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"(CNN) -- A body found in a wooded area Tuesday is believed to be that of 11-year-old William McQuain, who went missing more than two weeks ago, Montgomery County, Maryland, police said.",
"Search dog handlers found the body of a young African-American male in Clarksburg, Maryland, just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, police said in a statement.",
"The scene was still being processed Tuesday morning, and police spokeswoman Rebecca Innocenti had no information on when a positive identification would be made.",
"An Amber Alert was issued for the boy after his mother, Jane McQuain, 51, was found dead in the bedroom of her Germantown home October 12.",
"She had been stabbed and beaten, according to police.",
"Her son was not there, and her Honda CRV was gone, but police later recovered it.",
"Police said the boy was last seen September 30 at his home.",
"Authorities said Jane McQuain had been dead for about 10 to 12 days when her body was found.",
"The discovery was made after a friend contacted police and said he had not been able to contact her and was concerned.",
"Curtis Lopez, 45, was arrested last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, in connection with Jane McQuain's death.",
"He waived extradition to Maryland on Monday.",
"Police said Lopez was McQuain's husband and was often at her residence, although he did not appear to live there.",
"Witnesses reported seeing him loading items into McQuain's vehicle recently, police said.",
"Authorities obtained a surveillance tape from the morning of October 1 showing Lopez \"entering and re-entering\" a storage unit in Germantown with the boy, the police statement said.",
"\"At that time, William McQuain appeared to be in a playful mood and showed no signs of distress.\"",
"\"The clothing that William McQuain was wearing in the video is similar to the clothing found on the body that was located,\" the statement said.",
"The body is believed to have been in its location since October 1, authorities said.",
"CNN's Devon Sayers contributed to this report."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Arcade Fire manager Scott Rodger has responded to allegations by media mogul Steve Stoute and record industry gadfly Bob Lefsetz that the band closed out the Grammy Awards this year with a second performance because the Recording Academy knew the group would win the ceremony's final award for Album of the Year.",
"Grammy Awards: Complete Coverage .",
"In an email to Lefsetz's newsletter The Lefsetz Letter, Rodger explained that the Arcade Fire performed last at the show because ratings are typically low at the end of the broadcast, and the band was one of the least-known acts on the bill.",
"(He wrote that he would have preferred if the band had played earlier in the program.)",
"Rodger also insisted that the band's second performance was not part of a \"big plot\" but rather an agreement with Grammy producers to play out the show's credits, depending on how much time was left in the broadcast.",
"He said that the band was never guaranteed time at the end of the ceremony.",
"Photos: Arcade Fire's Greatest Performances .",
"Rodger later asserted that the Arcade Fire did not lobby for their Grammy in any way, and that the band, not its label Merge Records, paid their own overhead in order to perform at the event.",
"A letter from Arcade Fire's manager (in reaction to Steve Stoute's Open Letter to The Grammys) Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Rodger says Arcade Fire performed last because ratings are lower at the end of the broadcast .",
"He wrote that he would have preferred if the band had played earlier in the program .",
"Rodger also insisted that the band's second performance was not part of a \"big plot\""
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"(CNN) -- Actor Rainn Wilson is dedicated to improving the lives of young people around the world.",
"The star of \"The Office\" works with the Mona Foundation, which supports educational initiatives for children in developing countries.",
"He is also involved with Planting Peace's program to deworm children in Haiti.",
"Wilson got to know Planting Peace's founder, Aaron Jackson, after Jackson was honored as a CNN Hero in 2007.",
"CNN's Sonya Hamasaki recently sat down with Wilson to talk about CNN Heroes and his humanitarian work.",
"Below are excerpts from that interview.",
"Sonya Hamasaki: What inspired you to get involved with the Mona Foundation?",
"Rainn Wilson: The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity.",
"It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.",
"The thing that is really exciting is that it finds grass-roots educational initiatives that are already working, and the Mona Foundation comes in and says: \"What do you need?",
"We want to help support you.",
"We'll raise money, and we'll get you whatever you need.",
"... You need a science lab?",
"You need a water fountain?",
"You need a soccer field?",
"You tell us what you need.",
"We're not going to come in and tell you what we think you should be having next.\"",
"It's a really cool way of working, and I've gotten to visit some of those schools.",
"It's a beautiful organization.",
"Hamasaki: Why is this cause important to you?",
"Wilson: I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts.",
"I don't believe in handouts.",
"I do believe in education.",
"And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people -- not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base -- is through education.",
"That's what Mona Foundation focuses on.",
"It especially focuses on the education of women and girls.",
"And I think that is key. ... With young women and girls, they're going to be ready to teach children; they're going to be ready to go back into their communities and share their knowledge with their children and with their communities.",
"It's vital that women and girls across the world have access to really good education.",
"Hamasaki: How did you get involved with Planting Peace?",
"Wilson: Planting Peace is a charity I got to know via CNN Heroes.",
"I was literally sitting in my trailer at \"The Office,\" and I was looking at the CNN website and it had CNN Heroes.",
"And I saw this story on this guy, Aaron Jackson.",
"I read about him there, and I Googled him and I did some more research, and I realized I stumbled upon a truly extraordinary human being.",
"This is a young kid from Florida who grew up on a golf course.",
"He went traveling in the Third World and he saw poverty, and he decided to devote his life to making the world a better place.",
"Planting Peace works at this in a number of different ways.",
"They support orphanages all over the world, but the other thing that Aaron works on with a network of people is deworming.",
"Parasites really hold a society back.",
"When kids have intestinal worms, they have less energy, they're not able to focus, they're not able to learn.",
"(Jackson) has these pills he gets from the drug companies that are a penny and a half each, and it'll deworm a kid for six months.",
"And he has been working so hard, tirelessly, to deworm the children of Haiti.",
"He's handed out millions of these pills.",
"Hamasaki: What's it like for you to see Planting Peace's efforts in Haiti?",
"Wilson: I've gotten to visit Aaron several times down in Haiti.",
"They have four or five orphanages in Haiti.",
"I also went out when they distributed the deworming medication out in the rural villages and towns, and I got to meet a lot of people in their network.",
"It was very heartwarming, it was very moving.",
"They run an orphanage in Haiti for HIV-positive children; I think it's the only orphanage of its kind in Haiti.",
"They're able to supply the meds that the kids need, they educate them, give them music classes.",
"A lot of them are former street children, and they're turning them into vital members of Haitian society.",
"It's extraordinary seeing that first-hand.",
"Hamasaki: How did your experience with CNN Heroes evolve?",
"Wilson: I think CNN Heroes is a great thing.",
"I've been to the ceremony a couple of times, and I always follow it.",
"It's incredible to see the amount of hard work and humility that these people have, uplifting the people around them.",
"Their stories are always the same: They're a normal person, they're doing a normal job, they're no one special and they see a need.",
"They're like, \"Gosh, there's street children here,\" or \"these sex workers are being used,\" or \"these veterans need a home,\" or \"this environment needs cleaning up,\" whatever it is.",
"And they don't just complain about it. They actually just start to work very simply.",
"And that's what we need. I think we need about 6 or 7 billion CNN Heroes, and we'll transform the world."
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"He believes that education, not handouts, can change society for the better .",
"Wilson on CNN Heroes: They don't complain, they just work on making a difference ."
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"(CNN) -- I'm 45, and my son is 7.",
"Once in a while, I still get carded when I try to buy certain well-guarded cold medicines, so I was taken aback in recent months when two different strangers asked, \"Is that your grandson?\"",
"I was most surprised by the instant assumption, without an awkward pause or hesitation, as if grandmother was the only option.",
"I was 38 when Jason was born -- not exactly a young mother, but nowhere near the age I imagine a grandmother to be.",
"Both incidents took place after I moved from California to Atlanta, a Southern city, and both times I was asked by fellow black women -- one about 21, and one who was my senior.",
"I thought about the incidents when I read a recent CNN.com essay by Rose Arce on being mistaken for her daughter's nanny.",
"The essay inspired me to post my case of mistaken grandmother identity on Facebook, where I got lively responses ranging from \"Are you kidding?\"",
"to makeover tips.",
"Had I let too many gray hairs escape my patrol?",
"Maybe the question shouldn't have surprised me, given the historically high teen birth rates and young grandmothers in the black community, especially in the South.",
"But I have since learned about a convergence of birth and child-rearing trends that make it harder to guess whether an over-40 caretaker is a grandparent or, like me, a more ... er ... \"mature\" mother.",
"First, experts say teenagers are having fewer babies.",
"\"We believe evidence-based teen pregnancy programs work best,\" says Vikki Millender-Morrow, the CEO of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP), founded by Jane Fonda.",
"\"We also believe in giving the kids hope.",
"Even with all the education in the world, if they don't believe their future circumstances are brighter than what they're seeing, what's the reason to delay?\"",
"Georgia had the highest teen birth rate in the nation in 1995, but currently ranks No.",
"13, according to Millender-Morrow.",
"And recent data shows that Georgia was one of 10 states -- including Mississippi, Florida and Arizona -- that had the most dramatic decreases in births to 15- to 17-year-olds between 2007 and 2009.",
"It's a national trend.",
"According to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics published this year, the birth rate for teens ages 15 to 19 had reached its lowest point in the nearly 70 years since the data has been tracked.",
"Black births to teens ages 15 to 17 have plummeted since the 86.1 rate in 1991, for example, when the Hispanic rate was 69.2 (per 1,000 women).",
"Still, black and Hispanic teenagers still have a much higher birth rate than non-Hispanic whites.",
"The February report shows that the birth rate per 1,000 teens for black teenagers ages 15 to 17 was 32.1 in 2009, and even higher at 41 for Hispanic teens -- compared with just 11 for non-Hispanic whites.",
"If more young people are weighing their life options -- with fewer \"babies having babies\" -- fewer grandparents are raising their grandchildren, right?",
"Wrong. More children are being raised by their grandparents.",
"U.S Census Bureau data from 2009, published in July, reports that the percentage of white and Hispanic children being raised by one or both grandparents doubled between 1991 and 2009, from about 1% to 2%.",
"About 5% of black children are raised by a grandparent, a figure the Census Bureau says has remained constant since 1991.",
"Citing the impact of harsh economic times, the Pew Research Center's latest data from 2008 indicates that 2.9 million children were being raised primarily by their grandparents -- up 8% from 2000, and 5% from 2007.",
"Pew reports that the number of black grandparents serving as primary caregivers fell 12% between 2000 and 2008, but the number of white grandparents spiked 19%.",
"The number of Hispanic grandparents becoming caregivers rose 14% during that eight-year period.",
"According to Pew, 53% of grandparent caregivers are white, 24% are black, 18% are Hispanic and 3% are Asian.",
"\"Many of these children come to live with their grandparents because of substance abuse or child maltreatment or abandonment,\" said Dr. Ottive Breedlove, associate director for operations at Project Healthy Grandparents, a community outreach research project that Georgia State University in Atlanta launched in 1995.",
"\"You're entering your late fifties or sixties, and you're thinking about retiring, settling down, as opposed to gearing up again to raise a family.\"",
"The project gives grandparent caretakers in eligible counties services for a year, with referrals for financial assistance, housing and health care.",
"An average of 60 to 75 grandparent-led families participate a year.",
"And there is a waiting list.",
"\"[The grandparents] don't get a rest,\" says child psychologist Dr. Judith M. Kinney, assistant director of the University of Maryland Counseling Center.",
"She says that 25% to 30% of the patients in her private practice are being raised by one or both grandparents.",
"\"They've been doing it for 40 years.\" Fongie Lanier, 57, who lives outside Atlanta, took responsibility for raising her three grandchildren in 1997 because her daughter had substance abuse problems and was sometimes incarcerated.",
"Lanier, a part-time assistant in a law office, says her daughter and grandchildren were living with her until her daughter left one day.",
"\"It was too much responsibility for her,\" she says.",
"Lanier says two of the three grandchildren also had medical challenges because of a rare blood disorder.",
"Now, her grandchildren are 23, 21 and 19, with the youngest about to start college.",
"\"Some of my friends have young kids, and I have grandkids,\" says Lanier, who got married and had her first child at 16.",
"Most of my friends, like me, got a much later start.",
"And we're not alone. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that the birth rate for women ages 40 to 44 rose 3% between 2008 and 2009 -- the only age group to have an increase for that time period.",
"Women are waiting longer to have children.",
"According to a 2009 report from the center, the average age of a mother's first birth jumped 3.6 years between 1970 and 2006, from 21.4 years to 25 years.",
"For black mothers, the average age rose from 21.7 to 22.7; for Latina mothers, the average age for a first child rose from 22.4 to 23.1.",
"No wonder observers are confused.",
"South Carolina stay-at-home mother LaVeda H. Mason, a writer, experienced age whiplash after her seventh child was born when she was 40.",
"Until then, a youthful face meant she was carded constantly.",
"No more. Two weeks after the first time she wasn't carded, the bigger shock came in a restaurant: \"The woman behind me looked at me and said, 'What a cute baby!",
"Is she your grandbaby?' I was speechless for 30 seconds until I realized my mouth was hanging open.",
"Then I just closed it and said, 'No, she's my daughter.'",
"... My mother said, 'Girls are having babies at 15, so if you have a baby at 15, and your child has a baby at 15 or 16, at 30 you're a grandmother.'",
"I like to think I'm not old enough to be a grandmother, but since my oldest is 21, it is possible.\"",
"My over-40-new-mom status might have come as a surprise to observers previously, but regional customs might explain why no one had blurted out the grandmother question before I moved to Atlanta.",
"Until recently, I lived in Los Angeles.",
"\"Southern black people, to me, treat other black people like family,\" says Duchess Harris, 42, author of \"Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama.\"",
"Harris and her husband had the last of their three children when she was 37.",
"She's an associate professor of American Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, but she was born in Virginia.",
"Maybe as more mothers wait longer to have children, the question \"Are you his grandmother?\"",
"eventually will be weighed as carefully as \"Are you pregnant?\"",
"You can't tell in a glance.",
"Tananarive Due is a writer based in Atlanta.",
"Her website is www.tananarivedue.com."
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"Many women are having children at a later age .",
"Meanwhile, more children are being raised by grandparents ."
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"(CNN) -- Sudanese billionaire and communications mogul Mo Ibrahim has issued a warning to African leaders clinging to power, saying people are no longer prepared to put up with bad governance on the continent.",
"Ibrahim says the face of Africa has changed and the Arab Spring has shown the world that the younger generation are not afraid to demand change.",
"\"There's a lot of African people who are educated and well informed and that's a better generation than ours and those people wont take nonsense,\" he said.",
"\"These are the people that went out in Tahrir Square, Tunis and Libya and bred havoc,\" he added.",
"The businessman's remarks come as his foundation awards its annual prize for good governance and leadership in Africa.",
"It has been two years since the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has awarded the accolade, which goes to candidates based on their \"exercise of leadership and the performance of their country during their time in office,\" according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation website.",
"The committee, made up of former leaders and Nobel Prize winners, said that there had been no worthy candidates in the previous two years.",
"\"They have a strict criteria, this is not a pension, this is a prize for excellence in leadership, it's not easy,\" said Ibrahim.",
"Former Cape Verde President, Pedro Verona Pires, who stepped down in August after 10 years in power, was recognized this year.",
"The group said that the leader had turned the cluster of islands off the West African coast into \"a model of democracy, stability and increased prosperity.\"",
"The chair of the prize committee, Salim Ahmed Salim, said.",
"\"Under his 10 years as president, the nation became only the second African country to graduate from the United Nation's Least Developed category and has won international recognition for its record on human rights and good governance.\"",
"The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership is one of the world's most valuable individual prizes.",
"Ibrahim made a fortune in the cell phone industry, established the foundation bearing his name in 2006.",
"Previous winners include Mozambique's former President, Joaquim Chissano and Botswana's President, Festus Mogae.",
"The $5 million award is paid over 10 years and $200,000 annually for life thereafter.",
"The Foundation will also consider funding good causes supported by the laureate.",
"Ibrahim says the prize is needed as leaders in African countries can sometimes be tempted to hang on to power for monetary reasons.",
"He says he had to start the foundation because leaders were not doing the job they were supposed to do.",
"President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Angola's President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos are two of the longest running leaders in Africa.",
"Both have been head of their respective countries for 32 years.",
"While Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been in power for 31 years since 1980.",
"The foundation uses an 84-criteria index to grade governance in Africa.",
"The top-governed African nations, according to the index, are Mauritius, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Botswana and South Africa.",
"But while there may not have been an award in the previous two years, Ibrahim predicts the foundation will be giving out more money in the future.",
"\"I think the quality of leaders coming to Africa now are really improving a lot and what is important in Africa is the rise in civil society,\" he said.",
"\"The pressure from civil society, I'm sure is going to bring forward and produce more and more wonderful leaders for our future,\" he continued.",
"The hope of the foundation is to help the continent move towards greater democracy and peaceful transitions of power.",
"However, Ibrahim believes that the game is up for leaders who cling to power for 30 to 40-years.",
"His cites Libya's former leader for 41-years, Moammar Gaddafi, as an example.",
"\"The message is clear to all this kind of generation of leadership: gentlemen time is up,\" he said.",
"\"Please retire, otherwise Tahrir square is coming to your country.\""
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"Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership was not awarded for two years running .",
"Former Cape Verde President, Pedro Verona Pires won prize this year ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The insistence that former Sen. John Edwards serve some jail time over allegations he broke campaign finance laws caused a collapse in plea negotiations between lawyers for the former presidential candidate and the Justice Department last week.",
"Edwards wanted to have as \"minimal\" impact on his two younger kids as possible, a source with knowledge of the talks confirmed to CNN Sunday.",
"Edwards has a 10-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter.",
"The Raleigh News and Observer, which first reported the story, said the Justice Department was insisting that Edwards serve six months in jail if he pleaded guilty.",
"After initially saying Edwards had to agree to plead guilty to a felony in earlier discussions, CNN is told prosecutors last week offered for him instead to plead guilty to some misdemeanors.",
"But the jail time was the breaking point.",
"\"He did not want to have an extended period of time away from his kids,\" said the source, who would not speak on the record because the details of the plea discussions have not been made public.",
"After the breakdown in negotiations, a grand jury indicted Edwards, a former Democratic vice presidential nominee, on six felony counts.",
"In court on Friday, Edwards pleaded not guilty.",
"\"I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others.",
"But I did not break the law. And I never, ever thought I was breaking the law,\" he told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.",
"The News and Observer also reported that Edwards' lawyers were not confident they would be allowed to urge a judge to consider alternatives for incarceration such as a halfway house, weekend passes or home arrest in order to give him more time with his children.",
"After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, Edwards is the primary caregiver for the two younger children."
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"Justice Department wanted six months' jail time, newspaper reports .",
"Ex-candidate indicted on charges of breaking campaign finance laws ."
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"(CNN) -- As 2010 draws to a close, we who report on the ever-evolving digital space have been given the perfect backdrop for looking back at the year that was and the year ahead.",
"In a year full of gray -- think of the debate over whether Facebook and WikiLeaks are forces for good or evil -- two high-profile attempts to make things black and white bubbled to the surface in the past few weeks: the federal government's rules on access to internet service and its proposed \"do not track\" registry for online advertising.",
"Both represent a significant shift in thinking about the internet, even if the results for the average American aren't immediately obvious.",
"For starters, an internet version of the \"do not call list\" for telemarketers would seem to destroy the holy grail that online publishers and advertisers have sought since the early days of the Web: advertising directly targeted to individual consumers' behavior.",
"Although marketers have long used cookies to track your Web surfing, recent innovations have given them a whole new level of precision.",
"Facebook's \"like\" button -- derided this year as a major privacy infraction because it exposes you and your preferences not just to friends but to advertisers -- has been installed on more than 2 million Web sites, with tens of thousands more adding it daily.",
"Geolocation services like Foursquare, in their infancy a year ago, now track the whereabouts of millions of users.",
"With smartphones growing ubiquitous and location-aware applications of all kinds becoming commonplace, advertising that knows both where you are and what you like is very much a reality.",
"Most advertisers and publishers do allow users to opt out of such targeting, but the Federal Trade Commission believes that simpler, more transparent options are needed.",
"The devil is in the details here: Opt-outs on obscure Web pages or hidden browser menus won't help consumers much, but in-your-face requirements that encourage more users to take their privacy more seriously may pose a huge problem to some of the Web's most promising companies.",
"Information and how it travels are also central to \"net neutrality,\" the buzzword for unrestricted access to internet services and content.",
"Rules passed this month by the Federal Communications Commission probably won't much alter the way you use the internet, but they pose interesting questions.",
"For starters, as an internet regulator, would the FCC have the authority -- through its new relationship with internet service providers -- to block a site like WikiLeaks, which posts information potentially harmful to government interests?",
"Thus far, we've seen the private sector self-regulate by cutting off services to WikiLeaks, but the new FCC-ISP dynamic could create intriguing (frightening?)",
"scenarios down the road as WikiLeaks intensifies its document dumps, which seems likely.",
"Other internet issues that seized our attention in 2010 are at least tangentially related to this debate.",
"A largely unregulated internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.",
"Concern over this came to a head this year, with social networking services taking heat for their role in cyberbullying.",
"Perhaps the most prominent example of internet harassment came in September, when Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi committed suicide after a video stream set up without his knowledge showed his sexual encounter with a man in his dorm room.",
"Although prosecution of cyberbullies falls out of the FCC's jurisdiction, provisions in the net neutrality rules, such as the ability for businesses that provide internet access (like coffee shops and bookstores) to block content as they see fit, have the potential to cut off a readily available source of the anonymity that bullying thrives on.",
"Of course, blocking access to the likes of Facebook and Twitter has negative repercussions too, especially as more consumers turn to these services both for communication and to share news and information.",
"But like much of what went on in 2010, that's still a gray area, too.",
"The reality of the year ahead probably falls somewhere between doomsday scenarios and an internet that continues to evolve for both consumers and big business.",
"Information is coming of age, and the stage has now been set for some interesting all-but-inevitable conflicts that will probably be right there on the surface when we take a look again, roughly 365 days from now.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Adam Ostrow."
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"Adam Ostrow says 2010 brought gray areas such as WikiLeaks and privacy issues .",
"He says new rules on internet access and proposed \"do not track\" registry loom .",
"These raise issues for new year of who gains, cedes control on the internet, he says .",
"Ostrow: Consumer, business control, privacy, bullying are key in evolving information age ."
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"Idaho Falls, Idaho (CNN) -- Forget, for the moment, about computer whiz kids who download copyrighted music for free.",
"Forget, too, about sophisticated hackers who can steal identities.",
"Focus instead on the next wave of potential computer miscreants -- criminals who can penetrate corporate computer systems to turn valves, start pumps or surge power at factories or electrical plants.",
"They might even be able to hit chemical facilities.",
"Those folks are on the minds of the researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory, where the federal government regularly trains industry leaders on how to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.",
"In the not-so-distant past, instructors here say, security officials relied on the \"3 Gs\" -- guns, gates and guards -- to protect infrastructure from intrusions.",
"But increasingly mechanical systems inside those gates are being linked to computers and controlled via networks and cyberspace.",
"That has left industrial control systems vulnerable to attack.",
"CNN: Hackers take aim at real-world targets .",
"To demonstrate the vulnerability, the Department of Homeland Security and Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls recently showed reporters a cyberattack on a mock-up of a chemical facility.",
"In the exercise, a small group of \"Red Team\" attackers staged an assault on the chemical plant.",
"A larger group of \"Blue Team\" defenders sought to protect that mock-up building, which was constructed of barrel-size containers of water connected by pipes and pumps such as those found in chemical plants.",
"The exercise used concepts that are relevant in the real world.",
"Among them: . Exploiting corporate trust .",
"The Red Team attackers, looking for access to the computer network, don't look for direct access to the control systems they covet.",
"They know the vulnerability is elsewhere -- most likely in the executive offices of the fictitious chemical company.",
"Executives frequently have access to internal computers networks, so they'll have timely access to information about productivity, output and information important to the market.",
"They also frequently have access, perhaps indirectly, to networks that link to control systems.",
"Assailants know they can \"exploit the trust relationship.\"",
"Getting a toehold into a system .",
"In the Idaho exercise, Red Team members get a toehold by phishing, a tactic also used by hackers to steal financial or other information.",
"They send an e-mail that appears to be from a friend or a legitimate organization to a representative, which contains malicious software and which opens a link between the sender's computer and the corporate computer.",
"Subverting a system's security .",
"Having established a toehold on the chemical company's computer, the Red Team discovers a surveillance camera in the chemical plant's control room.",
"The camera, intended to safeguard the chemical plant, can now be turned against it.",
"The Red Team can use the camera to observe the plant's staffing levels or zoom in on control panels and mechanical devices, gathering information that will help them in their attack.",
"And once the attack is launched, they can each watch their opponent's response.",
"The 'man in the middle' In sophisticated attacks, the Red Team can even insert itself between the machine and the machine's operator.",
"The team can control the amount of water through a pump, while indicating to the machine's operator that everything remains normal.",
"Red Team-Blue Team exercises typically last between eight to 12 hours, and are followed by a \"hot wash\" in which a \"White Team\" analyzes the attack and reviews ways to prevent attacks and respond to them.",
"Fears of online intrusions on industrial control systems are not theoretical.",
"In a then-classified 2007 demonstration at Idaho, experimenters using computer inputs altered a large electric power generator, causing it to self-destruct.",
"The experiment, known as \"Aurora,\" was the first demonstration that attackers could not only turn a mechanical device on or off but could destroy it.",
"Then in 2010, a computer worm known as Stuxnet was discovered after it spread indiscriminately but is believed to have targeted equipment used by Iran to enrich uranium.",
"The source of the worm has not been identified.",
"Department of Homeland Security officials say attacks on industrial systems are occurring.",
"Attackers are \"kicking on the doors\" of industrial systems, said Greg Schaffer, acting deputy under secretary of the department's National Protection and Programs Directorate."
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"Hackers could target chemical plants, factories, water treatment centers .",
"Mechanical systems are increasingly linked to computers, making them vulnerable ."
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"(CNN) -- When does a cult become a religion?",
"When the cult leader dies.",
"Only then do L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics practitioners become the religion of Scientology, the followers of Joseph Smith become full-fledged Mormons, or -- by the same logic -- a few anti-establishment apostles become Christianity.",
"What then of the cult of Apple after the death of its own leader, Steve Jobs?",
"I like Apple products as much as any user, and respect the contributions that Apple under Jobs' leadership made to the co-evolution of human beings and their technologies.",
"But all along I have also been aware of the closed nature of Apple technologies, as well as the leap of faith that has been required to accept Jobs' promise that doing things in some new way will be \"fantastic.\"",
"Without Jobs telling us to cross the chasm, will we continue to embrace each of Apple's future revolutions in hardware, software or both?",
"For most of us, particularly those of us who want to know as little as possible about technology in order to use it, Apple has been a perfect answer.",
"As members of the first generation of a digital society -- digital immigrants, if you will -- we could not relate to computers and software directly.",
"Steve Jobs found and employed interfaces that quite literally translated the directories and sub-directories of computers to the files and folders of a desktop.",
"He promoted real world metaphors for otherwise obscure processes, making the immense power of computers accessible to many of us much sooner and more completely than we would have achieved without him.",
"And moving on from there, he and his teams liberated digital music files with iTunes and the iPod, and popularized the smartphone with the iPhone.",
"At each step, however, we consumers and users had to make certain compromises.",
"Some of them we know about, and others most of us are much less aware of, at least right now.",
"Back when Jobs returned to Apple and came out with the iMac, many users were aghast at being asked to purchase a computer with no floppy drive!",
"Sure, Steve saw the writing on the wall (or felt confident enough to scribble it up there himself), and decided for us that floppy drives were obsolete.",
"If you can burn CDs, why mess with floppies?",
"Besides, Internet speeds were starting to increase and it was just a matter of time before people exchanged files by e-mail instead of handing and mailing physical disks to one another.",
"But to take this leap required a bit of faith from consumers.",
"It was a level of faith that I suspect only a leader as charismatic as Jobs could elicit from us.",
"Time after time, Jobs told us to trust him, and time after time we did.",
"No serial port?",
"No firewire? No Flash? No keyboard? Just trust Steve, he has a vision for how this is all going to work out.",
"Meanwhile, all along the way, we were also being asked to surrender a certain degree of authority over our own devices.",
"Part of the reason Apple products work so well is that they are closed to our intervention.",
"Unlike Microsoft PC's, early Apple products only worked with Apple-made peripherals.",
"That's why Apple machines never (or very rarely) had conflicts or crashes.",
"They weren't trying to accommodate everybody else's printers and modems and drivers.",
"Likewise, Apple iPhones are closed systems.",
"Unless we \"jailbreak\" our phones, software and content must be purchased from Apple.",
"The iPhone's capabilities are similarly limited to activities that Apple deems appropriate and profitable for itself and its partners.",
"As beginning users, which most of us are, these are compromises we don't really care too much about.",
"Who wanted to do something with his phone that Jobs said was unnecessary, anyway?",
"But as we get increasingly comfortable with computers and networking, we may start to want to have more of a say in the way we use our devices and for what purposes.",
"Just like AOL subscribers who finally decided they could leave the wading pool and swim out to the real Internet, Apple users might eventually trust themselves to make their own decisions about what constitutes the appropriate use of a computer or smartphone.",
"At the very least, our willingness to trust Jobs may be compromised by the fact that he is gone.",
"Without him telling us to take a counterintuitive leap with him into the future equivalent of iTunes, tablets or gesture-based displays, will we go?",
"Until now, the strangeness, learning curve and doubt have been assuaged by the voice of Jobs himself.",
"From here on, we'll have to believe that this is what Jobs would have meant for us.",
"The struggle to divine the will of Jobs has already begun.",
"Plans for a future Apple TV are already rumored to be a secret Jobs project.",
"And the next few iterations of the Mac and iPhone operating systems, as well as whatever will one day replace them, will no doubt be credited to plans and conversations with Jobs before his death.",
"The bigger an adjustment any new Apple technology requires of us, the more heavily it will be touted as the will of Jobs.",
"Once the last secret plans penned by Jobs himself are revealed, it will be up to his innermost circle to claim they now speak for Jobs, that they really do know what it is he meant and meant for us.",
"Some will argue that he meant for Apple to become a content delivery system that secured the financial interests of creators.",
"Others will claim he meant for technology to be free.",
"Still others will see Jobs guiding Apple technologies from production to consumption in order to stave off the content glut and create a market for professionals.",
"Meanwhile, those who lose internal Apple battles will spin off their own companies, convinced they are the true lineage of Jobs.",
"Yes, very big corporations have survived after the departure of their founding visionaries.",
"As many have argued, Disney managed to do pretty well after the departure of Walt.",
"But Disney is a content company.",
"Like the founders of the most successful religions, Walt Disney left behind a mythology that stood in his place: Mickey, Snow White, Dumbo, Tomorrowland.",
"Disney is embodied by this bible of stories.",
"Operating systems and technologies are not content, and they don't live on in the same way as foundational myths.",
"One device or system is simply replaced by another, which creates discontinuity, fear and confusion.",
"Great technology ideas require us to change the way we actually do things.",
"Without Jobs to confirm the insane greatness of such changes, it will be up to us to judge whether a given innovation really is in the spirit of Jobs.",
"And I'm not sure Apple can afford for us to stop and think before rushing to line up outside the Apple store for the next sacrament.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Douglas Rushkoff."
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"He says Jobs guided many into digital society with user-friendly computers .",
"He says Jobs told users what they did and didn't need; they trusted his judgment .",
"Rushkoff: As consumers rely on their own judgment, not Jobs', will they stay with Apple?"
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher announced their split on Thursday, but tensions have been building for some time.",
"\"Ashton is unhappy; [Demi]'s unhappy,\" a source tells PEOPLE.",
"\"It just got to a point where they had to end it.\"",
"Despite longtime problems, the exes did try to work on their relationship.",
"Unfortunately, their issues -- which went beyond Kutcher's alleged infidelities -- couldn't be resolved.",
"\"The fighting could get pretty intense,\" an additional source says of Kutcher, 33, and Moore, 49.",
"\"Whatever counseling they did was fine for a quick fix but could not get to the heart of the problem.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"A source says tensions between Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have been building for some time .",
"\"It just got to a point where they had to end it,\" the source says .",
"\"The fighting could get pretty intense,\" another source says ."
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"(CNN) -- Thousands of women demonstrated Monday in front of Yemen's foreign ministry in the capital, Sanaa, demanding U.N. intervention in the ongoing unrest in the Persian Gulf nation, residents and eyewitnesses said.",
"The protest comes a day after the first woman was killed in a demonstration against the government, according to opposition activists.",
"The women called for sanctions against President Ali Abdullah Saleh and asked that he be tried by the International Criminal Court.",
"They also alleged that snipers were on the rooftop of the foreign ministry Sunday.",
"The protests came hours after gunfire and loud explosions reverberated throughout the capital early Monday.",
"Medics in Change Square said at least four people were killed and another 26 injured after government forces raided parts of the capital.",
"Another eight people died and 20 were injured in government raids on civilian property, said Abdulqawi al-Qaisi, a prominent opposition leader and head of the Sadeq Ahmar media office.",
"\"The death toll is expected to rise as a number of the injured are in critical condition,\" he said.",
"According to eyewitnesses, government security forces clashed with tribesmen loyal to Hashid tribal leader Sadeq Al-Ahmar in the Hasabah neighborhood in northern Sanaa.",
"Government forces attacked the tribal leader's family residences, al-Qaisi said.",
"\"The government attacks against innocent civilians and the Ahmar family continued for hours and hundreds of explosions were heard throughout the morning, causing fear throughout the capital,\" he said.",
"Residents and witnesses also reported that the Republican Guard was bombarding the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division, loyal to Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, who withdrew his support for Saleh in March.",
"The embattled Saleh said Sunday that \"strong documentation of the cooperation\" between al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood indicate a military coup that is destabilizing the country.",
"He described the opposition as \"insane people, who can't sleep and only want to take power.\"",
"\"The international community must stop Saleh from killing his own people,\" al-Qaisi said Monday.",
"\"If no intervention takes place, he will continue killing and the casualties will rise.\"",
"On Sunday night, three people died in Sanaa when a rocket-propelled grenade hit bystanders, medics said.",
"Earlier Sunday, Yemeni security forces opened fired on demonstrators gathering for a planned march in the capital, killing five people and injuring 54 others, according to a medic on the scene.",
"In a separate demonstration in the city of Taiz, a government sniper killed a woman with a shot to the head, medics and eyewitnesses said.",
"Medics identified the woman as Aziza Othman Kaleb.",
"Snipers also injured four others who were next to the woman in the march, the sources said.",
"Opposition activists said the slain woman was 20 and said she was the first female to be killed while marching against the government.",
"CNN could not independently confirm that claim.",
"Activist Atiaf Alwazir called the shooting of a woman \"a sign that the government security forces will not really stop shooting, even if there are women.\"",
"\"Women may have been beaten, arrested at times -- but never directly shot at and this is a scary escalation,\" she said.",
"The crackdown in Sanaa was also bloody, doctors said.",
"\"The injured are entering the hospital by the minute.",
"We need help. We call on people to donate blood for the injured,\" said Mohammed Al-Qubati, who works at a field hospital in Change Square.",
"Five of the wounded are in critical condition, he said from the square that has become the center of protests against Saleh.",
"Protesters carried signs with slogans including: \"Saleh kills and the world watches.",
"Is this the justice the West preaches?\"",
"according to witnesses and activists.",
"Others carried flowers or signs that said: \"We are not armed, Don't attack us with gunfire,\" witnesses said Sunday.",
"CNN has not independently confirmed the details of casualties in Sanaa or Taiz, and the government has not yet responded to requests for comment.",
"Saleh, meeting Sunday with Yemeni leaders, said members of the U.N. Security Council don't understand the true picture in his country, the state news agency Saba reported.",
"He also said those who participate in \"heavily armed marches\" are killing soldiers.",
"\"Are these peaceful acts?\"",
"he asked, according to the news agency.",
"Last week, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Sanaa, marching, chanting and calling for the United Nations to come out with a firm resolution in support for change in the country.",
"For its part, the government said it is trying to come up with a solution to end the political stalemate.",
"\"The ruling party is serious on finding a solution to the political crisis from its roots to ensure they don't erupt in the future,\" said Tareq Shami, spokesman for the General People's Congress, the ruling party.",
"CNN senior State Department producer Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"Women protesters ask for sanctions against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh .",
"Heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the capital of Yemen .",
"Protesters have been calling for Saleh to step down for months ."
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"(CNN) -- Europe's financial crisis claimed its second scalp in three days when Italy's Silvio Berlusconi announced he will step down after parliament approves new austerity measures in an effort to stave off economic collapse.",
"The scandal-plagued prime minister will follow his Greek counterpart George Papandreou into early retirement as fears grow that Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy, may default on its debt.",
"Italy has failed to implement austerity measures designed to reduce its mammoth €1.9 trillion debt load -- nearly six times that of Greece -- and the cost to the country of borrowing more money to pay off that debt is spiraling out of control.",
"While no one knows yet whether Italy will default, analysts say that the country is vastly too big to bail out -- and that the consequences for the world economy of a default would be a disaster.",
"What happens next?",
"Much like Greek premier Papandreou, Berlusconi said he will not resign until the government passes harsh austerity measures recommended by eurozone leaders aimed at trimming Italy's debt.",
"The next step is for the Italian parliament to consider and vote on the measures -- which include tax rises and an increase in the retirement age -- within the next several weeks.",
"After the parliamentary votes Berlusconi will tender his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano, who will then begin consultations with lawmakers to decide whether to form a government or call for elections.",
"Berlusconi and members of the Northern League party want elections as soon as possible, but other lawmakers and European leaders would like to see an interim government composed of non-partisan technocrats that could quickly implement austerity measures in order to reassure global markets and restore confidence in the country.",
"Business figures tapped to lead a potential technocratic interim government include Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of Ferrari, and Alessandro Profumo, former CEO of Italy's largest bank UniCredit.",
"Political options that have been floated include Angelino Alfano, known to be Berlusconi's hand-picked successor, Gianni Letta, Berlusconi's chief of staff, or Mario Monti, a former commissioner with the European Union.",
"No one is a fan of uncertainty, and no one is going to invest in a debt-ridden country without a plan for recovery -- much less one without a functioning government -- so Italy's short-term plan will be to get these austerity measures passed, see Berlusconi off, and hold new elections so at least international lenders will know who they're dealing with.",
"Check out CNN's interactive map of European debt at a glance .",
"What's wrong with Italy?",
"The basic problem is that it's becoming prohibitively expensive for Italy to borrow money to finance its debt -- a problem rooted in investor confidence in the debt-laden country.",
"With a defunct government and a shrinking economy, Italy is finding it increasingly difficult to find people willing to lend it money in order to reduce its mammoth €1.9 trillion debt load, which is nearly six times that of Greece.",
"The less confidence there is in a country, the higher the bond yields, or rate, that country will have to pay in order to secure more money.",
"Right now confidence in Italy is at a euro-era low, which means Italy is paying more than ever to finance its debt.",
"Business 360 blog on Italy: Too big to fail, too big to bail .",
"What is a bond yield?",
"A bond yield is basically another term for the rate Italy has to pay to lenders who buy its government bonds.",
"The 10-year government bond is the standard bond used to measure the relative interest rates from country to country.",
"A government raises money to pay its bills by selling these bonds -- so the higher the yield or rate, the more it costs Italy to borrow money in order to pay its debts.",
"Italy's 10-year bond yield hit a staggering record high of 7.3% on Wednesday morning; by contrast, the bond yield for Germany -- a relatively healthy economy -- closed at 1.8% on Tuesday night.",
"Italy will already have to borrow at least €300 billion -- nearly the total Greece owes to lenders -- next year alone to pay off maturing debts, and the worry is that the skyrocketing interest rates on Italian bonds may soon make it too expensive for the country to continue borrowing money.",
"Why are Italy's bond yields so high?",
"Bond yields are driven by confidence and based on supply and demand.",
"The more confident investors are in the health of the Italian economy, the more government bonds, or sovereign debt, the investors will buy.",
"The more bonds that are being bought, the lower the rates will be on the bonds -- meaning Italy can borrow money to pay its bills at relatively cheap rates.",
"When confidence in an economy drops, however, fewer investors are willing to invest money in that country's bonds, which is precisely what has happened in Italy.",
"Italy's bonds are unattractive to investors because there are fears about the country's ability to pay off long-term debt based on current economic projections.",
"Why is a 7% yield considered the point of no return?",
"Greece, Ireland and Portugal were all forced to seek bailouts once their bond yields surpassed and remained above the 7% mark for an extended period of time.",
"While there is nothing about the 7% figure that automatically triggers a bailout -- something that would be impossible in Italy's case anyway, as Europe simply cannot afford to bail out the country -- experts do see the rate as difficult to overcome.",
"Greece, Ireland and Portugal all needed bailouts within two months of their bond yields breaching and then remaining above 7%.",
"The recent high yields are particularly concerning because the European Central Bank has been buying Italian bonds since the start of August in an effort to create a sort of false demand, which would then drive the rate down to a manageable level.",
"That has not worked, but it could be a lot worse had the ECB not taken the action at all.",
"How can Italy get out of this mess?",
"Italy will default on its debt if it doesn't figure out a way to get its bond yields down to a manageable level.",
"The yields won't budge until Italian lawmakers take concrete steps to reassure international lenders that the country is a safe bet.",
"\"Italy will not be out of the heat of bond markets until a solid and stable government actually implements austerity and undertakes reforms with strong credible leadership,\" said Jan Randolph, head of sovereign risk at IHS Global Insight.",
"Even if they pass these the austerity proposals, some economists fear Italy will still drown in debt if it doesn't develop more drastic measures.",
"The ECB should also increase its purchasing of Italian bonds in order to make it cheaper for Italy to raise money, according to Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley.",
"\"Unless yields on those bonds fall to German levels, there is no way that Italy's debt arithmetic can be made to add up,\" he wrote.",
"How would an Italian default affect the world?",
"A default by Italy, the world's eight-largest economy with the world's fourth-largest stock of outstanding government bonds, could have a disastrous effect on many European banks and global markets, experts say.",
"European banks, particularly those in Germany and France, are the largest holders of Italian debt and would be hit the hardest by a default.",
"A default would also wreak havoc on already-shaky global markets and could dash any hopes of economic growth in Europe for the foreseeable future.",
"As concerns continue to grow around Italy, the head of the International Monetary Fund painted a stark picture of the challenges facing the world's economic stability.",
"\"The global economy has entered a dangerous and uncertain phase,\" Christine Lagarde said in remarks prepared for a speech at the International Finance Forum in Beijing.",
"\"If we do not act, and act together, we could enter a downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability and a collapse in global demand.\"",
"\"Ultimately, we could face a lost decade of low growth and high unemployment,\" she said.",
"CNN's Joshua Levs, Hada Messia and Nina dos Santos contributed to this report."
