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"(PEOPLE.com) -- No stranger to performing, Pink is honing her acting chops to star as free-spirited sex addict Dede in \"Thanks for Sharing.\"",
"Pink (real name Alicia Moore), 32, did have a cameo in \"Charlie's Angels Full Throttle\" in 2003 and another small role in \"Catacombs\" in 2007, but this is the singer's first leading role.",
"Spotted filming in New York City's West Village Tuesday, she is set to star alongside such pros as Gwenyth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins.",
"Her character shares a bond with \"Book of Mormon\"'s Josh Gad, who, as Neil, is another of three characters undergoing 12-step treatment for sex addiction.",
"\"[Pink] could not be a more ideal fit for this role,\" writer-director Stuart Blumberg said in a statement.",
"\"She carries with her just the right combination of heart and edginess for the part of Dede, and we're incredibly excited to share her acting talent with audiences.\"",
"Thank goodness she also looks great in leather!",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Her character shares a bond with \"Book of Mormon\"'s Josh Gad .",
"\"[Pink] could not be a more ideal fit ,\" Stuart Blumberg said ."
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"(CNN) -- Forget almost everything you ever thought you knew about the moon.",
"NASA's latest missions indicate the moon is much more than a dead, unchanging satellite orbiting Earth.",
"It's a dynamic environment, with changes occurring by the day and week, not over millions of years.",
"The space agency says the missions are rewriting lunar science text books and revolutionizing what scientists know about Earth's closest neighbor.",
"An announcement in November probably rivaled Neil Armstrong's first steps on the surface more than 40 years earlier: There's water on the moon.",
"The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or L-CROSS, and its companion spacecraft crashed into a crater at the moon's south pole in October and discovered water in a very dark and very cold place.",
"L-CROSS researchers said about 25 gallons of water were detected in the crater, which measured about 60 feet wide by a few feet deep.",
"Michael Wargo, NASA'S chief lunar scientist on the L-CROSS mission, said the probes detected more than water in the crater, but researchers are still trying to understand what the other stuff is.",
"\"We're opening new chapters.",
"And in fact, because some of this information is so new and it's so different from the way we use to think about the moon, there are chapters that are blank right now,\" he said.",
"You know that they're going to written, but we don't even know the questions yet that are going to be engendered from this new information.\"",
"Wargo describes the lunar data as a treasure trove.",
"The moon \"is like the dusty attic of the solar system, in that things get collected there and they give you insight, not just into the moon, but the evolution of the solar system.\"",
"Earthbound explorations, such as Lewis and Clark's historic journey to the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, carry critically necessary items, but they have no need to haul wood or water.",
"That's not so for manned space flight.",
"Those missions will have to carry all the supplies necessary for survival unless they can manufacture some of them either in flight or on a planet's surface.",
"The presence of water and other compounds on the moon means there are potential resources that could sustain future exploration of the moon and beyond.",
"NASA is also mapping the moon's surface in unprecedented detail, eventually creating the first moon atlas.",
"The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched last summer, is the robotic scout that is providing the data.",
"LRO is on a mission that could last several years -- orbiting the moon and gathering crucial data that will help astronauts prepare for another visit.",
"Wargo said LRO is carrying high-resolution cameras, which have now mapped about 50 areas on the moon, including the Apollo mission landing sites.",
"\"We have cameras on board that have been able to image where the Apollo spacecraft landed, and you can literally see where they put down their scientific packages, where the astronauts walked on the moon,\" according to Wargo.",
"The LRO discovered it's extremely cold in the permanently shadowed polar craters, where temperatures dip more than 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, or 249 degrees below zero Celsius.",
"That's not far from absolute zero, defined by international agreement as 273.15 degrees below zero Celsius and a temperature that cannot be physically reached.",
"These are the coldest temperatures ever recorded in the solar system.",
"The LRO is also measuring space radiation on the moon.",
"Astronauts will need protection from this radiation during expeditions to the moon and other destinations.",
"All this information is critical if humans are to make it back to the moon by 2020, the the target date set by the Bush administration in 2004.",
"But it's more than that. Wargo sum it up this way: .",
"\"We used to think of the moon as this really dead and unchanging place, that the moon was a dead planet. ...",
"There are changes that occur there not over the course of thousands or millions or even billions of years, but are changing over the course of days and weeks and months.",
"That's something people just hadn't thought of until just weeks and months ago. ...",
"This isn't your grandfather's moon anymore.\""
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"NASA's latest missions indicate the moon has changes occurring by the day and week .",
"Space agency says the missions are rewriting lunar science text books .",
"Discovery of water in lunar crater could boost efforts for future astronaut visits .",
"Lunar orbiter is taking pictures of leftover material from Apollo landing sites ."
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"Penuelas, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- Jorelys Rivera, the 7-year-old girl who was abducted and killed early this month near her north Georgia home, was buried Tuesday in a service in this town on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.",
"Hundreds of mourners filled the funeral home and spilled out the doors for the service.",
"Afterward, the carriage holding holding her body was pulled by horses -- her favorite animal -- to the cemetery.",
"The 1- to 2-kilometer (1-mile) route to the cemetery was lined with people, many of whom said they had not known the girl or her family, but were there simply because they had been moved by her story.",
"Mayor Walter Torres paid the cost of the service.",
"As a four-person group played traditional Puerto Rican and Christmas music, Jorelys' mother Joseline appeared calm and solemn.The girl's father, Ricardo Galarza, appeared disturbed and upset.",
"He told CNN last week that he last saw his daughter two years ago when she visited for the summer.",
"She was supposed to have returned for Christmas.",
"The girl's maternal grandmother was barely able to speak and remain upright.",
"Jorelys disappeared December 2 near a playground at a Canton, Georgia, apartment complex.",
"Searchers found her body in a compactor-type trash bin there three days later.",
"Authorities have accused 20-year-old Ryan Brunn -- a maintenance worker at the complex -- of killing her.",
"Jorelys died of blunt force trauma to the head and was stabbed and sexually assaulted, according to authorities.",
"A date for Brunn's arraignment has not been set.",
"David Cannon Sr., one of Brunn's court-appointed attorneys, has said that his client will plead not guilty.",
"On Sunday, Rivera told WAPA that if authorities have evidence showing Brunn killed her daughter, he should face the death penalty.",
"\"The truth is I can't tell you if it was him or if it wasn't him, because I had never seen him before,\" she said."
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"The route to the cemetery was lined with hundreds of people .",
"The carriage holding her body was pulled by horses ."
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"(CNN) -- Actress Kristin Davis is an ambassador for Oxfam, an international alliance of 15 organizations striving to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.",
"The group works directly with communities in 98 countries.",
"As part of her efforts, Davis advocates for vulnerable women around the world.",
"She recently spoke with CNN's Sonya Hamasaki about the need to help people improve their lives.",
"Below are excerpts from that interview.",
"CNN: What inspired you to get involved with Oxfam?",
"Kristin Davis: Oxfam is unique in helping people become independent.",
"That's their goal. One of the reasons I got involved was that after the tsunami, I remember all of the fishermen whose entire lives had gotten washed away in Indonesia.",
"I thought, \"How are they ever going to get their livelihoods back?\"",
"Oxfam was committed to staying there until those fishermen got their own livelihoods back together so that they could be self-sufficient.. CNN: You are specifically interested in helping women receive job training and education.",
"Why is that important to you? Davis: A lot of times, these women have been left alone or their husbands have died of AIDS or different things.",
"I was interested in helping women who may live in a world where they weren't trained to do anything and they weren't afforded an education.",
"Oxfam will go into these communities and try to help out.",
"It might be raising chickens, it might be sewing beaded necklaces; they're helping the women empower themselves.",
"And, especially for women, that's a huge, huge life-changing thing to be able to be self-sufficient.",
"The women can then support their children, and usually the women send their children to school and it changes the next generation.",
"CNN: What is your role as an ambassador?",
"Davis: The way I perceive my role as an ambassador -- which I think is personal for everyone -- is that I travel to places that I'm interested in, where there's a story or a particular situation with women usually, and I just talk to people and I'm a witness to their story.",
"I come back and try to tell their stories.",
"Just going is such an inspiration for me that I would do it (if) no one asked me at all.",
"But it's wonderful for me to be able to talk about it to other people, because I think sometimes we're not aware of how other people are living.",
"CNN: What is a hero to you? Davis: I think right now our world is somewhat chaotic.",
"There's a lot to be upset about and a lot to complain about, and the heroes are the people who are getting up and doing something about it.",
"That's what I love about the CNN Heroes program: that it's people all over the world who may just be on their own trying to fix something.",
"And I think that's great.",
"It's great to be able to support people who are involved in maybe a small-scale way, trying to make the world better.",
"I think there are so many people trying so hard to change things, and the news just doesn't get to cover them all.",
"So it's nice that CNN Heroes does cover it."
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"\"Sex and the City\" star Kristin Davis is an ambassador for Oxfam .",
"The organization helps people in nearly 100 countries get back on their feet .",
"Davis is especially committed toward women and trying to empower them ."
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"(CNN) -- California's Silicon Valley has long dominated the internet industry.",
"The world's largest dotcom companies operate from the valley, it attracts the industry's brightest minds and countless innovative ideas are generated out of the area.",
"So, can Europe make headway in this ever-expanding industry?",
"Ilja Laurs, founder of Getjar -- the world's largest app store -- says there are labor, cultural and bureaucratic factors that make it very difficult for Europe to compete with Silicon Valley.",
"Laurs argues the talent pool across the continent for specialist services in Europe is too small.",
"\"While there are certain pockets of good people for particular niches, you maybe only able to find a hundred people in those specific areas.\"",
"That compares to the thousands available in Silicon Valley, putting Europe at a competitive disadvantage.",
"European startup enterprises face the same regulations that are applied to large corporations, Laurs says, putting an unfair burden on smaller companies.",
"Laurs says governments need to decide whether encouraging high-tech communities is something they want to focus on.",
"He believes changes must be made to labor laws and capital gains tax for small organizations to be viable.",
"\"The same set of rules that governs big corporations can be very damaging to small startups which operate in a very different environment,\" he says.",
"Cultural differences can also make it difficult for Europe to compete, Laurs says.",
"He points to America's strong work ethic as an example, saying it gives Silicon Valley an edge.",
"Facebook, for example, is not \"working nine to five,\" he says.",
"In Europe, by comparison, some government regulations dictate six weeks of vacation time.",
"He believes Europeans value other aspects of life, such as family, above work.",
"\"Americans are proud if they work and spend a hundred hours a week in the office.",
"I'm not saying that it's good or bad, it's just the way it is and that's very incompatible with innovation.\"",
"But ultimately, Laurs says, innovation is \"about trial and error.\""
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"Getjar founder Ilja Laurs says there are factors which make it difficult for Europe to compete .",
"He points to red tape, labor markets and cultural differences as important factors .",
"Laurs says startups are hit with the same regulations as large corporations ."
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"(CNN) -- \"I'm very at home working with mythology, \" Tori Amos says.",
"No kidding. Amos' newest album, \"Night of Hunters,\" is a fable about one woman's lost love and the emotional journey over the course of a night that helps her let go of a man and recapture her fire.",
"Along the way, she meets a shape shifting fox named Anabelle who acts as her guide to help navigate her through the predatory forces that lie within and around us.",
"While \"Night of Hunters\" uses Amos' familiar themes of spirit guides, magical elixirs, forces of nature and reclaiming female power, making this album was a new undertaking for her.",
"Instead of the electronic sound and production that marked her last few releases, \"Night of Hunters\" is stripped and essential.",
"Amos returned to the piano and used the classical music format of a song cycle, where there is a common theme to the collection of songs and they are intended to be performed in sequence, to present her supernatural tale.",
"Twenty years after her groundbreaking solo debut, \"Little Earthquakes,\" Tori Amos talked to CNN about the irony of her getting kicked out of classical music school, women's sharp and deadly tongues and why she has no desire to be 30 again.",
"CNN: \"Night of Hunters\" is such an elaborate concept album.",
"How did this story unfold, not just musically, but in your own head?",
"Amos: I was traveling about a year ago through Europe and the one thing that I began to hear from people is how much their lives could change in a day.",
"Really what this is about is a woman's psychological experience and the shattering of a relationship.",
"It's about her emotional breakthrough that happens from dusk 'til dawn.",
"I've been working on a piece for the National Theater for, like, 5,000 years, but that's different because you have scenes with text.",
"Song cycles work on a poetic level, not like a play or musical.",
"I wanted there to be a poetic level to this (album), where the poems come to life, and the emotion, but the plotline isn't necessarily in the songs themselves.",
"For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't.",
"The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.",
"But when (classical music label) Deutsche/Grammophon approached me and said, We heard you're working on this musical, what about if you did a 21st century song cycle based on classical themes?",
"I said, \"What about if I (don't)?\" CNN: You obviously came around.",
"Amos: Yeah, but I mean, Jesus Christ, it's a tall order!",
"CNN: Weren't you kicked out of the Peabody Conservatory when you were 5 for being too radical and not adhering to their classical norms?",
"Amos: Yeah, that's kinda funny.",
"It's true. CNN: You hadn't thought about it before?",
"Amos: I have, but it's true. I was kicked out because they didn't think I could embrace the classical path.",
"The dean that is there now has reached out in the last few months to my dad and has said that the Peabody is a very, very different place of learning than it was in the '70s.",
"It would need to be because they weren't anywhere near where Deutsche/Grammophon was and this is one of the greatest classical places of all time.",
"CNN: The musical you talked about for the National Theater is 'The Light Princess,' based on the book by George MacDonald?",
"Amos: It was, but we changed it because our story became very different.",
"CNN: What happened?",
"Are there any aspects that remain?",
"Amos: She floats.",
"That's about it. I didn't really like her in the book.",
"I felt it was from a man's perspective and I had no idea about how she felt that she had this incredible ability, but was treated like she had a disability.",
"It was very much through the eyes of the patriarchal male force and I never got a sense of her, her friends, her perspective and what her life would have been like.",
"So it's a very different world, our world.",
"The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.",
"CNN: You have a daughter, Natashya Hawley, who is a preteen.",
"What do you say to her about nurturing herself and cultivating her interests and being aware of her own power?",
"Amos: I think the big thing for her is the peer group, which inspired some of the musical and seeing how important the peer group is for that age.",
"A comment from a friend, especially things about weight or appearance, how they look, can be so damaging that, as a mother sometimes, you have to think, OK, how am I going to say something that is going to neutralize what a friend said who seemed to want to wound?",
"Sometimes they do want to wound each other because you know how it is with girls.",
"I don't know how it happens, but they know how to flay somebody just by licking their lips.",
"CNN: But there's also a great sense of community that girls and women have when there's not a sense of competition or jealousy.",
"Amos: That's right.",
"And yet all of us have sometimes begrudgingly looked at somebody else and said, Well, I'm happy things are going well for them but I've worked just as hard!",
"We've all had that moment of, Yes I'm happy for her and wouldn't it be great if Lady Luck would smile on me because I've been an elf working at Santa's shop for years.",
"CNN: The track 'Carry' stood out sonically because, even without knowing that it was the closing track on the album, you could really get a sense of a dawn breaking and a wholeness that had been restored.",
"Amos: I hope women can take that away.",
"As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.",
"Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls.",
"We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.",
"CNN: It has been 20 years since 'Little Earthquakes' was released.",
"Do you have any different opinions or reflections on that album today?",
"Amos: Twenty years ago, you don't really think about the self-worth challenges that you'll have becoming 50.",
"I don't mean a successful person or intelligent person, I mean a desirable person.",
"And I don't mean in a tight dress, I'm just talking about walking with each step and having a wonderment and wanting to be exactly where you are.",
"Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again.",
"Well, I really wouldn't.",
"I didn't enjoy being 30. Making 'Little Earthquakes' was great, but I didn't have a calm and I didn't know how to laugh.",
"I think becoming a mom is the greatest gift that ever happened to me.",
"I say that's one of the key shifts in my life that has gotten me to this place today.",
"But with each year, you always have to be listening, be listening to your own soul, be growing."
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"Her newest album, \"Night of Hunters,\" was released on September 20 .",
"The ablum is a fable about one woman's lost love and her emotional journey .",
"\"Night of Hunters\" uses Amos' familiar themes of spirit guides and magical elixirs ."
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"Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) -- NASA launched its Ares I-X rocket Wednesday, after multiple delays over two days because of bad weather.",
"The 327-foot rocket -- which NASA considers the world's largest -- took off at 11:30 a.m.",
"ET, 30 minutes before a noon deadline for the launch.",
"It rose about 24 miles.",
"About two minutes after liftoff, the first-stage, reusable rocket booster fell into the Atlantic, where it was to be picked up by a ship.",
"It was the first flight test for the Constellation Program, NASA's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system.",
"The rocket's launch is part of NASA's mission to someday return astronauts to the moon and later travel to Mars.",
"NASA spokesman George Diller, who was moderating the launch preparations for broadcasters, communicated the frustration as launches were repeatedly called off with just minutes to go.",
"After 11 a.m., it appeared there would be a narrow window for a liftoff, and a half-hour later the rocket roared skyward.",
"\"I can't tell you how proud I am of all of you,\" Ed Mango, Ares I-X launch director, told engineers and others inside the center after the launch.",
"\"That was just one of the most beautiful rocket launches I've ever seen.\"",
"\"It shows what we can do when we have a common goal.\"",
"As the clock ticked toward noon, NASA officials nervously awaited all-clears for technical items and a weather clearance from weather officer Kathy Winters who, time and again, said conditions were \"red,\" meaning a no-go.",
"A reconnaissance plane was giving her frequent weather reports.",
"She kept looking for a break in the high-level clouds.",
"\"It's a very dynamic situation,\" Winters said.",
"Before the launch, the space agency had begun negotiating with the Air Force to see if a Thursday launch attempt was possible.",
"Failing that, NASA couldn't have tried again until November 16.",
"NASA's primary concern was the high-level, cold clouds that can cause triboelectrification, or the production of a kind of static electricity, similar to what happens when you walk across a carpet, then touch something.",
"If static surrounds the rocket, it can interfere with radio signals sent by or to the rocket.",
"The Constellation Program has been developing new vehicles to replace space shuttles, which will be phased out in 2010.",
"If the program moves forward, the Orion capsule atop the Ares rocket will not be ready to take astronauts into space until at least 2015, leaving a gap of at least five years in which the only way the United States would be able to put humans in orbit would be by hitching a ride with the Russians.",
"Part of the test rocket mission is for scientists to try out three massive main parachutes, measuring 150 feet in diameter and weighing one ton each -- the largest rocket parachutes ever manufactured.",
"The parachutes are a primary element of the rocket's deceleration system, NASA says.",
"After the rocket is successfully launched, the parachutes are to open at the same time, \"providing the drag necessary to slow the descent of the huge solid rocket motor for a soft landing in the ocean,\" the agency says on its Web site.",
"The two parts of the rocket are to separate at about 130,000 feet.",
"The top of the rocket, known as the upper stage, includes a mock Orion crew capsule and a launch abort system.",
"The upper stage will continue its ascent until gravity forces its return to Earth, after which it will fall into the Atlantic Ocean.",
"The launch comes at a critical time, when NASA is waiting for President Obama to decide future funding for the agency.",
"An independent committee reviewing the future of space flight recently reported that the U.S. space program appears to be pursuing goals that exceed current funding.",
"The committee also recommended to the White House that funding for NASA's under-construction international space station should be extended until 2020.",
"CNN's Kim Segal and John Zarrella contributed to this report."
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"Ares l-X rocket heads into space at 11:30 a.m.",
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"Eventual goal with Ares I-X program is return to the moon ."
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"(CNN) -- The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a picture-perfect landing Friday morning under bright, sunny skies at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.",
"The seven-person crew returned after an 11-day mission to deliver key spare parts to prolong the life of the international space station.",
"The original six-member crew, with flight engineer Nicole Stott -- who launched in August -- returned amid sunny, clear Florida weather.",
"\"Couldn't have picked a clearer day,\" Cndr.",
"Charles Hobaugh said as the shuttle approached the runway.",
"Mission Control told Hobaugh that the landing was a \"picture-perfect end\" to the mission.",
"\"Everybody, welcome back to Earth, especially you, Nicole,\" Mission Control said.",
"Stott had spent 87 days on the international space station, according to NASA.",
"About an hour after the shuttle landed, the crew transport vehicle moved alongside the orbiter access hatch on Atlantis' port side, NASA said on its Web site.",
"With the crew hatch opened, the astronauts left the orbiter to enter the vehicle.",
"It contains beds and comfortable seats so the astronauts can receive a brief medical checkup before they step onto the tarmac, NASA said.",
"The crew's mission included three space walks and installation of two platforms to the station's backbone.",
"The platforms will hold spare parts that will sustain station operations after the shuttles are discontinued.",
"NASA said the parts the crew delivered will add years to the station's life after the space shuttle fleet is retired next year.",
"Some of the parts are for systems that keep the station from overheating or tumbling through space, NASA said.",
"During the mission, the crew celebrated Thanksgiving while they prepared for landing.",
"They dined on smoked turkey, green beans, mushrooms, cornbread dressing and candied yams, according to NASA.",
"Russia will take over supplying the international space station.",
"On this mission, Atlantis also marked a 6 pound, 13 ounce development.",
"Astronaut Randy Bresnik welcomed a daughter from space, the second time a baby has been born to a U.S. astronaut on a mission.",
"Mike Fincke's daughter was born in June 2004 while he was aboard the international space station, NASA said."
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"NEW: Mission Control to crew: \"Everybody, welcome back to Earth\"\nNEW: Crew lands at 9:44 a.m.",
"ET Friday after 11-day mission to international space station .",
"Crew's mission included three spacewalks and installation of two platforms .",
"Crew's Thanksgiving meal included smoked turkey, green beans and cornbread dressing ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A New York City crackdown on suspects allegedly involved in forged credit cards and identity theft led authorities to a $13 million global crime ring, Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown said Friday.",
"He called it the largest and perhaps most sophisticated ring of its kind in U.S. history.",
"Authorities hired translators to eavesdrop on a series of conversations in Arabic, Russian and Mandarin that led police to 86 suspects in a series of raids that started Tuesday, Brown said.",
"He said the defendants, who were charged with stealing the personal credit information of thousands of unwitting American and European consumers, are allegedly members of five organized crime rings with ties to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.",
"Twenty-five others remain at large, Brown added.",
"All of the 111 suspects were indicted in the theft case, while nearly two dozen of them were also charged in six indictments related to burglaries and robberies.",
"Several suspects are believed to have engaged in \"nationwide shopping sprees, staying at five-star hotels, renting luxury automobiles and private jets, and purchasing tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end electronics and expensive handbags and jewelry with forged credit cards,\" the Queens County District Attorney's Office reported.",
"The two-year probe, dubbed Operation Swiper, involved physical surveillance, intelligence gathering and court-authorized electronic eavesdropping on dozens of telephones in which thousands of conversations were intercepted, it said."
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"The ring is the largest of its kind ever discovered in the United States, the DA says .",
"Credit information came from thousands of American and European consumers, he says .",
"The suspects went on \"nationwide shopping sprees,\" the DA's office says ."
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"(CNN) -- NASA will launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on February 7, which will be the first of five launches this year before the shuttle fleet is retired.",
"Endeavour will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 13-day mission to the international space station.",
"The mission will include three spacewalks, NASA said.",
"The shuttle will also deliver the final U.S. portion of the space station.",
"This portion will provide more room for crew members.",
"NASA plans to retire its space shuttles Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis later this year.",
"The space agency has been looking for places, such as museums, to house the shuttles after they are retired.",
"Space Shuttle Discovery will be transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.",
"The privilege of showing off a shuttle won't be cheap -- about $29 million, NASA said."
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"NASA is scheduled to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on February 7 .",
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"NASA has been looking for places to house the shuttles once they are retired ."
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"(CNN) -- Part of Havana's charm is that it plays by its own rules -- these tips will help you play along.",
"Traveling by the brightly-colored Cocotaxi is a kitsch way to explore Havana.",
"Hard currency Parting with your cash can be a tricky proposition in Havana.",
"Confusingly, Cuba has two currencies, convertible pesos and Cuban pesos, with the U.S. dollar no longer commonly accepted.",
"Tourists are perfectly entitled to use Cuban pesos, but you can't buy much with them and in practice, visitors will deal almost exclusively in convertible pesos.",
"You can convert foreign currencies into convertibles at hotels and money-changing booths, but if you're converting U.S. dollars you will be charged a 10 per cent commission.",
"The sensible thing would be to get your money from an ATM, however, while Visa cards are accepted at some ATMs, other cards are practically useless in Havana.",
"Credit cards are becoming more widely accepted in Havana, but using them will incur a hefty surcharge and American credit and debit cards can't be used at all in Cuba.",
"That ban applies even to credit cards issued by American-owned companies and companies with apparently scant connection to the U.S.",
"The upshot is that you should check with your credit card company before traveling, or you may find you're carrying a lot of worthless plastic.",
"See Carlos Acosta's Havana » .",
"Getting around The faded glories of Old Havana are best appreciated on foot, but to fully explore the city, and after nightfall in some of the sketchier areas, you're better off taking a taxi.",
"The cheapest are the state-owned yellow and black Ladas, although these are not meant to pick up tourists within 100 meters of a hotel.",
"Haggle over the price before you set off.",
"You can flag down metered tourist taxis along the Malecon and they also congregate outside the Hotel Nacional in Vedado.",
"It's technically illegal, but easy enough, to flag down pretty much any passing car and pay for a ride around the city, although there's no guarantee of the car, or the driver, being roadworthy.",
"If your heart's set on ride in a 50s classic car a better bet is to take a Gran Car.",
"These state-owned vintage cars are in good condition, although they're pricey for Havana.",
"Cocotaxis are kitschy, bright yellow, three-wheeled novelty taxis that look a bit like a crash helmet on wheels.",
"They're cheap and fun, if you like that kind of thing.",
"Also with three wheels, the pedal-powered bici-taxis are usually cheaper, and often more comfortable, than their four-wheeled motorized cousins.",
"If you're lucky you'll get one with a salsa-blasting stereo strapped onto the back.",
"Do you have any Havana tips?",
"Let us know .",
"Havana's crowded buses are a pickpocket's paradise and are best avoided.",
"A rum time Cubans do enjoy a splash of rum and their capital is home to one of the world's most famous brands -- Havana Club.",
"There's no better way to cool down on a steamy Havana night than with a rum cocktail -- but which to choose?",
"Here are a few you should sample: . Cuba Libre: A Havana classic made with cola, rum and lime.",
"Canchanchara: The locals' favorite -- white rum, lime juice and honey.",
"El Presidente: This mixture of rum, red vermouth, Curacao and grenadine is named not after Fidel, but after President Mario Garcia Menocal.",
"Daiquiri: The purist's daiquiri is a combination of rum, lime juice, sugar and maraschino, but if you're feeling impure you can have yours with added fruit.",
"Mojito: Ernest Hemingway's tipple of choice was this mix of white rum, lime juice, sugar or sugar cane juice, soda water and fresh mint.",
"Havana Special: A refreshing blend of white rum, maraschino and pineapple juice.",
"Saoco: Not unlike a turbo-charged milkshake, the saoco is a double whammy of white rum and coconut milk.",
"If all those cocktails haven't quenched your thirst for knowledge, you can carry out more rum research at the Museo del Ron, 262 Avenida del Puerto, on the corner of San Pedro and Sol.",
"Red tape Unless you're from the U.S., all you need to visit Havana is a tourist card and a plane ticket, and the two are best acquired at the same time.",
"The card will let you stay in the country for 30 days and if you don't get one when you book your trip you can pick one up from your local Cuban consulate -- although that can be a time-consuming process.",
"If you're a U.S. citizen planning to visit Havana, good luck!",
"Before leaving you'll need to get a license from the U.S. government, and regular tourists aren't eligible.",
"Of course, there are U.S. citizens who travel to Cuba on a tourist card bought in Canada or Mexico, but it's a ruse that can result in a hefty fine and even a jail term.",
"For the latest information see the U.S. Department of State Website."
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"Cuba has two currencies, but tourists will mainly stick with convertible pesos .",
"Rum cocktails are a classic Cuban drink, and there are plenty to choose from .",
"See Havana in style in a Gran Car -- state-owned vintage American cars ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- After suffering the miscarriage of their 20th child, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar will hold a memorial service on Wednesday, December 14, for the baby girl they have named Jubilee Shalom Duggar.",
"The reality TV stars of TLC's \"19 Kids and Counting\" had discovered on Thursday at a routine ultrasound appointment that their 20th child, due next April, no longer had a heartbeat.",
"Advised by her doctor to let the miscarriage occur naturally, Michelle, 45, was being cared for at home by her family.",
"Following the miscarriage late Sunday night, Michelle began to feel lightheaded and as a precaution was taken to the hospital, where she was kept for observation, according to a family spokesperson.",
"Michelle is recovering well and expected to return home later on Monday, the spokesperson adds.",
"RELATED: Michelle Duggar Resting at Home, Plans to Name Child .",
"\"We have had many tears today,\" says Jim Bob Duggar, 46.",
"\"This is life, and I understand that we are going though something that many others have.",
"You think about the what-ifs, but God gives us strength to go on.",
"We won't be able to see this child's life and the phases that we've seen for our other children, but we know we will see this child in heaven one day.",
"We are thankful for each child, and we are blessed to have the children we have here and the ones we will meet someday in heaven.\"",
"Jubilee Duggar's memorial service will be for friends and Duggar family members, who on late Sunday already held a private service in their home.",
"\"We would like to thank everyone for their prayers, emails and outpouring of love,\" Jim Bob wrote in a letter he shared with PEOPLE.",
"\"As our whole family is grieving, we also know that God promises to work all things for good in our lives.",
"Our prayer is that Jubilee's passing will help us all realize that this life is short, and our relationship with Jesus is the most important thing.",
"He gives us a peace in our hearts as He guides us through whatever we might face.\"",
"Though the family is in mourning, Jim Bob says they are grateful for the health of youngest daughter, Josie, who turned 2 on December 10.",
"Josie survived against all odds after being born at just 25 weeks and 1 lb., 6 oz.",
"and has developed normally with no lasting impairments.",
"\"We were looking forward to this birthday because it is a milestone for her,\" he says.",
"\"It is wonderful that she is with us and doing so well.\"",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar will hold a memorial service for their 20th child .",
"Following the miscarriage Sunday night, Michelle was taken to the hospital .",
"Michelle is recovering well and expected to return home later on Monday ."
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"(CNN) -- India's Shiv Kapur holds the clubhouse lead at the weather-affected Dutch Open at Hilversum, although over half the field have still to complete their second rounds.",
"Kapur finished his first round of Friday, after vandalism to some greens, and heavy rain, forced widespread disruption on Thursday.",
"And he followed his opening four-under-par 66 with a steady 67 to lie one stroke ahead of Briton Gary Orr (66) and South African James Kingston (68).",
"\"I've been driving the ball really well, and on this course there is a big premium on hitting a lot of fairways,\" 28-year-old Kapur told the official European Tour website.",
"\"The driver has been behaving and I gave myself quite a few chances.",
"Overall I just played quite solid,\" added Kapur -- who is still seeking his maiden victory on Tour.",
"Meanwhile, Sweden's Oscar Floren and U.S. Open champion Rory McIlory lie just two shots behind, with Mcilory having to play 27 holes on Friday.",
"The Northern Irishman began with a level-par 70, but carded six birdies in his second round for a five-under-par 36-hole total of 135.",
"\"I don't feel I drove the ball particularly well.",
"There were a couple of loose shots but I got some lucky breaks,\" he told reporters.",
"Of those players still out on the course, Briton Stephen Dodd and joint overnight leader Marcel Siem of Germany head the field on eight-under-par.",
"Dodd only has five holes to play, but Siem still has seven holes remaining in his second round."
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"India's Shiv Kapur holds the clubhouse lead at the Dutch Open on Friday .",
"Kapur followed up his opening 66 with a second round 67 at Hilversum .",
"Gary Orr and James Kingston share second with half the field to still on the course ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Jughead, do you want to be my best man?\"",
"comic book character Archie asks on his blog.",
"The marriage issue is due to arrive at comic stores in August and on newsstands in September.",
"Archie Andrews -- who spent decades in high school, flirting with girl-next-door Betty Cooper and heiress-next-door Veronica Lodge -- is getting married.",
"\"I am so excited, I am getting Married to Archie.",
"There is so much to do, so many plans to make.",
"I wonder if Betty wants to be my Maid of Honor?",
"I bet she is so happy for me!\" Veronica writes on her blog.",
"Yup, Archie is marrying Veronica, breaking Betty's heart.",
"\"I am so sad, I don't even know what to say,\" Betty writes on her blog.",
"Betty has months to dry her tears.",
"The marriage issue is due to arrive at comic stores in August and on newsstands in September, according to publisher Archie Comic Publications (archiecomics.com).",
"\"It's the milestone 600th issue and we're serving up the Archie story of the century as Archie marries Veronica!!!\"",
"the publisher says on its Web site.",
"\"The 32-page issue takes a look at Archie and his friends after they graduate college!",
"What careers will they seek?",
"Will the friends stay in Riverdale or disperse?",
"What would lead Archie to have marriage on his mind?",
"And who would he choose Veronica or Betty?",
"How will Betty react?",
"How will Veronica react?",
"Can Archie shake off his klutzy past and hold down a steady job... for more than a month?",
"One thing is certain: this will be the biggest Archie Comics story ever!\"",
"Archie might be in over his head.",
"According to Veronica's online profile, \"She is very conceited, usually fickle, and extremely flirtatious.\"",
"He went for the bad girl instead of Betty.",
"Her online profile says, \"Through every crazy, loving scheme to win Archie's love, Betty always remains completely unaffected, loyal and sweet.\"",
"Maybe Archie will come to his senses.",
"His online profile says, \"He does things on the spur of the moment, which almost always gives him a very keen cause for regret.\""
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"Comic book character Archie Andrews finally chooses between Betty and Veronica .",
"The fictional marriage marks the comic book's milestone 600th issue .",
"Is Archie in over his head?",
"Fans must wait until August to find out ."
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"(CNN) -- Oh, Rebecca Black.",
"You gave us a reason to reconsider our favorite day of the workweek.",
"And, apparently, the Internet couldn't get enough.",
"Black, the teen songstress who became a YouTube sensation with the bubblegum ear worm \"Friday,\" topped the Google Zeitgeist list of hot search terms in 2011.",
"Released in March, the largely reviled tune caused searches for the then-13-year-old's name to increase more than 10,000% over the past year, Google reported Wednesday.",
"This year was the 11th for Zeitgeist, Google's look at search trends for the year.",
"The report, rendered with interactive images and detailed infographics, breaks down searches by country and region as well as tallying global activity.",
"\"From local celebrities in Finland to Singaporeans looking for news on the revolutions in Egypt and Libya half a world away, people turned to Google to learn more about what was happening on the world stage,\" Google's Amit Singhal wrote on the company's official blog.",
"The top 10 wasn't all breezy pop songs.",
"\"Jackass\" star Ryan Dunn, who died in a car crash in June, was the third-hottest search, while Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died in October, was ninth.",
"Jobs was already an internationally known name.",
"But searches for him still rose 982% over 2010, Google said, with traffic peaking the week after his death.",
"It was a big year for technology overall, and Google's results show it.",
"The company's own Google+ social network was second on the list.",
"(If that seems all too convenient, note that Zeitgeist rankings consider how fast a search term rises.",
"So something that didn't exist last year, like Google+ or Rebecca Black's career, is inevitably going to have an advantage.)",
"Massive video game release \"Battlefield 3\" was fifth on the list, and the iPad 2 was 10th.",
"Squeezed between those two offerings, at No.",
"6, was a tech world product that doesn't even exist: the iPhone 5.",
"Google says searches for that term peaked the week of September 25, days before Apple lovers learned that the new phone they were getting was, in fact, called the iPhone 4S.",
"Singer Adele, Japan's damaged Fukushima power plant and acquitted murder suspect Casey Anthony rounded out the top 10.",
"Of course, where there are top risers, there are fastest fallers.",
"As Google+ emerged (albeit to what appears to be waning interest), former social networking hot spot Myspace slid, becoming the fastest-dropping search term.",
"Delta Air Lines, Chinese Web services company Baidu (a Google rival during the company's now-terminated efforts there) and the Spanish-language search \"Hotmail correo\" also saw big dips, compared with their 2010 search rankings."
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"Rebecca Black, Steve Jobs among hottest 2011 searches on Google .",
"Google Zeitgeist annually charts the fastest-rising search terms on the site .",
"The nonexistent iPhone 5 (Apple actually launched the 4S) made the top 10 .",
"Once dominant Myspace was among the fastest-dropping search terms of the year ."
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"(CNN) -- There are typically two types of comic book movies -- movies like \"Ghost Rider\" and movies like \"Batman Begins.\"",
"That is, there are some comics that should be really good movies, but because of a bad script, director or actors (sometimes all of the above) they end up cinematic duds like \"Ghost Rider.\"",
"And there are some comics that make the transition to the big screen really well with the help of great writers, directors and actors, like \"Batman Begins.\"",
"Movie producers are bringing a fairly serious comic book character, DC Comics' \"Jonah Hex,\" (played by Josh Brolin) to the big screen on Friday.",
"The trailer from Warner Brothers (whose parent company, Time Warner, also owns CNN) looks like it's anything but.",
"Early reviews aren't kind.",
"By mid-Friday morning, the film had earned a rotten 11-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.",
"If you're not already familiar with the character, here's the gist: As a boy, Jonah Hex's drunk and abusive father sells him to an Apache tribe.",
"Hex lives with the Apaches as a slave but wins the favor of the chief and becomes a free member.",
"He gets separated from the tribe as an adult, ends up fighting for the Confederates in the Civil War -- even accidentally shooting Stonewall Jackson -- and ultimately wanders out West.",
"But when he comes back to the tribe, a fight with a rival leads to his banishment and a new life as a bounty hunter.",
"See Techland's brief history of Jonah Hex.",
"The original run of the comic spanned the 1970s and 1980s, but the title was revived in the early 1990s and more recently in 2006.",
"In later issues of the first run, Hex would be pulled through time, meeting up with Batman and a handful of other DC superheroes.",
"\"Jonah Hex\" falls prey to a common problem with comics-turned-movies: The stories span years, sometimes decades.",
"Most fans are only familiar with a comic book's story from the point when they start reading.",
"But even so, fans of Jonah Hex know him as the star of a Western comic, not a superhero comic.",
"Hollywood producers, however, know DC Comics as a powerhouse of superheroes, and they seem to have different expectations of \"Jonah Hex.\"",
"Based on the trailer, Hex now has mystical and magical abilities to raise and speak with the dead.",
"His place in the Civil War is downplayed.",
"There are no major characters who are Native American.",
"Megan Fox stars as a gun toting prostitute, a never-before-seen friend of our hero.",
"And \"Q\" from the James Bond franchise apparently had forerunners in frontier towns who provide Hex with horse-mounted Gatling guns and hand-held, dynamite-firing crossbows.",
"Hex's story should make a good movie.",
"\"Jonah Hex\" should be one of those comic-based movies that doesn't need many changes to work.",
"But instead of trying to stay true to the comic, it appears that producers are hoping to attract a casual movie-going audience by sacrificing the original flavor of the character and story.",
"The result appears to be a campy movie that alienates both fans and regular moviegoers.",
"Looks like we're in \"Ghost Rider\" territory."
