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"New York (CNN) -- Protests swelled in cities nationwide Friday as police forces struggled to either corral or remove demonstrators from downtown parks and plazas in the latest development of the monthlong Occupy Wall Street movement.",
"Scores of protesters were arrested in Denver, Seattle, San Diego and New York, though reports of violence were rare.",
"CNN iReporters sent in photos and video from \"occupy\" protests across several American cities.",
"In San Diego, CNN affiliate KFMB broadcast images of police detaining demonstrators as they gathered amid tents and tarps strewn about a downtown plaza.",
"Protesters appeared to refuse to leave the area, sitting in columns atop the plastic tarps and yelling \"stay down\" as police tried to remove them from the scene.",
"At one point, police used pepper spray to break up the crowd.",
"\"We understand people have a right to protest (but), somewhere along the line, people have a right to conduct business,\" San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne told CNN affiliate KGTV.",
"Police eventually removed tents that had been set up by protestors and cleared the area by late afternoon.",
"In Denver, authorities said 24 people were arrested as CNN affiliate KMGH broadcast aerial video of police detaining protesters in a downtown section of the city.",
"Colorado State Police spokesman Mike Baker said the demonstrators could be identified as two distinct groups: The first was a part of what he described as the local \"Occupy\" group, which maintained close communication with law enforcement during the demonstration.",
"The second, he said, was a more \"radical\" faction.",
"\"These were the ones (police) came into trouble with today,\" Baker said.",
"Most of those arrested in Denver were charged with unlawful conduct on state property, he said, while one other person was charged with simple assault.",
"Another protester was arrested for impeding traffic.",
"In Seattle, police in riot gear rounded up and arrested 41 demonstrators who gathered in a city park, said police spokeswoman Renee Witt.",
"In New York , Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said law officers arrested 14 demonstrators after they sat in roadways to block traffic, overturned trash bins, knocked over a police scooter and hurled bottles.",
"Wesleyan University student Ben Doernberg, who attended Friday's protest in Manhattan's financial district, shot video of at least one demonstrator being taken to the ground by police.",
"The video captures a police officer pressing his night stick against the back of the protester's neck during the arrest.",
"The man is seen face down on the pavement.",
"He can be heard screaming after what Doernberg described as an earlier incident in which the man's leg was allegedly run over by a police motorcycle.",
"\"I saw a number of other people being shoved or pushed with batons,\" Doernberg said.",
"\"I saw another officer punching people.\"",
"New York police disputed the claim that the man had been run over by a police vehicle.",
"Independent witnesses from the New York Daily News and The Associated Press saw the man intentionally place his legs under the scooter, Browne said in a statement.",
"\"(The man) had repeatedly disregarded lawful orders to get out of the street and onto the sidewalk, and then feigned being run over before kicking over the police scooter.",
"He was arrested for felony criminal mischief, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest,\" the deputy police commissioner said.",
"The demonstrations, meanwhile, seemed to pick up steam across the country by late Friday afternoon.",
"CNN affiliate WDIV in Detroit showed aerial images of protesters rallying in city streets.",
"An oversize sign fixed to the outside of a building read, \"Outsource to Detroit.\"",
"Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons called the protests \"inspirational.\"",
"\"People want this country to be better,\" he told CNN.",
"\"They want the money out of Washington.\"",
"He said he believes the U.S. government remains largely controlled by corporations.",
"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also addressed the concerns again earlier Friday during his weekly radio show.",
"He said Brookfield Office Properties -- the real estate firm that owns Zuccotti Park, considered a home base for Manhattan protesters -- made the decision not to try to clean up the park, as it had announced, after the company was \"inundated\" with threatening calls from elected city officials.",
"The mayor said on New York's WOR Radio that he didn't know which officials allegedly made the threats, but the company decided to work out some form of a negotiated settlement in the coming days.",
"Bloomberg added that while he lacked firsthand knowledge of the conversations, he was told the officials generally threatened to \"make life more difficult\" for the real estate company.",
"Brookfield Properties issued a statement later Friday saying \"a number of local political leaders\" requested the cleaning of the park be deferred for \"a short period of time.\"",
"But the company declined to provide specifics on which city officials had made the calls or whether they were considered threatening.",
"The clean-up cancellation, meanwhile, averted a broader showdown between authorities and demonstrators, who appeared heartened by news.",
"\"We are winning and Wall Street is afraid,\" protester Kira Moyer-Sims said in a written statement distributed by the group.",
"\"This movement is gaining momentum and is too big to fail.\"",
"Bloomberg's office also said the real estate firm withdrew its request for police assistance Friday.",
"\"Our position has been consistent throughout: the city's role is to protect public health and safety, to enforce the law, and guarantee the rights of all New Yorkers,\" said Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway.",
"City officials in New York had initially told the protesters, who have been mostly peaceful, that they would have to be ready to move out of the way of cleaners beginning at 7 a.m.",
"But the demonstrators mopped, collected trash and scrubbed the pavement in the dead of the night as the Friday deadline neared.",
"When the word of the postponed cleaning filtered through the more than 1,000 protesters who filled the park, they appeared jubilant.",
"\"All day! All week! Occupy Wall Street,\" the group chanted, calling the development a victory of passive resistance.",
"\"We're extremely excited.",
"This is an example of what people power can do,\" said Tyler Combelic, a spokesman for the group.",
"\"This is what democracy is all about in this country,\" Protesters descended on Zuccotti Park, near the New York Stock Exchange, on September 17 to protest the nation's ailing economy.",
"A number of unions, including the United Auto Workers and the United Federation of Teachers, have since pledged to support the New York protest and similar demonstrations cropping up across the country.",
"\"You want to clean up something?",
"Clean up these crooks on Wall Street,\" shouted City Council member Charles Barron.",
"Brooklyn Councilwoman Letitia James said the move to clean the park was a \"ruse\" to end the protest.",
"But Bloomberg said Wednesday that the decision to clean the park was made after the owners voiced concerns about \"unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park.\"",
"\"The mayor is a strong believer in the First Amendment and believes that the protesters have a right to continue to protest,\" his office said in a written statement.",
"But the situation in the park is \"not in the best interests of the protesters, residents or the city,\" it added.",
"Share your photos, video from the protests, but stay safe .",
"Local business owners and residents have continued to express concerns about sanitation and the group's affect on the local economy.",
"The plan had been to clean the park in stages, with protesters being allowed to return to the park as areas were cleaned, but only if they obeyed the rules set forth by Brookfield Properties, the company said.",
"Authorities had distributed a pamphlet at the park outlining the rules, which included a ban on camping or pitching tents; lying on the ground or on benches; placing tarps or sleeping bags on the ground; and storing personal property that interferes with park use.",
"The protest campaign began in July with the launch of a campaign website calling for a march and a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Rose Arce, Steve Kastenbaum, Raelyn Johnson, Deanna Proeller, John Couwels, Anna Gonzalez, Greg Morrison and Vivienne Foley contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Police use pepper spray against protesters in San Diego .",
"NEW: Reports of violence have been rare .",
"Police arrest 41 demonstrators in Seattle .",
"In New York, 14 people are arrested after blocking traffic and hurling bottles ."
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"(CNN) -- NBA players and owners did not reach a deal early Thursday on the bitter labor struggle that has postponed the basketball season, but the two sides agreed to meet again later in the day to continue with the negotiations.",
"NBA commissioner David Stern had said that players had until 5 p.m. Wednesday to accept the terms of a labor offer that would give players between 49% and 51% of basketball revenues.",
"If it didn't accept the deal, the NBA would offer another proposal that would offer players 47% of basketball revenues.",
"Stern said he had frozen that deadline to allow negotiations to continue.",
"\"Every day that we lose another game it causes both sides to recognize the damage,\" Stern told reporters.",
"Both sides met for about 12 hours Wednesday and early Thursday morning.",
"\"We spent a lot of time covering all of the issues that we still have remaining, but we can't say there was significant progress made today,\" Fisher said.",
"The NBA season has been canceled through at least November 30, and the two sides are hoping they can reach a resolution before more games are called off.",
"Stern has said the 2010-2011 season was not profitable for most of the league's 30 owners, who want cost-cutting help from players.",
"The league lost as much as $300 million last season, according to Stern.",
"One of the battles has focused on the owners' rejection of calls by the players' union for an average $7 million player salary in the sixth year of a new labor deal.",
"The current average salary is about $5 million.",
"Other big issues include a fight over a move by owners to gain the bigger share of revenues and whether the NBA will strengthen its salary cap.",
"The league's owners began a lockout of players in early July."
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"Both sides agree to meet Thursday .",
"\"We can't say there was significant progress made today,\" Derek Fisher says .",
"The league's owners began a lockout of players in early July ."
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"(CNN) -- At least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.",
"\"We are very concerned that these bombs were dropped in an area where there are thousands of refugees who have gathered after fleeing the violence in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states,\" the spokesperson said in a statement.",
"\"It is essential that both parties immediately take all steps to protect civilian lives.\"",
"In Washington, the office of the White House press secretary said in a statement that the United States \"strongly condemns the aerial bombardment by the Sudan Armed Forces of the town of Yida,\" where more than 20,000 refugees who have fled conflict in the Sudanese state of Southern Kordofan are living.",
"The Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile State and Nuba Mountain regions straddle Sudan and South Sudan's geographical and political lines.",
"Although these territories are geographically part of Sudan, its population has faced \"exclusion, marginalization and discriminatory practices that have resulted in their opposition to the Sudanese government,\" according to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.",
"\"This bombing of civilians and humanitarian workers is an outrageous act, and those responsible must be held accountable for their actions,\" the statement said.",
"The attack follows other bombardments by the Sudan Armed Forces on November 8 near the border that increase the potential for confrontation between Sudan and South Sudan, it said.",
"\"The United States demands the Government of Sudan halt aerial bombardments immediately,\" the statement said.",
"\"We urge the Government of South Sudan to exercise restraint in responding to this provocation to prevent further escalation of hostilities.\"",
"It called for a resumption of negotiations by the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North.",
"President H.E.",
"Saliva Kiir Mayardit has said he will not support armed opposition forces fighting against the government of Sudan, the South Sudan government website said.",
"Kiir said Sudan was threatening the sovereignty of South Sudan \"through military invasion.\"",
"Liberation army members have clashed with the military of South Sudan, which separated from Sudan and became independent in July.",
"Led by former officers of the southern army that fought neighboring Sudan in a 22-year civil war, the militias have taken up arms against their former comrades and become a challenge for the world's newest nation."
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"NEW: South Sudan president accuses Sudan of \"military invasion\"\nWhite House \"strongly condemns\" attack near Yida refugee camp .",
"At least 2 bombs were dropped, says spokesman for U.N. head .",
"An undetermined number of casualties has resulted, a U.N. official says ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- A train collision in a tunnel in Shanghai's subway Line 10 last month was caused by human error, said state media, with 12 people disciplined over the incident.",
"Xinhua News Agency, quoting a report released by the investigation team, reported that Tang Zhihua, chief dispatcher of the Line 10 operation control center, was removed from his post.",
"Eleven other managers and workers of the operation control and power supply sections also received penalties, including job reassignment and demotions.",
"The two subway trains collided on September 27 in downtown Shanghai, injuring 295 passengers, 70 of whom are still receiving treatment in hospital, according to the report.",
"\"The signal system failed to operate because of power failure.",
"The dispatchers issued a number of erroneous orders which finally led to the crash,\" Xinhua added.",
"The accident happened as concerns and criticism mount over China's railway safety and its fast development of rail systems.",
"On July 23, two high-speed trains crashed in China's coastal Zhejiang province, leaving 39 dead and 192 injured, making it one of China's deadliest rail accidents in recent years."
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"State media: Shanghai's subway Line 10 accident was caused by human error .",
"The accident injured 295 passengers, 70 of whom are still receiving treatment in hospital .",
"China's fast development of its rail systems have raised concerns over safety ."
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"(CNN) -- Third seed Roger Federer returned to winning ways after a 10-month title drought with a convincing straight sets victory over Japan's Kei Nishikori in the Swiss Indoors championship in Basel.",
"Former world number one Federer delighted his home fans by powering to a 6-1 6-3 success, his fifth in the last six Basel events.",
"The triumph also ended a relatively barren 2011 for Federer, whose only other ATP Tour title this season came in January's Qatar Open in Doha.",
"Nishikori, who had stunned world number one Novak Djokovic in the semifinals, had no answer to 30-year-old Federer, who was reaching his first final since losing to Rafael Nadal in the French Open at Roland Garros in June.",
"Federer, who was securing his 68th career title, told reporters: \"It's great to win at home once again.",
"It was a perfect match for me and now I have big hopes for Paris and London this month.\"",
"Federer continued: \"I've known, ever since I hit with him as a teenager, that Kei could have a good future.",
"He has had some injuries but he's playing well now.",
"It was a good match and I'm very happy for the win.\"",
"Nishikori added: \"I tried to fight, but Roger would not let me into the match.",
"I'm very glad to have played the final, it has always been one of my goals to play Roger.\"",
"Meanwhile, Spain's Marcel Granollers defeated Argentina's Juan Monaco 6-2 4-6 7-6 (7/3) to win the Valencia Open on Sunday.",
"It was the 25-year-old's third career title and second this year following his victory over compatriot Fernando Verdasco in the Gstaad final in July."
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"Third seed Roger Federer defeats Kei Nishikori to win the Swiss Indoors title in Basel .",
"Federer cruises to a 6-1 6-3 victory for a fifth triumph in his 'home' tournament .",
"The success ends a 10-month drought for Federer since winning event in Doha ."
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Sectarian rioting broke out in eastern Belfast late Monday, with leaders from both Catholic and Protestant communities reporting attacks on homes overnight.",
"Police reported Molotov cocktails were being thrown as a large crowd gathered on the streets that separate Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods in the area, a longstanding Northern Ireland flash point.",
"Ambulance services reported two people injured early Tuesday, and reporters attempting to cover the disturbances were threatened.",
"The Irish republican party Sinn Fein said up to 100 masked men raided Catholic-owned homes in the Short Strand neighborhood after allegations by unionist politicians that Protestant homes were attacked Sunday.",
"Police had no information on any of Sunday's reported attacks.",
"Sinn Fein blamed the attacks on Catholics on members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group that officially disarmed in 2009.",
"Police had no immediate comment on the assertion.",
"After a long period of quiet in its ongoing \"Troubles\" between Catholics and Protestants, Northern Ireland has seen a resurgence of violence in recent months.",
"Tensions also are typically elevated in early summer, when Protestant groups hold commemorative marches to celebrate the 17th-century victory of England's King William III over his Catholic predecessor, James II."
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"Ambulance services report two injured .",
"Northern Ireland has seen a resurgence of violence in recent months ."
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"University Park, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The Penn State football coach who alerted head coach Joe Paterno in 2002 that he'd seen a former defensive coordinator sexually assault a boy -- an allegation authorities didn't learn of until years later -- was placed Friday on indefinite leave, the school's interim president said.",
"With that, Mike McQueary became the latest casualty in a scandal that began with last week's arrest of the man he allegedly witnessed commit the crime.",
"The arrest set off a chain of events, including the ouster of the university's president and of longtime coach Paterno, a move that sparked on-campus riots after it was announced Wednesday.",
"McQueary in recent months told a grand jury that, when he was a graduate assistant, he saw Jerry Sandusky, now 67, sexually assault a young boy at the campus' football complex.",
"He said he reported the incident to Paterno, who alerted Athletic Director Timothy Curley, Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly said earlier this week.",
"Neither Paterno, 84, nor McQueary is criminally charged.",
"Kelly has said that the alleged failure of Curley and Gary Schultz, the university's senior vice president for finance and business, to tell authorities about McQueary's abuse claim \"likely allowed a child predator to continue to victimize children for many, many years.\"",
"On Friday, acting President Rodney Erickson announced that he and newly named Athletic Director Mark Sherburne had decided to put McQueary on administrative leave.",
"A day earlier, the school athletic department said McQueary would not coach in Saturday's game against Nebraska due to \"multiple threats\" against him.",
"\"It became clear that Coach McQueary could not function in this role, under these circumstances,\" Erickson said of the decision.",
"Sandusky, the football team's defensive coordinator between 1977 and 1999, was taken into custody Saturday for allegedly sexually assaulting children.",
"Sandusky, who is free on $100,000 bail, disputes the 23-page grand jury summary of graphic testimony describing the alleged crimes between 1994 and 2009, his attorney, Joseph Amendola, has said.",
"On Friday, the lawyer told CNN that a rock had been thrown through a window at Sandusky's home.",
"The scandal has stirred an uproar and a flurry of action over how Penn State athletic and administrative officials handled the matter.",
"Erickson said Friday that he'll appoint an ethics officer to report directly to him.",
"He added that he wants to encourage openness and dialogue among the school's 96,000 students so that they do not hesitate to report such allegations.",
"\"Never again should anyone at Penn State -- regardless of their position -- feel scared to do the right thing,\" he said.",
"Earlier, he announced the creation of a committee to review sexual abuse allegations at the school -- an inquiry that its chairman, Kenneth Frazier, promised Friday would be \"rigorous, objective and impartial.\"",
"State Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis will serve as vice chairman, it was announced at a board meeting.",
"Erickson's predecessor was Graham Spanier, who initially had voiced support for Curley and Schultz and later was removed from office by a unanimous vote of the board of trustees.",
"A senior Navy official told CNN on Friday that, \"based on the events this week at Penn State, Navy officials are reviewing\" Spanier's membership on the board of advisers at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.",
"The 18 members of the federal advisory committee are nominated to four-year terms.",
"A recommendation to renominate Spanier had been in the works, but will likely be pulled back, the Navy official said.",
"Meanwhile, students held a candlelight vigil Friday night on the University Park campus -- the same place where, two days earlier, others rioted after the university's trustees fired Paterno.",
"The vigil is one of several efforts aimed at bringing attention to child sexual abuse.",
"\"We are just as horrified, if not more, than a lot of people,\" said senior Kyle Harris, 21, a vigil organizer.",
"\"We want to make an impact.",
"We want to show these kids we care.\"",
"Friday's event, which began at 9:30 p.m., included comments from a sex abuse victim, musical performances and a moment of silence as the clock struck 10 p.m. at the campus' Old Main building.",
"The Foundation to Abolish Child Abuse is planning its own vigil between 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday in support of victims/survivors of childhood sexual abuse.",
"Warning signs of sexual abuse .",
"Michael Gillum, the psychologist for the person referred to as \"Victim 1\" in the Pennsylvania grand jury report, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday night he was \"stunned\" that so many individuals, after witnessing or hearing allegations about Sandusky, did not come forward sooner.",
"The report says that Gillum's patient was \"11 or 12 years old when he met Sandusky through The Second Mile Program in 2005 or 2006.\"",
"The Second Mile is a charity Sandusky founded to help troubled youths.",
"The youth had been a houseguest at Sandusky's home in Centre County, Pennsylvania.",
"\"During the course of the multi-year investigation, the grand jury heard evidence that Sandusky indecently fondled Victim 1 on a number of occasions, performed oral sex on Victim 1 on a number of occasions and had Victim 1 perform oral sex on him on at least one occasion,\" the report said.",
"Gillum said that people should understand \"the powerful differential between the victim and the perpetrator,\" adding that \"the more status the perpetrator has ... the more difficult it is for the victim to come forward, and, in particular, expect to be believed.\"",
"Anxiety, depression and fear of being found out are common among sex abuse victims, especially when the cases go public, the psychologist said.",
"\"Even though he's a hero (for speaking up), it's not necessarily something that everyone understands and appreciates,\" Gillum said.",
"The victim's mother told ABC's \"Good Morning America\" earlier Friday that she first got an inkling that something had happened when her \"son started acting out\" -- behavior that school counselors had dismissed as a \"puberty thing.\"",
"Eventually, he told her he wanted to look up information on sexual \"weirdos.\"",
"She said she asked him why, and he told her he wanted to see if Sandusky was mentioned.",
"\"I said, 'Well, why would you look him up?'",
"And he said, 'I don't know, he's a weirdo.'",
"And I preceded to ask him if there was something he needed to tell me, and at that point, he didn't indicate anything.\"",
"Read the grand jury presentment.",
"Warning: graphic content (PDF) Years later, when they had a \"heart-to-heart\" conversation, the woman said her son said he \"didn't know what to do.\"",
"\"You just can't tell Jerry no,\" the boy said, according to the mother.",
"The accusations may extend beyond Pennsylvania.",
"Authorities in San Antonio, Texas, said they are investigating the possibility that Sandusky may have committed sex crimes in 1999 when Penn State played in the Alamo Bowl.",
"\"Victim 4\" in the grand jury report was identified as a member of Sandusky's family party for the bowl game.",
"Opinion: Ethical lesson of Penn State scandal .",
"Sandusky is accused of sexual offenses, child endangerment and \"corruption of a minor\" involving eight boys, most or all of whom he met through The Second Mile, prosecutors said.",
"His involvement with The Second Mile, the charity he founded, provided him with access to \"hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations,\" the grand jury said.",
"The former coach is said to have engaged in fondling and oral and anal sex with boys over at least 15 years, the grand jury's summary of testimony says.",
"Curley and Schultz are criminally charged for failing to report the alleged abuse.",
"Instead of reporting the 2002 shower incident to authorities, Curley and Schultz banned Sandusky from having children from The Second Mile visit the football building, Kelly said.",
"With a record of 8-1, Penn State is ranked atop the Big Ten and is ranked No.",
"12 in the country, potentially in position to play in a premier Bowl Championship Series contest.",
"The team faces the 19th-ranked Cornhuskers in a game set to begin at noon Saturday at Beaver Stadium.",
"Erickson said Friday that it would \"not be fair\" to cancel Saturday's game, given that \"our student-athletes weren't involved in this situation\" and thus don't deserve to be penalized.",
"On Friday night, the school issued a statement urging attendees not only to wear blue to raise awareness of child abuse, but to donate to Prevent Child Abuse Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.",
"Erickson said Friday that extra security would be in place for the contest, which the school said would mean \"strict\" enforcement on policies regarding bags being taken into the stadium.",
"\"I hope and I believe we will see the best of our students tomorrow,\" Erickson said.",
"\"They understand that Penn State is really in the spotlight.\"",
"CNN's Joe Sterling and Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"Penn State Assistant Coach McQueary is on indefinite leave .",
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"(CNN) -- The World Bank said that it is increasing funding to the war-wracked and drought-stricken Horn of Africa to $1.88 billion from more than $500 million, a generous gesture that coincides with a U.N. mini-summit on the devastated region.",
"\"Countries in the Horn of Africa that are facing one of the worst droughts in more than half a century, causing mounting malnutrition, food insecurity, and displacement of people,\" the D.C.-based bank said in a statement on Saturday.",
"The announcement comes as the first week of U.N. debates wrapped up Saturday where delegates continued to outline their visions for peace and global security.",
"\"In Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, more than 13 million people need our help,\" said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during the summit.",
"\"In Somalia, famine has spread through large areas of the south.\"",
"Ban said three-quarters of a million people are \"at imminent risk of starvation\" as a result of war, rising food costs and droughts that have continually plagued the region.",
"He described the situation in the Horn of Africa \"as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.\"",
"\"Somalia will never be free of the threat of famine until it has peace and stability,\" said the U.N. chief.",
"\"We could save many more lives if we were given free access to areas under the control of Al-Shabaab.\"",
"The al Qaeda-linked group has been waging an insurgency against Somalia's transitional government since 2006."
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"The U.N. hosts a mini-summit on drought and famine in the Horn of Africa .",
"Three-quarters of a million people are \"at imminent risk of starvation,\" said the U.N. chief ."
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"Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN) -- In her own right, Ann Dunham, the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama, lived an accomplished, international life that began in white-bread Kansas, weaved through Asia-light Hawaii and wound up in Indonesia.",
"Now an exhibition celebrating her life in the world's most populous Muslim nation is opening in Hawaii featuring her personal art and artifact collection.",
"Across the east-west palette, Dunham's family and friends paint her as an ardent anthropologist, early maven of microfinance and a cultured, curious explorer.",
"Her daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng, proudly wrote of her mother's anthropological work in Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, a book based on Dunham's original dissertation from the early 1990s.",
"\"She had so much respect for the communities where she conducted her research.",
"Always logical and rigorous, our mother's scholarship was made truly meaningful by the fact that she loved the people she wrote about and hoped others would hear their song.\"",
"Alice Dewey was one of Dunham's first mentors to help compose that tune.",
"Now Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii Manoa, she served as Dunham's anthropology adviser in the 1970s.",
"She remembers their connection as an instant match.",
"\"I want her!\" recalls Dewey after seeing Dunham's resume on her work in Indonesia.",
"As it turned out, the pair shared a distinct passion for local Indonesian markets and wares on the central island of Java.",
"As a student herself, Dewey had studied local Javanese markets in the 1950s.",
"Dunham would later extend those studies from the markets to the makers of woven bamboo baskets, tie-dyed batiks and open-fired iron blades.",
"In a testament to her topical thirst, Dunham pitched Dewey a very broad research plan.",
"\"When she submitted her research proposal to me she wanted to focus on not just one -- but five -- areas of Indonesian trade: batik, bamboo, ceramics, shadow puppetry and blacksmithing.\"",
"Dewey forced her to choose one.",
"Dunham settled on blacksmithing, the craft of firing and bending hot iron into such things as knives and cooking utensils.",
"\"But she got us back with a 1,000-page dissertation.",
"The norm was about 300 to 500.\"",
"Bron Solyom describes her friendship with Dunham as a bond forged through blacksmithing.",
"Now curator of special collections at the University of Hawaii Library, she and Dunham met as fellow graduate student in the 1970s.",
"\"We had this common, strong interest.",
"Ann saw blacksmithing from an economic aspect -- in how people made a non-agrarian living.",
"And she built up this body of knowledge that was really remarkable.\"",
"And Dunham's desire to learn seemed to be unflappable -- even in the face of danger.",
"Solyom recounted the story of when the two were working in Bali in the early 1990s.",
"After checking in to one hotel, Dunham \"was gone for ages\" while Solyom waited in the lobby.",
"When Dunham finally emerged she apologized saying she had had to evict a green -- and likely poisonous -- snake from her room.",
"But before she did that, she had done a photo shoot as the serpent swayed to itself in the mirror.",
"\"She was just calm about things -- and forever curious,\" remembered Solyom.",
"That insatiable curiosity also led to copious note-taking -- some of which is just being found.",
"Dewey recently opened up an old trunk in her home and saw the name \"Dunham\" written inside.",
"Daunted at the thought of poring over more work from her former student, she says she quickly shut the lid and has not opened it since.",
"According to her daughter, most of Dunham's notes and other personal effects -- those known and those rediscovered -- will find a final home in the archives of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. by next year.",
"Besides the obvious field notes Dunham left behind, Soetoro-Ng adds that something more intangible is something she thinks of often.",
"\"I do think about her delight.",
"In one photo, her eyes are shut and she's just really letting go with some of her staff and colleagues.",
"That was overlooked at times and in the years since she passed away I've been burdened with the sadness of missing her -- and she died so young.",
"And even though she didn't succeed in marriage and longevity there are many ways her life is a model of success that we can aspire to.\"",
"In 1995, just before her 53rd birthday, Ann Dunham died after a short battle with ovarian cancer.",
"In traditional Hawaiian fashion, her ashes were scattered into the waters of the islands.",
"A pre-presidential Obama and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng performed the honors.",
"Dewey says Dunham's life poetically concluded the way she lived it \"traveling forever around the world,\" a fitting final journey for an explorer who lived between the east and west for much of her life.",
"Through Her Eyes: S. Ann Dunham's Fieldwork in Indonesia runs through January 8, 2012 at the East-West Center Gallery, University of Hawaii Manoa.",
"It includes photographs taken during Ann Dunham's years of field research in Indonesia as well as personal artifacts which include examples of metal smithing, jewelry and basketry made in the villages of Indonesia.",
"Dunham's personal art and artifact collection has been augmented by recent purchases to give wider context to her work in Indonesia."
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"Dunham's family and friends paint her as ardent anthropologist and explorer .",
"Insatiable curiosity led to copious note-taking -- some of which is just being found .",
"Most of Dunham's personal effects will find final home in Smithsonian .",
"In traditional Hawaiian fashion, her ashes were scattered into waters of islands ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A New York medical examiner's office said Saturday that a body discovered this week along a remote stretch of Long Island beach was that of Shannan Gilbert, the missing New Jersey woman whose disappearance led investigators to 10 sets of human remains and the hunt for a possible serial killer.",
"Gilbert, 24, vanished in May 2010 after visiting a client.",
"The Jersey City resident, police said, had advertised for prostitution services on websites such as Craigslist.",
"Her body was uncovered Tuesday in the wooded marshes of Suffolk County's Oak Beach.",
"The cause of her death has not yet been determined, police said in a statement.",
"\"Our condolences to the Gilbert family and her friends,\" said Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.",
"\"We hope this brings them closure and peace.\"",
"Investigators cut through a fresh thicket of brush and bramble along Long Island's southern shoreline earlier this week, expanding their investigation across a recently drained swampland on the barrier island before uncovering Gilbert's remains.",
"They were found at 9:14 a.m. Tuesday by police divers and detectives riding atop amphibious vehicles, roughly a quarter-mile from where her purse was found a week before.",
"The purse was discovered near a cell phone, shoes and a pair of jeans, according to investigators.",
"After Gilbert vanished last year, the hunt for her led police seven months later to four bodies stuffed in bushes along a quarter-mile stretch of Ocean Parkway in Oak Beach.",
"All four were later identified as women and, like Gilbert, had advertised for prostitution services online.",
"The bodies were found in various stages of decomposition.",
"Additional remains were later uncovered in neighboring Gilgo Beach and in Nassau County, about 40 miles east of New York City.",
"Unlike other victims found scattered across the two counties, Gilbert is not thought to have been murdered by the suspected serial killer, police have said.",
"But on Thursday, top law enforcement officials publicly sparred over competing theories in the case.",
"Dormer has said a single person is likely responsible for the alleged murders.",
"\"The theory is now that we're dealing with one serial killer,\" he told reporters in November, reiterating his position during a county legislative hearing on Thursday.",
"Moments later during the same hearing, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota took the stand and rejected Dormer's statement.",
"\"I very very much disagree with that theory,\" said Spota.",
"\"I don't know of anybody who, in the police department, who is actively conducting the investigation who shares that theory.",
"\"Quite frankly, I don't know why there was a unilateral change in theories.\"",
"In May, Spota told reporters that a collection of human remains were not believed to be connected to the first four victims.",
"Dormer, who initially told reporters the bodies could be the work of a killer or multiple killers, later pointed to a similar dumping ground as one common aspect of the investigation that could support the notion of a single killer.",
"Authorities have sifted through more than 1,000 tips related to the case.",
"But it's unclear whether that has shed any light on an investigation that continues to garner national attention.",
"In June, police upped the ante in their search for a culprit.",
"The reward for information leading to an arrest -- once topping out at $5,000 -- was raised five-fold, making it the largest offered in Suffolk County history in an apparent bid to fill out a case that some fear has gone cold."
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"Authorities confirm that a body discovered this week was that of Shannan Gilbert .",
"Police say the cause of her death has not yet been determined .",
"Gilbert's May 2010 disappearance led to the discovery of other bodies on Long Island ."
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"(CNN) -- Singer Andy Williams has bladder cancer, is undergoing treatment and plans to return to performing in 2012, he said.",
"\"You may have read or heard that I have bladder cancer.",
"It's true and I'm currently undergoing treatment to deal with it,\" Williams said in a statement.",
"The singer also told fans at a concert in Branson, Missouri, Saturday night that he has cancer, a reporter who attended the concert told CNN on Sunday.",
"\"But that is no longer a death sentence.",
"People with cancer are getting through this thing,\" Williams said, according to Tyler Francke with the Branson Tri-Lakes News.",
"\"They're kicking it, and they're winning more and more every year.",
"And I'm going to be one of them,\" Francke quoted the singer as saying.",
"Williams, 83, shared the news during his Christmas Show at the Moon River Theater, which he founded in 1992, according to the theater's website.",
"\"Moon River\" was one of Williams' most popular songs.",
"The description of Williams' Christmas Show on his website lists several guest stars, and notes that \"due to health reasons, Andy may not make a live appearance in his Christmas Show.\"",
"In his statement, the singer said he plans to return to performing in 2012.",
"Attempts by CNN to contact the Moon River Theater for comment were not immediately successful.",
"Williams began his singing career as a child in a quartet with his three older brothers.",
"He later got a regular gig on Steve Allen's \"Tonight\" show and then his own variety program, \"The Andy Williams Show,\" in the 1960s.",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Whether you're a fan of any sport, or even just a keen music follower -- you've probably visited a major stadium.",
"The ugliest stadiums in the world?",
"Have a look at our list and tell us what you think of the choices.",
"Like all buildings with any form of public use, stadiums tend attract more than their fair share of criticism.",
"It's hard to visit a massive venue that has possibly seen millions of dollars of taxpayer money poured into it, without forming an opinion.",
"While usability, safety, comfort for players and fans, and the ability to generate a steady income are probably the most important factors for modern-day stadiums, there is one other aspect that is sometimes forgotten: how they look.",
"We have scanned the world for some of the ugliest stadiums in the world, and we've drawn up a first XI of the less attractive venues.",
"The stadiums come from all corners of the globe and have been built under all types of budgets.",
"Some of these structures may have been referred to by others as \"ugly\", they may be facing the threat of being torn down, or we may have just decided that they aren't so easy on the eye.",
"See a photo gallery of ugliest stadiums in the world » .",
"Some examples that made it into the list include the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which was built in 1987 and lays claim to having the biggest stadium roof in the world.",
"But sadly does not boast the most attractive structure.",
"The choice of Wembley Stadium in London, England, may be a controversial one, however, it was named in a list of Britain's ugliest buildings by Britain's The Times newspaper as \"a bloated middle-aged office block with a pitch attached.\"",
"Do you agree with our list?",
"Are there ugly stadiums we have missed?",
"Tell us in the sound off box below."
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"CNN has compiled a list of the world's ugliest stadiums .",
"The stadiums come from all parts of the world -- from Britain to Bangkok .",
"Share your thoughts on the choices and tell us if there are any we have missed ."
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"Sirte, Libya (CNN) -- On the outskirts of Sirte, a mansion with a columned facade lies in ruins, though its opulence is still evident under shattered glass and chunks of concrete.",
"This was Moammar Gadhafi's home in the city of his birth.",
"The house had its own salon with barber chairs and massage tables.",
"Ornate four-poster beds furnished the bedrooms and there were lavish decorations all around.",
"In the basement is a large conference room.",
"Is this where Gadhafi planned his last stand or arranged for his escape?",
"The deposed leader has not been seen in public for months.",
"His whereabouts are unknown but some believe he may still be hiding in Sirte.",
"People wandering through the house are stunned.",
"They thought Gadhafi lived in a tent.",
"Most residents have abandoned Sirte after a month of fierce battles.",
"Revolutionary forces have fought Gadhafi loyalists street by street, cornering the last vestiges of the old regime to one district.",
"With their backs to the Mediterranean, the loyalists used machine gun nests and snipers atop buildings to fight back Friday.",
"The sound of rockets and artillery pierced the air; smoke billowed over the skyline.",
"Time and time again, the revolutionaries have come to the brink of victory.",
"But they have not been able to claim it yet.",
"Until they do, the National Transitional Council will not declare liberation in Libya.",
"Taking control of Gadhafi's hometown is key to moving forward in building a new nation.",
"Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF or in English, Doctors Without Borders) said some of Sirte's residents remain trapped in the fighting.",
"The medical charity said it has been able to work at the Ibn Sina hospital.",
"from where the International Committee of the Red Cross is evacuating patients to Tripoli.",
"The 50 remaining patients are mostly people who have suffered violent trauma, severe burns and fractures, according to MSF.",
"Almost all patients need daily dressing and immediate medical care.",
"There are also some pregnant women in the hospital.",
"There is no water supply in the hospital and one of four operating theaters has been shelled, MSF said.",
"The medical staff has been working around the clock and are showing signs of exhaustion and post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"Outside, a rag-tag army marches into battle again, many of the men strangely nonchalant as they stroll to the fight.",
"Friday, the transitional council fighters were forced to retreat.",
"They will regroup and push again, hoping for a highly anticipated victory.",
"CNN's Dan Rivers and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Gadhafi loyalists are still putting up a fight in the deposed leader's hometown .",
"Sirte is largely deserted after a month of fighting .",
"Libya's new leadership is waiting for Sirte to fall to declare liberation ."
