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"Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- A second typhoon in a week pounded the Philippines over the weekend, weakening Sunday only after prompting evacuations, causing severe flooding and contributing to at least one death, officials said.",
"Typhoon Nalgae, known locally as Quiel, lost some strength by Sunday morning, though it still had maximum sustained winds of 130 kph (80 mph), with gusts recorded 30 kph (18.6 miles) stronger, according to an 11 a.m. Sunday advisory from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Administration.",
"At that point, its center was 290 kilometers (180 miles) west of Baguio City.",
"The storm comes on the heels of Typhoon Nesat, which left 52 people dead and hit 34 provinces Tuesday, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.",
"The two typhoons have affected about 3 million Filipinos, according to the nonprofit humanitarian group, World Vision.",
"\"The immediate need is ready-to-eat food and water,\" said Jay Mijares, a spokesman for the group.",
"\"Survivors have no means to cook food.",
"We are seeing a mass exodus of people looking for food, there is no supply, and on top of that their livelihood is disrupted.",
"They have money but there's just nothing to buy.\"",
"The latest typhoon -- Nalgae -- made landfall in Dinapigue, in Isabela province, on Saturday morning, the disaster council said.",
"It moved past the Asian island nation by Sunday, forecasters said, after having brought rain of 15-25 millimeters per hour (0.6-1 inch) in many areas.",
"The heavy rains caused a landslide Saturday that swept a passenger van off a highway, killing one man and injuring one more, the disaster council said .",
"At least 850 families, or roughly 3,500 people, in the provinces of La Union and Pangasinan were affected by flooding, according to a Sunday morning update by the council.",
"Over the course of the weekend, the storm forced the closure of a number of bridges and made a number of roads impassable in the cities of Calasiao and Dagupan on Luzon island, according to the disaster council.",
"Affected residents are being evacuated from those communities and others, including Santa Barbara.",
"Officials suspended operations at ports in Balanan, Batangas, Lucena, Puerto Real, Kawit and Calapan City, the disaster council said.",
"Service was expected to be restored at some ports by late Sunday morning, the council said.",
"By Sunday, gates were opened at four dams that had reached their spillage levels, the council said.",
"World Vision said Saturday that it had to postpone some of its relief efforts from the first typhoon due to Nalgae, with two of three emergency teams set to deploy once the storm passes.",
"Another team is in Bulcan province, most of which is \"still submerged\" from heavy rains from the first typhoon that struck days earlier.",
"Sherbien Dacalanio, a CNN iReporter in the Philippines, described one area of Manila as being devastated by Nesat.",
"\"The damage is shocking.",
"It's like a damage brought by earthquake and tsunami,\" Dacalanio said.",
"CNN's Ivan Cabrera and journalist Arlene Samson-Espiritu contributed to this report."
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"Heavy rains in latest typhoon cause a landslide that sweeps a van off a road, killing 1 .",
"Gates are opened at four dams that have reached maximum containment, officials say .",
"At least 52 people were killed by Typhoon Nesat, which hit earlier this week ."
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"(CNN) -- Could it be that the reason our government is broken is because of which generation is running things?",
"Authors Morley Winograd and Michael Hais think so, insisting that the problem is that power is now firmly in the hands of self-righteous baby boomers who have spent their entire lives convinced that anyone who disagrees with them is morally inferior.",
"Boomers won't negotiate anything, Winograd and Hais say, because they think every position they hold is rooted in something no less sacred than their values, and they're understandably reluctant to negotiate their values.",
"Winograd, who worked as a policy adviser to former Vice President Al Gore, and Hais, an expert on polling and research, insist that the situation will get better when the generational torch is passed and younger people take over.",
"In their new book, \"Millennial Momentum,\" they explain how the millennial generation (born from 1982 to 2003) will remake America in education, politics, entertainment and every other conceivable endeavor.",
"There will be more compromise, they predict, and more tolerance for different points of view.",
"There will also be more of a desire to rule by consensus and not decree.",
"But until that day comes, the authors told me during a recent interview, there will be gridlock and dysfunction.",
"And our government will stay broken.",
"I'm not sure I'm sold, but it's a provocative theory.",
"There are others out there as well, and I wanted to hear them.",
"I have a lot of friends who are in Generation X -- in between boomers and millennials.",
"Some of them are political insiders in their 30s and 40s who have worked as congressional staffers, run major political campaigns, worked in the White House, or been elected to legislatures and city councils.",
"They know all about government, what works and what doesn't.",
"So I asked some of them why our government is broken, and here are some of the reasons they gave: .",
"Safe districts.",
"Now that the redistricting process has become all about preserving incumbency, and limiting the number of \"competitive\" districts that could go into either party's column, there are fewer moderates in Congress.",
"It was bound to happen.",
"Once politicians start thinking in terms of creating safe Republican districts and safe Democratic districts, it becomes a contest to see which candidate for a congressional seat is more of a partisan Republican or Democrat.",
"The result: plenty of highly partisan and comfortable lawmakers who don't have to worry about being voted out of office.",
"Constant need to fundraise.",
"Because members of Congress have to stand for re-election every two years, they are in constant need of ready cash, which the candidates then turn around and spend on glossy mailers, campaign staff, and television commercials.",
"Besides being undignified, this dialing for dollars leaves little time to get to work on solving the nation's problems.",
"Words speak louder than actions.",
"Somewhere along the road, lawmakers got the idea that talking about a subject was just as good as tackling it.",
"On an issue like immigration, for instance, members of both parties talk endlessly -- and with every utterance, move further away from ever finding a solution.",
"Powerful special interests.",
"Many people run for Congress because they think these are powerful positions.",
"But when they arrive, they realize just how little power they have.",
"The clout lies with special interests, which turn out volunteers and give money to campaigns.",
"Want to get education reform?",
"Talk to the teachers unions.",
"Want to save Social Security?",
"You'll need to go through the senior lobby.",
"All politicians have pressure points, and the special interests know just where to push.",
"Polarization. No matter what the issue at hand, the extreme voices tend to be the loudest -- and often the most inflexible.",
"So policy debates quickly degenerate into a pair of competing and intractable positions that neither side will budge from.",
"Compromise is unlikely, and combat is inevitable.",
"And in that environment, it's usually all or nothing.",
"No one will settle for half a loaf; they all want the whole bakery.",
"Resistance to accountability.",
"Lawmakers would rather wring their hands over a problem than lay claim to a remedy that might ruffle feathers.",
"They know that, if they approve a controversial bill, they have to own it for the next election.",
"So, oftentimes, they would rather have an issue to bat around than risk accountability at the polls for rolling up their sleeves and working out a solution to a problem.",
"Voter apathy.",
"The irony is that the worse government performs, the greater the public cynicism, and the less likely it is that many Americans will turn out to vote -- which, in turn, only makes government even worse, because it offers little incentive for politicians to do better.",
"That's dangerous. After all, as former Wyoming Sen. Al Simpson likes to say, politics is a contact sport: \"You take part, or you get taken apart.\"",
"What if you were in charge? The old saying dictates that people get the government they deserve.",
"But they also get the government they'll tolerate.",
"If it's really true that record numbers of Americans are fed up with their government, as the latest polls show, they have to make it known -- and make some changes.",
"And one way to fix government is to replace those who are doing the governing -- whatever generation they're from.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette."
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"Ruben Navarrette: Two authors blame baby boomers for broken government .",
"They say that boomers are too inflexible, see disagreement as assault on their values .",
"He says other factors contribute to paralysis in Washington .",
"Navarrette: Constant fundraising and power of special interests are key ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Want to make the ultimate superyacht entrance?",
"Why not go by submarine through \"James Bond-style\" doors?",
"Or if you'd prefer, take a helicopter ride then keep it stowed securely away in your very own on-board hangar.",
"Sounds far-fetched?",
"Not at all. These feats are all possibilities on the PJ World yacht.",
"The 82-meter vessel, with a price tag of more than €110million ($150m), is currently being built in Norway.",
"Designed in conjunction with Rolls Royce and boat makers Palmer Johnson, the ice class superyacht aims to be the ultimate luxury home on water.",
"\"This is a moving house,\" says the Director of Palmer Johnson Europe, Russell Morris.",
"\"But with this home, if you don't like the neighbors, you can just sail away.\"",
"Unlike submarines on other superyachts, passengers can access their six-man vessel via an internal docking station.",
"\"It has a James Bond door that opens to the water,\" explains Morris.",
"\"Then once in the submarine you can explore deep water.\"",
"The futuristic entrance shares the limelight with a helicopter hangar that can be compared to the Batmobile's garage.",
"The hangar is accessed through opening hatches on the deck and an hydraulic lift.",
"The hangar, which also comes equipped with a re-fueling system, means that the helicopter is protected from the elements and can stay on-board while the PJ World yacht explores.",
"This is a handy feature considering the vessel is capable of sailing in all kinds of water from the Mediterranean to the Antarctic.",
"Keeping in mind the boat's ability to sail in waters across the globe, security has also been made a priority, the manufacturers say.",
"Water cannons and thermal imagery systems are in place in a bid to defend against potential pirate attacks.",
"PJ World is more than a year into construction, with building expected to be complete in around 18 months time.",
"Makers hope the yacht will be a keen sailor's mega mansion on water, with room for offices kitted out with the latest in satellite technology and a classroom for the children.",
"The owner's apartment covers three decks and there's a fourth deck for guests.",
"In the public area there's a piano salon, a cinema, a beauty salon, a fitness center and a private swimming pool.",
"While luxury has been at the forefront of the minds of her makers, PJ World has been designed with an environmentally-friendly focus.",
"\"We've used the latest technology to make it as green as possible,\" says Morris.",
"The hull's shape and the medium speed diesel engine means the yacht produces low emissions.",
"She also has a dynamic positioning system so that PJ World can avoid anchoring in environmentally sensitive areas."
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"The PJ World yacht is priced at more than $150m .",
"It has its own helicopter hangar and six-man submarine .",
"The yacht's hull and engine are designed to emit low emissions ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli Embassy in Amman on Thursday sent home all but a skeleton staff due to security considerations, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official told CNN.",
"The official, who asked not to be identified in keeping with diplomatic protocol, said the staffers typically travel from Amman to Israel every Friday and Saturday.",
"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.",
"The full embassy staff is expected to return Sunday to work in Amman.",
"Anti-Israel demonstrations have been taking place in Amman for the past several weeks.",
"One group, called \"Million Man March to Close the Israeli Embassy in Jordan,\" has more than 3,000 members on its Facebook page.",
"The group's motto is: \"No Zionist embassy on Jordanian land.\"",
"The main group calling for the protests seems to be an organization called Jamee al-Kalouti, or JAK.",
"Dozens of its members have protested at the embassy every Thursday for years to denounce Jordan's ties with Israel.",
"The group calls for the expulsion of the ambassador and annulment of the 1994 peace treaty that established diplomatic relations between Jordan and Israel.",
"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.",
"In Cairo on September 9, an estimated 3,000 Egyptian protesters tore down a wall surrounding the building that houses the Israeli Embassy there and entered its offices, tossing papers bearing Hebrew writing from the windows and into the streets.",
"An Egyptian commander at the embassy told CNN that security personnel were ordered to avoid confrontations with protesters, who cheered the embassy's demolition and chanted calls for the ouster of Israel's ambassador to Egypt.",
"However, the Egyptian Health Ministry told the state-sponsored Al-Ahram newspaper that three people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in clashes between security forces and demonstrators.",
"Amnesty International said 130 people were arrested.",
"Egypt's military leaders promised the following day to re-establish order.",
"Officials reactivated the country's emergency law, according to Mohamed Hegazy, spokesman for the prime minister.",
"The government also vowed to try those responsible for the attack on the Israeli Embassy, which pushed Israel to withdraw its diplomatic personnel from Egypt, Hegazy said.",
"Amnesty International warned of the consequences of the expanded emergency law, calling it \"the greatest erosion of human rights since the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.\"",
"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.",
"Since the revolution that ousted Mubarak in February, many Egyptians have taken to the streets to call for the end of diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.",
"After the incident, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will stick to its 1979 peace agreement with Egypt.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and journalist Amy Hybels contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Turnout at the protest is small .",
"The protest group's motto is \"No Zionist embassy on Jordanian land\"\nThe move comes a day early in anticipation of an anti-Israeli protest .",
"All but a skeleton staff has been sent home from the embassy ."
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"(CNN) -- Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme has confirmed the 2013 race -- the centenary edition -- will start on the French island of Corsica.",
"Corsica, which lies off the southern French coast, will host the first three stages of the race from Porto-Vecchio to Calvi, the first time the Tour has ever visited.",
"Prudhomme told AFP: \"For the hundredth edition of the race, we wanted to go somewhere new, somewhere spectacular.",
"\"In Corsica, we have all of that. We have everything in place for an enchanting start to the race,\" he added.",
"The opening 201.5km stage from Porto-Vecchio to Bastia is likely to favor the sprinters, while the 153km second stage from Bastia to Ajaccio, is expected to see the climbers come to the fore.",
"The third stage is relatively short, just 145km from Ajaccio to Calvi.",
"Every French region has hosted a stage of the Tour but the race has never previously crossed over to Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, for logistical reasons.",
"The 2012 Tour de France will begin in the Belgian city of Liege on June 30."
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"The 2013 Tour de France will start from the French island of Corsica .",
"Three stages will be held on the island, the first time the Tour has visited .",
"2013 marks the 100th edition of the biggest cycle race in the world ."
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"London (CNN) -- The new James Bond movie will be called \"Skyfall,\" the producers announced in London Thursday.",
"Oscar-winner Sam Mendes will direct Daniel Craig as 007 in the 23rd Bond movie.",
"\"We'll start shooting today,\" Mendes said.",
"Spanish actor Javier Bardem will play the villain, and Judi Dench will reprise her role as Bond's boss, M. The cast also includes French actress Berenice Marlohe.",
"The announcement of the title of the movie came on the 50th anniversary of the date Sean Connery was revealed as the first actor to play Ian Fleming's spy."
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"The film is to be called \"Skyfall\"\nDaniel Craig will reprise his role as 007 in the 23rd Bond film .",
"Javier Bardem will play the villain .",
"The announcement comes on the 50th anniversary of Sean Connery's casting news ."
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"(CNN) -- Formula One outfit Force India will auction a specially customized car next week in order to raise money for charity and the team's driver academy.",
"The \"art car\" was driven by Italian Giancarlo Fisichella for 16 races during the 2008 season and has been decorated by motorsport artist Dexter Brown.",
"The vehicle has also been signed by a host of F1 stars, from current drivers including McLaren's 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's two-time title winner Fernando Alonso, to legendary past champions such as Briton Jackie Stewart.",
"Proceeds from the sale, which are expected to be in excess of $239,000, will be split between the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London and the UK-based team's own initiative aimed at finding and developing driving talent in India.",
"Aircraft canopies the future of motorsport safety?",
"\"When I was approached to paint an art car, I was immediately excited by the project as it's the first time I've had the chance to work with a modern Formula One car,\" said Brown, who has been involved in motorsport art for three decades.",
"\"Painting the car was an interesting challenge because I had to work around the complex bodywork.",
"It's great to be involved in such a unique project and I look forward to seeing how much it can raise for these two great causes.\"",
"Force India's finances have recently been boosted by a $100 million injection from new part-owners Sahara, after team principal Vijay Mallya sold 42.5% of his stake.",
"\"Seeing one of my Formula One cars transformed into a painting is a wonderful initiative that combines two of my greatest passions: cars and art,\" billionaire Mallya said.",
"The car, which has been stripped of its F1 engine, will be sold in Battersea, London on Wednesday."
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"F1 team Force India will auction a customized car for charity .",
"The car was driven by Giancarlo Fisichella in the 2008 season .",
"Motorsport artist Dexter Brown has painted the \"art car\"\nThe car has also been signed by F1 legends past and present ."
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"(CNN) -- Israeli warplanes took to the air overnight Thursday, striking back after rockets were fired into territory from Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.",
"Hamas security sources said that two Palestinian rockets were fired into Israel on Thursday night.",
"The Israel Defense Forces said in a news release that one such rocket caused damage to an abandoned building.",
"In response, an Israeli military aircraft targeted what the IDF described as a \"terror activity site\" in the central Gaza Strip overnight.",
"\"A direct hit was confirmed,\" the statement added.",
"Around 1 a.m. Friday, an Israeli missile hit a Hamas military base located east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, said Hamas security sources.",
"They added that Israeli warplanes remained in the skies at least 40 minutes later.",
"There were no related injuries, local medical sources said.",
"CNN's Kamal Ghattas contributed to the report."
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"Two rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel, Hamas security sources say .",
"One strikes an abandoned building, the Israel Defense Forces reports .",
"Israeli warplanes target a \"terror activity site\" in response .",
"There are no related injuries, local medical sources say ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Nearly seven decades after the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of Japanese-American World War II veterans were honored Wednesday at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony held at the U.S Capitol.",
"In a rare moment of unity, Democratic and Republican Senators and members of the House of Representatives praised Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd Regiment Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion and veterans of the Military Intelligence Service for their contribution to the war.",
"\"Aloha and welcome,\" said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, at the start of the invitation-only event inside the Capitol's Emancipation Hall.",
"About 1,000 people witnessed the ceremony in person, including several aging Japanese-American honorees and their families who waited years for this day.",
"When World War II began, Japanese-Americans were not invited to serve.",
"Two years into the war, the U.S. military created an all-volunteer Japanese-American combat team who soon adopted the slogan \"Go for Broke.\"",
"Most of its roughly 20,000 members were born in the United States to Japanese-born parents.",
"They went on to become one of the most decorated American units in the war, yet when they returned home, many faced discrimination.",
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Wednesday's \"long-overdue honor\" is now \"bestowed on American heroes.\"",
"\"You fought not only the enemy, you fought prejudice, and you won,\" Pelosi said.",
"Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, said the ceremony \"demonstrates the greatest of America, a nation that recognized that it made mistakes, corrected them and moved on to become a stronger country and we are proud to defend the freedoms and ideals that this country represents.\"",
"Read a profile of one of the veterans, Susumu Ito .",
"President Barack Obama signed legislation last year approving the creation of a Congressional Gold Medal for Japanese-American veterans.",
"The medal states in part, \"The United States remains forever indebted to the bravery, valor, and dedication to country that these men faced while fighting a two-front battle of discrimination at home and fascism abroad.",
"Their commitment demonstrates a highly uncommon and commendable sense of patriotism and honor.\"",
"One recipient, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, received a standing ovation when he rose to speak at the event.",
"He said the road to recognizing Japanese-American World War II veterans \"has been a long journey, but a glorious one.",
"I'm certain those who are resting in cemeteries are pleased with this day.\"",
"Inouye, who lost his right arm while leading his men of the 2nd Battalion, 442nd Combat Team in an attack against German machine gun nests in Italy, received the Medal of Honor 55 years later, in 1999.",
"George Otsuki, now almost 92, who was a sergeant serving in the 442nd, called the recognition \"wonderful.\"",
"\"The public found out what we did,\" he told CNN, \"and that's the main thing.\"",
"Frank Mizufuka, who was born in Los Angeles and served as a sergeant in the same unit, said \"it was a once-in-a-lifetime, extraordinary event.\"",
"Mizufuka, 89, said he spent a year in a hospital recovering from a chest wound he received in combat.",
"\"I didn't believe I'd live to see this day,\" he said."
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"More than 20,000 Japanese-Americans served in World War II .",
"They were honored in an event Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol .",
"Rep. Adam Schiff: The event \"demonstrates the greatest of America\"\nSen. Daniel Inouye: Recognition \"a long journey, but a glorious one\""
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"New York (CNN) -- A woman who died in a helicopter crash in New York's East River was identified by authorities as Sonia Marra of Sydney, Australia and died on her 40 birtthday, authorities said Wednesday.",
"Marra was the only passenger who died after Tuesday's crash in the river near midtown Manhattan, New York police said.",
"Marra, who is also a British citizen, was traveling with a friend her mother, stepfather when the chopper went down, CNN affiliate WABC reported.",
"The other were injured but Marra got trapped in the backseat of the Bell 206 chopper and was the sole passenger unable to escape the craft as it inverted and sank, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.",
"As the chopper approached for a helipad landing, the pilot radioed that he was having problems, just moments before the craft crashed into the river, the mayor said.",
"Images broadcast on CNN affiliate WCBS soon after the crash showed at least three people being towed to shore in a rescue effort.",
"U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat who represents Manhattan's East Side in Congress, said in a statement she was \"saddened and deeply concerned\" about the crash.",
"\"There have been at least 28 helicopter crashes in our city over the last three decades,\" Maloney said.",
"\"Federal transportation officials should investigate not only the causes of this crash, but also whether it is safe to have such a high volume of helicopter traffic over our densely populated city.\"",
"Had the crash occurred over land, the death toll could have been much higher, she said.",
"CNN's Jason Kessler, Eden Pontz and Rob Frehse contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- As the now-former presidential hopeful Herman Cain moves to Plan B, black conservatives say it's time to stick with their Plan A, and use the leverage that the GOP candidate gave them.",
"\"The movement should ...work actively, consistently, and thoroughly to bring the conservative message to new audiences with a firm grasp of the issues,\" conservative commentator Lenny McAllister said.",
"But Cain's rise in the polls -- strong enough to have been taken seriously as a legitimate candidate — seems as unlikely as the rise of a young, black conservative Republican movement.",
"Both seem an anomaly, especially among the African-American community.",
"\"It can be rough out there being a black conservative, particularly in Washington D.C. and New York City,\" said Crystal Wright, who runs the blog ConservativeBlackChick.com.",
"\"We're angry, we're frustrated and we want to do something about it.\"",
"Wright said the Republican Party is fast becoming an alternative for African-Americans disproportionately affected by the failing economy.",
"\"What we believe is to vote Barack Obama out of office,\" she said.",
"Black conservatives say high profile GOP candidates like Cain and Michael Steele, who once headed the Republican National Committee, have helped their visibility and recruitment efforts.",
"\"More people have come out of the closet as black republicans,\" McAllister said.",
"But all agree, there is no collective voice among black conservatives, and Cain certainly didn't enjoy all of their support. ...",
"Even prior to the allegations, all of the opportunities where he misspoke and contradicted himself on different things,\" McAllister said of Cain's announcement to suspend his campaign today.",
"\"A stronger campaign would have done a lot more for black conservatism.",
"So there are definitely some out there who feel a little betrayed and feel a sense of disappointment, and a lost opportunity as well,\" he adds.",
"Earlier this week, another tea party darling -- and one of two black Congressmen -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) called for Cain to step down, saying on WMAL's morning radio show,\"... he probably needs to understand that he's a distracter for what's going on right now and we should move on.\"",
"But Cain's legacy isn't lost on those who say they were happy to see a face like theirs in the race and with a message closely aligned with what they believe.",
"\"There were probably many black conservatives who weren't sure if the tea party movement were accepting of them, but Cain proved that they were,\" says Richard Ivory, Publisher of the HipHopRepublican.com, which caters to urban republican and libertarian voters of color.",
"Ivory, whose site has had nearly a million views since its launch in 2004, says, \"I think the best thing that Cain has done for the black [conservative movement] ... and this is one thing that no one can take away from him -- is that Cain has shown that a black conservative in the future can actually rise through the Republican primary to become president of the United States, if he's very strategic.\"",
"Even though Cain's strategy failed to keep him in the race for the Republican nomination, it succeeded in adding his voice to the political dialogue within the diverse landscape of conservative African-American voters.",
"\"Just because my parents vote Democrat party, why am I really voting for them?\"",
"said Wright, whose mission is to encourage more black voters to examine candidates rather than vote emotionally.",
"She thinks the GOP's policy stances on education, family values and tax rates for entrepreneurs will attract many among the young and college educated.",
"\"The pulse of black conservatism rests primarily with its younger generation,\" said Ivory, adding that they have been \"watching curiously, via blogs, Facebook and Twitter, but who for the most part aren't huge fans of any of the current candidates.\"",
"So what gains can those pushing the conservative black movement make going forward?",
"\"I think black Republicans understand that you have to be within the system to make changes to the system, where there needs to be changes made to the system,\" McAllister said.",
"But, for now Cain says, \"We will change it from the outside.\""
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"Some young black conservatives view Cain's downfall with mixed feelings .",
"His many mistakes, they say, hurt their cause .",
"But his early success and tea party support show the movement could embrace a black conservative ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pop star Britney Spears is an \"adult child in the throes of a mental health crisis\" whose \"life is presently at risk,\" her parents said Wednesday night after the singer was released from a hospital.",
"Jamie and Lynne Spears said in a statement that they were dismayed to learn that their daughter had been discharged from the University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center Wednesday over the recommendation of her psychiatrist.",
"They said the hospital could \"best care for her and keep her safe.\"",
"\"We are deeply concerned about her safety and vulnerability and we believe her life is presently at risk,\" the statement added.",
"\"There are conservatorship orders in place created to protect our daughter that are being blatantly disregarded.",
"We ask only that the court's orders be enforced so that a tragedy may be averted.\"",
"Spears left the Los Angeles hospital Wednesday afternoon, nearly a week after being admitted in the latest stage of an extraordinary public meltdown.",
"Get a paparazzi-eye view of Spears » .",
"Followed by paparazzi, a convoy of police escorted Spears to University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center on January 30, her second hospitalization in a month.",
"It was the latest step in the personal and career skid for the 26-year-old singer, now embroiled in a battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline over the custody of their two sons.",
"Spears left the facility Wednesday in her black Mercedes-Benz and drove to a hotel with television helicopters tracking every turn.",
"A crowd of photographers swarmed around her when she arrived.",
"She also had been taken to another hospital January 3 for drug and alcohol tests and a psychiatric evaluation after a custody dispute at her home.",
"The following day, a California court refused to grant Spears visitation rights with her children -- Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1 -- until mid-February at the earliest.",
"In the last year, the onetime Mouseketeer has shaved her head as photographers looked on; been cited for \"habitual, frequent, and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol\" by the judge in her custody case; and seen her \"comeback\" performance on the MTV Video Music Awards panned by critics who derided her singing, dancing, costume choice and weight.",
"Spears' parents obtained a restraining order against her manager earlier this week, accusing Omar \"Sam\" Lufti -- whom Spears met in October -- of drugging her and controlling her life, her finances and her exposure to photographers.",
"The order barred Lufti from Spears' homes and those of her family, as well as her children.",
"Federline, Spears' former backup dancer, holds primary custody of the children.",
"Spears had been in trouble with the court earlier concerning her compliance with court orders in the custody case.",
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"(CNN) -- A court ruled Wednesday that WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over accusations of sex crimes made by two women, despite his legal battle to stay in Britain.",
"Some key players in the WikiLeaks saga are split on how they feel about Assange, but they all agree the website's future could be dire.",
"Assange said in October that he was temporarily suspending WikiLeaks publishing due to lack of funds, and it's unclear whether the possibility of Assange going to jail will mean the death knell for its operations.",
"(The case is unrelated to WikiLeaks.)",
"\"Do I get personal satisfaction from Julian's extradition?",
"Well, I think Julian took Bradley for everything he was worth and hung him out to dry,\" Adrian Lamo said Wednesday.",
"Lamo is the California ex-hacker who claimed in the summer of 2010 that U.S. soldier Bradley Manning confessed to him in online chats that Manning had leaked classified wartime documents to WikiLeaks.",
"Lamo told his story to CNN.com shortly after a trove of secret Afghanistan war documents were published online on WikiLeaks and in three other mainstream media publications.",
"Manning remains behind bars in Kansas; he has been held for more than a year and a half.",
"\"(Assange's) ego was so strong he thought he could bend light and get people to do whatever he wanted.",
"He cannot,\" Lamo said regarding Assange's loss Wednesday in court.",
"Assange has refused to comment about whether Manning was WikiLeaks' source for its Iraq or Afghanistan war logs or other diplomatic cables it has published in the past year.",
"Manning has not commented about his alleged involvement in WikiLeaks.",
"\"I hope WikiLeaks is more than just one man, and that despite the extradition and the enormous pressure, WikiLeaks will continue,\" said Jeff Paterson, who is involved with the Bradley Manning Support Network, which raises money for Manning's defense.",
"Paterson founded the group Courage to Resist, which according to a document on its website, has raised nearly $400,000.",
"The majority of that money pays for Manning's private legal counsel, Paterson said, and the rest pays for numerous protests the group has staged in support of the soldier.",
"WikiLeaks contributed $15,100 in January.",
"\"I hope Julian Assange gets a fair hearing (in Sweden),\" Paterson said.",
"\"No matter what happens I feel confident people will continue to stay focused on Manning's case.\"",
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a First Amendment advocacy group, said the extradition order could send a chill through journalism.",
"\"The real danger to Internet and press freedom is if Sweden now decides to extradite Assange to the U.S. for charges unrelated to what he's facing in Sweden,\" said spokesperson Trevor Timm.",
"Daniel Ellsberg has been a prominent defender of Manning.",
"The 80-year-old who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 purposely got arrested in front of the White House in March while trying to call attention to what he said was Manning's unjust treatment.",
"\"This is not the end of the story here,\" said Ellsberg, noting that another hearing later this month will be held if Assange can appeal the extradition order.",
"He doesn't think Wednesday's news about Assange will deflate support for WikiLeaks, Assange, Manning or the effort to leak documents online in any forum.",
"\"I certainly feel that Assange has done, on balance, a very great service to our country and the world with these disclosures he has published,\" Ellsberg said.",
"\"That doesn't mean that I agree with every decision that he has made, or that he's made no mistakes.\"",
"Ellsberg called Assange a \"hero\" of his.",
"\"I would like to see him continue to operate,\" he said."
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"(CNN Student News) -- December 17, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Washington, D.C. • Afghanistan • Pakistan .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News, where Fridays are awesome!",
"This one, though, is a little sad, because it's actually our last show of 2010.",
"Before we move ahead into 2011, we're going to look back at some of the biggest stories from this year.",
"And we kick things off with today's headlines.",
"First Up: Capitol Hill .",
"AZUZ: First up, a quick check of where things stand with some high-profile proposals in Congress.",
"The tax cut deal: Thursday afternoon, that was with the House of Representatives.",
"Some Democrats were indicating that it would probably pass, despite being controversial.",
"If that happens, everyone's taxes will stay at this current rate, where they are right now, for the next two years.",
"The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, a new nuclear treaty between the U.S. and Russia.",
"Treaties like this have to be approved by the U.S. Senate, and that group was getting ready to begin debating this proposal yesterday.",
"Finally, Don't Ask Don't Tell, the policy that bans homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. military.",
"The House voted to overturn that ban on Wednesday.",
"Now, Don't Ask Don't Tell heads to the Senate.",
"Congress is scheduled to go on break starting tomorrow.",
"You can get the latest details on all of these proposals at CNN.com.",
"Strategy Review .",
"AZUZ: Over at the White House, there's a new report about how the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan is going.",
"This comes out once a year, and this year's report seems to be fairly positive.",
"And President Obama says the U.S. is making a lot of progress in the nine-year war in Afghanistan, although recent polls suggest that a growing number of Americans do not support the war.",
"The president says the goals that have been set for that conflict are on track.",
"That includes the plan to start pulling troops out of Afghanistan in 2011.",
"But the president acknowledged that the war is difficult.",
"While U.S. and Afghan forces are making progress, he said those gains are fragile.",
"The strategy report discussed the importance of a long-term commitment to helping that region of the world.",
"Tribal Conference .",
"AZUZ: The president wants to improve the relationship between the federal government and Native American communities.",
"He met with the leaders of 565 tribes at the White House conference yesterday to try and work on that.",
"President Obama said he wants to get more input from the tribes about ways the U.S. government might be able to help them.",
"That could include supporting education and health care on Native American reservations, for example, or making changes to the criminal justice system there.",
"He says there's been some progress, but there needs to be more.",
"Wicked Weather .",
"AZUZ: A lot of people looking to take a flight Wednesday were delayed by these winter storms that have been pounding parts of the United States.",
"It's not even officially winter yet.",
"You wouldn't know that by stepping outside, though.",
"The National Weather Service put out winter storm warnings and advisories for more than a dozen states.",
"Sandra Endo examines the impact of the cold.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This frozen water fountain in Raleigh, North Carolina is proof of just how cold it is in the South.",
"Wicked winter weather sweeping across the deep South to the upper Plains, causing plenty of problems, especially on the roads.",
"In Georgia, it took trucks, salt and sand to get this school bus carrying high school kids to budge after slick ice left it at a standstill for hours.",
"Some Georgia drivers couldn't keep their cars from moving after authorities say roads went from normal to an ice rink in just minutes.",
"Some drivers were sent slipping and sliding.",
"Pile-ups in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi have caused several deaths.",
"Earlier this week, some states began bracing for the worst.",
"In Tennessee, officials sprayed the road with beet juice and salt, their solution to combat the winter white stuff.",
"But planes can't compete with the wintry mix.",
"Air travel is being disrupted by mother nature's chill.",
"Several airlines are reporting cancellations and major delays.",
"In Washington, I'm Sandra Endo.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for our last Shoutout of 2010!",
"Which of these events happened first?",
"You know what to do! Was it the: A) Iceland volcano eruption, B) UK election, C) World Cup championship or D) Failed Times Square bomb plot?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"The Iceland volcano event happened first; it erupted back in March.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Top 2010 Stories .",
"AZUZ: Those were just some of the major events that happened during the past 12 months.",
"And now, we want you to fill in the blanks as we look back, in no particular order, at some of the other stories that dominated headlines in 2010.",
"A powerful earthquake devastates the Caribbean nation of __________ .",
"ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, ANDERSON COOPER 360°: Finally, after being trapped for more than 18 hours, the men make a small hole and pull Bea out.",
"She is alive. She is finally free.",
"AZUZ: Stories of rescue and survival offered measures of hope in the middle of tragedy, after a powerful earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti in January.",
"An estimated 230,000 people were killed by the quake.",
"Next question: An explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon leads to a __________ in the Gulf of Mexico.",
"GOV. BOBBY JINDAL, (R) LOUISIANA: We are literally in a war to fight, to protect our way of life.",
"And anybody that doubts the impact of this oil, go to any one of a number of places.",
"140 miles of our coast have been oiled.",
"Go and talk to those commercial fishermen.",
"Go look them in the face.",
"AZUZ: The blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon led to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history.",
"It dumped hundreds of millions of gallons into the Gulf and took a tremendous toll on the region and the people who live there.",
"The last full U.S. combat brigade leaves __________ .",
"U.S. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, but American engagement with Iraq will continue with the mission that begins today: Operation New Dawn.",
"AZUZ: It was in August that the last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq.",
"And meanwhile, thousands of additional U.S. troops were sent to Afghanistan as part of the strategy in the fight against the Taliban there.",
"After months of primaries and rallies, Americans vote in the __________ elections on November 2nd.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: What yesterday also told us is that no one party will be able to dictate where we go from here; that we must find common ground in order to set, in order to make progress on some uncommonly difficult challenges.",
"AZUZ: The midterm elections were on November 2nd.",
"Americans cast ballots in local, state and federal races.",
"The results in Congress: Democrats held onto a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, while Republicans took over the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.",
"Despite the official end of the recession, the U.S. __________ continues to struggle.",
"[NYSE CLOSING BELL] .",
"AZUZ: The U.S. economy continues to struggle despite emerging from the longest recession in American history since World War II.",
"The stock market has made gains so far this year, but housing prices decreased and the national unemployment rate stayed above nine percent all year.",
"Last one: 33 miners are rescued after being trapped underground for 69 days in this country.",
"GROUP: Chi! Le! Chi Chi Chi ...Le Le Le!",
"Viva! Viva Chile!",
"AZUZ: Raucous celebration, as 33 miners were rescued after being trapped underground 69 days in Chile.",
"They were trapped by a cave-in at the mine in August.",
"And more than two months later, one by one, all of them emerged back on the surface.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Now, we're gonna have a little fun.",
"We asked you to vote on your favorite type of Before We Go segment.",
"The winning category: stunts!",
"We're not saying no animals were involved.",
"Getting a dog on a kneeboard is kind of a stunt in itself, but making him surf?",
"Seeing him hang 20?",
"That's a paws-ition worth repetition!",
"And how about this? It's a long shot, but, it's also a long shot!",
"Nothin' but net and rim and excessive celebration.",
"Yes, two points!",
"Now, we don't know how many takes this took to finally sink in.",
"But this took only one. Forget pumpkin carve competition.",
"This is pumpkin car recondition!",
"It came to us from Liveleak.com and it repeats, which makes watching it a really gourd time.",
"You think insurance would cover that?",
"You think it would cover this?",
"Take one school bus, paint some flames on the hood, and add a jet engine.",
"In this YouTube video, a tricked-out twinkie tears up the track at 300 miles per hour!",
"And it guarantees you'll never be late for the bell.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Unless your ride gets pulled over by the police, in which case you'd be totally bus-ted.",
"All right, we wanna give a special Shoutout to Coach Adams, Mrs. Mazell and Mrs.",
"Hood. Their students sent us an excellent Facebook video.",
"You can see it at Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.",
"Just scroll down to Fan Videos, and you'll see what happens when Carl Azuz is comin' to town!",
"All right, we at CNN Student News want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, a Happy Kwanzaa, a Happy New Year.",
"We hope you have a wonderful break; we're looking forward to seeing you again on January 3rd, 2011!",
"Thank you for being, what I often call, the best audience out there."
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"(CNN) -- Police on Tuesday scoured the area in Detroit where Bianca Jones was last reported seen, searching for any signs of the missing 2-year-old girl.",
"Bianca was reportedly traveling with her father in a 2004 silver Mercury Grand Marquis on Friday when they were carjacked, said Sgt.",
"Eren Stephens, a spokeswoman with Detroit police.",
"\"The suspect took off in the car with her in it,\" she said, citing what the father told authorities.",
"The vehicle was subsequently recovered, but the girl remains missing.",
"However, Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said in a statement over the weekend that the \"authenticity and credibility of the original version of events is under intense scrutiny by our investigative team,\" seeming to suggest that police do not believe what the father told them happened.",
"\"At this time, we're looking at everything,\" Stephens said.",
"Bianca is described as African-American, 2 feet, 5 inches tall, 25 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.",
"She was last seen wearing a pink dress, pink tights, pink shoes and a purple coat, according to an Amber Alert issued last week by the Michigan State Police.",
"Her father, D'Andre Lane, spoke to HLN's Nancy Grace on Tuesday night, begging whoever took his daughter to bring her back.",
"\"I don't care about anything else that's going on right now but my daughter's safe return home to her family,\" he said.",
"\"I just want my daughter back home.\"",
"Lane appeared alongside his attorney, Terry L. Johnson, who said his client gave police permission to enter his home and has fully cooperated in the investigation.",
"Stephens declined to say whether police have searched Lane's house.",
"\"My daughter is a beautiful little girl.",
"She has a bright personality.",
"She's the type of person that lights up a room when she walks in it.",
"She's very intelligent,\" Lane told HLN's Grace.",
"\"She's just a wonderful little girl to be around.\"",
"About 150 volunteers turned out on Monday to help look for Bianca, said Stephens, who also declined to comment on whether they or police had found anything useful.",
"She urged anyone with information on the possible whereabouts of the little girl to contact Detroit police."