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"The storyline for \"Jonah Hex\" comic books spans decades .",
"DC's title portrays Hex as a Western vigilante, not a superhero .",
"\"Jonah Hex\" the movie looks like it will be very different from the comic ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- An engine problem forced passengers -- including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- to evacuate a United Airlines flight at Dulles International Airport on Wednesday, officials said.",
"Flight attendants shouted \"everyone get out\" after passengers spotted smoke coming from the plane's right engine and notified the crew, according to one passenger who was onboard.",
"Passengers slid down the plane's emergency slides onto the airport's tarmac, officials said.",
"\"I am shaking ... People were screaming,\" passenger Jodi Gersh wrote in a Twitter post after evacuating.",
"\"Attendants opened (the) rear door to see where smoke was coming from,\" she wrote in another post.",
"\"They then very loudly started yelling 'everyone get out.'",
"Very scary.\" Ginsburg was on the flight and was not injured, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said.",
"Passengers evacuated from the Boeing 757 onto the tarmac just after the aircraft left the gate, said Rob Yingling, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.",
"There were 179 passengers and six crew members onboard, United spokesman Mike Trevino said.",
"Yingling said an engine problem caused the evacuation.",
"The Federal Aviation Administration said there was a report of a fire onboard.",
"Trevino said the airline was investigating the incident, but did not confirm whether there had been an engine problem or a fire.",
"Video from CNN affiliate WUSA showed firefighters at the scene.",
"Flight 586 was scheduled to fly to San Francisco, Trevino said.",
"Passengers will head to San Francisco on a different plane scheduled to leave Dulles later Wednesday, he said.",
"Dulles is located in Chantilly, Virginia, about 25 miles from downtown Washington.",
"CNN's Lindy Royce-Bartlett, Bill Mears and Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"I am shaking ... People were screaming,\" one passenger tweets .",
"Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on the flight .",
"There were 179 passengers and six crew members onboard .",
"An engine problem caused the evacuation, an airport authority spokesman says ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- A more unified Europe has made it simpler to go from one country into another.",
"Driving on the continent, however, remains a challenge because of inconsistent traffic laws and road signs.",
"We asked representatives of several rental-car companies about little-known rules and conventions that visitors should know before hitting the road in Europe.",
"You must pay to enter London, England's congestion zone on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. United Kingdom • On weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., London charges a fee to enter the city's congestion zone, which is marked with signs showing a white C in a red circle.",
"The charge may be included in the cost of your rental car, so ask.",
"Otherwise, you can pay online (cclondon.com) or at stores, gas stations, and newsstands where you see the congestion logo.",
"Your car's license-plate number is then registered in an electronic database.",
"Cameras take pictures of your plate when you enter the zone, and a computer system checks the database to make sure you've paid.",
"• In rural Scotland, watch for Highland cattle that like to lie on sun-warmed roads after dark.",
"See European traffic signs and learn their meanings .",
"France • Children under 10 are prohibited from riding up front -- they must be buckled up in the backseat.",
"Germany • Obstructing traffic on the autobahn is against the law -- so running out of gas is not only dangerous, it can get you fined.",
"• You're required to use low-beam headlights if it's overcast, raining, or snowing.",
"Italy • Only local traffic is permitted during certain hours in the historic centers of many Italian cities.",
"White signs with an open red circle and the times that traffic is restricted mark the entrances to the zones.",
"If your hotel is in one of these areas, ask the concierge to register your license-plate number with the local authorities.",
"Cameras take pictures of the plates when cars enter the zones, and a computer system tracks down vehicles that aren't registered.",
"Violators are fined.",
"• On roads too narrow for two vehicles, the larger one has the right-of-way.",
"Spain • You must put on a reflective safety vest any time you get out of your car on the sides of highways or unlit roads.",
"Most rental-car companies provide one in the trunk, but you should check before leaving the agency.",
"• People who wear eyeglasses are required by law to have a spare pair in the car.",
"Copyright 2009.",
"Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc.",
"Note: This story was accurate when it was published.",
"Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip."
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"In France, children under 10 are prohibited from riding up front .",
"On Italian roads too narrow for two vehicles, the larger one has the right-of-way .",
"In Spain, if you wear glasses you must have an extra pair in the car ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, appeared at a book convention in New York City on Wednesday, undeterred by a scandal that she allegedly offered to sell access to her former husband, Britain's Prince Andrew.",
"\"It was quite difficult for me to get to Javits Center this morning,\" she said.",
"\"One or two people in the way, but then, perhaps you've read that,\" Ferguson said, joking about photographers following her every move.",
"Ferguson, who is a best-selling children's book author,spoke at a breakfast at the Book Expo America conference, an annual convention of booksellers.",
"She avoided CNN questions about the scandal.",
"She is promoting her new series of books, \"Helping Hand Books.\"",
"The publisher describes them as stories aimed at children going through growing pains.",
"On Sunday, the News of the World tabloid posted a video on its website that appears to show Ferguson accepting money from an undercover reporter in exchange for access to Prince Andrew.",
"Ferguson is also filmed on hidden camera telling the reporter -- who was posing as a wealthy businessman -- that a payment of 500,000 pounds ($723,000) \"opens doors\" to Andrew.",
"She then shakes hands with the reporter after he accepts the deal.",
"In a statement issued Sunday, Ferguson apologized for the incident.",
"\"I very deeply regret the situation and the embarrassment caused,\" the statement said.",
"\"It is true that my financial situation is under stress, however, that is no excuse for a serious lapse in judgment and I am very sorry that this has happened.\"",
"The tabloid said its reporter and Ferguson met on two occasions, once in New York and another time in London.",
"In the heavily edited, roughly 4-minute video, Ferguson appears to accept $40,000 as a down payment for a meeting with Andrew, then later discusses a wire transfer of the larger sum.",
"\"If we want to do a big deal with Andrew, then that's the big one,\" she says.",
"When asked how she would receive the 500,000 pounds, she tells the reporter, \"You send it to the bank account that I tell you to send it to.\"",
"In her statement Sunday, Ferguson confirmed Andrew \"was not aware or involved in any of the discussions that occurred. ...",
"The Duke has made a significant contribution to his business role over the last 10 years and has always acted with complete integrity.\"",
"The next day, Buckingham Palace released a statement saying Prince Andrew knew nothing about about the alleged offer.",
"\"The Duke of York categorically denies any knowledge of any meeting or conversation between the Duchess of York and the News of the World journalist,\" Buckingham Palace said, using alternate titles for Prince Andrew and Sarah .",
"Ferguson. He has carried out his role as a British trade envoy since 2001 \"with complete and absolute propriety and integrity,\" the palace said."
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"She is at book show to promote new series about overcoming growing pains .",
"Tabloid posts video that appears to show her accepting money for access .",
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"(Rolling Stone) -- Saturday night, Buffalo Springfield will wrap up their seven-date reunion tour with a headlining slot at Bonnaroo.",
"According to the group's singer and guitarist Richie Furay, fans who missed out on seeing them this time around will have plenty of chances later in the year.",
"\"The plan is to do 30 dates this fall,\" he tells Rolling Stone.",
"\"The anchors will be Los Angeles and New York.",
"What the other cities are, I can't tell you right now -- but we're almost certainly doing Red Rocks.\"",
"The plan is to play mostly large theaters, as opposed to arenas and amphitheaters.",
"\"We want to keep it a little more intimate,\" he says.",
"\"Rather than going out and playing a huge something . ... ...",
"There have been people from Florida, Chicago and Texas saying to me, 'Hey, you gonna come my way?'",
"I have to say that with 30 shows, we're gonna hit those cities.\"",
"Choose Rolling Stone's Cover: The Sheepdogs vs. Lelia Broussard.",
"Vote Now . Furay became a born-again Christian in the mid-1970s, and since 1983 he's worked as a pastor at Calvary Chapel Church in Broomfield, Colorado.",
"\"The church has been very supportive of this tour,\" he says.",
"\"I have an assistant pastor that's doing some of the Sundays and we have a guest speaker come in too.",
"Everybody's taken care of.\"",
"Hours before taking the stage with Buffalo Springfield at the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight, Furay called into Rolling Stone to chat about the tour.",
"Let's start at the beginning.",
"Where were you and what you were doing when Neil Young first contacted you last year about a Buffalo Springfield reunion?",
"I think I was probably just in my home studio office, probably working on some church stuff.",
"This thing was not on my radar.",
"I got one of those calls that Neil was calling me, so I got on the phone and we just started the conversation.",
"He said that he'd been talking to Stephen [Stills] and they thought it would be really fun to do the Bridge School Benefit.",
"They wanted to know if I was into it.",
"It's kind of funny, 'cause Neil said, 'Well, you know, we don't have to do it this year if this is too soon.",
"We can do it next year or the next year...\" And I'm thinking, \"Neil, I mean we're not 20 years old again.",
"We better do this while we still can!\"",
"I think a day later we all got on the phone -- Stephen, Neil and myself.",
"We all agreed to do it. I was on my way to Israel in a couple of weeks, so right after I came back I had four days and then I went out to Northern California.",
"We just kind of started rehearsing and it led to this.",
"Buffalo Springfield Launch First Tour In 43 Years .",
"How long after the two Bridge School shows did you start talking about doing more shows this year?",
"Between Thanksgiving and Christmas of last year it was decided.",
"I don't know how it all got done.",
"The three of us and our managers just kind of agreed to go ahead and take it to the next step.",
"I imagine that Bonnaroo was the anchor for these six California shows this month.",
"Absolutely. They all build up to it. It started in Oakland, which is a little obscure and out of the way.",
"Then we went to Los Angeles and there was a little more tension and publicly visible.",
"Now here we are at a smaller outdoor venue.",
"It's given us a feel building up to being outdoors at Bonnaroo.",
"Photos: Buffalo Springfield Kick Off Their Reunion Tour .",
"How many days did you guys rehearse?",
"A solid week.",
"It was to our advantage that we had played in October, so we had at least an hour's worth of music that we'd already started to rehearse.",
"And then we just moved on from there. One of the neat things about what we're doing is that we're doing it ourselves.",
"We don't have 10 musicians and singers.",
"We got five guys and what you hear is what you get.",
"I think that is something really unique for what we're doing right now.",
"Are you singing songs you haven't sung since in over 40 years?",
"Oh, yeah! With the Richie Furay Band I do a medley of songs that I sang on the first Buffalo Springfield album.",
"I do a medley of \"Flying On the Ground Is Wrong,\" \"Do I Have To Come Right Out and Say It and Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing.\"",
"I also play a version of \"Go and Say Goodbye\" because I just love that song.",
"So with those four songs I was already familiar, but everything else was pretty much songs we haven't played for 40 years.",
"What do you feel when you're walking onstage with Neil and Stephen?",
"This is something nobody thought would ever happen again.",
"It's awe. That's what everybody is feeling.",
"I saw a guy this morning that said he was coming to the show tonight.",
"He said, \"I had tickets 43 years ago in Nashville to see you guys with the Beach Boys.\"",
"It was within a day or two of when Martin Luther King had been shot and we'd cancelled the show.",
"He said, \"So I've been waiting 43 years to see this band play.\"",
"I'm so used to seeing Neil as the frontman.",
"It's cool to see him sing harmonies or just play the piano.",
"He usually isn't a utility player like that.",
"Neil made it clear at the first show -- and certainly this was our understanding going in -- that this was not Neil Young and Buffalo Springfield or Stephen Stills and Buffalo Springfield.",
"This is Buffalo Springfield.",
"That's the approach we're taking.",
"It's a band and everybody fills their role.",
"[Drummer] Joe [Vitale] and [bassist] Rick [Rosas] fill their roles too.",
"We just share the music and the lead singing.",
"It's a true band. There's no agendas. That's what's really neat.",
"I think we're way past that.",
"I mean, we were 20-year-old kids when we started.",
"We're doing this because we want to do it and it's fun and it's unique and because we know there's a lot of people out there that, like me, that never thought it would ever happen!",
"This has to be the most time the three of you have spent together since 1968.",
"It is. How are you guys getting along?",
"Is it weird after all this time?",
"No, there's nothing weird about it.",
"From the moment I saw Neil at the rehearsal hall before the Bridge School we just started talking.",
"There was nothing we had to work through or work out to get our relationship back together.",
"None at all. Then when Stephen arrived it was the same thing.",
"This has been a truly dynamic situation.",
"Everybody is just feeling the same.",
"We left the show last night and Stephen just had the biggest smile on his face.",
"That's just the way it is. I think this is the fun we thought we were going to have back in the Sixties.",
"Because of circumstances, it just didn't happen.",
"But we're having fun now. There's energy in Neil.",
"There's energy in Stephen.",
"There's energy in me. I feel young up there, man.",
"Are you at all nervous about playing Bonnaroo in front of something like 80,000 people?",
"I'm not. You know, sometimes it's more difficult to play in front of 80 people than it is 80,000.",
"It's just the way it is. With the nerves of intimacy it can be much more intimidating than playing in front of a sea of people.",
"A lot of the reviewers have commented on how remarkably preserved your voice is.",
"Do you attribute that to good genes or clean living or just luck?",
"I think that's the grace of God.",
"No doubt about it. But I think I'm singing better than I did in 1967.",
"There's more of a confidence there now. Are you guys thinking about taping the shows for a live album or DVD?",
"Well, there's been no direct conversation that I've had, but I know the shows are being recorded.",
"Each one. Do you think the setlist is going to change at all?",
"I know fans want to hear \"Expecting To Fly,\" \"Flying On the Ground Is Wrong\" and a few others.",
"It's certainly not going to change before Bonnaroo, but I would say that by the time we go out in the fall we will probably work in five or six more songs.",
"We'll probably work in \"Flying on the Ground is Wrong,\" \"Hung Upside Down\" and \"Down to the Wire.\"",
"We were just going over the chord patterns to that one yesterday.",
"I'm sure it's hard to say at this point, but do you think that Buffalo Springfield is going to carry on in some form after this tour?",
"Well, I don't think you're gonna be able to say that Buffalo Springfield is an entity that you can count on continuing.",
"I mean, there might be some special things that we do -- but right now it's just one day at a time.",
"We all have different careers, and this is what we're doing right now . ... ...",
"What's most heartwarming to me is the friendships.",
"I mean, it's just too much, man.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Furay says fans will have plenty of chances see them perform later in the year .",
"\"The plan is to do 30 dates this fall,\" he says .",
"The plan is to play mostly large theaters, as opposed to arenas and amphitheaters ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- Face off with a giant croc!",
"Ride the world's fastest coaster!",
"And seven more of the season's greatest adventures.",
"Get up close with a crocodile at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, Australia.",
"Zip line, Maui, Hawaii .",
"At Piiholo Ranch, a working horse and cattle ranch on Maui, Hawaii's longest zip line takes you screaming over guava trees and gulches filled with native ferns.",
"Part of a five-line tour, Line 5, which measures more than a half mile, even takes in a glimpse of the island's north shore.",
"808/572-1717, piiholozipline.com, $190.",
"-- Carolina A. Miranda .",
"Rain forest sledding, Ocho Rios, Jamaica .",
"To train for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, the famed Jamaican bobsled team resorted to careering down the island's Blue Mountains in a modified pushcart.",
"To relive the team's experience, head to Mystic Mountain, an eco-themed park on the country's north coast.",
"Here, thrill seekers hop into a bobsled on rails that tears through tropical forest and down a 3,200-foot track that, at one point, drops 400 feet at almost 30 mph.",
"876/974-3990, rainforestbobsledjamaica.com, $62.",
"-- Sara Morrow.",
"Budget Travel: See photos of these summer thrills .",
"Crocodile close-ups, Darwin, Australia .",
"Meet Choppa, an 18-foot croc who can shred a bull shark with his jaws.",
"At Crocosaurus Cove aquarium, visitors spend 15 heart-pounding minutes in his tank, the Cage of Death.",
"A sturdy acrylic panel separates you from the 1,700-pound reptile -- but that doesn't make the experience any less terrifying.",
"011-61/8-8981-7522, crocosauruscove.com, admission $18.50, Cage of Death $79, reservations required.",
"-- JD Rinne . Rock and Roll Dreams, London, England .",
"Crackling amps, glaring lights, the roar of the crowd: Most of us will never know the euphoria of strutting around stage like a superstar.",
"But at London's British Music Experience, you can come close.",
"The 20,000-square-foot interactive exhibit, open since March, has a room full of instruments where you can record your own hits and a studio where footage of you gets spliced into a music video.",
"The grand finale: a room decked out in wall-size video screens, showing excerpts of concerts by the likes of Bowie and the Rolling Stones.",
"011-44/844-847-2477, britishmusicexperience.com, adults $21, kids under 16 $17.",
"-- Alison Rohrs .",
"Tiger tug-of-war, Tampa, Florida .",
"Twice a day, up to six visitors to Jungala, a four-acre animal attraction at Busch Gardens in Tampa, get to play tug-of-war with one of the park's 11 Bengal tigers (with the 300-pound beast safely behind a double-mesh fence).",
"Not surprisingly, the tigers have maintained a flawless record -- the feistiest feline, a male named Bhutan, usually wins in about a minute.",
"888/800-5447, buschgardens.com, adults $70, kids 3 to 9 $60.",
"-- Amy Chen. Budget Travel: More summer thrills .",
"Defy gravity, Nashville, Tennessee .",
"Channel your inner Neil Armstrong at the Sudekum Planetarium in Nashville, where the new Space Chase wing has two activities that simulate the weightless feeling of space.",
"Guests buckle into a harness and, in minutes, are hurtling above the surface of the moon or alongside a spacecraft.",
"615/862-5160, sudekumplanetarium.com, adults $11, kids under 12 $9.",
"-- Beth Collins .",
"COASTER WATCH .",
"On the rails of the newest adrenaline-pumping rides.",
"The Diamondback, Mason, Ohio .",
"Named for a deadly viper, this beast opened in April at Kings Island, near Cincinnati.",
"It has 10 vertical drops spread out over 10 acres, but the real thrill is the open-air vehicle itself, with individual stadium-style seats and no sides.",
"800/288-0808, visitkingsisland.com, adults $32.",
"-- Danielle Lipp .",
"Ring Racer, Nürburg, Germany .",
"One of pro racing's toughest tracks, the Nürburgring will also, come July, feature the world's fastest coaster -- a monster that can hit 135 mph in under three seconds (and that kicks off near the real track's finish line).",
"011-49/2691-3020, nuerburgring.de, adults $26.",
"-- Mike Iveson .",
"Terminator Salvation, Valencia, California .",
"Debuting along with the latest Terminator movie in May, the new ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain weds the creaky terror of an old wooden coaster with high-tech effects.",
"Expect five gut-scrambling plunges and speeds of up to 55 mph.",
"661/255-4100, sixflags.com, adults $60.",
"-- DL . Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved.",
"Note: This story was accurate when it was published.",
"Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip."
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"In Jamaica, thrill seekers tear through tropical forest in a bobsled on rails .",
"Visitors to Busch Gardens in Tampa can play tug-of-war with Bengal tigers .",
"At Piiholo Ranch on Maui take a ride on Hawaii's longest zip line ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- For many travelers, duty-free is a luxurious enigma wrapped up in discounted Swiss chocolate and soaked in tax-free vodka.",
"Duty-free goods are mostly sold inside international airport terminals, ferry stations, cruise ports, and border stops.",
"Duty-free shops sell products without local import tax.",
"As the name implies, duty-free shops sell products without duty (a.k.a.",
"local import tax).",
"For example, by buying goods in a duty-free shop at Paris's Charles de Gaulle, you avoid paying the duty that France slaps on imported goods (like Swedish vodka) and that French stores ordinarily include as part of a product's list price.",
"In Europe, there's a bonus perk: Duty-free shops in airports and ports are \"tax-free shops,\" too, which means you are spared the value added tax (or V.A.T., a type of sales tax) that would otherwise be included in the price of goods sold elsewhere in the European Union.",
"That means a savings of between 5 and 25 percent, depending on the country.",
"But there's a catch for duty-free products bought in Europe and elsewhere.",
"If you bring into the U.S. more than $800 worth of items purchased abroad -- duty-free or not -- you'll have to pay the U.S. duty.",
"As a rule of thumb, Americans returning from overseas trips must pay 3 percent on the first $1,000 worth of merchandise over the $800 allowance.",
"Import products worth even more than that and you may be taxed at a higher percentage.",
"In short, duty-free is hit-or-miss for Americans.",
"The best deals are on items labeled \"tax free\" and otherwise taxed heavily -- such as alcohol and cigarettes.",
"You may also find it worthwhile to shop in duty-free stores if you have some local currency left and would rather put it to use than redeem it for dollars (and get hit with the high conversion fee of a bank or currency exchange bureau).",
"Not every duty-free item is a true bargain.",
"Yngve Bia, president of the duty-free research company Generation Research, says price differences depend on two things: geography and currency exchange rates.",
"\"Right now, Heathrow and Gatwick in London offer good deals, especially for liquor, because of the weak British pound,\" he says.",
"For example, a one-liter bottle of Absolut vodka has a typical non-duty-free price of about $30 at retail U.S. shops.",
"But travelers can buy it for just $15 (£10) at duty free shops at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports.",
"That's a significant savings.",
"We found impressive discounts on booze elsewhere, too.",
"One liter of Absolut sells for $17.50 (€13.50) at duty-free shops at Rome's and Brussels's main international airports, and for a bit more elsewhere, such as in Prague ($18.50, or 399 Czech koruna) and Munich ($21, or €16).",
"Those prices offer substantial savings off the $30 benchmark price at a typical U.S. retail store.",
"But be aware that American states may restrict how much alcohol you may import duty-free.",
"There's a typical one-liter limit for all types of alcohol per person, though the rule depends on your state of residence and the country you've visited.",
"(One exception: You can return from a visit to a Caribbean country with up to two liters of alcohol duty-free.)",
"Cigarettes offer similar savings.",
"Gatwick's duty-free shop sells a carton of Marlboro Reds for $36 (£24).",
"The same carton goes for $27 (€20) at the airport in Rome.",
"In New York -- the state with the highest cigarette tax in the nation -- a carton of Marlboro Reds goes for about $80.",
"In a state with more-typical cigarette taxes, Minnesota, the price of a carton is $44 -- still higher than in duty-free shops.",
"(Note: U.S. customs law allows you to import only up to 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars, whether you bought them at a duty-free shop or not.)",
"But not everything in the duty-free shop is a steal.",
"Duty-free stories once specialized in heavily taxed items, such as alcohol and tobacco products, but now they hawk other products that aren't as deeply discounted.",
"When shopping for cosmetics and fragrances -- which account for almost one third of all duty-free sales -- you need to shop with savvy and persistence.",
"A 1.7-liter bottle of Ralph Lauren Notorious EDP, for example, costs $46 (£31) at duty free shops at Gatwick while the Ralph Lauren store in Miami retails it for $59.",
"That's a savings of almost 25 percent.",
"Luxury goods -- defined in duty-free stores as high-end watches, designer-name handbags, and the like -- account for 36 percent of duty-free sales.",
"But you need to comparison shop for these products to make sure that an item is truly on sale.",
"A case in point: Hong Kong International's DFS Galleria, a duty-free shopping area, sells the Armani Obo Bag for $450 (HK$3,500).",
"But shoppers can buy the same bag off Armani's website for about the same price (or, when we checked, on sale for $285).",
"In the end, if an item isn't liquor or cigarettes, be wary, and come prepared.",
"Says Kathy Borrus, author of \"The Fearless Shopper: How to Get the Best Deals on the Planet,\" \"If you know the price of something back home and you go to a duty-free store, you can compare and know what the bargain might be.\"",
"Consider that United Airlines sells duty-free products on board many of its planes, and a few items are truly discounted.",
"A Waterford Kilbarry Guilloche Pen sells for $72, which is a savings of $18 off the price at a Waterford store.",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved."
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"Duty-free shopping is hit-or-miss for Americans .",
"The best deals are on items labeled \"tax free\" and otherwise taxed heavily .",
"For countries in the EU, duty-free shops at airports and ports are also tax-free ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- If the two forks of Long Island's East End were sisters, the North Fork would undoubtedly be the innocent, modest one.",
"Edgewater Cottage in Orient offers three rental apartments that share a front porch overlooking the water.",
"She has none of the glitz of her southern peninsular twin, the Hamptons.",
"Celebrities don't seem to pay her much attention.",
"She faces the quiet Long Island Sound instead of the lusty open ocean.",
"And instead of a party scene, she offers bucolic countryside dotted with wineries and farm stands.",
"But, as with sex appeal, geographic appeal is a matter of taste.",
"Some of us prefer the North Fork's easygoing charm to her famous sister's haughty glamour.",
"The North Fork may not be as posh as the Hamptons, in other words, but she has a better personality.",
"\"The North Fork is like a young Sonoma,\" says Joe Watson, who opened Vine Wine + Café, in Greenport, one of the area's biggest villages, in 2006.",
"Long Island's wine country occupied fewer than 20 acres of vineyards some 35 years ago, but today there are more than 4,000 acres.",
"Local wines have been touted in Wine Spectator.",
"This -- in combination with easy access to fresh seafood and produce -- has attracted a thriving group of epicures.",
"Chef Tom Colicchio (of Top Chef fame, owner of the Craft restaurant empire, and cofounder of Manhattan's tony Gramercy Tavern) bought a house here in 2004.",
"The area has not, however, become too enamored of its own success.",
"Towns have been gently burnished, but their rural character has remained unchanged.",
"\"This is the last vestige of what all of Long Island used to be,\" says Chris Baiz, owner of The Old Field Vineyards in Southold.",
"Budget Travel gallery: Check out this mellow wine scene .",
"Only about 75 miles from Manhattan, the North Fork juts into the Long Island Sound, separated from the Hamptons by the Peconic Bay.",
"The peninsula itself is only about 30 miles long.",
"At Riverhead, strip malls begin to give way to open spaces and, every few miles, a speck of a village just off the road.",
"First Mattituck, then Cutchogue, Greenport, and at the far tip, Orient.",
"When my husband and I turn off Main Road (Route 25) and arrive in Greenport on Friday afternoon, we wander down a quiet side street to Vine.",
"We've been told it's a good spot to start sampling North Fork wines: The restaurant serves a dozen local varieties by the taste, the glass or the bottle.",
"The carefully considered restaurant and wine bar occupies an old-fashioned house on a corner lot and has plenty of outdoor seating on a front porch and a terrace.",
"It's hard to imagine that when Watson first started coming out to the area 10 years ago, much of the town's main street was vacant.",
"\"Greenport was still a shambles,\" he recalls.",
"\"So many houses have been bought and fixed up now.",
"It's becoming a cute little village, like Sag Harbor but not as precious.\"",
"A meal can be assembled from the various small bites or more substantial dishes on the menu, but Watson says he wants to keep the focus on wine.",
"\"I love when people have a couple of glasses of wine and some olives, and just hang out,\" he says.",
"And that sounds like a fine way to spend a weekend.",
"On Saturday, we begin hunting and gathering.",
"Many of the area wineries encourage visitors to bring a picnic to go along with their wine, and we stop at some farm stands for provisions.",
"On Main Road in the village of Cutchogue, Wickham's Fruit Farm has been operated by the same family for about 70 years.",
"Fresh doughnuts (cinnamon, plain, or sugar) are brought out by the plateful, and there are jars of jam, containers of flavored honey sticks, a table of pies and pick-your-own fruit out back.",
"I settle for some fresh-baked bread, a pint of strawberries and homemade cucumber salad for our alfresco feast.",
"We reach the Shinn Estate Vineyards in Mattituck in time to share our picnic spread and taste some wine before catching a tour of the grounds by owner-vintner Barbara Shinn.",
"Shinn and her husband, David Page, established their vineyard in 2000 and later sold their acclaimed Home Restaurant in Greenwich Village.",
"They were determined to run a completely organic farm despite numerous warnings that it was an impossible feat with the fluctuating East Coast weather conditions.",
"Through a combination of experimentation and perseverance, they have succeeded in creating a sustainable vineyard.",
"Instead of chemical-based treatments, their biodynamic approach means rows are lush with overgrown grass and flowers that attract beneficial bugs -- a natural pest control for the vines.",
"\"Out here, you realize how fragile the ecosystem is,\" Shinn says.",
"When Shinn and Page bought the farm, their immediate goal was to keep the land from being developed.",
"The gaping hole between the declining profitability of farming and the soaring property values made the area vulnerable.",
"Shinn and Page have been able to protect their land in perpetuity thanks to a law that allows them to get cash rewards for signing away their development rights to government authorities.",
"\"Farmers are paid to preserve the land,\" says Shinn.",
"Because rosé wines are among my favorites, we head to Southold's Croteaux Vineyards.",
"They specialize in rosés, and their four offerings have notes like peach, cherry and vanilla.",
"The property has five buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the shady courtyard with red wrought-iron furniture looks a bit like a Hollywood fantasy of a vineyard setting -- but it's real.",
"We make our way to the very tip of the North Fork, and just before the town of Orient, a narrow bridge of land affords a view of a handful of large gracious homes along the shoreline.",
"On the main street, Village Lane, the houses suddenly shrink, giving Orient the feel of a Victorian-era Lilliput.",
"Perhaps in size they are cottages, but many look more like brightly painted toy mansions.",
"At the curve in Village Lane, we come to a small harbor and find swans swimming in the ocean.",
"Right at this spot is Edgewater Cottage, which has three apartments that share a front porch overlooking the water and a private strip of sandy beach.",
"Many of the affordable places to stay on the North Fork are '60s-era motels that have a certain kitschy appeal but generally fall into the category of adequate.",
"The airy, cedar-shingled Edgewater is a refreshing anomaly.",
"The apartments -- with Shaker-style chairs and checked tablecloths -- are simple in a way that's well suited to the setting.",
"On Sunday morning, we make it to the Love Lane Kitchen by 10 a.m., when tables are still plentiful.",
"Wise move, since by 11 there's a wait outside.",
"The home-style food (a big jug of real maple syrup for the thick French toast), friendly staff and low-key vibe (a large self-serve coffee setup...why doesn't every breakfast spot do this?)",
"make me fervently wish the café was located around the corner from my house.",
"I also wish we were around long enough to come back for dinner: Love Lane's uncomplicated menu hits that sweet spot between the area's beachy eats and fussy white-tablecloth options.",
"As we head back out toward more wine tasting, I spot the sign for Catapano Dairy Farm in Peconic, and we do a quick U-turn.",
"Our reward: a private audience with a contented herd of goat kids.",
"Catapano's fresh chèvre, also sold at many of the local farm stands, is delicately flavored and so creamy-soft that it's almost fluffy (the American Cheese Society named it the country's best goat cheese in 2005).",
"If you were to pick a winery that best represents the North Fork idyll, the Old Field would be it.",
"It has been farmed by Chris Baiz's family for 90 years.",
"He and his wife, Ros, bought the farm from their relatives to save it from being sold and subdivided.",
"\"We decided this was something we needed to do,\" explains Ros.",
"\"Otherwise this land was going to be developed, and that seemed like a horrible, horrible thing to do.\"",
"One end of the property faces Main Road, and the other fronts Southold Bay.",
"(The Baizes are growing oysters there this year.)",
"Large, rambling and relaxed, the Old Field is shaded by enormous, ancient trees and has its own pond, plus bay views.",
"The property, largely unchanged for 150 years, is scattered with old buildings and barns.",
"You can take a tour of the vineyard to learn about the grapes, wine making and the harvest.",
"But you can just as easily wander off to sit under a tree with the new release, Blush de Noir rosé.",
"I make a point of stopping in to some of the midsize and larger wineries before heading back to Manhattan.",
"At Pindar Vineyards, the biggest, a crowd of 35 people taste from more than 20 options, dozens of bottles of wine are stacked on a counter, and across the field a warehouse building bears a massive company logo.",
"But the staff is jolly, and there's a large covered deck out back for drinking and relaxing.",
"It's a different kind of social scene -- more bar than family room.",
"I miss the small vineyards I experienced first.",
"Talking with the owners, hearing their love for their grapes, seeing their determination to preserve the North Fork's open spaces -- all of this while sitting in what are essentially their backyards -- just makes the wine taste better.",
"If you go ... LODGING Edgewater Cottage 2072 Village Ln., Orient, edgewatercottage.net, from $150 .",
"FOOD Vine Wine + Café 100 South St., Greenport, vinewinebar.com, entrées from $15 Love Lane Kitchen 240 Love Ln., Mattituck, lovelanekitchen.com, entrées from $12 WINERIES The Old Field Vineyards 59600 Rte.",
"25, Southold, theoldfield.com, $10 for tour and tasting Shinn Estate Vineyards 2000 Oregon Rd., Mattituck, shinnestatevineyards.com, $8.50 for tour and tasting Croteaux Vineyards 1450 South Harbor Rd., Southold, croteaux.com, tasting $5 for three wines and sangria Pindar Vineyards 37645 Rte.",
"25, Peconic, tasting $4 for five wines FARM STANDS Wickham's Fruit Farm 28700 Rte.",
"25, Cutchogue, wickhamsfruitfarm.com, jam $6 Catapano Dairy Farm 33705 Rte.",
"48, Peconic, catapanodairyfarm.com, goat cheese $8 for 4.5 ounces .",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved.",
"Note: This story was accurate when it was published.",
"Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip."
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"Long Island's North Fork has easygoing charm instead of Hamptons glitz .",
"There are more than 4,000 acres of vineyards in the area .",
"Visitors can tour and taste at small family-owned wineries ."
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"(CNN) -- To say the gone-too-soon series \"Firefly\" has a devoted fan base might be the biggest understatement in sci-fi fandom.",
"Eight years after Fox grounded the crew from Serenity, a loyal following still longs for any chance to return to director Joss Whedon's fully realized mashup of outer space and the Old West.",
"Luckily for them, Whedon is a comic-book fan.",
"In 2005's \"Serenity: Those Left Behind\" and 2008's \"Serenity: Better Days\" -- both produced by Whedon for Dark Horse Comics -- we get to see Captain Mal and friends in action.",
"Now, with \"Serenity: Float Out,\" there's a chance to stop in for a more personal visit with one of the crew's most beloved characters.",
"\"Float Out,\" released Thursday by Dark Horse, is written by actor, comedian and \"Firefly\" devotee Patton Oswalt based on an idea he floated to Whedon.",
"It focuses on Wash, the wise-cracking ace pilot whose stunning death at the end of \"Serenity\" can still bring some devoted browncoats to tears with a single mention.",
"The one-off book opens with three friends of Wash (full name: Hoban Washburne) pausing to remember him before christening a new ship -- The Jetwash -- in his honor.",
"That setup serves as an excuse to flash back to three stories from Wash's past, each showing a different side of his endearing personality.",
"Diehard fans won't learn a whole lot about Wash that they didn't already know.",
"And anyone hoping to see the entire Serenity crew back together will be disappointed.",
"But Wash and surprise endings apparently go together.",
"There's a big one in the book's final pages -- one that both offers a huge emotional payoff for \"Firefly\" fans and will have them desperately hoping for more.",
"Different from Whedon's fully involved \"Buffy\" series on Dark Horse, the occasional \"Serenity\" books feel like brief visits with old friends.",
"And \"Float Out\" is a good one.",
"The next visit is scheduled for November, when \"Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale,\" a look at the backstory of Shepherd Book, is due to be released."
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"\"Float Out\" has a surprise ending that we won't spoil .",
"Next up for \"Serenity\": The Shepherd gets a story ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- No offense to the nation's capital, but the landmarks of our heritage extend far beyond the District of Columbia.",
"Yellowstone National Park preserves an enormous natural bounty, including 10,000 hot springs and 300 geysers.",
"Sears Tower (Willis Tower) It's fitting that the country's tallest building, the Sears Tower (we haven't come to terms with the new name either), is in the same city that built the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, demolished in 1931.",
"Chicago's innovation sparked a worldwide race that continues to redefine city skylines from London to Dubai to Taipei.",
"There's simply no better way to experience those early architects' remarkable vision than to stand on The Ledge at Skydeck Chicago, a transparent observation box that suspends you 1,353 feet above street level, on a wisp of glass just one and a half inches thick.",
"Gettysburg, Pennsylvania .",
"The site of the Civil War's bloodiest battle and of one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous speeches, Gettysburg National Military Park is a lasting memorial to the devastation caused by, and the reasons for, the war that remade the union.",
"In its successful efforts to fend off encroaching development, Gettysburg also reflects the struggles of many historic sites to preserve the sanctity of their land.",
"nps.gov/gett.",
"Yellowstone National Park .",
"Yes, other National Parks are stunning (Grand Canyon and Yosemite come to mind), but Yellowstone, signed into being by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, was the very first in the world -- and established an early precedent for land conservationists internationally.",
"This majestic park, bordered by Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, preserves an enormous natural bounty: It is home to 10,000 hot springs and 300 geysers, numerous lakes and rivers, and wildlife such as bighorn sheep, bison, grizzly bears, and more than 1,000 gray wolves.",
"nps.gov/yell.",
"New York Harbor .",
"It's still easy to imagine the bay as millions of immigrants might have perceived it on their way to the United States: the promise of the Statue of Liberty, the judgment of Ellis Island, and the hope of Manhattan's skyscrapers rising in the distance.",
"Emma Lazarus's ode to the huddled masses, inside the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, is a timeless reminder of our common bond as immigrants, a history that stretches from Jamestown to the current day.",
"Budget Travel gallery: See the 8 sights .",
"Monticello . Why Thomas Jefferson and not George Washington, you ask?",
"It's undeniable that Washington was the greater warrior, but it was Jefferson who authored the Declaration of Independence and helped define our claim to liberty -- the reason we fought in the first place.",
"Monticello, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, is filled with more than 5,000 of Jefferson's prized artifacts, like botanic microscopes, an illustrated engraving of the Declaration of Independence, and elk antlers from the Lewis and Clark Expedition (which Jefferson sponsored).",
"The residence provides a fascinating exhibition of the progressive, transformative ideas of its owner.",
"monticello.org.",
"Graceland Born in Mississippi and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley incorporated the homegrown sounds of the Delta blues and country music into his songs, and then shared them with the rest of the world.",
"Graceland, his home in Memphis, is a similar melting pot of styles and tastes.",
"Like his music, it's American through and through.",
"Among the highlights: two private jets named Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II, five gold-plated showerheads, and in the car museum across the street, 10 of the King's favorite rides, including his famous pink Cadillac.",
"elvis.com/graceland.",
"Pearl Harbor .",
"The bombing of Pearl Harbor transformed a sleepy, remote naval base in Hawaii into a fiery catalyst for America's entry into World War II.",
"Within the space of a few hours, the U.S. Pacific naval fleet was devastated, more than 2,300 servicemen died, and the nation united around a common cause.",
"It's hard to imagine a more poignant memorial than the Alfred Preis-designed bridge that hovers over the midsection of the sunken battleship, the USS Arizona, which remains the underwater grave for 1,177 of her crewmen.",
"nps.gov/valr.",
"Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church .",
"The struggle for racial equality has taken place all over the country, but for Martin Luther King Jr., it began in Atlanta, Georgia, at the church where he was baptized, delivered his first sermon, and served as co-pastor with his father until his death in 1968.",
"His soaring speeches clarified the goals of the civil rights movement and extended the country's promise of freedom; his example of nonviolence remains an astounding contribution to the country's history of dissent.",
"Note: The parish has grown into a larger building across the street (where visitors can attend services); the historic church is now part of a National Historic Site that includes his birth home and grave.",
"The church is closed until the end of 2009 for restoration.",
"nps.gov/malu, historicebenezer.org.",
"WHAT, NO GRAND CANYON?",
"In trying to come up with a list of places every American must see, we knew we'd raise some hackles.",
"We considered options like the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, Ground Zero, Philadelphia's Independence Hall, the Trail of Tears, the Inside Passage, and the Golden Gate Bridge, among others, before publishing our final list.",
"Weigh in with your comments about Budget Travel's list below.",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
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"Monticello, Yellowstone National Park and Graceland make the list .",
"Editors also considered the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon and more ."