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"(CNN) -- This story is about how to know when to give up on a man, and when to stick with him.",
"It's about Chris Johnson.",
"I didn't know who Johnson was before this NFL season began.",
"I haven't closely followed football since Joe Namath led my home team, the New York Jets, to victory in Super Bowl III, 42 Super Bowls ago.",
"Now that I've been sucked into a fantasy football league by my extended family, I know Chris Johnson.",
"He was a top draft choice for my team.",
"The computer picked him.",
"In fact, all ESPN fantasy football leagues chose Chris Johnson in their drafts this year.",
"That's how good he was. He didn't even show up for the pre-season until his team, the Tennessee Titans, agreed to sign a contract worth more than $50 million.",
"Johnson was a fantasy football owner's fantasy man.",
"The hero falls down a hole .",
"Week 1: Johnson's first game of the year is a bust -- 24 yards on nine carries.",
"My son, who's in elementary school, is an unusually good strategic thinker for his age.",
"\"Let's trade him,\" he says.",
"\"We can't trade Chris Johnson,\" I tell him.",
"I want to teach my son the value of patience.",
"You don't give up on a human being after one bad performance.",
"A friend who follows the NFL reinforces the patience theme.",
"\"You can't trade Johnson,\" he says.",
"\"He's explosive. He was off his stride the first game because he missed the pre-season holding out for that big contract.\"",
"Week 2: Another bomb.",
"Fifty-three yards on 24 carries.",
"I know this about football.",
"It takes 10 yards to get a first down.",
"Johnson is averaging less than three yards a carry.",
"Could it be -- I'd need to punt Johnson?",
"More pleas from my son to trade.",
"I can see the writing on the wall: One bad week as a father -- \"Mom, trade Dad.\"",
"Week 3: Johnson's worst game yet.",
"I start reading the fantasy football sports columnists.",
"These are real sports columnists who write about fantasy teams comprised of real players arranged in fantasy lineups chosen by real people.",
"Some are losing faith in Johnson, but hope still prevails.",
"\"Wait and see\" is their collective advice.",
"Week 4: Finally, a 100-yard game.",
"Not a blockbuster. But a glimmer of hope.",
"Week 5: The glimmer disappears.",
"I come across an ESPN.com photo showing Johnson's offensive line wasn't creating big holes for him.",
"At the same time, there are less-obvious holes Johnson isn't seeing -- champions have to create their own opportunities.",
"My son's voice -- \"Trade him, dad, trade him!\"",
"-- rings in my ears.",
"The hero, hopeless .",
"I come across a Sports Illustrated cover story from last year with Johnson's photo: \"Crash course: Hard hits and short careers,\" in which SI's Tim Layden writes that, at 24, Johnson is at the height of his powers.",
"\"Johnson rushes with a palpable urgency befitting a man who runs a 4.24 in the 40, a speed all but unheard of in a running back.",
"And he's urgent away from the field as well.",
"Despite having three years remaining on the rookie contract he signed out of East Carolina in July 2008, he had his deal restructured just before the start of training camp, reportedly quadrupling in his salary for 2010.",
"Because Johnson knows he is also this: endangered.\"",
"Endangered? My first draft pick -- endangered.",
"Why? Why, according to the NFL Players Association, is the average running back's career 2.6 years?",
"\"We get hit on every play,\" then-Redskins' running back Larry Johnson tells SI.",
"\"On every one of those hits, we're the hittee, not the hitter.",
"We run the ball, guys are taking shots at our legs, our hips.",
"Then when we're not running the ball, we're pass-blocking, which means some strong safety or outside linebacker is getting a 30 yard run at us while we're stationary.\"",
"Week 6: Johnson's team, the Tennessee Titans, had a bye.",
"A week off. We hoped a week of rest and reflection would be enough for Johnson to explode when he returned.",
"By this point, my son knows not to ask about trading: He knows no team owners in our league would take Johnson.",
"Week 7: Johnson's worst game yet.",
"Ten carries.",
"Eighteen yards.",
"I'm thinking the Titans should draft me.",
"Weeks 8 and 9: Well, the rhythm of this tale doesn't change.",
"What now? So, here we are on the eve of week 10.",
"Some of the real/fantasy sports writers are so fed up with Johnson, they're saying it's time to just drop him.",
"Nothing in return.",
"Just let the $50 million fantasy man go.",
"But you know what? Now is the time I want to keep Johnson more than ever.",
"I can't help rooting for an underdog.",
"I know that every champion has been an underdog at least once.",
"Forget the conventional wisdom of sports writers.",
"I'm reaching out to the Association for Applied Sports Psychology.",
"Head games .",
"Glenn Pfenninger, head of the Ignite Performance Group in Dallas, Texas, says he and I have a lot in common.",
"He's a fantasy football guy, too.",
"I'm doing a real interview and my expert is stuck in the fantasy world.",
"I transition him back softly.",
"\"What would you do to help Chris Johnson if you could?\"",
"\"Have Johnson put together a highlight reel and watch some of his greater plays,\" he says.",
"\"See that he can be explosive.",
"Mentally envision doing that on a more consistent basis.",
"That's good for him whether he's lacking in confidence right now or not.\"",
"Have him and his offensive line spend more time together.",
"Watch tapes together.",
"Get to know each other better.",
"Are you listening, Titans?",
"Please, get the word to Johnson and the offensive line.",
"Another call: It's Eddie O'Connor, clinical sports psychologist.",
"He describes himself as an NFL addict.",
"He consults with athletes, coaches and parents at all levels of play.",
"\"When I see performance slump,\" O'Connor says, \"it's almost always related to a lack of focus.\"",
"Maybe, now that Johnson has a great contract, he's not as motivated.",
"Perhaps he's \"stuck on his bad performance, so his focus is on not making mistakes.",
"\"When you focus on what you don't want to do, you're not thinking about what you do want to do.",
"The time it takes to translate 'don't' into 'do' is too long for performance in sport.\"",
"So how can we help our fantasy man?",
"Start with what's worked in the past and get in the moment.",
"\"If you're not completely in the moment,\" O'Connor warns, \"if you're thinking about the past or the future, you're missing details.",
"You're not interacting with what's right in front of you.",
"You're trapped in the past or future.\"",
"And if you miss details, your performance in any area of life will suffer.",
"I'm so in the moment, I don't even realize this piece is twice as long as it's supposed to be.",
"OK. Three times.",
"Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, has documented the kind of praise that helps children (and adults) succeed, and the kind that hurts.",
"\"You need to praise the process, strategies, persistence, taking on of challenges.",
"That's what builds resilience,\" Dweck says.",
"\"When you tell kids they're brilliant, they become afraid of making a mistake -- afraid you'll rescind your gifted label.",
"\"When they have a setback or difficulty they have trouble figuring out what to do next.",
"They think 'Gee, I guess I'm not so great.",
"What do I do now?' \" A $50 million contract can put someone into a \"fixed mindset.\"",
"It's an idea, she says, like \"'Some people have it.",
"Some don't. I have it.'\" \"The problem with this mindset,\" she says, \"is that you have to prove that you have it all the time.",
"\"Every play becomes a referendum on whether you have it or not. \"",
"The alternative, Dweck says, is a \"growth mindset,\" an idea that \" 'I'm this person who works hard, who learns constantly.'",
"Then when you have a few bad games you say, 'Hey, what am I doing wrong?'",
"\" and try to correct it.",
"That growth mindset is what's needed to get our Chris Johnson back on track.",
"So here we are, loaded with insight, rooting for a comeback, cheering for the underdog.",
"I still believe Chris Johnson will be a hero on my fantasy team and on his real team.",
"Before I finish writing, I get an e-mail from another psychologist, Robert Simmermon in Atlanta.",
"I'd asked him how a standout can come back from a deep, deep slump.",
"\"In the hero's journey,\" he writes, \"the hero who was on top, the greatest, in the journey home, falls into a deep hole.",
"All is lost and all but a few of the most loyal remain hopeful.",
"One by one, the loyal give up hope.",
"It is the darkest hour.",
"Then, there is a rumbling. It is slight, then more potent until; THE GIANT PHOENIX IS THRUST OUT OF THE HOLE.",
"THE HERO ON THE BACK OF THIS MAGNIFICENT BIRD IS ALIVE AND WELL.",
"HE IS READY TO CONTINUE AND FINISH HIS QUEST.\"",
"That's where fantasy meets reality.",
"Hopefully this Sunday.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michael Schulder."
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"Johnson is slumping in real life, and ruining the fantasy, Schulder says .",
"Schulder: Experts say it could be a lack of focus, lack of routine or the wrong mindset .",
"I still have hope for Johnson, fantasy and reality, Schulder says ."
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"(CNN) -- All the world's a stage for Kim Kardashian, and we are merely players.",
"Kim is everywhere.",
"She's on the cover of six magazines and counting: People, US, In Touch, OK, Star and OK!",
"Her wedding/divorce/possible reconciliation has dominated the cybersphere and Hollywood news shows: \"Access Hollywood,\" \"Inside Edition,\" E!, TMZ.",
"This is bigger than the Super Bowl and Christmas rolled into one.",
"Kim should not just have her own TV shows, she should have her own network: KTV, all Kim, all the time.",
"And even though the news du jour focuses on her marriage ending, which by the very nature of a marriage means two people are involved, the media barely mention her soon-to-be ex-husband.",
"He's just a prop. He's akin to \"The Brady Bunch's\" Greg Brady when Greg was cast as \"Johnny Bravo\" simply because the ornate jacket fit.",
"I'll be honest, I've been caught up a bit in the Kim marriage/divorce craze myself.",
"I've read more than my share of articles on the most documented 72-day marriage in the history of the Western world.",
"I have to thank Kim Kardashian and that guy she married for giving us a brief respite from the drumbeat of the often depressing, bile-inducing news.",
"On some level, I truly wish that Kim Kardashian's exploits could be our own only concerns.",
"Wouldn't it be great if the universe consisted solely of keeping up with Kim, her sisters, mother and her stepfather, Bruce Jenner, who won an Olympic gold medal for the decathlon and who should also receive a medal for plastic surgery -- his face is as smooth and wrinkle-free as a honeydew melon.",
"We wouldn't have to worry about the challenges of the U.S. economy, Greece teetering on the verge of default (and potentially dragging down the eurozone) or Syrian President Assad's troops killing unarmed protesters.",
"Instead, we'd worry: Does Kim have to give the wedding gifts back?",
"Will she start dating right away -- especially since the NBA lockout offers her more options?",
"Will her divorce hearings be on cable or pay-per-view?",
"My fear is that Kim truly is our world.",
"Kim, Justin and Lindsey have become the trinity worshipped at the expense of following domestic and world events.",
"I know many people might ask: \"Why should I care about issues beyond those featured on E!",
"'s 'Chelsea Lately' or TMZ?",
"Does it really impact me?",
"Can I actually change things?\"",
"I don't want to repeat clichés like \"One person can make a difference.\"",
"But common sense tells me that if we don't understand the issues facing our nation, how can we have an opinion on them?",
"And in turn, how can we then intelligently criticize or support decisions our government is making, from taxes to foreign policy?",
"Leadership from \"We, the People\" might be the only way to push our dysfunctional Congress to actually do something that helps the middle class and our economy.",
"Just last week, Congress showed us what happens when we leave members to their own devices.",
"Instead of considering a jobs bill or anything else to spur our economy, the House voted to reaffirm \"In God We Trust\" as the official motto of the United States.",
"That should truly help the almost 14 million Americans of out of work.",
"I propose that Rep. J. Randy Forbes, who came up with the idea for this, be required to reimburse taxpayers for any money wasted on this.",
"Regardless if you agree or not with tea partiers' stand on political issues, they clearly have impacted U.S. policy.",
"The Tea Party was started by a small group of dedicated, passionate people and it has grown in a few short years to a powerful force.",
"And while it's too soon to tell, the \"Occupy\" movement might also influence policy, or at least bring some issues to light.",
"Thomas Jefferson's words on the benefits of an informed electorate are still true: \"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right.\"",
"I'm not saying we shouldn't keep up with the Kardashians, but let's also keep up with the issues facing our nation.",
"We deserve better than what we are getting from \"our\" Congress, and by being informed, it is my hope we can set it right.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dean Obeidallah."
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"He says news about her at least gave everybody a respite from the real news .",
"But we should be paying just as much attention to political issues, Obeidallah says .",
"Left on its own, Congress votes on national motto, he writes.",
"We need to keep it on task ."
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"(CNN) -- Flooding caused by monsoon rains and swollen rivers has ravaged Thailand, affecting more than 9.5 million people nationwide.",
"More than 380 people have died, and the overall damage is an estimated $6 billion dollars, the Thai Finance Ministry says.",
"It is the worst flooding to hit the country in half a century, according to the Thai government.",
"As the murky waters rise, so do health concerns.",
"Charities working in the country predict water- and insect-borne illnesses like dengue fever and malaria will spike in the coming weeks.",
"Relief organizations are on the ground providing shelter, supplies and medical aid to flood victims, and there are ways you can help.",
"World Vision is passing out emergency relief kits and hygiene supplies to people living in highly affected areas.",
"Mosquito nets are being distributed to help minimize the spread of insect-borne diseases as the waters crest.",
"The orgnization is constructing safe places for children to play away from dangerous floodwater.",
"At these \"Child-Friendly Spaces,\" kids can also participate in activities to help them cope with the trauma of this experience.",
"Visit World Vision's website to make a donation to the organization's Disaster Response Fund.",
"ShelterBox Response Teams have distributed 250 tents, 1000 mosquito nets and numerous water purifiers to flood victims in Ayutthaya and Lopburi.",
"ShelterBox also delivered several \"Classrooms in a Box\" to damaged schools, and teams are working with the Thai army to build an evacuation shelter site.",
"\"The army expects the site to be in use for around two months, so it is essential that it is well set up with secure, weather-proof shelter and good water, sanitation and hygiene facilities,\" says ShelterBox member Stephen Crabtree.",
"To make a one-time $10 donation to ShelterBox from the United States, text \"SHELTER\" to 20222 on your mobile phone.",
"Go online to donate from other countries.",
"Volunteers and staff with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are working to distribute aid to communities cut off by the floods for over a week.",
"The Thai Red Cross, an IFRC member, has helped victims in 36 provinces since the flooding began in June.",
"It says it has given out more than 175,000 aid kits and 2 million bottles of water.",
"Go online to donate to IFRC's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund.",
"Catholic Relief Services and its partners have provided thousands of flood victims with weeks' worth of food aid, emergency medicine, and personal hygiene kits in some of the hardest hit areas around Bangkok.",
"\"As we traveled, the water levels gradually rose to the point where shops were flooded -- some still open for business in knee-high water,\" said CRS response team member Ross Tomlinson.",
"\"As night fell, we saw more and more people living in temporary shelters surrounded by their household goods.\"",
"As the water subsides, CRS says it will continue to help families rebuild and reestablish their businesses.",
"Vist the CRS website to donate online or call 1-800-736-3467 from the United States to donate by phone.",
"Smiles on Wings has launched a flood relief mission to help victims in Thailand.",
"Their Chiangmai-based team is preparing survival packs for 80 to 100 families living in Ayudhaya, an area north of Bangkok where severe flooding has left many families homeless.",
"Survival packs include necessities like water, toilet paper and mosquito lotion.",
"Each survival pack costs 540 baht or 18 dollars for one family.",
"Go online to make a general donation from the United States or other countries."
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"It is the worst flooding to hit the country in half a century, Thai government says .",
"Relief organizations are mobilizing to provide food, shelter, and medical aid .",
"There are ways you can support relief efforts for flood victims in Thailand ."
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"(CNN) -- Muslims in Switzerland are responding with shock and outrage after a pig carcass and severed swine heads were discovered buried at the site of a proposed mosque.",
"Police in the town of Grenchen uncovered the pigs Friday after they received an anonymous message claiming that someone had buried the body parts and spilled 120 liters of blood from the animals in an effort to desecrate the ground to halt the construction of the mosque.",
"Pork and pork byproducts are haram, or forbidden, in Islam.",
"The unsigned flier, written in German, says \"This operation was done (conducted) to protest against the growing expansion of Islam in Switzerland,\" and says that a similar desecration in Spain earlier halted another mosque construction project.",
"Thomas Suber, chief of the Solothurn Canton police, told CNN by phone that there were no suspects currently, but that a full investigation is under way.",
"\"We can't say yet it is a hate crime in those words, but it could have been done to stop the mosque,\" said Suber.",
"Suber said that whoever is responsible may be brought up on environmental pollution charges.",
"The police chief says that veterinary health officials have been called in to find if pig's blood has in fact been spilled, and that charges may be filed over illegal dumping of animal parts in addition to other potential criminal charges.",
"But for Muslims in Switzerland, it's just the latest sign that they are being victimized by some in the far right.",
"Abdel Azziz Qaasim Illi, spokesman for Switzerland's Central Islamic Council said the deed \"crossed a line\" that had already been pushed against Muslims since a popular referendum in 2009 banned the construction of new minarets.",
"\"Since the ban on minarets there's been an increase in Islamophobia and Islamophobic events, so it was not really surprising\" said Illi.",
"\"But it is an escalation in Switzerland because this is a peaceful country where Christians and Muslims have all been living together... and we are a bit afraid this may increase.\"",
"There are an estimated 500,000 Muslims in Switzerland, out of a population of more than 7 million says Illi, who admitted that the population is rising but that most Swiss Muslims were immigrants from Albania and elsewhere in the Balkans, where there is a tradition of moderate Islam.",
"The property had been purchased by the local Muslim community several years ago from a Swiss far right political activist.",
"The man claimed that he had not been informed that it would be used for a mosque and had fought the sale in court, before ultimately losing his civil case recently allowing construction to go forward.",
"\"We can just wait for the next rain or snowfall to cleanse the ground, so we do not fear from this side anything,\" said Illi.",
"\"But on the other hand it's an emotional thing, it means that there are actually people in this society who deny the right of Muslims when it comes to a mosque in Switzerland and this is something that hurts us.\""
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"Police in the town of Grenchen uncovered the pigs Friday .",
"\"We can't say yet it is a hate crime in those words,\" police chief says .",
"An unsigned flier said the act was a \"protest against the growing expansion of Islam in Switzerland\"\n\"It is an escalation\" in Switzerland, \"where Christians and Muslims have all been living together,\" imam says ."
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"(The Frisky) -- We love men.",
"In fact, we adore them.",
"We like their bodies, their brains, and their strange way of doing things.",
"So it's always a tricky tightrope when you're dealing with a guy to know when to be there for him -- and when to cut and run.",
"Since we're here to help the ladies, we've created a handy guide that will help you know when your man is just being a dude -- or if you've got a dud on your hands who needs to be dumped.",
"The Frisky: 7 chubby celebrity men who slimmed down .",
"1. \"I don't feel like having sex.\"",
"Sure, every man has an off day.",
"But you know what? Most guys want to have sex all the time.",
"And if you're not getting it on, on a regular basis, especially because your guy is claiming that he's just \"not feeling it,\" you can bet that your problems are going to turn out to be bigger than a case of the sex blues.",
"In this particular situation, you may want to get to the root of the problem before this supposed dry spell kills your love, too.",
"The Frisky: 30 things every woman should quit doing by 30 .",
"2. \"I can't stop crying.\"",
"Sure, sure, the new man is a metrosexual who is really in touch with his inner-self, does yoga, and gets waxed more than you do.",
"But there's a limit to how much a woman can tolerate seemingly unmanly behaviors.",
"Crying because there was a death in the family?",
"Feel free. Prone to weeping at romantic comedies?",
"Not so much. If your man can't control his emotions, and you find yourself feeling like you're the one wearing the pants in the relationship, you should ask yourself if that's what you want -- a guy who'll cry over spilt milk.",
"The Frisky: Boys are taking over pageant contests .",
"3. \"I'm thinking about quitting my job.\"",
"There are two ways this one can go.",
"He's dissatisfied with his current work situation, he wants to try something else, and this statement is a prelude to telling you all about his big plans for his next career move.",
"That's fine. On the other hand, if you're living together, and one day he declares he's going to give two-weeks notice today, and so far as you can tell he doesn't have any idea what he'll be doing after that, or how he'll be paying for his part of your shared bills, this isn't someone who has a work issue.",
"This is someone who has an I-want-my-mommy-to-take-care-of-me issue.",
"4. \"I need to tell you something.\"",
"This one never, ever ends well.",
"If he has to prepare you for what he's going to say next, you best brace yourself for what's coming because it isn't going to be anything good.",
"The Frisky: 12 celebs who denied getting breast implants .",
"5. \"I think we need to take a break.\"",
"Hey, guess what? This isn't school, and there will be no recess.",
"Relationships are not like a Lego set: created to be dismantled and put back together again.",
"\"Breaks\" are what guys who are too weak, scared, or lame suggest because they're too much of a you-know-what to go ahead and break up with you.",
"Make it easy for this guy.",
"Give him a break from the relationship.",
"A permanent one.",
"The Frisky: Facebook's new function?",
"Divorce! 6. \"My last girlfriend was crazy.\"",
"True, your ex probably said the same thing to his new girlfriend, but you might want to keep an eye on the man whose history includes a long string of relationships with women who are totally temperamental, out of their gourds, or recently released from the state mental hospital.",
"Guys who go out with lunatics think the crazy chick is the issue, but all too frequently he's the one with the problems.",
"Whether he craves drama, mistakes insanity for passion, or prefers to hook up with ladies who can never truly be intimate, you're better off letting him move on to the next one -- the next crazy one, that is.",
"TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"\"I need to tell you something,\" never, ever ends well .",
"Relationships are not like a Lego set: created to be dismantled and put back together again ."
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"Johannesburg (CNN) -- The trial of two men accused of killing white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche is expected to start in the South African town of Ventersdorp on Monday.",
"Terreblanche, the leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), was killed in April following an apparent dispute over wages with workers on his farm.",
"Police have charged Chris Mahlangu, 29, and a 16-year-old in the death.",
"The trial was initially scheduled for December but was postponed several times as lawyers for the defendants changed.",
"Terreblanche, 69, was bludgeoned with clubs and stabbed with a machete during the attack at his farm near Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West province, police said.",
"The AWB is best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid.",
"The group used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections.",
"Terreblanche was convicted of a 1996 attempted murder of a black man who worked as a security guard on his farm.",
"He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence."
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"He is believed to have died over a wage dispute .",
"He was convicted of a 1996 attempted murder ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. diplomatic courtship with Iraq in the 1980s continued despite Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons.",
"Click on the links to read once-classified documents from the Reagan administration.",
"Once-classified documents show the U.S. continued its courtship with Iraq despite use of chemical weapons.",
"Date: December 5, 1986 Subject: U.S.-Iraqi Relations: Picking Up the Pieces Summary: After disclosures that the United States was secretly providing weapons to Iraq's enemy, Iran, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy recommends strengthening commercial ties with Saddam Hussein because \"U.S.-Iraqi relations are in crisis.\"",
"Read the document (pdf) Date: March 3, 1988 Subject: Iraq's Foreign Policy: Deeper into the Mainstream Summary: Anticipating an end to the Iran-Iraq war, a State Department official is optimistic that continued ties between the United States and Iraq will lead Saddam Hussein \"deeper into the mainstream.\"",
"The author concludes that \"fears of Iraq's aggression seem exaggerated.\"",
"Two weeks later, Iraqi forces attack Kurdish civilians in Halabja with poisonous gas.",
"Read the document (pdf) Date: December 29, 1988 Subject: Export-Import Financing for Iraq Summary: In the closing days of the Reagan administration, the State Department's top human rights official argues that continued financial aid to Iraq \"can simply not be squared with our worldwide human rights policy.\"",
"However, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy counters that U.S. financial ties with Iraq have \"far greater use with Baghdad as a carrot than as a stick.\"",
"A year and a half later, Iraq invades Kuwait.",
"Read the document (pdf)"
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"Diplomatic courtship with Iraq continued despite use of chemical weapons .",
"Read once-classified documents from the Reagan administration .",
"Subjects include \"Export-Import Financing for Iraq\" and \"Iraq's Foreign Policy\""
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"Detroit (CNN) -- Thanksgiving Day 2008 shows where Detroit has been.",
"The Detroit Lions have played at home every Thanksgiving since 1934.",
"It is the city's greatest football tradition.",
"Yet instead of a source of great pride, the game had become an embarrassment, as well as representative of everything going horribly wrong in Detroit.",
"The auto industry melted down with alarming and unprecedented speed.",
"The City of Detroit was rife with political scandal that eventually put Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and several other prominent public officials behind bars.",
"All this turmoil came while the Lions were poised to be the only team in NFL history to go 0-16.",
"The sentiment? The Lions were viewed as incredible losers in the NFL landscape, so we must be incredible losers, too.",
"However, the fans maintained their love for the team in spite of their obvious difficulties.",
"The Tennessee Titans ended up thrashing the Lions, 47-10.",
"Tennessee's defensive coordinator that day was Jim Schwartz.",
"Less than two months later, he was the Lions' head coach.",
"\"I don't remember much about the game other than we had our concerns about winning it, but I do recall the drive into the city.\"",
"Schwartz said.",
"\"You could just see and feel what was happening at the time.",
"It was eye-opening.\"",
"That was in stark contrast to what is happening in Detroit three years later.",
"In 2011, the Lions are 4-0 for the first time since 1980.",
"Their matchup Monday night against Chicago at Ford Field is perhaps the most anticipated football game the Lions have played since they advanced to the NFC championship game in 1991.",
"Meanwhile on the mound in Detroit, the Tigers are also showing amazing promise.",
"In a thrilling game, the Tigers beat the New York Yankees 3-2 on Thursday to advance to the American League Championship Series.",
"The Tigers did capture the AL pennant in 2006 -- eliminating the Yankees -- but had been a high-payroll, low-achieving club since until this summer, when they ran away with the AL Central title.",
"The pressure to deliver the division title this season was so intense that on the night the Tigers clinched, tears welled in manager Jim Leyland's eyes as he was interviewed by Fox Sports Detroit team broadcaster Mario Impemba.",
"\"At times like this, sports teams can lift the spirits of their fans,\" Leyland said, his voice cracking.",
"\"I hope we uplifted their spirits, because they deserved it.\"",
"At this moment in Detroit, it seems like both teams, the Lions and Tigers, are lifting each other's as well as this city's spirits.",
"\"We're all allies,\" Leyland said.",
"\"We're pulling for one and another.",
"Good atmosphere for the city.",
"Makes people forget about their troubles with good times with sports.\"",
"The success of the Lions and Tigers has hardly made the city's problems go away.The 2010 census numbers revealed that Detroit's population dropped to 713,777.",
"Detroit had once been the nation's fourth largest city, with more than 1.8 million people.",
"Michigan was the only state in the nation to have a net loss in population since the 2000 census.",
"There are entire blocks of Detroit that are nothing but vacant houses.",
"Violence is also a major issue.",
"In one 24-hour period on an August weekend, 16 people were shot and seven killed.",
"Yet there are some signs of hope in the economy.",
"The auto industry seems to be doing better.",
"Ford Motor Co. stock is up nearly 11 times its value at the depths of the meltdown, while General Motors is trading publicly again and reporting profits.",
"Chrysler is reportedly turning a profit, too, and is still reaping the benefits from its Super Bowl commercial featuring Detroit's own Eminem.",
"The ad references \"hard work, conviction and a know-how that runs generations deep in every last one of us.\"",
"It seems to sum up the feelings of pride in spite of circumstance felt by the residents of the state.",
"History has shown that when the city's sports teams start doing well, it's a sign of healing in Detroit.",
"In 1968, when the Tigers won the World Series, it brought a racially divided region together after race riots.",
"In 1984, the local economy rebounded from the recession at the same time the Tigers again won the World Series.",
"What makes 2011 different?",
"The Tigers' magical summer is being followed by a surprisingly solid performance from the usually underperforming Lions, behind a triple threat of quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receiver Calvin Johnson and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.",
"It's not just that the Lions are winning but how they're doing it.",
"They were down 20 points against the Minnesota Vikings on the road September 25 and then, the following Sunday, down 24 points against the Cowboys on the road.",
"The Lions won both games, representing the city's come-from-behind spirit and fight to win in the midst of adversity.",
"This tenacity is not lost on Schwartz, the coach, who has seen the Lions at their worst and now their best.",
"\"When I became the Lions coach, it didn't take me long to understand what the team means to the people here,\" Schwartz said.",
"\"No matter how bad it has been, they have never stopped caring.",
"They are vocal but never apathetic.",
"It's like a lawn that has been dormant.",
"It just takes one good watering, and it's back.\"",
"Eminem's tag line in January's Chrysler ad -- \"that's who we are.",
"That's our story\" -- sums up the motivation for these teams who know that the wins are helping Detroit's image and giving residents a sense of hope and pride that's been missing.",
"It seems that Detroit is back -- for now."
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"Detroit had once been fourth largest U.S. city, with more than 1.8 million people .",
"2010 Census numbers reveal a drop in population to 713,777 .",
"Detroit has been a source of economic trouble for months .",
"Detroit Lions and Detroit Tigers are both experiencing a winning season ."
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"New York (CNN) -- After he graduated from college, Frankie Edgar began working for his stepfather's plumbing business.",
"He woke up early each morning to dutifully trudge to job sites around New Jersey on the hottest and coldest of days.",
"In the afternoon, Edgar coached wrestling.",
"At night, he treated himself to training in his true passion: mixed martial arts.",
"Soon Edgar told his family he wanted to quit plumbing and become a professional fighter.",
"\"I'm not one to just drop everything and chase something that I know is not 100% sure,\" Edgar said, \"so I kept training and kept working to support myself, and eventually I got a call from the UFC,\" said Edgar, referring to the Ultimate Fighting Championship.",
"It's the biggest mixed martial arts, or MMA, league in the United States.",
"Edgar, whose UFC nickname is \"The Answer,\" suffered his first loss in 2008 after eight straight victories in his professional career.",
"That loss came at the hands of undefeated opponent Gray \"The Bully\" Maynard.",
"Edgar and Maynard's second fight in January ended in a draw.",
"With 13 wins, one loss and one draw, Edgar is the league's lightweight champion, a title he earned in 2010.",
"Now, just before his third match with Maynard on Saturday night in Houston, the 29-year-old Edgar said he was confident that he could beat Maynard for the first time.",
"\"My main goal in between each fight is to become a different fighter, and I think I did that,\" Edgar said.",
"\"As long as I show up and utilize all the improvements that I made, I'm going to come out the winner.\"",
"The sport first roped in Edgar while he watched it on television as a teen growing up in Toms River, New Jersey.",
"\"I was pretty much content with wrestling, but I wanted to try a different avenue and still compete,\" he said.",
"\"I thought MMA was the perfect place for me.\"",
"His mother and stepfather, he recalls, were not initially as excited by the idea of him making a living as a fighter.",
"But once he joined the UFC in 2005, they gave their support.",
"\"They haven't missed a fight since,\" he said.",
"Originally called no-holds-barred fighting, variations of MMA date back to at least the late 1800s.",
"It has transformed from a mostly underground sport that Sen. John McCain, R- Arizona, once called \"human cockfighting\" into a multibillion dollar, global industry.",
"\"It's the fastest-growing sport in the world,\" says Mike Straka, a long-time MMA journalist and broadcaster who now works in the fight industry.",
"\"It's the only sport that was really birthed during this generation,\" said Straka, who works at Authentic Brands Group, a developing and licensing firm, and host of a program on the company's Tapout News.",
"California and New Jersey were the first of the major market states to regulate MMA, in 2000.",
"Most other states have followed but the sport remains illegal in New York, Connecticut and West Virginia.",
"A focused and steady demographic has helped MMA \"quickly become more accepted by the mainstream sports business, evolving from its relatively rogue status at its inception,\" said Rick Horrow, a visiting expert on sports law at Harvard Law School, who co-authored Beyond the Scoreboard.",
"While the fan base is mostly youthful and is especially popular among 18-to 34-year-old men, a lot of women get into it, says Ariel Helwani, a reporter for AOL's MMAFighting.com.",
"Reportedly worth $2 billion, the UFC says it broadcasts in more than 20 languages to nearly 600 million homes in 132 countries.",
"Up to 300,000 people purchased the last Edgar-Maynard fight on Pay-Per-View, according to the Wrestling Observer.",
"Saturday night's fight in HD sells for $54.99.",
"While MMA fighters might not bring in the reported millions per bout that heavyweight boxers such as Floyd Mayweather versus Victor Ortiz saw last month, how much they earn depends on who they are and what stage of their career they are in, Straka says.",
"Fight purses range from as little as $10,000 to $500,000 for more experienced and popular fighters, he says.",
"For stars such as Edgar, there is also big money from sponsorships and endorsements.",
"\"Frankie Edgar would never need to get another job if he retired tomorrow,\" Straka said.",
"Also helping bring the sport into the mainstream is the long-running reality show \"The Ultimate Fighter,'' currently running its last season on Spike TV before switching to FX next year.",
"The show is part of a wide-ranging multichannel UFC deal with the Fox Broadcasting Company valued at $700 million.",
"\"It may not be the most well-known sport out there, but it's going to be,\" Edgar said.",
"\"Everybody loves a good fight, man.\"",
"Most MMA fighters are either former NCAA wrestlers or traditional martial artists, but the sport is much different from wrestling and boxing.",
"\"You can use practically every part of your body as a weapon,\" Straka said.",
"MMA combatants wear 4-ounce gloves and a protective cup.",
"They can fight standing up or on the ground and are allowed to kick and tackle their opponents.",
"Fighters must be barefoot.",
"Although mixed martial arts looks and sounds more violent than boxing, Straka calls it safer.",
"\"It is the most regulated of all professional sports,\" he said, noting that fighters have to undergo physical examinations, drug testing and brain scans before every fight.",
"Edgar says he finds his training schedule less tough than plumbing.",
"He generally has two or three daily practices, each around two hours.",
"That covers everything from strength training and conditioning to boxing and jiu-jitsu.",
"\"I'm kind of on autopilot during a fight.",
"A lot of guys have mental exercises and visualizations -- but for me, this is what I do,'' said Edgar, who weighs 155 pounds and is 5-foot-6 and has what The New York Times calls a fighter's badge of honor: cauliflower ear.",
"The paper describes it as \"a deformity initiated by repetitive trauma,'' adding that \"cauliflower ear can crumple an outer ear to a misshapen shell.''",
"Some fighters are known for their showmanship inside and outside the cage, including humor and trash talk.",
"But those who watch Edgar defend his title against Maynard on Saturday will find that what they see is what they get, Straka says.",
"\"Frankie does all his talking inside the cage with his hands and feet -- and his heart.\"",
"For Edgar, the outlook is plain, simple and focused.",
"\"I should be able to get up in the morning, put on a shirt and fight somebody,'' he said.",
"\"It's like getting up and drinking a cup of coffee.\""
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"After eight straight UFC victories, his first loss was to the undefeated Gray Maynard .",
"Edgar's third fight against Maynard will takes place Saturday in Houston .",
"Mixed martial arts has seen a surge of interest in recent years ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Journalists got their first ground-level glance Saturday around Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility -- eying shells of reactor buildings, tons of contaminated water and workers scurrying still to mitigate damage from a crisis that began eight months ago.",
"An epic 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami March 11 wreaked havoc around Japan, killing more than 15,000 people.",
"While many of those died instantly, the East Asian nation was on edge for weeks as utility and government employees scrambled to prevent a worsening nuclear catastrophe at the Daiichi plant, located about 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Tokyo.",
"Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency eventually categorized the accident as a level-7 event on the international scale for nuclear disasters -- the highest level -- putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.",
"It took months, but the Tokyo Electric Power Company (the plant's operator) eventually indicated that its workers were gaining control in the crisis.",
"Throughout the summer and fall, there were no longer reports of explosions, nor stories about new leaks of radioactive material into the ground and sea.",
"But the facility still remained off-limits to reporters and, for a 20-kilometer radius around the plant, to the general public due to the continued high levels of radiation and ongoing efforts to prevent yet more blasts and leaks.",
"That temporarily changed Saturday, when about three dozen journalists traveled by bus through abandoned towns en route to the nuclear facility.",
"They passed, for instance, withered plants at an abandoned nursery, a shattered car dealership and a gas station that had been taken over by crows.",
"Radiation readings rose steadily as they neared the plant, including 6.7 microsieverts in Okuma.",
"There, those on board put on respirator masks, adding to an ensemble of a protective suit, two pairs of gloves, two sets of plastic booties over their shoes and a radiation detector.",
"At the plant's gate, the radiation reading was 20 microsieverts.",
"The reading is still well below the threshold to mandate an immediate health risk -- 1,000 microsieverts equals 1 millisievert, and South Carolina-based medical physicist G. Donald Frey previously told CNN that radiation workers in the U.S. typically aim to be exposed to less than 5 millisieverts per year.",
"Yet it was the cumulative effect that has prompted the continued evacuations of thousands around the Fukushima Daiichi facility.",
"A half-dozen large cranes dominated the skyline inside the gates, while the grounds were pockmarked with vessels containing what the Tokyo Electric Power Company has said is 90,000 tons of water laced with radiation.",
"They were visible in tanks that filled a field, as well as dozens of large, four-story tall silver tanks filled with tainted seawater.",
"U.S., French and Japanese flags hung near a water decontamination facility, which appeared as a cluster of white tents surrounded by black sand bags.",
"The presence of toxins didn't appear to prevent pine trees from standing, and seemingly thriving, all around the facility.",
"Last spring was marked by regular reports of explosions, leaks and other problems at the plant.",
"Those accounts, and radiation readings, in June led Japan's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters to confirm that three reactors -- Nos.",
"1, 2 and 3 -- had experienced full meltdowns.",
"A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release.",
"The damage became starkly evident the closer one got to the heart of the nuclear facility.",
"From afar, a new structure surrounded the No.",
"1 reactor building, which had lost its roof due to a massive hydrogen explosion related to overheating the day after the quake.",
"No. 2 appeared to be intact, painted blue and white, despite a reported hydrogen detonation on March 15.",
"The No. 3 building, meanwhile, had been diminished to a skeletal concrete frame and large pile of rubble, which crews were cleaning up with cranes ahead of it being covered by its own structure.",
"And the No. 4 building -- whose reactor was inactive at the time of the tsunami -- also had significant damage, with one side entirely blown out, exposing the nuclear spent fuel pool.",
"Crumpled trucks and cars, twisted metal, a gutted office building and a huge dented storage tank were visible at the base of the reactor buildings, where radiation readings stood at 1,000 microsieverts (or 1 millisievert) per hour.",
"Some of the debris resembled what swept up elsewhere in Japan by the tsunami, while others -- like three white cars, with Tokyo Electric markings -- were more distinct to the facility.",
"Around the plant, crows and dragonflies fluttered in the disarray.",
"So, too, did scores of the 3,200 workers that Tokyo Electric says usually work daily at the plant.",
"They included workers building water tanks, operating cranes, entering buildings used to store highly radioactive waste, and manning the facility's tightly contained disaster center.",
"The challenges notwithstanding, Tokyo Electric spokesman Tetsuya Terasawa insisted vast progress has been made in recent months.",
"He said that temperatures at the three most damaged reactors (Nos.",
"1, 2 and 3) were below 100 degrees Celsius, or the boiling point, a critical measure.",
"All elements of the nuclear cooling system were perched on grounds 30 meters above the reactors, well out of the reach of any future tsunami, according to Terasawa.",
"Addressing Fukushima Daiichi workers, Goshi Hosono -- the Japanese government's nuclear crisis manager -- said he feels relieved that the facility is becoming increasingly stable.",
"\"Every time I come back, I feel conditions have improved.",
"This is due to your hard work,\" Hosono said.",
"The decommissions of Fukushima Daiichi's first four reactors will likely take more than 30 years to complete, according to a draft report released late last month by Japan's Atomic Energy Commission.",
"The report indicated that nuclear fuel should begin to be removed by the end of 2021 -- a key, but hardly the last phase in a clean-up effort that is expected to continue for another two decades beyond that.",
"Masao Yoshida, the man in charge of the plant, said that all the reactors have stabilized and predicted that Tokyo Electric was on track to have a cold shutdown by year's end.",
"But he conceded that the danger is still far from over -- especially for the thousands still toiling to bring this nuclear nightmare to an end.",
"\"Even saying it's stabilized doesn't mean that it is extremely safe,\" said Yoshida.",
"\"When working, the radiation remains high.",
"So when it comes to working every day, there is still danger.\""
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"A Japanese official says, \"I feel conditions have improved\"\nThe plant's chief says a cold shutdown is likely, though it's still dangerous for workers ."
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"(CNN) -- Ferrari have been fined $100,000 after Fernando Alonso kept his world title hopes alive with a controversial victory in the German Grand Prix on Sunday, though the result was allowed to stand.",
"The two-time world champion claimed his and Ferrari's first win since the Formula One season-opener in March, but motorsport's ruling body decided that the team had broken rules banning orders to drivers after Felipe Massa let Alonso through late in the race.",
"The race stewards have also referred the incident to the World Motor Sport Council for further consideration, the official F1 website reported.",
"Alonso, who started second on the grid behind Sebastian Vettel, recovered after being overtaken at the beginning by Massa, who held off his surging teammate until the 49th lap of 67.",
"Then he appeared to let the Spaniard through after being told on his radio that he was the slower of the two drivers.",
"Massa's race engineer Rob Smedley told him: \"Alonso is faster than you.",
"Can you confirm you understand?\"",
"Then when Alonso went through, Smedley added: \"Good lad -- just stick with it now, sorry.\"",
"It appeared to be a tactical decision by the Italian outfit, with Brazilian Massa trailing Alonso by 31 points in the overall standings before the race.",
"Alonso, who also won in Bahrain, stayed in fifth place but closed to within 34 points of leader Lewis Hamilton with eight races left.",
"He pulled clear to win by 4.1 seconds, twice setting the fastest lap of the race.",
"F1 championship standings after Hockenheim .",
"Massa held on for second place for his best result of the season since Bahrain, with German Vettel third and teammate Mark Webber sixth as Red Bull failed to follow up the latter's victory last time out at Silverstone.",
"The race came a year to the day after Massa suffered a horrific head injury after an accident in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix which ruled him out for the rest of the season.",
"After the race, he refused to criticize his team about the incident but looked visibly disappointed and would not elaborate on how he felt about the events -- while Ferrari denied that rules had been broken.",
"Was Schumacher's return a big mistake?",
"Massa told reporters: \"I don't need to say anything about that.",
"He passed me. We're doing a good job for the team.\"",
"Hamilton, the 2008 world champion, finished fourth to be on 157 points -- extending his lead to 14 over McLaren teammate Jenson Button, who was fifth.",
"The Red Bull drivers were left level on 136 points in third and fourth.",
"Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said he believed Ferrari had broken the rules.",
"\"The drivers should have been allowed to race.",
"Massa did the better job.",
"He was in the lead and the regulations are pretty clear -- team orders are not allowed,\" he told UK race broadcaster the BBC before the fine was announced.",
"\"I have to say that is the clearest team order I've ever seen.",
"It will be interesting to see what the stewards make of it because for me it was as clear as 2002, which is why the rule was brought in.",
"It's wrong for the sport.\"",
"In 2002, Ferrari told Rubens Barrichello to let Michael Schumacher pass in the closing stages of the Austrian Grand Prix.",
"But Schumacher, who finished ninth on his return to a race he has won four times, said he believed his former team made the right move.",
"\"I understand 100 percent and I would do exactly the same -- what are we here for?",
"We're fighting for the championship,\" the 41-year-old said.",
"Renault's Robert Kubica claimed seventh place at Hockenheim, but it was a disappointing day for Mercedes on the German team's home track as Nico Rosberg was eighth ahead of seven-time world champion Schumacher.",
"Kubica's Russian teammate Vitaly Petrov claimed the final point on offer in 10th place."
