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"(CNN) -- Barack Obama's overseas trip has generated a lot more buzz than John McCain's foreign travels, but when it comes to popularity abroad, both candidates have their strengths.",
"Sen. Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East and Europe has attracted heavy media attention.",
"McCain is more of a familiar face among Europe's politicians.",
"The senator from Arizona is better known because he's met with a lot of foreign leaders and has been active in conferences overseas, said Robin Niblett, a London, England-based international affairs analyst.",
"But European lawmakers said McCain's experience could work against him because of the association with President Bush and the war in Iraq.",
"Obama, on the other hand, is more of a fresh face abroad; the trip is his first since sewing up the Democratic nomination in June.",
"It's his first visit to Afghanistan and first to Iraq in two years.",
"In addition to Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama has passed through Kuwait since leaving the United States on Thursday.",
"He's expected to visit Jordan and Israel before making a European swing through Germany, France and the United Kingdom.",
"The novelty of Obama's trip increases the media attention because the storyline is more interesting, according to Michael Crowley, senior editor of The New Republic.",
"Watch: Is Obama's trip getting too much coverage? ...",
"\"When McCain goes overseas, it's sort of 'dog bites man.'",
"There's not really that much of an interesting angle to it,\" Crowley said Sunday on CNN's \"Reliable Sources.\"",
"\"This is an incredible story, the first African-American nominee going abroad after a long period of anti-Americanism, promising a new start and a new direction for the country.",
"There's so many fascinating angles, whereas McCain is sort of offering somewhat more of a continuation of what we already know.\"",
"Although Obama is making his trip abroad as a senator from Illinois and not a presidential candidate, the tour is aimed at boosting his foreign policy credentials.",
"His trip has produced several high-profile photo ops, including pictures of Obama with American troops and with leaders such as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.",
"All three of the major U.S. broadcast networks' anchors -- Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams -- are set to cover Obama from overseas.",
"\"What that means, of course, is that the 'CBS Evening News,' 'NBC Nightly News' and ABC's 'World News' will be broadcast from Europe and the Middle East this week, throwing an even brighter spotlight on Barack's [Obama's] excellent adventure,\" said Howard Kurtz, host of CNN's \"Reliable Sources.\"",
"McCain, however, was met by zero anchors on his foreign trips since he became the presumptive Republican nominee, Kurtz pointed out.",
"A recent poll from Britain's Guardian newspaper and ICM Research suggests that Obama is five times as popular as McCain there.",
"Conducted this month, the poll indicates that 53 percent think Obama would make the better president, compared with 11 percent for McCain.",
"The remaining 36 percent declined to express a preference.",
"The survey, conducted July 9-10, questioned 1,009 adults and has a sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.",
"Back in the United States, Obama leads McCain by a much smaller margin: 47 percent to 41 percent, according to CNN's latest \"poll of polls.\"",
"The poll of polls includes five surveys: Gallup (July 12-14), CBS/The New York Times (July 7-14), ABC/The Washington Post (July 10-13), Quinnipiac (July 8-13) and Newsweek (July 9-10).",
"CNN's Kristi Keck contributed to this report."
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"McCain has been overseas more often, so Obama trip has novelty factor, editor says ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents apparently tied to al Qaeda attacked a checkpoint in western Baghdad and killed five police officers early Tuesday, officials said.",
"In the eastern city of Kut, meanwhile, at least 20 people were killed and 50 wounded when a bomb in a parked car exploded at a busy outdoor market, according to officials at the interior ministry.",
"Health ministry officials, however, said three people died and 62 were wounded in the Kut bombing.",
"Two other car bombs were defused by Iraqi security forces about half an hour after the first explosion, interior officials said.",
"Such attacks have been uncommon in Kut, the provincial capital of the predominantly Shiite province of Wasit.",
"The gunmen in Baghdad, who police officials said used pistols equipped with silencers, left behind a black flag, which is used to represent the Islamic State of Iraq.",
"The umbrella group includes a number of Sunni extremist organizations and has ties to al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"The same flag was left behind by insurgents after they attacked several security checkpoints and killed at least 16 people in a neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad last week.",
"The Islamic State of Iraq also claimed responsibility for last week's suicide attack on a television station in Iraq that killed at least six people and wounded 20.",
"Police officials said another officer was wounded Tuesday after a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded in the Hurriya district in northwestern Baghdad.",
"Two bystanders also were injured, police said.",
"Separately, three roadside bombs exploded in two neighborhoods in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, wounding six people.",
"Also, two mortar rounds landed in the Mansour district in western Baghdad, damaging a building, and two more mortar rounds struck Baghdad's international zone Tuesday.",
"Overall, violence in Iraq has dropped drastically over the past two years compared with the height of the sectarian war in 2006 and 2007, but bloodshed continues.",
"The country is at a critical period as U.S. officials continue with plans to end America's combat mission and draw down troops to reach 50,000 by the end of August.",
"According to the security agreement between the United States and Iraq, all American forces are scheduled to leave the country by the end of next year.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Police officials say attackers in Baghdad left behind a black flag .",
"The flag represents the Islamic State of Iraq, which has ties to al Qaeda ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- UK businesses, already hurting from a recession, were counting the cost Monday of the country's worst snowstorm in almost two decades, as a crippled transport system left commuters stranded, offices semi-deserted and airlines grounded.",
"Pedestrians cross the Thames in front of St Paul's Cathedral in London's financial district.",
"At least 20 percent of the workforce nationwide, or 6.4 million employees, failed to make it into work Monday morning, according to an estimate by the Federation of Small Businesses.",
"But the figure was estimated to be far higher -- around 40 percent -- in London and southeast England, which is home to around a fifth of all British businesses.",
"FSB spokesman Stephen Alambritis told CNN the cost of Monday's disruptions would likely reach £1.2 billion ($1.7 billion).",
"With further snowfalls forecasted for Tuesday and Wednesday, that figure was likely to rise, he warned .",
"\"It's pretty bad out there and throughout the whole of the UK,\" Alambritis said.",
"\"The blow to the economy should be lightened by the fact that people can work via internet and laptops.",
"But what we are seeing is economic activity reduced, contracts not being signed, invoices not being sent out and meetings being canceled.\"",
"Douglas McWilliams, Chief Executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research warned that up to 3,000 businesses could go bankrupt as a result of short-term cashflow problems caused by the weather.",
"\"Many of the businesses that are close to failing are in the retail and construction sectors that are likely to be most affected by the snow and transport disruption,\" McWilliams said in a statement.",
"Alambritis said that the disruption would also damage the UK's reputation as a place to do business and called for the government and local authorities to invest in infrastructural improvements to cope with freak weather.",
"\"It gives the UK a bad name if there's a bit of snow and the whole economy grounds to a halt,\" he said.",
"\"Why is it that in Canada, New Zealand and Scandinavia they have these snowfalls and everything carries on?\"",
"In the City, financial markets were running at 50 percent capacity in early trading with just 120 million shares changing hands by 0910 GMT, according to David Buik of BGC Partners.",
"But a spokesman for the London Stock Exchange told CNN later that trading had not been too badly affected, with most trading automated at the big firms.",
"Airlines were expected to be particularly badly hit with hundreds of flights canceled or severely delayed from airports in the southeast as Heathrow and Stansted were forced to shutdown runways.",
"Budget airline Ryanair, which operates out of Stansted, canceled more than 100 flights and said stranded passengers could book a new flight free of charge.",
"But some businesses were enjoying an unexpected boost from the chaos.",
"With bus and rail links down across London, taxi firms were reporting surging demand.",
"Keith Cain, the control room manager for Dial-a-Cab, the city's biggest taxi company, said the firm had been receiving more than 5,000 calls an hour, mostly from companies trying to get their employees to their desks.",
"Hotels near Heathrow Airport also reported being overwhelmed by stranded passengers seeking rooms for the night."
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"UK crippled by heavy snow; economic cost estimated to reach $1.7 billion .",
"Around 20 percent of employees failed to make it to work on Monday .",
"Figure much higher in London, southeast England, where many businesses based .",
"Up to 3,000 firms could go bust because of the bad weather, analysts warn ."
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"(CNN) -- Young Portuguese rider Alberto Rui Costa was rewarded for his bravery in taking part in a long breakaway as he won the eighth stage of the Tour de France in Super-Besse Saturday.",
"The 24-year-old was in a group which went away virtually from the start of the 189km leg from Aiguirande but still had the strength in an uphill finish to hold off the chasers.",
"Stage one winner Belgian Philippe Gilbert burst out of a whittled down peloton containing all the main yellow jersey contenders to finish 12 seconds behind Rui Costa.",
"As the breakaway group fragmented, Movistar's Rui Costa took advantage to pull clear, but he came under pressure from Astana's Alexandre Vinokourov who raced out of the peloton to catch all the early leaders bar the eventual winner.",
"Kazakhstan's Vinokourov got within 15 seconds of him, but then ran out of steam and was caught by the main group by the finish.",
"Norway's Thor Hushovd, who was expected to lose the yellow jersey on a tough stage in the Massif Central, upset predictions to cling on to the race lead by one second from Australian Cadel Evans.",
"Reigning champion Alberto Contador and last year's runner-up Andy Schleck were also prominent in the final 1.5km steep uphill drag to Super-Besse, but it was the impressive Evans of BMC who led them home, three seconds down on Gilbert.",
"\"I didn't get the jersey but for us it's not a problem right now.",
"As I keep saying, there's a long way to go to Paris,\" Evans, twice a runner-up, in 2007 and 2008, told AFP.",
"Hushovd has been in yellow since his Garmin-Cervelo team won last Sunday's team time trial, but will come under pressure again on stage nine over similar testing terrain."
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"Alberto Rui Costa of Portugal wins eighth stage of Tour de France .",
"24-year-old Movistar rider was in early breakaway on 189km stage in Massif Central .",
"Norway's Thor Hushovd holds on to race leader's yellow jersey .",
"Cadel Evans of Australia stays in second place just one second back ."
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"(CNN) -- The United States is providing millions of dollars to fund the trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president charged with war crimes for his alleged role in a civil war that killed tens of thousands.",
"Taylor is accused of fueling a bloody civil war in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone that led to widespread murder, rape and mutilation.",
"He has pleaded not guilty to charges that include five counts of crimes against humanity and five counts of war crimes.",
"Taylor is on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands.",
"United Nations officials and the Sierra Leone government jointly set up a special tribunal to try those who played the biggest role in the atrocities.",
"Washington said it expedited the $4.5 million grant because the court is facing a financial crisis, and the U.S. urged the international community to donate to the court before its financial resources run out.",
"\"By all calculations, the court would have run out of money by early December, which could have jeopardized the continuation of the Charles Taylor trial before the court reached a verdict,\" the State Department said in a news release Tuesday.",
"Officials moved the trial from the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown because of concerns it would spark instability in the region.",
"It's the first time an African head of state has faced mass atrocities and war crimes charges at an international tribunal.",
"\"The Taylor prosecution delivers a strong message to all perpetrators of atrocities, including those in positions of power, that they will be held accountable,\" the State Department said.",
"Prosecutors allege that Taylor, who was president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003, fueled the lengthy civil war that killed tens of thousands using riches from a diamond trade.",
"The so-called blood diamonds are mined in war zones to support rebels and warlords.",
"Blood diamonds have fueled bloody conflicts in Africa for more than a decade.",
"The trial has included testimony from actress Mia Farrow and supermodel Naomi Campbell.",
"In August, Campbell testified that Taylor gave her \"dirty-looking\" uncut diamonds in 1997 as a gift.",
"Prosecutors were hoping her testimony would tie him to blood diamonds.",
"The trial opened in 2007, but Taylor boycotted the first session.",
"It's expected to end by next year, and the appeals process could end by 2012, according to the State Department."
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"The former Liberian president is on trial at an international tribunal in The Hague .",
"He is accused of fueling a civil war that led to widespread murder, rape and mutilation .",
"Taylor is the first African head of state to face mass atrocities charges at international tribunal ."
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"STRASBOURG, France (CNN) -- With his navy blue suit jacket and gray-tinged hair, Christian Engstrom barely stands out from the sea of delegates seated in the European parliament.",
"Christian Engstrom, deputy leader of Sweden's Pirate Party, is an elected member of the European parliament.",
"Yet the 49-year old Swede is a politician with a difference -- he is the world's first democratically elected Internet pirate, and the leader of a growing international movement that Hollywood sees as a major threat to its movie-profit \"treasure chest.\"",
"In April of this year the Pirate Party gained international notoriety during a much publicized Stockholm court case, in which the founders of a file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, were given jail sentences and ordered to pay a fine to the entertainment industry.",
"The much publicized tribunal and its verdict helped the Pirate Party (which is not affiliated with The Pirate Bay) ride a wave of popular support that saw its membership total triple from 14,000 to 42,000.",
"In June these figures translated into electoral support, as the single-issue party reeled in 7.1 percent of Sweden's vote in the European elections, securing one of the country's 18 seats in parliament.",
"According to Engstrom, who is the party's deputy leader, their goal in Brussels is now to \"ensure that Europe chooses a better road into the information society.\"",
"The party's ultimate aim is to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and decrease online surveillance.",
"Party members hold up Linux, the free operating system, and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, as examples of what has been achieved through collaboration on the Internet, even though the trend is still in its infancy.",
"Engstrom, a former computer software programmer, believes the Internet's freedoms and participatory culture are under threat.",
"\"Things have been going in the wrong direction -- more surveillance, more control of everything we do on the net and also stricter copyright laws -- that's the wrong course for Europe,\" Engstrom told CNN.",
"\"We want to set a new one.\"",
"Watch CNN's chat with Engstrom » .",
"The prospect of reforming Internet laws has found particular resonance among younger voters.",
"According to polls, nearly one in five Swedes under the age of 30 voted for The Pirate Party.",
"Watch The Screening Room's piracy special online .",
"The international film industry, on the other hand, is less than thrilled with the Pirate Party's objectives.",
"They say global piracy is looting billions of dollars of their hard-earned profits every year.",
"A Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) study from 2006 suggested that pirate \"booty\" amounted to more than $6 billion worldwide.",
"In the UK, campaign group Respect for Film says $818 million (£500 million) is lost to piracy annually.",
"Since the early 1980s the major Hollywood movie studios, represented by the MPAA, have fought hard to eliminate piracy -- both in the form of bootlegging, and more recently online file sharing.",
"Punishments for file-sharers have ranged from fines and Internet bans to jail time.",
"\"They have approached [piracy] in a very stupid way,\" Engstrom told CNN.",
"\"They're alienating their customers, despite the fact that they are making more money than ever.",
"Hollywood had its best year ever [in terms of box office revenues] in 2008, so why are they complaining?",
"I can't understand that.\" Members of the film industry contend that arguments like these don't tell the whole story.",
"Lavinia Carey of Respect for Film says that while box office earnings may appear strong, DVD sales are suffering.",
"\"If a box office success is trumpeted in the media on the opening weekend, it makes the public think that copyright theft isn't actually doing any harm,\" Carey told CNN.",
"\"But very often cinemas are just a showcase for the more profitable end of the market, which includes DVD sales and sales to television companies.\"",
"According to Carey, the slump in subsidiary sales has had a domino effect on the entire industry.",
"\"Employment is affected, people who are actually making movies are affected, and in the long term the consumer will suffer because we won't have the high-quality content in the future that we have come to expect,\" she said.",
"Engstrom and his fellow pirates feel little compassion for this line of argument.",
"\"That's the way life is when you're running a business,\" Engstrom told CNN.",
"\"Things change, technology changes and the business environment changes.",
"Successful businesses adapt rather than whine.\"",
"Should file sharing be legalized or it is nothing more than theft?",
"Tell us below in the SoundOff box or join in the discussion on CNN's Facebook page .",
"Engstrom's views appear to be striking a chord with young activists across Europe.",
"Since its foundation in 2006, the Swedish Pirate Party has inspired officially registered sister parties in six countries including Austria, the Czech Republic, France and Spain.",
"Germany's \"Piratenpartei\" is the second largest, having snared nearly one percent of the German vote during the European elections.",
"While Engstrom is proud of his party's influence, he is not surprised by its swift achievements.",
"\"It's been three and a half years working constantly on it, on a daily basis.",
"To someone from the outside it may look like we just appeared, but it's not like that to us.\"",
"With an armada of pirate parties forming across the continent, the movement looks to set sail into what Engstrom hopes will be a bright future.",
"\"It's now that the pirate movement begins.",
"It's now that we want to reform first Europe and then hopefully the world.\""
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"Deputy leader of Sweden's Pirate Party was elected to Euro parliament in June .",
"Party goals: deregulate copyright, abolish patent system, boost online freedoms .",
"Pirate parties have formed in Germany, Estonia, Czech Republic, France, Spain ."
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"(CNN) -- Police arrested a woman Friday who they said accepted stolen beer from a delivery truck driven by the man who killed eight people and then himself in Connecticut this week.",
"East Windsor, Connecticut, police arrested Christy Quail, 33, and charged her with sixth-degree larceny after getting a videotape showing her accepting beer from a truck driven by Omar Thornton, according to dispatcher Sharon Bourke.",
"Thornton went on a shooting rampage Tuesday after his employer, Hartford Distributors, said it had asked him to resign for stealing and selling alcoholic beverages.",
"Thornton is not clearly shown in the videotape, which police are not releasing to the news media, Bourke said.",
"Thornton's girlfriend told CNN he was being racially harassed at work, but Hartford Distributors' president said Thursday that there were no grievances filed with the company or with Thornton's union.",
"The company said it hired a private investigator to follow and videotape Thornton for several weeks after it was suspected he was stealing from his truck, according to CNN Hartford affiliate WFSB.",
"Quail was processed at the East Windsor Police Department on Friday and released on bond, Bourke said.",
"Her court date is set for August 17.",
"CNN's Meg Miller contributed to this report."
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"Police say they have a videotape of the woman accepting stolen beer .",
"The Connecticut shooter is not clearly visible in tape .",
"Omar Thornton's employer said it asked him to resign for stealing and selling its beverages ."
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"(CNN) -- The iPad is one of the most disruptive technologies of the past 5 years.",
"Along with the iPhone, it birthed a new era of touch computing that does away with the mouse and keyboard altogether.",
"And yet the iPad's undisputed dominance of the blossoming tablet market may not last forever.",
"In fact, the iPad is about to get some stiff competition -- finally.",
"To understand why the iPad dominates the tablet sector is not difficult: Not only was it the first of the new wave of touchscreen tablets, but it's also the most desirable in the eyes of consumers.",
"The iPhone had a few chinks in its armor early on: It was only available on one network in the U.S., leaving room for competitors to thrive on other networks.",
"This Achilles Heel isn't such a problem for the iPad: Not only is it available on both AT&T and Verizon, but many consumers simply buy the Wi-Fi version, meaning the carrier issue isn't as relevant.",
"Competitors were also able to best the iPhone, which initially cost at least $499, on price: Cheaper alternatives using Google Android became abundant, especially when carrier subsidies were taken into consideration.",
"And yet rivals to the iPad cost about the same and lack the caché of the original.",
"If you want something like the iPad, your best choice has been ... the iPad.",
"Things are about to change, however.",
"Two affordable and promising tablet contenders are going on sale next week.",
"On Tuesday, Amazon releases its Kindle Fire.",
"For only $199 -- versus $499 for the iPad -- you get a full-color, 7-inch touchscreen tablet.",
"You also get access to a millions of movies, TV shows, songs, books and magazines.",
"Not to mention that Amazon has its own version of Android's app store, and the Kindle Fire comes with a new Web browser that claims to be faster than the competition.",
"Then on Wednesday comes Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet, which has similar specs as the Kindle Fire but more memory and storage.",
"It's priced at $249 -- half the cost of an iPad.",
"Of the two, the early favorite to emerge as the iPad's top rival is the Kindle Fire.",
"More than any other competitor, Amazon is able to spar with Apple by controlling all the pieces of the puzzle -- from the device itself to the content that you'll consume on it.",
"This \"end to end\" solution mimics Apple's strategy -- it should mean that the user experience is radically better than other iPad alternatives.",
"And while Amazon stops short of running its own operating system -- the tablet runs a modified version of Google's Android -- they've also made changes to the interface that make it feel more holistic.",
"The fact that Amazon is a major distributor of books, movies, TV shows and music has another huge advantage: The company can afford to take a slight loss on the price of the device (and reportedly does), and make up for it by selling content.",
"Amazon.com has been pushing the Kindle Fire to its millions of customers, even going so far as to offer free streaming movies and TV shows to all its Amazon Prime customers (as it already does on the Web).",
"Mark my words: The Amazon Kindle Fire will be the most successful tablet device since the iPad.",
"Five hundred dollars is a steep price to pay for many tablet-craving consumers, but paying $200 for a similar device is comparatively painless.",
"In fact, a research firm surveyed 2,600 consumers to gauge interest in the new tablet and found that pre-launch demand for the Kindle Fire is higher than demand for the iPad before its launch.",
"Don't get me wrong: I don't think the Kindle Fire is better than the iPad.",
"I do think, however, that the mass market is far more price sensitive than the early-adopter crowd.",
"At the very least, the Kindle Fire is set to become the world's second-most popular tablet.",
"At that price, I wouldn't even bet against the Fire dethroning the iPad as the market leader."
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"Kindle Fire, priced at $199, may be the most succesful tablet since the iPad .",
"The full-color 7-inch tablet has access to millions of movies, songs, books and magazines .",
"Barnes & Noble's $249 Nook tablet may also prove popular ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- U.S. officials say terrorists could try to use small aircraft in attacks, but have no specific information that such a plot is in the works, according to a new notice distributed by federal officials.",
"\"Violent extremists with knowledge of general aviation and access to small planes pose a significant potential threat to the Homeland,\" according to an intelligence bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.",
"But according to the alert, U.S. officials \"do not have current, credible information or intelligence of an imminent attack being planned against aviation\" by al Qaeda or its affiliates.",
"In the alert, which was obtained by CNN, officials say as recently as early 2011, al Qaeda was considering options for targeting aviation \"possibly believing such operations would have a greater impact than other types of attacks.\"",
"Among the strategies al Qaeda members have discussed are using a private aircraft to carry explosives, finding a Western operative who could easily travel to the United States or Europe to get flight training or renting private planes for attacks, \"believing supervision would be lax due to the large number of private aircraft.\"",
"The bulletin was issued to state and local law enforcement agencies on Friday, a little over a week before the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.",
"Al Qaeda operatives killed nearly 3,000 people in those attacks by hijacking four commercial airliners and turning them into missiles, and some of the terrorists had received flight training in the United States.",
"Matthew Chandler, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said although there is no specific intelligence about a plot, alerts are regularly shared with law enforcement partners on \"evolving tactics that could be used by violent extremists to carry out attacks against the United States.\"",
"He noted al Qaeda and others have targeted aviation since the 1990s and persist in seeking aviation training.",
"Chandler said the bulletin is intended to \"highlight the need for continued awareness and vigilance.\"",
"U.S. officials including President Barack Obama have expressed concerns about so-called lone-wolf attackers who do not belong to terror organizations and have no co-conspirators, but believe in a radical ideology.",
"The intelligence alert says a lone wolf who engaged in an aviation attack would be particularly hard to detect, because \"their plans to misuse or steal small aircraft would be difficult to monitor and predict.\"",
"In the past, some members of Congress, including West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller have expressed concern about possible security vulnerabilities in the general aviation sector.",
"The bulletin lists several instances in which small planes had been stolen, including the 2002 case of a 15-year-old boy in Florida who crashed a Cessna into a Bank of America tower in Tampa.",
"The teen, Charles Bishop, left behind a note indicating that he supported al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, \"but there are no indications the boy had connections with terrorist organizations,\" the bulletin states.",
"In addition, a man with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service crashed his own single-engine Piper Cherokee into a building that houses an IRS office in Austin, Texas, in 2010, killing himself and a worker in the building.",
"That incident was not included in the most recent bulletin.",
"The alert issued Friday lists several suggestions to prevent misuse of small planes such as securing aircraft to prevent misuse, verifying the identities of crew members and passengers, being aware of and reporting anyone who could be masquerading as a pilot, and reporting any planes that have been modified in an unusual or unauthorized way."
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"JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- The bodies of two of the three men executed for the deadly bombing of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, were returned to their village Sunday.",
"Balinese relatives of Bali bombing victims pray in the resort island on Sunday following the executions.",
"At least one police officer was injured by \"pushing and shoving\" between police and funeral-goers as the bodies of two executed brothers were returned to their families in Tenggulun.",
"It was unclear where the body of the third executed bomber was.",
"Hundreds of police were in Tenggulun and Serang, cities in East and West Java province respectively, where supporters awaited the bodies, The Associated Press reported.",
"Early Sunday, the three convicted bombers were executed by firing squad.",
"Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and his brother Mukhlas, who is also known as Ali Ghufron, were executed at 12:15 a.m. at Nusa Kampangan prison, said Jasman Panjaitan, a spokesman for Indonesia's attorney-general.",
"Autopsies were performed the men before the bodies were turned over to their families, Panjaitan said.",
"Burial was to take place within 24 hours, per Muslim tradition.",
"The deadly bombing ripped through two popular nightclubs in Kuta, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, in October 2002.",
"The blasts killed 202 people -- more than half foreign tourists -- and injured more than 300.",
"Dozens of victims were burned beyond recognition or blown to pieces by the massive blasts.",
"Watch CNN's Dan Rivers report from Indonesia » .",
"Among the dead were 88 Australians, 28 Britons and eight Americans, The Associated Press reported.",
"Peter Hughes, 48, who survived the bombings, said news of the executions took him back to \"the actual moment\" when the first bomb went off.",
"\"We had to fight for our life pretty hard back then, and it's a been a struggle every day since,\" Hughes said.",
"More than half of his body was burned, and he had horrific cuts, he said.",
"He said it took two years to recover from his injuries.",
"\"I guess I'm truly lucky,\" he said.",
"\"But you know, the scars on the outside to me aren't so bad, but it's what's on the inside.",
"You cope [with] it mentally, and I guess that's the worst scar of all.",
"\"You're living that every day.",
"And every day you're actually going through it.",
"It's just a battle,\" he said.",
"\"These three bombers who have been executed, it's all over for them now, but I have to get up tomorrow and do exactly the same thing.\"",
"Authorities blame the attacks on the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, which aims to create a Muslim \"superstate\" across much of Southeast Asia.",
"Amrozi's and Mukhlas' brother, Ja'far Shodeq, said he still believes that his siblings were innocent.",
"He claimed that Amrozi was in their hometown, Tenggulun, the night of the attack watching football, despite Amrozi's admission to CNN that he bought the explosive ingredients and the van used in the attack.",
"\"It's been a long journey, and it's been six long years for this to work its way through the Indonesian judicial system, but it's a good day because at least justice has been delivered, and the three people who were most responsible for this truly horrific atrocity have finally met the fate that they deserve,\" said Sananand Dhume, author of \"My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.\"",
"The men showed neither fear nor remorse in recent interviews with CNN.",
"They had asked to be beheaded, saying it was the Islamic way of execution, but the execution was accomplished by firing squad.",
"A lawyer for the men said he sent a letter to the president of Indonesia but would not say what the letter said.",
"Speculation had grown in recent days that the executions were imminent when graves were dug in Tenggulun, in Indonesia's East Java province.",
"One grave was dug this week for the brothers in the same cemetery where their father is buried.",
"On Saturday, Amrozi's two wives and daughter, his brother's two wives and the men's brothers traveled to Nusakambangan Prison in central Java, where the men were executed, according to Antara, the national news agency of Indonesia.",
"The agency quoted Abu Sholeh, head of the village of Tenggulun.",
"Hundreds of members of hardline Muslim groups have arrived in the village.",
"Some threaten revenge and say others will take the place of Amrozi and Mukhlas.",
"Maria Kotronakis of Sydney, Australia, whose two sisters were killed, said she was angry that the men never showed remorse, but with the executions, \"justice has been served.\"",
"\"By executing them, the Indonesian government has said, 'No terrorists allowed,' \" she added.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"Brothers, third man executed by firing squad at Indonesian prison .",
"2002 bombings killed 202, many of them Australians vacationing in Kuta .",
"Hundreds of members of hardline Muslim groups plan protest ."
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"(CNN) -- On a day when opposition forces in Libya suffered battlefield losses, President Barack Obama made clear in interviews Tuesday with the three major U.S. television networks that he was open to arming the rebel fighters.",
"\"I'm not ruling it out, but I'm also not ruling it in,\" Obama told NBC in one of the separate interviews he gave the day after a nationally televised speech on the Libya situation.",
"\"I think it's fair to say that if we wanted to get weapons into Libya, we probably could,\" Obama told ABC.",
"\"We're looking at all our options at this point.\"",
"The president also signaled a willingness to negotiate a settlement to the conflict with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but only based on the condition that Gadhafi would relinquish power as called for by the United States and its allies.",
"Asked about the chances of Gadhafi fleeing or losing vital support from his family and top aides, Obama said that he believes those close to the Libyan leader likely feel what he called a tightening noose.",
"\"I think that Gadhafi's camp, people around him, are starting to recognize that their options are limited and their days are numbered, and so they are probably reaching out to a range of different people,\" Obama told CBS.",
"\"But that information may not have filtered to Gadhafi yet and I think it's too early for us to start having formal negotiations.\"",
"Gadhafi \"knows exactly what he needs to do to stop the constant bombardment that he's under, and it may at some point shift to him to figuring out how to negotiate an exit, but I don't think we're at that point yet,\" Obama continued on CBS.",
"On ABC, the president said that \"the first step is for Gadhafi to send a signal that he understands the Libyan people don't want him ruling anymore, that 40 years of tyranny is enough.\"",
"\"Once he makes that decision, I think the international community will come together and make a determination as to what the most appropriate way of facilitating him stepping down will be,\" Obama said.",
"The interviews continued the determined tone of Obama's Monday night speech, which detailed the strategic and moral reasons for committing U.S. troops to the Libyan mission while also promising the U.S. role would be limited in time and scope.",
"Initially led by U.S. forces due to their \"unique capabilities\" for taking out Libya's anti-aircraft and communications stations to establish a no-fly zone, the mission shifts to NATO control this week so allied nations share the responsibility and costs, Obama said.",
"He pointed out to CBS that coalition airstrikes on Gadhafi forces threatening civilian populations \"will continue for some time\" despite the transfer in mission leadership.",
"\"One of the questions that we want to answer is, do we start getting to a stage where Gadhafi's forces are sufficiently degraded, where it may not be necessary to arm opposition groups?\"",
"Obama said on CBS."
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"The president gives interviews to all three major U.S. television networks .",
"Moammar Gadhafi can end the coalition bombardment by stepping down, Obama says .",
"Obama says pressure is increasing on Gadhafi's inner circle to end the conflict ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Half of Iraq's registered voters turned out for peaceful provincial elections this weekend, the election commission said Sunday.",
"Residents of Iraq's Ramadi province cast their votes this weekend during provincial elections.",
"The turnout of 7.5 million voters starkly contrasted with elections in 2005, when the violence and intimidation of al Qaeda in Iraq kept voters away from the polls and only 2 percent of eligible voters participated.",
"Faraj al-Haidari, the head of the Independent High Electoral Commission, called the turnout this year \"very high\" for provincial elections in any country.",
"Fifty-one percent of the 14.9 million registered voters cast ballots.",
"Al-Haidari called the weekend voting the \"most important elections in the history of Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.\"",
"Voting was held in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces.",
"The highest turnout -- 65 percent -- was in the Salaheddin province in northern Iraq, the commission said.",
"The lowest -- 40 percent -- was in Anbar, the Sunni heartland west of Baghdad.",
"The sprawling desert area was dominated in 2005 by al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"Preliminary results from the electoral commission are expected within five days.",
"Final numbers are due at the end of February.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, who toured polling stations with U.N. observers, said she noticed an increased sense of awareness and optimism among voters, who said they felt their participation would have an impact on their lives and country.",
"Political analysts said this election could correct some of the political imbalances that resulted from the 2005 election.",
"Saturday's voting also was seen as a referendum on the popularity of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.",
"\"We are trying to build a new system of government in the heart of the Islamic Middle East,\" Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told CNN.",
"\"The overwhelming majority of the people of Iraq are having a stake in this process, are buying into this democratic process.\"",
"Those elected will have regional power over the essentials Iraqis have been desperate for -- basic services and jobs, Damon reported.",
"Observers believe the provincial vote will be a gauge of the country's political direction and an indication of how the parliamentary elections will turn out later this year.",
"The results should spell out the status of the Sunni Arab \"Awakening\" movement -- which opposes al Qaeda in Iraq -- and the popularity of the Shiite factions, such as those backing al-Maliki, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.",
"Officials set up tough counter-terror measures for the election, including security rings around polling stations and vigorous searches of voters.",
"Despite the heightened security, three mortars exploded near a polling station in central Tikrit, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Baghdad, on Saturday morning, an official with the Interior Ministry told CNN.",
"There were no casualties. In another incident in Tikrit, police detained four people wearing Iraqi police uniforms who they said had thrown stun grenades at voters outside a polling center.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"Election commission chief: Most important election since Saddam Hussein fell .",
"The election was seen as a referendum on the popularity of Iraqi PM ."
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"Van, Turkey (CNN) -- The death toll from Wednesday's 5.6-magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey has risen to 40, the government said Sunday.",
"A much deadlier 7.2 magnitude quake that tore through Van last month left 604 people dead, officials said.",
"Twenty-six people have been rescued as a result of Wednesday's quake.",
"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Van region Saturday, as a heavy snowstorm hampered rescue efforts.",
"The sleet, snow and plunging temperatures also worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors living outdoors.",
"Freezing temperatures were expected to continue Sunday, with a bit of warming ahead Monday and Tuesday.",
"\"It's not possible for us to survive the winter here.",
"The Van winter is very cold and there's a lot of snow.",
"Living in these shelters is impossible,\" Cezmi Fazla said.",
"He stood outside a small hut his family constructed out of Styrofoam and plywood.",
"The hut was on the road outside Fazla's house, which was still standing but badly damaged after the earthquakes.",
"Ten to 15 family members slept in the hut every night, including his wife and youngest child, as well as his father and brother.",
"Fazla said he sent his three oldest children to relatives in the western Turkish city of Izmir after the first earthquake .",
"\"We haven't gotten any aid,\" he said.",
"\"We got a lot of support from the people of Turkey, packages with everything from clothes to toothpaste.",
"But the elected officials, the nongovernmental organizations are not making good use of it and were not good at coordinating those efforts.",
"So people feel very panicked.",
"That's made a lot of people uncomfortable.\"",
"Frustration from earthquake survivors is palpable on the streets of Van, where almost all of the shops are closed after the earthquakes.",
"\"I condemn Tayyip Erdogan,\" yelled Muhsin Tarhan, referring to Turkey's prime minister.",
"He was walking down the street with his wife and six children looking to scavenge plastic and wood to build a shelter.",
"\"We have been buried in the rain, and snow and cold and Recep Tayyip Erdogan does nothing.",
"He only helps those who are supporters of his political party.\"",
"There is a deep distrust of the Turkish state among many of Van's ethnic Kurdish residents.",
"In interviews with CNN, many residents even challenged the government's 5.6 magnitude rating of Wednesday's earthquake, claiming it was secretly downgraded, even though the U.S. Geological Survey reported an identical 5.6 magnitude.",
"Southeastern Turkey lies along turbulent geological and ethnic fault lines.",
"For decades, the region has been the main battlefield of a long-running guerrilla war between Kurdish separatist rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces.",
"On Thursday, tensions boiled over just yards from the rescue operation near the rubble of the Bayram Hotel, when a small crowd of protesters confronted Turkish government officials, demanding the resignation of the Van governor.",
"Turkish riot police armed with clubs and shields later attacked the demonstrators.",
"In remarks to journalists on Friday, Erdogan denounced the demonstrators, calling them saboteurs who were hampering the recovery effort.",
"Journalists were assembled awaiting a press conference with the prime minister.",
"But after Erdogan met with disaster relief officials for more than an hour, the press conference was canceled, without explanation.",
"Two Turkish journalists were among the dead from Wednesday's quake.",
"Sebahattin Yilmaz and Cem Emir with the DHA news agency had been covering the aftermath of the 7.2 magnitude quake.",
"They were buried in the rubble of the five-story Bayram Hotel, which collapsed on Wednesday.",
"A Japanese volunteer who had traveled to Turkey to assist with recovery operations was among other casualties of the demolished hotel."
] | [
"26 people have been rescued from Wednesday's quake .",
"A deadlier 7.2 quake last month left 604 people dead .",
"\"We haven't gotten any aid,\" a father in the stricken region says .",
"Riot police battled demonstrators in Van ."
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"London (CNN) -- WikiLeaks threw open the doors Friday to its archive of more than a quarter million secret U.S. diplomatic cables, unfiltered and unedited, exposing and possibly endangering confidential diplomatic sources.",
"The website made the controversial decision after losing control of the documents in a series of blunders.",
"WikiLeaks supporters posted the entire encrypted archive on the internet late last year.",
"Separately, David Leigh, the investigative editor of the Guardian newspaper, formerly one of Wikileaks media partners, published the password to unlock the archive in his book \"Inside WikiLeaks: Julian Assange's War on Secrecy\".",
"Together, both pieces of information, unlocked the full trove of U.S. diplomatic cables, accessible to anyone on the web.",
"But WikiLeaks' decision to open its archive is likely to bring the cables to a much wider audience -- and has already sparked criticism that it will put people at risk.",
"A brief search through the cables shows that documents have not been redacted in any way.",
"The names and other details of confidential diplomatic sources are on full display, despite being labelled with the instruction \"strictly protect\", including cables classified as \"secret\" or \"confidential.\"",
"The Guardian, the New York Times, Der Spiegel and El Pais, four of WikiLeaks' former media partners, condemned the release.",
"In a joint statement they said: \"We deplore the decision of WikiLeaks to publish the unredacted State Department cables, which may put sources at risk.",
"\"Our previous dealings with WikiLeaks were on the clear basis that we would only publish cables which had been subjected to a thorough editing and clearance process.",
"\"We will continue to defend our collaborative publishing endeavour.",
"We cannot defend the needless publication of the complete data -- indeed, we are united in condemning it.",
"Today's decision to publish by Julian Assange was his, and his alone.\"",
"Reporters Without Borders announced late Thursday it was suspending a WikiLeaks \"mirror site\" because of concerns over potential risks to sources.",
"In an editorial, it wrote that on launching the mirror site late last year, Reporters Without Borders \"said it defended 'the free flow of information online and the principle of the protection of sources, without which investigative journalism cannot exist.'",
"\"As the protection of sources is now in question, Reporters Without Borders has decided to suspend the site pending further clarification.\"",
"WikiLeaks posted Friday on Twitter: \"Shining a light on 45 years of U.S. 'diplomacy', it is time to open the archives forever.\"",
"The organization also gave full instructions on how to download all 251,287 cables.",
"WikiLeaks appealed for members of the public to \"crowdsource\" the cables and publish their findings on Twitter under the hashtag #wlfind.",
"Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks to an undefined, large group through an public call -- in this case to publish parts of the cables.",
"The reason, according to a statement posted by WikiLeaks on Twitter: \"The entire world press does not have enough resources and there are substantial biases.\"",
"U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told CNN Thursday: \"WikiLeaks did advise us of the impending release of information and of its intention to continue to release classified documents.",
"\"We have made clear our views and concerns about illegally disclosed classified information and the continuing risk to individuals and national security that such releases cause.",
"\"WikiLeaks has, however, ignored our requests not to release or disseminate any U.S. documents it may possess and has continued its well-established pattern of irresponsible, reckless, and frankly dangerous actions. We are not cooperating with them.\""
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"NEW: Reporters Without Borders suspends a WikiLeaks \"mirror site\" over concerns .",
"The documents first became accessible online after WikiLeaks lost control of them .",
"WikiLeaks has now thrown open the full, unredacted archive itself .",
"Newspapers condemn the move, saying confidential sources may be put at risk ."
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"Kirkuk, Iraq (CNN) -- Three U.S. soldiers detailed the shooting death of their platoon leader for an Iraqi judge Sunday in an effort to preserve a case that will be tried months after U.S. troops have left the country.",
"It is one of a number of cases in recent months where a U.S. military attorney and an Iraqi prosecutor have worked together to bring charges against those accused of targeting American troops, though it is one of the first murder cases to be brought before a judge just weeks ahead of the U.S. pullout from Iraq.",
"\"Today, we came to court to preserve the testimony of soldiers in a pending criminal case that will be tried in an Iraqi court, and we bring the testimony today because the American forces are going to be gone soon,\" Army Maj. Franklin D. Rosenblatt, an attorney working on the case, told CNN.",
"The U.S. military took the step of having American soldiers provide testimony because \"we are no longer going to be able to show up here in the court,\" Rosenblatt said.",
"The November 3 shooting of 1st Lt. Dustin D. Vincent -- one of the last U.S. casualties in the more-than-eight-year Iraq war -- was chronicled by insurgents who captured the sniper shooting on video and posted it online.",
"Inside a crowded courthouse, one of the soldiers who was with the 25-year-old Vincent the day he was killed told the investigative judge that a \"few days later a video was posted that claimed the killing of the 1st lieutenant, and it shows the same location we were that day.\"",
"The video, which was played for the judge, was set to music and showed what appeared to be a soldier on the top of an armored vehicle, at a distance from the camera.",
"On his back, which was to the camera, was a superimposed sniper's crosshair cursor.",
"Then there is the sound of a gunshot, and the soldier drops from view.",
"His comrades testified that Vincent, of Mesquite, Texas, was killed when his convoy stopped in Kirkuk's volatile al-Wasiti district, a mixed Sunni-Turkomen neighborhood in the northern Iraqi city.",
"The convoy stopped to fix an electrical cable on the top of one of Vincent's armored vehicles -- \"Then we heard a shot,\" one of the soldiers told the judge.",
"Two of the soldiers testified they got out of their armored vehicle to aid Vincent, who was shot in the upper right portion of his chest.",
"\"He was wearing a vest, but it hit the upper side of the vest,\" the same soldier said.",
"Later, the soldiers said, they were told Iraqi police apprehended a suspect.",
"The American soldiers who testified are still carrying out missions in Iraq and are not being identified at the request of the U.S. military.",
"Rosenblatt asked to submit the case to the court on behalf of the U.S. Army.",
"The Iraqi prosecutor, who also asked not to be identified as a security precaution, said the case against the suspected sniper could take up to seven months before it is decided by the court.",
"In addition to the testimony of the soldiers and the video, the prosecutor told CNN other evidence was presented to the judge.",
"\"We told the judge that we have witnesses and a secret witness, and we will try to bring him to court as soon as possible,\" the prosecutor said.",
"It was not clear who the additional witnesses were, and the prosecutor did not identify them out of a concern for their safety.",
"The U.S. military has successfully pressed for the prosecution of four people who have been convicted in recent months of targeting U.S. personnel at Contingency Operating Site, the American base on the outskirts of Kirkuk, with rockets or roadside bombs.",
"\"I think in Kirkuk, it's a big step that at least they allow us to come here to the courthouse, and here we have seen some real results lately,\" Rosenblatt said.",
"\"They have been willing to take on the cases of the terrorists who have attacked the U.S. troops, and I think that is a real good sign.\"",
"Vincent is the second American soldier to be killed in Kirkuk in a little more than a month.",
"A rocket attack in late September killed Spc.",
"Adrian Mills, 23, of Newnan, Georgia, and wounded at least four others.",
"While violence has fallen off across much of Iraq, bombings and shootings are a near-daily occurrence in the disputed city, which is home to nearly a third of the country's oil reserves.",
"Kirkuk is populated by ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Turkomen.",
"Tensions among the groups run high in the city, to which the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region have both laid claim."