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"NEW: \"I just want my daughter back home,\" D'Andre Lane tells HLN's Nancy Grace .",
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"San Diego, California (CNN) -- A black Republican who has rankled liberals and suddenly risen in prominence is torpedoed with old allegations of sexual harassment as he challenges the conventional wisdom about how African-Americans think and pursues an important position atop the federal government.",
"Haven't we seen this movie?",
"Get ready for the sequel.",
"Politico reported recently that two women -- whose names are being withheld by the website -- accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s while the businessman led the National Restaurant Association, and that a financial settlement \"in the five-figure range\" was reached to keep the story quiet.",
"When confronted with the allegation, the GOP front-runner showed that he is new to politics by mangling his responses in one media interview after another.",
"At first, Cain went with the tried and tested approach: \"No comment.\"",
"Then he claimed to know nothing about the case.",
"Then he claimed that he did know a little about the case, but that he didn't know there had been a settlement.",
"Then he tried to tell us that there was a difference between a \"settlement\" and an \"agreement.\"",
"And, by the end of the day, he was admitting that there had been a settlement and that, in the case of one woman, it had amounted to about three months salary.",
"It was both amusing and painful to watch.",
"I'm not sure whether to applaud Cain for not knowing how to lie with the panache of other Republican presidential hopefuls, or tell him to run for the exit.",
"I hope he doesn't quit the race, as some Beltway commentators are suggesting he should do -- not because this scandal is so bad that he can't recover, but because the elite media can't wait to clear the field and get to what they think will be the main event: Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama.",
"There is no question that Cain's handling of this story was atrocious.",
"But what is also troubling is that this scandal has a familiar ring -- one that goes back 20 years to the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.",
"I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of sexual harassment being the preferred line of attack against black conservatives.",
"This isn't to say that sexual harassment is acceptable -- whether it's a proposition or the creation of a hostile work environment.",
"But the whole thing makes me queasy in light of the ugly history in this country of black men being described in sexually charged terms.",
"I don't care who the attack is leveled against; anyone who plays with the idea of a black man acting inappropriately toward women is playing with dynamite.",
"Liberals who rejoice in the Cain story should remember that.",
"Herman Cain and the decline of black conservatism .",
"And why are black conservatives singled out for these kinds of attacks?",
"Consider how many of them hold high office in this country.",
"Not many. If you counted up all those who serve in the House, the Senate, and the 50 governorships, you'd still have less than a handful.",
"Since the 1960 presidential election, African-Americans have shunned the GOP and tended to vote Democratic.",
"Politicians who break from that tradition automatically become a target, and their critics will pummel them with anything they've got.",
"After all, it's not like African-American men are the only ones ever accused of sexual harassment.",
"The alleged perpetrators come in all colors.",
"During the 1990s, even before the Monica Lewinsky scandal, President Bill Clinton could have easily become the poster boy for sexual harassment because of allegations by a former hotel worker named Paula Jones.",
"While Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives, he long ago closed that chapter in his life, and now he's considered one of the Democratic Party's elder statesman.",
"There was also the notorious Tailhook scandal, where more than 100 aviation officers from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps -- most of them white -- were alleged to have sexually assaulted and/or sexually harassed more than 80 women at a gathering in Las Vegas.",
"All this happened just one month before the Thomas hearings, and yet we're likely to remember one of these events much longer than we do the other.",
"Somehow, it was Thomas whose name became synonymous with allegations of sexual harassment, after Anita Hill came forward in October 1991 and claimed that while he was her boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he made sexual advances and created a hostile work environment.",
"Many Americans look back at Thomas' confirmation hearings and think they were mainly about accusations that Thomas directed sexually blunt language at Hill.",
"But for me, what they were really about wasn't dirty talk as much as dirty politics.",
"Black conservatives ask us to think outside the box, and so -- as some people see it -- they're asking for trouble.",
"The hearings were also about freedom -- the freedom to indulge in independent thought, even if it means biting the hands of liberal benefactors.",
"You heard that criticism leveled at Thomas, who opposes affirmative action even though -- according to his critics -- he benefited from it.",
"And the public humiliation that Thomas suffered remains a prime example of the liberal establishment trying to put someone in his place.",
"Now, in an outrageous example of patronizing language that borders on hate speech, MSNBC analyst Karen Finney declared that the only reason that Cain is popular with white Republicans is because \"he's a black man that knows his place.\"",
"We could have guessed this was coming, sooner or later.",
"In the latest installment of \"Liberals Gone Wild,\" the black Republican presidential candidate who knows his place is put in his place by a liberal commentator.",
"Cain should be glad about one thing.",
"As the attacks on him intensify, it proves definitively that he's moving up in the world.",
"As voters continue to respond favorably to the fact that he's not a professional politician, he's gone from novelty act to legitimate presidential contender.",
"When that happens, there are those in both parties who will try to destroy you.",
"Even if it means -- just as it did 20 years ago -- hurting the country in the process.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette Jr."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The sister of presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. testified Tuesday that she has seen no sign that her brother represents a danger to himself or others.",
"Diane Sims, who said she loves her brother, said she supports a proposal that would expand his visits to their mother's home in Williamsburg, Virginia, and might eventually allow him to live there as a full-time outpatient.",
"But she said she does not think it would be a good option for him to move to the Dallas area, where she lives.",
"\"President Bush lives not 10 minutes from me and I think it would be a concern,\" said Sims, apparently referring to concerns the Secret Service might have.",
"Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, moved to Dallas after they left the White House.",
"Sims said she has no worries that Hinckley would be a risk to others in Dallas.",
"U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman asked if it is accurate she is worried about her brother's personal safety in Dallas, since that is the city where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.",
"\"That's a concern to me,\" Sims said quietly.",
"She also said she thinks a move to Dallas would place Hinckley too far away from the medical experts who have cared for him for many years.",
"Hinckley's sister testified on the fourth day of a multiple-day hearing to discuss his future.",
"Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 shootings of President Ronald Reagan, press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and police officer Thomas Delahanty.",
"All of those men survived, though Brady was shot in the head and left permanently disabled.",
"Hinckley was staying at the home of his sister and her husband in Dallas on October 13, 1980, when, according to testimony in his 1982 trial, he went to a pawn shop to buy two .22-caliber revolvers, one of which he used to shoot Reagan and the others five months later.",
"Only days before the purchase, three guns had been confiscated from Hinckley's luggage while he was trying to board a plane in Nashville.",
"Hinckley posted bond, was released and flew to New York City, then spent the night in New Haven, Connecticut, where actress Jodie Foster was a college freshman student.",
"He flew to Dallas to stay that weekend at his sister's home while she and her husband were away at a football game.",
"On that Monday, Hinckley told her he was going out to look for a job, but, unknown to her, he bought the guns instead.",
"The gun purchase was not mentioned in court Tuesday, and the government has not said it would be more dangerous for Hinckley to live in Dallas than anywhere else.",
"Since his conviction, Hinckley has been living in St. Elizabeths, a government mental hospital in Washington.",
"But in recent years he's been allowed to visit his mother's home with increasing frequency.",
"Currently, he spends 10 days a month in Williamsburg.",
"Under the proposal made by St. Elizabeths he would be granted two visits of 17 days each followed by six visits of 24 days.",
"The hospital's recommendation for Hinckley's eventual release on convalescent leave asks the judge to allow Hinckley to live full time in Williamsburg \"at the discretion of the hospital\" once the eight longer visits have been completed successfully.",
"The report was filed with the court under seal on July 29 and was not made public until Tuesday.",
"The doctors signing the report said such leave would be permitted only upon an assessment, at the end of the new visits, that \"Mr. Hinckley is experiencing a good mental status and that he does not present as [sic] a danger to himself or others.\"",
"If so, the recommendation said, Hinckley would be \"conditionally released to reside permanently on convalescent leave.\"",
"He would be required to meet at least once a month with a psychiatrist who is already counseling him in Williamsburg and to continue his weekly visits to a therapist there.",
"He would also be expected to continue his volunteer activities at Eastern State Hospital.",
"However, the filing said, should Hinckley violate the terms of his convalescent leave, \"the hospital will return him to total inpatient care with due notification of the court.\"",
"If the judge were to grant convalescent leave at the hospital's discretion at the end of the eight longer visits now requested, it would be unlikely to happen until at least the fall of 2012, since as the filing requires a minimum two-week interval between each of the new visits.",
"Hinckley would be expected at the outset to live with his widowed mother, who is turning 86 this week and is in good health.",
"However, the hospital said should his \"mother not be available\" after Hinckley's release, his brother and sister had expressed interest \"in the housing options of independent apartments as well as Assisted Living Facilities... in the Williamsburg area.\"",
"Sims often spends time in Williamsburg when Hinckley is there and drives him back to St. Elizabeths.",
"She was asked many questions about how the 56-year-old fits into the Virginia community.",
"She said he feels comfortable there and has indicated he wants to stay there even when his elderly mother is no longer there.",
"According to Sims, Hinckley likes working part time in the library of Eastern State Hospital and is comfortable with the psychiatrist and case manager/therapist he sees while in Williamsburg.",
"Under questioning, Sims acknowledged the family does not permit a woman identified in court only as CB to visit the Hinckley home.",
"Hinckley at one time told some of his caregivers at St. Elizabeths that he was engaged to CB, who had been a patient there.",
"Hinckley later ended the engagement, doctors have said.",
"Prosecutors described CB as being psychologically unstable and asked if it was accurate Hinckley's mother does not allow her to visit for fear she would have a mental breakdown at the home.",
"Sims said that is the case.",
"Sims said her brother never told the family he was engaged and -- quite to the contrary -- has said he's not engaged and has no plans to marry the woman.",
"She said she is aware her brother still sees CB sometimes when the woman visits St. Elizabeths.",
"Previously the court heard testimony that Sims had taken her brother to a singles group meeting in Williamsburg a number of years ago, and he was asked to leave.",
"Sims said she wanted to set the record straight about what happened.",
"She and her brother believed members of the group knew they were coming, but that was not the case, she said.",
"The group was surprised to see Hinckley there, she said.",
"But she said all the members were in their mid-70s and her brother would not have fit in.",
"Sims said that when her brother goes out in the community he usually has no problems with people who recognize him.",
"\"He's not bothered by people, he's not pointed out,\" she told the court.",
"She said, \"He doesn't bother anybody\" either.",
"She said Hinckley and his family members find they are able to go to certain restaurants where people know who they are but are welcoming.",
"\"In general, the people in town have been very tolerant,\" she said.",
"Last week, prosecutors said Hinckley had not told the truth about deviating from his approved itinerary to go to a movie while on his few hours of permitted unaccompanied time.",
"According to a report by Secret Service agents who were watching Hinckley without his knowledge, on one outing last July, Hinckley did not attend a movie and instead went to a bookstore where he passed by an aisle of books that included an account of the day Reagan was shot.",
"The judge noted the report did not indicate that Hinckley read that book or any similar books.",
"\"The subject was not observed picking up and looking at specific books,\" the report says.",
"\"One item of note is the subject stopped for a time and looked at the shelves in the American History area that contain several books about President Reagan and his attempted assassination.\"",
"Hinckley's sister said she had accompanied him to bookstores and never saw him look at any books like that.",
"She said he gravitated to books on music and art.",
"But in response to questioning by a prosecutor, she said she wasn't aware Hinckley had failed to go to the movies as planned on two occasions, in July and in September.",
"Sims was asked if she ever noticed Secret Service agents keeping an eye on Hinckley.",
"She replied the only time she has noticed surveillance is when she drives Hinckley out of her mother's gated community and back to St. Elizabeths.",
"She said agents are always waiting in a vehicle and follow along.",
"But at the end of a March 2011 visit, the Secret Service was not waiting, she said.",
"According to Sims, about midway through the trip to Washington, Hinckley's brother, Scott, got a call on his cell phone from an agent who said he had been late.",
"Sims said the agent asked the Hinckley family's location and requested that they wait for him to catch up.",
"Sims replied the family did and was happy to cooperate with the Secret Service.",
"CNN's James Polk contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Hospital staff makes release recommendations .",
"John Hinckley's sister says she supports letting him eventually live in Williamsburg .",
"She says he feels comfortable there and is accepted by many community members .",
"Hinckley has been hospitalized since he shot President Reagan in 1981 ."
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"Suzhou, China (CNN) -- In the shadow of the bustling Kaedar Electronics plant a brightly colored kindergarten sits somewhat incongruously, its playground usually empty.",
"\"Teachers always keep the windows shut,\" explained 3-year-old Wei Xiwei, who attends the community facility but is rarely allowed outdoors.",
"In Tongxin, a small village on the other side of the factory, the young have long gone, leaving only the old and frail behind.",
"\"If we don't get moved out, I'll just die here soon,\" said 75-year-old Lu Baoyun.",
"Young and old, locals living around the Kaedar plant near Shanghai in eastern China, blame the same thing for disrupting their lives: fumes from the factory.",
"Residents say the strong odor sickens them.",
"Kaedar reportedly produces casings for Apple's popular iPhone.",
"With the help of concerned citizens, a coalition of grassroots environmental groups tracked alleged polluters like Kaedar during a seven-month investigation and recently published their findings in a 46-page report titled \"The Other Side of Apple (Part II).\"",
"\"They say they are committed to ensuring the highest standards of social responsibility,\" said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs who led the effort.",
"\"If they can't manage their supply chain, it's just empty talk.\"",
"Contacted by CNN, Apple declined to name its suppliers in China but past news reports indicated Kaedar and many of the 21 other companies listed in the environmentalists' report manufacture parts for various Apple products.",
"Apple insists it requires that suppliers \"use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made.\"",
"Kaedar would not comment for this report.",
"The activists also produced a video that features accusations from people living near what they say are Apple suppliers in various parts of the country.",
"In one part, a fisherman in central China is seen rowing his boat along a small river discolored with a yellow hue, allegedly the discharge from two local factories - one believed to be an Apple supplier.",
"Apple declined to address specific allegations and referred CNN to its latest progress report on supplier responsibility.",
"In the document, the company stressed that it aggressively monitors factories in its supply chain with regular, on-site audits.",
"Apple also said it addresses relevant issues with nongovernmental organizations and industry groups.",
"Ma said Apple has talked to his organization and he was encouraged by the company's follow-up.",
"But he emphasized public scrutiny is the key in combating environmental violations and said his group will continue to name and shame big brands.",
"Some 30 kilometers west of Tongxin Village, in an industrial park dotted with factories churning out electronics for the global market, residents at the Phoenix City high-rise housing complex echo the activists' sentiment.",
"They have been complaining about the same problem as the Tongxin villagers, from Catcher-Topo, an expanding electronics plant right next to their apartments and reportedly another Apple supplier.",
"\"Health can't be the price of wealth, right?\"",
"said resident Miller Xu.",
"\"In a few decades, if your health is ruined, it wouldn't matter how much money you have.\"",
"The 33-year-old engineer said he is considering moving so that his toddler son would not have to breathe what he believes is \"toxic air.\"",
"He added the residents' experience has given many pause for buying Apple products.",
"Apple has seen phenomenal sales growth in China and opened Asia's largest Apple Store in Shanghai last week.",
"The company announced in July its revenue from Greater China reached $8.8 billion for the first three quarters of this fiscal year, an increase of more than sixfold compared to the same period last year.",
"\"I don't have an iPad or an iPhone mainly because I can't afford them,\" Xu said.",
"\"But I heard many people here are boycotting the iPhone - and this factory is not the only Apple supplier with pollution problems.\"",
"CNN contacted Catcher-Topo for comments but the company declined.",
"Officials in Suzhou, where the Catcher-Topo and Kaedar plants are located, said local factories are regularly inspected and all have met China's environmental protection code.",
"Residents remain skeptical, however.",
"\"Ordinary people's words are totally worthless to the authorities,\" said Lu, the elderly villager in Tongxin.",
"\"There is simply nothing we can do.\"",
"CNN's Eunice Yoon and Xiaoni Chen contributed to this report."
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"Some of Apple's suppliers in China are accused of the polluting the environment .",
"Technology giant says it is committed to ensuring highest standards of social responsibility .",
"Apple widely popular in China and has just opened Asia's largest Apple Store in Shanghai .",
"The U.S. company has agreed to work with the green activists after recent talks ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On September 11, 2001, Kathryn Freed watched from two blocks away as a plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower.",
"After September 11, most of lower Manhattan was covered in thick dust from the collapsed towers.",
"\"Honestly, it was so surreal,\" Freed said.",
"\"We heard the plane coming -- it was very low and very loud -- and we watched it go right over our heads; we just watched it hit dead center the north tower.",
"I stood there and watched the skin of the building come off.",
"It looked like tinsel from a Christmas tree falling down.\"",
"A short while later, Freed saw the second plane plow through the south tower in a giant fireball.",
"And as she headed back toward her apartment, four blocks from what was soon to be known as ground zero, the south tower collapsed, sending a plume of debris into the air and straight down her street.",
"Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her \"WTC cough\" and other respiratory issues.",
"She's among the many residents of lower Manhattan, emergency responders, recovery workers, commuters and passers-by to have developed serious, sometimes chronic medical problems since the terrorist attack seven years ago.",
"A commission charged with examining the scope and depth of the attack's health effects reviewed more than 100 scientific articles published since 2001 and found that new asthma levels among residents and rescue workers were two to three times higher than the national estimates.",
"The report by the World Trade Center Medical Working Group, issued in advance of the September 11 anniversary, also found that two to three years after the attack, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder remained elevated among rescue and recovery workers and residents of lower Manhattan.",
"Interactive: More on PTSD » .",
"But the most reassuring finding was that in all the studies they looked at, there was consistency.",
"\"The primary finding of the report, as you synthesize the main findings from more than 100 peer review articles on the health ramifications of 9/11, is that the findings are very similar across the studies,\" Lorna Thorpe said.",
"Thorpe, the deputy commissioner in the Division of Epidemiology at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is a member of the Medical Working Group.",
"\"That is a very important characteristic to us when we are trying to say how well we understand the short- and medium-term health ramifications,\" she said.",
"The group, appointed last year by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is composed of 16 professionals with varied areas of expertise who include researchers, clinicians, psychiatrists, pulmonologists and environmental health experts.",
"According to their report, there were also glimmers of good news: New diagnoses of the autoimmune disorder sarcoidosis, which were elevated among responding firefighters early on, are now back to pre-September 11 rates; early symptoms for PTSD resolved quickly for most people; and any impact on birth outcomes was small in magnitude.",
"\"The review of existing services found that at the moment, the panoply of services that exist in New York City are sufficient for those who are stepping forward with potential 9/11 illnesses, but moving forward, additional federal support for sustaining those services is critical,\" Thorpe said, adding that the bigger the outreach effort, the greater the chance of demand to outstrip supply.",
"According to the group, there are still many unanswered questions, including how extensively the disaster affected the health of residents, area workers and students; what kind of exposure increased risk; how persistent the mental and physical symptoms are; how prevalent depression and substance abuse are; whether there is a possibility of trade center-related cancer; and how effective is the treatment received by those who sought it.",
"The medical working group also issued recommendations, including advocating for long-term federal funding to ensure that treatment and monitoring can continue; expanding the research into trade center-related conditions and evaluating the treatments involved; and expanding the education efforts to increase awareness of both the availability of medical resources for those affected and the clinical guidelines created to treat them.",
"Freed believes that she was lucky in that she was \"too busy\" to develop PTSD; at the time, she was a New York council member and spent the months after the attack working to get her neighborhood back on its feet, bringing in supplies, medicine, information and services.",
"She also continued to live in her apartment, where inches of dust had collected on the terrace, and didn't leave the neighborhood with its ever-present dust cloud for months.",
"\"At that time, I had such a bad WTC cough -- I had gone to one of the doctors at Mount Sinai [hospital], and he basically told me to get out of the district because I was having such a hard time breathing,\" she said.",
"\"Like everyone down there, I had a bad cough and what I thought was heartburn, but after the doctor's visit, I realized the air was so, so caustic that just breathing ended up burning your respiratory system.\"",
"To this day, Freed, who is now a civil court judge for Manhattan, suffers from the breathing problems and allergies that developed after the attack, and although she occasionally gets \"the cough,\" it doesn't bother her nearly as often.",
"The WTC Medical Working Group is expected to issue an update every year.",
"Freed is glad they are around, but she added, \"It might have been nice to have it seven years ago.\""
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"Working group looked at more than 100 studies done since 2001 .",
"Survivors reported higher levels of PTSD and respiratory problems such as asthma .",
"More federal funds needed for medical services for at-risk groups, panel says .",
"Watch 9/11 memorials in New York and Washington on CNN.com Live ."
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"(CNN) -- Four people in Japan have been killed amid heavy rain from a powerful typhoon that is expected to make landfall Wednesday afternoon, authorities there said.",
"The center of Typhoon Roke, which had sustained winds of up to 167 kph (103 mph) Wednesday morning, could hit Japan's Tokai region, which includes Nagoya city -- or the Kanto region, which includes Tokyo -- in the afternoon, Japan Meteorological Agency chief forecaster Yutaka Kanda said at a news conference.",
"At of 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Roke's center was 280 kilometers southwest of Nagoya, where about 1 million people had been urged to evacuate.",
"An evacuation order for about 80,000 residents of Nagoya was lifted, according to local media reports.",
"Heavy rain fell in central and western Japan from the typhoon's outer bands on Tuesday and Wednesday.",
"Some downpours came at up to 50 millimeters (2 inches) an hour, and some parts received more than 450 millimeters (17 inches) over a day, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.",
"Four people have died in Nagoya, including a 66-year-old man who fell from a roof Tuesday while trying to fix a stuck duct, city authorities said.",
"Two other people -- a fourth-grade boy and an 84-year-old man -- were missing in Gifu prefecture, authorities said.",
"People in the Tokai and Kanto regions should be prepared for heavy rain Wednesday, Kanda said, adding that the Kanto region may be most affected Wednesday evening.",
"No airports were closed Wednesday, but several flights toward the Kyushu and Shikoku areas were canceled, transportation officials said.",
"Several passenger trains were not running Wednesday in central and southern Japan, railway officials said.",
"CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report."
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"Typhoon Roke approaches Japan, expected to make landfall midafternoon Wednesday .",
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"About 1 million people have been urged to evacuate Nagoya .",
"Several flights canceled; some trains not running ."
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"(CNN) -- The Florida case of a trooper ticketing a Miami police officer in his squad car for driving 120 miles per hour \"is a simple misunderstanding that has been blown out of proportion,\" the officer's attorney said Friday.",
"Officer Fausto Lopez, 35, of Miami was handcuffed at gunpoint last month and charged with second-degree reckless driving, a misdemeanor, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.",
"Lopez, who was speeding on the Florida Turnpike, was released shortly after, authorities said.",
"Lopez was accused of weaving his marked police car through traffic at more than 120 miles an hour so he could be on time for his off-duty job, authorities said.",
"He led Florida trooper D.J.",
"Watts on a seven-minute, nearly 12-mile chase in the predawn darkness of October 11, a highway patrol report said.",
"\"It was an unfortunate situation that happened, and although Officer Lopez may have been going too fast, the Florida Highway Patrol trooper clearly overreacted,\" Bill Matthewman, Lopez's attorney, told CNN.",
"\"This matter was very much blown out of proportion.\"",
"\"Officer Fausto López is a good police officer who has worked as a uniform patrol officer on the streets of Miami for nearly six years, protecting the citizens of Miami,\" Matthewman said separately in a statement.",
"\"The allegation that he was driving his police vehicle 120 mph is not accurate and is disputed.",
"He was not driving recklessly, and a review of the videotape shows he was not driving recklessly.\"",
"Meanwhile, the highway patrol released the audio recording of the dispatch call made by state Trooper Donna Jane Watts as she pursued Lopez on the Turnpike, also Florida State Route 91, according to CNN affiliate WSVN.",
"\"I don't know what agency he is.",
"I'm on 91 almost to Sunrise.",
"He's well over 120 and he's not stopping,\" Watts said.",
"The audio and video of the chase were recorded at 6:30 a.m. on October 11.",
"That is when Watts spotted a speeding vehicle on the Turnpike.",
"\"All I can see is a white patrol car with blue or something like that, bright lights.",
"It would be a Miami or D.O.T., and I'm sure it's not D.O.T.,\" she said to the dispatcher.",
"Then an unidentified person on the radio tells Watts: \"If they tell you it's a patrol car, just have her back off.\"",
"Watts was driving on the turnpike when the white marked Miami police car blew by and \"crossed over all lanes of traffic,\" according to the state highway patrol report.",
"She couldn't overtake the Miami police car \"due to the unit traveling extremely reckless, in and out of traffic at high rates of speed, in excess of 120 mph,\" according to the report.",
"The Miami officer ignored the state patrol officer's siren and lights -- and even \"accelerated\" at times and continued changing lanes, the report said.",
"At one point, the Miami officer slowed to 78 miles an hour, but sped up again, the highway patrol said.",
"Finally, the Miami officer, wearing his uniform, pulled over his squad car at 6:35 a.m. in Hollywood.",
"A state highway patrol video shows the state trooper pulling out her service handgun as she approached the police car with the officer seated behind the wheel.",
"The Miami police officer \"stated that he was en route to an off-duty work detail and that he had to be there by 7:00 a.m.,\" Watts wrote in her report.",
"On the Florida Highway Patrol offense report, the document lists Lopez' occupation as \"police officer\" whose employer is \"City of Miami Police Departmen(t)\" and lists the style of automobile as \"police car,\" a white 2008 Crown Victoria.",
"Miami Police Detective Willie Moreno told CNN affiliate WFOR in Miami last month that the department will determine whether to take any action against Lopez after a judge rules on his case.",
"The turnpike's website nicknames the highway \"The Less Stressway.\""
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"The attorney for Miami Officer Fausto Lopez says the case is a \"misunderstanding\"\nLopez was ticketed for reckless driving in his squad car at 120 mph on the Florida Turnpike .",
"Lopez was in a hurry to get to his off-duty job .",
"The case is \"blown out of proportion,\" attorney says ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The pocketbook of a New Jersey woman whose disappearance in 2010 led authorities to the discovery of 10 sets of human remains across two Long Island, New York, counties has been found, police said Wednesday.",
"A cell phone that authorities believe may also belong to Shannan Gilbert -- whose disappearance triggered a search that has become a hunt for a possible serial killer -- was also found on Long Island's Oak Beach, alongside a pair of jeans and shoes, according to Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.",
"\"We're going to do everything we can to find her,\" he told reporters.",
"\"It is our belief her body or parts of her remains are in (an area of Oak Beach), and we will continue (to) search tonight and into tomorrow.\"",
"After Gilbert vanished in May 2010, the search for her led police seven months later to four bodies found along a quarter-mile stretch of Oak Beach.",
"Additional remains were uncovered in subsequent months in neighboring Gilgo Beach and along beachfront property in Nassau County, about 40 miles east of New York City.",
"Like the four victims found last December, Gilbert had advertised prostitution services on websites such as Craigslist.",
"Gilbert's sisters have said the missing woman was an escort who was visiting a client.",
"They said she ran from the man's house and called 911, saying someone was trying to hurt her.",
"A man who lives a few miles from where the first set of remains were found last December told CNN that a young woman who \"looked like she was partying all night\" came to his door at about 5 a.m. on May 1, 2010.",
"\"She was screaming 'Help me, help me!'",
"and said somebody was chasing her,\" said resident Gustav Coletti.",
"Wednesday's find comes after renewed search efforts by federal and state authorities in Oak Beach -- the area where Gilbert was last believed to be, at a so-called private party.",
"\"This may be just a young lady (who) ran into the brush in hysterical state, fell down and expired for some reason,\" added Dormer.",
"The police commissioner announced earlier this week that the investigation likely revolves around a possible serial killer -- a departure from his prior statements, in which Dormer said the bodies could be the work of multiple killers.",
"It is not clear what prompted the change in focus toward one killer.",
"\"What's common here is the dumping ground,\" he said.",
"Authorities have sifted through more than 1,000 tips related to the case, with police upping 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."
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"Search for Shannan Gilbert in 2010 led to discovery of 10 bodies on Long Island .",
"A cell phone was also found alongside a pair of jeans and shoes, police added .",
"\"It is our belief her body or parts of her remains are in that area,\" police commissioner says .",
"Authorities are searching for a possible serial killer ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A day and a half after he was arrested on a drunk-driving charge, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt co-piloted a government jet to North Carolina as part of a proficiency flight, Federal Aviation Administration officials confirmed Wednesday.",
"The flight was planned before Babbitt's Saturday-night arrest, officials said, and took place as scheduled Monday morning.",
"Babbitt does not appear to have violated any FAA rules by taking the flight.",
"Since he has not been convicted of DWI, he was under no formal obligation to report the arrest, and there is no suggestion that he violated a \"bottle to throttle\" rule requiring eight hours to pass between alcohol consumption and flying.",
"But Babbitt earned the ire of his boss -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood -- by not notifying him of the arrest.",
"LaHood learned of the arrest about 1 p.m. Monday after a Virginia police department published a press release announcing the arrest.",
"Babbitt, meanwhile, was just returning from the proficiency flight.",
"Within an hour, the DOT issued a press release saying that Babbitt had asked to be placed on leave, and the request had been accepted.",
"On Tuesday, LaHood told reporters he was \"very disappointed\" in the way he had learned about the arrest.",
"Babbitt resigned later Tuesday, saying he did not want anything to \"cast a shadow\" on the FAA.",
"The resignation brought to an end a tumultuous four days that began about 10:30 p.m. Saturday when a Fairfax, Virginia, police officer said he noticed Babbitt driving on the wrong side of Old Lee Highway, police said.",
"Babbitt was the sole occupant of the vehicle and cooperated fully with police, according to police .",
"Police said after it was determined that Babbitt was under the influence of alcohol, he was taken to a jail where he was charged with driving while intoxicated and released on personal recognizance.",
"FAA officials said Babbitt had no official duties over the weekend.",
"Babbitt did not return a reporter's phone call.",
"On Monday, Babbitt went on a proficiency flight in an FAA aircraft, departing Reagan National Airport near Washington, flying to Hickory, North Carolina, and then on to Charlotte, where the plane landed for fuel before returning to Washington.",
"The flight was intended as training for the FAA's new satellite-based navigation system known as Next Gen, the FAA said.",
"The FAA said administrators with pilot's licenses are permitted to fly FAA aircraft.",
"\"Randy Babbitt served as a licensed pilot and maintained qualifications to fly FAA airplanes on official business,\" the FAA said.",
"\"This helps provide firsthand knowledge of the U.S. aviation system.\"",
"In this case, another pilot served as pilot in command during the flight, the FAA said.",
"Under federal regulations, FAA-licensed pilots must notify the FAA within 60 days of being convicted of a drunk driving charge, or when they apply for medical recertification.",
"Neither applied to Babbitt, although officials said senior officials are held to a higher standard."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Before anyone ever heard of the Tea Party movement, there was a grass-roots conservative group from out West that shook up the political status quo.",
"It happened in Canada more than 20 years ago, and the rebel Reform Party's rapid rise and eventual amalgamation into the political mainstream might offer some perspective on what is happening today on the U.S. political right.",
"In particular, the Reform Party's rise split the so-called conservative vote in Canada, helping the Liberal Party win three straight elections to stay in power for 13 years.",
"Only when Canada's conservatives came together under one banner, as the Conservative Party of Canada, did they wield the coast-to-coast clout to win enough seats in Parliament to take over the prime minister's office.",
"\"It's hard to reconcile them all,\" Reform Party founder Preston Manning told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"The argument we used is that you all need each other.",
"You do agree on a whole bunch of other things.\"",
"Canada's parliamentary system differs from the U.S. system, with the party that holds the most seats in the House of Commons forming the government.",
"Political labels such as conservative and liberal don't always mean exactly the same thing in the two countries.",
"Still, a look at the Reform Party's history and influence on the Canadian political system reveals some parallels with the relatively new Tea Party movement south of the border.",
"In the United States, the Tea Party movement has shaken up politics-as-usual with its anti-Washington sentiment that helped topple some Republican incumbents in primaries for the November congressional midterm election.",
"The latest could be Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who trailed her Tea Party-backed but little-known opponent, Joe Miller, in the Republican primary held Tuesday.",
"Miller led by a hairsbreadth when polls closed, but there are thousands of absentee ballots left to be counted, and the race might not be decided until next week.",
"The success of far-right candidates such as Miller, Rand Paul in Kentucky and Sharron Angle in Nevada fostered hopes in the self-described grass-roots uprising that it could win power with its small-government, anti-deficit ideology.",
"\"I'm very proud of my association with the Tea Party,\" said Marco Rubio, a former Florida state representative who won Tuesday's Republican Senate primary vote.",
"\"But people misunderstand what the Tea Party movement is in America.",
"It is not a centralized organization or a political party.",
"It's the sentiment of everyday Americans who think that Washington has it wrong -- they're taking our country in the wrong direction.",
"And they are looking for voices in American politics that will stand up to that and offer a clear alternative.\"",
"However, an inherent social conservatism in the Tea Party movement has exposed rifts with more moderate Republicans, much to the delight of Democrats.",
"A main Tea Party spokesman, Mark Williams, was ousted last month after a controversial blog post about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Abraham Lincoln, and the emancipation of the slaves.",
"He resigned, but defended his remarks as satire.",
"Tea Party protesters outside the U.S. Capitol were accused of using racist and anti-gay epithets against African-American and gay Democrats in March, and spitting on an African-American congressman.",
"Republican House leaders criticized the alleged incident but said it was an isolated case, and Andrew Langer, one of the organizers of the protest over health care reform, said his \"Institute for Liberty roundly condemns the isolated incidents of intolerance that occurred.",
"... As a core value, the Tea Party movement believes in the precept upon which our independence was declared and this nation was founded: that all men are created equal.\"",
"In Nevada, Angle's candidacy revived what was thought to be a deeply troubled re-election bid by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.",
"Now Reid and Angle are in a tight race, due in part to concerns over some of Angle's policies and comments, such as a call to do away with the federal Department of Education.",
"Even while Alaskans waited for a final result in the state's Senate Republican primary, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee derided Miller as \"an extremist who intends to transition-out Social Security, phase-out Medicare, and end unemployment benefits for all Alaskan families.\"",
"In Canada, Manning's Reform Party faced similar challenges in the 1990s as he tried to unite it with the Progressive Conservative Party, the traditional home of fiscal conservatives.",
"Led by Manning, a politician's son known as a shrewd pragmatist, the Canadian reformers emerged from the Western provinces in the 1980s as a protest movement against the federal government back east in Ottawa, Ontario.",
"In particular, they were angry at what they perceived as Ottawa's reliance on oil revenues from Alberta, a Western province, to appease Quebecers threatening a separatist movement in the nation's only francophone province.",
"Manning built on the Western anger, attracting support by calling for stronger provincial powers and a smaller federal government and emphasizing the needs of rural communities.",
"The Reform Party formed in 1987 and used the strength of its Western roots to win more seats than the Progressive Conservatives when the Liberal Party came to power in 1993.",
"However, Manning's efforts to expand the party's support were stymied by a diversity of interests and agendas within its base that ranged from political moderation to extremist vitriol.",
"In particular, issues such as gay rights and immigration caused public rifts among Reform Party members of Parliament.",
"In one of the most memorable, two Reform lawmakers were suspended for disparaging comments about homosexuals and immigrants, and two others who criticized them for the comments ended up quitting the party over the dispute.",
"James Harold Farney argued in his 2009 doctoral thesis at the University of Toronto that the rise of the Reform Party gave Canadian social conservatives their first political home.",
"\"It was only when the Reform Party upset both the institutions and ideology of Canadian conservatism that social conservatives began to gain prominence in Canadian politics,\" Farney wrote.",
"In the 1997 election, the Reform Party finished second overall to become the official opposition party in Parliament, but failed to grow beyond its Western roots.",
"Manning realized it would never win control of Parliament, and therefore the prime minister's office, without gaining support in Eastern provinces, particularly populous Ontario.",
"He launched an ambitious campaign to merge with the Progressive Conservatives, in a process that took years and left him on the sidelines when it finally occurred.",
"The effort led to creation of the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance in 2000, with Manning defeated by Alberta provincial official Stockwell Day for the group's leadership.",
"Day's fundamentalist Christian beliefs and lack of national political experience proved costly, and the Alliance -- caught off guard by a snap election called by the Liberals -- gained only six more seats in the next national election.",
"Only when a formal merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance occurred -- creating the Conservative Party of Canada -- did it achieve Manning's goal of gaining significant support in the East.",
"The new Conservative Party forced the Liberals to form a minority government in 2004, and then defeated the Liberals to form its own minority government in 2006.",
"Stephen Harper, a one-time Reform legislator who left the party in 1997, became prime minister.",
"Looking back, Manning said he stressed democratic principles within the Reform Party to try to achieve unity among its divided supporters.",
"That meant getting fiscal conservatives, social conservatives and what he called democratic conservatives -- dedicated to grassroots democracy -- to accept a single platform.",
"\"I argued they were not philosophically incompatible,\" Manning said.",
"At caucus meetings and other party gatherings, he stressed open debate to ensure everyone had a voice.",
"\"Whatever your position is, you can get up and say it,\" Manning explained.",
"\"When everyone has a say, you vote,\" and the result stands.",
"The idea was to use the democratic process \"to get people to disagree civilly,\" he said.",
"\"If we can't apply democracy to reconcile these differences within the party,\" he used to argue, \"then why should the public believe we can do this on a larger scale?\"",
"Could a similar process occur in the United States, driven by the Tea Party movement?",
"Manning sounded skeptical.",
"\"These people are trying to build a coalition in a political culture that tends to favor polarization,\" he said.",
"\"That does make it difficult, because people want to go to their corners rather than come together in the center of the ring.\""
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"Reform Party founder doubts the Tea Party can unite the U.S. political right ."