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"Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso wins the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim .",
"Spaniard recovers after being overtaken by Ferrari teammate at the start of race .",
"Felipe Massa led until 49th lap, after being told by team he was the slower driver .",
"Ferrari fined $100,000 for the incident and may yet receive further punishment ."
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"(CNN) -- Capt. Tadeusz Wrona still has trouble sleeping.",
"The night after executing a spectacular belly landing in Poland, the veteran pilot tossed and turned until 4 a.m.",
"The phone kept ringing, he told Polish media, and he kept reliving the chilling moments when his crew and passengers came close to a disaster.",
"Now basking in his nation's adoration and fielding countless interview requests, Wrona is resting even less, he said with a weary smile.",
"Wrona, who has worked for LOT Polish Airlines for 20 years, was at the controls of a Boeing 767 en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Warsaw on Tuesday when he realized there was a problem with the landing gear.",
"When the second attempt to open it failed, he knew that everyone on board -- 220 passengers and 11 crew -- was in danger.",
"\"I've maybe flown this plane 500 times, and the landing gear deployed every time,\" Wrona said during a news conference in Warsaw on Wednesday.",
"\"I never had any trouble flying Boeing.\"",
"Aware of comparisons to the 2009 \"Miracle on the Hudson,\" when Capt.",
"Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger landed a plane in New York's Hudson River after a flock of geese damaged both of the aircraft's engines, Wrona pointed out that his situation was less dire.",
"Both of his engines were working fine and there was time to prepare.",
"After notifying Warsaw's airport that there might be an emergency landing, the crew had time to perform checks and various functions, Wrona said.",
"They circled the city to burn off excess fuel.",
"While the crew reviewed the procedure in the cockpit, the flight attendants prepared the cabin, instructing passengers that they would have to evacuate as soon as the plane stopped on the ground.",
"The autopilot helped the crew guide the plane until about two minutes before landing, Wrona said.",
"That's when he took manual control.",
"\"We rested the plane on three points: two engines plus the rear portion of the fuselage,\" Wrona said.",
"\"We tried to do it delicately, and we were successful.\"",
"There was less noise during the belly landing than a normal touch down, which shocked Wrona.",
"It was just quiet, he recalled.",
"Wrona, who has been dubbed the Polish version of Sullenberger, was praised by the original \"miracle\" pilot.",
"\"The captain and the crew obviously did a great job,\" Sullenberger told CNN.",
"\"It definitely requires skill to do this well, and from all reports and from watching the video, it looked like it was done very, very well.\"",
"But for Wrona, there were still tense moments ahead.",
"\"When the plane stopped on the runway, I wasn't sure whether everyone was safe, because smoke appeared,\" he recalled.",
"(Wind had blown the smoke caused by the friction of the landing toward the cockpit.)",
"\"I finally felt full relief only when the purser reported that the cabin was empty.\"",
"Everyone got out safe and unhurt.",
"Like Sullenberger, Wrona is now grappling with sudden fame and the gratitude of hundreds of families.",
"He's a Facebook star, with several fan pages established in his honor.",
"One page has more than 33,000 followers leaving messages of praise and adulation.",
"But Wrona insists it's too much to call him a national hero.",
"\"I am convinced that all of us who work for LOT would do the exact same thing, and it would end in the same way, because we train for such situations on simulators,\" he said.",
"Wrona is fully prepared to return to his duties as pilot, he said.",
"In fact, his schedule -- prepared before the incident -- has him flying to Hanoi, Vietnam, on Saturday.",
"He's not sure whether the commission investigating the emergency landing will let him go.",
"Wrona's wife and two adult children beamed when they were interviewed by Polish media on Thursday.",
"Marzena Wrona found out about her husband's troubled flight on television while the plane was still circling Warsaw and raced to the airport to watch the emergency landing, she told the program Dzień Dobry TVN.",
"But she had to turn back when authorities closed off many streets leading to the airport as a safety precaution.",
"When she got back home, the plane had already landed.",
"\"I knew the landing would be successful because I couldn't imagine otherwise,\" Wrona's wife said."
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"Pilot who executed a textbook belly landing in Poland is being hailed as national hero .",
"Tadeusz Wrona has worked for LOT Polish Airlines for 20 years .",
"\"I finally felt full relief only when the purser reported that the cabin was empty,\" he says .",
"Wrona says he's flown the Boeing 767 about 500 times and never had any trouble ."
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"(CNN) -- Eddie Murphy announced Wednesday he would not host next year's Academy Awards, one day after colleague and show producer Brett Ratner quit over an anti-gay remark he made over the weekend.",
"\"I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner, Brett Ratner, and we all wish him well,\" said Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.",
"The 84th Academy Awards program is scheduled for February 26.",
"Murphy worked with Ratner, a director, in the newly released action comedy \"Tower Heist.\"",
"\"First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party's decision with regard to a change of producers for this year's Academy Awards ceremony,\" Murphy said in a statement.",
"\"I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I'm sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job.\"",
"Ratner met with the representatives of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation before announcing his resignation, GLAAD said in a news release Tuesday.",
"When asked during a question-and-answer session whether he rehearses with his actors before shooting a scene, Ratner replied, \"Rehearsing is for f*gs,\" GLAAD said in its release, citing New York Magazine's Vulture blog.",
"\"Over the last few days, I've gotten a well-deserved earful from many of the people I admire most in this industry expressing their outrage and disappointment over the hurtful and stupid things I said in a number of recent media appearances,\" Ratner said in a letter about this resignation, which was given to CNN by his representative, Allan Mayer.",
"\"To them, and to everyone I've hurt and offended, I'd like to apologize publicly and unreservedly.\""
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"Eddie Murphy decides not to host the 84th Academy Awards .",
"Brett Ratner, who worked with Murphy on a recent film, made a demeaning remark .",
"\"Rehearsing is for f*gs,\" New York Magazine's Vulture Blog quoted Ratner as saying ."
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"(CNN) -- Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo expects the Italian team to improve on their record of just one grand prix win in 2011 when the Formula One season resumes later this month.",
"Montezemolo watched his charges struggle in the opening rounds of this year's championship, with Fernando Alonso's victory at the British Grand Prix in July giving Ferrari their only maximum-points haul of the campaign so far.",
"But the Maranello-based outfit have experienced an upturn in form of late, with two-time world champion Alonso finishing on the podium at each of the last four races -- including a third-place finish at Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.",
"Despite recent results Spaniard Alonso, 30, still trails current standings leader and reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull by 89 points and sits fourth in the drivers' championship.",
"Button: \"Red Bull should be worried\" \"I can see the right spirit in the team after a very difficult start to the season,\" Montezemolo, 63, told the team's official web site.",
"\"[Team principal Stefano] Domenicali and his crew seem very determined, concentrating fully on their tasks for the second part of the year which I am sure will feature Ferrari in the role of a key player.",
"\"I expect we will pick up wins to add to the important and historically very significant victory achieved at Silverstone,\" he added.",
"Latest F1 standings after the Hungarian Grand Prix .",
"Formula One is at the start of a three-week mid-season break, with teams required to cease work on their cars for part of that time.",
"The 2011 season will resume with the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa on August 28."
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"Luca di Montezemolo expects Ferrari to win races in the second half of the 2011 season .",
"The Italian team have won just one race so far, Fernando Alonso's victory at Silverstone .",
"The Formula One season resumes with the Belgian Grand Prix on August 28 ."
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"Dresden, Germany (CNN) -- Wouldn't it be great if you could simply grab carbon dioxide from the air and turn it back into fuel?",
"According to Germany-based renewable energy start-up Sunfire, you can.",
"\"In fact, the idea has been around since at least the 70s,\" says Christian von Olshausen, the company's Chief Technology Officer.",
"But the process is expensive.",
"\"For as long as fossil fuels have been cheap and readily available, there's not been sufficient demand,\" he adds.",
"Now -- with the world's finite stock of crude oil on the wane, and amidst pressure to reduce global carbon dioxide (C02) emissions -- the idea of converting those very carbons back into what Olshausen calls \"synthetic fuels\" is becoming more financially viable.",
"\"The combustion of synthetic fuel does not increase the amount of C02 in the atmosphere,\" he explains.",
"\"This is because the carbon is being continuously recycled.\"",
"Synthetic fuel can come in the form of everything from diesel to gasoline to wax.",
"But while the process is simple in theory (see factbox), it is unwieldy in practice -- demanding ultra-high temperatures which gobble up electricity.",
"\"The operation is only practical now that we have relatively cheap sources of renewable electricity to power it,\" says Olshausen.",
"Using conventional electricity was never an option, he adds, after all \"what's the point of turning carbon into fuel if the electricity you're using to do it burns up more carbon than you started with?\"",
"But this highlights an uncomfortable fact: Sunfire's synthetic fuel contains only 70% of the energy that goes into making it, as heat is lost during the process.",
"So, why waste hard-won green electricity to produce old-fashioned petrol?",
"Dr. Jeff Hardy is head of the UK's National Energy Research Network (NERN).",
"He says that, while all efforts should be made to reduce our dependence on liquid fuels, it may not be possible for some industries: .",
"\"The thing with fuel is that it offers very high density energy storage ... for areas like long haul aviation, it's hard to see what could replace it.\"",
"According to the CIA World Factbook, global oil consumption is currently about 30 billion barrels a year.",
"Hardy points out that, even if we reduce our thirst for fossil fuels to just one or two percent of this figure over the next century, we may still need millions of barrels for things like commercial flight that are unable to use electricity for power.",
"Could synthetic fuel really plug that gap?",
"At present, Sunfire is moving out of the lab and is talking to car and aircraft-makers in the hope of increasing fuel production to an industrial scale.",
"They are aiming for production to hit one barrel a day within the next few years.",
"If that doesn't sound like a lot, that's because it's not.",
"\"This is going to be a long process,\" admits Olshausen.",
"\"I'd estimate that it will take between one to two decades before we can replace a single digit percent of current demand (for fuel).\"",
"The problem, he says, is developing materials that can resist extraordinarily high temperatures for long periods of time without degrading.",
"\"But we'll do it,\" insists Olshausen.",
"\"Many innovations in the past century, like the car or the computer, have had to overcome seemingly impossible thermodynamic obstacles.\"",
"Swiss engineer Dominique Kronenberg is certainly hoping that companies like Sunfire will be successful in the long run.",
"He is chief operating officer of Climeworks, a firm that specializes in capturing carbon from the air.",
"\"The question is, what do we do with the carbon once we've got it?\"",
"he asks. \"At present, the main markets are quite niche -- things like carbonated fizzy drinks, computer cooling systems and industrial greenhouses.\"",
"It's no surprise then that Kronenberg and his team have been working with Sunfire to flesh out the logistics of a future partnership.",
"The potential market, he says, is a huge and \"much more profitable than storing the carbon underground, that's for sure.\""
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"German company created process to turn carbon dioxide from air into liquid fuel .",
"Theory has been around since 1970s, but implementation too costly until now .",
"Process requires ultra-high temperatures, industrial production a long way off .",
"Technique could also be used to store electricity captured from wind, solar power ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- World leaders kicked off a historic two-day meeting at the United Nations on Monday by unanimously approving a \"political declaration\" meant to stem a rising tide of noncommunicable diseases, now the world's leading killer.",
"It is only the second time a health issue has been debated at a special meeting of the General Assembly after the group's pledge to take on AIDS a decade ago.",
"\"This is a landmark meeting,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.",
"\"Three out of every five people on Earth die from the diseases that we gather here to address.\"",
"Illnesses that range from diabetes to heart disease to cancer are increasingly reaching developing nations, Ban said, which are often ill-equipped to provide the kinds of medicines and levels of treatment to offset their effects.",
"\"More than a quarter of all people who die from (such diseases) succumb in the prime of their lives,\" he added.",
"\"The vast majority live in developing countries.\"",
"The measure is expected to be adopted in full after a second day of discussion Tuesday.",
"But it will then depend on cooperation from companies that produce food, alcohol and tobacco products to implement broad-sweeping policy shifts to achieve lasting changes that U.N. members say they are hoping for.",
"World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan called the issue a \"slow-motion disaster,\" citing one study that put the cost of noncommunicable diseases to the global economy at $30 trillion by 2030.",
"The effect on individual households, analysts say, is often manifest in reduced physical capacities, long-term treatment and high health care costs.",
"On the national scale, the effect is more clear.",
"Associated costs for heart disease, stroke and diabetes in China alone amounted to $18 billion in 2005, according to a U.N. statement.",
"Russia expended $11 billion that year, while India spent $9 billion and Brazil spent $3 billion.",
"A year later, 36 million people died from noncommunicable diseases worldwide, representing nearly two-thirds of all reported global deaths.",
"Chan said the rise of these diseases is being driven by urbanization and \"unhealthy lifestyles,\" prompted by systemic use of alcohol, tobacco and readily available processed foods.",
"\"For a growing number of people, (those foods) are the quickest ways to fill their stomachs,\" she said.",
"Meanwhile, global obesity levels have doubled since 1980, according to a recent report.",
"\"Obesity is the signal that something is terribly wrong,\" said Chan, who urged a systemic approach among world governments to combat those diseases.",
"Traditionally more widespread in developed nations, obesity -- which, according to reports, is often a product of poor health practices and available food choices -- has increasingly spread to developing nations.",
"Death and illness from noncommunicable diseases are greater threats than transmissible diseases like malaria and HIV in every region except Africa, where they are on the rise, according to a U.N. report.",
"Ban on Monday called for a more comprehensive intervention plan to help reduce the threat, asking for \"tobacco-control measures, including raising taxes and bans on advertising and smoking in public places; raising taxes on alcohol and enforcing bans on alcohol advertising; reducing salt intake,\" as well as replacing trans fats in foods with polyunsaturated fats.",
"He called on member countries to promote public awareness about diet and physical activity, deliver hepatitis B vaccinations and encourage preventive care through counseling.",
"\"It is our collective responsibility to make this meeting a success for all mankind,\" said Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who attended Monday's meeting."
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"U.N. members vow to reduce diabetes, heart disease, cancer .",
"36 million people died from noncommunicable diseases worldwide in 2006 .",
"Such diseases are greater threats than transmissible diseases in nearly every region .",
"3 of every 5 people die from noncommunicable diseases, U.N. head says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- An expanded team of civilian technical experts from a \"quick-reaction force\" is on the ground in Libya, tracking down and destroying \"MANPADs,\" shoulder-fired, heat-seeking missiles that the U.S. fears could be used to bring down a civilian airliner.",
"The United States currently has a State Department officer and 14 technical experts who are embedded with munitions and destruction teams from Libya's National Transitional Council, according to Andrew Shapiro, assistant U.S. secretary of state for political-military affairs.",
"Officials hope to ramp up the search effort \"significantly,\" Shapiro said, with the number of specialists on the ground increasing to 50.",
"The joint teams are sweeping, surveying and securing stockpiles of the weapons that were previously under control of the Moammar Gadhafi regime.",
"The joint teams already have surveyed 20 out of 36 known ammunition storage sites, a State Department official said, and have disabled or destroyed hundreds of MANPADs.",
"The official was not authorized to speak on the record.",
"At each site they have found from several dozen to several hundred storage bunkers.",
"The United States estimates there were as many as 20,000 surface-to-air missiles in Libya when NATO began its operations to aid rebels in ousting Gadhafi.",
"Shapiro declined to say how many weapons might be missing, but U.S. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Africa Command, expressed concern that the missiles could be crossing the border.",
"\"There are some worrying indicators ... that some of these portable air defense systems have left Libya,\" Ham said, adding that he didn't have enough information to know how many have possibly moved, \"but there's enough ... churn out there in the information I see to cause me to be very concerned.\"",
"U.S. officials are working with Libya's neighbors on \"how best to address this threat,\" Shapiro said.",
"The United States is distributing thousands of pamphlets in multiple languages, including Arabic and English, to neighboring countries, including Egypt, Algeria and Morocco, to inform their border guards what the MANPADs look like and to be on watch for any attempts to move them out of Libya.",
"Ham noted that the MANPADs are a threat \"to anything that flies,\" including commercial airliners upon takeoff and landing.",
"The United States also is working through NATO to alert the Libyans to stockpiles NATO was aware of and may have targeted during the conflict.",
"\"When it comes to the conventional weapons destruction challenge, the NTC have not only have talked the talk, they've walked the walk,\" the State Department official said.",
"\"They have really taken leadership on this and we are committed to helping them secure the weapons stockpiles.\"",
"The U.S. experts involved in the operation are mostly retired military personnel who were specialists in munitions handling and ordnance destruction at the Department of Defense, Shapiro said.",
"Many of them work with nongovernmental organizations on de-mining.",
"Shapiro noted the United States paid $3 million to two non-governmental organizations in Libya \"to help secure weapons that they discovered.\"",
"CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"Gen. Ham is \"very concerned\" about proliferation across Libyan borders .",
"A team of U.S. technical experts is assisting in securing weapons stockpiles .",
"The search effort is focused on shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles .",
"The missiles pose a threat \"to anything that flies,\" Ham says ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Philippines President Gloria Arroyo was stopped from boarding a plane at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport Tuesday, hours after the country's Supreme Court overruled government-imposed restrictions on her travels.",
"The Philippines government fears that Arroyo, who is facing allegations of corruption and electoral fraud, will flee if allowed to leave the country.",
"But the Supreme Court ruled 8-5 in favor of a temporary restraining order on the travel ban, declaring it was unconstitutional as Arroyo has yet to be formally charged with a crime.",
"A Supreme Court spokesman, Midas Marquez, told reporters the court's ruling was \"consistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence.\"",
"Arroyo was reportedly boarding the flight to seek medical treatment abroad for her bone disease diagnosed earlier this year, following three unsuccessful spinal operations in the Philippines.",
"She arrived at the airport in an ambulance and was transported to the departure gate in a wheelchair while wearing a neck brace.",
"Arroyo's lawyer, Raul Lambino, told CNN that the former first couple was \"subjected to indignity and embarrassment at the airport\", calling the government's defiance of the Supreme Court order \"abhorrent and in violation of the rights of the individual guaranteed by the (Philippine's) constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\"",
"But presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda described the situation as \"all high drama,\" according to media reports.",
"\"They (the Arroyos) want the public to sympathize with them,\" he added.",
"He said that while the Arroyo couple would be treated with dignity, the government would be \"firm in our decision not to allow them to leave the country.\"",
"Arroyo's husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo, is also accused of corruption.",
"The Supreme Court, which is mostly staffed by judges hired under Arroyo, defied current President Benigno Aquino's stated mandate of investigating allegations of corruption during Arroyo's 2001-2010 presidential term.",
"Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the government intends to appeal the court's decision.",
"Lambino told CNN that even though the government plans to file a motion for reconsideration, its defiance of the Supreme Court order yesterday was nevertheless \"illegal.\""
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"(CNN) -- The news of Vaclav Havel's death Sunday morning caught me by surprise, but it was hardly surprising.",
"When I last talked to the Czech playwright, politician and statesman was in March, at a party to celebrate the Prague premiere of a movie he'd directed of his final play, \"Leaving.\"",
"He was already very frail.",
"Ever since 1996, when he lost half a lung to cancer after a lifetime of heavy smoking, he had seemed to be living on borrowed time.",
"He'd been in the hospital several times since then, and had one or two near-death experiences, but he always managed to bounce back, and I wasn't alone in thinking he might be practically invincible.",
"In March, I was on my way to Egypt to take a closer look at the Arab Awakening, and I wanted Havel's permission to try to find someone in Cairo to translate his most influential essay -- 1978's \"The Power of the Powerless,\" about non-violent opposition to tyranny -- into Arabic.",
"That essay had inspired the creation of the anti-Communist Solidarity trade union in Poland, and continues to give strength to dissidents in Cuba, China, and Burma who are longing for peaceful change.",
"I thought some Arab readers might find it useful as well.",
"Before the premiere, Havel had been in the hospital yet again, but here he was now, sitting on a couch, a plaid scarf around his neck, sipping a glass of wine and working his way through what seemed like an endless line of people wanting to wish him well.",
"He seemed small, a shadow of the man who, in his prime, could talk to kings and presidents and rock stars and command a world stage.",
"When my turn came, I sat down beside him, congratulated him on the movie -- his first (and now only) foray into that medium -- and then put the question to him.",
"His voice was so low I had to lean in close to hear him.",
"He gave me his blessing, and then said, \"But do you think the Arabs are ready for democracy?\"",
"His question caught me off guard, but I finally managed a reply: \"I have no idea, but Vasek, were you guys ready for democracy back in 1989?\"",
"He smiled, and said, \"I see your point.\"",
"The most amazing thing about those 1989 revolutions was not just how quickly they unfolded, but how much sheer improvisation went on.",
"Havel led an ad-hoc group called the Civic Forum that, within ten short days, managed to negotiate the Communist party out of power.",
"They had no real idea what they were doing, and there were no guarantees about the outcome.",
"On the other hand, you could argue that Havel's entire life -- and the life of his peers -- had been one long preparation for that moment.",
"Havel, who died peacefully Sunday morning in his country home in north-east Bohemia, leaves behind so many legacies it's hard to know where to begin.",
"In the 1950s, he was an experimental poet; in the 1960s, a master essayist, radical playwright and feisty magazine editor; in the 1970s, an underground publisher, human rights activist, and ultimately a prisoner.",
"And -- perhaps holding it all together -- he was a bon-viveur who loved wine and company and could bring people together in an atmosphere of camaraderie and good cheer.",
"He brought all these qualities into the Prague Castle as president, first of Czechoslovakia and then, after the country broke up in 1993, of the Czech Republic.",
"He also remained, paradoxically, a very shy and gentle man with a will of steel, who was fearless when confronting a regime that tried, relentlessly, to crush his spirit, and who, to the very end of his tenure in office, suffered from stage-fright each time he had to entertain a head of state, or speak in public.",
"Above all, he was an intellectual who believed that words were not enough.",
"A favorite saying of his was, \"Having posited A, I must therefore posit B.\"",
"By that he meant that if you have ideas about how to change the status quo, you have an obligation to muck in and help bring that change about.",
"One of the most important turning points in his long career came back in the mid-1970s when he joined forces with Ivan Jirous, the leading figure in a musical underground that challenged the regime's cultural totalitarianism at its very core.",
"When the Plastic People of the Universe, the rock band Jirous was managing (and for whom I played for a while) were arrested in 1976, Havel and his companions sprang to their defense.",
"I believe it was at this point that Havel became a true \"dissident,\" as the late Christopher Hitchens defined the term: someone who is willing to put his own comfort and safety at serious risk for the sake of his ideas.",
"Havel's defense of the musical underground morphed into the human rights movement called Charter 77, and a related organization, The Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted.",
"The regime shucked its kid gloves, and Havel spent over four years in prison, and suffered many more years of intrusive police surveillance.",
"He was not alone, of course, but his example made it easier for others to follow.",
"His treatment by the regime permanently undermined his health, but his resistance also provided inspiration for a new generation of dissenters that came to fore in 1989.",
"During the Velvet Revolution, on December 7, 1989, in the fabled Magic Lantern Theatre where Havel and the Civic Forum had their headquarters, he was asked by a journalist what political lessons he had learned in his years as a dissident.",
"\"I'd have to think about it,\" Havel replied, \"but there's one lesson I could mention right now.",
"When you try to act in accordance with your conscience, when you try to speak the truth, when you try to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might.",
"There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that your behavior will have a specific outcome.\"",
"I did eventually find an Arabic translator for Havel's essay, and it will be coming out in an anthology of his work to be published in Cairo sometime next year.",
"It won't necessarily lead anywhere, but then again, you never know.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Wilson."
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"A long-time friend of Vaclav Havel's remembers him as fearless against the regime .",
"Havel loved wine and company and could bring people together, Paul Wilson recalls .",
"He believed that if you have ideas for change, you must help bring that change about .",
"He continues to inspire activists in China, Cuba and now the Arab world ."
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"(CNN) -- The death of longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is shaking the Arab world.",
"And nations like Egypt, which next month holds its first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February, are watching.",
"Egypt, like Tunisia -- which holds elections this weekend -- needs a great many positive influences to consolidate its nascent democratic government.",
"If Libya's National Transitional Council should turn in a militant Islamist direction and become hostile to the European Union or the United States, it could jeopardize democratic progress in Tunis and Cairo alike.",
"Egypt's position is precarious enough as it is.",
"Two weeks ago in Cairo, for example, Coptic Christian protesters clashed with security forces, leaving 25 dead and more than 300 injured.",
"The violence stems from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' refusal to share key decision-making powers with civilians and tests its ability to manage the country's fragile political transition.",
"Today in Egypt, no political faction is strong enough to monopolize power and none is weak enough to be ground out of existence.",
"As a result, the army's failure to build a solid political consensus creates a recipe for ongoing confrontation.",
"As long as Egyptians believe they stand to gain more through violence than peaceful political negotiations, the situation in Cairo will worsen.",
"Three decades ago, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini wasted no time in enacting a brutal purge of the country's secular military elites, whom he feared would endanger his rule.",
"In refusing to establish a new order that Egypt's most powerful political constituencies can all get behind, the Egyptian army may now be leading itself in the same direction.",
"The army's stubbornness in refusing to craft a new constitution before holding elections at the end of November is ill-considered and dangerous.",
"The coming parliament will be charged with choosing 100 experts to draft the new constitution.",
"But Christians and secularists fear that an Islamist-dominated parliament will produce a constitution that discriminates against them.",
"Having had little more than six months of freedom, most Egyptian political parties are still in their infancy, and the older secular parties are not yet ready for elections.",
"Islamist parties are the best prepared, as they have been well funded, are known across the country and have enjoyed most of the coverage in the state-owned media since the fall of Mubarak.",
"Yet secularists -- who constitute 70% or perhaps 80% of Egypt's political parties -- asked for more time to prepare for elections and for the military to facilitate an agreement on a bill of rights that sets down guiding principles for the new constitution.",
"Islamists oppose such a move, as they fear it would create rules the secularists could use to oppress them.",
"As a provisional government, the army must create a new political framework that guarantees majority rule while protecting the rights of religious, ethnic and political minorities.",
"Yet in spite of a worsening domestic situation, the military shows no such desire.",
"After Mubarak's fall, Egyptians hoped the army would be the guarantor of a democratic transition; that it would do this transparently, sharing power with civilian political groups, and presiding over a convention culminating in a modern, democratic constitution that protects every Egyptian individual and political group that rejects violence.",
"In late July, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces sent a worrisome signal when it celebrated National Day, the anniversary of the 1952 coup d'etat in which the military took power.",
"This coup smothered Egypt's nascent democratic process in its cradle and ushered in an era of military rule lasting almost six decades.",
"After the coup, military men in civilian attire rigged every election, abused human rights and monopolized the political system.",
"In years past, National Day was nothing out of the ordinary -- the country had celebrated it every year for almost six decades -- but this year, it signaled the military's intention to backpedal on political reforms and maintain an undemocratic status quo.",
"The 1952 regime has hidden behind many different ideologies and adopted a range of different national and international alliances to suit its needs.",
"It began as a capitalist government, allied with the West, turned to Moscow and became socialist in the 1960s, then adopted a mixture of socialism and capitalism in the late '70s, and allied itself with Washington.",
"Yet in no incarnation was the military-backed regime ever democratic.",
"Until Egypt's rulers reject the order established in the 1952 military coup, the country will never move forward toward genuine democracy.",
"Ongoing protests and rising violence are not a coincidence.",
"They are the fruits of 60 years of failed policies.",
"If Egyptians could be confident in their political futures -- that they would be subject to the rule of law rather than the rule of man -- they would be less frustrated.",
"If they could be sure that the country's new political order would respect their individual rights and liberties, they would no longer be in the streets.",
"If a new constitution ensured that Islamists, Christians, secularists, men and women alike all enjoyed equal rights, then maybe violence and protests would not be the way to be heard.",
"If the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces respected its mandate to establish the rules of the game, and then shared power with political parties, Egyptians would be confident that it sought only to preserve rule of law and public order, not to perpetuate its own rule.",
"Egyptian military elites can take comfort that they will not meet the same end as Gadhafi, nor that of the Iranian military after the fall of the shah.",
"But they should take the latest violence very seriously, as they are in a far more delicate position than they may realize.",
"They cannot continue to manage the country's transition the way that they have.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Khairi Abaza."
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"Khairi Abaza: Gadhafi's death has resonated in Arab Spring countries like Egypt, Tunisia .",
"He says Egypt's transition to democracy has been rough; how Libya proceeds matters .",
"He says Egypt's military rulers aren't managing factions in transition; this isn't encouraging .",
"Abaza: Army must make political framework that ensures majority rule, backs minorities' rights ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has spoken of his relief at finally making public the fact he is gay -- and now wants to become a role model for gay people in sport.",
"Speaking to British news channel ITN, Thomas revealed why it has taken him so long to speak openly about his sexuality.",
"\"Every gay man will tell you that 'coming out' is like a weight lifted from your shoulders and beng able to walk down the street knowing that there is nothing for me to hide has been a liberating experience, \" admitted Thomas -- the most capped player in Wales history with 100 appearances for his country.",
"\"I knew I was gay at 18, but to come out then would have meant I would not have achieved what I did in rugby.",
"I loved rugby so much and it was so important to me that I made the decision to keep my sexuality secret.",
"People may disagree with that, but it was my belief and my decision.",
"\"Since my announcement I have had an amazing response and have not had one negative comment or any abuse.",
"I think it proves there is a place for gay men in every walk of life.",
"\"Gay men are accepted in films, music and politics because people came out and broke the mould and stereotype in those industries.",
"\"What I am trying to do is break the trend in rugby and sport in general and show any aspiring sportsman, regardless of his age, that the mould has been broken.",
"\"It is not an issue if a straight man plays rugby -- and I hope my decision will ensure it is not an issue if a gay man plays rugby.\""
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"Former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has spoken of his relief at making public the fact he is gay .",
"The 35-year-old Thomas now wants to become a role model for gay people in general .",
"Thomas is the most capped player n Wales rugby history with 100 appearances for his country ."
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"(LonelyPlanet.com) -- Despite the daily foot traffic, Lower Manhattan is one of the most under-appreciated parts of New York City.",
"It's not just a playground for suits bound for Wall Street bank jobs or tourists following the old New Amsterdam crooked plan through skyscraper canyons heading to the Statue of Liberty -- or, increasingly over the coming months, crowding to get a glimpse of the new 9/11 Memorial.",
"As someone who has spent most of the last two decades in New York City, I can't begin to count the number of times visiting friends and friends of friends have asked me for \"fun things to do in New York City.\"",
"The hidden sides of Lower Manhattan fit the bill.",
"If you're heading to visit the 9/11 Memorial and are looking for other things to do in the area, try these tips: .",
"LonelyPlanet.com: 40 free attractions in New York City .",
"1. Trinity Church's gravestones .",
"New York's most historic church, dating from 1698, faces Wall Street from Broadway.",
"Visitors often pop in to see the stained glass and perhaps peek into the free museum (which includes a cut-out $10 bill so you can pose as Alexander Hamilton).",
"The Hamilton focus is there because the country's first US Secretary of Treasury -- who was shot in a duel by the former Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804 (no, Dick Cheney wasn't the first VP to shoot someone) -- is buried outside.",
"But that's not the best part of the cemetery.",
"On the bigger plot, on the north side of the church, there are shady spots to sit, and at the far northeastern corner lies James Leeson, who left a coded message atop his tombstone.",
"According to Kevin Walsh's superb book \"Forgotten New York,\" the code was finally cracked nearly a century after his death in 1794.",
"The message: \"Remember death.\"",
"2. National Museum of the American Indian .",
"Manhattan got its name from the Lenape word for either \"place of hills\" or \"place of inebriation\" (the latter is certainly more apt in the past few hundred years), and Broadway itself follows old hunting trails that date centuries before Henry Hudson wandered this way.",
"A great place to learn more about all of the Americas' pre-Columbian inhabitants is this free, relatively quiet museum.",
"Part of the Smithsonian (and open every day), the exhibit of artifacts fills the gorgeous century-old Customs House.",
"Many equate Native Americans with images seen in old westerns -- usually wearing the attire of the Plains Indians, evident in a shirt that may have been worn by Sioux legend Crazy Horse.",
"The \"Infinity of Nations\" exhibit gives a fuller picture.",
"I also enjoyed thumbing through Native American newspapers from around the country and seeing works like a painting by Naiche, a Chiricahua Apache \"prisoner-of-war\" at Fort Sill, Oklahoma a century ago.",
"3. Stone Street dining .",
"I'm always shocked by how many people eat lunch at unmemorable places on Broadway or chains at South Street Seaport.",
"Locals instead bee-line for the city's first paved street, Stone Street, a small traffic-free winding lane filled with covered tables a few blocks east of Broadway (and south of Wall Street), lined with good food and bars.",
"It gets BUSY on weekday lunches (noon to 1:30 p.m.) and as work winds down (after 4 p.m.).",
"Go then, and share an outside table.",
"I like Adrienne's Pizza Bar (54 Stone St.) the best, but it comes in one big size -- don't go solo.",
"LonelyPlanet.com: How to cycle NYC like a pro .",
"4. Rat Alley . OK, most people won't want to walk down Edens Alley, an L-shaped alley near the corner of Gold Street and Fulton Street, en route from the World Trade Center site to South Street Seaport.",
"But it's legendary. In 2001, Robert Sullivan spent many nights here for four seasons, watching a terrifying scene of \"relay teams\" of eight to 10 rats storming into garbage bags that roared like \"a bar brawl in a pup tent.\"",
"Sullivan's book, \"Rats,\" is creepily fascinating, giving more info than you may want to know about New York's most famous \"wildlife.\"",
"You won't see rats during the day.",
"(By the way, Fulton Street is a common path for visitors to take -- and its scene of chains and discount shops is very simply the least interesting walking street in all of Lower Manhattan.)",
"5. African Burial Ground National Monument .",
"One of New York's newest museums -- the fascinating African Burial Ground National Monument site built in a new Federal Building in 2010 -- sees, on a good day, about 250 people.",
"Go. You may be alone, and you might not see New York the same way afterward.",
"During most of the 18th century, as many as 15,000 Africans -- mostly slaves -- were buried in this 6.6-acre corner of the city, and the small museum makes a big impact with the corner of the Federal Hall it occupies.",
"Watch the 20-minute film (\"this is African Americans' Ellis Island,\" one person says in it) and walk past some of the over 400 graves found while building this controversial building in the '90s.",
"This is the population who really built the city, including a giant wooden barrier wall to protect New Amsterdam from the British attack -- the namesake for Wall Street.",
"Around the corner, just east along Duane Street, there's a small plot saved from the building plans with a monument to those buried here -- along with visible mounds of crypts underground.",
"LonelyPlanet.com: John Lennon's New York City .",
"© 2011 Lonely Planet.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Lower Manhattan is one of the most under-appreciated parts of New York City .",
"Stop at the Trinity Church to see the stained glass and free museum .",
"Stone Street offers dining alternatives to unmemorable chain restaurants ."
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"London (CNN) -- Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have increased this year, particularly over Bahrain and Syria, and relations are likely to worsen on the news of the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.",
"But ironically, the rise of more representative governments in key Arab countries poses risks to both Iran and Saudi Arabia.",
"While each country will seek to defend its allies against uprisings (for Saudi Arabia, the Bahraini ruling family; and for Iran, the Syrian regime), neither will be able to control or dominate the changing regional dynamics -- and both have reasons to worry about the risk of unrest at home.",
"The news comes at a time when regional relationships are in flux.",
"The ongoing domestic political changes in a number of key countries -- especially Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria -- will create new foreign alliances and rivalries.",
"There are few certainties. It is not yet clear whether these countries will become democratic in the near future, or which parties will be empowered.",
"New political players have plenty of domestic challenges to absorb their attention and won't necessarily be focused on foreign policy for some time.",
"With these caveats, however, here are four predictions about the new Arab order.",
"1) Dividing the region into two \"camps\" is an oversimplification .",
"In recent years, many analysts and policy makers saw a \"pro-Western\" camp, led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, opposed to a self-styled \"resistance\" camp of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.",
"But new political players will probably want to avoid being forced into these old categories.",
"Emerging political players in Egypt and Tunisia, whether Islamist or secular, generally do not want their countries to look like either Saudi Arabia or Iran.",
"Representative governments would not be as reflexively pro-Western as their predecessors.",
"They are likely to be more pro-Palestinian,and more sympathetic to the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah are both popularly-elected movements, but they will also be wary of Iran.",
"Analysts have also written about the countries of the revolution versus the countries of the counter-revolution, meaning the Gulf states.",
"But the Gulf states have backed the uprising in Libya and have withdrawn their support from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- indicating that they will not necessarily act as a conservative force throughout the region.",
"2) Egyptian-Saudi rivalry will be a defining feature .",
"In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were major regional rivals, with Egypt representing pan-Arab nationalism, socialism and sympathy for the \"non-aligned\" movement, while Saudi Arabia was a more traditional, pro-US monarchy.",
"The two countries backed opposing sides in the Yemeni civil war, while Egyptian political philosophy inspired leftist movements throughout the Gulf.",
"Egypt is witnessing a resurgent nationalism and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that Saudi Arabia is unpopular among Egyptians, particularly given reports that the Saudi king wanted to help former president Hosni Mubarak stay in power, which would probably have required the Egyptian military to fire on civilian protesters.",
"Egypt is also the only Arab country that can rival Saudi Arabia's influence on the pan-Arab media, with the partial exception of Qatar (where al-Jazeera is a single broadcaster rather than a media hub).",
"This renewed rivalry will take time to materialize.",
"In the short term, Egypt's foreign policy is likely to remain constrained by the persistent power of the army.",
"At the same time, Saudi Arabia's foreign policy is constrained by domestic preoccupations, including the political succession, and by the fact that key foreign policy players are ageing.",
"Saudi Arabia is unlikely to have the capacity to act as a regional \"counter-revolution sponsor\" even if it wants to.",
"3) Iraq will rise as a foreign policy player .",
"Since 2003, Iraq has been consumed with its internal problems and has had little capacity to be a foreign policy player.",
"However, this year, Iraqi politicians have taken vocal positions on Bahrain -- opposing the crackdown and expressing their concern about the risk of exacerbating regional sectarian tensions -- and on Syria, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki calling on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to end the one-party rule of the Ba'ath party there.",
"As one of the larger countries in the region, with nearly twice as many citizens as Saudi Arabia, and as a major oil producer, Iraq will expect to be a regional diplomatic heavyweight once again.",
"Importantly, Iraq's current oil production targets are likely to create tensions within OPEC, particularly with Saudi Arabia and with Iran.",
"Iraqi officials have recently said they should revise down their existing ambitious oil production targets, which would see the country producing 12 million barrels a day by 2017 -- more than Saudi Arabia currently produces.",
"But even the revised level of eight million barrels a day recently suggested by the oil minister would mean Iraq produced more oil than Iran -- and almost as much as Saudi Arabia.",
"4) Arab uprisings pose risks to both the Iranian and Saudi models of government .",
"While neither Iran or Saudi Arabia would be enamored of the comparison, neither is a democracy.",
"Both have authoritarian governments that claim religious legitimacy; and in both cases, significant segments of the growing youth population that are dissatisfied with the political and social restrictions that they face.",
"Iran and Saudi have backed different uprisings this year.",
"Iran has expressed support for the uprising in Bahrain, which was repressed with Saudi help, while following severe state violence against protesters in Syria, Saudi Arabia has broken off diplomatic relations with President al-Assad of Syria, Iran's key Arab ally.",
"But both the Iranian and the Saudi governments have mixed feelings about the political transitions in Egypt, Tunisia and Egypt.",
"If these latter countries emerge as successful democracies -- which is still a big if -- they are likely to offer more inspiring models for future Arab development than either Saudi Arabia or Iran can offer.",
"Indeed, it is the lack of existing models in the Arab region that explains why so many Arabs regard the Turkish government with such enthusiasm.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jane Kinninmont."
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"Kinninmont: Dividing region into two 'camps' is too simple .",
"Egyptian-Saudi rivalry will be a 'defining feature' of future .",
"Iran will rise as foreign policy heavyweight in region ."
