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"(CNN) -- They spent 69 days in the bowels of the earth, 700 meters deep, not knowing if they would survive.",
"For 17 days after the mine in which they were working collapsed, nobody even knew if they were alive.",
"Friday marks the one-year observance of the fateful incident in Chile that trapped 33 miners who were saved in a miraculous rescue that made headlines around the world.",
"Fame came after the rescue, which faded quicker in their country than abroad, and since then they have traveled to several destinations all-expenses-paid, though many report having money problems.",
"Four of the miners will observe the anniversary of the event that changed their lives in Washington where an exhibit in their honor is being opened at the Smithsonian Institution.",
"Mario Sepulveda, one of the miners attending, reflected on the historical significance of the event.",
"\"In spite of our painful experience, it is very important to us that what is being exhibited will show the world what happened,\" Sepulveda said.",
"He was the second to be rescued from the mine.",
"Since they were rescued last October, the miners have traveled the world.",
"Edison Pena, the miner whose underground workouts in the darkness garnered attention, ran the New York Marathon less than a month after being rescued.",
"Pena also appeared on \"The Late Show with Dave Letterman\" on CBS where he impersonated his idol, Elvis Presley.",
"Then, in January, he was invited as a guest of honor to the Graceland Mansion, in Memphis, Tennessee.",
"Pena had dreamed of visiting the mansion since he became an Elvis fan as a teenager.",
"In January, the entire group of 33 was honored at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.",
"While there, they served as honorary Grand Marshals of Disney's Main Street U.S.A parade.",
"They spent a full week in Orlando enjoying the attractions.",
"But at home in Chile celebrity has not been what they expected, according to one of the miners, Jorge Galleguillos.",
"The good will from their country faded fast, he said.",
"\"They love us more abroad.",
"They congratulate us, they want to touch us and get a blessing from us.",
"That's not the case in Chile.",
"Only a few greet us with affection; many more say hi with envy,\" Galleguillos said.",
"A movie about the miners' ordeal is in the works.",
"According to the Hollywood Reporter, producer Mike Medavoy (\"Shutter Island\", \"Black Swan\") has snapped up the right to the story and Jose Rivera (\"Motorcycle Diaries\") has been enlisted to adapt the screenplay.",
"But at home, relations with the Chilean government are strained.",
"Thirty-one of the 33 miners filed a lawsuit accusing the agency that oversees mining of failing to ensure safety measures.",
"Carlos Barrios, the 13th miner rescued, says they're not targeting President Sebastian Pinera.",
"\"We're not suing the current president.",
"This has been happening for a long time.",
"This happened during the administrations of other presidents.",
"Why didn't they take a closer look [at the situation]?\"",
"Barrios asked.",
"Hernan de Solminihac, the Chilean mining minister, said his government respects the miners' right to sue.",
"\"As any Chilean citizen, the miners have the freedom and the right to file any lawsuit they wish.",
"They have chosen to do so and our judicial authorities are evaluating the suit,\" he said.",
"The miners are seeking the equivalent of $16 million in damages for the collapse of the mine where they were trapped last year in the Chilean Atacama desert.",
"They say their lawsuit isn't about the money, but about raising awareness about the working conditions for miners in their country, which they say, has been neglected for a long time."
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"Fame for them has faded in Chile, one miner says .",
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"(CNN) -- It's early in the morning, but the soldiers in their camouflage uniforms have already been awake for several hours.",
"They're getting their gear ready, making sure all of their safety equipment, hooks, belts, and straps are in working order.",
"Nothing seems out of the ordinary, until you take a closer look.",
"Among the 270 recruits getting their basic paratrooper training, there are 71 women.",
"After a 50-minute check-up, they all board military planes that will take off from the Santa Lucia Military Air Base near Mexico City.",
"This is the first time in 22 years that women in the Mexican armed forces are being trained as paratroopers.",
"The program was suspended in 1989 for unspecified reasons.",
"Now it's back again, but officials haven't said if it will instituted permanently.",
"Once they reach an altitude of 1,500 feet, it's time to jump and put into practice the four weeks of training they have received.",
"It's a small jump for these women soldiers, but one giant leap for the Mexican military.",
"Corporal Raquel Gutierrez is among the first women who signed up for paratrooper training.",
"\"I think this is an activity that only a few can do.",
"We are a group of women who have decided to enter a space previously reserved for men,\" Gutierrez says.",
"For the Mexican military, training women as paratroopers means more personnel at the ready; many in Mexico also see this training as an important step towards gender equality.",
"Basic paratrooper training in the Mexican military takes four weeks.",
"Trainees have the opportunity to jump off a plane five times.",
"For Corporal Norma Flores being part of this training is one of the most exciting things she's done in her life.",
"\"It's a very beautiful experience and, honestly, I'm very proud.",
"I want to learn a lot of things here in the Army and, well, it's a good opportunity to serve our country,\" Flores says.",
"Army officials say the training that these women are going through is exactly the same men take.",
"There's no special treatment or relaxing of the rules.",
"The goal is that paratroopers are equally trained, capable, and safe, regardless of their gender.",
"Colonel Bernardino Olvera, who's in charge of this phase of paratrooper training, says safety and preparedness are paramount.",
"\"We can't make any distinctions [between men and women] because there are no parachutes for men or women.",
"Training has to be the same,\" Olvera says.",
"First Sergeant Miriam Rivera says that, after all, the fear you feel right before jumping off the plane has no gender.",
"\"It's true that you always have some fear, but with the training that we have received during the whole month we learn to change fear for an adrenaline rush in order to jump off the plane,\" Rivera says.",
"Once the training is over, the seven female officers and 64 soldiers will return to their normal duties.",
"the Mexican Army has yet to establish the option of being a paratrooper as a career choice for women entering the forces, a limitation that based on this training may be about to change."
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"(CNN) -- Staff at Royal Bank of Scotland's UK investment banking and treasury divisions were warned this week of more job cuts to come, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.",
"The potential redundancies are part of the bank's plan to trim tens of thousands of roles.",
"Since receiving the biggest bail out in history, RBS has announced 27,500 layoffs worldwide -- of which 21,200 are in the UK.",
"Bad time to be a banker: More layoffs .",
"The news comes days after official figures put the number of unemployed across Great Britain at 2.51 million.",
"RBS is 84% owned by taxpayers.",
"The following is an email sent to all employees in RBS's Markets division across Europe, Middle East and Africa from Peter Nielsen, Global Head of Markets, on Thursday.",
"\"As you are aware, we continue to review our business to ensure Markets aligns its resources and strategy effectively.",
"\"We are focused on building a high performing business and need to optimise our resources in line with this and continue the drive for efficiencies.",
"\"As a result of this ongoing focus I have asked my ManCo [management committee] to review their business operating model and we are now proposing further headcount reductions across the Markets and GBM Treasury group, which will impact the UK.",
"\"Our plans are subject to consultation in the UK and I wanted to inform you that this commenced this week.",
"\"Where we need to make role reductions we will work with the employee representative bodies, from both the Employee Consultative Body (ECB) and UK Staff Council (UKSC), to explain the roles that need to be reduced and consider their comments and suggestions.",
"\"The exact timing of the process will depend on discussions with the ECB and UKSC but our aim is to be able to provide clarity to you in the coming weeks.",
"\"I appreciate that these can be unsettling times but I would ask you to continue to focus on execution and stay close to our clients.\"",
"- Peter . RBS, whose ill-fated acquisition of ABN Amro left it nursing $2.3 billion worth of Greek government bonds, is just one of a number of banks to significantly trim headcount in the past three years.",
"Since the onset of the credit crunch European financial institutions have said 270,000 posts must go.",
"HSBC has said it will slash 30,000 by 2013, while Barclays will trim 3,000.",
"A spokeswoman for RBS declined to comment on the document and its contents."
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"Memo: RBS UK investment division warned more layoffs to come .",
"RBS has announced 27,500 layoffs worldwidel; 21,200 alone in the UK .",
"Since credit crisis, European banks have said 270,000 employees must go ."
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"(CNN) -- With spring break nearing, my mother contacted my father and arranged for Paul and me to visit him again in Princeton.",
"He suggested that we arrive on a Sunday, and since she had a class to teach the next day, she told us that she would drive us as far as New York and put us on a train the rest of the way.",
"When we got to Penn Station, she bought us two tickets, and half an hour later Paul and I got off at Princeton Junction and started looking around the little station for my father.",
"He was nowhere to seen.",
"A middle-aged white couple walked over to us.",
"\"Do you remember me?\" the man asked. \"I'm Hube Wilson, an old friend of your dad's.\"",
"\"Yes,\" I said. \"We met you in California a long time ago.\"",
"\"I remember it well,\" he said.",
"\"But I had a different wife then.\"",
"\"I'm his new wife,\" the woman said, putting out her hand.",
"\"I knew you too when you both were little boys.",
"My name is Gina.\" I didn't remember her. \"Where's Dad?\" I asked. \"He's under the weather,\" Hube said.",
"\"He asked us to pick you up.",
"He'll be at home when you get there.\" The Wilsons grabbed our duffel bags and took us to their car.",
"It was an ordinary sedan, not the VW bus I remembered from Venice.",
"They did their best to make small talk, remarking on how much we had grown and asking how we liked school.",
"But it was awkward, and Hube no longer matched the matinee idol image I had of him in my mind.",
"His hair had gone white and his face was etched with deep wrinkles.",
"When we arrived at the apartment, I noticed that the blinds were drawn.",
"Hube rang the bell and we waited for over a minute before my father opened the door.",
"He said hello and gave my brother and me a hug, but his embrace felt weak and he looked tired.",
"It took several minutes before he said anything about my appearance.",
"\"It looks like you've lost some weight, Mark,\" he said wanly.",
"Is that it? I thought, dejectedly.",
"Is that all you're going to say? I lost eighty pounds and you barely even noticed?",
"He had prepared sandwiches and iced tea for lunch.",
"The Wilsons stayed and chatted while Paul and I ate.",
"My father smoked and drank coffee and didn't touch anything on his plate.",
"When the Wilsons left, he told us that there wasn't much to do in Princeton on Sundays but that he had plans to take us sightseeing and to a movie the next day.",
"He suggested that we might want to take a nap.",
"I wasn't tired, so I browsed through the bookshelves in the living room to find something to read.",
"I picked out \"The Godfather,\" by Mario Puzo, and quickly became engrossed by the opening scenes of the big wedding and the horse's head in the movie producer's bed.",
"For dinner, he reheated spaghetti he emptied from a plastic container in the refrigerator and made garlic bread in a toaster oven.",
"\"I remember how much you like garlic bread,\" he said.",
"Paul and I got into our pajamas and climbed into the sofa bed that he had prepared in his upstairs study.",
"He kissed us goodnight and went down the stairs.",
"I still wasn't sleepy, and as I lay awake thinking, I heard the front door open and close.",
"Where's Dad going? I wondered. Is it okay for Paul and me to be here by ourselves? Then about twenty minutes later, I heard the door open again and the sound of my father's footsteps.",
"Relieved that he was home, I drifted off.",
"Paul was sound asleep when I awoke the next morning.",
"I listened for other noises but didn't hear any.",
"I felt hungry, so I rose quietly and tiptoed downstairs to see if I could find something to eat.",
"The kitchen in his condo was small and modern, with a little eating counter and bar stool.",
"I didn't know exactly what sizes liquor came in, but I could tell that the Beefeater bottle on the counter was the big kind.",
"There was still some liquid left in it, but not much, only a tiny bit at the bottom.",
"Next to it was a pumpkin pie.",
"It was the storebought variety in a tin shell, not like the pies my mother made from scratch for Thanksgiving.",
"The center had been scooped out, as if by a scavenging animal.",
"There were no slices, just an ugly hole in the middle.",
"I stood there for a long time, trying to figure out the meaning of what I saw in front of me.",
"It reminded me of the still-life paintings in my mother's big books about French art, only with a gruesome twist.",
"Had Dad done this? I wondered. Did he drink that whole bottle of gin?",
"Was that why he went out at night, to go to a liquor store?",
"And why would he eat the pie that way?",
"Was he so drunk he couldn't even hold a knife and fork?",
"I heard Paul getting up.",
"I didn't want him to see the sad tableau, so I hid the bottle and the pie in the back of the refrigerator.",
"I made us toast for breakfast, and we sat around waiting for my father to wake up.",
"Sometime after noon, I smelled cigarette smoke upstairs.",
"Then there was the sound of a phone being dialed and my father talking in a low voice.",
"At last he came downstairs, covered only by a terrycloth bathrobe.",
"\"I'm sorry, boys,\" he said.",
"\"I have to leave. I've called your grandmother in Pittsburgh and she's going to come to take care of you.\"",
"\"Where are you going?\" I asked anxiously.",
"\"Back to the hospital,\" he said.",
"\"I wanted to get well to spend time with you boys, but I'm sick again and have to go back.\"",
"He went back upstairs, and Paul and I sat there in the living room until sundown, dazed and disappointed, not knowing what to think about what was happening.",
"The next day Grandmother Edith arrived, and a taxi came to take my father away.",
"He must have been too proud to call my mother, because she only learned what had happened when Grandmother phoned her to make plans to meet at Aunt Cleo's.",
"On the train ride to New York, Grandmother Edith tried to keep our spirits up, but I could see how distraught she was.",
"\"Do you know we're going to France next year?\"",
"I asked, hoping to say something that would make us both feel better.",
"\"Yes, Jeanne told me,\" she said.",
"\"I think it will be a wonderful experience for you boys.\"",
"\"And what about Dad?\" I asked. \"Do you think he'll be okay while we're gone?\"",
"There was a long pause before she answered.",
"\"I don't know, child,\" Grandmother said, \"but I want you to pray for him.\""
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"In new book, CNN managing editor tells story of his family .",
"Following parents' separation, Mark Whitaker and his brother visited their father .",
"Father was too ill to pick the boys up from the train station due to alcoholism .",
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"(CNN) -- World champion Thor Hushovd continued his superb Tour de France by powering to victory in Friday's 152.5km 13th stage of the race from Pau to Lourdes.",
"Norwegian Hushovd, who wore the leader's yellow jersey for seven days earlier in the race, was one of 10 riders who broke clear of the peloton after 57km, as the overall leaders kept their powder dry ahead of Saturday's tough stage in the mountains.",
"Frenchman Jeremy Roy, who made a brave bid to win Thursday's stage before being caught on the final climb up to Luz-Ardiden, was also in the breakaway group, and he tried the same tactic again when he made another bold bid for success on the day's big climb -- the Col d'Aubsique.",
"However, unlike Thursday uphill finish, Friday's major climb came 42km from the end of the stage, with a long downhill descent before a flat finish into Lourdes.",
"And Hushovd used all his strength to catch the unfortunate Roy with just 2km remaining to win by 10 seconds, with David Moncoutie also catching and passing exhausted compatriot Roy, who was 26 seconds back in third place.",
"The rest of the breakaway group finished in dribs and drabs ahead of the main pack, who came home over seven-and-a-half minutes behind, with all the leading contenders finishing together.",
"There was no change in the overall classification, with Frenchman Thomas Voeckler remaining 1:49 ahead of Frank Schleck, with Cadel Evans 2:06 down in third position.",
"Defending champion Alberto Contador, who lost a few seconds on the leaders on Thursday, remains seventh -- exactly four minutes behind Voeckler -- while the only change in the top 10 saw Belgian Philippe Gilbert, who led the race after the first stage, move up to ninth overall after attacking the peloton on the descent to the line to gain 50 seconds.",
"The victory maintains Hushovd's remarkable Tour record.",
"He has now won nine individual stages, including at least one victory in the last six Tours, as well as taking the green points jersey in 2005 and 2009.",
"He is also the first rider to win a stage of the Tour de France whilst wearing the famous rainbow bands of the world champion's jersey, since Spain's Oscar Freire in 2002.",
"\"I find it hard to believe where that display came from, but I'm happy.",
"To win solo like that wearing the rainbow jersey is something else,\" Hushovd told reporters.",
"A disconsolate Roy, who did collect the climber's polka dot jersey as a consolation after once again going close to claiming his first-ever stage victory, said: \"It's too hard to take.",
"I think I will have a lot of trouble digesting this.\"",
"Meanwhile, the stage saw three more riders abandon the race, with the highest profile being Radioshack's Andreas Kloden, twice runner-up in the race, who quit following a successions of crashes throughout the last two weeks.",
"Saturday's 168.5km 14th stage from Saint-Gaudens to Plateau de Beille is likely to be a key day in the destination of this year's race, with the field tackling six major climbs before the 15.8km ascent to the finish."
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"(WIRED) -- Apple will announce the iPad 2 next Wednesday, as made rather obvious by invites sent out to press this morning.",
"Apart from the new iPad, that means one thing: speculation.",
"I'm not immune, so here's my list of things I think will make it into an already capable machine.",
"I have stuck to features, rather than things like CPU speed, as the internal specifics matter less than what they actually enable you to do.",
"Cameras . Obvious, this one.",
"We're almost certain there will be a front-facing camera for FaceTime and other webchat applications, but I really don't care.",
"I'll use that for Skype once in a while and that's it. What I want is a decent rear-facing camera, like that in the iPhone (not the crippled piece of junk in the iPod Touch).",
"Why? Because it would be so useful, and not just for photography.",
"Augmented reality, Instagram, scanning things, snapping photos and then drawing on top of them, the list goes on.",
"One of the things I took away from all the tablets I tried at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week was just how good a camera is on a big device.",
"It seems like it would be awkward, but the big screen is great for composing and the size turns out not to matter at all.",
"Speakers . The single iPad speaker isn't bad, but for movies and music you really want something beefier, and preferably in stereo.",
"The rumors point to at least one big speaker grille on the back of the iPad's case.",
"Currently I get around this with an assortment of Bluetooth speakers around my apartment, but I'd rather do without them.",
"SD card slot .",
"This one would be purely for importing photos and video.",
"Basically, it would be nothing more than a built-in camera connection kit.",
"The Apple's Camera Connection Kit is great, but it is one more thing to lose and carry.",
"I use my iPad more and more for processing photos (courtesy of Photogene and FX PhotoStudioHD), and until I can send direct from my camera via Eye-Fi, a slot is a lot more convenient than yet another dongle in my bag.",
"A better connector .",
"The 30-pin dock connector is one of the worst things Apple has made (the other is \"all mice it has ever created\").",
"It is symmetrical, so it's hard to put in the right way in bad light.",
"It's delicate (the cord breaks easily where it enters the plug) and worst of all, it's huge.",
"In fact, the iPod Nano is barely big enough for the connector slot.",
"The likeliest candidate for a replacement is Light Peak, or Apple's rumored implementation of it, Thunderbolt, which might show up in this week's new MacBook Pros.",
"This could be a small port that could carry power and data of any kind.",
"That in itself would be good enough, but you know what I'd really like?",
"A Thunderbolt data-cable with a MagSafe plug.",
"That would be just about perfect.",
"Better case .",
"The size and weight of the current iPad are just fine.",
"Anyone who complains that a 1.5 pound sliver of aluminum and glass is too heavy needs to shut up and go join a gym.",
"But it is slippery. I keep mine in Apple's own case 24/7.",
"This is partly to protect the screen, but mostly to stop me dropping it, especially when I'm walking on crutches with it tucked under my arm.",
"A little more friction on the back would help a lot.",
"Perhaps a plastic rear, or just a grippy coating.",
"Bonus: The screen .",
"This is a small request.",
"I don't want a retina display (or rather I do, but I don't want the current penalties of price and battery life associated with it).",
"All I want is a dimmer screen.",
"The brightness at the top end is fine, but even at its dimmest setting, the screen is too bright for using indoors at night.",
"It's true, I keep my apartment fairly dim (I call it \"moody and romantic,\" but you may call it \"cheap\"), but unless you keep your place lit up like an office, the screen glows a little too much.",
"Those are my requests. What about yours? Do you want a built in printer?",
"A near-field communications chip to turn your iPad into the world's biggest wallet?",
"Or even a flashlight?",
"Let us know your suggestions, as ever, in the comments.",
"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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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"Motherboard.tv is Vice's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology.",
"The reports, which are being produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (Motherboard.tv) -- Last year, Motherboard went to Bent Festival , the world's premier meeting of circuit benders, music hackers, and broken Speak n' Spells.",
"We spent a day at 81 Front St. in Dumbo, where hackers young and old, expert and amateur, came to break electronics in order to put them back together again, in the DIY spirit of groups like NYC Resistor and musicians like Reed Ghazala and Morton Subotnick.",
"At night, a healthy roster of chiptune musicians and others made music with their homemade gear.",
"Our visit last year started out as an average Saturday at the Dumbo, Brooklyn outlet of Mikey's Hook Up, an Apple retailer and repair specialist.",
"Well-groomed arty-types came in, alone, in couples, with lattes in hand, all there to admire the shiny wares or bring in their dead laptop for repair.",
"The air was quiet, calm, tinged with some nail biting concern about lost files, perhaps, but mainly confident.",
"In other words, no sign of the kind of melee happening in the art space just across the street, where the Bent Festival, the annual circus of the art of \"circuit bending,\" was happening.",
"There, scattered impromptu groups of hardware hackers were tearing their gadgets apart, literally, in an attempt to do their own kind of fixing.",
"Their only assistance came from men in worn T-shirts and beards whose advice consisted mainly of how to solder circuits together and the best way to break open plastic cases.",
"To open one piece of electronics, someone resorted to simply throwing it at the floor, again and again, until its tiny tinny speaker started making death groans.",
"(Later, he would add a new, louder speaker, and make it make stranger sounds.)",
"Steve Jobs would have been scandalized.",
"The gadgets in question weren't the sleek new phones and laptops being serviced across the street, but mainly plastic kids' toys from the 1980s, built in China cheaply and at breakneck speed.",
"Just as quickly had they been forgotten and trashed, which partly explained their presence, in various states of disassembly, on the workbenches.",
"But apart from being cheap and easy to hack (the smaller and sleeker gadgets have become, the harder they have become to break apart), these all had another thing going for them: they made beeping sounds.",
"If you're really lucky, some of them, like the Speak 'n' Spell, even talk.",
"Crack open a toy walkie talkie or a generic mini keyboard, rip off the coverings (sometimes there's even scotch tape inside), press a button, and simply lick a finger and touch a circuit.",
"A short will cause the beep to become a bleeooooop, or a danger to become a dddddreeerrrrrrrrr.",
"Wire an output to the speaker wire, plug in an amp, and you've got an outer-space music box fit for an intense audio-visual extravaganza.",
"Watch Hypnotizing Electronics: The Bent Festival at Motherboard.tv .",
"While beginners and more expert circuit benders tinkered in workshops, small bands of musicians were huddled in the corners, preparing their homemade instruments for an all-out exposition of exploded instruments.",
"At one point near the end of the night, a musician called Computer at Sea (and introduced as \"the handsomer Dan Deacon,\" though that would only barely approximate his sound), began his set by excitedly rallying the audience the only way that would have made sense -- inviting them up to play his instruments.",
"My hand shot up before he was finished asking, and soon it was on a keyboard, on a Simon Says knockoff, and there were all the other hands surrounding the table's electronic feast, bathing in the torrent of sound and light and energy of our own creation.",
"It wasn't just the most fun I'd had at a concert in a while; it was the best kind of fun.",
"Like the toys we were all playing, the music came in all shapes and sizes, in bright colors and from another world.",
"The best part: the musicians, like everyone else, weren't just pressing buttons to get them to play music.",
"They were making the buttons themselves.",
"See more coverage from last year's festival and an introduction to circuit bending before this year's events start.",
"Bent Festival 2011 starts June 23rd and runs until June 25th.",
"Check out the schedule on the Bent Festival website for more information."
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"Johannesburg (CNN) -- South Africa's president fired two ministers and suspended his chief of police Monday after they were implicated in the misuse of millions of dollars of public funds.",
"The actions by President Jacob Zuma against ministers Sicelo Shiceka and Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, and chief of police Bheki Cele come after instances of misappropriation cited in a report released this month by South Africa's Public Protector's office.",
"The report found that Shiceka, the minister of cooperative governance, spent tens of thousands of dollars on a luxury trip to Switzerland \"to visit a jailed lady friend,\" and found that Cele and Mahlangu-Nkabinde \"irregularly authorized lease agreements for the procurement of police offices worth millions of dollars.\"",
"Shiceka spent more than $9,000 of government money on luxury travel, according to the report, including a trip to Switzerland that he told Zuma was related to the FIFA 2010 World Cup, which South Africa was hosting, when in fact its \"only aim\" was to visit a friend of Shiceka's at the Anstalten Hindelbank prison in Bern, \"which he did on two occasions,\" the public protector's report reads.",
"In Monday's news conference in Pretoria, Zuma said he had established a board of inquiry to look into allegations of misconduct against Cele \"in relation to the procurement of office accommodation for the South African Police Service, as per the findings and recommendations of the Public Protector.\"",
"South Africa's previous police chief, Jackie Selebi, was convicted of corruption last year.",
"Zuma also formally announced a commission of inquiry which will investigate the country's multimillion-dollar arms procurement contract, from which the president himself has been accused of corruptly benefiting.",
"Corruption charges against Zuma were dropped in 2009 after prosecutors determined that the investigation was politically motivated.",
"The Congress of South African Trade Unions praised Zuma's announcement, saying it hoped the actions mark \"a turning point in the fight against maladministration and corruption.\"",
"\"From now on there must be a policy of zero-tolerance to the looting of public resources by anyone, in the public or private sector, no matter how senior their position,\" the trade union organization said.",
"This is the second shakeup in Zuma's cabinet since he took office in 2009.",
"He has been widely criticized in South Africa for indecisiveness and lacking authority, and he is expected to be challenged next year when his African National Congress holds an elective conference.",
"This week, the ruling party's youth league is embarking on mass protest action against poverty and joblessness in the country."
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"President Jacob Zuma dismisses two Cabinet ministers, suspends police chief .",
"Luxury trip, shady deals on police offices among alleged misues of public funds .",
"Zuma also to launch inquiry into contentious arms procurement contract .",
"Challenge likely lies ahead for Zuma during ruling party's elective conference ."
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Residents of Thailand's Munag Ake village are being urged to evacuate the area early Tuesday morning, according to Thailand's Flood Relief Operations Center.",
"The center's director said parts of a dike at Tambon Lak Hok, Muang District, Pathum Thani province have broken and a mass of water is expected to flow into the village.",
"Flood waters could reach almost five feet (1.5 meters) in the village.",
"The FROC said the Royal Thai Armed Forces will have vehicles at Rangsit University in Munag Ake village and will be moving residents out of the area.",
"In addition, the Thai Cabinet announced Tuesday public holidays for the end of the month due to anticipated high tides, which could further devastate the flood-ravaged country.",
"The holidays will be from Thursday to next Monday and will be effective in 21 provinces that are still under water, including Bangkok and its suburban provinces, a government spokeswoman said.",
"\"The government would like to give time to people in affected areas to prepare for floods during high tide periods between (October) 28 to 30.",
"Some people who have houses outside Bangkok could be able to live there during flood period,\" said Thitima Chaiseang, the government spokeswoman.",
"Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged employers in both the private and public sectors to allow time off for staff affected by the floods.",
"In addition to allowing time off, Thailand's Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri has ordered health units be established to help ease the stress of residents.",
"He said there are about 100,000 people suffering from stress related to the flooding.",
"Also, starting Tuesday, the CEO of Nok Air announced the airline is canceling flights in and out of Bangkok's Don Muang Airport until October 31 due to the \"flood crisis.\" ...",
"Pate Sarasin, CEO of Nok Air, posted a Twitter message saying \"the water level is now at a critical area at the northern part of the runway.\"",
"Nok Air is allowing customers to change their flights free of charge.",
"On Monday, floodwaters in Bangkok reached Don Muang Airport, one of the Thai capital's two main airports and home to the flood relief operation command, according to a governor.",
"In addition to Don Muang, residents in five other areas should prepare for floods, move their belongings to upper floors and take shelter at evacuation centers, Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said in a news conference on Monday.",
"Thammasat University's gymnasium, which has been used as an evacuation center, is also flooded and without electricity and is itself being evacuated, the governor added.",
"As a remedy, about 4,000 people will be bused to Rajamangala Stadium in central Bangkok with the help of 300 to 400 volunteers, according to the governor.",
"In the east, the industrial estates of Lat Krabang and Bang Chan remained under threat, and volunteers were sought for help with sandbagging.",
"The governor urged the public not to panic and to follow his reports closely.",
"Protecting Bangkok was a priority because it comprises the economic heart of Thailand, Prime Minister Yingluck told CNN Sunday.",
"\"But it doesn't mean we have no concern for the people who are suffering from the flooding,\" she added.",
"The decision to divert water through canals in Bangkok means parts of the city and its surrounding suburbs, such as Rangsit, are flooded.",
"Residents have resorted to moving out of flooded homes by boat or anything that could float -- or wading through water with plastic bags of belongings balanced on their heads or pets tucked into clothes.",
"The government has called the flooding the worst to afflict the nation in half a century and said some areas might require more than a month before waters recede.",
"More high tides are expected in the coming week, which could cause rivers to back up, further raising water levels, according to Thailand's Flood Relief Operations Command.",
"The government has set up more than 1,700 shelters nationwide, and more than 113,000 people have taken refuge.",
"Many residents waded through dirty water in the capital in recent days, as they made a desperate attempt to save their belongings.",
"The flooding has already killed 356 people, with nearly 9 million others affected, authorities said.",
"Overall damage from the floods has risen and could top $6 billion, with the worst yet to come as the waters destroy shops and paralyze factories nationwide, the Thai Finance Ministry said.",
"Thailand derives a significant portion of its revenue from tourism, which has been hurt by the flooding.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn and Karen Smith contributed to this report."
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"Residents of Munag Ake village are being urged to evacuate after parts of an area dike broke .",
"The Thai Cabinet announced national holidays to give residents time to prepare for high tide .",
"Thailand's Public Health Minister has ordered health units be established to help people dealing with stress caused by flooding .",
"Damage from the flood is estimated at more than $6 billion, the government estimates ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- A series of bomb attacks throughout Iraq left 35 people dead and scores injured, officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry and police said Sunday.",
"At least 28 people were killed in a suicide bombing attack in a Sunni mosque in the Ghazaliya neighborhood in western Baghdad late Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"At least 37 others were wounded in the attack.",
"A Sunni member of Parliament, Khalid al-Fahdawi, was among the dead.",
"In Tarmiyah, about 40 kilometers north of Baghdad, two people were killed and five were wounded after a bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque as worshippers finished up a nightly prayer for the celebrations of Ramadan, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.",
"Also Sunday, an bomb explosion killed two people in the Baghdad's Shiite-majority neighborhood of Jadriya, the spokesman said.",
"In Mosul, six roadside bombs exploded in the town's center, wounding five police officers and two civilians.",
"Also, on the highway that connects Mosul to Syria, a roadside bomb exploded on an Iraqi army convoy, leaving two wounded.",
"In a separate incident, one man was killed after being attacked by gunmen.",
"Two people were killed in Fallujah, officials said.",
"Some of the attacks appeared to target policemen, the spokesman said.",
"According to intelligence analysts with SITE, the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) vowed to step up attacks in the country to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.",
"In a jihadist forum intercepted by intelligence officials on August 19, ISI leaders said they would conduct several phases of its \"Plan of the Good Harvest\" campaign, SITE reported, one of which would take place during the holy month of Ramadan.",
"However, previous attacks against Sunnis have been associated with Shiite militias, Iraqi analysts say.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and journalist Muhaiman Mohammed contributed to this report."
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"At least 28 die in a suicide attack on a Sunni mosque; victims include a member of Parliament .",
"Others are killed or wounded in separate attacks in Mosul and Fallujah .",
"A al Qaeda-affiliated group promised attacks during month of Ramadan ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Reese Witherspoon wants to move on after her accident.",
"The actress is not pressing charges against the 84-year-old driver who struck her as she was jogging Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., her rep tells PEOPLE.",
"The actress, 35, suffered minor injuries and went home to recover, her rep said at the time.",
"The driver, meanwhile, was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.",
"See original article at PEOPLE.com .",
"© 2010 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Reese Witherspoon suffered minor injuries and went home to recover .",
"The 84-year-old driver struck her as she was jogging Wednesday .",
"The driver was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk ."
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"(WIRED) -- When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad last January, the biggest surprise wasn't the actual product.",
"(Many shrugged and called the iPad a \"bigger iPhone.\")",
"It was the price: Just $500. Nobody expected that number, perhaps because Apple has traditionally aimed at the high end of the mobile computer market with MacBooks marked $1,000 and up.",
"And perhaps we were also thrown off because Apple execs repeatedly told investors they couldn't produce a $500 computer that wasn't a piece of junk.",
"But Apple did meet that price, and the iPad isn't junk.",
"The iPad is still the first, and best-selling, product of its kind.",
"Competitors, meanwhile, are having trouble hitting that $500 sweet spot.",
"Motorola's Xoom tablet is debuting in the United States with an $800 price tag.",
"(To be fair, the most comparable iPad is $730 -- but there's no $500 Xoom planned, and the lack of a low-end entry point will hurt Motorola.)",
"Samsung's Galaxy Tab, with a relatively puny 7-inch screen, costs $600 without a contract.",
"Why is it so hard to get to a lower starting price?",
"And how was Apple able to get there?",
"Jason Hiner of Tech Republic suggests it largely has to do with Apple's retail strategy.",
"Apple now has 300 retail stores worldwide selling iPads directly to customers.",
"That's advantageous, because if the iPad were primarily sold at third-party retail stores, a big chunk of profit would go to those retailers, Hiner reasons.",
"Apple has partnered with a few retail chains such as Best Buy and Walmart, but those stores always seem to get a small number of units in stock.",
"Hiner rationalizes that the true purpose of these partnerships is probably to help spread the marketing message, not so much to sell iPads.",
"\"The company can swallow the bitter pill of hardly making any money from iPad sales through its retail partners because it can feast off the fat profits it makes when customers buy directly through its retail outlets and the web store,\" Hiner says.",
"\"However, companies like Motorola, HP, and Samsung have to make all of their profit by selling their tablets wholesale to retailer partners.\"",
"The retail advantage is a reasonable theory, but Hiner neglects to mention the high overhead costs that Apple must pay handsomely for each of its 300 stores.",
"To Hiner's credit, Apple running its own stores does present clear benefits: the customer outreach is enormous, and of course, in Apple stores, Apple products don't have to compete with gadgets sold by rivals on other shelves.",
"But when we try to decipher why the iPad costs $500, we have to consider the sum of all parts, not just the retail strategy.",
"Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world.",
"In addition to operating its own retail chains, all Apple hardware and software are designed in-house, and Apple also runs its own digital content store, iTunes.",
"Designing in-house means Apple doesn't have to pay licensing fees to third parties to use their intellectual property.",
"For instance, the A4 chip inside the iPad is based on technology developed and owned by Apple (not Intel, AMD or Nvidia).",
"The operating system is Apple's own, not something licensed from Microsoft or Google.",
"Why do you think Hewlett-Packard bought Palm to make the TouchPad?",
"HP wanted ownership of a mobile operating system in-house to take control of its own mobile destiny and stop being so reliant on Microsoft (which, to this day, doesn't have a credible tablet strategy).",
"On the iTunes media platform, Apple takes a cut of each sale made through each of its digital storefronts: the App Store, iBooks and iTunes music and video.",
"iBooks still has a long way to go before it's anywhere near as big as Amazon, but the App Store and iTunes are the most successful digital media stores of their kind.",
"At the end of the day, the iPad might be worth well above $500 for all we know.",
"(Part estimates made by component analysts such as iSuppli aren't very useful because they fail to measure costs of R&D and other factors.)",
"It's most likely that Apple can afford to absorb the costs of producing and selling the iPad because of the tenacious ecosystem backing it, and also because it has such tight oversight over every aspect of the company to control price.",
"That's what it all boils down to: ecosystems and control.",
"Competitors are struggling to match the $500 price point because they aren't as fully integrated as Apple, in terms of retail strategy, a digital content market, hardware and software engineering -- everything.",
"As Steve Jobs famously put it one day, \"Apple is the last company in our industry that creates the whole widget.\"",
"Competitors are having trouble beating the iPad widget.",
"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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"Apple now has 300 retail stores worldwide selling iPads directly to customers .",
"Competitors are having trouble beating the iPad widget ."