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"A sniper killed 1st Lt. Dustin Vincent in Kirkuk in early November .",
"The case against a suspect could take seven months .",
"U.S. troops are scheduled to be out before then .",
"A military lawyer praises Iraqis for bringing cases to court ."
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"London (CNN) -- The tension is mounting for some of the world's most inventive young minds as this year's James Dyson Award reaches its climax.",
"Judges recently chose their international shortlist of 20 inventions -- 15 of which will go forward to this year's final and the chance to scoop the £10,000 ($15,500) first prize.",
"The competition, which is open to students and recent graduates in participating (currently 18) countries, has attracted over 500 entries this year, says the UK company.",
"From \"Airdrop Irrigation\" -- a condensation-producing device which waters plant roots in arid areas -- to a prosthetic arm controlled by brainwaves called \"AMO Arm,\" the shortlist showcases a range of novel responses to the competition brief: \"Design something that solves a problem.\"",
"Medical designs feature prominently.",
"A massage machine which uses PVC bags and infrared heat pads aims to soothe the pain of arthritis sufferers, while the \"MediMover\" helps transfer hospital patients safely from their beds to trolleys or surgical tables.",
"Another, the \"Rabbit Ray,\" explains medical procedures to children by demonstrative play.",
"Other entries include an energy-saving flywheel from Germany which powers kitchen appliances, space-saving furniture from Japan and a design called the \"Ecoclean,\" which its Spanish inventor says improves floor hygiene.",
"British inventor James Dyson is best known for creating the bag-free vacuum cleaner and recently launched a new fan heater called the \"Dyson Hot\" which uses the same blade-free technology found in his \"Air Multiplier\" fan.",
"James Dyson talks to CNN .",
"A full shortlist can be found here.",
"The overall winner will be announced on November 8."
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"International shortlist announced for the James Dyson Award .",
"Twenty inventions from 18 countries currently vying for first prize of £10,000 .",
"Overall winner will be announced on November 8 ."
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"(CNN) -- Larry Flynt, porn publisher and erstwhile snoop into the sex lives of politicians, has offered a job to disgraced former U.S.",
"Congressman Anthony Weiner.",
"Flynt, founder of Hustler Magazine, made the job offer in a letter that was published in The Huffington Post on Thursday.",
"\"This offer is not made in jest,\" wrote Flynt.",
"\"Just as we do not undertake insincere political crusades, we do not make insincere job offers.\"",
"Weiner could not be immediately reached for comment.",
"Where does Weiner go from here? Flynt's job offer came within hours of the congressman's resignation on Thursday over a sexting scandal.",
"In the letter, Flynt offered to give Weiner a 20% raise above the salary he earned in the U.S. House of Representatives, ensuring the former congressman's medical benefits would match what he had received in office.",
"Flynt also offered to pay Weiner's moving expenses to Beverly Hills, California.",
"\"While this employment opportunity is being offered in large part due to your qualifications and clear passion for making a change,\" Flynt wrote, \"I feel that your unfortunate resignation is a prime example of unfounded political pressure and the hypocrisy that has invaded democracy in Washington, D.C.\" The job offer was the second made by Flynt to a politician within the past year.",
"Recent political sex scandals .",
"In October, he offered to hire Republican Carl Paladino after the socially conservative gubernatorial candidate garnered headlines over pornographic images circulated to friends and colleagues.",
"The tone of Flynt's purported job offer to Paladino was markedly different than Weiner's.",
"\"It's clear that 'values purporting' Carl Paladino has a keen instinct for kinky sex,\" Flynt said in a news release at the time.",
"\"He is a natural pornographer who has a skilled eye for unusual views and acrobatics ...",
"It's clear he's better suited to join our team than be the governor of the state of New York.\"",
"Paladino lost the election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.",
"In 1998, during the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, Flynt offered $1 million to anyone with evidence of sexual misconduct against Republican lawmakers leading the effort against Clinton.",
"He published some of the evidence he obtained."
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"Flynt offers Anthony Weiner a 20% raise .",
"Offer \"not made in jest,\" Flynt writes .",
"The job offer comes within hours of the congressman's resignation ."
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"Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Dramatic video posted to YouTube purports to show the initial moments of an attack against Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado and her supporters.",
"The video begins with the candidate addressing residents and reporters shortly after she threw the first pitch in a softball game.",
"Thirty seconds into the roughly 50-second clip, several gunshots ring out; people scatter.",
"Some board a bus while a voice in the video shouts: \"Go, go, go!\"",
"CNN could not confirm the authenticity of the video, allegedly taken on Saturday in a neighborhood on the east side of the capital, Caracas.",
"Separately, El Nacional newspaper published a photo of what it said was the shooting, showing two people on a motorcycle.",
"Wearing a red T-shirt, the man on the back is pointing a gun at a bus.",
"It was not clear from the video whether Machado boarded the bus, nor whether the bus in the video was the same as the one in the photograph.",
"However, a campaign spokesman told CNN en Español a pair of people on a motorcycle fired shots into a bus carrying Machado and her supporters.",
"Machado, who was not injured in the incident, also said that shots were fired in the open, and at her vehicle.",
"Machado is one of several presidential candidates who will participate in a primary election next year.",
"The winner will be the unity opposition candidate to run against President Hugo Chavez.",
"She spoke to CNN en Español shortly after the attack, which Machado said left one person injured.",
"She blamed \"criminal gangs\" for the shooting and faulted the national government for ceding control.",
"\"The government has absolutely lost control and, in many cases, has been complicit with the criminal gangs,\" she said.",
"Machado accused the government of providing some groups with weapons.",
"CNN contacted the Interior and Justice Ministry and the Venezuelan Ministry of Communication and Information for comment on the incident, but did not receive a response.",
"Journalist Osmary Hernandez contributed to this report."
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"Shots are fired at presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado .",
"She blames \"criminal gangs\" for the violence and the government for ceding control .",
"Machado is one of several vying to be a unity candidate, running against Chavez ."
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"(CNN) -- \"You are obviously, to me, always going to be The Dude,\" Piers Morgan said to Jeff Bridges, referring to the actor's title role in the 1998 Coen brothers movie, \"The Big Lebowski.\"",
"The Oscar-winning actor is a guest on Thursday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"Bridges, who took a year off from movies to focus on his music career, will release his self-titled album August 16.",
"\"You're The Dude,\" continued Morgan.",
"\"To millions of people around the world, Jeff Bridges, you will always be The Dude.",
"I can't pretend anything else.\"",
"The CNN host proudly stated that he \"ritually\" watches \"Lebowski\" annually.",
"Bridges said from the moment he read the script, he knew the film was destined to be a classic.",
"\"I read that thing and I, you know, it made me laugh -- all the way through it,\" said Bridges.",
"\"John Goodman came out with a great quote about your performance,\" said Morgan.",
"\"He said, 'It's like watching a diamond cutter.",
"When you look at the diamond, you don't think of the work, you just notice there are no flaws.'",
"\" Bridges, whose Hollywood career has spanned some 40 years and 60 films, openly admitted that he owes his great success to his veteran actor dad, Lloyd Bridges.",
"\"I'm a product of nepotism,\" said Bridges.",
"\"My dad, you know... the hardest thing about acting as a profession is getting the break.\"",
"When Morgan pointed out Bridges' reputation as \"the nicest guy in show business,\" the younger Bridges again credited his father's guidance.",
"\"You know, I take my lead from my old man,\" said Bridges, \"Who loved showbiz so much and, yes, I got to work with him as a kid on 'Sea Hunt.'",
"You know, whenever there was a role for the little kid, he'd say, 'Come on, get out of school and come and play with Dad.'\"",
"Bridges, who also worked alongside his father as an adult, told Morgan, \"I saw, when he came on the set, how much fun he was having and how that fun was kind of contagious.\"",
"Bridges also admitted that when he won the best actor Oscar for \"Crazy Heart,\" all he could think about was his parents.",
"\"I felt my folks,\" said Bridges.",
"\"I feel like I'm an extension of them, really.\"",
"Bridges' parents met in the UCLA drama department.",
"Bridges also recalled working with his brother, Beau, on the 1989 film, \"The Fabulous Baker Boys.\"",
"\"What a dream that was,\" said Bridges.",
"\"Beau, music and Michelle (Pfeiffer), my God -- a dream come true!\"",
"Bridges and his wife of 34 years, Susan, have three daughters and recently became grandparents for the first time.",
"The couple originally met on a movie set in Montana.",
"Morgan asked Bridges, who at one point had considered forgoing acting in favor of music, where his musical inspiration came from.",
"\"Well, Beau, my big brother, you know, he's eight years older than I am,\" said Bridges.",
"\"So my early memories are Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly and those guys.",
"I remember he had a white Danelectro guitar that I really coveted and finally stole from him.\"",
"When Morgan asked Bridges about the struggle he underwent when deciding between film and music, Bridges said \"the movie thing took off, and it was like I, you know, a path of least resistance kind of thing.",
"And I, like I said, I enjoyed it.\"",
"During his Hollywood hiatus, aside from recording the album, Bridges also took the time to focus on his work as a spokesman for the No Kid Hungry Campaign.",
"\"It's about ending childhood hunger here in America,\" said Bridges.",
"\"And we're doing that by going state by state, working with governors and mayors and heads of food pantries and so forth, finding out what is the -- where's the bottleneck?",
"\"Because here in America, we have enough food; we have programs that we know can end hunger.",
"But it's the access to those programs that's really a huge problem.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"Jeff Bridges' acting career has spanned 40 years and 60 films .",
"He took a year off from acting to concentrate on music, will release an album August 16 .",
"Bridges is the spokesperson for the No Kid Hungry Campaign to end child hunger in the U.S."
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"(Financial Times) -- Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, has called for a generational change in the country's gerontocratic leadership, and urged the government to move faster to implement reforms that would help meet its young population's economic ambitions.",
"\"We've had a mystery [in India] where we think that [important] jobs can only be done by 60-yearr-old plus [people]. ... ...",
"I think we're now fast moving to say that our 40-year-olds can take more responsibility and can perform better,\" Mr Ambani, 54, told business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit in Mumbai.",
"He added that moving towards \"leadership [that] reflects our demographics\", should be a top priority for the country.",
"The tycoon's call for younger leadership comes as 41-year-old Rahul Gandhi prepares to take greater responsibility in India's ruling Congress party from his ailing mother Sonia, the party president, and as the country's economy recedes from much-wanted double-digit growth.",
"Many political analysts are expecting an imminent transition of power in which Mr Gandhi -- the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty -- takes a more visible role following the treatment of his 64-year-old mother for an unknown illness in the US over the summer.",
"Some expect him to take the party's presidency before crucial elections in Uttar Pradesh next year.",
"About 70 per cent of India's 1.2bn people are under 35.",
"Mr Ambani's call to \"align leadership with demographics\" is an appeal for greater dynamism in Asia's third largest economy at a time when the administration of Manmohan Singh, the 79-year-old prime minister, is flagging.",
"The opposition Bharatiya Janata party is led by the 83-year old L.K.",
"Advani. Likewise, some of its leading businesses, such as the Tata Group, are led by septuagenarians.",
"One of the top complaints of Mumbai industrialists, alongside high domestic borrowing costs, is paralysis in India's parliament and bureaucracy following a slew of embarrassing high-profile corruption scandals.",
"Mr Singh and his top economic team were absent from the WEF, viewed as a key investment showcase held this year for the first time in India's financial capital.",
"Previously, Mr Singh has used the event to sell his country's prospects to foreign investors.",
"Janmejaya Sinha, the chairman of the Boston Consulting Group in the Asia-Pacific region, said: \"The government's record in addressing the big issues is abysmal.\"",
"\"The issues are ethical not economic, but we keep saying it is an economic problem,\" he said about New Delhi's failure to push through improvements in education, healthcare and power.",
"Mr Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries, India's largest family-controlled conglomerate by market capitalisation, emphasised that it was essential for the government to speed up reform to meet the demands of the fast growing private sector.",
"\"The reality is that India is a land of a billion opportunities and not of a billion problems,\" he said.",
"Room at the top . Oldies . Manmohan Singh Prime minister, 79, a respected technocrat in his second term as PM .",
"Pranab Mukherjee Finance minister, 75, and Congress party's troubleshooter .",
"L.K. Advani Leader of opposition Bharatiya Janata party, 83 .",
"Sonia Gandhi Congress president, 64, Italian-born wife of murdered former PM Rajiv Gandhi .",
"Ratan Tata Tata Group chairman, 73.",
"A search is on for his successor at the head of one of India's largest industrial groups .",
"Youngsters . Rahul Gandhi Congress general secretary, 41, widely tipped as a future PM .",
"Sachin Pilot Junior minister of technology, 34, son of a late Congress politician .",
"Varun Gandhi A BJP leader, 31, Rahul's cousin who has gone over to the Hindu nationalist opposition .",
"Madhu Kannan Managing director of Bombay Stock Exchange, 38 .",
"Sachin Bansal FlipKart chief, 28, founded India's answer to Amazon.com with his brother .",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2011 ."
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"(CNN) -- The young Afghan girl sits in the center of the room, weeping.",
"Using her hand and her blue scarf to hide her face, she recounts how she was brutally raped by five gunmen.",
"The 12-year-old girl, gang-raped in Afghanistan, weeps as her family demands justice.",
"The girl's tragic case is one of many in war-torn Afghanistan, activists say.",
"The 12-year-old girl's family members say they'll take their own lives unless justice is served.",
"\"We will all commit suicide; this is not living,\" cries the mother of the girl, whose gang-rape occurred in Northern Afghanistan.",
"The girl's adolescent voice pleads for help from Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan.",
"The girl's elderly and immobilized father trembles and can only raise a quivering hand as he sobs.",
"He is rendered helpless in a country where a man's dignity and honor is protecting his family.",
"Her little brother sits in the back, far too young to understand the situation but still traumatized by the devastated cries around him.",
"He wipes away his tears.",
"The children's mother sobs.",
"\"We've been violated. We can't live our lives.",
"We can't sit. We can't sleep at night,\" she says.",
"Video of the crushed family aired on the privately owned Ariana TV two weeks ago before it was posted on the Internet by an activist group, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.",
"In a country riddled with corruption, despair and lawlessness, the family has risked their lives by coming forward.",
"They have since met with Karzai, according to an aide who said the president wept with the family and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.",
"Karzai has fired the police chief from the city where the attack occurred, the aide said.",
"The family lives in a government-provided safe house in Kabul, Afghanistan.",
"\"This is just an example among thousands of other cases,\" says Shaima, a member of RAWA.",
"\"The rest go unnoticed by the media.\"",
"Shaima is not her real name; she uses it to protect her identity.",
"RAWA members themselves have often been targeted for raising taboo issues in a culture in which women and children are often treated as second-class citizens.",
"\"Women and girls, especially young girls, are the most unprotected people of Afghanistan.",
"They are raped, kidnapped and murdered,\" Shaima says.",
"Just last week, a 3-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped by unidentified men, a government official confirms.",
"The toddler was later released and, the official says, is recovering.",
"\"Rapists are roaming around with impunity,\" Shaima says, turning her attention to a man -- said to be the son of a powerful official -- who is accused of raping 22 girls in the northern province of Sar-I-Pul.",
"Sayed Nurallah says his 14-year-old daughter was one of the aforementioned victims.",
"Nurallah says that coming forward with his daughter's story makes him a target, which he firmly accepts.",
"He says that seeking justice for his daughter is a matter of integrity.",
"\"She wakes up in the middle of the night screaming,\" Nurallah says of his daughter.",
"\"Her arms, legs, her body -- she is always tense and frightened.\"",
"Nurallah also pleads for justice.",
"\"I have one question for Mr. Karzai: If this was your little girl, what would you do?\"",
"His firm tone changes to one of grief.",
"He breaks into quiet sobs.",
"\"I just want justice for my child,\" he says.",
"Shaima says justice is hard to find.",
"\"These criminals are never brought to justice, because police and government authorities are either involved or they can't handle the crimes,\" she explains.",
"\"With criminals and warlords in the political scene, we cannot expect justice to be served.\"",
"Another factor that impedes victims from coming forward is some interpretations of Sharia, or Islamic law.",
"Some authorities rule for a rape to be validated, victims must have four witnesses to the crime.",
"If not, the victims can be charged with fornication or adultery.",
"Statistics quantifying crimes against children are hard to come by in Afghanistan, an impoverished nation ravaged by three decades of war.",
"In March, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission said that deteriorating security in large parts of the country, a growing culture of criminal impunity, weak law enforcement institutions, poverty and other factors had contributed to increasing violence against women, such as rape and torture.",
"The commission also said that Afghan girls are often forced into marriages against their will.",
"Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict, plans to release a report in October on the state of Afghan children.",
"Coomaraswamy went to Afghanistan this summer to establish a monitoring and reporting system on what is deemed as grave violations committed against children.",
"\"In many cases of violence against children, there is a sense of impunity.",
"People continue to violate children's rights without any sense of feeling that they will be held accountable,\" Coomaraswamy said.",
"She found that sexual violence against young boys is also a problem.",
"In what is known as \"bacha-bazi,\" or \"child's play,\" boys are forced to dress in female attire, dance and perform sexual acts.",
"\"I can't think of any country in the world in which children suffer more than in Afghanistan,\" Coomaraswamy says.",
"\"In all our meetings with children, it takes a lot of time to make them smile.",
"That to me shows that there is not happiness in their hearts.\"",
"She hopes that the monitoring program will deter people from taking advantage of the vulnerability of children in the combat zone.",
"Coomaraswamy does concede that the Afghan government alone cannot do much right now.",
"\"War has completely destroyed that administrative infrastructure,\" Coomaraswamy says, \"even if they had the laws, it is impossible to implement.\""
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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) -- From a quiet swath of English countryside, some one and a half hours outside of London, researchers are receiving radio messages from the farthest reaches of the universe.",
"To do it, they're relying on one of astronomy's newest and largest gadgets -- the Low Frequency Radio Array radio telescope.",
"The new, clever Dutch and EU-wide installation uses 15,000 low-tech receivers, supercomputer data processing and high-speed internet to form a mega-telescope capable of absorbing cosmic radio waves from the full sky at higher resolutions than ever before.",
"When the British section of the telescope opened late last year, Motherboard attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony and met some of the scientists involved.",
"For centuries, astronomy centered around what could be observed with our most wonderful and yet meager visual tool -- the eye.",
"But in the last 50 years, the ability to receive radio waves, infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and X- and gamma rays -- all of them at different wavelengths than visible light -- has provided new and completely unexpected information about the nature and history of the universe.",
"The resulting data and images from radio astronomy (despite the \"radio\" part, you can't listen to these radio signals) have yielded a cosmic zoo of strange and exotic objects, including radio galaxies, quasars, pulsars, masers, and cosmic microwave background radiation, which has provided compelling evidence for the Big Bang.",
"But we have yet to deeply explore the low radio frequencies, the lowest energy extreme of the spectrum accessible from Earth.",
"The wider the distance between the antennae, the higher the resolution of the \"picture\" that a radio telescope can make.",
"Hence the large footprint of most radio telescope projects, from the Giant Meter-wavelength Radio Telescope in India to the Very Large Array in New Mexico.",
"LOFAR is capable of producing even more accurate \"images\" than its predecessors.",
"With more resolution than any other telescope, the 1500 km-wide LOFAR array is opening this frontier to a broad range of astrophysical studies, including transient sources, ultra high energy cosmic rays, cosmic magnetism, and the wonderfully-named Epoch of Reionization, when the first stars and black holes made the universe hot.",
"This research will only accelerate over the next decades, as scientists build LOFAR's successor, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).",
"Watch the rest of \"The Biggest Telescope on Earth\" at Motherboard.tv .",
"In the first research to emerge from LOFAR, to be published this month, scientists say that the telescope will lead to a tenfold leap in new discoveries of pulsars -- the peculiar stars whose highly-regular spin can be used as a kind of clock, and effectively, as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.",
"By observing pulsars as they beam toward Earth from different directions, astronomers are able to detect minute differences as the signals arrive, caused by the gravity waves that Einstein predicted would distort space-time in different directions.",
"If gravity waves are real, one of these \"clocks\" would seem to be running slowly.",
"Also announced this week by an international team of astronomers -- LOFAR has made the deepest wide-field images of the sky in the relatively unexplored part of the radio spectrum around 150 MHz.",
"To process data from across the network, the Chilbolton telescope and the supercomputer in the Netherlands require an internet speed of 10 gigabits per second -- more than 1000 times faster than your typical home broadband speed.",
"That's just the kind of bandwidth you need when you're downloading the far reaches of the cosmos."
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"LOFAR allows researchers to receive radio messages from the farthest reaches of the universe .",
"Telescope's superior resolution opens up broader range of astrophysical study ."
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"(CNN) -- A New Zealand rugby star has apologized for his reported alcohol-fueled incident last week, when the 2011 World Cup winner is said to have entered a Cook Islands bar naked and wet before assaulting two patrons.",
"According to the New Zealand Herald newspaper, Zac Guildford -- who has a history of drinking problems -- embarked on the rampage on the island of Rarotonga.",
"\"Firstly, I would like to apologize for my behavior here in Rarotonga on Thursday night,\" the 22-year-old said in a statement on the All Blacks' official website.",
"\"I have no clear recollection of the events of that night but there is no doubt that my behavior was unacceptable and I am hugely embarrassed by what happened.",
"\"I want to apologize to the people who I was involved with and offended that night, the patrons and staff who witnessed my behavior, and the Cook Island people.",
"I am truly sorry for what I did.\"",
"It is not the first time Guildford has found himself in hot water as a result of his off-field antics.",
"He was reprimanded by team management for a similar binge following the All Blacks' Tri-Nations defeat to Australia in August.",
"The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) revealed that the winger -- who scored four tries against Canada in his only game of the recent World Cup -- has been called in front of the disciplinary board on three occasions in the last 18 months.",
"Guildford, who plays for Christchurch-based franchise Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition, expressed his regret for the embarrassment he had caused his family.",
"\"I don't want any sympathy for the situation I have ended up in, but I am thankful for the support I have received so far from so many people,\" he said.",
"\"It's obvious that I need help and I want to get home and to get that help as soon as I can.",
"I need to sort myself out.\" NZRU general manager Neil Sorensen defended Guildford, saying he was a good person who is struggling to come to terms with the loss of his father in 2009.",
"Rob Guildford died from a suspected heart attack after seeing his son score two tries for New Zealand in the final of the Under-20 World Cup in Japan.",
"\"The first thing we'll do is find out the facts,\" Sorensen told the Dominion Post newspaper.",
"\"The second thing we will do is help the guy if he is in trouble.",
"\"He lost his dad a couple of years ago.",
"He's also had some alcohol-related issues in the past.",
"He's a good young man.\"",
"Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder echoed Sorensen's sentiments, claiming Guildford would benefit from the backing of his friends and family.",
"\"One thing that I do think he needs is to have rugby back in his life,\" Blackadder said.",
"\"He needs the support of all his family and his friends, and he needs to be in a good supportive environment.",
"\"There's no point in taking him through the judiciary process right here and now when he needs more than that.",
"This is more of an issue than a one-night drinking binge.\"",
"Guildford made his All Blacks debut against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in November 2009 and has represented New Zealand on eight occasions."
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"The All Blacks wing is said to have entered a bar drunk, naked and wet .",
"Guildford allegedly assaulted two patrons at the bar in Rarotonga .",
"Guildford: \"My behavior was unacceptable and I am hugely embarrassed\""
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"(CNN) -- Striker Asamoah Gyan has told CNN the pressure will be on Ghana to win the African Cup of Nations (CAN) when the tournament gets underway in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in January.",
"The Black Stars are four-time winners of the continent's biennial football tournament, but have not lifted the trophy since emerging victorious in Libya 29 years ago.",
"With traditional African football giants such as seven-time CAN winners Egypt and Cameroon, champions on four occasions, failing to qualify for next year's competition, Gyan admits the pressure will be on Ghana to perform.",
"\"A team like Ghana, people are wondering why we don't win the African Cup of Nations and it's a big worry to our fans,\" the 25-year-old said.",
"2012 African Cup of Nations draw .",
"\"You can see that there are many giants who are out of the competition.",
"You're talking about Cameroon, you're talking about Nigeria (double CAN winners), Egypt as well.",
"So now the pressure is going to be on us, because we did so well in the World Cup.\"",
"Last year's FIFA World Cup in South Africa saw Ghana reach the quarterfinals in only their second appearance in football's premier competition, eventually losing on penalties to Oscar Tabarez's Uruguay.",
"Gyan, who is currently on a season-long loan at United Arab Emirates (UAE) team Al-Ain from English Premier League outfit Sunderland, warned against coach Goran Stevanovic's team becoming complacent during the tournament.",
"\"The other countries, we have to know that they are coming to win,\" he said.",
"\"That's what we have to watch out for, we can't be swollen headed.",
"\"We have to stick to our game plan.",
"I think we have quality players who are capable of winning the CAN as well, so we have to see what is going to happen.\"",
"Toure: Man City can be like Barcelona .",
"Gyan surprised many when he chose to leave England to join Al-Ain in September, but the forward, who has also played for French club Rennes, explained how he hopes his transfer will boost the club's profile in Africa.",
"\"People move there at the end of their careers,\" he said.",
"\"Why do they move there? People might say because of money, because they want to finish their career there.",
"\"I moved there while I'm on top of my game.",
"That means I'm going to play good football and I want to bring exposure there ... As an African, people look up to me.",
"\"There are a lot of people watching on the television.",
"It's the big games like Manchester United playing Chelsea, but now even if United is playing, people don't watch it, they watch Sunderland.",
"\"So do you see the difference?",
"When I moved to Sunderland, I brought more exposure to the league in Africa.\"",
"Gyan's transfer to Al-Ain is temporary, with the one-time Udinese striker still contracted to Steve Bruce's Sunderland.",
"The Accra native is unsure what the future holds and has not ruled out a move back to Europe or England.",
"\"I'm going to decide at the end of the season whether to move back to Europe or wherever I want to go.",
"It depends on me the player, and my happiness.",
"\"Everyone wants to play in England.",
"I really enjoyed myself last season and I had many fans.",
"Everyone was happy with my performance and I really, really enjoyed myself.\"",
"Ghana are top seeds in Group D of the African Cup of Nations, having been drawn alongside Mali, Guinea and tournament debutantes Botswana."
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"The Black Stars have not won the competition since beating Libya in 1972 .",
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"New York (CNN) -- This weekend's Iraqi election is testing the strength of the nation's young democracy and could be a turning point in the history of the Middle East, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.",
"In the March 7 election, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in the Iraqi parliament is seeking to win enough votes to keep him in office for another term.",
"On Thursday, a series of insurgent attacks led to the deaths of 29 people in the city of Baquba.",
"Zakaria said the election could have a lasting impact: \"It might be the turning point in the rise of Iraq in the Middle East.",
"Iraq is one of the largest, most important countries in the Arab world.",
"It has the third or fourth largest petroleum reserves in the world.",
"Even now it has $40 billion in oil revenues every year; it has a well-trained army thanks to the Americans.",
"\"It is perhaps the beginning of a return to prominence in the Middle East.",
"It is possible that 10 years from now we'll look back and say, while everyone was obsessing about the rise of Iran, the real story in the Middle East in these years was the rise of Iraq.\"",
"The Obama administration plans to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August, leaving 50,000 Americans in advisory roles, who will leave by the end of 2011.",
"Zakaria, author and host of CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS,\" spoke to CNN on Thursday.",
"Here is an edited transcript: .",
"CNN: What's at stake in the election?",
"Fareed Zakaria: This is really the first genuine election Iraq will have since the American invasion.",
"It is only the second time that Iraq is having an election for the full parliamentary term.",
"And the first one had limited Sunni participation.",
"There was a lot of violence surrounding it, and so it had a kind of air of abnormality to it.",
"This is coming after a pretty stable period both politically and economically and also a period of very spirited campaigning, and so it has the potential to really consolidate Iraqi democracy and Iraqi political stability.",
"But a lot will depend on what happens, not in the election itself, but right after.",
"CNN: Why should Americans pay particular attention to what's happening with this election?",
"Zakaria: Two reasons: First if Iraq is able to achieve some degree of consolidation in terms of its democracy, it will add dramatically to its political stability, which is of course the most important condition that will allow American forces to continue their withdrawal down to zero combat forces or close to zero combat forces, as President Obama has hoped.",
"And the second is, if Iraq is able to consolidate as a democracy, it will mean there will have been some success in Iraq that we can point to for the vast investment and the vast expenditure of blood and treasure that the United States has put in.",
"I'm not saying that you can make an easy statement that this justifies the invasion, I'm simply saying that there will be a very strong positive outcome in Iraq that will at least be set against the cost.",
"And that positive outcome is that Iraq will be the first Arab country to have a genuine functioning democratic system with a free press, open economy and that is something of a revolution in the Middle East.",
"CNN: How is the election shaping up?",
"Zakaria: The most important part is what happens after the election.",
"What you really have to watch is not how the winners are treated, but how the losers are treated, because Iraq has yet to demonstrate that it can handle the issue of minority rights properly.",
"The Sunnis who were once the ruling elite are now somewhat marginalized.",
"The Kurds have their own difficulties with the Baghdad government.",
"The Christians have been very substantially persecuted in many different ways and often, very sadly, killed.",
"So what Iraq has to demonstrate is that the majority, which will inevitably be largely Shia, has the capacity to give some form of representation to the various minorities within Iraq.",
"Iraq has to show that it understands that democracy is not just majority rule but pluralism and inclusion for the various minority groups.. That's a very important point because while the Sunnis are the minority in Iraq, they are the majority everywhere else in the Arab world.",
"So when Arabs look at Iraq, right now what they see is a kind of majority tyranny.",
"CNN: Are you seeing any signs that the Shia majority is fully open to the kind of embrace of minority rights you're talking about?",
"Zakaria: The most important sign is that the Shias have not consolidated as one bloc, so there are now various Shia groups, some of which are inclined to this kind of inclusion.",
"Others are not. But at least it gives the voters choices, and the group that seems to be doing second best in the polls after Prime Minister Maliki's group is headed by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister.",
"He is a very secular-minded guy who has a lot of appeal to Sunnis, has Sunni partners in his coalition at very high levels and represents a very different kind of Shia politics, much more secular, much more inclusive.",
"It's also worth saying that the Sunnis are not trying to resort to violence as a routine matter the way they were four or five years ago.",
"They seem to understand that their path to rehabilitation lies in politics, not in civil war.",
"Somebody once said to me, you will know the Iraqi insurgency is over once the Shia understand that they have won and the Sunnis understand that they have lost.",
"And I think both those conditions have now been fulfilled.",
"CNN: What's the impact of the violence we have seen so far?",
"Zakaria: Minimal, because the violence has not been particularly dramatic.",
"Look, Iraq is now an open society.",
"It's very difficult to protect every café and every bus station, but most importantly it is not having much effect in deterring people from voting.",
"When all is said and done, violence in Iraq is down 95 percent from 2006.",
"While it's unfortunate, it is not debilitating.",
"CNN: What's the potential impact of the elections on relations with Iran?",
"Zakaria: One of the things that I've noticed is reports that are coming out that Iranian agents who used to spend a lot of time in Iraq are actually less present there than they had been in the past.",
"That is perhaps in large measure because they're back in Iran trying to quell and counteract the green movement there.",
"A consolidated government in Iraq with new legitimacy is going to be an Iraq that is less amenable to pressures from Iran.",
"CNN: Based on where we are right now, how do you think history is going to judge the American invasion?",
"Zakaria: We spent about a trillion dollars in Iraq, not to mention the loss of blood, which is tragic of course.",
"Not just the Americans but many more Iraqis.",
"So in the long arc of history was this worth it?",
"You probably do need a little more time and perspective, and you do need to see how it turns out.",
"But I think we could be heartened by the fact there are things we can place on the positive side of the ledger to balance the enormous costs that both the Iraqis and the Americans have paid.",
"CNN: What impact do you think the election will have on the Obama administration's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq?",
"Zakaria: The greater the political stability in Iraq, the easier it will be for the withdrawal to proceed apace.",
"Right now I don't see a major obstacle to continuing the withdrawal.",
"But on my Sunday program, David Petraeus hinted for the first time that there could be an arrangement reached with the Iraqi government under which a small contingent of American troops stay in Iraq for a longer period of time."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Working on your weekend isn't always fun, but it was for me this past Saturday and Sunday.",
"CNN's John King demonstrates the magic board.",
"We had a lot of viewers ask about how we cover the elections, where our information comes from and what sort of gadgets we've got planned.",
"And so what's BackStory for, if not to answer precisely those kinds of questions?",
"So it was off to New York City and our election HQ at the Time Warner Center.",
"If you're a coffee drinker (who isn't?)",
"the first thing you notice is that my colleagues in the NYC newsroom have a view worth the national debt from...yes...the coffee room.",
"Straight across Columbus Circle to Central Park in the fall/autumn.",
"Here in Atlanta, the view is of, well, the coffee machine.",
"But I digress. After meeting up with producer Terence Burke (a friend and colleague with whom I've shared experiences in Baghdad and had cleansing ales in multiple cities) we hit the newsroom.",
"Now, I've been in the business more than 30 years (I started young, very young, ok?)",
"and I've never seen such a scene.",
"Dozens of technicians, producers, reporters, anchors et al in what seemed to be a scrum, but was in fact a ballet of sorts.",
"Everyone knew their task and did it with a minimum of fuss.",
"Tonight's coverage involves not one, but two packed control rooms, several hundred people across the US and indeed the world, and some high tech gadgets I wanted to take home and play with.",
"They wouldn't let me. There's the John King Magic Wall-- and yes, you can see your house from there.",
"What a machine! The data stored in there is simply staggering -- you can compare county results from four elections back.",
"How county populations can swing a State.",
"How the primary result in one State stacks up against polling data from yesterday.",
"I got the feeling only John King REALLY knows all the cool stuff it can do.",
"And it's all done with taps and finger moves on the screen.",
"Watch King zoom in on voters' homes » .",
"And you really can see your house.",
"The \"virtual Capitol\" is newer, and so perhaps cooler.",
"I'm standing in the studio looking at an empty desk, and glance up at a monitor and see how a full model of the Capitol building has somehow been dropped on top of that desk (which is still empty).",
"Then you can open the top of the Capitol (don't try this at home) and see how the seats are being won and lost as the night goes on.",
"But for technology on steroids, wait till you see the hologram.",
"Correspondents and guests in Chicago and Phoenix will magically appear in the New York studio, in a very Star Wars-ish manner.",
"It takes dozens of cameras (yes, dozens), infra-red thingies (I'm not very technical) and a bunch of computers to make this happen.",
"We haven't been allowed to show the images yet -- they're being saved for tonight's coverage.",
"But I can tell you it seems to work pretty darn well.",
"An intern subbing for a correspondent in Chicago magically appeared on the screen in front of me, just a few feet from Wolf Blitzer in New York.",
"Wolf can't see it, but fakes it admirably.",
"I'm not easily impressed these days, but my little visit to the Election Center was quite the eye opener."
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"(CNN) -- The president of The Citadel military college apologized on Monday for not reporting to law enforcement an allegation against a camp counselor involving sexual activity and a child.",
"Asked by a reporter what he would tell victims and their families about the college's admitted lack of action, Lt. Gen. John Rosa responded: \"I'd say we're profoundly sorry.",
"\"We're sorry that we didn't pursue it more.",
"We acted on what we thought was our best information ... We did not pursue it enough.\"",
"Over the weekend, the nationally known South Carolina college detailed an abuse allegation against one if its alumni, Louis Neal \"Skip\" ReVille, 32, who was arrested late last month.",
"He faces at least six charges, including three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three counts of lewd act on a minor, according to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, police.",
"Although police did not provide specifics of the charges, CNN affiliate WCBD-TV reported that ReVille is accused of molesting at least five boys.",
"He has admitted guilt in at least three cases committed between November 2010 and October 2011, according to an affidavit filed in Charleston County court.",
"The story has attracted national attention in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, which led to the ouster of that university's president and legendary head football coach Joe Paterno.",
"Penn State suspect admits \"horsing around,\" denies abuse .",
"In 2007, The Citadel received an allegation from a former camper that five years earlier, ReVille had invited the boy into his room at The Citadel Summer Camp to watch pornography.",
"Another camper was also present.",
"They did not touch each other, but engaged in sexual activity, the college said.",
"\"Though the general counsel was unable to corroborate the accusation, the college continued its investigation with the camper's family, who made it clear they were very concerned about maintaining their privacy and not having their names publicized,\" Rosa and Doug Snyder, chairman of The Citadel Board of Visitors, said in a Saturday statement, referring to the camper who made the initial accusation.",
"On Monday, Rosa went further.",
"\"When the family did not pursue the matter, we did not either.",
"We should have,\" he said. \"Regardless of whether the law said we were supposed to report or not, we should have reported this.",
"We should have taken more action,\" said Rosa.",
"An attorney representing the camper who originally reported the alleged abuse to The Citadel told reporters on Monday that the victim's family had asked the college to make sure no other children would be harmed.",
"\"Had The Citadel come forward in 2007 ... what we're seeing now as a community may never have happened,\" said attorney Mullins McLeod.",
"The victim's family had thought the college would report the incident and are \"grief-stricken\" with the knowledge that subsequent kids could have been abused, he said.",
"The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina, has said a review of ReVille's records in 2007 revealed no other complaints, and his file included a clean background check.",
"He was a highly respected cadet and denied the accusation, the college said.",
"\"At the time, we took what we thought were the necessary steps.",
"It's now clear we should have done more,\" said Rosa.",
"He encouraged anyone with information regarding inappropriate behavior involving ReVille to contact police.",
"ReVille's attorney, Craig Jones Jr., has said his client is sorry for what he did, according to WCBD.",
"WCBD also reported that ReVille was the upper school principal at Coastal Christian Prep in Mount Pleasant, and had held a number of positions over the years working with area children.",
"\"Hopefully the way he's cooperated, that's one way he can hopefully show ... do what he can to help the victims to whatever extent he can,\" Jones said, according to WCBD.",
"\"There's no way that, obviously, he can repair the damage that's been done.\""
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"\"We should have done more,\" says Citadel President Lt. Gen. John Rosa .",
"A former camp counselor faces at least six criminal counts .",
"Rosa asks anyone with relevant information to contact police .",
"Victim's attorney: The Citadel should have reported what it knew ."
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"(CNN) -- The search for a 2-year old boy who went missing in suburban Seattle more than a week ago continued Monday with no new suspects or information in the case, Bellevue, Washington, police said.",
"Maj. Mike Johnson said his department had received 900 tips in the boy's disappearance, but none \"have led to any high-priority actionable evidence.\"",
"Though none of those leads has led to a breakthrough in the investigation, Johnson urged the public to continue providing information in the case.",
"He said the case could eventually become a \"criminal investigation,\" but \"we're not there.\"",
"\"All theories are viable, \" Johnson said.",
"\"We have not ruled anything out as a possibility in this case. ...",
"The thing that we're lacking is evidence.\"",
"Over the weekend, Johnson said police had expanded the search radius at the apartment in Redmond where toddler Sky Metalwala lived with his mother, Julia Biryukova, and the wooded area where she told police she last saw her son nine days ago.",
"The brown-eyed boy with short, dark hair was last seen wearing a dark-green hooded sweatshirt and blue-and-gray-striped pants.",
"On Friday, Johnson said the police were \"frustrated by the lack of information we're getting\" from the boy's mother.",
"According to Johnson, Biryukova initially reported that she'd run out of gas early November 6 in Bellevue, just east of Seattle, leaving the toddler in the car while she took her 4-year-old with her to get help.",
"Police later determined that the car had gas and was working.",
"\"I'll let the evidence speak for itself, which is: There was gas in the car; the car was able to drive and operate,\" Johnson said.",
"\"That's not what Julia told us.\"",
"But on Monday, Johnson told reporters that he was \"not comfortable calling her a person of interest or a suspect.\"",
"He said the boy's mother \"continues to cooperate,\" though she has not responded to requests issued through her attorney \"to come and talk to us at length.\"",
"\"It's something we're going to keep trying to do,\" the police major said of the outreach efforts to Biryukova.",
"Other than the boy's mother and his 4-year-old sister, no one has reported seeing the toddler in the past two weeks, police spokeswoman Carla Lafrate said last week.",
"Attorneys for Biryukova have declined to comment to CNN about the case, citing the ongoing investigation.",
"Repeated attempts to reach Biryukova by CNN affiliates in the Bellevue and Redmond area have been unsuccessful.",
"The father, Solomon Metalwala, who is separated from Biryukova, told HLN's Nancy Grace on Monday that he'd taken two polygraph tests in recent weeks, declining to offer details on whether he'd passed them or what questions he answered.",
"\"He's always ready to assist law enforcement in any way,\" added his attorney, Leslie Clay Terry III.",
"Solomon Metalwala said he hadn't seen the children since December, having lost custody of them.",
"He added that he was getting ready for church the Sunday morning of November 6 when Biryukova reportedly woke the children up earlier to take his young son, Sky, for treatment at an area hospital.",
"\"We've tried since January to get the children out of (Biryukova's) custody,\" Terry told HLN.",
"Court records indicate Sky's parents have had a tumultuous relationship.",
"Biryukova has said she feared for her safety and that of her children around the elder Metalwala, according to 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 in court papers.",
"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."