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"(CNN) -- Two goals in five minutes at the start of extra-time helped defending champions Egypt book their place in the African Nations Cup semifinals with a battling 3-1 victory over Cameroon.",
"The game, though, was marred by a controversial third goal by midfielder Ahmed Hassan which was allowed to stand by referee Jerome Damon despite replays showing the ball had clearly not crossed the line.",
"By that time the Pharaohs' captain, who was winning a record 170th cap for his country, had already scored an own goal to put the Indomitable Lions ahead after 26 minutes.",
"Hassan scored again at the other end to pull his side level with a powerful long-range strike before half-time which eventually forced the game into an additional 30 minutes in Benguela.",
"Substitute Mohamed Gedo then capitalized on an error from Geremi Njitap to put Egypt ahead in extra-time, before Hassan's controversial strike handed them a two-goal cushion.",
"To make matters worse for Paul Le Guen's Cameroon, Aurelien Chedjou was sent off late on as the north Africans set up a tantalising last-four clash with old foes Algeria.",
"Cameroon took the lead following a spell of intense pressure.",
"A succession of Achille Emana corners had the Egyptian defence wobbling -- and the seventh one resulted in Hassan's weak-header on the line dropping into his own net.",
"Cameroon pressed for a second goal but were taken by surprise when Hassan unleashed a fierce 35-yard strike in the 37th minute that deceived goalkeeper Carlos Kameni before finding its way in.",
"Emad Moteab could have won the game for Egypt right at the death after he was picked out at the back post by a sweeping pass from Hassan, but the Al-Ahly forward could only find the side netting as the game entered extra-time.",
"However, Hassan Shehata's side wasted no time in killing off the tie going 3-1 up after 95 minutes -- after being gifted both goals.",
"The first came when Geremi's poor back-pass from the right was intercepted by Gedo, who and tucked away with ease through the legs of Kameni two minutes after the resumption.",
"The second seems certain to land South African referee Damon in the spotlight after Hassan's free-kick from the left was pushed onto the underside of the crossbar by the Espanyol goalkeeper and did not cross the line when it hit the ground.",
"However, it was still allowed to stand much to the dismay of the Cameroon players.",
"It also seemed to knock the stuffing out of Le Guen's men as they failed to create any major openings in the closing 25 minutes.",
"To add insult to injury, Chedjou was shown a straight red for hauling down last-man Gedo midway through the second period of extra-time with Egypt going on to seal a memorable win.",
"Meanwhile, Nigeria became the fourth team to reach the semifinals after defeating Zambia in a dull final quarterfinal showdown in Lubango.",
"Neither side could find the net after 90 minutes and 30 minutes of extra time, but Nigeria progressed 5-4 on penalties and will now face near-neighbors Ghana in the last four on Thursday.",
"Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama scored the decisive penalty for Nigeria after Thomas Nyirenda had missed for Zambia.",
"Enyeama dived to his right to stop Nyirenda's penalty after Sikombe Chivhuta and Christopher Katongo and Emmanuel Mayuka had all scored for Zambia.",
"Obefemi Martins, Victor Nsofor, Peter Odemwingie, and John Obi Mikel all scored for Nigeria."
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"Defending champions Egypt book their place in the African Nations Cup semifinal in Angola .",
"Egypt score two goals in extra time to secure a battling 3-1 victory over Cameroon on Monday .",
"Nigeria become the fourth team tor each the last four stage, setting up a clash with rivals Ghana ."
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"(CNN) -- The last remaining places for European football's showpiece tournament will be decided on Tuesday when eight nations compete in the second leg of the Euro 2012 playoffs.",
"Ten countries have already qualified, along with co-hosts Poland and Ukraine, for the four-yearly tournament taking place in June and July.",
"The most evenly-poised tie is in Lisbon, where 2004 hosts Portugal take on Bosnia-Herzegovina following Friday's 0-0 draw in Zenica.",
"Turkey reached the semifinals in 2008, but face an uphill struggle to appear at the 14th staging of the event after Croatia won 3-0 in the first leg in Istanbul.",
"Montenegro, competing for the first time as an independent nation, will also have to overhaul a deficit at home after losing 2-0 in Prague to the Czech Republic -- who finished runners-up on debut in 1996 after the split with Slovakia.",
"Estonia caused a surprise by reaching the playoffs after taking second place in Group C behind Italy, meaning 2010 World Cup qualifiers Serbia and Slovenia missed out.",
"However, the East Europeans are unlikely to be included in the December 2 group-stage draw after losing 4-0 in Tallinn to the Republic of Ireland on Friday.",
"The Irish have qualified for the finals only once, in 1988.",
"Next year will be the last time the tournament is played by 16 teams ahead of an expansion to 24.",
"World champions Spain will defend their European title, having qualified as group winners along with Germany, Russia, France, the Netherlands, Greece, England and Denmark.",
"Sweden went through as the second-placed team with the best record."
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"The playoffs for Euro 2012 will be completed on Tuesday .",
"The second-leg ties will decide which final four countries will qualify .",
"Next year's championship will be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine .",
"Spain will defend their 2008 title from 16 other competing nations ."
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"Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) -- Florida A&M University President James Ammons will stay in office during a hazing investigation, the school's board decided Monday.",
"The A&M board of trustees rejected a request from Gov.",
"Rick Scott to suspend Ammons while officials probe various issues at the school, including the suspected hazing death of a band member.",
"\"We will stand firm against outside influences which hinder the viability of the university,\" said Solomon Badger, the board's chairman.",
"\"It requires us to rely on facts,\" he said.",
"The board chose not to vote on Ammons' status.",
"Ammons was not present for Monday's meeting, but took part by telephone.",
"On Friday, the medical examiner in Orange County, Florida, ruled that the death of 26-year-old Robert D. Champion was a homicide.",
"The report said Champion was beaten to death during a hazing incident in Orlando on Nov. 19.",
"No arrests have been made and the case remains under investigation, according to the Orange County Sheriff's office and the Orange County State Attorney's Office.",
"Champion's parent talked about the autopsy report to CNN's Suzanne Malveaux on Monday.",
"Robert and Pam described the anguish they felt after finding out exactly what killed their son.",
"\"To see the autopsy and the part where they hit him all over his body,' Champion's father said.",
"\"It's pretty painful to know my son had to go through something like that.\"",
"Champion's mother wants those involved to face criminal charges and be held accountable for their actions.",
"But despite the tragedy of their son's death, the Champions aren't sure hazing will be considered a serious crime until tougher laws with strict penalties are put in place.",
"\"We need laws that's going to make a person think of the actions,\" Champion's father said.",
"The Board also decided to meet weekly for informational reasons during this process.",
"Scott issued a statement saying, \"For the sake of appearances, and to assure the public that these investigations are clearly independent, I believe it would have been in the best interest of Florida A&M University for President Ammons to step aside until all of these investigations are completed.",
"However, we have a process in Florida for the administration of the State University System, and that process has been followed.\"",
"Scott said he will abide by the decision.",
"On Sunday, Scott said he was \"disappointed in the direction the dialogue regarding the hazing-murder of a Florida A&M University student has taken.\"",
"\"This week, I learned of reports of at least one child molestation case that took place on campus,\" Scott said, referring to a case unrelated to the hazing allegations.",
"He added that Ammons told him he was not aware of the alleged incident until months after it occurred.",
"School trustees already have reprimanded Ammons and placed band director Julian White on administrative leave.",
"FAMU's National Alumni Association president said Sunday that Scott could place the school's accreditation in jeopardy by requesting Ammons' suspension.",
"Tommy Mitchell said the president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which oversees accreditation, warned Scott that school governing boards should be free of influence from government bodies.",
"If the board suspends Ammons at Scott's direction, it could have unforeseen consequences for the university, he added.",
"\"Gov. Scott should not be in the position of weakening the accreditation of our alma mater,\" Mitchell said.",
"Ammons met with Scott on Friday.",
"After the meeting, he said the two had a \"great conversation\" and that both \"have the interests of Florida A&M University at heart.\"",
"\"The governor made a recommendation, and as governor, he can make a recommendation,\" the university president said Friday.",
"\"At the end of the day, it is up to the board of trustees.",
"I will be right along with (their) decision.\"",
"Mitchell said the association's thoughts and prayers are with Champion's family.",
"But he stressed that hazing is a national problem, and said deaths have occurred at other schools.",
"Twelve to 13 deaths have occurred this year, he said, in Florida and other states, but did not provide specifics.",
"\"Name another university that suspended a president for hazing -- and they have deaths every year,\" Mitchell said.",
"\"... Hazing has occurred all over the country.",
"Deaths have occurred all over the country.\"",
"He questioned why the situation at Florida A&M is receiving so much attention, adding it may be an \"HBCU (historically black college and university) problem.\"",
"In his statement Sunday, Scott said FAMU was not being singled out.",
"He said he has called on all Florida universities to examine their hazing and harassment policies and requested that university presidents remind their students, faculty and staff \"of how detrimental hazing can be.\"",
"Controversy has swirled around the Tallahassee university since Champion's death, including three arrests tied to the alleged hazing of a freshman band member a few weeks earlier.",
"And Jerry Bailey, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said last week that investigators looking into Champion's death have turned up evidence \"that there were financial irregularities having to do with the band and several other components of the university.\"",
"The suspected financial irregularities are not directly related to the death.",
"Champion's parents told CNN that several students have reached out to them since their son's death, but they have not talked to anyone from FAMU about the investigation or what the is doing to prevent this tragedy from happening again.",
"\"I want to see what kinds of things they're planning on putting into place.",
"Obviously, what they had in place is not working,\" Champion's mother said.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes contributed to this report."
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"Rick Scott says he will abide by the decision .",
"Florida A&M's Board of Trustees chooses not to vote on president's status .",
"The death of drum major Robert D. Champion has been ruled a homicide .",
"Scott says he was told of a child molestation case on campus ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- As thousands of American service members prepare to depart Iraq as part of an agreement to leave by the end of this year, the U.S. State Department has issued a $10 million bounty for a man there it recently designated an international terrorist leader.",
"Ibrahim \"Awwad Ibrahim\" Ali al-Badri, also known by the alias \"Abu Du'a,\" was put on the agency's global terrorist list earlier this week and is the senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, the State Department said.",
"According to a State Department bulletin, Abu Du'a is in charge of overseeing all AQI operations, such as the August attack on Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque, and is based in Iraq.",
"He has also threatened \"violent retaliation\" for the death of Osama bin Laden, who was killed in May after a decade-long manhunt ended with a U.S. raid on the former al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan.",
"Three days after bin Laden's death, Abu Du'a claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others, according to the bulletin.",
"His group has also claimed responsibility for series of August attacks that began in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and left more than 70 people dead.",
"The terrorist designation is part of a U.S. effort to restrict resources available to Abu Du'a, while also freezing his assets in the United States, the State Department said.",
"The United States designated al Qaeda in Iraq as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2004."
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"\"Abu Du'a\" was put on a global terrorist list earlier this week .",
"He is known as the senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, State Department says .",
"Abu Du'a has threatened \"violent retaliation\" for the death of Osama bin Laden, U.S. says ."
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"(EW.com) -- In response to Netflix's recently released list of the \"Top 10 Movie Rentals of All Time,\" BitTorrent has release its own -- albeit utterly illegal -- list of the \"Top 10 Most Pirated Movies\" of all time.",
"The usual suspects were there, with \"Avatar\" (21 million downloads) taking top (dis?",
")honors, and \"The Dark Knight\" tying for second place with \"Transformers\" at 19 million downloads apiece.",
"And, yes, of course there's a \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" installment on there.",
"It's only right. Still, there is surprisingly little overlap between the lists (only \"Inception\" and \"The Departed\").",
"Apparently Netflix users favor Oscar bait while Internet thieves go for tentpole popcorn movies, with the Venn Diagram overlap between those two strangely being Leonardo DiCaprio.",
"So what other movies made the list, and which were the most head scratch-inducing?",
"See the full list after the jump.",
"1. Avatar (2009) 2.",
"The Dark Knight (2008) 3.",
"Transformers (2007) 4.",
"Inception (2010) 5.",
"The Hangover (2009) 6.",
"Star Trek (2008) 7.",
"Kick-Ass (2010) 8.",
"The Departed (2006) 9.",
"The Incredible Hulk (2008) 10.",
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Avatar\" (21 million downloads) taking top (dis?",
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"\"The Dark Knight\" tying for second place with \"Transformers\"\nStill, there is surprisingly little overlap between the lists ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The defense anesthesiology expert in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor was found in contempt of court Wednesday for referring to his private talks with Dr. Conrad Murray during his testimony.",
"Dr. Murray did not testify in his own defense in his involuntary manslaughter trial and the judge refused to allow Dr. Paul White to base any of his testimony on anything other than what Murray told police.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor gave Dr. White 30 days to pay a $250 fine, but he also dropped a second contempt citation for derogatory comments he allegedly made about a rival witness.",
"Wednesday's contempt hearing was part of the aftermath of Dr. Murray's involuntary manslaughter that ended with a guilty verdict last week.",
"Another contempt hearing is set for November 29, the day Murray is set to be sentenced, for one of the defense lawyers who allegedly violated the judge's gag order by speaking to NBC's \"Today Show\" during the trial.",
"Murray defense lawyer Michael Flanagan, who was in court to defend Dr. White Wednesday, said after the hearing that he believed Murray should be eligible for early release if he is given prison time.",
"A California law that took effect last month provides for non-violent state inmates to be assigned to county jails to relieve state prison overcrowding.",
"The Los Angeles County jail has a court-ordered early release program to relieve overcrowding, which allows non-violent offenders to serve much of their sentences at home with electronic monitoring.",
"Flanagan said Murray is not a safety threat to the public and should be included in the early release program.",
"Dr. White told reporters after the hearing that he still believed Jackson gave himself the overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol and a sedative the coroner ruled killed the pop icon.",
"\"I was aware that Michael Jackson had self-administered drugs in the past, propofol specifically, and so what's to say that he wouldn't do it again,\" White said.",
"\"He was desperate. Murray was withholding from him the drug that he desperately desired.\"",
"White, while under cross-examination by Deputy District Attorney David Walgren, referred several times to his private discussions with Dr. Murray about what happened the day Jackson died.",
"Judge Pastor repeatedly warned him not to do so.",
"Finally, the judge cited White for contempt and set Wednesday's hearing to decide if he would be fined.",
"\"There wasn't any intentional deception here or violation of the court order,\" defense lawyer Michael Flanagan told Pastor Wednesday.",
"\"He was explaining to Mr. Walgren 'Hey, I can't answer that.'\"",
"Prosecutor Walgren, who has grown a beard since the televised trial ended, told the judge that this was one of \"multiple instances\" where Dr. White was \"trying to sabotage the trial.\"",
"\"It was intentional and deliberate,\" Walgren said.",
"\"It was an attempt to deny the people a fair trial.\"",
"White told the judge he \"did my best as I was admonished by you to answer question truthfully and as completely as I could.\"",
"\"I apologize profusely if I disrespected you,\" White said.",
"\"I learned a lot from this experience.\"",
"Pastor ruled that White was guilty of violating his order by giving \"a non-responsive answer\" that dealt with \"no-go territory.\"",
"While he could have fined him $1,000, he only imposed a $250 fine.",
"Judge Pastor also dropped the other contempt charge which stemmed from an online report that quoted White allegedly calling prosecution anesthesiology expert Dr. Steven Shafer \"a scumbag.\""
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"Dr. Paul White has 30 days to pay a $250 contempt fine .",
"The prosecutor argues the defense anesthesiology expert tried to 'sabotage' the trial .",
"A contempt charge relating to White calling another witness a \"scumbag\" is dropped ."
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"(CNN) -- Forget the 4G marketing hype.",
"Which U.S. carriers really offer the fastest mobile-data networks?",
"According to a new report from RootMetrics (a company which conducts its own field tests of wireless networks), Verizon Wireless currently offers the nation's fastest 4G -- by far.",
"RootMetrics recently compared 4G networks from the four major U.S. carriers in 27 cities.",
"Across all cities, Verizon performed at 4G speeds in 66% of tests.",
"What qualifies as 4G speed?",
"According to RootMetrics, that's a download speed of at least three megabits per second -- fast enough to download a 30-minute standard-definition TV episode in less than 10 minutes.",
"\"In cities where we could test Verizon's LTE (network), their average download speeds were roughly equivalent with the other carriers' maximum download speeds.",
"In several markets, Verizon's average download speeds actually exceeded the maximum speeds of the other carriers,\" the report said.",
"What about the other carriers? According to the report, \"AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint offered similar performances to one another overall and jockeyed back and forth behind Verizon across the markets.",
"AT&T and T-Mobile were especially close: AT&T offered 4G speed in 40.7% of our tests, while T-Mobile recorded 4G speed in 39.5% of our tests.\"",
"Of course, carriers do not deploy 4G networks evenly across a given metro area.",
"They tend to focus deployment in more densely populated areas, and along major highways and office or shopping districts.",
"Depending on the city and the carrier, they may also deploy more 4G resources in wealthier neighborhoods.",
"So the report noted: \"In those cities where LTE was not available, Verizon performed markedly slower.",
"Where LTE is present, Verizon is easily the fastest; where LTE is not, Verizon is among the slowest carriers for data delivery.\"",
"Most mobile users don't download huge files to their phones, so \"upper 3G\" download speeds (1.5-3 Mbps, according to RootMetrics) will still seem pretty impressive to a typical mobile user.",
"And even \"lower 3G\" speeds (between 500 kilobytes/second and 1.5 Mbps) are adequate for most mobile activities.",
"On this front, AT&T's HSPA+ network is pretty dependable, said RootMetrics: .",
"\"AT&T delivered 3G speeds more consistently than the other carriers: they recorded upper 3G speed in 28% of our tests and lower 3G speed in 20% of our tests.",
"AT&T fell below 3G speeds in only 11% of our tests, the lowest percentage of any of the carriers.\"",
"T-Mobile's performance was mostly similar to AT&T's in terms of 4G, but \"disparities emerge when comparing T-Mobile's non-4G tests to AT&T's.",
"When T-Mobile didn't hit 4G, they ... were more prone to slipping to slower 3G speeds.\"",
"Sprint may offer more consumer-friendly 4G data plans than AT&T or Verizon -- but there's a performance tradeoff.",
"RootMetrics found \"a significant disparity between cities where Sprint had WiMAX available and those where WiMAX was either not present or access to it proved sporadic.",
"For instance, Sprint delivered a market-best average download speed of 4.6 Mbps in WiMAX-enabled Kansas City, while recording a noticeably slow 0.5 Mbps in non-WiMAX Buffalo.\"",
"If you like to post or live-stream audio or video from your phone to the Internet, you probably care about upload speeds -- which means you might want to avoid Sprint, unless it offers a WiMAX network in your city.",
"\"Sprint's average upload speeds were consistently slow.",
"Sprint was the only carrier to never record an average upload speed above 1.0 Mbps in any of the markets we tested,\" said the report.",
"Sprint also markets cell phone service through several discount carriers that focus on no-contract mobile plans, such as Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile -- and some of these brands are starting to market 4G phones and service.",
"Julia Dey, vice president of marketing for RootMetrics, clarified that the company's numbers for Sprint would apply to other carriers that rely on Sprint's networks.",
"If you're unsure, you can ask the discount carriers whether they use Sprint's network in your city -- and whether it's a WiMAX network or not.",
"MetroPCS (which never rolled out much of a 3G network) has been aggressively deploying its own 4G LTE network.",
"The current RootMetrics 4G comparison report does not include MetroPCS, but Dey says RootMetrics is starting to add MetroPCS and other carriers to its field testing regimen.",
"The company plans to start publishing city reports with data from these carriers by the end of this year.",
"In addition to rating carriers' 4G performance across all of the cities, the report rated cities according to how much choice local residents have in 4G carriers.",
"When rating cities for 4G access and quality, RootMetrics took more than speed into account: By their reckoning, a \"4G city\" must also offer a choice of reliable 4G providers.",
"In all, 19 of the 27 cities RootMetrics examined had at least three (and sometimes four) carriers offering download speeds of at least 3 Mbps in more than 40% of their field tests.",
"Denver and Portland, Oregon, topped this list, achieving 4G speeds in over 61% of tests.",
"The remaining eight 4G cities had at least two carriers meeting this benchmark.",
"Philadelphia and Chicago were at the bottom of this category, each reaching 4G speeds in about 42% of field tests.",
"If you're trying to find the best cell phone network where you live, don't just rely on carrier coverage maps or speed claims -- which are often based on theoretical maximum output from cell towers.",
"RootMetrics offers coverage maps based on data gathered via its own field testing team, plus crowdsource data gathered via its iPhone and Android apps.",
"In the last year it has also published mobile performance reports for about three dozen major U.S. metro areas.",
"OpenSignalMaps, another source to check, offers similar crowdsourced data gathered via its Android app.",
"The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Amy Gahran."
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"Verizon performed at 4G speeds in 66% of tests -- better than AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile .",
"4G speed means a download speed of at least three megabits per second .",
"RootMetrics compared 4G networks from the four major U.S. carriers in 27 cities ."
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"Ibb, Yemen (CNN) -- When 18-year-old Amal al-Sadah became the fifth wife of 43-year-old Osama bin Laden in 2000, she was \"a quiet, polite, easygoing and confident teenager\" who came from a big, conservative family in Yemen, a relative told CNN in an exclusive interview.",
"The relative, Ahmed, who knew al-Sadah growing up, said she came from a traditional family in Ibb, Yemen -- established and respectable but certainly with no militant views paralleling the al Qaeda leader's terrorism.",
"The family had no connection to al Qaeda prior to the arranged marriage, Ahmed told CNN during an interview in Ibb on Friday.",
"While some accounts say a matchmaker put the couple together, the relative wasn't sure of that report, adding he heard many stories about how the two were betrothed.",
"\"She was a very good overall person,\" Ahmed told CNN.",
"\"The Sadah family is a big family in Ibb.",
"The family of Amal was like most Yemeni families.",
"They were conservative but also lived a modern life when compared to other families.",
"\"The family is a respected family and is well known.",
"The family had no extremist views, even though they came from a conservative background,\" Ahmed said, referring to al-Sadah's parents and siblings.",
"The Yemeni government is apparently pressuring the family not to speak publicly about their notorious in-law, bin Laden, Ahmed said.",
"\"From what I know, the government would give the Sadah family an extremely difficult time and always warns them from talking to the media,\" Ahmed said.",
"\"The government tells them that the information or comments they give would be misunderstood or misinterpreted and could hurt the family more than the government.\"",
"An al Qaeda figure in Yemen named Sheikh Rashed Mohammed Saeed Ismail said he arranged the marriageand told the Yemen Post in 2008 that he was \"the matchmaker\" and that al-Sadah was one of his students, describing her as \"religious and pious enough.\"",
"Ismail, whose brother spent time as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, accompanied the young bride-to-be to Afghanistan in July 2000, where she and bin Laden were married after he gave her family a $5,000 dowry.",
"The marriage was apparently a political alliance to shore up bin Laden's support in the land of his ancestors.",
"\"I was told after they got married that Osama did not want to cut his ties with his ancestral home, Yemen,\" Ahmed said.",
"Back in Yemen, al-Sadah was barely spoken of again, Ahmed told CNN.",
"\"After her marriage, we heard a little about her, and her direct family knew the dangers of talking about such topics,\" Ahmed said.",
"\"Even if anyone asked them about her, they would avoid talking about the issue.\"",
"At first, Yemeni authorities didn't seem aware that they were giving al-Sadah a passport in 2000 for the purpose of marrying bin Laden in Afghanistan, Ahmed said.",
"\"Only a small number of people knew about the story of the marriage in the start, so it wasn't difficult to travel,\" Ahmed said.",
"\"The Yemeni government gave the family a hard time after she left Yemen.",
"The family is still being watched and have been interrogated dozens of times.",
"Her father also went through a lot.\"",
"The marriage was immediately fruitful, and al-Sadah and bin Laden gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Safiyah, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the weeks after 9/11.",
"According to Pakistani officials this week, Safiyah was inside the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound where bin Laden was killed Monday by U.S. Navy SEALs, and she probably saw her father shot dead.",
"Ahmed asserted that al-Sadah and bin Laden also bore other children, but he couldn't provide details in his brief interview with CNN.",
"In \"The Osama bin Laden I Know\", Peter Bergen spoke with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, who met bin Laden soon after the 9/11 attacks.",
"Mir said bin Laden had told him that he had plans for his youngest daughter, Safiyah.",
"\"I became a father of a girl after September 11,\" he said.",
"\"I named her after Safiyah who killed a Jewish spy at the time of the Prophet.",
"(My daughter) will kill enemies of Islam like Safiyah.\"",
"In the aftermath of bin Laden's death, al-Sadah has told interrogators that for five years, she didn't venture outside the walled compound, according to a Pakistani military spokesman.",
"Al-Sadah, now 29, who was wounded in the raid, said she lived in the compound in Abbottabad with eight of bin Laden's children and five others from another family, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas told CNN this week.",
"All of them have been in Pakistani custody since the pre-dawn U.S. commando raid Monday that killed bin Laden, and they will eventually be returned to their country of origin, Abbas said.",
"With five wives, bin Laden had a total of 20 children, and one of his adult sons was also reported killed in the commando assault.",
"Al-Sadah is the youngest of the five wives.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Amal al-Sadah became his fifth wife, and they had a daughter shortly after 9/11 .",
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"Her family didn't have any ties to al Qaeda prior to the marriage, the relative says ."
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"(CNN) -- The death of Steve Jobs has renewed comparisons to another great innovator who died 80 years ago this month -- Thomas Edison.",
"But there are important differences between the two men.",
"In the 80 years between their deaths, consumers came to dominate the economy, a transformation that was only beginning during the later years of Edison's life.",
"Steve Jobs was a master at understanding how to create transformative consumer technologies.",
"Although Edison was a key innovator in two consumer technologies -- sound recording and motion pictures -- he struggled to understand the consumer markets he helped to create.",
"His most important technological innovation was the electrical system, which made possible the personal computers, music players and smartphones innovated by Jobs.",
"Edison was also more involved in the day-to-day work of invention than Jobs, and his other great innovation was the industrial research and development laboratory .",
"While the differences between Edison and Jobs are important, so, are their similarities.",
"These offer lessons for other innovators.",
"Jobs and Edison succeeded because they were good at envisioning how long-term developments in scientific and technical knowledge could be transformed into new technologies.",
"At the start of his electric light research Edison described his vision for an entire electric light and power system and then used the knowledge of decades of research on incandescent lamps and generators to create the first viable incandescent lamp and the entire electric light and power system that made it commercially viable.",
"Similarly, before developing the Macintosh computer, Jobs envisioned how two decades of work on graphical user interfaces and the computer mouse could transform the way people used computers, and also how the development of touchscreens and miniaturization could be transformed into the smartphone.",
"In developing new technologies, both men focused on the long-term.",
"They understood that innovation does not happen overnight and were willing to commit considerable resources to a process that might result in failure.",
"In fact, both had notable commercial failures.",
"With Jobs it was the NeXT computer, and with Edison it was a method for processing low-grade iron ore.",
"Neither was a technical failure, however, and they became successful elements in subsequent innovations.",
"The software that drove the NeXT computer became an important part of the Macintosh operating system, while Edison's rock-crushing technology was widely licensed.",
"Edison himself used this technology to enter the Portland cement industry, where he became a major producer by innovating a long rotary kiln that became the industry standard.",
"As part of their long-term vision of innovation, both Jobs and Edison understood that a device that worked well experimentally might not be suited to everyday use.",
"They therefore spent time and resources to ensure their technology was commercially viable before putting it on the market.",
"Jobs publicly demonstrated the first IPhone six months before it was ready for the market.",
"After his first public demonstration of a lamp and lighting system, Edison spent a year on further development before he introduced them commercially.",
"And, after commercial introduction, both innovators continued to fund research to improve their products and keep them at the forefront of the market.",
"Nonetheless, both Edison and Jobs were better at introducing transformative technologies than dominating the markets they created.",
"Finally, Edison and Jobs were masters at using the media to promote both their products and themselves in ways that captured the public imagination.",
"Such promotion, however, was based on a solid foundation of innovation that helped to transform people's lives.",
"It is for this reason that President Herbert Hoover asked Americans to dim their lights for a minute to honor Edison's memory.",
"It's also the reason that on news of Jobs' death, fans flocked to Apple stores and held vigils -- lit by iPhones.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Israel."
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"Paul Israel says some have compared Steve Jobs impact to that of Thomas Edison .",
"He says there are differences: Edison not in tune with consumer markets but Jobs was .",
"He says both were good at harnessing scientific knowledge into transformative technologies .",
"Israel: Both had their product missteps but were masters at innovation and media promotion ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A New York man suspected in the death of an elderly woman who was set on fire in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building over the weekend was arraigned Monday on charges of murder and arson.",
"Jerome Isaac, 47, is being held without bail, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, and is scheduled to appear in court again on Friday.",
"He wore a white jumpsuit and did not speak during the arraignment.",
"The left side of his face appeared to be badly burned.",
"Isaac's attorney requested his client receive medical attention and be placed in protective custody because of the \"publicity and the nature of the offense.\"",
"Isaac is accused of attacking 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie.",
"He told police Gillespie owed him $2,000 for work he claims he did for her, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.",
"He turned himself in to police overnight Saturday or early Sunday morning.",
"Neighbors said the woman was returning home to her fifth-floor apartment in Prospect Heights after a grocery store trip Saturday.",
"A preliminary investigation showed Isaac standing outside the elevator on the fifth floor and attacked the woman as she was attempting to exit, authorities said.",
"The incident was caught on surveillance cameras inside and outside the elevator, and police have the videotapes, Browne said.",
"Authorities believe Isaac initially sprayed the woman with a flammable liquid, presumably gasoline, and continued to spray her as he followed her back into the elevator, Browne said.",
"The woman was first sprayed in the face, he said.",
"Then, using \"one of those long lighters that you would use for a grill, he lit a Molotov cocktail and used the burning leg on top of that to ignite her body,\" Browne said.",
"The suspect stepped out of the elevator, threw the Molotov cocktail inside, then returned again to spray more liquid on the woman as she burned, he said.",
"\"This is as bad as it gets,\" Browne told CNN's Don Lemon.",
"Authorities responding to a 911 call of a fire found the woman's body inside the elevator.",
"She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.",
"Isaac lived about 10 minutes away from Gillespie's apartment building, Brown said.",
"After the incident, he apparently returned home and ignited the door to his own apartment, he said.",
"He was concerned he had burned himself in the second incident, although no one else was injured, Browne said.",
"He then hid out on a rooftop for a while and fell asleep, later going into a police station \"reeking of gasoline\" and telling officers he was responsible for a fire.",
"During questioning, Browne said, he implicated himself in Gillespie's death.",
"CNN's Jason Kessler contributed to this report."
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"He is accused of setting a 73-year-old woman on fire .",
"Isaac is scheduled to appear in court again on Friday .",
"His lawyer requests he be placed in protective custody ."
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"(CNN) -- Genetic screening techniques that allow parents to choose their children's gender are now more accurate than ever and are becoming increasingly mainstream, but experts are divided over whether the technology should be used in this way.",
"A technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was originally developed two decades ago to allow embryos to be tested for genetic disease.",
"It requires parents to use in vitro fertilization, where eggs are fertilized outside the womb.",
"With PGD, the embryos are tested for genetic disorders and only those that are free of disease are transferred to the mother's uterus.",
"It means that parents who carry genetic defects can ensure they don't pass on a genetic illness to their children.",
"But PGD also can also be used to allow people undergoing in-vitro fertilization to select the gender of the embryo implanted in the mother's uterus.",
"Click on the flags above to watch people around the world answer the question, \"Would you choose your child's gender?\"",
"Using PGD for gender selection is banned in most countries, but it is legal in the U.S., where the procedure costs around $18,000, including in-vitro fertilization.",
"Los Angeles fertility expert Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg uses PGD for gender selection.",
"He told CNN's Vital Signs program that many of his American clients already have children of one gender and are trying to achieve \"family balancing.\"",
"He added that 70 percent of his patients are from countries where the procedure is banned.",
"Critics question the ethics of gender selection, and some argue that it could lead to a gender imbalance, particularly in societies with a traditional preference for boys.",
"\"If anything, there's a slight preponderance for females, and this is contrary to everything that is publicized, and clearly it varies by country,\" said Steinberg.",
"\"China is strongly in favor of boys, as we would suspect.",
"India, strongly in favor of boys.",
"But when you look at the world in general, it's 50-50\" Dr. Mark Hughes, who pioneered PGD, he has concerns about its use for non-medical purposes.",
"He told CNN, \"It definitely is an expanded reproductive choice.",
"The question is, is it medicine?",
"Is it something that doctors should be involved in?\"",
"But Steinberg argues that it's wrong to limit scientific capabilities.",
"\"I say to critics that the last thing in the world that you want to do is put the handcuffs on science.",
"\"We've been giving women expanded reproductive choices for 50 years.",
"This is another choice.\"",
"Although the technology for gender selection is becoming more widespread, it remains controversial.",
"Some feel that it's \"playing God,\" while others welcome having more choice in family planning.",
"Would you choose your child's gender? Sound Off below."
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"(CNN) -- For video game fans, many of the gadgets and accessories designed to support today's games are as unique and imaginative as the games themselves.",
"From inflatable Wii racing karts to iPad joysticks and plastic assault rifles tailor-made for living room juntas, there's no shortage of weird, wild and occasionally even useful peripherals for handheld and set-top systems alike.",
"Among the hundreds of available gaming gizmos and add-ons are a coffin-shaped guitar instrument case and blinged-out chrome plating for consoles.",
"They're great to look at, but they won't enhance your gameplay much.",
"Here are five recent accessories designed to improve your gaming experience: .",
"G155 ($299.99, http://www.projectgaems.com/) -- A portable game room to go, this carrying case unpacks to reveal a built-in 15.5-inch LED HD screen, stereo speakers and dual 3.5mm headphone jacks that let you annihilate friends or save the universe anywhere you travel.",
"Pop an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 Slim in, hook up the HDMI cable, and assuming you don't mind a little heavy lifting, voila.",
"You can spend family vacations with your head happily buried in \"WWE All Stars\" or \"Killzone 3.\"",
"Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition ($159.99, www.madcatz.com) -- Pricey, but infinitely cheaper than springing for an arcade machine, this PS3 and Xbox 360 joystick controller and eight-button pad delivers authentic coin-operated control and precision.",
"Designed for use with popular fighting games such as \"Marvel vs. Capcom 3,\" it lets you plug in its 13-foot USB connector cable to enjoy customizable button mappings, turbo functionality and that classic quarter-munching feel.",
"Charge Base for 3DS ($29.99, www.nyko.com) -- Given the Nintendo 3DS handheld 3-D gaming system's anemic 3- to 4- hour battery life, this useful combo charging dock and capacity-boosting rechargeable battery comes in especially handy by offering double the juice.",
"It's not the most convenient accessory to carry around.",
"But if you're planning on marathon play sessions, it can keep you happily splattering aliens or downing submarines twice as long as usual.",
"PlayStation Move SharpShooter ($39.99) -- This plastic attachment lets you turn your PlayStation Move motion controller into a full-fledged rifle, theoretically providing greater accuracy and atmosphere in shooter games like the suddenly timely \"SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs.\"",
"Go ahead -- screw up your face and do your best \"Terminator\" impression.",
"There's no denying the temptation to want to place your fingers on its pump-action grip.",
"Harley Davidson: Road Trip with Accessory Bar ($29.99, www.eagl3.com) -- Of all the goofy gewgaws (e.g.",
"plastic sword, shield, fishing rod, machine gun and jet-ski inserts) offered for Wii and PlayStation 3, we're partial to these motorcycle handlebars from InterWorks Unlimited, Inc. Crank up \"Born to Be Wild,\" twist the Wii remote to rev up, and you too can join the ranks of balding middle managers who spend their Sundays hitting the road on their virtual hog -- while reclining in a well-worn La-Z-Boy."
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"Here are 5 suggestions for cool accessories to enhance your gaming experience .",
"The G155 portable game room packs speakers and a built-in 15.5-inch LED HD screen .",
"A combo charging dock and rechargeable battery will extend life of Nintendo's 3DS device ."
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"(CNN) -- Alan Kardec scored a spectacular second-half winner for Brazil against Costa Rica to set up a replay of the 1993 Under-20 World Cup final against Ghana in Egypt.",
"Costa Rica midfielder David Guzman, left, battles for the ball with Brazil captain Giuliano.",
"Four-time champions Brazil edged a 1-0 victory against underdogs Los Ticos in Cairo after the Black Satellites qualified for the final for the third time with a 3-2 victory against suspension-hit Hungary in the first semi.",
"Striker Kardec's 67th-minute goal, his fourth of the tournament, lit up an otherwise uninspiring match as he crashed home a superb volley from a tight angle after substitute Bertucci's left-wing cross bounced to the far post.",
"Costa Rica had lost their opening game of the tournament to Brazil by a morale-sapping 5-0, but bounced back to reach the last four, beating hosts Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in the previous rounds.",
"The Central Americans came closest to scoring in the first half as David Guzman's 25-yard free-kick forced a fine save from Brazil goalkeeper Rafael.",
"However, the South Americans' dominance of possession -- they had an incredible 70 percent of the play -- finally told, with players lining up to take potshots at Costa Rica's goal.",
"But Los Ticos held on bravely, and even sent goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado to the other end of the pitch for three late corners, but the lack of quality in crucial areas was telling.",
"Ghana will be seeking to win the tournament for the first time on Friday, having lost to Brazil in the 1993 final and to Argentina in 2001.",
"The Africans looked lethal in attack against a Hungary side missing three key players following the dramatic 3-2 victory over Italy in the quarterfinals, but suffered from defensive lapses.",
"Dominic Adiyiah netted twice to give Ghana a 2-0 halftime lead before Marco Futacs pulled one back, but Abeiku Quansah crashed a spectacular late goal to make it 3-1 and substitute Adam Balajti set up a tense finish.",
"Striker Adiyiah netted the opener from close range in the ninth minute after Andre Ayew pounced on Adam Presinger's poor back-pass and rounded goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi.",
"He then scored a tournament-leading eighth goal in the 31st minute with a powerful header from Samuel Inkoom's cross.",
"Balazs Megyeri hit the post for Hungary in the second half before fellow substitute Marko Futacs reduced the deficit in the 73rd minute after a pass into the penalty area from Andras Simon.",
"Roland Varga and Janos Szabo both squandered golden chances to level, the latter from a simple header, and Ghana made the most of their escapes when Quansah crashed in a shot off the underside of the crossbar in the 81st minute.",
"David Addy's lapse allowed Balajti to comfortably sidefoot home just three minutes later, but it was Ghana who looked most likely to score again as Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu smashed a fierce long-range shot against the bar in time added on."
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"Four-time champions face Ghana in a repeat of the tournament's 1993 final .",
"Ghana qualified for the final for the third time with 3-2 win over Hungary in Cairo .",
"The Black Satellites led 2-0 at halftime through top scorer Dominic Adiyiah ."