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"(CNN) -- Three Marines face court martial proceedings involving the alleged hazing of a Marine who committed suicide in Afghanistan in April.",
"The case drew national attention when Rep. Judy Chu of California, the aunt of the Marine who killed himself, told a congressional committee about it in September.",
"A Marine statement sent to CNN Thursday said the commanding general of the 3rd Marine Division, Brig.",
"Gen. Frederick Padilla, had referred charges in the case against Sgt.",
"Benjamin E. Johns, Lance Cpl.",
"Jacob D. Jacoby, and Lance Cpl.",
"Carlos Orozco III to a general court martial.",
"The three allegedly berated and assaulted Lance Cpl.",
"Harry Lew for falling asleep while on watch when he first arrived in Afghanistan, according to Chu and a Marine investigation of the incident reported by the Marine Corps Times.",
"Lew committed suicide by shooting himself shortly thereafter.",
"\"Harry's death was a heartbreaking tragedy that could have been prevented,\" Chu said Thursday in statement issued by her office.",
"\"The decision by the Marines Corps to bring the three Marines before a jury of their peers brings comfort to the family and shows the military justice system at work.\"",
"In her September appearance at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Chu said her nephew's sergeant told fellow Marines in the unit to \"teach\" the 21-year-old newcomer after he was found asleep on his watch.",
"\"Lance Corporal Lew was beaten, berated and forced to perform rigorous exercise,\" she said then.",
"\"He was forced to do push-ups and leg lifts wearing full body armor, and sand was poured in his mouth.",
"He was forced to dig a hole for hours.",
"He was kicked, punched and stomped on.",
"And it did not stop until 3:20 a.m.\" Minutes later, she said, Lew \"climbed into the foxhole that he just dug and shot himself and committed suicide.\"",
"A military investigation report obtained by the Marine Corps Times said Lew killed himself with a two- or three-round burst from an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the early hours of April 3.",
"According to the Marine Corps Times story on the report, a message found on Lew's arm, believed to be a suicide note, said: \"May hate me now, but in the long run this was the right choice I'm sorry my mom deserves the truth.\"",
"The incident at Patrol Base Gowragi, in Nawa district, began with Lew failing to respond to radio calls late on the night of April 2, the report said.",
"A sergeant who found him sleeping told others that \"peers should correct peers,\" it said, as reported by the Marine Corps Times.",
"The report detailed how two lance corporals, whose names were redacted, berated Lew and ordered him to do exercises in body armor for four hours, with one of them stomping on Lew's legs at times.",
"One Marine kicked and punched Lew until being stopped by another, the report said.",
"Less than an hour later, it said, Lew killed himself.",
"\"At 0343 on 3 April 2011, while crouching down in the fighting position he had just dug, LCpl Lew leaned over his M249 Squad Automatic Weapon as it pointed to the sky, placed the muzzle in his mouth, pulled the trigger, and intentionally killed himself,\" the report said, according to the Marine Corps Times.",
"CNN's Larry Shaughnessy contributed to this report."
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"The case involves the suicide of a Marine allegedly berated and beaten by peers .",
"The dead Marine was the nephew of U.S. Rep. Judy Chu of California .",
"Chu spoke about her nephew's death at a congressional hearing in September ."
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"(CNN) -- At least six people have died and several others are missing after rains triggered severe flooding in northern Italy, state-run news agency ANSA reported.",
"Heavy rains continued to fall Thursday night in Milan and other spots across the southern European nation, according to the Servizio Meteorologico, Italy's official weather agency.",
"That includes an alert from the agency about intense, widespread rainfall -- potentially with strong wind gusts and hail -- in the regions of Calabria and Basilicata, as well as the eastern part of Sicily.",
"Meanwhile, Monterosso al Mare -- between Genoa and Pisa on Italy's northwest coast, in the Cinque Terre region of Liguria -- has been \"isolated, accessible only by sea\" because of earlier rains and floods, Mayor Angelo Betta told ANSA.",
"So, too, is the nearby town of Vernazza, with even bulldozers and cranes still not able to reach it.",
"That said, Betta reported some progress Thursday thanks to round-the-clock efforts by emergency workers and volunteers to clean up the town.",
"One volunteer in that community died in the flood Wednesday.",
"\"The situation is much better compared to yesterday,\" Betta said.",
"Italy's defense ministry noted Thursday on its website that 348 military personnel have deployed to the provinces of Massa Carrara and La Spezia to assist in the wake of flooding here.",
"Three people were killed after a house collapsed in La Spezia, the news agency stated.",
"ANSA also reported that prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation related to the deaths of two people from flood-related injuries in Aulla.",
"Authorities are assessing whether their deaths had anything to do with faulty work that may have caused the Magra River to overflow.",
"The weather has also caused major travel headaches throughout the region.",
"A mudslide that trapped a truck driver, who was eventually freed, has caused the A12 highway in Liguria to be blocked since Tuesday.",
"Train service in Liguria has been halted, too, due to mud and debris on the tracks.",
"CNN's Marilia Brochetto contributed to this report."
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"NEW: 348 Italian military personnel are dispatched to help in flood-ravaged areas .",
"State-run news reports flooding-related deaths in 3 Italian locales .",
"Monterosso al Mare is \"isolated, accessible only by sea,\" its mayor says .",
"The storms have caused transportation problems across Liguria ."
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"(CNN) -- Wednesday night's European summit was, well, a very European summit.",
"It lasted forever, included several dramatic moments, ended in the wee hours of the morning and delivered a highly complex result.",
"Yet, the questions that Americans might now ask are quite simple: Has this leaders' conclave succeeded in stopping the spread of the \"contagion\" from the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis?",
"Will the European financial disease reach America's shores and affect local jobs and livelihoods?",
"The answer may seem somewhat paradoxical: While the Europeans have made strides to beat the virus, this crisis is anything but over.",
"The Europeans had been asked to deploy a \"big bazooka,\" a weapon so big and so potent that it would force financial markets into submission.",
"There could be no doubt allowed that the \"euro-Europeans\" (those who share Europe's single currency) would do absolutely everything to preserve the credibility of their currency and restore trust that investments in European bonds remain safe.",
"In the good old days, a president, a prime minister or a chancellor (most likely male) would have stepped up, made a bold decision and presented it to the people in front of a microphone.",
"He would appear to be determined and convinced that he was doing the right thing.",
"Doubt was neither part of his vocabulary nor his demeanor.",
"Indeed, those were the days of the sovereign nation state.",
"But the eurozone is not a sovereign and not a nation.",
"Instead of a prime minister, it has \"Merkozy\" -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- an odd couple who, though unelected in their roles, have stepped into a continental leadership vacuum.",
"Their summit battles with each other and with their 15 colleagues are well-known.",
"While the markets want certainty, Merkozy can only deliver measures saddled with national caveats because they must respect other nations' minority views.",
"It is the nature of Europe's intergovernmental beast that defies the decisiveness that markets demand.",
"Given the political constraints and the convoluted nature of the decision-making, Merkozy and friends have certainly delivered.",
"The complexity of the challenge in the uncharted territory of a monetary union without joint fiscal authority cannot be overstated.",
"Merkozy have lightened the debt load of Greece considerably by talking the banks into a loss of 50% on the face value of their Greek loans; they have ring-fenced other weak nations by introducing a recapitalization mechanism for banks; they have leveraged the existing bailout fund -- the European Financial Stability Facility -- to a maximum capacity of $ 1.4 trillion; they have pressured Italy into another round of structural and budget reforms; and they have agreed to improve the governance of the currency union by way of treaty change.",
"Not bad for a long weekend that ended Thursday morning.",
"The markets, after initially reacting favorably, will try to poke holes in the carefully constructed edifice.",
"The leaders themselves will have given the markets all the cues.",
"Such is the nature of a consensus body of national leaders that no disagreement and no doubt goes unnoticed, all preparatory documents -- including risk assessments -- have been leaked.",
"Soon, market participants will focus on the architecture of the leveraged bailout fund and its two new special-purpose vehicles, which will be open to outside investors.",
"It is still unknowable whether markets will consider them safe, given that the Europeans, especially the Germans, have insisted on insurance of limited rather than unlimited liability, to guarantee against some of the losses that bondholders might suffer.",
"Most importantly, the leaders cannot control what the banks do next.",
"They might seek new capital -- as is suggested to them -- to reach the new core capital requirement of 9% by next summer.",
"But they might also shrink their balance sheets to get there, thus contributing to a credit crunch and economic contraction.",
"Their participation in the Greek \"haircut\" has been framed as voluntary.",
"But in reality, at that level of a write-down, they are more interested in being forced into an agreement that the markets call a credit event.",
"Such an event triggers an insurance payment to the investors (an insurance scheme called credit default swap kicks in to minimize bank losses).",
"The European leaders want to avoid such a situation for risk of contagion.",
"It will still be quite a dance to avoid the credit event.",
"Again, the outcome is unknowable today.",
"In the end, markets might find that Europe's big bazooka is really mid-sized.",
"In fact, the last few days have revealed that the European firepower is limited.",
"France cannot spend much more cash without endangering the country's triple-A rating.",
"If it loses the top rating, the bailout fund will be downgraded as well, thus increasing Germany's liability.",
"At that point, the whole bailout building will look flimsy.",
"Therefore, it is time for others to come to the rescue.",
"Up until now, the United States has resisted increasing the International Monetary Fund's (and thus also America's) financial involvement.",
"But Washington will need to reconsider, for two reasons of self-interest: The crisis spans the Atlantic, and the two economies are deeply integrated.",
"There will be no American recovery without stabilization in Europe.",
"Thursday morning, the French president talked to the Chinese premier to convince him to invest in Europe's new special-purpose vehicle.",
"Will America want to lose its leverage over Europe to China?",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff."
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"Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff says deal in emergency EU summit promising, crisis not over .",
"He says Sarkozy, Merkel faced huge task in uniting eurozone leaders on plan for Greece .",
"He says the markets are likely to poke holes in deal; there's no telling what banks will do next .",
"Writer: The U.S. should come to rescue next and support upping IMF's financial involvement ."
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"(CNN) -- Few television specials capture the magic and fun of Halloween like the animated classic \"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.\"",
"In case it's been awhile, the 45-year-old hit follows Linus' quest to connect with the Great Pumpkin, a Santa-like gift-giver, in spite of everyone's biting disbelief.",
"Meanwhile, like a little Rodney Dangerfield, Charlie Brown gets a lot more disrespect and more tricks than treats like only he can.",
"As it has for the past 10 years, ABC will be broadcasting \"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\" at 8 p.m. Thursday October 27, making it just one of the tasty treats couch potatoes can anticipate.",
"But all the offerings aren't cute and cuddly and for those looking for chills, there are a handful of scary choices that will have you screaming up a storm.",
"Read on for more titles: .",
"'Truth or Scare' (Halloween marathon 3-7 p.m. Friday, October 28; repeating 1-3 p.m. Monday, October 31, The Hub): .",
"Host Michelle Trachtenberg (\"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\") goes deep to explore haunted houses, mythical beasts, and ancient legends around the globe in a scary bunch of \"Truth or Scare\" episodes that will delight the whole family.",
"'Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later' (8 p.m. Friday, October 28, AMC): .",
"Get ready to scream when Michael Myers and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) return for the series' seventh installment.",
"The 1998 film is a part of AMC's annual \"Fearfest.\"",
"The festival of screams includes the third installment of \"The Walking Dead\" airing 9 p.m. Sunday, October 30.",
"In it, a mob of hungry zombies continues to trap poor Shane (Jon Bernthal) in a school .",
"'Grimm' (debuts 9 p.m. Friday October 28, NBC): .",
"Detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli, \"Turn The Beat Around\") discovers he is a descendant of the Grimms, an elite line of profilers charged with keeping the balance between humanity and mythological creatures.",
"In his first case, Nick must stop a big, bad wolf from killing girls in red.",
"'The Dead Files' (10 p.m. Friday October 28, Travel Channel): .",
"Hosts Amy Allan and Steve Di Schiavi investigate a historic Florida hotel where the owners and guests have been tormented by frighteningly real visions.",
"'Possessing Piper Rose' (9 p.m. Saturday, October 29, Lifetime): .",
"Rebecca Romijn (\"Ugly Betty\" and \"X-Men\") plays a woman who adopts a little girl.",
"That's innocent enough, right?",
"Too bad the little girl's deceased mom is a ghostly stalker.",
"'The Good Witch's Family' (9 p.m. Saturday October 29, Hallmark Channel): .",
"Catherine Bell (\"Army Wives\" and \"JAG\") is back to charm more viewers.",
"In the fourth installment of the Hallmark Channel's highest rated movie series, Cassandra (Bell) meets a woman who says she's a long lost relative.",
"'Bucket & Sinner's Epic Adventures' (9:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29, Nickelodeon): .",
"In an episode titled \"Epic Haunting,\" Bucket and Skinner's latest plan to achieve epic status has them spending the night in an infamously haunted house.",
"'The Simpsons' (8 p.m. Sunday, October 30, Fox): .",
"Everyone's favorite animated family will kick off its 22nd annual \"Treehouse of Horror\" episode.",
"The funny installment features three spine-chilling tales with sidesplitting nods to \"The Diving Bell and Butterfly,\" \"Avatar\" and \"Dexter.\"",
"Expect equally creepy and fun episodes from \"Family Guy\" and \"The Cleveland Show\" later that night.",
"'The Sing Off' (8 p.m. Monday October 31, NBC): .",
"The remaining a cappella groups continue to compete.",
"But the haunted holiday twist has them singing spooky hits including \"Werewolves of London\" and \"Ghostbusters.\"",
"'The Nate Berkus Show' (Monday, October 31, syndicated, check your local listings for times and stations): .",
"Home guru Nate Berkus and HGTV's Dina Manzo, formerly of \"The Real Housewives of New Jersey,\" create the ultimate Halloween table top in time for the holiday."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's influential parliament speaker has called for an investigation into allegations that post-election detainees were raped while in custody, state-run media said.",
"Ali Larijani said a parliamentary probe should examine whether jail rape allegations were true or false.",
"Ali Larijani said that a special parliamentary panel \"had carried out investigations into the situation in [Iranian] jails and the treatment of detainees and it should also look into whether jail rape allegations are true or false,\" Press TV reported, citing Tabnak, a Web site associated with opposition politician Mohsen Rezaie.",
"Meanwhile, Iran's Intelligence Ministry, the government body that keeps tabs on political dissenters, warned the media against revealing what it called \"classified data\" after reports Monday that Ahmadinejad had purged four senior intelligence officials, according to Press TV.",
"The ministry said in a statement that publishing \"false news\" could result in exposing vital \"documents, identities of personnel, internal structure\" -- pertaining to the Intelligence Ministry, Press TV reported.",
"\"This subject is among classified material and it is obligatory for all individuals, and especially media supervisors, newspapers, Web sites to refrain from publishing such reports,\" the statement said, adding that the government would pursue prosecution of those who failed to heed the warning.",
"In the aftermath of the election, the media has repeatedly reported on the shuffles within the Intelligence Ministry, including Ahmadinejad's firing of former Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, which drew the ire of Iran's conservatives.",
"Incidents such as the firings of senior officials have exposed rifts within Iran's ruling elite that began surfacing in the aftermath of the controversial presidential election on June 12 in which Ahmadinejad was officially declared the winner.",
"Thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest and a brutal crackdown by security forces followed.",
"At least 30 people died in the violence and more than 1,000 people were arrested.",
"The call for an investigation of the alleged abuse of those arrested comes on the heels of a letter written by another opposition candidate, Mehdi Karroubi, to the powerful former president of Iran, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.",
"Karrubi informed Rafsanjani that a number of detainees had claimed that several women and men, arrested over the course of post-election protests, were sexually assaulted by their jailers.",
"Karrubi asked Rafsanjani to approve an \"impartial committee\" to \"investigate these tragedies with transparency until they are resolved.\"",
"\"Young boys held in detention have also been savagely raped,\" Karrubi said, adding that they were suffering from depression and serious physical injuries after the alleged attacks.",
"Rafsanjani was to have delivered this week's Friday sermon but announced he would not be doing so.",
"Rafsanjani backed Ahmadinejad's chief rival Mir Hossein Moussavi in the election and is reported to have fired some bodyguards who said they voted for Ahmadinejad.",
"Rafsanjani -- now head of the Assembly of Experts, the council responsible for appointing or removing the supreme leader -- called for the release of post-election detainees during a highly anticipated July 17 sermon at Friday prayers.",
"Iran has put on trial some 100 politicians, journalists and activists accused of involvement in the alleged post-election revolution while the treatment of detainees in Iran's prisons has become an increasingly high-profile issue, with human-rights groups accusing guards of conducting harsh interrogations, beatings, sleep deprivation, and threats of torture to coerce false confessions.",
"Iranian media have reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has ordered one prison, Kahrizak, shut down amid reports it did not measure up to the required standards.",
"Kahrizak's chief was fired and arrested over allegations of detainee mistreatment, according to local reports.",
"A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry Monday denied that prisoners had been tortured.",
"\"What kind of talk is this? There was never any pressure used against these people,\" Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.",
"Separately, a top general with Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard is calling for Karrubi and Mousasvi to be prosecuted, alongside former president Mohammed Khatami, accusing them of fanning the protests that have gripped the nation.",
"They should be tried for attempting to lead a Western-backed \"velvet revolution\" that aimed to topple the regime, the official said."
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"Parliamentary speaker wants inquiry into allegations detainees were raped in prison .",
"More than 1,000 arrested in protests following recent presidential elections .",
"Iran's Intelligence Ministry warns media over publishing \"classified data\"\nWarning came after media reported purge of four senior intelligence officials ."
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"(CNN) -- Flooding has claimed 102 lives in southwestern Nigeria, where a dam burst and a river overflowed near the city of Ibadan, officials said Wednesday.",
"A rain deluge from Friday night to early Saturday caused the Odo Ona River to overflow and the Eleyele dam to collapse, said Yushau Shuaib of the government's National Emergency Management Agency.",
"Several homes were swept away and temporary camps were set up, Shuaib said.",
"The Nigerian Red Cross, which is helping in the crisis, said earlier this week that more victims could still be found in remote areas that rescue teams have not reached.",
"The government is delivering aid to people displaced by the flooding in Ibadan and surrounding areas in Oyo state, the National Emergency Management Agency said.",
"Thousands of people have been displaced, and about 1,500 of them are being looked after in centers run by government officials and the Red Cross in the Ibadan area, Red Cross spokesman Umar Mairiga told CNN on Tuesday.",
"They are being given emergency food rations, as well as mattresses, blankets and rubber mats, Mairiga said.",
"The deputy governor of Oyo state, Chief Moses Adeyemo, called for more federal government help to resettle those displaced and to rebuild bridges and water channels destroyed by the flooding, the statement said.",
"NEMA warned that there could be more flooding in urban areas during the rainy season if drains were inadequate or blocked by uncleared waste.",
"Journalist Alkasim Abdulkadir and CNN's Christian Purefoy and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"More than 100 people have died in Nigerian flooding .",
"More flooding is possible during the rainy season, agency warns .",
"Thousands of people have been displaced, the Nigerian Red Cross says ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Round two of the battle of the propofol experts started Thursday afternoon in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor as the defense anesthesiology expert began his testimony.",
"When Dr. Paul White continues his testimony Friday, and he is expected to counter the conclusions of prosecution anesthesiologist Dr. Steven Shafer, whose earlier testimony spanned more than a week of Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial.",
"Dr. White said that after reviewing the reports, evidence and analysis from investigators in Jackson's death he was not convinced Dr. Murray was responsible.",
"\"I was somewhat perplexed at how a determination has been made that Dr. Murray was infusing propofol,\" White said.",
"\"It wasn't obvious to me, I thought there were questions.\"",
"A drug-addiction specialist testified earlier Thursday that Jackson was \"probably addicted\" to a powerful painkiller given him during frequent visits to a Beverly Hills dermatologist in the three months before his death.",
"Dr. Robert Waldmon was called by the defense in an effort to show Jackson's insomnia the day he died could have been caused by withdrawal from Demerol shots he was given along with botox injections, treatments that Dr. Murray didn't know about.",
"White, who is the last witness before the defense rests, spent most of the first two hours establishing his credentials as one of the world's foremost experts on the surgical anesthetic propofol, which the coroner ruled was the chief drug that killed Jackson.",
"The personal and professional rivalry between Dr. White and Dr. Shafer played an odd role in Thursday's testimony.",
"White's longtime friendship with Shafer has been tested during the Murray trial, including an incident last week that resulted in the judge scheduling a contempt-of-court hearing against White for next month.",
"At one point Thursday, White suggested someone \"tell Dr. Shafer he needs to learn how to spell plasma,\" because it was misspelled on a graph he created.",
"White, however, attempted to downplay rivalry with Shafer when the judge mistakenly called White \"Dr. Shafer\" for a second time.",
"\"I take it as a compliment, actually,\" White said.",
"White and Shafer, who are on opposite sides in this trial, may have a new anesthesia product to develop as a result of their preparations to testify, White said.",
"Both experts commissioned studies on the possibility that Jackson might have orally ingested the fatal dose of propofol, something they both have now ruled out.",
"But they learned that propofol could be absorbed through the tissues of the mouth, White said.",
"He and Shafer agreed during courthouse chats while waiting to testify that they might be able to develop a propofol lollipop as a \"non-invasive sedation device.\"",
"Shafer testified last week that he concluded the \"only scenario\" that fits the scientific evidence is that Jackson was on an IV drip of propofol for three hours before his death and that Murray failed to notice when he stopped breathing.",
"Shafer conceded that it was possible that Jackson, not Murray, could have been the one to open the drip to a fatal pace, but prosecutors contend it would make no difference in Murray's guilt.",
"The defense hopes the testimony from White and Waldmon, their last two witnesses, will convince jurors that Jackson gave himself the overdose of drugs that killed him while Murray was not watching.",
"The Los Angeles County coroner ruled Jackson's June 25, 2009, death was the result of \"acute propofol intoxication\" in combination with several sedatives.",
"The defense theory is that a desperate Jackson, fearing his comeback concerts could be canceled unless he found elusive sleep, self-administered propofol that Murray was trying to wean him off of.",
"Prosecutors contend Murray is responsible for his death even if he did not give him the final and fatal dose because he was criminally reckless in using the surgical anesthetic to help Jackson sleep without proper precautions.",
"The defense contends Jackson became addicted to the painkiller Demerol through frequent visits to the Beverly Hills dermatology clinic of Dr. Arnold Klein in the months before his death.",
"Murray was unaware of the addiction, and therefore unable to understand why he could not help Jackson sleep, the defense contends.",
"During Thursday morning's testimony by Dr. Waldmon, the addiction specialist, defense lawyer Ed Chernoff displayed Dr. Klein's medical records for Jackson, kept under the name \"Omar Arnold.\"",
"The showed at least 24 visits from March 12 until June 22, 2009, three days before his death.",
"The defense previously said Jackson was given 6,500 milligrams of Demerol at Klein's clinic during those visits.",
"Jackson received 900 milligrams of Demerol at Klein's clinic over three days in early May, the records showed.",
"Dr. Waldmon called the shots \"stiff doses.\"",
"Waldmon testified that from his review of those medical records and \"based on what is known of his public behavior that he was probably addicted\" to Demerol.",
"\"Six weeks of very frequent high-dose use would develop opioid dependence in any of us,\" Waldmon said.",
"The defense also sought to connect the Demerol shots to Jackson's poor health at some rehearsals for his comeback concerts and at other times when he complained of being being hot and cold at the same time.",
"Patients describe opioid withdrawal as like \"the worst case of influenza they ever had,\" Waldmon said.",
"While Demerol was not found in Jackson's blood or body during his autopsy, the defense contends it played a major role in his death.",
"His inability to sleep, which Murray was trying to resolve the day he died, could have been a direct symptom of his withdrawal from the drug.",
"\"Anxiety, restlessness and insomnia\" are \"very common\" symptoms of Demerol withdrawal, Waldmon said.",
"Jackson's personal assistant, Michael Emir WIlliams, testified earlier that Jackson's visits to Dr. Klein were \"very regular\" in his last months of life.",
"\"There were times he would go almost every day\" to Klein's office, and Jackson often appear intoxicated when he left, Jackson's security chief Faheem Muhammad testified.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor ruled earlier that while the defense could use Klein's medical records, they could not call the doctor or his staff to testify in the trial."
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"Addiction specialist testifies Jackson was \"probably addicted\" to Demerol .",
"Demerol withdrawal could've caused Jackson's insomnia, expert says .",
"Jury deliberations in Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial could begin early next week ."
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"(CNN) -- Israeli naval forces Tuesday successfully took over a boat of activists intent on breaking what they call the \"siege of Gaza\" without violent resistance.",
"Benny Gantz, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, confirmed that naval forces had been ordered to seize the vessel, known as the Dignite, as it approached the coast of Gaza, where a maritime security blockade is in force.",
"The forces \"operated in line with procedures and took every precaution necessary while using all operational tactics determined prior to the operation, and avoid causing harm to the activists on board while ensuring the safety of the soldiers,\" the IDF said.",
"After the boarding, \"the passengers' health was examined and they were offered food and beverages.\"",
"The Dignite -- carrying 10 activists, three crew members and three journalists -- is affiliated with the Free Gaza Movement, whose aim is to break the \"siege of Gaza.\"",
"Greta Berlin, spokeswoman for the Free Gaza Movement, said the boat declared its destination as Alexandria, Egypt, so that it could leave Greek waters.",
"But it changed its destination in international waters, which is legal, Berlin said.",
"Four navy boats surrounded the Dignite as it approached the coast of Gaza, the boat's organizers said.",
"After the Israeli Navy intercepted the vessel, it engaged in a \"dialogue\" with the activists \"in an attempt to dissuade them from continuing on their route\" toward a maritime security blockade off the Gaza coast, the IDF said.",
"It said that any supplies on board \"may be transferred, legally, through the existing land crossings and the Ashdod port.\"",
"However, the IDF said, \"all diplomatic channels had been exhausted and continuous calls to the vessel had been ignored.\"",
"Given the groups' \"unwillingness to arrive at the Ashdod port,\" the IDF said, \"it was unequivocally necessary to board the vessel and lead it to Ashdod.\"",
"\"After all the options we suggested were refused, we decided to take over the yacht.",
"We realized that the captain was lying.",
"He lied to the authorities in Greece about his sailing route and changed it from Egypt to Gaza,\" said IDF spokesman Brig.",
"Gen. Yoav Mordechai.",
"The boat was taken to Ashdod, and the relevant security authorities and the Israel police were set to begin the process of questioning the passengers, who will then be transferred to the Ministry of Interior and the immigration authorities, officials said.",
"Israel insists on controlling access to Gaza because it says it has to keep weapons out of the hands of Palestinian militants who would use them to attack Israelis.",
"Gaza is run by Hamas, which has carried out dozens of terrorist attacks and is listed by the United States as a terrorist organization.",
"Israel emphasizes that it delivers large amounts of aid to Gaza.",
"The country mounted a diplomatic offensive to try to stop the flotilla from setting sail.",
"The ship was part of a group of vessels that had planned to sail to Gaza in an effort to promote public awareness about Israel's blockade of the area.",
"The others were grounded in Greece.",
"The activists connected with the Freedom Flotilla, as they call it, also wanted to commemorate a May 2010 incident in which Israeli troops boarded the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship filled with humanitarian aid and 700 activists from various countries.",
"Nine people died in clashes with Israeli Navy commandos.",
"\"The Dignite carries a message of solidarity and human empathy from the people of the world to the people of Gaza, and all of Palestine, that Israel's violence can never silence,\" the group said."
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"Activists say they want to break what they call the \"siege of Gaza\"\nIsrael says its control of Gaza's borders is to keep weapons out of militants' hands ."
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"(CNN) -- A murder suspect who escaped from a Florida jail earlier this week was nabbed after a police chase in Ohio Saturday morning, officials said.",
"Rondell Reed, 52, escaped with his cellmate, Leviticus Taylor, Monday from the Indian County Jail, officials said.",
"Taylor, 25, who was quickly captured, was convicted of murder last month, according to CNN West Palm Beach affiliate WPBF.",
"According to Indian County Sheriff Deryl Loar, Reed was arrested after the chase ended in a crash in Warren County, north of Cincinnati.",
"An officer had tried to initiate a traffic stop when Reed allegedly drove away.",
"Subject of a nationwide manhunt, Reed had been on the lam for nearly a week.",
"\"Rondell Reed is very smart.",
"He is not a stupid crook,\" said Indian County Det.",
"Steven Stoll.",
"\"He is very good at auto theft.",
"It's what he did growing up. He knows how. \" Authorities believe Reed was headed for Indiana, where he has family.",
"Loar told reporters earlier this week that the suspect stole a vehicle, likely in the Sebastian area.",
"The vehicle that crashed Saturday may have been a different one, officials said.",
"Reed had been arrested in the death of an Indian County business owner, WPBF said .",
"In Ohio, Reed faces charges of receiving stolen property, failure to comply with a police officer, carrying a concealed weapon and having a weapon under disability, according to Cincinnati affiliate WLWT and Warren County's website.",
"Loar said corrections deputies performed hourly checks of Reed and Taylor in their cells, but items they used to create dummies gave the appearance that they were tucked in their sheets when in fact they were making their getaway, WPBF reported.",
"\"The River County Jail has been hardened again, not only after the immediate escape, (but) continuing through this week,\" Loar told reporters Saturday.",
"\"This incident will not happen again under my command.\""
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"Houston (CNN) -- A plane carrying U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords departed Houston on Wednesday headed for Florida, where she is scheduled to attend the Friday launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, commanded by her husband, Mark Kelly.",
"Giffords has been recovering at a Houston rehabilitation hospital after she was shot in the head at a public event January 8 in Tucson, Arizona.",
"Her staffers put a picture taken from the plane on Twitter, saying she \"is looking forward to some time away\" from TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.",
"Last week, her doctors gave her final clearance to attend the launch.",
"Giffords will not make a statement or meet with the media while she is at Kennedy Space Center, officials said.",
"Doctors and friends have spoken of Giffords' strong recovery.",
"She speaks in short sentences, walks with a cart for therapy and has full use of her left side.",
"Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Florida, recently said her friend \"continues to make remarkable progress, has a little bit more mobility now ... is a lot more responsive, interactive and initiating speech.\"",
"Earlier this month, CNN's Sanjay Gupta visited Giffords' medical team in Tucson, including Dr. Peter Rhee, the trauma chief at University Medical Center, where she was first treated.",
"Dr. Gupta on Giffords' skull surgery .",
"\"I'll tell you she's not going to be 100%, I know that for a fact,\" Rhee said of Giffords.",
"\"She has a scar on her head, she's going to have multiple scars on her ... there are a lot of things that are permanently damaged that won't ever come back.",
"Is she going to be the same as she was before? I think she's going to have permanent changes in thoughts and memories and feelings and emotions, so we'll have to see how that pans out in the future.",
"But I think she'll be doing very well.\"",
"Kelly will be commanding a crew of four other Americans and one astronaut from the European Space Agency.",
"Liftoff is scheduled for 3:47 p.m.",
"ET Friday. According to a senior administration official, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha will also watch the launch in person. ; ."
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"Giffords is scheduled to attend a space shuttle launch Friday .",
"The shuttle will be commanded by her husband, Mark Kelly ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- More than 300 wounded Libyans will arrive in Germany to be treated in hospitals within the next 10 days in an operation approved by Libya's interim government, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday.",
"\"Our expectation of the amount of the wounded Libyans treated in German hospitals changes each hour,\" said Thomas Holz of the German health service Almeda.",
"According to Almeda's marketing chief Michael Blasius, the company expects the number of Libyan patients to rise.",
"Already, 111 Libyans who arrived in 20 planes are receiving treatment in German civilian hospitals.",
"Four further planes were expected to land in German territory Friday.",
"\"Some of those patients will be transferred to countries like France, Great Britain, Turkey and the U.S.,\" Blasius told CNN on Friday.",
"The United States plans to provide treatment for at least 28 wounded Libyan fighters.",
"U.S. officials said Thursday that at least 24 would be taken to a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, because their wounds cannot be treated in Libya.",
"An additional four will go to U.S. medical facilities in Germany, according to Major Janelle Jeffrey of the U.S. Africa Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany.",
"Libya's National Transitional Council requested the U.S. medical treatment, which is being offered as a humanitarian gesture and support for Libya's democratic aspirations, U.S. officials said.",
"Almeda said it received the health service request by Libya's new Finance Ministry on October 14.",
"Four days later, the first military plane arrived in Germany with dozens of wounded Libyans.",
"That was a day after German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler announced Germany would offer medical help to the NTC.",
"Three so-called \"scouting teams\" are currently screening Libyan and Tunisian hospitals, searching for heavily injured Libyans who might benefit from treatment abroad.",
"Almeda told CNN there would be two further scouting teams in Tunisia and Libya at the beginning of next week.",
"Many wounded Libyans had already received treatment in Tunisia, according to Blasius.",
"CNN's Larry Shaughnessy in Washington and Frederik Pleitgen in Berlin contributed to this report."
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"111 Libyans are already receiving treatment in Germany .",
"The United States plans to treat at least 28 wounded Libyan fighters .",
"The Libyans are being taken abroad because their wounds can't be treated in Libya ."
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"(CNN) -- The widow of a man who set free 56 exotic animals he owned before apparently committing suicide will not get back the six that survived any time soon, a spokesman for the governor of Ohio said Thursday.",
"\"Today, the Ohio Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine order\" on the animals, said Robert Nichols, press secretary for Ohio Gov.",
"John Kasich.",
"Nichols noted that it has been widely reported that the animals were malnourished and could be diseased, and said they might pose a public health threat.",
"Marian Thompson -- whose husband, Terry, released lions, tigers, leopards, grizzly bears and other animals from his preserve near Zanesville, Ohio, last week -- has a right to appeal the order, which is indefinite in length, Nichols said.",
"If she does so, she would be granted a hearing within 30 days.",
"Earlier in the day, officials at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said in a news release that Thompson was planning to take custody of the animals on Thursday afternoon, despite their hope that the animals would remain at the zoo.",
"Under the quarantine order, that is where they will remain, Nichols said.",
"Police say Terry Thompson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound shortly after releasing the animals October 18.",
"Of the 56 animals released from the Thompsons' preserve, only a grizzly bear, two monkeys and three leopards were taken alive, said Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz.",
"Authorities killed two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions, and 18 Bengal tigers.",
"One monkey remained unaccounted for.",
"Lutz and Jack Hanna, conservationist and director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, said the animal may have been eaten by one of the big cats.",
"The Humane Society of the United States has said it does not fault authorities for using deadly force in such a situation.",
"However, the group criticized Kasich, who in response to the incident signed an executive order dealing with private ownership of exotic animals.",
"The order strengthens enforcement of existing laws.",
"The Humane Society said the order \"is inadequate and sidesteps the central problems created by the exotic animal trade in Ohio.\"",
"Kasich also said he will push for new laws giving the state increased authority regarding exotic and dangerous animals."
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"NEW: A quarantine order will keep the animals at the zoo, the governor's spokesman says .",
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama passed his recent physical in excellent condition, according to White House physician Dr. Jeff Kuhlman.",
"The physical -- the president's first since February 2010 -- was conducted last week.",
"It included testing for colon and prostate cancer and diabetes -- all of which were negative -- as well as measures of blood pressure and vision.",
"At 50 years of age, the president continues to have uncorrected 20/20 vision, according to Kuhlman's report.",
"Obama, who early in his administration categorized himself as \"a former smoker\" but conceded \"there are times I mess up,\" was found to be \"tobacco free,\" according to a two-page summary of Kuhlman's report released by the White House.",
"The report says that the president occasionally drinks alcohol in moderation, which has been linked to good heart health, and that he \"eats a healthy diet.\"",
"Specifically, the report said Obama, who stands 6 feet 1 inch tall, \"stays at a healthy weight\" at 181.3 pounds.",
"His blood pressure measured normal at 107/71 mm Hg and his heart rate was measured at 67 beats per minute.",
"Obama's cholesterol measures were categorized by Kuhlman as \"'ideal' with a calculated 10-year coronary heart disease risk of low (2%).\"",
"Kuhlman summarized that \"the President is in excellent health and 'fit for duty.'",
"All clinical data indicate he will remain so for the duration of his Presidency.\"",
"Obama's next full physical will occur at the end of next year.",
"CNN's Miriam Falco contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- In the very early hours of this morning, \"don't ask, don't tell\" ceased to be U.S. policy.",
"As a result, today is the first day I can write about being the partner of a gay military serviceman without fear that he will lose his job.",
"In December, Sen. John McCain voiced his opposition to repealing DADT and reminded America it was in the middle of two wars.",
"This I knew well. At the time, my partner was on a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.",
"My better half is a commander in the U.S. Navy who has served his country for more than 23 years.",
"He has deployed more than eight times, flying missions for Operation Deny Flight (Bosnia), Operation Southern Watch (Iraq) and Operation Iraqi Freedom.",
"During his year in Afghanistan, he provided support for Operation Enduring Freedom.",
"When McCain, R-Arizona, stood up in the U.S. Senate to defend the feelings of homophobic servicemen and women, gay active-duty personnel were unable to speak out.",
"By doing so they would have \"outed\" themselves and lost their jobs.",
"In spite of this, repeal passed, due in no small part to public opinion massively favoring repeal (67% according to a December 2010 Gallup poll).",
"Had my partner been able to openly share his experience, he might have highlighted McCain's arguments about repeal of DADT affecting morale, recruitment and retention as moot points.",
"In Afghanistan, my partner worked and lived alongside Danish, French and British troops, to name just a few.",
"With nearly every NATO country allowing gay men and women to serve openly in their militaries, McCain would have had to forgo multinational operations and coalitions in order to fully \"protect\" his soldiers from exposure to \"openly gay\" personnel.",
"Though repeal of DADT was won, there are Americans, specifically some GOP presidential candidates, who would reinstate it.",
"Now that gay military personnel can be visible, in my view, they should be.",
"In short, with \"don't ask, don't tell\" gone, it's time to tell.",
"The battle has only been half won.",
"Gay servicemen or servicewomen can no longer be discharged simply for being gay, but they are still treated inequitably.",
"Only by using their newly won free speech can they hope to reap the same benefits as their straight colleagues.",
"Let me give you some examples.",
"When a member of the U.S. military marries, he or she effectively gets a pay raise through an increased housing allowance.",
"Even after repeal, this benefit will not accrue to married same-sex couples.",
"When a married service member is sent away from his spouse on a tour of duty, the couple is entitled to a family separation allowance.",
"Again this will not apply to married same-sex couples.",
"If my partner and I were married and if the law allowed both of these benefits to accrue to him while he was in Afghanistan -- as they would if he were in a straight marriage -- we would have received an additional $10,000 that year.",
"The inequality doesn't stop at pay either.",
"Same-sex partners of military personnel are also denied dependent identification cards.",
"This meant that when my partner was hospitalized in 2009, I had no way of independently gaining access to the Navy hospital where he was treated without a special \"hospital visitation authorization.\"",
"Moreover, whether my partner and I are married or not, today I would still have no access to the shops, gas stations or recreational facilities available to other military spouses on base.",
"I would also not be entitled to spousal health care benefits if we are married.",
"Perhaps most cruelly of all, post-DADT gay military spouses are still not entitled to survivor benefits if a partner is killed in the line of duty.",
"They also remain ineligible to be buried with their spouse if he or she is buried in a military cemetery.",
"Gay military spouses sacrifice just as much as their straight brothers and sisters.",
"We support our partners.",
"We relocate with them when they receive new orders and in turn we give up our jobs, friends and lives to support their careers.",
"Despite this, we are denied the support and safety nets afforded our straight counterparts.",
"With DADT gone, we should no longer suffer in silence.",
"The military benefits system needs to change.",
"If the benefits currently unavailable to gay military families were similarly unavailable to Jewish, black or female service members, I have no doubt the situation would be rectified immediately.",
"There needs to be a public outcry, and it needs to come from active duty gay personnel, their partners, families, friends, colleagues and the public at large.",
"For this to happen, the public has to see and understand that a significant proportion of the men and women in uniform protecting them are gay.",
"In the coming days and weeks, I urge all gay military personnel and their partners to come out, where appropriate, to their families, co-workers, even their Facebook friends.",
"Do this not to share the innermost details of your private life, but to begin the fight for the recognition and rewards you deserve as true American heroes.",
"Furthermore, when the likes of a Michele Bachmann or a Rick Santorum propose reinstating DADT, let them be challenged by decorated gay marines, sailors, soldiers, airmen and coastguards and asked: Why should they and their partners be treated as second-class citizens?",
"Why should they, as patriots who have spilled blood for their country, be treated anything less than equally by their employer and the government they defend?",
"Having read this far, you'll be aware that I have not named my partner.",
"If he wants to come out to his employer and colleagues, and I would encourage him to do so, I firmly believe they should hear it from him first.",
"Being honest about your sexuality and standing up for your right to be treated equally doesn't have to involve a public announcement.",
"There will be colleagues you want to tell and members of the military hierarchy that you should tell, specifically those denying you equal pay and benefits, but there will also be colleagues who have no business knowing.",
"Families have just reason to be proud of sons and daughters who serve in the U.S. military.",
"They should be prouder still to know that service was given in the face of unequal reward and above-average sacrifice.",
"The danger for gay military personnel is that, having spent years being forced to hide and tell half-truths, they continue to remain invisible.",
"Without visibility, the arguments of those opposed to equality are easier for the public to believe.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Laurence Watts."