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"(Travel + Leisure) -- Breakfast, beer breaks and goat's-milk ice cream: The ultimate two-day tasting itinerary in Turkey's largest city.",
"Savor the flavors of Istanbul in between visits to the city's landmarks.",
"Day 1: Sultanahmet (The Old City) Breakfast .",
"On a street lined with carpet shops near the Arasta Bazaar, Tamara Restaurant (breakfast for two $20), whose owners hail from Turkey's eastern Lake Van area, serves up the region's puffy breads, herb-flecked otlu cheese, and addictive tahini spread.",
"Eggs baked with spicy soujuk sausage might seem like overkill, but order them anyway.",
"Mid-Morning Fix .",
"It would be a crime to miss the Süleymaniye Camii mosque, an Ottoman masterpiece; it would be sadder still not to visit the nearby Vefa Bozacisi (boza for two $4).",
"Decked out in weathered marble, this vintage cubbyhole specializes in boza -- a cross between pudding and a beverage, which is made from fermented bulgur.",
"Traditionally it's consumed with leblebi, nutty roasted chickpeas.",
"Lunch . Famished after haggling for kilims at the Covered Bazaar?",
"It's worth tracking down Seyhmus (lunch for two $30), a macho kebab dive colonized by gaggles of mustached vendors.",
"Order lahmacun -- wafer-thin lamb-slathered pizza -- with seyhmus kebap (an epic charcoal-grilled lamb patty) and a vegetable salad dressed with pomegranate molasses.",
"Washing your meal down with ayran, a tart yogurt drink, is a sure way to pass for a local.",
"Beer Break .",
"Unwind with a frosty glass of Efes Pilsen on the rooftop terrace of Seven Hills Hotel (drinks for two $10), which feels like it is suspended between the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sofia against the backdrop of the Marmara Sea.",
"Dinner . Though certain Istanbullus swear that fish should be eaten at the water's edge, the suave, smart-suited businessmen and bejeweled matrons who patronize Balikçi Sabahattin (dinner for two $65) know better.",
"A waiter appears as soon as you settle in your seat, carrying a tray of meze, small plates meant to be sampled with raki, Turkey's signature anise liquor.",
"Order platters of smoky eggplant salad and buttery lakerda (cured bonito) -- then choose grilled levrek (sea bass), moist and perfectly cooked.",
"Travel + Leisure: World's top late-night restaurants .",
"Day 2: Other Neighborhoods .",
"Breakfast . Even if contemporary Turkish art isn't your cup of çay, visit Istanbul Modern (breakfast for two $45), a museum in a renovated warehouse, for its stylish café and waterfront terrace.",
"With luck, giant cruise ships won't obstruct the postcard-perfect view of the Old Town as you tuck into a breakfast of simit (sesame bread rings), creamy beyaz peynir (feta), crunchy cucumbers, and sour-cherry jam.",
"Ice Cream . Farther along the Bosporus road, stop in the village of Ortaköy for a stroll through craft shops and the neo-Baroque mosque.",
"At Mado (ice cream for two $2), sample the goat's-milk ice cream, which is thickened with the powdered root of wild orchids.",
"Splurge on a triple scoop of pistachio, pomegranate, and black mulberry.",
"Lunch . Continue on to Sabanci University Sakip Sabanci Museum, a 19th-century mansion in Emirgan that houses an impressive collection of Ottoman paintings.",
"Espousing a different aesthetic, the museum's Muzedechanga restaurant (lunch for two $98) is noted for its neo-60s interior of unpolished oak and black-leather banquettes.",
"Try the olive oil-braised celery root enlivened with tangerine, and rosy lamb chops, from the smart modern-Mediterranean menu.",
"Drinks . Time your visit to Leb-i Derya (drinks for two $16) with the sunset -- and the evening call to prayer.",
"That's when young locals file in for cocktails, like fresh-ginger-and-muddled-lime mojitos, and jockey for steel stools on the open-air terrace overlooking the city's two coastlines and the Bosporus strait in between.",
"Dinner . Beyoglu is known for its raucous drinking houses, or meyhane, where meze are an excuse for rivers of raki.",
"The insiders' favorite is Kallavi (dinner for two $50), a brick-walled dining room illuminated by chandeliers that sets the scene for house specials like ficin, a spiced meat pie.",
"The best part? Watching beau monders stomp their heels to the Turkish band's beat.",
"Wait, is that your wife tossing banknotes at the dashing oud player?",
"Planning a beach getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to Affordable Beach Resorts.",
"Copyright 2009 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Don't miss boza, a cross between bulgur pudding and a beverage .",
"Unwind with a glass of Efes Pilsen on the rooftop terrace of Seven Hills Hotel .",
"Visit Istanbul Modern for its stylish café and waterfront terrace ."
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"(Budget Travel) -- Some of my greatest travel memories are about exploring the local markets -- digging through the goods, chatting with vendors, feeling my way through the nuances of a spirited negotiation.",
"Each time, I walk away with an earful of native lore and insider info -- on top of armfuls of awesome finds.",
"The Springfield Antique Show and Flea Market in Ohio takes place one weekend each month, excluding February and July.",
"Once, I picked up a pair of swingy silver earrings at a market in Uruguay and simultaneously bagged a tip for the best spot to dance to candombe music, something the seller insisted I do while wearing my new purchase.",
"It was just the kind of authentic encounter I'd never have found in a shop on the main drag.",
"Each of these American markets will leave you with that same richness of experience -- as well as heaps of quality souvenirs.",
"Who needs another plastic snow globe, anyway?",
"BRIMFIELD ANTIQUE & FLEA MARKET SHOWS .",
"Where & when: Brimfield, Massachusetts; six consecutive days each in mid-May, July and September.",
"What: A local auctioneer, Gordon Reid, started this outdoor market, now the country's largest, on a somewhat humbler stage back in 1959: his own backyard.",
"Now, more than 1 million visitors flood in every year to shop the peerless selection of affordable New England collectibles (weather vanes, decoys and Nantucket baskets) and maritime accoutrements (brass lamps and ships' wheels) spread across more than 20 \"fields\" on either side of the town's main road, each containing hundreds of vendors.",
"Budget Travel: 20 great flea markets around the world .",
"Three of the best fields are Dealer's Choice, known for its quality rustic furniture; Heart-O-The Mart, favored for hobnail glassware and intact grain sacks; and J&J Auction Acres, flush with high-end items like colonial cherrywood chests and convex mirrors.",
"Even the food has a regional bent: Try the generously sized $10 lobster rolls, the fresh-popped kettle corn, and the Pilgrim Sandwich, a supersoft roll layered with roasted turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and mayo.",
"brimfield.com.",
"Best shot at a bargain: The slower July and September markets may yield better deals than the crowded May outing, which serves as the region's antiquing-season opener.",
"Gigi's find: A portable radio.",
"\"I love how [it] is part gadget, part accessory: It swings closed into a ring shape you can carry around like a purse as it plays.",
"I got it years ago at Brimfield for $15.\"",
"Budget Travel gallery: See these cool flea markets .",
"SPRINGFIELD ANTIQUE SHOW & FLEA MARKET .",
"Where & when: Springfield, Ohio; one weekend each month, excluding February and July.",
"What: Over the course of its quarter-century run, this busy market held on a county fairground has won a reputation as the heartland's go-to source for all things folky and primitive, such as old metal pails, Shaker boxes, cross-stitched samplers, and calico quilts.",
"Farmhouse antiques, like blanket chests, milk-paint cupboards, and sturdy rocking chairs also figure prominently, as do well-preserved dishware and tabletop items.",
"Budget Travel: How to shop every market like a pro .",
"During each year's three supersize Extravaganzas -- in May, June, and September -- the number of vendors swells to more than 2,500, some operating out of cattle barns and poultry houses.",
"Visit the market's online discussion forum to connect with sellers, preview goods, and even post wish lists.",
"springfieldantiqueshow.com.",
"Best shot at a bargain: Go in September, when dealers are trying to liquidate their stock for the winter.",
"BROOKLYN FLEA .",
"Where & when: Brooklyn, New York; Saturdays from mid-April through Thanksgiving.",
"What: In less than two years, this sale in a Brooklyn schoolyard has attracted a large enough following to justify a second location and seasonal spin-off events.",
"Shoppers come for the mix of vintage clothing and jewelry, architectural salvage, and decorative objects like modernist table lamps and metal desk fans dating from the early to mid-1900s.",
"Alongside the secondhand-goods sellers, you'll find booths from local designers of reclaimed-wood furniture, handmade shoes, and more.",
"The food stands are just as diverse: Celebrated taco vendors, cheesemongers, and bakers all make weekly appearances.",
"brooklynflea.com.",
"Best shot at a bargain: Many of the antiques vendors are willing to cut deals on their merchandise, but the proprietors of new goods tend to keep their prices firm.",
"Gigi's find: \"I bought this desk calendar for $30 at the Brooklyn Flea from one of my favorite sellers, Three Potato Four; the owners come up from Virginia every couple of months to sell.",
"Their stuff is the best sort of a happy-industrial meets old-school-classroom vibe.\"",
"THE ALAMEDA POINT ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES FAIRE .",
"Where & when: Alameda, California; first Sunday of each month.",
"What: The San Francisco skyline and the hills of Marin County serve as a cinematic backdrop for this 800-plus-vendor market on the main runway of a decommissioned naval base on San Francisco Bay.",
"Organizers enforce a 20-year-minimum age rule for sale items, which guarantees you'll be shopping for real-deal relics (like French travel posters, Hollywood movie memorabilia, and early-20th-century Japanese pottery), not tables of tube socks and cheap electronics.",
"The layout is clear and intuitive, with long, evenly spaced rows arranged in a grid; thoughtful touches like pushcarts for hauling heavy purchases, a porcelain-repair kiosk, and free parking with a shuttle service add to the appeal.",
"There's even a handy printable map on the market's Web site.",
"antiquesbybay.com.",
"Best shot at a bargain: Fewer sellers turn out from January through March, but those who do are often more eager to negotiate.",
"Gigi's find: \"I grew up in Texas, where learning to play dominoes is a rite of passage.",
"I've been collecting vintage sets from various flea markets over the years, including [one] from Alameda Point.\"",
"127 CORRIDOR SALE .",
"Where & when: From West Unity, Ohio, to Gadsden, Alabama; first weekend in August.",
"What: For sheer variety, nothing tops the World's Longest Yard Sale, a bargain-hunter's paradise that meanders along 654 miles of scenic rural highway.",
"Seasoned dealers in formal tents as well as locals unloading the contents of their attics set up shop roadside, hawking crocheted table linens, boxes of fishing lures, weathered iron bed frames, and garden statuary.",
"There isn't one stretch of road that's consistently the best, so let regional attractions narrow your focus: In Tennessee alone, you can stay the night in a tepee or a log cabin and make a pit stop to pick wild blueberries at Pickett State Park.",
"127sale.com.",
"Best shot at a bargain: At a sale this vast, it's simply all about persistence.",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved.",
"Note: This story was accurate when it was published.",
"Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip."
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"Brooklyn Flea features secondhand goods and wares from local designers ."
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"(CNN) -- Pressure is growing for world leaders to respond to Syria's brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.",
"Earlier this week, the United Nations' Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said more than 5,000 people had been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March.",
"The Syrian government has issued activists in the restive city of Homs an ultimatum: Cease their protests, or face bombardment, prompting fears of an increase in hostilities.",
"Human rights activists have called for an international response to the violence -- but some diplomats have warned that any intervention could make the situation worse.",
"Mousab Azzawi, of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said events in Syria amounted to a \"humanitarian crisis,\" just like that seen in Libya prior to the NATO intervention, and that the situation merited a similar response.",
"\"When the international community went to Libya to protect civilians, were they deceiving [everyone]?\"",
"he told CNN's Connect the World.",
"\"Because if the principle of protecting civilians is the motivation of the international community, what happens in Syria is no different from what happened in Libya -- it's the same atrocities, the same tyranny and the same crimes against humanity committed there.\"",
"But Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, said there was no comparison between the two countries -- or between Syria and Iraq, another high-profile example of international intervention.",
"\"Syria is different in many, many ways.",
"Iraq was invaded by a foreign government, and seven, eight years later, is in ruins,\" he said.",
"\"Libya was not invaded by a foreign government; in Libya there was an uprising which so far seems to have succeeded in overthrowing a tyranny and is on the way to building something to replace that tyranny.",
"\"Syria bears no resemblance to either of them.",
"Syria is a larger country than Libya, it's a more complicated country than Libya, it doesn't offer any scope for foreign intervention.\"",
"Refugees seek shelter in Lebanon .",
"Miles said politicians and diplomats were unlikely to take major action against the Syrian regime without backing from the U.N. -- and that such support was unlikely.",
"\"I think the situation in Syria is absolutely dreadful, and if I could think of a way that the British government, or any other government, or the United Nations could intervene effectively, I would be all for it, but I think intervention would probably make things worse,\" he told CNN.",
"\"When foreign air forces started to take part in the Libyan struggle back in March, they had a clear mandate from the United Nations, which meant that under international law, what we did could be argued to be legal.",
"\"There is no possibility whatsoever that we will get a mandate from the United Nations to intervene in Syria as things stand at the moment.\"",
"But Azzawi said such pragmatic attitudes were making the situation worse, accusing foreign powers who failed to act of \"participating in the bloodshed in Syria\" by default.",
"And he said he feared the influence of Syrian military defectors, the Free Syrian Army, on the protests -- unless the fighters were offered international support.",
"\"The numbers of the Free Syrian Army -- without being supported by the international community -- is so small now, and the big risk is when these peaceful demonstrators are tempted by the FSA to hold arms and then we move to a stage of militarizing the uprising, which is a very big risk.",
"\"The people in Syria are trying hard to stick to the principle of peacefulness,\" he said.",
"\"I don't think that will last forever, but if we have militarization of the uprising, then we will heed to a civil war and I think this is the last thing the international community wants to see in Syria, because any civil war in Syria would be spreading very quickly to the neighboring countries.\"",
"CNN's Max Foster contributed to this report ."
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"Diplomats say intervention could make situation worse .",
"U.N. says more than 5,000 people had been killed in Syria since the uprising began ."
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"(Sunset) -- Hawaii may seem a world away, but there are plenty of big waves, tiny bubbles and tiki-style spots closer to home.",
"Here are some San Diego-based ways to catch the Hawaiian spirit.",
"Paradise Point Resort and Spa is a waterfront oasis with a Balinese-style spa and five swimming pools.",
"Make your own lei . If a luau is on your tropical to-do list, the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa offers a demo and the materials to design a floral garland for the event.",
"A needle and thread, a pile of seasonal flowers such as plumerias, orchids, mini carnations and tuberose, and the rest is up to you.",
"The resort's resident tropical macaw and cockatoo birds might make an appearance while you're at work.",
"Leis stay fragrant and can last more than a week if you refrigerate them and mist with water periodically.",
"A sunset luau .",
"It's TGIF, Hawaiian-style.",
"The Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa throws a Friday-night luau on the lawn by Mission Bay -- and that means hula dancers in grass skirts, fire knife dancing, piña coladas, tiki torches, a ceremonial roast pig on parade and Polynesian drumbeats from a live band.",
"Dances and costumes come from different parts of Polynesia (Tahiti, Samoa and even New Zealand, as well as Hawaii).",
"It's faux Hawaii, of course, but the festivities are enough to spark your island imagination.",
"An ocean adventure .",
"Bright orange Garibaldi fish, leopard sharks, giant sea turtles, sea lions and seven sea caves to explore -- it's not Kauai, it's La Jolla Shores.",
"The caves are just a half-mile from shore via kayak, and OEX Dive & Kayak Center offers two-hour tours that include guided trips inside the Clam -- one of just two caves you can enter (at high tide, you can go all the way through).",
"Sunset.com: Discover the West's top 10 beaches .",
"August is a prime month to be out on the water with the warm temps and calm swells.",
"About those silhouettes gliding underneath the boats: Hundreds (sometimes even thousands) of leopard sharks swim below the kayaks, and they're most abundant in summer.",
"Thankfully, leopard sharks have small teeth (they use suction to eat).",
"For the daring, snorkeling is another option.",
"Sunset.com: Take the teens to Kauai .",
"Tiki-style .",
"Mister Tiki Mai Tai Lounge -- the name alone promises tropical cocktails and Polynesian kitsch.",
"The giant tiki masks on the walls, tableside lava lamps and handblown glass blowfish on the ceilings add to the tropical flavor of this spot in downtown's Gaslamp Quarter.",
"The drinks are pure tiki -- try the lilikoi mojitos with white rum, passion fruit, fresh mint and lime, or a coconut kiss martini with coconut rum, pineapple and coconut cream (with an orchid floating on top).",
"The happy hour (5-7 p.m.; $5) includes sushi rolls and pupus (Hawaiian appetizers) like shiitake-goat cheese wontons.",
"Hang 10 . Surfing isn't just the sport of beach bums.",
"These days anyone can ride a wave, and La Jolla Shores Beach is great for beginners, with its sandy-bottom shoreline and small waves.",
"Surf Diva, a surf school started by twin-sister surfers in 1996, gives private or group surf lessons (wetsuit and board included).",
"Lessons start on the sand, where you'll learn how to paddle, pop up and master the surf stance before you hit the water.",
"Sunset.com: Blue Hawaii .",
"48 hours of aloha in San Diego .",
"Friday: Two tropical-themed spots to stay are Paradise Point Resort & Spa, a waterfront oasis with a Balinese-style spa and five swimming pools (from $259), or the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa (from $249) with koi ponds, gardens, and a beach on Mission Bay.",
"Hit the Catamaran Resort first for lei-making (3:30 Fri through Sep 4; $10), then stay for the weekly Friday-night luau with Hawaiian music, fire dancing, and hula (6 p.m. Fri through Sep 4; $35, $15 ages 5--12; nonguests $58, $25 ages 5--12); 3999 Mission Blvd.",
"; tickets at catamaranresort.com/luau).",
"Saturday: Kayak to see the La Jolla Caves with OEX Dive & Kayak Center (tours 11, 1, 3; from $40; 2158 Avenida de la Playa; 858/454-6195).",
"Have lunch at Aloha Sushi Lounge ($$; 7731 Fay Ave.; 858/551-5000).",
"Drive to the nearby Pacific Beach neighborhood to Motu Hawaii (4150 Mission Blvd., Ste.",
"115; 858/272-6688), where you can buy a fresh flower lei (from $10).",
"Just blocks away is the gargantuan Pangaea Outpost (909 Garnet Ave.; 858/581-0555) with more than 70 spaces, some selling tropical soaps or tiki partyware.",
"It's a 20-minute drive to the Gaslamp Quarter to dine at Mister Tiki Mai Tai Lounge ($$; 801 Fifth Ave.; 619/233-1183).",
"Sunday: Take a private surfing lesson at the La Jolla Shores Beach with Surf Diva ($83 for 1-hour lesson; reservations required).",
"Treat yourself to a pedicure in a private cabana at Spa Tiki day spa (from $50; 200 Harbor Dr., Ste.",
"200; 619/231-4363) downtown, then head to Buster's Beach House & Longboard Bar ($$; 807 W. Harbor Dr.; 619/233-4300) for a tropical drink and an order of Hawaiian pork luau.",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
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"(CNN) -- As everyone but the citizens of Gotham City knows, Batman is Bruce Wayne.",
"But lately, he's been Dick Grayson.",
"And this month, he's also Damian Wayne and Terry McGinnis.",
"Will the real Batman please stand up?",
"This look at Batman's past, present and future has been brought about by Grant Morrison, the Scottish writer and playwright behind the award-winning \"All-Star Superman.\"",
"Morrison has masterminded a new direction for the character and returns to the 70-year-old \"Batman\" comic book series with its 700th issue Wednesday.",
"\"I started to do a bunch of research, and I realized that every story had been told,\" Morrison said.",
"He decided upon a psychological deconstruction of the character that would run over many issues and over two years, beginning with the story arc \"Batman & Son\" in 2006.",
"In order to bring Morrison's master plan to fruition, to \"set up a whole new status quo\" for Batman, as he puts it, Bruce Wayne would have to be driven to the brink of insanity and ultimately killed, as he was in the mega-crossover story \"Final Crisis.\"",
"For the past year, Bruce's onetime ward Dick has been Batman, and his son Damian has taken over for Robin, in a Batman and Robin series lighter in tone than what we've been used to in the past few decades.",
"This has all led up to \"Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne,\" currently in the middle of its six-issue run, in which Bruce -- or his consciousness at least -- travels through time on his way back to the present day.",
"All of these plot threads culminate in the 700th issue, which tells stories of the Batman of the past (Bruce), present (Dick) and future (Damian), interpreted by three different artists.",
"\"I wanted to sum up all of the things we love about Batman over the years and kind of see that moment where the Caped Crusader becomes the Dark Knight,\" Morrison explained.",
"\"[All of the stories] connect in an interesting way.",
"We also have a section looking at all the different future Batmen.",
"It's an attempt to do every version of Batman.\"",
"Indeed, Morrison is hard-pressed to choose a favorite interpretation of Batman.",
"He has a great appreciation for all of them, from the campy 1960s TV series to Frank Miller's gritty 1980s graphic novel \"The Dark Knight Returns\" to the current movies directed by Christopher Nolan.",
"\"Batman has been around 70 years.",
"He's been a comedy figure.",
"He was a sci-fi superhero in the '50s.\"",
"If he had to pick one, Morrison would go with the version of Batman as the world's greatest detective, as seen in the 1970s stories written by the legendary Denny O'Neil.",
"O'Neil is returning for a special one-shot story himself this month.",
"\"We like to revisit the people that made the character great,\" said Dan DiDio, co-publisher of DC Comics (owned by Time Warner, which is also the parent company of CNN).",
"\"We pull him out of retirement every once in a while for Batman.",
"It's not an anniversary party without him.\"",
"If that's not enough, DC has two more Bat-related mini-series starting this month.",
"One is \"Batman Beyond,\" based on the fan favorite animated series with Terry McGinnis as another future version of Batman.",
"This series officially brings the character into DC Universe canon.",
"\"The fans have been looking for this for a while,\" DiDio said.",
"\"This looked like the perfect opportunity to reintroduce him.\"",
"Meanwhile, the secret past of another once \"deceased\" character, Jason Todd, the second Robin, is explored in \"Red Hood: Lost Days.\"",
"Is Jason more a hero or villain?",
"Morrison said, \"He's an antihero, which is really good, and people like that.",
"He's not an evil villain; he's just a fallen superhero.\"",
"As for Morrison's plans, he's sticking around the Batcave for a few more years.",
"\"I kind of figured [the story] would end, but it kept developing strands that were interesting.\"",
"After that, he's pondering changing the status quo of a certain Amazon princess: \"I've done my Superman story, and I've done my Batman. ...",
"It would be great to do one for Wonder Woman.\""
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"(Southern Living) -- Just a minute ago I was sailing down a Texas Panhandle highway, level as a tabletop.",
"Then I dropped off the face of the High Plains into the heart of a wild place called Caprock Canyons.",
"It's the rough-and-tumble centerpiece of a 15,000-acre state park, 100 miles southeast of Amarillo.",
"Caprock Canyons is about 100 miles southeast of Amarillo.",
"If you hanker to break away from the herd, you ought to see it in the quiet of an early morning when shades of red and yellow streak canyon walls like melted sunshine and you can hear the haunting bellow of bison bulls grazing in the grass.",
"Off the beaten path .",
"Hidden in the midst of sprawling ranches, Caprock Canyons doesn't lure as many visitors as its famous neighbor, Palo Duro Canyon (93 miles northwest).",
"That's the way C.L. Hawkins, caretaker for the official Texas bison herd, likes it.",
"It means you can still find quiet times to catch a vision of the land not greatly changed from the way it was when millions of bison roamed the High Plains and wintered in hidden canyons.",
"When you look at these mighty creatures in the state herd, you're seeing the direct descendants of wild bison once \"as numerous as grains on the seashore,\" according to one traveler's report.",
"SouthernLiving.com: Wide open in West Texas .",
"You can see the bison from viewing platforms and through telescopes at an overlook near the new visitors center, but Hawkins keeps them separated from people for safety.",
"\"You don't push bison,\" he says.",
"\"You work them on their own terms.",
"I still consider them wild animals.\"",
"SouthernLiving.com: Climbing in West Texas .",
"Hit the trail . There are many ways to explore the scenic canyon -- hiking, mountain biking, on horseback, or by car on a 5-mile loop.",
"Even on the drive, you get a close-up look at multicolored sandstone cliffs and rugged arroyos carved by tributaries of the Red River.",
"The long narrow Caprock Escarpment stands as high as 1,000 feet in places.",
"Coronado passed this way.",
"So did roving Comanche bands and prehistoric canyon dwellers as long as 12,000 years ago.",
"Tomas Hinojosa, owner of Quitaque Riding Stables ([806] 269-1209 or [806] 455-1208; rides start at $35 per hour) in the nearby town of Quitaque (pronounced \"kitty-quay\") follows in the footsteps of explorers when he takes riders out to sections of the 64-mile-long path, which is part of Caprock Canyons State Park & Trailway.",
"SouthernLiving.com: 40 things I love about Texas .",
"You don't need to be experienced to ride, but if it's your first time you should start with an hour-long trip.",
"Try to schedule it for early morning.",
"\"That's when we see most of the wildlife,\" Hinojosa points out.",
"Whether you explore it from the saddle or behind a steering wheel, it's a piece of untamed Texas you won't see anywhere else.",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
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"Caprock Canyons is the centerpiece of a 15,000-acre state park .",
"View the official Texas bison herd from platforms near the visitors center .",
"Explore the scenic canyon on foot, by bike, on horseback or by car ."
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"(EW.com) -- She got you, babe.",
"Cher has taken to Twitter to defend her son Chaz Bono's decision to join \"Dancing With the Stars\" as the series' first transgendered contestant.",
"After becoming aware that Chaz was taking a lot of heat from transphobic Internet commenters, she encouraged her fans to voice support for him on blogs and message boards, and reminded everyone, \"Mothers don't stop Getting angry with stupid bigots who fk with their children!\"",
"Cher assures America: \"bet VAST MAJORITY of People will LOVE CHAZ on 'DWTS' !",
"& it's took Fkg Guts 2!",
"Chaz isn't exactly the 'Gotta Dance Gotta Dance' kinda Guy.\"",
"Is it possible Cher's perfectly crafted tweets are even more exquisite than her songs?",
"Dancing With the Stars: Get the latest news, photos, and more .",
"Chaz wrote back: \"Thanks for all your support mom.",
"The haters are just motivating me to work harder and stay on 'DWTS' as long as I possibly can.\"",
"\"DWTS\" executive producer Conrad Green told ABC News he thinks people will relish getting to know Chaz better, and hopes that by the September 19 premiere, this will be a non-issue.",
"\"We're not going to be making a huge amount of issue out of people's sexuality,\" he said.",
"\"We never have on the show.\"",
"(This, of course, was a fluke.",
"It was totally a theme night.)",
"See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Cher has taken to Twitter to defend Bono's decision to join \"Dancing With the Stars\"\n\"Thanks for all your support mom,\" Bono tweeted .",
"Bono is the series' first transgendered contestant ."
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"(EW.com) -- Lifetime will put John Walsh back to work: The network announced today that it has picked up \"America's Most Wanted.\"",
"The show that began its run on the Fox owned and operated stations and then moved to the network will return for its 25th season later this year on Lifetime.",
"(In May, Fox canceled the show as a weekly Saturday series because the show was no longer profitable but it will still air quarterly specials -- the first of which will bow in October.)",
"\"I've always believed there was something very special about \"America's Most Wanted\" and that there should be a home for it on television, and I couldn't be happier to now be able bring it back on Lifetime,\" said Walsh in a statement.",
"\"We've often been called the court of last resort ... now we are back in the game and ready to saddle up for another season to get justice for victims and put dangerous criminals behind bars.\"",
"Hosted and executive produced by Walsh, \"America's Most Wanted\" has helped to capture more than 1,100 fugitives in the U.S. and 30 countries, including 17 on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.",
"Last season, the show averaged 5 million viewers on Fox and a 1.7 rating in the adult demo.",
"See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The show began its run on Fox owned and operated stations .",
"In May, Fox canceled the show as a weekly Saturday series .",
"It will return for its 25th season later this year on Lifetime ."
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"(CNN) -- The 54 men and 14 boys rescued after being found chained this week at an Islamic religious school in Pakistan have been reunited with their families or placed in shelters, authorities said.",
"The group was discovered in an underground room with heavy chains linking them together.",
"The school, Al-Arabiya Aloom Jamia Masjid Zikirya, which also was a drug rehab clinic, is in Sohrab Goth, a suburb of Gadap in Karachi.",
"All 14 boys were returned to their families, senior police official Ahsanullah Marwat told CNN.",
"Of the adults, 47 had been released to their families, and seven were handed over to a shelter for the homeless, he said.",
"Three people who worked at the facility were arrested, but the four men who ran the place were still at large, Marwat said.",
"Officials said the facility was part madrassa and part drug-rehab facility, and the captives were chained at night apparently to prevent their escape.",
"\"The operation was successful, and we plan on continuing our work to ensure that places like this are shut down,\" Marwat said.",
"Many of the captives told police their families sent them there because they were recovering drug addicts.",
"During the day, they worked and did religious studies.",
"But the future of the rescued children was unclear.",
"One woman told a local television station that she was willing to pay the police to keep her troublesome child.",
"She said she would rather have the facility remain open, regardless of how it treated the children.",
"Many others, however, said they were in shock and disbelief over the allegations.",
"One man complained he was deep in debt after paying the school a large amount of money to board his son."
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"Captive boys and men were rescued from an Islamic religious school in Pakistan .",
"They were reunited with their families this week .",
"The facility was a school and drug rehab clinic .",
"Authorities say they're searching for the owners; three others arrested at the facility ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate on Wednesday rejected two proposed versions for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution -- a setback to GOP leaders and conservative activists who say the measure is necessary to end the federal government's spiraling deficit spending.",
"A Democratic version opposed by Republicans fell on a 21-79 vote.",
"Then a Republican version also failed to get the two-thirds majority required with a 47-53 vote.",
"Last month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives failed to pass a GOP-proposed amendment, falling 23 votes shy of the two-thirds majority required for passage.",
"The congressional votes on the amendment were agreed to by both parties in August as part of the agreement raising Washington's debt ceiling.",
"Democratic leaders, however, are vehemently opposed to the idea, arguing that it would force the government into an economically destructive cycle of massive spending cuts.",
"Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said Wednesday that a step as historically significant as a constitutional amendment was unnecessary.",
"Getting government spending under control \"takes political will, even political courage,\" Durbin said, but \"it doesn't take a constitutional amendment.''",
"Conservative Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah disagreed, saying Congress has repeatedly proved it's unable to control itself on spending.",
"\"We are taxing and spending this country into bankruptcy,\" Hatch said, later adding, \"We don't have any restraint around here.\"",
"Despite the proposal's defeat, it has been favored by the public.",
"Nearly three in four Americans favored passage of the amendment in a July 18-20 CNN/ORC International Poll, while 24% were opposed.",
"Sixty percent of Americans say they believe a balanced budget amendment is necessary to get the deficit under control, according to the poll.",
"The House passed a balanced budget amendment in 1995, but the measure fell one vote short in the Senate in both 1995 and 1997."
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"A Republican version of the amendment previously failed to pass the House ."
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"(CNN) -- Since 2001, there have been many excellent, award-winning and ground-breaking films, both narrative and documentary, about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"\"The Hurt Locker,\" \"Taxi to the Dark Side,\" \"Control Room,\" \"Occupation: Dreamland,\" \"Gunner Palace,\" \"Why We Fight,\" \"Body of War,\" \"Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,\" \"No End in Sight,\" \"Restrepo,\" \"The Prisoner: Or How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair,\" \"Stop-Loss\" and so on.",
"All of these films have their place.",
"Many are exceptional, moving and award-winning pieces of work, but of those that I have seen, none pack the visceral, emotional and artistic wallop that Danfung Dennis' documentary \"Hell and Back Again\" delivers, and all without any politics whatsoever.",
"There's nothing, not one word of whether the United States should be fighting these wars, why we're there or who's to blame.",
"This is an intimate film about then-25-year-old Marine Sgt.",
"Nathan Harris, his wife (and high school sweetheart) Ashley and the personal cost of war.",
"It is also an astonishing technical achievement in war journalism and documentary filmmaking that may very possibly change the way conflicts are reported forever.",
"Dennis designed and built a customized Steadicam rig (a device that enables a filmmaker to move over an uneven surface without the camera bouncing up and down), allowing him to shoot footage that looks \"Hollywood,\" but was shot with a \"prosumer\" Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR: Basically a still camera that shoots HD video.",
"Along with a customized sound rig, Dennis was able to shoot intimate war footage that until now has been impossible.",
"The combat footage is, however, only part of the story.",
"Six months into his third tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and just days from rotating out, Harris (Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment) is gravely wounded during a Taliban ambush.",
"His hip and leg are broken, and blood transfusions and multiple surgeries are required to save his life.",
"Dennis was embedded with Echo Company when it was dropped deep behind enemy lines, and as an embedded reporter, he did his job, filming the troops in combat and interacting with Afghan locals.",
"During his time with the troops, Dennis got to know Harris, and after he was wounded, Dennis rejoined him in North Carolina and continued filming there.",
"As the film moves back and forth between Afghanistan and North Carolina, where Nathan is undergoing rehab for his injuries, it becomes painfully clear that the hell of war doesn't end when troops return home.",
"And after watching the film, it's unclear whether the \"hell\" of the title is Afghanistan or back home.",
"Harris' injuries are horrific, and he's on multiple medications.",
"In an early scene, his wife is driving the pair on a shopping trip and he's going through his meds (OxyContin, Dilaudid, etc.).",
"It's a pharmacy of addictive painkillers.",
"Later in the film, one of Harris' doctors explains the process of weaning him off the drugs, including withdrawal and the risk of dependency.",
"It's clear that Harris doesn't want to have to use the drugs forever, as he continuously complains of being nauseated and out of it, but he is also is just as clearly becoming dependent on them.",
"In Afghanistan, life is chaotic and dangerous and terrifying, but it is also, on one level, very simple.",
"Troops are there to do one main thing: kill bad guys.",
"(An early shot of a Marine instructor telling his charges that they are \"experts in the application of violence\" is chilling.)",
"However, once a Marine returns home, the frustrations of everyday life can be crippling.",
"For example, looking for a space in a crowded mall parking lot can be irritating enough as an everyday experience, but to a Marine recently returned from a war zone, this and many other mundane annoyances can be extremely frustrating, trivial and ultimately useless.",
"Add to that a body full of pain and medications, and you have the makings of a difficult re-entry into life on the home front.",
"With injuries as severe as Harris', it's virtually impossible to avoid getting hooked on pain pills.",
"Not only does the injury cause pain, but the brutal physical therapy that is needed to regain maximum usage of his leg is excruciating.",
"The differences between the strong, vigorous and professional leader in Afghanistan and the severely injured, angry, depressed, dependent and occasionally almost childlike man at home is shocking.",
"One chilling scene involves Harris relating his mindset when he first joined the Marines: \"All I wanted to do was kill people.\"",
"He was told by the recruiters that was the best answer they'd heard.",
"He says he no longer thinks that way, but it's clear that the Marines and the wars have had a serious effect on his psyche, as he is rarely seen in the film without a handgun, nervously loading and unloading it, pretending to play Russian roulette and even sleeping with it, loaded, under his mattress.",
"An additional casualty of the war is his wife, Ashley.",
"Portrayed as loyal and loving, it's clear that at times, she is scared for, and occasionally of, her husband.",
"War and his injuries have changed him, and in one unsettling scene, she recounts how there are times when Harris basically becomes a different person.",
"Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, and if this film does anything, it reminds us that the cost of war extends far beyond those who die in battle.",
"The returning troops and those to whom they return are also casualties, and they deserve our care and attention.",
"\"Hell and Back Again\" opened in New York on Wednesday and rolls out in major cities across the country over the coming weeks.",
"Check the movie's website for the release schedule.",
"The film is rated R. As one would expect, it contains a fair amount of off-color language as well as some brutal imagery.",
"But this is a documentary, and war is ugly."
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"A reporter embedded with Echo Company was dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan .",
"The Marine's injuries are horrific, and the film deals with his coping ."
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"(ESSENCE) -- As the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson wears many hats: environmentalist, upholder of anti-pollution policy and toxic chemical regulator, to name a few.",
"Lisa Jackson wears many hats as the administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.",
"But when she reflects on her role as the first African-American to head the agency, her aim is to make people see the connection between the environment and their lives.",
"Jackson spoke to ESSENCE.com about school safety, asthma, environmental racism -- and what she's doing to battle all three.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"ESSENCE.COM: You've said that your overarching goal is to return the EPA to its roots, to serve the American people and show that your work involves issues that they care about.",
"Can you give us some examples on how you plan to achieve that?",
"Watch powerful women and grieving mothers » .",
"Lisa Jackson: The example that probably best epitomizes it is what we're doing on air toxin's in schools.",
"USA Today did a front-page story saying they'd done some risk assessments, and think schools across the country have high level of toxins in the air around them.",
"The American people are rightfully worried, thinking, 'So now you're telling me that when I put my child on a school bus, I have to worry about them once they're there?'",
"We're in the middle of a 60-site monitoring effort with states to get air toxins information from the schools that are among the worst -- schools near highways with cars, buses and trucks, or schools that might be near factories.",
"We want to try to get a handle on this, not to comfort people, but to get them answers.",
"ESSENCE: Lisa Jackson brings change to EPA .",
"ESSENCE.COM: You've also spoken about elevated asthma rates in communities of color.",
"What can the EPA do to improve air quality when minority neighborhoods are already so congested?",
"Jackson: You have to think about the big actions that we do.",
"We know that one of the main triggers is high ozone levels.",
"You can't attack that in one area; that's a global problem.",
"What the EPA has to do is ratchet down on emissions from cars, trucks, factories and manufacturing processes that produce ozone.",
"That's regulatory work -- setting permit levels low enough and making sure there's enforcement so that people abide by those levels.",
"EPA has also proposed a monitoring network near major transportation arteries to better understand the pollution that's happening in the communities that are located next to them.",
"ESSENCE: Will the new green jobs go to black people?",
"ESSENCE.COM: Understanding that the EPA doesn't necessarily focus on the location of every bus depot or landfill in the country, it's still a big problem.",
"The decisions to locate polluting sites in minority neighborhoods are usually made by people who don't live in them.",
"Since their voices are so often not at the table, how can EPA regulate how those decisions are made, to break the cycle?",
"Jackson: That's what the environmental justice movement has been saying for a long time, that there ought to be some screen that you can use in permitting decisions to say, \"Are we talking about a place that's already disproportionately impacted?",
"And, if so, don't add to that pollution.\"",
"I think that is the policy challenge of our time.",
"It's all about public participation to me.",
"As you said, the decision is made not by the people who have to suffer the consequences of it.",
"ESSENCE: Give back like your favorite celebs .",
"People should be able to advocate and say, \"Okay, you can put that here, but we want to make sure that the level of contamination coming from the stack is something that's acceptable, and that we believe is safe for our community.\"",
"That's a big difference.",
"ESSENCE.COM: So, how do you educate them about this?",
"What does EPA outreach to minority communities look like?",
"Jackson: I think it looks like the kind of outreach we're doing in general.",
"We do it through enforcement, looking across a state and saying, \"Before you make a citing decision, you have to get adequate public comment that it meets clean air standards.\"",
"The other side of it is that we have grassroots groups out there who organize against additional pollution.",
"But we still haven't plugged in.",
"We still don't feel that EPA is an accessible enough organization.",
"I can play a role in that because communities feel more at home coming to us when they know there's an African-American woman at the head, and that she's making a real effort.",
"They can trust that, when they bring their issues to the table, I'm not going to sweep them under the rug.",
"In our regional offices, there's a real emphasis now that one of our priorities is environmental justice, and making sure that disproportionately impacted communities -- low-income populations and communities of color -- feel at home bringing their issues to us and know that they have a voice."