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"(CNN) -- The world produces enough food to meet the needs of its population, yet nearly one in six people suffers from chronic hunger according to the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security.",
"There are ways to change this statistic.",
"Here are five creative ways to make an impact on hunger in your community and around the globe.",
"Create . The Empty Bowls Project, the brainchild of artists John Hartom and Lisa Blackburn, uses ceramic arts to fight hunger.",
"At each event potters and other artisans donate handcrafted bowls.",
"Guests select one of the bowls and are served a meal of soup and bread.",
"They take home their bowl as a reminder of how many go empty around the world.",
"Money raised is donated to organizations fighting hunger locally, like soup kitchens and food banks, or globally, like Oxfam and Feed the Children.",
"Empty Bowls started as a classroom project, but the movement has spread across the United States and to at least 14 other countries.",
"Events vary between locations because they are independently organized, but all share the Empty Bowls name and mission.",
"To find an Empty Bowls event near your or learn how to host your own, visit the website.",
"Dine . What if fighting world hunger were as easy as eating lunch?",
"That's the goal of the One World Everybody Eats Foundation (OWEE).",
"The foundation began with a single cafe in Salt Lake City where the menu has no prices.",
"Customers who can afford it are asked to pay a little extra for their meals to help those who can't.",
"Those in need can volunteer and earn a meal or enjoy the \"community dish\" free of charge.",
"Dishes are prepared fresh daily and use many local, organic ingredients.",
"\"I think we have to rethink how we feed people in their time of need,\" says OWEE founder Denise Cerreta.",
"\"What sets this apart from other restaurants is that truly anyone can walk through the door and afford to eat here, and it's good, organic, wholesome food.\"",
"Through the foundation, Cerreta now mentors a network of these cafes around the country.",
"For more information about the foundation and a list of current locations visit the website.",
"Tweet . The #AfricaNeedsYou project is harnessing the power of the Twitterverse to help famine victims in East Africa, asking dozens of celebrities who get paid to tweet about products to donate their endorsement money to UNICEF.",
"All twitter users can log on to send a prewritten tweet to one of these celebrities encouraging them to get involved.",
"\"Usually, it's the celebrities who have influence over the crowd; we're trying to shift the balance of power and give the crowd influence over the celebrities,\" says co-founder Paul Calway in a statement announcing the project.",
"To learn more about UNICEF's work in East Africa or to make a personal donation go online.",
"Build . You don't have to work for a nonprofit or NGO to fight hunger with your professional skills.",
"Canstruction is proof.",
"Canstruction hosts design competitions for architects, engineers, contractors and students where teams construct fantastic sculptures out of canned foods.",
"At the end of the competitions, the cans are donated to local food banks.",
"The organization says it raised more than 2 million pounds of food last year at 103 competitions around the world.",
"If you're not a designer or architect, don't worry.",
"You can still participate by attending one of the competitions and voting for your favorite design.",
"Cost of admission varies but is often a can of food.",
"For more information and a list of upcoming Canstruction competitions, go to the organization's website.",
"Learn . Test your knowledge and feed the world by playing Freerice, a free online trivia game benefiting the World Food Programme (WFP).",
"Players pick subjects ranging from literature to chemistry, and for every correct answer ten grains of rice are donated through WFP to end hunger.",
"Sponsor ads on the site fund rice donations.",
"WFP estimates it takes 9,700 grains of rice to feed one person one meal.",
"Players donated over 13 billion grains last year, totaling over 1.3 million meals.",
"Since June, all rice earned through the game supports WFP's school meal programs in Cambodia.",
"Rice is purchased in country, supporting the Cambodian economy.",
"The game is available in English, Spanish, Italian and French.",
"A Chinese version is coming soon."
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"Nearly one in six people suffers from chronic hunger, according to the U.N.\nFighting hunger can be as easy as dining out, playing a game, or sending a tweet .",
"Artists and architects use their skills to fight hunger and raise awareness ."
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"(CNN) -- The Oka boys are a true band of brothers.",
"All seven served in the military, yet they fought on opposing sides.",
"\"We were seven brothers -- seven soldiers,\" says 91-year old Chikara \"Don\" Oka, a World War II veteran now living in a retirement home in Los Angeles.",
"\"Five of us for the United States and two against us because they were stranded in Japan\" when the war came.",
"They're all American citizens born here in the United States.",
"In the 1920s, Oka's parents operated a migrant labor hotel in Castroville, a farm town in central California.",
"But their dreams of riches never materialized, and the entire family returned to Japan.",
"In 1937, three of the older brothers -- Isao, Masao and Don -- returned to the United States in search of a better life.",
"They worked in the wholesale produce business, and Don enrolled at Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles, hoping to be a fine artist.",
"Then on December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the brothers' dreams were put on hold.",
"They received draft notices, and while many of their fellow Nisei -- second-generation Japanese-Americans -- were being booted out of the Army, classified as enemy aliens, the brothers found their niches.",
"\"All of us served -- three of us at first for MIS (the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, as Japanese language specialists), and two younger ones (Teiji and Takeo) for the Japanese navy and army.",
"The youngest ones were stuck in Japan but too young to serve.",
"After the war, Terumasa (Ted) and Hidekazu (Dan) came back as United States citizens, and when the Korean War started, they volunteered also with the MIS.\"",
"\"Don\" Oka's memories of war are still vivid.",
"Clutching a crumbling photo album, he peels back pages filled with fading photographs and hand-drawn cartoons of his Army life.",
"The stories spill out like the loose pages in his album.",
"Perhaps Oka's most vivid memory is also his most poignant.",
"On Christmas Eve, 1944, he remembers running for cover while his younger brother Takeo -- a pilot -- dive-bombed an American camp on Tinian Island in the Marianas.",
"\"I remember the attack\", Oka says, \"because I was on Tinian, and here comes a plane.",
"I look up in the sky, it was at night, and I saw those planes in a searchlight and they were shooting.",
"I could hear the bullets coming down, and we rushed out.\"",
"As Takeo Oka returned to his base in Japan, he was shot down.",
"The wreckage and his body were found on an island near Iwo Jima .",
"\"I knew he must have been serving because he was at the age, but I didn't know until it was all over and I came back and found out he died\" Don Oka says.",
"\"I was just hit so hard that I didn't feel right.\"",
"Oka picks up two photos from his tattered album.",
"In one photo, Takeo is seated, wearing his Japanese Imperial Navy uniform and gripping a samurai sword.",
"The other is a photo of Takeo's grave marker in the family's village, Okayama near Hiroshima.",
"\"What a waste,\" Oka says.",
"\"I wish he [Takeo] were alive.\"",
"By 1945, Japan was losing its grip in the Pacific.",
"Takeo's younger brother, Teiji, was conscripted into the Japanese army.",
"He was on a troop ship sailing with hundreds of recruits toward Okinawa as reinforcements.",
"The ship was attacked and sunk by American planes.",
"Teiji Oka was wounded and died several years later.",
"Isao Oka, the oldest brother, was to ship out with the celebrated 442nd Japanese American Regimental Combat Team to Europe.",
"Two days before, he heard the question, \"Who speaks Japanese?\"",
"He answered simply, \"I do!\"",
"and was also transferred into the MIS.",
"Isao Oka served in the Philippines and became known as the \"voice of American propaganda.\"",
"Using shortwave radio, he broadcast Japanese music and read news and commentaries whose goal was to demoralize Japanese soldiers throughout the Pacific islands and urge the citizens of Japan to surrender.",
"On July 27, 1945, a day after it was released, he broadcast the Potsdam Declaration -- the terms of Japan's World War II surrender.",
"\"I don't know how the reception was, but I was really happy the war was over\" he says.",
"Masao, the second-oldest brother and last of them drafted, saw occupation duty in two of Japan's major cities, Kobe and Osaka.",
"For Don Oka, the third-oldest brother, service wasn't always so metropolitan.",
"On Tinian Island, he said, \"I saw bodies everywhere\" after a nine-day Marine battle there in 1944.",
"Eight thousand Japanese were killed.",
"By comparison, the 2nd and 4th Marine divisions lost 328 men.",
"Hundreds of Japanese troops held out in the jungles for months.",
"Around the camp's perimeter, he saw starving Japanese soldiers scavenging for food.",
"He'd yell, in Japanese: \"War is over around here!",
"Many Japanese have surrendered and are in camps under our care.",
"Please come out and surrender!\"",
"\"Maybe my Japanese was bad ... they didn't come out, \" Oka says.",
"The following summer, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay flew from Tinian airfield to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.",
"As part of his duties on Tinian, Oka was asked to start a school for hundreds of Japanese and Korean children.",
"With the war in the Pacific over, Oka helped Marines in occupied Japan.",
"They scoured the countryside for the wreckage of downed American bombers and their missing servicemen.",
"They never found survivors.",
"Oka was with the first U.S. Marine unit to meet Japanese civilians in the Shimonoseki region on the Japanese island of Kyushu.",
"\"I was a little frightened,\" he says of his initial contact with the Japanese civilians -- worried about perceptions that he, a Japanese-American, was consorting with the enemy.",
"To his relief, he discovered that his shared heritage and translation skills, coupled with a respectful Marine presence, calmed everyone's fears.",
"The war in the Pacific ripped apart nations and families, and it divided loyalties.",
"But Don Oka is pleased with all of his brothers' achievements.",
"\"I'm kind of proud,\" he says of their military service.",
"\"But at the same time, I really hate war from the beginning.\"",
"He adds: \"Those brothers of mine didn't hate me.",
"I didn't hate them. We were brothers. We were just called to do the job, and we did it.\""
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"Three were in the U.S. Army during World War II .",
"Two who were left behind in Japan fought against the United States during the war .",
"Two others stuck in Japan were too young to fight; they served on U.S. side during Korean War ."
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"(CNN) -- Marco Simoncelli's local track is to renamed in his honor following the Italian MotoGP star's death in Malaysia last month.",
"The 24-year-old was born in Cattolica on the Adriatic Riviera, less than five miles from the Misano World Circuit, which will now bear his name.",
"The board of directors of the circuit voted unanimously for the change following the tragic accident at the Sepang International circuit on October 23 which claimed Simoncelli's life.",
"\"We owe it to the memory of Sic (Simoncelli's nickname),\" Lucas Colaiacovo, the circuit's vice president was quoted on its official website.",
"\"We owe it to his family, to the hundreds of thousands of fans who admired his courage and humanity, all of the individuals in the sporting world and media who support this spontaneous and moving proposal.",
"\"We are pleased and proud to associate the Misano circuit with Marco Simoncelli, a champion in sport and in life.\"",
"The circuit added that it would not use Simoncelli's name for any commercial activities.",
"Meanwhile, the MotoGP series has moved to the Spanish port city of Valencia for the first race since Simoncelli's fatal accident.",
"His San Carlo Honda Gresini team are taking part in the final round of the world championship in his honor, but it was newly-crowned champion Casey Stoner on his Repsol Honda who set the fastest lap in first practice Friday.",
"Suzuki's Alvaro Bautista led a wet second session with a time of one minute 47.975 secs, two seconds slower than Stoner's earlier benchmark.",
"It was marked by a series of crashes, one of them involving Simoncelli's former teammate Hiroshi Aoyama, but he escaped unhurt."
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"The Misano World Circuit is to be renamed after Marco Simoncelli .",
"MotoGP rider Simoncelli was killed in a crash in Malaysia earlier this month .",
"Sunday's race in Valencia will be the first since Simoncelli's death ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- For some people, owing $11 million in back taxes to the IRS and facing foreclosure may be no laughing matter, but Chris Tucker is not one of them.",
"In a stand-up performance in Miami recently, the \"Rush Hour\" star, 39, cracked a few jokes about his financial struggles.",
"\"That's the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes,\" Tucker quipped, according to the Miami New Times, referring to the actor whose failure to file returns landed him a three-year prison sentence.",
"Tucker even used his interactions with bill collectors as fodder for his act.",
"\"They calling you acting like you owe them the money personally!\"",
"he said, according to the paper.",
"\"I don't owe you s---! This is between me and the company!\" Tucker is also quoted as making a crack about being so bad with money that he bought two houses next to each other and then had to ask neighbors to borrow a cup of sugar.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com .",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Rush Hour\" star cracked a few jokes about his financial struggles .",
"Tucker even used his interactions with bill collectors as fodder .",
"Tucker is also quoted as making a crack about being so bad with money ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The recent convictions of Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir brings to an end this sad chapter on corruption, however, the full story will continue as names of other players were also mentioned during the trial; they will be investigated and further action may also be taken.",
"Butt, Asif and Amir sold themselves for a relatively modest amount of money and in the process destroyed their careers and brought cricket and Pakistan into disrepute.",
"The fact that three players, possibly more, were involved is worrying; none of them considered that what they were doing was not only wrong but also dishonest and illegal.",
"In Pakistan, where cricket provides a welcome distraction from the internal security threats and the terrible natural disasters the country has faced in recent years, there is a sense of outrage and anger at being let down by people who were role models for hundred of thousands of fans.",
"I believe that the convictions for the players were correct.",
"In addition to the jail sentences and fines they have all been banned for five years from any form of cricket.",
"I do feel sorry for teenager Amir; while I am not convinced that he was coerced or pressurized, he was naive and in all probability did not fully appreciate what he was doing or its consequences due to his background and education.",
"Butt and Asif must never again play for Pakistan; I would treat Amir's case with more sympathy but it will be very difficult for him to get back into international cricket in five years time.",
"I am not happy with the sentence given to agent Mazhar Majeed; it should have been much tougher.",
"For me the important question is how did this happen; what lessons did we learn and what should the game do going forward?",
"It was very clear that the three players did not understand the ethos of the game or what the spirit of cricket means.",
"They also callously ignored the ICC Code of Conduct on corruption and matching fixing.",
"The ICC has an excellent program for awareness and prevention of corruption; so where did the message fail to get through?",
"The ICC works in partnership with every cricket board to educate the players on corruption.",
"In this case it is clear that the Pakistan Cricket Board did not do enough.",
"This was a major failing and the PCB should not only accept responsibility for this but undertake to ensure that it does not happen again.",
"The team management had concerns about the players' agent but failed to do anything about it.",
"There had been rumors about the team's performance in Australia before the tour to England, yet no measures were taken to tighten the controls around the players and stop outside influences from having access to them.",
"When the News of the World broke the story, the PCB went into denial implying this was a conspiracy against the Pakistan team; this forced the ICC to take action against the players something the PCB should itself have done.",
"After the match fixing scandals in the late 1990s the PCB worked very hard to eradicate corruption from the game.",
"Certainly, until 2006 when my term as President of the ICC came to an end, I was confident that the PCB and specifically its chairmen during my time, made great efforts to prevent and monitor corrupt practices in Pakistan cricket.",
"But things have gone dreadfully wrong in the past three to four years and Pakistan cricket has paid the price of a weak governance structure.",
"The chairman is appointed by the president of the country without a consultation process with any of the key stakeholders in the game.",
"The PCB chairman is not accountable to anyone; some years ago the PCB chairman also assumed the position of chief executive and downgraded the role of the CEO to chief operating officer; this destroyed whatever little checks and balances existed within the PCB.",
"Without a sound governance structure and professional management, corruption will remain a huge risk for Pakistan cricket.",
"I do not believe that corruption is endemic in cricket; almost all of the Test playing countries have a robust anti-corruption regime.",
"During my time with the ICC I met with Paul Condon, the then chairman of the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit, for one to one briefings on corruption.",
"He was confident that match fixing was not taking place but was not so confident about 'spot fixing' where one or more players could be corrupted; this was difficult if not impossible to monitor.",
"These incidents can be avoided by the national cricket boards having a robust education program for the players; appointing mentors from within the team to help and guide new players and having an effective anti-corruption units to monitor domestic as well as international cricket.",
"Most of the boards already do this; unfortunately the PCB's anti-corruption program was not effective.",
"The education program for the players should start when they first start playing domestic first class cricket.",
"For its part, the ICC must engage with the governments of countries such as India, UAE and Pakistan where a very large unregulated betting industry exits.",
"The epicenter of cricket betting is India; hundreds of millions of dollars are bet on each match, particularly when India is playing.",
"The ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit is not able to access the betting odds being offered or monitor suspicious bets being placed.",
"Unless betting is regulated in these countries it will remain very difficult to stop players being approached.",
"I would also like to see the ICC have the powers to carry out an annual review of the anti-corruption processes of every Test playing country; testing the players and relevant officials through annual on-line questionnaires to assess how well they understand the ICC Code of Conduct on corruption.",
"Where players get low scores the ICC should have the authority to require the player's board to take remedial action and re-training of the board's officials in-charge of educating the players.",
"In case of extreme failure on the part of a board to demonstrate that it has a robust anti-corruption program, the country should be suspended from international cricket until the ICC Board is satisfied that the particular country has put a robust anti-corruption regime in place.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ehsan Mani."
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"The convictions of three Pakistani cricketers is not the end of the story .",
"Other players names were mentioned in the trial and they will also be investigated .",
"The Pakistan Cricket Board should accept full responsibility for what has happened ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A Syrian-born naturalized American was ordered held in custody Wednesday after he was charged for allegedly spying on Syrian protesters in the United States.",
"Judge Theresa Buchanan at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered Mohamad Anas Heitham Soueid, 47, held until Friday, when there will be a detention hearing.",
"Prosecutor Dennis Fitzpatrick told the judge that Soueid was a flight risk.",
"Soueid, of Leesburg, Virginia, was charged October 5 with conspiring to collect video and audio recordings and other information about people \"in the United States and Syria who were protesting the government of Syria and to provide these materials to Syrian intelligence agencies in order to silence, intimidate and potentially harm the protestors,\" the Justice Department said Wednesday.",
"The Syrian Embassy in Washington responded Wednesday by denying the allegations, saying Soueid never worked for the Syrian government to spy on protesters.",
"Soueid was arrested Tuesday after a federal grand jury charged him in a six-count indictment.",
"He is charged with conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Syrian government in the United States without notifying the attorney general as required by law; two counts of providing false statements on a firearms purchase form; and two counts of providing false statements to federal law enforcement, the Justice Department said.",
"This comes amid Syria's seven-month-long crackdown against protesters.",
"\"Today's indictment alleges that the defendant acted as an unregistered agent of the Syrian government as part of an effort to collect information on people in this country protesting the Syrian government crackdown.",
"I applaud the many agents, analysts and prosecutors who helped bring about today's case,\" said Lisa Monaco, assistant attorney general for national security.",
"The indictment says Soueid has been an agent of the Syrian Mukhabarat, a reference to Syrian intelligence agencies.",
"\"At no time while acting as an agent of the government of Syria in this country did Soueid provide prior notification to the Attorney General as required by law, the indictment alleges,\" the Justice Department said.",
"\"Under the direction and control of Syrian officials, Soueid is accused of recruiting individuals living in the United States to collect information on and make audio and video recordings of protests against the Syrian regime -- including recordings of conversations with individual protesters -- in the United States and Syria.",
"He is also charged with providing the recordings and other information to individuals working for the Mukhabarat.",
"According to the indictment, Soueid and others conspired to use this information to undermine, silence, intimidate and potentially harm those in the United States and Syria who engaged in the protests.\"",
"In late June, the Syrian government paid for Soueid to travel to Syria.",
"He met with intelligence officials and privately spoke with President Bashar al-Assad, the indictment said.",
"\"In addition to the recordings, Soueid is accused of providing the Mukhabarat contact information, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, for protesters in the United States.",
"In a handwritten letter sent to UCC-1 (an unindicted co-conspirator), Soueid allegedly expressed his belief that violence against protesters -- including raiding their homes -- was justified and that any method should be used to deal with the protesters.",
"The indictment also alleges that Soueid provided information regarding U.S. protesters against the Syrian regime to an individual who worked at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, D.C.\" In a statement, the Syrian Embassy challenged the Justice Department to provide evidence of the allegations.",
"It said Soueid is not an agent of any Syrian institution and has never worked for any Syrian official.",
"The allegation that any U.S. citizen is working with Syria to intimidate other U.S. citizens is \"absolutely baseless and totally unacceptable,\" the embassy said.",
"Syria never paid Soueid for travel or any other expense, the embassy said.",
"It also denied there had ever been a private meeting between Soueid and al-Assad, calling it a \"ludicrous\" accusation.",
"It also said the embassy had never recruited anyone to inform on any activities in the United States.",
"\"Contrary to the statement of the Department of Justice, Mr. Soueid has never provided any individual at the Syrian Embassy in the U.S. with any information regarding U.S. protesters or otherwise,\" it said.",
"\"This is a flagrant effort to defame the Embassy of Syria based on sheer lies and fabrications.\"",
"The indictment also said FBI agents interviewed Soueid and he is accused of lying \"when he denied that he had collected information on U.S. persons and transmitted that information to the government of Syria.\"",
"\"In addition, Soueid allegedly made further false statements when he denied to FBI agents that he had directed someone to audio or videotape a conversation, meeting, rally or protest, or that he was aware of any individual taking photographs or videotaping people.",
"He also allegedly made false statements when he denied that he had ever been an agent of the Syrian government or a foreign intelligence officer.\"",
"\"The ability to assemble and protest is a cherished right in the United States, and it's troubling that a U.S. citizen from Leesburg is accused of working with the Syrian government to identify and intimidate those who exercise that right,\" said Neil MacBride, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.",
"\"Spying for another country is a serious threat to our national security, especially when it threatens the ability of U.S. citizens to engage in political speech within our own borders.\"",
"If Soueid is convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison.",
"Soueid is also known as Anas Alswaid, the Justice Department said.",
"Alswaid had been named in a civil suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Syrian citizens or Syrian-Americans who say they have been subjected to abuse or are family members of those who have been abused by the defendants.",
"Along with Alswaid, the defendants include the Syrian Arab Republic, the Ministry of State Security Intelligence, al-Assad's brother Maher, the Syrian ambassador to the U.S., Imad Moustapha, and others.",
"The suit was filed in May.",
"\"Alswaid is an integral part of the criminal conspiracy to torture, maim, and kill Syrians.",
"Through his efforts, the al-Assad regime learns the identities of Syrians based in the United States, who are trying to assist in the efforts to counteract the tactics of the al-Assad regime.",
"He transmits such information to Damascus to initiate criminal conduct against the families of the identified Syrians,\" the suit alleges.",
"CNN's Carol Cratty and Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"A judge orders Soueid held until a Friday detention hearing .",
"The man could face a maximum of 40 years in jail .",
"The charges come amid Syria's tough crackdown on protesters ."
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"(CNN) -- Unlike many of Thailand's flood-ravaged zones in the central plains, Bangkok residents have been given the rare luxury of time -- a window of at least two days to prepare for what officials warn could be the worst flooding the city has seen in decades.",
"Scenes vary dramatically in the city, with life carrying on as usual for many while others scramble to protect their possessions from the expected deluge that will hit as waters from the flooded central plains rush in.",
"Gallery: Bracing for Bangkok floods .",
"Outside homes, businesses and schools in low-lying areas of Bangkok that the government has warned are at risk of being worst hit, people can be seen erecting flood walls out of sandbags to safeguard against the incoming waters.",
"Others are simply moving valuables to higher ground.",
"For some residents, it's too late.",
"Rising water levels on the Chao Phraya River and city canals have left many restaurants, shops and homes flooded, while public piers are covered in makeshift walkways and sandbags to keep ferry passengers dry.",
"\"Our homes have been flooded for two weeks,\" says Khun Lek, 76, who lives in Bangkok's riverside Wat Tewarat community near Sanghee Bridge.",
"\"Every year it's like this.",
"The government comes to check on things and tries to help by building elevated paths for us.",
"But we don't need much help ... we're used to this.",
"Not like the people in Ayutthaya.",
"If the floods move in, all we can do is move out to the road.\"",
"At Bangkok's Boon Chuay Muay Thai gym, fighter Jaroensak Sorwapin says they've been dealing with flood waters for a month.",
"\"We can't fight as the water is bad for the skin on our feet, while jogging is impossible in the neighborhood, so we have to travel to another part of the city.",
"The gym is losing money too as we used to get foreign boxers coming to train, but they've stopped coming.\"",
"At city supermarkets, many Bangkokians have been stocking up on water and food over the last few days as a precaution should flooded streets block access to shops, though the city's governor has told media there's no need to panic.",
"\"Discount stores crowded with people stockpiling dried food and water in the face of unprecedented floods threatening to rage,\" said Twitter user KimEkkanant.",
"The governor's suggestion is difficult for many to follow given the thousands of images Bangkok residents are seeing in the media of their fellow Thais suffering in nearby provinces like the former ancient capital Ayutthaya, where residents have had their livelihoods destroyed by the floods.",
"Yet it is these images of hardship that are prompting some Bangkokians to join forces to help those affected by the floods in other parts of the country, with many using Facebook and Twitter to organize supply drives, fundraising events and spread news on how people can help.",
"\"In two hours time our community raised enough money for 69 boats!",
"Only 31 until we reach our target of 100!\"",
"tweeted Bangkok's NIST International School.",
"As was the case with the 2010 protests and eventual government crackdown, social media is indeed playing a key role in spreading information on the latest Thailand flood news.",
"Many Twitter users are simply choosing to vent their frustration at the uncertainty, wondering if and when their homes will be hit.",
"Others are sharing personal photos of flooded neighborhoods and rising water levels.",
"Overall though, little has changed in the city as it waits for the expected floods to hit.",
"In many parts of Bangkok, where the floods are expected to have a minimal impact, life is continuing as normal as people go about their daily lives.",
"The government has dismissed calls to declare a state of emergency and issue a special holiday decree for Bangkok, so businesses and government offices remain open and public transportation is running.",
"Major events are also going on as planned, including Tuesday afternoon's World Cup qualifier match between Thailand and Saudi Arabia at Bangkok's Ratchamangala Stadium.",
"In terms of preparation, government workers have reportedly been told by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra they have two days to build three major flood barricades before runoff from the north reaches Bangkok.",
"Monsoon rains and unusually high ocean tides are expected to worsen the situation between October 13-17 and October 26-31, impacting the flow of water from the Chao Phraya River into the Gulf of Thailand.",
"Bangkok has set up a 24-hour flood relief operation center at Don Mueang Airport and prepared nearly 200 shelters to handle possible evacuations.",
"© 2011 Cable News Network Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved ."
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"Worst floods in decades could hit Bangkok residents in a matter of days .",
"Many restaurants, shops and homes in the city have already been flooded .",
"Some are using Facebook and Twitter to organize supply drives and fundraising events ."
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"University Park, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Tens of thousands packed Penn State's football stadium Saturday, cheering the Nittany Lions for the first time since graphic child sexual abuse allegations rocked the university and led to the ouster of its president and iconic football coach.",
"The Nittany Lions lost the game -- the first in 46 years without Joe Paterno as head coach -- 17-14 to Nebraska.",
"But the man who replaced Paterno said that the actions of fans and players Saturday sent a message against sexual abuse and helped them personally come to grips after an emotional week.",
"\"It was a day of solidarity for the children, for the victims -- it was a touching moment,\" interim coach Tom Bradley said of the crowd's demeanor and emotional pre-game ceremonies focused on child abuse.",
"\"I felt that today, just maybe, the healing process started to begin.\"",
"A moment of silence was held before the game in honor of the alleged victims.",
"Current and former players from Penn State and Nebraska locked arms amid thunderous applause from more than 100,000 fans -- many of them wearing blue, to focus attention on child abuse -- in attendance.",
"Interim Penn State President Rodney Erickson said Saturday that it was important for the Penn State community, led by the team's players, to \"show unity\" for one another and in opposition to child sex abuse.",
"Doing so, he said, is particularly important in the wake of the flood of emotions, including on-campus rioting, that followed Paterno's firing.",
"\"We ... want to demonstrate not just to the Penn State community, but to the rest of the world, that Penn State is a caring community, that Penn State is moving forward with a sense of purpose, and that hopefully there are elements of good that can come out of this situation,\" Erickson told reporters after the game.",
"Sports Illustrated: Despite defeat, healing process begins .",
"Paterno's son Jay Paterno, a current Penn State assistant coach, told ESPN on Saturday that \"the world ... turned upside down\" exactly one week earlier with the arrest of former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.",
"A 23-page grand jury report 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 addition to Sandusky, Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz were charged for failing to report the abuse to authorities and misleading authorities.",
"Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in top-level college football history, was not criminally charged.",
"Still, he was dismissed Wednesday by Penn State's board of trustees for failing to do more when a then-graduate assistant told him in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky allegedly rape a boy in the showers of a campus athletics facility.",
"Paterno alerted Curley, his immediate boss, but it was years before law enforcement first learned about the allegation.",
"The graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, who was later promoted to a full-time assistant coach, eventually described the alleged incident in graphic detail to a grand jury.",
"McQueary was placed on administrative leave Friday.",
"Scores of people gathered outside Paterno's home early Saturday evening to show their support.",
"The former coach wasn't home during the game -- later pulling up in a minivan -- but his wife, Sue, did come out briefly to thank those who \"propped me up\" after the turbulent week.",
"Jay Paterno said Saturday that he had a simple message for his father before the Nittany Lions took to the field Saturday.",
"\"Dad, I wish you were here (and) we love you,\" the younger Paterno recalled to ESPN, breaking into tears.",
"Many questions remain unanswered in the case, with several investigations launched by the school and the state to probe further possible wrongdoing by team, athletic department and administrative officials.",
"Whatever those investigations find, Erickson has said it is imperative to promote dialogue about sexual abuse and change the \"culture\" at Penn State so that witnesses don't hesitate to come forward.",
"\"Never again should anyone at Penn State -- regardless of their position -- feel scared to do the right thing,\" Erickson said earlier this week following his appointment as interim president after trustees on Wednesday ousted Graham Spanier.",
"Spanier initially voiced support for Curley and Schultz following the release of the grand jury report Saturday.",
"CNN's Sarah Hoye contributed to this report."
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"(MentalFloss.com) -- 1.",
"The oldest documented bikinis -- haute, bandeau-style little numbers -- show up in a 1,700 year old Roman mosaic entitled Chamber of the Ten Maidens.",
"A bevy of ancient, bikini-clad babes are depicted playing sports.",
"2. Earlier this year, Brooklyn-based designer Andrew Schneider invented the first solar powered bikini -- the \"iKini\" -- which produces enough electricity to power an iPod during a sunny day at the beach.",
"Just remember to unplug it, the inventor says, before taking a dip.",
"3. The famous white belted bikini worn by Ursula Andress in the 1962 James Bond hit \"Dr. No\" sold for $61,500 at Christie's in London in 2001.",
"Halle Barry modeled a redux of a similar suit in the 2002 Bond flick, \"Die Another Day.\"",
"4. French designer Jacques Heim's first itsy-bitsy bathing suit hit the fashion scene in 1946.",
"Tapping into the worldwide obsession with nuclear physics, he named his tiny invention the \"atom.\"",
"A few months later, another French designer, Louis Reard, one-upped Heim, revealing an even tinier suit, which he dubbed the \"bikini\" after Bikini Atoll, the island in the Pacific where the U.S. had tested the atom bomb.",
"The new swimsuit, it was said, was as small as an atom and just as powerful.",
"5. Reard said a two-piece bathing suit couldn't be called a bikini \"unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.\"",
"Mental Floss: Waitresses, bridesmaids, compulsory plastic surgery .",
"6. In 2009, Americans spent $4.3 billion -- roughly $400 million more than the GDP of Barbados -- on swimwear alone.",
"7. The 19th-century version of a bikini was made out of either heavy flannel or wool -- fabrics that would not be transparent when wet -- and covered the entire body from neck to toe.",
"The suits were so heavy that women had to hold onto ropes strung from the beach to offshore buoys to keep from sinking.",
"8. The bikini rocketed to fame in 1960 with Brian Hyland's hit single, \"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.\"",
"The famous 30 inches of fabric didn't debut on the cover of Sports Illustrated until 1964.",
"Mental Floss: 25 brand names mistakenly used as generic terms .",
"9. At the 1964 International Beauty Pageant in Long Beach, California, Miss Austria stormed out of a photoshoot after being told she could not wear her homemade bikini.",
"\"Americans are rude,\" she said.",
"\"I'm tanned all over, so I wanted the suntan to show.\"",
"10. In 2009, a group of vegetarian ladies campaigned in international cities wearing bikinis made only of lettuce leaves.",
"The \"Lettuce Ladies\" as they were called, were sponsored by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and hoped to convince people to adopt a meatless diet.",
"Mental Floss: When did women start shaving their armpits?",
"11. In 1993, the Olympic Committee decreed the bikini the official uniform for women's beach volleyball, partly because of the functionality of the suit.",
"Athletes complain that when wearing more conventional uniform -- the one-piece, for instance -- \"sand goes down the top and collects in the bottom,\" Holly McPeak, a three-time Olympic vollyballer told ABC News.",
"With the bikini's built-in sand-release system, Reard, it seems, was ahead of his time.",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(EW.com) -- Disappointing news for fans of \"All My Children,\" which was supposed to earn a second lease on life next year when it was supposed to resurface via The Online Network in January.",
"The company that bought it from ABC may hold off premiering it for at least a few months and focus on getting \"One Life to Live\" back to fans, instead, according to Variety.",
"Prospect Park, a media and production company founded in 2009 by Jeffrey Kwatinetz and former Disney Studios head Rich Frank, bought \"AMC\" and \"OLTL\" last July after ABC canceled them.",
"(\"AMC\" ended in September; \"OLTL\" goes away in January).",
"The hope was to bow new installments of \"AMC\" online starting in January, but that was before Prospect started having a tough time securing stars from the longtime serial (here's looking at you, Susan Lucci!).",
"So far, only Cameron Mathison (Ryan Lavery) and Lindsay Hartley (Dr. Cara Castillo Martin) have agreed to continue with \"AMC\" once it goes online.",
"In contrast, \"OLTL\"'s Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord), along with Ted King (Tomas Delgado), Michael Easton (John McBain) and Kassie DePaiva (Blair Cramer), among others, will stay in the fictitious town of Llanview for Prospect's new venture.",
"Along with the soaps, The Online Network is supposed to feature entertainment and lifestyle shows.",
"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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"It will focus on getting \"One Life to Live\" back to fans .",
"The Online Network is supposed to feature entertainment and lifestyle shows ."
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"(CNN) -- A fledgling force of Syrian military deserters said it struck an important government security complex on the outskirts of the capital overnight, a bold strike reflecting the resolve and confidence of the regime's opposition.",
"The assault came ahead of an Arab League meeting Wednesday to reaffirm a decision to suspend Syria's membership, a move the group made over the weekend after President Bashar al-Assad's government failed to abide by a proposal to end a brutal crackdown on protesters.",
"Also Wednesday, France recalled its ambassador to Syria, the French Foreign Ministry said.",
"The move followed attacks on French missions in Syria.",
"The defector group, called the Free Syrian Army, said it attacked an air intelligence base in Harasta and planted \"powerful explosions inside and around the compound that shook its foundations.\"",
"Andrew Tabler, an expert on Syria at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said air intelligence has been deeply involved in the eight-month-long crackdown by the Syrian government against protesters, a grinding civil conflict that the United Nations says has left more than 3,500 people dead.",
"Tabler said the strike reflects the growing sophistication of the Free Syrian Army, which has brigades across the country and has been in existence since the summer.",
"\"It opens up a new era of the conflict,\" he said, adding that the development represents \"a bad direction\" for the country.",
"\"Until now, most of the protests have been peaceful.\"",
"The Free Syrian Army said it \"carried out special operations in various areas in Damascus in order to spoil the plan that the regime is preparing against our people and our homeland.\"",
"The regime should \"take note\" that the deserter force \"is capable of striking them in any place and at any time we want,\" the group said.",
"Activists said the deserter army used rocket-propelled grenades and the intelligence complex was damaged.",
"Activists also reported damage at the complex in Harasta, an eastern suburb of the capital, Damascus.",
"Free Syrian Army Lt. Abdullah al Odah, speaking to CNN in Istanbul, Turkey, called the late-night operation brief.",
"He said 20 defectors armed with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles participated and that it involved people from inside as well as outside the security branch.",
"He didn't know whether security forces suffered casualties but he said no rebels were hurt.",
"He called air intelligence \"one of the most terrifying secret service departments in Syria\" and said such security entities will be targeted by defectors.",
"\"This branch is responsible for many of the crimes against Syrian people and political prisoners,\" al Odah said.",
"\"We will announce the whole story to the world in the correct time.\"",
"It was one of five actions reported by the opposition force, which has recently emerged as an important factor in the opposition movement as more and more soldiers have left the Syrian army.",
"The opposition force also reported clashes with personnel loyal to al-Assad in several areas.",
"They include Qaboun and Arbeen, Damascus neighborhoods, and Saqba, a suburb.",
"There was also fierce fighting in Douma, a city in the Syrian countryside.",
"\"A clash between the Free Syrian Army and Assad's criminal gangs and his mobsters (the shabiha) in Douma, our Free Syrian military caused the Assad's gangs a lesson that they will never forget and heavy losses at the roundabout in the Douma municipality,\" the army said.",
"The shabiha are pro-government militias.",
"Tabler said the Free Syrian Army consists of soldiers who've left their posts instead of obeying orders to fire on protesters.",
"They've also had active operations in and around Homs, Idlib and other areas recently, he said.",
"Opposition groups like the Free Syrian Army have been calling on the international community to help protect protesters.",
"They have urged the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone, as it did in the Libyan conflict, and a naval blockade.",
"Army leaders have said such policies could allow them to establish a base of operations to launch a campaign to bring down al-Assad's regime.",
"The group surfaced when seven military officers, believed to be original members of the Free Syrian Army, announced their defection in a video posted on YouTube in July.",
"The group's leaders, who had been exiled to Turkey, say they're directing a guerrilla war effort against the al-Assad regime, which acknowledges an increasing number of deadly attacks on its soldiers, including a bombing of a Syrian army tank near Daraa recently.",
"Col. Riad al-Assad, a 30-year veteran of the Syrian air force, claims to lead a force in Syrian cities of some 10,000 mainly low-ranking soldiers, a number impossible to verify.",
"But the opposition fighters are believed to have little firepower -- planting bombs and carrying out hit and run attacks -- and they're a small force in comparison with Syria's military, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands.",
"The group has a Facebook page, which calls on other soldiers to join it.",
"The Arab League, meeting in Rabat, Morocco, said al-Assad didn't stick by his pledge to release detainees, withdraw armed elements from populated areas, and allow unfettered access to the nation by journalists and Arab League monitors.",
"The league has also called for unspecified sanctions against Syria and called on member states to withdraw their ambassadors from Damascus, a decision that will be up to each nation.",
"The Syrian Arab News Agency, a state-run outlet, quoted a government source as saying that \"Syria decided not to participate\" in Rabat, where there was a ministerial meeting of the Arab League council and an Arab-Turkish cooperation meeting.",
"Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told the Arab-Turkish group that the Arab League's move to suspend Syria's membership was \"a responsible and well-timed step that put forth the gravity of the situation.\"",
"He said Syria hadn't fulfilled commitments to the league and the Turks to rein in the instability.",
"A former ally of Syria, Turkey has threatened to cut off power supplies if Syria does not change course.",
"Turkey's Energy Ministry said it has suspended negotiations with Syria over joint oil exploration.",
"\"The Syrian administration should read the message of the Arab League correctly, and by ending the violence it is inflicting on its people open up the way for the inevitable process of democratic transformation.",
"It is not possible for any administration to win a struggle against its own people.",
"It is not possible for an administration based on collective punishment and everyday killing people on the streets to be successful,\" Davutoglu said.",
"\"The Syrian administration must know that public opinion in neither the Arab world nor the world at large can bear these heart-wrenching images forever.",
"Time is working against the Syrian regime.",
"All of the credit and the helping hands that have been extended to the Syrian regime to date have been wasted,\" he added.",
"The final communique Tuesday from the Arab-Turkish forum \"emphasized the necessity of halting the bloodshed and violence against Syrian citizens, and the importance of taking urgent measures to assure the safety of civilians.",
"The ministers stressed the importance of the stability and unity of Syria and the need for the resolution of the crisis without any foreign intervention.\"",
"The Arab ministers also \"expressed their appreciation to Turkey for providing temporary protection on its territories for Syrian citizens who fled to Turkey.\"",
"Mohammed al-Ikhsafi, Morocco's ambassador to Syria, told CNN a demonstration occurred in front of his country's embassy in Damascus on Wednesday.",
"\"There was some improper behavior in front of the embassy.",
"The protesters threw tomatoes and rocks at the embassy and they brought down the Moroccan flag and raised the Syrian flag instead,\" al-Ikhsafi said.",
"\"I asked them to send in a delegation so I can listen to their demands and what they were protesting against.",
"I explained to them Morocco's stance in the Arab League and then they left.",
"The demonstration is over now. No one was physically attacked or injured.\"",
"Morocco's Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks on its embassy, the country's official news agency reported.",
"The United Arab Emirates denounced an attack on its embassy.",
"A Western diplomat in Damascus told CNN in an e-mail that windows were broken there.",
"\"The Syrian government will shoulder the responsibility on maintaining the security of its diplomatic mission and the respect and safety of its staff,\" said foreign affairs undersecretary Juma al-Junaibi.",
"\"It is clear that there was negligence on the part of the Syrian government in providing the necessary measures to ensure the protection of the UAE diplomatic mission in Damascus, and the protection of its staff.\"",
"On Saturday, pro-government protesters attacked Arab and Turkish entities in Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia.",
"The Turks have demanded compensation for damage to their buildings and they have evacuated families of diplomats and some nonessential personnel.",
"On Monday, Syria's state news agency reported that Syria's foreign minister publicly apologized for the embassy attacks.",
"And Jordan's King Abdullah said this week that a person in al-Assad's position would step down, a statement observers interpreted as a call for the Syrian president to do just that.",
"For its part, the Syrian government freed 1,180 detainees Tuesday as part of the Arab League peace plan.",
"But opposition groups said the gesture was too little, too late.",
"The death toll keeps mounting, they said, with at least 81 killed in clashes Monday -- making it one of the deadliest days of the uprising.",
"The number of civilians killed Wednesday was 20 -- 11 in Homs, 7 in Idlib, and 1 in each Daraa and Damascus suburbs -- said the Local Coordination Committee of Syria, a coalition of activists.",
"CNN is not able to independently verify claims of fighting and casualties because the Syrian government has restricted international media access to the country."