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"Laurence Watts: DADT ending; he can freely write about his gay servicemember partner .",
"He says DADT kept gay servicemembers from speaking out for fear of losing jobs .",
"He says many rights are still denied them, particularly for married same-sex couples .",
"Watts: Why should gay military who defended U.S. be denied equal access to benefits?"
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Just moments after departing Washington's Union Station, as the tour bus drove past the U.S. Capitol, Mel Bruce made an announcement to a handful of tourists.",
"\"Most sadly for us, we close the doors after 42 years of service.",
"Today is the final run for Tourmobile,\" said Bruce, a tour guide for Tourmobile Sightseeing.",
"The company announced that Monday would be its last day of operation.",
"The company claimed unique status among tour operators in the nation's capital by having the exclusive contract for sightseeing bus tours of Arlington National Cemetery.",
"For many Tourmobile employees, the end of the line means more than the end of a job.",
"\"It was just a shock, we were just stunned by it,\" Bruce, 63, said after dropping off a group of tourists at Arlington.",
"For Bruce, giving brief history lessons to out-of-towners came easy, since growing up in the area gave him the chance to witness history firsthand.",
"\"I was at the Lincoln Memorial with my family to hear firsthand Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his 'I Have a Dream' speech,\" Bruce said over the loudspeaker as the bus drove past the newly dedicated memorial to the civil rights leader.",
"Bruce became a tour guide for the company in the summer of 1972 -- when Tourmobile was in its third year of business-- but he left after four years to try his luck on Broadway.",
"After a 33-year absence, he returned in 2006.",
"Much remains the same, he said.",
"\"Everyone in the world is still eager to see the sights that they have only seen up to now in paintings, books and magazines.\"",
"According to the company's website, Tourmobile, which started operations in 1969. employs 300 seasonal workers and serves \"upwards of 2 million riders annually.\"",
"The tour buses take visitors to many of the capital's most famous sites, including the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the National Mall.",
"What's next for the company is unclear.",
"\"We are currently unable to provide any information regarding future tour services,\" a message on the company's website said.",
"Bruce blamed the company's demise on the sagging economy and more competition in the area offering similar services.",
"Starting Tuesday, wlth Tourmobile no longer running, there will be no bus tours for visitors at Arlington National Cemetery until a new contract is awarded through bidding that will be overseen by the National Park Service.",
"The cemetery covers 624 acres and has 4 million visitors a year, many of whom may find walking the sprawling hallowed grounds too difficult.",
"The park service hopes to have a new tour bus company in place before the end of the year.",
"\"This is a bittersweet time for the (National Park Service) and Tourmobile, as they have faithfully served the needs of millions of visitors for over 42 years,\" said Steve Whitesell, regional director of the park service's National Capital Region.",
"\"Times change, and we are ready to enter a new era for visitors to access our national parks in greater Washington.\"",
"Tourist Gretchen Neu, from Racine, Wisconsin, was visiting Washington for the first time and could not imagine touring the cemetery on foot.",
"\"Absolutely not. I mean, you have to have some mode of transportation other than your own car,\" Neu said, sitting on the Tourmobile bus as it left the cemetery.",
"Families with loved ones buried at Arlington National Cemetery and those with disabilities will still be able to drive their own cars on the property.",
"Another thing that set Tourmobile apart from other tour operators was the type of buses it used -- more like trams that are common at theme parks.",
"The red, white and blue Tourmobile trams that many Washingtonians have become used to seeing came from Universal Studios in California.",
"\"They are truly relics of a whole other era,\" Bruce said just before making his final trip of the day.",
"\"It seemed that that operation worked so well in California that they wanted to try it out here, and that's how it was born.\"",
"What was born over 40 years ago is coming to an end, but Bruce said he's not ready for retirement and wants to keep showing off the place where he grew up.",
"\"I greet the world every day, and it's a privilege for me to show the world my hometown,\" he said."
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"Tourmobile Sightseeing began showing visitors the sights of Washington 42 years ago .",
"The company announced that Monday would be its last day of operation .",
"The company had an exclusive contract for tours of Arlington National Cemetery .",
"The National Park Service says it hopes to have a new tour bus company in place by year's end ."
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A 14-year-old Australian boy accused of marijuana possession could face jail time on the resort island of Bali.",
"With his face covered in a black mask, the teenager was mobbed by the media as he entered a local court complex for the first day of his trial Tuesday.",
"Earlier, prosecutor Gusti Gede Putu Atmaja said the judge would not wear his usual robe to try to minimize stress on the boy.",
"The trial is closed to the public.",
"The Australian teen -- whose name has not been publicly released -- faces three charges under Indonesia's stringent narcotics laws.",
"The most serious charge of possession, under article 111, carries a sentence of up to six years.",
"The teen is also charged with drug use under article 127, which could result in a maximum sentence of four years.",
"The least serious charge, under article 128, relates to drug use by minors and takes into account a person's history of drug use.",
"This charge does not hold criminal liability and could send the teen to rehabilitation instead of jail.",
"\"We are optimistic, and we hope that we will get the result we want -- that he be returned to his parents and avoids jail time,\" said the teen's lawyer, Mohammad Rifan.",
"But the prosecutor stressed that article 128 stipulates a minor's parents should report the drug use to Indonesian authorities.",
"Any actions taken by his guardians in his home country are not recognized in Indonesia.",
"If the teen does face a jail sentence, \"The sentence may be as short as a few months,\" Atmaja said.",
"The boy could also receive credit for time served.",
"The prosecution presented two witnesses at the trial Tuesday.",
"Rifan, the defense attorney, said he expects a quick decision in the trial, with twice-weekly court hearings that could end by mid-November.",
"\"The boy was under stress from the media attention but was otherwise in relatively good condition during the court hearing,\" Rifan said.",
"The teen's next court appearance is scheduled for Friday.",
"The teen has been detained since his October 4 arrest, after allegedly buying 3.6 grams of cannabis off the streets.",
"He was on vacation with his parents in Bali, a popular tourist destination for many Australians.",
"He was initially detained at a police headquarters but was recently moved to an immigration detention center.",
"Australian officials and the teen's lawyer lobbied intensively to have him released, but prosecutors announced last week that the minor would stand trial.",
"Indonesia anti-drugs laws are considered strict.",
"Visitors to the country are warned, upon arrival, that some drug crimes carry a maximum penalty of death.",
"Still, many have been arrested and convicted for various drug offenses.",
"Two Australians are on death row in Bali's Kerobokan prison.",
"Six other Australians are serving life sentences."
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"The teen, accused of marijuana posession, has been detained since his October 4 arrest .",
"He was on vacation with his parents in Bali .",
"The teen could be sent to rehabilitation instead of jail .",
"Indonesia has strict drug laws, with some crimes punishable by death ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued new orders aimed at speeding up transportation projects he says will put construction workers back on the job, using the opportunity to blast congressional Republicans who have blocked similar legislation.",
"Standing before the aging Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Potomac River, Obama again criticized Republicans who have blocked the jobs bill he put forward in September, telling an audience of construction workers, .",
"\"There's work to be done. There are workers ready to do it.",
"The American people are behind this,\" he said.",
"\"Democrats, Republicans, independents believe in this.",
"These are ideas that have been supported by all those groups in the past.",
"There's no reason not to do it this time.\"",
"The White House announced Wednesday that Obama was ordering the Transportation Department award $527 million in pending road and bridge repair grants by the end of the year and speed up applications for another $110 million in financing for projects in 2012.",
"The White House and DOT are also setting up a team to speed reviews of other road and rail projects.",
"\"If there's money already in the pipeline, we want to get it out faster,\" he said.",
"Republicans filibustered the Senate version of the president's $447 billion jobs proposal in mid-October, while a $35 billion measure that would have forestalled layoffs of state and local government workers like teachers and police officers was blocked a few days later.",
"Republican leaders particularly opposed raising taxes on top earners to pay for the measures.",
"\"How do we sit back and watch China and Europe build the best bridges and high-speed railroads and gleaming new airports, and we're doing nothing at a time when we've got more than a million unemployed construction workers who could build them right here in America right now?\"",
"Obama asked.",
"Meanwhile, he criticized the House of Representatives for spending time to debate measures like establishing a commemorative baseball coin and a resolution reaffirming \"In God We Trust\" as the official U.S. motto.",
"\"I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work,\" he said."
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"White House orders aim to speed up construction projects .",
"Obama blasts Republicans for blocking his jobs bill .",
"\"If there's money in the pipeline, we want to get it out faster,\" he says ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Juror deliberations got under way Tuesday in the case against alleged Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, marking a near-end to the high-profile trial.",
"Bout is charged with a wide range of counts, including conspiracy to kill Americans, attempting to sell arms to undercover federal agents, wire fraud and violating U.N. Security Council sanctions.",
"If convicted, he faces life in prison.",
"Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan McGuire on Tuesday boasted that the evidence against Bout \"is overwhelming,\" pointing to alleged ties with a variety of armed conflicts.",
"\"He did everything he could to show that he could be a one-stop shop\" for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said McGuire.",
"The jury is expected to reconvene Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT.",
"Bout, widely dubbed \"the Merchant of Death\" and often referred to by American officials as among the most notorious of global arms traffickers, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.",
"His attorney, Albert Dayan, said the former Soviet air force officer was not involved in illegal arms sales, telling jurors that federal agents baited Bout into selling the weapons alongside a deal to sell airplanes.",
"Dayan says his client has been unfairly charged.",
"The heart of the charges against Bout stem from a 2008 sting operation in Thailand by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.",
"According to a 2008 federal indictment, undercover agents posing as FARC rebels attempted to buy larges caches of weapons from Bout.",
"Agents tried to buy 700 to 800 surface-to-air missiles, thousands of AK-47s, and landmines, according to the indictment.",
"They told Bout that they wanted the arms \"to kill Americans,\" to which Bout said that he \"was going to prepare everything the FARC needed.\"",
"Before the arrest, the DEA had struggled to draw Bout out of his Russian homeland, which had long sheltered and defended him.",
"Undercover agents met with Bout's associates the world over, from Curacao to Copenhagen, in an attempt to set up a meeting with their target, according to the indictment.",
"He was extradited to the United States in 2010 following protracted court proceedings in Thailand.",
"Critics accuse Bout of providing larger and more powerful arms to rebels in several countries and fueling bloody conflicts in places such as Liberia and Sierra Leone.",
"The 2005 movie \"Lord of War,\" starring Nicolas Cage, was inspired by Bout's life."
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"NEW: The jury is expected to reconvene Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT .",
"Viktor Bout is accused of trying to sell weapons to agents posing as Colombian rebels .",
"Bout's life inspired the movie \"Lord of War,\" starring Nicolas Cage ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout could face life in prison after a federal jury returned guilty verdicts Wednesday on four counts related to a conspiracy to kill Americans, acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles and provide material support to a terrorist organization.",
"Bout's attorney, Albert Dayan, said the verdict will be appealed.",
"\"I still stand by my position that Viktor was wrongfully accused,\" said Dayan.",
"\"The jury has spoken but his position is still that he's innocent.\"",
"Widely dubbed \"the Merchant of Death,\" Bout was often referred to by U.S. and United Nations officials as among the most notorious of global arms traffickers.",
"He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.",
"Dayan said during the trial that the former Soviet air force officer was not involved in illegal arms sales, and that federal agents had baited Bout into selling the weapons alongside a deal to sell airplanes.",
"But Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for Manhattan, called the Russian tycoon \"a very dangerous man\" in a statement Wednesday.",
"\"He aimed to sell those weapons to terrorists for the purpose of killing Americans.\"",
"Commentary: Three chilling moments from the trial .",
"The heart of the case stemmed from a 2008 sting operation in Thailand by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.",
"Undercover agents posing as Colombian rebels attempted to buy larges caches of weapons, according to a 2008 federal indictment.",
"Both the United States and the European Union identify the rebel group -- the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC -- as a terrorist organization.",
"The agents tried to purchase 700 to 800 surface-to-air missiles, thousands of AK-47s and landmines, telling Bout that they wanted the arms \"to kill Americans,\" the indictment said.",
"Bout responded, it said, by saying he \"was going to prepare everything the FARC needed.\"",
"During closing arguments Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan McGuire called the evidence against Bout \"overwhelming,\" pointing to alleged ties with various armed conflicts.",
"\"He did everything he could to show that he could be a one-stop shop\" for FARC, said McGuire.",
"Prior to his arrest, the DEA had struggled to draw Bout out of his Russian homeland, which is long thought to have sheltered and defended him.",
"Undercover agents met with Bout's associates the world over, from Curacao to Copenhagen, in an attempt to set up a meeting with their target, according to the indictment.",
"He was extradited to the United States in 2010 following his arrest and a protracted court proceeding in Thailand.",
"The Russian businessman has also been accused of assembling a fleet of cargo planes to traffic military-grade weapons to conflict zones around the world since the 1990s.",
"According to the indictment, he was suspected of creating front companies that used his planes to deliver food and medical supplies, as well as arms.",
"His alleged trafficking activities in Liberia prompted U.S. authorities to freeze his American assets in 2004 and prohibited U.S. transactions with him, it said.",
"Less than a year later, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed 30 companies and four people on a specially designated list that carried similar actions against them.",
"Bout has maintained that he operated legitimate businesses and had acted as a mere logistics provider.",
"His exact age is unclear, but he is believed to be in his late 40s or 50s, with his age in dispute due to different passports and documents.",
"The U.S. attorney's office said it had no confirmed age.",
"Critics have accused Bout of providing arms to rebels in several countries and fueling bloody conflicts in places such as Liberia and Sierra Leone.",
"In 2000, then-British Foreign Office Peter Hain branded him \"Africa's chief merchant of death\" at a time when Bout is believed to have supplied arms to officials in Sierra Leone, a former British colony then embroiled in civil war.",
"The 2005 movie \"Lord of War,\" starring Nicolas Cage, is considered to be largely inspired by Bout's life."
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"Bout is found guilty on all four counts; he will appeal .",
"The assistant U.S. attorney called the case against Bout \"overwhelming\"\nBout's attorney says his client was unfairly charged .",
"Bout is convicted of trying to sell weapons to U.S. agents posing as Colombian rebels ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 successfully docked with the lab module Tiangong-1 early Thursday, another milestone in Beijing's plan to build a space station.",
"Shenzhou-8 joined up with the 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 343 kilometers (213 miles) above Earth, according to Wu Ping, spokesperson with the China Manned Space Engineering Project.",
"\"The equipment works well and all the in-orbit experiments are progressing well,\" she said.",
"President Hu Jintao, currently in Europe at the G-20 summit, praised the nation's first space docking, according to Xinhua news agency.",
"China's space ambition soars .",
"\"Breakthroughs in and acquisition of space docking technologies are vital to the three-phase development strategy of our manned space program,\" he said.",
"Prime Minister Wen Jiabao watched the docking at Beijing's Aerospace Control Center along with other top communist party officials, Xinhua said.",
"Shenzhou-8 blasted off on November 1 from a launch facility in the Gobi Desert in northwest China -- one month after the first space laboratory module Tiangong-1 was launched into space.",
"According to Wu, the two modules will fly together for 12 days before conducting another docking test.",
"The docked spacecraft will then fly for two more days before separating from each other.",
"Shenzhou-8 is scheduled to return to Earth on November 17, while Tiangong-1 will remain in space to wait for the next docking test.",
"\"Achieving the space rendezvous and docking is another historic technical breakthrough for China's manned spacecraft project,\" said Wu.",
"China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, the first stage in a \"three-step\" strategy to develop its manned engineering project.",
"The launch of the Tiangong-1 lab module is the second step.",
"If successful, it will be followed by the last phase: to build a permanent space lab that will allow astronauts to conduct long-term space experiments.",
"According to Xinhua, Beijing hopes to build a space station by around 2020.",
"There will be two more docking tests with Tiangong-1 in 2012, with at least one carrying astronauts, according to officials."
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"Shenzhou-8 joined up with the 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 343 kilometers above Earth .",
"The successful experiment is an important step in China's plan to build a space station .",
"Shenzhou-8 scheduled to return to Earth on November 17, with Tiangong-1 remains in orbit ."
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"(CNN) -- Laura Pollan, a founder of one of Cuba's leading dissident groups, died Friday, her daughter said.",
"Pollan suffered a heart attack and died at Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana, Laura Maria Pollan told CNN en Espanol.",
"The founder of Cuba's Ladies in White had been hospitalized several days ago because of a respiratory complication.",
"Yoani Sanchez, a Cuban blogger, told CNN that some of Pollan's relatives, friends and fellow dissidents had gathered outside of the hospital.",
"The Ladies in White, an opposition group, formed after the Cuban government cracked down on dissidents in 2003.",
"Among the activists arrested then was Hector Maseda Gutierrez, Pollan's husband.",
"He was freed in February.",
"Members of the Ladies in White dress in white, carry flowers and march to demand the release of political prisoners -- many of whom are relatives and friends of the women.",
"CNN's Carloo Perez contributed to this report."
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"Laura Pollan suffered a heart attack, her daughter says .",
"She died at the Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana .",
"The Ladies in White demand the release of political prisoners ."
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"(CNN) -- Shock waves were felt throughout cricket on Thursday when three Pakistan international players were sent to prison for their part in a betting scam against England in 2010.",
"The trio, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were handed differing jail terms after being found guilty of plotting to cheat during the match at Lord's -- the home of English cricket.",
"However, while Butt and Asif have been roundly condemned for their actions, which resulted in sentences of 30 months and 12 months respectively, in some quarters there has been a modicum of sympathy for 19-year-old Amir.",
"Pakistani cricketers jailed in betting scam .",
"Unlike his two, more experienced colleagues, Amir confessed to deliberately bowling no-balls (foul deliveries) in order to make money in a betting scam, with the judge, Mr Justice Cooke, handing him a lesser sentence of six months, calling him \"\"impressionable\".",
"And now Amir's mother and brother have told CNN they have sympathy for the teenager, believing he was coerced into agreeing to bowl no balls.",
"Speaking from her family home in Changa Bangial, one hour outside Islamabad, Amir's mother, Naseem Akhtar, told CNN's Reza Sayah: \"He rose to stardom at the speed of light and has falling back down just as fast.",
"\"Amir still thinks like a child, he is very naive.",
"I know that he was forced into doing this, he wasn't greedy for money,\" she added.",
"\"But in my heart I know that god is with him, and he will make a comeback in cricket with my prayers.\"",
"Amir's close friend Rizwan Akbar told CNN: \"I have known Mohammad for eight or nine years, we lived together.",
"I did not think he would ever do anything like this.\"",
"However, somebody who has no sympathy for Amir and his fellow-convicted teammates is Paul Condon, the former head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit.",
"Speaking to CNN's Don Riddell, following the announcement of the prison sentences, Condon said: \"These guys betrayed their country and betrayed millions of cricket lovers around the world.",
"\"These players were idolized in Pakistan, but they betrayed everything for money so they deserve what they have got.\"",
"Condon added: \"In my time with the ICC, I always said the most powerful message was if cricketers were dealt with criminally for these matters, otherwise cricket loses and millions of people also lose their confidence in the game.\""
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"Mohammad Amir's family tell CNN they sympathize with their son's plight .",
"They believe the teenage Pakistan cricketer was forced into a betting scam .",
"Amir was one of three players jailed in England on Thursday for their role in the scandal ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- The number of deaths linked to a listeria outbreak in cantaloupe has risen to 29, the Centers for Disease Control reported Wednesday, topping a 1985 mark for the most deaths among adults and children.",
"The outbreak, first detected in September and traced back to a Colorado farm, has sickened a total of 139 people in 28 states, the CDC says.",
"In addition to the 29 deaths, one woman who was pregnant at the time she fell ill suffered a miscarriage.",
"The toll makes the current outbreak the deadliest among adults and children since the agency started keeping track of listeria cases in 1973, though a 1985 outbreak in California involved 28 deaths and another 20 stillbirths and miscarriages, CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell said, according to CDC figures.",
"What you need to know about Listeria .",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said it is unable to pinpoint the reason for the outbreak, but unsanitary conditions in a packing facility in the Granada, Colorado, farm is a suspected contributing cause.",
"The agency notified Jensen Farms in October that likely causes included packing equipment that \"was not easily cleaned and sanitized\" and the use of washing and drying equipment for cantaloupe packing as well as other raw agricultural commodities.",
"How to keep your food safe .",
"In addition, the agency said in a statement, the facility lacked a \"pre-cooling step\" to remove field heat from the cantaloupes before cold storage, possibly leading to condensation in the cooling process that promoted growth of the listeria bacteria.",
"Decade's 10 biggest food-borne illness outbreaks ."
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"A listeria outbreak that started in Colorado has now killed 29, CDC says .",
"CDC: It's the deadliest listeria outbreak among adults and children since the 1970s .",
"An outbreak in 1985 killed 28 people, and caused stillbirths and miscarriages ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Bob Barker, the former host of \"The Price Is Right,\" made an impassioned plea Wednesday for an end to what he described as an ugly side of entertainment: the mistreatment of exotic and wild animals in traveling circuses.",
"At a Capitol Hill news conference, Barker noted that traveling circuses rely heavily on animals that are trained to do tricks, which he said is accomplished with acts of cruelty.",
"\"How do they train them? They have to dominate the animal,\" Barker said.",
"\"How do they dominate the animal?",
"They beat it, with clubs, fists, black jacks, ax handles, golf clubs.",
"They shock it with all sorts of electric devices.",
"They use bull hooks on them they even deprive them of food and even water in order to make them do these tricks.\"",
"Barker, who is well known for promoting the cause of animal protection, is championing the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act.",
"The bill, which would amend the existing Animal Welfare Act, has attracted bipartisan support.",
"The bill would affect only traveling shows.",
"It specifically exempts zoos, aquariums and research labs and rodeos.",
"Rep. Jim Moran, D-Virginia, said that although the issue is not the most pressing concern of the day for Americans, \"how we treat animals is a reflection of our nation's moral character.\"",
"Dr. Mel Richardson of Animal Defenders International lent his perspective from more than four decades of veterinary practice on the conditions of most, if not all, lions, tigers and elephants in traveling shows: \"Imagine living all of your life on a queen-size or king-size bed.\"",
"But the concerns are not confined to their housing.",
"Jan Creamer, president of ADI, said there is sufficient documented evidence -- gained from workers planted in some traveling circuses -- that many of the animals suffer from violent training and severe punishment.",
"Barker's celebrity co-host was actress Jorga Fox of \"CSI\" and \"The West Wing,\" who echoed the call for setting up more permanent residences for circus animals, and taking them off the road.",
"\"Our kids look to us for what is right and our kids look to us for what is fun. ...",
"If our kids knew how cruel and violent these events were, I think they'd actually be very disappointed in us, for [going] to these places,\" Fox said.",
"A recent incident in Ohio in which privately kept wild and exotic animals were released by their owner and ultimately killed by authorities, and a recent lawsuit against SeaWorld alleging the exploitation of orcas, have drawn attention to the mistreatment of show animals.",
"Barker and his fellow advocates say the public is attuned to the nature of the proposed legislation.",
"Similar measures have been passed in at least 20 countries, including Bolivia, Peru, Portugal and India.",
"And, according to the panel, more than a half-dozen countries are soon likely to follow suit.",
"\"It is time for the United States to join this parade of nations that is doing the right thing,\" Barker said."
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"Bob Barker urges passage of the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act .",
"In a Capitol Hill news conference, he tells of violence used to train animals .",
"Animal protection advocate tells of confined lives of large show animals .",
"Actress Jorga Fox: \"Our kids look to us to do what is right\""
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"(CNN) -- Kenyan troops are battling the Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab in neighboring Somalia, westerners are being targeted at Kenyan tourist resorts and fears are high of terror attacks in Nairobi.",
"What are the reasons behind the unrest and what is likely to happen next?",
"What is the source of the unrest?",
"A state of near-anarchy has existed in Somalia for more than two decades: the government has little authority, violent conflict has left thousands dead, and the country has recently been hit by a devastating famine.",
"Pirates have taken advantage of the power vacuum to prey on vessels large and small off the country's coast, but over the past few months, Al-Shabaab militants appear to have added a new tactic: kidnapping foreign tourists and aid workers in Kenya (though some in Al-Shabaab deny involvement in the abductions.)",
"Al-Shabaab already generates tens of millions of dollars a year, much of it by controlling ports along the Somali coast, according to a recent United Nations report.",
"U.N. report: Al-Shabaab is raising millions illegally in Somalia .",
"How has Kenya responded to the kidnappings?",
"Responding to fears that foreign investors and tourists could be scared away, Kenyan forces last month entered Somalia, saying the kidnappings threatened security and constituted an attack on Kenyan sovereignty.",
"Kenyan forces say they are ultimately seeking to take the Somali port city of Kismayo, described by the U.N. as a key stronghold and source of cash for Al-Shabaab.",
"Fears grow over Somali pirates' 'new tactics' after kidnaps, killing .",
"What has been the response? The incursion has raised fears of reprisals with Al-Shabaab saying it considers it an affront to Somalia's sovereignty.",
"Last month (October) the U.S. Embassy in Kenya said it had credible information of an imminent terror attack on foreigners.",
"The following day, twin explosions in Nairobi killed at least one person.",
"Many worry the action will make Kenya less safe, not more so.",
"Security analyst Rashid Abdi, from International Crisis Group, told CNN: \"There is a risk that while the argument for going in is to stop terrorism, the contrary could now be the case.",
"Al-Shabaab will now have the pretext to strike Kenya.\"",
"How likely is Kenya's operation to succeed?",
"Any foreign intervention in Somalia is a big risk, say experts who point to recent history as proof, in particular America's ill-fated \"Black Hawk Down\" mission in 1993 when U.S. forces tried to capture a local warlord - resulting in many deaths on both sides, Ethiopia's U.S.-backed invasion that contributed to the rise of Al-Shabaab, and the African Union's long and bloody campaign to control the Somali capital Mogadishu.",
"\"If there is anything we have learnt in the last couple of decades it is that foreign intervention, especially military intervention, doesn't work in Somalia,\" said Abdi.",
"Kenya's largely conventional army is being hampered by heavy rains and Al-Shabaab's ability to melt into the background.",
"However officials say their operation should be over within months.",
"\"We don't want to go off and get stuck in Somalia,\" Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua said.",
"\"When the United States, Ethiopia and others went there, they were trying to support an existing government.",
"Our main objective is just to go in, dismantle the Al-Shabaab and get out.\"",
"What is the background to the unrest?",
"Somalia has known only conflict since the 1991 fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, who had seized power in 1969, nine years after independence from Britain and Italy.",
"Meanwhile, as the EU tightened fishing controls in Europe, fleets from Europe and Asia -- many operating illegally -- moved into East African waters to fish.",
"According to many reports, in the absence of any Somali navy patrols, those fleets plundered fish stocks, decimating the livelihoods of many Somali fishermen.",
"Fertile territory for Al Shabaab in chaos of Somalia .",
"Many of these destitute former fisherman \"took matters into their own hands,\" according to the African Development Bank, and turned to hijacking ships to make up for lost income.",
"The new \"industry\" was quickly co-opted by the Somali warlords and is now an organized, hierarchical gang-like operation.",
"According to academic William Jelani Cobb, \"Somalia is like Afghanistan in that we had a great deal of interest in the place during the Cold War and more or less forgot about it afterward.\"",
"In an article written for CNN in 2009 in response to the kidnapping of an American ship captain, Cobb wrote: \"Part of combating terrorism means addressing the conditions in which it flourishes.",
"Extortion and kidnapping on the high seas is certainly wrong, but by ignoring ... the threats to the regional food supply, we effectively created a niche for these pirates.\"",
"Commentary: A lesson of Somali pirate attacks .",
"How will the unrest affect the region?",
"With famine causing misery for millions in the Horn of Africa, the conflict between Al-Shabaab and Kenyan forces is likely to hinder humanitarian efforts.",
"Even before the incursion, aid workers found it difficult to provide relief, according to Roger Middleton, consultant researcher on Chatham House's Africa Program.",
"\"If you've got a big war going on, it's difficult to distribute relief.",
"Bombings only increase the risk,\" Middleton said, adding that discussions about access between aid workers and Al-Shabaab were unlikely to be eased by the conflict.",
"How is the international community reacting?",
"The Kenyan government says the decision to attack was its alone.",
"Key western allies such as the U.S. and the UK have been quick to state publicly they are not assisting in this action, though the French say they will help.",
"In the region, Rwanda and South Africa have issued statements backing Kenya.",
"\"The international community is being quietly supportive,\" Middleton said, \"but only because they have no idea what else to do.",
"\"I'm sure the U.S. and others have provided intelligence assistance, but there have been no overwhelming offers of support.",
"Most governments believe sending troops into Somalia is not a good idea, but there is no plan B, apart from the status quo.",
"\"Their reasoning is that Kenya forces could be stuck in Somalia for ages, or there could be an insurgent campaign in Kenya itself.",
"It could go horribly wrong -- who knows?\""
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"Somali pirates have started kidnapping foreigners in Kenya as well as hijacking boats .",
"Last month Kenyan forces entered Somalia, saying kidnappings threatened security .",
"Analysts warn Kenyan forces' mission in Somalia is risky .",
"Conflict is likely to hinder humanitarian efforts againsnt famine in the Horn of Africa ."
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"(CNN) -- The family of a Florida man who was the first to die in the 2001 anthrax attacks has reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government over his death, a lawyer for the family said Monday.",
"The family is waiting for word from the Justice Department before a deal is finalized, said Richard Schuler, the lawyer for the family of anthrax victim Robert Stevens.",
"The family sued the government for $50 million in 2003, arguing that the military laboratory in Maryland that was identified as the source of the bacterium should have had tighter security.",
"\"I think the family was vindicated that the government has agreed to settle the case with them in spite of the fact that they put up a lot of roadblocks,\" Schuler said.",
"Stevens and his wife, Maureen, were married 27 years, and there is \"still a hole in her life as far as her husband is concerned,\" he said.",
"Schuler would not comment on any details of the tentative deal.",
"Stevens, a photo editor for supermarket-tabloid publisher American Media Inc., died five days after testing positive for inhalation anthrax in October 2001.",
"He was the first of five people killed in the anthrax mailings, with 17 other people sickened.",
"\"It's a horrible, painful death, that they had to witness their loved one go through,\" Schuler said.",
"\"It's something that they'll never forget.\"",
"Court documents filed last week in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach County, Florida, requested deadlines in the Stevens lawsuit be suspended as the parties tried to finalize a settlement.",
"Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller declined to comment on any deal.",
"\"The documents speak for themselves,\" Miller told CNN via e-mail.",
"\"We would have nothing further at this time.\"",
"The FBI eventually blamed the attacks on a civilian scientist at the Army's biological research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.",
"The suspect, microbiologist Bruce Ivins, had a history of mental illness and killed himself in 2008 before investigators brought charges against him, federal prosecutors said.",
"A February report by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that it could not reach a \"definitive conclusion\" about the source of the anthrax, which federal agents said had been linked to a sample from Ivins' laboratory.",
"But the FBI and the Justice Department stand by their findings, saying that scientific testing gave agents \"valuable investigative leads\" that led them to Ivins.",
"A CNN Presents investigation in early October revealed that the federal government has spent $19 billion to fight biological attacks.",
"Multiple new labs have since opened to research potential treatments, and the government now counts nearly 15,000 workers, handling germs like Ebola, plague, and anthrax -- about twice as many as before.",
"The FBI now checks potential workers for felonies and ties to terror groups.",
"But proposed reforms like psychological screening or requiring two people in labs have gone nowhere, with scientists who have reviewed the issue calling those proposals intrusive, expensive and impractical."
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"Robert Stevens was the first of five killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks .",
"His family sued the government in 2003, accusing it of lax lab security .",
"The FBI blamed the attacks on a scientist at an Army facility ."
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"(CNN) -- Liverpool striker Ryan Babel has been charged with improper conduct by the English Football Association (FA) following his criticism of referee Howard Webb on Twitter.",
"Webb, who took charge of the 2010 World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands, awarded a controversial first minute penalty against Liverpool in their 1-0 FA Cup third round defeat to Manchester United on Sunday.",
"Webb also sent off Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard for a first half challenge on Michael Carrick, again hotly disputed.",
"Dutch international Babel used his Twitter blog to post a mocked-up picture of Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt.",
"Dalglish makes losing start as Liverpool go out .",
"Babel also wrote: \"And they call him one of the best referees?",
"That's a joke.\" The 24-year-old later apologized, saying his remarks were light-hearted.",
"\"My apology if they take my posted pic seriously.",
"This is just an emotional reaction after losing an important game.",
"\"Sorry Howard Webb.\"",
"In a statement Monday, the FA said the charge \"relates to comments and images published by the player on Twitter concerning referee Howard Webb.\"",
"Babel has until Thursday to respond to the charge, the first time such action has been taken by the FA over a Twitter posting.",
"He has previously run into problems over his tweets, having to apologize for former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez after being dropped from the team."
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"Ryan Babel is the first footballer to be charged by FA over a Twitter posting .",
"Babel used a mock-up picture of referee Howard Webb and made derogatory comments .",
"The Dutch international could face a ban if found guilty of charges ."