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"Jackson says her overarching goal is to return EPA to its roots .",
"\"What the EPA has to do is ratchet down on emissions,\" Jackson says .",
"Jackson says EPA feels they are still not accessible enough to the people ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Following an investigation, Israel apologized to Egypt this week over an August incident in which five Egyptian border guards were killed, the Israeli Ministry of Defense said.",
"The apology, issued Tuesday, was overshadowed by news that a deal had been reached for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by the Palestinian group Hamas more than five years ago.",
"However, it was largely seen as an olive branch to the transitional Egyptian government, as relations between Israel and Egypt have become strained in recent months.",
"On August 18, militants crossed into Israel from Egyptian territory to attack Israeli civilian targets.",
"Eight Israeli citizens were killed in the attacks, which Israel has said were the work of a jihadist group based in Gaza.",
"Responding to the attacks, Israeli troops killed five Egyptian border guards while in pursuit of the militants.",
"The investigation into the incident was conducted by senior Israel Defense Forces officials and Egyptian army officials, the Ministry of Defense said.",
"For security reasons, the ministry said, the results of the probe remain sealed.",
"Israel issued a rare statement of regret three days after the incident, after Egypt suggested it was recalling its ambassador in protest.",
"The overture, however, was deemed insufficient by many in Egypt and days later, angry protesters ransacked the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.",
"The entire staff was hastily withdrawn after U.S. President Barack Obama personally intervened with the Egyptians to secure their safe passage, but the sequence of events dealt a blow to Israeli-Egyptian relations.",
"In the wake of the embassy incident, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would stick to its 1979 peace agreement with Egypt.",
"In the Tuesday statement, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the August militant attack was \"despicable\" and \"meant to murder as many Israeli citizens as possible and destroy the peaceful relations that are strategically important between Israel and Egypt,\" the Tuesday statement said.",
"But \"based on the findings of the investigation, the defense minister decided to express his apology to Egypt over the death of every Egyptian policeman who was killed while on duty as a result of Israeli fire.\"",
"Netanyahu, meanwhile, spoke Thursday with the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi and thanked him for the \"central role\" Egypt played in the agreement for Shalit's return, the prime minister's office said.",
"\"Your assistance warms the cockles of the heart of all Israeli citizens,\" Netanyahu told Tantawi."
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"In August incident, 5 Egyptian border guards were killed by Israeli troops .",
"Relations between the two nations have been strained in recent months ."
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"(CNN) -- Major league catcher Wilson Ramos has been \"found alive,\" two days after he was reported kidnapped by gunmen, Venezuelan state TV reported Friday.",
"Ramos was found by security forces in Montalban, a mountainous region about 60 miles from the north central Venezuelan town where he was last seen, according to a tweet posted late Friday by Communications Minister Andres Izarra.",
"Ramos was reported by state-run VTV to be healthy and unharmed.",
"Ramos, a rising star for the Washington Nationals as a rookie this past year, had returned to his native country to play in Venezuela's winter league.",
"But before his first game with the Aragua Tigers, gunmen kidnapped him Wednesday night from his mother's home in Santa Ines in Carabobo state, a team spokeswoman said.",
"On Thursday, authorities said that they had found the SUV they believe was used in the kidnapping and had created sketches of two of the gunmen.",
"Prior to his release Friday, news about the federal investigation was tightly guarded.",
"\"It's understandable that everyone wants to know what is happening with Wilson and how the investigation goes, but remember that, in these cases, patience is key,\" Tigers spokeswoman Kathe Vilera said on her Twitter account.",
"She added that keeping the details sealed could help the investigation.",
"\"It has all the earmarks as a targeted kidnapping: selected victim, selected location, selected time,\" said Chris Voss, a kidnapping specialist for Insite Security who has handled six cases involving Venezuela and who worked for the FBI for 26 years.",
"\"There's an outside possibility that they thought they were grabbing another member of the family, but that's extremely unlikely.\"",
"Kidnapping as an industry has crossed the border from Colombia into Venezuela, Voss said.",
"\"When criminals next door show you a model of how to make money easily -- and kidnapping is usually pretty easy money -- then other kidnappers will simply ape it.\"",
"But targeting athletes and other celebrities can be a mistake, he said.",
"\"It's going to bring too much law enforcement scrutiny down on them; too much international scrutiny.",
"And media attention and scrutiny from law enforcement worldwide is bad for business.\"",
"Ramos, 24, emerged as the Nationals' top catcher this past season.",
"He had a .267 batting average with 15 home runs and 52 runs batted in.",
"Though soccer reigns in most Latin American countries, it is baseball that rules in Venezuela, which routinely feeds players to major league teams in the United States.",
"That pipeline has been transformed in recent years because of violence.",
"As Venezuela's economy has stagnated in recent years, crimes such as kidnapping and murder have risen.",
"According to the National Institute of Statistics, 16,917 people were kidnapped between July 2008 and July 2010, or about 23 kidnappings a day.",
"Baseball players who play professionally in the United States, whether in the major or minor leagues, are typically targeted for their money, though Ramos' case is the first time a player himself has been snatched.",
"Usually, a family member is held for ransom.",
"\"Government, please do something because Venezuela is crumbling with so much insecurity while you say that Venezuela is safe,\" Venezuelan baseball player Jose Castillo wrote on his Twitter account.",
"Melvin Dorta, a Venezuelan playing professionally in the U.S. Atlantic Independent League, told CNN that there are lots of opportunities in Venezuela, but also pitfalls.",
"Dorta has played for the Aragua Tigers and is a friend and former teammate of Ramos.",
"\"Venezuela does have one of the best winter leagues, but it is one of the leagues where the Americans ask before going because of the insecurity and the dangers that one faces,\" he said.",
"Those dangers have led many American teams to abandon their baseball academies in Venezuela, said Arturo Marcano, a lawyer and sports columnist who co-authored a book about the recruitment of players from Venezuela.",
"When major league teams noticed the talent sitting in places like the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, they increased their investment in the region.",
"Instead of relying on scouts to find players, they instituted the academies to find, train and sign players, Marcano said.",
"\"The goal is to identify the players and sign the players, and if you can do it as cheaply as possible, all the better,\" he told CNN.",
"As crime in Venezuela increased, however, operating the academies became dangerous for their managers and scouts.",
"\"All of a sudden, with these safety issues, teams started to leave,\" Marcano said.",
"At its peak, about 16 major league teams operated baseball academies in Venezuela, he said.",
"Today, that number is only five or six.",
"Teams have returned to the practice of sending only scouts, and then sending promising players to academies in the Dominican Republic.",
"Venezuelans who make it to the big leagues in the United States and return home become targets because there is a perception that they all make a lot of money, Marcano said.",
"But for the minor leaguers and nonsuperstars in their first major league years, that is not necessarily the case.",
"Another aspect that may have influenced the Ramos kidnapping is that players from humble backgrounds who make money in the pros often return to the rough neighborhoods where their families live.",
"Working-class families often don't want to leave their neighborhoods and their friends; they may feel they don't belong in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods.",
"For example, Ramos was kidnapped from the home of his relatives, who had stayed in a tough area despite his success."
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"NEW: Ramos is healthy and unharmed, state-run VTV reports .",
"NEW: He was found by security forces about 60 miles from where he was last seen .",
"Gunmen abducted Wilson Ramos Wednesday in the Venezuelan city of Valencia ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- November 28th last year passed pretty quietly here.",
"But in some ways it was more significant a date than today.",
"That was when, by my calculations, U.S.-led coalition troops had been in Afghanistan longer than the Soviet Union was.",
"Today, they've been here 10 years.",
"That's almost impossible to contemplate.",
"The time has drifted by, measured more in sacrifice and expenditure: The numbers of young soldiers who risked a lot to join the military and won't be going home.",
"The immeasurable amount of money spent here, on roads that will be hard to maintain once the coalition leaves, on homes in Dubai for Afghan officials who should have known better.",
"Cruder calculations suggest the money spent on war each month here could alternatively be given straight to Afghans -- hundreds of dollars each a month.",
"That would have been something in 2001, but now the huge inflation of war makes it comparative small change.",
"General Stanley McChrystal, the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said Thursday the coalition is only 50 per cent of the way there.",
"It is likely McChrystal, who lost his job after he and his team were quoted extensively in Rolling Stone magazine, will be remembered as the great truth-teller of the war that ended his military career.",
"For a little while, his bluntly pessimistic assessments felt like there was someone in charge who knew how bad and how complicated it was, and how long the road ahead would be.",
"As one of McChrystal's top aides, Maj. Gen Bill Mayville, told Rolling Stone in that same article: \"It's not going to look like a win, smell like a win or taste like a win.\"",
"But after McChrystal's hasty departure, the war seemed to revert to crisis management again.",
"His replacement as commander of U.S. and ISAF troops in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus had little time in the job before the collapse in domestic support -- dare I even say comprehension -- of the war led Obama to begin thinking about the exit.",
"It has been curious to see Obama, the presidential candidate who seemed to understand the importance of leaving this country in a manageable state, become the drum beater for an exit.",
"The war is not a vote-winner after Bin Laden's death, and there's simply no money left in the kitty.",
"Some things are better: there's money everywhere here; there's better healthcare in some places; there's technology the Taliban held at bay; there are hospitals and schools where before there were none.",
"But it's not a proper democracy; it's not safe; the vast majority of people here are still poor and illiterate; and it's still got the Taliban, al Qaeda and a lot of narco-traffickers in play.",
"Now the timetable is set, the battle of perception, as NATO called it, being fought with one unmistakable backdrop: The Americans want out.",
"The NATO message is being persistently and deftly put out there: We are making security good enough for the Afghans to handle.",
"You hear that message, come hell or high water, almost independent of what's happening on the ground.",
"It's easy to understand why: It may be there's not much more America can do here, bar stay another 10 years."
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"The vast majority of people in Afghanistan are still poor and illiterate .",
"There's better healthcare and technology, but still no proper democracy ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's 77-year-old emperor was hospitalized on Sunday, several days after coming down with a fever, a spokesperson with the Imperial Household Agency said.",
"Emperor Akihito, a ceremonial but revered figure in the Japan, was suffering from a worsening case of bronchitis and the fever he contracted Thursday, according to the spokesperson, who declined to be identified due to the agency's media protocol.",
"\"He appears to be fatigued and has lost some resistance to fight against sickness,\" the spokesperson said.",
"\"To be on the safe side, he was hospitalized (Sunday night) at University of Tokyo Hospital.\"",
"It is the emperor's second time in a hospital this year, after getting medical treatment in February for extensive tests of his coronary arteries.",
"Japan's Cabinet on Sunday approved a measure to temporarily elevate Crown Prince Naruhito to the role of emperor and give him power over all the responsibilities that position entails, according to a person at the Cabinet office, who also was not named per policy.",
"Akihito: The 125th Emperor of Japan .",
"Born in Tokyo in December 1933 into a family that eventually consisted of seven children, Akihito became crown prince in 1952 -- the same year he enrolled at Gakushuin University, according to his official biography.",
"Seven years later, he married then-crown princess, and now Empress Michiko, and together they raised three children.",
"On January 7, 1989, following the death of his father Hirohito, Akihito became emperor.",
"The position, per Japan's constitution, is defined as \"the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people.\"",
"That said, the office's involvement in day-to-day government affairs tends to be minimal.",
"Yet Emperor Akihito broke from precedent following Japan's epic 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami earlier this year, when he gave a historic, televised speech.",
"In it, he encouraged citizens to put forth their \"best effort to save all suffering people\" and he applauded his countrymen's handling of the crisis.",
"\"I truly hope the victims of the disaster never give up hope, take care of themselves, and live strong for tomorrow,\" he said in a calm and poignant oration delivered from the Imperial Palace.",
"\"Also, I want all citizens of Japan to remember everyone who has been affected by the devastation, not only today but for a long time afterwards -- and help with the recovery.\""
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"Emperor Akihito, 77, came down with a fever Thursday, an imperial spokesperson says .",
"He also has been suffering from a worsening case of bronchitis .",
"He appeared \"fatigued and lost some resistance,\" adds the spokesperson .",
"Born in 1933, Akihito became emperor in 1989 ."
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"(CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has put the brakes on a controversial road project through a national park in the Amazon rainforest where indigenous communities live.",
"\"The road project in the indigenous park ... is suspended,\" Morales announced Monday, after 41 days of sometimes violent protests.",
"Before the project can proceed, it will have to pass a referendum in Cochabamba and Beni provinces, where the road would be located, according to the president.",
"The announcement came as Morales condemned weekend violence between police and an indigenous group protesting the construction.",
"\"We ... do not share the use of violence and the abuse toward the indigenous brothers who were on the march,\" the president said.",
"Some indigenous leaders said a baby was killed, but Morales said there was no evidence to support the claim.",
"\"We do not know of the death of a baby or child; I hope it did not happen,\" the president.",
"said. But Jose Ortiz, leader of the Indigenous from northern La Paz, said \"this attack ... will stay in the memory of all Bolivians.",
"... We are outraged.\" Hundreds of people gathered Monday in the capital, La Paz, to denounce the violence, chanting \"killers, killers, killers\" to police.",
"Bienvenido Zacu, the deputy of the Guarayos Indigenous people from Santa Cruz called the violence \"a violation of the human rights,\" saying it was the first time he had seen \"this kind of abuse by an Indian government.\"",
"Some groups are planning a general strike for Wednesday."
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"The suspension follows 41 days of protests .",
"Violence broke out between demonstrators and police Sunday .",
"A referendum is required for the project to restart .",
"The road would run through the Amazon rainforest ."
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"Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- Army Staff Sgt.",
"Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years.",
"A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses to keep as \"souvenirs\" and planting weapons to make the men appear as if they were Taliban fighters killed in legitimate firefights.",
"He was reduced in rank to private and ordered to forfeit all pay and benefits.",
"Whatever sentence Gibbs serves will be reduced by the 547 days he has already spent in prison.",
"\"He said they were all dirty savages,\" prosecutor Maj. Andre Leblanc said at Gibbs' sentencing hearing.",
"\"He is the savage, not the innocent Afghans he murdered.",
"It is monstrous. What kind of savagery does it take to do this?",
"To cut a finger off a victim and show it to people?",
"This is a savage being\" Gibbs' attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, had asked the court for a sentence of life with parole so Gibbs would have the opportunity to be with his now-3-year-old son again.",
"\"He has a long time to reflect on his life, what he has done and what he wants to do in the future,\" Stackhouse said.",
"Gibbs is the highest ranking of five soldiers charged with being part of a rogue \"kill squad\" that targeted civilians.",
"Another seven soldiers also were charged with lesser crimes including abusing drugs, keeping \"off the books\" weapons and intimidating a fellow soldier not to speak out against the platoon's alleged killings.",
"Gibbs had pleaded not guilty.",
"A prosecutor described Gibbs as a \"recruiting poster\" soldier.",
"But the tall, clean-cut Gibbs and the \"kill squad\" he was convicted of leading turned into a public-relations nightmare for the military.",
"\"Sgt. Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality,\" Maj. Robert Stelle, a prosecutor in the case, told the court in closing arguments Wednesday.",
"\"But it was all a bunch of crap, he had his own mission: murder and depravity.\"",
"The murders Gibbs is accused of committing took place over a period of five months last year, while Gibbs led the 3rd Platoon of the Army¹s 5th Stryker Brigade in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.",
"Gibbs' platoon was tasked with patrolling small villages in the area to build relationships with an Afghan population wary of the U.S. presence in their country.",
"Instead, prosecutors said Gibbs and a small group of rogue soldiers allegedly plotted to murder civilians and then planted weapons on them so they appeared to be Taliban attackers.",
"\"Selling a fake engagement as a real engagement, that's what they were doing,\" Stelle told the court.",
"In court testimony, Gibbs said he did not execute anyone.",
"Prosecutors said Gibbs participated in the killings of three unarmed civilians: two farmers and a village cleric.",
"Gibbs said he killed one of the men, but he claimed it was in self-defense.",
"However, the staff sergeant admitted to ripping and cutting off fingers of all three men he was charged with killing.",
"He kept the body parts, he said, to give to soldiers he favored or to intimidate soldiers he disliked.",
"\"I was numb to the situation,\" Gibbs told the court about why he had taken the body parts.",
"\"I wasn't thinking; it's sickening.",
"I am embarrassed.\" Gibbs also admitted to posing for photos with bodies against military regulations.",
"\"People wanted to prove they were there,\" Gibbs replied when asked by his attorney why the soldiers took the photos.",
"The Army later apologized after the photos were leaked to the press.",
"Gibbs appeared shocked after the verdict was read, and his wife, Army Spec.",
"Chelsy Gibbs, began to cry.",
"According to court records, she filed for divorce from Staff Sgt.",
"Gibbs in August and asked for custody of their toddler son.",
"The panel of three officers and two enlisted soldiers started deliberating in a military courtroom near Tacoma shortly before 10 a.m. (1 p.m.",
"ET) and returned its verdict around 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ...",
"Phillip Stackhouse, Gibbs' defense attorney, had argued other soldiers were framing his client.",
"Three soldiers pleaded guilty to the killings and agreed to testify against Gibbs as part of plea deals.",
"\"What if there is no hard evidence other than what you have heard from that witness stand?\"",
"Stackhouse said Wednesday.",
"Some witnesses also admitted to smoking hashish they obtained from Afghan translators.",
"Their testimony, Stackhouse said, \"came under a cloud of hash.\"",
"Stackhouse argued Gibbs wasn't where other witnesses said he was during the engagements.",
"And, according to Stackhouse, in February 2010 Gibbs couldn't have smuggled an AK-47 in his backpack into a village where prosecutors said he then planted the assault rifle on the body of an Afghan man he had killed.",
"Grasping an AK-47, Stackhouse showed the rifle would not fully fit into a soldier's backpack.",
"Prosecutors countered that Gibbs had used a model of the rifle that has a shorter muzzle and could be concealed.",
"Gibbs remains under investigation for the 2004 shooting death of a family in Iraq during his tour there, Army spokesman Maj. Chris Ophardt told CNN Thursday.",
"The investigation into the family's killing had been closed but was reopened after Gibbs was charged with the murders of civilians in Afghanistan.",
"During testimony last week, Gibbs said he shot at a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint in Iraq that he was manning.",
"Inside the bullet-riddled car, Gibbs testified, were not combatants but an unarmed Iraqi family.",
"Gibbs admitted in court that he told his troops in Afghanistan about the Iraq shooting as an example that soldiers would not face consequences for acting aggressively, even if civilians were hurt.",
"\"If they are put in a tight situation, don't not pull the trigger,\" Gibbs said he advised members of his platoon in Afghanistan. \"You won't go to jail for it.\""
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"Calvin Gibbs is sentenced to life in prison, with parole possible .",
"NEW: He remains under investigation for the 2004 shooting death of a family in Iraq .",
"Prosecutors: Gibbs' platoon staged killings of civilians as firefights with Taliban .",
"Defense says Gibbs' accusers were high on hashish at the time ."
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"(CNN) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan was released from jail early Monday morning, just hours after she was booked in, authorities said.",
"Lohan, 25, checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, at 8:48 p.m. Sunday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on its website.",
"By 3:10 a.m. Monday, Lohan had been released, Sheriff's Deputy Mark Pope said.",
"Last week, a Los Angeles County judge ordered Lohan to serve a 30-day jail term after she admitted she violated her probation on a necklace theft conviction.",
"At the time, Los Angeles County Sheriff spokesman Steve Whitmore said it was likely Lohan could be booked in and booked out the same day.",
"\"It depends on the fluctuations of the day, what's going on in the jail,\" Whitmore said.",
"The actress must work at least 12 days a month at the county morgue until she completes the 53 remaining days on her court-ordered community service, Judge Stephanie Sautner told her.",
"Lohan must also attend 18 psychotherapy sessions.",
"If Lohan misses any of those goals, she will be returned to jail for another 270 days, the judge ruled.",
"\"This is what we really call putting the keys to the jail in the defendant's hands,\" Sautner told Lohan.",
"Lohan's spokesman, Steve Honig, said Monday, \"Lindsay is very focused on fulfilling her community service obligation so she can put all of this behind her.\"",
"The actress admitted violating her probation during a hearing Wednesday.",
"\"You are not to get house arrest or early release, except for that required by the law,\" Sautner said.",
"Whitmore said that the early release program is part of the law, meaning Lohan would likely get out quickly due to overcrowding.",
"Lohan did a short stint in jail last year.",
"When Sautner sentenced Lohan to 120 days in jail last May, she ended up serving 35 days of home confinement instead, due to jail overcrowding and state rules that give prisoners credit for good behavior.",
"It was not immediately clear how many days Lohan will actually serve this month if she ends up getting credit for good behavior.",
"Prosecutors said Lohan missed 12 of 20 scheduled workdays at a downtown Los Angeles women's center, part of the court-ordered community service imposed in May when she pleaded guilty to stealing a necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store.",
"Lohan was already on probation for two drunken driving convictions from 2007.",
"She also canceled 14 of 19 scheduled appointments for court-ordered psychotherapy, they said.",
"\"From what I see of you, you need a structure,\" Sautner told Lohan last week.",
"The judge instructed Lohan to return to court each month, starting December 14, to show she is complying with the schedule.",
"If the actress stays on track, her probation would be eased on March 29, 2012, Sautner said.",
"If she doesn't keep up with the requirements, she will serve the additional 270 days behind bars, the judge said.",
"The full sentence imposed Wednesday was 150 days for the necklace theft probation violation and 150 days for violating probation on the 2007 drunk driving conviction in Beverly Hills.",
"While the original sentence included 360 hours of community service at a downtown Los Angeles women's center, the judge said she did not want to put the Skid Row charity through the pain of Lohan again.",
"When the judge called The Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women, the charity refused to take Lohan on as a worker, \"saying you were a bad example,\" Sautner said.",
"But Lohan seemed to find a good fit with her work at the Los Angeles County morgue, where Deputy Chief Coroner Ed Winter said she worked four days in the past two weeks cleaning up.",
"\"So, the morgue is willing to keep you,\" the judge said.",
"All of her community service work has been transferred there, she said.",
"In October, the actress' father, Michael Lohan, told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" program that his daughter shouldn't be in jail, but in rehab.",
"Michael Lohan was arrested twice in two days last month for violating a court order to stay away from his former girlfriend.",
"CNN learned last week that he is now in an \"administrative confinement\" cell in the infirmary section of Orient Road jail in Tampa, Florida, where he was awaiting trial.",
"Lindsay Lohan's legal woes, which began four years ago with two drunk driving arrests, have been compounded by her failure to attend counseling classes.",
"Her probation is scheduled to end within a year unless Lohan breaks any laws before then.",
"It has been extended several times because of violations, including failed alcohol and drug tests.",
"CNN's Alan Duke and Maria P. White contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Lindsay Lohan is focused on \"her community service obligation,\" her spokesman says .",
"Lohan is released after several hours in jail .",
"Lohan was sentenced to 30 days after admitting to violating her probation .",
"Judge: A homeless charity rejects Lohan, but \"the morgue is willing to keep you\""
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"(CNN) -- He came out on court wearing a Halloween mask, but Novak Djokovic had to overcome a fright of his own before winning his comeback match in Switzerland on Tuesday.",
"The world No. 1, playing his first ATP Tour tournament since winning the U.S. Open six weeks ago, survived a second-set scare against Xavier Malisse before beating the Belgian 6-2 4-6 7-5 at the Swiss Indoors event.",
"Djokovic suffered a recurring back injury in Serbia's Davis Cup defeat by Argentina just days after beating Rafael Nadal in an epic final in New York.",
"He missed tournaments in Asia, including the Shanghai Masters, but has returned to action in Basel where he was champion in 2009 and runner-up to Roger Federer last year.",
"\"I'm only just back from the biggest injury of my career,\" Djokovic said after extending his record this year to 65-3.",
"\"It was a big ask for me to have played really well.",
"\"I could do nothing for four and a half weeks, I've only been hitting for a week and a half.",
"That's not enough to play at my best.",
"I've lost rhythm.",
"\"I had too many errors and too many double-faults.",
"But I'm happy just to be playing tennis again.",
"I hope to build on this performance.\"",
"As top seed, he is in the opposite half of the draw from Federer and new world No.",
"3 Andy Murray, who could meet in the semis.",
"The 24-year-old will next play either Poland's world No.",
"59 Lukasz Kubot or 91st-ranked German Tobias Kamke, who both came through the qualifying draw.",
"Fifth seed Mardy Fish's hopes of qualifying for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals suffered a blow when he was forced to retire with a hamstring injury against fellow American James Blake after winning the opening game.",
"Fish holds the last of the eight places on offer for the London showpiece but could be overhauled if he has to miss the penultimate tournament in Paris starting next week.",
"Blake will next play Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin, a lucky loser from qualifying who upset American wildcard Donald Young in his opening match.",
"Stanislas Wawrinka, a semifinalist in 2006 and the Swiss No.",
"2 behind Federer, beat Croatia's Ivan Dodig 6-4 6-4 to set up a match with either Murray or Dutchman Robin Haase, who meet on Wednesday.",
"Federer's next match is against Jarkko Nieminen, after the Finn beat Brazil's Thomaz Belluci 6-7(5-7) 6-4 6-3.",
"Tomas Berdych had the sixth finals place ahead of his clash with Japan's Kei Nishikori, but the Czech failed to earn any ranking points after losing 3-6 6-3 6-2.",
"Seventh-ranked Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga closed to within five points of Berdych by winning his opening match at the Valencia Open on Tuesday.",
"Tsonga had to battle before beating 19-year-old Spanish wildcard Javier Marti 4-6 7-5 6-2 to secure his 12th win in 14 matches and set up a second-round clash with American Sam Querrey -- who defeated Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 6-4 6-4.",
"Top seed David Ferrer is one of the five players already qualified for London, and he overcame fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-3 6-2 in his opening match to set up a meeting with Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil.",
"French third seed Gael Monfils went through with a 6-3 6-1 win over Albert Montanes, but Ukrainian seventh seed Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. was eliminated by another Spaniard, Marcel Granollers."
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"1 Novak Djokovic wins his first match in six weeks at Swiss Indoors event .",
"Serbian beats Belgium's Xavier Malisse in three sets, but complains of being rusty .",
"Fifth seed Mardy Fish suffers injury blow ahead of the climax to the men's season .",
"Jo-Wilfried Tsonga closes on ATP World Tour finals place with opening win in Valencia ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal must qualify for Euro 2012 through the playoffs after losing 2-1 to Denmark Tuesday night in Copenhagen.",
"Portugal needed only to draw the Group H game to reach the finals after five straight wins, but came up short against Morten Olsen's men.",
"The Danes scored through Michael Krohn-Dehli and Sunderland striker Nicklas Bendtner with Ronaldo grabbing a consolation goal in injury time.",
"It was a massive setback for Portugal, who have also missed out on qualification as the best runners-up spot.",
"That honor has gone to Sweden, who beat Group E winners the Netherlands 3-2 in Stockholm.",
"Goals from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Dirk Kuyt put the Dutch 2-1 ahead into the second half before Sebastian Larsson scored from the spot after a penalty was awarded following a handball by Joris Mathijsen.",
"Almost straight from the kick off Ola Toivonen put Sweden back in front and they held on to inflict the first defeat on the Dutch since they lost the 2010 World Cup final to Spain.",
"Bosnia Herzegovina came close to an upset against France in the Stade de France after Manchester City's Edin Dzecko scored with a superb curling shot just before halftime.",
"But Laurent Blanc's France, who needed only a draw to seal their qualification from Group D, leveled through a late Samir Nasri penalty after he had been fouled.",
"Bosnia now go into the playoffs.",
"Elsewhere, reigning World and European champions Spain ended Scotland's slim hopes of a playoff spot as they rounded off their Group I qualifying campaign with a 3-1 home win.",
"David Silva put Spain ahead after six minutes and added a second just before the break to sink the Scots.",
"The Czech Republic won 4-1 in Lithuania to claim the playoff spot.",
"Traditional powerhouses Germany made it 10 wins from 10 games in Group A as they ended Belgium's hopes of the playoff spot with a 3-1 home win.",
"Real Madrid's Mesut Ozil with a superb opener, then Andre Schuerrle and Mario Gomez scored for Joachim Loew's rampant side.",
"Marouane Fellaini headed a late consolation for Belgium who lost out as Guus Hiddink's Turkey claimed second place with a 1-0 home win against Azerbaijan.",
"2004 champions Greece qualified for the finals after beating Georgia 2-1 to top Group F but it took two late goals to seal their place.",
"Having beaten main rivals Croatia 2-0 last Friday, they fell behind to a David Targamadze goals in the 19th minute.",
"But the visitors equalized 11 minutes from time through second-half substitute Georgios Fotakis and scored the winner in the 85th minute thanks to evergreen Angelos Charisteas - scorer of the goal that secured that Euro 2004 title over Portugal.",
"Russia are also through after beating thrashing Andorra 6-0 in their final Group B match while the Republic of Ireland will go into the playoffs after they beat Armenia 2-1.",
"Slovenia beat Serbia 2-1 in Group C to leave Estonia in second place behind group winners Italy who rounded off their campaign with a 3-0 home win over Northern Ireland."
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"(CNN) -- Much-needed rain fell across drought-stricken Texas on Sunday, offering relief but no end to what's been one of the state's driest years on record.",
"Some areas received more rain in a day than had fallen all summer.",
"Waco, Texas, where temperatures hit at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit 78 days this year, received 5.83 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.",
"Dallas got 1.37 inches of rain, while San Antonio received 3.06 inches -- a record for the date.",
"The weather service forecast rainfall amounts over the central and southern Plains of 1-3 inches per hour, with totals of more than 10 inches possible in some places by Monday morning.",
"\"This should put a significant dent in the ongoing severe drought over portions of the area, but this amount of rain in a short period of time could also lead to possible flash flooding across northern Texas and Oklahoma,\" the weather service said.",
"It added that drought conditions are expected to persist because of the magnitude of the shortage.",
"With much of the state in an exceptional drought, Texas has been scarred by one of the worst fire seasons in memory.",
"Since wildfire season started in November, more than 3.8 million of the state's 167.5 million acres have burned in some 24,000 fires, according to the Texas Forest Service.",
"Roughly 2,800 homes were destroyed.",
"\"What the state needs is several widespread rainfall events over several months,\" the weather service said.",
"Heavy rains and slippery field conditions at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington forced the postponement Sunday of the second game of the American League Championship Series.",
"Weather permitting, the Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers will make up the game Monday afternoon.",
"CNN's Jacqui Jeras contributed to this report."
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"Drought conditions are expected to persist .",
"Texas has been scarred by one of the worst fire seasons in memory .",
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"(CNN) -- Alex Ferguson celebrates 25 years as Manchester United manager on Sunday, and the Scotsman has called his reign at Old Trafford a \"fairytale.\"",
"Ferguson, who turns 70 this month, has overseen United's recent dominance of English football, guiding the Red Devils to 12 English Premier League titles and five FA Cups.",
"Continental success has also been achieved, with Ferguson leading United to two European Champions League triumphs in 1999 and 2008.",
"The highlight of the former Scotland coach's reign so far arrived in 1999, when United's Champions League final win over Bayern Munich completed an historic treble which also included Premier League and FA Cup triumphs.",
"United he stands: The real Fergie .",
"\"It's been a really fantastic spell for me and something you don't think is going to happen,\" Ferguson told the club's official website.",
"\"It's been a bit of a fairytale to last so long and I appreciate that.\"",
"Ferguson, who arrived at United from Scottish outfit Aberdeen on November 6 1986, was quick to praise the vast array of star players he has been able to work with during a quarter of a century at the club.",
"\"I've been very fortunate to have some of the best players in the game and, when I look back on these players I think about how fortunate I am.",
"Ferguson's top 25 Manchester United moments .",
"\"It's incredible when you look at who's been here - Bryan Robson, Norman Whiteside, Brian McClair, Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Roy Keane, Eric Cantona.",
"What a collection of fantastic players.\"",
"It could all have been very different for United and Ferguson, with the Glasgow native originally planning to retire from football in 2002.",
"But Ferguson changed his mind, remained in the Old Trafford dugout and last season helped United to a record 19th English title -- overtaking the mark previously set by archrivals Liverpool.",
"Ferguson refuses to set a date for when he will step aside at United, saying he will remain in the job as long as his health allows.",
"\"I'll continue as long as I feel healthy enough to do it,\" he said.",
"\"In management, things change as the years go on.",
"It's different now even to seven or eight years ago.",
"A lot of things have changed.\"",
"United's neighbors Manchester City currently lead England's top flight, five points clear of Ferguson's team.",
"Former United captain Steve Bruce brings his Sunderland team to Old Trafford for a Premier League clash on Saturday."
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"Ferguson has won 12 EPL titles, 5 FA Cups and two European Champions League crowns ."
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"(CNN) -- Ireland --- once Europe's 'Celtic Tiger' -- was last year felled by its black hole of a banking sector, and forced to tap Europe's bailout fund.",
"The country continues to live off bailout funds -- yet in September internet giant Twitter announced its intention to set up headquarters in Dublin.",
"It will join Facebook and Google, which both have their headquarters in the Irish capital.",
"The move suggests Dublin could again become a major player in the technology industry, despite the country's financial woes.",
"According to Noel Ruane, head of Dogpatch Labs Europe -- which likens itself to a 'frat house for geeks' -- the city has enough of an internet community to rival Silicon Valley.",
"Dogpatch Labs was created by the U.S.-based venture capital company Polaris Venture Partners, and provides a space for aspiring entrepreneurs to brainstorm with like-minded people.",
"The center has also chosen to call Dublin its European home, with Ruane as its entrepreneur in residence.",
"Ruane believes Dublin is a good base for emerging companies, despite their consumers being located elsewhere.",
"Many companies are web based, and don't need to be near their customers, he says.",
"He acknowledges language barriers can prove more difficult for companies in Europe than in other parts of the world, such as the U.S. \"There is a localization requirement; we don't have one homogenous market like the U.S. where there are 300 million plus people that companies can target.\"",
"But he says the nature of the web means businesses can be successful from wherever they're located, including Dublin.",
"But while Dublin's reputation as an internet hub is growing, many developers are still honing their skills in the U.S first before establishing themselves in Europe.",
"\"I meet companies all the time where the founders have returned home after perhaps graduating from Stamford University and spending some years with the large internet companies in Silicon Valley,\" explains Ruane.",
"\"They have all that experience so that they can set up business back in Europe.\"",
"CNN's Emily Smith contributed to this story."
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"Google and Facebook have their international headquarters in Ireland .",
"Dogpatch Labs Europe provides space for entrepreneurs .",
"Its head Noel Ruane believes Dublin can rival Silicon Valley ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- All 50 states plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., submitted applications to the Department of Transportation for grants to fund DOT projects, but -- in a sign of tough economic times coupled with a shortage of federal dollars -- not everyone is finding presents under the federal Christmas tree this year.",
"U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday that 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico will receive $511 million in the latest round of Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants.",
"See the list of projects (PDF) The Transportation Department had received a total of 848 applications requesting $14.3 billion, exceeding the $511 million available under the TIGER program.",
"The grants will fund a range of transportation work in urban and rural areas from light rail systems and ports to bridges, roadways, runways, pipelines, streetcars and bike-share projects.",
"Among the biggest grants: $20 million for Chicago to complete 3.6 miles of track on the city's transit authority's Blue Line, serving millions of passengers, as well as expanding a bike-share program.",
"The Missouri Department of Transportation also received $20 million for roadway improvements along the I-270 corridor in St. Louis.",
"Three grants were directed to tribal governments to create jobs and provide transportation needs.",
"A grant of $3.7 million was given to the Seminole Tribe of Florida to improve several miles of road on the Big Cypress Reservation.",
"The existing road has two 10-foot lanes with worn, unpaved shoulders and substandard sidewalks, according to DOT.",
"Officials say the improvements will enhance emergency hurricane evacuation routes and enhance access to commercial and tourist destinations.",
"The smallest grant went to the Native Village of St. Michael, Alaska, which received a $1 million grant to resurface and re-contour roads to provide better access to schools and improve drainage issues that arise from seasonal flooding.",
"Obama orders contracts be awarded by year's end .",
"LaHood, who was in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday to highlight a streetcar project, told reporters the allocation of funds is coming months ahead of schedule to allow communities to move forward with critical, job-creating infrastructure projects.",
"\"Our economic challenges have been decades in the making and won't be solved overnight,\" said LaHood.",
"The city of Cincinnati was awarded a nearly $11 million grant to design and construct the Streetcar Riverfront Loop that the transportation department says \"has the potential to revitalize\" the city's urban core by providing a public transit alternative.",
"Work has already begun on 33 planning projects while 58 capital projects are under way from the previous two rounds of grants.",
"LaHood said an additional 13 projects are expected to break ground within the next six months.",
"Of the $511 million in available funds, more than $150 million will go to projects in rural areas.",
"Almost half of the funding will go to road and bridge projects.",
"An additional $16 million will be used to pay for administrative costs to make sure the program is properly administered \"by the book,\" said LaHood.",
"DOT says grants are awarded to transportation projects that have a significant national or regional impact.",
"the department gives priority to work expected to create jobs and stimulate economic growth."
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"Projects range from roadways to light rail systems to bike-share programs .",
"Applications came from all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.\nA total of 848 applications sought $14.3 billion .",
"The $511 million available will go for 46 projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico ."
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"(CNN) -- The father of Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney has been arrested and bailed by Merseyside Police over an inquiry into suspicious betting patterns concerning a Scottish Premier League match last year.",
"Wayne Rooney Senior, 48, was one of nine people arrested on suspicion of fraud, relating to a match between Motherwell and Hearts on December 14 2010.",
"The eight other people arrested and bailed include Rooney's uncle, Richie, 54, and Liverpool-born midfielder Steve Jennings, 26, who plays for Scottish side Motherwell.",
"A police statement read: \"Merseyside Police can confirm that all of the nine men arrested on Thursday October 6 as part of an investigation into suspicious betting activity have now been released on police bail pending further inquiries.",
"\"All nine were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and all have been released on police bail until late January while inquiries continue.",
"The joint investigation by Merseyside Police and the Gambling Commission remains ongoing.\"",
"Rooney's father later released his own statement in which he vigorously denied allegations of being involved in a football betting scam and was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.",
"Solicitor Anthony Barnfather, who is representing Rooney Senior, said in a statement: \"Mr Rooney vigorously denies all of these allegations.",
"We are co-operating fully with the investigation.",
"No further comment will be made at this time.\"",
"Rooney is currently with the England squad preparing for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Macedonia on Friday and England coach Fabio Capello told media that his star forward was fully concentrated on the upcoming match, where a draw will seal England's qualification.",
"Capello said: \" I have spoken to Wayne and found him relaxed and calm.",
"There is no problem for the game against Montenegro and he is sure a solution will be found to this personal problem in a very short space of time.\""
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"Wayne Rooney's father is one of nine men arrested over an alleged betting fraud .",
"The England striker's uncle and Motherwell's Steve Jennings also arrested by police .",
"All nine people have been released on bail until January next year .",
"The allegations concern a Scottish match between Motherwell and Hearts in 2010 ."
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"(CNN) -- UEFA have announced the seeds for the Euro 2012 playoffs, after the final round of qualifying matches were completed on Tuesday.",
"The four teams seeded for the draw are 2004 hosts and beaten finalists Portugal, Giovanni Trapattoni's Republic of Ireland, Euro 1996 runners-up Czech Republic and Slaven Bilic's Croatia.",
"The four other nations in the draw are 2008 semifinalists Turkey and three countries bidding to reach their first major soccer tournament -- Montenegro, Estonia and Bosnia Herzegovina.",
"Denmark seal Euro 2012 spot after beating Portugal .",
"The playoff draw will be made in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Thursday, with the two-legged ties set to be played on November 11/12 and 15.",
"Next year's tournament will be the 14th European championship and will be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine."
