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"(CNN) -- Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky denied Wednesday two new allegations of child abuse that authorities are investigating, his attorney said.",
"\"Jerry has adamantly denied the allegations,\" said attorney Joseph Amendola, adding that the accusations appear to be part of \"a very nasty divorce and custody battle.\"",
"The investigations were opened by Children and Youth Services in Pennsylvania, sources close to the investigation said Tuesday.",
"In Pennsylvania, cases of alleged child abuse reported by an alleged victim who is an adult are strictly police matters, even if the alleged offenses occurred when that person was a child.",
"Children and Youth Services participates in the investigation only if the alleged victim is still under 18.",
"Said Amendola: \"I know at least one Children's Youth Services investigation has been opened up by Centre County CYS regarding Jerry's alleged abuse of one of his (family members).",
"We don't know for sure. The allegations are ridiculous and unfounded.",
"\"Jerry has absolutely denied any inappropriate contact with his (family members).",
"It's important to keep in mind these allegations were made after the attorney general filed charges against Jerry even though the alleged incident(s) took place before the AG's charges were filed,\" Amendola told CNN.",
"Attorney: Evidence will prove Sandusky's innocence .",
"The attorney said he and Sandusky haven't been told of the nature of the alleged abuse by the attorney general or the family member who made the allegations.",
"\"Even if you buy into the attorney general's allegations against Jerry -- which we vehemently dispute and which we intend to vigorously defend against -- these new allegations don't fit the profile presented by the AG.",
"These new allegations appear to be the result of a very nasty divorce and custody battle,\" Amendola said.",
"If the allegations are found to be credible, they would be the first known cases involving current minors to become public since Sandusky's arrest.",
"All the other publicly known cases have involved alleged victims who are now adults.",
"The new cases were reported less than 60 days ago, according to sources close to the investigation.",
"Sandusky was arrested on November 5 after the release of a grand jury report detailing crimes that he is accused of committing between 1994 and 2009.",
"He is free on $100,000 bail, and he has denied the allegations.",
"Based on the grand jury report, Pennsylvania's attorney general has charged Sandusky with 40 counts in what authorities allege was the sexual abuse of eight boys.",
"In addition, Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, a university vice president, resigned their posts after being charged with failing to inform police of the allegations.",
"Head football coach Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier also lost their jobs in the wake of the report, when questions were raised about the university's response.",
"According to grand jury documents, a graduate assistant told Paterno in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky performing anal sex on a young boy in a football complex shower.",
"Paterno informed Curley, who told Schultz, according to the grand jury report.",
"CNN's Jason Carroll and Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Two new accusations of child abuse stem from \"a very nasty\" divorce, lawyer says .",
"Jerry Sandusky denies inappropriate contact with relatives, attorney says .",
"Sources: Two new cases were reported to authorities less than 60 days ago .",
"The alleged victims are currently under 18, the sources say ."
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"Lome, Togo (CNN) -- Six members of the Etoile Filante soccer club died in a bus accident on Saturday in Togo and 25 people were injured, said a spokesman for the country's soccer federation.",
"The team was headed to Sokode, where it was scheduled to play Sunday, when a tire reportedly burst, causing the bus to flip and catch fire, said Aime Ekpe, the spokesman.",
"\"Twenty-five others, including some players, are severely injured.",
"Most of the victims died in the fire,\" Ekpe said.",
"He spoke to CNN from the scene of the accident in Glei, about 81 miles (130 km) north of Lome, Togo's capital.",
"Among the victims were Christophe Dagbovi, the club's secretary-general, Isidore Kouma, the deputy coach, and Charles Balogou, a former national team goalkeeper.",
"Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe issued a statement soon after the accident, offering condolences to the victims' families.",
"Soccer in the West African country has suffered a series of misfortunes in recent years.",
"Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Togo's national soccer team to a tournament in Angola in 2010, killing the team coach and the director of communications.",
"A helicopter carrying 22 Togolese soccer officials, including Sports Minister Richard Attipoe, crashed in Sierra Leone in 2007.",
"No one survived."
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"The victims were members of the Etoile Filante soccer club .",
"25 people are injured, a spokesman says .",
"Soccer in Togo has suffered a series of misfortunes in recent years ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- One of three American college students arrested in Cairo passed out from fear when Egyptian authorities accused them of taking part in violence, he told CNN Sunday.",
"\"There were cops and people with guns standing before us,\" Derrik Sweeney said, describing \"the scariest moment of my life.",
"I didn't know if I was going to survive, and I actually fainted -- the only time I recall fainting in my life.\"",
"Sweeney, Gregory Porter and Luke Gates were back in the United States Sunday, a few days after an Egyptian court ordered their release.",
"Egyptian authorities had accused them of throwing Molotov cocktails in the clashes that have rattled Egypt in recent days.",
"\"That was entirely fabricated,\" Sweeney told CNN, adding that he and the others did not do anything \"to harm anyone or anything.\"",
"Porter was the first of the students to come home, returning to Pennsylvania on Saturday.",
"\"I just want to say that I'm so thankful to be back in Philadelphia,\" Porter told reporters.",
"\"I'd like to thank my parents, my mom and my dad, for their support.\"",
"He also thanked his lawyers, embassy officials and the administration at the American University in Cairo for their roles in helping to secure his release.",
"Sweeney, 19, of Jefferson City, Missouri, arrived at a St. Louis airport late Saturday night and was greeted by about two dozen relatives and friends.",
"All three students were attending American University in Cairo on a semester-long, study-abroad program.",
"They have said they did not do anything wrong, according to their parents.",
"Sweeney is a student at Georgetown University; Porter, 19, is from Glenside, Pennsylvania, and attends Drexel University in Philadelphia; and Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Indiana, attends Indiana University.",
"Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Sweeney said he was \"hoping to see politics in action\" when he went close to the protests, but insisted, \"we were in the sidestreets\" and not in the thick of the demonstrations.",
"\"We were right near a large crowd, apparently near the interior minister,\" he said, when the police \"shot something into the crowd and we all sprinted away.",
"As we were trying to regather ourselves, we found -- the three of us Americans -- found each other.",
"And then someone came in plain clothes saying that they would take us to a safe place and help us out.",
"The next thing we knew we were getting hit...",
"The first night we got hit in the face in the back of the neck a number of times.\"",
"While he does not know who the plain-clothed people were, \"I believe police,\" Sweeney said.",
"\"They were certainly working with the police.",
"They were able to walk around the police where the protestors weren't.\"",
"Looking back, he said, \"I have no regret that I went to the protests,\" but, \"I went too close to violent scenes.\"",
"\"Walking onto Mohamed Mahmoud street where there was violence was a bad idea,\" he said.",
"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.",
"Joy Sweeney, Derrik's mother, said her family would celebrate Thanksgiving belatedly on Sunday.",
"Just three hours before the incident in Egypt, she said, she had talked to her son on the phone \"and he said, 'Don't worry mom, we're safe.",
"It's far away from where we are.'\" While she knew her son was in Egypt \"to experience the culture,\" she said, \"I didn't want him to be that close to the violence... that was a little too close for comfort for me.\"",
"Drexel President John Fry released a statement Saturday expressing relief at Porter's safe return and thanking all those involved.",
"Three Drexel students remain in Egypt and all of them want to stay as long as U.S. officials do not recommend they leave, Fry said.",
"Asked whether he wants to return to Egypt, Derrik Sweeney told CNN, \"I really enjoyed most of my time there and hopefully one day,\" but, he added, \"not very soon.\"",
"CNN's TJ Holmes and Josh Levs, and Journalist Bill Kirkos contributed to this report."
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"Derrik Sweeney: \"I actually fainted\"\nSweeney: Accusations against us \"were fabricated\"\nEgyptian prosecutor said a bag of bottles and gasoline was found near the 3 students .",
"All 3 have returned home ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Suzanne Mubarak, wife of toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, suffered a heart attack Friday after being questioned in a corruption investigation, the manager of the Sharm el-Sheikh Hospital said.",
"The manager, Mohamed Fatah Allah, said she had been taken to the intensive care unit.",
"The incident came shortly after Suzanne Mubarak was ordered detained for 15 days in a corruption case, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported.",
"Assem al-Gohary, the assistant justice minister for the Illicit Gains Authority, ordered her detained for \"obtaining illegal wealth using her husband's position and political authority.\"",
"A team of investigators from the authority, a separate investigative unit under the Ministry of Justice, had questioned the former president in the same hospital for three hours Thursday regarding \"using his political position as president to acquire illegal wealth.\"",
"\"Hosni Mubarak was also questioned about his luxury mansion in Sharm el-Sheikh,\" al-Gohary said.",
"Last month, the former president suffered a heart attack during questioning over possible corruption charges, Egyptian state television reported.",
"But the head doctor from a Ministry of Justice team assisting with the questioning said later that the former leader had heart palpitations and was able to walk with assistance.",
"He was deemed stable enough to allow prosecutors to resume questioning at the hospital, according to the state-owned Al Ahram newspaper.",
"Mubarak has said the inquiry is aimed at tarnishing his reputation and that of his family.",
"The former first lady had been scheduled for questioning Thursday, but investigators postponed the interrogation until Friday morning.",
"She was asked about the origin of 20 million Egyptian pounds ($3.4 million) deposited in her name in a local bank account, al-Gohary said.",
"Both Mubaraks were questioned about accounts in Al Ahly Bank, containing $147 million under their authority, he said.",
"The Mubaraks signed affidavits allowing investigators to further inquire into their bank accounts and wealth inside and outside Egypt.",
"Suzanne Mubarak, 70, was treated successfully for leukemia 10 years ago, said Hanaa Gohar, the former first lady's former press contact.",
"\"She was very healthy and very active\" before the revolution, Gohar said.",
"The U.S. ally, a former military commander, resigned in February after nearly three decades in power amid massive demonstrations calling for him to step down.",
"Journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this story."
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"Manager of the hospital in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh says she suffered a heart attack .",
"The incident occurred shortly after she was ordered detained for 15 days in a corruption case .",
"Hosni Mubarak was also questioned about his finances ."
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"(CNN) -- It's not the kind of weather map or travel intelligence you want to see on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.",
"Two major storms in the Northeast and the Pacific Northwest are complicating matters on one of the busiest travel days of the year.",
"At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have issued a joint intelligence bulletin saying terrorists could choose to strike during the holidays and everyone should stay vigilant.",
"CNN has obtained a copy of the bulletin which says law enforcement is \"not aware of any credible threats to the Homeland specifically timed to coincide with the 2011 holiday season.\"",
"But the bulletin notes last year's Oregon plot to set off a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting.",
"That one allegedly involved a homegrown suspect.",
"And the bulletin says that as of February 2010, al Qaeda was considering attacks on the United States on symbolic dates such as Christmas, but there's no information to indicate that led to actual al Qaeda plots.",
"These sorts of bulletins have come out at holiday time in past years.",
"But this is the first once since the death of Osama bin Laden.",
"Meanwhile, rain has prompted flood watches in parts of Pennsylvania; up to 8 inches of snow have fallen in central parts of Maine; showers are soaking northern Florida; and wind gusts of up to 98 mph have been reported along the Oregon coast, CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said.",
"\"It's going to be a rough go for a whole lot of people,\" she said.",
"Flight delays were spreading Wednesday afternoon, with Newark International, LaGuardia, San Francisco International and Boston's Logan International airports reporting problems.",
"Check Federal Aviation Administration flight delay information .",
"That's bad news for those who are on the move for the annual November trek to see family and friends, feast on turkey and pumpkin pie, and rediscover the joys of their hometowns on Thanksgiving.",
"AAA projects that 42.5 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles during the Thanksgiving weekend, an increase of 4% from last year.",
"Slightly fewer people are choosing to get to their destinations by plane.",
"About 23.2 million travelers will fly over a 12-day period surrounding Turkey Day, a 2% drop from last year, according to a forecast by the Air Transport Association of America.",
"Unlike last year, when the National Opt-Out Day movement against airport body scanners threatened to snarl security lines across the country, air travelers are not facing the prospect of protest-induced delays.",
"(The Opt-Out Day turned out to be a nonevent.)",
"The Transportation Security Administration says it has prepared its work force for a \"smooth holiday travel experience for travelers.\"",
"iReport: Tell us how your trip is going .",
"The busiest air travel days for the Thanksgiving holiday period are expected to be Sunday and Monday, the Air Transport Association of America said.",
"If you're flying into or out of Los Angeles International, Chicago's O'Hare International or Orlando International, brace yourself for lots of company.",
"Those will be the nation's busiest airports this Thanksgiving, based on flight bookings, according to Orbitz.com.",
"(And in case you're wondering, Mineta San Jose International in California and Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii, will be the least busy.)",
"No matter where you start your journey, flight attendants say it's a week when they see lots of extra-grumpy passengers worried about flight delays and cancellations.",
"\"There's a little bit more at stake.",
"Oftentimes, people are trying to get someplace to be with their family, so naturally they would be upset if they're not going to make it,\" said Rene Foss, a longtime flight attendant for a major U.S. airline.",
"\"However, in general, it's also kind of a festive time.",
"Sometimes, contrary to what you might think, people are in a good mood because they are going for something kind of fun as opposed to just a business meeting or something related to work.\"",
"Should you recline your seat?",
"The etiquette of crowded flying .",
"Flying with food or gifts?",
"Check out the TSA's guide to what you can and cannot bring through an airport security checkpoint.",
"The agency reminds you not to wrap gifts you are taking on the plane because security officers may have to unwrap them if they need to take a closer look.",
"The TSA also offers tips on how to get through the security line faster, including packing coats and jackets in checked bags whenever possible and putting your shoes directly on the conveyor belt instead of a bin when they go through the X-ray machine.",
"Then, there are things you can't control: Snow, fog or rain may mean you won't fly on time or at all.",
"To avoid being stuck at the airport, sign up for airline alerts and check your flights frequently online before you leave home.",
"If your flight is canceled, get in line for assistance and try your airline by phone or online at the same time to get an edge over other fliers who are trying to rebook.",
"Winter weather travel tips .",
"If you're driving through an area that's expecting wintry weather, AAA recommends that you keep at least half a tank of gas in your car at all times and pack a cell phone, plus blankets, gloves, hats, food, water and any needed medication in case you're stranded.",
"Stay safe out there, and happy travels.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez, Zohreen Adamjee and Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"Thanksgiving travelers face two major storms -- in the Northeast and the Pacific Northwest .",
"AAA: 42.5 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles during the Thanksgiving weekend .",
"Orbitz.com: Los Angeles, Chicago's O'Hare and Orlando airports will be the busiest .",
"All eyes are on the weather, which can turn a simple trip into a nightmare ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The founder of one of America's largest pizza chains has offered unexpected advice to his customers to limit themselves to only one or two slices.",
"Pizza is not normally known for its health benefits; thick, cheesy toppings push up the calorie count.",
"During an interview on BBC's Radio Four program in the United Kingdom, John Schnatter, said, \"you can't eat five or six slices.\"",
"He was responding to a question from presenter Adam Shaw about whether he was concerned about the impact of the British government's anti-obesity drive on pizza sales.",
"\"No. Pizza's actually healthy for you if you don't eat too much of it,\" Schnatter replied, adding, \"You can't eat five or six slices but if you eat one or two slices it's very nutritious.\"",
"The pizza chain boss had just finished telling BBC listeners that the UK market was a \"huge priority for Papa John's International.\"",
"The company has 118 outlets in the United Kingdom, its second biggest market outside the U.S. after China.",
"Sales in the UK jumped 60% on Monday alone after heavy snowfalls were estimated to have encouraged around one in five workers to stay at home.",
"Schnatter is in the United Kingdom for the annual franchisee conference, a marketing tool to encourage more small business owners to buy into the Papa John's brand.",
"While it's impossible to know whether his comments have dissuaded anyone from investing in the company, BBC presenter Shaw suggested shareholders might take issue with his suggestion.",
"\"I'm not sure your investors would want to hear you tell people don't eat too much of our pizzas,\" he laughed before thanking Schnatter for his time.",
"Schnatter opened his first shop in 1985, after selling his beloved Camaro to buy his first pizza oven.",
"There are now more than 3000 restaurants worldwide."
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"Pizza chain founder advises customers not to eat more than one or two slices .",
"John Schnatter made his comments on a popular radio program in the UK .",
"Papa John's is the third biggest pizza chain in the United States ."
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"(CNN) -- The protests that have spread through parts of the Arab world led to dramatic change in another country Tuesday, as Jordan's king dismissed his government.",
"King Abdullah II made the decision following protests in recent weeks in which several thousand people demanded economic and political reforms.",
"Experts on the region said Tuesday Abdullah's decision was aimed at warding off larger-scale demonstrations in the wake of the huge protests in Tunisia and Egypt.",
"The Tunisia protests, which began the movement, toppled that country's government.",
"In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak has fired his Cabinet, but protesters in massive demonstrations continue to call for his ouster.",
"The protests -- which have also caught on to various extents in Algeria, Yemen, and Sudan -- have proved to be \"a real watershed event for the Arab world,\" said Blake Hounshell, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine.",
"\"It's really unprecedented.\"",
"There was a series of protests in Arab nations in the 1950s, but those were prompted by an ideology of Pan-Arabism in a post-colonial world, said Emile Hokayem, with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.",
"A 2005 uprising in Lebanon was about independence and ousting Syria.",
"While it was successful, the revolution's message was not one that other nations associated with, he said.",
"\"It's different this time.",
"People are standing up for their economic rights, their dignity.",
"It's very different,\" said Hokayem.",
"Ibrahim Sharqieh of the Brookings Institution said there's a whole new mind-set.",
"\"The Tunisian uprising has caused change in the attitude and behavior of ordinary Arab citizens -- and today we are witnessing the emergence of a can-do nation attitude,\" he explained.",
"Economic concerns have fueled the protests across the region.",
"At a speech Tuesday in Singapore, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said the need for action against unemployment was \"a strong undercurrent of the political turmoil in Tunisia, and of rising social strains in other countries,\" according to his prepared remarks.",
"Arab leaders have been getting the message, Hokayem said, noting an article in the Wall Street Journal in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said leaders must \"see the need of reform\" before protests like those in Egypt and Tunisia break out, because by then \"it's too late to do any reform.\"",
"Abdullah's decision and Assad's remarks \"are preventive moves,\" said Hokayem.",
"Hounshell noted that the Jordanian king has sacked his government before in recent years.",
"\"But in the context of what's happening now, it's going to be seen as a way to get ahead of these protests.\"",
"When the Tunisia protests proved successful at first, many analysts still doubted a \"domino theory\" would play out through the Middle East, said Hokayem, because each nation has a different structure, population, and set of challenges.",
"But \"right now, it seems like it's a possibility.",
"So I think governments are trying to prevent what could be copycat movements in the region.\"",
"The level of solidarity in the Arab world has come as a surprise to some experts, said Hokayem.",
"But \"it's a matter of psychology at this point.",
"People feel that there is an overture, and they want to push, want to do it.\"",
"Still, there are key differences.",
"\"I still think that monarchies have an edge in terms of legitimacy,\" Hokayem said.",
"Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen are officially republics, and leaders were gearing up for successions by bringing their children to power, sparking fury and frustration in an underserved population.",
"In Gulf state monarchies, such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia, uprisings that threaten the government are \"less likely,\" said Hounshell.",
"\"But I wouldn't rule it out.\" The United States views Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia as key allies in the region.",
"The Saudi kingdom has been stable for decades.",
"\"If Saudi Arabia starts to see popular protests,\" said Hounshell, \"then you're really going to see people in Washington freak out.\"",
"It remains unclear how far the change in any of these countries might go.",
"In Jordan, whether the king will regain support from protesters by dismissing his government is \"a million dollar question,\" said Hounshell."
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"NEW: Analyst: A \"can-do nation attitude\" is emerging .",
"Whether Jordan's king will gain support is a \"million dollar question\"\n\"It's really unprecedented,\" Hounshell says .",
"Experts believe monarchies may be more secure ."
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"(CNN) -- It's a nerve-wracking week for the 20 young journalists of South Africa's newest youth magazine.",
"It's nearly deadline day and the Cape Town office is a buzz of activity as the finishing touches are made to the first magazine aimed at the mainstream youth of South Africa.",
"But it's also a publication that's been made entirely by the same people it's targeting.",
"\"It's not just them writing articles and then a professional team taking that and making it pretty,\" said founder of Live Magazine South Africa, Gavin Weale.",
"\"Live SA has been commissioned by young people, subedited, designed and illustrated.",
"We even have young people working on the circulation, distribution and marketing,\" he added.",
"But along with producing 48-pages of news, views and entertainment the project is bringing together young people from a range of different backgrounds and races.",
"The results are breaking boundaries and giving many of the youngsters an opportunity to realize their full potential, the founders say.",
"One of the writers, Ntomboxolo Nana, has aspirations of one day working as a professional journalist.",
"Just a few years ago she was a member of a gang and spent time in prison.",
"\"She has tried to apply for college but is struggling to get in to school so we are giving her a platform to get in to school.",
"We hope that the experience she gets here will push her into journalism,\" explains Live Project Co-ordinator, Nkuli Mlangeni.",
"Mlangeni says the magazine is also providing young people with a platform to speak out about issues that are affecting them.",
"\"It's a place for them to communicate to other young people in their age group about the political situation, education system and discuss what culture they are interested in,\" she said.",
"She adds that a lot of the media in South African is run by an older generation.",
"\"They didn't have places to do this before, there are blogs and social networking but internet is still not accessible to everyone so this is a good medium as the magazine will be distributed for free,\" she continued.",
"Nana is currently writing a story about an issue that the younger generation have been protesting about in the area.",
"A child was beaten up at a school in Khayelitsha on the principal's orders.",
"Nana's piece about violence in schools hopes to give a voice to some of the concerns the younger generation have had with the incident.",
"Another writer is working on a 'dummies guide' to the ANC youth leader, Julius Malema.",
"There will also be articles reviewing products and advice and tips for school-leavers and young entrepreneurs.",
"Kenyan youth find their superhero .",
"Live magazine originated in the UK and after a decade in business and a circulation of 30,000 the success of the quarterly publication prompted Weale to bring the concept to South Africa.",
"Weale secured funding for the project from the Shuttleworth Foundation, a social innovation agency set up by Mark Shuttleworth, a famous South African entrepreneur.",
"But the hope is for the magazine to become the authentic voice of South African youth and be entirely self-sustainable within one to two years.",
"The reporters are aged 18-25 and come from a range of different circumstances.",
"Weale says the editor comes from one of the most dangerous townships in Cape Town and is working alongside youngsters who have had more privileged upbringings.",
"The organization is also working with 'remote' contributors in surrounding townships through regular workshops.",
"However, despite the youngsters different backgrounds, the professional mentors that guide and train the youngsters report that a common theme unites them.",
"\"All the kids wanted to address the segregation in Cape Town, they all wanted to talk about that and use the magazine as a platform to discuss it,\" said Mlangeni.",
"Another mentor, photographer Chris Saunders, has been honing the youngster's camera skills.",
"He says it's been incredible hearing how everyone has interacted with each other.",
"\"The conversations they've had while they are working in the same room have broken a lot of boundaries,\" he said.",
"\"There is still a rift between many communities and people are still separated by language and cultures and this has really been a bridge to that,\" he continued.",
"\"They sit in a room and talk about their different cultures and problems.",
"It's been a learning curve for us as well.\"",
"The first issue of Live SA will hit the streets in mid-November across the Western Cape and Gauteng.",
"But Live has future ambitions to take the concept to other parts of Africa.",
"\"There are millions of young people out there who are hungry for this kind of opportunity, so it can't happen too fast!\"",
"Weale said."
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"Live Magazine South Africa is written for and produced by young people in Cape Town .",
"The first issue will be published mid-November .",
"The 48-pages of news, views and entertainment aims to give a voice to the younger generation .",
"The reporters are aged 18-25 and come from a range of different circumstances ."
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"(CNN) -- \"The people and the army are one hand,\" the chant of Egypt's January 25th revolution on the eve of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, has yielded in the face of toxic gases, rubber bullets and live ammunition from the security forces, composed of army and police, to \"the army and the police are one dirty hand.\"",
"The trust and gratitude the Egyptian people once felt toward the military for their solidarity in ousting Mubarak has evaporated as the brutality of the army and police has caused scores of deaths and thousands of injuries.",
"Not only tear gas and rubber bullets, but also toxic gases -- which cause seizures and reportedly led to several deaths by asphyxiation -- and live ammunition have been aimed at the protesters.",
"Tweets from all over Egypt reveal the shock at this criminal behavior.",
"One said, \"I am out of words.",
"Egyptian army is murdering Egyptian civilians.",
"That's our worst living nightmare.\"",
"The November revolution differs from the 18 days that led to Mubarak's downfall not only in the escalating violence, but also in the new coalitions that have emerged as well as the old alliances that have been exposed.",
"The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic opposition group, has fractured: Members of its youth have aligned themselves with the protesters, while the leadership has supported the position of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that the parliamentary elections, which began today, must go forward.",
"Banking on a good showing in the elections, the Muslim Brotherhood leadership stayed away from Tahrir Square for the first week of this month's protests.",
"Islamist youths discovered their leadership's duplicity on the first day of the demonstrations, November 18, which was called as a day of protest by Islamists.",
"The plan to have a contained demonstration backfired and led to the current nationwide uprising.",
"Nawara Negm, a female journalist, activist and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, said in an interview posted on YouTube that they were urged to leave Tahrir Square on the first night of the protests, when a few hundred youth activists moved in to reclaim the square.",
"\"The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi leaders insisted we go home after the Friday protests ....",
"I decided to stay with my brothers and sisters here in the sit-in in Tahrir Friday night until our voices are heard.",
"Then the brutal, deadly attacks on us started.",
"I cannot help but think now that those Islamists' leaders had some sort of a deal with SCAF, but thank God it did not work out.\"",
"After days of equivocating on the violence, the U.S. first called on the military to halt its attacks on the protesters, and then, in a dramatic change of position, withdrew its support for the SCAF.",
"The White House statement, issued early Friday morning, called for \"full transfer of power to a civilian government\" in a \"just and inclusive manner.\"",
"It was greeted with incredulity in Tahrir.",
"As in the January revolution, the U.S. government has been perceived as supporting its allies -- the SCAF as much as Mubarak -- over the democratic aspirations of the people.",
"That the tear gas canisters still bear the moniker \"Made in the USA,\" as they did in January, does not help.",
"In its support for proceeding with the parliamentary elections, the U.S. finds itself in an odd allegiance with the SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood and out of touch with the sentiment on the street.",
"Tahrir Square never has been about \"free and fair elections first,\" although the people have that expectation.",
"The revolution of people carrying signs asking for \"dignity,\" \"freedom,\" \"equality\" and \"social justice\" always encompassed much more than political processes.",
"The people dying on Egypt's streets are fighting for the true conditions of a just society.",
"Elections, which in Egypt always can be manipulated, cannot be trusted to deliver that goal.",
"Far from promoting democracy, holding the parliamentary elections on time ignores the will of the people -- not to mention the sacrifices of those who have been killed or wounded -- and plays into the hands of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.",
"Many factors taint the elections: .",
"-- Holding the elections amounts to a forced approval of SCAF's brutal repressive practices, with the violence still ongoing throughout Egypt, out of the sight of the cameras in Tahrir Square.",
"-- Exerting total control over the media, SCAF manipulates public opinion with unchecked lies about protesters (think of the three American college students who were detained) and bullies independent networks, such as ONTV, with defamation campaigns, often targeting individual reporters, such as Yousri Foda.",
"-- After refusing for months to allow international monitors to observe the elections, SCAF relented at the last moment.",
"But irregularities such as removing the ballot boxes to remote locations remain troubling.",
"A full post-election evaluation will reveal the monitors' assessment of the transparency and honesty of the elections.",
"-- Governance is in chaos.",
"The country, in effect, has three governments, not to mention SCAF: the new prime minister, Kamal Ganzouri, appointed by SCAF and still forming a Cabinet; the interim prime minister, Essam Sharaf, supposedly still in position; and a Tahrir-formed Civil Council, led by the former diplomat and Nobel Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, former Muslim Brotherhood leader Aboul Fotouh and others.",
"The November protests have shaken Egypt out of a period of post-revolution stagnation, with serious implications for the future.",
"With the exception of those who have joined the protests, the military, from the generals at the top to the soldier on the street, has violated the trust of the people.",
"Now they are seen in the same light as Mubarak.",
"Many Muslim Brotherhood youths have broken off and have joined forces with the broad coalition of protesters.",
"Al Azhar, Egypt's leading religious institution, has weighed in with the people against SCAF.",
"And the \"leaderless revolution\" now has political backing.",
"A coalition of many leaders from the principal parties, called by ElBaradei, has formally asked SCAF to leave.",
"Also, representatives of the principal revolutionary movements have come together to support ElBaradei as prime minister over the SCAF's choice of Ganzouri.",
"The Egyptian people, who at times since January have seemed apathetic about the future of the revolution, have shown their determination to reclaim it.",
"The protesters all determined to stay in Tahrir, and on the streets and squares of Egypt, until SCAF steps down, hands power to a civil body, and submits to a public independent investigation into the violence and killings in January and February, the October Maspero protests (when the police attacked peaceful Christian Copts) and the strife in November.",
"As noted by a slogan pasted to the walls at Omar Makram Mosque (now turned into a field hospital), \"You can Crush the Flowers, but It Won't Delay the Spring.\"",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of the authors."
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"Protesters demand ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces step aside, they say .",
"The current parliamentary elections are tainted by the military council, they say .",
"Egyptians are determined to reclaim their country, Schneider and Naga say ."
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"(CNN) -- The investigation into claims that a Syracuse assistant basketball coach molested young boys is at a standstill as law enforcement officials find themselves at odds.",
"In a news conference on Wednesday, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick harshly criticized Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler and Deputy Chief Sean Broton over the handling of a 2002 probe into a ball boy's molestation claims against Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine.",
"Fine has called the allegations \"patently false.\"",
"Fitzpatrick accused police officials of leaking a sealed affidavit from a female witness in the Fine case to the media.",
"Bobby Davis, 39, told ESPN last week that Fine molested him \"hundreds of times\" over the course of 16 years, starting from when he was in the fifth or sixth grade.",
"Davis told university officials six years ago that he informed Syracuse, New York, police that he had been \"subjected to inappropriate contact by an associate men's basketball coach\" during the 1980s and 1990s, according to university Senior Vice President Kevin C. Quinn.",
"Police had originally told Davis that they would not pursue the case because the statute of limitations had expired, Quinn said in a statement.",
"Davis' stepbrother, Mike Lang, 45, has also accused Fine of molestation.",
"Lang told ESPN last week that Fine molested him \"15 to 20 times.\"",
"That accusation has kick-started a new police investigation.",
"Fitzpatrick filed subpoenas for records in the 2002 and current investigations that he said he should readily have access to.",
"\"I have a chief that's intentionally trying to sabotage an investigation, a chief that is preventing the finding out of whether an innocent man has had his reputation besmirched or whether a person has been victimized in the most violent disgusting manner,\" Fitzpatrick said.",
"Attempts to reach Fowler were not returned, but Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner defended the police department's actions.",
"In a statement, Miner criticized the DA for \"grandstanding\" and said, \"It is deeply unfortunate for the people of this community, the accused and the accusers that the district attorney has chosen a different tactic, resorting to personal and professional attacks.\"",
"\"Chief Fowler, Deputy Chief Broton and the Syracuse Police Department have conducted themselves with complete professionalism and integrity throughout this process.",
"We are focused on trying to find the truth in this highly charged environment.\"",
"Syracuse placed Bernie Fine on administrative leave last week after the accusations surfaced.",
"The case has been adjourned by New York State Supreme Court Judge James Murphy until next Tuesday, according to Barry Weiss from the district attorney's office.",
"CNN's Tom Watkins and Jake Carpenter contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Two sailors from a ship that capsized in the Irish Sea in gale-forced winds were rescued \"in reasonable condition\" Sunday while five remained missing, the British coast guard said.",
"The body of an eighth sailor was recovered, the coast guard said.",
"After a daylong search in rough seas, the British coast guard ended the effort to find the five missing men as darkness fell, according to a coast guard press officer.",
"\"Today at roughly 16:45 GMT (11:45 a.m.",
"ET), a decision was made by the coast guard to call off the search and rescue mission for the five remaining missing sailors in the Irish Sea,\" press officer Jo Groenenberg told CNN.",
"A Ministry of Defence spokesman earlier confirmed to CNN that Prince William was the co-pilot of the helicopter that plucked the two rescued sailors from a life raft.",
"The crew of the Swanland sent out a mayday call about 2 a.m. local time, saying the ship was caught in strong winds and had a cracked hull, the coast guard's press office said.",
"A few ships responded, but the Swanland had capsized by the time they got there, the office said.",
"The coast guard dispatched two helicopters, including one from RAF Valley base, where Prince William is a search-and-rescue pilot.",
"The helicopter pulled two men from the water.",
"A coast guard spokesman later said the two -- who included the ship's second officer -- were in \"reasonable condition\" after the helicopter had carried them to the military base."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Streets in Egypt's capital remained tense Sunday a day ahead of elections.",
"As protesters packed Cairo's Tahrir Square, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued warning of \"dire consequences\" if the nation's political crisis continues, state-run Al-Masriya TV reported.",
"Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said parliamentary elections would go ahead as planned Monday, and that he would not allow the military \"to be pressured by any individual or entity,\" state media reported.",
"Meanwhile, a member of an alliance of demonstrators told Al-Masriya that a new proposed government would be announced later Sunday after meetings with Mohammed ElBaradei, a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner who is frontrunner for Egypt's presidency.",
"\"We will ask the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to form a new government.",
"We don't want to take the country into the unknown but (the council) must listen to our demands and our call to form a new government and cede power to a civilian transitional council,\" Mohammed Mamdouh, a member of the alliance of revolutionaries in Tahrir, told Al-Masriya.",
"Newly-appointed Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri was appointed last week by Egypt's military rulers after former Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his government quit en masse.",
"Ganzouri, who served as prime minister under President Hosni Mubarak, said he had asked for time to form a cabinet \"that will be accepted by everyone.\"",
"He told reporters last week that a new government could not be formed before Monday's parliamentary elections.",
"Ganzouri, who was Egypt's prime minister from 1996 to 1999, is to remain as prime minister until at least January 10, when results of the parliamentary elections are finalized, said Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant.",
"After that, Parliament would have to back Ganzouri for him to retain the position.",
"Mamdouh said Sunday Ganzouri was the wrong man to lead the nation.",
"\"Gazouri's government was born dead, and he doesn't have any legitimacy on the Egyptian street,\" he told Al-Masriya.",
"At least 42 people have been killed in recent demonstrations in Egypt, including at least 33 in Cairo.",
"An additional 3,250 have been wounded, the Ministry of Health's Dr. Hisham Shiha said.",
"He said many of the casualties had been shot by \"live ammunition, rubber bullets and birdshot.\"",
"Egypt's military leaders apologized Thursday for the deaths of protesters, vowing to prosecute offenders and pay the medical bills of the wounded.",
"The violence came as the country remains divided over the ruling military body and news that Ganzouri had regained his old role.",
"The high military council decided Friday to extend voting to two days for each stage of the parliamentary elections, scheduled to begin Monday, according to state-run Egypt TV.",
"Ballot boxes will be locked at 7 p.m. Monday and new boxes will be used on Tuesday, Ahmed Al Zind, head of Judicial Club, told reporters Saturday.",
"\"The ballot box for the judge is like a part of his body,\" Al Zind said.",
"\"Even though police and army will secure ballots, the judge is responsible. \"",
"In all, 4,765 judges will monitor the three rounds of elections and report any violations to the Higher Committee of the Election Commission, he said.",
"The elections will also be observed by a delegation from the International Republican Institute as well as a U.S. congressional delegation \"to identify and evaluate strengths and weaknesses in Egypt's election system, including campaign regulations, the balloting process, vote tabulation and reporting,\" the institute said Friday.",
"CNN's Saad Abedine contributed to this report."
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"A member of a demonstrators' alliance says the group will announce a new government .",
"Egypt is divided over the ruling military body and the newly appointed prime minister .",
"Egypt's parliamentary elections are set to begin Monday ."