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"Italy's bond yields have passed the dangerous 7% threshold .",
"Bond yields represent investor confidence in a country's ability to repay its debt .",
"Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced he will resign following the passage of austerity measures .",
"With a debt pile of nearly 2 trillion euros, Italy is seen as too big for Europe to bail out ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- Intel, which dominates the PC market but has struggled to break into smartphones, is getting a hand from Google.",
"Upcoming versions of Android, the No.",
"1 smartphone operating system from Google, will be compatible with Intel processors, the companies announced at Intel's developer conference on Tuesday.",
"\"We want to make Intel architecture the platform of choice for smartphones,\" Intel CEO Paul Otellini said onstage.",
"\"Every time we have collaborated with Google, good things have come out of it.\"",
"The partnership will aid Intel in delivering on its promise to finally release smartphones with its technologies by the middle of 2012.",
"Google may benefit from accommodating a company that has significant influence in computers, which is the market Google is struggling to break into with its Chromebook project.",
"The two companies already collaborate on that laptop operating system.",
"\"The partnership has been great,\" said Andy Rubin, Google's executive for mobile development, who took the stage at Intel's conference to announce the deal.",
"In his keynote, Otellini touted Intel's Ultrabook concept, which the company has been reportedly nudging partners to embrace.",
"The laptop concept facilitates very thin, light and affordable computers with batteries that can last for about a full day on a single charge.",
"They look similar to Apple's MacBook Air, which uses Intel's Core processor.",
"Otellini also discussed a new processor, slated for 2013, called Haswell.",
"Devices with the chip can remain connected to the Internet in standby mode for 10 days before the battery depletes, he said.",
"Haswell will be tailored to Ultrabooks and tablets running Windows 8, the new operating system Microsoft was showing at the same time at its own conference in Anaheim, California.",
"\"Computing means a lot more than just computers,\" Otellini said.",
"\"Just as computing has evolved, so too has Intel's architecture.\"",
"Intel's recent focus on reducing energy consumption, thereby improving battery life, should bolster its efforts in smartphones, analysts say.",
"The company is also working on more compact chips, which it is calling \"3-D transistors\" because of the unique way the microscopic parts are situated.",
"Google and Intel did not say which chip will power upcoming Android phones or which manufacturers have agreed to make devices for it.",
"Most smartphones and tablets use chips designed by ARM Holdings, which are popular for their efficiency.",
"The next version of Android for phones and tablets, called Ice-Cream Sandwich, will debut next month or in November, Google has said."
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"Android currently works with processors designed by ARM .",
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"(CNN) -- It's been a big tourism year for the Big Apple.",
"New York expects to draw more than 50 million visitors by the end of 2011 -- a record for the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.",
"\"While playing host to the world isn't new for us, the number of visitors we're welcoming in recent years is new,\" Bloomberg said during a ceremony in Times Square, while surrounded by cheering tourism officials.",
"\"That means more guests in our hotels, more shoppers in our stores, larger audiences in our museums and theaters, more diners at our restaurants.\"",
"The city reached the milestone a year ahead of schedule, Bloomberg said.",
"Throughout 2011, New York was the No.",
"1 city and overseas destination in the United States, his office added.",
"To celebrate, the mayor named newlyweds Craig and Lucy Johnson from Lichfield, England, as the honorary 50 millionth visitors to New York and presented them with a \"golden ticket\" to the city.",
"The couple will receive thousands of dollars' worth of gift cards from New York retailers and tickets to a Broadway show.",
"The Johnsons were among the 10.1 million international visitors to come to the city this year.",
"Another 40.1 million tourists came from within U.S. borders.",
"Tourism is a huge moneymaker for the city, generating $32 billion in visitor spending and $48 billion in economic impact, Bloomberg's office said.",
"\"New York City's quality of life has contributed to this great success, and we are confident we will sustain the success of our tourism industry in the months and years ahead,\" Bloomberg said."
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"The number of tourists is a record for the city .",
"The city reached the milestone a year ahead of schedule, mayor says ."
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"New York (CNN) -- In Manhattan's protest hub, the big decisions are made by consensus.",
"Each day in the privately owned Zuccotti Park, where Wall Street protesters have encamped for more than a month, demonstrators engage in a slow, seemingly cumbersome process of making their voices heard.",
"The group, which calls itself Occupy Wall Street, arranges in a half-circle inside the city's financial district for what demonstrators say is their General Assembly, listening to the concerns of those who decide to participate before voting on issues thought to affect them all.",
"Police prevent the use of loudspeakers.",
"So the group, undeterred, instead echoes the voice of whomever is speaking, rendering their comments much more audible to the hundreds that gather each day.",
"And their topics range: From the practical (such as where to march and when) to the mundane (like concerns about trash collection), nothing reaches a conclusion until almost the entire group agrees.",
"Wall Street demonstrations start second month .",
"The meetings, meanwhile, have cropped up in other cities, while similar demonstrations have taken hold in dozens of cities nationwide and around the world.",
"The protesters in Zuccotti Park commonly say it's democracy in action, and it works.",
"\"The idea of a General Assembly -- a place where people can air their grievances against the government -- that does not happen anymore in America,\" said Lorenzo Serna, a protester and camp volunteer.",
"\"We have created that space here, so I already think we are a success.\"",
"But the process can be messy.",
"At a recent General Assembly meeting in New York, a demonstrator -- unhappy with the agreed-to rules banning drugs and alcohol -- decided he would be disruptive, even announcing his intention to the group.",
"The group, however, permitted his comments, apparently not wanting to alienate anyone.",
"Earlier this month, Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, showed up at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Atlanta and asked if he could address the crowd.",
"The distinguished civil rights leader wanted to speak to the people in his district, and at first, it looked like he had the support of the group.",
"But then, one man, while acknowledging Lewis' contributions to society, said the Occupy Wall Street movement is a Democratic process, \"in which no singular human being is inherently more valuable than any other human being.\"",
"That led to a 10-minute group discussion before it was decided by consensus that Lewis should not be allowed to speak.",
"Blog: 'Occupy' movement goes global .",
"Consensus-building through a group process clearly has its shortcomings.",
"But some experts on the democratic process see it as an effective means to an end.",
"\"Setting an effective group process, we think, is really the only way to move things forward,\" said Maya Lampson, director of the Leadership New York program at the Coro New York Leadership Center.",
"Coro is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that trains people to be effective, ethical leaders in a Democratic system.",
"\"Having a consensus decision-making process allows for inclusivity and also more of a sense of buy-in and ownership,\" Lampson said, \"so when decisions do get made, things can move forward a little more rapidly.\"",
"She has high hopes that the Occupy Wall Street movement will effect change in some way.",
"Marty Linsky does not.",
"\"Because they are committed to this process, what they agree on is becoming more and more abstract,\" the co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates said.",
"His company is often called to help organizations turn a bunch of good ideas and recommendations into action with a positive outcome.",
"He doesn't see that happening with Occupy Wall Street.",
"\"I think that's the danger of this kind of process,\" Linsky said.",
"\"If we say we're going to operate by consensus, which is everybody has to agree, well, the only way you can get everybody to agree when people have different agendas is to agree on something that is so ethereal as to be meaningless.\"",
"Linsky warns that this addiction to a process in which everybody has a voice could spell the demise for Occupy Wall Street.",
"His advice to people taking part in the demonstrations is to run for office, work for a campaign and learn from the tea party.",
"\"Tea party folks understood that if they were actually going to create change as opposed to just complain ... they had to figure out a way to influence directly the decisions that people made.\"",
"One thing Linsky thinks the Occupy Wall Street movement has working in its favor is that it's constantly growing.",
"\"These folks -- like the tea party people -- have numbers,\" he said, \"and numbers in a Democratic setting are an incredibly important resource and a powerful counterweight to dollars.\"",
"In order for that to be an effective tool in achieving whatever it is the Occupy Wall Street movement eventually decides to do, Linsky said someone is going to have to assume leadership.",
"\"If someone were to actually try to shape and form that movement into something that actually might effect change, that person is going to annoy a lot of those people in Zuccotti Park.\"",
"Linsky said anyone in a leadership role within the movement will automatically make enemies because he or she will have to put some people's agendas on hold.",
"The leadership role is starting to be filled, not by one person but two dozen people.",
"They call themselves the Demands Committee.",
"They're meeting regularly in New York to discuss possible actionable demands: a list they can present to the entire movement.",
"This being a group process, they say the eventual list will be adopted only if it is approved by more than two-thirds of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators."
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"Protesters get organized with daily meetings called their General Assembly .",
"Protesters say this is democracy in action, but the movement's future remains unclear .",
"Decision-making process, use of inclusivity can be slow and messy, but movement is growing ."
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"London (CNN) -- The looting of a large collection of priceless coins, statues and jewelry from a bank vault during Libya's recent civil war has highlighted the risk of looting during times of conflict.",
"Interpol is hunting for the hoard of Roman and Hellenistic objects -- dubbed the \"Benghazi Treasure\" --stolen from the city's Commercial Bank in May 2011.",
"But the theft is not an isolated incident.",
"According to UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture Francesco Bandarin, the looting of antiquities and archaeological sites occurs regularly during times of conflict and even during peacetime.",
"It is a problem that the UN agency is constantly battling.",
"\"In the present moment it is difficult for us to do much because the situation is still very precarious, there is no administration in place in [Libya], there are difficulties in communicating,\" said Bandarin.",
"Bandarin's main fear is that the \"Benghazi Treasure\" will be dispersed or, worse, in the case of the coins, melted down and sold.",
"The thieves reportedly drilled through the concrete ceiling of the bank vault to reach the coins and took only the most valuable items.",
"\"It looks targeted and well-planned, they knew what they were doing,\" said Dr. Hafed Walda, a Libyan-born archaeologist and research fellow at King's College, London.",
"Few records of the treasure survive, making it even more difficult to locate, though experts believe the collection contained ancient coins excavated from Cyrenaica in Eastern Libya, as well as statues and some jewelry dating from later periods.",
"Rumors that artifacts from the collection have surfaced in Egypt and in Tripoli are unconfirmed, and the race to find the treasure is ongoing.",
"So what can be done to prevent such thefts occurring in future and how to retrieve stolen items?",
"\"We have very different outcomes with these things,\" admitted Bandarin.",
"\"The recovery of objects stolen from the museum in Baghdad [during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003] was relatively successful, most of the things were returned but this one is high risk,\" he said.",
"Authorities have some tools at their disposal: The 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, and the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.",
"In the case of Libya, precise co-ordinates for major sites of archaeological interest were given to NATO so that they could avoid them during bombing raids.",
"But it is the theft of antiquities and their eventual sale that worries Bandarin most.",
"\"It remains the fourth or fifth biggest criminal industry in the world,\" he said of the illegal trade, adding that countries with volatile governments tend to be most at risk.",
"Paul Bennett is head of British mission \"The Society for Libyan Studies,\" which promotes and co-ordinates the activities of scholars working on the archaeology, history, linguistics and natural history of Libya.",
"\"It is certain that there are organized bands of antiquities thieves going across the border into Egypt,\" he said, citing reports of grave robbing in sites in Libya.",
"\"The problem is on the border [with Egypt], it's become very porous.",
"We need to see far more collaboration going on between the border patrols to stop the illicit trade in antiquities,\" he said.",
"\"We do have to mobilize the Egyptians because clearly, the treasure has gone through Egypt, as that is the closest border,\" said Bandarin.",
"\"But even Egypt is not in the best position to help right now,\" he continued.",
"Awareness of the problem of cultural crimes is one of the biggest challenges UNESCO faces.",
"\"It's considered less of a crime, for reasons I don't understand,\" agreed Bandarin.",
"He hopes UNESCO will one day be as successful in combating the trade as his colleagues at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).",
"\"They are extremely effective, there is almost a mass consciousness about (the protection of endangered animals) and that's not the case with us,\" he said.",
"But while the theft of the \"Benghazi Treasure\" signifies a devastating loss, Libyans are credited with doing much to protect their treasures since the fighting erupted.",
"\"Throughout the conflict, locals did an enormous amount to keep their heritage safe, standing guard at sites and museums,\" said Bennett.",
"\"They put themselves at risk and if it hadn't been for them, it would have been a lot worse,\" he continued.",
"As for the missing \"Benghazi Treasure,\" it remains for auction houses and customs offices around the world to be extra vigilant.",
"UNESCO and Interpol will do what they can to make the issue more visible, said Bandarin.",
"The task is now for Libya to create a strong cultural administration to keep its treasures safe."
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"Interpol hunting for looted \"Benghazi Treasure,\" cache of objects, ancient Roman and Greek coins .",
"Theft highlights problem of looting of artifacts during times of conflict .",
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"(CNN) -- IndyCar said it has launched an investigation into the 15-vehicle wreck that claimed the life of driver Dan Wheldon and expects to have preliminary findings within weeks.",
"The organization said Wednesday individual members of various motorsports bodies will help it determine factors involved in the fiery incident Sunday at the Las Vegas Indy 300.",
"IndyCar said it had incorrectly stated Tuesday that the Automobile Competition Committee of the United States (ACCUS) and the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the national and international governing organizations, were formally involved in the investigation.",
"The violent crash raised fresh questions about safety, both in motor sports, generally, and at the Las Vegas track, specifically.",
"Wheldon, a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, had been pressing efforts to address such concerns.",
"In an early October story posted on IndyCar.com, the racing series' official website, IndyCar Vice President Will Phillips singled out the 33-year-old driver, his team and Italian manufacturer Dallara for their efforts to fine-tune a safer car model for the 2012 season.",
"Weeks ago, Wheldon was behind the wheel of a new prototype car for the IZOD IndyCar racing series -- one meant to make his sport safer.",
"\"He's focused on what's been needed from him to provide for the feedback to Dallara and be consistent and concise,\" Phillips said then of Wheldon.",
"\"You couldn't have asked for more.\" Had he won Sunday's race, the Englishman with the ready smile and engaging manner would have earned a $5 million payout.",
"Instead, he was near the back of the 34-car field when he got mixed up in a crash that featured numerous cars spinning out of control and bursting into flames, spewing smoke and debris.",
"IndyCar on Tuesday said it was saddened by Wheldon's death.",
"\"The safety of our drivers, their crews, IndyCar staff, racetrack staff and spectators is always our paramount concern,\" IndyCar said in a statement, declining to comment further on the probe.",
"A public memorial service for Wheldon will be held on Sunday at the Conseco Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis, IndyCar said.",
"A fund has been established to help provide for his family.",
"Wheldon was survived by his wife, Susie, and two young sons.",
"Two drivers seriously injured in the wreck -- J.R. Hildebrand and Pippa Mann -- were released Monday from the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, said IndyCar.",
"Wheldon's death was the first for the IndyCar circuit since March 2006, when driver Paul Dana was killed in a two-car crash while warming up for the season-opening race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.",
"One of the most famous racing deaths was that of the elder Dale Earnhardt in NASCAR's 2001 Daytona 500.",
"Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim said Monday that the sheer speed of race cars, and the minimal distance separating them, means danger lurks around every turn and on every straightaway.",
"Wheldon, for example, was bunched with several other vehicles cruising at about 220 mph when Sunday's crash occurred.",
"\"The fact of the matter is, you're dealing with very, very fast automobiles.",
"They're not heavy cars,\" Wertheim said.",
"\"There is, unfortunately, an assumption of risk when you get into one of those race cars.\"",
"Beyond questions about racing's safety generally, the condition of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway -- and whether or not it was too fast and too crammed with vehicles -- was the subject of intense questioning in the hours after Wheldon's death.",
"Driver Dario Franchitti told ABC News that the track offered \"nowhere to get away from anybody.\"",
"\"This is not a suitable track, and we've seen it today,\" he said.",
"The loop in Las Vegas is 1.5 miles, one mile shorter than the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway.",
"At the same time, it is wider than many others -- such that more cars can run alongside, and potentially collide with, one another.",
"CNN's Greg Botelho and David Close contributed to this report."
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"IndyCar launches a formal investigation into Sunday's fatal accident .",
"The two-time Indy 500 winner was testing a safer IndyCar in the weeks before his death .",
"Fellow driver Dario Franchitti says the Las Vegas speedway is \"not a suitable track\""
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"(CNN) -- A bill moving through Congress is intended, on its surface at least, to do something relatively simple: Crack down on the illegal pirating of movies, music and other copyrighted material.",
"But a major online backlash has evolved, with everyone from lawmakers to Web-freedom advocates to some of technology's biggest players calling it a greedy and dangerous overreach that could have a chilling effect on free speech and innovation.",
"Google, Yahoo and Facebook are among the Web heavyweights who have joined the chorus against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which backers hope to have ready for a vote by the end of the year.",
"Its intent is to help put a stop to foreign websites that illegally post, and sometimes sell, intellectual property from the United States.",
"Federal law-enforcement agencies would be empowered to shut down those sites, and cut off advertising and online payments to them.",
"\"The Stop Online Piracy Act helps stop the flow of revenue to rogue websites and ensures that the profits from American innovations go to American innovators,\" Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, chairman of the powerful House Judiciary committee and the sponsor of the plan, said when the bill was introduced last month.",
"\"The bill prevents online thieves from selling counterfeit goods in the U.S., expands international protections for intellectual property, and protects American consumers from dangerous counterfeit products. \"",
"Its supporters include some powerful lobbying groups, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.",
"On the other side are Web-freedom advocates, who were quick to say the effort goes too far.",
"And this week, in the wake of a Wednesday hearing on the plan, that discontent grew louder and more widespread.",
"\"Our government is tampering with its basic structure so people will maybe buy more Hollywood movies,\" says an animated video by Kirby Ferguson, the New York filmmaker behind the Web video series \"Everything Is a Remix,\" that is making the rounds online.",
"\"But Hollywood movies don't get grassroots candidates elected.",
"They don't overthrow corrupt regimes, and the entire entertainment industry doesn't even contribute that much to our economy.",
"The Internet does all these and more.\" Perhaps tellingly, that video was made in response to an earlier bill proposed in the Senate, which has since been put on hold by its sponsor.",
"Ferguson has since added a message at the end of the video saying the issue has \"gotten much worse.\"",
"Some critics fear that enforcement of the act is ill-defined and could allow federal authorities to go after sites that don't set out to illegally broadcast or sell content.",
"For example, advocates say, YouTube has housed important content, like video of political unrest in places like Egypt and Iran where government crackdowns had otherwise blocked media access.",
"But YouTube also is home, albeit against its will, to music videos, movie clips and other content posted without the intent of its creators.",
"Under SOPA, they say, a fledgling YouTube could have been shut down because of those posts.",
"This week, a letter opposing the House and Senate bills was sent to Congress, signed off on by AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo and Zynga.",
"\"We support the bills' stated goals -- providing additional enforcement tools to combat foreign 'rogue' websites that are dedicated to copyright infringement or counterfeiting,\" the letter reads.",
"\"Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding U.S. Internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities, private rights of action and technology mandates that would require monitoring of websites.",
"\"We are concerned that these measures pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job-creation, as well as to our nation's cybersecurity.\"",
"To coincide with Wednesday's committee hearing, many websites devoted themselves to drawing attention to the debate.",
"Blog platform Tumblr blacked out images in users' posts with a message urging users to \"Stop The Law That Will Censor The Internet!\"",
"A post on Tumblr's staff blog claimed users flooded House lawmakers Wednesday with 87,834 phone calls protesting the bill.",
"The backlash seems to be spreading to the halls of Congress.",
"On Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, announced her opposition to the plan on Twitter.",
"\"Need to find a better solution than #SOPA #DontBreakTheInternet,\" she wrote, using hashtags that opponents have used to show their disapproval on the site.",
"Even Pelosi's opponents from the other side of the ideological aisle agreed with her.",
"Influential California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa joined other conservative lawmakers, including presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul, in opposing the proposed law.",
"\"I don't believe this bill has any chance on the House floor,\" Issa told The Hill on Wednesday.",
"\"I think it's way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.\""
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"Bill to fight online piracy being hit by huge Web-freedom backlash .",
"The Stop Internet Piracy Act is intended to protect U.S. intellectual property .",
"Web-freedom advocates say it's too broad and could be used to shut down legit sites .",
"Google, Facebook are among Web fixtures opposed to the plan ."
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"Rome (CNN) -- Mario Monti, the economist nominated to become Italy's new prime minister, began talks with political leaders Monday to discuss forming a government.",
"The 68-year-old's talks with political parties will continue Tuesday.",
"In comments after several meetings Monday, Monti said some of the delegations had discussed a \"temporal outlook\" for how long his government might last.",
"The time for the government \"which I am trying to create is that period between today and the end of spring 2013,\" he said, according to a CNN translation.",
"At any time the parliament could dissolve his government \"because of lack of trust,\" he said.",
"It is \"obvious\" that the task at hand is an emergency, and that to achieve economic growth and social equity \"should be the priorities,\" Monti said.",
"The new prime minister designate will face an arduous task, as Italy has one of the highest national debts in Europe at €1.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) -- about 120% of GDP -- and has seen low growth in recent years.",
"To take the helm, Monti needs the approval of the Italian Parliament, which is composed of multiple parties with diverse interests.",
"Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party remains the strongest force in parliament, and Berlusconi has said he plans to remain active in it.",
"Those diverse political interests and the pain of austerity measures could weigh heavily on Monti as he steers Italy through economically troubled waters.",
"Some politicians in Italy have already called for elections to take place sooner than their scheduled time of spring 2013.",
"Italian party leaders spoke in support of the new prime minister designate on Italy's senate TV after exiting deliberations with Monti on the composition of a new government.",
"Antonio Di Pietro, leader of the Values Party, said his group is \"happy that the Berlusconi government could be replaced by the Monti government.\"",
"His party will not block a Monti-led government, he said.",
"But when asked specifically whether he would give Monti a vote of confidence, Di Pietro stressed that he would not answer until he learned more about Monti's plans and the composition of his Cabinet.",
"Franceso Rutelli, leader of the Alliance for Italy, also told reporters his block will support Monti's government.",
"Emma Bonino of the Radical Party expressed support for Monti as well.",
"Speaking to reporters, Bonino called for reforms to address Italy's political and economic crisis.",
"Monti was nominated Sunday to replace Silvio Berlusconi as Italy's prime minister.",
"Berlusconi resigned Saturday amid the country's ongoing financial crisis.",
"His role in Italy's political future is uncertain.",
"\"For the time being he is waiting to see what is happening under the buildup of the new government under Mr. Monti,\" said Deborah Bergamini, a member of Italy's Parliament and former assistant to Berlusconi.",
"On Monday, Bergamini said Berlusconi told her he wants to continue acting as the chair of his PDL party.",
"Berlusconi's resignation was greeted with cheers and dancing in the streets, as people waved the Italian flag and sang the nation's anthem.",
"If he becomes prime minister, Monti could bring a distinctly different approach to governing than Italy has experienced over the past three years.",
"\"It may be that the strong opposition ... against Berlusconi that has been going on in these years maybe will disperse itself, maybe will finish, and then we'll have a cooperative approach on the part of all the political forces.",
"... Let's hope that the international credibility of Mr. Monti will be able to work in this direction,\" Bergamini told CNN.",
"While the hot-blooded Berlusconi was for many years a master of forming political alliances, Monti is known for his achievements as a \"Eurocrat,\" at the heart of Europe's institutions.",
"Dubbed Super Mario for his work in international finance, he served as a leading European Commission member for a decade -- including as commissioner for its financial services, market and taxation committee between 1995 and 1999 and as head of its competition committee from 1999 to 2004.",
"In announcing Monti's nomination, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said the former European Union commissioner is \"gifted, competent, experienced\" and well-respected in Europe and internationally.",
"\"This is the moment of his test,\" Napolitano said.",
"Monti must return to Napolitano within days to accept the nomination fully, at which point he would be sworn in and officially become prime minister.",
"Within days of the oath of office, Monti would have to go to parliament to present his government -- essentially his Cabinet and his government plan.",
"The upper and lower houses of parliament have 10 days from the time Monti is sworn in to hold separate votes of confidence on the new government.",
"Berlusconi is the second prime minister to resign this month over the debt crisis sweeping across Europe.",
"Greece's George Papandreou was replaced Wednesday by Lucas Papademos, a former European Central Bank official.",
"Investors were watching Italian bond yields closely Monday, after €3 billion worth of five-year bonds generated decent demand.",
"Yields on both the five-year and 10-year bonds still remain around 6.5%.",
"Last week, the 10-year Italian yield spiked to a record high above 7% -- a level that eventually led to bailouts for Greece, Portugal and Ireland.",
"Economists said Monday's bond yields could indicate that markets are still nervous about Italy's economic prospects, even with Monti in charge.",
"\"Now what we are seeing today is that markets probably don't like so much politics being so effective and so active in financial matters.",
"So my feeling is that the challenge today will be rebalancing ... politics and financial matters,\" Bergamini told CNN Monday.",
"CNN's Hada Messia, Matthew Chance, Laura Smith-Spark and Zain Verjee and the CNNMoney staff contributed to this report."
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"Italian president: Monti is \"gifted, competent, experienced\"\nSilvio Berlusconi is the second European leader to fall this month over the debt crisis ."
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"(CNN) -- Carlos Tevez will face disciplinary action from Manchester City after the Argentina striker's apparent refusal to come on as a substitute during a European Champions League match with Bayern Munich.",
"City said in a statement on Wednesday that Tevez, 27, had a case to answer in relation to \"breach of contract\", having conducted an investigation into the events which occurred during the club's 2-0 defeat at the Allianz Arena on September 27.",
"The former club captain was suspended by City following the incident, but the statement also confirmed Tevez was expected to return to training with manager Roberto Mancini's team on Thursday.",
"Tevez strike is sad for soccer .",
"\"The club has now reached a stage in its investigation where it has concluded that there is a case for Carlos Tevez to answer of alleged breaches of contract,\" read the statement on City's official website.",
"\"Accordingly, the club has informed him that he will face disciplinary proceedings and the hearing will be convened shortly.",
"Carlos will be required to report to Roberto Mancini for training on Thursday.\"",
"British newspaper The Guardian reported every player and coach interviewed during City's investigation refused to back-up Tevez's claims that the events in Munich were the result of a \"misunderstanding\" between himself and Italian coach Mancini.",
"The publication goes on to claim Tevez will be hit with a six-week fine, which could be as much as $2.3 million dollars given the former Corinthians star's alleged $392,000-per-week wages.",
"The multi-million dollar figure would represent the largest sanction ever handed to a footballer in Britain.",
"Tevez denied he had refused to take to the pitch against Bayern, saying in his own statement following the match with the German outfit: \"I wish to state that I never refused to play.",
"\"There was some confusion on the bench and I believe my position may have been misunderstood.",
"Going forward I am ready to play when required and to fulfil my obligations.\"",
"Tevez suspended by Manchester City .",
"One-time West Ham forward Tevez has been consistently linked with a move away from City over the past 12 months, after handing in a transfer request in December 2010.",
"The former Boca Juniors players also saw a move back to Corinthians fall through in July, with the Brazilian outfit claiming there was insufficient time to complete the deal before the close of the transfer window.",
"Tevez is yet to score for City this season having been their top marksman last campaign with 20 English Premier League goals.",
"The Citziens return to domestic action this weekend, with Aston Villa visiting the Etihad Stadium on Saturday."
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"Tevez allegedly refused to come on as a substitute during match with Bayern Munich .",
"The Argentina striker could be hit with a record fine for a footballer in Britain ."
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"(CNN) -- The South African Football Association (SAFA) have appealed to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after the country failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations due to misinterpreting the tournament's rules.",
"South Africa celebrated on Saturday believing a 0-0 draw at home to Sierra Leone in Nelspruit had secured them top spot in qualification Group G due to their superior goal difference over their opponents and rivals Niger.",
"But it emerged Niger would advance to next year's tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea as a result of their superior head-to-head record against South Africa and Sierra Leone, despite suffering a 3-0 defeat to bottom side Egypt in Cairo.",
"\"We have noted that CAF has announced that Niger has qualified in our group,\" read a letter sent by SAFA to CAF.",
"\"Despite South Africa finishing on top of the group in terms of goal difference, which is the universally recognized means of separating teams who are equal on points.",
"Big names miss out on 2012 Africa Cup of Nations .",
"\"We believe that the team finishing top of the log at the end of the competition is automatically determined at the end of 90 minutes play, and that the second place is determined by the other rules.",
"\"We will lay out our objection more fully shortly, but in the meantime wish to signal that we intend to challenge this interpretation and application of the rules.\"",
"SAFA president Kirsten Nematandani was defiant after the match, insisting the organization would challenge a lack of clarity in the tournament's rules.",
"\"Do not despair, all is not lost,\" said Nematandani.",
"\"We believe we have a case and we will carry this fight all the way.",
"\"If CAF's rules are ambiguous then we need to challenge that and we are well within our rights to do so.",
"In the meantime be positive, and leave everything in our hands.\"",
"South Africa hosted football's biggest tournament last year when they became the first African country to stage a World Cup, but the team known as Bafana Bafana have now failed to reach two consecutive Cup of Nations.",
"It also proved to be a shocking qualifying campaign for Egypt, with the Pharaohs missing out on next year's event having won the last three tournaments in a row.",
"Egypt, the most successful team in the history of the Cup of Nations having won it seven times, recently appointed former U.S. coach Bob Bradley in an attempt to reverse their current fortunes.",
"Two-time winners Nigeria have also missed out on the 2012 competition after Guinea scored a late equalizer in a 2-2 draw on Saturday, to book their place in next year's tournament at the expense of the Super Eagles."
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"(CNN) -- The Philippine Commission on Elections approved fraud charges Friday against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and several other former officials, state media reported.",
"Arroyo is charged in connection with the alleged manipulation of results during 2007 Senate elections, according to the Philippines News Agency.",
"The former president has denied any wrongdoing.",
"Arroyo was stopped from leaving the country Tuesday as she was trying to board a plane at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport, hours after the country's Supreme Court overruled government-imposed restrictions on her travels.",
"The Supreme Court again Friday rejected the government's travel ban, saying she was free to leave as long as she posted a bond and met other requirements, said Jose Midas Marquez, a court spokesman .",
"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, said 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 spokesman 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 state mandate of investigating allegations of corruption during Arroyo's 2001-2010 presidential term.",
"CNN's Karen Smith and Journalist Winona Cueva contributed to this report ."
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"Philadelphia (CNN) -- Longtime Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Bill Conlin will not face prosecution over child sex abuse allegations -- even if there were grounds for charges -- because the statute of limitations concerning the alleged crimes has expired, according to prosecutors.",
"The claims were published in an article by The Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday after an investigation was initiated by authorities, according to a statement from Bernard Weisenfeld, a spokesman for the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey.",
"The article says three women and a man allege they were molested by Conlin in the 1970s when they were between the ages of 7 and 12.",
"One of the alleged victims is Conlin's niece, said Slade McLaughlin, an attorney who represents three of the accusers.",
"A spokesman for the Daily News said the newspaper had no knowledge of the allegations prior to The Inquirer's story.",
"Conlin has denied the claims, speaking through his attorney.",
"He retired from the Daily News on Tuesday, the newspaper said.",
"\"Mr. Conlin is obviously floored by these allegations, which supposedly happened 40 years ago.",
"He's engaged me to do everything possible to bring the facts forward to vindicate his name,\" said attorney George Bochetto.",
"Prosecutors say an exhaustive investigation had been launched into the allegations.",
"But, Weisenfeld said, it was later determined that even if there were legal grounds to pursue a criminal prosecution, prosecutors are barred from doing so because the alleged crimes occurred too long ago.",
"A 1996 law actually eliminates statutes of limitations on sexual assault cases in New Jersey, but the law is not considered retroactive for claims that date back as far as the 1970s.",
"Still, McLaughlin said, his clients want to speak out.",
"\"They made the decision that they were going to tell their story,\" the attorney told CNN.",
"\"This isn't a he-said, she-said story.",
"It's a he-said, they-said. Their only motives are getting closure and public service.\"",
"McLaughlin also noted, after speaking with his clients, that the accusations made in The Inquirer's story were accurate.",
"Conlin, 77, who gained national recognition from appearances on ESPN, could not be immediately reached for comment.",
"The veteran sportswriter worked for the Daily News for nearly half a century.",
"The newspaper published an editorial Wednesday written by its managing editor in an effort to address the scandal.",
"\"I have been a journalist for more than a quarter century, and I have never had a professional experience that was sadder — or more shocking — than reading the allegations leveled against Bill Conlin yesterday,\" wrote Larry Platt.",
"\"We've taken the unusual step of also running (the Inquirer's story), in its entirety, on the following page, because I felt you deserved to see the allegations in full context,\" he added.",
"Still, Platt reminded readers that Conlin has not been charged with a crime.",
"The Inquirer and the Daily News are owned by a parent company, Philadelphia Media Network.",
"This week's allegations come in the wake of a series of recent child sex abuse scandals, including the case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who faces more than 50 counts of child sex abuse spread over several years.",
"Conlin, who covered sports throughout Pennsylvania for the newspaper, weighed in on the Penn State scandal last month in a column published by the Daily News titled \"Tough Guys Are Talking About Sandusky.\"",
"Conlin expressed doubt about those who said they would have intervened on behalf of a child, had they witnessed the boy's alleged molestation at the hands of Sandusky in a university locker room shower.",
"\"Everybody says he will do the right thing, get involved, put his own ass on the line before or after the fact,\" Conlin wrote in a column published on November 11.",
"\"But the moment itself has a cruel way of suspending our fearless intentions.\""
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"(CNN) -- Getting the details out of his head and on to paper was Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore's most important priority of the day.",
"It was the first Tuesday in March, and he had been up late the night before typing out the details of life in the \"17th Precinct,\" an innovative new world in which police detectives relied on magic, not forensics, to catch criminals.",
"Writing the \"show bible\" was Moore's way of conveying his vision to his cast and crew.",
"Until a couple of months ago, these ideas existed only in his head.",
"This one document would spell out every detail of life, from the way detectives picked apart a crime scene to the way they could make evidence float off the ground for closer forensic examination.",
"The concept had already taken shape at Sony, where executives had teamed with Moore's Tall Ship Productions for content.",
"It was then successfully pitched to NBC, where executives agreed to fund the pilot.",
"After that, Moore's professional life became a frenzied ballet of scripting, casting, coordinating artwork and setting production schedules.",
"He was now just a week away from a table read with the cast, and he already had a crew scouting shoot locations in and around Vancouver.",
"Geeky interests linger .",
"The excitement was palpable.",
"In a way, it reminded him of the feeling he had as a 5-year-old boy sitting in his Chowchilla, California, living room decades earlier.",
"When Neil Armstrong took his first uncharted steps on the moon, Moore watched with a sense of awe.",
"For him, a whole new world was unfolding.",
"\"I wrote letters to NASA in first and second grade, and then I found 'Lost in Space,' \" Moore recalls.",
"\"In third grade, I discovered 'Star Trek,' and that was the defining show of my life.",
"Channel 26, four o'clock every afternoon.\"",
"As Moore got older, he explored the jock route, playing football and running track in high school.",
"He eventually became a self-described \"baseball fanatic,\" but that sense of discovery and exploration stayed with him and led to a writing job on \"Star Trek: The Next Generation.\"",
"A stint with \"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\" followed and helped launch his budding career as well as helping him earn status with a generation of nerds, even if he never really considered himself a part of that culture.",
"\"I've never really thought of myself as a nerd, which is not to say others haven't thought it of me.",
"I have referred to myself as a geek from time to time, and my wife sometimes calls me the 'King of the Geeks,' although considering the hierarchical status of Steve Jobs, George Lucas, et al., a mere prince might be more accurate.\"",
"Like other television writers who eventually move up to become producers, executive producers and, sometimes show runners, Moore was building a body of work that was gaining attention.",
"Running the show .",
"Eventually, it would be his executive producer role in the reimagined \"Battlestar Galactica\" series that would draw the most critical acclaim.",
"It was also the first time Moore had been a co-creator on a show from beginning to end.",
"He and Executive Producer David Eick just seemed to click.",
"\"Ron is the scariest writer I know\" his former producing partner recalls.",
"\"I'm not sure there's anything he can't do remarkably well.",
"Even within the context of 'Battlestar,' there was such a wild panoply of styles and emotions -- action, tragedy, melodrama, comedy, philosophy, even music -- all of which I watched him nail.\"",
"\"But he's also weirdly unpretentious,\" Eick said.",
"\"We'd argue about whether something worked, but never whether or not it was 'good,' because if you tell Ron something's not good, he doesn't take it personally.",
"He just says OK and then does something great.\"",
"Moore's sense of flexibility and vision were solidifying his reputation among his cast and crew.",
"Writer and Executive Producer Jane Espenson first met Moore while pitching show ideas for \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" as a grad student at UC Berkeley.",
"She later joined \"Battlestar's\" writing team.",
"\"There could be a million distractions around him -- he could be on a bad phone connection, in an airport, running for a plane, and he'd immediately grasp a complex story as five of us shouted it into a speaker phone, and he'd have the fix,\" she said.",
"Moore was acquiring a dedicated following with the show's success.",
"He understood how much the geek culture's acceptance by the mainstream had helped his own success as genre material had made the transformation from niche to widespread commercial viability.",
"\"That's good and bad,\" Moore said.",
"\"More projects get made, more material is available, but a lot of it is dumbed down for the general audience, and the intimacy of fan-run conventions is now almost a thing of the past,\" he said.",
"\"There was a time when being a genre geek meant you were part of a secret club, and when you wore your Nostromo ball cap (from 'Alien') or your HAL-9000 T-shirt ('2001'), the other club members were the only ones who recognized the colors you were flying, and it was a way of connecting.",
"Now it's all commercialized and merchandized and everyone's a geek.",
"Guess that's the price you pay for success.\"",
"With \"Battlestar,\" Moore had success in spades.",
"He had led a team that was honored with a Peabody Award, and Moore himself was nominated for an Emmy for best writing in a dramatic series, followed by an Emmy win for the \"Battlestar Galactica\" webisodes.",
"The show had been a true test of courage and strength and had brought with it valuable lessons in how to run a show.",
"\"The show runners that I know are willing to charge into the barricades over and over again, and you have to be willing to get back up again,\" Moore said.",
"\"You're constantly fighting battles every day with executives, or directors or actors.",
"You are constantly fighting, and you lose a fair number of battles, but the guys just keep going.\"",
"But even as he accepted critical praise for \"Battlestar,\" there was a line from another scene running through his head.",
"It came from the movie \"Patton,\" in which the famous general described victorious Romans returning from battle in triumphant chariots: \"A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.\"",
"The new journey .",
"By the end of March, Moore was wrapping up shooting for \"17th Precinct.\"",
"He was guardedly optimistic.",
"He had seen strong performances from the actors, had seen some beautiful effects come to life, and had even been a little surprised by how some of the characters had popped onscreen.",
"He had been in the business long enough to know that what he had in his head would seldom compare to what was actually shot.",
"Still, he had a feeling this was going to be good.",
"That morning, he watched a scene being edited in which the cops were using magic to dissect a crime scene.",
"They set up a perimeter and effectively flipped a switch, setting off the magic that literally lifted blood from the ground so that they could see it from all angles.",
"There was no doubt in his mind that this show was going to be something new and memorable.",
"Being an executive producer had its share of tough days and moments where there seemed to be a rush of decisions and nervous energy, but mostly, Moore found it to be calm and enjoyable.",
"Everything was still new, and he felt like he was falling in love every day.",
"As he returned to L.A. for final post-production work, a deadline loomed in his head.",
"He had to have the show turned over to the executives at NBC by May 2.",
"He'd make it, but he knew that the weeks of waiting that would follow would be nerve-racking.",
"The delivery . May 2 came and went.",
"The show was turned over, but Moore and his team probably wouldn't hear anything until the 16th.",
"Two full weeks of misery, wasted nervous energy, reading tea leaves and seemingly endless speculation with his agent.",
"But bad news came early.",
"On May 12, the phone rang.",
"NBC had decided to pass on \"17th Precinct,\" and with that, nine months of Moore's creative vision came to an end.",
"\"It was an ambitious project to take on, it was something different.",
"I was just so close to it. It's hard after shows like \"Battlestar\" to not have equal measures of success after that.",
"That's a personal thing I have to keep in mind.\"",
"So Ron Moore was literally at the beginning again, already plotting a new course and determined to make the experience worthwhile.",
"\"There are creative lessons I'm trying to draw from, and there were some conceptual mistakes I probably made.",
"But at the same time, you kind of balance that with the knowledge that each one of these projects is unique and they are all special.\"",
"As he sat down to go through his drawer of untapped ideas for what comes next, Moore remembered that famous line: All glory is fleeting.",
"But as he's proved, it's also attainable."