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"(CNN) -- Britain's Andy Murray claimed his third title of the season with a straight sets thrashing of Donald Young of the United States to win the Thailand Open Sunday.",
"Top seed Murray made no mistake as he swept aside Young 6-2 6-0 in just 47 minutes to add to his victories in Cincinnati and at Queen's Club in London.",
"\"I just played really well,\" Murray told the official ATP website.",
"\"Towards the end of the first set he started to play a bit better, but once I got up in the second I hardly made any mistakes.\"",
"Murray will now head to the Japan Open in Tokyo where the draw is headed by world number two Rafael Nadal, who beat him in the semifinals of the U.S. Open.",
"Murray is hoping to overtake Roger Federer for the world number three spot by the end of the season.",
"\"It's a very good start.",
"Roger (Federer) always plays very well on the European indoor courts, so I'm sure I'm going to have to win a lot more matches if I want to finish No.",
"3. That's the goal and I'll keep working hard to give myself a shot at doing that,\" he added.",
"Young could not repeat his success over Murray at Indian Wells but will move into the top 50 for the first time after his run to the final.",
"In other ATP final action Sunday, Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic captured the first career title as he beat Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-4 7-5 in the Malaysian Open.",
"Tipsarevic, seeded third, had been the only player in the Top 20 without an ATP title and had lost his previous four finals.",
"On the WTA Tour, French Open champion Li Na suffered a shock defeat in front of her home fans as she lost in straight sets to Romanian qualifier Monica Niculescu.",
"Li has struggled since her Roland Garros triumph and lost 6-4 6-0 for her second straight first round exit, leaving the crowd in Beijing stunned."
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"Britain's Andy Murray claims third ATP title of the season .",
"Murray beats Donald Young 6-2 6-0 to win Thailand Open in Bangkok .",
"Serb Janko Tipsarevic wins first ATP title of his career in Malaysia .",
"Home star Li Na beaten in first round of China Open ."
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"(CNN) -- Police in North Miami, Florida, are investigating the weekend slaying of a local poet and cafe owner who was gunned down in front of his business, a police spokesman said Sunday.",
"Will \"Da Real One\" Bell was shot and killed while closing his Literary Café and Poetry Lounge, North Miami police Maj. Neal Cuevas said.",
"Two men in dark clothing were spotted leaving the scene in a car, Cuevas said.",
"Bell, 47, appeared twice on HBO's \"Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry\" in 2003 and 2004 and won several performance competitions.",
"Miami's alternative weekly New Times named him the city's best poet in 2005, writing that Bell \"spits words like high-caliber machine-gun fire, and his booming voice sets ears ablaze.\"",
"Cuevas said nothing was taken in the robbery, but would not discuss any possible motive.",
"CNN's Maggie Schneider contributed to this report."
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"Will \"Da Real One\" Bell was a fixture on the Miami spoken-word scene .",
"He was shot and killed while closing his cafe, North Miami Police said ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 49 people have been killed across several cities in western Syria during the past two days of fighting between pro- and anti-government forces, an opposition group said Thursday.",
"Most of the deaths have occurred in the city of Rastan, where at least 27 people were killed amid heavy shelling, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria -- a network of opposition activists who organize and document anti-government demonstrations.",
"Twelve others were killed in the western city of Homs, the group reported.",
"The Syrian army has been fighting units that had defected from the military, said the LCC and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based opposition group.",
"Many people have been critically wounded in Rastan, and it is difficult to get them first aid, the Syrian Observatory said.",
"The Syrian government, meanwhile, says it is engaged in a campaign against terrorists.",
"It denied reports that warplanes had raided Rastan, according to the government news agency SANA.",
"Instead, it said, law enforcement forces backed by army units confronted \"armed terrorist groups\" who had wreaked havoc in Rastan and killed civilians.",
"The government said seven army and law enforcement members had been killed and 32 others wounded.",
"CNN is unable to independently confirm death tolls or events in Syria, which has restricted the access of international journalists to many parts of the country.",
"Thursday's reports from the opposition groups coincide with a mob attack of government supporters in Damascus that U.S. ambassador Robert Ford narrowly avoided, a U.S. government official said.",
"Ford, who has been outspoken against the Syrian government's use of violence against protesters, is seen by government supporters as an activist more than a diplomat.",
"At the time of the attack, Ford was visiting Hassan Abdul Azim, the head of the opposition Arab Socialist Democratic Union.",
"According to Azim, about 50 to 100 people gathered at the door to his office and began to chant loudly when Ford arrived.",
"Some of them even tried to break down the door, he said.",
"The crowd protested rowdily for more than two hours, he said.",
"Azim could not confirm what Ford was attacked with, but he said that tomatoes that had apparently been thrown were cleaned up off the street afterward."
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"NEW: At least 49 people have been killed in the past two days, the opposition says .",
"The opposition says many have been critically wounded in Rastan .",
"The government denies reports that warplanes have attacked Rastan .",
"The Syrian army has been fighting units that had defected from the military ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Beneath a simple gray stone marker that reads \"2008,\" on a gentle slope at the Los Angeles County Crematory and Cemetery, lie the unclaimed remains of the poor, the homeless, the addicted and the lonely.",
"Several clergy members extended their arms over the spare gravesite Wednesday morning and gave a final blessing to the 1,639 people who were cremated and buried there because no family member claimed their bodies.",
"All of the departed passed away in 2008.",
"\"We started these ceremonies (for the unclaimed) in 1896,\" said Andrew Veis, an aide to Fourth District Supervisor Don Knabe.",
"\"These people were sick, poor, homeless, no family.",
"Some could not afford to pay for the cremation.",
"The county is their ultimate safety net.",
"We can give them a decent and respectful burial.\"",
"The numbers of the unclaimed are heartbreakingly steady.",
"Last year, 1,698 such people were cremated here, the year before, 1,798.",
"The cemetery must wait three years before burying unclaimed bodies.",
"Sometimes family members suffer the double pain of losing a loved one and not being able to pay for a funeral, and then don't claim their loved because they're too broke.",
"\"It just doesn't have to be that way,\" said Stella Inouye, a financial services coordinator for the cemetery.",
"\"It costs $352 to bury and cremate someone taken from the county hospital and $466 if they pass away somewhere else.",
"But (family members) can write a hardship letter and get the fees waived\" About 15 people ringed the gravesite Wednesday, most of them volunteers or social workers from L.A's downtown homeless community, Skid Row.",
"\"These people may well have been guests at our soup kitchen or even at our house,\" said Jeff Dietrich, from Hospitality Kitchen, which provides meals for people in need.",
"\"I feel like it's kind of a poignant situation when there are so many unclaimed bodies to be buried and so many untold stories and so many disconnected people.",
"\"I think the important thing for us is to just try in these last few hours of their earthly presence to be a presence to them and deeply connected.\"",
"Chris Ponnet, spiritual director of care at the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, led the clergy.",
"\"We gather in this sacred space where so many others are buried and trusting these nameless and named but unclaimed people into your embrace,\" the chaplain said.",
"Other clergy offered blessings in Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish traditions.",
"\"This is a day of eternal life,\" began Rambhoeu Brinkmann in the Hindu tradition.",
"\"There will be for them all that they wish and more besides, in our presence.\"",
"The ceremony ended quickly and the attendees left behind grave marker \"2008,\" adorned with a yellow bow and a small collection of flowers, including roses."
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"More than 1,600 unclaimed bodies are cremated each year at an L.A. cemetery .",
"About 15 people came Wednesday for a service marking the latest burials .",
"\"So many untold stories and so many disconnected people,\" one says ."
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"(CNN) -- Macedonia is a small landlocked country bordering Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo and Serbia.",
"About a quarter of its two million population lives in the capital Skopje, a city on the Vardar River brimming with evidence of a 2,500 year history that has seen it come under Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Yugoslav rule.",
"The raging river divides the Albanian and Macedonian communities of Skopje.",
"Almost two-thirds of the country's population are Orthodox Christians and a third is Muslim, according to the CIA World Factbook.",
"As a result, the country has numerous monasteries, churches and mosques.",
"It also plays host to a number of ancient relics dating back as far as 3,800 years.",
"Lake Ohrid in the south west of the country -- one of the deepest and oldest lakes in Europe -- was once surrounded by 365 churches, some dating as far back as the 4th century.",
"Macedonia lies in a seismically active region and has several hot thermal baths.",
"There are many mountains over 2,500m in the Shar Planina range.",
"The Lonely Planet travel guide describes the country as a \"paradise\" for outdoor types with numerous opportunities for skiing, hiking and climbing.",
"Macedonia was the only country to emerge peacefully from the former Yugoslavia but 20 years later it still has an international identity crisis over its name.",
"Macedonia gained independence from the former Yugoslav federation with overwhelming majority support in a referendum on September 8, 1991.",
"To its own citizens, the country is called the Republic of Macedonia, but both the United Nations and the European Union call it the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia).",
"The reason for the controversy is a region in Greece that is also called Macedonia.",
"International recognition of Macedonia's independence was delayed by Greek objections to the name.",
"Greece eventually agreed to recognize the \"former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\" designation.",
"Most Macedonians do not like this name, and negotiations are continuing under the United Nations to find a solution, according to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.",
"In 2001, there was an uprising of ethnic Albanians -- who make up a quarter of the population -- demanding equal rights, leading to months of violence.",
"Peace returned later the same year with a peacekeeping operation by NATO troops and a new constitution recognizing Albanian as an official language and increasing access for ethnic Albanians to public sector jobs, including the police force.",
"Official statistics show high unemployment at 31.7 percent as of 2010, but this does not take into account the extensive informal job market, estimated to be more than 20 per cent of GDP, according to the CIA World Factbook.",
"Macedonia's current president Gjorgje Ivanov came to power in elections in 2009.",
"Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski meanwhile was re-elected in parliamentary elections held in July 2011.",
"His conservative VMRO-DPMNE party now governs in coalition with the ethnic Albanian DUI party.",
"In his victory speech, Ivanov claimed his main priority was seeking further integration and ties with Europe.",
"Macedonia is currently a candidate for membership of the European Union.",
"In September 2011 Macedonia celebrated its 20th anniversary as an independent state.",
"To mark the occasion new monuments, museums, roads and an improved airport terminal were constructed.",
"The centrepiece was the erection of a 24 meter high statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje's Macedonia Square.",
"The monument has caused further friction with neighboring Greece who view the warrior king as a Greek rather than Macedonian national hero.",
"Given that it is still a relatively young country; the number of Macedonians to have left their mark on the world stage is relatively small.",
"Some the most notable include footballer Goran Pandev, who won the European Champions League in 2010 whilst playing for Italian giants Inter Milan, and filmmaker Milco Mancevski, who received an Oscar nomination for his 1995 picture \"Before the Rain.\"",
"Humanitarian and Nobel peace prize winner Mother Teresa was also born in Skopje in 1910, although Macedonia was still part of the Ottoman Empire at this time."
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"Macedonia was the only country to emerge peacefully from the former Yugoslavia .",
"The country has had a long-running dispute with Greece over its name .",
"About a quarter of its two million population lives in the capital Skopje on the Vardar River ."
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"(CNN) -- Northern Ireland's incredible golfing year continued on Saturday as Michael Hoey remained ahead of his more heralded compatriots at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.",
"The 32-year-old will take a three-shot lead from 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell as he seeks the biggest win of his career, and third European Tour title overall in the pro-am event played over three seaside courses.",
"Ranked 271st in the world, he completed his third successive round of 66, this time at the tough Carnoustie course, to be on 18-under-par 198 and in pole position for the $785,000 first prize.",
"The joint halfway leader fired five birdies and an eagle, while compatriot McDowell carded 67 at St. Andrews to be one shot clear of 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen.",
"Hollywood A-listers hit the greens .",
"\"Michael has always been a very talented player,\" McDowell said.",
"\"He's a great ball-striker, has a great swing.",
"He has always had the talent and won the British Amateur in 2001 before playing on a winning Walker Cup side.",
"\"It's a fine line between guys who go on to become the best in the world and guys who become journeymen pros.",
"And you wouldn't say Michael is a journeyman, he's popped up twice and won on tour, and won well each time.\"",
"South Africa's Oosthuizen shot 69 at St. Andrews to be one ahead of Northern Ireland's reigning U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy.",
"World No. 3 McIlroy carded 66, also at the home of golf, to be tied for fourth with a group of seven players including world No.",
"1 Luke Donald and three-time major winner Padraig Harrington of Ireland.",
"Donald fired a flawless nine-birdie round of 63 to tie McIlroy's 2010 course record at St. Andrews, as did Simon Dyson, with both Englishmen in final-day contention five shots behind Hoey.",
"Masters champion Charl Schwartzel was tied for 11th after a 66 at St. Andrews, while world No.",
"2 Lee Westwood was another shot back on 205 after a 68 at the same course.",
"Northern Ireland's current British Open champion Darren Clarke this week admitted he is struggling for motivation following his breakthrough major triumph in July, and that languor continued as he carded 70 at St. Andrews to be 19 shots off Hoey's pace.",
"Hoey was also in the running in the pro-am section, as he and U.S. businessman William Farish Jr. were a shot behind England's Nick Dougherty and UK broadcaster Chris Evans.",
"Dyson, paired with former chart-topping pop star Huey Lewis, was third.",
"Actor Hugh Grant was tied for 56th, while Hollywood heavyweight Michael Douglas was joint 100th as he played with veteran eight-time European No.",
"1 Colin Montgomerie.",
"The 2010 Ryder Cup-winning captain was 18th in the main event after a 66."
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"Northerhn Irish golfer Michael Hoey moves three shots clear at Alfred Dunhill Links .",
"World No.",
"271 cards his third successive 66 in European Tour event in Scotland .",
"Compatriot Graeme McDowell is second going into Sunday's final round .",
"Fellow countryman Rory McIlroy is also in contention tied for fourth ."
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"(CNN) -- When Macedonia celebrated the 20th anniversary of its independence from the former Yugoslavia last month, it did so in a capital city that has been radically transformed over the past two years.",
"Almost 20 new buildings -- and a similar number of statues, fountains and monuments -- are being built around the center of Skopje.",
"The transformations are being made as part of a project called Skopje 2014, aimed at rebuilding a city that lost many of its landmarks in a 1963 earthquake.",
"The centerpiece, in place in time for the anniversary celebrations on September 8, was a 22-meter statue, called Warrior on a Horse.",
"It is widely understood to depict Alexander the Great, but has not been officially named as such because of a long-running dispute with Greece, to whom the ancient king is a national hero.",
"There is also a new Museum of Macedonian Struggle, which opened on Independence Day, a triumphal arch, a new foreign ministry building, a new constitutional court, a new national theater and a new archaeological museum, among other buildings.",
"Country profile: Macedonia .",
"The official cost of the project is 80 million euros, although critics claim the final bill could be as high as 500 million euros, according to the online newspaper Balkan Insight.",
"Skopje 2014 has divided Macedonians, some of whom say a country with more than 30% unemployment, according the U.N data, should not be spending so much on a building project.",
"Goran Atanasovski, who runs an independent tourism website travel2macedonia.com.mk, said: \"The project splits the people, like a river between the coasts, some of them are for it, while others are not.",
"\"The controversy for the project is mostly that Macedonia belongs to a group of countries with high unemployment level.\"",
"However, Zoran Nikolovski, the government's head of tourism, said: \"Skopje already has a totally new look from it did two years ago, and by 2014 it will have even more new buildings.",
"Even in this global economic crisis we are building, not only buildings and attractions but also a new infrastructure and accommodation capacity, like brand new airports, roads and hotels.",
"\"At first there was misunderstanding from people, but now they are seeing that it is really beautiful for people who live in Skopje as well as for travelers.\"",
"What do you think of the new buildings?",
"Send in your images .",
"Others question the taste of classic antiquity buildings and bronze statues.",
"One Macedonian who asked not to be named said: \"I try to avoid the city center now.",
"It has turned into a theme park.",
"Wherever you turn there are new bronze statues and sculptures.",
"It's as if they're trying to create a national identity.",
"\"I would have thought in the 21st century we should be building something modern, urban and contemporary.",
"I can't imagine any other city building a triumphal arch in the 21st century.\"",
"Regardless of personal opinions of the project, Skopje 2014 and other infrastructure investments do appear to be helping Macedonia to attract foreign tourists.",
"Nikolovski said there had been a 25% increase in foreign tourists visiting Macedonia in the first seven months of this year, compared with the same period last year.",
"Atanasovski said: \"Whether it was due to Skopje 2014 or not, this was first season that I've actually seen mass groups of foreign tourists with a travel guides in the downtown and the Old Bazaar.",
"\"This is the first year when Skopje received more tourists than Ohrid, the leading tourism destination of Macedonia.\"",
"Official government statistics show a steady increase in foreign tourists arriving in Macedonia from 99,000 in 2001 to almost 262,000 last year.",
"While the majority come from neighboring countries, there has been an increase in recent years from further afield, including Austria, Germany, Russia, Poland, Italy and Turkey.",
"Nikolovski said: \"We have a lack of opportunities for mass market tourism because we don't have a coastline, but we do have beautiful lakes and mountains and interesting culture and history.\"",
"He said the country was also developing its gambling tourism market, with a number of casino hotels.",
"The government has recently introduced policies to boost tourism including a reduction in sales tax on hotels and catering from 18% to 5% and subsidies to attract tour groups from certain countries.",
"Atanasovski said: \"The previous years, usually the tour operators have been including Macedonia as a part of wider Balkan tours and haven't stayed in Macedonia longer than a day.",
"Starting from last year, the number of nights spent in Macedonia has increased.\"",
"Regardless of money spent on grand projects and infrastructure, national pride has been given a boost from a quarter that no politician could plan.",
"Macedonia's 20th anniversary celebrations coincided with the national basketball team unexpectedly reaching the semi-finals of the European championships.",
"\"Honestly, I haven't seen the people of Macedonia so happy and proud before,\" said Atanasovski.",
"\"Flags were all over, on people, on cars, on windows.",
"People have replaced their economic problems with a smile and happiness.\""
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"Skopje 2014 is a multi-million euro project to rebuild city center .",
"Triumphal arch, warrior statue and new museum opened for Macedonia's 20th anniversary celebrations .",
"Macedonia increases foreign visitor numbers by 25% this year ."
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"London (CNN) -- The release of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito from an Italian jail after they were cleared on appeal of killing British student Meredith Kercher has received extensive coverage throughout the European media.",
"Britain's Daily Telegraph concentrates its reporting on the murder victim with a series of stories centered on the Kercher family.",
"Under the headline \"Meredith's family: Knox acquittal sends us 'back to square one'\" its lead story says the family will continue to seek justice as Amanda Knox flies to Seattle via London.",
"Quoting Meredith Kercher's father John as saying the verdict by the appeal court in Perugia was \"crazy\" and made a \"mockery\" of the original trial, it devotes much space to reporting the Kerchers' distress.",
"Italian newspaper la Repubblica offers comprehensive coverage of the case, with picture galleries, video and a timeline.",
"It quotes both Meredith Kercher's brother Lyle and sister Stephanie as saying they respected the court and the Italian justice system but still want the truth.",
"\"We do not want innocent people to pay.",
"We think that there is still much work to do,\" Stephanie Kercher is quoted as saying.",
"El Pais, the Spanish daily, headlines its account of the appeal with a quote from the Kerchers saying \"someone out there has done it\" and includes a story about the \"forgotten victim.\"",
"Questions over \"inadequate\" DNA evidence, which featured in the courtroom battle, are examined in detail in a separate article by Andrea Rizzi, and the main story story asks \"If it wasn't Amanda, who did kill Meredith?\"",
"Parisian daily Le Monde described the contrasting scenes inside the courtroom in Perugia as the ruling was read out: Amanda Knox breaking into sobs, portions of the audience applauding as shouts of joy could be heard from the crowd outside, and finally Arline Kercher, the mother of murder victim Meredith, sitting silent and still, as Knox was acquitted.",
"France's Le Figaro reports on the media circus which surrounded the trial.",
"\"Cameras from across the world transmitted the court's verdict live.",
"Some 500 journalists followed the latest phase of this media-saturated trial, with American channels taking the acquittal for granted, after 1,448 days of preventative detention,\" it said.",
"Throughout the case, German media dubbed Knox \"the angel with eyes of ice\" (Der Engel mit Eisaugen).",
"Berlin-based broadsheet Die Welt tells how Knox is already on her way home to the United States, having thanked her supporters in an open letter to \"all those who wrote to me, to all those who defended me, to all those who prayed for me\" for helping her to remain hopeful while in prison.",
"And the website of German tabloid Bild shows a photograph of the plane on which, it says, a tired Knox is \"flying to freedom\" -- after a wait in the VIP lounge at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino airport.",
"However, it reports that although she has been freed, \"she is still being hunted, this time by TV channels keen to secure the first big interview with her.\"",
"The DNA evidence is revisited by the British tabloid, The Daily Mail, and the BBC.",
"In a blog commentary in the Mail, Michael Hanlon writes: \"The sensational acquittal of Amanda Knox and her co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito should serve as a warning to prosecutors the world over who rely on hi-tech DNA evidence to make their case: be careful what you wish for.",
"Because it is clear that DNA, the very stuff of life, does not always provide the ironclad evidence that modern forensic scientists insist it does.\"",
"Forensic expert, Professor Jim Fraser of the University of Strathclyde, told the BBC's radio news program Today that the problem was with the stories woven by Italian lawyers rather than the DNA evidence itself and blamed \"mishandling or failure to use rigorous procedures.\"",
"Meanwhile, the UK Press Gazettte which reports on the British media industry, highlights several news outlets which appear to have been initially confused by the guilty verdict on the separate charge of slander and wrongly reported on their websites that Amanda Knox's appeal had been rejected.",
"It says The Daily Mail, The Sun, Sky News and The Guardian's live blog all made the same mistake."
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"Italian newspaper la Repubblica quotes Kerchers as respecting Italian justice system .",
"Many in the media focus on the courtroom battle over the DNA evidence .",
"Some British news websites initially reported that the appeal had been rejected ."
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"(CNN) -- Vancouver police said Monday they are recommending 163 charges against 60 people in connection with the riots after the city's hockey team lost the Stanley Cup.",
"Thousands of angry fans, fuming over their team's loss, wreaked havoc across downtown sections of the Canadian city in June.",
"\"It became, by many measures, the largest crime spree in the history of (the province of British Columbia).",
"The statistics are staggering and continue to grow,\" Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu said in a statement.",
"\"This is just the beginning as we expect to announce more arrests in the weeks and months ahead,\" he said.",
"Among the 60 suspected rioters are 50 men and 10 women.",
"The top three most common charges being recommended are: participating in a riot, mischief and break and enter, police said.",
"Speaking in June, Chu blamed \"criminals and anarchists\" who, he said, disguised themselves as Canucks fans for the riots.",
"\"These were people who came equipped with masks, goggles and gasoline, even fire extinguishers that they would use as weapons,\" he said then.",
"The melee began after the Boston Bruins won their first NHL championship in 39 years, trouncing the Vancouver Canucks 4-0.",
"Footage from the riot showed city police wading into an unruly crowd that taunted and threw debris at the officers.",
"Vehicles were damaged and some were set ablaze.",
"The incident echoed a 1994 Vancouver riot after a Stanley Cup loss to the New York Rangers, causing widespread damage that resulted in hundreds of arrests."
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"Canucks fans took to the streets and set overturned vehicles ablaze in June .",
"Among the 60 suspected rioters are 50 men and 10 women .",
"Recommended charges include participating in a riot, mischief and break and enter ."
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"(CNN) -- European and Spanish champions Barcelona dominate the shortlist for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or, the award given to the world's best footballer.",
"Football's global governing body announced a 23-man shortlist for the award on Tuesday, with eight members of Josep Guardiola's Barca squad in the running for the prestigious prize.",
"The award is a combination of the FIFA World Player of the Year accolade and France Football Magazine's Ballon d'Or, with the new incarnation of the honor awarded for the first time in 2010.",
"Barcelona's Argentina star Lionel Messi was the inaugural winner, and he has again been nominated along with clubmates Eric Abidal, Dani Alves, Andres Iniesta, Gerard Pique, Xavi, David Villa and Cesc Fabregas, who signed from English club Arsenal in August.",
"Is Messi the only candidate for the Ballon d'Or?",
"Barca's Spanish rivals Real Madrid earned five nominations, including 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal.",
"Brazil striker Neymar, 19, is the only nominee not based in Europe, having decided to stay with Santos despite being linked with several top overseas clubs.",
"Former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o, who this season left Italy's Inter Milan for Anzhi Makhachkala in Russia, is the only African player on the shortlist.",
"The winner of the 2011 prize, along with the awards for the world's best female player and the finest male and female coaches, will be handed out at the second annual FIFA Ballon d'Or gala on January 9.",
"2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or shortlist: .",
"Eric Abidal (France), Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Dani Alves (Brazil), Karim Benzema (France), Iker Casillas (Spain), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Muller (Germany), Nani (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), Mesut Ozil (Germany), Gerard Pique (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Wayne Rooney (England), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), Luis Suarez (Uruguay) David Villa (Spain), Xavi (Spain)."
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"Football's ruling body unveils the shortlist for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or award .",
"Barcelona's Lionel Messi won the trophy in 2010 and is nominated again this year .",
"The award will be handed out at a FIFA Ballon d'Or gala on January 9 ."
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"(CNN) -- Three-hundred fifty-seven.",
"That's the number of women it took for Australia on Sunday to seize the record from the Cayman Islands for the largest bikini parade.",
"The women, in tiny two pieces and pink visors, paraded around Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast as throngs of onlookers whooped, hollered and snapped pictures.",
"A electronic sign kept count as the women filed past: 329, 330, 331.",
"At 332, a cheer went up as the crowd realized the parade had broken the previous record: 331, set in Grand Cayman on the Cayman Islands in June 2010.",
"Yet, more women sauntered past.",
"In the end, a new record was set: 357.",
"\"And so, the record you were going for stood at 331.",
"It was broken in the Cayman Islands last year,\" Australian Guinness World Records adjudicator Chris Sheedy told the crowd.",
"\"And unfortunately, they have had their record smashed.\"",
"The number would have been higher.",
"Four women were disqualified for overdressing."
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"The old record was set last year in the Cayman Islands .",
"Australia breaks the record with 357 bikini-clad women .",
"Four women are disqualified for overdressing ."
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"(CNN) -- Since the days of George Washington, U.S. presidents have carved out a long tradition of official road trips, if not by motorcade, then by railroad or horse and carriage.",
"The first Secret Service agent killed protecting a president died on a trip with Theodore Roosevelt.",
"In the late 1800s, President Rutherford Hayes rode railroads to visit 30 states and six territories, earning him the nickname \"The Rover,\" according to Willamette University Professor Richard Ellis.",
"Eight presidents later, President William Howard Taft logged an average of 30,000 annual rail miles during his four-year administration.",
"In \"Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush,\" Ellis writes about presidential road trips, some which were tainted by tragedy.",
"Ellis describes the first century of presidential travel as \"littered with grisly accidents, unpleasant near misses, and just plain discomfort.",
"They are a window into the vast difference between the bureaucratized [and safe] presidential travel establishment of today and the far more haphazard and dangerous travel of yesteryear.\"",
"Theodore Roosevelt .",
"During a 1902 road trip through New England, President Theodore Roosevelt was traveling in a carriage that collided with a trolley car, Ellis writes.",
"The crash threw Roosevelt from the carriage and killed Secret Service agent William Craig, the first Secret Service agent to lose his life while protecting the president, according to Ellis.",
"Living up to his \"Rough Rider\" reputation, President Roosevelt suffered only minor cuts and bruises in the crash.",
"Zachary Taylor .",
"A railroad trip took its toll on the health of President Zachary Taylor, Ellis said.",
"\"When he made a railroad tour in 1849, it almost killed him.\"",
"\"He was fairly old at the time, and these trips were brutal, because before each stop on the route, the influential townspeople would get on the train and want to talk with the president,\" Ellis said.",
"\"This meant 30 to 40 people battling for the president's attention, trying to talk to him, shake hands until they reached the town.\"",
"Taylor's trip was supposed to last a couple of months, according to Ellis.",
"Within two weeks, he was sick and exhausted, \"and they have to take him back to the White House.\"",
"Taylor died suddenly a year later after eating a snack of cherries and milk.",
"Andrew Jackson .",
"In 1833, President Andrew Jackson was traveling through New York when his horse-drawn procession crossed a bridge connecting the Battery and Castle Garden.",
"The bridge collapsed, plunging \"dignitaries of every age and shape ... into the shallow depths, all drenched, all frightened, and all struggling to regain solid ground,\" Ellis quoted from newspaper reports.",
"Jackson was unhurt because he was at the front of the procession, which had crossed to safety just before the bridge crumbled, according to Ellis.",
"\"The trip basically got cut short because he collapsed from exhaustion and they had to take him back to Washington,\" Ellis said.",
"Franklin Pierce .",
"He wasn't yet officially the president of the United States at the time, but President-elect Franklin Pierce cheated death during a railroad journey in 1853.",
"\"A broken axle hurled Pierce's passenger car off the rails and down a steep, rocky embankment,\" Ellis said.",
"The crash shattered the car into a \"mass of broken glass and splintered wood,\" Ellis quoted newspaper reports of the day.",
"Pierce's young son was killed instantly, his skull \"almost mashed to a jelly.\"",
"George Washington .",
"A storm made trouble for President George Washington in 1791 as he and his horse and carriage crossed Chesapeake Bay, according to Ellis.",
"Washington reported that he spent the night \"in my greatcoat and boots in a berth not long enough for me by a head, and much cramped,\" before he was rescued, Ellis said.",
"Road trips by car .",
"For obvious reasons, including comfort and time, presidents have not historically embraced long-distance travel by car, Ellis said, as railroad trips gave way to air travel.",
"President Franklin Roosevelt loved traveling by car after arriving in a community on a train, Ellis said.",
"\"He loved trains, and he loved cars,\" Ellis said.",
"\"And he hated planes, although he did fly to Casablanca as president.\""
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"Secret Service agent killed on the road while protecting Teddy Roosevelt .",
"Ferry carrying George Washington and his carriage ran aground in a storm .",
"President William Howard Taft traveled 30,000 miles by train annually ."
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"(CNN) -- Three women kicked off an AirTran plane bound for New York say a \"bully\" flight attendant is to blame.",
"The passengers -- who did not know each other before the Monday flight from West Palm Beach, Florida, to White Plains, New York, but were seated in the same section of the plane -- say the incident started during boarding when a male flight attendant began roughly handling bags in the overhead bin.",
"\"I said, 'Hey, I have breakables in that,' \" recalled Marilyn Miller, according to CNN affiliate WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach.",
"But she said the comment only seemed to make his behavior worse.",
"\"It was just like a bully and I found myself shaking.\"",
"Passenger Carol Gray told the TV station that she flagged the same flight attendant for help with another problem.",
"\"I said, 'Excuse me sir, my seat is broken,' and he looked at me and said, 'I'm not talking to you,' and poked me in the arm,\" Gray told WPTV.",
"The passengers said the flight attendant then began to get angry and told them to leave the plane, according to WPTV.",
"That's when a third woman, who had been watching the situation unfold, told the station she decided to intervene.",
"\"I said, 'This is crazy, they didn't do anything.",
"Why are you doing this to them?' And he said, 'Throw her off, too,' \" Karyn Schorr told WPTV.",
"Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies were called to the scene and stood by as the women exited the plane and went to another gate, said Eric Davis, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.",
"The women were not cited or charged with any crimes, WPTV reported.",
"Southwest Airlines, which owns AirTran, said it booked new travel arrangements for the passengers and compensated them as \"a gesture of goodwill for their inconvenience.\"",
"\"Our goal is always to mitigate any uncomfortable situation prior to departure.",
"Our crew assessed the environment onboard and ultimately decided to accommodate the passengers on an alternative flight,\" spokeswoman Brandy King said.",
"\"We always prefer that a passenger walk away with a positive experience when flying our airline; we regret that didn't happen in this scenario.",
"As we often do in these situations, we will take this opportunity to review the reports and take away any key learnings that we might uncover.\""
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"Three passengers were asked to leave an AirTran flight .",
"Women tell CNN affiliate an angry flight attendant is responsible for the episode .",
"Airline says it's reviewing the incident, compensates passengers for \"inconvenience\""
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- A suburban Atlanta high school teacher has been accused of pursuing a \"hit\" on a 16-year-old student last month, and the case is under investigation by local authorities.",
"Randolph Forde -- who teaches at Mundy's Mill High School in Clayton County -- has been charged with making terroristic threats and was released on bond.",
"He is currently on administrative leave from his job with pay and faces an employment hearing in early December, Charles White, a school district spokesman, said Tuesday.",
"A Clayton County Police report says the incident occurred October 9.",
"The suspect took a student off a school bus and told him he \"would pay him to kill the victim,\" the report says.",
"When the student asked who the target would be, the suspect said he'd write the name on a note, it says.",
"\"The teacher held a piece of paper up with the victim's name on it,\" said Officer Otis Willis III of the Clayton police.",
"Attorney Terance Madden, who represents alleged target and his family, issued a statement saying that problems between the boy and the teacher go back to \"on or about September 29,\" when \"Forde allegedly called my client outside the class and asked him if he is gay.\"",
"Then \"on or about September 30,\" the two had an argument in class and Forde threatened \"to hit him in his 'effin mouth,\" Madden's statement said.",
"\"Not only did my client report the verbal altercation and verbal threat to the vice principal of Mundy's Mill HS, he also reported that Mr. Forde asked him outside the classroom for the inappropriate question of whether he was gay,\" the statement said.",
"\"Apparently nothing was done by the school administration to either Mr. Forde or my client, because Mr. Forde was back in the classroom on October 1, as was my client.\"",
"Madden said the school didn't take any action until after a police report was filed on October 12 about the incident.",
"\"This forced my client's mother to have to remove my client from the high school, depriving him of his education because of fear for my client's safety at Mundy's Mill HS,\" Madden said in the statement.",
"\"Finally Mr. Forde was allegedly removed from the school after the police report was filed and my client was able to return to school.",
"An arrest was made on or about Oct. 14.",
"Mr. Forde bonded out on $10,000 bond and waived his preliminary hearing,\" Madden said.",
"Charles White, the school district's spokesman, said the district had no comment on the allegations because the issue is a personnel matter and is under review.",
"He said it would be \"inappropriate\" for the district to release any information about the case.",
"\"Attorneys can say anything they want,\" he said, but he added that \"there are definitely multiple sides to any story.\"",
"Forde's attorney initially could not be reached by CNN.",
"The attorney was quoted by CNN affiliate WSB-TV as saying that Forde had been joking and didn't supply a name to anybody.",
"White says there was to be an employment hearing Tuesday, but it had to be postponed because there had to be proper prior notice of a scheduled session under the state's open meetings law.",
"District officials are aiming for a hearing in early December, he said.",
"Madden calls the school district's reason for the postponement \"bunk\" and said it \"doesn't even pass the smell test.\"",
"He said the hearing was postponed because media coverage about the case had begun."
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"Police accuse Atlanta-area high school teacher of offering to pay one student to kill another .",
"Attorney: The teacher had once asked the alleged target, 16, whether he was gay .",
"Attorney says the teacher, Randolph Forde, later threatened to punch the student .",
"Forde was joking, and no name was passed, TV station quotes his attorney as saying ."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VICE.COM) -- The first time I went to Libya, in 2010, I was arrested just two days into my trip.",
"Filming a documentary for VICE, I was detained for shooting where the authorities thought I shouldn't, beginning endless rounds of questions, emphatic yelling and head-shaking incredulity at my claims of innocence -- and, of course, the requisite implications that I was a spy.",
"When I was finally released, I swore I would never return to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.",
"But that promise was quickly broken, and I found myself back in the country almost exactly a year later, in the midst of a chaotic and violent revolution.",
"My second trip to Libya consisted of traveling from the Egyptian border to Benghazi and then onto the front lines in Misurata, embedding with a few different rebel groups along the way.",
"I was shocked by how young many of them were.",
"Barely past puberty and fighting with whatever they could find (one guy had a spear gun), they displayed so much heroism and courage that I would tear up while talking to them.",
"One rebel I spoke with had left the hospital earlier that night -- despite having lost a leg -- so that he could get back to the front lines.",
"He was offered a flight to Germany and a new prosthetic limb by an NGO, but instead snuck out of the hospital to rejoin his comrades.",
"But the big question looming over everything was: \"Why are they fighting?\"",
"Everyone I asked -- bankers, shop clerks, students, construction workers, oil engineers and ex-Gaddafi loyalists -- offered the same answer: \"Freedom.\"",
"It was like the end of Braveheart every time a rebel looked into my eyes and said it.",
"One 16-year-old told me, \"I will die so the others can at least breathe free air.\"",
"Heady stuff for a teenager, especially when most of the rebels aren't old enough to have known a political system other than Gaddafism.",
"Risking your life for freedom is one thing.",
"But risking it for the concept of freedom is something else entirely.",
"See the rest of The Rebels of Libya at VICE.COM .",
"When we finally got to Misurata, it was surrounded by Gaddafi's troops and only accessible by sea.",
"We slowly made our way toward the front, stopping periodically to talk to rebels.",
"One 15-year-old boy I met was preparing a Grad-missile truck for battle.",
"Beaming, he wondered whether I could \"ask Clinton and Obama for new weapons\" so that they could beat Gaddafi and he could fulfill his dream of playing for the Miami Heat or the Dallas Mavericks.",
"As we talked, it struck me how much had changed in such a short period.",
"This was a different Libya than the one I experienced last year -- a completely new country."
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"VICE embeds with rebel groups on the front lines in Libya .",
"Journalists were surprised by how young some rebels were .",
"When asked why they were fighting, \"freedom\" was the common answer ."