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"NEW: His lawyer says the father had not seen his two children since December .",
"Bellevue, Washington, police receive 900 tips, but nothing \"actionable\"\nSky Metalwala disappeared 9 days ago in suburban Seattle ."
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"(CNN) -- Former world No.",
"1 Ana Ivanovic produced her best form in almost two years to reach the semifinals of the Italian Open on Thursday, but hopes of an all-Williams last-four showdown ended when Venus suffered a humiliating defeat on the red clay.",
"Ivanovic literally had the tennis world at her feet after winning the French Open in 2008, but she has since slumped to 58th in the rankings after a dismal past two seasons.",
"However, the Serbian now has the chance to reach her first WTA Tour final since March 2009 after defeating 14th seed Nadia Petrova 6-2 7-5 to set up a clash with unseeded Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.",
"The 22-year-old Ivanovic had not won back-to-back matches since January, but began her Rome campaign with a win over Russia's Elena Vesnina, then upset ninth seed Victoria Azarenka and registered her first-ever victory against Olympic champion Elena Dementieva on Wednesday.",
"If she can beat Martinez Sanchez, she will face a final against either world No.",
"1 Serena Williams or the formerly top-ranked Jelena Jankovic.",
"\"I think every player in one way or another goes through a tough time, and I think it is not how many times you fall but how many times you get back up,\" Ivanovic, who this year has been working with Steffi Graf's former coach Heinz Gunthardt, told reporters.",
"\"This tournament and these victories that I have had this week mean a lot to me because I have put in so much work, not only in the last months but also the last year and it was just not happening.",
"Now I am just so happy to be back on track.\"",
"Jankovic, who unlike her compatriot Ivanovic has never won a Grand Slam tournament, is also enjoying a career resurgence.",
"The seventh seed followed up her demolition of No.",
"11 Yanina Wickmayer by crushing Venus Williams 6-0 6-1 in Thursday's late match, inflicting the fourth seed's worst defeat of her distinguished career.",
"The 25-year-old Jankovic won at Indian Wells in March and then reached the quarterfinals at another U.S. event in Charleston and also in Stuttgart, Germany.",
"Serena Williams, playing her first tournament since winning the year's opening Grand Slam, the Australian Open in late January, had her easiest win of the week as she dispatched Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-1 6-4.",
"The American, who lost in her first match last year, won 10 of the first 11 games before a series of errors let world No.",
"37 Kirilenko back into the match.",
"Martinez Sanchez, who knocked out world No.",
"2 Caroline Wozniacki on Wednesday, progressed into the last four by defeating unseeded Czech Lucie Safarova 7-6 (8-6) 6-4."
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"1 Ana Ivanovic reaches the semifinals of the Italian Open .",
"Serbian, in her best form in almost two years, next plays Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez .",
"Hopes of all-Williams semifinal end as fourth seed Venus loses 6-0 6-1 to Jelena Jankovic .",
"Seventh seed Jankovic will play world No.",
"1 Serena Williams in the other semifinal in Rome ."
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"Canberra, Australia (CNN) -- President Barack Obama traveled to Indonesia on Thursday after spending two days in Australia, where he declared that the United States will increase its military presence and expand its role in shaping the Asia Pacific region.",
"\"Our enduring interests in the region demand our enduring presence in this region,\" Obama told the Australian Parliament.",
"\"The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay.\"",
"He announced an agreement with Australia on Wednesday that will expand military cooperation between the longtime allies and boost America's presence in the region.",
"In a speech a day later, Obama made it clear that the military expansion is a top priority in the wake of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, even as the United States faces the need to reduce mounting federal deficits and debt.",
"\"As we end today's wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and missions in the Asia Pacific a top priority,\" Obama said.",
"\"As a result, reductions in U.S. defense spending will not -- I repeat, will not -- come at the expense of the Asia Pacific.\"",
"The speech on the second day of his two-day trip to Australia, Obama's first as president, signaled a policy objective to compete head-on with China for influence in the region while also providing security assurances for allies.",
"Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that the policy comes in part from nations of the region seeking increased U.S. presence.",
"\"The ability of the United States to help respond to contingencies is something that has been welcomed in recent years, whether, again, it was work that we're doing in the Philippines to counter violent extremism, work that we're doing to counter piracy in the region, the response to the tsunami in Indonesia,\" Rhodes said.",
"\"So in other words, there's a demand signal from the nations of the region, and this is something that we're doing in concert with one of our closest allies.",
"So we believe it's not just entirely appropriate, but an important step to dealing with the challenges of the future of the Asia Pacific region.\"",
"Under the military agreement announced Wednesday, up to 250 U.S. Marines will be sent to Darwin and the northern region of Australia for military exercises and training.",
"Over the next several years their numbers are expected to climb to 2,500 -- a full Marine ground task force.",
"U.S. quietly builds military capabilities in Pacific .",
"In addition, Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Keltz, director of strategic planning and policy for the U.S. Pacific Command, told journalists in a telephone call Wednesday from Hawaii that the United States has based some of its most sophisticated weapons in the Pacific, including squadrons of F-22 fighters and C-17 transport planes.",
"The F-22s provide leading-edge technology for potential air-to-air combat as well as cyber- and electronic warfare,\" Keltz said.",
"They replaced older F-15s, he added.",
"While U.S. officials cited the need to respond to regional natural disasters as a reason for the agreement, concern over China's military expansion is widely acknowledged as a driving factor.",
"\"What we look at is how does our general force posture allow us to protect U.S. interests, protect our allies, and ... secure the region broadly,\" Rhodes said.",
"\"China is obviously a piece of the Asia Pacific region, an emerging power.\"",
"Rhodes later added that the deal is \"part of the U.S. sending a signal that we're going to be present, that we're going to continue to play the role of underpinning security in this part of the region.",
"Part of that context is a rising China.\"",
"In China, a foreign ministry spokesman questioned the appropriateness of an increased U.S. military presence in Australia.",
"Analysts note that the deal sends a message to China in a less confrontational way than building up bases closer to Chinese shores.",
"\"The Chinese can squawk about it,\" said Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.",
"\"But it's not like having an aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea.\"",
"Obama said during a Wednesday news conference that \"the notion that we fear China is mistaken.\"",
"Before departing Australia, the president, along with some U.S. Marines, visited a military base in Darwin.",
"While speaking to the troops there, Obama thanked them for their service and praised the two nations' alliance, which is now 60 years old, and said he looks forward to a deepening of the alliance.",
"Going forward, our purpose is the same as it was 60 years ago -- \"the preservation of peace and security.",
"And in a larger sense, you're answering the question once posed by the great Banjo Paterson.",
"Of Australia, he wrote, \"Hath she the strength for the burden laid upon her, hath she the power to protect and guard her own?\"",
"The president's Australian visit -- postponed twice in 2009 and 2010 due to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and other domestic political considerations -- highlights a changing balance of power in the Pacific as China expands its military reach and the United States works to reduce its military footprint in Japan.",
"Obama's Australian visit comes on the heels of last weekend's 19-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which highlighted the need for new measures supporting job growth.",
"During the Hawaiian summit, Obama stressed the importance of the Pacific to global economic security, and he pushed China to do more to help strengthen the world economy.",
"CNN's Charley Keyes, Tom Cohen and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Nothing is funnier than sex.",
"In all the fretting over teens having babies and ranting against abortion, we forget about the night the bed broke, or the trouble we had pushing the dog off the couch, or even the laugh we had at age 11 when we stole our big sister's list of words for vagina.",
"(\"The Duchess\"? Really?) For reasons religious and political, certain Americans have turned what is one of the most natural and silliest of experiences into a sermon.",
"As in, don't do it until you're married. Young people, ages 18 to 29, are simply ignoring this.",
"According to a national survey by the Guttmacher Institute, almost 90% of unmarried young adults have had sex, and most are sexually active.",
"This horse is not only out of the barn, it's down the road and having a long drink of water.",
"And the cowboys and cowgirls trying to rope the horse back in would do better to turn their attention to an issue they might be able to do something about: promoting contraception.",
"Single U.S. women in their 20s have one of the highest unplanned pregnancy rates in the world: seven out of 10, to be exact.",
"Five out of 10 such pregnancies result in births.",
"Consequences for the young parents and their children can be severe: stalled educational opportunities and serious health and school problems, among others.",
"The latest major player to focus attention on pregnancy prevention is the Ad Council, the organization that, 67 years ago, brought us Smokey Bear and fire prevention and later, produced such notables as car crash dummies Vince and Larry and the phrase \"Friends don't let friends drive drunk.\"",
"The Ad Council recently began offering 33,000 media outlets -- digital, TV, radio, outdoor and print -- the opportunity to run for free a series of short ads encouraging 20-somethings to use birth control.",
"Humor is key. Of course, unplanned pregnancy is a serious problem in this country, council President Peggy Conlon said in an interview, similar to others the council has tackled, such as such as childhood obesity, gay and lesbian bullying, and dating abuse.",
"\"Frankly, we don't take on many new campaigns,\" Conlon said.",
"\"We get hundreds of requests and take on maybe three to five a year.",
"We felt very strongly that educating young women about birth control is a straightforward proposition.",
"The campaign is exclusively about what options you have if you decide you're going to have sex and don't want to get pregnant.",
"It's really education in prevention, as simple as that.\"",
"The public service announcements aren't on a par with comedian Whitney Cummings' risqué material, but they do make any sex jokes we parents make look incredibly lame.",
"In one of them, two partners struggle to remove jeans that are fashionably skinny.",
"In another, the slippery shower stall poses a problem.",
"In yet another, a passionate couple is interrupted by a voyeur: a black and white Great Dane-boxer mix with a disapproving stare.",
"(No worries: I'm not spoiling anything here.",
"The ads, created by the New York agency Euro RSCG, are way funnier than I am.)",
"At the end of each spot, viewers are directed to the website www.bedsider.org, which also uses humor to help visitors compare 15 kinds of contraception, locate the closest place to acquire various methods, set up regular birth control reminders, and watch videos of real women sharing birth control experiences, including women who are not having sex.",
"Animated shorts on the site debunk sex myths.",
"As in, is it possible for a guy to be too big for a condom?",
"One click on a drawing of a dachshund, entitled \"2 big 2 fit,\" brings up the answer.",
"Want advice for better sex?",
"The site has that, too, for example, \"Warming the feet can increase your chance of orgasm by 30%.\"",
"Who knew? Bedsider is a project of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a nonprofit organization that bid last year for the coveted Ad Council support.",
"The project is being funded -- to the tune of several million dollars -- by a private foundation that the campaign says has no connection to the pharmaceutical industry.",
"The teen pregnancy rate has declined nearly 40% over the past two decades, but rates of unplanned pregnancy among young adults have remained stubbornly high.",
"This stagnation compelled Sarah Brown, the National Campaign's CEO, to seek fresh thinking, including help from IDEO, a San Francisco-based design firm whose clients include Converse shoes and the smartphone alternative Peek.",
"\"We need to rebrand contraception as something that promotes self-determination, education and achievement,\" Brown said.",
"Not everyone will agree with Brown, of course.",
"Recently, several conservative Republican lawmakers attempted to rebuke the concept of contraception as an endorsement of \"consequence-free sex\" that will bring about a \"pagan society,\" and said it uses public funding to prevent a generation from being born.",
"(I am not making this up. See NPR correspondent Julie Rovner's broadcast.)",
"The problem is not contraception, dear U.S. Rep. Steve King and others; it's not taking advantage of contraception.",
"Fewer than half of the young adults surveyed by Guttmacher said they used birth control carefully and consistently.",
"I confess I have some difficulty understanding why so many young couples today don't use birth control faithfully.",
"When women of my generation moved into adulthood, we had very few people to talk to about sex and only a couple of choices of birth control.",
"Illegal and dangerous abortions were common.",
"So it's easy for us to mutter something like, \"Don't these young women know how lucky they are?\"",
"Well no, many of them don't. Nor should we expect them to. What we can do is recall what it was like to do a little mattress dancing at their age, and how concerns about school or friends or the possibility of getting pregnant could keep us from really enjoying ourselves.",
"Few things in life feel as good as good sex, especially with a loving partner.",
"And today, just as in the past, young people often have to brush away a bunch of pesky thought-gnats to enjoy it.",
"The fear of pregnancy no longer need be one of those pests, and bravo to the Ad Council for reminding us all of that.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Laura Sessions Stepp."
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"(CNN) -- A federal grand jury in Phoenix has indicted the Fiesta Bowl's former chief operating officer on accusations of causing and then covering up illegal political contributions, lying to federal authorities and filing false tax returns.",
"Natalie Wisneski, 47, was forced to resign in March after an internal investigation by the college football's Fiesta Bowl discovered the widespread misuse of bowl money.",
"That probe widened into the brewing scandal.",
"The nine-count indictment against Wisneski says she solicited campaign contributions from Fiesta Bowl employees for elections over several election cycles, and reimbursed the contributors with Fiesta Bowl funds.",
"She then filed false election records and tax returns to hide the contributions, the indictment alleges.",
"It says Wisneski had conspired with others from 2003 through 2011.",
"Among recipients of the contributions were the re-election campaigns of Sens.",
"John McCain and Jon Kyl, Gov.",
"Jan Breuer, and Rep. J.D.",
"Hayworth. The contributions also included funds for McCain's presidential election in 2008.",
"In addition, $10,000 was provided and covered up for the second-term inauguration of then-Gov.",
"Janet Napolitano in 2007, the indictment alleges.",
"The acting U.S. attorney for Arizona, Ann Birmingham Scheel, announced the indictment Wednesday in Phoenix.",
"She stressed the investigation is ongoing.",
"Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker was fired by the bowl's board of directors in March, but the indictment of Wisneski is the first to result from the federal criminal investigation.",
"The state attorney general's office is also investigating the case."
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"Political contributors were reimbursed with Fiesta Bowl money, prosecutors allege .",
"The U.S. attorney for Arizona says the investigation continues ."
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"Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- The parents of Jared Lee Loughner, suspected in the Tucson, Arizona, shootings that left six people dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, said Tuesday they do not know why the incident occurred and that they are \"very sorry\" for the loss felt by victims' families.",
"The brief statement from the suspect's family came as doctors said Giffords is breathing on her own and a picture emerged of her alleged gunman coming heavily armed to Saturday's event with constituents.",
"Loughner, 22, allegedly carried a knapsack to the shopping center, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.",
"He had a semi-automatic handgun, four ammunition magazines and a knife, according to the official.",
"The weapon was a Glock 19, with an extended magazine that held 31 rounds, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.",
"A total of 31 spent rounds were recovered from the scene, it said in a statement Tuesday night.",
"The law enforcement official told CNN authorities are still on the scene of the shooting with a piece of equipment called a total station.",
"It is a type of surveying equipment that takes precise measurements that can be used to reconstruct a crime scene.",
"Loughner has been anecdotally regarded as very troubled and perhaps mentally unbalanced because of his ramblings spotted on the internet and the way he has been described by acquaintances.",
"His family asked for privacy during a \"very difficult time for us.\"",
"\"There are no words that can possibly express how we feel.",
"We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better.",
"We don't understand why this happened,\" the family said in its statement.",
"\"It may not make any difference, but we wish that we could change the heinous events of Saturday.",
"We care very deeply about the victims and their families.",
"We are so very sorry for their loss.",
"Thank you. The Loughner Family\" Randy Loughner, the suspect's father, asked a neighbor to tell reporters camped outside the family's Tucson home Monday that he eventually would make the statement.",
"\"Right now he can't talk.",
"He can't get out three words without crying,\" neighbor Wayne Smith told CNN affiliate KGUN.",
"Giffords remained in critical condition Tuesday, three days after she was shot in the head during a gunman's rampage, but she was breathing on her own and doctors backed off on some sedation.",
"Twelve others were wounded.",
"Giffords' office released two photos of husband Mark Kelly, an astronaut, holding her hand Sunday.",
"\"I'm happy to say she's holding her own,\" said Dr. Michael Lemole Jr., chief of neurosurgery at University Medical Center.",
"\"Her status is the same as it was yesterday.",
"She's still following simple commands.\"",
"Lemole said Giffords was generating her own breaths.",
"\"The only reason we keep that breathing tube in is to protect her airway so that she doesn't have complications like pneumonia,\" he told reporters.",
"Lemole said he's encouraged by the fact that she's \"done so well\" with an injury where survival and recovery are \"abysmal.\"",
"\"We're hopeful, but I do want to underscore the seriousness of this injury and the fact that we all have to be extremely patient,\" Lemole said.",
"Six of the victims in the Saturday shooting remained at University Medical Center, Chief of Emergency Medicine Peter Rhee said.",
"Along with Giffords, three people were in serious condition and two were in fair condition.",
"Daniel Hernandez, a 20-year-old intern on the Giffords staff, visited wounded staffer Ron Barber, 65, at the hospital.",
"Hernandez, who initially used his bare hands to stop blood gushing from Giffords' head after she was shot, asked a bystander to put pressure on Barber's wounds, according to officials.",
"Tuesday night, mourners gathered at a memorial Mass for the six who were killed.",
"The Mass was held at St. Odilia Church in Tucson, where 9-year-old shooting victim Christina Green had her first communion a year ago.",
"A children's choir sang \"Amazing Grace\" during the service.",
"The rosary for Christina Green is scheduled for Wednesday, followed by a funeral Thursday.",
"Services for U.S. Judge John Roll, who was among the six people killed Saturday, are scheduled Thursday and Friday.",
"A friend of Christina's family took the girl to the event Saturday after she had been elected to a student government position.",
"Suzi Hileman, who was holding Christina's hand before the shooting, remains hospitalized for her wounds, her husband, Bill, told reporters Tuesday.",
"According to Hileman, Suzi sometimes calls out, \"Christina, Christina.",
"Let's get out of here! Let's get out of here!\" Suzi Hileman, a social worker, is involved in the community, her husband said, and was impressed with Christina's civic interest.",
"\"They are generations apart, but are very much birds of a feather,\" he said of the woman and girl.",
"Christina's parents are supportive and have shown \"graciousness\" toward the Hilemans, Bill Hileman added.",
"In remarks in Tucson Tuesday, Gov.",
"Jan Brewer remembered the victims.",
"\"Among the lessons that life has taught me is that, sometimes, loss just finds you,\" she said.",
"\"You don't expect it. You don't want to accept it.",
"But, suddenly, you're challenged by something dark and ugly, a pain you can hardly bear.\"",
"Among those killed was Dorwan Stoddard, 76.",
"He tried to shield his wife, Mavi, who was wounded in the leg.",
"\"He heard the shots and covered my mom with his own body.",
"He protected her and saved her,\" said daughter Penny Wilson, according to CNN affiliate KPHO.",
"President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, will attend a Wednesday memorial service and visit with victims' families at the University of Arizona in Tucson, according to a statement from the school.",
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel with them.",
"An administration official said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also will attend.",
"The Arizona State Legislature in Phoenix, meanwhile, passed legislation Tuesday that bars protesters at funerals from getting within 300 feet of services.",
"Brewer, who visited the injured Tuesday, later signed the bill.",
"The action, according to House Republican spokesman Daniel Scarpinato, was in direct response to a controversial church's announcement that it will picket Christina Green's funeral.",
"Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, has made its name by staging protests at funerals of people who died of AIDS, gay people, soldiers and even civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.",
"The shooting has sparked horror across the United States and generated much partisan talk about vitriolic political discourse in American life and what Loughner's motivations were.",
"Experts said Tuesday the alleged shooter in the massacre may have difficulty making the case for a successful insanity plea.",
"Paul Callan, a criminal defense attorney and a former prosecutor, and Jeff Gardere, a clinical and forensic psychologist, said on CNN's \"American Morning\" on Tuesday they have doubts that an insanity plea would stand.",
"With the \"amount of planning that went into this assassination,\" Callan said he believes \"it's highly unlikely he will meet the legal insanity defense threshold.\"",
"\"It's very hard to prove insanity at trial,\" he said.",
"\"You really have to prove that your mental illness is so severe that you don't even understand that you're committing a criminal act.",
"And it's almost impossible to prove that.\"",
"Gardere emphasized that \"premeditation will work against him in this one as far as getting an insanity plea.\"",
"Judy Clarke, Loughner's defense attorney, has not spoken on that issue.",
"Court documents released Sunday show that investigators found a letter from Giffords in a safe at the house where Loughner lived with his parents, thanking him for attending a 2007 event, similar to Saturday's meet-and-greet.",
"\"Also recovered in the safe was an envelope with handwriting on the envelope stating 'I planned ahead,' and 'my assassination' and the name 'Giffords,' along with what appears to be Loughner's signature,\" the affidavit states.",
"A law enforcement official said Loughner asked Giffords a question at the 2007 event and was unhappy with her response.",
"\"He never let it go,\" the source said.",
"\"It kept festering.\"",
"Loughner bought the Glock semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting back in November.",
"He didn't fit any of the \"prohibited possessor\" categories that would have prevented the purchase and passed an instant federal background check.",
"He tried to buy ammunition at a Walmart store, abruptly left and made the purchase elsewhere.",
"In other developments, U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins has ruled that all magistrate and district judges in the District of Arizona's Tucson Division must recuse themselves from hearing any cases connected with the shooting.",
"The ruling, dated Monday, cited the need to \"avoid the appearance of impropriety, and because a judge has a duty to disqualify him or herself if his or her impartiality could be reasonably questioned, whether or not such impartiality exists.\"",
"Loughner appeared in a Phoenix federal courtroom Monday to formally hear the charges against him -- including two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of attempting to kill a member of Congress."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The British government wants to find out what makes people happy.",
"Is it good health, education, income, or job satisfaction?",
"Is it the environment, a lack of crime, or having a say in politics?",
"Those aspects of life can't be measured by the gross domestic product (GDP), long used as a key indicator of a nation's prosperity, British Prime Minister David Cameron says.",
"Thursday, he launched a national survey to ask people which aspects matter most to them, and which they believe should be used to measure the nation's well-being.",
"Though Cameron has championed this initiative since at least 2006, when he was still leader of the opposition -- suggesting a focus on GWB, or \"general well-being\" -- he still defended the idea Thursday against suspicions \"that all this is a bit airy-fairy and impractical.\"",
"\"Of course you can't capture happiness on a spreadsheet any more than you can bottle it,\" he said in announcing the program.",
"\"If anyone was trying to reduce the whole spectrum of human emotion into one snapshot statistic, I would be the first to roll my eyes, but that isn't what this is about.",
"\"Just as the GDP figures don't give the full story of our economy's growth, but do give a useful indicator of where we're heading, so this new measure won't give the full story of our nation's well-being, but will give us a general picture of how life is improving.\"",
"An online survey for individuals will run until April, when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will send out surveys to large households.",
"The results of both will be collected and analyzed, with results to come out in 2012, the ONS said.",
"Cameron said he knows some think the project is a \"distraction\" from the more urgent economic problems Britain must address, and that some think there is no way the government can hope to improve people's well-being.",
"Getting the economy moving, and creating jobs and spreading opportunity, is still the government's most urgent priority, Cameron said -- but there need to be better ways than just GDP to assess the country's growth and progress.",
"\"When a country is hit by an earthquake, that can increase GDP because of the extra spending on reconstruction afterwards,\" he said.",
"\"When a city is torn apart by crime and disorder, that can increase GDP because of all the extra locks and security people buy.",
"When a person falls seriously ill, that can increase GDP because the cost of buying drugs and paying for care counts as economic activity.\"",
"Initiatives regarded as good for growth sometimes have negative effects on the quality of life, he said -- such as loose controls on immigration, which can affect public services, or cheap prices on alcohol that can lead to more incidents of crime.",
"\"It's because of this fundamentally flawed approach that for decades Western societies have seen the line of GDP rising steadily upwards, but at the same time, levels of contentment have remained static or even fallen,\" Cameron said.",
"Cameron said government can't legislate for fulfillment or satisfaction, but it can boost well-being by finding out what will improve lives and then acting on it.",
"\"In time it will lead to government policy that is more focused not just on the bottom line, but on all those things that make life worthwhile,\" he said."
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"(CNN Student News) -- October 29, 2009 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Peshawar, Pakistan • Washington, D.C. • Kennedy Space Center .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"MANDY CARRANZA, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Today marks a milestone for the stock market, one that most people probably don't want to celebrate.",
"We'll explain why in a bit.",
"Hi, everyone.",
"Sitting in for Carl Azuz, I'm Mandy Carranza.",
"First Up: Peshawar Blast .",
"CARRANZA: First up, officials in Pakistan are speaking out against the most violent attack to strike the country this year.",
"It happened yesterday in the city of Peshawar, when a car bomb exploded in a busy marketplace that's popular with women.",
"More than a hundred people were killed by the blast and at least 200 others were injured.",
"The bomb sparked fires that quickly spread through nearby fabric stores.",
"The attack happened just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan to take part in meetings about the nation's fight against the Taliban.",
"She issued a challenge to the people responsible for yesterday's violence.",
"HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: If the people behind these attacks were so sure of their beliefs, let them join the political process.",
"Let them come forth to the people of Pakistan in this democracy and make their case that they don't want girls to go to school; that they want women to be kept back; that they believe that they have all the answers and that the rest of us who are people of faith have none.",
"Hate Crimes Law .",
"CARRANZA: Back in Washington, President Obama has signed a law that makes it a federal crime to assault someone because of his or her sexual orientation.",
"The new legislation was included in a defense spending bill and it expands on the government's existing hate crimes law.",
"Some critics of the expanded law argue that it's not necessary to specify one particular group.",
"They believe the existing hate crimes law protected people based on their sexual orientation.",
"There's also some concern that the law could be used against people who may say something controversial, although government officials say it will only be used in the case of violent acts.",
"Congressional Gold Medal .",
"CARRANZA: And President Obama took part in another ceremony yesterday, this one honoring Edward Brooke, who you see there on the right.",
"He was the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.",
"And yesterday, Mr. Brooke was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest civilian honor.",
"Brooke served as a Republican Senator from Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979.",
"During yesterday's ceremony, President Obama said Brooke ran for office in order to bring people together who had never been together before.",
"And former Senator Brooke had a similar message yesterday as he urged political leaders to put politics aside and come together.",
"Shoutout . BRENDAN GAGE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's first Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Sherrill's 2nd period journalism class at Riverside High School in Greer, South Carolina.",
"Mars is the Roman god of war.",
"Who is his Greek counterpart?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Ares, B) Athena, C) Apollo or D) Zeus?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Ares is the god of war in Greek mythology.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Ares Launch .",
"CARRANZA: And now, Ares might help people reach Mars.",
"Huh? We're talking about NASA and its Constellation program, which includes the new Ares I-X rocket.",
"That's the one. After several days of delays due to bad weather, a test flight of the new Ares rocket launched yesterday, climbing 24 miles above the Earth.",
"According to NASA, this is the largest rocket in the world.",
"The craft is scheduled to replace the space shuttle, and might one day take astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond.",
"Before yesterday's launch, John Zarrella checked in with a preview of NASA's new program.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On launch pad A, the space shuttle.",
"It is the present and soon to be the past.",
"On pad B, the Ares I-X rocket; the future, maybe.",
"Built to replace the retiring shuttle fleet, Ares would be the first vehicle since the Apollo years to take humans out of low Earth orbit, perhaps to Mars.",
"CHARLIE PRECOURT, VICE PRESIDENT, ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS: It behooves us to build an architecture that can serve a multitude of missions for those next 50-plus years.",
"And that's where this was first envisioned, was to think about space station, lunar, asteroids, beyond.",
"ZARRELLA: The White House has still not decided whether Ares, built with a budget as thin as the rocket itself, should be the shuttle's replacement.",
"NASA and the rocket's developers have pressed ahead.",
"The pressure is enormous.",
"Over the summer, the rocket segments were put together in the vehicle assembly building.",
"The upper part of the rocket is made up of dummy segments designed to mimic the real deal.",
"The lower stage of four segments of solid rocket will burn for two minutes, producing 3 million pounds of thrust.",
"The entire vehicle is filled with a web of 711 sensors.",
"JOE OLIVA, ARES I-X PROGRAM MANAGER: The goal of an early flight test is to get the test off early enough that you can actually use that data to influence and make course corrections, if you will, to the design on the full vehicle.",
"ZARRELLA: But course corrections might cause further delays.",
"The first flight with humans sitting in a capsule on top of the rocket won't take place until 2015, at the earliest.",
"At least five years after the last space shuttle flight.",
"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Booster ignition, liftoff of space shuttle Discovery!",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout Extra Credit .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Wall Street's infamous \"Black Tuesday\" happened in what year?",
"You know what to do. Was it: A) 1929, B) 1953, C) 1987 or D) 2008?",
"Another three seconds on the clock --- GO!",
"October 29, 1929 is referred to as Black Tuesday.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Black Tuesday .",
"CARRANZA: Do the math, and that means that today is the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday.",
"It's called that because on that day in 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gives an idea of how the whole stock market is doing, dropped nearly 13 percent.",
"It became the most famous stock market crash in U.S. history.",
"And many experts point to it as the start of the Great Depression, a global economic slump that would last almost a decade.",
"Richard Roth takes a look back at that fateful day.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) RICHARD WARSHAUER, WALL STREET AFICIONADO: This is where everything started.",
"And for centuries, this is where everything happened.",
"RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Crash.",
"No, not last year's stock market plunge, but the Great Crash.",
"It all went down 80 years ago this week.",
"WARSHAUER: 1929 was the greatest fall in the Dow Jones over a two-day period.",
"In today's terms, it would be like a 2,200-point drop.",
"ROTH: Richard Warshauer and lifelong friend Jim Kaplan give tours every anniversary of the Great Crash.",
"JIM KAPLAN, WALL STREET AFICIONADO: This whole area was filled with people who had come down to see what was going on.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The tremendous crowds which you see gathered outside the stock exchange are due to the greatest crash in the history of the New York Stock Exchange in market prices.",
"ROTH: Quite a shock, especially because the Friday before, following a large drop, newspapers proclaimed the stock market crisis was over.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But in October 1929, the Wall Street bubble burst.",
"ROTH: The historic collapse was just starting, eventually leading, many believe, to the Great Depression.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And then it actually loses 89 percent of that value in the stock market crash in 1929.",
"ROTH: At the Museum of Finance on Wall Street, a ticker-tape machine from the crash days.",
"The end of a mania for stocks based on easy credit.",
"RICHARD SYLLA, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AND HISTORIAN: It's leverage.",
"I mean, we learned in the latest financial crisis that firms and individuals can take on too much leverage.",
"That's exactly what they did in the 1920s.",
"ROTH: A familiar replay to someone born during the crash years.",
"HILDA HEIN, MUSEUM VISITOR: It did have the smell of the same thing happening again.",
"ROTH: The crash experts say a famous story is true.",
"At the market's peak, tycoon Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan, hearing stock tips from a shoeshine man and selling stocks short, making a fortune.",
"Do you give out stock tips to anyone, like the famous shoeshine man of 1929?",
"LINWOOD HARRIS, SHOESHINE MAN: No, I don't.",
"No, I don't. ROTH: But he did shine the shoes of Kennedy's grandson, John Kennedy Jr. Linwood says he is the last shoeshine man left on Wall Street.",
"I really had a bad year in the market, so I can't pay you right now, but I'm -- no, I'm going to pay you.",
"Richard Roth, CNN, New York.",
"(END VIDEO) Promo .",
"CARRANZA: You've probably noticed that Carl is off this week.",
"But before he left, he broke out the video camera and talked to some of his co-workers about why they enjoy working at CNN Student News.",
"You can check out their responses in the newest video on our Facebook page.",
"Find it at Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews.",
"Before We Go . CARRANZA: Before we go, Halloween always brings out some interesting activities.",
"Like Colorado's annual coffin race!",
"At least, that's what these are supposed to be.",
"They look more like man-powered go karts.",
"Either way, the event seems to be a crowd pleaser.",
"Basically, the boxes are put on wheels, and then contestants tear down a track that's nearly two football fields long!",
"Of course, the coffin race is part of a seasonal festival... Goodbye .",
"CARRANZA: ...so it's just about fun.",
"There are no grave consequences.",
"We hope to see you again tomorrow as we wrap up the week.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Mandy Carranza."
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"Look back at a day that many point to as the start of the Great Depression .",
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"(CNN) -- A flag that was nearly destroyed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, was raised outside of the funeral service Thursday for 9-year-old Christina Green, who was born on that fateful day.",
"The banner, which measures 20 feet high and 30 feet wide, was draped between the extended ladders of two fire trucks outside the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Tucson, Arizona, forming an arch under which Christina's family passed as they arrived ahead of the 1 p.m. (3 p.m.",
"ET) service.",
"John and Roxanna Green, Christina's parents; and her 11-year-old brother, Dallas, paused for a few moments to look up at the flag as it rippled against the clear blue sky.",
"A few minutes later, more relatives emerged from the same black SUV limousine that brought her immediate family, also craning their necks to take in the huge banner.",
"The young girl was killed Saturday when a gunman fired on a crowd at a congresswoman's meet-and-greet event in Tucson.",
"Five others also died, and 13 -- including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona -- were wounded.",
"The flag topped a building near the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, and was heavily damaged by falling debris when the tower crumbled after hijacked airliners crashed into it and its twin.",
"Many remember the images of the tattered banner, fluttering heroically above the debris and smoke in the days after the towers' collapse.",
"Soon after, the shredded flag was removed and put in storage until 2008, when a member of the New York Says Thank You Foundation recovered it and took it to Greensburg, Kansas.",
"Foundation volunteers were there to help residents of the small town complete some rebuilding projects more than a year after a strong tornado devastated the region.",
"According to Jeff Parness, the founder and chairman of the foundation, it was a way to say \"thank you\" to some of the townspeople who had come to New York in the aftermath of the terror attacks to help there.",
"According to the group's website, while foundation members worked to rebuild the town, residents began to repair what is now called the National 9/11 Flag by patching it with flags recovered from the tornado rubble.",
"Since then, the banner has traveled across the country, gathering flags from other disasters that are stitched on by survivors and other groups.",
"It even includes part of a flag upon which a dying Abraham Lincoln was laid, the foundation said.",
"Parness said the idea to display the flag at Christina's funeral came to him when he heard an interview with her mother, Roxanna, who spoke about how her daughter always looked for the positives that came out of the 9/11 attacks.",
"\"She would refer to her birthday as a holiday,\" Parness quoted Roxanna Green as saying.",
"\"When I heard more about her sense of service and volunteerism and the community spirit, her love of government, we just realized we had to have this flag at Christina's funeral,\" he told CNN.",
"Parness contacted the family's pastor, who conveyed the offer, and the Greens accepted.",
"\"We both let out a gasp of emotion, because, you know, that meant a lot to us,\" Christina's father, John Green, told CNN.",
"\"And for them to extend that courtesy to our daughter ... again, it's just another one of those things that will help for us.",
"We feel like the country won't forget her.\"",
"Parness says the flag is really more of a symbol of 9/12, instead of 9/11.",
"It shows \"what it looks like when Americans come together and help each other recover from tragedy and disaster,\" he explained.",
"\"When you look at this beautiful flag, it shows what it's like when you connect all these people.",
"We had a father on December 7 in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor Day, who stitched the flag in Pearl Harbor.",
"He lost his son in Afghanistan,\" Parness said.",
"He said newly naturalized citizens would help with the stitching on Friday at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"\"It's about bringing people together and showing what's possible out of a tragedy like this.\"",
"Citing Christina's love of helping other people, Parness said \"kids get it.\"",
"\"They understand when people are in need, what can you do to help.",
"After the funeral and as the community in Tucson and the country starts to heal after this, we're going to look back and say, what could we do, the simplest thing every day, to make Christina smile on us?",
"Just to be kind to your neighbor, volunteer.\"",
"\"In a bizarre way, this is a tremendous gift that Christina is giving to us, to show the country this flag, to ... let people in local communities nominate service heroes to place a stitch in this flag so we can heal it and make this flag whole again by the 10-year anniversary\" this September, Parness said.",
"CNN's Alanne Orjoux contributed to this report ."
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"London (CNN) -- Some samples of designer Marc Jacobs' fashions for next year disappeared on the way from Paris to London by train this week, forcing the company to cancel Thursday's press day in London, the company said.",
"\"The Marc Jacobs PR team is sorry to inform you that our press day tomorrow in the Marc Jacobs store is canceled, due to the theft of the spring/summer 2012 collections during its transfer from Paris,\" the company said in an e-mail sent Wednesday to fashion publications.",
"Fashion editors attend the press days to see samples they'll use for photo shoots as part of their coverage of what's coming to stores in the future.",
"A highly placed source in the Jacobs company, who asked not to be identified, said the apparent theft was not unusual for the fashion business.",
"Contrary to some reports, only a part of the collection is missing, the source said.",
"Paris police said they have not been contacted to investigate.",
"CNN's Alina Cho and Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Villagers and police clashed outside a small town in southeastern China on Saturday, one week to the day after a popular local leader there died under contested circumstances, an eyewitness said.",
"The eyewitness, who asked not to be identified because of safety concerns, said villagers threw rocks at police at a major intersection on a road between the towns of Hongqiao and Puqi, outside of the city of Wenzhou.",
"Authorities chased protesters, the eyewitness said.",
"They beat some and arrested others, the person said.",
"CNN was not immediately able to independently verify the account of the protest.",
"The incident was not reported in China's official state media, and the Chinese government had not released an official statement on the clash as of late Saturday.",
"The eyewitness sent CNN amateur video of the event, which showed police and groups of villagers clustered around a busy intersection.",
"At one point, what looks to be a rock is thrown into the crowd.",
"People scurry away.",
"Earlier, activists and journalists in the area had announced on Twitter that local villagers were planning a protest march in response to Qian Yunhui's death and its aftermath.",
"The march was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Saturday in the town of Hongqiao.",
"At 9 a.m., anti-riot and traffic police appeared at major intersections in the area to prevent the protest, the eyewitness said.",
"Blocked by police, the crowd began to head away from the town and toward the village of Zhaiqiao, the hometown of Qian, said the eyewitness.",
"Zhaiqiao is located in Yueqing city.",
"Qian was killed in Yueqing city on December 25, and photos of his corpse underneath the wheel of a large truck went viral in the Chinese blogosphere.",
"The photograph was unmistakably graphic: a lifeless man under the large tire of a truck -- his eyes shut, mouth half-open with blood streaming out and his head detached from his crushed body.",
"The circumstances surrounding the death of 53-year-old Qian last Saturday, however, almost resemble the plot of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's classic \"Rashomon\" -- with differing versions of the event and flip-flopping witnesses.",
"The government initially said Qian died in an ordinary traffic accident and detained the truck driver.",
"But as shocking images from the scene in Yueqing city began to appear on a popular Chinese online forum last Sunday, some posts suggested he was murdered by local officials for advocating villagers' rights in a land dispute.",
"Word quickly spread online and mainstream Chinese news media picked up the story.",
"Many people were appalled by the gruesome details described by two people who claimed to have witnessed the death.",
"Qian was held down to the ground by three masked men as a heavy truck slowly drove over his neck, the Southern Daily newspaper quoted one of them as saying, adding that police had detained another witness.",
"Qian's life story also struck a chord with the public.",
"When the Yueqing government in 2004 approved the construction of a power plant in Qian's village, the farmers were tricked into signing their land away for free, according to a report in the 21st Century Economic Herald newspaper.",
"Qian, then the village chief, led his fellow villagers in protesting the land grab and demanding proper compensation.",
"He was arrested and sentenced to prison twice but continued the fight after his release -- even traveling to Beijing to petition the central government, the Herald report said.",
"Amid rising national outrage over the alleged murder of a local hero, authorities in Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, which oversees Yueqing, launched a criminal investigation Tuesday -- and drew their conclusions less than 48 hours later.",
"In a late-night press conference Wednesday, officials reiterated that Qian was a victim of a traffic accident, not a murder.",
"Police assigned blame to the inexperienced trucker driving without a license, the severely overloaded vehicle with faulty brakes, the slippery road on a rainy day -- and even Qian himself for not being careful when crossing the road.",
"\"We thoroughly investigated the life and work as well as social connections of the suspect (driver), and eliminated the possibility of him intentionally killing (Qian),\" said Shen Qiang, deputy police chief of Wenzhou.",
"\"There were obvious skid marks, drag marks of the body and collision marks on the scene, all of which contradicted the scenario of someone being held down and crushed,\" he added.",
"State-run China Central Television later aired interviews of the two eyewitnesses, including a man detained for assaulting police.",
"Contrary to earlier reports quoting them, they both denied seeing Qian's brutal murder.",
"\"Several men told me if I said these things, they would help me treat my daughter's illness,\" Huang Diyan told CCTV.",
"The police conclusions and CCTV interviews have not satisfied many online, however, especially as state censors quietly erased earlier news reports, personal posts and comments on the topic on the internet.",
"With mainstream media's independent reporting on Qian's death coming a screeching halt, grassroots activists continue chasing the case, digging up new information on the land dispute and traveling to Yueqing to talk to villagers.",
"Wu Gan, a rights activist, has obtained a lengthy police video that showed the chaotic scene after the truck crushed Qian.",
"He posted it online for the public to view and analyze before heading to the village Thursday evening to offer legal assistance to anyone in need.",
"\"I don't prejudge -- I just want to restore the truth,\" he told CNN.",
"\"The way the authorities dealt with this incident was just not open or fair -- they have lost all credibility.\"",
"Wu said the Internet provides ordinary Chinese with an outlet to express their anger over injustice resulting from a storyline common in the country -- poor farmers losing land to corrupt officials working with businesses, and then losing even more in failed attempts to petition to higher authorities.",
"\"This death really shows the bottom line of what is intolerable keeps getting lower,\" he said.",
"CNN's Steven Jiang contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A nondescript white warehouse building in southern California hid a sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel that traffickers used to transport tons of marijuana from Mexico into the United States, authorities said.",
"Investigators on both sides of the border seized more than 14.5 tons of marijuana in connection with the tunnel's discovery this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Wednesday.",
"Authorities said the drugs had a street value of more than $25 million, CNN affiliate KGTV reported.",
"\"I'm confident that if these cartels want to continue to try to smuggle their drugs into the United States in this fashion, we're going to find them, and we're going to find them faster than they can build them,\" said William R. Sherman, acting special agent in charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego.",
"From the floor of the San Diego warehouse, authorities found a 3-foot-wide tunnel that stretched the length of four football fields and was equipped with structural supports, electricity and ventilation, ICE's statement said.",
"Highway troopers found 3 tons of marijuana packed into boxes inside a cargo truck that they stopped after it left the San Diego warehouse.",
"That discovery allowed agents to obtain a warrant to enter the warehouse, the statement said, where they recovered 6.5 additional tons of marijuana.",
"Mexican authorities later seized at least 5 tons of marijuana from a warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, on the other end of the tunnel.",
"Sherman said it was the third sophisticated cross-border tunnel found in the area within a year.",
"U.S. federal authorities have found more than 75 cross-border smuggling tunnels in the past four years, most of them in California and Arizona, according to ICE."