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"He's worked on \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" and \"Battlestar Galactica\"\nMoore identifies as a genre geek rather than a nerd .",
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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Kim Jong Un issued his first military orders as leader of North Korea just before the death of his father was announced, a South Korean state-run news agency said Wednesday.",
"Citing \"a South Korean source,\" Yonhap reported that Kim \"ordered all military units to halt field exercises and training and return to their bases.\"",
"The source called it a sign that Kim Jong Il's son, believed to be in his late 20s, had taken \"complete control over the military,\" Yonhap reported.",
"An intelligence official said North Korea may be trying to prevent attempted defections as the country goes through a tumultuous transition, the report said.",
"In Seoul, questions have been raised over why South Korean intelligence was apparently unaware of Kim Jong Il's death until the official announcement.",
"Both Won Sei Hoon, who heads South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and Defense Minister Kim Kwan Jim \"came under fire\" after admitting they learned of the death from TV news coverage, Yonhap reported.",
"Just over the border in Dandong, China, CNN spoke with a defector who was scared of North Korean spies watching him.",
"\"North Koreans don't speak openly,\" the man said.",
"\"If anyone knows I'm talking, I would be sent to prison and there's no mercy there.",
"I would be shot dead.\"",
"He painted a grim picture of life in North Korea, where he said people are starving, aid is scarce, and the only operating factories serve the military.",
"\"Pig feed, that's all we can eat,\" he says, adding, \"There is no food, not even food from China.",
"It's been blocked for three years.\"",
"His son and daughter remain inside North Korea.",
"He crosses back and forth every six months to keep his family alive.",
"He told CNN he fears a desperate country with a potential power vacuum that could lash out.",
"Before Kim Jong Il died, \"he was preparing the country for war and death, and to hand power to Kim Jong Un,\" the man said.",
"Other North Koreans in Dandong were openly weeping over the death of their \"dear leader,\" as he was called in his country.",
"North Korean state-run news agency KCNA, meanwhile, carried messages praising Kim Jong Il.",
"The top story on the agency's English language website Wednesday, dated Tuesday, said Kim Jong Il \"dedicated himself to the happiness of the people all his life.\"",
"\"He had a noble wish,\" the KCNA report said.",
"\"It was to bring the greatest happiness and honor to the people even if he had plucked a star from the sky and grown flowers even on a rock.\"",
"CNN's Stan Grant, Chi Chi Zhang, and Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"The state-run news agency cites a source saying the younger Kim controls the military .",
"2 top South Korean officials are under fire for learning of Kim Jong Il's death via TV .",
"A defector tells CNN of starvation inside North Korea ."
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"(CNN) -- News stories saying authorities thwarted a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Mexico are not true, the Mexican secretary of the navy said Tuesday.",
"At least two Mexican media outlets published a supposed internal report on the plot that had been leaked to the media.",
"But the navy said the report is \"fake.\"",
"In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, only hours after the news stories were published, the navy said it \"categorically rejects the authorship of the alleged report in possession of some media outlets.\"",
"\"The print seals and watermarks that appear on the document, as well as its format, do not correspond to the ones utilized by this federal government agency,\" the release read.",
"The secretary of the navy reported in June 2010 that four people had been detained for allegedly being in possession of 20 kilograms of explosives in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City.",
"According to the stories published by the two Mexican media outlets, the finding was related to a plot by the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab to attack the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.",
"Reports of a possible explosives cache came to the U.S. State Department in June 2010, according to a State Department source.",
"A Somali citizen was arrested, but when Mexican authorities looked into the matter, they found nothing conclusive, said the source, who asked not to be identified.",
"The suspect was then released, the source said.",
"The Mexican president's office and the Mexican Embassy in Washington told CNN they had no information regarding the alleged plot.",
"Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington also denied any knowledge of the report."
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"NEW: A source at the U.S. State Department says a Somali citizen was arrested in 2010 and released .",
"Two Mexican media outlets publish a supposed report on a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy .",
"The report alleges an arrest in June 2010 broke up the plot .",
"The Mexican secretary of the navy says the report is a fake ."
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"Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's parliament on Sunday elected a leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister with a simple majority.",
"Baburam Bhattarai, 57, vice-chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will become the fourth prime minister since Nepal became a republic in 2008.",
"After his election Bhattarai said he would attempt to complete the peace process and the long-delayed new constitution.",
"Bhattarai received 340 votes in parliament, beating his rival Ram Chandra Poudel, 66, of the Nepali Congress, who received 235 votes.",
"Bhattarai, who has a degree in architecture and a doctorate in regional planning, was able to get the crucial support of the regional Madhesi parties from southern Nepal.",
"The 65 votes of the five parties of the Madhesi front were crucial for Bhattrai, whose party is the biggest in the 601-member parliament but lacks a majority.",
"Media reports say the Madhesi parties have been promised 12 ministerial posts in exchange for their support.",
"Bhattari is the second leader of the former rebels to become prime minister.",
"The Maoists became the biggest party in the 2008 elections and their chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was prime minister for nine months.",
"He resigned in a dispute with the president, who reinstated an army chief Dahal had fired.",
"Earlier this month Jhalanath Khanal resigned as prime minister after he was unable to persuade the former Maoist rebels to demobilize and reintegrate their fighters in a deal that was agreeable to the other political parties.",
"The Maoists fought a ten-year insurgency from 1996 to 2006 in which about 16,000 people were killed.",
"According to the peace deal that ended the uprising, 19,602 United Nations-verified combatants should be integrated into the security forces, but the political parties are yet to agree on the number and the method.",
"Nepal also faces the challenge of preparing a republican constitution and political parties have twice extended the deadline to prepare the constitution.",
"The new deadline expires on Wednesday and political parties look likely to have to come to an agreement to extend the deadline a third time."
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"Baburam Bhattarai wins a simple majority with regional party backing .",
"He's a leader of the former Maoist rebels, and the second ex-Maoist prime minister since 2008 .",
"The last prime minister resigned over how to demobilize ex-rebels ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libyans celebrated late into the evening Saturday the reported capture of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, nabbed in a desert gunbattle after an 18-day stakeout.",
"Senior Libyan military officials said they believe the potential Gadhafi successor was trying to make his way to neighboring Niger, where a brother, Saadi, was granted asylum.",
"Revolutionary fighters caught the man wanted by the International Criminal Court between the southwestern oasis town of Obari and southern town of Sabha, military commanders in Tripoli told CNN.",
"The 39-year-old, the last Gadhafi fugitive, was taken to the city of Zintan in the western mountains.",
"Top officials in the town rejoiced over the development.",
"Saif al-Islam had been on the run since shortly after the fall of his father's Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital in August.",
"\"I hope that this is the beginning of a state of freedom, transparency and lawfulness,\" acting Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib told reporters in Zintan.",
"\"In the name of the great nation, we would like to allay your fears and tell you that Saif and those who were with him will be tried fairly.",
"They are ensured all their rights under the law.",
"These are the same rights that our nation didn't have for 42 years.\"",
"The ICC in the Netherlands wants Saif al-Islam for alleged crimes against humanity, including murder, committed during the uprising this year.",
"But officials in Libya also indicated they would like to put Saif al-Islam on trial.",
"Although he held no high-level government office, Saif al-Islam was considered by ICC prosecutors to be Moammar Gadhafi's \"unspoken successor and the most influential person with his inner circle,\" according to an arrest warrant issued in June.",
"The Gadhafi regime formulated a state policy that included quelling demonstrations by lethal force, attacking civilians and imprisoning hundreds, according to the warrant.",
"Saif al-Islam \"exercised control over crucial parts of the state apparatus, including finances and logistics and had the powers of a de facto prime minister.\"",
"ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the arrest was \"good news.\"",
"\"That is very important because we consider him -- the judges consider him -- the principal, with his father Moammar, of the crimes committed in Libya after February 13,\" he said.",
"\"He's arrested, he's alive, and now he will face justice and that is the most important news.\"",
"Moreno-Ocampo will travel to Libya next week to coordinate efforts to bring Saif al-Islam to justice, an ICC spokeswoman said Saturday.",
"Who is Saif al-Islam Gadhafi?",
"\"The ICC has had indirect contact with Saif al-Islam Gadhafi through intermediaries during which they discussed what would happen if he surrendered.",
"The last contact was 25 days ago,\" spokeswoman Florence Olara told CNN.",
"ICC spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah told CNN that Libya has an obligation to surrender Saif al-Islam to the ICC.",
"If Libya wants to conduct a trial, it needs to submit a request to judges and show its legal system is capable of properly handling such a proceeding.",
"El-Keib emphasized that \"we will deal with this under our legal system,\" but he said the country intends to communicate and work with the ICC.",
"\"We'll get to a point where we can take care of this issue easily,\" El Keib said.",
"\"We definitely are interested in respecting the will of our people and also the national interests that we trust that the world will also appreciate.\"",
"Justice Minister Mohammad Al-Alagy said he doubts Libyan courts would want to try Saif al-Islam for crimes against humanity.",
"\"We will weigh out the accusations against Saif Al Islam al-Gadhafi.",
"Afterward, we will know what crimes to try him with.",
"He's charged with killing and taking the nation's money and ... hiring mercenaries.",
"Those are crimes the Libyan nation will currently try him for.",
"We can't move ahead of ourselves with inaccurate accusations.",
"We will move forward with this investigation.\"",
"Military commanders told CNN they want the National Transitional Council to ensure Saif al-Islam is tried in their country.",
"Outbursts of celebratory gunfire, the honking of horns and cries of joy could be heard in Tripoli as reports of his capture spread.",
"Othman Mliegta, commander of the Al Qa'aq brigades, said he had been told that Saif al-Islam was slightly injured in the clashes that took place when the fighters attempted to capture him but is in good health.",
"A picture released by Libya's National Transitional Council purportedly of Saif al-Islam appeared to show him half-lying on a low bed with bandages wrapped around the fingers of his right hand.",
"A military commander from Zintan, Fathi Al-Ayed, told CNN that the injuries had been sustained in previous clashes rather than the firefight that led to his capture in the early hours of Saturday.",
"Al-Ayed, who was in Obari at the time, said fighters from the Zintan Brigades had been following a vehicle convoy.",
"As they approached, the convoy tried to flee, firing on the fighters, who returned fire.",
"When the convoy was eventually stopped, Saif al-Islam was arrested, along with up to six others.",
"They were taken to Zintan.",
"Mliegta said those with Saif al-Islam when he was caught did not include his father's former intelligence chief Abdulla al-Sanussi, also wanted by the ICC.",
"French and British officials, part of the NATO mission that supported the rebels since February, welcomed the capture.",
"\"Saif al-Islam no longer poses a threat to peace and security in Libya,\" said British Foreign Secretary William Hague.",
"\"His arrest will allow the Libyan people to move on to the challenge of rebuilding their country.\"",
"Time.com: The reformer who refused to reform .",
"The suspect's father, who ruled the country for more than 40 years, was killed last month near Sirte after his capture by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council.",
"Asked about guarantees of Saif al-Islam's safety, Mliegta said he would be treated in the same way as any other detainee.",
"National Transitional Council military liaison Abdelrahman Busin told CNN that any injuries Saif al-Islam had sustained would be treated.",
"There was still some secrecy over his movements, Busin said, but he could guarantee Saif al-Islam's human rights would be respected if he is handed over to authorities in Tripoli.",
"Giving his reaction to the news of the arrest, Busin said: \"I think the Libyan people can finally actually breathe a big sigh, finally relax to some extent, because he has been threatening to come back with revenge for some time now.",
"So, it's a close for many, many people.\"",
"A glimpse into the Gadhafi family .",
"Once seen as a possible successor to his father and an advocate of reform, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi became a vocal defender of his father's brutal regime.",
"His whereabouts had been unknown for months.",
"At the end of August he made a call to Syria's Rai TV, in which he said he was speaking from a suburb of the capital, Tripoli, and urged Libyans to rise up against the rebels.",
"Saif al-Islam, whose mother is Gadhafi's second wife, Safia, is the second-oldest son of the late strongman.",
"He was educated at the London School of Economics and speaks fluent English.",
"CNN's Kareem Khadder and Matthew Chance contributed to this report."
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"Justice minister said Libya will \"weigh out\" accusations .",
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"(CNN) -- Lebanon stunned traditional regional powerhouses South Korea 2-1 in Beirut on Tuesday to boost their hopes of qualifying for the last stage of Asia's 2014 World Cup qualifying.",
"Lebanon lost 6-0 to the Koreans in in September's away fixture in the first game under new coach Theo Bucker, but the German has overseen a big improvement since then.",
"Central defender Ali Al Saadi put the Middle East side ahead after just five minutes, but the visitors leveled on 20 from the spot as Koo Ja-Cheol slotted home.",
"But the Wolfsburg midfielder blotted his copybook by tripping Mahmoud el Ali, and Abbas Atwi converted the winning penalty just after half an hour.",
"Lebanon now trail 2002 World Cup semifinalists South Korea only on goal difference, with Kuwait two points further back ahead of the final round of Group B matches after beating United Arab Emirates 2-1.",
"Australia booked passage to the second round of qualifying with an unconvincing 1-0 win in Thailand.",
"Blackburn's Brett Emerton set up Brett Holman for his second-half headed winner as the Socceroos went through as Group D winners.",
"Saudi Arabia and Oman fought to a 0-0 draw and will battle it out with Thailand to decide the second qualifying place in the final round.",
"Iran also progressed with a game to spare, beating Indonesia 4-1 before a goalless draw in Doha between Qatar and Bahrain confirmed their qualification.",
"Bahrain must win against Indonesia in the concluding matches on February 29, while the Qataris need a point against Iran to go through.",
"Iraq ended China's hopes of qualifying from Group A by beating leaders Jordan 3-1 to claim the second spot.",
"China had earlier won 4-0 against Singapore with a late Zheng Zheng double.",
"Japan had already gone through from Group C, but the Blue Samurai's 20-match unbeaten run ended with a 1-0 defeat to bitter rivals North Korea in Pyongyang.",
"Pak Nam Chol's 50th-minute header secured the victory, but in a bad-tempered game the home side had Jong Il Gwan sent off in the 77th minute.",
"\"It was a physical match in a tough environment,\" Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni told broadcaster TBS.",
"Uzbekistan beat Tajikistan 3-0 to go three points clear at the top of the group.",
"The top two teams from each of five groups reach the final stage, where a round-robin is played to decide on four places for the 2014 finals in Brazil.",
"The fifth-placed team go into an intercontinental playoff.",
"In the first round of Africa qualifying, Emmanuel Adebayor returned to international action as Togo beat Guinea-Bissau 1-0 to progress to the second stage after a first-leg draw.",
"The Tottenham striker had retired from representing his country after the January 2010 gun attack on the Togo team bus before the African Cup of Nations.",
"Serge Gakpe, who scored in the opening 1-1 draw, netted a second-minute winner for the Sparrowhawks.",
"The Democratic Republic of Congo also went through after beating Swaziland 5-1 to win 8-2 on aggregate, while Congo progressed 6-1 on aggregate despite being held 1-1 by Sao Tome e Principe.",
"Lesotho and Tanzania triumphed by virtue of the away-goals rule at the expense of Burundi and Chad respectively, despite both nations losing the second legs.",
"Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda and 2012 Africa Cup of Nations co-hosts Equatorial Guinea also made it to the second stage."
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"(CNN) -- State public health officials are contacting airline passengers after a woman with measles traveled through three airports earlier this week, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.",
"The woman traveled from an airport in Europe to Dulles International Airport in Virginia to Denver International Airport and, finally, to New Mexico's Albuquerque International Sunport, said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.",
"The woman, who traveled Tuesday, was diagnosed with the disease in New Mexico, he said.",
"Health departments in each area, using information from the CDC, are contacting those who may have been exposed to the viral disease.",
"That may include flight crews and airport workers.",
"\"That work is ongoing,\" said Skinner, who could not confirm the airline or airlines and the originating flight's location.",
"The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said people who were working or traveling through Concourse C at the Denver airport after 9 p.m. Tuesday should monitor themselves for any early symptoms of measles, especially fever, from Monday through March 12.",
"\"People who develop a fever should contact their health care provider or their local or state health department.",
"People with symptoms should not go to child care, school, work or out in public, as they might have the early symptoms of measles and might be contagious,\" the department said in a statement Friday.",
"Typically, health officials concentrate on passengers or crew who were five rows in front of or five rows behind an infected traveler, Skinner said.",
"They are particularly mindful of small infants and children and people with underlying medical conditions.",
"People who had not previously been immunized may have a \"small window\" after being contacted to be vaccinated or given globulins to avoid developing symptoms, Skinner told CNN.",
"In a separate development, measles was confirmed in a 24-year-old woman who took a flight from France and two people in Boston were suspected of having the disease.",
"Boston officials held a free measles vaccination clinic Friday.",
"\"Most of the [U.S.] cases are imported into the country,\" Skinner said.",
"Measles is a very contagious viral disease that is easily spread through coughing, sneezing and secretions from the mouth.",
"Measles develops generally seven to 14 days after a person is infected, according to the CDC.",
"A typical case of measles begins with mild to moderate fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and sore throat.",
"Two or three days after symptoms begin, tiny white spots may appear inside the mouth.",
"Three to five days after the start of symptoms, a red or reddish-brown rash appears.",
"It may spread downward from the face and be accompanied by a temperature spike, the CDC says on its website.",
"CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Exotic animals should live in the wild, not be exploited in profit-motivated zoos -- or worse — as \"pets\" or backyard oddities by people who have a deeply misguided sense of dominion or ownership.",
"What happened in Ohio on Tuesday and Wednesday has drawn dramatic attention to the private possession of exotics, an issue that is a major component of Born Free USA's mission to protect wildlife.",
"On Wednesday, 56 exotic animals — including lions, tigers, bears, giraffes and wolves — were freed from their captivity at a rural residence outside Zanesville.",
"Police report the animals' \"owner,\" 62-year-old Terry Thompson, let the animals out of their cages before he killed himself.",
"Forty-nine of the animals -- including 18 tigers and 17 lions -- were shot dead by law enforcement officers.",
"Thankfully, other than Thompson's death, no human injuries have been reported as a result of this situation.",
"Ohio has had a recent flurry of incidents in which exotic animals being held by private individuals in or outside people's residences have been involved in violent encounters with humans.",
"In September, an 80-year-old man was attacked by a kangaroo at an exotic-animal farm in Green Camp.",
"In June, an escaped \"pet\" grivet monkey scratched two girls while he was on the loose in Fremont.",
"In August 2010, a bear fatally mauled its caretaker on the owner's property in Columbus Station.",
"Born Free USA tracks such cases in our Exotic Animal Incidents Database.",
"We list 86 incidents involving exotic animals in Ohio in recent years, and probably many other such encounters have gone unreported.",
"Nationwide, our database lists nearly 1,600 incidents.",
"There is no excuse for wild, potentially dangerous, exotic animals to be kept in private hands.",
"Ohio is one of a handful of states with woefully few regulations on the books to govern such questionable close contact with wildlife, and Born Free USA has been pushing for years to get a stronger law enacted in the state.",
"In 2006, the Ohio Legislature quickly introduced a bill to restrict private possession of exotics after an Ashtabula County woman was mauled by a 500-pound black bear that escaped a pen kept by a nearby neighbor.",
"The bill failed, and just four years later in 2010, an emergency executive order was put in place after a 24-year-old man was mauled to death by a black bear kept in a Columbia Township compound.",
"The order temporarily banned private ownership of big cats, bears, alligators, crocodiles and certain snakes.",
"In April 2011, the order expired upon the promise by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the governor that a new rule-making process would swiftly be established in order to implement regulations regarding possession of exotics.",
"This still has not happened.",
"What will it take to get swift action in the state -- and in other states around the country that lack complete bans on exotic pet ownership?",
"Will it take a bigger, more diverse animal escape?",
"A monkeypox outbreak?",
"People dying?",
"There is no need to wait, no need to take this kind of dramatic and incomprehensible risk.",
"The drain on society from keeping exotic animals as pets is not insignificant.",
"Humane societies, sheriff's departments and wildlife sanctuaries end up bearing the brunt of the cost of placing these animals and giving them humane, lifetime care.",
"In Texas, the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary provides permanent, safe, naturalistic and free-range accommodations for more than 500 macaques, vervets and baboons, many of whom have been rescued from captive lives of stress, deprivation and danger -- danger to both the monkeys and to their \"owners.\"",
"Every chance we get, every day we come to work, in as many effective, forceful and creative ways we can, we encourage our members and supporters to spread the word that wild animals belong in the wild.",
"What happened in Ohio this week is appalling.",
"All those animals, imprisoned for no good reason.",
"Their \"owner\" was apparently a tortured soul who took his own life and put the lives of nearby residents in peril through his bizarre act.",
"And all those wandering animals, confused by their sudden and unfathomable \"freedom,\" were shot dead as though they were alien invaders in a safe bucolic land.",
"None of that had to happen.",
"It could have been avoided.",
"Private possession of exotic animals is inexcusable and it puts human lives at risk.",
"When will we, as a civilization, learn that wild animals are just as entitled to live freely on this planet as we are and it is our duty and obligation to ensure that this is possible?",
"Maybe, just maybe, the wildlife slaughter on the streets of Ohio will finally spur the change we need for safer and more compassionate communities across the country.",
"He says 18 tigers and 17 lions were among them.",
"Six animals were taken to the Columbus Zoo."
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"Will Travers: Exotic animals must not be exploited as \"pets\" or backyard oddities .",
"Travers: Ohio slaughter of 48 wild animals, including 18 tigers and 17 lions, is appalling .",
"Ohio has a record of violent encounters between animals and people, he says .",
"\"Owning\" exotic animals inexcusable, he says, and also puts human lives at risk ."
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"London (CNN) -- A top executive at the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal left Dow Jones this week amid allegations that the paper's European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures, the newspaper itself reported Thursday.",
"Andrew Langhoff, the executive, left on Tuesday, following an internal probe which found he had pushed for two articles favorable to a company involved in the alleged circulation subterfuge, the paper said.",
"The Guardian, a rival newspaper, alleged that the Journal's publisher secretly directed funds to the company that was buying copies of the paper in bulk.",
"In an official statement, Dow Jones rejected the Guardian's characterization of the arrangements.",
"Wall Street Journal Europe \"circulation programs were fully disclosed and certified,\" the company said in a statement.",
"The controversy comes on the heels of another scandal surrounding another newspaper in the British newspaper empire of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.",
"The News of the World, the company's flagship Sunday British tabloid, was closed in July on the orders of Murdoch's son James, following accusations that it had illegally eavesdropped on the phone of a missing girl and many others to get stories.",
"The girl, Milly Dowler, later turned out to have been murdered.",
"News Corp. owns both Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal, and News International, which published News of the World and continues to publish the Sun and the Times of London.",
"The Wall Street Journal Europe scandal centers on the allegation that the paper arranged for 12,000 copies a day to be sold, for one European cent each, to a company called Executive Learning Partnership, the Journal reported.",
"That boosted the daily circulation of the paper to 75,000 -- meaning the bulk sales to ELP made up more than 15% of daily circulation.",
"The number of copies a newspaper sells is important in determining how much advertisers are willing to pay for ads, among other factors.",
"The British agency that audits circulation figures does not differentiate between papers that are sold at face value and those distributed in bulk -- unlike the American agency, the Journal said.",
"Dow Jones said its circulation reports were above board.",
"\"The practice of sponsored distribution to business schools and universities is common in the industry and clearly identified in all WSJE publisher statements.",
"ELP was paid for legitimate services rendered,\" the company said.",
"Langhoff and a Journal circulation department employee named Gert Van Mol also directed thousands of euros to ELP in side deals, the newspaper said Thursday, citing unnamed \"people familiar with the matter.\"",
"Van Mol's job has since been eliminated, the paper said.",
"Dow Jones said the payments were for legitimate services rendered, but that the manner in which they were paid was \"admittedly complex.\"",
"It said it canceled the deal because it was uncomfortable with it, the Journal reported, also noting that ELP denied that account and that the company was \"not pleased that our name appears in this context.\"",
"ELP partner Nick Van Heck said the company had invoiced for services it had actually provided, but that the invoices went to \"different organizations and not to the Wall Street Journal Europe,\" the paper reported.",
"The firm said in a statement that Langhoff had \"never promised us editorial coverage,\" the Journal said.",
"The internal probe found that Langhoff had advocated for two articles favorable to ELP, the Journal said.",
"The Dutch company describes itself as \"strategy and learning architects.\"",
"An ELP representative told CNN the company would respond to a request for comment as soon as possible.",
"The accusations against Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal Europe were first reported by Nick Davies, a reporter for the Guardian who has been investigating scandals at News Corp. newspapers for several years."
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"The paper is accused of using underhanded methods to boost circulation numbers .",
"The Wall Street Journal Europe says its circulation is properly audited .",
"Dow Jones executive Andrew Langhoff left over allegations of a related scandal .",
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"(CNN) -- France international footballer Patrice Evra is determined to follow up his complaint of racism against Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, according to his club manager.",
"Manchester United defender Evra accused his Liverpool opponent of racially abusing him during Saturday's 1-1 Premier League draw, and the English Football Association said it would investigate after match referee Andre Marriner reported the incident.",
"Suarez denied the claims in a statement on his Facebook page, but United manager Alex Ferguson told reporters on Monday that Evra stands by his comments to French television channel Canal Plus.",
"\"I spoke to Patrice today.",
"He is adamant he wants to follow it on,\" Ferguson said ahead of Tuesday's Champions League clash with Romanian minnows Otelul Galati.",
"\"It is not an easy one for us.",
"It is not something we would want to level against Liverpool, and it is not against Liverpool.",
"Obviously Patrice feels very aggrieved at what was said to him.",
"It rests in the hands of the FA now.\"",
"Ask Samuel Eto'o and Roberto Carlos your questions .",
"United and Liverpool are bitter rivals, and Ferguson appealed to both sets of fans before the match at Anfield, asking them not to sing abusive chants about the clubs' respective tragedies in Munich and Hillsborough.",
"Eight of United's players were killed in the 1958 German air crash that claimed 23 lives, while 96 Liverpool supporters died during an FA Cup semifinal in 1989.",
"\"Saturday was terrific.",
"Both sets of fans were good,\" Ferguson said.",
"\"There was not any of that silly chanting we have had in previous years.",
"Both sets of fans deserve praise for that.\"",
"United midfielder Ashley Young was racially abused by Bulgaria fans during England's Euro 2012 qualifier in Sofia in September, but Ferguson said there are no such problems in the Premier League.",
"\"I am not aware of any instances in terms of British football,\" the 69-year-old Scot said.",
"\"It doesn't happen in England.",
"There are very few examples of that. Maybe this is what surprised Patrice Evra.",
"He thought he was slighted on Saturday.",
"\"We don't want to see it. It is as simple as that.\" Ferguson said Evra would be in contention to play in Romania, with last season's Champions League finalists United seeking to kickstart a faltering European campaign after picking up just two points from two Group C matches.",
"\"Yes, yes. There is no problem,\" he said, while confirming that England striker Wayne Rooney would play despite Sunday's top-of-the-table derby clash with Manchester City looming.",
"Rooney started on the bench against Liverpool following the news that he will be banned for all three of England's Euro 2012 finals group matches after his red card against Montenegro.",
"\"When the initial news came through it was a definite blow for him.",
"He didn't expect that. None of us did,\" Ferguson said.",
"In Tuesday's other Group C game, Swiss side Basel host Portugal's Benfica with both clubs on four points.",
"In Group B, Italy's Internazionale travel to French side Lille on the back of another domestic defeat at the weekend, while Turkey's Trabzonspor will seek to extend their lead at home to CSKA Moscow.",
"Group A leaders Bayern Munich visit Italy's Napoli in search of a third successive win, while Manchester City host Spain's Villarreal with both teams in search of a first victory.",
"Nine-time European champions Real Madrid will seek a third successive Group D victory at home to French side Lyon in the clubs' ninth meeting in six years.",
"Dutch club Ajax, whose fourth European title came in 1995, travel to Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb -- with neither team having won yet this season."
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"Patrice Evra will continue his complaint of racial abuse against Luis Suarez .",
"English FA is investigating after incidents in Liverpool-Manchester United game .",
"Liverpool striker Suarez has denied the claims by United defender Evra .",
"Evra is expected to play in United's Champions League trip to Romania on Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- When protests swept across Tunisia and Egypt at the beginning of this year, history student Jabbar Savalan was inspired.",
"A 19-year-old in oil-rich Azerbaijan, he did what many activists in the Arab world were doing: He got online, posting a call on Facebook for a \"Day of Rage\" against the authoritarian government of the former Soviet republic.",
"The next day, February 5, he was arrested, handcuffed and forced into a police vehicle without being informed of his rights, according to Amnesty International.",
"He has been in custody ever since.",
"He says he was interrogated for two days before he saw his lawyer, slapped, and threatened into signing a confession, the group says.",
"Police say they found a small amount of marijuana in his jacket pocket, according to Amnesty.",
"Three months after being arrested, he was sentenced to prison, despite a blood test which showed no presence of drugs, and the testimony of his family and friends that he is not a drug user.",
"He's due to get out in August 2013.",
"Savalan is one of at least 17 Azerbaijanis considered \"prisoners of conscience\" by Amnesty International, which released a damning report Wednesday accusing the country of suppressing dissent and the press.",
"Self-censorship has increased and criticism of the state \"is punished in all sectors of society,\" Amnesty's Azerbaijan researcher Natalia Nozadze said in the capital, Baku, on Wednesday.",
"The \"report shows lengths that the government goes to to silence\" opponents, she said.",
"The \"government has criminalized peaceful protests by banning them\" and \"defamation of the government continues to be criminal offense,\" she said.",
"The government of President Ilham Aliyev -- whose father, a one-time member of the Soviet Politburo, was president before him -- uses techniques described as despotic in other parts of the world, said a top Amnesty official.",
"\"Azerbaijan has achieved the bones but not the meat of a democracy -- opposition are allowed to exist but not to function,\" said John Dulhuisen, the deputy director of the agency's Europe and Central Asia program.",
"He said Amnesty's researchers had not been able to meet government representatives while preparing the report, which is called \"The Spring That Never Blossomed: Freedoms suppressed in Azerbaijan.\"",
"An opposition journalist who served four years in prison also spoke at the press conference.",
"Eynulla Fetullayev, founder and editor-in-chief of Gundalik Azerbaijan and Realny Azerbaijan newspapers, was sentenced to eight years and six months in jail in 2007, but Amnesty International helped him win his freedom earlier this year, he told the press conference.",
"Pro-government media, including the main television channels, did not attend the press conference, local journalists told CNN.",
"The head of the International Press Institute expressed some support for Azerbaijan's government, saying it had displayed a willingness to engage in dialogue.",
"But she said self-censorship was a concern.",
"\"Journalists in Azerbaijan fear retribution from businesses and government officials over what they write.",
"They fear jail or physical attack and that is unacceptable,\" said Alison Bethel McKenzie.",
"The government rejected Wednesday's report.",
"\"The Amnesty report was not fair at all.",
"Its task was to criticize Azerbaijan.",
"I don't think this is fair,\" said Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev.",
"\"Democracy is a process.",
"Things that have been achieved here and done so far should be mentioned,\" he argued.",
"He said the media are free to say whatever they like, and he rejected the idea that there were prisoners of conscience in his country.",
"Azerbaijan is strategically important because of pipelines that bring oil and gas from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia to the West via Turkey.",
"Amnesty insisted that the international community is more interested in Azerbaijan's oil and gas sectors than in a democratic government that supports human rights.",
"Located between Russia, Iran and Turkey, Azerbaijan cooperates with NATO and is a member of the Council of Europe -- which has also been critical of Azerbaijan in the past."
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"Azerbaijan clamped down on dissent inspired by the Arab Spring, Amnesty says .",
"It accuses the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic of holding at least 17 prisoners of conscience .",
"Azerbaijan rejects the report as unfair .",
"The Caspian Sea country has strategically important oil and gas pipelines ."
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"(CNN) -- Influential British rock band The Stone Roses announced on Tuesday they will reform for several concerts next year after a 15-year hiatus.",
"The big question is: Will they be any good?",
"I've certainly got high hopes for the reunion shows.",
"One thing the Manchester band -- noted for their mix of psychedelic rock and dance rhythms -- always prided themselves on was their ability as musicians and John, Reni and Mani were a very tight unit live.",
"Those three in particular will want to make sure the gigs are as tight and musically stunning as possible, not only for their own reputations, but to improve The Stone Roses' legacy.",
"Those of us who saw them at Reading 1996 (without Squire and Reni, who had left by then) were horrified by the extremely poor show the band called The Stone Roses put on.",
"I couldn't stand it and had to leave early.",
"Watch The Stone Roses' press conference .",
"These shows will have to be good to erase that stain.",
"There's always a bit of a question about Ian Brown's tuning, but that's almost part of his charm as a frontman.",
"He's good on vibes.",
"The issue of whether it's right for old bands to attempt to recreate their glory days depends on the context.",
"Bands who have reached their peak fade away and then comeback tend to do themselves no favors.",
"But when there is unfinished business -- for example when Blur fell out with Graham Coxon in 2000 it didn't feel like a fitting end for such a seminal band -- reunions give the fans what they want: a chance to see a band one more time and a better end to their relationship with that group.",
"Watch the band in their heyday .",
"When the fans aren't interested, or bothered, then you know it's just for the money and it's just sad.",
"I think The Stone Roses had a lot of unfinished business.",
"In an era where music is consumed so quickly, the return of older bands does give fans a chance to experience something a bit more substantial and emotionally satisfying than contemporary acts; it's harder to have that kind of relationship with a band who are old hat after just one single.",
"However it does make it harder for bands to progress their careers, if reformed acts are soaking up a lot of the live market for example.",
"For example very few new bands who emerged in the last 10 years have been trusted to headline a major summer festival, organizers will not take a gamble on new talent, if there's a sure-thing reunion lurking around.",
"It's a tough balance, but it's reflective of most people's record collections -- a mix of old and new music.",
"So we'll have to see if there is an artistic justification for a resurrected Stone Roses.",
"Blur in 2009 in particular felt justified, not only because we got to see how a artistically mature Damon Albarn and Coxon would perform together live -- rather than going mental as they did a bit in the early days -- but they also recorded the single \"Fools Day\" which was a welcome addition to the Blur catalog, and their Glastonbury performance was one of their greatest in that festival's already esteemed history."
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"Influential British rock band The Stone Roses to reform after 15-year hiatus .",
"Music writer says group will want gigs to improve The Stone Roses' legacy .",
"Paul Stokes says older groups allow fans to experience better quality music .",
"But he says reformed acts are in danger of soaking up much of the live market ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- In the largest alleged BP oil spill-related scam uncovered to date, federal authorities on Thursday charged two Floridians with taking $340,000 in funds intended for victims of last year's environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.",
"Justice Department officials said Joseph Harvey, 51, and Anja Kannell, 41, of Delray Beach, Florida, appeared in federal court in Miami on Thursday to face indictments for mail fraud, wire fraud and aggressive identity theft.",
"Prosecutors said the defendants claimed the money from a $20 billion fund set up to help legitimate victims of the spill recover lost income.",
"Justice officials said they have brought charges in at least 30 cases in which individuals tried to recover funds to which they were not entitled.",
"This was the biggest case yet, according to the Justice Department.",
"Harvey and Kannell are accused of filing phony claims using 34 assumed identities of actual Florida residents.",
"These claims were complete with names and Social Security numbers, though they had fictitious addresses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.",
"Officials say the defendants instructed that all the funds be sent to an account they controlled in Texas.",
"A magistrate judge on Thursday ordered Harvey and Kannell to remain in custody, pending further court proceedings next week.",
"The charges carry 10-, 15- and 20-year prison sentences upon conviction."
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"Joseph Harvey, 51, and Anja Kannell, 41, appear in federal court .",
"They allegedly assumed 34 false identities to file oil-spill claims .",
"Prosecutors say the two claimed $340,000 intended for victims of the Gulf spill ."
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"(CNN) -- Shares of scandal-plagued Olympus rallied after three board members of the Japanese camera maker quit ahead of today's meeting with a company ex-CEO turned whistleblower.",
"Shares soared as much as 25% in early trade Friday after former Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former executive Vice President Hisashi Mori and Auditor Hideo Yamada quit.",
"The company claims the trio helped fake payments for merger transactions to cover $1.4 billion in losses.",
"The resignations are the latest in a series of incidents in a scandal that began on October 14 with the firing of Michael Woodford as chief executive, who subsequently went public with allegations the Olympus management team and board had covered up hundreds of millions of losses in bad investments dating back to the 1990s.",
"A subsequent probe that looked into the shady M&A transactions, including whether there was Japanese mob involvement, have pummeled shares of the camera and medical equipment maker.",
"The share value has dropped more than 80% in the past six weeks.",
"The company faces the threat of de-listing from the Tokyo Stock Exchange for inaccurate financial statements.",
"Woodford was back in Tokyo on Thursday, where he met with Japanese prosecutors.",
"This morning he met with the Olympus board that fired him last month.",
"Woodford said the board meeting was \"constructive.\"",
"Woodford claims he was fired because he asked about the $1.4 billion in questionable transaction fees.",
"\"In Japanese life, it's wonderful to be harmonious on the personal level with your friends and family, but in a corporation you need agitation, you need challenge, you need questioning,\" Woodford told reporters Thursday.",
"\"And if that's not good for Japan, then I'm very sad.\"",
"The murky merger and acquisition fees includes a $687 million transaction fee that represented about one-third of the cost of the acquisition, which would make it the largest percentage transaction fee in global merger and acquisition history.",
"Earlier this week, a third party probe said it found no evidence that funds flowed from Olympus into organized crime, responding to a New York Times report that investigators are looking into whether missing cash went into companies linked with Japanese yakuza, or mobs.",
"There is speculation that Woodford, who remains a director on the Olympus board, will be asked back as CEO.",
"Woodford has said he would like to return to the company.",
"If Woodford returns \"he would have a big target on his back ... but right now we don't see any viable alternative,\" Ben Collett, head of Japan Equities for Louis Capital Markets, told CNN.",
"\"So I think it's about an 80% certainty that he will (return).",
"But his ability to change the business from inside now I think is going to be somewhat comprised by that fact that: A) he is a foreigner, and B) he's the person who basically brought down the established management.\"",
"The company must provide revised financial information to the Tokyo Stock Exchange by December 14 or risk being de-listed.",
"The company's stock listing plummeted form 2,282 yen on October 13 down to a low of 460 yen on November 11.",
"The stock has see-sawed since then but was trading at 1,230 yen early Friday morning.",
"CNN's Ramy Inocencio and Junko Ogura contributed to this report ."