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"(CNN) -- Three Pakistani cricketers found guilty of corruption pleaded for leniency on Wednesday ahead of their sentencing in a British court.",
"Former national captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will discover their fate on Thursday, along with agent Mazhar Majeed.",
"Majeed, like Amir, pleaded guilty after being caught accepting money from an undercover newspaper reporter to \"spot-fix\" outcomes during a Test match against England at Lord's in August 2010.",
"Butt and Asif unsuccessfully tried to overturn charges that they both conspired to cheat and accept corrupt funds from Majeed, having been accused of agreeing to deliver three no-ball deliveries at specified times during the match.",
"Former Pakistan captain blames ICC for corruption in cricket .",
"Majeed testified that he gave Asif £65,000 ($103,000) and also paid £10,000 ($16,000) to Butt and £2,500 ($4,000) to Amir after receiving £150,000 ($240,000) from a journalist working for the now defunct News of the World paper.",
"The cheating charge carries a maximum sentence of two years plus an unlimited fine, while they could be jailed for seven years with an unlimited fine for accepting corrupt payments.",
"Amir, a rising star in the sport at the age of 19, outlined his remorse in a statement read by his lawyer.",
"\"First I want to apologize to Pakistan and to everyone that cricket is important to,\" he said.",
"\"I do know how much damage this has done to the game, a game which I love more than anything else in the world.",
"\"I did decide many months ago that I wanted to admit that I deliberately threw two no-balls at the Lord's Test last summer.",
"But I know this was very late and I want to apologize for not saying it before.",
"I didn't find the courage to do it at the beginning, and I know very well that made everything much more difficult.\"",
"The Pakistanis are among the lowest-paid of the main cricket nations, partly due to the loss of much-needed revenue from hosting tours.",
"International teams have refused to visit due to security fears since the terrorist attack on the touring Sri Lanka side in Lahore in 2009.. Amir became the youngest player to take 50 Test wickets last year, but has been banned by the International Cricket Council until 2015.",
"\"Last year was the most amazing year of my life, but also it was the worst year.",
"I got myself into a situation that I didn't understand,\" he said.",
"\"I panicked and did the wrong thing.",
"I don't want to blame anyone else.",
"I didn't want money at all.",
"I didn't bowl the no-balls because of money.",
"I got trapped and in the end it was because of my own stupidity.",
"\"My dream was to be the best cricketer in the world.",
"I'm a competitive sportsman and those two no-balls were the only moments in my cricketing life where I have not performed to the very best of my ability.",
"And they were not moments I felt happy to be part of.\"",
"The 27-year-old Butt missed the birth of his second son on Tuesday, with the arrival coming an hour before the verdict was read.",
"His lawyer said the player had been financially ruined by the scandal, as he would be unlikely to make a comeback when his five-year ICC ban expires.",
"\"He's lost the captaincy of the Pakistan cricket team and this was a job he had for five weeks, they won two Tests, and this was the greatest honour of his life,\" said QC Ali Bajwa said.",
"\"He has gone from a national hero to a figure of contempt and his ignominy is complete.",
"He does not want to be the cause of his wife's suffering.",
"He now has only his liberty and his family left to lose.\"",
"Asif, who turns 29 next month, has already had his career interrupted by three drug scandals.",
"The most recent resulted in a one-year ban which ended in 2009.",
"\"After five years out of the game, a comeback then would seem out of the question.",
"He leaves here a broken man,\" said his lawyer Alexander Milne."
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"Pakistani cricketers to be sentenced in London court on Thursday .",
"Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty of corruption on Wednesday .",
"Mohammad Amir and agent Mazhar Majeed decided to pelad guilty .",
"They could face a possible nine-year jail term plus unlimited fines ."
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"(CNN) -- On loan Al Ain striker Asamoah Gyan has dismissed claims that his recent move from Sunderland to the United Arab Emirates was motivated by money.",
"Talking to CNN's Pedro Pinto, the Ghanaian also claimed there was no bad blood between him and Sunderland coach Steve Bruce after his last minute move to the Middle East.",
"\"I'm still a player of Sunderland.",
"I didn't have any confrontation with anyone.",
"We are still alright.",
"I was cool with the manager,\" he told CNN.",
"\"People say I moved because of money....You need to be happy -- although I'm not saying I wasn't happy at Sunderland or I wasn't happy in the [English] Premier League.",
"\"I had to decide with my family and everything and they were alright with my decision so I had to just move...it helped myself and Sunderland as well.\"",
"Gyan's move from Sunderland in the English Premier League to Al Ain, a club that hails from a city built around an oasis deep in the desert, was arguably the most controversial of the recent transfer window.",
"The Ghanaian scored ten goals in his 34 appearances for Sunderland and appeared to have adjusted well to the fast-paced English game.",
"But instead of building on his promising start Gyan opted to move to the Middle East instead.",
"\"In life you have to experience things.",
"I think moving here I don't regret at all because Al Ain is a great club and I'm ready to give everything,\" he explained.",
"\"It's another step in my life.",
"Although I'm still a player of Sunderland.",
"I came on loan so I'll see how my future lies as Al Ain is an important club in Asia.",
"I'm really, really happy to be here.\"",
"Gyan will be joined by a host of stars in this year's UAE Pro League.",
"Maradona will be in charge of Dubai club Al Wasl, France international David Trezeguet has joined Abu Dhabi club Bani Yas whilst former Inter Milan midfielder Luis Jimenez will be playing at Al Ahli.",
"Last year's champions, Al Jazira of Abu Dhabi, are bankrolled by Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan .",
"Whilst there are fabulous riches to be found in the UAE Pro League, it isn't without its controversies.",
"Attendances have been dire since the league went professional in 2008.",
"The situation got so bad that the UAE FA disbanded the league and took it under their control last June.",
"Yet for Gyan the draw of Asian Champions League football was enough to convince him that the standard this season will be high.",
"\"The English Premiership is one of the best in the world.",
"I do respect that. I enjoyed myself really last season,\" he said.",
"\"Moving to the Asian league is another step in my life.",
"Who knows maybe I can bring some exposure in the Asian league.",
"I've got more fans in Africa and more fans in Europe also.",
"\"I think the Asian league is also improving.",
"Not just the big players going to the Asian league.",
"It's got a lot of great players...and they are enjoying their football here.\""
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"Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan talks to CNN's Pedro Pinto about his move to Al Ain .",
"Gyan shocked the football world by leaving the EPL for the Middle East .",
"He insists the move isn't about the money .",
"Claims he and Sunderland coach Steve Bruce are on good terms ."
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"(CNN) -- Hot summers when the city is crammed with tourists; cooler winters when the rain can swell the Arno: Florence is an all-year-round destination.",
"Here are some of the city's seasonal highlights.",
"A Verdi player finds a gap in the Azzurri team's defence during the 2003 Calcio Storico .",
"Vintage clothes For a long time, image-conscious Italians wouldn't be seen dead in second-hand clothes.",
"But recently they have started to catch up with the rest of the world when it comes to coveting the nearly new and Florence is host to the biggest used clothes fair in Italy.",
"It's held twice yearly in February and July (Stazione Leopolda; +39 055 246 6198).",
"Christmas in Florence Not only is the city wonderfully deserted at this time of year, but the lights that adorn every shop window give the place an almost magical feeling.",
"You can buy everything from amber to reindeer skins at the Christmas market (Mercato di natale) in the Piazza Santa Croce from the beginning of December.",
"Go ice-skating in the Piazza della Liberta or make for the Piazza della Republicca, home to Florence's enormous Christmas tree sparkling with 16,000 lights.",
"On Christmas day, High Mass at the Duomo is an unforgettable experience.",
"Scoppio del Carro, Easter Sunday Exploding the cart, or \"scoppio del carro,\" at Easter is one of the oldest and most important Florentine traditions.",
"Decorated white oxen drag an elaborate cart stuffed full of fireworks from the Porta al Prato to the Piazza del Duomo.",
"A dove-shaped rocket in the Duomo is lit and shoots along a wire to the cart where it ignites the rest of the fireworks: impressive pyrotechnics ensue.",
"Tradition has it that if the first rocket flies straight, it will be a lucky year for Florentines.",
"Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, April to June The May Music Festival is a series of classical music concerts, recitals, and operas and ballet held in venues across the city.",
"It is internationally acclaimed and tickets are hot property, so check the Web site for scheduling and book in advance (www.maggiofiorentino.com ) Calcio Storico Fiorentino, June 24-28 This traditional game is a testosterone-fueled mix of football and fighting played by young men from the four Florentine quarters: San Giovanni, Santa Maria Novella, Santo Spirito and Santa Croce.",
"They may look amusing in their medieval-style pantaloons but there is nothing funny about the level of competition in this fierce sport -- players often seem more preoccupied with fighting each other than getting the ball in the net, which runs the length of the pitch.",
"An amazing spectacle, especially because it is held in the shadow of the beautiful Santa Croce church in the piazza below.",
"Festa del Grillo (Cricket Festival), Ascension Day If you are feeling low on luck, the cricket festival, which heralds the start of spring, could boost your fortunes.",
"Singing crickets are thought to bring good luck and in days gone by children would fashion cages and hunt for crickets to take to the Parco delle Cascine.",
"Nowadays, the crickets are likely to be fake, but you can buy them housed in endearing pastel-painted confections with windows and roofs -- and they are still considered lucky.",
".................................. What sights have you enjoyed in Florence?",
"Send us your tips and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best."
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"Florence's seasonal highlights include twinkling lights at Christmas .",
"Easter brings \"Scoppio del carro,\" an exploding cart stuffed with fireworks .",
"In late June, Florentine men play a fierce combination of football and fighting .",
"The cricket festival on Ascension Day is thought to bring good luck ."
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"(CNN) -- At least five people were killed Saturday in the Yemeni city of Taiz amid heavy shelling and ongoing clashes between government forces and opposition fighters, according to witnesses.",
"Four of those killed were civilians, said Abdul Haleem Mag'ashi, head of a media outreach committee within the city.",
"The southwestern city of Taiz has been a scene of recent turmoil where opposition groups have squared off against those loyal to the country's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh.",
"The heaviest clashes took place in the mountain region of Manakha, considered a stronghold for anti-government fighters.",
"Hundreds of vehicles were left stranded while thousands of residents evacuated the area amid the fighting.",
"\"Many of the casualties go unreported and cannot reach the medical facility,\" said Yasser Nusari, a medic in Taiz.",
"\"Those who do reach come late, resulting in their life being lost.\"",
"CNN cannot independently confirm those accounts and the Yemeni government could not be immediately reached for comment.",
"\"With the five killed today, the three-day death toll in Taiz alone is 28 civilians,\" said Mag'ashi.",
"\"All of this after Saleh was granted immunity.",
"We call on the world to help us in our mission for peace.\"",
"Saleh recently agreed to step down from power after months of protests against his 33-year rule, becoming the fourth leader to leave office as a result of unrest that has roiled much of the Middle East and North Africa this year.",
"He had been granted immunity sparking protests among demonstrators who would like to see Saleh tried for alleged acts of violence."
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"Five people die in the Yemeni city of Taiz .",
"Four of those killed were civilians, observers say .",
"The heaviest clashes took place in the mountain region of Manakha .",
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"(Health.com) -- We get it: You want to lose the jiggle but don't want to blacklist your favorite eats, count every single calorie, or overdose on gym hours.",
"The great news is, you can drop weight without dieting: Experts say making small change-ups to your day is one of the best ways to lose.",
"We grilled health and fitness pros for the tweaks that will help your shape the most.",
"Road test a few, and you could shed 5 (this week!",
"), 10, or even 20-plus pounds without a whole lot of effort.",
"Power up PB . \"Buy natural varieties of peanut butter and pour off the oil sitting on top.",
"Each serving will have 20 fewer calories and 2 to 3 fewer grams of fat.",
"It's a small difference that'll add up to a couple of pounds per year.\"",
"-- Amelia Winslow, personal chef in Los Angeles and founder of the healthy food blog Eating Made Easy .",
"Health.com: 25 ways to cut 500 calories a day .",
"Pop to it . \"Skimping on fiber will make you gain weight.",
"Forget the pretzels and go for a bag of low-fat popcorn.",
"It has five times the fiber and only 90 calories for six cups, so it's filling and satisfying.",
"A recent study found that when women doubled their daily fiber intake from 12 to 24 grams, their bodies absorbed 90 calories less per day.",
"You could lose almost 10 pounds in a year!\"",
"-- Tanya Zuckerbrot, RD, author of The F-Factor Diet: Discover the Secret to Permanent Weight Loss .",
"Dance your butt off .",
"\"Kick up your heels and go dancing with your girlfriends -- or have a solo dance session at home.",
"Fast-tempo dances are not only a blast to do, but in an hour you'll torch 400 to 500 calories.",
"That's equivalent to light jogging on the treadmill, but it's way more fun!\"",
"-- Christine Avanti, author of Skinny Chicks Eat Real Food: Lose the Fake Food and Kickstart Your Weight Loss .",
"Health.com: Diet tricks the pros tell their friends .",
"Switch things up .",
"\"At the gym, lift one set of heavier weights than you're used to.",
"And on your walk or run, add backward walking and sideways shuffling in one-minute bursts.",
"You'll challenge your muscles in new ways, work them at a variety of angles, and improve your balance.",
"These things will tone you up and burn extra calories.\"",
"-- Gunnar Peterson, celebrity trainer to A-listers in Beverly Hills, California .",
"Nix nighttime eating .",
"\"Cutting out after-dinner snacking is a quick way to help you shed 5 pounds in a week.",
"At night, we're usually scarfing down junky foods in front of the TV -- and it's easy to consume a meal's worth of calories, plus belly-bloating sodium.",
"If you're typically hungry before bed, it might mean you're eating dinner too early, so push it back.",
"Snack on fruit at 3 p.m. Then at 5 p.m., have a snack bar.",
"At 7:30, you'll be ready for dinner, and you'll be eating late enough to stay full for the rest of the evening.\"",
"-- Heather Bauer, RD, author of Bread Is the Devil: Win the Weight Loss Battle by Taking Control of Your Diet Demons .",
"Health.com: 25 diet-busting foods you should never eat .",
"Be a crunch monster .",
"\"Fill your plate with crunchy, chewy foods like carrots, apples, and whole grains.",
"They take more time to chew, and their fiber makes your body work harder to digest them -- so you'll burn more calories during your meal.",
"Eating this way can increase your total calorie burn by 5 percent throughout the day!\"",
"-- Leslie Bonci, RD, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Sports Medicine .",
"Keep it simple .",
"\"Just focus on cooking wholesome food; you'll eat well and could even lose 5 pounds in a week.",
"For breakfast, have yogurt and some fruit; for lunch, eat a soup and a winter salad with tuna and walnuts; at dinner, fill your plate with 3 to 4 ounces of fish or chicken, a couple of veggies, and a piece of fruit.",
"And feel free to use a bit of butter or olive oil -- you don't have to deprive yourself.\"",
"-- Mireille Guiliano, author of The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook .",
"Health.com: Best superfoods for weight loss .",
"Beat booze bloat .",
"\"Downsize your wine glass to cut calories.",
"Wine glasses today are giant goblets, so it's easy to pour 6 ounces, or one-and-a-half servings, without noticing.",
"That means those two glasses a night might actually be closer to three (almost half a bottle!",
"), adding up to 300 calories.",
"Instead of drinking this way every day, have a regular-size 4-ounce glass a couple of times a week.",
"You could drop more than 20 pounds this year.\"",
"-- Tim Church, M.D., director of preventive medicine research at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .",
"Try upside-down .",
"\"Season and butter the bottom of foods.",
"For example, butter the bottom of toast, and salt the bottom of potato rounds.",
"This sounds weird, but it really helps with weight loss.",
"When you eat foods this way, the flavor hits your tongue right away, and you actually taste more of it.",
"Ultimately, that means you can cut out at least half the belly-bloating salt or butter.\"",
"-- Devin Alexander, chef and host of FitTV's Healthy Decadence and author of The Biggest Loser Quick & Easy Cookbook .",
"Health.com: Little ways to lose big pounds .",
"Dine in slow-mo .",
"\"Make sure you're the last one to start eating and also the last person to finish.",
"I do this, and it helps me slow down and chew my food properly instead of inhaling what's on my plate -- and more.",
"Eat this way and you'll take in fewer calories at your meals.\"",
"-- JJ Virgin, Ph.D., author of Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy: The 5-Step Plan to Sleek, Strong, and Sculpted Arms .",
"Dress the part .",
"\"Make a few changes to your party outfit, and you'll beat the temptation to overindulge.",
"At a cocktail party, carry a clutch instead of a purse.",
"With a cocktail in one hand and your handbag in the other, you won't be able to reach for too many hors d'oeuvres.",
"And wear a form-fitting dress -- it'll be your biggest reminder to not revisit the food table for seconds.\"",
"-- Keri Gans, R.D., author of The Small Change Diet: 10 Steps to a Thinner, Healthier You .",
"Health.com: Thinner by dinner: how to dress 10 pounds lighter .",
"Go by the numbers .",
"\"Stop eating when you're at a 5 or 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is famished and 10 is Thanksgiving full).",
"When you stop at 5 or 6, chances are 20 minutes later, you'll feel like a 7 or 8.",
"This tactic is great for parties and vacations -- and could save you lots of calories per meal.\"",
"-- Ellie Krieger, R.D., host of Cooking Channel's Healthy Appetite and author of Comfort Food Fix .",
"Play hard . \"Slip exercise into everyday life, and make it fun.",
"Head outside and go ice skating with friends or shape a snowman with your kids.",
"You can even stage a pillow fight in your living room.",
"That burns 82 calories in 20 minutes, plus you'll laugh the entire time!\"",
"-- Missy Chase Lapine, author of \"The Speedy Sneaky Chef\" Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"Experts say making small changes to your day is one of the best ways to lose weight .",
"\"On your walk or run, add backward walking,\" says trainer Gunnar Peterson .",
"Dr. Tim Church recommends downsizing wine glasses to cut calories .",
"Author Missy Chase Lapine says, \"Slip exercise into everyday life, and make it fun\""
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"(CNN) -- He grew up constantly on the move, the son of parents who were in the theater business in Australia.",
"His mother and his stepfather say from an early age, Julian Assange has been driven by a sense of fighting for justice.",
"Now, that battle applies to himself as well.",
"Assange, the 40-year-old founder and public face of the website WikiLeaks, lost his battle Wednesday to stay in the United Kingdom and avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex charges.",
"\"I have not been charged with any crime in any country,\" Assange noted.",
"It's the latest turn in a saga that has kept the often elusive, enigmatic figure in the international spotlight.",
"Since the summer of 2010, when WikiLeaks began releasing reams of classified U.S. intelligence documents, Assange has stoked the ire of top officials in the United States and around the world.",
"Some want him and WikiLeaks punished for what they call irreparable damage to global security.",
"\"WikiLeaks has ... ignored our requests not to release or disseminate any U.S. documents it may possess and has continued its well-established pattern of irresponsible, reckless, and frankly dangerous actions,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said in September.",
"Supporters contend Assange represents free speech at its finest.",
"They say he is committed to outing injustices.",
"Assange himself has remained stalwart that the information WikiLeaks chooses to release serves the public by exposing truths about secretive government decisions.",
"Days ago, when WikiLeaks announced it was temporarily stopping publication to raise funds in order to stay afloat in the wake of a financial blockade by banks, Assange said, \"If this financial attack stands unchallenged, a dangerous, oppressive and undemocratic precedent will have been set, the implications of which go far beyond WikiLeaks and its work.\"",
"His parents see the makings of his persona in his youth.",
"His mother, Christine, describes him as \"highly intelligent.\"",
"He was just 16 when she bought him a Commodore 64 computer.",
"It was 1987, and there were no websites.",
"Assange attached a modem to his computer and began his journey through the growing world of computer networks.",
"\"It's like chess,\" he once told New Yorker magazine.",
"\"Chess is very austere in that you don't have many rules, there is no randomness and the problem is very hard.\"",
"Though his mother raised him without any religious influence, she sensed that from a tender age, her son was led by a strong desire to do what he perceived as just.",
"\"He was a lovely boy, very sensitive, good with animals, quiet and has a wicked sense of humor,\" she told the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun newspaper last year.",
"Brett Assange, who raised Julian from age one and gave him his surname, says he was \"a very bright boy with a keen sense of right and wrong.\"",
"In an interview with CNN affiliate Seven News last year, he described his stepson as a \"sharp kid who always fought for the underdog.\"",
"\"Strangely enough, I always thought he would do something like this,\" Brett Assange said.",
"\"He was always very independent.",
"And he certainly wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.",
"\"He always stood up for the underdog.",
"I remember that, like with his school friends.",
"He was always very angry about people ganging up on other people.",
"He had a really good sense of equality and equity.\"",
"Julian Assange would go on to study mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne.",
"In interviews, his scientific precision shines through.",
"In a baritone voice, he speaks in measured pace, choosing each word carefully.",
"He can be charming yet cagey about his private life and is rarely shaken by discussions of even the most controversial revelations on WikiLeaks.",
"He displays a broad range of interests, from computers to literature to his travels in Africa.",
"He's the kind of person who, he says, can hack into the most sophisticated computer system, but forget to show up for an interview, or cancel at the last minute.",
"Even when he walked out of a CNN interview last year after refusing to answer questions about the sex charges in Sweden, Assange remained cool and collected.",
"He projected a stately demeanor helped by his profusion of gray hair -- which grew at an early age -- and an equally steely facial expression.",
"After his initial foray into computers as a teen, Assange delved into computer encryption and grew keen on computer security.",
"He once relayed a story about how he set up an encryption puzzle based on the manipulation of prime numbers.",
"The New Yorker article, published last year, described how in 1991, Assange hacked into the master terminal of the telecom company Nortel, after which he developed a growing fear of arrest.",
"He had married and fathered a child when he was only 18, but the relationship fell apart and his wife left him, taking their infant son with her.",
"He was charged with 31 counts of hacking in Australia but in the end paid only a small sum in damages, according to the New Yorker.",
"The young hacker began to focus his attention away from network flaws to what he perceived as wrongdoings of governments.",
"In a 2007 blog post on IQ.org, he wrote: .",
"\"The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering.",
"Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance.",
"But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.\"",
"IQ.org is believed to be a blog created by Assange and is registered under the name \"JA\" by the same U.S. domain company as WikiLeaks.",
"Its Australian postal address is also the same as a submissions address for WikiLeaks.",
"Driven by the conviction of an activist and the curiosity of a journalist, Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006.",
"He slept little and sometimes forgot to eat.",
"He hired staff and enlisted the help of volunteers.",
"Always, he protected his sources, never discussing where information came from.",
"\"People should understand that WikiLeaks has proven to be arguably the most trustworthy new source that exists, because we publish primary source material and analysis based on that primary source material,\" Assange told CNN.",
"\"Other organizations, with some exceptions, simply are not trustworthy.\"",
"Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a longtime volunteer and spokesman for WikiLeaks who quit his job last year, told CNN that Assange's personality was distracting from the group's original mission: to publish small leaks, not just huge, splashy ones like the Afghan War Diary.",
"Assange took issue.",
"\"It is my role to be the lightning rod,\" Assange said.",
"\"That is a difficult role.",
"On the other hand, I get undue credit.\"",
"Assange's mother told the Herald Sun that she feared her son had become \"too smart for himself.\"",
"\"I'm concerned it's gotten too big and the forces that he's challenging are too big,\" she said.",
"CNN's Moni Basu, Mia Aquino, Atika Shubert, Ashley Fantz, Paul Armstrong, Nick Thompson, and Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"\"He always stood up for the underdog,\" Assange's stepfather says .",
"Assange's mother said she was concerned he had become \"too smart for himself\"\nThe U.S. State Department recently slammed WikiLeak's \"pattern of irresponsible,\" dangerous actions .",
"Assange: \"It is my role to be the lightning rod\""
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Jurors in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor worked for more than seven hours Friday before telling the judge that they had not reached a verdict and were ready to go home for the weekend.",
"The seven men and five women deciding the fate of Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of the pop icon, will resume deliberations Monday morning.",
"Katherine and Joe Jackson, the parents of the Jackson family, were so anxious for a verdict that they spent Friday afternoon in a hotel near the courthouse so they could get there quickly.",
"Dozens of Jackson fans filled the plaza outside of the downtown Los Angeles County courthouse, shouting slogans, waving signs and sometimes arguing with Murray supporters.",
"The jury heard from 49 witnesses over 23 days, including Murray's girlfriends and patients, Jackson's former employees, investigators, and medical experts for each side.",
"Prosecutor David Walgren told them Thursday the evidence that Murray caused Jackson's death is \"overwhelming\" and \"abundantly clear,\" while defense lawyer Ed Chernoff argued no crime was committed.",
"\"If it were anybody else but Michael Jackson, would this doctor be here today?\"",
"Chernoff asked, saying it's a negligence case that should instead be heard by the state medical board.",
"\"He was just a little fish in a big, dirty pond,\" Chernoff said, pointing the finger at other doctors who treated Jackson, and at Jackson himself.",
"The singer's death on June 25, 2009, was caused by acute propofol intoxication in combination with two sedatives, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled.",
"Jurors must decide if the overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol was infused into Jackson's blood by a steady IV drip, as the prosecution contends, or if Jackson injected himself with a syringe left nearby by Murray, as the defense argues.",
"Prosecutors argue that Murray's use of propofol in Jackson's home to treat his insomnia was so reckless it was criminally negligent.",
"\"Conrad Murray left Prince, Paris and Blanket without a father,\" Walgren said.",
"\"For them, this case doesn't end today, or tomorrow.",
"For Michael's children, this case will go on forever, because they do not have a father.",
"They do not have a father because of the actions of Conrad Murray.\"",
"Walgren argued that until Jackson's death, no one ever heard of propofol being in a home every night to put someone to sleep.",
"He called it \"a pharmaceutical experiment on Michael Jackson ... an obscene experiment.\"",
"The defense contends Jackson self-administered the fatal overdose of drugs in a desperate search for sleep without Murray's knowing.",
"\"What they're really asking you to do is to convict Dr. Murray for the actions of Michael Jackson,\" Chernoff said.",
"After Chernoff finished his arguments, Walgren attacked the defense for trying to blame \"everybody but Conrad Murray, poor Conrad Murray.\"",
"\"If allowed more time to argue, I am sure they would find a way to blame Michael's son, Prince,\" Walgren said in his rebuttal.",
"Walgren painted Murray as a selfish doctor who agreed to take $150,000 a month to give Jackson nightly infusions of propofol in his home, something an ethical doctor would never do because of the dangers.",
"While Jackson was hooked up to a constant intravenous drip of propofol, Murray was not paying attention, the prosecutor said.",
"Telephone records and testimony showed he was talking to Sade Anding, a Houston cocktail waitress, when he realized Jackson had stopped breathing.",
"\"What was so important to Conrad Murray that he had to call Sade Anding at that time?",
"What was so important to this doctor that he needed to call one of his female friends in Houston?",
"What was so pressing that he just couldn't care for Michael Jackson, that he had to call Sade Anding?\"",
"It will never be known how long Jackson had not been breathing when Murray dropped the phone in the middle of his conversation with Anding, the prosecutor said.",
"\"Was Conrad Murray in another room?",
"Did Michael Jackson yell out for help?",
"Did he gasp? Did he choke? Were there sounds? We don't know and we'll never know, because of the neglect and negligence of Conrad Murray.\"",
"Walgren questioned why Murray waited at least 20 minutes after he found Jackson was not breathing before he asked a security guard call for an ambulance.",
"\"To speak to a 911 operator was the only hope of Michael Jackson being revived to see another day,\" Walgren said.",
"Paramedics arrived just four minutes after the call, but too late to save Jackson, he said.",
"Chernoff argued that Murray depended on chef Kai Chase to send up a security guard while he was trying to revive Jackson, but she only sent son Prince.",
"When Murray spoke with police two days after Jackson's death, it was \"to get ahead of the story,\" because he knew there would be toxicology reports showing he died from propofol and sedatives, Walgren said.",
"\"Unfortunately, his version doesn't match up with the evidence, the phone records, the e-mails, but he knew what toxicology findings would show,\" Walgren said.",
"Jurors heard from two anesthesiology experts who offered competing theories, Dr. Steven Shafer for the prosecution and Dr. Paul White for the defense.",
"Walgren attacked White for his determination \"to find a theory or way to blame it on Michael Jackson.\"",
"White testified that the levels of propofol and sedatives found in Jackson's stomach, blood and urine during the autopsy convinced him that Jackson swallowed a large does of lorazepam and later gave himself a rapid injection of propofol, which led to his death.",
"\"What you were presented from Dr. White was junk science,\" Walgren said.",
"Chernoff defended his expert and attacked Shafer, saying he was \"not a scientist; he was an advocate.",
"He was trying to prove a point; he was trying to prove a case.\"",
"\"Dr. White knows more about propofol than Dr. Shafer will ever, ever know,\" Chernoff said.",
"Shafer testified that the \"only scenario\" in Jackson's death was one involving an IV drip system infusing a steady flow of propofol into Jackson over several hours before his death.",
"Chernoff argued that the prosecution fabricated the theory because they \"desperately needed a drip,\" because \"without a drip, what Dr. Murray gave Michael Jackson would not have harmed him.\"",
"\"If Dr. Murray did what he said he did, there was no danger to Michael Jackson,\" Chernoff said.",
"\"Michael Jackson was not going to die and it doesn't matter if you leave the room and go outside and play basketball.\"",
"Chernoff attacked the credibility of Alberto Alvarez, Jackson's former bodyguard, who testified that he saw a propofol bottle inside an empty saline bag suspended on an IV stand by Jackson's bed.",
"Alvarez waited two months after Jackson's death to tell the story, Chernoff said.",
"\"All of a sudden, his story becomes monumentally more compelling and more valuable,\" Chernoff said.",
"Alvarez acknowledged he turned down a $500,000 offer for an interview, Chernoff said.",
"\"Do you honestly believe that Alberto Alvarez is not going to cash in?\"",
"Alavarez, who placed the 911 call from Jackson's bedroom, also testified he helped remove Jackson from the bed and performed CPR on him, but a paramedic contradicted that testimony.",
"Investigators who found the cut saline bag and propofol bottle never photographed them together or document the bottle being inside the bag, Chernoff said.",
"The \"bottle in a bag\" theory was even less believable because the propofol bottle had a plastic strip attached to it so it could be hung from an IV stand, he said.",
"That strip was never used, both sides agreed.",
"\"Dr. Murray didn't have to go through the ridiculous, absurd step of cutting a bag, propping it up into a cut IV bag, hanging it up where it could fall,\" Chernoff said.",
"Murray, if convicted, faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license."
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"NEW: Jury deliberations resume Monday in Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial .",
"Don't convict \"Murray for the actions of Michael Jackson,\" defense says .",
"Defense blames \"everybody but Conrad Murray, poor Conrad Murray,\" prosecutor says .",
"Jury must decide if Murray used an IV drip or if Jackson injected himself with overdose ."
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"Manganese Bronze, the maker of the classic London taxi and a former niche player in Coventry's once booming car-making arena, is now the last car company in the city and enjoys the curious status of being the biggest London-listed car maker by volume.",
"Maker of London's classic black cabs is linking with Chinese carmaker Geely.",
"However, it is struggling with the recession.",
"Production is down to 12 vehicles a day during a four-day week in the UK and is barely at break even.",
"Priced between £30,000 and £34,000, they are not cheap.",
"Regulations such as the requirements of turning circles have helped protect the company's dominant supply position in recent years -- but it has suffered a fall of up to 40 per cent in demand during the past year.",
"In contrast to sluggish UK production, the company is working flat out to export the London cab internationally.",
"With the start of commercial production and sales of the taxis in China by a joint venture with carmaker Geely, it pins its hopes on the London taxi becoming an affordable option for cabbies worldwide.",
"After an aborted attempt to set up a manufacturing and sales licensing deal with Brilliance China Automotive in 2002, Manganese Bronze turned to Geely in 2006.",
"The Chinese automaker, which has become a 20 per cent shareholder in the company, has finally begun production of London taxis in a plant in Shanghai.",
"The joint venture, Shanghai LTI, in which Manganese Bronze holds a 48 per cent stake, hopes to sell 1,000 vehicles in China this year -- with expectations of a further 3,000 in territories beyond Asia such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Spain in the course of the next three years.",
"Geely expects the average Chinese black cab to sell for about £10,000, with production costs as low as £4,000 on a production line capable of producing 40,000 vehicles a year.",
"John Russell, Manganese Bronze's chief executive, does not claim demand will reach that level -- which is about 20 times the current sales rate in the UK market.",
"But he insists the taxis can find a premium niche among operators with millions of vehicles used as taxis and minicabs worldwide.",
"Mr Russell says: \"If we were [only] a car company, making two or three thousand cars a year, we would have gone out of business years ago.",
"In London, taxi drivers, \"hearing tales of doom and gloom\" as they carried City bankers and hedge fund managers in the autumn of 2007 became lead indicators of consumer belt-tightening.",
"They deferred new vehicle purchases, which now hover at about 2,000 units a year rather than the 3,000 that can be produced to meet peak demand.",
"Manganese Bronze -- which was also affected by an embarrassing product recall last year after a series of fires in its vehicles -- has responded by cutting headcount, pay and shifts.",
"It plans a £9.4m placing of shares in June to shore up its balance sheet -- as it has slipped into the red.",
"If the UK business is fragile, there is no doubting the robustness of the black cabs that have rolled off the production line at Manganese Bronze's plant for several decades.",
"London taxis typically cover between 20,000 and 30,000 miles a year -- with annual mileages of 100,000 clocked up by some cabbies in far-flung parts of Scotland.",
"The average life span of a vehicle is 12-13 years with many taxis, often driven across shifts by different drivers, covering more than a million miles during their time on the road.",
"The company has found innovative ways to save money, says Mr Russell.",
"\"Two years ago, if you had stress-tested many companies for a 30 or 40 per cent fall in business, most would have predicted they could not survive,\" he says, acknowledging the \"But businessses have adjusted and found innovative ways to save money, he adds -efforts from both shopfloor and boardroom.",
"In spite of the low Chinese production costs and production capacity, Mr Russell also insists he will maintain production for the domestic market in the UK.",
"The joint venture should also see UK production costs cut as a result of components supplied by China.",
"\"We can't stand on our own two feet without China,\" says Mr Russell, whose business cards are in English and Chinese characters.",
"\"We [have] always said the business is fragile.\"",
"But he adds: \"There is significant value in being a UK producer.",
"\"Can you imagine BMW and VW not producing in Germany?",
"We need a UK manufacturing presence.\"",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2009 ."
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"Tie-up with Geely hopes to sell 4000 vehicles in foriegn markets .",
"UK production now down to 12 vehicles a day and company is barely breaking even ."
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"(CNN) -- The husband of an American woman, who has been missing for six weeks in Japan, said Thursday that she had threatened to kill herself the night she disappeared after the two argued.",
"Vince Abad, an airman at a major U.S. Air Force facility in Japan, said he and his wife, Kelli, had fought over the phone on the night of October 26 after he had gone to see their pastor, who had helped resolve disputes between them in the past.",
"When he returned home, his wife was gone and their two children were in bed.",
"\"We'd had arguments before -- it didn't feel too out of place,\" Abad, 30, said.",
"He said he assumed she had gone to stay with a friend.",
"But when Kelli Abad, 27, didn't come back by the following morning, he became concerned and raised the alarm.",
"Two days later, the wife's car, a Toyota SUV, was found at Cape Zanpa on the island of Okinawa, about 10 miles from the base, with her cell phone and purse inside.",
"Also inside the car was a note, Abad said, that read, \"Love my kids, love my hubby and parents.",
"Bye.\" Cape Zanpa is known locally as a place for committing suicide, Abad said.",
"The Japanese police, the fire department and coast guard have searched caves and cliffs in the area but have found no trace of her, the police have said.",
"The U.S. military has been helping with the search.",
"Family members have also attempted their own searches in the area, he said.",
"No witnesses have come forward, despite a poster campaign in English and Japanese saying she is missing.",
"The family is \"always hoping for the best -- that she's out there,\" Abad said.",
"But they are also aware of the possibility that his wife \"might have decided to leave us on her own terms.\"",
"\"Right now, she's a ghost,\" he said.",
"The couple's two young children -- a 1-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl -- are learning to deal with their mother's absence, Abad said.",
"In the first few weeks after Kelli Abad's disappearance, he found his daughter crying one night.",
"When he asked her what was wrong, he said, she replied, \"We don't have a mommy.\""
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"Kelli Abad disappeared the night that she and her husband argued, he says .",
"She has been missing for six weeks .",
"Her car is found near cliffs on the island of Okinawa with a note inside .",
"Her family is holding out hope but is aware of the possibility she's gone ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Even as he was enjoying his 20th month of remission from Hodgkin's lymphoma, Ethan Zohn worried about a relapse.",
"\"I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind,\" the former \"Survivor\" winner tells PEOPLE in a new interview.",
"His fears were confirmed on Sept. 14, when doctors told him the cancer had returned in his chest.",
"\"It's localized in my lung area,\" Zohn, 37, says.",
"\"But it's good that it's not all over my body.\" His girlfriend of eight years, Jenna Morasca, 30, was by his side when Zohn got the news.",
"\"She's taking it like the rock star that she is,\" he says of Morasca, who also won Survivor.",
"\"We're both filled with fear and anger and anxiety and gratitude and frustration.",
"But there's so much love there. It's this whole spectrum of emotions.\"",
"On October 18, Zohn began a new \"smart\" form of chemotherapy, SGN-35, that only targets the cancerous cells, which means, he says, \"I won't lose my hair again.\"",
"After 12 weeks of treatment, Zohn hopes to undergo another stem-cell transplant -- this time from one of his brothers, who is a likely match.",
"\"But the doctors won't tell me which one.",
"They didn't want me to start treating one differently than the other,\" Zohn says.",
"\"Of course my whole family is taking bets on who it is.\"",
"Although Zohn's life has turned upside down once again, he still plans to run in the New York City Marathon on Nov. 6 to raise money for his Grassroot Soccer organization, which promotes HIV/AIDS education and prevention.",
"\"The doctors think I'm crazy but they gave me the okay,\" he says.",
"\"Cancer isn't going to slow me down.",
"I want people to know that you can still live a fulfilled life and move forward.\"",
"See the full story at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"I don't want fear or cancer to define me,\" Zohn said .",
"\"It's localized in my lung area,\" Zohn, 37, says.",
"Zohn hopes to undergo another stem-cell transplant ."