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"SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNET) -- In an industry dominated by men, leave it to women to come up with the winning idea in a contest to create a concept for a video game about losing one's virginity.",
"Two women won a contest this week to create a concept for a video game about losing one's virginity.",
"On Wednesday, at the Game Developers Conference here, the two-woman team of Heather Kelley and Erin Robinson won the Game Design Challenge with just 36 hours of preparation, while their competitors had weeks to come up with concepts for a game about \"your first time.\"",
"This was the sixth straight year of the design challenge, hosted annually by New York-based game developer Eric Zimmerman.",
"The contestants are generally top-tier game designers like two-time winner and Spore and The Sims creator Will Wright, Deus Ex lead designer Harvey Smith, or 2008 winner and Leather Goddesses of Phobos creator Steve Meretzsky.",
"The contestants are generally given several weeks to come up with a concept for a game based on some sort of unusual challenge posed by Zimmerman.",
"Past themes have included a game about love, a game based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and a game that could win the Nobel Peace Prize.",
"\"We are in a medium that is just incredibly plastic,\" Zimmerman said.",
"\"We can put anything up on the screen...Still, we find every year that most of the money being put into games is put into a relatively narrow (set of) genres\" that tends to include monsters, dragons, and the like.",
"Zimmerman added that the purpose of the challenge is \"to think about how we can create games that really break away\" from what's been done so many times before.",
"Sex and autobiography have been constant themes in literature, film, and theater, Zimmerman argued, pointing to \"Lolita,\" the work of Henry Miller, Chaim Potok's novel, \"My name is Asher Lev,\" and the films of Fellini and Woody Allen.",
"But while Zimmerman touted the widespread historical acceptance of the theme of autobiographical sex, he noted with some dismay that veteran game designer Kim Swift, who works for Valve and who created the award-winning Portal, had originally been slated to be among the contestants but had eventually been pressured by Valve to withdraw due to the theme.",
"\"I'm saying this as a fan of Valve,\" Zimmerman said, \"but I do find it frustrating and disturbing that Kim would be pulled from the panel.\"",
"Still, he said, after word got around about Swift's withdrawal, Lapis designer Kelley and independent developer Robinson volunteered to step up and compete.",
"The two ended up facing off against Meretzsky, on hand to defend his crown, and Habbo Hotel lead designer Sulka Haro.",
"And in the end, while all three submissions were well-received, the duo of Kelley and Robinson were judged by the audience to have very closely beaten out Meretzsky.",
"The two women came up with a concept for \"Our first times,\" and presented it as a two-level game, one level for Kelley's experience and the other for Robinson's.",
"They imagined a series of mini games that could be played on Nintendo's Wii, or possibly on Apple's iPhone.",
"Kelley began by explaining that her game would commence with the player having to pick an outfit for a date that was intended to conclude with their deflowering.",
"It would have to be the least complicated outfit possible, she said, nothing with zippers that get stuck, or too many buttons or ties.",
"Then, there would be a mini game in which players would have to shave their legs, making especially sure not to miss the all-important spot \"by the knees.\"",
"Next up, dinner, and making sure to remove all the garlic from the meals, something the main character--clearly a female, since the game was presented from a woman's perspective--would have to do because of the general cluelessness of the boyfriend in question.",
"The next mini game would revolve around choosing the proper mood music from a selection of LPs--yes, records, since the game would be set in the timeframe of Kelley's first time.",
"And clearly, she said, Miles Davis would have to be the choice.",
"The penultimate mini game would task the player with \"not falling off the top bunk\" in a college dorm room,\" while the final task would involve flicking off the smirking roommate.",
"The Robinson level also involved a series of mini games that commenced with \"driving home from ultimate-Frisbee practice\" and setting the radio station in a car--perhaps using the Wiimote dial, she said--to anything except country music.",
"Next would be a stop at a drug store to buy a brand of condoms that doesn't terrify you, and then going \"back to his place,\" and grappling with adjusting the tracking on his \"antiquated\" VCR.",
"Being a game concept presented from the woman's perspective, the next mini game would revolve around \"making the first move.",
"Poor guy.\" And then, afterward, calling the best friend to tell the tale.",
"\"But you have to be careful,\" Robinson said, \"because she's next to mom and grandma on the speed dial.\"",
"Perhaps given their short notice, the mini-game concepts created by Kelley and Robinson weren't very fleshed out, something that was a shame since they seemed to be onto something.",
"But the crowd appreciated how much effort they had put into the storyboards they'd created, and forgave the rudimentary fleshing out of the details.",
"Meretzsky's concept--which came in a very close second--ended up revolving around the idea of moving beyond the awkwardness of fumbling high school attempts at romance.",
"But before explaining his final design, he talked at length about the challenges of coming up with a game idea when every possible title was too overtly sexual.",
"He said he tried out \"Where's dildo,\" but discarded it because \"it had nothing to do with my autobiography.\"",
"And then, he thought \"about the almost too obvious genre of first-person shooters.\"",
"He also threw away \"Call of Booty\"--because it would have \"problems that would keep it off the shelf at Wal-Mart\"--and then almost settled on a beat-matching idea called \"Hump Hump Revolution.\"",
"And, playing off the title of Swift's hit game, as well as a popular 2008 film, he said he nearly ended up with \"Zack & Miri make a Portal,\" but \"my business people tell me paying licenses for two different (intellectual properties) is a non-starter.\"",
"In the end, he said, he came up with a three-act structure for a game based in the virtual world, Second Life, where act one involves the awkward era of high school, the second act is the more promising college years and finally, act three, happiness in the form of a series of vignettes including dates, a wedding, and then, home life.",
"The game, he said, would be called, \"Wait, time passes.\"",
"\"No matter how picked on you are,\" Meretzsky said, \"this too shall pass.",
"Your time will come, and you will find happiness and your place in the world.\"",
"Of the six Game Design Challenges, this year's felt the most wanting for detail and working game mechanics.",
"That may have been because the contestants' task of building something autobiographical didn't meld well with game design.",
"Still, the crowd, which was heavy with game designers, appreciated the efforts and shouted out their support for all three contestants.",
"After all, in the end, the point was to take a particularly challenging game design topic and create something that could plausibly be a working title.",
"And who would know better the difficulties of doing so than a room full of game designers?",
"© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) -- Several hundred protesters were gathered in the center of Tunisia's capital Sunday as riot police stood guard.",
"Members of the Army and military vehicles were also deployed on the main street outside the country's interior ministry.",
"After police fired occasional tear gas canisters into the crowd, groups of young protesters fled and then returned.",
"Some younger protesters threw stones at police, but older men gathered among the group urged them to calm down.",
"On Saturday authorities imposed an overnight curfew in the capital and surrounding areas following a weekend of protests against the interim government and security forces, state media reported.",
"The latest protests come amid growing concerns among Tunisians that their demands for democratic rule are not being met.",
"Protesters are calling for the continuation of the democratization process, fundamental reforms, and a return to the ideals of the Tunisian revolution.",
"On Saturday protesters called for the resignation of the interior minister as they chanted, \"The people call for a new revolution\" and \"No fear or terror, power belongs to the people,\" Agence Tunis Afrique Presse reported.",
"Authorities said the curfew, which will run nightly from 9 p.m to 5 a.m., will prevent looting and protect citizens, the government said.",
"Protests in Arab countries started in Tunisia when an unemployed college graduate set himself on fire after police confiscated his fruit cart and cutting off his source of income.",
"The act sparked massive demonstrations over high unemployment, government corruption and political repression, and led autocratic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to leave the country in January.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson contributed to this report."
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"Authorities impose an overnight curfew on Tunis and surrounding areas .",
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"(CNN) -- A lawyer for the family of Robert Champion, a Florida university drum major who died this month in what officials have called a hazing-related death, said Monday he will sue the school.",
"\"We are intending to file a lawsuit to get answers\" about hazing at Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, lawyer Chris Chestnut told reporters.",
"\"We are concerned about the culture of cover-up, that hazing has been covered up at the Band FAMU for generations.",
"So, it's time now that we expose the truth, eradicate this culture and come up with creative remedies on how to continue the excellence of FAMU's band, but without hazing.\"",
"Chestnut said he was not at liberty to discuss the facts of the case and noted that the medical examiner has not issued a report on the cause of death of the 26-year-old musician.",
"But, he added, the facts that have emerged to date \"point to the fact that hazing was a cause of Robert Champion's death, and it was under FAMU's watch.\"",
"He said he could not address the scope of the lawsuit but added, \"I can tell you that FAMU will be named in it.\"",
"Chestnut described hazing at the school as a don't ask, don't tell culture.",
"\"The family's message today is: Please, tell.\"",
"Because FAMU is a state institution, it is protected by sovereign immunity, which means that Chestnut must file a notice of intention to sue as a prerequisite to the suit, the lawyer said.",
"\"After a six-month window, we will file a lawsuit,\" he added.",
"\"He loved the band -- so much, I always called him Mr.",
"Band,\" Champion's mother, Pam Champion, told reporters of her son.",
"\"That was his life.\" She added that she was in suburban Atlanta, where the family lives, when a phone call informed her of her son's death.",
"The call came shortly after her son had called to say he was coming home for Thanksgiving.",
"\"I thought it was some kind of mean joke.",
"... Maybe it's the wrong kid, maybe it's somebody else.\"",
"\"They had no idea of anticipating that he'd be coming to Willie Watkins' Funeral Home when he came back to Atlanta,\" Chestnut said.",
"\"That's not what you send your kid to college for.\"",
"\"It needs to stop,\" Pam Champion said.",
"\"No one wants to hear on a phone call that your son collapsed and died.\"",
"Champion became ill at an Orlando hotel after a game on November 20.",
"He reportedly threw up in the parking lot and started complaining of not being able to breathe, authorities said.",
"Champion was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.",
"Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told CNN last week that hazing was involved but added that authorities were trying to determine an official cause of death.",
"Under Florida law, any death that occurs as the result of hazing is a third-degree felony.",
"After the death, FAMU President James H. Ammons suspended all band performances and said he will convene a task force \"to determine if there are any unauthorized and questionable activities associated with the culture of the Marching 100.\"",
"In addition, FAMU moved to fire longtime band director Julian E. White.",
"White had led the 420-member band since 1998 and has hired an attorney to fight for his job.",
"\"We believe that he was not treated with the respect that was due,\" Tallahassee attorney Chuck Hobbs said.",
"He described as \"ludicrous\" the university's assertion that White did not do what he could do to address hazing.",
"White, who said he will speak Wednesday at Champion's funeral, said he had told the victim's parents about their son's death.",
"\"That was extremely difficult for me,\" he said.",
"\"I wish that this could have been avoided.",
"I took the necessary steps that this tragedy could have been avoided.\"",
"He said he had ordered the suspension of 26 band members two weeks before Champion's death.",
"\"I thought that that would really be the end of these kinds of things,\" he said, adding that his move brought criticism from some band members and parents who asked him whether the band would be able to perform adequately without 19 trombone players and others.",
"\"My comment was: 'It doesn't matter,' \" he said.",
"\"I am not going to sacrifice the performance for the principle.\"",
"White added that he wished the administration had suspended from the school the students allegedly involved in hazing.",
"\"If some strong actions had been taken, then Robert Champion may well be alive now, and we may not be having this gathering,\" he said.",
"White added that he sent memoranda in 1989 and in the 2000s about hazing's presence on campus, not just among band members.",
"\"It's no secret,\" he said.",
"\"It's just a culture -- as much as I regret it -- that kids nowadays engage in.\"",
"Every year, he offers hazing workshops, and anytime a band member has been suspended for hazing, White sends a note to the school president, the vice president of student affairs, the chief of police and the band staff.",
"\"I probably have more than 100,\" he said.",
"\"I don't know how many.\" He added, \"I feel very comfortable that I did everything that I could to eradicate hazing.",
"I coined the phrase, 'Zero tolerance for hazing in the Florida A&M U band.'",
"\" Asked whether he believes he is being made a scapegoat, White said, \"Yes, I do.\"",
"He said he had tried his best to make the administration aware of the problems.",
"\"How would I be negligent in reporting the activities when I did report them?\"",
"he asked. David Frank, a Tallahassee lawyer who represented another hazing victim, said it was not clear whether it was White or others who were at fault.",
"\"He's a legend over there,\" he said.",
"\"He walks in a room, people listen.",
"Maybe he did. Maybe it's the rest of the system over there that fell apart.\"",
"Frank filed a suit against the school on behalf of a band trumpeter, Marcus W. Parker, who was beaten in 2001.",
"Frank won the case for undisclosed damages (FAMU's sovereign immunity caps its liability for a negligence action at $100,000) and won another case against those who beat his client for $1.8 million, he told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"Frank described the hazing as part of a deep tradition with the band, where each section acts like a fraternity.",
"\"The trumpet section was the Screaming Eagles,\" Frank said.",
"\"The school says you don't have to be a member of this fraternity.",
"That's just horse s***. You couldn't survive as a trumpeter if you were not a member of the Screaming Eagles.\"",
"The beatings meted out were carried out with paddles, but that doesn't fully describe what happens, he said.",
"\"Paddling is just the wrong word for it.",
"It's vicious beating.",
"I think one guy got hit over 100 times.",
"And this is a solid, wood paddle.",
"This isn't some Wiffle bat.",
"This is something that would kill you.\"",
"In Parker's case, he was hit 30 times in his buttocks -- \"so hard they put him into renal failure,\" Frank said.",
"\"His kidneys stopped working and he had to go into the emergency room.",
"He almost died.\"",
"Parker spent at least five days in critical condition, endured several surgeries and quit school, the lawyer said.",
"The former student is now living in Jacksonville, where he is in poor physical condition, has never fully recovered and is struggling, Frank said.",
"\"It ruins their life,\" he added.",
"\"You don't have to be beat to within an inch of your life to play a trumpet.",
"That's nonsense, and they know it, and this tradition is just way off base.\"",
"A spokeswoman for the school did not return a call seeking comment.",
"On Wednesday, Gov.",
"Rick Scott sent a letter to Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey asking the department to join the investigation \"to assure that the circumstances leading to Mr. Champion's death become fully known, and that if there are individuals directly or indirectly responsible for this death, they are appropriately brought to justice and held accountable.\"",
"Ammons has acknowledged that at least 30 band members were let go this semester because of possible involvement in hazing."
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"Glendora, California (CNN) -- It's the kind of Southern California town made for daydreaming: Quiet streets and sunny skies, a place where tranquility seems rarely to be disturbed.",
"But according to police, as well as classified U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora was the scene of an international assassination plot.",
"The scheme involved would-be killers hiding out in a low-budget motel and an elaborate plan that, at first, involved shooting the victim, but later centered on running him over with a van, police documents disclose.",
"\"I've been a police officer here for more than 20 years, and I've never investigated anything like this,\" said Glendora police Lt. Tim Staab.",
"It all unraveled on a late summer day in 2009, when a would-be hit man hired by an Iranian national named Reza Sadeghnia got cold feet and called police from a local gas station.",
"\"This person went on to tell us that for the past four days, they together had been scheming how to assassinate, how to kill another Glendora resident,\" Staab said.",
"Police said the target in Glendora was Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-American dissident who is the radio voice of a small group called Tondar, devoted to the overthrow of the Iranian government.",
"The Iranian government calls Tondar a terrorist group, but the U.S. State Department says it is only a propaganda outlet.",
"According to police reports, the informant offered proof: the purchase of a cheap van from a used-car dealer that would be used to run down and kill the target.",
"He told detectives he had been paid $5,000 to kill Sharmahd, with another $27,000 delivered to his mother back in Iran.",
"The plotters decided to use a van after deciding that buying a gun would be too risky, the reports state.",
"The informant told police that Sadeghnia, the mastermind, had fled Glendora and was about to leave Los Angeles on a plane.",
"Staab said Glendora detectives found him in an airport hotel under his own name and arrested him in his room.",
"Along with his laptop computer, police seized $2,100 in cash.",
"\"They were crisp $100 bills.",
"There was a stack of them. And around it was a bank wrapping, and they were all written in Farsi,\" he said.",
"According to those leaked American diplomatic cables, this wasn't the first time Sadeghnia had been implicated in an assassination attempt.",
"A prominent Iranian dissident in London, Ali Reza Nourizadeh, \"had been targeted by Iranian intelligence,\" according to one cable.",
"Nourizadeh is a prominent Voice of America commentator based in London, and Sadeghnia had contacted him several months before his California arrest, claiming to be a \"big fan,\" the January 2010 account states.",
"But Nourizadeh became suspicious of Sadeghnia after he took large numbers of pictures -- photos that later turned up in the office of a deputy intelligence minister in Tehran, the cable states.",
"He stopped taking Sadeghnia's calls \"and heard nothing more about the matter until he was visited by UK anti-terror police January 14,\" according to the cable.",
"According to the cable, Sadeghnia had tracked the London dissident at the same time he was making plans to assassinate the California dissident.",
"The arrest by Glendora police brought a halt to both plans.",
"\"Nourizadeh is a well-known figure both inside and outside Iran, and is an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime, so it is unsurprising that the regime would want to keep a close eye on him,\" the document states.",
"\"If, however, the regime has targeted Nourizadeh for assassination, as it appears to have done with Sharmahd, it marks a clear escalation in the regime's attempts to intimidate critics outside its borders, and could have a chilling effect on journalists, academics and others in the West who until recently felt little physical threat from the regime.\"",
"Sharmahd said there was \"no doubt\" that the plot against him involved the Iranian government.",
"He said the motive was not only to kill him, but also to replace both Tondar's website and its radio broadcasts with fakes in an attempt to hijack the movement.",
"Sadeghnia ultimately pleaded guilty to a charge of solicitation of murder and was jailed for eight months.",
"But the story doesn't end there. After he was released from prison in 2010, Sadeghnia applied for permission to leave the United States while he was on five years' probation and visit Iran for one month \"to visit his dying father,\" according to probation reports.",
"His first application was denied, but a second request was granted a few weeks later on the condition that he return no later than October 27.",
"He has not been seen in the United States since.",
"Probation officials would not comment on the decision.",
"Meanwhile, another Iranian-American -- a 71-year-old California businessman named Reza Taghavi -- was being held in an Iranian prison.",
"He had been jailed for more than two years after Iranian authorities said he had given $200 to an Iranian dissident group: Tondar, the same group based in Glendora.",
"Taghavi denied any association with Tondar.",
"The money, he said, was to be given to a friend of a friend.",
"Within weeks of Sadeghnia's arrival in Iran, Taghavi walked out of Evin Prison.",
"Taghavi said he believes there was \"no connection\" between his release and Sadeghnia's arrival.",
"His attorney, a former Bush administration ambassador, Pierre Prosper, said he doesn't think there's a link, either.",
"\"But it's an interesting coincidence, isn't it?\"",
"Prosper said in a telephone interview.",
"The State Department told CNN that there was no link between Sadeghnia's return to Iran and Taghavi's release.",
"But back in Glendora, Sharmahd said there's no doubt in his mind that there was a swap in which the United States traded the man who orchestrated his attempted murder to Iran in exchange for the jailed businessman.",
"\"You give my man back.",
"I give you your man back,\" he said.",
"Watch Parker Spitzer weeknights 8pm ET.",
"For the latest from Parker Spitzer click here."
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"He was allowed to return to Iran, but his deadline to return to U.S. passed months ago .",
"WikiLeaks cable: He had been linked to a previous plot involving a London dissident .",
"Sadeghnia's would-be target believes he was let go in a prisoner swap with Iran ."
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"(CNN) -- Asbai Ramirez had toiled for months as a U.S. soldier in Iraq.",
"But it was his 7,000-mile trip home -- racing against the clock to his wife's bedside, for the birth of their baby -- that he described Monday as \"pretty intense.\"",
"The Army specialist told HLN's Vinnie Politan that the tight timetable and sheer distance led him to believe that his chances were slim of joining wife Ashleigh Ramirez in Fort Polk, Louisiana, before their child was born.",
"\"I didn't really have much hope about making it back,\" Ramirez said.",
"First, there was the matter of leaving Iraq.",
"Ramirez said Monday that his unit commanders \"sent me back as soon as they could.\"",
"On the baby's due date, he was finally back in the United States -- but not with his wife.",
"Instead, he was in Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where he had to take a few mandatory classes.",
"But the baby was still holding out.",
"On Thanksgiving morning, Ramirez said he boarded a flight to Alexandria, Louisiana, then quickly hopped on the road -- still about one hour, 15 minutes from the base in the western part of the state.",
"\"I got into a car and pretty much flew down there,\" Ramirez said from Fort Polk.",
"\"I made it just in the nick of time.\"",
"Specifically, the soldier said he burst into the hospital room about 30 minutes before his son, Jason, made his own grand appearance.",
"Ramirez said that, throughout the process, he'd been in regular contact with Ashleigh.",
"But talking online and by phone didn't compare to being with his growing family in person, especially with baby Jason in his arms.",
"\"He's doing fantastic,\" the soldier said of his son.",
"\"I couldn't ask for a better gift than to have him healthy and here with me.\""
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"Asbai Ramirez was in Iraq during much of his wife's pregnancy .",
"He returned to the U.S. on his baby's due date, but had to take classes .",
"On Thanksgiving, he flew to Louisiana then rushed to the hospital .",
"Ramirez says he got there about 30 minutes before his son was born ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- For nearly 30 years, one man dominated Egypt.",
"Hosni Mubarak, 82, survived would-be assassins and ill health, crushed a rising Islamist radical movement, and maintained the peace with neighboring Israel that got his predecessor killed.",
"His government's continued observance of the Camp David accords was the cornerstone of what peace has been achieved in the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict.",
"But following the revolt that toppled Tunisia's longtime strongman, demonstrators in the streets of Cairo stood up to riot police, chanting, \"Mubarak, Saudi Arabia is waiting for you.\"",
"Ultimately, the demonstrations helped bring down the man critics called Egypt's last pharaoh.",
"Mubarak decided Friday to step down, Vice President Omar Suleiman said on state television.",
"Now that Mubarak is finally exiting the political stage, the debate over his legacy is growing louder.",
"Longtime observers of the region say the stability Mubarak purchased for nearly three decades came at the cost of entrenched poverty and repression in the Arab world's most populous nation.",
"\"Egypt is a broken country,\" Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern relations at the London School of Economics, told CNN.",
"\"It used to be the jewel of the Middle East.",
"It's the capital of its cultural production.\"",
"But now, Gerges said, \"Egyptians have no outlets.",
"They don't feel that they have a sense of hope for the future.\"",
"Mubarak was a Soviet-trained pilot who was chief of staff of Egypt's air force during the 1973 Mideast war.",
"The early success of Egyptian pilots against Israel made him a national hero, and then-President Anwar Sadat made him vice president in 1975.",
"Six years later, Sadat died in a hail of gunfire at a military parade, killed by Islamic militants from within the army's own ranks after he took the dramatic step of making peace with Israel.",
"Upon assuming office, one of Mubarak's first acts was to declare a state of emergency that barred unauthorized assembly, restricted freedom of speech and allowed police to jail people indefinitely.",
"He made extensive use of those powers in the ensuing decades.",
"The Egyptian army put down riots by disgruntled police officers in 1986, and he threw an estimated 30,000 people in jail when jihadists carried out a string of attacks on tourists.",
"\"He pretty much wiped them out,\" University of Michigan Professor of History Juan Cole said.",
"\"It's not an accident that they were in Afghanistan instead of Egypt.\"",
"The government penetrated opposition movements so thoroughly that \"if five people (sat) down to plot something, the fifth person (wrote) a report to Hosni Mubarak about it,\" he said.",
"The result was \"a regime that has very little legitimacy, but presents itself as something there's no point in trying to change,\" said Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University in Washington.",
"But Brown said the January 14 overthrow of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power, changed the thinking of many in the region.",
"\"I think what the events in Tunisia did was take that sense that nothing could ever change and lead a few people to question it,\" he said.",
"Mubarak headed off a similar movement in 2005, when Egyptians mounted large-scale protests to demand fundamental and widespread reform.",
"He intimidated the leaders of the officially banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, harassed middle-class demonstrators and managed to pick off the leadership of those protests, Brown said.",
"But the most recent protest movement had \"no real leadership, so it (couldn't) be decapitated the same way,\" Brown noted.",
"Mubarak won four terms as president in elections that were considered formalities.",
"His fifth, in 2005, was Egypt's first multi-party presidential vote, but it was widely criticized as a \"sham,\" Cole said.",
"Meanwhile, the country's economy stagnated for the first 20 years of Mubarak's rule.",
"Development picked up in the last decade, fueled by a move away from state control and by billions in tourist dollars, but gains were \"very unevenly distributed,\" Gerges said.",
"About 40% of Egyptians currently live in poverty, he noted.",
"The aging autocrat escaped at least two assassination attempts, including a close call in 1995 when Islamic militants opened fire on his motorcade at a pan-African conference in Ethiopia.",
"In recent years, Mubarak had several bouts of illness but never picked a vice president.",
"He was widely believed to have anointed his son Gamal as his successor, but later insisted he never intended for his son to take power.",
"In 2003, Mubarak collapsed while delivering a televised speech to the Egyptian parliament -- returning later to blame his illness on the flu.",
"He had back surgery in Germany in 2004, returning in 2010 to have his gall bladder removed.",
"He largely withdrew from public view in recent years.",
"His domestic political situation was closely watched overseas, particularly in the United States.",
"In the past decade, Egypt has been a major player in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and it contributed troops to the U.S.-led coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.",
"It receives about $1.3 billion in military aid from Washington every year -- second only to Israel -- and has received nearly $30 billion in economic aid since 1975, according to State Department figures.",
"But it opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and while sticking with Camp David, Egypt's ties with Israel amount to a \"cold peace,\" Cole said.",
"President Barack Obama said recently that Mubarak was \"very helpful on a range of tough issues,\" but prodded the Egyptian leader to take steps toward reform.",
"\"You can see these pent-up frustrations that are being displayed on the streets,\" Obama said.",
"He urged the Egyptian government to avoid resorting to violence to put down the recent demonstrations, adding, \"I think it's very important that people have mechanisms in order to express legitimate grievances.\"",
"Gerges said the Middle East has seen \"the barrier of fear\" removed since the events in Tunisia.",
"\"Arabs really no longer feel terrified of the security apparatus\" in Egypt and elsewhere, he said.",
"\"We're going to have a new era of politics.\""
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"He was a major player in Mideast politics, helping enforce the Camp David accords with Israel .",
"Mubarak didn't allow political dissent, and had a questionable economic track record .",
"Mubarak's fall signals the start of a new era in Arab politics ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- In an effort to confront the growing problem of global counterfeiting of U.S. consumer goods, the government Tuesday launched a campaign designed to grab the public's attention.",
"A series of catchy and dramatic TV and radio public service announcements and print ads were unveiled at a White House event headed by Attorney General Eric Holder and several other administration officials.",
"The officials stressed the negative impact the sale of tons of counterfeit goods is having on the U.S. economy.",
"The majority of the \"knockoff\" products originate in China, officials said.",
"The low prices available from the online crime groups are hard for consumers to resist.",
"\"The lure of the bargain overcomes the moral compass every time,\" said Ann Harkins, president and CEO of the National Crime Prevention Council.",
"Officials said research shows the American public believes intellectual property theft is a harmless, victimless practice.",
"\"Make no mistake, IP crimes are anything but victimless,\" Holder said.",
"\"... these crimes can destroy jobs, suppress innovation, and jeopardize the health and safety of consumers.\"",
"Officials emphasized the personal danger from buying cheaper fake medicines and pills online.",
"They also focused on the cost to artists, musicians, and others who are victims of knockoff DVDs and free downloads.",
"That message was effectively driven home by a single performer.",
"In a dramatic new PSA unveiled Tuesday, a young female street musician sings and plays her guitar, and watches dumbfounded as members of her audience start taking money rather than putting it in her open guitar case.",
"The announcer then declares \"illegal downloads are not victimless crimes.\"",
"The singer-songwriter Addie Braunley was on hand for the event."
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"The majority of the \"knockoff\" products originate in China, officials say .",
"Crimes affect jobs, innovation and consumer safety, attorney general says ."
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"(CNN) -- Former NFL star Lawrence Taylor, who pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct with a teenager last year, was sued by the victim in federal court in New York on Monday.",
"The lawsuit \"may be the first civil lawsuit of its kind on behalf of a child victim of sex trafficking against a buyer of a commercial sex act with that child,\" the victim's attorney, Gloria Allred, said at a news conference.",
"\"I feel as though [Taylor] should be accountable for his crimes and misconduct toward me\" said Cristina Fierro, who was 16 when the episode occurred and who went unnamed during the criminal phase of Taylor's case.",
"Now 18, she went public with her story earlier this year.",
"In addition to seeking damages from Taylor, Fierro alleges in the lawsuit that Taylor assaulted and battered her.",
"Allred did not offer details about the alleged assault, saying those would be revealed in the discovery phase of the lawsuit.",
"Taylor was arrested at a Holiday Inn in New York in May 2010 after having \"improper sexual conduct involving an underage girl in a Rockland County hotel,\" the district attorney's office said at the time.",
"Prosecutors said Taylor paid Fierro, who has repeatedly denied allegations that she was a prostitute, $300 for \"sexual acts.\"",
"The former Giants linebacker pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from the incident, one count of sexual misconduct and one count of patronizing a prostitute in the third degree.",
"Taylor, who has said he was unaware that Fierro was underage when he had sex with her, was sentenced to six years' probation in March and assessed a $2,000 fine.",
"A month later, a judge designated him a Level 1 sex offender, a low-level classification.",
"In a statement, Taylor's lawyer chalked up the new lawsuit to a hunger for publicity.",
"\"It's a shame that, once again, Gloria Allred's intoxication with media coverage for her cases has blurred her vision to uphold the highest level of ethical and moral standards to which attorneys are supposed to adhere,\" Arthur Aidala said.",
"At the news conference Monday, Fierro said she was dissatisfied with the plea deal Taylor struck with prosecutors last spring.",
"\"I feel as though he should have gone to jail to think about what he has done to me,\" she said.",
"The lawsuit seeks \"compensatory and punitive damages\" from Taylor, Allred said, but she declined to specify a dollar amount.",
"A note in the lawsuit states that \"the matter in controversy exceeds the sum of $75,000.\"",
"The suit does not seek damages from Rasheed Davis, who arranged the liaison between Taylor and Fierro and gave her a black eye when she initially refused to go along with it.",
"In August, a federal judge sentenced Davis to seven years in prison for sex trafficking.",
"When asked whether Fierro is suing Taylor rather than Davis because Taylor is a multimillionaire, Allred said the suit was filed against only Taylor \"because this is the person we have decided to sue, the buyer.\"",
"Fierro's attorneys brought the suit under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, or TVPA, which historically has been used to target pimps rather than johns, Allred said.",
"Suing johns under the TVPA is highly unusual, but suing pimps under the law is uncommon as well, according to Bridgette Carr, the director of the Human Trafficking Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School.",
"Going after Taylor in the lawsuit might deter would-be buyers of sex from minors from going through with the act, according to Allred.",
"\"Suing the buyer can have an impact on the demand for commercial sex of children,\" Allred said."
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"She's now accusing Taylor of assault and battery, seeking damages .",
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"(CNN) -- Italian police on Monday found an explosive package at the Greek Embassy in Rome, the second time in as many weeks that embassies there have received explosives through the mail.",
"The parcel did not explode, and authorities hope that it will provide information that will help in their investigation.",
"Police also responded to other reports of suspicious packages at the Venezuelan and Danish embassies in Rome and possibly other embassies as well on Monday.",
"But only the Greek embassy package contained an explosive, according to Francesco Tagliente, the chief of police in Rome.",
"\"The alarm system has worked,\" Tagliente said.",
"\"Since this morning, all the embassies that had a suspected package alerted the police in enough time to determine whether the packages were dangerous and prevent any injuries.\"",
"Late last week, an anarchist group claimed credit for a pair of mail bombings Thursday at embassies in Rome, vowing in messages that it plans more such acts to \"destroy the systems of domination,\" the state-run ANSA news agency reported.",
"Police said that the Informal Federation of Anarchists -- an offshoot of the Italian Anarchist Federation, or FAI -- claimed responsibility for attacks at the Swiss and Chilean embassies.",
"Tagliente said that Monday's packages, which included a note from the FAI, were \"certainly related\" to the ones last week.",
"Computer-written notes were sent in small boxes along with the earlier package bombs, according to ANSA.",
"The messages read: \"We have decided to make our voices heard again, in words and deeds.",
"We will destroy the system of domination.",
"Long live FAI.",
"Long live anarchy.\"",
"The notes also referenced Lambros Fountas, who was shot dead last March while protesting in Athens.",
"The 35-year-old has since become a martyr for the international anarchist movement, particularly groups in Greece, Italy and Spain.",
"Formed in 1945, Italian Anarchist Federation had seen a \"a slow but constant increase\" of supporters in recent years, said the website of an umbrella group, L'International des Federations Anarchistes.",
"The Italian organization aims for \"radical change\" in support of \"oppressed and exploited peoples,\" doing so with opposition to political powers and even the Catholic Church, the website said.",
"There was no warning before a Swiss-born, 53-year-old mailroom worker was seriously hurt by an explosion while opening a package at the Swiss Embassy, according to police and the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern.",
"One person was taken to a hospital when the second bomb exploded shortly afterward at the Chilean Embassy, police said.",
"Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattin called the attacks \"a serious threat against foreign embassies in Rome.\"",
"He said that authorities were checking all embassies in Rome and Italian embassies aboard for suspicious packages.",
"\"We should avoid being alarmist,\" Frattin said.",
"Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said the incident is similar to a wave of letter bombs sent last month by an anarchist group based in Greece and claimed the bombs came from there.",
"But Greek officials disputed the notion that anyone in their country was involved in the blasts.",
"\"There is no evidence that the bombs originated in Greece,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras said.",
"In addition to the Swiss and Chilean blasts, a \"suspicious package\" was found at the Ukrainian Embassy in the Italian capital, police said, but it turned out not to be dangerous.",
"There were also false alarms at the Slovenian and Estonian embassies.",
"In November, police discovered 14 parcel bombs emanating from Greece, most of which were sent to various embassies in Athens.",
"Police intercepted and destroyed most of them in controlled explosions, but a woman at a courier office was wounded by one of the devices and another device exploded in the courtyard of the Swiss Embassy.",
"Two men accused of participating in the bombings were remanded into custody after they were arrested in Athens in possession of two parcel bombs, Glock pistols, a bulletproof vest and a wig.",
"Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, were also in possession of a delivery slip for another parcel containing an explosive device that had been delivered to a courier service and was addressed to the Dutch Embassy, police said.",
"Hellenic Police spokesman Maj. Athanasios Kokkalakis called the two suspects \"important members of a terrorist group.\"",
"Before the attacks, Argyrou already faced an arrest warrant alleging his membership in an illegal organization called the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.",
"Greek authorities stressed that they believed the wave of letter bombs in November was the work of a home-grown Greek terrorist group that does not have ties to international organizations like al Qaeda.",
"CNN's Jonathan Wald contributed to this report."
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"A Greek official disputes an Italian minister's claim that the bombs originated in Greece ."
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"(CNN) -- High in the Peruvian Andes, where it's so dry and cold that very little vegetation grows, life depends on one animal: the alpaca.",
"But in recent years, raising alpacas has become a greater challenge.",
"Mountains that used to be covered with ice around the town of Licapa, elevation of 4,200 meters (about 13,780 feet) above sea level, are now barren.",
"Salomon Parco, a 30-year-old Alpaca shepherd who lives in Licapa, says that no ice means no water; and no water means no grass to feed the animals.",
"Parco also says the ice has all but disappeared in the last three decades.",
"\"The difference is that when I was a little boy, the mountaintops were white with snow and ice.",
"But as you can see, they now look black.",
"That's the difference,\" he says.",
"Read more coverage of the Road to Durban .",
"A stranger recently arrived in Licapa bringing hope.",
"Eduardo Gold, an engineer and self-described inventor, is the founder of Peru Glaciers.",
"The organization's goal is to bring the ice back to the mountains.",
"\"This community is closely tied to the glaciers,\" he says.",
"\"As soon as they disappear, their livelihood disappears for them as well.\"",
"Along with Gold and his crew of five locals, photographer Jose Armijo and I travel to the top of the mountains.",
"The lack of oxygen makes the hike challenging.",
"At an elevation of 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet), we see firsthand what's happening to the glaciers.",
"This is where Gold and his crew are working on the project to bring the glaciers back.",
"Gold's idea is very simple: If dark mountains absorb more heat from the sun, white mountains will have the opposite effect.",
"The solution is to make them white.",
"Under Gold's direction, the crew of five goes around the mountain, splashing a mixture that turns the rocks white.",
"It's not paint, but a combination of water, sand and lime.",
"Two percent of the mixture is soap, which makes it stick to the rocks and stay waterproof once it dries.",
"An infrared thermometer shows a difference of 30 degrees Fahrenheit (16 Celsius) in temperature between the dark rocks and the previously whitened ones.",
"Gold acknowledges there is a lot of work to go before he can prove his theory works.",
"\"This is an experiment. It may or may not work.",
"Or it may work a little.",
"Doing something about it is better than nothing at all,\" he says.",
"And it seems to be working.",
"Gold shows us a crevice between the rocks where he finds some ice.",
"The locals say there was no ice at all before.",
"\"We had very little water.",
"The difference this year since we have whitened the mountain is that there's water.",
"As you can see down there, there's a well with plenty of water, and down the hill we have even more,\" says Parco, the shepherd.",
"Glaciers are crucial not only for this mountain region.",
"They are also natural dams for all of Peru from which water flows to streams and rivers in downhill valleys.",
"Glaciers also decrease the temperature.",
"So far, the crew has covered an area of roughly 15,000 square meters (almost the size of three football fields), still too small to determine if Gold's idea will work in the long term.",
"His goal is to cover 3 billion square meters, which would be much more than 500,000 football fields.",
"For that, he would need about $1.5 billion spread over five years.",
"He's received an award from the World Bank to work on the project, but only enough for a modest beginning.",
"\"If there's a chance of bringing change, why ignore it?",
"Doing nothing would be worse.",
"If we fail to act, life will end in this area,\" Gold says.",
"In a way, life has already ended in the town of Licapa.",
"Gold says that only about 900 people remain in a place that thousands used to call home.",
"But Salomon Parco says he's confident the project will work in the long term.",
"He's betting his children's future on it."
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"Mountain communities that depend on water from glaciers are threatened .",
"Engineer and self-described inventor wants to bring ice back to the mountains .",
"His solution: A mixture that turns mountain rocks white, lowers their temperature ."
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"(CNN) -- Friday proved a good evening for some major European football nations, with the Netherlands, Italy and France all claiming away victories in their Euro 2012 qualifying groups.",
"However, it was the Dutch who were most impressive coming away from their Group E match in Hungary with a thumping 4-0 success.",
"Tottenham forward Rafael van der Vaart set the visitors on their way with an eighth minute opener and Barcelona midfielder Ibrahim Afellay added a second on the stroke of half time.",
"Liverpool's Dirk Kuyt made it 3-0 early in the second half and Arsenal striker Robin van Persie completed the scoring on the hour.",
"The victory maintained Netherlands' 100% group record.",
"They have won all five of their matches, conceding just two goals in the process, and are now six points clear of second-placed Hungary.",
"Meanwhile, Italy continue to set the pace at the top of Group C after a late goal from Brazilian-born Inter Milan midfielder Thiago Motta gave the Azzurri a narrow 1-0 success in Slovenia with a fine strike from the edge of the area.",
"That result puts Italy on 13 points from their five games, six points clear of Slovenia who remain in second.",
"Serbia are up to third place, level on points with Slovenia, after coming from behind to beat Northern Ireland 2-1 in the evening's other group match.",
"Meanwhile, goals in each half from Philippe Mexes and Yoann Gourcuff gave France a 2-0 win in Luxembourg to consolidate their position at the top of Group D. The result leaves France on 12 points, four clear of Belarus, and well on course to qualify for next year's finals.",
"There was also an away success in Group A, where Axel Witsel scored both goals in Belgium's 2-0 victory against Austria.",
"The victory lifts Belgium above Austria into second in the table, but the pair are five points adrift of runaway leaders Germany."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A CNN documentary that sparked worldwide condemnation of Thailand's alleged practice of pushing Myanmar's Rohingya boat people out to sea has won an Amnesty International Media Award.",
"Dan Rivers: \"This story underscores all the reasons why I became a journalist.\"",
"The winning half-hour documentary, presented by CNN's Bangkok-based correspondent Dan Rivers, highlighted the on-going persecution of the ethnic Rohingya people in their bid to escape terrible persecution and privation in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and in neighboring countries.",
"Jurors at Tuesday's award ceremony in London singled out CNN's entry for particular praise for putting the issue high on the agenda at an ensuing Southeast Asian summit meeting.",
"They said they were impressed by a brilliant investigation that broke new ground and secured a personal commitment to intervene from the Thai prime minister.",
"Watch Part 1 of Dan Rivers' documentary » .",
"CNN International executive vice president and managing director Tony Maddox said: \"This award is a tremendous reflection on the quality and depth of CNN's reporting, the tenacity, bravery and resourcefulness of our correspondent Dan Rivers and an endorsement of the network's strategy to own and create more content.",
"\"It is a testament to CNN's London-based managing editor Deborah Rayner and the World's Untold Stories team in Atlanta that only the third edition of the documentary series, produced by CNN International, has won such a prestigious award so soon,\" he added.",
"The allegations of mistreatment of the Rohingya in the neighboring country of Thailand -- at the hands of the military -- prompted a government inquiry.",
"Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva later told CNN in an exclusive interview with Rivers that he would bring those responsible to account.",
"Watch the Thai prime minister discuss the issue » .",
"The haunting pictures of Thai soldiers towing boatloads of Rohingya and cutting them adrift on the high seas -- first broadcast on CNN's World's Untold Stories -- are one of the iconic images of 2009 and are credited with bringing the practice to worldwide attention.",
"\"This story underscores all the reasons why I became a journalist,\" said Rivers.",
"\"It's about getting the facts and using those facts to engage an audience and make a difference.\"",
"Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen, paid tribute to the winners for bringing human rights abuses to the world's attention.",
"She said: \"In the midst of the world financial crisis it is more important than ever to celebrate the achievements of journalists whose outstanding reporting has helped throw a clear light upon human rights abuses.",
"\"Not only is the crisis itself having an impact upon people's human rights, there is also a real threat to investigative journalism as media outlets cut costs and reduce staff.\""
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"Dan Rivers' documentary highlighted persecution of ethnic Rohingya people .",
"Documentary secured commitment to intervene from Thai prime minister ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- The Kenyan government plans to appeal a warrant issued by its high court calling for the arrest of the Sudanese president over alleged war crimes.",
"A Kenyan judge on Monday ruled that President Omar al-Bashir be arrested if he sets foot in the nation again after the government failed to execute an International Criminal Court warrant when he visited Nairobi last year.",
"The ruling sparked a diplomatic row between the two nations, with Sudan expelling the Kenyan ambassador and recalling its envoy to the nation.",
"A day after the ruling, Kenya's foreign minister described it as \" unhelpful\" and pledged to ensure it does not undermine relations between the two nations.",
"\"Since our judicial system provides for right of appeal, we shall carefully look at the judgment with a view to requesting the Attorney General to expeditiously prefer an appeal in the matter,\" Moses Wetang'ula said in a statement Tuesday.",
"The high court ruling was the result of a case that the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) brought against Kenya's attorney general and internal security minster in 2010.",
"Al-Bashir visited Kenya last year to attend the signing ceremonies for the nation's new constitution.",
"At the time, Kenyan officials said their first obligation was to the African Union, not the International Criminal Court.",
"The African Union opposes the ICC warrants, saying his arrest could destabilize Sudan.",
"The ICC based in the Hague has issued arrest warrants for al-Bashir on alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.",
"He has denied the charges and accused western nations of \"neo-colonialism.\"",
"The Sudanese leader is wanted by the ICC on allegations of war crimes and genocide in western Sudan's Darfur region, where violence that erupted in 2003 left at least 300,000 people dead."
