designer commissioned in 1936 to create a logo for the Yankees.",
"Buday says former Yankees owners Jacob Ruppert and Del Webb heard of Timur's work from his sister, who worked in Brooklyn as a manicurist in the 1930s.",
"Timur, who lived in Europe at the time, created a logo that incorporated a top hat and bat similar to the one now used by the team.",
"Buday says the logo has Timur's established signature \"P,\" which appeared on his other artwork.",
"According to the complaint, Buday took the logos to Rob Wallace, a design analyst -- who concluded it to be \"evident that they are so significantly similar that they could not have been created independently from one another.\"",
"Buday explains that her uncle was not aware that the Yankees adopted the logo until he immigrated to America in 1947 and was asked to revise the logo for their 1952 celebration of 50 years based in New York City.",
"She claims Timur was hopeful that this time the sports franchise would offer him some kind of recognition, but took the opportunity to \"sign\" his work with a \"P.\" Instead of 1903 to 1952, the logo appears as \"1P03-1952\" on the patches of the uniform.",
"Alice McGillion, spokesperson for the New York Yankees, said they haven't been served with the lawsuit.",
"\"This is a wonderful country where anybody can sue for anything, even when the allegations are over 70 years old,\" she said.",
"Buday says that because of scarce resources and trust in Yankees owners, her uncle never got a lawyer and did not copyright his work, but in 1960 he lost his confidence in the team and passed on the fight to her, in hopes she would pursue the claims."
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"(Mashable) -- Sony is not having a good year.",
"As the company scrambles to get the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service back online, it's suffering from yet another security breach.",
"This time it's a hacker attack on various websites associated with Sony Pictures.",
"A team of individuals going by the name LulzSec, who recently managed to deface PBS.org's homepage, announced that they have broken into SonyPictures.com and compromised more than 1 million user accounts.",
"An additional 75,000 music codes and 3.5 million coupons were also uncovered.",
"The attack, part of a campaign known as Sownage, was announced on Twitter and on the LulzSec website.",
"LulzSec said that it didn't have enough resources to copy all the data that it was able to access.",
"But the group did manage to grab a collection of databases that contain thousands of usernames.",
"The accounts, presumably associated with any sort of registered activity on SonyPictures.com (or its subsidiaries or partners), contain information like passwords, email addresses, dates of birth and other Sony opt-in data.",
"This certainly isn't as dangerous as the information that was exposed during the PSN hack, but it could still be used to gather access to more important accounts elsewhere.",
"The scariest part of this attack isn't what was taken, but how easy it was for the LulzSec members to take it.",
"According to the groups own press release, access to the main Sony Pictures website was gained using a very basic tactic called a SQL injection.",
"We haven't had a chance to examine the released files to see what this injection was, but it's likely that an out-of-date software stack and relatively unprotected web server made passing the injection trivial.",
"LulzSec says that all of the information it took was unencrypted.",
"\"Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext,\" says the hackers' press release, \"which means it's just a matter of taking it. \"",
"Seeing as this is the second security breach of a major Sony-branded website in just outside of a week, we have to ask: Is anyone at Sony employed to handle web security?",
"Sure, managing a large number of brands and properties that are often connected in name only has to be a challenge, not to mention the logistical and administrative challenges of managing websites that can store millions of user profiles.",
"Still, that doesn't make up for what by all appearances is an abysmal security record.",
"LulzSec has been on a tear, infiltrating the websites and databases for the UK television program, \"The X Factor,\" parts of Fox.com, Sonymusic.co.jp and many parts of PBS.org in the past three weeks alone.",
"The attacks, while often juvenile in nature and execution (the Lulzsecurity.com website plays the theme from \"The Love Boat\"), underscore just how important it is for brands to keep their web servers updated, hardened and monitored.",
"In the age of simple publishing tools like WordPress, it's easy for managers to underestimate the importance of having someone on contract or on staff to keep data encrypted and protected.",
"We can only hope the most recent cyber attacks convince executives to think seriously about investing in online security.",
"See the original article on Mashable.com .",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"This is the second security breach at Sony in just over a week .",
"Hacker LulzSec announces they have compromised more than 1 million user accounts .",
"Attacks underscore just how important it is for brands to keep their web servers updated ."
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"New York (CNN) -- AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom for an estimated $39 billion in cash and stocks, the companies said in a joint release Sunday.",
"The acquisition will expand AT&T's 4G network 1.2 million square miles and will be accessible to an additional 46.5 million Americans, the statement said.",
"AT&T also expects to gain enough cell towers to increase its network density by 30%.",
"\"This transaction represents a major commitment to strengthen and expand critical infrastructure for our nation's future,\" AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said in a statement.",
"The $39 billion purchase will include a $25 billion cash payment; the remainder will be paid using AT&T stock.",
"AT&T can increase the cash portion of the price tag by up to $4.2 billion while cutting the stock portion.",
"As part of the acquisition, Deutsche Telekom will have an 8% equity stake in AT&T and a company representative will join the AT&T board of directors.",
"The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors at both AT&T and Deutsche Telekom.",
"CNNMoney: AT&T to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion .",
"The new entity would be the biggest in the US, combining AT&T's 95 million customers with T-Mobile's 34 million users for a total of 130 million subscribers.",
"AT&T said the transaction would quickly provide \"the spectrum and network efficiencies necessary ... to address impending spectrum exhaust in key markets\" due to the exponential growth of traffic on its network.",
"The telecom giant added that it expects to gain enough cell towers through the deal to increase its network density by 30%.",
"As part of the merger, AT&T committed to expand its 4G network 1.2 million square miles, making it accessible to an additional 46.5 million Americans, mostly in rural and smaller communities, the statement said.",
"The AT&T release notes that its 4G expansion would help achieve the Federal Communications Commission and President Obama's goals to connect \"every part of America to the digital age.\"",
"AT&T can increase the cash portion of the payment by up to $4.2 billion while cutting the stock portion.",
"AT&T didn't directly address how the merger would affect the new company's pricing.",
"But on the website it built to announce the deal, www.mobilizeeverything.com, it notes: \"Historically, during periods when carriers combined to achieve efficiencies, U.S. wireless prices fell.\"",
"The company also cites a 2010 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office which found that the average cost of wireless services (adjusted for inflation) \"declined 50 percent from 1999 to 2009, during a period which saw five major wireless mergers.\"",
"The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors at both AT&T and Deutsche Telekom, but will be subject to regulatory approval.",
"Fortune: Regulatory hurdles await merger .",
"Charles Golvin from Forrester Research said: \"AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile, if approved, brings good news and bad news.",
"The good news: high-speed mobile broadband service will improve in quality and coverage, including ?",
"in the long run ? those in rural communities outside the reach of terrestrial broadband today.",
"\"The bad news: the cost of that service won't come down nearly as fast as customers would like, since AT&T and Verizon Wireless combined would own nearly three out of every four wireless subscriptions in the US.",
"While clearly troublesome for Sprint and other mobile smaller mobile competitors, It's also bad news for cable operators, whose incipient mobility products will suffer in comparison to what AT&T and Verizon can offer.\"",
"Fortune Magazine's Seth Weintraub and CNNMoney's Leigh Remizowski contributed to this report ."
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"The acquisition will expand AT&T's 4G network by 1.2 million square miles .",
"T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom will have an 8% equity stake in AT&T .",
"The agreement has been approved by both companies' boards ."
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"(WIRED) -- LinkedIn announced a new platform Wednesday for its business-focused social networking site -- offering websites and developers easy tools to embed \"recommend\" buttons, company-profile boxes and contact widgets on third-party websites -- as well as a way to log in to other sites using LinkedIn.",
"Calling it \"a new platform for building the professional web,\" LinkedIn is seeking to challenge Facebook's growing control over online identity.",
"Once just a site for sharing photos and updates with friends, Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of the net with its Open Graph platform, that lets other websites embed Facebook widgets, install \"Like\" buttons, plug-in a commenting system, and let users log in with their Facebook credentials.",
"Though LinkedIn's new platform doesn't mention Facebook by name, the term \"Professional Web\" clearly shows the company trying to position itself as a more mature and respectable alternative to Facebook.",
"The new tools rely on JavaScript APIs and the OAuth 2.0 system for logins (the same as used by Yahoo, Google and Twitter, among others).",
"Among the offerings: .",
"-- A Share button that posts a link to a page or news story to the user's feed on LinkedIn.",
"-- A Recommend button to give a vote to a product you like.",
"WIRED: LinkedIn scores $53 million .",
"-- Member profile widgets that show the LinkedIn profile of a company executive or website owner.",
"LinkedIn's Share button joins a growing number of plugins that try to get users to spread the news about a site or news story, a pantheon that includes Facebook's Like, Twitter's Tweet button, and social voting and submission widgets from Digg and Reddit.",
"For those who run their own blogs or websites, LinkedIn is making it simple to show off a snippet of your LinkedIn profile and for visitors logged into LinkedIn, they'll see thumbnails of connections they have in common.",
"Companies can also embed widgets that shows off employee profiles or profiles of companies featured on their site or in a news story, showing off the ones that are \"in\" your network.",
"The box can also be configured to show off key information about the company -- and a link to its official LinkedIn page -- instead of employee profiles.",
"WIRED: LinkedIn to lay of 10% of staff .",
"It's a powerful challenge.",
"LinkedIn has a solid and growing user base, one that's shown it's willing to pay for extra features.",
"The company is preparing for an IPO, and extending the power of LinkedIn's focus on business, not pleasure, outside of its online walls could help the company grow into a powerful competitor to Facebook.",
"WIRED: Let IPOs bloom again -- LinkedIn files with SEC .",
"It would be the \"real world\" site that people graduate to, from the college fun of Facebook.",
"Unfortunately, LinkedIn's platform faces the tough challenge of coming almost a year after Facebook debuted its Like button and its Open Graph API.",
"In social networking years, it feels like almost a decade, and LinkedIn will have to work hard to convince websites and busy developers that it's worth their time to graduate to the \"professional web,\" as well.",
"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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"LinkedIn announces new platform for its business-focused social networking site .",
"Sites can embed \"recommend\" buttons, company-profile boxes, contact widgets .",
"LinkedIn seeking to challenge Facebook's growing control over online identity ."
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"(GOOD.IS) -- Our collective use of the word \"addiction\" is getting out of hand.",
"What are you hooked on? A quick Twitter search shows the absurd range of meanings carried by one word: \"addiction.\"",
"Pain-med addiction in the NFL and Charlie Sheen's presumed addictions fit the medical definition, but apparently cupcake enthusiasts suffer from a \"cake tin addiction.\"",
"Technology is an addiction magnet: People love to confess/boast about their addiction to YouTube, iPhone, Droid, Twitter, and CrackBerry.",
"Others have low-tech addictions to tattoos, Gatorade, worrying, hockey, green tea, Shamrock Shakes, coffee, white chocolate, porn, American Idol, jazz, love, and Reggie Bush.",
"This word covers everything from America's gasoline intake to a psychotherapy-soaked update of a classic excuse: \"My dog has a digging addiction and buried my homework.\"",
"GOOD: Fashion addicts stop shopping for one year .",
"Like so many words, the meaning of \"addiction\" has varied wildly over time, but the trajectory might surprise you.",
"The common perception is that \"addiction\" was drug-centric at birth, before gradually spreading to broader and sillier stuff, like sex addiction and Internet addiction.",
"In reality, it's gone from broad to specific to broad, taking on and shuffling off many meanings.",
"Addictions have always been with us, but a single, unified meaning of \"addiction\" is hard to score.",
"GOOD:Would a laptop for every student help?",
"The ultimate authority on English language history, the Oxford English Dictionary, shows the first variation of \"addiction\" popping up in the 1500s.",
"The term comes from the Latin addictus, and in Rome, being \"addict\" -- originally an adjective -- meant being forced by a judge to be a servant or slave, often because of debt.",
"From there, \"to addict\" started meaning to voluntarily \"bind or attach oneself to a person, party, or cause; to devote oneself to as a servant, adherent, or disciple.\"",
"The meaning of \"addiction\" then grew to mean a zealous, disciple-like devotion.",
"You can see traces of this meaning in a classic Kramer rant to chocoholic George: \"You may stray, but you'll always return to your dark master: the cocoa bean!\"",
"Also in the 1500s, \"addiction\" is first found with a broader meaning of \"immoderate or compulsive\" dedication or devotion to something, which is exactly like our current addictions to cinnamon rolls and Angry Birds.",
"Not until the 1700s did \"addiction\" start to become substance-specific, and it took much longer for the William S. Burroughs sense to take hold.",
"In Psychology Today, social/clinical psychologist Stanton Peele wrote an excellent piece on the evolution of addiction, noting that, \"Only in the 20th century was it narrowed and restricted to the use of narcotics, specifically heroin.",
"Any 'expansion' is thus a return to addiction's traditional meaning.\"",
"GOOD: How to share your stuff with groups .",
"Word maven Michael Quinion has more addiction history here, and a recent update to the OED filled in some blanks.",
"Terms such as \"addiction counseling\" and \"addiction counselor\" didn't pop up till the early 1970s, perhaps because of post-1960s drug awareness.",
"We've been talking about Internet addiction almost as long as we've been talking about the Internet (or at least since 1994).",
"Though Tiger Woods owns the term these days, \"sex addict\" goes all the way back to 1927, and the narcissistic \"self-addiction\" -- custom-made for the Twitter age -- is found in 1642.",
"I love the term \"over-addiction,\" which is traced to 1662 and seems to mean \"mega-addiction.\"",
"These days, we might call it an addiction-pocalypse.",
"With so many types and meanings of addiction, it's always been a challenge for medical professionals to determine, as Peele writes in PT, \"Just what does addiction refer to?",
"Is it a brain disease?",
"A behavioral pattern?",
"Or is it a larger experiential pattern?\"",
"Medical tomes such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual are continually revised but Peele summarizes the key points for layfolk: \"Addiction is the search for emotional satisfaction -- for a sense of security, a sense of being loved, even a sense of control over life.",
"But the gratification is temporary and illusory, and the behavior results instead in greater self-disgust, reduced psychological security, and poorer coping ability.",
"That's what all addictions have in common.\"",
"That's what all illness-type addictions have in common, anyway.",
"I get plenty of emotional satisfaction from my daily fix of books like the OED and Green's Dictionary of Slang.",
"My word obsession hasn't raised or lowered my ability to cope, and my level of self-disgust has held steady since Catholic grammar school.",
"I guess I'm in the safe, general range of addiction rather than the medical danger zone.",
"© 2010 Good. All rights reserved."
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"Lexicographer Mark Peters: We'd snort the word addicted if it were possible .",
"Oxford English Dictionary:Being \"addict\" or forced by a judge to be a servant .",
"Apparently cupcake enthusiasts suffer from a \"cake tin addiction\"\n\"Sex addict\" goes back to 1927; \"self-addiction\" is found in 1642."
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"New York (CNN) -- The remains of three additional people were discovered Monday morning near Gilgo Beach on Long Island, according to Richard Dormer, Suffolk County Police commissioner.",
"A total of eight human remains have been found in the area since a missing New Jersey woman prompted the searches beginning in 2010.",
"Shannan Gilbert, 24, of Jersey City, New Jersey, has been missing since May 1 and was last seen alive in the Gilgo Beach area.",
"As authorities searched for clues about her disappearance last year, they uncovered the bodies of four prostitutes in various stages of decomposition.",
"Police say the hunt for a potential serial killer continues, as does the search for Gilbert, who, like the women whose bodies have been found, advertised for prostitution services on such sites as Craigslist.",
"An additional body was found March 29 off Ocean Parkway, west of Cedar Beach.",
"When medical examination determined they were not Gilbert's remains, the police continued to search, leading to Monday's discovery.",
"Gilbert's family is being asked to identify whether the remains found Monday are those of their missing daughter, Dormer said.",
"\"We should move forward to find out quickly if it's her or not her.",
"We put a priority on identification,\" Dormer said.",
"\"We haven't given up on the search for Shannan Gilbert,\" Dormer said, \"just in case the remains we discovered today are not hers.\"",
"Gilbert's sister, Sheree Gilbert, told HLN's Nancy Grace Monday night that her family was notified about the discovery of the latest bodies Monday afternoon.",
"Authorities told them that DNA testing to determine identities will be done \"as soon as possible,\" she said.",
"\"We're just hoping and praying that it's not her,\" she added.",
"The initial four bodies were discovered stuffed into bushes on a quarter-mile stretch of waterfront property on Oak Beach, indicating \"they were dumped there by the same person or persons,\" Dormer said in December.",
"\"It's too coincidental that there were four bodies in the same location.\"",
"The remains of the fifth body were found about a mile from where the other corpses were discovered, he said, refusing to disclose exactly where the three additional remains were found on Monday.",
"Of the first remains found, all four women had advertised for prostitution services on the Craigslist website, with one body having been there for as long as two years, police said.",
"The highway is closed Monday night with officers on guard from the Causeway to Nassau County Line so the search can resume Tuesday, Dormer said.",
"\"The investigation is going to move forward over the next hours, and into tomorrow,\" days and weeks ahead, Dormer said."
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"Total of 8 bodies found during monthslong search for New Jersey woman .",
"Several remains turned up so close together police believe same person \"dumped\" them .",
"Search continues for original person ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal overcame an injury scare to win a four-set classic over Juan Martin Del Potro and claim a place in the last eight at Wimbledon.",
"With the light fading on Centre Court and Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge watching on, Nadal eventually beat his Argentine opponent 7-6 3-6 7-6 6-4 in just under four hours to book a quarterfinal berth.",
"Nadal called for the doctor at the end of the first set after suffering an injury to his left foot that impeded his movement but he battled through the pain to take the opener on a tie-break.",
"However, as Nadal moved gingerly around the court in the second set, Del Potro took full advantage to level the match thanks to some booming ground strokes.",
"Injury casts doubt on Nadal's Wimbledon defense .",
"In the third set Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, fell awkwardly when trying to change direction on the baseline and he left the court to be seen by the doctor.",
"The 22-year-old returned and ensured the third set went into a tie-break but made a series of unforced errors to hand his Spanish opponent the upper hand before Nadal powered to victory in the fourth.",
"After the match Nadal told reporters: \"I don't know what the problem is, it seems to be a problem with the bone in the foot.",
"\"I thought I would have to retire at the end of the first set because there was a lot of pain.",
"But the tape changed the situation.",
"Now I will have to check with the doctors and the physios.",
"Something is there.\" Nadal will play 10th seed Mardy Fish in the last eight after the American battled past sixth seed and last year's runner-up Tomas Berdych 7-6 6-4 6-4.",
"World number two Novak Djokovic eased into the quarterfinals with a straight sets win over Michael Llodra.",
"The Serbian, seeded second, powered to a 6-3 6-3 6-3 victory over the 19th seed in just an hour and 40 minutes on Court No.",
"1. He will now face qualifier Bernard Tomic after the 18-year-old Australian continued his dream run at the tournament by defeating Belgium's Xavier Malisse 6-1 7-5 6-4.",
"Tomic, who was born in Germany, is the youngest Wimbledon quarterfinalist since former champion Boris Becker in 1986.",
"Britain's number four seed Andy Murray enjoyed a comfortable passage into the last eight with a 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 6-2 victory over France's Richard Gasquet.",
"He had been surprised to see William and Kate in the Royal Box on Centre Court and joked to reporters afterwards he would have liked advance warning.",
"He said: \"If I'd known they were coming, I would have shaved.",
"I was thinking to myself as I came off I was sweaty and very hairy.",
"I said to them, 'I'm sorry, I'm a bit sweaty.'",
"\"No-one else had heard anything.",
"I saw them when I went out. It's obviously great to get the chance to play in front of them and it was very nice to get to meet them.\"",
"Murray will now play Spain's Feliciano Lopez after he beat another unseeded player, Lukasz Kubot from Poland, 3-6 6-7 7-6 7-6 7-5.",
"Six-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer dropped the first set against Russian 18th seed Mikhail Youzhny but recovered to triumph 6-7 6-3 6-3 6-3.",
"The Swiss will now face France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who overcame seventh seed David Ferrer 6-3 6-4 7-6."
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"Novak Djokovic beats Michael Llodra 6-3 6-3 6-3 in Wimbledon last 16 clash .",
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"(CNN) -- A federal grand jury indicted four more people on charges involving the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that left more than 160 people dead.",
"The case is linked to David Headley, who pleaded guilty last year to all 12 charges against him in connection with the four-day siege on India's financial capital and a plot to attack a Danish newspaper.",
"Headley was not charged in the new indictment, but his role is spelled out in detail throughout the charges that describe an extended plot involving years of surveillance, setting up a front organization to hide activities, getting money to pay for planning, and communications between some of the suspects and the Mumbai attackers as the siege took place.",
"The new indictment included charges of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India and conspiracy to bomb public places in India.",
"Both carry a maximum penalty of life in prison or death.",
"In addition, some or all of the suspects in the new indictment were charged with conspiracy to murder and maim in India, conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism in India, conspiracy to murder and maim in Denmark and others that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.",
"Named in the new indictment were Ilyas Kahmiri, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, Sajid Mir, Abu Qahafa, Mazhar Iqbal and an unidentified man referred to by the alias of Major Iqbal.",
"Rana, a Canadian citizen and Chicago resident, is the only suspect in U.S. custody.",
"Rana, Kahmiri and Syed were named in previous indictments that charged Headley, who also lived in Chicago.",
"The other suspects were all believed to live in Pakistan.",
"Kahmiri is a leader of the Pakistani terrorist group Harakat ul Jihad al Islami, or the Islamic Struggle Movement, and has close contact with a known al Qaeda leader, according to the indictment.",
"The four new suspects named in Monday's indictment were Mir, Qahafa, Iqbal and the unidentified man referred to by his alias.",
"Headley, the son of an American mother and Pakistani father, was accused of extensive involvement in planning the devastating attacks on hotels in Mumbai, which the Indian government says were carried out by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.",
"At least six Americans were among the dead.",
"Headley initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, then changed his plea as part of a deal with the government to cooperate with investigators in exchange for a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.",
"By pleading guilty, he also gave up his right to appeal.",
"Headley's actual sentence will depend on how much he cooperates with authorities.",
"The new indictment Monday charged that Headley, working in connection with the other suspects, scouted targets in Mumbai for more than two years to set up the November 2008 attacks.",
"It included details of what happened that day, saying that \"during the course of attacks in Mumbai, the attackers were in telephonic contact with defendants Sajid Mir, Abu Qahafa and Mazhar Iqbal, all of whom were then located in Pakistan.\"",
"\"More specifically, during the course of the attacks, the attackers were advised to, among other actions, kill hostages, set fires and throw grenades,\" the indictment said.",
"\"Sajid Mir also sought to arrange the release of a hostage in exchange for the release of a captured attacker.\"",
"It also accused Mir of working with Headley to plan a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper, which was never carried out.",
"The newspaper became the target of Muslim fury in 2005 after it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a manner offensive to Muslims."
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"Headley pleaded guilty last year to charges in the Mumbai case .",
"A top al Qaeda suspect is charged in the new indictment ."
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"(CNN) -- Before the tabloid headlines, before the media crush, before Casey Anthony and her daughter Caylee became instantly recognizable, there were only two phone calls.",
"\"I have a possible missing child,\" Cindy Anthony said in the first of two 911 calls made July 15, 2008.",
"The little girl -- her granddaughter, Caylee -- \"has been missing for a month,\" she said.",
"In another call, she added an ominous statement: \"There's something wrong,\" she said.",
"\"I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car.\"",
"Caylee was 2 when she was last seen June 16, 2008.",
"It wasn't until six months later the little girl's skeletal remains were found in woods about a quarter of a mile from the home of her grandparents.",
"The girl's mother and Cindy Anthony's daughter, Casey Anthony, had also lived there, moving out around the time the child was last seen.",
"On Tuesday, Casey Anthony, now 25, will stand trial, accused of a crime unthinkable to many: Killing her daughter.",
"Besides capital murder, she faces six other charges, including aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and providing false information to authorities.",
"If she is convicted by jurors -- seven women, five men and five alternates -- she could face the death penalty.",
"Anthony has pleaded not guilty, and denies harming her daughter or having anything to do with her disappearance.",
"One of her defense attorneys, Jose Baez, has said that once all the facts are known, it will become clear his client is innocent.",
"The case has generated intense media attention, prompting the court to move jury selection to Clearwater, Florida, in Pinellas County, because of concern about getting an impartial jury in Orlando, in Orange County.",
"Jurors were being transported Monday to Orlando in preparation for opening statements Tuesday.",
"Both the prosecution and the defense face hurdles, said \"In Session\" correspondent Jean Casarez, who has followed the case from the beginning.",
"The cause of Caylee's death was homicide by undetermined means, meaning there is no cause of death, she said.",
"\"One of the elements in the statute for murder is that the defendant caused the death,\" Casarez said.",
"\"This is a circumstantial case, so prosecutors will build their building blocks toward that answer, but they don't have a definitive cause of death, and that can be a problem.",
"I have seen cases where there are acquittals because the prosecution does not have a cause of death.\"",
"The fact that the remains were skeletal also prevented authorities from getting definitive answers on toxicology, as well as evidence that Caylee was abused -- something her mother is charged with doing.",
"\"How do you prove that when you just have skeletal remains?\"",
"Casarez said.",
"Duct tape was still stuck to the lower facial region of the child's body, authorities have said.",
"\"(Caylee's) killer prepared some substance in advance that would render her physically unable to resist,\" prosecutor Jeff Ashton said at a December 2009 hearing, \"administered the substance, awaited its effect and then methodically applied three pieces of duct tape to completely cut off the flow of air through her mouth or her nose and let nature take its course.\"",
"Authorities have said that the amount of decomposition would seem to indicate Caylee died shortly after she went missing.",
"Anthony initially told police that she had last seen her daughter in the custody of a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzalez.",
"Investigators never tracked down the babysitter; later, a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez filed a defamation suit against Anthony, saying she had never met her and lost her job over the claims.",
"Anthony countersued, accusing Gonzalez of attempting to cash in on the high-profile case.",
"Prosecutors allege that after killing her daughter, Anthony stashed her body in the trunk of her Pontiac Sunfire before disposing of it.",
"A cadaver dog has alerted to the scent of human decomposition in the trunk, and testing showed the presence of chloroform.",
"Orange County Superior Court Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. ruled last month jurors can hear the chloroform testimony.",
"In addition, investigators have said they found Internet searches of websites mentioning chloroform on Anthony's computer.",
"Anthony's high-powered defense team, fighting to save her life, will likely try to cast doubt on prosecutors' scientific evidence.",
"At pretrial hearings, they have argued that evidence regarding a potential odor of decomposition in the trunk, chloroform and other evidence is not reliable enough for jurors to consider.",
"Perry has also ruled jurors can hear testimony about a stain in the trunk, as well as the decompositional odor.",
"In March, Baez contended that having jurors look at the stain might have a \"prejudicial effect,\" alleging it could have been caused by a wet bag of garbage or gasoline cans.",
"The stain was negative for DNA, as well as for the presence of blood or other bodily fluids, he said.",
"\"There is absolutely no proof whatsoever that this is a biological stain,\" Baez said.",
"Perhaps the biggest hurdle for the defense is the fact that Caylee had been missing for 31 days before authorities were aware of it, and her mother failed to report it, Casarez said.",
"In addition, some have alleged that Anthony didn't behave like the worried mother of a missing child during the search for Caylee.",
"She went to nightclubs and sent hundreds of text messages to friends, according to cell phone and text transcripts and investigative reports released by police.",
"Those records show she rarely mentioned her missing daughter.",
"\"She doesn't report her child missing but she actively parties,\" Casarez said.",
"Perry has allowed pictures of Anthony taken at nightclubs, both before and after Caylee went missing, to be presented at trial.",
"Why before? \"Probably (for prosecutors) to show that this was her lifestyle before and after her child was missing, and it's not a reaction to not knowing how to deal with Caylee suddenly out of her life,\" said Casarez.",
"Another potential defense hurdle: During the time Caylee was missing, Anthony also got a tattoo on her shoulder reading \"Bella Vita\" -- Italian for \"beautiful life,\" Casarez said.",
"The car also poses a huge obstacle for the defense, with evidence of chloroform found inside along with hair that potentially showed signs of decomposition, she said.",
"The defense has also objected to the jurors chosen.",
"Baez told Perry as the jurors were seated Friday that \"we do not accept the panel as seated.\"",
"The defense wanted more than the 10 peremptory challenges it was allowed.",
"The challenges let attorneys on both sides reject jurors without having to provide a reason.",
"Perry overruled his objections.",
"Early in the jury selection process, defense attorneys hinted that mitigating circumstances including \"a history of sexual abuse\" may have explained Anthony's behavior in the days after her daughter disappeared and her failure to alert authorities sooner.",
"Anthony herself told police she had been trying to find her daughter on her own.",
"Defense attorney Ann Finnell raised a host of potential mitigating circumstances to gauge what would-be jurors might consider if they had to decide whether to sentence Anthony to death.",
"Those circumstances included a \"lack of maturity,\" \"lack of impulse control\" and \"a history of sexual abuse.\"",
"Anthony alleged her father and brother sexually abused her in a letter from jail last year.",
"In an interview with NBC News afterward, her father, George Anthony, denied the claims and criticized Baez's judgment in questioning him about the allegations.",
"Finnell asked potential members of the jury pool whether the assertion her client came from a \"dysfunctional family\" might factor into their penalty decision.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes contributed to this report.",
"Watch Nancy Grace Monday through Sunday starting at 8 p.m.",
"ET on HLN. For the latest from Nancy Grace click here."
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"Opening statements are set for Tuesday .",
"Anthony is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee .",
"If convicted, she could face the death penalty .",
"A jury was seated Friday in another Florida county ."