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"(CNN) -- The football world hadn't seen anything quite like it before.",
"On Tuesday night the Turkish giants of Fenerbahce took on Manisaspor in Istanbul in what should have been an empty stadium.",
"A pitch invasion by Fenerbahce's notoriously boisterous fans during a friendly in July had forced the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) to ban the male supporters from attending two games as punishment.",
"Instead as many as 43,000 women and children took advantage of free tickets to fill the stands with songs, banners and passion every bit as intense as their male compatriots.",
"\"This atmosphere was one of the kind and historic in the sense of Turkish football as well as international football,\" Fenerbahce's vice-president Ali Koc told CNN's Pedro Pinto.",
"\"The women of Fenerbahce sports club have shown us what they can do for their club, what they can do for Turkish football and I think this was an event that was exemplary for sports.\"",
"Fenerbahce won last year's Turkish championship but a cloud has hung over the club since allegations of match fixing came to light during the summer.",
"Several of Turkey's highest profile football figures have been arrested during the investigations which lead to the TFF withdrawing Fenerbahce from this year's UEFA Champions League group stage draw.",
"Tuesday night's match was going to be another night of shame for Turkish football, until the TFF allowed children under 12 and an accompanying adult to attend 24 hours before kick off.",
"By the next morning thousands of women in Fenerbahce shirts lined up for tickets and images were beamed across the globe of what was surely the highest female attendance at a men's match in world football.",
"It was a good news story for Fenerbahce just when Turkish football needed it.",
"\"Tuesday night we had 43,000 fans in the stadium,\" Koc told CNN.",
"\"As you know the club is going through some troubled times with allegations of match fixing...The fans have gone beyond the call of duty to embrace the club and fight for the rights of the club.\"",
"According to Koc Fenerbahce has long pursued a more family-friendly approach and regularly attract up to 8,000 women, around 20 per cent of the crowd.",
"\"Lot of songs, a lot of chanting and solidarity,\" Koc replied when asked how the atmosphere differed to a typical match day.",
"\"A man has less patience waiting in line for tickets.",
"Coming to the stadium of course men are lot more loud and more synchronized but the women were a lot more passionate and a lot more encouraging.\"",
"But the crowd was not rewarded with the victory that their efforts demanded.",
"The match ended 1-1 but for Koc the effects will last long after the final whistle.",
"\"I think it's important for Turkey because we [were] a candidate to host the World Cup, Olympics, European Championships and these committees are all sensitive to the abilities of the organizing host country to fill the stadiums [and] in this direction it was a big positive.\"",
"\"We're disappointed we couldn't send the ladies home with a victory.\""
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"As many as 43,000 mostly female fans watch Fenerbahce play Manisaspor in Istanbul .",
"Male fans had been banned because of a pitch invasion last July .",
"Turkish football has been mired in a match fixing scandal .",
"Club vice-president Ali Koc tells CNN's Pedro Pinto the match was \"historic\""
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"(CNN) -- NASA scientists say they have captured the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg about to break off into the sea.",
"\"A lot of times when you're in science, you don't get a chance to catch the big stories as they happen because you're not there at the right place at the right time.",
"But this time we were,\" John Sonntag, a scientist with the NASA survey team that captured the data said in a video posted to NASA's website.",
"The discovery of the approximately 340-square-mile iceberg-to-be came October 14 as scientists were flying over the glacier as part of Project IceBridge, a six-year mission to map a three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice, according to NASA.",
"Scientists aboard the flight noticed a large crack in the glacier and asked colleagues in the United States to review satellite data to see when it appeared, according to the NASA video.",
"Those scientists said the 18-mile-long crack, which is now between 260 feet and 820 feet wide and up to 195 feet deep, appeared in early October.",
"The crack is the first step in the iceberg breaking off from the Pine Island Glacier and slipping into the ocean.",
"Such events are fairly common but still major from a scientific perspective, Sonntag said.",
"The NASA crew was able to use laser range-finding tools to create a three-dimensional map of the rift, the first time such an image has been created, said IceBridge project scientist Michael Studinger.",
"\"It's part of a natural process but it's pretty exciting to be here and actually observe it while it happens,\" he said in an article posted to the NASA website.",
"NASA did not indicate when the iceberg might break off from the glacier.",
"When it does, the leading edge of the Pine Island ice shelf will have receded more than at any time since the 1940s, when the ice shelf was first mapped, NASA said."
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"Their observations are the first detailed airborne measurements of such a phenomenon .",
"The iceberg will be about 340 square miles ."
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"Canton, Georgia (CNN) -- New details emerged Thursday in the brutal slaying of a 7-year-old Georgia girl, hours after an attorney for the suspect said his client would plead not guilty.",
"Seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera's mouth was duct-taped, and her hands and feet were bound with plastic ties, a source close to the investigation said.",
"Authorities have charged 20-year-old maintenance worker Ryan Brunn with killing Jorelys, who was last seen alive Friday near a playground at the apartment complex where he worked in Canton, Georgia.",
"They found her mangled body in a trash compactor there three days later, the source said.",
"A court date for an arraignment has not been set.",
"David Cannon Sr., one of Brunn's court-appointed attorneys, said his client will enter a \"not guilty plea\" at the appropriate time.",
"Brunn wore an orange jumpsuit and a bullet-proof vest Thursday during his first court appearance.",
"His hands and feet were shackled during the hearing, which lasted only a few minutes.",
"After the hearing, defense attorney Daran Burns told reporters that his client was \"very shaken.\"",
"\"We're investigating our case,\" Burns said.",
"\"It's obviously a very tragic case.",
"It's a very serious case.",
"We take it very seriously.",
"Just give us time to do our jobs.\"",
"After Cherokee County Superior Court Judge Frank Mills read him his rights Thursday, Brunn said he understood what he was being charged with and was satisfied with his counsel.",
"Brunn, who was arrested Wednesday, is in segregated confinement in prison and wore a bullet-proof vest Thursday due to the nature of the case, said Lt. Jay Baker, a spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"It's been a hot issue in the community.",
"We didn't want to take any chances,\" Baker told reporters.",
"Jesus Palomino, who lives in the apartment complex, said he attended Thursday's court appearance \"to see justice be served against this criminal that was living in my neighborhood.\"",
"\"The mood right now inside the apartment complex is very saddening, you know, it's hard to go outside without looking both ways before you even step outside your door, because you're just scared that somebody might be there,\" he said.",
"Thursday's court appearance came after the little girl's mother called for capital punishment for the suspect.",
"\"I don't want any charges brought against him,\" Joseline Rivera told CNN affiliate WSB.",
"\"What I want is the death penalty.",
"He's an animal. He killed my little angel.\"",
"Brunn has not made a public statement, but his adopted brother has said he is innocent.",
"The warrant for Brunn's arrest charged him with murder and making false statements to law enforcement.",
"\"The accused did unlawfully and with malice aforethought cause the death of Jorelys Rivera by hitting her on the head with a blunt object,\" it said.",
"Authorities have said there will likely be other charges, including kidnapping and sexual molestation.",
"The little girl's father, Ricardo Galarza, lives in Puerto Rico.",
"He told CNN on Thursday that he last saw his daughter two years ago when she visited for the summer.",
"She was supposed to visit for Christmas this year, Galarza said.",
"He echoed Rivera's call for the death penalty.",
"Meanwhile, a judge ruled that Joseline Rivera's two younger children -- Jorelys' half-siblings -- could return to the custody of family members, attorney John Connley told reporters.",
"Authorities took away the two children, ages 4 and 1, on Saturday, a day after Jorelys went missing.",
"The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services cited lack of supervision.",
"Connley, who represents the children's father, did not specify which parent would have custody.",
"A family friend said the father of the two younger children lives in Miami.",
"Authorities said Brunn has no known criminal history.",
"His adopted brother, Connor, told CNN affiliate WXIA-TV that the arrest was a \"big mistake.\"",
"\"I honestly think he is innocent.",
"There's just no way he would do something like this.",
"He's just a kind-hearted person,\" Connor Brunn said.",
"He has spoken with Ryan, he said, who told him \"he wouldn't touch a girl like that.\"",
"\"He wouldn't ever do something like that. ...",
"This is just all bogus. ... He knew that he was suspected but he never, like, thought that it would go to him.",
"He was asked to help to go look for this little girl.",
"And then he got brought into this,\" Connor Brunn said.",
"On what friends say is Ryan Brunn's Facebook page, he described himself as being \"very outgoing\" and having \"a 'wonderful' life, family, and friends.\"",
"In July, he posted a message slamming Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her daughter in Florida.",
"He wrote that Casey Anthony should have died, \"but really she'll get hers.\"",
"Tips from the public led investigators to Brunn, who had been working at the complex since November 7, authorities said.",
"Jorelys was abducted \"in the immediate vicinity\" of the apartment complex's playground, then taken to an empty apartment nearby, Keenan said.",
"\"We have evidence that the murder occurred in that vacant apartment,\" he said.",
"\"At some point, the child's body was then disposed of in the Dumpster and compacted into trash.\"",
"Authorities have said Jorelys died of blunt force trauma to the head, was stabbed and had been sexually assaulted.",
"Neighbor Heather Johnson-Coker said residents were suspicious of Brunn after investigators found Jorelys' body in the trash compactor, which can only be operated with a key that employees at the complex have.",
"She said the maintenance worker had mentioned the large number of vacant apartments in the complex when a boy from the area went missing for a few hours recently.",
"\"He said, and I quote, 'It would be really easy for someone to break in and do something to one of these children,'\" Johnson-Coker said Wednesday.",
"Connor Brunn said investigators should have focused on the complex's other maintenance workers, who also had access to the trash compactor, instead of his brother.",
"\"I think they were looking at him because he was one of the maintenance guys there,\" he said.",
"\"But he's just one out of what, four or five other maintenance guys that work there?\"",
"Brunn was one of hundreds of people whom investigators interviewed in their search for suspects, Keenan said Wednesday.",
"\"We're confident that Brunn is a killer,\" Keenan charged, but he added that the investigation will continue for months.",
"\"We are investigating all of the past history of Ryan Brunn and piecing together what he's been doing the last several years,\" he added.",
"\"We have sent agents to other states and also to other counties and we're going to backtrack all of his activities and make a determination if he has been involved in other crimes.",
"He has no known criminal history to us, but we will find out.\"",
"CNN's Gustavo Valdes, Holly Firfer, Mike Brooks and Rich Phillips contributed to this report from Canton.",
"CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet contributed from Atlanta."
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"NEW: A source says the 7-year-old's hands and feet were bound with plastic ties .",
"Brunn will enter a \"not guilty\" plea, his court-appointed attorney says .",
"A sheriff's spokesman says Brunn wore a bullet-proof vest due to the nature of the case .",
"Attorney: Judge rules the two younger half-siblings can return to family custody ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City shrugged off the Carlos Tevez controversy to stay in contention for the English Premier League lead with a 4-0 rout of struggling Blackburn on Saturday.",
"Roberto Mancini's men remained level on points with leaders Manchester United, who struggled to a 2-0 win over promoted Norwich, but the victory was tempered by an injury to Sergio Aguero.",
"The striker has made a huge impact since being signed to replace Tevez in pre-season, scoring eight league goals, but he went off with a groin problem in the first half.",
"With his fellow Argentine suspended after refusing to come on as a substitute in the midweek Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich, Aguero started the match alongside the recalled Mario Balotelli.",
"Is Tevez 'strike' sad for soccer?",
"The Italian, who missed the trip to Germany, was given the nod ahead of Edin Dzeko -- another eight-goal man this season, but another City player in trouble after having to apologize to Mancini following his angry reaction when he was substituted in Bavaria.",
"After a scoreless first half, Balotelli hit the post before young England winger Adam Johnson broke the deadlock with a superb curled effort in the 56th minute.",
"Balotelli made it 2-0 three minutes later, then Aguero's replacement Samir Nasri settled it with 17 minutes to play on the counter-attack as home fans called for Rovers manager Steve Kean to be sacked.",
"Montenegro defender Stefan Savic headed in Nasri's late corner to score the 20-year-old's first goal for City and leave Blackburn second from bottom with four points from seven games.",
"Rivals Manchester United also moved onto 19 points after a victory at home to 10th-placed Norwich that manager Alex Ferguson described as \"gritty.\"",
"The visitors missed several chances, and United made them pay as midfielder Anderson scored with a rare header in the 68th minute and young substitute Danny Welbeck added another with three minutes to play.",
"\"Our home record has been fantastic for two seasons now,\" said Ferguson, who made seven changes after United's 3-3 midweek draw with Basel in the Champions League.",
"\"This was not a good performance but we were gritty and we never gave in.",
"That is a fantastic quality to have.\"",
"Striker Wayne Rooney returned from injury, hitting the bar late on, and should be fit for England's Euro 2012 qualifier in Montenegro on Friday along with winger Ashley Young -- who missed the match with an ankle injury.",
"With Chelsea traveling to Bolton on Sunday, Newcastle took the chance to claim third place after a contentious 2-1 victory at Wolverhampton.",
"Striker Demba Ba followed up last weekend's hat-trick with a 17th-minute header from a corner, and Jonas Gutierrez doubled the lead before halftime.",
"Wolves were denied a penalty when referee Mark Halsey wrongly ruled that Jamie O'Hara was fouled outside the area, then Steven Fletcher pulled a goal back in the 88th minute.",
"Mick McCarthy's team were again denied when Kevin Doyle's header was controversially ruled out by the assistant official, who said the ball had already gone out of play.",
"Fifth-placed Liverpool joined Chelsea on 13 points with a 2-0 victory in the Merseyside derby that left Everton manager David Moyes fuming.",
"Young midfielder Jack Rodwell was sent off midway through the first half for a sliding challenge on Luis Suarez, despite clearly making contact with the ball before sending the Uruguay striker tumbling.",
"\"The sending-off ruined the game.",
"You get lots of questions from people asking about derbies, tackles and sendings-off but that wasn't even a bad tackle,\" Moyes said after ref Martin Atkinson handed out his 15th red card since the start of last season.",
"Suarez won a penalty before halftime, but Dirk Kuyt's attempt was saved by Tom Howard.",
"Striker Andy Carroll put Liverpool ahead in the 71st minute from Jose Enrique's cross after Kuyt ducked out of the way, with the club-record $50 million signing scoring his first league goal this season.",
"Suarez sealed it with eight to play with his fourth league goal this season, leaving unhappy Everton in 11th place.",
"Unbeaten Aston Villa moved up to sixth with a 2-0 victory that condemned Wigan to a fifth successive defeat in all competitions.",
"Gabriel Agbonlahor scored the first-half opener and set up fellow striker Darren Bent for the second after the break.",
"Sunderland came from two goals down to secure a 2-2 draw at home to West Brom, who scored within five minutes through James Morrison and Shane Long.",
"New Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner scored his first for the club since leaving Arsenal with a deflected shot in the 24th minute, and Egypt winger Ahmed Elmohamady did the same when he leveled two minutes later with a header."
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"Manchester City level with leaders Manchester United after 4-0 win at Blackburn .",
"Big-money signing Sergio Aguero injured before City score four second-half goals .",
"Manchester United win 2-0 at home to Norwich to stay ahead on goal difference .",
"Newcastle up to third place while Liverpool win controversial Merseyside derby ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo continued his battle for scoring supremacy with fellow superstar Lionel Messi with two more goals as Real Madrid reached the last 16 of the European Champions League on Wednesday.",
"While Messi passed the 200 mark for Barcelona with a hat-trick on Tuesday that put the titleholders into the knockout stage, Ronaldo's double in the 2-0 win against Lyon gave him 100 since moving to the Spanish capital in mid-2009.",
"It was Real's first triumph in the French city in five attempts, and gave Jose Mourinho's team a perfect four wins from four in Group D -- with no goals conceded.",
"Ronaldo broke the deadlock with a swerving free-kick in the 24th minute, a fitting way to bring up the nine-time European champions' 900th score in the competition.",
"Is Messi the only real Ballon d'Or candidate?",
"The Portugal forward doubled the lead with 21 minutes to play from the penalty spot after going down under the challenge of Mouhamadou Dabo, while the hosts hit the bar through Jimmy Briand's header.",
"Lyon, seeking to reach the last 16 for the ninth successive season, suffered a first home defeat in 24 matches and now trail second-placed Ajax by three points ahead of the Dutch club's visit later this month.",
"The Amsterdam side moved up to seven points with a 4-0 win at home to pointless Dinamo Zagreb.",
"Gregory van der Wiel and Miralem Sulejmani finished off fine team moves inside the opening 25 minutes, while second-half goals from Siem de Jong and substitute Nicolas Lodeiro killed off the Croatians.",
"Messi hat-trick puts Barcelona into last 16 .",
"Bayern Munich stayed top of Group A with a 3-2 win at home to Napoli, which featured a first-half hat-trick from Germany striker Mario Gomez, a broken collarbone for key midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and two red cards.",
"The Italians pulled one back before the break through Federico Fernandez, but after Bayern lost Schweinsteiger on 53, the visitors had Juan Zuniga sent off in the 70th minute for a second booking.",
"The Germans had defender Holger Badstuber sent off for a second yellow card, and defender Fernandez capitalized with his second goal soon after, but Gomez was denied a 20th this season -- this time from the halfway line as goalkeeper Morgan de Sanctis was forced to scramble back desperately.",
"Manchester City beat struggling Spanish side Villarreal 3-0 to move up to second place on seven points -- three behind Bayern and two ahead of Napoli.",
"Midfielder Yaya Toure scored his first goals since City's FA Cup final win in May, sidefooting home from the edge of the box after David Silva created space for him on the half hour and then again in the second half after waltzing into the area following a pass from Mario Balotelli.",
"Balotelli had made it 2-0 in first-half stoppage time after earning a hotly-disputed penalty.",
"Inter Milan edged closer to a second-round place with a 2-1 win at home to French champions Lille that left the 2009 European titleholders top of Group B. Walter Samuel headed in an 18th-minute corner and Diego Milito made up for three bad first-half misses when he converted a cross from captain Javier Zanetti on 65.",
"Claudio Ranieri's team have now won more matches in Europe this season than domestically in Serie A. Tulio De Melo netted a late consolation for Lille, who ended the match bottom of the table on two points.",
"Trabzonspor and CSKA Moscow both have five points after a goalless draw in Turkey, which the Russians finished with 10 men as Ivory Coast striker Seydou Doumbia was sent off for a second booking.",
"Manchester United joined Benfica on eight points at the top of Group C after beating Romanian minnows Otelul Galati 2-0 for the second match in a row.",
"Last season's runners-up took an eighth-minute lead through winger Antonio Valencia, while Cristian Sarghi scored a late own-goal when he deflected in a shot by England striker Wayne Rooney -- who scored both times in the first fixture.",
"\"They made it difficult for us,\" said United manager Alex Ferguson, who celebrates 25 years in charge at Old Trafford this weekend.",
"Benfica could only draw 1-1 at home to Basel despite taking a fourth-minute lead through Rodrigo's volley.",
"Benjamin Huggel's 64th-minute equalizer put the Swiss side on five points ahead of the trip to Galati later this month, while Portugal's Benfica travel to England."
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"Real Madrid reach knockout stage with 2-0 victory away to Lyon .",
"Cristiano Ronaldo scores 100th goal for Spanish club after his double .",
"Bayern Munich stay top of Group A, while Inter Milan lead Group B .",
"Manchester United join Benfica on eight points at the head of Group C ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A man accused of stalking television actress and singer Selena Gomez, 19, pleaded not guilty Thursday, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.",
"Thomas Brodnicki, 46, has been charged with one count of stalking the teen star, who is thought to be the girlfriend of Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber.",
"Authorities say Brodnicki allegedly stalked Gomez this year, between July and October.",
"He is expected to appear for a preliminary hearing on November 16.",
"If convicted, Brodnicki could face a maximum of three years behind bars, the statement said.",
"He also now faces a court-issued protective order, requiring Brodnicki to keep away from Gomez for a period of three years.",
"Bail has been set at $150,000, the statement said.",
"Brodnicki's attorney could not be immediately reached for comment."
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"Thomas Brodnicki has been charged with one count of stalking the teen star .",
"Brodnicki, 46, has pleaded not guilty .",
"Gomez is thought to be the girlfriend of pop star Justin Bieber ."
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"(CNN) -- A Spanish court has reopened an investigation into an allegation that one of the world's richest men, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, raped a young woman on a yacht on the island of Ibiza in 2008.",
"But the prince says that not only is he innocent, but that he hasn't even been in Ibiza in more than a decade -- and that others have tried to impersonate him.",
"The woman filed her complaint in Ibiza in August 2008, but a local judge shelved it last year, citing a lack of evidence that a crime had been committed, according to court documents.",
"The woman appealed to the next highest court, the Balearic Island Provisional Court, which ruled that the lower court in Ibiza should reopen the investigation.",
"According to court documents obtained by CNN, the victim argued in her appeal that the real reason the lower court tossed out the case was that the alleged perpetrator was a powerful member of the Saudi royal family.",
"A second document shows that the lower court has complied with the latest ruling, labeling Prince Alwaleed as a person an \"imputado,\" or someone \"under official investigation,\" and is seeking a statement from him.",
"Being named an imputado is a step short of an indictment.",
"The Saudi prince, a billionaire and the biggest foreign investor in companies such a News Corp., said in a statement that it was not until this week that he learned of the accusation.",
"\"These allegations are completely and utterly false,\" said a statement from his investment firm, Kingdom Holding Co. \"The alleged encounter simply never happened.\"",
"According to the statement, the prince doesn't even vacation in Spanish waters.",
"Travel records show that he was elsewhere on the night of the alleged rape and in the company of others, the statement says.",
"But Max Turiel, one of the lawyers for the alleged victim, says there is evidence that they want to the court to examine further.",
"According to the court documents, the woman believed that her drink had been drugged.",
"She sent a text message to a friend stating as much.",
"She awoke on a yacht to find she was being sexually assaulted by a man she identified as Prince Alwaleed, according to court documents.",
"Turiel told CNN that \"there were remains of semen\" that should be examined against the prince's DNA, as well as \"remains of a tranquilizer that produced the symptoms she had.\"",
"The evidence came from tests carried out 30 hours after the alleged rape, the attorney said, so the alcohol was gone from her body, but not the drug or the DNA.",
"Turiel said the alleged victim's mother could answer questions from CNN, but only through e-mail.",
"He provided responses to CNN's questions that he said were from the mother.",
"CNN cannot independently confirm that the message was from the victim's mother.",
"\"She wanted to reopen the case due to the huge injustice and a feeling of a helplessness; powerful people should not take undue advantage of it and have others subjected to them,\" the message said.",
"The message described the \"man or men\" who allegedly abused the young woman as powerful individuals who threatened her on board the yacht.",
"Asked if her daughter was afraid to appeal the case, the mother said, \"Part of the fear has a lot of dignity and that can't be bought nor scared off with threats.\"",
"The young woman, a dual Spanish and German citizen, is now 23 years old, the e-mail said.",
"Asked for additional comment on Thursday, Prince Alwaleed's representatives did not immediately respond to CNN."
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"A judge rules that a lower court must reopen the rape case .",
"The alleged victim says she was drugged and raped .",
"She identifies Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal as the perpetrator .",
"The prince says he was in a different place at the time of the alleged attack ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- While admitting again that she and Eddie Cibran made mistakes when they got together in 2009, LeAnn Rimes says there were tons of lies written about them, too -- but that the couple kept quiet for the sake of his children.",
"\"You have to really take the high road a lot of the time when you want to stand on a mountain and scream like, Why are you saying this?\"",
"the country singer, 29, said Thursday in an interview on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\"",
"\"We've always put his kids first,\" she added, referring to Cibran's two children from his marriage to Brandi Glanville.",
"\"We took the kids into consideration with everything that we do.",
"Sometimes you just want to scream.",
"But you don't. We've learned to let it go and laugh at it, at the end of the day.\"",
"Rimes, who left husband Dean Sheremet for Cibran, acknowledges once again that the whole situation \"could've been handled a lot better.",
"But maybe we both didn't have the tools at the time to do it properly.",
"But I've learned a lot ... Obviously we all make choices that lead us into a different path, here and there, and you learn from those or you don't.\"",
"She added: \"It obviously brought us to the place where we are now.",
"And we're happy, and we're married. ...",
"I think we have both come to a really good place in our lives.",
"And right now, I'm really at peace.\"",
"Rimes also addressed another familiar topic -- her weight.",
"The singer has looked very thin in photos this year, but says she doesn't have an eating disorder.",
"The media has been \"very irresponsible calling a lot of people fat or anorexic or bulimic or whatever it may be,\" she said.",
"\"It seems like bullying now instead of really taking these diseases seriously that a lot of people are going through.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"We've always put his kids first,\" LeAnn Rimes said .",
"Rimes left husband Dean Sheremet for Eddie Cibran .",
"\"We're happy, and we're married,\" Rimes said ."
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"(CNN) -- The son and wife of convicted stockbroker Bernie Madoff said they had no inkling he was running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme until he came home on a December night three years ago and gathered the family together.",
"\"He said, 'I have a confession to make.",
"I've been running a Ponzi scheme.\"",
"He said, '$50 billion dollars,'\" recounted Madoff's wife, Ruth, in an interview with CBS' \"60 Minutes\" Sunday night.",
"Madoff's youngest son, Andrew, also appeared on the show -- their first television interview since Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 of running the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.",
"\"He said, 'Everything I've been doing is all a big lie,'\" Andrew Madoff recalled.",
"\"And then he just started sobbing.",
"And I was-- I-- I was shocked. I-- it was-- I felt like my head exploded.",
"I mean, I-- I don't think if he had told me he was an alien I could've been more surprised.\"",
"Ruth Madoff was too taken aback to comprehend the significance of his admission, the son said: \"'What's a Ponzi scheme?'",
"was her first question.\"",
"\"I said, 'It's all fake.' It means dad's not been doing what he says he's been doing,\" Andrew Madoff recalled telling his mother.",
"\"My brother was trembling with rage.",
"He was absolutely furious.",
"Mark was the first one to stand up and say, 'I'm out of here,' and I immediately followed and walked out.\"",
"That night, Ruth and Bernie Madoff went to the company Christmas party, stayed half an hour and came home.",
"The next morning, the FBI arrived to arrest Madoff -- turned in by his two sons.",
"On December 11, 2010 -- two years to the day his father was arrested -- Mark Madoff's body was discovered hanging from a ceiling pipe in his Manhattan apartment, while his 2-year-old son slept in another room.",
"Ruth Madoff said she blamed herself for her son's suicide and for not cutting off contact with her husband as her son had once wished.",
"\"I just wish, until my dying day, that I had done what he wanted,\" she said.",
"\"It's the most awful thing that could happen to anybody.",
"Suicide of a child.\"",
"Madoff, 73, is at Butner Federal Correction Complex, a medium-security prison in eastern North Carolina.",
"He is serving a 150-year sentence after bilking investors out of their money by masquerading as the head of a legitimate investment firm while using funds from new investors to send payments to his earlier investors, falsely portraying them as proceeds when they were actually stolen money, prosecutors said.",
"\"I can't explain it,\" Ruth Madoff said.",
"\"I mean I trusted him.",
"Why would it ever occur to me that it wasn't legal?",
"The business was -- his reputation, was almost legendary.",
"Why would I ever think that there was something sinister going on?\"",
"The wife and surviving son both say they will never forgive Madoff for his crimes and for what he has done to their family.",
"\"What he did to me, to my brother, and to my family is unforgivable,\" Andrew Madoff said.",
"\"What he did to thousands of other people, destroyed their lives -- I'll never understand it.",
"And, I'll never forgive him for it.",
"And I'll never speak to him again.\"",
"Madoff's criminal activities spawned a tidal wave of civil actions against the family, accusing them of profiting from the Ponzi scheme.",
"As public outrage mounted over the crime, Ruth Madoff and her husband attempted suicide.",
"\"I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening,\" she said.",
"\"\"We had terrible phone calls.",
"Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said 'I just can't go on anymore,'\" she said.",
"\"We took pills and woke up the next day....It was very impulsive and I am glad we woke up.\"",
"The \"60 Minutes\" interview coincides with Monday's release of the new book about the Madoff family, \"Truth and Consequences\" -- a tell-all memoir, written with the family's cooperation.",
"In the interview, correspondent Morley Safer asked, \"You know, there's a lot of a people out there who are saying, or will be saying as they watch this, \"This is all a charade.",
"This was something that the Madoffs set up to get themselves off the hook.'\"",
"\"I wish it were,\" Andrew Madoff said.",
"\"I wish it were. I wish none of this was real.",
"You know, I knew-- I knew absolutely nothing about this-- before my father shared the information with me.",
"And it was-- it was the most shocking and-- and terrible moment of my life.\""
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"Madoff is in prison for swindling investors in the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history .",
"His wife blames herself for her eldest son's suicide .",
"Andrew Madoff: \"What he did to me, to my brother, and to my family is unforgivable\""
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"(Mashable) -- Facebook has just announced a new mobile application designed specifically for feature phones.",
"The app will give feature phone users access to Facebook messages, events, pictures, news feeds, profiles and more.",
"The app gives users a better, almost smartphone-like Facebook experience that includes simple homescreen navigation, contact syncing and fast scrolling of updates and photos.",
"Users will be able to use the Facebook app without incurring data charges.",
"The app is available on the following carriers in the following countries and will launch on more networks and in more areas soon: .",
"Dialog (Sri Lanka) Life (Ukraine) Play (Poland) StarhHub (Singapore) STC (Saudi Arabia) Three (Hong Kong) Tunisiana (Tunisia) Viva (Dominican Republic) Other carriers and countries slated to be available soon are Mobilicity (Canada), Reliance (India), Telcel (Mexico), TIM (Brazil) and Vivacom (Bulgaria).",
"On the Facebook blog, the company's mobile program managerMark Heynen writes, \"The Facebook for Feature Phones app works on more than 2,500 devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and other manufacturers, and it was built in close cooperation with Snaptu.\"",
"Among the digerati, we tend to forget that smartphone users are not, in fact, the majority of cellphone owners.",
"As of June 2010, feature phone owners make up a full 79 percent of all mobile phone owners.",
"That number is even higher in countries like China and India.",
"As a global company with a strong presence in countries around the world -- and a strong desire to dominate in markets outside the U.S. -- Facebook has a responsibility to develop applications for all kinds of users.",
"Other companies are still innovating in the feature phone space, and we're glad to see that Facebook is starting to keep up.",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Facebook has just announced a new mobile application for feature phones .",
"The app gives users a better, almost smartphone-like Facebook experience .",
"Users will be able to use the Facebook app without incurring data charges ."
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"London (CNN) -- It is a year since an 18th-century Chinese vase was sold in London for $68 million, smashing world records.",
"Now dealers and auction houses in London are feverishly anticipating a slew of sales as part of Asian Art in London, a week-long event that has been attracting newly-wealthy Chinese buyers and collectors to the capital for over a decade.",
"Max Rutherston, Chairman of Asian Art in London, says the week of Asian art sales and exhibitions in London has been running for 13 years, and has seen a \"Chinese art boom,\" with collectors from mainland China and Hong Kong flocking to London to check out the array of antique wares laid out in the salesrooms and galleries.",
"Antique vases hailing from the much-sought-after 18th-century Qianlong period are going under the hammer at major auction houses Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams and on display at the commercial galleries, alongside decorative objets d'art and furnishings.",
"Bonhams is selling a rare vase estimated to fetch between $8 million (£5 million) and $13 million (£8 million).",
"The 50cm tall vase features delicate chrysanthemum blossoms in white and pink tones and bears the Qianlong seal.",
"\"The Qianlong period is really the apex of the technical achievement for Chinese porcelain, it was a time of great prosperity that led to great opulence and magnificent objects were produced for the imperial court,\" explained Asaph Hyman, a Senior Specialist in the Chinese department at Bonhams.",
"Sotheby's, too, is hosting a round of sales, with lots ranging from ornately decorated vases to a gilt-bronze enamel tiger, estimated to fetch between $319,000 (£200,000) and $479,000 (£300,000).",
"All houses are anticipating that the buyers of these artifacts will be Chinese, either from Hong Kong or the mainland, with some Taiwanese customers as well.",
"It's a trend that has become more and more pronounced in the last decade, driving prices ever higher.",
"\"It's a true tide-change,\" said Asian art dealer Daniel Eskenazi, whose London dealership has been running for 50 years.",
"\"The Chinese weren't allowed to buy anything under Mao and they are developing very quickly, tending to go into an area and exhausting it completely before moving onto another one,\" he continued.",
"Westerners, who at one point collected this type of work, are being increasingly priced out of the market and are now more likely to sell than buy, said Eskenazi.",
"\"It's very patriotic, I'd put it down to that,\" opined Sotheby's Specialist Stephen Loakes, as to why Chinese buyers are so keen to pay such large sums for antiques from their homeland.",
"\"They want to bring back their heritage, which gives them brownie points at home and if they buy it for a lot of money, there's a status thing there too,\" added Eskenazi.",
"The major auction houses are a regular draw to the new class of Chinese rich but so are smaller ones, such as Bainbridges, the comparatively small auction house in West London that sold the $68 million vase in 2010.",
"\"The market is very strong and people will go to where the object is,\" said Loakes.",
"\"You go to the most remote little auction house that's difficult to get to and with Google Maps, half of mainland China is already there,\" Eskenazi said.",
"And with the new class of Chinese buyers entering the market right now, high prices have become normalized.",
"\"If you start from day one at this level, then you think it's normal,\" he said.",
"\"It's incredible, I think it will have its ups and downs but the long-term trend is that (prices will keep) going up,\" he continued.",
"So why do Chinese buyers come to London to buy art?",
"\"Where London's always been very lucky is in the phenomenal levels of expertise here,\" said Rutherston of Asian Art in London.",
"\"You have world-class dealers, which is ironic because there aren't that many collectors here,\" he continued.",
"\"It's that classic British thing of being a middleman -- the art comes in from abroad to be sold here to go abroad again. It's what we're good at,\" he said."
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"Newly-wealthy Chinese make yearly pilgrimage to Asian Art in London week .",
"Major auction houses selling sought-after Chinese antiques .",
"Vase at Bonhams expected to sell for more than $8 million .",
"London has \"phenomenal level of expertise\" that keeps Chinese coming back ."
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"(CNN) -- Greek Prime Minster Papandreou has called for a referendum on the terms of the loans from the eurozone and IMF.",
"Markets are now trying to fathom out the possible outcomes of this decision -- and they are not all negative.",
"Opinion polls suggest that the loan package will be rejected by Greek voters -- but there is a huge difference between answering the casual question of a pollster and a formal referendum, and one that could mark a turning point in the history of the country.",
"At that moment, electors will have had the time to consider all the arguments put to them and form a balanced opinion before voting.",
"If millions of voters say yes, then the thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets of Greece in recent months may be seen as representing little more than the special interests that the total economic package is designed to remove so the country can develop into an open and competitive modern economy.",
"But if the millions of voters reject the loan package, then what?",
"It would be difficult to see why the eurozone should offer further assistance -- unless it was very clearly in its own interest to do so.",
"The risk of eurozone bank failures (and knock-on effects) has been a major incentive but, by the time of the referendum, all EU banks should have been analyzed even more deeply by their regulators and recapitalization plans prepared.",
"That analysis should be extended immediately to include counter-party risk -- the risk of a domino effect -- as it will be obvious that there will be no one to bail out the Greek banks themselves, so prudent outsiders should assume that they will all fail, and plan for the natural consequences.",
"Immediately after the referendum, Greece will still be a member of the EU: their implicit decision to default on loans from the EU ought to carry the automatic sanction that there will be no further disbursements of EU structural funds, agricultural subsidies, EIB loans and the like.",
"Planned capital injections of this type currently total about 7% of Greek GDP.",
"Moreover, it would be quite unlikely that the private sector would be willing to lend to any Greek entities -- unless secured by cast-iron collateral (and contracts) outside Greece.",
"The current Greek external deficit would then have to move into balance as there would be no financing available for excess imports.",
"Indeed, imports would drop by around a quarter -- and swiftly.",
"That would be an exceptionally painful process.",
"Greece cannot leave the eurozone under the terms of the existing treaty.",
"In principle, that treaty could be changed if all other countries agreed but that would be a lengthy process and as the risk became widely known every sensible Greek depositor would withdraw euro deposits from the Greek banks and move them abroad.",
"Such a bank run would be the liquidity crisis that triggered the rapid collapse of the entire Greek banking system.",
"Again, dramatically painful consequences for the economy would ensue.",
"If opinion polls were still pointing to rejection as the day approached, any other eurozone members at risk would see these dire consequences unfolding, encouraging them to take all necessary steps to avoid a similar fate.",
"For example, Italy is already expected to have a budget deficit in 2012 below 3% of GDP, and the current Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has promised the eurozone heads of government to take additional measures that will ensure a balanced budget in 2013.",
"The unfolding Greek tragedy will only encourage such states to put their probity beyond doubt, and their voters would have a very clear understanding of why their leaders were asking for such efforts.",
"Bottom line: the eurozone \"political union\" that effectively emerged completely at the October 26 summit would see a powerful advantage in standing closely behind such members, and the eurozone in aggregate would be transformed fiscally -- especially in comparison with say the US and the UK.",
"For the unfortunate Greeks, most of the bad news would develop in advance of the vote if the markets expected a No.",
"But such ghastly developments might encourage voters to say Yes and accept the offers of help.",
"However, it could just be a bit too late to avert a genuine Greek tragedy.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Graham Bishop."
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"Opinion polls suggest Greek voters will reject eurozone bailout loans .",
"A 'no' vote would have wide-ranging implications for the rest of Europe .",
"Under the current eurozone treaty, there is no way for Greece to leave the euro ."
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"(CNN) -- Claudio Ranieri was delighted after guiding Inter Milan to a morale-boosting first victory this season in his first match in charge of the Italian club on Saturday.",
"Diego Milito and Lucio scored in the last 10 minutes to secure a 3-1 victory away to 10-man Bologna which lifted the 2010 European champions away from the relegation zone and into mid-table.",
"\"It was important to get off on the right foot.",
"The lads needed a confidence boost,\" the veteran coach told Inter's website.",
"\"I said it didn't matter whether we played well or badly; what mattered was that we fought for every ball to get the result.",
"And that's what we did. \"These lads are hungry and they showed that.",
"I was pleased with the self-sacrifice I saw in all of them.",
"This is the right spirit.\"",
"Former Juventus, Roma, Chelsea and Valencia boss Ranieri replaced Gian Piero Gasperini, whose tactics proved both unpopular and unsuccessful in his short five-game tenure.",
"The 59-year-old's next task is to kickstart Inter's Champions League campaign in Tuesday's trip to Russia to face CSKA Moscow, following the opening defeat by Turkey's Trabzonspor.",
"He will again be without key Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder, whose injury is \"worse than first thought.\"",
"Inter bounced back from Tuesday's 3-1 defeat by promoted Novara as striker Giampaolo Pazzini netted the opening goal six minutes before halftime when new signing Diego Forlan and Esteban Cambiasso combined to set him up.",
"Alessandro Diamanti leveled with a penalty in the 66th minute after Walter Samuel fouled Daniele Portanova, but substitute Milito restored the lead with nine minutes to play from the spot after he fell under contact from Archimede Morleo.",
"Morleo was sent off, and Inter took full advantage as defender Lucio headed in a freekick by Sulley Muntari with three minutes to go.",
"AC Milan moved up to eighth place with a much-needed 1-0 victory at home to bottom club Cesena -- the first in the league this season for the Serie A champions.",
"Veteran Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf scored the only goal in the fifth minute to boost coach Massimiliano Allegri ahead of Wednesday's Champions League visit to the Sna Siro by Czech titleholders Viktoria Plzen.",
"In Saturday's other match, Fiorentina drew 0-0 at Napoli to leave both teams in a group of five on seven points at the top of the table.",
"Genoa, who lead on goal difference, travel to Chievo on Sunday while second-placed Juventus visit Catania and Udinese travel to Cagliari."