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"(CNN) -- Diplomatic tension between Brazil and Italy heightened Thursday after Brazil's Supreme Tribunal freed a fugitive wanted for multiple killings in Italy in the 1970s.",
"The high court's decision appeared to put an end to years of wrangling over the fate of Cesare Battisti, who was condemned to life in prison in Italy for four murders he denies committing while a member of an extremist left-wing group.",
"Italy's foreign ministry responded to the Wednesday night ruling with a promise to take the issue to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.",
"\"I cannot but comment that today's ruling by Brazil's highest judicial body, apart from offending the right to justice of the victims of Battisti's crimes, appears to run contrary to the obligations stated in the international accords that bind our two countries, which, moreover, have age-old ties of friendship and shared blood,\" Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said.",
"The Brazilian judges found, by a vote of 6-3, that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's decision to deny Battisti's extradition was \"an act of national sovereignty\" that the high court could not reverse.",
"Battisti was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism, or PAC, guerrilla group in Italy.",
"He is alleged to have participated in a number of crimes, which led to his incarceration.",
"He escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 and was granted asylum in France during the presidency of Francois Mitterrand.",
"The so-called Mitterrand Doctrine gave asylum to all Italian militants who renounced the armed struggle.",
"In 1998, Battisti was tried and convicted in absentia of the four killings.",
"For several years, France and Italy were embroiled in diplomatic spats over extradition requests.",
"Battisti later fled to Mexico, where he continued his work as a writer of thriller novels, and subsequently to Brazil.",
"In Brazil, his fate was oftentimes unclear.",
"In January 2009, the Brazilian Supreme Tribunal granted refugee status to Battisti.",
"But later it reversed course and supported extradition, giving then-President Lula the final say.",
"\"Italy may not like it, but will have to respect it,\" Lula said at the time.",
"\"This person is being accused of a crime which took place in 1978, and his accuser no longer exists to prove the veracity of the facts.\"",
"Lula sided with the Italian's claims that the conviction against him was politically motivated, and in the last days of his administration rejected the extradition.",
"Italy protested.",
"\"What is at stake here is an act of sovereignty of the president,\" Judge Luiz Fux said.",
"\"The Italian government has litigated against the Federal Republic of Brazil.\"",
"The point the majority made was that they were not ruling on the Battisti's culpability in the crimes, but whether the court had the power to overrule Lula.",
"Another judge, Ricardo Lewandowski, said that when he studied the original request for extradition, he was convinced that Battisti had indeed committed the crimes.",
"\"But right now, this is not the issue at stake,\" he said.",
"\"I understand that the president made a political act, an act of government, which is characterized by broader discretion.\"",
"Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi \"learned with deep regret\" about the court's decision, his office said.",
"\"The decision does take into account the legitimate expectations of the justice of the Italian people and especially of the family of Battisti's victims,\" his office said in a statement.",
"Armed Proletarians for Communism was one of Italy's home-grown left-wing armed groups of the 1970s.",
"Like the infamous Red Brigades, they committed politically motivated murders on behalf of what they saw as working-class ideals.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Texas officials are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and temporarily block a controversial congressional redistricting plan from going into effect Monday.",
"The state's attorney general, Greg Abbott, filed an emergency \"application\" with the justices, saying a map approved by a federal panel in San Antonio is \"fatally flawed.\"",
"It would increase the number of districts dominated by minorities, especially Hispanic voters.",
"The court-drawn map was imposed after Democrats and minority groups in Texas challenged the original plan approved by the GOP-led state legislature.",
"Those seeking public office can begin filing their candidacies Monday, prompting the state's time-sensitive appeal to the high court.",
"\"Elections should not proceed based on legally flawed maps that are likely to be overturned on further review,\" Abbott said in a written statement.",
"The Supreme Court could allow the court-approved plan to remain in effect for now, or order the judicial panel to redraw the map, a process that could shorten the time candidates would have to campaign.",
"The state's primary election is set for March.",
"Texas is getting four new congressional seats -- more than any other state -- after the latest census showed its population grew by 4 million people.",
"The plan drafted by the three-judge panel would give minorities the majority in three of those congressional districts, and could give Democrats more seats statewide.",
"\"Ninety percent of the growth in this state in the last decade was minority growth,\" said Trey Martinez Fischer, a Democratic state representative.",
"\"Sixty-five percent of that alone, Latino.",
"So you would expect these new congressional districts would reflect the minority populations that created the opportunity.\"",
"Fischer leads the Texas House Mexican American Legislative Caucus, the key plaintiff in the lawsuit against the legislature's original map.",
"Under state rules, redistricting plans approved by the legislature can be challenged in court, with judges having the power to craft alternate maps.",
"Republicans in the state have a super-majority in the legislature, meaning they needed no Democratic support to pass their plan.",
"A similar party split a decade ago led Democratic lawmakers to flee to neighboring Oklahoma in an effort to kill the 2000 redistricting bill.",
"Abbott said the federal court's plan is an unconstitutional intrusion into the legislative process.",
"\"It seems apparent that the proposed map misapplies federal law and continues the court's trend of inappropriately venturing into political policymaking rather than simply applying the law,\" Abbott said.",
"\"Perhaps worst, in the name of protecting Hispanic voting power, the court seems to be discarding already elected Republican Hispanics in favor of drawing maps that may elect Democratic Hispanics.\"",
"The state's Republican governor, presidential candidate Rick Perry, supported the map passed by the legislature, but has not signed it into law while the plan is challenged in court.",
"All states are required to redo their voting boundaries following the recently completed nationwide census, conducted once every 10 years.",
"The court-approved plan in Texas will stay in effect until all the legal challenges are exhausted.",
"The high court appeal is Perry v. Perez (11A520)."
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"Texas government officials say the federal plan is \"fatally flawed\"\nTexas is getting four new congressional seats ."
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"New Orleans (CNN) -- Waging war against historic flooding in eight Midwestern and Southern states, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a spillway north of New Orleans on Monday in an effort to calm the rising Mississippi River.",
"A crowd gathered near the entrance to the Bonnet Carre spillway to watch workers use cranes to slide open the gates to the flood control system.",
"The spillway, like another that could be opened next week, is designed to divert floodwater away from New Orleans and slow the raging river to protect the low-lying city.",
"Bonnet Carre is part of a system built after the devastating Mississippi River flood of 1927.",
"While the river's highest levels may still be days away, a decision to open the second flood control structure -- the Morganza Spillway -- may not be, Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal said.",
"People with property that would flood if the spillway is opened should not dally, Jindal warned: \"My advice to our people is not to wait, to get prepared now.\"",
"The Bonnet Carre spillway diverts water from the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico by way of Lake Pontchartrain.",
"But opening the Morganza Spillway would flood populated areas and could put Morgan City, Louisiana, and other communities at risk.",
"Col. Ed Fleming, the Corps of Engineers' district commander in New Orleans, said he has requested the authority to open the Morganza Spillway.",
"Jindal said the Louisiana National Guard had asked for at least three days, but preferably five days, to evacuate those areas before the Corps opens the gates.",
"Upstream in Memphis, Tennessee, residents and authorities had prepared all they could Monday as they waited for the Mississippi to crest at a near-record 14 feet above flood stage Tuesday morning.",
"\"It's sort of torturous,\" Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton Jr. said.",
"\"We've been waiting so long.",
"It's hard keeping people's attention.",
"It's warning fatigue, if you will.",
"But we're ready for it.\" The river level stood at 47.8 feet Monday evening and is expected to crest at 48 feet, said Ryan Husted, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Memphis.",
"President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for the state of Tennessee Monday, which will help direct federal aid toward recovery efforts in areas hit by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes since early April.",
"The Mississippi is the highest it's been at Memphis since 1937, when it crested at 48.7 feet -- 14.7 feet above flood stage.",
"That flood killed 500 people and inundated 20 million acres of land, said Col. Vernie Reichling, the Corps' Memphis District commander.",
"The river covered the lowest parts of the city's historic Beale Street and had forced about 400 people from their homes Monday, Wharton said.",
"Another 1,300 remained in low-lying areas, he said.",
"Corps officials said levees protecting the area appeared to be holding up well, with only minor amounts of water seeping in from beneath or lapping over from above.",
"\"All of our levees were designed to withstand heights greater than what we're seeing today, although this height is significant,\" Cory Williams, chief of geotechnical engineering in the Memphis district with the Corps, told CNN affiliate WMC.",
"\"The levees have held up very well in this event.\"",
"But local officials were taking no chances.",
"\"It's a very powerful river.",
"It looks like it's running very slowly, but it has a very strong current,\" said Bob Nations, director of preparedness in Shelby County, Tennessee, which includes Memphis.",
"\"We still don't know (exactly what) the river might do.\"",
"Nicholas Pegues, an East Memphis resident who lives near the Wolf River, said he's seen extensive flooding and homes left uninhabitable by the water as he's traveled through the region.",
"\"It's affecting daily life tremendously,\" said Pegues, a Shelby County elections' division employee who submitted photos of the flooding to CNN iReport.",
"\"It is pretty severe downtown. ...",
"I know a lot of ... people have lost their homes.\"",
"Wharton said the flooding had not yet caused major disruptions in the city, and he did not expect it to, even though National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Borghoff said it is possible the river won't fall below flood stage at Memphis until June.",
"That's the problem in Missouri and southern Illinois, where flooding continues even though the Mississippi and Ohio river crests have moved south.",
"In Murphysboro, Illinois, CNN iReporter Robert Icenogle said a swollen creek is inundating a church and bandshell while threatening to wash out telephone poles.",
"\"We cannot get to the park, which is underwater, or to other towns,\" he said.",
"\"Most of the roads are closed, plus the water sewage plant is getting sandbagged.\"",
"If a nearby sewer plant is forced to shut down, \"We won't have tap water to bathe in or drink,\" he added.",
"Last week, the Corps intentionally breached a levee in Missouri as part of its effort to reduce the pressure on other levees, flooding 130,000 acres of agricultural land over the objection of state officials and some farmers.",
"\"I'm very sad. I look at that and I don't have a home,\" Marilynn Nally said, pointing to her flooded family farm.",
"\"I feel like we're having to suffer for somebody else.\"",
"As the floodwaters worked their way south, the operator of a nuclear power plant in Port Gibson, Mississippi, expressed concerns that rising water could cut off an access road to the facility.",
"However, there was no plan to shut down the Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station and no immediate cause for concern, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Agency said Monday.",
"Mississippi Gov.",
"Haley Barbour told CNN's John King the greatest risk will likely be from flooding around the powerful river's tributaries, rather the Mississippi itself.",
"\"Pray for the best, but prepare for the worst,\" he said.",
"In Louisiana, where the river's crest is not expected to begin arriving until next week, Jindal added bears to the list of things residents need to think about.",
"He said flooding could force some of the state's ursine residents from their homes and into populated areas.",
"So far, 21 parishes have issued emergency declarations ahead of expected flooding, Jindal said.",
"He said 400 National Guard troops would be active by the end of the day Monday helping prepare for the flood.",
"Even with a forecast for record or near-record crests into next week and weeks of high water to follow, Corps officials say they expect nothing like the widespread and devastating flooding that occurred along the southernmost stretch of the Mississippi River in 1927.",
"That flood began near Memphis in the fall of 1926 and did not end until the following August, according to the National Weather Service.",
"It devastated the levee system, and flooded 165 million acres of land, sweeping 600,000 people from their homes.",
"It came at a cost of 246 lives and the equivalent of nearly $624 million in 2011 dollars.",
"As a result of that flood, the report says, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928, which led to a massive public works programs to build a system of levees and other structures designed to hold back the river more effectively.",
"The latest flooding in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys is largely the byproduct of torrential rains throughout the region.",
"Over one two-week stretch, there was about 600% more precipitation than usual, Reichling said.",
"The weather now appears to be working in the flood fighters' favor.",
"Only minimal rain is expected over the coming days, with daytime temperatures forecast to be in the upper 80s and 90s through Thursday, at which point the water levels should begin to creep back down.",
"Still, a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency told HLN's Vinne Politan that people around the river and its tributaries need to be careful and should not wait until they see water to take action.",
"\"It's going to be a tragedy on many levels.",
"So many people are going to be displaced.",
"They're going to be displaced for a long time and they may not have much of anything to come back to,\" said Jeff Rent.",
"CNN's Greg Botelho, Marlena Baldacci, Phil Gast and Ben Smith contributed to this report."
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"HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- With the late evening sun casting a dramatic light across the 65th floor of an empty Hong Kong office block, everything was primed for a spectacular entrance from Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.",
"Director John Woo: Hardboiled on the outside, soft on the inside.",
"With the scene set and cameras ready, the lift doors opened on cue.",
"But instead of the director appearing, perhaps with a spectacular pyrotechnic backdrop or with a motif dove, out stepped one of the building's security guards wondering what a CNN film crew was doing filming an empty building.",
"It turned out the 63-year old director was embroiled in another dramatic scene on the other side of town, commonly known as \"Hong Kong Rush Hour.\"",
"We were assured Jackie Chan wasn't involved in the hold up.",
"By the time Woo did make it to the interview the sun was setting, but regardless of the scene or location, the unassuming 5-foot 5-inch tall director still casts an impressive shadow over international action cinema.",
"From Hong Kong-based \"Gun fu\" flicks of the 1980s and '90s, to Hollywood blockbusters like \"Mission Impossible II\" Woo has made a reputation as a master of stylish gangster films and thrillers.",
"His latest release, \"Red Cliff: Part II\", an epic-historical action film set in Three Kingdoms-era China, marked his return to China and a simpler method of making films.",
"\"Even though I enjoyed the opportunity to work in Hollywood, I never got used to their system.",
"I didn't like much of the studio people.",
"Well, there are too much politics and so much going on, and a lot of them have nothing to do with the movie.",
"It's all about power, it's all about egos,\" Woo told CNN.",
"Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Nicolas Cage are just a few of the A-list egos he has had to deal with in front of the camera.",
"However directing actors, even a demanding Tom Cruise, is a pleasure not a problem for the self-effacing Woo, who admits his directing style is controlled and quite reserved.",
"\"Sometimes he [Cruise] gave me so many suggestions about the camera (and) about the scene.",
"And then I knew he just wanted to be good.",
"So then I just walked up to him, 'Tom just believe me, I will make you look great.'",
"And then he had so much confidence [in me] and then he kept quiet and let me do my work.",
"I did make him look good,\" he said with a chuckle.",
"\"Nicholas Cage is such a nice man.",
"When working with him, I just feel like I am talking to Tony Leung.",
"When I worked with John Travolta, it just made me feel like I am working with Chow Yun-fat.",
"I think we have the same kind of emotion, the same kind of passion about life, about movies.\"",
"Chow Yun-fat, a superstar in his own right across Asia, dropped out of Woo's \"Red Cliff\" just days before shooting began.",
"However, it appears that no matter who he works with or where, Woo's passion for film-making and movies will never diminish, and he admits he still thinks of Chow Yun-fat as a good friend.",
"At one point during the interview -- speaking about choosing the right guns as props for his 1987 film, \"A Better Tomorrow\" -- Woo reveals his almost child-like glee in putting together his shots and scenes.",
"Woo's own childhood was spent in Shek Kip Mei, at that time one of the more insalubrious parts of the city, and cinemas and theatres provided both escapism and a physical escape from the violence and \"hell\" of life on the streets.",
"\"I had to fight to survive.",
"Whenever I got beat up, I got upset, I also ran into the theater to watch a movie.",
"But I have a very strong character, I never surrender, I (am) never afraid, no matter how big they are, how cruel they are, they never beat me down.",
"\"I didn't have money. I just sneaked in or watched the movie from the peephole.",
"I have found my heaven in musicals.",
"When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.",
"There are still a lot of beautiful people in the world.",
"So I like the costumes, I love the song, I love all those smiles, I love those dance.",
"In theater I found my heaven,\" he said.",
"A religious man, Christian symbolism often appears in his films; he almost devoted his life to the church as a priest, but was dissuaded by the minister college.",
"\"They encouraged me to go for art.",
"They didn't believe I could be a good minister.",
"They just said, 'John you are so artistic, you just go for your art, don't come back.'",
"I am grateful they knew me better,\" he said.",
"It wasn't quite divine intervention, but no doubt millions of fans of his explosive cinematic style will be just as grateful he was persuaded to pick the directors chair over the pulpit."
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"London (CNN) -- People trafficking syndicates could try to exploit the unrest in North Africa, potentially causing a surge in the number of victims arriving in Europe, experts fear.",
"The trade in people trafficking is worth $3 billion a year in Europe alone, but organized smuggling syndicates are constantly looking to expand their operations beyond national boundaries, analysts add.",
"Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency that handles criminal intelligence, says it is now sending experts to Italy to see if syndicates are trying to take advantage of violent protests on the other side of the Mediterranean.",
"Italy has long been at the forefront of Europe's battle to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, due to the close proximity of some of its islands to the African coast.",
"The current influx to Italy -- nearly 10,000 migrants since the start of 2011 -- is much higher than in previous years.",
"Italy: Al Qaeda will exploit North African migrant flood .",
"\"I think there's an important dynamic around the external border of the EU, Turkey, central Asia republics and now of course North Africa and the Middle East,\" Europol's director Robert Wainwright told CNN Tuesday.",
"\"We have experts on the ground in Italy working with the Italian authorities right now to try to identify any signs that organized crime, even terrorist organizations, are trying to exploit the situation in North Africa in particular and the upsurge in the migratory flows that we've seen in recent weeks.",
"\"We haven't seen any strong indications yet but we're working very hard to see the extent to which organized crime might be doing that.\"",
"Europol's warning follows a similar one by the United Nations refugee agency that people trying to flee Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and other countries where protests have taken place this year, will be fair game for those trying to profit from their fear and misery.",
"\"Obviously, smugglers' business is seeing big opportunities to exploit the situation,\" UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told reporters in Geneva on February 15.",
"\"As said in Tunisia, we are very concerned.",
"We are hearing the smugglers are not only hanging out at the ports waiting for people to come, but they are actually moving inland and seeking out people falsely advertising what they could offer, what kind of futures they could offer to young Tunisians frustrated and wishing to move on,\" Fleming added, according to reports.",
"There are about 270,000 trafficking victims in Europe at any one time, according to Europol.",
"Many of these people come to Europe hoping for a better future but end up becoming coerced into sexual exploitation and forced labor.",
"Money is the driving force, Europol's Wainwright said, adding that trafficking syndicates are constantly looking to diversify and improve their operations.",
"Despite this, European law enforcement officials have had some successes.",
"Last year they carried out 500 operations against crime syndicates organizing trafficking and sexual exploitation.",
"One operation, against a Romanian gang allegedly trafficking Roma children, culminated in the arrest of 120 suspects, Wainwright said.",
"CNN's Atika Shubert contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is still believed to be at his residence in Sharm el-Sheikh, will be brought to Cairo next week for questioning in his corruption case, said Mustafa Bakri, a former member of parliament.",
"Bakri, who brought the case against Mubarak and other officials, was told of the development by the Prosecutor General's office on Thursday.",
"Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud issued an order freezing assets of Mubarak and his family on Monday and prohibited them from leaving the country.",
"Meanwhile, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik has submitted his resignation and the Egyptian military has appointed former transport minister Essam Sharaf to the post, the military's Facebook page said Thursday.",
"Bakri, a member of Egypt's parliament who lost his seat after filing corruption cases against various officials, provided documents indicating Mubarak's family has secret bank accounts totaling more than 200 million Egyptian pounds ($147 million), according to EgyNews.",
"\"I submitted the corruption documents on Sunday night and on Monday morning I was called in by the public prosecutor for investigation, and he asked me to rush to his office.\"",
"Bakri told CNN.",
"\"The attorney general, himself, went over the documents in my possession and then issued his orders to bar Mubarak and his family from travelling and to impound their assets.\"",
"Mahmoud ordered the freeze for property owned by Mubarak, his wife Suzanne, his two sons Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, and their wives and children, EgyNews reported.",
"The seizures include \"movable properties, real estate, stocks, bonds and various financial assets.\"",
"It wasn't immediately clear how the order differed from a similar one reported last week.",
"Mubarak, through his attorneys and in official filings, has described reports of immense wealth as \"fabrications and baseless rumors.\"",
"But Bakri said the documents he provided to Mahmoud \"are the first solid and concrete evidence on the fortune collected illegally by Mubarak and his family.\"",
"Mubarak resigned February 11 after 18 days of protest against his rule.",
"CNN's Nima Elbagir contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- They were outside every polling station I visited in Cairo: earnest young men bent over laptops on rickety tables, checking names and ID numbers against voting lists, explaining to people where they were supposed to vote, and, in light of Egypt's wildly complicated electoral system, how to vote.",
"Scattered around the tables between the laptops were pamphlets and fliers for candidates of the Freedom and Justice Party, the newly established political wing of the once banned but now free and unfettered Muslim Brotherhood.",
"\"Who doesn't want freedom and justice?\"",
"a middle-aged man asked me approvingly as I leafed through a pamphlet over at one of the tables in the working class Cairo neighbourhood of Sayida Zaynab.",
"The \"help\" at the polls was just the tip of an organizational iceberg that may well ensure the movement emerges victorious from the first, critical round in Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections.",
"Egypt awaits election results .",
"Both the movement's leaders and rank-and-file are now quietly confident their moment is fast approaching.",
"They have, after all, been working -- methodically and patiently -- to achieve it since the movement's founding in 1928 in the city of Ismailia, on the Suez Canal.",
"They've come a long way since then -- occasionally operating openly, other times hounded by the police.",
"Shortly after Hosni Mubarak was ousted, the movement was legalized.",
"Journalists can now jettison the tired old phrase \"banned but tolerated.\"",
"The Brotherhood is unbound.",
"The movement is well entrenched in mainstream Egyptian politics.",
"Its leaders do not appear to be wild-eyed fanatics.",
"Most are highly educated -- doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors, and businessmen -- and come from solidly middle-class backgrounds.",
"Some western observers see the Brotherhood as a sinister, secretive society, feigning moderation and democracy in public while in private embracing an extremist, totalitarian, anti-western agenda.",
"The movement's Egyptian opponents frequently describe the Brotherhood as sheep in wolves' clothing.",
"Its members endured decades of persecution by the authorities, going back to the days of the monarchy.",
"In the 1930s and 1940s the Brothers were accused of assassinations and bombings - although the Brothers always publicly rejected violence as a means to political ends.",
"The secrecy that alarms some Egyptians may have simply been a necessity to function in an environment where the secret police, the mukhabarat, and their army of informers were watching everyone.",
"But who knows. Whatever one thinks of the group, it is skilled at building broad popular support through its extensive network of charities and social services, and stepping forward in emergencies when the state has failed.",
"In 1992 when an earthquake in Cairo left hundreds of the city's poor homeless, it was the Brotherhood who quickly mobilized to provide food, blankets and medical care.",
"The government's reaction was criticized as slow, late, and clumsy.",
"In 2006, when a ferry sank between Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea port of Safaga carrying more than 1,000 workers from Upper Egypt, the Brotherhood rushed relief supplies, only to have them blocked by the government.",
"The first official reaction to the ship's sinking, as I saw myself, was to send hundreds of riot police to Safaga.",
"Government relief supplies arrived three days later.",
"In a country where the sheer mass of people sometimes overwhelms creaking government services, the Brotherhood has won praise for its ability to create order out of chaos.",
"\"What's wrong with good organisation?\"",
"said Abdel Aziz Zaid, production manager at an industrial printing press in Cairo and Brotherhood member.",
"He was keeping an eye on the turnout at the Mohamed Ali School in Sayida Zaynab.",
"He smiled confidently as a steady flow of voters -- women to the left, men to the right-walked past him to cast their ballots.",
"\"When people see that we are well-organised now and were well-organised in the past, they will know we can use that organisation to achieve prosperity in the future,\" he said.",
"What men like Abdel Aziz Zaid call public service, critics shrug off as cynical, opportunistic stunts to win popular support.",
"For Egypt's impoverished millions, however, motives don't matter.",
"They need all the help they can get.",
"The Brotherhood is often accused of opportunism, but, if that's the case, it's chosen its opportunities wisely.",
"During this year's uprising, the Brotherhood kept a low profile, letting secular and leftist youth take the lead.",
"When it became clear Mubarak's days were numbered, the Brotherhood's presence in Tahrir Square increased steadily.",
"The group's leaders cheered the fall of Mubarak but never took credit for it.",
"During the recent protests against the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the Brotherhood stayed on the sidelines.",
"They condemned what they called police brutality, but also rejected calls for them to join the protests.",
"They were bitterly criticized by the activists in Tahrir Square, who warned they would be punished at the ballot box.",
"But the people in Tahrir, not for the first time, misread the public mood.",
"Many Egyptians I spoke with outside the Square said they were tired of demonstrations and clashes, wanted the elections to proceed, and wanted the country to settle down.",
"The large turnout for the first two days of voting, and the dwindling numbers in Tahrir Square, suggest that the Brotherhood once more played its cards well.",
"Call it opportunism, call it clever politics.",
"The result is the same. I met 29-year-old Amna Abdel Aziz as she was going up to the stairs of a school to vote in Sayida Zaynab.",
"\"I'm going to vote for the Freedom and Justice Party!\"",
"she proclaimed loudly.",
"An office worker and mother of three, she listed her reasons for voting for the Brotherhood's Party: \"If the Muslim Brotherhood run the country, they'll fix everything - health, housing, jobs, girls who walk around with their hair uncovered, girls who walk around in the wrong clothing.",
"God willing, they'll fix everything.\"",
"Amna was wearing a headscarf, hijab, not the full face-covering niqab favoured by the ultra-conservatives, so I was a bit taken aback.",
"\"You mean,\" I asked, \"the Brotherhood will force women to wear the hijab?\"",
"\"No, no,\" she responded. \"They'll just convince them it's better for them.\"",
"And that seems to be the attitude of many members and supporters of the Brotherhood -- that they'll bring people over not by compulsion but rather by conviction and example.",
"It's an attitude 27-year-old interior decorator Hind Mohamed vehemently rejects.",
"The Muslim Brothers, said the unveiled Hind, \"are just liars.",
"They don't do what they say. They use religion to convince people to vote for them.\"",
"Obviously they hadn't convinced her.",
"She was waiting in line to vote \"against the Muslim Brotherhood,\" she said.",
"The movement's leaders are well aware that many Egyptians, especially Christians, liberals, leftists and others, are wary of their growing power.",
"Senior Brotherhood leader Issam Al-Arian is quick to reassure them they are all partners in a new democratic Egypt.",
"\"They are our friends, our neighbours, our citizens, they are Egyptians as we [are], and they have the same rights and duties, and nobody can deny that,\" he told me on the second day of voting.",
"\"If they oppose us, they are participating in building this country, and are correcting our mistakes, if we commit a mistake.",
"And this is very important for a democratic system.\"",
"A few years ago I interviewed Mahdi Akif, then the leader, or Supreme Guide, of the Muslim Brotherhood.",
"Akif, a doctor, had worked in Germany but had also spent many years behind bars under Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.",
"\"A long-term guest of the government,\" is how he described it with a chuckle.",
"Like so many Egyptians he had a sharp sense of humor.",
"But the smile evaporated when he told me, \"We are a religion, a mission, a programme.",
"I don't care what the government thinks.",
"What concerns me is that God is satisfied.\"",
"Rifaat Said, the wizened old leader of the leftist, secular Agama's Party shared with me his concerns about the Brotherhood.",
"\"So, if you are not with them, the Brotherhood, with God's party, are you with the devil's party?\"",
"Said spent time in prison with the Brotherhood's Akif, and knows him well.",
"He doesn't trust the group.",
"\"If God's party reaches power,\" he asked me, \"who can move them away?\"",
"\"God's party\" is closer today to power in Egypt than it's ever been."
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"It was widely involved in the protests that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime .",
"But it remained on sidelines during recent protests against the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ."
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"A 71-year-old man died, and one passenger is in critical condition, said Giustiniano Carmine, a spokesman for the Circumvesuviana rail service.",
"Most of the other injuries were minor, he said.",
"Investigators plan to review video images from inside the train as they try to learn what caused the wreck, he said."
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"WASILLA, Alaska (CNN) -- For more than two decades, vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was a practicing Pentecostal.",
"She belonged to the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.",
"But though she attended the church from her teenage years to 2002, the Alaska governor hasn't talked much about her religion since joining the Republican ticket.",
"Palin's former pastor, Tim McGraw, says that like many Pentecostal churches, some members speak in tongues, although he says he's never seen Palin do so.",
"Church member Caroline Spangler told CNN, \"When the spirit comes on you, you utter things that nobody else can understand ... only God can understand what is coming out of our mouths.\"",
"Some Pentecostals from Assembly of God also believe in \"faith healing\" and the \"end times\" -- a violent upheaval that they believe will deliver Jesus Christ's second coming.",
"\"Our basic belief is that God is God and he knows where history is going and he has a purposeful plan and within the middle of that plan we live in an environment in our world where certain events would take place,\" says McGraw.",
"\"Sarah wasn't taught to look for one particular sign -- a cataclysmic sign.",
"She knew as every Christian does ... that God is sovereign and he is in control.\"",
"The McCain campaign says the governor doesn't consider herself Pentecostal.",
"Watch Palin's father talk about her religious upbringing » .",
"McGraw says Palin's Pentecostal roots may be being downplayed for a reason: \"I think there may be issues of belief that could be misunderstood or played upon by people that don't know.\"",
"When asked by CNN about Palin's beliefs, campaign spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton would only say the Republican vice presidential candidate has \"deep religious convictions.\"",
"Watch how Palin's religious roots formed » .",
"But how might her religious beliefs impact policy in Washington if the Republican ticket is successful?",
"Palin's former pastor says he has no doubt her religious beliefs will influence her decision making when it comes to government policy.",
"Regarding her desire to build an Alaskan pipeline and explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, McGraw told CNN, \"Sarah knows that in Genesis, God creates the world and it's very good and that we're supposed to be caretakers in terms of not destroying the environment, so there's no way that Sarah is going to exploit or damage the Alaska tundra in the name of getting gas if she doesn't have to.\"",
"Palin's neighbors react to her swift rise .",
"Six years ago, Palin left Assembly of God to join the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church.",
"But the Assembly of God says she still returns for special conferences and events, such as the graduation of ministry students in June.",
"Video of a speech she gave at the church just two months before joining the Republican ticket is making the rounds on the Internet.",
"Speaking of the troops in Iraq, Palin says on the video, \"Pray for our military men and women who are striving do to what is right.",
"Also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God.",
"That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for -- that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan.\"",
"Watch Palin speak at her former church » .",
"Her campaign says she doesn't mix her faith with government business.",
"But Palin did ask her audience to pray for a $30 billion natural gas pipeline she is on a mission to build in Alaska.",
"In the video Palin says, \"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas pipeline built.",
"So pray for that ... I can do my job there in developing my natural resources.",
"But all of that doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart is not good with God.\"",
"McGraw, who was her pastor until 1998 and while she was mayor of Wasilla, says that Palin attended discipleship classes to strengthen her Pentecostal faith and that he counseled her on how to become a better leader.",
"\"Everyone has a way of viewing the world and Sarah does too and hers would be shaped by the common-sense practicality of how she's been shaped by the Bible -- which is basically the world view that says God loves people, people can access him and he's given us wisdom for living,\" McGraw says.",
"He says Alaska has seen Palin's faith play out.",
"As governor she passed ethics reform and took on what she's referred to as a \"good-ol'-boys network.\"",
"However, she has said she would not seek to impose her religious views on others.",
"iReport.com: Share your thoughts on Sarah Palin .",
"\"I think one of the most obvious ways it plays out is what you've seen -- is being courageous enough to deal with deception and corruption,\" McGraw says.",
"Palin now attends the Wasilla Bible Church.",
"She was there on August 17, just days before entering the national spotlight.",
"David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus, was a speaker.",
"He told congregants that terrorist attacks on Israel were God's \"judgment\" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.",
"Brickner said, \"Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television.",
"When a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people.",
"Judgment -- you can't miss it.\"",
"The McCain campaign says Brickner's comments do not reflect her religious views.",
"Palin's spokeswoman says she is pro-Israel.",
"Pastor Ed Kalnin, the senior pastor of Palin's former Pentecostal church, has also come under fire for his comments.",
"In 2004, he told church members if they voted for John Kerry for president, they wouldn't get into heaven.",
"He told them, \"I question your salvation.\"",
"The Assembly of God issued a statement online in response, which said Kalnin was \"joking\" when he suggested \"Kerry supporters would go to hell.\"",
"The statement went on to say: \"We do acknowledge in hindsight that it was careless, and we do apologize for that.",
"This statement is not written as a defense, but as a clarification.\"",
"Palin has done little while in office to advance a social conservative agenda.",
"She told The Associated Press in an interview in 2006 that she would not allow her personal beliefs to dictate public policy.",
"\"I've honestly answered the questions on what my personal views are on things like abortion and a lot of controversial issues,\" Palin told AP.",
"\"I won't hesitate to answer those questions about what my personal views are, but I am not one to be out there preaching and forcing my views on anyone else.\"",
"But in the last week, her religious background and outlook has certainly spurred debate far beyond Alaska."
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"Sarah Palin belonged to Pentecostal church for more than two decades until 2002 .",
"Campaign: Palin is deeply religious, doesn't consider herself Pentecostal .",
"Pastor: Issues of belief could be misunderstood, played upon by people .",
"Speaking of the troops in Iraq, Palin says they were sent on \"task that is from God\""
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"(CNN) -- Rome's mayor has given up hope of hosting a Formula One race in the Italian capital, and announced on Friday that he will instead focus on winning the rights to stage the summer Olympics.",
"Italy already hosts one F1 race in the northern city of Monza, but Rome officials had hoped the historic city would have its own date on the elite motorsport's calendar from the 2013 season onwards.",
"\"Today we're definitively and formally renouncing the plan for Formula One in Rome,\" Gianni Alemanno told reporters at a news conference.",
"\"This move represents a step backwards because we have always said we would have done so, should the FIA have posed an alternative between Rome and Monza.\"",
"Alemanno's statement came a week after F1's most powerful man Bernie Ecclestone suggested it would be difficult for Italy to host two races.",
"Monza has a contract to host a grand prix until 2016, and Alemanno said the Rome will now concentrate its efforts on a bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.",
"\"We have an Olympic dream that is still going on.",
"So let's make clear to Italy and to the world we want to stage the Games in Rome,\" he said.",
"Rome has hosted the summer Games on one previous occasion in 1960, and has never staged the Italian Grand Prix.",
"The race started out in Brescia in 1921 but quickly moved to Monza, which has run the event every year but one since the F1 world championship began in 1950."
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"Rome's mayor announces the city will end bid to host a Formula One grand prix .",
"Organizers had hoped to be added to the elite motorsport's 2013 calendar .",
"Mayor says Italian capital will now focus on its bid for the 2020 Olympic Games .",
"Northern city of Monza is the traditional host of one of F1's oldest races ."
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"Rome (CNN) -- Mount Etna rumbled Wednesday, sending lava down its side.",
"Italian vulcanologists are monitoring the Sicilian volcano, they said Thursday.",
"Etna began tremors Tuesday night, the Italian Institute of Vulcanology said.",
"They reached their peak Wednesday morning, and lava flowed down the eastern rim on Wednesday night.",
"Are you there? Send CNN iReport your pics and video of Mount Etna .",
"The volcano continued to show \"rather weak\" activity Thursday morning, the Institute said in a statement.",
"Check out Mount Etna's live webcam .",
"The volcano may be producing ash, scientists said, but did not offer confirmation.",
"Etna does not appear to be threatening people at the moment.",
"One of the most active volcanoes in the world, it towers over the city of Catania on the island of Sicily."
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"It doesn't yet appear to be threatening people ."
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"(Wired) -- Twitter confirmed Tuesday evening that its microblogging site has been shuttered by Egyptian authorities.",
"This came hours after widespread reports that access had been cut off, as Egyptians took to the streets in what many hope and some fear would be a sequel to the revolution in Tunisia last week.",
"The day's speculation that the Mubarak administration might have pulled the plug on Twitter underscored the power of the site and other social networks as tools to both coordinate and disperse news of a citizen uprising.",
"Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were widely used in Tunisia's recent uprising and in Iran last year.",
"But it remains an open and hotly debated question about how much of a role these tools actually play in real-world social movements, with some critics rightly pointing out that it becomes tempting for analysts to give more credit to the new and sexy tools than they actually deserve.",
"\"We can confirm that Twitter was blocked in Egypt around 8 a.m. PT today.",
"It is impacting both Twitter.com @applications,\" the company tweeted from the handle @twitterglobalpr.",
"Earlier in the day, Twitter seemed unsure.",
"\"We're not experts on how Twitter is being used in highly developing situations 1000s of miles from our comfortable HQ in SF,\" the company tweeted from the same handle.",
"In a separate tweet, San Francisco-based Twitter added, \"the experts are those using Twitter on the ground and those coordinating with them around the world.\"",
"One of the leading authorities on Middle East censorship, who is based in Cairo, said in a telephone interview that his Facebook account was accessible but not his Twitter account.",
"His ISP, he said, is TE Data, that nation's largest internet service provider.",
"The source, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, said some Egyptians using the Nour ISP were getting access to Twitter.",
"\"Twitter, it's almost across-the-board inaccessible in Egypt,\" he said.",
"\"Given the size of the crowds we saw in the streets, I wouldn't be surprised the outage was from the government.",
"There's been calls to censor the internet here for ages.\"",
"ABC News reported from Cairo that Twitter was down and that as many as three people were killed as tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets demanding President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign come to an end.",
"Vodafone, using the handle @VodafoneEgypt, had tweeted \"no blocking from our side!\"",
"It speculated that the outage may have been from \"overload.\"",
"Jillian York, who compiles a crowd-sourced ledger of unavailable websites across the globe for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said the center had received about a dozen reports of Twitter being inaccessible inside Egypt.",
"\"We cannot confirm for sure if twitter.com is blocked,\" she said in a telephone interview early Tuesday.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"Twitter says its site is being blocked in Egypt .",
"Egyptians took to the streets in what could be a sequel to the recent revolution in Tunisia .",
"Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were widely used in Tunisia's uprising and in Iran last year ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt sent hundreds of troops with armored vehicles onto the streets Wednesday to protect the Ministry of the Interior, the army taking over from the police, as anti-government protests raged.",
"The confrontations began when a planned memorial for people killed in Egypt's revolution earlier this year turned into an angry demonstration against the country's interim military government.",
"Clashes began Tuesday afternoon and continued overnight and into Wednesday, with intense confrontations between relatives of victims on one side and security forces on the other.",
"Many Egyptians are angry at the slow pace of change since President Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11 after protests.",
"A group called the January 25 coalition issued a range of demands Wednesday night, a day after the demonstrations began.",
"They called for the \"speedy trial of snipers and killers of protesters, the removal of Cairo's head of security and the official spokesman of the Ministry of Interior\" and \"an immediate investigation in the events of last night.\"",
"The group, named for the day anti-government protests began this year, also called for the release of detainees held overnight and the \"immediate expulsion of security officers who continue to butcher and kill Egyptian people,\" among other demands.",
"Protesters burned tires and threw Molotov cocktails, and police responded with tear gas, bullets and pellets in the biggest demonstrations in Cairo in months.",
"But despite the efforts of police, demonstrators maintained their positions in Cairo's Tahrir Square, increasing their numbers to about 2,000.",
"Dr. Hatem Ashraf, the minister of health, said 75 people were admitted to hospitals, with 10 still there after 65 people were treated and released.",
"Ministry spokesman Dr. Adel Al Adawy said earlier that 32 police officers were injured and more than 590 people were treated at the scene of the clashes.",
"Some 23 ambulances were running to help care for the wounded, he said.",
"Nine people were arrested, said Alla Mahmoud, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.",
"\"Thugs carrying swords and weapons infiltrated the protesters and attacked the Ministry of Interior with Molotov cocktails and rocks,\" Mahmoud said.",
"A makeshift clinic was established in a nearby mosque where dozens of people were treated for minor wounds and fatigue from inhaling tear gas.",
"Many people were seen bleeding from their heads and had suffered bullet wounds to the chest and face.",
"Several thousand protesters chanted against Gen. Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces.",
"The council has been running the country since Mubarak was forced to step down.",
"The council said the demonstrations \"have no excuse but to destabilize the security and stability of Egypt.\"",
"The armed forces statement urged \"the great Egyptian people... not to follow these calls... for the sake of the security and safety of Egypt in these difficult circumstances.\"",
"Ambulances streamed out of the square in the aftermath, transporting protesters to hospitals, while others were treated on the scene.",
"Noor Noor, the son of presidential candidate Ayman Noor, was seen bleeding with a serious injury to his eye and was later transferred to the hospital.",
"The protesters blocked the entrances to the square as calls were made on the Internet for more people to join the cause.",
"The imam of the nearby Omar Makram Mosque called via loud speaker for police to stop attacking the protesters, saying Tahrir Square belonged to \"the revolutionaries.\"",
"He also urged the demonstrators to go home.",
"By late afternoon Wednesday, the square that was the center of the revolution was no longer blocked, but demonstrators remained at the Interior Ministry, the focus of much of the anger.",
"The human rights group Amnesty International has estimated at least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 wounded during the 18-day revolution that began in late January.",
"The military-led government that took over when Mubarak resigned has been prosecuting several former officials accused of ordering security forces to fire on protesters.",
"A police officer accused of killing 20 protesters during a January 28 demonstration has been sentenced to death.",
"Former Interior Minister Habib El Adly has been sentenced to 12 years for corruption charges but still awaits the verdict for the charge of killing protesters.",
"Mubarak is scheduled to face the Cairo Criminal Court on August 3 on charges of corruption and deaths of protesters, the justice department said Wednesday.",
"Egypt's military rulers have set parliamentary elections for September.",
"Protests have continued in the months since Mubarak's ouster as Egyptians have demanded speedier reforms and economic improvements.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed and Journalist Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report."