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"UEFA have announced the seeds for the Euro 2012 playoffs .",
"Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic and Croatia are the seeds .",
"Turkey, Montenegro, Estonia and Bosnia Herzegovina complete the draw .",
"The two-legged ties will be played on November 11/12 and 15 ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- They left home with hope in their hearts, thousands of fans true to the Liverpool anthem, dreaming of reaching another Wembley FA Cup Final.",
"The disaster at Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 resulted in the deaths of 96 football supporters.",
"But what began as a day out in the spring sunshine 20 years ago ended as the darkest hour in the history of British football.",
"I had settled into Row B Seat 2 of the press box in the south stand at Hillsborough, home to Sheffield Wednesday and neutral venue for the game.",
"From there I would have had an uninterrupted view of the semifinal showdown between Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.",
"Clough, one of the legends of the British game, had been denied an FA Cup Final with Forest a year earlier, when his side lost to Liverpool at the same stage of the competition and at the same venue.",
"The atmosphere in the ground for the 1989 semifinal exploded as the teams emerged onto the pitch.",
"But none of us was prepared for what was to follow.",
"The match action lasted less than six minutes.",
"I can't remember a single kick.",
"What I do recall quite vividly are the scenes of distress, desperation and death at the Liverpool end that destroyed so many families and shocked the world.",
"Looking to my left and behind Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar's goal, I was drawn to a huge mushroom-like effect among the crowd in the central standing enclosures around kick-off time.",
"See Liverpool players and fans paying tribute to victims of Hillsborough disaster » .",
"The match had not long started when the first signs of a major problem surfaced.",
"Fans began frantically attempting to climb over the perimeter fence to escape the crush at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.",
"I didn't know it at the time, but the swell was the exit point of a tunnel that ran under the stand.",
"Through it hundreds of Liverpool fans had attempted to make their way without realizing the two caged pens it led to were already overcrowded.",
"Many had the life squeezed out of them in that tunnel.",
"Others were trampled or crushed to death on the terraces.",
"The lucky ones clambered to safety, many collapsing on the pitch.",
"Some fans were hoisted up into the stand above by fellow supporters, but the main escape route was over the high perimeter fence and later through a small gate that was forced open as police -- who initially thought they were dealing with a pitch invasion -- recognized the true scale of the problem.",
"Advertising boards were used as makeshift stretchers and some of those being carried away had their heads covered by coats.",
"The Sheffield Wednesday gymnasium became a mortuary.",
"The Liverpool end of the pitch resembled a casualty station with frantic efforts being made to treat the injured and save lives while others wandered aimlessly around the pitch in a daze.",
"I will always remember the bid to revive one young fan in front of the main stand.",
"Those efforts seemed to go on forever before finally hundreds of spectators let out a huge cheer as the lad at last showed some sign of life.",
"I still wonder to this day whether or not he made it.",
"Meanwhile I had an open phoneline to a copytaker at The Press Association and described those shocking events unfolding in front of me, including news of the first fatalities.",
"For the second time in four years I had gone to cover a football match and ended up filing a disaster report.",
"In 1985 I had been in Brussels with Liverpool to cover their European Cup final against Juventus, when 39 fans, mainly Italian, were killed at the Heysel stadium as a wall collapsed after trouble on the terraces.",
"That match eventually went ahead after a delay of 85 minutes.",
"Within hours of returning from Belgium, I was among a small group of football writers summoned to No.",
"10 Downing Street for a meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.",
"Mrs Thatcher planned draconian measures to combat what became known as the English disease, but it was the appalling events at Sheffield that finally became the catalyst for change.",
"The Hillsborough tragedy was played out in full view of 53,000 spectators and TV cameras.",
"People who came to watch a football match went home haunted by scenes of carnage and chaos that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.",
"Later, in an area beneath the empty south stand, FA chief executive Graham Kelly faced media at an impromptu press conference and expressed his shock, sadness and sorrow.",
"Understandably, he didn't have all the answers as questions were fired his way.",
"What led to the disaster is well documented.",
"Lord Justice Taylor, a High Court judge commissioned by the government to produce a report, concluded that police operational errors were largely to blame for allowing the gates to be opened to relieve congestion outside the ground.",
"Many questioned why the kickoff to the game had not been delayed.",
"English football was quick to react with perimeter fences pulled, followed by the phased-in arrival of all-seater stadia.",
"In the aftermath grieving fans turned Liverpool's Kop stand and the Anfield pitch into a shrine draped with thousands of scarves, flags and flowers.",
"A permanent memorial to the victims was later erected adjacent to the Shankly Gates -- named after the club's most famous manager -- and which bear the title of the Reds' anthem: You'll Never Walk Alone.",
"The oldest victim at Hillsborough was 67, the youngest 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, a cousin of current Liverpool captain and England international Steven Gerrard.",
"Gerrard was six weeks away from his ninth birthday at the time of tragedy.",
"There is nothing Liverpool would want more than to mark the 20th anniversary season with at least one gleaming trophy.",
"They did it in 1989, beating Forest when the semifinal was later replayed, then going on to defeat city rivals Everton after extra time at Wembley.",
"On that occasion they returned home with hope in their hearts."
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"96 Liverpool fans died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster on April 15, 1989 .",
"Fans were crushed against stadium fencing during an FA Cup semifinal .",
"Liverpool fans say there are still unanswered questions regarding the disaster .",
"Current Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard lost a family member in the tragedy ."
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"(CNN) -- A former teacher in Oklahoma has been charged with sending lewd images of young female students to a retired professor in Pennsylvania, authorities said Thursday.",
"Kimberly Ann Crain, who taught third grade in McLoud Public Schools, faces 23 criminal counts, including manufacturing and possessing juvenile pornography, distribution of juvenile pornography and lewd molestation, according to a Thursday filing in Pottawatomie County district court.",
"The alleged recipient of the photos and videotapes -- sent via e-mail and Skype -- was identified as Gary Joseph Doby.",
"Students allegedly knew him as \"Uncle G,\" according to authorities.",
"The retired Bloomsburg University professor also has been arrested, according to Oklahoma City FBI special agent Clay Simmonds.",
"Doby, 65, faces eights counts of manufacturing juvenile pornography and one count of conspiracy to manufacture it.",
"Doby's location following his arrest could not be confirmed Thursday night, nor could it be determined whether he was being represented by an attorney.",
"CNN's attempts to reach Crain's attorney Thursday night were unsuccessful.",
"According to the complaint, Crain, 48, took photos of the girls in a classroom and at a pizza party at her home.",
"After a search of Crain's home, police confiscated computers and numerous documents and asked for FBI assistance, Simmonds said.",
"Crain was arrested on December 1.",
"The FBI found information on the woman's Skype account that led them to Doby, Simmonds said.",
"A search Thursday of Doby's home yielded a computer \"among other questionable items,\" the FBI said.",
"As he was being led away from his arraignment and extradition hearing, Doby told a reporter for CNN affiliate WNEP in Scranton, Pennsylvania, \"Be kind and considerate to my family, because they're going to need it and they didn't have anything to do with this.",
"They need prayers and it's me, not them.\"",
"Crain is accused of taking photos or videos of girls, in many cases with either their breasts or genitals exposed.",
"A concerned Shawnee, Oklahoma, parent contacted police in mid-November after she became aware of contact the teacher had with students at her home, Simmonds said.",
"Crain had invited the students to her home for a pizza party, according to a Shawnee police probable cause affidavit.",
"A parent said her daughter told her that Crain took photos of the girls, dressed in bras and panties she provided, while decorating a Christmas tree, the affidavit states.",
"The underwear had Christmas themes with words like \"Ho!",
"Ho!\" on them, the affidavit states.",
"According to witnesses cited in the affidavit, Crain also would hold up a sheet in the corner of the classroom and have the girls strip down to their bras and panties.",
"The teacher allegedly took photos of the girls, telling them \"Uncle G\" is going to want to see these pictures.\"",
"The affidavit states the FBI found numerous sexual chats between Crain and Doby on Crain's personal laptop computer.",
"An FBI agent said that in some chats, Doby identified some of the students by name and described how \"he liked the features of their private parts and indicated that he wanted to see them nude.",
"Within the recovered chats, Doby instructed Crain to get the girls to cooperate.\"",
"Another parent said she learned from her daughter that a hidden camera or video camera in Crain's home captured images of the girls changing into T-shirts and panties.",
"McLoud Public Schools said it is cooperating with law enforcement agencies.",
"\"As you now know, the Pottawatomie County District Attorney's office was in the midst of conducting an intense and in-depth investigation; therefore, we complied with its request to not release any information which would in any way jeopardize the investigation, and ultimately, an additional arrest,\" the schools said in a statement.",
"A spokeswoman for Bloomsburg University told CNN Oklahoma City affiliate KWTV that Doby retired in 2008.",
"CNN's Jake Carpenter, Jeremy Ryan, Nick Valencia and Carma Hassan contributed to this report."
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"Former teacher accused of taking lewd photos of young Oklahoma girls .",
"Kimberly Ann Crain is accused of sending them to a retired professor in Pennsylvania .",
"Crain and Gary Joseph Doby face multiple criminal counts in Oklahoma .",
"\"Be kind and considerate to my family,\" Doby says after arraignment ."
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"(CNN) -- The vast sums of money made by football's middle men continues to soar, with English Premier League clubs this week detailing huge amounts paid to agents for helping to seal multi-million-dollar deals during the last 12 months.",
"Big-spending table-toppers Manchester City predictably had the highest outlay, paying agents to the tune of $15.2 million between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011 for aiding the transfer of players such as Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri and Edin Dzeko.",
"Immediately behind City were Tottenham Hotspur ($12 million) and Liverpool ($11 million).",
"These figures beg the question, what do England's biggest clubs gain from the use of agents and why are the payments made to them so large?",
"The total £71.87 million ($112.8 million) spent in that period is a rise of almost $7.5 million.",
"\"It's very hard to know, to be honest -- clubs need to give us some answers,\" World Soccer Magazine editor Gavin Hamilton told CNN.",
"\"There's no reason that they should be that high, because most of those clubs have very good scouting networks.\"",
"Poland and Ukraine primed for Euro 2012 kick-off .",
"Hamilton believes that with clubs now possessing wide-ranging global scouting networks, the need to pay such large sums to agents should be lessened.",
"\"They discover and scout players themselves, and the clubs that aren't scouting players are relying on agents.",
"They don't need to be doing that. They've got their own scouting network,\" he said.",
"With agents primarily employed to negotiate deals on behalf of players with their respective clubs, Hamilton argues it is the footballers themselves who should foot the bill for their services.",
"\"It's the player that hires the agent to secure them a transfer, a new contract, so the players really should be paying the fees,\" he said.",
"\"It's a big surprise to me that clubs continue to cover agents' fees, rather than insist the players, who are so well paid, reward their agents for the work they've done.\"",
"While the spending on agents could be considered as an unnecessary expense, Hamilton praised England's top division for showing the sort of transparency lacking in other top European leagues.",
"\"I think it's a positive that the Premier League actually publishes the information,\" he explained.",
"\"The Premier League has to be applauded for publishing the figures.",
"\"It's a good thing that they're published, it's a bad thing that they're so high.\"",
"Hamilton also outlined the danger of having agents who represent managers and players employed by the same club, such as when manager Mark Hughes and Argentina striker Carlos Tevez were both at Manchester City while being represented by Israeli Kia Joorabchian.",
"\"I think certain clubs rely on particular agents who are not just representing players, but also representing managers,\" he said.",
"\"Managers now have agents.",
"The Sunderland appointment, replacing Steve Bruce, there are a number of managers in the frame for the job who are with agents who also have high-profile players.",
"\"There's a clear conflict of interest there and clubs tend to rely on managers who share an agent with players, and I think that is a dangerous situation to get into.\"",
"Hamilton wants stronger regulations placed upon agents, and hopes that financial fair-play regulations set to be introduced by European football's governing body UEFA will help improve the situation.",
"The new rules are aimed at preventing clubs across Europe spending beyond their means in pursuit of on-field success.",
"\"It's the nature of the modern game at the moment, it's unregulated and the money is going out of the game into the bank accounts of agents,\" Hamilton said.",
"\"I think over the next few years we are going to see more regulation with UEFA's financial fair play.",
"\"What they're trying to do with financial fair play is have a system in place where clubs regulate their own spending, and clubs are aware that they can't just be throwing money at players and wages.",
"\"I think UEFA are moving in the right direction, but it's the clubs who have got take up the initiative.",
"There will always be agents around trying to take money out of the game.\""
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"The English Premier League has revealed the amount spent by its clubs on agents .",
"Big-spending Manchester City lead the way, splashing out $15.2 million on agents .",
"World Soccer's Gavin Hamilton argues players should pay for their representation .",
"He also argues against players and managers at the same club sharing an agent ."
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"(CNN) -- Three law enforcement officers patrolling a remote stretch of northern California woods shot dead a double-murder suspect whom authorities had been hunting for 36 days, a sheriff said.",
"Aaron Bassler was wearing black clothing and carrying a large backpack, a fanny-pack and assault rifle when three Sacramento sheriffs spotted him early Saturday, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said.",
"From about 40 yards away and at an elevation 25 feet higher, they fired about seven rounds into his upper torso.",
"Allman said Bassler didn't fire a shot, and there was no verbal exchange between the parties.",
"The suspect raised his weapon -- which was loaded and not on safety -- from the ground toward law enforcement officers.",
"It is believed to be the same weapon used to kill one of his victims, officials said.",
"The suspect was considered \"armed and dangerous,\" and was believed to have engaged in a gunfight with three other law enforcement officers from Alameda County two days earlier.",
"There was no \"shoot-to-kill\" order in effect, Allman said.",
"\"I fully support the manner in which this happened,\" the sheriff said, responding to inquiries that the suspect was killed without any warning or having fired a shot.",
"\"There will be no more lives endangered by Aaron Bassler.\"",
"Authorities wanted Bassler for the killing of Jere Melo on August 27 just east of Fort Bragg on the northern California coast 10 miles north of Mendocino.",
"Melo, 69, was an Army veteran as well as a former mayor and then-councilman in Fort Bragg at the time of his death.",
"A witness saw a gunman open fire and later identified the suspect, according to Allman.",
"He has also been identified as the suspect in the August 11 slaying of Matthew Coleman in Westport, just north of Fort Bragg.",
"Allman said Saturday that DNA evidence linked him to Coleman's death.",
"For over a month, more than 40 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have teamed up to look for him.",
"In the process, he has been a suspect in several burglaries in which he kicked in locked doors and made off with food and guns, said Allman.",
"One such incident occurred between Thursday and Friday in a garage-shop about two miles from where Bassler was eventually found.",
"A police bloodhound tracked his scent, helping steer authorities in the direction that they believed the suspect might be -- and leading to the operation Saturday.",
"The officers who gunned down Bassler were among about 15 three-person teams brought in from around the state for the search.",
"Bassler's family was \"not happy\" when a law enforcement official contacted them Saturday about the death because the press had already put out the news, according to the sheriff.",
"\"I do have some feelings for the Bassler family, they suffered a loss today,\" Allman said.",
"\"(But) I assure you, that the other two losses that we felt in this county were something that law enforcement remembered every day.\"",
"A $30,000 reward for information leading to Bassler had been offered.",
"There was no indication Saturday that anyone will receive it.",
"CNN's Greg Botelho contributed to this report."
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"More than 40 law enforcement agents have been involved in the hunt for him .",
"He is shot dead by a team of sheriff officers patrolling remote forest area .",
"The suspect was not warned and didn't fire, but was considered \"dangerous\""
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"(CNN) -- A major clean-up operation is underway along the north coast of New Zealand's North Island as debris and oil leaking from a cargo ship that ran aground on a reef wash ashore, officials say.",
"The Rena, a Liberian-flagged vessel, struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles off the city of Tauranga, last week.",
"New Zealand's oil spill response agency, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ), estimates that as much as 300 tonnes of fuel oil has leaked from the vessel, which was carrying 1,700 cubic meters (450,000 gallons) of fuel.",
"The country's environment minister, Nick Smith, has called the spill New Zealand's most significant maritime environmental disaster.",
"As of Friday, clean-up teams collected 95.45 tonnes of solid waste and 6 tonnes of liquid waste from beaches in the Bay of Plenty, MNZ said.",
"About 60 kilometers of coastline, from the towns of Maketu to Mount Maunganui, is contaminated with oil, the agency said.",
"Pubic access to some waterfront areas has been restricted due to health concerns.",
"\"We are now coordinating a team of around 1,000 people involved in operations on land, sea and air and covering areas like field operations, planning, logistics, wildlife recovery and community and iwi [indigenous Maori people] liaison,\" said National On Scene Commander Nick Quinn.",
"MNZ said that 500 dead birds have been found following the oil spill.",
"The agency said 140 people scoured the coast yesterday for wildlife affected by the spill and 51 oiled animals are being treated at a center that has been set up in Tauranga.",
"A team has been established to capture seals and five of the animals are being kept in captivity.",
"Greenpeace has expressed \"extreme concern\" about the spill and urged the government to avoid using further toxic dispersants.",
"\"This is an unfortunate illustration of just how difficult it is to deal with oil spills at sea,\" the organization's Steve Abel said.",
"\"Even a slow and relatively accessible oil spill like this one has clearly stretched New Zealand's response capability to its limits,\" he said.",
"\"It is also a potential disaster for the blue whales and dolphins presently calving in the area, as well as numerous other marine species.\"",
"MNZ said that 88 containers had fallen off the ship, 20 of which have washed ashore.",
"Due to the hazard the containers pose to shipping, the agency said navigational warnings had been issued and major maritime traffic has been re-routed.",
"The Rena has suffered substantial structural failure and there is a concern that the stern of the vessel may break up, MNZ said.",
"Salvage teams have three tugs mobilized either to hold the stern on the reef while efforts continue to remove oil from the ship, or to tow the stern to shallow water to extract the oil, the agency said.",
"Containers remaining on the vessel continue to move, making it dangerous for salvage crews to work on board.",
"Salvors have worked to build a platform to attach to the side of the vessel today to be used to assist fuel recovery operations, MNZ said.",
"The ship's second officer appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday to face a charge of \"operating a vessel in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk,\" MNZ said.",
"The Rena's captain was remanded on bail on Wednesday on the same charge, on the condition he surrender his passport.",
"His name has not been released.",
"If convicted, they face a maximum fine of $7,800, or up to 12 months imprisonment.",
"CNN's Karen Smith and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"500 dead birds have been found; 51 oiled animals being treated .",
"Government: Spill is country's most significant maritime environmental disaster .",
"Rena cargo ship began leaking oil after hitting reef off New Zealand's North Island ."
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"Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- On the heels of international condemnation of the bombing of a refugee camp, a satellite monitoring group said Friday that Sudan is enhancing its airstrike capabilities along its border with South Sudan.",
"The U.S.-based Satellite Sentinel Project said that since taking control of the border town of Kurmuk on November 2, the Sudanese Armed Forces appear to be upgrading military facilities.",
"It said Sudan has started fortifying the airstrip and positioned armor nearby.",
"Digital imagery, analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, showed four new helicopter landing pads, three helicopter gunships and an Antonov, a plane often used in Sudanese bombing campaigns, on a newly improved airstrip in Blue Nile state's capital of Damazin.",
"The satellite project also reported a new 250-meter expansion of the Damazin airstrip.",
"The project's co-founder, John Prendergast, said the buildup is alarming.",
"\"The airfield improvements suggest Sudan's readiness to widen its aerial bombing campaign in its border areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, as well as neighboring South Sudan,\" he said.",
"\"If this buildup and bombing campaign isn't countered aggressively by the international community, it appears likely that Khartoum's actions will plunge Sudan even more deeply into internal war as well as ignite a full-scale war with South Sudan.\"",
"Charlie Clements, head of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, said the analysis of the images underscored an \"urgent threat to human security on both sides\" of the border.",
"Conceived by actor George Clooney, the Satellite Sentinel Project combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports with Google's Map Maker technology to provide an early warning system to deter the resumption of war between north and south in Sudan.",
"The two sides fought a bitter, bloody civil war that cost as many as 2 million lives.",
"Before the independence of South Sudan in July, human rights monitors expressed concerns that long-standing grievances could end in violence consuming the region again.",
"The United Nations human rights chief called Friday for an investigation into the bombing Thursday of the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan's oil-rich Unity state.",
"\"The camp at Yida, which is close to the border with Sudan, is housing thousands of civilians, including women and children,\" said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.",
"\"While the number of casualties is not yet clear, I understand that five or six bombs were dropped on the camp, and that at least one fell close to a school,\" she said, calling for an \"independent, thorough and credible investigation to establish the precise circumstances of this aerial bombing.\"",
"The camp houses about 20,000 refugees who have fled the violence in the states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile.",
"Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountain region straddle Sudan and South Sudan's ethnic and political lines.",
"Although these territories are geographically part of Sudan, the population has faced \"exclusion, marginalization and discriminatory practices that have resulted in their opposition to the Sudanese government,\" according to the U.N. human rights office.",
"Sudanese Armed Forces began launching aerial attacks against rebels in the region shortly after the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir ordered the dismantling of joint units that had integrated South Sudanese and Sudanese military fighters within Southern Kordofan.",
"Fighting between the Sudanese army and rebel groups has flared in border areas in the months since South Sudan became the world's newest nation.",
"Friday, the Sudanese state news agency SUNA reported that the Sudanese army had repelled an attack by the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army-North in the South Kordofan town of Talodi.",
"Last month, hundreds of rebels were killed in fighting, according to government officials.",
"The SPLM/Army-North once represented the northern chapter of the SPLM, which now governs newly independent South Sudan.",
"Many of its members come from the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.",
"The rebels, however, said they were successful in thwarting a Sudanese attack.",
"\"The fighting in Talodi is an extension of a government offensive everywhere in South Kordofan and Blue Nile state,\" said Yasser Arman, secretary general of the SPLM/Army-North.",
"CNN's Moni Basu reported from Atlanta and journalist Isma'il Kushkush reported from Khartoum, Sudan."
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"NEW: The group said Sudan is fortifying an airstrip and positioning armor .",
"NEW: The images suggest Sudan may increase bombing, John Prendergast says .",
"NEW: The U.N. human rights chief calls for a probe into a refugee camp bombing ."
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"Denver (CNN) -- Raymond Davis, who was charged with killing two men in Pakistan as a CIA contractor but was later released, was arrested Saturday after a fistfight at a shopping center in Colorado, authorities said.",
"Davis was charged with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct after allegedly getting into a fight over a parking space at a suburban Denver mall, according to Lt. Glenn Peitzmeier of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.",
"The incident at the Highlands Ranch Town Center began as an argument between 37-year-old Davis and 50-year-old Jeff Maes and then turned physical, Peitzmeier said.",
"Davis was released after posting $1,750 bond, Peitzmeier said.",
"Davis' wife, Rebecca, declined a CNN request for comment.",
"Davis was charged with killing two men in Lahore, Pakistan, in January.",
"He was released in March after compensation was paid to their families.",
"U.S. officials originally said Davis was a diplomat and tried to claim diplomatic immunity but then revealed that he was a CIA contractor.",
"Davis said he killed the two men in self-defense, though Lahore authorities called the case \"clear-cut murder.\""
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"Davis is accused of getting into a fistfight over a parking spot at a mall, the official says .",
"Davis was arrested in January on charges he killed two men in Lahore, Pakistan .",
"U.S. officials originally said Davis was a diplomat, but later revealed he was a CIA contractor ."
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"(CNN) -- Florida Gov.",
"Rick Scott met late Thursday with a group of several hundred Florida A&M students upset over his recommendation that trustees suspend the school's president in the wake of alleged hazing and \"financial irregularities.\"",
"Chanting \"We've got questions.",
"You've got answers,\" the students marched to the governor's mansion, promising to stay until Scott changed his mind.",
"\"We are not going to leave,\" said Breyon Love, the FAMU student body president.",
"\"Mr. Governor, with all due respect, we will be here all night, all day tomorrow until you apologize or rescind that recommendation.\"",
"Appearing in a gray sweatshirt, Scott addressed the crowd through a megaphone outside the mansion, thanking them for caring and coming out.",
"\"I want the best thing for FAMU.",
"I want the best thing for the FAMU family.",
"I want the best thing for the great state of Florida,\" the governor told students, although not conceding to their wishes.",
"Earlier, Scott had told the chairman of FAMU's board of trustees, Solomon L. Badger III, that he felt the board should take further action against university President James Ammons when it meets Monday, the statement said.",
"The governor also \"placed a call\" to Ammons to notify him of these conversations.",
"\"I think it's in his best interests (to) make sure that there is no question that this university is doing the right thing and cooperating,\" Scott said Thursday.",
"The discussions came after Scott returned Thursday from a trade mission to Israel and was briefed by staffers on recent developments out of the Tallahassee university, according to the governor's office.",
"Ammons responded Thursday that he was \"sure that this investigation will determine that, under my leadership, the administration acted appropriately.\"",
"At the same time, he said he was prepared to accept his fate.",
"\"I serve at the pleasure of the FAMU board of trustees, and I will abide by whatever decision the board reaches,\" he said.",
"Badger also released a statement in which he acknowledged \"a communication with the governor.\"",
"He said he hadn't talked with other trustees, promising that \"we will make a decision about how we move forward Monday.\"",
"\"This is a very difficult decision that we are facing,\" Badger said.",
"The band's director, Julian White, has been placed on administrative leave.",
"One trustee, Rufus Montgomery, advocated a week ago that the university president should likewise be suspended -- but, instead, the board voted then to reprimand him.",
"\"If you can place ... Julian White on administrative leave pending an investigation outcome, then we as a board can place James Ammons on administrative leave, procedure-wise,\" Montgomery said December 8.",
"The school president had pledged Wednesday to \"root out this culture of hazing,\" though he declined to offer details about what specifically might change.",
"Band drum major Robert Champion Jr., 26, died after a November 19 football game following a suspected hazing incident.",
"He \"reportedly threw up in the parking lot and started complaining of not being able to breathe,\" authorities said in a statement.",
"He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.",
"No cause of death has been released.",
"Some band members said he may have died after a rite of passage called \"crossing Bus C.\" One member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that members \"walk from the front of the bus to the back of the bus back backward while the bus is full of other band members, and you get beaten until you get to the back.\"",
"About three weeks before Champion's death, freshman band member Bria Hunter suffered a cracked femur, deep bone bruising and blood clots after being beaten repeatedly on the thighs, according to arrest affidavits from Tallahassee police.",
"Three men -- Sean Hobson, 23, Aaron Golson, 19, and James Harris, 22 -- were charged with hazing, a crime under Florida law, this week in her case.",
"Hobson and Golson additionally are charged with felony battery.",
"\"We're sending all these kids off to school.",
"... We expect them to come back with an education and alive,\" Scott said Thursday.",
"The university's troubles go beyond the hazing reports.",
"Jerry Bailey, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said Wednesday that authorities looking into Champion's death had found evidence of \"financial irregularities having to do with the band and several other components of the university.\"",
"The suspected fraud is not directly related to Champion's death, Bailey said.",
"\"It became apparent (from) some of the people that we interviewed (that) the financial irregularities had to do with the band travels and other sports and administrative components of the university,\" he said.",
"The state commissioner said it is premature to conclude that the irregularities are \"systemic,\" adding that it is too soon to tell how much money may be involved.",
"But, he added, \"it's not just isolated\" to the band program.",
"In a statement Wednesday, Badger -- chairman of FAMU's trustees -- said the university could not comment, \"but we are cooperating fully with this and all investigations.\"",
"The governor said Thursday that he isn't advocating that Ammons resign but rather \"step aside\" until the investigation is complete.",
"Ideally, this inquiry will show that whatever problems are \"isolated,\" he added.",
"\"My goal is to have a thorough investigation that everybody feels very comfortable that everybody cooperated with,\" Scott said.",
"\"Hopefully, there was nothing more (Ammons) could do.\"",
"Champions' parents did not reference Ammons specifically during an interview, which was conducted with HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky before Scott made his recommendation.",
"Yet the young man's father did state that it was important that there's accountability -- for both Champion's death and hazing in general.",
"\"I think the school should be held accountable, I think that each organization should be held accountable,\" Robert Champion Sr. said Thursday.",
"\"We have to get down to the root of the problem, so that everyone can be responsible.\"",
"His wife, Pam Champion, said their family will champion anti-hazing education efforts and look into setting up a hotline through which people can anonymously call in reports of hazing.",
"She said that everyone at FAMU -- from administrators, to students, to alumni -- and other schools need to work together to stop hazing, which she called endemic to a larger cultural issue.",
"\"If you're not going to be part of the solution, then you are part of the problem,\" Pam Champion said.",
"\"The idea is to (get) rid of the whole culture, the whole mind-set of it.\"",
"CNN's Jason Carroll, John Branch, Rich Phillips and Adam Reiss contributed to this report."
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"Rick Scott wants FAMU president James Ammons to step down amid hazing investigation .",
"The FAMU trustees chairman says a \"very difficult decision\" will be made Monday .",
"FAMU has been a focal point since last month's death of a drum major after alleged hazing .",
"Authorities found evidence of \"financial irregularities\" at the school, a state official said ."
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"(CNN) -- President Obama has repeatedly stated, \"We are tougher than the times we live in.\"",
"Although the president may not have intended to signal a whole new approach to our future, the line has Churchillian implications.",
"Speaking of tough times, he could call on Americans to recognize we face at least a decade of rough sledding, ask us to face the challenges and express confidence that we shall prevail.",
"The tough times approach differs radically from the prevailing wisdom that if we merely did X, Y or Z, we would be rolling in clover again.",
"All we need to do is cut deficits, reduce taxes some more and lighten up on regulations, and the nation will be back on the right course.",
"Others foresee the bottoming out of the housing market, within two years or so, as the turning point to recovery.",
"Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff argues that intentionally inflating the dollar is the \"the only practical way to shorten the coming period of painful deleveraging and slow growth.\"",
"In general, politicians prefer President Reagan's manner, which was oozing with optimism.",
"And they are leery of sounding like President Carter, who spoke of malaise and called for sacrifices.",
"But times have changed.",
"The American people must be prepared for what is coming, or they will lash out with even more anger against failed promises.",
"Take the most elementary issue: Nobody reasonable, on the right or the left, denies that we lived beyond our means for decades, financing our indulgence by taking loans from the Chinese, Japanese and British, among others, as well as hocking the assets of our future generations.",
"Now the time has come that we must pay back, and that means reducing the deficit.",
"Such payback means, by definition, that while we once could float a lifestyle that cost, say, 120% of what we earned, now we shall have to do with lifestyle that costs, say, 80% of our income, with the rest going to pay down what we owe.",
"After decades of indulgence and accumulating debt, our accounts cannot be settled in a few years.",
"According to a report in NPR, using recent Congressional Budget Office projections, the debt could reach $13 trillion in 10 years.",
"Even if we get the \"grand bargain\" and $2 trillion to $4 trillion is cut, that means the 10-year deficit could still remain between $9 trillion and $11 trillion.",
"True, we do not have to bring it down to zero, but we still have quite a burden with which to contend.",
"If we must pay for that deficit by raising taxes, we will have less money.",
"If we must cut services, such as health care, to pay down the debt, people will have to buy these services themselves.",
"And we should pay down our personal debt for our own future and that of our children.",
"That means for the next decade or even longer, Americans will have to do with less, from buying new clothes to going on vacations.",
"I am hardly the only one who foresees a \"lost decade.\"",
"A recent Atlantic magazine article argues that even by 2011, 2012, even 2014, the employment rate may decline very little and describes the current economic climate as \"a trauma that will remain heavy for quite some time.\"",
"Heidi Shierholtz of the Economic Policy Institute predicts that \"many factors are pushing against a quick recovery. ...",
"Things will come back.",
"But it's going to take a long time.\"",
"Frustration to such shortfalls is mounting.",
"A recent Bloomberg poll found that 72% of the people who responded think the country is on the wrong course economically.",
"The president's approval rating is tanking, but that of Congress is even lower.",
"A New York Times/CBS poll found that only a paltry 12% of respondents approved of Congress.",
"As I see it, \"Washington\" can do relatively little to spare Americans at least 10 years of austerity.",
"But, public leaders can prepare people for what is coming and make a virtue out of doing with less, of paying back what we owe even if it hurts — without implying that recovery is right around the corner or that something drastic can be done so we will not have to pay more taxes and do with less services.",
"If it turns out that Easy Street is much nearer than I expect, then people prepared for \"tough times\" will rejoice.",
"But if they believe the economy will bounce back quickly, and in reality face prolonged austerity, we must expect even more angry outbursts.",
"We've avoided the violent demonstrations seen in Greece, the massive demonstrations against inequality seen in Tel Aviv and the random torching of cars common in riots in Germany, France or Britain.",
"If Obama can speak candidly about the coming tough times and the shortfalls we all will have to accept as part of the cure, he may do better; we most assuredly will.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Amitai Etzioni."
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"Obama's \"We are tougher than the times we live in\" should be a policy, he writes .",
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"He says years of indulgence, living beyond our means will take years to redress ."
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"(CNN) -- The crew of an Italian ship seized by pirates on Monday was freed Tuesday thanks to an operation by U.S. and British troops working with the Italian military, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.",
"Eleven pirates who hijacked the Montecristo surrendered to the troops operating under NATO's Operation Ocean Shield, the ministry said in a statement.",
"All crew members are safe, the ministry said.",
"They barricaded themselves in the engine room after throwing a message overboard in a bottle and putting up a cardboard sign to let rescuers know where they were.",
"They were able to retain control of the ship's steering, even though the pirates destroyed the ship's communications equipment, a NATO officer said.",
"The USS De Wert was the first ship to arrive on the scene, and monitored the hijacked vessel until the British ship HMS Fort Victoria arrived with a boarding team, Lt. Gwenn Laine of NATO told CNN.",
"The pirates threw their weapons into the sea as the boarding team closed in, and stood on deck to surrender once they boarded, Laine said.",
"He praised the crew for following \"best maritime practices,\" saying that by barricading themselves in a safe place they probably avoided violence.",
"The pirates are in NATO custody, said Laine, who works with the alliance's Operation Ocean Shield.",
"The captain sent a message Monday indicating that the vessel had been attacked by a ship with five armed people on board, the D'Alesio Group said in a statement.",
"The captain immediately activated security procedures, the statement said.",
"The ship was about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east of the Somali coast at the time.",
"The crew includes 23 people from Italy, Ukraine, and India, the D'Alesio Group said.",
"Their rescue came shortly after Italy said it would start putting military guards on ships traversing the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia .",
"Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa is signing an agreement Tuesday with the confederation of Italian shipowners to put military guards on board vessels in the area of the Indian Ocean at risk from Somali pirates, his ministry told CNN.",
"Both NATO and the European Union have naval missions dedicated to protecting ships in the region, but hijackings remain common.",
"As of late September there were some 400 hostages held by Somali pirates, according to the International Maritime Bureau.",
"There have been 24 successful hijackings this year to date and 194 incidents.",
"The number of incidents is up from last year, but the number of successful hijackings down, according to the IMB.",
"CNN's Richard Allen Greene, Chris Lawrence, Claudia Rebaza, Gisella Deputato, Laura Perez Maestro and David McKenzie contributed to this report."
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"The area has become infested with pirates .",
"Somali pirates hold about 400 hostages, the International Maritime Bureau says ."