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"(CNN) -- Al Shabaab, which has connections to al Qaeda, is a militant Islamist group that controls much of southern Somalia and is active around the capital, Somalia.",
"It has waged an insurgency against the weak Transitional Federal Government since 2007.",
"How it started . Somalia has been without any functioning government since 1991 -- perfect territory for different militia and factions to fight over the bones of the old state.",
"Al Shabaab (which means \"the youth\" in Somali) emerged in about 2004.",
"Its gunmen were involved in a series of assassinations of Somalis who had connections to the West.",
"Al Shabaab began prospering when the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) seized the capital Mogadishu and much of central Somalia in 2006.",
"After defeating a coalition of warlords backed by the United States, the ICU brought Shariah-style justice to the capital, temporarily halting the anarchy in the city.",
"Many people in the capital welcomed the greater security that the ICU brought, thanks in part to the effective fighting skills of several hundred Al Shabaab fighters.",
"Official: Al-Shabaab leaders contact Kenyan government to negotiate .",
"Ethiopian invasion .",
"Six months after the ICU established itself in Mogadishu, Ethiopia invaded Somalia, with backing from Washington.",
"Both governments were concerned that the ICU were establishing fundamentalist Islamist rule and giving al Qaeda a foothold in Africa.",
"Many of the ICU leadership fled, but Al Shabaab launched a guerrilla war against the 17,000 Ethiopian soldiers deployed, drawing support from many Somalis, for whom Ethiopia is the regional arch-enemy.",
"The Ethiopians quickly occupied Mogadishu but failed to pacify much of central and southern Somalia.",
"Al Shabaab was able to regroup in southern Somalia, aided by the squabbling within the Western-backed transitional federal government.",
"In 2008, the militants began to retake a series of coastal towns south of the capital, and the port of Kismayo became a major source of revenue.",
"According to the U.N. Al Shabaab collects an estimated $35-50 million annually in custom tolls and taxes on businesses in Kismayo -- and two secondary ports higher up the coast.",
"At the same time, Al Shabaab commanders split from the political leadership of the ICU over talks with the government, which Al Shabaab rejected.",
"For their part, elders in the ICU were uneasy with the growing role of foreign fighters within Al Shabaab and its shift from being a Somali resistance force to part of the global jihadist movement.",
"Links with al Qaeda .",
"Most Al Shabaab watchers believe that the organizational ties between the group and al Qaeda \"central\" are weak or non-existent.",
"Both Osama bin Laden and his successor Ayman al Zawahiri lauded Al Shabaab for its resistance to Ethiopian occupation and its waging of jihad.",
"Soon after the Ethjiopian invasion, Zawahiri encouraged Somalis to defeat the \"crusader Ethiopian invaders.\"",
"Some Al Shabaab leaders are said to have trained in Afghanistan, but the majority of young fighters have little knowledge of al Qaeda.",
"Mysterious al Qaeda 'envoy' dispenses aid in Somalia .",
"Al Shabaab formally declared its allegiance to al Qaeda in February 2010, claiming it would \"connect jihad in the Horn of Africa to the jihad led by al Qaeda.\"",
"It reiterated the affiliation when Zawahiri became al Qaeda's leader, and most recently declared that it would \"sacrifice everything in the attainment of a global Islamic Caliphate.\"",
"Disenchantment grows .",
"Al Shabaab's best recruiting sergeant was the incapable transitional government and the long power struggle between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a former warlord, and his Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein.",
"Yusuf, an ally of Ethiopia, was eventually forced to step down at the end of 2008, easing some of the tensions within the fragile government.",
"At the same time, some Al Shabaab factions began what appeared to many Somalis as senseless attacks -- a suicide bombing against a graduation ceremony for doctors in 2009 which killed 19 people; an attack on a medical clinic used by African Union forces and civilians in January 2010; and in October this year another suicide attack against scholarship students gathered for an event near the Education Ministry.",
"That attack killed more than 100 people.",
"Al Shabaab's implementation of strict Sharia law has begun to alienate many in the way that al Qaeda did in Iraq.",
"Women have been stoned to death for adultery; amputations and beheadings are common.",
"In some areas Al Shabaab has banned listening to the radio and non-Arabic signs; and it has assassinated several journalists.",
"In a country that has little tradition of strict Sharia, such moves alienate ordinary Somalis.",
"Who's in charge? Al Shabaab has no conventional hierarchy and is divided into factions, with foreign fighters prominent in some areas and local commanders in control in others.",
"It has also had fluctuating relationships with other Islamist groups in Somalia, such as Kamboni, with which it joined forces last year.",
"The most prominent and established leader is Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who has been on a U.S. list of people \"linked to terrorism\" for a decade.",
"\"I am not a terrorist. But if strictly following my religion and love for Islam makes me a terrorist, then I will accept the designation,\" he said five years ago.",
"There is considerable tension within the movement over the extent to which Shariah law should be implemented; and more recently over allowing foreign aid groups into southern Somalia to help alleviate a famine that threatens the lives of millions.",
"American carried out Somalia suicide bombing, Islamists claim .",
"In essence the foreign fighters (among them an estimated 40 Somalis from the U.S. as well as more from Canada and Europe) see Al Shabaab's role as part of global jihad; most local leaders, especially in the south, have a more nationalistic approach.",
"They oppose the government in Mogadishu and the role of African Union troops in protecting it; but are unhappy about Al Shabaab's ban on foreign aid for famine victims.",
"Taking the fight overseas .",
"It's unclear whether Al Shabaab -- like al Qaeda -- has ambitions to go global.",
"It was involved in a double-bombing in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in 2010 -- in retaliation for Uganda's role in the AMISOM force that props up the transitional government.",
"An Al Shabaab member tried to kill the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard last year in revenge for his depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.",
"And there is concern among western intelligence agencies that Al Shabaab may forge links with other Islamist terror groups in Africa, such as Boko Haram in Nigeria.",
"The size of the Somali diaspora (1.5 million strong and concentrated in Scandinavia, Canada and the U.S.) gives Al Shabaab an opportunity to recruit for missions overseas, but to date the majority of ethnic Somalis recruited by Al Shabaab have remained in Somalia.",
"Minnesota women found guilty of raising money for Somali terror group .",
"Among an estimated 40 Americans who have joined Al Shabaab, at least two have died in suicide bombings.",
"At least one -- Omar Hammami from Alabama -- has become prominent as a propagandist and recruiter, even recording rap videos about the Ethiopian invasion and dying as a martyr.",
"\"We are all Osama,\" he is said to have told an Al Shabaab rally days after bin Laden's death.",
"Current situation .",
"In recent months, Al Shabaab has suffered a series of reverses in Mogadishu, with a senior figure being killed at a roadblock and AU troops pushing the group out of several neighborhoods.",
"It's also on the defensive in its heartland in southern Somalia.",
"Kenya has blamed Al Shabaab for the abductions of several foreigners in northern Kenya and has begun a cross border incursion aimed at creating a security buffer in southern Somalia.",
"There have already been several clashes between Al Shabaab and Kenyan forces, with the Kenyans vowing to press on to Kismayo.",
"Kenya vows to hit Al-Shabaab across Somali border .",
"Around the capital, Al Shabaab's tactical withdrawal from Mogadishu has been followed by a rash of suicide attacks and ambushes as it has resorted has stepped up suicide attacks as it's lost ground.",
"Few analysts expect a decisive victory for either Al Shabaab or the government and its foreign backers.",
"But regional analysts fear that under pressure, Al Shabaab may lash out with attacks in Kenya and elsewhere."
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"Militant Islamist group has al Qaeda connections and some control of southern Somalia .",
"Al Shabaab emerged in 2004 and grew when Islamic Courts Union seized Mogadishu .",
"Organizational ties between group and al Qaeda \"central\" are thought to be weak .",
"Some fear that under pressure, Al Shabaab will launch attacks in Kenya and elsewhere ."
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"New York (CNN) -- JetBlue has begun refunding the passengers of five flights who were stranded on the tarmac of a Connecticut airport for as long as eight hours on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN on Thursday.",
"Alison Croyle, spokeswoman for the airline, said refunds are currently being issued to passengers on all five planes that remained on the tarmac of Bradley International Airport near Hartford, amid the severe snowstorm that hit the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.",
"\"Yes, we started issuing refunds, but it will take us a while to get everyone,\" she said.",
"She said the passengers were given a letter on Saturday notifying them of full refund for their trip and a roundtrip voucher for future trips, customer service was also told to call each customer and apologize.",
"CNN Senior U.N.",
"Correspondent Richard Roth, who was stuck for eight hours on the tarmac aboard JetBlue Flight 504, said he had received a ticket price refund of $161.86.",
"That flight was bound for Newark, New Jersey, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but was diverted due to the weather.",
"In a video posed Tuesday on the airline's blog and YouTube channel, Chief Operating Officer Rob Maruster apologized for a \"confluence of events\" that led to the incident, which he explained as \"various runway, congestion and other operational issues at Newark and JFK Airports.\"",
"However, Maruster said, \"at no point in this weekend was safety ever compromised.\"",
"\"But let's face it, you count on us at JetBlue for a lot more -- and we promise a lot more -- and we know we let some of you down over the course of this weekend and for that we are truly sorry.\"",
"Maruster said the airline intends to \"fully participate with the Department of Transportation and cooperating with their investigation into events over the weekend, and we're also going to conduct an internal evaluation so that we can learn from this event because at the end of the day, you deserve better -- and we expect better from our crew members and our operation.\"",
"During the eight-hour ordeal aboard Flight 504, there was little food or water, passengers were fighting, and some had medical issues .",
"\"I got a problem here on the airplane.",
"I'm going to need to have the cops onboard,\" a flight crew member told the tower in a conversation posted on LiveATC.net, a website that monitors air traffic control conversations.",
"\"I need some air stairs brought over here and the cops brought onboard the airplane.\"",
"Passenger Roseann Kozma explained the situation in a phone interview with CNN affiliate WTIC from the plane.",
"\"A couple passengers are fighting and there's a baby on here that's been crying the whole time,\" she said.",
"Read more about this story from CNN affiliate WTIC."
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"JetBlue: Refunds are being issued to passengers on five flights .",
"The planes were stranded at the Hartford, Connecticut, airport on Saturday .",
"\"It will take us a while to get (refunds to) everyone,\" airline spokeswoman says ."
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"Quantico, Virginia (CNN) -- If you like spy thrillers, Sudoku and the daily crossword puzzle, you might want to try this: help the FBI crack a secret code.",
"It could solve a suspected murder.",
"Ricky McCormick's decomposing body was found in a field near St. Louis, Missouri, in 1999.",
"It wasn't clear how the 41-year old unemployed McCormick had died, but law enforcement believed he was murdered.",
"Their best clue: two pages of encrypted notes written by McCormick and found in his pocket.",
"They might tell investigators where McCormick had been, what he had been doing and who might have wanted him dead.",
"But they couldn't break the code.",
"In 2001, local law enforcement turned to the FBI Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit for help.",
"Its analysts, statisticians and mathematicians have puzzled over the two pages of numbers and letters intermittently for 10 years trying to figure out what they mean, but they haven't found the key.",
"\"We're beat,\" says the head of the unit, Dan Olson.",
"On March 29, the FBI asked the public for ideas.",
"In just a week and half more than 2,300 tips have flooded in.",
"They are still being processed, but so far none of the theories or leads has solved the mystery.",
"Go to FBI site, see if you can help crack code .",
"Could the notes be gibberish?",
"Olson says they definitely are not.",
"\"We have patterns. We have very consistent character repeating sequences.",
"There are almost rules to whatever language this is.",
"This is not random. This is not just letters put down.\"",
"McCormick had dabbled with ciphers since he was a child and although he wasn't well educated, Olson says, his code is unlike anything he has ever seen -- unique and idiosyncratic.",
"He hopes a member of the public might connect it with a hobby, a game or a line of work.",
"The FBI unit often cracks codes in just a couple of hours.",
"It has deciphered secret communications about murder, drug transactions, illegal gambling and human trafficking.",
"One of the toughest cases involved a note composed by Brian Patrick Regan, a former Air Force master sergeant convicted of attempted espionage in 2003.",
"The note identified seven locations in a Maryland's Patapsco Valley State Park where Regan allegedly dropped documents stolen from the National Reconnaissance Office.",
"The office builds and operates satellites for government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency.",
"While in prison, Regan worked with the FBI to decipher the complex code, which he had created but, ironically, had forgotten.",
"Eventually, they were able to associate a sequence of code with the letter \"F.\" The key that unlocked it was the name Frank, handwritten under a gag photograph of a masked classmate in Regan's middle school yearbook.",
"Olson says computers aren't much use in his line of work.",
"\"These are codes that are made by humans and they're best broken by humans,\" he says.",
"A simple whiteboard, however, is an important tool.",
"Olson and his team use one to dissect a segment of code, looking for patterns and logic in what appears to be a jumble of symbols.",
"It is collaborative work where creative ideas and unusual insights are encouraged and exchanged.",
"Olson says a good crpytanalyst needs tenacity and high self-esteem.",
"He or she can not be easily discouraged, Olson says, but sometimes needs to recognize that there is a time to step away.",
"Do they ever quit working on a code altogether?",
"It doesn't look that way. In the FBI office is a board holding copies of the FBI's \"Top 10\" uncracked coded communications.",
"Over the years, some have been solved and removed.",
"Right now, in the top slot, is a note from the \"Zodiac Killer,\" who murdered five people in California's Bay Area in 1968 and 1969.",
"The notes found in Ricky McCormick's pocket are posted in position No.",
"3. Olson is hopeful that sometime soon, with the public's help, they too will come down from the board and questions about McCormick's death will finally be answered.",
"Meserve is CNN homeland security correspondent and Cratty is a senior producer."
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"Authorities trying to solve case of man found dead in Missouri .",
"Two pages of encrypted notes were found in his pocket .",
"FBI unit specializes in cracking codes ."
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"(CNN) -- A small plane carrying Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick and three others crashed Monday evening after veering off a runway at Florida's Key West International Airport.",
"Hendrick, his wife Linda and two pilots were on board the Gulfstream G150, according to a statement from Hendrick Motorsports.",
"No one was seriously injured.",
"The pilots on board had reported no brakes upon landing, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"The plane ran completely off the runway, and the (runway) was closed for a short time before being reopened,\" a statement from the sheriff's office said.",
"\"The National Transportation Safety Board was notified and will be investigating the incident.\"",
"Authorities said the plane was registered to Jimmie Johnson Racing II Incorporated, out of Charlotte, North Carolina.",
"Hendrick Motorsports' roster of stock-car drivers includes Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr., according to the NASCAR team's website.",
"CNN's John Branch contributed to this report."
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"No one was seriously injured in the Florida crash, according to Hendrick Motorsports .",
"The pilots reported no brakes upon landing, local authorities said .",
"Hendrick's NASCAR racing team features drivers such as Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Jurors in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor will hear closing arguments from the prosecution and defense Thursday, with deliberations on Dr. Conrad Murray's fate expected to begin late Thursday or Friday.",
"It follows 22 days of testimony from several of Murray's girlfriends and patients, Jackson employees, paramedics and emergency room doctors, investigators and medical experts.",
"Jackson's mother will sit on one side of the courtroom, while Murray's mother is likely to be seated on the other end Thursday as the seven men and five women on the jury listen to each side sum up their case.",
"Jackson was preparing for a series of 50 shows in London, part of a career comeback, when he died on June 25, 2009.",
"Murray told detectives in an interview two days after Jackson's death that he had used the surgical anesthetic propofol to help Jackson sleep nearly every night for the previous two months, with the exception of his last three nights.",
"He was using the sedatives lorazepam and Midazolam in an effort to wean Jackson off of propofol the morning he died, Murray said.",
"When those drugs weren't working after almost 10 hours of trying, he gave him a single injection of propofol, which did put Jackson to sleep, he said.",
"Jackson's death was caused by \"acute propofol intoxication\" in combination with two sedatives, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled.",
"The prosecution contends Dr. Murray's use of propofol to treat Jackson's insomnia was so reckless it was criminally negligent and caused the singer's death.",
"Murray failed to perform the legal obligation as a doctor because his treatment egregiously and extremely deviated from the required standard of medical care, the prosecution alleges.",
"The defense contends that Jackson, not Murray, administered the fatal doses of propofol and sedatives the coroner ruled killed the pop icon.",
"He was so desperate for sleep, and afraid his comeback concerts would be canceled without it, that he injected himself while Murray was not watching, the defense argues.",
"Prosecutors say it makes no difference how the propofol got into Jackson's blood since it was Murray who brought the drugs into the bedroom and left him alone long enough to die.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor will start Thursday's court session by instructing the jury on the law guiding the decisions they must make.",
"The jury must unanimously agree on one of two theories in order to convict Murray on the single count of involuntary manslaughter.",
"The first theory is that Murray's administration of propofol to Jackson was criminally negligent and it caused Jackson's death.",
"Although it was legal, as a licensed doctor, for Murray to administer propofol to Jackson, they could find he was reckless in the way he did it, which created a high risk of death.",
"Criminal negligence requires more than just ordinary carelessness, inattention, or mistakes in judgment, the judge will tell jurors.",
"A reasonable person would have to have known that the action would create such a risk of death.",
"Prosecutors have laid out a list of acts they allege were negligent, including not having other medical staff present when propofol was used, a lack of monitoring equipment, ineffective resuscitative care when Jackson stopped breathing and a delay in calling for an ambulance.",
"Using propofol, which is intended to sedate surgical patients, for sleep was another egregious deviation, they argue.",
"The second theory that jurors could accept is that Murray, who assumed a legal obligation to care for Jackson when he became his physician, failed to perform this legal duty by deviating from standards of care required of a doctor, including, when he left him alone and unmonitored after administering propofol.",
"The judge asked lawyers to finish their closing arguments by the end of Thursday, so the jury could begin deliberations.",
"Murray, if convicted, faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license."
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"Jurors have two theories of guilt to consider for Dr. Conrad Murray .",
"Prosecutors say Murray's use of propofol for Jackson's insomnia was criminally negligent .",
"The defense contends Jackson gave himself the fatal overdose ."
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"Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- In August last year, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was not happy with Saudi Arabia.",
"He complained that the Saudis appeared to be funding an opposition candidate, Anwar Ibrahim, in upcoming elections.",
"What's more, the Malaysian authorities suspected two senior Saudi princes of involvement.",
"The Saudis launched an investigation, and uncovered something very different -- and more alarming.",
"A secret report seen by CNN concludes: \"There is no evidence any Saudi official ever supported Anwar Ibrahim\" and \"claims of support from the Saudi royals named in the initial report [names redacted] were found to be without basis.\"",
"But the investigation found that hundreds of millions of dollars of Saudi money had been funneled to leading Islamist politicians and political activists overseas.",
"It also found that al Qaeda and the Taliban were still able to use Saudi Arabia for fund-raising, despite numerous measures to choke off those sources of cash.",
"According to a Saudi source who is not authorized to speak publically, \"People close to the senior leadership of the Taliban live in Saudi Arabia and send money back\" [to the Taliban].",
"Today he estimates the money reaching al Qaeda is \"in the region of tens of thousands of dollars possibly hundreds of thousands.\"",
"The nine-page summary of the secret report states that the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political group present in many Muslim countries, was trying \"through its many affiliated charities and organizations -- often with the funding of unwitting private Saudi citizens -- to spread its influence by providing support for candidates in Islamic democracies.\"",
"According to the report the payback was simple.",
"\"Once in power these candidates are expected to further the Brotherhood's goals.\"",
"Al Qaeda was able to benefit from these secret funding mechanisms, according to the source, because some in the Muslim Brotherhood had \"historic sympathies and connections\" with members of the terror group -- dating back to when Saudi Arabia and the CIA covertly funded the Afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.",
"The connections meant that money in Muslim Brotherhood hands was \"occasionally\" given to al Qaeda, the source said.",
"The report reveals a complex web of Islamic charities and banks -- often involved in funding legitimate humanitarian projects -- as unwitting facilitators of the illicit transfers.",
"And it says that over several decades \"a handful of Saudi and other Arab individuals and organizations\" were supporting \"the same groups that Arab, U.S. and European governments have long suspected of having close ties to extreme militant organizations that have been accused of supporting terrorist activities around the world.\"",
"The problem facing Saudi authorities is huge, the source told CNN.",
"\"Eighty-six percent of all Islamic charities are based in Saudi Arabia\" making \"monitoring all their activities difficult.\"",
"The problem was compounded by several other factors, he said.",
"Saudi Arabia \"has the world's fourth largest migrant workforce, 7 million legal workers, 3 million illegal.\"",
"Many of them use unregulated Islamic Hawala money transfer banks where a deposit in one country can immediately be picked up in another with no paper trail to trace it.",
"The Hawala networks were identified by the U.S. Treasury Department last year as a significant channel for funding the Taliban and other insurgent groups.",
"Funds are also collected from innocent unsuspecting pilgrims on the Hajj that attracts millions of Muslims to Mecca, Islam's holiest site every year.",
"The report says Saudi Arabia has made a major effort \"to block terrorist financing\" that has been \"monumental in scope and far reaching in their success.\"",
"But it concluded: \"Increased diligence and efforts are warranted.\"",
"The Saudi source tells CNN that the country still has a fundamental problem which shows how money channeled through the Muslim Brotherhood could evade detection for so long and why al Qaeda can still get funding from the desert Kingdom.",
"\"Despite promises since 2002 that Saudi would put in place institutions to thwart funds getting to AQ, nothing has happened to build an oversight agency,\" he says.",
"The money being funneled illegally he says is \"not the amount of money it was 4 or 5 years ago,\" but without a national agency \"like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" to oversee the charities further progress is going to be limited."
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"Secret report found hundreds of millions of dollars of Saudi money had been funneled to leading Islamist politicians and political activists overseas .",
"Report says al Qaeda and the Taliban were still able to use Saudi Arabia for fund-raising .",
"A complex web of Islamic charities and banks as well as the Muslim Brotherhood have been sources of cash, report says ."
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"(CNN) -- The head of an embattled Connecticut power company defended his utility's response to a freak fall snowstorm that -- six days after it hit -- continues to leave hundreds of thousands without electricity.",
"As of Friday night, about 283,000 households who get service through Connecticut Light and Power remained in the dark.",
"The utility, which at one point had 831,000 such outages, has promised to return power to 99% of its customers by Sunday night.",
"\"I believe CL&P has done a very good job,\" Jeffrey Butler, utility president and CEO, said Friday evening.",
"\"This storm is of historic proportions... Have you ever seen an event like this?\"",
"Butler made his remarks a day after Connecticut's attorney general called for regulators to investigate CL&P, the state's main electric utility, over its handling of the storm.",
"Attorney General George Jepsen filed the request with the state's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, which is already investigating CL&P over its response to power outages during Tropical Storm Irene in September.",
"Eight people have died in Connecticut due to the storm, four of them from carbon monoxide poisoning, Gov.",
"Dannel Malloy has said.",
"He told reporters Friday that there have been a total of 322 carbon monoxide cases statewide.",
"While saying he \"sure hopes\" he can trust Connecticut Light and Power, Malloy acknowledged that there were definite problems that must be addressed before the winter storm season begins in earnest.",
"To this end, the governor announced Friday that Witt Associates -- a consulting firm led by former FEMA Director James Lee Witt -- will \"do a review of Connecticut Light and Power and UI (the United Illuminating Company) in the wake of their performance.\"",
"The review will be done at no expense to the state and be completed by December 1, before a different panel probing similar storm-related issues completes its own report.",
"\"(We are) bringing in outside expertise to take an immediate look,\" Malloy said.",
"\"I can't wait for the two-storm commission to make recommendations because we have winter staring us in the face.\"",
"The governor, specifically, said one area of focus will likely be the amount of tree branches that threaten power lines, adding that residents may have to sacrifice foliage for safety and energy security.",
"\"What we have learned ... is that we are a vulnerable state to different types of weather conditions -- wind and snow are clearly two of those,\" said Malloy.",
"\"And I think we can do better, in the long run, to prepare ourselves.\"",
"Eighty shelters were open around Connecticut on Friday night, in addition to 109 warming centers.",
"The governor said that food and water had been delivered to residents of 82 towns, with more goods set to be delivered upon request.",
"Butler, the Connecticut utility chief, said that the effort to restore power is in full swing.",
"While acknowledging there may be \"opportunities\" for improvement, he blamed the weather conditions -- including as much as 20 inches of heavy wet snow in spots -- as the primary reason for the prolonged outages.",
"\"Everyone I talked to, they've never seen anything like this,\" said Butler, who came to Connecticut after 27 years at Pacific Gas and Electric Company.",
"\"The destruction of the trees was unbelievable.\"",
"He said that between 5,000 and 6,000 workers were on the job working to cut back trees and restore power, committed to the Sunday night goal.",
"The late October storm killed at least 22 people around the eastern United States.",
"That includes six deaths in Massachusetts, not including a seventh under investigation, said Peter William Judge, public information officer for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, on Thursday.",
"In New Jersey, eight storm-related fatalities were tallied, including three people who burned to death in house fires, one person who died when a branch fell on him, another who died when a tree fell on him, and three people who died in motor vehicle accidents.",
"A ninth death was under investigation.",
"President Barack Obama has signed emergency declarations for New Hampshire and Connecticut, clearing the way for federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts."
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"The head of Connecticut Light and Power defends his utility's handling of storm .",
"About 283,000 households remained without power Friday evening .",
"The storm led to at least 22 deaths in the eastern United States ."
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"(CNN) -- Udinese have gone top of the Italian Serie A table on goal difference from Lazio after captain Antonio Di Natale was again on target in a 2-1 victory over Siena on Sunday.",
"With previous leaders Juventus seeing their match against Napoli called off because of torrential rain, Udinese, Lazio and Milan all exploited the situation with wins, dropping Juve to fourth place.",
"Udinese took the lead after just 54 seconds against Siena, when Dusan Basta prodded the ball home from close range.",
"And the prolific Di Natale doubled the advantage in the 64th minute when he cut inside a defender to finish Pablo Armero's long ball.",
"Siena pulled a goal back 13 minutes from time when Francesco Bolzoni fired home Emanuele Calaio's header on the half-volley, but the home side held on to move onto 21 points from their 10 games.",
"Lazio are level on point, but have just a single goal inferior goal difference following a 1-0 home win over Parma.",
"Giuseppe Sculli poked home the winner with just five minutes remaining to leave Edy Reja's side firmly in the championship race.",
"However, the performance of the day came from Milan, who are ominously just a point behind in third position after thrashing Catania 4-0.",
"Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened the scoring with a seventh minute penalty after Davide Lanzafame fouled Robinho in the area.",
"Brazilian striker Robinho then helped himself to the second goal in the 24th minute, curling the bal home after Ibrahimovic had sent him clear on the left wing.",
"The same two players combined again for a 69th minute third goal, with Robinho's strike being bundled over the line by back-tracking defender Francesco Lodi.",
"And Gianluca Zambrotta added the icing on the cake for Milan three minutes later when he was on hand to score after Alberto Aquilani's free-kick had been fumbled."
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"Udinese have gone top of Italian Serie A after a 2-1 home victory over Siena .",
"Lazio are level on points after beating Parma 1-0 while Milan win 4-0 and are third .",
"Juventus are now down in fourth position after their match at Napoli was postponed ."
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"(CNN) -- One damp, chilly evening in October, Dolores Kopchak called the police.",
"She had a rather unusual problem: a lion in her back yard.",
"She was calling from Kopchak Road, named after her family and familiar to law enforcement authorities in the small town of Zanesville, Ohio.",
"They had had responded to complaints there before.",
"Kopchak's neighbor, Terry Thompson, owned a bunch of wild animals.",
"When Sgt. Steve Blake arrived on the scene, he saw a black bear and two African lions.",
"He immediately shut down Kopchak Road and called for help.",
"What happened next on that evening reads more like the stuff of an action-packed adventure novel than police reports.",
"The Muskingum County Sheriff's Office has released many of those reports that reveal how law enforcement officials were thrust into a desperate hunt for potential killers on the loose.",
"On October 18, as highway signs cautioned drivers to remain in cars and local schools were making a decision to close the next morning, deputies traversed Thompson's property and beyond and came face to face with animals that most people see from the other side of a cage or in the safety of a guided safari.",
"Deputy Jay Lawhorne had been on Thompson's property before, responding to previous complaints about him, including animal abuse.",
"Thompson, 62, had been released from a federal prison September 30 after pleading guilty earlier this year to possessing illegal firearms, including five fully automatic firearms.",
"A civil case seeking forfeiture of firearms was pending.",
"Lawhorne picked up his M4 rife with .223-caliber ammo and got in the back of the pickup.",
"The deputies began going up Thompson's driveway not knowing what they would find.",
"It was already after 6 p.m. and they knew they only had one hour of daylight left.",
"There were cages on the left and the right of the driveway.",
"Tigers, lions, cheetahs and bears roamed about.",
"They were ordered to find Thompson and \"neutralize\" any animal that posed a threat to people.",
"With no tranquilizers on hand, their only choice was to shoot.",
"Thompson's house was empty, save two monkeys and a small dog, Blake said in his report.",
"On his way out, Blake saw a body near an embankment.",
"It was Thompson. He was on his back. A handgun lay near him.",
"And a pair of blue bolt cutters.",
"He had used it to free all his animals from their pens before he shot himself.",
"A large white tiger was sitting 5 feet away.",
"It appeared the cat had fed on Thompson's flesh, Blake said.",
"It was impossible for the deputies to approach the body because of the tiger.",
"The deputies called for more help and got out on foot.",
"Right behind Thompson's large barn, at the top of hill near the house, they saw several large cages where the larger lions had been kept.",
"The deputies secured the heavy wooden doors but as they got closer, they realized the cages had been cut open.",
"A lion came out just 3 feet away.",
"Lawhorne said he was forced to shoot it dead.",
"Another deputy encountered a lion hissing at him and baring its lethal teeth.",
"Behind the lions were pens that held bears and wolves but, instead, a tiger and bear came out.",
"The tiger charged Lawhorne.",
"It, too, had to be put down. The deputies were able to save a black panther and a spotted leopard.",
"At 11:30, the deputies gave up the search for the night.",
"Lawhorne said Sheriff Matt Lutz told him his replacement would arrive at 6:30 in the morning.",
"But Lawhorne was not out of danger yet.",
"He and Deputy Adam Swope were walking down to the back of Thompson's property when they encountered a tiger hiding in the brush.",
"They radioed it in and were informed that a Columbus zookeeper was on her way to tranquilize the cat.",
"It took 15 minutes for her to get there.",
"It was going to take another 10 minutes for the tranquilizer to take effect.",
"Lawhorne and other deputies stood by with assault weapons.",
"Just in case. The tiger jolted when the dart hit, but it did not get up.",
"But after a few minutes, it charged directly at the zookeeper.",
"The deputies fired.",
"The tiger backed off and laid down.",
"They gave it another 15 minutes for the tranquilizer to take effect.",
"The zookeeper then felt it was safe to approach.",
"But when they were less than 10 feet away, the tiger thrashed again.",
"This time, it was shot dead.",
"In all, deputies shot 49 of Thompson's menagerie.",
"Some, like the Bengal tigers, were endangered species.",
"Thompson's wife, Marian, chose a burial site, according to the police reports.",
"The animals were placed in a single grave.",
"John Moore, who worked as a caretaker for Thompson's animals, said that he had last seen Terry Thompson the day before he died, according to the police reports.",
"Thompson told him then that he had received a letter about Marian cheating on him.",
"He told Moore: \"I have a plan to find out and you will know when it happens.\"",
"No one may ever know what Thompson's plans included -- his death is still under investigation and not all records have been released.",
"Thompson is gone.",
"So are his animals. The Humane Society of the United States said that under the circumstances, it did not fault the deputies for using deadly force.",
"But a public debate was sparked over exotic animals and the laws that govern ownership.",
"The bizarre events that day were seen around the world.",
"And Zanesville will forever go down as the small Ohio city with the really big animals."
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"County sheriff's office releases reports about what happened in Zanesville, Ohio .",
"Deputies came face to face with dangerous animals .",
"Owner Terry Thompson cut their cages and then killed himself .",
"The deputies said they were ordered to \"neutralize\" the animals on the prowl ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to swap in a plate icon for the food pyramid this week, an individual familiar with the new guidelines told CNN Saturday.",
"The new image, expected to be unveiled Thursday, is meant to help remind Americans to make healthy food choices.",
"\"We presume that it will be divided into sections that will show you how much of different types of foods you should be eating,\" said Elizabeth Cohen, CNN senior medical correspondent, about the plate image.",
"The USDA said in a statement this week that the new food icon would be \"part of a comprehensive nutrition communication initiative that provides consumers with easy-to-understand recommendations, a new website with expanded information, and other tools and resources.\"",
"It did not say then what the new icon would be.",
"The Food Guide Pyramid was introduced in 1992 and replaced in 2005 by MyPyramid.",
"\"The pyramid, to put it gently, is not considered a great public health success,\" said Cohen.",
"\"It was confusing and divided into lots of intricate sections.\"",
"The original version is the widely recognized pyramid that shows a hierarchy of food groups.",
"Grains, vegetables and fruits were represented at the base of the pyramid, suggesting they should be eaten often.",
"Foods to be consumed in some moderation, like fats, dairy products and meats, were toward the top of the icon.",
"The 2005 version had vertical, rather than horizontal, blocks representing the various food groups.",
"It also had a figure stepping up the side of the pyramid, reminding consumers of the need to exercise.",
"CNN's Sabriya Rice contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The food pyramid has been criticized as confusing .",
"Official announcement is expected to come on Thursday .",
"The new icon is meant to help remind Americans to make healthy food choices .",
"It will replace the food pyramid, which was first introduced in 1992 ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan invoked his country's recovery from World War II on Tuesday as he sought to turn the nation's attention to the arduous task of rebuilding.",
"Yet the challenges awaiting Japan remained on full display the day he spoke: The country rated the crisis at a nuclear plant stricken after last month's earthquake and tsunami as the most severe on an international system for rating nuclear accidents.",
"And a fresh round of earthquakes rumbled across an already battered landscape.",
"One with a magnitude of 6.3 was the latest of 52 quakes with a magnitude of 6 or greater since a monster 9.0 quake rocked the country and spawned a tsunami, leaving nearly 28,0000 people dead or missing.",
"The prime minister noted that he was born in 1946, a year after the end of World War II, and that his family used an unexploded bomb to help stabilize a pickling tub in their home.",
"He said the Japanese people \"stood up bravely and achieved a reconstruction that amazed the world\" after the war.",
"\"We must renew the determination that we had in the post-World War II reconstruction period, and we must tackle the task of reconstruction after this earthquake,\" he said.",
"The devastation left behind by the March 11 earthquake is an opportunity to build \"a new, better future than before,\" said the prime minister.",
"He spoke at a news conference that had been originally scheduled to take place Monday but was delayed because of a series of aftershocks that rattled northern Japan.",
"In one of the lastest developments following the wave of aftershocks, the Iwaki Fire Department said the death toll from landslides set off by a 6.6-magnitude quake on Monday had risen to six.",
"Iwaki is located about 100 miles (164 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo and about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"The landslides in Iwaki buried three houses."
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"The Japanese prime minister urged Japan to focus on rebuilding .",
"Nearly 28,000 people are dead or missing since a massive earthquake last month .",
"Fresh round of earthquakes rumbled Tuesday across an already battered landscape ."
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"(CNN) -- Former President George W. Bush joined a chorus of U.S. officials calling any leaks of sensitive government information \"very damaging,\" telling a forum at Facebook headquarters that Wikileaks' recent release of 250,000 documents may significantly hurt Washington's image abroad.",
"\"It's going to be very hard to keep the trust of foreign leaders,\" the nation's 43rd president said of the documents on issues ranging from Iran to Honduras to Turkey.",
"\"If you have a conversation with a foreign leader and it ends up in a newspaper, you don't like it.",
"I didn't like it.\" A relaxed Bush was joined by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage in Palo Alto, California, with hundreds watching from the audience and up to 6,500 following the interview live online.",
"The hourlong discussion centered on Bush's memoir, \"Decision Points.\"",
"Released just over two weeks ago, the book ranks atop the New York Times' hardcover nonfiction best-seller list, topping works by the likes of rapper Jay-Z, rocker Keith Richards and the late Mark Twain.",
"The president made it clear that pitching that memoir was his main reason for visiting the social network's office, saying, \"you have got a lot of people paying attention, and I'm trying to sell books.\"",
"Still, beyond hawking his 481-page memoir and pushing several initiatives from the George W. Bush Institute, Bush said he had no desire to intervene in day-to-day politics or be the center of the world's attention once again.",
"\"I have no desire to generate publicity,\" said Bush, 64.",
"\"I've had enough of fame, and I want to go back to a life that is productive ... without generating the [limelight].\"",
"Beyond passing references to current events, like calling South Korea a \"force for peace,\" Bush focused on key moments from his time in the Oval Office from January 2001 to 2009.",
"He offered anecdotes, talked about sports and even kidded with Zuckerberg, no stranger to the spotlight after this year's hit movie \"The Social Network,\" which presented one version of Facebook's rise.",
"The president admitted personally using \"the Facebook\" since leaving office, pointing to his 600,000 online friends.",
"And he playfully, though publicly, asked Zuckerberg to join him in a \"joint venture\" promoting public education -- in light of his initiatives at the Bush Institute and Zuckerberg's donation this fall of $100 million toward improving public schools in Newark, New Jersey.",
"As he has in other interviews, Bush stated his confidence that the decision to invade Iraq was just, predicting that Iraq will become a crucial hub of democracy in the Middle East.",
"He said that promoting \"freedom\" -- be it personal, political, educational or economic -- will be central to his post-presidency life.",
"\"We're involved in an ideological struggle that will eventually be won, as freedom prevails,\" Bush said.",
"While his standing has improved, a poll released this month shows that four in 10 Americans say Bush was a poor president, and another third rate him as average.",
"Another 28 percent rated him as a good or as one of the greatest presidents ever, up from 20 percent when he left the Oval Office in January 2009.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted November 11-14, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"Bush said he won't criticize President Barack Obama, saying, \"it's not good for the country ... [and] I don't want to.\"",
"And Bush said he's learned, from his time as a business and political executive, how to handle criticism -- including when to ignore it and when to learn from others -- and come to grips with what others think of him.",
"\"Anybody can distinguish between someone who is trying to be helpful and someone who is trying to hurt you,\" Bush said.",
"\"You don't have to be a rocket scientist or a college graduate, for that matter.\"",
"Here he pointed to Zuckerberg, who dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook."
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"Former President George W. Bush spoke Monday at Facebook HQ in California .",
"He says the Wikileaks release will make it \"very hard to keep the trust of foreign leaders\"\nBush says he has \"no desire to generate publicity,\" adding he's \"had enough of fame\"\nHis memoir, \"Decision Points,\" has been a best-seller since its release two weeks ago ."