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"Hundreds of people are treated at the scene and dozens end up in hospitals .",
"Police use tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters .",
"Tahrir Square was the heart of the revolt against then-President Hosni Mubarak ."
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"(CNN) -- Every move scrutinized, every word analyzed: life in the electoral spotlight where a clothes selection can be as much a defining moment as policies espoused.",
"Cindy McCain entered John McCain's life after his return from the Vietnam War.",
"This is life - not for the presumptive presidential nominees Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain - but for their respective wives.",
"Michelle Obama has already been in the firing line - accused of being angry, negative and \"unpatriotic\" with growing concerns she will be the target of ever more intensive attacks by conservatives as the election battle heats up.",
"For Sen. John McCain the attacks could come on two fronts - confined not just to his current spouse, the striking, elegant heiress Cindy Hensley McCain, but those rooted in his own marital history and the other Mrs. McCain before her - a woman of more modest means who is now virtually invisible.",
"The first Mrs. McCain was born Carol Shepp.",
"She was also a beauty in her youth but after their marriage she suffered a terrible misfortune.",
"In 1969, while John McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Carol was badly disfigured in a car accident.",
"She underwent such drastic surgery to rebuild her body that she ended up several inches shorter and a good deal heavier.",
"For years, she struggled to recover and raise their three children but kept it secret from her POW husband to avoid adding to his ordeal.",
"He didn't find out until he was released and they were reunited, in 1973, but the marriage soon ran into trouble.",
"He was 42 and Cindy Hensley was 24 when she became the woman with whom he would make a new life.",
"He separated from his wife within months.",
"In his memoirs, McCain writes that their break-up was caused by his \"selfishness and immaturity\"....\"The blame was entirely mine.\"",
"Carol doesn't often talk to the media but she doesn't think her accident or injuries ended her marriage.",
"She told one biographer \"I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else.\"",
"By all accounts, she got a generous divorce settlement and they remain on good terms.",
"It's an old story to the Washington press corps and one that has been largely overlooked in the course of the campaign.",
"Whether history encourages impartial observers to see McCain in a positive light; as a man who has publicly accepted his personal shortcomings; or more negatively, as a man who left a long suffering spouse for a young heiress, the bigger issue is whether his marital history could or should play a part in determining his credentials to become president.",
"And for that matter - the actions and words of a current spouse for either candidate."
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"Life in the spotlight for the wives of the candidates may play a number of ways .",
"Michelle Obama has been portrayed as angry, negative and unpatriotic .",
"Heiress Cindy McCain is the Republican's second wife .",
"McCain left his first wife, Carol Shepp, after returning from Vietnam ."
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"Liberia (CNN) -- Thousands of young men shouting, driving in pick-up trucks and taking control of the streets of Monrovia was, only a few years ago, a reason to flee.",
"They are scenes reminiscent of the 14-year civil war that devastated Liberia and left an estimated 250,000 people dead.",
"But today, these young men and women are thronging the streets of the capital in excitement - supporting their preferred candidates in the last day of campaigning in the nation's elections.",
"The front-runner : the first African female president, grandmother of three and newly-awarded winner of the Nobel Peace prize.",
"But what President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf really wants is to win re-election for a second term in office.",
"\"Just to consolidate the gains, preserve the peace, to keep bringing the development - we've put in the fundamentals, the foundation - the possibility to reach our accelerated growth and development, fix our infrastructure, the potential and chances are so high,\" she said.",
"But President Johnson-Sirleaf has already broken one major promise - that she would not run for a second term.",
"And many Liberians believe she has not fulfilled many of her first term campaign promises - with up to 80% of Liberians unemployed and a majority living without basic necessities such as water and electricity.",
"And there has been plenty of campaigning going on for Tuesday's election, some of it a little unorthodox - I saw one car handing out money to crowds as it drove through town!",
"The main opposition party - the Congress for Democratic Change - is drawing big crowds with their popular vice-Presidential candidate, Liberia's most famous international football star - George Weah.",
"\"Madame Johnson-Sirleaf - all the promises she made, she has never kept them - and the people are ready, you can see the excitement - that they're ready for a change,\" he said.",
"Forty percent of Liberians are under the age of 14 and many believe that, at 72, President Johnson-Sirleaf is out of touch with the needs of the average Liberian.",
"\"I promise them a good life, a life that is affordable.",
"I want to see Liberians not suffering and to have light and water and healthcare,\" Weah added.",
"Desirable, but difficult promises to keep for any incoming administration in a country where many buildings in the capital are still riddled with bullet holes.",
"The voters themselves are split :\"The process she started - we need a person who will finish that peaceful process,\" one said.",
"While another said: \"She promised and she didn't do it - she promised and she never delivered.\""
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"Front-runner is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the first African female president and Nobel Peace prize winner .",
"Main opposition party's VP candidate is international football star George Weah ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- The death toll from an earthquake that struck eastern Turkey a week ago was at 601 as of Sunday, the Turkish state-run Anatolia news agency reported.",
"More than 4,100 people were injured in last Sunday's 7.2-magnitude quake, which struck Turkey's Van province.",
"At least 455 people died in the town of Ercis, where rescue efforts have been under way throughout the week, a crisis center in Van province reported Saturday.",
"However, some 231 people have been found alive in the rubble, despite temperatures nearing the freezing mark at night, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said Saturday, according to Anatolia.",
"Two teenagers were pulled out of the rubble alive late Thursday and early Friday, more than 100 hours after the quake.",
"Eighty-four buildings have collapsed in Ercis and six more in the city of Van, Atalay said.",
"Relief crews have distributed 40,721 tents -- including 6,088 from abroad -- and 159,360 blankets to survivors, authorities said.",
"A total of 1,309 aftershock quakes have occurred since Sunday's main temblor, officials said.",
"Turkey's government plans to present a new law to parliament by the end of December which would see the evacuation of settlements in areas at high risk of natural disaster, Anatolia reported.",
"Laws governing construction and property management would also be revised under the so-called Urban Transformation Law, the agency said.",
"The United States and China are the latest countries to offer help to Turkey's quake survivors.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered the U.S. European Command to provide humanitarian relief supplies including blankets, cots, sleeping bags and hygiene kits, the Pentagon said Friday."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Remember the little box you can check off on your federal tax return to donate three dollars to pay for presidential campaigns?",
"House Republicans voted that in this era of e-mailing or texting campaign contributions, it's time to get rid of the federal program, and remove taxpayer money from presidential elections and political conventions.",
"The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that eliminates the \"Presidential Election Campaign Fund\" and uses the over $600 million it's collected since the end of 2010 to pay for other programs.",
"However, a similar bill in the Senate appears to be stalled.",
"The White House has said it opposes the measure, but has not yet threatened a veto.",
"The House passed a similar bill in January, but this new legislation pushed by Republicans also eliminates the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), an independent agency created after the 2000 presidential recount in Florida to help states meet minimum federal standards for voting equipment and administering elections.",
"Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, sponsored both bills, and argues that public financing in presidential races is no longer necessary.",
"\"Everybody is about one viral video away from becoming world famous around here.",
"It's not hard to raise money.",
"The Internet has totally revolutionized this.",
"The American people have moved on,\" Cole told CNN.",
"Since the Presidential Election Campaign fund was created in 1976, the Internal Revenue Service reported that about 30% of taxpayers participated in 1980 -- the highest rate on record -- but in 2010 less than 7% of taxpayers checked off the box on their tax forms to direct money to the program.",
"When the program was created, it originally directed $1 from the Treasury to the fund for those who wanted to participate, but the amount was upped to $3 in 1994.",
"Taxpayers who participate do not increase their tax liability.",
"Candidates who apply for public financing must adhere to overall spending limits.",
"Those running for their party's nomination can apply for partial federal matching funds by raising at least $5,000 in 20 states.",
"According to the FEC, every campaign since 1976 has included at least partial public financing.",
"But in the 2008 presidential campaign, both of the major political party candidates -- then-Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain -- opted out of the public financing system in the primary, and Obama decided against participating in it for the general election because he didn't want to be limited to the cap on campaign spending.",
"Cole criticized Obama for trying to have it both ways -- he didn't want to operate within the public financing system himself, but hasn't joined any efforts to eliminate it at a time when the money saved could be used for other priorities.",
"But Democrats say the fund and the Election Assistance Commission were put in place after two public controversies: Public financing was created after the Watergate scandal and the EAC was set up after the 2000 Florida recount.",
"They worry that eliminating them would erode public confidence about private money having too much influence in campaigns.",
"Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pennsylvania, said the taxpayer funding is entirely voluntary, but that ending it now and closing down the EAC sends the wrong signal.",
"\"When we give the impression that our policy choices will be influenced by campaign donations, we sell out the American people.",
"When we try to deprive citizens of information about their rights and responsibilities as voters, we erode trust in our system.",
"It is tantamount to legal corruption and has no place in our democratic system,\" Brady argued in testimony this week before the House Rules Committee.",
"The presidential election fund also helps pay for both parties political conventions.",
"According to the Federal Election Commission the Democratic and Republican conventions planners have already received more than $18 million to plan their conventions in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tampa, Florida, scheduled for the end of this summer.",
"Cole, who before serving in Congress was a top aide at the Republican National Committee, said both parties will spend more than $100 million on their conventions, but they don't need to rely on federal help anymore because they can raise the money from private sources.",
"\"The president talks a lot about shared sacrifice.",
"He should call up Debbie Wasserman Schultz [chair of the DNC], my good friend and colleague, and say you should give back that $17 million and then the Republicans I bet would feel they have to give it back,\" Cole said.",
"As for getting rid of the EAC, supporters of the bill argue that there once was a need for the agency to help states upgrade and meet standards after the 2000 election, but states stopped asking for federal guidance.",
"But Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer says doing away with the Election Assistance Commission only a year before a presidential election could lead to lower voter turnout.",
"\"The Commission's primary mission is to provide states with the resources they need to ensure everyone eligible to vote can cast their ballots and have their voices heard.",
"We ought to be making it easier for voters, not eroding our ability to protect them and their right to participate,\" Hoyer told CNN."
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"Currently, taxpayers can direct $3 to support presidential elections and conventions .",
"That option may disappear if a bill passes the Senate .",
"Fewer than 7% of taxpayers took advantage of it in 2010 .",
"The $600 million collected so far would be redirected to other programs ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The idea that Shakespeare did not write the works attributed to him didn't surface until 1856, 240 years after he died.",
"Until then no one even suggested he might not have done so.",
"The theory originated with an American woman, Delia Bacon, who spent a night in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon trying to summon up the courage to open Shakespeare's grave, apparently in the odd hope that its contents might help her case.",
"She gave up with the morning light, and died not long afterwards in a lunatic asylum.",
"Since then however the theory has spread, to such an extent that now at least 77 people have been suggested as the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare -- including such absurdities as Queen Elizabeth I and Miguel Cervantes, author of \"Don Quixote.\"",
"For some time Francis Bacon was the leading candidate.",
"He was supplanted by the poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe, whose death in 1593, when Shakespeare's writings were just starting to appear, is one of the best recorded events in English literary history.",
"The current favorite is Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, who died in 1604, whereas Shakespeare's plays go on appearing until 1613.",
"An absurd story about him, suggesting that he was both the son of Elizabeth I and her lover, father by her of the Earl of Southampton as well as the author of Shakespeare, is told in the new film \"Anonymous,\" directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Vanessa Redgrave as the Queen.",
"The theory flies in the face of a mass of historical evidence.",
"Shakespeare is mentioned as the author of his poems and plays by at least fourteen contemporary writers.",
"His name appears on the title pages of some 34 editions of plays and poems by him.",
"Anecdotes about him as a writer are told by his contemporary playwright and poet Ben Jonson.",
"In 1623 appeared the great First Folio edition printing 37 of his plays.",
"It has a long poem in praise of Shakespeare written by Jonson, which refers to him as the Swan of Avon (the name of the river of his town of birth).",
"In Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon there is a monument to Shakespeare with inscriptions comparing him to great figures of antiquity and praising him as a writer.",
"In spite of all this and more, conspiracy theories about him constantly emerge in the press and elsewhere.",
"Most of them come not from scholars of literary history but from amateurs.",
"Many scholars have remained aloof from the debate, though I, who have spent most of my life studying, editing, writing about and teaching Shakespeare, have taken part in numerous discussions and media debates of many kinds over the years.",
"James Shapiro, of Columbia University, published an excellent book, Contested Will, about the subject last year -- fascinatingly investigating the psychology of some of the better-known doubters, such as Sigmund Freud and Mark Twain.",
"Disturbingly, the topic has spread to universities.",
"It is now possible to take courses in the authorship of Shakespeare at Concordia University, Vermont and Brunel University, England.",
"Even more disturbingly the makers of the film are distributing to schools in America a study guide intended to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of schoolchildren.",
"The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is the oldest organization devoted wholly to the man and his work.",
"We are energetically pursuing a campaign to defend Shakespeare's name, and have enlisted the help of many high profile figures, including the Prince of Wales, and a string of British actors and writers.",
"We are about to launch a free e-book refuting the theory that Shakespeare didn't write his works -- we profoundly hope that when you read it you will be completely convinced that Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon (1564-1616) is the author of the great plays and poems which carry his name round the world."
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"New film 'Anonymous' claims Shakespeare did not write works attributed to him .",
"Wells: Claims Shakespeare was a fraud fly in the face of historical evidence .",
"Classes questioning authenticity of Shakespeare now taught at university ."
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"(CNN) -- Why is having an affair worse than being a sexual harasser?",
"Why does a woman's claim that she had a 13-year extramarital romance with Herman Cain seem to be more deadly to his Republican presidential campaign than accusations by several other women that he aggressively pressured them for sex -- behavior that would be not only sleazy but criminal?",
"Cain himself has said that donations to his campaign have fallen off since the adultery allegations.",
"This is a far cry from the surge of support that followed the allegations of harassment.",
"Why is this? My take is that working women who allege sexual harassment arouse fear in men, especially men who have conservative views about sex, marriage and women's place at work and in the home.",
"The guy in the office in the gray flannel suit fears that his taken-for-granted sexualization of the women in his workplace may be interpreted as harassment when he doesn't want it to be.",
"He doesn't think he's a bad guy, but can't imagine treating his female co-workers like, well, colleagues first and only, and not like ladies.",
"He would never dream of harassing someone, and is terrified that the quick little pat on a co-worker's butt or comment on her appearance won't be interpreted the way he means it, as just a sexual compliment.",
"He thinks the women in his office might be infected with the crazy feminist idea that a little playing around makes for a chilly workplace climate.",
"Reports of sexual harassment terrify him -- might he be charged next?",
"So he denies that such a thing exists.",
"The rules really aren't that clear, and besides, he doesn't really trust women to tell the truth.",
"A consensual affair, on the other hand, is a lot easier to understand.",
"It's sleazy, something that a good tradition-bound husband recognizes and knows he can avoid, so he's comfortable in holding that against Cain.",
"But whom does an affair really hurt?",
"The victim in these new allegations, it seems to me, is Mrs. Cain, and so far, she seems to be the stand-by-your-guy sort of wife.",
"And if she is hurt by the charges, she's not likely to go public with the pain.",
"Their children too might be hurt, and that too, is a family affair.",
"I don't really care who Mr. Cain is alleged to have slept with as long as she's willing.",
"This is not the first man who ran for president who has ever had an affair.",
"In fact, it might be a good parlor game to try to find one that hasn't.",
"My guess is that there isn't a strong relationship, historically, between being a good president and never having had an extra-marital affair.",
"Women simply haven't been that important; the wives and the mistresses have not been their men's equal, but merely their mates.",
"Perhaps that's changing in the 21st Century.",
"I hope so. But I'm not putting my money on it.",
"And whom does sexual harassment really hurt?",
"Every woman who works for a living.",
"Every time a high profile man gets away with treating women who work with (or especially for) him primarily as sexual objects, and not as workmates, every woman who works for a living is reminded that she too is at risk.",
"When women make public charges, they go on public trial themselves, with their pasts mined for anything that might discredit them.",
"Have they ever gone bankrupt or lost a job?",
"Intimate details of their lives are held under the microscope.",
"Why should their past matter?",
"The issue is whether a man in authority misused his power to coerce sexual favors from a subordinate or take other liberties.",
"If women make a charge, they have to live with an assault on their own character.",
"The guy down the hall needs to learn one very simple lesson: Treat your female colleagues just as you would treat the guys.",
"If you pat the guys on the head, and put your arm around them, or pat their butt to show you like their outfit, go ahead and do it to the \"girls\" in the office.",
"But if not, keep your hands to yourself, and learn to treat the women you work with like colleagues, not ladies.",
"If every man learns to treat women in the workforce as, well, regular people, the fear of behavior being \"misinterpreted\" as a sexual harasser will disappear.",
"No one should make a sexual overture to a subordinate, a gay man shouldn't come on to his male assistant, and a heterosexual woman shouldn't hit on her male secretary.",
"No one likes a sleazy cheat.",
"But harassing women who work for you is far more than sleazy.",
"It is criminal. It's time for a fourth wave feminist movement to create a world where being a woman doesn't mean you are treated differently at the office.",
"When that world comes, we will be finally be in a post-feminist era.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Barbara Risman."
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"Barbara Risman: Why do Cain adultery accusations seem to stick, but not harassment ones?",
"She says men dismiss harassment because of worry about own workplace actions .",
"She says adultery hurts the spouse; harassment hurts every woman in a workplace .",
"Risman: We will have a real post-feminist era when workers all treat colleagues the same way ."
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"(CNN) -- An American man who was held in Aruba for nearly four months in connection with the disappearance of his traveling companion insisted Thursday he had nothing to do with her vanishing but said it will \"weigh heavily on me for a very long time.\"",
"\"I feel as if a person I cared about, a companion ... has disappeared on my watch,\" Gary Giordano said on ABC's \"Good Morning America\" in his first interview since being released from custody in Aruba earlier this week.",
"Giordano, 50, had been held in the disappearance of 35-year-old Robyn Gardner of Maryland.",
"Giordano told authorities the two were snorkeling on August 2 when he signaled to Gardner to swim back.",
"When he reached the beach, he told police, Gardner was nowhere to be found and has not been seen since.",
"\"I only looked back when I hit a rock,\" he said, according to a transcript of a police interview obtained by CNN.",
"\"Before that, I did not look back. I was busy saving my life.\"",
"Aruban judges repeatedly granted requests to extend Giordano's detention, while the investigation continued.",
"But last week, a judge rejected prosecutors' request to hold Giordano, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for an additional 30 days.",
"He was released Tuesday.",
"A three-judge panel of Aruban judges held a hearing Wednesday to review the decision to release Giordano, but upheld it.",
"ABC aired a clip of an emotional Giordano learning of the decision at the airport.",
"\"I'd accepted the fact that they were going to keep me from my kids forever,\" he told reporters in the video.",
"Aruban prosecutor Taco Stein said Monday he was aware Giordano was going to return home after being freed.",
"\"If we need him again, we will seek extradition with the United States,\" he said.",
"The unresolved case has raised a host of questions, including the nature of the relationship between Gardner and Giordano.",
"His U.S.-based lawyer, Jose Baez, told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell on Thursday night that the two were both single and their personal activities -- including photographs taken by Giordano of the people that have been widely speculated about -- are irrelevant to what happened on the beach that summer day.",
"\"What they do in the privacy of their own bedroom is their business, and really has nothing to do with this except scandalizing the case and trying to cast more aspersions on Gary and his lifestyle,\" Baez said.",
"The attorney said that the couple were \"not exclusive.\"",
"Responding to a question about whether Giordano was a swinger, Baez said, \"Gary has a different lifestyle than perhaps you and I.\"",
"\"These were things that the this couple did, and they did not only with each other but with other individuals,\" the lawyer added, referring to what transpired involving Giordano and Gardner before she went missing.",
"In his own interview Thursday with ABC, Giordano -- flanked, at the time, by Baez -- disputed allegations he and Gardner had been drinking and that he took her to a \"remote location.\"",
"\"We were a sober couple,\" he said.",
"\"... We were 100 yards from a scuba diving store.\"",
"The two were in view of other people at Baby Beach the day Gardner disappeared, he said.",
"While Giordano answered specific questions -- at one point saying, \"Here, I'll just interview myself\" -- he refused to give an entire account of that day, saying, \"I'm not going to sit here and answer something I've answered repeatedly.\"",
"But he said he was not hurriedly attempting to escape from Aruba when he was detained at the airport August 5.",
"He said following Gardner's disappearance, he met with her mother and with a U.S. Embassy representative.",
"Both told him that he should go ahead and return to the United States on his scheduled flight, he said, and police said he was free to go.",
"He said he was running through the airport to catch the last flight home, as the airport was closing because of a tropical storm passing north of the island.",
"Asked about a surveillance video showing him just after Gardner disappeared, Giordano disputed that he appeared to be dry and said he was exhausted from swimming back to shore, explaining why he did not appear to be acting more urgently.",
"When seeking help, he said he found \"nobody there ...",
"I'm supposed to scream into the air?\"",
"Giordano was asked about a $1.5 million life insurance policy he took out on Gardner days before they traveled to Aruba.",
"He said he purchased travel cancellation insurance on a website and also purchased medical, dental and accident insurance on both him and Gardner.",
"Because both people were listed on the cancellation policy, the site automatically assigned Gardner the other insurance, he said.",
"\"You can't unselect anybody.\"",
"He said he routinely purchases such insurance when traveling.",
"\"I have children,\" he said.",
"\"I have a house ... I maxed out on everything ...",
"I was selecting it for me and she got the same thing.\"",
"Giordano acknowledged he inquired about the policy two days after Gardner disappeared but said he was told by his then-attorney Michael Lopez to do so.",
"Lopez told him that he could be billed for helicopters and scuba divers used to search for Gardner, he said.",
"He told \"Good Morning America\" that a travel handbook issued by the Dutch government advises travelers, in the case of a missing person, to call authorities and then call their insurance company.",
"Baez, who represented Casey Anthony earlier this year, suggested in the \"Good Morning America\" interview that Lopez might have had a financial motive for advising Giordano to call the insurance company.",
"He alleged Lopez was \"seeing dollar signs\" and attempted to get Giordano to sign a retainer agreement giving him one-third of the insurance money.",
"Reached by telephone in Aruba on Thursday, Lopez denied that, saying his agreement with Giordano did not give him one-third of the money.",
"Giordano vehemently denied any involvement in Gardner's disappearance.",
"Asked if he would do anything differently if given the chance, he said, \"Absolutely.",
"That's a silly question ...",
"I wouldn't have come (to Aruba).\"",
"But, he added, \"You can't unring a bell.\"",
"His lawyer, Baez, likewise claimed that critics are looking for a scapegoat in Gardner's disappearance.",
"\"Everything that they have said in a negative way towards Gary is really supposition upon supposition, guess upon guess,\" he told HLN.",
"\"And just because she hasn't been recovered or found, they're just pointing their finger toward a convenient person, which is Gary.\"",
"CNN's Martin Savidge contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Giordano's \"different lifestyle\" is irrelevant to his guilt or innocence, his lawyer says .",
"The Maryland man gives his first interview since his release from jail in Aruba .",
"He denies any involvement in Robyn Gardner's August 2 disappearance .",
"Giordano says he bought travel insurance, and Gardner was automatically included ."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- The lawyer for a man convicted of murdering a Connecticut mother and her two daughters described his client as \"damaged\" and suffering from a mood disorder Friday during a last-ditch attempt to spare his client's life.",
"On October 13, Joshua Komisarjevsky was convicted of 17 charges, including three counts of murder, four counts of kidnapping and charges of burglary, arson and assault, in the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11.",
"The sentencing phase of the trial began 12 days later and continued for six weeks.",
"Beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, the New Haven-based jury will now decide whether to sentence Komisarjevsky to death or to life in prison.",
"Steven Hayes, the first defendant to stand trial in the case, was sentenced to death in December 2010 after a jury convicted him of 16 of 17 charges.",
"Prosecutors had argued that Hayes and Komisarjevsky went into the Petit home, beat and tied up Dr. William Petit, raped and strangled his wife, molested one of their daughters and set the house on fire before attempting to flee.",
"The two daughters, who were both tied to their beds, died of smoke inhalation, though William Petit managed to escape.",
"Prosecutor Michael Dearington described the ordeal as a night of \"terror that no person should endure.\"",
"He also contrasted defense discussion of Komisarjevsky's family history with that of William Petit.",
"\"When I looked at the Komisarjevsky family photos, I realized that Dr. Petit doesn't have any family photos anymore, because they were burned,\" Dearington said.",
"He described what he called the heinous nature of the crime, insisting that a troubled past couldn't justify Komisarjevsky's actions.",
"\"How many people do you have to kill before the death penalty is appropriate?\"",
"the state's attorney asked, rhetorically.",
"Defense lawyer Walter Bansley, as he had done during the trial, insisted that Komisarjevsky \"wasn't involved in the killings to the extent that Mr. Hayes was.\"",
"He then recapped what he described as Komisarjevsky's sordid family history and ongoing battle with his personal demons.",
"His client, Bansley said, was a \"dark kid\" who later got caught up in a life of crime, especially burglaries.",
"\"Joshua was a damaged young man ... and he remains that way, to this day,\" the attorney said.",
"Komisarjevsky was then quoted in a letter to his mother, saying he was sorry \"for not being the boy you wanted me to be\" and \"a loser.\"",
"Bansley then insisted that his client posed no danger as long as he is in prison, where he does art and studies Latin.",
"\"Josh is not a future danger to anyone, and you really shouldn't consider killing him,\" Bansley said.",
"\"There is no reason to kill him.\""
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"The sentencing phase of his trial took 6 weeks, leading up to closing arguments Friday .",
"The prosecution describes his crimes as heinous and the death penalty as appropriate .",
"The defense says he has a mood disorder and poses no danger while in prison ."
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"Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- A Wisconsin Republican official compared the protests over Gov.",
"Scott Walker's attempts to curtail collective bargaining rights for public employees to the Holocaust on Wednesday, a remark he later conceded was \"a bad word\" to use.",
"Wisconsin Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary Ben Brancel, a Walker appointee, told visiting members of the state Farm Bureau that rookie lawmakers \"got stuck in the middle of the Holocaust\" when pro-union demonstrators led rallies and camped out in the Capitol for days.",
"\"Some of you might have had past relationships with your legislators, because they've been here for a while,\" Brancel said.",
"\"But there's a huge number who this is their first time around.",
"They came to town with a lot of ideas and a lot of concepts they could really work on, and they got stuck in the middle of the Holocaust and the horror story that was going on in town as far as people using the building all night long and some shenanigans.\"",
"Brancel was making off-the-cuff remarks before the arrival of Walker, who spoke to the farmers Wednesday afternoon and was unaware of his appointee's comments.",
"Brancel later told reporters, \"I better go back to English school.\"",
"\"That was a bad word,\" he said.",
"\"It should have been total confusion in the Capitol.",
"It was not an appropriate word to use in the context of which I used it.\"",
"Brancel also issued a written apology through his office, apologizing for his \"unfortunate choice of words.\"",
"And Walker \"hopes everyone accepts the apology that was immediately issued,\" Walker's office said in a separate statement.",
"Walker and GOP lawmakers are trying to close a $137 million budget shortfall with a plan that calls for curbs on public employee union bargaining rights and requires public workers, with the exception of police and firefighters, to cover more of their retirement plans and health care premiums.",
"The proposal ignited fierce opposition from labor leaders and their supporters, and state Senate Democrats have skipped the state to prevent their chamber from advancing the bill.",
"Public employee unions agreed to financial concessions that they say will help meet the state's fiscal needs, but Walker has said the limits on public bargaining are a critical component of his plan."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's new government on Sunday ordered banks closed for the next two days after protests by National Bank workers apparently drove out the head of the institution.",
"The chairman of the National Bank of Egypt, Tarek Amer, told employees via e-mail that he submitted his resignation on Sunday, according to a person who received the message.",
"\"I was saddened because I could not enter the bank's building today due to hundreds of protesting employees,\" the e-mail said, according to a bank employee, who was not authorized to speak to the media and asked not to be named.",
"Amer was joined by two of his deputies and the bank's head of human resources, according to the message.",
"It was not clear whether the resignations have been accepted.",
"But Sunday evening, Egyptian state television announced that the country's lenders would be shut down until Wednesday.",
"The announcement asked employees to consider the national interest in the wake of the revolt that drove longtime President Hosni Mubarak from office on Friday.",
"The military council that took power from Mubarak has urged Egyptians to help bolster the country's economy, which had been paralyzed during the protests.",
"Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ambassador to the United States, said Sunday that the new government has made restoring security and reviving commerce its top priorities.",
"\"The Egyptian economy has suffered during this period of unrest, and was suffering from the global recession with a rising unemployment rate,\" Shoukry told CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS.\"",
"Bank workers complained that members of Mubarak's family put their allies into positions of power at the bank with grossly inflated salaries.",
"But the National Bank's headquarters in Cairo continued to function during Sunday's protests, with disgruntled staff taking turns to work and demonstrate.",
"There were reports of protests at branches of the Bank of Alexandria and the Bank of Egypt as well.",
"And hundreds of police officers launched demonstrations outside Interior Ministry headquarters on Sunday to demand higher wages, shorter hours, better benefits and more respect, participants told CNN.",
"The protesters faced off with a cordon of Egyptian troops outside the ministry Sunday evening.",
"They currently earn 500 Egyptian pounds (about $85) a month -- a quarter of what army troops of comparable rank earn, they said.",
"They, too, want to earn 2,000 pounds a month, police protesters Mahmoud Tawfiq and Mahmoud Bedwai said.",
"They also want their hours reduced and to be paid for working overtime, saying they work 12 to 15 hour days and face imprisonment if they refuse to work past the end of their shifts.",
"And they called for free transportation to their job sites and housing once they get there, saying some travel hundreds of miles from Cairo for work at their own expense.",
"Both low-ranking police officers and administrative staff joined in the protest.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed and Arwa Damon and Journalist Ian Lee contributed to this report."
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"Police protest for better pay and shorter hours ."
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"(CNN) -- All four of the children wounded in a mass shooting in east Texas have died, police confirmed Thursday.",
"Lt. Andrew Lewis, a Bay City Police spokesman, said the deceased children were 2, 3, 4 and 5 years old.",
"He did not identify them. The 2-year-old was a girl and the 4-year-old a boy, he said.",
"The children's mother was wounded in the shooting Wednesday afternoon and airlifted to a hospital in Houston, according to police.",
"Her condition was not available Thursday evening.",
"The apparent gunman, who killed himself at the scene, was identified Thursday as Jose Avila, 24, the mother's husband.",
"His relationship to the children, if any, was not disclosed.",
"The shooting occurred at a mobile home in Bay City, about 65 miles southwest of downtown Houston.",
"Police responded at 3:18 p.m. (4:18 p.m.",
"ET) Wednesday to a call that a woman had been shot.",
"When they arrived, they also discovered the four children and the apparent shooter, who died at the scene from a single gunshot to the head, Lewis said."
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"The suspect, the woman's husband, fatally shot himself, police say .",
"The mother's condition has not been made available ."
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"(CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg take a look at the digital rush of mass consumption that is \"Cyber Monday.\"",
"This year, the Monday after Thanksgiving became the biggest shopping day in the history of the internet, with an estimated $1.25 billion spent online.",
"So, why is John so bitter about that?",
"Listen to find out.",
"We also take a look at this week's announcement that Spotify, the hot-as-fire music-streaming site, is opening up its massive database of songs to outside app developers.",
"We look at some of our favorites so far and discuss the potential this move creates.",
"Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story about Facebook and the possibility that the networking super-site will eventually offer itself as a publicly traded company on Wall Street.",
"The story looks at how such a move might impact Facebook's users.",
"But we use this opportunity for a reality check on some comments that crop up every time we write a Facebook story.",
"And in the Tech Fail of the Week, we look at a controversy that popped up when civil liberties groups found out that Siri, the iPhone 4S's voice-activated digital assistant, won't tell you where the nearest abortion clinic is located.",
"Did Apple fail by leaving out a potentially controversial piece of information?",
"Or did the Web fail for getting its feathers ruffled over an oversight on a new piece of software.",
"We discuss ... you decide.",
"To listen to Tech Check, click on the audio box to the left.",
"To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here.",
"You can also listen, or subscribe, on iTunes.",
"Roku owners can also find us in the CNN widget on the NewsCaster channel."
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"Tech Check: Coming to terms with Cyber Monday and Spotify music apps .",
"Tech Check is the weekly technology podcast from CNN.com .",
"Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg tackle reader comments about Facebook .",
"The crew also \"fails\" somebody over a new iPhone flap ."
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"(CNN) -- Band members who were with Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion on the bus in a parking lot in Orlando, Florida, where he died last month tried frantically to get him help when they realized he was not breathing, a 911 tape released Thursday reveals.",
"\"One of our drum majors is on the bus and not breathing,\" a male caller tells a female dispatcher for the Orange County Fire Rescue.",
"\"Is he breathing or is he not breathing?\"",
"she asks. \"We don't know if he's breathing or not, but we need to get an ambulance ASAP.\"",
"\"I have help on the way already,\" she says.",
"She asks, \"Is he awake?\"",
"\"He's not even responding.",
"He's responding a little.",
"He wasn't responding. We thought he was breathing.",
"He was making noises, but I don't even know if he's breathing now.\"",
"\"Is he awake?\" \"His eyes are open; he's not responding.\"",
"\"But is he breathing?\" \"I have no idea. I cannot tell you. He just threw up.\" \"He just threw up?\" \"Yes.\" The dispatcher then asks whether Champion was shaking prior to stopping breathing.",
"\"No, he wasn't. He wasn't shaking. I don't even know how he was. He was just sitting there. We were just talking and the next thing you know, he was shaking and not doing anything.\"",
"Asked again whether Champion was shaking, the caller -- who says he has left the bus in order to hear the dispatcher -- tells her, \"No, no, he wasn't shaking.",
"He wasn't moving. I don't know what's going on.\"",
"The dispatcher then calmly asks him to get back on the bus.",
"\"I want you to see if he's breathing, because that's very important,\" she says.",
"After a silence, the voice of another man tells the dispatcher, \"Ma'am, we have a band member right here,\" he says.",
"\"He's on the bus and he's not breathing.\"",
"He says, \"I tried to give him CPR and he started to vomit.\"",
"\"OK, and you're right by him now?\" she asks. \"He's in my hands, ma'am. He's cold. He's in my hands.\" Asked to lay Champion flat on his back on the floor of the bus, the man says, \"OK, I'm going to try.",
"He's heavy.\" \"I understand,\" the dispatcher says.",
"\"Just try to do your best, OK?\"",
"\"All right.\" After more silence, the conversation resumes.",
"\"All right, cool.",
"He's flat. He's flat on this back.\" \"OK, then I want you to kneel next to him and I want you to look in his mouth for food or vomit.\"",
"\"Yes, there's vomit.\" \"There is vomit in his mouth?\"",
"\"Yes.\" \"OK, then I want you to turn his head to the side and I want you to clean out his mouth and his nose.\"",
"At that, six minutes after the call started, the connection is lost.",
"The dispatcher calls back and gets a recording: \"Sorry, you've reached me at a time of inconvenience.\"",
"Band director Julian E. White told CNN Atlanta affiliate WXIA that he was walking to dinner when he saw the police and paramedics show up pull into the parking lot.",
"\"I followed them, and that's when I saw that Robert was laying on the bus and, obviously, having medical difficulty,\" he said.",
"He said the drum major looked like he had passed out.",
"\"At that point, my concern was getting the best medical attention that I could for Robert.\"",
"He accompanied Champion to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.",
"His death at age 26 occurred on November 19 after a football game that included a halftime performance by the Florida A&M Marching 100 band.",
"Officials have said his death was related to hazing.",
"The tape was made public Thursday as a school official confirmed that FAMU had dismissed four students.",
"The dismissals were announced Tuesday in a letter from university President James Ammons to the board of trustees.",
"Another 30 students were dismissed from the band, Ammons wrote.",
"No reason was given.",
"Florida Gov.",
"Rick Scott called Thursday for a review of state universities' hazing and harassment policies.",
"\"Hazing should be strictly condemned on our college and university campuses and by any organization associated directly or indirectly with our institutions,\" Scott said in a letter to the chancellor of the state university system.",
"He asked Chancellor Frank Brogan to request that the state's 11 university presidents to \"remind students, faculty and staff of these policies and procedures and how potentially detrimental hazing can be.\"",
"No cause of death has been released.",
"Champion's family has said it plans to sue the school \"to get answers.\"",
"Speakers at Champion's funeral in Decatur, Georgia, described him Wednesday as a kind person and a leader dedicated to achieving his goals.",
"\"Robert gave us his all every time that he took the field. ...",
"Whenever Robert heard the sound of the drum, his knees raised, his toes pointed and he was on a mission to make the FAMU community proud,\" said White, who began leading the 420-member FAMU band in 1998.",
"Ammons moved to fire White shortly after Champion's death, citing \"alleged misconduct and/or incompetence involving confirmed reports and allegations of hazing with the Department of Music and the 'Marching 100.'\"",
"White, who has hired an attorney to fight for his job, said he has zero tolerance for hazing, which he described as a national problem.",
"\"This is a problem that we are going to have to address as a nation if we are going to save the youth of America,\" he said.",
"Under Florida law, any death that occurs as the result of hazing is a third-degree felony.",
"After the death, Ammons suspended all band performances and said he would convene a task force \"to determine if there are any unauthorized and questionable activities associated with the culture of the Marching 100.\""
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"On 911 tape, a hectic and confused scene plays out as Champion lies unresponsive .",
"Authorities have not specified what caused the 26-year-old drum major's death ."