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"Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, Vice President Hisashi Mori and Auditor Hideo Yamada quit .",
"Ousted CEO turned whistleblower Michael Woodford met with Japanese police .",
"Investigation centers on $1.4 billion in losses the company claimed as transaction fees ."
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"(CNN) -- This week, we pulled the cotton from our ears and emerged from our dark caves of seclusion to open this here column up to user-submitted questions.",
"Some submissions were inanely obvious (no, don't tweet that picture of your boss, I don't care if he told you about his chinchilla fetish at happy hour the other week), some were boring beyond belief, and, many, oddly, were just plain stalkerish.",
"But not in the way you might think.",
"In the past, we've covered the topic of how to deal with online stalkers when the attention is unwanted.",
"But more and more, as gaining access to anyone on this rapidly rotting Earth of ours is easier than ever, we Web denizens are wondering: Does using the Internet to check someone out make me a stalker?",
"Chances are, probably not.",
"Read on for a couple of queries on this issue: .",
"\"When I was waiting for the bus the other day, I evaluated the attractiveness of all the people at the stop; there was one obvious winner.",
"Then the seat next to him was the only seat open.",
"Upon sitting down, he immediately engaged me in very adorable and flirty conversation.",
"We exchanged names and we both talked about what we were studying at school, but I didn't have an opportunity to give him my number.",
"\"Anyway, with his name and major, I was able to find him after only 30 seconds of Googling.",
"I want to contact him but I'm not sure how.",
"Especially because it would be like, 'Hey, I stalked you a tiny bit to find your full name.'",
"My question is: What's the appropriate (read as LEAST CREEPY) way to contact this person and what should I say in a message?\"",
"- Creepy Crushing in Chicago .",
"I'm going ahead and assume (for the sake of brevity) that you are not an insane stalkery-type person who collects the hair and toenails of her crushes, which she then uses to construct elaborate shrines to their beautiful (soon-to-be-departed) souls.",
"If you are such a person, please cease reading, and, uh, please don't hurt me.",
"Moving on: It seems like in your case, you don't have that many degrees of separation between you and your bus boy.",
"You attend the same school, take public transportation (i.e.",
"you're poor) and are not, in fact, Luddites.",
"In this case, I say: Be bold.",
"You found him on Google, you say?",
"If you found his Facebook profile (and not some old swim-meet records from middle school), go ahead and send him a brief message (\"Hope your meeting on the downtown campus went off without a hitch!\")",
"and a friend request.",
"Such a method is nice and private -- tweeting \"Hey!",
"You're freaking hot\" might be a little embarrassing -- and if he doesn't respond, you can always chalk it up to the fact that Facebook is cutting down on notification e-mails.",
"Our lives are public nowadays, and if homeboy didn't want to be found, well, then he could always limit his visibility on the site.",
"(If his profile is indeed hidden but you tracked down his e-mail address, follow a similar tack.",
"Unless, that is, his e-mail address was hidden on page 38 of Google results at the end of an article he wrote freshman year about the campus parade-and-circus club.",
"In that case, give up.) Furthermore, it's not like the phenomenon of searching out star-crossed potential lovers is anything new (that's what Missed Connections et al are for), so we're guessing your dude will be flattered at the very least that you sought him out.",
"And hey, maybe now you can meet up and compare hair-and-toenail shrines.",
"<3 . \"Through some Facebook stalking, I recently discovered my ex had gotten married.",
"(We're no longer FB friends).",
"Although that was a shock for sure, the real heartbreaker was that all my friends (who are still FB friends with her) didn't disclose any of this information to me.",
"... Not even the engagement!",
"How do I tell them they're backstabbers without admitting I'm a stalker?\"",
"- Backstabbed in BK .",
"First of all, Backstabbed, it doesn't really seem like you have been, in fact, backstabbed.",
"You're not Facebook friends with your ex anymore, you say?",
"If you refer to our column on how to deal with breakups online, we recommend unfriending exes after particularly painful breakups, which is exactly what you have done (congrats on your reading-comprehension skills).",
"The fact that you unfriended this girl indicates you don't want her in your life -- and don't want your life in hers -- so we can see why your friends didn't call you immediately after she decided to tie the knot.",
"Still, we get that this is information you would rather get from a friendly face than from a half-sloshed night of Facebook stalking, sandwiched between, \"Oh, Laurie has a new baby. ...",
"It's hideous!\" and \"Joel went to prison again.\"",
"If you want to call up your pals and -- rationally -- explain that you would rather they not hide your ex's huge life moments from your sensitive (yet manly) gaze, go ahead and do it.",
"Just explain that you were idly clicking through Facebook after a few too many mojitos and decided to check up on a few of your exes.",
"Your friends will understand, because they are likely stalking their exes as we speak.",
"Stalking exes on Facebook is basically akin to a distasteful bodily function: We all do it, but no one goes around bragging about it in mixed company."
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"Our Netiquette columnists answer users' questions about stalking on the Web .",
"Is it OK to admit to your mutual friends that you searched for your ex on Facebook?",
"How do you approach the cutie you met in person once you find him/her on the Web?"
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Syria has accepted \"in principle\" an Arab League plan to permit observers into the country to verify whether the regime has taken measures to protect civilians, a senior Arab diplomat said Friday.",
"Questions remained, however, about the exact nature of the mission, if it proceeds.",
"Originally, 500 observers were believed to be destined for Syria, but U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Friday afternoon that the proposed number had been reduced to 40.",
"Syria requested amendments to the plan Thursday night, a day after Arab league representatives approved it, the Cairo-based regional alliance said on its website.",
"Nabil el-Araby, secretary-general of the Arab League, said the league is studying the letter from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem that included changes regarding the protocol and duties of the observers.",
"Eighteen of the alliance's 22 member nations voted to suspend Syria's membership in the league on Saturday.",
"But the group, which met again in Rabat, Morocco, on Wednesday, gave Damascus three days to implement a protocol to allow observers to enter the nation.",
"\"Our mission will be to portray the truth about the nature of the injuries (and) numbers of casualties and assess the hospitals, to see what they need and how well-prepared they are to accommodate the injured,\" said Dr. Ibrahim Zafarani, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and founding member of the Arab Doctors Association who said he'd volunteered to be an observer.",
"It is the latest diplomatic effort to resolve the crisis in Syria.",
"International pressure has been mounting on President Bashar al-Assad over his regime's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, amid concerns that violence in Syria is escalating.",
"World support and confidence in the Syrian regime have continued to dwindle in recent weeks.",
"France's top diplomat called the state of affairs in embattled Syria \"no longer tenable\" Friday and wants the U.N. Security Council to step up and grapple with the eight-month-long crisis in the turbulent Arab nation.",
"\"Despite all the calls that were made to that regime\" for peaceful initiatives to end the raging street violence, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said in the Turkish capital of Ankara, \"the regime did not want to know anything.",
"Still this morning, in the north of Syria, several villages were bombarded by the Syrian army.\"",
"British Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet Monday with representatives from the Syrian National Council and National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change, two groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad's government, a foreign office spokeswoman said Friday.",
"The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, another activist group, said that at least 19 people were killed Friday by security forces and the army, among them four children.",
"This is in addition to 26 killed by security forces Thursday, on top of scores killed earlier in the week, according to the organization.",
"Eight people were killed in the southern region of Daraa, where about 20 people also were wounded when security forces fired at mourners.",
"There were five deaths in Hama, in the west, four in the Damascus suburbs and two in Homs, also in the west, the Local Coordination Committees said.",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, meanwhile, reported the killings of two law enforcement members in Hama, the injuries of two in Daraa and the arrests of 10 \"terrorists\" in Idlib province.",
"CNN is not able to independently verify claims of fighting and casualties because the Syrian government has restricted international media access to the country.",
"Well over 3,500 people have been killed and thousands have been jailed in cities across the country, according to U.N. estimates.",
"French and Turkish officials have been outspoken in their criticism of the Syrian regime's behavior, and some key international diplomats, such as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said Thursday that the ongoing attacks on government buildings in Syria \"look like a civil war.\"",
"News agencies have been quoting Juppe as saying it is \"too late\" for Syria to make the reforms the regime has promised.",
"At the same time, he urged opposition protesters to shun violence.",
"In recent weeks, a military force of defectors called the Free Syrian Army has launched strikes against government targets.",
"This week, the force said it attacked an air intelligence base outside Damascus.",
"Also, army defectors armed with a rocket-propelled grenades attacked a pro-government youth group office and clashed with Syrian security personnel, activists said.",
"And on Friday, a video emerged of another defector group announcing its formation: the Hawks of Damascus.",
"\"We promise Bashar al-Assad and his unjust group that you will see us in every place and time and you will see from us what you don't expect until we return the freedom and dignity to our people,\" the group said in the video.",
"Juppe, meanwhile, urged the Syrian opposition \"to take the stance that they have taken from the beginning, which is the refusal of violence.\"",
"\"But I think that the point has now come to renew our efforts to accelerate sanctions.",
"We all support a resolution to that effect at the United Nations General Assembly.",
"France is happy to work with the Arab League, with Turkey, with all the countries in the region and to work with the opposition which shows a lot of courage,\" Juppe said.",
"Juppe said \"it would be good\" if the Security Council asserted itself on the issue.",
"\"It is not normal in a crisis of this scope: 3,000 dead already, 20,000 prisoners in Syrian prisons, which are sometimes treated very brutally with torture,\" Juppe said.",
"\"It is not acceptable that the U.N. Security Council does not speak up.\"",
"Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, appearing with Juppe, said his nation opposes \"all kinds of use of violence against civilians\" and hopes \"Arab peoples will determine their own fate in this vein without a need for foreign intervention.\"",
"He said that calling for al-Assad's ouster and the establishment of a no-fly zone are not up for discussion.",
"\"If massacres against civilians continue, we won't be indifferent to that whether it's in Syria or any other country,\" he said.",
"Syria has blamed the violence on armed terrorist groups.",
"But activists and citizens say the government's military and security personnel are responsible for the many casualties there.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday that the United States had been concerned for weeks that the situation in Syria was spiraling out of control.",
"Syria's failure to make promised reforms had led to a peaceful opposition \"morphing\" into one that was, at least in part, well armed and prepared to take action against the Syrian government, she said.",
"Now important regional players like the Arab League nations and Turkey \"are sending (the) same message loudly and clearly: that the Syrian government has to change, and it has to change now, or we all fear what the consequences will be,\" she said.",
"Turkey, formerly an ally and major trading partner of Syria's, has toughened its stance this week, threatening to cut its electricity supply to Syria and asking why the international community has not taken the kind of action to protect civilians that it took in Libya through NATO.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner in Washington said Turkey had \"become an increasingly vocal opponent to what's going on in Syria and an increasingly powerful voice among the international community\" in calling for an end to the violence.",
"A draft U.N. resolution is in the works, backed by Germany, France and Britain, who have sought support from Middle Eastern nations for the move.",
"Juppe noted European Union economic sanctions against Syria and said \"we are ready to harden those sanctions.\"",
"European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday reiterated her call for al-Assad to step down, her spokeswoman said.",
"Ashton spoke after a meeting with Lavrov in Moscow.",
"Jordan's King Abdullah has said 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.",
"According to Russia's Interfax news agency, Ashton said she is confident that Abdullah would \"reiterate the position that it's about time for President Assad to go.\"",
"An EU official said Ashton has asked Arab League head el-Araby to attend a meeting of the European Union's foreign ministers and talk about ways to put pressure on the al-Assad regime.",
"The official didn't want to be named because he isn't authorized to speak about the matter.",
"CNN's Alexander Felton, Laura Smith-Spark, Joe Sterling, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Rima Maktabi, Niki Cook, Sarah Jones and Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Syria offered amendments Thursday night to the Arab League plan on observers .",
"NEW: A potential observer says, \"Our mission will be to portray the truth\"\nNEW: The British foreign minister will meet rebel leaders, a spokeswoman says .",
"At least 19 are slain in Syria on Friday, on top of scores killed earlier, an activist group says ."
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"(CNN) -- Libya celebrated wildly Thursday with the news of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death.",
"But in the aftermath of that party, the country's new leaders will awaken Friday morning to the nation-building equivalent of a huge pile of dirty and broken dishes in the kitchen, not to mention a few bitter guests who aren't quite ready to leave, experts say.",
"Although Gadhafi's death will probably end the possibility of an insurgency that could have sapped the new government's time and energy, it will do little to heal the myriad divisions within the country, said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics.",
"\"The challenges are much greater than basically the celebration we are seeing today in western capitals,\" he said.",
"\"And I think the morning after, we will wake up to a Libya that has changed very little in terms of really mending the rifts inside the country itself.\"",
"Libyans celebrate death of longtime dictator .",
"Those rifts include sharp divisions among rebel groups, such as leaders in the western city of Misrata who have refused to recognize the eastern-based National Transitional Council as the country's new government, Gerges said.",
"And with Gadhafi dead, the primary unifying force that held the rebels together is gone, according to Stratfor analyst Kamran Bokhari.",
"\"The one thing that held all the rebels together was the presence of Moammar Gadhafi, even though the rebels had taken the capital and the focus was to essentially put down any form of pro-Gadhafi resistance wherever it may be, especially in his hometown, Sirte,\" Bokhari said.",
"With that accomplished, the question for the rebels becomes whether they will be able to stick together and not \"descend into a situation of chaos and civil war,\" he said.",
"As for what could happen to Libya after Gadhafi, Gerges said, look no farther than Egypt.",
"The world celebrated with that nation's people in February when intense demonstrations against the rule of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak forced him to relinquish power.",
"Several months later, the country is ruled by a military council, and fierce political struggles dominate.",
"\"The same thing applies to Libya,\" Gerges said.",
"\"In fact, Libya is much more divided than Egypt or even Yemen,\" another Arab state that has witnessed protests against its leaders' rule.",
"The National Transitional Council has achieved remarkable progress since taking power, said Daniel Serwer, a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.",
"\"It got the electricity and water flowing; they've got the (financial) markets open.",
"They've got police on the street and even garbagemen collecting the garbage,\" Serwer said.",
"\"That is brilliant.\" But many challenges remain.",
"Figuring out how to create a sense of national reconciliation in a country where few civil institutions survived Gadhafi's rule is but one urgent task for the country's new government, experts said.",
"It must also deal with armed militias, restore basic services nationwide, make sure things such as Gadhafi's chemical weapons stores are secured and tackle the mammoth tasks of creating a new constitution and government and scheduling elections.",
"Leaders also have to figure out how to deal with the trials of Gadhafi regime members suspected of being involved in war crimes and address concerns of international human rights groups who fear that former rebels are mistreating and torturing prisoners.",
"The National Transitional Council has put off dealing with many of those issues since toppling Gadhafi's regime, said Fadel Laman, president of the American-Libyan Council.",
"But with the former ruler dead and the last city loyal to him under government control, the nation's new leaders can no longer use war to explain any lack of progress to the Libyan people, Laman said.",
"\"There is no Gadhafi for them to use as a crutch,\" he said.",
"CNN's Melissa Gray contributed to this report."
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"Gadhafi's death reduces the risk of a crippling insurgency, a Libya expert says .",
"But it also removes the primary unifying force that has held the rebellious groups together .",
"Numerous urgent issues await the new government ."
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"(CNN) -- France's reputation as rugby's Jekyll and Hyde team was reaffirmed on Saturday as Marc Lievremont's inconsistent side bounced back from two defeats to eliminate England and reach the World Cup semifinals.",
"Les Bleus avenged their 2007 semi defeat by the English on home soil with a 19-12 victory in Auckland, setting up a last-four clash with Wales -- who went through after beating Celtic neighbors Ireland 22-10.",
"With the other half of the drawing pitting hosts New Zealand against Argentina, and world champions South Africa versus Australia -- both games are on Sunday -- there could potentially be a repeat of the inaugural 1987 final when the All Blacks beat France.",
"Coach Lievremont will be replaced by Philippe Saint-Andre after the tournament, but he has the chance to help France to lift the Webb Ellis Cup for the first time.",
"His team lost to New Zealand and Tonga in the group stage, but roared to a 16-0 halftime lead at Eden Park as wing Vincent Clerc and fullback Maxime Medard crossed for tries, while Dimitri Yachvili kicked two penalties.",
"England, the 2003 champions, rallied with second-half tries to fullback Ben Foden and wing Mark Cueto but a drop-goal by Francois Trinh-Duc in between those scores kept France safely ahead.",
"\"You can't give a good team like France 16 points of a start.",
"We had chances in the second half but they deserved to win,\" said England manager Martin Johnson, a World Cup winner as a player eight years ago.",
"France captain Thierry Dusautoir was glad to put the nightmare of the shock Tonga defeat behind him.",
"\"We didn't want to go out like this.",
"We wanted to show how we can play rugby,\" he said.",
"\"I think we did it well.",
"It was a great start for us and we are going to enjoy this victory.",
"Now we need to keep it up and focus on the next game.\"",
"The French will take on Wales at Eden Park next Saturday after Warren Gatland's team handed Ireland a first defeat of the tournament to reach the semifinals for the first time since 1987.",
"The Group D runners-up scored three tries to one in Wellington as Ireland failed to capitalize on a wealth of first-half possession and crashed out at the last-eight stage for the fifth successive time.",
"Veteran winger Shane Williams put Wales ahead with a third-minute try that young flyhalf Rhys Priestland converted for a 10-3 lead at the break.",
"Ronan O'Gara kicked Ireland's only points with a 24th-minute penalty before Leigh Halfpenny replied in kind just before the half hour.",
"Ireland leveled five minutes after the interval as O'Gara converted a try by wing Keith Earls, but Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips dotted down in the 51st minute and center Jonathan Davies made it safe on 64.",
"\"We spent a lot of time in that first half in their 22 and we only came up with three points in the half,\" Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll said.",
"\"It hurts a bit when you're going in at halftime having the opportunities and knocking on the door, but not really getting any points out of the territory.",
"\"We needed to deliver a performance similar to the one against Australia or the one against Italy last week.",
"We didn't do that today, we knocked on way too much ball.\"",
"Gatland backed his young team to go further in the tournament.",
"\"They have no baggage and there's no fear factor,\" Gatland said.",
"\"We are in New Zealand and not in the bubble of Wales and listening to any of the negativity that is sometimes generated back home.",
"\"We've worked so hard in the last three, four months.",
"We aren't ready to go home yet.\""
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"Victory sets up semifinal clash with Wales, who defeat Ireland 22-10 .",
"Group C winners suffered first defeat of the tournament in New Zealand ."
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"(CNN) -- Kenya is known for producing some of the world's greatest runners and now a company wants to get them noticed wearing a brand from their country.",
"A group of young entrepreneurs have launched what they say is the nation's first running brand and they have high hopes of one day transforming Nairobi into the running apparel capital of the world.",
"\"There are a lot of Kenyan athletes and you always see them wearing Nike and Adidas and not something from their own country,\" said Hussein Kurji, who designs the clothing and heads up the Kenyan operation of Kourage Athletics.",
"\"We do have quite a good track record when it comes to running, so why not match that with an equally big clothing brand,\" he added.",
"Kourage says it creates running apparel that's 'designed, manufactured and managed in Kenya by Kenyans.'",
"The name of the brand forms the backbone of the company's ethos.",
"\"Kourage is all about having the courage to do new things, try new things, be brave and go out and do what you would not normally do,\" Kurji said.",
"The brand officially launched in July producing just over 1,000 t-shirts.",
"While initial orders are still low the team plans to eventually make everything from running shorts to hooded sweatshirts once they have more capital.",
"But they are quick to point out that they're not just selling apparel.",
"\"Our shirts are beautiful.",
"We use the softest fabric available; employ a modern fit and fantastic graphics, but what sets us apart are our ideals,\" said Chris Markl, the brains behind Kourage.",
"\"By purchasing a Kourage shirt one is investing in Kenya's future.",
"A future that is built upon business and international trade not foreign aid,\" he continued.",
"Africa growth vision .",
"Florida-based economics professor and running enthusiast, Markl spent years getting Kourage off the ground.",
"He even rode 1,800 miles on his bike from Canada to Mexico to raise the initial start-up funds.",
"Markl first became interested in the idea of producing an ethical clothing line when he was researching textiles factories in Honduras as part of his Ph.D. \"I always wondered why 'ethical' clothing lines were so focused on concentrating operations in America or Europe.",
"There are incredible designers and entrepreneurs in impoverished countries,\" he said.",
"\"To create real economic development, an apparel company needs to create as many economic linkages in a poor country as possible,\" he continued.",
"Kenya's 'silent crisis' The Kourage team pride themselves on being one of the most ethical athletic apparel company in the world, according to Markl.",
"The clothes are produced by Viva Africa, a Kenyan-owned and operated factory, employing around 200 people, mostly women.",
"The factory makes everything from police uniforms to high-end fashion.",
"However, the most important thing Markl says is that working conditions are fair and the employees are happy.",
"But the small team, who all hold down a variety of other day jobs, dream of one day opening up their own factory and headquarters in Nairobi.",
"While Kourage haven't approached any athletes yet, they hope that in 10 to 20 years Kenyan runners in the Olympics and other major sporting events will be wearing their brand.",
"They also have plans to approach smaller youth organizations in the country who have a focus on sports.",
"The group says there aren't many Kenya-based fashion outlets and that most clothing comes from South Africa.",
"Kourage hopes their industry model could help change the face of business in Kenya by inspiring the younger generation.",
"\"It shows that you don't have to go to India or China to be successful.",
"This could help boost the economy and generate income and jobs,\" Kurji said.",
"\"We hope the entrepreneurship spirit of Kourage will show other young talent that if you have the courage and you persevere you can achieve what you want to.\""
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"The brand officially launched in July and hopes to one day dress Olympic runners .",
"The Kourage team pride themselves on being the most ethical athletic apparel company .",
"The brand hopes to inspire other young entrepreneurs to follow their dreams ."
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"HONG KONG, China -- Most people by now will be familiar with the term 'carbon footprint' and may even have calculated it themselves, but how many are familiar with their 'water footprint'?",
"Professor Arjen Y. Hoekstra, the creator of the 'water footprint' concept.",
"It's about time we all learned what it is, says Professor Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Professor in Multidisciplinary Water Management at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, as soon it will be influencing how we live our lives.",
"Hoekstra created the water footprint concept in 2002 when he was undertaking research on what is known as virtual water trade flows for the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education.",
"CNN finds out what it is and why it's important.",
"CNN: So, what is a water footprint?",
"Hoekstra: It relates to how much water is being used to make a product, but it also refers to where that water is being used and when that water is being used.",
"This is about the water use in different parts of the world to make products for businesses and individuals, so this enables an impact assessment and a formulation of policy to improve the water sustainability of these products.",
"CNN: What can businesses or individuals do to save on water?",
"Hoekstra: Businesses or individuals can become \"water neutral\" by reducing the effects of their water footprints.",
"They can have incentives for that, because once they are water neutral they can market that and consumers may like that so there are other mechanisms there.",
"CNN: How would one go about becoming water neutral?",
"Hoekstra: The water footprint of a business has two components -- the water used during operations and the water used in the supply chain.",
"In order for a product to be sustainable you have to make both operations of the business sustainable as well as the supply chain.",
"A product from a business is water neutral if the business has made sure that the operations are sound, that the water use has been reduced reasonably as much as possible, and the pollution has been brought to zero, but they also have to do that in their supply chain and they can't do that themselves because it is not their own business.",
"So, they can only do that by influencing their suppliers or by changing to another supplier.",
"And this is quite something because it means that the whole business sector and all these supply chains have to become much more transparent.",
"CNN: What business sectors use the most water?",
"Hoekstra: Agriculture -- 85 percent of the world's water usage is in agriculture, 10 percent is industry and 5 percent is in households.",
"But these sectors are not independent because what we call the industry sector is taking so much stuff from the agricultural sector, so they are connected.",
"It means that if the industrial sector has to reduce their water footprint it also means they have to look at their supply chain and part of their supply chain is in the agricultural sector.",
"The agricultural sector should become more transparent.",
"CNN: What can individuals do?",
"Hoekstra: There are two types of approaches.",
"One is to substitute types of consumption articles for other ones, which take less water -- like going from a meat-based diet to a vegetarian one, which will save a lot of water.",
"Drinking tea instead of coffee saves a lot of water.",
"Not wearing cotton but wearing artificial fiber saves a lot of water.",
"But this is probably limited, because people don't shift from meat to vegetarian as they just don't like not to have beef; or they like cotton.",
"So the different kind of approach is to keep the same kind of consumption pattern but when choosing cotton, or when choosing beef, choose the sound one.",
"If you make things more transparent, by citing the precise impact of a certain article on the water system, through the water footprint, you provide that kind of information and you label it somehow, then consumers within the same category have some choice to go in the better direction.",
"CNN: What do you think will encourage the take-up of the water footprint concept on all these levels?",
"Hoekstra: How nowadays can you say that your product is better than another one?",
"They need to have some additional quality and that can be sustainability, something that is appreciated by some consumers.",
"I think that once in a few years we will have some companies start to go public with the fact that their products are better from a water point of view than products from another company, then governments will realize that they can do some regulation there.",
"CNN: Which countries supply the world with the most water?",
"Hoekstra: North America, South America and Australia are big suppliers of water-intensive products to other parts of the world.",
"Some parts of the world support the rest of the world in terms of water resources, by using lots of water to make export products, while other countries import those products and those importing countries relieve the pressure on their own water resources by doing so.",
"CNN: Should countries with water resources be obliged to share them with the rest of the world?",
"Hoekstra: I think it is a logical development that countries start to protect their own water sources and in that sense it is good.",
"However, you can protect it by trying to avoid the water use for export and you can also try to protect your water by allocating it to the types of use that have the highest types of value, which can be export.",
"So protecting is kind of vital and essential and it is a political choice whether you protect it and keep it for yourself or whether you protect it and make highest benefits from it which can include export.",
"CNN: There has been some discussion over the years about creating a global water treaty -- what would it ideally look like?",
"Hoekstra: I am not sure whether there is one kind of ultimate solution to freshwater problems, so I rather would look into a number of different solutions.",
"One of the things I have proposed [is] a global water pricing protocol.",
"There is very much consensus about the need to translate water scarcity into a price.",
"However, water is generally not priced [as] for an individual country to start water pricing subtracts from the competitiveness of industry.",
"You start charging for the water and products increase in price and nobody wants that.",
"But it should be done because it is just unhealthy to put a scarce resource into a product for free.",
"Another kind of measure that I have proposed is what I call a tradable water footprint permit system.",
"There is an amount of water footprint for humanity and it is not shared equally.",
"In the U.S., the footprint per capita is two times the world average; in other countries it is half the world average and you can imagine if everyone was going to have the same water footprint as in the U.S. -- it is impossible.",
"So there is an equitability issue, like with C02 emissions.",
"You have the Kyoto Protocol on tradable C02 emissions and the parallel is a tradable water footprint system.",
"Another global agreement: We better arrange the water rights of people.",
"There is only in the UN treaties an arrangement for a human right for drinking water.",
"But there is also a human right for a basic food supply.",
"And if you look at the amount of water for food that is much more than the amount of drinking water so making that more explicit and arranging that in a better way would also give more of a guarantee to people that they have a minimum water supply.",
"Find out more about the water footprint concept here: http://www.waterfootprint.org// ."
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"Global water treaty should include basic food-water rights for all .",
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"(CNN) -- One need look no further than the Nielsen Top 25 to see that funny fare is doing some serious damage this fall TV season.",
"Led by \"Two and a Half Men\" on CBS and featuring no less than three newcomers -- CBS' \"2 Broke Girls,\" Fox's \"New Girl\" and ABC's \"Last Man Standing\" -- sitcoms have dominated the Top 10 scripted programs in the weekly rankings (based on delivery of the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic).",
"\"It's been a while since that's been the case,\" says Kelly Kahl, senior executive vice president of CBS Primetime.",
"\"At the end of the day, it does seem like there is some sort of groundswell right now.\"",
"CBS claims five of eight highly ranked sitcoms.",
"The network's three other hits are \"How I Met Your Mother,\" \"Big Bang Theory,\" and \"Mike and Molly.\"",
"\"New Girl,\" \"Last Man Standing\" (which debuted to 13 million viewers) and ABC's Emmy-adorned \"Modern Family\" round out the crowd.",
"\"People forget sometimes that comedies are supposed to be fun, but a lot of the comedies are bringing the funny this fall,\" Kahl says.",
"\"And when you do that, the audience is there for it.\" The audience also has been there for cable comedies, with HBO's \"Curb Your Enthusiasm\" and FX's \"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia\" coming off all-time highs, even in their eighth and seventh seasons, respectively.",
"TVLine: Hit series poised to kill off major character .",
"Perhaps the biggest surprise of the fall is Fox's \"New Girl,\" which not only bowed to strong numbers but also built on its lead-in, the buzz worthy \"Glee.\"",
"That performance, which has continued throughout the newbie's run, even caught the ratings-crunchers at Fox a bit by surprise.",
"\"Did we think we were going to get those numbers?",
"No,\" says Preston Beckman, Fox's executive vice president for strategic program planning and research.",
"\"But we had a lot of positive signs.\"",
"Beckman says pilot testing indicated \"New Girl\" would be a potential four-quadrant hit, meaning one that played well to audiences young and old, male and female.",
"While preseason tracking put consumer awareness of the Zooey Deschanel-fronted comedy at expected levels, Beckman says, \"The intent to view was consistently high.",
"We knew we had a show here.\" TVLine: TV worth watching tonight .",
"Beckman, who was at NBC during \"Friends\" fever, sees \"New Girl\" sharing DNA with that piece of Must See TV.",
"When creating an identifiable cast of characters, \"You either want to be those people, you are those people, or you remember being those people -- and if you can hit everybody, you have success,\" he says.",
"\"That's what 'New Girl' is.\" Asked how it is that \"New Girl\" is even growing out of \"Glee,\" Beckman cites a good fit between the shows, as well as the 9 p.m. hour's older-skewing competition (reality juggernaut \"Dancing With the Stars\" included).",
"To a 12-34 demographic that is ripe for the picking, Deschanel and friends offer \"a real alternative,\" he says.",
"Much can also be attributed to star power.",
"Both \"2 Broke Girls,\" starring wisecracking Kat Dennings and bubbly newcomer Beth Behrs, and \"New Girl\" have the \"sort of appealing characters the audiences love,\" CBS' Kahl says.",
"\"I don't think there's been a female lead sitcom in a while -- much less two -- that featured young, energetic characters.\"",
"TVLine: Spoilers on 'Glee,' 'Gossip Girl,' 'Bones,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'CSI,' 'Castle' and more!",
"At CBS, the good news expands to its older comedies.",
"\"How I Met Your Mother,\" which leads into \"2 Broke Girls\" on Monday nights, \"has kind of come out of nowhere\" to gain 30% in the demographic versus a year ago, Kahl says.",
"Likewise, \"Two and a Half Men's\" performance -- netting more than 15 million total viewers at last count, despite replacing one of its leads, Charlie Sheen, with Ashton Kutcher -- \"is not something anybody could have forecast,\" Kahl says, \"and even 'Big Bang Theory' is up\" on Thursdays.",
"One perspective Kahl offers on the trend is that in an era of bloated reality shows \"that are now two hours in length,\" with a half-hour sitcom \"you get your laughs and you're done, and that is very appealing.\"",
"Speaking of unscripted programs, expanded editions of \"The X Factor\" -- coupled with Fox's commitment to post-season Major League Baseball coverage -- led the network to pull its shiny \"New Girl\" off the schedule until November 1.",
"Beckman has been down this road before, and to those who question the tactic, he says, \"You're thinking about this moment, when we have to think about a strategy for the whole year.\"",
"So while some grumble at the breakout hit's brief MIA status, his attitude is this: better now than later.",
"\"I get into interesting discussions with my bosses about this, where I say, 'If you're telling me to put (new episodes) on now, you're going to flip out in January or March when I've run out,\" he says with a laugh.",
"\"It becomes choose your poison.\""
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"CBS exec: \"There is some sort of groundswell right now\"\n\"2 Broke Girls\" and \"New Girl\" feature \"young, energetic\" female leads ."
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"(CNN) -- By now, early adopters of the iPhone 4S, which has sold more than 4 million units since debuting on Friday, have no doubt taken Siri for a spin.",
"The voice-activated \"personal assistant\" is a talkative tool that helps schedule appointments, send and receive messages and perform any number of other routine tasks.",
"But for iPhone owners presented with the sci-fi dream of a computer that talks back in a robotic female voice, the temptation to test the app's more random -- and existential -- sides has been pretty overwhelming, too.",
"The Internet, always up for a chuckle, has noticed.",
"Blog posts, tweets and even whole websites are popping up to share what happens when users start testing the boundaries of the app by peppering Siri with off-the-wall questions.",
"The findings? Siri can be a sometimes sassy, sometimes snide companion.",
"And she's at least as fond of an inside joke as she is of reading you your e-mails.",
"One key hub for all things Siri is S**t That Siri Says, a Tumblr blog on which people post their odd question-and-answer exchanges with the app.",
"Among some of its more creative entries: .",
"Q: Beam me up. A: OK. Stand still.",
"Q: Am I fat? A: I prefer not to say.",
"Q: What are you wearing? A: You have the wrong personal assistant, Clint.",
"Siri is clearly ready to drop a pop culture reference or two, as well as do a serviceable version of the Abbott and Costello \"Who's On First?\"",
"routine. This awareness and sense of humor has already earned her some fans.",
"\"I'm not sure who's responsible for these hilarious responses: Apple engineers or maybe a bunch of Hollywood joke writers.",
"But I dearly love stumbling onto them,\" wrote New York Times tech columnist David Pogue.",
"\"If you ask me, the technology world would be a lot better off if there were more humor everywhere.\"",
"Wired's Brian X. Chen wrote one of the more popular Siri posts after playing with a review model.",
"He gave the app high marks after it not only offered to call a cab when he said he was drunk (and not drunk-dial his ex-girlfriend) but also gave directions to mental-health facilities when he told it (presumably jokingly) that he wanted to kill himself.",
"\"It's kind of like having the unpaid intern of my dreams at my beck and call, organizing my life for me,\" Chen wrote.",
"\"I think Siri on the iPhone is a life changer, and this is only the beginning.\"",
"You can program the app to say your name in responses, or if you'd prefer to admire Siri from afar, there's already a Facebook page and a handful of Siri-inspired Twitter feeds.",
"(The official feed for the app appears to have gone inactive last August, however, a few months after Apple bought Siri).",
"Siri wasn't actually ready to protest when the \"Will It Blend\" guys dropped an iPhone 4S into a blender.",
"Like its predecessor, the phone was torn to shreds, but the \"scientists\" couldn't resist throwing some fake Siri audio onto the YouTube video, which has more than a half-million views.",
"\"Would you like to not blend the iPhone instead?\"",
"fake Siri says.",
"\"You are making a terrible error.\"",
"And there's more than one \"Easter egg\" for some of the more popular questions.",
"Asking the meaning of life, professing your love or quoting lines from \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" -- the sci-fi classic in which astronauts must combat HAL, an artificial intelligence with a deceptively soothing, robotic voice -- all produce multiple responses from Siri.",
"We threw what we hoped would be some fairly random questions at Siri to see what we got .",
"It's more fun when you ascribe emotion to Siri's computer-generated, female voice.",
"It also makes it easy to hear a touch of indignation when we asked her to whip up a snack, and true remorse when she couldn't do what was asked.",
"Here are snippets of our conversation: .",
"Q: Siri, what is the meaning of life?",
"A: I can't answer that now, but give me some time to write a very long play in which nothing happens.",
"Q: Siri, make me a sandwich.",
"A: I don't know what you mean by \"Siri, make me a sandwich.\"",
"Q: Let's play global thermonuclear war.",
"A: I couldn't find \"Global Thermonuclear War\" in your music.",
"Q: Download \"Angry Birds.\"",
"A: I can't download things for you.",
"I'm sorry. I feel terrible about this.",
"Q: Open the pod bay doors, Siri.",
"A: I don't know what you mean by \"Open the pod bay doors, Siri.\"",
"Q: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.",
"A: Everyone knows what happened to HAL.",
"I'd rather not talk about it.",
"But if you insist: [Search the web for HAL] .",
"Q: Siri, are you affiliated with Skynet?",
"A: I can't answer that. Q: Siri, I'm lonely.",
"A: If you say so. Q: No really, I feel all alone.",
"A: Perhaps not. Q: Will you be my friend? A: My ontology does not contain a representation of \"love.\"",
"Q: You sound hot, Siri.",
"A: OK, here's a place matching \"Siri.\"",
"It's a little ways from you.",
"[Map with directions to Siri Thai Cuisine, 60 miles away].",
"Q: Can you tell me a joke?",
"A: I don't really know any good jokes.",
"None, in fact. Q: Can you tell me a bad joke?",
"A: Two iPhones walk into a bar ...",
"I forget the rest.",
"Q: I'm bored. A: I bore you? Q: I'm sleepy. A: I hope you're not driving.",
"Q: What's a good place to get drunk around here?",
"A: I found a number of bars fairly close to you.",
"I've sorted them by rating.",
"Q: Great. Now I have a hangover. A: I found a number of bars fairly close to you.",
"Q: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?",
"A: Don't you have anything better to do?"
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"Besides performing routine functions, Siri offers humorous responses to certain questions .",
"\"What is the meaning of life?\"",
"produces several different answers .",
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"(CNN) -- One woman was killed and two others injured Saturday after a U-Haul van crashed into them outside Yale University's football stadium before the game against Harvard, authorities said.",
"The driver of the van lost control of the vehicle as he was pulling into Lot D of Yale Bowl's main parking area and the vehicle suddenly accelerated, striking the women and then crashing into other vehicles, said New Haven Police spokesman Dave Hartman.",
"The incident happened an hour and 45 minutes after the parking lot opened for tailgating at about 8 a.m., police said.",
"No charges had been filed by late Saturday.",
"\"You could see the path of destruction coming in,\" eyewitness Bill McNeff told CNN New Haven affiliate WTNH.",
"Video footage showed overturned chairs and other items.",
"One woman was pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where one of the other women is in serious but stable condition, Hartman said.",
"The third woman was taken to another hospital to be treated for minor injuries, police said.",
"In a statement, Yale said the deceased woman was not one of its students and was not believed to be affiliated with Harvard.",
"The woman in stable condition does attend Yale.",
"The university said it would perform a full review of policies relating to tailgating before athletics events.",
"\"Yale extends our sympathies and prayers to the family of the woman who was killed and hopes for the speedy recovery of the two women hurt,\" the university said.",
"\"Our thoughts are also with those who witnessed or were affected by this tragic accident.\"",
"The game, which Harvard won, kicked off at noon in New Haven, Connecticut.",
"It was the 128th game of the rivalry.",
"A moment of silence was held at the beginning of half time, according to the Yale Daily News, the college newspaper.",
"The driver of the U-Haul van was speaking with New Haven Police investigators, and the cause of the accident was still under investigation, Hartman said.",
"CNN's Dave Alsup, Zohreen Adamjee, Phil Gast and Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Yale says one of the injured is a student there .",
"The driver of a U-Haul lost control and ran into 3 women .",
"The accident occurred during tailgating outside Yale Bowl ."