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"(CNN) -- The Penn State child sex abuse scandal once again demonstrates how easily organizations, facing bad news that is not yet public, adopt a \"circle the wagons\" strategy to protect the institution, and convince themselves -- contrary to all evidence -- that the problem is not really very serious.",
"It is an unavoidable fact that institutions act this way.",
"It's a rare organization that has the integrity or the confidence to deal openly with embarrassment or scandal.",
"It is much easier for leaders -- and crowds of disillusioned students in the Penn State case -- to flatly say the accusations are untrue.",
"\"I can't believe Jerry would do such a thing,\" they say.",
"\"The media has always wanted to bring down Penn State football.\"",
"In the nearly 40 years I have been counseling organizations and their leaders about such incidents, their first reaction is almost always surprise and disbelief.",
"These leaders often believe, naively, that everyone in their organization is ethical.",
"Faced with allegations of wrongdoing among their co-workers or employees, they adopt denial as an institutional and psychological defense.",
"If evidence piles up that the charges are true, too many leaders, recognizing their own failure to create and sustain an ethical environment, conclude there was no way to prevent the events.",
"\"This was an aberration,\" some leaders argue, \"I am certain this person will never do anything like this again.\"",
"\"He only did it because he had serious financial troubles at home\" or \"She was going through a divorce.\"",
"This can lead to the decision to ignore or sweep this case under the rug.",
"Other leaders conclude that although the misbehavior is true, the media frenzy or the government response will be so overblown that they have a twisted sort of obligation to hide it.",
"\"You can't stop the occasional bad apple,\" one chief executive told me.",
"\"I would not be doing my organization any favors by revealing every one of these.",
"The public would completely overreact.\"",
"Once the initial decision is made that it's best not to come clean, it becomes much harder to come clean later.",
"The original charges are compounded by accusations of a cover-up.",
"Many leaders decide they have no alternative but to hunker down and hope the incident never comes to public attention.",
"When it does, of course, the institution and all involved suffer much more damage than they would have by addressing the original charge.",
"Looking back, we ask how they could have had so little regard for the victims of the behavior -- be they children who were raped or the community whose water supply was poisoned.",
"The sad reality is that leaders, swept up in denial and concern about embarrassing themselves and their organizations, don't think first about the victims or the future victims -- they think about how to contain the damage.",
"Penn State is neither the first nor will it be the last organization to demonstrate this pattern.",
"In just the past few months we have at least three other tragic examples of allegations of abuse left unreported by respected organizations: the esteemed Citadel, and the Catholic Archbishops of Philadelphia and Kansas City, Missouri.",
"Stories of businesses that stonewall are too numerous to count.",
"The tobacco industry and its leaders have been pilloried for denying the harmful effects of cigarettes for decades.",
"Chemical companies -- including W.R. Grace, which was portrayed in the book and movie \"A Civil Action\" -- denied and covered up the health effects of chemical spills.",
"Banks today, particularly Bank of America, are assailed for not admitting how badly they handled mortgage modifications.",
"I wish we had more positive examples to cite, but even now we have to reach back 30 years for a role model: Johnson & Johnson's decision in the 1980s to tell the public everything it knew about the poisonings of Tylenol capsules, a case study we still hail and teach today.",
"There are legal and other mechanisms that try to force better reporting: states with \"mandated reporter\" laws; Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd Frank laws for business gatekeepers; even U.S.",
"Sentencing Guidelines, where offending companies get credit for having strong reporting or investigative policies.",
"And we hope that in a few cases at least, enlightened leadership will create a culture where incidents are openly investigated.",
"None of this eliminates the need for individuals in organizations to exercise the basic moral obligation to report abusive behavior.",
"Joe Paterno and Mike McQueary at Penn State have been accused of moral failure in the case of Jerry Sandusky because they allegedly failed to follow up sufficiently to prevent more children from being harmed.",
"Although it may satisfy a legal obligation to report a suspicion to a supervisor, the more fundamental moral duty is to prevent harm to others, even if an institution decides to withhold information.",
"This can take great moral courage and a healthy dose of independent perspective.",
"But we all have a stake in the moral integrity of our organizations, and a sacred duty to protect the vulnerable.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Kirk Hanson."
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"Hanson: Denial, secrecy is an institutional and psychological defense that backfires .",
"Hiding makes it seem victims come last, he says: Think Catholic Church, The Citadel .",
"Reporting takes courage, he says, and enlightened leaders foster openness ."
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"(CNN) -- Two goals in three minutes from Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan put the United States into the final of the Women's World Cup with a 3-1 victory over France Wednesday.",
"The teams were tied at 1-1 until Wambach powered home a 79th minute header before young substitute Morgan sealed the victory with a cool finish.",
"The United States will play Japan, who beat Sweden 3-1 in the second semifinal in Frankfurt to continue their superb run in the competition.",
"Lauren Cheney had put the U.S. ahead in the Borussia-Park stadium in Moenchengladbach as early as the ninth minute.",
"But France, who had beaten England on penalties in a dramatic quarterfinal, responded by dominating possession.",
"Their deserved equalizer came in the 55th minute when Sonia Bompastor's dangerous ball into the penalty area eluded U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo without getting a further touch.",
"At this point, France looked the more likely winners, but United States coach Pia Sundhage quickly introduced Morgan and Megan Rapinoe from the bench to change the course of the game.",
"SI.com: 3 keys to the match .",
"Prolific striker Wambach put them ahead with a thumping header from a Cheney corner which left French goalkeeper Berangere Sapowicz with no chance.",
"The excellent Rapinoe then played in Morgan with a neat pass and she chipped Sapowicz to wrap up the victory.",
"But Sundhage ackowledged they had been thoroughly tested by a French side who played with considerable flair.",
"\"I think France played very well.",
"We lost our legs in the second half but then we picked it up,\" she told Eurosport.",
"The reigning Olympic champions are bidding for a record third World Cup title after winning in 1991 and 1999 before hosts Germany claimed the crown in 2003 and 2007.",
"Japan caused the upset of the tournament by stunning the Germans 1-0 in the quarterfinals and they showed their qualities again with a later impressive win over Sweden to make a World Cup final for the first time in their history.",
"Sweden made a fast start as striker Josefine Oqvist thumped the opener past Japan goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori on 10 minutes.",
"But Japan striker Nahomi Kawasumi equalized with a fine individual goal nine minutes later and put them ahead after the break.",
"Captain Homare Sawa wrapped up the Japan win with her fourth goal in five games as her side beat top European opposition for the second straight game.",
"They will return to Frankfurt for Sunday's final against the United States."
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 29, 2009 .",
"Quick Guide .",
"West Bank Settlements - Learn about the unsettled issue of settlements in the West Bank.",
"Education Budget Cuts?",
"- Hear how a proposed budget cut could impact California students.",
"Hurricane Readiness - Consider how prepared some Americans are for hurricane season.",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome!",
"Thank you for wrapping up your week with CNN Student News.",
"I'm Carl Azuz. First Up: West Bank Settlements .",
"AZUZ: First up, a White House meeting between President Obama and the head of the Palestinian Authority.",
"President Mahmoud Abbas sat down with Obama yesterday, just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did last week.",
"They're all discussing the same topic: possibilities for a Middle East peace plan.",
"One of the big issues: Israeli settlements in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank.",
"Obama and Abbas want Israel to stop settlement activity, but Netanyahu has pledged to expand it.",
"Ben Wedeman is in the region, and reports on the situation there.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're right next to Ma'ale Adumim, which is the biggest Jewish settlement in the West Bank.",
"Now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, he's insisted, that he wants natural expansion, or growth, to occur in those settlements Which means that settlements like Ma'ale Adumim are going to get bigger and bigger.",
"And that's something the Palestinians are completely opposed to.",
"Now, what you see on the other side of this valley is the town, the Palestinian town of Eizariya, known from the Bible as Bethany.",
"Now, this town is right up against Jerusalem, in fact many people consider it part of Jerusalem, but it's separated from Jerusalem by the Israeli so-called security barrier, what the Palestinians call the apartheid separation wall.",
"It cannot expand. It cannot have growth in the direction of Jerusalem because of the wall, and because of Ma'ale Adumim, it can't expand in that direction.",
"I'm Ben Wedeman, CNN, reporting from East of Jerusalem on the occupied West Bank.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) International Highlights .",
"AZUZ: Catching up on a couple other international headlines, beginning with a series of deadly explosions in Pakistan.",
"This took place last night in and around the city of Peshawar.",
"At least eight people were killed in the violence and dozens of others were wounded.",
"The attacks came one day after a suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Lahore.",
"And parts of Honduras are recovering from a deadly earthquake.",
"Reports yesterday evening indicated that five people had been killed and 17 others injured by the tremor.",
"Officials say the quake, which struck early Thursday morning, registered a magnitude of 7.1.",
"It was followed 30 minutes later by a 4.8-magnitude aftershock.",
"Money Word .",
"GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Here's the deal: Today's Money Word is budget.",
"It's a financial plan that estimates income and expenses.",
"Put that in your word bank!",
"AZUZ: The state of California is facing a budget crisis.",
"The state is struggling with a multi-billion dollar deficit.",
"In a recent special election, voters cast their ballots against some plans that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger designed to help the state's budget.",
"Now, he says California has to make some severe cuts.",
"Dan Simon explores how one might have a big impact on students.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT, SAN FRANCISCO: Romell Moore grew up on the rough-and-tumble streets of Oakland, California.",
"He says a strong grandmother kept him out of trouble.",
"DOROTHY MOORE, ROMELL MOORE'S GRANDMOTHER: I'm strict with him.",
"SIMON: When he graduates from high school next month -- he's number three in his class -- Rommel would be the first person in his family to go to college.",
"He's been accepted at U.C.",
"Santa Cruz.",
"ROMELL MOORE, HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR: It makes me feel good that I was doing all the right stuff and doing all the hard work to go, and maybe I can be a guidance to my young cousins and nephews that maybe they'll want to go to college, too.",
"SIMON: He wants to become a lawyer, but that dream could be shattered because of California's budget woes.",
"The state facing an unprecedented deficit is looking at ways to save billions, and Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed slashing what are called Cal Grants, money that helps pay tuition for students from low income families.",
"200,000 students statewide could lose all or part of the Cal Grants they were counting on to pay for college this fall.",
"ROMELL MOORE: The whole way through school, the teachers and all that tell you as long as you get good grades and all that, the state and the system will find a way to send you to school.",
"SIMON: A promise that would have to be taken back if the proposed cuts happen.",
"Without Cal Grants, Romell would lose nearly a third of the money for his $27,000 a year tuition and other expenses.",
"Nancy Roman is the college counselor at Romell's school.",
"She says the ripple effects would be enormous.",
"NANCY ROMAN, COLLEGE COUNSELOR: Our main problem is just getting students to even look at college, because in their head, already, its been ingrained that it's too expensive as well as with parents; they don't want students to apply, because, \"Oh, it's too expensive,\" so we always talk about about Cal Grants.",
"SIMON: Romell has this message for lawmakers making the touch choices.",
"ROMELL MOORE: By helping me go to school they won't have another person on welfare just taking state money to survive.",
"They'll have another person working, making money for the state.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Shoutout .",
"RAMSAY: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Koczot's Social Studies classes at Broad Creek Middle School in Newport, North Carolina!",
"How are tropical depressions identified?",
"Is it by: A) Female names, B) Male names, C) Numbers or D) Letters?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Tropical depressions are assigned numbers; they don't get names until they become tropical storms.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Hurricane Readiness .",
"AZUZ: We already have our first of the year.",
"Tropical Depression One formed off the eastern U.S. coast yesterday.",
"Forecasters don't expect it to be much of a threat.",
"Of course, when these storms increase in intensity, they can become hurricanes, and as we've seen in recent years, some can cause serious damage.",
"John Zarrella looks at how prepared we are as hurricane season begins.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF AND CORRESPONDENT: Galveston: Rebuilding the seawall continues after Hurricane Ike.",
"New Orleans: The fortified levees are inspected.",
"Alabama: Rehearsal for a massive coastal evacuation.",
"Days before the start of hurricane season, preseason drills and preparations are nearly complete.",
"You've been paying attention, right?",
"Surely, you've heard the chorus of warnings.",
"The U.S. Commerce Secretary.",
"GARY LOCKE, U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY: Public awareness and public preparedness are the best defenses against a hurricane.",
"And that defense is more important than ever.",
"ZARRELLA: The New Orleans mayor.",
"MAYOR RAY NAGIN, (D) NEW ORLEANS: Each citizen must have a personal evacuation and recovery plan that accounts for your entire family.",
"ZARRELLA: The Hurricane Specialist.",
"JACK BEVIN, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: Plan now.",
"Know what to do, so you'll be ready when the storm threatens.",
"ZARRELLA: With so much drums beating, everyone living in hurricane-prone communities is ready, right?",
"Well, no. Not hardly. A new Mason-Dixon poll sponsored by the National Hurricane Survival Initiative found most people surveyed from Maine to Texas have done little to get ready, despite recent big ones: Katrina, Rita and, last year, Ike.",
"83% of the 1,100 people surveyed have taken no steps to make their homes stronger.",
"66% have no hurricane survival kits; basics like food and water for three days.",
"53% don't know if their insurance policy covers hurricane damage.",
"Every year, surveys find hurricane apathy pretty much unchanged, no matter how bad the season was.",
"Sociologists chalk it up to human nature: procrastinate.",
"Emergency managers say the \"uh oh\" factor will kick in when.",
"CHUCK LANZA, BROWARD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER: I saw people really do when the big ones are coming, they get prepared.",
"ZARRELLA: But this year, emergency managers fear because of the economy, many people can't afford to stock up.",
"LANZA: We'd like people to set aside a little bit of money and buy a little bit of the supplies that they need now, and a little bit more every week as they get the money.",
"ZARRELLA: If they just can't, experts say now's the time to come up with a plan to evacuate.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Off the Beaten Path .",
"AZUZ: And finally today, we're taking a look at some stories from the lighter side of news.",
"So, prepare your taste buds for a tempting trip off the beaten path.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) AZUZ: He definitely ain't the world's fastest coffee server.",
"MIKE KEEN, BARISTA: You better never be a hurry when you're in here.",
"AZUZ: But if you don't need your espresso express-o, impress your senses with a picture-perfect latte!",
"Mike Keen is an artist and a barista at the same time.",
"And if you're into image and taste, you won't mind if this takes a latt-e time.",
"For a different flavor... ALISON GROS, TEACHER: I made the deal, and I'm just gonna have to accept the consequences.",
"AZUZ: But for most of us, this would be a deal breaker: worms for lunch.",
"The New Orleans fourth grade teacher promised her students that she'd have grubs for grub if they grubbed up good grades.",
"They did their part, so bon appetit!",
"On the menu: . ELISE RONE, ENTOMOLOGIST: The mealworms are grubs that turn into beatles.",
"AZUZ: Well, they would have, if they could've wormed their way out of this.",
"Some students even stepped up to the table!",
"But if the worms' woes seem in bad taste, they still make for one good segment.",
"And who can argue with a fudge dessert?",
"At least, until you find out it's filled with crickets.",
"I guess there'll be no chirping on this trip Off the Beaten Path.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Goodbye .",
"AZUZ: From earthworm entrees to an insect ending?",
"That whole meal sounds like one big gag.",
"Time to bug out for the weekend.",
"Hope you have a great one."
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"(CNN) -- What I first noticed when arriving in Baku, beyond the world's tallest free-standing flag pole, was the oil derricks in the Caspian Sea, visible from western hotels steadily rising along the coast.",
"Where other cities might dress the skyline to lure visitors to the beach, or to take a boat cruise, Azerbaijan is all about its energy wealth.",
"The country of eight million people benefits from having started early in the oil game -- in 1846 the country drilled the first oil well in the world -- but all that is well known, as is the country's push to extract more oil off shore in the Caspian.",
"Country profile: Azerbaijan .",
"What should become more well-known is the country's attempt to diversify away from oil and focus more on natural gas.",
"To the ever expanding gratitude of Western Europe, Azerbaijan is close to tripling the amount of natural gas processed through its BP facility south of Baku.",
"Soon the owners of the Shah Deniz natural gas lease in the Caspian will choose from a host of competing pipeline consortiums to bring more natural gas to Western Europe.",
"Most importantly, it means more gas heating rooms in Romania and Germany that does not come from Russia.",
"As one of the most potent symbols to me of the rising energy wealth, seaside luxury homes are being built directly across the street from the vast BP oil and gas refinery south of Baku.",
"From the front bedroom the new owners will overlook ever more derricks.",
"From the back yard, it is the refinery.",
"Still, I saw more than a dozen of these little palaces under construction.",
"So, what else can Azerbaijan do to move away from oil?",
"Information technology is one of the bigger pushes.",
"If you look at a map of the country, you can see why IT, software and social media companies are reputably looking to set up regional hubs there.",
"Firstly, students are learning English, which is the international language of technology.",
"Secondly, many still speak Russian.",
"The legacy of the former Soviet Union means workers can not only communicate easily with neighboring Russia, but also with potential customers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- two fast growing countries in the region.",
"Add to that two obvious connections: language with Turkey and ethnicity with Iran.",
"If you are setting up a regional company, Baku would be one of the first places you would have to study.",
"Azerbaijan's economy does of course suffer from some of the leftovers of the Communist era.",
"The roads outside Baku are terrible.",
"There are also simmering tensions with neighbor Armenia (not seen on maps whenever I looked at one around the city) and the region is not stable when you add in Georgia, Southern Russia and Chechnya.",
"Azerbaijan is also using its money to reinvigorate the fishing industry, once it has cleaned up the Caspian.",
"It is also building a vast complex, the size of Monaco, of new housing, shops and hotels near the port called White City.",
"It's a tip of the hat to what Baku used to be known as when it produced half the world's oil -- the Black City.",
"One day, Baku might even become a tourist attraction.",
"Thousands of people will be flocking here next year when the country's hosts the European Song Contest finals.",
"Test your knowledge of Azerbaijan .",
"These fans will see a brand new convention center, a new museum in the shape of a rolled up carpet to capture the country's love of making carpets and exporting them around the world, a massive new embankment ringing the Caspian giving people a chance to walk nearly the length of the city, and explore the amazing Old City -- one of the finest in the world and mostly unknown outside the Caucasus.",
"Then, if, and it's a big if, the International Olympic Committee chooses Baku over Istanbul, Doha, Madrid and Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Games, the world will awake to the rise of Azerbaijan.",
"Baku must be seen as a long shot, but it was put to me by several people, that like the Games themselves, it is more important to take part in the process than to necessarily win.",
"Baku wants to be seen on a world stage and is learning what steps to take for its growing economy and wealth to be noticed far and wide."
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"Is tripling amount of natural gas produced and moving to encourage IT sector .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A royal chauffeur was suspended Sunday after he allegedly allowed undercover reporters from a British tabloid to enter Buckingham Palace in exchange for cash.",
"Buckingham Palace has been the subject of high-profile security breaches before.",
"Mazher Mahmood, of the London-based News of the World, claimed he was allowed to enter the London residence of Queen Elizabeth II without security checks after paying a man identified as a Buckingham chauffeur £1,000 ($1,591).",
"Footage of the incident filmed undercover showed the chauffeur giving Mahmood, whose face was blurred, a tour of the royal garage and, at one point, allowing him to sit in one of the vehicles.",
"A palace spokesperson told CNN that the chauffeur \"has been suspended pending further investigation.\"",
"British media named the chauffeur, but CNN could not independently confirm his identity.",
"Meanwhile, Mahmood's editor, Robert Jobson, told ITN: \"Nobody stopped him, nobody actually challenged him.",
"It actually exposes a serious lapse in security at Buckingham Palace.\"",
"Jobson added that even senior members of the royal family and longtime staffers are required to present photo identification cards upon entry to the palace.",
"\"Our investigator is sitting where the queen sits in the royal limo,\" Jobson said, referring to the video.",
"\"And the fact is, we've been told that security has been tightened up, that these things wouldn't happen again, new rules and regulations were brought in -- they simply haven't worked.\"",
"A spokesman for Scotland Yard told CNN, \"We are naturally concerned about the issues raised by this story and are liaising with palace officials about their staff security arrangements.\"",
"A police statement issued to CNN later Sunday said: \"We are naturally concerned about the issues raised by this story and are liaising with palace officials about their staff security arrangements.\"",
"Buckingham Palace has experienced a number of high-profile security lapses in the past.",
"In 2003 an investigation was launched after \"comedy terrorist\" Aaron Barschak gatecrashed Prince William's 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle, PA reported.",
"Wearing a dress, beard and sunglasses, Barschak climbed on stage as the prince addressed the crowd, and kissed him on both cheeks.",
"That same year, a journalist with the Daily Mirror newspaper spent two months \"working undercover\" as a palace footman."
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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.",
"NEW YORK . Zuccotti Park wore a deserted look early Wednesday morning, a day after police in riot gear cleared out protesters and the state supreme court ruled that demonstrators could return -- but cannot camp out.",
"A smattering of people mingled in the park grounds under the watchful eyes of the New York Police Department, which maintained an overnight presence.",
"The park, police said, is open 24 hours and people can pass through it or sit in it if they wish.",
"But they are prohibited from sleeping there.",
"For nearly two months, the Lower Manhattan property has been a home for the loosely defined group of protesters.",
"The movement that began there spawned similar demonstrations in cities nationwide and around the world.",
"DALLAS . City attorneys will meet with representatives of Occupy Dallas Wednesday to consider next steps after a federal judge denied the group's request to prevent its eviction from City Hall property.",
"U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle's decision meant City Hall was effectively free to forcibly evict the encampment members.",
"But Mayor Mike Rawlings issued a statement saying no action would be taken until Wednesday.",
"Early Wednesday morning, about 200 campers remained at the site, said protester Raymond Sanford.",
"\"We're in good spirits.",
"Most of us believe the First Amendment gives us the right to be here since the Constitution supersedes local ordinances.",
"So I and many others are not leaving here, no matter what,\" Sanford told CNN.",
"SEATTLE . Police used pepper spray and arrested at least six people Tuesday night after confrontations with demonstrators who did not heed officers' calls to clear city streets.",
"The group marched from Seattle Central Community College to downtown Belltown, blocking traffic, CNN affiliate KCPQ said.",
"Police told the protesters to get on the sidewalk.",
"\"At one point, a 17-year-old female suspect swung a stick at an officer but failed to strike him,\" a police statement said, according to KCPQ.",
"\"As officers moved in to arrest the female suspect, the officers were hindered in their efforts.",
"Officers deployed pepper spray to move subjects away from them so they could affect the arrest of the female suspect.\"",
"The protesters then staged a sit-in, blocking another intersection during rush hour.",
"Police used pepper spray once again to disperse the demonstrators, CNN affiliate KING said.",
"\"We condemn the outrageous behavior of the SPD in response to civil disobedience, a peaceful and time honored form of political protest,\" Occupy Seattle said in a statement.",
"It said that among those hurt were an 84-year-old woman, a priest and a pregnant woman.",
"SAN FRANCISCO .",
"Thousands of students and protesters gathered on the UC Berkeley campus Tuesday for a day-long general strike involving teach-ins, marches and a general assembly where the Occupy Cal group opted again to put up tents in Sproul Plaza, CNN affiliate KGO reported.",
"Last week, police tore down the tents and arrested 40 people.",
"Tuesday afternoon, UC Berkeley's chancellor said that some tents might be allowed as a form of political expression, the station said.",
"TORONTO . Protesters in Toronto won an injunction against a city eviction notice issued Tuesday, allowing them to stay in St. James Park.",
"Judge David Brown granted the temporary stay, saying he needed more information before he could rule on the city's plans to remove protesters, CNN affiliate CBC said.",
"In Calgary, protesters have until Wednesday to clear out of Olympic Plaza, after police handed out eviction notices.",
"And the City of Victoria has sought an injunction to remove tents from the camp at Centennial Square.",
"The case has been adjourned until Thursday to give demonstrators more time to prepare, CBC said.",
"LONDON . London authorities served notice Wednesday asking protesters to clear tents and belongings off the road that runs beside St. Paul's Cathedral.",
"The activists have 24 hours to obey the notice.",
"If they do not move their belongings, the City of London Corporation, which runs the financial district, says it will then start proceedings in the High Court.",
"The Corporation had called a temporary halt to legal action two weeks ago while it pursued talks with the activists on how to limit the size of the camp and set an end date for the protest.",
"But after those talks \"got nowhere,\" the body now believes legal action is necessary to ensure roadway safety and meet the needs of local businesses, policy chairman Stuart Fraser said Tuesday.",
"\"Sadly, now they have rejected a reasonable offer to let them stay until the New Year, it's got to be the courts,\" he said in a statement, referring to the protesters.",
"Many of the tents set up by the Occupy activists around St Paul's are on what the corporation designates as a public road.",
"St. Paul's suspended its own legal action against the activists after a number of senior cathedral figures resigned over the threat to evict them.",
"St. Paul's said Wednesday it recognized the authorities' right to take action, and that cathedral staff would continue to meet regularly with the protesters."
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"(CNN) -- For all of our talk of Americans being straight shooters who don't like to mince words and have the freedom of speech to say exactly what's on our minds, we sure punk out when it comes to elected officials speaking the truth.",
"Case in point: President Barack Obama describing American corporations as being \"lazy\" in competing globally.",
"Now, if you hear that word by itself, you would think, \"Man, that's horrible our president said such a thing.\"",
"But here is EXACTLY what he said during a conversation with Boeing's CEO as they discussed American businesses selling more products overseas, and attracting foreign investment to the U.S.: .",
"\"You know, we've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades.",
"We've kind of taken for granted, well, people will want to come here, and we aren't out there hungry selling America, and trying to attract new businesses into America.\"",
"That's it. Was he talking about workers turning out cars in Detroit?",
"Nope. Was President Obama dissing manufacturing workers in North Carolina?",
"Not at all. He was talking about Americans being far more aggressive in trying to sell our wares abroad.",
"That's it. Simple. Easy. And on point. Then all of a sudden, Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry used the word in an ad, not even bothering with the context.",
"Fox anchor Martha MacCallum said Obama was \"scolding\" Americans.",
"Sean Hannity, never one to let facts get in the way of a good lie, said Obama \"attacked\" Americans.",
"And the king of taking anything out of context, Rush Limbaugh, said the president \"insults the people who make this country work.\"",
"Seriously, please pass the cup so these folks can take a drug test because they are hallucinating.",
"This is the problem with the stubborn belief in American exceptionalism: It assumes that no matter what the issue, Americans are the best in the world and can't be topped or beaten.",
"There is another word for this: arrogance.",
"Yes, it's true. Americans can be absolutely arrogant when it comes to competing with the rest of the world.",
"A few months ago I read a story where American college students were dismayed that they had to apply for jobs overseas.",
"Well, if that's where multinational corporations are hiring, then we might have to learn to get a passport, hop on the plane, and learn how to Skype in order to talk to family members.",
"Are we so arrogant to think the rest of the world is desperate to come here and we may not have to go to other countries?",
"We can't continue to act like our stuff doesn't stink.",
"There are many areas where Americans are lazy, and in the words of President George W. Bush, we must end \"the soft bigotry of low expectations.\"",
"Maybe this comes from our view of sports.",
"It used to be on the national sporting stage, the attitude of America in gymnastics, boxing, track and field, basketball and numerous other sports was that we could just wake up, walk into a stadium with the American flag on our chest, and everyone else would faint, allowing us to win.",
"Well, that ain't gonna cut it.",
"And when we lose, Americans totally freak out, wondering how we got beat.",
"Easy. H-A-R-D W-O-R-K. We need a dose of reality at times to remind us that to to be the best, we must have the right work ethic.",
"According to the Broad Education Foundation: .",
"-- 68% of American eighth graders can't read at grade level and won't catch up .",
"-- American students rank 21st in science compared to students in 30 industrialized countries .",
"-- America's top math students rank 25th out of 30 countries .",
"In 2000, the last time The World Health Organization ranked the top health systems in the world, the U.S. was 37th, behind France (first); Oman (eighth); and Chile (33rd).",
"Maybe part of the problem is the American culture rewards weakness.",
"If America wants to be the absolute best, we must stop telling our children that they are so exceptional when they are not.",
"If your kid can't shoot, pass, dribble or rebound, guess what?",
"They are terrible at basketball and should find a new sport.",
"If it's just about the enjoyment, fine.",
"But if it's about winning, they can't cut it.",
"I was talking to a CNN colleague whose mother is a teacher and she said that her mom can't grade papers in red ink anymore because that is considered too aggressive.",
"Really? Has America become so weak that we can't even handle a school paper graded in red?",
"I'm sick of us giving awards at schools just because we don't want a kid to feel bad.",
"Guess what? Suck it up. First, second and third is fine with me.",
"You finished eighth?",
"Tough. No ribbon for you. No apologies. Notre Dame's Brian Kelly and Nebraska's Bo Pelini had to apologize because folks complained about them yelling and shouting at their players on the sidelines.",
"Thank God Vince Lombardi and Knute Rockne are dead.",
"We would run them out of town!",
"In Walter Isaacson's excellent book, \"Steve Jobs,\" the co-founder of Apple is blasted by some for his treatment of workers and competitors.",
"Was some of Jobs' stuff over the top?",
"Sure. But what was he trying to do? He was trying to create a world-class company that could withstand the test of time and wasn't filled with a bunch of B players.",
"He wanted excellence in every spot, and would rather fire a B or C player on the spot than accept shoddy work.",
"Hey, I'm down with the philosophy of Jobs.",
"Those are the kind of companies I've worked for in the past, and I was taught that if you want to win at something, you better be the best.",
"Heck, even Jobs wasn't above criticizing President Obama, saying that one of the reasons he was on his way to a one-term presidency was because, \"He's having trouble leading because he's reluctant to offend people or piss them off.\"",
"\"Yes, that's not a problem I ever had,\" Isaacson quotes Jobs as saying.",
"Now that's some real talk. I'll guarantee you this: Weak and lazy corporate bosses allow weak and lazy employees to stick around.",
"And weak and lazy employees tend to turn out a weak and sorry product that nobody wants.",
"And weak and lazy people accept mediocrity with ease.",
"America, it's time to suck it up.",
"If we love the harsh and in-your-face American Idol/X Factor judging of Simon Cowell, then we should accept it in the real world.",
"This nation needs a swift kick in the butt, and there is nothing wrong when President Obama says it.",
"If House Speaker John Boehner said the same, I would be hollering, \"Amen!\"",
"If America wants to maintain it's position as a great nation, then we are going to have to roll up our sleeves and out-think, out-learn, out-hustle and out-work everyone.",
"So Gov. Perry, instead of spending time taking President Obama out of context in an ad, you need to work harder in debates.",
"Herman Cain, you don't like the president using the word lazy?",
"Then bone up on foreign affairs.",
"Republicans and Democrats unhappy with President Obama challenging our corporate leaders, stop kicking the can down the road on the tough budget stuff and make a principled, not partisan, call.",
"We have been better and can be better.",
"So let's do better.",
"Today. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin."
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"Paris (CNN) -- French officials Tuesday condemned an Israeli airstrike on Gaza that wounded its consul, his wife and their daughter, calling on Israel to avoid civilian casualties.",
"\"France strongly deplores the consequences of this air strike,\" a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris announced.",
"\"While France is committed to security in Israel, it reaffirms the imperative need to avoid attacks on civilians.",
"This imperative was reaffirmed to the Israeli authorities.\"",
"The consul, Majdi Shakoura, was at home with his family in the northern end of Gaza when the airstrike hit about 200 meters (650 feet) away, the Foreign Ministry said.",
"The strike blew out their windows, and they were struck by shards of flying glass, the ministry said.",
"Capt. Aryeh Shalikar, an Israeli military spokesman, told CNN the airstrike was aimed at Palestinian militants who fired a rocket into southern Israel late Sunday.",
"Shalikar said the Israel Defense Forces \"never received any official statement from any source\" regarding injuries to Shakoura or his relatives.",
"\"The IDF wishes to convey that missiles are being fired at Israeli civilians from terrorists, and it has no intention of harming civilians when it returns fire at terrorists,\" he said.",
"Palestinian security and medical officials said one person died and several others were wounded in the airstrike, which they said struck a Hamas naval building in northern Gaza.",
"A Hamas security official said two Israeli rockets struck the building.",
"France has a consulate and a cultural center in Gaza \"to support the population,\" the Foreign Ministry said.",
"France has helped build water and sewer systems and rebuild hospitals in Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamic movement Hamas.",
"The United States, European Union and Israel classify Hamas as a terrorist organization, and Israel has maintained a controversial blockade of Gaza since Hamas took power in 2007.",
"CNN's Naima Benallal in Paris and Izzy Lemberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report."
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"(CNN Student News) -- August 31, 2009 .",
"Quick Guide .",
"Japan Election Day - Explore the reasons behind a shift in political power in Japan.",
"Replacing Kennedy - Consider what could be next for Ted Kennedy's seat in the U.S. Senate.",
"Shuttle Liftoff - Find out how many shuttle missions remain on NASA's schedule.",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's the last day of the month, the first day of the week, and for some of you, the start of a new school year.",
"So, welcome to CNN Student News.",
"With your commercial-free source for classroom news, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"First Up: Japan Election Day .",
"AZUZ: First up, a big shift in political power as Japanese voters weigh in at the ballot box.",
"The Liberal Democratic Party has run Japan's government for decades.",
"Not anymore. Early results from yesterday's parliamentary elections show that the Democratic Party of Japan won in a landslide.",
"The country's current prime minister announced his resignation based on this outcome.",
"That's because the position, which is similar to the U.S. president, is filled by someone from the majority party.",
"Kyung Lah explores some of the reasons behind the transition in Japan's ruling party.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MAN ON STREET: Bonzai!",
"KYUNG LAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the sound of a political earthquake in Japan.",
"A landslide victory for the opposition, the Democratic Party of Japan, booting out the prime minister and his ruling party.",
"Supporters wept as candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party lost seat after seat in the parliament.",
"A crushing defeat for a party that had run Japan's government almost continuously since 1955.",
"Here at the opposition party headquarters, they're watching the final vote tally to come in.",
"At the end of it, the opposition expects to win Japan's parliament by 3 to 1, a mandate by the voters.",
"A change that's long overdue, says longtime Japan watcher Richard Jerram.",
"RICHARD JERRAM, MACQUARIE CAPITAL SECURITIES: It's tremendously exciting.",
"You've got a change of government, probably on a lasting basis, for the first time in 50 years.",
"You've got the prospect of changing how they run the government by reducing the bureaucracy and trying to increase the political influence on policymaking.",
"So politically, it's very exciting.",
"LAH: What led voters to line up at polling places was a sense of frustration over domestic scandals, but more importantly, the economy.",
"Voting for an untested party like the opposition is a sign of how much anger there is about the slowdown in the world's second largest economy.",
"YOSHIKO SHIRAISHI, VOTER [TRANSLATED]: \"I want them to change something,\" says this voter, punching her card for the opposition.",
"MASAYUKI NAKAMURA, VOTER [TRANSLATED]: \"The money's been going the wrong way,\" says this man.",
"\"I hope the money will now go towards jobs and creating a safety net.\"",
"LAH: Voters are now counting on sweeping change to match the sweeping political victory of Japan's new ruling party.",
"Kyung Lah, CNN, Tokyo.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Fast Facts .",
"ERIK NIVISON, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for some Fast Facts!",
"When a U.S. Senate seat opens up, how is it filled?",
"It depends on the state.",
"In 37 states, the governor picks the senator's replacement.",
"The remaining 13 states can schedule a special election to replace the senator, but when and how those special elections are held can vary by state.",
"Massachusetts, the state that Senator Ted Kennedy represented, has a special election.",
"It's held 145 to 160 days after the Senate seat becomes vacant.",
"Replacing Kennedy .",
"AZUZ: It's a situation that's taking place right now after Senator Kennedy's death last week at the age of 77.",
"Funeral services were held in Boston on Saturday.",
"President Obama and the first lady attended, along with past presidents and many of Kennedy's colleagues in the U.S. Senate.",
"People gathered to honor the late senator, both in the streets of Boston and on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.",
"Senator Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday evening in Arlington National Cemetery.",
"We just mentioned how Massachusetts selects a Senate replacement.",
"But recently, someone asked that the state's law be changed: Ted Kennedy.",
"He wanted his seat to be filled quickly.",
"Jessica Yellin looks at why.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JESSICA YELLIN, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Before he died, Sen. Kennedy sent a letter to his state's top officials writing, \"I believe it is vital for this commonwealth to have two votes in the Senate.\"",
"He asked that state law be changed to allow the governor to appoint someone to Kennedy's seat as soon as it became vacant.",
"Massachusetts' new senior senator echoed that request.",
"SEN. JOHN KERRY, (D) MASSACHUSETTS: He's asking simply for a temporary ability to appoint someone who will not run, who will not get in the way of other people who want to run, who will be there for a moment only.",
"YELLIN: Currently, the state is required to hold a special election, which would happen January 19th at the earliest.",
"That's probably too late for a vote on health care reform, the issue Kennedy called \"the cause of my life.\"",
"In this climate, Democrats need every vote they can get.",
"The math is not good. With Kennedy's death, Democrats are one vote shy of a 60 vote super majority.",
"They could try to pass reform using a special tactic called \"reconciliation,\" that requires only 51 votes.",
"But Senator Robert Byrd is ill and top Democrats worry at least six of their own Senators plus independent Joe Lieberman could vote no, depending on the contents of the bill.",
"If they pick up no Republicans and lose all fence sitters, Democrats have barely enough votes to pass health care reform.",
"Massachusetts' governor is pressing lawmakers to change the law and give Democrats that vote.",
"GOV. DEVAL PATRICK, (D) MASSACHUSETTS: I'm hoping that the legislature will turn to it and turn to it soon, and if they send me a bill, I will sign it.",
"YELLIN: State leaders have not made clear whether they favor a temporary appointment, but top national Democrats tell CNN they believe lawmakers will ultimately support it.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Snidman's current events classes at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, Missouri.",
"How many more space shuttle missions has NASA scheduled?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Three, B) Six, C) Twelve or D) Fifteen?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"NASA is planning six more shuttle missions, with the last one launching in September 2010.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Shuttle Liftoff .",
"AZUZ: Those six planned trips we mentioned don't include the current mission of the space shuttle Discovery, because it already took off.",
"The shuttle launched just before midnight Friday night, and was scheduled to meet up with the international space station last night.",
"Discovery will be connected to the ISS for eight days, transferring supplies and equipment to the orbiting station.",
"This marks just the second time that thirteen people -- the full crews of Discovery and the ISS -- will be on one spacecraft at the same time.",
"California Wildfires .",
"AZUZ: Coming back down to Earth, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency because of a raging wildfire in Los Angeles country.",
"This move will help free up resources to help fight the blaze.",
"As of yesterday afternoon, no deaths had been reported, although several people had been injured.",
"The flames are threatening more than 12,000 buildings in the area, forcing thousands of people to evacuate.",
"More than 1,800 firefighters were battling the blaze, which Gov.",
"Schwarzenegger says is one of more than half a dozen wildfires burning across the state.",
"Jimena Path .",
"AZUZ: Experts say residents in southern California also need to keep an eye on Hurricane Jimena.",
"Yesterday afternoon, the storm was a Category 4, with winds of 135 miles per hour.",
"It was approaching Baja, California, which is actually part of Mexico, and moving through the Pacific Ocean heading north.",
"Jimena is the 10th named storm of the Pacific hurricane season.",
"That's a totally separate list from the Atlantic season, which so far has seen storms like Bill and Danny.",
"Blog Report .",
"AZUZ: Following up on last Friday's story about schools reducing bus service to save money, here's what some of you guys had to say about it.",
"Katie says \"schools have to do whatever it takes to survive in our economy.",
"If it takes budget cuts and fewer school bus stops, then that's what they have to do.\"",
"But Syera disagrees, writing that \"some students might not have rides to school; they should not have to walk.",
"And some students don't own a bike.\"",
"Janai felt the same way, noting that \"not all parents had other options -- besides the bus -- on getting their child to and from school.\"",
"Thomas wrote this on Facebook: \"Cutting busses...",
"Encouraging students to walk to school...",
"It's helping both the environment and improving your health.\"",
"But back on the blog, Austin said, \"You hear about all kinds of money being spent on other somewhat useless things.",
"Can't they give just a little more to the school systems?\"",
"Tell us what you think about all this on our blog at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"And for the blog, please remember, it is first names only.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, trying to set world records can be a slippery slope, especially when it involves an attempt at the world's biggest slip 'n slide.",
"Or slip 'n scoot.",
"Maybe slip 'n crawl.",
"Are you sure you guys know how this is supposed to work?",
"Looks like organizers pulled out all the stops to break the record.",
"They laid out a 575 foot slide, they turned on the water, then they sent 235 people down the hill.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: It's just too bad that wasn't enough to break the record.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"You guys have a great day."