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"(CNN) -- A U.S. Army general Wednesday approved a possible death penalty in the future military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the American Muslim accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.",
"Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell, the Fort Hood commander, formally announced that the charges against Hasan will be tried as capital offenses in a general court-martial.",
"His decision means that if a panel of military officers finds Hasan guilty, they can consider the death penalty as a possible sentence.",
"Campbell's decision moves the case forward and also eliminates the possibility that Hasan, a psychiatrist, could enter a guilty plea and prevent a costly and lengthy trial.",
"A court-martial could be months away.",
"\"After a referral of a case to trial by court-martial, a military judge will receive the case and at some future date, set a schedule,\" said a statement from Fort Hood on Wednesday.",
"\"The first likely matter for a military judge to schedule in this court-martial is the arraignment of Hasan.",
"No military judge has been named to this case at this time.\"",
"A capital court-martial is highly unusual.",
"The last military execution in the United States took place in 1961.",
"Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in November 2009.",
"Witnesses at a preliminary hearing identified him as the man who calmly walked through a medical building on the country's largest military base, shooting and frequently reloading his handgun as he shouted \"Allah Akbar,\" which means \"God is great\" in Arabic.",
"Hasan's government-appointed defense lawyer, John Galligan, had urged the military against allowing the death penalty as a possible sentence in a trial.",
"Galligan met behind closed doors with Army officials in mid-May to argue that the case should not have the possibility of the death penalty, and described his meeting with Campbell as very cordial.",
"\"The law accepts life without the opportunity of parole as an appropriate punishment for murder,\" Galligan said.",
"\"We had an opportunity to make our compelling argument that the (Hasan) case should be referred noncapital.\"",
"Galligan was at the jail Wednesday morning, meeting his client, when the prosecution delivered papers to him informing him that the court-martial would proceed with a possible death penalty.",
"The defense attorney said he was not properly informed in advance and was not provided with the necessary documents by the prosecution.",
"\"It is a sad, sad day to see how they are proceeding,\" Galligan told CNN by telephone.",
"\"They continue to use these tactics that are a denigration of the defendant's right to due process.\"",
"Galligan has previously said that a noncapital trial for his client would be quicker and cheaper.",
"And he repeatedly has complained that he and his client have been denied full details of what U.S. intelligence agencies knew about Hasan's contacts with overseas terrorists, including Anwar al-Alwaki, an American-born cleric now believed to be in Yemen and to be the target of American drone attacks.",
"Hasan, who is partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair after being shot by police responding to the rampage, is being held in a county jail near Fort Hood.",
"Last week, the Obama administration's top anti-terrorism official pointed to the Fort Hood killings as an example of how extremists overseas were inspiring or assisting violent attacks inside the United States.",
"\"It is al Qaeda's adherents -- individuals, sometimes with little or no direct physical contact with al Qaeda, who have succumbed to its hateful ideology and who have engaged in, or facilitated, terrorist activities here in the United States,\" John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said in a speech in Washington on June 29.",
"\"These misguided individuals are spurred on by the likes of al Qaeda's Adam Gadahn and Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, who speak English and preach violence in slick videos over the Internet,\" Brennan said.",
"\"And we have seen the tragic results, with the murder of a military recruiter in Arkansas two years ago and the attack on our servicemen and women at Fort Hood.\"",
"Brennan said the shootings at Fort Hood and the attempted bombing of an airliner in December 2009 had prompted new vigilance by U.S. intelligence.",
"\"Following the attack at Fort Hood and the failed attack over Detroit, we've improved the analytic process, created new groups to track threat information, and enhanced cooperation among our intelligence agencies, including better information sharing so that all threats are acted upon quickly.\"",
"An investigation by two senior U.S. senators called Hasan \"a ticking time bomb\" and faulted both the military and federal agents for not raising the alarm sooner about his links to overseas terrorists and possible violence.",
"\"Although neither the Department of Defense nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time, place, or nature of the attack, they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it,\" that report said .",
"The Army admitted problems with how it had evaluated and promoted Hasan and disciplined nine officers for \"administrative and leadership failures\" in not spreading the alarm about Hasan before the attacks."
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"Doula, Cameroon (CNN) -- Gunmen opposed to Cameroon's long-time leader traded fire with police for hours Thursday in the nation's largest city, Doula.",
"Eyewitnesses told CNN the gunmen, wearing military uniforms, blocked the busy Wouri Bridge brandishing signs reading \"Biya Must Go\" and \"We Want The Dictator Out.\"",
"President Paul Biya has been in power in the West African nation for nearly 30 years.",
"His decision to seek another seven-year term in the October 9 election has sparked unrest, and observers have warned that his expected victory might bring post-election violence.",
"The state media, CRTV, reported that five gunmen had been captured and no civilian had been injured.",
"One of the gun men plunged into the river, it said.",
"His fate was unclear.",
"There is a heavy presence of the military in the strategic Wouri area.",
"The 5,900-foot-long bridge carries both road and rail traffic and is estimated to be used by nearly 40,000 people a day.",
"\"This is a warning for the campaigners for Mr. Biya.",
"They must accept what is right or go with the wind of change,\" Collins Ntar, a fruit seller, told CNN.",
"An angry youth who would not give his name told CNN, \"We are not happy with the Biya regime and we want him out by all costs.\"",
"With the expected unrest, popular marches have been banned in key parts of the country, including the Northwest and Littoral regions.",
"Campaigns have officially kicked off in all regions, though at a snail's pace.",
"The 22 opposition candidates to challenge Biya say there is a slow disbursement of money from the government to fund their campaign rallies.",
"In 2008, Biya erased term limits from the constitution.",
"That move, coupled with rocketing food prices, fueled anti-government riots that human rights groups, cited by the U.S. State Department, say killed approximately 100 people.",
"The government of Cameroon put the number of deaths at 40."
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"The violence comes days before a presidential election .",
"Unrest was expected after President Biya, in office nearly 30 years, opted to seek another term ."
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"Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- After weeks of demonstrations in the state capital, Wisconsin Republicans cleared a final hurdle to a controversial proposal on Thursday after the state's Assembly passed an amended version of a bill that would curtail the bargaining rights of most state workers.",
"The vote was 53-42 in favor of the bill.",
"\"I applaud all members of the Assembly for showing up, debating the legislation and participating in democracy,\" Gov.",
"Scott Walker said in a written statement.",
"State Senate Republicans had approved the amended version Wednesday night, despite the absence of 14 Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a necessary quorum of 20 votes.",
"The amended bill stripped the spending components out of the original proposal, enabling lawmakers to pass the measure with fewer votes.",
"Cries of \"Shame, Shame, Shame!\"",
"filled the Capitol building following Thursday's vote.",
"The bill will soon be delivered to Walker's desk, who is expected to sign the bill into law.",
"Meanwhile, at least one Senate Democrat said he has returned to his home state after spending weeks in Illinois in an effort to prevent the bill's passage.",
"Sen. Jim Holperin said the remaining 13 absentee Democrats will be returning individually between Thursday and Saturday.",
"But Democrat Sen. Kathleen Vinehout quickly disputed that assertion, claiming absentee lawmakers have remained in Illinois.",
"She added that she did not know where Holperin was.",
"The weeks-long standoff reached a fever pitch Thursday after a spokesman for Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said the leader received two death threats, which detailed the ways in which the writer claimed Fitzgerald would be killed.",
"Both threats were e-mailed from the same address, said the majority leader's spokesman, Andrew Welhouse.",
"Meanwhile, throngs of protesters demonstrated outside the Capitol building, which police had earlier closed, forcibly removing those inside who refused to leave.",
"The police later reopened one entrance.",
"\"These arrogant actions are what I had a nightmare about last night,\" said Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, a Democrat, who called the lockout an \"outrage.\"",
"The Assembly had convened Thursday afternoon to vote on the revised measure, which was left only with provisions taking away collective bargaining powers and increasing health insurance and pension fund contributions.",
"Placard-wielding demonstrators had blocked the building's entrances, chanting \"Let us in!\"",
"as police struggled to keep order.",
"But shortly before noon, lawmakers were able to access the building through the one open entrance.",
"The governor has defended the proposal as an integral measure that allows Wisconsin to avoid property tax hikes and public employee layoffs in an effort to balance the budget.",
"\"It's about giving local government the tools they need to make reforms,\" he told reporters, saying it's part of an effort to address the state's impending $3.6 billion deficit.",
"While the proposal has a fiscal impact, he said, the new version of the bill does not have an appropriations component -- something that allowed Senate Republicans to approve the measure, despite the absence of Democratic senators.",
"Fourteen Democratic senators fled the state in mid-February to prevent the 20 votes necessary for a quorum on spending bills.",
"\"The dirty trick is what those Democrats have played for the last three weeks,\" Walker said to critics' claims that the Senate had pulled a fast one.",
"Senate Democrats have called the bill an attack on the negotiating rights of state employees.",
"Barca filed a complaint with the Dane County District Attorney's office, claiming Wednesday night's committee hearing on the collective bargaining bill violated Wisconsin's Open Meetings Law.",
"\"The state Senate and the state Assembly violated Wisconsin's very strict Open Meetings Law, by failing to give proper notice of their intended activities,\" said Lester Pines, an attorney for a teachers' union called Madison Teachers Incorporated.",
"\"When you act in violation of the law to pass a bill, the bill itself is void.\"",
"Nearly 200 protesters refused to leave the Capitol after the Senate vote, sleeping on the floor of the rotunda and in front of the Assembly doors.",
"Capitol police had initially allowed the protesters to stay despite a court order that prohibits people from remaining inside the building at night.",
"\"The Senate Democrats have had three weeks to debate this bill and were offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused,\" Walker said in an earlier statement on the vote.",
"\"In order to move the state forward, I applaud the Legislature's action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government.\"",
"But the move drew howls of outrage from outside the chamber, where pro-union demonstrators again chanted \"shame\" and \"you lied to Wisconsin\" as the bill passed.",
"Thousands more began to converge on the building, and a chorus of horns from passing cars echoed in the streets around the Capitol after the vote.",
"James Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said officers with the Madison police department and Dane County sheriff's deputies had been placed on alert ahead of Thursday's protests.",
"Walker and GOP lawmakers are trying to close a $137 million budget shortfall with a plan that calls for curbs on public employee union bargaining rights and requires public workers, with the exception of police and firefighters, to cover more of their retirement plans and health care premiums.",
"Public employee unions agreed to financial concessions that they say will help meet the state's fiscal needs, but Walker has said the limits on public bargaining are a critical component of his plan.",
"Raises would be capped to the rate of inflation, unless state voters approve.",
"The legislation also would require unions to hold a new certification vote every year, and unions would no longer be allowed to collect dues from workers' paychecks.",
"Unions mobilized their supporters to oppose the bill, drawing tens of thousands of workers to rallies opposing Walker and supporting the fugitive Democrats.",
"Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the state AFL-CIO, said Wednesday night's maneuver \"shows that Scott Walker and the Republicans have been lying throughout this entire process.\"",
"\"None of the provisions that attacked workers' rights had anything to do with the budget,\" Neuenfeldt said.",
"But the Tea Party Express praised the developments, saying Walker was \"holding strong\" to his principles.",
"\"Under tremendous pressure from union bosses, who have become irrelevant other than in their unquenchable thirst for power, Gov.",
"Walker held fast and did what was best for the people of Wisconsin,\" a statement from the political action committee said.",
"The vote in the Senate on the amended measure was 18-1, with Republican state Sen. Dale Schultz -- who earlier had floated a compromise that neither side bought into -- the lone opponent.",
"Sen. Mark Miller, the Democratic Senate leader, said Republicans \"conspired to take government away from the people.\"",
"\"In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin,\" Miller said in a statement condemning the vote.",
"\"Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten.\"",
"CNN's Matt Cherry contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Democratic Sen. Jim Holperin said he has returned to Wisconsin .",
"NEW: Holperin said the remaining 13 absentee Democrats will be returning individually .",
"NEW: Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has received death threats ."
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"(CNN) -- A serving Egyptian police officer describes firing tear gas into crowds of protesters trying to reach Tahrir Square during the country's revolution in January.",
"\"I just had a job to do,\" he says. \"I had my orders, a mission.\"",
"Another describes himself and fellow Central Security officers as \"bogeymen.\"",
"\"We suppressed people and made them feel terrorized,\" he admits.",
"\"But if I didn't do it, someone else would do it in my place.\"",
"These rarely-heard voices from Egypt's revolution appear in a documentary film called \"Tahrir 2011: The Good, The Bad and The Politician,\" which has made waves at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals.",
"At its first ever screening, in Venice, the film won the C.I.C.T.",
"UNESCO \"Enrico Fulchignoni\" Award.",
"A review in Hollywood Reporter: \"Shot from the demonstrators' viewpoint, the first part of 'Tahrir 2011, The Good, the Bad and the Politician' captures the passion and excitement of the sit-ins in Cairo's Tahrir Square far better than Western TV cameras.\"",
"Egyptian elections to start Nov. 28 .",
"The film is divided into three sections by three different Egyptian directors, Tamer Ezzat, Ayten Amin and Amr Salama.",
"\"The Good\" covers stories of the protesters, \"The Bad\" is interviews with police officers and \"The Politician\" gives a light-hearted \"10 steps to becoming a dictator\" based on interviews with allies and opponents of former president Hosni Mubarak.",
"The police were often feared during Mubarak's time in power and some were accused of excessive violence in their attempts to suppress the revolution.",
"The government announced in July that it was firing hundreds of high-ranking police officers, including 27 accused of killing demonstrators during the revolt.",
"A police officer accused of killing 20 protesters during a January 28 demonstration has been sentenced to death.",
"Amin, who directed the section on the police officers, said: \"I met up with 12 officers and the one thing they all had in common was they were shaky and kept changing their minds about doing interviews.",
"\"This was a few weeks after the events and they were being attacked everywhere.",
"Some of them agreed to do it and on the morning of the interview I would get a message saying they couldn't do it.\"",
"Amin, 32, finally secured interviews with three serving officers and one retired officer.",
"Some were filmed anonymously, while others gave their names.",
"She said: \"All the officers had the idea they were protecting their country.",
"That's what they were educated to believe.",
"\"Some of them believed what they were doing was wrong, but that they had to follow orders.",
"\"Out of six-hour interviews, the last 30 minutes was usually the most important because they finally became honest at the end.",
"At the beginning they were just saying the things we knew from TV.\"",
"Egypt's banned graphic novel to be published in English .",
"For his section on \"The Good,\" Ezzat, 40, made use of footage supplied by members of the public to a hastily erected \"media center\" in Tahrir Square during the revolution.",
"Ezzat said: \"By the end of the 18 days there was a wealth of material from the protestors themselves of the action.",
"\"I tracked down some of the characters shown and took them back to the location of the events.",
"\"I thought geography was very important to the story.",
"Every character in my film reached the square by a different route and has a different story.\"",
"His characters included an upper-middle-class girl who had never been involved in activism before but witnessed the death of a protester next to her, a Muslim Brotherhood member, a doctor who helped set up a field hospital, and photographer who gave up his dream of a scholarship in Denmark to return to Egypt and document the revolution.",
"Ezzat said: \"There was an endless number of interesting stories to tell.",
"I wished my piece could have been much longer.",
"I wanted to show the diversity of the participants.\"",
"The final section \"The Politician,\" by Salama, uses interviews with opposition politicians such as Mohamed ElBaradei and author Alaa Al Aswany to delve into the psyche of Mubarak.",
"The directors all used their own experiences in their films.",
"Egyptian film shines light on sexual harassment .",
"Amin said: \"January 25 was the first time I had ever been to a protest.",
"I hadn't intended to go, but a friend called me and told me I should come.",
"\"I live near Tahrir Square, so I walked there.",
"During that first day there were 45,000 people and I had never seen crowds like that.",
"\"After midnight, the police began to attack.",
"We were running everywhere and some of my friends were arrested.",
"\"I saw a police officer beating a guy.",
"I couldn't believe all the violence.",
"I think that's the reason I wanted to make the film.\"",
"She added: \"I told one ex-officer that I was there and they were very violent.",
"He told me at the time they didn't see the protesters as people.\"",
"Ezzat said: \"During the 18 days, I forgot that I was a filmmaker because I was very emotionally involved as an Egyptian.",
"At the end of the 18 days I remembered that I was a filmmaker.\""
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"Three sections cover interviews with protesters, police officers and people close to Hosni Mubarak .",
"Many police officers, some still serving, changed their minds just before filming started .",
"The police were often feared during Mubarak's time in power ."
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"(Health.com) -- Your racial and ethnic background can shape many aspects of your life: the type of food you eat, where you live, and your political views.",
"Now a new survey suggests that how you sleep and what you do before you hit the hay -- whether it's watch TV, pray, or have sex -- varies by ethnic group as well.",
"In the survey, the first of its kind, a representative sample of more than 1,000 whites, African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics ages 25 to 60 were asked about their sleep and bedtime routines.",
"While their answers revealed plenty of differences between groups, they also showed that we have something in common: Most of us aren't sleeping well.",
"In each group, roughly six out of 10 people reported that they don't get a good night's sleep every night or almost every night, according to the survey, which was conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. \"A significant proportion of all ethnic groups are experiencing sleepiness that impacts their day to day living,\" says Thomas J.Balkin, Ph.D., chairman of the National Sleep Foundation.",
"\"Sleepiness impacts every aspect of our lives, so for those people who are not getting a good night's sleep, getting better sleep will make you sharper in the boardroom, give you a better quality of life, and [make] the sun seem a whole lot brighter.\"",
"Across the board, a lack of sleep appears to be affecting people's lives and relationships.",
"Roughly one in four people in each ethnic group said that they missed work or a family function because they were too sleepy, and a similar proportion said they were too exhausted to have sex on a regular basis.",
"Health.com: Eight natural remedies that may help you sleep .",
"The survey results offered a peek inside the bedrooms of Americans, and how we spend our time before drifting off.",
"For instance, 75 percent of African Americans reported watching television routinely in the hour before going to bed, compared with 64 percent of whites.",
"Only 52 percent of Asians said they watched TV before bed almost every night, but they were far more likely to use a computer or surf the Web before bed; more than half said they did so almost every night, compared with about 20 percent in the other groups.",
"Sexual activity also varied among the groups.",
"Ten percent of African Americans and Hispanics reported having sex almost every night, compared with 4 percent of whites and 1 percent of Asians.",
"African Americans, meanwhile, were far more likely than other groups to pray before bedtime almost every night of the week.",
"Who -- or what -- Americans sleep with also appears to vary by ethnicity.",
"Nine out of 10 whites who are married or \"partnered\" sleep with their significant others, a slightly higher rate than that among African Americans.",
"But three-quarters and two-thirds of Hispanics and Asians, respectively, said that they don't sleep with their partner.",
"Those groups, however, were more likely to share a bedroom with their children.",
"\"Asians tend to sleep with children in their beds and that could have an impact on sleep quality because anything that disrupts sleep like a dog or kid in the bed can negatively impact sleep and the restorative value of that sleep,\" Balkin says.",
"Whites were more likely to sleep with their pets than other ethnic groups, the poll showed.",
"Although each group reported getting between six and seven hours of sleep on the average weekday (or other workday), the amount of sleep did vary significantly.",
"African Americans got the least (about 6.25 hours), and whites got the most (just under seven hours).",
"With numbers like these, it's not surprising that relatively few of the survey respondents reported consistently getting a good night's sleep.",
"\"Most people require seven to nine hours of sleep to feel rested,\" says Balkin.",
"\"The first step is to become aware of the problem, and then make more time for sleep and engage in practices that promote good, healthy sleep.\"",
"According to Balkin, good sleep hygiene includes going to bed and waking up at the same time each day (ideally without an alarm clock); using the bedroom only for sleep and sex; abstaining from nicotine, caffeine, or alcohol after 2 p.m.; and avoiding stressful tasks right before bed.",
"Health.com: What's keeping you awake at night?",
"\"If you try all these tips and are still not getting enough sleep or are still sleepy, you may have a problem that requires a greater level of intervention, such as medication or light therapy, which can help re-train or reset your body's internal clock,\" he adds.",
"The rate of diagnosed sleep disorders differs among the groups, the survey found.",
"Whites were more likely to have been diagnosed with insomnia, while African Americans were more likely to have sleep apnea, a breathing problem that causes people to wake up frequently.",
"What else is keeping us awake at night?",
"Roughly 20 percent of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics said that financial problems were causing them to lose sleep at night, compared to just 9 percent of Asians.",
"More so than other groups, Hispanics also worried about health-related concerns.",
"Priyanka Yadav, D.O., a sleep medicine specialist at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey, says that the survey's findings suggest that she and other experts in the field need to tailor their treatment to different ethnicities.",
"While Asians reported the fewest sleep problems and were among the least likely to use sleeping aids (such as medication), for instance, they were also least likely to bring up sleep problems with their doctors.",
"\"Now that I know this, if I had an Asian patient, I would ask them about their sleep to get the dialogue started,\" says Yadav.",
"\"It is really important to realize how ethnicities view sleep, so we can better target our treatment recommendations,\" she adds.",
"In the end, the racial and ethnic differences in the survey may be less important than the fact that so many people struggle to get a good night's, suggests Mark W. Mahowald, M.D., the director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center.",
"\"There are ethnic and cultural differences and socioeconomic factors that play a role in how much sleep everyone gets, but a significant percent of the adult population is sleep deprived,\" he says.",
"\"The main consequence of this is impaired performance in the workplace, in the classroom, and behind the wheel, followed by irritability.\"",
"People with busy schedules often cut back on sleep to make time for other things, Mahowald adds.",
"But, he says, \"Sleep is non-negotiable and is as important as diet and exercise to our overall well-being.\"",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"(Financial Times) -- Prime minister Manmohan Singh faces a growing political storm over how to measure poverty in India amid fears that new benchmarks proposed by a powerful policymaking body could see many of the country's poor lose their welfare benefits.",
"The poverty line estimates in India, traditionally worked out by calorie intake, are highly sensitive because as many as 400m Indians live on less than $2 a day.",
"Those below the poverty line are entitled to subsidised food and other welfare payments.",
"But new benchmarks by the Planning Commission, submitted in an affidavit to the Supreme Court as part of new food security legislation, suggest that a person living on more than Rs32 ($0.64) a day in urban areas, like New Delhi and Mumbai, would no longer be classified as being below the poverty line.",
"The threshold for rural areas would be Rs26 a day.",
"By comparison, the World Bank's poverty line is $1.25 a day.",
"India is now home to more poor people than the entire sub-Saharan Africa region.",
"Two years ago, a government appointed commission estimated that one in three Indians live below the poverty line.",
"The commission's estimate was higher than an earlier Planning Commission estimate of 28 per cent of the population.",
"But Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the respected economist who is now the Planning Commission's deputy chairman, has argued that up-to-date data will show that India has made considerable progress in reducing poverty levels.",
"The proposed new benchmarks have angered leaders across India's political spectrum.",
"They have also opened India's two most respected government economists -- Mr Singh and Mr Ahluwalia -- up to criticism that they are out of touch with the poor in India, who are struggling with the highest inflation of any large emerging market .",
"Yashwant Sinha, a former finance minister and Bharatiya Janata party leader, lambasted poverty threshold estimates put forward by the Planning Commission as \"laughable\".",
"Mr Sinha derided the body's calculations as having exposed Mr Singh, who cuts an increasingly solitary figure in his cabinet after a year battling high profile scandals, as insensitive to what was \"a matter of life and death\" for many people and the cause of violence across India.",
"\"Neither the prime minister nor the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission has any real idea of poverty.",
"They rarely go to the villages and interact with the poor,\" Mr Sinha said.",
"The benchmarks have also divided the Planning Commission itself.",
"A senior member of the commission told the Financial Times that the poverty line figures should not have been included in the affidavit.",
"He said the government had to do better on how it communicated economic policy to the country's 1.2bn people.",
"\"I wouldn't have put these numbers in,\" he said.",
"\"You can't [as an economic planner in India] get on your high horse of economic rationalism.\"",
"Senior Congress party ministers have also raised objections.",
"Jairam Ramesh, the minister for rural development and a close ally of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, has written to Mr Ahluwalia asking him to consider alternative measurements and warning of possible confrontation.",
"A.K. Shivakumar, a member of the National Advisory Council chaired by Mrs Gandhi, said Rs32 a day went nowhere in India's fast-growing cities where rents are high and food inflation in double digits.",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2011 ."
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"Indian prime minister faces a growing political storm over how to measure poverty .",
"Proposed policy changes may lead to many of India's poor losing their benefits .",
"India is home to more poor people than the entire sub-Saharan Africa region ."
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"(WIRED) -- In an effort to streamline and simplify the maturity ratings of software in mobile app stores, CTIA, the international wireless industry association, yesterday proposed a ratings system that store owners could voluntarily adopt.",
"Google and Apple basically told the CTIA to stuff it -- they're sticking with their own rating schemes.",
"\"We've put a lot of effort into Android Market's rating system, which now works well globally,\" Google spokesman Christopher Katsaros said in a statement.",
"\"While we support other systems, we think it's best for Android users and developers to stick with Android's existing ratings.\"",
"Apple, too, has outlined its app review guidelines in extensive detail, but has not publicly commented on the CTIA app rating issue.",
"In the Android Market, Google assigns content ratings that range from \"Everyone\" to \"Low Maturity\" to \"High Maturity,\" but provides no details on the specific content that inspired its ratings.",
"However, outlines for the ratings are provided in Google's Android Market support forum.",
"In its App Store, Apple provides an age rating ranging from 4+ to 17+, and lists the reasons for assigning its maturity rating.",
"For instance Plants vs Zombies received a 9+ rating for Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes and Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence.",
"The CTIA's guidelines aim to score smartphone and tablet apps on a five-point scale based on their violence and sexual content.",
"The ratings, which would be controlled by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (which also controls computer and videogame maturity ratings) would range from \"Everyone\" to \"Adults Only.\"",
"Apple's App Store alone has more than half a million apps and Android is getting close to that number with at least 300,000.",
"CTIA announced it would be developing its app rating system in March.",
"The initiative would call for \"voluntary self-certification of apps.\"",
"The system would make it easier for parents to see -- regardless of mobile platform -- if an app was appropriate for their child.",
"The mobile application rating system was officially announced on Tuesday.",
"AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular and Microsoft are the founding bodies of the age-appropriateness rating system.",
"It works like this: App developers answer an online questionnaire about their app's content, including whether it shares location information, has a social networking component, and if it contains violence or sexual content, among other things.",
"Apps would receive their rating almost instantaneously, and if a developer disagreed with the assigned rating, it could appeal it.",
"The ESRB would regularly test popular applications and monitor complaints.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"CTIA proposes an app rating system to streamline maturity ratings .",
"Google spokesman says Android will stick with the market's current rating system .",
"In its App Store, Apple provides an age rating ranging from 4+ to 17+ ."
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"(CNN) -- Books, movies, magazines and newspapers repeatedly refer to addiction, usually concerning drugs or alcohol.",
"It is only recently, in the modern realm of celebrity addictions that the public discourse has added sex to the list of potential afflictions (see: Tiger Woods, David Duchovny) and the general public is still rather slow on acceptance.",
"How can something as fun as sex be an addiction, you ask?",
"The answer is, any addiction is potentially destructive, turning something enjoyable, like a pint of beer or an intimate evening into something entirely different.",
"Feeling compelled can take the joy out of anything.",
"\"Shame,\" the excellent and profoundly disturbing sophomore film (following 2008's highly-regarded \"Hunger\") from English director Steve McQueen, is basically a character study of two damaged souls and their relationships both with each other and the world around them.",
"It's a penetrating and deeply unsettling look at addiction, obsession and self-destruction.",
"Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is an upwardly-mobile, thirtysomething New Yorker who just happens to spend every waking moment that he's not otherwise occupied with work, engaged in some sort of sexual activity.",
"Pornography, escorts, random encounters, group sex, masturbation ... all are fair game.",
"He is an addict by any definition of the word and lest you consider sex addiction as a comparatively harmless addiction compared with, say, drugs or alcohol, think again.",
"It's as if he's constantly in pain and sex is the only way to stop the agony, to shut his emotional life away in a box.",
"It's routine self-numbing, and however charming or chatty Brandon may be in public, it's all just a means to an end -- the search for sexual release.",
"Maintaining a tenuous balancing act between his work life and his life as an addict, Brandon is thrown off the rails by a visit from his equally but differently damaged younger sister, Sissy (Carey Mulligan).",
"The two have a past. Something has happened in their childhood that has shaped their lives and their relationship and each has dealt with it in a different way.",
"While we might be able to read into their behavior somewhat, we are largely left to imagine what that past might contain.",
"While Brandon has buried his emotions in sexual release, Sissy is the opposite and wears hers on her sleeve, along with scars from a past of cutting and perhaps, suicide attempts.",
"She is all externalized emotions, a gadabout to Brandon's stoic.",
"She's a nightclub performer and extrovert, the exact opposite of her brother's bottled-up persona, and her visit upsets his apple cart completely.",
"In this oil-and-water sibling relationship, all he wants is for her to take life seriously and exhibit some responsibility, while she's trying to get him to loosen up and have some fun.",
"It seems as though neither is capable of doing what the other wants and both are eminently self-destructive.",
"He is used to his solo sex life: He has an extensive porn collection, uses escorts frequently and visits Internet sex sites, all of which are interrupted by Sissy's visit.",
"She has no idea of his addiction and when she stumbles onto it, things go pear-shaped, but fast.",
"Fassbender's performance is not entirely unlike the one he gives in David Cronenberg's \"A Dangerous Method\" in that much of his character's emotional life goes on beneath the surface.",
"However, in \"Shame\" it's reversed.",
"While his portrayal of Carl Jung in the Cronenberg film came alive when he was with Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), Brandon shuts down when he's in sexual situations and the only person who can coax an emotion out of him is Sissy -- and that emotion usually is anger.",
"Sissy, on the other hand, is just looking for some love, caring and protection from her big brother.",
"It's clear the two don't see each other very often, otherwise she'd know that Brandon is the last person to go to for those things and the last to understand what she needs.",
"Carey Mulligan more than holds her own against yet another impressive 2011 performance from Fassbender, giving one of the best female performances in a year rife with them.",
"A decent shot at a best supporting actress Oscar nomination, her Sissy is an open wound, raw and emotionally unguarded and working without a safety net.",
"For his part, Fassbender inhabits Brandon like a less-homicidal version of Patrick Bateman (\"American Psycho\").",
"Cool, calm and collected, his emotions buried ... until they aren't and they leap out of him in a torrent.",
"Like any addict, he's forever searching for something to soothe his pain.",
"The third major character in \"Shame\" is New York City, and McQueen shows its cold, bleak and rather lonely side.",
"If you've lived there for any length of time, you ought to understand: For such a large and vibrant city, it can make you feel like you're the last person on earth.",
"McQueen uses the subways and dark, outer borough streets, bars and clubs to great effect, leaving most of the city (and most of its occupants) outside a tight frame and out of focus.",
"No sweeping, glorious views of the skyline, but rather tight shots of Brandon on the subway or in a club.",
"Even many of the sex scenes are shot as a collection of limbs and faces and breasts and other various body parts so you often aren't exactly sure where one person ends and another begins.",
"As for said sex scenes, they are anything but sexy.",
"By the time the most graphic of Brandon's encounters occurs, arousal doesn't even enter the mind.",
"Much how \"Leaving Las Vegas\" was unlikely to cause most people to reach for a vodka on the rocks, \"Shame\" is not going to be the cause for much late-night pillow talk.",
"On the other hand, it may just make you reach for that drink.",
"\"Shame\" is rated NC-17 (no one under 17 admitted).",
"There's a lot of graphic sex, all sorts of nudity and the subject matter is pretty damn dark."
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"\"Shame\" is a penetrating, deeply unsettling look at addiction and obsession .",
"Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is constantly in pain; sex is the only relief .",
"He is thrown off the rails by a visit from his equally but differently damaged sister ."
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"(CNN) -- What would you ask the cast of \"Harry Potter\" if you had the chance?",
"You asked Daniel Radcliffe which literary characters he draws on for his portrayal of Harry Potter.",
"That was the question we posed to you on CNN's iReport ahead of the highly anticipated sixth installment in the series, \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.\"",
"We asked you to record a video of your questions for Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and director David Yates and upload them to iReport.",
"Here's a selection of the best questions, which we put to cast members: What questions would you have put to the cast of \"Harry Potter?\"",
"Jenna Bergstraesser, 17, Rhinebeck, New York asked Tom Felton, \"What steps did you take to prepare yourself for Draco's increased role in 'The Half-Blood Prince'?\"",
"Allie Holoman, 23, Washington DC posed the following question for Daniel Radcliffe: \"I've heard that you like to read and I was wondering if there are any other characters that you draw on when working on your performance as Harry Potter?\"",
"Watch the 'Harry Potter' cast exclusively answer CNN iReporters' questions » .",
"Lindsey Breitzman, 23, Madison, Mississippi wanted to know, \"When you are filming a movie, it doesn't necessarily go in sequence, so how do you keep yourself in the right mindset as the character in order to keep the continuity of the film?\"",
"Dilan Mian, nine years old, from Toronto, Ontario asked David Yates, \"How were you able to make the magnificent creatures that are in the 'Harry Potter' films?\"",
"Freya Bailey-Barker, 15, from Brighton, England left the following video question for Emma Watson: \"What was your favourite scene to film in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'?\"",
"Watch the video to hear David Yates and the cast's exclusive responses to CNN iReporters."
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"'Harry Potter' cast members answer CNN iReporters' questions .",
"iReporters posed video questions for Daniel Radcliffe and others ahead of new film .",
"Emma Watson on her favorite scene in new film \"The Half-Blood Prince\"\nDirector David Yates on how they create 'Harry Potter's\" magical creatures ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- The next phase of Egypt's complex elections process continues Monday, with runoff races pitting candidates vying to join the lower house of parliament.",
"The two-day vote -- which continues into Tuesday -- comes exactly a week after Egyptians cast ballots for the first time since last February's toppling of long-time President Hosni Mubarak.",
"That vote ended with moderate and more conservative Islamist parties together winning big and earning a majority of seats within the new parliament, called the People's Assembly.",
"Such results appear to mirror recent victories by moderate Islamists in fellow North African nations Morocco and Tunisia.",
"Presidential candidate Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian foreign minister and Arab League secretary-general, told CNN on Sunday that he expected this week's runoff to change the final mix of parties in the legislative chamber.",
"Still, he suggested that already the announced results should serve as a wake-up call to more liberal and sectarian factions within Egypt.",
"\"The ... final results, I believe, will be more balanced,\" predicted Moussa of the upcoming election.",
"\"(Still), this is a message to the liberal forces that they have to come together and ... mobilize themselves in order to create a strong opposition within the parliament.\"",
"Last week, Egyptians could cast three votes: two for independent candidates and one for a party or coalition.",
"Four independent candidates secured seats, including Amr Hamzawy, once a research director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a spokesman of the \"Board of Wise Men\" that worked to foster negotiations between the government and anti-government protesters earlier this year.",
"But other positions in parliament remain in limbo because no candidate won clear majorities, leading to this week's runoff.",
"It's all part of a multi-step process set up that will shape the makeup of Egypt's legislature and government going forward.",
"The last step takes place in June with presidential elections, according to military leaders who have in effect ruled the country since Mubarak's fall.",
"One hot topic that will face the new government is how to handle Egypt's currently peaceful arrangement with Israel.",
"Under Mubarak and his secular government, Egypt and Israel forged agreements that have resulted in peace and economic cooperation between the two nations.",
"But the successes of Islamists in elections, to date, have raised the specter that major changes, and perhaps rising tensions, could be on the horizon.",
"The relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won 40% in the first round of voting for the lower house of parliament, according to Yousri Abdel Kareem, head of the executive office of the Higher Judicial Election Council.",
"The second highest total, at 20%, went to members of the Al Noor Salafi Movement, a hard-line Muslim group.",
"Speaking to his nation's Channel 2 on Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the Egyptian vote results so far \"very troubling.\"",
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added Sunday -- while participating in an annual state memorial service for David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister -- that both countries would be best served by not significantly altering their relationship.",
"\"I hope that whichever government takes power in Egypt would recognize the importance of maintaining the peace agreement with Israel,\" he said.",
"\"There is an importance in recognizing the peace with Israel, both as a value of its own and as a basis for the financial and security stability of the region.\"",
"But Moussa said that change may be inevitable, given that \"the Middle East of last year is ... gone for good.\"",
"He claimed it should be no surprise that a \"new Arab world\" would want a \"new set of relations,\" stressing that Israel will more likely have positive relationships with its neighbors once it ends its \"occupation\" of Palestinian territories.",
"\"The Israelis must sit now and reflect.",
"Egypt is no (longer) the Egypt they knew (and) the other neighbors are not the same and will not be the same,\" Moussa said.",
"\"There is a window of opportunity for all of us to solve the problems and move on in a totally new era, including Israel.\"",
"CNN's Jim Clancy and Guy Azriel and journalist Mohamed Fahmy Fadel contributed to this report."
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"A two-day runoff starts Monday for remaining seats in Egypt's parliament .",
"Islamist parties did very well in the first round of voting, held last week .",
"Israeli leaders call results so far \"troubling,\" say Egypt shouldn't alter its relations .",
"Amr Moussa says it's expected a \"new Arab world\" wants a \"new set of relations\""
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"(CNN) -- The number of people who have driven drunk or drugged is down, a new government survey said Thursday.",
"Still, in an average year, 30 million people drive drunk, according to the survey released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.",
"In addition, 10 million people drive after under the influence of drugs, said the agency, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, .",
"\"13.2 percent of all persons 16 or older drove under the influence of alcohol and 4.3 percent of this age group drove under the influence of illicit drugs in the past year,\" it said.",
"Both figures are a drop from recent years.",
"In the time period of 2002 to 2005, the rate of people driving drunk was 14.6%.",
"Those driving drugged was 4.8% during the same period, the agency said.",
"The survey also provides a state-by-state tally of drunk and drugged driving.",
"Wisconsin topped the list of drunk driving at 23.7%.",
"North Dakota was second with 22.4%, the agency said.",
"The highest rate for drugged driving was in Rhode Island at 7.8% and Vermont at 6.6%.",
"Utah and Mississippi had the lowest rate of drunk driving.",
"Iowa and New Jersey had the lowest rate of drugged driving, the agency found.",
"The agency surveyed more than 400,000 people to get its results."