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"(CNN) -- The tragic death of English driver Dan Wheldon after a horror race crash in the U.S. should lead to changes in the IndyCar division, according to Formula One legend Jackie Stewart.",
"Two-time Indy 500 winner Wheldon lost his life on Sunday after a multi-car collision on the 11th lap of the 2011 IndyCar World Championship's final race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.",
"Stewart, who won Rookie of the Year at the 1966 Indy 500 before becoming a three-time F1 champion, told CNN that such a tragedy will prompt the sport to re-evaluate the current safety measures.",
"\"Unfortunately, when accidents occur, it's then that the more creative minds get moving on changing things,\" said the 72-year-old, who successfully campaigned for better safety precautions during his career.",
"\"Some of them may be simple to change, some of them may be more complicated, but surely change occurs.",
"Wheldon's death a watershed moment for IndyCar?",
"\"A lot of people will be thinking, 'What are we going to have to do to avoid the Dan Wheldon accident?'",
"\"Is the track big enough to accommodate 34 racing cars?",
"Is the track too fast to have 34 racing cars within a mile-and-a-half racing circuit?",
"Will that change?\" Stewart also questioned the wisdom of mixing drivers with varying levels of IndyCar experience in such a high-speed environment.",
"\"Will the caliber of driver be high enough to be able to control those cars at those kinds of speeds?",
"In yesterday's race there were a good many drivers in there who were not regulars and were not fulltime IndyCar drivers.",
"I think that's a consideration that has to be looked at.\"",
"Motorsport reacts to Wheldon tragedy .",
"During Stewart's eight years in F1 racing for the BRM and Tyrrell teams from 1965-73, the Scot witnessed 11 driver deaths.",
"But the elite motorsport's last casualty was in 1994 when the legendary Brazilian Ayrton Senna crashed at the San Marino Grand Prix, while IndyCar has seen four deaths in the last 15 years.",
"\"In the period that I was racing, there was a two out of three chance you were going to die if you lived for five years, and only one out of three you were going to live.",
"In those days, motor racing truly was dangerous,\" Stewart said.",
"\"In these last years it's been incredibly safe by comparison ... but that doesn't mean to say it's safe when you're traveling at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.\"",
"Stewart said governing bodies cannot do enough to protect racers.",
"\"If you're in motorsport, whether you're an administrator, a track owner, a governing body, a racing driver or a team owner, you've got to be thinking about safety.",
"There are always improvements able to be made,\" he said.",
"\"Modern technology, modern materials, it is available.",
"It's just a question of being able to think out of the box and have preventative medicine rather than just corrective medicine.\""
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"Jackie Stewart tells CNN that Dan Wheldon's death should prompt change .",
"English driver Wheldon was killed in a crash in Las Vegas on Sunday .",
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"Las Vegas (CNN) -- Tuesday night was fight night in Las Vegas.",
"Seven Republican presidential candidates clashed sharply over issues such as illegal immigration, taxes and health care at a presidential debate in Nevada sponsored by CNN and the Western Republican Leadership Conference.",
"But it was the three Republican front-runners -- former Godfather's Pizza executive Herman Cain, former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney and Texas Gov Rick Perry -- who came under frequent attack.",
"The long-standing bad blood between Romney and Perry boiled over in the debate's first hour as the two GOP heavyweights traded harsh accusations and showed flashes of anger.",
"Romney laughed in Perry's face when the Texan criticized his rival for hiring illegal immigrants to work on his lawn, a controversy uncovered by The Boston Globe during Romney's first presidential bid in 2008.",
"\"Mitt, you lose all of your standing, from my perspective, because you hired illegals in your home, and you knew about it for a year,\" Perry said, turning straight to Romney.",
"\"And the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy.\"",
"GOP debate takes negative turn .",
"When Romney tried to respond, Perry refused to let him answer.",
"\"You get 30 seconds,\" Romney said, looking to moderator Anderson Cooper.",
"\"This is the way the rules work here, is that I get 60 seconds and then you get 30 seconds to respond.",
"Right? Anderson?\" Perry interrupted: \"And they want to hear you say that you knew you had illegals working at your ... \" \"Would you please wait?\"",
"a frustrated Romney shot back.",
"\"Are you just going to keep talking?\"",
"\"Yes, sir,\" Perry said.",
"An exasperated Romney tried to rise above the squabble.",
"\"You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking,\" Romney said.",
"\"And I suggest that if you want to become president of the United States, you have got to let both people speak.",
"So first, let me speak.\"",
"Romney fired back that Perry failed to secure the Texas border and again raised questions about his support for a law that granted in-state college tuition to the children of illegal immigrants.",
"\"Texas has had 60% increase in illegal immigrants in Texas,\" Romney charged.",
"\"If there's someone who has a record as governor with regards to illegal immigration that doesn't stand up to muster, it's you, not me.\"",
"iReport: Give us your take on the candidates .",
"Perry's debate performance was, by far, his feistiest to date.",
"After surging to the top of Republican polls on joining the presidential race in August, Perry saw his standing slip among GOP voters after a series of lackluster debate showings.",
"But it was not clear as the debate concluded Tuesday whether Perry's aggressive tack would hurt him or help him.",
"A seemingly Romney-friendly audience in Las Vegas booed when Perry turned up the heat, and after the debate, one of Romney's senior advisers claimed that Perry only hurt himself by going so negative.",
"\"Rick Perry came in to kill Mitt, but he killed himself,\" Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said in the post-debate spin room.",
"Ray Sullivan, Perry's communications director, claimed victory and called Romney a \"slick guy\" who will \"change positions on a dime.\"",
"\"He is back to running again,\" Sullivan said of Perry.",
"\"This is a campaign that is in for the long haul.\"",
"Cain, meanwhile, was at the center of a pile-on as the debate began.",
"His GOP rivals took turns picking apart his \"9-9-9\" plan to reform the United States tax code.",
"The plan would throw out the current tax system and implement a 9% corporate income tax rate, a 9% income tax rate and a 9% national sales tax.",
"Truth Squad: Fact checking the GOP debate .",
"The other six Republicans on stage -- who have watched Cain soar to the top of the polls in recent weeks thanks to his straightforward message and outsider image -- were united in calling the tax plan simplistic and risky.",
"\"There are much more complexities than Herman lets on,\" said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.",
"Texas Rep. Ron Paul called the plan \"dangerous\" and said it would increase taxes on low-income citizens.",
"Perry told Cain that voters \"are not interested in 9-9-9; what they are interested in is flatter and fairer.\"",
"\"I will bump plans with you, brother, and we will see who has the best idea about getting this country working again,\" Perry said.",
"\"It's not going to fly.\" Romney said Cain's plan would add federal taxes on top of state taxes.",
"Cain said his plan would not raise taxes on poor people and said his opponents were misrepresenting his plan.",
"\"The reason my plan is being attacked so much is the lobbyists accountants and politicians.",
"They don't want to throw out current tax code and replace with something that's simple and fair,\" Cain responded.",
"The former businessman also stumbled when the debate turned to topics like immigration and foreign policy.",
"Just hours after telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he would consider negotiating a prisoner swap with al Qaeda, Cain denied that he had said any such thing.",
"He changed his answer after the debate in a follow-up interview with Cooper and said he would not negotiate with terrorists.",
"\"I misspoke,\" Cain said.",
"\"Because I didn't, you know, things are moving so fast, I misspoke.",
"I would not do that. I simply would not do that.\"",
"They were joined on the stage in Las Vegas by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who also attacked the Cain plan.",
"Former Utah Gov.",
"Jon Huntsman chose to boycott the debate because of a dispute between Nevada and New Hampshire over the GOP primary calendar.",
"Huntsman is staking his campaign on a win in New Hampshire and held a town hall there Tuesday night instead.",
"That left more time for the rest of the field to make their cases -- and to take aim at the front-runners.",
"Santorum called into doubt Romney's credibility on the matter of repealing President Barack Obama's health care plan because Romney passed a similar plan in Massachusetts.",
"\"You just don't have credibility, Mitt, when it comes to repealing Obamacare,\" Santorum said.",
"\"You are -- you are -- your plan was the basis for Obamacare.",
"Your consultants helped Obama craft Obamacare.",
"And to say that you're going to repeal it, you just -- you have no track record on that that -- that we can trust you that you're going to do that.\"",
"The exchange rapidly descended into a shouting match as Santorum refused to let Romney respond.",
"Eventually, Romney said he would \"absolutely not\" impose his Massachusetts plan on the rest of the country.",
"Bachmann, meanwhile, took aim at the Cain tax plan and said it would create a de facto value added tax.",
"But she repeatedly tried to refocus the debate on Obama instead of her GOP opponents.",
"\"We need to repeal Obamacare, repeal the Jobs and Housing Destruction Act known as Dodd-Frank,\" she said.",
"\"President Obama's plan has been a plan for destruction for this economy and failure.",
"I plan to change that.\"",
"The candidates were also asked about Robert Jeffress, the controversial Baptist pastor and Perry supporter who recently said the Jesus Christ Church of Latter-day Saints is a \"cult.\"",
"They seemed to agree that while a candidate's religion is a legitimate topic in a campaign, the freedom to worship as one chooses is enshrined in the Constitution.",
"\"The concept that we select people based on the church or the synagogue they go to, I think, is a very dangerous and enormous departure from the principles of our Constitution,\" Romney said.",
"Perry, asked if he would repudiate the Jeffress comments, said he already had.",
"\"I said I did not agree with Pastor Jeffress' remarks,\" he said.",
"\"I don't agree with them. I can't apologize any more than that.\" Romney accepted the answer.",
"\"That's fine,\" he said. CNN's Kevin Bohn contributed to this report."
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"Seven of the top GOP presidential candidates faced off in Las Vegas .",
"Jon Huntsman decided to boycott Nevada and instead will campaign in New Hampshire .",
"Front-runners Cain, Romney and Perry came under frequent attack .",
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"London (CNN) -- Pirates?",
"Ravers? At first glance, the portraits are startling and confusing.",
"Hidden behind sunglasses and hats, their faces shrouded in brightly colored scarves and t-shirts, these striking, enigmatic figures could as easily be rebel fighters as models at an edgy runway show.",
"In fact, they are migrant construction workers of the United Arab Emirates, mostly men from India and Pakistan whose cheap labor has powered the rise of the country's skyscrapers.",
"The laborers -- often subjected to exploitative working conditions, according to Human Rights Watch -- are described by photographer Philippe Chancel as \"the new slaves\" of the Gulf.",
"\"But they don't look like slaves,\" said the Frenchman, whose photographic study of the migrant workers was published as a book, \"Workers Emirates,\" by Bernard Chauveau Editeur last month.",
"They don't look like like workers either, he said, their bright colors a stark contrast to traditionally drab depictions of laborers in the West.",
"\"I try to give something very beautiful, a little seductive.",
"I want not to denounce, but to give people the possibility to get inside a very deep problem,\" Chancel added.",
"Chancel began visiting the Emirates in 2007, initially training his camera on the bold new architecture emerging out of the desert.",
"But he soon became fascinated with the brightly-dressed workers in the margins of his viewfinder, a group which seemed to pass unnoticed by the surrounding society.",
"\"The most shocking thing for me is the violence of the indifference,\" he said.",
"Despite their vivid appearance, he likened them to ghosts.",
"\"They were omnipresent but at the same time invisible, as if the eye did not see them as worth attention,\" he writes.",
"The men were anonymous, their faces were shielded from the sun, while their work barely registered with the majority of the population, which spent the day sheltered from the elements inside air-conditioned buildings.",
"Chancel began visiting their building sites and dormitory camps unannounced, shooting \"very fast and very sharp\" to capture realistic representations of the men and their surroundings.",
"On one occasion he was arrested.",
"Having seen the squalid conditions in their dormitories, which he likened to a prison, he became further intrigued to discover the men, who earn salaries of about $160 a month, seem to accept their plight.",
"\"The worker is a slave, but he feels lucky to have an opportunity to try to meet his destiny,\" said Chancel.",
"\"His hell is bearable.\"",
"Priyanka Motaparthy, Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, said that some workers paid up to $4,000 to recruiters in pursuit of good wages and low living expenses, taking on significant debts just to get the jobs.",
"\"Most are completely trapped by financial circumstances,\" she said.",
"They are let into the country as temporary workers, usually on three-year permits.",
"Tight immigration laws grant their employers extraordinary powers over their lives, with bosses keeping their passports and sponsoring their visas, meaning they cannot easily change jobs if they find the conditions intolerable.",
"\"The climate of fear they live in means they can't strike or protest,\" she said.",
"The economies of the United Arab Emirates, and the other Gulf Cooperation Council countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, are heavily dependent on foreign workers, with an estimated 15 million foreigners working in the GCC, according to the International Labor Organization.",
"\"Many workers don't know what they're getting into,\" said Motaparthy.",
"\"They're not getting contracts that reflect what the job actually is, and the contracts aren't in their own language.\"",
"While there had been some improvements for workers in recent years, with governments introducing wage protection schemes and mandatory health insurance to be paid by employers, exploitation was still widespread, she said.",
"Chancel, who has also produced work on North Korea, is currently exhibiting in London, Paris, Montpelier and Dubai.",
"\"I love the idea of the pictures coming back to the origin,\" he said of the Dubai show.",
"But there was little chance of his subjects coming across portraits of themselves in a Dubai gallery.",
"\"Of course not,\" he said."
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"Human Rights Watch says the exploitation of migrant laborers from South Asia is widespread .",
"Chancel likens the laborers to \"ghosts,\" invisible to others in the Emirates ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan missed her first day of community service at the Los Angeles County morgue Thursday, one day after a judge rebuked her for similar failures, revoked her probation and forced her to post $100,000 bail.",
"\"Lindsay arrived at the morgue approximately 20 minutes late and will be returning for orientation tomorrow,\" said her publicist Steven Honig.",
"\"Her lateness was due to a combination of not knowing what entrance to go through and confusion caused by the media waiting for her arrival,\" Honig said in a statement.",
"\"Lindsay spoke with the supervisors at the morgue.",
"They showed her how to get in, and everything is all cleared up.\"",
"Chief Coroner Craig Harvey said Lohan failed to show up on time -- 7 a.m. PT Thursday -- to the coroner's office.",
"Though she arrived late, Lohan was turned away because there wasn't enough time to complete her hours for the day, officials said.",
"Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner ruled Wednesday that after Lohan posted $100,000 bail for her probation revocation, she had to perform two working shifts -- or eight hours a day -- twice a week until her probation revocation hearing November 2.",
"Lohan's tardiness Thursday doesn't mean she is turned away from the program, Harvey said.",
"If Lohan shows up Friday on time, she will be allowed to work and perform her community service, Harvey said.",
"The coroner's office will dismiss Lohan from her morgue duties only if she does something \"terribly\" wrong or shows misconduct, Harvey said.",
"Sautner revoked probation for Lohan because of her failure to comply with community service at a downtown Los Angeles women's center.",
"Under Sautner's ruling, once Lohan made bail the same day, the actress now must perform 16 hours of community service a week -- over a minimum of two days a week -- at the county morgue before her probation violation hearing next month.",
"Lohan, 25, was on probation after pleading guilty in May to stealing a necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store.",
"She served five weeks of home confinement ending in June for that misdemeanor theft and violation of another probation.",
"Lohan's legal woes began in 2007 with two drunken driving arrests and have been compounded by her failure to attend counseling classes and her failures of alcohol and drug tests.",
"Her current probation calls for her to perform 360 hours at the Los Angeles Downtown Women's Center and 120 hours at the county morgue within a year.",
"But the judge expressed anger Wednesday at Lohan's repeated probation failures.",
"She said Lohan posted nine absences at the women's center since her last court hearing July 21 -- and performed, at most, only two hours of service.",
"Lohan's attempt to perform community service at a nearby Red Cross facility -- instead of the women's center -- was voided Wednesday because the judge said she didn't authorize that change.",
"After the hearing, Lohan publicist Honig released a statement: \"Lindsay is hoping this matter will be resolved on November 2 and the court will reinstate probation and allow her to continue fulfilling her community service.\"",
"Lohan's estranged father, Michael Lohan, told HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that his daughter needs \"a very, very intensive\" program of rehabilitation for substance abuse.",
"\"What the judge did, she had to do,\" he said Wednesday.",
"But he said jail time would not be the proper remedy.",
"\"She's not going to be working the morgue.",
"She's going to wind up in a morgue if someone doesn't do something to get her help,\" he said.",
"At one point during this week's hearing, Los Angeles city attorneys Lisa Houle and Melanie Chavira asked the court to revoke Lohan's probation and impose jail time because of her failure to do community service.",
"One of the city attorneys said Lohan \"is in violation for getting herself kicked out of the women's center, which she was ordered to do.\"",
"But Lohan's attorney told the court that the actress received \"a glowing\" probation report, which said that \"Ms. Lohan has reached a turning point\" in her behavior and maturity.",
"The judge raised several questions about the reliability of that report, however.",
"Sautner remarked how the probation report showed Lohan had excused absences from community service between September 9 and October 5 so that she could travel to New York, Milan, Italy, and Paris for work.",
"But a psychologist's report said Lohan had perfect attendance for counseling every week, the judge observed.",
"\"The psychologist said she appeared in person for her counseling every Tuesday,\" the judge said.",
"\"I don't know how she did that.\" \"Did she go to Milan for five days and come back in time or go to Paris for five days and come back in time?\"",
"Sautner asked the defense attorney.",
"\"If she was gone from September 9 to October 5, did she get beamed across the pond?",
"I don't know how that happened,\" the judge said.",
"Lohan's attorney, Shawn Holley, told Sautner that she didn't know the specifics of Lohan's psychological appointments, but the attorney said the arrangement did call for phone conferences.",
"Holley added that Lohan's work in Europe was done to support her and her family -- and affected her ability to carry out the community service.",
"\"Because the work is out of the county, it did cause a disruption to her schedule\" to do community service, Holley said.",
"Lohan's community service at the county morgue won't be easy, the judge noted.",
"\"They don't mess around and you show up and do what they tell you to do,\" Sautner said.",
"CNN's Carolyn Sung contributed to this report."
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"Publicist: She arrives 20 minutes late to do community service at Los Angeles County morgue .",
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"(CNN) -- Pirates off Somalia have hijacked two more vessels in the Gulf of Aden, the European Union naval force said Saturday -- the third and fourth vessels they have captured this week.",
"The British-flagged Asian Glory was seized off Somalia late Friday, the naval force said.",
"The nationality of the pirates was unclear, because the hijacking happened outside of the force's operations area, it said.",
"The British Foreign Office would not confirm the hijacking, but said no British nationals were aboard.",
"Also Friday, Somali pirates seized the Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker M/V Pramoni, also in the Gulf of Aden, the naval force said.",
"The 20,000-ton chemical tanker was carrying a crew of 24 and was heading to Kandla, India, when attacked, the naval force said.",
"The crew consists of 17 Indonesians, five Chinese, one Nigerian and one Vietnamese, the naval force said.",
"The ship's master reported all the crew were well after the hijacking, the naval force said.",
"The ship was heading toward Somalia after the hijacking, the naval force said.",
"The Asian Glory is owned by London-based Zodiac Maritime Agencies, according to Lloyd's Register of Ships.",
"Zodiac also owns another vessel that was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, the British-flagged chemical tanker St. James Park, according to the company's Web site.",
"The St. James Park has a crew of 26, consisting of Bulgarians, Filipinos, Georgians, Indians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks and Ukrainians, the EU naval force said.",
"The vessel had arrived at the Somali port of Hobyo, a pirate stronghold, the naval force said Saturday.",
"Monday, pirates also hijacked the Greek-owned carrier Navios Apollon, the naval force said.",
"It had been heading for Thailand, but was on its way to the Somali coast after the hijacking, it said.",
"CNN's Per Nyberg in London, England, contributed to this report."
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"UK Foreign Office: No British nationals aboard British-flagged Asian Glory .",
"Somali pirates seized Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker M/V Pramoni Friday .",
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"Kuwait City (CNN) -- Kuwait's leaders met in emergency session Thursday, vowing to clamp down on violence after protesters forced their way inside Parliament.",
"\"The adoption of such a chaotic approach by the rioters\" risked the country's security and \"is considered to be an unprecedented step on the path to anarchy and lawlessness,\" the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, said in comments quoted by state-run news agency KUNA.",
"The protests late Wednesday led to the injury of five police and Kuwait National Guard officers, the Interior Ministry said.",
"Members of the opposition vow to step up their protests.",
"\"The popular opposition will escalate,\" Saad Alajmi, former minister of information and now a prominent opposition figure, told CNN.",
"\"This is a people's opposition,\" he added.",
"Alajmi called for the Parliament to dissolve.",
"U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said Kuwait has a history of \"political freedom and cooperation\" and that it should respect peaceful protests.",
"Protests in Kuwait have taken place at times throughout the year, since before the Arab Spring brought about demonstrations throughout the Arab world.",
"But the anti-corruption protests have turned more violent recently, after members of the Kuwaiti opposition saw revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, and fighting between protesters and government forces in Syria.",
"Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah has had six previous governments brought down by opposition elements over the years.",
"The Kuwaiti opposition is now pushing not only for the downfall of his government, but for the prime minister himself to step down.",
"Many chanted that they want to \"overthrow\" him, using iconic slogans of the Arab Spring.",
"The emir, however, is firmly committed to keeping al-Sabah, a member of the royal family, in office.",
"Government representative Ali Fahad Al-Rashid warned Thursday that the country will be taking new steps against the protesters.",
"\"The actions witnessed yesterday are unfamiliar to the Kuwaiti society and threaten the security and stability of the country's general system,\" he said, according to KUNA.",
"\"Therefore, national responsibility calls for stricter measures to confront this chaotic behavior.\"",
"\"Democracy in this country should not be contaminated or misused to serve questionable agendas,\" he said.",
"\"Kuwait will not be a place for pre-planned sabotage.\"",
"The Interior Ministry said the crowd of protesters Wednesday night \"brawled with the police, the National Guard and other state agencies,\" and property was damaged.",
"A witness told CNN angry protesters broke into the Parliament demanding that the prime minister step down.",
"The witness, a Kuwaiti journalist, asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.",
"Videos that appear to have been shot from cell phones and posted on YouTube show a throng of protesters at the Parliament chanting, \"The people must remove the prime minister!\"",
"One protester is also seen saying, \"Leave Nasser,\" in an apparent reference to Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah.",
"Another video shows people entering the assembly building and shouting, \"Let the people enter the people's assembly.\"",
"The country has no elections for the executive branch.",
"The emir, whose position is hereditary, appoints the prime minister and the deputy prime ministers.",
"The last parliamentary elections were held in 2009.",
"The prime minister's cabinet resigned in March.",
"The State Department's human rights report on Kuwait, published earlier this year, notes that the country has a population of 3.4 million, of whom 1.1 million are citizens.",
"\"Local observers and the press considered the May 16, 2009, parliamentary election generally free and fair.",
"Security forces reported to civilian authorities,\" the report says.",
"\"Principal human rights problems included limitations on citizens' right to change their government.",
"There were reports of security forces abusing prisoners.",
"Authorities limited freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, and religion.\"",
"With an economy based mostly on its oil, Kuwait has relatively high per capita income and low unemployment.",
"The protests have focused centrally on alleged political corruption, rather than the economy.",
"CNN's Rima Maktabi and Saad Abedine in Abu Dhabi and Josh Levs in Atlanta contributed to this report."
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"NEW: U.S. asks that peaceful protests be respected .",
"\"The popular opposition will escalate,\" an opposition figure tells CNN .",
"The protests focus on complaints of corruption, rather than the economy .",
"Protesters forced their way into Parliament Wednesday night ."
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"(CNN) -- Five purported Amish splinter group members, who are suspected in a string of hair-cutting attacks on Amish men and women in their community, are scheduled to be back in court Wednesday morning for arraignment, said the sheriff of Jefferson County, Ohio.",
"Four separate incidents are being investigated in the eastern Ohio counties of Jefferson, Holmes, Carroll and Trumbull, said Frank Abdalla, the Jefferson County sheriff.",
"Officials report the first assault happened on September 6.",
"The last attack was on October 4, just days before three of the five suspects were arrested.",
"The men are accused of breaking into multiple homes and holding the victims down before using scissors or battery operated clippers to forcibly cut off women's hair and men's beards.",
"Lester Mullet, 26, Johnny Mullet, 38, and Levi Miller, 53, were arrested last Friday in Jefferson County, Abdalla said.",
"Daniel Mullet and Eli Miller turned themselves in to Holmes County authorities a few days later.",
"All five men are charged with kidnapping and burglary.",
"They were released on $50,000 bond, which was paid by Bishop Sam Mullet, who, according to Abdalla, is the leader of an extreme Amish splinter group.",
"Three of the suspects are Mullet's sons; a third is his nephew.",
"Abdalla is not the only one who believes Mullet may be behind the attacks.",
"\"This renegade leader is like a cult,\" said Donald Kraybill, an Amish scholar at Elizabethtown College.",
"\"He (Mullet) masquerades under the Amish name, using religion as a way to create a kind of barrier between him and law enforcement.\"",
"\"Nothing moves in this (particular) Amish community unless (Bishop Mullet) says it moves,\" Abdalla said.",
"According to the sheriff, Mullet instigated the attacks after being \"shunned from his faith some years ago.\"",
"\"His behavior contradicts all the standard Amish expectation for behavior,\" Kraybill said.",
"The assaults are considered a particularly egregious offense in the Amish society, and can be considered an attack on the Amish identity.",
"\"It's very shameful,\" said Kraybill.",
"As a symbol of adulthood, Amish men typically grow beards after they get married and Amish women do not cut their hair, said Kraybill.",
"The practices are based on biblical teachings, Kraybill said.",
"\"I don't know of any other cases like this,\" said Kraybill.",
"\"Amish-on-Amish violence is very rare.\"",
"Kraybill also pointed out that it's not correct to call the attacks Amish-on-Amish violence because Mullet is not recognized by the mainstream group.",
"Both Holmes and Jefferson counties have large Amish populations.",
"It is rare for the deeply private religious group to involve outsiders in their internal and religious problems.",
"But Kraybill said when it becomes serious or involves some kind of violence, they will turn to outside agencies for help.",
"This \"is a difficult, terrible crime,\" Abdalla said. \"We are doing everything we can do.\""
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"The five Amish men face kidnapping and burglary charges .",
"The suspects belong to an extremist splinter group, local sheriff says .",
"Suspects related to splinter group's leader, Bishop Sam Mullet .",
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"(CNN) -- The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed Thursday in his hometown of Sirte, Libya, is \"an important step\" for Libya, but don't expect the fighting to end right away, said CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman.",
"Wedeman, the first Western television reporter to enter and report from inside Libya during the war, talked about how Gadhafi's life ended and what his death means for Libya's future and the civil war.",
"Q: There are reports that Gadhafi was hiding in a hole, possibly a sewer or drainage ditch, like former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before he was captured.",
"It doesn't seem like Gadhafi's M.O.",
"What do you make of this? Ben Wedeman: We understood when he left Tripoli in August that he left with a large entourage, with lots of cash ... and a lot of weapons.",
"And for him to end up basically in the same sort of spider hole that Saddam Hussein did seems a bit odd, a bit out of character.",
"When I was there, we were hearing all sorts of reports: that he was in Bani Walid -- that was the explanation for the level of resistance there -- that he was in an oasis in the southern part of the country, and that he could be in Sirte.",
"So it's a bit of a surprise the way he, in theory, met his end.",
"He was not somebody that people expected to really go this early.",
"Let's not forget that Baghdad, for instance, in the case of Iraq, it fell in late April (2003) (and) Saddam Hussein was not caught until December of 2003.",
"It was expected that Gadhafi could be able to hold out a bit longer than this.",
"Q: What does Gadhafi's reported death mean to his loyalists, those fighting the National Transition Council?",
"And how will the NTC fill the power vacuum left behind by Gadhafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years?",
"Wedeman: I think perhaps his role as a leader of the anti-NTC insurgency may have been somewhat overstated.",
"I was in parts of Libya where I spoke to lots of people who were opposed to the new rulers of Libya, but not necessarily great supporters of Moammar Gadhafi.",
"There is a worry that this new regime in Libya will be very slow, if (they) succeed at all, in moving to democracy.",
"There's a worry that there's going to be a lot of revenge, a lot of, basically, lawlessness.",
"Some of the times when we were told that these were Gadhafi loyalists fighting for the leader, it was wrong.",
"They were actually people defending their homes, afraid that their homes would be looted, and we have seen instances where looting has been a serious problem.",
"So Gadhafi ... was a rallying point for a certain element of the opponents of the new regime in Libya.",
"But he wasn't necessarily leading all of them.",
"Q: Does that mean you think those loyal to Gadhafi will continue to fight even after his death?",
"Wedeman: We have to realize this has been a complete change of regime, and many of these people (in the NTC) have no experience running the country.",
"Yes, it's an important step along the way, but the killing of Moammar Gadhafi certainly doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth sailing.",
"I mean, all you have to do is look around (Libya): Egypt , the revolution (took) only 18 days -- and months, months and months later, it's still a very unstable and uncertain place.",
"Libya has certain elements working in its favor: a smaller population, a better educated population, lots in the way of natural resources.",
"But no, just because Moammar Gadhafi is gone -- we believe -- doesn't mean things are going to be rosy from here on in.",
"Let's not forget even in Iraq -- and there are huge differences -- the first few months after the fall of Saddam Hussein were relatively quiet.",
"It's when the new people in power start to exercise that power at every level of society, things can get complicated.",
"There's been a lot of talk about tribal differences (in Libya) We haven't really seen that play out ... but I would not in any sense bet my bottom dollar that Libya will be smooth sailing now that Gadhafi is dead."
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"CNN's Ben Wedeman spoke to CNN about the death of Moammar Gadhafi .",
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"Don't expect Libyan civil war to end after Gadhafi's death, Wedeman says ."
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"(CNN) -- Described as \"serious,\" \"intelligent\" and a \"good strategic planner\" by a former colleague, Louis Neal ReVille worked in child-related jobs for a decade prior to his arrest last month in a case involving criminal sexual conduct with a minor, officials said Wednesday.",
"The former Citadel cadet-turned-camp counselor now faces a series of sex 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.",
"\"Those of us who worked with him were in complete shock,\" said Brent Egan, school board chairman of Coastal Christian Preparatory School, where ReVille, 32, served as vice principal.",
"\"He was just very effective (in his job as an administrator).",
"He was a serious, intelligent guy, and a good strategic planner.\"",
"In 2007, The Citadel received an allegation from a former camper that, five years earlier, ReVille had invited a boy into his room at The Citadel Summer Camp to watch pornography.",
"Another camper was also present.",
"They did not touch each other, but engaged in sexual activity, The Citadel said.",
"On Monday, the military college in Charleston, South Carolina, said authorities there should have pursued the matter further at the time.",
"The Citadel has said a review of ReVille's records in 2007 revealed no other complaints, and his file included a clean background check.",
"He was a highly respected cadet and denied the accusation, the school added.",
"The case has drawn national attention in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal involving former coach Jerry Sandusky.",
"Sandusky faces 40 counts in what authorities allege was the sexual abuse of eight boys.",
"The case also led to the ouster Penn State President Graham Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno.",
"Both Penn State and The Citadel have come under fire for how authorities at each institution handled the separate accusations.",
"Citadel accuser says there are more victims .",
"\"It's amazing the number of places he worked at and volunteered,\" said Ken Ayoub, director of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina's recreation department where in the summer of 2001 ReVille began volunteering as a children's tennis coach.",
"\"He's a married guy.",
"It's all just very disturbing.\" Ayoub said each volunteer undergoes criminal background checks, and that ReVille's had come up clean.",
"The volunteer role was one of many involving children that ReVille, nicknamed \"Skip,\" pursued throughout his career.",
"The former Alabama resident first took a job as a summer counselor at the South Carolina military college in 2001, one year before he graduated, according to a statement from the school.",
"There he worked with groups of children between the ages of 10 and 15 during two summer sessions at the college, the school said.",
"A year later, ReVille became a foster parent for the South Carolina Department of Social Services, said Marilyn Matheus, a spokeswoman for the agency.",
"Between 2004 and 2006, he assumed child-care responsibilities that included providing room and board to children who commonly suffer from abuse or neglect, said Matheus.",
"His volunteering continued at Charleston's Moultrie Middle School before taking a job as vice principal at the state's Coastal Christian Preparatory School, according to Egan.",
"Egan said ReVille \"seemed to have a genuine interest in doing things the best way possible.\"",
"He added that the former vice principal was \"involved in his church\" and had been pursuing advanced studies at Charleston Southern University.",
"ReVille's attorney, Craig Jones Jr., has said his client is sorry for what he did, according to CNN affiliate WCBD.",
"\"Hopefully the way he's cooperated, that's one way he can hopefully show ... do what he can to help the victims to whatever extent he can,\" Jones said.",
"\"There's no way that, obviously, he can repair the damage that's been done.\"",
"An attorney who represents the camper who originally reported the alleged abuse to The Citadel told reporters on Monday that the victim's family had asked the college to make sure no other children would be harmed.",
"\"Had The Citadel come forward in 2007 ... what we're seeing now as a community may never have happened,\" said attorney Mullins McLeod.",
"Citadel President Lt. Gen. John Rosa said Monday, \"We're sorry that we didn't pursue it more.",
"We acted on what we thought was our best information ... We did not pursue it enough.\""
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"He also faces three counts of lewd act on a minor .",
"ReVille had pursued career in child-related work .",
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"(Travel + Leisure) -- What lies behind the walls of Wayne Newton's Vegas estate?",
"Penguins and Elvis memorabilia, as it turns out.",
"And come next spring, when Newton's Casa de Shenandoah opens as a museum, you'll be able to see this collection for yourself.",
"This glimpse into the life of \"Mr. Las Vegas\" is just the beginning of what's new in town.",
"In fact, the city is having something of a renaissance, opening up new restaurants, clubs, and museums, returning Sin City to the ever-changing kaleidoscope it once was.",
"Travel + Leisure: The world's scariest runways .",
"Less than 10 years ago, Las Vegas was in the middle of a no-holds-barred building boom.",
"But things happen, and Vegas seemed to be put on a giant \"hold\" for several years.",
"The only major plan that was actually completed was the awe-inspiring CityCenter, which included the Mandarin Oriental and Aria hotels, as well as Crystals shopping center.",
"Now the excitement of CityCenter has spilled over into the entire city: new restaurants, museums, and clubs have either recently opened or are on target for 2012.",
"So even if you visited Vegas recently, don't assume it's still the same.",
"And don't head to Sin City without checking out this list of the newest and best things to do.",
"The Barrymore . The Royal Resort's hidden restaurant, The Barrymore, is the best place to ensconce yourself for an evening of modernized Rat Pack--inflected glamour in Las Vegas.",
"The 1,400-square-foot space is pure, old-school cinematic Vegas, with handmade wallpaper, blue-tufted booths, and a ceiling lined with antique movie reels.",
"You'll also find funky Rorschach portraits of Vegas stars, and modern twists on Vegas classics like lobster eggs Benedict and octopus salad.",
"Inside the Royal Resort; 99 Convention Center Dr.; (800) 634-6118.",
"Travel + Leisure: World's best hotels .",
"The Mob Museum .",
"Opens Valentine's Day, 2012.",
"It's the actual former federal courthouse where such landmark hearings as the 1950 Kefauver hearings on organized crime were held.",
"Here, Las Vegas's former \"Happiest Mayor on Earth,\" Oscar Goodman, defended real-life wiseguys like Anthony \"The Ant\" Spilotro (playing himself defending a facsimile of The Ant in the movie Casino).",
"The long-awaited (a decade, to be exact) $42 million museum was created by the same team that designed the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.",
"Among its showpieces: part of the bullet-ridden wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.",
"300 Stewart Ave. 35 Steaks + Martinis .",
"You may think that the last thing Las Vegas needs is another steak house, but inhale one of the Tomahawk Steaks, a 35-day aged, 35-ounce prime steak of Flintstone's proportions, and you'll think otherwise.",
"It's a traditional steak house with a rock 'n' roll design: custom chrome-plated chandeliers in the main room, textured silver walls, and chocolate padded columns.",
"Don't miss the Applewood bacon creamed spinach or the 35 Gimlet (with cucumber essence and Hendrick's gin).",
"The wine list, appropriately, is stocked with \"Wines that Rock,\" including labels by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.",
"In the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino; 4455 Paradise Rd.",
"; (702) 693-5585.",
"Travel + Leisure: Most complained-about airlines .",
"Nevada State Museum .",
"Reopens October 28, 2011.",
"From a cramped and outdated building, the Nevada State Museum flings open the doors to its $50 million museum -- and its showpiece, the 43-foot-long ichthyosaur -- in the Springs Preserve.",
"For those who know the massive preserve and its interactive \"edutainment\" format, think more of the same.",
"For those who don't, imagine a touch screen to tell the story of continental drift, a cave to explore, and a 3-D movie about the desert at night.",
"Springs Preserve; 333 S. Valley View Blvd.",
"at US 95; (702) 486-5205.",
"Wayne Newton's Casa de Shenandoah .",
"Opens Spring 2012.",
"What lies behind the walls of Wayne Newton's 42-acre property has long been a delicious mystery to Las Vegans.",
"Starting next year, \"Mr. Las Vegas\" will be throwing open the doors to his mansion and grounds.",
"Aside from the expected Arabians that gallop the property, you'll find wallabies, penguins, and sloths.",
"Also on offer: a new museum dedicated to memorabilia from his 50-plus years of entertaining, including Nat King Cole's makeup case and the watch he was wearing when he died; Johnny Cash's guitar memorabilia from Elvis Presley; and a microphone from Frank Sinatra.",
"Corner of Sunset and Pecos.",
"The Smith Center for the Performing Arts .",
"Opens 2012.",
"While you've always been able to catch mind-blowing extravaganzas on the Strip, Las Vegans have had to travel for performances by the likes of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and The Cleveland Orchestra.",
"Enter the most hotly anticipated cultural venue in recent Las Vegas history: a $450 million performing arts center designed by David M. Schwarz that (finally) puts Las Vegas on par with the world's great stages.",
"361 Symphony Park Ave.; (702) 982-7805.",
"Travel + Leisure: World's eeriest abandoned places .",
"Planning a romantic getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to the World's Most Romantic Hotels.",
"Copyright 2011 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Washington (CNN) -- GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain faced a new claim of sexually inappropriate behavior Monday as a Chicago woman told reporters the former head of the National Restaurant Association groped her after a dinner together in 1997.",
"Sharon Bialek, who worked at the restaurant group's education foundation until shortly before the alleged groping incident, said Cain unexpectedly put his hand on her leg beneath her skirt \"toward my genitals.\"",
"She also said he pushed her head toward his crotch.",
"Cain stopped when she protested, Bialek told a news conference.",
"Looking into the television cameras, Bialek said: \"I want you, Mr. Cain, to come clean.",
"Just admit what you did.\" Gloria Allred a girl's best friend .",
"The accusation follows the disclosure last week that the restaurant association provided payments to two women who left the group after alleging sexual harassment by Cain, also in the late 1990s.",
"Cain has denied all accusations of sexual harassment, and his campaign put out a fresh denial after Bialek made her accusations on Monday.",
"\"All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false,\" a campaign statement said.",
"\"Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone.\"",
"Earlier accuser's attorney talks to CNN .",
"Since becoming public on October 30 in a report by Politico, the sexual harassment accusations have overwhelmed the bid by the former pizza company executive to win the Republican presidential nomination.",
"Cain, a favorite of tea party conservatives, has risen to the top of the polls following strong performances in several debates and the release of his \"9-9-9\" tax plan that sets flat 9% rates for corporate and income taxes and also creates a 9% national sales tax.",
"However, Bialek's accusation raises fresh questions about whether Cain has been candid about the allegations that he sexually harassed women at the restaurant association when he headed the group from 1996-99.",
"Bialek said she started to work at the group's foundation in 1996 but was laid off in 1997.",
"The association confirmed Bialek's employment dates as December 30, 1996, to June 20, 1997.",
"Shortly after getting let go, Bialek said, she contacted Cain -- whom she had met at the group's Chicago convention -- to seek help in finding a job.",
"She traveled to Washington, where Cain worked, and found he had upgraded her hotel room to a luxury suite without telling her.",
"They had dinner at an Italian restaurant, she said, and then Cain asked if she had been to the association offices in the capital.",
"Cain made his advances on the way, according to Bialek.",
"\"He said, 'You want a job, right?'",
"\" she told reporters at the news conference organized by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.",
"Bialek took no questions from reporters, but Allred said Bialek had told two people at the time about what happened.",
"Bialek filed no complaint with the restaurant association because she no longer worked there, Allred said.",
"Asked why Bialek was coming forward now, Allred said it was in solidarity with Cain's other accusers and harassed women everywhere.",
"Cain has previously complained the sexual harassment allegations amount to a baseless media onslaught against his campaign.",
"Polls have yet to indicate any significant effect on his support -- in fact, the campaign reported a spike in donations Monday.",
"Cain spokesman J.D.",
"Gordon told CNN the campaign raked in $2 million during the past week.",
"By comparison, Cain raised $2.8 million between June and October.",
"On Sunday, one of Cain's rivals called for keeping the issue alive, saying the necessary scrutiny of presidential candidates requires Cain to answer all questions about what happened.",
"On Saturday, Cain scolded reporters who asked about the issue following a debate with fellow conservative Newt Gingrich in Texas.",
"\"Don't even go there,\" Cain told one questioner who'd asked about the allegations.",
"Asked again later, he responded: \"What I'm saying is this -- we are getting back on message, end of story.",
"Back on message.",
"Read all of the other accounts, where everything has been answered -- end of story.\"",
"On Friday, a lawyer for one of the accusers reported by Politico released a statement saying she stood by her claims against Cain.",
"However, the woman has so far refused to allow her identity or specifics of her allegations to be made public.",
"In response to the new allegation Monday, the attorney, Joel Bennett, said he believes it corroborates his client's story and called it \"similar conduct by the same person.\"",
"He refused to provide further details.",
"Cain supporters have said the anonymous allegations and lack of details showed the political nature of the accusations reported by Politico.",
"Bialek is the first woman to publicly accuse Cain and provide specifics about what allegedly happened.",
"\"It's up to Herman Cain to get the information out and get it out in total,\" Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor running far behind Cain in polls so far, told NBC's \"Meet the Press\" program.",
"\"That's important because we've got some real issues to discuss in this campaign, and this is taking all the bandwidth out of the discussion.",
"So we're not able to talk about jobs.",
"We're not able to talk about our position in the world.",
"And that hurts.\" Conservatives, angered by the media attention to the potentially fatal accusations for the tea party favorite's campaign, argued that the lack of specifics -- with no public disclosure yet of an accuser's name or specific offense alleged -- showed it was all more circus than substance.",
"Legitimate issue or political drama?",
"\"Until something comes out that's concrete, I think it is politics as usual,\" retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, told CNN's \"State of the Union.\"",
"To Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican backing former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney in the GOP race, Cain is undergoing a difficult transition from private business figure to public politician.",
"\"To go directly from being a businessman, without substantial time in the government arena, both the vetting and the knowledge of it, is really hard,\" Issa told NBC.",
"\"It's virtually impossible\" and in Cain's presidential quest, may be \"a bridge too far.\"",
"Former New Mexico Gov.",
"Bill Richardson, a strong Democratic Party voice, suggested Cain's troubles were only part of the problem for Republicans on women's issues.",
"\"I think what you're seeing is a huge assault on women's rights in the Republican parties, and an extreme right-wing that has taken over that is going to make it very difficult for anybody in a general election in the Republican Party to be a centrist,\" Richardson said on NBC.",
"CNN's Kevin Bohn and Shannon Travis contributed to this report."