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"(CNN) -- Residents are still dealing with the aftermath of Irene -- a massive storm that pummeled the East Coast.",
"The storm killed 43 people from Florida to New England and some of the worst flooding struck Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York.",
"More than 1.1 million customers were still without power Thursday from North Carolina to Maine, the U.S. Department of Energy said.",
"Relief organizations are working to help victims in Irene's path.",
"There are ways you can help. At least 1,300 people awoke Wednesday morning in Red Cross shelters up and down the East Coast.",
"The Red Cross has provided about 54,000 overnight shelter stays since the storm hit.",
"\"The storm may be over, but our work is far from done,\" said Gail McGovern, Red Cross president.",
"\"We expect this disaster relief operation to be a very large operation that will continue for several weeks.\"",
"The organization has served more than 680,000 meals and snacks and has handed out more than 29,000 relief items such as hygiene kits, mops and tarps.",
"To donate to relief efforts, visit the website or text the word \"REDCROSS\" to 90999 to make a $10 donation.",
"Irene has also caused a shortfall of more than 2,700 blood donations over the past few days.",
"To donate blood, go online or call 1-800-REDCROSS.",
"The Salvation Army is helping survivors who are still struggling with the floods and power outages left by Irene.",
"The organization has served nearly 150,000 meals, snacks and drinks to storm victims from the Carolinas to New England.",
"The group has been providing warm meals to evacuees and emergency responders in flood impacted northeastern states including New York and Vermont.",
"To make a donation, go online, call 1-800-SAL-ARMY or text \"STORM\" to 80888 to make a $10 donation.",
"$10 will feed a disaster survivor for one day.",
"Samaritan's Purse teams are working in coastal North Carolina to help victims of Irene.",
"A Disaster Relief Unit has been set up in New Bern, North Carolina.",
"Staff and volunteers began removing downed trees and assisting homeowners on Sunday afternoon.",
"Visit the website to make a donation or to sign up as a volunteer.",
"Teams from Operation Blessing International are in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia clearing debris from homes and providing food to residents whose homes were flooded.",
"The group is accepting volunteers in teams of three or more people to help remove debris, repair homes and serve hot meals.",
"To volunteer, call the organization's office of National Volunteer Management at 1-757-226-3407 or e-mail volunteer@ob.org.",
"Donations can be made on the website.",
"AmeriCares launched a $500,000 U.S.",
"Disaster Recovery Initiative to aid survivors of Irene and other recent storms.",
"In hard-hit North Carolina and Virginia, AmeriCares is helping to deliver more than 120,000 bottles of water for families affected by severe flooding and major power outages.",
"Go online to support AmeriCares' hurricane relief efforts.",
"Islamic Relief USA dispatched two teams of volunteers and staff to two local shelters in New Jersey.",
"The group has distributed food, clothing and medicine to about 1,600 evacuees.",
"To help with relief efforts, visit the website.",
"World Vision's domestic emergency response team is preparing to deploy to areas hit hardest by Irene.",
"Field sites in New York, West Virginia and D.C. are preparing relief items like personal hygiene kits, cleaning supplies, water and clothing.",
"To make a donation, visit the website."
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"(CNN) -- Richard Garriott had more reason than most to dream the Apollo moon landings would rapidly expand space travel.",
"His father was a NASA astronaut, as were many of his neighbors near Texas' Johnson Space Center.",
"This is a rendering of XCOR Aerospace's Lynx, which would be used to send people on suborbital spaceflights.",
"With nearly all of humanity still on Earth nearly four decades later, the computer game developer paid $35 million for a ride aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station.",
"\"Flight to space is an entire series of pinnacle life experiences,\" said Garriott, a 48-year-old board member of Space Adventures, the company that arranged his 12-day trip last year.",
"\"The view of the Earth is life changing.\"",
"Garriott believes the United States hasn't fulfilled the promise of the Apollo program yet.",
"\"It was an assumed future that we'd all go to space [by now],\" he said.",
"\"That hasn't come to pass, and it's created this interesting evolution of spaceflight right now.\"",
"That evolution involves the privatization of space, and although the prospect of a spacecraft in every garage isn't near, a few private firms are getting close to manned, commercial spaceflight.",
"Some companies, such as Virgin Galactic, aim to sell suborbital flights -- high enough to reach the edges of space and weightlessness -- within the next few years.",
"The flights have varied purposes, including tourism and science experiments.",
"A Nevada company hopes to sell habitable space stations where paying clients would conduct scientific research.",
"Two relatively new U.S. aerospace companies were hired last year by NASA to send unmanned cargo to the international space station.",
"NASA plans to retire the space shuttle at the end of 2010 and wouldn't be able to send crews to the space station for at least several years after that.",
"\"I really view us and the private sector as the spiritual inheritors of Apollo,\" said Mike Gold, director of the Washington office of Bigelow Aerospace, the company developing the commercial space stations.",
"Suborbital flights: Thrills and experiments now, orbit later .",
"One group preparing to sell suborbital flights is Virgin Galactic, whose parent company is partnering with California-based Scaled Composites to develop SpaceShipTwo, the successor to 2004's Ansari X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne.",
"Space tourists will pay Virgin $200,000 each for training and a 2.5-hour flight to the edge of space and back.",
"About 300 people have paid at least the majority of the fee to reserve the first flights, and about 80,000 others have registered interest, said Stephen Attenborough, Virgin Galactic's commercial director.",
"The spaceship, which will carry six passengers and be based in New Mexico, will be hoisted by a carrier craft to 50,000 feet before blasting on its own to suborbit, where passengers will float weightless about the cabin and see space and the Earth through large windows.",
"The craft will land on a runway and be reused.",
"The carrier craft is being flight tested, and SpaceShipTwo's flight tests are expected to begin at the end of this year, Attenborough said.",
"With 20 to 30 test spaceflights expected, it could be 18 months to two years before it's ready commercially, he said.",
"Tourism isn't the only planned use.",
"The craft could be modified to launch microsatellites, and Virgin hopes to sell flights to agencies for microgravity or atmospheric experiments.",
"\"To be able to have something like SpaceCraftTwo to put scientists in space ... at a relatively low cost, it's transforming for science,\" Attenborough said.",
"California's XCOR Aerospace also is developing a reusable vehicle that will take a pilot and a front-seat customer to the edge of space -- for pleasure or to transport scientific payloads that would benefit from microgravity.",
"XCOR's Lynx, roughly the size of a small airplane, will take off and land on a runway and propel itself with liquid-fuel engines.",
"Sales agent RocketShip Tours is selling one-hour Lynx rides plus training for $95,000 a person.",
"Initially launching from Mojave, California, participants will get a view from the edge of space for several minutes and briefly experience weightlessness.",
"Test flights may begin by the end of 2010, and testing would take at least a year, CEO Jeff Greason said.",
"A second, expendable stage may be added to launch nanosatellites, he said.",
"Like other suborbital providers, XCOR eventually wants to develop an orbital vehicle.",
"The Lynx is a technical pathfinder to that -- something that could make money and prove the reliability and safety of the technology.",
"\"There's a market for people in orbit if the price is low enough,\" Greason said.",
"\"There's more work to do [in orbit], including people flying to be a laborer to work on somebody's widget or experiment.\"",
"iReport.com: Where were you during the moon landing?",
"Commercial, habitable space stations .",
"Getting people to orbit is exactly what Bigelow Aerospace needs to sell its space stations.",
"Bigelow is developing expandable space habitats with a flexible-fabric shell.",
"They would be compressed in a capsule for launch and expand upon deployment.",
"Bigelow primarily sees the habitats as destinations for research scientists and astronauts -- particularly those from countries that haven't used the international space station as much as they'd like or nations making their first steps into space, Gold said.",
"The space station's own future is in doubt, with a NASA space station program manager recently telling a public hearing that NASA currently plans to de-orbit the station in 2016, according to The Washington Post.",
"Affordable microgravity research can help manufacturers make new material for things such as supercomputers and buildings, Gold said.",
"Bigelow -- founded and financed by hotel chain owner Robert Bigelow -- put two subscale, uninhabited models in orbit in 2006 and 2007 through a Russian/Ukrainian launch provider.",
"It eventually aims to develop a full habitat that can support up to eight people.",
"But it won't launch the habitat without a way to transport people there.",
"Gold, Garriott and others in the private sector say they hope NASA can be persuaded to invest in, and eventually hire, aerospace companies to deliver NASA astronauts to low-Earth orbit instead of using its own spacecraft.",
"In such a scenario, the companies would also get to sell their shuttle services to other private-sector customers.",
"That would increase launch rates and lower costs for NASA and the private sector, they said.",
"NASA did not respond to a request for comment.",
"Putting people into orbit .",
"One company that may wish to help is Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), one of two firms NASA hired to send unmanned cargo to the international space station after the shuttle's planned retirement.",
"SpaceX, founded and financed by PayPal founder Elon Musk, received money from NASA to develop its spacecraft.",
"Last year, the California company was awarded a NASA contract for 12 supply flights from roughly 2011 to 2015.",
"SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket topped by its Dragon capsule, which would carry the cargo.",
"The rocket's first test flight should be later this year, said Larry Williams, SpaceX's vice president for strategic relations.",
"Three demonstration flights with the Dragon would follow, starting perhaps in early 2010, with the Dragon docking with the space station on the third trip.",
"NASA does have an option to fund a version of the Dragon that can transport astronauts, and SpaceX is eager to do that.",
"However, NASA hasn't executed the option, Williams said.",
"With the global economic downturn, one might think developing space products and finding customers would be difficult.",
"But people in the industry -- especially those working for companies founded by businessmen with large fortunes -- say they'll be fine in the long term.",
"\"Our industry is still hiring engineers, whereas most industries are laying people off,\" said John Gedmark, executive director of the industry group Commercial Spaceflight Federation.",
"\"The investors putting money behind these ventures are personally committed.\""
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"(CNN) -- As a Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate said she would demand an investigation of a weekend shooting at a campaign event, one ruling party lawmaker had a different take: The candidate should have seen the violence coming.",
"Rep. Freddy Bernal, a former Caracas mayor and close ally of President Hugo Chavez, told El Universal newspaper that Maria Corina Machado and other opposition candidates should steer clear of Chavez strongholds.",
"\"They know that they're not going to have any votes there.",
"They know that nobody votes for them there, that they are not wanted.",
"So what are they going to do there?\" Bernal said, according to the newspaper.",
"The Caracas-based daily published his comments two days after gunshots sent Machado and her supporters scrambling at an event Saturday.",
"Machado's campaign told CNN en Español Monday that the opposition candidate plans to file a formal complaint with investigators Tuesday.",
"A video purporting to show the shooting on YouTube shows the candidate addressing residents and reporters shortly after she threw the first pitch in a softball game.",
"Thirty seconds into the roughly 50-second clip, several gunshots ring out; people scatter.",
"Some board a bus while a voice in the video shouts: \"Go, go, go!\"",
"Separately, El Nacional newspaper published a photo of what it said was the shooting, showing two people on a motorcycle.",
"Wearing a red T-shirt, the man on the back is pointing a gun at a bus.",
"CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the images, which were also posted on the candidate's website.",
"Speaking to CNN en Español shortly after the attack, Machado blamed \"criminal gangs\" for the shooting and accused the government of providing some groups with weapons.",
"\"The government has absolutely lost control and, in many cases, has been complicit with the criminal gangs,\" she said.",
"Venezuela's information and justice ministries have not responded to CNN's requests for comment on the shooting.",
"Bernal told El Universal that Machado's visit to the neighborhood in eastern Caracas -- a Chavez stronghold and one of the city's most dangerous areas -- was a \"provocation.\"",
"But he said the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela has no need to intimidate opponents with violence.",
"\"We have no reason to do that. We are training people, working and educating them, in peace, democracy and tranquility,\" he said, according to the newspaper.",
"\"We will not resort to provocations, because we are winning this game,\" he added, arguing that Chavez has a clear lead in polls.",
"\"Chaos, provocation, destabilization and violence are convenient for the opposition.\"",
"Machado, a 44-year-old representative in Venezuela's National Assembly, is one of several presidential candidates who will participate in a primary election next year.",
"The winner will be the unity opposition candidate to run against Chavez.",
"Roberto Abdul, president of the board of directors of Sumate -- a Venezuela-based pro-democracy organization that Machado helped found -- said Saturday's shooting was a troubling sign of Venezuela's security problems.",
"\"Violence against any citizen is condemnable.",
"Political violence also must be condemned. ...",
"I think that the government, given that (Machado) is a federal lawmaker, should respond,\" he said, noting that Machado had stepped down from her role as a leader of Sumate when she became a lawmaker and is no longer affiliated with the organization.",
"Candidates from all political parties should be able to campaign safely, he said.",
"\"If they think that the opposition doesn't have support, that's even more of a reason that they should be allowed to freely campaign,\" he said.",
"\"We cannot by any means allow the use of violence to be a (campaign) mechanism. ...",
"They don't have control of the violence, or they are controlling it selectively.\"",
"Journalist Osmary Hernandez in Caracas contributed to this report."
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"Lawmaker: Opposition candidate Machado's event provoked gunfire .",
"Freddy Bernal, a close Chavez ally, says the ruling party has no need to resort to violence .",
"Machado accuses the Venezuelan government of being complicit with criminals .",
"A pro-democracy advocate says the government should condemn the attack ."
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"(CNN) -- When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words.",
"But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.",
"One of the teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize is considering this rover concept for the mission.",
"Welcome to a new kind of space race, where the earthly guest will be a machine and the goal is as much exploration as seeking out new business ventures.",
"The quest is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which will put $20 million into the hands of the first privately funded team that can land a rover on the moon; have it travel on the surface for 500 meters or more; send back data, photos and video; and do it all by December 31, 2012.",
"The prize drops to $15 million after that date and goes away altogether after 2014.",
"One of the main requirements is to have as little government involvement in the project as possible.",
"\"We believe that space should be open to anyone and everyone, especially those people who want to go,\" said Becky Ramsey, the X Prize Foundation's director of communications for space projects.",
"\"The government has accomplished amazing things ... but we think that we can do it less expensively.\"",
"The idea grew out of conversations between X Prize Chairman Peter Diamandis and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.",
"\"We thought it would be a good fit,\" said Tiffany Montague, technical program manager at Google and the company's main representative for the Google Lunar X Prize.",
"\"Many of us here are interested in space as a hobby, or we came from space backgrounds.\"",
"Google, which is paying the main prize purse -- $30 million total, including bonus prizes -- hopes the competition will result in education, \"interesting new content\" and inspiration, she added.",
"\"What I think this prize is really about is inspiring young minds and inspiring the global population to compete for a dream,\" Montague said.",
"'Garage bands' of space exploration .",
"There are 13 teams officially competing in the race, but the X Prize Foundation expects that number to grow to about 25.",
"The multinational lineup includes Americans, Italians, Romanians and a \"mystery team,\" which can hide its identity until July 20, 2009, under the rules.",
"See photos of the teams and their rover concepts » .",
"The competitors include university scientists, business people, engineers, robotics experts and even students.",
"Ramsey said all of the teams are considered serious contenders, but not all of them are expected to be able to complete the task.",
"\"I liken our teams to the garage bands of the space exploration world,\" she said.",
"\"These are the people who have a dream, who have a passion, who have the knowledge and ability and the drive, and they think they can do this.",
"So we're giving them the opportunity.\"",
"The teams face a number of daunting tasks, including figuring out how and where to launch, designing a craft that can complete the journey and making sure it can execute a required \"soft landing.\"",
"\"The craft has to alight on the moon a little like you'd expect an insect or a bird to land here on Earth, and it means that you can't impact or crash into the surface at high speed,\" said Red Whittaker, chairman and CEO of Astrobotic Technology, one of the teams competing for the prize.",
"Once they land, the rovers must be ready to cope with extreme conditions.",
"Whittaker listed a vacuum environment, radiation, temperature extremes and soft terrain as some of the special challenges of the lunar landscape.",
"Expensive mission .",
"Another big obstacle is the money.",
"Reaching for the moon -- literally -- is an immensely pricey endeavor, and the mission is likely to cost much more than the $20 million first prize, a fact the sponsors freely recognize.",
"\"I think what's important to keep in mind is that this is an incentive prize and is not meant to cover the costs of development,\" Montague said.",
"\"Instead, it is meant to be a catalyst to shake up industry and inspire breakthrough.\"",
"To help finance their plans, the teams are seeking out investors, partners and sponsors.",
"Celestis, a company that launches cremated human remains into Earth's orbit, recently announced that it has reached an agreement with two of the teams, Astrobotic and Odyssey Moon, to carry human ashes to the moon.",
"NASA could also be a customer for the teams, whose craft could carry scientific payloads, Ramsey said.",
"The agency believes that there's potential for collaboration, but there's nothing formal in the works, said David Steitz, a spokesman at NASA headquarters in Washington.",
"He added that NASA is giving a thumbs-up to the competition.",
"\"We're excited about anyone who's excited about space.",
"We don't claim to have a monopoly on exploration,\" Steitz said.",
"The business of the moon .",
"Many of the teams regard the race as just the start of a long-term business plan.",
"Astrobotic envisions a dozen lunar missions, scouting sites and offering payload services to businesses and governments, Whittaker said.",
"Odyssey Moon CEO Robert Richards said his team also plans to keep coming back.",
"\"We are absolutely committed to an enduring presence on the moon,\" Richards said.",
"Watch Richards demonstrate rover designs » .",
"\"If we don't win the prize, we will certainly cheer those who do, and we will continue with our efforts to provide a permanent, established mechanism for humanity to reach the moon in a very frequent and cost-effective way.\"",
"But with so much money at stake, would it be possible for anyone to fake the mission in order to win the Google Lunar X Prize?",
"Both Ramsey and Montague insisted that could not happen.",
"\"[The teams] have to file a mission plan with us,\" Ramsey said.",
"\"They have to send back images and video from the moon.",
"I don't think in this day and age that it would be possible to fake this signal coming back.\""
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"Google Lunar X Prize goes to the first team that can land a rover on the moon by 2012 .",
"Rover must travel on the lunar surface for at least 500 meters, send back images .",
"There are 13 teams officially competing in the race; number is expected to grow .",
"The mission will probably cost much more than the $20 million first prize ."
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"(CNN) -- The cricket player who helped spark apartheid-era South Africa's sporting isolation has died at the age of 80.",
"Basil D'Oliveira, a \"colored\" man of Indian-Portuguese heritage from Cape Town, was barred from playing first-class cricket in his home country.",
"He caused a political storm when he was selected by his adopted nation England for the team's 1968-69 tour of South Africa.",
"Having initially been left out of the squad after the South African government exerted pressure, he was called up when a teammate was injured -- and the tour was subsequently canceled amid international outrage.",
"D'Oliveira, a powerful batsman known as \"Dolly,\" went on to play 44 Tests for England, scoring 2,484 runs at an average of 40 and taking 47 wickets with his right-arm medium-pace bowling.",
"He battled Parkinson's disease in his later years, but passed away \"peacefully\" according to his son -- who like his father played for Worcestershire and is now academy director at the county club.",
"\"It is a sad time for us as a family but, after a long battle against Parkinson's disease, dad passed away peacefully,\" Damian D'Oliveira told the England and Wales Cricket Board's official website on Saturday.",
"\"Although it is difficult, we will celebrate a great life rather than mourn a death.\"",
"Cricket South Africa chief executive Gerald Majola said D'Oliveira was an \"inspiration.\"",
"\"Dolly was a true legend and a son of whom all South Africans can be extremely proud,\" Majola said.",
"\"He was a man of true dignity and a wonderful role model as somebody who overcame the most extreme prejudices and circumstances to take his rightful place on the world stage.\"",
"Having captained South Africa's non-white cricket team and played for the national non-white football side, a frustrated D'Oliveira emigrated to England in 1960 at the age of 29 after writing to renowned cricket commentator John Arlott and asking for help.",
"He was well past his prime as a player when he finally made his debut for England six years later.",
"\"One can only imagine what he might have achieved had he made his debut as he should have done at the age of 20 on South Africa's tour of England in 1951,\" Majola said.",
"\"The circumstances surrounding his being prevented from touring the country of his birth with England in 1968 led directly to the intensification of opposition to apartheid around the world and contributed materially to the sports boycott that turned out to be an Achilles heel of the apartheid government.",
"\"Throughout this shameful period in South Africa's sporting history, Basil displayed a human dignity that earned him worldwide respect and admiration.",
"His memory and inspiration will live on among all of us.\"",
"D'Oliveira wrote about his arrival in England on his official website.",
"\"April 1st 1960 was probably one of the most astonishing days of my life.",
"The plane landed at Heathrow Airport on a very gloomy and damp spring day.",
"I was filled with misgivings and my inferiority complex was at a very low ebb,\" he said.",
"\"I'd left (my wife) Naomi behind.",
"In a few months I would be a father for the first time, and what kind of future could I guarantee Naomi and my child?",
"However as I left with the assurance that the family and friends would take great care of her, an old aunt pulled me to one side and told me to aim high, there's room for everyone up there -- a motto which has stayed with me always.",
"\"I am proud of my color, of what I've achieved for myself and non-whites all over the world, and I dearly love my fellow citizens of Cape Town.",
"I often think back to those days in South Africa, when I was trying to break out of the social and sporting straitjacket imposed by the color of my skin.\"",
"Meanwhile, South Africa ended the third day of the second Test against Australia with a lead of 199 runs after Hashim Amla and A.B.",
"de Villiers took the home side to 229-3 in their second innings in Johannesburg.",
"Amla was unbeaten on 89 and De Villiers was on 70 when bad light and rain ended play early on Saturday, having added 139.",
"Captain Graeme Smith was the second man to fall after making 36, while Australia's 18-year-old fast-bowling debutant Pat Cummins took the wickets of Jacques Rudolph (24) and key batsman Jacques Kallis, who passed 12,000 Test runs with his first-innings 54 but this time could manage only two.",
"South Africa won the first game of the two-match series by eight wickets in Cape Town."
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"(CNN) -- A guaranteed multiple Oscar nominee and the film that cements Alexander Payne as one of the top filmmakers of his generation (as if he weren't already there with \"Election,\" \"About Schmidt\" and \"Sideways\"), \"The Descendants\" is nothing short of a masterpiece.",
"It's everything that a great film should be: beautifully acted and directed, funny, touching, heartbreaking and, most of all, true.",
"Not only that, but it's George Clooney's best work to date and further highlights his status as the rarest of Hollywood hybrids: the movie star-actor.",
"In the opening voiceover, Matt King (Clooney) attempts to dispel the idea of Hawaii as a paradise, pointing out that Hawaiians get cancer and deal with heartaches, homelessness and every other modern problem that the rest of the world has.",
"Living in Hawaii doesn't make them hurt any less.",
"It's a lesson to learn, because while the film that follows uses Hawaiian landscapes, people and most of all music to great effect.",
"None of these dulls the emotions and experiences that the film evokes.",
"Matt's wife, Elizabeth, is the victim of a boating accident, rendering her comatose, and he suddenly finds himself in charge of 10-year-old Scotty (Amara Miller) and 17-year-old Alexandra (Shailene Woodley).",
"He considers himself the \"backup parent,\" but it's time for him to step up, something he's clearly not ready for.",
"Despite the dark and not remotely funny subject matter of a family whose wife/mother lies in a coma, \"The Descendants\" manages to be sad without being maudlin, funny in the face of tragedy without being insensitive, and a thoroughly enjoyable film without sacrificing drama, character development, story or honesty.",
"A lesser team than Payne and his cast might have swung too far into melodrama and ended up in a slog through long monologues about emotion and relationships, but screenwriters Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (the film is based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings) have created an honest and entertaining portrait of a family in crisis.",
"While he has committed to living modestly (\"give your kids enough money so that they can do something but not enough so that they can do nothing\" is one of his mottos), Matt is as close to Hawaiian royalty as a (mostly) white man can get.",
"He can trace his family's lineage to both King Kamehameha and the islands' first white settlers.",
"As part of their Hawaiian legacy, Matt and his extended family of cousins (including Cousin Hugh, Cousin Ralph, Cousin Hal, Cousin Milo, Cousin Stan, Cousin Wink, Cousin Six, Cousin Dave and Cousin Connie) own the largest remaining tract of pristine land on Kauai, which is being held in a trust.",
"However, time is running out on said trust, and Matt must decide what to do with it.",
"Sell to developer A or developer B?",
"Don't sell and bequeath it to the state, even though many of the cousins want the money from a sale?",
"It's a dilemma that adds to his familial stress.",
"To top it all off, Alex clues him in to the fact that before his accident, Elizabeth had been cheating on him.",
"Not only is the wife he loves in a coma, she's been betraying him, and there's no way for him to confront her.",
"The scenes where Clooney vents at his comatose wife are heartbreaking, and he is note-perfect as the cuckolded husband who has to process his anger, grief, love and loss simultaneously.",
"These various storylines and others, including what part Elizabeth's lover (Matthew Lillard) plays in all of this, ebb and flow with natural grace and rhythm, taking us along for a memorable ride.",
"The supporting cast is so loaded with exceptional performances that to sing all their praises might seem like overkill.",
"However, three deserve special praise.",
"Woodley, as troubled but intelligent Alex, gives the most authentic and moving adolescent female performance in years.",
"Away at boarding school when the accident happens, Alex is a girl with a troubled past (drinking, drugs) and present, seeing as she's been keeping her mother's infidelity secret, despite the fact that she hated her mother for betraying her father.",
"Now, while Matt is dealing with the emotions brought on by a dying wife whom he cannot even speak with, Alex is processing her own emotions about her mother while co-parenting her younger sister.",
"Woodley accomplishes this with extraordinary class, grace and natural talent.",
"She's got the \"f*** you!\" attitude familiar to parents of a teenager and the burgeoning parental and caring instincts of an adult.",
"Her rapport with Clooney is one of the things that makes this film go.",
"And then there's Sid. Played by newcomer Nick Krause, Sid is the friend Alexandra calls to help her through the tough times, and well, he's kind of an idiot and kind of not and kind of exactly what the film needs.",
"He's goofy but earnest, clueless and caring and, most important, knows what Alex is going through.",
"He also delivers (and receives) some of the film's best lines.",
"Sid's nemesis, for lack of a better word, is Elizabeth's father, Scott (Robert Forster).",
"Played with steely incorrigibility, Scott has blinders on when it comes to his daughter and blames Matt for her condition, suggesting that the accident was Matt's fault because he didn't buy her her own boat.",
"He's going through something no parent should, the impending death of a child, and he's not afraid to speak his mind.",
"Scott's vocal anger toward Matt and cranky old-man persona (complete with beige support socks) hides a grief that plays itself out entirely behind Forster's squinty eyes.",
"It's a devastating performance and pitch perfect.",
"And that's really the crux of what makes this film so magnificent.",
"Pretty much everyone out there knows, to a certain extent, what these characters are going through.",
"Most of us have lost someone.",
"A parent, more often than not, or a child, sibling or spouse.",
"To be personal for a moment, I lost both of my parents during the past six years, and in its way, like some truly great art can, this film has helped me process their loss a little more.",
"Obviously, everyone's experiences are unique, but there are certain near-universal truths that inhabit these types of situations.",
"\"The Descendants\" presents them in natural, comfortable and, best of all, memorable ways.",
"\"The Descendants\" is rated R. It contains all the colorful language one would expect, given the situations."
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"\"The Descendants\" manages to be sad without being maudlin .",
"The supporting cast is loaded with exceptional performances ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Do not be afraid,\" Bella tells herself as she prepares to stride naked upon a moon-kissed Brazilian beach and consummate her marriage to Edward.",
"It's been her credo through four films now in the boffo \"Twilight\" saga, and for all the criticism that novelist Stephenie Meyer preaches good old-fashioned abstinence, it's worth pointing out that this gutsy heroine has a habit of making up her own mind and going after what she wants, even if (like everyone in her onscreen life) we can't bring ourselves to wholeheartedly approve of Bella's determination to wed and bed a vampire at the age of 18.",
"\"Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" marks the beginning of the end for Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and his arch rival, local wereboy Jacob (Taylor Lautner).",
"But fear not, the fat lady hasn't sung just yet, and there's still some life left in this domesticated gothic romance, even if you can feel it draining out before your eyes, drip by drip.",
"It's a rare series that improves the longer it goes on.",
"\"Breaking Dawn\" is too padded to compete with last year's \"Eclipse,\" but on the other hand, the production values have gone up each time, the actors have grown more comfortable in their roles (yes, even Lautner) and with each new film comes a new, more accomplished director.",
"Bill Condon, taking over from David Slade, was a surprising choice for the job -- he's best known for A-list fare like \"Dreamgirls,\" \"Kinsey\" and producing the Hugh Jackman Oscar telecast a couple of years ago -- until you remember his breakthrough film, \"Gods and Monsters\" (with Ian McKellen as \"Frankenstein\" director James Whale), and before that a long apprenticeship in pulp schlock.",
"Condon immediately makes himself at home, throwing in a sneaky tribute to \"The Bride of Frankenstein\" and milking the wedding sequence as if he means to outdo William and Kate.",
"(More trees!) It's not all about the extravagance though: The cross-cutting as the couple exchange their vows is a lovely, simple touch that crystallizes the emotion of the moment.",
"Then Condon reverts to \"Lifestyles of the Rich and Fatuous,\" with a ridiculously ostentatious and overlong honeymoon getaway.",
"iReport: Fans go crazy for the latest 'Twilight' Unlike Mrs. Frankenstein, Bella isn't freaked by her monstrous other half.",
"But the long-delayed and much-anticipated love scene does have a nasty sting in the tail: In Meyer's world, it seems that sex isn't safe even within the bonds of marriage.",
"It's not the act itself (\"Awesome\" -- despite the bruising and considerable property damage) but the after-effects, which I suspect most everyone knows by now include the prospects of a little bloodsucker running amok.",
"Having split the last book into two, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg struggles to parse enough plot to keep this episode on the boil -- or even simmering.",
"The aggressive threats from Washington's wolf pack ring hollow, a lame attempt to inject macho excitement into the movie's self-inflicted prolonged pregnant pause.",
"iReport: A 3 out of 5 for this 'Twilight' A doggy powwow is easily the movie's biggest unintentional howler.",
"But mostly, Condon ladles on the atmosphere effectively enough with the now-customary indie-pop soundtrack (Iron and Wine; Sister Rosetta; Mia Maestro) so up front we're only a whisker away from a full-on musical.",
"And he delivers the grotesquely bloody finale with something approaching operatic gusto.",
"We've come a long way since dads could escape labor pains by putting the kettle on and pacing outside in the hallway; this scene could send birth rates plummeting.",
"iReport: 'Twilight' more a social event than a movie .",
"Critics will scoff, and this isn't a very good movie, but it's been a while since I saw anything so deliciously delirious."
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"\"Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" is too padded to compete with last year's \"Eclipse\"\nThe long-delayed and much-anticipated love scene does have a nasty sting in the tail .",
"Bill Condon delivers the grotesquely bloody finale with operatic gusto ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- There are many practices from biblical times that are best left in the past.",
"Stoning adulterers comes to mind.",
"As does sacrificing oxen.",
"But let me tell you about one dusty Middle Eastern custom that deserves a comeback: tithing.",
"For those who skipped Sunday school, tithing is the practice of giving 10 percent of your annual income to the needy.",
"You donate one out of every ten dollars (or shekels or sheep) to the orphans, the widows, the destitute, or the temple high priests.",
"Granted, some folks in 21st-century America still tithe (devout Mormons, for instance, are expected to cough up 10 percent).",
"But the practice has largely gone the way of pharaohs and women named Bathsheba.",
"Which isn't surprising. Tithing is hard as hell, especially in these lean times.",
"I first learned about tithing a few years ago.",
"At the time, I was trying to follow every rule in the Bible -- a journey I chronicled in a book.",
"The Bible told me to tithe.",
"So I tithed. When I told my wife, Julie, about my plan to tithe, she fretted.",
"In general, she's much more magnanimous than I am.",
"She's a sucker for those charities that send you free sheets of return-address labels with little cartoons of a Rollerblading Ziggy, along with a heartbreaking brochure about lymphoma.",
"I tell her it's emotional blackmail.",
"She ignores me and mails them checks.",
"Oprah.com: How to give smart .",
"But even for Julie 10 percent is high, especially with the ridiculously expensive prospect of raising children in New York City.",
"Julie asked whether I could count my literary agent's fee as a tithe.",
"She was only half-joking.",
"\"Can you at least do 10 percent after taxes?\"",
"she said. That night I called a friend who's a Lutheran pastor.",
"\"You shouldn't get too legalistic,\" he said.",
"\"Give what you can. And then give some more. It should feel like a sacrifice.\"",
"A.J. Jacobs challenge to you: Day of Extreme Politeness .",
"I studied my Bible for insight.",
"It seems that in the time of ancient Israel -- before the Romans took over -- no one paid taxes per se.",
"The tithes were the taxes.",
"And the tithing system was as complicated as any 1040 form.",
"The farmers gave to the priests, the temple-keepers, the temple itself, the poor, the widows, and the orphans.",
"So I decided after-tax tithing was probably okay.",
"I calculated 10 percent of my projected salary.",
"It wasn't a huge number -- but that was precisely the problem.",
"If I were making $10 million a year and had to give away $1 million, that would have been easier.",
"Although many modern tithers give to their church, I decided to go directly to the needy.",
"I spent hours browsing the Web site CharityNavigator.org.",
"It's sort of a Michelin guide to aid organizations.",
"(Even this leads to coveting -- they list the salaries of these charity CEOs, and some break half a million.)",
"See more ways you can help at CNN's Impact Your World .",
"I settled on several organizations focusing on children and widows, two groups the Bible says are always in need.",
"One was called Feed the Children, another Save Darfur.",
"Oprah.com: How to give when dollars are tight .",
"The giving was painful.",
"I mean, 10 percent?",
"That would have an impact on our lives.",
"Vacations would need to be scaled back, new furniture would have to wait.",
"It was a huge amount.",
"When I pressed \"send\" on the donations, my palms got wet, my heart rate spiked.",
"But it was a pain mixed with pleasure.",
"When the confirmation e-mails pinged in, I felt good.",
"There's a haunting line from the movie \"Chariots of Fire.\"",
"It's spoken by Ian Charleson, who plays a deeply religious sprinter in the 1924 Olympics.",
"He says: \"When I run, I feel His pleasure.\"",
"And as I gave away money, I think I might have felt God's pleasure.",
"Which is odd. Because I'm agnostic. I don't know if there's a God or not, but still I felt some higher sense of purpose.",
"It was like a cozy ember that started at the back of my neck and slowly spread its warmth through my skull.",
"I felt like I was doing something I should have done all my life.",
"That feeling of pleasure when giving -- scientists actually call it the warm-glow effect -- isn't strong enough to get most Americans to cough up 10 percent, though.",
"According to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the average American donates about 3 percent of his or her salary to charity.",
"Low-income workers are the most openhanded set, donating an average of 4.5 percent.",
"(Of course, there are many exceedingly generous high-income people.",
"Angelina Jolie has said she gives away a third of her income.",
"The pastor Rick Warren reverse tithes -- he gives away 90 percent of his profits from his megaselling books.)",
"Oprah.com: 6 ways giving makes you healthy .",
"I must confess that I haven't tithed every year since.",
"I'm a quasi tither.",
"This year I donated about 7 percent of my income.",
"Tithing for me is a goal that I want to meet but sometimes don't.",
"(I will, however, be tithing the writer's fee for this article.",
"How can I not?) I've developed some strategies to help make tithing easier.",
"The key is to make it concrete.",
"Try thinking in terms of time.",
"Every ten minutes of work, you are essentially doing one minute of volunteering for the needy.",
"Six times an hour you're doing a mitzvah!",
"Since I'm a writer, I also tell myself this: One out of every ten words belongs to someone deserving.",
"In that previous sentence, it was the word deserving.",
"I also try to remember what I teach my sons.",
"Sharing is caring, I always tell them.",
"If my son had two lollipops in his pocket, and a friend asked for one, I'd tell him to fish one out of his pocket and hand it over.",
"It's the proper thing to do.",
"I should practice what I preach.",
"Finally, I try to think of tithing as a sort of cosmic 10 percent tip.",
"Scientists say that gratitude is like a psychological wonder drug.",
"And by tithing, I'm saying thank you to the universe -- or to God or to fate or to whatever you believe in -- for allowing me to be alive.",
"I want to acknowledge how lucky I am to have food, a roof, a bed, a warm shower, and a father who didn't sacrifice me on top of a mountain.",
"That deserves a donation to the Big Tip Jar in the sky, don't you think?",
"Oprah.com: A.J.",
"Jacobs' rules to live by .",
"By A.J. Jacobs from O, The Oprah Magazine, December 2009 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Jacobs believes the ancient practice of tithing should be revived .",
"He checks with pastor after haggling with wife over tithing AFTER taxes .",
"Jacobs: \"As I gave away money, I think I might have felt God's pleasure\"\nSays tithing is putting a 10 percent thank you in \"the Big Tip Jar in the sky\""
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Raging clashes between police and protesters in Egypt on Saturday left two people dead and 750 injured, the Health Ministry reported, prompting a call from a prominent grass-roots group for citizens to resist the military-led government.",
"The April 6 Movement, which figured prominently in the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak this year, issued a statement urging its members to descend on Cairo's Tahrir Square \"immediately because resistance is the only solution.\"",
"\"Down with military rule,\" the movement said.",
"The fighting erupted earlier in the day when police worked to clear the area of people who remained in the square after Friday's massive protests in Tahrir.",
"Tens of thousands of Egyptians turned out Friday to protest plans for a constitution that would shield the military from public oversight.",
"As evening came Saturday, police blanketed the square and fired tear gas.",
"The security forces soon withdrew and stationed themselves at the Interior Ministry.",
"Warning shots were heard throughout the day.",
"Thousands of protesters remained at the scene.",
"They chanted against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which rules Egypt, and Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the council who is effectively the interim ruler of Egypt.",
"Protesters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks and torched a police van.",
"Scuffles broke out on side streets and clouds of smoke rose from burned tires, witnesses said.",
"Clashes between protesters and police also reportedly broke out in the cities of Suez and Alexandria.",
"Two people died after being shot -- one in Cairo, one in Alexandria -- said Adel al-Dawi, a spokesman for the Health Ministry.",
"State media reported that 750 people were injured, citing the Health Ministry.",
"The Interior Ministry also said 20 police officers have been injured and eight people have been arrested.",
"\"We sent hundreds of Central Security Police Forces and forced out the remaining several hundred protesters who refused to go home.",
"We arrested four thieves and thugs who acted aggressively and beefed up security in and around square overnight,\" Interior spokesman Alaa Mahmoud said earlier Saturday.",
"The Cabinet held an emergency meeting to discuss the recent clashes and warned they could have a dangerous impact on Egypt, state media said.",
"The Friday throng, dominated by Islamist parties but including secular protesters as well, turned out ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections set to begin on November 28.",
"Mahmoud said the \"Islamists and revolutionaries had left as they promised not to have a sit-in.\"",
"But stragglers remained, and he said many of the people who stayed in the square were families of those injured during the upheaval earlier this year that led to Mubarak's departure and the ushering in of the supreme council as interim rulers.",
"Yousri Hamad, the official spokesman of the Al Noor Salafi Muslim political party, said he thinks that the violence could affect election plans.",
"\"The protesters are a bunch of kids that attacked the security forces which is a red line and could delay elections,\" Hamad said.",
"The military said it wants to transfer power to a civilian parliament and president, but many citizens are dissatisfied with the pace of the transition and the resolve of the military rulers.",
"But protesters were upset Friday about proposed principles for the constitution, in which the military's budget would not be scrutinized by civilian powers.",
"They worry that the military would be shaped as a state within a state.",
"The outpouring reflected the power of Islamist forces in Egypt, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party.",
"A leader of that group called for restraint in the wake of Saturday's clashes, state media reported.",
"The demonstrations occurred a day after hundreds of Coptic Christians marching in Cairo were attacked by unknown assailants.",
"At least 32 people, including two police officers, were injured.",
"They were heading to Cairo's Tahrir Square to commemorate the deaths of pro-Coptic protesters killed in clashes in the Egyptian capital last month.",
"Problems between Egypt's Muslim majority and the Copts have been on the rise in recent months, with a number of violent clashes reported between the two groups.",
"Protests also stretched to the United States on Saturday, where demonstrators gathered in the nation's capital in opposition to military rule in Egypt.",
"Protester Amin Mahmoud, a member of a group called the \"Egyptian Organization for Change USA,\" said Egypt's military \"has been taking civilians before military courts, and we are against that.",
"\"They are torturing a lot of young revolutionaries, accusing them of being traitors, and that is not true,\" he said.",
"CNN's Alexander Hunter contributed to this report ."
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"Egyptian elections start November 28 ."
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"(CNN) -- The Wegmans supermarket chain is recalling 5,000 pounds of Turkish pine nuts because of possible salmonella contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.",
"At least 43 cases of salmonellosis in California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia are linked to the pine nuts, the FDA said Friday, citing the Centers for Disease Control.",
"The agency warned consumers not to eat the nuts, offered for sale in unlabeled plastic bulk containers at Wegmans stories, or any food items, such as pesto or salads, that have been made using them.",
"The pine nuts were ingredients in several prepared foods sold at Wegmans, including Caprese salad and asparagus with pine nuts, the agency said.",
"The pine nuts may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, which may cause illness.",
"They were sold in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland, the FDA said.",
"The salmonella bacteria can cause diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection.",
"The illness usually lasts four to seven days, the FDA said.",
"While most people recover without treatment, infection may lead to hospitalization and can be fatal.",
"The bacteria is most dangerous to older adults, infants and those with compromised immune systems, the FDA said.",
"Consumers are urged to check their homes for the nuts purchased at Wegmans stores between July 1 and October 18, and either throw them away or return them to Wegmans for a refund, the FDA said.",
"Wegmans said the pine nuts were imported from Turkey and distributed by Sunrise Commodities."
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"43 cases of salmonellosis have been reported in six states .",
"The bacteria can cause fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps ."
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"(CNN) -- A former mayor in Rwanda has been convicted of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity over the deaths of 2,000 Tutsis during the country's 1994 genocide, the U.N.-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said Thursday.",
"Former Kivumu mayor Gregoire Ndahimana served as a leading facilitator and commander in the slaughter of Tutsis in Kivumu, where an estimated 4,000 Tutsis were murdered, according to the ICTR's Summary of Judgment.",
"According to the judgment, Ndahimana was present during a massacre at the Nyange Catholic church where 2,000 Tutsis died over 10 days from 6 April 1994 to 16 April 1994, in one of the bloodiest sites of the genocide.",
"His presence \"had an encouraging effect on the principal perpetrators,\" particularly because he was an authority figure, the tribunal found, ruling that he \"aided and abetted genocide.\"",
"Ndahimana was also found guilty of \"extermination as a crime against humanity by aiding and abetting as well as by virtue of his command responsibility over communal police in Kivumu,\" the judgment said.",
"Ndahimana was sentenced by a majority of the Trial Chamber's three-judge panel to a single sentence of 15 years imprisonment, the ICTR said, with credit for two years already served.",
"\"The Chamber has considered the gravity of each of the crimes for which Ndahimana has been convicted,\" the judgment said.",
"Gruesome reports by survivors and other witnesses accused Ndahimana of joining local police and a priest in ordering assailants to bulldoze Nyange church, killing 2,000 Tutsi refugees who had sought sanctuary there.",
"A majority of the judges ruled that Ndahimana was present during the demolition of the church, but did not find it proven that he instigated or supervised the attacks.",
"A trained agronomist, Ndahimana served as \"bourgmestre\" of Kivumu, a commune in the prefecture of Kibuye near Lake Kivu.",
"According to a United Nations study, at least 59,050 people, or 12.4% of the Kibuye population, were killed during the genocide, accounting for more than three-quarters of the prefecture's Tutsi population.",
"The Rwandan genocide was triggered by the April 6, 1994, shooting down of a plane carrying the nation's Hutu president.",
"Ethnic violence erupted and Tutsis were killed systematically by Hutus over the course of three months.",
"The United Nations estimates that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.",
"In all, some 800,000 men, women, and children -- mostly Tutsis but also moderate Hutus -- died."