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"New York (CNN) -- Thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators deluged New York on Thursday, a show of strength in the movement's original home that was echoed nationwide as part of a \"mass day of action.\"",
"Scores were arrested in New York, and several police officers were reported injured, as protesters fanned out across the city moved toward Foley Square in Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge.",
"By early Thursday evening, many had crossed the bridge -- the same place where more than 700 had been arrested last month -- chanting, \"This is what democracy looks like -- This is what America looks like,\" according to the New York movement's official Twitter feed.",
"This time, they marched in the pedestrian walkway, not blocking the roadway.",
"Nearby, pro-Occupy slogans were projected onto one side of the Verizon Building.",
"Those in New York were not alone.",
"Like-minded activists also took to the streets in all corners of the nation -- from Miami to Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon, to Boston -- marking two months since the activist effort aimed at the nation's wealthiest 1% began in Manhattan.",
"Roundup of protests across the country .",
"\"I think the numbers have increased dramatically today,\" said New York protester Jo Robin.",
"\"Particularly after the raid, our message is being broadcast all over the world.\"",
"The group twice squared off against riot police in Zuccotti Park, where they'd been evicted two days earlier.",
"They'd also engaged in several confrontations with police, leading to scores of arrests.",
"That includes 64 protesters -- wearing T-shirts with the figure \"99%\" prominently featured -- arrested at an early evening sit-in on Centre Street near Foley Square in lower Manhattan, a police spokesman said.",
"(Earlier, police spokesmen and protest organizers had said -- incorrectly -- that 99 people were arrested in this same incident.)",
"In total, police said around 8 p.m. that a total of 245 people had been arrested around the city.",
"During a late afternoon press conference, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that at least seven police officers were hurt Thursday during exchanges with protesters.",
"Five of those officers were injured when a unidentified liquid was thrown on their faces, Kelly said, adding that the officers experienced a burning sensation and required hospitalization.",
"And a 24-year-old police officer was injured when a star-shaped glass object was thrown at him, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters during a visit to Bellevue Hospital Center where the officer was being treated.",
"It is not clear how many demonstrators have been injured during the clashes.",
"Overheard on CNN.com: Some tire of Occupy protesters .",
"CNN and CNN affiliate New York One broadcast images of the exchanges, including video of one man -- whose face appeared to be covered in blood -- sitting near police who wielded shields and batons.",
"Authorities constructed barricades at Zuccotti Park, in front of the New York Stock Exchange and along Fifth Avenue in an apparent attempt to keep demonstrators off the roads and on pedestrian walkways.",
"Residents and workers near the New York Stock Exchange were required to flash identification cards as police cordoned off the area amid concerns that demonstrators would try to disrupt trading.",
"Earlier in the day, protesters lifted metal barricades that ringed Zuccotti Park, a former home-base for the movement, defying authorities and blocking traffic.",
"Bloomberg said the day's protests had \"caused minimal disruptions to our city,\" he asserted that some demonstrators had \"deliberately pursued violence.\"",
"In Lower Manhattan, CNN iReporter Alvaro Perez shot video showing protesters being pulled away by police, including one woman who appeared to be dragged by her jacket and backpack.",
"\"I don't want to speculate on what happened in advance of that,\" police spokesman Paul Browne said of the incident.",
"He said the \"big picture\" of how police have handled demonstrations has so far been mostly positive.",
"\"People were able to get to work\" and \"protesters were able to protest,\" Browne added.",
"Occupy roundup: Movement marks 2 months .",
"Earlier, on CNN's \"American Morning,\" Howard Wolfson, a New York City deputy mayor, vowed, \"We'll make sure, if people want to peacefully protest, they have the right to.\"",
"But, he added, \"if people break the law, we'll have to deal with that.\"",
"\"If they attempt to enter a building they're not allowed in, that's breaking the law.",
"If they want to express their concerns about Wall Street, that's totally fine,\" he said.",
"While the city has come under fire from protesters and other critics for arrests and removing protesters from Zuccotti Park, Wolfson insisted that \"we had to act\" to stop illegal activity, such as drug use, and to eliminate fire hazards.",
"\"This is a place where we honor the First Amendment,\" he added.",
"Still, the ouster from Zuccotti Park did not appear to stifle the New York protest effort.",
"The group tried to sum up its intent on a Twitter post: \"Enough of this economy that exploits and divides us.",
"It's time we put an end to Wall Street's reign of terror and begin building an economy that works for all.\"",
"The Occupy movement, likewise, showed few signs of abating elsewhere in the United States.",
"In cities such as St. Louis, Milwaukee and elsewhere, thousands responded to the \"day of action\" plea.",
"And as in New York, some of those ended up behind bars after refusing to heed law enforcement officers' calls to move.",
"The next highest arrest figure was in Los Angeles, where 25 people were arrested early Thursday and another 25 were arrested later in the day, Officer Andrew Neiman said.",
"Bail was set at $5,000 for those detained, he added.",
"In Portland, police reported 48 people arrested in three separate incidents.",
"That includes 25 taken into custody on the east end of the Steel Bridge, nine inside a Wells Fargo bank and 14 in and around a Chase Bank.",
"In the latter incident on Thursday evening, Sgt.",
"Pete Simpson said that police used pepper spray to get individuals to move off a street and from the path of a commuter rail line.",
"Another 21 were issued citations for blocking Las Vegas Boulevard in that Nevada city, Las Vegas police officer Bill Cassell told CNN, while Atlanta police arrested eight for blocking a roadway.",
"There were also arrests in other places, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston.",
"And in Denver, District Attorney Mitchell Morrissey announced Thursday that three men now face felony charges -- including inciting a riot and assaulting a police officer -- for their alleged actions while clashing with authorities during Occupy Denver protests.",
"CNN's Josh Levs, Mary Snow, Brian Vitagliano, Steve Kastenbaum, Eden Pontz and Rob Frehse contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- It would be hard to claim surprise at the array of sanctions which were finally imposed on the Syrian regime in the last weeks, following months of seemingly endless warnings from friends and foes alike.",
"Yet, judging by the reaction of various officials in Damascus, the regime does seem stunned by this shock to its system, having been living in denial about the evolving situation it created.",
"From the apex of its fortunes only a couple of years ago to the most severe isolation modern Syria has ever witnessed, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad regime has single-handedly managed the feat which no other detractor achieved: bringing the entire country, and of course the regime itself, to a dead-end from which it can no longer extricate itself.",
"While accustomed to U.S. sanctions since 1979, Syria had never been simultaneously cut off from Europe, Turkey and the Arab world, while also facing the most determined popular uprising the Arab world has yet seen.",
"For refusing to stop its mass military campaign of repression throughout the country, which none of the neighbors or friendly nations could continue to ignore while urging for the proverbial promised reforms, the Syrian regime is now faced with a heavy bill it has no way of paying.",
"Taken separately, the various sets of sanctions could have been manageable, even if the hardships would still be passed on to the population under the usual empty slogans of sovereignty and resistance in the face of a global conspiracy.",
"In response to the first set of EU sanctions, in fact, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had told a press gathering that Syria would \"forget that Europe was on the map\" and turn eastward for its business.",
"When the sanctions reached the oil sector, the Syrian regime boasted it would sell its crude to China, India and other \"non-aligned\" countries.",
"However, with the increasing difficulties of dealing with a Central Bank under sanctions, even countries sympathetic to the Syrian regime have been unwilling to go through so much trouble just to acquire Syrian oil, which, to boot, is mostly a low-grade crude needing special refineries.",
"With Europe wiped off the map, the 150,000 barrels per day output which used to be exported across the Mediterranean will be difficult to sell, with very significant financial repercussions for the regime - and that was before the Arab League finally decided to tighten the screws.",
"It is possible that repeated warnings followed by recurring extensions of deadlines convinced the Syrian regime that Arab countries were bluffing, and that the legendary impotence of the Arab League would prevent real pressure from materializing; this could explain al-Assad's bloody intransigence, and his erroneous interpretation that he really still had a carte blanche to kill, literally, the growing popular uprising which was now supplemented by armed resistance from an increasing number of defected soldiers, grouping themselves to form the Free Syrian Army.",
"When the announcement of sanctions finally fell on November 12, even with additional deadlines allowing the regime to accept a set of conditions (including Arab monitors) which could save it from isolation, al-Assad and his advisers seemed unprepared.",
"Instead of astutely accepting the offer to avoid greater seclusion, they decided to retreat into the usual conspiracy rhetoric while trying to buy time with complaints about protocols: this merely allowed the Arab League to ensure near unanimity in its decision to isolate al-Assad.",
"All that remained was for Turkey to close the loop, and to carry out its own promise to punish the Syrian regime if it did not desist in what the UN has since described as crimes against humanity.",
"As of this week, the Syrian regime is completely isolated, politically and financially.",
"Even the reluctance of Lebanon and Iraq to apply full sanctions will be unlikely to make a big difference in Syria's fortunes, especially as international pressure continues to mount.",
"The impact of this isolation cannot be exaggerated.",
"While powerful allies such as Iran and Russia will try, for the time being, to pull their weight as they attempt to save the regime from its own folly, perhaps lending it limited financial support, a solid geographical reality imposes itself, cutting off Syria from most of the rest of the world.",
"There is no doubt that these measures will also hurt those who imposed them, and this is one of the reasons why they were so long in coming.",
"For Turkey, not only has the zero problem with neighbors policy been shattered, but the Arab world opening it had carefully nurtured will be negatively affected if transport trucks must now take a long diversion through Iraq.",
"This will take time, effort and resources which had not been expected.",
"The truth is that for all the propaganda spewed by the Syrian regime, few countries in the region want to see Syria completely isolated, if only for their own selfish reasons.",
"Everyone is worried about potential civil strife and its effect on the region, but there is also an economic aspect: while losing trade with Syria might not make a difference to most neighbors, losing the trade route will.",
"The battered Syrian population will only feel more hardship as it struggles to overcome this unprecedented period in recent history, and the sanctions will affect people, economically, socially and politically.",
"Indeed, even Syrians who do not actively support the revolution will feel the pain of remaining silent while the al-Assad regime entrenches itself with increasing violence, if that were possible.",
"Decades ago, the regime had been able to count on the population's fear and on its acceptance of the broad argument of resistance in the face of imperialist aggression.",
"Today, however, the imposed agony of sanctions coupled with the extreme brutality of the regime will probably push people to make a stand before it's too late.",
"The sooner this happens, the less likely the possibility of civil strife or of intervention in Syria.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rime Allaf ."
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"(CNN) -- Volcanologists in the Philippines are closely monitoring a volcano on Luzon Island close to the capital, Manila, after a sudden spike in seismic activity.",
"Twenty one volcanic earthquakes were recorded at Taal Volcano from Sunday 8 a.m. to Monday 8 a.m. One of the earthquakes was felt by local residents in Brgy Calauit at the southeast side of the island.",
"Scientists at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) say the quakes are an indication that magma is moving towards Taal's surface.",
"The main crater lake has been heating up since January.",
"PHIVOLCS Science Research Specialist Alex Ramos told CNN that scientists have seen \"a slight intensification of steaming in the main crater lake.\"",
"He said emissions of carbon dioxide have risen from 1,875 tons per day in February to 4,670 tons at the end of March.",
"PHIVOLCS has raised its five step alert level to 2 around Taal and is warning people not to go near the crater lake or main Daang Kastila Trail due to the high concentration of toxic gases and a risk of steam explosions.",
"The popular tourist attraction is 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of the Manila.",
"An estimated 7,000 people live on the volcanic island which last erupted in 1977.",
"From CNN's Hannah Belcher in Hong Kong ."
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"(CNN) -- It was just after midday on a cold December Monday in South Korea's capital when news of Kim Jong Il's death filtered through.",
"Though the reclusive North Korean leader had been plagued with health problems in recent years, the announcement was greeted with general astonishment in Seoul, according to a journalist from the country's largest newspaper.",
"\"The initial reaction was shock, quickly followed by speculation about what was going to happen next,\" said Woosuk Ken Choi, assistant editor with The Chosun Daily.",
"For its part, the South Korean military responded by raising its alert level, while the country's media went into overdrive trying to predict how this oblique and erratic state would respond.",
"But Choi said most ordinary Koreans were remaining calm.",
"North Korea: Should we fear change?",
"\"There was no rush to supermarkets to buy up food,\" he said in an interview with CNN.",
"\"The South Korean public seems confident that the country will be able to manage this.",
"Many see the North Koreans as like us, people we need to care for and help.\"",
"Outright conflict is not something many would expect, he added.",
"\"There is a little tradition in Korea that when someone passes away in a family you stop fighting.",
"\"We're on high alert not because we want to do something but because some renegade North Korean unit might cause some trouble.",
"But no one really thinks the North Koreans will launch an attack.",
"\"Nothing happened in 1994 when Kim Il Sung died and it will be the same this time.\"",
"The architect of what became known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948 after the Korean peninsula was divided between U.S. and Soviet occupation forces, Kim Il Sung was an autocratic leader who presided over a policy of Juche, or self-reliance, which did much to foster the Communist country's isolation.",
"When Kim Jong Il, his oldest son, succeeded him, North Korea was crippled economically, having lost one of its main trading partners when the Soviet Union collapsed.",
"Kim largely ignored the massive problems at home and focused on shoring up the regime's position and investing in the military as a bulwark against the wealthy, U.S.-backed south.",
"What military hardware does North Korea have?",
"But with Kim dead, Choi believes many in the south will see this as an opportunity to improve relations with their dysfunctional neighbor, perhaps even paving the way for reunification.",
"\"Most people, whether left or right on the political spectrum, hope this is the case,\" he said.",
"\"However a large chunk of South Koreans do worry about the financial burden of reunification, citing the case of West and East Germany in the early 1990s.",
"\"Others argue the cost of living together will be a lot less than living separately in the long run.",
"I also believe a whole host of issues could be resolved with reunification.\"",
"But Choi said each generation in South Korea has its own viewpoint when it comes to relations with the north.",
"\"Those in their teens and 20s have a real fear of military conflict, as they are the ones who have to complete their compulsory military service,\" he said.",
"\"Many people in their 30s and 40s worry about the financial cost to them of reunification, while those in their 50s and 60s back a united Korea whatever the cost.\"",
"If reunification is a pipe dream for now, Choi says there is a difference of opinion in South Korea about the dynastic succession in the north.",
"\"Many people believe the transfer of power to a third generation is absurd, totally anachronistic and not what the world is about today,\" he said.",
"\"But those who believe in a policy of engagement with North Korea say it doesn't matter whether it is third or fourth generation, they're still our people and we need to talk to them to try and resolve the situation.\"",
"Another view, according to Choi, is \"the Great Successor\" will not last long.",
"\"He's simply too young,\" he said.",
"Kim Jong Un is believed to be in his late 20s.",
"\"There is this notion in Korean society -- north and south -- that if you take the throne too young you won't last long.",
"No matter how good he is, they think his uncles and more experienced family members will rule from behind him and that he could ultimately be sacrificed.\"",
"As pictures of ordinary North Koreans mourning the loss of their Dear Leader continued to filter onto television screens across South Korea Tuesday, Choi felt most people would have been struck by how staged they seemed.",
"\"The pictures don't reflect the reality in North Korea,\" he argued.",
"\"When Kim Il Sung died there were a number of people who really went out and cried because they really did respect him.",
"\"Kim Jong Il's case is different because about two or three million people died of starvation after he came to power.",
"The level of mourning will be about a tenth of what it was in 1994.",
"This is the view of many defectors I have spoken to.\""
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"Journalist: Announcement was greeted with general astonishment in Seoul .",
"Woosuk Ken Choi says most people in the south are calm about the situation .",
"Choi: \"Nothing happened in 1994 when Kim Il Sung died and it will be the same this time\"\nSouth Korean military responds to news of Kim's death by raising its alert level ."
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"(CNN) -- Philippines authorities Tuesday started evacuating about 50,000 people living around the island nation's most active volcano after it oozed fiery lava and belched clouds of ash.",
"A large-scale eruption was forecast as imminent.",
"The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert level up a notch on Monday night to level 3.",
"Scientist Alex Baloloy told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) that under level 3, \"a full-blown eruption is expected to take place within weeks to days.\"",
"He said seismic instruments detected 83 volcanic quakes, a majority of which were tremors associated with rockfalls.",
"People in Albay province, about 466 kilometers (290 miles) south of the capital, Manila, flocked to town centers to catch a glimpse of glowing lava cascading down the slopes of Mayon.",
"The volcanic mountain soars 2,464 meters (8,077 feet) into the sky and has erupted 49 times since the first documented eruption in 1616.",
"Ash fell on the town of Guinabatan, prompting its mayor to predict an unwanted sort of white Christmas, PNA said.",
"Provincial Gov.",
"Joey Salceda ordered mandatory evacuation for residents of 45 towns and cities within a radius of 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) around Mayon, including Legazpi, Ligao, Tabaco, Daraga, Camalig, Guinobatan, Malilipot and Santo Domingo.",
"The Albay Public Safety Emergency and Management Office said 9,946 families or 47,285 people were expected to be moved to safer ground within 72 hours, PNA reported.",
"Salceda, who canceled a planned trip to Denmark for the global climate conference in Copenhagen, said he will meet with the provincial disaster coordinating council Tuesday to discuss emergency measures in case of an eruption, according to PNA.",
"The Philippines is situated in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.",
"Mayon's most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and devastated several towns.",
"Its last major eruption was in 1993.",
"Since then, it has emitted ash and spewed lava but remained restless."
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"Scientists: Full-blown eruption is expected to take place within weeks to days .",
"Authorities order mandatory evacuation for residents within a radius of 6 km .",
"Mayon's most violent eruption in 1814 killed more than 1,200 people .",
"Last major eruption was in 1993, since when it has emitted ash, spewed lava ."
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"(CNN) -- Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed when their plane crashed on the way to a recruiting trip in Arkansas, university officials said Friday.",
"Former Oklahoma state Sen. Olin Branstetter and his wife, Paula, also died in the crash Thursday, university spokesman Gary Schutt said.",
"\"It's a terribly sad day,\" he said.",
"The crash occurred in Perry County, Arkansas, leaving no survivors.",
"The plane, a Piper Cherokee PA-28, according to FAA records, crashed under \"unknown circumstances\" in a wooded area about four miles south of Perryville, Arkansas, about 4:30 p.m. CT on Thursday, agency spokesman Lynn Lunsford said Friday.",
"No additional information about the crash was immediately available.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board has sent investigators to the crash site, the agency said Friday.",
"Budke and Serna were on a recruiting trip to Little Rock, Arkansas, the university said.",
"\"For any coaching community to lose bright stars like Kurt and Miranda is tragic,\" NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement.",
"\"This is a profound loss for the Oklahoma State women's basketball family, the entire university and future women's basketball players as well.\"",
"University officials credited Budke for turning the school's women's basketball program around, culminating with a top-10 national ranking and an appearance in the second round of the NCAA tournament last season.",
"He was in his seventh season with the school.",
"\"Kurt was an exemplary leader and a man of character who had a profound impact on his student-athletes,\" Oklahoma State President Burns Hargis said.",
"\"He was an outstanding coach and a wonderful person.",
"We send our deepest sympathies to his wife, Shelley, and their children, Sara, Alex and Brett.\"",
"Serna was also in her seventh season with OSU after coming to the school to work for Budke from Louisana Tech, where they both previously worked.",
"She served as the program's recruiting coordinator, according to the school.",
"Hargis called her \"an up-and-coming coach and an outstanding role model for our young ladies.\"",
"\"Its our worst nightmare,\" he added.",
"The school called off games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, and grief counselors were on hand for athletes and staff, the university said.",
"Jim Littell, the team's associate head coach, will take over as interim head coach, according to Mike Holder, OSU vice president for athletics.",
"The crash is the second fatal plane crash to strike the OSU basketball program in nearly 11 years.",
"Ten people, eight of them associated with the university's men's basketball program, died when their plane crashed in a Colorado snowstorm on January 28, 2001."
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"Plane crash kills two OSU women's basketball coaches, ex-state senator and his wife .",
"Crash a \"profound loss\" for Oklahoma State University, NCAA president says .",
"It's the second fatal plane crash for OSU basketball since 2001 .",
"The school calls off games for Saturday and Sunday ."
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"Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has removed 30 of 55 generals in the national police, the largest such purge in the institution's history.",
"The forced retirements, which were announced in the official gazette over the weekend, are widely seen as an attempt by Humala to combat corruption.",
"Among those forced out was the head of the national police.",
"The new head of the police, Raul Salazar, mentioned the need to fight corruption no less than six times during a speech at his induction ceremony.",
"\"We have to uncover any act of corruption that stains the name of the police.",
"From the most minimal to the most important, it doesn't matter, same if one sol or more are stolen,\" he said, referring to Peru's currency.",
"In a separate interview on the state broadcaster Tuesday, Salazar said that fighting drug trafficking would remain a priority.",
"The move means that until new generals are named, many regions in Peru, including many in the interior of the country, will be led by colonels instead of generals, something that opposition politicians have criticized.",
"Critics also voiced concerns that the move was a ploy by Humala, as a new president, to place commanders loyal to him in the top posts.",
"His interior minister, Oscar Valdes, said Tuesday that the retirements had to do with a reorganization of a bloated institution, the state-run Andina news agency reported.",
"\"This is a studied measure, it is a re-engineering of the police,\" he said.",
"\"It's not possible that the police has so many generals.\"",
"Before the purge, the police had 55 generals, 900 colonels, and more than 2,000 commanders, he said.",
"Journalist Maria Elena Belaunde contributed to this report."
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"The new chief says corruption will not be tolerated .",
"The move was about reorganization, the interior minister says ."
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"El Paso, Texas (CNN) -- A brigade of U.S. troops originally scheduled to be among the very last to leave Iraq is being pulled out of the country months ahead of its planned departure, military officials said Saturday.",
"The announcement follows news this month that a deal to keep American troops in Iraq past a December 31, 2011, deadline to withdraw was on shaky ground after Iraqi leadership said any remaining U.S. forces would not be granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution.",
"Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and other top brass have repeatedly said any deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the withdrawal deadline must require a guarantee of legal protection for American soldiers.",
"The Fourth Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, based at Fort Bliss, deployed to Iraq in August to replace two withdrawing brigades.",
"The troops were sent with the understanding they would be among the last to leave the country and were told to expect up to a 12-month deployment, though it wasn't clear how long they would stay in Iraq.",
"But brigade officials informed hundreds of military families gathered Saturday at its headquarters that their troops would begin returning home within weeks.",
"When family members inquired why soldiers were returning early, they were told by a military official: \"Basically, what's happened ... is that the United States and Iraq have not come to an agreement,\" according to a CNN reporter who attended the meeting.",
"Additionally, the brigade official told families: \"We were over there for a couple of missions.",
"Those missions are finished.\"",
"A U.S. military official in Iraq, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to CNN Saturday the early withdrawal of this brigade, citing a number of possible reasons, including the lack of a deal on the legal immunity issue and the fact that the State Department is \"standing up\" its operations faster than expected.",
"When the United States and Iraq agreed in 2008 to a withdrawal deadline, the two countries also signed off on a Strategic Framework Agreement that calls for a long-term bilateral relationship.",
"As part of that agreement, the State Department is deploying thousands of workers to Iraq to take over where military officials leave off in their dealings with the Iraqi government.",
"U.S. officials in Washington on Saturday declined to comment on reports that troops were being withdrawn ahead of schedule or because of a breakdown in negotiations, except to say the United States is committed to withdrawing all troops by the December 31 deadline.",
"\"At the same time we're building a comprehensive partnership with Iraq under the Strategic Framework Agreement including a robust security relationship, and discussions with the Iraqis about the nature of that relationship are ongoing,\" said Tommy Vietor of the National Security Council.",
"Pentagon spokesman George Little also dismissed reports of a breakdown in talks with Iraqis, saying \"Suggestions that a final decision has been reached about our training relationship with the Iraqi government are wrong.",
"Those discussions are ongoing.\"",
"Officials at Fort Bliss said the brigade's return is in line with the U.S. planned departure.",
"\"In the process, we are bringing troops back home to meet the December 31st agreed-upon deadline,\" said Lt. Col. Dennis Swanson, a public affairs officer for the First Armored Division.",
"When asked about the legal immunity issue, Major Gen. Dana J. H. Pittard, commander at Fort Bliss, said, \"We're going to do what's right by our soldiers.\"",
"\"We shouldn't see American soldiers in Iraqi courts on trumped-up charges,\" he said.",
"His comments echo recent statements by Panetta and U.S. Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno.",
"Panetta said last week that negotiations over the legal immunity issue are ongoing between Iraq's political leadership, U.S.",
"Ambassador James F. Jeffrey and Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.",
"The meetings include discussions about the rights of American troops and what will be required in order for those troops to assist Iraqi forces in the future, according to Panetta.",
"\"If you're going to play a large role in dealing with another country where it requires, as I said, a large group of troops to be on the ground and to be dealing with that country, I want to make damn sure that you're protected,\" Panetta told sailors last Friday during a visit to Naples, Italy, home of the U.S. 6th Fleet.",
"U.S. officials have been pressuring Iraq's leadership for months for an answer to whether it would request a troop extension, with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen saying over the summer that the U.S. needed a a decision by August.",
"The negotiations have been strained following WikiLeaks' release of a diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children, were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an airstrike as initially reported by the U.S. military.",
"The Pentagon dismissed the cable from U.N. investigator Philip Alston to U.S. officials, saying it had investigated the claims and found there was no merit.",
"Shortly after the WikiLeaks cable gained attention in news reports in September by McClatchy Newspapers, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered an investigation into the deaths outside of Tikrit.",
"U.S. officials have long said they believe Iraq may need help with training, counterterrorism, air defense, command and control and intelligence operations.",
"Any U.S. troops remaining to do those jobs might also need additional security forces.",
"The prospect of U.S. troops staying beyond the end of the year sits uncomfortably with many Iraqis, who have routinely questioned American motives following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.",
"Radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Sadrist political party is closely aligned with al-Maliki, has vowed to escalate armed resistance if the U.S. military does not leave as scheduled, a move that could destabilize the country should his militia repeat the bloody battles it waged against American and Iraqi forces during the height of violence.",
"Odierno said last month that there would be risks in leaving a large force of U.S. troops in Iraq, noting such a force could provoke new claims of U.S. occupation and distract from efforts to develop the Iraqi military's abilities.",
"He would not comment directly on reports that the White House administration had decided to leave between 3,000 and 5,000 troops, should they be requested by Iraq.",
"Odierno, who served as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that training of Iraqi security forces was not complete.",
"\"We need to probably be there to assist them at certain levels for a while,\" he said last month in a question-and-answer session with journalists at the Pentagon.",
"As of last week, 41,000 U.S. military personnel remained in the country, according to Major Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, spokesman for U.S. Forces-Iraq.",
"Buchanan said Wednesday that \"we are on track, and we will meet our requirement to redeploy the last remaining military personnel from 41,000 down to zero by the end of the year.\"",
"A brigade typically consists of between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers.",
"CNN's Dan Lothian and Adam Levine contributed to this report."
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"The brigade was originally scheduled to be among the last to leave Iraq at the end of 2011 .",
"The move comes amid talks on legal immunity for U.S. troops after withdrawal deadline .",
"\"The United States and Iraq have not come to an agreement,\" says one brigade official .",
"A Pentagon spokesman says talks are still ongoing ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- John Hinckley Jr.'s relationships with women and his difficulties becoming part of a community away from a government mental hospital were spotlighted Thursday during a hearing to discuss whether the man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan will eventually be allowed to live as an outpatient.",
"An official at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where Hinckley, 56, has lived for decades after being found not guilty by reason of insanity, said Hinckley had been engaged to a former patient he met at the hospital.",
"She was identified only as \"Miss CB,\" but the engagement recently ended.",
"Dr. Tyler Jones, the facility's director of psychiatry, said Hinckley had given the woman \"multiple rings.\"",
"Jones said Hinckley had told him he'd explained to CB he planned to spend more time visiting his mother's home in Virginia and would be spending less time with her.",
"As a result of that conversation, \"she's withdrawn the physical affection that they shared,\" Jones said.",
"Federal prosecutor Colleen Kennedy also questioned Jones about Hinckley's past relationship with a patient identified as \"Miss X.\"",
"Kennedy said Hinckley had difficulty communicating with the woman because she was so psychotic, but he pursued the relationship because she was physically affectionate.",
"Jones described Hinckley's actions as \"poor judgment\" motivated by his \"desire for affection.\"",
"According to Jones, another doctor told Hinckley the relationship was ill-advised and eventually Hinckley ended it.",
"Hinckley has been spending 10 days a month visiting his mother in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he works part time as a volunteer in the library at Eastern State Hospital, a mental health facility.",
"Doctors have been encouraging him to make friends in Williamsburg and build a new life.",
"Jones said Hinckley has had some difficulties.",
"In one instance, he followed a suggestion to go to a singles group, but that did not turn out well.",
"\"He was asked to leave,\" said Jones, because one participant was very uncomfortable with his presence.",
"Since Hinckley likes music and plays the guitar, one of his doctors suggested he go play for hospice patients.",
"But Jones said Hinckley never went because the hospice was worried there might be negative publicity if the presidential assailant played there.",
"Another possible avenue for meeting people also has not panned out.",
"Jones said Hinckley, when in Williamsburg, had not been interested in going to a gym or participating in certain sports like golf or tennis, either because of arthritis or because he finds the activities unappealing.",
"The doctor said Hinckley's \"treatment team\" wants him to spend more time in Williamsburg and thinks he'll be able to fit into the community much better.",
"A clinical psychologist from St. Elizabeths who has met with Hinckley five times conceded he's been unable to form relationships in that small city so far, aside from those with family members.",
"\"He had not made a friend in Wiliamsburg,\" said Katherine Murphy.",
"She stressed that Hinckley is an introvert and not the type to quickly make a lot of friends.",
"\"He's just not someone who goes and out and meets people or is a social butterfly.\"",
"But Murphy said Hinckley seems to have coped adequately when rejected in social situations and is \"not showing signs of isolation.\"",
"Murphy was involved in a psychological risk assessment of Hinckley.",
"Both she and Dr. Jones said Hinckley represents a low risk of engaging in violence if granted permission to spend more time away from his mental hospital.",
"A multiple-day hearing began Wednesday to discuss St. Elizabeths' recommendation that Hinckley be granted a series of eight longer visits ranging from 17 to 24 days.",
"That plan also proposes that eventually the hospital would have the authority to let him live as a full-time outpatient.",
"Prosecutors oppose the plan, saying they are concerned Hinckley is still potentially a danger.",
"In opening arguments Tuesday, prosecutor Sarah Chasson said the court should not allow Hinckley to be released \"to protect public safety.\"",
"Chasson said Secret Service agents will testify they kept an eye on Hinckley in Williamsburg during the short periods of time earlier this year when he was allowed free time on his own.",
"According to Chasson, the agents will testify about several occasions when Hinckley deviated from agreed-upon plans for how he would spend his time.",
"Instead of going to movies, Hinckley went to bookstores where he looked at books about presidential assassinations and the failed Reagan assassination attempt, the prosecutor said.",
"But Hinckley's attorney, Barry Levine, said Thursday the actual Secret Service reports show he passed by bookshelves that had those books and other history titles but did not stop to read them.",
"The controversy on the bookstore stops may continue until the Secret Service agents testify.",
"The hearing resumes Monday and is scheduled to run about a week and a half.",
"The judge may then take some period of time to review the testimony before issuing his ruling on the hospital's plan to gradually allow Hinckley greater freedom.",
"So far, Hinckley has been sitting quietly and has shown no reaction to the testimony.",
"On March 30, 1981, Hinckley waited for President Reagan to leave a Washington hotel after a speech.",
"He opened fire and hit Reagan, his press secretary, James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and Washington police officer Thomas Delahanty.",
"All survived, but Brady suffered a serious head wound that permanently affected his mobility and his speech.",
"Brady and his wife became advocates for gun control."
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"He had tried a singles group but \"was asked to leave,\" the doctor says .",
"His \"treatment team\" wants him to spend more time in Williamsburg, the doctor says .",
"Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Reagan ."
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"(CNN) -- Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said Thursday that three Occupy Denver activists have been charged with felonies -- including inciting a riot and second-degree assault on an officer.",
"While Occupy Wall Street protests began in New York two months ago, the movement has spread to several other cities -- as have reports of activists clashing with police.",
"Some of the most high-profile incidents have taken place in Denver, including two tied to the filing of felony charges.",
"A pair of men who were arrested on Sunday were charged with felonies.",
"The previous night, police in riot gear arrested 17 people as they cleared furniture and tents from an Occupy encampment near the city's civic center, police spokesman Sonny Jackson told CNN.",
"The main issue, he said, was that the items were blocking a right of way.",
"On Sunday afternoon, two police officers were injured when protesters became upset when police began removing a food table from a park.",
"Some of the protesters surrounded a police car.",
"One woman then pushed a Denver police officer, according to an earlier Denver police statement.",
"She and a male who came to her aid were arrested.",
"The district attorney's office announced Thursday that a 28-year-old man has been charged with two felony counts of inciting a riot and one misdemeanor count of obstruction for allegedly blocking a police car and and telling others to riot.",
"He has two other cases pending from two different dates in October -- unlawful conduct on public property and unlawful sexual contact -- according to the press release.",
"Another 30-year-old man was charged with a felony count of second-degree assault on a police officer -- as well as misdemeanor charges of obstruction, resisting arrest and engaging in a riot -- from the same day.",
"The district attorney claimed this man grabbed a law enforcement officer from behind and tried to hit him and wrestle him to the ground.",
"A third man, who is 26 years old, also was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer.",
"That charge stems from an October 29 incident in which the man allegedly tried to use a stick to hit an officer who was trying to arrest him.",
"That day, demonstrators tried to occupy the Colorado Capitol -- which is not allowed -- and officers pushed them back, police spokesman Matt Murray said at the time.",
"Pepper spray and pepper-ball guns were used against demonstrators.",
"The man charged, Sean Drigger, told CNN affiliate KUSA soon after the incident, \"All we're trying to do is have a peaceful protest and (the police) are attacking us.\"",
"CNN's Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report."
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"The charges including inciting a riot and assaulting a police officer .",
"One had accused police of \"attacking us\" during demonstrations ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities in Arizona said Tuesday they seized 44 firearms, 650 pounds of marijuana, 435 pounds of methamphetamine and $7.8 million in cash as part of a sting operation that successfully dismantled an \"extensive\" drug-trafficking ring.",
"The operation, dubbed \"Operation Crank Call,\" also resulted in more than 200 arrests and the recovery of 123 pounds of cocaine and 4.5 pounds of heroin, Tempe, Arizona, police said in a statement.",
"They worked with detectives from the Phoenix Drug Enforcement Administration during the 15-month investigation, at least a part of which was conducted undercover.",
"\"The success of this operation is a direct result of Law Enforcement agencies working cooperatively toward a common goal.",
"That goal is to rid our communities of organized crime,\" Tempe Chief of Police Tom Ryff said in the statement.",
"\"These are sophisticated, criminal enterprises.",
"As Chief of Police, I am committed to working in partnership with the community and other law enforcement agencies to curtail drug trafficking in the City of Tempe and throughout the valley,\" he added.",
"Police said the dismantled trafficking ring was linked to the much-feared Sinaloa cartel, which has been blamed for widespread acts of violence across the border in Mexico.",
"In October, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said that at least 70 suspected drug smugglers with alleged ties to the Sinaloa cartel had been arrested.",
"More than 20 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies were involved in that 17-month investigation, dubbed \"Operation Pipeline Express.\""
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"Sirte, Libya (CNN) -- Mutassim Gadhafi, a son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was reported captured Wednesday after a four-hour firefight in Sirte, said Abdallah Naker, the head of the Tripoli Revolutionary Council, who cited field commanders in Sirte as his sources.",
"But two senior National Transitional Council spokesmen said the report was unconfirmed and a third reportedly denied the claim.",
"Col. Ahmed Bani, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said the capture had not been confirmed.",
"And NTC spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah told CNN from Benghazi that the report had not been corroborated.",
"Abudlmolah said Hassan al-Droyee, NTC's Sirte representative who is currently in Tripoli, denied the report.",
"Mutassim Gadhafi and a number of aides were captured around noon in an area considered the center of operations for Gadhafi loyalists, Naker said.",
"They were then taken to Benghazi, he said.",
"The scion had been directing operations in Sirte, the hometown of his father, which had been surrounded since Tuesday night, Naker said.",
"CNN teams in Tripoli and Sirte heard celebratory gunfire ring out as reports of the capture spread.",
"From Benghazi, National Transitional Council spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said there was massive celebratory gunfire there, too.",
"Anti-Gadhafi forces have previously reported captures of Gadhafi relatives that proved to be untrue.",
"CNN's Mohammed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this story ."
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"NEW: Two NTC spokesmen say the report is not confirmed; a third denies it .",
"Mutassim Gadhafi taken after firefight in Sirte, says leader of revolutionary council .",
"Previous reports of captures of Gadhafi relatives have proven untrue ."
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"(CNN) -- An Oscar nomination, abs of steel and five leading roles in a 10-month span typically denotes Hollywood golden boy.",
"Despite critical acclaim and a smoldering stare, Ryan Gosling still manages to fly under the radar with most of the moviegoing masses.",
"The actor has already received praise for his performance as the press secretary/spin doctor to Gov.",
"Mike Morris (George Clooney) in \"The Ides of March,\" which hits theaters Friday.",
"And his role as heartthrob Noah Calhoun in 2004's \"The Notebook\" will continue to haunt mediocre boyfriends everywhere.",
"Yet Gosling's movies, many of which are smaller films, don't always resonate at the box office.",
"Consider this our public apology to you, Gosling, for not rewarding your hotness and all around good-guyness by making you a mega-star by now.",
"We've loved you since you started out as a Mouseketeer on Disney's \"The Mickey Mouse Club,\" though we assure you it was in an age-appropriate way.",
"So if his rocking bod and humble nature -- he told CNN that women are disappointed when they realize he's not Ryan Reynolds -- aren't enough to draw crowds, what is?",
"Don't ask Clooney, Gosling's \"March\" co-star and director.",
"The Los Angeles Times explored the likeness between the two leading men in September.",
"Despite being adored by fans and critics, Clooney and his films don't always garner commercial success either, as the article pointed out.",
"Remember \"Leatherheads,\" \"The Men Who Stare at Goats\" and \"The American\"?",
"Each of those Clooney-starrers reportedly grossed between $31million and $35 million domestically, which is considered low these days for an A-lister.",
"But like his \"March\" co-star, as Gosling sets hearts afire while his movies fail to do the same, the media only becomes more infatuated with the 30-year-old actor.",
"First there was that amateur video of Gosling breaking up a New York street fight that surfaced in August.",
"Then those heartwarming photos of the actor carrying his tired pooch around hit the Web.",
"And what about that time he told UK paper The Times, via the New York Daily News, \"I'll make movies until I make babies.\"",
"Are you swooning yet?",
"\"He is willing to show real vulnerability and ugliness,\" movie buff Leslie Henstock told MSNBC's Today.com.",
"\"There are moments in 'The Notebook' when he is absolutely tragic, begging, weak.",
"He has a journey.\" It's safe to say Gosling has perfected the sexy, yet vulnerable persona.",
"So much so that you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who didn't fall just a little bit in love with him after seeing \"Crazy, Stupid, Love.\"",
"Speaking of that July release, with help from Steve Carell and Emma Stone, that flick brought in about $82 million domestically, making it Gosling's highest-grossing film by more than $40 million since \"The Notebook.\"",
"Frankly, \"Crazy, Stupid, Love\" -- Gosling's first mainstream film since the 2007 dud \"Fracture\" -- featured the actor's six-pack so prominently, it's a wonder it didn't break box-office records.",
"Meanwhile, with a 93 out of 100 rating on Rotten Tomatoes, \"Drive\" was expected to find major box-office success upon its September release.",
"However, the movie, which Gosling said was crafted to resemble a violent \"Pretty in Pink,\" has raked in $21 million domestically so far.",
"It cost about $15 million to make.",
"And December's \"Blue Valentine,\" co-starring Michelle Williams, brought in $9.7 million domestically after costing about $5 million to produce.",
"So will the numbers continue to catch up with the hype surrounding the release of \"The Ides of March\" this weekend?",
"At this point it may not even matter because Gosling will continue to heat things up."