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"(CNN) -- The European Commission found leading computer chipmaker Intel guilty Wednesday of violating European anti-trust rules and ordered that it pay a fine of 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion).",
"Intel was allowed to present a defense to the European Commission ahead of Tuesday's ruling .",
"It is the largest fine the commission has ever imposed, said Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition.",
"Intel has said it plans to appeal the decision.",
"The commission found Intel abused its dominant market position in the market for computer chips known as the x86 computer processing unit (CPU), Kroes said.",
"The abuse lasted more than five years, she said.",
"\"Those x86 chips are the engine of the car, so to say,\" Kroes said at a news conference in Brussels, Belgium.",
"\"Your computer won't work without these chips.\"",
"Intel held a 70 percent share of the market during the period of the violations, she said.",
"\"That Intel had such a large market share is not a problem in itself,\" Kroes said.",
"\"What is a problem is that Intel abused its dominant position.",
"Specifically, Intel used illegal anti-competitive practices to exclude essentially its only competitor, and that reduced consumer choice -- and the whole story is about consumers.\"",
"Intel's actions frustrated innovation and reduced consumer welfare, Kroes said.",
"The commission found that Intel awarded major computer manufacturers rebates on the condition that they purchase all or most of their supplies from Intel.",
"Intel also paid Europe's biggest computer retailer, Media Markt, to sell Intel-based PCs exclusively, the commission found.",
"Media Markt has some 200 megastores in nine countries.",
"The commission also found that Intel awarded payments to computer manufacturers so they would postpone or cancel the launch of products containing parts from its leading competitor, AMD.",
"\"The commission found that these payments had the potential effect of preventing products for which there was a consumer demand from coming to the market,\" the commission said in a statement.",
"\"Given that Intel has harmed millions and millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for more than five years, the size of the fine should come as no surprise,\" Kroes said.",
"Intel was allowed to present a defense to the commission's preliminary conclusions.",
"But Kroes said the company \"went to great lengths\" to cover up its anti-competitive practices, resulting in a long and complex investigation.",
"In a statement on the company Web site, Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO said the company took strong exception to the ruling and planned to appeal.",
"\"We believe the decision is wrong and ignores the reality of a highly competitive microprocessor marketplace -- characterized by constant innovation, improved product performance and lower prices,\" Otellini said.",
"\"There has been absolutely zero harm to consumers.",
"He added that the compnay did not believe its practices violated European law and accused the Directorate General for Competition of the Commission of ignoring or refusing to \"obtain significant evidence that contradicts the assertions in this decision.\"",
"Otellini added that the company had never sold products below cost but had invested in innovation, manufacturing and developing leadership technology with the result that it could \"discount our products to compete in a highly competitive marketplace.\"",
"\"Despite our strongly held views,\" Otellini concluded, \"as we go through the appeals process we plan to work with the Commission to ensure we're in compliance with their decision.\""
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"Commissioner: Fine is the largest ever imposed by European Commission .",
"NEW: Intel: CEO says it takes strong exception to the ruling, will appeal ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The commander of a British regiment has become the country's highest-ranking soldier to be killed in action since 1982's Falklands War after he was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.",
"Lt. Col. Rupert Thorneloe was killed when a roadside bomb denotated in Helmand province.",
"Lt. Col. Rupert Thorneloe, 40, was killed along with trooper Joshua Hammond, 18, Wednesday as they were traveling along a canal in Lashkar Gah, in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, the British Ministry of Defense said.",
"Thorneloe, a commanding officer who oversaw more than 1,000 men, had left the battle group headquarters on the resupply convoy so he could visit his men, because they were conducting a major operation in hostile territory, the ministry said.",
"He and Hammond, a tank driver, were killed despite traveling in an armored vehicle, the ministry said.",
"Britain's Prince Charles knew Thorneloe and said he was \"completely mortified\" to learn of his death.",
"Charles is the regimental colonel of the Welsh Guards, where Thorneloe served.",
"\"It's a wonderful family, the regiment, so everybody knows everybody,\" he said.",
"\"And being involved for 34 years I start to see the sons and the grandsons of people I first met 34 years ago coming into the regiment, so you can imagine the shock and horror.\"",
"Watch Prince Charles speak .",
"Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth called Thorneloe's death a \"hard blow\" to the army and the military's operations in Afghanistan.",
"\"I knew him myself, as a man of incisive thought, enormous professionalism and the greatest decency, who could not wait to leave the high-profile post in the Ministry of Defense where he had performed so impressively in order to take command of his battalion on operations,\" Ainsworth said in a statement.",
"\"He saw it as the best job he would ever do, but I know that his genuinely exceptional abilities would have ensured him a brilliant career,\" Ainsworth added.",
"\"He led his men with energy, care, and pride -- and he died leading his men.\"",
"Thorneloe spent two years at the Ministry of Defense, during which he was the military assistant to the secretary, before he assumed command of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards last October, the ministry said.",
"He leaves behind a wife and two young daughters.",
"Hammond enlisted in the army when he was 16 and deployed to Afghanistan a month ago, said Lt. Col. Marcus Simson, his commanding officer.",
"He was a week away from his 19th birthday, Simson said.",
"\"He had a glint in his eye and a wry smile which always made one feel that you were in on the joke,\" said Major Charlie Burbridge, his squadron commander.",
"\"He was professional and capable and was only just getting into his stride as a soldier.",
"Only days before his tragic death he had said how much he was enjoying the job.",
"\"My words will do little to console his mother or fiance whom he planned to marry on his return from Afghanistan, but our prayers are for them.",
"'Hammy' was a Tankie, through and through; I am proud to have served alongside him and we will never forget him.\""
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"Lt. Col. Rupert Thorneloe was killed along with trooper Joshua Hammond .",
"They were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lenny Dykstra, a three-time major league All-Star outfielder who played for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies, was charged Monday with multiple counts of allegedly leasing cars using phony businesses and credit information, and with drug possession, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office announced.",
"At a court hearing Monday, Dykstra was taken into custody and jailed, with bail set at $500,000.",
"According to the complaint, Dykstra, 48, and two co-defendants -- Robert Hymers, 27, his accountant and friend; and Christopher Gavanis, 30, a friend -- are accused of trying to lease various luxury vehicles from several dealerships by providing fraudulent information and claiming credit through a phony business called Home Free Systems.",
"None of the defendants could be reached for comment Monday, and it could not be determined whether they had retained attorneys.",
"Dykstra's attorney in a pending federal case told CNN he no longer represents Dykstra, and representatives at the public defenders' office told CNN none of the three defendants had retailed public defenders.",
"At two dealerships, Dykstra and Hymers allegedly provided information from a man they claimed was a co-signer but who had not authorized his name to be used, the complaint alleges.",
"Leases were not approved at two dealerships and all three men allegedly drove off with three cars at one company without lease approval, said Deputy District Attorney Alex Karkanen, with the office's Auto Insurance Fraud Division.",
"When Dykstra was first arrested in April, Los Angeles police detectives investigating the case executed a search warrant at his Encino home and allegedly found cocaine and Ecstasy along with Somatropin, a synthetic human growth hormone.",
"Dykstra was charged Monday with five counts of attempted grand theft auto, eight counts of filing false financial statements, four counts of identity theft, three counts of grand theft auto and three counts of possession of a controlled substance.",
"All are felonies. In addition, he is charged with one misdemeanor count each of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and unauthorized possession of a syringe.",
"If convicted, Dykstra could face up to 12 years in state prison.",
"In a separate case, Dykstra was indicted in May on federal bankruptcy fraud charges including obstruction of justice, for allegedly taking more than $400,000 in property that should have gone to his creditors, then lying about it under oath, prosecutors claim.",
"In the federal indictment, Dykstra is accused of stealing, hiding and destroying items such as chandeliers, artwork, and sports memorabilia from his repossessed $18 million Ventura County mansion.",
"His attorney, Mark Worksman has characterized the federal case as \"a scorched-earth bankruptcy proceeding\" and blamed the auto-related accusations as a \"vendetta\" by former caretakers.",
"Dykstra had remained free on $150,000 bond in the federal case."
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"NEW: Lenny Dykstra is jailed with bail set at $500,000 .",
"Dykstra played for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies .",
"He and two co-defendants were charged Monday by the Los Angeles District Attorney .",
"Charges include allegedly leasing cars using phony information ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The parents of a murder victim are suing Facebook after a paramedic pleaded guilty to photographing their daughter's corpse and posting the image to the social networking site, according to court documents.",
"Caroline Wimmer, 26, was found by her parents, Ronald and Martha, after she was strangled with a hair-dryer cord in March 2009 in Staten Island, New York.",
"Paramedic Mark Musarella -- who responded to their corresponding emergency call -- later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after posting to Facebook the photographs he took, the documents said.",
"\"All I want is my daughter's picture back,\" Martha Wimmer told CNN.",
"\"I want it destroyed,\" noting that the image is no longer posted on the site.",
"The couple is suing Facebook in an effort to force the company to turn over the image, identify who may have downloaded the photograph and prevent the image from being further disseminated, according to the couple's attorney Ravi Batra.",
"They \"would like to move on,\" Batra said, adding that \"it's very tough to heal when you know there are sick people out in the world look at their dead daughter's image.\"",
"But the social networking site could be protected by the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which says \"no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.\"",
"Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said, \"The case is without merit.\"",
"\"We will fight it vigorously,\" he added.",
"The parents are also suing their daughter's convicted murderer, Calvin Lawson, paramedic Musarella, the city of New York and Greenleaf Arms Incorporated -- the company that owns the apartment building where Wimmer's body was found.",
"The pair are also suing Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano and Richmond University Medical Center, where Musarella had been employed.",
"\"This lawsuit assumes traditional defendants as well as nontraditional defendants, including the City of New York and Facebook, that are unique to this case arising out of cybercrime,\" Batra said.",
"Connie Pankratz, a spokeswoman for the city's law department, called the situation \"tragic.\"",
"\"We extend our sympathy to the family,\" she said.",
"Pankratz said the city has \"not yet received the legal papers, but will review them thoroughly upon receipt.\"",
"Meanwhile, Musarella has forfeited his EMT certification and was ordered to 200 hours of community service.",
"The image was discovered by an acquaintance of Musarella, who alerted Richmond University Medical Center, according to Batra.",
"Wimmer's murderer, Lawson, is serving 25 years-to-life.",
"Martha Wimmer said Tuesday that she is traveling to the state capitol in support of pending legislation that would enact harsher penalties for a public worker who broadcasts or publishes an image of a crime scene outside their official duties.",
"The law would raise the offense to a Class E felony."
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"Paris (CNN) -- A French politician said Monday that International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is facing sexual assault charges in New York, attacked her daughter in 2002.",
"Anne Mansouret, a member of parliament for the Socialist Party, said she cautioned her daughter, Tristane Banon, not to file a police report at the time, saying it might adversely impact her career.",
"At the time, Banon was an aspiring journalist.",
"Strauss-Kahn was never charged.",
"However, in light of the charges against Strauss-Kahn after an alleged incident at a Sofitel hotel in New York on Saturday, Banon's attorney in France, David Koubbi, said he and the young woman are considering whether to file a complaint.",
"Strauss-Kahn's attorney in France, Leon Lef Forster, did not immediately respond to CNN's requests for comment on the allegations.",
"One of his New York attorneys, Benjamin Brafman, said Sunday his client is innocent of the alleged assault in New York, and he pledged to vigorously defend him in court on those charges.",
"Who is Strauss-Kahn?",
"Mansouret told CNN her daughter had asked to interview Strauss-Kahn, and met him in his office in the National Assembly.",
"The initial interview went well, she said.",
"However, Strauss-Kahn sent Banon a text message later, saying he was not happy with the interview and asking if he could speak with her again.",
"He sent her an address, she said.",
"Banon went to the address, where Strauss-Kahn then locked the door to the room they were in, took her hand and grabbed her arm, according to Mansouret.",
"Banon told him to let her go, and the incident ended with the two struggling on the floor, Mansouret said.",
"Banon managed to escape the apartment and locked herself in her car outside, calling her mother.",
"Mansouret said she arrived about an hour and a half later to find her daughter still locked in the car and looking \"roughed up.\"",
"The heel of one shoe was broken, Mansouret recalled to CNN.",
"But Mansouret told her daughter not to file a complaint out of concern she would become known as Strauss-Kahn's victim.",
"Banon is now 31 and a journalist.",
"Her mother said it is up to her whether to take any legal action against Strauss-Kahn.",
"CNN does not typically name assault victims, but Mansouret said her daughter gave permission for her name to be disclosed.",
"CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report."
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"The young woman is now 31 and a French journalist ."
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"(CNN) -- Natasha Richardson, who died Wednesday following a ski accident Monday, comes from an illustrious British acting family -- one whose name she's often found a challenge.",
"Natasha Richardson comes from a family of well-known British actors, including mother Vanessa Redgrave.",
"Richardson, the daughter of Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson (\"Look Back in Anger,\" \"Tom Jones\"), has said, more than once, that she found it difficult to live up to the family reputation.",
"\"The names Richardson or Redgrave didn't help,\" she told About.com's Rebecca Murray in 2007.",
"\"But the last thing you want is to ride any coattails, because you don't want people to be accusing you of nepotism.",
"You want to be able to learn and practice, and not to be thrown into a spotlight before you're ready for it.\"",
"But Richardson, 45, was practically born to the stage.",
"Besides her mother and father, several members of her family are performers: Her grandparents were Sir Michael Redgrave, a famed British actor, and actress Rachel Kempson; uncle Corin Redgrave, aunt Lynn Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson also are noted actors.",
"She's even married to an actor, having been wed to Liam Neeson (\"Schindler's List\") since 1994.",
"She first appeared in a movie when she was 4, earning a bit part in her father's \"The Charge of the Light Brigade\" (1968).",
"By that point, her parents had divorced, and she was living with her mother, who already had dazzled movie audiences with her work in \"Morgan!\"",
"(1966), \"Blowup\" (1966) and \"Camelot\" (1967).",
"Despite her mother's success, Richardson said that the family was sometimes in financial straits because the politically controversial Redgrave gave away money to various causes, according to the BBC.",
"Watch Richardson talk about acting along side mom » .",
"Though Richardson appeared in regional theater and a CBS television miniseries by the time she was 22, she first gained renown for her performance in Anton Chekhov's \"The Seagull\" in a 1985 production that featured her mother and Jonathan Pryce.",
"The performance earned her the London Drama Critics' most promising newcomer award.",
"She's earned her strongest notices for her stage work.",
"She won a Tony for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 revival of \"Cabaret\" and earned raves for her Blanche DuBois in a 2005 production of \"A Streetcar Named Desire.\"",
"Other productions include a 1993 production of Eugene O'Neill's \"Anna Christie\" and the original 1999 production of Patrick Marber's \"Closer,\" later made into a film with Julia Roberts.",
"Critics have turned into fans.",
"\"Her Sally Bowles is a dazzling example of how star power can be harnessed to create a devastating portrait of someone who is definitely not a star,\" wrote The New York Times' Ben Brantley on \"Cabaret.\"",
"\"Born-to-lose characters can be tedious, but Richardson turns this one into an electrifying triumph.\"",
"On screen, Richardson deliberately has picked a wide range of roles, many in independent films.",
"She makes no apologies: \"I am attracted to the darker places than I am to the lighter, frothier stuff and I'm not sure why that is,\" she told the Web site Filmfreakcentral.com in 2006.",
"\"I do think that it's certainly more challenging to play the dark places.",
"But it's the part, primarily, and on the whole I'd rather play a wonderful part in a movie that few people see rather than a sort of cosmetic role in a blockbuster.",
"Not that I've been offered many of those.\"",
"There have been a handful of major Hollywood productions, however, most notably the 1998 version of \"The Parent Trap\" and the Jennifer Lopez vehicle \"Maid in Manhattan\" (2002), which she took as \"a laugh,\" she told Filmfreakcentral.com.",
"\"You'll have to blame Ralph [Fiennes] for that one.",
"He's the most wonderful actor, a good friend; we thought we'd have a laugh.\"",
"Richardson met Neeson during the 1993 Broadway run of \"Anna Christie\" and later made the film \"Nell\" with him.",
"When the two met, Richardson was married to producer Robert Fox, but that marriage ended.",
"She later married Neeson.",
"The two have generally stayed out of the tabloid press, but they won a 1998 libel suit against the London tabloid The Mirror over a story that claimed their marriage was a sham.",
"The newspaper apologized, and Neeson and Richardson were awarded $85,000, which they donated to victims of a Northern Ireland car bombing.",
"Richardson has come to terms with her famous name -- and, having worked with her mother more than once, greatly appreciates her abilities.",
"\"What's always different about my mother is that there's always something unexpected about her work, because she's sort of fearless,\" Richardson told About.com's Murray.",
"\"When she hits it, then it sort of is just incandescent.\"",
"She added that \"her children have entirely forgiven her\" for the difficulties when they were younger, \"because she is a great mother.\"",
"Richardson and Neeson have two children: Michael, 13, and Daniel, 12."
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"Richardson is married to actor Liam Neeson; they have two children .",
"Richardson has worked hard to establish her own name, is renowned for stage work .",
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"Dallas (CNN) -- A federal judge has blocked key parts of a Texas law that would require doctors to provide a sonogram to pregnant women before they get an abortion, days before the law was set to take effect.",
"U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, in Austin, Texas, found that several portions of the law are \"unconstitutionally vague,\" and that it violates the First Amendment by compelling doctors and patients to engage in government-mandated speech.",
"As written, the law would require women seeking an abortion in Texas to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure.",
"It was to take effect on September 1.",
"The preliminary injunction, issued Tuesday, blocks the state from enforcing any penalties against a doctor who does not place sonogram pictures where a pregnant woman may see them, or does not make the heartbeat audible.",
"It also blocks penalties against the woman.",
"\"Today's ruling is a huge victory for women in Texas and a clear signal to the state legislature that it went too far when it passed this law,\" said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.",
"\"Politicians have no business telling doctors how to practice medicine or meddling in women's private medical decisions.\"",
"The Center filed the lawsuit, which was granted class-actions status.",
"Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said the state would appeal the decision.",
"\"Every life lost to abortion is a tragedy and (the) ruling is a great disappointment to all Texans who stand in defense of life,\" he said in a statement.",
"\"This important sonogram legislation ensures that every Texas woman seeking an abortion has all the facts about the life she is carrying, and understands the devastating impact of such a life-changing decision.\"",
"The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.",
"The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.",
"The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.",
"In his order, Sparks agreed with the abortion providers that many clauses in the law were too vague.",
"He wrote, \"The court is inclined to agree with (the) defendants' characterization that (the) \"plaintiffs have chosen to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks.\"",
"The court also found that the sonogram law goes beyond existing informed consent laws regarding abortion and constituted a violation of the First Amendment.",
"The law \"compels physicians to advance an ideological agenda with which they may not agree, regardless of any medical necessity, and irrespective of whether the pregnant women wish to listen,\" Sparks wrote."
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"The law was to go into effect September 1 .",
"The judge found some of the language unconstitutionally vague .",
"He also said that it violated the First Amendment ."
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"(CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot's lawyer has quit defending him against murder allegations in Peru, citing unspecified differences over strategy.",
"Van der Sloot, the onetime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, faces a possible trial on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores.",
"His lawyer, Maximo Altez, filed papers to withdraw from the case Tuesday.",
"\"I cannot defend this case in the way he wants me to,\" Altez told In Session.",
"He would not elaborate.",
"Flores was found dead in a Lima hotel room registered to van der Sloot in May 2010.",
"Police say van der Sloot took money and bank cards from her wallet and fled to Chile, where he was arrested a few days later.",
"Peruvian authorities have yet to file formal charges against van der Sloot, who is expected to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on June 8.",
"Once the discovery phase of the case ends, prosecutors will file charges and a trial date will be set.",
"Altez has been defending van der Sloot on a pro bono basis and said he expects a public defender will be assigned to the case.",
"He said the lack of payment did not play a role in his decision to quit.",
"\"I thought this case would be a good opportunity to show the world that in Peru detainees are abused, and the Peruvian justice system is very informal,\" he said.",
"And he said he will continue to represent van der Sloot in a related habeas corpus case claiming human rights violations during his arrest -- a case that would be thrown out if Altez withdrew from that case too.",
"Altez threatened to quit the case once before after complaining of receiving threats by phone, e-mail and Facebook.",
"The 23-year-old van der Sloot was once the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, who vanished at age 18 while on a graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba.",
"He was arrested twice but never charged in connection with her disappearance.",
"Shortly after his 2010 arrest, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted him on charges that he tried to extort $250,000 from the Holloway family.",
"Van der Sloot offered to provide what turned out to be bogus information about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's remains in exchange for the money, according to the charges."
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"(Parenting.com) -- A new report from the AAP clues parents into what their kids are really doing online.",
"Good news: It's not all bad!",
"Facebook, Twitter, Shelfari, Moshi Monsters, Club Penguin, The SIMS -- the list of online games and social networking sites seems to grow longer every day.",
"Also on the upswing: the alarming headlines about cyberbullying, sexting, and other forms of online harassment.",
"This ever-increasing presence of social media in kids' lives, often starting in the prepubescent years, has prompted the American Academy of Pediatrics to issue a clinical report to increase parental awareness of the sites their kids are visiting and how they work.",
"Parenting.com: How texting changes the way kids communicate .",
"\"The digital world is an evolving landscape that parents have to learn to navigate,\" says Kathleen Clarke-Pearson, M.D., an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and coauthor of the report.",
"Tweens in 2011 socialize more and more online, rather than at a friend's house or the mall, and even though Facebook and other sites have age limits -- technically no one under 13 is supposed to have a \"page\" -- 30% of parents admitted on Parenting.com that they allow their tweens to log on anyway.",
"Parenting.com: 10 violent video games to avoid .",
"And this trend is likely to continue: According to the AAP, more than half of adolescents visit a social media site more than once a day, and 75% have cell phones, which are often used for texting and instant messaging.",
"Because of the intensity of the online world, teens who spend a great deal of time there may be at risk for a new phenomenon called \"Facebook depression.\"",
"Teen development is, in large part, about separating from parents and gaining peer acceptance, and social networking sites allow them to do both.",
"But if online harassment or rejection occurs, such as \"de-friending,\" symptoms of depression may be the result.",
"Contact your pediatrician if you notice any of the following: sadness, anxiety, pessimism, difficulty concentrating, a drop in grades, insomnia, loss of appetite and irritability.",
"Parenting.com: 7 ways to fix rude 'tween behavior .",
"While the news media tends to focus on the negatives of this new technology, social networking also has many advantages for kids.",
"In addition to strengthening connections with friends and family, social networking encourages participation in community service activities, collaboration with classmates on group projects, the sharing of musical and artistic achievements, and communication with sports coaches and teammates, and that's just for starters.",
"\"In addition, the online world is beneficial for those kids who don't quite 'fit in' at school -- it can help foster their identity and unique social skills,\" explains Clarke-Pearson.",
"So how does it go wrong? \"Teens are susceptible to peer pressure and are also naturally impulsive, so they may quickly comment on an inappropriate post without thinking.",
"This can easily snowball and become very hurtful to the person who's targeted,\" says Clarke-Pearson.",
"Some families have also become so overly digitized that time together at home and during meals is being displaced.",
"Direct interaction with peers is disappearing as well.",
"Parenting.com: 25 awesome iPhone apps for kids .",
"\"When texting becomes the main mode of communication, it doesn't allow for tone, body language or facial cues,\" says Clarke-Pearson.",
"But the right parental interaction and involvement can ensure that won't happen.",
"Here's how to help your child use social media and game sites to her advantage: .",
"Get schooled: Immerse yourself in the technology so you know how to create a profile, \"friend\" your child, and be a part of her online life.",
"She may insist that you don't embarrass her by posting on her wall for her friends to see, for instance, but that's okay.",
"You still get a window into her world.",
"13 Tips for monitoring kids' social media .",
"Model it: If you're constantly on the cell or computer, your kid will want to be, too.",
"Limit your time so you can help your child strike a balance with her own use.",
"Power down: Insist that family meals are device-free and set reasonable bedtimes.",
"\"Children and adolescents don't get enough sleep as it is, so staying up half the night on line certainly doesn't help,\" says Clarke-Pearson.",
"Chat her up: Don't rely exclusively on a \"net nanny\" program to keep you up-to-date on her activity.",
"Instead, ask who she's texting or IM'ing lately and share some of your own social media experiences (she just may open up about hers).",
"Parenting.com: Keeping your child safe on the internet .",
"Go public: Keep the computer centrally located (like in the family room or kitchen) so you can check on the sites she visits and the amount of time spent there.",
"Be kind: Discourage meanness, gossiping, and posting anything that's untrue or potentially harmful or embarrassing.",
"Remind your child that there's no real privacy online -- every email, text or IM leaves a digital footprint, which future employers and colleges might access.",
"Take action: Get the latest online safety information at cybersafebook.com.",
"Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Parenting Magazine - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright 2010 The Parenting Group.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"Teens may be at risk of a new phenomenon called \"Facebook depression\"\nContact your pediatrician if you notice sadness, anxiety, or insomnia ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- Game drives and the Big Five -- pulling off a classic African safari is easier (and cheaper) than you might think.",
"Africa's a big place.",
"How do I decide where exactly to go?",
"To the uninitiated, planning a safari can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be.",
"Wildlife excursions are largely confined to eastern and southern Africa, where the Big Five (lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and Cape buffalos) converge.",
"Within those regions, there are some basic rules that help distinguish the kind of experience each country offers.",
"On the approachable end of the spectrum, Kenya and South Africa are among the easiest-to-navigate nations in Africa.",
"Both have well-developed tourism infrastructures with accessible parks, plush lodges, and plenty of flights and outfitted trips, so safaris there tend to be simple to arrange and comparatively cheap.",
"On the more adventurous side, Tanzania and Uganda in the east and Botswana and Zimbabwe in the south offer more rugged, unique experiences and fewer crowds, although generally at a higher price.",
"Once you decide which type of adventure you'd prefer, it seriously helps to zero in on specific trips by tapping a safari-savvy travel agent.",
"Travelhub.com has a robust database that lists hundreds of travel agencies, and it allows you to search specifically for safari specialists.",
"26 Stunning Ireland Photos .",
"How much can I expect to pay?",
"Regardless of how you do it, safaris don't come cheap.",
"A weeklong trip is typically at least $4,000: Guided safaris start at roughly $250 per person per day -- and that's before you've paid for airfare to Africa.",
"International flights aren't usually included in safari packages and typically cost $2,000 or so.",
"That said, there are some strategies that help keep prices relatively low.",
"Booking your initial flight through an Africa-focused ticket consolidator, such as Premier Tours or Magical Holidays (800/228-2208) can save you up to 30 percent.",
"Also, if you don't mind a little rain, you can cut the cost of lodging in half by traveling during the wet season, from November to March.",
"The Mara Serena Safari Lodge in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve, for instance, charges $260 for a double room in early December and $600 for that same room during the peak July--October period.",
"Also, storms are brief and usually limited to the afternoon.",
"\"Personally, I think you're missing out if you never see a rain shower in Africa -- they're spectacular,\" says Bill Given, a biologist and researcher at the Denver Zoo who also guides custom safaris for his company, The Wild Source.",
"\"The worst that happens is you get a little wet and wind up spending a few hours indoors watching a powerful display of Mother Nature.\"",
"17 Breathtaking Sunset Photos .",
"Finally, make sure to read the fine print.",
"Much like an ocean cruise, a safari with a higher price tag may end up being cheaper than one that costs less up front but requires paying extra for one-off experiences as you go.",
"Upgrades such as traveling in a private group, visiting private game reserves, and hopping around on charter planes will quickly ratchet up costs, sometimes to the tune of $1,000 a day.",
"And those splurges don't always pay off: \"You don't necessarily get better wildlife experiences by spending lots of money,\" Given says.",
"\"At some point, the steep rates are because the lodge has a spa and you're eating gourmet, six-course meals.\"",
"15 Places Every Kid Should See Before 15 .",
"How do I find a good outfitter?",
"Bottom line: It's all about your guide.",
"\"That person will absolutely make or break your trip,\" says Peter Allison, who chronicled his own adventures in \"Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide.\"",
"\"A good guide will not only point out where the lions are, but will also teach you how to listen to calls, follow tracks, and spot that lion tail in a field of tall grass.\"",
"Allison recommends looking for outfitters that specifically tout the expertise of their trip leaders.",
"Fodor's The Complete African Safari Planner, which lists descriptions of 24 reliable agencies, is a good place to start.",
"When you speak to the company representatives, don't hesitate to ask about the strength of individual guides, and be sure to request references.",
"Finally, because animals move based on migratory and weather patterns, a good safari operator will adjust itineraries throughout the year to maximize wildlife sightings.",
"Consider it a red flag if a company offers the exact same trips year-round.",
"10 Most Beautiful Waterfalls .",
"Any other general tips?",
"Focus on the experience, not your photo album.",
"If your head is behind a lens the whole time, you may not be able to take in the bigger picture.",
"Also, don't have unrealistic expectations about the number of animals you'll see.",
"\"Some novices expect every plain to be carpeted with cheetahs chasing gazelles,\" Allison says.",
"You're not on a Discovery Channel show; it's a vacation.",
"So keep an open mind and remember that every animal has its charms, from warthogs (\"possibly the only animal that looks better from the back than the front,\" Allison says) to zebras (\"no less fantastic-looking than unicorns\").",
"FIELD ETIQUETTE 101: The Do's and Don'ts of Life in the Bush .",
"Do blend in. Now is not the time for tie-dye.",
"Stick to muted brown, khaki, and light green clothes when spotting wildlife.",
"That said... Don't wear camo.",
"In Africa, it's associated with the military -- often negatively.",
"You're a tourist, not G.I. Joe. Do pack soft-sided luggage.",
"Hard-shell bags are typically packed at the bottom of the pile in buses and Jeeps, and they're the last to be unloaded.",
"Don't wear cologne or perfume.",
"The animals will smell you from miles away and keep their distance.",
"Polo Sport has its place -- but it's not on safari.",
"By the Numbers . 8,000 Approximate number of wildebeests born each day in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, from December through March .",
"29 Number of elephants per square mile at Botswana's Chobe National Park -- some 120,000 in all .",
"19,300 Size, in square miles, of Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest national park (about the same area as 19 Rhode Islands!)",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2010 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved."
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"Kenya and South Africa are among the easiest-to-navigate nations in Africa, author says .",
"Before going on safari, respect the country's culture by checking do's and don'ts .",
"Focus on the experience, not your photo album ."
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"(CNN) -- I can't tell you how much sex has complicated my life -- my writing life, that is.",
"When I'm not being a university professor of Shakespeare studies, I write historical romance novels as Eloisa James.",
"My colleagues in the academy -- who may have read romance fiction in high school, but haven't stooped to read it since -- have an unfortunate predisposition to characterize my entire genre by referring to its books as \"bodice-rippers.\"",
"I'm not rejecting the term \"bodice-ripper\" out of hand.",
"It refers to romance novels published in the 1980s, novels in which the hero, overcome by lusty passion, quite literally ripped the heroine's blouse, the better to expose her bodacious breasts.",
"His button-scattering fervor allowed the heroine to enjoy sexual pleasure, but without having to explicitly agree to sexual acts, a stance that feminist scholars since then have tied to 1980s mores about women's erotic behavior.",
"One thing we Shakespeareans tend to forget (surprisingly, given our scholarly historical focus) is that sex -- its practices, its customs and conventions, and prevailing attitudes toward it -- is a function of the historical, cultural and social conditions of a given time and place.",
"What was considered fun to read in the 1980s isn't necessarily considered fun to read now, and thus the bodice-rippers of the '80s went the way of that decade's aggressive shoulder pads and crumpled leg warmers.",
"The United States of the 21st century is no longer in the same place when it comes to desire, women and the need to wreak havoc on apparel: In keeping with the times, my heroines tend to do their own button-scattering.",
"What I'm saying is that although eroticism is culturally, geographically and historically specific, we writers of historical romance sexualize history without regard for the specific epoch in which we set a novel.",
"No matter how historically accurate the details and language in our novels might be (and mine, in case you're wondering, are pretty accurate), we write sex from the point of view of our own contemporary attitudes and mores.",
"Sex would be hard to be historically precise about anyway: Who really knows what sex was like in 1600?",
"Shagging (popular British slang as early as 1770) surely involved the same acts -- but who can say with certainty what emotions were involved?",
"Scholars are working on that.",
"In mid-March I took myself off to an academic conference at the University of Pennsylvania entitled \"Historicizing Sex: A State of the Field Conference in Early Modern Gender and Sexuality Studies.\"",
"The conference pulled together scholars working in feminism, queer theory and gender studies, and asked them to think about when and where cultural meanings get ascribed to sexual acts or anatomical categories.",
"If I'm accused, in my fiction, of sexualizing history, this conference looked as if it was doing the opposite: historicizing sex.",
"For my money, the best paper delivered at the conference was Richard Rambuss' \"Cosmopolitan Crashaw: A Study in Style.\"",
"As Rambuss pointed out, Richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649) was an odd bird: a male university poet who wrote rapturously of female patrons and saints, but also of a naked Jesus in extremis.",
"He wrote letters to fellow (need I add, male) poets with talk of \"flaming kisses.\"",
"Gender seems to have been a flexible concept to Crashaw; his poetry rings changes, occasionally referring to female saints with masculine pronouns.",
"Apparently, Crashaw has often been dismissed by poetry scholars, viewed as un-English in his luxurious emotionalism, an \"exotic Italian import, like pasta or castrati,\" in Rambuss' citation of Frank Warnke's assessment.",
"Rambuss concludes that Crashaw is the \"queerest\" of English Renaissance poets, pointing -- in a flurry of lit-crit terms of art -- to his \"queer, ecstatic, transportive traversal of identity positions.\"",
"What fascinated me about this paper -- and others at the conference -- was its move toward talking freely about depictions and explorations of historical sex as always being predicated on the present.",
"In other words, there is nothing to recover if we don't bring ourselves to the task; once we do, our \"discoveries\" are tied to the '80s, or the '90s, or the moment of writing.",
"Rambuss says this rather wonderfully, concluding that he wants to think of Crashaw as an \"early modern proto-gay man -- or a prototype of a certain kind of gay man -- one profoundly enmeshed in various male cultures and forms of male camaraderie, but who is also in love... with his divas -- real divas, heavenly female figures the likes of Teresa, Mary Magdalene and the Madonna.\"",
"Rambuss' revelation that he \"wants to think of Crashaw\" as a prototype of a modern gay man is important.",
"I too want to find myself in the past.",
"The difference between us is that Rambuss turns to Crashaw's poetry written for his \"sweet friends,\" and I turn to my computer and to my imagination.",
"In both cases, when it comes to sex, our observations are circumscribed by our own predilections.",
"So, for all my colleagues, friends and strangers who may be reading this piece, let me make it very clear.",
"My novels are not bodice-rippers, because I am a creature of 2011.",
"My heroes are prone to whipping out a \"French letter\" (now called a condom).",
"My heroines apparently all saw an early modern version of \"Tootsie,\" and know where their responsibilities lie.",
"What neither my heroes nor heroines do is shag.",
"Because I don't know what that looked like."
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"Author: \"Who really knows what sex was like in 1600?\"",
"\"Bodice-rippers\": 1980s romance novels where lusty males tore women's blouses ."