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"Wisconsin tops of the list of drunk driving, agency says .",
"Rhode Island tops the lists of drugged driving .",
"The agency surveyed more than 400,000 people to get its results ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Half a million copies of a new children's book by President Barack Obama hit the shelves Tuesday.",
"First daughters Sasha and Malia inspired the president to write \"Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,\" publisher Random House said.",
"The publisher describes Obama's latest book as \"a moving tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation -- from the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington.\"",
"The manuscript was completed before Obama took office in 2009, Random House said in a statement released in September.",
"The book \"celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans -- the potential to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths,\" said Chip Gibson, head of the publisher's children's books division.",
"Proceeds from the book, which has a suggested retail price of $17.99, will be donated to the Fisher House Foundation for a scholarship fund for children of fallen and disabled soldiers.",
"The book includes illustrations by artist Loren Long, who also illustrated Madonna's 2003 children's book, \"Mr. Peabody's Apples.\"",
"\"Fisher House Foundation is honored to be chosen as the recipient of the author's proceeds from President Obama's book 'Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,'\" said foundation chairman Ken Fisher.",
"The cover illustration shows Sasha and Malia walking across a green lawn with their pet dog, Bo.",
"Obama also wrote the international best-sellers \"Dreams from My Father\" and \"The Audacity of Hope.\"",
"He isn't the only White House resident to enter the children's book world.",
"In 2008, HarperCollins released \"Read All About It!\"",
"a book penned by former first lady Laura Bush and first daughter Jenna Bush."
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"The book celebrates 13 \"groundbreaking\" Americans .",
"Random House says the manuscript was completed before the president took office .",
"The first run of the book will include 500,000 copies .",
"Proceeds will be donated to the children of fallen and disabled soldiers ."
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"(CNN) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross has been granted access to a detention facility in Syria for the first time since unrest broke out in the country, the committee's president said Monday after meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.",
"ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger called the breakthrough \"an important step forward for our humanitarian activities in Syria.\"",
"Kellenberger's meeting with al-Assad occurred amid mounting reports of bloodshed by Syrian security forces.",
"On Monday, security forces killed six people during an ongoing crackdown in the province of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group.",
"The group also reported a similar offensive in Idlib province, where security forces entered with seven armored vehicles, nine cars and four buses.",
"Seventy people were arrested in the operation, and dozens of homes were raided, the opposition group said.",
"Syria has been engulfed in public protest for months, and the regime has been accused internationally of a crackdown on peaceful demonstrators.",
"The government has maintained it is targeting armed terrorists.",
"But opposition activists say it is a systematic, sustained slaughter.",
"\"Ensuring that the sick and the wounded have access to medical care will be among the particularly urgent humanitarian challenges to be addressed with the Syrian authorities,\" the Red Cross said in a statement.",
"The committee will initially be allowed to see only people detained by the Ministry of Interior, Kellenberger said, adding, \"We are hopeful that we will soon be able to visit all detainees.\"",
"Also Monday, the Arab League announced that its secretary general, Nabil al-Araby, will travel to Damascus on Wednesday.",
"The Arab League last week publicly called for restraint and an end to the violence in Syria.",
"Kellenberger's two-day visit kicked off Sunday with meetings with Prime Minister Adel Safar and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.",
"The Syrian government said it briefed Kellenberger on the regime's efforts to \"restore stability and security to the country.\"",
"Reports have surfaced of people not being able to access medical care during security operations.",
"The foreign minister \"stressed that the public hospitals in Syria are constantly ready and provide the required medical services for all the citizens,\" the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Monday.",
"The news agency added that Muallem \"appreciated the humanitarian activities of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Organization which has played an effective role in providing the humanitarian needs of the citizens during the current crisis.\"",
"Also Monday, Kellenberger discussed with al-Assad \"the rules governing the use of force by security forces ... and the obligation to respect the physical and psychological well-being and human dignity of detainees,\" according to the ICRC.",
"On Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four people were killed in Idlib province and three others were killed in the village of Tahtaiya by security forces pursuing wanted activists.",
"The opposition group also said a resident from Suraqib who was detained for 20 days died in detention after being tortured.",
"It also claimed that at least 15 people were wounded in the city of Homs due to heavy gunfire by security forces.",
"Another opposition activist group, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, said eight were killed in Idlib, four in Hama province, and one each in the provinces of Homs and Damascus.",
"Meanwhile, the Syrian news agency reported that six troops and three civilians were killed near the city of Muhardeh in Hama province.",
"The agency said a \"terrorist group\" ambushed a bus carrying troops and civilians, killing nine and injuring 17.",
"A security patrol pursued the attackers and killed three of them, wounding a fourth and seizing explosives, guns and medical supplies from their stolen pickup, the news agency said.",
"CNN cannot independently confirm either the opposition or government claims.",
"Syria has made it difficult for foreign journalists to work in the country since the unrest started, restricting their entry.",
"Officials do not usually comment on opposition allegations concerning the killing or wounding of protesters.",
"The United Nations has reported more than 2,200 people killed in Syria since February, including more than 350 people since security forces stepped up operations against demonstrators during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.",
"When Kellenberger visited Syrian officials in June, he reached an understanding that would give the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent \"enhanced access to areas of unrest, and negotiations would take place concerning ICRC visits to detainees.\"",
"He aims to \"review progress made in both these areas,\" the ICRC said, including \"an opportunity to discuss the impending start of ICRC visits to persons detained by the Ministry of the Interior.\"",
"The agency \"visits detainees in order to assess the conditions in which they are being held and the treatment they receive,\" it said.",
"This week's visit comes on the heels of an Amnesty International report detailing the deaths of at least 88 people in detention and describing widespread abuse of prisoners.",
"CNN's Yousuf Basil, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Ivan Watson contributed to this report."
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"Red Cross president concludes meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad .",
"The ICRC will be given access to government-held detainees, group's head says .",
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"(CNN) -- This month on Road to Durban, CNN's Robyn Curnow, Nkepile Mabuse and Ayesha Durgahee meet in Johannesburg, South Africa's most populated city, to explore the efforts being made to cut the country's carbon emissions.",
"Electricity from sugar .",
"Nkepile Mabuse discovers how waste from the country's largest sugar producer, Illovo Sugar, is being converted into electricity to power the company's mills and feed the national grid.",
"The unique process of utilizing bagasse (sugar cane fibers) and biomass as an energy source has made the mills into energy providers, as well as sustainable industries.",
"Miners' homes from waste .",
"Mabuse also discovers how waste from a coal mine in Emalahleni is being used to build affordable new homes across South Africa.",
"Gypsum brick -- which is a by-product of the mining process -- can reduce CO2 emissions from the construction of each new house by as much as three tonnes.",
"Greening the deep blue .",
"Ayesha Durgahee travels to Cape Town to find out how an aquarium is harnessing the power of the wind and sun.",
"With an innovative vertical wind turbine and a neat solar array, renewables are helping the Two Oceans Aquarium reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.",
"A renewable vintage .",
"Robyn Curnow travels to the heart of South Africa's wine country to discover how a vineyard is exploiting renewable energy to power its production process.",
"From growing the grapes to bottling the wine, The Villiera Vineyard in Stellenbosch just outside Cape Town, is exploiting both solar and hydroelectric power to produce some of the country's most recognizable wines."
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"November's Road to Durban comes from South Africa .",
"Nkepile Mabuto visits a coal mine helping to build clean and efficient new homes .",
"Ayesha Durgahee discovers an aquarium harnessing the power of the wind and sun ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Jeff Parness still remembers the pain of September 11, 2001, when his friend and business partner, Hagay Shefi, was among the thousands killed in the World Trade Center attacks.",
"But Parness, a native New Yorker, also hasn't forgotten the support that his hometown received from other communities in the immediate aftermath.",
"Many cities -- in the United States and around the world -- sent volunteers and supplies to aid the rescue and recovery effort.",
"\"9/11 changed all of us forever, but 9/12 changed us just as much,\" said Parness, 45.",
"\"That outpouring of kindness and generosity, to me, was more powerful than the terror that happened the day before.\"",
"That spirit of goodwill inspired Parness to create New York Says Thank You, an organization that sends volunteers from New York City to disaster-stricken communities every year -- normally around the 9/11 anniversary.",
"To date, more than 7,000 people have participated in the group's rebuilding projects.",
"Running a nonprofit isn't something that Parness, a former software venture capitalist who lives in Manhattan, ever thought he'd do.",
"He had never been community service-oriented.",
"But a suggestion from his 5-year-old son changed all of that.",
"In November 2003, Parness' son, Evan, saw a news report about wildfires near San Diego.",
"He asked his dad if he could send the children in California some of his toys.",
"Parness suggested that they ask all of the children in their apartment building for donations.",
"Three days later, Parness and two friends were headed to San Diego in a truck half-filled with toys and supplies.",
"Parness put a sign on the truck that read: \"New York Says Thank You.\"",
"\"I wanted to make a bigger statement,\" he said.",
"\"I wanted to let people know that New Yorkers will never forget what people did for us after 9/11.\"",
"As Parness and his buddies made their way to California, people they encountered along the way added donations.",
"By the time they arrived, the truck was full.",
"The whole experience deeply touched Parness, who wanted to turn it into something more.",
"That's when he came up with the idea of helping a different city every year.",
"\"On a day that's about destruction ... let's create an organization that's focused on helping people rebuild,\" he said.",
"\"It's our way to really honor the sense of spirit and volunteerism (of) 9/12.\"",
"Each year, Parness finds a community that has been hit by a disaster and he selects a structure to rebuild there.",
"The projects often hold some significance to the area -- a historic church in Indiana, a veterans' home in Texas, a Boy Scout camp in Iowa.",
"But Parness says that in a way, what's being built really doesn't matter.",
"\"It's not about building structures.",
"It's about building hope,\" he said.",
"\"We want able to touch people who are still recovering from disasters and show them that other people care.\"",
"For the organization's first project in September 2004, Parness brought 14 volunteers from New York City to rebuild homes destroyed by the wildfires outside of San Diego.",
"The next build, in September 2005, was in Utica, Illinois, a city that had been hit by a deadly tornado.",
"Thirty New Yorkers made the trip this time, and they were joined by eight people from California who had received help the previous year.",
"It is this cycle of \"paying it forward\" that is at the heart of New York Says Thank You.",
"It's also part of what gives the group its unique character: Nearly all of its volunteers have survived a disaster of some sort, be it natural or man-made.",
"That shared connection means a lot to firefighter Brian Fitzpatrick, who was at ground zero on 9/11 and lost 10 members of his fire academy class that day.",
"As a volunteer for New York Says Thank You the last four years, he says he is motivated by helping others who've also lived through a tragedy.",
"\"You're there to let them know that ... they're not alone,\" he said.",
"\"It's like a crazy club that you join.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"The organization has helped communities in nine states since 2003, and its web of volunteers now extends across the country.",
"With more volunteers from outside New York than from the city itself, Parness says his group isn't really about New York anymore -- it's about America.",
"Eric Kreippen, a firefighter from Slidell, Louisiana, would agree.",
"He has been a dedicated volunteer since Parness' group came to his community after Hurricane Katrina.",
"He says he's \"addicted\" to the experience, and he brings more people with him every year.",
"\"This past year, I brought 22 people to Arkansas,\" Kreippen said.",
"\"This whole 'paying it forward' thing, it's just contagious.\"",
"Every September, Parness' army of disaster survivors -- usually 200-300 people -- rolls into town for what amounts to an old-fashioned barn-raising.",
"The atmosphere is like a family reunion as volunteers from past projects reunite.",
"The locals \"can't believe that people from Manhattan and Slidell and Indiana and all of these towns are all in their town to help them,\" Kreippen said.",
"\"You get the thanks, and it's 'No, we're here because we went through the same thing!'",
"\" Working side by side, many volunteers form friendships and stay in touch year-round.",
"\"You're banging nails and building something, but it's the relationships that help you heal,\" Fitzpatrick said.",
"Many volunteers discover that the work helps them move forward with their own lives.",
"Megan Manning lost her husband on 9/11, and she has been volunteering with New York Says Thank You since 2007.",
"She said the experiences have completely changed her attitude every time September 11 comes up on the calendar.",
"\"Ever since it started, I wake up on 9/11 and I feel grateful,\" she said.",
"\"That's huge for me.\" It's huge for Parness as well.",
"\"When I started this, I thought it was about building homes and churches that were destroyed, \" Parness said.",
"\"When we went on ... I realized that 50% of value went to the survivors, but 50% went to the volunteers.",
"It's empowering.\" This year, for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Parness is planning to go to Ellijay, Georgia, a small town that was hit by a tornado earlier this month.",
"There, he hopes to rebuild a barn that housed Build An Ark Animal Rescue, a sanctuary that saves and rehabilitates animals.",
"\"We always look for special projects that could benefit a community,\" Parness said.",
"\"This lovely woman, Susan Littlejohn, lived in the barn with 65 animals that she used as therapeutic companions for disabled children and senior citizens.",
"... We couldn't think of a better place to do this year.\"",
"A new documentary about Parness' group, also called New York Says Thank You, will premiere April 28 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.",
"Parness says the film's message is about the power of volunteerism, and he hopes it will inspire people to get involved, in some way, in their community.",
"\"This is about honoring that volunteer spirit,\" he said.",
"\"It shows that nothing is impossible if you can come together.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the New York Says Thank You website at www.newyorksaysthankyou.org and see how to help."
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"Inspired by the help New York got after 9/11, Jeff Parness started a volunteer group .",
"The nonprofit, New York Says Thank You, helps a different community rebuild each year .",
"Its volunteer base keeps growing as more people look to 'pay it forward'\nDo you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"(CNN) -- Federal officials charged 20 people Wednesday in a scheme to recruit illegal immigrants from Russia and Eastern European countries to work as exotic dancers in New York strip clubs, according to Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.",
"Charges against the 20 individuals include racketeering, extortion, visa and marriage fraud, and transporting and harboring illegal immigrants.",
"The accused are alleged to be members of the Gambino and Bonanno organized crime families, according to federal authorities.",
"\"The defendants themselves had one thing in common -- the desire to turn the women they allegedly helped enter this country illegally into their personal profit centers,\"Bharara said.",
"\"Today's arrests have brought an end to their illicit activities.\"",
"Several of the accused are alleged to have run the \"Strip Club Enterprise,\" which controlled a series of strip clubs throughout Queens and Long Island.",
"Through these clubs, the accused are alleged to have recruited Eastern European women to enter the United States on student J1 visas to perform as strippers in their enterprises.",
"Prosecutors also charge the defendants threatened physical violence and economic harm if the owners and operators of New York strip clubs as part of a broad extortion scheme.",
"\"The defendants controlled their business and protected their turf through intimidation and threats of physical and economic harm,\" said James T. Hayes, Jr., special agent in charge with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which led the investigation.",
"\"Today's arrests bring to an end a long-standing criminal enterprise operated by colluding organized crime entities that profited wildly through a combination of extortion and fraud.\"",
"Some of the exotic dancers brought illegally into the United States were also matched with U.S. citizens in fraudulent marriages to resolve their immigrations status, prosecutors said in the indictment.",
"Before dawn on Wednesday, federal agents arrived at Cheetah's Gentlemans Club and Restaurant off Times Square in Manhattan, Gallagher's 2000 in Queens, NY, and seven other New York-area strip clubs and confiscated files and documents.",
"Attorneys for those indicted were not immediately available for comment."
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"Prosecutor: defendants wanted the women to be \"their personal profit centers\"\nCharges include extortion and visa and marriage fraud .",
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"(CNN) -- Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who remains a popular figure in his country, vowed in a video posted on YouTube to beat his recently diagnosed throat cancer.",
"The two-minute personal message was published Tuesday, the same day as Lula was released from the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he underwent his first round of chemotherapy this week.",
"Doctors surgically inserted a port that allows the transfer of medicine straight to the former president's vein.",
"Lula then underwent his first chemotherapy session, which went \"without incident,\" according to the hospital.",
"Doctors have said that they found a tumor located in Lula's larynx.",
"\"I believe I will win this battle.",
"This is not the first time and won't be the last battle I will face.",
"With your solidarity, it's going to be much more peaceful, much easier,\" Lula said in the video, speaking in a raspy voice.",
"The thanked the Brazilian people for their outpouring of support.",
"\"There is no space for pessimism or to feel sorry.",
"If the day does not go well, with a lot of guts we will make it better tomorrow,\" he said.",
"Lula, known for the social programs he implemented at the same time that Brazil's economy soared, was Brazil's most popular president in recent history.",
"His hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff -- a cancer survivor herself -- easily won the presidential election."
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"He had his first chemotherapy this week .",
"He made a video thanking people for their support ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- After a nearly year-long investigation, police say they now believe 10 sets of human remains uncovered along a desolate stretch of Long Island, New York, beach are linked to a single killer.",
"\"The theory is now that we're dealing with one serial killer,\" Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer told CNN affiliate WABC on Tuesday.",
"He noted the killer did not \"necessarily do the same thing all the time.\"",
"\"What's common here is the dumping ground,\" he added.",
"Dormer previously said that only the bodies of four females uncovered in December were thought to be the work of a serial killer or killers.",
"It is not clear what prompted the change.",
"Authorities have sifted through more than 1,000 tips related to the case.",
"But it's unclear whether they have shed any light on an investigation that has drawn state and federal agents and garnered national attention.",
"In June, police upped the ante in their search for a culprit.",
"The reward for information leading to an arrest -- once topping out at $5,000 -- was raised five-fold, making it the largest offered in Suffolk County history.",
"It was an apparent bid to fill out a case that some fear has gone cold.",
"\"We're hoping the increased reward money will encourage somebody to come forward by calling the police in respect to the families and to (the) victims,\" Lt. Robert Donohue said at the time.",
"At least 10 sets of human remains have been found in Nassau and Suffolk counties since December.",
"But the woman whose disappearance triggered the searches, 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert, remains missing.",
"The New Jersey woman was last seen in May 2010 at a private party at a home in Long Island's Oak Beach community.",
"The first four bodies have since been identified.",
"They, like Gilbert, had advertised for prostitution services on websites such as Craigslist.",
"Their remains were found among bushes along a quarter-mile strip of beachfront property, according to police.",
"More human remains were found on March 29 and April 4.",
"Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said in May that the newly found remains were not believed to be connected to the first four victims.",
"In September, authorities released composite sketches of what two unidentified victims might have looked like.",
"Authorities at the time said the evidence suggested two other killers dumped bodies along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach, about 40 miles east of New York City.",
"\"This investigation is not an episode of 'CSI' or 'Criminal Minds' that is going to be solved in a one-hour period,\" Spota said of the serial killer probe.",
"\"Most likely, it ... is going to take a very long period of time to complete.\"",
"Spota was not immediately available for comment Wednesday regarding police statements that the killings are now thought to be the work of a single killer."
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"Police previously thought only the first set of remains could be the work of a killer or killers .",
"The body of the woman who triggered investigation is still missing .",
"The women who were killed advertised prostitution searches on websites ."
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"(CNN) -- Southern California residents and recovery crews continued their cleanup efforts Saturday, two days after powerful winds downed power lines, damaged structures and caused other devastation.",
"\"From what we have been told, this was probably the worst windstorm to hit this particular area in over a decade,\" said Bob Spencer, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.",
"While the weather was good Saturday, with clear skies and high temperatures in the 60s, that didn't mean the headaches were over.",
"Residents still faced the prospect of new wildfires breaking out and spreading -- as evidenced by the red-flag warning in effect through Sunday morning in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.",
"The National Weather Service issued the warning -- which means that conditions are favorable for fire to grow rapidly if it ignites -- through Sunday morning due to gusty northeast winds and low relative humidity.",
"The strong winds that continued to blow Saturday, though, were well short of the hurricane-force gusts measured Thursday and Friday.",
"It was an extreme manifestation of a regional reality: Santa Ana winds, a condition in which strong winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions, according to the National Weather Service.",
"The weather service reported gusts stronger than 140 mph along the Sierra Crest mountain ridge, while there were roughly 100 mph-hour winds in the San Gabriel Mountain Foothills of southern California, said Southern California Edison spokesman Gil Alexander.",
"Widespread damage in southwestern California led Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich to issue a state of emergency \"to ensure that state and federal financial resources are available to serve county residents impacted by the windstorms.\"",
"The effects are still being felt.",
"Southern California Edison, for example, had 77,400 customers still without power as of 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m.",
"ET) on Saturday, said Alexander.",
"And the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported in an online news release that, as of 3 p.m., about 7,000 households in its coverage area still didn't have electricity.",
"Those numbers, while significant, mark a major drop from those reported several days ago.",
"More than 200,000 of the Los Angeles utility's customers didn't have power at one point, while Edison had about 250,000 in the dark, said Alexander.",
"\"Four hours ago, we had over 90,000 customers without power,\" Alexander said early Saturday evening.",
"\"That tells you crews are making progress, rather than responding to more outages.\"",
"Communities along the San Gabriel Mountain foothills, where he lives -- including Monrovia, Sierra Madre and La Canada Flintridge -- suffered especially extensive damage in Edison's territory.",
"Alexander said that the utility had more than 500 personnel out working and urged residents to steer clear of power-lines for their own safety.",
"Los Angeles County also had \"several hundred personnel spanned out across\" the county to deal with fallen trees and clear out debris, said Spencer.",
"That includes 50 county public works personnel alone in the hard-hit city of Pasadena, with the spokesman estimating they would be there for at least a week.",
"One positive, aside from gusty if not likely damaging winds, is that the weather appears to be cooperating.",
"In Pasadena, conditions are forecast to be sunny or mostly sunny, with day-time highs in 60s and nighttime lows in the 40s, all next week, according to the weather service."
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"85,000 households were still without power Saturday evening, two utilities report .",
"Hundreds of utility and public workers are out to clean up debris, restore power .",
"L.A. County spokesman calls the windstorm \"probably the worst\" in over a decade ."
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"(CNN) -- New Inter Milan coach Claudio Ranieri suffered his first defeat on Saturday as Joel Obi was sent off in an ill-tempered 3-0 home reverse against new Serie A leaders Napoli.",
"Inter were already annoyed to have a 24th-minute goal by Giampaolo Pazzini ruled out for offside, but tempers flared when Nigeria international midfielder Obi was sent to the dressing room for his second yellow card four minutes before halftime.",
"Television replays showed that Obi pushed Christian Maggio outside the box, but a penalty was awarded by Gianluca Rocchi.",
"Marek Hamsik's spot-kick was saved by Julio Cesar but Hugo Campagnaro followed up to deftly score from the rebound, and the goal was allowed to stand despite the defender clearly being inside the area when the penalty was taken.",
"Cesar was booked for shouting at the match official, and the Brazilian was lucky not to be sent off as he continued to harass him.",
"An angry Ranieri watched the second half from the stands, and saw Napoli take control as Maggio capitalized on poor defending by Japanese defender Yuto Nagatomo to beat a stranded Cesar in the 56th minute.",
"Inter survived an incredible close-range miss from Juan Zuniga, but Hamsik settled the match with 15 minutes to play as he beat the offside trap to collect a pass from Ezequiel Lavezzi and beat Cesar.",
"\"He wasn't equal in his decisions, it was an unfair game,\" Ranieri told reporters in quotes carried by AFP.",
"\"The first half was a great game but Obi was given a first yellow card when he clearly won the ball.",
"\"Then (the foul) was outside the area and he was given a second yellow card and he was off.",
"That ruined the game.",
"\"It's a shame because we tried very hard, but (the referee) messed up everything there was to mess up.\"",
"The result put Napoli on 10 points -- two clear of Juventus, Udinese and Roma -- after completing an early-season double over the two Milan clubs.",
"Juve host defending champions AC Milan in the pick of Sunday's matches, while Udinese are at home to second-bottom Bologna.",
"Inter, who had won the first two matches of Ranieri's reign, remained on four points after five matches -- just above the relegation zone.",
"Roma earlier ended Atalanta's unbeaten start to the season with a 3-1 home victory.",
"Pre-season signings Bojan Krkic and Pablo Osvaldo gave the capital club a 2-0 halftime lead before Argentine striker German Denis reduced the deficit soon after the interval.",
"Brazilian midfielder Simplicio netted with nine minutes to go, giving Luis Enrique's side a second successive win and leaving Atalanta on four points along with Inter and promoted Novara.",
"In Spain, Malaga went top of La Liga with a last-gasp 3-2 victory at home to Getafe as Brazilian forward Julio Baptista scored a spectacular overhead kick two minutes into injury-time.",
"Getafe had Algerian midfielder Medhi Lacen sent off for a second booking soon after Miku made it 2-1, but Malaga equalized with two minutes to play through Italian midfielder Enzo Maresca.",
"Big-spending Malaga lead on goal difference from Valencia, who earlier moved up to 13 points with a 1-0 win at home to lowly Granada thanks to an early long-range left-foot strike from Sergio Canales.",
"Previous leaders Real Betis host Levante on Sunday, when fourth-placed champions Barcelona travel to Sporting Gijon and last season's runners-up Real Madrid visit Espanyol.",
"In Saturday's other matches, Mallorca came from behind to draw 2-2 at Osasuna as Israeli striker Tomer Hemed netted twice from the penalty spot.",
"Villarreal needed a late leveler from Paraguay midfielder Hernan Perez to earn a 2-2 draw at home to Real Zaragoza, while Rayo Vallecano drew 1-1 at Racing Santander."
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"(CNN) -- The debate in Congress this week about whether to pay for extending the payroll tax cut by imposing a new tax on millionaires will have nothing to do with solving our nation's economic challenges and everything to do with election-year politics.",
"Senate Democratic leaders have already signaled they will use the debate as a purely partisan exercise designed to embarrass Republicans into opposing tax cuts for the poor while defending tax cuts for the rich.",
"I intend to offer an alternative.",
"Instead of punishing the rich with higher taxes, I will give Congress the option of helping pay for extending the payroll tax cut by ending welfare to the wealthy.",
"Read Sen. Coburn's report, \"Subsidies of the Rich and Famous\" Every year, politicians on both sides engage in a process of reverse Robin Hood in which they steal $30 billion from low- and middle-income Americans and provide handouts to the rich and famous.",
"Millionaires receive tax earmarks and deductions crafted by both parties that allow them to write off billions each year.",
"These write-offs include mortgage interest deductions on second homes and luxury yachts, gambling losses, business expenses, electric vehicle credits and even child care tax credits.",
"Meanwhile, direct handouts for millionaires have included $74 million in unemployment checks, $316 million in farm subsidies, $89 million for preservation of ranches and estates, $9 billion in retirement checks and $7.5 million to compensate for damages caused by emergencies to property that should have been insured.",
"Millionaires have even borrowed $16 million in government-backed education loans to attend college since 2007.",
"The goal of highlighting these excesses is not to demonize those who are successful.",
"Instead, by highlighting the sheer stupidity of pampering the wealthy with lavish benefits through our safety net and tax code, I hope to make a moral and economic argument for real entitlement and tax reform.",
"The most troubling gap in America today is not an income gap.",
"It is an integrity gap -- and even intelligence gap -- between Washington and the rest of the country.",
"Families are struggling to make ends meet and are making painful economic choices as politicians in Washington borrow billions to provide welfare to the wealthy.",
"Politicians on both sides refuse to fix big problems and defend stupid policies because changing those policies would involve upending a comfortable political status quo.",
"It's important for taxpayers to understand that these distortions are not accidental loopholes in the law.",
"To the contrary, these provisions are intentional efforts to get all Americans to buy into a system where everyone appears to benefit while the poor and middle class are being robbed.",
"In the case of entitlements such as Social Security, progressives have argued for decades that a program for poor people will be a poor program.",
"Yet, Warren Buffett hardly needs the same retirement check as his secretary.",
"Ending welfare handouts to millionaires will strengthen, not undermine, the safety net for people who need it most.",
"Even Canada has adopted means testing in its retirement program by limiting benefits for high-earners.",
"That fact is we can't afford the system we have today.",
"Only by adopting common-sense reforms can we sustain a safety net for those who truly need assistance.",
"On the tax side, both parties have been reluctant to alter tax earmarks and deductions, such as the mortgage interest deduction.",
"These are considered sacrosanct.",
"Yet, it's hard to understand how limiting the mortgage interest deductions for yachts will hurt working families.",
"Defending spending in the tax code is not conservative.",
"Providing tax earmarks and deductions to millionaires is a tax increase on everyone who doesn't receive the benefit.",
"The only way we will enact real tax reform, and grow the economy, is by lowering tax rates and broadening the base by scaling back these egregious handouts.",
"This is precisely what President Ronald Reagan did in 1986.",
"Even though the super committee failed to reach an agreement on broad deficit reduction, there is no reason why the other super committee -- Congress -- should drag its feet.",
"Change in Washington tends to start with small steps.",
"There is no better place to start than scaling back ludicrous handouts to millionaires that expose an entitlement system and tax code that desperately need to be reformed.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tom Coburn."
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"Tom Coburn: It's not necessary to raise taxes on the rich to pay for payroll tax cut .",
"Instead, he says, end the annual $30 billion in tax break handouts to the rich and famous .",
"Coburn: They get deductions for second homes, yachts, gambling losses, child care .",
"Earmarks, deductions for millionaires amount to a tax hike on everyone else, he says ."
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"(Mashable) -- So you want to work at Facebook, one of the world's hottest companies -- what do you have to get your foot in the door and get noticed?",
"It's not going to be easy -- you have competition.",
"Facebook received 250,000 job applications last year and is consistently rated as one of the best places to work.",
"And with Facebook's IPO around the corner, the competition for jobs is only going to heat up.",
"There are plenty of ways to get noticed and stand above the crowd, though.",
"I chatted with Thomas Arnold, head of recruiting for the social network, on what the company looks for and what it takes to get a job at Facebook.",
"What jobs are available at Facebook?",
"Ever since Facebook announced it was moving to a bigger office and raised $2 billion in funding, it has been ramping up its hiring.",
"While there are many openings in legal, communications, HR, marketing, online operations, business development, IT, design, user experience and internationalization, the company is especially looking for technical talent, especially software engineers and product managers.",
"The Facebook interview process .",
"I actually went through the entire Facebook interview process in 2008, before I joined Mashable as an associate editor.",
"And while it's definitely changed since I applied for a job on the company's User Operations team, the basic format has remained the same.",
"The first step is almost always a recruiter phone-screening -- Facebook will begin exploring your resume, asking you about your previous work, especially about what you've built and what leadership roles you've had in the past.",
"Sometimes there's a second screening, depending on the role.",
"If you pass the screening, the company will fly you out to its Silicon Valley headquarters for a series of on-site interviews with the hiring manager (your potential future boss) and a group of your peers -- in other words, you will be interviewed by the members of the team you're hoping to join.",
"As Arnold explained to me, these interviews are designed to determine whether you have the skills for the job and whether you're a cultural fit.",
"The group then makes \"a collective decision on whether you're a great fit\" for the position.",
"The process itself greatly varies from group to group -- expect more technical skill challenges if you're applying for an engineering job.",
"Oh, and one extra piece of advice from me: Always put the user first in any scenario or interview question.",
"Standing apart from the crowd .",
"With more than a quarter of a million applicants, how does Facebook whittle down the applicant pool?",
"\"We're primarily looking for builders,\" Arnold says.",
"He explains that Facebook has an entrepreneurial spirit and is a flat organization, and thus it's looking for people who can thrive in that environment.",
"Employees need to be self-starters who don't need a lot of direction, so autonomy and self-motivation are highly valued.",
"Builders -- especially engineers who like to build projects on their own and have cool, working products or apps they can show off -- are sought after by the Facebook team.",
"If someone builds a unique application and/or solves a problem in a way that hasn't been done before, he's going to get Facebook's attention.",
"Strong applicants to Facebook also \"just get the social space,\" Arnold says.",
"They not only understand the product, but can see the company's vision.",
"Even more important is that they're active users of the product.",
"This may seem like a no-brainer, but Arnold says his team finds a lot of applicants who haven't used their Facebook accounts in weeks or even months.",
"And that is a very clear sign to Facebook that the person won't be a good fit.",
"Finally, it's very helpful to know someone at Facebook who can vouch for you -- this was true even when I interviewed with the social network three years ago.",
"While I got special consideration due to my unique history with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, I still had a Facebook reference.",
"Final thoughts .",
"While I ultimately failed to secure a job at Facebook, you don't have to let that be the case for you.",
"For those of you applying to non-technical roles, be sure you're active users, understand the company culture and have a resume filled with leadership and \"builder\" activities.",
"It's more impressive if you launched an organization or product than if you simply took it over.",
"For technical talent, the best thing you can do is build something.",
"If you build a really impressive iPhone application that gains some traction, you're going to get noticed.",
"If you are a major contributor of open source code to various projects, you're going to get noticed.",
"In the end though, the big filter is cultural fit.",
"There isn't really much you can do to prepare for that -- the Facebook team simply knows if you're going to mesh well with them or if you're not going to be able to keep up.",
"And as I said before, be sure to have an employee refer you.",
"Otherwise, you're going to have a really difficult time just getting the phone screening.",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- I would not take anything away from the success of Occupy Wall Street in bringing so many people together in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere.",
"It is quite an accomplishment.",
"Notwithstanding what has happened so far, the hard work of leadership has not yet begun.",
"It is relatively easy to get disempowered, angry, frustrated people together to rail against a wide range of enemies and scapegoats.",
"It is quite another to effect change.",
"Like it or not, the values and processes that have created the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon are inadequate and ill-suited to taking the next steps and creating real impact.",
"The democratic, inclusive, and consensus-driven norms that have guided OWS up to this point will not get it to the next level -- that is, if there is real interest in changing the current reality rather than just complaining about it and speaking out against it.",
"Another view: Occupy beta tests a new way of living .",
"Here are three big examples of the self-imposed constraints that will get in the way.",
"First, everyone's grievance is equal to everyone else's grievance.",
"Anti-capitalism, lack of health care for the uninsured, tuition hikes at public universities, and many other complaints share the stage.",
"The message is muddied.",
"Clarifying the message and focusing on specific targets are necessary next steps.",
"They will inevitably leave some of the grievances on the cutting room floor, and leave those who care most about those abandoned grievances disappointed and alienated both from the rest of the group and from their own constituents who are not camping out at Zuccotti Park, but who expected them to ensure that their particular issues stayed front and center.",
"Second, the nonhierarchical consensus-driven process will soon reach the end of its utility, at least in its purest form.",
"If OWS is to lead change rather than just call for change, some individuals will have to step up and take on authority roles.",
"The presence of authority is essential in order to move this work forward.",
"Someone, or some ones, will have to provide some of the functions of authority -- direction, protection and order -- so that the movement can begin to make hard choices, create priorities, allocate human and financial resources, and keep the anarchistic outliers from undermining the potential outcomes.",
"When people have different agendas, the downside of operating by consensus is that the only way to get everybody to agree is to agree on something that is so ethereal and abstract it becomes meaningless.",
"That works in an election where you are mobilizing people to vote (see Obama 2008 and \"Change We Can Believe in\"), but not to generate change from the outside in.",
"Third, the movement will have to decide whether it is willing to create change by infiltrating the dreaded system it is trying to change.",
"There is no other way except violent revolution, and if those in Zuccotti Park think there has been pushback so far, wait till they see what is in store for them if there were to be violence.",
"History has important lessons here.",
"The great movements of the 1960s in civil rights, women's rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War were narrowly focused, well organized, strategically brilliant, and, while attracting large numbers of people, managed by people who took on authority roles and made essential decisions, albeit often with significant consultative processes.",
"They all used their share of extreme measures, but all were directed toward capturing the attention and support of people on the sidelines.",
"Violence, when it surfaced at all, was perpetrated by the system, with the protesters having adroitly stimulated the establishment powers to overreact, thus generating more popular support for their cause.",
"The over-the-top response by law enforcement to nonviolent civil rights protests was so embarrassing to Northern liberals like me that we had to get involved and provide the civil rights cause the additional personpower, financial resources and political clout to create change.",
"More recently -- and both sides hate this comparison -- in a remarkably short period of time, the tea party movement went from a rowdy group of people who felt disenfranchised in different ways to a nonviolent army with a sharply focused, clearly articulated agenda, and fierce commitment to infiltrate the system in order to change it.",
"It has been amazingly successful, influencing elections and the political discourse and soon winning elections with candidates who were completely beholden to its agenda, whether they believed in it all or not.",
"Whether you like it or not, the tea party has changed the system.",
"Where does that leave OWS? Very soon, it will come to a fork in the road.",
"Numbers are very important in a democratic society, and OWS is beginning to have numbers that have caused some establishment members they are railing against to take notice, either positively or negatively.",
"Right now, the Zuccotti Park protesters are being used by those establishment folks, one way or the other, to shore up their own bases and spruce up their own images.",
"Those numbers will only translate into power, and then change, if they can be harnessed to raise the heat on the decision-makers to get them to do something they would otherwise not do.",
"That translates, alas, into joining the system they are protesting against, by taking a page out of the tea party's book and working in campaigns, raising money, and running for office.",
"Leadership is a risky and subversive activity.",
"The crowds at Zuccotti Park and their colleagues in other cities have yet to demonstrate that they are interested in anything other than, well, demonstrating.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Marty Linsky."
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"But he says it isn't likely to have a big impact unless it develops leadership .",
"Governing by consensus means agreement on watered-down, vague goals, he says .",
"Linsky: Great movements of 1960s were narrowly focused, well organized and strategic ."
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi scored twice for Barcelona as the European champions crushed BATE Borisov 5-0 to claim their first Group H win in this season's Champions League.",
"Barca opened the scoring in the 19th minute of a wet evening in Belarus, when Alyaksandr Volodko turned a Dani Alves cross from the right into his own net and they doubled their lead three minutes later when Pedro headed home David Villa's left-wing center.",
"Goalkeeper Alyaksandr Gutor gifted Barca their third, dropping Pedro's cross onto Messi's head for the Argentine's first goal of the night, while Messi added his second soon after the interval -- firing home after exchanging passes with Alves.",
"Messi has now scored 14 goals already this season and takes his total number of Barcelona goals to 193, joint second with Hungarian Ladislao Kubala in Barca's all-time list of leading scorers.",
"Villa added a last-gasp fifth goal for Barca, after BATE had made a mess of a free-kick, as the Catalan giants equalled their biggest-ever Champions League win.",
"Barcelona are level on four points with Milan at the top of the group, after the Italian champions saw off Czech side Viktoria Plzen 2-0 at the San Siro.",
"Milan opened the scoring in the 53rd minute when Zlatan Ibrahimovic marked his return from injury by netting from the penalty spot after Marian Cisovsky handled in the area.",
"And Ibrahimovic set up Milan's second 13 minutes later, holding off his marker before slipping the ball through for Antonio Cassano to deftly find the net.",
"BATE Borisov and Viktoria Plzen are joint third on one point apiece and already look to have a mountain to climb against the two giants of the group.",
"Chelsea are top of Group E with four points from their first two matches, despite conceding a late penalty in a 1-1 draw at Spanish side Valencia.",
"England midfielder Frank Lampard, who was restored to the side by manager Andre Villas-Boas after being left out of their weekend win over Swansea, opened the scoring in the 56th minute when converting Florent Malouda's pull-back.",
"But, just three minutes from time, Roberto Soldado levelled from the spot after substitute Salomon Kalou handled a cross in the area.",
"Bayer Leverkusen are second in the table with three points after a 2-0 home victory over Belgian champions Genk.",
"Lars Bender opened the scoring on the half hour mark, slamming home a shot from a tight angle, and veteran midfielder Michael Ballack sealed the win in injury time with a superb volley -- his first goal in more than 18 months.",
"Valencia are third in the table on two points, after drawing their opening two games, with Genk propping up the others with just a single point from their two matches.",
"In Group F, Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain entered the record books as the London side beat Olympiakos 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium.",
"Chamberlain, 18, opened the scoring with a composed eighth minute finish to become the youngest-ever Englishman to score in the competition.",
"Brazilian left-back Andre Santos scored his first Arsenal goal from a tight angle to double their lead before David Fuster pulled a goal back with an unmarked header from inside the area.",
"Arsenal are second in the table with four points, two behind French champions Marseille, who lead the way with a maximum six points after cruising to a 3-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund.",
"Andre Ayew gave the hosts a 1-0 half-time lead when he fired home a low shot from outside the area and they doubled their lead in the 62nd minute when Loic Remy blasted home after superbly chesting the ball down.",
"Ayew added his second, and Marseille's third, seven minutes later, converting from the penalty spot after Remy had been bundled to the ground by Dortmund captain Sebastian Kehl.",
"The only down side for Marseille was the late dismissal of Jordan Ayew, who was shown a second yellow card for diving.",
"Meanwhile, Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg battled back from going behind to claim a 3-1 Group G win over 10-man Porto.",
"Europa League winners Porto went ahead in the 10th minute when Colombian James Rodriguez netted from Hulk's right-wing cross, but the home side drew level 10 minutes later when Roman Shirokov scored from the edge of the area after goalkeeper Helton had deflected a Viktor Faizulin cross into his path.",
"Porto had defender Jorge Fucile sent off for two yellow cards just before the break -- and Zenit took control in the second half.",
"Shirokov scored his and Zenit's second when converting from close range and Danny added a third 18 minutes from time when turning home Alexander Kerzhakov's cross.",
"However, surprise leaders of the group after two matches are Cypriot side APOEL Nicosia, who drew 1-1 at last season's quarterfinalists Shakhtar Donetsk.",
"That result leaves APOEL on four points, with Zenit and Porto on three apiece and Shakhtar trailing on a single point."