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"Brisbane, Australia (CNN) -- Brisbane is more accustomed to drought than flood.",
"For many years, residents were obliged to adhere to strict water restrictions during the long wait for rain.",
"Daily updates were given as to how little water remained in dams that are now full to overflowing.",
"Locals were encouraged to invest in their own water tanks to ease pressure on the system.",
"The city's residents were given specific days and times to water their gardens, according to their house numbers.",
"Neighbors kept an eye out for wasteful practices and it wasn't unheard of for people to sneak out under the cover of darkness to give their dying plants an extra drop.",
"Just a few years later, the city has been inundated with water, amid warnings there is more to come.",
"The rain has been pelting down for days if not weeks.",
"Rain used to be celebrated here.",
"Now people are praying for it to stop.",
"The ground is so saturated it doesn't take long for each downpour to start pooling and gushing towards already overflowing drains.",
"The last time Brisbane experienced flooding on this scale was in January 1974.",
"Older residents remember when weeks of rain combined with the effects of a cyclone and exceptionally high tides to flood the city.",
"Water washed into thousands of homes and 14 people died.",
"Lessons from that disaster formed much of the preparation for this week's flood warnings.",
"A massive dam with a capacity of more than one million megaliters -- about the size of two Sydney Harbours -- was built at Wivenhoe, west of the city, to provide flood protection system.",
"That dam is now full and authorities are releasing increasing amounts of water to ease pressure on its walls.",
"Sandbags are being distributed to people who live in vulnerable areas.",
"Evacuation areas are taking hundreds if not thousands of people who have followed advice to leave their homes.",
"Long lines have been forming at supermarkets as people prepare for the days ahead.",
"People are queuing not in rubber boots, but flip-flops, another sign this city is more accustomed to sun and heat than torrential rain.",
"CNN iReport: High water closes roads in Ipswich, Queensland .",
"In the days after Christmas the people of Brisbane witnessed from a distance the devastating effort of floods further north in the state.",
"And just two days ago, shocking scenes came from west of the city as a wall of water rushed through Toowoomba.",
"Ten lives have been lost across Queensland in the flood and more deaths are expected among the missing.",
"No one has yet estimated the final cost of the flooding to the Queensland economy.",
"More than $200 million was spent in the aftermath of the 1974 flood but this time the cleanup bill is likely to be much higher.",
"It has already been estimated that severe flooding in the state's north could cost mining companies $2 billion in lost production.",
"Many of those affected in regional areas are farmers.",
"Crops have been washed away and livestock lost.",
"The people of Brisbane are not only bracing themselves for the worst flooding in decades, but the inevitable rise in food costs and taxes as the state struggles to rebuild regional towns and support the farmers who have seen not only their homes but their livelihoods washed away.",
"Whatever happens in the days to come, the events of recent weeks will result in a staggering challenge for both people who live far away from the city center, in rural areas of the state, as well as those who live and work in the heart of the city along the banks of the Brisbane River."
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"The Brisbane River is still rising, with water levels expected to peak on Thursday .",
"Floods feared to be worse than in 1974, when thousands of homes were inundated, and 14 people died .",
"Change of weather a shock for residents more used to water shortages brought on by drought ."
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"(CNN) -- The success achieved by Portuguese soccer coach Jose Mourinho suggests that his players would not just run through a brick wall for him; they'd happily march through an obstacle course full of them to earn his respect.",
"The self-proclaimed \"Special One\" is the flamboyant manager of Italian champions Inter Milan who are currently on course to take the Serie A title for the fifth consecutive year.",
"But if his current Inter squad love him, then his former Chelsea players adore him, after his successful stint at the club between 2004 and 2007 delivered their first English Premier League triumphs in over 50 years.",
"England international and Chelsea stalwart Frank Lampard says of Mourinho: \"I love him as a man and as a manager.\"",
"The two sets of players collide in Europe's most prestigious club competition -- the Champions League -- on Wednesday, when all eyes will be on the game's ultimate touchline showman in his first competitive match against his old club.",
"But how does Mourinho arouse such complete loyalty from his employees?",
"And is he everything a good boss should be?",
"He does and he is, according to sports psychologist Andy Barton.",
"Respect . \"Mourinho's role with his players is the same as it should be in any office,\" Barton told CNN.",
"\"He is very, very supportive of them and treats them as equals.",
"He knows he needs to focus people on what they do well, and then on what they need to do to improve.",
"\"Sometimes in the workplace managers think it is all about being ruthless when that is the least effective way of doing things.",
"Appraisals can turn into a long list of what employees do wrong.",
"That doesn't help at all; it puts them in a negative mind set.",
"\"But Mourinho will always look to turn a positive into a negative.",
"If a team is 3-0 down at half time and the manager starts screaming about all the mistakes they've made it isn't going to help.",
"Instead he'll focus on some of the things they are doing right, and then tell them how they can turn the game around.",
"\"You have to be specific about what is required; that way, the player or employee starts to build up a mental image of what is needed.",
"A good manager is committed to trying to get the best out of an individual, and knowing how each member of staff ticks.",
"Mourinho is a master at that.\"",
"Protection . Barton says Mourinho is desperate to alleviate as much pressure as possible from his players, and is quite prepared to do something outrageous to shield them from criticism.",
"Mourinho was hit with a three-game ban following a gesture he made during Saturday's controversial 0-0 draw against Sampdoria.",
"After two of his players were sent off Mourinho crossed his arms in the manner of being handcuffed -- a suggestion that Inter were being victimized by match officials.",
"Previously this season, after another poor Inter performance, Mourinho leapt off the team coach to physically confront a journalist who he said had invaded his players' space.",
"The media uproar after the confrontation deflected attention from the bad result, and made sure he was the story instead.",
"One of his players, Diego Milito, confirmed the success of this tactic in an interview with newspaper Gazzetta Dello Sport: \"There is no coach like him when it comes to sticking his neck out and defending everyone, that way reducing the tension within the team when things aren't going well.",
"It's no fluke that after a defeat, Inter gets straight back on its feet.",
"That's all thanks to Mourinho.\"",
"Self belief .",
"Underpinning Mourinho's approach is an unwavering self belief that he transmits to his players, as Barton explained: \"Mourinho's self belief is palpable and you can read it in everything -- his body language and how he speaks -- you know he has complete trust in his abilities and that gives his players confidence.",
"\"He's like a general on the touchline, commanding his troops and he explodes sometimes.",
"He may do it heighten the opposition players arousal levels, to inspire in them an intense desire to beat him, and that can throw them off their game and affect their decision making.",
"He very much makes it us against the world.\"",
"There is another intriguing subplot to the Inter versus Chelsea clash.",
"The English side are now managed by Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, who left Inter's bitter rivals AC Milan this summer.",
"A running battle between the pair erupted during their stint in opposite dugouts and it continued even after Ancelotti left for London.",
"Mourinho has been quoted as saying: \"Ancelotti is no friend of mine.\"",
"The Italian replied by referring to his rival as \"His Mourinhity\" in his autobiography.",
"Mourinho often says inflammatory things about opposition players and managers before a big game but Barton says Mourinho may take a different approach in the build up to Wednesday's crucial match.",
"He told CNN: \"I don't think he will be confrontational about his return clash against Chelsea because he has always professed his love for the club and the players he used to coach but he will make a few jibes about Ancelotti, and could try to undermine his position by talking about his own success at the club.",
"\"The thing about Mourinho is that you don't know what he's going to do next but whatever it is it will be because he thinks it is beneficial to the team.",
"Mourinho will definitely be looking forward to going back.",
"He will thrive on the attention and will be happy to keep the pressure from his team.\""
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"Inter face Mourinho's old club, Chelsea, in the European Champions League .",
"Sports psychologist Andy Barton says Mourinho is an ideal boss .",
"Barton says Mourinho treats his players as equals to gain their respect ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A 60-year-old woman on Sunday became the third person to die as a result of a helicopter crash last month in New York's East River, said a spokeswoman for the city's medical examiner's office.",
"Harriet Nicholson was pronounced dead at approximately 3:22 a.m. Sunday at Bellevue Hospital, said Ellen Borakove from the office of the chief medical examiner.",
"After an autopsy, officials determined that she died due to \"respiratory complications of near-drowning,\" according to Borakove.",
"Nicholson was among those on board a Bell 206 Jet Ranger that plunged into the water on October 4, moments after pilot Paul Dudley had radioed that his aircraft was experiencing problems, National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind said last month.",
"Authorities initially said that one woman -- Sonia Marra of Sydney, Australia, who died on her 40th birthday -- was the only fatality, with four others reported injured.",
"Marra was trapped in the craft's back seat as it sank, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.",
"Helen Tamaki, 43, died the following week.",
"A source close to the investigation identified Harriet and Paul Nicholson, one of now two survivors, as Marra's mother and stepfather.",
"Tamaki was a family friend, according to the source.",
"The pilot, Dudley, is the other survivor.",
"A 15-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, which happened shortly after takeoff from a riverside helipad.",
"U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who represents Manhattan's East Side in Congress, said in a previous statement that she was \"saddened and deeply concerned\" about the crash.",
"\"There have been at least 28 helicopter crashes in our city over the last three decades,\" she said.",
"\"Federal transportation officials should investigate not only the causes of this crash, but also whether it is safe to have such a high volume of helicopter traffic over our densely populated city.\""
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"Harriet Nicholson, 60, dies at a New York hospital, a city spokeswoman says .",
"One woman died instantly and another died a week later, officials have said .",
"The helicopter crashed into the East River shortly after takeoff October 4 ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A California fertility doctor implanted a dozen embryos in Nadya Suleman, resulting in \"an unsafe octuplet delivery\" last year, a lawyer for the state's medical board said Monday.",
"Dr. Michael Kamrava, the fertility doctor who treated Suleman beginning in 1997, appeared before an administrative law judge Monday for a hearing that could lead to the loss of his medical license.",
"Kamrava \"will say she demanded all 12 embryos and, because it was the weekend, he did not know what to do,\" said California Deputy Attorney General Judith Alvarado.",
"\"But he knew it was unsafe.\"",
"Suleman -- known in the media as \"Octomom\" -- was 33 years old when she gave birth to eight babies in January 2009.",
"She was a single woman who already had six young children conceived through in-vitro fertilization administered by Kamrava.",
"She still has 29 frozen embryos in storage available for her use should she want more children, according to a witness who testified Monday.",
"His lawyer argued that Kamrava has been \"a respected, excellent physician and surgeon for 25 years,\" but that he \"ran into sort of a perfect storm with one of his patients.\"",
"Dr. Victor Fujimoto, an expert witness called by the medical board on Monday, testified that Suleman apparently asked Kamrava to implant a dozen embryos in July 2008.",
"\"As I understand, she requested it,\" Fujimoto said.",
"When Alvarado asked him if it is not a doctor's responsibility to protect a patient from themselves, he answered \"Sometimes.\"",
"The Medical Board of California's complaint said the doctor should have referred Suleman to a mental health physician after she repeatedly returned to him for treatments shortly after each of her pregnancies.",
"\"The whole series of contacts raise red flags with the stability of the patient herself and the overall intent of the patient,\" said Fujimoto.",
"Kamrava was expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine last year for what the fertility medical society called \"a pattern of behavior that violated the group's standards.\"",
"The society recommends implanting no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40 -- who have more trouble getting pregnant -- according to guidelines published on its website.",
"\"Because of what's happened, he does now adhere strictly to these guidelines,\" defense lawyer Henry Fenton told the judge Monday.",
"Fujimoto testified that Kamrava's implantation of 12 embryos in July 2008 was \"gross negligence.\"",
"\"I cannot imagine any colleague of mine transferring that many,\" he said .",
"Giving birth to extreme multiples comes with tremendous risks for the mother and the babies, including \"complications with pregnancy, prematurity and long-term consequences of that.\"",
"Suleman's children -- six boys and two girls born nine weeks premature -- all went home after an extended stay in the hospital.",
"While there has been no indication any problems have emerged, \"we still don't know,\" Fujimoto said.",
"Kamrava, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Beverly Hills, California, is accused of gross negligence and repeated negligent acts in the treatment of a patient named in the medical board complaint only by her initials, N.S.",
"Suleman has identified Kamrava as her doctor in interviews.",
"He is also accused of negligence in another case in which a patient developed a \"quadruplet pregnancy that was rocked with complications,\" according to the medical board."
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"NEW: Suleman has 29 embryos she could still use .",
"Medical board says doctor placed a dozen embryos in Nadya Suleman .",
"Doctor was allegedly \"grossly negligent\" in treating Suleman .",
"Suleman already had six children when she gave birth to octuplets ."
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"(CNN) -- Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday that Zimbabwe is in shambles and warned that deaths from starvation and a cholera outbreak threaten to surge with the rainy season approaching.",
"A man carries a relative in a wheelbarrow to a cholera clinic in Harare on Tuesday.",
"Bemoaning Zimbabwe's decline is a familiar refrain for the embattled head of the Movement for Democratic Change.",
"His most recent remarks, however, were backed by former President Carter, who returned from a five-day trip to neighboring South Africa this week and declared Zimbabwe \"a basket case.\"",
"Tsvangirai also expressed frustration with attempts to form a unity government between his group and the ruling Zanu-PF party.",
"He said he has asked that South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki recuse himself as mediator between the two parties.",
"The Zimbabwean government quickly countered Tsvangirai's allegations that President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF were responsible for the problems gripping the country.",
"\"The government is very committed to ensure that the humanitarian crisis is addressed.",
"It would be wrong for the MDC to blame it on the government,\" Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said.",
"Addressing Tsvangirai's allegations that cholera deaths could soon top 50 a day and that the Mugabe-led government seems intent on covering it up, Mumbengegwi noted that Zimbabwe is not the only country where cholera is a problem.",
"Watch why world leaders call the situation in Zimbabwe shocking » .",
"\"No government would want its people to suffer.",
"Cholera is not peculiar to Zimbabwe,\" he said.",
"\"We hear it is now in South Africa, too, but we cannot relax because of that.",
"We have to fight it as Zimbabweans.\"",
"A report in the state-run Herald newspaper Wednesday said the government has kicked off an information campaign to inform citizens of \"the do's and don'ts to combat the disease.\"",
"The government is also drilling boreholes to find clean, subterranean water that can be pumped to the surface for drinking and bathing, the Herald reported.",
"The World Health Organization said last week that almost 300 people have died of cholera since August and more than 6,000 cases have been reported.",
"Tsvangirai said Wednesday that conditions would worsen this month as the rainy season brings steamy downpours to much of Zimbabwe, especially the eastern mountain forests.",
"Carter, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Graca Machel, wife of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela -- all of whom belong to a group of world leaders called the Elders -- had hoped to visit Zimbabwe on their recent trip to the region but were denied visas, according to Tsvangirai and a statement from the Carter Center.",
"\"Mr. Mugabe would prefer that the suffering that he and Zanu-PF have caused, and continue to cause, remains in the dark,\" Tsvangirai said in a statement, adding that because the Movement for Democratic Change and Zanu-PF cannot form a partnership after months of wrangling, \"the MDC must instead work with those Zimbabwean organizations, groups and individuals to address the humanitarian crisis.\"",
"The humanitarian problems illustrate the political quagmire in Zimbabwe, where a power-sharing agreement that Mugabe and Tsvangirai signed in September has yet to take effect.",
"Carter issued a statement Tuesday condemning what he said was Harare's decision to renege on an agreement to allow him, Annan and Machel into the country.",
"He also offered a damning assessment of the Mugabe regime.",
"\"After almost three decades of governmental corruption, mismanagement and oppression, Zimbabwe has become a basket case, an embarrassment to the region and a focus of international concern and condemnation,\" he said.",
"Denied passage to Zimbabwe, Carter, Annan and Machel were left to consult with regional leaders -- including Tsvangirai, Botswana President Ian Khama and South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe -- as well as United Nations officials, nongovernmental organizations and Zimbabwe's civil leaders.",
"\"We had a complete and balanced agenda and more frank discussions than would have been possible in the oppressive and restrained environment of Harare,\" Carter said in his statement.",
"Carter said he learned of conditions in which the official inflation rate has soared to about 231 million percent while thousands of Zimbabweans stand in line for their daily allowance of about 2 cents a day -- from their own bank accounts.",
"The allowance does not afford them a half loaf of bread, he said.",
"Teachers, who earn about a dollar a month, report a student-textbook ratio of about 20-to-1, and school attendance has dropped to about 20 percent in the past three months, the former president reported.",
"The few students still attending classes are generally doing so in the hopes of being fed, he said.",
"\"Meanwhile, top government officials and other privileged people can exchange Zim money at a favorable rate that is several thousand times more than the official rate available to other citizens,\" Carter said.",
"\"They profit greatly from these monetary transactions and shop in special stores.\"",
"The nation's four major hospitals have shut down, as roughly 3,500 AIDS victims are dying each week.",
"Unchecked sewage and filthy water have compounded the cholera problem, and Zimbabwe's death rate from the disease is 10 times greater than rates in areas where treatment is available, Carter said.",
"The former president said 19,000 Zimbabweans are fleeing the country each month, mostly to South Africa and Botswana.",
"He estimated that 4 million people have fled the nation.",
"\"The middle class is departing, leaving behind the extremely poor and the small elite group around Mugabe who are profiting from the economic disaster,\" he said.",
"Comparing Zimbabwe to Somalia, a failed African state that has had no functional government since 1991, Carter cast blame on African leaders who fail \"to confront Robert Mugabe and force him to accept the result of the March election and more recently to comply with negotiated political agreements to share governmental authority with Morgan Tsvangirai and the opposition party.\"",
"Tsvangirai snared more votes than Mugabe in March's election but not a majority.",
"Tsvangirai dropped out of a subsequent runoff, citing widespread violence against MDC supporters.",
"Carter's call for African leaders to step up pressure on Mugabe came a day before Tsvangirai asked South Africa's Mbeki to bow out as mediator between the MDC and Zanu-PF.",
"\"Sadly, the negotiations have also been hampered by the attitude and position of the facilitator, Mr. Thabo Mbeki.",
"He does not appear to understand how desperate the problem in Zimbabwe is, and the solutions he proposes are too small,\" Tsvangirai said in his statement.",
"\"He is not serving to bring the parties together because he does not understand what needs to be done.",
"In addition, his partisan support of Zanu-PF, to the detriment of genuine dialogue, has made it impossible for the MDC to continue negotiating under his facilitation.\"",
"Asked for the Zimbabwe government's reaction to the MDC asking Mbeki to recuse himself, Foreign Minister Mumbengegwi said, \"We have no right to tell them who to complain about.",
"It is their decision in the MDC.\"",
"Unless African leaders can find a way to mitigate the political impasse in Zimbabwe, the United Nations or the African Union might need to enter the fray, because, Carter said, \"the poisonous effects\" of the Mugabe regime, including the cholera outbreak, are spilling into other African nations.",
"Food, medicine and monetary donations should be sent immediately to humanitarian agencies such as CARE, World Vision and Save the Children, Carter said, advising that it is unwise to send cash directly to people in Zimbabwe.",
"\"It is counterproductive to contribute money that can be confiscated by the Zimbabwe government,\" he said."
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"Opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai asks Thabo Mbeki to recuse himself as mediator .",
"Jimmy Carter reports children still attending school do so in hopes of being fed .",
"Carter: Zimbabweans line up daily for 2-cent allowance from own bank accounts .",
"Cholera crisis seeping from Zimbabwe borders, may require intervention, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- For centuries, it has enchanted visitors with its fortified walls, pointed arches, towers, ornamental flourishes, carvings, and spectacular gardens.",
"The Alhambra, a fortress and palace in the Spanish city of Granada was begun in the mid-13th century by the Nasrid Emirs of Granada, the last Muslim rulers in Spain.",
"Further palaces and Christian chapels were added to the complex in the centuries since, making it a fascinating mix of cultures and histories.",
"Full of mysterious nooks and crannies as well as grand spaces, the Alhambra attracts around two million visitors a year, according to the Patronato de la Alhambra in Spain, the organization that looks after the complex.",
"Now a sustainable tourism effort from the Patronato de la Alhambra, the World Monuments Fund and others is taking the Alhambra into the 21st century, using technology to bring previously hidden areas of the complex to light.",
"Entitled \"The Hidden Alhambra,\" the project aims to expand the site for tourists, with an app.",
"It will allow visitors to virtually explore delicate, closed-off areas on their iPhones, or on specially designed portable electronic tablets, as well as opening up new routes to related areas outside the complex.",
"\"It is a site that gets many visitors, we can say that it's a major tourist destination,\" said Maria del Mar Villafranca, director of the Patronato de la Alhambra.",
"\"For many years now, we have worked with a model that limits access to a certain number of visitors per day,\" she explained, saying \"Hidden Alhambra,\" is designed to further take the pressure off \"fragile zones.\"",
"Hidden areas that the application will bring to light include an underground space beneath the palace of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as well as storage areas, towers and pavilions, according to Norma Barbacci, Program Director for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal at the World Monuments Fund.",
"\"(Visitors will) be able to see images and video (on their iPhones) and get all kinds of information about these specific sites that are not open,\" she said.",
"\"They are not able to walk down the stairs into the silos for example, but they can be close to them and get a lot of information,\" she continued.",
"The app is currently being developed and augmented reality features have not been ruled out, said Barbacci.",
"The first phase of information-gathering for the application, namely photographing the various sites, is being undertaken, according to Villafranca.",
"They are aiming to have the app ready for the public by summer 2012.",
"Virtual visitor experiences are an increasingly popular way of making delicate historic monuments accessible, said Barbacci.",
"\"Once the technology began to improve, then we started looking at this as a way of promoting knowledge and caring for a building without trampling all over it,\" she said.",
"But it's not all virtual work: The World Monuments Fund is also contributing $300,000 to the conservation of the Oratorio del Partal, an elaborate mid-14th century chapel built during the reign of Yusuf I.",
"The conservation effort will include work on the roof, carved wood ceiling and decorative plaster work and will be incorporated into the \"Hidden Alhambra\" application.",
"\"It's a very important part of the Alhambra, for its symbolic value being a part of the oldest area of the complex,\" explained Villafranca.",
"It is part of a long-term plan of conservation works to other fragile areas of the complex that, she hopes, will make more and more of it accessible to visitors -- and continue to pique their interest in it."
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"App will make closed-off areas of Moorish palace accessible to tourists .",
"App a \"sustainable tourism\" development, says World Monuments Fund .",
"Around two million people visit Alhambra each year, says Patronato de la Alhambra .",
"Area to be broadened for tourists and preserved for future ."
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"(CNN) -- A Chicago woman said Monday that Herman Cain sexually groped her in 1997 when Cain was head of the National Restaurant Association.",
"Sharon Bialek made the claims during a press conference with famed defense attorney Gloria Allred.",
"Bialek is the fourth accuser to come forward with allegations of inappropriate behavior by Cain.",
"Three other women have alleged Cain harassed them when they worked for the National Restaurant Association while he headed the group in the 1990s.",
"Allred said that the woman at the news conference isn't one of those three.",
"Cain has vehemently denied committing sexual harassment.",
"Allred says the alleged harassment took place when her client sought Cain's help with an employment issue while she was working at the association.",
"Cain's campaign on Monday denied new accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior against the Republican presidential hopeful.",
"\"All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false,\" said a statement from Cain's campaign after Bialek's accusation.",
"\"Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone.\"",
"Politico first published a report last week claiming that two female employees at the restaurant association accused Cain of inappropriate behavior during his tenure there.",
"The women, according to Politico, each received separation packages in the five-figure range.",
"The package for one of the women totaled between $32,000 to $37,000 -- about equivalent to her annual salary at the time, according to a former National Restaurant Association employee who knows one of the accusers."
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"The woman is identified as Sharon Bialek .",
"She is the fourth accuser to come forward .",
"Cain has denied the accusations ."
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"(CNN) -- A German organization involved in establishing and maintaining the Indonesian tsunami warning system denies widespread reports that the system failed to detect the tsunami that devastated parts of the Mentawai Islands on Monday.",
"In particular the organization refuted news articles claiming the warning system had been vandalized and was not functioning.",
"\"Contrary to reports stating otherwise, all components of the tsunami early warning system worked properly,\" the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System said in a statement.",
"\"Reports of broken or even deliberately destroyed system units are entirely unfounded,\" it added.",
"The statement continued: \"The detection of the causative earthquake by the seismic network was almost in real time, the corresponding operational image showed relevant warning levels in particular for the western coastline of the Mentawai Islands.",
"The measurement of the tsunami at gauging stations on the islands and along the coast of Sumatra was accurate.\"",
"Meanwhile, the Indonesian state news agency ANTARA, quoting officials in the affected area, reported the latest toll was at least 370 dead, with 334 people still missing and some 486 houses destroyed.",
"The tsunami followed a 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra."
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"The tsunami followed a 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra .",
"A German organization involved in maintaining the tsunami warning system says it worked .",
"Reports of vandalism before the quake \"are entirely unfounded,\" the organization says ."
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"TAIPEI, Taiwan (CNN) -- More than 90 percent of eligible Taiwan residents took up the government's offer of 3600 New Taiwan Dollars (USD $108) to go shopping, government officials said Monday.",
"People line up to receive $108 U.S. dollars worth of shopping vouchers in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday.",
"Any of the island's 23 million men, women or children qualify for the money, a combination of a lunar New Year gift and economic stimulus package designed to pump about 86 billion ($2.6 billion U.S.) into the economy.",
"By Sunday night, 91.3 percent of eligible citizens had picked up their vouchers, and malls were flooded with shoppers, Interior Minister Liao Liou-yi said.",
"The vouchers are good through September.",
"But one major retailer, the Carrefour chain, said its Sunday receipts were up about 30 percent from normal -- and with Chinese New Year just around the corner, many appeared ready to use the money for holiday groceries.",
"Even President Ma Ying-jeou picked up vouchers for all four members of his family, encouraging people to spread the use of the vouchers over days, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.",
"Journalist Jonathan Lai contributed to this report."
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"President Ma Ying-jeou picks up vouchers for all four members of his family .",
"Voucher a combination of lunar New Year's gift and economic stimulus package ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 17 employees at the Idaho National Laboratory were exposed Tuesday to what the lab described as low-level radiation from plutonium.",
"The workers underwent initial decontamination at the facility where the incident happened and were then transported to an on-site medial center for evaluation, the lab said in a statement.",
"There is no evidence of a leak outside the facility and there is no risk to the public or environment, it added.",
"The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), located in eastern Idaho, is a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear research site.",
"Tuesday's incident happened within the lab's materials and fuels complex, which has facilities for remotely handling, processing and examining spent nuclear fuel, irradiated materials and radioactive wastes, according to the INL's website.",
"The workers were inside the decommissioned Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR) when a container was opened for scheduled work, \"resulting in low-level worker exposure to plutonium,\" the lab said.",
"The ZPPR was a low-power test reactor that evaluated various design features."
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"The exposure happened at the Idaho National Laboratory .",
"Workers were exposed to low-level radiation from plutonium, the lab says .",
"They were transported to an on-site medical center and are undergoing evaluation .",
"There is no risk to the public or environment, the lab says ."
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"(CNN) -- CNN.com's Football Fan Zone looks ahead to the new season in Germany which kicks off on Friday August 15.",
"Bayern Munich's Oliver Kahn lifts the Bundesliga trophy.",
"The veteran keeper has retired aged 39 after many seasons of success.",
"The Champions . Bayern Munich bounced back in superb style last season after some inspired signings in last summer's transfer window.",
"Veteran former coach Ottmar Hitzfeld had been inticed back for one final hurrah after Bayern had suffered the ignominy of failing to reach the Champions League by finishing only fourth behind Stuttgart in the Bundesliga.",
"And Hitzfeld worked the oracle in spectacular style, bringing in French wizard Franck Ribery and Italian striker Luca Toni to compliment his already talented squad.",
"Bayern cruised to the Bundesliga title by 10 points, did the double with victory in the German Cup final, and only succumbed to eventual winners Zenit St Petersburg in the semifinals of the UEFA Cup.",
"With Hitzfeld now gone, former Bayern hero Jurgen Klinsmann has taken up the reigns for his first managerial job in club football.",
"The 44-year-old was a success in leading Germany to the semifinals of the World Cup but it remains to be seen how he copes with the pressure of coaching Germany's top club.",
"Klinsmann has kept his powder dry in the transfer market, with Germany midfielder Tim Borowski the only significant addition, but his squad is so overladen with talent it is difficult to see how it can be improved.",
"Yet again it appears that Bayern will be the team to beat.",
"The only major change to the side has seen Oliver Kahn's long-time backup Michael Rensing take over the No.1 jersey after the retirement of the veteran international keeper.",
"The Challengers . Werder Bremen pipped Schalke for second place last season, thanks in part to a potent attack which saw them score 75 goals, seven more than champions Bayern and 17 more than third highest Wolfsburg.",
"Werder's strength is their continuity.",
"Long-serving coach Thomas Schaff is Werder through and through -- and has remarkably been at the club since joining as a schoolboy player in 1972.",
"He has been coach for nine years and continues to work wonders, keeping the club near the top of the Bundersliga year after year -- as well as masterminding their title victory in 2004.",
"However, this season, Werder must do without Croatian striker Ivan Klasnic, who has left for Nantes in France after a legal dispute regarding his kidney condition, and goalscoring midfielder Tim Borowski, who was snapped up by Bayern Munich.",
"Brazilian playmaker Diego continues to be the fulcrum of the side, while young striker Aaron Hunt was a regular last season and is tipped to progress further.",
"Defensive stability is provided by internationals Per Mertesacker and midfield warhorse Torsten Frings.",
"Schalke continue to be there or thereabouts in Germany and have finished in the top three in three of the last four seasons.",
"However, they have taken over from Leverkusen as the nearly men of German football, finishing Bundesliga runners-up in 2005 and 2007, German Cup runners-up in 2005 and German League Cup runners-up in 2007.",
"The last of their seven league titles came exactly 50 years ago and new Dutch coach Fred Rutten is the man responsible for trying to break that long title drought.",
"So far, his dealings in the transfer market have been encouraging and Rutten has used his knowledge of Dutch football to enhance the Gelsenkirchen club's squad.",
"Giant midfielder Orlando Engelaar impressed for the Dutch in Euro 2008 and Schalke moved quickly to sign him from FC Twente, while Peruvian striker Jefferson Farfan averaged a goal every other game in his four seasons with PSV Eindhoven and will add more potency to an attack that already boasts German internationals Kevin Kuranyi and the long-serving Gerald Asamoah.",
"Point to prove .",
"Jurgen Klinsmann rode the crest of a wave of national pride in 2006 when he led a young and talented Germany squad to the last four of the home World Cup, falling to eventual champions Italy in an epic semifinal encounter.",
"That was Klinsmann's first and so far only coaching job and he has kept himself out of the limelight since handing over the national team's reigns to Joachim Loew.",
"A showman on the pitch, Klinsmann is deep thinking and private off it and resisted very public overtures from both Liverpool and the U.S. national team while taking a break from the game.",
"London clubs Chelsea and Tottenham were also rumored to have been keen on recruiting Klinsmann, but eventually the lure of coaching the biggest club side in German football proved too great.",
"With success in the Bundesliga expected, Klinsmann's remit will be to bring Champions League glory back to Bavaria for the first time since 2001; anything less might see the former Bayern hero under immediate pressure to keep his job.",
"New boys . Two of German football's most famous names are back in the Bundesliga as Moenchengladbach and Cologne make welcome returns to the top flight alongside fellow-new boys Hoffenheim.",
"Five-times champions 'Gladbach were exiled for just one season, winning the second division by six points just one season after their relegation.",
"One of the biggest clubs in Germany, 'Gladbach command impressive support and Dutch coach Jos Luhukay will be expected to keep them up this season.",
"Veteran striker and captain Oliver Neuville continues to be their star attraction and his impressive displays last season ensured he kept his place in the German national squad for Euro 2008, despite playing outside the Bundesliga.",
"Cologne are back in the top flight after a two-season absence and despite becoming a yo-yo club over the last 10 years, hopes are high that they can remain in the Bundesliga under experienced, but controversial, coach Christophe Daum -- who is in his second spell in charge.",
"Experienced defenders Pierre Wome (ex-Werder Bremen) and Miso Brecko (ex-Hamburg) have been drafted in but goals could be a problem following the loss of influential German striker and former club captain Patrick Helmes to Leverkusen.",
"Ambitious Hoffenheim have made rapid progress through the German football pyramid in recent seasons and have reached the Bundesliga for the first time in their history after just one season in the second division.",
"They will begin the season at Carl-Benz Stadium in Mannheim before their own 30,000 Rhein-Neckar-Arena is completed early next year.",
"In Ralf Rangnick they certainly have a coach with a wealth of experience.",
"The 50-year-old has coached Stuttgart and Schalke in the top flight and despite his squad's lack of experience at this level, they will be organized and disciplined under Rangnick.",
"Hello . No team has been busier in the transfer market than ambitious Wolfsburg and Felix Magath's side are aiming to build on their superb fifth-place last season.",
"The most eye-catching of their new signings has been Italian defender Cristian Zaccardo.",
"The 26-year-old cost Wolfsburg $12.4 million from Palermo and becomes the second current Italian international, after Luca Toni, to ply his trade in the Bundesliga.",
"Zaccardo played a key role in Italy's Euro 2008 squad and his signing is a real statement of intent as Wolfsburg aim for a Champions League place this season.",
"Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann returns to the Bundesliga from Arsenal to join Stuttgart after the London side chose not to renew his contract.",
"Eccentric and unpredictable, the 38-year-old continues to have the support of national coach Joachim Loew and he played in all six games as Germany reached the final of Euro 2008, losing to Spain.",
"Goodbye . As one veteran goalkeeper returns to the Bundesliga, another says goodbye with Bayern Munich and national team legend Oliver Kahn choosing to hang up his gloves.",
"Over the last four years, Lehmann and Kahn were involved in a public and often bitter battle for the No.1 position in the national team, with then coach Jurgen Klinsmann so undecided about who to select, that he would alternate between the pair from match to match.",
"Now, aged 39, Kahn has decided to call it a day, after nearly 450 first team matches for Bayern Munich in 14 years -- as well as 86 matches for his country.",
"Eight Bundesliga titles, six German Cups, six German League Cups, a Champions League winners medal, a UEFA Cup winners medal, a European Championship winners medal and a World Cup runners-up medal show how glittering Kahn's career was and it will be a long time before another player matches his medal haul for both club and country."
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"Jurgen Klinnsmann returns to football to manage champions Bayern Munich .",
"Werder Bremen, Schalke, Wolfsburg likely to challenge Bayern this season .",
"Legendary keeper Oliver Kahn retires, while Jens Lehmann back with Stuttgart .",
"Moenchengladbach, Cologne back in top flight; Hoffenheim new to Bundesliga ."
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"(CNN) -- Friends and family of Jean and Scott Adam -- avid sailors killed by pirates while on a round-the-world boating adventure -- mourned their losses Wednesday and tried to make sense of the tragedy.",
"The Adams, along with fellow sailors Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, were found shot to death after U.S. forces boarded their hijacked vessel around 1 a.m. Tuesday, U.S. officials said.",
"The 58-foot yacht, named the Quest, was being shadowed by the military after pirates took the ship off the coast of Oman on Friday.",
"The forces responded after a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a U.S. Navy ship about 600 yards away -- and missed -- and the sound of gunfire could be heard on board the Quest, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Mark Fox told reporters.",
"\"Despite immediate steps to provide life-saving care, all four hostages ultimately died of their wounds,\" U.S. Central Command said.",
"\"We're trying to deal with the grief of the loss,\" Clayton Schmit, a friend of the Adams, told CNN.",
"\"We've been praying earnestly over the weekend, and (since) we had the news that thing went bad, we've all been deeply in mourning.\"",
"Schmit, a Lutheran minister, is a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in California, where Scott Adam taught as a graduate student.",
"The Adams were from Marina del Rey, California.",
"Macay and Riggle were from Seattle.",
"The killings took place as negotiations involving the FBI were under way for the hostages' release, Fox said.",
"Two pirates had boarded a U.S. Navy ship Monday for the negotiations, he said.",
"He told reporters he had no information on details of the negotiations or whether a ransom had been offered.",
"Two pirates were found dead on board the Quest, he said.",
"In the process of clearing the vessel, U.S. forces killed two others, one with a knife, Fox said.",
"Thirteen others were captured and detained along with the other two already on board the U.S. Navy ship.",
"Nineteen pirates were involved altogether, he said.",
"Fox said authorities believe the pirates were trying to get the vessel and hostages to Somalia, or at least into Somali territorial waters.",
"He added that it was the deadliest pirate hijacking involving U.S. citizens that he could recall.",
"There have been fewer than 10 fatalities associated with pirate activity in the region in the past few years, he said.",
"The 15 detained pirates were being held together on a U.S. warship, Fox said, and \"we will go through the appropriate process to bring them to a judicial process and hold them accountable for their activities.\"",
"Piracy has flourished recently off the coast of Somalia, which has not had an effective government for two decades.",
"While piracy in the Indian Ocean has taken place for years close to the Somali coast, \"in 2008 we saw a very marked and rapid shift into the Gulf of Aden, where Somali pirates were attacking and hijacking vessels very, very regularly,\" said Cyrus Mody, manager at the International Maritime Bureau in London.",
"International navies combating piracy have been fairly successful in setting up a patrolled transit corridor through the Gulf of Aden, Mody and Fox said.",
"But the pirates' activities then shifted into the southern Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea area, Mody said.",
"Over 50 pirate attacks have already taken place in 2011.",
"As of February 15, pirates were holding 33 vessels and 712 hostages.",
"Schmit told CNN that the Adams were aware of the growing danger of piracy in the Indian Ocean, particularly near the Horn of Africa, where the Quest was located at the time of the attack.",
"While sailing around the world, the Adams were delivering Bibles to hospitals and schools in dangerous locations, Schmit said.",
"\"It was their mission in life and nothing was going to deter Scott.\"",
"\"There are many places in the world where Christian missionaries are facing the possibility of capture and torture and death,\" Schmit added.",
"\"Most of the people who embark on those kinds of missions are well aware of (the dangers).",
"They're surrounded by prayer and uplifted by their friends and family. ...",
"If they feel called, they typically go.\"",
"Schmit said the Adams didn't feel comfortable arming themselves while in dangerous waters.",
"Scott Adams had noted, among other things, that \"if you take a firearm on board and you stop at certain ports, your boat can be confiscated along with your cargo, so he didn't want to risk that.\"",
"The Adams, Macay and Riggle had been traveling with yachts participating in the Blue Water Rally since their departure from Phuket, Thailand, rally organizers said Sunday on the event's website.",
"The group, which organizes long-distance group cruises, said the Quest broke off on February 15 after leaving Mumbai, India, to take a different route.",
"\"We're all speculating\" as to why the Quest broke away from the other boats, Schmit said.",
"\"Somehow they slipped through the hole in the safety net.\"",
"CNN's Mike Pearson, Ashley Hayes, Carol Cratty, David McKenzie, Alan Silverleib, and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report ."