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"New York (CNN) -- As they worked to determine if new bones found off Long Island, New York, were human -- and possibly those of victims of a suspected serial killer believed to have targeted sex workers -- tests were underway Monday to match up identities with at least four other sets of discovered remains.",
"Police have previously identified four victims found on Oak Beach in December 2010 as women who advertised prostitution services on websites such as Craigslist.",
"Now, \"the DNA process is underway\" on at least five other sets of remains found in and around nearby beaches in the time since, New York City medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said Monday.",
"Investigators are trying to determine the identities of these victims, while looking for clues about their killer or killers and any link between all the deaths.",
"The remains include a skull and bones found as recently as last week in Nassau County, as well as a bone fragment of unknown origin found by divers off the Oak Beach area last Friday.",
"New York City's medical examiner office -- the largest non-profit DNA lab in the United States, according to Borakove -- is doing the analysis, and will then turn over the information to investigators in Suffolk and Nassau counties and the New York state police.",
"Experts will extract DNA from the remains to create a profile, which can be used by investigators.",
"\"We're going back to some of the unidentified people in our system to try to see if we can identify them, so we can notify loved ones if we have their remains,\" said Borakove.",
"\"Hopefully ... we'll find out who these people are.\"",
"Meanwhile, the search for more clues continued Monday.",
"FBI agents flew a Blackhawk helicopter over area beaches using high-tech equipment to photograph areas that have been previously examined and searched from the ground.",
"The flyovers were finished by Monday evening.",
"New York State troopers and some 30 police officers from Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties hacked their way through the area's thick brush and bramble last week, using guidance from a helicopter overhead and, in some cases, using chainsaws to cut through the thick foliage.",
"Aviation teams that flew over parts of Long Island had \"identified a significant number of items that aren't natural for the area,\" Nassau County Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said last Thursday.",
"Last week, police discovered skeletal remains -- including the human skull -- prompting the wider search.",
"Police have not said whether the remains are from different people or if they could have come from the eight bodies found previously.",
"Police have used canine search units to scour the beaches and diver teams to search the waterways on the north side of the barrier island.",
"But they have met obstacles, such as thick brush that canine teams won't go in.",
"On April 11, remains were found in a Nassau County wildlife preserve, a law enforcement official said.",
"The remains were wrapped in a \"black plastic product\" similar to a plastic bag, a law enforcement source said.",
"The remains \"appeared to be part of a lower extremity,\" the source said.",
"Medical examiner investigators have been trying to determine the age and sex of the people whose remains were found, as well as how long they were at the locations before they were discovered.",
"A lawyer for the mother of 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy, who police have identified as one of the victims, said that a man -- using the woman's cell phone -- made taunting phone calls and claimed to have killed the woman.",
"The lawyer, Steve Cohen, said on one August 26, 2009, call, the man said, \"Do you think you'll ever see her again?",
"You won't. I killed her.\" Police have not publicly identified any suspects in the case, nor offered a profile of the person or persons they believe may have been responsible for the multiple deaths.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
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"NEW: An FBI helicopter flies over a Long Island, NY beach where several were found .",
"The 4 victims identified thus far all advertised prostitution services on Craigslist ."
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"(CNN) -- A Southern California man allegedly hit his crying 7-year-old son and then threw him off on a tour boat in busy Newport Harbor, Orange County, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Sloane Briles, 35, of Irvine, California, has been charged with felony child endangerment and resisting arrest, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.",
"He was released Monday in lieu of a $100,000 bond.",
"Briles, who's divorced, was on the tour boat Sunday afternoon with his two sons, ages 6 and 7, when he got into an argument with his current girlfriend, said sheriff's office spokesman Jim Amormino.",
"The boat takes passengers past Newport Beach houses that are or were occupied by celebrities, including the home where the late John Wayne lived, Amormino said.",
"His 7-year-old son became upset about the argument and started crying, Amormino said.",
"The father took the boy to the bow of the boat and told him, \" 'If you don't stop crying, I'm going to throw you overboard,' \" Amormino said.",
"\"And he hits the kid a couple of times,\" Amormino said.",
"\"The boy is crying.",
"He picks him up and throws him overboard.",
"They are in the middle of a harbor, and there is a lot of boat traffic.\"",
"The boy's life was endangered several ways, authorities said.",
"\"The main one was throwing him off the front of the boat because the boat could run over him.",
"There was the danger of him being hit by the prop.",
"And the other danger is that because there are so many boats out there, it's no place to swim, and because he's so small, the other boats wouldn't have seen him,\" Amormino said.",
"The boy was also \"only a fair swimmer,\" Amormino said.",
"\"But luckily, three boats saw the kid and converged on him, and plucked him from the water,\" Amormino said.",
"\"The father did jump in (after his son), but the crowd on the boat became angry when he was hitting the kid and became more angry when he threw him overboard,\" Amormino said.",
"There were 85 people on the tour boat.",
"A sheriff's patrol boat responded to a call about the incident.",
"After deputies boarded the tour boat, one of them suffered minor injuries to the hand and elbow during Briles' arrest, authorities said.",
"Deputies took the two boys to their harbor station and later turned them over to their mother, Amormino said.",
"Briles couldn't be reached for comment, and an attorney for him couldn't be immediately located, the sheriff's office said."
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"Three passing boats rescue the boy from Newport Harbor .",
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"(CNN) -- Your kids deserve better.",
"Because Congress failed to pass the Child Nutrition Bill last week, bad school lunches will remain bad.",
"While the bill wasn't perfect, it would have created stronger nutritional standards and provided more money for the school lunch program -- adding six cents per lunch for the first time in 30 years.",
"This was the first step on the long ladder to fresh food, and now it's a missed opportunity.",
"Among other things, this bill would have banned the junk food that is served in schools and competes with the fresh food your kids need.",
"Eating this junk every day will take 10 years off their lives and cost you a fortune -- adding thousands of dollars to the family health care tab.",
"When Congress returns, members should not only support these new standards but also give people the necessary dollars to get on the path to fresh food.",
"At the moment, $4.5 billion is attached to the bill, which only works out to six cents on the plate -- not much, but better than nothing if it can buy an apple for each child's breakfast or lunch tray.",
"Over the last two years, more than 700 advocacy groups have been working to get these important changes written into law.",
"Yet Congress could not bring enough support to pass the bill.",
"Do members not value the health of America's kids?",
"Since I've been working in America, I've been overwhelmed by the number of people who write to me.",
"More than 600,000 people have signed the Food Revolution petition for better school food.",
"They are really worried about the quality of food their kids are served in school -- the soda, chocolate milk and pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner.",
"It's not just me who thinks we need change.",
"Parents deserve to know what their kids are being fed at school.",
"If Congress won't put the regulations in place, then Americans are going to have to take things into their own hands.",
"Here's how you do it: . Drop into school and eat lunch with your child.",
"See for yourself what is being served on the breakfast and lunch trays.",
"If you don't like what you see, find other parents in your school who are as frustrated and disgusted as you are.",
"Band together and go to your school board and demand change.",
"Love your lunch ladies.",
"Go visit them and thank them.",
"Let them know you appreciate that they take care of your kids and that you want to help them get better equipment, training and information to make their jobs easier.",
"Make noise.",
"Send e-mails, meet your school nutrition director, go to PTA meetings, get your kids involved.",
"Take every opportunity to keep school food change front and center.",
"If this bill doesn't get passed when Congress comes back in November, then it's going to be another five years before we have another shot at fixing these regulations.",
"Five years is too long to wait.",
"Without this legislation, school food will stay in the Dark Ages of nutrition and your kids are going to suffer.",
"They deserve better.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jamie Oliver."
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"Jamie Oliver: Child Nutrition Bill failed, which means same old unhealthy school lunches .",
"Schools serve junk food like chocolate milk, soda and pizza at each meal, he writes .",
"700 groups want this kind of law, he writes.",
"Does Congress not value children's health?",
"Parents should see what kids are eating, Oliver says, and if disgusted, push for healthy food ."
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"(CNN) -- A Mario Gomez hat-trick earned Bayern Munich a 3-0 win over Kaiserslautern at the Fritz-Walter-Stadion on Saturday to send them top of the Bundesliga.",
"The German striker opened the scoring in the 37th minute from the penalty spot before added a second in the 55th minute.",
"His third came 14 minutes later with a left foot strike after some good work by Thomas Muller.",
"The win puts Jupp Heynckes' men ahead of Werder Bremen, who also won on Saturday, on goal difference.",
"Goals from Austrian striker Marko Arnautovic (38th minute) and an 83rd minute strike from Sweden's Markus Rosenberg ensured Bremen beat Hoffenheim 2-1 after Roberto Firmino had given the home side the lead in the 37th minute.",
"The Bundesliga's top two teams last year, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, played out a goalless draw at the Bay Arena with both sides finishing the match with ten men.",
"Leverkusen's left back Michal Kadlec was shown a straight red card in the 64th minute and was soon followed by Dortmund midfielder Mario Gotze who was shown a second yellow for kicking out against Hanno Balitsch with 13 minutes remaining.",
"The result leaves both teams on seven points, with Dortmund in fourth place.",
"Leverkusen are sixth.",
"Freiburg secured their first win of the season with a 3-0 victory against Wolfsburg.",
"Oliver Barth opened the scoring for the home side with a 30th-minute header, before Slovakian striker Erik Jenvresik added a second 10 minutes later.",
"Congolese midfielder Cedrik Makiadi sealed victory with a fine volley in the 59th minute.",
"Nuremberg claimed their second win of the season with a 1-0 at home to Augsburg but Hamburg continue their poor start to the season going down 4-3 at home to Cologne.",
"Third-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach travel to Schalke on Sunday while Hanover host Mainz.",
"Over in Spain, La Liga kicked off with wins for Real Sociedad, Valencia and Real Betis.",
"Spanish striker, Imanol Agirretxe scored both goals for 10-man Real Sociedad in a 2-1 win at Sporting Gijon, while Ruben Castro scored a late winner for Real Betis as they overcame Granada 1-0.",
"But the game of the day was at the Estadio Mestalla as Valencia overturned a 3-1 deficit against Racing Santander to run out 4-3 winners, thanks to a hat-trick from striker Roberto Soldado.",
"His two late goals capped a stunning comeback for last season's third-placed team.",
"After giving Valencia the lead in the opening minute, Soldado then conspired to score a headed own-goal six minutes later.",
"Racing took full advantage of the gift with Lautaro Acosta adding a second in the 14th minute, before Adrian Gonzalez netted a third ten minutes into the second half.",
"French defender Adil Rami pulled one back for the home side moments later before Soldado's goals in the 88th and 90th minute ensured the new season opened in memorable fashion."
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"Freiburg earn first win of season with victory over Wolfsburg .",
"Valencia seal memorable 4-3 win over Racing Santander as Soldado scores hat-trick ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Two women who say they suffered severe medical complications from a generic drug lost their Supreme Court appeal Thursday, essentially ending their separate lawsuits against pharmaceutical manufacturers.",
"The justices in a 5-4 ruling said generic drug companies do not share the same level of responsibility as makers of brand-name equivalents, to update their warning labels when significant new risks emerge.",
"The financial and safety implications from the court's ruling, could prove enormous.",
"Generic drugs currently account for more than 70% of prescriptions filled in the United States.",
"That number is expected to rise in the coming years, with patent protection due to expire on several popular and lucrative consumer drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra.",
"The blockbuster health care reform bill championed by President Barack Obama would also encourage greater use of generics.",
"About a third of generic drugs have no brand name competitors.",
"The court split along conservative-liberal lines.",
"\"It is beyond dispute that the federal statutes and regulations that apply to brand-name drug manufacturers are meaningfully different than those that apply to generic drug manufacturers,\" said Justice Clarence Thomas.",
"\"Indeed it is the special, and different, regulation of generic drugs that allowed the generic drug market to expand, bringing drugs more quickly and cheaply to the public.\"",
"In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor countered, \"These divergent liability rules threaten to reduce consumer demand for generics...",
"Nothing in the court's opinion convinces me that, in enacting the requirement that generic labels match their corresponding brand-name labels, Congress intended these results.\"",
"Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan supported Sotomayor.",
"Gladys Mensing of Minnesota and Julie Demahy of Louisiana both were prescribed metoclopramide -- marketed as Reglan by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals -- to treat their heartburn and acid reflux.",
"Their pharmacists separately filled the prescription with a generic equivalent made by PLIVA, Inc. and Actavis, Inc. After four years of taking the drugs, the women each developed tardive dyskinesia, a severe longterm neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle movements.",
"They sued the generic manufacturers of the metoclopramide, claiming that inadequate warnings were provided about the long-term risks of taking the medicine.",
"It was also alleged there was growing evidence of the dangers posed by the drug, but that the companies took no steps to change the warning labels.",
"In 2009, the FDA acted on its own and issued an order to the makers of both brand-name and generic versions of metoclopramide to add a specific warning about the increased risks of developing tardive dyskinesia.",
"The generic drug makers are trying to dismiss the lawsuits.",
"They cite a 1984 congressional law pre-empting state \"failure-to-warn\" claims.",
"Drug companies have long asserted various doctrines of pre-emption, saying they are protected from most product-liability claims if they have met federal safety approval standards.",
"They argue that federal regulatory judgments trump state consumer safety laws, which are often tougher than Washington's standards.",
"But the high court had given a big victory to patients and consumer rights groups in 2009 when it ruled in favor of plaintiff Diana Winn Levine, when she sued Wyeth -- now owned by Pfizer -- after losing an arm to gangrene from a common, brand-name anti-nausea prescription medication.",
"She had won a $7 million judgment from a Vermont jury for her claims.",
"Thomas acknowledged that from the plaintiffs' perspective in the latest cases, \"finding pre-emption here but not in Wyeth makes little sense.\"",
"But he added, \"because pharmacists, acting in full accord with state law, substituted generic metoclopramide instead, federal law pre-empts these lawsuits.",
"We acknowledge the unfortunate hand that federal drug regulation has dealt Mensing, Demahy and others similarly situated.\"",
"The majority noted Congress and the FDA, not the courts, can now change the law if they want.",
"Sotomayor, expressing her frustration, said, \"As a result of today's decision, whether a consumer harmed by inadequate warnings can obtain relief turns solely on the happenstance of whether her pharmacist filled her prescription with a brand-name or generic drug.",
"The court gets one thing right: This outcome makes little sense.\"",
"The American Association of Justice -- representing trial attorneys -- said the ruling was \"disastrous\" for consumers.",
"\"Patients will now be taking generic drugs at their own risk,\" said the group's president Gibson Vance.",
"\"It is absurd that doctors and patients will have to make medical decisions knowing that only brand-name drug manufacturers -- not generics -- can be held accountable for their drugs' dangerous side-effects.\"",
"But one of the generic drug makers sued applauded the high court's decision.",
"\"This ruling furthers meaningful consumer protection while also safeguarding against lawsuits that threaten the availability of safe and affordable pharmaceutical products by misconstruing the labeling responsibilities of generic manufacturers,\" said Activis CEO Doug Boothe.",
"The Obama administration was backing the plaintiffs, concerned that if state lawsuits are pre-empted by federal law, that will reduce the incentive for generic drug makers to provide the most current safety information to the FDA."
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"Sotomayor: \"These divergent liability rules threaten to reduce consumer demand for generics\""
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"(CNN) -- In a televised address Monday night, U.S. President Barack Obama explained the reasons he involved the U.S. military in the U.N.-authorized mission in Libya, saying \"it was not in our national interest\" to let the citizens of a rebel stronghold suffer a massacre at the hands of approaching pro-government forces.",
"Obama also said that NATO would take full control of the military mission on Wednesday.",
"Following is a collection of reactions from people including U.S. politicians and political analysts.",
"U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona: .",
"\"I think that the first part of his speech was excellent, and he laid out the reasons why it was important to intervene and what would have happened in Benghazi. ...",
"He made a strong case.\"",
"\"Then ... he made a very puzzling comment, and that was (regime change by force) would be a mistake.",
"Gadhafi must have been comforted by that.\"",
"\"The president's policy is Gadhafi must go.",
"I think there's a chance, if we keep the pressure on, Gadhafi could be thrown under the bus (by people surrounding him.)\"",
"\"It's clear we're on the side of the rebels in this conflict.",
"... (But) if we tell Gadhafi, 'Don't worry, you're not going to be removed by force,' I think that's very encouraging for Gadhafi.\"",
"Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\": .",
"\"It was actually an important speech.",
"It was quite carefully constructed.",
"It had a humanitarian angle, a strategic angle.",
"But at the heart of what Obama is saying is that there are places in the world where the United States does not have vital national interests, where we have not been attacked, but we have limited interests and we're going to try to find a way to have some kind of limited military response.\"",
"\"What John McCain was suggesting (in the reaction above) frankly strikes me as a very dangerous argument -- that in a place where we have clearly limited interests, clearly nonvital interests, the United States and the president should (have) an open-ended policy of military escalation and say we will do whatever it takes to get Moammar Gadhafi out of office.",
"That is, frankly, the way we got in conflicts like Vietnam.",
"In order to not be humiliated, we couldn't back down.\"",
"Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio: .",
"\"The speech failed to provide Americans much clarity to our involvement in Libya.",
"Nine days into this military intervention, Americans still have no answer to the fundamental question: What does success in Libya look like?\"",
"U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina: .",
"\"I thought he did a good job talking about the signal we would send, that we are a values-based people, and stranding by these young people in Libya will serve us well in the future.",
"But the line that really sort of broke my heart was that regime change by force would be a mistake.",
"The goal of this country is to replace Gadhafi.",
"If you look at the balance sheet of what it costs this nation with Gadhafi versus what it costs without him, it is in our interest to get rid of him, and the opposition needs continued military support -- not a ground invasion by the U.S. or any other Western power, but air support -- all the way to Tripoli.\"",
"\"If we continue the model we have in place ... (the rebels) will win.",
"If we back off, this thing is going to go on for a long time, and a lot of people will die unnecessarily.\"",
"Ali Suleiman Aujali, former Libyan ambassador to the United States: .",
"\"I think it is a great speech.",
"The president was very clear and very determined, and defended his position in a nice way, and I think he convinced the American people.\"",
"\"The Americans, they proved to the world they will not only intervene if there (are) American interests only, but ... also when human life is in danger.",
"This is a historical decision.",
"... We really appreciate what America did for the Libyan people.",
"The Libyan people ... deserve a better government.\"",
"Rudolph Giuliani, former New York City mayor: .",
"\"The president's speech tonight has made things even murkier than they were before.",
"The whole purpose of this was to clarify our mission.",
"Our mission is just internally contradictory.",
"The president says our mission is to protect the people of Libya.",
"Well, how do you protect the people of Libya and not be for regime change in Libya?",
"Isn't the danger to the people of Libya Gadhafi?\"",
"\"The president's speech is illogical.",
"If you were grading this on a Greek logic exam, you'd give it an F. The speech contradicts itself.",
"It says limited action; we're not going to go any further than just protecting the people of Libya; we're not going to be for regime change.",
"But you can't protect the people of Libya without regime change.",
"Why are we there in the first place?",
"Because Gadhafi was slaughtering his people.",
"How can you leave him there?\" P.J. Crowley, former U.S. State Department spokesman: .",
"\"The president's policy is to assist in the removal of Moammar Gadhafi.",
"The issue is not with the policy.",
"The issue is the mechanism.",
"We're acting in a limited manner to level the playing field so the Libyan people themselves and the opposition that has formed, they'll do that job.",
"It's not for the United States to impose that from the outside.\"",
"Former New Mexico Gov.",
"Bill Richardson: .",
"\"I felt the president was very presidential tonight.",
"He explained the purpose: To avert a humanitarian disaster, to protect civilian lives.",
"He even added ... a (potential) refugee crisis going to Tunisia and Egypt.\"",
"\"I was very satisfied with his speech tonight.",
"Again, consultation with Congress in the days ahead is going to be very important.",
"But he explained the objective, and he explained what he wants to do, and the airstrikes have succeeded.",
"Air defenses of Libya have been almost destroyed.",
"The rebels are gaining momentum.",
"Look, they're probably not perfect revolutionary characters, but they're sure as heck a lot better than Gadhafi staying. ...",
"I applaud the president tonight.\"",
"Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle Eastern studies at Johns Hopkins University: .",
"\"I think it's the right thing at last.",
"I think the president did a great job.",
"I'm not a fan of President Obama; I didn't vote for him.",
"I think he should have done this much earlier.",
"But ... he finally did it. And I think he answered the great questions about this intervention.",
"... And he told us the truth: This was always about Benghazi.",
"It was about a rescue operation that he was forced to do, and I think it's the right thing.\"",
"Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor of international affairs at Princeton University: .",
"\"I think (Obama) ... made clear that we went in to avoid what he described as violence on a horrific scale in Benghazi; that the mandate of the U.N. coalition ... is to protect Libyan civilians.",
"I think that makes very clear what success looks like there.",
"It means that Libyan civilians are safe -- safe in their houses, safe in their cities.",
"At the same time, he made very clear that in his U.S. policy -- and the policy of many of our allies -- that Libya needs to have a new government that responds to the demands of the Libyan people, and that we will pursue every diplomatic and economic means to that end.",
"And leveling the playing field militarily will certainly help.\"",
"David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst: .",
"\"I thought in general (Obama) made a compelling case -- a very strong case for intervention itself on humanitarian grounds.",
"He made a compelling case that the United States has helped to organize the international coalition much more rapidly than has happened in the past, as in Bosnia.",
"And furthermore, I think he made a compelling case that these early U.S. actions really have accomplished what the United States promised to do, and that was to stop Gadhafi from killing other people.",
"\"But ... the success of the speech ended there, because he left open all these questions about where we go from here if there's a stalemate -- and there were signs today that there may be a stalemate.",
"What are we going to do? What is NATO going to do?",
"Who knows? I don't think anybody knows that.",
"What is going to happen if Gadhafi hangs in there for six months?",
"What do we do then? Nobody knows.",
"What happens if Gadhafi gets forced out?",
"What happens if the regime cracks and they turn on him -- even assassinate him?",
"What's the United States' role going to be in building a new Libya?",
"It thought that was left cloudy, and is going to continue the debate.",
"\"But give President Obama his due.",
"On the most important issue that he had to face tonight -- why he went in -- I thought he made a very, very strong case.\"",
"Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary under President George W. Bush .",
"\"The tricky think here is, when you have a president who does the right thing, but who does it four weeks too late, can you really say it is the right thing?",
"This is really something that should have been done four weeks ago, when it was really likely that the rebels, by virtue of ... a multilateral action, could have tipped the scales and made Gadhafi think ... he needs to get out of there.",
"I have a hard time seeing that happen now.",
"I think it's a fight to the finish, and this finish ends up in a stalemate.\""
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"Sen. John McCain: Obama saying regime change won't be pursued militarily is \"puzzling\"\nCNN's Fareed Zakaria: \"Important\" speech explains U.S. military response is limited .",
"Rudolph Giuliani: \"The president's speech tonight has made things even murkier\""
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"(WIRED) -- For downloading data, the Verizon iPhone is slower than the AT&T iPhone, and it's also slower than most other Verizon smartphones, according to a study published Monday.",
"Mobile analysis firm Metrico performed a comprehensive study on several AT&T and Verizon handsets, including the iPhone on both networks.",
"The data suggests the differences between AT&T and Verizon are greater than we initially thought.",
"The debut of the iPhone on Verizon sheds light on more subtle differences between the Verizon and AT&T networks.",
"Now that both networks have the same data-intensive iPhone capable of performing identical tests, it's been easier for researchers to collect more comparable data.",
"Independent tests by multiple publications, including Wired.com, have found that AT&T's network is faster, while Verizon's is more reliable with phone calls.",
"Metrico's tests paint a conflicting picture.",
"Some of their findings: . -- The Verizon iPhone performed \"below average\" in data download speeds when compared to other Verizon phones including the HTC Incredible.",
"-- For voice calls, the Verizon iPhone was one of the highest ranked in noise-canceling performance and was an average performer in voice quality.",
"-- The AT&T iPhone was the top performer in data transfer rates, but it ranks lower in call performance and Bluetooth speech quality compared to some BlackBerry, HTC and Samsung phones.",
"-- The AT&T iPhone completed 10% more download sessions than the Verizon iPhone when the handsets were moving in a car, for instance.",
"-- But the Verizon iPhone had a 10% better success rate when uploading data in a stationary environment, like sitting at your desk.",
"The rest of Metrico's results tell the story we've already heard: The AT&T iPhone's download speeds are about double the mean download speed of Verizon's.",
"However, even though AT&T's iPhone downloaded files faster, when it comes to loading web pages, the average load time is about the same on both devices, Metrico added.",
"Metrico explained that many different factors affect web performance, including network latency and the operating system's rendering times.",
"(Indeed, a previous bandwidth test performed by Speedtest.net found that both the Verizon and AT&T iPhones turned in the same average latency times of about 350 milliseconds.)",
"Most peculiar to Wired.com is that the Verizon iPhone is \"below average\" in download speeds compared to other Verizon handsets.",
"Was the handset purposely slowed down to avoid overloading Verizon's network?",
"Is there something about Apple's hardware that makes it slower than other handset makers?",
"It's tough to say: Metrico doesn't have theories to explain the test results.",
"\"I can't say it's related to technology at this point,\" said Rich McNally, vice president of information product at Metrico.",
"\"We're measuring what happened, not necessarily why.\"",
"To perform the study, Metrico put each phone through live tests on the AT&T or Verizon networks, as well as Metrico's own simulated network.",
"On the simulated network, the phones completed tests and transferred data to Metrico's servers for more consistent, controlled results.",
"The phones were also tested in both stationary and mobile environments.",
"For mobile testing, the phones were tested inside automobiles while driving.",
"In all, the company performed more than 10,000 web page downloads, 2,000 data download/upload tests, and 4,000 voice calls.",
"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) -- Libyan Transitional National Council Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil has dismissed the rebels' 14-member executive board, a spokesman for the council said Tuesday.",
"The death of the rebel government's military commander, Gen. Abdel Fattah Younis, on July 28 played a role in board members' ouster Monday, said Shamsiddin Abdulmolah, the council's media director.",
"\"They were dismissed because of some are directly responsible for how Gen. Younis was arrested,\" Abdulmolah said.",
"\"There were shortcomings and mishandling of the events that led to his assassination.\"",
"Younis and two other rebels were killed after the TNC sought to question him about allegations that he or those close to him had ongoing ties to Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Younis' supporters have said.",
"\"There are two investigations going on now in relation to his assassination,\" Abdulmolah said.",
"\"There is the criminal investigation, and there is another investigation looking for the administrative mistakes that led to Younis' death.\"",
"At least four people are directly responsible administratively for the events leading to the Younis assassination, Abdulmolah said.",
"But the criminal investigation is still ongoing, and no arrests have been officially been made.",
"Despite their dismissal, Abdulmolah said \"some of the people who served on the board can definitely be included in the new Cabinet.\"",
"The rebel government's chairman commissioned Mahmoud Jibril, the former head of the executive board, to submit new names to be considered for a new board soon, Abdulmolah said, but no exact deadline was mentioned.",
"NATO has used air power to enforce a U.N. resolution protecting civilians from the Gadhafi regime, and world powers have announced their support for Libya's rebel umbrella group.",
"But concerns have been raised that the mysterious assassination might have been carried out by feuding rebel groups.",
"According to Gadhafi spokesman Musa Ibrahim, Younis' killing represented \"more proof that the transitional council of the traitors is not able to lead any sort of government or have any control of eastern cities of Libya.\"",
"In July, rebel military council member Mohammad Ethish released a statement that seemed to imply that Gadhafi loyalists had something to do with the death.",
"\"This incident will increase the will and courage of the rebels, and it will even get us close together to reach the home of the tyrant,\" Ethish said.",
"\"We promise our brothers in the East that we will do the impossible to avenge the death of Abdul Fattah Younis, and we promise that we will increase our blows and empower our will.",
"Until we capture the tyrant Moammar Gadhafi.\"",
"A one-time general in Gadhafi's army, Younis told CNN in February that he switched sides after Gadhafi told him he planned to bomb Benghazi -- a move Younis said would have killed thousands.",
"Meanwhile, the Libyan Embassy in London re-opened Tuesday under National Transitional Council management, a shift that \"marks very clearly the fundamental change that is taking place in Libya,\" British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.",
"Rebel forces also reported Tuesday that they had advanced more than 9 miles (15 kilometers) north from B'ir al Ghanam toward the key coastal city of Az Zawiyah, which is about 27 miles (43 kilometers) west of Tripoli.",
"Rebels took B'ir al Ghanam in fierce fighting Saturday.",
"CNN's Elise Labott, Ivan Watson and Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Council reopens London Embassy; rebels report advances near B'ir al Ghanam .",
"14 members of the Transitional National Council's executive board are dismissed .",
"A TNC spokesman says the death of the rebels' military commander plays a role .",
"He says some who served on the board could be included in a new Cabinet ."
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"(CNN) -- If the excessive lifestyles of the rich have been partly to blame for destroying the environment, then it seems equitable that they use their money to preserve it.",
"But the degree to which they are actually helping does largely depend on what they do with their money.",
"And some 'beneficiaries' of that aid are yet to be convinced.",
"Richard Branson, Bill Clinton and Al Gore at the Clinton Global Initiative last September.",
"According to last year's Merrill Lynch survey of the world's wealth, there are 9.5 million U.S. dollar millionaires in the world today, who have pocketed a cool $37.2 trillion between them.",
"By 2011, Merrill Lynch says, this tiny (but growing) group of people will have more than $50 trillion in their bank accounts.",
"That money could go a long way to aid the fight against climate change and the different ills it brings.",
"Fortunately, a modest proportion of this exclusive group of people have realized this.",
"Around 11 percent of the world's richest gave 7 percent of their wealth to philanthropic causes in 2006; and 17 percent of the world's \"ultra rich\" (those with more than $30 million to their names) gave 10 percent, says Merrill Lynch.",
"In total those donations totaled $285 billion.",
"Some of the more notable donors are household names: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Richard Branson all dug deep into their pockets in the name of doing good, the latter specifically promising $3 billion to fight global warming over the next 10 years.",
"Ted Turner, George Soros and Luciano Benetton have also contributed, notably buying land in South America in the name of conservation.",
"Turner, the founder of CNN, owns more than 100,000 acres of land there; Benetton owns 2 million acres; Soros 1 million.",
"If you accept the fact that much of the world's environmental ills have landed on the shoulders of the world's poorest nations, then this looks like a match made in heaven.",
"\"It is pretty hard for a country to turn down a gift of 300,000 hectares,\" Doug Tompkins, founder of clothing chain Esprit, told one reporter recently.",
"Tompkins and his wife, Kristine McDivitt, former CEO of Patagonia clothing company, specialize in investing in national parks in South America and own around 900,000 hectares of Chilean and Argentinean land between them.",
"With the amount of money and influence these individuals possess, one key advantage they have is that they can get things done -- and quickly.",
"Dutch philanthropist Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, for example, brought South Africa's Marakele National Park to life in \"barely two years\" by investing millions of dollars of his own money in it, completing a job \"that would likely have taken more than a decade without his backing\" reports The Age.",
"Philanthropy can spur backlash .",
"But not everyone welcomes the foreign assistance.",
"The implication that foreigners can do a better job than those in the host country receiving the aid has been taken as an insult by some.",
"And it has aroused suspicion elsewhere.",
"In the 1990s Tompkins drew ire in Chile, including the Catholic Church and former president Eduardo Frei.",
"The accusations against him ranged from from kicking workers off his land, promoting abortion, and creating a \"Zionist enclave,\" according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.",
"When it comes to rain forests there is also a degree of concern among some environmental groups that any system that allows individuals to take ownership of vast swathes of environmentally crucial land is bound to be flawed.",
"In the case of the Amazon rain forest, Survival International has expressed concerns over the future of the rain forest inhabitants, the indigenous people.",
"The organization points out that if the world really wanted to protect the rain forests, it would just leave them alone and let the people who have been protecting them for centuries carry on doing what they do best.",
"\"The forest cannot be bought, it is our life; we have always protected it,\" tribal leader Davi Kopenawa told the Guardian newspaper recently.",
"Pragmatists would argue there are many ways to \"protect\" a rain forest.",
"Yes, leaving them alone is the ideal solution.",
"But when cash-strapped governments face ongoing pressure from logging companies, mining companies, not to mention the agricultural lobby to convert the land for other uses, there is only one thing that really counts: Money.",
"And indigenous groups don't have any.",
"So, the argument goes, better a philanthropist own the land than a business interest.",
"The business of giving .",
"A philanthropist deciding to do charitable work does not by itself guarantee successful results.",
"Much can depend on the philanthropist doing the \"right thing\" with their money.",
"George Soros, for example, could be seen as either an environmental savior or an eco-villain, depending on one's view of biofuels.",
"The philanthropist manages more than 170,000 hectares of Argentinean land, but his latest venture -- worth reportedly up to $300 million -- is to produce biofuel from corn and sugar cane grown in Brazil's Cerrado.",
"That area of land is among the most endangered on Earth, with deforestation rates easily eclipsing that of the Amazon, according to Conservation International.",
"More than 50 percent of the Cerrado has been converted to farm land in less than four decades and there are genuine fears that by 2030, all remaining natural vegetation will have disappeared, reports the Washington Post.",
"There will be one predominant reason for this if that happens: Worldwide demand for ethanol.",
"It should not be forgotten that the art of giving is a business, too.",
"Some of the favored destinations for philanthropic spending have been in areas of the world offering the potential for the biggest returns.",
"It was the collapse of the peso which led to a collapse in land prices in Argentina that helped remote Patagonia become such a favored investment destination for the world's wealthiest.",
"Equally, if the price isn't right, environmental concern can go out the window.",
"Cameroon has been trying to lease 830,000 hectares of its rain forest since 2001 in an attempt to raise capital and do the right thing at the same time.",
"It could easily lease it to logging companies, but prefers not to, according to The Economist.",
"The problem is, Cameroon can't find a buyer, as no one has been willing to pay the asking rate of $2 a hectare, which would work out at a mere $1.6 million a year.",
"\"The fine words of the rich-world's armchair conservationists butter few parsnips in the poor world,\" writes The Economist.",
"\"Here is a good opportunity to spread some butter.\"",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"Sources: Merrill Lynch; The Guardian; Treehugger; The Age; \"Generation Deluxe: Consumerism and Philanthropy of the New Super Rich\"; Natural Resources Defense Council; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times ."