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"Gregoire Ndahimana was mayor of Kivumu at the time of the 1994 genocide .",
"He was accused of involvement in a massacre at a church in which 2,000 people died .",
"The judges find him guilty of aiding and abetting genocide and extermination .",
"Some 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were killed in the three-month bloodletting ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- Joan Hornig's jewelry comes from the heart.",
"And 100 percent of the profits go to a charity of your choice.",
"When she was in college, Joan Hornig set a big goal: to earn enough money by age 50 to allow her to give back to the world.",
"In 2003 she met that goal, two years ahead of schedule.",
"Because Hornig, 54, came from a modest background, she learned to design her own jewelry, modeling her pieces after the bold, fanciful antiques she admired in luxury boutiques and museums.",
"Six years ago, when a friend casually said, \"I love your necklace,\" Hornig replied, \"Thanks, I made it.\"",
"That prompted the friend to call another friend -- who just happened to be a merchandise manager at Bergdorf Goodman -- and say: \"I'm looking at something that should be in your store.\"",
"Hornig went back to her New York City apartment, gathered up all the necklaces, bracelets, and earrings she'd made (stored in Tupperware containers in her china cabinet -- \"I didn't even know there was such a thing as a jewelry roll\"), and took them into the Fifth Avenue store.",
"\"The Bergdorf people said, 'We like these things, but are you a business?'",
"I said, 'I believe I can be a business.'\"",
"They offered her a trial run, and her first \"collection\" sold out in five days.",
"The secret to her success?",
"\"I think jewelry should do for women what a beauty parlor does,\" Hornig says.",
"\"Enhance them.\" Oprah.com: How to get gorgeous this season .",
"But Hornig, who worked in the lucrative field of private equity investing, didn't start designing jewelry to make a profit, so she devised a novel business model: Each piece she sells comes with a card explaining that she will give 100 percent of her profits to the charity of the buyer's choice.",
"\"To my children, Paul Newman wasn't an actor -- he was a philanthropist who made salad dressing,\" she says.",
"\"But he chose the charities that would profit from Newman's Own.",
"I wanted to go one step further and let people choose their own cause.\"",
"Through sales of her jewelry, the Joan B. Hornig Foundation has donated close to $750,000 to more than 600 causes, including hospitals, dance companies, schools, and the environment.",
"\"People ask, 'Why wouldn't you want to keep the money?'\"",
"she says. \"They think success is measured by what you put in your pocket.",
"I get to create beautiful things that make a difference for people.",
"There isn't anyone who's been made richer by this experience than me.\"",
"Oprah.com: Where to shop for a change .",
"The silver bullet .",
"Liberian refugee Lovetta Conto transforms used munitions into objects of beauty.",
"Even as a small child, Lovetta Conto knew she wanted to be a fashion designer.",
"But when she told people, they'd laugh.",
"\"They said, 'You live in a refugee camp, and you think that's going to happen?'\"",
"she says. \"But I always pictured myself in a higher place, growing up like a beautiful flower out of a mud pit.\"",
"Lovetta, now 17, spent a decade in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana, home to 47,000 people, mostly Liberians fleeing their country's civil war and its aftermath.",
"\"I often went hungry, and there was no clean drinking water,\" she says.",
"\"Girls were selling themselves to survive, and there was a lot of rape.\"",
"But three years ago, Lovetta's talents had a chance to bloom: She was granted a Strongheart Fellowship, under a Liberian program designed to help gifted young people who have been orphaned or uprooted by war create businesses to benefit their communities.",
"Today she designs Akawelle (the name is a combination of aka, for \"also known as,\" and wel'le, the word for \"love\" in Kpelle, Lovetta's tribal language), a line of delicate jewelry made from the spent bullets of her country's war.",
"Half of all profits from the sale of the jewelry goes to the Strongheart House, a home in Robertsport, Liberia, for displaced children and other Strongheart fellows.",
"Lovetta herself was displaced when she was only 8 months old: After rebels attacked, she and her father, Larry, fled their town in central Liberia (her mother was out at the time, and Larry assumed she had been killed).",
"\"We walked for one week,\" he says.",
"\"We crossed rebel territory, slept in the bush.",
"If I saw a breastfeeding mother, I would appeal to her to please give Lovetta milk.\"",
"After years of moving to escape the fighting, they settled at Buduburam.",
"Lovetta lived with other families while her father looked for work.",
"Cori Stern, founder of the Strongheart Fellowship, met Lovetta when she was just 12 and remembers how self-assured she was, even then.",
"When officials said there was no need to build a school for disabled students because there were none in the camp, \"Lovetta said, 'No -- my best friend is blind, and they won't let him go to school because he can't see,'\" Stern recalls.",
"\"The men did not like having a little girl go against what they were saying.\"",
"Stern brought Lovetta to the United States in 2006 to attend school.",
"In Buduburam, Lovetta's schooling had been sporadic, and she did not learn to read until 2007 (despite the late start, she finished the entire \"Twilight\" series in six weeks).",
"Still, the visit to the United States was bittersweet.",
"Lovetta was shocked to see homeless people in a country of such abundance and thought it unfair that some should have so much while others had so little.",
"She also couldn't understand why Americans did not do more to help her country's refugees: \"It made me angry that this whole world was here when I was in my darkest moment, and no one came to help.\"",
"Oprah.com: Meet the one-man international aid organization .",
"By turning bullets into things of beauty, Lovetta is doing her part to help.",
"Since 2007 Akawelle has sold more than 400 necklaces and raised almost $20,000.",
"Lovetta has also spoken at schools across the United States, and her necklaces have attracted fans like Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie.",
"\"I wear one, and my kids have her necklaces, too,\" says Jolie.",
"\"It was an opportunity to teach them about remarkable people like Lovetta, and pass on her message of love and tolerance.\"",
"Lovetta also wants her message to be one of hope: \"I believe that whatever you go through, there is always new life, a new beginning.",
"So even a bullet that has killed someone can be the same one to help a new generation.\"",
"Oprah.com: One man's record-breaking blood donations .",
"By Aimee Lee Ball from O, The Oprah Magazine, December 2009 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Joan Hornig made a fortune in business and focuses on jewelry to fund charities .",
"Profits from her necklaces, bracelets, earrings go to charity of buyer's choice .",
"Lovetta Conto escaped Liberia's civil war to grow up in a refugee camp .",
"Half of her jewelry profits go to shelters for displaced children ."
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"(CNN) -- Walt Hazzard, the dazzling point guard who led UCLA to its first NCAA basketball title and starred in high school, the NBA and the Olympics, died after a long illness, according to the UCLA Bruins' website.",
"The 69-year-old Hazzard died Friday afternoon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement from his family.",
"He had been recuperating from complications following heart surgery.",
"\"This is a sad day for the UCLA basketball family,\" UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero said in a statement.",
"\"Walt was the catalyst for coach John Wooden's first championship team and played the game with a style that excited Bruin basketball fans everywhere.",
"He contributed to his alma mater in numerous ways, including as a student-athlete, coach and honored alum, and he will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him.",
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Jaleesa, and their four sons.\"",
"Hazzard starred at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, where he led the school to an 89-3 record.",
"He transferred to UCLA after the 1960-61 season at Santa Monica College and played for Wooden, a fabled coach who mentored excellent teams through the years.",
"the sophomore Hazzard led the team to the Final Four in 1961-62 but it lost to Cincinnati.",
"Two years later, as a senior, he led the Bruins to the NCAA championship in 1964, the first of many championships for what had become a college basketball dynasty.",
"He earned All-America honors at UCLA as a junior and senior and piled up impressive scoring statistics there.",
"He was chosen for the U.S. Olympic team in 1964 and helped the United States win a gold medal at the games in Tokyo.",
"He later joined the NBA, playing with the Los Angeles Lakers and others teams -- Seattle, Atlanta, Buffalo and Golden State -- for a total of 10 seasons.",
"He went into coaching and eventually became head coach for the Bruins for four years during the 1980s.",
"Under Hazzard, the team won a National Invitation Tournament, a PAC-10 title and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.",
"After coaching, he scouted and consulted for the Lakers.",
"He also got involved with the Young Black Scholars group and started a non-profit for middle school students, the Los Angeles Sports Academy.",
"The 100 Black Men of Los Angeles Inc. in October gave Hazzard a Lifetime Achievement Award.",
"\"He was a great player and an outstanding coach at UCLA.",
"He is a huge part of the Bruin legacy, and he left life-long memories for the Bruin faithful,\" UCLA head men's basketball coach Ben Howland said.",
"CNN's Rosalina Nieves contributed to this report."
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"He helped the U.S. win a gold in the Olympics .",
"Hazzard came back to UCLA to coach .",
"He played with the Lakers and other NBA teams ."
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"(CNN) -- A Portuguese appeals court has ruled against extraditing fugitive American hijacking suspect George Wright to the United States, his attorney said Thursday.",
"\"I am very, very happy,\" said Manuel Luis Ferreira, attorney for Wright, 68, who was found in Portugal in September after more than 40 years in hiding.",
"Wright said he was grateful to the Portuguese justice system.",
"\"They made the right decision and this is correct,\" he told CNN affiliate RTP Portugal.",
"Wright's house arrest was also lifted, and he is free to move around with no restrictions, Ferreira said.",
"A three-judge appeals court in Lisbon agreed with all Wright's arguments to reject the U.S. bid for extradition, including the fact he is now a Portuguese citizen and is in declining health.",
"They also agreed the statute of limitations on the case has expired, according to Portuguese state-run news agency LUSA.",
"The United States can appeal to Portugal's Supreme Court, Ferreira said.",
"He said he could not release the court's ruling as it is secret.",
"The U.S. State Department said it was \"extremely disappointed\" in the ruling.",
"\"George Wright is a convicted murderer guilty of an extremely serious crime which falls squarely within the terms of our bilateral extradition treaty with Portugal,\" the department said in a statement.",
"\"He is a fugitive from justice.",
"We expect Portugal to abide by its treaty obligations in this case.",
"In conjunction with the Department of Justice, we will review the court's decision and consult with Portuguese authorities to determine a path forward that results in Mr. Wright's return to the United States.\"",
"Wright escaped from prison in 1970 while serving a 15- to 30-year sentence for murder after he and another man shot and killed a World War II veteran in a 1962 gas station robbery in Farmingdale, New Jersey.",
"On July 31, 1972, Wright and four other members of the Black Liberation Army went to the Detroit airport and boarded Delta Flight 841 for Miami.",
"Wright was dressed as a priest and carrying a hollowed-out Bible.",
"The group then allegedly hijacked the plane.",
"Once it landed in Miami, they allegedly demanded that FBI agents dressed only in bathing suits deliver $1 million in ransom to the plane -- a way of making sure they were not armed.",
"The FBI followed instructions, and the scantily clad agents delivered the money.",
"After allowing the 88 passengers off, the hijackers kept the flight crew on board and ordered the plane to fly to Boston.",
"When it arrived, an extra navigator -- dressed in swim trunks and a shirt -- was brought on board, the DC-8 was refueled, and it flew to Algiers, Algeria.",
"The Algerian government seized the ransom money and returned it to the United States, but Wright and his associates vanished.",
"Some were arrested in Paris in 1976.",
"It's not clear how he wound up in Portugal.",
"U.S. authorities were able to locate Wright near Lisbon by tracking his travel patterns, ending a manhunt spanning three continents.",
"When seeking Wright, authorities matched a fingerprint in a Portuguese national identification database with one that they had on file for Wright from his time in prison, according to two U.S. law enforcement officials.",
"Then they set up a delicate surveillance operation to make sure they had the man who had eluded them for so long, the officials added.",
"Ferreira previously said his client was suffering from heart and blood pressure problems.",
"\"He thinks that if he goes to the U.S. he will die,\" he told CNN earlier.",
"\"He was a member of the Black Panthers group, and he fears that he will be made to serve as an example for everyone if he goes, and that he will die in prison.\"",
"He said Wright was a married father of two adult sons who goes by the name Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos in Portugal."
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"NEW: U.S. expresses disappointment with the decision .",
"A three-judge panel says George Wright should not be extradited .",
"Wright's house arrest was also lifted, his attorney says .",
"Wright is accused of hijacking a plane in 1972 in Miami ."
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"(CNN) -- Eugene Terreblanche, one of South Africa's most notorious white supremacists, was killed Saturday in an apparent dispute over wages with workers on his farm.",
"Terreblanche was the leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB) which attempted to resist South Africa's transformation from Apartheid to democracy in the 1990s.",
"Police said the 69-year-old was bludgeoned and stabbed to death with clubs and a machete in an attack at his farm near the town of Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West Province .",
"Two of his farm workers ages 21 and 16 turned themselves in to authorities in connection with the killing and will appear in court on Tuesday, they said.",
"The AWB said Terreblanche had been attacked in his bed while he took an afternoon nap and urged its members and supporters to be calm as they mourn their leader.",
"South African President Jacob Zuma also appealed for calm after news of the killing broke, according to the country's national news agency, SAPA.",
"Terreblanche's death comes amid a time of racial polarization in the country.",
"A South African court last month banned the playing of a political song called \"Kill the Boer,\" most recently sung by radical youth leader Julius Malema.",
"The apartheid-era song's lyrics translate to \"kill the farmer.\"",
"South African civil rights group AfriForum condemned the killing and also called for calm in a statement on its Web site.",
"\"These events are a call to all South Africans to come to their senses and to be aware of the extremely polarized and violent circumstances presently prevalent in the country,\" the statement said.",
"The group also said that \"all communities -- white, as well as black -- should refrain from reckless statements and from romanticizing violence.\"",
"Terreblanche's AWB used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections.",
"Terreblanche was convicted of the 1996 attempted murder of Paul Motshabi, a black man who worked as a security guard on Terreblanche's farm.",
"He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence.",
"He was also convicted of setting his dog on a black man in an earlier incident.",
"CNN's Robyn Curnow contributed to this report."
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"Far-right leader Terreblanche was bludgeoned and stabbed to death .",
"Two of Terreblanche's farm workers have turned themselves into police .",
"Terreblanche best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid .",
"His death comes amid a time of heightened racial polarization in the country ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Authorities don't expect delays on subways, buses and tunnels Friday, a day after Occupy Wall Street demonstrators converged on New York City to mark a nationwide \"mass day of action.\"",
"No incidents and additional arrests were reported overnight, authorities said.",
"Scores were arrested Thursday and several police officers were reported injured as protesters fanned out across the city moved toward Foley Square in Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge.",
"Many had crossed the bridge -- the same place where more than 700 had been arrested last month -- chanting, \"This is what democracy looks like -- This is what America looks like,\" according to the New York movement's official Twitter feed.",
"This time, they marched in the pedestrian walkway and did not block the roadway.",
"Occupy protesters also took to the streets in all corners of the nation -- from Miami to Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon and Boston -- marking two months since the activist effort aimed at the nation's wealthiest 1% began in Manhattan.",
"\"I think the numbers have increased dramatically,\" New York protester Jo Robin said Thursday.",
"\"Particularly after the raid, our message is being broadcast all over the world.\"",
"Police said a total of 245 people had been arrested around the city Thursday.",
"Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at least seven police officers were hurt Thursday during exchanges with protesters.",
"Five of those officers were injured when a unidentified liquid was thrown on their faces, Kelly said, adding that they experienced a burning sensation and required hospitalization.",
"It is not clear how many demonstrators have been injured during the clashes.",
"Authorities constructed barricades at Zuccotti Park in front of the New York Stock Exchange and along Fifth Avenue in an apparent attempt to keep demonstrators off the roads and on pedestrian walkways.",
"Residents and workers near the New York Stock Exchange were required to flash identification cards as police cordoned off the area amid concerns that demonstrators would try to disrupt trading.",
"Earlier Thursday, protesters lifted metal barricades around Zuccotti Park, a former home-base for the movement, defying authorities and blocking traffic.",
"Bloomberg said the day's protests had \"caused minimal disruptions to our city,\" but added that some demonstrators had \"deliberately\" pursued violence.",
"The Occupy movement showed no signs of abating elsewhere in the United States.",
"In cities such as St. Louis and Milwaukee, thousands responded to the \"day of action\" plea.",
"In Los Angeles, about 50 people were arrested Thursday, authorities said.",
"In Portland, police reported 48 people arrested in three separate incidents.",
"Another 21 were issued citations for blocking a street in Las Vegas, local police said.",
"And in Atlanta, police arrested eight for blocking a roadway.",
"There were also arrests in other places, including Chicago and Houston.",
"CNN's Marina Landis contributed to this report."
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"Fifty more were arrested in Los Angeles incidents, an officer says ."
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"(Financial Times) -- The eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou produces more cigarette lighters and spectacles than anywhere on earth, and has long been seen as an economic trend-setter for the entire country.",
"So reports that dozens of factory owners in the city have absconded in recent weeks, leaving workers unpaid and mountains of debt, are seen by some as an ominous sign for the national economy.",
"Slowing global demand for cheap Chinese exports, rising production costs and unsustainable levels of debt have combined to crush some of the country's most savvy entrepreneurs.",
"In one tragic case, the owner of a Wenzhou shoe factory who owed more than Rmb400m ($63m) committed suicide three weeks ago.",
"More than 90 other bosses have run away, according to state media.",
"Trade fluctuations in China, the world's leading exporter, are often seen as indicators of the health of the global economy -- and for some bearish investors, Wenzhou's problems are a sign that a hard landing is imminent for the nation.",
"This is a dire prospect for the global economy at a time when most of the developed world is facing the likelihood of renewed recession.",
"In fact, the city's troubles are un-likely to trigger a drastic nationwide crash any time soon; most analysts believe China is on track for just a gradual slowdown in coming months.",
"But events in that city do represent a crucial turning point for the nation.",
"\"What's happening in Wenzhou is a reflection of the current Chinese model coming to an end,\" says Huang Yiping of Barclays Capital about the country's export-led, investment-driven growth paradigm.",
"\"China's economic success over the last 30 years has been built on cheap capital, cheap labour, cheap energy and cheap land but this has now produced huge imbalances and inefficiencies that are causing more and more problems.\"",
"The change will affect not just inhabitants of the world's most populous nation, where growth averaging 10 per cent a year for the past three decades has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.",
"It also heralds a structural change that will affect western businesses and consumers long used to ever cheaper Chinese goods.",
"In addition, the shift will hit exporters in both developed and emerging economies that are increasingly reliant on China's appetite for raw materials to feed its investment and construction boom, which shows signs of running out of steam.",
"China's economic miracle began in 1978, when the Communist party launched market-oriented reforms granting farmers limited property rights and permission to sell anything they produced in excess of state quotas.",
"This led to soaring agricultural productivity and rural incomes.",
"It was followed by reforms encouraging mass migration, industrialisation and investment in a manufacturing sector that became known as the workshop for the world.",
"In 1990, income per capita was 30 per cent lower than the average for sub-Saharan Africa.",
"Today, at more than $4,000, it is three times greater, according to World Bank data.",
"The unbeatable \"China price\" that attracted investors and buyers from all over the world was predicated on an endless supply of cheap, pliant labour; virtually free land; cheap and easy credit from state-owned banks; and heavily suppressed costs for inputs such as power and water.",
"But having drastically raised the living standards of almost a fifth of humanity, the formula is increasingly seen as defunct, and a contributor to serious problems including environmental degradation and rapidly rising social inequality.",
"\"The drivers of China's meteoric rise are on the wane,\" says Robert Zoellick, World Bank president.",
"\"Resources have largely shifted from agriculture to industry; as the labour force shrinks and the population ages, there are fewer workers to support retirees; and productivity increases are on the decline.\"",
"With its world-class infrastructure and existing domestic and international supply chains, China will remain a global manufacturing base for some time to come.",
"But minimum wages are rising more than 20 per cent a year in many areas, and land is increasingly scarce and expensive.",
"In addition, the government is reducing the supply of cheap credit and has moved to liberalise prices for energy and other utilities.",
"Meanwhile, the flood of investment in new factories, roads, airports and housing estates that has been the main driver of growth looks increasingly unsustainable.",
"Back in Wenzhou, Xu Chuan, general manager of Xinhua Soft Packing, says times are tough.",
"The business, which makes products from plastic bottles to zips, has been squeezed by rising costs and a lack of workers willing to take wages considered generous just a couple of years ago.",
"\"We are making much less money than before and in-put price rises are so serious it is hard to find many companies that are making money these days,\" Mr Xu says.",
"His predicament is partly a result of demographics.",
"Many experts believe China's working-age population has already peaked and will decline in coming years, a trend exacerbated by the three-decade-old one-child policy.",
"It is also partly the price of success for the country's meteoric economic rise, which is lifting the prices of almost everything and shrinking the pool of impoverished workers willing to toil in factories or on construction sites for a pittance.",
"The country's leadership is well aware of the distortions that have built up in the economy; and freely acknowledges time is running out for a model that has served it so well.",
"\"China suffers a serious lack of balance, co-ordination and sustainability in its development,\" President Hu Jintao said in a recent speech.",
"\"We must accelerate strategic adjustment of the economic structure, scientific and technological progress and innovation, and the building of a resource-conserving and environmentally friendly society.\"",
"Beijing's latest five-year plan, which runs from 2011 until 2015, is packed full of vows to increase domestic consumption and wean the economy off its reliance on exports and particularly investment.",
"But leaders have been talking for more than a decade about achieving these goals, and in fact the reverse has occurred.",
"Consumption fell from about 45 per cent of gross domestic product in the late 1990s to an unusually low 33 per cent last year.",
"Investment has hit a global high of 50 per cent of GDP.",
"\"When reforms began 30 years ago, the investment rate was around 25 per cent of GDP and the economy grew at around 10 per cent a year, but now we are investing half of GDP for the same rate of growth; that tells you something about capital efficiency,\" says Mr Huang of Barclays Capital.",
"An involuntary shift from the old model appeared possible when the global financial crisis erupted in the west in 2008, triggering a collapse in global demand for Chinese exports, which fell by more than a third in the year to March 2009.",
"Thousands of factories closed and more than 23m migrant workers poured out of cities such as Wenzhou.",
"In response, Beijing launched an economic stimulus package described by some economists as the biggest monetary and fiscal easing in history as it sought to cushion the blow to exporters.",
"State-controlled banks were ordered to flood the economy with cash and local officials told to ramp up investment to jump-start growth.",
"The result was a surge in credit-fuelled investment, particularly in residential property.",
"In cities across the country, the results can be seen in forests of half-built apartment blocks, stadiums and convention centres.",
"To the rest of the world, the stimulus appeared an unqualified success, pushing headline GDP growth rates back up into double digits and stoking Chinese demand for imports, especially of natural resources.",
"But the reliance on debt and investment accentuated all the distortions Beijing had already identified in its growth model -- and added the prospect of a serious property bubble.",
"Most analysts agree China's economy, now the second largest, is today less healthy and more imbalanced than before the crisis, and even more reliant on investment, particularly in property and infrastructure.",
"\"It's as if the economy ballooned in weight by eating too much in the way of resources and becoming obese,\" says Derek Scissors of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank.",
"While the model may be coming to an end, most economists believe China remains on track for a soft landing in coming months as growth moderates.",
"GDP figures for the third quarter, due out on Tuesday, are likely to show annual growth that remains above 9 per cent.",
"Even if a severe slump were to hit, Beijing would still have the option of loosening monetary policy to revive the economy in the short term, and re-versing steps to cool the red-hot property market and rein in credit made available by the stimulus package.",
"But there is unlikely to be a return to the boom years of the previous decade, when inflation remained dormant as GDP rose.",
"Instead, growth will probably be 8 per cent or less, accompanied by persistent price rises -- HSBC predicts average consumer inflation of 5 per cent from 2011 to 2015, compared with 2 per cent from 2001 to 2010.",
"And now that China is the global production capital for so many of the world's manufactured goods, enduring Chinese inflation will mean higher prices for consumers the world over.",
"Beijing has identified the action it needs to take -- but many analysts believe it must do far more to hasten economic rebalancing towards consumption than its current efforts to provide better social services, build subsidised apartment blocks and encourage minimum wage increases.",
"\"China has limited time to effect a radical political and economic shift,\" according to George Magnus of UBS Investment Bank.",
"\"If this shift doesn't start in earnest soon, the Chinese economy will succumb to a credit and investment bust from which significantly slower growth would follow, and this will be especially sensitive in a China where incidents of social unrest are increasing significantly in number, intensity and breadth.\"",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2011 ."
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"Manufacturing hurt by slowing demand for cheap Chinese goods, rising costs and debt .",
"\"China suffers a serious lack of balance, co-ordination and sustainability in its development,\" said Hu Jintao .",
"Economists believe China remains on track for a soft landing as growth moderates .",
"There is unlikely to be a return to the boom years of the previous decade ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Just as it has happened for more than a century as the old year ticks toward history, a large crowd will gather Friday night in New York's Times Square to mark the old and the new with the descent of an iconic ball.",
"The dazzling crystal ball will begin its 70-foot descent precisely at 11:59 p.m.",
"ET to the chants of New Year's Eve revelers counting down the final seconds of 2010, according to the event's official website.",
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt.",
"Salvatore A. Giunta will push a button to start the ball toward 2011.",
"Weighing in at 11,875 pounds with a diameter of 12 feet, the sparkling sphere is covered with 2,668 triangular crystals and is powered by 32,256 LED lights.",
"By mixing red, blue, green and white light elements, the ball's lighting system is capable of producing a kaleidoscopic array of 16 million hues and colors, and billions of patterns, the event's website says.",
"Each giant New Year's numeral making up \"2-0-1-1\" will stand 7 feet high and the numerals will use a total 453 9-watt LED bulbs.",
"As in the past three years, the numerals were designed to be more energy efficient, as Duracell set up a lab in which visitors rode stationary bikes to provide the stored battery power that will light the numbers on the ball Friday night.",
"More than one ton of confetti will be released at midnight, with personal individual wishes written in more than 25 languages, a tradition from the past three years.",
"Times Square has served as one of the most popular sites of New Year's festivities since 1904, though the New Year's Eve ball made its inaugural drop down the flagpole at One Times Square in 1907.",
"That first ball, built with iron and wood, featured one hundred light bulbs and was designed by Jacob Starr, a young immigrant metalworker.",
"The New Year's Eve ball has beamed and dropped every year since with the exceptions of 1942 and 1943, when the United States was embroiled in World War II and New York City observed a citywide \"dim-out\" to cut energy costs.",
"According to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, this New Year's Eve celebration, like years in the past, is a product of a lot of hard work and planning by many people.",
"\"We don't ever take it for granted,\" Kelly said.",
"\"The situation changes somewhat, we have sort of a core plan but we always add to it or change it -- we don't want to get stuck in a rut where we simply take a plan off the shelf.\"",
"iReport: Times Square readies for the crowds .",
"As in previous years, security will be tight.",
"Times Square will be closed to traffic at approximately 3 p.m. on Friday.",
"Backpacks and alcohol are prohibited at the event and party-goers can expect a beefed-up police presence, according to the statement from the New York Police Department.",
"\"It is a big complex operation and you know you always breathe a sigh of relief when it's over,\" Kelly said."
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"This year, the ball will have lights that can mix to produce millions of colors .",
"More than a ton of confetti will be released at midnight ."
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"(CNN) -- The world of fashion responded to Japan's March earthquake, like many other industries, with the desire to help its victims.",
"Japanese clothing companies and fashion magazines mobilized charity campaigns and donated clothes to people in the stricken area.",
"Lady Gaga even designed a special bracelet that raised over $250,000 for the relief effort.",
"Personal shopping habits and even styles in Japan were also affected by the tragedy, but not necessarily in a negative way.",
"\"It is not our impression that people refrained from buying or wearing colorful clothing (after the earthquake in March),\" said Mitsuko Watanabe, editor of Vogue Japan.",
"\"On the contrary, some deliberately chose bright colors to retain a positive attitude and give themselves and others a lift,\" she added.",
"In cities far from where the tsunami hit, the immediate period after saw fashion stores close their doors to shoppers, adverts pulled from public places and sales of luxury brands drop.",
"However, by May sales for many luxury goods had risen above pre-disaster levels, according to Watanabe, especially for items that transcended fashion, namely engagement and wedding rings.",
"\"In times of crisis, people gain a fresh appreciation of what is really important in their lives.",
"\"These trends are a good indication of how people are seeking peace of mind, stability, and steadiness under the unsettling and uncertain circumstances,\" she said.",
"For those who didn't get the urge to marry, simple retail therapy was another response to the disaster.",
"According to a survey by Asian trend and innovation agency Five by Fifty, 58% of consumers in the big city areas of Osaka and Tokyo continued shopping for clothes and fashion as normal after the earthquake.",
"Of the 40% of people surveyed who admitted to reining in their clothes shopping, the main reason was personal finance rather than self-restraint or a sense of solidarity with the victims in the Tohoku region.",
"\"People did pull back somewhat immediately after (the disaster), but shopping didn't stop and they were buying items that were less obvious, like fragrances,\" said Nicole Fall, director of trends for Five by Fifty.",
"\"The perfume market for Japan is traditionally small compared to Europe, but it spiked after the earthquake.",
"It was something that could be enjoyed without being conspicuous or risk of being seen to come out of store carrying lots of shopping bags.\"",
"Japan's annual summer program of \"setsuden\" (energy-saving) was given extra significance this year with the nuclear crisis at Fukushima and reduced power supply.",
"It also meant some fashion brands recast their marketing strategies.",
"Fast fashion label Uniqlo brought out its \"Heattech\" line of insulating clothing at the end of July to tap into people's desire to cut back on heating bills and use less energy.",
"Now, six months since the earthquake, big-city consumer habits are back to normal and representative of a larger trend, suggests Fall.",
"\"People haven't deliberately made a stand (through their shopping habits).",
"If anything the earthquake has just amplified the feelings before it, which were generally representative of post-consumerism.",
"Young people often feel they can't afford things and people look for more from a purchase, as well as being savvy enough to look online.\"",
"Watanabe echoes the sentiment that Japanese consumers are more selective in their fashion purchases.",
"\"If there was any change of this nature, it seems to lie ... in a stronger inclination to select articles they will continue to be fond of long into the future,\" she said.",
"Watanabe also hopes that this year's \"Fashion's Night Out\" -- an evening of shopping and events on November 5 -- will give Japan's fashion industry a boost and reinforce the way the fashion can give back to the community.",
"Vogue's editor in chief Anna Wintour and other regional editors of Vogue will attend as a show of solidarity.",
"\"Fashion should make a more important contribution for social and economic good in what is a critical situation,\" said Watanabe."
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"Sales of wedding rings went up in Japan after the tsunami in March .",
"Vogue Japan Editor says people looking for more meaning from purchases .",
"Trend analyst suggests disaster only reinforced consumer trends .",
"Sales of perfume also went up post-earthquake as they are an inconspicuous purchase ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's prime minister appealed for calm and asked protesters to return to their homes Tuesday following four days of violence in Cairo and a day after the nation's Cabinet offered to resign.",
"\"We have met the demands of the people and submitted our resignations,\" Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said, according to Egypt's Nile TV.",
"\"Now please put the interests of the country first.\"",
"Fresh violence broke out Tuesday near the city's Tahrir Square.",
"For several hours, protesters hurled stones at police and chanted, calling for the downfall of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces.",
"The military-led government began leading the country after protesters ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.",
"Demonstrators apparently tried to defend Tahrir Square as they faced off with police on a connecting street.",
"The square was once a hub for the movement that led to Mubarak's ouster and is now a center for the protests against Egypt's military rulers.",
"Egyptian police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, forcing protesters to retreat briefly before they returned with renewed intensity.",
"Violence also spread to other parts of Egypt.",
"Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, will address the nation Tuesday, according to Egyptian state broadcaster Al Masriya.",
"The latest report contradicted an earlier one saying he would speak \"shortly.\"",
"After Mubarak's fall, military leaders took control with the promise that eventually a civilian government would be elected and take over.",
"Military leaders still say they will hand over power to a new government when one is elected.",
"However, while parliamentary elections are set to take place Monday, a complex electoral process follows, and the presidential vote could be a year away.",
"Demonstrators say they are concerned the military, which would continue to be Egypt's top authority until a president is in place, wants to keep a grip on the country.",
"Many also have voiced anger about a proposed constitutional principle that would shield the military's budget from scrutiny by civilian powers.",
"They say they worry the military would become a state within a state.",
"On the streets of Cairo, some protesters have gone further, shouting that they believe Mubarak is running the military council and, in fact, the entire country from prison.",
"He and his sons Gamal and Alaa face charges of corruption and of killing protesters.",
"Three Americans were arrested Monday outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo.",
"Authorities accuse them of throwing Molotov cocktails, said Adel Saeed, a spokesman for the office of Egypt's general prosecutor.",
"The young men are students at American University in Cairo, according to university spokeswoman Morgan Roth.",
"She identified them as Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pennsylvania; Luke Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Indiana; and Derrik Sweeney, 19, from Jefferson City, Missouri.",
"Porter attends Drexel University in Pennsylvania, Gates goes to Indiana University and Sweeney studies at Georgetown University, she said.",
"At least two of them were on a semesterlong study abroad program in Cairo.",
"David Lynfield, deputy press officer in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, said the \"claims are being currently investigated.\"",
"The university is working with the embassy, Roth said.",
"Tuesday's violence marks the fourth day of clashes between security forces and protesters.",
"Twenty-nine protesters have died in the clashes since Saturday, said Hisham Sheeha, spokesman for Egypt's Health Ministry.",
"About 1,785 people have been injured, he said.",
"Earlier, Dr. Adil al-Adawi, another ministry spokesman, said about 200 of those injuries came Monday.",
"Egypt's Interior Ministry said 102 officers and conscripts have been injured, with wounds ranging from gunshots to burns from Molotov cocktails.",
"One officer was shot in the head.",
"Some political factions have vowed to hold a sit-in Tuesday at Tahrir Square, demanding the immediate resignation of the Supreme Council.",
"They also demand the immediate punishment of those who have killed protesters in the past few days.",
"The Alliance of the Revolutionaries of Egypt is calling the event a \"million man sit-in.\"",
"The Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest organizations in the nation, has said that its members will not join that protest.",
"\"We didn't start this mess,\" said engineering student Mahmour Radwan, who traveled to Cairo from Alexandria on Tuesday with two friends to join the protests.",
"He said authorities started it, when they killed people \"and put them in the street.\"",
"Radwan and many other protesters were equipped with surgical masks and other items in an attempt to protect themselves from the clouds of tear gas.",
"Young women stood nearby, holding bottles of water and poised to treat those overcome by the tear gas.",
"Violence also spread to Alexandria ahead of a planned \"million man\" protest there.",
"One person was killed and 60 others injured in that city, said al-Adawi, a Health Ministry spokesman.",
"Thousands of people clashed with police Monday night near the city's police headquarters.",
"Rocks were thrown and tear gas used, said activist Huda Al-Sadani.",
"Some people were arrested, Al-Sadani said, and clashes continued throughout the night.",
"Two of the deaths came in the city of Ismalia, said Sheeha, a Health Ministry spokesman.",
"Violence also was reported in the city of Suez.",
"Amid the unrest, Egypt's Cabinet offered to resign Monday night.",
"Justice Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz al-Juindy explained that this move to quit the government was driven by opposition to the security forces' crackdown on demonstrators.",
"\"I resigned because of the events in Tahrir (Square), because of the political responsibility,\" al-Juindy said.",
"The Supreme Council has not said whether the resignations were accepted.",
"As the potential political shuffling played out, animosity and violence continued to simmer in the streets.",
"Saeed, the spokesman for the general prosecutor's office, said 127 demonstrators who had been arrested in Cairo since Saturday have been released.",
"Another five have been \"detained temporarily for further investigation.\"",
"The military council has said on its Facebook page it is \"extremely sorry for what the events have led to.\"",
"And spokesman Maj. Mohamed Askar said late Monday that the Supreme Council has ordered a fact-finding mission to assess what has happened.",
"Moreover, the Supreme Council also is calling upon \"all political forces to hold dialogue as soon as possible in order to address the escalation\" of unrest, Askar said.",
"However, Amnesty International, in a report issued this month, said the Supreme Council, \"in the name of ensuring security and stability ... (has) committed numerous human rights violations, ignoring the very demands for social justice and fundamental freedoms that triggered the uprising.\" ...",
"Since assuming power in February, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has repeatedly pledged to break the cycle of repression entrenched over the past 30 years.",
"In reality, however, it has resorted to familiar patterns of abuse.\"",
"A recent endorsement in full of Egypt's emergency law and its expansion, after it was restricted last year under Mubarak, is considered the largest example of human rights violation, the organization said.",
"However, it alleged demonstrations have been violently dispersed and protesters have been arrested, detained and tortured \"before being tried unfairly before military courts and convicted.\"",
"In addition, Amnesty International alleged, the Supreme Council has placed arbitrary restrictions on the media.",
"Some television stations have been raided and ordered closed, while satellite television stations have been frozen.",
"The council has also failed to address discrimination of women, according to the group.",
"\"If the hopes of the uprising are to be realized, urgent action is needed now to ensure that one repressive rule is not simply replaced with another,\" the report said.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and Michael Pearson and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Report: Prime minister appeals for calm, asks protesters to return home .",
"Official: Twenty-nine people have been killed since Saturday, 1,785 injured .",
"Some political factions plan a \"million man sit-in\" on Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- Oregon Gov.",
"John Kitzhaber blocked the execution of a death row inmate on Tuesday and said no more executions will take place in the state as long as he is governor.",
"He issued a temporary reprieve in the case of Gary Haugen, who was reportedly scheduled to be put to death next month.",
"\"It is time for Oregon to consider a different approach.",
"I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions while I am governor,\" he said in a statement.",
"Oregon has 37 inmates on death row, some of whom have been there for more than 20 years.",
"Kitzhaber did not commute their sentences, he said, because: \"The policy of this state on capital punishment is not mine alone to decide.\"",
"He urged lawmakers to bring potential reforms before the 2013 legislative session.",
"Death penalty's unlikely opponents .",
"The Democratic governor called the state's death penalty system, as it is now, \"expensive and unworkable.\"",
"Not counting Oregon, 16 U.S. states do not have the death penalty, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group.",
"Illinois banned it this year.",
"Oregon voted to reinstate the death penalty in 1984, and since then has put two people to death -- in 1996 and 1997.",
"Both executions were carried out on inmates who had waived their rights to appeal and took place during Kitzhaber's first term.",
"\"They were the most agonizing and difficult decisions I have made as governor, and I have revisited and questioned them over and over again during the past 14 years.",
"I do not believe that those executions made us safer; and certainly they did not make us nobler as a society.",
"And I simply cannot participate once again in something I believe to be morally wrong,\" he said.",
"Haugen, a twice-convicted murder, was scheduled to die on December 6, according to The Oregonian.",
"He had similarly waived his rights to appeal.",
"Results of October 2011 CNN Poll .",
"A 2010 national poll of registered voters conducted by Lake Research Partners showed growing support for alternatives to the death penalty, compared with previous polls.",
"A clear majority of voters (61%) would choose a punishment other than the death penalty for murder, including life with no possibility of parole and with restitution to the victim's family (39%), life with no possibility of parole (13%) or life with the possibility of parole (9%).",
"So far this year, 43 inmates have been executed in the United States, compared with 46 in all of 2010.",
"Nationally, some 3,200 inmates await execution."
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"John Kitzhaber halts the execution of a death row inmate .",
"He says he believes the death penalty to be \"morally wrong\"\nOregon last executed someone in 1997, when Kitzhaber was governor .",
"16 U.S. states do not have the death penalty ."
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"(CNN) -- Jay Paterno, Penn State's quarterbacks coach and son of legendary coach Joe Paterno, spoke out after weeks of public and personal challenges for his father.",
"In an interview with ESPN on Friday, Jay Paterno spoke about his father's recent diagnosis of lung cancer and the child rape allegations against an assistant coach that eventually ended Joe Paterno's 46-year head coaching career.",
"The younger Paterno said Friday that while his world has turned \"upside down\" in the past two weeks, \"We've got to make sure we keep focus on the victims of this whole tragedy.\"",
"Jay Paterno said he hasn't spoken out publicly because his father's health has been \"the big, main focus the last seven, eight days.\"",
"On Friday, his brother Scott said his father has a treatable form of lung cancer.",
"The family learned of the diagnosis after Paterno's follow-up visit last weekend for a bronchial illness, Scott Paterno said.",
"\"He is currently undergoing treatment, and his doctors are optimistic that he will make a full recovery,\" Scott Paterno said in a statement.",
"\"As everyone can appreciate, this is a deeply personal matter for my parents, and we simply ask that his privacy be respected as he proceeds with treatment.\"",
"Penn state's new president, Rod Erickson, issued a statement Saturday, saying, \"This is very unfortunate news and another sad note for our Penn State community.",
"Our thoughts are with him and his family at this difficult time and we certainly pray for his speedy recovery.\"",
"Paterno, 84, the all-time winningest football coach in Division I history, was fired last week amid an outcry over the handling of abuse claims involving former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.",
"Jay Paterno told ESPN that many members of the football staff were surprised to learn about the allegations against Sandusky.",
"\"Most of us found out when investigators came and began to ask questions, because most of us knew so little we weren't even called to the grand jury,\" Jay Paterno said.",
"National outrage grew 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.",
"Paterno said 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.\"",
"It was years before law enforcement learned about the allegation.",
"Friday's announcement coincided with news of an NCAA investigation at Penn State.",
"\"This unprecedented situation demands the NCAA evaluate the university's accountability\" and application of NCAA bylaws, NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a letter to the school.",
"CNN contributor Sara Ganim reported from Pennsylvania."
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"Joe Paterno's son Jay: We must \"keep focus on the victims of this whole tragedy\"\nJoe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, his family says .",
"Paterno is the winningest coach in Division I college football history .",
"He has said he wished he had done more after hearing sex abuse allegation ."