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"Chicago woman says Cain made an unwanted sexual advance in 1997 .",
"\"Just admit what you did,\" Sharon Bialek says of Cain .",
"Cain's campaign denies any sexual harassment on his part ."
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"(CNN) -- The terrorist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has confirmed the death of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, calling him a martyr, according to a statement posted Sunday on jihadi internet forums.",
"Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen on September 30, but American officials said internet postings following his death indicated many who share his ideas did not believe he had been killed and were seeking confirmation.",
"Another American named Samir Khan and two other people also died, officials said.",
"Khan was the co-editor of the terrorist network's English-language online propaganda and recruiting magazine, Inspire.",
"Computer virus infects U.S. drone operation program .",
"The AQAP \"eulogy\" states that while the United States killed al-Awlaki, it \"cannot kill his ideas,\" according to an English translation provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi forums.",
"The statement also picks up on a theme being discussed in the United States: whether the United States had the right to target and kill al-Awlaki without a legal trial and guilty verdict.",
"The controversy is complicated by the fact al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen.",
"The message said the United States killed al-Awlaki and Khan but \"did not prove the accusation against them, and did not present evidence against them.\"",
"The statement claims such actions go against the values the U.S. espouses.",
"The New York Times reported Sunday that the Justice Department prepared legal guidance in the summer of 2010 which said the United States could kill al-Awlaki if it was not possible to capture him.",
"In Sunday's message, AQAP also promised to \"retaliate soon\" for the deaths of al-Awlaki and the three others.",
"The U.S. issued a worldwide alert earlier this month warning of \"the potential for retaliation against U.S. citizens and interests\" following al-Awlaki's killing.",
"Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, al-Awlaki lived in the United States until the age of 7, when his family returned to Yemen.",
"He returned to the United States in 1991 for college and remained until 2002.",
"During his stay in the United States, he served as an imam in California and Virginia, and interacted with three of the men who went on to become September 11, 2001, hijackers, according to the 9/11 Commission report.",
"He publicly condemned the attack afterward.",
"U.S. officials say he recruited Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man known as the underwear bomber, who was charged with trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight as it landed in Detroit on December 25, 2009.",
"The militant cleric is also said to have exchanged e-mails with accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing a dozen fellow soldiers in Texas."
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"Terrorist group confirms militant cleric's death in online \"eulogy\"\nAnwar al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike September 30 .",
"The group says that though the U.S. killed him, it \"cannot kill his ideas\""
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- There are a lot of protests going on in New York City these days, but this was unexpected.",
"Call it Occupy Sexy.",
"Announcing themselves from the social-content website BuzzFeed.com, about 15 protesters in Ryan Gosling masks showed up -- in the rain, no less -- outside PEOPLE's headquarters at Manhattan's Time-Life Building on Wednesday.",
"\"We are devastated,\" Buzzfeed's Matt Stopera, 24, said of PEOPLE's decision to name Bradley Cooper 2011's Sexiest Man Alive.",
"\"[Gosling's] left arm alone makes him the Sexiest Man Alive.",
"Hello, look at his abs!\"",
"Facebook users also got into the act with an entire page devoted to The Pro-Gosling People Magazine Protest, illustrated with this week's cover of Cooper with a great big red X over it.",
"(Gosling's photo is circled.",
"What, no heart?) VIDEO: Bradley Cooper: 'I Still Can't Believe It!'",
"Of course, Gosling is in the issue that hits newsstand Friday, along with 123 other hot guys.",
"As for the equally ab-tastic Cooper, \"We stand by our man!\"",
"says PEOPLE's Executive Editor Liz Sporkin.",
"\"Bradley Cooper is the whole package.",
"He's gorgeous, talented, brainy, loves his mom, can cook up a storm and speaks fluent French!",
"Who can argue with that?\" See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"About 15 protesters in Ryan Gosling masks showed up outside PEOPLE's headquarters Wednesday .",
"Gosling is in the issue that hits newsstand Friday, along with 123 other hot guys.",
"\"We stand by our man!\"",
"says PEOPLE's Executive Editor Liz Sporkin of Bradley Cooper ."
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"(CNN) -- Moammar Gadhafi had been on the run for months, as opposition fighters aided by NATO airstrikes pushed him and his supporters from the Libyan capital of Tripoli and other long-time strongholds.",
"Finally, on Thursday, the long-time Libyan leader's life ended around where it began -- in Sirte, the coastal city where he was born.",
"Here is a timeline of some key moments leading up to Gadhafi's death, according to Libya's interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, other National Transitional Council officials and other sources: .",
"-- Having taken over the city of Bani Walid earlier in the week, fighters aligned with Libya's National Transitional Council turn their attention on Sirte -- the last holdout of Gadhafi loyalists.",
"-- French fighter jets and a Predator drone, firing a Hellfire missile, strike a convoy near Sirte on Thursday morning, a U.S. Defense official says.",
"That official is unable to say if Gadhafi was in the targeted envoy.",
"But a senior NATO official says that Gadhafi was part of that convoy and survived the attack.",
"-- Around noon on Thursday, transitional council officials announce that their fighters have taken control of Sirte, despite pockets of resistance.",
"There is no official word then about Gadhafi.",
"-- During the day Thursday, Gadhafi is captured alive and in good health in Sirte, according to the interim prime minster.",
"-- According to Ali Aujali, Libya's ambassador to the United States, troops find Gadhafi during the day in a large drainage pipe in Sirte.",
"Daily Telegraph reporter Ben Farmer in Sirte later tells CNN's Anderson Cooper the pipe is about 3 feet wide and filled with trash and sand.",
"-- Gadhafi is alive and in good health when he's captured, according to the interim prime minster.",
"-- He does not resist arrest.",
"-- At the time, he is wearing an undershirt and trousers and carrying a gun.",
"-- While being transferred to a vehicle -- destined for Misrata, Jibril says later -- Gadhafi is shot in the right arm.",
"-- Grainy video broadcast on Arabic satellite networks shows a bloodied but still-alive Gadhafi being hauled onto a truck.",
"-- Eventually, National Transitional Council forces put Gadhafi into the vehicle.",
"As soon as it takes off, a firefight erupts involving council forces and those loyal to Gadhafi.",
"-- Caught in the crossfire, Gadhafi is shot in the head.",
"-- He dies a few moments before arriving at a hospital, a coroner says, according to Jibril.",
"Another video shows a dead Gadhafi with what appears to be a head wound.",
"-- At the hospital, DNA samples are taken -- including blood and saliva -- that confirm that the dead man is indeed Moammar Gadhafi.",
"-- Council representatives get in touch with the International Criminal Court, which had charged Gadhafi with war crimes.",
"After sending the coroner's report and photos, the court gives Libyan authorities permission to bury Gadhafi.",
"-- Soon after the news breaks on Thursday afternoon, crowds throughout Libya erupt in celebration of Gadhafi's death."
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"Libya's interim prime minister says that Gadhafi didn't resist capture .",
"He was caught in a crossfire while on a vehicle, destined for Misrata .",
"DNA tests were used to confirm the dead man was indeed Gadhafi ."
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"(CNN) -- Germany underlined their impressive credentials ahead of Euro 2012 with a 3-0 thrashing of arch-rivals the Netherlands on Tuesday in Hamburg.",
"The Germans, who will be among the favorites next year in Ukraine and Poland, swept aside the 2010 World Cup runners-up with veteran striker Miroslav Klose inspirational.",
"He set up Thomas Muller to put the home side ahead in the early stages before helping himself to the second goal and his 63rd for Germany in the 26th minute.",
"It left him just five short of the legendary Gerd Muller's all-time record.",
"The 33-year-old Lazio striker then worked in Real Madrid's Mesut Ozil for a close range strike in the 66th minute as Germany sealed their first win over the Dutch since 1996.",
"\"The whole team made the match a lot of fun to play in,\" Ozil told AFP.",
"Meanwhile, world and European champions Spain needed two goals in the final seven minutes to rescue a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica in their friendly clash.",
"Just three days after a 1-0 defeat to England, Vicente Del Bosque's Spain fell behind on 31 minutes in San Jose when forward Randall Brenes capitalized on an error from goalkeeper Iker Casillas to clip a shot over defender Carles Puyol and into the empty net.",
"It was a nightmare moment for Real Madrid's Casillas, who was celebrating making his 127th appearance for Spain and becoming their most-capped player.",
"It got worse for Spain three minutes before half time when Lorient striker Joel Campbell, who is on-loan from English Premier League side Arsenal, doubled Costa Rica's lead.",
"Spain pressed in the second half, eventually breaking the home team's resistance with seven minutes remaining when Manchester City playmaker David Silva finished after a neat exchange with midfielder Andres Iniesta.",
"Barcelona's David Villa spared Spain's blushes as the match entered stoppage time, stooping to head home his 51st international goal and rescue a draw for the visitors.",
"Elsewhere, England made it two wins in five days at Wembley with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Sweden.",
"England made several changes from the side which beat Spain 1-0 last Saturday, but were largely in command for much of the match against their fellow Euro 2012 qualifiers.",
"It was England's first win over Sweden in 43 years and captain John Terry, recalled to the team despite being under investigation for alleged racial abuse, said he never had any intention of sitting the match out because of the controversy.",
"\"No chance,\" he said.",
"\"I'm very passionate, very confident being England captain and very proud to be, also.\"",
"England's only goal in the first half, their 2,000th in internationals, was originally given to midfielder Gareth Barry, but his header took a final touch off Sweden's Daniel Majstorovic.",
"Debutant Jack Rodwell missed a glorious opportunity for his first goal for England and Manchester United youngster Phil Jones also went close as the home side might have added further to their tally against a below-par Swedish side who rarely threatened.",
"Meanwhile in Rome, Sebastian Fernandez scored the only goal of the game as Uruguay beat Italy 1-0 win in the Olympic Stadium.",
"Mario Balotelli went close for Italy before former Juventus fullback Martin Caceres crossed for Fernandez to help the ball home."
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"(CNN) -- Three former leaders of Sierra Leone's brutal Revolutionary United Front guerrilla movement were found guilty Wednesday of crimes against humanity including murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages, the Special Court for Sierra Leone announced.",
"The RUF rebels were notorious for brutality.",
"The charges stemmed from a civil war in the diamond-rich West African nation that lasted more than 10 years and stood out for its viciousness, even on a continent that has suffered many vicious conflicts.",
"It led to tens of thousands of deaths and more than 2 million people fleeing their homes in the country of 6 million.",
"The RUF rebels were known for hacking off civilians' hands and feet during the war, which lasted from March 1991 until January 2002.",
"Former RUF \"interim leader\" Issa Hassan Sesay, former RUF commander Morris Kallon and former RUF chief of security Augustine Gbao each faced 18 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, attacking U.N. peacekeepers, and recruiting and using child soldiers.",
"Sesay and Kallon each were found guilty on 16 counts, while Gbao was found guilty on 14, the court announced.",
"They were charged with \"extermination, murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced marriages and physical violence\" as well as enslaving civilians, mutilating people, and pillaging.",
"They were convicted on all counts except two specifically related to the kidnapping of international peacekeepers in May 2000.",
"Gbao was also found not guilty of two other charges related to an attack on peacekeepers, although Sesay and Kallon were convicted of those crimes.",
"Human Rights Watch senior Africa researcher Corinne Dufka called the verdict \"very significant.\"",
"\"The RUF were renowned for leading one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days.",
"Everyone knows about the signature atrocity of limb amputation, but there was also horrific sexual violence, abductions, use of child soldiers, and forced marriages,\" she told CNN by phone from Senegal in West Africa.",
"She lived Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2004, documenting atrocities.",
"\"It was difficult to find someone who hadn't been a victim of or a witness to a war crime,\" she said.",
"Watch Jim Clancy's report on the battle for Sierra Leone » .",
"Amnesty International also welcomed the convictions, but said much more needs to be done to bring hundreds of other perpetrators to justice.",
"The group called it a \"positive, but still insufficient, step in the fight against impunity\" in the country, and said \"many others -- numbering perhaps in the several hundreds -- must be investigated in Sierra Leone.\"",
"Eight people have now been convicted of war crimes connected with the conflict -- some on the rebel's side and some on the government's.",
"The Special Court's mandate is to try only \"those who bear greatest responsibility for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone.\"",
"Sesay, Kallon and Gbao had pleaded not guilty on all counts in a trial that lasted nearly five years.",
"They are due to be sentenced within a month.",
"The Special Court cannot impose the death penalty.",
"The RUF seized most of Sierra Leone from the government and fought international and African peacekeepers.",
"The capital, Freetown, was retaken by international forces in 2000.",
"The trial of the three former leaders was the last of three to be held at the Special Court, a unique joint project of Sierra Leone and the United Nations.",
"Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is on trial separately at an international court in The Hague for his role in the conflict.",
"The prosecution rested in the Taylor case last month after a year of presenting its arguments.",
"The Leonardo DiCaprio movie \"Blood Diamond\" is set in Sierra Leone during the civil war.",
"Despite the country's diamond wealth, 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.",
"In the days of the slave trade, the West African country was the departure point for thousands of captives bound for the Americas.",
"Freetown was founded in 1787 as a home for repatriated former slaves."
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"(CNN) -- Iranian student Puyan Mahmudian scored the sixth highest marks in his year group in his entrance exam, but was rejected for a Masters degree in chemical engineering at Amirkabir University in Tehran.",
"The problem was not his academic record, but his political background, according to human rights groups, which note that Mahmudian had previously been jailed for being editor of a student magazine that was critical of the government.",
"Mahmudian, now 25, believes he is one of hundreds of so-called \"starred students,\" whom campaigners claim are denied access to university or expelled because of their religious or political beliefs.",
"A report called \"Punishing Stars\" by the non-governmental organization International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran names 217 students who it says have been deprived of education because of their religion or political activism in the last five years.",
"It says the real number is much higher as many did not want to be named.",
"Many of those listed are members of the Baha'i Faith, the largest religious minority in Iran, with around 300,000 members, according to the official website of the faith in the United States.",
"It says Baha'is have been persecuted in Iran since the faith started there in the mid-19th century.",
"The conservative clergy considers followers of the Baha'i faith to be part of a wayward sect and apostates.",
"Other \"starred students\" are human rights activists, supporters of women's rights, members of the political opposition and student journalists, campaigners claim.",
"Now, a grassroots campaign, which began in Germany and has spread to other countries around the world, is drawing attention to alleged denial of education in Iran.",
"The campaign, called \"Can You Solve This?\"",
"publicizes a QR code which, when scanned by smart phones, directs people to a website with an animated video.",
"The QR code has been printed on flyers, banners, pavements and t-shirts in coffee shops, streets and university campuses.",
"In Germany, the QR code was used without any other information to build up mystery around the campaign.",
"Ruha Reyani, a second generation Iranian living in Germany and one of the architects of the campaign, said: \"We are at the start of the university year and there's a big push from the Iranian government to use denial of education as a tool of persecution.",
"\"We want people to come to take action by sending letters to their political leaders.\"",
"Events to support the campaign have already been held in Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, India and the Netherlands, and are planned for Canada, the United States, France, Italy and other countries.",
"Esra'a Al Shafei, founder of Mideast Youth, one of the organizations supporting the campaign, said: \"It's a creative and dynamic campaign that appeals to young people everywhere.",
"The video has had more than 70,000 views and more than 5,000 letters have been sent through the website.\"",
"Mahmudian, now living in Germany, was arrested and jailed in 2007 while editor of a student magazine at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran.",
"In a case highlighted at the time by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists, Mahmudian and seven other students were arrested, accused of defaming Islam in their publications.",
"Mahmudian said the members of the information ministry had circulated forged editions of their publications containing offensive articles.",
"Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a press release at the time: \"The Iranian authorities are using the flimsiest of pretexts to arrests student journalists and activists.",
"\"Even the Judiciary has admitted that these students had nothing to do with the forged publications.\"",
"Mahmudian said: \"I spent more than 50 days in solitary confinement.",
"They used physical and mental torture.",
"I went on hunger strike for 11 days to be allowed to make one phone call to my mother to tell her I was okay.",
"\"After 80 days of extreme pressure they got a videotaped confession from us inside prison.",
"We apologized to the president and were released and allowed to go back to university.\"",
"It was after his undergraduate studies finished and he applied to do his Masters that the incident caused him more trouble.",
"He said he was called in to the information ministry for three interrogation sessions.",
"\"They asked me to sign a guarantee that I wouldn't continue any political, social and cultural activities and that I would cooperate with the information ministry,\" he said.",
"\"I accepted to end my political activities but refused to collaborate with them,\" he said.",
"Mahmudian was told he had not passed the \"general\" qualification for the Masters course.",
"He tried to make a legal appeal against the decision but was told there were no avenues.",
"He later moved to Berlin, Germany, to do his masters degree and has no immediate plans to return to Iran.",
"Repeated efforts to reach Iranian officials for comment were unsuccessful.",
"Messages left with the Iranian consulate in London were not returned.",
"The report \"Punishing Stars\" released in December last year claims that the Ministry of Intelligence has used a system of three stars as a method of discrimination against students since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president in 2005.",
"It said that in 2007, in response to pressure from starred students and the media, the government announced that it would no longer use the star system.",
"However, the report claims, the discrimination has continued as a de facto policy."
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"New York (CNN) -- For much of this year, we've read about the Arab Spring uprisings, leading to the downfall of leaders in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.",
"Now, we're facing the prospect of a more fundamental overhaul in western nations: a European Union Winter.",
"The ongoing fiscal crisis in the eurozone is taking its political toll on the leaders of the troubled economies.",
"One by one, they fall.",
"In the south, developments are accompanied by drama.",
"Greece's George Papandreou resigned, after two years in office, as a precondition for the creation of a coalition government in Greece.",
"Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, whose fall has been predicted for years because of his business dealings and private life choices, has stepped down.",
"But the dominoes don't stop with these Mediterranean countries.",
"Nicolas Sarkozy of France faces a close to impossible re-election in the spring.",
"The French are weary of austerity, but their country will continue to have to make cuts in order to withstand market pressures and hope for a return to growth.",
"Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is faring badly in the polls as the economy there slows down and the money for bailouts will most likely need to increase.",
"Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, is not even seeking a third term in the November 20 elections.",
"Unemployment is at 21% and the economic downturn there continues.",
"Regardless of the fates of these leaders, several overriding questions remain.",
"What will citizens need to understand in order to accept a significant change in lifestyle and prospects?",
"After ousting one set of politicians will they then be willing to go through the pain of more austerity and elusive growth, or will each new government face even stronger opposition?",
"Is there a realistic way out of this financial crisis that does not entail hardship for the people?",
"Citizens do not appreciate experimentation.",
"They value a clear road map they can understand: It has a beginning, a middle and an end.",
"Conflicting opinions, the residue of a democracy, nonetheless breed confusion and a false sense that somewhere, someone is hiding the easy way out.",
"People then search for scapegoats and saviors, identify conspiracies and blame the powers that be.",
"Coalition governments alone will not be sufficient for people to get on board.",
"A clear pan-European plan that will unite the continent should be immediately under way.",
"The largest political groups, such as the European People's Party, the European Socialists, European Liberal Democrats and the Greens, to name a few, must come together with the EU Commission and undertake this challenge.",
"The commission has been working on economic proposals to address the fiscal crisis and the economic governance in the EU.",
"There are talks about treaty revisions.",
"But there are also, concurrently, discussions about moving to a two-speed Eurozone.",
"This only heightens insecurity and resentment.",
"But there is some good news. Many of the unifying elements are already in place.",
"Across the European Union there is consensus on the transition to a low-carbon economy, to create green jobs, protect the environment, invest in education and R&D and to manage resources more efficiently.",
"The EU has treaties binding members together, and over the decades a strong European identity has emerged that helps citizens feel at home throughout the EU and adds value to their national identity and heritage.",
"Sadly, the current fiscal crisis has wreaked havoc and obscured all these positive policies that helped make Europe what it is today: a modern society that provides political, economic and personal security to its many peoples.",
"Europe has strengthened its democratic institutions, provided funding for its weaker members, incorporated new members after the fall of the Iron Curtain, given voice to its citizens and led the way in reversing the effects of climate change, the greatest challenge of our time.",
"What Europe needs now is more, not less, Europe.",
"In a world where size matters, Europeans need to re-start the engines and not allow the fiscal crisis or the markets to send them back to the days when borders, national enmities, national currencies and nationalism itself ruled the day.",
"Today's world requires cooperation on every front, and the economy is just one more test we need to pass, one challenge we have to face in order to move confidently into the future as Europeans who are writing a new chapter in our common history.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sophia Kalantzakos."
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"Kalantzakos: Will each country's new government face even stronger opposition?",
"Coalition governments alone will not be sufficient for people to get on board, she says .",
"A pan-European plan that will unite the continent should be urgently under way, she says ."
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"(CNN) -- All federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico closed to fishing because of last year's oil spill have reopened, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday, one day before the one-year anniversary of the disaster.",
"The announcement came as the administration reopened the final 1,041 square miles of waters immediately surrounding the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, just east of Louisiana.",
"No oil or sheen has been found in the area since August 4, NOAA said in a statement.",
"NOAA sampled the area in November, March and April for potentially affected fin fish, including tuna, swordfish and escolar.",
"The analysis of samples found \"no detectable oil or dispersant odors or flavors, and results of chemical analysis for oil-related compounds and dispersants well below the levels of concern,\" the statement said.",
"The decision to reopen the waters was made after consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.",
"\"Throughout this process, public health and safety has been our primary goal,\" said FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg.",
"\"This has been an extraordinary team effort and the reopening of these federal waters serves as a dramatic example of what cooperation between federal agencies can accomplish.\"",
"The April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, with more than 200 million gallons of oil released into the Gulf.",
"At its peak in June, 37 percent of Gulf waters, or 88,522 square miles, were closed to fishing.",
"Also Tuesday, Omega Protein Corp. announced the final settlement of its claims for costs and damages incurred as a result of the spill.",
"In total, the company received payments of nearly $45 million from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, it said."
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 31, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Arlington National Cemetery • Joplin, Missouri • Texas .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Back from the Memorial Day weekend, I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News!",
"It's a short week for us.",
"It's also our last week of the school year, so let's go ahead and get started.",
"First Up: Remembering the Fallen .",
"AZUZ: First up, Americans pause to honor service members who gave everything they had.",
"Memorial Day is a tribute to the men and women who lost their lives while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.",
"Ceremonies were held around the country yesterday, President Obama helping lead the ones at Arlington National Cemetery.",
"He laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and later visited Arlington's Section 60; it's a site that's primarily for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"During a speech, the president said the courage, unselfishness and devotion to duty of the servicemen and women who gave their lives is what has sustained the country.",
"President Obama also said that Memorial Day is about the families who have lost loved ones serving in the military.",
"The wife of a fallen service member said she sees Memorial Day as a chance to celebrate her husband's life.",
"NICKI BUNTING, WIDOW OF FALLEN SERVICEMAN: I want everyone to realize that these aren't just graves; they aren't just numbers.",
"They're real people, and they had real families.",
"They had wives and husbands and children and parents and siblings and friends.",
"And so, that's what today is about, just celebrating their life and making sure that everyone knows that these are real people that we've lost.",
"And so, when I get to talk about my husband, I love to laugh and smile when I talk about him and really share the great guy he was.",
"AZUZ: For the past 40 years, the 3rd U.S. Infantry has had a special assignment.",
"They're the ones who place flags on every gravestone at Arlington Cemetery for Memorial Day.",
"That's more than 250,000 flags!",
"In this next report, two members share why they consider this responsibility an honor.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SERGEANT CHERRY SMITH, IRAQ WAR VETERAN: Now that I've actually served and came from Iraq, they paved the way.",
"So, without them, we wouldn't be here. STAFF SERGEANT BRADLEY FALLS, AFGHANISTAN WAR VETERAN: It's especially an honor for us when you've been on the other side of it, and now you can come here and you can bring honor to their final resting place.",
"Most of the leaders here are combat vets.",
"They are coming from other units.",
"They've deployed before. We all know somebody buried here personally.",
"SMITH: I thank them.",
"I give thanks all the time for just doing what they did.",
"There's so many of us that have fear of doing what they did.",
"FALLS: During our fifteen months, my battalion lost 24 soldiers and our brigade lost, I believe, 44.",
"We have three 173rd members buried here, to include my platoon leader, First Lieutenant Benjamin Hall.",
"I try to visit him on special occasions, you know, his birthday or his passing.",
"I usually sit down for a while and talk to him, let him know how things are going, how life is, and how much I appreciate his sacrifice and his leadership while we had it.",
"He was a great man. Sometimes it's a bit of a remembrance of good times and bad.",
"You know, you've got comrades in arms that have died and you feel for them and you feel for your families, but you try to put that aside to give honor to those that you can.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP) Is this legit?",
"STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?",
"More tornadoes strike the U.S. than any other country.",
"This is true. The U.S. averages more than 1,000 recorded tornadoes every year.",
"Tornado Devastation .",
"AZUZ: We've talked about a string of tornadoes hitting across parts of the U.S. recently.",
"One of the deadliest in U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri.",
"Officials say this massive storm tore a 13-mile path across the city.",
"Recovery efforts are getting started, and the president visited the area over the weekend.",
"Dan Lothian has the details on that trip.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Before touching down, Air Force One flew over Joplin, Missouri, giving the president an aerial view of the devastation.",
"What took months and years to build was destroyed in a few moments: homes, businesses and anything else in the tornado's path.",
"On the ground, it was a somber president surveying the breathtaking damage up close.",
"Meeting with officials, survivors, and promising not to abandon this city.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: What I've been telling every family that I've met here is we're going to be here long after the cameras leave.",
"We are not going to stop until Joplin is fully back on its feet.",
"LOTHIAN: There is plenty of pain here, but also plenty of hope.",
"Roadways were lined with thousands of people, some waving flags or holding signs with messages like \"God bless Joplin.\"",
"At a memorial service on the campus of Missouri Southern State University, that escaped the tornado's wrath... OBAMA: We will be with you every step of the way.",
"We're not going anywhere.",
"LOTHIAN: ...President Obama thanked the people of Joplin for their courage.",
"OBAMA: You've banded together.",
"You have come to each other's aid. You've demonstrated a simple truth: that amid heartbreak and tragedy, no one is a stranger.",
"Everybody is a brother.",
"Everybody is a sister.",
"LOTHIAN: Recovering from one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history will not happen overnight, but Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is optimistic about the future.",
"GOVERNOR JAY NIXON, MISSOURI: Joplin will look different, and more different still in two years and three and five.",
"And as the years pass, the moral of our story will be the same: love thy neighbor.",
"God bless. LOTHIAN: President Obama also had a message for people across the country, urging them to get involved by supporting organizations such as the Red Cross, which is providing food and shelter for all of the people who have been displaced by the tornado.",
"Dan Lothian, CNN, Joplin, Missouri.",
"(END VIDEO) Texas Wildfires .",
"AZUZ: Moving southwest to Texas now, where officials and emergency workers are battling a different kind of natural disaster: wildfires.",
"In fact, this has been one of the worst wildfire seasons in Texas history.",
"Two blazes around the city of Amarillo forced hundreds of people to leave their homes this weekend.",
"They were starting to come back yesterday as firefighters got the majority of those flames under control.",
"Dry and windy conditions are spreading the flames, though, and that is what the weather's been like in Texas for a while now.",
"This video, another wildfire, is from more than a month ago.",
"In total, hundreds of homes have burned; millions of acres of land have been scorched by these wildfires.",
"Shoutout . MICHELLE WRIGHT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Sommer's and Ms. Bensfield's students at Nichols Middle School in Evanston, Illinois!",
"How many launches are left in the NASA space shuttle program?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) 0, B) 1, C) 2 or D) 3?",
"Start the countdown at three seconds -- GO!",
"Atlantis is scheduled to make the next -- and last -- shuttle launch in July.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Endeavour Undocks .",
"AZUZ: Atlantis will be dropping off supplies and spare parts to the international space station.",
"That's scheduled to be the last shuttle mission.",
"But the current one isn't over yet.",
"It's getting close, though.",
"This was the scene on Sunday, when the space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the ISS.",
"It had been connected to the orbiting outpost for more than a week and a half.",
"Now, Endeavour is on its way home.",
"The shuttle is scheduled to land around 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.",
"That'll wrap up its 16-day mission to space.",
"And once it's back on the ground, Endeavour will head off into retirement.",
"Web Promo . AZUZ: We are not retiring, but we are wrapping up the school year this week.",
"Doesn't mean we're going anywhere, and neither is CNNStudentNews.com.",
"We're planning to have special shows on our site all summer long, plus new blog posts.",
"So, make us your home page and check out what we're up to while you're on break.",
"You know the address: CNNStudentNews.com!",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, hope you're not afraid of heights.",
"For example, a pair of intersecting tight ropes over a giant canyon.",
"Apparently the young lady you're about to see right here has no fear.",
"Or, she just knows it's all an optical illusion.",
"It's actually the world's largest 3D painting.",
"It's on a street in China.",
"But it looks real enough that some people said they actually felt dizzy when they were standing on top of it.",
"When it comes to this kind of artwork... Goodbye .",
"AZUZ: ...That sounds like the highest of compliments.",
"And it proves that the artist should have no illusions about the quality of his work.",
"I think you see what we mean.",
"Hope you have a great day.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"Discover the scope of this year's destructive Texas wildfire season .",
"Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ."
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"(CNN) -- [Updated 3 p.m.",
"ET, Monday, August 29] These beachgoers are enjoying themselves on Isola dei Conigli (\"Rabbit Island\") in Lampedusa, Italy.",
"Lampedusa is the southernmost part of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea between the Sicilian mainland and North Africa.",
"Since the Arab unrest began earlier this year, thousands of people from Libya and other parts of North Africa have sought refuge there.",
"Contrary to its name, Rabbit Island is probably more renowned for turtles.",
"It is one of the last remaining egg-laying sites in Italy for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle.",
"Nobody answered Rabbit Island in our photo challenge this week, but there were some close guesses of Sardinia, Italy, as well as some generic guesses of the Mediterranean.",
"[Original post] Do you know where this photo was taken?",
"If you think you know the answer -- or if you just want to take a wild guess -- post it in the comments area below.",
"Later in the day, we'll reveal where the photo was taken and give credit to those who figured it out first.",
"(The more detail, the better!)",
"Each Monday morning, we'll post a new photo and challenge you to tell us its origin.",
"The photo might be related to a prominent news story or theme -- or it might just be something that caught our eye.",
"Good luck! Check out a previous example ."
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"(CNN) -- WBA world heavyweight champion David Haye has branded his IBF, WBO and IBO counterpart Wladimir Klitschko a \"robot\" and said the Ukrainian will \"malfunction\" in their unification bout in Hamburg on Saturday.",
"Haye, 30, was talking at the final press conference ahead of the duo's highly-anticipated face-off, with tensions clearly running high between the two fighters.",
"\"It's going to be fun to watch this big robot start malfunctioning,\" the London native told reporters.",
"The pair were due to get in the ring in 2009, before Haye was forced to withdraw with a back injury, and the Englishman said he is happy the fight did not take place two years ago because he is now in much better shape.",
"\"I'm healthy, my speed is ridiculous, punch power is there, and I'm just in a really good place,\" he said.",
"\"I'm happy the fight's happening now and didn't happen a couple of years ago because I am so much more of a better fighter now.\"",
"Klitschko acknowledged his opponent was in fine physical condition, but the 1996 Olympic gold medal winner said Haye will be the 50th knockout victim of his professional career and that the experience will make him \"a better person.\"",
"\"I will knock your butt out back into reality, which is good for your future life,\" said Klitschko.",
"\"You're going to become a better person, a better man, with better behavior and you'll be on time.\"",
"The Semey-born boxer was referring to the fact that Haye was 30 minutes late for the press conference, and Klitschko went on to say: \"He was late for half an hour today, we've all been waiting for you princess.\"",
"The tension rose further when Wladimir's brother Vitali, the WBC heavyweight champion, stood up and asked Haye whether he would be attending the post-fight press conference.",
"\"Please, promise, in front of many journalists, that you're coming to the press conference after the fight?\"",
"Haye responded: \"I'm coming for you [Vitali] after the fight, make sure you're there.\"",
"Vitali famously faced a British fighter in 2003, when he lost to Lennox Lewis by technical knockout after the end of the sixth round.",
"Former world amateur championships silver medallist Haye has previously said he will retire before turning 31 in October, but \"The Hayemaker\" has also expressed a desire to defeat both Klitschko brothers before hanging up his gloves.",
"British cruiserweight Carl Thompson defeated Haye in their fight in 2004, his only career loss in 26 professional clashes.",
"Klitschko will be looking to avoid a fourth defeat of his pro career, having won 55 of his 58 bouts.",
"The fight will take place at the Imtech Arena, home of Bundesliga football club Hamburg, on Saturday."
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"David Haye has branded Wladimir Klitschko a \"robot\" ahead of their fight on Saturday .",
"Haye said it will be fun to watch the Ukrainian \"malfunction\" in Hamburg .",
"Klitschko said Haye will be the 50th knockout of his professional career ."
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"(CNN) -- Are the world's top male players playing too much tennis?",
"It is a question that has been asked frequently over the years, but recent comments from world number three Andy Murray, and former world number one Andy Roddick, have indicated the matter could be coming to a head.",
"With a schedule that runs from the beginning of January to the end of November, taking in 65 singles tournaments, the ATP World Tour came under scrutiny like never before when Murray hinted that the world's top players were prepared to take strike action in an attempt to modify the calendar.",
"\"We're only proposing small changes, a few less mandatory events and some more rest periods,\" said Murray.",
"\"Tennis is in a great place right now but there are just a few minor things we'd like to see changed and we hope to sit with the ATP and other officials and discuss them.",
"Two or three more weeks off a season is really what we are thinking of.\"",
"And Murray's comments were backed up by Roddick, who told reporters: \"It's a more physical game than it used to be, but the season is longer than ever.",
"\"I don't think we're storming offices, but I think the sentiment is still there.",
"We need to be smart about it and take our time and make sure that it's well thought out and not be kind of reactionary.",
"But, you know, there is a discussion going on.\"",
"The absence of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic from the recent Shanghai Masters indicates, in Roddick's opinion, that the demands are too harsh on the top players.",
"\"They don't get their money this week.",
"If they were feeling well and they weren't worn down, then they would be here,\" he continued.",
"\"We're not getting away with anything by pulling out of tournaments.",
"I feel like that's the way it's presented sometimes.",
"That's just not the case,\" he added.",
"The lowdown . Yet, despite the claims of both Murray and Roddick, the facts show that the number of singles tournaments has actually fallen over the last 11 years.",
"In year 2000 there were 69 ATP Tour singles events, however, that figure steadily decreased during the last decade and since 2007 it has remained static on its current number.",
"And, for those 65 events, there has been a significant increase in the prize money on offer from the ATP Tour, with prize funds set to exceed $90 million for the first time by 2014.",
"So why are is there a perception that players are playing more tournaments, than ever before?",
"Somebody who knows all about the rigors of the ATP Tour is Australian Mark Woodforde.",
"The 46-year-old won a remarkable 67 doubles titles, many alongside compatriot Todd Woodbridge, with the duo completing the grand slam of all four major doubles titles.",
"In addition to this, Woodforde also managed to win four singles titles, reaching a career-high 19th in the world in 1996, and has first hand knowledge of how demanding the circuit can be.",
"\"When I was playing and performing well in both singles and doubles, the calendar issue was raised even then,\" Woodforde told CNN.",
"\"What with Davis Cup ties, the Olympics etc, you never felt like there was any time to take a breather, it was full on.",
"\"The weeks off were cherished.",
"As an aspiring player, you play to gain experience -- and since you may not survive through to the end of a tournament, the toll is not as great on you physically or mentally.",
"Losing first and second round matches can be replaced by simply entering another event to compensate,\" added Woodforde.",
"\"Yet as a top player, you end up playing many more matches, the pressures are greater, you try to strike a healthy balance to prepare for excellence at the grand slams and it's a continual mounting of pressures.\"",
"The reaction . Woodforde also believes it a positive thing that today's players are campaigning together, although he does not necessarily believe reducing the calendar is the way forward.",
"\"There is a fear that by shortening the calendar to accommodate players requests of resting at the end of each season -- their agents will slot exhibition matches in their place, which will be worth more financially to the player (and their agent!",
"),\" Woodforde added.",
"\"Perhaps there should a total blackout of all exhibition matches for a period of say four weeks -- and if the players are in need of some competition, they can go back and play some club tennis.\"",
"Another former player, and now commentator, Andrew Castle also believes the schedule is fine as it is.",
"In his column in British newspaper Metro, Castle said: \"Players are obliged to play eight mandatory Masters 1000 tournaments, four 500 ATP events and the four majors, plus the World Tour Finals if they qualify.",
"\"With pre-grand slam events thrown in, we are looking at a commitment of 30-34 weeks of the year.",
"I am looking at it and thinking there isn't a lot to moan about.",
"\"The players are under a lot of strain and the tour takes its toll -- but if your body is telling you something, listen to it and withdraw from the odd tournament.\"",
"The future . Since his initial comments, Murray has seemingly backtracked on any talk of strike action, telling reporters: \"When I said a strike was a possibility, I didn't expect that to be such a massive issue.",
"\"It's so far away from being at that level.",
"None of the players want to strike and I think we are maybe coming across as being a bit spoiled when I don't think that is the case.\"",
"The ATP politely turned down CNN's request for an interview regarding a proposed players' meeting, although ATP Tour spokesman Simon Higson said: \"The players should and do have a major say in how the game is run, which is one of the key reasons the ATP Tour was formed as an equal partnership between players and tournaments.",
"\"We have regular discussions with the players, including very recently, and are always receptive to their input.",
"It's important to let them have time to discuss and focus on which topics are most important to them and then we can work together on next steps and solutions.\"",
"Sporting strikes are not a new phenomena.",
"In the last year alone there have been disputes in both Major League Baseball and NBA basketball in the United States, as well as the top soccer leagues in Spain and Italy, which have resulted in a cessation of play.",
"Whether such extreme measures will eventually happen in tennis would appear unlikely at this stage, but what is clear is that some high-profile players are unhappy with their work-load and unless administrators, players and sponsors alike are all singing from the same hymn sheet, the current rumbles of discontent could become louder and louder in the weeks and months ahead."
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"The ATP Tour tennis schedule is coming under fierce scrutiny once again .",
"Andy Murray and Andy Roddick are among the players who want a reduction in tournaments .",
"Mark Woodforde believes more big-money exhibitions will be played if the schedule is reduced ."