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"Ryan Gosling started out as a Mouseketeer on Disney's \"The Mickey Mouse Club\"\nGosling currently stars alongside George Clooney in \"The Ides of March\"\n\"Crazy, Stupid, Love\" has become his highest-grossing film since 2004's \"The Notebook\""
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi inspired Argentina as the two-time world champions came from behind to defeat Colombia 2-1 in a South American World Cup qualifying clash on Tuesday.",
"Argentina went 1-0 down in Barranquilla after 44 minutes, when midfielder Javier Mascherano inadvertently deflected Dorlan Pabon's shot into his own net.",
"But La Albiceleste rallied in the second half, with two-time world player of the year Messi equalizing after 60 minutes when Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina failed to gather Jose Sosa's cross.",
"Substitute Sergio Aguero stole all three points for Argentina with six minutes remaining.",
"The Manchester City striker was first to react when Ospina parried a shot from Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain, with Barcelona star Messi involved in the build-up.",
"How should football tackle racism?",
"The result kept Argentina second in the nine-team South American qualifying group, level on seven points with 2011 Copa America winners Uruguay and third-placed Venezuela.",
"Uruguay have a game in hand over both rivals, having played only three qualifiers.",
"\"It was hard,\" Messi, who was awarded the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 and is nominated for the accolade again this year, said after the match.",
"\"We did not deserve to go a goal behind, as they were not better than us.",
"\"Sometimes you play better, and other times you have to fight harder.",
"This game was one of those days.\"",
"Ronaldo nets double as Portugal reach Euro 2012 .",
"Venezuela joined Argentina on two wins, a draw and a defeat after beating Bolivia 1-0, with defender Oswaldo Vizcarrondo heading the only goal in the 23rd minute.",
"The defeat left visiting Bolivia rock bottom with just one point from four matches.",
"Ecuador moved into the fourth and final automatic qualifying spot courtesy of a 2-0 win over Peru in Quito.",
"Midfielder Edison Mendez broke the deadlock in the 69th minute after being set up by striker Christian Benitez.",
"Benitez, who plays his club football with Mexican outfit America, sealed Ecuador's triumph with a close-range strike in the closing minutes to keep his side unbeaten for 34 years in World Cup ties against Peru.",
"Chile climbed above Colombia into fifth place and the one playoff berth after a 2-0 success against Paraguay.",
"Claudio Borghi's team lost 4-0 to Uruguay last week, but Chile responded positively and took the lead through defender Pablo Contreras on 27 minutes.",
"Fullback Matias Campos sealed victory with five minutes left, as Chile moved onto six points.",
"The qualifying group usually has 10 countries, but Brazil's place is already guaranteed as the hosts of the 2014 tournament, when Mano Menezes' team will seek a sixth title."
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"Argentina come from behind to beat Colombia 2-1 in 2014 World Cup qualifier .",
"The win keeps Argentina second behind Uruguay in the South American group .",
"Third-placed Venezuela also on seven points after beating Bolivia 1-0 .",
"Fourth-placed Ecuador and Chile, in fifth, both secure 2-0 victories ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- At least seven homemade explosives have been found along Berlin's railways within the last three days, police said Wednesday, severely disrupting traffic on several lines.",
"Two of the devices have exploded -- one Monday and one on Wednesday, authorities said, but nobody was killed or injured in the blasts.",
"Monday's explosion occurred next to a railway link between Hamburg and Berlin.",
"The damage has not yet been repaired, authorities said.",
"Since Monday, at least 2,000 trains have been delayed due to the attacks, a spokesman for Deutsche Bahn told CNN Wednesday.",
"Another arson attempt -- this one on Berlin´s central train station -- failed Monday because officials discovered the device before it exploded.",
"\"The German national rail company Deutsche Bahn has become the victim of extremists.",
"Nevertheless, our controls have been successful,\" said Gerd Neubeck, senior manager of the company´s security department, in a written statement Tuesday.",
"Deutsche Bahn is offering a 100,000 euro (U.S. $138,120) reward for information leading to the arrests of those behind the blasts, according to a statement from the company.",
"A group called the \"Hekla Welcome Committee-Initiative for More Social Eruptions\" has claimed responsibility for the explosions.",
"\"This morning we slowed down the German capital and its function as a global player in the export of armaments,\" said a statement from the group released Monday on a leftist website.",
"However, the group said it is not acting \"with the intention to endanger somebody's life.\"",
"The group blames Germany´s involvement in the Afghan war for the attacks.",
"\"German soldiers kill in different parts of the world.",
"For 10 years, the German armed forces are at war in Afghanistan -- without the agreement of the German people,\" Hekla said.",
"At the beginning of October, a poll by the opinion research institute YouGov showed that two-thirds of all Germans do not believe in a successful military operation in Afghanistan anymore.",
"The alleged attackers also demanded the release of U.S. Army Pfc.",
"Bradley Manning from jail and criticized U.S. military actions all over the world.",
"Manning is accused of leaking thousands of classified U.S. military and State Department documents to the WikiLeaks website.",
"The incendiary devices found in the past few days were filled with fluid and usually placed on cables, officials said.",
"An investigation by the regional German police agency Landeskriminalamt is under way.",
"\"I have ordered an immediate increase in police patrols around Berlin,\" German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said in a statement Wednesday.",
"Sources from Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution told CNN Wednesday that the Hekla Welcome Committee was previously unknown to authorities.",
"The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.",
"One source said German railways are a common target of leftist extremists.",
"In May, a homemade explosive device hidden next to an important railway hub in the city's east caused massive delays.",
"In the 1970s, the leftist Red Army Faction terrorized Germany through bank robberies, kidnappings and assassinations.",
"Its members were accused in more than 30 deaths."
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"NEW: Germany's railway operator is offering a reward for information in the case .",
"No one has been hurt in the explosions, police say .",
"A previously unknown group claims responsibility .",
"The group is opposed to Germany's presence in Afghanistan ."
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"(EW.com) -- The Kardashians are already a staple on E!",
"Network. But they've chosen the month of November to assert their dominance on the book world.",
"Earlier this month, \"momager\" Kris Jenner's released her memoir.",
"Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé's first novel, \"Dollhouse,\" hits shelves today.",
"And next week fans will be treated to the re-release of \"Kardashian Konfidential.\"",
"\"Dollhouse,\" the first fiction endeavor from the Kardashians, follows sisters Kamille, Kassidy, and Kyle Romero.",
"And like all the other Kardashian books, I read it so you don't have to!",
"Here's a short plot summary.",
"Warning: spoilers ahead!",
"The Romero girls live in California where their mother, Kat, owns a family restaurant.",
"Their father, David, made some shady investments prior to his untimely death and left his family broke.",
"Kat remarried Beau, a retired baseball player, who has two children from a previous marriage.",
"The girls are essentially trying to make ends meet by helping out at the restaurant.",
"Everything changes when Kamille is discovered by a modeling agent.",
"She becomes famous overnight, and begins dating a professional baseball player she meets at one of her many red-carpet appearances.",
"Their whirlwind romance eventually becomes a whirlwind engagement when Kamille and her fiance agree to have their pending nuptials and wedding filmed for a TV show.",
"Kassie just adds to the family drama after she gets pregnant after a one-night stand with Kamille's fiance.",
"Ooops! And I'd be remiss without mentioning the taboo attraction between Kyle and her step-brother.",
"Those are just the highlights, people.",
"I won't spoil all of the novel for you.",
"\"Dollhouse\" is fiction, but there are clearly some parallels between the lives of the Kardashians and Romeros.",
"And in light of Kim's divorce, it's entertaining to read about a celebrity fairy-tale wedding filmed for TV.",
"(You'll have to read to see whether the marriage lasts longer than 72 days...) All in all, \"Dollhouse\" is just Kardashian camp packaged in a neat novel.",
"It's completely ridiculous, but entertaining nonetheless.",
"And with the Kardashians I wouldn't expect any less.",
"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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"Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé's first novel, \"Dollhouse,\" hits shelves today .",
"\"Dollhouse,\" is the first fiction endeavor from the Kardashians .",
"There are clearly some parallels between the lives of the Kardashians and Romeros ."
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"CNN -- South Korea midfielder Park Ji-Sung has made history by becoming the first player from his homeland to figure in the Champions League final, Europe's premier club match.",
"Park's opening goal in the semifinal second leg against Arsenal set the tone for United's return to the final.",
"However, his starting role in the match won't be one he'll remember with great fondness.",
"His Manchester United side were outplayed as they lost 2-0 to Spanish side FC Barcelona.",
"Profile: Park Ji-Sung .",
"Still, the loss can't take away from what was a great season for the South Korean.",
"Park was a key player for United throughout their European campaign this season, even scoring in his side's 3-0 second-leg win over Arsenal which sealed their passage to the final.",
"Last year Park was a star player in the Red Devil's semifinal second-leg defeat of Barcelona before Alex Ferguson left him out of his entire squad for the final in Moscow against Chelsea.",
"Park Ji-Sung speaks to CNN » .",
"It is a memory that Park told CNN he was keen to banish: \"It would be amazing to me (to play) as I missed out last season.",
"I believed I would get there again but never thought it would be so soon.",
"Hopefully, this time I will be there.\"",
"Park attracts large audiences in South Korea where there is a large fan base for the club, a fact that has prompted Manchester United to travel to the capital Seoul in July as part of a close-season tour.",
"\"It's not just in Korea that people will be watching (this game).",
"It's the world's best match, and everybody wants to watch,\" Park said.",
"Park started last night's match on the right-hand side, but didn't make his most impressive performance of the year.",
"He did look more comfortable after switching to the left in the second half."
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"Ji-Sung Park could become the first South Korean to play in the final .",
"Park was dropped from the entire squad for last year's final .",
"Manchester United will travel to Seoul for close-season tour .",
"Park moved to United from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Money rewards are coming in for a woman who rescued a bleeding toddler left for dead last week by multiple passersby in southern China.",
"Two hit-and-run drivers rammed into Wang Yue, 2, one after another, as she walked on a narrrow street in Foshan.",
"More than a dozen people walked, cycled or drove past as she lay bleeding in a busy market, sparking a global outcry on the state of morality in a fast-changing society.",
"Wang is in critical condition, her brain showing little activity despite earlier subtle movements in the lower body, said her mother, Qu Feifei.",
"But despite the many villains in the story, it has also turned the spotlight on an unlikely hero: A 58-year-old scavenger.",
"In the video that has sparked outrage globally, Chen Xianmei moves the baby to safety, becoming an instant symbol of understated decency in a nation analysts say is obsessed with climbing the economic ladder.",
"\"I didn't think of anything at the time,\" Chen said Sunday.",
"\"I just wanted to save the girl.\"",
"Two government offices in Guangdong province, where the hit-and-run occurred, offered the Good Samaritan a total of 20,000 yuan (US $3,135), according to state-run Xinhua news agency.",
"Wang's mother has said she does not understand the behavior of the passersby, but wants to focus on the positive.",
"\"Granny Chen represents the best of human nature,\" she said of her daughter's rescuer.",
"\"It's the nicest and most natural side of us.\"",
"On Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, the story continued to be the No.",
"1 topic after generating more than 4.5 million posts along with a \"stop apathy\" online campaign.",
"As the outrage over morality continues, a steady procession of well-wishers pours in, offering gifts, money and support to the toddler's family."
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"Two hit-and-run drivers rammed into the 2-year-old last week .",
"In the video, Chen Xianmei moves the baby to safety .",
"\"I just wanted to save the girl,\" she says ."
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"Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- The effort to rescue hundreds of trekkers stranded for six days in a town near Nepal's iconic Mount Everest due to bad weather continued Monday.",
"With weather conditions improving Monday, the process of transporting the tourists to the nation's capital was fully under way, the tourism ministry said.",
"\"The target is to transport 1,500 tourists to Kathmandu today,\" Hari Basyal, spokesman of the Nepal Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation told CNN.",
"More than 2,200 tourists have been stranded in the village of Lukla since last week where food supplies are limited, Basyal said.",
"Lukla, a popular starting point for people on their way to the world's tallest peak, is located in northeast Nepal.",
"Stranded tourists took 48 flights and helicopter rides out of Lukla on Monday.",
"A day earlier, at least 500 trekkers were flown to the capital.",
"Last week, some of the tourists began a four-day walk to the town of Jiri to take buses to Kathmandu."
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"Tourists are being evacuated from the town of Lukla to Nepal's capital ."
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"(CNN) -- Ireland's top Catholic cardinal is using the \"Nuremberg defense\" in the face of public outrage at his role 35 years ago in investigating one of the country's most notorious child-abusing priests, an activist said Tuesday.",
"Cardinal Sean Brady has been under fire over the investigation into the Rev.",
"Brendan Smyth.",
"The latest scandal comes on the heels of a huge government-backed report that found the Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic Church authorities in Ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 to 2004.",
"Child sexual abuse was \"widespread\" then, the report found.",
"Brady's office said Tuesday that the cardinal, then a priest and teacher with a doctorate in canon law, had been asked to investigate two complaints against Smyth in 1975, but had no decision-making power.",
"He reported his findings to Bishop Francis McKiernan, his office said, and McKiernan recommended Smyth get psychiatric help.",
"But John Kelly, the founder of Irish Survivors of Child Abuse, said Brady should not have remained silent about what he learned in the course of investigating Smyth, who was later convicted of dozens of counts of child abuse in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.",
"He died in prison.",
"\"He's basically using the Nuremberg defense, he was carrying out orders,\" Kelly said, in reference to the justification many Nazis used in their war crimes trials after World War II.",
"There has been particular outrage over the revelation that two boys who filed complaints against Smyth were asked to sign confidentiality statements as part of Brady's investigation.",
"The oaths of secrecy were \"to avoid potential collusion\" between the two boys as church officials investigated the case, Ireland's Catholic Communications Office said Tuesday.",
"Despite his criticism of Brady, Kelly said it would not necessarily do any good for the cardinal to resign.",
"\"He's lost all moral authority to lead, but by replacing him, it won't resolve the problem,\" he said, arguing that the Vatican would \"just replace guys with other guys.\"",
"The best solution, he said, would be for the Roman Catholic Church to let secular authorities deal with accusations of abuse, rather than trying to handle them itself.",
"\"They have to accept secular authority, and they can get on with the business of religion,\" Kelly said.",
"\"It would be in the church's own interest.",
"Resignations in themselves aren't the answer.\"",
"Four Irish bishops tendered their resignations in the wake of the government-backed report, and Pope Benedict XVI is expected to make a formal statement, or pastoral letter, on the Irish abuse issue by Easter.",
"The pope himself has been under fire since it was revealed that a priest suspected of abusing children was allowed to move into his diocese when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in Germany in 1980.",
"The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising said in a statement Monday it must have been clear at the time that the priest, whom multiple sources identified to CNN as Peter Hullermann, was coming to get therapy for allegedly molesting children.",
"He was convicted of abuse in 1986, after Ratzinger moved to Rome.",
"Hullermann was suspended on Monday.",
"Hundreds of allegations of sexual or physical abuse of children by Catholic clergy have come to light in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands this year.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen in Berlin, Germany, contributed to this report."
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"Brendan Smyth .",
"Two boys who filed the complaints were asked to sign confidentiality statements ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A year and a half after deploying National Guard troops to counter illegal immigration on the Southwest border, the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon told Congress Tuesday they are cutting the number of troops and changing their mission.",
"The drawdown, which the department characterized as a \"transition,\" will begin in January and should be completed by March.",
"Several lawmakers told CNN the number of National Guard troops on the border will be cut from 1,200 with responsibilities mainly on the ground to 300 who will support the border mission in the air.",
"The Department of Homeland Security said the change is possible because of a jump in the number of Border Patrol officers in the region, an increase in technology and a drop in apprehensions at the border.",
"But several lawmakers criticized the move, saying conditions on the Southwest border merit more troops, not fewer.",
"A deployment of 1,200 troops was \"not enough to begin with, although they are doing as good a job as they can,\" Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, told CNN.",
"Poe said the United States has \"operational control\" of only 44 percent of the Southwestern border.",
"\"That's not success,\" Poe said.",
"Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, agreed.",
"\"If the Obama administration's goal is border security, their actions undermine their objective,\" he said in a written statement.",
"\"We should keep guardsmen on the ground until the Border Patrol can gain operational control of the majority of the U.S.-Mexico border.\"",
"But Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, supported the drawdown.",
"\"While I appreciate the service of our National Guard forces, requiring them to engage in border law enforcement activity is not cost effective,\" he said in a statement.",
"The Homeland Security Department said that in the fiscal year ending October 1, Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants -- a key indicator of the amount of illegal immigration -- decreased to 340,252, down 53 percent since fiscal year 2008.",
"Since 2004, the size of the Border Patrol has doubled to 21,444.",
"In a news release announcing the change, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon did not cite exactly how many troops would be pulled from the border, but said the \"new strategic approach\" will increase border security.",
"That approach includes \"adding a number of new multi-purpose aerial assets\" equipped with the \"latest surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.\"",
"In addition, the National Guard will provide helicopters and planes to the Border Patrol, \"allowing for faster response capabilities,\" the news release said.",
"\"I did not understand or get the impression they are going to add any equipment; they're going to use what they have,\" said Poe, who was briefed on the changes.",
"The Defense Department budget for the border would drop by half, from $120 million to $60 million, congressional staffers said they were told.",
"Specifics about the ramped-up aerial surveillance are still being worked out, the staffers said.",
"Poe said he plans to fight the change.",
"\"I'll ask the president to reconsider and then try to figure a way, bipartisan, to show that this is not a wise move,\" he said."
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"The transition will begin in January and be completed by March, DHS says .",
"Some lawmakers oppose the move, saying conditions merit more troops, not fewer .",
"DHS says a \"new strategic approach\" will increase border security ."
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"(CNN) -- Experts said Thursday that the alleged child sexual abuse scandals at Penn State University and another at The Citadel in South Carolina underscore the frailty and inconsistency of the legal system intended to protect children, while some lawmakers called for changes in reporting such crimes.",
"\"As parents, as members of the community, as leaders of organizations, we need to ask ourselves what we can do to prevent the next Penn State,\" said Stop It Now!, a group that seeks to end child sexual abuse, in a commentary on its website.",
"\"Because, unfortunately, it will happen again, unless something fundamental changes.\"",
"In the Citadel case, a former cadet-turned-camp counselor faces a series of charges, including three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three counts of lewd act on a minor, according to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, police.",
"The school's president said this week that the university is \"profoundly sorry\" for not reporting allegations against the counselor in 2007.",
"In the Penn State case, Pennsylvania's attorney general has charged a former Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky, with 40 counts in what authorities allege was the sexual abuse of eight boys.",
"In addition, two Penn State officials are charged with failing to inform police of the allegations, and questions have been raised about the university's response.",
"Child-welfare advocates are not alone in their calls for reform.",
"The senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee asked Thursday that the chairman call a hearing to determine whether federal laws intended to protect children and students should be changed.",
"\"Potential weaknesses in specific laws designed to keep children safe have come to light in the wake of the alleged sexual crimes committed on the campuses of the Pennsylvania State University and the Citadel,\" wrote Rep. George Miller, D-California in his letter to Chairman John Kline, R-Minnesota.",
"\"Our inquiry should not seek to parallel, replicate, or interfere with those efforts; rather, we must examine the ongoing operation of the underlying federal laws to identify any vulnerabilities and better ensure against future risks to children.\"",
"Miller cited two federal laws: The Clery Act requires higher educational institutions to collect information about and report on crimes that occur on campus.",
"The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act requires states to develop laws mandating that child abuse be reported.",
"In a statement, Education and the Workforce Committee communications director Alexandra Sollberger said, \"The committee is monitoring the situation at Penn State carefully and will assess the need for congressional action after the Department of Education concludes its investigation into the matter.\"",
"One state has already moved to tighten reporting requirements.",
"Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal on Thursday issued an executive order requiring \"all public or vocational school, community college, college or university professors, administrators, coaches and other school employees to report child abuse or neglect within 24 hours of observing an incident of child abuse or neglect.\"",
"The report must be made to child welfare authorities and police.",
"Changes should include tightening requirements among the states about who must report suspicions that a child is being sexually abused, said Lisa Fontes, a lecturer at University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and author of \"Child Abuse and Culture -- Working with Diverse Families.\"",
"For example, Pennsylvania has an unusually narrow category of mandated reporters.",
"The Department of Health and Human Services' website says that, in Pennsylvania, professionals \"required to report include, but are not limited to: licensed physicians, osteopaths, medical examiners, coroners, funeral directors, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, interns, nurses, or hospital personnel, Christian Science practitioners or members of the clergy; school administrators, teachers, school nurses, social services workers, daycare center workers, or any other child care or foster care workers; mental health professionals; peace officers or law enforcement officials.\"",
"\"It doesn't include many people who have regular contact with children, such as school bus drivers, children's barbers, athletic coaches,\" said Fontes, who has a doctorate in psychology.",
"Under \"Reporting by other persons,\" the law appears to leave it up to the individual: \"Any person who has reason to suspect that a child is abused or neglected may report,\" it says.",
"And the requirements of professionals are limited to what they learn on the job, and do not apply to cases where a professional learns about suspected child abuse outside of his or her work, Fontes told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"Some states, like Indiana, are stricter.",
"Professionals required to report include \"any staff member of a medical or other public or private institution, school, facility, or agency.\"",
"And the onus in Indiana also falls on non-professionals.",
"\"Any person who has reason to believe that a child is a victim of abuse or neglect must report,\" the law says.",
"Such variation \"makes no sense to me,\" said Fontes.",
"\"Mandatory reporting is not the be all, end all of preventing child abuse, but it certainly is an important part of making authorities aware of children at risk,\" she said.",
"Variation also extends to laws covering other behaviors, such as age of consent, which ranges from 16 to 18 in the United States, with some states having age-gap provisions under which sexual relations are legal as long as both parties are within a certain age range.",
"Children from poor families tend to be particularly vulnerable to child predators, said Fontes, who noted that the alleged victims were from The Second Mile, a program founded by Sandusky for at-risk youths.",
"Poor families tend to have fewer options for after-school care; poor communities tend to lack public libraries and safe parks; and their schools are less likely to be staffed with adequate guidance counselors and school psychologists who might notice if a child's behavior has changed, Fontes said.",
"In addition, children from poor families may be more vulnerable to offers of gifts, as Sandusky is alleged to have made, she said.",
"In the Penn State case, the grand jury report led to the firing last week of head football coach Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier.",
"Assistant coach Mike McQueary -- who, according to the grand jury report, witnessed Sandusky raping a child in 2002 -- has been placed on administrative leave.",
"Gary Schultz, who was the university's senior vice president for finance and business at the time of the alleged assault, and former Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley are charged with lying to the grand jury and failing to alert police.",
"Curley requested and was granted administrative leave, while Schultz -- whose responsibilities also included oversight of Penn State campus police -- has retired.",
"Sandusky told NBC's Bob Costas on Monday that he has been falsely accused, saying that he only \"horsed around\" with kids in the shower after workouts.",
"Sandusky denied being sexually attracted to boys, and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, told CNN Monday night that showering with children does not equate automatically to sexual assault.",
"In the NBC interview, Sandusky denied one of the charges in the grand jury report, i.e., that McQueary had walked in on him in the school's locker room raping a boy about 10 years of age.",
"Sandusky was arrested on November 5 after the release of the grand jury report detailing crimes that he allegedly committed between 1994 and 2009.",
"He is free on $100,000 bail.",
"Authorities have said they are checking into more than a dozen calls from people who have said they were victimized by Sandusky.",
"Several other alleged victims are considering coming forward after seeing Sandusky's Monday interview, two State College attorneys told the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Patriot-News.",
"\"I spent about half the day in kitchens and living rooms, speaking with victims of Sandusky's molestation and processing with them the effects of Jerry Sandusky being on television and Jerry Sandusky denying wrongdoing,\" attorney Andy Shubin told the newspaper.",
"\"And what I found was that these folks are being re-traumatized.\"",
"He said many of the alleged victims weren't sure whether they would contact police, as some cases may be too old to prosecute.",
"One case dates back to the 1970s, the newspaper reported.",
"Lawyer Jeff Anderson told CNN he is representing one alleged victim and has received calls from more than 10 other people who said they, too, were victimized.",
"\"In every instance, Sandusky used his position of trust and power and his caring ways as a coach and mentor to groom the families and the children,\" Anderson said.",
"\"And after he did, he would in some way act out on them -- either at the schools, at the events, on trips, at a variety of locations.",
"And in some instances, he raped or assaulted them.\"",
"He added, \"This is about an institutional failure by many over decades to heed the warning signs and to protect the kids and, instead of protecting the kids, many, many adults chose to protect the reputation.\"",
"Attorney Ben Andreozzi, who represents one of Sandusky's alleged victims, said in a statement issued after Sandusky's television interview that his client \"fully intends to testify that he was severely sexually assaulted by Mr.",
"Sandusky.\" The lawyer said more information would be forthcoming.",
"Washington civil rights law firm Katz, Marshall and Banks issued a statement Thursday saying it is working with Shubin and Seth Kreimer, a law professor, to formulate a civil case against Penn State.",
"Earlier this week, Sandusky's attorney told CNN he was expecting other people hoping to take advantage of the situation to come forward with claims.",
"During an investigation into the allegations, authorities found that Second Mile records, including travel and expense reports, were missing from about 2000 to about 2003, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing two sources with knowledge of the case.",
"The records were supposed to be stored at an off-site facility, it said.",
"Records from one of the years were later found after apparently having been misfiled, the Times said.",
"\"It could be that they were just lost, but under the circumstances it is suspicious,\" one law enforcement official told the newspaper.",
"The alleged rape witnessed by McQueary, who was then a graduate assistant, was detailed in the grand jury report.",
"According to the report, McQueary told Paterno; Paterno then alerted his boss, Curley.",
"The grand jury report also indicates that McQueary talked to Schultz and that Schultz never presented the information to university police.",
"Preliminary hearings for Curley and Schultz were set for December 6 in Dauphin County Magistrate Court.",
"CNN's Mary Snow, Jason Carroll and Sarah Hoye contributed from State College.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes reported from Atlanta."
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"\"It will happen again, unless something fundamental changes,\" group says .",
"A firm says it is working on a civil case against Penn State .",
"Report: Second Mile records for several years are missing .",
"Attorneys say more alleged victims may come forward ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rapper Heavy D collapsed in his Beverly Hills home Tuesday morning and died a short time later at a Los Angeles hospital, according to police and the coroner.",
"He was 44. Heavy D, whose real name is Dwight Arrington Myers, was found conscious with difficulty breathing at his home after police were called there at 11:25 a.m., the Beverly Hills police said in a news release.",
"He was pronounced dead in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon, according to Los Angeles County coroner's operations chief Craig Harvey.",
"The cause of death has not been determined, Harvey said.",
"His hip-hop recording career began in 1987 with his group Heavy D & the Boyz and on his first album he released the hit single \"The Overweight Lover's in the House.\"",
"Another one of his breakthrough hits came in 1991 with a remake of the O'Jays' \"Now That We Found Love.\"",
"Heavy D's rapping was featured on Janet Jackson's 1990 hit \"Alright.\"",
"He rapped on Michael Jackson's 1991 hit \"Jam,\" which he performed at last month's Michael Jackson tribute show in Cardiff, Wales.",
"He also composed and performed the theme songs several television shows, including \"In Living Color,\" \"MADtv\" and \"The Tracy Morgan Show.\"",
"His last CD, \"Love Opus,\" was released this year.",
"Heavy D also pursued an acting career, which included mostly roles on TV shows and movies.",
"He played a courthouse guard in the Eddie Murphy film \"Tower Heist,\" released last weekend.",
"iReporter: \"Rest in peace to Heavy D\" He used his Twitter account Monday night to express sadness about the death of boxer Joe Frazier: .",
"\"SMOKIN JOE FRAZIER..RIP.. truly one of the best heavyweight champs that ever lived..",
"GODS SPEED,MR FRAZIER!\"",
"Heavy D's last Twitter message, posted late Monday, was: \"BE INSPIRED!\"",
"CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report."
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"Heavy D died in the ER at Cedars-Sinai, the coroner's office says .",
"Beverly Hills police were called to his home at 11:25 a.m. Tuesday, police say .",
"He performed last month at the Michael Jackson tribute in Wales .",
"The rapper's real name was Dwight Arrington Myers ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A series of photographic exhibitions have been organized in Europe and North America this autumn to highlight a campaign by Britain's Prince Charles to combat tropical deforestation.",
"An aerial of Jambi Province, Indonesia showing the destruction of the tropical rainforest.",
"The photographs were taken by world-renowned environment photographer Daniel Beltra who was this year's winner of the Prince's Rainforest Project Award at the Sony World Photography Awards earlier this year.",
"The images graphically depict the effects of climate change on the rainforests in the South America, Africa and Indonesia.",
"Beltra compiled a library of around 40,000 images during month long trips to the Amazon Basin, the Congolese Forest and Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast Asia.",
"When he returned home Beltra produced a shortlist of around 1000 images from which the final exhibition photos were selected.",
"\"I shoot a lot when I'm in the air,\" Beltra told CNN.",
"\"Trying to concentrate on a small detail on the ground when your flying at a speed of 150 knots is difficult.\"",
"And that's not the only problem Beltra encountered.",
"The very acts of destruction he was documenting often got in the way of his work.",
"Click here to see a selection of images from the exhibition » .",
"\"When you are photographing deforestation, you are taking a lot of pictures of logging and fires and the smoke can make it very difficult to shoot.\"",
"Beltra was born in Spain but is now based in the United States.",
"His work, which includes freelancing for the international environmental group Greenpeace, has taken him to over 50 countries and he is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.",
"HRH Prince Charles has long been a passionate defender of the environment and he founded the Prince's Rainforest Project (PRP) in 2007.",
"The PRP works alongside governments, international businesses, non-profit organizations and rainforest nations to find a solution to the deforestation and degradation of the rainforests.",
"Speaking at the Sony Awards in Cannes, France earlier this year the Prince said: \"Photographic images can tell a compelling story about the truth of the situation, and the truth is that if we lose the fight against tropical deforestation, then we lose the fight against climate change.\"",
"Beltra hopes that his pictures will raise further awareness of the perils that humans face in the wake of continued rainforest destruction.",
"\"I think we are all getting more aware but we really need to get our act together because at the moment we are destroying more than we are protecting,\" he said.",
"The multimedia exhibitions organized by Sony are taking place at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in London, the Hotel de Ville, Paris, the Alexa Center, Berlin and the Mercy Corps Action Center, New York."
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"(CNN) -- Sebastian Vettel has blazed a trail in Formula One's history books by becoming the youngest double world champion, but his Red Bull team bosses are already looking for their next star driver.",
"The all-conquering Austrian marque, along with the 11 other teams on the F1 grid, are in Abu Dhabi for three days of testing with some of the brightest young talents in motorsport.",
"Having remained at the Yas Marina Circuit following Sunday's grand prix, which was won by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, the teams will put a number of potential future world champions through their paces between Tuesday and Thursday.",
"Champion Vettel toasts dream year .",
"One such prospect is Jean-Eric Vergne, the 21-year-old Toro Rosso test driver who finished second in the 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 series and has been given the chance to drive Red Bull's imperious RB7 car.",
"Despite having an unfamiliar name at the wheel, the results on Tuesday bore an uncanny resemblance to those which have been witnessed in the sport for the last two years.",
"Red Bull once again left the other teams trailing in their wake, only this time it was French youngster Vergne leading the field -- his lap of one minute 40.011 seconds beating Ferrari test driver Jules Bianchi into second place.",
"\"That was a fantastic day for me,\" Vergne, who will drive for Red Bull on all three days, told the sport's official website.",
"\"Driving the world championship-winning car is just great and I liked every lap I did out there.",
"Latest F1 standings after Abu Dhabi GP .",
"Bianchi has been handed the chance to take to the track for legendary Italian marque Ferrari at the test event for the second year in a row.",
"\"It's great to be back at the wheel of a Ferrari on a real track,\" the 22-year-old said.",
"The Frenchman also races for Lotus ART in the GP2 Series, where he has ended the season third after one victory and five podium finishes.",
"The GP2 Series has long been a production line for F1 talent, with the competition having been the brainchild of former Formula One commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone and one-time Renault boss Flavio Briatore.",
"\"I've already driven this car for some aerodynamic testing, but doing it at a real test is a whole different story,\" Bianchi said.",
"\"Now, I am looking forward to a further two days of testing and we hope to carry on as we have started, with a lot of kilometers completed and trouble-free running.\"",
"Venezuela's Rodolfo Gonzalez is another GP2 graduate being given his chance to shine, taking to the cockpit for the CNN-sponsored Team Lotus on Tuesday.",
"The 25-year-old hopes to emulate compatriot and Williams driver Pastor Maldonado in moving from the GP2 Asia Series to become the fifth driver from the South American country to compete in F1.",
"\"It's my dream to drive in Formula One so I'm really very thankful for this opportunity,\" said Gonzalez.",
"\"I think I've showed I have potential with the lap times I did, and am pleased with my times overall.",
"\"I've proved I can do the job and have really enjoyed this experience in the car and learned a lot for my future.",
"\"Knowing there are two more days still to do, just makes me smile more.",
"It's a great opportunity ...",
"I'm trying to learn as much as possible and get as much as possible out of it.\"",
"British team Williams are running GP3 champion Valtteri Bottas of Finland and Formula Two titleholder Mirko Bortolotti of Italy.",
"\"I really enjoyed my first time driving the car on a proper track today,\" the 22-year-old Bottas said.",
"\"It didn't take too long to get used to the car but there were still a few new things for me.",
"There is much more downforce and power than the cars I am used to driving, but I really liked it and I think the day went well.\""
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"Red Bull's Jean-Eric Vergne set the pace at Yas Marina Circuit on Tuesday ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Islamic militants have moved fighters to the Somali border town of Afmado in an effort to combat Kenyan forces who have entered Somalia, the militant group Al-Shabaab said Tuesday.",
"The group said it viewed the Kenyan forces crossing of the joint border as \"an affront to Somalia's territorial sovereignty.\"",
"This move of fighters, which started Monday, comes after the militant group had threatened to \"come into Kenya\" if Kenyan forces did not leave Somalia.",
"\"Kenyan troops have entered 100 kilometers into Somalia, and their planes are bombarding and killing residents,\" Sheikh Ali Mahmud Ragi, spokesman for Al-Shabaab, said in an online message posted on a jihadist website this week.",
"\"We shall come into Kenya if you do not go back.\"",
"In response, the Kenyan and Somali governments issued a joint communique declaring Al-Shabaab \"a common enemy to both countries.\"",
"They pledged to work together to stabilize Somalia and cooperate in security and military operations.",
"Kenyan forces crossed into Somalia to pursue Al-Shabaab fighters after the recent abductions of tourists and aid workers in Kenya heightened tensions in East Africa.",
"Kenya invoked the U.N. charter allowing military action in self-defense against its largely lawless neighbor.",
"The abductions are part of a \"recent spate of blatant attacks\" that are part of \"a changed strategy by Al-Shabaab calculated to terrorize civilians,\" the communique said.",
"\"If you are attacked by an enemy, you have to pursue that enemy through hot pursuit and to try (to) hit wherever that enemy is,\" said Kenyan Defense Minister Yusuf Haji in a news conference that aired Sunday on CNN affiliate NTV.",
"Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al Qaeda, has been fighting to impose its interpretation of Islamic law, or sharia, on Somalia.",
"The group issued a statement Tuesday, however, denying responsibility for the abductions.",
"\"These are mere suppositions unfounded in any solid evidence,\" the statement said.",
"\"Kenyan authorities have been seeking justification for an aggressive incursion on to Somali territory.\"",
"On September 11, armed bandits broke into a beachfront cottage where Britons Judith and David Tebbutt, both in their 50s, were staying.",
"David Tebbutt was shot dead while trying to resist the attack.",
"His wife was grabbed and spirited away on a speedboat, and is believed to have been taken into Somalia.",
"On October 1, pirates made another cross-border raid, this time snatching a French woman in her 60s from a holiday home on Manda Island where she lived part of the year.",
"Earlier this month, gunmen abducted two Spanish workers from the medical charity Doctors Without Borders from the Dadaab refugee complex, about 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) from the Somali border.",
"Kenya announced its new tactics days after African Union forces claimed victory against Al-Shabaab in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.",
"The military said last week it had taken the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds in the far northeast of the city.",
"\"The challenge is now to protect civilians from the sort of terror attack we saw last week, as they attempt to rebuild their lives,\" said Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the African Union Mission in Somalia.",
"He was referring to a suicide truck bombing in Mogadishu this month that left dozens dead.",
"Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.",
"Other Al-Shabaab attacks that week led to the deaths of at least 10 civilians.",
"Federal and African Union forces have battled Al-Shabaab in the impoverished and chaotic nation for years.",
"Many analysts believe the military push has severely affected Al-Shabaab, along with targeted strikes against organization members and the weakening of al Qaeda.",
"Al-Shabaab said in August it was withdrawing from Mogadishu, and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, backed by African Union peacekeepers, now controls most districts of the capital, the U.N. office has said.",
"However, the group still poses a threat, Ankunda has said."
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"NEW: Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al Qaeda, denies role in recent abductions .",
"The move of Kenyan troops comes after threats from Al-Shabaab to enter Kenya ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- If you're on your way to some of the nation's airports this holiday season and have a feeling there are fewer people schlepping their suitcases and looking for long-term parking spaces, it's not your imagination.",
"The estimate for the upcoming winter holiday travel period predicts there will be fewer fliers than a year ago.",
"A projected 43.3 million air travelers will fly on U.S. carriers for both domestic and international routes during a 21-day period, according to Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines.",
"That's a 1% drop from the same period last year which translates to about 20,000 fewer travelers on average per day.",
"However, travelers will not find that translates into more leg room once they board planes.",
"On the busiest days, flights will be filled to at least 85% capacity, according to the forecast.",
"\"Passengers still should expect to see full flights as many airlines have reduced capacity to match the decline in travel and increased cost of operations.",
"Capacity reduction is one of the steps the industry is taking to preserve profitability,\" said A4A Chief Economist John Heimlich.",
"Lingering economic concerns, higher energy prices and less disposable income have all contributed to the slight decrease this winter, officials said.",
"The large weather system currently blasting parts of the West and Midwest is making driving through the southern Rockies dangerous but forecasters say to this point, it has not had a major impact on large airline hubs.",
"However, forecasters are watching it closely.",
"\"All hands are on deck and ready to go,\" said Tom Hendricks, A4A senior vice president for Safety, Security and Operations.",
"In the event winter weather causes problems, the FAA may open up Defense Department airspace not regularly available to commercial flights on an as-needed basis to help ease congestion.",
"Daily passenger volumes are expected to range from 1.6 million to 2.3 million during the holiday.",
"The busiest days are expected to be between December 21 through December 23, December 26 through December 30 and then January 2 and 3 as travelers fly home.",
"The airline organization recommends passengers check airline websites before they leave for the airport, pack gifts unwrapped to lessen security delays and review carry-on rules for liquids, gels and aerosols."