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"(CNN) -- Three American college students were being held Tuesday, possibly in a Cairo courthouse, accused of lobbing Molotov cocktails during the unrest gripping Tahrir Square, authorities and family members said.",
"The news came as a blow to their families in the United States, especially after seeing a video aired on Egyptian state television showing the three students nervously standing shoulder to shoulder along a wall in front of what appeared to be liquid-filled bottles.",
"\"I can't remember seeing his face look like that,\" said Nicole Sweeney, whose brother Derrik Sweeney is among those detained.",
"\"He looks absolutely terrified.\"",
"American University in Cairo identified the three detained students as Sweeney, 19, a Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Missouri; Gregory Porter, 19, from Glenside, Pennsylvania, who attends Drexel University in Philadelphia; and Luke Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Indiana, who goes to Indiana University.",
"They were spending the semester in Cairo as part of a study-abroad program, according to American University.",
"Cairo police have questioned the three, who were detained Monday night, and they will face additional investigation by prosecutors, said Adel Saeed, a spokesman for the office of Egypt's general prosecutor.",
"\"The three boys were throwing Molotov cocktails and had no passports on them when they were picked up,\" Saeed said.",
"Later, he told CNN that the prosecutor was unable to question the students on Tuesday because of ongoing protests.",
"They will be questioned on Wednesday in the presence of legal representatives from the U.S. Embassy, he said.",
"\"They were throwing explosives at security forces -- which is a crime,\" Saeed said.",
"Nicole Sweeney said her family had been told the men were apparently being held in a courthouse.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland did not comment on the men's whereabouts during a briefing with reporters, but said officials believe they know where the three are and that they are safe.",
"\"I don't think we have any information to indicate otherwise,\" she said, adding that she did not believe the men had been formally charged.",
"Social-media posts appear to show Gates and Sweeney in the thick of recent protests in Cairo, with Gates indicating he had been injured in clashes over the weekend.",
"\"Earlier tonight rubber bullets a charge and then a retreat,\" said a message posted Sunday from a Twitter account with Gates' name and a photo resembling one of the men in the police video.",
"The poster added that his knee and elbow were hurt.",
"On Saturday, the writer said that \"we were throwing rocks and one guy accidentally threw his phone.\"",
"Another Facebook account shows a man resembling Sweeney during protests in Cairo.",
"CNN could not independently confirm the authenticity of the posts.",
"Gates' father, George William Gates, told CNN that he learned of his son's detention in a call from an American University official.",
"\"It was a hard call to get,\" he said.",
"\"He told us that everything was fine and he was really happy,\" Gates said of an earlier conversation with his son.",
"\"Luke said so many people were friendly to him and that it was easy to make friends there.\"",
"Sweeney's mother, Joy Sweeney, said she was worried about her son's safety, but he had assured her he was fine the last time they spoke.",
"\"He has always been somebody who believes in democracy and standing up for what you believe in and I know that he was excited at the opportunity to be in Egypt right now.",
"I also know that he is an extreme pacifist,\" she told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.",
"\"He would never do anything to inflict violence on somebody else.\"",
"News of their detention came on the fourth consecutive day of clashes between protesters and police in and around Tahrir Square, which also was the focal point of a popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak as president in February.",
"Demonstrators are calling for the removal of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, the ruling body that took power after Mubarak's ouster.",
"Thirty people have died in the clashes since Saturday, according to Egypt's Health Ministry.",
"About 1,950 have been injured.",
"Georgetown and Drexel officials both released statements saying they are working with American University and U.S. authorities to obtain their students' release.",
"David Lynfield, deputy press officer for the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, said the Egyptian authorities' \"claims are being currently investigated.\"",
"Sweeney interned for U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Missouri, between February and May, press secretary Pat Sloca said.",
"Luetkemeyer has been in touch with the U.S. State Department about Sweeney's detention, said Sloca, who added that the student had been an \"outstanding worker\" during his internship.",
"He is a dual Arabic and psychology major who wanted to get more experience in an Arabic-speaking country, according to his sister.",
"\"The Cairo program was actually the most stable of his options,\" she said.",
"Amin Bonnah, a visiting professor at Georgetown who taught an Arabic class Sweeney took, recalled him as a \"very peaceful, socially peaceful, loving person.\"",
"\"I do not believe he is the kind of person who did that,\" Bonnah said.",
"Gates is a junior who is pursuing a double major in political science and Near Eastern languages and culture, said Ryan Piurek, communications director at Indiana University.",
"Gates has been interested in different cultures since childhood and began applying to overseas programs before the Egyptian revolution this year, according to his father.",
"Porter is an international studies major at Drexel, according to university spokeswoman Niki Gianakaris.",
"The American University in Cairo, where the three were studying, describes itself as \"an American liberal arts university in the heart of the Middle East.\"",
"The university was founded in 1919 by Americans and says it \"offers a vital bridge between the cultures of East and West.\"",
"It is chartered and accredited in both the United States and Egypt.",
"The university boasts nearly 5,000 undergraduates from 113 countries as well as the largest English-language library in Egypt.",
"The AUC Press is the leading publisher of English-language books in the Arab world, the school says.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes, Ashley Fantz, Jamie Crawford, Brian Todd, Dugald McConnell, Janelle Griffin and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"They are accused of lobbing Molotov cocktails during the unrest in Tahrir Square .",
"The students were spending the semester in Cairo as part of a study-abroad program .",
"The U.S. State Department expects to have access to them on Wednesday ."
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"(CNN) -- You probably won't see any \"Pan Am\" glamour in the newest television program focusing on an airline, but you can still expect plenty of drama.",
"TLC has ordered a new reality series that will take viewers behind the scenes at Southwest Airlines.",
"Production begins this weekend at Baltimore Washington International Airport and Denver International Airport, just in time for the holiday travel rush.",
"More airports will be added in the coming weeks.",
"TLC promises \"unprecedented access\" that will reveal what it takes for Southwest to transport passengers in the era of packed planes, unruly passengers and countless air travel frustrations.",
"The series of 13 half-hour episodes will also profile some of the airline's customers \"as they prepare to travel for milestone moments,\" TLC says.",
"\"Air travel has become incredibly accessible, and as a result, millions of travelers navigate the challenges of the airport, especially during the upcoming holiday season,\" said Amy Winter, general manager of TLC, in a statement.",
"\"Southwest is a beloved brand, and their customers and employees will reveal the passion, commitment, and fantastic payoff of 'getting there' that helps keep us all flying.\"",
"Southwest is no stranger to reality TV cameras.",
"The carrier was the subject of \"Airline,\" a series that ran on A&E in 2004 and 2005.",
"The network canceled the show after three seasons.",
"The title and premiere date of TLC's series have yet to be set."
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"Production begins at Baltimore Washington International and Denver International .",
"TLC says \"Southwest is a beloved brand\""
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"London (CNN) -- When Hosni Mubarak's decades-long rule came to an end in February, Cairo's Tahrir Square was a scene of jubilation, as hundreds of thousands of people celebrated the fall of a man many had feared for years.",
"Today the square is once again a focal point for unrest and anger at the Egyptian regime, and the site of a bloody crackdown on demonstrations.",
"So what has happened to change the mood of the country so dramatically?",
"Why are Egyptians no longer satisfied with the revolution they helped bring about?",
"How was Hosni Mubarak ousted?",
"After more than 30 years in power, Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down as president on February 11, 2011 following weeks of rioting and unrest across the country.",
"What had begun as a protest over unemployment, poverty and repression became a widespread popular uprising, with hundreds of thousands of people staging mass demonstrations in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and elsewhere.",
"After resigning and handing control of the country to the military, Mubarak retreated to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where he was subsequently detained by the authorities .",
"Who is running the country now?",
"In the wake of Mubarak's departure, Egypt's military dissolved the country's parliament and suspended the constitution .",
"In its place, a council of generals -- the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) -- led by former defense minister Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, took charge.",
"They promised new elections for the country's houses of parliament and for the presidency.",
"Following the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik in March, Essam Sharaf was named as his replacement at the head of a new caretaker cabinet charged with paving the way for a new civilian government.",
"But for many, the pace of reform in the months since revolution has been too slow.",
"\"The situation has become increasingly tense,\" said Dr Maha Azzam, Egypt expert and associate fellow at London-based international affairs think-tank Chatham House.",
"\"There is a growing perception that the military, the Supreme Council, was the backbone of the previous regime, and that it is, in effect, a continuation of that regime.\"",
"What about the cabinet? Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and members of the Cabinet handed in their resignations on Monday night in response to the military's crackdown on demonstrators.",
"\"We have met the demands of the people and submitted our resignations,\" Sharaf said, according to Egypt's Nile TV, before urging the protesters to remain calm and return home.",
"\"Now please put the interests of the country first.\"",
"\"I resigned because of the events in Tahrir [Square], because of the political responsibility,\" Culture Minister Imad Edin Abu Ghazi told CNN Arabic.",
"On Tuesday, Tantawi announced that the mass resignation had been accepted, and that another caretaker government would be put in place ahead of the upcoming elections.",
"Why has trouble flared now?",
"More than nine months on from Mubarak's overthrow, many of the things the country's revolutionaries fought against remain: The country is, in effect, a dictatorship, elections have yet to take place, and protesters fear the military will not give up its hold on power easily.",
"\"There has been a build-up of grievances, because of the heavy-handedness of the military regime in dealing with the protesters,\" said Azzam.",
"\"The hope was that with the Mubarak regime gone there would be freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, that the emergency laws would be repealed and that there would be no more human rights abuses.",
"\"But in the last few months we have seen 12,000 people subjected to military trials, protesters have been subject to crackdowns, workers have been denied the right to hold sit-ins.\"",
"Many are also angry at proposed changes to the country's constitution, which would protect the military's budget from scrutiny.",
"Azzam says the Supreme Council \"may have gone too far\" with its plans for constitutional change, which she says aim to protect it from accountability, and maintain the \"opaqueness\" surrounding its dealings.",
"Does Mubarak still have influence?",
"Hosni Mubarak is currently on trial for corruption and the deaths of more than 800 people killed during the protests in January, and his influence on the country has waned as a result.",
"But high on the list of protesters' concerns is the fact that many members of the Supreme Council were close allies of the former president: The head of the SCAF, Hussein Tantawi, served as Mubarak's defense minister.",
"\"What we're seeing is a standoff between the population and the opposition, and the military,\" said Azzam.",
"\"The protesters are calling for Tantawi to step down; there is a feeling that if Egypt is to move towards a civilian government, it has to rid itself of the remnants of the old regime.\"",
"What is the international community's view?",
"Egypt has long been a vital link between the Arab world and the West, and international leaders -- many of them longtime allies of Hosni Mubarak -- hesitated to back calls for him to step down.",
"However, most were quick to voice their support for the protesters' rights to demonstrate freely and peacefully, and urged restraint on the part of authorities when dealing with the demonstrations.",
"Nine months on, Azzam said such calls for calm needed to be reiterated.",
"\"The international community, particularly the United States, needs to call for restraint, to urge the Supreme Council to control the security forces in their dealings with protesters, to ensure their safety,\" she said.",
"What happens next?",
"Parliamentary elections are due to take place next Monday, November 28, however it remains unclear if they will be postponed, given the unrest in recent days.",
"\"Unless we see an increase in violence in the coming days, I think the elections will go ahead,\" said Azzam.",
"\"But if there is an increase in violence, if the situation deteriorates into riots, it will be very difficult for them to take place.",
"\"So many protesters have already died, there is a fear that if the trouble spreads then the situation will not be conducive to holding elections, and we may see a postponement.\"",
"On Tuesday, Tantawi insisted the vote would go ahead as planned, pledging his \"commitment that the parliamentary elections will be held on time.\"",
"However, presidential elections are still months away -- Tantawi says they will be held by June 2012 -- and protesters are concerned that the military will remain de facto rulers until a new president is named.",
"Until then, Azzam says, Egypt's is \"an unfinished revolution.\""
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"Nine months after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is once again the scene of protests .",
"Activists are calling for an end to the military's hold on power .",
"Demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square have been met with violence; at least 27 people killed, hundreds wounded ."
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"MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain's spy agency chief said Tuesday a suspected double agent had been arrested who revealed the names of Spanish spies and other state secrets to a foreign nation.",
"Spain's SER Radio reported the recipient nation was Russia.",
"The suspect, Robert Flores Garcia, was arrested Monday morning at his home on Tenerife Island in Spain's Canary Islands.",
"He passed secrets in exchange for hefty payments from December 2001 to February 2004, said the spy chief, Alberto Saiz, head of the National Intelligence Agency (known by its Spanish initials CNI).",
"Saiz, at a news conference, refused to publicly identify the recipient country, but Spain's SER Radio, said it was Russia, citing unnamed sources.",
"Flores, a Spanish Civil Guard assigned to spy agency headquarters for internal matters, had been a suspect under surveillance by Spanish intelligence since July 2005, said Saiz.",
"Flores resigned from his position at the spy agency in January 2004, Saiz said.",
"Saiz insisted that Spain's national security was never threatened, nor, he said, was there a threat to security at NATO and the European Union.",
"Spain is a member country of both organizations.",
"But Saiz said the alleged revelations of the suspected double agent forced Spain to substitute a number of its spies.",
"The suspect allegedly revealed the names of dozens of Spanish spies, possibly including the seven Spanish spies killed in an ambush south of Baghdad in November 2003, Saiz said.",
"An eighth Spanish intelligence agent traveling with them survived.",
"The eight spies, were in Iraq to provide intelligence for Spanish troops who were stationed at the time in Iraq as part of the U.S.-led coalition.",
"The spies were traveling in two vehicles when insurgents launched an ambush with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.",
"Flores is suspected of transferring classified material and could face 12 years in prison if convicted, Saiz said.",
"Saiz spoke at a rare news conference in Madrid, which some Spanish media said was the first ever offered by Spain's intelligence chief.",
"Saiz said the alleged betrayal occurred at a time when Spain's spy agency was not fully prepared to deal with an inside mole.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Al Goodman contributed to this report."
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"Spain's spy agency chief says suspected double agent arrested .",
"Robert Flores Garcia allegedly revealed names of spies to to a foreign nation .",
"SER Radio reported the recipient nation was Russia .",
"Flores reportedly worked for Spain's intelligence services until January 2004 ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Taliban and the government of North West Frontier Province in Pakistan have agreed to a permanent cease-fire in the nation's volatile Swat Valley, an official said.",
"Girls study this week in Pakistan's Swat Valley.",
"Education for girls is an issue in peace talks there.",
"Syed Mohammad Javed, commissioner for the Malakand region, which includes Swat Valley, told reporters in Mingora that the two parties had agreed to make permanent a 10-day cease-fire declared earlier this week.",
"Javed said the agreement meant boys schools will reopen on Monday and camps will be set up for Swat residents who have fled the fighting or whose homes had been destroyed.",
"The agreement comes as part of ongoing talks between Sufi Mohammad, a pro-Taliban cleric, and his son-in-law Maulana Fazlullah, the Taliban commander in Swat.",
"Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan confirmed the cease-fire.",
"However, Fazlullah spoke on the radio Saturday, saying although the commissioner announced a permanent cease-fire, the Taliban will meet again after the 10-day truce expires and decide whether it will be extended.",
"Earlier this week, Pakistani government officials announced they had agreed with the Taliban to allow strict Islamic law, or Sharia, to be implemented in the entire Malakand Division.",
"Watch what sharia law requires » .",
"It marked a major concession by the Pakistani government in its attempt to hold off Taliban militants who have terrorized the region with beheadings, kidnappings, and the destruction of girls' schools.",
"The fighting has displaced nearly half of Swat's population, according to government sources.",
"Fazlullah said Saturday the implementation of sharia law was very important for peace.",
"Like Javed, he said schools for boys will be opened soon.",
"He said he was not against education of girls, but against the syllabus of their education.",
"The issue of education for girls was still under discussion, Javed said.",
"Nearly 8,000 people died as a result of militant-related violence in Pakistan in 2008, according to the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies.",
"On Saturday, a NATO oil tanker truck was the target of a roadside bombing on its way to Afghanistan.",
"One one person was killed, a local official said.",
"Two other people were wounded in the attack Saturday morning in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency, one of seven semi-autonomous tribal agencies along the Afghan border, said the official, with the Khyber Agency political agent's office."
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"Government, militants agree to make 10-day cease-fire permanent .",
"Establishment of strict Islamic law is key to agreement .",
"School for boys to reopen soon; education of girls still up in the air .",
"On radio, Taliban spokesman suggests cease-fire not a done deal ."
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"(CNN) -- Pakistan cricket officials want to speak to a member of the national team who left the team camp and reportedly retired after alleged threats to the player and his family.",
"It is the latest twist in a series of allegations that have tarnished the sport which is followed passionately in a number of countries including Pakistan and India.",
"In August, Pakistan's series against England ended amid uproar when three Pakistan players were implicated in a betting scandal.",
"Zakir Khan, the director of cricket operations for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), told CNN on Tuesday that he was trying to track down Zulqarnain Haider.",
"The 24-year-old wicket-keeper left the national team's hotel in Dubai, where Pakistan was playing a series against South Africa, without notice on Monday and headed for Britain.",
"According to media reports, he retired from international cricket on Tuesday morning having flown to London, where he was pictured arriving at Heathrow airport.",
"Blog: Cricket's authorities need to get a grip .",
"On Tuesday Haider told Pakistan's Geo News channel -- a CNN affiliate -- that his move to London had been prompted by death threats after he refused to help fix matches.",
"\"There were lots of threats to me and my family.",
"Some people offered me money [for match fixing/spot fixing], which I refused ...",
"I have to please God.",
"I did that which was best possible for my country,\" he said.",
"\"I was told to cooperate or I would face lots of problems.",
"This person approached me while I had gone out of the hotel for dinner.",
"He told me cooperate with us and you can make a lot of money.",
"\"He said, 'If you don't cooperate you will no longer be part of the team and we can make life very difficult for you.'\"",
"Pakistan completed the series against South Africa on Monday in the United Arab Emirates, where Haider was allegedly threatened for not helping to fix matches before leaving.",
"\"We are waiting for [confirmation] to come through to us, we have not heard anything from him in person [regarding his retirement] though there is a lot of media-related statements,\" added Khan.",
"\"We have been trying to get through to him, to get hold of his family but nobody can give us satisfactory information about his whereabouts.",
"It's a complete surprise what he has done at the moment.\"",
"The PCB confirmed Haider requested his passport on Sunday night and was then nowhere to be found the following morning, after scoring the winning runs to help Pakistan beat South Africa in the fourth match of their series on November 5.",
"He was later fined $140 for breaking a team curfew, along with teammates Shahzaib Hasan and Abdur Rehman.",
"Khan said he was disappointed that Haider did not ask the PCB for help.",
"\"He is a contracted player and recently we went through with him the anti-corruption measures and what needs to be done if he was approached like this, but he has not followed any of these procedures.",
"\"We want to hear from him about what has happened, because there is a big process to go through.",
"We are all shocked [about the allegations] and want to listen to him.\"",
"The UK Press Association quoted Rana Faisal, a senior superintendent of police in Lahore, as saying that 12 officials had been sent to Haider's family home \"so that they can be guarded properly if there is any threat.\"",
"Khan would also not confirm whether Haider -- who has played one Test match (a long form match that can last up to five days) and four one-day games for his country -- would be welcome to return to the squad if any future talks with the player went well.",
"\"We are going to investigate the matter in detail.",
"It's too difficult to say at the moment [if he could return] as everybody is shocked and surprised at what has happened.",
"Things were going right for Pakistan, we were back in the international arena, with wins against South Africa.",
"Everything was going right and then this happened.\"",
"The International Cricket Council, the sport's ruling body, said that it would not be getting involved in the matter unless the player requested its help.",
"\"First and foremost this is a matter for the Pakistan Cricket Board, although the ICC is willing to provide assistance to both Pakistan and the player himself,\" chief executive Haroon Lorgat told CNN.",
"\"We are sympathetic to any player who finds themselves in this position.",
"And we will help any player who is willing to come forward and we hope Zulqarnain Haider decides to do so.\"",
"Pakistani journalist Azhar Javaid told CNN that he had talked to Haider and said that the player \"was a little confused.\"",
"\"It is my understanding that he's regretting his decision to come to London from Dubai in this manner,\" said Javaid, the UK correspondent for Pakistan Dunya TV.",
"\"He wants to go back to Pakistan.",
"There is tremendous pressure from his family and also Pakistani people over there.",
"I think he has been misguided by some people and he took this decision in this manner.\"",
"Javaid said he had also talked to Pakistan's London High Commission, which said Haider had no case to apply for asylum.",
"\"He's not a very big player -- he's just a wicket-keeper and he's struggling for his position,\" added Javaid.",
"\"He has the pressure that Kamran Akmal might come back.\"",
"South Africa won Monday's match in Dubai by 57 runs and completed a 3-2 series win over Pakistan."
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"Pakistan Cricket Board is still trying to locate Zulqarnain Haider, who has fled to London .",
"Haider went missing from team hotel in Dubai after allegedly being threatened .",
"Wicketkeeper was due to play in a one-day international against South Africa on Monday .",
"Reports claim Haider received threats after a winning innings in a previous match ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The military's newest and most powerful ground-penetrating bomb is not intended for Iran's underground nuclear and weapons facilities specifically, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.",
"\"The system's not aimed at any one country,\" said Pentagon spokesman, Capt.",
"John Kirby.",
"\"It's to develop a capability we believe we need.\"",
"The new Massive Ordinance Penetrator, known as the MOP, is able to explode 200 feet underground and designed to destroy deeply buried and fortified targets such as the ones Iran is believed to have constructed to protect its nuclear research facilities.",
"\"It gives us a far greater capability to reach and destroy an enemy's weapons of mass destructions that -- weapons of mass destruction that are located in well-protected underground facilities, without getting into specifics, to -- to a magnitude far greater than we have right now,\" Kirby said at a Pentagon briefing.",
"The Air Force has contracted from Boeing for 20 of the bunker-buster bombs.",
"It took the first delivery in September, according to Pentagon official.",
"The official, citing operational security limitations, would not provide details about how many have been delivered.",
"There were three separate orders placed by the Pentagon with the final one placed in August.",
"The bomb is said to be more than 20 feet long and 30 inches in diameter and weighs some 30,000 pounds (13,600 kilos).",
"It is more powerful than its predecessor, the BLU-109, and is a \"relatively simple weapon,\" according to information posted by the military's Defense Threat Reduction Agency.",
"\"The MOP relies on gravity to turn its massive weight into tremendous kinetic energy.",
"Designed to penetrate supposedly untouchable facilities in one piece, the MOP will defeat our adversaries' (weapons of mass destruction) before they leave the ground,\" according to the description on the website.",
"Air Force Lt. Gen. James Kowalski talked about the bomb in a speech in suburban Washington in September when discussing Air Force capabilities to deliver long-range payloads, saying the MOP \"giv(es) the warfighter increased capability against hardened and deeply buried targets.\""
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"\"The system's not aimed at any one country,\" Pentagon spokesman says .",
"It's known as the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, or MOP .",
"Said to weigh 15 tons, the bomb can explode 200 feet underground ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani Taliban have declared a cease-fire in South Waziristan, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal areas in northwest Pakistan, three Taliban commanders told CNN Tuesday.",
"The cease-fire -- agreed a month ago -- follows back-channel peace talks that have been taking place between intermediaries representing the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban, the commanders said.",
"The commanders, speaking under condition of anonymity, said the talks were preliminary and began in late September, focusing only on South Waziristan.",
"The group has demanded an exchange of prisoners, the withdrawal of Pakistani troops from South Waziristan and compensation for the victims of army operations in the area, which borders Afghanistan, the Taliban commanders told CNN.",
"The Pakistani Taliban has made preliminary contacts with the government through local tribal elders to explore the possibilities of a peace deal, the commanders said.",
"South Waziristan is believed to be the headquarters of the Pakistani Taliban leadership.",
"The outcome of the purported back-channel talks is not yet known -- and senior figures in the country's government and military have denied they are going on.",
"The official spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, a group that has not always spoken with one voice, categorically denied the commanders' claims.",
"\"We are not against Pakistan. We are against the U.S. and its allies,\" spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said.",
"\"Once Pakistan stops acting as an ally of America, only then will we be open to peace talks with the Pakistani government.\"",
"Pakistan's interior minister denied the government is actively in talks with any faction of the Pakistani Taliban.",
"\"The Taliban have been trying to contact us; however, we will not engage in peace talks with them until they give up their arms,\" Interior Minister Rehman Malik told CNN.",
"Malik said the message the Pakistani government has sent to the Taliban is: \"Give up your arms and then we will talk.\"",
"The Pakistan military dismissed the reports of ongoing peace talks as \"concocted and baseless.\"",
"Commander Asif Yasin Malik, a military spokesman, told reporters in Mingora, in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district: \"We are not talking to the Taliban.",
"This is the government's job, not ours.\"",
"Both the Taliban and the Pakistani government would consider any talks highly sensitive because of the risk of being perceived as abandoning their cause and appeasing the enemy.",
"Both sides have set conditions for talks and neither wants to be seen as the side that abandons its conditions.",
"This may explain why the two sides are denying talks are taking place and apparently using go-betweens instead of meeting directly.",
"The Pakistani government faces the added risk of upsetting the United States, since Washington has long pressed Pakistan to get more aggressive with violent extremists along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.",
"The United States expressed serious concern after Pakistan's short-lived peace deal with the Pakistani Taliban in 2008.",
"Founded by Baitullah Mehsud in 2007, the Pakistani Taliban is a banned Islamist group said to have links with the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda.",
"Since its inception, the group has focused its attacks on military forces and installations as well as civilian targets in the region.",
"Journalists Saboor Khattak and Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Pakistani Taliban commanders say a cease-fire was agreed in South Waziristan .",
"They say talks focus on South Waziristan and include a demand for troop withdrawal .",
"The Pakistani Taliban's official spokesman denies talks are taking place .",
"The Pakistani government and military also say reports of talks are baseless ."
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"(CNN) -- Seventeen years after the release of her breakthrough album, \"My Life,\" Mary J. Blige offers up a sequel -- \"My Life II: ...",
"The Journey Continues (Act 1).\"",
"\"The first 'My Life' album was about healing and helping people get through things,\" the singer told CNN.",
"\"Now there's recession, there's war and there's people really not feeling good about life anymore.",
"So it's time, because people need to feel the hug that comes through music.\"",
"In the mid-90s, Blige herself was in a troubled place, spiraling downward with drugs, alcohol and a tumultuous relationship with K-Ci Hailey of the R&B duo K-Ci & JoJo.",
"\"I just knew by maybe 1997, I would be dead or just finished.",
"That's where we were at the time. We were very suicidal, very dark,\" she recalled.",
"Blige admits she reached out to fans for support, because she didn't know where else to turn.",
"\"I spoke up through my lyrics that I needed help, and the spirit that came behind it was that I was sad, you know,\" she said.",
"\"I needed help.",
"Four million people responded to that album, saying, 'Mary, wow.",
"Me, too.' \" \"My Life II\" finds the New York native in a very different place.",
"At 40, she's cemented her place as an R& B icon, with 50 million in worldwide album sales and nine Grammys.",
"In 2003, she married Kendu Isaacs, a man she credits with saving her life.",
"And lately, she's been honing her acting chops, taking on the role of a nightclub owner in the big-screen adaptation of \"Rock of Ages,\" starring Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Russell Brand.",
"She's also set to star as the eclectic jazz great Nina Simone in the biopic, \"Nina.\"",
"It's \"The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul\" playing \"The High Priestess of Soul.\"",
"CNN caught up with Blige last week in Los Angeles to talk to her about her music, her acting and Tom Cruise.",
"CNN: A lot has changed in the 17 years between \"My Life\" and \"My Life II.\"",
"What precipitated that change?",
"Mary J. Blige: That's an interesting question.",
"I come from pain. I come from poverty.",
"I come from embarrassment, and my mom struggling, and having two jobs and leaving us with the baby sitter -- and coming back and we're outside the baby sitter's house.",
"I've come back from abuse from people.",
"I really wanted out.",
"It started snowballing into this thing that was hurting me, and I was in the public eye.",
"I got to a place where I understood that I needed help, and that was during the \"No More Drama\" album (released in 2001) when I met my husband -- who was my boyfriend at the time.",
"And who knew that he was going to have the information that he had for me, and that I was going to be able to receive it?",
"CNN: We've seen young people like Lindsay Lohan struggling.",
"Why is it that she can't get it together?",
"Blige: Why can't Lindsay and so many other people get it together?",
"I mean, everyone is afraid of the pain.",
"That is a painful walk.",
"Embarrassment is painful.",
"It brings a tear to your eye when you have to walk down the red carpet with so much shame in you, and so you would rather paint something on.",
"But in my case, I never cared about being embarrassed or ashamed to ask for help.",
"I was just ashamed of being ashamed.",
"I was just tired of feeling that way.",
"CNN: You talk about being abused.",
"The Penn State scandal must have hit you pretty hard, as someone who went through an experience that was similar.",
"Blige: Yeah, it hurts when I see stuff like that -- children being molested by grown-ups.",
"But the thing that I have learned is that there is something wrong with that grown-up.",
"It is something wrong with that adult that people are overlooking, and sweeping under the rug and throwing money on.",
"And you have to get to a place where it's just, \"You know what?",
"You did it, but I have got to get out of it. You did it to me, but I can't let you destroy me, and not allow me to have a chance to have what I am supposed to have in life -- which is happiness, which is success, which is life, period.\"",
"That is the only way I can describe it.",
"CNN: It sounds like it took you a while to get to that place where you said, \"I'm deserving of all this success.\"",
"Blige: It did take me a while.",
"It was just recently that I started saying, \"You know what?",
"I AM deserving.\" I wouldn't say two years ago, but I'd say maybe five or six years ago I was like, \"Wow, I deserve this\" -- because sometimes when I get so many accolades, I want to bury my head.",
"But then I hear someone say, \"No, pick your head up.",
"You earned this. You walked the walk.",
"You are walking the walk.",
"You are not finished yet, but you are still standing in the fire, walking through the fire.",
"You're still 40, but you are still standing up for women proudly, and doing what you need to do, so keep your head up.\"",
"CNN: Let's talk about \"Rock of Ages.\"",
"Blige: I play a gentleman's club owner.",
"I mean, you know ... CNN: Is that a strip club, Mary?",
"Blige: Yeah, it's a strip club!",
"But you know, on the highest scale.",
"And my job is to encourage those women to feel better in a dark place.",
"CNN: Did you have direct scenes with Tom Cruise?",
"Blige: I definitely had a scene with Tom Cruise, and he is just so helpful and so much fun.",
"Everyone was just -- how can I say it?",
"Everyone in that star-studded cast, they were just as star-struck to meet me as I was to meet them.",
"And when I met Catherine Zeta-Jones, she was like, \"I love you!\"",
"And I was like, \"What? I love YOU!\" And Russell Brand is just amazing.",
"And Julianne Hough is my friend, and Adam Shankman (the director) is one of my really good friends.",
"So we were like family -- no joke.",
"CNN: You seem to be in a really good place, and that's reflected on \"My Life II.\"",
"Blige: Yeah, I am.",
"The place I'm in with \"My Life II\" is understanding that there WILL be trials.",
"Trials will come.",
"It is not going to be, \"Oh, everything is wonderful all of the time,\" because it is not.",
"And the balance is you either know how to get around it, or you just have to go through it. That's life."
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"Mary J. Blige's new album, \"My Life II,\" is a follow-up to an album from 17 years ago .",
"The singer says that recently, she has learned to say, \"You know what?",
"I AM deserving\"\n\"You either know how to get around it, or you just have to go through it,\" Blige says ."
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"(CNN) -- Arizona authorities on Monday arrested the mother of a 5-year-old girl last seen more than a month ago, a police sergeant said.",
"Jerice Hunter was \"placed under arrest for child abuse directly related to her daughter, Jhessye Shockley,\" Glendale Police Sgt.",
"Brent Coombs told reporters.",
"\"Our investigators are still working diligently to locate Jhessye,\" he said.",
"\"This is a step down that path.\" None of the leads about the girl's whereabouts has panned out, Coombs said.",
"But he did say that information about her mother, Hunter, proved to \"have substance to the investigation (and) have proven to be accurate, as far as we can tell.\"",
"Jhessye allegedly wandered out of her Glendale home on October 11, unnoticed by her 13-, 9- and 6-year-old siblings who were supposed to be watching her.",
"Her mother contacted police, saying she did so after she couldn't find her daughter when she returned home from an errand.",
"The siblings were later interviewed separately by experts and have maintained they do not know what happened to Jhessye, Coombs said previously.",
"Soon after reporting the girl missing, Hunter pleaded for the public's help.",
"\"Please bring my baby back. ...",
"Her safe return is all I want,\" Hunter said last month.",
"\"She belongs to this family.",
"... She's somebody's child.",
"Mine. Please bring my child home.\"",
"Since then, Hunter has \"not been cooperative with respect to a polygraph\" test, which police asked her to take, Coombs said Monday.",
"He described Hunter as the \"lone focus\" in the investigation.",
"Still, he did not rule out that others might be involved.",
"\"We're not so shortsighted to think that there may not have been an additional person or persons who may ... have helped,\" Coombs said.",
"The reward for information leading to Jhessye, as well as to those responsible for her disappearance, has increased to $25,000, Coombs said Monday.",
"Jhessye is described as a black female about 3 feet 5 inches tall, 55 pounds, with black hair in a ponytail and brown eyes.",
"She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue jean shorts and pink sandals.",
"Given the time that has passed, the police sergeant conceded, \"We do not believe that it will be likely that we will find Jhessye alive.\""
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"Jhessye Shockley was reported missing on October 11 in Glendale, Arizona .",
"Her mother has said the girl wandered away while at home with her siblings .",
"She earlier pleaded in the media, \"Please bring my baby back\"\nThe mother is accused of \"child abuse directly related to her daughter,\" police say ."
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"(CNN) -- A major clean-up operation is underway along the north coast of New Zealand 's North Island as debris and oil leaking from a cargo ship that ran aground on a reef wash ashore, officials say.",
"The Rena, a Liberian-flagged vessel, struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles off the city of Tauranga, last week.",
"New Zealand's oil spill response agency, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ), estimates that as much as 300 tonnes of fuel oil has leaked from the vessel, which was carrying 1,700 cubic meters (450,000 gallons) of fuel.",
"The country's environment minister, Nick Smith, has called the spill the country's most significant maritime environmental disaster.",
"As of Wednesday, clean-up teams, comprised of some 500 responders, collected 50 tonnes of solid waste and five tonnes of liquid waste from beaches in the Bay of Plenty, cleaning oil from 17 kilometers of coastline, MNZ said.",
"Pubic access to some waterfront areas has been restricted due to health concerns.",
"MNZ said the coastline between the towns of Whangamata and Whakatane will be assessed today to determine the areas of highest priority for clean-up operations.",
"\"There is a massive effort underway and it is only going to grow,\" said National On Scene Commander Nick Quinn.",
"\"We understand the anger and disbelief we're hearing from people,\" he said.",
"\"Our focus is on recovering oil from wherever we find it and we will go in day by day until this is over.\"",
"MNZ said that 200 dead birds have been recovered following the oil spill and that this number is expected to increase \"significantly.\"",
"The agency said 36 wildlife rescue teams are scouring the coast for wildlife affected by the spill and 47 oiled animals are being treated at center that has been set up in Tauranga.",
"A team has been established to capture seals and five of the animals are being kept in captivity.",
"Greenpeace has expressed \"extreme concern\" about the spill and urged the government to avoid using further toxic dispersants.",
"\"This is an unfortunate illustration of just how difficult it is to deal with oil spills at sea,\" the organization's Steve Abel said.",
"\"Even a slow and relatively accessible oil spill like this one has clearly stretched New Zealand's response capability to its limits,\" he said.",
"\"It is also a potential disaster for the blue whales and dolphins presently calving in the area, as well as numerous other marine species.\"",
"MNZ said that about 70 containers had fallen off the ship, some of which have washed ashore.",
"Due to the hazard the containers pose to shipping, the agency said navigational warnings had been issued and major maritime traffic has been re-routed.",
"The Rena has suffered substantial structural failure and there is a concern that the stern of the vessel may break up, MNZ said.",
"Salvage teams have three tugs mobilized either to hold the stern on the reef while efforts continue to remove oil from the ship, or to tow the stern to shallow water to extract the oil, the agency said.",
"Containers remaining on the vessel continue to move, making it dangerous for salvage crews to work on board.",
"The ship's second officer will appear in Tauranga District Court this morning to face a charge of \"operating a vessel in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk,\" MNZ said.",
"The Rena's captain was yesterday remanded on bail on the same charge, on the condition he surrender his passport.",
"His name has not been released.",
"If convicted, they face a maximum fine of $7,800, or up to 12 months imprisonment.",
"CNN's Karen Smith and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- If you've ever wondered what happens when you mix a sentient gorilla with a helicopter, look no further!",
"This and many other questions are answered during the course of Rupert Wyatt's compelling and invigorating \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes.\"",
"And if you're looking for a summer popcorn film that won't talk down to you, you've found it.",
"I went into the screening of \"Rise\" with low expectations, and there were many reasons for my trepidation.",
"\"Congo\" would be one of them (\"Oh, no!",
"The bad apes have the crystal lasers!\")",
"and pretty much every other misguided reboot or \"intelligent animal\" movie since the original \"Planet of the Apes\" series ended in 1973 would be the others.",
"Thankfully, you don't have to worry, as Fox's restart of the legendary franchise delivers on almost every front.",
"To my surprise and delight, \"Rise\" is what had become a summer movie rarity: fun, engrossing and a way to escape the heat without being treated like a 10-year-old boy.",
"Believe it or not, \"Rise\" is also reasonably intelligent.",
"Well, as intelligent as is possible, given the subject matter.",
"It is, after all, basically a popcorn flick.",
"With several nods and winks to the previous franchise, \"Rise\" clearly knows which side of its bread is buttered, and fan boys and girls will not be disappointed.",
"References are made both verbally and visually to the original, but don't worry if you're not (yet) a fan of the classic.",
"No prior knowledge is required.",
"The film opens with Will Rodman (James Franco) working in a biotech lab at a company called Gen-Sys (get it?)",
"developing what he hopes is a cure for Alzheimer's by experimenting on chimpanzees.",
"You see, Will's father (John Lithgow) has the disease, and Will's hellbent on curing him.",
"As this is an \"animals in a lab\" movie, something is bound to go wrong.",
"In this case, one of Will's subjects, Bright Eyes, seemingly goes berserk, and Will's project is shut down on the eve of its approval for human testing.",
"Not allowing himself to be constrained by anything as trite as rules or ethics, Will not only takes his research home with him (he adopts an infant chimp that has been exposed to the experimental drug), but he also begins treating his father Charles with the serum.",
"Here is where the film takes off, both emotionally and technologically.",
"Unlike the animatronics of old, the special effects of \"Rise\" are astonishing.",
"While the film ostensibly stars Franco, Lithgow, Freida Pinto and several other noted actors, the real star of the show is Caesar, the digitally created chimp brought to life by Weta Digital -- the company that sprang to prominence for its work on Peter Jackson's \"Lord of the Rings\" trilogy -- and by actor Andy Serkis.",
"Serkis (Gollum in \"Lord of the Rings\"), who has become the go-to guy for performance capture roles, plays Caesar from infancy to adulthood, growing from a vaguely Curious George-like childhood into your everyday, sullen, teenaged hyper-intelligent ape and eventually into an adult.",
"Caesar is a complex character, a first-of-his-kind artificially created leap in evolution, and as such, has a lot on his mind, all of which Serkis has to portray through movement and facial expressions.",
"It's an extraordinary achievement and is the heart of the film .",
"As with any \"wild animal lives with human\" story, things go off the rails.",
"Will's obnoxious and confrontational neighbor (David Hewlett, playing against type) reacts badly to a young Caesar trying to play with his daughter and later assaults an Alzheimer's-addled Charles when the latter tries to drive the former's car and damages it.",
"Caesar sees Charles as a member of his family and defends him, attacking the neighbor.",
"(How Caesar lived with humans for so long without someone calling the cops is one of a few serious suspensions of disbelief in which one must indulge.)",
"Animal control is called, and the second act begins with Caesar incarcerated in what is supposedly a paradise for wayward simians, but as anyone who's seen a movie knows, is basically a maximum-security prison for apes.",
"Here, Caesar begins to suspect that not all humans are as kind as his \"dad,\" Will, and that maybe it's his job as a super-intelligent chimp to balance the scales a bit.",
"The scenes in the chimp prison (\"Esc-Ape From Alcatraz,\" anyone?)",
"are where our empathy with Caesar and his fellow primates turns to full-on \"Get those guys!\"",
"blood lust as the evil jailers -- played by a criminally under-used Brian Cox and his less-than-humane son, played by \"Harry Potter's\" Tom Felton -- routinely abuse their charges, even selling some to Gen-Sys.",
"No one likes to see animals abused -- especially ones with thumbs -- and It's here that Caesar begins his transformation into a chimp Che Guevara.",
"The tension of \"Rise\" increases so gradually through the film's first hour-plus that before you notice it, you're on the edge of your seat, virtually gagging for the the promised ape revolution.",
"And when it comes, you won't be disappointed.",
"Here is where Weta's genius combines with Wyatt's direction, Andrew Lesnie's cinematography and Patrick Doyle's score to deliver a rousing finale with Serkis' Caesar at the forefront.",
"iReporter talks to James Franco .",
"The original \"Planet of the Apes,\" while clearly a sci-fi film, was also a thinly veiled 1960s-style allegory about civil rights and the rising threat of nuclear proliferation.",
"Much of that is lost here, although new \"lessons\" about the dangers of tampering with nature are reasonably constant.",
"That film's stunning revelation at its climax is one of the most famous scenes in movie history, and since we've now been treated to a prequel (and assuming this is the start of a new franchise), the filmmakers are going to have to work pretty hard to find an equally compelling ending to the next film, since we already know the \"surprise.\"",
"Here's hoping they manage it.",
"\"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" is rated PG-13, and despite how cute some younger children might think chimps are, this is not the film for them.",
"There's far too much violence for the younger set."
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"Fox's restart of the legendary franchise delivers on almost every front .",
"The tension of \"Rise\" increases gradually through the film's first hour-plus .",
"Unlike the animatronics of old, the special effects of \"Rise\" are astonishing ."