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"Inter Milan win first match this season in debut for new coach Claudio Ranieri .",
"Saturday's 3-1 victory at Bologna lifts 18-time Italian champions up table .",
"Serie A champions AC Milan also win first game of season, against Cesena .",
"Napoli held 0-0 by Fiorentina to leave both clubs on seven points from four games ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Tuesday named Anton Siluanov as acting finance minister after the influential Alexei Kudrin was forced out of the position he had held since 2000.",
"Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will expand his duties to include fiscal responsibilities in the government, Putin said at a meeting broadcast on state-run television.",
"Putin said both decisions were approved by President Dmitry Medvedev, with whom Putin is set to swap roles next year.",
"Medvedev signed an order dismissing Kudrin Monday, after a tiff stemming from a comment Kudrin is reported to have made in Washington last Saturday.",
"Citing differences with the president, particularly related to defense spending, Kudrin said that he would not remain in a government led by Medvedev, Interfax said.",
"The state-run RIA-Novosti news agency said Kudrin resigned.",
"The announcement came shortly after Medvedev had given Kudrin, 50, until the end of the day to decide whether to quit.",
"Medvedev urged that Kudrin to \"make up his mind about his political future,\" according to the non-governmental, Moscow-based Interfax news agency.",
"Kudrin was unapologetic in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"My statement about the fact that I do not see myself as a member of a 2012 Cabinet of ministers was well thought-out and balanced.\"",
"Under Kudrin's tenure, Russia paid off most of its foreign debt and created oil wealth funds that helped the nation weather the global economic problems of recent years, RIA-Novosti said.",
"Siluanov, 48, has worked at the Finance Ministry for 26 years and is in charge of inter-budget relations and defense funding.",
"But he has not been a public figure and few have heard his name.",
"The finance shakeup comes as Putin, who served two terms as president from 2000 to 2008, announced Saturday he plans to return next year to the presidency and trade roles with Medvedev by naming him prime minister.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report."
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"Russia gets a new finance minister .",
"Anton Siluanov takes the post after Alexei Kudrin's ouster .",
"Kudrin's comments on defense spending did not sit well with Medvedev ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Police took actor Charlie Sheen to a hospital early Tuesday after responding to a call at New York's Plaza Hotel concerning \"an emotionally disturbed person,\" a law enforcement source said.",
"Sheen's representative blamed an \"adverse allergic reaction\" to a medication for the hospitalization.",
"\"Charlie Sheen has been discharged from a hospital in New York and is returning to Los Angeles today,\" Sheen representative Stan Rodenfield said Tuesday afternoon.",
"\"Everything else is speculation.\"",
"Police would only identify the man as a 45-year-old white male, but a law enforecement source who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak confirmed it was Sheen.",
"Sheen is 45. A woman was in Sheen's hotel room when police arrived, the source said.",
"The source would not identify the woman.",
"An ambulance carried him from the hotel to New York Downtown Hospital at 1:30 a.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said.",
"\"What we are able to determine is that Charlie had an adverse allergic reaction to some medication and was taken to the hospital, where he is expected to be released tomorrow,\" Rosenfield said.",
"Sheen spent at least a month this year at a Malibu, California, rehab center, but it was never disclosed what he was treated for there.",
"A Colorado judge allowed the actor to count his time at Promises of Malibu toward a 30-day jail sentence after he entered a guilty plea in August to a charge in Aspen, Colorado.",
"The plea deal reduced the charges from felony domestic violence charges to a misdemeanor third-degree assault count.",
"The case stemmed from Sheen's arrest on Christmas Day after his wife, Brooke Mueller, told Aspen police he threatened her with a knife at their holiday home.",
"Sheen's three months of unsupervised probation ends on November 2, according to an Aspen court official.",
"Since police did not file charges relating to Tuesday's New York incident, it has no bearing on the Colorado case, the official said.",
"The son of actor Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen recently signed a new contract last summer to continue with his hit CBS sitcom \"Two and a Half Men.\"",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan and Rachel Wells contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Sheen left the hospital Tuesday .",
"Law enforcement source confirms Sheen was the person hospitalized .",
"Source: Unidentified woman was in Sheen's hotel room .",
"Police report finding an \"emotionally disturbed person\" at New York's Plaza Hotel ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns that excessive partisanship could well \"hollow out\" the military, saying \"we cannot tolerate\" if Congress fails to reach an accord on debt reduction and thereby triggers hundreds of billions of dollars in across-the-board cuts.",
"Speaking with CNN's Erin Burnett in an interview that aired Monday on the first edition of her program \"OutFront,\" Panetta said that he was prepared to slash about $450 billion from the defense budget over the next decade, as currently mandated.",
"But he described as potentially dangerous any deeper cuts, like the $1.2 trillion that would be unavoidable if a bipartisan panel does not reach a debt-reduction accord in the coming weeks that is then passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama.",
"\"If the Congress is irresponsible enough to suddenly turn on this sequester idea (leading to massive, automatic cuts to defense) because they failed to meet their responsibility, that would clearly damage our national defense,\" Panetta said.",
"\"(Cutting) in some kind of blind fashion that basically hits everything ... is going to result in hollowing out the force.",
"We cannot tolerate that. We still risk too many threats out there to weaken our defense.\"",
"The former CIA director, presidential chief of staff and U.S. congressman didn't appear optimistic that Congress will rise to the challenge, describing the \"inability to confront the challenges that are out there,\" divisions between political leaders and partisanship as the worst in his 40 years in Washington.",
"Panetta added that there is merit to many Americans' view that \"Washington is dysfunctional and not able to respond to these challenges,\" like the debt issue.",
"\"I really do think that both sides have to understand how concerned not only Americans are, but the rest of the world is, about our ability to solve the problems that face us,\" he said.",
"The secretary spoke shortly before embarking on a trip to the Middle East and, eventually, to Belgium for a NATO meeting.",
"On Monday, he was in Israel and visited the Palestinian territory of the West Bank.",
"His next stop will be in Egypt.",
"In his wide-ranging interview, Panetta addressed several issues and threats.",
"Chief among them was Iran, which he accused of sending \"pretty sophisticated weaponry to go after Americans\" in Iraq, working to \"undermine governments in the Middle East\" and trying to \"foster (and) supply terrorism.\"",
"\"That's not what the United States does,\" he said.",
"\"What we hope to do is work with the countries in that region so that they can have the capability to defend themselves against that kind of terrorism.\"",
"The defense chief also addressed America's \"complicated relationship with Pakistan,\" acknowledging that nation's battle with terrorism and calling it imperative to build a \"cooperative relationship.\"",
"He also pointed to -- as other top U.S. officials have in the past -- some Pakistani officials' relationship with members of the Haqqani network, which he claims goes into Afghanistan to attack U.S. troops then returns to its \"safe haven\" in Pakistan.",
"\"They understand the threat of terrorism, but they also can't pick and choose among terrorists,\" Panetta said of Pakistani officials.",
"\"That is where we have some differences.\" Panetta addressed the growth -- and reported growing militarization -- of China, insisting his goal is to have a \"transparent\" relationship so that \"we understand each other.\"",
"That said, he noted concerns if China further develops weaponry and expands its military presence.",
"\"For that reason, we always have to have a forward presence in the Pacific that makes very clear that we have to protect the international community ... and their ability to protect their own interests,\" he said."
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"U.S. defense secretary warns U.S. cannot afford $1.2 trillion in military cuts .",
"He is skeptical Congress can \"confront the challenges that are out there\"\nPanetta says that Pakistan \"can't pick and choose among terrorists\"\nIran tries to \"undermine governments\" and fosters terrorism, he adds ."
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"(CNN) -- India's Virender Sehwag plundered the highest score in one-day international cricket as his team routed the West Indies by 153-runs Thursday to clinch their five-match series.",
"Opener Sehwag has a reputation for fast scoring, but surpassed himself with a brutal knock of 219 off just 149 balls in India's highest-ever one-day total of 418 for five wickets in 50 overs.",
"Sehwag broke the previous best of 200 not out by his legendary compatriot Sachin Tendulkar as he took advantage of a perfect batting wicket at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.",
"He picked up 25 boundaries and seven sixes, surviving a dropped catch by West Indies captain Darren Sammy while on 170.",
"He was finally caught in the deep off Kieron Pollard after putting on 176 for the first wicket with Gautam Gambhir (67) and 140 for the second with Suresh Raina (55).",
"\"I was cheering for Sachin when he got his double-hundred and it's great to emulate that,\" the 33-year-old Sehwag told AFP.",
"\"The pitch was great and allowed you to play your shots.",
"I think you can get a double-hundred like this when you're experienced.",
"The last time I played 47 overs I got 175, this time I got 200.\"",
"The West Indies, who were looking to level the series at 2-2, were always behind the run chase as debutant leg-spinner Rahul Sharma picked up three wickets in his first three overs for the home side.",
"Only a fine 96 from wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin saved them from total humiliation as they fell 3-1 down in the series.",
"Sehwag is skippering India in the series in the absence of the rested Mahendra Singh Dhoni and had scored just 46 runs in the previous three matches.",
"The final game will be played in Chennai Sunday."
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"Virender Sehwag sets one-day international scoring record .",
"He hits 219 off 149 balls to beat previous best of Sachin Tendulkar .",
"India's 418-5 is their best-ever total in one-day internationals .",
"They open winning 3-1 series lead over West Indies ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The Japanese government has affirmed that $29 million from its budget for post-earthquake and tsunami reconstruction is going toward extra security measures for the country's whaling fleet, angering environmental activists like Greenpeace.",
"The whaling industry is \"siphoning money away from the victims of the March 11 triple disaster, at a time when they need it most,\" Junichi Sato, executive director of Greenpeace Japan, said this week, referring to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that struck Japan in March.",
"But Tatsuya Nakaoku, an official from the Japanese Fisheries Agency, said Thursday he funds would help \"support the reconstruction of a whaling town and nearby area,\" which was devastated by the natural disasters.",
"\"Many people in the area eat whale meat,\" he said.",
"\"They are waiting for Japan's commercial whaling to resume and it is their hope for recovery.\"",
"The government had said earlier this year, after it passed the tsunami reconstruction budget, that it would strengthen \"measures against acts of sabotage by anti-whaling groups,\" Nakaoku said.",
"The government earmarked a total of 498.9 billion yen ($6.4 billion) of the reconstruction budget for spending on fisheries.",
"Of that, 2.28 billion yen has been put into extra security measures for the whaling fleet, which left port for its annual hunt Tuesday.",
"Japan's whale hunts are conducted by the Institute of Cetacean Research, a nonprofit research organization overseen by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.",
"An official from the Japanese Coast Guard said the deployment of guards this year to protect the fleet from obstruction by anti-whaling activists was the largest yet, but declined to give exact numbers.",
"The Coast Guard had previously provided protection to the fleet for its 2007-08 and 2010-11 hunts.",
"Last season's whale hunt in the Southern Ocean was cut short when anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society blocked strikes on the animals.",
"Sea Shepherd said its actions saved 800 whales, and the organization has promised to be back in force this season.",
"Japan has faced international pressure to curtail its whaling activities.",
"In 2010, Australia initiated proceedings in the International Court of Justice to stop Japanese whaling.",
"CNN's Junko Ogura contributed to this report."
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"Greenpeace says money is being \"siphoned away\" from the disaster victims .",
"The government says the funds help support the recovery of a devastated whaling town .",
"Officials: The deployment of guards with this year's whaling fleet is the largest yet ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- After more than two decades together, KISS bassist Gene Simmons has married his longtime girlfriend, according to his publicist.",
"Simmons, who is also the star of the reality show \"Gene Simmons Family Jewels,\" has dated Shannon Tweed for 28 years.",
"The pair got hitched in Beverly Hills, said the publicist, Dawn Miller.",
"During his proposal in Belize, featured in an earlier episode, Simmons tells his love what she means to him.",
"\"I come with so much baggage, but you're the only friend I've got, you're the only one I've ever loved,\" he said.",
"\"I've never said those words to anybody.",
"It's funny, I used to watch movies where they say I can't live without you, but for me it's true.\"",
"The proposal came after a nasty tiff between the two on \"The Joy Behar Show\" this summer.",
"Simmons joined in a joke about his philandering ways, ticking Tweed off.",
"She stormed off the set.",
"\"Will Gene and Shannon work past their problems and make it down the aisle?\"",
"the reality show's website touts in a spotlight on wedding episodes set to start Tuesday.",
"CNN's Breeanna Hare and Karen Bonsignore contributed to this report ."
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"The proposal comes after a nasty tiff between the two this summer ."
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"(CNN) -- The gunman showed that he was human.",
"Most of the others who stalked the lobby of Tripoli's Rixos Hotel were young, brash, hostile Gadhafi diehards.",
"Yet this man in his 50s, armed with a Kalashnikov, longed to see his children.",
"His kids were out there somewhere in the Libyan capital, he said, gunfire and explosions erupting around them.",
"\"I really miss my family, too,\" CNN producer Jomana Karadsheh told him in Arabic.",
"\"I really want to go out and see my family.",
"They're worried about me.\" Tears welled in the gunman's eyes.",
"Rebels were taking over the Libyan capital.",
"And this man, who had known nothing but the Gadhafi regime for 42 years, wanted to go home, too.",
"It was in this moment that Karadsheh knew she had a chance.",
"If the three dozen journalists being held against their will inside the five-star hotel for five days had a shot of being freed, it was now.",
"At 29, Karadsheh has a lifetime of experience in hostile regions.",
"A native of Jordan who is fluent in Arabic and English, she's a stalwart of CNN's Baghdad bureau and known for her professionalism, persistence and persuasiveness.",
"If you encounter trouble, you want her at your side.",
"She'd come to Libya weeks before, meeting up with CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance.",
"She'd built relationships with the government officials, media minders and security in the hotel, including this gunman.",
"Now she and an Arabic-speaking cameraman from another news organization were negotiating to secure the journalists' safe release.",
"On her Facebook page, Karadsheh lists her favorite quote: \"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, champagne in one hand ... strawberries in the other and screaming: 'Woo Hoo!",
"What a ride!' \" In the Rixos Hotel, Karadsheh wasn't ready for life's wild ride to end.",
"Phoning home to say goodbye .",
"It had become apparent days earlier that the journalists -- from an array of news organizations, including BBC, Reuters, Fox and China's CCTV -- were prisoners of a dying Gadhafi regime.",
"The government officials and minders who'd monitored the journalists abandoned the hotel August 21.",
"About 15 gunmen loyal to the regime remained behind, roaming the halls with Russian assault rifles.",
"They told the journalists they could not leave the hotel.",
"Most of the loyalists were irritable, young, reckless.",
"They adorned their weapons with the green flag of Gadhafi's regime.",
"To avoid contact with this volatile bunch, the journalists moved to an upper floor.",
"A hotel chef initially took care of the group.",
"One 21-year-old gunman -- a \"nice guy,\" Karadsheh says -- ran through the hotel with his jeans covered in the blood of his cousin, killed in the fighting outside.",
"By Monday, tensions between the journalists and their captors escalated.",
"Gunfire erupted outside the hotel, and smoke could be seen coming from the direction of Gadhafi's nearby compound.",
"The gunmen were enraged.",
"\"NATO spies,\" they shouted.",
"\"There are spies amongst the journalists!\"",
"They walked amid the journalists, their guns drawn.",
"They were angry, bitter.",
"\"This could really turn out terribly for us,\" Chance thought.",
"The journalists tried not to antagonize.",
"\"We all had a calm panic, if there is such a thing,\" he recalled.",
"The gunmen's belligerence sparked paranoia \"about being taken hostage, about being held prisoner, about being executed.\"",
"\"It dawned on us: If they'd been given orders to take us as prisoners or to execute us, there was nothing we could do.\"",
"That loss of control -- the realization that their fate rested with the men holding guns -- led to the darkest thoughts: that they wouldn't make it out alive.",
"Chance phoned his mother and wife to tell them what to do with his remains.",
"His wife put his 5-year-old daughter on the line.",
"If this was a final goodbye, his only child needed to hear daddy's voice.",
"The veteran correspondent who has covered conflicts in the Balkans, Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan didn't tell his girl about the danger he faced.",
"He spoke instead of the new school year.",
"\"You're going to start school in two weeks,\" he said.",
"\"Promise me that you'll work really hard at school.\"",
"\"Yes, Poppa, I promise you.\"",
"\"Be a good girl for me and mommy.\"",
"\"Poppa, I will.\" His heart sank.",
"He was 2,000 miles from his home in Moscow.",
"He wanted nothing more than to see his girl on her first day of school.",
"He just wasn't sure if he'd make it. Fighting intensified outside.",
"Snipers fired into the hotel, shattering windows and rattling nerves.",
"Chance and the others spent 36 hours face-down on the floor with little food or water.",
"With frequent power outages, it was difficult to follow the events of Tripoli outside the walls of the hotel.",
"But work kept Chance focused.",
"He tweeted using his smartphone, used a satellite phone or called friends and dictated his thoughts.",
"At one point Tuesday, he leaned over a balcony overlooking the hotel's interior courtyard, which the gunmen patrolled.",
"\"I suppose you're happy now that Libyans are killing Libyans,\" one shouted.",
"Connecting \"as a human\" The sound of artillery fire pierced the morning calm Wednesday.",
"Journalists rustled awake.",
"The gunmen had grown increasingly hostile the day before.",
"The group worried about what lay in store.",
"About 6 a.m., all of the gunmen except the older one left the hotel.",
"Karadsheh and the Arabic-speaking cameraman approached him.",
"A day earlier, she had overheard him telling the younger gunmen to remain calm and be good to the journalists: \"We want them to go back to their countries and say good things about us -- how Libyans are brave people.\"",
"Now Karadsheh and the cameraman told him what they understood: Gadhafi's regime had fallen.",
"When a man who called himself a soldier entered the hotel, the gunman asked about the situation outside.",
"\"You were out there. Tell me, what's really going on?",
"Is it what they are telling us?\"",
"Yes, he was told. The rebels were indeed in control.",
"Gadhafi's rule of Libya was over.",
"Karadsheh seized the moment with an emotional plea.",
"Her family missed her, she told him, as did the families of the three dozen other journalists.",
"\"Think about your kids,\" she said.",
"\"You're left here alone.",
"Just let us go.\" At first, the man defended Gadhafi, saying that he had brought democracy to Libya, that the nation thrived under his leadership.",
"Earlier, he'd told Karadsheh that he was protecting the journalists.",
"That he wanted his children to know that he'd fight to the end.",
"Karadsheh and the cameraman reminded him that all the senior officials -- and now even his young comrades -- had abandoned him.",
"It was time to give up. \"Slowly, he started to change.\"",
"The cameraman slowly stripped the soldier and gunman of their weapons.",
"Now unarmed, the man looked at the journalists and said, \"You can go now.\"",
"Karadsheh immediately began negotiating with the International Committee of the Red Cross to get cars to the hotel.",
"Before she left, she told the man goodbye.",
"\"Jomana, get out of here,\" he said.",
"\"Go back home.",
"Libya is over. There will be a bloodbath for years to come.\"",
"Chance watched nearby as his colleague talked with the guard.",
"\"I watched this transformation these guys made from being Gadhafi hardliners to realizing that his regime was a historically past moment.",
"That was a remarkable transition to witness.",
"\"I think it's the most moving part of this whole crisis.\"",
"Says Karadsheh: \"In the end, we're all human.",
"And that's what this was about, connecting with him as a human.\"",
"Stepping outside the Rixos, the journalists worried about snipers.",
"There were none. Cars with the BBC and the International Committee of the Red Cross pulled up.",
"They piled inside.",
"\"Rixos crisis ends.",
"All journalists are out!\" Chance tweeted.",
"In the car, he called CNN.",
"Speeding through Tripoli, he described the end of their hellish ordeal.",
"Karadsheh sat next to him, tears streaming down her face, the weight of recent days crashing down.",
"\"We wouldn't be here if it weren't for her,\" Chance said later.",
"But Karadsheh praised the cameraman.",
"\"It was a team effort.\"",
"Chance's daughter will soon see her poppa.",
"He plans to be home for her first day of school September 5.",
"But first he stopped at the newly named Martyr Square, where joyous Tripoli residents showered him with flowers.",
"\"They're not celebrating my freedom,\" he said.",
"\"They're celebrating Libya's freedom.\"",
"Karadsheh was struck by the disparate scene from a week ago, when Tripoli was filled with unhappy faces.",
"Today, she noted, everyone seemed to wear smiles.",
"Gadhafi's images have been torn down.",
"\"I came out to a new Libya,\" she said.",
"On Thursday, the day after her release, she did the unthinkable.",
"She returned to the hotel to gather her personal belongings.",
"\"I got a bit freaked out when we got close,\" she said.",
"\"But the first thing I saw was a rebel flag hanging on the Rixos.",
"I felt comfortable.\"",
"Soon, she was back in a car, crossing the border into Tunisia, headed home.",
"As she'd told the gunman, she longs to see her loved ones.",
"CNN's Paul Armstrong contributed to this report."
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"CNN producer helped negotiate end to crisis at Tripoli's Rixos Hotel .",
"All 36 journalists were freed unharmed .",
"CNN correspondent Matthew Chance called home to say his goodbyes .",
"Gunmen turned over weapons Wednesday: \"You can go now.\""
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Miranda Kerr was all smiles as she left the Stella McCartney show at the Opera Garnier in Paris on Monday morning, but despite her cheery disposition, she says juggling mommyhood and modeling is no easy task.",
"\"I'm still breastfeeding so I have to express milk and send it back to [9-month-old son Flynn Christopher], and then try and see him on my breaks,\" the Australian model, 28, told PEOPLE as she left the show, one of many she has walked in during Paris Fashion Week.",
"But luckily husband Orlando Bloom is usually on hand to help out, especially when it comes to diaper-changing duties.",
"\"He loves it! But seriously, he's very hands on.",
"I really couldn't ask for a better dad.\"",
"Having recently left Paris for London where Bloom is promoting his new film \"The Three Musketeers,\" Kerr admits she's already looking forward to being reunited after the shows and getting some much-needed sleep.",
"\"I was up for hours last night as he's teething.",
"And when he's crying, he just wants Mommy!",
"It's such hard work.\" With McCartney's four children backstage, the model spotted a possible future daughter-in-law.",
"\"It's funny because Stella's little girl Reiley is almost the same age as Flynn so watch out -- Flynn might start dating her,\" she said with a giggle.",
"Might their own family might be expanding anytime soon?",
"\"Not yet but let's see,\" she said with another big smile.",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"I'm still breastfeeding so I have to express milk and send it back,\" Kerr said .",
"Her son with Bloom, Flynn Christopher, is 9 months old .",
"\"He's very hands on.",
"I really couldn't ask for a better dad,\" she said of Bloom ."
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"London (CNN) -- At least seven people are confirmed dead and 51 injured in a \"horrific\" traffic accident in southwest England, Somerset police said Saturday.",
"The accident involved 34 vehicles, including cars, vans and large trucks, police said, some of which erupted into a \"fireball.\"",
"Assistant Chief Constable Anthony Bangham told reporters more bodies are feared to be still trapped in badly burnt vehicles.",
"Some of the vehicles are \"burnt to the ground\" and unrecognizable, he said in a televised news conference after visiting the site.",
"\"This is a horrific scene.\"",
"The crash occurred about 8:25 p.m. Friday on the M5 highway near Taunton in Somerset, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of Bristol, according to the Devon and Somerset Fire Rescue.",
"Bangham said poor weather was likely to have been a factor, with wet roads after rain and banks of fog reported in the area.",
"Police were also looking into a nearby fireworks display to see if it may have played a role, he said.",
"He praised members of the public who showed \"real bravery\" in trying to rescue people from blazing vehicles, as well as the efforts of the emergency services.",
"\"For a motorway incident, this is just about as big as it gets,\" he said.",
"\"This is a highly complex, very dramatic incident for our officers.\"",
"He said part of the highway would remain closed in both directions until at least Sunday.",
"About 15 fire trucks were sent to the scene, as rescue workers battled to extinguish blazing vehicles and cut free trapped passengers.",
"Avon and Somerset Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the events to get in touch, especially if they have mobile phone footage.",
"CNN's Nicky Robertson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: More people are feared trapped in vehicles, police say .",
"NEW: Poor weather and a nearby fireworks display may have been a factor .",
"NEW: The crash in Somerset involved 34 vehicles, including heavy trucks ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Protests cropping up in more than a dozen American cities prompted President Barack Obama to discuss the phenomenon Thursday by saying demonstrators \"are giving voice\" to those frustrated \"about how our financial system works.\"",
"Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama also defended the country's financial sector, which appears to have taken the brunt of protester criticism, focusing on Wall Street and its regulators' purported role in widening economic disparities.",
"\"We have to have a strong, effective financial sector in order for us to grow,\" the president said Thursday.",
"Still, Obama discussed a need to pursue action aimed at improving government oversight and blamed the financial sector and Republican lawmakers for obstructing reforms.",
"\"Not only did the financial sector, with the Republican party in Congress, fight us every step of the way,\" but now the \"same folks\" are suggesting that the country should \"roll back reforms\" and go back to \"the way it was\" before the financial crisis.",
"Rep. Paul Ryan said Thursday that limiting federal spending was pivotal to boosting the economy.",
"The Wisconsin Republican also urged the government to lower taxes to promote U.S.-friendly businesses and spur economic growth.",
"Vice President Joe Biden also weighed in, comparing the protestors to the origins of the tea party, a grass-roots political movement that has advocated reductions in government spending and efforts to curb corruption.",
"\"What is the core of that protest?",
"And why is it increasing in terms of the people it's attracting?\"",
"Biden asked rhetorically.",
"\"The core is the bargain has been breached with the American people.\"",
"He added that \"there's a lot in common with the tea party.\"",
"The two movements have drawn commentary from liberal and radical conservatives, who in both cases have said there is something fundamentally wrong with America's financial and political systems.",
"Thursday marked the 20th day of Occupy Wall Street protests, now a series of grass-roots demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed and a list of other often loosely defined social ills.",
"Overheard on CNN.com: Your take on the protests .",
"New York authorities set up at least one vehicle checkpoint as police appeared in larger numbers throughout the financial district and established a perimeter around Zuccotti Park, which is considered a rallying point for the largely leaderless movement in that city.",
"\"We hope that our message continues to resonate with everyone who has felt disenfranchised by the current state of our country,\" said Tyler Combelic, a spokesman for the Occupy Wall Street group.",
"He said they plan to \"continue the protest until the message reaches every house in the United States.\"",
"What that message is remains largely unclear.",
"Meanwhile, hundreds turned out in downtown Philadelphia near City Hall in a similar demonstration.",
"Crowds also gathered in the Texas cities of San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas, while more protests cropped up in Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, Seattle and Tampa, Florida.",
"Like-minded university students staged walk-outs a day before on college campuses such as North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.",
"And still more demonstrations took place Thursday in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, where police say 10 people were arrested for trespassing on Bank of America property.",
"In the nation's capital, a war protest on Thursday -- scheduled the day before the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan -- quickly turned their concerns to economics.",
"Several hundred set to demonstrate against wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also echoed the voices of protesters in other cities, even bringing their rally to in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building.",
"A day before, thousands marched in Lower Manhattan shouting slogans and waving placards as they meandered from Zuccotti Park to Foley Square near City Hall.",
"That event turned violent later Wednesday evening, as some protesters scuffled with police, resulting in the arrest of 23 people for various offenses.",
"One of them is charged with assaulting a police officer.",
"Video taken by various news agencies showed police officers wielding batons and forcing protesters to the ground as the officers made arrests.",
"Other videos emerged on You Tube and other Internet sites, showing police officers swinging batons at demonstrators.",
"Still, it was not clear what prompted the exchanges.",
"The city's Deputy Police Commissioner Paul J. Browne said five people were detained after charging a police line.",
"The majority of Wednesday's protests, however, were peaceful and appeared buoyed by the support of local unions, including the United Federation of Teachers, Transport Workers Union and the United Auto Workers.",
"The broader protest campaign -- which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter -- began in July with the launch of a campaign website calling for a march and sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange.",
"While the fledgling movement since has struggled to define its mission, its participants have generally agreed in their criticism of the country's wealthiest 1% and their purported influence.",
"The protests seemed to gain momentum after a September 24 pepper spray incident involving demonstrators and police.",
"And last Saturday, police arrested hundreds as they marched across a roadway leading to the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking city traffic for hours.",
"Social media sites such as Twitter seemed to be spurring similar protests elsewhere, though in vastly smaller numbers than those in New York.",
"That includes dozens who gathered in Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; and Savannah, Georgia.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Carey Bodenheimer, Ross Levitt and Jason Kessler contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Vice President Biden likens \"Occupy Wall Street\" protesters to the tea party .",
"NEW: Republican Rep. Paul Ryan says lower taxes are needed to bolster the economy .",
"NEW: 10 demonstrators are arrested in Los Angeles for trespassing .",
"Similar protests have cropped up in more than a dozen cities ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- On Blondie's self-released ninth album, the New York new wave greats fold the present into their past -- from a \"Tide Is High\"-tinged cover of Brooklyn avant-folkies Beirut to a \"Dreaming\"-like basher with a melody via TV on the Radio.",
"There's a little too much throwing stuff at a wall (the florid Spanish house track, the Serge Gainsbourg tribute) and, oddly, their bailiwick synth-rock sometimes feels theatrically heavy-handed, more Killers than Parallel Lines.",
"Yet, if the tunes sometimes sag, Debbie Harry's voice remains sharply sculpted; on \"China Shoes\" she sings about her distant lover with tough, ageless longing.",
"Because you're never too old to get left hanging on the telephone.",
"Rolling Stone rating: 3 stars .",
"See the full article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Debbie Harry's voice remains sharply sculpted ."
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"London (CNN) -- Gary Speed's agent and friend Hayden Evans has told CNN the reasons why the Wales football manager took his own life may never be known.",
"Speed's death provoked shock and disbelief within the world of soccer after his body was found at his home on Sunday morning.",
"The 42-year-old had a long and distinguished playing career, making 535 appearances in the English Premier League for clubs including Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle United and Bolton.",
"He also appeared 85 times for Wales -- a record for an outfield player.",
"He was appointed manager of the national side in 2010 and had recently inspired Wales to a best-ever world ranking of 45.",
"Welsh international manager Speed found dead .",
"An inquest into Speed's death was opened and adjourned at Cheshire Coroner's office Tuesday, when it was confirmed he had hung himself.",
"The inquest heard that Speed's wife Louise had found his body at around 7am on Sunday.",
"Evans, who had Speed as best man at his wedding, told CNN World Sport the reason behind his friend's death may forever remain a mystery.",
"Asked what might have been the cause for Speed's suicide he said: \"I genuinely don't know -- I haven't got a clue.",
"It's the shock, that's what makes it all the more difficult to accept and comprehend.",
"\"It's that sense of shock, whatever has gone on, I just don't know whether that will rest with Gary in peace or not.\"",
"Memorials for Speed have appeared at many of his former clubs with fans leaving flowers, shirts, scarves and flags at the stadiums of Leeds, where Speed started his career, at Everton, the team he supported as a boy, and Newcastle, with whom he played in the prestigious European Champions League.",
"On Tuesday the Premier League announced there would be a minute's applause before every weekend match in Speed's honor.",
"In a statement they called him an \"iconic player.\"",
"\"We're beginning to realize what an impact he did have on most people he crossed paths with,\" Evans added.",
"He also said Speed's wife and his two young sons had been overwhelmed by the support they had received from around the world.",
"\"I guess if you want to try and find any positives it is that they are a strong family unit, they support each other and supported Gary throughout his career, every move he ever made,\" Evans said.",
"\"It's that strength that I'm trying to tell them will ultimately see them through.",
"They'll never ever get over it but it will see them through.\"",
"It has been suggested in some quarters that Speed may have suffered from depression or some other form of illness, but Evans says none of his family or friends ever saw any evidence to back the theory.",
"He added: \"I'm no expert, but the people close to him, the people that socialized with him, saw him and talked to him every day, not one of us had any detection of any signs of depression.",
"Speed appeared on a football show on Saturday and spent time with former colleagues, Gary McAllister, with whom he played at Leeds, and ex-England and Newcastle captain Alan Shearer.",
"Evans added: \"I had texts from Gary on Saturday and it was just everything as normal.\""
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"Wales manager Gary Speed was found dead at his home on Sunday .",
"Speed enjoyed a long playing career making 535 English Premier League appearances .",
"He took charge of the Welsh national side last year and was credited with a recent revival .",
"Speed's agent and friend tells CNN he may never know why Speed took his own life ."
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"(CNN) -- Prehistoric children as young as three were encouraged by adults to make cave art 13,000 years ago, new research shows.",
"The Cambridge University study sheds new light on the lives of children and the ancient art they made during the prehistoric hunter gatherer period in the French caverns at Rouffignac, known as the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths.",
"While the caverns are famous for their striking drawings of woolly mammoths, bison and horses, the research focused on the thousands of lines made by people running their fingers along the soft clay walls throughout the five mile cavern complex.",
"Cambridge archaeologists were able to identify the age and gender of the children who made the simple ancient art form known as \"finger fluting\" by measuring the width of the flutings and the profile of the middle three fingers.",
"\"We have found marks by children aged between three and seven years old -- and we have been able to identify four individual children by matching up their marks,\" said Cambridge University archaeologist Jess Cooney.",
"\"The most prolific of the children who made flutings was aged around five -- and we are almost certain the child in question was a girl.\"",
"The fact that archaeologists didn't find a single place where fluting marks were made by adults alone suggests there were few boundaries between adult and child activities in this prehistoric hunter gatherer culture, according to Cooney.",
"Not only did the adults make art alongside the children, Cooney says the fact that child-sized flutings were found on the ceilings of some cave chambers means adults actively encouraged them to make art, lifting them up to areas they could not reach alone.",
"\"Some of the children's flutings are high up on the walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone's shoulders,\" she said.",
"The archaeologists believe one of the caverns is so dominated by children's flutings that it may actually have been a \"special place\" set aside for them by the adults.",
"\"We sometimes think of one chamber as a playpen of sorts, since there are hundreds of children's flutings but only a few made by adults,\" said Cooney.",
"Why people made finger flutings, which also appear in caves in Spain, New Guinea and Australia, is anyone's guess.",
"\"We don't know why people made them.",
"We can make guesses like they were for initiation rituals, for training of some kind, or simply something to do on a rainy day,\" said Cooney.",
"The children weren't simply running their hands mindlessly along the cavern walls, however.",
"Research in 2006 revealed children had made hut-like shapes called tectiforms -- the first known instance of prehistoric children engaging in symbolic figure-making, according to Cooney.",
"Cooney says her research shines a light on an aspect of history that is typically ignored in academia.",
"\"It's important to realize that children played a major role in the development of not only art, but what it means to be human,\" she said."
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"(CNN) -- It will be Shakespeare as nobody has seen it before.",
"Over six weeks next spring, London's Globe Theatre will present all 37 of the Bard's plays in 37 languages, performed by companies from as many countries.",
"Theater groups from the newly independent nation of South Sudan and conflict-torn Afghanistan, as well as the Balkans, China, New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, France, Russia and Belarus will be among those taking part.",
"One play, Love's Labour's Lost, will be performed entirely in British Sign Language (BSL), used by the deaf community, while the Q Brothers from Chicago will stage Othello in hip hop.",
"Tom Bird, festival director for the Globe to Globe event -- which will run from April to June as part of the \"cultural Olympiad\" ahead of the London 2012 Olympics -- told CNN it was the most ambitious project of its kind.",
"Between a third and a half of the plays to be staged had already been adapted into the various languages, but the festival's organizers also traveled widely looking for talented theater groups to create new adaptations.",
"They were \"completely bowled over\" by the enthusiasm shown for the project by countries around the world, he said, and had to make some difficult decisions about who would make the cut.",
"\"The tricky thing is we can't get everyone in, so we thought a little bit about the languages that are spoken in London, like Urdu, Yoruba and Polish,\" Bird said.",
"\"We also looked at countries that have a great long history of performing Shakespeare, like Georgia and Armenia, and finally if there was a very good show, we could take that anyway.\"",
"Some of the groups chosen to take part face \"incredible obstacles that no European or Western theater company would have to put up,\" he said.",
"The actors from Afghanistan had been rehearsing in the British Council compound in the capital, Kabul, that was attacked last month, leaving eight people dead and twice as many injured.",
"\"Luckily they weren't there on that day, but it was really a very, very lucky miss,\" Bird said.",
"The Afghan actors cannot currently get visas for Britain in Kabul, so will have to rehearse The Comedy of Errors in India and then travel to London from there, he said.",
"Acting involving both men and women, the latter not always covering their heads, also presents a cultural challenge, he added.",
"The theater company from South Sudan gave its first performance at independence day celebrations this summer, as the new nation emerged from decades of civil conflict.",
"The group will perform William Shakespeare's Cymbeline in Juba Arabic, in what will be \"a great moment in the history of the country,\" Bird said.",
"The three plays of Henry VI, about England's first great civil war of the 15th century, will be staged as a Balkan trilogy by the national theaters of Serbia, Albania and Macedonia, whose actors can draw on the region's recent turbulent past.",
"Globe to Globe's statement points to the Belarus Free Theater -- which will perform King Lear -- as \"the world's bravest theater company\" for its work, \"which it does in spite of the threat of state persecution.\"",
"The Palestinian group Ashtar Theater, from Ramallah, will present Richard III in Palestinian Arabic, while the Israeli National Theater company Habima will perform The Merchant of Venice in Hebrew.",
"Bird hopes the range of languages represented will bring a new audience to the Globe, a reproduction of the original Elizabethan theater on the banks of the River Thames in which William Shakespeare himself had a stake.",
"An estimated 60,000 Bangla speakers live in London's inner city Tower Hamlets area, he said -- and the festival organizers hope many will want to see The Tempest performed in that tongue.",
"Some of the 130,000 Brazilians in London could also flock to the Globe to see Romeo and Juliet performed in Brazilian Portuguese by a troupe from Belo Horizonte.",
"As for those theater enthusiasts who don't speak a myriad of languages?",
"They won't find a line-by-line subtitling of each play, Bird said, but a synopsis will be provided so people can follow the gist of what is happening -- and performances will be limited to no more than two-and-a-quarter hours in length.",
"Audiences can also enjoy experiencing performance styles, costumes and music from the four corners of the world.",
"\"We want people to really listen to the language, even if they don't understand it,\" Bird said.",
"\"We hope they will enjoy hearing these familiar stories in an unfamiliar language.\"",
"Tickets will be on sale to the public from October 17.",
"The Globe to Globe festival starts April 23, William Shakespeare's birthday."