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"Fifteen pirates are in custody; another four are dead .",
"Jean and Scott Adams were delivering Bibles to different places around the world .",
"Friends don't know why the yacht broke away from a larger group of boats ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Amid deepening public concerns over the country's food safety following a wave of recent scandals, China's highest court has ordered judges nationwide to hand down harsher sentences, including the death penalty, to people convicted of violating food safety regulations.",
"In a directive released by the state-run Xinhua news agency over the weekend, the Supreme People's Court said in cases where people die from food safety violations, convicted suspects should be given the death sentence, while criminals involved in non-lethal cases should face longer prison terms and larger fines.",
"It also called for harsher punishment for government officials found protecting food safety violators or accepting bribes from them.",
"\"The overall food safety situation is stable and improving, but incidents that still occur regularly have seriously endangered people's lives and caused strong social reactions,\" the directive quoted Wang Shengjun, the country's top judge, as saying.",
"\"Our task to maintain food safety remains challenging.\"",
"From milk laced with melamine, pigs fed with performance-enhancing drugs to watermelons juiced up with growth-stimulating chemicals, a series of recent scandals have outraged Chinese consumers, despite ramped-up government crackdown and state media campaign against food safety violations.",
"From last September to April this year, Chinese courts have tried and convicted 106 people accused of violating food safety, including two who received life imprisonment last month in a \"melamine milk\" case, Xinhua reported.",
"\"It's clear that the credibility of the system will suffer,\" said Peter K. Ben Embarek, the World Health Organization's food safety official.",
"\"The (Chinese) consumer will continue to lose confidence in Chinese products and consumers abroad will equally lose confidence in Chinese products.\"",
"The latest announcement by China's supreme court, however, seems to run counter to another recent initiative to limit the use of the death penalty by the same court.",
"In its annual work report, the Supreme People's Court last week instructed lower courts to suspend death sentences for two years if an immediate execution is not deemed necessary.",
"The Chinese legislature had earlier amended the country's penal code to reduce the number of crimes punishable by death by 13 to 55.",
"China executes more people than all other countries combined, according to Amnesty International.",
"It estimated the figure, considered a state secret, to be in the thousands last year for \"a wide range of crimes that include non-violent offences.\"",
"The number of executions elsewhere in the world in 2010 was at least 527, according to the London-based group's annual report released earlier this year.",
"CNN's Eunice Yoon contributed to this report."
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"The directive also calls for harsher punishment for officials who protect violators .",
"A series of scandals have outraged consumers .",
"106 people have been convicted in recent months .",
"Amnesty: China executes more people than all other countries combined ."
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"Concepcion, Chile (CNN) -- We couldn't have traveled farther to see the same thing.",
"We were returning to the United States from Haiti -- where every turn continues to unveil another human tragedy even six weeks after the January 12 earthquake -- when we were redirected to Chile.",
"An 8.8-magnitude quake had struck the area around Chile's capital, a seismic event 800 times more powerful than the one in Haiti.",
"Getting there was half the story.",
"We took off from Miami, Florida, knowing the airport in Santiago was closed, so our aim was to get as close as we could.",
"That set off a journey that would last 48 hours.",
"We flew to Panama, Lima, Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires and Bariloche, then began a very long drive through the Patagonia region of Argentina, into Chile and north into the earthquake zone.",
"We were followed by an enormous full moon and skimpy clouds that danced along the skyline.",
"This region seems too lovely to be the scene of any tragedy.",
"Its tall green mountains peaked with whitecaps and broad lakes give way to fields and sparkly beaches.",
"South America had summer vacation until it was interrupted by this disaster.",
"And it is, in a word, a disaster.",
"Haiti, with its death toll and great suffering, sets the bar very high right now for what you can call a tragedy.",
"But there is nothing inconsequential about hundreds of people dying, crushed in their own homes or swept away by a frantic sea.",
"Chile has had very powerful earthquakes before and is a modern and wealthy place compared with Haiti.",
"But as we drove up through Ozoro, Las Violetas, Los Angeles and other lovely farming towns, we saw chunks of roadway and roofs fallen away, fractured bridges, people camped in tents among their cows.",
"Every Chilean we spoke to talked about how the previous earthquakes had pushed anyone with means to rebuild their homes or find new ones designed to withstand strong shaking.",
"People here know what to do.",
"But the sight of military convoys and ambulances told the story of what 8.8 can do.",
"An ambulance driver in Los Angeles said there had been dozens of aftershocks, many powerful enough to add to the rising toll of injured and dead in towns without many large structures.",
"They were overwhelmed and being dispatched to Concepcion, where a large population and tall structures meant more severe injuries.",
"There, we found looting and people walking the streets in search of water and gas.",
"The largest buildings were missing entire walls, and glass had shorn off the sides.",
"A light cold drizzle was getting everyone wet.",
"The vacation period means a lot of young people are out being mochileros (backpackers) and are separated from families by distance and downed phone lines.",
"They have heard the stories of beach towns swept away and houses upended and are hitching rides at gas stations, hoping to find a way to reunite.",
"The aftershocks are like a rising tide here, a clear sign that this is not over, that the damage is not done.",
"The farm stands and cottages of the back roads are crooked and empty; the city centers look abandoned and on the brink.",
"This country is not crying out for international assistance in the way Haiti did.",
"It was prepared and has coping resources.",
"This is a place that sends rescue workers to other countries because they're so good at it.",
"Yet its natural beauty and efficiency are not enough to diminish what connects these folks to Haiti -- that the people waiting for buses beside the blackberry fields along Panamericana Ruta 5 are running scared."
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"The quake that shook Chile was 800 times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti .",
"Country's infrastructure built to withstand quakes, but death and destruction inescapable .",
"Reports: Dozens of aftershocks powerful enough to add to toll of injured and dead .",
"Wealthier and more prepared than Haiti, Chile and its people still share in the fear ."
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"THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CNN) -- The International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.",
"Al-Bashir waves to supporters in the sudanese capital, Khartoum on Wednesday.",
"It is the first arrest warrant ever issued for a sitting head of state by the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal.",
"Bashir is charged with seven counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.",
"The warrant does not mention genocide, but the court may issue an amended warrant to include that charge later, ICC spokeswoman Laurence Blairon said.",
"But Sudan's minister of information and communications said the country does not plan to cooperate with the \"white man's tribunal.\"",
"Kamal Obaid said: \"Sudan perceives those decisions as an insult directed at (Sudan's) nationalism and sovereignty ...",
"The government relies on the strong will of the people and on a national consensus not seen before and (stands) by decisions taken by its council of ministers and parliament and restates what it always confirmed.\"",
"Speaking on Sudanese TV, he added: \"The Security Council and international community must bear full responsibility toward any escalation produced by those clumsy decisions.\"",
"Watch a pro-Bashir rally in Sudan » .",
"Five of the counts against Bashir are for crimes against humanity and include murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, and rape, Blairon said.",
"The other two are for war crimes, for intentionally directing attacks against civilians and for pillaging.",
"\"Bashir's official capacity as head of state does not exclude criminal responsibility or get him immunity,\" Blairon said in announcing the warrant.",
"The ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, filed genocide charges against al-Bashir in July last year, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in the war-torn region with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation.",
"Watch more on the verdict » .",
"The violence in Darfur erupted in 2003 after rebels began an uprising against the Sudanese government.",
"To counter the rebels, Sudanese authorities armed and cooperated with Arab militias that went from village to village in Darfur, killing, torturing and raping residents there, according to the United Nations, Western governments and human rights organizations.",
"A man describes how he was told to rape children » .",
"The militias targeted civilian members of tribes from which the rebels drew strength.",
"Moreno-Ocampo told CNN's Nic Robertson last year that he had \"strong evidence that al-Bashir is committing a genocide.\"",
"But Blairon said the evidence submitted to judges so far doesn't support that charge.",
"Watch Christiane Amanpour's reaction to the verdict » .",
"\"In order to speak about a genocide, you need to have a clear intent that a person wishes to destroy, in part or as a whole, a targeted group, a specific group,\" Blairon said.",
"\"In this specific case, the (judges of the) Pre-Trial Chamber 1 has not been able to find that there were reasonable grounds to establish the genocidal intent.\"",
"Prosecutors may still return to the chamber if new evidence of genocide emerges, and the court may then decide to issue an amended warrant, she said.",
"Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday he would have to review the court's decision not to include genocide in the arrest warrant, but he pointed out it is possible to appeal.",
"Al-Bashir bears responsibility for the crimes committed in Darfur, Moreno-Ocampo said last year, because he sat at the apex of the government.",
"\"For such crimes to be committed over a period of five years and throughout Darfur, al-Bashir had to mobilize and keep mobilized the whole state apparatus; he had to control and direct perpetrators; and he had to rely on a genocidal plan,\" Moreno-Ocampo wrote as background for arrest warrant request.",
"The Sudanese government has long rejected the authority of the ICC, saying Sudan is not a signatory to the court's creation so there is no legal obligation to turn al-Bashir over to the court.",
"Sudan: 'Process is unlawful' » .",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid issued a statement on the arrest warrant, saying \"the United States is strongly committed to the pursuit of peace in Sudan and believes those who have committed atrocities should be held accountable for their crimes.\"",
"The statement urged all groups \"to exercise restraint in responding to this development and to ensure the safety and security of vulnerable Sudanese populations, international civilians, and peacekeepers on the ground.\"",
"Germany and the UK both urged Sudan to cooperate with the ICC.",
"\"We deeply regret that the government has not taken these allegations seriously or engaged with the court, and we repeat today our call for its cooperation,\" British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.",
"The ICC said the obligation to surrender al-Bashir falls on all countries that are also members of the U.N. Security Council and to \"any other state as may be necessary.\"",
"And the judges have ruled that additional arrest warrants may be issued for Al-Bashir and served on any state as required, said court registrar Silvana Arbia.",
"Al-Bashir is scheduled to attend an Arab summit in Doha, Qatar, later this month.",
"Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday that al-Bashir stands the chance of being arrested should he travel.",
"\"The judges were clear: There is no immunity for head of states before the ICC,\" the prosecutor said.",
"\"As soon as Omar al-Bashir travels through international air space, he can be arrested.\"",
"\"Omar al-Bashir's destiny is to face justice,\" he added.",
"\"It will be two months or in two years, but he will face justice.\"",
"About 300,000 people have died in Darfur, the United Nations estimates, and 2.5 million have been forced from their homes.",
"\"His victims are the very civilians that he, as a president, was supposed to protect,\" Moreno-Ocampo said.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Sudan says it will not cooperate with International Criminal Court .",
"ICC charged Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir with Darfur war crimes .",
"It is first the first arrest warrant ever issued for a sitting head of state .",
"About 300,000 have died in Darfur, U.N. says; 2.5 million forced from homes ."
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"(CNN) -- Two additional suspects have surfaced in the fatal shooting of an American man on a lake that straddles the United States and Mexico last September, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez told CNN.",
"David Hartley was allegedly shot on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake.",
"He and his wife, Tiffany, were on personal watercraft on the lake when gunmen opened fire on them, authorities say.",
"The killing remains unsolved.",
"Gonzalez said officials would not release the new suspects' names.",
"\"We're just waiting for more information.",
"We understand that they were there, they participated in the shooting.",
"They were given the orders to go kill (Tiffany) also,\" the sheriff said.",
"The new information, based on cooperation from informants, came to light last month, but is just now being released publicly.",
"Hartley's account of what happened has never changed.",
"She and her husband were returning from touring a well known local landmark, the previously submerged town of Old Guerrero on the Mexican side of the border.",
"They were about a mile from the town's well-known church when three boats approached.",
"The men in the boats had guns and began to fire.",
"David Hartley, his wife said, was shot in the head.",
"In the months since the attack, many doubts have been raised by law enforcement sources suggesting Tiffany Hartley's version of events does not ring true.",
"Rumors persist that somehow, in some way, the Hartleys themselves were involved.",
"Gonzalez, who says he always believed Tiffany Hartley, said that the new information on the suspects corroborate her story.",
"The suspects are known Mexican drug traffickers and \"do come over to Zapata County (Texas) every once in awhile.",
"We're waiting to try and grab them when they're here,\" he said.",
"A factor hindering the investigation is that the shooting took place in Mexico.",
"Mexican authorities have not publicly provided any new leads since the investigator on the case was found dead.",
"The new revelations bring the total number of suspects in the case to four, Gonzalez said.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"Two new suspects have been identified in the case .",
"The sheriff would not release their names ."
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"(CNN) -- Chile is unfortunately no stranger to earthquakes.",
"A quake similar to Saturday's struck almost exactly the same part of Chile on February 20, 1835 -- almost exactly 175 years ago.",
"On that occasion, the young English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin was in Chile as part of his voyage on HMS Beagle.",
"The 1835 earthquake has been estimated as magnitude 8.5, whereas that of February 27, 2010, has been measured as 8.8.",
"The earthquake of 1835 occurred around 11 a.m. and lasted about two minutes.",
"The main shock destroyed much of Concepción in just six seconds.",
"There were aftershocks for several weeks and three tsunamis, each one larger than the last, starting about half an hour after the earthquake and bringing further devastation.",
"Darwin was on shore near Valdivia, 200 miles south of Concepción, during the quake and recorded in his diary: .",
"\"I was on shore & lying down in the wood to rest myself.",
"It came on suddenly & lasted two minutes (but appeared much longer).",
"The rocking was most sensible; the undulation appeared both to me & my servant to travel from due East.",
"There was no difficulty in standing upright; but the motion made me giddy.",
"I can compare it to skating on very thin ice or to the motion of a ship in a little cross ripple.",
"... An earthquake like this at once destroys the oldest associations; the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, moves beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time conveys to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never create.\"",
"The Beagle, with Darwin aboard, reached Concepción on March 4.",
"The devastation there was appalling.",
"Darwin called it \"the most awful yet interesting spectacle I ever beheld.\"",
"The entire city lay in ruins.",
"The cathedral was shattered and wreckage and debris lined the coast.",
"Darwin spent the next weeks investigating the effects of the earthquake.",
"He found that rocks lined with recent marine shells were now elevated above the tide.",
"The island of Santa Maria was raised an average of about 3 meters (9 feet).",
"Combining his own observations with those of many local people, Darwin attempted to reconstruct the event and to understand why it had occurred.",
"He found that three volcanoes had erupted along the Chilean coast at about the same time as the earthquake.",
"Not only did he collect widespread evidence of the uplift of the coast during the earthquake, but traveling inland and into the mountains, he discovered a series of remains of marine shells -- proof that the shifting that had recently uplifted the coast by a small amount had occurred over and over in the recent geological past.",
"The experience convinced him that the great geologist Charles Lyell was right -- mountain chains were not created by sudden immense catastrophes, but grew almost imperceptibly, the product of thousands of successive uplifts over almost endless geological time.",
"Even more ambitiously, Darwin later came to connect earthquakes, volcanoes and vertical movements of the Earth's crust as the results of same great unknown subterranean phenomena.",
"In an ambitious and important scientific paper published after the voyage, Darwin concluded that \"this large portion of the earth's crust floats in a like manner on a sea of molten rock\" and indeed that it was likely this was true of \"the entire globe.\"",
"This firsthand appreciation of an ever-changing surface of the Earth, over endless eons of time, was one of the major influences leading Darwin to ask how it was that living things changed in order to adapt to an ever-changing world.",
"His answer was, of course, evolution, or that new species are the genealogical descendants of earlier ones, adapted according to natural selection to the environment and each other.",
"The recent tragic earthquake in Chile demonstrates, as Darwin knew well, that our Earth is not static, it is still changing, still evolving.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John van Wyhe."
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"Saturday's earthquake was similar to one that struck Chile when Darwin visited .",
"John van Wyhe says Darwin's theories were shaped in part by the experience of the quake .",
"He says Darwin observed that the quake elevated the Chilean coastline .",
"It prompted him to ask how life changed to adapt to a changing world, van Wyhe says ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday authorities will not pursue criminal charges against a rap artist after he apologized for his Twitter account's role in causing a deluge of telephone calls into the department's Compton station.",
"The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor and who also uses the name Charles Louboutin on his Twitter page, apologized earlier Wednesday for a tweet that gave the sheriff's station's phone number, prompting hundreds of his followers to overwhelm deputies and dispatchers with calls.",
"The sheriff's department issued a statement in response, saying the apology was \"relevant and well received.\"",
"\"His willingness to help share with the media and the community that the safety of the public is what is most important, is a great message,\" the department said.",
"\"Based upon our investigation, as well as consultation with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the LASD considers the criminal investigation into this matter closed.",
"The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will not be seeking criminal charges.\"",
"In issuing his apology, Taylor said it wasn't he, but a friend, who tweeted the phone number, and that it was purely an accident that the station number was tweeted.",
"\"It was a simple mishap,\" the rapper said.",
"\"I was doing a photo shoot, and it was downtown Los Angeles, and one of my boys picked up my phone and started tweeting random numbers.",
"\"Whenever his phone is laying around and my phone is laying around, we tweet from each other's page.",
"That's what happened,\" the rapper said.",
"The tweet on Friday that gave the phone number was confused with an earlier tweet about a music internship that the rapper was offering to any of his more than 580,000 followers on his Twitter page, Taylor said.",
"\"The tweet about the internship was earlier in that day, and it got lost in the media with all that.",
"He never sent out a tweet that said these numbers are for the internship.",
"He tweeted a bunch of numbers jokingly.",
"We always play pranks on each other,\" he said.",
"But Taylor took responsibility for the early tweets about the internship.",
"\"We had already contacted (the interns) and had the interns come to the photo shoot and start working,\" Taylor said.",
"\"None of (the tweets) stated call this number for an internship.\"",
"The rapper added: \"My sincerest apologies to the sheriff's department, and it was a joke gone wrong.\"",
"Sheriff's Department Capt.",
"Mike Parker said authorities had considered charging The Game with at least three misdemeanors.",
"The sheriff's department alleged that the rapper's tweets appeared to be listing the sheriff's station in Compton as the contact number for the internship, prompting the mad rush of calls that forced the sheriff's office to bring in additional manpower to answer phones.",
"Authorities said the calls lasted two hours Friday evening and that help was delayed in response to urgent calls about a missing person, a spousal assault, two robberies and a stolen car.",
"\"I never want to be the source of anything happening wrong to anybody or anybody not being able to get through to the help lines at the police station,\" Taylor said.",
"\"I don't ever want to see anyone hurt.",
"I've got kids at home.",
"I'm not that guy.\" Taylor said the tweets on his account listed a 10-digit phone for the sheriff's station: \"When people are in trouble, they call 911, and that's not to take away from the police and them doing a job or them saying there was a robbery.\"",
"Many residents dial a station directly with the 10-digit number for urgent calls, even though the 911 emergency is at their disposal, a sheriff's department spokesman said.",
"The Game was nominated twice in the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in 2006: Best rap song for \"Hate It or Love It,\" which he wrote, and best rap performance by a duo or a group for the same song, with 50 Cent, a Grammy spokeswoman said.",
"The Game didn't win in either category.",
"Parker told CNN that the incident is a \"societal\" lesson.",
"\"People love social media and they are using it in fun and interesting ways.",
"But it doesn't mean that there isn't a rough edge to it,\" the sheriff's spokesman said.",
"\"In the past the news media was the only entity that could send a message in a fast way.",
"Now celebrities with social media are able to do it now too.",
"All the lessons that were learned by the news media over the years about the pros and the cons (of media), people with a large social media following, they are not familiar with those lessons.",
"\"We as a society have an interesting situation on our hands.",
"We see it in flash mob activity.",
"Intentionally or not, challenging situations developing on a moment's notice can occur.",
"So law enforcement agencies are determining how best to monitor that without impeding people's freedom of speech.\"",
"Authorities are calling the incident a \"telephone flash mob\" or \"flashcalls,\" which is a sudden and overwhelming number of phone calls and is the latest riff on unlawful conduct originating from social media, Parker said.",
"\"Flash mobs\" began as an innocent organizing of individuals through social media to do spur-of-the-moment dances in public spaces such as a mall or a park, but increasingly, social media have been used to organize flash mobs for criminal activity, evidenced in the recent riots in London and in Vancouver, Canada, this year after the Stanley Cup loss, Parker said.",
"The so-called flashcall or telephone flash mob is the newest twist on the trend, he said.",
"\"I see this as another iteration, another version of the social media phenomenon,\" Parker said."
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"The rapper apologized earlier Wednesday for the incident .",
"The rapper says a friend used his phone to tweet \"random numbers\"\nHundreds of The Game's followers flooded the sheriff's station with calls ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- With at least five people dead and massive expanses of land and roads under water, Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency Monday in the 17 counties hardest hit by flooding from severe weather.",
"Atlanta firefighter Stephen Webb carries a dog to safety Monday at the Peachtree Park Apartments.",
"Gov. Sonny Perdue's announcement followed three deaths in north Georgia's Douglas County, one death in Gwinnett County and another in Carroll County, where a 2-year-old child was ripped from her father's arms by fierce floodwaters while he struggled to hold on to bushes, officials said.",
"Those counties, near Atlanta, were among the 17 included in the state-of-emergency declaration .",
"About 100 miles north of Atlanta, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, one person was swept into rushing water and is presumed drowned, said Jeremy Heidt, a spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency in Nashville.",
"Three missing children in Douglas County, west of Atlanta, were found, but their mother was one of the flood's fatalities, said Dena Brummer, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.",
"\"We're in rescue-and-recovery mode,\" said Wes Tallon, spokesman for fire and emergency management services in Douglas County.",
"\"It has not stopped raining, and another line of thunderstorms is coming.\"",
"Watch flooding one CNN.com staffer recorded » .",
"Until just a few months ago, the area was gripped by drought.",
"Watch what caused the torrential rain » .",
"Several storms moving northeast from the Gulf of Mexico brought the downpours, which forecasters expected to continue through Monday night.",
"Rains were expected to taper off by Tuesday morning but scattered showers were expected for the next couple of days.",
"Just west of Atlanta, some areas have received about 22 inches of rain since last week, CNN meteorologists reported.",
"About 12 of those inches fell in a 12-hour period from Sunday night to Monday morning.",
"After Georgia creeks and rivers burst, swollen by days of rain, residents struggled to escape.",
"In Cobb County's Austell, two rescuers paddled their way through rising flood waters searching for stranded victims, video from CNN affiliate WXIA showed.",
"The pair on the inflatable, yellow raft ushered a stranded woman to a section of black-tarred street that was not under water.",
"Nearby, three men pushed their valuables in a kayak as they waded through the shoulder-high muddy waters.",
"Another two men floated on what looked like air mattresses linked together by rope.",
"Watch men float on inflatable mattresses » .",
"Near Marietta northwest of Atlanta, a flooded bridge blocked the only road out of a residential area surrounded by a national park and the Chattahoochee River.",
"Two buses picked up elementary school children Monday morning, but flooding prevented them from picking up older students later, and the buses couldn't return with the first batch in the afternoon, said iReporter Pritam Jaipuriar, who lives there.",
"See Pritam Jaipuriar's iReport .",
"Some elementary students used a walking trail -- the only other path out of the area -- to return home.",
"Some parents arranged for friends beyond the bridge to pick their children up from school and keep them for the day.",
"\"My first-grader son is staying with a friend of mine,\" said Jaipuriar, who was unable to go to work Monday.",
"Some ground-level apartments in the area were flooded, but his unit was fine, he said.",
"Unable to drive for supplies, some residents walked the path to a store a few miles away and returned with bags of groceries, said iReporter Jeff Cofer, who also lives there.",
"See Jeff Cofer's iReport .",
"Near northwest Atlanta's Vinings area, floodwaters encroached upon multimillion-dollar houses.",
"Rescue personnel rode in boats over flooded streets Monday night, going home to home to pick up residents and take them away.",
"Water levels were high enough at one home that the people there stood on a roof to await rescuers, a fire and rescue official said.",
"On Monday morning, a couple inches of water had entered the Villa Rica, Georgia, home of iReporter Walid Zeid, damaging suitcases and other things that were on the floor.",
"Water from a flooded lake lifted his boat to the roof of his boathouse, crushing the boat's canopy, Zeid's iReport video showed.",
"Zeid, a flight attendant, was supposed to be on an international flight Monday, but flooding prevented him and his family from leaving home, which is in Carroll County.",
"See Walid Zeid's iReport .",
"\"You can't go anywhere.",
"The roads are washed up,\" he said.",
"The flooding from torrential rains drenching the metropolitan Atlanta area \"has to rank as one of the worst,\" Matt Sena of the Peachtree City, Georgia, National Weather Service told CNN.",
"Watch home's yard become a lake » .",
"Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport in five days has received about 4.5 inches more rain than it usually would in all of September, he said.",
"iReport.com: Floodwaters seep into Carroll County home .",
"\"Hundreds of roads have been closed\" in the Atlanta area, Brummer said, adding that Carroll, Douglas and Paulding counties \"have been impacted the most.\"",
"Watch I-75/85 under water » .",
"Two of the Georgia fatalities involved people trying to drive through floodwater.",
"A vehicle with one man in it was swept off a road in Douglas County, and a car carrying a woman was swept off a road in Lawrenceville in Gwinnett County, east of Atlanta, Brummer said.",
"Seydi Burciaga, 39, was driving to her Lawrenceville home from work when flash flooding trapped her in her vehicle, Gwinnett County police said.",
"She called 911 and police tried to locate her, but Burciaga could not tell them exactly where she was.",
"Floodwater moved her car about 500 feet after she was swept off the roadway, and her attempts to guide rescuers to her by mentioning landmarks were unsuccessful, police said.",
"By the time rescuers found her minivan, she was dead, police said.",
"In Tennessee, the presumed drowning victim was forced into a culvert, or underground storm water drain, about 6 p.m. Sunday, Chattanooga Fire Department spokesman Bruce Garner told CNN.",
"Sylvester Kitchens Jr., 46, was with a friend, Albert Miller, when the two decided to swim in a large, flooded ditch, Garner said.",
"He said a Miller family member told him that \"basically it was a bet.\"",
"Both managed to grab onto a chain link fence while being buffeted by the strong current, Garner said.",
"A neighbor threw a garden hose for them to grab onto, and Kitchens reached for it but was unable to hold on.",
"Miller clung to the fence for about 20 minutes and was eventually rescued by firefighters, Garner said.",
"Kitchens' body has not been found, said Garner, who added that it \"doesn't appear he could've survived.\"",
"CNN's Mallory Simon, Nicole Saidi and Jason Hanna contributed to this report."
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"Girl who was swept from father's arms is among five killed in Georgia .",
"Person in Tennessee swept into rushing water, presumed drowned, official says .",
"Hundreds of roads closed, official says; more rain expected before finally ending ."
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"(CNN) -- A volcano near southwest Colombia's border with Ecuador erupted on Saturday, leading the government to issue a \"red alert\" for the region.",
"The Galeras volcano is shown on January 17, 2008, from Pasto, Colombia.",
"There were not believed to be any fatalities or injuries in the blast, which happened at about 7:10 p.m.",
"ET (12:10 a.m. Sunday GMT), said Carlos Lineras of the Colombia Institute for Geology and Mines.",
"The institute issued an evacuation order for about 7,000 people living near the Galeras volcano.",
"The volcano is not in a heavily populated region.",
"Galeras has erupted several times since it became active again in 1989.",
"The only fatalities were in 1993, when nine people -- all scientists or tourists in or near the volcano's crater -- were killed."
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"(CNN) -- The resignation of Silvio Berlusconi as Italy's prime minister does not mark his end, but the beginning of the end.",
"He will not disappear from the stage anytime soon.",
"Through his vast public and private sector networks, Berlusconi's influence on Italian affairs will continue for the foreseeable future and beyond.",
"However, despite making several successful comebacks, any further attempt will be far less effective.",
"While Berlusconi's credibility abroad is irreparably damaged, his legitimacy at home consistently sags.",
"As a rapidly aging figure, he is increasingly disconnected from political reality.",
"Time is of the essence and necessity determines a technocratic government that must last until 2013, when elections are formally due.",
"During this period, Italy's problems will not be resolved.",
"The objectives must be to stabilize the status quo, place Italy on a clear path to reform and provide a respectable degree of certainty for international markets.",
"Time has run out for Italy to determine the process and pace of reform.",
"Past failures have caught up.",
"Greater collective sacrifices are now required.",
"A new government must firmly make the often unpopular decisions required.",
"The crucial need for structural reform and greater deregulation is accompanied by the need to boost competitiveness and growth -- indispensable elements to long-term success.",
"While Italy's long-standing challenges remain unresolved, the deep level of political polarization continues, as does Italy's failure to adapt to an increasingly globalized world.",
"With one of the world's lowest birth rates, Italy is increasingly becoming a nation of pensioners, ruled by pensioners for the sake of pensioners.",
"It amounts to a gerontocracy with little, if any, meritocracy.",
"In Italy, a young leader is considered someone in his 50s.",
"The prevailing perception of politicians is that their purpose is not to serve the public but to take from it and distribute the spoils to loyalists in order to guarantee survival and self-preservation.",
"For young Italians, upward mobility is not a fluid process.",
"Personal connections or tutelage under a \"sponsor\" becomes a more secure guarantee to success.",
"Some of Italy's best and brightest opt for opportunities abroad to find greater meritocracy and equitable results for hard work.",
"In the corporate realm, many of Italy's largest multinationals have adapted to globalization.",
"However, many small and medium-sized companies, largely responsible for the nation's post-war economic success, struggle to compete.",
"For a society which has enjoyed generous state-sponsored benefits for decades, amending or revoking what is considered an entitlement will be extremely difficult.",
"This requires not only an economic change but a cultural one in a country where dependence upon the state prevails in many quarters and remains significantly rooted in the political culture.",
"As the world's eighth largest economy, Italy consistently punches below its weight.",
"By continuing on its present course, and as new powers emerge globally, Italy will inevitably be relegated.",
"Its traditional political establishment pales in competence when compared to its entrepreneurial class.",
"Italy remains a nation unable to unleash its wealth of talent, much of which continues to seek opportunities abroad, significantly hurting the nation's competitiveness and growth.",
"Italy possesses one of the most over-regulated economies and some of the lowest labor productivity rates in the developed world.",
"Labor and pension reform and deregulation remain essential priorities.",
"Excessively powerful unions continue to exercise disproportionate influence over effective national policy.",
"Corruption and organized crime in Italy's southern regions continue to hinder economic development.",
"As for post-Berlusconi Italy, the door now opens for a potential realignment in Italian politics.",
"A sizable centrist bloc could emerge as a power broker in determining future governments.",
"It would be a combination of old Christian Democrats, defectors from Berlusconi's party and disenchanted centrist elements of the main center-left party, Partito Democratico.",
"While Berlusconi's center-right will attempt to consolidate its ranks, the center-left will struggle to overcome divisions.",
"Throughout the turmoil of recent months, Italy's center-left has utterly failed to seize the political initiative.",
"In part, this has helped to extend Berlusconi's survival.",
"In retrospect, Berlusconi had an historic opportunity to reform Italy, particularly after winning an absolute parliamentary majority in 2008.",
"It was squandered due largely to his personal shortcomings and inability to effectively manage Italy's economy and political system.",
"His failures led to his ouster and history will deny him the chance to ever make up for it.",
"During his 20-year political career, Berlusconi displayed impeccable endurance skills.",
"At home, he survived more than 50 confidence votes, scandals, court cases and other controversies, all somewhat subject to his influence.",
"However, current market pressure proved too overwhelming for Berlusconi's aura of invincibility and omnipotence.",
"Ironically, his most humiliating defeat was largely inflicted by external circumstances beyond his control.",
"In less than 48 hours, he became the second victim of the eurozone crisis after the resignation of the Greek prime minister.",
"A possible third target is Spain's Socialist party after national elections on November 20.",
"Over time, Berlusconi has largely become the victim of his own hubris.",
"Whereas many Italians were amused by past antics, they eventually became a liability and particularly unacceptable for the important voting bloc of Berlusconi's Catholic supporters.",
"His can-do-no-wrong attitude also became unsustainable.",
"The sense that he was accountable to no-one but himself created resentment even among diehard loyalists.",
"This was further compounded by the perception of a do-nothing, no-results government.",
"From Berlusconi's perspective, he was back-stabbed.",
"After all, the narrative goes, he saved Italy from the far left and is therefore entitled to rule at will and leave power when ready.",
"To think otherwise is committing treason.",
"Many are eager to write off Berlusconi sooner rather than later.",
"Some are ideologically driven, others simply tired of polemics and political gridlock.",
"It may be too premature to write his political obituary just yet.",
"However, the drafting has begun in earnest.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Marco Vicenzino ."
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"Memphis, Tennessee (CNN) -- People thought that as bad the Memphis Grizzlies NBA franchise has mostly been since moving from frosty Vancouver to this steamy Southern locale 10 years ago, it would be hell or high water before they ever won a playoff game, much less a series.",
"Well, the Grizzlies, after being just the second No.",
"8 seed to ever beat a No.",
"1 seed in a seven-game NBA series two weeks ago, are still hanging on in the Western Conference semifinals, forcing a Game 7 after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 95-83 on Friday.",
"And that's where the high water comes in.",
"If you walk out the front doors of FedExForum, take a right, walk 25 yards to Beale Street, walk two blocks west and roll a basketball down a hill the final block, that ball might end up in the Gulf of Mexico.",
"That's because The Big Muddy, the Mississippi River, is on Memphis' downtown doorstep, cresting Tuesday night at 47.8 feet, way above flood stage.",
"Dark brown water has filtered it way into the northern parts of the city, making life miserable for thousands.",
"The Grizzlies understand misery.",
"Their franchise, since moving from Vancouver in 2001-02, has had a decade of heartache, from being swept in three straight playoffs from 2004 to 2006, to majority owner Michael Heisley almost selling the team a couple of years later.",
"The Griz players also understand that when the playoffs started almost four weeks ago, they were playing for themselves.",
"Now, they realize it's much more than that.",
"\"With all the flooding, the people in our city could have easily dropped their heads,\" guard O.J.",
"Mayo said. \"But we feel good that at the end of the day, they've been able to come down to Beale Street, catch a game and put a rough time behind them.\"",
"Granted, the Grizzlies haven't had much time to think about the plight of their city.",
"Once you've stepped into the intense hurricane of the playoffs, it's hard to spend a few minutes of calm in the eye.",
"\"The city has gone through a lot when you see all the people who've had to relocate and move all their things,\" Memphis point guard Mike Conley said.",
"\"That's a tough situation, but this community has been on our side this whole roller-coaster season.",
"We're trying to do this for them.\" Whatever happens Friday night, whether the Grizzlies win and go back to Oklahoma City for game 7, or lose to end the season, what has occurred the last four weeks has turned around the franchise.",
"The city of Memphis is a rarity in the football-crazed South, because it has always been about basketball, dating back to the days when the city's powerhouse college basketball program, then called Memphis State, lost in the 1973 NCAA championship game to Bill Walton-led UCLA.",
"From the playgrounds to the high schools to the University of Memphis, the city loves its barbecue, blues and basketball.",
"Even when the city failed to get an NFL franchise when the league last expanded in 1995, the average Memphis sports fan always believed the city would support an NBA franchise.",
"Former Grizzlies coach Hubie Brown, who guided Memphis to its first playoff berth ever in 2004 when he was named the league's Coach of the Year, said he's never forgotten how much the city loved a winner and a team that played as a team.",
"\"Every time I go into an arena with one of my guys [former Griz players], it's just incredible the relationship with those players and that town,\" said Brown, now a TV analyst for ABC and ESPN.",
"\"I say it all the time: You can't fool the people of Memphis.",
"That's a basketball town, they understand the game all the way down to the high school level.\"",
"That's why when the franchise struggled in recent years, the average Griz fan never thought another playoff run was possible.",
"Crowds dwindled, and it didn't matter what promotion was being given away at home games.",
"\"You can't fool these fans, because they know bad basketball when they see it,\" said Shane Battier, who was the Grizzlies' first first-round draft pick in '01 as they moved to Memphis, \"They were going to show up to watch a winning team.",
"You weren't going to get them in the building with T-shirts and bobbleheads.\"",
"When the Grizzlies won game 6 in Memphis to capture the Spurs' series, the fans spilled from FedExForum onto Beale Street for an all-night party.",
"And though the Grizzlies were to fly to Oklahoma City the next afternoon to begin their semifinal series, Battier and some teammates joined in on the fun, too.",
"\"All the years I had been here before, I always wondered what it would be like if we won a playoff series, because the playoffs are here in May during Musicfest and the barbecue festival,\" Battier said.",
"\"So when we won, I just had to go out and see. \"Since I live downtown, I just left my car here [at FedExForum] and walked home down Main Street.",
"It was awesome. Everybody was high-fiving me and each other.\"",
"Memphis mayor A C Wharton says the Grizzlies style of play makes them the perfect team for his city.",
"\"When the Grizzlies get knocked down and don't get the foul calls they just get up and keep grinding,\" Wharton said.",
"\"In the game of life there are no referees.",
"When you get knocked on your back you get back up.\"",
"Star forward Zach Randolph recognizes how much this playoff run means to Memphis.",
"Never before has he felt so loved by a city after he had earned a reputation as a malcontent at his previous NBA stops, starting in Portland.",
"\"It has never been like this anywhere else,\" said Randolph, who loves Memphis so much that he personally pays a one-month electric bill for hundreds of struggling Memphians during Christmas.",
"\"This city has embraced me.",
"The people here have been great.",
"\"I'm involved in the community.",
"I'm involved with the kids here.",
"I think God has blessed me and He has made this work for me.",
"I think this is God's plan for me to be here.",
"I'm feel like I'm from Memphis and this is great for our city.\"",
"Randolph's community work isn't the exception among the Grizzlies.",
"It's the rule, and a way established by head coach Lionel Hollins, who was on Portland's 1977 NBA champions that caused that city to fall in love with the franchise.",
"\"If you have good talent, you got a chance to win,\" said Hollins, 57.",
"\"But to give yourself a chance, you've got to open up, you have to share the basketball with one another, you've got to be a better teammate, you have to be a better citizen, because all of this is tied in with the sponsors, fans and the community.",
"It's all tied together.",
"And in order to maximize who you are, you have to be better in all these areas.\"",
"That's why Friday night, with their backs to the wall, one game away from being eliminated, the Grizzlies will gather down by the river one more time -- a river that is a lot closer than it was at the start of the playoffs -- and fight it out with the Thunder to the very end.",
"\"This series is not over by any means,\" Hollins said after his team, coming off a three-overtime loss Monday, lost game 5 on Wednesday 99-72 at Oklahoma City.",
"\"I still believe in my team, and I still believe we will come back.",
"This team will fight to the end.\"",
"Because if the Grizzlies didn't know it before, they know it now -- they live in a city of fighters."