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"(CNN) -- Friends and colleagues of Apple founder Steve Jobs sent their condolences Wednesday after his death at the age of 56.",
"On its homepage, Google carried a small notation, \"Steve Jobs, 1955-2011.\"",
"Clicking on Jobs' name took users to the Apple website and its tribute to Jobs.",
"U.S. House Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia: .",
"\"There is not a day that goes by, and often not an hour, that a Steve Jobs invention does not better my family's life.",
"Thank you Steve.\"",
"U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio: .",
"\"Steve Jobs changed the world for the better (with) his innovations & genius.",
"R.I.P.\" San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee: .",
"\"Steve Jobs was a giant in the world of technology and established the Bay Area as a global center for innovation.",
"He has inspired and changed the Bay Area and the world forever.",
"Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco and his values were reflected in his generous support for results-driven education reform, 21st century philanthropy and bridging the digital divide for our diverse communities.",
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene, his family and friends.\"",
"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg: .",
"\"Tonight, America lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein, and whose ideas will shape the world for generations to come.",
"Again and again over the last four decades, Steve Jobs saw the future and brought it to life long before most people could even see the horizon.",
"And Steve's passionate belief in the power of technology to transform the way we live brought us more than smart phones and iPads: it brought knowledge and power that is reshaping the face of civilization.",
"In New York City's government, everyone from street construction inspectors to NYPD detectives have harnessed Apple's products to do their jobs more efficiently and intuitively.",
"Tonight our city -- a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius -- joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping Laurene and the rest of the Jobs family in our thoughts and prayers.\"",
"California Attorney General Kamala Harris: .",
"\"California has lost a great leader with the passing of Steve Jobs.",
"His character, intelligence, and creativity changed how the world works and how the world imagines itself.",
"We are forever grateful and inspired by the gift he has given us.",
"I send my thoughts and sympathies to Laurene and the entire Jobs family.\"",
"Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney: .",
"\"Steve Jobs is an inspiration to American entrepreneurs.",
"He will be missed.\" John Lasseter, chief creative officer, and Ed Catmull, president, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios .",
"\"Steve Jobs was an extraordinary visionary, our very dear friend and the guiding light of the Pixar family.",
"He saw the potential of what Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined.",
"Steve took a chance on us and believed in our crazy dream of making computer animated films; the one thing he always said was to simply 'make it great.'",
"He is why Pixar turned out the way we did and his strength, integrity and love of life has made us all better people.",
"He will forever be a part of Pixar's DNA.",
"Our hearts go out to his wife Laurene and their children during this incredibly difficult time.\"",
"Meg Whitman, president and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard: .",
"\"Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley.",
"He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.\"",
"Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt: .",
"\"Today is very sad for all of us.",
"Steve defined a generation of style and technology that's unlikely to be matched again.",
"Steve was so charismatically brilliant that he inspired people to do the impossible, and he will be remembered as the greatest computer innovator in history.\"",
"Google co-founder Sergey Brin: .",
"\"From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino.",
"Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the MacBook I am writing this on right now).",
"And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met.",
"On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much.",
"My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama: .",
"\"Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs.",
"Steve was among the greatest of American innovators -- brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.",
"By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.",
"By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun.",
"And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike.",
"Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last.",
"Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.",
"The world has lost a visionary.",
"And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.",
"Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve's wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.\"",
"YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen: .",
"\"It was an honor to have worked with Steve Jobs.",
"He will forever remain an inspiration.",
"He will be sorely missed, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.\"",
"G.S. Choi, chief executive of Samsung Electronics: .",
"\"Samsung Electronics is saddened to hear of Chairman Steve Jobs' passing and would like to extend our deepest condolences.",
"Chairman Steve Jobs introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry and was a great entrepreneur.",
"His innovative spirit and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world.",
"We would like to again express our sincerest condolences to Mr. Jobs' family and his colleagues.\"",
"Google co-founder Larry Page: .",
"\"I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve.",
"He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance.",
"He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it.",
"His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me.",
"He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well.",
"My thoughts and Google's are with his family and the whole Apple family.\"",
"Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive, Facebook: .",
"\"Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend.",
"Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world.",
"I will miss you.\" U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California: .",
"\"Steve Jobs was a visionary who changed the way we live, an innovator whose products brought joy to millions, a risk-taker who wasn't afraid to challenge the status quo, and an entrepreneur who led one of the most creative companies of our time.",
"His sage advice was respected by policymakers on both sides of the aisle.",
"His courageous fight against cancer brought strength to many.",
"I hope it is a comfort to those who loved him, especially his family, that so many grieve his loss and are praying for them at this sad time.\"",
"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates: .",
"\"I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death.",
"Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.",
"Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.",
"The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.",
"For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor.",
"I will miss Steve immensely.\"",
"Robert Iger, president and chief executive, The Walt Disney Company: .",
"\"Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor.",
"His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built.",
"It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.",
"Steve was such an 'original,' with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era.",
"Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started.",
"With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend.",
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.\"",
"California Governor Jerry Brown: .",
"\"Steve Jobs was a great California innovator who demonstrated what a totally independent and creative mind can accomplish.",
"Few people have made such a powerful and elegant imprint on our lives.",
"Anne and I wish to express our deepest sympathy to Steve's wife, Laurene, and their entire family.\""
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"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Tonight, America lost a genius .",
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Just before Syrian security forces launched a large-scale military operation in the southern town of Daraa in the early hours of April 25, the commander of the 35th Special Forces Regiment, Brig.",
"Gen. Ramadan Mahmoud Ramadan, allegedly gathered his troops and explained their mission.",
"\"Use heavy shooting.",
"Nobody will ask you to explain,\" the brigadier said, according to \"Amjad,\" one of the many defectors I have interviewed in the last months.",
"Amjad explained to me that normally the troops were supposed to save bullets, but this time it was different.",
"\"The commander said to use as many bullets as we wanted.\"",
"Over the next four days, security forces in Daraa killed around 200 people (Human Rights Watch documented the abuses at the time by interviewing victims and witnesses) and arrested thousands, subjecting many to beatings and torture.",
"Since then, Amjad and more than 60 other defectors from Syria's military and intelligence agencies have given us crucial information about who was responsible for abuses across the country.",
"They provided consistent accounts of officers giving similar orders to military units all over Syria, at different times.",
"The orders were to stop the protests \"by all means necessary.\"",
"In many cases, they said, officers gave orders to fire directly at protesters.",
"The defectors told us that some soldiers reacted by throwing away their weapons and making a run for it.",
"Others aimed above the protesters' heads or to the ground.",
"But that was dangerous. Eight defectors told us that they saw officers and intelligence agents killing soldiers who disobeyed orders.",
"Others were detained and tortured.",
"We are not publishing the defectors' names and locations to protect them and their families.",
"All these statements demolish President Bashar al-Assad's claim that the bloodshed is the result of a few rogue commanders getting overly enthusiastic on crowd control.",
"The defectors' testimonies paint a horrific picture of a widespread and systematic crackdown against demonstrators: torture, arbitrary arrests and a \"shoot to kill\" policy that clearly amount to crimes against humanity.",
"Al-Assad and his allies have sought to portray the protesters as \"armed gangs sponsored from abroad.\"",
"In more than nine months of investigations in Syria, we have documented episodes of fighting, and attacks on security forces by armed defectors have increased.",
"But the vast majority of protests that we documented were nonviolent, and the government's use of force was clearly excessive compared with any threat facing troops.",
"The Syrian leadership has so far gotten away with murder, in part because the Russian government, one of Assad's staunchest allies, has blocked action on Syria at the U.N. Security Council and continues to supply Syria with arms.",
"The Syrians whom I interviewed were well aware of Russia's obstructionist position.",
"As Ghassan, a former officer, was serving tea during our interview, he suddenly stopped and looked at me with suspicion.",
"\"I heard you are Russian -- if you say that you support their position on Syria, you won't get any tea!\"",
"He was joking, of course, but his anger at Russia was real.",
"Since Russia blocked Security Council action in October, Syrian security forces have killed more than 2,000 people, according to the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay.",
"Russia's continued obstruction sends a signal to the Syrian government that it can continue its violent crackdown with impunity.",
"It is difficult to conduct human rights investigations on Syria, since the government has barred most journalists, human rights monitors and even a U.N. commission of inquiry.",
"But it is not impossible. I managed to enter Syria and speak safely with victims there, and we continue to interview witnesses in neighboring countries.",
"We've spoken to hundreds of Syrians with firsthand knowledge of abuses.",
"And in a report Human Rights Watch released Thursday, we're naming 74 commanders, from generals to colonels to captains, who allegedly ordered, authorized or condoned the abuses.",
"But responsibility for these crimes does not stop with the commanders on the ground.",
"Under international criminal law, al-Assad, as commander in chief of all forces in Syria, bears responsibility for the most serious crimes committed by his forces -- even if he did not order them -- to the extent that he knew or should have known about the abuses and failed to prevent them.",
"Given the widespread public and international criticism of the abuses, it would be incredible for al-Assad to argue that he did not know.",
"Pillay told the Security Council this week that the death toll in Syria tops 5,000, including 300 children killed.",
"Amjad's commander may have told his troops that \"nobody will ask you to explain,\" but he was wrong.",
"It's time for the Security Council to act: to impose an arms embargo on Syria, to apply targeted sanctions to al-Assad and his circle of cronies, and, most important, to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.",
"That is where Ramadan, his fellow commanders and his bosses will have to explain themselves and where their many victims will receive justice.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Anna Neistat."
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"She says al-Assad must take responsibility for killings, torture reported by defectors .",
"She says Russia has helped block Security Council action .",
"Neistat: Syria must face arms embargo, sanctions, referral to International Criminal Court ."
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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) -- When people talk about fashion week, they are usually referring to London, Paris, New York and Milan.",
"When I discovered that Islamabad was having its first ever fashion week, I was especially intrigued.",
"In a country where the majority of women cover up and similar events in the past have been threatened with fundamentalist attacks, this had to be about promoting Pakistan's textile industry in a strangled economy.",
"The majority of Pakistan's population wears traditional Shalwar Kameez or Burkha, are vehemently religious, poor and enjoy about a 50% illiteracy rate.",
"I quickly learned that there are pockets of Pakistani society that have Western sensibilities, which warrants the fashion industry to grow and justifies the need for a fashion week.",
"The British High Commission advises against all but essential travel to Pakistan.",
"After pondering how essential fashion journalism is, against the wishes of my family I flew out to Islamabad in January with the director William Fairman to document an event so incongruous with the Pakistan we see on the news, people thought we'd made it up.",
"This fashion week represented an exclusive elite of Western-centric Pakistanis.",
"I managed with relative ease to secure carte blanche to film fly-on-the-wall at the event, with the exception of filming people boozing or blaspheming on camera.",
"For example, before we left I was warned I'd better cover up and wear long dresses, which is evident in the film.",
"As soon as I arrived I realized that I needn't have worried, that most of the girls at the fashion week dressed like Western girls.",
"It was just one example of how Pakistan is misunderstood in the West.",
"See the rest of Pakistan Fashion Week at VICE.COM .",
"For a week I watched relatively scantily-clad models on a runway in a blast-proof basement of a 7-star hotel just a short drive from the Islamic militant hubs in the troubled northwest.",
"There was a latent atmosphere of volatility: fundamentalists don't have to try hard to work out that these hotels are crawling with Westerners and Pakistani liberals 365 days a year.",
"As a result, the seats at the fashion shows were often half-empty.",
"Social events such as these are few and far between in Pakistan.",
"A young Pakistani rapper we met while out there told us how he struggles to perform live, as live events are often shut down for risk of militant attacks.",
"More than serving as a platform for the textile industry and an attempt at improving Pakistan's world image, the Fashion Week was predominantly just something for people to do, a distraction from the adversity of daily life there.",
"I spent a week in the care of Pakistan's affluent elite, and my time with them taught me that Pakistan is an acutely divided country of extremes.",
"There is a great deal of resentment towards this outmoded elite from the rest of the country.",
"There is no middle class as we know it.",
"This privileged community lives in compounds with armed guards at their gates.",
"They employ a live-in staff and a chauffeur.",
"They inhabit a bubble of ersatz Western life.",
"One woman told me she thought that fashion, not drones, was the answer to Pakistan's problems.",
"Whether this is the case, or not, remains to be seen."
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"(CNN) -- It was described by evangelical pastor Jerry Falwell as \"obscene trash.\"",
"High schools and public libraries banned it, while teenagers -- male and female -- hid it under their beds like a dirty magazine.",
"Women across the country passed it to their friends, their sisters, their neighbors.",
"They read chapters about rape in closets with flashlights.",
"They gaped in dorm rooms at the photos of childbirth.",
"The landmark women's health handbook was filled with sometimes graphic information about the most intimate aspects of women's lives.",
"It was revolutionary in its candid discussions -- and depictions -- of the specifics of sex, birth control, childbirth, lesbianism and other formerly taboo topics.",
"In 1971, the first \"Our Bodies, Ourselves\" book sold 250,000 copies.",
"Today, it is available in 25 languages and has sold more than 4 million copies.",
"It's hard to believe it all began in Boston with just 12 women.",
"They met during a women's liberation conference in 1969.",
"At the time, fewer than 10% of doctors were women, and topics like sexuality, pregnancy and abortion were rarely discussed.",
"But a long conversation after a workshop on women and their bodies prompted this small group to launch the beginning of the women's health care movement.",
"\"Many of them had had very bad experiences around their health and medical care, around their encounters with physicians,\" \"Our Bodies, Ourselves\" executive director Judy Norsigian remembered.",
"\"You lived in an era then where, if you went to a physician, and you were a married woman, and you (were diagnosed with) gonorrhea, your physician would tell your husband and not you.\"",
"The next year, their work came to fruition: a 193-page booklet printed on newsprint titled \"Women and Their Bodies\" that sold for just 75 cents.",
"\"Part of why (the booklet) got off the ground is because women wanted to change this kind of environment in which what women had to say, where what women reported about their own experiences, could be so readily discarded,\" Norsigian said.",
"In August, Time magazine named \"Our Bodies, Ourselves\" one of the best nonfiction books since 1923.",
"This year, the organization behind the book, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new edition.",
"Norsigian was the youngest member of the 1971 editing team and still plays a big part in editing the text.",
"Norsigian spoke with CNN about the controversial book, the strides in women's health care since then and the one thing she hopes readers take away.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"CNN: Describe yourself in the early 1970s.",
"What were you doing, and what were you wearing? Norsigian: In the early '70s, I was just out of college.",
"The year after I graduated ...",
"I lived on a farm as part of a small commune and learned a tremendous amount about organic gardening.",
"This is before it came in vogue.",
"I met through mutual friends the women who had produced the newsprint edition of \"Our Bodies, Ourselves.\"",
"I was acutely aware of the lack of good information out there for women of all ages, so I was very excited about being a part of this effort.",
"You can't ask me what I wore, because I can't remember. ...",
"I probably had a bell bottom or two in those days.",
"CNN: What were some of the most controversial issues covered in the first book?",
"Norsigian: Well, there's no question about that.",
"I would say there were three things that drew fire from various sources.",
"One is the lesbian chapter; it was called then \"In Amerika they call us dykes.\"",
"That was obviously going to be very controversial because there was huge resistance to the idea of homosexuality.",
"When people tried to ban the book in schools, they often pointed to this chapter as \"filthy trash.\"",
"The second, of course, is the abortion chapter (which was still illegal at the time) ... and the third -- can you guess?",
"-- it's masturbation. That was singled out in the sexuality chapter as one of the sections that was inappropriate, pornographic, you name it.",
"CNN: \"Our Bodies, Ourselves\" was definitely known as a feminist book in the 1970s.",
"Do you still identify with that ideology?",
"Norsigian: There is no question in our minds that it's a feminist book.",
"But one of the problems that has emerged over the last several years or so is that members of the media have failed to educate themselves about what feminism means, so there's been a lot of distortion.",
"(The term) has different definitions depending on who you talk to.",
"One of the things we hope is that by having people read a book like this, which is feminist but is not anti-male ... is that they'll adjust their thinking about what feminism consists of.",
"CNN: How has society's view on women's health changed since the first book came out?",
"Norsigian: There were three things that kept hitting us between the eyes: sexism, paternalism, condescension -- things that really interfered with getting good health and medical care.",
"There was also a lack of good data.",
"Much medical care was driven by convention. ...",
"There are many, many examples of where the medical care was not good or appropriate for the situation.",
"(To get where we are today) has taken better research, it's taken a strong advocacy community, and it's taken reaching out to the general public.",
"CNN: What are the biggest issues facing women today?",
"Norsigian: We still have a long way to go.",
"If you don't deal with things like education and housing, access to health care, these are critical issues that ultimately have a profound impact on women's health and well-being.",
"The single greatest influence on a woman's health and well-being is her poverty status. ...",
"If you look at surveys across the globe, many women identify violence as the biggest threat.",
"So that's not often fully appreciated.",
"Most of the issues we write about are not just about a single person dealing with an individual choice; it's really connected to a larger reality where we can, if we take action, do something to reduce the problem to begin with.",
"CNN: What's new in this year's edition of the book?",
"Norsigian: The new book has a focus on sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan.",
"There's a whole chapter on gender identity and sexual orientation.",
"Many chapters are totally redone incorporating new awareness, new activism.",
"The perimenopause chapter is totally different.",
"The politics chapter is totally different ... with a much more in-depth discussion of health care reform.",
"The sexuality chapter includes a wiki conversation; I think more than 200 people contributed to a several month-long conversation that was then synthesized into this fabulous collection of insights and exchanges.",
"CNN: Why did you decide to focus on just sexual and reproductive health?",
"Norsigian: Well, you're going to laugh.",
"The book was becoming too encyclopedic, and we also wanted to return to earlier versions where we had more space for women's experiences and stories.",
"So that was one of the reasons.",
"But in the end, we got so much good content. ...",
"It ended up being longer than the last book in 2005.",
"It's not something you're going to carry around with you; it's more than 3 pounds.",
"CNN: With so much information out there and varying opinions on almost everything, how do you edit the book to ensure that it's unbiased?",
"Norsigian: Well, everybody has a point of view, and everybody has a bias.",
"There's no question that that exists, whether we try hard to keep it out or not.",
"One of the ways we (try) is by having people with different biases go at the same text, making their case with one another.",
"CNN: With all the Internet resources out there, what's the purpose of owning a comprehensive book like this?",
"Norsigian: I talk on about 60 college campuses a year, and you won't believe the misinformation young people have.",
"This is one of the ironies that we face now.",
"There are more and more sources of information. ...",
"It's out there to find, but you have to know where to look.",
"There's tremendous amounts of misinformation, distorted information.",
"That's one of things about this book: It's probably the most trustworthy source about women and health out there.",
"CNN: What's one thing you hope women take away from the book?",
"Norsigian: I would say that we can all make more intelligent decisions about personal health and medical care as well as the policies we want to see in our communities.",
"The key is finding reliable sources of information that will guide those kinds of decisions."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Fighters loyal to Libya's new leaders say they have \"reached the final stages of the fight\" to take control of former leader Moammar Gadhafi's hometown.",
"About 10 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the fighting overnight, said Al Zubair Al Kadi, a field commander on the frontline in Sirte, on Sunday.",
"Troops loyal to the National Transitional Council also entered the pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid for the first time on Sunday, said Abdulla Kenshill, an NTC spokesman there.",
"NTC forces \"liberated\" nearby the villages of Teninai and Shuwaikh overnight, and advanced to within a kilometer (about three-fifths of a mile) of Bani Walid's main market, he said.",
"They also took control of the airport in the southwest of the city, he said.",
"Five fighters were badly injured, he added.",
"In Gadhafi's hometown, NTC fighters \"took over Sirte University last night and all the residential buildings around it, including the student dormitories,\" Al Kadi said.",
"Troops loyal to the National Transitional Council \"caught many African mercenaries, mostly from Mauritania, while our men were combing the buildings for snipers,\" he said.",
"At least one hospital held out but fell to the new authorities on Sunday, he said.",
"\"Our fighters now have full control of the Ibn Sina main hospital in Sirte after fierce clashes,\" he said, adding that 17 pro-Gadhafi fighters had been captured.",
"\"You can say that we have reached the final stages of the fight,\" he said before the hospital was taken.",
"The fall of Sirte cannot come soon enough for Libya's new leaders, eager to declare liberation once the birthplace of Gadhafi is under their control.",
"But battles for the coastal city southeast of Tripoli have raged for weeks as Gadhafi loyalists dug in and put up stiff resistance.",
"The NTC lost 26 men Friday, said Mohammed Sayeh, a senior council member.",
"But he said he was confident that Sirte would be under the council's control within days.",
"That is what the council's military commanders told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Friday, according to a senior U.S. defense official traveling with him.",
"Panetta met with the commanders at the naval base that hosts the U.S. Sixth Fleet in Italy, the official said.",
"The commanders said they have no reason to believe Gadhafi has any control of those militia members who remain loyal to him, the official said.",
"They further believe that, although the anti-Gadhafi forces are gaining the ability to exercise control, they will likely need training to develop their capabilities, the official said.",
"Still, no timetable has been drawn up for when commanders will recommend that NATO forces end their involvement, the official said.",
"Gadhafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, for on charges of crimes against humanity, has not been seen in public in months.",
"Syrian-based television aired an audio message Thursday that was purportedly from the deposed leader.",
"In it, the speaker urged Libyans to protest the nation's new leadership.",
"CNNs Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A hospital in Sirte, one of the last bastions of pro-Gadhafi troops, falls, the NTC says .",
"NEW: Troops loyal to Libya's new leaders enter Bani Walid for the first time .",
"About 10 are killed and more than 100 wounded in the fighting for Sirte .",
"The NTC has been battling hard to take control of Gadhafi's hometown ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Samsung Electronics said Friday it is expecting weaker third quarter sales as demand for flat screen televisions and computer chips falls.",
"The South Korean technology giant forecasts an operating profit of 3.75 trillion won ($3.5 billion), down 13% from a year earlier.",
"Profits are expected to rise though from the previous quarter by 12%.",
"Analysts say Samsung's handset sales are helping weaknesses in other businesses.",
"\"Semi conductors are still strong and even if they don't make as much profit, it's not because they're less competitive, it's because the semiconductor market as a whole went down.",
"As for smart phones, they are becoming comparable with Apple, they haven't surpassed Apple yet but they are catching up very fast,\" Lee Sun Tae of Meritz Securities in Seoul said.",
"Experts also say the strengthening US dollar against the Korean won helps exports and the bottom line.",
"Lee estimates a small increase in the dollar's strength of less than one cent could result in an extra $250,000 profit for Samsung.",
"Lee believes the US dollar will continue to gain strength for the rest of this year."
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"Experts also say the strengthening US dollar against the Korean won helps exports ."
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"London (CNN) -- A tiny handwritten and unpublished manuscript by \"Jane Eyre\" author Charlotte Bronte has sold for $1.07m after it sparked a fierce bidding war between rival museums.",
"The second issue of Bronte's \"Young Men's Magazine\" -- written in 1830 when she was just 14 -- smashed pre-sale estimates of $310,000 to $465,000, and set a record for manuscripts by the Bronte sisters.",
"It contains three stories, written in Bronte's tiny, cramped hand, one of which is said to prefigure the story of Bertha, Mr. Rochester's insane wife in \"Jane Eyre.\"",
"It was bought by the Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris, where it will go on display in January.",
"The Bronte Parsonage Museum, in the family's hometown of Haworth, Yorkshire, had earlier launched an appeal to raise money to allow them to buy it, but were outbid in the sale at Sotheby's in London.",
"Philip Errington, director of the auction house's books and manuscripts department, said the Bronte item was \"of huge literary significance.\"",
"\"The record price set today reflects the international interest in Charlotte Brontë's work.",
"\"This tiny manuscript represents her first burst of creativity and provides a rare and intimate insight into one of history's great literary minds.\"",
"The Bronte Parsonage Museum already owns four of the six manuscripts in the \"Young Men's Magazine\" series.",
"The whereabouts of the sixth magazine are unknown.",
"Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) and her sisters Emily (1818-1848) and Anne (1820-1849) wrote some of the best-loved novels in the English language, including \"Jane Eyre,\" \"Wuthering Heights\" and \"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.\""
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"Bronte's \"Young Men's Magazine\" was written in 1830 when she was just 14 .",
"Experts say miniature manuscript is \"of huge literary significance\"\nOne of the stories it contains is said to prefigure a key scene in \"Jane Eyre\""
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"(CNN) -- When word came down Monday that an ownership lockout would cancel at least the first two weeks of this year's NBA season, players' association president and Los Angeles Lakers point guard Derek Fisher had a three-word response.",
"\"LET US PLAY.\"",
"But they didn't come in a press release or a statement in front of a bank of news cameras.",
"Instead, they were on Twitter, the social-media platform where the league's stars have millions of followers and where they hope their high profiles will win public sympathy during an increasingly bitter labor fight.",
"It's not the first time pro athletes have used the site's micro-blasts of info to make their case in such disputes.",
"In fact, \"let us play\" was a refrain used by the NFL players' association on Twitter during last summer's labor negotiations, which were settled without any regular-season play being missed.",
"But it may be the first time it's been an integral part of a plan to sway public opinion.",
"\"This is an orchestrated effort by the players attempting to gather attention and support for their cause, much in the same way carrying a picket sign might have in another era,\" said Eric Rabe, senior adviser at the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, where he studies the use of social media.",
"Fisher added the hashtag \"#standunited\" to his post, a tag other players have adopted, allowing Twitter users to follow all of their tweets in one place.",
"In a letter to fellow players after it was clear that negotiations had broken down between players and owners, Fisher said he and New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul would be \"utilizing our personal social networking channels to show the fans and you all that we are united and want to get back to work under a fair deal.\"",
"\"We invite you each to do the same,\" he wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Sports Illustrated.",
"\"To show our unity and to remind the fans that this is not our choice and we would like to go back to work and play the game they love to support.\"",
"Some of the game's biggest stars took the cue.",
"\"I wanna sincerely say sorry to all the fans!",
"It's a sad day for all of us, especially u guys!\"",
"Miami Heat superstar LeBron James wrote on his Twitter feed.",
"\"There's no US w/o You.\" And that, observers say, is where the players have the advantage.",
"James has 2.5 million followers on Twitter.",
"His teammate Dwyane Wade has 1.7 million.",
"Almost all of the league's top players who are active on the site are followed by hundreds of thousands of fans.",
"(Twitter, not Facebook, has been the go-to platform for NBA stars' messages about the labor dispute.)",
"\"It's logical for the players to take this approach,\" said Rabe, who as head of Verizon's corporate communications was responsible for spearheading that company's social-media efforts, as well as representing it through several labor disputes.",
"\"They've got a resource there to exploit and an issue they want to get on the table in front of the fans.",
"I'm sure they'll have some success with it.\"",
"In most labor situations, management is less apt to appeal directly to the public for a variety of reasons, Rabe said.",
"\"I'm not sure that's necessarily wise, but that's a tendency that management has in these situations.\"",
"That's certainly been the case in the NBA talks, during which owners have remained much lower profile.. Dallas Mavericks boss Mark Cuban is the league's most high-profile owner and one of its most active on Twitter, with more than 700,000 followers.",
"But despite tweeting regularly, the often-outspoken Cuban does not appear to have mentioned the lockout in recent days.",
"One of his other projects, cable channel HDNet, has gotten more mentions than the NBA of late.",
"Other high-profile owners were equally mum about the lockout.",
"Portland Trail Blazers owner (and Microsoft co-founder) Paul Allen has 23,000 followers but has focused recently on tech-industry startups and one of his other properties, the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.",
"Sacramento Kings co-owner Joe Maloof hasn't posted on Twitter since September 19, and his brother and partner, Gavin, has been tweet-free since May.",
"With nearly 3 million followers, the NBA's Twitter feed is more popular than that of any of its active players.",
"But as of Tuesday afternoon, it had featured only a single matter-of-fact tweet acknowledging the lockout.",
"\"As a general matter, I've usually advised the management to be active in communicating while in a labor negotiation,\" Rabe said.",
"\"I do not believe you have an advantage when abandoning the public discussion to the other side.\"",
"Discussing complex labor talks on a fast-moving and unfiltered platform like Twitter has its risks, however.",
"The Twitter account for Kenyon Martin, who played for the Denver Nuggets last season, appeared to have been deleted Tuesday after he seemingly wrote an offensive post Sunday during a back-and-forth with followers.",
"\"All Haters Should catch full blown Aids and Die!",
"Do the world a Favor!",
"and rid us of ya all!\" read a post on his feed.",
"It was later deleted.",
"In a subsequent tweet, Martin denied writing it.",
"Whether social media ultimately plays a role in how the labor dispute is resolved remains to be seen.",
"But, for either side, it's very likely worth a try, according to Rabe.",
"\"Certainly, in labor negotiations, both sides are looking at the public support they're getting as an indicator of how long they can hold their hardline position,\" he said.",
"\"Right now, it looks like they're both holding hardline positions, but something's going to have to give sooner or later.\""
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"(CNN) -- The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday morning in Oslo, Norway.",
"A record number of nominations -- 241 -- were received by the Nobel committee this year.",
"Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks -- the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information.",
"It made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and also released thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables.",
"Among the individuals thought to be strong contenders are several involved in fomenting peaceful uprisings in the Arab world.",
"They include Wael Ghonim, the former Google executive who used social media to jump-start social change in Egypt, Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who criticized the regime long before the uprisings began, dispersing information to the outside world, and Israa Abdel Fattah, who helped organize Egypt's online April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 and played a role again in 2011.",
"Other favorites are Sima Samar, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and a trailblazer for women's rights in Afghanistan, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payas Sardinas and Ghazi bin Muhammad, a Jordanian advocate of interfaith dialogue.",
"Another organization which could be in with a shot is Memorial, a Russian civil rights group known for its fight for to protect refugees and victims of political persecution and human rights violations in war zones.",
"Apart from the winner, the names of the nominees cannot be revealed by the Nobel committee for another 50 years.",
"Last year, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the prize but could not attend the award ceremony.",
"The political activist and longtime critic of communist rule in China is serving an 11-year prison term for what the Chinese government calls \"inciting subversion of state power.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama won for what the committee called \"his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples\" in 2009.",
"Nobel prizes in literature, chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine were awarded earlier this week.",
"Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.",
"The Swedish academy said it gave the award to Transtromer \"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.\"",
"On Wednesday, the prize in chemistry was awarded to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman.",
"Shechtman is a professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and is known for his discovery of quasicrystals.",
"On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences named Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley; Brian P. Schmidt of Australian National University and Adam G. Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.",
"They made the discovery that our universe apparently is expanding at an accelerating rate some 14 billion years after the Big Bang.",
"The Nobel committee on Monday named Ralph Steinman, a biologist with Rockefeller University, and scientists Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann, the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.",
"The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 91 times since 1901.",
"The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate is Mairead Corrigan, who was 32 years old when she was awarded the Peace Prize in 1976.",
"The oldest winner is Joseph Rotblat, who was age 87 when he was awarded the Prize in 1995.",
"The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five people chosen by Norway's parliament and is named for Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist and inventor of dynamite.",
"Nominations come from lawmakers around the world, university professors, previous Nobel laureates and members of the Nobel committee."
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"(CNN) -- These satellite photos taken before and after recent floods in Thailand show how the landscape has been transformed.",
"The first slide contrasts two identical areas of Southeast Asia taken on November 12 2008 and November 1 2011.",
"Captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite, the images show Thailand (left), Cambodia (middle) and Vietnam (far right).",
"One hundred kilometers north of the Thai capital, Bangkok lies the historic city of Ayutthaya.",
"Founded in the 14th century on the confluence of three rivers -- the Chao Phraya, the Lopburi and the Pasak -- it was an important trade center, once known as the \"Venice of the East.\"",
"After the rains, baby elephant brings hope .",
"Today, that old moniker takes on a new meaning.",
"Streets have become small rivers with surrounding farmland and floodplains submerged as images taken in July and October this year by NASA's Advanced Land Imager graphically illustrate.",
"The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that around 200,000 hectares of farmland have been affected by the floods across the country.",
"The urban economy has also been thrown into flux with an estimated 1,000 factories affected.",
"The country is a manufacturing hub for hundreds of electronics companies; the IUCN expects total economic losses from the disaster to exceed $3 billion.",
"Thailand floods could create laptop shortage .",
"On the northern outskirts of Bangkok, the Don Muang Airport -- the city's old international airport which now handles mostly domestic flights -- closed at the end of October after its runways became inundated with water.",
"Perversely, Bangkok's new international Suvarnabhumi Airport (opened in 2006) occupies an area called Nong Ngu Hao (meaning Cobra Swamp) which used to be a floodplain.",
"It is protected by a dike and remains open.",
"The IUCN says natural floodplains are important in storing water during floods and in combination with wetlands and natural river channels can limit the impact of flooding.",
"\"It's a classic case of urbanization being done blindly,\" says Ganesh Pangare, head of IUCN's water program in Asia.",
"\"The drains have gone, the floodplains have gone, the plants that soak up the water have gone.",
"This is a wake-up call to unplanned growth,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- A \"significant\" amount of oil is leaking from a container ship that ran aground on a reef off the pristine coast of New Zealand's North Island, officials said Tuesday.",
"New Zealand's oil spill response agency, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ), said in a statement that the ship has sustained \"some damage from current movement and there is a significant amount of oil leaking from the vessel.\"",
"MNZ estimates that 130-350 tonnes of oil have leaked from the vessel, which was carrying 1,700 cubic meters (450,000 gallons) of fuel.",
"The agency said that the vessel was still intact, but was being moved around by strong seas.",
"Clumps of oil from the leaking ship have been found on Mount Maunganui beach in the Bay of Plenty.",
"MNZ is advising people to avoid the beach for health reasons.",
"Oil began leaking from the Rena, a Liberian-flagged vessel, after it struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Tauranga, on the North Island, on Wednesday, creating a five-km (three-mile) slick.",
"Efforts to recover oil from the grounded ship, now heading south down the coast, are being hampered by high winds and strong swells.",
"Approximately 10 tonnes of fuel oil was transferred to tanks on board a barge before the recovery operation was suspended on Monday.",
"MNZ said dispersants are being tested on the oil that has leaked.",
"However, there are sea swells of up to four meters, which can make it difficult for the dispersant to work.",
"Worsening weather prompted the ship's crew to be evacuated as a precautionary measure after a mayday call was made on Tuesday.",
"Naval architects and salvage experts on board the Rena are monitoring the vessel and have placed sensors to provide advance warning should the ship's structure come under too much stress.",
"MNZ has established a one-kilometer maritime exclusion zone around the ship due to the health risk posed by the oil spill.",
"National On-Scene Commander Rob Service said the operation to remove the oil from the ship, led by Svitzer Salvage, would be complex.",
"\"There is no way of doing this quickly,\" he said.",
"A rescue center has been set up in the city of Tauranga to clean oil from animals affected by the spill and MNZ has 12 teams working to assist oiled wildlife.",
"Nine birds have been recovered -- seven little blue penguins and two shags, the agency said.",
"About 300 defense force personnel are on standby for a shore cleanup if needed, the agency said.",
"Officials fear the stricken ship may spill additional oil as its condition deteriorates.",
"\"I think we'd expect that at some point to have further problems and potentially even break up,\" Transport Minister Steven Joyce told broadcaster TVNZ.",
"Greenpeace expressed \"extreme concern\" about the spill and urged the government to avoid using further toxic dispersants.",
"\"This is an unfortunate illustration of just how difficult it is to deal with oil spills at sea,\" the organization's Steve Abel said.",
"\"Even a slow, and relatively accessible oil spill like this one has clearly stretched New Zealand's response capability to its limits.",
"\"It is also a potential disaster for the blue whales and dolphins presently calving in the area, as well as numerous other marine species.\"",
"New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said two inquiries had been launched into the incident to discover how the ship hit the reef.",
"\"This is a very large ship, that in calm waters has hit an extremely well documented reef,\" he told Television New Zealand.",
"\"Some serious questions need to be answered about why that happened and who is responsible,\" he said.",
"CNN's Karen Smith and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"(EW.com) -- After two weekends atop the box office, \"Puss in Boots\" was thwarted by a pair of newcomers, \"Immortals\" and \"Jack and Jill,\" both of which opened to solid numbers.",
"\"J. Edgar\" wasn't quite as fortunate, but overall, the box office exhibited life like it hasn't for the past few months, and the top ten ticked up 18 percent over the same weekend last year -- a good sign headed into Thanksgiving.",
"Check out all the details below: .",
"Relativity's \"Immortals\" became the new box office titan, fending off competition and scoring a strong $32 million opening.",
"While that number pales in comparison to the openings of 300 ($70.8 million) and \"Clash of the Titans\" ($61.2 mil), it puts \"Immortals\" ahead of other swords-and-sandals debuts like \"Prince of Persia\" ($30.1 mil) and \"Alexander\" (13.7 mil).",
"The Tarsem Singh-directed visual feast, which stars Henry Cavill and Freida Pinto, also revives the ancient epic genre's viability in 2011 after flop openings from \"The Eagle\" ($8.7 mil) and \"Conan the Barbarian\" ($10 mil).",
"For Relativity, a $32 million debut (66 percent of which came from 3-D screens) is a major win.",
"The studio spent a surprisingly small $75 million on the film, and a rep told me on Friday that they were hoping for a $25-26 million start.",
"Now, Relativity is hoping that broad appeal will continue to drive attendance.",
"The studio's exit polling reveals that \"Immortals'\" audience was 60/40 percent male/female and ethnically diverse as well -- 35 percent Hispanic, 30 percent Caucasian, 13 percent Asian, and 12 percent African-American.",
"According to Kyle Davies, Relativity's President of Worldwide Theatrical Distribution, \"A lot of people are enjoying the picture, and when you look down the road going into the holidays, there's just nothing for the action fans, so I think that's good for us.\"",
"But will the film actually continue to perform well into the Thanksgiving holiday?",
"That could be difficult.",
"\"Immortals\" looks like it may already be suffering from the fanboy effect, which occurs when eager sci-fi fans rush out to the theater en masse on opening night, thereby inflating numbers on the front end of a film's box office run.",
"This can often lead precipitous drops in the days/weeks that follow.",
"Just look at \"Immortals'\" weekend trajectory: the flick earned $15 million on Friday, followed by a 32 percent drop to $10.2 million on Saturday (while the rest of the Top 10 increased by an average of 8 percent), followed by a more-standard 33 percent decline to $6.8 million on Sunday.",
"Davies attributes the large Friday-to-Saturday drop to the fact that Veterans Day fell on a Friday.",
"He claims that with kids out of school all day, Fridays numbers were boosted substantially.",
"We'll have to wait and see how \"Immortals,\" which earned an alright \"B\" CinemaScore grade, does in the weeks to come.",
"In second place (for now) was Adam Sandler's latest comedy, \"Jack and Jill,\" which scored a $26 million debut out of 3,438 theaters -- good for a $7,563 per theater average.",
"Sony's $80 million picture performed within expectations, but when compared to the rest of Sandler's bawdy mainstream comedy wheelhouse, this is one of his poorer results, and his worst live-action comedic opening (not including 2009′s death-themed dramedy \"Funny People\") since \"Little Nicky\"'s $16.1 million bow in 2000.",
"\"Jack and Jill\" received atrocious reviews, and while those have never stopped Sandler's films from succeeding in the past, there is a sense that the summation of so many truly awful critical reactions back-to-back-to-back -- when not balanced by winking affection for lovably dumb films like \"Big Daddy\" and \"Anger Management\" -- may actually be hurting Sandler's golden box office record.",
"That being said, it's too soon to write off \"Jack and Jill.\"",
"Working in the cross-dressing comedy's favor is a family-friendly PG-rating, which could help \"Jack and Jill\" hold nicely with parents and children as we move into the extra-lucrative holidays -- although \"Happy Feet Two,\" \"Hugo,\" \"The Muppets,\" and \"Arthur Christmas\" will provide ample competition.",
"But the comedy, which received a fair \"B\" CinemaScore grade, will have to work very hard to reach the $100 million plateau that Sandler is so used to.",
"After two weekends in first place, \"Puss in Boots\" settled for third (though it may swap places with \"Jack and Jill\" once final results are released tomorrow) with an estimated $25.5 million.",
"The \"Shrek\" spin-off only dropped 3 percent last weekend, and this time around, \"Puss\" scored another terrific 23 percent decline.",
"The $130 million DreamWorks picture, which looked like a bust when it opened, has now earned a robust $103 million.",
"With a Thanksgiving boost, \"Puss in Boots\" should march right past the $160 million mark with ease.",
"\"Tower Heist\" drooped 45 percent this weekend to $13.2 million, giving the $85 million Universal caper a ten-day total of $43.9 million.",
"The one-two punch of Brett Ratner's Oscar ousting and \"Tower Heist\"'s underperformance have certainly taken the director down a few notches this week.",
"Rounding out the top 5 was Warner Brothers' $35 million biopic \"J.",
"Edgar.\" The Clint Eastwood film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as infamous FBI figurehead J. Edgar Hoover, earned $11.5 million out of 1,910 theaters, giving it a solid $6,005 venue average.",
"The tepidly reviewed drama opened slightly below Eastwood's last tepidly reviewed drama, \"Hereafter,\" which earned $12 million in its first opening weekend last year.",
"\"J. Edgar\" may finish in the same range as \"Hereafter,\" which grossed $32.7 million total.",
"The film played much like Leonardo DiCaprio's 2008 misfire \"Body of Lies,\" another film that paired him with a prestige director (Ridley Scott), but didn't connect with audiences and opened with $12.8 million.",
"For DiCaprio, \"J. Edgar\" is no \"Inception\" or \"Shutter Island,\" but the star has always modulated between mainstream crowd-pleasers and smaller, more serious fare, and his star is not in danger.",
"Audiences issued \"J. Edgar\" an uninspiring \"B\" CinemaScore grade.",
"In limited release, two films stood out.",
"After being available on-demand for a three weeks, Lars Von Trier's \"Melancholia\" still debuted with a solid $265,000 out of 19 theaters, leading to a $13,947 per theater average.",
"Meanwhile, Emilio Estevez's directorial effort \"The Way\" has quietly hiked all the way to $2.6 million over six weeks ($334,000 from 171 locations this weekend), despite never playing in more than 283 theaters.",
"The Martin Sheen drama is clearly experiencing good word-of-mouth on a small scale, so it will be interesting to see if \"The Way\"'s distributor, Producer's Distribution Agency, pushes the film any harder in an effort to garner awards attention.",
"In milestone news, \"Paranormal Activity 3\" has now earned $100.8 million after five weekends thanks to its $3.6 million frame.",
"It has grossed $189 million worldwide against a $5 million budget.",
"Where's the sequel announcement, Paramount?",
"1. Immortals -- $32 million .",
"2. Jack and Jill -- $26 mil .",
"3. Puss in Boots -- $25.5 mil .",
"4. Tower Heist -- $13.2 mil .",
"5. J. Edgar -- $11.5 mil .",
"See the full article at EW.com .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Jack and Jill\" scored a $26 million debut .",
"\"Puss in Boots\" settled for third with an estimated $25.5 million ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Evelyn Lauder, a member of the Estee Lauder cosmetic company who helped create the pink ribbon symbol for breast cancer awareness, died Saturday in New York City.",
"She was 75. Lauder died from complications of ovarian cancer at her home with her family by her side, the company said.",
"The Vienna, Austria, native fled Nazi-occupied Europe with her parents, eventually settling in New York City.",
"As a college freshman, she was introduced to the man she would marry, Leonard A. Lauder, the son of Estee and Joseph Lauder, who co-founded the cosmetics company.",
"Lauder joined the family business and rose to be senior corporate vice president and head of fragrance development worldwide.",
"Perhaps best known as an advocate for women's health, Lauder helped to create the pink ribbon, the now ubiquitous symbol for breast cancer awareness.",
"She is survived by her husband, two sons and five grandchildren.",
"\"My mother carried the torch of our company heritage and the values that were passed to her by my grandmother, Mrs. Estee Lauder,\" her son, William Lauder, said in a statement.",
"\"My mother and father were life partners as well as business partners.",
"They nurtured the culture and growth of the Estee Lauder companies, and as we grew, my mother was our creative compass and pillar of strength.",
"Together my family and the company celebrate the beautiful person she was.\""
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"Evelyn Lauder dies from complications of ovarian cancer .",
"Lauder helped create the pink ribbon as a symbol of breast cancer awareness .",
"She is survived by her husband, two sons and five grandchildren ."