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"That's a 1% drop from the same period last year .",
"On the busiest days, flights will be filled to at least 85% capacity ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan's need for a better toothpaste should not outshine more important issues \"such as homelessness, lack of funding for public education and relations between America and its allies,\" the actress's rep said Friday.",
"Steve Honig was responding to online buzz about a close up photo of Lohan's teeth that appear to show stains that bloggers blame on her love of red wine and cigarettes.",
"\"Lindsay is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women on the planet, and is regularly sought-after by some of the top photographers in the world to appear on covers of magazines around the globe,\" Honig said in a statement to CNN.",
"Not to mention the many paparazzi that hound Lohan through the streets of Los Angeles.",
"\"There are so many more important issues the media should be focusing on, such as homelessness, lack of funding for public education and relations between America and its allies,\" Honig said.",
"Stained teeth, however, is not Lohan's biggest concern now.",
"She is due back in court Wednesday morning for a status hearing before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Saunter.",
"Judge Saunter will check on her progress in meeting the community service and psychological counseling requirements she imposed last summer when she sentenced Lohan to probation for stealing a necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store.",
"As with Lohan's smile, there are online reports that her record of probation compliance is stained and that Lohan again faces jail time.",
"But Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney, said that while he has seen the reports the matter \"not risen to the level of having our office involved yet.\"",
"The probation office and the court have not contacted the prosecutor on the case about it, Mateljan said.",
"Lohan lawyer Shawn Holley would not comment on the reports."
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"Lohan rep: Lindsay's \"one of the most beautiful women on the planet\"\nLohan prosecutor is unaware of any probation problems .",
"The actress returns to court Wednesday to report on probation ."
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"(CNN) -- Thomas Sawyer, a cancer survivor, has worn a urostomy bag for the past three years.",
"Yet, he says, little could have prepared him for his recent airport pat down, when an officer broke the bag's seal and urine spilled out \"onto my shirt and down my pants.\"",
"\"I'm a good American.",
"I know why we're doing this, and I understand it,\" Sawyer told CNN.",
"\"But this was extremely embarrassing, and it didn't have to happen.",
"With educated TSA workers, it wouldn't have happened.\"",
"With the height of Thanksgiving holiday travel the next two days, the Transportation Security Administration is trying to strike a delicate balance between ensuring the safety of the traveling public and not invading people's privacy rights.",
"But the screening raises an array of questions from health-care professionals: .",
"• Are TSA officers trained to deal with patients like Sawyer who may have medical conditions?",
"• What about the elderly and others with hip replacements and similar ailments?",
"• Will cancer patients have to take off wigs?",
"• How is the TSA dealing with pat downs of children?",
"• What about people with mental illness?",
"The TSA says it has taken all of these concerns into account -- that children are not to be separated from their parents if pat downs are deemed necessary and that travelers with medical conditions should be treated with \"the dignity, respect and courtesy they deserve.\"",
"Watch: Cancer survivor accepts TSA apology .",
"\"Our program covers all categories of disabilities -- mobility, hearing, visual and hidden,\" the TSA says on its website.",
"\"As part of that program, we established a coalition of over 70 disability-related groups and organizations to help us understand the concerns of persons with disabilities and medical conditions.\"",
"Jonathan Bricker, a psychologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Washington state, says he advises anyone traveling right now to come mentally prepared for the unexpected.",
"\"Go in with an expectation that this is going to happen, and go in with the expectation that you're going to be the one singled out to go through a pat down,\" Bricker says.",
"By doing that, people \"can take more control of the situation.\"",
"He says people with medical conditions should also carry notes from their doctors.",
"If a tense situation does arise while being screened, passengers should think about the big picture, he says.",
"\"There is a larger purpose to this trip that has nothing to do with the TSA and nothing to do with the government.",
"And the purpose is: You're visiting people you love.\"",
"The TSA has said the ramped-up use of pat downs and full-body scanning is necessary to prevent weapons and explosives from getting aboard planes.",
"The White House on Monday said the process is evolving and that the government is taking into account the public's concerns.",
"\"The evolution of the security will be done with the input of those who go through the security,\" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.",
"Recent polls have shown most Americans support the measures, and a periphery glance at airports nationwide shows that the vast majority of travelers are dealing well with the extra scrutiny, even if it makes them uneasy at times.",
"Dr. Gina Villani, the head of oncology at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, says the extra scrutiny raises concerns for cancer patients, who could have metallic dishes for chemo placed under their skin, external catheters or other necessary medical devices on their bodies.",
"\"You can imagine during a pat down, you're feeling this piece of metal under somebody's skin.",
"If you don't know what it is, then it's going to create a lot of problems for people,\" she said.",
"Doctors must be more aware of when their patients are traveling and write notes explaining their conditions, she says.",
"Most of the time, though, \"patients only think about it after they've had a terrible experience.\"",
"A doctor's note also carries a demoralizing stigma.",
"\"You want to go on vacation and forget you have cancer,\" Villani says.",
"\"It's just one more reminder of how different you are from the rest of the population.\"",
"Another area of concern is the pat down of children.",
"Craig Fabrikant, a psychologist at Hackensack University Medical Center, has simple advice for the TSA: Have officers trained to deal with children on shift at all times, and always have the parent or guardian undergo a pat down first, in front of the child.",
"\"Why not let the child see the parent go through it, that it's no big deal, that it's fine,\" Fabrikant says.",
"He says it's simple and practical advice, but he's doubtful any of it will be used.",
"After all, he says, it's big government.",
"\"Not only does it not use common sense, it doesn't move that quickly.\"",
"To the agency's credit, TSA administrator John Pistole called Sawyer to apologize Monday after he learned of the incident.",
"The two had a cordial conversation, and Sawyer even shared some advice.",
"\"He asked me what I thought,\" Sawyer said.",
"\"So I talked to him -- that I really don't believe that they've been trained as well as [they could] to handle medical conditions.\""
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"Doctors say extra scrutiny raises concerns for cancer patients, elderly, children .",
"The process is evolving, and concerns are being taken into account, White House says ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- \"Rush Hour\" star Chris Tucker's $6 million Florida mansion is in foreclosure, with more than $4.4 million owed to the bank, reports the Orlando Sentinel, citing papers filed in Circuit Court in Lake County.",
"Tucker, 39, bought the 10,000-sq.-ft. waterfront home on Lake Apopka, near Orlando, in 2007.",
"The newspaper says the residence contains five bedrooms, three fireplaces, a personal spa, an outdoor kitchen overlooking a pool, and a basement outfitted to resemble a pirate ship, including the sail.",
"Court documents reportedly show an $11.5 million IRS lien on the home in 2011 in order to collect federal income taxes from Tucker, whose monthly mortgage payment, the documents also show, was $25,812.50.",
"There has been no comment from Tucker, but the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., reports that his comedy show scheduled in the city for this Sunday -- and was a rescheduling of a postponed September 3 performance -- has been canceled because of \"unforeseen circumstances.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"There has been no comment from Tucker ."
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"(CNN) -- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad looks more isolated with each passing day as his regime continues a bloody eight-month crackdown on pro-democracy protests.",
"His Arab neighbors signaled their displeasure with him this week by suspending Syria from the Arab League, a stinging blow for a nation that sees itself at the heart of Arab concerns.",
"Jordan's King Abdullah went a step further, telling the BBC he would step down if he were al-Assad, an unusually blunt assessment that followed Western calls for al-Assad to go.",
"And Turkey, formerly an important ally and trading partner, threatened to cut off electricity supplies to Syria as the European Union moved this week to extend sanctions against more members of al-Assad's circle.",
"This week, the conflict inside Syria entered a new era when army defectors attacked pro-government targets.",
"That ratcheted up the pressure even more -- the Russian foreign minister was widely quoted as saying attacks on government buildings in Syria resembled \"civil war.\"",
"So can al-Assad cling to power?",
"Or will he become the fourth leader forced from office in the Arab Spring, following in the footsteps of ousted leaders of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia?",
"Analysts say that the odds are stacked against Syria's president.",
"Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said it is hard to predict what might come next for al-Assad -- but the pressure is on.",
"\"The kind of traditional support he had externally is clearly crumbling,\" Cook said.",
"\"His prospects this week are worse than they were last week.\"",
"Emile Hokayem, senior fellow for regional security at the Bahrain office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, thinks it highly unlikely al-Assad will hang on to power.",
"Three main factors will likely contribute to the downfall of Syria's president after 11 years in power, he said.",
"One is that he has lost legitimacy in the eyes of his own people.",
"\"It's hard to see how he would recover his legitimacy after killing almost 4,000 of his countrymen,\" said Hokayem.",
"The United Nations puts the toll of deaths at well over 3,500 since protests began.",
"Second is the economy, as sanctions imposed by the West and Turkey start to bite.",
"This matters, said Hokayem, because al-Assad may struggle to keep the support of the country's urban and business elites in Damascus and Aleppo if the economy is failing.",
"The third factor is security, despite al-Assad's mobilization of the military.",
"Unlike previous challenges to the al-Assad regime, \"this time it's the Syrian people leading it and very clearly regime change is their goal and they are not going to accept anything less,\" Hokayem said.",
"Shashank Joshi, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), also doubts al-Assad will survive -- but says it is far from clear what might follow.",
"The Arab League's decision to suspend Syria, after Damascus failed to abide by a peace deal that had been brokered earlier with the 22-nation league, signals a shift in views that would have looked extremely unlikely even a month ago, he says.",
"The regime's military is also increasingly over-extended as those fighting against it find footholds in Lebanese and Turkish soil, he said.",
"Turkey might also choose to intervene more directly, perhaps by creating a buffer zone along its long border with Syria or providing weapons to the rebels, he said.",
"At this point, descent into civil war could be as likely a scenario as a clean change of regime at the top, he said.",
"Nonetheless, Joshi cautioned against thinking the 46-year-old's grip on power will be loosened immediately, pointing to the example of Iraq's former dictator, Saddam Hussein.",
"In 1991, he said, Hussein had just lost a major war, had two no-fly zones, U.N. sanctions and an oil embargo imposed on his country, was facing an enormous Shia uprising in the south, and endured overwhelming diplomatic isolation.",
"\"And yet he survived for 12 years,\" Joshi said.",
"\"Regimes that are used to being isolated, that are used to being under sanctions and under pressure, can be extremely resilient.\"",
"Joshi also points out that while al-Assad may well be forced out, that doesn't necessarily mean the regime will fall with him.",
"Bashar al-Assad is not as well entrenched as was his father, the late President Hafez al-Assad, who ruled with an iron fist for three decades -- and it's possible other members of his ruling Alawite sect might decide to throw their hat in with his brother Maher, an army commander, or parts of the military instead, Joshi said.",
"\"They might even decide to get rid of Bashar al-Assad to save themselves, and portray it as a concession, or compromise,\" he said.",
"He cites the example of Egypt, where the Arab Spring uprising may have forced President Hosni Mubarak from power in February but the military leadership has not yet handed over power to a democratically elected government.",
"Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center, also predicts that al-Assad will eventually go -- but that his regime will cling on for as long as possible, with Syria following the example of Libya rather than that of Tunisia, where ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia.",
"Shaikh sees \"the makings of a very powerful coalition\" lined up against al-Assad, uniting the Arab nations, Turkey, the United States and Europe, which could move \"quite forcefully\" to sanctions.",
"And al-Assad has few friends to whom he can turn for help.",
"One key question is how long Syria can still count on the support of Russia, a historic ally and a major arms supplier to Damascus.",
"Moscow, which sold $3.8 billion of weapons to Syria last year -- 10% of its total arms sales, is \"giving a lifeline\" to al-Assad at the moment, said Shaikh, largely by delaying international action.",
"If Moscow opposes efforts to impose U.N. Security Council sanctions on Syria, as anticipated, international efforts to present a unified stance -- as on NATO action to protect civilians in Libya -- will be thwarted.",
"\"The same action can be viewed as a just war or an act of imperial aggression depending on whether Russia allows a U.N. resolution to be passed,\" Joshi said.",
"Germany, France and Britain will hand in a draft U.N. resolution Thursday condemning the Syrian government's actions, a German diplomatic spokesman in New York told CNN on Wednesday.",
"Diplomats from Arab countries are considering co-sponsoring the resolution.",
"An attempt this week by a Syrian opposition group to persuade Russian officials to shift their position and demand al-Assad's resignation appears to have gone nowhere, with Moscow instead reiterating a call for peaceful dialogue to resolve the situation.",
"China also has a history of opposing U.N action but appears at the moment to be hedging its bets on Syria, probably in the interests of stability in the region, Joshi added.",
"Iran has in the past few days given a strong statement of support for al-Assad, Shaikh of the Brookings Doha Center said, but Tehran may still in the end be pragmatic and seek to build ties with the Syrian opposition.",
"Perhaps the biggest danger ahead, the analysts say, is that whether al-Assad goes or not, Syria is teetering on the brink of civil war, as opposition elements such as the Free Syrian army turn to arms to combat pro-government forces.",
"Such violence lessens the chance of a peaceful resolution to the uprising and smooth shift to democracy -- and will undoubtedly lead to greater loss of life.",
"\"We are entering into a new phase now in the Syrian situation,\" said Shaikh.",
"\"We are seeing a greater militarization.",
"\"I think the window for an orderly transition is over and now it will be a mixture of international pressure and whatever support is given to these protesters and even those fighting against the regime.",
"\"The main game for the foreseeable future will focus on the protection of civilians, and measures to ensure that, as we saw in the Libyan case.\"",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"The Arab Spring has forced three leaders from power so far .",
"Syria's president could go, too, some analysts say .",
"Unrest that has roiled Syria for months took a turn this week .",
"Syria's Arab neighbors have joined the West in criticizing the Syrian leader ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has been ruled out of Portugal's crucial final World Cup qualifier against Malta on Wednesday with an ankle injury and could be sidelined for up to a month.",
"Cristiano Ronaldo holds his ankle before going off in Portugal's win over Hungary.",
"Ronaldo played with the injury in Portugal's 3-0 home victory over Hungary on Saturday but lasted just 27 minutes before limping off.",
"Portugal, who have made a late charge in World Cup qualifying after looking set to make an ignominious exit, need to beat Malta in the home game to be sure of a place in the European playoffs.",
"The Portugal federation said they had allowed Ronaldo to leave the squad, while Spanish giants Real confirmed the bad news in a statement on Sunday.",
"\"After a clinical examination and an MRI scan, it is confirmed the player has suffered a recurrence of his injury to his right ankle, a medial collateral sprain with inflammation in the bone,\" the club said.",
"\"The estimated recovery time is three to four weeks.\"",
"Denmark have an unassailable lead in Group One after beating Scandinavian rivals Sweden 1-0 on Saturday.",
"The results almost certainly means the departure of Swedish coach Lars Lagerback, who said on Sunday that he will resign if his team fail to qualify for the World Cup finals in South Africa.",
"Roland Andersson, Lagerback's assistant, has also signaled he will go if results go against them on Wednesday.",
"\"Roland and I will resign depending on the result, either after the World Cup in South Africa, after the playoffs or after the (last) qualifier against Albania,\" Lagerback said.",
"The Swedes are now third in the group, a point behind Portugal, and face Albania in their final match.",
"They must hope that Portugal, missing Ronaldo, slip up against Malta, while beating Albania.",
"Meanwhile, Ronaldo's former Manchester United teammate Wayne Rooney has been ruled out of England's final World Cup qualifier against Belarus with a calf strain.",
"Rooney picked up the injury in England's 1-0 defeat in the Ukraine.",
"England have already qualified for the finals."
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"Cristiano Ronaldo to miss Portugal's final World Cup qualifying match .",
"Real Madrid say Ronaldo could be sidelined for a month with ankle injury .",
"Swedish coach Lars Lagerback stakes future on World Cup qualification .",
"Wayne Rooney ruled out of England's final qualifier against Belarus ."
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"(CNN) -- A total of 46 inmates were injured during a prison riot at the North Fork Correctional Facility in western Oklahoma, but there were no fatalities, prison officials said Wednesday.",
"Multiple fights had broken out in the 2,500-bed facility on Tuesday, but order was restored and the facility was completely locked down, according to a statement by Corrections Corporation of America, which runs the prison.",
"As of Wednesday there were no reports of staff injuries, CCA said.",
"Regarding the injuries, 16 inmates were transported to facilities outside the prison for treatment, including one who has already returned to the facility.",
"Another 30 inmates were treated on-site by medical staff, CCA said.",
"While the riot was taking place, a morgue was set up in a tent outside the prison, though there were no fatalities.",
"Aerial video of the scene from CNN affiliate KOCO showed armed officials holding prisoners at gunpoint.",
"The prison is located in Sayre, about halfway between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, Texas.",
"CNN's Chandler Friedman contributed to this report."
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"Forty-six were injured, but there were no fatalities .",
"The facility is back in order, prison officials say ."
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"(CNN) -- This week, \"American Idol\" Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery releases his debut album, \"Clear as Day.\"",
"As one would expect, the record's 12 songs feature his deep crooning voice paired with lyrics about new love and small town aspirations.",
"Fans of the teen should come away satisfied with this first effort, in that it's pretty much what one might expect from a young musician with a gifted voice who one day found himself with a sizable record advance and access to coveted Nashville session players.",
"The 17-year-old McCreery is juggling his senior year of high school this fall along with promoting his album.",
"So just how exactly does that work?",
"CNN spoke with McCreery from his home in Garner, North Carolina, about just that as well as young love, and what drink he will walk miles to enjoy.",
"CNN: You're just starting your senior year in high school.",
"What's the class schedule like?",
"Scotty McCreery: They didn't want me to have the first block because they didn't want me to be a distraction to kids getting to school.",
"So I go in the second block and am there for the rest of the day.",
"Next semester's going to be the tough one.",
"I have AP English and all that jazz.",
"CNN: How's this work: You go on the \"American Idol\" tour, have amazing catering and then have to come back to cafeteria food?",
"McCreery: (Laughs) Yeah, the catering was amazing on the tour ...",
"I probably gained a few pounds I'll have to run off.",
"But they let us go off campus, the juniors and seniors; we have a really big school and the cafeteria can't fit us all in there.",
"We go out to Bojangles or Chick-fil-A.",
"But we had Mexican food today, El Dorado's.",
"CNN: Tell me about recording \"Clear as Day.\"",
"McCreery: Oh yeah, it was a lot of fun.",
"It was kind of like the traveling studio, you know.",
"We started off in Nashville and recorded a bunch of songs and once we got the tracks laid down, when I was on tour, whatever city I was in we'd stop by a studio and they'd bring the equipment from Nashville and we'd lay down some vocals and then on to the next.",
"CNN: Looking back, does the record evoke certain themes?",
"McCreery: Yeah, we were talking about this today, actually.",
"It's got a cool thing about love.",
"Not necessarily the boy-girl love or anything; it talks about everyday love, it talks about family love with kids and parents, love with loss, love for my hometown on \"Water Tower Town.\"",
"It's not necessarily one theme of love, but it's got a lot of influences.",
"It's a cool way that I like to think of it.",
"CNN: It's very much rooted in what someone you're age would be going through: Summer love, figuring out girls, football games.",
"McCreery: For me, an emotion is an emotion, whether you're 70 or 17.",
"At 70, you might have much more experience with it and know a little bit more about it, but if a 17 year old says they have a broken heart, in my eyes, they have one.",
"CNN: And those are some of the worst kinds.",
"McCreery: Oh, they're horrible, absolutely horrible.",
"CNN: Some country records are riddled with clichés; how do you avoid those?",
"McCreery: The whole cliché thing people think about country music, you know, \"drinking with the boys\" it isn't country music at all.",
"Country music is real and talks about real-life situations and I think with this record we did that.",
"There's a song called \"Back on the Ground\" and it can talk about a college student or someone like me, where you want to get of town and go live life but then when you're at it for awhile, you can't wait to get back.",
"I've been at home for maybe 10 days since February and any time I can get a chance to get home, it's a blessing.",
"CNN: Does going into this genre after \"American Idol\" give you a leg up versus other people coming out of that show that make a pop or an R&B record?",
"McCreery: You know, I'm not so sure exactly on that.",
"But country fans are really loyal and they were really supportive of me.",
"I didn't do the honky-tonk in the traditional way, but now, I'm the newbie in country music.",
"I was the \"American Idol\" and all that, but now I'm making the transition and I'm low down the ranks.",
"Just like the senior in high school who becomes the freshman in college.",
"I got to work hard and hopefully get my sea legs and stay around for a bit.",
"CNN: Obviously, your voice is the bread and butter.",
"How do you take care of it these days?",
"McCreery: On the road it was tough, singing every night and talking a lot.",
"We had this thing called Throat Coat that we'd drink a lot.",
"Anytime I don't have to be yellin' or talking, I'm trying to ease off on it.",
"I'm using it a lot and I don't want to hurt it.",
"It's my instrument. CNN: You mentioned the song \"Water Tower Town\" -- it might be one of the only songs that gives a shout out to sweet tea.",
"McCreery: I think that was the only one.",
"I was the guy on 'Idol' that walked six miles to [get some tea].",
"There was a time that I was going to go to McDonald's because that was the only place in California you could find sweet tea.",
"I took a right instead of a left, and I ended up walking six miles to get some sweet tea.",
"I kept thinking as I was walking \"Man this is a long mile.\""
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"Season 10 \"American Idol\" winner Scotty McCreery has a debut album .",
"The 17-year-old singer will juggle promoting his new album with his senior year .",
"McCreery says \"country music is real\""
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- As the death toll climbed Monday from flooding in Southeast Asia, officials beefed up flood prevention measures to protect Thailand's capital from rising water.",
"Millions have been affected by the flooding in Thailand and Cambodia, which has been hit by an above-average monsoonal rainy season.",
"As of Monday, 269 people were dead in Thailand and four were missing, according to the country's Flood Relief Operations Command.",
"Another 207 people were dead in Cambodia, according to the country's state-run news agency AKP.",
"Patients in two hospitals in Thailand's Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan provinces had to be evacuated after water reached the first floor, the flood operations command said.",
"Multiple tropical systems have moved over the area in recent weeks, enhancing monsoon rains and leading to the flooding.",
"Another low pressure system is forecast to move into Southeast Asia on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Brandon Miller, senior meteorologist for CNN International.",
"On Monday, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ordered canal dredging and reinforcement of flood-prevention embankments to protect Bangkok, state-run news agency MCOT reported.",
"In addition, three new flood-prevention walls were being built at two locations in Rangsit, in northern Bangkok, and in Taling Chan, in the western part of the city.",
"The government needs another 1.5 million sandbags, MCOT reported.",
"The prime minister called on the private sector to supply them, but said the government will buy all the needed sandbags by Wednesday, the news agency said.",
"The Rojana Industrial Park has halted operations for the time being, director Amara Charoengitwattanagun told MCOT, and the facility may be further damaged if the flooding worsens.",
"One plant in the park, Single Point Parts, evacuated all workers from the premises and built flood prevention embankments around its building, according to MCOT.",
"Meanwhile, Honda Thailand said on its website Monday that its plants in the Rojana park are flooded and will be closed until at least until the end of the week."
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"Officials order measures to protect Bangkok .",
"The region has seen weeks of heavy rain ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Russian election authorities officially registered Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Monday as a candidate for president in next year's election, they announced on their website.",
"Putin will represent his United Russia party, the Central Election Commission said.",
"The move is the latest step toward Putin's reclaiming the presidency after switching to the prime minister's office because of a law barring him from serving more than two consecutive terms as president.",
"Russia's third-richest man, the billionaire New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, announced this month that he will run against Putin for president.",
"Many ordinary Russians suspect the Kremlin put Prokhorov up to it to give the impression the contest is fair.",
"Last week, Putin brushed off widespread criticism that the December 4 parliamentary elections in Russia were falsified.",
"He said their results \"reflect the actual line-up of forces in the country, as well as the fact that the ruling force -- the United Russia party -- has lost certain positions.\"",
"Tens of thousands turned out to protest the election results that returned Putin's United Russia party to power, but with a smaller majority.",
"Police estimated crowds in Moscow on December 10 at 25,000, while organizers said the total was 40,000, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.",
"Either figure would make the protests the largest in the Russian capital in 20 years.",
"Claiming the results of parliamentary elections were rigged, protesters chanted \"Putin out.\"",
"They also braved freezing temperatures in other Russian cities to demonstrate against what they said was vote fraud.",
"Putin said in his question-and-answer session that protesters were positioning themselves for the presidential vote in March.",
"\"It is obvious to me that the attacks on the latest election are secondary; their primary goal is the next election, the Russian presidential election,\" Putin said December 15.",
"The Organization for Security and Cooperation said in a preliminary report that some political parties had been prevented from running and the vote was \"slanted in favor of the ruling party.\"",
"Its election-observer mission detailed alleged attempts to stuff ballot boxes, manipulate voter lists and harass election monitors.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also said the United States had \"serious concerns\" about the election and called for a \"full investigation\" of apparent irregularities."
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"Putin is angling to return to the office he used to hold .",
"Historic numbers of Russians demonstrated against election results this month .",
"They claim the results were falsified, but Putin denies it .",
"Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov says he will run against Putin ."
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"London (CNN) -- On a brownfield site in east London, not far from the site of the 2012 Olympic Park, a new green vision is emerging from the ashes of the UK capital's dirty industrial past.",
"Once the home of a coal-fired power station, the London Sustainable Industries Park (SIP) at Dagenham Dock is creating the largest concentration of environmental businesses in the UK.",
"The concept to transform the area into a clean-tech hub was originally devised by the local government authority (Barking and Dagenham) who were keen to promote jobs and prosperity in the wake of cutbacks at automaker Ford's Dagenham car plant.",
"Since 2007, the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC) -- a UK government agency tasked with overseeing regeneration of areas all over east London -- has been securing planning consent for the site's infrastructure.",
"But that's not all they're doing says Mark Bradbury, LTGDC's deputy director of development.",
"\"We're also putting in a lot more landscape infrastructure ... creating an environment which is much more business park than industrial estate,\" he said.",
"So along with industrial units which meet BREEAM standards, there are swales and trees to help with water and air pollution, he says.",
"A heat network is also being installed allowing some of the energy produced to be shared by businesses on site.",
"The goal, says Bradbury, is industrial symbiosis.",
"This sharing of material by-products, water and energy by local industries rather than importing resources from outside is an idea which has gained momentum over the past two decades, says Marian Chertow, associate professor of industrial environmental management at Yale University.",
"\"Many urban areas with industrial concentrations find that symbiotic activities arise spontaneously as they are economically efficient for firms even before counting environmental benefits,\" Chertow said.",
"\"Over time, and with some coordination, these can become extensive networks for resource sharing and community building,\" she added.",
"A leading early adopter of this philosophy was the city of Kalundborg, Denmark.",
"Established in 1972, their eco-industrial park has evolved \"from a single power station into a cluster of companies that rely on each other for material inputs,\" according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development.",
"So although the London SIP isn't the first it is unique, Bradbury says.",
"\"We believe we are the first park to actively set out to achieve this from the start -- to almost vet our occupiers from the outset to really look at how they will add to the mix and that they buy into the symbiosis ethos of shared inputs and outputs,\" he said.",
"So far only one tenant -- plastics recycler Closed Loop Recycling -- is on site but others are set to move in next year.",
"Waste-management company Cyclamax is scheduled to install a renewable-energy power plant creating 16 megawatts of electricity early in the new year, while TEG (an organic waste recycler) has been given the green light to develop an anaerobic digestion plant.",
"Closed Loop Recycling, which handles 35,000 tons of plastic bottles every year, is looking forward to the eco-freindly synergies that its neighboring tenants will provide when they arrive.",
"\"There is good potential that we will be able to take some of the heat from the anaerobic digester and composting facility to heat our wash water,\" said Nick Cliffe, marketing manager for Closed Loop Recycling.",
"In return, bits of bottle that can't be recycled, including labels, could be sent over to Cyclamax's gasification plant, says Cliffe.",
"He's also optimistic about future symbiotic relationships being formed with plastic upcyclers who are expected to join the park.",
"\"It's a great site,\" Cliffe said.",
"\"There's a real chance if the right kind of businesses come together that we can work stronger together rather than being more distributed.\"",
"The vision is that over the next 15-20 years the park can provide the area with a supply of green energy, Bradbury says, kick-starting renewed interest and investment in the area.",
"\"The ultimate aim is to have a range of businesses which gradually get more and more high-tech as the cluster grows,\" he said."
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"Businesses on site to share material by-products, water and energy .",
"\"Industrial symbiosis\" improves the environment while also maximizing profits ."
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"Hong Kong (CNN) -- The largest single aviation purchase in Boeing's 94-year history was pulled off today by Lion Air.",
"Lion who? If you have never heard of Lion Air, you're not alone.",
"Unless you speak Bahasa Indonesia and have traveled around the vast array of islands that make up the world's most populous Muslim nation, there is no reason why you should have.",
"With U.S. President Barack Obama watching on the sidelines of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic summit in Bali, Lion Air signed a deal for 230 Boeing planes totaling $21.7 billion, with the first delivery in 2017 -- part of the airline's plan to buy 408 new planes at $37.7 billion, Lion Air CEO Rusdy Kirana told CNN.",
"\"From east to west, Indonesia spans 5,000 miles and we have 230 million (people) and not enough aircraft to meet the growth of the number of passengers,\" Kirana said.",
"Right now, the airline has only a few routes that take it out of Indonesia to Southeast Asian neighbors Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.",
"The airline plans to use the new fleet to both expand routes among the 6,000 inhabited islands in Indonesia as well as new routes to Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan.",
"While the developed world has been pummeled with recession, stagnant growth and rising debt burdens in the wake of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis, developing powerhouses like Indonesia have continued to rise.",
"Indonesia's economic output was $706.6 billion in 2010, up from just $95.4 billion in 1998 when the nation was embroiled in the Asian Financial Crisis, which led to the end of the longtime dictatorship of Indonesian President Suharto.",
"His departure led the way for economic and political reform in the world's fourth most populous nation.",
"The soaring fortunes of Indonesia echoes the number of Indonesians taking to the skies -- this year, the numbers traveling by air within the country is expected to rise 15%, the Indonesian Transportation Ministry said.",
"\"As Indonesia's middle class increases in number, more and more people will be traveling throughout the archipelago,\" said Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa.",
"\"And the easiest way to travel is air transport, and so that why I think the projection ahead will be quite promising, and offer many opportunities for many.\"",
"For Obama, the record deal helped him underline a message he's echoed during his Asian trip: That strong economic ties with Asia creates jobs at home.",
"\"For the last several days, I've been talking about how we have to make sure that we've got a presence in this region, that it can result directly in jobs at home,\" Obama said in a statement.",
"\"And what we see here -- a multibillion-dollar deal between Lion Air -- one of the fastest-growing airlines not just in the region, but in the world -- and Boeing is going to result in over 100,000 jobs back in the United States of America, over a long period of time.\"",
"When asked why Lion Air chose Boeing over arch rival, French-made Airbus, CEO Kirana told CNN: \"There's not much difference between Airbus and Boeing.",
"It's like a person choosing what to eat.",
"you just prefer one dish over another.\"",
"Executives at Boeing are no doubt pleased the Indonesian airline prefers to supper in Seattle rather than dine in France.",
"And as fortunes rise on the archipelago, many more western companies will try to find a place at Indonesia's table.",
"CNN's Kathy Quiano and Peter Wall contributed to this report ."
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"The purchase is to feed the growing appetite for air travel in the world's fourth largest country .",
"While developed economies still reel from the financial crisis, Indonesia's economy grows .",
"\"As Indonesia's middle class increases in number, more and more people will be traveling\""
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"(CNN) -- A broadside against the dieting industry, Darryl Roberts' documentary isn't always pretty but it provides plenty of food for thought.",
"Roberts cites Michael Moore as an example of a smart, successful fatty, and his filmmaking is in the same sometimes scattershot, first-person style.",
"He's not shy about bringing his sister's struggles with in-vitro fertilization into the story, or filming his own medical appointments.",
"Informed that at 270 pounds he's obese, with worryingly high blood pressure and an arrhythmic heartbeat, Roberts looks for a weight loss program that works for him.",
"At the same time, he keeps an eye on the bigger picture.",
"The statistics fly thick and fast: .",
"100 million Americans are obese.",
"Four out of five women are dissatisfied with the way they look.",
"On any given day almost 50% of women are on a diet .",
"So are 25% of men. It all adds up to great news for a diet industry worth $50 billion a year.",
"Not so great for the rest of us, because 95% of diets fail.",
"This is obviously not a healthy situation, but Roberts has an interesting spin on some of these numbers.",
"He makes a compelling case that the so-called obesity epidemic has been grossly inflated by the misapplication of the Body Mass Index (BMI), a one-size-fits-all formula which categorized 29 million previously healthy Americans as overweight or obese when the recommendations were changed in 1998.",
"He shows that several members of the National Institutes for Health panel that approved the change are paid consultants to Weight Watchers, which benefited from the tighter guidelines.",
"And he points out that according to the current BMI recommendations, LeBron James, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Christian Bale and Arnold Schwarzenegger are all either overweight or obese.",
"Rather than labeling citizens with a false standard, Roberts suggests government might have a bigger impact on the nation's weight-gain by cutting the corn subsidies that have injected the addictive and calorific high fructose corn syrup into so many of our food staples.",
"He makes that point to Secretary of Health Kathleen Sibelius, and which she ducks at such length, he cheekily repeats the question in caption form under her rambling non-response.",
"(The interview is shut down shortly afterward.)",
"Meanwhile, as he fails at one diet after another, Roberts meets an anorexic thrown out of rehab by her insurance company, a realtor addicted to working out, and a group of high school boys recovering from eating disorders.",
"He begins to wonder if our cultural prejudice against fat is doing more harm than good.",
"\"America the Beautiful 2\" isn't as slick or polished as the better-funded films by Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock.",
"The doc itself could easily use a nip and a tuck, and Roberts opens up so many fronts he can't possibly do justice to them all.",
"It's going to take a lot more than this movie to convince most people that fat isn't necessarily unhealthy.",
"Even so, you'll be grateful for his efforts.",
"Roberts is an immensely amiable, engaging personality who easily relates to people and seems to genuinely care.",
"It's certainly refreshing that he's not trying to sell us anything except a more down to earth self-image and a less sedentary lifestyle.",
"When he gets his own systolic blood pressure down from 160 to 116, not through dieting but exercise, you have to think he's on the right track."
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"Darryl Roberts' documentary follows his struggle to get healthy .",
"Roberts highlights the misuse of the Body Mass Index (BMI)\n\"America the Beautiful 2\" isn't slick or polished but Roberts is very relatable ."
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"(CNN) -- The state of Pennsylvania gave us Joe Montana, Broadway Joe Namath and Smokin' Joe Frazier.",
"That's a lot of big-time Joes.",
"But added together their moral authority would total a tiny fraction of that established over a half-century by Joe Paterno.",
"If I didn't know Joe Paterno was a real person, I would swear he was invented, a character in a sports adventure novel written for boys in the 1950s.",
"There he'd stand on the sidelines, hands behind his back, squinting in the sunlight, Joe Paterno, legendary coach at State College, the beacon of moral and physical courage, the shepherd of lost boys, pater familias in a place called Happy Valley.",
"An author could not invent a better name: Joe Paterno.",
"St. Joe, father of a holy family of student athletes.",
"JoePa. Papa Joe. Pater, as in Latin for father.",
"Eternal paternal Paterno.",
"Our father, who art in trouble, hollow be thy name.",
"You hear it all the time: \"Football is a religion in Pennsylvania\" (Or Texas or Florida).",
"To the Penn State students rioting in the streets Wednesday night, Joe Paterno was pope, a word that also means father.",
"Not only does pope denote the Catholic bishop of Rome, it now can describe, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, any \"person considered to have unquestioned authority.\"",
"The sacred role of the father as protector of the family is central to many cultures, including the Italian-American.",
"This is not just a theory for me. Above my desk are three photographs: one of my grandfather, Peter Marino, as a young political candidate in New York City; another of the ship that carried his family from Italy to Ellis Island; a third, a copy of the ship's manifest, which lists him, at the age of 4, with his mother, father and two older sisters.",
"They have 12 cents to their name.",
"When in 1972 I called my grandfather (our name for him was Papa!)",
"to announce the birth of his first great-grandchild, I could hear his tears, and then his words: \"Remember, Roy, the most important thing in life is family.\"",
"How many of us as children have invested our hopes and dreams in the patriarch?",
"\"The father is head of the family,\" goes the familiar theological injunction, \"as God is head of the church.\"",
"What happens, then, when little Tony Soprano discovers that his beloved father is also the head of a Mafia family?",
"La famiglia.",
"What happens when a beloved father abandons a family, or shames it?",
"Most of us can remember with exquisite regret the moment that our faith in a father or father figure was shattered, a loss that can carry dark consequences.",
"Most institutions, even the Mafia, want to avoid scandal.",
"The lower or higher the moral authority of that institution, the more that avoidance of scandal takes priority.",
"Princes of the Catholic Church hid knowledge of sexual predation within their ranks, not because they wished harm to children, but because knowledge of that scandal would stain the soul of the Church -- and undermine its good works -- forever.",
"Consider the Penn State scandal in the same light.",
"Why didn't \"leaders of men\" call the police on Jerry Sandusky, now accused of sexual assault, one of their own?",
"Not because they wanted boys to be raped in locker rooms.",
"Silence and inaction ruled because exposure of abuse threatened to tear down everything that JoePa had built up, not just a team or athletic program, but a story he had written for the university: that honor, sportsmanship, academic achievement and traditional Christian American values could attach themselves to a multimillion dollar sports enterprise.",
"Joe Paterno as BMOC: Big Man On Campus.",
"Forever and ever.",
"Amen. The word \"fan\" comes from \"fanatic.\"",
"The \"enthusiasm\" that rocks a stadium derives from the Greek word meaning \"to have God in you,\" a word that once carried the negative connotation of zealotry.",
"If my connecting Penn State to the Catholic Church (and to the Mafia) strikes you as offensive or at least out of proportion, consider how Ancient Roman it all is.",
"It is the Roman Catholic Church after all; and the Italian crime syndicates organized themselves like the Roman Legionnaires, with heads and heads of heads.",
"As for Penn State?",
"Just stroll around the ruins of the Coliseum in Rome.",
"Bread and circuses has evolved into something a bit more civilized -- beer and football -- but the purpose remains the same: to entertain and distract through a quasi-religious communal experience, an emotional ritual that serves as a substitute for war.",
"A famous sports editor, Stanley Woodward, told his reporters to stop \"godding up\" the athletes, to quit converting sweaty football players into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.",
"The time may have come, through the excruciating agony of innocent boys, to stop godding up the coaches, and to dismantle brick by brick the arrogance of those who would turn a sport into a religion.",
"Commentators on sports television and radio have raised their sanctimonious voices to instruct us that this scandal is \"not about football.\"",
"That's like saying the sexual abuse of altar boys is \"not about religion.\"",
"The scandal at Penn State turns out to be -- as it always is -- more about the cover-up than the original crimes.",
"The cover-up didn't work for Nixon, or Cardinal Law in Boston, or for Joseph Vincent Paterno.",
"If JoePa has been the pope of the Church of College Football, he turned the rest of us into acolytes.",
"How many of us learned to bow down and obey, leaving our skepticism outside the church door?",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roy Peter Clark."
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"Roy Peter Clark: Legendary Penn State coach Paterno is like a mythical paternal figure .",
"He says loyalty to him holds echoes of Catholic, Italian-American reverence for pope .",
"He says perhaps Sandusky sex abuse hushed for fear it would stain soul of Penn State \"church\"\nClark: Time to dismantle this \"church\" and stop protecting its fathers from their sins ."
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