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"World's elite rich gave an estimated $285 billion to charity in 2006 .",
"Philanthropy can spur a backlash from host nations ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The floodlights, corporate boxes and big screens at sports stadiums are all massive power sappers - but there's an increasingly popular technology which is chewing more energy than ever before.",
"Power-sapping technology: lighting rigs, like these ones installed at Telstra Dome are used to help grass growth.",
"The culprits are giant lighting rigs.",
"The rigs are being adopted by football stadiums across Europe and the United Kingdom to encourage grass growth, but they're creating a significant footprint in doing so.",
"So, who's using the most power?",
"English Premier League football superpower Arsenal could have one of the worst carbon footprints in the region as its home ground is believed to use the biggest set of lighting rigs in the United Kingdom.",
"The club has been accused by environmental groups of using enough energy to power a small village in order to grow the grass on their home pitch.",
"The team's state of the art Emirates Stadium, which opened in 2006, boasts a set of 12 lighting rigs with huge sunlamps that run most of the year providing sufficient light to keep the turf growing and in a healthy condition.",
"The rigs, which have more than 600 light bulbs, have come under heavy criticism from environmental groups, who say they are \"irresponsible.\"",
"What do you think of grass lighting rigs?",
"Do you think they are useful or a waste of energy?",
"Share your thoughts in the Sound Off box below -- we'll publish the best.",
"Purchased for more than $1,400,000 from Netherlands-based business Stadium Grow Lighting Concepts, the rigs can cover almost half of Arsenal's home ground at a time.",
"The lamps contain sensors on the pitch to determine how many hours of light the grass needs in order to stay green.",
"Similar lights are used at seventeen other venues around the United Kingdom.",
"Liverpool's Anfield ground has 10 lighting rigs, and Cardiff's Millennium Stadium uses nine.",
"In comparison, Wembley uses four, while Manchester United use just three rigs, at Old Trafford -- but there are plans to expand this.",
"It's not just in the United Kingdom these lighting rigs are proving popular.",
"The Telstra Dome in Sydney, Australia, earlier this year purchased 15 lighting rigs to improve grass growth at the venue.",
"Other projects have been implemented across football grounds in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Ireland and Qatar.",
"Another major power sapping technology at Emirates Stadium is the air ventilation system below the turf, which is powered by a huge fan that helps keep the grass in ideal condition.",
"The system's pipe-work is in the gravel bed below the turf, and above a heating system.",
"The ventilation can work in two directions.",
"In one direction, it provides aeration through the gravel bed and through the root zone to promote growth.",
"Reversing the air system can provide drainage from the root zone down to pull moisture away from the surface.",
"But, there is hope these stadiums can reduce their energy consumption.",
"While football stadiums in Europe and the United Kingdom are making environmental blacklists -- one stadium in the U.S. has entered the \"green list.\"",
"The Washington Nationals' new baseball park that opened earlier this year became the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified stadium in the United States.",
"In order to earn the certification, the park was fitted with energy-saving light fixtures, water-conserving plumbing, drought-resistant plants, and a green roof over the concessions area.",
"It also has systems in place to keep storm water runoff from polluting a nearby river, and it was built on a restored brown field that once had contaminated soil.",
"The Green Building Council's Brendan Owens told Reuters, \"One of the things that really strikes me about stadium facilities is that they directly touch millions of people over the course of their existence,\" Owens felt the eco-friendly design would encourage visitors to help the environment in other ways."
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"The rigs have been used in Germany, Spain, Greece, Qatar, Ireland and Australia ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Britney Spears announced today that her new album, due March 15, is titled \"Femme Fatale\" -- but the superstar singer and her Los Angeles producers are still choosing songs and determining the final direction of the overall sound.",
"\"It's not done,\" Dr. Luke, co-producing the album with longtime Britney collaborator Max Martin and Montreal dance-pop songwriter Billboard, tells Rolling Stone.",
"\"We're in the middle of it right now.",
"It's a little bit fluid right now.",
"I can't even say at this stage what songs for sure are making it and what songs aren't.",
"We're working with a lot of producers and overseeing it with her A&R and record label and management and trying to make something cohesive.\"",
"RollingStone.com: Britney Spears' life in photos .",
"The album, of course, will contain \"Hold It Against Me,\" co-written by Dr. Luke, Martin and Bonnie McKee, the hot songwriter who penned Katy Perry's \"California Gurls\" and Taio Cruz' \"Dynamite.\"",
"Spears' new single made its debut on the pop charts in mid-January at No.",
"1, before dropping to No.",
"6 last week.",
"Originally, Dr. Luke and Martin, the Swedish songwriter behind some of Spears' biggest hits, including \"...Baby One More Time,\" planned to give the song to Katy Perry.",
"\"We might have played it for her, but it definitely wasn't a Katy Perry record,\" Dr. Luke says by phone from Conway Recording Studio in Los Angeles.",
"\"We had it for a while. I wanted to make sure it didn't sound like everything else I've done.",
"I brought it into Billboard, and he just killed it.",
"It can be hard in the verse, and the bridge is super, super hard, but the chorus is super-pop.",
"You can play that chorus acoustically on a guitar and it's still going to sound great.\"",
"RollingStone.com: Rob Sheffield's four-star review of \"Hold It Against Me\" Top 40 radio stations continue to spin \"Hold It Against Me\" in regular rotation.",
"\"It feels like a really obvious, easy-to-listen-to first single,\" says John Ivey, program director for KIIS in LA, which played the song once an hour the first day it came out.",
"\"You hear all those little parts that are so Britney -- 'here's the video-breakdown-dance part of the song.'",
"That's what my listeners love about her.\"",
"Although her 2008 album Circus sold fewer than 2 million copies, not a huge number given Spears' history of blockbuster sales, retailers have high hopes for the March release.",
"\"[Circus] ended up doing well, but we were a little cautious about it -- a little tense comeback issues were going to be relevant,\" says Mark Hudson, music buyer for Trans World Entertainment, who predicts the new album could sell 500,000 copies in its first week.",
"\"But this time around, her stock is higher.\"",
"RollingStone.com: Britney Spears lets loose for the cameras .",
"Dr. Luke also noted that he and Martin, the executive producers, plan on working on several songs directly in addition to \"Hold It Against Me.\"",
"He also confirmed Bloodshy (who co-produced Spears' classic \"Toxic\") and Benny Blanco (who worked on Ke$ha's \"Tik Tok\" and Perry's \"California Gurls\") were among several big names who would make production appearances.",
"So far, Spears has dropped by the LA studio two or three times to lay down her vocals.",
"\"Britney's really fast,\" Dr. Luke says.",
"\"She gets it done.\" Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"(CNN) -- More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between soldiers and a rebel militia in Southern Sudan, an official there said Monday, disputing rebel claims they have killed many more government troops.",
"Rebel leader George Athor has been saying his forces have killed more than 100 people, most of them soldiers, since a fresh round of fighting started last week.",
"But Philip Aguer, a spokesman for Southern Sudan's military, said Athor's claims are exaggerated.",
"Athor took up arms in 2010 when he was not elected governor of Southern Sudan's Jonglei state.",
"His forces have been attacking villages and clashing with the Sudan People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the movement that governs Southern Sudan.",
"People in the region voted overwhelmingly for independence from the north in a recent referendum, setting the stage for Southern Sudan to become a new country.",
"Athor's forces attacked the towns of Fanjak and Bor a month ago, Aguer said at the time.",
"Twenty SPLA soldiers, 39 civilians and 30 of the attackers were killed in the attack on Fanjak, he said.",
"Four SPLA soldiers and 12 attackers died in the Bor attack, he added.",
"The clashes took place February 9 and 10, he said.",
"Athor has accused the Southern Sudan government of election fraud, but signed a truce in January, days before the referendum.",
"As the nation readies for official independence on July 9, violence caused by renegade militias has been a concern.",
"A mutiny among the Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) led by soldiers loyal to militia leader Gabriel Tang resulted in up to 50 deaths in February.",
"Sixty-five civilians were also injured.",
"The JIUs are a coordinated military force consisting of the northern Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the southern SPLA.",
"Tang's forces had been merged into the units along with SAF.",
"Journalist Ismail Kamal Kushkush in Khartoum, Sudan, contributed to this report."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Prominent human rights activist Hu Jia, who was released over the weekend after serving a 3 1/2-year sentence, is promising his parents he will be \"careful\" in the future.",
"In a phone call to CNN affiliate iCable News in Hong Kong on Sunday, Hu said his parents had asked him to not clash with the system.",
"\"Once I saw my family, I understood how much I owe them, especially my parents, my wife and my kid.",
"I realize I've done nothing for them.",
"There is a Chinese saying that 'patriotism and filial piety don't go hand in hand,'\" he said in the phone call.",
"\"They told me to be a good citizen and don't clash with the system.",
"This system is very brutal.",
"It uses government's power to violate people's dignity.",
"I can only tell my parents, I will be careful.\"",
"Chinese authorities released Hu on Sunday, days after freeing renowned dissident artist Ai Weiwei.",
"Hu, 37, denounced China's human rights record in a series of articles ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was later sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for \"inciting to subvert state power.\"",
"He also has been active on AIDS issues in China.",
"Ai, the conceptual artist turned government critic, was released Wednesday on bail after authorities detained him for nearly three months for tax evasion, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.",
"On Sunday, police guarded entrances to Hu's apartment compound and patrolled surrounding streets.",
"Zeng Jinyan, his wife, appeared unreachable via phone or the Internet.",
"Zeng told CNN Friday that authorities started 24-hour surveillance on her several days before Hu's expected return.",
"In an interview last December, she predicted a virtual prisoner's life for the couple in their housing complex, called Freedom City.",
"\"Hu Jia told me that he won't change, and police told him they may put him under house arrest in that case,\" she said.",
"\"I'm prepared for it.\" \"As long as there's no democracy or the rule of law in China, our situation won't change at all.\"",
"Last year's Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, also a rights activist, was convicted of the same crime as Hu.",
"Liu is still serving an 11-year jail term.",
"Activists say the Chinese government, worried about potential uprisings inspired by the Arab Spring, has been increasingly tightening its grip on freedom of expression, targeting not only political dissidents but also intellectuals and artists.",
"In his phone call to iCable, Hu talked further about his parents and his responsibility toward them and others like them.",
"\"My parents are very old.",
"How many parents are like my parents?",
"Others, too, are also in pain but not getting as much attention and help from you all as I did,\" he said.",
"\"These people are more isolated.",
"I can only try my best to comfort my parents and comfort the others too.\""
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"(CNN) -- He's a best-selling crime novelist from a Scandinavian country, but don't call Jo Nesbø the next Stieg Larsson.",
"It's not that Nesbø doesn't care for the comparison.",
"He just believes it's misleading.",
"The 51-year old from Oslo, Norway says he has more in common with American hard-boiled crime fiction.",
"Nesbø (pronounced NESS-buh) is a former professional soccer player, musician and stock broker, who eventually turned to writing.",
"He was writing bestsellers for ten years before Larsson's \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\" was published.",
"While his crime novels have sold nine million copies worldwide, he's just becoming widely known in the United States, but his new novel will likely change that.",
"\"The Snowman\" hit bookstores in the United States last week and is winning raves from American critics.",
"It's Nesbø's seventh novel featuring police detective and recovering alcoholic, Harry Hole (pronounced WHO-leh).",
"It's a terrifying thriller, about the hunt for a serial killer, who leaves a snowman as his calling card.",
"The book is already a bestseller in Britain, won Norway's novel of the year in 2008, and appears headed for the big screen.",
"\"The Snowman\" has been optioned by Working Title films, ironically, the same production company behind the movie version of \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.\"",
"Nesbø was at the Cannes Film Festival last week to promote \"Headhunters\" a movie based on another of his novels.",
"He's now touring a handful of U.S. cities to promote \"The Snowman.\"",
"CNN caught up with the author this week.",
"The following is an edited transcript.",
"CNN: For new readers, tell us a little about your main character Harry Hole.",
"Nesbø: It is not easy to summarize the protagonist of the series in a few words, but here are some features of Harry's personality that are important to me when I write about him: He's the type of guy who is driven by his good side as well as his darker side.",
"At times he believes in his role as law enforcer, at other times he doesn't.",
"And occasionally he is so gripped by his emotions that they overwhelm his basic belief in the principles of a state governed by law.",
"He hunts down criminals with such an intense hatred and finds revenge so hard to resist that at times he could be mistaken for the antagonists he is fighting.",
"But at the same time he can feel empathy for, perhaps even a kinship with, the lawbreaker.",
"Harry Hole is a hero with pronounced weaknesses.",
"All good heroes have an Achilles heel, and in Harry's case, it is alcohol.",
"CNN: What's Harry's up against in \"The Snowman?\"",
"Nesbø: Harry Hole receives an anonymous letter signed \"The Snowman.\"",
"A few months later he discovers an alarming resemblance in numerous old disappearances: Married women (who have children) go missing the day the first snow falls each year.",
"CNN: How would you describe Oslo -- where the story takes place?",
"Nesbø: Oslo is a cozy little capital, but it is also what you have seen in my books.",
"For a while it had the highest number of fatalities from drug overdoses in Europe.",
"There is organized crime, hardcore prostitution, trafficking in drugs and women, and a Russian Mafia presence.",
"It's a town that has gone through immense changes over the last twenty years.",
"It's still a very beautiful town in one of the richest countries of the world, and it's safe.",
"But there is all the rest, so it's easier to write about the shady side of Oslo now than it was twenty years ago.",
"I want to describe the contrasts, and to me Oslo today is a perfect setting for a thriller.",
"CNN: Your novels deal unflinchingly with some dark and complex themes, including Harry's alcoholism.",
"Where do your ideas come from?",
"Nesbø: I believe that those of us who were afraid of the dark when we were young have an advantage.",
"If you pretended you were too big to be afraid of the dark, you closed off part of your brain, but if you let your imagination run, it went wild.",
"When I went down to the cellar to get potatoes as a boy, I came back up again with a horror story of novel proportions in my head.",
"And when I'm writing the passage about the woman being chased through the forest, or when Harry gets lost, I draw from the fear and horror I experienced myself.",
"I've been lost in a forest myself and felt I wasn't far away, but suddenly it became darker and darker, and even though I thought the house was close by, it wasn't.",
"And then you're convinced you're lost.",
"Your terror is the fuel for your writing.",
"I was a lot more afraid of the dark and frightened than my brothers, and I'm sure it has given me an extra edge and sense of horror.",
"I was always the one who had to tell ghost stories when we were small because they could hear the terror in my voice.",
"And I was petrified by my own stories.",
"I am attracted and fascinated by the dark side.",
"I write about it because I'm curious.",
"I'm curious about everything that is human.",
"I'm not fascinated by suffering for its own sake - torture scenes don't interest me as such -- but I am fascinated by people who torture, what drives them.",
"CNN: Explain why you say Harry's goal is to understand evil and also love.",
"Nesbø: Harry feels something akin to what the serial killer feels, the same tension and excitement, when he approaches a victim and the same anti-climax after the killer is caught.",
"It is Harry's ambition to understand both love and evil.",
"He is a passionate guy in all ways.",
"And he is the type of man who has no control over his impulses.",
"The fact that he cannot set limits permeates his drinking habits and his attitude to his job.",
"He takes on cases and is swallowed up by them.",
"It is the same with his relationships with women.",
"I could have chosen to make them live happily ever after and have children, but then we have a completely different person, one I find boring.",
"I like the fact that he is in transit in his own life, as far as his emotions and his job are concerned.",
"When you make a person a hero you are bound to have some things in common with him -- at least a basic set of values if you're going to understand him.",
"I think understanding basic emotions like hate and love is something we spend a lifetime trying to achieve.",
"So, yeah, it's true for me too. CNN: How has your success impacted your career?",
"Nesbø: I have less time to write because I have to travel more.",
"Apart from that I do the same things, I keep my life fairly simple and unchanged because I was perfectly happy with the life I had.",
"Having millions of readers is not dramatically different from having a few thousand; you still have to write books and you still wake up in the morning being your own boss, deciding whether you want to get up.",
"CNN: Any thoughts why \"Nordic Noir\" has become so popular among readers globally?",
"Nesbø: The popularity may have to do with the general level of quality in Scandinavian crime.",
"In the 70s, Sjöwall and Wahlöö established the crime novel as an art form, as serious writing, and since then many of the best writing talents have turned to the crime novel and used it as a vehicle for their stories.",
"CNN: Did you always want to be a writer?",
"Nesbø: I come from a family of readers and storytellers.",
"My mother was a librarian and my father used to sit in the living room reading every afternoon.",
"When I was seven I pulled \"Lord of the Flies\" off the bookshelf and asked my father to read it to me.",
"Not so much because I had good taste, but because on the cover there was a picture of a pig's bloodstained head impaled on a pole.",
"My father read and I used to think I could have made the story more exciting myself.",
"I had already begun to impress friends my age, and some older children, with my gruesome ghost stories.",
"CNN: What other authors and artists inspire you?",
"Nesbø: Jim Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Knut Hamsun, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, and Frank Miller.",
"Miles Davis, Jayhawks, Teenage Fanclub, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Bob Dylan.",
"CNN: What's on your summer reading list?",
"Nesbø: \"The Corrections\" by Jonathan Franzen.",
"I read the first half in Asia in February, but lost the book.",
"Now I have a new one. CNN: What's next for you? Nesbø: My next Harry Hole novel, the ninth in the series, will be published in Norway next month.",
"Next year I plan to write a fourth children's book in my Doctor Proctor series.",
"Find out more about \"The Snowman\" and Jo Nesbø on his website."
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"Editor's note: This is another in a series of Business Insider commentaries debunking common tech myths.",
"(Business Insider) -- Apple and CEO Steve Jobs have celebrated a string of huge hits over the past several years, including the iPhone, the iPad and the MacBook Air.",
"Reviews have been mostly glowing, sales have been strong and investors have cheered, sending the stock up 40% over the past 12 months.",
"Apple, which was struggling a decade ago, is now the world's most admired and highly valued tech company.",
"But Apple is not perfect.",
"In fact, the company has several weaknesses to address: .",
"1) The cloud. Apple has been bragging about how the iPad 2 is a \"post-PC\" device, but you still need to plug it into a computer to activate and sync it.",
"The easiest way to get photos off your iPhone is to email them to yourself.",
"You still can't sync your iTunes music over Wi-Fi or 3G.",
"This is a shame. Apple needs to think about the cloud the way Google does -- as the future of mobile services.",
"You shouldn't be tied to a USB cord to access files.",
"You shouldn't need a PC to use a \"post-PC\" iPad.",
"You shouldn't have to email a map link from your computer to your iPhone.",
"Perhaps this is part of Apple's new version of iOS, due sometime this year.",
"(See our list of suggestions for iOS 5 here.)",
"The company has a huge new data center in North Carolina and can't be blind to the fact that other companies -- Dropbox, Amazon, Google, etc.",
"-- are doing very cool things with the cloud.",
"But for now, Apple is still weak here -- MobileMe and Apple's iOS push notifications not withstanding.",
"2) Social. Apple has tried to do \"social\" a bit with Ping, its social network based around iTunes music, and GameCenter, its social gaming service.",
"They aren't huge hits. Apple has not been able to go as deep integrating Facebook or other social networks into its products as some Android devices or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 have.",
"Some of this could be to reduce Apple's dependence on other companies, so the iPhone is more reliable.",
"But it seems that Apple and Steve Jobs don't really get social, and don't see its value.",
"That could burn them in the long run.",
"Or perhaps, again, this could be addressed in the next version of iOS.",
"For instance, Apple could go a long way by making the iPhone's built-in Photos app more social, like the popular Instagram app.",
"And Apple's marketing boss Phil Schiller is all over Instagram.",
"So it's not like the company isn't highly aware of what's out there.",
"This isn't to say that Apple should replicate Facebook, or even try to build its own general-purpose social network.",
"But integrating your existing online social connections could be useful for many of Apple's products, ranging from the iPhone's address book to the App Store to photo sharing.",
"So it's time for Apple to do more here.",
"3) The living room.",
"The new Apple TV just got a small upgrade, in the form of live video streaming for MLB and NBA games.",
"But it's still the weakest of Apple's products, with a relatively limited selection of video.",
"And it's definitely not something TV companies like Comcast or DirecTV are worried about.",
"Apple could improve Apple TV with an app store within the next year or so -- gaming could be big!",
"-- and more video content sooner.",
"But it's a challenge, because this is a situation where Apple has to decide between being a good platform -- and allowing rival companies like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon to thrive -- and being a dominant content seller by keeping an iTunes monopoly.",
"The good news for Apple is that no one else is really putting up a fight here yet.",
"Google TV isn't a big success, while Boxee, Roku and TiVo Premiere haven't caught on with mainstream consumers.",
"So Apple can take its time.",
"Heck, Apple may even come out with an actual television someday.",
"Also, these are all areas where Apple is relatively in control of its destiny, and can make improvements.",
"There are some other areas where Apple is vulnerable, such as the threat posed by Google's Android system, and possible production problems because of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.",
"But that's a different list.",
"Copyright © 2010 Business Insider."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Shazia knows what she sees when she looks in the mirror: a woman, feminine, delicate, attracted to beauty.",
"But when others look at Shazia they see something else: a misfit.",
"Shazia dances for the cameras at a party.",
"\"People start staring at me in such a manner as if an animal from the jungle has come into the city.\"",
"Shazia says.",
"Shazia belongs to Pakistan's community of eunuchs.",
"It is a term here that loosely refers to transsexuals, transvestites or hermaphrodites, like Shazia, who are born with both male and female sex organs.",
"For Shazia what nature created, has made a life of hell.",
"\"I get so confused.",
"I feel very strange that Allah could have made me a boy, or he could have made me a girl, but this way, neither boy nor girl.",
"This life is very strange.",
"It is a bad life,\" Shazia said.",
"\"I do not want to accept this life.",
"Had it been legal to commit suicide I would have done it.\"",
"When she was a child, Shazia said she had no doubt that she felt more a girl than a boy.",
"Watch Shazia handle stares from men » .",
"\"When I used to go to school there used to be benches for boys on one side and girls on the other; my teacher always made me sit with the girls.\"",
"she said. Shazia left home when she was in her early teens.",
"She said it was to save her family embarrassment and shame.",
"Like other eunuchs in Pakistan, she has lived in colonies.",
"They are often shunned by their families and forced to make a living by begging or as prostitutes.",
"The colonies can be brutal places, where young people are often beaten and exploited.",
"When Shazia was 17, she says she was drugged and the head of the colony performed brutal surgery severing Shazia's penis.",
"But Shazia has survived the taunts, the humiliation and the savagery; now she is fighting back.",
"Shazia has formed an action group and is campaigning for eunuchs like her to get proper recognition.",
"Right now her state identity card lists her as a male.",
"She wants to be counted as a whole person.",
"Shazia has found a champion, human rights lawyer, Muhammad Aslan Khaki.",
"Dr. Khaki presented a petition to the Supreme Court, leading to the first register of eunuchs in Pakistan.",
"The court has ordered Pakistan's government departments to carry out a survey and recommend measures to fully integrate eunuchs into society without prejudice.",
"In earlier centuries eunuchs were seen as having the power to bring good luck.",
"For Shazia and others, their luck may finally be changing."
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"In Pakistan the term covers transsexuals, transvestites, hermaphrodites .",
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"She says she feels she is a woman, but her identity card calls her male ."
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"Amman, Jordan (CNN) -- The brother of the suicide bomber who killed eight people at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last week told CNN his sibling's actions were \"out of character\" and that the man was \"under pressure.\"",
"The bomber was a Jordanian doctor recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence source, a senior Jordanian official said Tuesday.",
"A former U.S. intelligence official identified the man earlier this week as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi.",
"The man's father, who is shocked by his relative's actions, said he was called by an Afghan speaking in broken Arabic from Afghanistan.",
"The Afghan told him his son was dead and that he died as a hero in an operation to kill CIA agents.",
"The caller said, according to the father, the circumstances could make problems for his family and that they will have to cope with it.",
"But the caller told the man's father his son was a hero.",
"The brother and father spoke to CNN's Nic Robertson.",
"The December 30 blast at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan, killed seven CIA operatives, including two from private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.",
"The eighth victim was Jordanian Army Capt.",
"Sharif Ali bin Zeid, a cousin of Jordan's King Abdullah II.",
"The suspected suicide bomber left Jordan a year ago for Turkey to finish his medical studies, but his family realized three months later he wasn't there, relatives said.",
"The family didn't know whether the Afghan caller was from al Qaeda but believes it was some militant group.",
"A Jordanian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, had said authorities in Jordan arrested al-Balawi more than a year ago \"for some suspicious information related to him\" but released him due to lack of evidence.",
"\"After (a) few months, he got in touch with us through the Internet and sent us several e-mails that include very important and rather dangerous information that might affect the security and stability of the country,\" the official told CNN.",
"\"We kept in touch with him through e-mails in order to get more information and also trying to bring him over to be able to get more information.",
"We shared and exchanged the information he gave us with some other friendly countries that are involved in countering terrorism.\"",
"The official said Jordan could not confirm that al-Balawi was the bomber, \"because we are not on the ground.\"",
"\"But we are not denying that if he is the one, then he is the Jordanian doctor,\" the official said.",
"U.S. sources said bin Zeid was the Jordanian operative working closely with al-Balawi, who was from the same hometown as the onetime leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.",
"Jordanian and U.S. intelligence agencies apparently believed al-Balawi had been rehabilitated from his extremist views and were using him to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No.",
"2 figure, the former intelligence official said.",
"Former CIA official Robert Richer called the bombing the greatest loss of life for the agency since the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed eight agents.",
"An American intelligence official vowed last week that the United States would avenge the attack.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- As Ashton Kutcher becomes the first to collect 1 million followers on Twitter and Oprah Winfrey sends out her first tweet, tech observers are debating: Does Friday mark a new peak for the microblogging service?",
"Or the beginning of its demise?",
"Ashton Kutcher told Larry King Friday that the battle was about proving one person can have a voice.",
"Some bloggers and Twitter users have expressed concern that the once-cultish site is being overwhelmed by celebrities and media hype, while others are excited by Twitter's ever-growing reach.",
"\"It's a big milestone.",
"This brings Twitter mainstream,\" said Andrew Cherwenka, a Huffington Post contributor and Web developer at Trapeze.com, referring to Kutcher and Winfrey's Twitter breakthroughs.",
"\"A lot of people are saying this is going to be the death of Twitter, and I don't understand that at all,\" Cherwenka added.",
"\"It's just another stage in Twitter's acceleration.\"",
"\"The challenge for Twitter -- besides, of course, getting a business model in place to handle the infrastructure required to sustain this kind of growth -- is going to be maintaining the fact that it's the community at large, not the celebrity users, that's at the core of this service,\" said Caroline McCarthy, who writes a CNET News blog about social media.",
"\"The power of Twitter is about the millions of people using it and how easily it is to filter and aggregate their thoughts and conversations,\" McCarthy told CNN.",
"\"It can't be all about Ashton and Oprah.\"",
"In the much-publicized duel, Kutcher's Twitter account crossed the 1 million mark on Twitter about 2:13 a.m.",
"ET Friday, narrowly beating CNN's breaking-news feed, which had 998,239 followers at the time.",
"CNN passed the mark at 2:42 a.m.",
"ET. On Friday, Kutcher went on \"Larry King Live\" to talk about the battle and why he felt the duel was so important.",
"\"We now live in an age in media that a single voice can have as much power and relevance on the Web, that is, as an entire media network,\" he said.",
"\"And I think that to me was shocking.\"",
"Watch Kutcher discuss reaching one million milestone » .",
"Early Friday Winfrey sent her first tweet from the Chicago, Illinois, set of her TV show.",
"The all-caps message was sent at 10:10 a.m.",
"ET and said, \"HI TWITTERS.",
"THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME.",
"FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.\"",
"Winfrey drew more than 73,000 Twitter followers before she sent out her first tweet.",
"By Friday afternoon her Twitter following had climbed above 100,000.",
"\"Twitter has experienced watershed events over the last two years since we founded the company, and momentum continues to build,\" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Friday in an e-mail to CNN.",
"\"Certainly having Oprah and Ashton embrace Twitter so enthusiastically will be another big moment for us.\"",
"But Kutcher also acknowledged on \"Larry King Live\" Friday that while he was able to get so many followers because he is well-known, he was trying to show that anyone can have a voice and let their story be told.",
"\"I think it's really important that Twitter is not about celebrities.",
"It's not a platform for celebrities,\" he said.",
"\"In all these interviews and things, it's been celebrity -- you know, people know have been on TV.",
"It's really about everyday people having a voice.",
"And I don't want it to be dwarfed by celebrity.\"",
"Sean 'Diddy' Combs, who joined Twitter and threw his support behind Kutcher, told Larry King that he views Twitter as an important medium for him to share who he \"really\" is, and give fans a direct line of communication to him.",
"\"It's a chance for people to know the real me,\" he said.",
"\"Due to my own fault there's such a persona of the Hamptons and the bling-bling and the \"Forbes\" list and who I'm dating.",
"There's more substance to me than that. Over time I've just wanted to make sure that that has gotten out.\"",
"Kutcher told Larry King that initially, Twitter was a tool to feed his ego until he realized that he could use the service to make a difference.",
"\"At the end of the day, we all have ego, we all have some level of ego,\" he said.",
"\"But if we can use our ego to actually create good charitable things in the world in some way, and use our ego -- originally, I defined Twitter as an ego stream when I first saw it.",
"But then what I realized is if we can transform that into something that's positive that can actually effectively change the world, that can be a really valuable tool.\"",
"Kutcher had challenged CNN to the Twitter race, saying he would donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day in late April if he beat CNN, and 1,000 if he lost.",
"CNN agreed to do the same.",
"The battle between @aplusk, Kutcher's Twitter handle, and CNN's feed gained much attention on Twitter, with fans pulling for both sides.",
"Web junkies watched Kutcher on a live video stream as he celebrated with champagne, surrounded by his wife, Demi Moore, and friends.",
"\"We are over a million. CNN is still trying to get there.",
"And that is just how it goes,\" Kutcher told the camera as his friends screamed.",
"\"There are a million people that need to be thanked for this.\"",
"See Kutcher celebrate his milestone » .",
"No single Twitter account had previously reached 1 million followers, according to two Web sites that track popularity on Twitter, a site on which users post 140-character messages that are distributed to groups of followers.",
"\"Kudos to Ashton and all those in the @aplusk camp.",
"Now more than ever, the consumer is in the driver's seat and we couldn't be more gratified than to be part of this historic social media milestone,\" said CNN spokeswoman Jennifer Martin.",
"CNN maintains more than 40 official Twitter accounts, with a total of more than 1.5 million followers.",
"Kutcher was racing the network's breaking-news feed, @cnnbrk.",
"That account provides only brief updates about breaking news, therefore CNN doesn't send a lot of alerts -- just those for major events the network believes its audience will want to know.",
"\"We'd like to thank every one of our followers for helping CNN reach the 1 million mark, and we are delighted to raise our donation to 10,000 bed nets for World Malaria Day in recognition of them,\" Martin said.",
"Not to be outdone, Winfrey said in a tweet Friday morning that she would donate 20,000 mosquito bed nets to charity.",
"\"American Idol\" host Ryan Seacrest, another popular Twitter user, also agreed Friday to make a donation of mosquito bed nets, which help prevent the biting insects from spreading malaria in tropical countries.",
"\"Ashton's 'Twitter race' is an amazing example of how we can leverage new technology to battle an ancient disease,\" said Scott Case, CEO of Malaria No More, the charity expected to benefit most from the mosquito bed net donations.",
"\"Not only is Ashton helping Malaria No More raise awareness ... he's also galvanizing his Twitter army to help end malaria deaths.\"",
"The online feud between CNN and Kutcher also drew attention to the popularity of Twitter, which has seen breakneck growth over the past year.",
"Twitter saw 131 percent growth in March alone, with 9.3 million unique U.S. visitors that month, according to comScore.",
"The group attributes the increase to media attention on the site.",
"Cherwenka, the Huffington Post blogger, believes Kutcher may be one of the first people to leverage the power of online social networking for widespread social good.",
"\"It's a turning point in media.",
"He's one person who uses a free media platform to reach a large audience.",
"And that really hasn't been done before,\" Cherwenka said.",
"\"He didn't spend a penny on this.",
"And that's kind of the point of any kind of social activity on the Web.\"",
"But will all this celebrity-driven hype turn off longtime Twitter users?",
"Time will tell, observers say.",
"\"I know some Twitter early adopters and loyalists are feeling a bit ambivalent about this influx of mainstream attention, and are likening it to when their favorite indie band gets big overnight,\" said CNET's McCarthy.",
"\"They're excited to see this service really take off, but at the same time are concerned that it's turning into a sort of novelty fad.\"",
"CNN.com's Brandon Griggs and John D. Sutter contributed to this report."