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"(CNN) -- Serbian authorities have put up wanted posters for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic at police stations across the country in their search for the highest-ranking figure from the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict to remain at large, according to Serbian media reports.",
"Ratko Mladic, pictured in 1993, is the highest-ranking figure from the conflict still at large.",
"Mladic faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the killing of almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in July 1995.",
"The posters remind people of the 1 million euro ($1.3 million) reward for information leading to Mladic's capture, according to Serbian media reports.",
"Authorities also recently put up notices about the 250,000 euro ($334,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of Serbia's other fugitive, Goran Hadzic, according to the reports released Saturday.",
"The posters provide a phone number and promise that informants will enjoy \"guaranteed secrecy of data and identity,\" Serbia's B92 network reported.",
"Last month, the office of the war crimes prosecutor in Belgrade announced that Serbian police -- acting on the prosecutor's request -- searched for Mladic and Hadzic around the town of Arandjelovac, 45 miles (75 kilometers) south of Belgrade.",
"Mladic is the top-ranking figure from the conflict to remain at large following the July arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.",
"Mladic, who commanded the Bosnian Serb military during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been on the run for 13 years, ever since the international tribunal issued the indictments against him and those against 51 others.",
"He disappeared after former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in 2001.",
"The tribunal has accused Serbia of knowing Mladic's whereabouts and letting him avoid capture, but the country's leaders have denied protecting him.",
"Mladic is one of the major stumbling blocks to Serbia's admission to the European Union.",
"Serbia's government signed a preliminary agreement last April setting the country on the path to full EU membership.",
"But ratification of the deal was made conditional on Serbia sending Mladic to the Hague."
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"He is accused of overseeing the killings of almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in 1995 .",
"The tribunal accused Serbia of knowing Mladic's whereabouts .",
"Serbian leaders deny protecting the former Bosnian Serb commander ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- When Michael Jackson died unexpectedly two years ago, his fans worldwide erupted in a torrent of grief, anguish and -- in tribute to the pop icon -- song and dance.",
"On Monday, there were hugs, tears and shrieks of joy among his fans packed outside a Southern California courtroom after a jury found Jackson's physician, Conrad Murray, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death.",
"Jury finds Murray guilty .",
"\"Oh my God, guilty!\"",
"one woman yelled out, seconds after the verdict was announced.",
"Others appeared to almost break out in song; some seemed to start dancing; and a chant soon rose up of \"Justice, justice, justice.\"",
"The honking horns and revelry were in contrast to the quiet scene inside Los Angeles Superior Court, where Judge Michael Pastor had earlier urged people to constrain their emotions.",
"But there were no such restrictions outside.",
"Hundreds had packed the streets and sidewalks earlier in the day anticipating a verdict.",
"Many held signs calling for Murray's conviction, like one saying, \"Murray, burn in hell.\"",
"A long banner held out by several people had a simpler, more sentimental message: \"We miss Michael.\"",
"They were joined by throngs of photographers and videographers.",
"Many flanked a walkway to the courtroom, their flashbulbs popping as Jackson family members, lawyers and others hurriedly walked into the courthouse to learn Murray's fate.",
"The Los Angeles County Coroner's office reported in June 2009 that the entertainer had died after suffering cardiac arrest.",
"Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, was caused by \"acute propofol intoxication\" in combination with two sedatives, the coroner ruled.",
"But Murray was eventually indicted, as prosecutors claimed he was criminally negligent in giving Jackson excess amounts of the surgical anesthetic propofol to treat the singer's insomnia.",
"When the jury decided in the prosecution's favor, the emotions spilled over on the streets as people yelled out, burst into tears and smiled.",
"\"I'm so happy,\" one woman, who had traveled to California from Memphis, Tennessee, told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell outside the courthouse.",
"\"Michael deserves justice.\"",
"One of the late singer's sisters, LaToya Jackson, thanked all those involved in Murray's conviction, which she called a \"victory.\"",
"\"Everybody was wonderful,\" she said as she left the courthouse.",
"Her brother Randy Jackson said \"justice was served,\" while opining that Murray should have to serve more than even the four-year maximum that he could get.",
"\"Michael is with us,\" Randy Jackson said.",
"And Kathy Hilton, a friend of the Jackson family and mother of Paris Hilton, said while leaving the courthouse that the verdict was bittersweet, though still satisfying.",
"\"At least they'll feel some kind of relief, some kind of closure,\" she told HLN, referring to Jackson's parents, Joe and Katherine.",
"The reaction was equally swift and emotional online and outside Los Angeles.",
"Melissa Fazli, a CNN iReporter and student at California State University, Fullerton, said she broke into tears on hearing the news.",
"\"It's really sad to know that Conrad Murray, because of his negligence, took Michael Jackson away,\" Fazli said, expressing hope that it might dissuade \"doctor-shopping\" that might lead people to get more drugs than they can safely have.",
"\"That's why I cried.\" On social networking sites like Twitter, the reaction was likewise fast, furious and emotional.",
"\"Next time don't be so greedy Conrad Murray!",
"Guilty!\" wrote one such commenter on Twitter, former MTV VJ and hip-hop personality Ed Lover.",
"Hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj offered a restrained reaction on her Twitter feed, saying, \"People are cheering, but there really are no winners here.",
"This has been an utter tragedy from beginning to end.\"",
"John Branca and John McClain, the co-executors of Jackson's estate, released a statement on Michaeljackson.com in which they lauded the verdict and remembered the singer as \"the greatest entertainer that has ever lived.\"",
"\"The estate of Michael Jackson and Michael himself has always believed the jury system works and despite the tragedy that brought about this trial we are in agreement with the jury's verdict,\" they wrote. \"",
"In this case, justice has been served.\"",
"CNN's Greg Botelho contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Pardoned but hardly chastened, ex-President Richard Nixon defended his administration's secrecy and wiretaps in combative testimony before a Watergate grand jury following his resignation, newly released documents reveal.",
"Archivists released nearly 50,000 pages of records and about 45 minutes of audio recordings Thursday, including hundreds of pages of transcripts of Nixon's June 1975 testimony.",
"Special prosecutors were still trying to document the breadth of the scandal that had driven him from power nearly a year earlier, while Nixon did his best to defend his presidency.",
"\"I mean it is your job, and I want the jury and the special prosecutors to kick the hell out of us for wiretapping and for the Plumbers and the rest, because obviously you may have concluded it is wrong,\" Nixon is quoted in one of the transcripts.",
"\"But I want to say this: That if as a result of the secret negotiations that we have had we have changed the world, which we have; if as a result, we have saved American lives, which we did in Vietnam by shortening a war -- the secret Cambodian bombings saved at least 10,000 lives, as I have told you; if as a result, we'll have made some progress in reducing the threat of nuclear destruction by arms limitation with the Russians; and if the other choice is to have what we call total openness, with no security whatever, then the United States is finished as a great power.",
"Maybe a lot of people don't care, but I care a great deal.",
"I think all of you care a great deal.\"",
"The material includes Nixon's recollection of one of the most unusual moments of his presidency -- a pre-dawn meeting at the Lincoln Memorial with student demonstrators outraged by his 1970 invasion of Cambodia.",
"Nixon said he realized he could not convince them the move was needed to shorten the Vietnam War, but told them he hoped they would \"give us a hearing on some other issues where we might agree.\"",
"Nixon left office August 9, 1974, as Congress considered whether to impeach him over the Watergate scandal.",
"The debacle began with a bungled burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices by Nixon campaign operatives before the 1972 election.",
"The investigations that followed led to the exposure of a wide-ranging White House plan to sabotage political opponents, efforts to stop leaks by a White House squad known as the \"Plumbers\" and Nixon's orders to cover up the effort.",
"Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, issued him a blanket pardon about a month after the resignation, foreclosing any prospect that the former president would ever face the prison terms many of his aides served.",
"Nixon dodged questions about the mysterious 18½-minute gap in his Oval Office tapes that has fascinated historians for more than three decades, telling prosecutors that he \"practically blew my stack\" when he learned of it.",
"He suggested it happened while his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, was transcribing the tape, but characterized it as an accident.",
"He mocked others in the White House who suggested other causes as \"amateurs\" and \"clowns.\"",
"He recounted ordering then-White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig to \"find out how this damn thing happened,\" then apologized to the grand jurors for swearing.",
"\"I am sorry, I wasn't supposed to use profanity,\" he said.",
"\"You have enough on the tapes.\"",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers and Bill Mears contributed to this report."
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"Transcripts are among nearly 50,000 pages of documents released Thursday .",
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"(CNN) -- Apparently, conquering those smarmy, snickering pigs on your phone, laptop or other mobile device isn't enough.",
"Now, the \"Angry Birds\" may be migrating to your television.",
"Mikael Hed is CEO of Rovio Mobile, the Finland-based company that created the ridiculously popular mobile game -- in which players solve physics puzzles by flinging an armada of irritated avians at structures housing the porcine adversaries who stole their eggs.",
"According to C21media.net [subscription required], a British television-industry site, he said plans are under way for an animated series.",
"\"We have been looking at that for quite a while, and that is definitely one of my personal big focus areas right now -- to work on broadcast content for 'Angry Birds,' \" he told the site.",
"The addictive game has spent time as the number-one paid iPhone app in at least 60 countries.",
"Launched originally on Apple's iOS operating system, \"Angry Birds\" expanded rapidly in 2010 and is now available on multiple platforms including Android, PC and Symbian and traditional gaming consoles.",
"An animated series would be a logical next step for the game, which has been a leader in a recent surge of casual games that have appealed to non-traditional gaming audiences.",
"Well beyond app-store success, ."
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"(CNN) -- What started as the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York in September has spread across major cities worldwide as a call to action against unequal distribution of wealth.",
"Here is a roundup of some of the movement's recent developments.",
"ATLANTA . Up to 20 protesters in Atlanta moved to the suburbs Monday, taking up position in a home with a family of five facing foreclosure.",
"Members of Occupy Atlanta will stay in Snellville for 48 hours, according to a group spokesman.",
"Protesters plan to canvass the neighborhood with the family to drum up support to help occupy other homes facing foreclosure, said Tim Franzen.",
"CHICAGO . White hair and wheelchairs dotted the crowd in Chicago Monday, as senior citizens and disabled demonstrators joined the Occupy movement to protest cuts in safety net programs.",
"\"At every level of society, Americans are under attack,\" said protester Karen Bocker.",
"\"When the economy tanks, social programs are cut, not corporate tax breaks.\"",
"Some 1,500 members of the Jane Addams Senior Caucus hit the streets with Occupy Chicago, according to a statement from the group.",
"More than 40 protesters linked arms in a downtown intersection, blocking traffic -- some of them sitting on the pavement -- to protest threats to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.",
"Police issued citations to 43 people, who will be required to pay a fine, said Chicago police spokesman Veejay Zala.",
"The demonstrations were peaceful, and there were no reports of injuries, he said.",
"FRESNO, CALIFORNIA .",
"Police arrested at least 22 people during the weekend in Fresno, California, in connection to the Occupy Fresno protests, according to demonstrators and the city's sheriff.",
"An additional protester was taken into custody Monday, according to the Occupy Fresno website.",
"Demonstrators agreed to \"voluntary arrest\" as a form of protest, said Sheriff Margaret Mims, and did not resist.",
"\"They staged a good, old-fashioned sit-in,\" she said.",
"Protesters arrested Sunday were released the same day, according to a post on Occupy Fresno's website.",
"PHILADELPHIA . A couple that met a month ago, working the information booth at Occupy Philadelphia, married Monday.",
"Alicia \"Ally\" Nauss of Philadelphia and Adam Hill of Norristown, Pennsylvania, took their vows at the group's encampment at Dilworth Plaza next to City Hall, CNN affiliate WPVI reported.",
"\"We work really well together.",
"When you meet somebody like that ... it felt completely natural,\" Nauss said.",
"The couple said they'll spend their honeymoon visiting other Occupy movements along the East Coast.",
"Protesters face a possible showdown with the city over the site of their demonstration.",
"The plaza has been scheduled for a $50 million renovation, scheduled to begin this month.",
"There have been negotiations between the city and the demonstrators over alternative sites.",
"TUCSON, ARIZONA .",
"Beset by rain and cold, Occupy protesters in Tucson, Arizona, solicited material donations online Monday to help winterize their camp, while lawyers representing the group announced a lawsuit intended to stop arrests.",
"Occupy campers asked the public for waterproof tarps, warm and dry outerwear, sleeping bags, blankets and better tents in an entry on their blog.",
"They included a request for delivery to their location.",
"Also Monday, volunteer attorneys calling themselves the Occupy Tucson Legal Working Group said that they have filed a civil rights suit in federal court, \"and will ask for a temporary restraining order to stop arrests at Veinte De Agosto Park,\" where protesters are camped out.",
"The lawyers said they represent 96 local Occupy protesters, who have more than 400 misdemeanor charges against them.",
"CNN's John Murgatroyd, Ed Payne, Dana Ford and Maria P. White contributed to this report."
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"Senior citizens and disabled demonstrators join the movement in Chicago .",
"Fresno protesters stage a \"good, old-fashioned sit-in,\" the sheriff says .",
"A couple who met at Occupy Philadelphia tie the knot ."
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"Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- In a rare case, a Spanish court convicted two Somalia men of piracy in the 2009 takeover of a Spanish fishing vessel and sentenced each to 439 years in prison, according to a copy of the sentence viewed by CNN on Tuesday.",
"The long prison terms stem mainly from the conviction for illegal detention of the vessel's 36 crew members, with a sentence of 11 years for each count of piracy, or 396 years.",
"In addition, the defendants were convicted on three other counts, including armed robbery and belonging to a criminal gang, which boosted the overall sentence to 439 years.",
"The vessel, the Alakrana, was freed in November 2009 after being held for 47 days off the coast of Somalia.",
"The crew included 16 Spanish sailors and 20 from Africa and Asia.",
"A day after the hijacking by 12 armed pirates, Spanish military monitoring the situation captured two pirate suspects on Oct. 3, 2009 as they left the fishing vessel.",
"Then authorities took the unusual step of bringing them to Madrid.",
"Many other pirate suspects who have been captured by international military forces --- trying to ensure the safety of merchant shipping and fishing off the coast of Somalia --- have been taken to African nations for court procedures, but not to Europe.",
"The Spanish court identified the two as Raageggesey Hassan Aji, of Ceel Maccan, Somalia, who was born in 1978, although his birthdate was not disclosed; and Cabdiweli Cabdullahi, of Marka, Somalia, with no age given, although the court determined before the trial that was an adult.",
"Defense lawyers argued unsuccessfully for their acquittal.",
"Despite the 439-year sentences, a court official told CNN that the likely maximum that could be served for such convictions is about 30 years.",
"Spanish media reported in 2009 that a ransom had been paid to free the ship, and a leading Spanish fishing industry executive, Juan Manuel Vietes, told CNN at the time he was certain a ransom was paid for the release of the tuna trawler, but he didn't know the amount.",
"The Spanish government did not say how the ship had been freed."
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"London (CNN) -- The beating by a Texas judge of his daughter in 2004 that has provoked a storm of outrage in the United States has made me reflect on how the situation with regard to corporal punishment in schools has changed during my career as a schoolmaster and head teacher.",
"Let me tell you about one boy, let's call him Will.",
"One day, some 30 years ago, Will, a 14-year-old boy at the school at which I was headmaster, told his home economics teacher to f*** off.",
"She marched Will along to my office.",
"I promptly beat him.",
"This was the punishment which his teacher desired.",
"It was the punishment which the rest of the class expected.",
"It was what Will expected. He did not swear at her again. I might add that every now and again my deputy and I beat boys for bullying, damage to property, insolence to staff and petty theft.",
"My deputy, who hit much harder than me due to my injured wrist incurred during military service, claimed that boys never came back for more, but this did not prevent him from being widely liked and respected.",
"I do not think that my action in beating Will was at all similar to Judge Adams' action.",
"Whereas he had clearly lost control of himself, I am confident I was in complete control.",
"Whereas a male chastising a female may well be motivated by sexual desire, including a father beating his daughter, I derived no gratification whatsoever from chastising Will.",
"I didn't lose my temper: I was merely doing my job in upholding the discipline of the school and supporting a member of my staff.",
"As a consequence I feel no shame for hurting a child.",
"Will knew what the punishment for his insolence would be.",
"In the climate of the time it would have been remiss of me not to have beaten him.",
"As a boy I myself was beaten at my boarding school for idleness and disobedience, for talking after lights out for instance.",
"It did not occur to me that I was treated unjustly, and indeed I continued to admire and like the teachers who punished me.",
"However, all that has changed now.",
"Enlightened, liberal opinion is unanimous that chastising children is wicked, and consequently, since approximately the millennium, corporal punishment in all British schools has been illegal.",
"Most teachers would probably regard this as a good thing.",
"I myself am not so sure. I do recognize that the onset of co-education had made corporal punishment problematical, in that male teachers cannot be allowed to belabor girls.",
"While alternative punishments can be devised, it is not a coherent, satisfactory situation though.",
"Ideally, girls and boys should be treated the same.",
"What has happened is that a disciplinary option has been denied to the authorities in a school.",
"Yes, it is always better to reward good behavior than punish misdemeanors.",
"But there was something to be said for the punishment of bad behavior with prompt, clear-cut action that was over and done with quickly.",
"I suspect that discipline in schools has declined overall as a result of the abolition of corporal punishment, and that it would be improved if corporal punishment were to be restored.",
"But I very much doubt if it will happen."
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"Former headteacher reflects on how attitudes to corporal punishment have changed .",
"Corporal punishment in British schools has been illegal since millennium .",
"Richard Wilkinson: Most teachers might regard this as good thing; I am not so sure ."
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"(CNN) -- A New York man was sentenced Thursday to life without parole for killing four people at a Long Island pharmacy in June.",
"David Laffer, 33 and his wife, Melinda Brady, 29, pleaded guilty in September to charges related to an armed robbery on Father's Day at Haven Drugs.",
"Laffer admitted fatally shooting two pharmacy employees and two customers before making off with a large quantity of prescription drugs.",
"He and his wife were arrested four days after the shooting in a violent confrontation with police, according to authorities.",
"Laffer was charged with five counts of first degree murder, one for each victim plus one for multiple victims, and four counts of criminal use of a firearm in the first degree.",
"\"He was given a maximum sentence of life in prison on five counts of murder and 25 years for each count of firearms charge, one for each victim,\" said James Saladino, principal clerk for Judge James C. Hudson.",
"\"There was no surprise. When he took the plea he was told that he will receive life without parole, and that's what happened,\" said Laffer's attorney, Eric Naiburg.",
"During the sentencing, Judge James C. Hudson said he saw no signs of remorse from Laffer and requested that the Department of Correctional Services place him in solitary confinement without privileges, said James Saladino, principal clerk for Hudson.",
"\"The judge is powerless to enforce it, (he) can only make a recommendation,\" Saladino said.",
"Naiburg was skeptical that the request would be granted.",
"\"My experience says that won't happen.",
"Those things are for people like Gotti,\" he said, referring to the late mobster John Gotti.",
"\"They'll look at him closely and they'll do what is best for the Department of Correctional Services.\"",
"Brady, who had pleaded guilty to robbery in the first degree as an accomplice, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison followed by five years of supervision.",
"She has been in custody since June.",
"The pharmacy employees killed in the shooting were identified as Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17.",
"Mejia was just days away from her high school graduation.",
"Also killed were Bryon Sheffield, 71, a customer who was inside the pharmacy, and Jamie Taccetta, 33, a customer who walked in on the robbery.",
"She was the mother of two young girls."
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"David Laffer, 33, receives five life sentences; his wife is sentenced to 25 years .",
"Judge asked that Laffer be put in solitary confinement .",
"Four people were killed during robbery of N.Y. pharmacy on Father's Day ."
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"(CNN) -- Police in suburban Seattle said Tuesday they have not ruled out the possibility of foul play in the disappearance of a 2-year-old boy who was reported missing after being left alone in a car by his mother.",
"According to police, Sky Metalwala's mother said she ran out of gas in Bellevue, just east of Seattle, leaving the toddler in the car while she took her 4-year-old with her to get help.",
"\"She told us that her son was asleep, and that's why she chose to leave him in the car, because she couldn't carry both kids to walk to the gas station,\" Maj. Mike Johnson of the Bellevue Police Department told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.",
"Julia Biryukova, the mother, said the young boy was gone when she returned to the vehicle about an hour later, according to police.",
"\"At this point, foul play has not been ruled out,\" Johnson said, adding that neither the mother nor the boy's father is a suspect.",
"Police have no suspects, and no arrests have been made in the case.",
"Other than the boy's mother and his 4-year-old sister, no one has reported seeing the toddler in the past two weeks, according to police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate.",
"She described the mother, who gave police permission to search around her home and car, as cooperative.",
"The father, Solomon Metalwala, who is separated from Biryukova, took a polygraph test Monday and was expected to take another Tuesday after results of the first one were inconclusive, said Sgt.",
"Seth Tyler of the Bellevue Police Department.",
"He said the car door was unlocked when police got to it.",
"Authorities began their search around the vicinity of the vehicle but found nothing.",
"They are canvassing the mother's apartment complex in Redmond, northeast of Bellevue, Tyler said.",
"Search-and-rescue experts brought in to assist told police they do not believe the boy got out of the car and wandered off, according to Johnson.",
"\"So we're trying to look at other options,\" he said.",
"Early indications suggest that the car still had some gas in it when it was left and that it would run, he said.",
"However, police have not done a forensic examination of the vehicle.",
"\"Our primary concern right now is to locate Sky,\" said Johnson.",
"The toddler has brown eyes and short, dark hair and was wearing a dark green hooded sweatshirt and blue-and-gray striped pants when he was last seen.",
"The boy's parents, who separated last year, have a tumultuous relationship.",
"Biryukova has said she feared for her safety and that of her children around Metalwala, according to court records.",
"\"I am told by my husband Solomon (and) his family that if I take any action towards custody of our children he will take them out of the country (and) I will never see them again,\" she wrote.",
"Metalwala responded, in court filings, that his wife suffered from mental health problems and was unable to care for the children on her own.",
"Both parents were charged in 2009 with reckless endangerment for leaving then 3-month-old Sky alone in their parked car.",
"Court records show they completed court-ordered parenting courses following the incident.",
"CNN's Patrick Oppmann and Deanna Proeller contributed to this report."
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"NEW: No one other than the boy's sister and mother have reported seeing the toddler in 2 weeks, police say .",
"NEW: The boy's parents were charged in 2009 for leaving him alone in their parked car .",
"Police have no suspects in the case .",
"Sky Metalwala, 2, has brown eyes and short, dark hair ."
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"(CNN) -- Apple has released iOS 5.0.1, an update to its mobile OS that fixes a series of issues that drained the iPhone's battery.",
"iOS 5.0.1 is the first update to Apple's iOS 5, which brought the notifications tray, increased performance and iCloud to the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.",
"In addition to fixing the iOS battery issue, 5.0.1. adds multitouch gestures to the original iPad, fixes iCloud bugs and improves voice recognition for Australian iPhone users.",
"This is the first OS update available both via iTunes and over-the-air.",
"Not long after the release of the iPhone 4S, users began reporting that their phone's batteries were draining faster than before.",
"This issue affected not just iPhone 4S users though, but anybody using iOS 5.",
"Apple eventually figured out that there were bugs in iOS 5 that were causing the battery drain and enlisted developers to help them find the bug.",
"On November 2, Apple admitted that iOS 5 had battery performance issues and announced that the company would fix the problem with iOS 5.0.1.",
"Apple has released several betas of the updated OS in the last week.",
"Our testing of the beta has shown that iOS 5.0.1 provides a noticeable improvement to the iPhone's battery life.",
"We're still testing the updated OS though, and will let you know what else we find.",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Users of Apple's iPhone 4S and other iOS 5 operated phones reported shorter battery lives .",
"Apple admitted that iOS 5 had battery performance issues ."
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"(CNN) -- Two Swedish journalists charged with terrorism in Ethiopia face years in prison after their arrest in a prohibited region along the nation's border with Somalia.",
"Ethiopian troops captured Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye in July during a gunfire exchange with a rebel group in Ogaden, according to state media.",
"Press freedom groups said the two were embedded with the Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels while working on a story about the region.",
"Journalists and aid workers are prohibited from traveling to Ogaden, which activists say is rife with human rights abuses against ethnic Somalis by Ethiopian troops.",
"The federal prosecutor has charged the two with \"attempting to dismantle the constitutional system through the organized armed group,\" according to the Ethiopian News Agency.",
"Ethiopian officials have publicly accused the journalists of being accomplices to terrorism after the government declared the rebels a terrorist group in June.",
"The two face two counts: one for entering the country illegally and a second for providing assistance to a terrorist organization, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.",
"Both journalists have pleaded guilty to entering the country illegally through Somalia without accreditation, according to the journalists' group, which says Ethiopian officials deny media access to the area without government minders.",
"The two are contributors to the Sweden-based agency Kontinent.",
"They face 15 years in prison if found guilty."
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"Ethiopian troops arrested Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye in July .",
"Rights group say the two were embedded with the rebels while working on a story in Ogaden .",
"Ogaden is along the nation's border with Somalia ."
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"(CNN) -- Venezuela will give a 300-acre island in the Delaware River to the state of New Jersey, the governor's office announced.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used the Earth Day celebration to announce the transfer of Petty's Island.",
"The Venezuelan-owned Citgo Petroleum Corp. had bought Petty's Island -- between Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- to use as a fuel storage facility.",
"The island is home to a pair of American bald eagles as well as several great blue herons and state-endangered black-crowned night herons, New Jersey Gov.",
"Jon S. Corzine said in a news release Wednesday.",
"Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez announced the island's transfer as part of Wednesday's Earth Day celebrations.",
"Plans are being finalized for the transition, which will not occur before 2020, Corzine's office said.",
"\"Earth Day is a fitting time to consummate the donation of this special place,\" Corzine said in the news release.",
"\"Petty's Island has become an important home to bald eagles, kestrels and a wide variety of waterfowl.",
"We are opening a new chapter in the island's long history by restoring it and giving it back to nature and the people of New Jersey.\"",
"The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection must certify that Citgo's cleanup of the island has met state standards before the title can be transferred, the news release said.",
"Citgo has agreed to create a $2 million fund to allow the Natural Lands Trust, a state land-preservation board, to manage the island, the release said.",
"The company is setting up another $1 million fund to help establish a cultural and education center.",
"Activities on the island will be limited to hiking and bicycle riding, the governor's office said.",
"The island is part of Pennsauken Township, New Jersey."
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"Venezuelan-owned Citgo Petroleum Corp. bought island for fuel storage facility .",
"Activities on island will be limited to hiking and bike riding, governor's office says .",
"Venezuela announces gift as part of Earth Day celebration ."
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"(CNN) -- Al-Shabaab has withdrawn from Somalia's war-ravaged capital in what the Islamist militant group called a \"change in tactics.\"",
"The Somali president said Al-Shabaab, which controls much of southern Somalia, retreated from Mogadishu after heavy fighting early Saturday with government and African Union forces.",
"The al Qaeda-linked group has been waging an insurgency against Somalia's transitional government since 2006.",
"\"Al-Shabaab and al Qaeda are a menace to Somalia and it is happy news that we defeated them in Mogadishu,\" Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told reporters.",
"But he warned Mogadishu residents not to rush to areas vacated by Al-Shabaab fighters, saying the group may have booby-trapped the area.",
"He also warned of possible suicide bombings.",
"U.N. special representative Augustine Mahiga lauded the retreat, saying \"there is no doubt that the departure of Al-Shabaab would be a positive development and a step in the right direction for a city that has seen so much misery and devastation.\"",
"Spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage confirmed Al-Shabaab fighters left the city but said the fighting was hardly over.",
"\"The reasons we withdrew from Mogadishu is we have made changes in our tactics of war,\" he told the group's radio station, Andalus.",
"\"We withdrew because we want to save lives of the poor civilians but we will launch operations against government (and African Union) forces in the coming hours.\"",
"Some believe the Islamists withdrew because of funding woes and drought-related issues.",
"The United Nations has declared famine in five areas of southern Somalia in June, including Mogadishu.",
"In all, about 12 million people in the Horn of Africa region need assistance.",
"Somalia is the worst hit.",
"\"The immediate priority must now be to focus on the humanitarian situation and I call on all parties, from the donor community to all parts of the Transitional Federal Government, to do everything possible to ensure and facilitate the immediate delivery of assistance to those most in need,\" Mahiga said.",
"Al-Shabaab has called the famine a \"crusader\" invention and an excuse for occupation, and issued threats to aid agencies delivering food to afflicted areas.",
"As crops withered, thousands of people fled and livestock starved.",
"But the militants kept their ban on aid groups operating in their territory in southern and central Somalia, and parts of the capital."
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"NEW: U.N. official calls the retreat \"a positive development\"\nThe Somali president warns residents to avoid former rebel areas .",
"He says the militants may have booby-trapped some areas .",
"Al-Shabaab controls areas of southern Somalia struck by famine ."
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"State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Coach Joe Paterno and the president of the school have lost their jobs, effective immediately, over a child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, university trustees announced Wednesday night.",
"\"What can I say, I'm no longer the coach,\" Paterno told a crowd of about 15 students gathered outside his house late Wednesday night.",
"\"It's going to take some time to get used to.",
"It's been 61 years.\" The crowd cheered and said, \"We love you, Joe.\"",
"\"I love you, too!\" Paterno replied.",
"Paterno's wife, Sue, was visibly upset while standing beside him on the front steps.",
"John P. Surma, vice chairman of trustees, said that President Graham Spanier was being replaced and Paterno, the longtime head football coach, would not finish the remainder of the season.",
"Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim head coach.",
"Rod Erickson, executive vice president and provost of the school, will be interim president, school officials said.",
"Stunned Penn State students congregated after the announcement.",
"Spanier has been president of the school since 1995.",
"Paterno was given the news of the unanimous decision early Wednesday evening in a telephone call made by chairman of the board Steve Garban and Surma.",
"Asked Paterno's reaction, Surma said, \"That's a private discussion that I would rather not characterize.\"",
"Surma said he hoped that the school's 95,000 students and hundreds of thousands of alumni would believe the decision \"is in the best long-term interest of the university, which is much larger than athletic programs.\"",
"\"We believe we did the best job we could,\" he added.",
"Hours before the decision, Paterno, 84, issued a statement saying he was \"absolutely devastated by the developments\" involving a former assistant football coach and two university officials and that he would end his 46-year tenure as head football coach at the end of the season.",
"The trustees decided to move that timetable up.",
"\"I grieve for the children and their families, and I pray for their comfort and relief,\" Paterno said.",
"\"With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.\"",
"Paterno's contract is set to expire at the end of the season.",
"Some had called for him to resign immediately because of his response to allegations brought to him in 2002 by a graduate assistant, who said he had seen retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, now 67, sexually assaulting a young boy in a shower at the campus football complex.",
"Paterno reported the allegations to his boss.",
"Pennsylvania's attorney general said it appeared Paterno had met his obligations under state law, but critics have said the coach should have reported the suspected abuse to police.",
"Sandusky, who was arrested Saturday, is accused of sexual offenses, child endangerment and \"corruption of a minor\" involving eight boys, most or all of whom he met through The Second Mile, the charity he founded to help troubled youths, prosecutors said.",
"Two Penn State officials are accused of failing to report the alleged abuse.",
"The U.S. Department of Education said it will launch an investigation into whether Penn State failed to comply with an act requiring colleges and universities to disclose the number of reported criminal incidents on campus each year.",
"\"In addition, in certain cases, the institution must issue a timely warning if a reported crime represents a threat to the campus community,\" it said in a statement.",
"\"If these allegations of sexual abuse are true then this is a horrible tragedy for those young boys.",
"If it turns out that some people at the school knew of the abuse and did nothing or covered it up, that makes it even worse,\" Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.",
"\"Schools and school officials have a legal and moral responsibility to protect children and young people from violence and abuse.\"",
"Athletes, fans and students grappled with implications of the widening scandal.",
"A \"Blue Out\" will be held at Saturday's game against Nebraska.",
"An unofficial Facebook page encouraged fans to wear blue \"to support the victims of child abuse worldwide.",
"The Blue Ribbon Campaign against child abuse began 22 years ago and is recognized across the country.",
"In addition to being the color of our team's home game jerseys, blue represents the color of bruises that have too often been neglected.\"",
"Sophomore linebacker Dakota Royer told CNN that Paterno told players of his retirement plans Wednesday morning during a team meeting.",
"Many of the approximately 150 players, coaches and school officials in attendance had tears in their eyes, Royer said.",
"Meanwhile, a tip line has been receiving calls from alleged victims of Sandusky, a source close to the investigation said, and police were attempting to verify the claims.",
"State Attorney General Linda Kelly said Monday that the alleged failure of Timothy Curley, 57, Penn State's athletic director, and Gary Schultz, 62, the university's senior vice president for finance and business, to report abuse claims \"likely allowed a child predator to continue to victimize children for many, many years.\"",
"Curley and Schultz, who are each charged with one count of perjury and one count of failure to report suspected abuse, were released Monday on $75,000 bail each.",
"Their attorneys have declared that the men are innocent.",
"Curley and Schultz stepped down late Sunday after an emergency meeting of the university's board of trustees.The case has raised questions on how Penn State officials handled allegations.",
"Curley's successor, acting athletics director Mark C. Sherburne, said the school is entrusted with the lives of young people.",
"\"We are outraged that a valued trust has been broken,\" he said on Penn State's sports website Wednesday.",
"\"We can promise you that we are doing everything in our power to restore that broken trust.",
"Everyone within athletics -- coaches, administrators, staff and student-athletes -- are committed to this pledge.\"",
"Penn State's board of trustees said it would create a special committee to investigate the child rape allegations, which became public last week with the release of a grand jury report.",
"The Second Mile describes itself on its website as \"a statewide, nonprofit organization for children who need additional support and who would benefit from positive human contact.\"",
"Sandusky's involvement with The Second Mile provided him with \"access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations,\" the grand jury said.",
"The former coach is said to have engaged in fondling, oral and anal sex with boys over at least 15 years, according to the investigative grand jury's summary of testimony.",
"Sandusky, who served 23 years as defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions football team before retiring in 1999, is free on $100,000 bail.",
"The grand jury investigation that led to the charges began with the claims of an alleged victim who said Sandusky had \"indecently assaulted\" him and engaged in sex acts while he was a guest at the coach's home, the attorney general said.",
"The alleged victim had met Sandusky through The Second Mile, and Sandusky allegedly gave him expensive gifts such as trips to professional and college games, golf clubs, a computer and money, Kelly said.",
"The alleged abuse began in 2005 and lasted into 2008, and included overnight stays at Sandusky's home, according to Kelly and grand jury testimony.",
"The grand jury report also cites an alleged March 2002 incident in which a graduate student reported seeing Sandusky in a locker room shower of the football building engaged in anal sex on a boy.",
"\"Hearing what sounded like sexual activity in the showers of a building that was supposed to be empty, a graduate assistant reportedly observed Sandusky sexually assaulting a naked boy who appeared to be about 10 years old,\" Kelly said.",
"The assistant reported the incident to Paterno, who, in turn, alerted Curley.",
"Paterno said in an earlier statement that he had done his duty in informing Curley.",
"\"It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report,\" Paterno said.",
"\"Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky.",
"As Coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators.\"",
"But instead of reporting the incident to authorities, Curley and Schultz took Sandusky's locker room keys and banned him from having children from The Second Mile visit the football building, Kelly said.",
"In a statement, Paterno called the charges \"shocking.\"",
"\"While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved, I can't help but be deeply saddened these matters are alleged to have occurred,\" he said.",
"As the controversy swirled Wednesday, a mural depicting Penn State and State College notables reflected the feelings of many in the university community and its environs.",
"An artist painted Sandusky out of the mural, CNN Johnstown affiliate WJAC reported.",
"CNN's Sarah Hoye, Jason Carroll, Jason Kessler, Laura Dolan and Kiran Khalid contributed to this report."
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"\"With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more,\" Paterno says ."