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"Theater companies from all over the world are taking part .",
"Among them are groups from South Sudan, Afghanistan and the United States .",
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"(CNN) -- What is usually a time of celebration was marked by gunfire and protests in Syria on Sunday as residents ushered in the first day of the Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha.",
"Twenty-three people were killed in the violence, activists said.",
"At least 16 were killed in shelling and gunfire in the western city of Homs, a hotbed of anti-government sentiment and a government-led crackdown, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists.",
"Three others were killed in Hama, two in Idlib and one person was killed in both Lattakia and Douma, the LCC said.",
"Other people were reported wounded.",
"In Aleppo, Syria's largest city and the country's economic center, residents took to the streets in anti-government protests after the morning Eid prayers, the LCC said.",
"In the southern city of Daraa, where the unrest started in March, security forces fired in the air to disperse crowds and prevent them from demonstrating after prayers, the group said.",
"CNN could not confirm the reports.",
"Tough media restrictions in Syria have made it hard to verify events on the ground.",
"Detainees at Syrian prisons have launched a hunger strike, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, protesting against what they claim were false promises by the Syrian authorities that they would be released.",
"The coordination committees' network added that more than 1,300 detainees at the \"central prison\" in Homs alone were participating.",
"In a statement issued Sunday, the Arab League criticized the Syrian government's failure to implement its proposal \"to end the violence used against protesters,\" and said Arab League foreign ministers would meet Saturday to discuss the situation.",
"The organization has warned that a regional crisis could ensue if the Syrian government does not comply with its pledge last week to follow the Arab League's plan.",
"The government agreed to pull its army off the streets, release people jailed since the protests began in March and allow international journalists and Arab League observers to monitor the moves, Arab League ministers announced Wednesday.",
"But opposition activists say that has not happened, and reports of violence in Syria have continued.",
"On Sunday, Syria's ambassador to the League, Youssef Ahmad, knocked its leaders' comments, according to the government-run Syrian Arab News Agency.",
"\"The AL (Arab League) Secretariat is supposed to play its role in coordinating between the Syrian government and the ministerial committee, not proclaim itself a party against the Syrian government,\" the ambassador said, according to SANA.",
"The news agency also said that Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, sent letters to his counterparts in various countries, accusing the United States of inciting violence.",
"In a bid to end the unrest, officials have called on Syrians to lay down their weapons -- a request that was discouraged by the United States -- al-Moallem wrote, SANA said.",
"U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was asked last week about a reported amnesty offer that would give Syrians 72 hours to turn themselves in.",
"\"I wouldn't advise anybody to turn themselves in to regime authorities at the moment,\" she said.",
"Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the Muslim prophet Ibraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for Allah, is one of two major holidays in Islam.",
"The other, Eid al-Fitr, marks the end of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.",
"In ordinary times, the occasions are marked with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and elaborate feasts.",
"But Syria is in the midst of a nearly eight-month uprising that started with calls for elections and an end to abuses by security forces, but turned into widespread calls for the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.",
"Despite a brutal government crackdown, the demonstrations continue.",
"On Saturday, violence left at least 28 people dead, adding to a death toll that has climbed upward of 3,800, the LCC said.",
"SANA placed Saturday's toll at 22, and said the \"martyrs\" had died at the hands of \"armed terrorist groups\" -- a phrase the state has used to describe the anti-government demonstrators.",
"Al-Assad and other officials have blamed the violence on outside forces attempting to undermine the 40-year rule of the president's family.",
"Syria has made previous pledges to withdraw armed forces from civilian areas, but in some of those cases, it withdrew only armored units and left infantry in place, or returned after a brief pullout.",
"It also has made other moves aimed at defusing the protests, including plans to draft a new constitution, but they have failed to appease demonstrators.",
"CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Syria accuses the United States of inciting violence, state media reports .",
"The Arab League says its foreign ministers will meet to discuss the situation in Syria .",
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"(CNN) -- Is President Barack Obama running against the GOP or the GDP?",
"In exactly one year -- November 6, 2012 -- we'll be lining up at polling places to cast our votes for the next president.",
"How much of that decision will be determined by economic data and poll numbers?",
"Some of the smartest political pros believe you can gauge a president's chances of re-election by looking at just a couple of key indicators -- job approval, unemployment and growth in gross domestic product.",
"Plug in the data and you get the election outcome -- pure, unsentimental and simple.",
"To test this theory, I compared Obama's standing right now with those of recent past presidents one year before the re-election vote.",
"Here's what I found: . There is no reason for overconfidence at Obama election headquarters -- the man is presiding over a historically bad economy.",
"But his popularity numbers could be worse, and a lot can change in a year.",
"The most important factor is the momentum heading into Election Day -- and yes, the opponent matters.",
"For example, at about 1,000 days into their terms, according to Gallup, Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan had mediocre approval ratings of 49% -- roughly one year out from their landslide 49-state re-elections in 1972 and 1984, respectively.",
"Running against George McGovern and Walter Mondale, two weak candidates, certainly helped their efforts.",
"Bill Clinton was also at 49% approval one year before his 1996 victory over Bob Dole.",
"Obama's 45% approval rating this week is a tick up from his third quarter average of 2011.",
"He's doing better than the two one-term presidents of the 1970s.",
"Gerald Ford was at 44% in the wake of Watergate and desperate promises to \"Whip Inflation Now.\"",
"Jimmy Carter was mired in the Iran hostage crisis with a rock-bottom job approval rate of 32%, despite a relatively decent unemployment rate of 5.9%.",
"So here's a reality check: Obama has never been anywhere near that low.",
"The biggest cautionary tale comes from the first President George Bush.",
"He was riding high at 62% one year out from his 1992 loss.",
"But euphoria from victory in the first Gulf War gave way to resentment over a relatively brief recession.",
"Unemployment was about 7% in 1991 -- two points lower than now.",
"GDP growth in the third quarter of 1991 was 1.7%, up from negative 1.9% in the first quarter.",
"The 2.5% GDP growth in the third quarter of 2011 looks pretty good by comparison.",
"But Clinton was able to campaign successfully against Bush over the recession in 1992, despite 4% GDP growth that year.",
"Sometimes the narrative gets so established that it can't be dislodged.",
"The closest unemployment rate to today's 9% was Reagan's 8.5% in 1983 -- but that was down from over 10 percent the previous year.",
"The trend was Reagan's friend -- GDP growth was rocketing at 8 percent in the third quarter of '83 and continued at that clip into early '84 -- all of which made it feel like \"Morning in America.\"",
"So where does Obama stand in this hall of presidents?",
"His approval rating is in the murky area between the one- and two-termers, but given the historically high unemployment rate, it's remarkable that his job approval isn't lower.",
"One explanation for this bit of gravity defiance is that Obama's personal approval rating remains quite high -- nearly 70% .",
"But that makes him susceptible to the election-year argument that Mitt Romney is starting to make: Nice guy, good family, but it's time to give someone else a chance to turn the economy around.",
"The economy is finally showing some signs of improving, but it's not happening fast enough to add meaningfully to consumer confidence.",
"And Europe's continued economic instability threatens to tank whatever glimmer of a recovery there is.",
"While unemployment will hopefully continue to decline toward 8% or lower, it's hard to imagine that we'll see the kind of GDP growth that boosted Reagan in 1984 or Clinton in 1996.",
"\"The worst is over\" isn't the most inspirational re-election slogan.",
"Likewise, the recent bump in approval ratings President Obama has enjoyed -- from 41% to 45% -- is nothing to really cheer about at the White House.",
"It is due to three factors that could fade: the vindication of his intervention in Libya (foreign policy is an unexpected bright spot in this administration); the food-fight chaos among the Republican candidates; and, yes, the modestly positive economic data.",
"There's an additional headwind that President Obama faces -- 40% percent of Americans call themselves conservative while just 20% describe themselves as liberal.",
"The landslides of the past 40 years have come from Republicans -- Nixon and Reagan -- while Bill Clinton was the first Democrat re-elected since FDR and never broke 50% of the popular vote, in large part because of Ross Perot's two independent campaigns.",
"It doesn't take a crystal ball -- or reams of data -- to say that the 2012 presidential election is going to be close.",
"By any historical measure Barack Obama is a very vulnerable incumbent.",
"Nonetheless, he has withstood tough economic winds without his popularity completely collapsing and he has the comparative benefit of a weak Republican field.",
"But if a week is a long time in politics (just ask Herman Cain), a year is a lifetime.",
"We are in for a wild election ride, and a long election night one year from today.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Avlon."
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"John Avlon: Can one predict presidential chances by GDP growth, approval, jobs?",
"He says Nixon, Reagan overcame poor approval ratings .",
"Avlon: Clinton hit George H.W.",
"Bush over a small recession .",
"Obama faces strong headwinds in a 40% conservative electorate ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A Maryland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling on eBay sound recordings donated to the National Archives, including one of baseball great Babe Ruth.",
"Leslie Waffen, 66, pleaded guilty to embezzling government property.",
"He worked at the National Archives and Records Administration, known as NARA, for more than 40 years and was once the head of the department involving motion picture and sound recordings.",
"According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland, he engaged in \"an eight-year scheme to sell items on eBay that he stole from the National Archives.\"",
"Waffen admitted to selling a December 1937 voice recording of Ruth out hunting for the sum of $34.74 on eBay.",
"That item was recovered by investigators.",
"The plea agreement does not list the additional stolen recordings the government says Waffen sold on eBay.",
"Court documents say agents searched Waffen's home last year and found at least 955 sound recordings belonging to NARA that are worth at least $30,000.",
"\"This case is especially egregious because the defendant was a high-ranking government employee who violated his obligation to protect historical records,\" U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said in a written statement.",
"\"These items were entrusted to the National Archives to be used by all citizens, not to be auctioned for personal profit to the highest bidder.\"",
"Waffen is scheduled to be sentenced in March and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison."
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"Leslie Waffen, 66, pleads guilty to embezzling government property, faces 10-year term .",
"He worked at National Archives and Records Administration for more than 40 years .",
"Waffen says he sold a 1937 voice recording of Babe Ruth for $34.74 on eBay .",
"Search of his home found 955 NARA recordings worth at least $30,000, court documents say ."
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"(CNN) -- Dreaming of a white Christmas?",
"Then you're in for a rude awakening.",
"The only thing white about this riotously multiethnic black comedy is the blizzard of cocaine that flies through the air as Bing Crosby croons his yuletide standard at an out of control Christmas Eve party.",
"If I said the latest sortie from cultural subversives Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) has something to offend everyone, I'd probably be over-estimating the sensitivities of at least some of the 17.4 million Americans who are estimated to use marijuana at least once a month.",
"Still, I imagine that the running gag about an infant inadvertently exposed to pot, coke and ecstasy might strike some people as pretty near the knuckle.",
"Others will choke when the always game Neil Patrick Harris -- playing himself -- explains his miraculous resurrection with reference to a run-in with Jesus, who didn't take kindly to Harris making out with His groupies.",
"Then there are the gags -- good, bad and indifferent - that deliberately play up ethnic stereotypes: jailbird Latinos, gangsta African-Americans, tight-fisted Jews, bloodthirsty Slavs, square and boring WASPS.",
"The subtler joke being that Harold and Kumar's own ethnicity is invisible -- except to the occasional bigots they encounter.",
"(\"Sorry, I don't date black guys,\" says the Ukrainian virgin, Mary, as she rejects Kumar in favor of Korean-American Harold.)",
"You want a plot? It's set six years after the boys escaped from Guantanamo.",
"Harold is now a successful Wall Street executive, married, clean and sober.",
"He's washed his hands of Kumar, who's still a bonafide pothead and no further along in life than he ever was.",
"But the ex-best friends are reunited in a typically quixotic quest to get their hands on a 12-foot Christmas tree before Midnight Mass comes out.",
"Maybe the movie does pander to a certain slacker sexism -- but even that's tempered by an eye-watering item when one of the boys gets stuck to an icy pole, \"A Christmas Story\"-style (only it's not his tongue that's stuck).",
"That's male bonding of an especially painful kind -- and marks the natural culmination for a buddy dynamic that's deeply engrained in our movies, from Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby, Martin and Lewis, Cheech and Chong, and Bill and Ted all the way to \"Dumb & Dumber.\"",
"It's a tradition that Cho and Penn sustain with as much charm as circumstances allow.",
"In a week when a French satirical magazine was firebombed for publishing an issue guest-edited by the prophet Mohammed (or so they claimed), there is definitely something to be said for a movie that takes a blowtorch to political correctness and even puts a bullet in the head of old Saint Nick.",
"By offending everyone, the theory goes, no one needs be offended.",
"It's a patchy affair, these things almost always are, but a commendably trim 90-minute running time keeps things hopping.",
"The film hits an early high with a series of inspired gags breaking the fourth wall to poke fun at its own 3D gimmickry.",
"Director Todd Strauss-Schulson throws in a horrific claymation fantasy, doffs his cap at Busby Berkeley and shoots an egg-throwing sequence as if he's John Woo, just because he can.",
"The yolks on us, I guess.",
"At regular intervals he sends clouds of pot wafting towards the audience.",
"You don't need to be an expert in smoke signals to catch the drift: Lighten up, America."
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"The subtler joke being that Harold and Kumar's own ethnicity is invisible .",
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"(CNN) -- The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday spared the island of Indonesia, a nearby developing country that was devastated in 2004 by one of the deadliest tsunamis in history.",
"Helping after that disaster was CNN Hero Robin Lim.",
"Lim is the founder of Indonesia's Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, which provide free prenatal and birthing care to women in need.",
"Lim recently spoke with CNN's Ebonne Ruffins about how her midwife teams respond in natural disasters, balancing critical medical needs with cultural traditions.",
"Ebonne Ruffins: What's it like to work in Indonesia and, specifically, after the 2004 tsunami?",
"Robin Lim: In Indonesia, there is a great need for us because many mothers want the help of professional birth attendants but can't afford them.",
"So they come to us. It was not easy to start so grass-roots in Bali, completely reliant on donations, but we did it.",
"And when the tsunami happened a few years later in Aceh, we were early responders.",
"So many on the eastern coast lost everything, and it was very difficult to witness.",
"But we had to be there for those who survived or were fighting to survive.",
"Ruffins: How do your teams provide maternal and infant care in the middle of a devastated area?",
"Lim: Because the devastation can ruin entire clinics and resources, we have to be prepared to treat them with limited materials.",
"Instead of cutting the umbilical cord, for instance, we burn it -- especially in disaster zones, because it's something we can teach our midwives and doctors who've lost their instruments.",
"Using scissors to sever the umbilical cord carries a risk of tetanus.",
"If you burn the cord, there's just no risk of infection.",
"And outside of just knowing how to safely respond medically, we try to have respect for everyone's faith.",
"We don't have any particular religion, and we'll honor all requests and faith traditions -- special songs, flowers or chants.",
"No matter what they are or where we are, we honor these faiths.",
"This helps the moms feel safe and supported with us.",
"Video: Watch a cord-burning ceremony at Lim's clinic .",
"Ruffins: You've delivered enough babies to repopulate another island.",
"Have you learned anything from the people you've helped?",
"Lim: I've learned a lot.",
"Quite often I cry tears of joy because I feel humbled.",
"Once in a while, a baby is born that doesn't breathe.",
"Normally CPR works, but sometimes no matter what you do, that baby just wasn't meant to make it.",
"That really humbles us, because we have control over reducing risks for the mothers and babies but I have learned we don't have control over fate.",
"There are so many more good days than bad, though.",
"When there is a long night and there is an emergency, the mothers just hang in there -- and the babies, too.",
"They are so strong, and they push through -- literally.",
"That's love. They have taught me that this world is really worth preserving.",
"The babies come in so fresh and innocent, trusting and open to love.",
"And if we can just give them a safe and gentle entrance into this world, then they will keep that ability to love and trust.",
"See the full story on CNN Hero Robin Lim: 'Mother Robin' delivers for poor women in Indonesia ."
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"Robin Lim founded health clinics in Indonesia that offer free prenatal and birthing care .",
"When a tsunami hit in 2004, her midwife teams had to work with limited resources .",
"Lim: We try to have respect for everyone's faith .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"(CNN) -- Amnesty International is demanding the United States stop allowing the export of arms and riot-control material to Egypt, where security forces have cracked down on protests.",
"\"U.S. arms shipments to Egypt's security forces must be stopped until there is certainty that tear gas and other munitions, weaponry or other equipment aren't linked to bloodshed on Egyptian streets,\" Amnesty's Brian Wood, who monitors conventional weapons and arms control, said Wednesday.",
"An American company shipped supplies that feature chemical irritants and riot control agents, Amnesty International said in its statement, with arrival on November 26.",
"The organization said another shipment in August had the \"product code of bullets, cartridges and shells, but the latter was also described as 'ammunition smoke,'\" which Amnesty said includes tear gas.",
"It cited three shipments since the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.",
"Amnesty called on Egyptian security forces, including riot police, to be trained in the use of force and firearms.",
"Mark Toner, State Department deputy spokesman, told reporters Wednesday, \"We've condemned the use of excessive force against protesters during the recent period of civil unrest in Cairo.",
"We do take allegations of misuse of tear gas very seriously.\"",
"He said an ongoing export license has recently expired, but a shipment of tear gas was delivered to Egypt last week.",
"\"But beyond that, there are no additional shipments that we're aware of and no additional licenses that we're aware of.\"",
"The department is monitoring the security situation in Egypt, Toner said.",
"Protesters have been upset at the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled Egypt since Mubarak was forced from office.",
"On the front lines of a street battle in Cairo in late November, protesters took turns hurling stones at helmeted riot police.",
"Every few minutes, the police fired canisters of tear gas back at the demonstrators.",
"As journalists walked through the melee, demonstrators ran up wielding spent shotgun shells and tear gas canisters.",
"One of the tear gas canisters had markings clearly identifying it as having been manufactured in Jamestown, Pennsylvania.",
"\"Made in USA, made in USA,\" several of the young men yelled.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson contributed to this report."
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"Rights group wants to ensure the material is not linked to \"bloodshed\" in Egypt .",
"Political protests, clashes with security forces have continued in Egypt .",
"The U.S. State Department says it is aware of no current export licenses ."
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"London (CNN) -- Three top Pakistani cricketers were jailed Thursday after being convicted of plotting to cheat and to take bribes in a match against England last summer, in a scandal that rocked the international sport.",
"Former national team captain Salman Butt was sentenced to 30 months and bowler Mohammad Asif to a year in prison after they were found guilty by a London court Tuesday.",
"Fellow bowler Mohammad Amir, a rising star in the sport at the age of 19, was given a six-month jail term, having pleaded guilty.",
"A fourth man, London-based businessman Mazhar Majeed, was jailed for two years and eight months for his role as an agent who arranged the betting scam.",
"He had also pleaded guilty.",
"All will serve half of their sentences before being eligible for parole.",
"The Pakistanis were accused of spot fixing, or rigging parts of a test match.",
"The trial and sentencing have been closely watched in Pakistan, where cricket is a hugely popular sport.",
"The Pakistan Cricket Board, the sport's national governing body, said the trio's conviction and sentencing was \"a sad day for Pakistan cricket.\"",
"Spokesman Nadeem Sarwar said in a statement: \"Instead of having pride in playing for their country, these players chose to disappoint their supporters, damage the image of their country and bring the noble game of cricket into disrepute.",
"There is little sympathy in Pakistan for the sorry pass they have come to.\"",
"He said the board was determined to stamp out corrupt behavior within cricket and will introduce measures to do that.",
"These include better training in the game's rules and ethics for players, alongside stricter monitoring, a strengthened code of conduct for agents and others involved in the game and a recommendation to the government to pass a law making corruption in sport a criminal offense.",
"Imran Khan, former cricketer turned politician, told domestic channel Geo TV after the sentencing: \"For Pakistan and for Pakistani cricket this is extremely detrimental.",
"\"This will bring shame to our country and the families of the cricketers.",
"I can't imagine what the family is going through.",
"Right now this is bad for all of us.\"",
"He said he felt special sympathy for Amir, the youngest, who had probably gotten involved after seeing the others getting away with match fixing.",
"Asif's father also appeared on Geo TV, saying: \"Jails are made for men, so what if my son is sent there.\"",
"He accused unspecified foreign governments of being behind his son's conviction, but he said the family would not starve as a result.",
"Butt's sister, Rubab Butt, also told reporters her brother was innocent.",
"\"My brother didn't do anything wrong,\" she said.",
"\"There has been no evidence presented to us about his guilt and the decision was wrong, we disagree with it.",
"My brother is innocent.\"",
"Butt and Asif had denied the charges.",
"Before the sentencing, Amir expressed remorse in a statement read by his lawyer.",
"\"First I want to apologize to Pakistan and to everyone that cricket is important to,\" he said.",
"\"I do know how much damage this has done to the game, a game which I love more than anything else in the world.",
"\"I did decide many months ago that I wanted to admit that I deliberately threw two no-balls (fouls) at the Lord's Test last summer.",
"But I know this was very late, and I want to apologize for not saying it before.",
"I didn't find the courage to do it at the beginning, and I know very well that made everything much more difficult.\"",
"The Pakistanis are among the lowest-paid of the main cricket nations, partly due to the loss of much-needed revenue from hosting tours.",
"International teams have turned down offers to play in Pakistan after a 2009 terrorist attack on the touring Sri Lankan team in Lahore.",
"CNN's Phil Black and Andrew Carey and journalists Shaan Khan and Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"Relatives of the jailed cricketers protest their innocence .",
"Butt and Asif are jailed for 30 and 12 months respectively, Amir for six months .",
"Agent Mazhar Majeed is sentenced to two years and eight months in prison ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- \"Now, come, travel back in time.",
"See where and how these rulers lived,\" Harrison Ford's deep voice beckons just before double doors swing open into a labyrinth of galleries displaying more than 130 ancient Egyptian artifacts.",
"This canopic stopper covered one of the openings of a container that held King Tutankhamun's internal organs.",
"The recorded introduction a la \"Indiana Jones\" welcomes visitors to a new exhibit featuring treasures from boy king Tutankhamun's tomb and artifacts tied to rulers spanning 2,000 years of Egyptian history.",
"\"Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs,\" presented by Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum, premieres in the United States on November 15 at the Atlanta Civic Center.",
"An array of objects associated with rulers dating from Egypt's Fourth Dynasty into the Late Period (about 2600 B.C.",
"to 660 B.C.) makes this the largest and most encyclopedic exhibit featuring Egyptian pharaohs presented in the U.S., according to exhibition curator David Silverman, who has worked on other exhibits focusing on Tutankhamun.",
"\"A lot of people, when they hear 'Tut,' they think of gold, they think of the mummy, and they think of the discovery -- all of which is important.",
"But when you think of more than 300 pharaohs, 31 dynasties, [Tutankhamun's] is only one of them,\" Silverman said.",
"Listen to Silverman describe the ancient burial process and artifacts found in King Tut's tomb » .",
"Carefully focused pools of light illuminate stone pharaohs, gold and carnelian jewels and objects intended for the afterlife in darkened galleries looking at themes including the family life, religion, court and gold of the rulers.",
"A golden mask found on the mummy of Psusennes I presides over the gold gallery.",
"Considered by ancient Egyptians to be the skin of the gods, gold was highly prized and used extensively in royal burial to assure pharaohs' divinity in the afterlife.",
"A gold collar found on the body of Neferuptah, daughter of Amenemhat III, showcases an intricate arc of carnelian and feldspar that terminates with golden falcon heads.",
"Tour the galleries with exhibition curators » .",
"Four rooms at the end of the exhibit correspond with the four chambers of King Tutankhamun's tomb.",
"He was one of the last rulers of the 18th Dynasty; his rule started in 1333 B.C.",
"when he was only 9 or 10 years old and ended in 1323 B.C.",
"when he died under mysterious circumstances.",
"A tented entry, larger-than-life photos of archaeologist Howard Carter and his financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, and photos of the archaeological dig that revealed the tomb set the scene for some of the riches discovered by Carter in 1922.",
"One of four coffinettes that each held one of the king's internal organs is among the lavish burial ornaments on display.",
"Statuettes of servants also were found in the tomb, placed there to ensure that the king would do no forced labor in the afterlife.",
"Ancient ritual and modern technology collide in the final gallery, where visitors can see CT scans of Tutankhamun's mummy, part of an Egyptian research project in collaboration with National Geographic that will scan all of the ancient mummies.",
"The scans of the boy king, long suspected to have been murdered, show no signs of foul play.",
"A suspicious dark spot on the back of the skull was revealed to be a result of the embalming process, Silverman said.",
"Other recent discoveries?",
"\"Unlike any of the representations that we see of Tut, these scans show that he had a recessed chin and a rather pronounced overbite,\" Silverman said.",
"After its conclusion in Atlanta in May, \"Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs\" will open at the end of June in Indiana at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.",
"CNN's Jacque Wilson contributed to this report."
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"Exhibit places King Tut in a continuum of Egyptian history .",
"130 artifacts span 2,000 years and more than a dozen reigns ."
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"(Financial Times) -- While most consumer goods companies are seeking opportunities in China, domestic condom maker Safedom is going in the opposite direction -- seeking European partners or acquisitions as part of a bid to go global.",
"The company, majority-owned by its founder, has grown rapidly in its short life.",
"It will sell 200m condoms this year, all within China, and is targeting sales of 1bn next year; the same number that Durex, the world's biggest player, was producing in the country within three years.",
"Brian Fu, chief executive, was in the UK last week \"meeting potential partners and acquisitions\".",
"Funding for any deal will either come from existing shareholders, bank loans or possibly through an overseas stock market listing, he said.",
"Despite the size of the market on its own doorstep -- and added attraction of a government-mandated one-child policy -- Safedom sees its future on the international stage.",
"It reckons its virus-proof latex condoms will enable it to compete alongside the global players such as Durex, now part of Reckitt Benckiser, and Ansell of Australia.",
"However, Mr Fu said that the strength of his company -- whose range includes Beautiful Girl, Take Me and Green Lemon -- was in manufacturing and technology, and going global required bringing in branding and marketing expertise.",
"Sales outlets and channels are also likely to vary from China, where half of all condoms are bought by women.",
"\"We think we have good leading edge technology and a good management team.",
"What we lack is the branding part: we are not well known,\" Mr Fu said.",
"According to Global Industry Analysts, the data publishers, the global condom market is set to hit 27bn units, worth $6bn, by 2015, driven by demand from emerging economies including China and Africa.",
"Safedom plans to start selling in Bangladesh and countries in Africa shortly.",
"But in China, as with other consumer goods ranging from cars to handbags, the stress is on bling.",
"At the opulent Venetian casino in Macao, Safedom sells single condoms for HK$50 (US$6) a throw and, according to Mr Fu, designer condoms (presumably fake) are available online at US$65 apiece.",
"So far, roughly one-quarter of the group's sales have been to the government, which distributes them free of charge, but that proportion is expected to shrink.",
"\"In the old days free condoms were welcomed by the people,\" said Shuyu Xu, director of international sales.",
"\"But now people can afford to pay and will go to the pharmacy to buy the best, most fancy ones.\"",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2011 ."
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"(CNN) -- Novak Djokovic has had a phenomenal 2011, but his exertions appear to be taking their toll.",
"Injuries are threatening to derail the world No.",
"1's hopes of finishing the tennis season on a high note.",
"Djokovic suffered just his fourth defeat in 71 matches this year on Saturday, losing 2-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-0 to Japan's rising star Kei Nishikori in the semifinals of the Swiss Indoors event.",
"The Serbian has won three out of four grand slam titles this season, but is battling to be fit for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals after a recurring shoulder problem hampered him in Basel.",
"Djokovic, the champion here in 2009 and runner-up last year, said he would travel to France for next week's penultimate event, the Paris Masters, despite his fitness worries.",
"\"I don't think I'll be able to train for the next few days.",
"I could barely serve for much of the match, I was in pain,\" the 24-year-old told reporters after losing a set 6-0 for just the sixth time in his career.",
"Has men's tennis reached burn-out?",
"\"My shoulder is very bad, we won't even talk about the third set.",
"I have a lot of pain in my body from the competition this week.",
"I hope I can be ready for Paris.\"",
"Djokovic returned to action in Switzerland after six weeks out with a back injury suffered during his epic U.S. Open final against Rafael Nadal, an ailment which left him unable to guide Serbia into a second successive Davis Cup final.",
"\"It was a shock to the body.",
"Competition is different to practice.",
"I may have forced things too much,\" he said.",
"\"I was feeling afraid of the shoulder and what might happen to it.",
"My rhythm on my serve has been completely off.\"",
"World No. 32 Nishikori made history by becoming the first Japanese player to beat a top-ranked opponent.",
"The 21-year-old, a wild-card entry after reaching the Shanghai Masters semis, will play defending champion Roger Federer in Sunday's final as he seeks his second ATP Tour title -- the first came in 2008.",
"Third seed Federer has won four of his 67 career titles in his hometown event, where he has now won 42 out of 49 matches.",
"The 16-time grand slam champion defeated compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 on Saturday -- his 10th win in their 11 meetings -- to reach the final for the sixth year in a row.",
"Apart from his 2009 defeat by Djokovic, Federer also lost in the 2000 and 2001 finals.",
"Juan Martin del Potro's hopes of reaching the eight-man season finale suffered a blow on Saturday when the Argentine lost in the semifinals of the Valencia Open hard-court event.",
"The sixth seed could have moved up to ninth in the rankings with victory, and was in good form having not dropped a set all week, but was surprisingly beaten 6-4 7-6 (7-4) by last year's runner-up Marcel Granollers.",
"The result means that Tomas Berdych became the sixth player to qualify for the event, the second year in a row the Czech has done so.",
"World No. 34 Granollers reached his fourth career final, having won two titles on clay.",
"He will next face Argentine wildcard entry Juan Monaco, who upset defending champion David Ferrer -- beating Granollers' fellow Spaniard 7-5 1-6 6-3.",
"Ferrer has already qualified for the London showpiece later this month."
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"Juan Martin del Potro's Valencia defeat puts Tomas Berdych in ATP World Tour Finals ."
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"(CNN) -- \"George Washington slept here.\"",
"It was once an American catchphrase -- cheery shorthand for a blithesome fact of American democracy: Our presidents come from among us, and have traditionally striven to continue moving among us.",
"Any number of country inns and lodges, in the early years of the United States, proudly proclaimed that the first president once spent the night within their walls.",
"The phrase had staying power; as late as the 1940s a hit Broadway comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman was titled \"George Washington Slept Here,\" and was followed by a major motion picture starring Jack Benny.",
"It is doubtful, in our contemporary era of Code Red security levels and constant threats against public officials, that there will be a sequel to the jolly play or movie coming out any time soon.",
"Our presidents still, from time to time, sleep among us, but whatever feeling of lighthearted happenstance was implicit in the \"George Washington slept here\" slogan is long gone.",
"By necessity, a president spending a night away from the White House is grimly serious business.",
"Without having planned it that way, I ended up staying at the same hotel as President Barack Obama during his recent visit to New York to address a session of the United Nations General Assembly.",
"I had scheduled a trip to New York months before, and had no idea the president would be in town at the same time.",
"The roadway congestion and police-mandated detours on the way into midtown Manhattan from LaGuardia created a backed-up mess, and the cabdriver summed it up in a weary phrase I could tell he had used many times that week: \"Obama traffic.\"",
"It's not a phrase any politician would welcome -- no one seeking the voting public's goodwill wants to be associated with traffic headaches -- but that's how it is these days, whether the person in office is a Democrat or a Republican.",
"When a president comes to town, all streets along the paths of his motorcades are blocked off, all people seeking access to where he is are frisked, either electronically or by hand or both.",
"Because of the history of violence against political leaders, the melancholy assumption on the part of law enforcement is that everyone must be presumed guilty of having bad intentions until being deemed innocent.",
"No one has to ask why there must be Secret Service war wagons standing sentry on otherwise cleared-of-traffic streets adjacent to where a president sleeps, or why guests checking into a hotel where a president stays have their baggage taken from them and carted to an outdoor location behind steel-and-cement barriers, where sophisticated screening devices give them the once or twice over.",
"And no one has to inquire about the reason for the searches every hotel employee and every hotel guest must submit to each time he or she wants to enter the building anew.",
"Not to have these measures in place would be to invite disaster of shattering proportions, especially when, in the case of the recent United Nations sessions, not only the president of the United States, but numerous top-level foreign officials are there, too.",
"Still, it makes the very idea of a president mixing with the people he is elected to serve seem like a well-intentioned but ultimately bittersweet illusion.",
"And the limitations on a president's movement, and on the free movement of citizens who would like to catch a glimpse of him, are destined to grow ever more restrictive.",
"Presidents routinely rode through cities in open convertibles-- until the murder of John F. Kennedy made that seem like a foolhardy concept.",
"Presidents and presidential candidates took it for granted that the people who worked in the buildings where they spoke or slept were not a major danger-- until Robert F. Kennedy took that shortcut through the hotel kitchen.",
"Presidents felt relatively safe strolling onto a sidewalk with unscreened people in close proximity -- until Ronald Reagan walked onto the wrong sidewalk on the wrong day.",
"Today, when presidents decide to take a jog or go out for a bite to eat, it is done from within thick concentric rings of armed Secret Service agents and local police.",
"Presidents have been known to say that they feel stifled governing from the environs of the Rose Garden, meaning that they believe they have to get out from the bubble that is life in the White House if they want to maintain a feel for America and Americans.",
"Yet the reality, increasingly, is that they can't and don't leave the bubble -- the bubble moves right along with them, except that it is no longer merely a bubble, it is a heavily fortified multiple-city-block mobile bunker.",
"And every time that bunker is deployed into the nation beyond Washington is a new reminder of the seemingly unsolvable quandary we face: .",
"We wish we didn't live in a world where such measures are necessary.",
"Our presidents wish they didn't live in a world where such measures are necessary.",
"It's not our fault, or theirs. But it's not going to get any easier.",
"Wherever George Washington may have slept, if he were alive today the place would be surrounded by iron barricades, shut-down roadways and government sharpshooters bearing automatic weapons.",
"It's the kind of thing that might keep a president awake at night.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
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"He says in today's high-security environment for president, no such thing possible .",
"He stayed at same hotel as Obama when he was in NY; security was maddening .",
"Greene: Presidents try to stay in touch with Americans, but where they go, the bubble goes too ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani politician and his bodyguard were killed Monday in a suicide attack in northwest Pakistan, a police official told CNN.",
"Hanif Jadoon had just finished morning prayers on the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha when a bomber approached his car and detonated his explosives, police official Muhammad Ejaz Khan said.",
"The attack took place in the Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Islamabad.",
"Jadoon was a member of the Awami National Party, a secular party often targeted by the Taliban.",
"Nine others were injured in the attack.",
"No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, police said."
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"Police say no one has claimed responsibility for the attack .",
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"Beijing (CNN) -- China's Foreign Ministry weighed in on the widespread anxiety over Iran's nuclear program on Friday, urging Iran to be flexible with the U.N. nuclear agency but staunchly deploring force amid talk of strikes against the country.",
"Hong Lei, the ministry spokesman, made the comments, state-run news agency Xinhua said on Friday.",
"They come ahead of a report on Iran's nuclear program expected to be released next week by the International Atomic Energy Agency.",
"\"As a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran should fulfill the relevant international obligations,\" Hong told reporters.",
"The report is expected to focus specifically on research and development that Tehran may have carried out that would help it build a nuclear warhead.",
"Iran said it is developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes but Western powers have long asserted that Iran aspires to build nuclear weapons.",
"In recent days, there has been widespread talk in the Israeli media about the possibility of military strikes on Iran.",
"The daily newspaper Haaretz reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was lobbying members of his Cabinet to back a military strike against Iran.",
"On that same day, the Israeli military tested a new rocket propulsion system.",
"Britain's Guardian daily newspaper said that country's armed forces \"are stepping up their contingency planning for potential military action against Iran amid mounting concern about Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme.\"",
"It reported that the Defence Ministry thinks the United States \"may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities.",
"British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK military help for any mission, despite some deep reservations within the coalition government.\"",
"China's stance is an important element in the diplomatic focus on the nuclear issue because of China's permanent U.N. Security Council membership.",
"Even though China has supported some sanctions on Iran over the years, Beijing and Russia have not been as hard-line toward the Islamic republic as the other members of the Security Council -- the United States, Britain and France.",
"Hong said disagreements with Iran should be resolved through \"dialogue and cooperation,\" Xinhua reported.",
"\"The IAEA should positively clarify relevant problems by cooperating with Iran in an impartial and objective manner\" and \"Iran should be flexible and sincere when cooperating with the IAEA,\" Xinhua reported, citing Hong.",
"China warns against the use of force but will promote \"dialogue and cooperation and play a constructive role\" in dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue.",
"\"It is extremely important to avoid new turmoil in the Middle East\" and \"a peaceful settlement is the common benefit for both the Middle East and international society,\" Hong said, according to Xinhua."