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"Kutcher beat CNN early Friday in a race for 1 million followers on the site ."
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"(CNN) -- One of two wildfires burning in Oklahoma City on Wednesday pushed north toward suburban Edmond, illuminating the windy night sky with spirals of flame and flying embers.",
"The fire broke out Tuesday in the less densely populated northeast Oklahoma City and was moving in a northerly direction toward more largely residential, Edmond Fire Chief Tim Wheeler said.",
"\"The winds have shifted a bit,\" Wheeler said.",
"\"It's current path it's going to travel through a heavily wooded area, which will allow the fire to grow in intensity.\"",
"He said it is hoped the fire can be stopped before it crosses Interstate 44 to the southeast of Edmond, but the department had already initiated its Code Red system, which autodials residents' telephone numbers encouraging them to evacuate.",
"About 380 residents were affected by the initial evacuation call, he said.",
"\"It's real difficult to fight a fire like this when it gets to all those trees,\" Wheeler said.",
"\"We can't get our rigs in.\" He said that firefighters were getting support during the day from Oklahoma National Guard helicopters equipped with water buckets, \"but now that it's dark, it's up to the crews on the ground.\"",
"The northeast fire had claimed about 15 square miles since it broke out on Tuesday.",
"Live aerial images from CNN Oklahoma City affiliate KOCO Wednesday night showed brilliant columns of flame bursting through tree canopies and threatening homes in a residential area.",
"Oklahoma City Fire Chief Keith Bryant said firefighters had \"pretty much\" contained the northeast fire on Wednesday before winds freshened and caused it to flare up anew.",
"Meanwhile, a fire that started Wednesday afternoon in the southeast side of the city had destroyed two structures and caused some evacuations, he said.",
"Bryant said that fire covered an area 1.5 miles long and a mile wide.",
"KOCO reported that the evacuations from the southeast section covered a square-mile area.",
"The fires forced closure of a 40-mile section of Interstate 44 between the capital city and Tulsa, according to Jack Damrill, a spokesperson with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.",
"Bryant said that in the case of both fires, the evacuations have been targeted because the areas are not densely populated.",
"He said the department's resources have been stretched thin trying to fight the fires amid the high winds and tinder-dry conditions.",
"Like neighboring Texas, nearly all of Oklahoma is suffering from a severe drought, with two-thirds under the most severe category, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln."
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"NEW: Blaze is \"going to travel through a heavily wooded area,\" fire chief says .",
"NEW: Edmond initiates robocalls urging evacuations in southern part of city .",
"Another fire breaks out in southeast Oklahoma City on Wednesday ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- For 42 years, Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya with an iron fist, a mercurial leader who inspired fear in Libya and beyond.",
"Now he's on the run, hunted by rebels who made a lightning advance into Tripoli.",
"The rebels overran Gadhafi's compound and are scouring the country for signs of the leader, who has not been seen in public for weeks.",
"On Thursday, a radio station aired a defiant message, purportedly from Gadhafi, but most other signs point to the end of Gadhafi's long rule.",
"The 69-year-old strongman came to power in a bloodless coup against King Idris in 1969, when he was just an army captain.",
"By the end of his rule, he claimed to be \"King of Kings,\" a title he had a gathering of tribal leaders grant him in 2008.",
"The fighting that dislodged Gadhafi started with anti-government demonstrations in February and escalated into a nationwide civil war.",
"The protests started days after the fall of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whom Gadhafi had supported.",
"That month, Gadhafi vowed to never leave Libya and to \"die as a martyr at the end.\"",
"For months, rebel fighters -- in control of the eastern city of Benghazi and other areas -- had been trying to move closer toward Tripoli, in the west.",
"Recent advances allowed them to cut off some key supply routes for Gadhafi, bringing them closest yet to their goal, and by August 21, they had broken through into the capital.",
"The following morning, raucous rebel supporters packed the city's Green Square, the same place where the longtime leader's supporters had gathered for months to voice their loyalty.",
"By Tuesday evening, Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound was being ransacked.",
"When Gadhafi assumed power, he fashioned himself as an Arab nationalist.",
"The United States tried to work with him at first, but quickly found out that his brand of nationalism included opposition to the West.",
"By 1972 he was urging Muslims to fight Western powers, including the United States and Great Britain, and backing black militants in the United States as he pursued a leadership position in the Arab world.",
"His \"Green Book,\" first published in 1975, envisioned a radically simple system of \"People's Conferences\" that would replace political structures from tribes to parliaments.",
"Arab leaders largely shunned him, seeing him more as a \"buffoon\" and a \"clown\" than a potential pan-Arab leader, said Dirk J. Vandewalle, a Libya expert at Dartmouth University.",
"That rejection from Arab and African leaders, combined with his growing anti-Western sentiment, left him to turn to terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, Vandewalle said.",
"In 1986, Libya was implicated in the fatal bombing at a West Berlin nightclub that left one American service member dead, prompting then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan to dub the Libyan leader the \"mad dog of the Middle East.\"",
"Reagan ordered the United States to bomb Libya and imposed economic sanctions against the North African country.",
"Two years later, Libya was implicated in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.",
"Years later, Gadhafi appeared to moderate and seek rapprochement with the West.",
"In 1999, he turned over suspects in the Lockerbie bombing, and in 2003 the country agreed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction.",
"In the years before the current rebellion started, Gadhafi even hired a public relations firm to burnish his global image as a statesman and a reformer.",
"Starting in 2006, the leader spent about $3 million a year to execute a public relations strategy that included paying think-tank analysts and former government officials to take a free trip to Libya for lectures, discussions and personal meetings with Gadhafi.",
"In 2009, he addressed the U.N. General Assembly for the first and only time.",
"In his 96-minute ramble, he denounced the Security Council as a \"terror council,\" suggested the H1N1 swine-flu virus was a military tool and called for renewed investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.",
"Earlier this year, as people around the Middle East and North Africa began to challenge their leaders in the so-called Arab Spring movement, Gadhafi found himself a target.",
"But while longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ousted after a few weeks, and even after the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi fell to the rebels, Gadhafi fought on and blamed outsiders, \"armed gangs\" and others for the violence.",
"In the end, the Libyan leader sealed his reputation with his crackdown on protesters and attacks against rebels and civilians alike.",
"Recently, international leaders accused Gadhafi's regime of committing human rights violations and killing civilians.",
"The U.N. Security Council subsequently issued a no-fly zone over Libya and approved \"all necessary measures\" short of invasion to protect civilians.",
"Officials in the Gadhafi regime, in turn, repeatedly accused NATO of killing civilians in airstrikes.",
"In April, Gadhafi wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, urging him to end the NATO bombing of his war-torn country.",
"Gadhafi asked Obama to stop what he called the \"unjust war against a small people of a developing country,\" adding that those in the opposition are terrorists and members of al Qaeda.",
"The NATO operations continued, however.",
"In June, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, and his brother-in-law Abdullah al-Sanussi.",
"The warrants are \"for crimes against humanity,\" including murder and persecution, \"allegedly committed across Libya\" from February 15 through \"at least\" February 28, \"through the state apparatus and security forces,\" the court said in a statement.",
"CNN's Mike Pearson, Greg Botelho and Catherine Shoichet contributed to this report."
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"By 1972, he was urging Muslims to fight Western powers, including the U.K. and U.S.\nDecades later, he appeared to moderate and seek rapprochement with the West .",
"The movement to unseat him began in February, centered first in Benghazi ."
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"Oranjestad, Aruba (CNN) -- An Aruban magistrate ruled Wednesday that a Maryland man, detained in connection with the disappearance of an American woman, will remain in custody for another 60 days.",
"A detainment hearing was held Wednesday morning for Gary Giordano, 50.",
"Giordano was arrested by Aruban police on August 5, three days after Robyn Gardner, 35, also of Maryland, was last seen near Baby Beach on the western tip of the Caribbean island.",
"The magistrate's brief order did not elaborate on the decision beyond saying the suspect, identified by his initials of G.V.G., was \"suspected of involvement in the possible drowning of the American woman,\" and that the custody extension \"was done on request of the Prosecutor's Office.\"",
"On August 15, a judge ruled that there was enough evidence to keep Giordano detained for another 16 days as police continued to investigate the death.",
"The missing woman and the suspect arrived on the island July 31 from the United States, according to Aruban prosecutors.",
"Giordano, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, told authorities that he was snorkeling with Gardner and signaled to her to swim back, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.",
"When he reached the beach, Gardner was nowhere to be found, he allegedly said.",
"According to a transcript of a police interview, obtained by CNN, Giordano told police that he feared for his life when he signaled for Gardner to turn back and didn't look for her as he swam for shore.",
"\"I only looked back when I hit a rock,\" the document quotes Giordano as telling investigators.",
"\"Before that, I did not look back. I was only busy saving my life.\"",
"Gardner has not been found, although search efforts are ongoing.",
"Giordano also told authorities that he is the beneficiary of a $1.5 million accidental death insurance policy tied to Gardner, a local official told CNN.",
"CNN's Martin Savidge contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A magistrate rules that authorities can hold Gary Giordano for another 60 days .",
"Giordano, 50, was arrested by Aruban police on August 5 .",
"He is being questioned in the case of missing 35-year-old Robyn Gardner .",
"The missing woman and the suspect arrived on the island July 31 from the United States ."
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"Casablanca, Morocco (CNN) -- A series of explosions that killed 15 people when they erupted Thursday morning in a cafe in the city of Marrakech was an act of terrorism, Morocco's interior minister said.",
"\"We will investigate this act of terrorism and find those responsible ... and their nationality,\" Taib Cherqaoui told reporters about the attack, in which at least 22 others were wounded.",
"\"We condemn it as a criminal act.\"",
"In an address on state-run television, Cherqaoui and King Mohamed VI said the fatalities included six French nationals, five Moroccans, and four others whose nationalities were not divulged.",
"CNN has learned that, of the four remaining fatalities, two were Russian and one was British.",
"The incident occurred around 11 a.m. at Cafe Argana in Marrakech's old city, which is designated by the United Nation's cultural arm as a World Heritage Site.",
"Tourists flock to it in high numbers this time of the year and it is usually packed with stalls, story-tellers and snake-charmers.",
"World leaders moved quickly to condemn the incident.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was \"appalled,\" according to a statement from his office.",
"\"He reiterates his firm rejection of the use of indiscriminate violence against innocent civilians and maintains that no political objective justifies or is served by such heinous acts.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States \"condemns in the strongest terms today's terrorist attack,\" adding, \"Acts of terrorism must not be tolerated wherever and whenever they occur.\"",
"French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe condemned what he called a \"barbarian terrorist attack, which nothing can justify.\"",
"\"Such an awful act can only bring indignation and unreserved condemnation.",
"All light must be shed on this revolting crime, officials prosecuted, tried and punished,\" said Juppe, who said French authorities will provide assistance to French nationals in Marrakech.",
"\"We were walking around the souks, right around the corner from Cafe Argana,\" said a German tourist who was about 50 meters from the blast when it occurred.",
"\"We heard a gigantic boom, and everyone immediately starting running towards the square to see what happened.\"",
"The woman, who didn't want her name used, told CNN the top floor and terrace of the cafe were \"ripped apart\" by the blast, which caused hundreds of people to run from the area.",
"It was not immediately known whether the attack was linked to unrest across the Arab world or militant activity, although there have been protests in Morocco lately.",
"The blast comes four days after thousands of Moroccans held a peaceful demonstration nationwide, calling Sunday for a radical overhaul of the country's governance before a new constitution is unveiled in June by King Mohammed VI.",
"The march was organized by the Facebook youth movement Fevrier 20.",
"The group said its members would not accept the draft constitution because it was written by the king's own people.",
"It denounced his decision to refer the new constitution to a committee he appointed.",
"King Mohammed announced last month he would give up some of his wide-scale powers and make the judiciary independent -- the latter a particularly hot subject in Morocco.",
"Calls for an end to political detention and questions about the king's personal business activities were also on protesters' banners.",
"There was visible resentment at the royal family's business operations, controlled by its holding company SNI.",
"There were also groups protesting about the prices of basic household items.",
"Since the Casablanca attacks of 2003, in which 33 bystanders and 12 suicide bombers were killed, the Moroccan government has impressed international officials for breaking up Islamic terrorist cells.",
"For example, the Madrid train bombings in 2004, in which 191 people died, were assisted by a Moroccan group of terrorists -- 19 of whom are serving sentences in Moroccan prisons.",
"CNN's Mitra Mobasherat and Journalist Martin Jay contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon \"appalled,\" his spokesperson says .",
"\"We will ... find those responsible,\" interior minister says .",
"A tourist heard a loud boom and saw the damaged terrace .",
"The explosion happened in central Marrakech, popular among tourists ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-2 at the Camp Nou on Wednesday to claim the Spanish Super Cup in an ill-tempered El Clasico clash.",
"Lionel Messi's volley two minutes from time secured a 5-4 aggregate triumph for Josep Guardiola's side, after French striker Karim Benzema's goal in the 82nd minute looked to have forced the Spanish season's traditional curtain-raiser into extra-time.",
"Tempers flared in injury time when Brazilian full-back Marcelo's dismissal for a lunging tackle on Barca debutant Cesc Fabregas sparked a mass brawl between the two sets of players.",
"Barca's Spain striker David Villa and Real's Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil were red-carded for their involvement in the melee, despite both players having already been substituted.",
"Real coach Jose Mourinho also became involved when he was seen to poke the eye of Guardiola's assistant Tito Vilanova.",
"Recent matches between the two teams have seen similar scenes, with five clashes between the archrivals last season resulting in five red cards.",
"Having drawn Sunday's first leg 2-2 at the Bernabeu, European champions Barca went ahead in the tie when Andres Iniesta latched onto a through ball from FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Messi and clipped a finish over Iker Casillas in the Real goal.",
"Copa del Rey winners Real equalized five minutes later, when Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo prodded Benzema's low cross into the back of the net.",
"Barca regained the lead on the brink of half-time, when Messi found the net following a neat back-heel from center-back Gerard Pique.",
"Benzema scored a second equalizer for Real before Messi's late strike stole glory for Barca, but Mourinho was happy with what he saw from his charges.",
"\"Real Madrid gave a spectacular performance from the first to the last minute,\" Mourinho told the nine-time European champion's web site.",
"\"I just say what I think. We came here to play. Former Inter coach Mourinho stopped short of criticizing the referee for sending off two of his players, but the 48-year-old did appear to suggest Barca's players had made the most of the fouls which were committed.",
"\"The referee must punish what he deems punishable,\" he said.",
"\"Pepe and Marcelo played a great game, one for the entire 90 minutes and the other for 45.",
"Pepe saw a booking for a minor tackle and Marcelo gave a great performance.",
"\"I'm not going to say we're happy because we didn't win the Spanish Super Cup; that would be hypocritical of me.",
"We intend to play like men and not fall on the ground at the slightest touch.\"",
"Guardiola has now won 11 major honors since becoming Barca coach in 2008 and the former club captain was delighted with his team's performance.",
"\"What will stay with me is the inhuman effort of the players,\" he said.",
"\"They responded like the players they are: eternal, mythical, unrepeatable, honest, who like to train and play football.",
"\"Truthfully, seeing the way they responded, it's a privilege and honor to be their manager.\""
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"Barcelona have won the Spanish Super Cup after a 5-4 aggregate win over Real Madrid .",
"The Super Cup is the traditional curtain-raiser to the Spanish football season .",
"The match at the Camp Nou was overshadowed by trouble between the players .",
"Real Madrid's Marcelo and Mesut Ozil and Barcelona's David Villa all sent off .",
"Real coach Jose Mourinho was seen to poke the eye of Barca assistant Tito Vilanova ."
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"(CNN) -- The Security Council of the Republic of South Sudan on Wednesday ordered troops deployed to restore security and prevent retaliatory attacks after violent clashes in the past week.",
"The caretaker minister of interior, Gen. Gier Chuang Aluong, said that Sudan People's Liberation Army troops would be rapidly deployed to the states of Jonglei in the east and Warrap in the north-central part of the country, which became independent on July 9.",
"In the wake of clashes August 18 between the Murle and Lou Nuer communities that left at least 600 people dead, 200 abducted and at least 26,000 cattle stolen, the caretaker minister for information and broadcasting, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, condemned \"such mindless violence that has left so many innocent men, women and children dead or injured, their homes and livelihoods in ruin.\"",
"An assessment mission dispatched to Jonglei on Monday confirmed more than 330 buried dead and close to 200 injured.",
"According to Lise Grande, a U.N. humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, the team identified more than 250 unaccompanied minors and estimated that 26,800 people became displaced.",
"\"It is possible that many more bodies remain unburied in the bush,\" Grande said.",
"\"During yesterday's flyover, the assessment team saw two villages that appeared to be torched to the ground.\"",
"Since February this year, a series of clashes between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities has resulted in the loss of more than 1,000 lives, the humanitarian coordinator said Wednesday.",
"Humanitarian assistance has been hindered by the unrest.",
"A warehouse stocked with food from the United Nations' World Food Programme has been looted, and a Medecins Sans Frontieres-supported clinic was partially destroyed, Grande said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on the government of South Sudan to restore security in Jonglei, protect civilians affected by violence and work with both communities to reduce tensions."
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"A World Food Programme warehouse is looted and a medical clinic is partially destroyed .",
"Ban Ki-moon urges the government of South Sudan to restore security in Jonglei ."
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"Quito, Ecuador (CNN) -- A judge in Ecuador ruled Wednesday that the directors and former opinion editor of El Universo newspaper must each serve three years in prison for an opinion article about President Rafael Correa, state media reported.",
"The judge also ruled that the accused must pay $30 million, and the newspaper must pay $10 million, to Correa, the state-run El Ciudadano government information website reported.",
"The case drew international attention from press-freedom advocates, who say Correa aims to crack down on critics by restricting the media.",
"Correa filed a libel lawsuit after El Universo published a column in February by the newspaper's then-opinion editor, titled, \"No to lies.\"",
"Correa argued that the article, which referred to him as a dictator, unjustly claimed he had ordered security forces to open fire at a hospital full of civilians last September.",
"Correa said Tuesday that the article's assertions were untrue, baseless and \"an outrage,\" according to the state-run El Ciudadano government information website.",
"The president told reporters that he hoped the case would set a precedent.",
"A headline on El Ciudadano's website Wednesday said the ruling was a \"symbol of the fight for true freedom of expression.\"",
"Alembert Vera, Correa's lawyer, praised the judge's decision.",
"\"We have defended the right to honor, the right to dignity and any person who has felt offended or humiliated by the publication of false information,\" Vera said, according to El Ciudadano.",
"But the column's author told CNN en Español in an exclusive interview Wednesday that Correa and others had misinterpreted his meaning.",
"Emilio Palacio, El Universo's former opinion editor, said he was not accusing the president of ordering an attack on innocent civilians, but instead saying that a future president who is an enemy of Correa could make such an accusation.",
"Palacio said he planned to appeal the judge's ruling, arguing that he was not given an opportunity to present evidence in court.",
"\"We are living in a country where one cannot say what is going on without facing the penalty of going to prison,\" he said.",
"Palacio resigned from his post at El Universo last week, saying he was innocent but wanted the lawsuit to end.",
"On Wednesday, he said Correa was trying to break him and his former colleagues.",
"\"For what? To fill his pockets and impose a totalitarian regime.",
"This is what the dictator Rafael Correa is trying to do,\" he said.",
"In a statement posted on its website, El Universo decried the ruling as \"a violation against the universal principle of freedom of expression\" and vowed to appeal.",
"\"El Universo newspapers rejects this 80-page sentence, delivered in record time (less than 24 hours), by a judge said that he had worked until 5 a.m. to absorb details of the case, which has moved quickly through the hands of five distinct judges in four months,\" the statement said.",
"Pedro Valverde, an attorney representing El Universo, told CNN en Español Tuesday that the newspaper was not given an opportunity to fully present its side.",
"He argued that the publication's policies indicate that its directors have no influence on the content of its columns.",
"On Tuesday, the newspaper's directors offered to print a correction, but Correa said it was too late.",
"\"The moment of gentlemen, of people who have ethics, has already passed,\" he told reporters.",
"Press-freedom advocates have criticized the case and other recent efforts to regulate media in Ecuador.",
"In a statement Tuesday, the Inter American Press Association criticized \"the ongoing harassment of the Ecuador's independent press through excessive and disproportionate legal suits by President Rafael Correa.\"",
"The Committee to Protect Journalists also weighed in on the libel lawsuit shortly after Correa filed it.",
"\"Ecuador's outdated criminal defamation provisions have been systematically used to punish critical journalists,\" the New York-based organization said in a March statement.",
"Palacio pledged Wednesday to keep writing, but urged others to take action.",
"\"The independent press fought as far as it could.",
"Now it is the citizens' turn, united, mobilizing in the streets,\" he wrote in a post on his Twitter account.",
"CNN en Español's Fernando del Rincon contributed to this report."
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"El Universo says the judge's ruling violates free speech rights .",
"\"We have defended the right to honor,\" Correa's attorney says .",
"A judge rules that $40 million must be paid to Correa ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Christopher Coke, an international drug kingpin whose arrest and extradition to the United States was preceded by a horrific gun battle in Jamaica that left dozens of civilians dead, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to racketeering and assault charges.",
"Coke, who had pleaded not guilty to the charges after his extradition last year, faces a maximum sentence of 23 years in prison with a maximum fine of $500,000 for two charges of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit assault in aid of racketeering, according to the release.",
"Coke, 42, ran a Jamaica-based criminal organization called the Presidential Click, or Shower Posse, which had trafficked illegal weapons and drugs into New York and Miami, and to other Jamaica-area leaders, since the early 1990s, according to a release by prosecuting District Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York.",
"\"For nearly two decades, Christopher Coke led a ruthless criminal enterprise that used fear, force and intimidation to support its drug and arms trafficking 'businesses,'\" U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan said at Wednesday's hearing, according to the release.",
"\"Today's plea is a welcome conclusion to this ugly chapter of criminal history,\" Bharara added.",
"Lead defense attorney Frank Doddato described Coke as \"stoical\" during his court appearance.",
"Doddato said his client has continually expressed remorse.",
"Coke's group of Presidential Click members trafficked in narcotics, including marijuana, cocaine and crack cocaine, under Coke's direction, according to the formal charges Bharara presented at court.",
"Coke also was charged with overseeing the purchase and distribution of firearms among Presidential Click members.",
"Proceeds from drug sales were sent to Coke in Jamaica, in the form of cash and/or goods, according to the charges.",
"These included \"'tribute' payments, in recognition of his leaderships and his assistance,\" which could come in the form of clothing and electronics.",
"In May 2010, a failed attempt to arrest Coke in Kingston, Jamaica's capital, sparked gun battles between security forces and his supporters that ended with 76 people dead, 73 of them civilians.",
"Jamaican police apprehended Coke, who was wearing a woman's wig, at a checkpoint.",
"He was extradited to the United States in June 2010, and pleaded not guilty .",
"Following his extradition, Coke, who also had among his aliases \"Duddus,\" \"Shortman,\" \"Presi\" and \"General,\" responded said he was \"deeply upset and saddened by the unnecessary loss of lives\" in the Kingston shootout, and said the bloodshed \"could have been avoided.\"",
"\"Everyone, the whole country, has been adversely affected by the process that has surrounded my extradition and I hope that my action today will go some way towards healing all who have suffered and will be of benefit to the community of Tivoli Gardens\" -- a neighborhood where the violence erupted.",
"During Wednesday's guilty plea, Doddato said the Kingston shootout was one of the reasons Coke surrendered.\\ .",
"Coke's sentencing is scheduled for December 8, according to the district attorney's release."
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"Christopher Coke pleas guilty to two charges in racketeering and assault .",
"He faces a maximum of 23 years in prison; sentencing is set for December 8 .",
"76 people died in a gun battle during a failed attempt to arrest Coke in May 2010 ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Caroline Wozniacki made a shock exit from the Rogers Cup in Toronto after losing her second round match to Roberta Vinci 6-4 7-5 Wednesday night.",
"Defending champion Wozniacki looked set to force the match into a third and deciding set after building a 5-1 lead in the second, but her Italian opponent rallied to clinch her first victory against a top-five ranked player.",
"\"I thought I could win today,\" Vinci, 28, told the WTA Tour's official web site.",
"\"I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I thought I could.",
"\"I saw she was making a lot of mistakes, especially in the first set; then in the second set I was just focusing on every point when I was down, trying to stay aggressive and hit some slice to her forehand when possible.\"",
"Wozniacki first rose to the top of the rankings in October 2010, but the Dane has yet to capture a grand slam title and admitted world number 22 Vinci had outplayed her on Wednesday.",
"\"Today was definitely not my best match,\" said Wozniacki.",
"\"It was very difficult with the wind but also the way Vinci was playing, I didn't get a chance to really get any rhythm.\"",
"\"She slices the ball.",
"It's tough to get under it, and then she really goes for it on the forehand.",
"She was getting a lot of balls back, as well.",
"She did better than me.\" Vinci will come up against Serb Ana Ivanovic in the third round, after the 23-year-old's second round opponent Iveta Benesova was forced to retire in the third set of their encounter.",
"Sixth seed and French Open champion Li Na also benefited from a withdrawal, with Peng Shuai unable to compete due to a hip injury.",
"Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova battled back from 3-1 down in the first set to clinch her match with Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 and Serena Williams' winning streak is up to seven matches after the American beat Germany's Julia Goerges 6-1 7-6 (9-7).",
"Williams, 29, will now face Zheng Jie, who benefitted from second seed Kim Clijsters' retirement on Tuesday.",
"Third seed Vera Zvonareva notched up a straight-sets success against Nadia Petrova to set up a third round clash with Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, who defeated Croat Petra Martic 6-3 6-3.",
"Maria Sharapova, who was beaten in the 2011 Wimbledon final by Kvitova, is into the round of 16 courtesy of a 6-1 7-5 triumph against Bojana Jovanovski.",
"Sharapova, seeded fifth, will play Gaina Voskoboeva after the qualifier beat Italian Flavia Pennetta."
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"Top seed Caroline Wozniacki is out of the Rogers Cup following a defeat to Roberta Vinci .",
"French Open champion Li Na and Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova claim their 2nd rd matches .",
"Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams and Vera Zvonareva also advance in star-studded event ."
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"Rye, New York (CNN) -- What was meant to be a celebration marking the end of Ramadan turned into a melee at an amusement park on Tuesday when a group of Muslim women were told they weren't allowed on certain rides with their headscarves.",
"Rye Playland was full of visitors celebrating Eid al-Fitr when the festive mood turned angry.",
"Westchester County Police said the women wearing the hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf, became argumentative when park employees enforced the no-headgear policy and men sprang to their defense.",
"\"(The rule) didn't get relayed to the people who attended, so some people got upset,\" said Westchester County Police Capt.",
"Thomas Gleason.",
"Fifteen people were arrested and two charged with felony assault after two park rangers sustained minor injuries.",
"Among those arrested were three women wearing the hijab.",
"Police shut down the park for several hours during the incident.",
"\"It had to do with headgear. People -- patrons -- are not allowed to wear headgear on rides for safety reasons,\" Gleason said.",
"Zead Ramadan, spokesman for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said members of the Muslim American Society who had organized the outing asked him to come to the park to mediate.",
"Ramadan said the women felt they had been targeted by park employees because of their religious views.",
"\"They're the most obvious Muslims around because they have hijabs on.",
"They felt they were discriminated against,\" Ramadan said.",
"\"Maybe there was a level of frustration that went around across the board,\" Ramadan said.",
"\"Then you have the parks people who are trying to explain this and do their job.\"",
"Ramadan said he saw a cell-phone video showing police \"yanking a hijabi-wearing woman out of the crowd.\"",
"\"She was very small. They turn her around and throw her down on the ground.\"",
"Ramadan said that's when the crowd got very angry.",
"\"Nobody was assaulted prior to the police being called, and that in itself is a problem,\" Ramadan said.",
"Gleason said he was aware \"there was some cell-phone footage and maybe some video,\" \"There's no official video that we have released at this time,\" he said.",
"\"There are some videos in the park that we're retaining for our own information.\"",
"Gleason said he had seen seen \"bits and pieces\" of phone footage from the incident.",
"He said park officials told the Muslim organizers about the headgear ban but that information wasn't relayed to the group of visitors.",
"Ramadan chalked the whole incident up to \"miscommunication.\"",
"\"The women felt they were being targeted, but in fact these were safety precautions,\" he said.",
"\"And maybe (the park) didn't do the best job in disclosing those precautions.\"",
"But Westchester County Parks Deputy Commissioner Peter Tartaglia says the policy was made abundantly clear to the group's organizer, and that the rules are clearly posted.",
"\"We repeatedly told him, because we knew this group would have religious headgear,\" Tartaglia insisted adding that a refund booth was set up in case anyone objected to the policy, which he said is posted prominently in the park.",
"\"There's a sign at every ride,\" Tartaglia said.",
"\"When you enter the park, there's a height line and it lists headgear policy.",
"\"What triggered the incident was fighting within the group and the subject was why they didn't know the policy,\" said Tartaglia, adding that he arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after the fight broke out.",
"He said police were called when it appeared the altercation could lead to a riot.",
"Ride safety precautions posted on its website include the following safety rule: .",
"\"Hats must be secured, and jackets/sweaters must be worn properly and not around the waist while on a ride.",
"Some rides do not allow backpacks, purses or head gear of any kind.\"",
"Rye Playland, also known as Playland Amusement Park, is located about 17 miles northeast of the Bronx in Westchester County."
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"Muslims were celebrating Eid al-Fitr; women were wearing the hijab .",
"Rye Playland employees sought to enforce headgear ban on park rides .",
"Westchester County Police responded; confrontation became violent .",
"CAIR official says women felt they were being discriminated against ."
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"(CNN) -- Five-time winner Roger Federer opened his U.S. Open account Monday with a straight sets win over Santiago Giraldo in New York.",
"Despite surrendering his serve three times, the 30-year-old Swiss enjoyed a relatively comfortable match against the Colombian, ranked 54 in the world, winning 6-4 6-3 6-2 on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.",
"Leading 5-1 in the opening set, a number of uncharacteristic errors from Federer saw him squander a double-break advantage before he finally rallied to win 6-4.",
"The second and third sets were more straight-forward, though the world number three will be concerned about his winners-to-unforced errors ratio -- he finished with 36 winners and 35 unforced errors.",
"\"It was quite up and down, getting used to the conditions,\" admitted Federer, in quotes carried by usopen.org.",
"\"I don't think I've ever played my best in the first round but it's important to come through them and come up with a good feeling.\"",
"Home favorite Mardy Fish was ruthlessly efficient as he easily dispatched Germany's Tobias Kamke 6-2 6-2 6-1.",
"However fellow American Ryan Harrison was not so fortunate.",
"The 19-year old lost out to big-serving Croat Marin Cilic, 6-2, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6).",
"Seventh seed Gael Monfils ruined the U.S. Open debut of Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria with a battling 7-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory, while Czech Tomas Berdych, the number nine seed, beat French qualifier Romain Jouan 6-2, 7-6 (7/4), 6-1.",
"Elsewhere, French 13th seed Richard Gasquet trounced Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4 6-4 6-0, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic ousted France's Augustin Gensse 6-2 7-5 6-0, while Czech Radek Stepanek beat Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-1 6-3.",
"Fifteenth seed Viktor Troicki became the first seed to fall at this year's tournament when he was beaten in five sets 3-6 6-3 4-6 7-5 7-5 by Alejandro Falla of Colombia."
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"Roger Federer beats Santiago Giraldo 6-4 6-3 6-2 in first round of U.S. Open .",
"The 30-year old Swiss finishes with 36 winners and 35 unforced errors .",
"Other noted winners include Mardy Fish, Marin Cilic, Gael Monfils and Richard Gasquet ."