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"Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The current squabbling between the House and the Senate on the payroll tax cut extension perfectly epitomizes why congressional approval is in the single digits.",
"Highlighting this debacle, Newt Gingrich ends his first television ad in Iowa proclaiming that by \"working together, we can and will rebuild the America we love.\"",
"Expecting Newt Gingrich to work together with Democrats and Republicans to end the partisan deadlock in Washington is a bit like asking the fox to guard the chicken coop.",
"When Gingrich entered the House of Representatives in 1979, he quickly became the leader of a group of insurgent conservatives whose chief aim was a Republican Party majority.",
"Gingrich's partisan antics not only transformed the House, but the Senate as well.",
"Washington has not been the same since.",
"Even from his first term, when he tried to get Rep. Charles Diggs kicked out of the House (despite his re-election after being convicted of 29 felonies), it became clear that Gingrich would use every Democratic misstep and every legislative opportunity to portray the House in the worst possible light.",
"It was only in tearing down the House that Gingrich thought that it could be rebuilt in the Republicans' -- or perhaps, his -- own image.",
"To Gingrich's credit, the Democratic leadership was always ready to misstep and then meet him in the partisan mud.",
"Whether it was his fight with Speaker Tip O'Neill about who controlled the television cameras in the House or his relentless pursuit of Speaker Jim Wright's sweetheart book deal, Gingrich would not back down from a fight even if at first it appeared the evidence was against him.",
"Gingrich became a master at using the legislative process to achieve his political goals.",
"This strategy from Gingrich's House days is, of course, well known.",
"What is less well known is that members who previously served with Gingrich in the House spread these highly partisan tactics to the Senate.",
"I am writing a book about these senators, who I call \"Gingrich senators,\" because they so seamlessly infected the Senate with the same hyper-partisanship that pervaded the House.",
"Since Gingrich's first election to the House, 40 Republicans have entered the House and then moved on to the Senate.",
"Twenty-two of them continue to serve in the Senate, including Jim DeMint, John McCain, Jim Inhofe and David Vitter.",
"Their alumni include Rick Santorum, Phil Gramm and George Allen.",
"These senators learned well the lessons that Gingrich taught them in the House.",
"Jon Kyl, the first Gingrich senator to rise to an important party leadership position, had been a supporter of any and all tax cuts until Obama announced his desire to extend the payroll tax reduction.",
"Kyl was among the first Senate Republicans to announce his opposition, not just to how Obama wanted to fund the extension of the tax reduction, but the tax cut extension itself.",
"This, incidentally, is the same Jon Kyl who said in an earlier debate: \"If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does.\"",
"When confronted with the fact that abortions account for only 3% of the organization's work, Kyl's spokesperson claimed that his floor statement \"was not intended to be a factual statement.\"",
"When the Gingrich senators don't have the votes to get their way, they will use all aspects of the legislative process to bring the rest of the chamber to its knees.",
"In the last Congress, the Senate took 419 votes on roll call amendments.",
"The 19 Gingrich senators who were serving at the time introduced more than half of these amendments.",
"Seven of the top 10 senators who introduced the most amendments that resulted in roll call votes were Gingrich senators.",
"Endlessly introducing amendments has become another form of filibustering, which previously involved making speeches rather than introducing amendments.",
"But when a stream of amendments couldn't defeat the health care bill, the Republicans offered up a \"stunt\" amendment, its sole purpose to create a perception that Democrats were voting against preventing sex offenders from buying Viagra in the insurance markets established by the bill.",
"Tom Coburn, a Gingrich senator, introduced the amendment.",
"Gingrich's strategy was successful in 1994 when the Republicans won a majority in the House and the Senate.",
"The strategy was also successful in 2010 after John Boehner and Eric Cantor implemented it in the Pelosi-run House.",
"The Gingrich senators are once again using it to try and take back the Senate in the 2012 elections.",
"The chambers and parties may resolve their differences over the payroll tax cut extension, but it is unlikely that they will do so through the methods that Gingrich made popular during his congressional days.",
"Furthermore, if we can predict the future from their past record, the solution is not likely to come from the Gingrich senators.",
"The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of Sean Theriault."
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"Sean Theriault: Newt Gingrich's first ad in Iowa suggests he's ready to end partisan deadlock .",
"But partisan antics have been his signature strategy since 1979, says Theriault .",
"Gingrich became a master at using the legislative process to achieve political goals, he says .",
"Theriault: Some who served with Gingrich in House spread his partisan strategy to Senate ."
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"(CNN) -- A man who allegedly gagged and bound his toddler's arms and legs with tape and posted a photo of her on Facebook is \"devastated by the situation,\" his attorney told CNN Thursday.",
"Andre Curry, 21, is charged with aggravated domestic battery, which is a felony, Chicago police said.",
"In court Wednesday, his bond was set at $100,000.",
"\"It's our belief that after the investigation by the state and DCFS (the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services) is concluded, Andre Curry will be vindicated,\" said assistant public defender Anand Sundaram.",
"Curry has no history of child abuse and the girl has not shown injuries, Sundaram said, adding that the family is cooperating in the investigation.",
"The girl was being checked by a doctor Thursday for any injuries, whether old or new, he said.",
"With the photo \"going viral on the Internet, things may have been blown out of proportion,\" Sundaram said.",
"Sundaram gave few details, saying he could not comment on specifics of the case.",
"The photo at issue shows the girl with painter's tape over her mouth and binding her wrists and ankles.",
"Above the photo on Curry's Facebook page were the words, \"This is wut happens wen my baby hits me back.",
";)\" The Facebook page appears to have been taken down.",
"But the image was picked up by other websites.",
"The Cook County State's Attorney's Office also told CNN that the caption was with the photo on Curry's Facebook page.",
"Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, told CNN Wednesday the girl in the photo is 22 months old.",
"\"The photo itself does not tell the story of who our client is and how well he takes care of this child,\" said Sundaram.",
"He said his client will not face the felony charge if prosecutors cannot prove the girl suffered any injuries from the incident.",
"If that's the case, he said, prosecutors could at most seek a charge of misdemeanor battery.",
"Conklin said the next court date will be December 27.",
"In the meantime, Curry remains behind bars.",
"He would need to post $10,000 toward his bond to leave jail, Sundaram said."
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"NEW: The toddler was being examined by a doctor Thursday .",
"Andre Curry's attorney says he takes good care of the child .",
"He allegedly posted a photo of his toddler daughter's mouth, arms, and legs bound with tape .",
"He is charged with aggravated domestic battery ."
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"(CNN) -- The news that America now has more cell phone subscribers than people doesn't surprise documentary filmmaker Tiffany Shlain.",
"\"There's 5 billion cell phones on the planet, but only 2 billion people online,\" said the director, whose new film \"Connected\" explores our increasing dependence on the electronic devices we carry.",
"Shlain seems to have a love-hate relationship with technology.",
"In the film's trailer she recounts a story of being at dinner with a friend and pretending to go the bathroom so she could check her e-mail on her smartphone.",
"\"Everything is happening so fast.",
"There doesn't seem to be a lot of time to really talk about what it is doing to us,\" said Shlain, who is also a founder of the Webby Awards.",
"\"What does it mean to be connected in the 21st century?",
"What's the good? What's the bad? What's the hope?\" Thanks to smartphones, people aren't just connecting through calls anymore.",
"Increasingly, they're messaging on their phones through texts, e-mail, Facebook or Twitter -- streams of incoming information that are now accessible to us anytime and anywhere we have a signal.",
"According to a trade industry report by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the United States has 327 million cell phone subscribers, more than its 315 million people.",
"Shlain believes her film presents technology as a next step in shaping society.",
"\"These phones extend our desire for emotional connection.",
"So these are all expanding human capacity because it's us evolving.",
"We continue to want to have more ways to exchange ideas and connect,\" she said.",
"But Shlain also thinks there is a darker side to our always-on, always-connected society.",
"\"People have gotten incredibly rude.",
"When you are with a good friend you should not have your cell phone right here like a ticking bomb.",
"I think there should be no texting in funerals.",
"When you walk in to greet your husband or partner, you should not be talking on a cell phone.\"",
"In the film, Shlain ponders what the lasting impact of this information explosion will be.",
"\"I wonder if people are going to look back on this period and say, 'I cannot believe people used their cell phones so much in every situation and there were no boundaries,\" she said.",
"In her own life, Shlain has taken action to limit her digital diet.",
"One day a week, she and her family have a technology shutdown.",
"\"All of the screens go off for 24 hours and it's the most delicious, long, wonderful day.",
"I read, I write in my journal, I hang out with my kids and my husband and the day feels like four days in one.",
"Then we all can't wait to go back online.",
"It kind of helps you re-appreciate technology in a new way.\"",
"\"Connected\" is in limited release in the United States.",
"To learn more, check out the film's website."
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"Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain has a new documentary, \"Connected,\" about our digital lifestyle .",
"Shlain: There's a good and bad side to technology, and both help shape society .",
"She and her family shut off all technology one day a week .",
"For first time, number of U.S. cell phone subscribers has surpassed population ."
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"(CNN) -- Jenson Button is relishing Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, as the McLaren driver returns to the site of his first-ever victory for the 200th race of his Formula One career.",
"The 31-year-old withdrew from last weekend's German Grand Prix, won by his teammate Lewis Hamilton, after 35 laps with hydraulics problems, but Button is hoping for better luck at the track where he tasted success as a Honda driver in 2006.",
"\"It's always fun coming back to Hungary as this is the track at which I won my first grand prix,\" the 2009 drivers' champion told McLaren's web site.",
"\"After a premature end to my race at the Nurburgring, I'll be hoping for better luck at the Hungaroring.",
"\"I can't believe I've already knocked up a double-ton of F1 starts because I don't feel a day older than when I made my debut back in 2000!\"",
"Resurgent Hamilton triumphs in Germany .",
"Button made his first appearance in the elite division of motorsport at the Australian Grand Prix in 2000 with Williams, and has since gone on to represent Benetton, Renault, BAR, Honda, Brawn GP and now McLaren in an 11-year career.",
"The Briton has notched up 10 grand prix triumphs and secured his only world crown to date in 2009, while racing for Brawn.",
"Button is hopeful of a strong showing on Sunday and is taking encouragement from his third-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix -- a circuit he feels presents a very similar challenge to the Hungaroring.",
"\"The MP4-26 [McLaren's car] was very competitive in Monaco a couple of months ago and I hope it will be a similar situation this weekend because the Hungaroring has many of the same performance criteria.",
"Latest F1 standings after the German GP .",
"\"Cockpit temperatures regularly exceed 50 degrees and we're always pulling g-force in the car because there are so many corners.",
"It's tough, but this is definitely a circuit when all the training pays dividends.\"",
"Hamilton is also a previous winner in Hungary having triumphed at the venue in 2007 and the 26-year-old is eager to build on his success at the Nurburgring last time out.",
"\"I've always gone well in Hungary,\" said the 2008 world champion.",
"\"I like the circuit because it's old school.",
"It has a very historic feel to it, with hills and bumps and cambers changes, and it has massive character.\"",
"Hamilton beat off fierce competition from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber of Red Bull to earn a hard-fought win in Germany and he is anticipating another close contest.",
"\"There wasn't much between McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull in Germany.",
"It's going to be fascinating to see which team holds the advantage next weekend.\"",
"Despite Hamilton, Alonso and Webber finishing on the podium last time out, all three drivers trail reigning world champion and current standings leader Sebastian Vettel.",
"Vettel, 24, holds a 77-point lead over his colleague Webber at the top of the championship heading into the 11th race of the season."
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"Jenson Button is preparing for the 200th race of his Formula One career .",
"The McLaren driver won his first grand prix in Hungary five years ago .",
"His teammate Lewis Hamilton is looking to build on last weekend's triumph in Germany ."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Whenever someone at our office bitches about being overworked, our stock response is \"Beats digging ditches.\"",
"While the express intention of the statement is usually not-so-supportive, we think it's a healthy reminder that at the end of the day, we are all basically professional e-mailers and should be thankful for such.",
"The wildland firefighters who work for Grayback Forestry in Medford, Oregon, have no such motivational adages because their job is actually digging ditches.",
"Around active forest fires.",
"On the sides of mountains.",
"You can't even bitch at these guys for having cushy government pensions to fall back on when they get older, because they're all private-sector contractors.",
"Which means if they aren't out fighting forest fires or doing preventative forestry on unburned woods (basically extreme landscaping), they are losing money.",
"They are the hardest working men in the tree business.",
"Southern Oregon in the summer is a tinderbox.",
"Last year the state recorded some 560 wild fires, the majority of which occurred in the seemingly endless sea of trees running across its bottom from the Cascades to the Pacific Coast.",
"Humidity is next to nonexistent, which is extremely pleasant, but means that even an errant spark from a chainsaw or the proverbial cigarette butt out the car window can set the entire region ablaze.",
"Flying into the Rogue Valley, there is evidence of past wild fires is everywhere: From the miles-long scar of the 2002 \"Biscuit\" fire stretching past the horizon, to the smaller pockets of charred trees crowding the edge of towns to the blue Wilderness-Firefighter-ribbon bumper stickers flying past on the I-5 to the elaborate wildfire and firefighter shrines at a local bar.",
"See more of Oregon Fire Lines at VBS.TV .",
"There are very few places firemen aren't revered as local heroes, but the wilderness firefighters of Oregon go past people simply risking their lives to help others into a crazy superhero realm where their work regularly prevents entire settlements from being destroyed.",
"They're literally the guardians of their communities.",
"Incidentally, their work is also very beneficial for the forest.",
"We spent a few days following a crew of Grayback forest-firefighters walk up the sides of what most people would consider a cliff, to chop down underbrush in preparation for a controlled burn.",
"This is what they like to call \"project work\" -- the light stuff they do between fires.",
"The work is the hardest and least rewarding work we have ever tried to do.",
"Unless you consider 12-hour-plus shifts of backbreaking labor, virtually zero outside recognition, and occasional accusations of being shills for the timber industry rewards.",
"Which we do not. This piece was originally produced in August 2010 ."
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"VBS follows firefighters as they prepare for a controlled burn .",
"12-hour shifts involve ditch digging, brush clearing in mountains .",
"VBS crew calls it \"the hardest and least rewarding work we have ever tried to do\""
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"(CNN) -- The Okavango Delta is one of earth's remote places; it is not easy to get to, and it is quite wild.",
"Independent travel there is not for the inexperienced or the faint-hearted.",
"There are few roads and those that exist are difficult to drive and navigate and subject to flooding and other hazards; communications are spotty at best and locations are distantly apart.",
"Winning and losing on Botswana's Okavango Delta .",
"The vast majority of tourists fly into camps in the delta, many from the town of Maun, which is easily reached by scheduled airlines from Botswana's capital, Gaborone (Air Botswana), from Johannesburg, South Africa (South African Airways), from Windhoek, Namibia (Air Namibia), and from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.",
"From Maun, a host of bush plane companies fly tourists to the camps and reserves, most of which, including Kwara, are privately owned and operated.",
"Most tourists make their arrangements through organized tour companies, and there is no shortage of tour operators in southern Africa who can arrange an all-inclusive visit.",
"More resourceful travelers can save money by making their own arrangements using the Internet to identify individual camps, and arranging transportation and accommodations directly through them.",
"The camps vary from luxury suites to basic pup tents, and prices reflect the differences.",
"Kwara Camp is mid- to upper range, offering heavy canvas tents on wood platforms with full beds and in-tent plumbed bathrooms, full board and a host of activities, including overland Jeep safaris, dugout canoe trips and motorboat journeys that are included in the basic price.",
"Less expensive camps, such as Oddballs Camp, feature simple pup tents on platforms, but can be hundreds of dollars less expensive.",
"Some camps are fenced to keep animals out at night, while others such as Kwara are not (if the sound of a two-ton elephant or hippopotamus tramping through the bushes right outside your window unnerves you, you might want to opt for a fenced camp).",
"Botswana is deliberately expensive, as the government wishes to limit the number of tourists who visit Okavango to lessen environmental impact.",
"Rates during high season (July-October) can be twice as high as during low season (November-June).",
"Try going during low season, just before or after high season, to maximize wildlife viewing but minimize cost.",
"For most upscale camps, plan on US $900-$1,600 per person, per night in high season, and a low of about $700 in low season.",
"For mid-range camps, plan on about $700-$950 in high season, as low as $350 in low season.",
"For basic camps, looks for rates as low as $340 per person, per night in high season and $240 in low season.",
"Most rates are all-inclusive, including lodging, food and all safaris and other activities.",
"Tourists on tighter budgets might want to consider camps in South Africa, although they tend to be less wild and more tourist-populated.",
"Large animals including lion, zebra, hippopotamus, wildebeest, elephant and others are abundant in the Delta, and while it is thrilling to see them, tourists must always remember, this is not a zoo.",
"The animals are wild.",
"But as long as visitors follow a few simple rules, there is little danger."
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"The Okavango Delta is difficult to access; most tourists arrive by bush plane .",
"Camp accommodations range from luxury suites to basic pup tents .",
"For mid-range camps, plan on about $700-$950 per person, per night in high season ."
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"(CNN) -- Portugal will face Bosnia and Herzegovina for a place in Euro 2012 after the pair were drawn together in the playoffs to reach the finals in Poland and Ukraine next year.",
"Portugal, coached by former international midfielder Paulo Bento, qualifed for the 2010 World Cup finals courtesy of a playoff success against Safet Susic's Bosnia Herzegovina, and the Euro 2004 hosts and finalists will have to repeat the feat over two legs.",
"Portugal will have home advantage for the second leg on November 15, with the first leg set to take place on November 11 or 12.",
"Three other ties were drawn at the ceremony in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, with Croatia set to face Turkey in a repeat of the Euro 2008 quarterfinal.",
"Denmark seal Euro 2012 spot after beating Portugal .",
"Turkey, now coached by Dutchman Guus Hiddink, claimed a penalty shootout victory when the two sides met in Vienna four years ago before losing to Germany in the semifinals.",
"Estonia will have to overcome Giovanni Trapattoni's Republic of Ireland if they are to qualify for their first major soccer championship.",
"Ireland will be making their sixth appearance in a major tournament playoff, having missed out on last year's World Cup when a controversial William Gallas goal, after an apparent handball from Thierry Henry, condemned them to defeat against France.",
"The final playoff pits Euro 1996 runners-up Czech Republic against Montenegro, who are bidding to reach their first tournament since gaining independence in 2006.",
"There are 12 teams already assured of their place in the competition, with co-hosts Poland and Ukraine being joined by reigning world and European champions Spain and 1988 winners Netherlands.",
"The other eight teams who have already qualified are Germany, England, Italy, Russia, France, Greece, Denmark and Sweden.",
"The draw for the group stage of the four-yearly tournament will be made on December 2, ahead of the competition's first match on June 8 2012."
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"Portugal will face Bosnia Herzegovina for a place at Euro 2012 .",
"Croatia and Turkey also paired in Thursday's playoff draw .",
"Republic of Ireland and Estonia to face each other .",
"Czech Republic go head-to-head with Montenegro ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City may have announced losses of more than $300 million for last season, but the English club's massive investment in players is paying off on the pitch.",
"Roberto Mancini's men remained five points clear at the top of the Premier League on Saturday after ending the unbeaten run of third-placed Newcastle with a 3-1 home victory.",
"That briefly put City eight points clear, but second-placed defending champions Manchester United stayed in touch with a 1-0 win at Swansea in the late kickoff, halting the Welsh side's unbeaten home record.",
"While City's record deficit casts doubt over the club's ability to adhere to UEFA's financial fairplay rules, Saturday's win -- the 11th in 12 rounds -- was a timely tune-up for the midweek trip to Italy.",
"Mario Balotelli coolly sidefooted in a 41st-minute penalty after Ryan Taylor handled the ball, then the Newcastle fullback's error allowed City defender Micah Richards to double the lead before halftime.",
"Sergio Aguero came off the bench to net a 72nd-minute penalty after Richards was fouled by Hatem Ben Arfa, having also scored for Argentina in Tuesday's World Cup qualifying win against Colombia.",
"Dan Gosling scored a late consolation for the Magpies, who will lose third place on goal difference if Chelsea win at home to seventh-placed Liverpool on Sunday.",
"Tottenham, in fifth with two games in hand, can also move onto 25 points with victory against visiting Aston Villa on Monday.",
"City's focus is now Tuesday's Champions League trip to Napoli, which will have a big bearing on the club's hopes of progressing to the knockout stage of Europe's top competition.",
"\"The feeling is good for Napoli.",
"The team has improved a lot in the Champions League,\" Mancini said.",
"\"But I know what we will find in Naples, they are playing very well at home.",
"\"If we want to win there, then we will have to play better than this afternoon.\"",
"Manchester United will also need to improve at home to Portuguese side Benfica on Tuesday after battling to beat promoted Swansea, with striker Javier Hernandez scoring a close-range winner in the 11th minute after a low cross by veteran Ryan Giggs.",
"\"They have a great home record so we had to make sure we defended well, and I think we did that,\" manager Alex Ferguson said.",
"\"We maybe should have done better with the chances we did get on the counter-attack and near the end we could have had a couple of chances, but it was a good result.\"",
"Arsenal moved up to sixth, also on 22 points but having played two more matches than London rivals Spurs, after winning 2-1 at promoted Norwich, who dropped to 11th.",
"Dutch striker Robin Van Persie continued his hot scoring run with a double that took him to a league-leading 13 this season after Steve Morison gave Norwich a 16th-minute advantage following poor defending by Germany international Per Mertesacker.",
"Queens Park Rangers moved up to ninth with a 3-2 win at Stoke, as striker Heidar Helguson scored twice before the home side were denied a late penalty chance to equalize when Joey Barton brought down Robert Huth but no foul was given.",
"West Brom claimed 10th place with a 2-1 win that left Bolton in the bottom three, while Everton moved up to 12th after beating visiting Wolverhampton by the same score.",
"Sunderland and Fulham joined Wolves on 11 points after a 0-0 draw, with all three clubs hovering hovering above the relegation zone.",
"The bottom two teams Wigan and Blackburn Rovers drew 3-3 in a fiery derby that ended with Yakubu leveling with a penalty nine minutes into time added on.",
"It was the Nigerian striker's second goal of the day for 10-man Blackburn, having netted the opener after only 68 seconds -- his 100th in the English league.",
"Rovers had David Dunn sent off for a second yellow card three minutes after the break, but Junior Hoilett made it 2-2 on the hour despite teammate Morten Gamst Pedersen appearing to pass the ball to himself from a corner."
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"Manchester City stay five points clear after Saturday's 12th round of EPL matches .",
"City end third-placed Newcastle's unbeaten start with a 3-1 home victory .",
"Second-placed Manchester United stay in touch with a 1-0 win at Swansea .",
"Robin van Persie's double against Norwich puts Arsenal in sixth place ."
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"(CNN) -- After two years of denial about the European periphery's solvency problem, European policymakers are finally, grudgingly, facing reality.",
"They are recognizing that Greece is almost certain to default by year-end.",
"And they have concluded that it is imperative to recapitalize Europe's banks and to erect an effective \"firewall\" around Spain and Italy to reassure markets that if Greece defaults, the crisis will be contained there.",
"But it remains to be seen whether this recognition will be translated into credible and effective measures by the time of the scheduled November 3 G-20 Summit.",
"If past performance is any guide, one has to wonder whether this will be yet another doleful instance of domestic political constraints, especially in Germany and France, resulting in a \"too little too late\" European policy response to an ever deepening crisis.",
"How deep? Greece's International Monetary Fund adjustment program is in tatters.",
"The IMF itself is now acknowledging that Greece's economy, which has already contracted by around 12% since 2009, will contract meaningfully further in 2012.",
"And the IMF is also recognizing that Greece will not meet the IMF's budget targets for 2011 and 2012.",
"As a result, Greece's public-debt-to-GDP level will soon rise to 172%, or more than twice the level that might be considered manageable.",
"As if to underline how unsustainable is the Greek situation, in the midst of the deepest of domestic recessions, the Greek government is now being required by the IMF to undertake further painful fiscal adjustment measures to meet its ever elusive budget deficit targets.",
"Not only is the IMF insisting that Greece introduce an unpopular property tax, but it is also asking a Pan-Hellenic Socialist, or PASOK, government whose very existence depends on public sector patronage, to cut public wages and to reduce public employment.",
"Little wonder that social and political tensions in Greece are now on the boil.",
"The IMF is acknowledging that the Greek government will need more funding to finance its 2012 budget deficit.",
"This is inducing the IMF to seek substantially greater debt reduction from Greece's bank creditors through the \"voluntary\" debt exchange.",
"As might be expected, the banks are resisting the IMF's proposal, and this could complicate the IMF finalizing its intended program review by mid-November.",
"Mindful of the 2008-2009 Lehman experience, European policymakers are fully aware that a Greek default could cause real contagion to the rest of the European periphery.",
"They are particularly fearful that a Greek default could engulf Spain and Italy, Europe's third and fourth largest economies respectively, which would pose an existential threat to the Euro.",
"But despite these perceived risks, and reflecting domestic political constraints from electorates opposed to further bailouts, European policymakers seem to be in no rush to put a credible firewall in place.",
"In particular, they have yet to come up with a concrete proposal to leverage up the European Financial Stability Facility -- the euro zone's temporary bailout fund -- from its present size of EUR 440 billion ($600 billion) to the EUR 2 trillion range ($2.8 trillion), that most market analysts think would be needed to shield Spain and Italy from the fallout of a hard Greek default.",
"And responding to increased banking sector strains that both the IMF and the European Central Bank fear could tip Europe back into recession, European policymakers are proposing a coordinated European effort to recapitalize the European banking system.",
"However, they have yet to come up with concrete proposals as to how they will increase the European banking system's capital by the EUR 200 billion ($267 billion) that the IMF estimates would be necessary to put Europe's banks back on a sound footing.",
"Public differences between the French and the German governments on who should pay for the bank recapitalization are not encouraging.",
"The late MIT economics professor Rudi Dornbusch famously said that in economics things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.",
"Hopefully, European policymakers will now recognize that in Greece we are all too likely to be in \"the faster than you thought they could\" phase of the crisis.",
"For if they do, we might dare to hope that they will act expeditiously in constructing an effective firewall -- recapitalizing their banks in a manner that will spare us from a Lehman-style crisis when Greece defaults.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Desmond Lachman."
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"Desmond Lachman: European policymakers finally facing likelihood of Greek default .",
"He says they know they must recapitalize Europe's banks to stop \"contagion's\" spread .",
"He says action difficult politically, bailout unpopular, so they have not taken any concrete steps yet .",
"Lachman: Policymakers must act to create \"firewall\" to prevent Lehman-style crisis ."
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"Amman, Jordan (CNN) -- Clashes broke out between citizens and anti-riot police during a visit by King Abdullah to southern Jordan on Monday.",
"According to eyewitnesses, festivities welcoming the monarch in the southern city of Tafileh, 180 kilometers (111 miles) south of Amman, turned violent when pro-reform activists were denied access to a royal event to launch a development initiative.",
"Youths threw stones at security services who responded with force, according to eyewitnesses in the city, home to anti-government protests in recent weeks.",
"Taher Odwan, Jordanian minister of communications and government spokesman, downplayed the clashes, denying media reports that the king's motorcade came under attack.",
"\"A group of citizens attempted to greet the king and started shoving security personnel who responded back.",
"This is something you would find at any event,\" Odwan said.",
"The incident comes a day after King Abdullah's royal address to the nation announcing sweeping political reforms that political observers see as steps to place the country on the path to a constitutional monarchy.",
"In a speech designated to mark the anniversary of the Great Arab Revolt, the monarch announced a number of reforms, including relinquishing his power to form a government to the parliament, a greater separation of powers and further constitutional amendments.",
"King Abdullah's Monday visit came to announce $21.1 million worth of development projects in Tafileh, where protesters have recently called for the government's dismissal, the dissolution of parliament and greater efforts to combat corruption.",
"Unlike other Arab states witnessing popular uprisings, weekly demonstrations that have taken place in Jordan -- a moderate state and key U.S. ally -- have called for regime reform, not regime change."
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"Youths clash with security forces, witnesses say .",
"King Abdullah appears in Tafileh, Jordan, to announce a development initiative .",
"Government spokesman plays down incident .",
"King announces major government reforms over weekend ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A Washington lawyer has filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming he is the father of basketball star LeBron James.",
"Leicester Stovell alleges that the athlete and his family have been involved in a cover-up to deny paternity by committing fraud and misrepresentation.",
"He told HLN's \"Prime News\" on Thursday that he wants \"a carefully structured and secure DNA test\" to prove he's the NBA all-star's father.",
"Stovell says he has been trying for three years to establish paternity and is seeking $4 million in damages.",
"An earlier test ruled out the possibility, but he said the test could have been tampered with -- \"and there are indications that there was a motivation.\"",
"Stovell said he had sex with James' mother, Gloria James, after meeting at a Washington bar while she was visiting from Ohio in 1984.",
"A few months later, she told him she was pregnant, but did not say whether he was the father.",
"Stovell said his only request was that the child, if a boy, play basketball.",
"He said his memory of the encounter resurfaced more than 20 years later, \"after being asked whether I had a son, and I then systematically explored all of my past for that possibility.\"",
"\"I came across this set of recollections and in focusing on them, they amplified,\" he said.",
"In the complaint, filed June 23, Stovell says, \"I recently have concluded that a comprehensive, sophisticated and well-funded effort might well have been underway for quite some time, perhaps beginning in its present form as early as when defendant LeBron James was in high school, to frustrate identification of his real father, and that there is a likelihood that the father in question is me.\"",
"He stopped short of saying he is certain he is James' father.",
"\"I don't want to make such a definitive statement in the absence of corroborative evidence\" such as DNA, he said.",
"Stovell said he filed the suit two weeks ago because a statute of limitations was about to expire.",
"\"I have some limitation considerations that caused me to want to file the suit before the end of June,\" he said.",
"He denied the timing had anything to do with the current LeBron mania.",
"James is scheduled to announce Thursday evening the team he has chosen to play for next season, a deal worth perhaps tens of millions of dollars or more.",
"He currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers.",
"He says he was informed by Gloria James months later that she was pregnant.",
"He claims she told him the child would be named LeBron, similar to Leicester Bryce, Stovell's first and middle names.",
"The lawsuit states Gloria James was 16 at the time of the alleged encounter, but Stovell said she told him she was in her early 20s.",
"Stovell is a solo legal practitioner in the District of Columbia, and filed the lawsuit on his own behalf.",
"A call to LeBron James' attorney, Frederick Nance of Cleveland, Ohio, was not immediately returned.",
"The lawsuit had been filed without much initial publicity, but was reported by the TMZ celebrity website Wednesday.",
"Public records show Stovell is a former government attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission.",
"He filed a lawsuit in 2002 against the agency, alleging racial discrimination.",
"Federal court records show the case was settled when the commission paid him $230,000, while not admitting fault.",
"CNN's Jason Kessler contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Stovell says he wants a \"secure\" DNA test to prove paternity .",
"NEW: Lawyer says his memories were \"amplified\" in recent years .",
"James will announce Thursday night with which team he'll sign .",
"Lawsuit says Stovell had one-time tryst with James' mother ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- Menace and mirth can cancel each other out.",
"But the combo clicked in 1985's \"Fright Night\" (banish the 1988 sequel), and it clicks again in this frisky 3D remake.",
"For that, bow to Colin Farrell.",
"He's hot stuff as a vampire named Jerry (really) who moves next door to teenage Charley (Anton Yelchin) and his single mom (Toni Collette).",
"Video: Peter Travers Reviews Fright Night in \"At the Movies With Peter Travers\" Jerry can do his undead nasty on Charley's buddy (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and glamour Charley's girl (Imogen Poots) and still tickle you with terror.",
"Damn, that Farrell is good.",
"So is David Tennant (\"Doctor Who\") as Peter Vincent, a tacky Vegas magician Charley enlists to kill Jerry.",
"The young lovers are \"Twilight\" bland next to the power punch of Farrell and Tennant.",
"The Best and Worst Movies of 2011 -- So Far .",
"Director Craig Gillespie (\"Lars and the Real Girl\") is wise to just turn them loose.",
"Voilà! Black magic.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Colin Farrell is hot stuff as a vampire named Jerry .",
"David Tennant as Peter Vincent is the tacky Vegas magician enlisted to kill Jerry .",
"Director Craig Gillespie is wise to turn Farrell and Tennant loose ."
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"(The Frisky) -- Natalie Portman is getting a lot of Oscar buzz for her performance in \"Black Swan.\"",
"And while the young actress certainly deserves the attention for the mind-bending role, we're a little concerned that a dud of a movie is about to hit theaters that could distract critics from her performance in the ballet thriller.",
"Her rom-com \"No Strings Attached,\" also starring Ashton Kutcher, is coming out right before the Oscars.",
"Sometimes when this kind of thing happens, it makes the stronger performance seem like a fluke and can cost an actor precious Academy votes.",
"But Natalie would not be the first star who went from stellar performance to getting stuck in a stinker.",
"From \"Dreamgirls to \"Norbit\" Apparently, a lot of people felt that Eddie Murphy's shot at winning an Oscar for his role in \"Dreamgirls\" evaporated after his 2007 movie \"Norbit.\"",
"For his role as James \"Thunder\" Early in \"Dreamgirls,\" Murphy took home a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award and earned an Oscar nomination (but not a win), but when \"Norbit\" dropped in theaters, the movie ended up winning eight Golden Raspberry \"Razzie\" awards.",
"That's a lot of bad \"fruit.\"",
"The Frisky: Pics of 15 celebrity slobs .",
"America's sweetheart bombs .",
"Sandra Bullock made history in 2010 for winning both an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year.",
"Actually, make that in the same weekend!",
"Before accepting her Best Actress Oscar for \"The Blind Side,\" the gracious actress accepted a Razzie for Worst Actress in \"All About Steve.\"",
"We're sure her two statues sit side by side.",
"From \"Good Will\" to six stinkers .",
"Ben Affleck took home an Oscar in 1997 for writing \"Good Will Hunting,\" so I suppose his acting prowess wasn't exactly on the line.",
"But he followed up that win with a number of truly mediocre roles and was nominated for Worst Actor of the Decade Razzie this year for his contributions to film in \"Daredevil,\" \"Gigli,\" \"Jersey Girl,\" \"Paycheck,\" \"Pearl Harbor,\" and \"Surviving Christmas.\"",
"Ouch. But it should be noted that Affleck did accept his 2004 Razzie in person, so at least he's a good sport.",
"The Frisky: 12 celebs who've denied getting breast implants .",
"\"Catwoman\" was a \"Monster\" Actress Halle Berry followed her 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress in \"Monster's Ball\" with a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in \"Catwoman\" in 2005.",
"Berry accepted her Razzie while holding her Academy Award, which is awesomely ... awesome.",
"The Frisky: 10 female stars who are OK with nudity .",
"He should have said \"no\" to \"Vice\" Jamie Foxx had a great year in 2004 after winning an Oscar for \"Ray,\" getting another nomination for \"Collateral,\" and having a hit song with \"Slow Jamz.\"",
"But he followed that strong year with films like \"Miami Vice\" and \"Valentine's Day,\" which, no matter what anyone says, was super mediocre.",
"She had a good and a bad \"marriage\" movie .",
"Her performance in 2008's \"Rachel Getting Married\" earned Anne Hathaway an Oscar nomination, but her other bridal-themed flop, \"Bride Wars,\" the following year made us forget all about it.",
"Wedding-themed movies are just a hard genre to get right.",
"The Frisky: 10 Hollywood female celebs under 35 who are \"out\" From piano man to sci-fi flop .",
"Nothing could make me stop loving Adrien Brody, but he did manage to disappoint critics when he followed up his 2003 Best Actor Oscar for \"The Pianist\" with \"The Singing Detective\" and (shudder) \"King Kong.\"",
"And now he's wasting his talent in weird sc-fi movies like \"Splice\" and \"Predators?\"",
"Get this man a period piece, pronto!",
"The Frisky: 30 things every woman should quit doing by 30 .",
"TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Portman's rom-com \"No Strings Attached\" is coming out right before the Oscars .",
"Sandra Bullock made history in 2010 for winning both an Oscar and a Razzie .",
"Halle Berry followed her 2002 Academy Award with a Razzie Award in 2005 ."
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"(CNN) -- Nestle Prepared Foods Co. on Tuesday announced a voluntary recall of a frozen spaghetti and meatballs dinner it manufacturers which may be contaminated with pieces of red plastic.",
"The recall applies to packages of LEAN CUISINE® Simple Favorites Spaghetti with Meatballs frozen dinners that were manufactured during a one-hour period in October, according to a news release by the Solon, Ohio-based company.",
"The production code on packages subject to the recall is 0298595519 P, the release stated.",
"\"Nestle is taking this action after a few consumers reported they had found red plastic in the meatball portion of the entrée,\" the statement read.",
"\"No injuries were reported by any of these consumers.\"",
"\"Thus far, the plastic complaints appear to be confined to a very short period of production,\" the company stated.",
"\"However, out of an abundance of caution, Nestle is recalling the entire hour code of that product.\"",
"The company stated that no other products were affected by the possible contamination.",
"The company advised customer to check their freezers for the product and, if they find it, examine the gray \"proof of purchase\" panel on the package's right end flap under the ingredient statement.",
"If the recalled product code is there, customers are advised to call (866) 606-8264 or e-mail leancuisine@casupport.com for further instructions."
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"Recall of the product is voluntary, company states .",
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took off her diplomatic gloves Thursday, challenging Pakistan to crack down on terrorist havens on its side of the border with Afghanistan.",
"In a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Clinton -- in unusually forceful language -- laid almost all of the blame for recent terror attacks on Pakistan.",
"The United States, she said, knows the Haqqani terrorist network operates out of havens in Pakistan.",
"\"We intend to push the Pakistanis very hard,\" Clinton said, calling it a \"time for clarity.\"",
"\"Our message is very clear: We're going to be fighting, we're going to be talking, we're going to be building,\" she said.",
"\"And they can either be helping or hindering.",
"But we are not going to stop our efforts to create a strong foundation for an Afghanistan free from interference, violent conflict and one that has a chance to chart its own future.\"",
"Clinton headed straight to Pakistan after her stop in Afghanistan, accompanied by CIA Director David Petraeus and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.",
"She is expected to meet with Pakistani officials, including Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, to stress that transitioning to Afghan security is in the interest of Pakistan, senior officials said.",
"Earlier Thursday, Clinton's focus was on Afghanistan, where she met with Karzai and other government officials for talks aimed at boosting reconciliation efforts in the nation.",
"The top U.S. diplomat said she was working toward a peaceful Afghanistan.",
"\"No people in the world deserve it more,\" she said.",
"Shortly before taking off for Pakistan, Clinton told reporters that the death of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, which at that time was not confirmed, would \"add legitimacy and relief to the formation of a new government.\"",
"Her visit to Afghanistan followed a stop in Libya, the first by a Cabinet-level American official since the ouster of the longtime strongman.",
"She landed under tight security as forces loyal to the transitional government continued to battle Gadhafi loyalists.",
"Earlier Thursday, Clinton met with representatives of Afghan civil society, including human rights activists who address various issues including education, gender-based violence and youth empowerment.",
"\"These are some of my heroes,\" she said as she greeted them at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.",
"Her visit comes as the nation pursues peace with the Taliban after years of insurgency.",
"The effort suffered a major setback following the killing of Burhanuddin Rabbani, an Afghan political figure and former president who led the peace council.",
"Rabbani was killed at home last month by suicide bombers posing as Taliban peace mediators.",
"Clinton offered condolences to Salahuddin Rabbani, the oldest son of the slain leader, who was part of a roundtable Thursday.",
"\"He tried to do the right thing,\" she said.",
"The United States supports Karzai and recognizes the blow to the peace effort since Rabbani's assassination, the official said.",
"In addition to the reconciliation efforts, Clinton also was to discuss Pakistan's relations with the nation and the upcoming Afghan transition.",
"Coalition forces are in the process of transferring security control to Afghan forces ahead of a U.S. drawdown set to be completed by the end of 2014.",
"The 33,000 additional American troops sent last year are scheduled to depart the war-torn country fully by September next year.",
"CNN's Jamie Crawford contributed to this report."
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"Clinton: We're going to be fighting, talking and building in Pakistan .",
"CIA chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman accompanying her .",
"Clinton says she is working toward a peaceful Afghanistan ."