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"(CNN) -- The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who helped lead the civil rights movement, has died, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute said Wednesday.",
"He was 89. Shuttlesworth is among the iconic figures honored in the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.",
"King once called Shuttlesworth \"the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South.\"",
"President Barack Obama issued a statement honoring Shuttleworth, saying he \"dedicated his life to advancing the cause of justice for all Americans.",
"He was a testament to the strength of the human spirit.",
"And today we stand on his shoulders, and the shoulders of all those who marched and sat and lifted their voices to help perfect our union.",
"... \"America owes Reverend Shuttlesworth a debt of gratitude, and our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Sephira, and their family, friends and loved ones.\"",
"When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against segregated busing in Montgomery, Alabama, Shuttlesworth rallied the membership of a group he established in May 1956 -- the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights -- to challenge the practice of segregated busing in Birmingham.",
"Shuttlesworth also helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with King and other civil rights leaders.",
"Shuttlesworth's efforts weren't without a price: his home was bombed on Christmas Day in 1956, but he and his family were not injured.",
"He was, however, hurt in 1957 when he was beaten with chains and whips as he sought to integrate an all-white public school.",
"That same year, Shuttlesworth helped King organize the SCLC, serving as the organization's first secretary from 1958 to 1970.",
"He later served briefly as its president in 2004.",
"In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded Shuttlesworth a Presidential Citizens Medal -- the nation's second-highest civilian award -- for his leadership in the \"non-violent civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, leading efforts to integrate Birmingham, Alabama's schools, buses and recreational facilities\" and helping found the SCLC.",
"Shuttlesworth also protested segregated lunch counters and helped lead sit-ins at the eateries in 1960.",
"He participated in organizing the Freedom Rides against segregated interstate buses in the South when he joined forces with the Congress On Racial Equality.",
"In 1963, he was injured again when a fire hose was turned on him during a protest against segregation in Birmingham.",
"The blast of water, directed against demonstrators by order of Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor, slammed Shuttlesworth against a wall.",
"He was hospitalized but recovered.",
"He was also a principal in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, which he helped organize.",
"In the early 1960s, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he fought homelessness and continued the movement against racism.",
"There, he founded and served as pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church from 1966 to 2006.",
"In the 1980s, he established the Shuttlesworth Housing Foundation in Cincinnati, which provided grants to help low-income families buy homes.",
"The Ohio Civil Rights Commission has placed Shuttlesworth in its Hall of Fame.",
"CNN's Tenisha Bell contributed to this report."
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"HONG KONG (CNN) -- He's a three-time former champion and darling of the Roland Garros crowd, but this week Gustavo \"Guga\" Kuerten took to the clay in Paris for the final time.",
"Tennis great Gustavo Kuerten will retire after his appearance at this year's French Open.",
"He won the French Open as a virtual unknown in 1997, repeating his triumph in 2000 and 2001.",
"The former world number one has suffered injuries and heartache during his 13-year career on the tour, and will be hanging up his racket after this event.",
"Prior to going out in the first round to Paul-Henri Mathieu he told CNN about his Parisian love affair.",
"CNN: How does it feel to be going into the tournament you've won three times as the World number 1,140, and it being the last tournament you'll ever play?",
"GK: Actually the ranking doesn't matter for me.",
"When I decided to take this farewell tour I wasn't looking for ranking points.",
"I wanted to have the feelings that I had in the most special places for me, to enjoy them one last time, to see the people and the public.",
"Today it's still very hard for me to think that in a week, five days, it will be over.",
"I try not to think about it too much.",
"I have worked so hard the past three weeks to be in good shape to play at least one good match, that my mind is totally focused on the tournament, as if I were still competing, like in the past years.",
"I arrived in Paris, and like every year I immediately went to Roland Garros and practiced on center court.",
"It feels like it is a normal year, but there's something different.",
"CNN: What does the French Open mean to you?",
"GK: It means everything.",
"It is here that everything happened to me.",
"I have a love relationship with this tournament, since the first time I came here and over the years I think everything came together, the tournament, the fans and I, all having this love affair.",
"I have so much respect for the tournament.",
"For me it is the most important tournament in the world.",
"All these years on the tour, I always worked out my schedule towards Roland Garros.",
"CNN: What are your favorite memories of Roland Garros?",
"GK: It is very hard to pick just one, because everywhere I go here I have memories, even going back to the junior years.",
"If I had to pick one match though, it would be the one against Michael Russell, in the 4th round in 2001, when I drew the heart [on the court] for the first time.",
"It was just an amazing feeling.",
"After I won the match I felt like I was floating, a feeling that is very, very hard to find.",
"CNN: How does the event compare to the other Grand Slam tournaments?",
"What makes it unique?",
"GK: For me I can't even compare.",
"Everybody asked me over the years if I wanted to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open or Australian Open... Of course you want to win, but I would rather have won even more Roland Garros than these other Grand Slams.",
"I think it is a combination of it being in Paris, being played on clay, the people and the courts.",
"Even the clay in Roland Garros I think is unique; it is different from any other clay court in the world.",
"CNN: What do the crowds in Paris mean to you?",
"Will you draw another heart in the clay when you finally leave the court?",
"GK: I am not a guy who plans these things ahead.",
"I like things to come naturally.",
"Even when I drew the heart, it was something spontaneous and it ended up being something very special, that showed all the love I have for the tournament and the crowd.",
"I know they are expecting me to speak some French, so I am trying to practice a little this week, but I don't really know... Let's see how it goes.",
"CNN: What else would you have like to have achieved in tennis?",
"GK: I couldn't ask for anything else.",
"I have achieved much more than I could ever expect.",
"Even in my wildest dreams I couldn't imagine that I would win Roland Garros three times, win the Masters Cup and become the number one tennis player in the world... CNN: You're a national hero in Brazil.",
"How does it feel to go back home?",
"GK: I love being in Brazil.",
"Many people asked me why I didn't buy a house in Monaco, or somewhere else, but I never wanted to live outside Brazil.",
"I come from an island, a small city in the south of Brazil and people are used to seeing me there.",
"Of course when I go to bigger cities, I stop for autographs, pictures, sometimes there is a crowd, but it's OK, it's satisfying.",
"In the beginning I didn't really feel like an idol, but I learnt to deal with it and I feel proud to be an example and that people feel inspired by me.",
"CNN: What will you miss most from giving up tennis?",
"GK: Ah, the competition for sure...",
"I am a very competitive guy.",
"The one thing I won't miss though is all the traveling.",
"CNN: What happens when the tennis stops?",
"GK: First I want to take a couple of months off, just to relax, surf and think what I want to do.",
"But I definitely want to be involved with tennis, help develop tennis in Brazil and do more work for my institute, the Instituto Guga Kuerten.",
"(www.igk.org.br/)"
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"(CNN) -- It took more than five years to build, but since its opening last year, the Guangzhou Opera House has become the jewel among the sprawling Chinese megacity's bland urban landscape.",
"Designed by British architect Zaha Hadid it looks more cosmic than communist, but Hadid has likened it to two rocks washed up from the Pearl River and deposited on its bank.",
"From the smoothed corners of its asymmetrical exterior to the undulating 1,800-seat main theater, the concept of fluidity, like the flowing river nearby, goes from inside to out.",
"\"I was very preoccupied at the time with things moving,\" said Hadid.",
"\"That led to the drawings, and the drawings kind of led to distortion and deformation, and then the next influence was really landscape.\"",
"The building has gained plaudits from around the world and won the best cultural building award at the 2011 RIBA International Awards.",
"The judges complimented the building on its internal places and external forms as well as how the asymmetry of the auditorium did not detract from the near perfect acoustics.",
"In a career spanning three decades, Hadid has built a reputation for designing seemingly unbuildable structures and the opera house's construction explored new areas for both architect and builders.",
"Essential for much of the design was keeping the building in harmony with the local topography and using natural materials to counter the subtropical climate.",
"The exterior envelop of the buildings combine granite and glazing, with windows angled towards the ground to minimize heat from the sun.",
"The granite cladding -- kept 50 centimeters away from the building -- is also in place to absorb heat and ensure that the interior of the building remains cool without excessive use of air-conditioning systems.",
"Water from the Pearl River is also used directly in the building's cooling systems.",
"When the opera house opened reports suggested that Guangzhou's humid climate and sub-standard construction led to problems with some of the granite slabs and glazing.",
"The Guangzhou construction group that was contracted to build the opera house told the UK's Daily Telegraph that cracks stemmed from \"normal shrinkage\" and any problems since opening were only because of the unexpected complexity of the project and design.",
"A spokesperson for Zaha Hadid Architects admitted that some \"superficial elements\" needed adjustment post-opening, but they have since been addressed.",
"Despite teething problems, the opera house has transformed a once moribund area of the city into the site of one of the world's leading architectural icons."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- When director Antoine Fuqua rolls into a community to shoot a movie, he becomes part of that community.",
"Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua began a program to foster young moviemakers in poor communities.",
"This isn't the case of a Hollywood filmmaker cherry-picking glamorous locations like Beverly Hills or Manhattan.",
"Fuqua's interests lie a few miles away, in the grittier section of town.",
"For his 2001 blockbuster, \"Training Day,\" he took stars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke and shot in South-Central Los Angeles -- deep in the 'hood.",
"And last year, the housing projects in Brooklyn's Brownsville district were key to his latest feature, \"Brooklyn's Finest.\"",
"Hawke stars once again, this time alongside Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes.",
"Although Fuqua carries himself with the confident ease of someone who enjoys a certain stature in the industry, he's at home in the projects.",
"And he should be. He was raised in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, public housing complex, and hasn't forgotten what it's like to dream about making it out of the ghetto.",
"Yet now that he's out, he wants back in.",
"Watch more about how Fuqua mentors young filmmakers » .",
"During the filming of \"Brooklyn's Finest,\" he initiated the non-profit Fuqua Film Program -- an intense, 12-week moviemaking course eligible to young adults from Brownsville, ages 16 to 20.",
"Last year, three students got the chance to write, direct and edit their own short film.",
"This year, he hopes to expand the program to 10 to 15 students.",
"Down the road, he's looking to bring the project to his native Pittsburgh, then roll out to other urban areas.",
"After all, in Hollywood, it's all about who you know -- and Fuqua wants to give neighborhood kids the opportunity to know him.",
"The following is an edited version of an interview CNN did with Fuqua.",
"CNN: What was so compelling about the kids you chose to participate in the Fuqua Film Program?",
"Antoine Fuqua: We selected three kids -- four kids, actually (one could not complete the program because he was sent to Juvenile Hall). ...",
"The concept was to have them write an essay to find out which ones really had the passion for filmmaking.",
"Most of the applicants were 18, 19 years old.",
"Some lost their parents when they were 13, 12, 10.",
"A few were involved in gangs -- or someone in their family is involved in gangs.",
"A young lady just wanted to find a way out of living in the projects, and she wanted to go to college.",
"So it was a number of things I found compelling, but most of all, they all had a little bit of light and a little bit of hope in each letter.",
"CNN: When you handed the participants their video camera, you talked about \"No excuses.\"",
"Fuqua: Right.",
"\"No excuses.\" Exactly. That concept came from my parents and my grandmother -- the idea that you can't make excuses for things you don't have.",
"You just have to go get 'em. ... If they go after it -- as they did with the essays -- someone's going to hand you a tool and say, \"Here you go.",
"Now what?\" And then it's up to you to prove that you have what it takes.",
"CNN: You've got the teens who are part of the program, and then you have a bunch of little kids (from the neighborhood) who were interested in what was going on, too -- the next generation.",
"Fuqua: (Laughs) The next generation, yeah.",
"They kind of took over the director's chair.",
"I was over directing the actors, and I happened to turn around, and I just saw all these kids all around my monitor, and I said, \"Well, sit down, go ahead.",
"Put the headsets on.",
"You know, if you're going to be here, you can listen and hear what's going on.\"",
"And they loved it. I'd see them smiling, and laughing, and every time I yelled, \"Cut!\"",
"they were clapping. And then a few of them would yell, \"Cut!\"",
"and \"Action!\" I like to just go in there and say, \"This is all happening in your neighborhood, these two, three hundred crew members -- black, white, every other color.\"",
"You know, a crew is like a United Nations.",
"It's an immediate opportunity to meet and greet people other than the ones you see every day in your community.",
"We're there at four or five in the morning.",
"We leave whenever we finish, which is normally in the middle of the night sometimes.",
"So they see that dedication and that work ethic, and they see how we all get along and how we all have to communicate.",
"And somewhere, I believe, it affects their behavior and how they deal with their lives.",
"CNN: Did anybody do this for you?",
"Fuqua: I'm just like them.",
"I come from the projects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Hill District, so I know what it feels like to walk into these concrete buildings (the housing projects) and think that's the world.",
"My goal is to show them that's nothing -- that's a blip in the world.",
"... Several people gave me opportunities.",
"Mario Van Peebles was doing a little film in Pittsburgh and I was just a little kid running around, and I got to meet him.",
"He was acting in it, and he was really nice and said hello to everybody.",
"It wasn't a situation where they said, \"Go away!",
"You can't be part of this.\" CNN: On the set of \"Brooklyn's Finest,\" Denzel Washington spent time talking to the kids.",
"Fuqua: Yeah, Denzel was giving them the real talking. ...",
"He's involved with the Boys and Girls Club, and he does a lot quietly -- people don't even know.",
"When I shot \"Training Day,\" he was, \"Absolutely you've got to shoot down there [in South-Central] -- where else you gonna shoot it?!\"",
"And I remember one day down on the set with Denzel, I was filming and I couldn't find him, and I looked up on the porch, and he was up there on the porch with all these older women, and they were cooking for him, and all the young kids were around, and he was just hanging out where all the people were.",
"And that told me right away what kind of person he was.",
"I don't know how many times he was in his trailer.",
"He was always with the kids -- him and Ethan (Hawke, his co-star) -- hanging out with everyone.",
"And that influenced me a lot because I realized by watching the effect they had on these kids.",
"CNN: What's been the most gratifying part of being involved in the community, and picking the kids for the Fuqua Film Program?",
"Fuqua: I'm satisfied when I hear them talking about wanting to go to Europe, or curious of who Caravaggio is -- the painter -- or tell me they saw a Kurosawa film last night, and they never saw him before.",
"You know, it's like the world is starting to open up -- their eyes are opening up.",
"Maybe one of those kids is going to be the next Steven Spielberg, or the next Denzel, or who knows -- the next Antoine."
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"(CNN) -- We are ... Penn State.",
"I cannot recount the thousands of times that I have proudly proclaimed that chant throughout the years.",
"I belted it out as a Penn State cheerleader, later as a proud alum standing in Beaver Stadium among nearly 100,000 raucous fans, and more recently on Saturday afternoons sitting solo in my TV room watching my Nittany Lions roar in those classic no-name jerseys.",
"Those words still give me goosebumps nearly 20 years after I left State College, Pennsylvania, lovingly called Happy Valley.",
"Looking down from my perch on other colleges over the past decade, I've watched major programs crumble as their dirty little secrets were revealed.",
"And through all those college scandal headlines -- paying players, inflating SAT scores, falsifying classroom grades -- I have held Penn State up as a shining example of all that is good and right and pure about college sports.",
"We are the good guys. We have Joe Paterno.",
"We are ... Penn State.",
"But today, I'm putting my pompoms down.",
"I'm done covering up Happy Valley's secrets.",
"And it's time for others in the program, starting with Coach Paterno, to do the same thing.",
"And then, Joe has got to go, immediately.",
"That is the only real alternative after the shocking allegations that Jerry Sandusky, 67 -- a former assistant coach who worked with the program for more than 30 years and who was viewed by many as Paterno's heir before he retired in 1999 -- has been charged with multiple felonies in the alleged sexual abuse of eight boys during a 15-year period.",
"Prosecutors now expect that more boys will come forward with abuse claims.",
"Before this week, I'd argued that Jo Pa should coach until he takes his last breath.",
"He'd earned it. This year, Penn State tied with Stanford for the top graduation success rate among teams ranked in the October 30 Bowl Championship Series and AP Top 25 rankings, according to the NCAA.",
"During his 46-year tenure, Paterno has had 47 Academic All-Americans, with 37 earning first-team honors.",
"I made excuses for Penn State in 2007 when the women's basketball coach, Renee Portland, quit after the university was sued over her \"no lesbians on the team\" policy.",
"Portland, who had coached at the university for 27 years, was accused of bullying and humiliating one of her young players because she believed the girl was a lesbian.",
"Portland's homophobic views were well-known on the team.",
"Still, I reasoned that she was just a rogue coach, an anomaly at the school.",
"Surely, her brand of bigotry was not the norm.",
"Right? And I even defended Penn State after my own ugly experience with discrimination, when an adviser for the cheerleading squad tried to force me to quit the team after I was elected by my peers as the first African-American captain.",
"It wasn't the only racial hatred I'd experienced at the school.",
"In the late '80s, it was routine to find the campus littered with leaflets from the local Ku Klux Klan telling us blacks to \"Go back to Africa.\"",
"Sometimes the writer even drew a nice little noose on the fliers.",
"But I stayed at the school, kept cheering on my Nittany Lions.",
"I was proud to be there. Plus, I reasoned that my struggles there would prepare me for the real world.",
"Now, I've run out of excuses.",
"According to a grand jury report, Paterno back in 2002 was informed by a grad assistant that he had seen former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky naked and forcing a boy who appeared to be about 10-years-old to have anal sex in the showers of the school's sports complex.",
"Paterno reportedly told his boss, Athletic Director Tim Curley, but it's unclear whether the coach did anything further to follow up on the shocking report.",
"And incredibly no one, Paterno or his superiors, reported this alleged incident to the authorities.",
"Those of us who have been on campus find it a joke that Coach Paterno would now say that he reported the incident to his bosses.",
"What bosses? Everyone knows Paterno had as much or more power on that campus than anyone to make things happen, including the president.",
"It's absolutely unforgivable if Paterno did nothing but pass the information up the chain.",
"In fact, even after this incident was reported, Sandusky still had the keys to the complex and free rein to bring boys he mentored at his nonprofit foundation, the Second Mile, to visit the campus and hang out around the sports facility.",
"If these allegations are proven true, this scandal is far worse than anything that's happened at other universities.",
"Exploiting dozens and raping young boys could never compare to the minor infractions of boosters buying a car for a player or a player selling his autographed football jersey for a few bucks.",
"Now, as I look back at my years at Penn State and realize that some of these alleged incidents were possibly taking place as I was a student there proudly waving my pompoms, I feel sick.",
"And we are ashamed. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roxanne Jones."
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"Penn State sports had squeaky-clean reputation; Jones defended it through thick or thin .",
"Jones: Coach Joe Paterno must step down, it is inexcusable he did not tell authorities .",
"If this is true, it is far worse than any infractions seen at other universities, she writes ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The emergency room doctor who declared Michael Jackson dead testified Monday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray that there was no way doctors could have revived the pop icon after he arrived at the hospital.",
"Dr. Richelle Cooper testified Friday that Murray never told her that he had given Jackson the surgical anesthetic propofol before he stopped breathing, but she said Monday it would not have made a difference if he had because Jackson \"had died long before.\"",
"\"It is unlikely with that information that I would have been able to do something different that would have changed the outcome,\" Cooper said.",
"Prosecutors argue that Murray's failure to tell paramedics and doctors trying to resuscitate Jackson about the propofol is one of the negligent acts that make him criminally responsible for Jackson's death.",
"Another doctor testified Monday that the decision to place an aortic balloon pump in Jackson's heart was \"a desperate attempt, even though very much futile\" effort intended \"to prepare Dr. Murray mentally to accept the fact that Mr. Jackson could not be rescued and would allow Mr. Jackson to depart in peace and dignity.\"",
"Dr. Thao Nguyen said Murray asked that \"we not to give up easily and try to save Mr. Michael Jackson's life,\" Nguyen said, even though it seemed hopeless.",
"They placed a balloon pump in Jackson's aorta in an unsuccessful effort to restart his heart, she said.",
"\"It's not a case of too little, too late, but a case of too late,\" Nguyen said.",
"Monday was the fifth day of testimony in Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial, which is expected to last at least four more weeks.",
"The trial resumed without Jackson's mother.",
"Katherine Jackson left Los Angeles for Canada with her son's three children during the weekend to attend Sunday's premiere of Cirque du Soleil's \"Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour\" in Montreal.",
"A source close to the Jackson family said she would not return to the trial at least until October 10, since she will also travel to Cardiff, Wales, for a tribute concert for her late son.",
"Jackson family members in court Monday morning included siblings Janet, Rebe, Randy and Jermaine.",
"Prosecutors argue that Murray, who was Jackson's personal physician as he prepared for planned comeback concerts, is criminally responsible for the singer's death because of medical negligence and his reckless use of propofol to help Jackson sleep.",
"The coroner ruled that Jackson's June 25, 2009, death was the result of \"acute propofol intoxication\" in combination with sedatives.",
"Dr. Cooper had recommended at 12:57 p.m., when Jackson was still at his home, that paramedics stop resuscitation efforts and declare him dead.",
"Jackson was the first patient she had ever treated in the emergency room after having made such a recommendation to paramedics in the field, she said.",
"\"I have never given a time of death in the field and then have that patient brought to me,\" she said.",
"She said this exception was not because Jackson was a celebrity, but because the patient had a physician with them who did not want them to give up.",
"Prosecutors have criticized Murray, who is a cardiologist, for using propofol on Jackson, contending it should be used only by anesthesiologists who have proper monitoring equipment.",
"Cooper, a prosecution witness, acknowledged under questioning by defense lawyer Michael Flanagan that she uses it regularly as an emergency room doctor.",
"A Houston, Texas, doctor called by the prosecution Monday paid Dr. Murray a compliment Monday afternoon, saying she was \"impressed\" with Murray's ability to remember a patient and that patient's treatment when she called him \"out of the blue.\"",
"Dr. Joanne Bednarz-Prashad's testimony was important for the prosecution because she is one of the several people who spoke to Dr. Murray on the phone the morning Jackson died.",
"Prosecutors say he effectively abandoned Jackson by leaving his bedroom to talk on the phone that morning.",
"Dr. Bednarz-Prashad called Murray's cell phone to get his advice on a patient he had treated who was about to undergo surgery at a Houston hospital.",
"Most doctors she calls in such circumstances have to call back after consulting medical charts, she said, but Murray recalled the correct information immediately.",
"Prosecutors also called the first of three of Murray's girlfriends to the witness stand to talk about their conversations with the doctor just before he realized Jackson had stopped breathing .",
"The judge prevented the prosecution from digging into the personal relationship between Murray and Bridgette Morgan, who previously testified at Murray's preliminary hearing about meeting the married doctor in a Las Vegas night club in 2003.",
"Morgan's call to Murray came about 30 minutes before Murray apparently discovered there was a problem with his patient.",
"Sade Anding, a cocktail waitress who met Murray when she was working at a Houston steakhouse, is likely to be one of the first witnesses Tuesday.",
"Anding testified in January that she was on the phone with Murray when he suddenly stopped responding to her just before noon the day Jackson died.",
"That is the moment prosecutors contend Murray first realized that Jackson had stopped breathing.",
"\"I didn't hear him on the phone any more,\" Anding said.",
"\"I heard commotion as if the phone was in a pocket and I heard coughing and I heard a mumbling of voices.\"",
"Anding said she stayed on the phone for another five minutes, listening and wondering why the man she sometimes dated wasn't responding.",
"\"Hello, hello, are you there?\"",
"she testified she said.",
"The timing of the phone call is key to the prosecution's time line of when Murray realized his famous patient was dying.",
"Based on testimony so far, the moment came at 11:57 p.m. Nicole Alvarez, the mother of Murray's youngest child, may follow them on the witness stand.",
"Her testimony is especially important because the propofol Murray used on Jackson was shipped to her Santa Monica, California, apartment.",
"Alvarez, 29, who met Murray around 2005 in a Las Vegas gentlemen's club, made it clear when she previously testified that she knew little about the doctor's activities.",
"\"Dr. Murray and I were on a need-to-know basis, and I just know my place and my position in his life,\" Alvarez said.",
"Murray called Alvarez from the ambulance as he accompanied Jackson to the hospital, according to testimony in the preliminary hearing.",
"Representatives from two cell phone companies testified Monday morning about records of calls to and from Murray's cell phones the morning Jackson died.",
"The call times play a key role in determining the time line of what Murray was doing in the hours before Jackson's death.",
"The judge instructed lawyers not to disclose their witness list ahead of time.",
"However, the prosecution has been following the same order of witnesses used in Murray's preliminary hearing in January.",
"Los Angeles Police homicide Detective Dan Myers, who led the Los Angeles Police Department investigation of Jackson's death, is likely to testify Tuesday or Wednesday.",
"Los Angeles County Coroner Investigator Elissa Fleak will probably testify within the next two days about searching Jackson's home after his death.",
"She said at the preliminary hearing that she found seven pill bottles on the nightstand next to Jackson's bed and an empty bottle of propofol on the floor near his bed.",
"Murray's defense lawyers contend Jackson caused his own death by swallowing eight lorazepam pills and orally ingesting propofol while Murray was out of the room.",
"The judge imposed a gag order Friday, preventing lawyers for Murray from talking to reporters about the case.",
"His order came after he learned Matt Alford, a law partner to lead defense lawyer Ed Chernoff, gave a television interview to NBC's Ann Curry on Friday morning.",
"If convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Murray could spend four years in a California prison and lose his medical license."
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"NEW: First of three Murray girlfriends takes the witness stand Monday .",
"Doctor testifies Jackson couldn't have been saved even if Dr. Murray had told about propofol .",
"Balloon in Jackson's heart was \"to prepare Dr. Murray mentally to accept\" his death, doctor says ."
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"Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Seven Republican presidential contenders faced off Monday in one of the first debates of the primary season, offering policy ideas and criticism of President Barack Obama to try to separate themselves from the competition almost 17 months before the 2012 election.",
"With Obama intent on re-election, Republican viewers were paying particularly close attention to try to determine which candidates can defeat an incumbent who won in 2008 with strong support from independent, minority and young voters.",
"Some of the contenders made news in the debate, with conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota announcing she filed her papers Monday and would soon declare her formal candidacy for president.",
"\"We're going to win,\" Bachmann said of Republican chances in the 2012 vote, drawing applause from the GOP audience at St. Anselm College's Sullivan Arena.",
"\"Make no mistake about it.",
"President Obama is a one-term president.\"",
"Dressed in dark suits, the candidates offered brief introductions in lieu of opening statements that emphasized their experience and values.",
"The tone remained direct but cordial throughout the two-hour debate, with candidates focusing their strongest criticism for Obama.",
"Former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney, the early front-runner in polls after his unsuccessful bid for the GOP nomination in 2008, maintained a steady drumbeat of criticism of Obama, saying the president's policies have failed and the administration erroneously thinks it knows what is best for the economy.",
"\"He's failed the American people both on job creation and the scale of government, and that's why he's not going to be re-elected,\" Romney said, while Bachmann said Obama's economic report card \"right now has a big failing grade on it.\"",
"Bachmann also lambasted Obama's Libya policy, calling it \"substantially flawed\" and noting the United States still is uncertain about whether al Qaeda figures are part of the Libyan opposition trying to oust Moammar Gadhafi.",
"Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Obama had \"turned his back on American allies and he has embraced our enemies,\" while Texas Rep. Ron Paul called for an end to drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, saying \"our national security is not enhanced by our presence over there.\"",
"In the end, all praised each other, with Romney declaring that any of the seven on stage would be a better president than Obama.",
"But CNN iReporter Charlotte Durden, an unemployed realtor and computer teacher from Long Beach, California, took issue with that notion.",
"\"I think that we, the American people, should be upset that these seven candidates have all of the answers and, if they were president ... the county would be in a better place,\" according to Durden, who said she typically votes Democratic.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Monday showed Romney grabbing the support of 24% of Republicans and independents who lean toward the GOP.",
"Former Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin came in second at 20%, followed by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the rest of the field.",
"Palin and Giuliani, who have not announced that they will join the race, did not participate in Monday's CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union Leader debate.",
"Participants were declared presidential candidates Romney, businessman-turned-talk show host Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Minnesota Gov.",
"Tim Pawlenty, Paul, Santorum and Bachmann.",
"The debate included questions from journalists, audience members and voters at gatherings across the state, which will hold the first presidential primary next year.",
"Romney is the heavy early favorite in New Hampshire due to his time as governor in neighboring Massachusetts.",
"Moderated by CNN's John King, the debate covered major domestic and foreign policy issues including economic policy, deficit reduction and the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.",
"Answers illuminated key differences between the candidates.",
"For example, when asked about a controversial Republican proposal to overhaul the government-run Medicare health insurance program for senior citizens, Gingrich cautioned against an extreme step akin to the Democratic health care reform law unanimously opposed by GOP legislators.",
"He made similar comments when he kicked off his campaign last month and had to backtrack then under heavy Republican criticism, and on Monday night he moderated his stance by supporting the overall proposal with some modifications.",
"The other candidates generally backed a major structural reform of Medicare.",
"Gingrich, Pawlenty and Cain all drew applause by declaring their support for right-to-work legislation passed in some states that halts required union membership, and Pawlenty defended his economic plan introduced this week that was based on 5% annual growth, which has rarely been achieved in modern U.S. history.",
"\"This idea that we can't have 5% growth in America is hogwash,\" Pawlenty said.",
"\"It's a defeatist attitude.",
"If China can have 5% growth and Brazil can have 5% growth, then the United States of America can have 5% growth.",
"And I don't accept this notion that we're going to be average or anemic.",
"So my proposal has a 5% growth target.\"",
"As the current favorite, Romney faced criticism from his fellow candidates.",
"Santorum, an ardent foe of abortion, said it was important to look at a candidate's record when asked about Romney's policy switch from a pro-choice stance as Massachusetts governor to a pro-life stance in the 2008 campaign and today.",
"Voters looking at candidates should consider \"the authenticity of that candidate\" and look at the record over time to see \"what they've been willing to fight for,\" Santorum said, touting his own pro-life credentials.",
"Romney responded by saying that he believed \"people understand that I'm firmly pro-life,\" adding he would support Supreme Court justices who follow the Constitution rather than \"legislate from the bench\" and that he believed in the sanctity of life from beginning to end.",
"Pawlenty, meanwhile, avoided an opportunity to repeat his criticism of health care reform in which he tied Obama's health care law to Romney's health care legislation in Massachusetts, coining a word: \"Obamneycare.\"",
"When pressed on Monday, Pawlenty declined to repeat the phrase with Romney standing nearby.",
"While Romney was a focus of attention at the debate, Gingrich had the most to prove after last week's exodus of 16 top aides from his campaign less than a month after he formally announced his 2012 bid.",
"The outgoing staff cited the candidate's questionable work ethic and fundraising ability as their reason for abandoning the campaign.",
"Gingrich has vowed to continue and sought Monday to use his strong skills as a debater to demonstrate that his candidacy is still viable.",
"When asked about immigration reform, Gingrich angrily rejected the narrow definition of the question, saying candidates should avoid giving a yes or no answer on such a complex issue.",
"Also in the field Monday was Paul, who tried to appeal to a national audience in his third presidential bid.",
"Paul has devoted and energetic followers, but he is thought to be somewhat out of the mainstream of GOP politics thanks to his calls to scale back U.S. military efforts abroad and his attempts to get rid of the Federal Reserve.",
"But in the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elections, which saw Republicans make gains up and down the ballot after running campaigns built on scaling back the size of government, Paul insists that Republicans are moving toward his proposals.",
"Santorum, Bachmann and Cain are all well-known in social conservative circles and now are vying for the support of that key voting bloc.",
"All prompted applause Monday with forceful statements on red-meat conservative issues.",
"Cain repeated that he would be uncomfortable with a Muslim in his Cabinet unless he was sure it wasn't one \"trying to kill us,\" while Santorum and Bachmann backed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and woman.",
"Santorum, however, broke from most of the other contenders by backing the repeal of the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy barring openly gay military personnel.",
"CNN iReporter Egberto Willies challenged the value of the entire debate, saying it \"lacked intellect.\"",
"\"We heard nothing but talking points,\" he said.",
"\"We've given these guys a platform to spill talking points that ultimately will never solve America's problems.\"",
"CNN's Paul Steinhauser, Peter Hamby, Tom Cohen, Mark Preston and Ed Payne contributed to this report."
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"Debate ends on lighter note with candidates praising each other .",
"Santorum questions Romney's pro-life commitment .",
"Bachmann announces she filed papers to run for president .",
"Debate begins with criticism of President Obama ."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champions South Africa have begun this year's tournament with a victory, but they were far from convincing as they scraped a narrow 17-16 Pool D win over Wales in Wellington.",
"Frans Steyn and Francois Hougaard both scored tries for the Springboks, while Morne Steyn kicked two conversions and a penalty in a tight affair .",
"Toby Faletau went over for Wales' sole try, with James Hook contributing 11 points with his kicking.",
"Rugby World Cup special section .",
"The result was tough on a gallant Wales side, who led 16-10 with 15 minutes to play before Hougaard's try between the posts gave South Africa the upper hand.",
"Even then, the match was not over, with Rhys Priestland and Hook missing a drop goal chance and a tough penalty respectively.",
"South Africa started with 11 of the 15 players who won them the trophy four years ago, but they will need to improve on this display if they are to retain their title.",
"CNN's all-time Rugby World Cup XV .",
"There were two other pool matches played on Sunday, the third day of the tournament.",
"Australia, who like South Africa are attempting to win their third world title, scored 26 unanswered second half points to defeat Italy 32-6 in their Pool C opener at North Harbour.",
"And, also in Pool C, Ireland saw off United States 22-10 in their opening match in New Plymouth."
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"South Africa begin their Rugby World Cup defense with a 17-16 win over Wales .",
"The Sprinboks scrape Pool D victory despite fielding 11 of their 2007 winning side .",
"There are also opening victories for both Australia and Ireland in Pool C ."
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"(CNN) -- The daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of an infant Wednesday, but a Florida jury acquitted her on murder and child-abuse charges, a court spokeswoman said.",
"Amanda Brumfield, 32, was accused in the October 2008 death of 1-year-old Olivia Madison Garcia, who she was babysitting when the child fell and suffered fatal injuries.",
"Her trial ended Wednesday in Orlando, Florida, according to court spokesman Karen Connolly Levey.",
"Thornton released a statement through his publicist a year ago when Brumfield was charged.",
"The actor is estranged from his daughter \"and has had no contact with her for quite some time,\" publicist Arnold Robinson said.",
"\"When informed about this situation, he (Thornton) commented that, 'Anytime a baby's life is lost is an unimaginable tragedy and my heart goes out to the baby's family and loved ones,' \" Robinson told CNN in a written statement.",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"Amanda Brumfield was babysitting an infant who died after a fall .",
"She was acquitted of murder and child abuse .",
"Brumfield, 32, is estranged from her actor father ."
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"(CNN) -- Kenya's Patrick Makau set a new world record for the marathon in Berlin Sunday as previous record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia failed to finish.",
"Makau led home a Kenyan 1-2-3 in a time of two hours three minutes 38 seconds, shaving 21 seconds off the record set in the corresponding race in the German capital three years ago by Gebrselassie.",
"Stephen Kwelio Chemlany took second with Edwin Kimaiyo placing third.",
"Gebrselassie, 38, was prominent until the 35km mark before dropping out, just as he had done in the New York marathon last November.",
"He was trying to gain a qualifying time for the 2012 London Olympics and will now target the Dubai marathon early next year to achieve his aim.",
"Makau, 26, was successfully defending his Berlin crown, with the added bonus of taking the world record on a traditionally fast course.",
"Kenya's Florence Kiplagat won the women's race in two hours 19 minutes and 43 seconds with Germany's Irina Mikitenko in second place.",
"Britain's world record holder Paula Radcliffe finished third on her comeback to marathon after giving birth to her second child and a series of injuries.",
"Her time of two hours 23 minutes 46 minute was over eight minutes slower than her world's best but qualifies her for the Olympics on home soil."
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"Patrick Makau of Kenya sets new world record in marathon .",
"Makau takes 21 seconds off the previous best held by Haile Gebrselassie .",
"Gebrselassie drops out of the race in Berlin at 35km mark .",
"Florence Kiplagat of Kenya wins the women's race ."
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"(CNN) -- Enduring privations of his own as a Civil War prisoner in Georgia, Cpl.",
"Charles H. Knox was concerned about his wife and small child back home in upstate New York.",
"Eight days before Camp Lawton was evacuated as Union forces closed in, Knox wrote to his wife, Frances, saying she might consider selling the family cow to raise money.",
"Georgia Southern University Museum in Statesboro on Thursday announced the $2,100 acquisition of Knox's letter and medals from private collections.",
"The correspondence is the only known surviving letter from Lawton prison, which was built near Millen, the university said.",
"More artifacts unearthed at site of Civil War prison in Georgia .",
"In his letter, Knox expresses hope that he will be part of a prisoner exchange between Union and Confederate forces.",
"It was not to be. Knox, a member of the 1st Connecticut Cavalry captured by Confederate forces in May 1864 during the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia, was returned to the notorious Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville.",
"In his letter, Knox refers to the North as \"God's Land\" and the South as \"Cecesia,\" a reference to its secession from the United States.",
"\"Little Charlie\" is his 4-year-old son.",
"Knox also kept a diary about his experiences as a prisoner.",
"He was paroled at Andersonville on February 27, 1865, near war's end, and resumed his career as a carpenter.",
"He died in February 1895 at age 70.",
"Knox's letter: .",
"Lawton Prison, Ga November 14th, 1864 .",
"Dear Wife, haveing a chance to send a line into God's Land-- & hopeing you may hear from me by it I write a few lines hopeing they will reach you in safety -- I have written to you every month since I was captured the 5th of May, last & have seen hard times since, but now hopeing the scene may soon change, for we all look for an exchange of most if not all of the Prisinors that are here -- God knows I hope so... for I am tired of (Cecesia) I have been a Prisnor 6 months & 9 days & I think that will do for this time, but I must change the subject ..",
"I have not heard from any of my Friends since the last letter I got from you, about the 28th of April, last, but hope you & Little Charlie are well to all the rest of my friends at home, hope you have not suffer'd for Provisions or Clothing & not let my absents trouble you to much.",
"I am here & shall get out some time & hope that will be soon, but don't know -- if you want any money write to Martin if he is alive for that he is oweing me, it is nine dollars & a half that will help you some; do that you think is for the best as it regards our affairs perhaps you had better sell the cow if hay is dear, there will be some money due me when I get out & get into our lines: & I think that I shall get a furloe & get home to see you & C -- I think there is no use of your trying to get a letter to me for it will never be delivered to me if it should come here -- my health has been good since here but am rather poor but will soon recruit up when I get to our lines, & will come & see you & the rest of the folks So good by .",
"Yours affectionately C.H.",
"Knox . Addressed to: . Mrs. C.H. Knox . Schroon Lake .",
"Essex Co-- . New York ."
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"Georgia Southern University acquires letter written by prisoner of war .",
"The Union soldier wrote it from Confederate prison camp near Millen, Georgia .",
"Georgia Southern students have unearthed more artifacts from prison site ."
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