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"(CNN) -- Second seed Roger Federer won his first title of 2009 after stunning world number one and clay-court king Rafael Nadal in straight sets in front of his own fans in the final of the Madrid Masters on Sunday.",
"Federer acknowledges the crowd after stunning Rafael Nadal in straight sets in the Madrid Masters final.",
"Swiss ace Federer, who had won 57 career titles but was without a tournament victory since winning on home soil in Basle last October, took the honors 6-4 6-4 in one hour and 26 minutes.",
"The win also ended a remarkable run of success on clay for world number one Nadal, who was unable to repeat his heroics from Saturday's epic semifinal against Novak Djokovic when he fought back from the brink to win a gruelling battle 3-6 7-6 7-6 in four hours and three minutes, saving three match points along the way.",
"That victory over Djokovic was Nadal's 33rd successive win on clay stretching back over a year, while in total the Spanish superstar had won 150 of 154 matches on dirt since 2005.",
"However, the emotion of that success was clear to see on Sunday and the Mallorca-born 22-year-old was no match for his old foe, as Federer took the game to his opponent to beat Nadal for only the second time in 10 meetings on clay and end his long wait for another title.",
"Nadal, despite his epic match on Saturday, was quickly into his stride as he sought a sixth title this year and he created two break points on separate Federer service games early on.",
"The Spanish ace failed to make the most of either of those chances though, and when Federer's first opportunity came along in the ninth game of the first set he was not so profligate.",
"Nadal had fallen 0-30 behind on his serve but looked to have dug himself out of the hole, but Federer hit back again to take the game and moments later he was celebrating the set after holding serve to love.",
"Nadal had lost just one of 41 sets on clay this year heading into his semifinal, but he suffered a second loss against Djokovic to go 1-0 down in Saturday's match and found himself in an identical situation on Sunday.",
"He looked in determined mood in the second set though, holding his first two service games to love, but it would prove to be Federer who was first to break in the fifth game.",
"The Swiss ace got the chance with a superb drop shot and when Nadal then saw his forehand shot go long, Federer had the break to go 3-2 ahead.",
"Federer kept that advantage until the 10th game, when Nadal, with no room for error and staring defeat in the face, had his big chance to get back on terms when he created two break points.",
"However, Federer saved both of those and although he missed his first championship point, he clinched the title with his sixth ace of the match.",
"Earlier in the women's final, world number one Dinara Safina clinched her second title of the year after overcoming Danish teen sensation Caroline Wozniacki.",
"Top seed Safina, following on from her success in Rome last week, was simply too good for ninth seed Wozniacki and powered her way to a 6-2 6-4 win."
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"Roger Federer stuns clay-court king Rafael Nadal in the Madrid Masters final .",
"Second seed Federer secures his first title of the season with a 6-4 6-4 victory .",
"Nadal showed obvious weariness following semifinal epic with Novak Djokovic .",
"Dinara Safina clinches her second title of the year in the women's tournament ."
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"(CNN) -- The special court trying to bring the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to justice published Wednesday previously secret details of the case against four men it has charged.",
"Prosecutors assert that the ringleader of the group had earlier been sentenced to death in Kuwait over the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies there.",
"The suspect, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, escaped from prison in 1990 when Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait, the tribunal says in the indictment.",
"He and three other men were indicted by the United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon in June, and their identities and the charges against them were made public last month.",
"But they remain at-large.",
"The tribunal says it asked Lebanese authorities on June 30 to arrest Badreddine, Salim Jamil Ayyash, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra.",
"As of August 9, there had been no progress, the court said Wednesday.",
"The four are accused of involvement in the bombing that ripped apart Hariri's armored car in Beirut on February 14, 2005.",
"It destroyed his motorcade, killing him and 21 others, and injuring 231 people.",
"Badreddine was the ringleader, prosecutors charge.",
"Ayyash was the head of what they call the \"assassination team,\" and Oneissi and Sabra were involved in planting a false claim of responsibility in the media, prosecutors say.",
"They add that all four are supporters of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group, and that Badreddine and Ayyash are related to one of its founders.",
"In a speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the indictment contained \"no direct evidence\" against the men.",
"\"The text (of the indictment) is based on circumstantial evidence whose credibility is contested,\" he said.",
"\"This makes us more convinced that what is happening is highly unjust and politicized, and this is unfair to the suspects.\"",
"Investigators pieced together a timeline of the assassination plot dating back at least as far as November 11, 2004, based on cell phone data.",
"They identified five networks of cell phones, including one they claim was used by the assassination team.",
"Prosecutors label that the \"Red Network.\"",
"A \"Green Network\" was used by leaders of the operation, with the last call between phones in that group made about an hour before the blast.",
"Prosecutors assume that that 14-second last call was final authorization for the attack to go ahead.",
"The last call on the Red Network was made about five minutes before the explosion, prosecutors allege.",
"Cell phone data suggests that Hariri had been under surveillance for at least 15 days before he was killed.",
"It also places Ayyash in the location where the vehicle used in the bombing was bought, the indictment says.",
"Prosecutors concede in the indictment that the charges are based heavily on circumstantial evidence, but they argue that such information \"can be stronger than direct evidence\" because it does not rely on things like potentially faulty witness accounts.",
"Hariri's supporters say the businessman-turned-politician was killed because of his opposition to Syria's long-time military presence in his country, and his death led to popular protests, nicknamed the \"Cedar Revolution,\" that led Damascus to withdraw its troops.",
"Syria has denied accusations that it was behind the bombing.",
"The special tribunal's prosecutor welcomed the publishing of previously confidential parts of the indictment.",
"Unsealing the indictment \"answers many questions about the 14 February 2005 attack,\" Daniel Bellemare said in a statement.",
"\"The full story will however only unfold in the courtroom, where an open, public, fair and transparent trial will render a final verdict.\"",
"Judge Antonio Cassese, the president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, last week publicly urged the suspects to cooperate.",
"He said in an open letter to the four men that they will be treated fairly if they appear before the court or participate in the trial proceedings without being present.",
"Cassese issued the statement after Lebanese authorities told him they had been unable to serve the accused warrants and arrest them.",
"In Washington, the State Department lauded the process.",
"\"This process is a means of ending the era of impunity for the terrible and tragic violence that has touched all of Lebanon's communities,\" the department said in a statement.",
"CNN's Nada Husseini contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Nasrallah says the indictment contains \"no direct evidence\" against the four .",
"Prosecution: The ringleader was sentenced to death over bombing U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait .",
"Cell phone data suggests the politician was under surveillance for at least 15 days before he was killed .",
"The U.N.-backed tribunal asked Lebanon to arrest the four suspects in June but they are still at-large ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities have found what they believe to be the remains of Breeann Rodriguez, a 3-year-old Missouri girl whose neighbor told police he had suffocated the girl with a plastic bag and then tossed her from a highway.",
"A Missouri State Highway Patrol officer found the remains Tuesday evening along a ditch northeast of Hornersville, Missouri, about 8 to 10 miles from the girl's home in Senath, said Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Sokoloff said.",
"He said the remains are expected to be sent for forensic examination on Wednesday.",
"In a statement, Dunklin County Sheriff Bob Holder thanked the community for its assistance.",
"\"We are saddened to confirm our fears, but glad we are able to recover her remains for her parents,\" Holder said.",
"Earlier Tuesday, 43-year-old Shawn Morgan of Senath appeared in court.",
"He has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with Breeann's death.",
"Breeann was last seen on August 6, riding her pink bicycle with her brother outside their home.",
"Morgan does not yet have an attorney.",
"The August 30 court appearance will be a counsel status hearing, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.",
"According to a probable cause affidavit dated Saturday, police interviewed Morgan on Friday at the police department in Kennett, a larger community about 10 miles northeast of Senath.",
"The suspect said that he spotted the girl standing on a ladder by the pool in his backyard.",
"He told police that he grabbed the girl and carried her inside his house.",
"There, according to the affidavit, the man \"suffocated the girl with a white plastic trash bag, by holding it over her face and mouth.",
"\"Morgan states that he felt like it took an hour for the girl to die,\" the document adds.",
"It says Morgan told police he put the girl's body into the same trash bag, and then drove to Missouri's Highway 164 and got rid of the body by throwing it over a railing into a floodway ditch.",
"After returning home, Morgan said, he then dismantled the girl's bike and dumped it into another, related waterway, the document says.",
"A bicycle was recovered there and identified by Edgar Rodriguez as belonging to Breeann, his daughter.",
"Police said last week that they had found two training wheels similar to those on the girl's bike.",
"In addition to murder, Sokoloff said in a statement Saturday that Morgan is charged with armed criminal action and tampering with physical evidence.",
"The suspect, who Sokoloff said has three children of his own, is being held at the Dunklin County Justice Center.",
"CNN's Marlena Baldacci and Greg Botelho contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: The remains are expected to be sent for forensic examination Wednesday .",
"Authorities think Breeann Rodriguez's remains have been found along a ditch .",
"Breeann's neighbor Shawn Morgan is charged with first-degree murder .",
"Affidavit: Morgan tells police he suffocated the girl with a plastic trash bag ."
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"(CNN) -- The debate over funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency continued Wednesday as federal officials traveled to New Jersey and New York to check on local recovery and response efforts after Hurricane Irene.",
"The agency's disaster relief fund has less than $800 million remaining and could run out before the end of the current fiscal year on September 30.",
"With conservative House Republicans, led by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, calling for spending cuts to offset any increase in emergency funds -- a measure opposed by many Democrats -- the ability of Congress to act quickly on the issue remains uncertain.",
"\"Right now, we're continuing our obligations to respond\" with rescue operations and meeting the immediate needs of storm survivors, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said Wednesday.",
"The only thing the agency has done, he said, is state that it won't be able to fund permanent work from disasters that has not yet been started.",
"\"We are postponing the permanent work,\" he said.",
"But search-and-rescue teams are on the ground, he said, and food and water is being handed out to those in need.",
"\"This is a team effort,\" he said.",
"\"... Americans help Americans in disasters.",
"We're doing our job. We're working hard.\"",
"Mayor Jeffery Jones of Paterson, New Jersey, said he was \"outraged\" about the funding dispute.",
"\"Mother Nature has a mind of her own, a will of her own, and we can't have the petty wrangling going on when we have folks in dire need,\" he said.",
"Gov. Chris Christie echoed those sentiments during a news conference Wednesday, saying, \"We don't have time to wait for folks in Congress to figure out how they want to offset this stuff with the budget cuts.",
"Our people are suffering now.",
"And they need support now.\"",
"\"Nobody that got hit with this flooding dodged a bullet,\" Fugate said Wednesday.",
"\"Loss of life, extensive damages, homes flooded. ...",
"It may not have been as big a deal on the coast, but these flood areas definitely got hit hard.\"",
"Irene killed 43 people from Florida to New England as it marched up the Eastern Seaboard over the weekend, dumping torrential rain.",
"Some of the worst flooding struck Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York.",
"More than 1.8 million customers remained without electricity Wednesday from North Carolina to Maine, the U.S. Department of Energy said -- a decrease from the 2.8 million reported Tuesday afternoon.",
"Outage figures include more than 366,000 in Connecticut and 323,000 in New York.",
"The Passaic River in northern New Jersey seemed to mock the town of Little Falls as the water surging through it looked more like Niagara Falls.",
"\"Before Irene hit, the Passaic River was already running high from frequent precipitation this summer,\" Wheeler Antabanez of neighboring Montclair said.",
"\"When the hurricane blew through and dumped all that water on north Jersey, the river began to rage.\"",
"About 1,700 residents were evacuated from their homes in Wayne, Totowa, Little Falls, Paterson and Woodland Park, said Edward O'Connell, a spokesman for Passaic County's Office of Emergency Management.",
"President Barack Obama will travel to Paterson on Sunday to view damage from Hurricane Irene, the White House announced.",
"Rescues were still taking place Wednesday, Jones said.",
"\"All it takes is someone to call and say they're under distress, and we and our boats are going out and taking people to safety,\" he said.",
"City officials were opening schools and other facilities to serve as shelters, he said.",
"\"It's been pretty much 24 hours a day,\" said Sgt.",
"Alex Popov of the Paterson Police Department.",
"Once floodwaters begin to recede, the next step will include going house to house and checking furnaces, hot water heaters and other appliances to reduce the risk of explosions when they are restarted, Jones said.",
"Asked about those who did not heed an evacuation warning, Jones said, \"I don't think folks were aware -- nor were we aware -- that it could get this extreme.\"",
"Flood warnings remained in effect for portions of New Jersey on Wednesday, along with parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.",
"Also Wednesday, Obama signed disaster declarations for New Jersey, North Carolina and New York.",
"\"I think the conversation of hype is being hyped,\" Connecticut Gov.",
"Dannel Malloy said Wednesday on the debate over whether Irene was overhyped.",
"\"The reality is, the people of Connecticut are hurting. ...",
"Although it's sunny outside, we're still experiencing the effects.\"",
"He said homes and infrastructure have been destroyed and the Connecticut River basin has experienced heavy flooding.",
"Much of the damage is seen in the state's rural areas, he said.",
"\"We have farms that are under water.\"",
"Consolidated Edison reported that it met its goal to restore power to nearly all New York City customers by Tuesday night, New York Gov.",
"Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Wednesday.",
"Work to restore power elsewhere was ongoing Wednesday.",
"The full extent of Irene's destruction won't be known for some time.",
"The federal government estimates that the cost from wind damage alone will exceed $1 billion.",
"Analysts have put the total expected cost of Irene much higher.",
"Vermont transportation officials were able to make emergency repairs on roads to all but one of about a dozen previously isolated towns, officials said.",
"Air drops were being made to three towns.",
"The National Guard is carrying supplies to other communities, said Mark Bosma, spokesman for Vermont Emergency Management.",
"Because the repaired roads are intended for emergency and supply delivery traffic, residents will have to wait for more permanent repairs to resume their old driving habits.",
"That is expected to take at least several weeks or months in some cases.",
"\"We've transitioned into the recovery stage for the most part,\" Bosma said.",
"\"The worst is over.\" The Vermont Campground Association reported that only two of its seven member campgrounds suffered significant damage, and more than 70 campgrounds will be open for the coming Labor Day weekend.",
"\"Some are cleaning up downed trees, but most are ready for visitors,\" said Peter Daniels, the association's executive director, in a prepared statement.",
"Most roads leading to campgrounds are open, the association said.",
"The two campgrounds that suffered extensive damage -- Camping on the Battenkill in Arlington and Abel Mountain Campground in Braintree -- remained closed.",
"Storm cleanup efforts also were ongoing in the Bahamas on Wednesday, a week after Irene struck there.",
"The National Emergency Management Agency was coordinating the shipment of goods to Rum Cay, Cat Island, Crooked Island and Acklins, according to Bahamas Information Services.",
"A shipment of goods from Jamaica was received by Mayaguana on Saturday.",
"Meanwhile, some of the areas that escaped Irene without major damage -- such as the state of Maryland -- still took a direct hit in the pocketbook.",
"Maryland lost more than $2 million in direct revenue over the past weekend, including an estimated $1.75 million in sales tax revenue and $150,000 in withholding taxes due to the evacuation of Ocean City, according to Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot.",
"Officials estimated a $60,000 loss in gas tax revenue because of canceled weekend trips, and a loss of roughly $45,000 in toll revenue from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.",
"Additionally, Ocean City lost nearly $40,000 of admissions and amusement tax revenue from its many attractions and events .",
"But Franchot did not question the decision to evacuate the town.",
"\"Given the disastrous impact of this storm on other parts of our country ... am profoundly grateful that Ocean City and the state of Maryland as a whole weathered this storm with minimal injury or loss of life,\" he said in a statement.",
"CNN's Mike Alhlers, Phil Gast, Ed Payne and Melanie Whitley and CNN iReport's Germain Perez and Katie Hawkins-Gaar contributed to this report."
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"New Jersey Gov.",
"Christie hits congressional budget disputes .",
"\"We don't have time to wait for ... Congress to figure out how ... to offset this stuff\"\n\"Our people are suffering now.",
"And they need support now,\" Christie says .",
"Power is restored to nearly all customers in New York City ."
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"Brad, Texas (CNN) -- Firefighters have made some progress in battling a spreading wildfire in northern Texas, but dry conditions contributed to a rash of new fires as well, officials said Thursday.",
"The 101 Ranch Fire in Palo Pinto County had scorched 6,200 acres as of Thursday, according to the Texas Forest Service.",
"The blaze is burning on Possum Kingdom Lake, near the town of Brad, about 100 miles west of Dallas.",
"However, \"we feel much better about this fire today\" as the blaze is now 50% contained, said John Nichols, spokesman for the forest service.",
"Some evacuations were lifted, he said.",
"The flames have destroyed 40 homes and nine RVs, the Forest Service said Thursday.",
"Firefighters were receiving support from aerial tankers and helicopters.",
"Authorities are working on a re-entry strategy for residents, said Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer, and they are trying to get the lake open for the Labor Day holiday.",
"On Wednesday, evacuations were ordered in several communities on the north side of the lake after the fire charged over a ridge and approached a dam on the lake, CNN affiliate WFAA reported.",
"The Forest Service pulled out of its command observation post, telling journalists and onlookers to get out of the way of the flames.",
"Tom Hardeston was among the residents watching helplessly.",
"\"My house is right through here, though it may be gone,\" he told WFAA.",
"Nearby ranchers battled to save their herds from the encroaching fire.",
"\"I'm just moving them from pasture to pasture,\" Cindi McCoy told WFAA, referring to her livestock.",
"\"As one pasture burns, I'm moving them back to that one and bring(ing) them back around.\"",
"The Forest Service responded on Wednesday to 17 new fires burning a total of 4,146 acres.",
"The largest of those is the Hornets Tank Fire, which had burned 3,000 acres and was 40% contained Thursday.",
"It was burning in Briscoe County near Palo Duro Canyon, the nation's second-largest canyon behind the Grand Canyon.",
"In addition, the Legacy Fire had burned 3,400 acres in Howard County and was 10% contained Thursday, the Forest Service said.",
"The blaze threatens numerous structures, but did not show much growth on Wednesday.",
"The weather forecast continued to predict mostly dry weather for the area, with high temperatures from the mid-90s into the 100s, the Forest Service said.",
"Texas is experiencing the worst fire season in state history.",
"Since fire season began last November, a record 3.5 million acres have burned.",
"Hot and dry weather combined with a historic drought have made conditions ripe for rapid fire growth.",
"In the past seven days, the Forest Service has responded to 224 fires burning a combined 31,541 acres.",
"Meanwhile, in neighboring Oklahoma, firefighters were battling hot spots Thursday from a wildfire in northeast Oklahoma City, Fire Chief Keith Bryant said.",
"National Guard helicopters were assisting, Bryant said.",
"The blaze was one of two large brush fires that had covered more than 16 square miles on the city's north and south sides Wednesday, forcing some evacuations and closure of Interstate 40 and the Turner Turnpike.",
"Both roads were later reopened, CNN affiliate KOCO said.",
"Thursday is \"day three of very poor fire conditions for us,\" said David Barnes, Oklahoma County Emergency Manager.",
"Firefighters, including some from around the state, are \"kind of ragged,\" he said.",
"Barnes did not have an estimate on how many homes were lost on the city's north side.",
"On Tuesday, a dozen were lost in that blaze.",
"Fighting the south side fire \"went very well for us,\" he said.",
"Three or four barns were lost, he said, along with one mobile home and one abandoned home.",
"The record-setting heat and drought plaguing Texas and Oklahoma -- as well as a heat wave experienced by other states -- result from abnormally strong high pressure over the Atlantic and Pacific.",
"The high pressure keeps the jet stream, typically a source of cooler air and precipitation, to the north, while winds funnel hot, tropical air into the south-central United States, according to NASA, which released satellite data Wednesday showing the phenomenon during July.",
"But the conditions persist, said CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.",
"\"The ridge of high pressure aloft refuses to release its grip.",
"There are some subtle signs that it may weaken into next week and allow a tropical system to move into\" southeastern Texas, he said.",
"\"This would have the potential to bring some very significant and beneficial rains to that area.",
"But it looks like Oklahoma is going to remain high and dry.\""
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"The 101 Ranch Fire is 50% contained .",
"Some evacuations have been lifted, an official says .",
"The Texas Forest Service battled 17 new fires on Wednesday .",
"Firefighters still battling hot spots in Oklahoma City ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Novak Djokovic could face Roger Federer in the semifinals of the U.S Open after the pair were grouped in the same side of the draw Thursday.",
"Djokovic, the top seed, has lost only twice in 2011, and has already clinched the Australian Open and Wimbledon titles this season.",
"He has been drawn to play a qualifier in round one.",
"Switzerland's Federer, who has clinched glory at Flushing Meadows on five previous occasions, begins his campaign with a clash against Colombian Santiago Giraldo.",
"Defending champion and second seed Rafael Nadal will face Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan as the Spaniard goes in search of an 11th career major.",
"Is Wozniacki feeling the weight of world number one?",
"Nadal told the U.S. Open's official web site: \"I feel great.",
"I am here, and I will try my best. Last year was a really emotional year for me.",
"\"It was the tournament I didn't play my best in the past.",
"Last year, I played one of my best matches in the final.",
"I finally won.\" British number one Andy Murray, defeated by Djokovic in January's Australian Open final, will come up against Somdev Devvarman of India.",
"The top-ranked American in the draw is Mardy Fish, and the 29-year-old eighth seed will look to eliminate German Tobias Kamke in the opening round.",
"The 2009 U.S. Open winner Juan Martin del Potro will go head-to-head with Italy's Filippo Volandri.",
"In the women's draw, first seed Caroline Wozniacki will begin her latest attempt to capture a maiden grand slam crown against Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives.",
"Vera Zvonareva, ranked second in the world, has been drawn against a qualifier, while 2006 winner Maria Sharapova has been paired with Britain's Heather Watson.",
"Li Na, winner of the French Open, will have to get the better of Romania's Simona Halep, while Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is up against another Romanian Alexandra Dulghera.",
"Serena Williams has claimed victory at this event three times during her career, and her latest title tilt will commence against Serb Bojana Jovanovski."
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"World No.1 Novak Djokovic to begin U.S. Open challenge against a qualifier .",
"Defending champion Rafael Nadal drawn to play Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan .",
"Caroline Wozniacki begins quest for maiden grand slam against Nuria Llagostera Vives .",
"Three-time winner Serena Williams to face Serb Bojana Jovanovski ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time defending champion Kim Clijsters has pulled out of this year's U.S. Open with a stomach muscle injury.",
"The 28-year-old Belgian suffered the injury at the Rogers Cup tournament in Toronto last week and told the official WTA website that she would not be able to recover in time for the final grand slam of the season which starts on August 29 in New York.",
"\"Two weeks of rehab was not enough to heal this injury.",
"Obviously I'm very disappointed,\" she said.",
"\"I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S.",
"Open.\" Clijsters, the world number three, has suffered an injury-hit year since claiming the Australian Open title back in January, her fourth grand slam crown.",
"She missed most of the clay court season and then Wimbledon with an ankle injury and was hoping for better luck as she chased a fourth triumph at Flushing Meadows where she won in 2005, 2009 and 2010.",
"The injury will also affect her end of season campaign and she acknowledged that she will need careful rehabilitation.",
"\"Now there is nothing else I can do than to rest and have treatment every day.",
"\"If a gradual approach is not taken, I will relapse in the same injury, and therefore I have also no other possibility than to withdraw from the tournaments in Tokyo and Beijing.\"",
"Clijsters' withdrawal is likely to leave Serena Williams as a warm favorite to add to her grand slam tally, but the American was herself forced out of the latest WTA event in Cincinnati through injury, but it is not thought serious.",
"Meanwhile, Wimbledon runner-up Maria Sharapova eased into the semifinals of the tournament in Ohio Friday with a straight-sets victory over Samantha Stosur.",
"Fourth seed Sharapova beat the 10th-seeded Australian 6-3 6-2 and next faces second seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia, who battled past unseeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 6-3 7-6.",
"Ninth seed Andrea Petkovic also reached the semifinals with a 7-5 6-1 win over Nadia Petrova.",
"Petkovic will face 13th seed Jelena Jankovic, who went through when Shuai Peng withdrew before the start of their match with a hip injury."
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"Kim Clijsters pulls out of U.S. Open with an abdominal injury .",
"Two-time defending champion Clijsters has missed final three grand slams of 2011 .",
"Clijsters sustained the injury in the Rogers Cup in Toronto last week .",
"Maria Sharapova marches into semifinals in Cincinnati to play Vera Zvonareva ."
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"(CNN) -- England batsman Kevin Pietersen ensured his place in cricket's history books with an unbeaten double-century on day two of the sport's 2,000th Test match.",
"Pietersen passed 200 for the second time in his international career to allow England to declare on an imposing 474-8 at Lord's on Friday, while India reached 17-0 in reply at stumps in the opening match of the series.",
"With much focus on Indian veteran Sachin Tendulkar's bid to become the first player to score his 100th century at international level in such a historic match, Pietersen stole the spotlight as he resumed on 22 after a rain-affected opening day in London.",
"The 31-year-old hit 21 fours and one six from 326 deliveries faced against an Indian bowling line-up missing spearhead Zaheer Khan, who suffered a hamstring injury on Thursday.",
"\"It was quite nice from 150 to 200, but to get there was a mission,\" said Pietersen, who survived an early scare when it appeared he had been caught by Rahul Dravid, but umpire Billy Bowden's decision was overruled by the television official.",
"\"I found it quite hard and a couple of the other boys came in and scored quickly, and that took the pressure off me.",
"It is always nice to get the team into a position where we can hopefully do something in this Test match.",
"\"I haven't had the best couple of years, I had a pretty good winter but there are a lot of players in that dressing room that are doing really well.\"",
"Pietersen added 98 for the third wicket with Jonathan Trott before his fellow South Africa-born teammate became the first of five victims snared by medium-pacer Praveen Kumar -- his best effort in just his fourth match in the five-day format.",
"He then put on another 110 with Ian Bell, who also fell to Kumar for 45, while Eoin Morgan went in the 24-year-old's same over without scoring.",
"Matt Prior, another England player with South African ancestry, helped Pietersen add another 120 runs for the sixth wicket as he made 71 off 93 balls before Kumar provided captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni with his third catch of the innings.",
"Stuart Broad was trapped leg before wicket by Kumar's next ball, but Graeme Swann avoided the hat-trick before scoring 24 in a partnership of 61 with Pietersen.",
"The former England captain needed just 25 balls to complete his fourth 50 and was unbeaten on 202 when his successor Andrew Strauss called the players in, 25 runs short of his Test best.",
"India, the top-ranked nation in Test cricket, safely negotiated the six overs before day's end, with the experienced Gautam Gambhir on seven and 21-year-old Abhinav Mukund on eight in just his fourth Test appearance."
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"Kevin Pietersen scores 202 not out as England declare at 474-8 against India .",
"Tourists replay with 17-0 in their first innings on day two of opening match at Lord's .",
"Pietersen had resumed on 22 overnight in the 2,000th Test match in cricket history .",
"He survived early scare when umpire's decision was overturned after he was caught out ."
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"(CNN) -- Luxembourg's Andy Schleck dramatically revived his Tour de France hopes with a stunning victory on an epic 18th stage which finished at the summit of the imposing Col du Galibier.",
"At 2,645 meters, it was the highest-ever stage finish on the Tour, and Leopard Trek's Schleck certainly hit the heights with a brave solo victory.",
"He broke clear of a group of favorites on the Col d'lzoard with 60km remaining, reeling in the fragmented remains of a breakaway, before crossing the line alone over two minutes clear of his chasers.",
"Schleck, written off after muted performances in the Pyrenees and the first stage in the Alps, said he had decided to take his courage in his hands.",
"\"I don't want to finish fourth in Paris, and I said to myself 'I'm going to risk everything, it'll work or it'll fail',\" he told Eurosport.",
"\"That's the way I am, I'm not afraid of losing.",
"And if my legs were hurting out in front I knew the others would be hurting to catch me up.\"",
"But he failed by 15 seconds to take the yellow off the shoulders of French hope Thomas Voeckler, who again performed heroics to take fifth on a stage which effectively marked the end of Alberto Contador's chances of retaining his crown.",
"The three-time winner from Spain struggled on the upper slopes of the Galibier and now trails Voeckler by four minutes 44 seconds in seventh place.",
"To complete a superb day for the Schlecks, Andy's brother Frank took second on the stage to move up to third overall, one minute eight seconds down.",
"He gained precious time on Australia's Cadel Evans, who slipped to fourth at one minute 12 seconds.",
"Friday's 19th stage, the third in the Alps, could well hold the key to the eventual winner with the finish on the famous Alpe d'Huez after another climb on the Galibier.",
"Both the Schlecks will be looking to pick up further time on Evans, who is a stronger time trialist, ahead of Saturday's individual test against the clock over 42.5km in Grenoble."
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"Andy Schleck wins 18th stage of the Tour de France on Col du Galibier .",
"Schleck closes to within 15 seconds of race leader Thomas Voeckler of France .",
"Andy's brother takes second on the stage to improve to third overall .",
"Defending champion Alberto Contador loses time on the final climb ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- Imagine a night flight, 30,000 feet in the air, and being able to stare up at the stars through the plane's transparent fuselage.",
"This will be the flying experience in 40 years time, according to aircraft manufacturer Airbus.",
"The European giant unveiled its Concept Cabin Tuesday in Paris, ahead of next week's \"Le Bourget\" Paris Air Show.",
"The cabin is part of its research project entitled \"A vision of aviation in 2050.\"",
"Paris Air Show set for take-off .",
"Airbus says the Concept Cabin is \"inspired by nature\" and will be 100% recyclable with \"self-cleaning materials made from sustainable plant fibres which reduce waste and maintenance and will harvest passenger body heat to power cabin features.\"",
"The body of the aircraft has a structure that Airbus says \"mimics the efficiency of bird bone which is optimized to provide strength where needed.\"",
"A \"wall membrane\" will enclose the cabin and become transparent to give passengers panoramic views of the sky.",
"\"Our research shows that passengers of 2050 will expect a seamless travel experience while also caring for the environment,\" said Charles Champion, Airbus Executive Vice President Engineering.",
"The Concept Cabin also includes seats that adjust to the passengers' body shape.",
"But the onboard ambience is where airlines will be able to make money.",
"Today's cabin classes have been ripped out and replaced by themed zones.",
"Airbus envisages a \"Vitalizing Zone\" for relaxation complete with mood lighting, aromatherapy and acupressure treatments; a \"Tech Zone\" to stay connected; and in the center of the cabin, an \"Interactive Zone,\" where a round of golf can be played via a virtual projection.",
"With double-beds, power showers and lounge areas already experienced on Airbus A380 Superjumbos, perhaps passengers with the money will be getting into the zone onboard sooner than Airbus thinks."
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"Airbus: Transparent fuselage, eco-friendly design the future of airliners .",
"European giant unveiled Concept Cabin ahead of \"Le Bourget\" Paris Air Show .",
"Airbus says Concept Cabin is \"inspired by nature\" and will be 100% recyclable ."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators suspect foul play in the disappearance of a 51-year-old schoolteacher who was reported missing July 18 near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Sylviane Finck Lozada, a French and Spanish teacher at Brusly High School in Brusly, Louisiana, for the past 13 years, last spoke to her family in Belgium about July 5, said spokeswoman Casey Hicks of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office.",
"Lozada called her family on a daily basis, authorities said.",
"Investigators are trying to locate her husband, Oscar Lozada, Hicks said.",
"He and the couple's daughter boarded a plane from Dallas to Venezuela on July 9, Hicks said.",
"The daughter's age is 4 or 5, authorities said.",
"\"We would obviously like to speak with him,\" Hicks said.",
"The father and daughter were scheduled to return to the United States on July 14 but didn't, authorities said.",
"The sheriff's department is working with the FBI because of its contacts in Venezuela, Hicks said.",
"\"Detectives have communicated with Oscar Lozada at the beginning of the investigation into her disappearance, but over the past week, they have been unable to contact him,\" Hicks said.",
"No warrants have been issued in connection with the disappearance, Hicks said.",
"Authorities have examined the husband's credit card statements and found that he bought five-gallon buckets and several bags of concrete mix.",
"But, Hicks added: \"The buckets and concrete mix are unaccounted for.\"",
"Detectives believe the missing woman may have occupied her husband's bright-yellow 2001 Nissan Xterra on July 5 or July 6, and investigators are seeking any eyewitnesses, authorities said.",
"The car was found July 24 in Ascension Parish at the home of a family friend, authorities said.",
"Walter Lemoine, principal at Brusly High, said Sylviane Finck Lozada had been a West Baton Rouge Parish Teacher of the Year.",
"She is also a National Board Certified Teacher and had earned a doctorate degree two years ago.",
"Lemoine called Sylviane Finck Lozada a \"tough\" teacher and said her disappearance is \"a major impact\" to the community.",
"On August 8, the 500-student school was scheduled to hold \"a celebration of hope\" in the gymnasium for the missing teacher, and participants were also to move outdoors to light vigil candles, Lemoine said.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Sylviane Finck Lozada phoned her family every day .",
"She last called her family in Belgium about July 5 .",
"She taught French and Spanish at Brusly High School in Brusly, Louisiana .",
"Authorities are trying to locate her husband, who took the couple's daughter to Venezuela ."