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"(CNN) -- Not so long ago, the idea of a Casey Anthony movie seemed like a certainty.",
"How could Hollywood resist the chance to adapt the sensational murder case?",
"After all, producers didn't hesitate to turn the Amanda Knox, Natalee Holloway and Clark Rockefeller sagas into TV movies.",
"And interest in those cases pales compared to Anthony, whose trial became the must-see television event of the summer.",
"But the public outrage over Anthony's acquittal on murder charges is making some in the industry rethink the wisdom of adapting her story to the screen.",
"\"Anyone who pursued a movie based on these events, especially right now, will face some immediate backlash,\" said Matthew Belloni, news director for The Hollywood Reporter.",
"\"The nerve is so raw on this and so many people are so outraged by the verdict that anything that is seen as an attempt to exploit this, especially if the family is involved, will be seen as a negative by most of the people who followed the trial,\" Belloni told CNN.",
"The cable channel Lifetime would seem the logical home for an Anthony movie -- it aired the Knox, Holloway and Rockefeller films, and it's in production on a movie about murder suspect Drew Peterson (with Rob Lowe in the lead).",
"But when CNN asked the network if it was pursuing an Anthony project, Lifetime said it had \"nothing in development.\"",
"When we asked if the network had obtained the rights to any of the central players in the case, we got the same response: \"We have nothing in development.\"",
"The mere hint of a connection to the Anthonys has sent Hollywood talent agencies diving for cover.",
"When an erroneous report circulated last week that William Morris Endeavor had signed Anthony for representation, the agency was inundated with protest calls.",
"It quickly sent out word denying the report.",
"And Paradigm, another big talent agency, signed Anthony's lead attorney, Jose Baez, for representation, only to \"un-sign\" him several hours later after facing a drumbeat of criticism.",
"Actress Niecy Nash, who told CNN she watched \"every minute\" of the trial, is among those angered about the prospect of Anthony cashing in by selling the rights to her story.",
"\"If that girl [Anthony] makes one dime off of the death of her child, I'm just telling you that I feel like America is going to be like, 'we are so done with you!'",
"\" she told CNN. \"I'm upset because the opportunity to profit from a tragedy is laid out for this girl on a silver platter,\" Nash said.",
"Comedian and social commentator Alycia Cooper told CNN she could imagine a Casey Anthony movie under certain circumstances.",
"\"I do think there should be a movie made\" about the case, Cooper said.",
"\"But I want the person that does the movie to be a neutral person, because that way, we'll get more of a balanced movie, versus Casey Anthony doing the movie, because then it'll slant her way, and it's going to be filled with even more lies.\"",
"The possibility of a movie has inevitably spawned water cooler talk in Hollywood about who should play Anthony.",
"Cooper likes Alyssa Milano for the role.",
"\"I think she's got the chops,\" Cooper said.",
"The Hollywood Reporter's Marisa Guthrie picked \"Twilight\" star Kristen Stewart.",
"Nash told us she would cast Katie Holmes or Anne Hathaway.",
"To play Casey Anthony's father, the white-haired George Anthony, we heard suggestions of John O'Hurley of \"Seinfeld\" fame, Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Blake.",
"Speculation about casting the movie may be more than just idle chatter.",
"Some people remain convinced there will be a Casey Anthony movie, including The Hollywood Reporter's Matthew Belloni.",
"\"You've got to believe that something this high-profile, something that everyone is talking about ... that eventually, this will become a movie,\" he told CNN.",
"The surprising verdict in the case only makes that more likely, Belloni said.",
"\"Then you have this outcome that many people can't reconcile with the facts,\" he said.",
"\"That conflict presents good fodder for a film.\""
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"Right now, an Anthony movie maker \"will face some immediate backlash,\" journalist says .",
"Actress who followed the trial doesn't like \"the opportunity to profit from a tragedy\"\nBut many think it's inevitable that the Anthony story will be made into a movie ."
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"(CNN) -- China recorded a $7.24 billion trade deficit in March, the General Administration of Customs announced Saturday, according to state media Xinhua News Agency.",
"It was the country's first monthly trade deficit since April 2004, Xinhua reported.",
"China exported $112.11 billion worth of goods and services in the month of March -- an increase of 24.3 percent year on year, and imports rose 66 percent year on year to $119.35 billion, Xinhua reported.",
"In March, imports and exports increased by 42.8 percent year on year to $231.46 billion, according to the customs statistics.",
"Combining the first three months, China still recorded a trade surplus of $14.49 billion in the first quarter, a fall of 76.7 percent from the same period of last year, Xinhua reported.",
"In the first quarter, China's imports and exports totaled $617.85 billion -- a rise of 44.1 percent year on year, Xinhua reported."
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"Exports totaled $112.11 billion in March -- an increase of 24.3 percent year on year .",
"Imports rose 66 percent year on year to $119.35 billion .",
"China still recorded a trade surplus of $14.49 billion in the first quarter ."
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"Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- A prosecutor in the appeal by American Amanda Knox against her murder conviction urged the jurors to put themselves in the shoes of the parents of the murder victim, as the case entered its final phase Friday in Italy.",
"Prosecutors in the case are presenting their concluding arguments as to why the appeals court in the Italian town of Perugia should uphold the convictions for Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Rafael Sollecito, after a lengthy appellate process.",
"Addressing the jurors, appeals court prosecutor Giancarlo Costagliola said: \"I hope when you make your decision, you feel a little bit like the parents of Meredith Kercher, a serious, studious girl whose life was taken away by these two kids from good families.\"",
"Defense attorneys for Knox and Sollecito are expected to present their final arguments early next week, as they fight to overturn the convictions.",
"Knox and Sollecito were found guilty in 2009 of killing Kercher, Knox's British housemate, two years earlier.",
"Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, while Sollecito got 25.",
"Summing up the prosecution case Friday, Costagliola focused on evidence given by witnesses.",
"He said defense efforts to discredit the testimony of Antonio Curatolo, a homeless man who testified during the criminal trial that he saw Knox and Sollecito near the crime scene the night of the murder, had failed.",
"Costagliola also sought to pick holes in the testimony of two defense witnesses, convicted child killer Mario Alessi and jailed mafia member Luciano Aviello, who had each given conflicting accounts of who killed Kercher.",
"The prosecutor then reviewed the circumstantial evidence put before the court, including the contradictory statements given by the accused and DNA evidence.",
"Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, who investigated the case, spoke Friday of how he would never forget seeing Kercher's face when he first saw the body, as he defended the prosecution case made in the original trial.",
"He urged the jurors to make their decision on the basis of what they had heard in court, not in the overwhelming media coverage.",
"Mignini also questioned why the defense lawyers had not previously raised concerns over the way evidence was collected.",
"\"Why didn't they say anything then?",
"Were they distracted? Or didn't they find anything wrong?\"",
"he asked the court.",
"Attorneys for Knox and Sollecito have in recent weeks sought to undermine their convictions by scrutinizing DNA evidence found on the knife used to kill Kercher and on her bra clasp.",
"Two independent forensic experts argued this summer that the Sollecito DNA allegedly found on the bra clasp should be \"inadmissible\" because the clasp had not been properly handled.",
"Prosecutors rejected that claim.",
"Knox's father, Curt, told CNN earlier this month that prosecutors have \"no case left,\" after a review of evidence, and that he hoped to be able to take his daughter home within weeks.",
"Knox and Sollecito are appealing their convictions together, having been convicted in a joint trial.",
"A third defendant, Rudy Guede, was convicted in a separate fast-track trial.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"Defense attorneys for Knox and Sollecito will sum up their arguments next week .",
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"Meredith Kercher was found with her throat cut in 2007 in the villa she shared with Knox ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to his home country, a French appeals court said in an opinion issued Wednesday, according to a court spokeswoman.",
"France ordered Noriega's extradition earlier this year, responding to a Panamanian government request for the former dictator's return to face charges that he had a political rival killed.",
"The extradition was held up by court action, however.",
"It was unclear when French Prime Minister Francois Fillon would sign the extradition order to set in motion Noriega's transfer.",
"Last year, a French court sentenced Noriega to seven years in prison for money laundering.",
"He also was fined almost 2.3 million euros ($2.9 million), the amount of drug money he was accused of laundering through French banks.",
"Noriega denied the charges.",
"Panamanian officials want him to face justice there in the case of the killing of Hugo Spadafora, a doctor and political opponent of Noriega.",
"Noriega was convicted in absentia of being involved with the kidnapping and killing of Spadafora in 1985.",
"The U.S. government has portrayed Noriega as the ultimate crooked cop -- a man who was paid millions by the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia to protect cocaine and money shipments.",
"He was convicted of drug trafficking and other crimes in the United States.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cleared the way for Noriega to be sent to France in April 2010 after he spent 20 years in a U.S. federal prison.",
"Noriega and his attorneys had argued the United States was violating the Geneva Convention by not sending him back to Panama, where he was seized by U.S. troops after the United States invaded that country in 1989 in Operation Nifty Package.",
"U.S. federal courts ruled against him.",
"When U.S. forces invaded the country, Noriega fled his offices and tried to seek sanctuary in the Vatican Embassy in Panama City.",
"U.S. troops set up large speakers around the compound, blaring music at all hours, a psychological ploy to rattle the general.",
"He eventually surrendered on January 3, 1990, and was quickly escorted to the United States for a civilian trial.",
"Noriega's U.S. sentence, originally for 30 years, ended in September 2007 after time off for good behavior.",
"However, he remained in prison while the French extradition issue was decided.",
"While in U.S. custody, Noriega suffered from prostate cancer and had a stroke.",
"CNN's Saskya Vandoorne, Tom Cohen and Alanne Orjoux contributed to this report."
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"Panama has requested the former dictator's return to face charges .",
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"(CNN) -- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh will lead an independent inquiry for Penn State University into the school's response to child sex abuse allegations, trustee Kenneth Frazier said Monday.",
"\"No one -- no one -- is above scrutiny, including every member of the administration of the university, every member of our board of trustees, and every employee of the university,\" said Frazier, who was appointed to chair the special investigative committee into the university's response to allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.",
"A grand jury reported this month that university officials allegedly knew of allegations of misconduct on Sandusky's part, but failed to fully act on them.",
"Freeh, who will serve as special investigative counsel, said he extracted pledges of support and non-interference from university officials before taking on the job.",
"\"This assurance is the main condition of my engagement,\" he said.",
"He said will appoint a team of former FBI agents and former federal prosecutors from his law firm to assist.",
"Results of the investigation will be released to trustees and the public at about the same time, he said.",
"It's unclear how effective Freeh will be, said CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.",
"\"Louis Freeh is an honorable person, but the question is whether he will have the tools to do a thorough investigation.\"",
"Toobin said.",
"With police, the university and even Sandusky's former charity, The Second Mile, conducting their own investigations, it's unclear whether witnesses will want to repeat their stories over and over again, he said.",
"At the heart of the scandal are accusations that Sandusky, the retired defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team, sexually abused a boy at the university football complex, and that law enforcement officials were not notified.",
"According to grand jury documents, a graduate assistant told head football coach Joe Paterno in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky performing anal sex on a young boy in a football complex shower.",
"Paterno told athletic director Tim Curley, who told Gary Schultz, a university vice president.",
"Some information about the allegations eventually reached President Graham Spanier, according to the grand jury.",
"Paterno has said he did \"what I was supposed to do.\"",
"But in a later statement, he said \"with the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.\"",
"While it took years for the alleged abuse to become public, school officials moved quickly after prosecutors charged Sandusky, 67, with 40 counts in the alleged sexual abuse of eight young boys over several years.",
"Authorities also charged Curley and Schultz with misleading the grand jury investigating the allegations and failing to report suspected abuse.",
"Curley and Schultz stepped aside within a day of the charges, and before the week was out, trustees had fired both Paterno -- the winningest football coach in Division I history -- and Spanier.",
"The university's special committee, created six days after Sandusky's arrest, empowered Freeh to \"take his team's work to wherever it leads,\" Frazier said.",
"The NCAA and the U.S. Department of Education are also investigating the university's response.",
"Freeh said he did not know how much the investigation will cost, or how long it will take, other than that it will be lengthy.",
"Investigators had already begun work reviewing documents in the case, he said.",
"While he does not have the subpoena power he enjoyed as an FBI official, Freeh said he is counting on the cooperation of law enforcement and the Penn State community, which is eager to restore the university's reputation.",
"\"In my current role, I will encourage everyone to speak to us,\" he said.",
"Frazier said the scandal has caused irreparable harm to the school, but officials are determined to make sure it never happens again.",
"\"Words alone cannot express the heartbreak and sorrow we feel for the victims,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- Shortly after Kamal Ganzouri stepped down as prime minister more than a decade ago, Egypt's state-run al-Ahram newspaper ran a story in which various party and government officials accused him of being arrogant, autocratic and corrupt.",
"Neither those portrayals, however, nor the fact Ganzouri was appointed and served three years under deposed President Hosni Mubarak spelled the end of the economist's political career.",
"In fact, he now appears set to take on his old role at one of the most tumultuous, momentous times in modern Egyptian history.",
"On Thursday, military spokesman Lt. Col. Amr Imam told CNN that Ganzouri, 81, had agreed -- after meeting with Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, field marshal of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Egypt's dominant figure since Mubarak's ouster in February -- to become Egypt's prime minister once again.",
"If he can put together a government, Ganzouri will complete a resurgence that might have seemed unlikely after he left office in 1999.",
"The next April, al-Ahram noted criticisms levied at Ganzouri -- from then-parliamentary speaker Fathi Sorour, Mubarak's chief of staff Zakaria Azmi and several members of parliament -- tied to his handling of financial and other matters during his three years as prime minister.",
"For instance, Sorour claimed that Ganzouri had excessively issued military orders, citing his role as military governor, under emergency law.",
"Sorour called such orders \"a clear infringement of the assembly's legislative mandate,\" according to the al-Ahram report.",
"And Ayman Nour, a member of the then-minority and liberal Wafd party, blasted what he described as Ganzouri's authoritarian actions as a \"flagrant infringement of the constitution and parliament's authority,\" in the same al-Ahram story.",
"Still, the fact that Tantawi apparently approached Ganzouri about the prime minister's job suggests that -- more than 11 years later -- military leaders today have a high opinion of him.",
"He has online supporters as well, including a Facebook page with 653 \"likes\" as of Thursday night and filled with comments suggesting that he is the best person to lead Egypt.",
"Besides his economic background at a time of continued financial crisis in Egypt, Ganzouri would bring a wealth of government experience to the job.",
"Starting in 1987, he served as a deputy prime minister.",
"In 1996, Mubarak appointed Ganzouri as prime minister after Atek Sedki resigned after nine years in that position."
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"In 1996, President Hosni Mubarak appointed him as Egypt's prime minister .",
"Political leaders criticized Ganzouri after he left office in 1999, state media says .",
"A military spokesman says Ganzouri has agreed to become prime minister again ."
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"(CNN) -- On the eve of his Wimbledon title defense, Rafael Nadal claimed it will be \"impossible to repeat\" his triple grand slam success of last year.",
"Nadal opens on Centre Court Monday against American Michael Russell and comes to the All England Club off the back of a sixth French Open triumph earlier this month.",
"But the 25-year-old Spaniard told gathered reporters Sunday that his chances of adding the Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles to his haul were remote.",
"\"Last year was in my opinion very impossible to repeat -- three grand slams in a row,\" Nadal said.",
"\"I am very happy about what's going on this season.",
"But I don't think I will repeat what I did last year for sure.\"",
"Rafael Nadal: Anatomy of a champion .",
"Victory at Wimbledon will give Nadal his 11th grand slam title and close on the record 16 of arch-rival and third seed Roger Federer, but again the world No.1 tried to downplay expectations.",
"\"I am not close to the 16 of Roger,\" Nadal said.",
"\"Sixteen is a lot.",
"\"We can dream about a lot of things.",
"For me it's a dream. Maybe not for you.\" Nadal beat Federer in the final at Roland Garros as he continued his invincible form on Paris clay, but has now adapted his game to the faster grass of SW19.",
"\"In the beginning of my career everybody talked a lot that with my style of game it's gonna be very difficult to play very well here,\" he added.",
"\"The only problem of grass sometimes, is if you play against a big, big server, because the game is too fast and it's not nice to play because you feel that for a lot of games you don't touch the ball.\"",
"\"I don't have the volley of Roger, for sure.",
"But I think I'm fast and my movements are enough good to go to the net.",
"I have a good enough volley to do it,\" he said.",
"Meanwhile, defending women's champion Serena Williams believes she has her work cut out to repeat the triumph, particularly after being sidelined for nearly a year with injury and serious illness.",
"Williams and her elders sister Venus returned to competitive action at Eastbourne last week and were impressed by current standards on the WTA tour.",
"\"There's so much depth in women's tennis.",
"It's good. Everyone's playing so hard.",
"\"No one wants to go down.",
"You get match point, doesn't matter, you got to really focus.",
"Everyone's playing tough,\" she told gathered reporters.",
"Serena and Venus have won nine Wimbledon singles title between them and one of them has appeared in 10 of the last 11 finals at the grass court grand slam."
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"Rafael Nadal plays down chances of repeating his feats of 2010 .",
"Nadal won three grand slams including Wimbledon where he defends the title .",
"Serena Williams says standard of women's tennis high as she returns to SW19 ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexico's military has seized more than $15.3 million in cash from a vehicle in the border city of Tijuana, authorities said Tuesday.",
"In addition to the money, troops also found jewelry and packages of cocaine in the vehicle, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement.",
"Soldiers found the stash during patrols Friday, the statement said.",
"Authorities believe the vehicle was heading to a home used as a financial hub by the Sinaloa Cartel, the statement said.",
"On Tuesday, officials showed reporters in Mexico City stacks of $100 bills that they said were seized in the operation.",
"The cash is the second largest quantity of money the Mexican military has seized since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006, the statement said.",
"In 2008, soldiers seized more than $26 million in Sinaloa state.",
"Calderon announced a government crackdown on cartels shortly after taking office."
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"In addition to money, troops find jewelry and packets of cocaine .",
"Soldiers find the stash during patrols in the border city of Tijuana .",
"Authorities show reporters stacks of $100 bills seized in the operation ."
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"(CNN) -- Seven members of a breakaway Amish group in eastern Ohio were arrested on federal hate crime charges for allegedly shaving the beards and cutting the hair of individuals who refused to support their leader, according to a criminal complaint released Wednesday.",
"One of the seven men is Samuel Mullet Sr., the leader of the breakaway sect and a man that local law enforcement and other Amish in the area consider a cult leader.",
"Mullet ruled the group with an iron fist, in some cases \"forcing members to sleep for days at a time in a chicken coop\" and beating those \"who appear to disobey\" him, according to an FBI affidavit.",
"Mullet had been \"counseling\" married women in his sect, \"taking them into his home so that he may cleanse them of the devil with acts of sexual intimacy,\" the sworn statement from an FBI agent said.",
"Law enforcement officials believe he was behind the various beard and hair cutting attacks of the past few months.",
"The men charged are said to have carried out \"a series of assaults against fellow Amish individuals with whom they were having a religiously based dispute,\" according to the Justice Department.",
"The Amish who were attacked are believed to be former members of Mullet's group who left over various disagreements.",
"Mullet wanted to \"seek revenge and punish the departing families,\" the federal documents said.",
"\"In doing so, the defendants forcibly restrained multiple Amish men and cut off their beards and head hair with scissors and battery-powered clippers, causing bodily injury to these men while also injuring others who attempted to stop the attacks,\" the Justice Department said.",
"\"In the Amish religion, a man's beard and head hair are sacred.\"",
"Several of the men have confessed their involvement to local investigators, according to a sworn statement by an FBI agent that was attached to the complaint filed in Cleveland.",
"The seven men were arrested as part of a raid on Mullet's 800-acre compound that went down \"without incident\" early Wednesday morning, according to Mike Tobin, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Ohio.",
"A combination of \"about 40\" officials from various agencies, including the FBI, the U.S.",
"Marshals Service, and the Jefferson County and Holmes County sheriffs, were involved in the raid, Tobin said.",
"Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, who was at the raid, said they hit Mullet's home at 6 in the morning.",
"Everyone was asleep at the time.",
"\"Three guys at first didn't want to come out of their rooms, but the FBI got them out of there,\" Abdalla said.",
"Abdulla said he was happy about the arrest.",
"\"I'm elated. And I tell you what, so is the Amish community...I'm happy for the Amish people who are so fearful of that guy.\"",
"Abdalla added that what made arrests so difficult in this case is the fact that Amish generally don't believe in dealing with law enforcement, so charges had never been pressed.",
"While he's generally happy the arrests were made, part of him is also worried some of the people who live on the compound under his rule will remain \"brainwashed\" and not have enough will power to move away while Mullet is in custody.",
"He urged them to seize the opportunity.",
"\"Now's the chance if you want to get out.",
"Now's the time to go,\" he said.",
"The defendants appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon.",
"A magistrate ordered them held until a detention hearing, Tobin said.",
"No date has been set for the hearing.",
"Samuel Mullet's sect is made up primarily of his relatives living on and around the compound in a remote valley outside Bergholz, Ohio, officials say.",
"The alleged religiously motivated physical assaults were a violation of the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the Justice Department said Wednesday.",
"If convicted, each man could face up to life in prison, it said.",
"Five of the men were arrested last month on charges of kidnapping and burglary stemming from an incident at the home of Myron and Arlene Miller in early October in which a group of men pulled Myron Miller out of the home by his beard, held him down, and cut off large portions of the beard.",
"The incident at the Millers' home was one of a handful of incidents in several counties in which as many as 30 men and women carried out similar attacks, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred J. Abdalla said.",
"When CNN asked the senior Mullet last month if he was behind the beard incident, he responded by asking rhetorically, \"Beard cutting is a crime, is it?\"",
"He then denied the allegations that he was running a cult.",
"Asked about what was, at the time, the start of a federal investigation, Mullet said, \"We're not guilty, so we have nothing to hide.",
"If they want to come and check us out, we'd be glad to see them here.\"",
"CNN's Chuck Hadad, Gary Tuchman and Bill Mears contributed to this report."
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"Leader Samuel Mullet Sr. is among those charged in the federal complaint .",
"Defendants \"forcibly restrained ... Amish men and cut off their beards,\" officials say .",
"Several of the defendants have confessed to local investigators, an affidavit says ."
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"London (CNN) -- Singer George Michael has pneumonia and has been forced to cancel at least four shows, his website says.",
"\"He is currently receiving treatment,\" the brief statement says.",
"His representative Connie Filippello told CNN the singer was \"on the mend\" and \"receiving medication.\"",
"She would not disclose information about where or when Michael had contracted the illness.",
"Michael has postponed shows scheduled for this weekend in Cardiff, Wales, after putting off shows earlier this week in Vienna, Austria, and Strasbourg, France.",
"He was also a no-show for a London concert scheduled for October 26.",
"That concert is now scheduled for May 2, 2012, his website says.",
"He said at the time he had thrown his back out.",
"CNN's Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Pop star George Michael is \"on the mend,\" his representative says .",
"The singer has pneumonia, he announces ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- The sense of security that South Koreans had enjoyed for almost 60 years was shattered one year ago, when the North launched an attack on the civilian island of Yeonpyeong, killing two marines and two civilians.",
"Grainy images from surveillance cameras that captured the moment when some 170 rounds of artillery pounded the island, causing villagers to run for their lives, were a stark reminder for many that the two Koreas still remain at war.",
"With a sense of normalcy returning to the island as villagers return home, most South Koreans have bounced back from the incident -- which escalated tensions to their highest since the Korean War was halted in 1953 after an armistice treaty was signed.",
"But have South Koreans forgotten about the threat?",
"Many remember the day of the attack.",
"Park Yunee, 30, was a student at the time and received a text message from her friend that read: \"Get your things together.",
"It looks like war is going to break out.\"",
"\"I think for most people it was the moment when that sense of fear suddenly kicked in.",
"Not thinking about living in a divided country and all of sudden, you're thinking, war could actually happen,\" says Park.",
"What stunned many South Koreans was not only the fact that Pyongyang could direct its aggression upon civilians, but that they were unprepared.",
"\"There was a lot of talk at the time about the power shift in North Korea and how Kim Jong-il had designated an heir.",
"But in reality what really mattered was the fact that we weren't prepared at all for something that happened in that one moment,\" says Park.",
"The attack was a wake-up call for the South Korean government.",
"It launched the largest civil defense drill in history shortly after the attack and urged people to be more proactive and aware of potential threats from Pyongyang.",
"The island shelling had also come half a year after North Korea torpedoed a naval ship, the Cheonan, killing 46 sailors.",
"Consequently, the past 12 months have seen relations between the two foes deteriorate.",
"North Korean expert Yang Moo-jin calls the past year \"a power struggle\" between the two Koreas.",
"\"What South Koreans want is to not cave in and forgive North Korea for what it did last year, but they also understand in order to prevent such provocations from happening again, there needs to be a sense of dialog and negotiation,\" Yang, a professor at the University of North Korean studies, says.",
"Both North and South Korea have shown signs of concession -- Pyongyang has expressed willingness to engage with countries involved in multilateral talks aimed at North Korea's denuclearization, while Seoul recently sent humanitarian aid through U.N. agencies to help the malnourished population in the North.",
"However, if relations don't improve on the peninsula soon, Seoul could potentially be looking at a prickly neighbor willing to use its long-range missiles next year, according to Yang.",
"\"If the trust level between North and South Korea continue to be as low as it is, there is the possibility that Pyongyang will go for more sensitive and strategically important targets,\" adds the professor.",
"The threat of another attack like Yeonpyeong may unnerve many South Koreans, but some have already recovered the positive sentiment they had before the island attack occurred.",
"\"I think most people believe something like that could never happen in Seoul.",
"There seems to be this vague belief that questions the plausibility of such an act,\" Seoul businessman Michael Cho says.",
"\"No, I don't think that could happen, is what the majority of people think, including myself,\" he adds.",
"\"It's probably because we've always co-existed with North Korea's provocations that we don't really perceive the threats from it,\" says 40-year-old office worker Lee Chul-hee.",
"\"It just doesn't seem relevant to my life.\""
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"The Yeonpyeong attack escalated Korean tensions to their highest since 1953 .",
"The island shelling came half a year after North Korea torpedoed a naval ship .",
"Many South Koreans were stunned that Pyongyang directed its aggression upon civilians ."
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"(CNN) -- Three American college students detained in Cairo since Monday night were released from police custody Friday and were headed to the airport to return to the United States, an attorney for one of the men said.",
"The men will board three separate commercial flights to return home, according to Joy Sweeney, the mother of Derrik Sweeney.",
"Theodore Simon, an attorney for the family of Gregory Porter, told CNN that \"his parents anxiously await his return.\"",
"The three -- Porter, Sweeney and Luke Gates -- were arrested after being accused of throwing Molotov cocktails in the unrest that has rattled the country since last week.",
"Their release was ordered Thursday.",
"Joy Sweeney said earlier Friday that the paperwork to release the men had been completed.",
"Derrik Sweeney's father, Kevin Sweeney, told CNN his flight is scheduled to leave Cairo at 10:30 a.m. Saturday (3:30 a.m.",
"ET) and he will arrive in his home state of Missouri on Saturday night.",
"\"He's extremely excited,\" Kevin Sweeney said of his son.",
"The family was planning to hold a belated Thanksgiving meal Sunday.",
"Joy Sweeney said her son told her Wednesday in a telephone call that \"they had done nothing wrong.\"",
"All had been attending American University in Cairo on a semester-long, study-abroad program.",
"Sweeney, 19, is a Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Missouri; Porter, 19, is from Glenside, Pennsylvania, and attends Drexel University in Philadelphia; and Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Indiana, goes to Indiana University.",
"Adel Saeed, the general prosecutor's spokesman, said Wednesday that a bag filled with empty bottles, a bottle of gasoline, a towel and a camera had been found with the three American students.",
"\"They denied the bag belonged to them and said it belonged to two of their friends,\" Saeed said.",
"Kevin Sweeney said Friday that his son had been \"falsely accused.\"",
"\"He was there observing something that was definitely a phenomenon of the culture,\" he said, noting that Derrik, with a dual major in Arabic and psychology, had gone to Egypt \"not just to learn the language -- he wanted to learn the culture.\"",
"Now, Sweeney said, his son does not plan to return to Egypt.",
"\"This semester is over for him, whether he's able to finish it remotely or writes it off,\" he said.",
"\"He really does not want to be in Egypt right now.\"",
"Sweeney declined to discuss any possible injuries his son sustained while in police custody.",
"He was not aware of the conditions of the other two men.",
"Also Friday, an Egyptian-American filmmaker arrested amid ongoing protests in Cairo was released, her lawyer said.",
"There were no immediate details about the release of documentarian Jehane Noujaim, which was confirmed by her lawyer, Ragia Omran.",
"Film producer Karim Amer said Wednesday that Noujaim -- whose works include \"The Control Room,\" about Al-Jazeera and the United States during the early days of the Iraq War -- was arrested while filming near the Interior Ministry building in Cairo.",
"CNN's Hussein Saddique and Michelle Cumbo contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: The father of one student says his son was \"falsely accused\"\nThe three students are headed to the airport to return home, a lawyer says .",
"An Egyptian-American filmmaker has been released, her lawyer says .",
"She was reportedly arrested while filming close to the interior ministry ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Just a few days before Black Friday signals the beginning of holiday shopping fury, the U.S. Public Interest Group has released its 26th annual \"Trouble in Toyland\" report, alerting consumers to the dangers and toxins that can still be found in children's toys.",
"The biggest concerns are toys containing chemicals that are potentially toxic, or that contain choking, strangulation or noise hazards.",
"While U.S. PIRG -- a non-partisan consumer advocacy group -- does not test every toy sold in stores, it takes random samples and has them laboratory tested to check for acceptable levels of toxic substances or other hazards.",
"Among the key finding in the report is the continued presence of these hazards.",
"According to U.S. PIRG, \"over 400 children died from toy-related injuries\" between 1990 and 2010, and more than half of those choked.",
"\"Choking on small parts, small balls and balloons is still the leading cause of toy-related injury,\" said PIRG's Nasima Hossain, who presented the report Tuesday.",
"Hossain demonstrated the \"toilet paper roll test,\" a way in which parents can easily determine whether a toy is too small for their infant or toddler.",
"If the toy, or pieces from it, can easily pass through the empty roll, the toy can be deemed a potential hazard.",
"Commissioner Robert Adler from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who also spoke at Tuesday's press conference, said it's been a busy year for his government agency, which works closely with U.S. PIRG.",
"Adler says this year the produce safety commission has passed the toughest safety standards for cribs, where babies often spend the most unsupervised time.",
"In March the commission launched a product-safety database that can be found at www.saferproducts.gov.",
"The commission has promulgated rules to reduce the amount of lead in children's products to among the lowest levels in the world, says Adler.",
"\"One of the interesting things about lead and other chemicals we regulate -- they don't show up in injury reports.",
"The problem is, they do affect children, but it's a chronic cumulative hazard that may not evidence itself until children are involved in later development,\" said Adler.",
"He added that lead poisoning can even affect children's IQ levels.",
"There are multiple online resources for parents seeking information about the toys they're purchasing, including www.toysafety.mobi which is an interactive site administered by U.S. PIRG that can be accessed through smart phones.",
"U.S. PIRG doesn't identify which countries are the biggest culprits with using toxic materials in the manufacture of toys.",
"\"We don't think a child or family is all that concerned, if a child chokes on a toy, (whether the toy is) made in China or was made in Kentucky.",
"All toys that are on the store shelves need to be safe,\" the group said.",
"Both the produce safety commission and U.S. PIRG feel, however, that their agencies are under threat from Congress relaxing safety standards, as a result of toy lobbying groups.",
"\"Sadly we're seeing recurring problems, and what we would argue is that we know what the problems are, and we actually need to fix the problems ... Toy manufacturers need to be more vigilant about the products they put out,\" said Gary Kalman, the director of U.S. PIRG's federal legislative office.",
"With the gift-giving season rapidly approaching, Santa --and parents— will be need to use the same guidelines and common sense approach that have been around for the past two decades, before placing gifts under the tree.",
"The main rule is to make sure toys are age-appropriate.",
"Joan Lawrence, vice president of standards and government affairs for the Toy Industry Association said consumers should feel confident that the toys they purchase are safe.",
"\"So much has been done in the name of toy safety, from government and industry, so consumers should feel quite comforted that what they find, has been found safe,\" said Lawrence."
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"Choking on small parts is still the leading cause of toy-related injury .",
"More than 400 children died from toy-related injuries between 1990 and 2010 .",
"More than half of those choked, according to U.S. Public Interest Group .",
"Toys containing potentially toxic chemicals also are a concern ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's general prosecutor on Friday ordered a police officer to submit to questioning regarding his suspected role in shooting protesters in the eyes during recent clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square.",
"\"The Ministry of Interior is preoccupied by the latest events, but he will come in for questioning soon,\" Adel Saeed, a spokesman for Egypt's general prosecutor, said about the suspect, 1st Lt. Mahmoud Sobhi El Shinawi.",
"The evidence offered against El Shinawi includes videos recorded by protesters and posted on Facebook, Saeed said.",
"At least five demonstrators have been shot in the eye, according to authorities.",
"They are among hundreds of casualties over the past week.",
"Some 41 people have died -- 33 of them in Cairo -- while an additional 3,250 had been wounded as of Friday, Health Ministry spokesman Hisham Shiha has said.",
"Protesters have called El Shinawi, specifically, \"The Eye Hunter\" and have sprayed \"wanted\" stencils featuring his face, name and rank on the walls around Tahrir Square.",
"Fliers with his photograph have also been distributed to people in the square, which is the hub of the activist movement railing against Egypt's military leaders.",
"They include a reward offer of 5,000 Egyptian pounds ($800) for information leading to the suspect, according to the artist who painted the stencil and asked not be named.",
"El Shinawi has been on duty on Cairo's Mohamed Mahmoud street during the recent clashes and is a \"highly trained marksman,\" 1st Lt. Alaa Mahmoud, an Interior Ministry spokesman, told CNN.",
"The spokesman declined to comment on the specific accusations against El Shinawi.",
"One of the suspect's alleged victims is Ahmed Harrara.",
"Harrara, who lost one eye on January 28 during the uprising against then-President Hosni Mubarak, lost his other eye last Sunday on Mahmoud Street.",
"Both he and at least one other victim, Malek Mustapha, said they were blindsided by their shootings -- and, therefore, could not pinpoint the shooter or shooters.",
"Yet they were able to recall the circumstances.",
"Harrara told CNN that he'd arrived in Tahrir Square around 3 p.m. Saturday \"and joined the front lines in (the) street battle.\"",
"\"Around 3 a.m. I was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet from about a distance of 7 to 10 meters (23 to 33 feet),\" he said.",
"He lost his second eye, then fell to the ground \"during one of many tear gas attacks.\"",
"\"My friend drove me on a motorbike to three hospitals that could not (treat) the injury, until one hospital operated and closed the wound,\" Harrara recalled.",
"The bullet remains lodged in his eye socket, leaving him blind.",
"But the shooting victim said, \"My spirits are high, and I should be traveling to Switzerland within the next 10 days (for) tests and operations.\"",
"Harrara said that he had no political affiliations during the initial uprising that led to Mubarak's ouster in February.",
"He is now a member of the People's Socialist Party, which opposes military leaders' interim authority over the Egyptian government.",
"On Friday, his older brother Hatem, and friends helped Harrara navigate around Tahrir Square once again.",
"\"My brother's eye is more important than Egypt, but for Ahmed, Egypt is more important than his eyes,\" Hatem said.",
"\"The policeman who shot my brother must be punished and executed.\"",
"Last Saturday, CNN witnessed a similar incident also on Mahmoud Street involving Mustapha, a blogger who was shot in his right eye.",
"\"Doctors say I have a blood clot in the eye and will need several operations soon,\" Mustapha told CNN.",
"Mansour al-Essawy, the interior minister appointed by Egypt's ruling military council, said Friday in a statement that \"no live ammunition, rubber or birdshot (has been) fired at the protesters.\"",
"But Shiha, a Health Ministry spokesman, has told CNN that many of those killed and wounded were shot by \"live ammunition, rubber bullets and birdshot.\""
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"At least 5 protesters have been shot in the eye, authorities say .",
"Protesters call the suspect \"The Eye Hunter\" and have fliers with his image .",
"An Interior Ministry spokesman calls him a \"highly trained marksman\"\nTwo of the victims recall being shot, including one who has lost both eyes ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- The 25-year-old pregnant wife of a Syrian TV anchor in Egypt was kidnapped in Cairo on Friday, her husband said.",
"Thaer al-Nashef, who describes himself as a \"political activist against the Syrian regime,\" said he believes the alleged kidnapping is the work of Syrian intelligence operating in the country.",
"There was no immediate response to the allegations from the Syrian government.",
"Egyptian police confirmed that al-Nashef filed a police report about his wife's disappearance.",
"Al-Nashef said he was alerted to the alleged kidnapping by a text message.",
"\"We have kidnapped your wife, you dirty dog, so you don't insult your master again,\" al-Nashef quoted the text as saying.",
"Al-Nashef said he received further text messages from the alleged kidnappers, including one that threatened that his wife would be raped, and another saying his wife would be killed if he went to the media with the story.",
"Mustapha Khalil, the officer who took al-Nashef's report, said police will be contacting his mobile phone provider to investigate the origins of the text messages.",
"Al-Nashef said the messages came from an Egyptian number.",
"Al-Nashef is a freelance journalist in Egypt and serves as a TV anchor for several networks, including January 25 TV, which was launched after the revolution to topple Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.",
"His wife, Mona al-Gharib, is an Egyptian citizen and a student at Azhar University, he said.",
"She is six months pregnant with their second child, according to al-Nashef.",
"Protesters gathered outside offices of the Arab League after news of the alleged kidnapping broke.",
"They later moved to the Syrian Embassy.",
"The Syrian government has been accused of seeking retribution against relatives of Syrian activists working against the Bashar al-Assad regime from abroad.",
"The U.S. State Department announced this summer that it had received reports that Syrian mission personnel had been conducting video surveillance of people participating in peaceful demonstrations in the United States.",
"Other Syrian activists living abroad have also declined to be named or appear on camera for fear of reprisals against their families at home.",
"And in August, a rebel military leader living in exile in Turkey disappeared from a refugee camp and reappeared days later in Syrian government custody.",
"Evidence also suggested that the government carried out reprisal attacks against the man's family."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Two men with political ties to Egypt's former leader were arrested on charges related to orchestrating an assault on protesters in Tahrir Square by attackers riding horses and camels.",
"A local prosecutor's office on Saturday identified the two as Abdel Nasser al-Jabari and Youssef Khattab -- both of whom were members of parliament and ex-President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party.",
"The assault is considered by many a turning point in the effort to topple the Mubarak regime.",
"Mubarak's supporters -- some of whom wielded whips -- rode horses and camels and charged into the crowd of anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square last month.",
"From Journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy ."
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"The assault was a pivotal moment in the uprising ."
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"(CNN) -- A judge in Aruba Friday rejected a prosecution request to hold U.S. citizen Gary Giordano for 30 additional days in connection with the disappearance of his traveling companion, Robyn Gardner, his attorney told CNN Friday.",
"The decision means Giordano, who has been in Aruban custody since August 5, will be freed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, his U.S.-based attorney Jose Baez, said in a written statement.",
"\"We are grateful the Arubian government has seen that no crime was committed,\" Baez added.",
"\"Gary ... is excited to return home to his family in the United States.\"",
"Prosecutors immediately filed an appeal seeking to reverse the ruling and prevent Giordano from leaving jail, said Taco Stein, Aruba's solicitor general.",
"A three-judge appeals panel will consider the matter.",
"Giordano \"couldn't believe\" the decision because he had lost faith and confidence in the Aruban criminal justice system, said his Aruban defense lawyer, Chris Lejuez.",
"\"When I asked him what he really thinks about his release, he started to cry and asked me to excuse him for a few minutes,\" the attorney said.",
"The judge's ruling does not require Giordano to remain in Aruba; Lejuez said he believes Giordano will leave as soon as he is freed.",
"The request to hold him was denied based on what the judge called a lack of progress in the investigation into the August 2 disappearance of Gardner, Stein said.",
"Giordano made a passionate argument for his release, Lejuez said.",
"The prosecution's appeal of Friday's order could be heard anytime between Friday and Tuesday, including the possibility of a weekend hearing, Stein said.",
"Giordano, 50, denies being responsible for the woman's disappearance, insisting that he'd been snorkeling with Gardner when he signaled her to swim back, according to statements from the prosecutor's office.",
"When he reached the Aruban beach, Gardner was nowhere to be found, he reportedly said.",
"According to a transcript of a police interview, obtained by CNN, Giordano told police he feared for his life when he'd tried to tell Gardner to turn back and didn't look for her as he swam for shore.",
"\"I only looked back when I hit a rock,\" the document quotes Giordano as telling investigators.",
"\"Before that, I did not look back. I was only busy saving my life.\"",
"The Gaithersburg, Maryland, resident has acknowledged taking out a $1.5 million life insurance policy on Gardner days before they traveled to Aruba, investigators have said.",
"The woman's body has not been found.",
"Giordano's detention has been repeatedly extended at the request of authorities, who have said they need additional time to investigate the case."
] | [
"NEW: Giordano's U.S. lawyer says he'll be released Tuesday night and return to the U.S.\nAn Aruban judge rejects a request to extend the American's detention for 30 more days .",
"Prosecutors have appealed the ruling .",
"Giordano says he is innocent in Robyn Gardner's disappearance ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Egyptian Prime Minister Esam Sharaf shuffled his Cabinet Sunday, amid protests calling for the interim government to quicken the pace of reform.",
"Sharaf appointed Hazem El-Beblawi, a newly-named deputy prime minister, to replace outgoing Finance Minister Samir Radwan, said ministry spokesman Ibtisam Saad.",
"The prime minister accepted the resignation of Industry Minister Samir Al-Sayyad, according to Ahmed Saman, spokesman for Sharaf.",
"It was not immediately clear who would replace him.",
"Sharaf also appointed new health and transportation ministers, Saman said.",
"The antiquities minister submitted his resignation, which was accepted, the spokesman added.",
"The moves come amid an ongoing shakeup in the government, which is under pressure to speed up the pace of reform since President Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11 after protests.",
"Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohamed el-Orabi, who had been in office for less than a month, stepped down on Saturday.",
"Several people working within the current government have been criticized for allegedly being too close to the former leader and those who helped suppress demonstrations last winter.",
"Thousands of disgruntled pro-democracy activists have again descended on Cairo's Tahrir Square, setting up tents in the iconic roundabout that was the hub of the uprising.",
"The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Sharaf's caretaker cabinet have been in charge of the country since Mubarak's ouster.",
"Egypt's military rulers have scheduled parliamentary elections for September.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: New health and transportation ministers are appointed .",
"The finance and industry ministers quit .",
"Hazem El-Beblawi will be Egypt's new finance minister .",
"The interim government is under pressure from protesters to quicken the pace of reform ."
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