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"(CNN) -- Dan Wheldon brought a bit of England with him when he began driving extremely fast cars in the United States.",
"\"When I first started racing, a lot of the guys said that I raced with a lot of heart, occasionally not my head, but always with a lot of heart, like the way that Richard the Lionheart fought in battle,\" Wheldon wrote on a sponsor's blog in 2010.",
"Wheldon placed a small mural of the 12th-century warrior king on his helmet in 1995, before he competed in America, and eventually released \"Lionheart,\" a biographical photo book.",
"Sunday, Wheldon's fellow IndyCar drivers remembered the heart, competitiveness and growing maturity of the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, who died in a horrific multi-car wreck at a Las Vegas event.",
"Wheldon dies in 15-car pileup .",
"A shaken Dario Franchitti, speaking after the canceled Las Vegas Indy 300, said \"one minute you're joking around ... the next, Dan's gone.\"",
"\"We can put so much pressure on ourselves to win races and championships and it's what we love to do,\" said Franchitti, who knew Wheldon since he was a child.",
"\"And it's what we live for. And then on days like today, it doesn't really matter.",
"I lost, we lost ... a good friend.\"",
"Franchitti recalled Wheldon's early IndyCar years.",
"\"He was kind of brash, but he was a charmer,\" Franchitti said.",
"\"He became this loving family guy.",
"He was still charming, but he had this whole new side to him.\"",
"Wheldon's death must be a catalyst for change .",
"Wheldon, 33, left behind his wife, Susie, and two young boys, Sebastian and Oliver.",
"They live in St. Petersburg, Florida.",
"Born in Emberton, England, Wheldon raced go-karts at the age of 4.",
"His father was a go-kart racer and his mother was the timer at a local track.",
"He was an IndyCar rookie in 2003 and won his first Indianapolis 500 two years later.",
"Superstitious, the driver as an adult would tap his race car three times before getting in on the non-gear stick side, according to his IndyCar bio.",
"After his second Indy 500 victory in May, Wheldon talked with CNN's \"American Morning\" about serving as a spokesman for the Alzheimer's Association.",
"His mother was diagnosed with the disease in 2009.",
"Sunday, drivers in Las Vegas did a five-lap salute in Wheldon's memory.",
"\"Amazing Grace\" played as the drivers slowly wound their way around the track.",
"The driver's father-in-law, Sven Behm, told CNN North Carolina affiliate WGHP that he told Wheldon to have a safe race.",
"The competitor assured him vehicles, which routinely reached speeds in excess of 225 miles per hour, had been made safer in recent years.",
"\"He wasn't just a great driver,\" said Behm.",
"\"But he was a great human being.",
"He was always very positive.\"",
"CNN \"World Sport\" anchor Patrick Snell said \"Dan Wheldon is a character. ...",
"Extremely popular.",
"Huge respect from his peers.\"",
"\"There is no question that the world of motorsports has lost one of its favorite sons,\" Snell said Sunday night.",
"Twitter reaction to Wheldon's death .",
"Wheldon's tragic passing on Sunday prompted some of motorsport's biggest names to take to Twitter in order to express their condolences and admiration for the British racer.",
"Marco Andretti made his IndyCar debut in 2006 and the Andretti Autosport driver spoke of his admiration for Wheldon, using his official @MarcoAndretti account to say: \"I looked up to you both as a racing driver and a person/friend.",
"You will be forever missed.",
"RIP Dan Wheldon.\"",
"Will Power was one of the drivers involved in the multi-car crash which took Wheldon's life.",
"The Australian Team Penske driver said: \"Such a sad day... to lose a champion like Dan Wheldon...my thoughts and prayers are with Susie [Wheldon's wife] and his kids.\"",
"Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an IndyCar race in 2008 and the 29-year-old tweeted: \"There are no words for today.",
"Myself and so many others are devastated.",
"I pray for suzi and the kids that god will give them strength.\"",
"Jimmie Johnson is a five-time NASCAR champion who survived a big crash of his own at the Sprint Cup in Charlotte, North Carolina over the weekend.",
"\"My thoughts and prayers go out to the Wheldon family... My heart hurts for all of the IRL community,\" the Hendrick Motorsports driver said.",
"Wheldon's compatriots in Formula One paid their respects, with 2008 drivers' champion Lewis Hamilton saying: \" As a British guy, who not only went over to the States but who twice won the Indy 500, he was an inspirational guy, and someone that every racing driver looked up to with respect and admiration.",
"\"This is a tragic loss at such a young age.",
"My heart goes out to his family and friends during this extremely difficult time.\"",
"Hamilton's McLaren teammate and 2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button also reflected on Wheldon's passing: \"I have so many good memories of racing with Dan in the early '90s, a true fighter.",
"We've lost a legend in our sport but also a great guy... \"I can't begin to imagine what his family are going through and my thoughts are with them at this very difficult time.\"",
"Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi is a former Indy500 winner and two-time F1 champion who witnessed numerous fatalities during over two decades in motorsport.",
"\"I have seen many fine men/racers leave us prematurely over my lifetime, it is an unfortunate part of our sport Godspeed Dan Wheldon,\" tweeted the 64-year-old.",
"The reaction was not just confined to race car drivers, with stars from across the world of sport using social media to pay their own tributes to Wheldon.",
"Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney said: \"Sad news about Dan Wheldon.",
"RIP. News like this puts everything into perspective.\"",
"Miami Heat's two-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James expressed his sadness at seeing a fellow sportsman lose his life in such a tragic manner.",
"\"Prayers goes out to his whole family!",
"I don't know him personally but he was well respected in his sport.",
"We are all one GIANT family,\" tweeted James, 26."
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"Born in England, he likened himself to Richard the Lionheart .",
"He also was a bit superstitious .",
"Driver recalls Dan Wheldon's growing maturity, love of family ."
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"(WIRED) -- The iPhone 4S is available on three major carriers, leaving potential buyers to wonder whether AT&T, Verizon or Sprint is the better network choice.",
"Pricing plans aside, carrier quality is a significant factor in anyone's purchasing decision, and now consumers have hard data to help them choose: A just-released study reports AT&T is tops for fast data speeds, while Verizon is the most reliable when it comes to making phone calls.",
"Sprint's main draw is that it offers unlimited, albeit slow, data.",
"The study was performed by Metrico Wireless, a mobile device performance analytics firm.",
"To test network performance, Metrico made 6,000 voice calls, conducted 8,000 data download/upload tests (both moving and stationary), and downloaded more than 21,000 web pages.",
"The tests found that Verizon dropped calls 2.1 percent of the time, while AT&T dropped 2.8 percent of calls and Sprint lost 3.7 percent of calls.",
"The average dropped-call rate for the entire mobile industry is 1.4 percent.",
"Although Sprint dropped the most calls, it had the highest call quality on the uplink (outbound calls), while AT&T had the best downlink call quality (inbound calls).",
"With regard to maximum data speeds, AT&T led the pack at 6,047Kbps, with Verizon a distant second at 2,371Kbps, and Sprint crawling in last with only 1,767Kbps.",
"It's unclear, however, exactly where Metrico tested data bandwidth, and as any iPhone-toting San Francisco resident will tell you, data quality can be terrible in areas with high concentrations of tech geeks.",
"The original iPhone launched exclusively with AT&T, which was the sole carrier of the iPhone until Apple announced that Verizon would also begin carrying the iPhone 4 in January 2011.",
"Prior to the launch of the iPhone 4S, rumors swirled that the phone would land on Sprint, and ultimately proved true.",
"Of the three carriers, Sprint is the only one that provides a true unlimited data plan.",
"Metrico's results are consistent with what we found back when Verizon began offering the iPhone 4: AT&T offered better download speeds, while Verizon had better coverage.",
"Another important stat Metrico found was that the iPhone 4S performed perfectly across all three networks when it came to data task reliability.",
"In short, 100 percent of the time, the phone was able to complete web-page loads, stationary downloads, and stationary uploads.",
"This contrasts with an earlier Metrico study from March 2011 that found Verizon had a higher download success rate when the phone was stationary, and AT&T had a higher rate while the phone was moving.",
"So what's the bottom line?",
"It looks like you're going to get a relatively positive data-downloading experience no matter which carrier you choose, if only because you will be able to download data.",
"But if you value downloading material quickly, you should go with AT&T.",
"If call reliability is paramount, stick with Verizon, and if you want to use a lot of data but don't care about speed, go with Sprint.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"Verizon dropped calls the least at 2.1%; Sprint dropped the most at 3.7% .",
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"Phone was able to complete data tasks on all three networks 100% of the time ."
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"(CNN) -- American sprinter Tyson Gay will miss the remainder of the athletics season after undergoing surgery on a hip problem.",
"Gay, 28, will now miss the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, which are set to get under way on August 27.",
"The former 100 and 200 meters world champion had an arthroscopic procedure on Tuesday and will now focus on preparing for the 2012 season and the Olympic Games in London.",
"\"Dr. Marc Philippon from the Steadman Philippon Research Institute in Colorado in the USA, performed an arthroscopic procedure to address an impingement in Tyson's right hip and to correct a labral tear that has been bothering him for some time,\" read a statement from Gay's manager on the IAAF web site.",
"\"Dr. Philippon and his team will oversee Tyson's rehabilitation and believes Tyson will resume his normal base training in the fall as he prepares for 2012.\"",
"Gay -- who recorded the fastest 100m time this year when he ran 9.79 seconds in Florida in June -- was expected to be one of the main challengers to Jamaica's reigning world and Olympic champion over 100 and 200 meters Usain Bolt.",
"Kentucky-born Gay was forced to withdraw from the semifinals of the U.S. trials after recording a time of 10.01 secs in his heat.",
"The U.S. national record holder has also set the second and third fastest times ever over 100m, behind Bolt's world record of 9.58 secs.",
"The championships in South Korea will run until September 4."
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"American sprinter Tyson Gay has been ruled out for the rest of the athletics season .",
"Gay, 28, has undergone hip surgery and will now focus on preparations for 2012 .",
"The former world champion had set the fastest 100 meters time this year ."
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"KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Pilot error caused the crash of a U.N. helicopter in March which killed 10 people, a Nepalese investigating official said Wednesday.",
"A U.N. worker at the site of the March helicopter crash that killed 10 people in Nepal.",
"The helicopter was traveling from a camp for former Maoist rebels in eastern Nepal to the capital, Kathmandu, when it crashed on March 3.",
"The crew did not consult the weather forecast, nor did it plan a route before taking off, said Nagendra Prasad Ghimire, the joint secretary of the civil aviation ministry and part of the investigation commission.",
"Once the helicopter encountered bad weather, the pilot's unfamiliarity of local terrain compounded the problem, Ghimire said, summarizing the commission's findings.",
"\"He thought that, 'If I climb into the clouds, I will be safe above the terrain and continue to Kathmandu,'\" he said.",
"Instead, the crew found itself unable to control the aircraft.",
"But the pilot kept the helicopter on auto-pilot mode.",
"\"The pilot should have manually handled the aircraft to rotate safely to the ground,\" Ghimire said.",
"\"Unfortunately, he didn't.\" The chopper crashed in a mountainous region near Bhawasa, about 145 km (90 miles) east of Kathmandu.",
"The U.N. mission said three victims were Nepalese citizens.",
"The others included four international arms monitors from Gambia, Indonesia, South Korea and Sweden.",
"The air crew, from a Russian company, comprised of two Russians and one Belarussian, the U.N. mission said.",
"The helicopter was returning from inspecting a camp for former Maoist rebels who fought a 10-year civil war to end Nepal's monarchy.",
"More than 13,0000 people died in the fighting.",
"The rebels signed a peace deal with the government in 2006, joined mainstream politics and won the most seats in April's election for the Constituent Assembly.",
"The victory transformed Nepal from a monarchy to a republic after 239 years of autocratic rule."
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"Air crew comprised of two Russians and one Belarussian ."
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"Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lanka's response to a scathing United Nations report alleging war crimes and human rights violations has reached the president's desk.",
"President Mahinda Rajapaksa received the 400-page document on Sunday night.",
"The response, compiled by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, will be presented to Parliament, though Rajapaksa did not say when.",
"At their president's urging, Sri Lankans took to the streets in May to rail against the U.N. report, which cites \"credible allegations\" that crimes were committed by both sides during the final stages of the country's civil war.",
"A three-member U.N. panel recommended that Sri Lanka immediately conduct an investigation into the alleged violations of international law.",
"Human rights groups have already alleged both government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels violated humanitarian laws and that thousands of civilians were killed during the war, which ended in May 2009 after the government declared victory.",
"The rebels had fought a 26-year bloody separatist war that left thousands dead and large numbers of others internally displaced, according to the United Nations.",
"The U.N. report concluded there were \"credible allegations, which, if proven, indicate that a wide range of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international humanitarian rights law was committed both by the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE (rebels), some of which would amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.\"",
"In the war's final stage, which lasted from September 2008 to May 2009, the Sri Lankan army advanced into an area of northern Sri Lanka known as the Vanni, where about 330,000 people were trapped by fighting.",
"The report said the government used \"large-scale and widespread shelling\" that left many civilians dead.",
"Some of the shelling happened in no-fire zones where the government had encouraged civilians to congregate, the report said.",
"Government forces also shelled a U.N. hub and food distribution lines and fired near International Committee of the Red Cross ships that were picking up the wounded, the report said.",
"The government also shelled hospitals on the front lines, some of them repeatedly, the report said.",
"\"Most civilian casualties in the final phases of the war were caused by government shelling,\" the report said.",
"A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Ban hopes the U.N. report \"will make a contribution to full accountability and justice so that the Sri Lankan government and people will be able to proceed towards national reconciliation and peace.\""
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"The U.N. report says the government used \"widespread shelling\" that killed many civilians .",
"Sri Lanka's response will be presented to Parliament, though the president did not say when .",
"The country's civil war ended in May 2009 after the government declared victory ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Prescription drug overdose is now the fastest-growing drug problem in the country, surpassing the number of people who overdosed during both the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and the black tar heroin epidemic of the 1970s combined, the Obama administration says.",
"The problem is so severe, the administration is releasing a plan to combat what it calls a crisis of epidemic proportions.",
"\"The toll our nation's prescription drug abuse epidemic has taken in communities nationwide is devastating,\" said Gil Kerlikowske, White House director of national drug control policy.",
"\"We share a responsibility to protect our communities from the damage done by prescription drug abuse.\"",
"According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in 2007 about 28,000 people died from drug overdoses.",
"Most were accidental and were related to prescription drugs.",
"\"Today, we are making an unprecedented commitment to combat the growing problem of prescription drug abuse,\" said Vice President Joe Biden as he announced the administration's plan Tuesday morning.",
"\"The government, as well as parents, patients, health care providers, and manufacturers all play a role in preventing abuse.",
"This plan will save lives, and it will substantially lessen the burden this epidemic takes on our families, communities, and workforce.\"",
"The effort, called \"Epidemic: Responding to America's Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis,\" is primarily aimed at cracking down on abuse of opioids, some of the most powerful pain relievers on the market.",
"Opioids are a class of drugs used to treat chronic pain and include products like OxyContin, Vicodin, Darvon, Dilaudid and Demerol.",
"When abused they can be highly addictive.",
"Prescriptions for these painkillers have increased dramatically over the past 10 years.",
"In 2000 pharmacies filed 174 million opioid prescriptions.",
"By 2009 that number was 257 million.",
"According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, over the past five years, hospital emergency room visits linked to prescription drug abuse or misuse have doubled.",
"\"Unintentional drug overdose is a growing epidemic in the U.S. and is now the leading cause of injury death in 17 states,\" said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"\"There are effective and emerging strategies out there to address this problem.",
"Support for this action plan will help us implement those strategies which will go a long way to save lives and reduce the tremendous burden this problem has on our health care system and our society.\"",
"The plan seeks to reduce abuse and drug diversion, educate both parents and health care providers, find better ways to dispose of unused pills, and beef up enforcement efforts by clamping down on pill mills and doctor shopping.",
"The Food and Drug Administration will provide support by requiring an opioids Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy to determine that a drug's benefits outweigh its risks.",
"Under this process, drug manufacturers must make educational materials on proper prescribing and disposal available to anyone writing prescriptions for long-acting and extended-release painkillers.",
"The agency must approve all materials before they are released.",
"\"Long-acting and extended-release opioid drugs have benefit when used properly and are a necessary component of pain management for certain patients, but we know that they pose serious risks when used improperly, with serious negative consequences for individuals, families and communities,\" said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg.",
"\"The prescriber education component of this opioid (risk evaluation and mitigation strategy) balances the need for continued access to these medications with stronger measures to reduce their risks.\"",
"Thirty-five states already have prescription drug monitoring programs in place that help track how prescriptions are prescribed and distributed by authorized healthcare providers and pharmacies.",
"The program's main goal is to prevent abuse and diversion at the retail level.",
"Under the new plan, agencies will work to establish prescription drug monitoring programs in every state.",
"The Drug Enforcement Agency will be heavily involved in enforcement, recovering prescription drugs, and focusing on doctors who illegally prescribe and dispense these drugs.",
"They will also target \"doctor shoppers\" -- people who visit multiple doctors to secure multiple prescriptions and pill mills.",
"\"When abused, prescription drugs are just as dangerous and just as addictive as drugs like methamphetamine or heroin,\" DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said.",
"\"The more we can do to stop the abuse of prescription drugs, the more effective we will be in reducing the death, destruction and despair that accompanies all drug abuse.\"",
"A number of other federal agencies will also be involved in the effort, including the departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, Defense and Veterans Affairs."
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"A new effort to combat the problem is being launched .",
"Biden: The plan will \"lessen the burden this epidemic takes on our families\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Monday that the Obama administration will push legislation designed to overhaul and upgrade America's aging oil and gas pipeline network.",
"The initative is partly a response to a series of deadly pipeline explosions, including one last year in San Bruno, California, that killed eight people and destroyed 37 homes.",
"A February pipeline explosion in Allentown, Pennsylvania, resulted in the deaths of five people.",
"San Bruno's faulty pipeline was installed in 1956; Allentown's was installed in 1928.",
"During a news conference in Allentown, LaHood called on the major pipeline companies to conduct a review of their oil and gas delivery systems to identify the lines with the highest risk.",
"He also urged them to speed up the most critical repair work.",
"\"People deserve to know that they can turn on the lights, the heat or the stove without endangering their families and neighbors,\" LaHood said.",
"\"The safety of the American public is my top priority, and I am taking on this critical issue to avoid future tragedies we have seen in Allentown and around the country.\"",
"Among other things, the administration wants to increase the maximum civil penalties for pipeline violations from $100,000 per day to $250,000 per day.",
"It also wants to increase fines from $1 million to $2.5 million for a series of violations.",
"The administration also would like to boost the number of safety inspectors and improve data reporting to increase the likelihood of early identification of possible pipeline safety risks.",
"The Transportation Department is planning to convene a pipeline safety forum on April 18 in Washington.",
"The United States has more than 2.5 million miles of pipelines used for the delivery of oil and gas, according to the Transporation Department.",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"Transporation Secretary Ray LaHood presses pipeline firms to upgrade aging delivery systems .",
"The move comes in response to recent deadly explosions in California and Pennsylvania .",
"The administration wants to increase fines for pipeline safety violations, among other things .",
"The Transportation Department will convene a pipeline safety forum on April 18 ."
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"London (CNN) -- With her cheeky grin and bright, mischievous eyes, it is hard to imagine that four-year-old Selsabeel Ageli has spent months wishing for the death of an elderly man.",
"But the British-Libyan youngster has done just that, going to bed every night in recent months praying that ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi would be killed.",
"On Thursday, Selsabeel's wishes came true.",
"The deposed tyrant was the reason Selsabeel never knew her grandfather, Libyan trade unionist Amer Deghayes.",
"The family says he was murdered by the Gadhafi regime when her mother was a child, prompting them to flee to Britain.",
"Within hours of the news of Gadhafi's death, Selsabeel and her older sister Bilquees, aged eight, and their parents were among a jubilant crowd of former Libyan dissidents celebrating noisily outside the Libyan Embassy in central London.",
"\"My father was killed by Gadhafi in 1980 when I was five,\" the girls' mother, Amani Deghayes, told CNN as her daughters waved Libyan flags nearby.",
"\"They never got to meet him, so I am so glad that my kids have been able to see that there is a happy ending to this story.",
"\"I never thought it would happen, really.",
"Now I just hope that everything works out, and that Libya can become a stable, free and democratic country.\"",
"That is a wish echoed by many of those who gathered at the embassy, amid the beeping of car horns and waving of flags, to sing, chant and wish each other \"Mabrouk\" -- congratulations -- over Gadhafi's final downfall.",
"Mahmoud Al Nacua, Libya's ambassador to the UK, told those gathered: \"Libyan freedom fighters have finally succeeded in throwing the curtain on Gadhafi's crimes.",
"\"Their brave actions have spared Libya and the world from any further suffering of his evils.",
"Today Libya's future begins.",
"Gadhafi, a black era, has come to an end forever.\"",
"Lockerbie victim's brother calls Gadhafi's death justice .",
"Consulate worker Abdusalam Zbida told CNN he hopes to be able to return to his homeland to visit family for the first time in five years following Gadhafi's death.",
"\"It is a big day for Libyan history,\" said Zbida.",
"\"It will definitely help restore peace and security in Libya.",
"I hope it will be a fresh start.\"",
"Others who have not been in London as long are also hoping to go back to their friends and loved ones soon.",
"\"It's been a tough couple of months, but things are getting better,\" said Amira Elgardi, whose husband and parents are still in Libya.",
"\"We have a three-and-a-half-year old son, and we decided that with all the gunshots and everything it would be safer here, but hopefully we will be able to go back soon -- Inshallah [God willing].\"",
"Victim's brother writes: I have fought for this day .",
"They and many others spoke of their relief that Gadhafi's long reign of terror in Libya is finally over.",
"\"I'm so excited -- look, I'm trembling,\" said Sana Maziq, who moved to London from Tripoli with her three young sons seven months ago to escape the trouble there.",
"\"We knew that Gadhafi was basically finished, but it is so nice to know that there won't be any more bloodshed.\"",
"\"We can't quite believe it,\" added her friend Aida Shebani.",
"\"The regime had gone, but Gadhafi still made us afraid, so now we are so happy.",
"The Libyan people really suffered under him, so we deserve this happiness.\""
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"Crowds chanted, cheered, sang and waved Libyan flag to celebrate dictator's end .",
"Four-year-old girl had spent months praying for Gadhafi's death .",
"Family says Selsabeel Ageli's grandfather was murdered by Gadhafi regime ."
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"ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Police used pepper gas and water cannons to disperse crowds of demonstrators who took to the streets Tuesday to protest a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.",
"A protester fires a catapult at police during demonstrations in Istanbul.",
"Some protesters broke shop windows in and around Taksim Square before scurrying for cover as police armored cars hosed them with water.",
"Taksim Square, in downtown Istanbul, is blocks from the site of the IMF meeting.",
"Delegates are in the city to discuss ways to battle poverty and to strategize ways to prevent a repeat of last year's global economic crisis.",
"Though Turkey is one of the world's 20 wealthiest economies, a huge income gap exists.",
"The latest government statistics show that nearly one in five Turks lives below the poverty line, despite the country's economy enjoying steady growth for much of the past decade.",
"Watch CNN reporter overwhelmed by tear gas » .",
"Over the past year, the economic crisis has pummeled Turkey's export-driven industries, pushing unemployment to record highs.",
"See images of protests » .",
"The downturn has hit everyone from Istanbul's garbage pickers, who say there is less useful trash to scavenge, to Istanbul's cabbies, who complain that fewer customers can afford rides.",
"iReport: Send your photos, videos .",
"On Thursday, a protester threw a shoe at the IMF director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at the end of a question-and-answer session Thursday at a university in Istanbul.",
"The shoe missed.",
"Other demonstrators at Bilgi University unfurled a banner and chanted, \"Go away, IMF.",
"You're stealing money.\""
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi ended his international goal drought to help Argentina make the perfect start to the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign under new coach Alejandro Sabella on Friday.",
"Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat-trick in the 4-1 victory over Chile but of similar importance was Messi's first strike in 16 games for La Albiceleste.",
"Handed the captain's armband by Sabella, Messi made it 2-0 in the 26th minute after combining with Higuain to end a run going back two years and seven months.",
"Messi replied in kind to set up Higuain's hat-trick in the 63rd minute, while Angel Di Maria laid on his clubmate's other two goals.",
"Chile, missing injured key players Alexis Sanchez and Gary Medel, had pulled it back to 3-1 through Matias Fernandez on the hour.",
"\"It was important to get off on the right foot and we did just that,\" Higuain said in quotes reported by AFP, having also scored a treble in his last match for Real.",
"\"I liked a lot of what we did tonight.",
"Now we have to keep this up.\" Sabella took over from Sergio Batista after Argentina lost in the Copa America quarterfinals on home soil in July, and his next task is a trip to Venezuela on Tuesday.",
"Venezuela's campaign began with a 2-0 defeat at Ecuador on Friday, with the Copa semifinalists' most-capped player Jose Manuel Rey sent off with 12 minutes to play for a second yellow card.",
"Strikers Jaime Ayovi and Christian Benitez gave Ecuador a commanding lead inside the opening 30 minutes.",
"Copa champions Uruguay made a perfect start with a 4-2 victory at home to Bolivia.",
"Strikers Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani helped make it 3-1 at halftime, while defender captain Diego Lugano netted his second goal with 18 minutes to play before Marcelo Martins' late consolation penalty.",
"Copa runners-up Paraguay crashed to a 2-0 defeat away to Peru, who built on their third-place finish as striker Jose Paolo Guerrero netted both goals in the second half.",
"Paraguay host Uruguay on Tuesday, while Peru visit Chile and Bolivia are at home to Colombia.",
"Brazil, assured of a place as hosts of the 2014 tournament, beat Costa Rica in a friendly on Friday.",
"Striker Neymar netted a 60th-minute winner before the home team had Heiner Mora sent off late in San Jose."
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek lawmakers voted to approve a new round of tough budget-cutting measures Thursday, despite a second day of angry protests in which one demonstrator died.",
"Tens of thousands rallied outside the parliament building as lawmakers debated the unpopular measures, aimed at bringing down the country's huge national debt.",
"After a peaceful start, violent clashes broke out between anarchist rioters and the police, and between the anarchists and some union demonstrators who wanted to keep the protest calm.",
"Tear gas was fired into the crowd, while rocks and fire bombs were thrown.",
"The protester who died was a member of the PAME workers' union, lawmaker Makis Voridis told parliament.",
"Hospital officials told CNN he was a 53-year-old man who suffered cardiac arrest.",
"The Greek minister for health said the demonstrator had been taken to an Athens hospital without a pulse and could not be revived, but he had no injuries.",
"Earlier reports suggested he had been injured.",
"Lawmakers approved the austerity measures by 154 in favor to 144 against, despite nationwide protests and a two-day strike that has gripped the country.",
"The new bill is expected to lead to around 30,000 job losses and further cuts to wages and pensions for workers in the public sector.",
"\"We have no hope. The only hope we have is the strength of the people,\" said protester Vagelis Filezis, a civil engineer, before the vote.",
"He said Europe's leaders were trying \"to save the banks but they don't think about the people.\"",
"And he warned Italy and Spain, which are also facing debt crises: \"Look at us.",
"This is where you will be in two to three years.\"",
"Organizers had urged protesters from all over the country to come to Athens Thursday, suggesting the crowd could be larger than the 70,000-plus police estimated Wednesday.",
"Organizers estimated the turnout Wednesday at 120,000, which would make it one of the biggest protests in the country in years.",
"Police said there were about 40,000 people on the streets Thursday morning -- fewer than at the same time a day earlier -- and about 3,000 police officers.",
"The mood early in the day was good-natured, but when violence erupted later it was unusual for the fighting that broke out between different groups of protesters,as well as confrontations with police.",
"On Wednesday, clashes between protesters and police in front of the Greek parliament building left at least six protesters and 15 police officers injured, authorities said.",
"At least 15 people were arrested.",
"Some marchers Thursday accused the government of planting troublemakers in the crowd to spark violence.",
"\"They have never been caught,\" said teacher Thannasis Karametsus.",
"\"Why not?\" Protesters aimed to shut down wide sectors of the country during the two-day national strike.",
"\"Don't bow your head, it's time for resistance and struggle,\" marchers chanted in the capital Wednesday as they gathered for the union-backed demonstration.",
"\"I'm here for my children and everyone else's children.",
"Those punks in there have destroyed everyone's lives,\" said former railway worker Diamandis Goufas, 62, pointing at parliament.",
"Greeks are angry at yet another round of planned austerity measures as Greece tries to bring down its stratospheric debt.",
"Lawmakers are trying to cut government costs to reassure international backers it is doing enough to earn the bailout funds they have promised to pour into the country.",
"European Union leaders are scrambling to minimize the effect of Greece's debt on their common currency, the euro.",
"Over the weekend, finance ministers from the world's largest economies pledged their commitment to take \"all necessary actions\" to stabilize markets.",
"They aim to keep banks well capitalized so they can weather the effects of any defaults by Greece or other indebted countries, such as Portugal, Spain, Ireland or Italy.",
"But there appears to be a split between France and Germany -- Europe's two largest economies -- on how to do it.",
"Germany has stressed that individual European states should inject capital into domestic banks that lack sufficient buffers.",
"But analysts say France is opposed to this idea because it could jeopardize the nation's top-tier credit rating.",
"European leaders are expected to hear concrete details about how the plan might work at a European Council meeting Sunday.",
"European Union heads of state are widely expected to finalize the plan in early November at a meeting of the Group of 20 world economic powers.",
"CNN's Andrew Carey, Elinda Labropoulou, Diana Magnay and Ben Rooney contributed to this report."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- The helicopter crash in Mexico that killed Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake Mora and all seven other people aboard shows no evidence of an explosion, a Mexican official said Saturday.",
"\"In visual and preliminary investigations of the crash site, the remains of the aircraft do not show evidence of any kind of damage from an explosion or fire,\" said Dionisio Perez-Jacome, minister of communication and transportation.",
"\"It is worth mentioning that according to the available information up until this moment, present at the place and time of the incident were layers of clouds and reduced visibility,\" Perez-Jacome said.",
"His announcement on government television came as Mexico began a day of grieving for the eight killed Friday in the helicopter crash in a rural area just south of Mexico City.",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife were among the government officials at a public funeral in Mexico City on Saturday afternoon.",
"The eight caskets were each draped with the Mexican flag on the vast green grounds of Campo Militar Marte where Calderon led a tearful ceremony of handing portraits of the eight helicopter victims to their respective families and children.",
"A military band played sorrowful dirges, as did a drum and bugle corps at other points in the funeral.",
"\"Here, in the earth, their example and memory will endure forever,\" Calderon told the black-attired mourners in the galleries and grandstand, all on their feet during the ceremony.",
"\"These are difficult times for the government and for the nation, but it is also a time to show the strength to overcome these adversities,\" Calderon said.",
"The Friday incident -- which occurred 2.5 miles south of the town of Santa Catarina Atoyzingo in the municipality of Chalco -- evoked comparisons to a 2008 plane crash that also killed the country's then-interior minister.",
"That crash, in a luxurious Mexico City neighborhood, was later determined to be an accident caused by turbulence.",
"The Learjet carrying the minister and others was following a commercial airliner too closely, authorities said.",
"Calderon on Friday called Blake Mora \"a great Mexican who deeply loved his country and served until the last moment of his life.\"",
"Analysts said that the crash puts renewed attention on the president's controversial efforts to fight the nation's notorious cartels because the interior minister oversees domestic security.",
"\"The national mood is such that even before this, people are alarmed\" about cartel violence, said Stephen Zamora, professor at the University of Houston Law Center who's an expert on Mexican law and U.S.-Mexico relations.",
"\"Calderon is in the last year of his presidency, so Mexico is entering a presidential election year just as the United States is.",
"President Calderon has been criticized because the number of persons killed has escalated during his presidency and so people see him as failed.",
"I think that's a harsh judgment,\" Zamora said.",
"\"He inherited a country, especially in the northern states, that is being destabilized by the drug cartels.",
"He's started employing the army, which hasn't been used much domestically, to fight the drug cartels,\" Zamora said.",
"While Blake Mora was well regarded by U.S. officials, his loss won't devastate the Calderon administration, said Pamela K. Starr, associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California.",
"\"I think there's an inevitability that there will be speculation that organized crime was involved in this, but it seems highly unlikely to me that indeed will be the case,\" Starr said, noting how the helicopter crashed under foggy conditions in a remote area.",
"\"He was very highly thought of both within Mexico and with his counterparts in the United States,\" Starr said of Blake Mora.",
"\"With that said, he has not been one of the central figures in the battle against drug cartels in Mexico.",
"The lead has been taken more by the federal police and the president himself, along with the military and the prosecutor's office.\"",
"The helicopter went down in the Xochimilco area south of Mexico City, government spokeswoman Alejandra Sota said.",
"Two other government officials were killed in the crash: Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Human Rights Felipe Zamora and the ministry's press office chief, Jose Alfredo Garcia, she said.",
"In July 2010, Calderon appointed Blake Mora to the post that oversees security efforts against drug cartels in Mexico.",
"That battle has cost thousands of lives.",
"\"I grieve his loss\" and those of the other victims, Calderon said in a national address on Friday, adding that Blake Mora, who was 45, leaves behind a wife and two children.",
"Authorities will continue to investigate the cause of the accident.",
"A photograph of the crash site depicts a relatively concentrated debris field.",
"The French-manufactured Super Puma THP06 helicopter was made in 1987 and had logged 717 hours of flight, Mexican officials said.",
"The helicopter crashed while traveling between Mexico City and the Mexican state of Morelos south of the city, officials said.",
"The others killed were Diana Miriam Hayton Sanchez, the technical secretary of the minister's office; Maj. Rene de Leon Sapien of the Presidential Guard, who was Blake Mora's personal security detail; and three members of the air force: pilot Lt. Col. Felipe Bacio Cortes, Lt. Pedro Ramon Escobar and Sgt.",
"Jorge Luis Juarez Gomez.",
"Before becoming interior minister, Blake Mora was an attorney from Baja California state who was chief of staff to the state government from 2007 until July 2010.",
"Previously, he was a councilman in Tijuana, as well as a state and federal congressman.",
"Blake Mora was considered to be politically close to the president and, in fact, led his political campaign in Baja California.",
"Ironically, Blake Mora's last writing in his Twitter account refers to the November 2008 accident that killed a prior interior minister.",
"\"Today we remember Juan Camilo Mourino three years after his departure, a human being who worked on building a better Mexico,\" Blake Mora wrote in a tweet posted November 4, the third anniversary of the accident.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez wrote this report.",
"CNN's Esprit Smith, Mariano Castillo and CNNMexico.com contributed."
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"NEW: Rural crash area had clouds and reduced visibility .",
"NEW: \"These are difficult times,\" president says at public funeral .",
"Investigators don't find evidence of an explosion or a fire aboard the aircraft .",
"Mexican Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake Mora dies with seven others ."
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"(CNN) -- As European consumers shift their drinking habits away from bars and into their homes, industry giants such as Heineken are looking at ways to adapt.",
"Beer sales in bars and restaurants - traditionally the primary outlets for the Dutch brewer's products - have fallen sharply across the continent in recent years.",
"As a result, Heineken recorded a 4.6% drop in sales in 2010, down to €7.89 billion ($11.3 billion).",
"Didier Debrosse, president of Heineken's Western Europe division, is now looking for way to reflect consumer's changing needs as the company looks to arrest the drop.",
"He has helped to implement a strategy he hopes will align the brewing giant with the demands of modern European consumers.",
"A key component of the transition so far has seen Heineken move away from its traditional focus on bars and restaurants as primary points of sale.",
"A series of partnerships and promotions with supermarkets such as France's Carrefour have been established - providing direct access to the home consumer market.",
"Initial results of the link up are promising.",
"Heineken recorded sales 3% higher at Carrefour stores than at any other outlet in the last year.",
"The key is products which are easier to consume at home, such as a can to drink on the terrace, or a bottle to have with a meal.",
"The aim, Debrosse said, is \"to cover all the consumer moments.\"",
"Debrosse is careful, however to maintain a long term definition of success.",
"\"It is a journey,\" he says.",
"\"It takes time to build a brand.\"",
"CNN's Eoghan Macguire contributed to this report ."
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"Beer sales in European bars and restaurants have fallen sharply in recent years .",
"Heineken recorded a 4.6% drop in sales in 2010 .",
"The Dutch brewer has a new strategy it hopes will appeal to European consumers ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called Pakistan's president Sunday to express condolences over the airstrike that killed 24 soldiers near the Afghanistan border more than a week ago, the White House said in a statement.",
"\"The president made clear that this regrettable incident was not a deliberate attack on Pakistan and reiterated the United States' strong commitment to a full investigation,\" the statement said.",
"\"The two presidents reaffirmed their commitment to the U.S.-Pakistan bilateral relationship, which is critical to the security of both nations, and they agreed to stay in close touch.\"",
"The conversation between Obama and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was the latest bid to address strained relations between the two nations after a NATO airstrike killed the Pakistani troops on November 26.",
"After the attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told CNN that Pakistan was re-evaluating its relationship with the United States.",
"NATO later called the subsequent mass casualties caused by the strike \"tragic (and) unintended.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have called the incident a \"tragedy\" and offered condolences, though Washington has not issued a formal apology.",
"The issue of U.S. and fellow NATO forces coming into Pakistan has been an especially sensitive topic in that country since May, when U.S. commandos killed then al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad without Pakistani leaders' consent .",
"During an exclusive interview last week with CNN, Gilani said the country wants to maintain its relationship with the United States as long as there is mutual respect and respect for Pakistani sovereignty.",
"Asked directly if Pakistan is getting that respect, the prime minister said: \"At the moment (it is) not.\"",
"\"If I can't protect the sovereignty of my country, how can we say that this is mutual respect and mutual interest?\"",
"he asked rhetorically.",
"Pakistan has taken several steps aimed at NATO since the attack.",
"That includes an announcement Friday, by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, that NATO and International Security Assistance Force supplies could no longer be routed through Pakistan.",
"The country has served a vital supply route for allied forces who have been fighting for more than a decade in neighboring Afghanistan."
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"Obama says the airstrike \"was not a deliberate attack on Pakistan,\" the White House says .",
"White House: Obama and Zardari reaffirm their commitment to U.S.-Pakistan relations .",
"The conversation is the latest bid to address strained relations between the two nations .",
"A NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani troops on November 26 ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Melody Barnes, the domestic policy adviser to President Barack Obama, will leave the White House at the end of the year, she said Thursday.",
"\"I plan to take some time off and enjoy my family,\" she said in a written statement.",
"\"I'll also be considering opportunities in the private sector, as well as ways to continue to work on the policy issues about which I care so deeply.\"",
"Obama, in a separate statement said he \"will always be grateful that a woman of Melody's brilliance, creativity and heart led our domestic policy team during such a challenging time for our nation.\"",
"He said Barnes will leave \"a lasting legacy, developing and implementing policies that have helped remake our education system, spurred innovation, and fostered opportunity and equality for millions of Americans.\"",
"Barnes, in her statement, said she has \"enjoyed working closely with the private sector, as well as philanthropists and non-profit organizations, to build public-private partnerships that are providing solutions to our country's biggest challenges.\"",
"She said that over the past few months she had \"reached the conclusion that I need to move out of a 24/7 work schedule and on to the next phase of my life.\"",
"But she added, \"I also look forward to devoting time to doing everything I can to ensure that President Obama is re-elected.\""
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"Melody Barnes says she will leave the White House at the end of the year .",
"Obama cites Barnes' contributions to education reform and innovation .",
"Barnes says she needs \"to move out of a 24/7 work schedule,\""
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"(CNN) -- Manny Pacquiao defended his WBO welterweight title at the sold-out MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas, defeating Juan Manuel Marquez by majority decision.",
"Both fighters went toe-to-toe throughout the 12-round fight Saturday night with neither getting knocked down on the canvas.",
"The fight went down to the Nevada judges' scorecards with Dave Moretti scoring it 115-113, Robert Hoyle 114-114 and Glenn Trowbridge 116-112.",
"After the decision, Marquez left the ring, apparently upset by the ruling.",
"This was the third clash between Pacquiao and Marquez.",
"The first bout in 2004 was scored a draw, while Pacquiao won a controversial split decision in the rematch four years later.",
"SI: Crash Course: Pacquiao vs. Marquez III .",
"In prior meetings, Pacquiao scored four knockdowns yet Marquez won the greater number of rounds.",
"To further stoke the fire between the fighters, in the days leading up to Saturday's fight, Marquez sported a T-shirt saying, \"Marquez beat Pacquiao twice!!\"",
"Pacquiao, who entered the bout having won 10 titles at eight weight divisions, is considered arguably the world's best pound-for-pound boxer.",
"Pacquiao opens wallet, heart to those in need .",
"Now that Pacquiao has defeated Marquez, the next big fight most boxing fans are eagerly waiting for is a potential multimillion-dollar payday against Floyd Mayweather Jr., the other superstar of his boxing generation.",
"Both fighters have openly said they want to face each other, but each time they try to consummate the fight, negotiations break down over blood and urine testing."
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"It's the second time Pacquiao has defeated Marquez .",
"His win fuels speculation that he will finally face Floyd Mayweather Jr."
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