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"(CNN) -- Chinese web developers are using a new weapon aimed at fighting corruption: sites encouraging people to share stories of bribes online.",
"Such sites -- inspired by a similar idea in India -- have surged in the past few weeks, but they've had a shaky start.",
"Interest in the idea gained widespread momentum on June 8, after China's state-run Beijing News published a story about a new website in India called \"Ipaidabribe.com.\"",
"The site encourages users to \"tell us your bribe story\" and aims to \"uncover the market price of corruption\" by making people's experiences publicly-accessible online.",
"The website's administrators promise to use the stories \"to argue for improving governance systems ... and thereby reduce the scope for corruption in obtaining services from the government.\"",
"The idea quickly caught on in China, where analysts have said corruption is a serious problem.",
"Official statistics on government corruption are hard to come by, but a 2007 report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argued that corruption threatens China's future, fueling socioeconomic inequality and social unrest.",
"Within days of the Beijing News story, several homegrown Chinese spinoffs had emerged.",
"Visitors began posting hundreds of \"tips\" under headings like \"local officials ... are buying luxury villas at a small fraction of the market value,\" and \"High-ranking official with 146 mistresses writes a letter to his son.\"",
"Some contained documentation to back up the claims; others posted the names of the parties accused with no supporting evidence.",
"But a week later, the state-run Jinghua Times reported that the government had declared \"citizens' anti-corruption websites,\" as they had come to be known, illegal.",
"It was a move many predicted.",
"\"People share these websites with one another saying they want to see how long they'll last before they get shut down or blocked.",
"(Their) pessimistic attitudes are not unfounded,\" media critic Wei Yingjie wrote in a June 13 editorial posted on multiple Chinese newspapers' websites.",
"\"In fact, up til now, there has been no shortage of channels for fighting corruption.",
"But in reality, posts (that expose corruption) get deleted; people who file complaints about local government with higher levels of government get sent away; and (corruption) tipsters get shipped from province to province.\"",
"Within days, Wei's article itself had been removed from several state-run websites.",
"But last week, an unlikely coalition emerged against the government's declaration: Chinese Internet freedom activists and the Communist Party-supported Global Times newspaper, which published an op-ed that argued against the ban on this class of website.",
"\"Instead of shutting down these websites because of legal issues, the government should take this opportunity to work with the few websites that genuinely want to help, so that they may complement official bodies to fight corruption,\" the newspaper said.",
"A web developer who goes by the name of \"Peater Q\" embodies this alliance.",
"A young Communist Party member and web developer, Peater says his site, wohuilule.com, is the first of its kind to obtain government permission to exist.",
"(\"Wo hui lu le\" is a translation of \"I paid a bribe.\")",
"He asked to remain anonymous for this article, saying he feared revealing his identity would put his security at risk.",
"CNN did not see his website's application documents, but his site was still viewable online Sunday -- days after many other similar sites were no longer accessible.",
"Peater said he believes the government is working hard to reduce corruption within its own ranks, and he sees his site as \"a very specific resource for tips\" for the government officials who investigate corruption claims.",
"\"I want to reduce their burden,\" he said.",
"The very notion of anti-corruption websites that are vetted, potentially, by the same government officials the sites seek to expose sets off warning signals for some, who fear the sites will be used as a tool of persecution.",
"An editorial cartoon in China's widely-read Southern Weekend newspaper showed a representative of the public security bureau smiling as he says, \"please register with your legal name, address ...\" In front of him, a man is sweating and hiding behind a sign that reads \"I bribed.com\" in Chinese.",
"At least one expert says such sites pose serious ethical questions.",
"\"If you wanted to tarnish the reputation of the government or a department within it, or settle a vendetta, you could just get all of your friends to post claims against them,\" said Raymond Fisman, a professor at the Columbia Business School who has studied corruption.",
"\"There is no way of credibly aggregating the information to assess the magnitude of the problem,\" he added.",
"When asked if he thinks his site, too, could one day run afoul of Internet censors, Peater acknowledged negative consequences could pop up if people use the site for \"reactionary behavior.\"",
"But he said sharing information will help tackle corruption.",
"\"Positive things will come from widespread awareness.",
"It's not just a website for bad feelings,\" he said.",
"For now, Peater continues tweaking his site -- now just three days old -- and waiting for the tips to come in."
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"The sites allow people to report bribes and corruption complaints .",
"Chinese state media reports \"citizens' anti-corruption websites\" are illegal .",
"One web developer says he has received government permission for his site .",
"One expert says open-source anti-bribe sites pose serious ethical questions ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The federal government is postponing some of the consumer protections scheduled to take effect later this month after airlines and travel agents said they needed more time to implement the changes.",
"About half the protections will still take effect August 23 as planned.",
"But the Department of Transportation agreed to delay a handful of changes until Jan. 24, 2012, most notably a requirement that airlines disclose the full cost of flights in online and print advertising.",
"The DOT said it is balancing the desire of consumer to have the changes \"as soon as practical\" with the capability of the airlines to comply.",
"Steve Lott of the Air Transport Association, which represents the airlines, said, \"The additional time will help our members navigate some of the significant programming and training complexities involved in implementing the new rule.\"",
"Kate Hanni, whose group FlyersRights.org championed the changes, said she was disappointed DOT granted the extensions.",
"\"Every time something is to go into effect, they (the airlines) ask for a delay,\" Hanni said.",
"Hanni noted domestic tarmac delays dropped to almost zero after the three-hour tarmac rule was adopted in April 2010, but said delays have been \"creeping up\" in recent months.",
"There were 16 of the lengthy tarmac delays in May and 14 in June, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.",
"In the meantime, Allegiant Air, Spirit Airlines and Southwest Airlines have filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals seeking to have many of the rules overturned, asserting that the DOT rules violate their rights.",
"The rules being delayed until Jan. 24 are: .",
"-- Airlines must prominently disclose all potential fees on their websites, including fees for baggage, meals, canceling or changing reservations, and advanced or upgraded seating.",
"Also, airlines and ticket agents must include all taxes and fees in every advertised price.",
"This rule was scheduled to take effect in October, but airlines contended they need additional time to reprogram and reconfigure their online search engines to include the new requirements.",
"-- Airlines must disclose baggage fees on e-ticket confirmations.",
"-- Airlines must apply the same baggage allowances and fees through a passenger's journey, including segments with interline and code share partners.",
"(The airlines argued that there currently is no central repository for baggage policies and fees, and airlines are working to develop an industry solution.)",
"-- Airlines are banned from raising prices after the purchase, unless they are due to government-imposed taxes or fees, and only if the passenger is notified and agrees to the potential increase at the time of sale.",
"-- Airlines are required to provide passengers timely notice of flight delays and cancellations.",
"-- Airlines must allow reservations to be held at the quoted fare without payment, or canceled without penalty, for at least 24 hours after the reservation is made if the reservation is made one week or more before a flight's departure date.",
"These rules will take effect August 23: .",
"-- Passengers involuntarily bumped from flights will be eligible for increased compensation.",
"Currently, passengers can get up to $400 if the airline can get them to their destination within a short period of time (within one to two hours of their originally scheduled arrival time for domestic flights), or up to $800 if they are delayed for a lengthy time.",
"Under the new rule, bumped passengers can get up to $650 or $1,300 respectively.",
"Inflation adjustments will be made to those compensation limits every two years.",
"-- International flights delayed on U.S. airport tarmacs more than four hours must allow passengers to deplane, with exceptions allowed for safety, security or air traffic control-related reasons.",
"(A three-hour rule already exists for domestic flights.)",
"-- Foreign airlines must post contingency plans for lengthy delays, customer service plans and contracts of carriage on their websites.",
"-- Airlines must refund any baggage fee if the bag is lost.",
"(Airlines already must compensate passengers for lost, damaged or delayed baggage.)",
"-- Airlines must post changes in baggage fees on their websites for three months.",
"-- Airlines must prominently disclose all fees for optional aviation services on their websites.",
"-- Where refunds are due, airlines must provide prompt refunds of fares and optional fees.",
"In its Federal Register notice, the DOT also tried to clear up some confusion regarding rules that require airlines to give \"specific baggage fee information\" on websites, and require carriers to provide \"specific charges\" on e-ticket confirmations.",
"The rule \"does not require passenger-specific information\" on e-ticket confirmations, the DOT said.",
"But airlines must provide specific information about fees \"so passengers can determine for themselves the fees that would apply to them.\""
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"Some new rules apply to international airlines ."
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"(CNN) -- Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova crashed out and Maria Sharapova survived an almighty scare on the opening day of the U.S. Open Monday.",
"Kvitova, who beat Sharapova in the final at Wimbledon, exited to Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru in straight sets, 7-6 6-3.",
"Sharapova, second favorite behind Serena Williams to win the final grand slam of the season, flirted with defeat before seeing off British teenager Heather Watson, 3-6 7-5 6-3.",
"19-year-old Watson led by a set and a break before Sharapova fought back to force a decider.",
"An early break gave the Russian third seed the cushion to wrap up victory, but it was hardly a convincing performance.",
"Kvitova had been set to open on the main Arthur Ashe stadium court, but organizers switched her to the smaller Louis Armstrong court as they made changes to the schedule after Tropical Storm Irene blew through New York over the weekend.",
"49th-ranked Dulgheru never looked back after taking the first set tiebreaker 7-3 and broke her Czech opponent to lead 5-3 in the second set before serving out for victory to love.",
"Kvitova is the first reigning Wimbledon champion to lose in the first round of the U.S. Open in the Open era.",
"By contrast, second seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia enjoyed an easy passage to the second round as she beat Stephanie Foretz Gacon of France, 6-3 6-0.",
"Two-time champion Venus Williams, who is not seeded this year, opened her campaign in the night session at Flushing Meadows with a 6-4 6-3 win over Vesna Dolonts of Russia."
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"Czech is beaten in straight sets by Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru .",
"Maria Sharapova taken to three sets by Britain's Heather Watson ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The closure of a mountain highway pass in the heart of the nation's second-largest city -- an event anticipated to be so calamitous to car-loving Southern California that it's been dubbed \"Carmageddon\" -- hit the area Friday night.",
"Crews began closing ramps late Friday on Interstate 405, where it passes over the Santa Monica Mountains, California Department of Transportation officials said.",
"At about 10 p.m. Pacific, crews began closing lanes, and by midnight, the 405 was expected to be eerily vacant -- a \"carpocalypse,\" some say.",
"It is expected to remain that way for about 53 hours.",
"The moment \"Carmageddon\" began.",
"Rendered desolate will be a 10-mile stretch of all five northbound lanes and a four-mile stretch of all five southbound lanes, officials said.",
"The 405 is usually one of the busiest freeways in the country, carrying about 500,000 cars a day through the Sepulveda Pass, a critical artery connecting Southern Californians to destinations up the coast.",
"The 405 achieved notoriety on national television as the corridor that former NFL player O.J.",
"Simpson used as he was being slowly chased by police in 1994.",
"The highway also cuts through the west side of Los Angeles, an area that includes the high-status communities of Bel Air, Brentwood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.",
"Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said officials carried out \"an unprecedented\" public awareness campaign urging motorists to stay off the road or use public transportation.",
"\"It doesn't have to be 'Carmageddon.' That's why we have done so much outreach to the public,\" the mayor said Friday.",
"The weekend construction project should be completed by 5 a.m. Monday, to accommodate the morning rush hour, officials said.",
"The $1.2 billion construction project calls for replacing a portion of a bridge at Mulholland Drive, a mountain summit road that is featured in many Hollywood films, authorities said.",
"A year from now, crews will have to shut down the 405 again to replace a final portion of the Mulholland Drive bridge, officials said.",
"The project also calls for adding a car-pool lane in each direction, creating \"the largest HOV system in the world\" at 48.6 miles in length between the San Fernando Valley and Orange County, said Mike Miles, the California Department of Transportation's director for Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.",
"The two-year project will replace two more bridges, also to accommodate the widening of the 405, and will improve about two dozen on-off ramps and add 18 miles of sound-deadening walls for nearby residents, Miles said.",
"\"This is a big project that is much needed, and it will be a great benefit to the public,\" Miles said.",
"Whether it has been overdramatized by locals in the nation's entertainment capital, the project has brought countdown clocks, traffic apps, detour maps and warnings to stay away or enjoy the weekend on the couch.",
"Amtrak and JetBlue are offering specials to get away from it all.",
"\"Severe traffic conditions are anticipated in local and regional areas during the weekend of the full freeway closure,\" Metro warns on its website.",
"The four-mile southbound section will be closed between U.S. 101 and Getty Center Drive ramps.",
"The 10-mile northbound section will be closed between U.S. 101 and Interstate 10.",
"Los Angeles International Airport is urging travelers to get there by public transit, especially rail, or to stay at nearby hotels for early morning flights.",
"The Los Angeles Fire Department is adding 200 firefighters so it can quickly respond to 911 calls in the areas affected by the closure, CNN L.A. affiliate KABC reported.",
"Of course, it may not be all bad.",
"Villaraigosa's Facebook page links to \"405 Things to Do,\" brought to you by the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau.",
"\"The 405 closure is the perfect opportunity to discover ... and rediscover ... the great activities, restaurants, shops and sites close to home in the many unique neighborhoods of Los Angeles County,\" the page touts.",
"\"Over the next few days leading up to the 405 closure, we will be adding 50 suggestions per day.\"",
"JetBlue is offering $4 fares each way from Burbank to Long Beach on Saturday and Sunday.",
"Amtrak California offers coach passengers a 50% discount on trains traveling between Los Angeles Union Station and Burbank Bob Hope Airport.",
"There is an app, or several, for \"Carmageddon.\"",
"KABC has partnered with Waze to help navigate the traffic.",
"\"The app provides free turn-by-turn GPS navigation based on the live conditions of the road,\" the station said.",
"Celebrities are even tweeting -- cheekily -- about this weekend's affront to the Los Angeles driving experience.",
"Twitter titan and actor Ashton Kutcher has gotten into the act: \"LAPD askd me 2tweet: 405fwy btwn 10 & 101 will b closed July16-17.",
"In xchange I would like a free pass on that stoplight tickt IT WAS YELLOW.\"",
"When shown a copy of the tweet while he was being interviewed on CNN, the mayor laughed about the request to fix the ticket.",
"\"No, thank you, Ashton,\" Villaraigosa said.",
"For those venturing out, it's all about the proper attitude.",
"The Automobile Club of Southern California, while urging motorists to stay away from the construction zone, has provided tips for those driving Southern California roadways this weekend.",
"It suggested leaving home early, listening to calming music and news updates, or stopping at a restaurant or park for a break, if necessary.",
"\"Avoid directing anger at other drivers, even if they are discourteous or distracted,\" AAA said.",
"\"Concentrate on your own driving.\"",
"CNN's Zohreen Adamjee contributed to this report."
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"Interstate 405 in Los Angeles carries about 500,000 cars a day .",
"It's one of two major mountain highway passes in the heart of the nation's second-largest city .",
"The freeway's weekend closure is expected to disrupt travel in car-loving Los Angeles ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.N. on Monday called for reconciliation in the newly-established Republic of South Sudan after fighting reportedly left at least 600 dead and at least 26,000 cattle stolen.",
"The Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General, Hilde F. Johnson urged restraint Monday after fighting between the Murle and Lou Nuer communities in Jonglei State, killed at least 600 and left more than 750 wounded.",
"Clashes broke out early Thursday morning and lasted through the day, South Sudan authorities reported.",
"The U.N. on Friday dispatched an assessment and verification team to two of the conflict areas.",
"The team found 28 casualties at one site and 30 at another along with a number of huts burned to the ground, said Aleem Siddique, spokesman for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.",
"The violence occurred when members of the Murle tribe attacked villages of the Lou Nuer, Siddique said.",
"Though the violence had largely stopped, reconciliation efforts were needed to maintain the peace, he said.",
"\"Peaceful dialogue is the primary means for reconciliation, and the tribal leaders need to sit down and work out their differences.\"",
"Between January and the end of June 2011, nearly 2,400 people had died in 330 clashes across South Sudan, according to a July U.N. report.",
"Most of these casualties resulted from cattle rustling incidents in Jonglei State's Pibor County.",
"Cattle rustling is a main source of insecurity in South Sudan as cows represent wealth and social status, and are used as \"blood money\" or compensation and payment of dowries.",
"According to a 2009 report by the International Crisis Group, \"Sticks and spears have historically been used to carry out rustling and the violent disputes it often causes.",
"However, the proliferation of small arms ... changed the nature of this practice, making raiding far more deadly.\""
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"Fighting in South Sudan reportedly left at least 600 dead, at least 750 wounded .",
"Also at least 26,000 cattle stolen .",
"2,400 people died in 330 clashes across South Sudan, in first 6 months of 2011 .",
"Most of the clashes are over cattle rustling incidents ."
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"(CNN) -- Funeral services will be held Monday morning for a Texas man who died at a baseball game last week.",
"Shannon Stone will be buried in his hometown of Brownwood, Texas.",
"The 39-year-old firefighter fell to his death Thursday while trying to catch a ball at a Texas Rangers game.",
"Ronnie Hargis was seated in the stands near Stone and tried unsuccessfully to save him.",
"\"Your first instinct is to reach out and grab him,\" Hargis told CNN's Don Lemon.",
"\"I tried to grab him.",
"I couldn't catch him. He went down. As he went by me I tried to grab him again and I missed and ... it looked like he was in slow motion as he was going to the ground.",
"There was nothing I could do but watch him fall.\"",
"In the second inning of the ill-fated game, star outfielder Josh Hamilton tossed a souvenir ball into the stands after a batter hit a foul ball.",
"Stone stuck out his glove and reached for the ball, but lost his balance and flipped over the railing of the outfield seats.",
"He fell about 20 feet and crashed head-first into a scoreboard, suffering fatal injuries.",
"Stone died of blunt-force trauma, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.",
"His 6-year-old son, Cooper, witnessed the tragic accident.",
"\"It's just the cruelest of reminders of just how fragile human life can be,\" said Joe Trahan, sports anchor at CNN-affiliate WFAA.",
"\"The mind-boggling thing about this is that everyone's intent was right.\"",
"Trahan provided details of the incident for Lemon.",
"\"Josh Hamilton flipped a foul ball up to a little girl an inning or so earlier,\" Trahan said.",
"\"And he heard at that point Cooper Stone ask for a ball.",
"Most of the time, big-leaguers wouldn't even hear that, but he made a note of it, he's trying to do the right thing.\"",
"Rangers president Nolan Ryan, a Hall of Fame pitcher, said earlier that the club would review the height of railings at the stadium, even though they currently exceed the city's code limits.",
"Trahan told Lemon that club management is already working on making changes at their stadium.",
"\"I've spoken to Rangers officials, and they tell me that there are meetings that have already taken place with city leaders, meetings with architects at the ballpark, contractors.",
"They're trying to find a permanent solution, not a stop-gap one.\"",
"But fan-awareness also plays a crucial role at stadiums, according to Trahan.",
"\"This is a stark and cruel reminder that (safety) is everyone's responsibility when you go to the ballpark,\" he said, adding that he was surprised that injuries didn't happen more often, especially \"down the first and third base lines ... those are rocket shots coming off those bats.\"",
"But Trahan also said that the accident should be kept in perspective.",
"\"We go back to the unexplainable issue of why this happened, because there have been thousands and thousands of balls hit in that area, people with gloves trying to get balls and nothing has happened until now.\"",
"The Rangers held a moment of silence before Friday night's game against the Oakland A's.",
"Members of both teams wore black ribbons.",
"Flags at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington have flown at half-mast all weekend.",
"The team has set up an account accepting donations in Stone's honor with the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation.",
"Donated money has been earmarked to help the Stone family.",
"The Rangers have donated an undisclosed sum, according to the team's website, and the A's donated $5,000."
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"Shannon Stone died after falling over railing at Rangers Stadium .",
"Sports anchor: Accident a reminder of \"how fragile human life can be\"\nOutfielder had heard Stone's son ask for ball and pitched one toward him .",
"Rangers have set up account in Stone's name ."
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"(CNN) -- Uruguay star Diego Forlan said Monday that he is leaving Atletico Madrid and is set to join Serie A Inter Milan.",
"Forlan, who scored two goals in the final as his country lifted the Copa America this summer, has been with Atletico since 2007, but a posting on the club's official website confirmed his departure.",
"Forlan, who appeared at a news conference with Atletico president Enrique Cerezo, said the La Liga club would always be in his heart.",
"But added: \"At the age of 33, going to a club like Inter is not an opportunity that comes up often.",
"\"I am happy with the decision that I have taken, it is normal that some players come and others go,\" Forlan added.",
"Atletico have set up a special Twitter hash tag so their fans could pay tribute to Forlan, who scored 74 goals in 134 appearances for the club.",
"He will replace Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o, who joined Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala from Inter on a massive three-year contract.",
"Forlan, the player of the tournament at the 2010 World Cup, will sign a two-year deal with the Italian giants, Spanish media reported.",
"Inter have also signed Italian Under-21 midfielder Andrea Poli from relegated Sampdoria, the Serie A club announced on their official website Monday.",
"Poli impressed for Samp last season, despite their demotion to Serie B and is rated one of the most promising young players in Italy.",
"In other transfer news Monday, Paraguay's Roque Santa Cruz has left Manchester City to join La Liga Real Betis on a season-long loan deal.",
"The 30-year-old Santa Cruz has fallen further down the pecking order at City with the arrival of Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid.",
"Chelsea midfielder Yossi Benayoun looks set to leave Stamford Bridge, with Arsenal one of the club's linked with the Israeli star.",
"Benayoun used his Twitter blog to reveal his intentions.",
"\"Negotiation with several team... news soon,\" tweeted the 31-year-old."
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"Atletico Madrid star Diego Forlan confirms he is leaving La Liga side .",
"Forlan pays tribute to Atletico but says he cannot turn down opportunity at Inter Milan .",
"Roque Santa Cruz joins Real Betis on loan from Manchester City .",
"Yossi Benayoun reveals he is talking to several teams over a move from Chelsea ."
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"(CNN) -- The Syrian president sacked the governor of a restive province, a day after tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of its capital.",
"President Bashar al-Assad discharged Dr. Ahmad Khaled Abdul-Aziz from his post as governor of Hama province, the third provincial governor to be fired since the countrywide protests began in mid-March.",
"No reason was given for the move, reported on Saturday by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.",
"Hama city, the provincial capital, has been the scene of very large demonstrations and the outpourings there have been compared to the gatherings in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where daily demonstrations earlier this year forced the removal of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak.",
"Security forces withdrew from the Hama city center last month and al-Aasi Square has been packed with protesters calling for the downfall of the regime, displays of grassroots anger that have been gaining momentum in recent days.",
"There have been no recent reports of violence in Hama, and observers believe the government might have been allowing the demonstrations in Hama because of the sensitivities over the city's violent history.",
"The city was the scene of a 1982 brutal military crackdown targeting Sunni Muslims by the Alawite-dominated government of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's late father.",
"Thousands were killed.",
"Sunni Muslims are the dominant religious group in the country and Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam.",
"Within the past three months, President al-Assad discharged the governors of Daraa and Homs as well.",
"Syria has been wracked with protests that began in Daraa and took hold across the country as government forces cracked down on peaceful demonstrations.",
"The number of deaths in the anti-government demonstrations across Syria on Friday stands at 24, according to the Local Coordination Committees, an activist group.",
"Most were in the Homs and Idlib regions.",
"Rami Abdelrahman, from the London-based Syria Observatory for Human Rights, said more than 1,360 civilians and more 340 army and security forces have died in the violence.",
"Human Rights Watch, the humanitarian watchdog, issued a report on Saturday elaborating on the crackdown in Homs, saying the government security forces and their allies have killed at least 21 people there over the last two weeks.",
"It said security forces have used clubs to beat demonstrators, \"vandalized private property, and broken into homes where they suspected protesters had sought refuge.",
"Security forces dressed in civilian clothes have detained protesters repeatedly, often travelling in taxis to approach and detain people.\"",
"International powers have condemned and sanctioned the Syrian government for its crackdown, and there has been talk by some observers that the International Criminal Court should investigate possible crimes against humanity by the government.",
"Amid the criticism, Syria has talked about reforms and this week permitted opposition members to hold a meeting.",
"The government allowed about 200 activists and intellectuals, including some it had previously jailed, to hold a conference on democratic reform Monday at a Damascus hotel, the first such gathering permitted by the regime.",
"The dissidents gathered in the hotel ballroom, including several signatories of a 2005 declaration that called for a democratic transition.",
"On Friday, government minders escorted international journalists to anti-government protests.",
"But reports of violent reactions to peaceful demonstrators persist.",
"Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, was quoted in the report on Homs as saying that al-Assad's \"promises of new laws allowing more political participation ring hollow when security forces are still above the most basic laws.\"",
"Mark Toner, U.S. State Department spokesman, told reporters on Friday that despite a \"little flicker of progress\" this week, there has been a \"continued clampdown by security forces on peaceful protests.\"",
"He said the United States wants to see \"dialogue and a transition process\" and echoed President Barack Obama's statement that if al-Assad can't lead a reform process, \"he should get out of the way.\"",
"Toner said the United States backs the \"universal human right\" of peaceful protests and the right of freedom of expression.",
"He said \"arbitrary arrests of innocent civilians\" must end, political prisoners must be released, state-run media must stop incitement, and violence must end against peaceful protesters.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report ."
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"Hama is the scene of a bloody crackdown in 1982 .",
"Hama's governor is the third to be discharged since the unrest started .",
"At least 24 people were killed in Syria during Friday demonstrations ."