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"(CNN) -- Golfer Tiger Woods Tuesday addressed a racially-tinged remark made by his former caddy, telling reporters Steve Williams apologized and is not a racist.",
"\"It was a wrong thing to say, something that we both acknowledge,\" Woods said, speaking at the Lakes Golf Club in Sydney, site of this week's Australian Open, according to his website.",
"Woods and Williams met earlier in the day, and shook hands after Williams apologized, the website reported.",
"Williams -- who was fired by Woods in July -- was being presented with a satirical award Friday night at an awards dinner in Shanghai, China, for comments he made after his new boss, golfer Adam Scott, defeated Woods at the Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio in August.",
"Should Williams be punished for his remarks?",
"According to media reports, when asked about those comments during his acceptance speech Friday night, Williams said: \"I wanted to shove it up that black a--.\"",
"Shortly afterward, the New Zealander issued a contrite statement on his website.",
"\"I apologize for comments I made last night at the Annual Caddy Awards dinner in Shanghai,\" the statement said.",
"\"Players and caddies look forward to this evening all year and the spirit is always joking and fun.",
"\"I now realize how my comments could be construed as racist,\" Williams' statement said.",
"\"However I assure you that was not my intent.",
"I sincerely apologize to Tiger and anyone else I have offended.\"",
"Woods said Tuesday that Williams \"did apologize.",
"It was hurtful, certainly, but life goes forward.\"",
"But he said he does not believe Williams is a racist.",
"\"There's no doubt about that,\" Woods said, according to his website.",
"\"It was a comment that shouldn't have been made and certainly one that he wished he didn't make.\"",
"Both the PGA Tour and the European Tour condemned Williams' comment, but he will not face sanctions.",
"Scott said earlier he had discussed the matter with Williams and accepted his apology.",
"\"There is absolutely no room for racial discrimination in any walk of life, including the game of golf,\" Scott said, according to the article on Woods' website.",
"Williams said in July he was shocked and disappointed that Woods had severed their 12-year relationship, especially after he remained loyal to the golfer during the sex scandal in which he was embroiled for several months.",
"\"Given the fact of my loyalty and the way that I stood by this guy through thick and thin ...\" Williams told CNN affiliate Mediaworks in New Zealand at the time.",
"\"And the timing of it is very poor, from my perspective.\"",
"Williams said the sex scandal had caused him to lose respect for Woods.",
"\"Well, I think when you're great friends with somebody and a situation like this occurs, you obviously lose some kind of respect,\" Williams said.",
"In announcing he would no longer be working with Williams, Woods said it was \"time for a change.\"",
"\"Stevie is an outstanding caddy and a friend, and has been instrumental in many of my accomplishments,\" Woods said in July.",
"\"I wish him great success in the future.\""
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"Tiger Woods met with Steve Williams and the two shook hands .",
"\"It was a wrong thing to say,\" Woods said about Williams' comment .",
"Williams issued an apology shortly after the Friday night remarks ."
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"(CNN) -- A gunman carrying a variant of an AK-47 rifle opened fire on uniformed Nevada National Guard members having breakfast at a Carson City, Nevada, restaurant, killing two of them and injuring three, officials said Tuesday.",
"A civilian woman in the line of fire also died and five others were injured in the mass shooting at an IHOP restaurant, officials said.",
"The attacker died later of a self-inflicted wound.",
"The FBI said there was no indication of terrorism.",
"Authorities said they had not determined a clear motive.",
"\"To say that he was targeting before he came into the restaurant those military persons, we have not been able to establish,\" said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong.",
"\"Clearly, the fact that five of the 11 were military draws a concern by us.\"",
"The suspected gunman was identified as Eduardo Sencion, 32, who lived in Carson City and worked at a family business in South Lake Tahoe, California, authorities said.",
"\"There was no indication he knew anyone in the restaurant,\" said Michael West, supervisory special agent with the FBI.",
"Witnesses indicated Sencion said something while inside the IHOP, West said .",
"Sencion had no previous criminal record on file but his family indicated he may have had mental health issues, Furlong told reporters.",
"He was at the family business Monday night and spent the night in Carson City, officials said.",
"Family members reported \"no unusual activity.\"",
"The AK-47 was recovered and authorities will determine whether it was an automatic, Furlong said.",
"An empty 30-round gun magazine and two other gun magazines were recovered.",
"A pistol and assault rifle were found in or near a vehicle, the sheriff said.",
"The shooting began shortly before 9 a.m., according to Furlong.",
"When authorities arrived, those who called in the incident identified the shooting suspect as a man lying wounded in the parking lot between two vehicles.",
"The suspect had continued firing in the parking lot after leaving the restaurant, Furlong said.",
"One individual was wounded outside.",
"Steven Martin, a witness, told CNN Reno affiliate KRNV that he ran to see if he could help after he heard shots being fired.",
"\"There was blood everywhere; broken glass everywhere.",
"It was just a war zone down there,\" he said.",
"A blue minivan registered to the suspect's brother was being studied, Furlong said.",
"Chuck Allen with the Nevada Highway Patrol said officials were taking precautions in case military personnel were being targeted.",
"\"When you have people in uniform randomly targeted ... we take that seriously,\" Allen said.",
"The shooting took place just a few miles from the Nevada National Guard state headquarters in Carson City.",
"The two deceased Guard members were men.",
"Two of the wounded Guard members were women.",
"Guard spokeswoman Maj. April Conway said officials will \"ensure we do everything possible to take care of our families and support our Guardsmen.\""
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"NEW: FBI says no indication of terrorism .",
"Witness: \"It was just a war zone down there\"\nThree gun magazines are recovered at the scene .",
"The suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities say ."
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"Minneapolis (CNN) -- Jared Pettingill's parents wanted a safe place for their son to attend school where he wouldn't be harassed for being gay.",
"They found that place in the Minneapolis Public School district.",
"\"It's just been really accepting in my experience,\" says Jared, a high school junior.",
"He says he's \"never really dealt with bullying issues\" in middle school or high school.",
"\"The amount of positive reaction to LGBT issues is really amazing.\"",
"Minneapolis Public School administrators admit that by no means has bullying been eradicated from their schools.",
"However, they firmly believe that they are leading the way in creating a safe environment for all students.",
"In January, the school board unanimously passed a unique resolution instructing administrators to track bullying incidents related to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.",
"The measure also requires all staff to be trained on LGBT issues.",
"It injects LGBT topics into the curriculum, which includes adding an LGBT component to sex ed.",
"They will eventually add an elective high school course on LGBT history.",
"Just a few miles away, another Minneapolis-area school district has attracted national attention for its policy that deals with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students much differently.",
"Neutral or not? The Anoka-Hennepin School District, just outside the Twin Cities, made headlines in recent years after seven students committed suicide between November 2009 and May 2011.",
"Parents and friends say four of those students were either gay, perceived to be gay or questioning their sexuality.",
"They say, at least two of them were bullied because of their sexuality.",
"The school district says there is no evidence that the suicides were linked to bullying.",
"Nevertheless, it stirred public debate over the school's sexual orientation curriculum policy.",
"The district's curriculum policy, adopted in 2009, bars teachers from taking a position on homosexuality in the classroom and says such matters are best addressed outside of school.",
"It's become known as the neutrality policy.",
"Anoka-Hennepin, which encompasses the Twin Cities' northwestern suburbs and is the state's largest school district, is the only Minnesota school district known to have such a policy.",
"In July, gay rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a group of students challenging the neutrality policy.",
"The Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Center for Lesbian Rights told CNN that the lawsuit is currently in mediation.",
"While the school district refrained from commenting on specifics in the lawsuit, it issued a statement in July noting that \"Anoka-Hennepin has been recognized as a pro-active leader in the state of Minneosta on bullying prevention.\"",
"The school district is also in the middle of a federal investigation into \"allegations of harassment and discrimination in the Anoka-Hennepin School District based on sex, including peer-on-peer harassment based on not conforming to gender stereotypes,\" according to a district memo.",
"Superintendent Dennis Carlson says the neutrality policy -- which has attracted just as many local supporters as it has critics to heated school board meetings -- is a reasonable response to a divided community.",
"\"It's a diverse community,\" Carlson told CNN earlier this year, \"and what we're trying to do, what I'm trying to do as a superintendent, is walk down the middle of the road.\"",
"The school district has a separate, comprehensive bullying prohibition policy, and Carlson said there is no link between the suicides and bullying.",
"\"We have no evidence that bullying or harassment took place in any of those cases,\" the superintendent said.",
"Carlson emphasized students need to report bullying, and he acknowledged \"gay students in our district struggle with bullying and harassment on a daily basis.\"",
"Damon Fietek, 16, knows that all too well.",
"He says he was a target for bullies because his father, a middle school teacher in the Anoka-Hennepin school district, is gay.",
"Damon's story .",
"Jefferson Fietek had adopted Damon just before he started high school.",
"The bullying began immediately.",
"\"It upsets me a great deal,\" says Fietek, a middle school theater teacher.",
"\"For him, being a kid from the foster system ...",
"I was just really upset that he wasn't being allowed to celebrate the fact that he had a family now.\"",
"Damon said the harassment went on for a full year before he even told his dad.",
"\"Students would say stuff to me...like 'Hey, did your dad rape you last night?'",
"You know, just make those kinds of jokes at me,\" Damon said.",
"The bullying wasn't just directed at him.",
"He says it was a general hostility toward people who are -- or are perceived to be -- LGBT or who come from homes where a family member may be LGBT.",
"\"I pulled him out of [that school],\" Fietek said.",
"Damon now attends another school in the Anoka-Hennepin district with smaller class sizes.",
"He says he hasn't had any problems.",
"Fietek, an adviser to his school's Gay Straight Alliance, says when he first started working at the school, several teachers suggested he keep his sexuality to himself for his own job security.",
"He decided it didn't make sense to keep quiet.",
"Risking his job is a gamble he says he has to take because the issue is too important.",
"\"I just compare it to what these kids' personal stories are, and they've got stories far worse than anything that's happening to me,\" Fietek said.",
"In his adviser role, Fietek says he receives phone calls, texts and Facebook messages several times a week from students who feel like they are at a dead end because of bullying or uncertainty regarding their sexuality.",
"Fietek believes the school district's neutrality policy has indirectly taken the side of the bullies by not supporting these kids.",
"\"Some of the things we've put in place [have] just created a scary environment,\" Fietek said.",
"Making it better .",
"James C. Burroughs II used to bully kids when he was in school, calling other boys \"gay\" for no particular reason.",
"\"If you did something on the athletic field that wasn't masculine or manly, you'd use the term 'that's gay' or the 'f' word -- the other 'f' word,\" Burroughs recalled.",
"Today, Burroughs is the director of Minneapolis School District's Office of Equity and Diversity, which seeks to \"integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion into all aspects\" of the school district.",
"Burroughs says his past is why he believes so passionately in putting an end to bullying, particularly of students who are perceived to be gay.",
"\"What's important for me is acknowledging that that happened and making it better for another generation of students,\" Burroughs said.",
"The Minneapolis School District has taken many steps to address the issue of bullying LGBT students, including training its staff on tracking bullying of these students, injecting LGBT topics into the curriculum, hosting an \"Out4Good\" LGBT support program, and implementing a bullying prevention curriculum called Second Step.",
"\"It's very special,\" Burroughs said.",
"\"I think we're a national leader when it comes to making sure that students and families in the school system K-12 are being treated and valued equally amongst all students.\"",
"Anti-bullying curriculum is woven into subjects like math, history and literature throughout each day, and staff from the teachers to the bus drivers are trained on how to create role play scenarios, says coordinator Julie Young-Burns.",
"Ultimately it comes down to how each teacher feels they're best able to infuse the lessons into their already planned lessons on other topics, she says.",
"High school junior Jared Pettingill says he notices bits and pieces of an LGBT inclusive curriculum on a regular basis.",
"\"In my English class right now, at the end of the year we're gonna be reading a book called 'Giovanni's Room,' which is all about a bisexual character living in Paris, and it hinges on a lot of his relationships,\" he said. \"",
"And there are a couple of other books like that that deal with lesbianism.\"",
"His parents support the school's proactive stance in teaching tolerance and offering support of LGBT students like their son.",
"However, they say any policy is ultimately \"a piece of paper\" that won't work unless the message is embraced by everyone.",
"\"It is our public officials, it's our media, it is each of us individually saying it's not OK to be hurtful to somebody else,\" said Marie Pettingill.",
"\"Whether its LGBT or other issues kids experience, they should be able to be safe, and we shouldn't have to even think that we have to talk about that.",
"Kids should be safe.\" CNN's Emily Probst, Poppy Harlow, and Chuck Hadad contributed to this report.",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"Jared Pettingill's parents wanted to make sure he wasn't bullied for being gay .",
"They enrolled him in a public school that has taken steps to teach LGBT tolerance .",
"A few miles away, another district is under scrutiny for its \"neutrality\" policy .",
"That policy bars teachers from taking a position on homosexuality in the classroom ."
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"(CNN) -- Two American hikers detained in Iran for years will meet State Department officials in Washington on Thursday, less than a month after they arrived back home on American soil.",
"Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Deputy Secretary William Burns.",
"Sarah Shourd, who was jailed with them but freed last year, will also join them.",
"The details of the meeting are unclear, but the two men acknowledged State Department officials in their first public statement when they arrived home in the United States last month.",
"\"There were also U.S. government officials who worked for our release, and some of them found creative ways to try and lessen the tension between the U.S. and Iran.",
"Consular officials at the State Department supported our families throughout,\" Bauer said.",
"After their release, Clinton issued a statement \"welcoming the decision made by Iranian authorities\" to free the two men.",
"\"After more than two years, they will finally be reunited with their friends and families.",
"I am grateful for the efforts of all those who have worked for their release,\" Clinton said.",
"Fattal, Bauer and Shourd were arrested after straying across the unmarked border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran in July 2009.",
"Shourd, Bauer's fiancee, was released in 2010, but Bauer and Fattal were freed a year later, after 781 days in captivity and a trial for espionage that Bauer said was based on \"ridiculous lies.\""
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"Freed hikers to meet with U.S. Secretary of State on Thursday .",
"The hikers thanked State Department officials after their release in September .",
"The hikers were detained in Iran in 2009 ."
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"(CNN) -- Are airports equipped for the crunch of tech-savvy holiday travelers?",
"Not really, according to a report from the folks at PCWorld, who say that only a fraction of the country's airports are ready for takeoff when it comes to meeting passengers' electronic needs.",
"\"Overall, I would give the top 40 airports a C grade for accommodating tech-savvy travelers,\" senior editor Mark Sullivan said.",
"\"The airports, together, offer an average of 5.5 outlets per gate.",
"When you consider that most people are now carrying devices that need wireless service and battery charge-up, this number is woefully low.\"",
"Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) tops the magazine's \"20 Best U.S.",
"Airports for Tech Travelers\" list released this week.",
"The airport got decent marks across all categories, and its Wi-Fi and cellular signals helped it edge out the competition.",
"Following close behind is New York's JFK International (JFK), whose $800 million Terminal 5 wowed researchers.",
"Delta Air Lines' terminals 2 and 3 at JFK also impressed them, with restaurants that had iPad kiosks to take your order in the gate area and have your food delivered there.",
"Overall, the airport offered more electrical outlets than any other and \"decent\" free Wi-Fi.",
"The country's busiest airport, Georgia's Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL), came in third place.",
"The electrical outlets available to passengers totaled 1,377, an average 8.1 per gate.",
"No. 20 on the \"best\" list?",
"Oregon's Portland International, which managed to rate in all categories despite what PCWorld called its \"painfully slow (but free) airport Wi-Fi.\"",
"PCWorld researchers visited 3,300 gates, testing more than 17,000 electrical outlets, 5,000 USB ports and 1,350 charging stations during an audit of the 40 busiest airports in the United States.",
"Auditors also conducted hundreds of tests of airport Wi-Fi and cellular broadband service.",
"Among the airports that didn't make the top 20 list, Denver International came in last, at No.",
"40. The exhaustive study took nearly four months and examined the features, or lack thereof, that were common frustrations for tech-savvy travelers.",
"These included the average number of electrical outlets, USB ports, charging stations, Internet kiosks and workspace available per airline gate.",
"\"I believe this feature to be the largest and most complex undertaking in the magazine's 28-year history,\" senior editor Mark Sullivan said.",
"The bottom line?",
"Even among the winners, PCWorld¹s researchers concluded that there's plenty of room for improvement."
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"PCWorld study says only a fraction of U.S. airports fulfill electronic needs .",
"The airports offer an average of 5.5 outlets per gate .",
"PCWorld researchers visited 3,300 gates, testing outlets, ports and charging stations ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A 21-year-old Idaho man charged with trying to assassinate President Obama by firing a rifle at the White House is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.",
"In issuing the ruling, Magistrate Judge John Facciola turned down a request by government prosecutors for Oscar Ortega-Hernandez to undergo more mental evaluation.",
"Dr. Elizabeth Teegarden, a clinical psychologist who interviewed the accused for 50 minutes, told the court she concluded, \"he was clearly competent to stand trial.\"",
"Federal prosecutor George Varghese asked Teegarden if she was aware the defendant had referred to himself as a modern-day Jesus Christ and if she knew he reportedly thought the government had a plan to implant global positioning system chips inside U.S. citizens to be able to track them.",
"She said she had not been given that information before she interviewed Ortega-Hernandez.",
"The psychologist said that during the interview, Ortega-Hernandez answered questions about his background, said he had never been treated for a mental illness, and understood the function of the judges and lawyers involved in his case.",
"Teegarden said that when she asked him about comments he had allegedly made to people he knows in Idaho that indicated he might want to hurt Obama, Ortega-Hernandez didn't want to discuss the subject.",
"\"I don't see any delusions in this case that affect competency,\" Teegarden said.",
"\"I saw no delusional thinking, period.\"",
"Teegarden, who works for the city's Department of Mental Health, said she does more than 400 mental competency evaluations a year.",
"Ortega-Hernandez sat quietly during the hearing and appeared to listen closely to Teegarden's testimony.",
"He wore a dark prison jumpsuit and leg shackles.",
"He is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a probation and preliminary hearing at which the government is expected to provide probable cause evidence that he fired a rifle at the White House on the evening of November 11 in an attempt to assassinate Obama.",
"Obama was traveling in California the night the shots were fired.",
"On Thursday, the government filed a document arguing Ortega-Hernandez should be kept in jail and not be freed on bail.",
"The filing included details on Ortega-Hernandez's actions on the day of the shooting and in the aftermath.",
"After Ortega-Hernandez was captured in Indiana, Pennsylvania, five days after the shooting, he told investigators he had been carjacked by a man with a gun on the day the White House shooting took place, according to the filing.",
"He allegedly said the man who stole his car and his wallet must have been the person who shot at the White House.",
"Prosecutors say there is videotape showing Ortega-Hernandez shopping at a Walmart store in Fairfax, Virginia, two hours after he said he was robbed in Washington.",
"According to the document, Ortega-Hernandez also said he has never owned a gun.",
"Prosecutors say they have two witnesses from Idaho who contradict that and tie him to a rifle found in a car abandoned not far from the White House on the night of the shooting.",
"One witness said he sold the Romanian-made assault rifle to Ortega-Hernandez last March, and the other said he attached a scope to the weapon and saw Ortega-Hernandez practice shooting with it, according to the court filing.",
"\"Five confirmed bullet impact points\" were found on the south side of the White House, according to the document.",
"Two bullets and one bullet jacket were recovered and prosecutors say preliminary ballistics tests have matched them to the rifle found in a 1998 Honda which is registered to Ortega-Hernandez and another person.",
"Only Ortega-Hernandez's fingerprints were found on some ammunition magazines left in the car and his prints also were found inside the car, according to prosecutors.",
"The government also said a Walmart receipt was found in the car from Ortega-Hernandez's stop there four hours before the shooting.",
"In a criminal complaint issued earlier, several unnamed witnesses were quoted as saying Ortega-Hernandez viewed Obama as \"the devil\" or the \"anti-Christ.\"",
"The Thursday filing includes a reference to a woman identified only as \"Witness 10.\"",
"She allegedly told investigators that Ortega thought he was \"chosen\" to \"take care of\" the president and that she thought that meant he wanted to kill Obama.",
"Investigators previously released little information on Ortega-Hernandez's movement from the night of the shooting at the White House until he was arrested five days later at a hotel in Pennsylvania.",
"But in their Thursday court filing, prosecutors revealed that three days after the shooting, a former FBI photographer who takes pictures of trains as a hobby photographed a stowaway riding on a train near Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, heading northwest.",
"The photographer-- identified in the document as witness 18 --thought the man looked like Ortega-Hernandez and contacted law enforcement.",
"Witnesses who knew Ortega-Hernandez later identified the man in the picture as him.",
"Prosecutors say the charge of attempting to assassinate the president is one of the most serious in the criminal code.",
"In the Thursday filing, prosecutors say, \"Ortega-Hernandez was deadly serious about eliminating the president and took many substantial steps toward achieving his end,\" including purchasing a rifle in March to making a 2,000-mile drive from Idaho to the East Coast in October.",
"Prosecutors argue that although Obama wasn't in Washington the night of the shooting, Ortega-Hernandez had a specific plan to hurt him.",
"\"The tragedy that would have befallen the nation if Ortega-Hernandez had been successful is unspeakable,\" prosecutors said."
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"He will appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing .",
"He is accused of firing a rifle at the White House in November .",
"He faces charges of trying to assassinate President Obama ."
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"(CNN) -- Taryn Davis was 19 when she married her high school sweetheart.",
"\"It was probably the happiest point of my life,\" she said.",
"\"I didn't need someone to complete my life.",
"He made me want to be a better person.\"",
"Two days after the wedding, Davis moved to Alaska to be with her husband, Michael Davis, who was stationed at an Army base there, putting their honeymoon plans on hold.",
"\"He wanted to take me to Hawaii,\" she remembered.",
"But they never got to take that trip.",
"On May 21, 2007, Davis came home to find two men waiting to tell her that her husband had been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.",
"At 21, Davis was a widow.",
"Consumed by grief, she felt she had nowhere to turn for support.",
"After her husband was deployed to Iraq, Davis moved back home to San Marcos, Texas, away from a military community.",
"\"I didn't live near any bases,\" she said.",
"\"When Michael was killed, I was in my senior year in college.",
"I didn't have a connection to military wives.\"",
"But Davis was not alone.",
"Since 2001, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have left 2,829 women without husbands and 46 men without wives, according to a May 2011 report from the Defense Manpower Data Center.",
"\"In the beginning after I lost Michael, I honestly wanted to die,\" she said.",
"\"I wanted someone 21 to say, 'I got the knock on the door.",
"I had the two men who said the words that shattered my world.",
"And I am like you and trying to pick up the pieces.'",
"\" So she made it her mission to seek out other widows.",
"She contacted a widow whose husband was killed alongside hers.",
"\"I gave her a call one day, and I said, 'I want to know all the things that people stopped asking me.",
"I want to know how you met your husband.",
"I want to know how you fell in love, how you were notified, and most importantly, I want to know what makes you get up every day and face life again,' because I didn't know the answers.\"",
"Davis found other widows on MySpace and used some of the $100,000 she received in military death benefits to buy video equipment.",
"Then she set out across the country to interview six widows in six different cities.",
"\"It was in the midst of filming that documentary that I got the idea of starting a nonprofit organization that would allow these women to have a place to share all the things that we basically were asking [in the film],\" she said.",
"Four months after Davis' husband was killed, the American Widow Project was born.",
"Since then, more than 750 widows have joined the organization.",
"It started with the website -- a place for young widows to share their stories, learn from one another and find comfort in knowing they're not alone.",
"Then Davis began organizing \"getaway\" trips so the widows could meet in person.",
"The trips have ranged from skydiving out of planes to rebuilding a house damaged by Hurricane Katrina through the St. Bernard Project.",
"Brooke Toner, a widow who helped rebuild the house in New Orleans, said it was hard to find other people who understood what she was going through.",
"\"After Frankie died, I just felt like there was nothing that was going to give me any comfort,\" Toner said.",
"\"I felt like nobody could understand that amount of loss of my best friend, my husband, my soul mate.",
"\"I didn't even think that these women could understand that.",
"But I've been fortunate to meet all of them.",
"They're dealing with so much of it, and they're on a similar path.",
"For me, it's comforting.\" Erin Dructor, who also lost her husband, agrees.",
"\"It's opened my eyes to show me different ways on how to be able to handle things to where I feel like I'm not alone,\" she said.",
"\"It's definitely helped me heal more.\"",
"For Davis, starting the organization has helped her just as much as it's helping other young widows.",
"\"In the beginning, it was hard for me to even laugh or smile because I thought if people saw me laughing or smiling, they would think that I was over Michael,\" she said.",
"\"In reality, I've learned that when I'm laughing and smiling and I feel most alive is when I feel my husband the most.",
"\"We're all on different journeys.",
"We all have different paths.",
"But to come here on one of our getaways for at least three days and just feel united, feel the love of our husbands and feel the love of our new lives that we're rebuilding together ... that's the thing that gets me through it.\""
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"Taryn Davis founded the American Widow Project after her husband was killed in Iraq .",
"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced close to 3,000 widows .",
"Widows can share stories on americanwidowproject.org, meet other women on getaway trips ."
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"(CNN) -- As a musician and social justice activist, online social media has helped Maria Isa sell more CDs and mobilize the growing number of Latinos in her home city of Minneapolis.",
"Isa wasn't surprised that a study published this summer said Hispanics are among the most active social media users.",
"\"Social media is about accessibility for me,\" Isa said.",
"\"I can send information to my audience with the push of a button on my cell.",
"I'm able to expand my message of social justice in the Latino community and also my work and the works of others who network with me.\"",
"There's a growing online audience of people of color.",
"Latinos and African Americans are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as white non-Hispanics, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.",
"Much of the reason?",
"Cell phones.",
"Nearly 90% of English speaking Hispanics use mobile devices.",
"But New York Daily News columnist and author Juan Gonzalez said it's an extension of Latino culture.",
"\"I think there's always been a tradition in the Latino culture, a tradition of word spreading news and information, gossip, word of mouth spreading, from family members to friends, neighbors of the same town or whatever,\" Gonzalez said.",
"The growing number of Latinos using social media is a reflection of broader demographic change in the United States.",
"The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that America's young people will become \"minority white\" in 2023, and by 2042, the same will be true for adults.",
"\"The youth population in America already looks like America will look in a few years.",
"The youth have a stronger identity in their role and purpose,\" Gonzalez said.",
"\"They're already acting out their new role in the country, even before they get to be adults.",
"They're already creating the new America through their involvement in social media.\"",
"Map how the United States is changing .",
"Gonzalez, who wrote about the Latino immigrant experience in \"Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America,\" said the success Latinas have online reflects their immigrant experiences.",
"\"Generally speaking, Latina women tend to be more into sharing experiences, and good communicators,\" Gonzalez said.",
"\"I think this is representative of social media and what it represents.",
"It's basically a community talking to each other, spreading bits of information here and there.\"",
"Isa was born to Puerto Rican parents in Minneapolis.",
"In her home, it was never a matter of if she was going to college, but where she would go.",
"She chose Columbia College in Chicago, where she focused on social justice and groomed the message she wanted to convey as a musician.",
"Eventually, she took her message online, using Twitter to promote her upcoming shows and projects.",
"She noticed more people at her shows, sold more CDs and generated more traffic to her MySpace music page.",
"In 2010, she was honored by the National Hispana Leadership Institute and a local Univision affiliate.",
"But things really took off when she discovered Latism -- Latinos in Social Media -- a group of like-minded \"gente\" online.",
"With Latism, she found a whole new community of people who wouldn't otherwise notice her work, she said.",
"She was able to educate a larger audience online about what it means to be a Puerto Rican living in the Midwest.",
"The online discussion helped prepare her to better educate her real-life community.",
"Latism was founded in 2009 by Ana Roca-Castro, the chief executive of Premier Social Media.",
"The group started with a simple tweet: \"Where are all my Latinos?\"",
"More than 300 people responded.",
"Now, the organization has grown to more than 140,000 members.",
"\"What happened before, when all these online and social media things started, many people in our community felt like they were sending their thoughts into thin air,\" said Elianne Ramos, the head of communications for the Washington-based organization.",
"\"Through Latism, we give people a place to voice their opinions and talk about the issues that matter to them.",
"A lot of the conversations we have online become initiatives.",
"Our mission is civic empowerment and education.\"",
"Every two weeks, the organization is part of a group of 150 Hispanic community leaders on a White House conference call that gives guidance on how to handle issues in the Latino community, Ramos said.",
"\"They explain to us what their plan is, with things like the jobs proposal or Hispanic Heritage Month, and then they take suggestions from us,\" Ramos said.",
"\"You can really say what you think and they really listen.",
"And we always remember the community and keep the community in mind.\"",
"Isa said the high numbers of Latinos participating in social media has shown that the communities' issues and passions are more diverse than many realize.",
"\"We keep talking about the Latino community not being monolithic, and it's not,\" Isa said.",
"\"What we're seeing is that Latinos are beginning to embrace every aspect of what being a Latino is.\"",
"\"I'm here to reflect the movement that has raised me and continues to happen now.",
"Social media is the number one thing helping me lead that change.\""
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"Study: Latino and black people more likely to use Twitter than non-Hispanic whites .",
"Latism are harnessing the power of the large Latino social networking community .",
"Latina rapper and activist: \"I can send information to my audience with the push of a button\""
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"(CNN) -- Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former Dallas Cowboys player Terrell Owens after he failed to show up for a child support hearing last month.",
"The free-agent wide receiver tried to reschedule the October 24 hearing in order to attend an NFL workout to help secure a contract, his spokeswoman said Saturday night.",
"He is \"deeply upset that anyone would misconstrue his nonappearance in court,\" Diana Bianchini said.",
"At the time, Owens did not have representation, but his new attorneys are working to resolve the \"no show\" court date, she said.",
"Owens has been nursing a knee injury after surgery, and currently has no income, according to the spokeswoman.",
"He supports his four children based on his 2007 income of $11 million to $12 million when he was playing for the Dallas Cowboys, which has not been modified to reflect his current situation, she said.",
"\"In addition to this, his attorneys have just filed a lawsuit on his behalf for $2 million in a case where advisers who had access to his accounts were seriously mishandling fund,\" she said.",
"The player is in \"serious financial shape\" but is working to resolve the issue, according to the spokeswoman.",
"The wide receiver has played for the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals.",
"CNN's Stephanie Gallman contributed to this report."
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"The free-agent wide receiver tries to reschedule the October 24 hearing .",
"Owens did not have representation at the time, a spokeswoman says .",
"Owens played for various teams, including the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles ."
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"(CNN) -- France beat heroic 14-man Wales 9-8 in Auckland Saturday to reach the final of the Rugby World Cup.",
"The match was overshadowed by the 18th minute dismissal of Wales captain Sam Warburton for a dangerous tackle.",
"It looked to be a harsh decision by Irish referee Alain Rolland and tipped the match in France's favor although they had to withstand a late Welsh onslaught to maintain their slender lead.",
"Wales had led 3-0 through a James Hook penalty before losing their skipper, but a pair of Morgan Parra penalties put France 6-3 ahead at the interval.",
"He increased that lead to 9-3 with his third penalty early in the second half only for Wales to hit back through a clever solo try by scrum half Mike Phillips.",
"Stephen Jones, a second half replacement for Hook, missed the conversion as it hit the post before Wales had a second chance to take the lead in the closing moments.",
"Fortunate to win a penalty on the halfway line, Leigh Halfpenny's kick was accurate but dipped just under the posts.",
"Wales spent the remainder of the match with the bulk of possession but were unable to work an opening to leave the French to contemplate a final against either hosts New Zealand or Australia who play the second semifinal Sunday on the same ground.",
"But at the end, the main talking point was the crucial red card for Warburton, whose tackle on Vincent Clerc lifted the French wing off his feet as he released a pass.",
"Blog: Why New Zealand must win the World Cup .",
"Rolland believed the infringement merited dismissal rather than a sin-bin offense or warning but former World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar of South Africa thought otherwise.",
"\"It was a dangerous tackle, yes.",
"Never a red card,\" he told ITV Sport.",
"\"It killed the game,\" he added.",
"Warburton, who could miss next Friday's third place playoff match, was also amazed to have been sent off.",
"\"I'm gutted. There was no malicious intent.",
"I thought it was a normal tackle, the next thing I was walking off into the stands.\"",
"Wales have made only one previous appearance in the World Cup semifinals, losing 49-6 to New Zealand in Brisbane in 1987, but also had a man, Huw Richards, sent off in the defeat.",
"French coach Marc Lievremont praised the \"amazingly brave\" Wales, but believed Rolland, the 2007 World Cup final referee, had little choice but to dismiss Warburton.",
"\"I don't care at all whether it was a good match or not, whether the Welsh deserve to be in the final, we have qualified for the final and that's all that counts.\"",
"Interest in the opening semifinal was intense and 60,000 fans crammed into the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff to watch their Welsh heroes on giant big screens.",
"They trailed away disappointed, but the intensity is set to step up a gear for the clash between Tasman rivals New Zealand and Australia at Eden Park.",
"All Blacks coach Graham Henry believes the match his side's \"biggest in 10 years\" as they bid to win the World Cup for only the second time after a series of near misses.",
"Australia have improved after an opening pool defeat to Ireland, but will be without full-back Kurtley Beale, who has lost his race to be fit for the last four clash."
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"France beat Wales 9-8 in semifinal of Rugby World Cup in Auckland .",
"Wales captain Sam Warburton sent off in 18th minute for dangerous tackle .",
"Wales score only try of the match through Mike Phillips in second half .",
"Hosts New Zealand play Australia in second semifinal Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Photographer Thomas Nybo has captured images of some of the toughest issues facing Africa, from child mortality to access to education.",
"He recently visited five countries in 11 days as he traveled around West Africa with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.",
"An experience photographer and filmmaker, Nybo has documented life in more than 65 countries including Sudan, Lebanon, Congo and Yemen.",
"A regular contributor to CNN, he's also worked for other organizations including, the United Nations.",
"While in West African countries including Niger and Burkina Faso, Nybo says no matter people's hardships, he found an unbreakable spirit in everyone that shines through in his pictures.",
"The photographer's favorite image from the trip was of a girl carrying her sister to a health clinic.",
"\"She was fascinated by the camera and followed me around until I took her photo,\" he said.",
"At the same center he met a boy who was carrying his sister on his back.",
"Nybo points out that if you look closely at his eyebrows you can see he is wearing make-up.",
"\"It was the first time I'd seen a boy of his age in Africa wearing make up,\" he added.",
"In another of his pictures Nybo also captured a young woman with facial scarification, a common practice in the area.",
"\"They typically use a razor blade or a sharp knife to carve different patterns in to the skin,\" he explained.",
"One of the toughest places Nybo says he visited was a center for malnutrition in Niger.",
"He photographed a family who were camping outside the building because of the stifling heat inside.",
"At the center he photographed a two-year-old baby who was suffering from measles.",
"The baby was starting to go blind from a vitamin A deficiency but doctors were able to save her in time.",
"Nybo says that everywhere he went he met hard-working mothers; one group in particular that caught his eye had started a community garden to feed their children.",
"Watch the video to see Thomas Nybo talk about more of the photographs."
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"Photographer Thomas Nybo recently visited five West African countries .",
"Nybo took pictures showing some of the continent's toughest issues .",
"He says everywhere he went he met hard-working mothers ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Last night, police raided and evicted protesters from the Occupy Wall Street site.",
"This comes on the heels of recent police crackdowns on Occupy encampments all across the country.",
"But if you think that's the end of the 99% movement, guess again.",
"It's still just getting started.",
"To be clear, the Occupy camps are for the most part rigorously and passionately nonviolent and, incidentally, much cleaner than most would expect.",
"But there are a few punks in the crowds, mixed in with some who have sought shelter in the camps who bring along struggles with mental illness or drug addiction.",
"In other words, the 99% movement isn't violent; sadly, our society in general can be violent, and that violence seeps into even the most well-meaning spaces.",
"And enemies of the middle class would use any ammunition they could find to attack the 99% movement and evict the protesters.",
"Nonetheless, the Occupy camps gave urgent birth to a movement that was long-gestating in the anger and frustration of ordinary Americans.",
"Now that it's been kicked out of the house, it's time for the 99% movement to grow up.",
"Movements are, of course, always moving -- and so it's impossible to predict where they will go.",
"But I expect a couple of key shifts in the coming weeks.",
"Judge orders New York to allow protesters, tents, in park .",
"First, look for the 99% movement to move away from the \"occupy\" tactic.",
"Holding public ground for public protests has captured the attention of the nation in a way few other protests ever have.",
"But behind the scenes, protesters were increasingly worried that the problems associated with the camps are starting to outweigh the benefits.",
"Plus it's getting damn cold out and, even in nice weather, the Occupy sites take a lot of energy to maintain.",
"No movement should be beholden to a limited set of tactics.",
"The colonial Americans didn't just keep throwing boxes of tea into bodies of water.",
"The civil rights protesters didn't stop at sit-ins and bus boycotts.",
"Similar to the \"Move Your Money\" campaign calling on the 99% to divest their checking and savings accounts from the top job-killing banks on Wall Street, I think we'll start to see more experimental tactics that draw on mass action and public engagement without necessarily being rooted in outdoor sleepovers.",
"This will be messy at first, with many misses and few hits, but is an essential next step if the 99% movement is to continue.",
"Second, look for leaders to emerge.",
"The Occupy camps have been fervent in their supposedly leaderless structures, frustrating critics and media observers alike.",
"But, as keen analysts have observed, the 99% movement is, in fact, leader-full -- creating opportunities for everyday Americans who've felt cast out of the political process to find their voice and vision and work with others to achieve their goals.",
"The movement isn't anti-leadership but rather pro-leadership to the point where it's investing in building the power and skills of thousands of new leaders.",
"Yet given the practical limitations to an entirely decentralized, consensus-based decision-making process (which, among other things, allows a few vocal yahoos in favor of property destruction to have too much sway), clusters of leaders will start to emerge in the struggle to define the movement's next phase.",
"But don't expect them to look anything like the \"leaders\" we're used to.",
"Instead, they'll include single moms and construction workers and recent college graduates and homeless people.",
"Because of who they are and the way they lead in the context of the larger movement, they will redefine our understanding of leadership.",
"Third, wait for factions to splinter.",
"While we'd all love to keep holding hands and singing \"Kumbaya,\" the reality is that as the 99% movement gets bigger, so do the stakes and various differences and divisions that once seemed trivial become impossible to ignore.",
"The small minority within the protests who are eager to vandalize property and confront police will, let's hope, be sidelined and that their reckless acts will be seen as doing violence to the larger mission of the movement.",
"Of course, it would be great if these small factions could be educated and transformed, but the reality is that in every movement, left and right, there's a fringe and, ultimately, a moment where that fringe is no longer accommodated but rejected.",
"The raids and evictions may be the impetus for this shift in the 99% movement.",
"Whatever happens next, it's clear that the movement to make our economy and political system work for the 99% has barely completed the first 1% of its long and vital journey.",
"You can evict protesters, but you can never evict a growing idea.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Sally Kohn."