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"Lionel Messi scores twice to help Barcelona thump BATE Borisov 5-0 in Belarus .",
"The double strike means Messi is now joint second in Barca's all-time scoring list .",
"Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain becomes the youngest Englishman to score in Champions League .",
"The 18-year-old helps Arsenal to beat Olympiakos of Greece 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium ."
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"(WIRED) -- Steve Jobs made it clear what he thought of 7-inch tablets in October 2010.",
"They're \"too small,\" and as good as \"dead on arrival.\"",
"But the announcement of and anticipation surrounding Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet may soon have Jobs eating his words.",
"If you've been living under a rock and haven't heard the news, Amazon debuted its $200 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire, this week.",
"Make no mistake: It's no iPad.",
"There's no front-facing or rear-facing camera, and it's only got 8 GB of storage.",
"But it's not meant to be an iPad.",
"It's a completely different kind of tablet, designed for the pure consumer.",
"That is, it's designed for consumptive behavior: reading, listening to music, watching video content.",
"The lack of local storage isn't an issue, either; it's meant to take advantage of the cloud with services like Amazon's $80 yearly Prime service, as well as Amazon Cloud Drive.",
"And the smaller form factor makes it extra portable, easy to whip out on the bus or the subway (much like a Kindle).",
"\"With a 7-inch device, you can easily take your Kindle Fire with you and hold it in one hand for gaming and movie watching,\" Amazon representative Kinley Campbell said via e-mail.",
"UX design consultant Greg Nudelman thinks that 7-inch tablets could become just as popular as larger 9.7 and 10.1-inch tablets, \"but the types of applications and the context and length of use between might be very different.\"",
"The iPad, although portable, is more difficult to manage with a single hand due to its larger size.",
"And while it is certainly geared towards consumptive behavior, the iPad also strives to break the mobile-PC barrier by becoming a tool for creation, with programs like iMovie for iPad and GarageBand for iPad allowing users to produce content rather than just passively take it in.",
"Whether it actually accomplishes that or not is subjective (some scoff at GarageBand's limited capabilities), but it's possible, and likely that more apps of this nature are in the pipeline (third-party produced or otherwise).",
"Amazon's decision to debut a smaller-sized tablet was likely influenced by the players in the current tablet market.",
"The 7-inch space has the least resistance, DisplaySearch's Richard Shim says.",
"Its direct competition is more likely to be the Barnes & Noble Nook Color, which also runs Android and touts a similar form factor, than Apple's iPad.",
"That's exactly what fueled Velocity, makers of the 7-inch Android-running Cruz tablet, to choose that size.",
"\"We wanted to avoid the head-to-head comparisons to the 10-inch iPad — ours is a very different product that goes after a different target customer,\" marketing manager Josh Covington said.",
"The smaller size also allowed Amazon to more easily make a splash with a lower price point, something other 7-inch tablet manufacturers are going to have to mimic to stay competitive.",
"Take HTC, which just dropped the price of its 7-inch Flyer tablet from an iPad-range $499 to a more affordable $299.",
"Samsung also jumped in on the hype, introducing its Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus on Friday.",
"If Samsung can manage a similar price, the Kindle Fire could have another legitimate competitor.",
"And just in case it crosses your mind, a 7-inch tablet would not be something Apple would likely ever debut.",
"Apple has been tremendously successful with its 9.7-inch iPad, which flew off shelves shortly after its debut and has continued solid sales since.",
"Unless that changes for some reason, there isn't a need for Apple to break out a smaller iPad, economically speaking.",
"It's also not in Apple's DNA.",
"Since Steve Jobs jumped back on board with Apple in the late '90s, Apple's success has hinged on innovation, rather than riding on the heels of successful consumer reaction in markets it doesn't have a presence in.",
"Take the netbook market for example: Rather than releasing a netbook, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, and later of course, the iPad.",
"Part of what's hindered the success of the 7-inch tablet, until now, is that they are perceived to be more like an over-sized mobile phone than a tablet, \"and that appears to be the Achilles' Heel of the mini-tablets,\" Nudelman says.",
"But the genius of the Kindle Fire is that it's more closely identified with Amazon's popular e-reader line than with smartphones, so it has a clearly defined place within the user's mind.",
"And now that Amazon has made that distinction clear, other 7-inch tablet makers can at least attempt to capitalize on that extra portable, media-consumption angle, rather than marketing them against the iPad.",
"The Kindle Fire's separation from both larger iPad-sized tablets and large-screened smartphones, both in size and in function, will help secure a solid niche for other 7-inch tablets to follow.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"Kindle Fire is a completely different kind of tablet, designed for the pure consumer .",
"Tablet means to take advantage of the cloud with services like Amazon's $80 yearly Prime .",
"Smaller form factor makes it extra portable, easy to whip out on the bus or the subway ."
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"(CNN) -- On Friday the countdown will officially begin to soccer's Euro 2012 finals -- arguably the climax to the second biggest festival of football on the planet behind the World Cup.",
"The draw for the co-hosted tournament will be held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, and football fans across the continent will learn the fate of their beloved nations.",
"It will kick off a six-month countdown to the date of the first game on June 8, to be held in the Polish city of Warsaw.",
"The final will be held in Kiev on July 1.",
"Amid the excitement, critics have questioned whether the stadiums and infrastructure will be delivered on time for the visit of thousands of fans to Eastern Europe.",
"Platini: Euro 2012 build up 'a complicated adventure' Here, CNN examines the myriad of issues on the field, and off it.",
"What is the European Championship?",
"The competition was born in 1960 and is held every four years.",
"It sees Europe's top soccer nations battle it out to be crowned the continent's best team.",
"There is a two-year-long qualification period, at the end of which 16 teams make the finals.",
"They are then drawn into four groups of four, with the top two teams progressing from the group to the quarterfinal stage.",
"The last installment, hosted by Switzerland and Austria in 2008, saw Spain beat Germany 1-0 in the final.",
"Which venues will stage the games?",
"There are four stadiums in each country that will host games.",
"Poland's newly built National Stadium in Warsaw will stage the opening game, while the PGE Arena in Gdansk and the Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw have also been constructed specially for the tournament.",
"Poznan's Municipal Stadium will also host games.",
"In Ukraine, Kiev's Olympic Stadium has the honor of the final, while the Donbass Arena in Donetsk, the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv and the brand new Lviv Arena will also stage games.",
"What are the fears surrounding the tournament?",
"Euro 2012 was awarded to Poland and Ukraine by European football's governing body UEFA in 2007 -- the first time Eastern Europe has been called upon to host a major football tournament.",
"But their preparations have been criticized for the delayed building of stadiums and infrastructure projects necessary to support the thousands of fans that will descend on both countries come June.",
"As early as 2008, UEFA president Michel Platini was speaking of the need to resolve problems with the project, saying of Ukraine he had to \"wake them up a little\" and tell them to \"get going.\"",
"Despite rumors that Scotland offered to step in should the tournament be taken away from Ukraine, Platini said it would remain with the its original hosts.",
"There are still issues to resolve around the stadium in Lviv, with Polish authorities facing similar concerns over their brand new Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw.",
"Ukrainian deputy prime minister Boris Kolesnikov told CNN World Sport's Pedro Pinto this week that at no stage did he think the tournament would be stripped from his country: \"Neither the president nor the government feared they'd lose the right to host the championship.",
"Of course we were a little bit scared to physically not be on schedule.",
"Our sleepless nights, there have been too many to say, but construction has kept going 24/7 during the last 15 months.\"",
"But World Soccer's Gavin Hamilton told CNN that Ukraine's focus on getting the stadiums ready has come at the expense of the infrastructure needed to stage the event.",
"\"The concern is that externally, outside of the stadiums, the transport infrastructure hasn't been brought up to speed, there aren't enough hotels.",
"\"So there will be trouble for fans getting around the tournament.",
"As far as UEFA are concerned, in terms of putting on a television spectacle for the world, Ukraine has done a very good job in getting the stadiums ready.\"",
"What has CNN discovered in Ukraine?",
"On a whistle-stop tour of the four cities and stadiums that will host matches in Ukraine, Pinto said he had been impressed with the football arenas but found that some building projects were still battling to be ready, such as the one at Lviv airport, where construction on a new terminal and a lengthened runway continues 24 hours a day.",
"He said: \"Having spent the last week traveling across both countries I can tell you that if you are a football supporter, you needn't worry.",
"The stadiums look great and although some of the roads and railways may not be completed by the start of the tournament, enough progress will have been made to make the fan experience a good one.\"",
"What are the costs involved?",
"According to UEFA figures, revenues taken during the 2008 tournament were $1.7 billion, with an estimated television audience of 4.8 billion for the 31 matches.",
"The final was broadcast to 231 countries around the world.",
"Speculation in Ukraine, from the Kyiv Post, claims the country's total cost of staging Euro 2012 is $14.5 billion, paid for by a combination of private and public money.",
"The paper claims Poland's estimated costs are in the region of $30 billion.",
"Mikolaj Piotrowski, communications director for PL.2012 -- the national coordinating company for Euro 2012 in Poland -- told CNN: \"The investment, thanks to Euro 2012, has accelerated infrastructure development in this country by three to five years.",
"The overall cost has been $27 billion and has made Poland the largest construction site in Europe.\"",
"Yury Gromnitsky, head of the press office for the vice-prime minister of Ukraine, told CNN: \"The Ukraine has invested $750 million in sport infrastructure to host Euro 2012, not including the cost of the airport and transportation infrastructure.",
"But being host has really acted as a catalyst for this development to take place.\"",
"All four airports in Ukraine's host cities are being revamped, while a series of new hotel developments have also been built -- 67 in Donetsk alone.",
"A high-speed rail link will be in operation to ferry fans between host cities, and new road networks have also been built."
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"The European Championships sees the best soccer nations on the continent do battle .",
"Poland and Ukraine are co-hosting next year's event and are racing to be ready .",
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"(CNN) -- Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, embroiled in a child sex abuse scandal, attempts to clarify in a new interview how he feels about his relationships with young people.",
"\"If I say, 'No, I'm not attracted to young boys,' that's not the truth,\" Sandusky said in an extensive interview with The New York Times in a story published Saturday.",
"\"Because I'm attracted to young people -- boys, girls -- I ...\" His lawyer, who was present at the interview, spoke up at that point to note that Sandusky is \"not sexually\" attracted to them.",
"\"Right. I enjoy, that's what I was trying to say, I enjoy spending time with young people.",
"I enjoy spending time with people,\" Sandusky continued.",
"\"I mean my two favorite groups are the elderly and the young.\"",
"A grand jury report, made public last month, detailed 40 charges against Sandusky in a child sex abuse scandal involving at least eight alleged victims and spanning 15 years.",
"In a recent interview with NBC's Bob Costas, Sandusky was asked directly: \"Are you sexually attracted to underage boys?\"",
"Sandusky repeated the question, paused, and responded, \"No.",
"I enjoy young people.\"",
"The former Penn State defense coordinator has maintained his innocence throughout the investigation -- saying he only \"horsed around\" with the disadvantaged boys in his care -- and is currently free on $100,000 bail.",
"An attorney -- this one representing Victim 6, as identified in the grand jury report -- predicted Sandusky's latest interview with the newspaper will not help his case.",
"Howard Janet called the ex-coach's remarks \"another failed attempt to manipulate the public and potentially manipulate the future jury pool.\"",
"\"He's not accomplishing ... his desired goal,\" Janet said, calling much of the interview \"uncomfortable to watch\" and \"disingenuous.\"",
"\"Every time he opens his mouth, virtually, he puts his foot in it.\"",
"According to the New York Times story, Sandusky stressed that he and legendary head football coach Joe Paterno never discussed the allegations of sexual misconduct.",
"\"I don't know that he didn't know,\" he told the newspaper.",
"\"I know that he never said anything to me.",
"I know that.\" The Board of Trustees removed Paterno and President Graham Spanier on November 9, amid the allegations that also implicated high-level university officials.",
"Athletic Director Tim Curley, 57, and the school's vice president for finance and business, Gary Schultz, 62, have since been charged in the scandal.",
"Each faces one count of felony perjury and one count of failure to report abuse allegations.",
"Paterno, 84, has not been charged in the investigation, but has received criticism for not alerting authorities to the alleged misconduct.",
"He has said he did his duty in referring the allegations to his superior; according to the grand jury report, Paterno called Curley to report allegations of Sandusky \"fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.\"",
"Spanier also was informed of \"a report of an incident involving Sandusky and a child in the showers on campus.\"",
"The New York Times' with Sandusky honed in on two separate allegations of misconduct in 1998 and 2002.",
"When Sandusky retired in December 1999, an investigation of his alleged actions a year before had never been made public, but were later detailed in the grand jury's report.",
"A mother had come forward, saying the coach had showered with her son and hugged her boy, naked from behind.",
"Two campus police detectives eavesdropped on conversations in May 1998 when the mother confronted Sandusky.",
"Police later monitored a second conversation that month, in which the mother told Sandusky to stay away from her son.",
"\"I understand. I was wrong,\" Sandusky said, according to the grand jury report.",
"\"I wish I could get forgiveness.",
"I know I won't get it from you. I wish I were dead.\" Four years later, the report said, graduate assistant Mike McQueary claimed to have seen Sandusky sodomizing a boy in a locker room shower.",
"Sandusky told The New York Times that Curley, Penn State's athletic director at the time, confronted him about the alleged misconduct.",
"\"He was concerned about it,\" he told the newspaper.",
"\"He was coming to me with a concern because, in his words, somebody had talked to him about inappropriate behavior in the shower.\"",
"Sandusky said he responded by saying \"it didn't happen.\"",
"\"In my mind, there wasn't inappropriate behavior,\" he said.",
"The former coach said Curley then told him that \"he didn't want me to bring kids (into university facilities) and work them out anymore,\" according to the interview.",
"But, he told the Times, Curley never commandeered his keys to the facility.",
"\"And I still went in there and worked out,\" the former coach said.",
"The four-hour interview was conducted at the home of his lawyer over two days, where he insisted that his decades of work with troubled youths as part of his charity the Second Mile had been \"twisted\" by prosecutors.",
"\"They've taken everything that I ever did for any young person and twisted it to say that my motives were sexual or whatever,\" Sandusky said.",
"\"I had kid after kid after kid who might say I was a father figure.",
"And they just twisted that all.\" But an attorney for a 29-year-old alleged victim of Sandusky's, who is not among the eight people named in the grand jury report, said the interview is further evidence that the former coach \"cannot resist center stage.\"",
"\"Sandusky is making Joe Paterno look reckless and negligent,\" said Marci Hamilton, whose client is suing the school, Sandusky and the charity he founded for sexual abuse the man allegedly suffered at the hands of the former coach during the 1990s.",
"Sandusky, meanwhile, told the the Times that he misses his old job at Penn State, as well as the work he did at the Second Mile.",
"He added that children at the charity were like an \"extended family,\" calling himself an \"extended father.\"",
"Sandusky described how the scandal has taken a toll on his life and relationships.",
"\"I miss coaching.",
"I miss Second Mile.",
"I miss Second Mile kids,\" he said.",
"\"I miss interrelationships with all kinds of people.",
"I miss my own grandkids.\"",
"But a lawyer for one alleged victim, who is part of the criminal investigation, said that the interview only further pains Sandusky's accusers.",
"Justine Andronici, who is part of the legal team advising the client and other rape victims with the intention of later filing lawsuits, decried what she called Sandusky's \"delusional rationalization\" and said she was taken aback by his assertion that some victims' \"got pulled into\" the investigation and pointing out positive things he'd done for them.",
"\"Sandusky needs to know that with every denial, every attempt to cast himself as the victim in this case, he inflicts more suffering,\" Andronici said in a statement.",
"CNN contributor Sara Ganim and CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
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"The scandal has left much missing from his life, Sandusky says ."
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"Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- President Alassane Ouattara opened negotiations Thursday with a coalition of opposition parties to try to convince supporters of the country's former president not to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections.",
"\"We hope It is the beginning of a republican dialogue,\" said Miaka Oureto, acting president of the Front Populaire Ivoirien, the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, at the end of the meeting.",
"Last week, Gbagbo's party pulled out of the commission in charge of the elections, citing a \"recent modification of the electoral commission's composition in favor of the coalition of parties behind President Ouattara.\"",
"It also denounced what it characterized as \"a climate of terror\" that is preventing the party leaders from freely participating in what party officials say could become a \"mockery of an election.\"",
"The parliamentary elections are set to take place mid-December, and will close the electoral process that started with the violently disputed presidential elections last November.",
"Ouattara was declared the winner by the electoral commission, but the results were annulled by the Constitutional Council -- which was made up of Gbagbo loyalists -- despite their certification by the United Nations, and Gbagbo refused to step down.",
"The crisis claimed more than 3,000 lives and ended with the capture of Gbagbo on April 11.",
"The World Bank has said that Ivory Coast must hold credible elections if it hopes to secure international backing for a series of development projects.",
"The meeting with the opposition comes a day after Ouattara officially installed the Commission on Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation, fulfilling his promise to promote reconciliation in the aftermath of the post-electoral crisis.",
"Comprised of 11 members, including religious and other civil society leaders, the commission has two years to heal the wounds of a nation profoundly divided since the first coup d'état of its history in 1999.",
"\"For a few months now, Côte d'Ivoire is under reconstruction.",
"But our largest construction site is the reconstitution of the Ivorian nation,\" Ouattara said, using the French name for the country.",
"In the days following the capture and arrest of Gbagbo, the newly installed president appointed former Ivorian prime minister and political ally Jean Konan Banny as president of a commission for reconciliation that he vowed \"would be fair and independent.\"",
"\"We know that reconciliation is the only way out of the impasse in which we locked ourselves,\" Banny said Wednesday, promising that \"the years to come will see the rising of a new (Ivorian) citizen.\"",
"The optimism of Ouattara and Banny is not shared by Gbagbo supporters, who have denounced a \"justice of the victor\" attitude \"incompatible with the reconciliation they promote.\"",
"\"I don't think Mr. Ouattara really wants reconciliation.",
"How could there be reconciliation when Laurent Gbagbo, his wife and most of our political leaders are illegally imprisoned with their assets frozen?\"",
"asked Gbabgo communication adviser Alain Toussaint.",
"\"There is no reconciliation without Gbagbo.\"",
"So far, Ouattara has yet to bring any of his supporters to justice, even though the United Nations and human rights groups accused both sides of perpetrating massive human rights violations in the aftermath of the elections.",
"On the eve of the installation of the reconciliation commission, South Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu warned that \"the perception that 'victor's justice' is being applied would greatly undermine the reconciliation process.\"",
"\"We encourage President Ouattara to demonstrate to his people and the world that the judicial process he has started is both fair and completely impartial,\" the archbishop said in a statement."
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"Supporters of the former president threaten to boycott upcoming elections ."
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"(WIRED) -- Finally, the Windows Phone 7 operating system is starting to catch up.",
"Microsoft's web-based Windows Phone Marketplace went live Tuesday, years after competitors Apple and Google launched their own.",
"The app store launch is in conjunction with the rollout of Microsoft's latest iteration of the Windows Phone 7 operating system (Mango).",
"The version 7.5 update will roll out to existing Windows Phone owners slowly to ensure there are no issues for users, according to the company.",
"Mango adds over 500 tweaks and features to the Windows Phone 7 platform.",
"The Windows Phone Marketplace web portal launches with over 30,000 apps in tow, an admirable enough number (though still far behind its competitors).",
"Apps are organized into one of 16 categories, and on the main page you can also browse by featured, free, top or new.",
"Games are a separate tab from apps, and they're organized into one of 14 different categories.",
"On an app or game page, you've got what you've come to expect from a web-based app market: the app icon, price, a rating, description, screenshots and reviews.",
"After purchasing an app from the web store, you can choose to receive it on your Windows Phone hardware via e-mail or text message.",
"The update to Mango is free and completely optional, but we got a chance to check it out ahead of time and honestly, there's little reason not to upgrade.",
"In particular, the OS adds some seriously cool social media integration to your contacts list, which is referred to as the People Hub.",
"It also adds Wi-Fi sharing abilities and a Yelp-like built-in app called Local Scout to the homescreen.",
"If you're a Samsung Focus, Dell Venue Pro or other Windows Phone 7 owner, you'll receive an alert delivered OTA to your device when the update is prepped and ready to download.",
"To check the status of your potential update, you can visit the \"Where's My Update\" site, which is available starting today.",
"You do, however, need PC or Mac connector software to install the update, but they're available for free online (details are available on the Windows Phone Blog).",
"A number of Windows Phone Mango-specific devices will also be released later this fall.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"Microsoft's web-based Windows Phone Marketplace goes live years after competitors'\nVersion 7.5 update will roll out to existing Windows Phone owners slowly .",
"Portal launches with over 30,000 apps in tow, an admirable enough number ."
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"New York (CNN) -- New Jersey resident Becky Fisher said Tuesday that she's counting the favors she'll now owe her neighbors after a powerful snowstorm left her family and more than a million others without power across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.",
"Fisher, along with her husband and their 6-month-old daughter, have been camped out at a neighbor's house in Maplewood, New Jersey, since the weekend storm coated her home in snow and knocked down trees and power lines across the region.",
"\"There are just pockets of those who have electricity,\" Fisher said.",
"\"So we're using our neighbors' goodwill.",
"\"We'll owe them lots.\" Fisher said they first lost power Saturday and were forced to relocate to her neighbor's house the following night as temperatures dropped to just above freezing.",
"Fisher said that while she and her husband are accustomed to cold weather, they didn't want to risk it with their child.",
"\"Every time I call (the state's utility provider), they say the ticket's open,\" she said.",
"\"Initially the message (of when power would be restored) was for Wednesday night, then Thursday, and now maybe Friday.",
"\"Luckily, we have nice neighbors,\" she added.",
"By Tuesday evening, about 195,000 New Jersey residents remained without power.",
"Meanwhile, temperatures in parts of New England were expected to hit the low 50s Tuesday, which could be considered balmy to some who braved the October snowstorm that dropped more than 2 feet of snow in some places over the weekend.",
"But while temperatures are on the rise for parts of the Northeastern United States, more than 1 million residents were still in the dark, dealing with widespread power outages.",
"On Monday, officials warned it could be Friday before power is back on everywhere.",
"At least 15 deaths have been blamed on the weekend storm, which prompted emergency declarations from the governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and also canceled Halloween trick-or-treating in some areas.",
"President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration for Connecticut Monday, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts.",
"Gov. Dannel Malloy on Tuesday said he was not satisfied by the number of crews coming from out of state, CNN Hartford affiliate WFSB reported.",
"By Tuesday evening, about 612,000 Connecticut residents remained without power, down from a peak of 830,000, according to the state utility company.",
"More than 900 crews were restoring electricity.",
"About a dozen Massachusetts cities postponed Halloween celebrations, according to CNN affiliate WGGB.",
"At least 20 Connecticut cities and towns, including the capital, Hartford, canceled events or asked parents to wait until later to take their kids trick-or-treating, according to CNN affiliate WFSB.",
"Malloy and his wife, Cathy, said they will be leaving the lights off.",
"\"No amount of candy is worth a potentially serious or even fatal accident,\" the governor said in a statement.",
"In Worcester, Massachusetts, officials asked residents to postpone Halloween celebrations until Thursday, when temperatures are expected to climb to 60 degrees.",
"Trick-or-treating, the city said, would \"put families and our youth in harm's way as they negotiate piles of snow and downed limbs.\"",
"In Springfield, Massachusetts, school officials announced classes would be canceled for the week.",
"Some of the heaviest snow fell in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, but snowfall amounts of at least a foot were recorded from West Virginia to Maine.",
"The Berkshire County community of Peru, Massachusetts, received 32 inches of snow during the storm.",
"In Massachusetts, state officials said utility crews had come from as far as Louisiana and Texas to help.",
"About 256,000 people remained without power Tuesday evening, according to officials.",
"Elsewhere, about 77,000 customers were without power in Pennsylvania.",
"Thousands also lost power in New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, according to figures from emergency managers and power companies in those states.",
"About 128,000 were affected in New York.",
"As of Monday, authorities reported at least 15 deaths blamed on the storm.",
"Three people died in Massachusetts, officials said, including a Lunenberg resident who died in a fire and a resident of Hatfield who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently from an improperly vented generator.",
"The third death happened in Springfield when a man in his 20s ignored police barricades surrounding downed power lines and touched a metal guardrail, which was charged, city fire department spokesman Dennis Legere said.",
"Four people also died in New Jersey because of the storm, police said.",
"Two were killed in motor vehicle accidents, one in Bergen County and one in Passaic County, while two others died after trees fell on their cars.",
"In Connecticut, four people died, officials said.",
"They included one person who died in a traffic accident in Hebron, a second who died in an accident on Interstate 91 in Hartford, one who died in an ATV accident in Enfield and one who died of carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to heat their home, also in Enfield.",
"CNN's Chuck Johnston and Marina Landis contributed to this report."
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"NEW: About 195,000 New Jersey residents remain without power .",
"About 612,000 Connecticut residents still have no electricity .",
"Trick-or-treat postponements spread through the Northeast .",
"The death toll from the storm is now at 15 ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Testimony on day three of proceedings about the future of presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. turned to whether Williamsburg, Virginia, is the right place for him to eventually live as an outpatient.",
"\"I think it is right now,\" said Dr. Deborah Giorgi-Guarnieri, a psychiatrist whom Hinckley sees during his trips to his mother's home in Williamsburg.",
"\"It always requires constant assessment, but I think it is right now.\"",
"But Giorgi-Guarnieri testified Monday that Hinckley has had difficulty forming new relationships there.",
"She said Hinckley does regularly talk with a female neighbor of his mother, and with both his female supervisor and a female co-worker at his volunteer part-time job at a hospital library.",
"Giorgi-Guarnieri said Hinckley, who likes to paint, has given paintings to both his supervisor and the co-worker.",
"But she said that is something that is not unusual at that mental health care facility.",
"According to the psychiatrist, Hinckley also offered her a painting for her office but she declined, saying she already has enough artwork.",
"\"He doesn't have a romantic relationship in Williamsburg,\" Giorgi-Guarnieri added.",
"Hinckley's relationships with women have always drawn scrutiny because he hoped to impress actress Jodie Foster with his attack on Reagan.",
"Hinckley, 56, currently spends 10 days a month visiting his mother in Williamsburg.",
"A plan proposed by St. Elizabeths Hospital, where Hinckley has been treated since being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men, calls for the visits to be expanded and, if no problems develop, for Hinckley's eventual release to live as an outpatient.",
"Prosecutors oppose the plan, which initially calls for two visits of 17 days each, followed by six visits of 24 days.",
"A key question posed during the hearings is what will happen to Hinckley when his widowed mother, Jo Ann, is no longer alive.",
"She's 85 years old and sat in court Monday listening to testimony.",
"According to Hinckley's lawyer, Barry Levine, his mother is in good health.",
"Hinckley caregivers have not fully answered the question of what would happen after his mother is gone.",
"Hinckley has been seeing Giorgi-Guarnieri in October of 2010, she said, and she estimated she has seen him no more than a dozen times.",
"She agreed with doctors from St. Elizabeths who testified last week that the most serious illnesses he had been diagnosed with -- depressive disorder and an unspecified psychotic disorder -- are in remission.",
"However, the psychiatrist said Hinckley should continue taking his medicines, which include an antipsychotic drug called Risperdal and Zoloft for anxiety.",
"Giorgi-Guarnieri also agreed with other doctors who say Hinckley still suffers from narcissism but it has improved.",
"Hinckley has been listening quietly to testimony.",
"His brother and sister are expected to testify tomorrow.",
"In March of 1981, Hinckley shot Reagan as he left a Washington hotel after making a speech.",
"Also wounded in the attack were Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and Washington policeman Thomas Delahanty."
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"Man hospitalized since he shot President Reagan in 1981 seeks to become outpatient .",
"A psychiatrist says she thinks Williamsburg, Virginia, is the right place for Hinckley, for now .",
"He has been doing volunteer work at a hospital library there while visiting his mother .",
"His depressive disorder and an unspecified psychotic disorder are in remission, doctors say ."
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"(CNN) -- Groupon, always good for a discounted pizza or spa treatment, is adding gadgets and other goods in an e-commerce expansion.",
"Groupon Goods, unveiled this week by the Chicago-based Web service, is a departure for the company which, since 2008, has been sharing mainly service-industry offers with users as it helped define the daily-deals space.",
"The move comes as Groupon approaches a $750 million public stock offering (albeit one that has been postponed amid a turbulent stock market).",
"\"Groupon Goods features really good deals on great products,\" Groupon wrote on the FAQ page about the service.",
"\"To get airspace on Groupon Goods, a product has to be cool enough to share and innovative enough to inspire.",
"It also must be made of reliably bonded molecules and stardust.",
"\"Honestly, if we think a product is remarkable and we can offer a good deal on it, we'll do so.\"",
"So, presumably, you could score a deal on a laptop, smartphone or other gadget along with the typical sort of offers.",
"(We're holding out hope for the combination headphones/hair rejuvenation system that shoots lasers at your head.)",
"If Groupon didn't have a history of irreverent descriptions and humor (Super Bowl ad, anyone?)",
"that would sound an awful lot to us like a line lifted from Woot!, the venerable site which, since 2004, has been offering ... well ... daily deals promoted with irreverent descriptions and humor.",
"The service will limit the number of daily items each user can purchase and, at least in the beginning, ship straight from the retailer.",
"All products will be shipped in the contiguous 48 U.S. states, with shipping to Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Canada possible depending on the individual deal.",
"The Groupon Goods deals will arrive daily in users' e-mail, the same way current Groupon offers do."
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"Groupon adds online retailing to daily deals .",
"Groupon Goods will feature actual items alongside services like restaurant discounts .",
"Items will be shipped straight from retailers, with a limit on how many you can buy ."
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"(CNN) -- A South Korean court sentenced a U.S. soldier to 10 years in prison for raping an 18-year-old South Korean girl in September, court officials said Tuesday.",
"The Uijeongbu District Court handed down the sentence Tuesday, about a month after the rape occurred in the area of Dongducheon, where the U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division is based.",
"The private, identified by the U.S. Army as Pfc.",
"Kevin Lee Flippin, will be required to complete 80 hours of education on sexual violence, and his personal record will be available to the public for the next 10 years, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.",
"Flippin broke into the teenager's home and raped her numerous times in a \"sadistic\" fashion, the court said as part of its ruling statement, according to Yonhap.",
"\"Our sincere apologies go out again to the victim, her family and the Korean community,\" the Army's 2nd Infantry Division said in a statement.",
"\"The Republic of Korea executed jurisdiction, requested custody, tried, convicted and sentenced the soldier for his crime inside the Korean justice system, and he will now serve his sentence in a Korean prison.",
"\"From the beginning we have worked in complete cooperation with the Korean National Police and other agencies.\"",
"This case came to light in September, around the same time that another soldier was accused of raping a South Korean girl.",
"U.S. Forces Korea reinstated a curfew on its troops October 7, days after allegations of the two rape cases involving U.S. soldiers surfaced.",
"\"Given the incidents that have occurred over the last several months, I'm reinstating the curfew to assess current conditions,\" the commander of U.S.",
"Forces Korea Gen. James D. Thurman said early October, as he announced the 30-day curfew.",
"Military officials had rescinded the previous curfew on July 2, 2010.",
"That curfew had been in place for nine years."
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"\"Our sincere apologies go out again to the victim,\" the U.S. Army says .",
"Pfc.",
"Kevin Flippin broke into the teenager's home and raped her, court says .",
"The U.S. Army reinstated a curfew after the rape allegation surfaced .",
"Military officials had rescinded the previous curfew on July 2, 2010 ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli ambassador to Jordan has returned to Amman a day after security concerns pushed officials to send much of the embassy staff home early, an Israeli foreign ministry spokeswoman said Friday.",
"All but a skeleton staff at the Israeli Embassy in Amman went home due to security concerns Thursday.",
"Staffers typically travel between Amman and Israel every Friday and Saturday, but they were sent home a day early this week after last week's ransacking of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo by protesters and plans for anti-Israel protests this week in Amman.",
"The turnout for Thursday's demonstration in the Jordanian capital, however, was small and the Israeli ambassador returned Friday.",
"The full embassy staff is expected to be back at work Sunday in Amman.",
"Anti-Israel expressions and demonstrations have been taking place in Amman recently.",
"A Facebook page calling for a million-man protest to close the Israeli Embassy in Amman has more than 3,000 people signed up as \"attending\" the event.",
"Also, protesters against Jordan's ties with Israel have been gathering every Thursday outside an Amman mosque for more than a year.",
"Those who organize the gatherings refer to themselves as the jama'at al-Kalouti, which means \"the group of the Kalouti,\" named after the mosque near the Israeli Embassy in western Amman.",
"The protesters are calling for the closure of the embassy, the expulsion of the ambassador and annulment of the 1994 peace treaty that established diplomatic relations between Jordan and Israel.",
"On Thursday night, about 400 people gathered outside the mosque, according to Petra, Jordan's state-run news agency.",
"Eyewitnesses reported that security was increased around the already-fortified embassy in the western part of Amman in anticipation of the protest.",
"More than half of Jordan's 6.5 million residents are of Palestinian origin.",
"On September 9, an estimated 3,000 Egyptian protesters tore down a wall surrounding the building that houses the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and entered its offices, tossing papers bearing Hebrew writing from the windows and into the streets.",
"Egyptians have been angry about the killing last month of five Egyptian police officers by Israeli soldiers when Israel went after militants who had attacked civilians near the Israeli-Egyptian border.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and journalist Amy Hybels contributed to this report."
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"All but a skeleton staff was sent home from the embassy Thursday .",
"More of the staff is expected to return to the embassy Sunday .",
"Anti-Israel demonstrations have taken place in Amman for the past several weeks ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Herman Cain's assertion that blacks' overwhelming support of the Democratic Party was evidence of their having been \"brainwashed\" was the latest salvo in an intra-racial war of words over the state of black politics.",
"From President Barack Obama's recent run-ins with BET News and the Congressional Black Caucus, to attendees at a caucus conference questioning the racial consciousness of Cain and Republican Rep. Allen West because of their association with the tea party, many observers on both sides of the political aisle are trying to figure out what to make of all of the infighting.",
"Is there such a thing as a uniform black political agenda?",
"Are conservatism and black cultural pride incompatible?",
"Do blacks really behave as political lemmings, and could they benefit from embracing the Republican agenda?",
"The answers to these questions reflect an often overlooked fact: Neither the African-American community nor its politics have ever been monolithic.",
"The overwhelming unity we have witnessed in black voting behavior and party identification in the last 50 years belies a surprising diversity.",
"For instance, in fall 2008, during the height of Obama-mania, nearly 32% of black respondents in a Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies survey indicated that they were ideologically conservative.",
"In 2009, 53% of black respondents to a Pew Center poll on race believed that middle and lower class blacks shared different values.",
"Indeed, robust disagreement has been a norm, not the exception.",
"Given the history of vigorous debate within the African-American community, it is reasonable to wonder why black voting behavior does not reflect this diversity.",
"When we observe blacks voting for Democrats in election after election, it is easy to assume that these voters must be ill-informed or unthinking.",
"However, many factors contribute to vote choice and party identification.",
"African-American political behavior is shaped by a combination of factors, many of which are rooted in the unique historical experience of blacks in this country.",
"For starters, black conservatism does not necessarily correlate with a belief in small government or with trust in state and local government to enforce civil rights.",
"Historically, black civil rights were protected when activists appealed to the federal government for redress.",
"This makes blacks more comfortable with the idea of a larger national government.",
"So, when Republican politicians talk about limiting the scope of federal government, many blacks will be concerned that a contraction of federal power will limit continued progress in the realm of civil rights enforcement.",
"Second, the conservative emphasis on individualism runs counter to blacks' more group-centered self-identity.",
"In the 1970s, political scientists started to notice that politically active blacks were more likely to frame their ideas about politics in terms of racial group interest.",
"By the early 1990s, Michael Dawson was able to demonstrate empirically that middle class blacks who believed in the idea that what happens to other blacks affects them were more likely to support racially redistributive policies that ran counter to their apparent class interests.",
"Dawson argued the belief that blacks' fates were linked together was a thoroughly rational response to historic discrimination.",
"While blacks acknowledge that race relations have improved dramatically since the 1960s, polling data show that blacks still perceive more discrimination than whites.",
"As long as blacks still believe that they are the targets of discrimination, it is reasonable to expect them to factor group interests into their political choices.",
"Thus, contrary to Cain's opinion, blacks who choose to vote Democratic have their reasons, just as he has good reasons to be a Republican.",
"The good thing about the democratic process is that all voters have the privilege to weigh candidates' appeals and make their own decisions about who should represent them.",
"Cain has made headway in Republican polls recently in part because of the appeal of his policy proposals.",
"If he hopes to make inroads among blacks, it will be on the merit of his ideas and his demonstrated ability to challenge the Republican establishment to frame its platform in a way that is culturally sensitive to the concerns of blacks.",
"For Cain to stoop to the level of those who unfairly taunted him and the tea party at the Congressional Black Caucus Weekend undermines his candidacy and only adds fire to the fuel of political incivility.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Andra Gillespie."
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"Andra Gillespie: Herman Cain's remarks add to ongoing discussion of black politics .",
"Gillespie says there's a lot of diversity in political views among African-Americans .",
"Many blacks identify as conservative but favor strong federal government, she says ."