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"(CNN) -- As riots sweep several British cities, the U.S. State Department is cautioning Americans in the U.K. to avoid areas of civil unrest, monitor local media reports and not engage in any debates that might turn violent.",
"The guidance, carried on the website of the U.S. Embassy in London, is part of a well-oiled warning system the State Department has used for decades to alert Americans living or traveling in countries around the world of everything from terrorist threats to hurricanes.",
"Monday, the State Department issued an updated travel warning on Pakistan, cautioning U.S. citizens that Americans in the country have been \"arrested, deported, harassed, and detained\" for visa violations and noting that the number of U.S. citizens arrested, detained and prosecuted for overstaying their Pakistani visas \"increased markedly across the country.\"",
"How does the State Department decide when to issue a travel warning as opposed to simple guidance?",
"Michelle Bernier-Toth, managing director of the department's Office of Overseas Citizens Services, said \"It's all premised on the 'no-double -standard' policy.",
"\"If we have threat or security information that is specific, credible and noncounterable,\" she said, \"and that we're warning our own personnel about, we have an obligation to share that information with the public so that American citizens residing or traveling abroad can make informed decisions about their activities.\"",
"Some people in developing nations have questioned whether the State Department pulls its punches in issuing travel warnings for Western European countries, especially when those warnings might scare off American tourists, creating economic problems for the given country.",
"\"Not at all,\" Bernier-Toth said.",
"\"We issue emergency messages, formerly known as warden messages, around the world.",
"We issued them routinely in Europe, for example,\" this summer over demonstrations in several cities.",
"\"It has nothing to do with the political situation; it has nothing to do with bilateral relations with the country.",
"Our primary focus is to get information about a security situation to the American public.\"",
"Right now, the State Department website includes 35 countries in its list of travel warning countries.",
"Several of them -- Syria, Libya and Yemen, for example -- have been torn by violence during Arab Spring demonstrations.",
"Travel warnings are issued, Bernier-Toth explained, when situations in a given country could pose a risk to U.S. citizens living or traveling there.",
"Americans might not be deliberately targeted but they might be caught up in the violence, for example, in drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.",
"\"We monitor what is going on,\" she said, \"in consultation with security experts in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, with counter-terrorism experts, with embassies and consulates on the ground who have first-hand information.\"",
"Travel warnings usually are issued in situations that the State Department considers to be a long-term, chronic threat, such as crime or terrorism.",
"But the U.S. also issues warnings whenever it pulls out U.S. government staff or dependents from a mission abroad, even though the turmoil or crisis might be relatively short-lived .",
"The next level down in the State Department's warning system is travel alerts.",
"They are issued in the case of short-term problems, such as hurricanes or upcoming elections in a country that might turn violent.",
"Travel alerts have expiration dates, Bernier-Toth said.",
"\"As we approach that expiration date we review the situation and say 'What's going on now?",
"Is there something that's continuing?'",
"Or maybe the local government has it under control.",
"We can let it lapse or move that information into the country-specific information.\"",
"Country-specific information, she says, is on the department's website and includes every country in the world.",
"\"It's our version of the Lonely Planet Guide,\" she laughed.",
"Things like what travelers need to know before they set out for a given country: Crime information, road safety, special requirements, unusual criminal penalties, health conditions, entry-exit requirements, dual-nationality information.",
"To get the word out the State Department uses everything from the latest social network sites to the radio.",
"\"We leave it to our embassies abroad to determine what is the best way, the most efficient way to disseminate information to the American community, given the technological capabilities of that country,\" Bernier-Toth said.",
"In London the embassy uses Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites.",
"In other countries U.S. embassies may use email or texting.",
"In some developing nations they may use ham radio -- \"communicating with missionaries out in the brush,\" she said.",
"Issuing warnings and alerts, Bernier-Toth said, can have economic and political implications.",
"We \"recognize that the host country may not appreciate whatever the message is,\" she said.",
"\"Nonetheless, we make sure that the no-double-standard policy is adhered to, explaining to the host government this is not a reflection of our bilateral relationship, this is simply a statement of the security situation as we have assessed it.",
"And as we have determined that we need to put this information out.",
"Our message is our message.\"",
"The State Department's warning system is on their website: travel.state.gov ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- \"Loud\" is the perfect name for Rihanna's summer tour, which kicked off with last night's sold-out gig at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena.",
"Beyond just the volume of the show -- which was considerable -- the theme prevailed through the set, built around a giant speaker cabinet; the costumes (mostly neon and shiny); and the entire production itself: a gloriously over-the-top spectacle perfectly befitting the singer, who seems to produce chart-toppers by the dozen.",
"The show began with a blitzkrieg of video, as four hanging, shifting circular video screens joined four giant stationary ones is projecting Rihanna's arrival.",
"She wore an electric blue mini-trenchcoat and hot pink stilleto boots with neon green heels and immediately belted out her Number One hit, \"Only Girl (In the World)\" from her 2010 album, also titled \"Loud.\"",
"Photos: Rihanna's Best Looks .",
"Before the audience could catch its breath, the singer had tossed the trench, revealing a day-glo bikini, picked up a gang of matching day-glo-covered back-up dancers and shifted directly into \"Disturbia,\" another Number One hit, this one from 2007's \"Good Girl Gone Bad\" -- and then seamlessly segued into another hit, 2007's \"Shut Up and Drive,\" replete with back-up dancers dressed as crash-test dummies bashing a neon-graffiti-covered car with bats.",
"Over nearly two hours -- a very long set for such a busy production -- Rihanna maintained a relentless pace, working her way through 24 songs, six different wardrobes and endless set changes, all without any significant energy dip.",
"The deft production included several built-in musical and video interludes -- including a staggering number of guitar solos -- to keep from going dark during the changes.",
"Excerpts from Rihanna's Rolling Stone Cover Story .",
"One of the most impressive spectacles was a very erotic S&M-themed mini-set, launched with a fairly faithful cover of Prince's \"Darling Nikki,\" during which Rihanna, dressed in a tuxedo and toting a cane, spanked, groped and pretended to smack three nearly nude female dancers.",
"By the time she had transitioned into \"Loud's\" \"S&M\" -- another Number One hit -- Rihanna's tux had been stripped off to reveal a white bondage corset and she was wearing handcuffs.",
"Nearly nude men and a female audience member were added to the mix before the whole thing ended (cutely) in a pillow fight.",
"In a military-themed mini-set including 2009 hit \"Hard,\" Rihanna rode in atop a double-barreled pink tank that shot T-shirts into the crowd, flanked by sexy-soldier costumed dancers with pink rifles.",
"When \"Breakin' Dishes\" segued into \"Glamorous Life,\" the singer barreled to the back of the arena, where she rode a platform revealing Sheila E-style stand-up drums and played an impressive solo.",
"Video: Rihanna's Hot Rolling Stone Cover Shoot .",
"Soon, she was on to outfit six -- a gold lamé mini-dress -- and her encore, which moved from her Number One hit with Eminem, \"Love the Way You Lie,\" to her Number One hit with Jay-Z, \"Umbrella.\"",
"It was understated compared to the rest of the show -- with only a squadron of tuxedoed back-up dancers and a blizzard of pink confetti -- but it was impressive that she was still singing and dancing at such a pace.",
"It was a even more remarkable that there were still more huge hits left to play.",
"She did each one proud. Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"One of the most impressive spectacles was a very erotic S&M-themed mini-set .",
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"(CNN) -- With Libyan rebels on the brink of toppling Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule, leaders from around the world weighed in as the battle with regime forces intensified in the capital.",
"Here are a few of the reactions: . ... CHINA . ... Ma Zhaoxu, Foreign Ministry spokesman: \"We've noticed the development in Libya.",
"China respects the choice of Libya people.",
"China hopes the situation in Libya gets stabilized as soon as possible and people can live a normal life there.",
"China is willing to cooperate with the international society to play a positive role in the future reconstruction of Libya.\" ...",
"EUROPEAN UNION . ...",
"Catherine Ashton, high representative of the EU for foreign affairs: \"We are witnessing the last moments of the Gadhafi regime.",
"I call on Gadhafi to step down without further delay and avoid further bloodshed.",
"I call on the National Transitional Council and opposition forces to ensure the protection of civilians, to fully respect international human rights and humanitarian law and to act with responsibility in the interests of maintaining peace and stability throughout the country.\" ...",
"Jose Manuel Barroso and Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission and European Union presidents, respectively: \"The quest for freedom by the people of Libya is coming to a historic moment.",
"The relentless efforts of the forces of the new Libya, supported militarily by NATO and several EU member states, and countries from the region are bringing the Gadhafi regime to its end.",
"We urge Colonel Gadhafi to accept the will of the people, step down immediately, and avoid further bloodshed and sufferance.\" ...",
"FRANCE . ... Nicolas Sarkozy, president: \"Whereas there is no longer any doubt (that Gadhafi will have to go), the president of the republic urges Colonel Gadhafi to avoid inflicting new futile sufferings on his people in abandoning what is left of his power and in immediately calling on his forces, who are still loyal to him, to a cease-fire, to drop their weapons, to go back to their barracks and to put at its disposal legitimate Libyan authorities.\" ...",
"ITALY . Franco Frattini, foreign minister: \"Time is up.",
"There are no alternatives to his (Gadhafi's) surrender.",
"If Gadhafi keeps calling for a civil war, he will be considered the only one responsible for the bloodbath,\" Frattini said in an interview with Italian news channel Sky Tg24. ...",
"NATO . ... Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general: \"The Libyan people have suffered tremendously under Gadhafi's rule for over four decades.",
"Now they have a chance for a new beginning.",
"Now is the time for all threats against civilians to stop, as the United Nations Security Council demanded.",
"Now is the time to create a new Libya -- a state based on freedom, not fear; democracy, not dictatorship; the will of the many, not the whims of a few. ...",
"RUSSIA . ... Russian Foreign Ministry: \"The latest dramatic development of the Libyan conflict apparently shows that the power in this country will be handed over to the rebel forces very soon.",
"We hope that this will put an end to the protracted intra-Libyan bloodshed, which brought so many woes and so much suffering to this country's population and caused serious damage to the national economy,\" the ministry said in a statement.. SOUTH AFRICA . ...",
"Clayson Monyela, spokesman, Department of International Relations: \"With the imminent fall of the government of Colonel Gadhafi, we wish to urge the interim authority in Tripoli to immediately institute an all-inclusive inter-Libyan political dialogue aimed at building a truly representative and people-centred dispensation.\"",
"The spokesman refuted \"rumors and claims that it has sent planes to Libya\" to fly Gadhafi and his family out, saying \"we have steadfastly maintained that the future of Libya should be decided by the Libyans themselves.\" ...",
"TURKEY . ... Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign minister: \"Today is a historical day for Libya. ...",
"Leaders of other countries should also be aware that they'll stay in power as long as they respond to demands of the people.\" ...",
"UNITED KINGDOM . ...",
"David Cameron, prime minister: \"It is clear from the scenes we are witnessing in Tripoli that the end is near for Gadhafi.",
"He has committed appalling crimes against the people of Libya and he must go now to avoid any further suffering for his own people.\"",
"Cameron said Monday that Britain will \"soon release\" frozen Libyan assets to help support the rebel government.",
"\"At the U.N., we will ... be taking early action in the Security Council to give the new Libyan authorities the legal, diplomatic, political and financial support they need,\" Cameron said.",
"\"We will soon be able to release the frozen assets that belong to the Libyan people.\"",
"Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister: \"The UK will stay the course in Libya -- protecting the Libyan people and putting them in charge of their own fate ...",
"It is now clear that the Libyan people will only be safe once Gadhafi has left power.",
"Recent events suggest that day is closer than ever. ...",
"Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party: \"The situation in Libya remains fraught and fragile, but what is clear is that the regime of Colonel Gadhafi is crumbling.",
"This is to be welcomed by all those who believe dictatorship, brutality and threats against civilians should not be allowed to stand.\" ...",
"UNITED STATES . ...",
"Barack Obama, president: \"Tonight, the momentum against the Gadhafi regime has reached a tipping point.",
"Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant.",
"The Gadhafi regime is showing signs of collapsing.",
"The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator.\" ...",
"VENEZUELA . ... Hugo Chavez, president: \"Today we are seeing images of how the democratic European governments are practically demolishing Tripoli with their bombs and the supposedly democratic government of the United States, because they feel like it.",
"Today they dropped I don't know how many bombs and they are dropping them indiscriminately and openly.\""
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"As rebels enter the Libyan capital of Tripoli world leaders call for Gadhafi to step down .",
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Seven civilians were killed Monday from two separate roadside mines in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the Ministry of Interior said.",
"The first attack occurred in the Qara Bagh district of Ghazni province, the ministry said.",
"A roadside mine struck a civilian vehicle and killed four civilians, including two children.",
"The second incident took place in the center of Ghazni city when a civilian vehicle hit a roadside mine, the ministry said.",
"Three civilians were killed.",
"In a statement, the ministry said it \"strongly condemns these acts of the enemies of peace and stability and expresses its sincere condolences to the families of the victims.\"",
"On Sunday, the ministry said an 8-year-old girl was killed by \"Afghanistan enemies\" who gave her a remote-controlled explosive in a bag and told her to give it to police officers in Oruzgan province on Friday.",
"\"When the girl (approached) the police vehicle, the enemies detonated the mine by remote control and killed the girl,\" the ministry said.",
"No police officials were injured."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- The Morrissey fan site True to You has reported that the singer recently sustained hand and arm injuries after being attacked by a dog.",
"No specific details of the attack have emerged, though it did happen somewhere in England.",
"He was treated for the injury in Malmö, Sweden, where an x-ray revealed a fractured index finger on his right hand.",
"Photos: Morrissey .",
"Despite the injury, Morrissey will roll on with his European tour, which will resume with a show tonight at the Operaen in Copenhagen, Denmark.",
"Perhaps Danish fans will be treated to an oldie with reworked lyrics commenting on the dog attack -- \"Heaven Knows I'm Rabid Now,\" \"The Boy With the Dog in His Side,\" \"Sheila Take A Bow Wow,\" or something like that.",
"Don't count on it, though.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"(CNN Student News) -- February 25, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Libya • Wisconsin • Atlanta, Georgia .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"NASA ANNOUNCER: Two....one...booster ignition...and the final liftoff of Discovery.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Of course, we will have more on that for you in today's show, but we are getting off the ground in northern Africa.",
"My name is Carl Azuz.",
"CNN Student News starts right now!",
"First Up: Unrest in Libya .",
"AZUZ: There are roughly 6,000 Americans in Libya, and the U.S. government is trying to get them out.",
"A ferry that was chartered to take hundreds of U.S. citizens from Libya to Malta was held up for a while yesterday.",
"U.S. officials said everyone onboard was safe.",
"They said the delay was because of the weather.",
"Meanwhile, Libya's leader, Moammar Gadhafi, is blaming the violence in his country on young people.",
"He says they're taking some sort of pills and being manipulated by the al Qaeda terrorist group.",
"But during a speech earlier this week, President Obama said what's going on in that part of the world has nothing to do with outside influences.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: So let me be clear.",
"The change that is taking place across the region is being driven by the people of the region.",
"This change doesn't represent the work of the United States or any foreign power.",
"It represents the aspirations of people who are seeking a better life.",
"Political Unrest .",
"AZUZ: Looking around that region, starting next door to Libya in Algeria.",
"The country has lifted a 19-year-old state of emergency, and what that means is that people there have greater freedom of speech and assembly now.",
"Moving south to Cameroon, where protesters are demanding that the country's president step down.",
"He's been in power for nearly 30 years and is running for re-election this year.",
"Finally, Yemen, where eight lawmakers resigned to protest violence against people who are demonstrating against the government.",
"One of the lawmakers said, \"I resigned because there's been no respect by the government for human rights.\"",
"Is This Legit? JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?",
"The space shuttle Discovery is named after sailing ships.",
"This one's true! The shuttle is named after two ships that explored the world.",
"Final Mission .",
"AZUZ: The space shuttle Discovery has made more trips into space than any other craft.",
"All together, the shuttle's spent almost a full year in orbit around the Earth.",
"Yesterday, Discovery set out on its 39th and last mission, delivering equipment to the international space station.",
"This was Discovery's first launch, back in 1984.",
"And these launches aren't cheap.",
"NASA estimates that every time a shuttle takes off, it costs nearly half a billion dollars.",
"After Discovery's current mission, there are just two launches left for the space shuttle program.",
"Budget Battle .",
"AZUZ: We've been reporting on this controversial budget bill in Wisconsin.",
"You can check our transcript archives for details on that.",
"Now, it was scheduled to come up for a vote yesterday, but only in the State House of Representatives.",
"Things are not moving forward in the Wisconsin Senate.",
"And that's because Democratic senators have left the state in an effort to try to block any vote on the bill.",
"You can get the latest details on this situation at CNN.com.",
"Teachers' Lounge .",
"AZUZ: Our latest Teachers' Lounge blog asks for your opinions about a controversial budget decision in Detroit.",
"The city's planning to close half of its public schools.",
"And teachers, we want to hear your thoughts on this.",
"Enter the Teachers' Lounge from our home page: CNNStudentNews.com!",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Bozic's world geography class at Cypress Creek High School in Houston, Texas!",
"Willie O'Ree was the first African-American to play in what sports league?",
"Was it the: A) MLB, B) NBA, C) NFL or D) NHL?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Willie O'Ree made his debut in the National Hockey League in 1958.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Diversity in Hockey .",
"AZUZ: Willie O'Ree paved the way for other African-Americans to hit the NHL ice.",
"As we continue our commemoration of Black History Month, we're taking a look at the diversity on the Atlanta Thrashers' roster.",
"Richelle Carey sat down with the team's four African-Americans to talk about life as a minority pro hockey player.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) RICHELLE CAREY, HLN ANCHOR: I want each one of you to tell me what you like about hockey.",
"Sell me on hockey!",
"Sell me! EVANDER KANE, THRASHERS LEFT WINGER: Hockey is the fastest, most physical sport there is.",
"JOHNNY ODUYA, THRASHERS DEFENSEMAN: The teamwork, too.",
"I would say a total package sport.",
"ANTHONY STEWART, THRASHERS RIGHT WINGER: I just like skating fast, ever since I was three.",
"DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN, THRASHERS DEFENSEMAN: I guess it's just something about being on the ice that I enjoy.",
"It's just me being out there, having fun and enjoying the people around me.",
"CAREY: What's the biggest misconception or false assumption that people make about you?",
"BYFUGLIEN: This guy can't stand on skates.",
"ODUYA: Maybe in Atlanta, you tell people that you're a hockey player and they don't believe you.",
"CAREY: What do you think?",
"ODUYA: I don't know.",
"Maybe basketball or baseball, I have no idea.",
"CAREY: Who here knew that they were going to be a professional hockey player?",
"Anybody here know that?",
"STEWART: I knew probably when I was in grade one.",
"We had an assignment to say what you wanted to be when you grew up.",
"And I said, \"Hockey player,\" and she said, \"Pick something else.\"",
"And I said, \"No, I'm going to be a hockey player,\" and I stuck with it.",
"CAREY: Did anybody try to steer you to something different, because you don't look out on the ice that often and see people of color?",
"Did someone say this isn't the right fit for you?",
"KANE: No, I think, honestly, it was almost the opposite.",
"My dad really instilled that drive in me to battle through that kind of stuff, battle through adversity, and that's what made me so successful.",
"CAREY: Anybody else feel that they were steered in a different direction for racial reasons at all?",
"STEWART: I grew up sort of in an urban neighborhood and, you know, a lot of my friends are playing basketball and sports like that.",
"I'd go play a little bit of basketball, but after an hour I'd get bored of it, so I'd say, \"I have to go play hockey now.\"",
"And they would go, \"Uh, naw, you're not going to make it in hockey, so you might as well play basketball\" or something like that.",
"But I had some support from my parents.",
"That helped me a lot.",
"All my close friends to date were minor hockey players, and their support helped get me to where I am today.",
"CAREY: We always hear about hockey as, it's an expensive sport for kids who want to play.",
"And often, maybe, that's why minority kids don't get into it.",
"Explain, why is it so expensive?",
"STEWART: I think when you have to pay $500 for a pair of skates as opposed to a $20 basketball or $50 pair of soccer shoes, it makes a lot more sense to play those sports.",
"But there's a lot of community initiatives right now in the NHL helping urban kids.",
"And with the Hockey Is For Everyone program that's helping not so fortunate kids play, they're making good strides.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Finally today, with the space shuttle program winding down, we're looking back at the 132 missions that have come before.",
"And just for fun, we're gonna do it in 132 seconds.",
"Start the countdown.",
"[VIDEO PACKAGE OF ALL 132 SHUTTLE LAUNCHES] .",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Seeing all that video can leave you feeling spacy!",
"Before we launch into the weekend, we thank our fans on Facebook for all of your \"likes\" at Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.",
"And we're working on a new video for you, so be on the lookout for that next week.",
"Hope you all have a great weekend. I'm Carl Azuz."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal judges have the discretion to give \"reasonably\" shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder.",
"Lawyers argue that crack-cocaine offenders were unfairly targeted.",
"The 7-2 ruling represents a victory for lawyers who argued that crack-cocaine offenders were unfairly targeted under U.S. sentencing guidelines.",
"Current federal penalties for selling 5 grams of crack cocaine can warrant the same prison sentence as dealing 500 grams of the powdered variety.",
"The Supreme Court case centered around Derrick Kimbrough of Norfolk, Virginia, who according to court records, pleaded guilty to distributing more than 50 grams of crack cocaine.",
"Federal sentencing guidelines called for 19 to 22.5 years behind bars.",
"But Judge Raymond Jackson instead gave the defendant a 15-year sentence, calling the case \"another example of how crack-cocaine guidelines are driving the offense level to a point higher than is necessary to do justice.\"",
"A federal appeals court overturned the case and sent it to a higher court, saying Jackson's discretion was \"unreasonable when it is based on a disagreement with the sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine offenses.\"",
"Said Kimbrough's attorney, Michael Nachmanoff in October, \"A sentence of 19 years for a man with no felony convictions who served his country honorably, who had never spent a night in jail ... that was ridiculous.\"",
"Kimbrough is a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War and is African-American.",
"African-Americans were nearly 82 percent of defendants sentenced in federal court for dealing crack, but only 27 percent of those sentenced for dealing powder cocaine, according to 2006 federal statistics.",
"Each year, federal courts handle about 11,000 cocaine sentences, which are roughly evenly divided between crack and cocaine cases.",
"The issue long has been a source of contention between government prosecutors and civil rights advocates, who argue crack dealers are often targeted for longer prison terms because that drug is prevalent in urban and minority communities, while the powdered version is more commonly associated with higher-income users.",
"Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a practical approach, saying it is important to preserve judicial discretion, while ensuring most sentences remain within federal guidelines established two decades ago to ensure a measure of uniformity.",
"Ginsburg said a federal judge was right to give a crack offender a lesser prison term than the guidelines called for, since federal law \"mandates only maximum and minimum sentences,\" she wrote.",
"\"It says nothing about appropriate sentences within those statutory guidelines.\"",
"Ginsburg noted the trial judge \"honed in on the particular circumstances of Kimbrough's case and accorded weight to\" reports by the U.S.",
"Sentencing Commission that show \"the crack/powder disparity yields unjustifiably harsh sentences for crack offenders.\"",
"Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented in the Kimbrough case.",
"Thomas said it will now be up to courts \"to assume the legislative role of devising a new sentencing scheme,\" something Congress never intended.",
"The government had no immediate reaction to the high court's ruling.",
"The U.S. Sentencing Commission -- an independent federal agency that advises all three branches of government on sentences -- recently cut the gap in recommended prison time for crack-cocaine offenses.",
"The guidelines took effect November 1 after Congress decided not to overturn the changes.",
"The commission is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to make those guidelines retroactive for prisoners convicted in the past of crack dealing.",
"Almost 20,000 inmates could be eligible for shorter sentences under the proposed changes.",
"Congress recently has introduced at least four bills that would reduce the current disparity in cocaine sentences.",
"One widely circulated proposal led by Sens.",
"Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, would revise the cocaine ratio downward to 20-to-1.",
"That ratio is also supported by the Sentencing Commission.",
"Harsher sentences for crack offenses came after a social epidemic of crack cocaine began destroying many urban areas in the 1980s.",
"\"The crack-cocaine guidelines were put in place because crack was fueling crime waves across the country, in particular with respect to street violence,\" said Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney in Miami who comments on legal matters for CNN.",
"\"And it is clear that crack cocaine and white powder cocaine had a very different impact in terms of not only the lives of the users but the impact on the community.\"",
"The case is Kimbrough v. U.S. (06-6330).",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- Libya's transition from autocratic to democratic rule will be a delicate one that will not occur overnight, observers told CNN Monday as rebel forces appeared to solidify their hold on Tripoli.",
"The National Transitional Council, founded months ago in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, is likely to move to Tripoli once the capital is secured, said Mansour El-Kikhia, a Libyan scholar and dissident who is associate professor and chairman of the Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio.",
"The NTC is working to minimize revenge killings, though some have already occurred, said El-Kikhia, who cited conversations earlier in the day with NTC members as his source.",
"\"If you are put in jail by somebody and you were tortured, you're going to remember the person who kidnapped you,\" he said.",
"\"It's very difficult to control them.\"",
"Efforts are under way to arrest leaders of the Gadhafi regime and put them into protective custody, he said.",
"\"You find lots of hatred,\" he said.",
"But, he added, \"they have to be fairly tried.",
"I assure you that the intention of the (council) is to apply the rule of law.\"",
"He said that would not be a tough sell to the Libyan people.",
"After experiencing more than 40 years of lawlessness, \"you begin to appreciate the law,\" he said.",
"\"There was nothing wrong with the law Gadhafi had; he just never applied it.\"",
"Asked how Libya will look in six months, he said, \"Much better than it does today.",
"... At least you will have some law and order, you will have some accountability, constitutional frameworks, institutions that can be held accountable.\"",
"Some NTC members are already in Tripoli, said El-Kikhia, who was planning to return next month to Tripoli for what would be his first visit to the capital in 30 years.",
"\"I'm elated,\" he said.",
"Rebels are working on a draft constitution that is based on the constitution that was in place before Gadhafi took power nearly 42 years ago, he said.",
"Under one scenario, the NTC will continue to work for the next nine months to finish the constitution and hold elections.",
"An alternative also under consideration is for the council to disband and call new elections within three months to form a new government, he said.",
"There is concern about the NTC continuing to lead the new government during any transition because its members are self-selected and drawn largely from eastern Libya.",
"At least 20 senior members of the council were meeting Monday in Doha, Qatar, to plan the move to Tripoli within a few days, said Omar Turbi, a computer company executive in Laguna Beach, California, who was born in Libya and works closely with the Transitional National Council in an unofficial capacity.",
"The council is working to establish television and radio stations to send messages of democracy to the populace, he said.",
"He said the council membership was planning to increase its numbers from a few dozen to about 200 in order to more fully represent the country.",
"But the overall transition to a democracy will take at least two years, he said.",
"\"You cannot transition between a nondemocratic system to a reasonably accessible democratic system in less than 24 months,\" he said.",
"\"I think we could live with that.\"",
"He said nongovernmental organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy would prove critical to helping push the process forward.",
"A key element to building a civil society will be the planned creation of a committee to be composed of a chairman and 14 ministers who will establish contacts with the technocrats who have run the country under Gadhafi, he said.",
"\"Many of them are honest, great people who know the lay of the land and what needs to be done to open airports, harbors and start communicating with the outside world, begin a process of reconciliation between tribes,\" he said.",
"He predicted that tribal rivalries will not emerge as an obstacle to democracy.",
"\"Tribes haven't really been a major issue,\" he said.",
"\"Almost every tribe is in the game.\"",
"It will take 18 to 20 months to create a political framework for a new government, a Britain-based coordinator for Libya's National Transitional Council said Monday.",
"The council's primary job is to stabilize the country and conduct temporary council elections, Guma El-Gamaty told CNN.",
"It will write a new constitution, and the new government will likely be made up of \"Libyan nationalists,\" he said.",
"It will also include technocrats -- engineers, scientists and health professionals who will work to identify the country's needs and re-establish its infrastructure.",
"The council \"is going to run the country,\" Ali Suleiman Aujali, the rebel government's ambassador to the United Sates, told CNN on Monday.",
"\"Of course, they have to take care of the security of the city and, of course, our concern now is where is Gadhafi,\" he said, referring to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.",
"\"We have to find out: Where is he?\" Formed this year, the council has won recognition as Libya's legitimate government from the United States, Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany.",
"In a symbol of its diplomatic credibility, the Libyan Embassy in Washington reopened under the control of the council.",
"The former Libyan ambassador under Gadhafi is back in his old role, now representing the NTC.",
"The council regards itself as an interim entity that intends to shepherd the change to a new government.",
"Its power base has been in Benghazi, in the east.",
"It includes representatives from throughout Libya and is headed by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, its chairman and a former justice minister under Gadhafi.",
"The NTC has agreed to expand its membership to include \"newly liberated parts\" of Libya, said Esam Omeish, director of the Libyan Emergency Task Force in Washington.",
"It has also pledged to appoint a constitutional drafting committee, and hold legislative and presidential elections, Omeish said.",
"He said the council chairman foresees a 10- to 15-month transition, and said the NTC has agreed the new constitution would make Islam \"a\" source of legislation, not \"the\" source.",
"Omeish spoke in July in a discussion moderated by Marina Ottaway, a Libya expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"American Libyan Council President Fadel Lamen, who spoke at the discussion, cited \"key players\" who would influence the transition.",
"He said the NTC is the \"main player in the transition, and a consensus has formed around both it and the leadership of Abdul Jalil.\"",
"But Lamen said it faces challenges because it is \"an umbrella group composed of a number of smaller groups with differing agendas.\"",
"If it does not evolve and become more representative, Lamen warned, the NTC could be swept aside.",
"Other entities likely to prove influential during the transition are councils in Benghazi, Misrata and smaller towns.",
"Lamen also cited a group of lawyers called Coalition of 17th of February.",
"\"They claim revolutionary legitimacy,\" yet their consistent challenges to the NTC could undermine the transition, he said.",
"He noted that Islamists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, are a \"well-organized,\" but small group.",
"\"The Muslim Brothers in Libya are more traditional, closer to their Egyptian counterparts than to their more liberal Tunisian brethren,\" he said.",
"\"They seek an undefined moderate Islamist state with an active civil society.\"",
"Lamen also cited \"older regime elements,\" including \"technocrats of the old regime, the military, the revolution committees and professional syndicates.\"",
"Saad Djebbar, a lawyer who negotiated the release in Scotland two years ago of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of blowing up a Pan-Am flight over Lockerbie, said it is vital to establish a \"coalition of cultures\" that would represent all regions, tribes and factions to ensure a stable Libya post-Gadhafi.",
"He called on the international community to facilitate that coalition because \"Libyans don't have the expertise to do it.\"",
"The rebellion was aided by a campaign of airstrikes by the NATO alliance, acting under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians from government reprisals.",
"As rebel fighters pushed into Tripoli, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the international community would help them usher in a new beginning.",
"\"Now is the time to create a new Libya -- a state based on freedom, not fear; democracy, not dictatorship; the will of the many, not the whims of a few,\" he said Sunday in a statement.",
"\"That transition must come peacefully.",
"It must come now. And it must be led and defined by the Libyan people.\"",
"There has been friction in the council, illustrated this month by Jalil's dismissal of the rebels' 14-member executive board.",
"The council acts as the opposition's \"legislative branch,\" the State Department said in its background notes on Libya.",
"The council had initially appointed an executive committee, headed by Mahmoud Jibril, to oversee interim issues.",
"But Jalil dismissed the board after the killing late last month of the rebel government's military commander, Gen. Abdel Fattah Younis.",
"His death played a role in the board members' ouster, said Shamsiddin Abdulmolah, the council's media director.",
"Younis and two other rebels were killed after the NTC sought to question him about allegations that he or those close to him were maintaining ties to Gadhafi, Younis' supporters have said.",
"Jalil commissioned Jibril to move quickly to submit new names to be considered for a new board, Abdulmolah said, but no deadline was mentioned.",
"In July, rebel military council member Mohammad Ethish released a statement that appeared to imply that Gadhafi loyalists had something to do with Younis' killing.",
"A one-time general in Gadhafi's army, Younis told CNN in February that he had switched sides after Gadhafi told him he planned to bomb Benghazi -- a move he said would have killed thousands of civilians.",
"Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations cautioned Sunday that rebels still have a \"very, very long way to go.\"",
"\"They're confronted with a situation where they have to build the Libyan state from the ground up,\" he said.",
"\"Who is going to pick up the pieces?",
"How unified are they going to be?\""
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The bitter child support and custody battle between Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva apparently reached a conclusion, with Gibson agreeing in court Wednesday to pay his ex-girlfriend $750,000 and share time with their young daughter.",
"The settlement, which was revealed in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday, also allows Grigorieva to remain in the home that Gibson has provided her until Lucia, who was born in October 2009, turns 18.",
"It then would be sold, with the money going into a trust for their child.",
"\"Lucia was born out of love and she was a planned child,\" Grigorieva lawyer Daniel Horowitz said after the hearing.",
"\"They both wanted another child.",
"Oksana wanted a settlement for Lucia's sake.\"",
"The leaks to tabloids and negative statements traded between Gibson and Grigorieva since their separation last year will apparently come to an end.",
"The agreement requires both to stay publicly silent about the other.",
"The former couple with share joint custody of Lucia, splitting the time with her evenly under the agreement.",
"At the height of its bitterness, the battle for Lucia included domestic violence accusations made by each parent against the other.",
"Those were later dropped as negotiations, monitored by a judge, proceeded.",
"Gibson entered a \"no contest\" plea in March to a misdemeanor battery charge relating to an incident last year involving Grigorieva.",
"A plea deal put the actor on unsupervised probation for three years and it requires Gibson to complete 52 weeks of anger management counseling.",
"It also allowed him to enter a no contest plea without admitting guilt.",
"HLN's Selin Darkalstanian contributed to this report."
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"Bethesda, Maryland (CNN) -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday a recall of pourable gel fuels used in outdoor decorative lighting because of burn and flash fire hazards.",
"The voluntary recall, ahead of the Labor Day weekend, covers about 2 million bottles and jugs of gel fuel, and it follows a similar recall and warning in June.",
"Incidents of flash fires and burns have been reported when consumers add the gel to an already burning fire pot.",
"The CPSC says the agency has received reports of at least 65 incidents, including two deaths, 75 injuries, and 34 victims hospitalized with second and third degree burns.",
"Because of the alcohol base of the product, the CPSC says the fires spread easily, sometimes resulting in injuries to more than one person, and they are difficult to put out.",
"\"The standard way of putting out flame doesn't work.",
"Water very rarely works.",
"Patting it or smothering the flame does not work.",
"So you have to use a dry chemical extinguisher to get the flame out,\" CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum told CNN.",
"The nine manufacturers and distributors involved in the voluntary recall include Bird Brain, Bond Manufacturing, Sunjel, Fuel Barons, Lamplight Farms, Luminosities, Pacific Decor, Real Flame, and Smart Solar USA.",
"CPSC said a tenth manufacturer, Marshall Group, backed out of a recall agreement at the last-minute.",
"Tenenbaum also said the nine companies agreed to recall the items only if the CPSC would not show a video made in their laboratory of the products exploding.",
"The recalled gel fuel has been sold by retailers since 2008.",
"The CPSC and Napa Home & Garden recalled 460,000 bottles and jugs of gel fuel in June, and the CPSC recommends the removal of all remaining gel fuel stock from store shelves.",
"For information on how to obtain a refund, consumers can visit cpsc.gov."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champion Rafael Nadal has been passed fit to take on American Mardy Fish in the Wimbledon men's singles quarterfinals on Wednesday.",
"Top seed Nadal was a doubt to face Fish after being troubled with an injury to his left foot during Monday's last 16 win over Juan Martin del Potro.",
"However, the 25-year-old has now been given the all-clear to play after scans revealed the injury was not serious.",
"Nadal posted a message to his fans on his Facebook page, saying: \"After the match I went to take an MRI at a London hospital.",
"\"During the match I thought I had something serious -- but as the match went on the pain got better and thankfully the tests don't show an injury.",
"\"I will practice today and I will play tomorrow -- thank you all for the support,\" added the world number one.",
"Nadal's message is in stark contrast to his mood after defeating del Potro in a hard-fought four-hour marathon played in blistering conditions.",
"The Spaniard told reporters he came close to retiring hurt during the first set and shook his head repeatedly during a 10-minute injury break while his foot received treatment from the trainer.",
"After the 7-6 3-6 7-6 6-4 victory, Nadal said: \"I felt really bad during the first set.",
"At 6-5 I felt terrible.",
"I felt that I had broken my foot.",
"\"The point at deuce and the point that gave me set point, I just felt terrible.",
"I seriously didn't know at that moment if I had a chance to continue playing.\"",
"Nadal has suffered from several injury problems in recent years, notably when a knee problem meant he could not defend his Wimbledon title in 2008."
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"Nadal suffered a foot injury during his last 16 victory over Juan Martin del Potro .",
"But a scan on his foot revealed the injury was not as bad as first feared ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Thousands of firearms have gone missing from manufacturers' inventories since 2009 \"without a record of being legally sold,\" according to a report released Thursday by a gun control advocacy group.",
"The report by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence put the number of missing weapons at 16,485.",
"\"It is shocking that gun makers are so oblivious to public safety that they lose track of thousands of guns every year,\" Henigan, acting president of the Brady Center, said in a statement.",
"\"Given the lethality of its product, the gun industry has a special duty to act responsibly.",
"Instead, it has a scandalous record of carelessness.\"",
"The Brady Center report suggests that some guns may never have had serial numbers stamped into them, making them virtually impossible to trace.",
"The group says that the missing guns are often used by criminals precisely because they are so hard to trace.",
"The report does not mention which manufacturers are reported to having missing firearms.",
"The Brady Center says the data was collected from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives report that was presented to the gun industry last month.",
"But the report also states that ATF conducts their compliance examinations at only about 20% of gun dealers and manufacturers each year, and says as a result, \"The 16,485 'missing' guns are likely a vast undercount of the total number of guns that disappeared from gun manufacturers in the last two and a half years.\"",
"Andrew Molchan, Publisher of American Firearms Industry Magazine, slammed the report in a statement to CNN.",
"\"The Brady spin and implication that some manufacturers, whose names are not mentioned so we can't check the charges, are knowingly selling guns before they are logged into the manufacturer's records is absolutely ridiculous,\" Molchan said.",
"According to ATF statistics, more than 5 million firearms were made in the United States in 2008 by about 4,487 manufacturers.",
"The federal law enforcement agency is in charge of inspecting companies that make and sell firearms to make sure they are in compliance with federal laws.",
"The ATF says about 600 agents did more than 10,000 inspections last year, but the Brady Center says the agency isn't able to do enough because it lacks manpower and money.",
"The ATF said it had not read the report and would not comment.",
"The Brady Center is an advocacy group for tightened gun laws and was named after Jim Brady, President Ronald Reagan's press secretary, who was shot in the head in the attempted assassination of Reagan in 1981."
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"Gun industry advocate calls the report's implications \"absolutely ridiculous\""
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"(CNN) -- A municipal police captain was fatally shot while driving to work on Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, becoming the 49th municipal police officer killed since October 2010, authorities told CNN.",
"An average of five local police officers have been killed per month in Juarez during that period, municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez said.",
"Cmdr. Mario Martin Favela Portillo, 25, was shot by unknown gunmen traveling in a truck.",
"The shooting happened about 2:30 p.m. in southwest Juarez, Sanchez said.",
"The commander was in uniform.",
"Suspected drug lords reveal secrets on camera .",
"\"As in all the cases of murder, the police force is very frustrated and hurt.",
"Favela was 25 years old and was registered in the local police when he was 20,\" Sanchez said.",
"Juarez is considered a flash point in Mexico's nearly five-year war on organized crime.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"A police captain in Ciudad Juarez is fatally shot while driving to work .",
"An average of five officers has been killed monthly since October 2010, police say .",
"Juarez considered flash point in Mexico's nearly five-year war on organized crime ."
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