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"(CNN) -- A rugby star married into British royalty has been punished for his controversial off-field antics during the recent World Cup in New Zealand.",
"Mike Tindall was fined £25,000 ($40,000) Friday and expelled from England's elite squad for his conduct on September 11 in Queenstown.",
"He said he would appeal the decisions.",
"The 33-year-old, who married Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips in July, was caught on security cameras in close conversation with another woman during a night out drinking.",
"He later said she was a friend, but the incident erupted in the British media and disrupted England's on-field focus.",
"\"Mike Tindall's actions reached a level of misconduct that was unacceptable in a senior England player and amounted to a very serious breach of the EPS Code of Conduct,\" England's professional rugby director Rob Andrew said in a statement Friday.",
"\"Whilst we acknowledge his previous good character, it needs to be made clear that what he did will not be tolerated.\"",
"Tindall was a World Cup winner in 2003 and a stand-in team captain during his 11-year international career, which may now be at an end.",
"He was one of three players found guilty of off-pitch indiscretions during a review of England's tournament, which culminated in a quarterfinal exit.",
"Chris Ashton and James Haskell were given suspended fines of £5,000 ($8,000) after an incident at the team's hotel in Dunedin on September 9.",
"Dylan Hartley, however, was cleared of being involved after they were all accused of making inappropriate comments to a female hotel worker.",
"\"It should be stressed that the allegations of very serious wrongdoing made by Annabel Newton, a member of staff at the team hotel, were entirely false.",
"We do not believe the players had any intention to sexually harass or intimidate Ms. Newton,\" Andrew said.",
"\"However, the incident is precisely the kind of dangerous, compromising situation the players were warned about prior to departure for New Zealand and that they were specifically told to avoid in the Code of Conduct.\"",
"England's tournament was marred by a series of off-field incidents.",
"The night that Tindall was seen with the woman, some of his teammates were pictured wrestling with dwarves at the same bar.",
"Manu Tuilagi was fined after jumping into the sea from a ferry in Auckland the day after England's quarterfinal defeat by France.",
"The Samoa-born center was also cautioned by police and criticized by head coach Martin Johnson for his actions.",
"Tuilagi was earlier fined by tournament officials for using a non-sanctioned branded mouthguard.",
"Two of Johnson's assistants were banned from the team's final Pool B match against Scotland for illegally switching the match ball during a 67-3 win over Romania."
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"Tindall said he would appeal the decisions .",
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi took aim at the rebel-controlled town of Ras Lanuf Monday, launching aerial strikes as part of an assault aimed at crushing the uprising against him.",
"At the end of the third week of unrest -- protests began February 15 -- Gadhafi's aerial forces targeted the main road heading into the oil town after launching another air strike earlier, five kilometers southeast of the city.",
"In what has turned into a civil war, members of the opposition fired anti-aircraft guns toward Gadhafi's planes.",
"Some families fled Ras Lanuf, hoping to escape the violence that has engulfed some of the country's most populous areas.",
"Meanwhile, U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said \"there are credible reports of the use of helicopter gunships against civilians by government forces.\"",
"Three members of the U.N. Security Council -- France, Britain, and the United States -- were working Monday on a possible resolution that would include language on a no-fly zone over Libya, diplomatic sources at the United Nations said.",
"But any kind of military intervention could face sharp criticism from Russia and China, two permanent members of the council that wield veto power.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday he had a \"very clear message to those who are around Col. Gadhafi: It is their choice to make how they operate moving forward and they will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place there.\"",
"\"We've got NATO as we speak consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place inside Libya,\" he said.",
"In a statement, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO did not intend to intervene in Libya, but \"as a defence Alliance and a security organization, it is our job to conduct prudent planning for any eventuality.\"",
"NATO has begun around-the-clock surveillance flights of Libya, as it considers options for dealing with the Libyan violence, U.S.",
"Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder told reporters Monday.",
"While the opposition has managed to fight off onslaughts by Gadhafi's forces in some places -- including what a witness described as an \"amazing\" victory against Gadhafi's heavy artillery Sunday in the town of Misrata -- the regime has advanced as well.",
"Gadhafi's forces seemed to make headway in the city of Bin Jawad, where the Libyan army appeared to have control Monday after fighting over the weekend.",
"But in Zawiya -- a city that the government insisted it had retaken -- the opposition still appeared to control the city center, and fighting was under way Monday.",
"CNN saw pro-Gadhafi forces moving through the city, small arms fire, anti-aircraft gunfire and artillery.",
"As the Libyan military brought in reinforcements, CNN could see about 150 troops moving into the city.",
"Anti-government protesters are seeking the ouster of the 68-year-old Gadhafi after nearly 42 years of ruling the country -- the kind of revolution that was seen in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt.",
"But unlike in those countries, the Libyan uprising has turned into warfare.",
"Libya's foreign minister dug in Monday, saying the international community does not understand what is happening in Libya and accusing certain Western countries of helping divide the African nation.",
"\"It is clear now the U.K. and the U.S. are getting in touch with the defected (people) in the East,\" Foreign Minister Musa Kasa told reporters.",
"\"This means a conspiracy to divide, partition the country.\"",
"\"It is clear these super powers are undertaking a plot against Libya,\" he added.",
"Though rebel groups are long on passion, many are short on military training.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman, just outside Ras Lanouf, heard someone say, \"We'll capture (Gadhafi), put him on top of this car and drive all around Libya.",
"Every Libyan will get one shot.\"",
"A special forces captain told Wedeman he is trying to teach volunteers \"it's impossible to attack artillery with a Kalishnikov\" rifle.",
"Foreign Secretary Hague, speaking to Britain's Parliament, said that in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, \"there have been disturbing reports of hostage taking and large military deployments around the city designed to consolidate Gadhafi's position and intimidate his opponents.",
"His forces remain in control of Tripoli, Sebha and Sirte; but his authority is contested in large swathes of the country where local tribes have withdrawn their support.",
"There is a clear risk of protracted conflict and an extremely dangerous and volatile situation in large parts of the country.\"",
"With no clear end to the deadly clashes in sight, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a new special envoy to Libya to discuss the crisis with officials in Tripoli, the United Nations said in a statement Monday.",
"\"The secretary-general is deeply concerned about the fighting in western Libya, which is claiming large numbers of lives and threatens even more carnage in the days ahead,\" read the U.N. statement.",
"\"He notes that civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence, and calls for an immediate halt to the government's disproportionate use of force and indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets.\"",
"Death toll estimates have ranged from more than 1,000 to as many as 2,000, and the international community has been pondering strategies on how to end the violence and remove the Gadhafi regime.",
"The fierce fighting has also sparked the flight of Libyans and foreigners out of Libya, with nations across the globe scrambling to help people leave.",
"About 200,000 people have fled Libya with nearly equal numbers going to Tunisia and Egypt, the U.N. refugee agency has said.",
"But not everyone has been able to get out.",
"Between 15,000 and 17,000 people are still at a refugee camp near the Libya-Tunisia border.",
"Of those left, the majority are from Bangladesh, the U.N. refugee agency said.",
"The group plans to start running chartered flights to there Tuesday.",
"President Obama authorized Monday sending up to $15 million in humanitarian aid to Libya out of the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund.",
"Humanitarian and medical aid to Misrata, in central Libya, has been blocked, U.N. emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos said in a statement Sunday.",
"She urged authorities \"to provide access without delay to allow aid workers to help save lives.\"",
"After reports of the opposition successfully fighting off pro-Gadhafi forces in Misrata on Sunday, Libyan state TV showed a graphic -- in both Arabic and English -- saying that \"strict orders have been issued to the armed forces not to enter cities taken by terrorist gangs, who took civilians as human shields and threatened to slaughter the inhabitants of those cities.\"",
"The report cited \"military sources.\"",
"There have been numerous conflicting reports over who controlled what cities, with the government declaring victory in some cities while witnesses in those cities told CNN the opposition was still in control.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman, Nic Robertson, Arwa Damon, Salma Abdelaziz, Jomana Karadsheh and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Libya's foreign minister accuses some Western nations of helping divide the country .",
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"3 members of the U.N. Security Council discuss a possible no-fly zone ."
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"State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- He's known to generations of football fans simply as JoePa, the hard-nosed Penn State football coach who peers through his trademark thick eyeglasses and sees something more in the young men he coaches -- and demands they see it, too.",
"But Joe Paterno's stellar reputation has been muddied over reports of his reaction to a years-ago child sex abuse case, and he has lost his job after 46 years as a head coach.",
"The university trustees unanimously voted to fire the iconic sports figure Wednesday night.",
"Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim head coach.",
"Graham Spanier, the college president, was fired as well.",
"National outrage has percolated over Paterno's reaction to a graduate assistant's 2002 report that he had seen former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky performing anal sex on a young boy in the shower room of the football complex.",
"Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly said Monday that Paterno is not a target of the investigation, which has resulted in charges against two top university officials accused of failing to report the abuse, in addition to Sandusky.",
"But critics have said the coach should have reported the suspected abuse to police.",
"Paterno, 84, said on Sunday that he'd never been told the graphic details revealed in a grand jury report about sex abuse allegations but that he nevertheless passed the allegations on to his boss.",
"He said he had done \"what I was supposed to do.\"",
"In a later statement, he said \"with the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.\"",
"Sandusky, who was arrested Saturday, is accused of sexual offenses, child endangerment and \"corruption of a minor\" involving eight boys, most or all of whom he met through The Second Mile, the charity he founded to help troubled youth, prosecutors said.",
"\"We don't yet know who is legally guilty,\" SI.com columnist Michael Rosenberg writes.",
"\"But several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty.",
"And one of them is Joe Paterno.\"",
"Paterno has earned a reputation not only as a football wizard -- he's won more games than any other major-school coach -- but for his focus on academics and civics.",
"He began his career at Penn State in 1950 as a 23-year-old assistant under head coach Rip Engle.",
"Sixteen years later, he took the reins of the Nittany Lions football program, beginning a head coaching career that has netted him 409 wins, five undefeated seasons, two national titles and a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame.",
"He also put a premium on academic achievement.",
"Paterno contributed $3.5 million to the university in 1998, endowing faculty positions in liberal arts, architecture, landscape architecture and the university's library system, according to his biography.",
"He also helped fund an interfaith spiritual center and a sports museum.",
"He also has challenged his own athletes to succeed academically.",
"His 2009 team had an 89% graduation rate, and his teams have produced dozens of academic award and scholarship winners, according to his bio.",
"\"Coach Paterno was absolutely instrumental in my life in showing me and teaching me that there are no cutting corners,\" Tom Bill, who played quarterback at Penn State in the late 1980s and early 1990s, told CNN in 2004.",
"Paterno became embroiled in the Sandusky saga when, in 2002, a graduate assistant came to him to report a disturbing scene he had witnessed the night before, according to a grand jury report released last week.",
"According to the report, the assistant told Paterno that he saw Sandusky in the shower with a boy who looked to be about 10 years old.",
"Sandusky was having sex with the child, according to the grand jury report and prosecutors.",
"The distraught assistant ran from the building and called his father, who advised him to report the incident to Paterno, according to the grand jury and prosecutors.",
"The next day, Paterno passed the report up to his boss, Athletic Director Tim Curley, saying -- according to the grand jury report -- that the graduate assistant had told him he had seen Sandusky \"fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.\"",
"The reports never made it to police.",
"Curley and another university official who learned of the 2002 incident, Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz, have been charged with failing to report the abuse to authorities and misleading the grand jury investigating Sandusky's conduct.",
"In his Sunday statement, Paterno said he did his duty in referring the allegations to his superior but said the assistant never \"related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report.\"",
"\"If this is true we were all fooled, along with scores of professionals trained in such things, and we grieve for the victims and their families,\" he said in the statement.",
"Stewart Mandel, in an SI.com column, pondered what he sees as Paterno's complex legacy.",
"\"No question, Paterno should be held accountable for his inaction in the Sandusky saga -- as should a whole lot of other people who had a chance to stop this tragedy.",
"It would be an injustice to the alleged victims to ever forget Paterno's failure to prevent future crimes.",
"But it would also be a disservice to the thousands upon thousands of lives he positively impacted if that mistake erases 46 years of good from the history books.",
"\"We will remember Paterno both as the coach who we thought served as a moral standard-bearer for 40-plus years and as the coach who bore responsibility for a reprehensible moral breakdown at the end.",
"Those memories are not mutually exclusive.",
"They can coexist.\" As for Penn State itself, Gene Collier, a columnist with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, said the fallout from the \"Sandusky bombshell remains inestimable, particularly at its far horizons.\"",
"\"Years of criminal and civil litigation await the university's soon-to-be-overburdened attorneys, by just one example, and predicting what the institution will come to look like in the Post-Paterno Era strains the imagination,\" wrote Collier.",
"\"Whatever its future, it's probably better than that of some still untold number of young boys who suffered soul-scorching sexual abuse that Penn State's top leadership allegedly could have prevented had it only the standard human apportionment of moral courage.",
"You can paint over Jerry Sandusky's image on a State College mural, as an artist did Wednesday, but no artistic flourish or inspiration can begin to cover the psychological destruction he's alleged to have wrought.\""
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"NEW: For Penn State, the fallout \"remains inestimable\"\nProsecutors say Paterno met his obligations .",
"Paterno reported an alleged 2002 incident involving Sandusky to his boss ."
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek police have arrested the captain of a U.S. ship whose passengers and crew had hoped to help lead a Gaza-bound flotilla aimed at challenging Israel's maritime blockade of the Palestinian territory.",
"John Klusmire, an American citizen and captain of The Audacity of Hope, was asked to report to a police station Saturday morning, said Jane Hirschmann, an American who is one of the flotilla organizers.",
"A spokesperson with the Greek Coast Guard, who was not named per custom, confirmed Klusmire's arrest.",
"The reason given was that he had left the mainland without permission and put passengers in danger.",
"He will appear before Greek prosecutors on Tuesday.",
"Hirschmann added that, in addition to disobeying a police order, Klusmire is being charged with disturbing sea traffic.",
"\"This is intimidation,\" she said.",
"\"They're making an example of our captain to stop other boats in the flotilla from trying to sail.\"",
"His vessel -- which carried 36 American passengers, four crew members and several journalists, including CNN reporter Phil Black -- was intercepted Friday by a Greek Coast Guard patrol vessel roughly 10 minutes after it had departed Perama.",
"The Greek authorities were in a standoff with the crew for about three hours, during which activists sang, chanted and waved signs in support of their mission.",
"The ordeal took a turn, however, when an inflatable boat carrying an armed Greek military commando team told the activists to follow them back to port or face being boarded.",
"Eventually, the ship returned to Greece, where it is now tied up at a Greek naval facility.",
"Four other crew members have been ordered by Greek authorities to stay aboard the ship, Hirschmann said.",
"Many other activist passengers have remained on the vessel as well, in a show of solidarity.",
"The Audacity of Hope is one of 10 ships that organizers hope to unite to form a flotilla heading toward the Middle East.",
"The trip is partially meant to commemorate a May 2010 incident in which Israeli troops boarded Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship filled with humanitarian aid and 700 activists from various countries.",
"Nine people died in subsequent clashes with Israeli Navy commandos.",
"The Greek government said Friday that it won't allow any of the nine other boats in the flotilla to sail to Gaza because their mission is too dangerous.",
"Flotilla members accuse the Greek government of buckling to pressure from Israel's government.",
"For their part, the Israelis have said they are mounting a diplomatic offensive to try to stop the flotilla from setting sail at all.",
"On Tuesday, the Israeli government said flotilla participants had threatened to kill Israeli military personnel should their boats be boarded.",
"They alleged that the participants were stockpiling sacks of sulfuric acid on boats to be used in the event of any attacks on Israeli commandos.",
"Flotilla organizer Medea Benjamin dismissed the allegations as ludicrous, saying: \"They see this nonviolent, rag-tag group of ships as such a threat they're using their entire propaganda apparatus, and their diplomatic and economic clout to try to stop 300 peace activists.",
"It's pathetic.\" The Middle East Quartet -- composed of officials from the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia -- on Saturday issued a joint statement asking \"all governments concerned to use their influence to discourage additional flotillas, which risk the safety of their participants and carry the potential for escalation.\"",
"The Quartet added in its statement that it \"strongly urges all those wishing to deliver goods to the people of Gaza to do so through established channels, so that their cargo can be inspected and transferred via established land crossings.\"",
"Doing so, the group contends, is the best way to both help Palestinians and address Israel's \"legitimate security concerns.\"",
"Journalist Elinda Labropoulou contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The Quartet urges all governments to discourage additional flotillas .",
"The captain of The Audacity of Hope has been arrested, Greek authorities say .",
"The U.S. citizen is accused of disobeying authorities and putting passengers at risk .",
"His ship is one of 10 in a flotilla meant to challenge Israeli's blockade of Gaza ."
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"(CNN) -- American Webb Simpson has spoken about his delight at securing his first PGA Tour victory at the Wyndham Championship in his native North Carolina.",
"Simpson, who caddied for his compatriot Neal Lancaster at a Pro-Am event ahead of the Greensboro tournament when he was a teenager, finished on 18-under-par, three-shots clear of fellow-American George McNeill.",
"\"I really couldn't think of a better place to win than here in Greensboro,\" the 26-year-old told the PGA Tour's official web site.",
"Simpson carded a bogey-free final round to seal his triumph and move into third position in the standings for the season-ending Fedex Cup.",
"\"That was probably the most fun 18 holes I've ever been a part of,\" he said of Sunday's round.",
"\"When I made the putt on 15, I asked my caddie for the first time all day, `Where do we stand?'",
"and he said, `We're two ahead right now.'",
"\"I knew I needed to play solid golf on the last three holes, and to birdie 16 was so huge. ...",
"I knew I had a three-shot lead on 18, and as soon as I hit the ball in play, I knew it was probably over.\"",
"McNeill's final round of 64 was only enough to get him to 15-under, but the 35-year-old was satisfied with his form during the competition.",
"\"I can only control myself,\" McNeill said.",
"\"I can't control what everybody else does.",
"I'm very happy with the way I hit it, the way I played, the way I putted.\"",
"Former world number one and three-time major winner Vijah Singh finished in a five-way tie for fourth position, one-shot behind American Tommy Gainey on 14-under.",
"Level with Singh were U.S. duo Jerry Kelly and Charles Howell III, South Korea's Kyung-tae Kim and Carl Pettersson of Sweden.",
"Jim Furyk, ranked 26 in the world, finished alongside Colombian Camilo Villegas and Chez Reavie in ninth place on 12-under-par."
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"Webb Simpson clinched his first PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship .",
"Simpson won by three-shots at the tournament in his native North Carolina .",
"Former world number one and three-time major winner Vijay Singh tied for fourth ."
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"(CNN) -- American Tommy Gainey led by three shots at the halfway stage of the Wyndham Championship at Greater Greensboro with South African star Ernie Els in the four-strong chasing group.",
"Gainey carded a five-under par 65 Friday for a 12-under total of 128, with Els sharing second on nine-under with Australian Stewart Appleby, Daniel Summerhays and Webb Simpson.",
"Els is battling for a tournament win but also to clinch his place in the lucrative FedEx Cup playoffs which start next week.",
"He is currently 126th in the standings, with only the top 125 to qualify so three birdies in five holes on his back nine on the way to a 66 helped his cause.",
"\"I've got quite a large goal for me this week, and you know, I'm feeling like, fine, my game is turning around a little bit,\" Els told the official PGA Tour website.",
"Four players shared sixth on 132, Jim Furyk (67), Brazil's Alexandre Rocha (66), England's Paul Casey (67) and South African Retief Goosen (65).",
"Gainey, who is chasing his first win on the PGA Tour, was still not satisfied as he followed his opening 63 with a 65.",
"\"I hit it worse today than I did yesterday off the tee.",
"I hit my irons worse than I did yesterday,\" he said.",
"But only the remarkable 125 of Sweden's Carl Pettersson in 2008 has bettered Gainey's score on the par-70 Sedgefield course.",
"Colombian Camilo Villegas, 125th on the FedEx list, went a long way to wrapping up his place at The Barclays next week with a 64 for 134.",
"But three-time major champion Padraig Harrington of Ireland, 130th in the rankings, has work to do as he birdied two of his last four holes for a 68 to make the cut at three-under 137.",
"Defending Wyndham champion Arjun Atwal of India will not be playing the weekend after missing the cut, while joint first round leader Jeff Quinney carded a level-par 70 to fall five behind Gainey."
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"Tommy Gainey leads at halfway stage of Wyndham Championship .",
"Gainey cards a second round 65 to follow his opening seven-under 63 .",
"South African Ernie Els in four-strong chasing group on nine-under .",
"Els, Camilo Villegas and Padraig Harrington battling for FedEx Cup playoffs spots ."
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"(CNN) -- Mark Foster fired a six-under-par 66 in foggy conditions to lead the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles and keep his Seve Trophy hopes alive.",
"The 36-year-old Englishman is keen to take part in the team tournament, named after Spanish legend Seve Ballesteros, when Britain and Ireland take on Continental Europe in September.",
"Foster beat Tiger Woods in the amateur Walker Cup 16 years ago and his impressive round in Scotland kept him on course for a return to team competition.",
"\"I've been trying hard all year to make it and if it comes around it will be a massive thing for me,\" he told the European Tour's official web site.",
"Foster fired eight birdies and two bogeys in foggy conditions to lead by a shot from Spaniard Ignacio Garrido and Tano Goya, from Argentina.",
"Foster came close to winning both the BMW International and French Open in recent months and lost out on the 2010 Open de Espana by dropping two shots in the final two holes.",
"\"I learned a lot from that,\" he said.",
"\"I would say I lost that tournament through nerves really, just not controlling myself.",
"\"But I think it took that week for me to be able to play the way I've been playing at the moment, where I have more belief in myself and know I can do it.",
"I think I'm a better person and a better player.\"",
"Play began over two hours later than scheduled because of the fog, meaning not all of the field managed to finish their opening round.",
"Garrido did, though, and was pleased to be sitting just one off the lead.",
"He said: \"I think anything under par around here is a good score.",
"Today the course is playing long, with all of the rain, the ball was running nothing, so it was quite long.",
"\"I think the key was that I played very solid, just hit most of the fairways, most of the greens, and took my chances.",
"I never really got in trouble and that's probably what is the main thing to do here.\"",
"Europe's 2010 Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie finished on one-under while Jose Maria Olazabal, who will take over the role in 2012, ended on one-over."
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"England's Mark Foster leads the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles .",
"Foster fires an opening round of 66 in foggy conditions in Scotland .",
"Spaniard Ignacio Garrido and Tano Goya from Argentina are a shot back ."
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"Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- War forced tens of thousands of Somalis to flee their capital, Mogadishu.",
"Famine is bringing them back.",
"Hungry and sick Somalis are trekking from their homes in famine-struck southern areas in search of food, water and medicine.",
"More than 50,000, by a July 18 United Nations count, have arrived in Mogadishu, a city destroyed by two decades of conflict.",
"The United Nations refugee agency called it an \"unprecedented influx\" into a city that was notorious for exodus.",
"The people are arriving in a city where the sound of gunfire became as common as the start of a car engine; where tales of dismemberment and executions and other heinous deeds emanate from neighborhoods shut off from any form of governance.",
"What has caused the East Africa crisis?",
"It is exceedingly difficult to deliver aid in Mogadishu.",
"Yet, people who have nothing left to lose hope to get lucky at feeding camps set up by Islamic charities and the United Nations' food agency.",
"World Food Programme Executive Director Josette Sheeran acknowledged the dire need to get food supplies into southern Somalia, where the al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab recently lifted a ban on aid agencies.",
"The WFP will ratchet up its efforts and begin airlifting food within days to try and reach 2.2 million people in the south, Sheeran said.",
"In Mogadishu, the vast feeding camps are teeming with people, mostly women and children.",
"Huma Isaac is over 80 years old -- she did not know her exact age -- and traveled 400 kilometers to reach a Mogadishu feeding camp.",
"She felt lucky that she had been able to hitch a ride part of the way.",
"Many people made the entire journey on foot.",
"Isaac's husband died from starvation, she said.",
"That's why she felt compelled to return to the city she had once fled in an effort to keep her children alive.",
"Desperate women stormed a CNN reporter's car in the city.",
"\"Please help us,\" one pleaded.",
"\"I am sick.\" A weak U.N.-backed transitional government controls parts of Mogadishu.",
"Elsewhere, Al-Shabaab is king.",
"The two sides have been locked in a bitter, brutal battle for control in this impoverished Horn of Africa nation, one of the factors that led the United Nations to declare famine.",
"International aid agencies have been asking for help for months as the worst drought in half a century caused crops to fail and killed livestock.",
"The international anti-poverty confederation Oxfam blamed donor nations for turning away from Somalia's plight.",
"Stories from East Africa's famine .",
"Another country might have been able to cope better, but a perfect storm brewed in Somalia, said Patrick Webb, a food security expert with the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.",
"\"It's not one thing or another that has gone wrong,\" Webb said.",
"\"This represents catastrophic failure of all the systems that people rely on to survive.\"",
"But getting food to the people is an enormous challenge in the country widely recognized as a failed state by all social and economic indicators.",
"\"We are faced with hundreds of thousands of people on the verge of starvation but there is no central authority we can negotiate with to get access to those people,\" said Joel Charny, vice president for humanitarian policy and practice at InterAction, an alliance of U.S. aid agencies.",
"At one time, global agencies were able to operate in Mogadishu, but an escalation of violence in recent years prompted most of them to flee.",
"And besides the obvious security risks, trust became a problem, Charny said.",
"In other nations, he said, aid agencies were able to negotiate their ability to work in an area, to get permission to have direct access to the people in need.",
"He stopped just short of calling Somalia anarchic but said that aid workers could get few assurances that any deal would stick.",
"And, many aid organizations have to fight local perceptions that they are there to enforce the United States' counterterror agenda.",
"\"It's difficult to establish the trust you need to work,\" Charny said.",
"Al-Shabaab has been far less hostile to Islamic charities.",
"The Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation hopes to bring in more aid groups under its umbrella, and an OIC delegation visited Mogadishu Wednesday to discuss delivery of more food and bridging the aid gap.",
"Even though Mogadishu is one of the hardest places to get aid, people are flocking to the city in the midst of the worst food crisis in decades.",
"\"The situation is very severe, the conditions are very harsh,\" said Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Somali president.",
"\"We are requesting that the international community assist the Somalis, those within Somalia and the borders.",
"We urgently request quick help.\"",
"At one feeding camp, Amina, only 6 months old, was next to 2-year-old Bakr, who is too weak to stand, waiting for something to stop the ache in their bellies.",
"The line behind them was growing steadily longer."
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"The United Nations has declared a famine in southern Somalia .",
"Tens of thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu .",
"They are hoping to get food, water and medicine at feeding camps .",
"International aid agencies fled Mogadishu because a lack of security ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a top lieutenant of the Arellano Felix cartel, the Mexican defense ministry announced Monday.",
"Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, 34, \"is considered one of the most violent subjects responsible for countless killings,\" defense ministry spokesman Col. Ricardo Trevilla Trejo told reporters.",
"Sillas, also known as \"The Wheel,\" has been one of the key lieutenants in a brutal turf war over drug-trafficking territory with the Sinaloa Cartel, the defense ministry said in a statement.",
"Last year he ordered the kidnapping of three women who were related to one of the rival cartel's leaders, the defense ministry said.",
"Authorities arrested him in Tijuana Saturday.",
"They presented him to the media Monday.",
"The U.S. Drug Enforcement Organization has said the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix Organization, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, is \"known for its violence and ruthlessness.\"",
"CNN's Krupskaia Alis and CNNMexico.com contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Golfers preparing for The Barclays FedEx Cup playoff event at Plainfield Country Club in New Jersey found themselves not only battling the course, but also the effects of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake which struck Virginia on Tuesday.",
"The quake forced the closure of a nuclear power plant and was felt from as far afield as Georgia and New England, while also causing many PGA Tour players to post their reactions on the social-networking site Twitter.",
"American world number 15 Bubba Watson used his @bubbawatson account to tweet: \"This house we rented just shook!\"",
"Watson's compatriot Jason Dufner, who finished tied for 5th at the recent PGA Championship, also tweeted his shock after feeling the tremors: \"Earthquake in Jersey?",
"Or someone trying to give me a shake down??\"",
"Virginia earthquake rattles the East Coast .",
"The 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson was clearly concerned by the quake, in which no major injuries were reported, and tweeted: \"Well.",
"Just went through my first earthquake.",
"Gotta believe it wasn't a big one here in NJ.",
"But, it freaked me out. #kneesbuckled.\" Briton Justin Rose has been on the PGA Tour since 2003 and was on the driving range when he felt the quake.",
"\"Was that an earthquake I just felt on the range in New Jersey!!\"",
"read his tweet.",
"\"Either that or Gary Woodland is thumping out 2 irons on range!!\"",
"Woodland, a 27-year-old one-time winner on the Tour, posted: \"Earthquake in jersey.",
"Thought a kid was shaking my chair.",
"Crazy.\" The FedEx Cup playoffs are now in their fifth year and serve as a season-ending championship for the Tour, with The Barclays set to get under way on Thursday.",
"A field of 125 players have qualified for The Barclays based on points accumulated over the course of the year.",
"Out of those 125, the top 75 will advance to the Deutsche Bank tournament in Boston, before the field is cut to 70 for the BMW Championship in Illinois -- which will begin on September 15.",
"Finally, 30 players will head to Atlanta for the final tournament, due to start on September 22, where the FedEx Cup champion will be crowned."
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"Golfers at The Barclays in Virginia reacted to Tuesday's earthquake on Twitter .",
"PGA Tour players were in New Jersey preparing for the FedEx Cup playoff event .",
"No serious injuries were reported in the wake of the 5.8 magnitude quake ."
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"(CNN) -- Niger's president is standing by his country's decision to offer amnesty to one of the late Moammar Gadhafi's sons, saying he is entitled to stay in his nation like other \"Libyan refugees.\"",
"President Mahamadou Issoufou addressed reporters Friday, reaffirming his stance on Saadi Gadhafi, whom Libya wants returned home to stand trial.",
"\"The attitude of the Niger government regarding this has already been noted: We have already welcomed Libyan refugees for humanitarian reasons,\" Issoufou said.",
"\"Of these, one is a son of (Moammar) Gadhafi -- Saadi Gadhafi.\"",
"Interpol has issued arrest warrant -- known as a \"red notice\" -- for Saadi Gadhafi, requesting his provisional arrest ahead of his extradition or surrender to an international court.",
"The warrant accuses him of \"misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation when he headed the Libyan Football Federation.\"",
"His lawyer, Nick Kaufman, told CNN earlier this month that his client \"strenuously denies the charges made against him.\"",
"Kaufman said he's asked the Interpol secretary general to revoke the warrant, claiming that it is politically motivated and was sought by a new Libyan leadership that lacks legitimacy.",
"Saadi Gadhafi is in Niger, the landlocked West African nation bordering Libya.",
"His father and three brothers have been killed and one more brother, Saif al-Islam, remains in hiding.",
"His other siblings, meanwhile, escaped to Algeria during the months-long conflict in their native Libya.",
"Saif al-Islam is also wanted by Interpol, as well as the International Criminal Court.",
"As a party to that court, Niger would be obligated to turn Saif al-Islam over should he be detained within its borders."
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"Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou addresses reporters .",
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"(CNN) -- Barack Obama touched hearts during an impassioned speech to a 200,000-strong crowd in Berlin, German newspapers agreed, but suspicions remain about the White House contender's motives for courting a European audience.",
"Barack Obama addressed a huge and friendly crowd in Berlin on Thursday.",
"Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel wondered whether so many young people had ever gathered for a political event in Germany and said that Obama's address -- which echoed speeches by former U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan when the divided city was in the Cold War frontline -- could only have been made in the German capital.",
"\"Barack Obama's address might not have been statesmanlike and it definitely wasn't worldly-wise.",
"But with its symbolism and the message of this 46-year-old, it certainly was the signal of a new era for a new generation on both sides of the Atlantic,\" the newspaper said.",
"\"What better thing could have happened to us than the potential next president of the U.S. sending this message to the world from here?\"",
"Obama moved on from Germany to France on Friday where he was due to hold talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy.",
"He is also slated to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition leader David Cameron in London later Friday.",
"German tabloid Bild said Obama had articulated his version of the American dream -- the idea that politics can change the world: \"Unlike George W. Bush, he wants to do this in cooperation with others, especially Europe.",
"That's his message from Berlin: Let's try this together!\"",
"But Bild warned that an Obama presidency would place fresh demands on traditional allies such as Germany, which fell out with Washington over the war in Iraq and has refused to contribute combat troops to NATO operations in Afghanistan.",
"iReport.com: View photos from the scene .",
"\"He didn't say what he expects, but it's not hard to figure it out.",
"He'll call for more German participation during international crises; he'll call for more German soldiers,\" said Bild.",
"But it concluded: \"No matter how you might feel about this: A President Obama would be Germany's friend -- and a fan of Berlin!\"",
"Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung sounded a more cautious note, warning that an Obama presidency would be \"expensive for Germany.\"",
"\"He explicitly called for German soldiers for Afghanistan -- he did not say 'more soldiers' but that was what he meant,\" said commentator Reymer Kluever.",
"\"And Obama also indicated this: he will want support as president to wind up the Iraq adventure.\"",
"The paper noted too that the speech had been intended less for the crowds gathered in Berlin's Tiergarten park than for \"hesitant white voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Colorado and Virginia\" and said that Obama had proved himself to be a clever tactician, capable of shifting positions to suit his audience.",
"\"He wants to convince (voters) that the world will also listen to a black president... And there's one other thing one shouldn't forget when talking about Obama: He easily reworks even positions that have been written in stone and adjusts to new requirements.\"",
"But nobody in the German press appears to have been quite as smitten by their visitor as Bild reporter Judith Bonesky, who had the opportunity to work out with Obama in the gym of the Ritz Carlton Hotel earlier in the day.",
"\"Obama (with toned arms and a strong back) puts on his headphones for his iPod to listen to pop music.",
"He hums quietly.",
"Then he jumps on a fitness bike.",
"He pushes three times on the pedals -- but then can't be bothered with it.",
"\"He picks up a pair of 16 kilo weights and starts curling them with his left and right arms, 30 repetitions on each side.",
"Then, amazingly, he picks up the 32 kilo weights!",
"Very slowly he lifts them, first 10 curls with his right, then 10 with his left.",
"Quickly I ask: \"Mr. Obama, could I take a photo?\".",
"\"Of course!\" he answers, before asking my name and coming over to stand next to me.",
"\"My name's Judith\" I reply.",
"\"I'm Barack Obama, nice to meet you!\"",
"he says, and puts his arm across my shoulder.",
"I put my arm around his hip -- wow, he didn't even sweat! WHAT A MAN!\""
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"(CNN) -- How much would it cost to save tigers from extinction in the wild?",
"Thirty-five million more dollars a year.",
"Some perspective on this amount: Thirty-five million dollars is less than soccer star David Beckham earns annually.",
"Surely, a world that sustains great athletes with princely sums can also afford to save this princely beast.",
"It's zero hour for tigers.",
"In the past century, the world's wild tiger population has fallen by a staggering 97 percent -- from an estimated 100,000 to an all-time low of 3,200 animals.",
"Of these, only 1,000 are breeding females.",
"Tigers are threatened across their entire range, from India to the Russian Far East.",
"They face a triple threat: Poachers kill them for their pelts and body parts, hunters kill their prey, and development encroaches on their habitat.",
"Tiger extinction would be the stuff of great tragedy.",
"But hopes for averting such disaster may emerge from a summit happening this week in St. Petersburg, Russia.",
"Called together by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, conservationists, donors and leaders of all 13 tiger range states may decide the fate of tigers in the wild.",
"The Wildlife Conservation Society and its partners in big cat conservation have devised a strategy that offers the summit a practical plan of action to reverse the decline of tigers and put the population on a course for recovery.",
"(This is where the $35 million comes in; more on that in a moment.)",
"This fall, the Wildlife Conservation Society published a peer-reviewed study identifying 42 \"source sites\" across the natural range of tigers in Asia, where viable populations of breeding tigers now exist.",
"The paper was co-authored by conservationists from organizations including the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Global Environment Facility, Panthera, the World Bank and numerous other partners.",
"The study suggests that managing and financing activities like law enforcement and training in these breeding areas will protect tiger populations and allow them to repopulate larger landscapes.",
"Implementing this plan would be straightforward.",
"Instead of spreading conservation efforts thinly across large landscapes, the focus would shift to source sites.",
"These are where 70 percent of the world's tigers live in just 6 percent of their current range.",
"For example, there are 18 source sites in India, eight in Indonesia, six in Russia, three in both Malaysia and Nepal, two in Thailand and one in both Laos and Bangladesh.",
"Protecting these sites would halt the decline in tigers and allow populations to recover.",
"Can it be done? In fact, something similar is being done in southwest India in one of the most densely populated places on earth.",
"In the Western Ghats of Karnataka sits Nagarahole National Park, where the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Indian government and local communities have worked together for 20 years, joining first-rate science to public action.",
"Trained enforcement teams have deployed to protect both tigers and their prey from such threats as poaching and habitat loss.",
"Voluntary resettlement to shift people away from protected areas and the cooperation of those who live in local villages have meant a 400 percent increase in tiger numbers from fewer than 20 to nearly 70.",
"Evidence of range state commitment to the strategy on the table at the summit is clear.",
"More than half the $82 million that would be required for the effort each year is already committed by governments, international donors and non-governmental organizations.",
"But there is still a $35 million annual shortfall, and this is all that stands between the tiger and its two possible futures: extinction or robust survival across Asia.",
"The hopes and risks could not be clearer at the St. Petersburg summit.",
"Putin and other world leaders can leave a great legacy.",
"In our collective role as stewards of our planet, we cannot fail.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Steven Sanderson and the Wildlife Conservation Society."
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"Steven Sanderson of Wildlife Conservation Society says tiger population has plummeted .",
"A summit in Russia with conservationists, nation leaders could set tiger's fate, he says .",
"Society has proposed an $82 million plan at summit to stop decline, boost recovery, he says .",
"Sanderson: Plan still short of financial target; leaders must not fail as stewards of planet ."
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