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"Despite crackdowns, the Occupy movement is just getting started, says Sally Kohn .",
"Look for the movement to shift away from the \"occupy\" tactic, Kohn predicts .",
"Kohn: Watch for leaders to emerge, despite the movement being \"leaderless\"\nThe movement's violent fringes will probably soon be sidelined, says Kohn ."
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"(CNN) -- Details were just beginning to emerge Thursday on plans for memorial services and other tributes to Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple co-founder who died Wednesday.",
"But if plans for official observances were still forming, people across the world touched by his vision, and the products that resulted, were already clamoring for ways to celebrate and memorialize his legacy.",
"A statement from Jobs' family late Wednesday said a website is going to be created \"for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.\"",
"While saying \"we know many of you will mourn with us,\" the statement did not mention any plans for a public memorial service.",
"Early Thursday, that website did not appear to be live yet.",
"A spokeswoman for the family did not immediately respond to a request for details.",
"In its statement announcing the CEO's death, Apple provided an email address -- rememberingsteve@apple.com -- for people wishing to \"share your thoughts, memories, and condolences.\"",
"Apple has said the company does not know when, or if, there will be a public memorial.",
"But at Apple's headquarters, Apple stores worldwide and on the Internet, unofficial tributes had already begun.",
"On Apple's campus in Cupertino, California, flags were at half-staff and an impromptu memorial had cropped up by late Wednesday.",
"Apple employees and others showed up to leave flowers, light candles and provide other tributes.",
"Apple retail stores everywhere became gathering places for the Apple faithful who looked at Jobs as much more than a CEO.",
"At an Apple store in Tokyo, iPads and iPhones showing flickering images of candles had been propped beside flowers and other more traditional items.",
"Online, a pre-existing group of Apple fans had already declared October 14, the day the iPhone 4S will be released, \"Steve Jobs Day\" as a tribute to his legacy.",
"\"We admire his work.",
"We've embraced his vision.",
"And we love what he's brought to the world,\" reads the group's website.",
"\"Let's take a day to honor the man himself and say thank you.\"",
"The site encourages people to dress in Jobs' iconic jeans and black mock turtleneck on that day, and use Facebook and Twitter to share thoughts about him.",
"\"We planned this the day he retired and announced it in September,\" the group wrote on a Facebook page where people can RSVP to \"attend\" the day.",
"\"It was intended to be a celebration of his life.",
"Not a memorial.\" On Thursday morning, more than 7,000 people had said they would participate.",
"Tech-focused publications, including BoingBoing and Wired, also turned their website homepages into tributes to Jobs.",
"BoingBoing's site was reskinned to look like an older Mac computer interface.",
"Wired made most of its page black in reverence for the passing of a tech titan."
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"Early Thursday, details on tributes to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs were still scarce .",
"Jobs' family says a website will be created to let people offer tributes to him .",
"Apple's campus and Apple stores worldwide became memorials by late Wednesday .",
"A group names Oct. 14, when the iPhone 4S is released, as Steve Jobs Day ."
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"(CNN) -- A Colombian man, possibly linked with paramilitaries there, may be the mastermind behind the kidnapping in Venezuela of major league catcher Wilson Ramos, Venezuelan Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said Saturday.",
"Authorities have identified him and an arrest warrant is being issued, he said.",
"Six Venezuelans have been arrested in the case, and more arrests are possible as the investigation continues, El Aissami said.",
"Ramos was rescued Friday night after a shootout between his suspected captors and rescuers in the mountainous region of Montalban, about 60 miles from the north central Venezuelan city where he was last seen.",
"He is healthy and unharmed, authorities said.",
"After the suspected captors opened fire on authorities, \"we responded in a proportional way, but not in a way that would put at risk (Ramos') rescue,\" El Aissami said at a news conference.",
"The minister praised the bravery of the national guard troops who participated in the operation, singling out one guardsman who was under fire for several minutes \"but did not retreat.\"",
"The day after Ramos went missing, investigators found the SUV used in the kidnapping, but had few clues to lead them to the perpetrators, he said.",
"So investigators focused on intelligence work -- matching the description of the snatching to the modus operandi of known criminal groups -- and eventually located a home where they believed Ramos was held.",
"Venezuelan President Chavez himself authorized the operation on the house, which included using helicopters to deliver the rescue team near its target, El Aissami said.",
"This house was, the team learned, a logistical base used by the kidnappers.",
"According to the minister, it was the place where food and other logistics were prepared and then transferred to another location, where Ramos was actually being held.",
"The owners of the home, Lesbia Quesada, 60, and Aristides Sanchez, 64, were accused of being accomplices to the crime and were arrested, he said.",
"The rescue team then learned of a second home in an isolated area where Ramos was believed to be hiding.",
"The trek there took three hours for the rescue team, as there were parts they could traverse only on foor, El Aissami said.",
"When they neared the second target, they were met with gunfire, and, according to the minister, that's how they knew Ramos was inside.",
"Authorities arrested Alexander Sanchez, 27; Francisco Finamor Penna, 20; Yosnar Cubillan, 21; and Anyuli Tarazona, 22.",
"But it was a Colombian man, possibly linked to paramilitaries, who gave the orders, El Aissami said.",
"This man identified Ramos, got the information on his home, located his relatives and gave the orders to carry out the kidnapping, El Aissami said.",
"Ramos was full of thanks to his rescuers and his supporters upon his arrival at his family home in Venezuela early Saturday.",
"\"I am very happy for the rescue operation they carried out.",
"Very thankful to the government and the national army,\" Ramos told reporters.",
"\"I didn't expect them. Where they were holding me captive was a very remote place, basically a jungle, and see, I was praying to God to bring me home safely to my family and look at these guys, they risked their lives to save mine and I am very thankful.\"",
"Ramos, a rising star for the Washington Nationals as a rookie this past year, was in his native country to play in Venezuela's winter league.",
"Washington Nationals officials applauded the news of his rescue.",
"\"I am happy to announce that I have spoken directly with Wilson and he assures me he is unharmed,\" said Mike Rizzo, the team's general manager.",
"\"He asked me to thank all who played a role in his rescue, and all those who kept him and his family in their thoughts and prayers.\"",
"Ramos, 24, emerged as the team's top catcher this past season.",
"He had a .267 batting average with 15 home runs and 52 runs batted in.",
"Though soccer reigns in most Latin American countries, baseball rules in Venezuela, which routinely feeds players to major league teams in the United States."
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"NEW: Police are looking for a Colombian man who allegedly gave orders .",
"Ramos is healthy and unharmed, state media reports ."
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"(CNN) -- Pennsylvania needs to change its law in the wake of a scandal over alleged child sexual abuse by a then-member of Penn State's football coaching team, the governor said Sunday.",
"A new law is needed to make sure reports of alleged child sexual abuse are made to government authorities, Tom Corbett said.",
"\"Should the law be changed?",
"Absolutely,\" Corbett said on NBC's \"Meet the Press.\"",
"Corbett was the attorney general who began an investigation of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.",
"A 23-page grand jury report released last weekend described crimes that Sandusky allegedly committed against young boys between 1994 and 2009 -- some of them on campus, both during and after his tenure at at Penn State.",
"Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, has said that his client disputes the report.",
"In 2002, a graduate assistant allegedly saw Sandusky raping a boy in the showers of a campus athletics facility.",
"The graduate student, Mike McQueary, informed Joe Paterno, the team's coach at the time, according to the grand jury report.",
"Paterno then alerted his boss, the school's athletic director.",
"It was years before law enforcement first learned about the allegation.",
"Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz have been charged for failing to report the abuse to authorities and misleading investigators.",
"Prosecutors determined that a legal duty to report the alleged abuse applied to them, but not to McQueary and Paterno.",
"Members of both political parties \"have already introduced measures\" to change the law, Corbett said when asked about Paterno.",
"\"And we have to make sure that the change in the law is one that is effective.",
"It's easy enough to take a look to see what other states have done.",
"But I'm sure that within the next few weeks, you will probably see bills become public.",
"\"I wouldn't be surprised to see if a bill was passed between now and the end of this year,\" he said.",
"McQueary, who was later promoted to a full-time assistant coach, eventually described the alleged incident in graphic detail to the grand jury.",
"He was placed on administrative leave Friday.",
"The grand jury report says that Schultz and Curley were \"senior staff\" of the university.",
"\"Pennsylvania's mandatory reporting statute for suspected child abuse ... provides that when a staff member reports abuse ... the person in charge of the school or institution has the responsibility and legal obligation to report or cause such a report to be made by telephone and in writing within 48 hours\" to the Department of Public Welfare, according to the report.",
"\"An oral report should have been made to the Centre County Children and Youth Services,\" it said.",
"Pennsylvania's Child Protective Services Law states that anyone who, in the course of employment, \"comes into contact with children shall report or cause a report to be made ... when the person has reasonable cause to suspect\" that the child is a victim of abuse.",
"The law states that when the person is required to report \"as a member of the staff of a medical or other public or private institution, school, facility or agency, that person shall immediately notify the person in charge.\"",
"The person in charge ultimately has the responsibility to report the alleged incident to government authorities.",
"Jerry McHugh, a prominent Philadelphia attorney who represents victims of abuse but is not currently representing anyone involved in the Penn State scandal, told CNN Sunday a new law is needed to state that \"if you eyewitness the abuse, you have a direct obligation to go to law enforcement.\"",
"Legal analyst Holly Hughes told CNN that when Paterno told his boss and no report was given to the authorities, \"that is where they failed.",
"That's where they fall down on the job.\" There is also speculation that Pennsylvania's whistle-blower laws may apply to, and protect, McQueary.",
"Legal analyst and civil rights attorney Avery Friedman said the case highlights the need for \"a re-examination of what is called the mandatory reporter law.\"",
"\"The argument being advanced in Pennsylvania is that as long as you tell the boss, you're covered.",
"And that's where -- I think if we zero in on the issue -- where the problem is.",
"If victims are going to be protected, you have to go to law enforcement, and that didn't happen here,\" Friedman said.",
"Outside of the legal concerns, many question why McQueary did not stop what he allegedly saw happening in the showers in 2002.",
"\"How does McQueary, a 28-year-old grad student, look in the showers of a facility and see a grown man raping a 10-year-old child and not instinctively grab a baseball bat and not protect this child?",
"How does he live with himself?\" asked Richard Hermann, legal analyst and criminal defense attorney.",
"Before announcing his administrative leave, the university said McQueary would not coach Penn State's Saturday football game against Nebraska due to \"multiple threats.\"",
"The newspaper Patriot-News reported Friday that McQueary told players on a brief conference call that he was in \"protective custody\" at a secluded location.",
"Paterno, meanwhile, was fired last week.",
"The school's Board of Trustees also ousted Graham Spanier, the school president, who had initially voiced support for Curley and Schultz following the release of the grand jury report.",
"Corbett, who now serves as a trustee on the Penn State board, made the rounds on three Sunday political talk shows, though he cautioned that his comments were limited by legal obligations due to the ongoing investigation.",
"Asked by \"Fox News Sunday\" how the school could have allowed Sandusky's alleged activities to continue for years, Corbett said, \"What I saw was a failure to act, and I always have said your actions speak louder than your words.\"",
"GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who happened to appear on \"Meet the Press\" after Corbett, was asked about the scandal.",
"\"If that was my child,\" she said of the allegations, her \"automatic reaction would be, even though I'm a small woman, I'd want to go find that guy and beat him to a pulp.\"",
"But Bachmann said the case belongs within the state's jurisdiction, and that she does not see a role for Congress in the response.",
"On Saturday, tens of thousands packed Penn State's football stadium, cheering the Nittany Lions for the first time since the graphic allegations rocked the university and led to the ouster of longtime coach Paterno, who until days ago was a beloved school icon and the winningest coach in top-level college football history.",
"Penn State lost to Nebraska 17-14.",
"CNN's Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A new law should require a witness to tell law enforcement, a Pennsylvania legal expert says .",
"Gov.",
"Corbett: A new law may pass by the end of the year .",
"Prosecutors have not charged McQueary or Paterno .",
"Bachmann: If someone raped her child, she'd \"want to beat him to a pulp\""
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"(CNN) -- Iraq scored in injury time Friday to beat 10-man China 1-0 and all but end their opponent's hopes of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup finals.",
"The Asia Group A match in Doha was a mirror image of the side's earlier clash in China a month ago, with Younis Mahmoud, who scored the only goal in Shenzhen, coming up trumps again in injury time.",
"China were handicapped by a red card for Zhang Linpeng and paid for missed chances.",
"Iraq, coached by former Brazil legend Zico, have moved into a strong position in the qualifying section, which is led by Jordan, who confirmed their place in the second stage by beating Singapore 2-0.",
"Jose Camacho's China would have to win their final two games and see Iraq lose by a heavy margin to Jordan and Singapore to claim an unlikely second in the group.",
"\"China played bravely, but we won the match and the result has almost guaranteed our place in the last ten,\" Zico told the official FIFA website.",
"\"The game went as we predicted.",
"We knew China would attack, so we focused on defending in the first half before sealing victory late on.\"",
"Japan and Uzbekistan joined Jordan in clinching qualification Friday, continuing their domination of Group C. Japan routed Tajikistan 4-0 and Uzbekistan beat North Korea 1-0 with Timur Kapadze scoring the only goal of the match for the hosts.",
"The big surprise of the day was the 1-0 defeat for Group D leaders Australia in Oman with Amad Ali scoring the winner in the 18th minute.",
"Australia will still be expected to progress after four earlier wins, with Frank Rijkaard's Saudi Arabia moving into second in the group after a 3-0 win over Thailand.",
"In Group B, South Korea stayed top by beating the UAE 2-0 and Mahmoud El Ali grabbed the only goal of the game as Lebanon shocked hosts Kuwait 1-0 to move into second.",
"Iran held on to top spot in Group E but needed an injury-time equalizer from Mojtaba Jabari to scramble a 1-1 draw in Bahrain.",
"Iran lead Qatar, who recorded a 4-0 home win over Indonesia, on goal difference.",
"In the first round of African qualifying, the outstanding result Friday was 3-1 win for the Congo DR in Swaziland with Togo held 1-1 in Guinea Bissau.",
"Totttenham's Emmanuel Adebayor is set to return for Togo in the second leg next Tuesday.",
"A star-studded Argentina side were held to a disappointing 1-1 home draw by Bolivia in their third match of qualifying from South America.",
"Argentina, boasting the likes of Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain, found the visitors hard to break down and even fell behind as Martins Moreno scored in the second half.",
"It needed an equalizer from Ezequiel Lavezzi to salvage a point, with Argentina booed from the field."
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"Japan, Uzbekistan and Jordan clinch places in second round of Asia qualifying .",
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"TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer manufacture HD DVDs, effectively ending the long-running battle with the rival Blu-ray for a dominant high-definition format.",
"People watch a demonstration of HD DVD at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.",
"Toshiba said it made the decision to cease developing, manufacturing, and marketing HD DVDs after \"recent major changes in the market.\"",
"It promised to continue offering support and service for all existing Toshiba HD DVD products.",
"\"We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,\" Toshiba President and Chief Executive Atsutoshi Nishida said in a news release.",
"Toshiba's HD DVD business has been suffering recently with a string of major retailers and rental companies announcing their preference for Blu-ray, developed by Sony.",
"Watch video on the battle of the formats » .",
"Last week alone, Wal-Mart and online rental company Netflix said they would abandon HD in favor of Blu-ray.",
"Last month, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment -- which had been the largest media company releasing videos in both formats -- announced it would offer DVDs solely in Blu-ray.",
"The DVD battle has been reminiscent of the VHS vs.",
"Beta fight in the early 1980s.",
"It has left many consumers confused and waiting to see which technology will emerge as the industry standard.",
"Sony's Blu-ray is backed by Disney, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Dell, Panasonic, and Philips.",
"Toshiba's HD DVD is backed by Paramount, Universal Pictures, Microsoft, Sanyo, and NEC.",
"Toshiba said it would continue to work with those companies and study ways to collaborate with them in the future.",
"Tens of billions of dollars have been at stake as major movie studios battled for a dominant format.",
"But rival game consoles have been part of the struggle, too -- Sony's Playstation 3 plays Blu-ray discs, while the Microsoft Xbox will play HD DVDs if users install an add-on component.",
"Both Blu-ray and HD are high-definition DVDs, the successor to ordinary DVDs which show pictures only in standard definition.",
"But Blu-ray and HD involve different hardware and are not compatible with each other, meaning consumers have had to decide which system to invest in.",
"Both formats have an excellent picture quality with a large storage space.",
"But Toshiba has lost the battle because it lacks a retail presence in many markets, said Carl Gressum, a senior analyst at Ovum, a London technology consultancy.",
"\"They didn't manage to bring on board some of the China vendors, they didn't bring (on board) the retailers, they've failed to develop in the European and Asian markets,\" Gressum told CNN.",
"Warner Brothers announced its decision to drop HD DVD right before last month's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a significant event for corporate buyers.",
"Gressum said that led to an immediate drop in retail support for Toshiba's format.",
"Gressum said manufacturers of both formats have made things more difficult for retailers by forcing consumers to make a choice between the gradually-dominant Blu-ray and the much-cheaper HD.",
"\"They're losing money in many cases because of the price war between the two formats as Toshiba -- and also Microsoft, to a certain extent -- has been playing the price card for HD DVD players,\" he said.",
"Toshiba said the company would continue to market standard DVD players and recorders.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Toshiba says it will no longer make or market HD DVD players and recorders .",
"Move delivers victory to rival Sony's Blu-ray disc technology for next-generation video .",
"Toshiba lost because it lacks retail presence in many key markets, analysts say ."
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"(CNN) -- Malawi welcomed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a regional trade meeting Thursday over the objections of the International Criminal Court and human rights activists.",
"Al-Bashir is wanted by the court in The Hague, Netherlands, for alleged war crimes.",
"He arrived in Malawi for the annual summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).",
"Human Rights Watch had urged Malawi authorities to arrest al-Bashir or ban his entry into the country.",
"Malawi ratified the Rome Statute, which created the court, and as such, it is obliged to arrest him.",
"\"Al-Bashir is an international fugitive wanted on charges of genocide and other heinous crimes committed in Darfur,\" said Elise Keppler, international justice senior counsel at Human Rights Watch.",
"\"As an International Criminal Court member, Malawi should arrest him, not host him.\"",
"The court issued a warrant for al-Bashir for alleged crimes in the troubled region of Darfur in March, 2009.",
"Human Rights Watch said a number of al-Bashir's anticipated visits to both member and non-member countries have been canceled following public outcry.",
"However, last year, Kenya allowed al-Bashir into the country to attend the signing ceremonies for Kenya's new constitution.",
"The government defended its decision not to arrest al-Bashir by saying Kenya's first obligation was to the African Union, not the International Criminal Court.",
"The European Union foreign policy chief also expressed concern over the visit.",
"\"The European Union is a staunch supporter of the ICC and the fight against impunity,\" Catherine Ashton said in a statement Friday.",
"\"The Court is a valuable instrument of the international community to ensure that there is no impunity for the most serious crimes of international concern; genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes must not go unpunished and their prosecution must be ensured by measures at both domestic and international level.\""
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"Sudan's president is wanted for alleged war crimes in Darfur .",
"The International Criminal Court argues member nations are obligated to turn him in ."
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"(CNN) -- Joel \"Taz\" DiGregorio, keyboardist and original member of The Charlie Daniels Band, died Wednesday night from injuries he suffered in a single car wreck in Cheatham County, Tennessee.",
"He was 67. \"I am in shock now, Taz was one of my best friends,\" Charlie Daniels said in a statement.",
"\"The CDB family has lost a great friend and musician.\"",
"DiGregorio was a member of the band for more than 40 years and co-wrote its signature song,\"The Devil Went Down to Georgia.\"",
"Funeral arrangements are pending.",
"DiGregorio was on his way to meet the band's tour bus when his car crashed near Nashville.",
"Details about the wreck were not immediately available.",
"Because of his death, the band canceled a Thursday night concert in Georgia and a show Saturday night in Connecticut.",
"\"We traveled many miles together and shared so many nights on the road.",
"We're going to miss you buddy,\" Daniels said.",
"\"You were one of a kind and will never be forgotten.\"",
"CNN's Ric Ward contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- The woman who accused Herman Cain of groping her after a 1997 dinner says the Republican presidential candidate is \"still in denial\" about his conduct.",
"Sharon Bialek is the first woman to publicly accuse Cain of sexual harassment after last week's disclosure that the National Restaurant Association -- which Cain led in the late 1990s -- made payments to two other women who complained about his conduct.",
"Cain has vehemently denied any allegation of misconduct.",
"Bialek told CNN's \"Piers Morgan Tonight\" that she came forward Monday \"for the other women who couldn't or wouldn't.\"",
"\"I really hope that what I did will enable other women to come forward in similar situations,\" Bialek said.",
"\"Unfortunately for Herman, he's still in denial.\"",
"Bialek told reporters Monday that she sought Cain's help finding a job after being laid off from the trade association's education foundation in 1997.",
"She said Cain suggested meeting over dinner, then tried to reach up her skirt after the meal -- and when she protested, he told her, \"You want a job, right?\"",
"Read more about Bialek's allegation .",
"Her attorney, Gloria Allred, told CNN her client described Cain's behavior at the time to her then-boyfriend and a longtime mentor, and both have given sworn statements supporting her account.",
"Allred said her client is a registered Republican.",
"And Bialek said she expects to face public scrutiny following her accusations.",
"\"I know that in the next two days is when everything is going to hit the fan, so to speak, and I'm prepared for it,\" she said.",
"She added, \"I'm willing to handle it.",
"I'm a tough girl.\""
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"(CNN) -- Birders define \"a big year\" as an informal competition to see who can spot the most species of birds in a certain area in a calendar year.",
"Let me start off with a disclaimer: I am a bit of a bird nerd.",
"Not a serious birder by any stretch (I have never gone on vacation specifically for the birds, for example ... well, not a long one, anyway), but my iPhoto has been known to contain more than a few shots of birds, and my iPhone does have iBird Explorer Plus.",
"Oh, and as a child, my dad and I would spend the occasional summer afternoon in the country listening to records of bird calls.",
"However, just because I like birds doesn't mean I am predisposed to liking a movie with a lot of birds in it.",
"I am a huge baseball fan too, but am perfectly able to recognize a bad baseball movie when I see one.",
"\"Major League 2,\" anyone?",
"In addition, a good film needs to have something to it in addition to the surface subject matter.",
"What I am trying to say is, just because this is a film about birding doesn't mean it's a film about birding.",
"Stu Preissler (Steve Martin), Brad Harris (Jack Black) and Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson) are three birders who may (or may not) be attempting a Big Year.",
"The thing is, it's such a competitive field that those attempting such a feat tend to keep the information to themselves, so as to not inspire the competition.",
"Paying possum is a big part of a Big Year.",
"The head of a corporation, Stu is nearing retirement age.",
"He wants to quit the rat race, do something for himself (A Big Year, natch) and settle down in Colorado with his wife, Edith (JoBeth Williams).",
"Of course his corporate underlings, smarmily played by Kevin Pollak and Joel McHale, continuously try to pull him off the road and into the board room.",
"Brad, in his mid-30s and divorced, is low on funds and morale.",
"He's stuck in a job he hates and aches to do something truly great.",
"As a birder, this means breaking the world record held by Bostick (almost always referred to by his surname with a mix of derision, awe and envy by his fellow birders).",
"For Stu and Brad, while the undertaking of a Big Year is exciting, it's also a means to an end, not the end itself, and the journey is at least as important as the result.",
"One of the joys of this film is watching their excitement when some El Niño weather phenomena means that there's a likelihood of a mass of grounded birds (a storm in Florida) or a super rare sighting (a pink-footed goose, rarely seen in the U.S.).",
"To the arrogant and absurdly colorfully attired Bostick, however, the Big Year is personal and more about him than it is about the birds.",
"It's his record, and his status as world champion is more important to him than anything, even his devoted wife, Jessica (Rosamund Pike).",
"Bostick is constantly promising to hang up his binoculars and start a family, only to receive a call with a rare bird sighting somewhere across the country and hit the road again.",
"Stu and Brad quickly become friends and repeatedly run into each other throughout the year in far-flung parts of the continent, and travel they do.",
"\"The Big Year\" takes them from Maine to Key West to Arizona to Attu Island, Alaska, the westernmost island in the Aleutians, closer to Russia than it is to the Alaskan mainland (of course the production didn't actually shoot there, but they did shoot in the Yukon).",
"The scenery and wildlife on display are at times breathtaking.",
"The thing is (up on my avian soapbox, again), I can see the appeal.",
"After all, birds are amazing creatures.",
"They can fly, which is amazing in and of itself, and oh, by the way, isn't one of the most common dreams the one where you're flying?",
"Add to that their place in evolution, their diversity, strength and behavioral differences, and they're pretty interesting creatures.",
"While it's mostly about the humans in the cast, the sheer number of birds on display (stay for the running list during the closing credits) is astonishing, with some quite interesting (and in one case downright touching) bits of bird trivia thrown in.",
"It's not hard to see how large groups of people could get caught up in the activity.",
"In fact, a 2006 survey by the U.S.",
"Fish and Wildlife Department puts the number of birders nationwide at 48 million.",
"That same year, the activity created 671,000 jobs and added $36 billion to the U.S. economy.",
"At the heart of \"The Big Year\" is the idea that we all have our passions, and why are any passions any weirder than any other?",
"Surely, on a list of odd obsessions, birding ranks far below hoarding or, say, dyeing your dog to look like a panda.",
"Supporting turns are all solid, with special notice to the always lovely Rashida Jones as Ellie, the female bird nerd who captures Brad's interest, and Anjelica Huston as the comically and aptly named Annie Auklet.",
"Dianne Weist and Brian Dennehy are perfectly cast as Brad's parents.",
"If there's ever been a non-related trio that looks more like a real family, I'll eat my special birding hat.",
"Kidding. I don't have one ... yet. \"The Big Year\" is a charming, uplifting and heartwarming film, and when it's funny (which is often), it's very funny indeed.",
"It has a simple but compelling story to which everyone, birders and non-, can relate, great chemistry between Martin and Black, and a heart.",
"It's nice to see a film that doesn't have a mean streak and also doesn't talk to adults like they are idiots.",
"\"The Big Year\" is rated PG.",
"There's a minor swear word or two, but that's about it."
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"(CNN) -- Roman Abramovich is seeking to buy back Chelsea's home ground in order to switch to a new location that he hopes will help the English Premier League club remain competitive on an international scale.",
"Stamford Bridge, which dates back to 1876, once hosted a crowd of almost 83,000 people.",
"But many decades since that 1935 landmark, its capacity is now only 41,841 -- having been converted into an all-seater venue in the safety-conscious 1990s .",
"However, ownership of the stadium was given to a fans' collective long before billionaire Abramovich bought the west London club in 2003, in order to fight off the prospect it would again be bought by property developers.",
"The terms of the deal which eventually sold Stamford Bridge to Chelsea Pitch Owners (CPO) in 1999, a move that required a £10 million ($15 million) loan from the club, meant the team cannot keep its name if it relocates.",
"Can football chants ever go too far?",
"\"We know only too well how close the club came to losing our home prior to the formation of CPO, but that threat has now gone under Mr. Abramovich's ownership,\" Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck told the club's website.",
"\"And with the CPO structure in place, we cannot plan with certainty for the future.",
"I hope all shareholders vote in favor of the proposal.\"",
"The CPO members will make their decision at a special meeting on October 27 that will have a massive bearing on Chelsea's future plans.",
"With the introduction of UEFA's financial fairplay rules looming, Chelsea's need to maximize revenue and become less dependent on the club's Russian benefactor is growing.",
"Premier League rivals Manchester United can entertain more than 75,000 fans at every home game, while Arsenal's Emirates Stadium holds some 60,000.",
"Bigger grounds are seen as the way ahead, with Tottenham recently losing out to West Ham in a bitterly-contested bid to take over London's new Olympic Stadium after 2012.",
"However, English clubs have some way to go before catching their European rivals.",
"Barcelona's Camp Nou has the continent's largest capacity at almost 100,000 while Spanish rivals Real Madrid top 85,000 at the Santiago Bernabeu.",
"Borussia Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park is the biggest football ground in Germany with a capacity of 80,000 for domestic matches, while Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena regularly brings in almost 70,000.",
"In Italy, the two Milan clubs can draw crowds of 80,000 -- though Juventus bucked the trend by moving to a smaller 41,000-capacity ground this season, leaving behind the unpopular 60,000-plus Stadio delle Alpi.",
"Success in Europe's biggest club competition, the Champions League, still eludes Abramovich despite the vast fortune he has pumped into Chelsea.",
"A move to a new venue -- which would be within a three-mile radius of the club's current home if completed by 2020, under terms of the offer to the CPO -- would be a big statement of his desire to make Chelsea a worldwide force.",
"\"I am sure all Chelsea fans have enjoyed the football and success we have witnessed at Stamford Bridge since 2003, and Chelsea Football Club and Mr. Abramovich are determined to ensure that the club continues to compete at the highest level of world football,\" chief executive Ron Gourlay said.",
"\"We continue to look at options for expanding the Bridge, and I should be clear that we have not identified a site for a new stadium elsewhere.\"",
"Chelsea's offer to the CPO's 12,000 stakeholders is at the original price of £100 per share -- an investment of £1.5 million.",
"\"Bear in mind that no-one bought these shares as a financial investment,\" Buck told the UK Press Association.",
"\"Everyone bought these shares as a way of helping the club and they also bought them as mementos and souvenirs.",
"\"We haven't considered making them a big offer because we believe that they are fans of Chelsea Football Club and want to do what's best for Chelsea.\"",
"On offer is a promise that 10% of the planned minimum 55,000 seats will be available to families and fans aged under 21.",
"CPO shareholders who vote for the sale will be listed on a roll of honor at any new stadium, and would get priority for buying season tickets.",
"The Chelsea Supporters' Club, however, is not convinced that the club should leave its longtime home.",
"\"Where is the proof that Stamford Bridge can't be expanded?",
"Undoubtedly many fans would prefer to stay, and I suspect loss of hotels/restaurants would not be a major concern for many,\" Peter T. wrote in a statement on its website.",
"\"The 'walk of honor' proposal is risible and insulting.",
"Given that any new ground would be bigger, the 'priority season ticket' offer is surely nebulous as well, as well as morally reprehensible.\"",
"He also questioned why the vote had been called at such short notice, without any future venues being identified, and why the offer did not take into account inflation since the original 1993 CPO deal.",
"Needing a 50% majority approval from the CPO shareholders, Abramovich may yet find more obstacles in his dreams of world domination."
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"(WIRED) -- A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.",
"The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas.",
"Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source.",
"But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say.",
"And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military's most important weapons system.",
"\"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,\" says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus.",
"\"We think it's benign.",
"But we just don't know.\" Military network security specialists aren't sure whether the virus and its so-called \"keylogger\" payload were introduced intentionally or by accident; it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks.",
"The specialists don't know exactly how far the virus has spread.",
"But they're sure that the infection has hit both classified and unclassified machines at Creech.",
"That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command.",
"Drones have become America's tool of choice in both its conventional and shadow wars, allowing U.S. forces to attack targets and spy on its foes without risking American lives.",
"Since President Obama assumed office, a fleet of approximately 30 CIA-directed drones have hit targets in Pakistan more than 230 times; all told, these drones have killed more than 2,000 suspected militants and civilians, according to the Washington Post.",
"More than 150 additional Predator and Reaper drones, under U.S. Air Force control, watch over the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"American military drones struck 92 times in Libya between mid-April and late August.",
"And late last month, an American drone killed top terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki -- part of an escalating unmanned air assault in the Horn of Africa and southern Arabian peninsula.",
"But despite their widespread use, the drone systems are known to have security flaws.",
"Many Reapers and Predators don't encrypt the video they transmit to American troops on the ground.",
"In the summer of 2009, U.S. forces discovered \"days and days and hours and hours\" of the drone footage on the laptops of Iraqi insurgents.",
"A $26 piece of software allowed the militants to capture the video.",
"The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.",
"In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a \"ground control station,\" or GCS.",
"There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.",
"In the pilot's hand is the joystick, guiding the drone as it soars above Afghanistan, Iraq, or some other battlefield.",
"Some of the GCSs are classified secret, and used for conventional warzone surveillance duty.",
"The GCSs handling more exotic operations are top secret.",
"None of the remote cockpits are supposed to be connected to the public internet.",
"Which means they are supposed to be largely immune to viruses and other network security threats.",
"But time and time again, the so-called \"air gaps\" between classified and public networks have been bridged, largely through the use of discs and removable drives.",
"In late 2008, for example, the drives helped introduce the agent.btz worm to hundreds of thousands of Defense Department computers.",
"The Pentagon is still disinfecting machines, three years later.",
"Use of the drives is now severely restricted throughout the military.",
"But the base at Creech was one of the exceptions, until the virus hit.",
"Predator and Reaper crews use removable hard drives to load map updates and transport mission videos from one computer to another.",
"The virus is believed to have spread through these removable drives.",
"Drone units at other Air Force bases worldwide have now been ordered to stop their use.",
"In the meantime, technicians at Creech are trying to get the virus off the GCS machines.",
"It has not been easy. At first, they followed removal instructions posted on the website of the Kaspersky security firm.",
"\"But the virus kept coming back,\" a source familiar with the infection says.",
"Eventually, the technicians had to use a software tool called BCWipe to completely erase the GCS' internal hard drives.",
"\"That meant rebuilding them from scratch\" -- a time-consuming effort.",
"The Air Force declined to comment directly on the virus.",
"\"We generally do not discuss specific vulnerabilities, threats, or responses to our computer networks, since that helps people looking to exploit or attack our systems to refine their approach,\" says Lt. Col. Tadd Sholtis, a spokesman for Air Combat Command, which oversees the drones and all other Air Force tactical aircraft.",
"\"We invest a lot in protecting and monitoring our systems to counter threats and ensure security, which includes a comprehensive response to viruses, worms, and other malware we discover.\"",
"However, insiders say that senior officers at Creech are being briefed daily on the virus.",
"\"It's getting a lot of attention,\" the source says.",
"\"But no one's panicking.",
"Yet.\" Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"Seattle (CNN) -- Self-styled superhero Phoenix Jones unmasked himself before cameras Thursday and vowed to keep fighting crime after prosecutors delayed a decision on whether to press assault charges against him.",
"Jones -- who told reporters his real name is Ben Fodor -- routinely patrols downtown Seattle streets decked out in a rubber suit and mask.",
"He was arrested early Sunday on four counts of assault after police said he used pepper spray on a group of people leaving a nightclub.",
"A spokesman for Fodor said he was trying to break up a fight.",
"Video shot by a documentary crew and posted on Phoenix Jones' Facebook page showed a chaotic scene, with the self-styled super hero being chased by a purse-wielding woman and then shooting what appeared to be pepper spray at a group of people.",
"Fodor was the only person arrested in the incident.",
"Seattle Police said Fodor overreacted, and asserted that the city is not in need of vigilante crime fighters.",
"\"If you see something that warrants calling 911, call 911.",
"You don't need to dress up in a costume to do that,\" police spokesman Mark Jamieson said.",
"In court Thursday, Fodor appeared wearing a hood, which a judge's assistant asked him to remove.",
"Told charges had not been filed against him, Fodor put the rubber hood back on and left the court with a swarm of media cameras following him.",
"Outside the courthouse, Fodor told reporters he would continue his anti-crime patrols and then removed his hood.",
"\"In addition to being Phoenix Jones,\" he said.",
"\"I am also Ben Fodor, a father and brother.",
"I am just like everybody else.",
"The only difference is that I try to stop crime.\"",
"Fodor also said he would invite the public to accompany him on future patrols.",
"He then walked off without taking any questions from reporters.",
"An Internet search showed Fodor has competed in mixed martial arts events, with a record of 11 wins and no losses.",
"Kimberly Mills, a spokeswoman for the city attorney's office, said prosecutors will decide whether to file charges against him after they finish interviewing witnesses and complete the investigation into the incident Sunday."
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"(CNN) -- The morning three women won the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams was tired from a night spent strategizing about how to stop rape and other sexual violence toward women in war.",
"Williams won the prize in 1997 for her work to ban land mines.",
"Thursday night, she'd joined other female Nobel winners and peace advocates in New York.",
"They belong to a group associated with the Nobel Women¹s Initiative, founded in 2006 by female laureates and activists.",
"As the news broke Friday about the 2011 winners, Williams was just getting out of bed.",
"\"My husband is already on his computer, and I hear him say, 'Woah!",
"Three women!'",
"\" Williams rushed to him and peered at the monitor.",
"She read the names.",
"Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.",
"On television, a Nobel official explained the decision to award the prize jointly.",
"The women were chosen \"for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights ... \"We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence development of all levels of society,\" he said.",
"Williams was thrilled.",
"She knows Gbowee, she said, and loved that the Nobel Peace Prize was being given to three women, raising the total number of women who have individually won the prize to 15, according to the prize's official site.",
"Only nine Nobel Peace Laureates are still living, according to the Nobel Women's Initiative.",
"\"Leymah is incredibly powerful and sure of herself,\" Williams told CNN.com.",
"\"She has no trouble dealing with the media.",
"I can imagine she is stunned and yet excited and recognizes how much this changes what she does.\"",
"Williams was startled in 1997 when she got the call that she had won.",
"Looking out her window at 5 a.m. that day in October, she saw reporters camped out on her gravel driveway in Vermont.",
"Though she knew she was on the Nobel Peace Prize short list, she hadn't believed she would win.",
"Williams assumed the award would go to more prominent people within the organization where she worked.",
"As an introvert, she said, she was worried.",
"But she managed to do interview after interview that day.",
"The spotlight hasn't dimmed as time has passed.",
"\"It was a lot of attention all at once, which was hard for me personally, but it was incredible for the campaign and that was the important thing,\" she said.",
"The International Campaign to Ban Landmines launched in 1992 with six nongovernmental organizations and grew to more than 1,000 NGOs in more than 60 countries.",
"Within six years, Williams told CNN.com, the campaign succeeded in getting an international treaty banning the weapons.",
"The campaign worked with government, United Nations bodies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.",
"The agreement came during the diplomatic conference in Oslo, Norway, in September 1997.",
"She was awarded the Nobel a month later.",
"Williams predicts that the Nobel Prize awarded to two relatively unknown female activists will put more focus on democratic uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.",
"And it will make Karman a visual representation of the Arab Spring.",
"\"That is going to be totally intense,\" Williams said.",
"\"But it's awesome.\" It will be impossible for these Nobel Peace Prize winners and the women they represent to be tamped down or forgotten or told what to do as the movements in their countries unfold and slowly resolve, Williams said.",
"\"You can't have them go back into the kitchen once they've overthrown the dictator,\" Williams said.",
"Giving the Nobel Prize to all the women at once signals a declaration of sorts to the world.",
"It says: We're not going back.",
"We are stronger in numbers.",
"Sharing the prize, as two Irish peace activists have in the past, does not diminish the honor, Williams stressed.",
"She has heard criticism to that point and believes it's important to quash that mentality.",
"\"They were jointly recognized because each of them has done significant work nonviolently to being about democratic change to stop violence against women,\" Williams said.",
"Women tend to work together, she added.",
"It seems fitting that they share the prize.",
"Williams offered advice to the women who won Friday: Remain true to yourself, she said.",
"\"These women wouldn't have been recognized if they were not really clear about who they are, what they believe and what they are willing to do to demonstrate their belief through action.\""
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"1997 Peace Prize winner Jody Williams was thrilled to learn three women had won .",
"Williams heard the news after spending all night working on an issue about women's rights .",
"Williams, who is American, worked on behalf of a campaign that banned land mines .",
"Her advice to the women recognized with Nobel Peace Prize: Stay true to who you are ."
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