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"(CNN) -- Syria's failure to respond to Friday's deadline for it to allow Arab League observers into the country to monitor the government's response to civil unrest moves the country a step closer to economic sanctions from its neighbors, a senior Arab League diplomat said.",
"\"The Syrians responded with more requests to amendments to the protocol; they did not reject or accept,\" he said.",
"The finance and economic ministers of the Arab League will meet Saturday to draft economic sanctions that will be discussed Sunday by the Arab League's foreign ministers, said the diplomat, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.",
"These could include halting dealings with Syria's central bank and airlines, the official said.",
"Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Syria risked international isolation if it continued on its present path -- and, that the bloodshed resulting from its crackdown on pro-democracy protests could not be tolerated.",
"\"Syria has to make a decision,\" he said in Istanbul alongside his Italian counterpart, Giulio Terzi.",
"\"It will either continue this crackdown policy against its people and become isolated more and more, or it will say yes to this well-intentioned Arab League proposal, sign this protocol and observers will monitor the situation on the ground by going to all Syrian cities.\"",
"In New York, a representative of Ban Ki-moon said the U.N. secretary-general \"welcomes the efforts of the League of Arab States to end the bloodshed and promote a political solution\" and urged Syrian authorities to agree to the league's proposal to send an observer mission to protect civilians in Syria.",
"Since March, protesters in cities across the country have been demanding al-Assad's ouster and democratic elections.",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said the move by Arab League diplomats meeting in Cairo was unprecedented.",
"The league was rejected by the Syrian people as \"a tool for foreign interference,\" it said.",
"\"The sanctions include stopping air flights, trade exchanges and monetary dealings with the Syrian government and freezing its assets, which harms the interests of the Syrian people,\" it reported.",
"The 22-country Arab League suspended Syria from its membership this month after President Bashar al-Assad's regime ignored demands to end its crackdown on citizens.",
"Adding to the pressure on Damascus, the United Nations Committee Against Torture said Friday it is \"deeply concerned about gross and pervasive human rights violations in Syria,\" which are allegedly taking place \"in a context of impunity.\"",
"\"Of particular concern are reports referring to children who have suffered torture and mutilation while detained; as well as cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; arbitrary detention by police forces and the military; and enforced and involuntary disappearances,\" said Claudio Grossman, who heads the expert panel.",
"Reliable sources indicate the abuses \"are allegedly conducted under direct orders from public authorities, at their instigation or with their consent or acquiescence,\" Grossman said.",
"The committee has asked Syria to provide a special report by early March indicating it is abiding by its obligations under the U.N. Convention against Torture, to which Syria is a signatory.",
"Earlier Friday, Moscow -- a historic ally of Damascus -- warned against international military intervention in Syria and described it as an \"absolutely unacceptable\" solution to ending the government crackdown against protesters.",
"Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said the Syrian people must be left to decide their own fate.",
"Human rights issues should not be used as a justification for action by the West, he said.",
"\"Under no circumstances must human rights issues be used as a pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of a state, in this particular instance, Syria,\" Lukashevich said, quoted by the Russian news agency Interfax.",
"\"A scenario involving military intervention in Syrian affairs is absolutely unacceptable for us.\"",
"Russia, a major arms supplier to Damascus, blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution last month that would have condemned the Syrian response to the demonstrators and called for an immediate end to the government clampdown on the opposition.",
"It abstained from voting on another resolution that was passed Tuesday by a humanitarian committee of the United Nations' General Assembly.",
"Al-Assad has resisted mounting calls for his resignation in recent weeks as international outcry over the Syrian violence has intensified.",
"He says his government is battling armed terrorist groups.",
"The United Nations says more than 3,500 people have died in the course of an eight-month government crackdown on protests.",
"Twenty-seven people died Friday, one of them a child, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria activist group said.",
"More than 20,000 anti-government protesters gathered in the city of Dael as a child's funeral was held, said the opposition group, which organizes and documents anti-government protests.",
"Power, water and communications to the city had been cut, it reported.",
"Another opposition group, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said there was heavy gunfire in the streets of Hama from military and security forces.",
"In Daraa, weapons were fired outside mosques to prevent people demonstrating after Friday prayers, the group said.",
"The LCC said at least 35 people died Thursday in clashes with security forces.",
"CNN cannot independently verify the reports because the government has restricted access to Syria by international journalists.",
"CNN's Alla Eshchenko in Moscow and Yesim Comert in Istanbul, and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy in Cairo contributed to this report."
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"Sanctions considered by the Arab League would hurt the Syrian people -- state media .",
"U.N. Committee Against Torture says it is deeply concerned by reports of torture of children .",
"Turkey's foreign minister says Syria must choose between cooperation and isolation .",
"An Arab League deadline passes without a response from Syria, a diplomat says ."
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"London (CNN) -- Australian cricket legend Shane Warne and actress Elizabeth Hurley are engaged, it was confirmed on Sunday.",
"The couple confirmed the news on their Twitter pages, with both saying: \"Thanks for all your congratulations.\"",
"They also linked to a picture of themselves about to go to dinner in St. Andrews, Scotland, where Warne is playing in a golf championship.",
"Warne, 42, proposed to Hurley, 46, on Friday, the organizers of the tournament said in a statement.",
"The couple later celebrated with guests in St. Andrews' Old Course Hotel.",
"Hurley's four-year marriage to businessman Arun Nayar ended in divorce in June.",
"Hurley has a son from an earlier relationship.",
"The actress rose to fame in the 1990s as the girlfriend of actor Hugh Grant, attracting attention in 1994 when she wore a Versace dress held together with safety pins.",
"She has starred in films including \" Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery\" and \"Bedazzled.\"",
"Warne is widely regarded as one of the finest bowlers of all time having taken 708 wickets in the long form of the game.",
"He retired from Test cricket in 2007 after playing 145 matches, prompting his captain Ricky Ponting to call it \"the end of an era\" for Australian cricket.",
"He announced his separation from his wife Simone in 2005.",
"The couple, who have three children, divorced shortly afterwards.",
"According to the cricket website CricInfo, Warne's story was \"part fairytale, part pantomime, part hospital drama, part adults-only romp, part glittering awards ceremony.\"",
"\"He took a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match prize in a World Cup final and was the subject of seven books.",
"He was the first cricketer to reach 700 Test wickets.",
"He swatted more runs than any other Test player without making a hundred, and was probably the wiliest captain Australia never had.",
"\"His ball that gazoodled Mike Gatting in 1993, bouncing outside leg stump and cuffing off, is unanimously esteemed the most famous in history.",
"He revived legspin, thought to be extinct, and is now pre-eminent in a game so transformed that we sometimes wonder where the next champion fast bowlers will come from.\""
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"Australian cricket legend Shane Warne and actress Elizabeth Hurley have become engaged .",
"Couple confirme news on their Twitter pages, saying: \"Thanks for all your congratulations\"\nWarne, 42, proposed to Hurley, 46, on Friday at St. Andrews in Scotland ."
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"South Bend, Indiana (CNN) -- The glow from the Golden Dome still is wonderfully blinding on bright days.",
"Touchdown Jesus, the nickname of the skyscraper-sized mural on the side of the Hesburgh Library, continues to inspire with its version of Jesus stretching his arms high and wide as a football referee signaling for a touchdown.",
"The Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, where folks haven't stopped lighting candles for miracles.",
"The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which resembles something straight from the Vatican.",
"The splendid lakes.",
"The immaculate trees, with leaves that dance in the autumn wind while dressed in various October colors.",
"For a guy born and raised a few punts away from all of this on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, I keep hearing a depressing question: Is Notre Dame football relevant anymore?",
"The answer is yes, definitely yes.",
"\"Talent-wise, we're pretty much there, because players keep coming here to be great, and they know there is life after football when they choose to play for Notre Dame,\" said Adrian Jarrell, now a senior financial analyst, who had several gigantic catches as a wide receiver for the Fighting Irish during the late 1980s and early 1990s.",
"Those were the last of Notre Dame's glory days.",
"Thus the question of relevancy.",
"\"I live in Dallas, and I hear that question all the time,\" Jarrell said, chuckling, while many Irish eyes are crying.",
"Here's why: With Notre Dame spending another season tumbling into obscurity, there are more than a few reasons to doubt its relevancy.",
"For one, this 125-year-old football program that made dominance famous hasn't won a national championship since 1988, when that other Gipper was in the White House.",
"The original Gipper was George Gipp, Notre Dame's icon of yore.",
"Years after legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne satisfied the wishes of a dying Gipp by delivering his \"Win one for the Gipper\" speech before a Notre Dame game against Army during the 1920s, Gipp was portrayed in Hollywood by future U.S. President Ronald Reagan.",
"That Gipper speech was about the last time Notre Dame won a bowl game worth mentioning.",
"Actually, we're talking about 1993, when Jarrell helped Notre Dame beat Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.",
"After that, the Irish dropped a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) record nine-straight bowl games, spanning from the mighty Orange to the lowly Insight.",
"They've won their last two bowl games, but nobody who participates in either the Sun Bowl or the Hawaii Bowl is considered a national power.",
"They've had four coaches since College Football Hall of Fame inductee Lou Holtz resigned after the 1996 season.",
"Three of those post-Holtz coaches were fired, and the fourth is Brian Kelly, whose team in his second year at Notre Dame had a disturbing 31-17 home loss last Saturday to archrival Southern Cal.",
"It dropped Notre Dame's record to a sloppy 4-3.",
"Of the 120 schools at the top of the NCAA's two-tier system, 119 of them have a better turnover margin than the Irish.",
"Worse, Southern Cal players accused Notre Dame players and coaches of quitting during Saturday's game.",
"Southern Cal coach Lane Kiffin apologized to Kelly for the remarks, and Kelly joined Notre Dame players in denying the charges.",
"Then again, those things happen when the mighty has become the meek in the minds of many.",
"\"For anybody to say that Notre Dame can't win again is the most ridiculous, asinine comment I've ever heard, because they've got more going for them now than they've ever had before in the history of the school,\" said Holtz, 74, now a college football analyst for ESPN.",
"He finished his 11 years at Notre Dame with a 100-30-2 record, featuring that 1988 national championship and three other seasons with one loss or less.",
"Holtz's legacy at Notre Dame is even more astounding when you consider the following: Back then, Notre Dame officials didn't allow \"red shirting,\" which gives players a chance to spend an extra year with a team while retaining their normal four years of eligibility.",
"Holtz had several five-year players at Notre Dame, but that mostly was because they were exempt for medical reasons.",
"Now, even though Notre Dame officials don't call it red shirting, they allow five-years players for a variety of reasons.",
"There also is Notre Dame's change in recent years to allow freshmen to enter the university in January instead of September.",
"It has expanded the Irish's recruiting possibilities.",
"Then there is the acceptance of transfers.",
"It was discouraged for academic reasons during the Holtz era, except in rare cases.",
"Transfers happen slightly more frequently these days at Notre Dame.",
"Plus, former Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis and his strength coaches often complained about players suffering huge weight losses near the end of seasons.",
"Because of football and Notre Dame's fierce academic schedule, players weren't eating properly.",
"Unlike other major programs, Notre Dame lacked a training table, which allows players to eat structured meals each day around class and practice times.",
"Notre Dame finally got a training table during Weis' last year there in 2009, and since then, players have enjoyed meals at the Irish's state-of-the-art football complex that was built across 96,000 square feet in 2005.",
"That was nearly a decade after Holtz's era.",
"With its multiple fields, extensive weight-training area and huge locker rooms featuring the latest in technology, the so-called Guglielmino complex (nicknamed The Gug) is eye candy for recruits.",
"In other words, those who keep saying the Irish can't recruit anymore aren't paying attention.",
"They had more players (11) on preseason \"watch lists\" this year for major individual awards than any team outside of Alabama (12).",
"Wide receiver Michael Floyd and linebacker Manti Te'o are among several Notre Dame players tagged as future high picks in the NFL draft.",
"Speaking of the future, there were around 50 of the nation's top recruits at the Southern Cal game, and despite the Irish's ugly loss, the South Bend Tribune reported that most of the recruits said they were highly impressed with the Notre Dame atmosphere.",
"\"In the end, Brian Kelly will figure it out, just the same as Ara Parseghian did and every other coach before him,\" said Holtz, referring to Notre Dame's legacy that has produced 11 national championships and seven Heisman Trophy winners under the likes of Parseghian, Frank Leahy, Dan Devine, Rockne and, of course, Holtz.",
"What Kelly must do to join them at Notre Dame is win, and he must do so for just shy of forever. That's all."
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"Several Notre Dame players are speculated as future high picks in the NFL draft ."
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"(CNN) -- From sweeping grasslands to the desolate Gobi desert, Mongolia's dramatic landscape lends itself to the idea that it is one of the world's last frontiers.",
"Mongolian national identity is entwined with its nomadic history of horsemen and herders.",
"Traditional pursuits like horse-riding are alive and well and celebrated each year at the \"naadam\" festival.",
"Despite the impact of modernity and urbanization it remains in many ways a \"land without fences.\"",
"Sandwiched between Russia to the north and China to the south, Mongolia's President Tsakhia Elbegdorj likens his country's position, geographically and politically, to \"a pony between two elephants.\"",
"Recent history has seen Mongolia both squeezed and supported by its two heavy-weight neighbors.",
"The country declared its independence from China in 1921 and then fell under the influence of the Soviet Union and communism.",
"The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the country losing one-third of its GDP, but did result in the creation of a new democratic constitution in 1992.",
"The president is the country's head of state and is elected every four years.",
"Mongolia is currently modernizing, but its historical position as the one-time center of the world's largest-ever land empire is not forgotten within the country.",
"History books often portray Genghis Khan as a blood-thirsty warrior who led murderous hordes across Asia and Europe.",
"But in Mongolia he remains revered as the man responsible for uniting nomadic tribes and creating an empire that spread ideas and trade across continents, including the invention of paper money and the concept of diplomatic immunity.",
"Today Khan's presence remains in street names, products and monuments, most strikingly with a 40-meter-tall statue situated 50 kilometers outside the capital city of Ulaanbaatar that faces towards the vast interior of the country.",
"Three times the size of France, Mongolia's riches lie in its land.",
"Among the breathtaking vistas of seemingly timeless landscapes studded with Gers (traditional nomadic homes) lies the source of Mongolia's current economic boom.",
"Natural resources of copper and its vast reserves of coal are literally fueling China's growth and the means for Mongolia's own development of recent years.",
"Other sought-after minerals like zinc, gold and uranium have bolstered trade and foreign investment, as well helping to bringing Louis Vuitton and Burberry to the streets of Ulaanbaatar.",
"But with its wealth of natural assets comes the need to balance development with environmental protection and address the country's pressing problem of lifting one third of Mongolia's three million people out of poverty."
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"Mongolia has a population of around 3 million people and is three times the size of France .",
"It is located in Northeast Asia between China and Russia .",
"The country's rich natural resources are fueling its economic boom ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's new authorities found chemical weapons about a month ago and asked for international aid in securing them, a top military spokesman for the National Transitional Council told CNN Monday.",
"\"We found mustard gas missiles in Jufra and we asked our friends to come and help us,\" Col. Ahmed Bani said.",
"He was adding details to the announcement Sunday by the National Transitional Council's outgoing prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, that two chemical weapons sites had been discovered.",
"Jibril, speaking to reporters in Tripoli, said the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague and the United States were notified.",
"Jibril did not provide any details about the sites, their location or when they were discovered.",
"His announcement came the day before NATO was due to declare the end of its mission in Libya.",
"\"Libyans have now liberated their country.",
"And they have transformed the region,\" said NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday.",
"\"This is their victory.\" International inspectors working for the OPCW left in February, the chemical weapons organization said, and do not know what has happened to Gadhafi's stockpiles since then.",
"But U.S. officials told CNN in August that they and NATO had been discussing Libya's chemical weapons store with the transitional council in case the Gadhafi regime fell.",
"\"The opposition forces are being asked to keep track of what's going on\" with both weapons of mass destruction and the regime's inventory of surface-to-air missiles, a NATO official said.",
"\"We have had direct eyes on the storage facilities\" of the weapons for some time, the official said, including the use of satellites, drones and other surveillance aircraft.",
"The official also confirmed that intelligence personnel from the United States and other countries had been in Libya over the summer to help maintain security at various sites.",
"\"Individual nations have folks on the ground,\" he said in August.",
"A U.S. official also confirmed that U.S. intelligence personnel have been involved in monitoring WMD stockpiles inside Libya.",
"Both officials declined to be identified because of sensitive intelligence matters.",
"Jibril said Sunday the OPCW is in direct contact with Libyan authorities and is taking the necessary measures to help Libya deal with the sites.",
"Jibril said the situation would be handled by the OPCW and that a delegation from the organization is expected to arrive in Libya on Thursday.",
"\"The United States was notified because it is technically equipped to deal with this issue,\" Jibril said.",
"He declined to give details about the sites or weapons, but said the OPCW will make an announcement soon.",
"\"By making this announcement, we reaffirm that the new Libya is a peaceful Libya, a Libya that abides by international law, a Libya that aims for development before anything else for the good of its people,\" Jibril said.",
"Libya's chemical weapons stockpiles consisted of about 9 metric tons of sulfur mustard agent and more than 800 metric tons of precursor chemicals, as of February.",
"The destruction facility was sealed before the inspectors left but the OPCW does not know what happened to it since then.",
"The inspectors' first job when they return will be to determine whether any of the material has been removed.",
"In 2003, Libya agreed to destroy its entire chemical weapons arsenal, which included some 25 tons of mustard gas and 3,300 empty aerial bombs.",
"The entire stock of shells and bombs was literally crushed by bulldozers in 2004.",
"Before the outbreak of the crisis the Gadhafi regime had destroyed 55% of its declared amounts of mustard gas and 40% of its precursor chemicals for making weapons, according to the OPCW.",
"CNN reported earlier this year that Libya still had approximately 10 tons of the deadly blister agent left in its arsenal, according to an assessment from the Arms Control Association.",
"Much of the material was located at the Rabta chemical weapons facility south of Tripoli.",
"U.S. officials say any chemical weapons material that remains in Libya would be difficult to \"weaponize\" into a form that could be used to conduct attacks.",
"CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and CNN's Tim Lister and Pam Benson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Libya's new authorities found mustard gas missiles about a month ago, they say .",
"The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was notified .",
"\"The United States was notified because it is ... equipped to deal with this issue\"\nGadhafi agreed to destroy his chemical weapons in 2003 and the project was underway ."
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"(CNN) -- \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" returns to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles as the network celebrates its fifth year of honoring \"everyday people changing the world.\"",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper again hosts the star-studded gala, which this year will be broadcast live around the world at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on the global networks of CNN.",
"The telecast shines a spotlight on the extraordinary accomplishments of the top 10 CNN Heroes, who will each receive $50,000 in recognition of their work.",
"The show culminates with the announcement of the CNN Hero of the Year, one of the top 10 who will receive an additional $250,000.",
"Voting to select the Hero of the Year is being conducted online at CNNHeroes.com and will end December 7 at 11:59 p.m PT.",
"Performers and presenters for this year's tribute show will be announced in the coming weeks.",
"Last year's show included appearances by Halle Berry, Demi Moore, Jessica Alba, Kid Rock, LL Cool J, Renee Zellweger, Gerard Butler, Kiefer Sutherland, Marisa Tomei and Aaron Eckhart.",
"It also had performances by Bon Jovi, Sugarland, and John Legend with Common and Melanie Fiona.",
"Since January, profiles of CNN Heroes have been featured every week on CNN and online at CNN.com.",
"These Heroes were chosen from nominations submitted through the CNN Heroes website.",
"This year, more than 10,000 nominations were received.",
"\"We hope to empower these selfless individuals to persevere in their humanitarian efforts to create progress,\" said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.",
"\"We are proud to share the stories of this year's Top 10 Heroes.\"",
"Preceding the tribute show, CNN will air a red-carpet special, \"Showbiz Tonight @ CNN Heroes,\" at 7 p.m.",
"ET, hosted by A.J.",
"Hammer. The special will feature celebrity arrivals and interviews as well as a celebrity-hosted social media suite that will tap into the worldwide online passion and interest in the Heroes event.",
"CNN.com will also offer live-streaming from the red carpet, as well as exclusive backstage interviews of the honorees and celebrity presenters throughout the live broadcast.",
"Kelly Flynn is the senior executive producer for the CNN Heroes initiative and \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.\"",
"This year's show will be produced by Ian Stewart and Hamish Hamilton."
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"\"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" will air at 8 p.m.",
"ET Sunday, December 11 .",
"The live, global telecast will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles .",
"The annual show honors the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2011 .",
"Cast a vote for Hero of the Year at CNNHeroes.com ."
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"PAPEETE, France (Reuters) -- A passenger aircraft crashed in French Polynesia on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, with another six still missing, French authorities in Papeete said.",
"A Twin Otter aircraft similar to the Air Moorea plane that crashed after takeoff from Moorea Island Thursday .",
"An Air Moorea Twin Otter aircraft with 19 passengers and a pilot on board crashed after taking off from Temae airport in Moorea Island, en route to the local capital Papeete, a short flight away.",
"Earlier reports said the plane had been coming from Papeete.",
"Police said 14 bodies had been recovered including that of the pilot, but no survivors had been found as yet.",
"The search for the remaining passengers was continuing.",
"All but two of the victims were French.",
"A spokeswoman for Air Moorea said all 20 people aboard the aircraft were feared killed.",
"The plane, a Dehavilland Twin Otter aircraft, veered to the right after take off for the short flight to the main island of Tahiti and crashed into the ocean at around 12:15 p.m. local time (2215 GMT) on Thursday.",
"Aviation authorities said weather conditions were clear.",
"The plane came down one mile from the coast near fishermen, who tried to help those on board, Air Moorea said in a statement.",
"It gave no further details.",
"Moorea is one of around 118 islands scattered across an area the size of Europe in the South Pacific that make up France's overseas territory of French Polynesia.",
"Authorities in Papeete said the victims included two tourists and two European officials posted to the region, who local media said had been visiting a water purification plant.",
"Moorea is popular with foreign tourists, and the crash occurred in the tourist high season.",
"French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie issued a statement expressing her condolences and saying that Christian Estrosi, secretary of state for France's overseas territories, would go to the region to show the government's solidarity.",
"The bodies of all the victims found so far have been taken by French navy personnel to a mortuary.",
"Air Moorea, a subsidiary of domestic airline Air Tahiti, said it had never had an accident in its 35-year history.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"Copyright 2007 Reuters.",
"All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
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"Air Moorea aircraft crashes after takeoff in Moorea Island, en route to Papeete .",
"Police say 14 bodies recovered; all 20 people aboard 'feared dead'\nPapeete authorities say victims include two tourists and two European officials .",
"Air Moorea says it had never had an accident in its 35-year history ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Marty Gardner faced strict standards when she started training to be what was then known as a stewardess in 1954 for Delta Air Lines: Being young and single were conditions for employment, and weight, girdles, hats and gloves were monitored closely.",
"Her flying career ended after five years.",
"Marty Gardner wore her 1955 uniform to the Delta Clipped Wings anniversary celebration in Atlanta.",
"\"You had to quit when you got married.",
"That was the rule,\" said Gardner, 73, a member of Delta Clipped Wings, an organization of retired and longtime flight attendants.",
"Still, Gardner and other members of the group that gathered this week on Delta's Atlanta, Georgia, campus to celebrate the Clipped Wings' 50th anniversary said they loved their jobs.",
"\"It was a lot of fun. We got to know the passengers,\" Gardner said.",
"\"A lot of times we had the same passengers back and forth.\"",
"Marriage restrictions for flight attendants were relaxed after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; men joined the ranks in the 1970s; and by 1994, Delta's female flight attendants were allowed to fly up to 26 weeks into pregnancy.",
"As the profession and the industry have changed and grown, a sense of adventure seems to be a common thread for the Clipped Wings.",
"Ann Chapman, 62, was a teacher before starting a 32-year career as a flight attendant in 1969.",
"\"I was teaching seventh- and eighth-grade history and geography, and I had never been anywhere,\" Chapman said.",
"\"And 32 years later I still haven't been everywhere I want to go.\"",
"Audio slide show: Hear more about flight attendants' professional experiences » E-mail to a friend ."
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"Delta flight attendants describe how their jobs changed over the years .",
"For more than two decades, flight attendants could not be married .",
"Delta allowed men to become flight attendants in 1973 ."
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"(CNN) -- Italian football champions AC Milan have announced that Antonio Cassano will undergo heart surgery, after the striker was hospitalized following last weekend's 3-2 win against Roma.",
"The Italy international fell ill after Saturday's match at the Stadio Olimpico, with a statement from the seven-time European champions on Wednesday confirming the 29-year-old experienced \"ischemic cerebral damage.\"",
"The condition was caused by a malformation in Cassano's heart, resulting in poor blood flow to the brain -- which can lead to possible vision, movement and speech restrictions.",
"Milan said he suffered no lasting neurological damage but will now face months on the sidelines.",
"Messi treble puts Barca into the last 16 .",
"\"AC Milan, according to medical reports of the Policlinico in Milan, have said that Antonio Cassano has experienced ischemic cerebral damage,\" read the statement on the 18-time Serie A title winners' official website.",
"\"The cause was identified as the presence of a patent foramen ovale septal heart, detectable only with sophisticated specialized investigations.",
"The timing of therapy established has allowed a rapid recovery and improvement of clinical conditions.",
"\"In the coming days the player will undergo a small surgical interventional cardiology (closure of the foramen ovale).",
"The recovery time for return to playing will be better defined after the surgery, but probably will be a few months.\"",
"In Cassano's absence, the Rossoneri ensured their progression into the last 16 of the European Champions League on Tuesday with a 1-1 draw at BATE Borisov of Belarus.",
"Ghana midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng revealed a shirt with Cassano's name and number on it after striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave Massimiliano Allegri's side a first-half lead.",
"Midfielder Renan Bressan later equalized for BATE from the penalty spot, but a point was enough to ensure Milan's place in the knockout stages.",
"An often controversial figure, Cassano began his career with hometown club Bari before making a big-money move to Roma as a teenager in 2001.",
"After five years in the Italian capital he switched to Spain with nine-time European champions Real Madrid.",
"Following an unhappy spell ruined by injury and a falling-out with coach Fabio Capello, Cassano returned home to Sampdoria in 2008 after a season's loan before joining Milan in January this year -- a move prompted by another dispute, this time with the Genoa side's chairman Riccardo Garrone.",
"He will be hoping to recover in time to be part of Cesare Prandelli's Italy squad for next year's European Championship in Poland and Ukraine, which starts in June 2012."
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"AC Milan's Antonio Cassano will undergo heart surgery .",
"The striker was taken ill after Saturday's 3-2 win over Roma .",
"The Italy international has been diagnosed with a heart condition .",
"Cassano, 29, will now face months on the sidelines ."
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"(CNN) -- Lexi Thompson struggled to describe her delight after she won the Navistar LPGA Classic on Sunday to become the female golf tour's youngest-ever winner.",
"Thompson's five-shot triumph at the Robert Trent Jones Trail's Capitol Hill Senator Course -- aged 16 year, seven months and eight days -- beat the record previously held by her fellow American Marlene Hagge.",
"\"It feels amazing,\" Thompson told the Tour's official website.",
"\"I can't even describe it.",
"It's been my dream my whole life just to play out here.",
"Getting a win right now, I can't describe the feelings, but it's the best feeling ever.\"",
"The Florida resident, who became the youngest player to qualify for the women's U.S. Open in 2007 at the age of 12, finished 17-under-par after carding a final round of 70 to beat off competition from compatriot Tiffany Joh.",
"Thompson was accompanied on the course by her father and caddy Scott, and the world number 124 said it was an emotional experience to walk up the final fairway with her Dad.",
"\"I loved it,\" she said.",
"\"Just being there with my Dad, he was like, 'Lexi, just enjoy that walk.",
"I am going off to the side because I might cry.'",
"\"You know, I definitely cried after I finished.",
"Just finishing that with my dad on the bag, it was the best experience.",
"I wouldn't be out here without my Dad and my Mom, of course.\"",
"Thompson received a check for $195,000 for her historic win, and the youngster pledged to donate $20,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project -- the tournament's official charity, which helps wounded members of the Armed Forces.",
"\"Well, I think they deserve it,\" said Thompson.",
"\"They give up their lives for us, you know, saving our country.",
"I wore the pin every day.",
"\"Donating to them, just you have to. I mean, look what they do for us.",
"It's just amazing that they do that. I definitely want to give back.\"",
"Angela Stanford finished in third position, one shot back from Joh, with the U.S.'s Brittany Lang and Karen Stupples of England tied for fourth position on 10-under."
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"Lexi Thompson becomes the youngest-ever winner on the LPGA Tour .",
"The 16-year-old clinched a five-shot victory at the Navistar Classic .",
"Thompson participated at the women's U.S. Open aged 12 ."
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"(CNN) -- MotoGP championship leader Casey Stoner claimed his 10th pole position of 2011 on Saturday to boost his bid for a ninth victory this season at the Japan Grand Prix.",
"After 14 of 18 meetings, the Australian holds a 44-point lead over world champion Jorge Lorenzo, who will start Sunday's race second on the grid for Yamaha at Motegi.",
"He broke Lorenzo's 2008 lap record with a time of one minute 45.267 seconds to earn his first pole at the circuit, where he won last year's race.",
"Stoner's teammate Andrea Dovizioso qualified third ahead of another Honda rider, Dani Pedrosa, while American Ben Spies claimed fifth for Yamaha.",
"Honda's Marco Simoncelli completed the third row for Honda, while fellow Italian and seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi was seventh for Ducati.",
"Hiroshi Aoyama, in 11th, was the highest-placed Japanese rider for what will be an emotional day.",
"Motorcycling's top names had initially refused to travel to Motegi due to health fears after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was damaged during March's earthquake and tsunami.",
"They backed down after MotoGP officials refused to cancel the race, but Stoner arrived late to reduce any exposure to radiation and Lorenzo told reporters that he had been washing with bottled water despite experts insisting the Motegi area is safe from any fallout.",
"But the riders have helped raise $140,000 for the \"We are for Japan\" campaign, with Aoyama to present the check to local officials before the race.",
"\"Everything has gone very well so far this weekend.",
"We've been fastest in all but one session, so it's been fantastic,\" 2007 world champion Stoner told the MotoGP website.",
"\"We'll have to watch the weather as this will affect the set-up.",
"There's also a chance of rain, so it could get complicated.",
"Jorge has been riding fantastic, as has Dovi and Dani, but there is no doubt that the Honda suits this track.\""
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"Casey Stoner will start Sunday's Japan Grand Prix at front of the grid .",
"Honda star sets new lap record at Motegi as he heads off Jorge Lorenzo .",
"Riders have raised more than $140,000 for the \"We are for Japan\" campaign .",
"Stars had initially refused to compete in Japan due to radiation fears ."
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"(CNN) -- The debate over genetically engineered salmon should be put in the proper context: As the world's population grows at an accelerating pace, so does the consumption of seafood.",
"This is true not only because there are more mouths to feed, but also because as people become more aware of the health benefits associated with eating seafood, more are switching from meat to fish.",
"To satisfy this demand, we have become very sophisticated fishers, with ever-growing fleets, factory fishing ships and very effective gear.",
"We efficiently hunt our own seafood in the wild; it seems natural to all of us, while we do not hunt for wild chicken, beef or pork.",
"But fish is harvested at a rate that exceeds the fisheries' ability to replenish themselves.",
"According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, more than 50 percent of the world's main fisheries stocks are fully exploited, while another 28 percent are over-exploited or depleted.",
"Fish species that used to be plentiful, such as cod, plaice, haddock and others, are now rare in the wild.",
"The king of the oceans, the giant bluefin tuna, is now near the point of no return, its stocks dropping precipitously in the past decade alone.",
"Reflecting upon these declines, the U.S. has become the world's second largest importer of seafood (after Japan) with more than 80 percent of the seafood consumed in this country coming from overseas.",
"And seafood imports contribute $9 billion annually to the U.S. trade deficit, largest among all agricultural products.",
"Fisheries scientists have repeatedly warned us that if we do not change our commercial fisheries practices, we will run out of the vast majority of the commercial species by the middle of this century.",
"This must stop. Like any other animal or plant crop, fish and seafood must be produced through farming -- or aquaculture -- and the wild stocks should be protected so they can recover.",
"As a society, we must accept that while it is nice to eat wild salmon, there is no wild Atlantic salmon out there; we must get used to eating farmed fish.",
"The aquaculture industry faces a huge challenge.",
"It must grow fish in a way that is economically viable and environmentally responsible.",
"And this is where genetic engineering enters the picture.",
"Genetically engineered fish, like the AquAdvantage salmon, offer great benefits to fish farmers and should be available to the industry.",
"If used carefully, genetic engineering can produce fish that reach the market much faster, as in the AquAdvantage salmon, and use less feed (and thus less fish meal).",
"As the science develops, it could generate fish that are resistant to disease (currently the aquaculture industry loses billions of dollars annually to disease in its fish population) and healthier for the consumer -- making beneficial omega-3 oils available in fish that do not normally contain them, for example.",
"The public should not be scared by the term \"genetic engineering.\"",
"This powerful platform requires making only relatively minor and very targeted modifications to the animal genome, compared, for example, with selective breeding and domestication, where we manipulate many genes over generations without knowing exactly what is altered.",
"We have all been eating selectively bred fish, chicken, beef and other animals for many years without thinking twice about it.",
"The AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon has only one extra copy of a fish gene inserted into its genome.",
"This one addition, while enhancing the hormones of the growth axis in fish, operates within the fish's physiological range.",
"And these are fish hormones that have no effect on the human consumer.",
"The AquAdvantage salmon is no different from conventional farmed salmon in its composition and health benefits, and the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that it is safe for people to eat.",
"The single most important caution I would offer is that we must ensure that these fish, as well as any other farmed but domesticated fish (non-genetically engineered), cannot escape from the farming systems to our seas or rivers.",
"The AquAdvantage salmon must be fully contained, both biologically and physically.",
"Indeed, AquAdvantage salmon are sterile fish, and therefore unable to reproduce even if they escape.",
"These fish are intended to be farmed only in fully contained, land-based farming systems.",
"Every new operation that would grow these fish for sale in the United States would be subject to FDA approval, according to the FDA.",
"By using multiple and redundant mechanical means to prevent escape (such as screens and filters), as well as reusing the culture water, the systems should be close to full containment, having minimal interactions with the environment.",
"And the implementation of these new, land-based and fully contained marine aquaculture systems offers an opportunity for aquaculture to become more efficient and environmentally sustainable.",
"However, before approving the genetically engineered fish for use in aquaculture, as a scientist, I would like to see the FDA and AquaBounty be less presumptive and more experimental about the potential environmental risk of AquAdvantage salmon.",
"I want to see scientific data, proof beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if fish do escape from containment, they will not survive, will not breed and will be purged from the environment.",
"Experiments to demonstrate this are all feasible, but will take a few more years to complete.",
"And finally, consumers should absolutely be informed whether the salmon they are buying is genetically engineered or not.",
"It is our responsibility to make sure the public is educated so the fear factor dissipates and the consumer can make rational decisions regarding genetically engineered salmon.",
"Not labeling the fish will harm the industry altogether as people who do not want genetically engineered fish will avoid farmed salmon altogether.",
"As a society that is in dire need of more plentiful and healthier food, we must accept the practices of modern agriculture in fish farming.",
"We must trust the power and virtue of the advanced sciences and technology in providing new generations with high-quality food.",
"We must stop depleting the wild stocks, reducing our biodiversity and harming the oceans around us.",
"Sustainable aquaculture, based on responsible modern biology, including genetic engineering, will provide the world with the seafood that we need and help conserve our planet.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Yonathan Zohar."
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"He says we must accept that if we want to eat fish, we have to farm them like any other food .",
"Aquaculture industry's challenge: to be safe, efficient; also offers big promise, he says .",
"Zohar: GE salmon should be available, but labels, safeguards to prevent escape crucial ."
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"London (CNN) -- Actor Hugh Grant tried to persuade photographers stalking the mother of his child to leave her alone, but they just said: \"Show us the baby,\" he told British lawmakers Monday.",
"\"Do you really think this is a way for grown men to be behaving?\"",
"he said he had asked paparazzi staked out at the home of the woman, but they ignored him.",
"Grant was part of a panel of celebrities testifying before lawmakers examining press ethics amid scandals about phone hacking and police bribery by journalists.",
"Comic Steve Coogan and former motor racing boss Max Mosley were also on the panel, alongside member of Parliament Zac Goldsmith.",
"The witnesses were asked how much it cost to fight newspapers .",
"\"You've got to risk a million pounds to get justice,\" said Mosley, who successfully sued the now-defunct News of the World tabloid for libel.",
"Coogan said it had cost him 15,000 to 20,000 pounds ($23,500 to $31,400) to have lawyers get a court order to keep a newspaper from publishing a story about one of his relatives, and he said he had spent \"over 200,000 pounds\" over the hacking of his phone by journalists.",
"Mosley also talked about the difference between defamation and invasion of privacy.",
"Mosley sued the News of the World after it ran a front-page article claiming he had organized a Nazi-themed orgy with multiple prostitutes.",
"A court found in his favor, saying there was no Nazi element to the event.",
"\"If the News of the World had been forced to run a front-page picture with the statement 'Actually, this was a private orgy,' it wouldn't have done me much good,\" he said to laughter.",
"The hearing is separate from a government-backed inquiry into press ethics.",
"The Leveson Inquiry was set up in response to outrage at revelations of the scale of illegal eavesdropping and police bribery on behalf of News of the World, which was shut down in July over the scandal.",
"Police are separately investigating phone hacking, computer hacking and bribery.",
"They say that about 5,800 people, including celebrities, crime victims, politicians and members of the royal family, were targets of the practice by journalists in search of stories.",
"Phone hacking involves illegally eavesdropping on voice mail by entering a PIN to access messages remotely."
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"The actor says he tried to shame press photographers but they ignored him .",
"Former motor racing boss Max Mosley says you have to risk a million pounds to get justice .",
"Lawmakers are looking into press ethics in the wake of the News of the World scandal .",
"Police and an independent inquiry are also looking into press activity ."
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"(CNN) -- The families of seven people killed and 61 survivors injured when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August are being offered a total of $5 million by Indiana's attorney general.",
"The settlements proposed by the state are separate from the lawsuit most of the families filed last month against Sugarland, the country duo that was set to perform just before a windstorm caused metal scaffolding to fall on dozens of fans.",
"The estate of each of those who died would get at least $300,000, while the injured would get 65% of their medical expenses paid out of the state's tort claims fund, Attorney General Greg Zoeller said in a news release Tuesday.",
"\"No amount of money ever can replace lives lost or alleviate anguish endured by the victims of the Indiana State Fair tragedy,\" Zoeller said.",
"\"Because state law limits the amount the state can pay to $5 million per incident or $700,000 per individual and we are legally obligated to defend those limits, we had to make extremely difficult decisions about which injured victims would receive payment out of the limited pool of funds available.\"",
"The estates and survivors must decide by December 12 if they will accept the state's offer or pursue tort claims in court.",
"Metal scaffolding supporting the stage lights fell onto the \"Sugarpit,\" a section usually occupied by Sugarland's most faithful fans, when a storm swept through the Indiana State Fair on August 13.",
"A lawsuit filed last month by 48 plaintiffs contends that the band \"failed or refused to cancel the Sugarland concert despite inclement weather\" and that it had \"ultimate control over the lighting\" that fell on many of the victims.",
"\"Sugarland had supervisory authority and discretion for stage size, lighting, instruments, trusses, sound equipment and location of sound equipment, and the stage system,\" the suit said.",
"Forecasters warned that heavy rain and strong winds would hit the fair nearly two hours before the storm moved through, causing the collapse of the stage.",
"The National Weather Service estimated winds at 60 to 70 mph.",
"\"Sugarland was not required to perform if Sugarland determined their performance would be impaired or prevented due to inclement weather,\" the suit said.",
"\"The decision whether to cancel the Sugarland concert due to weather conditions was the responsibility of Sugarland.\"",
"Sugarland's representative said the group would offer no comment about the lawsuit.",
"The suit also names other defendants, including Mid-America Sound, the company that rented the stage, roof and lighting system, and event promoter Live Nation."
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"Families of those killed would get $300,000 each, while injured would get 65% of medical bills .",
"State law limits total payout to $5 million, Indiana's attorney general says .",
"Stage collapse killed 7, injured dozens waiting for Sugarland concert at state fair in August .",
"Most victims are also suing the country duo and contractors involved with the show ."
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